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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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Still no completion date for University Placeby jacob bojeSSon
city editor @jbojesson
West Virginia University officials have said while construction is moving along smoothly, a move-in date is yet to be set for the University Place apart-ment complex.
The University an-nounced on July 14 that it would not be able to fi-nalize the construction in time for fall semester.
“We don’t have a move-in date, but as soon as we do, obviously, we’ll get the word out to them,” said Corey Farris, dean of students and director of housing. “The building construction is moving along nicely.”
Farris said the Univer-
sity will take its time to make sure the apartment complex is completely done and move-in ready before students move in.
Some units are close to completion, but every-one will have to wait un-til the entire complex is constructed.
“We want that move in to be the best experience possible when they come in, but in the meantime we’re still supporting the students 110 percent,” Far-ris said.
When the University announced the delay last month, students with leases were given three alternative housing loca-tions and had the option to opt out of the lease.
Farris said students and parents have been under-
standing of the situation.“For all the students
that wanted alternate housing, we were able to offer it and we’ve worked with them to make special arrangements,” he said. “Most people are excited and quite honestly, they’re appreciative that the Uni-versity had their backs so to speak and found them a place to live. It was the right thing to do.”
Christy Ciociola signed a lease with University Place because it was one of few housing options that allowed her to move out after the fall semester.
Ciociola said she be-lieves the University han-dled the situation poorly and gave too short of a NICK HolsteIN/tHe DAIlY AtHeNAeum
Crews work to complete University Place, a new residential complex in Morgantown’s Sunnyside neighborhood. see uplace on PAGE 2
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notice.“I was really upset be-
cause I’m studying abroad in the spring and they were
the only apartment com-plex that would let me out of my lease faster. They gave me such late notice, so it was really hard to get a new place,” Ciociola said. “They didn’t really tell us when the construction would be finished for cer-
tain so I just pulled it and live at College Park now.“
Ciociola said the alter-native housing options provided by the Univer-sity were filled up quickly, leaving her no choice but to opt out.
“They refunded me on everything, but it was a big deal because they only gave us three other alter-natives for it and after the first hour all of them ex-cept one were filled,” she said. “I think they knew way before they told us that it wouldn’t be finished so they definitely should have told us sooner.”
University officials said they were monitoring the construction closely dur-ing the fall and waited to make a decision to delay the move until they were certain the building would not be complete.
“Toward the end of June we talked to the private developer and asked how
they were making prog-ress and when it became evident to us that they just weren’t going to make it we said, ‘Let’s put together Plan B’,” Farris said.
One way to make it up to the students is to organize the move-in for everyone, free of charge.
The delay will not cost the University any addi-tional money and the only loss of revenue will be from the portion of stu-dents that pulled out of their leases.
“They’re paying their part to WVU and we are taking care of them,” Far-ris said. “The students are still paying rent so it’s not like they are getting a place to live for free. When they move into University Place one of the things we’ll do is help them move their things in for them.”
UPlaceContinued from PAGE 1
NICK HolsteIN /tHe DAIlY AtHeNAeumOfficials still do not have a date set for University Place’s completion. The complex was supposed to be ready for the fall semester.
WellWVU, health services move to new buildingby taylor mcSorley
staff writer @dailyathenaeum
Student Health and WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health services are now all located in the new Health and Education Building on the Evansdale Campus adjacent to the Student Rec Center.
The services offered under the Carruth Center branch include psychiat-ric care, drug and alco-hol abuse programs, the Student Assistance Pro-gram (SAP) and coun-seling. The other branch of WELLWVU, the Of-fice of Wellness and Health Promotion is also now located in the new building.
Instead of students hav-ing to follow the yellow line through the hospital to get to Student Health, the office is now located on the ground floor of the new CPASS building. The Office of Wellness and Health Promotion is now
located on the first floor, and the Carruth Center and the Student Assis-tance Program are on the second.
“I would really like to
stress not only the physical convenience, but also the fact that so many different services are now located all in the same building,” said Alfred Kasprowicz,
director of WVU’s Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Care. “The two WELLWVU branches will be under the same roof now making all the
offices easy to locate.” With all the offices in
the same location, it will also make it easy for a doc-tor to walk a student right down the hall to a psy-chiatrist or to a different WELLWVU department instead of having to send the student across town.
The new environment and convenience of the Health and Education building is a big improve-ment for WVU’s health services and students say they believes it will affect them positively.
“I’m really happy Stu-dent Health has been moved to the new building by the Rec Center, because now it will be so much eas-ier to get there instead of having to go all the way to (the Health Sciences Cam-pus)” said Jessica Lettini, a junior marketing student. “I think the new location is much better for all the students.”
Along with all the new offices in the Health and Education building, there
will also be a pharmacy which will open later this fall.
“The environment of the new Health and Edu-cation Building is so much more student friendly and convenient, having all the necessary student health needs in the same place,” Kasprowicz said. “There is also a caf ecalled the Greenhouse Cafe located on the first floor. That re-ally makes the environ-ment much more relaxed and welcoming.”
There is also a parking garage at the Health and Education Building.
The Student Health In-surance office is another new resource students will be able to have ac-cess to. It is located in the WVU Division of Human Resources on the second floor of One Waterfront Place. Students can take the Mountain Line bus to One Waterfront Place or park in the garage.
NICK HolsetIN /tHe DAIlY AtHeNAeumThe new Health and Education Building is located on the Evansdale Campus near the Student Rec Center.
Fair gives students a chance to get acquainted with WVU orgs
sHANNoN mCKeNNA/tHe DAIlY AtHeNAeumA representative explains the prices for the variety of rings and when the deadline is for last minute orders during the Welcome Week information fair.
by alexiS randolPhstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
With the new school year in full-swing, stu-dents have the opportu-nity to become involved with different organi-zations at West Virginia University.
Throughout the first week of classes, students will be able to stop by the Welcome Week In-formation Fair in the Mountainlair. The fair will have representatives from various groups and de-partments to speak to stu-dents about how they can get involved.
Erica Bentley, a grants and development admin-istrator for WVU Student Life, said her department is looking to gain more student members.
“We are trying to estab-lish more student philan-thropy. We will be doing focus groups this fall, and we are looking to get some students involved,” Bent-ley said. “We really want students to understand the importance of philan-thropy here at WVU and in the community.”
WVU Student Llife is one of many depart-ments seeking to gain stu-dent support. Bentley said there is no better time to get involved than now.
“We are in the midst of a capital campaign right now, so it is a great time to be involved,” she said. “We are working to show how private donors can really help out students. Now is the time to get involved. This is a historic campaign and the biggest thing we have ever done.”
While she said she has not yet gained the support she is hoping for, Bentley said she looks forward to meeting more students in the week to come.
“We haven’t had a lot of students yet, but it is early. And we will be here all week,” Bentley said.
Rebecca Olsavsky, a marketing graduate assis-tant for WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health, said WELLWVU has had a presence at several events in the past weekend.
“Today we are here handing out our calen-dars for the school year. Each month, we focus on one of our liveWELL cam-paigns,” she said. “We also have a few events com-ing up soon such as Well-ness Wednesday on Aug. 27 outside the new Health and Education Building.”
Olsavsky said she has been able to get informa-tion to a lot of students.
“We have had a lot of students stopping by to grab information,” Ol-savsky said. “A lot of peo-ple are coming in, a lot of freshman exploring the Mountainlair and we are just trying to get our name out there.”
Cara Jaskiewicz, a se-nior public relations stu-dent, said she found in-formation she received useful.
“I have stopped by the WVUp All Night booth and WELLWVU,” she said. “I got a calendar, and every-one is really nice and re-ally outgoing. You will re-ally learn a lot, especially the freshman.”
With so much foot traf-fic, Jaskiewicz said she be-lieves the Mountainlair is
the perfect place to get in-formation out to students.
“This is the perfect lo-cation, it is just the main part of campus with stu-dents walking back and forth from classes, you’ll catch everyone,” Jaskie-
wicz said.The fair will be sta-
tioned in the Mountainlair from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. for the remainder of the week.
College of Law professor publishes book about Jewish-Americansby alySSa lazar
staff writer @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia Univer-sity College of Law profes-sor Michael Blumenthal has published a new book, en-titled “The Greatest Jewish-American Lover in Hungar-ian History.”
The book is a collection of short stories, in Hungary and other locations includ-ing France, Germany and California. The title story is about a man who, in his sexual fantasies, would like to be the greatest Jewish-
American lover in Hungar-ian history.
“The book is about the odd mysteries of sexual de-sire and frustration, the ex-perience of being – and be-ing among – foreigners, the
experience of living in other countries, the mysteries of confronting death, aging, and the (decrease in) sex-ual desire, the mysteries of marriage and so on,” Blu-menthal said.
Blumenthal, who is a Jew-ish-American himself, said he wrote the book with no intended audience.
“I never, ever have an in-tended audience. I write for myself and other human be-ings,” Blumenthal said.
The audience could range from a college student to a teacher to an engineer, he said.
Writing short stories about a man trying to ful-fill his sexual desires turned out to be very beneficial and proved to spice up the book itsel, he said.
“It made me laugh and smile sometimes when I was writing them, and I found out some things while writ-ing that I didn’t know before I wrote them,” he said.
He said his inspiration for the book comes from an intricate curiosity for the world and human behavior.
“I was inspired by inter-ests in the complexities of sex, in the complexity of for-
eignness, in the mixed and muddled motivations of hu-man beings and a desire to probe the mysteries of be-ing alive,” Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal was previ-ously the director of creative writing at Harvard Univer-sity, with a Juris Doctor de-gree from Cornell Univer-sity. He is currently a visiting professor at the WVU Col-lege of Law and codirector of the Immigration Clinic at WVU College of Law.
This will be Blumenthal’s third book. His first book, “Weinstock Among the Dy-ing”, was published in 1983.
His second book, “Wein-stock in Exile,” has not yet been published.
Blumenthal will conduct a reading from “The Great-est Jewish-American Lover in Hungarian History” on Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Robinson Reading Room in the Downtown Library.
Those interested in pur-chasing the book can find it in stores, including the WVU Barnes & Noble Book-store. It is also available on Amazon.
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cORRecTIONDue to a reporting error in the Aug. 15 edition of The Daily Athenaeum,
an article on student health insurance provided incorrect information regarding co-payments with the university health insurance plan. The story should have read:
The new plan will have co-pays for various levels of care. As the “des-ignated provider,” the co-pays for WVu Healthcare services will be $10 for a physician’s office visit, $25 for urgent care and $250 for emergency department visits.
There is no deductible when using WVu Healthcare. For more informa-tion, and costs of other care plans, visit this page.
Students who opt to not enroll in a WVu insurance plan should contact their insurance carrier, or refer to their current insurance card, for co-pay costs. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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‘American Horror Story’ to return with freaky season
In October 2013, FX fil led television sets with a creepy season of “American Horror Story: Coven.”
Each season, AHS pres-ents a new theme and “Coven” followed the footsteps of the first two seasons with plenty of drama and just enough shocking scenes.
The story of “AHS: Co-ven” follows a group of Salem witches. With few witches left in the world, they want to recruit new girls into the coven be-fore their kind become extinct.
Throughout the season, a group of young girls end up at a school for witches in New Orleans. There, they are supposed to learn how to control their powers.
As you might expect, much more than that happens.
The young witches learn about the powers they have and also about the traditions the Sa-lem witches are trying to save.
The Supreme, Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange) is the most powerful witch
of all. She recognizes the opportunity and visits the school to try and gain control.
Goode sees there is another witch there who is supposed to take her place as Supreme and tries with all her might to keep that from happening.
At the end of the sea-son, Cordelia Goode (Sarah Paulson), who happens to be Fiona’s daughter, becomes the Supreme. Fiona dies of cancer after losing her Su-preme status, and two of the young girls become the new council for the Coven.
After the hugely popular “AHS: Coven,” many fans are anxiously waiting for the next season.
“AHS: Freak Show” is set to premiere Oct. 8 at 10 p.m.
The story brings the au-dience to Jupiter, Florida, in the 1950’s at one of the last freak shows left during the time.
Bearded ladies, Siamese twins, a “clown killer” and a German Lange, who runs the show, are all things to expect for this season.
So far, there are only minimal details from the show’s creators on what to expect.
All the familiar faces,
such as Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy and Sarah Paul-son, will grace our screens again.
Viewers should also expect new faces like Jy-oti Amge, the world’s smallest woman, Finn Wittrock and Michael Chiklis.
This will be Lange’s last season as part of the cast. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lange said the six-month time commitment each year is cutting into time for herself. She also said four years has been long enough to stick with one project.
Not too much else has been released about this season, except that there are subplots, includ-ing a murder mystery and plots between char-acters who are having relationships.
Tim Minear revealed on Twitter there is a vil-lain that will apparently “scare the (s---)” out of viewers.
New details will be re-leased as the season draws closer.
V i s i t h t t p : / / f x n e t-w o r k s. c o m / a m e r i c a n -horrorstory for more information.
By Nicole curtiNA&E WritEr@DAilyAthEnAEum
FACEBOOK.COM/ AMERICAN HORROR STORY“American Horror Story” recently added the world’s smallest woman, Jyoti Amge, to the cast.
Freshman year is an excit-ing time in life.
For many, it is the first time they are living away from home. For all, it repre-sents an exciting new chap-ter in life, and acts as a rite of passage from childhood into adulthood.
To see what this year’s freshmen are most excited about, I went to the New Stu-dent Welcome event at the Coliseum. I asked the group of new Mountaineers “What are you most excited about?”
The responses ranged widely, and these varied ex-pectations show how much variety Morgantown has to offer.
A lot of new students are looking forward to meeting new people, and they should
be.In the beginning of fresh-
man year, most people are eager and open to making new connections. Often, the friendships made early on in college can last a lifetime.
Brook Kminski said she was excited about “meeting new people.”
Others are looking forward to using their time between classes for self-improvement.
“I want to go to the Rec Center,” said Jake Martin. “I like lifting weights and am ex-cited to play ball.”
And of course, many new students are excited for the college’s sporting events.
“I’m most excited for the football games,” said Jenna Boram. “I’m really looking forward to being in the stu-dent section.”
“Meeting new people and going to all the sporting events.” said Ryan Decker.
For some, a new envi-
ronment, and the indepen-dence that comes with it, is the most exciting prospect of freshman year. For upper-classmen, being independent may be taken for granted. But as Courtney Pyatt said, it’s the little things that count.
“Being able to make my own decisions,” she said.
Events like FallFest are on some of the new students’ minds, especially Hollie Bragg who said it was what she was most excited about.
Students like Megan Abe are excited about being in the city of Morgantown.
“I’m looking forward to the Motown way of life,” she said.
One freshman, Megan Rath, said she is ready to be-come a presence on the WVU campus.
“I’m on the dance team, so I’m most excited about going to all of the games and be-ing involved with the student
body,” she said. No matter what the reason,
every new student has a lot to be excited about. Some are undoubtedly more nervous than they’re letting on.
But West Virginia Univer-sity has something to offer ev-eryone, no matter what your hobby is.
Like riding horses? There is a club for it.
Dream of being on a Quidditch team? There’s even a club for that.
Beyond the many op-portunities, our beautiful campus has plenty of peo-ple always around who are looking for something to do.
Being a freshman here is certainly a ton of fun. From the looks of it, this incoming class is already very excited for what is to come.
Freshmen look forward to new opportunities, ready for change
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wear-ing shades as he walked back to work following a pizza lunch recently, Brian Williams ducked into Rock-efeller Center and passed a tour guide who noted the celebrity sighting to his group: “Ladies and gentle-men, there’s Tom Brokaw.”
The television business can be humbling, even nearly 10 years after Wil-liams succeeded Brokaw as NBC “Nightly News” an-chor. Williams, 55, faces new competition from both ABC and CBS as they look to end NBC’s 256-week streak as the most popular evening newscast.
David Muir takes over af-ter Labor Day as anchor of the second-place “World News” at ABC. Steve Capus, former NBC news president and longtime Williams pro-ducer, is in charge behind the scenes as Scott Pelley’s executive producer at the “CBS Evening News.”
“When I started my com-petition was Dan (Rather) and Peter (Jennings),” Wil-liams said. “That makes me feel old. That gets me on the treadmill ev-ery night after work. I am proud of what we’ve built here.”
So far this year, “Nightly News” has averaged 8.9 million viewers and wid-ened its lead over ABC (8 million) and CBS (6.8 mil-lion). ABC has gained lately in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic, impor-tant to advertisers even as it is a minority of evening news viewers. ABC occa-sionally wins in that cate-gory and, in July, was up 5 percent over last year while NBC was down 4 percent, the Nielsen company said.
“Nightly” is the no-drama newscast at a net-work where “Today” seeks to regain its mojo against ABC’s ratings leader “Good Morning America” and Da-vid Gregory is being re-placed by Chuck Todd as moderator of “Meet the Press,” as the venerable Sunday morning show has fallen from first to third place during Gregory’s tenure.
On a summer afternoon, “Nightly” executive pro-ducer Patrick Burkey and Williams presided over an afternoon news meeting to go over stories that might squeeze into that evening’s 22-minute news hole. Wil-liams takes some ribbing from Todd over the an-chor’s description of col-league Lester Holt “slap-pin’ the bass” while sitting in with the Roots on the “Tonight” show.
As if to prove a point, Williams repeats the refer-ence on “Nightly.”
The biggest change in the job since Williams took
over has been the immedi-acy. Burkey said “Nightly” is much more likely than it once was to change its lineup to reflect late-break-ing news and frequently updates the telecast for the West Coast. With social me-dia, if Williams says some-thing mildly controversial or a graphic is misspelled, people at “Nightly” hear about it instantly.
While he’s anchoring, TV monitors out of sight of the cameras keep Williams in-formed of what ABC and CBS are doing on their si-multaneous newscasts. De-spite this, Williams said it’s important to program his broadcast “with blinders on.
“We don’t know what the competition is going to do,” he said. “While it is true that I am sometimes surprised at the alternatives being of-fered, it will in no way af-fect the choices I’m going to make the next day or the day after that.”
That’s polite anchor-speak. Privately, some at NBC express incredulity over some news decisions made over at ABC - such as a recent day when NBC led its newscast with the shoot-ing death of an American two-star general in Afghan-istan while “World News” opened with a collision between double-decker buses in New York’s Times Square.
These decisions bear watching, though, since ABC overtook NBC in the morning partly because of a breezier approach that caught NBC flat-footed.
Andrew Tyndall, whose consulting company mon-itors the content of eve-ning newscasts, said NBC lately seems to be follow-ing ABC’s lead by introduc-ing more morning-style el-ements into the second half of “Nightly,” including so-cial media pieces by Jenna Wolfe and entertainment coverage.
Williams’ spot atop the ratings appears secure, al-though the change of an an-chor lends some mystery to an area of TV where audi-ences are very loyal.
As Williams finished a second slice of pizza at lunch, he was inter-rupted by a fellow diner who said she was a fan and thanked Williams for pos-itively representing New Jersey, the state where he has one of his three homes.
“I like that person who just came by,” he said after she leaves the hole-in-the-wall pizza joint Williams swears by. “That’s really meaningful to me.”
Health and ratings per-mitting, Williams doesn’t expect to move onto an-other job in television news.
Brian Williams takes on new competition
NEW YORK (AP) — The reptile reboot “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” held off a trio of new challeng-ers at the weekend box office.
The Paramount Pictures release took in $28.5 mil-lion in its second week, besting the Fox buddy com-edy “Let’s Be Cops,” Lion-sgate’s poor-performing action-hero smorgasbord “The Expendables 3” and the Weinstein Co.’s young-adult novel adaptation “The Giver.”
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian the-aters Friday through Sun-day, followed by distribu-tion studio, gross, number of theater locations, aver-age receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as com-piled Monday by Rentrak, are:
1. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” Paramount, $28,523,147, 3,980 lo-cations, $7,167 average, $117,765,383, 2 weeks.
2. “Guardians Of The Gal-axy,” Disney, $25,115,564, 3,697 locations, $6,793 av-erage, $222,661,385, 3 weeks.
3. “Let’s Be Cops,” 20th Century Fox, $17,813,722, 3,094 locations, $5,758 av-erage, $26,220,986, 1 week.
4. “The Expendables 3,” Lionsgate, $15,879,645, 3,221 locations, $4,930 av-erage, $15,879,645, 1 week.
5. “The Giver,” The Weinstein Company, $12,305,016, 3,003 lo-cations, $4,098 average, $12,305,016, 1 week.
6. “Into The Storm,” War-ner Bros., $7,892,239, 3,434 locations, $2,298 average, $31,513,675, 2 weeks.
7. “The Hundred-
Foot Journey,” Disney, $7,176,092, 2,043 loca-tions, $3,513 average, $23,686,223, 2 weeks.
8. “Lucy,” Univer-sal, $5,493,685, 2,520 lo-cations, $2,180 average, $107,713,190, 4 weeks.
9. “Step Up All In,” Li-onsgate, $2,659,026, 2,072 locations, $1,283 average, $11,808,360, 2 weeks.
10. “Hercules,” Para-mount, $2,127,874, 1,475 locations, $1,443 average, $68,169,096, 4 weeks.
11. “Boyhood,” IFC Films, $1,992,448, 771 lo-cations, $2,584 average, $13,642,910, 6 weeks.
12. “Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes,” 20th Cen-tury Fox, $1,984,776, 1,262 locations, $1,573 average, $201,897,136, 6 weeks.
13. “Get On Up,” Univer-sal, $1,949,295, 1,101 lo-cations, $1,770 average, $27,049,950, 3 weeks.
14. “Magic In the Moon-light,” Sony Pictures Clas-
sics, $1,786,150, 964 lo-cations, $1,853 average, $4,616,606, 4 weeks.
15. “A Most Wanted Man,” Roadside Attrac-tions, $1,256,384, 644 lo-cations, $1,951 average, $12,645,062, 4 weeks.
16. “Planes: Fire and Res-cue,” Disney, $1,027,609, 960 locations, $1,070 aver-age, $55,723,368, 5 weeks.
17. “What If,” CBS Films, $854,364, 787 locations, $1,086 average, $1,060,219,
2 weeks.18. “Singham Returns,”
Ero s Ente r t a i nm ent, $654,045, 127 locations, $5,150 average, $654,045, 1 week.
19. “The Purge: Anar-chy,” Universal, $632,910, 575 locations, $1,101 aver-age, $70,127,290, 5 weeks.
20. “How To Train Your Dragon 2,” 20th Cen-tury Fox, $579,545, 377 lo-cations, $1,537 average, $171,242,138, 10 weeks.
‘TMNT’ garners much success at box office
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Should lists matter to colleges?EdITOrIAl
The results are in, and West Virginia University has landed near the top of sev-eral lists from The Princeton Review.
Each year, The Prince-ton Review ranks colleges and universities for various items.
This year, WVU found it-self as the No. 4 party school, was ranked for having the third best athletic facilities and the 11th best library.
WVU is ranked 12th for student turnout at athletic
events, sixth for students who study the least and even The Daily Athenaeum is ranked as the eighth best college newspaper.
But do these lists matter? Sure, some rankings can
tarnish the Mountaineer image and others might be something to brag about.
But when it comes down to it, they really don’t mean anything. We’re willing to bet most of the student body at WVU didn’t sit down and weigh their college deci-
sions based off of the Princ-eton Review, or any list.
Sure, you may have wanted to go to a party school, or always dreamed of sitting in a packed student section in the Coliseum.
Think back to your first
visit to campus. You saw the library first-hand, you may have seen the athletic facil-ities or maybe you even got to stay a weekend in town and experience Morgan-town nightlife.
You didn’t need the
Princeton Review to tell you how great all of those things are, you saw it for yourself.
We all chose WVU for a reason. Do any of the recent rankings change the fact that you are proud to be a Mountaineer?
We aren’t going to lie, it was pretty exciting to be considered one of the top-10 college newspapers in the country. But it doesn’t change anything. We still have a commitment to pro-viding the WVU commu-
nity with the most up-to-date news.
We’re sure the WVU Li-braries staff was excited to see their hard work recog-nized, but it doesn’t mean it can all stop.
Party school or stone-cold sober school, best ath-letic facilities or no athletic facilities, your experience at WVU is what you make of it. Not what The Princeton Re-view tells you it is.
OUr VIEWYour experience at WVu is what you make of it. Not what the Princeton
Review tells you it is.
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Safety on, off campus should be priority for students
ACrOSS ThE U.S.
A guide to saving money on textbooks in 2014
With the new semes-ter starting, students at K-State will face the all too familiar pain that comes with buying textbooks. In its guide to understand-ing college costs, The Col-lege Board, an organiza-tion that promotes higher education and administers the SAT, advised students to budget approximately $1,200 each year for text-books and other course materials. With textbooks becoming such a finan-cial burden, it’s no wonder students dread the pro-cess of buying them each semester.
The costs of textbooks are high, but they are a necessity. However, us-ing these steps will help ensure that you buy text-books in the most cost-
effective and stress-free manner.
Shop online:Despite being the most
convenient place to buy textbooks due to its loca-tion, the local book store is typically not the best place to buy them. Bookstores in college towns are no-torious for being the least student friendly environ-ments in which to buy and sell textbooks. The prices are often higher than on-line retailers and you only get a fraction of what you paid for when you sell the books back. The most cost-effective way of purchas-ing textbooks is to buy them online. Online retail-ers such as Amazon, Chegg and Half.com are more competitive with their pricing when it comes to buying, renting and selling books. Price comparison tools such as booksprice.com allow you to compare multiple online offers for
the same book to find the best price.
Rent books:Renting textbooks is a
great way to save money as opposed to buying them. In a December 2010 post on Mint.com, a financial management program, ti-tled “Is Renting Textbooks Really Cheaper Than Buy-ing Them?” author Reyna Gobel argues that in mul-tiple scenarios, renting textbooks at half or even 75 percent of the price of a new book is worth the ex-pense. The prices of book rentals vary depending on the book and whether you rent a new or used copy, but rentals are almost al-ways cheaper than buying a new book. Online book vendors rent books at com-petitive prices and often offer free return shipping.
Renting books is typi-cally cheaper, but you also need to take extra care of rental books so that you
don’t lose any money when you return them. An-other disadvantage with rental books is that resale is not an option. To save on costs while not having to deal with returning books, you could also try buying used books.
Used books:Used books can save you
a fortune, and, if they’re in good condition, used books are usually worth the price. Buying used books either from friends or online vendors has be-come incredibly easy over the years. At K-State, you can find multiple Face-book groups, Criagslist posts and websites dedi-cated to facilitating book sales between students where prices are often lower than those at the campus bookstore. Online vendors also often include ratings, the condition of the book and special of-fers which may factor into
making a decision that is right for you.
Buy older versions:Buying an older version
of a textbook is another good option, but it is also a bit tricky. In some cases, the change in content be-tween an older and newer version of a textbook is minimal. When this is the case, it is easy to coordi-nate with the teacher and other students to bridge the gap between the two versions. In other cases, the newer version of a textbook can be vastly dif-ferent from the older ver-sion and bridging the gap becomes a lot more diffi-cult. The best way to de-termine if buying an older version is worth it is talk-ing to your instructor be-fore you buy it.
Considering when to buy new:
While renting or buying used books can save you money, for some classes
buying a new book might be worth the cost. Text-books for certain classes such as core classes in your major could be use-ful as reference materi-als beyond the duration of the semester or even your time in college. In these cases, textbooks should be treated as an investment in your future rather than a burden to be borne during the semester.
Ultimately, it all comes down to asking yourself whether the cost is worth the benefit. Buying a new textbook is incredibly con-venient and the most ef-fective way to stay up to date in class. However, it is also often extremely ex-pensive. By spending a bit more time planning, re-searching and coordinat-ing with other students and teachers, you can save a lot of money on a neces-sary expense while acquir-ing valuable information.
Som Kandlur K-State Collegian
I come from a small town where not much happens.
So, four years ago when I moved to Morgantown, this country girl was in a little bit of shock.
Suddenly, things like staying safe on campus and blue emergency poles were things I had to make sure I knew about any time I left the comfort of my residence hall.
Don’t get me wrong, I think campus is safe and the University Police go to great lengths to ensure stu-dent safety.
But, in light of recent events, it’s important to be reminded that your safety on and off campus should not be taken lightly.
As someone who has faced some potentially ter-rible situations, I urge you to at least consider some tips.
I am not your mother, I can’t force you to do any of these, but maybe we should all think about our moms before we make a decision.
First, always, always, al-
ways plan a safe way to get home. We’re fortunate in Morgantown to have a va-riety of services. Some of them are even free for stu-dents, so be sure to utilize them any opportunity you get.
As University Police Chief Bob Roberts said, have a “designated walker.” This is someone sober who you trust to walk home with you. Never walk alone. If worst comes to worst, call University Police and have them take you home. Like I said, student safety is a top priority.
There’s even a free Cam-
pus PM Mountain Line bus route to get you home safely.
“But I drove my car downtown, so I have to drive home. I can’t get a parking ticket.” Wrong. Call Morgantown’s desig-nated driver service, DubV Safe Ride, and they’ll take it home for you. Call them at 304-777-9996.
There is zero excuse to drink and drive. Ever.
If you’re going to head downtown to a bar or house party, make sure you are with people you can trust.
College is a great time to meet people, and what better way to meet some-
one than at a club or house party?
The last thing you want is to be drunk and alone be-cause the group of people you went with decided to go missing in action.
Always lock your doors and don’t leave any valuable in plain sight. Most break-ins are ones where perpe-trators see an opportunity, like an unlocked car.
The WVU Police Depart-ment’s phone number is conveniently located on the back of your student ID. WVU even has an app to help keep students safe and ensure safety while on cam-
pus. You can download the LiveSafe app from the App Store.
And if that isn’t enough, there are blue emergency poles all over campus where, at the push of a but-ton, University Police are at your disposal.
When it comes down to it, all of this is common sense. Sometimes, though, it’s easy to lose sight of com-mon sense. Don’t get me wrong, it’s OK to go out or walk home late from the li-brary – you just have to be safe and smart about it.
Carlee lammerSeditor-in-Chief @CarleelammerS
FILE PHOTOBlue emergency poles are located across campus. In an emergency situation, users simply push a button and are connected with University Police.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Tuesday August 19, 20145 | CAMPUS CONNECTION
BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
Born today This year you are goal-focused. Part of accomplish-ing what you want will require you to intensify your networking. The more people you meet, the better off you’ll be. Your domestic life can be extremely demanding and some-what burdensome. You will clear up any problems by next year. If you are single, you will have many suitors. Decide what kind of relationship you want, and then you will be able to make a sound decision. If you are attached, many difficulties you have had together most likely will be hap-pily resolved. Make it OK to have dif-ferences of opinion, and learn to re-spect them.
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH Your efforts count. Even if you don’t reach your goal, a partner
will be supportive of your efforts. Later in the day, you will see the right path. Tap into your endless creativ-ity in order to find the right solution or approach. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHH You might be more possessive than you realize, and someone will let you know in no uncertain terms. You could push others away if you are not careful, as some people can-not tolerate that type of neediness. Tonight: Make it your treat.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Keep your long-term objectives in mind. The unexpected is likely to occur in a meeting or with a friend. At first, you might be star-tled, but in time your sense of hu-mor will take over. Try not to laugh in front of others, though.
Tonight: Wish upon a star.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHH Reveal less than you know right now, and maintain a low profile. You might be more judgmental than you realize. If you express your views, it is likely that someone could shut down. Tonight: Play until you are tired, then get some extra R and R.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Listen to a friend’s news more care-fully. You have the ability to get past a problem once you detach. When you are no longer triggered, you’ll come up with a workable solution. A meeting could be instrumental in this process. Tonight: Find your friends.
V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH You often feel as though you need to answer to others. As a
result, you could be allowing your-self to be taken advantage of. You will have to learn how to say “no” more often. Know that this could take some time, as patterns could be difficult to break. Tonight: In the limelight.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance. Maintain some disci-pline, especially with your finances. News will head your way that of-fers more insight. Use this vision to find a solution. You might want to open up to a new acquaintance. Tonight: Follow the music.
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Move forward in a discussion. Listen to others’ opinions before deciding which way to go. Unexpected de-velopments could take you in a new direction, where you might need
to become more self-disciplined. Tonight: Pay attention to an older person.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHH Defer to someone else, so that he or she can show off his or her skills. You might be taken aback by this person’s self-ex-pression. Make several calls to someone in the know for a sec-ond opinion. You might be slightly more negative than you realize. Tonight: Go with the program.
cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHH You might feel overwhelmed by ev-erything you need to do. Show off your delegating skills in order to ac-complish as much as possible. Be open to a partner’s suggestions, as they could work. Weigh the pros and cons of each one before you decide. Tonight: Make it cozy and warm.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Your creativity is likely to emerge. As long as you tap in to your imagination, you will appear to have the magic touch. Take charge of a matter when dealing with authority figures. Keep conversations moving. Tonight: Go for what you want.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Settle in, and decide what your priorities are before you act. Otherwise, you could experience a big backfire. Look to someone at a distance who seems to understand you; this person always seems to give good advice. Curb wild risk-taking. Tonight: Invite a friend over.
Born today Poet Ogden Nash (1902), former U.S. President Bill Clinton (1946), actor John Stamos (1963).
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
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across1 Like many bar brews6 2013 World Series champs, familiarly9 PC problem solver13 Garlicky sauce14 Stinky Le Pew15 Storybook baddie16 Recycled sheets for scribbling18 Senior’s big dance19 Rain heavily20 Dry as the Gobi21 Perfect spots22 Org. headed by the U.S. Comptroller General23 End-of-filming cast event25 “Alley __”26 Under lock and __27 Pervasive glow28 Used a rotary phone30 Fried rice ingredient31 Spider’s trap34 Scandal-ridden Texas-based corporation35 Pirate’s “yes”36 Odometer button38 Fast sports cars39 “Great” primate40 Skiing coats41 Rain delay rollout43 Pick up the tab44 Tattoos, slangily45 Toy gun loaded with rolls48 Morning hrs.49 Plane handler50 Stun with a police gun51 Shopping bag53 Admit frankly54 Scrubbing brand with two periods in its
name56 Christmas candle scent57 Works in un museo58 With glee59 Serving whiz60 Golfer’s smallest wood?61 Tough journeys
down1 Brewer’s oven2 “Good job!”3 Ripped to shreds4 Shrine to remember5 Dot on a domino6 Old-timey photo hue7 Spot with regular and guest columnists
8 Gen-__: millennial preceder9 First-rate10 Long-legged wader11 Chum12 Tailoring borders14 Fencing defense17 Poked at like a cat21 Lobed organ24 Wrinkly little dog25 Keats’ “__ on Melancholy”26 Historical novelist Follett29 Suffered a blackout30 Cyclone center32 Ice cream treat33 Jack’s access35 Supplier of software hidden in 16-, 23-, 45-
and 54-Across36 Bit of sunlight37 Pooh-pooher’s sound39 Tycoon Onassis40 Prefix with -lithic42 On point43 Hustlers chasing rustlers
45 Word with duty or pride46 Like a hermit47 Personal shopper’s asset48 For the bond-issue price49 Bearded Smurf52 “Grand” ice cream maker54 Went unused55 TSA employee
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WVU professor Amastutz presents piano recitalby joAn conte
correspondent @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia Univer-sity music professor, Pe-ter Amstutz, presents his piano recital in the Bloch Learning and Perfor-mance Hall tonight at 7:30 p.m.
He began to play the piano at 5-years-old, and now Am-stutz is critically acclaimed. The New York Times said he has a “sweetly singing tone.”
Further, The Edinburgh, Evening News said he is
“Fresh and stylish…a fine performance.”
Amstutz will perform the program he played when touring Indonesia, Thai-land and Malaysia this sum-mer for recitals and master classes.
The program includes a mix of songs, including “Hun-garian Rhapsody No. 3” by Franz Liszt, “Sechs Bagatel-len, Op. 126” by Ludwig van Beethoven, “Long Ago,” an improvisation by Amstutz, “Pavane and Galliard (Earle of Salisbury) by William Byrd and “The Serpent’s Kiss” by William Bolcom.
The mixture includes clas-sic songs from composers Liszt and Beethoven, as well as modern music by William Bolcom.
William Bolcom’s “The Serpent’s Kiss” comes from a book made of four ragtime pieces, each meant to turn the fall of man into a piano production.
This book was titled “The Garden of Eden” and was published in the early 20th Century.
When asked why he chose this program for the recital, Amstutz said it was the vari-ety of styles within the songs.
The program of diverse sounds will lead up to the fi-nale of Beethoven’s “Sonata No.32 in C Minor Op. 111. “
“Sonata No.32” was the fi-nal sonata Beethoven wrote and one of his last works for the piano.
The Sonata was writ-ten in the early 1800s when Beethoven was already com-pletely deaf.
Amstutz said that Beethoven’s piece is the cen-ter of the recital because it is “an amazing and expressive piece with immense content emotionally.”
Amstutz made the con-
scious decision to base the entire performance around this selection. He attributed this, not only to the genius of the composition, but some-thing deeper.
“Beethoven found a win-dow into a better world,” Am-stutz said.
He said he wants to bring a part of it back to the audience in his performance.
Amstutz has studied in Austria and has also toured in Europe, the United States and Asia.
He also has served as a judge for the National Piano Festival in Malaysia and for
the William S. Boyd Interna-tional Piano Competition, ac-cording to a release on WVU Today.
He is a prizewinner in the Maryland International Piano Competition and a medalist in the Casagrande Interna-tional Piano Competition in Italy.
Amstutz’s performance will be the first this semester at the CAC and is an opening for all the events there this academic year.
Amstutz said he is hopeful that a lot of people will attend.
Shannon McKenna/The DaILY aThenaeUMVeronica Klein, a history and German student, has an intricate tat-too spead across her shoulder in honor of her father. “When my father was diagnosed with cancer I got it to signify his love for the sea and boating,” Klein said.
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by jAke jArVismultimedia editor @jakejarvisWvu
Just 10 years ago, 300 people gathered for a pri-vate party in a friend’s backyard. Ten years later, the Camp Barefoot 8 Music and Arts Festival has grown exponentially.
Camp Barefoot will en-tertain music lovers Thurs-day through Saturday in Bartow, W.Va.
“We all come together to create a community that we would want to attend and pass along to those fans that love independent mu-sic and intimate settings,” said Scott McClain, Camp Barefoot founder and organizer.
McClain said the festi-val primarily focuses on showcasing new, indepen-dent music with select fea-tures of national acts in the
evening. More than 1,000 bands
reached out to be a part of the festival.
A panel of Camp Bare-foot’s management assem-bles a list of acts they’d like to see perform. From there, McClain is the one who persuades acts to perform.
This year, 55 acts will perform, including Beats Antique, Papadosio, Let-tuce and the Kyle Holling-sworth Band with the Mo-tet Horns.
“We couldnt do this festival without our su-perfans, staff that vol-unteer and the commu-nity that has expanded over the years,” McClain said.
This year, Camp Barefoot will also offer yoga. Mc-Clain said many of the fes-tival’s loyal fans have been requesting this addition for
years.Aura Glow Yoga will offer
a class from 10-11:30 a.m. each day of the festival.
“We’re super excited as this brings the audience closer to our community and hopefully gives them a relaxing experience as well,” McClain said.
Slackline will also be one of the featured activities at the venue.
A music festival wouldn’t be complete without camp-ing under the stars. Camp Barefoot is no exception.
“People will love camp-ing here in the beauti-ful mountains of Poca-hontas County,” McClain said. “They will hope-fully see unbelievable skies and stars for miles at night.”
“In the morning, the beautiful view of the fog rolling over the mountains into the valley while dew is
still settling is truly an ex-perience to partake.”
For those who have never attended an event like this, McLain said he suggests festival-goers bring extra socks and warm clothing to combat the drop in tem-perature in the evening.
Festival-goers, having once entered the festival grounds Thursday, will not be permitted to leave un-til Saturday morning. After exiting festival grounds, there will be a $5 reentry fee.
According to the festi-val’s website, this rule was implemented for traffic safety.
Tickets for the festival are available for purchase at http://campbarefoot.org/CB8/tickets/. They are only available on a will call basis.
camp barefoot 8 brings independent musicians to W.Va.
FallFestStudents enjoy Magic!, Dierks Bentley, Kendrick Lamar despite rain
Students crowded out-side of the Mountainlair for this year’s FallFest concert, donning sum-mer attire and sunny dispositions.
Bustling through the security and staff, they raced to get in line for the festivities.
Some students resorted to partying on the side-walk outside of the frater-nities. Some watched from residence hall windows.
“I like it because I get to see famous people,” said Allie Nwosu, a psychology student.
Everyone seemed to have a good time, sing-ing along to MAGIC!’s hit “Rude,” swaying to the southern sounds of Di-erks Bentley and bobbing along to Kendrick Lamar’s hip-hop beats.
The rain didn’t deter the crowd from the sights and sounds of FallFest.
Cheers echoed down North High Street get-ting louder as the night progressed.
“Dierks should have been last,” said Jesse Grossman, an electri-cal engineering student. “Country music is much more appealing to this crowd than rap.”
No matter which act audience members pre-ferred, they all agreed on one thing: FallFest is how you begin the new aca-demic year in style.
It’s an event that most students believe every-one should attend at least once.
A civil Engineering stu-dent, Olivia Bodnar, said, “I love FallFest because it’s an undeniable atmo-sphere of good vibes, nec-essary to get into the right state of mind before kick-ing off classes.”
Nursing student Madi-son Wilcox said she loved FallFest and that is was simply perfect.
KYLe Monroe/The DaILY aThenaeUMStudents enjoy a better view of Kendrick Lamar’s performance.
KYLe Monroe/The DaILY aThenaeUMDierks Bentley and his group gather to thunderous applause.
KYLe Monroe/The DaILY aThenaeUMKendrick Lamar performs at FallFest.
KYLe Monroe/The DaILY aThenaeUMMagic! entertain the crowd at FallFest.
Ashley DenArDoassociate a&e editor @amdenardo
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WVU offense filled with
young talentFor the last year and a
half, West Virginia has been trying to replace the trio of Geno Smith, Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey.
The task has been eas-ier said than done, as many predicted it would be. Af-ter years of being an offen-sive juggernaut with that trio leading the way, West Vir-ginia has struggled to keep up at times in the Big 12.
While the last two seasons have been an adventure for head coach Dana Holgorsen and the West Virginia of-fense, there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
Holgorsen and the rest of his coaching staff have put together consecutive im-pressive recruiting classes, while compiling some talent from transfers. They have set the West Virginia offense up for an explosion in the near future.
Freshman quarterback William Crest highlights the most recent class of re-cruits. With plenty of hype surrounding him before he has even seen any game ac-tion, Crest could contribute to West Virginia’s offense right away.
Although there is no question this is still Clint Trickett’s team, Crest brings next-level athleticism to the table and could be a ma-jor headache for Big 12 de-fenses, even before he has a deep understanding of West Virginia’s offense.
As Holgorsen has said, Crest’s head must be spin-ning at the moment. It will take time for him to be-come as well-versed on WVU’s playbook as veter-ans Trickett and Paul Mil-lard, but once he puts in the time, the results could be eye-popping.
Quarterback isn’t the only position where the Moun-taineers appear to be set up for the future. The Moun-taineers have a quartet of freshman receivers in Shel-ton Gibson, Ricky Rogers, Lamar Parker and Jacky Mar-cellus, who will be able to sit back and learn from veter-ans like Kevin White and Mario Alford, early in their careers.
Marcellus will miss the season due to a knee injury that requires surgery, but the other three freshman receiv-ers will be able to gain Big 12 experience and set them-selves up to be major con-tributors in the near future.
The Mountaineers’ young receivers need to look no further than sophomore Daikiel Shorts for an exam-ple of what in-game experi-ence can do for a player.
Shorts grabbed oppor-tunity by the horns in 2013, hauling in 45 receptions for 495 yards and two touch-downs as a freshman.
Despite working with three different quarterbacks throughout the year, Shorts established himself as a re-liable target and was a con-stant threat in the quick passing game.
A similar role could await for one - if not all - of West Virginia’s freshman receivers during the 2014 season.
While veterans occupy the top of West Virginia’s run-ning back depth chart, fresh-man Dontae Thomas-Wil-liams is waiting in the wings.
WVU’s coaching staff may even decide to red-shirt Thomas-Williams this season, but more time in the team’s weight and film rooms are going to do noth-ing but help the four-star re-cruit from Durham, NC.
Listed at 6-foot, 211 pounds, Thomas-Williams is a sight to behold as a true freshman. Just for context, Dreamius Smith - who has a reputation for lowering his shoulder and thumping op-posing defenses – checks in at 215 pounds.
Give Thomas-Williams a full year to learn West Virgin-ia’s offense and beef up even more under the guidance of strength and conditioning coach Mike Joseph and he could be a major threat in upcoming years.
CONNOR MURRAYSPORTS EDITOR @COnnORKMuRRay COMING UP ROSES
FILE PHOTODefensive lineman Kyle Rose (No. 93) celebrates a victory over TCU with his teammates in 2013.
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Kyle Rose isn’t a hard guy to find.
Whether it’s on the field during a game or in the team room during player interview sessions, Rose has a presence that’s hard to ignore.
The 6-foot-4, 298 pound defensive lineman from Centerville, Ohio won’t be hard to find on Saturdays this season, as the rising junior switches from de-fensive end to nose tackle in an improved multi-scheme, three-man front defense.
From his spot at nose tackle, which is positioned head up on the center in the middle of the defen-sive line, Rose along with the two defensive ends will be charged mainly with stopping the oppo-nents run game and get-ting a pass rush.
Defensive coordina-tor Tony Gibson said he doesn’t want teams to be able to run the ball against the defense this season. Rose said it’ll make the linebackers and second-ary’s jobs much easier de-fending the pass.
“This is a passing
league, but last year Bay-lor ran the ball on us (476 rushing yards),” Rose said. “So if we stop the run, then that makes the offense have to try to pass the ball. And by dropping eight we have an advantage. So, if we can stop the run with three, drop eight, we have an advantage against the pass.”
Of course this is much easier said than done, but Rose said he believes the defense will be improved from last year mainly be-cause an emphasis is now being placed on every man doing his own job.
“I think guys got out of their assignment and tried to make the play them-selves,” he said about last year’s defensive mishaps. “You just got to do your own job. Don’t do some-body else’s job. Because, you know, if 10 guys are playing the right defense and one guy’s playing the wrong defense, then ev-erybody’s playing the wrong defense.”
Over the winter, the de-fense went through a ma-jor overhaul as far as ad-justing the scheme goes.
Tony Gibson was pro-moted to revamp a de-fense that was No. 101 in total defense last season,
and head coach Dana Hol-gorsen also added former-Penn State assistant Tom Bradley and former WVU linebacker Damon Cog-dell to the staff to coach the defensive line.
“Coach Gibby, (Gibson) he’s a fiery guy,” Rose said. “I can speak for our room, having coach Cogdell and
coach Bradley, they both feed off of each other and kind of make each other better coaches which helps us because we get the best out of them.”
Rose figures to be in-strumental in whether or not the Mountaineers’ defensive line can shut down opponent’s running
games this season. He’s a big body in the middle and has a nonstop motor that makes him an ideal can-didate to man the nose tackle position.
He will get his first test on Aug. 30 against No. 2 Alabama.
Junior Kyle Rose spearheads West Virginia run defense, pass rush on defensive line
FILE PHOTOKyle Rose tries to work around a block against Texas in 2013.
Changes could be in store for college soccerbY KeviN HOOKeR
SPORTS wRITER @DaIlyaThEnaEuM
One of the more popu-lar debates in men’s college soccer is making the sport span across the full aca-demic year.
Under the current sys-tem, teams can play at least two preseason games and 24 games between the months of August and November.
But in the new proposed model, the same model used in the MLS and several other professional leagues, teams would open training camp at the end of August, training camp currently is late July to late August. They will play two exhibitions, followed by 13 matches from mid-September until the middle of November.
Winter break would oc-cur from late November un-til late February and teams would be allowed to have up to eight hour-long train-ing sessions. Spring training would commence toward the end of February and in-clude an exhibition game. The season would resume again in mid-March and in-clude nine regular-season
matches, plus any confer-ence or NCAA Tournament matches.
Several soccer propo-nents, including WVU Di-rector of Athletics Oliver Luck, men’s soccer coach Marlon LeBlanc and junior midfielder Jamie Meriam, have all expressed support for this change.
“I think it would be huge because around the world, soccer is not crammed into the fall like the college game is right now,” Merriam said. “You have three months to play 20 games, plus what-ever playoffs. With the new schedule you have a lot more time, especially if you suffer an injury.”
With the gap in between games, players would have more time to recovery from injury or general fatigue.
“When kids get injured now they’re going to treat-ment three times a day because they want to be healthy in order to play on (game days),” Merriam said. “With this, you have an op-portunity to think about it. I could say that I’m going to miss five games this fall, but I have nine in the spring, so I’m going to take my time
and get healthy.”The proposed change
would also make it an eas-ier transition for freshman who will have to balance their practice and academic workload so early on in the season.
Merriam said he also be-lieves the change would increase viewership and
awareness because it won’t have to compete with col-lege football and its huge fan base.
“People are watching in-ternational soccer more of-ten,” he said. “So that paired with not competing with football will increase fans.”
Momentum is on soccer’s side right now given the suc-
cess in ratings the Word Cup had over the summer. Over 26 million people watched the World Cup Final in July.
“The perception of Ameri-cans is that the United States is developing so much and that we’ll do well in the next World Cup,” Merriam said.
FILE PHOTOJunior Jamie Merriam chases down a loose ball in 2013.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Tuesday August 19, 20148 | SPORTS
Football
Special teams’ bond goes far beyond playing field
By Anthony PecorAroAssociAte sports editor
@AnthonypecorAro
During the 2013 West Virginia football season – when things weren’t go-ing so well for the Moun-taineers on the field during the dog days of October and November – one part of the team stood out from the rest.
WVU’s special teams stood out, and for the most part, it was for all the right reasons.
The group, which con-sists of junior punter Nick O’Toole, redshirt soph-
omore kicker Josh Lam-bert, junior long snapper John DePalma, redshirt se-nior kicker Michael Moli-nari and redshirt freshman kicker Mike Molina, have been able to bond during their first full year together, and said they will reach new heights this season.
O’Toole and Lambert formed an extremely strong bond with the whole spe-cial teams group a year ago. Special teams and safeties coach Joe DeForest said developing chemistry is all part of the entire group jell-ing with each other.
“(Just a year of being)
together as a unit and get-ting to know each other and their work habits and their work ethics – just sort of jelling as a group now,” De-Forest said.
DeForest said what has developed with this group of guys is special, but it’s what is needed to succeed as a team when the person-alities of each player vary so greatly.
“Just like any position group – the holder, the snapper, the kicker and the punter – have to do the same thing and know each other’s strengths and weak-nesses and work off of them
and I think they’ve done a nice job of that. I’m very confident,” he said.
By understanding the expectations DeForest has of his special teams’ mem-bers, O’Toole said being on the same page as a unit is not difficult at all for them. They all work together as one day in and day out.
“I just feel that all of our specialists – me, Josh (Lam-bert), Mike (Molinari) – all of us just bring enthusi-asm and we work hard in the weight room,” he said. “It’s just a good competi-tion between all the kickers and punters. I just think we
bring out the best in each other.”
Seeing the close bond that has formed through-out the past year with these players, DeForest said chemistry like this is great, but it should come fairly easy if players love their teammates and trust in them at all times.
“I think anytime you trust your teammate and you love your teammate, that you’ll work harder to do the extra things in or-der to not let him down,” he said. “That’s the bond we’ve developed there and they’ve developed on their
own, obviously.“But I think those are
the types of things that will carry on to the field – not only with them, but with every positon group and the team as a whole.”
Another factor playing into the team’s chemistry is that many of the special teams players are room-mates. O’Toole said it can get heated quickly in the apartment.
“When you get all four of us playing FIFA or some-thing, the colors definitely are flying,” he said.
file photoRedshirt sophomore kicker Josh Lambert attempts a field goal during a game in 2013.
Volleyball
Konstantinidou looks to bring past experience to WVUBy nicole cUrtin
sports writer @dAilyAthenAeum
West Virginia University volleyball’s Lamprini Kon-stantinidou is one of sev-eral players on this year’s squad to come to Morgan-town from overseas.
Before coming to Mor-gantown, Konstantinidou played for the Greece Se-
nior National Team. She recorded 12 appearances with the team and had 50 appearances with the Greece Junior National team.
While playing for Se-nior National Team, she helped her team to a fifth place finish at the 2013 European champion-ship in Montenegro. Kon-stantinidou was also on
the team when it placed fourth at the 2012 Balkan Championship.
Her journey to WVU began last year when she was playing for the Senior National Team and head coach Jill Kramer reached out to her.
“They gave me an enve-lope with phone numbers, emails – all that stuff. To be honest, I didn’t want to come here at first,” Kon-stantinidou said. “It’s so far from my home, but then I started talking with Jill (Kramer) and all the coaching staff.”
Kramer went to Greece and visited Konstantini-dou before she came to visit WVU.
“It was awesome,” Kramer said. “I got an op-portunity to watch her play and meet her family.
I think that’s important, they have to know they are sending their child to a place where someone is going to take care of them and that was my goal.”
Konstantinidou said she was nervous at first com-ing so far from home for her visit and when prac-tice would begin.
“When I came for the of-ficial visit, I didn’t under-stand like anything,” she said. “The first week here was hard, I mean I under-stand, but I don’t want to speak because I think I’m wrong. Every day is bet-ter for me, the girls help me a lot.”
This is not the first time an international student has joined the Moun-taineer squad. Kramer said the language bar-rier has not been much of
an issue while coaching Konstantinidou.
“I’ve been pretty used to making sure that things are understood before I move quickly on to some-thing else,” she said. “Part of it is her and Polly (Jeli-azkova) both speak very, very good English so they’ve been great in the gym.”
After their first week-and a half of practice are over, Kramer said things are looking positive with Konstantinidou on the team.
“She’s acclimated really quickly, with respect to everyone that’s been here before. I’ve never had a player not from here accli-mate so quickly,” she said. “She pays really close at-tention and gets the feel of things really quickly and
can just go right to work.”Konstantinidou will
have her Mountaineer de-but this weekend at the Blue and Gold Scrimmage Saturday, at 4 p.m. at the Coliseum. Along with get-ting out on the court there is another thing she can’t wait for.
“I’m waiting for my mom too, she’s going to be here for the first match on the 29th,” she said.
Konstantinidou is a general studies student. She comes from a fam-ily of four in Thessalon-iki, Greece, where she was also on the club volleyball team. Her mother, Liana, was a volleyball player, as well, which is why she said she started playing the sport.
kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumWVU volleyball players celebrate following a play in the 2013 season.
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Hendricks, Baez help Chicago beat New York 4-1
APJavier Baez follows through on a swing Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Hendricks and two reliev-ers held New York to four or fewer hits for the fifth straight game, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez hom-ered, and the Chicago Cubs rallied for a 4-1 victory over the Mets on Monday.
Hendricks (5-1) gave up just three hits in seven in-nings, allowing only Lucas Duda’s home run in the fourth. The rookie right-hander won his fourth straight start – yielding four earned runs over 29 1-3 innings.
Neil Ramirez struck out two in a perfect eighth and Hector Rondon allowed a leadoff double but finished the four-hitter for his 18th save.
The Cubs came back once Carlos Torres, mak-ing a spot start for Bartolo
Colon, was done after five innings.
Luis Valbuena, who had three hits, had a tying sin-gle in the sixth. Rizzo con-nected off Buddy Carlyle (2-0) in the eighth for his 28th homer.
Baez then hit a two-run shot in the ninth off closer Jenrry Mejia into the sec-ond deck in left field for his fifth homer in his 60th ca-reer at-bat.
The Mets had only 16 hits but split the four-game series with the Cubs. The five-game run matches the club’s longest streak. They also went five games with no more than four hits in 2004 and 1963.
The only time since 1914 the Cubs gave up four or fewer hits in four straight games was in 1983.
The 41-year-old Colon
had to return to the Do-minican Republic, where his mother was sick, forc-ing the durable Torres to make his first start since Sept. 27. He yielded three hits.
Torres became the first pitcher to start on no days’ rest since the Angels’ Billy Buckner did it June 25, 26 of last year. Torres threw nine pitches in facing two batters in the Mets’ 2-1 loss Sunday.
He struck out six – in-cluding the side in the first – and walked two on 84 pitches.
TRAINER’S ROOMCubs: OF Chris Cogh-
lan was out of the starting lineup. “We’ve been push-ing him pretty hard,” man-ager Rick Renteria said. Coghlan has been playing with a sore left big toe. As a
pinch hitter, he grounded out with the bases loaded in the seventh.
Mets: RHP Daisuke Mat-suzaka could be activated from the DL to replace Co-lon. Matsuzaka (elbow in-flammation) made a rehab start Saturday, allowing one run and three hits over six innings for Double-A Binghamton. He threw 69 pitches.
UP NEXTCubs: LHP Tsuyoshi
Wada (2-1) will make his seventh big league start when Cubs host the San Francisco Giants on Tues-day. Wada had Tommy John surgery in May 2012.
Mets: RHP Dillon Gee (4-5) is set for his first start at the Oakland Coliseum. He gave up four runs in four innings vs. the A’s at Citi Field on June 21, 2011.
APJavier Baez (left) and Starlin Castro (right) celebrate the Cubs win Monday.
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Tricky 18th hole helps Villegas win Wyndham
APCamilo Villegas eyes his shot at the Wyndham Classic
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Camilo Villegas got some help from an un-likely source on his way to his first victory in a while.
The tricky 18th hole at Sedgefield Country Club tripped up his top two challengers.
Villegas won the Wyn-dham Championship by a stroke Sunday for his first on the PGA Tour since 2010 after Freddie Jacob-son and Nick Watney ran
into trouble on the final hole.
“I thought somebody was going to get a birdie on 18,” Villegas said.
Nobody who could catch him did.
That gave the Colom-bian $954,000 in prize money and 500 FedEx Cup points in the final regular-season event.
Villegas had four birdies and an eagle on the front nine, added a birdie on the
par-5 15th and watched the rest of the tourna-ment from the air-condi-tioned scorer’s tent with his caddie.
“I was hoping for a play-off,” Villegas said.
Turns out, he didn’t have to hit another shot, not af-ter the rest of the field struggled late. Instead, he earned his fourth PGA Tour title and first since the 2010 Honda Classic.
He also became the sec-
ond first-round leader to win this tournament since its 2008 move back to Sedgefield and first since Arjun Atwal in 2010.
Bill Haas (64) and Jacob-son (66) tied for second.
Jacobson needed a par on the final hole to force a playoff, but he rolled his 11-foot putt inches past the hole.
“It really sucks when you play solid all day and, you know, I really thought it
was my day coming in,” Ja-cobson said. “All I needed was a solid strike to get up there and good feed in and have a good chance of winning.”
Heath Slocum (67) was two strokes back. Brandt Snedeker (67), Webb Simpson (67) and third-round leader Watney (70) were at 14 under.
Villegas had to wait about 40 minutes after his round ended before his
victory was secure.He closed his round with
three straight pars, tapping in from about 2 feet on 18 and hoping it was good enough.
It was – once the crowd thinned itself out.
“When the boys got closer to the last hole, you can get a little anxious,” Villegas said. “You don’t have a golf club in your hand. You can’t really con-trol it.”