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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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City, University set for St. Patrick’s
by Madison FleckStaff writer
A group of West Virginia University students took a stand Thursday to raise awareness of human traffick-ing across the globe.
Students stood in front of the Mountainlair display-ing signs that read “freedom” and “end it” to protest hu-man trafficking.
A group of students came together to sponsor a 27-hour stand, which represented the 27 million slaves in the world currently. The protestors asked passersby to sign their petition to make anti-human trafficking leg-islation a priority in government, and the petition will be sent to President Barack Obama.
“We really want there to be a government-funded program that will go toward finding these people and making towns a safe place,” said Claire Cottrill, WVU student and member of WVU Campus Crusade for Christ.
The group’s goal is to raise money and awareness about modern-day slavery.
“It’s not just a foreign problem,” Cottrill said. “We have about 200,000 of those slaves in our country.”
According to students involved in the protest, the is-sue of human trafficking may be getting a little too close for comfort.
“A lady who works for the school actually told us that the first official reported incident of sex traffick-
Adventure WV to host annual vets excursionby shelby TooMpas
Staff writer
West Virginia Universi-ty’s Adventure WV will host its third-annual Veterans Whitewater Trip with sup-port from the Outdoor Rec-reational Center this spring.
The trip is intended for WVU students who have served in the military or who are currently serving.
Nathan Harlan, Adven-ture WV’s Program Coor-dinator, said the event is a way to say thank you and an attempt to connect this group of students to others with similar backgrounds and experiences.
“We think it’s important
for students to find others with similar backgrounds who can relate to life expe-riences,” he said. “It helps an overall sense of belong-ing to the University and for some (it) can create a really important support struc-ture for them.”
This year’s Veterans Whitewater Trip will take place April 13 on the Cheat River.
“The event typically lasts all day,” Harlan said. “We will meet at 7 a.m. at the Outdoor Recreational Cen-ter and will return around 5 or 6 p.m.”
The event is free to mil-itary veteran students and current service member
students. Senior mechanical engi-
neering student Chad Jones said he participated in the event last year because it gets individuals out with other veterans and see what West Virginia has to offer.
“Personally, I think this is a great opportunity to get away and see more of the outdoors,” Jones said. “There are a lot of tremen-dous opportunities out there to go explore na-ture itself, but it’s great to go out with other veter-ans because we’ve all been through boot camp or times of stress where we’ve relied on other veterans to help us out, so when you go out
on the river, it’s a fun time to have good time to learn and goof off and know that those other veterans have your back.”
Harlan said veterans will be learn basic whitewater paddling techniques, how to “read” whitewater, safety skills and much more.
“Veterans who partici-pate will gain a sense of ac-complishment, an appreci-ation for a beautiful stretch of whitewater, and some new connections with other students and staff at WVU,” he said. “While a whitewa-ter trip doesn’t solve ev-ery veteran’s problems or challenges in coming to
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sGa clarifies ruling on carry
resolutionby carlee laMMers
City editor
After a misunderstand-ing regarding the vote count for the West Vir-ginia University Student Government Association’s proposed concealed carry resolution, it has been an-nounced the resolution has since been passed.
“Basically, the attorney general got the vote count wrong. She thought that it was 6-7-2, not 7-6-2 in fa-vor of the resolution pass-ing. Once we spoke after, we realized that an error was made, so basically we just corrected it,” said SGA Pres-ident Zach Redding.
The now-passed reso-lution suggests students and faculty with concealed weapon permits in the sate of West Virginia be allowed to carry those weapons on campus.
Currently, it is in WVU’s policy that concealed weap-ons are not allowed.
This resolution has no legislative power; it only express support for creat-ing laws that would allow concealed weapons.
“It has to go to the in-stitutional board of gover-nors. This is almost like a recommendation that they look into it. Since it passed
through the Board of Gov-ernors, it shows that the stu-dent output is in favor that it passed,” Redding said.
“I’m almost positive there’s going to be talk about it within faculty sen-ate and other faculty orga-nizations because, obvi-ously, it plays a role in their lives, too.”
According to the official vote count, the following SGA BOG members voted in favor of the resolution: Jason Cohen, Zac Eichel-berger, Christian Guy, Devon Lopez, Andrea Mu-cino, Joseph Reidy and Ky-lie Sphar.
Bridgette Boyd, Aziz Als-hammari, Ryan Campione, Dillan Knox, Kartik Mot-wani and Morgan Riddle voted in opposition of the resolution.
Molly Callaghan and Harrison Wellford ab-stained from casting a vote.
Redding said on behalf of the entire SGA, he would like to apologize for the un-certainty and confusion it may have caused.
“(I want to give) an apol-ogy that there was an er-ror, and we’re glad we got it fixed,” he said. “We hope that it doesn’t happen again.”
Airbands gives Greek community chance to
celebrate, unite
by carlee laMMersCity editor
West Virginia Univer-sity and Morgantown city officials will be on high alert this St. Patrick’s Day weekend.
Considering the events that took place last year during the holiday and this year’s riots and malicious burnings, officials said they have been working corrob-oratively to prepare for the weekend.
“One of the things that
will hopefully be different this year is that the mes-sage will be clear that the kind of behavior that oc-curred last year was not appropriate and that it puts people in harm’s way,” said University Police Chief Bob Roberts.
Recently, WVU landed a spot on yet another “party school ranking.” BroBible listed WVU on the “15 Best College St. Patrick’s Day Parties in the U.S,” citing last year’s “I’m Shmacked” video as its reasoning for
the high rank.During last year’s St. Pat-
rick’s Day weekend, 36 ma-licious fires were set and Morgantown police issued four controlled substance violations, four DUIs, four underage possessions, 41 open container and pub-lic consumption citations, 30 underage consumptions and four nuisance party citations.
“All the agencies in the community have been working together, and I think that one of the things
that everyone will see is a more visible presence, and we hope that their pres-ence will deter any behav-ior,” Roberts said. “If not, then of course, we will do what we have to do when it comes to enforcing laws.”
Morgantown Police chief Ed Preston said MPD would have as many offi-cers on patrol as possible.
“All available personnel will be working the entire weekend and efforts have been coordinated between the University and the var-
ious departments of the city,”Preston said. “Hope-fully, everyone will have a safe weekend.”
Morgantown Fire De-partment Captain Ken Ten-nant said MFD would be on alert throughout the course of the weekend, too.
“Basically, we’re treat-ing this upcoming week-end like a home football game weekend. We will have some extra person-nel out to handle any sit-uations that would arise. We’ll be working in con-
junction with the Morgan-town police and WVU Po-lice Department,” Tennant said.
Last year, many stu-dents were captured par-taking in unlawful behav-ior in the “I’m Shmacked” viral video.
Students captured in the video then became subject to University disciplinary actions.
Roberts said the same will still hold true this
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Make FreedoM real
WVU Campus Crusade for Christ sets out to raise anti-human trafficking awareness
by MeGhan bonoMo Staff writer
West Virginia Univer-sities Greek community gathered Thursday on the Mountainlair green to take part in a friendly rivalry – the air bands competition.
Greek Week kicked off Monday and air bands was one of the many events that took place in the annual celebration of Greek culture on campus.
The ideology of phi-lanthropy is central in air bands, just as it is within the Greek community, by bringing different frater-nities and sororities on campus working together to create and perform their routine as teams.
A different theme is picked for each annual Greek Week. This year’s topic was board games. For the competition, teams selected games such as Candy Land, Clue, Life, Operation and chess for their themes.
Air bands is an oppor-
tunity for the Greek com-munity to come and sup-port one another and get to know their fellow brothers and sisters.
Senior Alpha Omicron Pi sister Rachel Bruner was part of team Candy Land that consisted of members from Alpha Omicron Pi, Beta Theta Pi and Theta Chi.
“It’s my senior year so it was really exciting for me since it’s my last air bands,” she said. “I’ve done it four times before and won three times and I was hoping to make this my fourth win.”
Members new and old are encouraged to partic-ipate in the event. Fresh-man Beta Theta Pi brother Karl Palmer was also part of team Candy Land.
“This is my freshman year and my first Greek life experience, so I’m re-ally happy that I did it,” he said.
The teams compile song clips that fit into
Wythe Woods/the daIly atheNaeuMStudents demonstrate in front of the Mountainlair against slavery Thursday.
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ing happened on campus just recently,” said Abbey Estep, WVU student and Young Life advocate.
More than 30,000 students from across the country at-tended a conference called Pas-sion this year, including Cottrill, Estep and other WVU students.
The conference raised more than $3 million for the human trafficking cause.
“They really pushed this at the conference to encourage college students to raise their voices over slavery,” Cottrill said.
Nick Amos, a graduate student at WVU, said he was particularly moved by the conference.
“It was a conference about Jesus,” Amos said. “But it was also about human trafficking.”
The Passion Conference inspired Amos and his col-league, Brittany Ratcliff, to bring the issue of human traf-ficking to the WVU campus.
“We are in the process of becoming a student organi-zation called ‘WVU End It,’ Amos said. “Basically, what we want to do here on cam-pus is to raise awareness and start some kind of task force between the legislations here and the law enforcement agencies that exist in Mor-gantown to be a community
watch.”Amos and Ratcliff said they
are using their connections – not only within the Univer-sity but also in Morgantown – to spread awareness and gain support for their cause.
“There’s a lady from one of the churches here that I kind of adopted as my grandma, and I’ve been getting together with her for about four-and-a-half years just for dinner and conversation,” Amos said. “She asked me and Brit-tany to come and speak at her breakfast.”
Amos said the ladies were very well-informed about his cause and were eager to help in any way they could.
“This means it’s becoming bigger than just the Univer-sity, which is very exciting,” Amos said.
The organization is plan-ning to several host events in the near future.
WVU End It will show the brown bag film, “Not My Life,” which is a view of hu-man trafficking in five differ-ent continents April 2.
The group will be in front of the Mountainlair today sell-ing bracelets to raise money for the International Jus-tice Mission, a human rights agency bringing rescue to vic-tims of slavery, sexual exploi-tation and other forms of vio-lent oppression.
The IJM is sponsoring the Stand for Freedom.
For more information visit the WVU End It Facebook page or www.wvuendit.wix.com/wvuendit.
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weekend. “Some of the people who
do engage in that behavior risk their own here because you could wind up getting expelled from school. That obviously is not something that we would want to hap-pen,” he said. “Don’t take any risks.”
Roberts said he encour-ages those students partak-
ing in the holiday festivities to use smart practices, in-cluding selecting a desig-nated driver.
Also, given the recent string of assaults down-town, Roberts said he urges students to exercise ex-treme caution while walk-ing this weekend.
“Be cautious if you’re going to be out walking. When people get inebri-ated there are other peo-ple who may want to take advantage of them in
that state. I recommend that if you’re going out, at least somebody in the group needs to stay so-ber, even if you’re walk-ing. Instead of a desig-nated driver, you may even need a designated walker,” he said.
“Lastly, be respectful of others. If something is go-ing on and you see it, call the police and let us handle it.”
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college, it does provide an opportunity to engage in a fun activity with oth-ers who may share similar experiences.”
Veterans Whitewater Trip will be a full day of ac-tivities and all equipment is provided.
“Activities will be mod-erately physically engag-ing, but individuals should be comfortable with swim-ming and putting on a wet-suit and getting into cold water,” Harlan said.
Jones said he believes the trip will provide vet-eran students with the op-portunity to experience the
state’s natural beauty. “This event is unique be-
cause it exposes individu-als to the great outdoors of West Virginia,” Jones said. “The license plate says ‘Wild and Wonderful,’ and once people go out in the rivers and you see it, you have a greater appreciation for what the state has to of-fer. I came from Tennessee and saw what West Virginia had to offer – especially out-doors – and it’s been a phe-nomenal time, especially with the University behind veterans. It’s a great vacuum and exposes you to individ-uals just like yourself.”
Harlan said he hopes to continue supporting the student veterans in their overall success at WVU.
“I value promoting ad-venture education for all populations, and I espe-cially want to see veterans thrive here at WVU,” he said.
There are currently six spots left for the trip.
To register, visit www.adventureorientation.wvu.edu and choose Adventure Veterans.
“The main thing I would stress is try something new,” Jones said. “It’s easy to come to college and get used to going to parties ev-ery weekend, but it’s nice to put yourself out there on the edge a little bit and get an adventure out of college as well.”
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their theme and compose a 4-5 minute dance rou-tine with cheers, flips and costumes.
Sophmore Chi Omega sister Lindsey Duda per-formed with members of Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Gamma Rho with the theme of chess for their routine.
“It was so fun getting with all the guys, getting to know the ones I didn’t know before and support-ing Greek life,” she said. “We got third place and it was all of our first times doing air bands, so to get third place was pretty exciting.”
In addition to the rou-tines, there is a costume contest in which winners
are chosen based on how well their costumes fit their theme.
“It’s a good way for ev-eryone to meet each other and get together and get a little bit competitive but also have sorority and fra-ternity interrelations at the same time,” Bruner said.
The Mountainlair green was surrounded by mem-bers of the Greek commu-nity who came to enjoy the performances while sup-porting and encouraging each other.
“Air bands is al-ways my favorite part of Greek week,” said Claire Viehman, junior Chi Omega sister.
“My sisters put a lot of hard work into it and I love to come support them and see how it comes together.”
This year’s air bands
winners were Alpha Omi-cron Pi, Beta Theta Pi, and Theta Chi with Candy Land, second place went to Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi, and Sigma Phi Epsi-lon with Clue, and third place was Chi Omega, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Gamma Rho with chess.
“It’s great to see hard work come together for a fun and entertaining com-petition between members of Greek life,” said fresh-man Phi Kappa Psi pledge Trae Smith.
“I hope all who attended this event enjoyed the cre-ativity and talent of each performance.”
For more information on the Greek community and Greek Week, visit www.greeklife.wvu.edu.
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Wythe Woods/the daIly atheNaeuMStudents hold signs in front of the Mountainlair to raise awareness for anti-hu-man trafficking legislation.
Tsa stands by plan to allow small knives on planes
apTSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash.
WaSHiNGTON (aP) — The head of the Transportation Security Administration told lawmakers Thursday he stands by his plan to allow passengers to carry small knives onto planes despite a growing backlash against the proposal.
It’s unlikely in these days of hardened cockpit doors and other preventative mea-sures that the small folding knives could be used by ter-rorists to take over a plane, TSA Administrator John Pistole told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee.
On the other hand, searching for the knives on passengers or in their carry-on bags is time consuming, Pistole said. TSA screeners confiscate about 2,000 such knives every day, with each
incident chewing up about two to three minutes, he said.
“I think the decision is solid and it stands and we plan to move forward,” Pis-tole said.
The policy, which goes into effect April 25, has sparked strong opposition from flight attendants, fed-eral air marshals, some pi-lot unions, and even avia-tion insurers. In the hands of the wrong passengers, the knives can be used to harm flight attendants and other passengers, critics say.
Several airline CEOs have also expressed qualms. Delta Air Lines chief execu-tive Richard Anderson said in a letter to Pistole last week that he shares the “legiti-mate concerns” of the air-
line’s flight attendants. US Airways chief Doug Parker asked the TSA administrator to reconsider his position.
Several members of the House committee also urged Pistole to drop the proposal, warning that if he doesn’t, Congress may take steps to block the pol-icy change.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks there have been no incidents in which terrorists have successfully used sharp objects to take over a plane, which suggests the current policy of keep-ing even small knives off planes is working, commit-tee members said.
“How does allowing sharp objects on board now accomplish maintaining the goal of having zero planes taken over?” asked Rep. Eric
Swalwell, D-Calif. “I’m ask-ing why now, and why do we want to go back?”
The lack of instances in which terrorists try to use knives to take over a plane underscores that their tac-tics have shift to using explo-sive devices instead, which what TSA is devoting its en-ergies to finding, Pistole said. He noted that the pro-posed policy would mostly conform U.S. regulations with international stan-dards, which were changed in 2010 to allow these types of small knives to be carried by passengers. Yet none has been used in a terrorist inci-dent so far, he said.
Even though the agency is focused on new threats, “it doesn’t mean old threats don’t still exist,” Swalwell responded.
Pistole acknowledged that the knives could be used to injure people on a plane, but he said that’s not the TSA’s responsibility.
“It really comes down to the mission of TSA,” he said. “Is it to prevent disturbances by inebriated passengers on board? I don’t think so.”
There are already items on board planes that can be used to harm someone, “whether it’s in first class (with) a metal knife or fork, or whether it’s a wine glass or a wine bottle that they break and use,” Pistole said.
The agency is focused on identifying which passen-gers may have dangerous intentions rather than look-ing at objects that could be misused, he said.
“If we focus only on ob-jects then we’re always be-
hind the eight ball,” Pistole said.
Besides knives, the policy will also allow passengers to include in their carry-on luggage novelty-size base-ball bats less than 24 inches (610 millimeters) long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, la-crosse sticks and two golf clubs. Items like box cutters and razor blades are still prohibited.
Knives permitted under the policy must be able to fold up and have blades that are 2.36 inches (60 millime-ters) or less in length and are less than a half-inch (127 millimeters) wide. The policy is aimed at allow-ing passengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades and other small knives.
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Obama says Iran one year away from nuclear weapon
apPresident Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains commit-ted to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview aired Thursday on Israeli TV.
Just days before he is to arrive in Israel for his first presidential visit, Obama told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that while he still prefers diplomacy over force, but that a nuclear Iran is a “red line” and all options re-main on the table to stop it.
“Right now, we think it
would take over a year or so for Iran to actually de-velop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close,” he said. “So when I’m consult-ing with Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu) as I have over the last several years on this issue, my message to him will be the same as before: ‘If we can resolve it diplomati-cally that is a more lasting solution. But if not I con-tinue to keep all options on the table.’”
The timeline for ac-tion against Iran has been one of the most fraught disputes in an already
tense relationship be-tween Obama and Netan-yahu. Israel has repeatedly threatened to act militar-ily should Iran appear to be on the verge of obtain-ing a bomb, while the U.S. has pushed for more time to allow diplomacy and economic sanctions to run their course.
Obama’s forecast gives more time than that of Netanyahu, who has sig-naled that the coming months present a point of no return in dealing with Iran.
The American president nonetheless took a stern tone toward Iran in the
half-hour long interview.“What I have also said
is that there is a window, not an infinite period of time, but a window of time where we can resolve this diplomatically and it is in all of our interests” to do this, he said. “They (Iran) are not yet at the point, I think, where they have made a fundamental de-cision to get right with the international community ... I do think they are rec-ognizing that there is a se-vere cost to continue on the path they are on and that there is another door open.”
Israel considers a nu-
clear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing Iranian denials of the Ho-locaust, its calls for Israel’s destruction, its develop-ment of missiles capable of striking the Jewish state and its support for hostile Arab militant groups. Teh-ran says its nuclear pro-gram is peaceful and de-signed to produce energy and medical isotopes, a claim that Israel and many Western countries reject.
Obama said that a nu-clear Iran would also be “dangerous for the world. It would be dangerous for U.S. national security
interests.”In the interview, Obama
also spoke about his rela-tionship with Netanyahu – claiming it is not as tense as reported – and encour-aged Israelis and Palestin-ians to resume peace talks. He also said he had no im-mediate plans to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, whom Israel has been pressuring to set free after 28 years in prison for spying for them.
Obama arrives in Israel Wednesday for a three-day visit that is seem primarily as a means to convey the closeness of the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Syrian opposition pushes for interim governmentBEIRUT (AP) — The main
Syrian opposition group is pushing to form a break-away interim government to rein in chaotic rebel-held areas in the north. But it faces objections from within its own ranks amid fears that such a move is premature and could lead to the fragmentation of the country.
The differing views will be put to the test at a two-day meeting starting Mon-day in Istanbul, where sup-porters hope to name a prime minister to oversee the formation of an interim government. Two previous attempts were postponed over seemingly intractable differences. Organizers say consensus has been build-ing as the Syrian civil war enters its third year.
“We are in desperate need for an interim govern-ment, a recognized civilian entity that can restore law and order and secure ba-sic services to liberated ar-eas,” said Walid al-Bunni, a spokesman for the West-ern-backed Syrian National Coalition. “Otherwise we are headed toward a very bad situation.”
State institutions have all but collapsed in areas where the Syrian military withdrew, leaving many communities to fend for themselves with little elec-tricity and sometimes no running water. Islamic courts have been set up to resolve local disputes, often one of the few vestiges of any sort of administration.
The idea of an interim government that would help administer the large swaths of land in the north and northeast that has been seized by the rebels has been floating around for more than a year, but di-visions among members Assad’s foes have kept it
from happening. Opposi-tion groups and even mem-bers of the same groups disagree over fundamental issues such as whether to hold negotiations with the regime or whether Assad should be allowed to be part of the transition.
It is unclear how much sway, if any, interim oppo-sition leaders would hold over the rebels in Syria, where local units made up of tens of thousands of au-tonomous fighters have very little central organiza-tion or command structure.
But SNC officials say that as the opposition seizes more territory, the need for an interim government has become more pressing and consensus has been build-ing on the need to con-trol the growing chaos and lawlessness.
The U.S. has in the past been lukewarm to the idea of a unilateral announce-ment of an interim govern-ment by the divided Syr-ian opposition, saying the focus should be on unit-ing in a transitional gov-ernment that could facili-tate a handover of power and take over if Assad steps down. The international community endorsed a broad and ambiguous pro-posal last year calling for Assad supporters and op-ponents to propose repre-sentatives for the govern-ment, with each side able to veto candidates.
SNC leader Mouaz al-Khatib, a 52-year-old preacher turned activist has suggested that he him-self is opposed to the for-mation of an interim gov-ernment, fearing that it would deepen Syrian divisions.
“He and others are wor-ried that a breakaway in-terim government would consecrate the country’s
divide between two gov-ernments, one in liberated territories and another in areas under Assad’s con-trol,” al-Bunni said. “Either we convince him or he con-vinces us at the meeting in Istanbul.”
Al-Khatib provoked a backlash last month when he offered to hold talks with members of the regime if it would help end the blood-shed, which the U.N. says has killed more than 70,000 people. His offer marked a departure from the main-stream opposition’s insis-tence that Assad step down before any talks. That an-gered some of his col-leagues who accused him of acting unilaterally.
Ahead of the Istanbul meeting, American and French diplomats said that the U.S., Russia and France are working together to try to bring the Syrian govern-ment and the SNC to the table together, hoping to reach agreement on a gov-ernment with wide exec-utive powers that would pave the way for a peaceful transition.
On Wednesday, State Department spokeswoman
Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was trying to help fos-ter a “preliminary con-versation” among Syrians about how to fill a transi-tional government.
“We are not going to de-cide. The Syrians are going to decide,” she told report-ers. “We are encouraging the Russians to see if the Syrian government can put forward anybody who would be acceptable.”
French Foreign Minis-try spokesman Vincent Flo-reani echoed the U.S. posi-tion Thursday in an online briefing.
“The Syrian drama can only be solved by putting in place a political solution that passes by dialogue be-tween the opposition and members of the regime who do not have blood on their hands,” he said, adding that Assad him-self could “not be a party to these discussions.”
The comments came as French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France and Britain are ready to help arm Syrian rebel fight-ers even if other European Union countries disagree.
apU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Syrian opposition coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib attend a press conference following an international conference on Syria at Villa Madama, Rome.
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All across Morgantown, bartenders are reviewing their emergency exit plans and dyeing entire kegs of beer varying shades of green in preparation for the droves of students who will try to find the luck of the Irish this weekend.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day week-end, and if you’re reading this sober, there’s a good chance you’re in the minor-ity. Hundreds of WVU stu-
dents will don shamrocks and dance a jig straight to the nearest nightclub to cel-ebrate a holiday originally meant to commemorate the arrival of Christianity in Ireland.
There’s nothing wrong with celebrating Friday and Saturday night – even Sun-day, if that’s your thing – as long as it doesn’t end in a visit to the hospital or the jail or the student conduct
board. Eighteen dumpster fires,
17 street fires and one ve-hicle fire were reported af-ter St. Patrick’s Day week-end last year, as well as one semi-trailer fire. Four peo-ple, including one juvenile, were charged in relation to the fires.
Both the city and Univer-sity police forces have coor-dinated their efforts to estab-lish a heightened presence
during the weekend, and all available MPD officers will be on call during the week-end. The Morgantown Fire Department plans to ap-proach the weekend in the same way it would a home football game.
In lieu of WVU’s reputa-tion as a major party school and the various “accolades” it has received, many stu-dents feel compelled to up-hold its reputation with
a lighter and a bottle of kerosene.
Not every major holiday or sporting event is worth thou-sands of dollars in fines, a criminal record or an injury.
The decision to be respon-sible is ultimately up to each individual, but we encourage you to stay safe this weekend – drink if you want, have fun if you can, but be safe.
Students must celebrate responsibly
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With the return of the leg-islature comes new bills and a new agenda. In the past few years, drug testing for welfare recipients has been pushed in many states. In West Virginia, efforts have only increased this year with a more conservative legisla-ture and more bipartisan support.
This is a very popular ar-gument that stems largely from opposition to people exploiting the government for personal gain.
The basic guidelines for the bill are that any person receiving Temporary Assis-tance for Needy Families (TANF) must submit to a random drug test. If the re-sults come back negative, the TANF recipient can con-tinue receiving those bene-fits. If they are positive, the person has 60 days to take a second test or get treatment. After a second positive test, their benefits are revoked.
This policy has been tried in several other states. In Michigan, where it was first instituted, it ran into its primary problem – its constitutionality.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution pro-tects against “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and it is well-established that drug testing constitutes a search. A uniform policy such as this puts everyone under suspicion of drug use without probable cause. Any defense of this legislation is going to have to deal with this cold, hard fact.
This same scrutiny is not applied to many other gov-ernment programs, such as home mortgage tax deduc-tions and college tuition re-bates that benefit the mid-dle class. Perhaps legislators should consider that wel-fare programs also tend to do their job, since the poor-est in the country are the most likely to spend their
money on food and basic necessities.
There is no substan-tial reason to believe wel-fare recipients are any more likely to do drugs than the rest of the population. The program in Florida yielded just 2.6 percent positive re-sults. According to a 2011 National Institute of Drug Abuse report, 8.7 percent of Americans ages 12 and older use illicit drugs.
Urine drug screens won’t necessarily find everyone who is dependent upon drugs either. Hard drugs – such as methamphet-
amine, cocaine and hero-ine – are often out of one’s system in a matter of days, while drugs such as mari-juana, which has no physi-cal addictive qualities, can be in one’s system for over a month.
If the intent of the bill is to get addicts off drugs, it will likely get an inaccurate pic-ture of the people who truly depend on hard drugs. This is exactly what happened in Florida, where the most common positive results were from marijuana use.
Further, drug tests are susceptible to false posi-
tives. Even if drug tests have an effectiveness of 99 per-cent, the remaining one percent of welfare recipi-ents have their benefits put in jeopardy unjustly.
The policy in other states already shows the cost ef-fectiveness in practice. The Florida program cost the state much more to admin-ister than the savings from fewer benefits being given out. The American Civil Lib-erties Union calculated an additional cost of more than $45,000 for just four months of implementation in Flor-ida. This is $45,000 that
could have gone directly toward food for the people who need it most.
West Virginia undoubt-edly has a problem with drug addiction, and it is something we need to con-tinue to fight against in the coming years. However, re-quiring welfare recipients to be drug tested is not the way to fight it.
It is not cost-effective, it is unconstitutional, and it will still hurt the families of drug addicts. The bill sim-ply does not make sense for West Virginia.
If the legislators pushing
this bill are serious about solving our drug problem, they should focus on pro-viding rehabilitative services to drug addicts rather than starting another wasteful program at the state level.
But this legislation is not a serious solution to drug ad-diction in West Virginia. It’s a symbolic gesture and a po-litical ploy. Drug abuse hap-pens across all economic classes, and the simple fact that the poorest in our soci-ety have the least ability to defend themselves does not mean their rights should be trampled.
christopher nydencolumnist
drug testing for welfare wrong approach
APBoxes of macaroni and cheese and donated cosmetics sit on a table at Tent City, the encampment of homeless people in the woods of Lakewood, N.J.
Replacing Binge-DrinkingDoctors regularly debate
how dangerous marijuana actually is. Some argue THC, the active stimulant in mari-juana, evolved with man and became natural to our bodies – they claim anti-marijuana doctors engage in “psycho-pharmacological McCarthy-ism” when focusing on side effects other than obvious respiratory issues caused by smoking it. These anti-mar-ijuana doctors claim mari-juana causes brain damage related to depression, neuro-sis, and insomnia. Whatever stance you take, one fact can be accepted: marijuana is no more dangerous than alco-hol or Tylenol, and probably safer. While it’s best to keep all mind-altering substances away from kids, marijuana might be the least harmful drug.
Some parents do not care how safe marijuana is, as it remains a drug; however, many activists point out kids could use marijuana instead of booze. Allen St. Pierre, ex-ecutive director of NORML,
talked about the choices parents make in an inter-view with the HPR: “Out-side of abstinence, would parents rather their kids use marijuana or binge drink al-cohol? Most parents can re-member these choices, and they consider this quandary and they acknowledge read-ily that they’d rather kids oc-casionally using marijuana based on the pharmacol-ogy.” St. Pierre went on to describe why, explaining marijuana makes kids hun-gry and sleepy, while alco-hol can cause fatal decisions. Tens of thousands of people die every year due to alco-hol; just under a thousand pass away annually due to Tylenol; but deaths related to marijuana use are so rare the Centers for Disease Con-trol do not even include it as a statistical category.
Safer UseRight now, smokers of-
ten buy marijuana with-out knowing exactly what it contains; it could be one of the many strains of canna-bis, synthetic THC, or canna-bis mixed with other drugs. On the other hand, med-ical marijuana dispensa-ries let clients pick precise strengths, strains, flavors, and form. Similar to how
laws determine the strengths at which alcohol and to-bacco are sold, regulation could keep marijuana use controlled. It is important for informed consumers to know what they are smoking; 80% of drug-related deaths result from impurities.
Marijuana does not pres-ent any plausible risk of over-dose, but it increases one’s risk of coronaries and some ailments. Though inebriated people are welcome in the ER for treatment, some under the influence of marijuana refuse to seek treatment for fear of repercussions. Legal-ization can therefore turn a criminal issue into a medical one; if high school or college kids are worried about po-tential side effects but have done nothing illegal, they might be more inclined to visit health services to re-ceive treatment. Colleges that have implemented am-nesty policies for those who willingly turn themselves in for alcohol treatment have seen significant reductions in serious alcohol-related issues, and doing the same through legalization of mar-ijuana could allow for treat-ment of drug-induced issues on a national scale.
Further, doctors know a
decent amount about mar-ijuana but are constantly looking to discover more in hopes of allowing even safer use. One obstacle in con-ducting research is their in-ability to obtain the drug. While other countries have conducted some studies, the only way for American researchers to secure mari-juana legally is through the Drug Enforcement Agency. Dr. Rick Doblin of the Mul-tidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies told the HPR about his ongoing 11-year legal battle to ac-quire the drug for research. The group, working along-side Amherst’s Lyle Cracker, applied to the DEA and has faced continuous stall-ing. The DEA has gener-ally only approved studies that promote its own polit-ical agenda (i.e., marijuana should not be legalized), and therefore researchers have made limited progress on medical treatments for those who use marijuana recreationally.
The “Cool” FactorIf you tell a child she can-
not have a cookie, she will want a cookie. It is a sim-ple, time-tested idea. His-tory supports this assertion: during prohibition, alcohol
usage rose significantly, es-pecially among children. This increase occurred in spite of decreasing alcohol use among all demograph-ics in the years leading into prohibition. Saying no sim-ply made the problem worse. Though many anti-mari-juana advocates predict le-galization would increase marijuana use, outside ob-servers, including Harvard professor Jeff Miron, have given statistical analysis ar-guing overall use would decrease in the long run. Claims that legalization would cause a short period of heavy use have not been refuted, but similar claims regarding ending prohibi-tion did not come to pass.
To draw another parallel to the Prohibition Era, con-cerned mothers were the leaders in the fight for pro-hibition. And according to Daniel Okrent’s “Last Call,” their changing opinion on how best to keep their kids safe precipitated the final push towards ending pro-hibition – after which, of course, alcohol use started to decrease once again. If the same holds true for mar-ijuana, it could go from being “cool” to just being.
Preventing Worse Drugs
Many anti-legalization proponents counter all this research and historical evi-dence with a reasonable the-ory: marijuana is a gateway drug, leading users to ex-periment and become de-pendent on cocaine, heroin, and more harmful drugs as they continuously search for a better high. As logical and anecdotal as this argument is, studies have debunked it entirely.
Morgan Fox of the Mar-ijuana Policy Project told the HPR that the gateway drug theory has “been dis-proven by every scientist that’s looked at it in the last ten years. Anything can be a gateway. Prohibition is the real gateway itself – go-ing to dealers exposes you to other drugs you otherwise wouldn’t come across.”
A University of Michigan study confirmed that for ev-ery 102 people who use mar-ijuana, only one will use hard drugs; it determined the ac-tual gateway drug to be alco-hol, while other groups have identified tobacco. Thus, Fox has a point – if marijuana were legalized, and treated like other recreational drugs, there could be a greater bar-rier between mild and po-tent drugs.
zak lutzthe harvard political review
the case for legalizing marijuana in the united states
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Spring football is officially un-derway in Morgantown, and ac-cording to head coach Dana Holgorsen, he expects open com-petition at every position this year.
Naturally, this includes the quarterback position, which may have the biggest shoes to fill af-ter the departure of Geno Smith, the most prolific offensive quar-terback in the history of West Vir-ginia University.
But Holgorsen said not even Smith’s shoes will be impossible to fill for the upcoming season.
“Everybody gets up in arms thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, how are these guys going to play football without those guys who are go-ing to be drafted in the NFL?’,” Holgorsen said. “It happens ev-ery year, and in every different program across the country, you lose people, and you try to move
forward.“And this gives younger guys the
opportunity to step up and believe that they are the guy. That natu-rally happens; guys get older and get more reps, but also the burden is on their shoulders to become better players. I’m looking forward to seeing which guys those are go-ing to be.”
Following Smith’s departure, there are four potential candi-dates to step in for the Mountain-eers at quarterback: junior Paul Millard, redshirt freshman Ford Childress, redshirt junior transfer Logan Moore and true freshman Chavas Rawlins.
Millard, who has supported Smith for the last two seasons, is believed to be the initial favorite by some simply because of his ex-isting experience at the FBS-level and specifically within Holgors-en’s system.
But even Millard’s experience is somewhat limited, considering he
was only used the last two seasons to mop up after Smith had worked the Mountaineers into a safe lead.
Millard has completed 16-of-34 pass attempts for 211 yards, three touchdowns and three intercep-tions in his time under center for West Virginia.
“Paul’s got more experience,” Holgorsen said. “He probably un-derstands the offense a little bet-ter than the other guys, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to give him more reps. Because it’s not where they’re at right now, it’s where they’re going to end up in six months.”
A close second behind Millard is Childress, a highly recruited quarterback from Texas. The fact he hasn’t taken an actual in-game snap yet may hold him back ini-tially, but Holgorsen claimed dur-ing the spring football luncheon that Childress is actually as anx-ious and excited as anybody to get spring football underway.
“Ford’s very motivated at this point right now,” Holgorsen said. “It’s hard to be a redshirt freshman quarterback, so he wasn’t nearly as motivated a year ago as he is right now, obviously.”
Holgorsen said he thought Rawlins, the only true freshman quarterback among the group, is where Childress and Millard were one year ago, “learning and hear-ing things for the first time,” and Moore, who just transferred to WVU from nearby Fairmont State University, was also doing some good things during the offseason.
So, although Millard and Chil-dress may hold a small edge head-ing into spring practice, there’s also obviously no clear-cut favor-ite for the starting responsibilities at the quarterback position for the Mountaineers this season.
Holgerson said it’s going to take quite a while before any final deci-sions can be made any time in the near future unless one candidate
visibly outperforms everyone else during the spring, which the third-year WVU head coach doesn’t ex-pect to happen.
“I would assume everyone kind of wants to know about the quar-terback situation. I’m more anx-ious than you are,” Holgorsen said. “We’ve got a lot of practices ahead of us, and we won’t name a starter for a while.
“We’re going to have lots of op-portunities to evaluate these guys. They need a lot of drill work; they need a lot of team snaps; they need a lot of skill reps and a lot of inside reps just to get comfortable with the offense.
“And again, we’ll evaluate them, but they’re going to show so much improvement. We’ll need to see which guy shows the most im-provement and puts us in the best position to be successful before we make that decision.”
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battle for starting quarterback just getting started
Following loss, West Virginia anxious to improve next seasonby Michael carvelli
sports editor
Throughout a disap-pointing 13-19 season, one thing stood out to the West Virginia men’s basketball team that really hurt its chances.
For the first five years un-der head coach Bob Hug-gins, the Mountaineers had always been thought of as a team that was able to grind it out, keep things close the whole game and then find a way to win in crunch time.
That changed this season.After seasons like 2009-
10, one in which WVU won seven of 10 games decided by five points or less, the Mountaineers struggled to finish in close games, going 5-7 this season.
But the most recent game was the toughest. De-jan Kravic’s putback at the buzzer lifted Texas Tech to a 71-69 upset in the Big 12 Conference tournament
Wednesday night, sending the Mountaineers home.
“We never came out with it in those crucial times,” said senior forward Deniz Kilicli. “When the game was
close we didn’t beat any-body. We never won.
“That used to be what we were known for, so that’s what we wanted. We slowed the game down, and
we wanted to play like that. This year we just didn’t have that.”
It was a fitting end to the 2012-13 season, a year when the Mountaineers
consistently would fall be-hind by double figures be-fore working their way back to get the deficit close or – like on Wednesday night – even take the lead but then would make a few big mis-takes and not hold on to come out with a victory.
In the first half, Texas Tech didn’t waste any time jumping on top of WVU. The Mountaineers gave up 37 points in the first half, and the Red Raiders shot 71 per-cent from beyond the arc. Before a late run in which West Virginia made six of its final eight shots of the half, the Mountaineers found themselves down 14 before cutting the deficit to 37-32 heading into the locker room.
“Usually, we start off bet-ter than that, but then we fade as the game goes on,” said redshirt sophomore forward Kevin Noreen. “We came back really strong and got a little lead there late. It
just came down to the little things. It came down to not boxing out.”
The crushing defeat marked just the third time since 2000 that WVU fin-ished with a losing record, and its 13 losses were the most since the Mountain-eers went 8-20 in 2000-01.
With all but three play-ers returning next season, the struggles from this sea-son will definitely prove to be motivation heading into the offseason.
“All season has been like this. We aren’t tough enough to pull through,” said junior center Aaric Murray. “We’re going to put in a lot of work this offseason.
“I’m ready to work a lot harder after this year. It mo-tivates you and shows you what you really need to do and how hard you need to work to be successful.”
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Anschutz says sports company AEG is no longer for sale
LOS ANGELES (AP) — AEG, the company that owns the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings and the Staples Center, is no longer for sale, its billionaire owner Philip Anschutz said Thursday.
The announcement came amid efforts by the com-pany to build a downtown stadium to lure an NFL team back to Los Angeles.
Anschutz said in a state-ment that he had made it clear that he wouldn’t sell the AEG sports and enter-tainment company un-less the right buyer came forward.
“They wanted more than what people were willing to pay,” said Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at University of Ore-gon. There are “differences of opinion about how valu-able AEG is.”
It wasn’t clear how far along the company had been in the planned sale or how the move might af-fect AEG’s plans to build the proposed 72,000-seat Farmer’s Field football stadium.
Anschutz said he will re-sume a more active role in AEG. Tim Leiweke, who has served as president and CEO and been the face of the company for more than 15 years, is leaving, An-schutz said.
The sale of the sports and entertainment company had been expected to fetch billions of dollars.
The Los Angeles Times reported that interested buyers included Mark Cu-ban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, billion-aire Patrick Soon-Shiong, and Guggenheim Partners, which recently led a con-
sortium that bought the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Anschutz told the news-paper in an interview Thurs-day he remains interested in reaching a deal to bring the NFL back to Los Ange-les and was “optimistic” that would happen.
“We’re not going to make the NFL happen by our-selves,” the 72-year-old chairman said. “The NFL is a player here. They have to decide what they want to do.
“We’ll do a reason-able deal, but we won’t be pushed into a deal,” he told the Times.
Last week, Mayor Anto-nio Villaraigosa said in a television interview that An-schutz had to find a buyer for AEG first before mov-ing forward with what he termed as “uphill climb” in-volving development of the stadium.
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Mountaineers ready for Big 12 opener with three-game series at Kansas State
by kevin hookersports writer
The West Virginia base-ball team will begin Big 12 Conference play this weekend in Manhattan, Kan., with a three-game series against Kansas State.
The Mountaineers, who come into the week-end with a 7-9 record, are coming off an 8-7 victory at Pittsburgh. Designated hitter Matt Frazer batted 4-for-5 with two home runs and five RBIs.
First baseman Ryan Mc-Broom also had three hits and one RBI.
“I’m actually pretty pleased,” said head coach Randy Mazey. “If things went a little different at
the end of games, we could really be about 10-6 right now.”
Mazey will start soph-omore pitcher Harrison Musgrave (1-1, 5.79 ERA) Friday, followed by junior Corey Walter (1-2, 4.02 ERA) Saturday and soph-omore John Means (2-0, 0.45 ERA) Sunday.
Developing a pitching strategy for conference play will be key.
“Our starting pitch-ing, along with our re-lief pitching, has actually been pretty good,” Mazey said.
Means has the second-best ERA in the Big 12 thus far, while relief pitcher Pascal Paul’s two saves are tied for third best.
The Wildcats enter
this weekend with a 10-6 record.
“(Kansas State) looks like they’re lined up to be the best offensive team in the conference,” Mazey said. “That just means we’re going to have to go down there and be on top of our game ... Hopefully we can keep them under five or six runs per game.”
The Mountaineers’ .303 team batting average is the third best in the con-ference, while their 4.06 team ERA is the eighth best. The opposing team is batting .281 against the Mountaineers’ pitching staff.
S o p h o m o re c e nt e r fielder Bobby Boyd and ju-nior left fielder Jacob Rice rank sixth and seventh, re-
spectively, in batting aver-age in the Big 12. Boyd is hitting .409 with 11 runs and nine stolen bases. Rice is batting .402 with six doubles, nine RBIs and four stolen bases.
Given the Wildcats’ ex-plosive offense, Mazey and the Mountaineers will need success from the pitching mound this weekend.
“We just need to put to-gether an entire game and pitch well from the first in-ning to the ninth,” Mazey said.
The first pitch will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, and fans can access links to live video and stats at WVUs-ports.com.
Gymnastics hosts rutgers, Maryland on senior nightby MeGhan carr
sports writer
The West Virginia Uni-versity gymnastics team will host Maryland and Rutgers tonight at 7 p.m. in the Col-iseum for Senior Night and its final home meet of the regular season.
WVU previously com-peted against these two teams at Maryland ear-lier this season. The team achieved its highest road score of the season at Maryland, but it still wasn’t enough, as the Mountain-eers placed second.
However, WVU took first place on vault, scor-ing 49.225, its highest event score of the season, and took first place on beam (49.0).
The Mountaineers are still not where they want to be in the RQS standings. They did crack the top-18 once this season after a season-best 196.55 score against No. 3 Michigan pro-pelled them to No. 16 na-tional raking. After the next meet, the Mountaineers moved back to No. 21 and have been there since.
Head coach Jason Butts knows the importance of this meet’s score, espe-
cially if West Virginia wants to move into the top 18 RQS standings.
“We lost to Maryland be-fore. I want to rectify that and get a win. A 196.600 would probably help us move into the top-18, and
if we got that score, you would probably see me out there dancing to ‘Country Roads.’”
Maryland will need a quality score if it wants to be back in the top 25; the Terps are currently ranked
No. 26 in the RQS. No. 37 Rutgers also has a lot to prove as they vie for the No. 36 spot that would allow them to compete in NCAA Regionals.
The Mountaineers were without one of their seniors
last weekend at George Washington. Richardson sat out of the meet due to a strained hamstring but is expected to be in the lineup tonight. Butts said he doesn’t want to force any-thing with the post-season quickly approaching.
Seniors Kaylyn Millick, Chelsea Goldschrafe and Alaska Richardson will be honored at the conclusion of the meet.
“It’s bittersweet. You do this sport for so long, and it has to come to an end,” Mil-lick said.
This graduating class of Mountaineers means a lot to Butts and assistant coach Travis Doak.
“(Richardson and Gold-schrafe) have been an amazing force all four years, and Kaylyn for three years. It was the first class that (Doak) and I recruited here together, so it’s going to be emotional.”
Butts said his seniors are definitely going out on top.
“They are doing the best gymnastics they have ever done, at least in my eyes and this coaching staff ’s eyes.”
Richardson received Big 12 Event Specialist of the
Week a conference-best three times this season.
Goldschrafe scored a ca-reer-best 9.85 twice this season on floor. Butts said Goldschrafe told the team at the beginning of the sea-son she didn’t just want this team to compete at Region-als. She wanted this team to make Nationals.
Millick is currently ranked No. 32 nationally for all-around performance and has taken first place for all-around four times – the most of any Moun-taineer this season. Millick achieved a career-best 9.95 on floor and was the first gymnast to do it since Me-hgan Morris in 2009.
This meet is also “Dol-lar Day.” Tickets, hot dogs and Coke products will be on sale for only one dollar. The team will also be hand-ing out 500 finger lights to the kids.
Butts said he is expecting a large crowd for their regu-lar season finale.
“I’m really hoping the students come out and show support,” he said. “It’s going to be an exciting and competitive meet.”
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No. 19 Syracuse beats No. 17
Pittsburgh 62-59 NEW YORK (AP) — Nei-
ther Syracuse nor Pitts-burgh wanted to see its Big East tenure end in the quarterfinals of their last conference tournament.
James Southerland and Michael Carter-Wil-liams kept Syracuse’s run at one more title going as the 19th-ranked Orange beat No. 17 Pittsburgh 62-59 on Thursday at Madison Square Garden.
Both schools are leaving for the Atlantic Coast Con-ference next season. They didn’t disappoint the sell-out crowd, providing one last great game before they head south.
“We know that this means a lot to us, as a bas-ketball team and as a pro-gram,” Syracuse’s Brandon Triche said. “This can very much jump start us to the (NCAA) tournament. So we know how important this Big East tournament is.”
The fifth-seeded Or-ange (25-8) advanced to the semifinals against top-seeded Georgetown, which is one of the seven Catho-
lic schools that have left their football counterparts behind in an attempt to have a basketball-centric conference.
“The doubleheader that’s going to be here to-morrow night will be a great basketball night, I think,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. “It’s a great way for this league to go out. We got to the semis in this tournament a lot, I think over 20 times, and it’s great to be able to do that because it means you played pretty good, and that’s what we’re trying to do, play good and get ready for, unfortunately, the only thing that matters, next week.”
This will be the 14th time the schools have met in the Big East tournament and the Hoyas hold the series lead at 7-6.
“Georgetown is a team that’s going to play tough and physical,” Southerland said.
“So if you keep moving, getting people open and setting screens, we’ll be fine.”
TYler HerrINToN/THe DaIlY aTHeNaeUMFormer WVU wide receiver Stedman Bailey catches a ball Thursday at the NFL Pro Day.
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losses and a heartbreaker in the Big 12 Conference Tour-nament Saturday night, the West Virginia women’s bas-ketball team should make the NCAA Tournament – but not in comfortable fashion during the women’s basket-ball Selection Show Monday night.
Yes, I realize the Moun-taineers’ resume isn’t the best with a 17-13 (9-9 Big 12) record. Yes, I also real-ize West Virginia is a mere 3-6 against AP top 25 teams this season.
All that won’t matter be-cause WVU ended up .500 in arguably the toughest con-ference in women’s colle-giate basketball.
There were some bad losses this season against Duquesne, Iowa and LSU. WVU, however, did beat teams like then-No. 19 Okla-homa State, then-No. 21 Oklahoma and then-No. 24 Iowa State on the road.
Let’s not forget the Moun-taineers also beat a 23-5 Boston University team on the road in the early part of the season.
While West Virginia hasn’t been ranked for the majority of the season, did it do enough to be consid-ered safe for the postseason?
Right now, it is a bit up in the air.
Earlier this season, head coach Mike Carey felt the Mountaineers needed to win at least 10 games in league play. WVU was un-successful in that respect but is still on the cusp of making the NCAA Tournament.
Currently, West Virginia has been listed as one of the last four teams to make the Big Dance.
WVU shouldn’t feel too comfortable, though.
While I still think this team will make it in, the hypothetical of winning against Oklahoma Satur-day night would have really helped the Mountaineers’ cause. Even if the sixth-seeded West Virginia squad would have beaten OU, it would have had to face sec-ond-seeded Iowa State in the next round.
Earlier projected brackets had the Mountaineers as a nine or 10 seed going into the NCAA Tournament.
Are the Mountaineers worthy of the 64-team Tour-ney? Well, I’m no expert, but if you ask me, they did just enough to squeak in. Com-pared to the past few sea-sons, this really wasn’t a concern. The main interest to tune in was to see who WVU would face and in what region of the bracket.
This year is a whole dif-ferent story. A bubble team can only hope that the se-lection committee favors its resume.
I guess this is all the fun of March – to see if your team was good enough to ad-vance to the NCAA Tourna-ment and to play for the big-gest prize in the game.
So, when Monday comes around, it will either be a day of heartbreak or happi-ness for the WVU women’s basketball team.
Personally, a few weeks ago, I would have never thought this team would be in any danger of missing the NCAA Tournament and be in this predicament. Now, there’s the case that West Virginia could ultimately wind up in the WNIT.
Still, if you want my take on the matter, you will see the Mountaineers as one of 64 teams in the NCAA Tour-nament come Monday.
Trio of Austin, Smith, and Bailey impress scouts, coaches at NFL Pro Dayby connor Murray
sports writer
The eyes of the NFL shifted to Morgantown Thursday as Geno Smith, Tavon Austin, Stedman Bai-ley and several other Moun-taineers with professional
aspirations worked out for NFL scouts, coaches and general managers alike at WVU Pro Day.
Smith and Austin are both projected to be first-round picks by NFL ana-lysts such as Mike Mayock of NFL Network and Todd
McShay of ESPN – both of whom were in attendance.
Representatives of 29 NFL teams were present with only the Dallas Cow-boys, Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals absent.
Much like he did at the NFL Combine, Smith left
little doubt as to why he is regarded as the top pros-pect in this draft class.
“Today, I feel as though I did a pretty good job of just being accurate with my throws,” Smith said. “I just wanted to show that I was able to do a multitude of
drops, hit a bunch of dif-ferent route patterns in different areas of the field and be accurate.”
Highly touted receivers Austin and Bailey didn’t participate in the ma-jority of the strength or speed drills; Bailey ran the 40 twice, but his times weren’t released.
While they didn’t run or lift, the receiver duo im-pressed with their hands, speed and proficient route running.
Both receivers have been doubted at some point in their careers, and both have used it as mo-tivation to help fuel their run to the NFL.
“I’m a small guy, but I definitely play big. There was always talk about me being too small, but the only thing I needed was an opportunity,” Austin said.
Bailey echoed his for-mer teammate’s words.
“When I listen to the media and I see that they don’t have me ranked as I as I should be, it just puts a chip on my shoulder to just continue working hard and continue to prove people wrong,” Bailey said.
With Smith, Austin and Bailey garnering much of
the media attention follow-ing February’s NFL Com-bine, Thursday’s work-out provided a chance for some lesser known players to make headlines of their own.
“To have a bunch of coaches and scouts out here to get a feel for those guys as well and to see what they bring to the table is ex-tremely promising for me because I appreciate what they did for me,” Smith said.
Senior wide receiver Ryan Nehlen took full ad-vantage of the opportu-nity and excelled in the workouts.
His vertical leap (39”), broad jump (11’1”) and 40-yard dash (4.53 seconds) put him atop the leaderboard in all three events on the day.
Nehlen said he spoke with scouts from multi-ple teams, including the Washington Redskins, and pointed out how grateful he was for the opportunity.
“I was happy with my times and pleased with how I caught the ball and ran my routes,” Nehlen said. “The publicity surrounding this event was special for guys like me who didn’t have as much film on the field.”
With the combine and pro day behind them, all that’s left to do for these Mountaineers is wait for the NFL Draft, which will take place from April 25-27 from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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BY HUNTER HOMISTEKA&E EDITOR
123 Pleasant Street hosted a psychedelic dance party Wednesday evening that left audience members panting and soaked with sweat, in a good way.
With music from Ohio-based dance rock outfit The Werks and Pittsburgh’s Jaz-zam, 123 was electrified with moving and groov-ing bodies for the concert’s duration.
“It felt great being here at 123,” said Dino Dimitrou-leas, The Werks bassist and vocalist. “The Morgantown crowd is always rowdy, and they were certainly fired up tonight for this one. It was awesome.”
Dimitrouleas said the au-dience’s full participation fueled the band through their set and allowed them to relax and do what they do best.
“With such a rowdy au-dience, it makes our job so much easier,” Dimitrou-leas said. “If they’re feeling it, we’re feeling it, and that just leads to a great time, as you saw.”
Playing a set of thump-ing and groovy tunes, The Werks sent the Morgan-town crowd into a frenzy for more than an hour and a half. The set was so impres-
sive that the crowd immedi-ately protested the band’s fi-nale and yelled out for one more song.
Always looking to please the crowd, The Werks obliged and came back on-stage for an inspired encore.
“One more song” from The Werks is not equivalent to one more song by an or-dinary band. With a sound born from a jazzy father and a jam-band oriented mother, The Werks has no problem playing songs for 10 minutes, and that is ex-actly what their encore provided.
“We’re all about pleas-ing the crowd,” Dimitrou-leas said. “We come to jam, and anything less than that does the music and the fans an injustice.”
Before The Werks took the stage, Jazzam capa-bly heated up the bodies and set the mood for the night. From their opening chord to their final flurry of spacey, ambient riffs, Jaz-zam made it clear that the night would be defined by relentless grooves.
“We’ve been through a lot of lineup changes, and we’ve really honed our sound,” said Clinton Clegg, Jazzam vocalist. “We’re to the point now where we’re all on the same page, and we all know exactly where
we’re going next.” This chemistry was key
throughout Jazzam’s per-formance, as the set was marked by extended solos from each band member.
Each musician had his time to shine, and each cap-italized beautifully on his moment.
“It feels good to just have that time to do your thing
onstage,” said Marc Ster-ling, Jazzam bassist. “When I first started playing bass, I wasn’t real into solos, but now it just comes naturally, and it’s something I love to do.”
Sterling’s talents were made evident throughout the set, as he performed numerous solos defined by lightning-quick runs and
hard-hitting grooves.For his efforts, The Werks
invited Sterling back on-stage during their set to per-form a song and to show-case his talents yet again.
“It felt good; I definitely felt like it went well,” Ster-ling said. “All they told me was that it was in E minor, which was good enough for me.”
Highlighted by a structur-ally chaotic lightshow and a distinctively jam-band feel, the walls of 123 Pleasant Street played host to one of the most memorable dance parties of the year, and The Werks and Jazzam provided the perfect soundtrack for the occasion.
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival to feature local talentBY TERRI PARLETT
COpy EDITOR
In the 2013 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Fes-tival, filmmakers will attempt to tell stories and convey ideas for one theme: iden-tity. And they will do this in less than half an hour.
The festival, which begins today and continues through Sunday, features many differ-ent works for the audience.
“The film festival includes both international as well as regional films, as well as an-imations and video art and documentary work, so it’s re-
ally a wide variety of multi-media artwork that we show,” said Gerald Habarth, orga-nizer of the festival.
Habarth, a professor of art and the coordinator of the Electronic Media area, said while the films come from all around the world, there is a regional focus, as well.
“One of the focuses of this year’s event will be the in-clusion of several local or re-gional filmmakers – West Vir-ginia artists.”
The event includes works by West Virginia filmmakers Martha Stephens, Elaine Mc-Million and David Smith.
Habarth also said the festi-val has films to offer that may not be for everyone.
“Another highlight of the festival that happens ev-ery year is the experimental segment, and that’s going to be Saturday night,” Habarth said. “It is, for the most part, experimental works – ab-stract video, video art. Things that are a little off the wall or don’t really fit anywhere else – works that are just really off-beat or that are conceptual in nature.”
Habarth said that although these are not works most au-diences would be accus-
tomed to, they can be a new and interesting experience.
Saturday in Falbo Theatre, there will be presentations of films that Habarth said don’t lend themselves to an audi-ence context. He encourages attendees to make their way to the Falbo Theatre and take a look at these films, as well.
In conjunction with the festival, the School of Art & Design is also hosting an art auction to benefit its GPS program. This program is an initiative to immerse stu-dents in the School of Art & Design in other artistic cul-tures, from Italy to China.
The combination of these events was inspired by a guest lecture from Hous-ton, Texas native, Mel Chin. One of Chin’s films will be presented in the Mountain-eer Film Festival. The work is called 9/11-9/11 and out-lines two very separate ex-periences. One is Septem-ber 11, 2001, while the other is September 11, 1973, when the U.S. overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende began 17 years of Augusto Pi-nochet’s rule, leaving more than 3,000 dead, as well as countless victims of torture.
When students in the
School of Art & Design ex-perienced Chin’s lecture, they were inspired to have an auction to gain commu-nity support for the program because other schools within the College of Creative Arts, such as the schools of Music and Theatre & Dance, have events, while the School of Art & Design has compara-tively few.
For more information on the Mountaineer Short Film Festival, visit www.gerald-habarth.com/wvmsff/2013/web/wvmsff2013.html.
Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMJazzam bassist Marc Sterling showcases his skills during the show.
Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMJazzam vocalist Clinton Clegg performs at 123.
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BY LACEY PALMERASSOCIATE A&E EdITOr
“Mountain Stage with Larry Groce,” the West Vir-ginia Public Broadcasting radio music show, will be recording live from the Ly-ell B. Clay Concert Theatre Sunday at 7 p.m.
The show will feature some of the nation’s best rock, pop, jazz, soul and folk musicians, including Rob-ben Ford, Vintage Trouble, Steve Forbert, Milo Greene and Mieka Pauley.
“Each Mountain Stage is different, as it brings in different acts from dif-ferent genres,” said WVU Arts & Entertainment pub-lic relations specialist Da-vid Ryan. “We’re excited about this lineup because it includes Grammy award winners with up-and-com-ers. There’s a unique sound throughout, so we’re look-ing forward to help show-case these acts.”
Five-time Grammy nomi-nee Robben Ford earned his reputation in the jazz and pop world in the 1970s be-fore joining musical group L.A. Express in the ‘80s. He has played with many fa-mous musicians, including
Jimmy Witherspoon, Bon-nie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Phil Lesh and George Harrison.
Singer/songwriter Mieka Pauley, a Harvard gradu-ate, was recently named Cosmopolitan’s “Fun Fear-less Female Rock Star of the Year,” and has won many other awards for her pas-sion early in her growing career.
Milo Greene’s quin-tet switches instruments mid-set and leaves no one with the same instrument throughout, showcasing their incredible musical talent.
Graham Fink, one of the four singers of the group, also plays guitar, bass, key-board and percussion. He said creating a live concert with a flow was an obstacle for the band.
“There can be a lot of stops and starts,” Fink said. “So, we had to almost cho-reograph the changes, but I think we’re doing pretty good. We have to re-figure it out every time we try a new set list, but we figure it out, and we’ve been doing a great job so far.”
Fink said he believes the band is incredibly fortu-nate to have put out a re-
cord they love and now have the opportunity to put out a second.
“I think that’s a place a lot of bands struggle to get to,” Fink said. “We have a great touring base, and it’s building in other countries. It’s nice to get to go all over the county and have people excited.”
Fink said show attend-ees can look forward to soaring harmonies, drum and bass groves, and the group throwing guitars at each other – an overall good time.
“There’s four of us that write, and we all have a bunch of different influ-ences, but it all comes to-gether really well,” Fink said. “I think the crowd will be great, and I’m looking forward to the show.”
Although it’s sure to be a busy St. Patrick’s Day in Morgantown, Ryan hopes the performance will still draw a large crowd.
“We always want a large crowd because Mountain Stage performances are nice, intimate and enjoy-able performances,” Ryan said. “It’s all recorded for the West Virginia Public Broadcasting radio show,
so the added bonus is you get to relive it months later.”
Ryan said the variety of great music and the great stories behind that music will make this Mountain Stage performance one you do not want to miss.
“These shows are incred-ible. There’s no better way to put it,” Ryan said. “It’s a live concert with four or five acts on the bill, each with something unique. The art-ists truly care about what they’re doing, and they of-ten explain what motivates them or what spurred a spe-cific song.”
Tickets are on sale now at the Creative Arts Center Box Office and online at ticket-master.com for $18. They can also be purchased the day of the show for $23.
“Once you’ve been to Mountain Stage, you get to appreciate the wide variety of music out there you may not ever have considered before,” Ryan said. “We cer-tainly hope anyone looking for a relaxed evening of var-ied music will want to make it to the Creative Arts Cen-ter, even if it’s on St. Pat-rick’s Day.”
arthurkade.comMilo Greene will perform at live at the CAC during the Mountain Stage broadcast.
Travis Minnick Band to perform at Schmitt’s Saloon and Davisson Brothers Music Hall
BY HUNTER HOMISTEKA&E EdITOr
Rising country act Travis Minnick Band will perform at Schmitt’s Saloon and Da-visson Brothers Music Hall tonight.
Travis Minnick and com-pany come in to the perfor-mance with a freshly inked record deal in hand, and the group looks to put on an unforgettable show for the Morgantown crowd.
“Getting that record deal obviously means a lot to us, and it’s one of our proudest achievements to date” Min-nick said. “We have big plans for the future, and tonight’s show will be one step on that journey.”
Minnick said he expects the audience to relate to his
intimate lyrics, and this lyri-cal content is a big reason for the group’s success.
“When I write, I always make sure it means some-thing to me,” Minnick said. “I feel no pressure about put-ting myself on the line, and what comes out is what I’m really feeling or what I’ve re-ally experienced.”
Because of these honest and open lyrics, Travis Min-nick Band has enjoyed rapid success in the area, and now they are taking their talents to a national level.
“These guys are hot, and they’re headed out on a na-tional tour this summer in support of their debut al-bum,” said Nic Clark, chief operating officer of Bar Gal Records and Pool House Stu-dio. “They currently sell out 3 500-seat venues in minutes weeks before the show.”
A proud West Virginian, Minnick found inspiration at a young age in the woods and rolling mountaintops that define Appalachia. At the age of seven, Minnick began writing his own songs, and the West Virginia scen-ery was his muse.
“I love West Virginia, and the whole band really con-nects with what West Vir-ginia is all about,” Minnick said. “I definitely think ev-erybody that comes down will feel that, too.”
Sporting a catchy brand of country music that any-body can get down and party to, Travis Minnick Band pro-vides the perfect brand of weekend entertainment for anybody looking for a good time.
“Just come down and have a good time with us,” Minnick said. “If you want to catch us in a small, intimate setting before we hit the big stage, now is your chance.”
The show will begin at 10 p.m., and there will be a $10 cover charge.
For more information about Travis Minnick band, visit www.travisminnick-band.com.
anne owensTravis Minnick Band will perform at Schmitt’s Saloon.
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Drumming group ‘Kodo’ to bring Japanese culture to Morgantown
blogspot.comJapanese drumming group, ‘Kodo,’ play the taiko.
BY LACEY PALMERASSociAte A&e editor
Kodo, a Japanese taiko drumming group, will bring their Kodo One Earth Tour to Morgantown Monday.
The taiko is a Japanese drum, and Kodo uses a va-riety of sizes and styles in their reinterpretation of Japanese performing arts. From one drum 12 inches wide to one weighing in at nearly 900 pounds, a com-bination of drums are used to offer a unique sound.
“This instrument pro-duces one of the most unique sounds in the world,” said company manager Jun Akimoto. “With a thicker body and a thicker skin, there are not other instruments with those structures, so I think this instrument is made to produce the biggest, loud-est sound.”
Since the group’s debut in 1981, Kodo has been traveling the world, bring-ing traditional Japanese taiko drumming to many.
“We are called the most traditional type of drum-ming group in the world, which is true but false,” Akimoto said. “We have both a traditional and con-temporary aspect.”
Aside from efforts to pre-serve the traditional Japa-nese sound, Kodo also at-tempts to incorporate new techniques and styles into their music, which they have learned through ex-periences all over the world while touring.
According to Akimoto, there are many taiko groups in the U.S. as well, so the performing style varies. Under the direc-tion of Kabuki luminary Tamasaburo Bando, Kodo chooses to stay near their Japanese folk roots while experimenting a little with contemporary projects of their own.
“We have roots in folk performing live in Japan, so each composition is original,” Akimoto said. “The combination of tradi-tional Japanese folk music as well as a contemporary mix of arrangements dis-tinguishes us from other groups, because other drummers have newer
ways in which they use a lot of music composed by themselves and have less of a connection with the folk style in Japan.”
Though much of their work features the taiko drum, other Japanese in-struments such as the fue, a variation of the flute, and shamisen, a three-stringed instrument, as well as vo-cals will also be featured in Kodo’s performance.
“We try to convey Japa-nese culture and traditional performances through our work,” Akimoto said.
According to Akimoto, the taiko is a symbol of community. The music it produces is said to link people and the heavens and create commonality among different people.
“We look forward to meeting new people, and also we hope to form con-nections with the differ-ent people, because drums have a universal language that everyone can under-stand,” Akimoto said.
Kodo has performed more than 3,600 times across five continents since their debut at the Berlin Festival. The group contin-ues to tour overseas and in their home country of Japan.
Akimoto hopes attend-ees enjoy the musical, uni-versal aspect of drumming and also a little Japanese culture.
“We hope everyone will enjoy the universal, pow-erful language of drums, but at the same time, we welcome the Morgantown people to experience a lit-tle Japanese culture,” Aki-moto said. “I think this is a precious moment for us to get together, and we hope this relationship will con-tinue into the future.”
The show will take place as part of the University Art Series Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre. Tickets for WVU students are $28, and general public tick-ets are $35 - $55 depend-ing on seat location. Tick-ets can be purchased at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. or at ticketmaster.com.
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