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by alexa mcclennencorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
ChillWELL, a health pro-motion program sponsored by WELLWVU: The Stu-dents’ Center of Health, held their third chillFEST in the Mountainlair Wednesday offering free massages, yoga and other relaxation meth-ods for students dealing with any level of stress.
According to a 2008 men-tal health study by mtvU and the Associated Press, 8 out of 10 college students claim they sometimes or fre-quently experience stress in their daily lives.
“Our goal is to help stu-dents and their stress levels by creating a campus culture that embraces health and well-being. We want the stu-dents of West Virginia Uni-versity to thrive on campus, not just merely survive,” said Shannon Foster, a health ed-ucator for WELLWVU.
The event, held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., offered sev-eral stations for students to visit to help understand and manage their daily stress in a healthy way. Besides the popular yoga and massages, chillWVU set up painting sta-tions where students could paint on their own personal blank canvas. Therewas also a mantra rock station where students could jot down positive values important to them and find a common positive theme to label the rock with. The rock’s purpose is to provide comfort and re-mind students of the positive values they came up with.
“I was super stressed out because the end of the se-mester is coming, and it helped me feel really relaxed and focused. I wish this was more of a once-a-month type of thing. It was awe-some,” said Chelsea Phillips,
a senior who received a free 15-minute massage provided by BlissBlissBliss, a local massage and yoga company.
ChillWELL and WELL-WVU educators also handed out drawstring backpacks, informational packets, a chillWELL chillPack and a 30-day calendar that helps shape the lens through which you see the world by doing an activity each day to increase productivity level.
“Studies show that just two minutes of gratitude training per day increases your brain productivity by 31 percent
and causes your intelligence and creativity to rise,” said Rebecca Olsavsky, a gradu-ate assistant for WELLWVU.
“The chill packs are useful because it breaks down the idea of creating a positive at-titude over 30 days, which helps create a positive habit for a lifetime.”
Other free events and ac-tivities going on with chill-WELLthis week sponsored by WELLWVU are stu-dio yoga and meditation in the Health and Education
by lauren caccamocorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
Christmas time is near-ing and so is the time for giving.
This year, West Virginia University students and members of the Student Government Association are organizing two toy-giv-ing drives to support the local community and chil-dren in need.
For the 28th year in a row, Students Help-ing Other People has col-lected a list from the Sal-vation Army of 50 children and their wish lists. Su-san Fusco, the operations manager of WVU Student Organizations Services, said in the past, children would be paired with WVU students and shop to-gether at the local Kmart for gifts before the branch shut down.
Now, SHOP will host the children at the Mountainlair Saturday
Dec. 6 for the gift-giv-ing ceremony, providing arts and crafts as well as a photo-op with Santa and students dressed as elves. Afterward, a pizza party will be held at Hatfields.
Senior Megan Sheil, who works for Student Or-ganizations Services, en-courages organizations to participate.
“We’d love it if an orga-nization wanted to set up a booth themselves with some sort of craft for the kids,” Shiel said. “I think it’s a nice thing to do. We all dress up in elf cos-tumes, and the Mountain-eer makes an appearance.”
Organizations and in-dividuals can also partake in the SHOP toy drive by sponsoring a child. Fusco said any person or group can request a child’s wish list and shop for those gifts themselves or donate the money for another to buy the toys. One child costs $50 to sponsor.
This year, SHOP has ac-
tivated a PayPal account to make donating easier. You can contact Student Or-ganizations Services for more information.
A second toy drive, called Toy Mountain, al-lows students to drop off toys of their choice into various bins across cam-pus. The Christmas-pa-per wrapped barrels can be found all over cam-pus, currently in the Mountainlair, Brooks Hall and Towers.
The toys are then stacked up in the Mountainlair to create a mountain of toys until Dec. 18, when the toys are donated to Chris-tian Help, Inc. The exhibit is already on display in the Mountainlair food court.
Sheil said while there have been many dona-tions for youngers kids, they are having trouble re-ceiving gifts for pre-teens.
“We have a lot of things for really young
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shaNNoN mcKeNNa/The DaIlY aTheNaeumNursing student Amy Reeder (back), and Social Work student Candice Ware relax and hang out together while painting pictures during WVU’s chillWELL.
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Students relax with chillWELL SHOP org continues with 28th year of donating toys to children
by alyssa lazarstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
The climate of West Virginia University has officially begun to change as Student Government election season begins with the official announcement of the first can-didate running for student body president, Stephen Scott, and vice president, Anthony Braxton.
Wednesday night marked the first night potential candidates could announce their intentions to run in the next election.
Scott and Braxton were the only candi-dates to officially announce their candi-dacy at the meeting.
Spenser Wempe and Andrew Sealy an-nounced on Twitter they will be running for president and vice president, respectively, on the Youth Party.
Wempe is a senior international studies and political science student and currently serves as chief finan-cial officer for SGA. She served on the SGA Board of Governors in 2013-14.
Scott currently serves as vice chair for the Student Govern-ment Association. Re-cently, he developed an advising survey to improve advising, planned an LGBTQ so-cial soiree and worked to create a scholarship for students.
“My college experi-ence has been greatly shaped by my com-mitment to the student body,” Scott said. “I want to continue supporting students’ academic success; I want to continue en-couraging students to get involved at the University.”
“We have an obligation as student lead-ers to put our fellow Mountaineers first,” Braxton said. “What we need is strong
leaders.”During the announcement, both Scott
and Braxton said how thankful they were to have received the opportunity to earn an education.
In the upcoming election, both par-ties will be expected to follow the Election Code, upheld by the attorney general and elections chair, Justin Carpenter.
Franklin Roberts, former attorney gen-eral for SGA, said the Election Code lays out all of the rules for the election.
“If there is a violation, they are informed of such by the elections chair. If there are potential violations, it can go to the Judicial Board, and they decide whether or not a vi-olation occurred and what the punishment will be,” Roberts said.
Two years ago, a violation to the Elec-tions Code occurred when people moved and removed posters near the Life Sciences Building.
Roberts said fewer and fewer violations have been made since the imple-mentation of voting machines to prevent voter fraud.
At the Big 12 Con-ference this past weekend, current Student Body Pres-ident Chris Nyden l e a r n e d ab ou t some big issues that WVU has with stu-dent government elections.
“Our elections are run far differ-
ently than every other school in the Big 12. There are a number of different things, but the main thing that stuck out to me was how much more we spend on individual campaigns here,” Nyden said.
Nyden wants to work with SGA to lower the spending cap for elections because he
Our elections are run far differently than every other school in the Big 12. There are a number of different things, but the main thing that stuck out to me was how much more we spend on individual campaigns here.
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kids - stuffed animals, fire trucks, basketballs, color-ing books. But what we re-ally need is things more for the age of 13,” Shiel said.
Junior Syed Akhtar, the SGA attorney general, said the student body should be looking to help the community outside the University.
“The SGA is really push-ing for accountability and reaching out to not only students, but the local com-munity,” Akhtar said. “So, with that objective, this is a great program where we can pick up with what’s al-ready been started. Hope-fully we can all get engaged and do something for the community.”
ToysContinued from PAGE 1
Building today from 4-4:30 p.m. and the HeartMath lab, also in the Heath and Edu-cation Building, from 8 a.m.-noon. The HeartMath lab helps transform stress into resilience with a computer based biofeedback system helping students self-regu-late emotions and build con-sistent skills.
“The great thing about chillWVU is that it helps teach you skills that help you in the long run and it’s some-thing you can take with you after college,” said Charlie Harman, a WELLWVU grad-uate assistant.
For more information about WELLWVU or chill-WELL activities, follow them on Twitter at @WELLWVU.
cHIllWellContinued from PAGE 1
knows firsthand how expen-sive his election campaign with vice president Jake Ev-ans was.
“We spent $12,500 last year on the campaign. It’s difficult at times to advocate for these issues of college af-fordability when you spend so much on a campaign,” Nyden said.
In new business, $480 was granted to Sigma Nu Frater-nity for a Holiday Christmas Concert to pay for brother Jordan Demaske’s hospi-tal bills. It will be held Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at First Baptist Church on High Street.
The Government and Pol-itics Association was given $600 to pay for registration fees at a conference.
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BuFFaLO, N.y. (aP) — Homeowners opened their front doors to find them-selves sealed in by sheer walls of white. Shovelers turned walkways into head-high canyons. A woman gave birth in a firehouse af-ter the snow prevented her from reaching the hospital.
Even for Buffalo, a place that typically shrugs at snow, this was an epic snowfall, the kind of on-slaught folks will be telling their grandchildren about.
The Buffalo area found it-self buried under as much as 5½ feet of snow Wednes-day, with another lake-effect storm expected to bring 2 to 3 more feet by late Thursday.
“This is an historic event. When all is said and done, this snowstorm will break all sorts of records, and that’s saying something in Buf-falo,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a visit to the city.
The storm came in so fast and furious over Lake Erie early Tuesday it trapped more than 100 vehicles along a 132-mile stretch of the New York State Thru-way, which remained closed Wednesday. People were marooned at homes,
on highways and at work. Residents who can handle 6 inches of snow as if it were a light dusting were forced to improvise.
Tom Wilson, of West Sen-eca, split a Salisbury steak frozen dinner with co-work-ers and tried his best to get some rest when he was stuck 36 hours at his ware-house job.
“I slept on a pallet. Then I slept on some office chairs, and then I went back to the pallet,” he said. “Then I found some sponges to lay on. I found one pack of sponges unopened. That looks like a pillow to me.”
“We tried to make pop-corn with a two-by-four, two empty pop kegs, some charcoal and a dust pan,” he added. “It didn’t work.”
Trapped on a team bus on the Thruway for nearly 30 hours, the Niagara Uni-versity women’s basketball team melted snow for wa-ter, posed with long faces for pictures that were posted online and generally tried to keep each other’s spirits up.
“I’m sure when it’s all done we’ll look back at it and remember how great a bonding experience it was.
For now, I think everyone just wants to get home and sleep in their own beds,” said coach Kendra Faustin.
How snowy was it? The National Weather Ser-vice said it was so bad that some of the spotters it re-lies on to update accumu-lation totals couldn’t get out of their houses to take measurements.
Bethany Hojnacki went into labor at the height of the storm and ended up giving birth in a Buffalo fire station after she and her husband couldn’t get to the hospital. Baby Lucy weighed in at 6 pounds, 2 ounces. Mother and child were later taken to the hos-pital in an ambulance.
Cuomo said Wednesday afternoon that all trapped travelers had been removed from their cars, though some truckers were staying with their rigs.
Asked by reporters how officials could allow people to be snowbound in cars for 24 hours, Cuomo cited a jackknifed trailer that pre-vented plows from remov-ing fast-falling snow and drivers’ own wrongheaded choices.
“What happened was, even though the Thruway was officially closed, people went on. We didn’t immedi-ately block every entrance. It was a mistake,” Cuomo said.
“Part of it is citizen re-sponsibility,” he added. “If the road is closed, it’s closed.
The storm was blamed for up to seven deaths in west-ern New York, at least four of them from heart attacks. Erie County officials said a man was discovered in his car, which was in a ditch and buried in snow 24 miles east of Buffalo. It was unclear how he died.
Sunny skies returned to some hard-hit areas Wednesday, but workers were still trying to cart off the acres of snow. Lake-effect snow fell heav-ily on some northern New York areas east of Lake Ontario.
With an additional 2 to 3 feet possible by Thursday, the one-week totals for the Buffalo area will approach the average snowfall for a year: 93.6 inches, or close to 8 feet. Cuomo warned that a weekend warm-up could lead to significant flood-
ing when the thick blan-ket of snow melts. Forecast-ers say rain is possible this weekend.
The highest snowfall to-tal for the Buffalo area this time was 65 inches, re-corded in Cheektowaga. National Weather Ser-vice meteorologist David Church said that forecasters haven’t determined yet how this storm ranks, but that 60 to 70 inches in 24 hours is probably in the top 5 for the region.
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall on record in the Lower 48 states is 75.8 inches, which fell at Silver Lake, Colorado, in 1921, ac-cording to the government.
The governor said it would take four or five days to clean up.
The Buffalo Bills offered $10 an hour plus game tick-ets for people willing to help shovel out the stands in Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, in the snow belt southeast of the city.
Team spokesman Scott Berchtold said the team has an estimated 220,000 tons of snow to remove from the stadium before Sunday’s game against the Jets —
more than ever before.The snow was heaped so
high on the roof a Cheek-towaga home that when it fell, the force blew in the back door, frame and all, and filled the living room with snow.
“It was a huge crash. ... We actually thought that it was the roof coming down in the house,” said Chrissy Gritzke Hazard, who was home with her husband, five children and three of her children’s friends.
Amtrak passenger train service between Albany and the Buffalo area was suspended. Some service through Buffalo will be re-stored starting Thursday, with delays expected, Am-trak said.
And that old “Neither snow nor rain ...” Postal Service motto? Mail deliv-ery was interrupted in cer-tain communities with driv-ing bans.
The storm struck Buffalo on a day when temperatures dropped to freezing or be-low in all 50 states. At least a foot of fresh snow was ex-pected in parts of Michigan through Friday, adding to deep snow on the ground.
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aPCharles Miller a tractor trailor driver for DOT foods hugs and says goodbye to Hope Clingan, a college student from Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio along camp road in Hamburg, N.Y., on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Miller carried Clingan thru the snow to her hotel on Tuesday evening. A ferocious lake-effect storm left the Buffalo area buried under 6 feet of snow Wednesday, trapping people on highways and in homes, and another storm expected to drop 2 to 3 feet more was on its way.
WashINGTON (aP) — In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednes-day he will sidestep Con-gress and order his own federal action on immi-gration — in measures that could spare from deporta-tion as many as 5 million people illegally in the U.S. and set up one of the most pitched partisan confron-tations of his presidency.
Obama declared that Washington has allowed America’s immigration problem “to fester for too long.”
The president will use an 8 p.m. EST address Thursday to announce his
measures and will sign the executive actions during a rally in Las Vegas on Fri-day. In doing so, Obama will be taking an aggressive stand that he had once in-sisted was beyond his pres-idential power.
As many as 5 million people in the country ille-gally are likely to be pro-tected from deportation and made eligible for work permits under the plan. They would not have a path to citizenship, how-ever, and the actions could be reversed by a new presi-dent in two years. Officials said the eligible immi-grants would not be enti-tled to federal benefits —
including health care tax credits — under Obama’s plan.
The 5 million estimate includes extending depor-tation protections to par-ents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for five years. The president also is likely to expand his 2-year-old program that protects young immigrants from deportation. The adminis-tration had considered ex-tending the executive ac-tion to parents of young immigrants covered under the 2012 Obama directive, but immigration advocates said they did not expect the parents to be included in the final plan.
“What I’m going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my law-ful authority as president to make the system better, even as I continue to work with Congress and encour-age them to get a biparti-san, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem,” Obama said in a video on Facebook.
Laying the groundwork
for his actions, Obama in-vited 18 Democratic mem-bers of the House and Sen-ate — but no Republicans — to dinner at the White House on Wednesday.
Among the networks air-ing his Thursday speech will be Univision, which will interrupt the Latin Grammys to carry his re-marks, assuring him a huge
Spanish-speaking audi-ence. The major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — were not planning to air the speech, but cable news networks were.
Obama to sidestep congress, announce future immigration action Thursday
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 3Thursday November 20, 2014
Celebrating 31 Years in Same Location!
By Chelsea WalkerA&E WritEr
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Blending together music, learning and fun, the West Virginia Symphony Young People’s Concert is set to present “Rumpelstiltzkin: Straw Into Gold.”
Written and conducted by Maestro Grant Cooper with narration by Marsha Grave, “Rumpelstiltskin: Straw Into Gold” features intense melodies from strings, winds and brass. The production is based on the original tale of Rumpel-stiltskin, a dwarf in folklore with supernatural powers who can spin straw into gold. Rumpelstiltskin is
known for causing others misfortune.
“We’ve done some cross-curricular teaching and have developed some re-sources where the stu-dents, before they come to the concert, have the op-tion to study the story,” said Betty King, the West Vir-ginia Symphony Orches-tra vice president of Oper-ations and Education.
As part of its mission, WVSO hosts 16 concerts across the state, incorpo-rating learning into their production. WVSO’s Stu-dent-Centered Arts Learn-ing Environment, or proj-ect SCALE, takes new developments from the West Virginia Department
of Education and other ed-ucational entities to create fun-based learning in class-rooms leading up to the show. The WVSO provides teachers with lesson plans, along with programs taken from its online website. Stu-dents have the opportunity to partake in these activi-ties relating to the story-line, such as studying the price of gold and online in-teractive programs that fea-ture some of the assembly’s music.
“It’s not so much about teaching highs and lows in music or musical concepts; it’s more about bringing to-gether science, art, history and social studies,” King said.
The WVSO’s Young Peo-ple’s Concert allows chil-dren to be a part of an in-teractive audience as they chant and follow along with the storyline.
“The music is a catalyst for thinking about different aspects of the story,” King said, “We pull out themes and, through our curricu-lum material, we strive to touch children through any kind of an art experience.”
West Virginia elementary students add their own cre-ativity by merging unique projects into the WVSO’s al-ready provided curriculum. From creating handmade books and videos to adopt-ing a wolf, WVSO’s Young People’s Concert has en-
couraged students to think outside the box.
“We offer projects that teachers can train and learn about new standards by us-ing our concerts, which are very non-threatening like Rumpelstiltskin and Lit-tle Red Riding Hood,” King said.
WVSO invites schools from all over the state to attend the Young People’s Concert, hoping to expand its ideas about creative, en-gaged learning by connect-ing the curriculum with the show. Although there are no actors, WVSO’s Young People’s Concert features dancers along with live mu-sic to encourage children to view the show through their
own imagination.“We love seeing the
kids at the concerts,” King said. “We love it even more when we go to the schools and their hallways are full of activities and artwork based on the theme of our concert.”
WVSO will host two sep-arate shows with the first act beginning at 9:30 a.m. and the second show fol-lowing at 11:15 a.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert The-atre. Tickets are $4 per stu-dent and adult. For more information about the WV-SO’s Young People’s Con-cert, visit http://wvsokids.org/.
Young People’s Concert to perform the music of Rumpelstiltskin
Worst Kept Secret, The Danger of Falling, Get With It to rock out at 123By Jillian Clemente
A&E WritEr @dAilyAthEnAEum
Worst Kept Secret and Get With It are organized to rock 123 Pleasant Street with The Danger of Falling tonight.
Worst Kept Secret’s guitar-ist Jared Miller is an exercise science student at Fairmont State University. He grew up in Elkins City W. Va. and went to high school along with his bandmates. From there, the idea for the name was a knock-off from a Fall
Out Boy song. “We were trying to think of
names, and someone told us we should be Best Kept Se-cret in reference to a Fall Out Boy song,” Miller said. “But, we decided that if you say you’re the best at anything, you’ll be hated, so we just played off that.”
The band only formed in the summer of this year, so everything is still a little sur-real to Miller.
“The first time I heard someone singing our song (was a great memory) be-cause when we first started,
we did covers,” he said. “It was like three people, but it was awesome because that never happened before, that people would even care to learn the lyrics.”
The southern-metal-mixed-with-pop-punk band said it mostly focuses on hav-ing fun.
“Sometimes we have too much fun, but it’s pretty awe-some,” Miller said. “The ca-maraderie comes with it. It’s just extra for us - I know it’s cliche and cheesy, but we like to play music.”
He’s not the only band
member to ever feel that way.
“It’s a good stress relief. We all have jobs and go to school. That’s the whole point of our band: We have fun. We don’t want to take ourselves seriously,” said Alex Voldeck, the drummer of Get With It.
The master’s in education graduate student is at Fair-mont State as well but loves the break from life he gets as a band member. He’s in a different, more serious band but loves this one too.
While he claims his band
isn’t nerdy at all, all but one member met in the high school marching band. Voldeck and the vocalist played drums.
As for the name, Voldeck picked it.
“It’s from a MxPx song, ‘Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo,’ which is one of my favorite records of all time,” he said. “I think we all just needed a band name, so we just kind of picked it really fast.”
“Get With It played here a lot. They played metal shows, they played punk shows,
they played ska shows. They have their style of music and not many kinds of bands in the area are like them,” said Chris Frum, a promoter at 123 Pleasant Street.
Voldeck pinned GWI down as a pop-punk with hardcore influences type of band, and Frum said he agreed.
Worst Kept Secret, Get With It and The Danger of Falling are playing at 9 p.m. tonight at 123 Pleasant Street. Tickets are $5.
Kenneth Redillas/the dailY athenaeUMJared Miller, Pat Cole, Ben Geelhaar, Shawn Fisher, and Ryan Schauman, death metal band members of Worst Kept Secret, play for Morgantown Sound in the Gluck Theatre at the Mountainlair.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Long before Steve Carell was showered in acclaim for his startling transforma-tion into John du Pont for the true-crime drama “Fox-catcher,” he was walking home from set, commis-erating with co-star Mark Ruffalo.
“We both looked at each other really in agreement that the whole thing was crazy and what we were doing was so far out there,” Carell recalled in a recent interview. “We both felt we were taking huge swings.”
You, too, might be a tad nervous about how you’d come off if you were - like Carell - fitted with a pros-thetic nose, covered in three-hours of makeup, and asked to portray, with som-ber severity, an increasingly psychotic, chemical em-pire heir with both a raging mother complex and a pro-clivity for sweat pants.
Bennett Miller’s “Fox-catcher,” in which du Pont tragically befriends Olym-pic wrestler brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave (Ruffalo) Schultz, certainly had the potential of failing to pin down its stranger-than-fiction tale and leave Carell flopping on the mat.
“We weren’t going to go halfway with it. That would have ended up being noth-ing,” Carell says. “We both felt very vulnerable, that it could potentially be the worst thing we’d ever done or the best, but there was lit-tle in between.”
The needle has clearly swung to “best.” Carell’s performance has been hailed as one of the most ex-traordinary of the year, one immediately inducted into the rich history of comedic actors veering into dramatic territory. Carell, who was named the most outstand-
ing performer of the year by the Santa Barbara Interna-tional Film Festival, is con-sidered a shoo-in for a best actor nomination.
“It’s definitely darker than most anything I’ve ever done,” Carell said. “The fact that Bennett had faith in me to do it, that was re-ally a reward in itself, get-ting that kind of affirmation from someone like that.”
Miller, the director of “Capote” and “Moneyball,” was attracted to the idea of casting du Pont - who was convicted of murdering Dave Schultz on his fami-ly’s 800-acre Foxcatcher es-tate in Pennsylvania in 1996 - with not an overtly villain-ous actor. Instead, he was drawn to Carell for his un-threatening demeanor and reputation.
“I did believe in my heart that if it could work with Steve, that that would be the best for the film,” says Miller. “I couldn’t imagine something working bet-ter than if that could work. I did have glimpses of it in just talking to Steve about the character and hearing his commitment to do it.”
Since Carell’s big-screen breakthrough in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” the 52-year-old Second City alum has regularly mixed comedy and drama in films like “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Dan in Real Life” and “The Way, Way Back.” But the considerable step Carell takes into darker terrain in “Foxcatcher” wasn’t pre-meditated, the former “Of-fice” star says.
“I didn’t want to work at convincing people that I could do this,” says Carell. “I just wanted to play the guy and try to do the best rep-resentation of this human being that I could. I didn’t want that added sense, ̀ Oh, I hope people buy me in it’
because people haven’t necessarily seen me do this type of thing before. So I had to get past that and just do it.”
Doughy, balding and speaking with a halting, presumptuous air, Carell is nearly unrecognizable as the removed-from-reality du Pont, who in the film is a symbol of the unchecked power of wealth and patri-otism run amok.
Carell’s old “Daily Show” boss, Jon Stewart (whose own drama, the film “Rose-water,” reunited the two on the release calendar), says his former correspondent’s gift for fleshing out a char-acter was the same in a sketch: “He would find mo-ments in it that you didn’t know were there.”
In shaping du Pont, Miller and Carell discussed Jerry Lewis’ creepy stalker from “The King of Comedy,” a renown dramatic pivot for
the comedian. Carell cites Peter Sellers and his “Lit-tle Miss Sunshine” co-star Alan Arkin as actors he idol-izes for their ability to range from broad comedy to seri-ous drama.
Much of “Foxcatcher,” for which Carell somewhat re-mained in character dur-ing shooting outside Pitts-burgh, remains a kind of
out-of-body experience for Carell.
“It’s strange to talk about because it was one of those experiences that seems so isolated from the rest of my life. I feel like that was three or four months and then it was gone,” he says.
But the film has clearly emboldened Carell.
“I don’t want to play it
safe going forward,” he says. “I would rather do things that are interesting and are possibly a little bit danger-ous and maybe unexpected and maybe things that are a little bit out of my com-fort zone. That’s an exciting thing to try. It’s challenging. The experience definitely primed me for challenging myself.”
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As we all know, college is expensive. For many of us, student loans are get-ting us through. These loans help to pay our tu-ition, living expenses and even travel. As much of a burden as they can be, they are the reason we are here.
West Virginia Univer-sity has mandatory exit loan counseling for stu-dents who are graduat-ing or even for students who are leaving for any other reason. The Edito-rial Board believes this is a great move by the University.
While we are all con-sidered legal adults, many of us still lack the knowl-edge of exactly what is waiting for us on the other side of college. Having this
chance to make a game plan for this financial bur-den is a great thing.
The University will with-hold transcripts and even diplomas by placing holds on the accounts of stu-dents who have not com-pleted their counseling. While this may seem ex-treme, it is a great moti-vator for students to com-plete this important step.
For students who are graduating, this may seem like just one more thing you have to suffer through while you are here. In-stead, try to look at it as your chance to be more at ease with the debt you are entering the “real world” with.
Already a planner? Then this is the perfect chance for you to get this out of
the way with framework and guidelines to help you with the process.
For students who are leaving the Univer-sity or dropping below full time status, this is a great way for you to get a head start as well. You will be better able to ap-proach this financial chal-lenge with confidence, and it may even help if you plan on re-enrolling or enrolling at another university.
It is important to under-stand the University has policies like this to look out for student interests. WVU wants each of its stu-dents to succeed, because we are all Mountaineers forever.
When you hear the phrase “hunting,” some of you may think of watch-ing the sun rise through the branches of the bare trees in the woods and waiting pa-tiently to hear a loud crunch in the leaves behind you, while others may think the mere thought of murdering such a precious and harm-less animal is disgusting.
Whatever the thought may be, hunting has been a part of human life since the beginning of time. As soci-ety progresses into the new ways of the world, the tradi-tion of hunting is slowly fad-ing away.
Hunting is not a sport,
nor is it an activity that in-volves the vague meaning of “murdering” an animal.
Hunting is something learned through genera-tions and involves respect for wildlife. When hunt-ing for meat, I prefer to use the term “harvesting” an animal. Not “killing” it. As many others might agree with me, hunting can be a vital part of someone’s life. Hunting is a series of ef-forts and skills, which de-veloped from the cognitive ability for human learning to sustain and feed them-selves by using weapons and techniques. Scientists say humans are genetically the same as their ancestors. We were all hard-wired to be hunters and should still carry on with this activity.
The argument, though, is
learning how to hunt. Per-haps this is why hunting is a dying breed, because of the fading and failure of society and newer generations to be knowledgeable in the art of hunting.
A majority of the popu-lation of hunters in the U.S. hunt to feed and sustain their families. Many hunt-ers hunt to harvest meat for organizations such as “Hunters Feeding the Hun-gry,” which is an organiza-tion working to obtain ven-ison to feed the families that cannot afford to feed themselves in communities around the U.S.
Hunting is not all about harvesting meat. Many hunters hunt because it gives them a chance to es-cape reality, experience the peacefulness and tranquil-
ity of nature and avoid the stress of work and worries. It is a great way to spend quality time with family and friends, as well.
Trust me, if there is any method to relieve stress and get your mind off of life for a few hours, it is sitting in a tree stand, listening to the birds chirp while the sun comes up and hearing the crunching of the acorns being gathered up by the squirrels.
There is no Wi-Fi and no cell phone service, but there is a better connection.
Hunting also helps to control the population of wildlife, protect the con-dition of the environment and maintain the safety of not only the species, but hu-mans as well. If there were no hunters to control wild-
life, the population of these animals would grow infi-nitely, causing damage to the environment and giv-ing them no room to sus-tain themselves. This would cause the constant move-ment and displacement of the animals. There would be more frequent car colli-sions and disturbances of gardens, too.
Hunting is important for many reasons and should remain a part of life and cul-ture today.
As the growing popula-tion exhibits a decrease in the number of hunters, it is vital we do something about it.
Hunting has not only been a part of society and tradition in America, dating back nearly 10,000 years, but in societies all over the
world. Now, I’m not saying that everyone needs to grab a gun or bow and head into the woods, but I think that if you have a grandparent, parent or any family mem-bers whom you know en-joys hunting and provides food for their family, then you should take the oppor-tunity to learn how to hunt and its importance.
Take a Saturday morn-ing or evening and escape into the woods with an ex-perienced hunter for a few hours. Learn the respect and nature of hunting. We, as humans, should do our best at trying to increase hunting numbers, because as the older population con-tinues to diminish, so do the skills of our ancestors.
Do you have bad hair? Then keep reading.
Everyone feels frus-trated with their hair some-times. Whether it’s a matter of cramming it into a bun, spending hours with a flat iron or waking up with un-tamable bedhead, I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been tempted to shave it off for good.
My hair falls between wavy and curly, which means taking care of it is very difficult. At first glance, it simply appears frizzy with no curls in sight. However, if left to its own devices, my hair would expand on hu-mid days as rapidly as the Grinch’s heart. Nicknames like “Frizzagail” and “Herm-ione” haunted me well into my early teens. For many people, hair is something that needs a three-minute combing and a biweekly wash at most. But, just like hormonal acne or wearing glasses, unmanageable hair is immediately noticeable
on a person and almost en-tirely out of their control.
This is something that can’t be written off as just a female-specific issue, as both men and women ex-perience self-consciousness over their hair.
By mid-high school, I’d had enough. I was tired of never being able to achieve soft, defined curls or shiny straight hair like everyone else in my grade. I felt like I didn’t belong in either group, and I was desperate for change. I did some re-search online to finally di-agnose the problem, but I never expected that what I would find would change everything I knew about my hair.
Online, I read from a multitude of sources about common ingredients in most hair products and how terrible they are for curly or wavy hair. Chances are, the first or second ingredient listed on the back of your shampoo bottle is the same as what’s in your dish de-tergent or hand soap. These ingredients (called sulfates) work to remove scalp oils and grease but are far too
drying for most people with curly hair.
Similarly, most condi-tioners contain silicones, which coat the hair shaft in a thin layer to reduce slight frizz. Though most conditioners call them-selves “moisturizing,” sili-cones cannot actually pen-etrate the hair shaft. When used on curly hair, they do
nothing but weigh down po-tential curls from forming and actually block natural moisture from entering the hair.
The solution? Go “Curly Girl” and buy products that don’t contain these harm-ful ingredients. There’s a large community of self-proclaimed Curly Girls (and guys) online, and they all say
that the Curly Girl method is more cost-effective, bet-ter for the environment and almost always improves general hair and scalp. Go-ing sulfate-free has been re-ported to cure psoriasis and dry scalp, as well, even in straight-haired women.
After just a week, my hair transformed into ringlets and waves I never knew I
had. It turns out that 65 per-cent of women have the genes for curly or wavy hair, but years of heat styling and using sulfates can make hair “forget” its curl pattern. If you find yourself with heaps of frizz that take drastic measures to tame, there is a high chance you’re a Curly Girl (or guy) in disguise.
The trend is already on the rise: Take a walk down any drugstore hair care aisle and see for yourself. With so many sulfate- and silicone-free products now available, I believe it’s safe to say that the market has finally real-ized the average consumer is becoming more edu-cated about the products they use. Just imagine what might happen if this level of change was applied to the food or clothing industries, as well.
Today, my hair has never been better. I encourage ev-eryone to try the Curly Girl method (yes, even the men) and experience the same re-sults I did. Trust me, it has the potential to change your life.
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
Born today This year your resilience and creativity emerge, allowing you to make some life changes you have desired to imple-ment for a while. You seem to lighten up considerably come the new year. The cynic within you seems to re-treat, while the optimist emerges. If you are single, you finally could meet the right person to settle down with. Fall 2014 could be significant in finding Mr. or Ms. Right. If you are at-tached, the two of you interact in a more positive way. Together, you will make it a point to keep life exciting! Remember, SCORPIO shows a vin-dictive side toward other Scorpios.
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHH Reach out to someone who has a better understanding of your fi-
nances than you do. The discussion could range from “what if” possibil-ities to more realistic obligations. Others tend to see you as unpre-dictable. Tonight: Recognize that you have several options.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH Defer to others. Pushing or demanding has not worked up to now. Brainstorm with a friend or loved one to come up with a more effective approach. You might sur-prise yourself as to how many op-tions exist. Tonight: Say “yes” to a suggestion or invitation.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH If you are honest with yourself, you’ll see that you need to settle down and do some work. You have been busy as of late, yet you seem to have ne-glected certain key areas. A loved
one will see your efforts and change his or her tune. Tonight: Don’t allow a friend to distract you.
c A N c E R ( J U N E 21- J U ly 22) HHHHH What others can’t do, you seem to be able to handle with cre-ativity and endurance. You also have a vision for the future that could play into designing a plan to move for-ward with a project. Your imagina-tion knows no limits! Tonight: You get results.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHH A friend will contribute to your search for a solution to a domestic prob-lem. You will be more than will-ing to put in long hours on a proj-ect, especially if you are able to work from home. An unusual re-alization could open a new door. Tonight: Paint the town red.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH If you find yourself having difficulty expressing some of your ideas, look into taking a communication work-shop. You will allow your mind to find new ways of expressing what you seem to have been holding back. Tonight: Visit with a loved one who understands you.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHH Check out different solutions and the costs involved in an investment involving your home or business. Your imagination might not be in sync with your checkbook. Do your-self a favor and respect your limits. Tonight: Keep to your budget, pay the bills, etc.
S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Combine a surge of en-ergy with your active imagination. Revisit several unresolved issues in
order to see if you have missed any important details. A loved one might feel very similarly to how you feel. Tonight: Lighten up, and you’ll en-joy yourself more.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HH To reveal less would be an excellent choice right now. You might be mis-representing what is being said without even realizing it. Keep your opinions to yourself – in fact, see if you can let go of them for now. More information will be forthcoming. To-night: Do your thing.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Deal with a loved one di-rectly. How you see a situation could be confusing. You might feel as if you’re missing an important piece of information. A meeting could prove enlightening; listen carefully. To-night: Celebrate the weekend early.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Stay on top of a personal matter while you handle other com-mitments. You could view a situation differently once you get more facts. Your finances and well-being could be involved. Your intuition will work well with a key loved one. Test it out! Tonight: A force to be dealt with.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH You might appreciate stay-ing behind the scenes right now as you view an emotional stress head-ing your way. Be careful of a ten-dency to make more out of a gesture than what actually exists. Gather the facts you need before speaking. To-night: Consider a weekend getaway.
Born today U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (1942), former U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (1925).
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23-, 46- and 58-Across40 Acute41 Troubadour’s offerings42 Sinus docs43 Western treaty gp.44 One in a sports page column45 Art print, briefly46 “That’s my general impression”50 Wear (through)51 Huffington Post parent co.52 Whiskey choices56 “Sea Change” musician58 Summer venue where kids can clown
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down1 Subject of clothed and nude Goya portraits2 Frequently3 Gray wolf4 Becomes even more charming, say5 Org. promoting water fluoridization6 Police profile datum7 Spore producers8 Custard component9 Broncos wide receiver Welker10 USDA inspector’s concern11 Gross figure12 CBS series set in a lab
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The third Thursday of the month is fast ap-proaching, which means Morgantown Poets are set to hop back on the mic.
This month will feature special guest Ber-nadette Ulsamer, a Pittsburgh poet with a keen eye for fashion. Her blog, “Outfits Not Just Clothes,” chronicles a range of her hand-picked trendy looks and personal favorite finds. Ulsamer has the ability to create a look for any season and any occasion, offering tips and themed looks in styles fit for everyone.
Ulsamer earned a MFA from Carlow Uni-versity and is a member of the university’s writing workshop, “Madwomen in the Attic.” She is also the author of the chapbook, “Tres-tling,” a proactively honest poetic collection.
“‘I kissed the dirty ground,’ Ulsamer writes, and that is what her poems do - strike a bal-ance between love’s grit and love’s daily ex-halations,” said Nancy Krygowski, an Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winner. “In lan-guage that sharpens our ears to the music of plain speech, ‘Trestling’ takes us into bed-
rooms and bars, hospital rooms and court rooms.”
Her work ranges far beyond her online fashion diary, as she has been featured in the Pittsburgh City Paper, The Main Street Rag, Cossack Literary Journal, Roar Magazine and The Broken Plate. She has also been anthol-ogized in Voices from the Attic, Along These Rivers and Dionne’s Story.
Following Ulsamer’s reading, Morgantown Poets will feature an open-mic session for guests. Authors, artists and enthusiasts are invited to come and share their original work with the audience.
Morgantown Poets is a non-profit, all-vol-unteer community organization that aims to provide a creative outlet for the area’s aspir-ing artists. Events like the poetry night allow writers to grow and network within the Mor-gantown art scene.
Morgantown Poets will be held from 7-9 p.m. tonight at the Monongalia Art Center.
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Shakespeare’s “A Midsum-mer Night’s Dream” has it all: fantasy, love, magic, friend-ship and humor. The West Virginia University School of Theatre and Dance presented the classic story last night at the Creative Arts Center. It was opening night for the cast.
The first thing to notice when you walk into the Gladys G. Davis Theatre is the beau-tiful set, which is harmoni-ously composed of many in-terchangeable drapes, chairs,
and a large, twisted tree as the centerpiece. The set is painted natural browns, greens and oranges with painted hands to reflect the presence of fair-ies. All of this came together with the costumes and deep lighting to create an environ-ment that feels like it is always moving, changing and filled with mysticism.
My qualms with the show are few. The modernization of the mortals’ costumes is a little distracting, but still works well enough. It especially empha-sizes the contrast between the lower class characters such as Snug (Willa McWhorter), Starveling (Glenn Muir) and
Snout (Mark Combs) and upper class characters such as Theseus (Nick Ryan) and Hippolyta (Brianne Taylor). The lower class seems to fill blue collar roles while the up-per class is dressed in white and sipping alcohol in their crystal.
There is a scene at the end where Francis Flute, the bel-lows-mender (JD Morris), is crying over a dead Pyramus (Ryan Staggers). While the scene is hilarious, I’ve seen it done where becomes sud-denly serious and beautiful in that moment, and I feel like the feeling is missing from that; however, it is still well-
done and caused many sides to split on opening night.
The actors fill the roles well. Staggers’ portrayal of Nick Bottom, the weaver, is spot-on and caused many a laugh within the audience last night. When Bottom comes on as Pyramus and kills himself with a sword, it is one of the funniest representation I have seen. Titania (Mya Brown), the Queen of the Fairies, brings a new sass and attitude to her part and is bold and beauti-ful as she is hoisted by cables on her “flowery bed.” Her crew of fairies perform an original composition as a a lullaby as she falls asleep, suspended
throughout many scenes. Helena (Aneesa Neibauer)
steals the show with her per-fect portrayal of the uncon-ventional character. We can’t forget about Hermia (Shan-non Uphold), who is also the perfect mix of cute and crazy. All of the actors bring their best to the show, and you can tell they have a good time because you have one right along with them.
My favorite character is Puck (Isaac Snyder). His movements, mannerisms and delivery are exactly what the character Puck is all about.
The fairy ensemble was also interesting to watch.
The fairies act in a primitive, natural way, and their parts feel almost tribal. Their hair, makeup and costume are oth-erworldly and are effective in setting them apart from the mortals.
Overall, the show was a great example of the art that can be acomplished when a passionate group is given one of the best stories of all time to perform. The entire cast and crew made the audience for-get about the outside world for a couple of hours and be-come encompassed by a fan-tasy world escape.
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KenneTH redIllAS/THe dAIlY ATHenAeUmOberon and Puck look on as the complications continue in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
KenneTH redIllAS/THe dAIlY ATHenAeUmIsaac Snyder portrays Puck in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
KenneTH redIllAS/THe dAIlY ATHenAeUmTitania and Bottom bond during a scene in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’
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Actor Landon Green expresses his char-acter’s heartstruck emotions.
School of theatre presents Shakespeare
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Kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumSenior quarterback Jake Waters attempts a pass during a game last season.
andrew spellman/the daily athenaeumSenior receiver Kevin White makes a touchdown catch during a game earlier this season.
West Virginia looks to win last home game, takes on No. 12 Kansas Stateby dillon durst
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia looks to close out its home slate on a positive note tonight against No. 12 Kansas State at 7 p.m. inside Milan Pus-kar Stadium.
Since joining the Big 12 two years ago, West Virginia has yet to defeat the Wild-cats and would love noth-ing more than to add an-other upset to its resume on Senior Night.
“The mindset is to show the nation that we still have a lot to prove and that this season isn’t over,”
said junior receiver Jordan Thompson. “There’s a lot to play for, and (it) depends on the bowl game and po-sitioning. But going into the Kansas State game, they’re a good football team and very disciplined.
“They’re hard working and very blue collar, but we have to play our game, be confident and play for all four quarters, not just a half.”
Offensively, Kansas State’s attack starts with its quarterback Jake Waters. Waters, who checks in at 6-foot-1, 210 pounds, is just as much a threat to run the ball as he is to pass. West
Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen said Waters’ mo-bility makes defenses have to account for him every play.
“He is mobile. They do a lot of quarterback run game,” Holgorsen said. “They will do some things where he is doing the op-tion. They are just going to flat out snap it to him, and he is going to run the ball.”
Through nine games, Waters has completed 63.6 percent of his passes for 2,169 yards and 13 touch-downs versus four inter-ceptions. He’s also chipped in 406 rushing yards on 102 carries and seven
touchdowns.Kansas State also fea-
tures two playmakers of its own at receiver. Seniors Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton, who both check in at about 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, have combined for 113 receptions for 1,601 yards and 10 touchdowns.
“He has great feet, he runs well and he has great hands,” said defensive co-ordinator Tony Gibson of Lockett. “He catches every-thing around him. He’s very athletic.”
West Virginia’s coaching staff said Kansas State is one of the most fundamen-tally sound teams in the na-
tion. The Wildcats rank No. 2 in the nation in fewest penalties and No. 5 in turn-overs lost.
“One thing that they won’t do is they will not beat themselves,” said de-fensive line coach Tom Bradley. “You have to beat them.”
Defensively, Holgorsen said Kansas State’s scheme will be the same as what the Mountaineers have seen the past two meetings.
“They’re defensively sound. They’re not going to trick you. They’re going to be incredibly sound in what they do,” he said. “They keep everything in front of
you, and let your guys screw it up.
“Trying to figure out what they do is not the problem – trying to effectively attack it is definitely a challenge,” Holgorsen said.
The team would like to send its 19 seniors that will play their last game inside Milan Puskar Stadium out with a win.
“It’s always sad to see the seniors go out because they have done their time here,” said junior safety K.J. Dil-lon. “We want to send them out on a good note and get a win.”
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Mountaineers take on Mississippi state in Wnit semifinals
by david statMansports writer
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The West Virginia Uni-versity women’s basketball team will hit the road for the first time this season tonight, venturing down south to Starkville, Miss., to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the semi-finals of the Women’s Pre-season National Invitation Tournament.
The Mountaineers go into tonight’s game com-ing off wins over both East-ern Kentucky and Seton Hall. With just nine play-ers active, head coach Mike Carey has been forced to play his veteran core – ju-nior guard Bria Holmes, senior point guard Linda Stepney and senior forward Averee Fields – heavy min-utes, and Carey was furious
when he learned his team would have to travel on top of that workload.
“Very disappointed that now we have to go to Mis-sissippi State on Thursday,” Carey said. “It’s unbeliev-able when you’re nation-ally ranked, No. 17 in the country and Mississippi State played a day before us. Extra rest and we’re the ones traveling.”
In an 89-87 shootout win over Seton Hall Monday, Holmes played 40 min-utes, Fields 38 minutes and Stepney 34 minutes. Now the Mountaineers will have to get up and go on the road to play a Mississippi State team that has topped 90 points in both of its WNIT wins.
For Bria Holmes, whose career-high 36 points drove the Mountaineers to vic-tory Monday night, it’s just
a matter of getting as much rest as possible.
“We just have to rest our bodies while we can,” Holmes said after the game. “Tomorrow we have the day off, so that’s just a day for us to rest our legs and our bodies, because we know this year us three are going to have to play a lot of minutes. We just have to rest when we can and be fo-cused and ready to play ev-ery game.”
The Bulldogs blew out Mercer 97-66 in their first round game, and then out-lasted Arkansas State 93-83 in the quarterfinals Sunday. Third-year head coach Vic Schaefer guided his team to a 23-13 record last season, and he has got-ten Mississippi State off to a hot start offensively.
So far, the Bulldogs have been led by a pair of high-
scoring freshmen. Fresh-man guard Morgan Wil-liam has come off the bench to average 24 points and five assists in her first two collegiate games, shooting a perfect 100 per-cent from 3-point range, while freshman forward Victoria Vivians is averag-ing 17.5 points.
The two teams have never before met in com-petition. Should the Moun-taineers win in Starkville, they will advance to the Preseason WNIT finals for the first time to face the winner of the Albany-Western Kentucky game on Sunday. The Mountain-eers have reached the Pre-season WNIT semifinals once before in 2009, but lost to the eventual cham-pion Ohio State Buckeyes.
Kenneth redillas/the daily athenaeumThe WVU women’s basketball team prepares for its game against Seton Hall Monday.
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Men’s basketball
Huggins raises questions as season moves alongby antHony pecoraro
sports editor @pecorarowvunews
After starting a smooth 2-0 at home, the West Vir-ginia Mountaineers will travel south tonight to play in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, as the Mountaineers will go up against George Mason.
Even with hitting the road for the first time all season undefeated, getting West Vir-ginia head coach Bob Hug-gins’ squad fully in focus and ready for any challenge that
may lie ahead is still a work in progress.
Huggins said in game one against Monmouth, in which the Mountaineers won 64-54, there were many problems seen from the sidelines that had him worried.
One primary concern is playing time and making sure Huggins has his most ener-getic and best players on the court at all times.
“We had to waste our last time out because he (Ju-wan Staten) didn’t come get the ball. He’s tired,” Huggins
said. “He got a little bit worn down. He played 34 minutes. I didn’t think we played him that long, but I guess we did. I didn’t want to play him that much.
“Devin (Williams) played 29 minutes. They’re going to play more minutes than ev-eryone else, but I don’t know about that many more min-utes. It was just one of those nights. When we found out BillyDee (Williams) couldn’t play, it messed up the rota-tion. That’s not an excuse, it’s just a fact.”
While still attempting to figure out the most ideal playing time for each player, Williams, a sophomore for-ward out of Cincinnati, said following Friday’s game – which was closer and scar-ier than it should have been for the Mountaineers – Sun-day was a big step in the right direction.
“Last game, we didn’t come out as prepared as (Sunday),” he said. “I think we came out more ready (and) understanding what we’re trying to do. We’re starting to
understand we have to play for each other and just try-ing to continue to attack the boards.”
Huggins said he saw a big improvement in the Moun-taineer squad that took the court Sunday, but is still seek-ing the consistency needed to be successful in the Big 12 this season.
“We have to play more people to play this way. The game’s faster. There’s more possessions, more fouls called and you get tired. It en-ables us to play more guys,”
he said.With the level of compe-
tition being raised in Puerto Rico and the opportunities of perhaps reaching the finals and playing teams ranging from UConn to Texas A&M to Dayton, Williams said he and his teammates are focused on one thing south of the border: Coming home as winners.
“A championship,” he said. “The most important part is going down there and taking care of business.”
WVU to take on George Mason in puerto rico tip-offby ryan petroVicH
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia (2-0) will play tonight in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the an-nual Puerto Rico Tip-Off tournament.
The Mountaineers are set to take on George Ma-son (1-1) in round one of the tournament.
West Virginia is riding a two-game winning streak, a streak that began with a surprisingly tough game against Monmouth, in which WVU rallied late to
down the Hawks 64-54, and an easy win against Lafay-ette, where the Mountain-eers cruised to an 83-56 victory.
The Patriots began their season with two close games: They fell in their season opener, losing to Cornell 68-60, but re-bounded against Prince-ton, claiming a 63-60 win.
With new faces sur-rounding Bob Huggins’ team, there are still ques-tion marks.
During West Virgin-ia’s narrow win over Mon-mouth, the play inside the
paint was spotty. Sopho-more forward Devin Wil-liams was only 3-14 from the floor, but finished the night with a double-double despite his shooting woes.
The Mountaineers saw improved play from the post, as newcomer Jon Holton managed to lead the team in scoring against La-fayette, dropping 18 points.
Holton also com-manded the boards for West Virginia, reeling in 15 rebounds.
“We want to get a lot more shots than our op-ponents,” Huggins said fol-
lowing the Lafayette game. “We outrebounded them by 19. That’s what you’re sup-posed to do.”
As a team, West Virginia is outrebounding its oppo-nents 49.5 to 32. Heading to Puerto Rico, Huggins will lean on his forwards – Wil-liams and Holton – to con-tinue to snag boards.
The Patriots will look to feed off their leading scorer, Patrick Holloway, who is averaging 20.5 points per game.
In the game against Cor-nell, Holloway scored 22 points. Against Princeton,
he managed to amass 19 points.
Juwan Staten and Wil-liams lead the Mountain-eers in scoring. Both have 30 points thus far, and both are averaging 15 points per contest.
Against Lafayette, the Mountaineers got help from guard Jaysean Paige who shot 6-13 from the field and gave West Virginia a spark when its shooting was dull in the early going.
“You always want to have a shooter against zone,” Paige said. “When you’re hitting shots, it’s always
good to hit them against the zone, spread them out, so you can get the ball inside.”
The Mountaineers will hope players such as Paige, Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles, Jr. continue to shoot the ball well. It remains to be seen whether or not these new faces can con-sistently shoot the ball at a high percentage.
West Virginia and George Mason are set to tip off to-night at 7:30 and the game will be broadcasted live on ESPNU.
swiMMing & Diving
West Virginia heads to columbia to take on Mizzouby daVid statMan
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
After four weeks off from competition, the West Vir-ginia University swim-ming and diving team will get back into the swing of things today, as the team travels to Columbia, Mo.,
to compete in the Mizzou Invite.
The invite will be held over three days, from Thursday to Saturday, with the teams set to compete all day. The event is be-ing hosted by the Univer-sity of Missouri, and other attendees include Illi-nois, Nebraska and Florida
International.Despite his team’s long
layoff, head coach Vic Riggs says he is pleased with how his team prepared over the past four weeks and is op-timistic about how the Mountaineers will perform.
“We have had a good month of training and preparation for this meet,”
Riggs said. “The team seems ready to race af-ter a month off, and I feel we should see some pretty good results this week.”
The team last com-peted in October, with a pair of dual meets against Penn State and Villanova. The Mountaineers found themselves swept by the Nittany Lions at the WVU Natatorium, but man-aged to salvage a split two days later when the men’s team scored a win against Villanova.
Although the Mountain-eer women have dropped two straight, they figure to get a boost as two vital per-formers return from injury. Senior Courtney Parenti, one of the team’s best free-style sprint swimmers, and junior Courtney Miller, a top backstroke swimmer, will both return after being absent since the West Vir-ginia State Games in early October.
Although the men’s team will likely be missing senior distance freestyle swimmer Daeton Daven-port due to a shoulder in-jury, the Mountaineers will finally regain the services of senior Tim Squires, the team’s top freestyle sprint swimmer and holder of several team records, who has missed the last few competitions due to an illness.
Expectations for Squires, Parenti and Miller should
be tempered as far as the Mizzou Invite is concerned, as the trio has only been back in the pool for a lit-tle over a week, and Coach Riggs says that the trip to Missouri will be more of a “training meet” for the returnees.
Although the Mizzou In-vite is the biggest compe-tition of the year so far for the Mountaineers, Riggs still has Big 12 Champion-ship success on his mind.
“I think the most impor-tant part of this week com-ing up is using it as a dry run for Big 12s,” Riggs said. “We’ve always competed well at the mid-season in-
vite, and I expect us to do the same this week. Seeing the team prepare and com-pete with a team-first men-tality and competing hard in the morning session to ensure we are in the right heats at night would be very good for this team.”
West Virginia competed at last year’s Mizzou In-vite, where the men fin-ished third and the women finished sixth. Facing a na-tionally-ranked Missouri squad, among others, the Mountaineers will look to better those results this week.
shannon mckenna/the daily athenaeumA WVU diver takes flight during a meet earlier this year.
football
by antHony pecorarosports editor
@pecorarowvunews
West Virginia’s defense this season has caught the eyes of many.
After struggling the past couple of seasons in pro-ducing a comfortable, sound defense to compete week in and week out, it seems the Mountaineers have finally reached that level.
Defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said as his team is coming off back-to-back losses, the Mountain-eers’ (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) 10th game of the season comes at an ideal time. This is a time in which he sees the entire defense being rested and ready to play, as West Vir-ginia is coming off its sec-ond bye week of the season.
“Everyone is healthy and practicing,” Gibson said. “We’re as healthy as we have been all year. It came at a good time. We needed a break mentally and phys-ically. We had a lot of big games right in a row and we needed to get back on track and regroup.”
Junior safety K.J. Dillon could not agree more with Gibson. He has been able to see first-hand the true damage of what playing on a weekly basis does to your body.
“I think it was needed very much so,” he said. “We can get everyone healthy, so we can play this Thursday night game.”
As the Mountaineers at-tempt to put their past two losses behind them, Gib-son said a key moving for-ward will be how his de-fense is able to play against K-State’s explosive offense , which can hurt an oppo-nent on the ground and in its passing game.
“They’re very sound with what they do scheme-wise, and their quarterback is a very good player,” he said. “They probably have one of the best wide-outs in the country. They’re going to run the ball, and they are going to try to keep us off balance. They have a very good offensive line, so we’ll have our hands full.”
With tonight also acting as Senior Night for the 19 seniors on the Mountain-
eers squad, Dillon said the urgency to win tonight is a must and something he views as extremely possi-ble on the Mountaineers’ behalf.
“We still have things to fight for like a good bowl game,” he said. “No one is down, everyone still wants to win for the seniors Thurs-day and wants to win and finish out a good season.
“It’s always sad to see se-niors go out because they have done their time here. We want to send them out on a good note and get a win.”
Dillon put it simply when he said his team just has to be ready for anything and everything tonight against the Wildcats – nothing will come easy, especially on a shortened practice week.
“We just have to be ready to play. Everything is mov-ing faster since the game is on Thursday,” he said.
“Everything is just mov-ing quicker and more up tempo since we don’t get a full week of practice. Every-thing is just moving faster.”
West Virginia defense ready for Kansas state
kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumWVU safety K.J. Dillon after a play in the Texas game earlier this season.
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No. 12 Kansas State vs. West Virginia
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Big 12 on the outside looking in heading into Week 13
The grass has not been greener on the other side for the Big 12. Many of the headaches the conference endured during the BCS era have followed it into the first year of the College Football Playoff.
The only thing that has changed is the villain. In the days of the BCS, it was the computer that spit out the matchups based on a mixed bag of variables from strength of schedule to quality wins and the ever elusive “style points”.
Now, we’ve removed the computer simulations from the equation and replaced them with the 12-mem-ber playoff selection com-mittee. In the most recent playoff rankings, the Big 12 was left out in the cold. TCU slipped from No. 4 to No. 5 after a close win against Kansas, and Baylor was jumped by Ohio State.
The conversation has shifted from TCU or Bay-lor or both to a question of whether either will be sit-ting in the top four when all is said and done. The debate is sure to heat up in the last few weeks of the season. Here’s how I rank the title contenders and the rest of the pack in the Big 12 head-ing into Week 13:
1. TCULast week: 34-30 win at
KansasUp next: Bye
A win is a win. That’s all TCU needs to be thinking right now. Some people, in-cluding the committee, may knock them down a peg be-cause of how closely they played Kansas last week. Sure, their defense looked suspect at times, but let’s not sell the Jayhawks short. That team is getting better every week. Winning on the road in the Big 12 is almost never an easy task, but the Horned Frogs keep finding a way.
2. BaylorLast week: ByeUp next: vs Oklahoma
StateA lot has been made
about how to rank Baylor and TCU. There are some who say the head-to-head matchup, which Baylor won in one of the weird-est games of the season in Waco on Oct.11, is all that matters. Normally I would agree, but because of the wild nature of that game, I can’t point to that alone. I like to look at a team’s body of work, and, in my opinion, TCU is worthy of the top spot. The Bears have only themselves to blame in all of this. Playing SMU, North-western State and Buffalo to start your season isn’t ex-actly going to blow anyone away.
3. Kansas StateLast week: ByeUp next: at West VirginiaComing off a bye week,
the Wildcats should be re-focused and ready to fin-ish the season with a bang. They missed a chance to climb into the national ti-
tle conversation against TCU a few weeks ago, but Bill Snyder’s teams rarely lets one loss turn into two. With the fewest turnovers and least penalty yardage in the Big 12, this is prob-ably the most disciplined team in the country. While I’m sure the atmosphere for tonight’s game in Morgan-town will be electric, that has never seemed to faze Snyder’s teams.
4. TexasLast week: 28-7 win at
Oklahoma StateUp next: ByeThe Longhorns are offi-
cially back from the dead. I know this may sound ridic-ulous, considering they’re only 6-5, but Charlie Strong should get some consider-ation for Big 12 Coach of the Year for the job he’s done in Austin this season. This team was a mess early on. Now, the Longhorns have won three straight games and are steamrolling teams in the process. In a league built around lighting up the scoreboard with high flying offenses playing at a break-neck pace, Texas has gone back to the Stone Age, play-ing the kind of smash mouth football that has gone the way of the dodo in college football these days. It’s dif-ferent, but it sure does work.
5. OklahomaLast week: 42-30 win at
Texas TechUp Next: vs KansasAfter missing last week’s
win over Texas Tech, start-ing quarterback Trevor Knight has already been ruled out for the Kansas
game. His replacement, freshman Cody Thomas, struggled as you might have expected in his first start, completing 10 of his 20 passes for 133 yards and a touchdown with three inter-ceptions in Lubbock. Luck-ily for OU, they have one heck of a running game to lean on. Freshman running back Samaje Perine contin-ued his breakout year with his second 200-yard per-formance and added three touchdowns against the Red Raiders.
6. West VirginiaLast week: ByeUp next: vs Kansas StateThe bye week could not
have come at a more per-fect time for West Virginia. Things appeared to be get-ting a little stale after two-straight losses to TCU and Texas. Fresh legs will be needed tonight against Kansas State. This team is at a crossroad in its season. In the past, close losses and losing streaks have sent West Virginia reeling. We’ll find out just how motivated the Mountaineers are to fin-ish the year strong early in this game. If they come out flat, like they did against Texas, Kansas State could run away with this one. If that happens, things could get really ugly heading into the last week of the regular season.
7. Oklahoma State Last week: 28-7 loss vs
TexasUp next: at BaylorIt was another atrocious
offensive performance for Oklahoma State last week.
This team is about as in-ept as they come on that side of the ball at the mo-ment. Texas’ defense is no joke, but this team made more first downs, nine, than it scored points, seven, against the Longhorns. Oklahoma State could only muster 34 rushing yards on 23 attempts. Things are looking bleak in Stillwa-ter, and still somehow head coach Mike Gundy’s name is being mentioned as a possible replacement for Will Muschamp at the Uni-versity of Florida. Not to say Gundy has entertained the thought of leaving, but he has bigger fish to fry in his own backyard at the mo-ment before worrying about anything else. The Cowboys pulled off an upset to spoil Baylor’s title hopes in Still-water last season, but noth-ing short of Barry Sanders suiting up will allow that to happen Saturday in Waco.
8. KansasLast week: 34-30 loss vs
TCUUp next: at OklahomaLast week I mentioned
how I was perfectly fine with Kansas fans storm-ing the field after beating Iowa State. Can you imag-ine what would have hap-pened if the Jayhawks had finished the upset of TCU Saturday? All jokes aside, this team continues to im-prove. In my opinion, Clint Bowen has done more than enough to shed his interim head coach status. The Jay-hawks have some fight in them now and I haven’t been able to say that in
quite some time. Michael Cummings had his first 300-yard passing day against a tough TCU secondary and threw two touchdowns on the day. Kansas has offi-cially packed its things and is movin’ on up out of the Big 12 basement.
9. Texas TechLast week: 42-30 loss vs
OklahomaUp next: at Iowa StateIf the Red Raiders are go-
ing to go down in flames this season, at least they’re going to be entertaining while doing it. Freshman quarterback Patrick Ma-homes slung it all over the yard Saturday against Okla-homa, completing 27 of 50 passes for 393 yards and four touchdowns. Most im-portantly, he didn’t turn the ball over. That’s how you earn the trust of your coaches.
10. Iowa StateLast week: ByeUp next: vs Texas TechHere’s your chance, Cy-
clones. A reeling Red Raider team comes to Ames this week for what will likely be Iowa State’s best remain-ing chance to win a confer-ence game this season. At this point, the Cyclones are playing for pride, and po-tentially for their coach Paul Rhoads’ job. After qualify-ing for a bowl game in three of Rhoads’ first four seasons in Ames, the Cyclones fin-ished 3-9 in 2013 and ap-pear to be headed for a sim-ilar spot in 2014. Regression doesn’t pay the bills.
apBig 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby speaks at a press conference.
No. 24 Louisville vs. Notre Dame
No. 16 Wisconsin vs. Iowa
No. 15 Arizona vs. No. 17 Utah
Oklahoma State vs. No. 7 Baylor
Texas Tech vs. Iowa State
No. 8 Ole Miss vs. Arkansas
No. 19 USC vs. No. 9 UCLA
No. 25 Minnesota vs. No. 23 Nebraska
Connor MurrAySPortS WritEr @dailyathEnaEum