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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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The West Virginia volleyball team will take on Ni-agara for its first road tournament of the season.
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Senior Andy Bevin had a goal and two assists to lead the WVU men’s soccer team to a 3-0 win against Virginia Tech. SPORTS PAGE 9
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One member of the WVU Marching Band shares his ex-citement for the season.A&E PAGE 6
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DOH disputes City Council truck ordinance
by alexa mcclennencorrespondent
@dailyatheneaum
After Morgantown City Council’s 6-1 vote Tuesday night banning certain clas-sifications of heavy trucks driving through State Route 7 in downtown Morgan-town, West Virginia Divi-sion of Highways has made it clear that Morgantown City Council does not have the jurisdiction to regulate traffic.
“It’s the Division of High-ways’ position that the DOH owns the road. We care for it. We pay for it, and we’re bound to have a uniform system of regulations to make certain that everyone has equal access to it,” said Jonathan Storage, Divison of Highways Legal Coun-sel, on WAJR-AM’s Morgan-town AM.
The ordinance approved by city council restricts any commercial truck weigh-ing 13 tons or more with a class seven registration and higher to be banned from driving on State Route 7, which runs through Bee-churst Avenue and Wal-nut Street in downtown Morgantown
Jeff Mikorski, Morgan-town’s city manager, told city council new signs would need to be placed along State Route 7 to en-force these new restrictions for truck drivers. However, city council must get ap-proval from the Division of Highways for these new signs.
“We told the city that the city does not have the au-thority to restrict the road-
way as they have, yet after-wards they are conceding the fact they have to seek the Division of Highways’ permission to put up the very signs to restrict the trucks. That seems very puzzling to me,” said Stor-age on WAJR-AM’s morn-ing show. “We’re not go-ing to approve signage if we believe the foundational ordinance is inappropriate given the road they are try-ing to regulate.”
Another issue that has arisen from these new re-strictions is the city will need to weigh trucks trav-eling through downtown to enforce these new policies. Storage suggested that not only are they stepping on the toes of the DOH but also the Public Service Commis-sion, which is in charge of issuing citations for trucks that do not follow weight re-strictions on state roads.
The City has a tight time frame of 90 days to accom-plish the approval of signs and weigh station before the ordinance is scheduled to go in effect.
Kelley McAlister, a West Virginia University senior who has lived on Beechurst for the past three years, said she is happy city coun-cil is taking this ordinance seriously.
“I can’t say how many nights I have woken up in the middle of the night hearing trucks drive past my house,” McAlister said. “I hope city council can fi-nally get this approved so I can sleep through the night.”
GAMEDAY EDITION INSIDE
Andrew SpellmAn/tHe dAIlY AtHenAeumElijah Wellman, left, and Kevin White, right, celebrate in the end zone Aug. 30 against Alabama. The Mountaineers will take on Towson Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
UNDERTHE LIGHTS
Local businesses prepare for home games by david schlake
staff writer @dailyathenaeum
Saturday will be the first time this year that Morgantown will host a Mountain-eer football game, and the city is getting ready.
While students, alumni and fans pre-pare, so do the local businesses that try to capitalize on the day of madness in Touchdown City.
Businesses in the area look forward to the season, with the tens of thousands of fans coming to show their support.
But, it’s not just a typical day in the of-fice. There are a lot of steps that have to be taken to make sure they are ready to keep up with the amount of people they will be hosting.
“As early as July, we are looking to hire more girls to serve and bartend just to be able to keep business running smoothly for football season as a whole,” said Mad-ison Postlewaite, a day-manager and bartender at Kegler’s, one of Morgan-town’s largest sports bars. “We always
schedule double staff for game days, and always make sure to have at least double the inventory in food, beer and liquor.”
Postlewaite said even though the pace and amount of people can be over-whelming, it’s the best time of the year for the employees.
“It’s exciting. All of the girls make a lot more money,” she said. “It’s just es-sential that we have the waitresses and the bartenders prepared for the chaos. We have a meeting before every game to make sure that everything and everyone is ready to go. When we’re ready, it’s a re-ally exciting season for us.”
Christy Thompson, general manager at the Hampton Inn, stresses a similar outlook.
“Yeah, it’s totally a different kind of business,” Thompson said. “Instead of having groups of one or two, we have groups of four or five. It’s definitely up-beat, but it’s fun.”
Similar to Postlewaite, Thompson said the key to a successful football weekend is to be prepared.
“We make sure to have extra food, ex-
tra employees and extra stock of every-thing,” she said.
Thompson says that the biggest dif-ference isn’t necessarily the amount of business, but the tone.
“There’s a lot of tailgating in our park-ing lot,” Thompson said. “We usually put out food and drinks for the big games and we usually host a reception in the lobby the night before. It can be a lot, but it’s all fun. We wear blue and gold to show our spirit, and all of our resi-dents are a great time. It’s just a different atmosphere.”
With the home opener only a day away, Kegler’s and the Hampton Inn aren’t the only ones preparing.
Businesses renting out parking lots for tailgating have to promote their spot. Retail stores must keep an appropriate amount of inventory in stock to support all of the shoppers, and even police and other emergency responders must be ready for the madness of Mountaineer football.
Maniacs, Career Services to host tailgate events todayby alyssa lazar
staff writer @dailyathenaeum
The first home football game of the year for the West Virginia Mountaineers is this Saturday, which can only mean one thing: tailgates.
The Mountaineer Maniacs and the Career Services Center will be hosting tailgates by the Mountainlair.
The first tailgate of the day will be hosted by the Career Services Cen-ter from noon to 3 p.m. today on the Mountainlair Plaza.
Students will be able to play tradi-tional tailgate games, enjoy free food and earn prizes, which include four flat screen TV’s. The first 1,500 students to arrive will also get a free T-shirt.
“We want students to come, have a great time, and get fired up for our home opener,” said David Durham, di-rector of the Career Services Center. “We also want students to know who we are, what they need to do to be suc-cessful after WVU and what we can do to help them.”
This event is the second annual tail-gate hosted by Career Services.
Last year, more than 1,100 students attended the tailgate.
“We were looking for an event that
was fun but still lets students know that the Career Services Center is here and ready to help them,” said Rachael Con-rad, Employer Relations Specialist for the Career Center.
WVU students are encouraged to attend to have fun and find out more about what Career Services has to offer.
Following Career Services’ tailgate, the Mountaineer Maniacs will host their first ever Maniac Madness tailgate from 3 to 5 p.m. on the Mountainlair Green.
“Maniac Madness is a tradition that the Mountaineer Maniacs are creating here at the University,” said Steve Or-lowski, director of the Mountaineer Ma-niacs. “It will take place every Friday be-fore a home football game.”
At the event, students will receive prizes, giveaways and free food.
Oliver Luck, athletic director at WVU, along with some of the coaches and ath-letes will say a few words about the up-coming game.
Like Durham, Orlowski said he also wants to spread Mountaineer spirit.
“The primary purpose of Maniac Madness is to create more awareness that it is a game day weekend and to cre-ate more of a buzz and energy around campus,” Orlowski said.
The Maniacs will also be distributing T-shirts to all members throughout the
duration of the event, and handing out buttons to wear at the game.
“As a Maniac, you are a part of a great organization that truly embodies what school spirit is,” said Jackie Riggleman, special events coordinator for the Ma-niacs. “No matter what, the Maniacs are always there and are always going to be that support system.”
This event is new to the schedule this year. Orlowski and other execu-tive members said they saw an oppor-tunity to get the weekend started with enthusiasm.
“The excitement that students have about the game on Friday will carry out throughout the entire weekend,” Rig-gleman said.
Along with receiving T-shirts, the Maniacs also offer guaranteed football tickets to each home game. Members receive invitations to watch parties, op-portunities to go on away trips and the honor of being a donor at the Buckskin level for the Mountaineer Athletic Club.
There will be no Maniac Madness event over Fall Break or Thanksgiving. Maniac Madness will be held Wednes-day evening the night prior to the Thurs-day night game against Kansas State on Nov. 20.
WELLWVU to host fourth annual farmers market
JoHnnIe ArmeS/tHe dAIlY AtHenAeumReal Juice Bar provided samples at thef armers market Thursday .
by courtney gattocorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
WELLWVU: The Stu-dents’ Center of Health is hosting its fourth an-nual farmers market out-side the Mountainlair on Thursdays throughout the fall semester.
The goal is to promote healthy eating and give students at West Virginia University access to fresh, organic food.
“I find here at the farm-ers market as I’m watch-ing students buy, they’re so excited to actually have the fruits and vegetables
this close to them,” said Shannon Foster, health and education specialist at WELLWVU. “You real-ize, that if you create the environment, they’re go-ing to take us up on the opportunity.”
WELLWVU gives sev-eral opportunities to help create this “environment.”
EatWell is a part of WVU’s LiveWell cam-paign that encourages students to increase their fruit, vegetable and whole grain consumption. They host many events and teach students what they
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need to know to improve their diet.
“One thing we talk to stu-dents about is a concept we call nutrient density. What we find is that the foods that students are eating (are) re-ally high in calories and low in nutrients,” Foster said. “A lot of white and processed flour, a lot of sugar, and things that are processed and unhealthy don’t have nutritional values. You’re not getting the vitamins and the minerals and the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy.”
Every year, WVU par-takes in a survey called the National Collegiate Health Assessment. This survey al-lows for schools across the nation to identify specific health related needs that their student body has, giv-ing the school a chance to focus on these unique issues.
“Based on the responses that we are getting back
from our student body on a wide variety of health be-havior questions, we know that only about 6.4 per-cent of our students get the recommended number of fruits and vegetables a day,” Foster said.
It’s because of this that WELLWVU created its “5 freg a day” tagline.
Events like the farmers market really help promote the consumption of at least 5 servings of fruits and veg-etables a day.
It’s also helpful in the sense that it brings local farmers and business own-ers to help educate the students on what they’re eating.
Neha Lal and Marlin De-hoff are two farmers that sell their organically grown food at the market. Also known as the “Pepper Peo-ple”, due to their wide va-riety of peppers, they were able to give students advice and recipes on how to pre-pare their produce as well as explain the benefits of eating their locally grown food.
“When you grow your
food locally, you are getting it that much fresher,” Lal ex-plained. “By the time some-thing gets to the grocery store, it was grown two days away, its been cut, cleaned, and shipped for two days. It reaches the grocery store, is stocked, and sits there for a day or two before you buy it. Then, you stick it in your fridge and it’s been a week before you ever touch the product.”
Being able to eat fresh, organic food ensures that you will be receiving more nutrients than produce you can buy in the grocery store.
Ruth Haas, owner of the Real Juice Bar, under-stands this concept quite well. With the use of or-ganic fruits and vegetables she has been able to create a menu of juice, smoothies, sandwiches, and salads that she claims are not only deli-cious, but also healthy.
“I think that a lot of peo-ple are under the impres-sion that healthy food doesn’t really taste good and this is kind of what the concept was when we
opened,” Haas said. “Just because it’s healthy doesn’t mean it has to taste bad.”
It seems that the mes-sage WELLWVU is trying to send, is reaching many students.
Jack Budig, a junior history student, says he loves shopping at farmers markets.
“I believe that, health wise, the produce at the farmers markets in town are great because instead of eating vegetables that come from massive farms hundreds of miles away and that have a lot of preserva-tives used on them, you can enjoy delicious fruits and vegetables grown close to Morgantown,” Budig said.
Even though some stu-dents are receiving the mes-sage, WELLWVU still plans to reach more students.
“I would like to see more students be more choosey about what they eat and what they buy, and to take time to understand what it is that they’re fueling their body with,” Foster said.
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The Student LOT, West Virginia University’s official student pregame tailgat-ing event, will be located at a different site this sea-son due to construction.
The LOT has been moved to the evansdale residential Complex bas-ketball courts located be-side bennett and Lyon Towers.
The LOT is free to all stu-dents and is meant to be a safe and positive environ-ment for students getting ready for the game.
In years past, the Stu-dent LOT was located on Oakland Street across from the ronald McDon-ald House near Milan pus-kar Stadium.
That location is blocked off due to the construction of University park, a new student housing complex.
“Student Organizations Services and other Stu-dent Life units continue to work together to give our students a safe and fun place to hang out before the WVU home games,” said barbara Copenhaver-bailey, assistant vice pres-ident for student success, in a press release by WVU Today. “Thousands of stu-dents have visited the LOT, and we hope to have the same turnout at our new location.”
The Student LOT opens three hours before kick-off and closes 30 minutes prior to kickoff. A WVU ID is required. However, stu-dents are welcome to bring one guest. Alcohol is not permitted, but free food and giveaways will be offered.
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Student LOt tailgate moved this season
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court rules against gay marriage bans in 2 statesCHiCaGO (aP) — A U.S. ap-
peals court issued a scathing, unequivocal ruling Thursday declaring that gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and In-diana, on the same day that 31 states asked the Supreme Court to settle the issue once and for all.
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago was the fourth to hear argu-ments on the issue. The de-cision from a normally slow and deliberative court was released a little more than a week after oral arguments.
The unanimous, 40-page decision from a three-judge panel blasted the states’ jus-tifications for their bans, several times singling out the argument that only marriage between a man and a woman should be al-lowed because it’s – simply – tradition.
There are “bad traditions that are historical realities such as cannibalism, foot-binding, and suttee, and tra-ditions that ... are neither good nor bad – such as trick-or-treating on Halloween,” the ruling says. “Tradition per se therefore cannot be a lawful ground for discrimi-nation – regardless of the age of the tradition.”
It also laid into another ar-gument from the states that gays should not be allowed to marry because, on their own, they can’t procreate, saying that rationale “is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously.”
Wisconsin Attorney Gen-eral General J.B Van Hollen said he would appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Also Thursday, Massachusetts and 14 other states where same-sex marriage is le-gal filed a brief asking the justices to overturn other states’ bans on gay marriage. Mean-while, Colorado and 16 other states that have banned same-sex marriage filed a separate brief asking the court to rule one way or the other to clear up a “morass” of lawsuits.
Since last year, the vast majority of fed-eral rulings have declared same-sex mar-riage bans unconstitutional. Supreme Court justices typically take up issues only when lower courts disagree. But in this case, states are asking the court to settle the issue nation-wide once and for all.
The Wisconsin and Indiana cases shifted to Chicago after the states appealed lower
court rulings tossing the bans.The court’s decision won’t take effect for
at least 21 days, said Camilla Taylor, a law-yer for Lambda Legal who argued on behalf of Wisconsin plaintiffs. That should give the states time to ask the Supreme Court to put it on hold, she said.
Between the bans being struck down and a 7th Circuit order reinstating them as the appeals process ran its course, hundreds of gay couple in both states rushed to marry.
Gay couples heralded Thursday’s decision.
“I have hope that we’re going to be able to live in Wisconsin with full equality, that we won’t be considered second-class citizens,” said Roy Badger, of Milwaukee, who sued with partner Garth Wangemann to overturn Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage ban.
In Indiana, some couples gathered at an
office of the American Civil Liberties Union – whose lawyers represented many of the plaintiffs – after they received an email from one attorney proclaiming, “WE WON!!!”
But other people were unhappy.“Marriage policy should be about protect-
ing the established needs of children and society, not affirming the variable desires of certain political activists,” said Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana.
The decision came unusually fast for the 7th Circuit – just nine days after oral argu-ments. The court typically takes months on rulings.
Judge Richard Posner, an appointee of Re-publican President Ronald Reagan, wrote the opinion. During oral arguments, Posner fired tough questions at the bans’ defend-ers, often expressing exasperation at their
answers.The other two judges on the panel were
2009 Barack Obama appointee David Ham-ilton and 1999 Bill Clinton appointee Ann Claire Williams.
The ruling echoed Posner’s comments during oral arguments that “hate” under-pinned the bans.
The opinion repeatedly mentions the is-sue of tradition, noting that some, such as shaking hands, may “seem silly” but “are at least harmless.” That’s not the case with gay-marriage bans, the court said.
“If no social benefit is conferred by a tradi-tion and it is written into law and it discrim-inates against a number of people and does them harm beyond just offending them, it is not just a harmless anachronism; it is a vi-olation of the equal protection clause,” the opinion says.
mIcHAel conroY/tHe dAIlY AtHenAeumGreg Hasty, center, joined by his husband CJ Vallero, right, and fellow plaintiffs discuss the ruling by the U.S. appeals court that same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana violate the U.S. Constitution during a press conference in Indianapolis.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted Thursday of taking bribes to promote a dietary supplement in a corruption case that derailed the career of the onetime rising Repub-lican star and laid bare the couple’s broken marriage.
A federal jury in Rich-mond convicted Bob Mc-Donnell of 11 of the 13 counts he faced; Maureen McDon-nell was convicted of nine of the 13 counts she faced. Both bowed their heads and wept as the court clerk read a cho-rus of “guilty” verdicts.
Widely considered a pos-sible running mate for Mitt Romney in the 2012 presi-dential campaign, McDon-nell was reduced to living with the family’s priest in a church rectory during the trial. Now he and his wife face up to 20 years in prison for each conspiracy, fraud and bribery conviction. Sentenc-ing was scheduled for Jan. 6.
The couple’s defense strat-egy depended in large part on convincing jurors that their marriage itself was a fraud and that they were unable to speak to each other, let alone conspire to accept bribes. They left the courtroom sep-arately — first Bob and then Maureen, who hugged one of her daughters and wept loudly on the way out.
Bob McDonnell was ashen
as he was mobbed by TV cameras before climbing into a waiting blue Mercedes.
“All I can say is that my trust remains in the Lord,” he said quietly. His attorney said he would appeal.
The McConnells were convicted on nearly all the counts involving doing favors for wealthy vitamin executive Jonnie Williams in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans that they ad-mitted taking.
Maureen McDonnell also was convicted of obstruct-ing justice after the scan-dal broke, by returning a de-signer gown Williams had bought for her during a New York shopping trip, along with a handwritten note that tried to diminish its value by suggesting they had agreed Williams could give the dress to his daughters or to charity. That conviction also carries a potential 20-year term.
Jurors acquitted them of bank fraud on loan appli-cations that failed to men-tion the money Williams lent them.
The former governor, his head in his hands, began cry-ing as soon as he heard the first sob from his daughter Cailin. Other family mem-bers and supporters followed suit. The weeping became louder, and McDonnell’s sobbing grew more intense, with each succeeding find-
ing of guilt.Juror Kathleen L. Car-
mody said it was wrenching to watch the McDonnell fam-ily’s teary reaction.
“When the verdicts were read, you could not be hu-man and not feel sorry, or empathy or compassion for the McDonnell family,” she said.
Carmody said she voted for McDonnell and thought he was a great governor, but added: “The facts spoke for themselves.”
Juror Robin Trujillo, who moved to the Richmond area about a year and a half ago and wasn’t familiar with the McDonnells before the trial, said it “wasn’t just one light bulb” that swayed the jury to-ward a guilty verdict. But af-ter deciding on guilt on the first conspiracy charge “ev-erything kind of fit together like a puzzle,” she said.
Testifying in his own de-fense, McDonnell insisted that he provided nothing more than routine politi-cal courtesies to the former CEO of Virginia-based Star Scientific. His wife’s law-yers, meanwhile, said Wil-liams preyed on their cli-ent’s vulnerability after she developed a “crush” on the businessman.
Maureen McDonnell did not take the stand even as her private life was exposed, with staff from the governor’s
mansion and aides testify-ing that her erratic behavior risked becoming a political embarrassment.
The jurors all declined to speak to reporters as they left the courthouse through a back door.
“I just want to go home,” one of them said.
Bob McDonnell’s attor-ney, Henry Asbill, said he was shocked, surprised and dis-appointed. He complained that prosecutors sought to criminalize routine political behavior, and said, “I have no idea what the jury delib-erated about.”
Maureen McDonnell’s at-torney, William Burck, de-clined comment.
Williams, who testified un-der immunity, said he spent freely on the McDonnells to secure their help promoting his tobacco-derived anti-in-flammatory supplement An-atabloc as a treatment for ulcers, Alzheimer’s and mul-tiple sclerosis. Williams de-clined to comment on the verdicts, his attorney said.
His gifts included nearly $20,000 in designer cloth-ing and accessories for Mau-reen McDonnell, a $6,500 en-graved Rolex watch for Bob, $15,000 in catering for their daughter Cailin’s wedding, free family vacations and golf outings for their boys. Williams also provided three loans totaling $120,000.
As the gifts rolled in, the McDonnells appeared at promotional events and even hosted a launch lun-cheon for Anatabloc at the governor’s mansion. Wil-liams and his associates also were allowed into a recep-tion for Virginia health care leaders at the mansion, and McDonnell arranged meet-ings with state health offi-cials as Williams sought state money and the credibility of Virginia’s universities for re-search that would support Anatabloc.
Defense lawyers argued that none of this was done for bribes, because the gov-ernor didn’t consider the fa-vors to be anything special, the research grant applica-tions were never submitted, and being first lady isn’t an official position.
If she’s not a public offi-cial and the couple weren’t speaking, there was no con-spiracy, they said.
Witnesses — including the former governor himself — said Maureen McDonnell despised being first lady, and was prone to such angry out-bursts that the mansion staff threatened a mass resigna-tion. McDonnell said he be-gan working unnecessarily late, just to avoid her anger.
If Maureen McDonnell was portrayed as erratic, the powerful and straight-arrow image her politician hus-
band fostered didn’t fare much better. The defense in-troduced a September 2011 email from McDonnell to his wife lamenting the dete-rioration of their marriage, complaining about her “fi-ery anger” and begging her to work with him to repair the relationship.
While several witnesses described the first lady’s re-lationship with Williams as inappropriate and flirta-tious, none suggested it was physical, and Williams tes-tified that his dealings with both McDonnells were all business.
Prosecutors said the Mc-Donnells turned to Williams in desperation because they were grappling with $90,000 in credit card debt and an-nual losses of $40,000 to $60,000 on family-owned vacation rentals in Virginia Beach. Williams said he wrote the first $50,000 check to Maureen after she com-plained about their money troubles and offered to help his company.
Virginia has among the nation’s weakest political ethics laws, and McDonnell repeatedly stressed that he did nothing to violate them. But this case was federal, and both prosecutors and FBI of-ficials said the verdicts send a message that state laws pro-vide no shelter from corrup-tion prosecutions.
Ex-Virginia gov., wife guilty of public corruption
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The American aid agency an-nounced Thursday it would donate $75 million to fund 1,000 more beds in Ebola treatment centers in Liberia and buy 130,000 more pro-tective suits for health care workers.
West Africa’s struggling health systems have buckled under the pressure of an Eb-ola outbreak that has already killed about 1,900 people. Nurses in Liberia are wear-ing rags over their heads to protect themselves from the dreaded disease, amid con-cerns that shortages of protec-tive gear throughout the re-gion are responsible for the high Ebola death toll among health workers.
The U.S. Agency for Inter-national Development also urged American health care workers to respond to the out-break. Rajiv Shah, the agen-cy’s administrator, told The Associated Press that several hundred more international experts are needed and the agency will help send Amer-icans health care workers there.
“This will get worse before it gets better,” he said. “We have a coherent and clear strategy ... but it will take weeks to months to get oper-ational at that scale.”
The $75 million comes in addition to about $20 mil-lion the agency has already donated to fight the out-break that was first identified in March in Guinea, and has spread to Liberia, Sierra Le-one and Nigeria. The killer vi-rus is spread through bodily fluids such as blood, sweat, urine or diarrhea.
Health workers account for about 10 percent of the deaths so far. Much of the pro-tective gear they use must be destroyed after use, so Ebola
wards need a constant flow of clean equipment.
One nurse at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, said she and her colleagues have resorted to cutting up their old uniforms and try-ing them over their faces to protect themselves, looking out through holes in the fab-ric. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to talk to the media.
“It is really pathetic,” she said. “We are not equipped to face the situation.”
With no goggles to protect them, their eyes burn from the fumes of chlorine used to disinfect the ward, the nurse said.
David and Nancy Write-bol, American missionar-ies who worked at another hospital in Liberia, echoed those concerns, speaking to the AP in North Carolina. They said doctors and nurses are overwhelmed by a surge of patients and there aren’t enough hazard suits to keep them safe.
Health care workers can go through thousands of the suits a week, David Writebol said, and the suspension of flights to the region by many airlines is making it harder to get gear in.
Three American health care workers have been sick-ened with Ebola while work-ing in Liberia. Nancy Write-bol and Dr. Kent Brantly were flown back to the U.S. to be treated and have since recov-ered, while the third only re-cently tested positive for the disease.
Another doctor who was infected with Ebola while working in Liberia is being flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment, doctors there said Thursday.
Officials at the Nebraska
Medical Center in Omaha said Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, is ex-pected to arrive sometime Friday. Sacra will begin treat-ment in the hospital’s 10-bed special isolation unit, the larg-est of four such units in the U.S.
Liberia has been hardest hit by the current outbreak, with the largest number of cases and deaths. Doctors With-out Borders, which is run-ning several Ebola treatment centers, said last week that its clinic in Monrovia is overrun with patients and doctors are no longer able to provide in-travenous treatments.
The Liberian nurse, mean-while, said she and her col-leagues live every day with the fear that they’ll become infected.
“When you go through this and return home, you lie in bed asking yourself: I am still safe? Or I have contracted the disease?” she said.
Meanwhile, health offi-cials were monitoring more than 200 people who may have been exposed to Ebola in southern Nigeria.
Authorities had been cau-tiously optimistic that they would be able to keep Nige-ria’s outbreak relatively small since the one sick Liberian-American who brought the disease to Nigeria by plane was quickly isolated.
But then last month a per-son he had come into con-tact with escaped surveil-lance and fled to the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt. The contact infected a doctor, who, in turn, exposed doz-ens of people to the disease, the World Health Organiza-tion said.
Of the 200 people identi-fied as exposed to the ill doc-tor, WHO said about 60 are considered at high risk of get-ting Ebola.
US to provide $75M to expand Ebola care centers
APHealth workers place the body of a man, inside a plastic body bag, as he is suspected of dying due to the Ebola virus whilst a small crowd watch in Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday.
Clinton: US should lead on clean energy
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thurs-day called for the U.S. to become what she called the world’s 21st-century clean energy superpower.
In remarks Thursday at the annual Na-tional Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Clinton credited northern Nevada’s selec-tion for a $5 billion Tesla automobile battery plant to work in recent years for the state to
become a leader in solar, wind and geother-mal energy projects.
She also cited an expert comparing the importance of the Tesla plant to the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.
Clinton’s speech to a standing-room crowd of more than 800 marked her return to the Las Vegas Strip hotel where a 36-year-old Phoe-nix woman was arrested in April after throw-ing a shoe but missing Clinton on stage.
APFormer Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit Thursday.
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Student input is a mustThe West Virginia Uni-
versity Student Govern-ment Association was up in arms, Wednesday, over the recent decision by the University to remove stu-dent participation from Homecoming. This in-cluded the removal of the Homecoming Court’s cam-paigning, as well as re-moving the student body vote for the King and Queen.
So here’s the big ques-tion: Why were the stu-dents not at all involved in this decision?
On one hand, some stu-dents have thought run-ning for homecoming king and queen is purely a pop-ularity contest of who’s
prettier, who’s involved in Greek life or athletics or who gave you the best of-fer while campaigning. On the other hand, there are those who care more about the tradition of homecom-ing rather than looking at it as a competition.
Since we were fresh-men in high school most of us have participated in some sort of home-coming event every year, whether it be the home-coming football game, vot-ing for homecoming king and queen, the home-coming dance or the four days of Spirit Week’s crazy dress themes leading up to the big homecoming weekend.
Needless to say, every one of these events in-volved the students and was created specifically for the students to show how proud they are of their school.
Yes, years have passed and we’re in college now where some of these high school traditions have dis-appeared, but we’re still students. We have every right to continue in cel-ebrating the remaining events, specifically who we want to represent our University as Homecom-ing King and Queen when we attend our Homecom-ing football game against Kansas.
Whether it turns out that
it was all a popularity con-test or not, most of us will be proud we were able to have some sort of say in a Mountaineer tradition.
Fortunately for us, SGA fought hard for WVU’s stu-dent body, and, less than a day later, we got our rights back to campaign and vote. Thank you, SGA.
With so much emphasis on student involvement at WVU, student approval of such things involving and particularly impacting the student body is absolutely necessary. Without the students, what is a school? We, the students, are West Virginia University.
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Sleepy students aren’t just lazy
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You can feel the excite-ment in the air. We’re all back on campus. We’ve welcomed 6,000 new stu-dents to the Mountaineer family this month. And, oh yeah, the Mountain-eers are about to take on Alabama.
On Saturday, we will face the vaunted Crim-son Tide in Atlanta in the Chick-fil-A Kick-off Game. I can’t wait to get there to cheer on the Mountaineers, along with 20,000-some of the great-est fans in the country, and to represent our great state.
No matter where you watch the game this week-end (it’s on ABC at 3:30 p.m.), I encourage all of you to represent WVU and our state as positively as possible, as the whole na-tion will have its eyes on our team, our University and our town.
Show the country why
we’re all proud to be Mountaineers. Let’s give our athletic programs something to be proud of in the same way that they make us proud ev-ery time they represent us.
Win or lose, remember to respect being part of the WVU tradition – one filled with success and stories passed on from generation to generation. Be responsible, because that’s the reputation we want and deserve to have. As you and I both know, all it takes is one act of irresponsibility to steal the spotlight from a huge victory.
When we beat Alabama on Saturday (yep, we are going to shock the world), let’s celebrate like cham-pions – in a fun yet safe way. That way, the play-ers, our great state and University can shine like they deserve.
Have fun and be s a f e t h i s w e e k e n d and, of course, let’s go Mountaineers.
A letter from our Mountaineer
It’s official: Monday, the American Academy of Pe-diatrics has issued a state-ment of recommendation to start middle and high schools later in the morn-ing. It has now been scien-tifically proven that start-ing school before 8:30 a.m. disrupts the sleep cycles of adolescents and has major drawbacks that have led to an “epidemic” of sleep-de-prived teens.
If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering why this couldn’t have been sci-entifically proven in 2007. I remember the hell of having to be seated in homeroom at 7:20 a.m. sharp all too well.
It’s not simply a case of teenage angst. At the on-set of puberty, the natural sleep-wake cycle actually begins to shift by as much as two hours. Fighting that natural circadian rhythm in adolescents is not in our
best interest, according to the AAP.
This statement is a pretty big deal, consider-ing it comes from the na-tion’s largest pediatrician group. According to the AAP, kids need eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep, and this is nearly impossible to achieve with schools starting at 7:20 a.m. There are even teen-agers who live a sizable dis-tance from school and are picked up as early as 5:45 a.m.
Among the AAP’s list of the consequences of inef-ficient sleep are: increased risk for diabetes, higher rate of car accidents, increased risk for anxiety and de-pression, lower academic achievement, decreased motivation and impair-ments in memory.
The AAP even recognizes that caffeine consumption is not a quick fix or substi-tute for sufficient sleep, nor is catching up with sleep on the weekend. Personally, I’m glad this part was added because many people in to-
day’s society have the atti-tude of, “just chug an energy drink and you’ll be fine.” Getting a rush and then crashing later is nothing like the natural energy you get from being well-rested, which is so essential to teen-agers’ developing brains and bodies.
It’s acknowledged in the AAP statement that there are other factors that con-tribute to sleep depriva-tion in teens, such as after-school activities, homework and jobs. The use of tech-nology late at night is also a big disrupter of natu-ral sleep. However, a too-early start to the school day is listed as a “critical” factor.
There are some obvious roadblocks in the way of the 8:30 a.m. start being made a major public policy imme-diately. These include ad-justing times for extracur-riculars, especially athletic practices and games, and also the reduction in after-school employment hours for students. There’s also the possibility of transpor-
tation and scheduling issues arising, simply because ev-erything would have to be changed.
However, I believe these problems can be easily sur-passed when you consider the innumerable benefits that can be achieved by sim-ply pushing things back an hour later. Any teacher who has tried to engage a class of student zombies in first pe-riod would probably agree.
The American Medical Association and Center for Disease Control Prevention has recognized the health risks of inadequate sleep for adolescents before, but the AAP is taking it a step further by citing a spe-cific time. I think it’s amaz-ing that someone is speak-ing up to make this positive change for the well-being of adolescents.
Now when I exaggerate to my kids that I walked miles in the snow to school, like all parents do, I can maybe even shock them that I was there by 7:20 a.m., as well.
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A reverse jinx prediction for WVU
It’s almost here, the big game, WVU vs. Alabama. The battle of the back-ups, as I like to call it. Af-ter all, that’s what we’re really getting. Perennial powerhouse Alabama, who, spoiler alert, will start former Florida State backup Jacob Coker Sat-urday against our Moun-taineers, led by former Florida State backup Clint Trickett.
How far have these two programs fallen from grace to have to start an-other school’s backup on the opening weekend of college football? Yes, Flor-ida State won it all last year with Jameis Winston, but he is a completely dif-ferent QB than those other two guys.
Both of these teams are coming off incredible runs at the quarterback posi-tion. Alabama had an ex-traordinary run with Greg McElroy, who won them a national title in 2009. He was followed by AJ McCar-ron, arguably the Tide’s greatest QB of all time, who led them to two titles in three years.
WVU lit up score-boards for three seasons with Geno Smith. He was preceded by our greatest QB of all time, Pat White. Pro careers aside, those are four dominant col-lege quarterbacks these schools got to enjoy.
Now, the quarterback position is the biggest question mark for both teams heading into the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. We know Alabama’s de-fense is stacked - it always is. They’re deep at wide receiver and have a three-headed monster at run-ning back.
For the first time un-der Dana Holgorsen, the Mountaineers have an improved and experi-enced secondary. How-ever, the loss of Ishmael Banks hurts. We also have one of the deepest back-fields in the country. For a full preview of the Moun-taineers’ game Saturday, check out today’s Game-day Edition from The Daily Athenaeum.
I don’t have to remind you how big of an under-dog we are, that Vegas has us pegged at +26 or how no one is giving us a snow-ball’s chance in hell. We all know this.
The only way we are go-ing to win this game Satur-day is if our backup plays better than their backup. The quarterback is the most important position on the field, and both teams are starting scrubs.
You want to know why no one is picking us to do well this season? Clint Trickett. Can you guess why Alabama isn’t picked to win the SEC for the first time in forever? It’s ques-tions at quarterback.
I don’t know if it’s the new, less harsh transfer rules or just inexplica-ble poor recruiting. But the worst starters for both teams come Saturday will be the quarterbacks.
Now, I understand this is all just speculation, and I could look like the big-gest idiot in print by Sat-urday night.
But if I know football like I think I do (I’ve never played an organized down in my life), it’s that Jimbo Fisher’s favorite former backup will dismantle his opponent Saturday at 3:30 p.m.
Clint Trickett and WVU reverse jinx prediction complete.
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Born today This year you will experience a new beginning in your life that is likely to occur in late sum-mer. If you are single, use caution when meeting new people, espe-cially if you are interested in them ro-mantically. The issue that surrounds your love life is a tendency to choose emotionally unavailable suitors. Be a realist with love, and everything will work out. If you are attached, you will develop a deeper and closer bond between you. Know that this is a very powerful year for you as a couple. AQUARIUS often shakes up the status quo.
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH Assume your natural role as leader of the gang in your im-mediate circle. A conversation will
open up a door. The tone you use, as well as your expressions, will tell the whole story. Be aware of a part-ner’s needs. Don’t lose your focus. Tonight: Where your friends are.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH You might be looking past the obvious in order to gain a better perspective of what is going on. You could be missing an impor-tant detail as a result. You are still in need of more detachment. A loved one will delight you. Let your feel-ings out. Tonight: Be naughty and nice.
G E M I N I ( M Ay 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH Complete what must be done in order to relax and get into weekend mode; otherwise, you could be fussy and demanding. Learn to detach and let go of the
day’s aggravation. Use your self-dis-cipline, and you will be happy with the outcome. Tonight: Take off ASAP.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Your popularity will soar because of your flexibility. Many people are likely to seek you out in both your personal and professional lives. What is clear is that people trust your judgment. Be gentle with your choice of words. Tonight: Respond appropriately.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHH Em-phasize the moment, and know what must be accomplished. The need to carry out a lot of pending errands will become more and more dominant. Start your weekend with a clean slate. Your popularity soars. Tonight: The matter of who, where and when remains unknown.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH You just might want to relax at home. Make that OK, as everyone needs a day off from time to time. Venus moves into your sign, which adds an alluring element to your day. You could feel awkward in a nor-mally easy situation. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH Take care of what absolutely must be done. Fatigue marks your day, which could leave you wondering whether you need to cancel tonight’s plans. The answer will come forward in the early evening. Nothing is going to stop you. Tonight: Go for what you want.
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Say what you really think, and don’t sell out or change topics. Commu-nication will remain active, but you
might not want to say “yes” to every-one. Let your plans form by allowing your heart to make the final choice. Tonight: Consider making this an early night.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHH Be sensitive to an ongoing financial matter that could rear its ugly head today. Self-discipline will go a long way if you choose to use it. Your cavalier attitude might cause you more trouble than you realize. Tonight: Flirt the night away, espe-cially with the right person.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Be spontaneous and natural, and you can’t go wrong. You understand boundaries well. Do not allow yourself to continue with self-imposed limitations. The time has come to break free. Dis-cipline a tendency to go to excess.
Tonight: The party could go on and on and on.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Use the daylight hours to recuperate from recent events and situations, as you have been going full-throttle for quite some time. A partner entices you to follow his or her lead. Tonight: Be open to walking through a new door or two.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Focus on friends, and fa-cilitate a situation that could bring you a lot of happiness. You might find the Friday nature of the day promotes a fun, late lunch. Listen to what various friends would like to share. Tonight: Make it OK to vanish.
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across1 How an airport shuttle travels9 Savors, with “in”14 Take a load off15 Hwy. paralleling I-9516 Exceptional practical joke?17 Wrist brand18 Condos, to the management19 Arrest readings: Abbr.21 Lunch spot22 Michelangelo’s “David,” e.g.23 What bearded men get in blizzards?26 Place to luxuriate27 Band from Birmingham, Eng.28 Glorifying work29 Distressed, with “up”30 Cast aspersions32 Plenty34 Short hike for a beginner?37 Goodman’s forte39 Prepare for a siege40 “Voices Carry” pop group Ô__ Tuesday41 1964 Nobelist’s monogram44 Destroy, in a way45 Discreet email letters48 Jack’s friend resting on the hill?51 Pull up stakes, briefly52 1975 Pure Prairie League hit53 Comfy room54 “A Few Good Men” playwright Sorkin55 Supply near the register57 Pretentious showoffs, or, another way, what
one would do to create 16-, 23-, 34- and 48-Across
60 War need?61 Perturbed62 Warning sound63 Storage place
down1 Appear2 Iroquois League tribe3 Wane4 “Shoot!”5 NBA legend, familiarly6 Org. that regulates vaccines7 Dupe8 Damaging combination9 On the other hand10 “Just like me”
11 To a degree12 Rang tragically13 Some discriminators16 Tries (for)20 Barrett of Pink Floyd23 Lost one’s footing24 “Uh-uh”25 Pope Francis, e.g.27 Brain teaser30 __ Jose31 Word with living or bitter33 “The Situation Room” airer34 Top designer?35 Reel relatives36 Fever with chills37 Place in Monopoly’s orange monopoly38 Lower-cost Nintendo offering42 Relative of Inc.43 “Consider that a gift”45 Dress down46 Was too sweet47 Pen occupants
49 “I’ll take a shot”50 Reprimand ending51 Hindustan ruler54 Single-file travelers, at times56 Numbers for songs?: Abbr.58 Kung __ chicken59 Alcatraz, e.g.: Abbr.
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It’s the start of foot-ball season for the Moun-taineers, and that means cheering alongside “The Pride of West Virginia,” the Mountaineer March-ing Band.
For Bruce Swiney, a freshman interior de-sign student, this means proudly marching onto the field as a member of the WVU Drumline.
“During my senior year, when making college choices, the band is what really made my choice to attend West Virginia Uni-versity,” Swiney said.
He said every time he saw The “Pride” perform, he couldn’t take his eyes off of them.
It was important for Swiney to be a part of a nationally acclaimed pro-gram, and he said he felt The “Pride” represented the school and state well.
In order to fulfill his as-piration, Swiney had to
take part in a three-day audition.
The band originated in 1901 as an all-male ROTC band made of eight mem-bers under the direction of Walter Mestrezat. Since then, it has expanded and has achieved many acco-lades under the direction of several band conduc-tors such as Budd Udell, Bernard McGregor and
Don Wilcox.The “Pride” is currently
under the direction of Jay Drury.
Since becoming an of-ficial member of The “Pride,” Swiney said he couldn’t be happier. He has made many con-nections and memo-ries with his fellow band members.
To get fans excited for
the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against the Uni-versity of Alabama, The “Pride” released a promo-tional video of the drum-line playing with ordinary utensils such as pots and pans.
“My most memora-ble moment in the band thus far was the trip to the Georgia Dome,” Swiney said. “It was always excit-
ing from the moment we loaded the buses to the moment we unloaded.”
The “Pride” performed for local high schools in southern West Virginia, played at an alumni event in Atlanta and at two pep rallies before taking posi-tion in the Georgia Dome.
During the game, they played many songs in-cluding “My Songs Know
What You Did in the Dark,” by Fall Out Boy and “Holi-day,” by Green Day.
Although the team took a loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide, there were a lot of positives including the performances by the band, all of which makes Mountaineers excited for the Towson game this weekend.
Students enjoy “Fight Mountaineers” and “Hail, West Virginia.”
As a Mountaineer, these tunes make our heart race and send chills of anticipa-tion as students return to their rightful places in the student section.
Or in Swiney’s case, on the field, front and center.
GAME DAYWhere will you be? Here are three perspectives on WVU’s first home game of the season.
“The Pride of West Virginia” up close
Simple snacks to help celebrate the game
reddit.comFried mozzarella sticks are easy to prepare.
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Andrew SpellmAn/tHe dAilY AtHenAeUmSwiney performs with the WVU Drumline at the WVU vs. Alabama football game.
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However you are con-nected to West Virginia University, whether as a student, alumni, faculty member or just an avid Mountaineer fan, you’ll most likely be sport-ing Old Gold and Blue tomorrow.
It sounds great when parents drop us off for the school year and they say, “Do you want a new T-shirt? Let’s go get you one.” However, there is no reason to pay $40 for a shirt from the WVU bookstore.
The bookstore has a huge array of Moun-taineer gear, and it is all high quality, hence the prices.
There are other options, though, such as the Book Exchange, Mountaineer Zone in the University Town Centre and Suncrest Towne Centre, Bookhold-ers, Walmart, The Elegant Alley Cat, Victoria’s Secret and Hibbett Sports in the Morgantown Mall, Gabe’s and T.J. Maxx.
If it’s a clothing re-tailer in Morgantown, there’s probably Old Gold and Blue somewhere
inside.For those who want
to dress more formally, M o u n t a i n e e r Z o n e , Barnes & Noble and Hib-bett Sports all have WVU polos that give an official look.
Ladies who want to look a little more fancy at tail-gates (instead of wearing a yellow Maniacs T-shirt), can choose a dress.
The Book Exchange sells dresses that are color blocked. Pair a blue dress with a yellow necklace or scarf, maybe boots or sandals for the shoes, and you’re ready to go. Plus, you don’t look like the av-erage fan.
The weather can turn sour, and when it rains, you’ll want to be prepared.
Barnes & Noble sells WVU ponchos. Take my advice: If you don’t have rain boots, invest in a quality pair now.
Umbrellas are not al-lowed in the football sta-dium, so don’t make the mistake of bringing one.
Most students arrive at the student section wearing a yellow shirt
and shorts. Be warned, though, not to wear white shorts because you risk the possibility of stain-ing them. Let’s be hon-est – you’ll probably stain them.
As the season goes on and temperatures drop, there are many options for jackets and sweatshirts in Morgantown. You could probably fill an entire closet with them.
The standard Colum-bia brand jacket with the WVU logo is pricey, but they are sold at many stores. Try T.J. Maxx to get a lower price.
A gold scarf with your coat or jacket is a great way to keep warm but still have spirit in your game day cheering.
Showing your Moun-taineer pride is pretty easily done, but avoid the costs and show your own style by purchas-ing gear from alternative retailers.
Be smart this football season. Stay warm, dry and spirited.
From tailgating early to singing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” with your peers, tomorrow’s game will definitely have its perks.
But, if you find yourself at home on game day, you can still have a great time with your friends. All you need are cooking skills and creativity.
By making the snacks yourself, you can impress your friends while saving money that would have been spent on the same old pizza from down the street. Stick to finger foods and items that are easy to clean up.
Mozzarella sticks are easy to make and are delicious, but I suggest you use panko crumbs instead of regular ones.
To make panko-fried mozzarella sticks, you will need one pack of string cheese, white flour, three eggs, two teaspoons of parsley, pepper, one cup of panko bread crumbs and a little olive oil.
First, mix together the eggs, parsley and as much pepper as you like. Then, set up an assembly line for your cheese.
Roll one cheese stick in the flour until fully covered. Shake off the excess to avoid clumping before you dip it completely into the egg mixture.
Let the egg drip off into a bowl and then roll the cheese in the bread crumbs. Place your breaded cheese stick on the plate and repeat.
A good tip for breading is to designate one hand for dry ingredients and one for wet ingredients so the flour and bread crumbs don’t become gooey and the egg doesn’t get clumpy.
Once you have the hang of that, drizzle olive oil onto a pan and let it heat up on
high heat. Finally, fry the sticks evenly on each side and move to a plate covered in paper towels.
Another popular game day food is buffalo chicken wings. While hot and bar-becue sauces are delicious, dry rubs can make prepara-tion much less of a mess and still yield full flavor. Baking the wings also makes them slightly healthier.
Use fresh chicken that’s precut, five tablespoons of granulated garlic, two ta-blespoons of cayenne pep-per, one tablespoon of dry mustard, one tablespoon of cumin and half of a table-spoon of chili powder.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
While the oven is heating up, mix the spices in a bowl. Rub each wing in the bowl of spices. Then, place the wings on the sheet and cook for half an hour per pound of chicken. One pound of chicken will provide about 16 wings.
Always be careful when cooking chicken and do not rinse it before cook-ing it. Rinsing does not get rid of bacteria. It actually spreads bacteria around and puts you at risk for food poisoning.
If you enjoy spicy foods, jalapeno poppers are the
way to go. I have five dif-ferent recipes for these, but we will go with traditional cream cheese filled for game day.
You can find fresh jalape-nos cheap at any local farm-er’s market or supermarket, but be sure to get two per guest.
Cut off the tops of each pepper and rinse. Stuff a spoonful of cream cheese into the top, but do not over-stuff. Bread them the same as the mozzarella sticks. You can either cook them in a pan with oil or bake them in the oven for 10 minutes.
Nachos or chips and dip are popular at any sport-ing event. Instead of a bag of Lay’s with premade sour cream and onion dip, try this easy, yet substantially tastier recipe for dip.
Frank’s Red Hot is the best hot sauce to use for buf-falo chicken dip. On its web-site, Frank’s lists a recipe for 4 cups.
It involves one 18-ounce package of Philadelphia cream cheese, half a cup of Frank’s Buffalo Wings sauce, half a cup of ranch dressing, half a cup of any shredded cheese you choose and two cups of shredded, cooked chicken.
All you need to do now is preheat your oven to 350 de-grees, mix all of the ingredi-ents in a 1-quart baking dish and bake for 20 minutes.
If you want to satisfy your sweet tooth while watch-ing the big game, football brownies are the way to go. Wash these snacks down with an ice-cold beer or, if you’re under 21 years old, a root beer float.
Either way, these home-made treats are sure to make your next game day party or tailgate a success.
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‘The Giver’ fails to meet fans’ high expectations
“The Giver” was one of the most anticipated films in 2014. Audiences hoped it would bring new life to a timeless story of truth and courage.
This movie had huge po-tential with a futuristic feel and innovative aesthetics, but a slow plot line and overdone aesthetics may have caused the film to fall short in the long run.
Directed by Phillip Noyce, this big-budget production strays from the traditional setting of the novel, which is dark and enclosed, to an ultra-modern, almost space-age universe.
The story begins in 2048 with the The Com-munity, a place where all citizens live as complete equals. This means there is no race, no color, no feelings and every single memory from the past is erased.
The first striking ele-ment was the use of black and white film in contrast with isolated glimpses of color. Color is only used to
highlight the most crucial of moments.
As the film began switching from black and white to color, it was con-fusing to understand the significance. It was an in-novative idea that seemed to have gotten lost in translation.
We are first intro-duced to Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a boy on the verge of adulthood. Life with his two loving par-ents (Alexander Skarsgard and Katie Holmes) and a little sister is seemingly perfect.
He has reached the age in The Community where he will be placed into his assigned career. On the day of the ceremony, his friends Asher (Cameron Monaghan) and Fiona (Odeya Rush) are happy and sure of their future po-sitions in society.
Jonas, on the other hand, has his doubts. One by one, everyone is placed except for Jonas.
The Chief Elder (Meryl Streep) assures him they have not made a mistake but that he is special. She tells Jonas that he pos-sesses all the qualities of an outstanding citizen and one other quality that’s hard to describe – an abil-
ity to see beyond. He is given the role
as the Receiver of Memory.
He begins training with a man who calls himself The Giver (Jeff Bridges). Jonas learns his role is to experience all the memo-ries of the past that have been erased and use the wisdom he gains to ad-vise The Community in
the future. The job turns out to
be more than what Jonas expected.
He experiences beau-tiful moments of joy, but also moments of tragedy and pain that he was not prepared to see.
Quickly realizing the world he exists in is merely built on lies and manipu-lation, Jonas sets out to
show everyone what is be-yond the confines of The Community.
The dystopian future-world is the subject of many movies, includ-ing “The Hunger Games.” There are parts of this film that feel as though the audience has seen them before.
When looking at other recent sci-fi dramas, “The
Giver ” unfor tunately didn’t impress enough to separate it from the pack.
“The Giver” offered ac-tion, drama and an in-credibly esteemed cast. A bland plot and serious lack of originality kept this novel from getting its limelight on the silver screen.
huffingtonpost.comMeryl Streep plays the Chief Elder in ‘The Giver.’
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Maroon 5 releases ‘V’, explores electronic sound
Maroon 5’s highly antic-ipated album “V” was re-leased Aug. 29.
Originating in 1994, while its members Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick were still in high school, the group was called Kara’s Flowers.
Twenty years later, the pop-rock band from Cal-ifornia has become one of the most recognized bands around the world as Ma-roon 5.
Since the release of their first album “Songs About Jane,” Maroon 5 trans-formed their sound to be more soulful with songs like “Sunday Morning” and then to a more upbeat, pop sound.
These transformations could be influenced by what is popular on the mu-sic charts when the band’s albums are released.
It’s also probably affected by the life events of Levine, who usually writes each song.
“V,” like most of Maroon 5’s work, will embed catchy tunes in your head that you’ll be singing along to all year.
New fans will catch a ride on the Maroon 5 band-wagon while some loyal fans will hop off.
“Maps,” the album’s first single released at the start of summer, could rightly be called the summer’s an-them. In this song, Levine sings about how he lost his way in his relationship with a girl.
“I miss the taste of a sweeter life, I miss the con-versation,” Levine sings.
The song starts off slow before grabbing your atten-tion. The song builds quickly at the hook. If your foot isn’t tapping along to the drums – you’re doing it wrong.
“Animals,” the latest sin-gle, is the complete oppo-site of “Maps.” While “Maps” was about a love lost and Levine’s self-pity, “Animals” showcases his wild side as he compares himself to an animal seeking its prey.
This album achieves an electric feel by using synthe-sizers, similar to Daft Punk. This is evident in songs like
“It Was Always You,” “Sugar” and “Unkiss Me.”
The electric sound is unlike any of Maroon 5’s previous albums. This would have been a gutsy move made by the band five years ago, but Levine has led the band to new heights.
He appeared as a coach and judge on “The Voice,” became the face of a new clothing line at Kmart and appeared as a lead character in the movie “Begin Again.”
The song “Coming Back For You” will take listeners back in time with a sound similar to Phil Collins. The drums in the song sound much like the drums in “In the Air Tonight.”
Though successful, the al-bum’s upbeat, electric num-bers don’t leave enough room for Levine’s ballads like “Sad” and “She Will Be Loved.”
This album should still produce many hit sin-gles. Although it is a dras-tic change from Maroon 5’s signature sound, it is still a pop record that will get attention.
itabloid.bizAdam Levine, lead singer for Maroon 5, writes most of the band’s songs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Imagine. The argument over President Barack Obama’s legal authority to defer de-portations begins 42 years ago with a bit of hashish, a dogged lawyer and, yes, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
President Richard Nixon was seeking re-election. “American Pie” was leading the pop charts. And Lennon, convicted in 1968 for posses-sion of “cannabis resin” in London, was in New York fac-ing deportation from a Nixon administration eager to dis-rupt the famous ex-Beatle’s planned concert tour and voter registration drive.
Lennon wanted to delay his removal so Ono could fight for custody of her 9-year-old daughter by a pre-vious husband. Lennon and Ono approached Leon Wil-des, a lawyer young enough that he shouldn’t have had to ask a colleague, “Tell me, who is John Lennon?” Wildes had grown up in a small town in Pennsylvania coal country, and “I was not into that kind of music,” he says.
But he knew his immigra-tion law.
In time, the effort to extend Lennon’s stay in the United States would become an inte-gral part of the legal founda-tion the Obama administra-tion relied on in 2012 to set up a program that has deferred the deportation of more than 580,000 immigrants who en-tered the country illegally as children.
“All I can say is, John Len-non is smiling in his grave,” Wildes said in an interview.
“He helped accomplish that.”The extent of Obama’s le-
gal authority is now central to the White House deliber-ations over what else Obama can do - and when - without congressional action to re-duce deportations and give many of the 11 million im-migrants living in the United States illegally the ability to stay and work without fear of being removed.
Until the Lennon case, the
Immigration and Natural-ization Service had not ac-knowledged it used its own discretion in deciding whom to deport. But through the Freedom of Information Act, Wildes discovered 1,843 in-stances in which the INS had invoked such prosecutorial discretion as part of a secret program for “nonpriority” cases.
Once the program was re-vealed, the INS had no choice
but to concede its existence and issued official guidance on how it would be applied.
“The remarkable work of Leon Wildes really led to the old agency of INS mak-ing its policy about prosecu-torial discretion and nonpri-ority status public for the first time,” said Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, a law professor at Pennsylvania State Universi-ty’s Dickinson School of Law who has written extensively
about executive powers in immigration law.
Immigration lawyers and many legal scholars like Wad-hia argue Obama draws his authority to act from a broad range of sources, from the Constitution to immigra-tion laws to government regulations.
Critics like John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, both of whom worked in the Justice Department’s Office of Le-
gal Counsel during President George W. Bush’s adminis-tration, argue that the presi-dent doesn’t have such broad latitude and that prosecuto-rial discretion can only be ap-plied narrowly.
For Wildes, now 81 years old and still at work on immi-gration cases, the years spent with John and Yoko were a defining time. (The “hold” music on his office phone plays Lennon’s “Imagine.”)
How John Lennon continued having a lasting impact on US immigrantsAP
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Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dom-inated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hol-lywood red carpets into dan-ger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.
Rivers died at Mount Si-nai Hospital in New York, surrounded by family and close friends, daughter Me-lissa Rivers said. She was hospitalized Aug. 28 after going into cardiac arrest in a doctor’s office following a routine procedure. The New York state health depart-ment is investigating the circumstances.
“My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh,” Melissa Rivers said. “Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.”
Under the immobile, plas-tic surgery-crafted veneer
that became Joan Rivers’ unapologetic trademark as she aged, her wit remained as vibrantly raw and unruly as when she first broke her way into a comedy world belonging largely to men.
In a 2010 “Late Show” in-terview, David Letterman broached the plastic sur-gery issue: “You don’t look exactly like the Joan Rivers I used to know.” Rivers was unapologetic.
“Our business is so youthful. ... You do lit-tle tweaks, and I think if a woman wants to look good, or a man, do it,” she said. “It’s not about anybody else.”
Fashion and acting were the early dreams of the woman who grew up as a self-described “fatty,” but it was humor that paid the bills and ultimately made Rivers a star. She refused to cede the spotlight as the de-cades passed, working vigor-
ously until her death.“I have never wanted to be
a day less than I am,” she said
in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press. “People say, `I wish I were 30 again.’
Nahhh! I’m very happy HERE. It’s great. It gets bet-ter and better. And then, of course, we die,” she quipped.
Rivers was a scrapper, re-building her career and life after a failed attempt to make it as a late-night host was fol-lowed closely by her hus-band’s suicide.
Rivers’ style was hard-driving from the start and her material only got sharper. She was ready to slam anyone. A favored tar-get was Elizabeth Taylor’s weight (“her favorite food is seconds”), but the come-dian kept current with ver-bal assaults on Miley Cyrus and other newcomers.
With her raspy voice and brash New York accent, Riv-ers turned the red carpet of the Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes into a stalk-ing ground for E! Entertain-ment. Her familiar query – “Who are you wearing?” - would quickly give way to such snarky commentary as her assessment of Adele’s Grammy outfit: The singer looked like she was sitting on a teapot.
The barbs could turn in-ward as well, with Rivers mocking everything from her proclaimed lack of sex appeal (“my best birth con-trol now is just to leave the lights on”) to her own mortality.
In 2007, Rivers and her partner-in-slime, daugh-ter Melissa, were dropped by their new employer, the TV Guide Channel, and re-placed by actress Lisa Rinna. But the Rivers’ women found new success on E! with “Fashion Police,” which Riv-ers hosted and her daughter produced.
Joan Rivers never relaxed, always looking for the next and better punchline.
“The trouble with me is, I make jokes too often,” she told the AP in 2013, just days after the death of her older sister. “I was making jokes yesterday at the fu-neral home. That’s how I get through life. Life is SO difficult - everybody’s been through something! But you laugh at it, it becomes smaller.”
She had faced true cri-sis in the mid-1980s. Ed-gar Rosenberg, her hus-band of 23 years, committed suicide in 1987 after she was fired from her Fox talk show, which he produced. The show’s failure was a ma-jor factor, Rivers said. Rosen-berg’s suicide also temporar-ily derailed her career.
“Nobody wants to see someone whose husband has killed himself do com-edy four weeks later,” she told The New York Times in 1990.
Rivers had originally en-tered show business with the dream of being an ac-tress, but comedy was a way to pay the bills while she au-ditioned for dramatic roles. “Somebody said, `You can make six dollars standing up in a club,’” she told the AP, “and I said, `Here I go!’ It was better than typing all day.”
In the early 1960s, com-edy was a man’s game and the only women comics she could look to were To-tie Fields and Phyllis Diller. But she worked her way up from local clubs in New York until, in 1965, she landed her big break on “The Tonight Show” after numerous re-jections. “God, you’re funny. You’re going to be a star,” host Johnny Carson told her after she had rocked the au-dience with laughter.
Her nightclub career pros-pered and by late that year she had recorded her first comedy album, “Joan Riv-ers Presents Mr. Phyllis and Other Funny Stories.” Her
personal life picked up as well: She met British pro-ducer Rosenberg and they married after a four-day courtship.
Rivers hosted a morning talk show on NBC in 1968 and, the next year, made her Las Vegas debut with fe-male comedians still a rela-tive rarity.
“To control an audience is a very masculine thing,” Rivers told the Los Angeles Times in 1977. “The minute a lady is in any form of power, they (the public) totally strip away your femininity - which isn’t so. Catherine the Great had a great time.”
In 1978, she wrote, di-rected and co-starred in the movie “Rabbit Test.” It had an intriguing premise - Billy Crystal as a man who gets pregnant - but was poorly received. In 1983, though, she scored a coup when she was named permanent guest host for Carson on “Tonight.”
Although she drew good ratings, NBC hesitated in re-newing her contract three years later. Fledgling net-work Fox jumped in with an offer of her own late-night show.
She launched “The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” on Fox in 1986, but the ven-ture lasted just a season and came at a heavy price: Car-son cut ties with her when she surprised him by be-coming a competitor.
Carson kept publicly si-lent about her defection but referred obliquely to his new rival in his monologue on the day her show debuted.
“There are a lot of big con-frontations this week,” Car-son said as the audience gig-gled expectantly. “Reagan and Gorbachev, the Mets versus the Astros, and me versus `The Honeymooners’ lost episodes.”
Her show was gone in a year and she would declare that she had been “raped” by Fox; three months later, her husband was found dead.
It took two years to get her career going again, and then she didn’t stop. Rivers ap-peared at clubs and on TV shows including “Hollywood Squares.” She appeared on Broadway and released more comedy albums and books, most recently “Diary of a Mad Diva.”
She was born Joan Molin-sky in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants Meyer Molinsky, a doctor, and Beatrice. Riv-ers had a privileged upbring-ing but struggled with weight - she was a self-proclaimed “fatty” as a child - and re-called using make-believe as an escape. After gradu-ating from Barnard College in 1954, she went to work as a department store fash-ion coordinator before she turned to comedy clubs. She had a six-month marriage to Jimmy Sanger.
In recent years, Rivers was a familiar face on TV shop-ping channel QVC, hawk-ing her line of jewelry, and won the reality show “Ce-lebrity Apprentice” by beat-ing out her bitter adversary, poker champ Annie Duke. In 2010, she was featured in the documentary “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.”
She never let age, or any-thing, make her sentimen-tal. Earlier in 2014, she got inked: a half-inch-tall tattoo, “6M,” on the inside of her arm representing 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Ho-locaust. In 2013, she brashly pledged to work “forever.”
“You never relax and say, `Well, here I am!’” she de-clared. “You always think, `Is this gonna be OK?’ I have never taken anything for granted.”
Survivors include her daughter, Melissa and a grandson, Cooper.
Comedian Joan Rivers passes away at age 81AP
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Crucial game ahead
for WVUThe time is now.The second game of the
season for West Virginia may not even be against an FBS team, but coming off a heartbreaking loss in Atlanta to No. 2 Alabama, in which many positives were taken away by WVU, the Moun-taineers need to show what they have been saying they’re made of throughout off-sea-son and fall camp before things turn to an early 0-2 in 2014.
Do I think the Mountain-eers will be victorious Satur-day? Yes. But it’s a hesitant yes and for the right reasons.
The potential seen in this Mountaineer squad was sur-prisingly strong in their bat-tle with the Tide. But, in the end, costly mistakes got the best of the Mountaineers – something that cannot hap-pen against a team not even in the top college football di-vision, even if Towson is a championship-caliber team in the FCS Division I league.
West Virginia’s defense gave up 538 yards total to Alabama – 250 yards com-ing from the Tide’s passing game and 288 yards from ‘Bama’s ridiculous running game – a number that is high no matter what team you are playing.
And yes, even when you’re playing Alabama, that num-ber is too high because after just a few days of practice, the same Mountaineer de-fense has to go up against an offense that is loaded in its own way in Towson.
The Tigers have an athletic quarterback in Connor Fra-zier, who will be making his second career start and who has the mobility to make the defense be all over the field, and the entire Towson squad will be attempting to keep their 12-game road-winning streak alive in Morgantown.
“The quarterback is what makes them go,” said defen-sive coordinator Tony Gib-son. “That kid played in the semifinals a year ago and brought them back. He has experience in big game.”
Redshirt junior linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski said the task lying ahead for the Moun-taineers is a difficult one, but said he and the entire West Virginia squad have to enter the game just like they did with Alabama.
“They have some players that can hurt us in the run game,” he said.
“As a defense, we have to know where the quarterback, running backs and receivers are at all times. They can hurt us on the ground and in the air. They have weapons, and they are fairly quick.”
Time after time, West Vir-ginia has played down to their opponent, and, time after time, those are the games that get the best of the Mountaineers.
With that exact situation once again presented to WVU, the key this time will be not so much of entering with the energy that’s needed but keeping that energy and game flow throughout the entire game Saturday night.
Sixty thousand plus fans will pack into Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday for the 7:30 p.m. kickoff. The Mountain-eers know what they have to do, but now it’s a matter of if they will actually perform above and beyond for their 2014 home debut.
A victory Saturday would be huge for West Virginia, especially with an upcom-ing opponent who shut out the Mountaineers in 2013 in Maryland and No. 4 Okla-homa to follow that game in just two short weeks.
The task is simple: Win while you can, because things are only going to get tougher as the season pro-gresses for West Virginia.
anthony pecoraroassociate sports editor @pecorarowvunewsUNDER THE LIGHTS
file photoThe West Virginia squad takes the field during a home game against Texas in 2013.
Mountaineers eager to bounce back at Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday night against Towsonby dillon durst
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia is set for its home opener Satur-day against Towson in Mi-lan Puskar Stadium at 7:30 p.m.
In the two teams’ first-ever meeting, both teams enter the game with 0-1 records.
West Virginia is coming off a closer-than-expected loss to Alabama, while Towson enters Saturday’s matchup following a 31-27 loss to Central Connecti-cut State.
“First and foremost, I can’t tell you how thrilled we are to be able to play
a home game, especially a night game, in Morgan-town,” said head coach Dana Holgorsen.
West Virginia enters Sat-urday’s game with all the confidence in the world af-ter hanging with No. 2 Ala-bama for four quarters last weekend.
The players fielded an array of questions Tuesday and gave their thoughts about shifting the focus from a primetime game last weekend to Towson.
“We treat every game the same. We don’t look at anybody like we are go-ing to blow them out of the water,” said senior re-ceiver Mario Alford. “We still prepare just like we
prepare for everybody else. We treat every game the same.”
Redshirt senior quarter-back Clint Trickett said he believes West Virginia will have no trouble with the transition to Towson and said the players are go-ing to be pumped up for a night game.
“It’s definitely going to help everyone, being the first home game and a night game,” he said. “Peo-ple are pretty excited about the team. Night games are special here for a reason, and hopefully this Satur-day will be another exam-ple of that.”
Towson finished the 2013 season with a 13-3
record, before falling to eventual Division I FCS champion North Dakota State.
Towson’s offense is led by junior quarterback Connor Frazier and soph-omore running back Dar-ius Victor.
West Virginia defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said Towson has a new starting five up front on the offensive line, but their fullback and tight end are returning from 2013.
“They have a very ath-letic quarterback. He can hurt you with his feet,” Gibson said. “The tail-back’s good. He’s a little guy, about (5-foot-7, 210 pounds), but he runs ex-
tremely hard.“The quarterback is
what makes them go. That kid played in the semifi-nals a year ago and brought them back. He has experi-ence in big games.”
Frazier completed 14 of 26 passes for 125 yards and a touchdown, while Victor carried the ball 19 times for 105 yards and a touch-down against Central Con-necticut State.
“Our guys are excited to run out under the lights,” Holgorsen said. “We’ve seen some of the new stuff that’s been done at the sta-dium, and I think the fans will be excited.”
MEN’S SOCCER
West Virginia blanks hokies at home
by keVin hookersports writer
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia men’s soccer team continued its hot start to the season Thursday night, improv-ing to 3-0 after defeating Virginia Tech 3-0 in front of 1,493 fans at Dick Dlesk Stadium.
The match snapped a 10-year drought between WVU and Virginia Tech, and the Hokies now lead the series 7-4 all time.
The Mountaineers got on the board in the 25th min-ute off sophomore Mike De-siderio on a cross pass from senior forward Andy Bevin. The goal was Desiderio’s
first of his career, after miss-ing many opportunities dur-ing his freshman year.
“It’s about time,” Desid-ero said. “Last year, I think I hit three crossbars and a few posts. Finally, it’s my turn. But it was a great setup. Bevin had the ball out wide and on the initial cross, I ran in, but things weren’t hap-pening. So, I decided to cir-cle out and re-do my run, and he set me up perfectly off the header. I just kind of hit it and it went in.”
WVU’s second goal came less than one minute later off the foot of Jamie Mer-riam off a setup from Bevin. The goal was Merriam’s third of the season after scoring two in 2013.
“Goals come in pairs, in soccer that happens all the time,” Bevin said. “You score that first goal, they get a little shell-shocked, then we pounced on them. I pounced on a defender on a loose ball and Jamie was just in the right place at the right time. Scoring that sec-ond goal right after scoring that first goal is something we’ve talked about.”
Bevin scored the third goal of the game in the 75th minute after break-ing down a defender and shooting on the goalie’s op-posite side post. He tallied four points for the second straight game, and now has two goals and four assists so far this season. He also shot
the ball four times and three times on net during his 85 minutes of play.
“The funny thing about soccer is, we stunk and we’re still somehow up 2-0,” LeBlanc said. “I told the guys at halftime, “the bad news is, we’ve played about as poorly as we have all year, but the good news is you’re up 2-0. I thought in the sec-ond half we played excel-lent. We moved the ball and they got tired.’”
But the chippiness was the story of the night, as these two former confer-ence rivals combined for 33 fouls. Louis Thomas, Joey Piatczyc, Jad Arslan were all issued yellow cards, while Merriam was hit with a red
card in the 51st minute. The Hokies left the Big East Con-ference following the 2004 season.
“I think some of the fouls we received tonight were the result of some hard challenges,” LeBlanc said. “I don’t think they were dirty by any means, but I think they were late. But I was re-ally proud of my guys be-cause they came to the de-fense of teammates and back each other up. I think even our football team would’ve been proud.”
The Mountaineers will look to make it four straight on Sunday at home against St. Francis.
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The West Virginia Univer-sity volleyball team is partic-ipating in its first away tour-nament of the season this weekend at Niagara Univer-sity in New York.
The Purple Eagle tourna-ment will feature Gardner-Webb, Providence, West Vir-ginia and the host school Niagara.
The Mountaineers open the tournament against
Gardner-Webb at 1 p.m. to-day. The Runnin’ Bulldogs are 0-4 overall this season, having dropped matches against South Carolina, Jacksonville, Georgia Tech and Appalachian State.
Junior opposite hit-ter Nikki Attea said she is pleased with the direction of the team early in the year and is excited to play near her hometown of East Am-herst, N.Y.
“We’re on a three-game win streak. We just want to continue that into this
weekend. It’ll be fun play-ing in front of their home crowd and having some his-tory with some of the team members we’ll be playing back there. It’ll be a good time,” she said.
West Virginia takes on Ni-agara this evening at 6 p.m. The Purple Eagles are 1-3 on the season.
Head coach Jill Kramer said the goals she has for her team this weekend are pretty straight forward.
“We want to get better - we want to improve this
weekend, and I’d like to put some people in different roles,” Kramer said.
“There are some fresh-men I want to get on the court and see what they can do. I think it’s a good opportunity for us to build our continuity offensively. We’ve got to be better pick-ing the spots we need to be in and making good reads from there.”
The last game of the tour-nament that the Mountain-eers will play is against the Providence Friars at 11 a.m.
Saturday. Providence is leading the all-time series against WVU 9-7, but WVU has come out on top the last three times the teams have gone head to head.
“I think we’re really going to focus on our side of the net a lot,” Kramer said.
“The most important thing for us is being able to execute our game plan and play our game, and play bet-ter volleyball on our side of the net and come out with a win. The challenges the other teams present, we’re
not too focused on any one challenge. We just take care of the ball on our side of the net.”
As the Mountaineers travel and compete in New York this weekend, fans can keep up with the set and match status on Twit-ter by following their page @WVUVolleyball.
The Mountaineers will be back on the home court next weekend in the Mountain-eer Invitational.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
No. 13 WVU hosts 90 Minute Classicby ethaN rohrbaUgh
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The No. 13 West Vir-ginia University women’s soccer team will be play-ing host to the 90 Min-ute Classic this week-end at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
The Mountaineers (2-2), who last hosted the four-team tournament in 2012, will welcome UNC Greensboro, Hofstra and Indiana State to the invitational.
The first home win of the season for WVU came last Sunday, as the team rebounded from a 2-0 loss to Duke in the home-opener two nights before with a 2-0 defeat of Elon.
Ju n i o r m i d f i e l d e r Cari Price said the team needed to improve in all facets from its loss to Duke, but defending has been a primary area of concern.
“(Coach) has been working a lot on defend-ing because her philoso-phy is that defense wins championships,” Price said. “Not just defending in the back, defending in
the midfield and forwards getting back.”
Head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said she has seen a lot of things improve over the course of these first four matches, but the way her squad has been playing defense is something that still needs improvement.
“Unfortunately we only have one shutout. The shutouts that we haven’t had have been the ones we haven’t won,” she said.
“I just think that in the game of soccer sometimes it’s just really difficult to finish, so you have to make sure that you’re getting shutouts and you have to be tight, compact and or-ganized because anything can happen.”
Some would be quick to point to junior keeper and first year starter Hannah Steadman as a reason for WVU’s defensive lapses, but her teammates and coaches wouldn’t agree.
“You can never blame a goal on one single person,” Price said. “It was a team effort. Anything that hap-pened, we all got down on ourselves for it.”
Steadman, who was given the daunting task of
replacing Sara Keane in goal this season, has al-lowed seven goals in her first four collegiate starts for the Mountaineers.
“I think, just as ev-eryone on this team has made mistakes, Hannah’s made a couple mistakes,” Izzo-Brown said. “I know she’s willing and capable of eliminating those mis-takes moving forward, and I know she will.”
WVU will play its first match of the Classic to-night at 7 when it takes on Hofstra.
The host-school will wrap up the invitational Sunday when it clashes with UNC Greensboro at 5 p.m.
Izzo-Brown said ev-ery game at this level is a tough matchup and the next game is always the hardest game, but she also added that Hofstra presents a bit of a differ-ent challenge.
“They have interna-tional team players from Italy, Germany, England and New Zealand,” Izzo-Brown said. “It’s going to be a battle.”
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US tops Ukraine to finish basketball worlds group
APRudy Gay, center, splits two Ukranian defenders Thursday.
BILBAO, Spain (AP) — The bags were already packed and the Americans had al-ready checked out of their rooms.
The only thing stand-ing between them and Bar-celona was a game against Ukraine, and it took them a little while to get into it.
The U.S. national team eventually pulled away to win it and finish pool play unbeaten, getting 17 points from James Harden and 14 from Stephen Curry in a 95-71 victory Thursday at the Basketball World Cup.
Once that was over, the Americans could truly turn their attention where they wanted it.
“We’re looking forward to getting to Barcelona and starting the next part of the journey, the medal rounds, and taking things seriously,” Curry said.
Anthony Davis finished with 12 points for the Amer-icans, who will face Mexico on Saturday night in the round of 16. The Mexicans finished fourth in Group D.
It was closer than the usual U.S. game, but the Americans were never in any danger of losing in the second half after seiz-ing control just before half-time against a methodi-cal Ukraine team coached by former NBA coach Mike
Fratello.The only scare was a hard
landing by starting guard Kyrie Irving with 1:12 left, but he eventually got up and walked off holding his lower back. Coach Mike Krzyze-wski said the Cleveland Cav-aliers All-Star was expected to be all right.
The Americans left later Thursday for the next round, held in the city where the famed U.S. Dream Team won gold in the 1992 Olympics.
International fans and journalists still refer to a U.S. squad as the Dream Team, though this one doesn’t rise to that level. But despite some significant player losses that left them with the youngest team they have sent to an inter-national competition since pros could be used, the Americans have shown an occasional ability to domi-nate like some of their more potent predecessors.
They still managed to fin-ish close to their tourna-ment-best average of 104 points despite not making a field goal for nearly the first 5 minutes of the game.
Krzyzewski thought the poor start offensively may have been caused by the hectic schedule the Ameri-cans had before the game, and the fact they had already
clinched Group C a day ear-lier. Harden thought it was a result of the U.S. playing the second game of the day ses-sion, leaving less time than usual to get loose.
“We didn’t really have a chance to warm up. It was kind of like AAU basketball, so we kind of had to hurry up and get out there and get ready,” Harden said. “So first quarter we were kind of sluggish, second quarter we picked it up and second half we played pretty well.”
The Ukrainians were eliminated from contention after finishing 2-3. Fratello said they were told they fell short by one point in point differential and lost tiebreakers.
Fratello is a longtime TV analyst who returned to the sideline in 2011 to work for Ukrainian federation pres-ident Alexander “Sasha” Volkov, one of his former players with the Atlanta Hawks.
His team made the Amer-icans work for nearly a half, then ended up getting blown out like everyone else.
“I was very proud of our performance,” Fratello said. “We hung in there for about three quarters, kept it be-tween 12 and 15, 12 and 15, but we turned the ball over every time we chipped away.”
The U.S. had another poor start, just as it did in previous victories over Tur-key and the Dominican Republic.
There were hundreds of empty seats behind the bas-ket that had been filled for the first game by Finland fans whose team lost. They didn’t miss much early from the Americans, who took nearly half of the opening period to make their first field goal and trailed for
much of the first half.
Ukraine led 19-14 af-ter one and was still ahead 27-25 midway through the second before the Ameri-cans finally put a spurt to-gether. Curry nailed a pair of 3-pointers as the U.S. out-scored Ukraine 19-5 over the final 4:43 to take a 44-32 into halftime.
It grew to 69-54 after three, and a couple quick baskets at the beginning of
the period got the Ameri-cans off and running toward an easy final quarter, though there were some concerned faces when Irving lost his balance after leaping and landed with an easily heard thud.
He finished with 11 points, as did DeMarcus Cousins.
Slava Kravtsov, who played last season for Phoe-nix, scored 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting for Ukraine.
APStephen Curry, right, tries to find a teammate with a pass Thursday.