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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Monday September 23, 2013 Volume 126, ISSue 26www.THEdaonLInE.comda
See what DA staff members have to say about their study abroad experiences. OPINION PAGE 4
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INSIDENews: 1, 2Opinion: 4A&E: 3, 6Sports: 7, 8, 10
Campus Calendar: 5Puzzles: 5Classifieds: 9
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The West Virginia Volley-ball improved to 13-1 this weekend. SPORTS PAGE 10
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Country star Josh Turner performed at the Creative Arts Center Friday. A&E PAGE 6
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Festival of Ideas to kick off tonightBy Summer ratcliff
City Editor @SUMMErrAtCLiFF
The David C. Hardesty Jr. Festival of Ideas will kick off its 2013-14 lineup Monday night as former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson vis-its West Virginia University to speak to student, faculty and community members.
Richardson’s visit to WVU also coincides with the Col-lege of Law’s Business and Human Rights: Moving For-ward, Looking Back confer-ence, an event supported by
the United Nations Working Group on Business and Hu-man Rights.
As a former U.S. Ambassa-dor to the U.N., Richardson will reflect on his experiences within the organization and the importance of the U.N’s work in promoting human rights around the world.
In addition to his time as a U.N. ambassador and New Mexico governor, Richard-son is also a five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, for-mer Secretary of the Depart-ment of Energy and former Congressman.
Few can match his wide-ranging experience and his level of dedication to protect-ing the rights and improving the quality of life of people in New Mexico, the United States and around the world.
Prior to his lecture, Rich-ardson will speak in an inti-mate setting with students of the WVU Model U.N. Club.
Nicole Simon-Ogan, a sophomore political sci-ence and international re-lations student and mem-ber of the Model U.N. club, said she shares Richard-son’s hopes for the U.N. and said she agrees with his no-tion that the security coun-cil should be expanded to in-clude more than the original
five countries.“The idea of not keeping
it to the permanent five re-ally does appeal to me,” she said. “I also agree with him on the fact that our world has changed since the formation of the U.N.”
Simon-Ogan said she loves how much Richardson has done for human rights and feels he has done well by bringing attention to lesser known issues.
She said she is looking for-ward to hearing Richardson speak about his predictions of the direction the world is
heading.“I hope to gain a deeper
understanding of his views,” she said. “Since I am a polit-ical science member, I want to hear what action should or should not be taken in Syria from a U.N. perspective.”
The Festival of Ideas lec-ture series was created in 1995 by former WVU presi-dent David C. Hardesty Jr.
Today, the series spans the academic year and brings a wide array of newsmakers and notable members of the
equestrian club horse wins
national awardBy Hilary Kinney
CorrESpondEnt @dAiLyAtHEnAEUM
Who says age matters? At 25 years old, West Vir-
ginia University Equestrian Clubs’s very own horse, Joker By Story, became the Western horse of the year at the 2013 Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Na-tional Championship.
The bay gelding has six national championships un-der his saddle, two of which he earned this year.
At the IHSA National Championship, Joker com-peted nationwide against approximately 50 horses. WVU took just three horses to Harrisburg, Penn. for na-tionals this year – in the past, the school has taken up to 10.
Riders at the event were assigned horses at random, which mixed horses of all classes, Joker being in the upper class. Riders Emily Kopko of Middle Tennessee State University and Kayla Wells of West Texas A&M University got the luck of the draw this year, earning Joker his two 2013 titles.
Bobby Dean, the Western coach of the WVU eques-trian team, said Joker’s per-formance earned him a prize each of the six times he
went into the ring. This led to his award of being the over-all “best of the draw.”
“He was the horse you wanted to have because he was capable of making you win,” Dean said.
Joker’s history at WVU began 10 years ago when he was donated to the team by a former WVU student.
“He came with some skill, but it has been enhanced since he’s been here,” Dean said.
Not only has he been trained to be a great horse for competition, but he has been given optimal care. The proof of this being his ability and accomplishments at the age of 25.
“It’s very unlikely, a rar-ity, that a horse his age is still competing and teaching other people how to ride,” Dean said.
Joker By Story was the most desirable horse at na-tionals this year, but he is also the primary choice for riders on the WVU team, particularly new members.
“We’re actually saddling him for a lesson right now,” Dean said. “He’s taught sev-eral beginners on our team how to ride.”
Students at WVU may be surprised to know they can
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erIN IrwIN/tHe DaIlY atHeNaeumJapanese students give a presentation about traditional Japanese culture at the 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival in the Mountainlair Ballrooms Saturday.
erIN IrwIN/tHe DaIlY atHeNaeumVolunteers serve Chinese moon cakes to guests at the 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival.
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Chinese students celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
By Daniel ScHatzCorrESpondEnt
@dAiLyAtHEnAEUM
More than 500 Mountaineers came to-gether in the Mountainlair Saturday eve-ning to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The traditional Chinese celebration is meant to bring people together with their families as summer comes to its close.
In Morgantown, the event is hosted
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Use the hashtag #WVUIDEAS while at the event tonight to connect with
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become involved with the Equestrian Club experience.
Becoming a part of the team, whether a student has ridden their entire lives or not at all, gives students the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of riding and to meet or work with the fa-mous Joker By Story.
The English team meets at 7 p.m. Mondays with the Western team follow-ing at 8 p.m. in Room 1001 of the Agricultural Sciences building on the Evansdale Campus.
For more informa-tion about the team, email [email protected].
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university hosts Veterinary career DayBy carOline PeterS
StAFF writEr @dAiLyAtHEnAEUM
Saturday marked the fourth annual Veterinarian Career Day held at the West Virginia University Erickson Alumni Center.
The WVU Davis-Michael Scholars Program and the WVU Medical Association partnered to host the event, which was geared toward in-dividuals interested in pur-suing a career in veterinar-ian medicine.
The first half of the event consisted of speeches from current professionals in the veterinary field.
Tammy Blake, academic program associate for the Davis College of Agricul-ture, Natural Resources & Design’s Division of Animal
Nutritional Sciences, said the setup of the event ensured success.
“The format we use seems to keep the audience inter-ested,” Blake said. “The event is open to the public. We’ve had people as young as sev-enth graders attend the ca-reer fair before.”
The WVU Davis-Michael Scholars Program allows West Virginia residents to at-tend a contract school such as the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veter-inary Medicine or the Mis-sissippi State University Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine, and the program promises to pay the difference of out-of-state tuition.
“The program is very com-petitive,” Blake said. “We have 37 West Virginia resi-dents apply for 13 contract
seats.”Richard Meiring, assistant
dean for admissions at Mis-sissippi State University Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine, said the fair allows him to in-teract with future students.
“The career fair gives us the opportunity to inter-act with fellow colleges, but more importantly to see the children interested in be-coming vets,” Meiring said. “It gives me an opportu-nity to see what these stu-dents are looking for in their academics.”
Meiring said the bene-fit of attending the Virginia-Maryland Regional College was the emphasis placed on students’ futures.
“The college is dedicated to students,” Meiring said. “Although we do world-class research, everyone is fo-
cused on teaching the next generation. The goal of our curriculum is to graduate an entry-level multi-species veterinarian.”
Tod Schadler, associate dean of Lincoln Memorial University, said LMU’s new program offers students many opportunities.
“We have an exciting new program,” Schadler said. “The program has been aim-ing for a lot of new things and we are very proud of our facility. We have a 1,000 acre farm for the students. We also have a collaborate model that allows students to focus on what they like best during their clinical year.”
Schadler said he believes the veterinarian field is a pas-sion students are usually born with.
“Becoming a veterinarian
tends to be a calling, more than a career choice. It’s al-most like a call for mission-ary work,” he said. “Students in the program usually have wanted to be a vet their en-tire life. This career offers tre-mendous emotional experi-ences and it is possible that after saving an animal’s life, they look you in the eye and say, ‘thank you.’”
However, Margie Minch, a faculty member of animal nutritional sciences pro-gram, said she believes hav-ing a passion for animals is not enough.
“Having a love for ani-mals is good motivation to become a veterinarian but often is not enough. It takes hardworking dedication and a good curriculum in your college courses,” Minch said. “When you go to become a
vet, you are trained to work with all different species. It’s a lot of school, but it is worth it.”
Rachel Cokeley, a WVU pre-vet student, said she agreed the hard work is worth the outcome of vet school.
“I’ve had a lot of hands-on animal experience that I wouldn’t have gotten at other schools,” she said. “I’ve had opportunities to go to the an-imal science farm and open up the body of an animal to see the cause of death. It was interesting because I like the hands-on experience.”
For more information about WVU’s veterinary pro-gram, visit http://davismi-chael.wvu.edu/veterinary-school-information.
by the Chinese Students & Scholars Association of West Virginia University.
There were 14 differ-ent performances for the event. Some showcased native Chinese songs and dances, and others offered a mixture of songs and dances from Japan, India and the United States.
CSSA has been an offi-
cial organization on WVU’s Morgantown campus since 1997 and now has more than 1,000 members. The goal is to create a bond be-tween Chinese and Ameri-can cultures.
Its doors are open to the entire Chinese community in Morgantown. The Mid-Autumn Festival is open to people interested in cel-ebrating the season and learning more about the dynamic Chinese culture.
Despite the origins of the holiday, the event was
more of an international celebration, with peo-ple from different cultures coming together.
Qiuchen Li, CSSA’s vice president, said she be-lieved the festival was a success.
“In the past, the event was only Chinese perfor-mances, but now it is more like an international festi-val,” Li said. “This was the best festival yet.”
One of the primary goals of the CSSA is to provide a comfortable environment
in which Chinese students at WVU can thrive.
According to its website, CSSA promotes social and cultural exchange among the Chinese community and other groups on cam-pus and in Morgantown.
It also serves to organize festival celebrations, cul-tural events, sports activi-ties and other small gath-erings to enrich the lives of Chinese students and faculty.
“I am proud to prepare this festival because it is
the best way to show Chi-nese culture and to en-hance (the relationship between) our community with local and Chinese people,” Li said.
With the large amount of people in attendance, the organization saw much energy.
“As a student organi-zation, we have two mis-sions: to serve the Chinese community and to serve WVU and the city of Mor-gantown,” said Zhengjun Wang, the president of
CSSA. “We like to give peo-ple the opportunities to learn from each other.”
With many elaborate performances and acts, at-tendees enjoyed an excit-ing night full of skits, songs and dances, all celebrating cultural differences and similarities.
For more information on CSSA, visit cssa.studen-torgs.wvu.edu or email [email protected].
erIN IrwIN/tHe DaIlY atHeNaeumThe Motown Strutters perform ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ at the 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival in the Mountainlair Ballrooms Saturday.
public, along with WVU’s own academic superstars, to campus to engage the com-munity in important current issues.
WVU’s Model U.N. club president, Elise Cowgill, said she encourages all students to attend, no matter their major.
“The chance to meet with someone who has had a successful career with the U.N. is an exciting honor.
It’s the thing about which we all secretly dream, no matter what career we’re actively pursuing,” she said.
Richardson’s Festival of Ideas lecture will take place Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center.
Event attendees are en-couraged to join the on-line conversation by using #WVUIDEAS.
For more information on this lecture or any other Fes-tival of Ideas event, visit fes-tivalofideas.wvu.edu/.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 3Monday September 23, 2013
Ralphie May to return to Morgantown, bring crude humor to METBY LACEY PALMER
A&E EDITOR @lAcEypAlmER
Well-known comedian Ralphie May will take the stage at the Metropolitan Theatre Tuesday night.
This performance will mark May’s fifth visit to Morgantown in the past six years, according to Josh Knotts of Josh Knotts Pro-ductions, the promoter of May’s Morgantown shows. The first four visits have been sold-out shows.
After competing in the first season of Last Comic Standing in 2003, May’s rise to fame was inevitable. Ap-pearances on “The Wayne Brady Show,” “Jimmy Kim-mel Live” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” made May a household name.
A self-proclaimed “filthy,
dirty animal,” May is known for his crude humor on rather sensitive topics, such as race, religion and sexual orientation. Regard-less of what topic he covers, he always delivers laughs and is known for his bla-tant honesty.
“He is one of my favor-ite comedians,” Knotts said. “Of all the shows we have produced, Ralphie May is the most requested. We are constantly having patrons email or call asking when he is coming back.”
In 2005, May released his first comedy album, “Just Correct,” followed by four Comedy Central specials: “Girth of A Nation” (2006), “Prime Cut” (2007), “Aus-tin-tatious” (2008) and his most recent, “Too Big To Ignore” (2012). He also ap-peared in a 2002 film, “For
Da Love of Money.”Knotts said he believes
May’s material is great, but his delivery sets him apart from other comedians.
“The way he engages the audience makes you feel like he is a good friend having a conversation – a very funny conversation,” Knotts said. “You can’t help but love the guy both on stage and off.”
May often tours with his wife, Lahna Turner, who is also a comedian and his opening act. The cou-ple have two young chil-dren, comically named April June May and August James May.
Attendees of Tuesday night’s show can expect some original May, as well as some new material.
“He is always working on new material, but he
never forgets to throw in a few popular jokes from his numerous TV specials,” Knotts said.
Crude, raunchy and un-apologetically politically incorrect, May is sure to provide an evening full of laughs for all those in at-tendance at the MET.
“Come see a legend in comedy, who is so genu-ine and understanding of how hard people work to pay for their tickets that he puts everything he has on-stage to give his audience a memorable experience,” Knotts said.
The show begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the MET. Tickets range from $17-$40 and can be purchased online at http://showclix.com/event/3753134.
clatl.comRalphie May will bring his comedic talent to the MET Tuesday.
Award-winning jukebox musical to come to CAC
BY shAwnEE MoRAnAssOcIATE A&E EDITOR @shAwnEEmORAn22
Get ready, music lov-ers – the Buddy Holly Story comes to West Vir-ginia University Creative Arts Center tonight at 7:30.
The Buddy Holly Story is a tribute to the American singer-song-writer and his impact on music for genera-tions. Charles Hardin Holley, known profes-sionally as Buddy Holly, inspired some of the big-gest names of the enter-tainment industry in-cluding the Beatles, Elvis Costello and The Rolling Stones.
This award-winning jukebox musical, which explores the short life of this legendary rock ‘n’ roll singer, incor-porates timeless clas-sics such as “Peggy Sue,” “True Love Ways,” “Heartbeat” and many others.
John Kiselica, a WVU graduate and former Arts & Entertainment production intern, said he is excited to return to his alma mater as the master electrician for the show.
“I am really excited to be a part of bringing a show to WVU. When I found out the tour was stopping there I was floored,” Kiselica said. “It’s great to return in this capacity for many reasons. I get to work in a theater space that I know very well after working in the venue for four years with the School of Theatre and Dance.
“I am looking forward to working with friends, people and professors that I have gotten to know over the last couple of years.”
This musical will be different from oth-ers featured in the Uni-versity Arts Series this year because of the small-yet-talented cast
and crew, consisting of 15 actors and six crew members. According to Kiselica, this type of touring is an impressive feat.
“This show is interest-ing because everything for the show fits into one 53-foot semi. We are car-rying the set, props, cos-tumes and some sound and lighting gear. Each stop on the tour, we will be using the lighting and sound supplied from the venue’s inventory, so each day is like starting from a blank slate,” he said. “It keeps you on your toes, constantly working and adapt-ing the show (and) providing the best p ro d u c t i o n v a l u e s possible.
“It is quite impres-sive what is able to be achieved in just a few short hours each day.”
This musical is some-thing that music lovers of all ages can enjoy, re-gardless of their prior knowledge of Buddy Holly.
“Unlike most musicals where the music comes from an orchestra or re-corded tracks, all mu-sic is played by the cast themselves. Some cast members are even play-ing multiple instruments throughout the show. It adds a ‘concert feel’ to the show,” Kiselica said. “The plot of the show follows the life of Buddy Holly up until his death. Even if you aren’t famil-iar with any of Holly’s music, you are sure to know a song or two in the show.”
Although Buddy Hol-ly’s and his band mem-bers’ lives were trag-ically cut short, their music lives on.
For more informa-tion about ticket prices and availability, visit the WVU Mountainlair or Creative Arts Center box offices.
Deer Tick brings internationally known music to 123
Wythe Woods/the daIly atheNaeUmDeer Tick performs in front of a sold out crowd at 123 Pleasant Street.
As unpredictable as most Morgantown nights can be-come, it’s always a solid op-tion to head down to 123 Pleasant Street for a night of drinks and live music.
The venue was home to a sold-out show Friday, which showcased the likes of Jet Set Vapour Trails, The Phantom Six and headliner, Deer Tick.
The opening acts set the musical mood of the venue from the start. Both acts were from the Morgantown area but host an impressive set list and carry enough energy to get any audience flowing.
Jet Set Vapour Trails has been writing music for more than 20 years as a group and
performed music from their recently released album, “Cellophane Vampires.”
The Phantom Six kicked off the next round of music with their loud and heavy rock energy, which laid the musical framework for the headliner, highly-ac-claimed artist, Deer Tick.
Deer Tick, self-described as an alternative coun-try band, delivered their unique and famous blend of folk, blues and country.
The band, which gar-nered popularity after its 2007 album release of “War Elephant,” has since re-leased four equally popular albums. The most recent of those, “Negativity,” was re-leased earlier this month via Canadian record label, Arts and Crafts.
The band is now em-barking on their latest tour, which will take them across
North America and Europe and will give them the op-portunity to showcase their latest album, as well as other fan-favorite tracks such as “Ashamed,” “Art Isn’t Real” and “Baltimore Blues No. 1.”
Many in the crowd at 123 Pleasant Street were notice-ably drawn in and inter-acted with the band’s lyrics and melodic sounds.
Senior computer science student Ryan Mason said he appreciated the music the Morgantown venue attracts.
“Already with in the past few months, I have been able to watch live a lot of the bands that I listen to regularly,” Mason said. “To be able to see some of my favorite artists live and not have to drive all the way to somewhere like Pittsburgh or Columbus, (Ohio), is re-ally something that I ap-
preciate about 123 Pleas-ant Street.”
The bar, which has been open since 1982, is known for giving bands and their fans the chance to interact with each other in between sets and after shows.
Although ticket prices can fluctuate, the bar is one of the better-priced options for local residents and area visitors who want to experience live music and hang out with friends.
With a venue that brings in the best local artists, as well as national-touring fa-vorites, it’s no wonder why weekend shows have been selling out at 123 Pleasant Street. Regulars appreciate the bar’s ability to not only book widely known artists but also local artists.
Mountaineer Comedy Club provides laughs at Hatfield’sBY CoRY sAnChEz
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West Virginia Univer-sity’s Mountaineer Com-edy Club delivered a fun-filled edge to WVUp All Night’s safe and free entertainment.
“There were a lot of good jokes,” said Phil Za-pkin, an English doctoral student. “Both comedians were really good.”
Thursday’s show fea-tured Carlos Valencia and Phil Mazo. Both New Jer-sey natives were able to light up the stage with original material.
Valencia, who took the stage first, started off by describing his career and then moved on to clever, critical jokes about Amer-ican culture.
“It’s okay; I can tell that joke ... I have the micro-phone,” Valencia said.
Mazo, on the other hand, began with some ge-neric material and eventu-ally moved into new and refreshing humor. How-ever, the jokes were for a mature audience.
“I like doing stuff that an audience might not be into,” Mazo said. “The fun part is the challenge of making it funny and (also)
making the audience say, ‘Oh, you know, that’s cool’.”
Mazo said the club was formerly held on the ground floor of the Mountainlair. It has re-cently been moved to Hatfields.
Daryn Vucelik, lead in-tern for Up All Night, gave the details on the club’s history.
“It actually started in Hatfields a long time ago. We moved it back upstairs because a lot of people didn’t know that the Side Pocket exists, how to find it or a lot of people didn’t know the Lair had a base-ment,” Vucelik said. “We are hoping the club will be more visible for students.”
Since the relocation to Hatfields, many students believe the Comedy Club is new, but the program has been around for more than two decades.
“It’s older than me. It has been going on for 26 years – longer than Up All Night,” Vucelik said.
Aspiring comedians and artists can come in during the last Thursday of every month to perform onstage. The open mic night pro-vides a great way to gain experience.
“Comedians can put on a show that’s over an hour
to two hours long,” Vuce-lik said. “However, we usu-ally cap a student’s perfor-mance at seven minutes.”
If students would like to learn more about differ-ent forms of comedy, they can sign up for a comedy school. The school will be-gin in February, in which students will be paired off with a professional come-
dian during Up All Night.Zapkin said the best part
about the Comedy Club is anyone can perform and watch, and it is free for students.
For more informa-tion, visit mountainlair.wvu.edu/wvupallnight/comedy.
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EDITORIAL
OP-ED COMMENTARY
Studying abroad broadens horizons
The best decision I made as an undergraduate was to sign up for the London Theatre Tour course. It is a class in which you read several plays, from Shake-speare to contemporary documentaries, during the course of the semester.
The travel portion of the tour occurs every year during West Virginia Uni-versity’s spring break. This is when the class heads across the pond to com-plete the dramatic expe-rience and see each of the plays we read throughout the semester.
It’s the perfect length and location for a first-time study abroad participant, which is why I decided to go. Also, the opportunity to go with a class meant I would have a network
of support and friends available.
At the price of $3,000, the week long trip may seem expensive, but fund-ing is readily available and covers so much: flights, ho-tels, some meals, theater tickets and tours.
The Eberly College of Arts & Sciences offers $500 travel grants, and your fi-nancial aid can also be ap-plied to the cost of the trip. In addition, the cost is split into a deposit and a final program payment, due a month later making pay-ment a bit easier.
In the end, the experi-ence was incredibly en-lightening and empow-ering. I got the sense of independence study-ing abroad gives you, but I wasn’t completely cul-ture-shocked. I left London wanting to go back and to travel further.
In July 2012, I participated in the Multimedia Writing & Digital Humanities Fac-ulty-Led Program for the WVU English Department. The program was for the du-ration of July 2012, based mainly in Porto, Portugal, and counted for six credit hours. This was the first year for the program, and only six students went on the trip with two faculty members.
This study abroad op-portunity was a life-chang-ing experience. Without the program, I probably never would have visited the amaz-ing country of Portugal.
While I was there I learned not only about class-room skills (such as creating websites and editing in Pho-toshop), I also learned about a field in which I am now quite involved: electronic
literature. During my four-and-a-
half weeks in Portugal, I made long-lasting friend-ships with the other stu-dents and professors. I learned how to navigate a foreign city on my own. My time overseas truly made an incredible impact – and the easy six credit hours didn’t hurt either.
Don’t let finances hold you back. There are numer-ous scholarships available to students for these types of trips.
Don’t let your apprehen-sions about leaving your friends and family hold you back, either. There are week long, month long and se-mester long programs avail-able for nearly every field of study in many countries. By the time you get into the thick of things, you barely notice you aren’t around anyone you know.
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While I’ve always been interested in English his-tory and culture, it wasn’t until I needed to com-plete my University writing credit that I truly looked into WVU’s London The-atre Tour class.
A course devoted to var-ious English plays, it was an easy decision for me to make. Couple that with the opportunity to not only read famous plays but to see them at some of the most world-renowned English theaters and I was sold.
After studying, inter-preting and writing about several plays throughout the semester, I booked my flight, grabbed my pass-port and spent my spring break exploring, shopping, eating and watching plays
in a city I had only ever dreamed of visiting.
Traveling abroad al-lowed me to experience and respect a different life-style, while simultaneously teaching me a thing or two about iambic pentame-ter. We wrote assignments about our experiences, our play reviews and other projects that were far more enjoyable to do after over-loading on experiences across the ocean.
The London Theatre Tour started out as a “kill two birds with one stone” idea, allowing me to see a place I’ve always wanted to visit while knocking out a pesky writing credit.
But ultimately the most astonishing part of the en-tire experience wasn’t how strange and different a new place and its culture is; it was how similar we all are in the end.
KPLU.ORGAdvocates of stricter gun laws are targeting Starbucks for its policy to allow customers to openly carry firearms where legal.
With Syria in shambles because of its ongoing civil war, many countries, in-cluding the U.S., are consid-ering military intervention to abed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The “crisis in Syria,” as it has come to be known, arose when Syrian citizens began protesting Assad’s political agenda and has since officially been de-clared a civil war.
Syrian rebels have con-tinued to protest since March of 2011 and accusa-tions of chemical weapons
have surfaced, leading to an impending foreign invasion into Syria. President Obama stated in 2012 that the U.S. would consider military involvement if Assad’s re-gime crossed the “red line” and used chemical or bio-logical weapons. June 2013 brought reports of alleged sarin gas use by Syrian offi-cials against rebels, and fur-ther accounts of chemical use are still being reported.
U.S. involvement in the Syrian Civil War is unnec-essarily detrimental to our country’s prosperity. Eco-nomically, we are still un-stable from involving our-selves with (albeit more warranted) conflict in the Middle East. The conse-
quences of war result in a deflated economy. Oppos-ing a government leads to severed political and eco-nomic ties and reduces trade. This could lead to a shortage of goods imported into U.S. from Syria such as crude oil, which is already in limited supply due to war in Iraq and Iran.
Not only within the U.S. but between various lead-ing countries in the world, there is great debate about whether to use military ac-tion to aid Syrian rebels. This uncertainty among the masses would lead to fur-ther conflict if action were to be taken. One country’s de-cision to invade Syria could lead to conflict between
other countries that oppose taking military action.
Specifically, action taken by the U.S. and U.K. (along with their allies) could result in retaliation from countries such as Russia and Egypt, who oppose action. This is a slippery slope into a third world war.
If action were to be taken in the U.S., a military strike would require mobilization of the home front. Histori-cally, when a country’s citi-zens don’t support a cause, they don’t support and sup-ply the war effort and this leads to a weakened and vulnerable military.
The people of the U.S. can expect to see increased terrorist threats and fear
among the masses. Any war will cause the threat of ter-rorism, but a war against volatile countries such as Syria and its allies calls for a total war encompassing civilians. This is surely an undesirable outcome, es-pecially when the use of chemical and biological weapons is discussed.
While refusing to inter-vene in Syria with military action may seem inhumane, it is logically the best deci-sion to make. Given a choice that could affect our daily life in so many aspects, we must think of ourselves and our well-being rather than immediately jumping to solve other’s issues.
A recent poll showed a
vast majority (63 percent) of U.S. citizens surveyed op-posed military involvement in Syria, and only 32 percent felt Obama had clearly ex-plained his plan of attack. In fact, Obama’s consideration of an attack on Syria has produced a more negative response from the Ameri-can people than George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Many political figure-heads, including our own Senator Joe Manchin, would present you with the same oppositional argument: it is not logical nor in our coun-try’s best interest to launch a strike on Syria.
US involvement in Syria conflict possibly illogical, dangerous
I recently read an ar-ticle in USA Today about Starbucks’ “non-ban gun-ban” proclamation by CEO Howard Schultz.
The CEO mentioned banning guns in the store would mean Starbucks employees would have to confront armed citizens, a step Schultz said he isn’t ready for.
With the recent vio-lence, including the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the Aurora, Colo., shooting, many scared Americans are pushing for stricter poli-cies when it comes to gun control, leading some, in-cluding Schultz, to be scared of both legally and illegally armed customers.
This sparks an interest-ing situation. People carry weapons for a multitude of reasons. Some carry them for protection, some for practical reasons, and some for more sinister mo-tives. This dynamic makes it hard to distinguish when civilians are here to pro-tect themselves and when they are aimlessly holster-ing a weapon. This makes many Americans want to restrict gun availability to the general public, while it makes others more keen
on carrying a weapon. But are Americans car-
rying weapons because they are afraid other Amer-icans carrying weapons will use them irresponsi-bly? We carry our weapons because we can, because it is an integral part of the freedom of this coun-try. Without such amend-ments, America certainly would not be what it is today.
At the same time, there must be a time and a place for such exercises. It is nat-ural for someone to feel tension caused by a per-son who carries a weapon. Putting the American pub-lic in a state of tension only brews spontaneous action which can lead to violence and chaos.
Starbucks is a place of quiet reflection and of-ten a comforting environ-ment for students to finish homework or just read a book. The possession of a weapon in a place like this could disturb other cus-tomers and ruin the vibe.
There are appropriate situations for exercising our constitutional rights. Of course, I realize it is one of the many freedoms that come with being an Ameri-can. I realize you can carry your gun just because you want to. I understand the constitutional application to this issue.
Guns do have the po-
tential to save lives. At the same time, it is certainly more comfortable if public gun-wielders are pointed out.
There is a direct corre-lation between states with highly restrictive gun laws and gun-related deaths. This study, done by a pro-gun control organization based out of San Fran-cisco, suggested gun-re-lated malicious activity can easily be prevented by simply pushing states to put more restrictions on gun control.
This is a highly contro-versial topic for the Amer-ican people, because since the Second Amend-ment was passed in 1791, the right to bear arms has been protected under law.
We should be able to possess a registered weapon. It is well within our rights. We should be able to use registered weapons for self-defense and hunting purposes. Within the law, we should be able to use weaponry to protect our nation. But should weapons be on public display at the hip in populated areas across the U.S., making people uncomfortable and trig-gering serious chaos?
Maybe it is time for this amendment to be amended.
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GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HH Lis-ten to news, and be willing to accept some good luck. You might need to spend a little to make a little. Under-stand what is happening with a close relative you care a lot about. Try to avoid a bothersome topic. Tonight: Get some extra R and R -- you will need it for tomorrow.
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Josh Turner exceeds expectationsBY HUNTER HOMISTEK
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Josh Turner electrified a packed West Virginia Uni-versity Creative Arts Center crowd Friday evening, per-forming many of the hits that have established him as one of country music’s most rec-ognizable names.
Songs like “Long Black Train” and “Why Don’t We Just Dance” enlivened con-certgoers and transformed them into a cheery, ani-mated ensemble of cheers and claps. Even during softer songs like “Your Man,” the crowd excitedly sang along and showed their apprecia-tion for Turner’s talents.
“The concert was amaz-
ing,” said David Ryan, West Virginia University Arts & Entertainment public rela-tions specialist. “Josh Turner rocked the house with a real show the audience loved.”
Noting the distinction be-tween “real” country music and country music made for mass distribution across radio waves, Turner’s band utilized traditional instru-ments like the steel guitar, resonator guitar, lap steel and fiddle throughout the set, showcasing their skills and versatility.
This throwback to classic country sounds delighted the packed room and al-lowed Turner to connect with the audience on a per-sonal, honest level. Although the CAC’s Lyell B. Clay Con-
cert Theatre provides a phys-ically smaller venue than most high-profile country shows, Turner made sure he delivered his best to en-sure the audience’s total satisfaction.
“With the CAC, you have a chance for a special and more intimate perfor-mance,” Ryan said. “Josh brought a huge stadium performance and wowed the room.”
Opening for Turner was up-and-coming country art-ist Logan Brill.
Comprised of just herself and an accompanying gui-tarist/backup vocalist, Brill was able to convey an abun-dance of emotion and show off her raw talent as a vocal-ist during the half-hour set.
“It was a simple, down-to-earth performance that made her vocals stand out,” Ryan said. “She really got the show going and I think gained some new fans.”
Brill’s powerful vocals ca-pably warmed up the crowd and stimulated their musi-cal senses, setting the stage for Turner and his seven companions.
With two talented, old-school-minded artists on the billing, Friday’s show de-lighted audience members and left them basking in the glory of true country music.
To catch Josh Turner or Logan Brill on tour, visit www.joshturner.com or www.loganbrill.com.
ERIN IRWIN/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMJosh Turner is all smiles during a performance at the CAC Friday night.
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Campus MovieFest sends students to Hollywood
KYLE MoNRoE/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMThe cast of ‘The B-Team’ celebrates winning the award for best picture Friday evening.
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Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest student film festival, put on a daz-zling red carpet finale for student filmmakers and audience members Fri-day evening in the Gluck Theatre.
Sponsored by WVUp All Night for the first time, Campus MovieFest pro-vided students at West Virginia University the op-portunity to make a five-minute film and see their hard work come to frui-tion on the big screen. The red carpet finale was filled with glitz and glamour and was nothing less than what promotions manager Nis-hant Gogna had promised.
“I was excited about the turnout tonight,” Gogna said. “It clearly shows that there is an anticipation and enthusiasm on this campus to produce film and to be a part of some-thing that is bigger than themselves.
“I was impressed. Stu-dents don’t anticipate how difficult it is to put to-gether a five-minute film in seven days. The films speak for themselves – they were high in qual-ity, they were hilarious, people laughed, people loved it, and it just goes to show that the talent at the school is outstanding.”
The evening started out for student filmmakers at a VIP reception to celebrate their hard work and suc-cess. The Vandalia Lounge was transformed to pro-vide filmmakers and audi-ence members the experi-ence of a red carpet event.
The lounge was filled with filmmakers and au-dience members dressed up in formal attire, sipping sparkling cider and chat-ting excitedly about their films.
The red carpet added an element of class and excitement for members as they waited patiently for the theater to open its doors. A photo oppor-tunity was even provided for filmmakers that added to the Hollywood-like atmosphere.
As the theater brimmed over with excited audi-ence members, WVU pub-lic relations student Daryn Vucelik joined a member of the Campus MovieFest staff on stage. After intro-ducing themselves, Vuce-lik shared that they had hoped to have 60 teams participate in the event; however, they ended up having a staggering 150 teams.
The evening contin-ued by showing the top 16 films, which displayed a variety of concepts and genres. Some students de-cided to go down a more serious path, dealing with topics such as depression and loss as seen in “The Quiet Burden,” “Enough is Enough” and “Clarity.” Others decided to show a comedic aspect in their work or with silent ab-stract films.
John Triveri, a sopho-more WVU student, was happy to see his film “Out of Darkness” make it to the big screen. The film focused on the serious is-sue of depression but had a happy twist reminding the audience there is al-ways hope.
“I was just kind of sitting down and writing what-ever came to my mind, and (I incorporated) a lit-tle bit of life experience, not some of the heavier stuff, but I think everyone can relate to having small problems,” Triveri said. “I wish I could have had more time with editing things and stuff like that, but I’m proud (of the final product).”
The audience choice award was presented first; the award was determined by what film audience members came to see and was noted when they first entered the theater.
The award went to “Amal,” a drama about a girl’s journey as she recov-ers from a troubling past.
The next awards were the best actor and best ac-tress award. Dan Sweeney won best actor for his role in “Undone,” and Sarah Hixson won best actress for her role in “Knife.”
Hixson was unable to at-tend the red carpet event, so director Dan Sass ac-cepted her award in her place. Sass, a political sci-ence student who has pre-viously written four fea-ture-length screen plays, said he enjoyed the oppor-tunity Campus MovieFest provided.
“It feels really good. I feel vindicated as a direc-tor,” Sass said. “I want to be a screenwriter profes-sionally, so to see a role of something that I wrote and directed (win) means a lot to me.
“This opportunity was really extraordinary and I wouldn’t have passed it up for anything.”
The crowd seemed tense as the best drama nominees were read; “Headed for Home,” “Enough is Enough” and “Undone” were all part of this category.
“Headed for Home,” a
drama about the broken relationship between fa-ther and son written and directed by Lauren Schief-elbein, was selected as the winner.
The best comedy nom-inees were “The B-Team,” “Nightmare” and “The Womb.” “Nightmare,” which also seemed to be a crowd favorite during the viewing, won the best comedy.
Even though “The B -Team,” created by Sug-arK Productions, didn’t win best comedy, it was selected as the best pic-ture of the evening. Mem-bers of this film celebrated onstage as the other win-ners did and thanked Campus MovieFest for the great opportunity. All the winners received an-other round of applause, which concluded the event.
After the event, Vuce-lik said she enjoyed co-hosting this event and was amazed at the talent that was displayed.
“It was so much fun (to co-host), the crowd was really responsive, and they were a fun crowd and
loved the movies, so that made it really fun for us,” Vucelik said. “My expecta-tions were blown out of the water with CMF this year. I was so impressed with the students and the quality of their movies … I was so ex-cited to see people dressed up, hanging out on the red carpet, being at the recep-tion, getting pictures and enjoying the show. There’s nothing more that I could want.”
Gogna said he was very pleased with the outcome of the first year of Campus MovieFest at WVU.
“I would like to thank Up All Night for bringing us to Morgantown for the first time ever,” he said. “(I would also like to) thank all the students at WVU for putting together some great films and for being so
enthusiastic.“We congratulate ev-
eryone who put together a film tonight, whether it was screened or not, but no matter what, continue on with your passions – pain is temporary, but film is forever.”
The films with the most views on YouTube will win the wild card award and join “Headed for Home,” “Nightmare” and “The B Team” in CMF Hollywood. This premiere event al-lows filmmakers to screen their films, offering plenty of opportunities for pitch meetings and networking opportunities.
To view the films WVU students created, visit www.campusmoviefest.com.
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BALTIMORE BEATDOWN
MEL MORAES/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMMaryland wide receiver Stefon Diggs tries to break away from the West Virginia defense.
Holgorsen, WVU left searching
for answersThe notorious offensive
strategy of West Virginia head coach Dana Hol-gorsen looked anything but during the weekend. His Mountaineers strug-gled to move the ball in even the smallest incre-ments and failed to put a single point on the board for the first time since he arrived in 2011.
As a school, West Vir-ginia went 137 games without being shut out.
From the way it looked, the Mountaineers could have played all day in the rain yesterday, and it’s unlikely they would have ever scored.
An offense Holgorsen himself called embarrass-ing after meager produc-tion totals in Weeks 1 and 2 looked flat out clueless Saturday, incapable of making even the most ba-sic plays.
Before Saturday, most people had chalked up the majority of West Vir-ginia’s offensive struggles to the execution of its skill players, specifically its wide receivers, who have been plagued by a litany of drops so far, and its quar-terbacks, who, apart from the Georgia State game, have been nothing short of a nightmare.
After one of the worst starts to a season in re-cent memory, some have even begun to question if Holgorsen might find him-self on some kind of a hot seat before the end of this season.
Everyone knew things would be bleak on offense after losing the dynamic and productive offensive triumvirate of Geno Smith, Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey.
Most people probably assumed Holgorsen, who’s making $2.5 million this season and is scheduled to surpass the $3 million threshold by the time his contract expires, would be able to bridge the gap be-tween the next Smith, Aus-tin or Bailey.
Ho l g o r s e n h i m s e l f quickly dismissed notions the Mountaineers would face much of a drop-off after losing the three NFL-bound players who provided more than 90 percent of West Virginia’s offense in 2012. As early as spring ball, Holgorsen claimed that new offensive stars are born every year in the Big 12, and this year would be no different for the Mountaineers.
As West Virginia begins the toughest stretch of its schedule, Holgorsen and the Mountaineers have not only yet to uncover the next offensive star in Mor-gantown, they’re still look-ing to find some offensive personnel who can just be reasonably dependable.
Ford Childress, the sup-posed quarterback of the future, threw for 62 yards, and one West Virginia re-ceiver had one catch all day against the still-unde-feated Terps.
The weather conditions, which were admittedly horrendous (especially in the second half ), did play a factor. But it did not pre-vent Maryland from scor-ing 37 points, just four fewer than its average heading into the game.
The most alarming part about all of this is West Virginia actually hasn’t put up an impressive of-fensive performance – by any standards, let alone Holgorsen’s – since the Texas game in 2012.
The Mountaineers tal-lied more than 700 yards of offense later that year against Oklahoma, but it’s hard to credit anyone out-side of Tavon Austin in that game, who accounted
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The West Virginia offense committed six turnovers Sat-urday as the Maryland Ter-rapins blew out the Moun-taineers 37-0 at M&T Bank Stadium.
It was the first time a West Virginia team has been shut out since falling to Virginia Tech in 2001 and the worst shutout loss since a 39-0 de-feat to Penn State in 1975. The loss also snaps a seven-game win streak against the
Terrapins, which dates back to 2004.
In his second straight week as starting quarterback, red-shirt freshman Ford Chil-dress threw for just 62 yards with two interceptions on 11 of 22 passing. He completed one pass to a wide receiver in the entire game. The rush-ing game wasn’t much bet-ter with 113 yards on 25 car-ries, and the offense as a unit held the ball for 16 minutes less than Maryland.
All in all, the Mountaineers had 175 yards of total offense and recorded just six first-
downs. Holgorsen has been coaching at the Division I level since 2000, and before Saturday, was never shutout.
“We had a bunch of pen-alties and turnovers, and that will cost you every time,”said head coach Dana Holgorsen.
The Terrapins hadn’t shut out an opponent since 2008 and held just three oppo-nents to 10 points or fewer since then.
“It’s 100 percent on me,” Holgorsen said. “I accept re-sponsibility (for our poor of-fense)...We need to figure it out.”
Maryland’s best drive came in the second half, marching 89 yards in 12 plays following Wendell Smallwood’s fum-ble. The Mountaineers mis-handled the ball four times in the game.
“Maryland talked trash to the media, and they backed it up today,” said senior de-fensive lineman Shaq Row-ell. “They were very well pre-pared this week.”
A microcosm of West Vir-ginia’s miserable afternoon was displayed on its final pos-session of the game, when Dreamius Smith’s 51-yard run
moved the ball to the Terra-pins’ 24-yard line. Two plays later, Childress passed to run-ning back Charles Sims, but the waterlogged ball bounced off his chest and landed in the arms of a Maryland defender. It was only the 10th offensive play West Virginia ran on Maryland’s side of the field.
“It’s Week 4. We’ve got eight games left, all in the Big 12,” Rowell said. “We’ve just got to keep working. This team will get better, I guaran-tee that.”
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A lot has changed for the West Virginia football team in the last 12 months. At this time in 2012, WVU was 4-0 and ranked No. 4 in the nation – led by a quarterback with Heis-man aspirations and two of the best receivers in the nation.
After Saturday’s 37-0 loss to the Maryland Ter-rapins, during which red-shirt quarterback Ford Childress threw for 62 yards and completed just one pass to a wide re-ceiver, the Mountaineers find themselves at a cross-roads in the 2013 season.
“Offensively we’re in-ept as we could possibly be,” said head coach Dana Holgorsen.
“We talked about play-ing smart. We had a bunch of penalties and a bunch of turnover. It’s going to beat you every time.”
West Virginia converted six first-downs against the Terrapins and turned the ball over six times.
“I told the guys in (the locker room) that you need to look in the mirror. What I’m doing offensively isn’t working, so we’re go-ing to do whatever we’ve got to do to fix it,” Hol-gorsen said.
Sept. 14 against Georgia State, West Virginia gained more than 600 yards of to-tal offense. Maryland’s defense provided a rude awakening for the Moun-taineers, as they tallied 175 yards of total offense and were shutout for the first time since 2001. “We’ve got to grow up as an offense,” said offen-sive coordinator Shannon Dawson.
“We just never got any-thing going offensively to give any other side of the ball any hope. This falls di-rectly on us.”
West Virginia has dom-inated its rivalry with Maryland in recent his-tory. Before Saturday, the Mountaineers had not lost to the Terrapins since 2004.
“We beat this team seven times in a row. They came out today ready to play, and they whooped our a--,” said senior de-fensive lineman Shaq Rowell. “We didn’t even put a point on the board.
This is a disgrace to West Virginia. That will never happen again as long as I’m here. I’m em-barrassed. All three sides of the ball, we got our a-- kicked.”
With No. 12 Oklahoma State coming to Morgan-town this week, there is hardly time for the Mountaineers to dwell on their blowout loss to the Terrapins.
“We’ve just got to keep working to get better ev-ery week. Maryland was well prepared this week. They talked trash to the media and they backed it up,” Rowell said.
The nonconference schedule is over now. Starting with the Okla-homa State Cowboys Saturday, West Virgin-ia’s final eight games are against Big 12 foes.
“We’ve just got to re-build. We can’t let the sea-son go downhill,” said se-nior defensive lineman Will Clarke.
“We have eight more guaranteed games left. Seniors like myself aren’t going to let the season go downhill from one loss.”
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West virginia offense struggles against maryland
MEL MORAES/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMHead coach Dana Holgorsen looks on during West Virginia’s 37-0 loss to Maryland.
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West Virginia’s offensive woes hit an all-time low in Saturday’s 37-0 loss to the 4-0 Maryland Terrapins.
“Obviously, offensively we’re as inept as we can possibly be in college foot-ball,” said WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen. “I accept the responsibility for that. We didn’t compete offen-sively. What I’m doing of-fensively isn’t working, so we’re going to do whatever we’ve got to do to fix it.”
On the afternoon, WVU quarterback Ford Childress only threw for 62 yards and his 50 percent completion rate was far below his av-erage the previous week against Georgia State Sept. 14.
Maryland is the first op-ponent to record a shutout against the Mountaineers
since Virginia Tech in 2001, and it is the first time the Terrapins shut out WVU since 1999. It is also the first time West Virginia failed to accumulate 200 total yards of offense since its loss to LSU in September 2010. Against the Terps, WVU only had 175 yards of total offense.
While the defense per-formed up to standards in 2013, the offense and spe-cial teams have been far below average through four games. In fact, only one receiver had a recep-tion for the Mountaineers Saturday.
“We’re very inept; it’s 100 percent on me and I’ll fix it,” Holgorsen said. “We’re very average at re-ceiver right now.
“We got guys with po-tential. There was some blitz, there were some poor throws, the ball was wet, (and) you’re not able
to run the ball when there are five people in the box. I can give you a thousand different excuses – nobody wants to hear them.”
Offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said the team needs to discover their identity.
“We need to grow up as an offense,” he said. “We need to grow up and start making plays, because that’s our job. This falls di-rectly on us, in my opinion. It comes down to executing routine stuff. And we don’t have guys who have that capacity yet.
“That’s just where we’re at as an offense. We have to grow up.”
From the Mountain-eers getting beat physi-cally on the offensive line to six turnovers on the af-ternoon, West Virginia will need to find a way to regroup against an unde-feated Oklahoma State
Saturday.“We lost on all three
sides of the ball today – of-fense, defense and special teams,” said senior defen-sive lineman Shaq Rowell. “We beat this team seven times in a row. We didn’t even put a point on the board today. It’s a disgrace to West Virginia.
“Maryland was well pre-pared this week. Coach Randy (Edsall) had those guys ready to play. I’m em-barrassed today. So what (if ) the offense turned it over? At the end of the day, we (WVU’s defense) have to get stops like we did against Oklahoma.”
For West Virginia to re-ally improve and have a chance at bowl eligibil-ity this season, Holgorsen and staff will need to start this adjustment period by turning the offense around.
for over half of the Moun-taineers’ yards gained. In the Texas game, you have to be somewhat skeptical of the offensive numbers, as Texas’ defense under defensive coordinator Manny Diaz had been so miserable it ended up get-ting him fired just three games into this year.
The point I’m trying to make here is that ulti-mately, outside of three of the best players who have ever suited up in the history of the Moun-taineers, Holgorsen re-ally doesn’t have a ton to hang his hat on so far at West Virginia. Even when they were here, WVU went through some long offen-sive droughts in Big 12 play last season.
Obviously it should be acknowledged it was his system that accentuated those players’ already great talents, and he de-serves all the credit in the world for that.
This year, without those dynamic threats, it’s al-most as if we’ve been see-ing this system at West Vir-ginia stand alone for the first time since the third-year head coach’s arrival here in Morgantown.
And to be frank, it hasn’t been pretty.
Still, I personally don’t think there’s any way Athletic Director Oliver Luck gives up on Hol-gorsen this year, even if the Mountaineers stum-ble to a 4-or 5-win season and miss a bowl game for the first time in more than 10 years. (Coincidentally, 2001 was also the last sea-son a West Virginia team was shut out.)
It would cost the WVU at h l e t i c d e p a r t m e nt, which is already swim-ming in debt, a hefty chunk of change for a buy-out and would likely crip-ple all the Big 12 recruit-ing Holgorsen and his staff have accomplished to this point.
I also think, maybe na-ively after everything I just presented, Holgorsen can indeed still turn things
around – even if it’s not right away. Even though he’s never dealt with ad-versity of this magnitude, even in his days as an of-fensive coordinator, every-where he’s been through-out the years he’s had so much success.
Even when he didn’t have NFL-bound stars at other universities, Hol-gorsen’s offenses rou-tinely were among the best in the nation, espe-cially through the air.
It will be something to obviously keep an eye on heading forward. West Virginia started pushing the late Bill Stewart out after three consecutive 9-win seasons and one of the most memorable bowl victories in school history.
Holgorsen has a 10-win season and a BCS bowl victory of his own in his time in Morgantown, but with a 7-6 season and a likely even worse cam-paign coming in the sub-sequent years, conversa-tions about his future will not dissolve anytime soon.
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mountaineers defeat richmond, Wright Stateby meGhAn cArr
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The West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team dom-inated both games this weekend defeating Rich-mond and Wright State in their final nonconference games of the season.
T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s played a clean game Fri-day night, holding Rich-mond to four total shots and zero corner kicks, beating the Spiders 2-0.
WVU finished the night with 22 shots and 13 cor-ner kicks.
Although the Moun-taineers didn’t lack an of-fensive presence, they had trouble finding the back of the net for most of the game.
“The one thing that you don’t want to start hap-pening is frustration,” said head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.
Frustration would set in and continue until fresh-
man forward Kelsey Ma-loney sent a header from three yards out past soph-omore goalkeeper Emily Kelly in the 63rd minute. Maloney received a cross from senior forward Fran-ces Silva from the right side.
“I told the team at half that goals aren’t just going to happen – they’re going to have to make them hap-pen. A lot of the morale of our halftime talk centered around grinding it out,” Izzo-Brown said. “The tactical part came when we decided we had to go around or behind them if Richmond was going to keep it in front of us. We had to find the goals that way.”
Freshman midfielder Ashley Lawrence would put the game completely out of reach in the 77th minute off an assist from sophomore midfielder Amanda Hill. Junior de-fender Jess Crowder also received an assist on the
play. Izzo-Brown said she
was impressed with her team’s ability to fight through adversity.
“Any time you have to play a game when a team is restraining, you have to find different ways to cre-ate chances, and that’s what we had to do,” she said. “I thought our back-line did a really good job preventing any good shots. It was a solid per-formance, definitely.”
Friday’s win gives WVU a 2-1-1 advantage in the all-time series.
T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s didn’t lack any offense in their Sunday match against Wright State, beat-ing the Raiders 4-1.
Junior forward Kate Schwindel put the Moun-taineers at a 1-0 advantage 28 minutes into the game with an assist from Silva.
Wright State’s senior forward Emilie Fillion took advantage of a defen-sive turnover at the top of
the box and chipped the ball over emerging Ke-ane’s head, tying the game at 1-1.
Silva would contrib-ute two more times, giv-ing her three total assists, thus making her the sixth player in WVU school his-tory to record three as-sists in a single game. Silva talked after the game about the record not just a reflection on her but her teammates, as well.
“Well, assists are about who finishes the goal so I give credit to Hill, Schwin-del and Black. You don’t get assists if they don’t fin-ish,” Silva said.
In the 31st minute of the game, freshman defender Carly Black recorded the first goal of her collegiate career off a corner from Silva.
“It’s really exciting as a defender. I come up al-most to the corner, so it’s really exciting to finally put away,” she said.
With four minutes left in
the first half, WVU would strike again. Sophomore midfielder Amanda Hill scored off a pass from freshman midfielder Tessa Broadwater. The goal would come after a cor-ner kick from Silva.
In the second half, Silva would add another goal to her season total in the sec-ond half, scoring off a pass from sophomore forward Kailey Utley.
The Mountaineers con-tinued to attack for the remainder of the game, posting 22 total shots with seven as shots on goal. Wright State registered two shots and one shot of goal.
Izzo-Brown said after the game that she feels this is the best weekend of soccer her team has played in terms of playing a complete game and less-ening the mental errors.
“We needed to make sure that we played 90 minutes both days,” she said. “It was important
for us to finalize the game Sunday when you play Friday night. The Sunday game is just as important as the Friday game.”
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Michigan earns 2-1 golden goal victory against WVUby joe Mitchin
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After trailing for more than 85 minutes of Satur-day’s match against Mich-igan, sophomore forward Majed Osman and the West Virginia men’s soccer team came back from the dead with just 17 seconds remaining to draw even and force overtime at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. It was the Wolverines, though, who came away victorious on a wet, soggy evening in Morgantown.
Michigan scored fiveand a half minutes into the first overtime period to earn its
second victory of the sea-son. Redshirt sophomore midfielder Colin McAtee struck the ball from out-side the box, into the up-per corner of the net for a golden goal 2-1 victory.
The loss dropped the Mountaineers to 3-3-1 on the season.
The roller coaster ride of a match began with a very poor start for West Virginia, as it gave up a goal just four minutes into the contest. Michigan de-fender Ezekiel Harris got to a ball that was rebounded off WVU goalkeeper Lee Johnston to take a 1-0 lead. The struggles continued beyond the goal as West
Virginia struggled to gain possession for much of the first half.
“We were awful, abso-lutely terrible. I’ve never been as disappointed in a start of a game as I was tonight,” said WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “It’s unacceptable for one of my teams to play that way in the first half.”
LeBlanc made many changes in the lineup in the second half as seven non-starters saw the pitch dur-ing the match. West Vir-ginia had several chances to draw even early into the second half, the best one coming off a sophomore forward Kyle Underwood
breakaway he couldn’t fin-ish. With the clock rapidly winding down, it appeared the Mountaineers would fall victim to a 1-0 defeat.
West Virginia clawed back as it made one fi-nal offensive attack. Mid-fielder Zak Leedom threw a ball in from the touchline into the box where soph-omore forward Ryan Cain struck for goal. It was Os-man who took the rebound and finished for WVU with just seconds remaining to force overtime.
The extra frame didn’t last long as the Wolverines scored just past halfway through the first overtime period. The McAtee goal
came just moments after Mountaineer forward Jay Williams was controver-sially booked for a chal-lenge at mid-pitch.
“Give him credit; it was a great shot, but we can’t let guys off the sideline,” Williams said. “That’s a part of our game plan, a part of our philosophy and our fiber. It’s just one of those lessons we have to learn very quickly, because we are in a tough stretch here.”
West Virginia was out-shot by Michigan 14-13 including a 7-5 Wolver-ine advantage for shots on goal. The Mountain-eers conceded 12 cor-
ner kicks on the night and were whistled for 17 fouls. Despite giving up the two goals, Johnston had five saves.
“We didn’t execute – plain and simple. It was nothing that (Michigan) did; it was all us,” LeBlanc said.
The Mountaineers re-turn to the pitch Wednes-day evening at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. The team will take on LeBlanc’s alma mater and previous coach-ing stop Penn State. Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. as WVU continues its five-match homestand.
mick posey/the daily athenaeumMajed Osman dribbles in a match against Michigan Saturday night.
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The West Virginia Uni-versity volleyball team im-proved to 6-0 at home this season and 13-1 overall after sweeping the compe-tition at the Gold & Blue Player’s challenge this weekend.
The Player’s Challenge is the last tournament for the volleyball team before entering conference play against Kansas State Fri-day in the WVU Coliseum.
The Mountaineers took down Liberty in the first match of the challenge in straight sets (25-18, 25-17, 25-15), their eighth swept opponent this season.
“The girls came out to-gether and played really hard. It was great that we showed a performance from our whole team,” said head coach Jill Kramer. “They made a point that they wanted to come out and compete hard. I was
really proud of them.”Freshman outside hitter
Jordan Anderson led her team with 11 kills while sophomore setter Brit-tany Sample dished out 30 assists.
In the first set against the Eagles, sophomore middle blocker Caleah Wells accounted for six kills on eight attempts to help guide her team to a 25-18 set win.
Anderson accounted for eight kills in the sec-ond set but left the match early with an apparent fin-ger injury. The freshman didn’t return to action for the rest of the tournament. According to Kramer, An-derson is set to see doc-tors Monday.
Despite the loss of An-derson, The Mountain-eers managed a five-set victory, (25-22, 25-22, 26-24, 25-23, 10-15) against Georgetown Friday night. With the team’s leader in kills on the sidelines, Kramer was forced to use
her bench. Senior Elzbieta Klein got the start in An-derson’s absence and fin-ished the match with 10 kills and six digs.
“Georgetown came to play, they fought and they fought really hard. They’re coached ver y well,” Kramer said. “We were in a good position to take the match in the third, and they never gave up.”
Klein registered two kills and three digs in the first set against the Hoyas while Sample tallied 11 assists.
Sophomore outside hit-ter Nikki Attea answered the call for her team as she accounted for 15 kills in the match. Attea took over the third set by regis-tering four kills on seven attempts for a .429 hitting percentage. WVU dropped the third despite Attea’s four kills, Georgetown ral-lied behind Dani White’s five kills and two digs to clinch the set 26-24.
Seven errors doomed
the Moutaineers in the fourth set, forcing to them to play their second five-set match of the season. It was in the fifth set in which Kramer saw her team play their best vol-leyball. WVU held George-town to a .042 hitting per-centage and clinched the match behind Attea’s three kills; Sample also chipped in with three as-sists and three digs.
“It was great that we showed a performance from our whole team,” Kramer said. “The girls came together and played really hard.”
Su n d ay a f t e r n o o n WVU came into its match against UMBC with the tournament champion-ship on the line.
The Mountaineers made quick work of the Retrievers in the first set, 25-19, behind Attea’s six kills and four digs and .667 hitting percentage. UMBC pulled within two in the late stages of the match
but WVU took advantage of two consecutive errors and clinched the first set with two back-to-back kills by Attea and Klien.
Twelve errors and a .022 hitting percentage gave UMBC a 25-18 set win. No Mountaineer had more than three kills in the los-ing effort.
WVU rebounded in the third set behind junior middle blocker Evyn Mc-Coy’s for kills and three blocks. McCoy sealed the Retrievers’ fate with a kill setup from Sample to take the set 25-21.
After winning the fourth set 25-20, the Mountain-eers claimed their fourth tournament champion-ship this season. Attea and sophomore libero Anna Panagiotakopoulos were named to the All-Tourna-ment team. Panagiotako-poulos recorded 22 digs in the match against UMBC.
Sample took the tour-nament’s Most Valu-able Player honor, as she
tallied 89 assists in the matches against George-town and UMBC.
With the tournaments behind them, the volley-ball team is looking for-ward to their first Big 12 Conference action of the season.
“This year we are com-ing in more confident. We are running a fast offense and have some great ma-turity,” said sophomore Hannah Sackett.
WVU’s match against Kansas State is slated for Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the WVU Coliseum.
West Virginia improves to 6-0 at home, 13-1 on season
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