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Cost of living soars above nat’l average

BY Jacob Bojesson Staff writer

A recent survey shows the cost of living in Morgantown is 2.7 percent above the national average, making it more expensive than metropolitan areas such as Pittsburgh and Columbus.

The West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) and the Council for Commu-

nity and Economic Research (C2ER) collected data from six categories to measure the cost of living index in Morgantown for the month of January 2013.

While Morgantown ranked slightly below the national average in categories such as groceries, utilities and health care, the survey found that housing prices were 13.8 percent higher than the national average.

“The majority of the higher costs in Morgantown are related to housing,” said Eric Bowen, BBER research associate and economist. “Rental prices are roughly equal to the national average, but the cost of buying a house in Morgantown is substantially higher than the rest of the country.”

Since the BBER and C2ER began gathering data in 2006, real estate prices in Morgan-

town have risen rapidly.

“Relative to the national average, we’ve been getting more expensive,” Bowen said. “It started at one percent higher than the average in 2006, and by 2013 it was at 13.8 percent higher.”

When measuring the cost of living, data is collected solely from prices concerning specific demographics. Rental prices and grocery bills for the aver-

age college student or senior citizen is not taken into account.

“They are aiming this survey at people in a fairly high income bracket,” Bowen said. “The type of house that they’re looking at is a fairly high-end (construction) – 2,400 square feet, four bedroom (and) brand new construction.”

What Bowen said surprised him the most was

By Jacob Bojesson Staff writer

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An incoming student stops at the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Design during new student orientation.

WVU welcomes incoming students for new student orientation

By Caroline Peters Staff Writer

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This month, thousands of incoming students will set foot on West Virginia University’s campus for the first time to begin their journeys as Mountaineers.

Throughout the month of June, incoming freshman, transfer and non-traditonal students will partake in new student orientation.

There are two orientation programs offered for incoming students. Freshmen are offered a one-day program, and transfer and non-traditional students are invited to attend a separate one-day program.

The programs are offered to students who have paid their academic deposits to WVU. The students meet their guides at the Coliseum before boarding the official WVU buses to tour their new home.

For students who need to take a placement exam, the day will start at 7:40 a.m.

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Pedestrian Safety Board discusses ‘open street’ plan

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A parent meets with representatives from the WVU Bookstore during new student orientation

that the standard of living in Morgantown is higher than many other university cities in the region including Pittsburgh, Columbus and Cincinnati.

“I really don’t know why one of these high-end houses is more expensive to buy in Morgantown,” he said.

“I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure that out.”

The Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board is working toward transforming High Street into an “open street.”

The idea is to close off traffic from parts of the street to host events and transform the atmosphere of the area.

The Pedestrian Safety Board will promote the idea to higher authorities with the hopes the street can be closed off one day every month during the weekend.

“There is a movement internationally for this open street concept,” said board member Christiaan Abildso. “It closes the street to vehicle traffic and it opens it up to pedestrians and cyclists.”

The Pedestrian Safety Board discussed the idea during its meeting Monday and will further plan a pitch the idea July 1.

Many board members expressed their concerns that High Street is too influenced by the bar scene and not family friendly.

If the idea becomes reality, the open street would aim to change that perspective and host monthly events that appeal to families within the community.

“I don’t want it to be a drink and drown,” Abildso said. “It’s going to be family

focused. There are all kinds of things you can do that gets families out.”

Open streets are a common feature in many European countries, where the main restaurant and shopping districts are located on pedestrian malls.

“Businesses – particularly the restaurants – could put things into the street and you would have a cafe atmosphere,” said board member Stan Cohen.

The city currently hosts a series of events throughout the year that close down High Street including a Kids Day and the Motown Throwdown snowboarding show.

“We already do it on a couple of occasions; we have the kids day, and we have parades, so we can do it,” Cohen said.

The Pedestrian Safety Board’s mission is to promote a walkable environment throughout the city by developing safe, attractive and accessible walkways that connect neighborhoods and destinations.

The board meets the first Monday of each month from 4:30-6 p.m. at 300 Spruce St. For more information on the Pedestrian Safety Board and the city of Morgantown, visit www.morgantownwv.gov/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Rockefeller talks student loans during on-campus roundtable

By Carlee Lammers Managing Editor

Sen. Jay Rockefeller calls it Post Commencement Stress Disorder.

Students today are graduating with crippling student loan debt, and if Congress doesn’t act by July 1 , it could get worse.

Rockefeller, D – W.Va., held a roundtable discussion last week with students, parents, education professionals and financial advisers to discuss solutions to the approaching loan interest rate increase.

“If you can’t pay off what you owe, then therefore you lose your job, or you can’t get a job, (so) what’s the point of higher education?” Rockefeller said.

If Congress does not take action by July 1, students’ interest rates on federal loans will rise from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.

Rockefeller said student loans already bring hardships to many recent graduates, and he believes matters will only get worse.

“So many West Virgin-

ians who graduate from college this month will be entering a fragile job market with heavy debt levels clouding their futures,” he said. “I want people to find the cure to cancer, Alzheimer’s – everything.

They aren’t going to be able to do that unless they get through college.”

Dave Miller, former West Virginia University associate provost and director of Public Service and Extension, said student loans instill fear in parents, students and education professionals.

“Any time Washington talks about student loans, parents are panicking,” he said.

West Virginia has the highest default rate in the U.S., at a staggering rate of 18 percent, compared to the national average of 11 percent.

Rockefeller said he plans to continue efforts to lower the rate statewide and nationally, before it becomes even higher.

“This is something that has to get solved,” he said.

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Members of the panel discussed the crippling impact student loan debt carries, as they believe it deters students from following their dreams.

Evan Johns, a third-year public interest law student at WVU, said many of his colleagues are now discouraged from entering that line of work after collecting thousands of dollars of student loan debt.

“I know, personally, a lot of people who are seriously deterred from taking any kind of public interest work, including government work because of debt pressures,” he said.

Rockefeller is working to combat the issue by creating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which encourages students to enter public service fields. Rockefeller’s initiative would forgive students of their loan debt provided they work in public service for 10 years.

However, loan despair is not only felt by

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“West Virginia is amongst the last in many economic categories. Yet, the state continues to vote Democrats into office year after year. “ — @ernmorris

“The government is giving loans to millions of students at 3.4% where it could revert back to 6.4%. Vote in July.”

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Hundreds of new student ID cards get printed each morning of new student orientation.

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Some incoming students are required to take the Quantitative Reasoning Assessment exam (QRA). These placement exams will tell the University which classes

the student is allowed to take.

After arrival, students will have their picture taken for their student ID. Students learn about the University’s academic programs, meet with their academic advisers, determine which classes to take and meet faculty members.

The day concludes around 5 p.m.

Students also have the opportunity to tour campus, learn about on-campus student organizations and meet other incoming students.

Transfer and non-traditional students’ program will be held June 14, also

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Kimberlyn Brand, incoming criminology student from Moundsville, W. Va. looks over her new schedule made for her at new student orientation on a lunch break during last year’s event.

beginning at 7:40 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

Parents and guests are also welcomed to attend new student orientation.

West Virginia University offers over-night housing in some of their Residence Halls. This excited incoming student Melissa Haines.

“Orientation was very

informative, but the Residence Halls were the big eye-opener,” she said.

“It’s a visual that I’ll be able to take from orientation, because it showed me that college really is a turning point in your life,” she said.

“Those halls will be my new home.”

The fees for staying at a

residence hall during orientation are not included in student tuition.

Students can log onto www.orientation.wvu.edu to purchase their trip. The fee also covers operational expenses and a meal for the guests. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Fort Hood suspect says he was protecting Taliban FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down Fort Hood soldiers said Tuesday his defense would show that he was compelled to do so because deploying U.S. troops posed an imminent danger to Taliban fighters.

The military judge asked Maj. Nidal Hasan if he has evidence to support his “defense of others” strategy, hinting that it could be thrown out.

Such a defense requires Hasan to prove the 2009 killings were necessary to protect others from immediate harm or death, and military law experts not involved in the case said the judge is unlikely to allow him to present that defense.

“A ‘defense of others’ strat-

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Continued from page 1 students entering public service fields, it’s influencing students in all degree programs.

According to Jane Riffe of WVU Extension, recent graduates are feeling a heightened sense of anxiety over life’s next steps with looming student loan debt.

“Mental health professionals acknowledge that many grads experience anxiety or depression during the big transition from student to employment,” she said. “When months pass without landing a job, graduates can experience hopelessness and shame about their inability to translate a degree into a job.

“The added factor of high unemployment has created more stress and anxiety.”

Members of the roundtable said they believe the anxiety can be attributed to a lack of preparedness and education on the reality of student loans.

To alleviate this anxi-

egy is not going to work when you’re at war and the ‘others’ are enemies of the U.S.,” said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. “And what makes it more egregious is that he targeted medical personnel whose primary purpose was to heal, not to kill.”

While Hasan’s argument may have been a bit more sympathetic if he said the rampage was necessary to protect Muslim women and children, that defense strategy does not apply in a war situation, said Lisa M. Windsor, a retired Army colonel and former judge advocate.

Still, it’s unclear what Hasan may present because attorneys are not allowed to give evidence themselves, said

meditated murder in the 2009 attack at the Army post in Texas.

At a hearing Tuesday, Osborn asked what evidence Hasan had to support his defense. Hasan said Taliban leader Mullah Omar and “leadership of the Taliban in general” were in immediate danger from American troops on the Texas Army post, because “the U.S. has attacked and continued to attack the Taliban.”

Osborn quickly interrupted Hasan, a day after telling him that he could not make speeches or try to testify when questioning witnesses.

Retired Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, shot six times that day, said five of the 13 killed at Fort Hood were in two units that had been train-

ing to help soldiers deal with stress and mental health issues. Deployed soldiers in those units are allowed to fire their weapons only in self-defense, Manning said. Hasan was to deploy to Afghanistan with one of those units.

But not everyone killed was about to deploy – to Afghanistan or anywhere else.

Pvt. Francheska Velez, who was pregnant, had just returned from Iraq. Michael Grant Cahill, who tried to stop the gunman with a chair, was a physician assistant working in the building.

“It makes me sick to my stomach” that Hasan would use such a defense strategy, Manning said.

Witnesses have said that after lunch on Nov. 5, 2009,

a gunman wearing an Army combat uniform shouted “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is great!” in Arabic – and opened fire in a crowded medical building where deploying soldiers get vaccines and tests.

Witnesses said the gunman fired rapidly, pausing only to reload, even shooting at some soldiers as they hid under desks and fled the building.

Government documents show that in the years before the shooting, Hasan told some colleagues that the U.S. was at war with Islam.

In some emails to a radical Muslim cleric, Hasan indicated that he supported terrorists and was intrigued with the idea of U.S. soldiers killing comrades in the name of Islam.

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ety, Rockefeller cofounded both the Smarter Borrowing Act and the Know Before You Owe Act. The acts would ensure student loan borrowers receive the necessary advice prior to accepting the burden and would provide students with clearer information from lenders, respectively.

Rockefeller said, in order to allow students to achieve their dreams and begin their families, education costs and loan interest rates must be affordable and manageable for every student.

“Every West Virginian deserves the chance to go to college, but in order to make that dream a reality, college has to be affordable at the outset, and student loans have to be manageable over the long haul,” he said.

In 2012, Congress compromised on the issue and prevented the interest rate from doubling. It has until July 1 to do so again. For more information on student loans, visit www.studentaid.ed.gov.

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Windsor, an attorney specializing in military law.

The court-martial had been scheduled to start with jury selection Wednesday, two days after Hasan was granted his request to represent himself. Hasan, an American-born Muslim, then requested a three-month delay to give him more time to prepare his defense.

The military judge, Col. Tara Osborn, was to rule Wednesday on Hasan’s trial delay request after hearing more about his defense.

Osborn said jury selection would now start no earlier than Monday.

Hasan, 42, faces the death penalty or life without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted pre-

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mississippi River communities scrambling Tuesday to fend off the rain-engorged waterway got discouraging news: More rains looming across much of the nation’s midsection threatened to slow the potential retreat of the renegade river.

Such an outlook may not be welcomed in the northeast Missouri town of West Alton, where a makeshift levee’s breach Monday fanned worries that the 570-resident town – which was mostly swept away by a flood in 1993 – would be inundated again. A voluntary evacuation advisory before the breach was fixed was heeded by just 15 percent of the town’s residents, but “everyone else is ready to go at a moment’s notice” if the hastily shored-up barrier shows signs of giving way, Fire Chief Rick Pender said Tuesday.

For now, he said, “everything is stable,” with much of the flooding corralled in a railroad bed acting as a town-protecting channel.

“There are some spots not looking pretty (as defenses), but they’re still holding the water back,” Pender told The Associated Press by telephone. “Everyone is just monitoring the sandbags and barriers, waiting for this water to come down.”

The latest National Weather Service forecasts suggest that was to happen later Tuesday. But more rains expected in coming days, from St. Louis north to Minnesota and westward across some of the Great Plains, stood to drop another inch of precipitation here and there, adding more water to the Missouri River and the Mississippi River into which it feeds, National Weather Service hydrologist Mark Fuchs said.

“We’re not talking about huge amounts, but any amount when the soil already is wet is going to slow the rivers’ retreat,” Fuchs said from his St. Louis-area office. “If you take that into account, there’s not going to be a big drop in the river levels any time soon.”

Across the river in Illinois, in the 28,000-resident city of Alton north of St. Louis, floodwaters already forced the closure of the local casino and the scenic “Great River Road” leading out of it to the north. By late Monday, floodwaters had swamped some of the Clark Bridge linking the city to West Alton, halting traffic from making it into Missouri.

Yet there was reason for optimism: The National Weather Service as of Tuesday afternoon said the river at Alton was expected to crest that evening, some 13

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feet above flood stage.

The worst was yet to come south of St. Louis near Cape Girardeau, Mo., where the river was to continue to swell higher until reaching a peak Thursday night, again some 13 feet above flood stage.

That rapid rise has produced a feverish sandbagging effort in nearby Dutchtown, where the river threatened to send water into about a third of the homes in the tiny town of about 100 people. It also was threatening to make another nearby community – Allenville, population 117 – an island. In Dutchtown, dozens of prison inmates bussed in were working shoulder to shoulder with other volunteers Tuesday, working to bolster the makeshift barrier.

“So far, the levees are doing fine,” Dutchtown Alderwoman Shirley Moss said.

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Don McLean to bring ‘American Pie’ to Morgantown

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Don McLean performs his famous song ‘American Pie’ at a previous live concert.

One of the country’s musical icons will be taking the stage Saturday evening as Don McLean, known for the popular song “American Pie,” comes to town.

Since becoming popular in the music industry in the early ‘70s, McLean has produced more than 40 gold and platinum records worldwide. Other notable songs by the artist are “Vincent (Starry Starry Night)” and “Crying.”

After being inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 2004, the artist continues to tour the country providing an opportunity for those to hear music that changed an entire generation.

In 2012, McLean was the subject of a new documentar y, “American Troubadour,” produced by multi-Emmy awardwinning film director Jim Brown.

According to West Virginia University Arts &

Entertainment public relations specialist David Ryan, the concert will provide an evening of great entertainment with an American icon.

“It’s a privilege,” Ryan said. “He’s one of America’s most enduring singersongwriters, and we’re thrilled to have him perform for our guests.”

McLean’s legacy is sure to leave an impression on the Morgantown theater.

“Don has created a musical legacy that will last for generations,” Ryan said. “He’s entertained audiences across the world, and his music resonates with so many.”

Tickets for the show can be purchased at the Mountainlair or Creative Arts Center box offices Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tickets for WVU students are $28.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre Saturday.

For additional information, visit www.events. wvu.edu. lacey.palmer@mail.wvu.edu

M.T. Pockets Theatre Company to host 10-minute film festival

BY CAROL FOX A&E WRITER

Local community theater company M. T. Pockets is preparing for its firstever 10-Minute Play Festival, which will be held Friday through Saturday and June 14-15.

The idea for the 10-Minute Play Festival originated from the new-works festival that M. T. Pockets has been hosting for the past four years. Initially, they welcome a play-writing group to work on full-length plays in a workshop setting with one of the board members.

Then, the new-works festival event gives those playwrights a chance to read excerpts from their work and talk about them with an audience. The 10-Minute Play Festival generated from the same drive that fueled the new-works festival – a desire to foster a flourishing theatrical community.

“We’ve always wanted to take that to the next step, because it’s promoting new, budding works. So, we thought we’d do a 10-minute play contest, and then we’d pick some and produce

them. So, we put a request out there and entries started trickling in,” said Vickie Trickett, board member in charge of marketing and fundraising for M. T. Pockets.

“We had almost 300 entries, and they were still coming in after the deadline. So, Toni (Morris), our director, made the decision to split it up between non-local and local playwrights, because we wanted to support the people who are involved in the community and give them an opportunity to have their work done.”

Both Trickett and board member David Beach emphasize the communitydriven quality of M. T. Pockets Theatre. Because Morgantown is such a small, tight-knit community, audience members might come to see a play written by one of their professors, directed by one of their friends and starring a neighbor – a particularly fun aspect of community theater is that you never know whom you might see.

“There’s a great group of people to work with. In community theater, you often have to deal with the community that comes to

you, but what has really impressed me and why I’ve continued on with the group is that high level of commitment from everyone who is involved,” Beach said.

“Those of us who are involved are involved in just about every aspect. I’ve acted, directed, been a playwright, a dramaturg, done front of the house volunteering and painted sets.”

M. T. Pockets does, however, face an obstacle that many other community theater programs don’t necessarily have to tackle – the transitory residency of a college town.

“We have community members who perform and help out, but a lot of the members have been students, so you have that transient part of it. We’re actually at the point now where we’re getting some of the students who were here, left, and then came back and are really starting to get involved.

So, it’s really feeling like it’s finally getting that solid footing,” Trickett said.

The festival will run something like this: there’ll be a 10-minute play, a short break to do a set change, and

then the next play will begin.

Each night there will be five plays followed by an intermission and five more plays.

At the end of each weekend, every audience member will have a ballot to vote for their favorite play and leave comments. From that feedback, M. T. Pockets will determine a winner.

Though the community submissions were abundant, there was a highly diverse group of submission sources.

“We had one from New Zealand. We had a couple international, a lot from all across the country, especially Los Angeles and New York, because playwrights tend to congregate there.

We have one play that we are producing in the non-local group written by a 10 year old. It’s a really cute play; it’s called ‘Sox’,” Beach said.

Though narrowing down such a large amount of submissions was a daunting task, M. T. Pockets hopes to provide a diversity of styles and subjects within each group of plays. And Beach, who was on the selection committee and read each of the nearly 300 entries, said

that M. T. Pockets really was looking for the plays with the most intriguing narratives.

“A 10-minute play might be a scene. Or, you could look at it as an episode of something larger. So, what I was looking for was something that just grabbed my attention from the beginning and held it, and (with) the plays we’ve selected, I think all of them will do that very much so,” Beach said.

The selected assortment guarantees there will be something for everyone during the four-night festival.

M. T. Pockets is a nonprofit organization that seeks both to promote women in the arts and to produce new, often provocative works.

While M. T. Pockets continues to offer encouragement and support to women in the community, it features a wide variety of genres, periods, themes and opportunities for involvement.

“It’s become a venue for new productions, some classical productions and some interesting, edgy plays,” Beach said. “So, we’re always kind of pushing the envelope a little bit.”

Those involved in the fes-

tival at M. T. Pockets have enjoyed the process so much that they hope they can continue the festival for years to come.

“We want to continue doing it. We love it; it’s been a great thing. It is supporting a local theatre. All of the box office sales go back into keeping the theater alive,” Trickett said. “Come see a show, just once. You might be surprised; you might like it.”

M. T. Pockets is always looking for volunteers to help out everywhere from acting to set changes, from promotion to cleaning. So, if you’re looking for a community of people who will welcome your contributions, M. T. Pockets might be a great place to start.

Student tickets will be $9.

You can purchase tickets on their website, and at the Wine Rack at 1225 Pineview Dr., or at the WV Market at 140 High St. For a full list of the play titles, directors and actors featured in this festival, visit M. T. Pockets’ website at http:// mtpocketstheatre.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

‘The Hangover III’ supplies laughs but falls short of expectations Noelle Harris A&E WRITER

Throw in the same group of friends, another trip to Las Vegas, a crazy Asian man, really bad jokes, and what do you get? Another “Hangover” movie that satisfies the need for bad humor and an even worse story.

Because “The Hangover Part III” was meant to be the ending to the series, it succeeded in closing off the story by tying up and loose ends. Alan (Zach Galifianakis) finally ended up happy and not in trouble, the boys got to have their normal lives, and Mr. Chow continued with his offbeat antics.

Coming into this movie, I expected it to be just as raunchy as the last two. That optimism ended in disappointment when I realized that this “hangover” was not actually going to be a debauchery-filled hangover.

“Hangover Part III” is more or less Alan’s story. It follows him on his road to the responsibility of adult-

hood as he finds the love of his life, Cassie (Melissa McCarthy). There was no crazy bachelor party or drug that caused the group to go crazy.

Instead, the group must right a wrong done by Mr. Chow in the first movie, and they remain relatively sober while doing so.

Much of “The Hangover” series is the crazy stuff that happens without the control of the grown-up men. In this movie, though, there is no time spent trying to remember shenanigans that went awry. It just led to being let down by something that was so hyped up. Even though the second movie in the series was not nearly as great as the first, the final installment had a lot to live up to, and it just did not make the cut.

This movie did have its good moments, though. For instance, McCarthy provided a nearly flawless performance in the short time she spent on the screen. It would have been great to see more of her and her future with Alan. The scenes with Marshall (John Goodman), the ascot-wearing thug, were

also pretty good.

The movie fell short with its main characters. Galifianakis provided a performance that was very typical of his traditional roles, and it meshed well with the way he has played Alan in the past.

However, it was just too predictable. His character is so well-known now that the actions that would have been a surprise before are now easily predicted ahead of time, which just ends up ruining the story.

The best way to tell if the Ed Helms, as Stu Price, carries Mr. Chow, played by Ken Jeong. story is of high quality is to ask yourself if you came away from it with a different viewpoint of the story, or if you got a new feeling from that movie that you did not get from movies from the same kind.

I did not experience either of these feelings with “The Hangover Part III.” The movie closed off the series, but it left me wanting more of the raunchy comedy expected from its predecessors.

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Students should make most of summer

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Students take advantage of the pleasant weather and play soccer at the recreational fields at the Student Rec Center in Morgantown, W.Va. Last month, approximately 4,000 students graduated from West Virginia University. For many of these graduates, this summer marks their entrance into the “real world.”

After many seemingly endless years of institutionalized education, they are finally applying the knowledge and skills they have gained over these many years to their respective careers.

For those of us who are still navigating our way through college, summer presents itself with many opportunities that should not go to waste.

While it is certainly important to enjoy the nice weather and get in some relaxation after a long, stressful school year, it is also im-

portant to be productive.

The summer is the ideal time of year to advance one’s personal and professional goals outside of the classroom.

There are a number of enriching activities students can partake in to help them meet these goals, whether or not they are taking summer classes.

Shadowing/Interning It is not uncommon for college students to be undecided when it comes to their long term professional goals. Job shadowing and interning are great ways to get a feel for a profession you’re interested in. While internships usually require applying well in advance, job shadowing isn’t typically as formal and can easily be set up.

Research Doing research in your field of study will not only look great on your resume or graduate school application, but it also provides you with the opportunity to apply what you’ve been learning in the classroom to the solving of real world problems.

Professors are always looking for motivated students to help with their research projects. If you enquire broadly, finding a research position in your department of interest will not be too difficult. This can be a very rewarding experience, regardless of your major.

Volunteer Volunteering your time to a worthy cause is another great way to lead a productive summer.

There is never a shortage of organizations that need volunteers.

Once again, the key is to enquire broadly. If you are in the Morgantown area this summer, contacting the Center for Civic Engagement (cce@mail.wvu.edu) is a great way to keep up with volunteering opportunities.

These are just a few examples of the many opportunities students can take advantage of during the summer.

Whether by traveling to new places, finally getting in shape, doing research or volunteering, summer is a great time to work toward accomplishing one’s goals.

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Chris Christie’s horrible day KIRK AUVIL columnist

Sen. Frank R. Lautenburg, D–N.J., passed away Monday at the age of 89.

The five-term New Jersey senator was the last World War II veteran still serving in the Senate, and he fought tirelessly to promote the public welfare across a variety of fronts.

He fought to ban smoking on airplanes, to prevent people convicted of domestic violence crimes from purchasing guns and to force companies to reveal which chemicals they were releasing into the environment.

He was a good senator who had the courage to fight for his convictions; our Senate could use more people like him.

But in the wake of Lautenburg’s passing, some interesting political questions have arisen concerning what might be done with his seat.

But for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Republicans’ great white hope for the 2016 presidency, all of this is coming at a very inconvenient time.

Christie has been wellsituated to coast along on his excellent reputation for bipartisanship, nononsense leadership and disdain for political bickering. But now, that carefully maintained reputation is about to experience some turbulence.

The empty seat left by Sen. Lautenburg means trouble for Christie. Chris-

tie is one of the few Republicans left who actually practice what they preach vis-a-vis bipartisanship, and this open seat will put a strain on Christie’s ability to walk the line between liberals and conservatives. He needs the approval of his own party’s conservative hawks to win a Republican primary and New Jersey Democrats, who outnumber the state’s Republicans nearly two to one, to win a gubernatorial election.

If Christie appoints a conservative senator in Lautenburg’s place, he’ll be betraying the will of the people who voted a liberal senator into office. If he appoints a liberal senator, his conservative supporters will see him as kowtowing to the left and may very well turn on him during a Republican primary.

That’s the problem Christie faces: the more he appeals to national voters, the more his own base turns against him. This is the problem many Republicans around the country are facing these days; their bases are so unhinged that any attempt to even open a dialogue with Democrats is seen as an act of sedition.

Further complicating this matter, Christie is eyeing a presidential run in 2016. It’s likely that he wants to run while governor of New Jersey, making the upcoming election a pivotal part of his path to the White House. He has to take great pains to avoid

polarizing his supporters with this appointment, or his whole plan could be derailed.

If that weren’t bad enough for poor old Christie, there is a wild card in the mix. Democrat Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, N.J., is a charismatic fellow who plans to run for Lautenburg’s seat in the next election. Booker is a ‘08 Obama-esque figure – popular, media-savvy and seemingly in touch with his base in a way that other politicians can only dream of.

This scares the Republican leadership, who fear that any election which features Booker on the ballot will draw more New Jersey Democrats out to the polls and potentially thwart Christie’s bid for reelection by swamping him with the state’s aforementioned two to one Democratic majority. So now they want to make sure that the election in which Booker would run won’t be the one in which Christie will run.

The law wasn’t the clearest on this point, and now the Supreme Court will likely have to decide when the election should be held. In the meantime, Christie will have to make an appointment, and if he doesn’t appoint Booker, there will likely be hell to pay from his Democratic supporters. If he does, his Republican backers will likely desert him.

For the time, it seems that Christie is between a Booker and a hard place.

The problem with Google Glass thomas knapp guest columnist

Let me throw out two predictions so obvious that I shouldn’t even have to commit them to print: 1) Within days, if not hours, of Google Glass‘s release to the general public, hackers will “jailbreak” the hardware, allowing it to run any “Glassware” users desire and can create or find online; and 2) An independent developer community will emerge to create those applications, whether Google wants them to or not.

As a matter of fact, I’ll double down and assert that both of these predictions are already in the process of coming true, even while Glass is in its “Explorer Program” phase, and that Google’s announcements this week that it won’t allow facial recognition apps or “adult” fare for Glass will only add fuel to the fire.

Porn, of course, is any device’s “killer app.”

Enough people want it, and want it badly enough, that they’ll either have it from their devices or get other devices to have it from. Above and beyond the usual – pedestrian porting of dirty pictures to Glass format, just like they were ported from print magazine to computer monitor way back when – I can’t imagine that more than a year

will go by before there’s Glassware to predictively, imaginatively, visually undress whomever the user happens to be looking at on the street, on the dance floor, etc.

We don’t have to like it. It’s going to happen whether we like it or not, and whether Google likes it or not.

Similarly, facial recognition is the Glass-specific “killer app.” It’s the one thing that the device is so obviously useful for and that people will so obviously want to use it for that there’s just not going to be any stopping it.

The most benign and universal applications are obvious: You meet someone, you get his or her name, you say “OK, Glass, this is John Doe.” You’ll never have to worry about forgetting a name again.

You want to introduce two people, but can’t be present. “OK, Glass, send John Doe’s facial profile to Joe Smith, with a message to meet him in the food court at noon.”

And so on, and so forth.

Are there more sinister uses for facial recognition? Of course there are.

But facial recognition is coming.

Again: We don’t have to like it. It’s coming whether we like it or not, and whether Google likes it or not.

If by some chance Google is able to effectively darken Glass such that it can’t fulfill users’

desire for porn and facial recognition, then something else will come along with clearer vision.

You’ll be able to pick up a Google Glass unit at Dollar Tree, like one of those little headphone-radio sets that people buy because they’re going to the beach and don’t want to risk getting sand in their real personal stereos.

The press is filled with nods – from Google itself, and from opponents of facial recognition tech – to something called “privacy.”

But privacy, as David Brin has been pointing out for years, just ain’t what it used to be. Absent complete technological collapse, it’s never going to be what it used to be again. If you show yourself in public, the assistive tech to identify you is going to be available.

Period.

And soon.

Instead of obsessing over the steady advancement of technology and attempting to thwart its potential at the development level, we should direct our efforts toward abolishing institutions which necessarily and murderously abuse that potential.

Technology is getting cheaper and cheaper, and more and more useful.

Political government is getting more and more expensive and less and less tolerable.

One of the two needs to go. And it’s pretty clear which one.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR born todaY This year, you have high visibility. Others observe you more than you realize. Keep your focus on your job and commitments involving your community and your parents. If you are single, someone you meet late spring onward could knock your socks off! If you are attached, the two of you need to be more visible. GEMINI puts you on a pedestal.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Suddenly you become even more serious about work. Perhaps the cooler nights are having an impact on you. You feel better because you are more in the mood to deal with details. A partner respects your approach; he or she knows you are mentally prepared to tackle an issue. Tonight: Working late.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Back off for a while, especially if you are reviewing a situation over and over in your mind. Listen to your sixth sense when dealing with a vulnerability. Could you be making a big deal out of nothing? Know what you desire. Tonight: Get some extra zzz’s.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH Zero in on what is important. Don’t over-intellectualize. You naturally say the right words to whomever you speak to. A meeting could point to a new friendship. Worry less about what is happening. Tonight: Hang with friends.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Be willing to take a stand with a boss or someone you care about. You need not be so worried about your first impression. Say “no” to a financial commitment that makes you uptight.

Listen to your inner voice. Tonight: A must show.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Know how much you can spend. Focus on your budget, and turn a situation around once and for all. In some way, you might feel grumpy or touchy because of this financial awareness. Let it go and just do. Tonight: Pay bills first.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You are unusually serious once more. Detach and look past the immediate.

Then and only then can you see the big picture. Understand what someone is looking for. Take your time rethinking a situation. Know what you want. Tonight: Do a vanishing act.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Your spirit soars. You know exactly what you want. Rather than overanalyze, go off and get just that. Others are highly responsive, except perhaps for a child or new friend. What is ailing this person has nothing to do with you. Tonight: Beam in exactly what you want.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Take your time making a decision. Zero in on a friendship that means a lot to you. A meeting could be very important, playing a role in creating what you want. Remain supportive of key friends, even if they want to head down a different path.

Tonight: Where the action is.

CROSSWORD Across 1 Bigger than big 5 Spender of rials 10 It makes cents 14 Hawaiian girl who adopted Stitch 15 Assume 16 Fishing, maybe 17 Bulky bovids 18 Oscar-winning composer Korngold 19 Family 20 Showy bit of plumage 23 First name in talk shows 24 Big Ten or Big East org.

25 Mae West’s request to Beulah in “I’m No Angel” 32 Place for stop-and-go traffic?

35 Asian currency name meaning “round” 36 Plains native 37 N, in Morse code 41 Box set component 42 Selene’s Roman counterpart 44 Blue moons and hen’s teeth 46 Quadrennial mathematics awards 50 Traveling 51 Splenda rival 55 His work was done by Friday 60 Home of H. Matisse’s “The Dance” 61 Scarlet fever cause 62 Ambiance 63 Leeway 64 Refrain from singing about a farm?

65 “Phooey!”

66 Plato’s promenade 67 iPad pictures 68 David and Goliath’s battlefield Down 1 Surprise your friends, wedding-wise 2 Point of resolution 3 Intestine-related 4 Notion 5 Vienna-based commercial gp.

6 ‘70s-’80s TV attic-dweller 7 “Fat chance!”

8 __ Creed 9 Cornell’s city 10 Millard was his vice president 11 Man, for one

12 Almost 13 Slammer 21 Early Christian year 22 __ sale 26 Stat for Justin Verlander 27 Bandleader Brown 28 1984 Olympic slalom champion 29 “Truth in Engineering” automaker 30 Smooth, in a way 31 They may be tight or right 32 Massage deeply 33 Sewer’s case 34 Unit of loudness 38 Martin Sheen, to Emilio Estevez 39 __ pro nobis 40 Bathroom renovator 43 Country band named for their home 45 Drafting implement 47 SADD concern 48 Japanese immigrant’s grandchild 49 Sufi, e.g.

52 Garden-variety

53 Corpuscle’s passageway 54 Boxer’s restraint 55 Origin 56 “Typee” sequel 57 Three-layer treat 58 DŸsseldorf denial 59 USN noncoms 60 Title for the starts of 20-, 25-, 37-, 46and 55-Across

TODAY’s puzzle solved

COMICS

Get Fuzzy

by Darby Conley

Cow and Boy

by Mark Leiknes

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Understand the dynamics between you and key people. Right now, you might feel as if you are playing sidekick, but this is only a phase.

Try letting go of a need to control, and just go along for the ride. Excitement hops in the back seat. Tonight: Let someone entice you to join him or her.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You might want to revise your plans with an eye to settling a situation that a boss or you are highly concerned about. Be careful with an overly serious person. He or she easily could misunderstand a comment.

Tonight: Burning the candle at both ends.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Let someone know just how much you care. Indulge those you love. Though you might not think you have time for so much attention, you will feel better as a result. Reach out to someone at a distance who you care about. Tonight: Let your hair down.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You might want to stay close to home right now. If you can, get to the bottom of a problem through a discussion. Do help someone who feels uptight or who has a difficult time verbalizing him- or herself. A discussion could help both of you feel better. Tonight: Enjoy company and dinner.

BORN TODAY Basketball player Kobe Bryant (1978), actor River Phoenix (1970)

Pearls Before Swine

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Lucius creates a perfect wall of sound during their Sunday performance for Mountain Stage.

by celeste lantz copy desk chief

The announcer tells the crowd to move in a little closer, as we’d all become friends by the end of the night.

The night in question was Sunday, the last live recording for the 2012-13 season of Mountain Stage, episode 794, in Morgantown at the Creative Arts Center.

The Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre was not quite filled providing a smaller, more intimate audience.

This performance was testing one of the first times the show would be broadcast through live video streaming, which made the audience reaction and participation that much more significant.

After the opening song, “Simple Song,” written and performed by Larry Groce, host of Mountain Stage, the audience clapped and cheered raucously to make up for their small number.

“This is my favorite type of show, because we have such a diverse group of performers,” Groce said.

“These kinds of shows don’t draw the largest crowds, because they don’t have the largest names that

people want to come out to see.”

Filling out the set list were Lucius, Johnnyswim, Garland Jeffreys, James Maddock and internationally known slide guitarist Sonny Landreth.

Jess Wolfe, Holly Laessig, Dan Molad, Peter Lalish and Andrew Burri met in Brooklyn, N.Y., in a musician community house for artists. They soon formed the group now known as Lucius, which put out their first, self-titled EP in 2012.

The group walked out on stage dressed in carefully constructed symmetry, from the men’s matching green suits, to the girls’ black dresses and green tights. Their performance was as visual as it was musical, and they mirrored each other, from Wolfe and Laessig rolling their hair in opposite directions to Lalish and Burri’s similarlygroomed mustaches.

During their first song, “Genevieve,” Wolfe and Laessig kicked off their heels, further contributing to the friendly feel of this Mountain Stage.

Lucius’s set was driven by strong harmonies, quiet drumbeats and plucky guitar riffs, and each member carried his weight, singing

and playing one or two instruments simultaneously, resulting in the sound of a much larger band.

Each song was so different from the last, so perfect you’d believe you were listening to a record, with the distinctive male and female harmonies dueling without drowning each other out.

At their most restrained, Lucius sat for a measure in complete silence and, in contrast, filled the concert hall with their loudest note.

Lucius performed with all the vitality of a newly formed group, and it was so easy to fall in love with how much they loved their music.

“We don’t have a genre really; we’re not trying to be anything or something we’re not,” Laessig said after the show. “We surround ourselves with so many influences. Whatever you want us to be, we are. Whatever we want to be, we are. We adapt to different performances and audiences.”

The second stand-out performance came from husband-and-wife duo, Johnnyswim.

Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez met in 2005 in Nashville and released their latest EP, “Home, Vol.

1” in 2012. Johnnyswim were also guests on the live variety show, “A Prairie Home Companion” shortly after proving them to be no stranger to public broadcasting.

The two draw from an eclectic range of influences and their obvious personal chemistry, bridging genres including folk, blues and pop.

Johnnyswim performed their single “Heart Beats,” but what captured the audience’s attention was their infectious attitude. The couple had a very physical performance, dancing and laughing, flirting with each other and moving out to perform at the same mic.

They seemed to be singing more to each other. It was a spectacle the audience was only looking in on.

In “Heart Beats,” Sudano cooed at the audience with a sultry, full-bodied voice, to which Ramirez provided a perfect counterpart, complementing her to near perfection, their voices playing tag and blending cautiously into melody.

Before the main acts, Maddock and Landreth, came on, there was a small interlude. As Groce waited for the hard drive, he made awkward jokes about aliens

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Sonny Landreth stuns the Mountain Stage audience with his signature slide-guitar playing Sunday night.

– the benefits of a live show this particular show will that would later be edited premiere on WVPR 90.9 and released on the radio. for Morgantown on July 17.

If you’re interested in The blend of established and new talent at Mountain attending a show – and Stage came together to the a show it always is – visit delight of all the members www.mountainstage.org/ of the audience, young and mtnstagelive.aspx. for the old. rest of the season’s line-up.

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John Prine and Holly Williams delight audience

BY SHAWNEE MORAN A&E WRITER

Country and folk singers Holly Williams and John Prine visited the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center Saturday.

An hour before the concert, the CAC was filled with fans of all generations, waiting patiently to see a glimpse of their favorite country singers.

“I’ve always been a fan of Prine, because I grew up hearing my mom play his songs,” one audience member said before the show began. Her mother, standing beside her, grinned from ear to ear and said, “I can’t wait to see him perform”.

Before the doors opened, many individuals said they wanted Williams to perform her popular songs, “Drinkin’” and “Waiting on June,” and Prine to perform “In Spite of Ourselves” and “Fish and Whistle”.

The theater quickly filled up as people took their seats.

The lights dimmed and Holly Williams, opening for John Prine, was welcomed to the stage by a thunder of applause. All smiles, she thanked everyone for coming out and started the concert with her popular song “Gone Away From Me”.

Released from her third album, “The Highway,” earlier in February, this song set a calm, relaxing tone for the evening. Accompanied by

her husband/guitarist, Chris Coleman, Williams continued to perform her most successful songs of the album which included “Giving Up,” “Railroads,” “The Highway,” “Waiting on June” and “Drinkin’.”

While strumming her guitar in between songs, Williams shared the personal experiences with the audience that inspired her to write “Giving Up” and “Waiting on June”.

Williams told the audience she wrote a song about her friend struggling with an addiction in the song “Giving Up.” She sadly told the audience that her friend had recently relapsed and was going back into rehab. The lyrics of this song choked up the audience and a vast amount of applause followed the song.

“Waiting on June” had a happier backstory. Williams began telling the audience that she wrote this song about her grandparents and their 56 years spent together.

This song was clearly the audience’s favorite, as they gave her a standing ovation.

Williams thanked everyone for coming out before leaving the stage. Moments later after a generous amount of applause, she returned to the stage for an encore and performed a brand new song for the audience.

After a brief intermission, the lights dimmed once more. The moment that John

Prine stepped on stage, the audience roared with excitement and thunderous applause filled the room.

“Spanish Pipedream” was the perfect opening song.

Both popular and catchy, many audience members in the room sang along as they watched Prine inch closer and closer to the edge of the stage.

With his gravelly voice and salt-and-pepper hair, Prine dominated the stage and captivated the attention of everyone in the room. Between songs – especially at the beginning of the concert – audience members took every opportunity to shout exclamations of love and words of encouragement to Prine.

Prine not only enthralled the audience with his voice, but also with his sense of humor and witty song lyrics.

After playing “Six O’clock News,” a tragic song about suicide, Prine said “Boy, I hated that this one had to end up so sad”. The whole room erupted with laughter at this unexpected comment.

Prine continued to make the audience laugh when he got lost in song during “Fish and Whistle”.

“What the hell’s the third verse?” he said, and then laughed at himself before continuing with the song, receiving a chuckle from the audience and an enormous amount of applause

John Prine took the stage Saturday evening at the CAC. afterwards.

After preforming his last “Dear Abby” and “Sins of song “Lake Marie,” Prine Memphisto” demonstrated thanked everyone for comPrine’s creative ability to in- ing out. The audience rose corporate humor into song to their feet and applauded lyrics. Laughter from the au- Prine until he left the stage. dience reverberated off the Even after the stage lights walls of the theater through- went off, the audience was relentless, hoping that he out the concert.

Prine played a variety of would come back for an 20 songs during the length encore. of the concert. From fastAfter what seemed to be paced songs to slow ballads, an eternity of clapping in the he played a little something darkness, Prine joined the for everyone. Crowd favor- stage once again with Holly ites during the concert also Williams. The audience was included “Angel of Mont- thrilled to have both singers gomery,” “That’s the Way the back on stage. Fans immediWorld Goes Round,” “Bear ately recognized that the two Creek Blues,” and “She is my singers were going to sing “In Spite of Ourselves.” This Everything”.

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duet perfectly showcased the singer’s voices as they blended perfectly together.

“That was the coolest moment of my life”, Williams said to the audience after the applause died down.

At that point, the two singers decided to take turns singing Prine’s “Paradise” for the final song of the night. The singers thanked everyone once more for being so supportive and exited the stage, and the audience left the Creative Arts Center talking about how exciting it was to see their favorite singers perform live. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Athletic Director Oliver Luck, right, said he is beginning to explore options to renew old football rivalries against the likes of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech and Penn State.

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Luck exploring options for tougher non-conference football games in future by amit batra sports writer

West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck made it clear he wants the Mountaineers to have a tougher non-conference schedule in upcoming football seasons.

Luck also said that WVU would like to add appealing non-conference contests for future schedules. While the school is booked for the near future with nonconference games against William & Mary, Georgia State and Maryland the upcoming season, a long-term scenario could see some old foes.

West Virginia is set to face the likes of Alabama in 2014 and Brigham Young University in 2016, but Luck said he would like to see some old names back on

future schedules such as Virginia Tech, Virginia, Penn State and longtime rival Pittsburgh.

“Those four schools we historically play and they’re obviously very reasonable schools in terms of our fans’ ability to make it to the games. There’s a lot of history with those programs,” Luck said.

WVU played Pitt 104 times between 1895 and 2011 in the annual Backyard Brawl, one of the most well-known rivalries in all of college football. West Virginia and Virginia Tech faced off 51 times between 1912 and 2005, including every season dating back to 1973. Starting in 1997, the two schools would play for the Black Diamond Trophy.

From 1947-1992, West Virginia and Penn State met 59 times.

The rivalry ended in a similar

fashion to Pitt and Virginia Tech when conference realignment made it difficult for the schools to continue battling. WVU and UVA haven’t met as many times as those three schools; the Cavaliers have played the Mountaineers only 23 times.

Luck said making schedules in advance can be a difficult process, but he hopes to have quality competition for years to come.

“The college football playoffs begin in 2014. It’s going to be different than the BCS system,” he said. “As athletic directors, we spend a lot of time talking about that. It’s obviously all speculation.

“Strength of schedule is going to be more important than it is now. Right now, there are three or four schools that you’re expected to win against. I think that

will change.”

The future against Maryland, the lone non-league rival, could be in question now that the Terrapins are moving to the Big 10 Conference. Luck said the future is questionable with a potential policy that the power top-5 conferences cannot play FCS schools.

“I think in the future the outof-conference schedule will become more important,” Luck said.

“People want to see a strong nonconference schedule. It indicates that you’re not afraid to play top10 teams and play the best college football programs in the country.

“If you lose a conference game, it’s not as bad if you beat a team such as Alabama in the non-conference schedule.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

greg madia multimedia editor

It’s time to revamp non-conference slate For the last five years, college football has been defined by ever-evolving conferences that have competed in a daunting arms race for superiority.

Gearing up with a greater number of teams, powerful television money and the fear of missing out on the next domino effect, the five power conferences (the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) have momentarily stabilized college football realignment as the BCS era makes way for the new College Football Playoff.

But just because realignment has slowed doesn’t mean the next wave to improve competition isn’t just around the corner.

The College Football Playoff is set to begin in conjunction with the 2014 season. That means week in and week out teams are going to be judged under extreme scrutiny. It is pretty clear whether Alabama is playing Ole Miss in a conference bout, or UCLA is taking on New Mexico in a non-conference game, teams in power conference will be watched under a microscope.

At this point, the five power conferences have extremely difficult schedules.

The Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac12 all have nine game conference schedules. Additionally, the ACC plays eight conference games and five of their schools play against Notre Dame. The SEC, considered the toughest conference by most, currently has an eight-game conference schedule but could move to

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WVU to kick off season against William & Mary by michael carvelli sports editor

Like many teams around the country, the West Virginia football team will kick off its 2013 season against an opponent from the NCAA’s College Football Championship Subdivision.

When the Mountaineers take the field against William & Mary on Aug. 31, it will be the first time since 1972 that the two schools will face off, and their 17th meeting overall. In the previous 16 games, WVU has won 15 times and the two teams tied in 1967.

The Tribe enters the 2013 season coming off a disappointing 2-9 finish last year, as well as a 1-7 mark in the Colonial Athletic Association.

A young West Virginia

offense will see its debut against a William & Mary defense that was up and down in 2012.

Despite strong performances – like a 7-6 loss to Maryland to start the season – the Tribe also gave up at least 40 points in two games last year. Opponents gained an average of 353 yards per game against the Tribe last season, including close to 200 yards per game through the air.

The secondary is led by two upperclassmen at safety. Senior Jerome Couplin emerged as one of the top defensive backs in the CAA last season, earning third team all-conference honors after finishing the year with 91 tackles and three interceptions. Also returning is junior safety Ivan Tagoe.

One player to watch on

the William & Mary defense is sophomore cornerback DeAndre Houston-Carson. The Woodford, Va., native started every game last season as a freshman and finished the year with 55 tackles and an interception against Maryland.

“The entire group is working hard and with good focus through the mid-point of the spring,” said Tribe defensive backs coach Tom Clark. “We are very game tested at the safety positions and are looking to develop depth at the corners. Over the last number of years, we have built a tradition of outstanding secondary play, and our goal is to build on those successes.”

The young Tribe offense averaged 21.2 points per game last year and returns a bulk of its playmakers

from a year ago.

At quarterback, both Raphael Ortiz and Michael Graham will be back under center. The two split time last season, with Ortiz receiving five starts and Graham starting three games.

Ortiz is a dual-threat signal caller who threw for 942 yards and five touchdowns in 2012, while running for 136 yards and four touchdowns.

Graham completed just 58 of his 127 pass attempts for 776 yards, eight touchdowns and six interceptions.

The two quarterbacks will have plenty of options to look to in the passing game, with leading receivers Tre McBride and Sean Ballard back for their junior seasons. The two combined for 83 catches and 1,292 yards and 14 touch-

downs last season.

William & Mary also got a boost when 6-foot-3, 210-pound receiver Christian Reeves transferred from Virginia Tech. Reeves caught one pass for six yards last year as a Hokie.

“We have some talented players in this group who I see being a great fit for what we are trying to do offensively,” said William & Mary wide receivers coach David Corley Jr. “Our focus this spring is on developing and defining roles for all our receivers, matching their strengths within the system.”

In the running game, the Tribe returns three of their four leading rushers, including juniors Keith McBride II and Darnell Laws.

McBride started eight games and was No. 8 in the CAA in rushing yards

per game as a sophomore, and Laws will serve as William & Mary’s short-yardage back.

Sophomore Mikal Abdul-Saboor converted from quarterback to running back midway through his freshman season and carried the ball 69 times for 242 yards.

“We have a deep and versatile tailback group.

Four players return with significant playing experience, and I expect to see them take the next step and develop into a more diverse part of the offense,” said running backs coach Chris Barclay.

“We will have tremendous competition for reps, and I look to see the group push each other all spring and into the fall.” james.carvelli@mail.wvu.edu

ap

Ohio St. president retires after Notre Dame jabs

AP

Gordon Gee retired Tuesday after he came under fire regarding statements he made about Notre Dame and other schools.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University President Gordon Gee abruptly announced his retirement Tuesday after he came under fire for jokingly referring to “those damn Catholics” at Notre Dame and poking fun at the academic quality of other schools.

The remarks were first reported last week by The Associated Press, and Ohio State at the time called them unacceptable and said it had placed Gee on a “remediation plan” to change his behavior.

Gee, 69, said in a teleconference that the furor was only part of his decision to retire, which he said he had been considering for a while. He said his age and the start of a long-term planning process at the university were also factors.

“I live in turbulent times and I’ve had a lot of headwinds, and so almost every occasion, I have just moved on,” he said. Gee explained away the abrupt timing by saying he was

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That said, what schools do out of conference is going to be viewed closely by decision makers when selecting four teams for the College Football Playoff.

Some schools are already getting ahead of the next arms race, which will be building up the non-conference schedule.

Take Arkansas and Texas Tech for example.

“quirky as hell” and hated long transitions.

According to a recording of a Dec. 5 meeting obtained by the AP under a public records request, Gee, a Mormon, said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten athletic conference because “you just can’t trust those damn Catholics.”

Gee also took shots at schools in the Southeastern Conference and the University of Louisville, according to the recording of the meeting of the school’s Athletic Council.

Gee apologized when the comments were disclosed, saying they were “a poor attempt at humor and entirely inappropriate.”

His decision to retire was first reported by The Columbus Dispatch.

Robert Schottenstein, who as chairman of the university’s board of trustees condemned the remarks last week as “wholly unacceptable” and “not presidential in nature,” deflected questions about

whether Gee had been forced out by the board.

“It’s really about a decision to retire for the reasons that Gordon has articulated,” Schottenstein said.

Ohio State, one of the biggest universities in the nation, with 65,000 students, named provost Joseph Alutto as interim president.

Gee, a familiar figure on campus with his bowties and owlish eyeglasses, has repeatedly gotten in trouble over the years for verbal gaffes.

Ohio State trustees learned of Gee’s latest remarks in January and created the remediation plan.

In a March 11 letter, the trustees warned any repeat offenses could lead to his firing and ordered him to apologize to those he offended. But it appeared that several of Gee’s apologies came only in the last week or so as the school prepared to respond to the AP’s inquiries.

Gee said Tuesday he waited until recently to

apologize in person to the Notre Dame president, Rev. John Jenkins, because they had a long-scheduled meeting. Schottenstein said the board was satisfied with Gee’s response to the letter.

In the recording of his meeting with the Athletic Council, Gee said that the top goal of Big Ten presidents is to “make certain that we have institutions of like-minded academic integrity. So you won’t see us adding Louisville.” After laughter from the audience, Gee added that the Big Ten wouldn’t add the University of Kentucky, either.

When asked by a questioner how to respond to SEC fans who say the Big Ten can’t count because it now has 14 members, Gee said: “You tell the SEC when they can learn to read and write, then they can figure out what we’re doing.”

Notre Dame and the SEC had no comment on Gee’s retirement.

Gee also came under fire in 2011 for some offhand remarks he made during a scandal on football coach Jim Tressel’s watch. Asked whether he had considered firing Tressel, Gee said: “No, are you kidding?

Let me just be very clear: I’m just hopeful the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

Last year, Gee apologized for saying that coordinating the school’s many divisions was like running the Polish army, a remark that a Polish-American group called bigoted.

In 1992, in a moment of frustration over highereducation funding, Gee referred to then-Gov. George Voinovich as “a damn dummy.”

Gee was named the country’s best college president in 2010 by Time magazine. He has held the top job at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt. He was Ohio State president from 1990 to 1997 and returned in 2007. He makes about $1.9

million a year in base pay, retirement benefits and other compensation.

He is a prolific fundraiser and is leading a $2.5 billion campaign at Ohio State. He is omnipresent on campus, attending everything from faculty awards events to dormitory pizza parties.

Gov. John Kasich praised Gee on Tuesday as “a tremendous partner in transforming Ohio’s fragmented higher education system into one better focused on fueling Ohio’s economic recovery and helping students meet their goals.”

The president of the American Council on Education said Gee, who is a board member, left an “indelible mark” on each institution he served.

“He is an iconic leader, unparalleled in skills and widely respected among presidents, chancellors, policymakers and business leaders at both the state and federal levels,” ACE President Molly Corbett Broad said in a statement.

Last week the Razorbacks and Red Raiders scheduled a home and home series beginning in 2014 in Lubbock and concluding in 2015 in Fayetteville. Furthermore, LSU and Wisconsin are close to finalizing a two-game neutral site series where one game will be played at Reliant Stadium in Houston and the other in Green Bay at Lambeau Field.

Additionally, Penn State and Pittsburgh decided to fire up their old rivalry with a series set to run from 2016

to 2019.

Even Texas head coach Mack Brown knows out of conference schedule could emphasize placement in the College Football Playoff.

“We are anticipating, that with this new college football playoff, that we use strength of schedule as a huge part of it,” Brown said during his press conference Monday. “Because it’s going to force teams to play great out of conference teams, and that’s why we’ve scheduled the teams like Notre Dame and USC

in preparation for that day, because we think that’s coming.”

Expect more power conference schools to schedule one another. In order to make an impact on the College Football Playoff Committee, athletic directors and coaches know they have to play a competitive schedule. It cannot just be a challenge from the final week of September, it has to be a very uphill climb from the first Saturday of the season to Championship Week if schools want to be

part of the College Football Playoff.

The Mountaineers have a non-conference series with Maryland that runs through 2017 and one with East Carolina setup to start in 2015 and finish in 2018. A game with Alabama in Atlanta to kickoff 2014, and one with BYU at FedEx Field to start 2016, gives quality to future schedules.

In 2016, WVU doesn’t have an FCS opponent on the schedule. With one game needed in 2017 and two needed in 2018, ex-

pect West Virginia to fill the schedule with quality.

Again, the idea of bolstering non-conference schedules will only grow with the College Football Playoff.

Athletic directors, administration and coaches know the next step is to impress on the field every week.

So, until a top tier schedule is made, and that team runs the table all the way to a National Title, expect power programs to keep scheduling one another. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Times announced for first three games of season

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The West Virginia football team will open its season at home Aug. 31 against William & Mary at noon.

by greg madia multimedia editor

The Big 12 Conference released finalized game times for the early season schedule on Tuesday. As part of the release from the Big 12, WVU’s first three games and television assignments were announced.

West Virginia will open the season in Morgantown on Aug. 31 at noon ET against William & Mary. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1, a channel that will launch mid-August.

The following week on Saturday, Sept. 7, West Virginia travels to Oklahoma for the first Big 12 Conference game of 2013. The Mountaineers and Sooners will kickoff at 7 p.m.

ET/6 p.m. CT at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, and the game will be nationally televised on FOX. Finally West Virginia returns home for a noon game against Georgia State on Saturday, Sept. 14.

The game will be televised locally, and an outlet will be announced once WVU’s third tier rights partner is named.

WVU lands six on Phil Steele’s preseason all-Big 12 team As part of his annual preseason football magazine, Phil Steele released his preseason All-Big 12 Team.

West Virginia sophomore safety Karl Joseph was named to Steele’s AllBig 12 second team. With 104 tackles in last season, Joseph led the Mountaineers in tackles. Joseph also forced three fumbles and added two interceptions in his true freshman season.

Offensively, both junior running back Andrew Buie and redshirt junior offensive tackle Quinton Spain

were named to Steele’s All-Big 12 third team. Buie rushed for 851 yards and seven touchdowns, which included rushing for 207 yards against Texas during the 2012 season. Spain started every game at left tackle for WVU a year ago.

Also on Steele’s All-Big 12 third team is redshirt senior defensive end Will Clarke as well as redshirt sophomore linebacker Isaiah Bruce. Clarke finished 2012 with 26 tackles and 6.5 tackles for loss, while Bruce finished with 94 tackles as the Mountaineers’ second leading tackler.

Finally, Steele named WVU wide receiver Jordan Thompson to his All-Big 12 fourth team. Thompson only caught 13 passes in 2012 but had a very good spring in Morgantown and is expected to play in the slot.

Cignetti named to 2013 Divisional College Football Hall of Fame class Former West Virginia and Indiana University of Pennsylvania head coach Frank Cignetti has been named to the 2013 Divisional College Football Hall of Fame Class.

Cignetti served as offensive coordinator under Bobby Bowden at WVU from 1970 to 1975 before taking over as the Mountaineers’ head coach in 1976. Cignetti went 17-27 in four seasons at WVU. At IUP, Cignetti had real success, leading the Hawks to 13 Division II playoff appearances and six trips to the National Semi-Finals.

In his 20-year tenure, from 1986-2005, Cignetti collected the Lambert Cup 10 times as the top Division II team. He also was named Division II Coach of the Year in 1991. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Spoelstra, Popovich making right moves MIAMI (AP) — Other than being widely known by just the first syllable of their surnames, the coaches who will match wits in these NBA Finals may seem like polar opposites.

Of course, they would probably disagree with that assertion.

Miami’s Erik Spoelstra wears sharp suits and is a stats guy; San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich often skips the tie and would immeasurably prefer to answer questions about wine than anything about himself.

Both are intensely private, but even during an NBA Finals loaded with star power – the “Big Three” from Miami, the “Big Three” from San Antonio, a four-time MVP in LeBron James, a four-time champion in Tim Duncan – the coaches will share misery in one way.

To their chagrin, Spo and Pop will be in the spotlight.

“It’s easier to talk about how they are similar versus how they are dissimilar,” said ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy, a former NBA coach who is part of the broadcast team for the series that opens Thursday in Miami. “They are both go-

ing to the Hall of Fame. They both have tremendous respect from the coaches they coach against, and they both have a level of humility that I believe shows NBA coaching in the most positive light possible.”

Spoelstra is in the finals for the third straight year and is looking for a second consecutive championship.

Popovich is going for his fifth title, the last of the ones currently in his collection coming over James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007, and could join Phil Jackson as the only coaches to win championships in three different decades.

So far, only Jackson, Red Auerbach, John Kundla and Pat Riley – Spoelstra’s mentor and boss in Miami – have five rings as a head coach.

“Maybe I don’t show it the way I should, but it’s pretty special,” Popovich said, in a rare moment of near-sheepishness, after his team beat Memphis and won the West title for a fifth time. “I’m just really proud of the group the way they worked all year long to get there, and I’m sure that we’ve been a team that’s probably been written off like they’ve had their day.”