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W.Va. population expected to declineby jacob bojesson
staff writer @dailyathenaeum
For the first time in de-cades, West Virginia is likely to face a declin-ing population in coming years which may result in a tougher business climate.
The West Virginia Uni-versity Bureau of Business and Economic Research recently released a report on the economic outlook in West Virginia.
Using data on age dis-
tribution and current birth and death rates, research-ers found that West Vir-ginia is one of many states in the country that can ex-pect to see the population size drop starting in as lit-tle as two years.
The report suggests that the state will lose close to 20,000 residents, slightly over 1 percent, by 2030.
“What we found for the most part is consistent with what’s been happening al-ready in recent years,” said John Deskins, the BBER di-
rector and co-author of the study. “The population ac-tually did grow at a fairly healthy rate in the 2000s, but it has slowed down in the last couple of years, and we’re expecting it to be very slow in the next cou-ple of years and start de-clining at a faster rate in 2020.”
Overall, statistics of West Virginia’s population have shown dramatic shifts in the size of the popula-tion during the 20th cen-tury. One of the factors is
the migration rate, which is strongly correlated to the job market.
Losing 1 percent of the population over a 20-year span may not seem like a catastrophe, but according to the authors of the report, it will have an impact on the economy of the state.
“Businesses will have difficulties finding a work force to replace the retir-ees if there are not many workers available,” said Unk Christiadi, a BBER re-search associate and co-
author of the study. “They will have to try to become more efficient and replace workers with more cap-ital and try to increase productivity.”
The major reason for the downward trend is the natural population growth rate – births minus deaths – rather than the migration rate.
As the baby boomer gen-eration is entering retire-ment, the number of peo-ple over age 65 will grow to 22.9 percent by 2030
compared to 16 percent in 2010, according to estima-tions in the report.
“If we have a smaller population and in addi-tion our population is get-ting older, that means we have a smaller working age population, and busi-nesses may be less likely to locate in the state,” De-skins said. “More retirees means an older popula-tion and more pressure for public business services
Slutwalk WV aims to end victim-blaming, promotes personal safety
Panel talks healthy college relationships
by hannah wigalstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
The second annual Slutwalk WV will begin in front of the Mononga-lia County Courthouse at 9:30 tonight.
The march against vic-tim blaming will move up High Street and will con-clude at the Mountainlair Green, where keynote speakers Ruth Kersh-ner, Brian Jara, Ryan Claycomb and Marjorie Fuller will discuss the origin of SlutWalk, vic-tim-blaming and sexual violence, among other sexual issues.
Slutwalk began April 3, 2011, in Toronto to pro-test victim-blaming and excusing the crime of rape by citing any aspect of a woman’s appearance as an excuse and evolved as a protest against the perspective that women should avoid dressing like sluts to remain safe.
The initial rallies be-gan after Constable Mi-chael Sanguinette, a To-ronto police officer, publicly suggested that
“women should avoid dressing like sluts” as a precaution against un-wanted sexual attention.
“Rape doesn’t happen because of the clothes that you’re wearing,” said Isabelle Shepherd, Slutwalk WV lead orga-nizer and a senior po-litical science student at West Virginia Univer-sity. “Rape happens be-cause the rapist is raping. It has nothing to do with the victim.”
The idea of the move-ment is to reclaim the word “slut” and promote personal safety.
Organizers of this year’s event aim to ad-dress issues of intersec-tionality regarding the reclaiming of the word “slut,” and an objective of the event is to con-sider changing the name of the movement in Mor-gantown in order to make it more inclusive.
“The message behind the Slutwalk WV is liber-ating and empowering,” Shepherd said. “Yes, it deals with a very serious
alexis Randolphstaff writer
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Students and faculty of West Virginia University gathered for an open fo-rum about love and inti-macy Thursday night.
Rules of Engagement: A Panel Discussion on Col-lege Campus Relation-ships took place in the Mountainlair ballrooms. A live Twitter conversa-tion accompanied the fo-rum using hashtag #WVU-realtalk which trended nationally during the hour-and-a-half open discussion.
The panel for the event was made up of various members of the WVU faculty and Morgantown community.
Cathy Yura, the assis-tant vice president of Stu-dent Health and Wellness,
has worked as a coun-selor for many years and opened the panel dis-cussion. She, as well as other panel members, responded to the ques-tion of what they believe to be the biggest prob-lem with intimate college relationships.
Yura said she was as-tounded by the turn-out and openness of the forum.
“I have been doing col-lege counseling for years, and I have never come to a function like this before,” Yura said. “Relationships are on everyone’s mind, especially intimacy. You come to college and you are trying to figure out yourself, who you are and how that fits in what you want with life. I think that is what makes it so hard.”
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with a smaller tax base. This could signal more budgetary pressure in coming years.”
M a n y E u r o p e a n countries are also strug-gling with declining pop-ulations. In March, a movement in Denmark called “Do it for Den-
mark!” started airing commercials on national television in which they urged married couples to have more unprotected sex in order to increase the birth rate.
Deskins said he is not advocating desperate mea-sures like that for West Vir-ginia, but policy makers in the state have a task ahead of them to attract people to move to the state in or-der to change the current
trend.“Migration has swung
quite a bit over the last 20 years, so good public pol-icy can make that net mi-gration figure improve, and that’s what we’re depend-ing on,” Deskins said. “The natural population is de-clining, there is not much we can do about that, at least not in the short run.”
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issue, but it celebrates the rights of women to do what they want and still have their safety protected.”
This year’s Slutwalk is sponsored by Triota, a WVU Women’s & Gender Studies Honorary, and WVU’s Gender Equality Movement.
“I participate in this event because I’ve heard too many stories of sexual assault situations where the rapist walks away unaware they just com-mitted rape,” Shepherd said. “Rape happens with friends, family and col-
leagues. It happens with someone you trust. Con-sent is very clear, and it can only be verbal.”
Slutwalk will be held re-gardless of weather condi-tions, and if necessary, the event will relocate inside the Mountainlair to min-imize the negative effects of the weather.
For more information or questions regarding Slutwalk, visit its Face-book page or contact Isa-belle Shepherd at [email protected].
“We need to change our society from a rape cul-ture to a consent culture,” Shepherd said. “It starts with movements like this.”
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WaKE FOrEST, N.C. (aP) — A North Carolina man whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes was rescued by an elite FBI team after he was kidnapped and terrorized for five days in what authorities described as an act of retal-iation involving the Bloods street gang.
Five people were arrested following a late night raid by the FBI’s Hostage Res-cue Team on an Atlanta apartment.
During the abduction, the kidnappers took a picture of Frank Arthur Janssen tied up in a chair and sent it to his wife, threatening to torture and dismember him if she went to police, according to court documents.
John Strong, the FBI’s agent in charge for North Carolina, said the kidnap-ping was related to Janssen’s daughter’s prosecution of Kelvin Melton, who is serv-ing a life sentence for order-ing the shooting of a man in 2011. Melton, 49, was con-victed of being a habitual felon, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
According to the crimi-nal complaint, Melton had a mobile phone in his prison cell and was in constant con-tact with the alleged kidnap-pers. Authorities closed in on the suspects by tracking their
cellphones and listening to their calls.
Court documents said a woman knocked on Jans-sen’s door Saturday at his Wake Forest home in a quiet, upscale, golf course subdi-vision. Several people as-saulted him and someone used a stun gun. He was then driven to Atlanta and his wife, Christie, reported him missing.
On Monday, she started receiving a series of text mes-sages from a phone in Geor-gia. One of the texts said if law enforcement was con-tacted, “we will send (Mr. Janssen) back to you in 6 boxes and every chance we get we will take someone in your family to Italy and tor-ture them and kill them ... we will do drive by and gun down anybody.”
The messages made spe-cific ransom demands for the benefit of Melton, an in-mate at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., but the details were not spelled out in the court fil-ings and authorities did not answer questions at a news conference.
A federal law enforcement official, speaking on condi-tion of anonymity because the person was not autho-rized to discuss an ongoing investigation, told The Asso-ciated Press that the kidnap-
ping was an act of retaliation and that the communica-tions of those involved sug-gested a link to the Bloods. The official had been briefed on the investigation.
Court documents from Melton’s 2012 conviction in North Carolina also list his affiliation with the gang. Re-cords show he was prose-cuted by Wake County As-sistant District Attorney Colleen Janssen.
At 12:19 a.m. Wednesday, Janssen’s wife received a text photograph of him tied up along with a message: “To-morrow we call you again an if you can not tell me where my things are at tomorrow i will start torchering.”
At 8:20 p.m., a call was placed between Melton and a phone associated with the kidnappers. The two male callers said:
“The first spot we are checking out is close to the house.”
“We want to make sure it’s in a secluded area and the ground is soft so we can go 3 feet deep.”
“Get a bag, put it over his head, and stuff something in his mouth.”
“However you feel like do-ing it, just do it.”
“Make sure to clean the area up. Don’t leave any-thing. Don’t leave any DNA behind.”
Following the call, au-thorities tried to enter Melton’s cell and he tempo-rarily barred the door and smashed the phone. Prison records show Melton had been cited with infractions twice in the last year for pos-sessing phones, most re-cently on Feb. 24. Prison officials are now investigat-ing whether a staff mem-ber might have smuggled in
the phone Melton allegedly used to help orchestrate the kidnapping.
A few hours after correc-tion officers forced their way into Melton’s cell, authorities located Janssen in Atlanta at the Forest Cove Apartments, a complex of two-story townhomes.
Charged with kidnapping were: Jenna Paulin Mar-tin; Tiana Maynard; Jevante
“Flame” Price; Michael “Hot” Montreal Gooden and Clifton James Roberts.
They appeared Thurs-day in federal court in At-lanta, where a magistrate judge read the charges against them. They are due back in court for a bond hearing Tuesday, when they will each have a lawyer appointed by the judge.
The ideas of self-growth and development were at the center of many issues discussed by the panel, each member indicat-ing college was a time for students to grow and find their own identity.
Panel member Eric Murphy, the Monongalia County extension agent for WVU, said he believes col-lege students have a hard time with the idea of inti-macy and how it connects with oneself.
“I think one of the prob-lems college students have is when we talk about inti-macy. When we talk about
intimacy, we talk about self-love,” Murphy said. “When you are a college student, you are trying to figure out what it is you love about yourself.”
Another point made during the forum was stu-dents often learn about re-lationships from their in-dividual backgrounds. Issues ranged from cul-tural differences, such as arranged marriages to LG-BTQ issues.
Ruth Kershner, a profes-sor with the WVU School of Public Health and panel member, said where you come from creates the framework for future relationships.
“All of us grow up with dif ferent attachment styles, some of them are healthy and some of them are not so healthy,” Kersh-ner said. “Sometimes we don’t realize what we are looking for comes from who we were.”
She also talked about
the instinctual fear people have of being alone. This fear, Kershner said, can lead us down destructive paths.
“Sometimes we want to be in a relationship no matter what. We hang on to relationships that just don’t work,” Kershner said.
“We don’t want to be by ourselves. People just hang on so long to some-thing broken until they find something else.”
No topic involving love, intimacy, fidelity or ex-pectations were off lim-its. Many students from the audience participated with both students asking the panel questions and the panel asking questions for the students to answer.
Other panel members included Alfred Kasprow-icz, director of the Carruth Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, and Officer Troy Ball of the Morgantown Police Department.
“I think we need to have conversations in a large group setting like this,” said Jason Ottley, modera-tor and coordinator for the panel.
“Relat ionships are a global language we all need to be loved and we all need to feel love.”
Ottley said he was hap-pily surprised by student turnout and participation.
“I was certainly over-whelmed. It was a wonder-ful, well attended event,” he said.
“I thought it was a great event for people to learn about others. How ev-eryone is different but also kind of the same in a way,” said Garrett Yurisko, a sophomore television journalism student. “I thought it was good how they made it interac-tive and got the students involved.”
ApWorkers repair a neighbor’s front door, rear, blown off during a raid when FBI agents Wednesday rescued Frank Arthur Jans-sen, of Wake Forest, N.C., from an apartment, foreground, in a housing complex in Atlanta, Thursday.
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Lawyer: Stabbing suspect like ‘deer in headlights’
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing 22 people at his high school was dazed “like a deer in the headlights” hours later and doesn’t fully grasp what he did, his attorney said Thursday as he sketched out the begin-nings of a possible mental health defense.
Deepening the mystery of what set off the violence, attorney Patrick Thom-assey said Alex Hribal had no history of mental illness or troublemaking, didn’t abuse drugs and was no outcast at school, where the lawyer described him as a B or B-plus student.
“In a case like this, it’s pretty obvious to me that there must be something inside this young man that nobody knew about,” Thomassey told The Asso-ciated Press.
The local prosecutor, meanwhile, said Hribal re-mained an enigma.
“We have very little in-formation about him,” Westmoreland County Dis-trict Attorney John Peck said, “except for the fact that he was a student, his age, and how he was as a student.”
Authorities seized the family’s computer as they searched for clues to Wednesday’s rampage at Franklin Regional High, about 15 miles from Pitts-burgh. Authorities said Hribal armed himself with two kitchen knives and stabbed 21 students and a security guard before an assistant principal tackled him.
The slender, dark-haired boy who looks younger than his years was jailed without bail on four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggra-vated assault. Authorities are prosecuting him as an adult, but Thomassey said he will try to have the case moved to juvenile court.
He said he plans to get his client examined by a psychiatrist before a pre-liminary hearing on April 30.
“I think his mental state now is unstable. I’m not sure that he recognizes the enormity, if that’s
the word, of what has oc-curred,” Thomassey said. “And I think in his own mind he’s trying to figure out what happened here, as we all are trying to fig-ure out what the heck hap-pened here.”
The attack seemingly came out of nowhere, the attorney said.
“Both parents are good parents. They’re parents who pay attention to their kids, who eat dinner with their kids every day, who understand their kids’ friends, who, you know, care about who they hang out with,” Thomassey said.
But a school security consultant said it is often the case that school attacks are perpetrated by kids who officials say weren’t on their radar.
“In incident after inci-dent, when you start peel-ing back the onion, you find there were some in-dicators, there certainly were some issues. But it takes some time to find,” said Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services.
“Often times, it’s not the kid who’s the class clown or acting out the most, but the kid who’s changed, who’s turned more intro-verted or withdrawn,” he said. “I think the one con-sistent theme across all of these is mental health.”
Ten boys remained hos-pitalized, three in critical condition.
Police and doctors said one victim, a 17-year-old whose name was not re-leased, had surgery again overnight and was in very critical condition after
suffering a knife thrust that pierced his liver and missed his heart and aorta by fractions of an inch.
Another student, Brett Hurt, 16, told of being stabbed in the back.
“What was g oing through my mind?” Hurt said at a hospital news conference. “Will I survive or will I die.”
Hurt said he pushed his friend Gracie Evans out of the attacker’s way, and then after he was stabbed, she stayed with him and put pressure on the wound.
“Gracie was screaming and asking me if I was all right,” Hurt said.
Hurt’s mother, Amanda Leonard, said of Evans: “I’ve hugged her and kissed her. I have told her thank you. There is noth-ing in the world I can do for that girl that can thank her enough for what she has done.”
As for the assailant, Hurt said he hopes that some-day “I can forgive him, and everyone else who got hurt can forgive him. First of all, he needs to forgive himself.”
A day after the ram-page, students pondered what comes next for their school, which could re-open Monday after the blood-spattered floors and walls are cleaned up.
“It will never be the same, but you want it to be as close to the same as pos-sible,” said Jacob Roberge, a junior.
Roberge said that while “people are definitely mad” at Hribal, “more so, people want him to get help.”
APAlex Hribal, the suspect in the stabbings at the Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh, is taken from a district magistrate after he was arraigned on charges in the attack Wednesday in Export, Pa. Authorities say Hribal has been charged after allegedly stabbing and slashing at least 21 people, mostly students, in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday.
KEITH SRAKOCIC/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMA sign a group of students taped up supporting their school is displayed near the entrance to Franklin Regional High School Thursday, April 10, 2014 in Murrysville, Pa. A knife wielding student injured over 20 people in a stabbing attack.
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You’re in your last semes-ter. What do you do next? For some, the path is on to the workforce. For others, graduate school is their one goal.
Of course, for those who have felt their previous four years were torture, grad school is probably not the answer. But for those who just can’t get enough learn-ing or who want to special-ize in a certain area, grad school is a breath of fresh air.
The key to a successful ex-perience is to look at a va-riety of schools. Because graduate programs are fo-cused on a specific path of study, one school might have something another does not. And you also have to factor in location. Do you really want to live in Colo-rado for three years? Would you jump on the oppor-tunity to be a student at Oxford?
And never, ever be afraid of rejection. It can’t hurt to apply to several different schools – except for the ap-
plication fees – and it’s al-ways nice to have options. Especially if one of those op-tions is willing to grant you a tuition waiver or even a graduate assistantship.
As far as graduate pro-grams go, West Virginia Uni-versity has some of the best in the country.
Some of the programs students can get a master’s degree in are public admin-istration, secondary edu-cation, social work and in-dustrial and labor relations. Students can also come back to WVU for a doctor-ate in English, mathematics and community design and development.
WVU also provides a mul-titude of resources to grad-uate students, including scholarships and additional funding, guides to student life on campus and the Cen-ter for Black Culture and Re-search and the Office of In-ternational Students and Scholars are around to offer additional resources to stu-dents who seek it out.
For all that graduate stu-
dents bring to the University – their talents, research abil-ities and interests – the Of-fice of Graduate Education & Life took this week to give back to the grad students.
Various exhibits and talks were happening in the Mountainlair, including an Art Exhibit featuring grad-uate students’ art from the College of Creative Arts, professional photo shoots, talks about being in grad-uate school and navigating your future and free cup-cakes and T-shirts.
If you missed out on any of these events, don’t worry. The Graduate Appreciation Afternoon Cupcake Break will still occur in the Office of Graduate Education & Life hallway with cupcakes, tea sandwiches and WVU T-shirts, as supplies last.
Undergraduates beware; they are asking for verifica-tion, so be nice and let the underappreciated gradu-ate students have their free food.
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The pickup truck in front of us inched forward as the cars in the adja-cent lane blinded us with lights as they whirred by. We were stuck in that type of annoying traffic where you know the passersby will make it to their des-tinations faster than you will, while at the same time the other drivers in the opposite lane seem-ingly encounter no con-gestion at all.
My friend in the front seat of the Subaru sighed in resignation as he mut-tered something about the cars being the least responsible for his in-somnia. The proximity of Sunnyside Commons to
the construction zone of the upcoming University Place in Sunnyside had been the prime factor to his sleepless nights.
I gazed out the car win-dow at the construction workers, whose tools sent bright sparks dancing in the air.
Apparently, the con-struction workers ham-mered away at their task through the night, which, according to my annoyed friend, often kept him up until 4 a.m.
The Paradigm Devel-opment Group LLC has acquired the five-plus acres on which to build a new residential and retail complex, and it intends to complete its project as soon as possible.
All the sounds com-bined from the construc-tion site were deafening. I could see why my friend
was irked. At least the workers were being safe. They stood out among the foundations with their hard hats and reflective vests.
Meanwhile, over 7,500 miles away, the state of Qatar is building potential venues for the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup with a death wish.
Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup four years ago. Since the initial construction of Qatar’s first five ven-ues began in 2010, the Pravasi Nepali Coordina-tion Committee states that upwards of 400 Nepalese migrant workers have lost their lives erecting these stadiums. The commit-tee has also posited that, given current conditions, approximately 4,000 work-ers will have died once the jobs are completed.
Working conditions have been reported to be atrocious. Safety regula-tions are being broken left and right. Over 1,000 workers fell to their deaths at construction sites in 2012. Some do not wear hard hats. Migrant work-ers are purported to live in suffocatingly crowded establishments that of-ten lack air-conditioning, power and running water.
We are seeing the tangi-ble liability of negligence.
This makes me think of the construction of the Great Wall of China. It is said that 400,000 people died so that the wall could stand. Of course, the Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, so working conditions must have improved since then.
Now, it will only take 4,000 bodies to raise soc-cer stadiums from the
earth.This stunning anachro-
nism in safety has gener-ated substantial press, yet construction continues in Qatar. One of the richest countries in the world is acting in an unbecoming manner.
Perhaps, with its vast sea of oil and gas, Qatar still cannot afford com-mon sense.
As my friend’s Subaru puttered on down the road, I saw the sparks fall and disappear at the feet of the toiling construction workers. In an instant, those flickers of light were gone. I must admit that the flashes were quite beauti-ful, though short-lived. My mind wandered across the Atlantic Ocean. I thought of all those workers dy-ing over soccer stadiums in Qatar.
Is a game really worth
that much loss of life? I believe that soccer, no
matter how much joy it brings to the world, sim-ply does not deserve sta-diums built by those with the fiscal means to protect human life yet neglect to do so.
Qatar has the ability to protect its workers, but it has failed to accomplish the task.
Something needs to change before more danc-ing lights disappear in the dark.
Qatar’s World Cup construction workers in peril
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BORN TODAY This year you see others act out, and you often wit-ness extreme behavior. You might opt to watch rather than participate. Sometimes you retreat to your own personal world, as you find the chaos difficult to be around. You are likely to make a change on the homefront for the better. If you are single, you draw in some interesting characters to your dating life. You could find a potential suitor to be demanding and picky. Wait for someone better to come along. If you are attached, the two of you get into your domes-tic life this spring.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You might wake up feeling lucky. Whether or not you choose
to act on this feeling, you’ll see ev-erything fall into place today. Your sense of humor will help you deal with an unexpected obstacle, which could help to free up your weekend. Tonight: Join friends.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You seem to be bubbling with ideas and plans. Make calls and necessary arrangements. You’ll gain a sudden insight into why someone is so reactive. You can question this person’s actions all you want, but you’re not likely to get an answer. Tonight: Ever playful.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HH Stay focused on a personal or domestic issue. Be willing to put more effort into what you want. It is clear that you can’t delegate right now and get the results you desire. A friend could surprise you. Tonight: Where
the gang is!
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Don’t hesitate to reach out to a neighbor or close relative. You might be delighted by the conversation that ensues. A boss or friend could add an unusual element of surprise to your day; choose to roll with it. To-night: Out with a loved one.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH You could be a bit frivolous as you de-cide to indulge a loved one to the max. Understand your limitations as well as this person’s needs. You might have the best intentions, but you could go completely overboard. Stay within your budget. Tonight: The moment continues.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH You’ll feel unstoppable, and in a sense you are. Focus on what you
need to do in order to get the results you desire. Make plans for the week-end that involve close friends, as you seem to be happiest around them. A new friend could be demanding. To-night: As you like it.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH Remain sensitive to what needs to happen with someone you look up to. You could choose to say little at the moment and observe more. You might feel as if a situation is a little out of control. Use caution with your finances. Tonight: In the limelight.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Zero in on what is important in a dis-cussion. Others will be responsive, as long as you demonstrate the abil-ity to understand the big picture and its ramifications. You might be out of sorts when dealing with a difficult person. Do only what you must. To-
night: Find your friends.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH You could be in a situation that is hard to break away from. Others will want you around to help make sure that everything is up to snuff with a project. Be flat-tered, even if it means working later than you want to. Tonight: It could be a late one.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Reach out to someone at a distance. You might need to re-think how you deal with this per-son. Others are highly responsive to you, and they will welcome any sug-gestions. Tonight: Think in terms be-yond the obvious, and make plans accordingly.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Interact on a one-on-one
basis. You could find that a lot of what you thought would be diffi-cult actually is quite easy, as others seem to be responsive. One person might be unusually unpredictable later today. Tonight: Time with a fa-vorite person.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH You might want to get to the bottom of a problem that re-volves around a friend at a distance. You could be taken aback by some-one else’s suggestion, but you might decide to use it anyway. A child will be most responsive. Tonight: Follow a friend’s advice.
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Main Street Morgantown to host annual Chocolate Lovers’ Dayby jake jarvis
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Main Street Morgantown will host its 15th annual Chocolate Lovers’ day Sat-urday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
It’s simple. Participants can purchase a ticket for only $5, which entitles them to a wristband. When this wristband is presented to local, participating businesses, they give you chocolate.
Sound too good to be true? The fun doesn’t stop there.
Main Street will give away four tickets to Her-shey Park in Hershey, Pa.
The winner will be drawn at random from entries that people can earn in multiple ways. According to Down-townMorgantown.com, there are three ways to earn an entry.
Attendees can earn en-try by collecting at least 90 points from Downtown and
the Wharf District, by visit-ing Mountain State Brew-ing Company, Lebanese Bistro and the Visitor’s Center or by visiting Wings Ole, Morgantown Brewing Company and Mountain Peoples Co-Op.
So if a person com-pletes all of these tasks, they will be entered three times. Main Street notes that these ways to be en-tered cannot be mixed and matched.
Before you start your chocolate excursion, be sure to register as early as 10:30 a.m. at either the Monongalia Arts Center, Tanner’s Alley or Lebanese Bistro.
One of the many busi-nesses participating in the celebration is the Old Stone House Gift Shop, located on Chestnut Street.
“On a regular basis we sell chocolate rocks. They are a candy in a bag that we sell that look like rocks, and it is just a real delight that
we offer for little kids,” said Rama Riemenschneider from the Old Stone House Gift Shop. “They taste like M&Ms, and we are giving samples of those away this year.”
Some businesses, like The Cupcakerie, are choos-ing to give 10 percent dis-counts instead of free chocolate.
“It’s always very busy. And I feel like if you’re a chocolate lover, you have to stop in and try our ‘Loco Cocoa,’” said Kara Wilcox from The Cupcakerie. “It’s got dark chocolate with chocolate ganache, choco-late butter cream and choc-olate chips.”
Regardless of the choco-late you get, the local econ-omy is bolstered by this many people visiting busi-nesses downtown. Riemen-schneider said this day is one of the highest sales days for Old Stone House Gift Shop.
“This is one of the high-
lights for people to come downtown and experience all of the business,” Rie-menschneider said. “Last year we had over 500 peo-ple. On a good, sunny year, High Street sees over a thousand.”
With that many people roaming the streets and that much chocolate up for grabs, people can max-imize their performance in a few different ways.
Bring a Tupperware con-tainer to put your choc-
olate in. Although it may seem like you can eat all the chocolate in the world, you’ll eventually get sick and tire out.
Be sure to wear comfort-able clothing. This might seem like the perfect time to wear that cute new sun-dress, but resist the urge. Instead, dress comfy with old tennis shoes. Saturday is about one thing – getting chocolate. Don’t let your vanity get in the way of your cocoa conquest.
Finally, for those want-ing to enjoy their goodies as soon as possible, stop by the Blue Moose Cafe on Walnut Street and try one of their signature coffee drinks.
Tickets can be pur-chased the day of the event at one of the registration lo-cations or online at http://w w w . d o w n t o w n m o r -g a n t o w n . c o m / e v e n t s /chocolatelovers.
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BrewFest fundraiser to benefit Star City Volunteer Fire Departmentby westley thompson
A&e writer @dAilyAthenAeum
The Star City Volunteer Fire Department will host its biannual fundraiser, BrewFest, at Mylan Park this weekend.
This fundraiser started in 2009, and because of the rising popularity, the fire department decided to make it a biannual event.
“Fire departments have to do fundraising, and it also gives us a chance to connect with the commu-nity,” said Ryan Gillespie, a firefighter. “We’re going to have over 50 different beers (at this event) com-ing from distributors like Coors Light and Anheuser-Busch, and we also have (beer from) Morgantown Brewing Company and Mountain State Brewing
Company.”BrewFest is not just
about drinking, though. The event has a variety of entertainment options for everyone, including live entertainment.
“We have a DJ who will be doing karaoke (to-night),” Gillespie said. “All day Saturday we’ll have a DJ, and Saturday night we’ll have a live band.”
Games such as corn
hole, a staple seen at many West Virginia University tailgates, will be set up at the fundraiser. There will also be a variety of raffle options to help the depart-ment raise money, as well as to allow some lucky par-ticipants to walk away with extra cash.
A 50/50 standard fun-draising fair raffle and in-stant winner tickets, which act like lottery scratch-offs,
will award lucky partici-pants up to $100.
BrewFest plays to the lo-cal area’s tastes and pref-erences. Gillepsie said the fire department came up with the idea for Brew-Fest by looking at Mor-gantown’s population and trying to appeal to college-aged individuals.
“Our department is run mostly by college kids, (so) we put our ideas together
and thought, ‘What attracts us?’ Beer is one thing you can attract college stu-dents with,” Gillespie said.
The event runs today and Saturday from noon-2 a.m. The proceeds from the event support the fire department, and tickets are $25 for ages 21 and up and $20 for ages under 21 and designated drivers.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Ca-lif. (AP) — Zooey Descha-nel is almost bubbling over with excitement: Her show “New Girl” is a hit, she just released a pop song with Prince, she’s working on a movie with Bill Murray and Bruce Willis, and now she’s sitting in a Tommy Hilfiger store filled with racks of dresses she helped design.
It’s fitting, then, that bubbles are a theme of her new fashion collaboration with Hilfiger, To Tommy From Zooey.
A self-described “fabric nerd” known for her bright blue eyes, long bangs and retro-inspired dresses, De-schanel spent two years working with the designer to create a collection of flirty frocks based on her own personal style.
“It makes me so happy when people like them. And I love all the dresses,” she beamed. “It’s almost like I got a whole new closet full of clothes!”
Wearing a cream-col-ored dress from the col-lection, the 34-year-old actress talked with The As-sociated Press about work-ing with Prince, being true to herself and what the fu-ture holds for “New Girl” couple Nick and Jess.
AP: There are 16 dresses
in your new collection. Will Jess get to wear some on “New Girl”?
Deschanel: She’s wear-ing three of them in the fi-nal episode, actually. It was really lucky. Every-thing took place on a boat, and I said to our costume designer, `Do you think it would be OK to put some of the dresses in the mix?’ ...So we got some press samples and then they all got chosen! They didn’t even know they were my dresses, either!
AP: Prince guest-starred on the show, and you have a single out together. Are you two buds now?
Deschanel: He’s very mysterious. I couldn’t venture to call him my bud. He’s too, like, aaaaah (she looks skyward in rev-erence). He is incredi-bly nice and so generous and just so talented - a re-ally wonderful person and I feel lucky to know him. It’s cool because I make re-cords with (my indie-folk duo) She & Him. We’ve made four records, but we’ve never been a pop band. The Prince thing was almost by accident, because (producers) said we’d like it if Jess goes up and sings with Prince, so I did a vocal for the sound department. They sent it to Prince, and the next
day they’d mixed that vo-cal in... and then they re-leased it! It’s so exciting.
AP: As a producer on the show, do you get a say in what happens between Jess and Nick, who cou-pled up this season?
Deschanel: I do to some degree. My production role is more of an on-set role and keeping a lot of stuff going, helping the ship run... So I’ll make sugges-tions, but I can’t be in the writers’ room because I’m on set all the time. I knew sort of where I wanted it to head and it did. This is obviously a relation-ship people are really in-vested in. And when they got us together last year, I knew that they had to break up. But I knew that once we got them together, you need to pay your dues and have them together long enough that for ev-ermore it will be the ghost that haunts these people. I think that makes for a re-ally interesting fourth sea-son and I’m really excited to get into that, because I think now is where it gets interesting.
AP: Now you’re work-ing on a film called “Rock the Kasbah.” What can you share about it?
Deschanel: It’s a movie with Bill Murray and Bruce Willis that Barry Levin-son is directing. It’s about a failing music manager who goes to Afghanistan and discovers a young tal-ent, and she goes onto be on `Afghan Idol,’ which is like `American Idol,’ and I play like a fun character role in the beginning.
AP: Between acting and music, plus your website HelloGiggles and now this fashion line, do you ever run out of creative juice?
Deschanel: That’s just how I keep going. I really never stop. It’s just if I’m getting tired in one cre-ative outlet, I switch to another. With the website HelloGiggles, I co-founded it three years ago and it’s doing so well. It’s really fun and now I’m really in-volved in the business side of that. I’ve always had this theory and I stick by it and it kind of just works: If I like it, other people will like it. And it’s totally true!
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‘American Buffalo’ brings drama, challenges audience membersby westley thompson
a&e writer @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia Univer-sity’s School of Theatre & Dance’s Laboratory Theatre will present “American Buf-falo” beginning tonight at 7:30.
“American Buffalo” fol-lows three characters – Don, Teach and Bob – as they try to plan a heist. A few days before the events covered in the play, Don, the owner of a junk shop, sold a rare coin to a customer. Soon, he finds out the coin may be worth much more than what he sold it for. Feeling cheated, he gathers together two
of his friends and plans to steal the coin back, in order to sell it to another collec-tor for a significantly higher price.
Teach, Don’s poker buddy, convinces the group to steal the whole coin col-lection instead. The play then goes on to show these three fools as they plan the caper.
“It’s labeled a drama, but it is very funny,” said director Mark Combs. “It has some great comedic elements.”
The play was written by playwright David Mamet, a man famous in the theater world for his unique and re-alistic writing style.
“(With) the way David Mamet writes, there is a lot of demand on the actors to perform a certain way,” Combs said. “(The dialogue) is referred to as Mamet speak. There are very few complete sentences, (and) there are words left out.”
C o m b s s a i d h e thought this gives the di-alogue a more realistic feel.
There is also a lot of pro-fane language in “American Buffalo,” but this vulgarity isn’t added for simple shock value.
Mamet wanted to capture the speech of lower class in-dividuals, people who grew up with rough lives and peo-
ple who have always been on their toes.
“It gives a level of realism that you won’t find in other plays,” Combs said.
“American Buffalo” promises to be engaging for the audience as well.
“It leaves a lot to the imagination to the story to the audience. Who’s actu-ally doing what? Who knows what they know?” Combs said. “It really draws the au-dience in, and that is one of the main reasons I wanted to do this show, because it is so captivating.”
Despite being only a three-man show, each char-acter is fully fleshed out as a three-dimensional being.
“These characters are written in such a way that it allows actors to just live in the moment and be alive with each other,” Combs said.
This level of fluidity among the three actors is part of what makes “Ameri-can Buffalo” better than the rest. When the audience feels like they’re watch-ing real people, and not just characters, they will be hooked on the production even more.
This play has deeper meaning, too, and while the beauty of the arts is that ev-erything is open to interpre-tation and every interpre-tation is right, “American
Buffalo” has a defined main point behind it.
“American Buffalo re-ally challenges us to think. Are we really as smart as we think we are, and how much of what we do are we just re-peating because we heard it, whether it’s true or not?” Combs said.
The play will also be shown at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and twice Sunday – 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
To learn more about the LAB Theatre and their up-coming performances, visit http://theatre.wvu.edu/current_students/labora-tory_theatre .
WVU Symphonic, Concert band present annual performance
by cory sancheza&e writer
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Uni-versity Symphonic and Concert bands presented a joint concert for a di-verse audience at the Ly-ell B. Clay Concert Theatre Wednesday.
“The pitch was very good,” said Kanami Fuji-moto, an international ex-change student from Japan. “I was very impressed.”
Conducted by faculty and students, the pro-gram produced an amaz-ing quality of sounds. How-ever, Johnny Leonard, a WVU graduate student and conductor, said this great performance didn’t come about without hard work.
“We did about two re-hearsals every week since January, and we worked around snow issues and ev-erything,” he said.
The Symphonic Band had approximately 50 members, who were mostly music students within the WVU School of Mu-
sic. These students earned their spot on the team by being accepted after an audition.
The WVU Concert Band, on the other hand, was made up of University students who are mostly non-music students; this body was an 85-member ensemble.
WVU student John Barry said he thought both groups provided a phe-nomenal experience.
“I thought they were both really great and did really well,” Barry said. “It really provided some nos-talgia because I played ‘Sal-vation is Created’ back in high school.”
However, there was one piece that almost everyone could agree on – the trum-pet piece.
“I was really interested by the trumpet,” Fujimoto said.
Barry said he agreed with Fujimoto.
“‘Portrait of a Trumpet’ was just phenomenal,” he said.
The trumpeter behind
the piece was Leonard himself. He said he put in the same amount of time as others on the stage, and he felt good about his execution.
“It’s a really fun piece,” Barry said. “It’s got a little bit of everything … It’s got some laid back jazzy stuff and the upbeat show tunes type of thing.”
Faculty members Dearl J. Drury, John Hendricks III and Christopher J. Nich-ter and graduate students Chelsea Corrao and Jason Brown conducted their own pieces, as well.
They introduced pieces with performances by the WVU Concert Band and the WVU Symphonic Band that included “Fate of the Gods” by Steven Reineke; selec-tions from “Mary Poppins” arranged by Ted Ricketts; and “Portrait of a Trumpet” by Sammy Nestico.
In total, the WVU Con-cert Band and the Sym-phonic Band performed nine different songs each.
Leonard said the choice for the pieces was a fun and
adventurous decision.“‘Cajun Folk Songs’ with
the Concert Band was something that I never had the chance to conduct be-fore,” he said. “I thought the melodies were really neat and catchy with a lot of diversity.”
As one of the leading performances at the con-
cert, Leonard said he will be moving on.
“This is my third and fi-nal year here at WVU,” Leonard said. “I’m fin-ishing my dual-degree in trumpet and conducting performance.”
The annual performance is presented every year as a joint concert by the Con-
cert Band and the Sym-phonic Band. However, the Symphonic Band pres-ents a performance every semester.
For more information, contact the WVU Col-lege of Creative Arts at 304-293-4359.
Mick Posey/THe DAiLy ATHeNAeUMThe WVU Symphonic and Concert bands performed Wednesday at the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.
Tyler, Perry’s new ‘Dream On’ for marathon victimsBOSTON (AP) — Aeros-
mith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have recorded a new arrangement of “Dream On” to honor victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
The rockers are accom-panied by the Southern California Children’s Cho-rus in the video of their
signature hit. Aerosmith had performed “Dream On” during the Boston Strong Concert benefit last May.
The song is part of the ESPN special “Dream On: Stories from Boston’s Strongest” that will first air Saturday on ABC. Part of the “E:60” news maga-
zine series, the hour-long show will be broadcast again on ESPN on Tues-day, the anniversary of the attacks.
Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line of the 2013 marathon.
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Day of Silence lunch sponsored by WVU Spectrum
Christian Help to sponsor Retro ‘80s 5kby nicole cUrtin
a&e writer @dailyathenaeum
The ’80s Retro Run 5k will come to Morgantown Saturday, offering runners the chance to run through Mylan Park dressed in ’80s-themed out-fits to support Christian Help.
Jennifer Lee, a Chris-tian Help Board Member, said the three-mile event has been very successful in the past.
“It has had great suc-cess in cities such as Tampa, Fla., Athens, Ga., and Frederick, Md.,” swhe said. This is the first time the ’80s run has come to Morgantown.
A portion of the pro-ceeds collected from the Retro Run will go toward helping Christian Help, a non-profit organization in Morgantown.
“If people want to raise money for the char-
ity, that would be great. Checks can be made out to Christian Help Inc., but at this point we really just need runners,” she said.
Christian Help pro-vides services to the north-central area of West Virginia.
They have programs such as the Free Store, Career Closet, Food Pan-try, Emergency Financial Assistance and Jobs for Life offered to the com-munity to help those in need.
Christian Help can supply many fami-lies, including children, with necessities through these programs, but they need donations to do so.
Lee said there will be some entertainment to go along with the ’80s theme.
“People are encour-aged to wear ’80s-themed clothing, and there will be
’80s music playing,” she said.
The ’80s Retro Run will be accepting run-ners up until the night b e f o r e t h e e v e n t starts.
It is $59 to register, but if you use the code “WVU” while signing up you will receive a $19 discount.
If you refer 10 of your friends to the run, you can participate for free - they just have to provide your email address when sign-ing up.
Parking is $5 per car, so the event organizers ask that people carpool if possible.
Participants can ei-ther get their pack-ets the day before or the day of beginning at 7:30 a.m. For more informa-tion and to register, visit http://80sretrorun.com/events/morgantown-wv/.
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by jake jarViSa&e writer
@dailyathenaeum
WVU Spectrum, the LG-BTQ student organization on campus, will host a Silent Lunch today in honor of the National Day of Silence.
The Day of Silence started in 2008 at the University of Virginia. It began as a grassroots campaign to try and end the harassment, name-calling and bully-ing that many LGBTQ stu-dents face in schools. Ma-ria Pulzetti founded the event with around 100 other students.
Though it may seem things are getting better for LGBTQ students, it’s impor-tant to remember the reali-ties they face.
In recent years, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Educa-tion Network (GLSEN) has organized the event, and it continues to be crucial in research involving school climates.
According to the 2011 Na-tional School Climate sur-vey by GLSEN, 71.3 percent of students hear homopho-bic remarks like “dyke” or “faggot,” and 63.5 percent of students feel unsafe in school because of their sex-ual orientation.
Some might think that these problems are far away from home in a city more conservative than Mor-
gantown, but in reality, the Monongalia County Board of Education has a nondis-crimination policy that does not protect sexual orienta-tion or gender identity and expression.
“The policies and rules and regulations of the Board shall be applied without re-gard to race, color, creed, national origin, sex, mar-ital status, age, handicap-ping condition or mem-bership in any employee organization,” the policy reads.
Luckily for students at West Virginia University, the nondiscrimination policy includes sexual orientation but does not protect gender identity or expression. This means that transgender stu-dents are excluded despite their presence on campus.
Spectrum realizes the importance of institutional support for LGBTQ students and their well-being. Pul-zetti knew the importance of making a big visual state-ment to get the student body talking about these issues.
“I knew that if we held panel discussions and events like that, the only people who would come would be the people who already were fairly aware,” said Pulzetti in an interview with Oasis magazine.
Today Spectrum invites students to help “take over the Lair with Silence.” Stu-
dents who wish to show sup-port for safer schools are en-couraged to stop by the Lair between 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
According to the Face-book page, participants are encouraged to wear red, black or white to help make a visual statement and raise awareness. The goal is for students to walk into this public space and no-tice something is different. They hope this will spark a discussion and break the silence of this important issue.
“Sometimes silence can cause your mind to take its own time to wrap around an issue about what can be done to stop it,” said Alex-andria Mullins, an officer of Spectrum. “I think it makes you critically think about it on your own, and that alone is powerful.”
Spectrum plans on having a booth to help guide others to information about the Day of Silence and feature ways students can get more in-volved in Spectrum.
To find out more informa-tion about this event, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/225203441001629/, or visit the group’s Facebook page, “WVU Spectrum,” for upcoming social events, activism and educational outreach.
by lacey palmera&e editor
@laceypakmer
As the warm weather rolled in, many West Virginia University students spent Thursday afternoon and eve-ning tailgating in the Coli-seum parking lot in flannel and cowboy boots for Darius Rucker’s True Believers tour.
Corey Smith, a singer-songwriter from Georgia, opened the show. Although his drummer was sick, Smith performed a great acous-tic show with two other guitarists.
Smith played a few of his most popular songs, such as “Maybe Next Year,” “21” and “If I Could Do It Again,” as well as a new song, “Party,” which got the audience to join in.
Smith is currently working on his ninth album and writes all of his own material.
The Eli Young Band came onstage next.
The five-piece began with an energetic version of their newest song. Aside from a few older songs the audience sang along to perfectly, such as “Always The Love Songs” and “Guinevere,” the group
got the audience excited with their newest hits, “Got A Lit-tle Drunk Last Night” and “Dust.” They also played cov-ers of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tom Petty songs.
In between each song, the lead vocalist connected with the audience by telling stories about how each song came about.
Before playing “Got A Little Drunk Last Night,” he made sure the audience would re-member their performance after tonight.
“When you reach for that Advil in the morning, I hope you think of us and smile
when you say, ‘I got a little drunk last night,’” he said.
The group closed with their hit, “Crazy Girl,” getting the entire audience on their feet and singing along.
As The Eli Young Band wrapped up their set and left the stage, the audience members’ chants of “Dar-ius” echoed through the Col-iseum, and Bob Huggins, dressed in his black WVU sweatsuit jacket, moved to the lower section to get a closer view of the former Hootie & The Blowfish star.
Finally, Darius took the stage, garnering cheers from
the audience and began with his newest single, “Radio.”
After playing hits such as “This,” “Alright” and “Come Back Song,” Darius also played “Time,” “Let Her Cry,” “Only Wanna Be With You” and “Hold My Hand” from his Hootie & The Blowfish days.
Before playing “Time,” Darius mentioned his first trip to Morgantown.
“We played this song in the middle of campus, and maybe five people stopped by, but we played this song that day,” Darius said.
Toward the end of the show, Corey Smith and The
Eli Young Band joined Dar-ius on stage to sing their ren-dition of “Family Tradition.”
Then, to close the show, Darius performed “True Be-lievers,” and came out for an encore to perform “Wagon Wheel” and “Purple Rain.”
“Getting to touch all their hands was amazing,” said Kaitlynn Reed, a Clarksburg resident. “It was the best time of my life.”
Overall, Darius performed an incredibly passionate show that will not soon be for-gotten in Morgantown.
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Winning isn’t everything for pitchersImagine you’re taking a
test. You studied all night for it, and you know you’re getting most, if not all of the answers right. When you hand the test in, your pro-fessor slaps a big, red “F” on it and hands it back to you.
Why did you fail? You knew all of the answers and were sure you were doing well. You leaf through the syllabus and find that in order to get an “A” on the test, the person sitting next to you had to do well on the test, too. The person you normally sit next to didn’t even show up for the test, so you automatically get an “F” whether you deserve it or not. Doesn’t sound too fair, right?
It isn’t. When someone is evaluating our individual performance on anything, it is outrageous to think our success or failure could be influenced by something we don’t have any control over.
This is the plight of pitch-ers on all levels of baseball. Baseball has been and al-ways will be a game ruled by statistics. Players’ ca-reers depend on their statistics.
Other than earned run average, the win-loss re-cord for starting pitchers has widely been held as the standard of success.
For a starting pitcher to earn a win, he must pitch at least five full innings and leave the game with the score tied or with his team in the lead.
Here is where the real problem lies. Half of the equation is almost com-pletely out of the pitcher’s hands. He has to rely on his offense to score in order to get the win.
In the American League, where the designated hit-ter position often takes the place of the pitcher in the batting order, how many runs his team scored is to-tally out of the pitcher’s control. You could conceiv-ably pitch an entire game, give up just one hit and walk away with an “L” next to your name in the box score if your offense fails to pick you up.
While that scenario rarely occurs, starting pitchers are let down by their offenses all the time.
A bullpen can also cost a starting pitcher a chance at getting a win. The blown save win is one of the quirk-iest statistics in all of sports and one of the biggest pieces of evidence in favor of the argument I’m trying to make. Win-loss record is completely irrelevant.
Yes, a closer, who has the job of coming in to get the final outs of the game, could be rewarded with a win for not doing his job.
Say a closer comes in with two outs in the top of the ninth. The starter made it through 8.2 innings of work and left the game with a runner on first and a two-run lead. The closer could serve up a game-ty-ing home run on the first pitch he throws and get an inning ending out with the second and still be the win-ning pitcher.
That same closer, who surrendered the lead in the top of the inning, would leave as the winning pitcher if his team managed to push across the winning run in the bottom half.
When that happens, the starter gets a no-decision. He doesn’t win or lose. So, if you only pay attention to win-loss record, it would
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Holgorsen to unveil new look for Mountaineers at Gold-Blue Spring Game SaturdaybY gReg MAdiAMUlTIMEDIA EDITOR @DAIlYAThENAEUM
The West Virginia football program will hold its annual Gold-Blue Spring Game in-side Milan Puskar Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m. After 14 practices, head coach Dana Holgorsen and his team will showcase what they have worked on throughout the spring.
“I am impressed with the guys’ energy. They have been excited about practicing, and it seems like they are having a good time and trying to push their teammates to get better,” Holgorsen said.
Offensively, Holgorsen and offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson will give both Paul Millard and Skyler Howard opportunities to run with the first team. Howard likely will get the first offen-sive series with the ones and from there rotate between
the first team and second team with Millard.
Millard had probably the best single practice of ei-ther guy this spring when he threw four touchdowns in an open practice two weeks ago. He and How-ard have been continuing to work on releasing the ball quickly since spring practice opened up.
“Skyler (Howard) and Paul (Millard) both need to just put the ball in play. Standing back there, they need to have a clock,” Daw-son said. “You never want to go backwards. That frus-trates me more than any-thing. Taking a sack when they blitz is one thing, but sitting back there and hold-ing the ball for 10 seconds is another.”
Logan Moore will also see reps at the quarterback spot Saturday.
Next to the quarterback is a group of potential start-
ing running backs. Dream-ius Smith, Wendell Small-wood, Rushel Shell, Dustin Garrison and Andrew Buie have competed intensely for carries.
“You mix in four or five guys that can play, that’s a baseline for competition. The more competition you
have, the better it is going to make everybody,” Dawson said. “If we could get more positions crowded like the running back position, we’ll be doing a good job.”
At receiver, similar faces in Kevin White, Mario Al-ford and Daikiel Shorts will run with the ones. Up front,
WVU will go with Adam Pankey, Quinton Spain, Ty-ler Orlosky, Mark Glowinski and Marquis Lucas from left to right.
Defensively, all 14 prac-tices have been dedicated to installing new defensive-
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The West Virginia baseball team will return to Morgan-town as Hawley Field hosts its first Big 12 series this week-end against No. 18 Oklahoma State.
The Mountaineers have stumbled in the past week and a half, losing four consec-utive games including being swept at TCU last weekend and an 8-4 loss to Penn State last Tuesday. WVU enters the weekend at 16-12.
“We’ve only played one game in Morgantown, and our RPI is in the top 25 right now,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey in the Big 12 Baseball Podcast. “I couldn’t be hap-pier with where we’re at right now, and we’re getting ready to start playing at home.”
West Virginia will march its trio of starting pitchers to the mound in the inaugural Big 12 series on-campus. Harri-son Musgrave (3-1, 1.96 ERA) will start the series off on the mound tonight while Sean Carley (5-1, 2.92) and John Means (4-1, 1.72) will pitch Saturday and Sunday.
“We play with a lot more confidence offensively and defensively when those three guys are pitching,” Mazey said. “They know those guys are go-ing to get us late into a game.”
WVU hasn’t had any prob-lems with pitchers in the early innings, but the same cannot be said about who is pitch-
ing late in games. The Moun-taineer bullpen has struggled mightily at times this sea-son, including two complete breakdowns in the past two weekends.
A cast of West Virginia re-lievers surrendered four runs in the ninth inning last Friday night in a 4-3 loss to TCU. Two weekends ago, the ‘Pen al-lowed five ninth-inning runs that forced the game into ex-tras before the Mountaineer victory over Baylor.
“We’re still searching for that guy that’s going to step up and finish some games for us,” Mazey said. “We’re a little bit behind, but hopefully in the next week or two, somebody is going to emerge for us.”
The Cowboys’ offense is tough from top to bottom with three players all tied for the team led in RBIs. Overall, OSU is hitting .261 as a team and is led by Gage Green who currently hits .327 with a staggering .426 on-base percentage.
“If you aren’t careful, there’s a chance you could get swept every weekend,” Mazey said. “If you don’t play well, that really affects the stand-ings. It’s going to be a dog fight every weekend.”
West Virginia and Okla-homa State will begin their series tonight at 6 at Hawley Field. Saturday’s first pitch is set for 4 p.m. with the series finale on tap for Sunday at 1 p.m.
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Position battles on display Saturdayby doug walP
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Following last season’s noticeable regression on offense, fans of West Vir-ginia football can get their first look at some of the new personnel and ongoing po-sition battles on the offen-sive side of the ball Satur-day at the annual Gold-Blue Spring Game at Milan Pus-kar Stadium.
The Mountaineers’ have new players at wide re-ceiver, running back and quarterback, and all could factor into the team’s depth chart by the time it’s offi-cially announced this fall.
“We still have a long way to go,” said WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen. “I am impressed with the guys’ energy. They have been excited about practic-ing and it seems like they are having a good time and trying to push their team-mates to get better.”
At quarterback, it’s cur-rently a fairly open four-horse race, with injured incumbent starter Clint Trickett trying to hold off fellow seniors Paul Millard, Logan Moore and JUCO transfer Skyler Howard.
Trickett won’t play this weekend since he’s still re-covering from offseason shoulder surgery, and he probably won’t be able to take any snaps until WVU’s fall camp convenes in Au-gust, so fans can expect to get a heavy dose of Howard and Millard, with Moore and redshirt freshman Gregory McPherson pos-sibly getting some work as well in the meantime.
“With experience I think we are ready,” said WVU of-fensive coordinator Shan-non Dawson. “There is one key factor – the quarterback has to perform well. We’re going to put someone in there (who) can do it. I’m not saying anything posi-tive or negative about any
of those guys. That’s just the fact of the matter.”
West Virginia’s backfield is also fairly steeped in competition as the Moun-taineers head into this weekend’s Spring game.
The most talked about addition may be Pitt trans-fer and redshirt sophomore Rushel Shell, a former five-star recruit who rushed for 641 yards and four touch-downs as a freshman backup to Ray Graham.
But the return of WVU’s Andrew Buie also carries some hype with it. Buie led all West Virginia rushers with 179 carries, 851 yards and seven touchdowns in 2012, before leaving school and the team for nearly a year.
Mountaineer fans will get a chance to see Buie and Shell, along with se-nior Dreamius Smith, red-shirt junior Dustin Garrison and true sophomore Wen-dell Smallwood (who some of WVU’s coaches have
hinted may be the most ver-satile back of the bunch) all take snaps in West Virgin-ia’s backfield Saturday.
As far as receivers go, there’s a little more cer-tainty that returning seniors Kevin White and Mario Al-ford along with sophomore Daikiel Shorts will likely re-main close to the top of the depth chart – but with the highly-touted arrivals of Jacky Marcellus, Devonte Mathis and the return of Shelton Gibson from injury, there’s still a ways to go be-fore anything is completely set in stone.
Basically, Saturday’s Gold-Blue game will be much more than just an in-tra-squad scrimmage be-tween the West Virginia of-fense and defense.
It will be the best chance yet for Mountaineer fans to get a good look at the po-tential offensive personnel for the 2014 season.
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wVu hosts conference championshipby meghan carr
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The No. 5-seed West Vir-ginia University Ultimate Frisbee team will host con-ference championships this weekend for the first time in team history at the Med Center Fields located behind Mountaineer Station.
“It’s usually held around Pittsburgh, but we put in what we felt was a competi-tive bid and they gave it to us,” said head coach John Terry.
WVU Ultimate is part of the West Penn Conference and will host all six members: No. 1 Pitt, No. 2 Penn State, No. 3 Carnegie Mellon, No. 4 Shippensburg, No. 6 Edin-boro and No. 7 Indiana Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. The top six finishers will move on to the regional competition in two weeks.
Every team participates in conference championships,
but not every team will make it to Regionals depending on the number of spots each conference is given.
The West Penn Conference is given six this year based on strength of schedule. WVU Ultimate has never made it to Regionals, but Terry said he believes his team is ready for the next step.
“Our team, we’ve never really been a team,” he said. “It’s always been like a sec-ond thing to do for the guys, (but) this year it feels like ev-erything is coming together. We have new leadership, and it feels like a new culture. Historically, people haven’t taken us seriously because we haven’t been good, but we have a chance this season.”
Ultimate is having its best season in team history, hav-ing been to the finals in two of its tournaments this sea-son, but they know it won’t be easy against the power-house teams coming into
Morgantown.Pittsburgh is a back-to-
back National Champion-ship winner, while Penn State and Carnegie Mellon are pe-rennial powerhouses in the West Penn Conference, but Terry said he believes his team can compete with the best of them.
“Penn State will be very competitive, but we always play them pretty tough. We lost to Carnegie Mellon in the finals 14-8, but we had a lot of our guys out due to injuries.”
WVU Ultimate hasn’t competed with Pitt all year because WVU competes in local tournaments, while Pitt competes in larger tourna-ments across the country.
Injuries have affected the team all year, but it has given the younger guys a chance to step up and gain experi-ence. Terry said he’s seen the transformation since the be-ginning of the season and
knows how far his younger guys have come.
“Our goal at the begin-ning of the season wasn’t to make nationals; our goal was to start building the program and build a solid foundation,” Terry said. “I think we’ve done that. We have a lot of younger guys who have come a long way since tryouts. It has been amazing to see the improvement of the team and individual players.”
Out of 500 college Ultimate teams, only 20 will make Nationals.
The tournament is expected to last all day Sat-urday and Sunday, and ad-mission and parking is free for the public. Satur-day is the pool play, fol-lowed by bracket play Sun-day. WVU will face No. 2-seed Penn State at 10 a.m. and will compete against No. 1-seed Pittsburgh at noon Sunday.
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wVu will compete in Knecht cupby anthony Pecoraro
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The West Virginia Univer-sity rowing team will travel to West Windsor, N.J., for a two-day match at the Knecht Cup Saturday and Sunday.
Head coach Jimmy King said he was disappointed in the team’s last outing against Indiana University Bloomington,but was more frustrated in how his individ-ual team performed overall.
“I’m disappointed in our overall results. Indiana is a
stronger, faster team, so the disappointment is less in the loss to a faster program and more in our poor exe-cution,” King said. “Inconsis-tency continues to be an issue for our crews. The effort was there, but it was misplaced effort.”
The Mountaineers’ mis-placed efforts resulted in four second-place finishes during their third outing of the spring against IU on Lake Lemon in Bloomington, Ind.
WVU’s “A” varsity four crew recorded an 8:05.6 finish on its second run, ahead of the Mountaineers’ “B” boat, which took third in the flight with a time of 8:28.7. How-ever, IU still won the flight with a 7:50.7 time.
Although King was not pleased with his squad’s per-formance, assistant coach Stacey Van Order said the
first varsity four boat was def-initely a bright spot over the weekend.
“If there’s one crew that per-formed consistently through-out the weekend, it was our 1V4+,” Van Order said. “I was pleased with the first varsity four’s performances through-out the weekend. After a week of rocky practices, something really clicked with them dur-ing our scrimmage on Fri-day. This led us into Satur-day’s racing where they were able to execute two solid races against Indiana.”
West Virginia will be racing in the varsity four, second var-sity four and third varsity four. The Mountaineers will also be participating in the frosh/novice eight, varsity eight and second varsity eight over the weekend.
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NOW LEASING FOR 2014
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Prices are for the total unit 1 BD Sunnyside $390 Sunnyside $475 Downtown $500 South Park $510
2 BD Sunnyside $550 Downtown $600 Evansdale $660 Suncrest $750
3BD Med Center $795 Sunnyside $825 Med Center $1,200 Sunnyside $1,305
4BD Star City $1200 + util
(304) 296 - 79301, 2, 3, and 4 Bedrooms
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BEVERLY AVE. APARTMENT. 2-3-4/BRLOCATION LOCATION LOCATION Well-maintained. Off-street parking. W/D. DW. A/C. NO PETS. Available May 20th 2014. 304-241-4607. If no answer: 304-282-0136.
FOR RENT: Unfurnished Apartment, Penn-sylvania Ave. 3-6BR. Walking distance to downtown. 304-376-7286
LAST 4BR AVAILABLE. South Park. 2BATHS, W/D, Parking, Large Bed-rooms & Utilities included. $475/each 304-292-5714
NOW RENTING TOP OF FALLING RUN ROAD Morgan Point 1+2/BR $625-$825+ utilities. Semester lease. WD. DW. Parking. NO PETS. Call: 304-290-4834.
NOW SHOWING 1-5BR apartments for May/June. Downtown & South Park loca-tions available. No pets. 304-296-5931
RICHWOOD PROPERTIES leasing 1 & 2BR apartments downtown. 5min from Mountainlair. Please call: 304-692-0990
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Prices starting at $530Security Deposit $200
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W/D, DWGarages, Storage UnitsSparkling Heated PoolMinutes to Hospitals,
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PERFECT FOR MED. STUDENTS. LARGE 2BR 1BTH. With W/D, AC, free parking. Close to hospitals. Starting May & August. $700/mth. Stadium View Apart-ments 304-598-7368
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STADIUM VIEW. *900 Willowdale, *Convenient to Hospitals, *Rents starting at $350. *1BR incl. all utilities, *Eff., 1 &2BR, *Free Parking. *Available May, June, August 2014. 304-598-7368 [email protected], ricerentals.com
TERA PROPERTIES, NEW 1 & 2 BR/ 2 Bath Apts. $635-950+ electric. Locations include: Lewis, Stewart, Irwin Streets & Idlewood Dr. New 1BR available in August on Glenn St. Walking distance to Downtown/Hospital. Hardwood floors, W/D, wifi, fitness room, tanning beds, free park-ing. No Pets. 304-290-7766 or 304-692-9296www.rentalswv.com
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3 BEDROOM HOUSES.ALL Utilities Paid!
Snider, North Willey, South ParkStarting at $375
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243 RICHWOOD AVE. Close to Campus. 4BR, 2BTH with WD. $1100/mth plus utili-ties and deposit. 304-594-3705
3BR HOUSE, quiet street, 5/minute walk to Mountainlair. Off-street-parking, kitchen ap-pliances, W/D. $400/person includes utili-ties 304-685-8170.
ATTRACTIVE 4BR HOUSE on Beverly Ave. Downtown Campus. Fully furnished. 4 off-street parking spots. WD, DW, central AC, modern furnishings, no pets. Lease and Deposit required. Available May 15, 2014. 304-599-6001
JUST LISTED ACROSS FROM AR-NOLD HALL on Richwood Ave. 3 or 4BR, 2 BTH house, excellent condition W/D, dishwasher, parking. $455-$495/each. Utilities included. 304-288-1572, 304-288-9662 or 304-282-8131
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3 & 4 BEDROOMS. W/D, Some Parking. Walk to class. Lease/Deposit. No Pets.Available 6-1-14. Max Rentals. 304-291-8423
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1/BR. 211 WILLOWDALE. W/D. 1 PET al-lowed. $650/mo. plus utilities. Showing for May. 304-599-8303. 304-290-6591.
2BR 1 & 1/2BTH TOWNHOUSE NEAR HOSPITAL. No pets. $900/mth plus utili-ties. Garage, W/D, CAC. Available May. 304-216-2000
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3BR 1Bath 307 EAST BROCKWAY AVE-NUE. $800 Month. Lease/ Deposit re-quired. W/D, No Pets, Off Street parking (304) 290-1332
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appear like the starter didn’t even make it to the park that day.
West Virginia’s Harrison Musgrave fell victim to this flawed statistic Friday. He pitched seven full innings, gave up just one run and left the game with a 3-1 lead. Seems like that would be worthy of a win, right?
Whether his perfor-mance was worthy of a win or not doesn’t matter. The Mountaineer bullpen gave up three runs in the bottom of the ninth, surrendered
the lead, lost the game, and Musgrave left the game with a no-decision.
There are several other statistics that are much more reliable in determin-ing how effective a pitcher is. Earned run average, bat-ting average against, walks and hits per inning pitched and countless others give the pitcher much more control in determining their own success or failure.
So the next time you’re looking through the box scores in the sports section, pay more attention to what a pitcher can actually con-trol and forget the rest.
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coordinator Tony Gibson’s scheme. WVU will run ver-sions of the 3-4 and 3-3-5 defense.
The scheme is designed to put West Virginia in bet-ter situations against Big 12 offenses.
As far as personnel goes, SPUR K.J. Dillon had the best spring of any WVU de-fender. The SPUR spot acts
as a hybrid linebacker and safety.
“K.J. Dillon has been very disruptive on defense and more disciplined. He’s al-ways been disruptive on de-fense, but sometimes it was disruptive for himself or me (more) than he has opposing offenses,” Holgorsen said.
“Now he is more disci-plined, he’s lining up better. He’s more disciplined and he’s staying on his feet and making more plays on de-fense, as well.”
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TENNIS
West Virginia to close out regular season SundaybY ANthONY PeCORARO
SPORTS wRITER @DAIlYAThENAEUM
The West Virginia Uni-versity tennis team will complete their regular sea-son Sunday agaisnt Iowa State at 11 a.m. The match will be played at home at the Ridgeview Racquet Club in Morgantown.
Mou nt a i n e e r h ea d coach Miha Lisac said his team has continually put themselves in positions
to win matches, but it’s the late-match situations that have produced much turmoil for West Virginia throughout the season.
“We put ourselves in a position to be successful, but we need to get better at taking advantage of late situations,” Lisac said.
Last week, the Moun-taineers were shut out in both of their matches, fall-ing to then-No. 18 Okla-homa 7-0 Friday and then-No. 22 Oklahoma State 7-0 Saturday.
The Mountaineers’ (3-16, 0-8 Big 12) No. 1 dou-bles team from the 2013 spring season, sophomore Hailey Barrett and junior Ikttesh Chahal, earned their first victory since beating then-No. 52 Kan-sas State March 14, beating the Cowgirls’ (12-5, 6-0 Big 12) Carla Tur Mari and Ma-ria Alvarez, 8-7.
On Friday, however, the Sooners’ (14-3, 4-1 Big 12) Morgan Chumney and Whitney Wofford domi-nated Barrett and Chahal,
8-3.At No. 1 doubles, the
freshmen tandem of Oana Manole and Kaja Mrgole was defeated, 8-1, to the Sooners No. 64 pair of Mia Lancaster and Whitney Ritchie.
At No. 2 singles match, Mrgole was downed in straight sets to No. 116 Ritchie, 6-2, 6-1. At No. 4 singles, Chahal also stum-bled in straight sets to Lan-caster, 6-4, 6-0.
At No. 2 singles, Mrgole came back after dropping
the first set to Kanyapat Narattana, but after forc-ing a tiebreaker, Mrgole was unable to continue her momentum, falling 6-1, 7-6.
The Cowgirls clinched the team match at the con-clusion of the No. 1 singles match as Barrett fell to Megan McCray in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.
The Cyclones (8-13, 0-8 Big 12) are also coming off a 7-0 shutout to the Soon-ers Sunday as OU was able to sweep Iowa State in sin-
gles play as they earned their fourth straight win. Iowa State will enter the contest against WVU on a nine-match losing streak.
With both squads still winless in the Big 12 Con-ference this season, the Mountaineers will attempt to win their first-ever Big 12 match since joining the conference nearly two years ago. Currently, West Virginia is 0-15 in the Big 12.
The West Virginia track team will compete at the George Mason Invitational Saturday in Fairfax, Va. Head coach Sean Cleary split his team up in order to compete in three separate events last weekend but will reunite the squad today and Saturday.
“We need to be better
over the next few weeks,” Cleary said. “We need to stay focused and be ready to raise our game.”
In Palo Alto, Calif, senior Sarah Martinelli had a ca-reer day in the 3,000-me-ter steeplechase. Marti-nelli ran the second-best time in program history and achieved a personal best. Martinelli’s fellow se-nior, Stormy Nesbit, placed eighth in the triple jump
with a mark of 12.55 meters. The Invitational will
kick off with the prelimi-nary round of the women’s 100-meter dash and con-clude late Saturday night with the men’s shot put. Fans can find results of the meet shortly after the conclusion on Saturday.
— jf
WVU to compete in George Mason Invitational
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bill haas grabs lead with 68, Adam Scott in the mixAUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) —
With dad in his ear, Bill Haas turned in the best round of his Masters career Thursday.
Now he wants to do what his father never could – fin-ish the job.
Haas birdied the final hole for a 4-under 68 and the opening-round lead, the first time he has broken 70 in five appearances at Augusta National.
His father, Jay, played in the Masters 22 times, with five top-10 finishes topped by a tie for third in 1995. He is stay-ing with his son this week and providing valuable advice on the practice range.
“I never remember think-ing, ‘Man, I wish I could hit this shot for my dad,’” Bill Haas said. “But I do know that there’s times I’m like, ‘I wish my dad could hit this shot for me.’”
Jay Haas never won a ma-jor despite having plenty of success on the PGA Tour.
Maybe his son can take care of that family oversight.
“I think he deserves a ma-jor in his career as good as he played,” Bill Haas said.
Defending champion Adam Scott has his major ti-tle and got off to a strong start in his quest to stay dressed in green, even with a stumble in Amen Corner.
Scott shook off a dou-ble-bogey at the par-3 12th, a tiny little hole that caused big trouble for a number of players. His tee shot caught the bank in front of the green and hopped back into Rae’s
Creek.“I had just received the
most incredible ovation as I came to the 12th tee – and I hit my worst shot of the day,” Scott said. “I think that’s my first-ever trip into Rae’s Creek.”
The Aussie bounced back with a birdie at the 14th, rolled in a testy putt to save par at the 18th, and finished with a 69, one shot off the lead.
“It was a nice way to walk off, not shooting 70,” Scott said.
In contrast to Haas, it was
the fifth time in his last six Augusta rounds that Scott has cracked the 60s, showing he still has the game to make a run at being the first back-to-back Masters champion since Tiger Woods in 2001 and 2002. Jack Nicklaus and Nick Faldo are the only other repeat champions.
If Scott finishes no worse than a tie for third place, he will take over the No. 1 spot in the world rankings for the first time in his career.
“In a sense, winning last year took the pressure off,”
Scott said. “What’s the worst that can happen? I’m still a Masters champion.”
Playing in their first Mas-ters, Jimmy Walker and Kevin Stadler of the U.S. and Swe-den’s Jonas Blixt were among those shooting 70, making their way around the course just fine despite some un-familiarity with the revered layout.
They are among a record two dozen Augusta rookies in the field, which doesn’t include four-time winner Woods, out of the game until
summer as he recovers from back surgery.
The 35-year-old Walker is having a breakout year on the PGA Tour, picking up the first three victories of his ca-reer. He kept up his strong play, ripping off a run of four straight birdies starting at the 14th.
“I wasn’t thinking I was going to make four in a row,” Walker said. “But just keep hitting good shots.”
Gary Woodland and Brandt Snedeker of the U.S. also opened at 70, as did K.J.
Choi of South Korea.Stadler is part of the first fa-
ther-son duo to play the Mas-ters together. His dad, Craig, was the 1982 champion, while Kevin earned a spot in the field with his first PGA Tour victory at Phoenix.
The elder Stadler didn’t fare nearly as well as his son. Craig opened with an 82 in what he has said will likely be his farewell as a Masters competitor.
“I played like a moron,” Craig Stadler said.
Two players at 71 provided quite a contrast: 54-year-old Fred Couples and 20-year-old Jordan Spieth, who wasn’t even born when Couples won his green jacket in 1992.
Among those with after-noon tee times: Phil Mickel-son, attempting to join Woods and Arnold Palmer with a fourth green jacket. But that bid got off to a rocky start when Lefty shot a triple-bo-gey 7 at the seventh, his worst score ever at the hole nick-named “Pampas.”
The tournament began with Nicklaus, Palmer and Gary Player hitting cere-monial tee shots on a brisk, sunny morning. The “Big Three” combined to win 13 green jackets, including seven in a row at the start of the 1960s.
This Masters is far less pre-dictable. Without Woods or a dominant figure in golf, it’s seen as the most wide-open tournament in years.
Day 1 did nothing to change that perception.
APBill Haas, right, shakes hands with Miguel Angel Jimenez.