By Madison FleckCorrespondent

Members of the Pitts-burgh Penguins public re-lations team visited cam-pus Monday to share their experience with members of the Public Relations Stu-dent Society of America.

The team shared stories of working with the hockey team and gave students in-sight to becoming success-ful in the world of sports communication.

“My first year as a direc-

tor, we won the (Stanley) Cup,” said Jennifer Bul-lano, director of communi-cations for the Pittsburgh Penguins. “It was really in-credible to celebrate with the guys and to have that experience”.

She recalled a time when one of the players was traded to another team – a difficult scenario for Bullano because she had worked with the player for several years.

“One of the biggest chal-lenges of this job is that we

become part of the team; it’s our home away from home”, she said.

Jason Seidling, Manager of Communications for the Penguins, had some advice to give students.

“I started young and early, and you never know what connections you will make,” he said.

Seidling spoke ada-mantly about the impor-tance of making connec-tions and networking. He used a personal story that told of how he was able to

use his connections to land his current job with the Penguins.

“That connection that I had made five years earlier came back and got me the job”, he said.

Bullano also stressed how essential an individ-ual’s network can be for someone looking for a first job.

“You need to promote yourself – volunteer and network. I know it’s hard

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Clements: ‘lots to be proud of’By carlee laMMers

City editor

West Virginia University President James P. Clements delivered the annual State of the University Address Monday during the regu-larly scheduled faculty sen-ate meeting.

In his address, Clements discussed the successes of the University in the past year and the momentum to continue to grow as a land-grant University in the

future. “We should never forget

the honor that it is to serve at the flagship, land-grant, re-search institution University for West Virginia,” he said. “We are the future of the state – there’s no question.”

Clements reminded the Faculty Assembly of the sig-nificance of this year – the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act, record-break-ing private giving, research achievements, enrollment records consistent with the

2020 Strategic Plan for the Future, additions to WVU’s legacy of national and in-ternational scholars, con-tinued recognition for Morgantown and WVU in national rankings and en-trance into the Big 12 pow-erhouse academic and ath-letic conference.

“We’re here to transform lives – that’s what we do,” he said. “I’m 100 percent con-vinced (our students) will make a real, long-lasting dif-ference. Our students come

here with big dreams.” In 2007, a report from the

National Academies Com-mittee report titled “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” called for increased efforts within universities’ STEM disciplines.

The report called for ef-forts to: improve K-12 sci-ence and math education, invest in science and en-gineering research, keep the “Best and Brightest” in Higher Education Research and promote innovation.

“At WVU, we heard their call,” Clements said. “We put faculty innovation front and center in our strategic plan to enhance educational de-livery and create a more vi-brant research enterprise.”

Clements discussed fac-ulty additions to coincide with the “Mountains of Ex-cellence” initiative, which aims for strategic invest-ment in research areas where there is potential for growth and substantial re-turn on the University’s

investment.Clements also noted the

initiatives brought about from various colleges within the University and their ef-forts to improve health care not only in Morgantown but also across the state and throughout Appalachia.

“There are a lot of things to be proud of in regard to our outreach and our ser-vice to West Virginia,” he said. “Our students don’t

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weekend firesBy carlee laMMers

City editor

Continuing the recent upswing in inappropriate celebratory behavior, the Morgantown Fire and Police Departments responded to 35 malicious street fires Sat-urday night and Sunday morning.

Five individuals were charged with malicious burning, 10 other arrests were made, and various ci-tations were issued.

Among the individuals charged with the felony, four were West Virginia Uni-versity students.

The weekend’s events have brought into ques-tion WVU student behavior, the city’s preparedness and the University’s disciplinary process.

“I don’t understand it. I’ve been working with the fire problem for the major-ity of my career, and there’s a lot of people involved. It’s a collective effort between the city and the University and the students,” said Morgan-town Fire Department Cap-tain Ken Tennant. “They need to stop doing this be-fore someone gets killed.”

Morgantown Mayor Jim Manilla said he was alarmed by the behavior Saturday night and into early Sun-day morning. Manilla said he believed the city is in

dire need of more public officials.

As a remedy to the situa-tion, Manilla discussed col-laborating with the Univer-sity and imposing a possible $20 student fee to fund sala-ries for increased public of-ficials in the city.

“(Saturday night,) all the policemen and all the fire-men were out responding to this. Who was out patrolling the other neighborhoods? It’s not fair; it’s not fair to the citizens of Morgantown,” he said. “This fee may not be popular, but we’re at a point where we can’t keep doing this.”

Manilla applauded the WVU Student Government Association’s effort in its re-cent “Save a couch, don’t burn one” video; however, he said he believed it’s go-ing to take more than that to control student behavior.

“I thought that video was fantastic,” he said. “This is something I would like to sit down and discuss with the SGA. If this is the way – the direction council wants to go – then I would love to involve students in the discussion.”

During Monday’s State of the University Address, WVU President James P. Clements discussed stu-dents’ post-game behavior,

Potential budget cuts threaten University

By lydia nUzUMeditor-in-Chief

University officials have said the potential $12 mil-lion budget decrease to West Virginia Univer-sity funds announced last month may affect tuition and programs if approved in 2013.

Narvel Weese, Vice President of Administra-tion and Finance for WVU, said if the budget cut is ap-proved at the state level, it will be the first of its scale WVU has seen in more than a decade.

“What we’re in the pro-cess of being asked to do is submit a budget that has a 7.5 percent reduction as part of building the gover-nor’s budget, which then has to go through the leg-islative appropriations process and ultimately be signed by the governor sometime in late March,” Weese said. “So, we are in stage one in a process that has multiple stages.”

The proposed decrease

is part of a 7.5 percent spending cut West Virginia governor Earl Ray Tomblin has recommended in or-der to curb a nearly $300 million spending gap in the current state budget. The new number will re-flect a 2.5 percent increase to the rolling 5 percent implemented in previ-ous years, and it will im-pact state agencies across every sector – including public post-secondary in-stitutions that receive gov-ernment funding.

Weese said there were several considerations in adjusting the Universi-ty’s budget to reflect the cuts, such as whether the potential decrease would solely impact the 2013-14 fiscal year or future bud-gets, as well as what pro-grams may be affected by the cuts.

“Theoretically, the pro-cess would involve a base cut, and then we would consider program cuts

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and the University’s course of action in response to the issue.

“The worst of the post-game behavior Saturday night was completely unac-ceptable, dangerous and in-excusable,” Clements said. “We cannot and will not tol-erate it. These actions are dangerous. And they di-minish the successes of our students, faculty, staff and alumni.”

In response to the events, Clements said the Univer-

sity would be increasing ef-forts in alcohol education and enforcement, increas-ing security presence and use of surveillance cameras and strengthening expulsion and student discipline policies.

Clements said during the 2011-12 school year 40 stu-dents were suspended or ex-pelled from the University for behavior violations.

“I am angry and frus-trated,” he said. “I want you to know, the University is taking immediate action to identify and discipline any students involved. Student Affairs is moving promptly and reso-lutely to investigate the prob-

lems that happened Saturday night and will take immedi-ate and strong actions within our disciplinary process.

And as a University, we are asking anyone with any in-formation – including pic-tures and recordings – to provide those to the WVU Police.”

Those with video, pictures or information regarding the weekend’s events are en-couraged to contact the Mor-gantown City Police Depart-ment at 304-284-7522 or call the fire department’s arson tip line at 304-225-3586.

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nobel awarded for stem cell, early cloning work

aPBritish scientist John Gurdon, left, speaks in London, and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, right, speaks in Kyoto Monday after they were named winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine.

NeW yORK (aP) — Two scientists from different generations won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for the groundbreaking dis-covery that cells in the body can be reprogrammed into completely different kinds, work that reflects the mech-anism behind cloning and offers an alternative to us-ing embryonic stem cells.

The work of British re-searcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka –who was born the year Gurdon made his discovery – holds hope for treating diseases like Par-kinson’s and diabetes by growing customized tissue for transplant.

And it has spurred a new generation of labora-tory studies into other ill-nesses, including schizo-phrenia, which may lead to new treatments.

Basically, Gurdon, 79, and Yamanaka, 50, showed how to make the equiva-lent of embryonic stem cells without the ethical ques-tions those very versatile cells pose, a promise scien-

tists are now scrambling to fulfill.

Once created, these “blank slate” cells can be nudged toward develop-ing into other cell types. Skin cells can ultimately be transformed into brain cells, for example.

Just last week, scientists reported turning skin cells from mice into eggs that produced baby mice, a pos-sible step toward new fertil-ity treatments.

Gurdon and Yamanaka performed “courageous ex-periments” that challenged scientific opinion, said Doug Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

“Their work shows ... that while cells might be specialized to do one thing, they have the poten-tial to do something else,” Melton said. It “really lays the groundwork for all the excitement about stem cell biology.”

Another Harvard stem cell researcher, Dr. George Daley said, “I don’t think anybody is surprised” by the

award announcement. “The fact that these two share it together is inspired.”

In announcing the $1.2 million award, the Nobel committee at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute said the work has “revolution-ized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop.”

Gurdon showed in 1962 that DNA from specialized cells of tadpoles, like skin or intestinal cells, could be used to clone more tad-poles. In 1997, the same process led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, show-ing it would also work in mammals.

Gurdon told reporters in London that at the time of his discovery, it had “no ob-vious therapeutic benefit at all. ... It was almost 50 years before the value – the po-tential value – of that basic scientific research came to light.”

Forty-four years af-ter Gurdon’s discovery, in 2006, Yamanaka and his team moved beyond tad-poles. They showed that

a surprisingly simple rec-ipe could turn mouse skin cells back into primitive cells, which in turn could be prodded into different kinds of mature cells. The work was later repeated with human cells.

In theory those primitive cells are “blank slates” – like embryonic stem cells that can be turned into any cell in the body.

Turning a skin cell into a stem cell takes weeks in a lab. Scientists introduce two to four genes that turn the cell’s own genes on and off. It’s a little like rebooting a computer, changing the cell from running the col-lection of genes that make it a skin cell into using an-other set that make it a stem cell.

Gurdon, who said his ambitions to become a sci-entist were dismissed as “completely ridiculous” by his headmaster when he was in his teens, has served as a professor of cell biol-ogy at Cambridge Univer-sity’s Magdalene College. He is currently at the Gur-

don Institute in Cambridge, which he founded.

Yamanaka worked at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco and Nara Insti-tute of Science and Tech-nology in Japan. He is cur-rently at Kyoto University and also affiliated with the Gladstone Institute. Ya-manaka is the first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel medicine award since 1987.

Asked how he planned to celebrate, Gurdon said he was invited to drinks at 6 o’clock.

“I intend to attend those drinks,” he said dryly.

He described his skepti-cism when first getting the congratulatory call from Stockholm, saying that “the call came from someone in Sweden, and your immedi-ate reaction is: ‘Is this right? Is it true or is it someone pulling your leg?’”

Yamanaka said he was honored to share the award with Gurdon “because without his work, which he published 50 years ago, the same year I was born, with-out his work I would never

done this and we would have never studied this project.”

Yamanaka said he did not yet know what he was going to do to celebrate.

“I just need some beer,” he said, speaking via video-conference from Japan to thank his colleagues in San Francisco for their support.

Choosing Yamanaka as a Nobel winner just six years after his discovery is un-usual. The Nobel commit-tees typically reward re-search done more than a decade earlier, to make sure it has stood the test of time.

However, in 2010, the Nobel Prize in physics went to two researchers whose discoveries were also pub-lished six years earlier. In 2006, two American scien-tists won the medicine prize eight years after their work was published.

Prize committee member Juleen Zierath said Gurdon and Yamanaka’s discover-ies, which also earned them a Lasker award for basic re-search in 2009, could hold “immense potential.”

sometimes, but you can’t get discouraged,” she said.

Bullano also emphasized the importance of experi-ence, and said academic performance isn’t the first or only thing employers look for.

“We look at internship applications and see GPA and almost laugh,” she said. “We aren’t saying your classes aren’t important, but GPA is not everything – experience is.”

The PR team for the Pitts-burgh Penguins hires three

interns every semester. Stu-dents must be juniors or se-niors and have some type of relevant sports experi-ence, such as communica-tions, journalism or sports management.

In addition, Bullano said prospective interns should be able to explain why they want the internship.

“We don’t want to know that you want a career in sports, we want to know why you wan to work in sports and why it is the pro-fession for you,” she said.

Interns for the Penguins get to do a lot of hands-on work, Seidling said.

“We actually allow the in-

terns to do a lot of the writ-ing in the game – and this is something they can add to their portfolio and call their own,” Seidling said.

“If you want to get in with communications and sports, writing is the way to do it.”

Bullano said the acquisi-tion of internships such as the one offered by the Pen-guins is an essential build-ing block for one looking to build a career in sports communications.

“The internships you get in sports shape the career you will have.”

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have to do this. They want to do it. They want to make a difference.”

Clements said he believes the driving-force behind the positive changes throughout the state and University is the students at WVU.

“Step by step, project by project, we are impacting the world, and I think we’re doing a great job,” he said.

Clements used the story of Cody White, a sopho-more mechanical engineer-ing and Russian studies stu-dent, to highlight the change

WVU students are working to bring about in the world.

White has spent time in China, Kenya and Russia and has served as an Eng-lish and math teacher in Moscow.

While his success story may be huge, White said it’s the smaller, lesser-known stories at WVU that have been his vehicle for success.

“WVU is a place where great stories are being writ-ten every day,” White said. “There’s stories that, maybe you don’t hear about so of-ten, that make all these sto-ries possible. It’s the little stories, yes they may not be as grand, but they are what

makes everything here at WVU possible.”

Clements said he is ex-cited for the future of the University, as it rides on the success of WVU’s students.

“Many of you have heard the famous words Mahatma Gandhi said about making a difference: ‘You must be the change you want to see in the world,’” Clements said. “It’s evident, our WVU stu-dents want to be that change – and with the knowledge and mentoring that you, our faculty and staff, are giving them – they are becoming the change.”

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– probably delay some deferred maintenance – and you should probably anticipate a little higher tu-ition increase for students,” he said. “It is a significant loss of revenue, and you’ve got to be concerned that the amount of funds be-ing removed in one year could have an impact on the quality of programs and the quality of services and the experiences we can provide on campus.”

In response to the poten-tial budget decrease, the

WVU faculty senate drafted a letter to Governor Tomb-lin arguing in favor of the exclusion of post-second-ary education from state-level budget reduction.

“I think there was some concern that the good work that WVU has been doing would really be hurt by this, and one thing that could end up happening is that the only way to balance the budget would be to have tuition adjusted,” said Fac-ulty Senate Chair Michael Mays. “That would have a really unfortunate effect on what WVU is supposed to be doing.”

The letter, which was

drafted and approved by faculty senate, appealed to the governor to exempt post-secondary education from budget decreases in the same way K-12 educa-tion is exempt.

“More than half of all jobs in West Virginia – 51 percent – will require some form of post-secondary training by 2020,” the letter reads. “(...) Our common goal remains to increase the numbers of college and university graduates so that West Virginia will have a more competitive work force.”

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‘Taken 2’ has plenty of action, still stumblesby carol foxcopy desk chief

Liam Neeson has “a very particular set of skills” – skills that he has “acquired over a very long career.”

No, I’m not talking about his acting chops; I’m talk-ing about the assassina-tion abilities he displays in “Taken 2.”

I know what you’re thinking – “Taken 2,” which opened at theaters nation-wide Friday, was com-pletely unnecessary. Nee-son’s character, Bryan Mills, already saved his daughter, Kim, by taking out a small army of would-be human traffickers. He got all of the bad guys last time, right? Surely there’s no way he’d ever let Kim (Maggie Grace) go abroad again.

You’d be wrong on all counts, except for the ne-cessity of the film. You probably won’t be seeing this film on anyone’s “de-finitive list” any time soon. But that doesn’t make it any less of an awesome display of badassery by Neeson.

If you haven’t seen the first “Taken,” it’s impor-tant to know that in the last film, Mills (Neeson), a retired CIA operative, al-lows his daughter to travel to Paris with one of her friends. As young women traveling abroad are known to do, Kim and her friend are soon wooed by hand-some, charming and ac-cented locals.

Unfortunately, however, the men they meet are in-volved in the lucrative yet despicable business of hu-man trafficking, and Kim and her friend are two of their latest catches. The rest of “Taken” focuses on Mills’ quest to get his daughter back by taking out one traf-ficker at a time.

Though four years have passed since the release of “Taken,” the sequel picks up around the same time the last film left off. Those men Mills eliminated in the last film have very bitter families who are bent on revenge. They plan to take Mills and his entire family to make them pay for what he has done.

Meanwhile, Mills has begun to settle into a more peaceful life with his fam-ily, which causes abundant awkward dad moments, as Mills struggles to deal with his daughter’s new boyfriend.

In addition, Mills’ ex-wife, Lenore (played by a fantastic-looking Famke Janssen), seems to be headed for a divorce from her current husband, and Neeson comes back into her life at the perfect mo-ment to pick up the pieces. He invites Lenore and Kim to join him in Istan-bul where he will be work-ing for a few days, and they agree to come along.

While in Istanbul, Mills’ enemies resurface, and they manage to capture Mills and Lenore. This

time, Mills is able to talk Kim through the steps it takes to find him and her mother. While Kim man-ages to help her father es-cape, the two must leave Lenore behind.

“Taken 2” is purely and simply an action film, and there is much action to be found. All of the obligatory elements are present. There is a rooftop chase scene, grenade explosions, and plenty of gunfire. There is

also a car chase scene that doubles as the world’s most intense driving lesson, as Kim is the vehicle’s oper-ator and has yet to get her license.

The best bits of action are the ones in which Neeson is involved. His height and confidence make him such an imposing character that he seems to be just batting his adversaries away. The great thing about Neeson is although he is 60 years old,

he isn’t afraid of physical combat. He doesn’t stop; he just rises off of the floor, bloody-fisted and looking for the next fight.

The acting in this film was not particularly mov-ing or poignant. Neeson carries the entire film on his shoulders, and we’re lucky they’re broad enough to take it.

Normally, when you give something stars in a review, readers assume you’re giv-

ing those stars to the en-tire film – as an artwork or a piece of entertainment. But in this case, every sin-gle one of those stars be-longs to Neeson, without whom – let’s face it – this film would have seemed like millions of dollars of wasted effort

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Samsung, AT&T have a need for speed with the Galaxy SIIIby hunTer homisTek

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If you are a cellphone user with a craving for the fast-est speeds available, look no further than Samsung’s newest addition to the Gal-axy family of Android smart-phones – the Galaxy SIII.

The phone, which was provided for testing through AT&T’s nationwide network, has everything the modern tech enthusiast could want.

The phone’s 4.8-inch su-per AMOLED screen is beau-tiful and vivid, and its dual-core, 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor is more than ca-pable of handling every task thrown its way. Coupled with 2GB of random-access memory (RAM), the Galaxy SIII is a multi-tasking, app-devouring machine.

Want to browse multi-ple tabs on the Web while checking your Facebook and keep that game of An-gry Birds open so you don’t lose your spot?

Yeah, it can do that. The phone is incredibly

fast, and I could not get it to fail, no matter how much I pushed it.

In addition to this, the phone boasts an 8MP cam-era capable of taking single shots, burst shots and pan-

oramic shots, among other options to suit one’s inner photographer.

More impressive than the phone itself, however, is AT&T’s extensive 4G network.

When downloading and updating apps, I was con-sistently achieving down-load speeds that exceeded 1.0 megabits per second (Mbps). Compare this to my current Sprint 3G ser-vice, which usually hovers around 75-125 kilobits per second (Kbps) and one can see the AT&T network is ap-proximately 10 times faster than Sprint in Morgantown.

Coupled with the SIII’s speedy processor and An-droid 4.0 operating system, this was a cellular experi-ence that was enjoyable, re-liable and convenient.

While this pairing was a match made in nerd heaven, the phone was not without its flaws.

With great size and speed comes great power con-sumption, and the SIII’s bat-tery life left plenty to be de-sired. Under a normal day of texting, checking Twit-ter, posting on Facebook and browsing the web, the phone would need charging by midday.

In addition to this, the

phone’s 4.8-inch screen made it simply too big. It looked beautiful, and it was great for reading web pages, but it was a nuisance to con-trol with one hand and al-most always required a two-hand operation.

Finally, the phone as a whole felt cheap and flimsy. Featuring a plastic con-struction, the phone was obviously not built for rug-ged wear-and-tear, and I did not like the feeling that if I dropped the phone, it would shatter. This was a particu-lar criticism for the on/off switch, which would work about 50 percent of the time and feel incredibly cheap while doing so.

Despite these flaws, the SIII stands as a phenome-nal phone that can do every-thing asked of it and plenty more.

In today’s age of immedi-acy, there is no better way for Morgantown residents to get what they want now on their cellphones than through AT&T’s 4G network.

Pair the service with Samsung’s Galaxy SIII, and you are primed for a high-speed cellular experience, the likes of which cannot be matched.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Lehrer said Monday that he accomplished pre-cisely what he wanted to while moderating the first presidential debate: get Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talking to each other.

The former PBS anchor said last week’s confronta-tion, viewed by 67 million people, will be remem-bered as a watershed mo-ment because it was a real debate instead of simul-taneous interviews of the candidates.

He took some heavy crit-icism on social media for his light hand, letting the candidates talk and gen-erally asking open-ended questions designed to en-courage them to explore differences.

It was a new format ap-proved over the summer by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Leh-rer said the differences were not explained well to the public in advance. The commission issued a statement Friday backing Lehrer.

“I may be seeing some-thing that’s not there, but I can’t imagine emerging from this experience – I’m

talking about myself – with any permanent scars,” said Lehrer, who has moder-ated 12 presidential de-bates since 1988. “I’m very upbeat about it, and I don’t have any second thoughts.”

Lehrer planned to di-vide Wednesday’s debate into 15-minute sections divided by topic areas. But that quickly went off the rails.

“The first few times I said `let’s move on’ and they wanted to keep talking, the inclination of course is to stop them so I could cover all the subjects I wanted to cover,” he said. “But I’m sit-ting there thinking, `Wait a minute, they’re talking to each other, leave `em alone.’ So I backed off.”

He’d get much harsher criticism if he prematurely stopped discussions, he said.

“Not only that, but I would have deserved it,” he said.

“It would have been dif-ferent if they were talking about tiddlywinks or base-ball, their favorite color or something like that,” he said. “They were talking about the things that re-ally matter.”

He said he was surprised

to get criticism from politi-cal pros and fellow journal-ists, people he said should have seen what he was try-ing to accomplish. Among the critics were Dan Abrams of ABC News, Mi-chael Tomasky of The Daily Beast and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.

“I was thinking, `Weren’t you paying attention to what was happening be-fore your very eyes?’” he said.

Lehrer, who wrote a book last year about his ex-perience moderating pres-idential debates, charac-terized the complaints against him as a thun-derstorm that is passing. CNN’s Candy Crowley and Bob Schieffer of CBS News will moderate the next two Obama-Romney debates. Thursday’s vice presiden-tial debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will be run by Martha Raddatz of ABC News.

Lehrer will be 82 dur-ing the 2016 presidential election campaign. He said he can’t imagine be-ing asked again to moder-ate and, given the pressure it puts his family through, can’t imagine accepting if he were.

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Clements charts path forwardMonday, West Virginia

University President James P. Clements delivered his annual State of the Uni-versity address to faculty members, in which he documented the Univer-sity’s accomplishments throughout the past year.

President Clements highlighted progress to-ward a number of goals, many of which are a part of the University’s 2020 Strategic Plan for the Fu-ture. He touted the this year’s record enrollment, the fact that minority en-rollment was up 17 per-

cent and that nearly 40 percent of WVU’s degrees are awarded in STEM dis-ciplines. Moreover, Clem-ents announced a number of new faculty positions, including seven positions in shale gas utilization and four positions in in science, education and technology to advance the STEM dis-ciplines at the University.

President Clements and the WVU Board of Gover-nors should be applauded for the undeniable prog-ress of the University in recent years. There is no question WVU’s stature

is growing in every way. From the historic number of prestigious scholarship winners to the huge im-pact WVU is already hav-ing on the Big 12 athletic conference, the University is making a name for itself as a well-rounded public institution.

Moreover, Clements’ emphasis on the STEM dis-ciplines was also refresh-ing. In this increasingly globalized and competi-tive economy, it’s more im-portant than it’s ever been that our leaders make a strong commitment to these

disciplines. Unfortunately, the Uni-

versity’s progress was not the only topic Clements had to address during his speech.

Before he got into the University’s advancement throughout the past year, Clements had to express his anger and frustration at the hordes of students who chose to celebrate Satur-day’s big win over Texas by rioting on High St. and in Sunnyside. Clements took a hard line on these rioters, stating the University plans to take “immediate action

to identify and discipline any students involved.”

It’s definitely a positive step for Clements to openly acknowledge the pattern of embarrassing and danger-ous behavior by students taking their celebrations too far.

However, now Clements must follow through with these words and effec-tively deal with this prob-lem, which threatens to cast a dark cloud over the University’s progress in all other areas.

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Americans work together every single day. A disagree-ment over where to cut the budget does not stop houses from being built. Completely opposing views on how the health care system should be run do not stop nurses and doctors from giving patients the care they need each day. The disagreements around us are so vast, yet people still get their jobs done each day.

So why has Congress stopped doing its job? The 112th Congress tied its all-time lowest approval rating in August, as it reached an abys-

mal 10 percent. Since being sworn into office in early 2011, this Congress has enacted just 178 laws out of 11,950 bills be-fore it. Passing 1.5 percent of all bills introduced falls far be-low the average of 5.6 percent from 1999 to 2008 (according to GovTrack.us).

With that said, not every bill is good, and bills involving new spending should be scru-tinized more than ever today. But the least productive Con-gress since the end of World War II does not bode well for this country.

A dangerous road of grid-lock and continued failed policies lie ahead if our gov-ernment does not begin re-sponding to our problems. This election is not about get-ting one party out of power

and inserting another. It’s about electing politi-

cians who will compromise to tackle the major issues fac-ing 311 million Americans. It’s about replacing current Con-gressional leaders with ones whose goal is to find a com-mon solution, not just their solution. These issues will not solve themselves, and Con-gress will definitely not solve them as long as we continue to re-elect those who have no intentions to reach across the aisle.

However, we have even stopped re-electing those who reach across the aisle.

In 2010, Senator Bob Ben-nett, a conservative Republi-can from Utah, was defeated in his primary, largely because of his support of the bipartisan

financial bailout. Senator Dick Lugar, a mod-

erate Republican who has served Indiana in the United States Senate since 1977, will not be returning in January. Lugar was targeted by Tea Party Republican Richard Mourdock for his work with Democrats on nuclear disar-mament. Mourdock later gave his view of bipartisanship, “I have a mindset that says bi-partisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.” Un-fortunately, this has become the dominating view of Con-gressional Republicans.

In this 112th Congress, the Republican-led House of Representatives has voted 33 times to repeal the Afford-able Care Act – also known

as Obamacare – knowing the Democratic-led Senate would not vote for a repeal.

In 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, went so far as to say, “The sin-gle most important thing we want to achieve is for Presi-dent Obama to be a one-term president.”

At a time when millions of Americans are still without jobs, it says a great deal about Republican leaders who fo-cus on making political state-ments, not helping their constituents.

This November, Americans must stand up for themselves and tell Congress who they’re working for. Americans must make the choice to vote for candidates they believe will

put the country before petty political differences. It has been done for decades upon decades. Our country did well while it lasted.

Of all lines from this elec-tion season, the one which has stood out most to me was what Sen. Marco Rubio said at the Republican convention: “[This election] is a choice about what kind of country we want America to be.”

We have clear choices about what we want in this election and who we want leading us. The American people deserve a Congress that works for them, and that can only be done by quali-fied leaders willing to work together, just as Americans do all across this country ev-ery day.

Christopher nydenguest columnist

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The Denver Post pub-lished an interview with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday in which the can-didate altered his stance on immigration, promis-ing that if he is elected, he will maintain a program enacted by the Obama ad-ministration that prevents the deportation of young illegal immigrants.

While Romney might not be making one of the blatant mistakes he’s be-come known for this elec-tion season, the move holds little political value for his campaign – it won’t impact the Latino vote to any significant extent, and

it could potentially alien-ate his more conservative supporters.

At first glance, sup-porting Obama’s program seems like a great move for Romney. He comes off as open-minded and sympathetic toward a de-mographic that has criti-cized him for being out-of-touch. Changing his stance could also be a sign of compromise in an ex-tremely uncompromising election.

Upon further inspec-tion, however, the decision seems to be almost entirely politically motivated. In light of the fact that Rom-ney has had to put his foot in his mouth more than once while discussing im-migration policy, his new position is more a political Band-Aid than a genuine effort to improve impor-

tant immigration issues. It should also be noted that rather than adding any-thing to the debate on the immigration issue, Rom-ney is simply taking one pre-existing program and promising not to cancel it. And he isn’t even refer-encing actual immigrants – since the program deals only with younger ille-gal “immigrants” – most of whom did not choose to come here, but were brought to the United States at a young age – this is far from an actual plan to tackle the problem of il-legal immigration.

Though making such a politically – rather than ethically – motivated de-cision might seem harm-less, Romney’s new stance could prove detrimental to his campaign and his complete plan for immi-

gration, which he says will be implemented in his first term.

With relatively high La-tino populations in swing states such as Colorado and Nevada, the Latino vote will be a major deter-mining factor in the elec-tion. According to a poll by the Pew Research Cen-ter for the People and the Press, however, 69 percent of Latino voters support Obama as of last month. To change the minds of such an overwhelming majority would require much more effort on Romney’s part than agreeing once with Obama – such as creating his own policy and cam-paigning with it openly.

Obviously, Romney isn’t approaching the Latino voting bloc as effectively as he could be. Accord-ing to a CNN poll taken

last month, 44 percent of Latino voters consider the economy to be the most important issue fac-ing the country today ver-sus 14 percent who chose immigration.

To appeal to a demo-graphic that overwhelm-ingly supports Obama – who has been criticized for vague and ineffective economic policy – Rom-ney should have focused on this rather than make a small compromise to his immigration policy.

His compromise will, however, be seriously taken into account by another demographic: staunch conservatives, who will interpret the move as weakness on Romney’s part. It also might offend those who strongly believe in rigid anti-immigration policy.

This is a group of voters that Romney has locked down. Though it is unlikely conservatives will instead support Obama, Romney should be keeping them as close as possible.

Romney’s commitment to continue Obama’s im-migration program is in-consistent with his previ-ously harsh immigration policy, which could cause problems down the road if he is elected president.

And Romney will have trouble following through on his other initiatives re-garding immigration if he has to continue support-ing a policy that isn’t con-sistent with his platform.

To truly improve his numbers in the polls, Rom-ney must focus on making concrete and effective pol-icies rather than insignifi-cant compromises.

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Republican candidate Romney’s immigration switch harms his campaign

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SIERRA STUDENT CO-ALITION meets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair. The group is a grassroots environmental or-ganization striving for tangi-ble change in our campus and community. For more informa-tion, email hlargen@mix.wvu.edu.

ECUMENICAL BIBLE STUDY AND CHARISMATIC PRAYER

MEETING is held at 7 p.m. at the Potters Cellar of Newman Hall. All are welcome. For more information, call 304-288-0817 or 304-879-5752.

MCM is hosted at 7:30 p.m. in 293 Willey St. All are welcome.

AMIZADE has representa-tives in the commons area of the Mountainlair from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. to answer questions for those interested in studying abroad.

THE WVU SWING DANCE CLUB meets at 9 p.m. in Multi-purpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center. No partner needed. Advanced and begin-ners are welcome. For more in-formation, email wvuswingda-nce@gmail.com

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CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL-ING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is of-fered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educa-tional, career, individual, cou-ples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.

NEW FALL SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPOR-TUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Center. The groups include Understanding Self and Others, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Mountaineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thyself: An Interpersonal Process Group. For more information, contact tandy.mcclung@mail.wvu.edu.

MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEU-TER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer nonprofit that promotes spay/neuter to re-duce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized ev-ery year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop lo-cated in the Morgantown Mall. For more information, visit www.m-snap.org.

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report vol-unteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year and help with one fundrais-ing event. For more information, call 304-296-3400.

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BORN TODAY This year opportuni-ties come out of left field. Matters in-volving someone at a distance, travel or education appear to be very for-tunate. You might want to schedule a trip or two this year. If you are sin-gle, you could meet someone very in-tense who draws you in. The compul-sive quality of this relationship might scare many an easygoing Libra, yet most of you will explore the possibili-ties. If you are attached, you will expe-rience a lot of positive moments de-spite the fact that your relationship has weathered some hard times in the past. You are like two magnets when you’re together.

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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH Defer to a more upbeat person. You might feel sluggish when dealing with an issue that you want to keep hush-hush. You could become irritated as well. Someone could act in a surpris-ing way, just to get your attention. A friendship helps clear the air. Tonight: Take some private time.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Lis-ten to news carefully. You can be quite intellectual and detached at times. When you get into this mode, you tend to gather a lot of information and dis-cuss your feelings more easily. You’ll fi-nally see how a misunderstanding oc-curred. Clear up your side of the issue ASAP. Tonight: Where the crowds are.

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Katie Flowers/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMThe cast of the musical ‘Ragtime’ performs at the Metropolitan Theatre.

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Katie Flowers/tHe DailY atHeNaeUM‘Ragtime’ features exceptional musical numbers.

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by carol foxcopy desk chief

When fundraising is paired with an evening of great entertainment, a good night is sure to be had by all in attendance. This was def-initely the case this weekend when the Morgantown The-atre Company presented the Tony Award-winning mu-sical “Ragtime” at the Met-ropolitan Theatre on High Street.

Based on the E.L. Docto-row novel of the same name and set in the early years of the 20th century, “Ragtime” tells the story of three very different families struggling to coexist in an America in flux.

The first of the three fam-ilies represented are the well-to-do New Rochelle inhabitants who embody the American upper-class. Known simply as Mother (Gigi Collet), Father (Brian Caudill), Younger Brother (Tyler George), Grandfa-ther (Larry Nelson) and Ed-gar (Frankie McCutchan), this family represents an elite America forced to face its own race and class prejudices.

Trevor Dion Nicholas, a Morgantown and MTC na-tive, returned to his home-town to play the role of Co-alhouse Walker, ragtime

musician and lover of Sarah (Nicoletta Ciampa). The two also have a son together, Co-alhouse Walker Jr.

The final family is Tateh (Daniel Stephen) and his daughter, generically called Little Girl (Giorgi Heiko). The two are Jewish immigrants from Latvia who hope to find a better life in America, which is a difficult task at this point in history.

While the cast as a whole is phenomenal, there are a few standouts.

The three major female characters, Mother, Sarah and Evelyn Nesbitt offered their towering voices in the mu-sical numbers. With Sarah’s performance of “Your Dad-dy’s Son,” she nearly had the audience in tears.

Nelson as Grandfather also gave a notable performance as the curmudgeonly yet hi-larious comic relief at all the right moments of the play.

Undoubtedly because of the exciting work MTC does with children, the child ac-tors are the ones who stole the show. McCutchan and Heiko, who played Edgar and Little Girl, respectively, were amaz-ing. McCutchan was preco-cious and Heiko was endear-ing. The two brought a reality to the events of “Ragtime” that gave the story more poi-gnancy than such a histori-cal narrative would normally

bear.Costuming, coordinated

by Marcie Carroll, was im-pressive and authentic look-ing considering this was a community production. Eve-lyn Nesbitt (Ashley Koon) and her chorus girls’ period-style dresses standout as opulent and fun.

Thursday, Friday and Sun-day’s lively performances served as a fundraiser for MTC’s children’s community theatre, which is a program held throughout the school year for elementary, middle school and high school stu-dents. The program provides an immersing theater arts ex-perience for people right here in Morgantown. It’s a great opportunity that provides kids in the area with a fun, af-fordable and safe after-school activity.

Established as a non-profit organization in 1998, Mor-gantown Theatre Company relies heavily on donations from its patrons. If you didn’t see the show but you’d still like to help the Morgantown Theatre Company, visit their website at www.morgan-towntheatrecompany.org. There you’ll find a place to donate funds and a wish list of needed items, and you might even want to help by volun-teering some of your time.

carol.fox@mail.wvu.edu

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No. 4 WVU defense, special teams key in win over Texas

by cody schUlermanaging editor

Since his arrival at West Virginia, the first thing head coach Dana Hol-gorsen assesses when he walks into his post-game press conference is how his team collectively played on offense, defense and special teams.

The idea of “three sides of the ball” often gets overlooked when one side – the offense – puts up jaw-dropping numbers on a weekly basis.

So after the well-bal-anced performance Satur-day, what did Holgorsen have to say on his rapid re-action from the game?

“I’m really proud of the guys. I’m proud of the way they fought on all three sides of the ball. It was a tremendous team victory,” he said. “(The) defense came up with some big stops in key situations. I thought they showed a lot of improvement.

“I thought special teams was tremendous. That might have been the difference in the game – that we held our own in that area.”

Trailing 21-7, Texas mounted a comeback be-hind two rushing touch-downs from sophomore running back Joe Bergeron and a fumble recovery for a touchdown on the West Virginia goal line by ju-nior defensive end Jack-son Jeffcoat.

Without a pair of field goals by senior kicker Ty-ler Bitancurt, the Long-horns’ efforts would have gone unmatched on the scoreboard by the Mountaineers.

Bitancurt, who had his first attempt of the day blocked by senior defen-sive end Alex Okafor, said he had no choice but to respond positively on his next two tries.

“I knew there were clutch situations that we needed to do well for the team. I just wanted to keep cool and not think about the situation that we were in,” he said.

“I just knew that I could be comfortable out there and kick the ball. It was big to come back off that

big field goal that was blocked. We needed the points, and that’s what we needed to do.”

Texas offensive coordi-nator Bryan Harsin said the Mountaineers’ stiff brand of pressure caused the coaching staff to switch some things up at halftime.

“We had to do some things on early downs – they were pressuring, so we had to make a cou-ple of adjustments during halftime,” he said.

Texas senior running back and kick returner D.J. Monroe didn’t get a touch in the game – something Harsin said was a result of West Virginia’s tricky de-fensive schemes.

“(West Virginia) pre-sented some things de-fensively that didn’t look good,” he said.

“We didn’t get to do some situations in the red zone where he has been accustomed to getting the football on the hatches that we wanted to get. Just the way things fell. That’s how it turned out tonight.”

Late in the fourth quar-ter, with Texas threat-ening to regain the lead, the Mountaineers were able to set up a tough 4th-and-13 for the Longhorns’ offense.

Sophomore quarter-back David Ash targeted the right side of the field past the first down marker on a pass, but senior de-fensive back Pat Miller swatted the ball down, and the Mountaineers would score the game-sealing touchdown on the next drive.

After the game, Miller said the criticism he and the rest of the de-fense drew after the Bay-lor game helped motivate them to perform better against Texas.

“It was a tough week mentally because it’s hard to bounce back from a game like that,” he said. “There were a lot of peo-ple criticizing me person-ally, but you know, we just feed off that.

We knew what we had to do, and we knew it was going to be a hard task.”

Miller said the week be-fore the Texas game pre-

pared him to make the fourth-down stop as well as better defend what the Longhorns had to offer schematically.

“We had tight cover-age. I was out there with the receivers. We knew what to expect because we watched the film a lot,” he said.

“Trusting my team and breaking to the ball – that comes from just practicing.”

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Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMWest Virginia senior cornerback Pat Miller celebrates a pass break-up against Texas. Miller and the Mountaineer defense held Texas to just seven points in the fourth quarter.

holgorsen sees something special in Mountaineers

by Michael carVellisports editor

Before the ball was even kicked off to start No. 4 West Virginia’s game against No. 15 Texas Saturday, Moun-taineer head coach Dana Holgorsen saw something he liked about his team.

“We had to drag those guys off the field in warmups because they wanted to get out there,” he said. “We didn’t sub very much be-cause the guys that were out there just didn’t want to come out of the game.

“They handled it well, based on how we trav-eled and how we acted in the locker room before the game, and we really played with a sense of urgency.”

It was West Virginia’s first road win against a top-15 team since its 21-18 victory over then-No. 13 Virginia Tech in 2002.

Holgorsen saw the win as a potential sign that some good things could be com-ing soon for the Mountain-eers. It’s the first time they have been ranked in the top five since the end of the 2007 season.

“I’ve got some guys that believe. I like the way this team plays together,” Hol-gorsen said. “Every game’s going to be competitive, and each and every team in this conference is going to bring something different to the table. You’ve just got to take them one at a time and keep playing together as a team.”

One of the things the sec-ond-year head coach was most impressed with in Sat-urday’s win was how well his team was able to put the finishing touches on the win over the Longhorns.

“We had to overcome some adversity on all three sides, which we did,” he said. “Those are some qual-ities of a good team, there’s no question. We’ve got to continue to keep playing like that.”

WVU got the job done on fourth down vs. Texas

At the end of the first quarter of Saturday’s 48-45 win over Texas, the No. 8 West Virginia football team found itself in a diffi-cult spot facing fourth down with four yards to go from the Longhorns’ 40-yard line.

After a Tyler Bitancurt missed field goal earlier in the quarter, WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen opted to send his offense back out on the field to try to pick up the first down and extend the drive.

On the next play, Texas was able to reach senior quarterback Geno Smith and force what appeared to be a turnover on downs un-til the officials stepped in and said Texas had called a timeout prior to the snap. Then, on their second chance at the fourth-down conversion out of the time-out, Smith found senior in-side receiver Tavon Austin, who turned a short under

route into a 40-yard touch-down that gave the Moun-taineers a 14-7 lead.

It turns out that would be just the beginning of WVU’s good fortunes on third and fourth downs against the Longhorns.

“You knew it was going to be a tough task to slow them down,” said Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. “Our guys battled like crazy, got them into third downs. It’s all about stops when you play an offense like that.”

While they were only able to successful convert on three of the 12 third downs they faced, the Mountain-eers were 5 for 5 on fourth downs, all of which played vital roles in drives that would end in three touch-downs for the West Virginia offense.

The pressure of having to convert on that final down was something Smith and the rest of the West Virginia offense embraced. They knew they had a job to do and wanted to do what it could to get the job done in order to put more points on the board.

“It’s how we play. We play as a team, we fight as a team. No matter what it takes to win the game, that’s what we’re going to do,” Smith said. “Coach did a great job managing the situations. He kept us out there on the field and trusted us to get first downs.”

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seniors out there who should be able to take care of busi-ness,” Samara said. “They are still very new, so they’re going to be a little bit raw, but I think they have a lot of potential.”

Mathis has shown consis-tency all season. Samara has been waiting for her other re-turning starter to break out. She believes sophomore Ik-ktesh Chahal did provide West Virginia with the break-out performance she was hoping to see this weekend.

“(Chahal) is break-ing through that barrier that we knew she could go (through),” Samara said. “I really feel like it’s a matter of time before we see really big things out of her. She’s got a very big game.”

Chahal went 2-1 on the weekend, and the promise she has shown excites Sa-mara. Despite the success this weekend, Samara is still seeing a few inconsistencies in Chahal and other Moun-taineers’ games. The coach is hoping to clean up those inconsistencies in practice before the ITA Regionals on Oct. 19.

“We haven’t gotten com-pletely rid of something that we’ve always had, which is their consistent intensity on a day-to-day basis,” Sa-mara said. “We’ve had good practices, we’ve had some not-so-good practices (and) we’ve had some half-good practices.

“I think they are mostly starting to see that’s where the inconsistency comes in the tournament.”

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In the span of a year, the Big 12 has gone from turmoil to terrific on television once again.

A conference whose foot-ball future was uncertain with the defections of Ne-braska, Colorado, Texas A&M and Missouri over the past two years has landed squarely on its feet.

The Big 12 has two teams in the top 10 and is the only conference to have eight schools with one or fewer losses. (The Southeastern Conference has seven).

No. 5 West Virginia and No. 6 Kansas State are the early front-runners in the Big 12 standings, with No. 13 Oklahoma and No. 15 Texas trying to keep pace while set-tling the Red River rivalry in Dallas on Saturday.

“I think the league is stron-ger now than it has been in a long time,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said Monday.

It might have been hard to imagine this a year ago, con-sidering the Big 12 could’ve gone bust.

“We’ve gone from possibly not having a league, to having an unstable league, to having a league that wasn’t getting along, to having as stable a league as anyone with great football teams in it, great sports programs across the country,” Texas coach Mack Brown said. “We’re right at the top of conferences right now. This league has got more parity at the top than ever before.”

In September 2011, Texas A&M’s announcement that it was leaving the Big 12 to seek SEC membership sparked a new round of position-ing. Texas, Oklahoma, Okla-homa State and Texas Tech were considering a potential move to the Pac-12 until that league announced it would not expand.

Shortly after that, embat-tled Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe was dumped and the nine remaining mem-

ber schools committed to healing.

“Nobody knew what was going to happen,” Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuber-ville said. “You kept hearing Pac-12, everybody being in-dependent, form our own league. The uncertainty was just unbelievable. And just the last year has enabled us to be solidified as a conference.”

A year ago Wednesday, TCU pulled an about-face and decided to make the Big 12 – not the Big East – its new home. The Big 12 then mulled over whether West Virginia or Louisville was the proper candidate for ex-pansion before settling on the Mountaineers. In early November, Missouri made it clear it was moving to the SEC.

In May, Bob Bowlsby was named Big 12 commissioner. And last month, the confer-ence announced a new 13-year deal with ESPN and Fox Sports.

“I feel better now than I’ve ever felt about this confer-ence,” Tuberville said.

When things got settled after two restless summers, the redrawn Big 12 was es-sentially the same – high-scoring offenses, question-able defenses and Heisman hype. Four Big 12 offenses are among the top seven passing teams in the FBS. Five are in the top nine in third-down efficiency.

This much is known – West Virginia likes the way it fits in.

The Mountaineers (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) set a lofty goal of winning the conference championship right away, but that’s way too far in the distance to contemplate. For starters, West Virginia must get through one of its tough-est October schedules after going 28-8 in the month over the previous decade.

After beating ranked teams Baylor and Texas in successive weeks, West Vir-ginia travels to Texas Tech (4-1, 1-1) on Saturday before re-turning home for an Oct. 20

showdown with co-leader Kansas State (5-0, 2-0).

“I’ve got some guys that believe,” said West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen. “I like the way this team plays together.”

Tuberville, who lost to West Virginia when he coached at Auburn in 2008, gets another crack at the Mountaineers on Saturday. What he’ll see is a much dif-

ferent foe.Back then, West Virginia

relied heavily on the run. Under second-year coach Holgorsen, quarterback Geno Smith is averaging 399 yards passing per game, has thrown 24 touchdown passes and no interceptions.

“They’ve got a real good one,” Tuberville said. “He does a good job of spread-ing the ball around. He’s a

cool guy in terms of just un-der pressure. I’ve been very impressed.”

There are seven teams with one league loss, but that number will certainly dwin-dle on Saturday.

Kansas State travels to Iowa State (4-1, 1-1), while it’s Texas (4-1, 1-1) against Oklahoma (3-1, 1-1) at the Cotton Bowl, TCU (4-1, 1-1) at Baylor (3-1, 0-1) and Okla-

homa State (2-2, 0-1) at Kan-sas (1-4, 0-2).

“Everybody understands how competitive it is and ev-erybody seems to want to be a part of that,” said Kan-sas State coach Bill Snyder. “I think perhaps that adds to the stability of the confer-ence. I think the people who are in the conference want to be in the conference. That’s the important thing.”

Big 12 has gone from turmoil to terrific in one yearAP

APWest Virginia’s andrew Buie, top, is lifted on the sideline by teammate geno Smith after scoring against Texas Saturday.

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Tyler HerrinTon/THe DAily ATHenAeumWest Virginia men’s soccer senior defender eric Schoenle takes a shot against Iona earlier this season. Schoenle leads the Mountaineers with 10 points in 2012.

Schoenle leads WVU in goals this season, more concerned with team’s successBy Doug Walp

SportS Writer

The West Virginia men’s soccer team is loaded with players who possess po-tential MLS-level talent, but senior centerback Eric Schoenle is widely consid-ered the most skilled of them all, and his play this season has easily backed up those claims.

The senior captain has been stout defensively on a consistent basis, as he played a major role in the Mountain-eers’ five shutouts this sea-son, but he has also been West Virginia’s most pro-ductive player offensively, as well.

Schoenle has already matched his season-high in goals (5) and leads the team in points (10), and he does so from a defensive position on the pitch at centerback – one of the farthest from the oppo-nent’s goal.

But the Mountaineers’

free-flowing style of attack promotes a lot of opportuni-ties on corner kicks and free kicks for Schoenle to use his immaculate control to find the back of the net.

“He’s a danger on set pieces,” said West Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “I think that’s why so many scouts and pros really rate him high, because having a centerback that can score on set pieces is a key.”

Schoenle’s production in 2012 has increased his career total in points to 31 and goals to 13, but the senior has al-ways been more concerned with the Mountaineers’ re-sult as a whole than his indi-vidual performances.

“I could score zero goals, and as long as we win I’d still be happy,” Schoenle said. “I’m just getting good ser-vice; guys are getting good balls into the box.”

The humble senior’s suc-cess in finding the back of the net has also seemed to have

a direct correlation to the Mountaineers’ success this season, as Schoenle scored in three of the four matches where West Virginia saw its longest winning streak of the season.

LeBlanc says that although he thinks Schoenle is per-fectly capable of scoring 15 goals in a collegiate season, he knows that the senior’s true talents lie on his touch, control and – ultimately – his play on the defensive side of the pitch.

“His game isn’t going to be physically trying to throw a guy over; his game is read-ing the play, intercepting the balls and winning tackles,” LeBlanc said. “He’s a dom-inant player in the air. One of the great things that he does is when he intercepts a ball, is that he’s able to still keep it in bounds and keeps the possession for us. And I think he’s cerebral that way. He can mix it up if it needs be, but that’s not his game.

His game is intercepting balls and reading angles.”

Schoenle affirms he’s a de-fensive-minded player first and that his success finding the back of the net this sea-son has culminated from great chances because of his teammates.

“If opportunities come and I can pick a pass off and go forward, the guys do a good job of getting me some cover which gives me the freedom to go and move for-ward if the time is right,” he said. “So if I can, I can get for-ward, but at the same time defense is my number one goal and getting shutouts. It’s all about opportunities.”

Oddly enough, Sunday Schoenle found himself be-ing included in an example LeBlanc was trying to make after the Mountaineers’ ex-cruciating loss Tuesday, where the team surrendered two goals and a late lead to a dangerous Elon team in a crucial RPI match.

LeBlanc benched several key senior starters, includ-ing Schoenle, for a majority of the first half.

It could have been easy for the senior captain to question his coach’s meth-ods in a conference match down the stretch of the sea-son, but Schoenle responded like a future professional by supporting his teammates while on the bench, and then making a nearly imme-diate impact upon entering the match – scoring a critical goal on a penalty kick early in the second half.

Schoenle admitted after the game that although it was definitely tough to sit on the bench, he ultimately wanted to show his coach that he just wants what’s best for the team.

“I was pretty fired up when I got in there. It got me a little mad, but once he put me in, I knew I had a job to do.”

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WVU shows success at Wake Forest Invitational

By RoBeRT KReisSportS Writer

The West Virginia wom-en’s tennis team contin-ued to develop this week-end with a successful outing at the Wake Forrest Invitational.

“Overall, I think we did pretty well,” said Moun-taineer head coach Tina Sa-mara. “I think obviously we are seeing we are going to be a lot stronger as a team in the lineup when we get into the dual match season.”

One of two returning Mountaineers, senior Em-ily Mathis led the West Vir-ginia team with a victory on each day of the tournament, which was good enough for a third-place finish in her flight. The icing on the cake for Mathis came Sunday, the final day of competition, when the Flower Mound, Texas, native earned a 6-2 and 6-1 victory over Lind-sey Cable of Stetson. Last

season, Cable earned a 34-6 record while being named to the All-Atlantic Sun Con-ference team.

“Emily is just ridiculous; she wins by just pure will,” Samara said. “She’s im-proved a ton (during) her match today, and she fi-nally put together the things we’ve been working (on) today.

“To beat a girl who won 30-plus matches last year is a pretty big deal.”

Samara also found a dou-bles partner for Mathis this weekend. Doubles was an area on which the head coach wanted to work dur-ing the tournament, and she decided to team Mathis up with senior transfer Ashley Wooland.

The duo went 2-1 over the weekend and showed promising potential.

“(With) Audrey and Em-ily together, we have two

File PHoToHead coach Tia Samara and the West Virginia tennis team competed in the Wake Forest Invitational this past weekend.

WVU putting on a show in 2012

amiT BaTRaSportS Writer

Hey, Mountaineer fans, I hear you like points and well-balanced offensive attacks. Well, if that’s the case, you may want to fol-low the No. 18 West Vir-ginia men’s soccer team.

Why is this? Well, let me tell you how WVU puts on a show unlike any other team in the nation when it comes to scoring opportunities.

In the last game against Buffalo, the Mountaineers only allowed one shot-on-goal. Not bad, huh?

So, once again, if you en-joy seeing a nice offensive attack at work, you may want to head to Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium Sunday for the game against Hartwick.

After all, it is a Mid-American Conference game. West Virginia and its high-octane offense could use your support.

While the football team may be miles and miles away in Lubbock, Texas, Saturday, your Moun-taineers are home in a match against an oppo-nent looking to upset one of the favorites to win the conference.

It’s the game before the much-anticipated Akron showdown Oct. 20, so a win would secure a bit of sep-aration in the conference.

The Mountaineers are 7-3-2 on the season, and they have only had one loss at home. It’s truly a spec-tacle seeing this team per-form. Not only does the squad know how to play together as a team, but the guys also look like they’re having just as much fun out there as the spectators watching in the stands.

WVU has the talent to go to compete for a National Championship year in and year out. No, I’m not blow-ing this out of proportion. I truly believe this group can go that far after covering this team for two seasons.

When head coach Mar-lon LeBlanc said this team was the deepest he has coached since he’s been at WVU, I didn’t hesitate to think otherwise. The Mountaineers are a mixed bag of freshmen, sopho-mores, juniors and seniors, but this is the most-bal-anced team in quite some time.

There’s an All-Ameri-can, two goalkeepers who are capable of shutouts each game and some other pretty exciting players to watch.

Make an effort to at-tend, and you will under-stand what makes this ex-perience so special.

How about going two-for-two in football and soc-cer this weekend?

West Virginia is al-most always ranked, and it doesn’t play a cupcake schedule. The Mountain-eers faced the top-ranked and defending champion North Carolina Tar Heels on the road earlier this season.

So, my point is this squad is capable of pro-viding entertainment. The Mountaineer soccer team will put on a show this Sunday while the foot-ball team looks to give you something to cheer for Saturday.

Come out and support your West Virginia men’s soccer team. There aren’t many more opportunities to do so.

In fact, there is only one regular-season home match left after this Sunday.

The No. 1 seed in the MAC will host the MAC Tournament in the early stages of November.

Wouldn’t you want your Mountaineers to have an opening message for the rest of the field this season?

Well, in all honesty, you are a big part of that.

So, sit back and enjoy the football team on ABC this Saturday against Texas Tech. Sunday, you should make your way to Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium at 1 p.m.

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