the da 09-18-2015
DESCRIPTION
The September 18 edition of The Daily AthenaeumTRANSCRIPT
“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Friday September 18, 2015 Volume 128, ISSue 23www.THEdaONLiNE.comda
Student organizations being more involved can improve grades
OPINION PAGE 4
86°/62° MOSTLY SUNNY
INSIDENews: 1, 2Opinion: 4A&E: 3, 5Sports: 7, 8, 10
Campus Calendar: 6Puzzles: 6Classifieds: 9
CONTACT USNewsroom 304-293-5092 or [email protected] 304-293-4141 or [email protected] 304-293-4141 or [email protected] Fax 304-293-6857
WVU takes on talented Georgetown squad SPORTS PAGE 7
HOYA HUNTING
COMMENTARY
What do students think of Greek LifeA&E PAGE 3
STUDENT POLL THE DA’s HIRING WRITERSInquire about paid positions at The Daily Athenaeum at [email protected] or pick up an application at our office at 284 Prospect St.
by robert leestaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
Morgantown and Uni-versity Police are one step closer to reaching an agreement to extend the latter authority’s jurisdic-tion off-campus and into areas highly populated by West Virginia University students.
The mutual aid agree-ment has already been used during athletic events but this is the first time the city has considered using it in residential areas.
“It’s done when it’s
done,” said Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston. “Whenever it’s ready to be signed is when we’ll move forward with it, but it’s a legal agreement, and legal agreements take time.”
The mutual-aid agree-ment is a written contract that will extend MPD’s le-gal jurisdiction to UPD, according to Preston. This will allow UPD to enforce violations of city code.
UPD Chief Bob Rob-erts said he last saw a draft of the agreement about a week or two ago. Roberts didn’t go into much detail about the agreement since
many of the details still need to be ironed out.
“There have been dis-cussions of us being sworn in by city officials, but I haven’t seen it in any drafts,” Roberts said. “The advantage of doing it that way is, as we’re sworn in now, we can’t enforce the city ordinance. We enforce state code, but for every city ordinance there’s an equivalent state code, like noise.”
MPD’s jurisdiction en-compasses everything within city limits, includ-ing the WVU campus. Un-der WVU’s Board of Gov-
ernor’s policies, UPD’s jurisdiction only stretches out to the campus and ad-jacent property.
Roberts said the agree-ment would benefit the city because UPD has ways of dealing with inci-dents involving students MPD doesn’t—student af-fairs, campus judicial sys-tems and student conduct hearings.
“Mutual aid is extremely effective. It’s not just effec-tive for athletic events, it’s a law enforcement tech-nique that’s utilized in or-der to enhance the services beyond what any individ-
ual agency can do,” Pres-ton said. “It’s used nation-wide to combine resources to have a more compre-hensive response or to be much more flexible with responding to certain situations.”
If the agreement is reached, UPD’s jurisdic-tion would extend from Waverly Street to Pros-pect Street and other ar-eas highly populated by students.
“Theoretically, we al-ready have jurisdiction now running through fra-ternity row, so I don’t see it necessarily as a big
change,” Roberts said.Roberts said it’s im-
portant for Greek orga-nizations to step up, take responsibility and be ac-countable for their be-havior. And so far, they’ve done well.
“We have already spo-ken with some Greek or-ganizations, and they seem to be responsive about this idea,” Roberts said. “This past football game, we worked with Greek organi-zations and their new tail-gating area and it appears to be going well.”
by rachel mcbridestaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
The aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks shook the United States. In Iran and Afghanistan, families and everyday routines were fractured into unrecognizable pieces.
Lois Raimondo, now the Reed College of Media’s Shott Chair of Journalism, traveled to the middle east two years after the attacks. She’s an award-winning interna-tional journalist who combined her passion for people and photography in her most recent exhibit at West Vir-ginia University’s Downtown Campus Library.
“I always try to present perspectives that aren’t nec-essarily already in the media,” Raimondo, the photogra-pher, said. “Each story, every picture has a point of view, and each one of those are very important.”
The exhibit, “Fractured Spaces: Stories of Resistance & Resilience,” officially opened Thursday. Her photo-graphs also explore Tibetans living as political exiles in India.
The exhibit is broken up into three parts, each show-casing former communities that have faced turmoil that left their people living with no choice but to become survivors.
“I’ve been working on this exhibit from the begin-ning, and I’m still learning things from the pictures,” said Carroll Wilkinson, director of WVU’s Library Stra-tegic Initiatives.
One part of the exhibit, “In the wake of 9/11,” con-tains photographs taken in Iraq and Afghanistan after the World Trade Center attack. The emotional photos show Iraqis living among chaos from daily bombings, IED attacks and the complete disassembling of their own country.
Other photographs show Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers struggling across the rough terrain of the Hindu Kush Mountains and engaging Taliban forces during the Ramadan Offensive.
“Safe house Pakistan” displays a small group of Pak-istani women locked up together in a government safe house for endangered women and children.
“Tibet in Exile” brings attention to the nearly 100,000 Tibetans living as political refugees in Dharamsala, India.
While the three exhibits strikingly convey the mayhem the world faces every day, Raimondo believes they’re
also vital in making connections between what news is portrayed in the media and what news is hidden.
She spent three months crossing the mountains with the Northern Alliance Army during the Ramadan Offen-sive, but her determination to document the lives of for-eign communities in need didn’t stop there.
In 2005, Raimondo spent a year working on stories about Honor Crimes in Pakistan, and she spent two years living in Dharamsala, India among Tibetans, working on stories about Tibetan cultural survival.
“I chose different stories that were really important to me,” Raimondo said. “I thought they were relevant today, to bridge the gaps (in the media).”
Raimondo risked her own safety to tell the stories of people who are not fortunate enough to tell their own personal stories themselves.
Her risk allowed her to not only make the public aware of certain civilizations’ fractured spaces, but civilians’ fractured lives as well.
Many of Raimondo’s photographs show individuals in distraught states, surrounded by the unsettling ef-fects of combat.
Viewing the photographs is a riveting experience that’s sure to pull on even the coldest of heart strings.
“There’s a picture of a man who is obviously very ill and injured,” Wilkinson said. “It’s heart-wrenching to look at, and it really shows the effects of war.”
UPD works to expand jurisdiction
ASkAr SAlIkhoV/the DAIlY AtheNAeumLois Raimondo speaks to guests following the opening event of the “Fractured Spaces” photo exhibit inside the Downtown Library.
Media College faculty member displays storytelling photography at downtown library
ASkAr SAlIkhoV/the DAIlY AtheNAeumDozens of guests listen to Lois Raimondo talk about the Fractured Spaces photo exhibit which debuted on Thursday inside the WISE Library.
Worth 1,000 WordSWVU partners with New York Times, gives students free access to content
by cameron gleaSonstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
Students are now able to take advantage of free ac-cess to NYTimes.com and all stories, editorials and extras that come with it through a partnership be-tween West Virginia Uni-versity and The New York Times.
Laura Reino of The New York Times will present an informational workshop at 11:30 a.m. Friday in room 104 of the Downtown Li-brary to teach students the ins and outs of the New York Times website, the smartphone app and how the paper can benefit them as students.
“The access is important because of the important journalism—and the good writing—that the Times is known for,” said Tom Stew-art, a professor in the Reed College of Media and a former newspaper editor. “The fact that it’s free is im-portant because most col-lege students really have to watch their spending.”
Normally full digital ac-
cess to the paper runs at $8.75 per week after the trial period (99 cents per week, for one month) is up, which equates to $35 per month—a price that most college students would not be willing or able to pay, due to being on the notori-ously slim “college budget.”
The partnership be-tween WVU and The New York Times is placing un-limited access to a world-renowned newspaper at students’ fingertips ab-solutely free of charge—a luxury that most individ-uals are not lucky enough to have.
The New York Times is a diverse paper providing a wide spectrum of stories with an array of content spanning from hard break-ing news to subjects with a lesser sense of urgency, such as food and style.
“The beauty of the Times is that there is something for everyone: politics, opinion, entertainment, sports, the arts, business- it’s all there, and subscrib-ers can choose the types of stories, headlines and up-dates they’re most inter-ested in receiving,” said Di-ana Martinelli, the acting dean of the Reed College of Media.
The New York Times has some of the most experi-enced journalists in the world posting stories daily about not only national events, but international ones as well.
The busy lifestyle of col-lege students sometimes deters them from stay-ing up to date with cur-rent events outside of their Twitter and Facebook news
““the access is important because of the important journalism—and the good writing—that the times is known for.”
Tom Stewartreed College of media professor
”
KINGSAnsh KumarCharleston, WV
Julius McCallWillow Grove, PA
John RendinellSouth Charleston, WV
Jon SalazarSouth Charleston, WV
Joe RosatiGansevoort, NY
QUEENSDeonna GandyPittsburgh, PA
Amanda HutchinsonDingmans Ferry, PA
Jordan “Blair” RigneySouth Charleston, WV
Ellen WalburnMartinsburg, WV
Justine SchultzStewartsville, NJ
2015 WVU Homecoming Court announced
see times on PAGE 2
see pHoto on PAGE 2
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM FRIdAY SePTeMber 18, 20152 | NEWS
The visual narratives spanning over a 20 year period are meant to draw viewers in and allow them to experience a situation from someone else’s point of view.
The Fractured Spaces exhibit is part of the “Art in the Libraries” program, and is underwritten in part by a grant from the WVU Faculty Senate Research grant program and the Of-fice of the Provost.
“Fractured Spaces: Sto-ries of Resistance & Resil-ience,” sponsored by WVU Libraries, will be show-cased in the downtown li-brary until April 30.
feeds, but with this partner-ship, all that can change.
“The world is a very large place, and The New York Times devotes significant resources to provide infor-mation and context to help us become informed about issues we face at home and the implications of issues occurring abroad,” Mar-tinelli said. “Their jour-nalists provide a deeper, fact-checked context and broader world view.” The paper also influences other media outlets in terms of the stories that get covered, and can influence the na-tional dialogue around pol-itics, entertainment and the arts.”
To access and subscribe to the New York Times’ dig-ital edition, visit http://ny-times.com/.
AP
muslim group doesn’t fault school, police for detention
ApAhmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives to his family’s home in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Ahmed was arrested Monday at his school after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. He remains suspended and said he will not return to classes at MacArthur High School.
irViNG, Texas (aP)—One of the largest Muslim groups in Texas said Thurs-day that it does not fault police and school officials who handcuffed and sus-pended a 14-year-old Mus-lim boy after he brought a homemade clock to class that they mistook for a pos-sible bomb.
Instead, Khalid Hamideh of the Islamic Association of North Texas blamed po-litical leaders for espousing inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and creating a “cli-mate of fear.”
“We’re not pointing a finger at the school district or the police department,” Hamideh said. “Under the current climate that exists in this country, you can’t really blame them because when they see something like that, they have to react.”
The association oper-ates the mosque attended by the family of Ahmed Mo-hamed, the suburban Dal-las student who became a sensation on social media after word spread about his clock and the way he was treated.
Ahmed was pulled from class Monday after he showed the device to a teacher. He was questioned by the principal and police, then handcuffed and taken to the police station.
The Muslim community is concerned that Ahmed was interrogated with-out a lawyer or his parents present and was led out in handcuffs, Hamideh said.
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd has said department policy requires that hand-cuffs be used to protect of-ficers and others.
Authorities declined to seek charges against the boy, saying there was no evidence he intended to cause alarm. They said he’s free to retrieve his clock at the police station.
A police photo of the de-vice shows a carrying case containing a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display.
School district spokes-woman Lesley Weaver did not return a call for com-ment Thursday but previ-ously said school admin-istrators followed district
policy, which allows staff to take action if a student has a “look-alike” weapon or engages in behaviors that “substantially disrupt or materially interfere with school activities.”
Ahmed’s father, Mo-hamed Elhassan Mo-hamed, said Thursday that his son would not be re-turning to MacArthur High School. He said the family is still deciding where he will go next.
The boy’s sister, Ayisha Mohamed, 17, said she be-lieves her brother’s experi-ence is helping to change people’s minds about Muslims.
She said her “heart just dropped” when she heard police had detained him. “It was a bad thing that turned into a blessing,” she said.
As Ahmed’s story spread across social media, Twitter soon erupted with support for the teen. The hashtag (hash)IStandWithAhmed was tweeted more than 1 million times.
President Barack Obama invited him to the White House, and Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg posted that he wanted to meet him. A NASA scientist asked Ahmed to give him a call in a couple of years for a job opportunity.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also weighed in, cautioning that he did not know all the facts but that police were wrong to detain the boy.
“The last thing we want to do is put handcuffs on a kid unjustifiably,” Abbott told The Dallas Morning News. “It looks like the commit-ment to law enforcement may have gone too far.”
On Thursday, Irving high school students said Ahmed has a reputation as a tinkerer and creator. He made small robotics, fixed phones and assembled a remote that could turn on projectors at school, they said.
“I remember seeing him in middle school, and he used to always bring stuff,” said Sara Williams, 15. “He was just one of those kids that created stuff.”
Nicholas Martin, also 15, said authorities “were just taking precautions” when
they confiscated the clock, but he believes they overre-acted because of Ahmed’s ethnicity.
Ahmed’s father emi-grated from Sudan and twice ran for the presidency of that country.
Fourteen-year-old Pedro Andrade said school offi-cials were right to be cau-tious but added, “If they really did think that it was a bomb, why didn’t they evacuate?”
The controversy follows other incidents this year in-volving anti-Muslim senti-ment, including a backlash against a proposed Muslim cemetery northeast of Dal-las and a Republican law-maker who told her staff to ask visiting Muslims to declare allegiance to America.
Also, the Irving City Council endorsed one of several bills in the state Legislature to forbid judges from making rulings based on “foreign laws,” language that some people say is aimed at Islam out of fear that American courts could somehow be influenced by
the religion’s Sharia law.“All of these people who
push this hate agenda need to engage the Muslim com-munity and to understand the Muslim identity in this country,” Hamideh said.
Back in May, Texas law enforcement was on height-ened alert when two men opened fire in the Dallas suburb of Garland outside a center hosting a cartoon contest with depictions of the prophet Muhammad. Both attackers were shot dead, and an officer was shot in the leg. From the other side of the world, the Islamic State group made an unproven claim of responsibility.
Cathie Adams, president of the conservative Texas Eagle Forum and former chairwoman of the Texas Republican Party, said Thursday that Ahmed’s clock looked suspicious and that authorities were right to act.
She said the boy was “pushing the envelope” and provoking a response. “Was he testing the system? And why?”
timeSContinued from PAGE 1
photoContinued from PAGE 1
GM will pay $900 million over ignition switch scandalNEW yOrK (aP)—General
Motors agreed to pay $900 million to fend off criminal prosecution over the deadly ignition-switch scandal, striking a deal that brought criticism down on the Jus-tice Department for not bringing charges against in-dividual employees.
The switches, which can slip out of the “run” posi-tion and cut off the engine, have been linked to at least 169 deaths.
Despite evidence that GM’s legal and engineering staffs concealed the prob-lem for nearly a decade, no employees were charged Thursday, though U.S. At-torney Preet Bharara said the investigation is still go-ing on.
Also Thursday, GM an-nounced it will spend $575 million to settle the major-ity of the civil lawsuits filed over the scandal.
Under the deal with pros-ecutors, an independent monitor will be appointed to oversee GM’s handling of safety problems. Two charges drawn up against GM - wire fraud and schem-ing to conceal information from government regula-tors - will be dropped after three years if the automaker cooperates fully.
GM agreed to a state-ment of facts that describes in scathing terms its de-ceptive and dismissive ap-proach to the defect.
“They let the public down,” Bharara said. “They didn’t tell the truth in the best way that they should have - to the regulators, to the public - about this seri-ous safety issue that risked life and limb.”
The twin agreements bring to more than $5.3 bil-lion the amount GM has
spent on a problem author-ities say could have been handled for less than a dol-lar per car. Those expenses include fines, compensa-tion for victims and the re-call of millions of vehicles.
With the settlements, GM takes a big step toward moving past the scandal.
On Thursday, GM chief executive Mary Barra ap-peared before several hun-dred employees in sub-urban Detroit and again apologized to the crash vic-tims. When asked whether employees should have been charged, she deferred to Bharara’s office.
But she added: “We un-derstand that lives were im-pacted. That is something that we understand and we take forward and will have with us every day.”
The settlement brought bitter criticism from safety advocates and family members.
Consumer advocate Clarence Ditlow, head of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said GM offi-cials will “walk off scot-free while its customers are 6 feet under.”
“If a person kills some-one because he decided to drive drunk, he will go to jail,” said Laura Christian, the mother of a woman who died in her 2005 Cobalt. Yet GM employees whose deci-sions led to scores of deaths “are able to hide behind a corporation because our laws are insufficient. It must change.”
Bharara said he under-stands victims’ families might be disappointed that no individuals were ar-rested. But he said there is no law with specific crim-inal penalties for fail-ing to disclose auto safety
problems.Without such a statute,
prosecutors had to rely on broader laws covering false statements and wire fraud, he said.
“We apply the laws as we find them, not the way we wish they might be,” he said. He added that GM was given credit for cooperating with the investigation, in-cluding sharing the results of its in-house probe.
The Justice Department has been long been criti-cized for often going after companies instead of indi-viduals in cases of wrong-doing in the business world.
Eric Havian, a former fed-eral prosecutor in San Fran-cisco who now represents whistleblowers, said it can be extraordinarily difficult to prosecute employees.
The schemes are often so complex that a jury can eas-ily get lost, and establish-ing that a particular per-son knew his actions were against the law is a chal-lenge, he said.
In this case, court papers showed that GM engineers knew of the problem in 2004 and 2005 when other employees, the media and customers complained. But the engineers left it alone, rejecting a cheap and sim-ple fix, court papers said.
Even after the dangers became plain in 2012, GM did not correct its earlier assurance that the switch posed no safety concern. Instead, Bharara wrote, it concealed the defect from regulators and the public “so that the company could buy time to package, pres-ent, explain and manage the issue.”
The wire fraud count per-tained to the company’s as-surances to customers over
the Internet in 2012-13 that its used cars were safe.
The deal with GM comes a year and a half after Toy-ota agreed to a $1.2 billion penalty from the Justice De-partment for withholding information about deadly unintended acceleration in its vehicles.
Last year, GM recalled 2.6 million older small cars worldwide, including the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion, to replace the faulty switches.
When they slip out of “run,” the engines shut off and the power-assisted steering, power brakes and the air bags are dis-abled. Some cars ran off the road or collided with other vehicles.
Last year, GM set up a fund to compensate vic-tims. Lawyers administer-ing it accepted 124 death claims and 275 injury claims. Families of those who died will get at least $1 million. GM has set aside $625 million to compensate people who settled with the fund.
Texas attorney Bob Hill-
iard represents 1,385 plain-tiffs with death or injury claims that did not get com-pensation from the fund. On Thursday, GM said it has agreed to spend $575 mil-lion to settle those cases, as well as a shareholder lawsuit that said GM’s ac-tions reduced the value of its stock.
Even with the settle-ments, GM cannot close the books on the scandal. It still faces more than 400 death and injury cases that have yet to be settled. Six cases are scheduled for trial, in-cluding one in January.
Amid the scandal more than a year ago, GM fired 15 employees for failing to act to resolve the switch problem.
The recalls led to other changes at GM. Barra ap-pointed a new safety chief and added 35 product safety investigators. The company does more test-ing of parts, adopting the standards of the aerospace industry. And it started a program that encourages employees to speak up if they find a safety concern.
ApU.S. Attorney Preet Bharara speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Attor-ney’s office in New York, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. The government and General Motors have reached a deal to resolve a criminal investigation into how the De-troit automaker concealed a deadly problem with small-car ignition switches.
Legal Trouble?∙ DUI∙ Public Intoxication∙ Underage Consumption∙ Possession
Contact Adams Legal Group, PLLC for a free consultation today!304.381.2166
http://www.adams-legal.com
∙ Disturbing the Peace∙ Disorderly Conduct∙ Battery∙ Obstruction
A&E3CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 3 | DAA&[email protected] September 18, 2015
A$AP Rocky comes to the ColiseumChelsea Walker
A&E WritEr @dAilyAthEnAEum
Only time will tell if Mor-gantown is ready for the mob. A$AP Mob member, A$AP Rocky will take the stage at the West Virgin-ity University Coliseum to-night for his first West Vir-ginia appearance.
Born in Harlem, New York, A$AP Rocky’s attrac-tion to hip-hop was inevi-table. Known as the hub of hip-hop happenings, Har-lem is a neighborhood filled with a rich history of color-ful culture and impactful artists who have shaped the genre. Named after hip-hop legend Rakim of the Eric B. & Rakim duo, Rakim Mayers was born in 1988. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, Mayers began ex-perimenting with rhymes at age 8. His rough upbring-ing in Harlem led May-ers to dabble in the world of crime. Within two years, Mayers watched his father get shipped to prison and dealt with the murder of his influential older brother.
After witnessing back-to-back tragedies, Mayers began taking his rapping more seriously. Bouncing through various homeless shelters in the city, Mayers, alongside his mother and sister, lacked a structured upbringing. Selling drugs at age 15, Mayers’ rough life-style greatly impacted his career.
In 2007, Mayers joined
Harlem-based group A$AP Mob, a group of produc-ers, directors, designers, rappers and bikers. Pull-ing from the influences of rap artists such as UGK, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Devin the Dube, May-ers music features a com-bination of laidback beats and clever, slick lines. May-ers’ career in the rap game ignited when his debut single, “Pesos,” leaked on-line in 2011. While “Pesos”
sparked the interest of lo-cal New York radio stations, it wasn’t until he released his music video for “Purple Swag” that Mayers caught the eye, or ears, of major re-cord labels.
Yielding an immense level of creativity A$AP Rocky is truly a unique and unlimited artist. The creator has dabbled in the world of fashion, music video pro-duction and acting. In an interview with Complex
Magazine, A$AP Rocky said he considers himself an art-ist before a rapper.
He’s strutted down the catwalk in a Ferragamo campaign and has starred in indie movie “Dope,” that appeared at the 2015 Sun-dance Film Festival.
A$AP Rocky’s sleek but street style consistently bleeds through his ballads. With a southern, laid back sound, A$AP Rocky’s raps share tales of women trou-
bles, drugs and his “purple drank.”
“This is more free than I’ve ever been,” said the artist in an interview with Complex Magazine. “I’ve never been this free mak-ing music, ever. I’m experi-menting, listening and look-ing for different sounds.”
With two full-length stu-dio albums, A$AP Rocky’s imaginative rhymes and his careful attention to de-tail have him producing
what he has coined as fine art. A$AP Rocky is known to take time composing his tracks, and not want-ing to rush the art. His pop-ular tracks include songs like, “F---in’ Problems” and “Wild for the Night.” His most recent album, “At. Long. Last. A$AP.,” dropped in May of 2015 and features hit tracks, “L$D” and “M$.”
Kristie Stewart-Gale, of WVU Arts and Entertain-ment, said A$AP Rocky’s appearance Friday night has been highly anticipated among WVU students, with nearly 85 percent of ticket sales coming from students. Stewart-Gale said WVU Arts and Entertainment strives to keep in mind student budgets while booking some of the artists they re-quest. This June, WVU Arts and Entertainment released a survey, asking students to state who they would like to see play at venues in Mor-gantown. A$AP Rocky was one of many artists who was a fairly popular request made by the student body.
“We’re always looking for information and sug-gestions from the students,” Stewart-Gale said. “You guys are why we’re here.”
A$AP Rocky will appear with special guests Danny Brown and Vince Staples at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at the WVU Coliseum. For infor-mation on show time and tickets, visit http://events.wvu.edu/concerts.
mtv.comA$AP Rocky’s WVU show will be the rapper’s first in West Virginia.
STUdENT POll
WVU students, what is your opinion of Greek life?Rush week is approach-
ing: the time of year when some college students meet and join the fraternity or so-rority they will be a part of for the rest of their college career.
Yesterday, 100 students in the Mountainlair were polled on what they thought about Greek Life.
Despite the negative publicity Greek Life of-ten gets, only nine percent of the students polled said they dislike fraternities and sororities.
The most popular re-sponse, with 34 percent of the answers, was a neutral attitude. Students in this category often said that al-though they could see the benefits of Greek Life, it just wasn’t something for them. However, they harbored no ill will toward it.
The second most-popu-
lar category was students who liked Greek Life, with 30 percent of the responses.
Many of these students said they were in Greek Life, which is why they liked it.
Not every student in this category was a member of a fraternity or sorority however. Some were non-greek affiliated students who just appreciated what the greek system brings to campus. One student said it would be hard to imag-ine the college experience without Greek Life, despite he himself not being part of it.
Twenty-seven percent of students polled said they had no opinion on Greek Life. These students often said the greek system didn’t affect their day-to-day life in any way, so they rarely put any thought toward it.
-WT
Wine and Jazz Festival this weekendally litten
A&E WritEr @dAilyAthEnAEum
Few warm weekends are left in Morgantown, so it is important to spend time outside while you can. With the West Virginia Univer-sity football team on a break this week, the West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival is the perfect way to fill your weekend.
Local West Virginia wines, music and artisan ven-dors will fill Camp Muffly, a 4-H camp located in Morgantown.
The West Virginia Univer-sity Jazz Ensemble will begin the event Saturday morning. They will be followed by Alex Heflin, Gravity Jazz & Gos-pel, The Mardi Gras Band and DeWayne Dolphin.
West Virginia Wesleyan College Friends of Jazz En-semble will assemble Sun-day afternoon. The ensem-ble will be followed by James Miltenberger Jazz Quin-tet, Lou Natale and Fo/Mo/Deep.
The featured wines will be from Daniel Vineyards, Fish-er’s Ridge, Forks of Cheat Winery, Heston Farm Win-ery, Kenco Farms, Lambert’s Vintage Wines, Potomac Highland Winery and West-Whitehall Winery.
“We’ve been there every year since it started, prob-ably 20-some years now,” said Charles Whitehall of Potomac Highland Winery. “It is a good festival with a good crowd. We always sell
a lot of wine. We’ll be there both days.”
Not only will there be wine, but many local food vendors will attend the event. Chico’s Fat, Cupcak-erie, Garcia’s Latin Market, Greeks, Jersey Subs, Lam-berts Catering, Ramada Inn, Russ’ Ribs and Slight Indul-gence will all offer a little something for everyone.
“We’re going to be do-ing chips and salsa, guac and queso,” said James Clarke, manager of Chico’s Fat. “We own High St. Pasta Company, and we’ll be tak-ing some of that stuff down there too. We’ve done this for four or five years now. The spreads change a little every time, but we always have a quesadilla, a mac and cheese dish and our fish tacos.”
The West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival has much more to offer then just food, wine and music. Local ar-tisans, such as Eddie Spa-ghetti, Muddy Mindi, My Rockables, Wine Me?, Lit-tle Earth Company and Fos-sil Jewels and More, will be scattered around the grounds.
Starting in 1995, the West Virginia Wine and Jazz Fes-tival is a non-profit that does their best to give back to the local community. Every year, they return the proceeds to the region. Throughout the years, $374,374 has been donated to various orga-nizations. The Festival has given out scholarships to the West Virginia University School of Music, sponsored classes at WVU, put on free concerts for the community
and sponsored various other organizations.
There will be no need to worry about designated drivers. West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival is eliminat-ing the risk of drinking and driving by offering free bus rides for anyone interested in spending the weekend wining and dining. The bus-ses will come and go from the Mountainlair to Camp Muffly all weekend.
For more information on the West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival or to buy tick-ets, visit https://wvwinean-djazz.com.
The Jazz and Wine Festi-val starts at 11 a.m. on Sat-urday. The daily admission price is $20 for anyone 21 or older.
hercampus.com
NEW YORK (AP) — MS-NBC on Thursday ap-pointed Kate Snow to an-chor an afternoon news broadcast, nearly com-pleting a daytime refocus of the struggling network back to news that will be fully on display next week when Brian Williams re-turns to the air for cover-age of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States.
Since Andy Lack re-turned this spring to take over the NBC News oper-ation, he’s spent much of his time plotting a recon-figuration of MSNBC into something similar to what was envisioned at its start two decades ago - a fully integrated arm of NBC News.
“This is a page turn for MSNBC and all of NBC News,” Lack said on Thursday.
Gone are opinion-based programs with personali-ties like Ronan Farrow, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton and Alex Wagner, which Lack said were rejected
by viewers. Instead, the daytime lineup will have news programs anchored by Snow, Andrea Mitch-ell, Thomas Roberts, Tam-ron Hall and Jose Diaz-Balart, with Williams moving in probably a cou-ple of times a week as news warrants.
Snow, a veteran of both ABC News and CNN, will anchor each weekday from 3 to 5 p.m., followed by a one-hour political show hosted by “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd.
Lack hasn’t changed the left-leaning eve-ning lineup of Chris Mat-thews, Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Law-rence O’Donnell, saying his focus has been on the daytime.
The immediate wild card is how viewers react to Williams, the former NBC “Nightly News” an-chor who was suspended in February and found to have misled the pub-lic about his role in news stories.
AP
Kate Snow appointment
tophdgallary.com
OPINION4CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 4 | [email protected] September 18, 2015
DATHEDAONLINE.COM
Letters to the Editor can be sent 284 Prospect St. or emailed to [email protected]. Letters should include name, title and be no more than 300 words. Letters and columns, excluding the editorial, are not necessarily representative of The Daily Athenaeum’s opinion. Letters may be faxed to 304-293-6857 or delivered to The Daily Athenaeum.EDITORIAL STAFF: MADISON FLECK, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF • DAVID SCHLAKE, MANAGING EDITOR • ABBY HUMPHREYS, OPINION EDITOR • JAKE JARVIS, CITY EDITOR • CAITLYN COYNE, ASSOCIATE CITY EDITOR • NICOLE CURTIN, SPORTS EDITOR • DAVID STATMAN, ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR • CAITLIN WORRELL, A&E EDITOR • WESTLEY THOMPSON, ASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR • ANDREW SPELLMAN, ART DIRECTOR • CASEY VEALEY, COPY DESK CHIEF • LAURA HAIGHT, CAMPUS CONNECTION & SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR (TWITTER) • ALLY LITTEN, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR (INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK) • ALEXIS RANDOLPH, WEB EDITOR • ALAN WATERS, GENERAL MANAGER
Today, everything from bikini hate to racial dis-crimination is covered in the news, but there is one version of shaming I be-lieve has been effectively iced over and ignored: thin-shaming.
I am a 4’11”, 90-pound girl, and believe it or not, my size is commented on more than any other part of me. I’ve learned to em-brace my less-than-aver-age height, but I haven’t yet embraced the an-swer to why so many peo-ple ignorantly make neg-ative remarks about my weight and size, even down to the size of my legs.
Sometimes it’s funny to mention that my feet are about twenty times smaller than the guy’s sitting next
to me, but when it comes to sensitive issues such as how much I weigh, I imme-diately put up a wall. Why is it okay to make derogatory comments about my size, regardless of my thinness? Does my underweight ap-pearance give people a free pass to make judgements
aloud whenever they want?
While my stature may be humorous, my struggle with weight is not. I have yet to meet someone, es-pecially a teenage girl, who doesn’t struggle with some sort of insecurity surround-ing that nasty little number
on the scale. It is sad and without reason most of the time, but it does not mean it isn’t an ever-present part of every day for most of us.
It should be perfectly clear by now across all col-lege campuses that every-one has their hidden de-
mons and, statistically speaking, teenage girls with weight issues domi-nate the board. According to the National Eating Dis-order Information Cen-ter, about half of teenage girls engage in unhealthy weight control behav-iors. Given this informa-tion, in what world would you tell someone their weight is not okay in any manner?
Since my arrival on cam-pus this semester, I’ve been told I need to eat a sand-wich at least five times. This comment doesn’t come from acquintances joking about my size, but from girls I know rela-tively well. In an effort to not be dramatic, I drop my eyes and force a laugh, try-ing to think of what to say next. How do you even an-swer that? “Yeah, I should really eat a sandwich,” or maybe, “Oh, no thanks, I’m full.”
Sadly, there is no right
answer. There is no way to possibly laugh it off. By bringing up my weight like it is some sort of joke or ab-normality, every insecurity the world has tried to force onto my being has officially become reality instead of staying in the box of things my mother said were never true.
The fact is, I am proud of who I am and what I look like, and every col-lege woman should have the right to say the same thing. about herself. I work hard to be fit and healthy, and if it both-ers someone that I tend to stay on the slimmer side, they can keep it to them-selves. Negative judge-ments of any kind are not okay, especially when they have to do with someone’s appearance.
Our weight is not our worth, and if you judge any-one for theirs, maybe you should be the one to eat a sandwich.
sheknows.comShaming someone for their body type is always wrong, regardless of their size.
ACrOSS The US
Thin-shaming: The downsides of being size zero as a freshmanHannaH messingerFlorida state university
edITOrIAl
ensuring food security in W.Va.Imagine being a food-in-
secure student in elemen-tary school. Lunch doesn’t seem to come fast enough, and there’s never enough food on your tray to sat-isfy the hunger pangs you’ll likely experience later that evening. Your mom or dad may skip a meal just so you and your siblings can have enough dinner on the weekends.
College students of-ten joke about not hav-ing enough money to af-ford anything to eat except ramen, but for families across the state, food inse-curity is an enormous is-sue. According to statistics provided by the Food Re-covery Network, in Monon-galia County alone, more than 15,000 people were food insecure in 2013. In a county of a little more than 100,000, that’s nearly one in seven people.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, food waste-fulness is also a pressing concern. While some fami-lies worry about where their next meal is coming from, other families waste up to $40 each month on uneaten food. To summarize John
Oliver’s take on the issue in an episode of “Last Week Tonight,” this is the mone-tary equivalent of leaving one full bag of groceries in the parking lot instead of taking it home after every trip to the grocery store.
Food is the largest con-tributor to landfill waste, and fresh fruit and vege-tables are dumped by the tons every season to sim-ply rot in the sun. This is because grocery stores of-ten don’t receive food ship-ments in time before the food’s sell-by dates pass. This means the shipment would already be destined for the trash before it hits the shelves.
However, by combining the problems of food inse-curity and food waste, both can contribute to solving each other.
Organizations like the Food Recovery Network on campus donate food left over from the end of the day at WVU’s dining halls to places in need, like the Bartlett House or Scott’s Run Settlement House. There’s also the recently-implemented Share-a-Swipe program, where
students with extra meal swipes at the end of the se-mester can swipe multiple times to give friends free food or drinks at various locations accepting meal swipes.
For students not on a meal plan, practicing cer-tain spending habits can prevent further food waste-fulness. Just like shopping for clothes or other impor-tant items, it can be help-ful to ask questions such as, “Will I really eat this?” or “Will I have time to eat this before it goes bad?” while in the grocery store. Being particular about what perishable foods are pur-chased will both prevent food waste and save money as well.
America, unfortunately, wastes more food than any other nation, and 40 per-cent of food grown or pro-duced in this country ends up being wasted. How-ever, practicing better hab-its and participating in or-ganizations that specialize in reducing food waste can turn these unfortunate facts around.
According to statistics, most of the food pictured here will be wasted.
COmmeNTAry
Being involved promotes academic and future success
Freshman year is critical for all students. For many, this is the first time they have ever lived away from home.
Once school starts, new students can sometimes find themselves separated from the peer groups they were familiar with in high school and may also strug-gle with adhering to the new academic structure of college. As they attempt to adapt to these changes, many may find their grades slipping and lack the de-sire to continue forward. The overwhelming weight of college expectations may be too great for these stu-dents, and many unfortu-nately drop out as a result.
This phenomenon has prompted research into increasing the retention rates of college freshmen, and surprisingly, the result was determined to be in-credibly simple. Whether a student is a high-achiev-ing freshman or non-tra-ditional commuter, one study conducted by Cali-fornia State University in 2009 found the best deci-sion students can make to boost their academic per-formance is to be involved in at least one extracurric-ular activity.
The aforementioned study took a sample of ap-proximately 990 students
from various demograph-ics and separated them into two categories: par-ticipants and non-partic-ipants in extracurricular activities. They further sub-divided them by whether they were high-achiev-ing (based upon entrance exam scores), commut-ers, non-traditional stu-dents or at the remedial level. In all cases, they dis-covered students from any
of these demographics are more likely to obtain higher GPAs and remain full-time students than those who did not partici-pate in any extracurricular activities.
The notion that adding more responsibilities onto a freshman’s plate will help them succeed overall may be slightly confusing at first. However, as the Oc-cupational Outlook Quar-
terly explained in 2008, extracurricular activities involving academics, per-forming arts and civic en-gagement provide op-portunities to make new friends, express oneself and build social and lead-ership skills. They give stu-dents a place to ground themselves in college and explore their interests and opportunities surrounding their future career. In fact,
many extracurricular ac-tivities become a source of resumé building by adding unique skills and accom-plishments to one’s per-sonal inventory.
Taking all of this into consideration, student in-volvement in clubs, orga-nizations, sports and other activities outside the class-room are undoubtedly just as much of a key to first-year success as studying
and class attendance. How-ever, many students still find it difficult to explore all the extracurricular options available.
Current freshmen at West Virginia University might be unaware of the extracurricular resources available to them both on-line and on campus. This could be alleviated with better advertising of club missions and membership. WVU has both an Office of Student Engagement and a website detailing the to-tal list of clubs this school offers, but many freshmen may not be aware such a website exists. (Hint: It’s accessible with a quick Google search.)
Another solution might be asking advisers and ori-entation leaders to present these tools to their advisees early in the year so stu-dents can become involved right away. Additional pub-licity of organizations and clubs via monthly emails may also promote student engagement, as well as re-quiring attendance to the annual Student Organi-zation Fair held at the be-ginning of each school year.
Whatever the measure, more effort should be in-vested into encouraging freshmen to become in-volved in activities, as re-search has proven partici-pation will help them reach their long-term academic goals.
wvutoday.wvu.eduOne unique student organization, the WVU Quidditch Team, promotes teamwork and leadership skills.
sHelBy Bradfordcolumnist
@shelbybradFordda
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 5Friday September 18, 2015
melanie SmithA&E WritEr
@dAilyAthEnAEum
Runners will dominate 26.2 heavenly miles this weekend in Morgantown.
The first annual Mor-gantown Marathon will be rocking the roads of Mor-gantown and surround-ing areas, with runners from all around the world traveling to compete. This marathon is the first-ever to make an appearance in the regional area. With the marathon only a few days away, the number of reg-istered runners is higher than the directors ex-pected it to be.
The marathon is in-cluded within a full week-end experience. It will be-gin Friday with a packet pick-up and advantage health and wellness expo at the Ruby Community Center at Mylan Park. A V.I.P. reception for all dig-nitaries, sponsors and community leaders will conclude Friday eve-ning at Operation Wel-
come Home. An inaugural mile will kick off Saturday morning from the Health Sciences Campus park-ing lot to the West Virginia University Coliseum, al-lowing the public to walk or run the mile for free. The Mountain Mama 8k race will follow shortly af-ter. On Sunday, the WVU Medicine Thirteener Half Marathon and the Tour Morgantown Marathon will begin from the Coli-seum at 7 a.m.
Jamie Summerlin, direc-tor of the marathon, was inspired to bring the race to Morgantown through his experience of running across the country three years ago.
Summerlin averaged 36 miles in 100 days, dedi-cated to making it across the country in honor of supporting veterans. He saw many marathons and races throughout the na-tion, triggering the want for a race in his own back-yard. Summerlin is antic-ipating a big crowd and is very eager to show the
world the true state of West Virginia.
“We’re bringing peo-ple to West Virginia that would never otherwise come here. I want them to go away with a view that West Virginia is a special place with special people,” Summerlin said. “There is nothing like showcasing Morgantown to countries around the world.”
The race course is quite different than other races Summerlin has seen across the country. He be-lieves the course is chal-lenging due to the turns and hills through the neighborhoods, but it en-compasses the natural beauty of West Virginia.
The media coordinator for the marathon Josh Co-pen has supported Jamie’s idea from the beginning. He shared the challenging run will be scenic as it hits all seven city wards of the area.
“Obviously, the scenery makes the race unique, and the location makes this a different type of
race,” Copen said.“The uniqueness of the
diversity of the neighbor-hoods we run through will provide a look into our community. This is dif-ferent than races usually are… it is diverse in that regard,” Summerlin said.
The marathon will do-nate a portion of the proceeds to Operation Welcome Home. The or-
ganization helps veterans of Morgantown gain assis-tance and linkage to nec-essary services and sup-port they need, along with peer mentorship and ba-sic guidance. Summerlin is a former navy seal, so he considers all veterans his heroes.
“We want the veteran population to know they are supported,” Summer-
lin said. “We are excited to bring an event here that will support people I con-sider my heroes.”
The marathon will start at 7 a.m. on Sept. 19 at the Coliseum. For more infor-mation or to register and donate to the marathon, visit http://morgantown-marathon.com.
First morgantown marathon to happen this weekend
tourmorgantown.comRunners will hit the pavement this weekend in the first annual Morgantown Marathon.
Brown lecture covers art threatened by conflictBrittany OSteen
A&E CorrEspondEnt @dAilyAthEnAEum
Last night, Corine We-gener, a Smithsonian Cul-tural Heritage Preserva-tion Officer, presented her lecture “From Berlin to Baghdad: Saving Heri-tage in Armed Conflict” as a part of the Dan and Betsy Brown Lecture Series.
“Cu l t u ra l h e r i t a g e doesn’t get saved by big organizations swooping in after disasters,” Wegener said. “It is about the com-munity learning to be able to be prepared, organized and evacuate.”
The lecture focused on the history of cultural pres-ervation. During World War II, the Monuments Men began working to pre-serve artifacts. At the time, it was a common right for the troops to be able to loot the area for any valuable pieces. The Nazis were in-famous for taking artistic and cultural articles. The Monuments Men worked to recover more than five million items.
“Think of a house fire,” Wegener said. “People check to make sure their family is okay, but then they go back for the irre-placeable items.”
Wegener is the founder and president of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, a non-profit orga-nization that is devoted to protecting worldwide cul-tural artifacts in areas with armed conflict. Wegener related the Blue Shield to the Red Cross of arti-facts. She was presented the 2007 ICOM-US Inter-national Service Citation for her work with the Blue Shield.
While working as the Associate Curator of Dec-orative Arts at the Min-neapolis Insitute of Arts, she supported the recover program during the earth-quakes in Haiti. Some Hai-tians began searching for special books and other ar-tifacts right as the disaster began. Due to this and the support of the Smithson-ian Institution, many of the objects were saved.
During her time in the U.S. Army Reserve as an Arts, Monuments and Ar-chives Officer, Wegener played a vital role in the recovery of the National Museum of Iraq. During the war, the museum went through tremendous loot-ing and, therefore, lost many relics.
They would search the local bizarre and coffee
shops for stolen artifacts. Eventually, they were able to uncover small pieces that ultimately led them to the important Heads of Warka.
“I do not think it is talked about enough,” said soph-omore business and mar-keting student, Alexa Rich-ards. “It is really important
that they preserve and pro-tect the heritage.”
Dan and Betsy Brown end“If there is anything that I hope people take away from this lecture, it is to support the peo-ple in the community who care about the heri-tage and are the ones tak-ing the time to protect it,”
Wegener said.owed the Dan and Betsy Brown Lec-ture Series in 2002. Both were native to West Vir-ginia and graduated from WVU in 1959. Through-out the years, they have supported the Mountain-eer athletics, West Virginia University’s adventure pro-gram, and renovations at
the Blaney House. In 2009, the WVU Foundation rec-ognized them as Outstand-ing Philanthropists.
For more information on supporting the preser-vation of culture and her-itage, visit http://si.edu/ahhp.
ap
‘The Muppets’ return to television; Miss Piggy swans, Kermit suffers LOS ANGELES (AP) — It
took a decade for Bill Prady to bring his dream of a mockumentary-style sit-com peopled by Muppets to television.
When Muppets owner Walt Disney Co. finally agreed this year, Prady quickly encountered his next key constituency: the puppets’ adoring fans, whose congratulations to the producer came with a stern warning.
“`Listen, these were a very important part of my childhood, and if you do anything to screw it up we’ll never forgive you,’” Prady recalled being admonished by everyone from his sister to strangers. “`We’re go-ing to be watching. Best of luck!’”
The moment of truth ar-rives at 8 p.m. EDT Tues-day with the debut of ABC’s “The Muppets” starring Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear, Animal and the ever-fabu-lous Miss Piggy.
She’s the host of a talk show produced by on-again, off-now boyfriend Kermit with a staff that sets its own standard of pro-fessionalism. Despite that, “Up Late With Miss Piggy” attracts guests that include Josh Groban, Laurence Fishburne and Reese With-erspoon and has caught the eye of a documentary film crew.
They’ve got plenty to cover: star tantrums (Piggy, of course), office romances (Kermit and an ABC mar-keting executive, Denise, who happens to be a pig; he likes pigs, the frog con-cedes) and the Muppets’ off-set lives (Fozzie meets his human girlfriend’s par-ents and encounters bla-
tant species-ism).The show aims for humor
that can be appreciated on both adult and kid levels, its producers say, with a gentle reminder that these Mup-pets, save for Kermit, never mixed with their tamer “Sesame Street” relatives that include Cookie Mon-ster and Elmo.
The jokes aimed at grown-ups likely will go over a child’s head. Exam-ple: When the staff gathers for a meeting, house band member Zoot jumps up and introduces himself in apparent accordance with rehab protocol. No, he’s told, it’s not THAT kind of meeting.
“The Muppets” is the crew’s first regular prime-time TV gig since the short-lived “Muppets Tonight” aired in 1998, and it comes more than three decades after the 1976-81 success of “The Muppet Show.”
The puppets haven’t been idle, of course, mak-ing TV movies and specials - including one with Lady Gaga - and big-screen hits “The Muppets” (2011) and “Muppets Most Wanted” (2014).
But Prady said he wanted to see the Muppets in a more authentic light and figured he had the creden-tials for the job: He started as a TV writer with Henson, the brilliant Muppets cre-ator who was 53 when he died in 1990.
“Characters over time, without the boldness of the person who set them in motion, soften,” Prady said. “It’s a natural thing and it comes from the best place, which is that these are be-loved characters, let’s pro-tect them.”
“But the Muppets, if you go back to `The Muppet Show,’ they were sarcas-tic, they were snarky, they commented on the world around them,” he said.
Prady saw the rise of m o c k- d o c u m e n t a r i e s , among them “The Office,” as a way to achieve a Mup-pets renaissance. Henson put Kermit and pals to work on a variety show in “The Muppet Show” because the genre was a 1970s TV sta-ple; why shouldn’t a mock-umentary be another ideal vehicle?
When he brought the idea to Disney about 10 years ago they didn’t share his enthusiasm for their newly purchased brand. He tried again, failed, then found a distraction: co-cre-ating and producing (with Chuck Lorre) CBS’ hit “The Big Bang Theory.”
It was a nudge from vet-eran Muppets performer and series producer Bill Barretta that sent Prady back to Disney a third time, and this time he scored.
“Part of knowing this would work is in the char-acters themselves, because this in a way was what they were built for, to try to be real and in the real world,” said Prady, who developed the show with co-creator Bob Kushell (“The Simp-sons,” “Anger Manage-ment”). Randall Einhorn is the director and a producer.
Prady rejects the idea that the mockumentary concept he long nurtured could be stale, instead ar-guing that it’s become en-trenched as the sitcom form of today.
Whatever the vehicle, the Muppets shine under the stewardship of performers
who typically handle sev-eral puppets. They include Barretta (the Swedish Chef, Rowlf ); Steve Whitmire (Kermit, Rizzo); Eric Jacon-son (Miss Piggy, Fozzie); Dave Goelz (Gonzo, Zoot); David Rudman (Scooter, Janice) and Matt Vogel (Sgt. Floyd Pepper).
“It’s the richest world of characters I’ve ever been a part of, other than maybe when I was writing for `The Simpsons’ back in their fourth, fifth, six seasons,” said Kushell. “That was an expansive, exciting world of characters.”
Whitmire, with the Mup-pets since 1978, says the series offers “a nice little progression of who (the puppets) are. We’ve been talking for years about the idea of finding out more about their personal lives.”
And it’s no holds barred, Prady told a TV conference in August: “We’ve been given unfettered access.”
“Yep,” Kermit confirmed to reporters. “I tried to fet-ter it, but it didn’t work out.”
wired.comThe gang of colorful puppets again find themselves in America’s homes.
John allen/the dailY athenaeumCutural Heritage Preservation Officer, Corine Wegener, speaks on world art threatened by conflicts in the Brown Lecture.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday September 18, 20156 | CAMPUS CONNECTION
BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HH Assume a low profile. You might find that straying from your assertive self will be helpful. Use your sixth sense with your finances, especially if you’re looking to make a purchase. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH You’ll have a unique op-portunity to move forward with a project. You also could be on the verge of manifesting a long-term goal. A partner might not be in tune with your ideas. Go on your own. Your intuition seems to be right-on. Tonight: Where the fun is.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH You could be in a position where you must take the lead. A friend or part-ner might give you the cold shoul-der. Perhaps this person is envious of your rising popularity. Don’t take his or her comments or actions per-sonally. Tonight: Where the action is.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance who might have strong opinions but is generally right. Hear-ing several different views never hurts, especially if you are dealing with a problem and looking for a solution. Your instincts are right-on. Tonight: Use your imagination.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Be willing to make an adjustment to your funds. Goodwill goes a long way. You recently might have had a problem with a loved one and felt as if there were a chill heading in your direction. Give this person space, but remain caring. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH Others seek you out, as they feel they need to spend more time with you. On some level, this type of pop-ularity creates pressure. Though you will be flattered, it would be wise to detach from the here and now and look at the bigger picture. You will like what you see. Tonight: Out.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHH You might want to approach a situation in a more upbeat way. You have the ability to get a lot done and enjoy yourself while doing it. Others ad-mire that quality. One-on-one relat-ing will prove to be unusually suc-cessful. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.
S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH It is clear what your choices are. A person close to you might express his or her de-sire for you to head in a certain di-rection. If you feel as if your day is dull, just tap in to your wild imag-ination when speaking to others. Tonight: Take a midweek break.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH Take a stand, and honor what is happening. Know that if you feel that strongly about the topic, you will have to assume a more promi-nent role. You have wonderful ideas, but are you prepared to act and make them real? If so, you’ve got a green light. Tonight: A must show.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You might not realize what is needed to continue on your pres-ent path. Expect a surprise or two. Listen to what is being shared, and respond accordingly. Share a visual explanation of what you want to happen with a friend. Tonight: Out at your favorite hangout.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH You might want to honor a change involving your finances. Make sure that what you’re seeing is correct, because a mistake could be costly. An issue within your home life will be high priority. Weigh your options carefully. Tonight: Treat someone else to dinner.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH You could be on top of a problem and feel absolutely sure about your choices. A loved one will let you know that you have his or her support. Make time to visit with a friend after a meeting. This person often serves as a muse for you. To-night: Make it memorable.
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
thursday’s puzzle solved
difficulty level MEDIUM
across1 *Dejected5 *Sledding spot10 *Waterloo14 Enclosed in15 Electrical component16 Seaman’s direction17 9-Down sensors18 Midwestern tribe19 Show appreciation, in a way20 “You shall hear more __ morning”: “Measure
for Measure”21 Shows a preference22 Amethyst source23 Prognosticate25 Struggling engine sound27 Me.-to-Fla. highway28 Freudian subject30 ‘60s radical gp.31 *Data transfer32 Crockett’s Waterloo34 Annoyed moviegoer’s shout ... or what’s
needed to make sense of the answers to starred clues
39 Onetime Silly String maker40 *Faster way to fly43 Seafarer46 Bygone dentifrice48 “Twelfth Night” servant49 Deserve credit, perhaps51 “Yes”53 Ancient Iranians54 Thing on a bob55 “__ guy walks into ... “56 Actress Russell57 Dinnertime attraction59 __ stick: incense60 Rare blood type, briefly61 Memento62 Fifi’s BFF63 *1964 Grammy-winning rock ‘n’ roll song64 *Decrease65 *Musical starting point
down1 “Watch out!”2 Spanish sherry3 Rush hour timesaver, hopefully4 QB’s stats5 Feel one’s way6 Took it easy7 “Fate is so cruel!”
8 Peer of Trygve and Kofi9 Looker?10 Aspect11 Metes out12 Bygone pump word13 Middle Ages colony residents21 Sugar suffix22 Marx of lesser repute24 Provide, as with talent25 Lifestyle magazine26 Host noted for a 1960 on-air resignation29 Was loquacious33 Classic military text by Carl von Clausewitz35 Legislative VIPs36 Touristy viticultural valley37 Indecisive comment38 Hardly fascinating41 Capital of Cyprus42 Statistical matrix, e.g.43 Cruise partnership nickname44 L’OrŽal competitor45 Altered, as a map47 Mental wherewithal
48 GI grub50 Wield power52 Endangered Sumatran54 Mythical troublemaker57 Compact Cadillac sedan58 Dustup59 Hook relative
thursday’s puzzle solved
SUDOkU
CROSSWORD
PHOTO OF THE DAY
HOROSCOPE
CONGRATULATIONS WV BLACK BEARS!
2015 NEW YORK-PENN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!
GO DIGITAL IN OCTOBERHave some SPOOKTACULAR SPECIALS going on in October? Advertise online for ONLY $140 the whole month of October! CALL 304.293.4141 TODAY!
hanna traynham, a senior visual journalism student, looks at some photographs of the ‘fractured spaces ‘ exhibit on display in the Wise library | photo by nick holstein
SPORTS7CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 2 | [email protected] September 18, 2015
BY CHRIS JACKSONSPORTS CORRESPONDENT
@DAILYATHENAEUM
Coming off a disap-pointing second half in a 3-1 defeat to the Wright State Raiders, the Moun-taineers are once again looking to find their mojo.
In c o n s i s t e n c y ha s plagued the talented Mountaineers for awhile. They’ve outscored oppo-nents 12-2 in West Vir-ginia’s two wins, but op-ponents own an 8-2 advantage in their four losses.
Ryan Cain’s goal in the 20th minute couldn’t get the job done on Tuesday evening, as West Virginia surrendered three scores in the second half, fall-ing to Wright State and dropping to 2-4 on the
season.Sunday’s match against
Georgetown poses pos-sibly the toughest chal-lenge yet on WVU’s loaded nonconference slate. Al-though Georgetown en-ters with a 2-2-1 record, one of its losses came to No. 11 Akron in 1-0 fash-ion and the other to a 3-1-1 Radford squad.
Georgetown’s season thus far is highlighted by an impressive 3-1 vic-tory over then-No. 1 UCLA, led by a two-goal surge from junior Brett Campbell.
As the game inches its way closer, WVU knows it needs to work on its consistency issues and work its way back into the win column. Through six games, both of their wins came from six-goal
outbursts and were fol-lowed up by discouraging losses.
WVU has had their backs against the wall be-fore, and the Mountain-eers are more than capa-ble of learning from their previous experiences this season. Following a two-game skid in the state of Michigan, they bounced back and pulled a 6-2 drubbing of James Madison.
“We have to go back to the drawing board and figure out if we’re going to be able to be blue col-lar when the time calls for us to be blue collar so we can grind out results,” said head coach Marlon LeB-lanc in an interview with WVUsports.com.
Navy’s goalie domi-nance, Michigan’s hat
trick from Francis At-uahene and Michigan State’s dazzling defense were each tough tasks to overcome, but George-town’s body of work and roster caliber are second-to-none. Four players en-ter as top-10 players in the Big East, and two are in the top three in a combined five statistical categories.
Brandon Allen head-lines the Hoyas’ attack, leading the team in points (7), goals (2) and assists (3), and earning him-self Big East Player of the Week honors, following three goals and three as-sists in wins over UCLA and Radford last week.
Goalie JT Marcinkowski was also named Big East Goalie and Freshman of the Week, collecting a league-high 10 saves for
the two contests and hold-ing No. 1 UCLA to just a single score.
Joshua Yaro adds to the Big East’s most talented squad, coming in as the nation’s second-ranked player and top defender by TopDrawerSoccer.com. Yaro continues to get ex-tensive looks from profes-sional squads and appears to be a definite first round MLS Draft selection.
Georgetown’s 2014 sea-son concluded in heart-breaking fashion, falling to Virginia in the NCAA Quarterfinals on penalty kicks. Its players are ready to build upon that this sea-son. They advanced fur-ther than any other team on WVU’s schedule except Michigan State.
WVU should expand
Crest’s roleThe honeymoon period
is over for the West Vir-ginia Mountaineers football team. Opening tune-ups against Georgia Southern and Liberty are out of the way, and the real challenge earnestly begins in the up-coming weeks.
After they face Maryland next weekend, West Vir-ginia will be tossed head-first into one of the tough-est and deepest conferences in college football, and with their revamped offense still lacking total chemistry, they would be well-served to try throwing a monkey wrench into their oppo-nent’s gameplans.
As it happens, they have one heck of an X-factor in their backfield. His name is William Crest.
The backup quarterback is one of the best athletes and one of the best play-making talents on the team, and he’s been wasted just sitting on the bench in case something happens to Sky-ler Howard.
Ohio State’s daring, in-novative deployment of former starting quarter-back Braxton Miller as a re-ceiver and H-back should be an inspiration to Dana Holgorsen and his offensive staff. This is a new frontier of football; there are multiple ways Crest could fit in.
Earlier in the spring, it re-ally looked like Crest would be used in an expanded role. In fact, Skyler How-ard’s first pass in the spring game several months ago went to Crest. At the time, it looked like WVU was seri-ous about using Crest as an H-back or a wide receiver – he even practiced catch-ing punts.
But as the season ap-proached, West Virginia abandoned the experiment. Despite Crest’s talents, he’s only seen the field at quar-terback in garbage time of West Virginia’s first two wins.
By limiting Crest this way, the Mountaineers also limit their offense. West Virginia has worked hard to turn Skyler Howard, a consid-erable natural athlete him-self, into a viable read-op-tion player – imagine what could happen if Howard ran the read-option with Crest?
West Virginia would then have multiple fast, athletic quarterbacks in the back-field, and there are no limits to the ideas the Mountain-eers could come up with. Both players would be a threat to either run or pass.
Howard would most likely be the stay-at-home option with Crest as the wild card, but Howard has the athleticism to make anything work. They could pass to each other – think Eric Crouch at Nebraska – or even get other backs, like Wendell Smallwood or Rushel Shell, involved.
Teams experimenting with the read-option, or deploying multiple play-making weapons in Wild-cat or pistol sets, has been commonplace in football for decades now, and we’ve seen teams get more and more daring throughout the years.
It would seem right if West Virginia would be at the forefront of this new innovation.
Morgantown has always been a place known for hosting forward-thinking offenses, dating back to the days of Pat White and the spread offense, to the mod-ern air raid offense em-ployed by Dana Holgorsen.
More and more, teams have realized that you don’t need to limit yourself just because two of your best playmakers play the same position. It’s time for West Virginia to do right with William Crest.
dAvId StAtmANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @DjSTATMAN77DOGFIGHT
askar salikhov/the daily athenaeumSophomore forward Jack Driscoll dribbles alongside a James Madison defender in a game earlier this season.
West Virginia faces test against tough Georgetown squad
wOmeN’S TeNNIS
mountaineers open at William & maryBY NEEL mAdHAvAN
SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM
After cancelling its fall season home opener, the Mountaineer Invitational, the West Virginia Univer-sity women’s tennis team opens the 2015-16 season today at the William and Mary Tribe Invitational in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The three-day long tournament is played at a number of courts around the Williamsburg area, in-cluding Millie West Ten-nis Facility, McCormack-Nagelsen Center and Caf Tennis Courts.
Aside from the Moun-taineers and host William and Mary, seven other schools are scheduled to participate: South Caro-lina, Dartmouth, Marshall, Old Dominion, Maryland, VCU and the University of Pennsylvania.
“We are very excited. It’s what we have been prac-ticing for every day, and it’s going to be a very good tournament,” said head coach Miha Lisac in an in-terview with WVUSports.com. “We are excited with where we are at and what we have accomplished, and we want to be able to use this tournament to see what we need to improve on.”
West Virginia will com-pete in three singles and four doubles matches over the course of the three-day tournament.
The Mountaineers will face Penn and Old Do-minion in doubles com-petition, and South Caro-lina, VCU and Dartmouth in singles play. WVU will also take on Maryland in both singles and doubles
competitions.The tennis season is di-
vided into two parts: the fall season which consists of a number of multi-team tournaments, and the spring season, where the Mountaineers compete in individual dual matches against other schools, in-cluding Big 12 opponents. Lisac likes to use the fall season to get his team ready for the tougher spring season.
“The fall season sets the foundation for what’s to come in January,” Lisac
said. “We use the fall se-mester to prepare from a technical and condition-ing standpoint for the upcoming dual match season.”
The Mountaineers will look to rebound from a disappointing 9-13 spring campaign that was about as up-and-down as it gets. After opening the spring 2015 season with a loss, the team went on to win nine straight matches, but unfortunately then pro-ceeded to lose their fi-nal 12 matches to end the
season.Senior Hailey Barrett re-
turns to lead the team, as well as junior Kaja Mrgole and sophomores Lyn Yuen Choo, Carolina Lewis, Yvon Martinez and Habiba Shaker.
Lisac also added five talented freshmen to his roster this offseason, in-cluding Hannah Cseplo, Paula Goetz, Habiba La-sheen and West Virginia natives Abigail Rosiello and Kirsten White.
The team has been hard at work practicing, work-
ing out and condition-ing and is eager to com-pete and get its season underway.
“We want to get better,” Lisac noted. “We have a lot of work to do, and that is always going to be the case, but we are looking to make substantial steps forward as a team and in-dividually. This is all in preparation for the spring, but we have to continue to get to better. That is the most important thing.”
nick holstien/the daily athenaeumSophomore Carolina Lewis smacks the ball across the net to her opponent in a match last spring.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday September 18, 20158 | SPORTS
Brazilian Blowout15% off until October 31st
918 Chestnut Ridge Rd. • Suite 2 Morgantown 304-599-3773 • www.tonishair.com
WOMEN’S SOCCER
ASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMThe West Virginia women’s soccer team walks off the pitch after their 4-0 win over Longwood this season.
No. 4 WVU takes on Buffalo, Florida Gulf CoastBY DYLAN O’TOOLESPORTS CORRESPONDENT
@DAILYATHENAEUM
This weekend, the No. 4 ranked West Virginia Uni-versity women’s soccer team will host Buffalo and conclude nonconference play on Sunday when they take on Florida Gulf Coast.
After an early season let-down at Virginia Tech, the Mountaineers have gone on a tear. WVU has rattled off six straight wins, allow-ing no goals and outscoring its opponents 21-0 over that
span. The Mountaineers now
sit at 7-1, as they prepare to take on Buffalo and Florida Gulf Coast.
Fresh off a weekend in which they were able to beat a ranked opponent in Ohio State and then abolish Longwood, the Mountain-eers appear ready to defend their Big 12 title.
Buffalo and Florida Gulf Coast aren’t at the top end of the competition that WVU has played this year, but the Mountaineers will continue to take things one game at
a time. “We’re excited about
this weekend. Both these teams made the postseason tournament last year and have had success against top schools this year,” said Mountaineer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown in an in-terview with WVUsports.com.
“We know they’re going to be up to the challenge and are going to be ready for us. Both are a tough side, and this weekend is a good test for us as we prepare to move into Big 12 play.”
Buffalo is fresh off of its first NCAA Tournament ap-pearance last season, where they lost to Penn State. WVU earned a 1-0 victory over Penn State on Sept. 4.
The Bulls went 16-3-3 last year and are looking to de-fend their Mid-American Conference title.
Florida Gulf Coast, an-other emerging top-cali-ber program, notched 17 wins last season, best in its history.
The Mountaineers vic-tory over Longwood Sun-day proved to be record-
breaking. WVU gave up no shots in its 4-0 victory. The defense’s magnificent per-formance led to Kadeisha Buchanan being crowned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week.
The outstanding stretch of excellence displayed by WVU has led it to its highest ranking in program history, No. 4 in the TopDrawerSoc-cer.com poll.
WVU continues to shoot for the No. 1 rank, which has certainly become a reach-able goal. Virginia, Florida State and North Carolina sit
ahead of the Mountaineers in the polls.
Even with the high of the win streak still fresh, WVU sustained a huge loss to its back line following the win over Ohio State Friday.
Junior Carly Black, a sta-ple of the Mountaineer de-fense, tore her ACL and is expected to miss the re-mainder of the season.
WVU will begin confer-ence play on Sept. 25 at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium against Texas.
AP
Whether they’re crashing into the bleachers or simply hovering above stadiums to get a cool picture of the ac-tion down below, drones have become semi-regu-lar guests at the ballparks these days.
That has put the fed-eral government, local po-lice forces and security think tanks on alert, trying to catch up to the technol-ogy and figure out how to prevent the hard-to-stop devices from doing major damage.
“It’s scary for all of us,” said Lou Marciani, the di-rector of the National Cen-ter for Spectator Sports Safety and Security. “A
crash, even without a pay-load, has the potential to injure several people. And if they carry a payload, it could be anything from a weapon to anthrax to some-thing worse than that.”
Drone crashes, two days apart, at the U.S. Open in New York and before a Ken-tucky football game, made news earlier this month. But over the past two years, more than 50 unmanned aircrafts have flown over Major League Baseball and NFL stadiums, coming and going quietly - usually con-trolled by a hobbyist who either lost control of the device or wanted a pic-ture of their favorite team
in action.No harm done. But the
prospect of the drones do-ing something worse has security experts looking for answers, and quickly.
Last October, the Federal Aviation Administration is-sued notice that it’s illegal to fly drones near Major League Baseball, NFL and NCAA Division I college football games and major auto races. Other sporting events can put their own bans in place. But the pen-alties for violating a ban - and who hands out those sentences - is still murky.
In the Kentucky case, campus police brought wanton endangerment
charges against the owner of the wayward drone; at the U.S. Open, New York po-lice brought similar charges against a high school sci-ence teacher who lost con-trol of his drone.
The FAA issued a “law enforcement guidance” paper to help local juris-dictions figure out this new problem. It lists its own en-forcement tools - including warning notices, letters of correction and civil penal-ties - but suggests state and local police do most of the work to detect the drones and enforce the penalties.
In its notice about tem-porary flight restrictions at sporting events, the FAA lists reckless endanger-ment, operation of a motor vehicle while under the in-fluence, trespassing and as-sault as possible criminal charges for unsanctioned drone use.
Much of this, experts say, is the result of seat-of-the-pants law- and rule-making to combat a new and very fluid problem. And none of it addresses the most im-portant issue: How to pre-vent a drone from coming into a stadium in the first place.
“So much of this is un-known and so much of it raises so many ques-tions,” said Derek Catsam of University of Texas of the
Permian Basin, who studies stadium security issue. “It’s a case of where the technol-ogy is so far ahead of our ability to come to grips with it.”
There are around 2,500 Major League Baseball games a year, so 31 drone sightings last year and nine so far this season does not constitute a major crisis, said John Skinner, the di-rector of security for MLB. Still, baseball took part in a government project called “Operation Foul Ball” last year at the All-Star Game in Minneapolis to try to detect drones.
Skinner said Minneapo-lis police worked with the Department of Homeland Security on a system that could identify the radio fre-quencies of drones before they took off.
“In essence, it worked,” he said.
But it didn’t necessarily protect against the drones taking off; one found its way to the stadium during the home run derby. Also, there are private compa-nies that can provide the same service using simi-lar technology, and some of the teams have been ap-proached about working with those companies.
Among the dozens of uses for drones at sports facilities is attaching cam-
eras to get before-impossi-ble angles for the TV broad-casts. In January, ESPN cleared numerous regu-latory hurdles so it could have drones with cameras follow skiers and snow-boarders down the hill for the Winter X Games.
ESPN got approval only by ensuring it would not fly the drones over spectators or in the air space of planes flying in and out of a nearby airport.
Chris Calcinari, who spearheaded the approvals process for ESPN, called it a big opportunity because “I don’t think there are many events that would actually allow us to fly a drone.”
Another application: For security. It’s possible that drones themselves could be used to keep renegade drones away from fans. And a drone can hover over a stadium to look for weapons, fights and other disruptions.
The idea of “good” drones and “bad” drones flying over the same sta-dium may seem like stuff of the future. But it’s an idea that’s not too farfetched.
“We’re in that infant stage of, what does this all mean and where is it go-ing?” Marciani said. “It’s too early to know. You’re crawling. You’re not even standing up yet.”
Drones at stadiums easy to spot, hard to stop
vOllEybAll
WVU heads to Winthrop Invitational this weekendBY JOHNNA HERBIGSPORTS CORRESPONDENT
@DAILYATHENAEUM
The West Virginia volley-ball team is heading down to Rock Hill, South Caro-lina to participate in the Winthrop Invitational this weekend.
To start off the three matches WVU has this weekend, the Mountaineers will play their first game tonight at 6 p.m. against Winthrop.
The Winthrop Eagles have an overall record of
4-7 this season. In their last match they won 3-0 against North Carolina Central. In that game, the Eagles were led by junior outside hitter Annelies Dokter, who had 11 kills. This will be the sec-ond time these two teams have ever competed against each other. The first time these teams had a match together, WVU took the win 3-2.
WVU’s second match will be against Davidson Uni-versity, who has a record of 4-6 this season, making this their first match against
each other. The match starts at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.
The Davidson Wildcats’ last match was against Mar-shall Thundering Herd, de-feating them 3-2.
In this match, the Wild-cats were led by freshman Sabrina Shepherd, who had 15 kills.
The third and final match for the Mountaineers this tournament will be at 4:30 p.m. later that day against the Murray State Racers.
Murray State has a re-cord of 7-1, and in their last
match, they beat Indiana State 3-0. The Racers hav-ing four players with dou-ble digits in kills in their last match could make them a tough team to beat. In that match, senior outside hit-ter Taylor Olden led with 17 kills. Senior Alyssa Lelm, junior Scottie Ingram and redshirt junior Kristen Bes-selsen all had 10 kills each.
In WVU’s last match, they beat in-state rivals Mar-shall 3-2. In that match, they were led by sopho-more outside hitter Morgan Montgomery, who had 31
kills and 12 digs. Senior Ca-leah Wells followed behind her, notching 17 kills her-self. This was the first time the Mountaineers have de-feated the Thundering Herd since 2010, which resulted in WVU getting back the Golden Ball trophy.
“It is a great feeling, fi-nally having (the Golden Ball Trophy) back at WVU is what we’ve really wanted the past few years,” Mont-gomery said.
In that game, Montgom-ery had her fourth double-double of the season, which
is the highest in her career as a volleyball player. The team leader has made a ma-jor improvement since last season.
The trio of games WVU will play in this weekend will be some of the last games leading up to them starting in the Big 12 Con-ference next week.
The conference matches for WVU will begin when they play Marshall at 6 p.m. on Sept. 25 at the WVU Coliseum.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM CLASSIFIEDS | 9Friday September 18, 2015
May and August LeasesDowntown, Sunnyside
Evansdale & Medical Center1 & 2 Bedroom Apts 1 & 2 Bathroom
24 Hr Maintenance & Enforcement Offi cers
Now Offering Individual Leases
304.413.0900www.metropropertymgmt.net
“$0.00
DEPOSIT!
Call for
Details”
9 & 12 Month LeasesAugust to May OR August to August
Individual Leases1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments
304.413.0900Downtown Off Spruce Street!
www.metropropertymgmt.net
“$0 00“$0.00Security Deposit!
Limited Time yyyOnly!Only!”
Minutes from class and night life
SPECIAL NOTICES
EQUAL HOUSINGOPPORTUNITY
All real estate advertising in thisnewspaper is subject to the FederalFair Housing Act of 1968 whichmakes it illegal to advertise anypreference, limitation or discrimina-tion based on race, color, religion,sex, handicap, familial status, ornational origin, or an intention tomake any such preference, limita-tion of discrimination. The DailyAthenaeum will not knowinglyaccept any advertising for realestate which is in violation of thelaw. Our readers are herebyinformed that all dwellings adver-tised in this newspaper are avail-able on an equal opportunity basis.
To complain of discrimination inWest Virginia call HUD Toll-free at
1-800-669-9777
PARKINGPARKING AVAILABLE next to University
Park at Evansdale. $50/month. 304-282-4981.
SPECIALSERVICES
“AFRAID YOU ARE PREGNANT?” Let’s make sure. Come to BIRTHRIGHT for free pregnancy test. Hours are Mon., Wed., Thurs., 10:00a.m.-2:00p.m., Tues. and Fri. 2:00p.m.-6:00p.m. 364 High Street / RM 216 Call 296-0277 or 1-800-550-4900 any-time.
PERSONALSPERSONAL MASSEUSE wanted. Wash-ington, Pa. Permanent Position. Discretion assured. 724-223-0939 anytime or pager # 888-200-8180.
FURNISHEDAPARTMENTS
SPACIOUS, clean 2 BR. Parking, walk to campus. $350 per personplus elec. call Dave or Barb 292-7272, 376-7272. No text messages.
UNFURNISHEDAPARTMENTS
AVAILABLE
NOW!All Sizes
All Locations
Please Call304-291-2103
1 AND 2BR APARTMENTS.573 Brockway, 2BR
$675 + electric540 Short Street, 1BR
$625/all util includedOn-site laundry
NO PETSwww.mywvuhome.com
304-288-2052 or 304-288-9978.
UNFURNISHEDAPARTMENTS
2 & 3BR APARTMENTS on Spruce Street. Available immediately! 8am - 4pm CALL: 304-365-2787
3 BR 2 BTH on Battele. Available now. $900 plus utilites. 304-290-4468.
3 BR ON BEECHURST available May. $1200 month + all utilities. Available now ($400 per person) No pets. 304-290-4468
227 JONES AVE. 1-4BR $325/per person each. All plus utilities. Ex. condition. Free-Off-street parking, NO PETS! 304-685-3457
1/BR APARTMENT LOCATED: 803 Charles Ave. $500/mo plus electric (includes gas & water). NO PETS. 692-7587
1/BR APT ON BEECHURST. Available now. $600. 304-216-2905.
3BR/2.5BA @ JONES PLACE- $625 per person. W/D, DW, AC. Free Parking. City & River Views. 5BR/2.5BA @ JONES PLACE- $600 per person. W/D, DW, AC, Garage, 2 study areas, full kitchen w/dining area. Available 5/16scottpropertiesllc.com 304-296-7400
AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY 2 BR Unfur-nished apartment W/D 2min walk to cam-pus. $525/mth, security deposit and lease required. No Pets. 304-694-2306
Barrington NorthNOW LEASING FOR 2015
Prices Starting at $640Security Deposit $200
2 Bedroom 1 Bath
24 Hour Maintenance/SecurityLaundry Facilities
Minutes to Hospitals & EvansdalePublic Transportation
NO PETSQuiet Peaceful Neighborhood
304-599-6376www.morgantownapartments.com
Bon Vista & The VillasAffordable Luxury
1 & 2 BedroomNow Leasing 2015
2 Bath Apts
24 Hr Maintenance / Security
304-599-1880www.morgantownapartments.com
Prices starting at $540Security Deposit $200
Walk in Closets, JacuzziBalcony, Elevators
W/D, DWGarages, Storage UnitsSparkling Heated PoolMinutes to Hospitals,
Downtown and Shopping Center
NO PETS
LARGE, MODERN, 2BR. University Ave/Star City. W/D, Off-street parking. No pets. $650/plus utilities. 304-692-1821
NOW AVAILABLE 2 & 3BR Downtown and 1 & 2BR South Park. No Pets. 304-296-5931 The Daily Athenaeum
West Virginia University’s Student Newspaper
thedaonline.com
Th e Daily Athenaeum
Ph: 304.293.4141
Contact us foradvertising, events,news coverage, etc.
[email protected] [email protected]
PRETE RENTALAPARTMENTS
EFF: 1BR : 2BR:NOW L E A SI NG
UNFURNISHED / FURNISHEDOFF-STREET PARKING
EVANSDALE / STAR CITY LOCALLY OWNED
ON-SITE MAINTENANCEMOST UNITS INCLUDE:
HEAT, WATER & GARBAGESECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED MOUNTAIN LINE BUS SERVICE
EVERY 10 MINUTESMINUTES FROM PRT
304-599-4407ABSOLUTELY NO PETS
WWW.PRETERENTAL.COM
SPACIOUS, clean 2 BR. Parking, walk to campus. $650 plus elec. call Dave or Barb 292-7272, 376-7272. No text messages.
SPACIOUS, clean 2 BR. Parking, walk to campus. $650 plus elec. call Dave or Barb 292-7272, 376-7272. No text messages.
UNFURNISHEDHOUSES
542 Brockway Avenue. Large 4 B/R brick house. 2 car garage. $350 per person plus utilities. No pets. 304-692-1821
3BR 1BTH HOUSE on Stewartstown Road. $1100/per month, plus utilities. Avail. in June. call: 304-290-4468.
AVAILABLE 5/8/15. 3 BRhouse. Recently remodeled. Partially furnished. Close to campus. Off-streetparking. 296-8801.
CUTE COTTAGE. With gorgeous views of cities and campus. Highland Avenue. W/D. $850 per month including utilities. No pets. 304-599-3470.
MUST SEE just across from Arnold Hall 1-6BR and 2 & 3BATH houses with W/D, DW, Microwave, A/C, park-ing, all in excellent condition. All utili-ties included. For appointment call 304-288-1572, 288-9662, 282-7572website JEWELMANLLC.COM
ROOMMATESNEW 2BR GROUND FLOOR UNIT. Each bedroom has separate lease. University Av-enue. Util. included, W/D, DW, Microwave. Call Bob: 203-247-3777.
AUTOMOBILESFOR SALE
CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks.Any make! Any model! Any condition! 304-282-2560
HELP WANTED
Change lives – including yours! REM WV Inc. has immediate
opportunities for Care Providers in the
Morgantown areas We are seeking dedicated
individuals to provide assistance with daily living
activities for adults who happen to have an intellectual or developmental disability.
Training is provided. Full time employees are eligible to choose
benefi ts, including health, dental, vision, and more.
Employment requirements include high school or GED or
equivalent in education and related experience, valid
driver’s license in good standing, and passing a background screening.
Apply online @ http://jobs.thementornetwork.com/
morgantown-jobs
Equal Opportunity Employer
EXPRESSWAY CAR-WASH now hiring. $9/hr, plus tips. Apply in person next to Sheets by University Town Center or text 304-282-4321.
NEED NON-MOWING YARD HELPER. Thursdays 4:30-7:30pm now thru Oct. must have own car. Five minutes from U.H.S. Contact: [email protected]
HELP WANTEDFRATERNITY HOUSE MANAGER POSI-TION. Kappa Alpha Order, Alpha Rho Chapter is seeking a Manager of the Chap-ter house at 670 North High Street. Fullapartment, parking, internet, cable, meal plan and salary is included in the position. The applicant should be a Graduate or Grad Student of WVU with strong manage-ment skills for managing affairs and opera-tions of the chapter house. This is a full time position. Email/[email protected]
MULTI MEDIA JOURNALIST- The Times West Virginian, the seven-time West Vir-ginia Press Association Newspaper of the Year in Fairmont, W.Va., has an immediate opening for a full-time multi-media journal-ist. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of effective change in a rapidly evolving industry in need of digital-savvy journalists. The Times West Virginian is truly a multimedia news organization, reaching hundreds of thousands of readers on multiple platforms, including the printed product, website, mobile app and social media. The candidate will be responsible for regular coverage of government meet-ings, breaking news and general assign-ments. The candidate will also be responsi-ble for producing web-exclusive content, long-term digital packages and work with other reporters on building digital audience and readership on the newspaper’s web-site.The candidate should have strong writing, photography and video-editing skills and understand the digital world.The candidate should have a degree in me-dia, communications or a related field. Pro-fessional experience is preferred but not re-quired. Benefits include paid vacation, health and dental insurance and 401(k). Salary is based on experience. Candidates should be from North Central West Virginia or willing to relocate. Please email a cover letter, resume and clips and links relevant to the position to Misty Poe, Managing Edi-tor, at [email protected].
THE WINE BAR AT VINTNER VALLEYFull/Part-time - All Positions. 510 Bur-roughs St. Please stop in for an appli-cation or email: [email protected]
WVGTC is looking for preschool tumbling and gymnastics instructors. 304-292-5559
WORSHIPDIRECTORY
CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP2901 University Avenue
Morgantown304-599-4445
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH!We are an Independent, Fundamental, Conservative, Loving Church located in Morgantown, WV. It is our purpose to e-quip and edify the Body of Christ for the work of the ministry. We desire to reach our community and the world with the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ.We have various ministries reaching all ages for the cause of Christ!Visit us at:809 Greenbag Rd., Morgantown.Find us online at www.faithwv.org
IGNITE MORGANTOWNSunday Evenings, 6 PM
Meeting at Suncrest UMC479 Van Voorhis Rd
Morgantown, WV 26505304-599-6306
MORGANTOWN CHURCHOF THE BRETHREN
Joyfully United with the Mennonite Church USA, a welcoming congregation
in the Wiles Hill Community.Join us this Sunday at 1030am.
464 Virginia Avenue, Morgantown.Find us online:
www.morgantowncob.org
ST. JOHN UNIVERSITY PARISH1481 University Avenue
Weekend Masses:Saturday 5:00pm
Sunday 8:30am, 10:00am,6:30pm, 9:00pm
Weekday Masses: 5:00pm
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday September 18, 201510 | SPORTS
WVU STUDENTS ADMITTED FREE WITH VALID I.D.WVU STUDENTS ADMITTED FREE WITH VALID I.D.
VS
DICK DLESK STADIUMWVU STUDENTS ADMITTED FREE WITH VALID I.D.
FLORIDA GULF COAST
SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 • 1 P.M.
Free Sunglasses (to first 250 Maniacs)
&
Dollar DayAll tickets and select concessions are just $1 each.
BUFFALOFRIDAY, SEPT. 18 • 7 P.M.
WVU STUDENTS ADMITTED FREE WITH VALID I.D.
VS
GEORGETOWNSUNDAY, SEPT. 20 • 4 P.M.
DICK DLESK STADIUM
Dollar DayAll tickets and select concessions are just $1 each.
da sports staff picks
Nicole CurtinSports Editor
Maryland vs. South Florida
LAST WEEKSEASON RECORD
8-217-3
9-118-2
9-118-2
7-316-4
DANA HOLGORSEN QUOTE OF THE WEEK“I am just reminding them that they are the ones that set the
bar pretty high. Thats how we need to play. Thats how we need to prepare.”
No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 15 Ole Miss
David StatmanAssociate Sports Editor
David SchlakeManaging Editor
Brady SmithGuest Picker
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An-thony Rizzo started a six-run fifth inning with his 30th homer, and the Chi-cago Cubs rallied for a 9-6 victory over the Pitts-burgh Pirates on Thurs-day to take three of four games between NL playoff contenders.
The Cubs moved within two games of the wild card leaders. Should the teams end up tied at the end of the regular season, Chi-cago would have home-field advantage, having won the season series with 10 wins in 16 games.
Pittsburgh trails St.
Louis by 4 ½ games in the NL Central. The Cardinals play a night game against the Brewers at Milwaukee.
The Cubs turned a 4-3 deficit into a 9-4 lead with the fifth-inning outburst that included a two-run double by reliever Clay-ton Richard (4-2) and RBI singles by Addison Russell and Tommy La Stella.
The Cubs’ Kris Bryant had his second straight three-hit games. La Stella and Russell drove in two runs each and were two of four Chicago players with two hits along with Rizzo
and Dexter Fowler.Richard allowed two
runs in 3 1-3 innings in relief of starter Kyle Hen-dricks, who gave up four runs on three home runs in three innings. Travis Wood struck out five in two perfect innings for his second save.
Charlie Morton (9-8) lost for the fourth time in five starts as he was rocked for six runs — five earned — and nine hits in four-plus innings.
Gregory Polanco and Pedro Alvarez both hom-ered while finishing with two hits and two RBIs for
the Pirates. Travis Snider also went deep while Neil Walker and Jordy Mercer had two hits each.
Polanco hit an RBI sin-gle in the seventh and scored on Walker’s double to pull the Pirates to 9-6.
The Pirates went ahead 4-3 in the third inning when Polanco led off with his ninth home run and Al-varez hit a two-run shot, his 24th.
The Cubs built 3-0 lead as a first-inning run came home on a double play grounder then Russell and La Stella had RBI doubles in the second.
Snider hit a solo homer in the second, his fourth of the season and first since the Pirates re-signed him last month after he was released by the Baltimore Orioles.
TRAINER’S ROOMCubs: RF Jorge Soler
was activated from the 15-day disabled list after be-ing out since Aug. 24 with a strained left oblique.
Pirates: Mercer replaced INF Jung Ho Kang in the top of the first inning when the rookie sustained a knee injury as Chris Coughlan slid into him while un-successfully attempting
to break up a double play. The Pirates did not imme-diately provide a report on Kang’s injury.
UP NEXTCubs: Open a three-
game series and 10-game homestand Friday against St. Louis as RHP Dan Haren (9-9, 3.87 ERA) start against Cardinals RHP Lance Lynn (11-10, 3.17).
Pirates: Open a three-game series and 11-game road trip Friday night at Los Angeles with LHP Jeff Locke (8-10, 4.43) facing Dodgers RHP Zack Gre-inke (17-3, 1.61), the ma-jor league ERA leader.
Rizzo homers, lifts Cubs to 9-6 win over Pirates
By will gRaveSAP SPortS writEr
Nice start, Marcus Mari-ota. Good luck in that encore on Sunday against Cleve-land. History says you might need it, at least this week.
Mariota’s electric debut against NFL draft classmate Jameis Winston looked a lit-tle like Manning vs. Leaf 2.0, with Mariota confidently flicking four touchdown passes while posting a not-a-typo 158.3 passer rating, the NFL quarterback’s version of a perfect game.
Statistically, there’s no-where to go but down. Just how far down? Well, Mariota hopes not too far.
“I mean I just got to con-tinue to play my game and focus on what I have to take care of,” he said.
Mariota is probably talk-ing about the Titans, but just in case he was also tak-ing your fantasy team into consideration, no offense Marcus, but savvy own-ers will probably stick you back on the bench for a bit,
though probably only for a bit.
Reality tends to come quickly for quarterbacks who turn their first four quarters in the NFL into something out of a Madden video game.
Courtesy of STATS, a look at some of the top opening week rookie performances in league history, what hap-pened in Week 2 and beyond:
FRAN TARKENTONWeek 1: A scrambling
quarterback before being a scrambling quarterback was cool, Tarkenton was a fresh-faced 21-year-old when he entered the first game in Minnesota Vikings history on Sept. 17, 1961, against the Chicago Bears. Tarken-ton threw for 250 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score in a 37-13 win.
Week 2: Nightmarish. The Dallas Cowboys picked off Tarkenton twice and held him to 8 of 24 passing for 117 measly yards in a 21-7 Min-nesota loss.
It got better, right? It did. Eventually.
The Vikings went 2-8 in
Tarkenton’s 10 starts in 1961, though it was the beginning of a Hall of Fame career that saw Tarkenton lead Minne-sota to three Super Bowls (all losses) and retire as the league’s all-time leader in passing attempts, com-pletions, yards and touch-downs. Hey, that’s incredi-ble. Or so we hear.
JIM KELLYWeek 1: Kelly was a
“rookie” in name only when he arrived in Buffalo in 1986 after the Donald Trump-led USFL shuttered. He torched the New York Jets for 292 yards and three touchdowns. The Bills lost 28-24, but Kel-ly’s performance served no-tice the sad-sack Bills were headed back toward respect-ability after years adrift.
Week 2: On the road in Cincinnati against a pretty good Bengals team, Kelly hit 13 of 22 for 228 yards with a score and two picks, and Buf-falo fell in overtime.
It got better, right? Way better.
The Bills went 4-12 in 1986, with seven of the losses
coming by seven points or fewer. Two years later Buf-falo was rolling behind the “K-Gun” offense and the Bills were playoff fixtures on their way to becoming perennial Super Bowl runners-up. Like Tarkenton, the lack of a Su-per Bowl win didn’t keep Kelly out of the Hall of Fame.
ROGER STAUBACHWeek 1: The 1963 Heis-
man Trophy winner walked out of five years of naval ser-vice and straight into the Cowboys’ huddle for the 1969 opener against the St. Louis Cardinals (football, not
baseball. Yes, there was such a
thing). Staubach hit Lance Rentzel for a 75-yard score in the first quarter and fin-ished 7 of 15 for 228 yards while adding a touchdown on the ground in a 24-3 win.
Week 2: Apparently Dallas coach Tom Landry was un-impressed. Staubach didn’t start another game the rest of the season after ceding the job to veteran Craig Morton.
It got better, right? Roger that. (Cue groans).
Staubach finally took over full-time in 1971. Eight
years and two Super Bowl titles later, Staubach retired as arguably the best quarter-back of the 1970s and was in-ducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985.
ROBERT GRIFFIN IIIWeek 1: Oh the fall of
2012, a simpler time when RG3 was the reigning Heis-man Trophy winner and per-haps the most exciting player in football. The sixth pass of his career went 88 yards to Pierre Garcon for a touch-down, and he threw for 320 and two scores in all as the Redskins stunned New Or-leans on the road, 40-32.
Week 2: Griffin was solid against the St. Louis Rams, going 20 of 29 for 206 yards and a touchdown and rush-ing for 82 yards and two scores, but the Rams rallied for a 31-28 win.
It got better, right? Uh, not really.
Griffin was Rookie of the Year in 2012, but shredded his right knee in a playoff loss to Seattle. He hasn’t been the same since because ... it’s the Redskins.
Marcus Mariota’s electric debut probably a sign of things to come
No.10 UCLA vs. No. 19 BYU
No. 8 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Georgia Tech
No. 16 Oklahoma vs. Tulsa
Penn State vs. Rutgers
No. 6 USC vs. Stanford
No. 3 TCU vs. SMU
Miami vs. Nebraska
ap
rantsports.comMariota runs the ball in last Sunday’s game against Tampa Bay.