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Arrest made in High St assaultby bryan bumgardner

associate city editor

Morgantown police ar-rested a West Virginia Uni-versity student from Mas-sachusetts last week for maliciously wounding a WVU wrestler.

Samuel Heavey, a 22-year-old exercise physiology stu-dent at WVU, threw a beer bottle at Christian Chirico, a student and redshirt fresh-man wrestler at WVU. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. Jan 27, near Dan-iel’s Men’s Clothing on High

Street.Heavey was arrested Fri-

day without incident and is being held on $25,000 bond, according to police.

In what may have been a snowball fight gone wrong, Heavey threw the bottle at Chirico from several yards away then fled the scene. Chirico was hospitalized for a broken orbital bone, sev-ered artery and lacerated tear duct.

Breathing complications in emergency surgery nearly cost Chirico his life, and it’s unclear if he will regain full

vision.“I’m glad they were able

to find out who did it,” said Lindsey Chirico, Christian’s sister and a graduate student at WVU.

Lindsey said the closure of the case allows her family to focus on Christian’s health.

“Now we’re able to focus entirely on that. That’s good for our family,” she said.

Lindsey said she doesn’t know Heavey, and police were unable to share details about his arrest.

Chirico has been dis-charged by Ruby Memorial

Hospital with 38 stitches and will return for preliminary testing this week.

“I hope that everyone continues to think about him and pray for him, and we’re hoping that he makes a full recovery, but time will tell if that will happen or not,” Lindsey said.

The attack on Chirico is one in a string of assaults that have been occurring in the Morgantown area.

“I used to be able to walk home from the library with-out worrying,” Lindsey said. “Yes, these types of things

happen everywhere, but it’s happening more and more – and it’s happening unnec-essarily,” she said.

The Chirico family sought information concerning the incident in order to identify Christian’s attackers. The Detective Division of the Morgantown Police Depart-ment was also searching for tips.

Details about how the police identified Heavey are still unreleased.

Lindsey contacted WVU professor Daniel Brews-ter for aid in identifying the

perpetrator.“As members of society,

it is our responsibility to re-duce this type of violence,” Brewster said. “We have the capacity to make our streets safer as a result of our own desire to not help hide the identities of the individuals who commit these types of crimes.”

Brewster helped organize the fundraiser for Ryan Di-viney, a WVU student who was brutally attacked in 2009 and is still recovering.

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International scholars to

share researchby Cody SChuler

Managing editor

West Virginia University students and the rest of the Morgantown community will have the opportunity to learn first-hand some of the fascinating research by a select group of WVU’s in-ternational scholars.

The Office of Interna-tional Students & Scholars is hosting its second Inter-national Scholars Recogni-tion Fair Thursday from 3-6 p.m. in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair. Seven scholars represent-ing six countries will give presentations detailing the type of research they are performing and what unique findings they have uncovered.

Topics will include forestry and natural re-sources, social work, pub-lic health, engineering, bi-ology, computer science and philosophy.

Each presentation will last approximately 25 min-utes and refreshments will be served throughout the evening.

Doina Jikich, associ-ate director of Immigra-tion Services in the Office of International Students & Scholars, said while in-ternational scholars come to West Virginia to teach or perform research, this particular event is focused solely on sharing scholars’

research endeavors.“International scholars

come here to WVU from all over the world to do re-search or teach; the group who will be part of this event are researchers,” she said.

“The purpose of (the fair) is for them to show-case their research (and) to talk about what they do – their unique and out-standing research – and share the topics of their research.”

Jikich said a portion of a grant the Office of Interna-tional Students & Scholars received from the Higher Education Policy Commis-sion funds the fair.

She said the event serves the dual purpose of ed-ucating the public about the types of research in-ternational scholars are performing as well as pro-viding the presenting in-ternational scholars a platform to discuss their findings and share their successes.

“It’s going to be fascinat-ing for the audience to lis-ten to the research and (we are) excited for (the schol-ars) to be given the oppor-tunity to talk to everyone about what they do,” she said.

“(The scholars) are at their department and the department knows what

Event to share, display Omani cultureby Cody SChuler

Managing editor

Although Morgantown is more than 7,000 miles away from the country of Oman, West Virginia University stu-dents and the surrounding community will have the opportunity to dive into the unique and rich culture of the Gulf nation without hav-ing to leave city limits.

Wednesday, the WVU Cultural Attaches Program will host a celebration of the culture of Oman titled

“Oman: Historical Depth and Global Outreach.” The event is scheduled from 7:30-9 p.m. and will take place in room G20 of Ming Hsieh Hall.

Co-sponsors of the event include: WVU Office of Mul-ticultural Programs, WVU Office of International Stu-dent Affairs and Global Ser-vices, WVU Intensive Eng-lish Program, Mountainlair Programming and Special Events, and the Sultan Qa-boos Cultural Center.

Debbi Pariser, program

coordinator in the WVU Of-fice of Multicultural Pro-grams, said the event pro-vides students with an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the Omani culture and its people.

“This is a very big deal. It’s a way for students to learn about different cultures. We see students every day, and we don’t know where they’re from,” Pariser said.

“It’s an opportunity for the University community to meet the Omani students (and) to welcome them to

our University (and) to ex-perience the culture of their beautiful country.”

Pariser said an impres-sive guest list has shaped up for the event including Omani students who at-tend WVU, Asya Al-Lamki, Oman’s cultural attache, and other guests from the Omani embassy.

“We have WVU students from Oman who are attend-ing, so we’ve asked them to dress in their traditional

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Bob Huggins plans to rally West Virginia Univer-sity students and ignite their Mountaineer pride today.

The WVU men’s bas-ketball coach will host his second Coaches’ Chalk Talk today at 12:30 in the Mountainlair.

Mountaineer Maniacs director Chris Northrup said Huggins plans to talk with students and fire up their Mountaineer pride before the game.

“(Huggins wants) to get kids pumped up and get students excited for (tonight),” he said. “Peo-ple will be there eating lunch, but I hope some people that wouldn’t usually be there come and swing by.”

Musings will again be placed in today’s edition of The Daily Athenaeum. The Musings will also be placed throughout the

student section in the Coliseum.

“Students will see it during the day, and (I hope) it will get the word out that there’s a game tonight, and it’ll get peo-ple excited for it.”

Students are encour-aged to remain quiet, hold up The DA as they are reading it and ignore the Longhorns as they are introduced prior to tipoff.

As the introduction video plays, students are asked to crumble or rip their copy of The DA.

Following the intro-duction video, Jonathan Kimble, the Mountaineer Mascot, will fire his rifle. At this time, students are asked to toss their copy of The DA into the air.

Tipoff for tonight’s game will be 9 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.

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In just 45 minutes, two local chefs dished out a hearty serving of competition and excitement at the Morgantown Ronald McDonald House.

Ronald McDonald House Charities hosted its second-annual Chef’s Challenge Sunday afternoon.

The competition features two local chefs who each pre-pare a dish in 45 minutes. The dishes are then judged by a panel of five judges. This year’s chefs were Chef Chris Mc-Donald and Chef Dianna Rice.

Chef McDonald is the executive chef at Stefano’s Res-taurant, and Chef Rice is the owner of Bon Appetit per-sonal chef service.

With Bon Appetit, area residents can pay to have a chef grocery shop and prepare a meal customized to any specifications.

Chef Chris McDonald won the Chef’s challenge for the second year in a row. As executive chef at Stefano’s, a Mor-gantown restaurant specializing in old-world Italian and American cuisine, McDonald said he typically focuses on Italian cuisine, but he likes to cook food of all types.

“I’m really kind of all over the place. You know, right now I’m focusing on Italian, obviously, because I’m a chef at an Italian restaurant, but I really enjoy Asian food and Southern food; I’m just really kind of all over the place,”

lydIa nuzum/THe daIly aTHenaeumChef Chris McDonald prepares ravioli during Sunday’s Ronald McDonald House Charities Chef’s Challenge.

lydIa nuzum/THe daIly aTHenaeumChef Dianna Rice, owner of Bon Appetit personal chef service, prepares a dish during Sunday’s Ronald McDonald House Charities Chef’s Challenge.

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they do, but how about the rest of the University? All of us can see what a great con-tribution they make to Uni-versity research,” she said.

Jikich said the schol-ars were selected to pres-ent at the fair after replying to an open invitation. For-tunately, those seven pre-senters represent a variety of fields – something Jik-ich said wasn’t planned but helps make the experience a diverse one.

“We just put the invi-tation out there (and) the people who responded just happened to represent a variety of fields of expertise and have done research in these fields,” she said.

“We could have had a re-sponse that only gave us, maybe, two fields; we could have had five people talking about just two fields of ex-pertise, but it’s a great blend of expertise that they will be sharing their research in.”

For a full schedule of events, interested parties can visit http://intranet.wvu.edu/home/2013/1/30/international-scholars-rec-ognition-fair-to-be-held.

More information on the Office of Interna-tional Students & Schol-ars can be found on their website http://oiss.wvu.edu.

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clothing. (Attendees) will get to meet the cultural at-tache, the deputy cultural attache (and) other dis-tinguished guests from the Omani embassy,” she said.

A lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. and a reception will take place at the con-clusion of the lecture. Some of the features that will be

present for the reception are Omani food, clothing, music and art.

“We’re going to be show-ing videos throughout the reception on Oman and its rich cultural heritage. We’re going to have man-nequins there with the tra-ditional clothing of Omani. There’s going to be samples of Omani art, (and) there’s going to be Omani music playing,” Pariser said.

“One of the special things that they are doing is

the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center will be raffling off mini hani-crafts items from Oman. (The event) is going to be a multimedia presen-tation that will delight all the senses,” she said.

The event is free and open to the public, and everyone is welcomed to attend. For more infor-mation, call the Office of Multicultural Programs at 304-293-0890.

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new rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools

WaSHInGTon (aP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation’s schools.

For the first time, the gov-ernment is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.

Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, na-chos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out of lunch lines and vending ma-chines. In their place would be foods like baked chips, trail mix, diet sodas, lower-calorie sports drinks and low-fat hamburgers.

The rules, required under a child nutrition law passed by Congress in 2010, are part of the government’s ef-fort to combat childhood obesity. While many schools already have improved their lunch menus and vending

machine choices, others still are selling high-fat, high-calorie foods.

Under the proposal, the Agriculture Department would set fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits on almost all foods sold in schools. Current standards already regulate the nutritional con-tent of school breakfasts and lunches that are subsi-dized by the federal govern-ment, but most lunchrooms also have “a la carte” lines that sell other foods. Food sold through vending ma-chines and in other ways outside the lunchroom has never before been federally regulated.

“Parents and teachers work hard to instill healthy eating habits in our kids, and these efforts should be supported when kids walk through the schoolhouse door,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

Most snacks sold in school would have to have

less than 200 calories. El-ementary and middle schools could sell only wa-ter, low-fat milk or 100 per-cent fruit or vegetable juice. High schools could sell some sports drinks, diet so-das and iced teas, but the calories would be limited. Drinks would be limited to 12-ounce portions in mid-dle schools and to 8-ounce portions in elementary schools.

The standards will cover vending machines, the “a la carte” lunch lines, snack bars and any other foods regularly sold around school. They would not ap-ply to in-school fundraisers or bake sales, though states have the power to regu-late them. The new guide-lines also would not apply to after-school concessions at school games or theater events, goodies brought from home for classroom celebrations, or anything students bring for their own

personal consumption.The new rules are the lat-

est in a long list of changes designed to make foods served in schools more healthful and accessible. Nutritional guidelines for the subsidized lunches were revised last year and put in place last fall. The 2010 child nutrition law also provided more money for schools to serve free and reduced-cost lunches and required more meals to be served to hun-gry kids.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has been working for two decades to take junk foods out of schools. He calls the availability of unhealth-ful foods around campus a “loophole” that undermines the taxpayer money that helps pay for the healthier subsidized lunches.

“USDA’s proposed nutri-tion standards are a critical step in closing that loop-hole and in ensuring that our schools are places that

nurture not just the minds of American children but their bodies as well,” Har-kin said.

Last year’s rules faced criticism from some con-servatives, including some Republicans in Congress, who said the government shouldn’t be telling kids what to eat. Mindful of that backlash, the Agriculture Department exempted in-school fundraisers from federal regulation and pro-posed different options for some parts of the rule, in-cluding the calorie limits for drinks in high schools, which would be limited to either 60 calories or 75 cal-ories in a 12-ounce portion.

The department also has shown a willingness to work with schools to re-solve complaints that some new requirements are hard to meet. Last year, for ex-ample, the government re-laxed some limits on meats and grains in subsidized

lunches after school nutri-tionists said they weren’t working.

Schools, the food indus-try, interest groups and other critics or supporters of the new proposal will have 60 days to comment and suggest changes.

A final rule could be in place as soon as the 2014 school year.

Margo Wootan, a nutri-tion lobbyist for the Cen-ter for Science in the Pub-lic Interest, said surveys by her organization show that most parents want changes in the lunchroom.

“Parents aren’t going to have to worry that kids are using their lunch money to buy candy bars and a Ga-torade instead of a healthy school lunch,” she said.

The food industry has been onboard with many of the changes, and several companies worked with Congress on the child nu-trition law two years ago.

apSide salads, apple sauce and plums await the students of Eastside Elementary School in Clinton, Miss.

McDonald said. Chef McDonald pre-

pared what he called “Green Eggs and Ham ravioli,” which was spin-ach pasta stuffed with par-mesan and ricotta cheeses and an egg yolk, coupled with a pancetta cream sauce and prosciutto.

McDonald said he was happy to get involved in the event as soon as the idea was brought to him. “I was contacted by Ron-ald McDonald House - (I was) one of the first chefs they talked to just to be in-volved. It sounded like a lot of fun. I knew it was for a good cause, so I thought I would just go ahead and go through with it,” he said.

Steve De Jesus, execu-tive director and CEO at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Morgantown, said the event was inspired by popular cooking com-petitions on TV. “I saw ‘Iron Chef America,’ and I always thought that would be a kind of a neat event someday to do, so we kind of came up with our own version of that and started it here.”

The kitchen at the Ron-ald McDonald House just happened to be perfect for such an event. “The kitchen actually was re-done about six years ago.

Our sprinkler system de-molished the kitchen and we redid it, and we de-cided to do it in a double-kitchen style, and it’s more convenient for the families who are staying here. That way they can cook their own food, and there’s a lot more space,” De Jesus said.

The double kitchen al-lowed the two chefs to work separately, but in close proximity for the audience.

The audience included some of the very families who use the house. “There are some families who are (staying in the house) sit-ting here. We open it up to all the families that are staying.”

The Chef ’s Challenge directly benefits the fami-lies who use the house, De Jesus said.

“All the money comes directly to the charity, and it’s all put right back into the families and get-ting things for them. We usually bring in about $ 4-6,000 for this event,” he said.

De Jesus said the house is always available, free of charge, for families who need its services. “We have 16 rooms here. It is com-pletely a free facility. No one ever has to pay, re-gardless of their income level, and we accept dona-tions from them if they’d like, but they can stay here for as long as they need to.” He also said families have used the house for as short a time as one day or as long as 16 months.

In addition to events like the Chef’s Challenge, the Morgantown Ron-ald McDonald House will be hosting several other events this year.

These include a con-signment sale March 15-16 and a 5k run/walk May 4.

De Jesus encourages students to consider events such as these to get involved with Ronald M c D o n a l d H o u s e Charities.

For more information on the Morgantown Ron-ald McDonald House, visit http://www.rmhcmorgan-town.org.

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Israel suggests responsibility for Syria airstrike

APIsraeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, center, arrives for a meeting of the Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany Sunday.

GERMANY (AP) — Israel’s defense minister strongly signaled Sunday that his country was behind an air-strike in Syria last week, telling a high profile secu-rity conference that Israeli threats to take pre-emptive action against its enemies are not empty. “We mean it,” Ehud Barak declared.

Israel has not officially confirmed its planes at-tacked a site near Damas-cus, targeting ground-to-air missiles apparently heading for Lebanon, but its inten-tions have been beyond dis-pute. During the 22 months of civil war in Syria, Israeli leaders have repeatedly ex-pressed concern that high-end weapons could fall into the hands of enemy Hezbol-lah, the powerful Lebanese militants.

For years, Israel has been charging that Syrian Presi-dent Bashar Assad and Iran have been arming Hezbol-lah, which fought a month-long war against Israel in 2006.

U.S. officials say the tar-get was a convoy of sophis-ticated Russian SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. Deployed in Lebanon, they could have limited Israel’s ability to gather intelligence on its

enemies from the air.Over the weekend, Syrian

TV broadcast video of the Wednesday attack site for the first time, showing de-stroyed vehicles and a dam-aged building identified as a scientific research center. The U.S. officials said the airstrike hit both the build-ing and the convoy.

In his comments Sun-day in Munich, Barak came close to confirming that his country was behind the operation.

“I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago,” Barak told the gathering of top diplomats and defense officials from around the world.

Then he went on to say, “I keep telling frankly that we said – and that’s proof when we said something we mean it – we say that we don’t think it should be al-lowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Leb-anon.” He spoke in heavily accented English.

In Syria, Assad said dur-ing a meeting with a top Ira-nian official that his country would confront any aggres-sion, his first comment on the airstrike.

“Syria, with the aware-ness of its people, the might of its army and its adherence to the path of resistance, is able to face the current chal-lenges and confront any ag-gression that might target the Syrian people,” Assad was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA.

He made the remarks during a meeting with Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s Na-tional Security Council. Iran is Syria’s closest regional ally. Jalili, on a three-day visit to Syria, has pledged Tehran’s continued support for Assad’s regime.

Jalili, who also serves as his country’s top nuclear negotiator, condemned the Israeli raid, stressing that it has proven the “aggressive nature of Israel and its threat of the region’s security and stability.”

The chief of Iran’s pow-erful Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that Tehran also hopes Syria will strike back against Israel.

Syrian opposition leaders and rebels have criticized Assad for not responding to the airstrike, calling it proof of his weakness and acqui-escence to the Jewish state.

The Syrian defense min-ister, Gen. Fahd Jassem al-

Freij said Israel attacked the center because reb-els were unable to capture it. Al-Freij called the rebels Israel’s “tools.” He told the state TV, “The heroic Syrian Arab Army, that proved to the world that it is a strong army and a trained army, will not be defeated.”

Ahmad Ramadan, an op-position leader, said Syr-ia’s claim that the rebels are cooperating with Israel “is an attempt by the re-gime to cover its weakness in defending the country against foreign aggression.” He spoke by telephone from Turkey.

While Israel has re-mained officially silent on the airstrike, there seemed little doubt that Israel car-ried it out, especially given the confirmation from the U.S., its close ally.

Israel has a powerful air force equipped with U.S.-made warplanes and has a history of carrying out air raids on hostile territory. In recent years, Israel has been blamed for an air raid in Syria in 2007 that appar-ently struck an unfinished nuclear reactor and an arms convoy in Sudan believed to be delivering weapons to Hamas.

Israel has not confirmed either raid, but military of-ficials routinely talk about a “policy of prevention” meant to disrupt the flow of arms to its enemies.

In the days preceding the airstrike, the Israeli warn-ings were heightened. Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu issued a series of dire comments about the threat posed by Syria’s weapons.

Israel considers any transfer of these advanced weapons to be unaccept-able “game changers” that would change the balance of power in the region.

Israel has grown increas-ingly jittery as the Arab Spring has swept through the Middle East, bring-ing with it a rise of hostile Islamist elements. While Assad is a bitter enemy, Isra-el’s northern front with Syria has remained quiet for most of the past 40 years.

If Assad is toppled, the threat of al-Qaida forces op-erating along Israel’s fron-tier with Syria would pose a new and unpredictable threat. Israel has been rac-ing to reinforce its fences along its northern frontiers with Lebanon and Syria.

In addition, Israel fears that its archenemy Iran, the

close ally of Syria and He-zbollah, is moving closer to developing a nuclear weapon.

Israeli leaders have vowed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms, making veiled threats to use force if international diplo-macy and sanctions fail.

Israeli defense officials tried to play down Barak’s comments, saying that he was voicing a general pol-icy that Israel is ready to de-fend its interests and not discussing a specific inci-dent. They also noted that he was not speaking in his native Hebrew.

Even so, it seemed that Barak, a former prime min-ister, military chief of staff and regular participant on the world stage, was send-ing a message that Israel’s warnings are not hollow and that further military action should not be ruled out.

“There is a real danger now that seriously problem-atic weapons will reach He-zbollah, and Israel is trying to prevent this,” said Reuven Pedatzur, a defense analyst at Tel Aviv University. He said the threat has reached the point “where weapons are actually being loaded on trucks and sent on their way.

Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies in crash ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP)

— Paraguayan presiden-tial candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities said Sunday, ending a dra-matic political career that in-cluded coups and repeated attempts to lead this impov-erished 6.5 million-person country.

Oviedo was returning with his bodyguard from a politi-cal rally in northern Para-guay Saturday night when his pilot encountered bad weather. All three were killed in the crash, said Johnny Vil-lalba, a spokesman for Para-guay’s airport authority.

Defense Minister Maria Liz Garcia said she traveled to the scene Sunday with Oviedo’s daughter, congress-woman Fabiola Oviedo, and confirmed that the helicop-ter “disintegrated.”

“One resident who lives near the accident scene said they heard a single ex-plosion Saturday night,” she added. “The aircraft ended up disintegrated and out of respect to the families of the victims, I won’t release de-tails about the cadavers.”

The air traffic control tower in the provincial city of Concepcion received the pilot’s last communication, Garcia said – a brief mes-sage that they were chang-ing course due to a storm at 9 p.m. local time.

Lino Oviedo, 69, was run-ning in April’s elections as leader of Paraguay’s third-largest opposition party, the National Union of Ethical Citizens.

A retired general and for-mer army chief, Oviedo had tried for years to take the helm of his nation, and not always through democratic means.

As a colonel in 1989, Oviedo had been tasked with taking prisoner none other than Alfredo Stroess-ner, the feared dictator who had ruled Paraguay since

1954.That bloody military

coup sent Stroessner into Brazilian exile, but did lit-tle to diminish the hold on Paraguayan politics that his Colorado Party had ce-mented. Oviedo’s role in the ouster was rewarded with a meteoric rise through the ranks of the army.

A diminutive cavalry of-ficer, only 5-foot-3 inches (1.62 meters) tall, Oviedo was promoted to brigadier general three months af-ter capturing Stroessner. By 1992, he had become a divi-sion general, and then Pres-ident Juan Carlos Wasmosy named him army chief.

Membership in the Col-orado Party had been a re-quirement for any officer during the dictatorship, but Oviedo’s constant involve-

ment in party politics gen-erated frictions with the president.

In April 1996, a short-lived coup in which Oviedo par-ticipated and other maneu-verings led to his firing and forced retirement. He ran as a candidate to succeed Wasmosy, winning the Col-orado Party primary ahead of the May 1998 presidential elections, but was then con-victed in a military court for his role in the coup, ending his candidacy.

His would-be vice pres-ident, Raul Cubas, instead won the election and imme-diately ordered the release of Oviedo, despite the judi-ciary’s rulings.

Oviedo had an irrepress-ible desire to govern, and quickly became known as the power behind Cubas,

angering other political leaders.

Cubas’ vice president, Luis Maria Argana, was as-sassinated in 1999, and the slain man’s relatives and fol-lowers accused Oviedo of being the mastermind. Cu-bas resigned in the result-ing turmoil and Oviedo fled the country and renounced his Colorado Party member-ship, founding the UNACE party.

Facing Paraguayan arrest orders in the Wasmosy case, Oviedo remained a political refugee in Brazil until 2004, when he returned and was convicted.

The Supreme Court later exonerated Oviedo af-ter military officers denied there had been a coup at-tempt, freeing him to run for president in 2008.

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Sunday, the Charleston Gazette reported that coal mine operators throughout the state have been getting away with neglecting to en-force regulations on coal dust that were adopted in the aftermath of the Upper Big Branch tragedy in 2010.

Veteran Gazette reporter and West Virginia Univer-sity alumnus Ken Ward Jr. authored the investigative piece. Ward obtained re-

cords that revealed more than 20 percent of dust samples state regula-tors have taken from coal mines in the past year and a half did not meet state standards.

These findings are very troubling, and they raise serious questions about the state’s willingness to con-front the coal industry.

Coal dust is known to be explosive, and an investi-

gation commissioned by then-Gov. Joe Manchin in the aftermath of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion concluded it likely played a significant role in the trag-edy. For this reason, Gov. Manchin issued an exec-utive order creating more stringent regulations re-garding coal dust. The West Virginia legislature fol-lowed suit, and these reg-ulations are now state law.

So why have these reg-ulations not been en-forced? What use are they if coal mine operators can continue to ignore them without facing the consequences?

Davitt McCateer, the for-mer federal director of the Mine Safety and Health Ad-ministration who led the investigation into the Up-per Big Branch explosion, called these additional reg-

ulations a “charade.” They will continue to be mean-ingless as long as the state fails to hold the coal mine operators accountable.

How many more coal miners must be killed in avoidable explosions be-cause our leaders lack the courage to stand up to the coal industry and enforce our laws?

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As the semester began, a debate waged on West Vir-ginia University’s campus and across the country. At the center of the contro-versy was Chick-fil-A, the self-proclaimed inventor of the chicken sandwich.

The hullaballoo wasn’t fueled by obesity concerns stemming from waffle fry consumption or angry par-ents upset about Chick-fil-A’s mascot, a cow, teaching poor spelling.

Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-Fil-A, made com-ments in an interview stat-ing he believed in the bibli-cal definition of the family, and later said something arguably more idiotic, that “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our na-tion when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’”

Cathy’s remarks were the tipping point for an LGBTQ community already upset Chick-fil-A had tradition-ally given money to docu-mented “anti-gay” Chris-tian organizations.

Boycotting of Chick-fil-A franchises happened throughout the country, and a petition was started on WVU’s campus to re-move the restaurant from the Mountainlair.

Other demonstrations sprung up, including – af-ter Mike Huckabee’s call-ing – “Chick-fil-A Appreci-ation Day,” during which thousands of folks flocked to franchises in support of the eatery and Cathy’s pro-fessed values. In return, the LGBTQ community called for “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” and protested Chick-Fil-A.

Recently, a redemptive relationship has devel-oped between Dan Cathy and Shane Windmeyer, ex-ecutive director of Campus Pride, a nonprofit LGBT or-ganization that has been in-volved with Chick-fil-A pro-tests in the past.

Windmeyer is a gay man, and according to a Huff-

ington Post column he au-thored, Dan Cathy called him August 10th, and since that initial phone conver-sation, the two have shared calls and meetings, and Windmeyer spent New Year’s Eve at the Chick-Fil-A Bowl as Dan Cathy’s guest.

Windmeyer also re-vealed in his column that Chick-fil-A recently dis-closed tax forms to him, showing Chick-Fil-A hasn’t funded divisive, anti-gay groups since 2011.

This latter story received a decent amount of buzz around the Internet, but nowhere near the level of uproar and activism from both sides of the argument as when Cathy made his comments and protests and boycotts followed. We can ask why, but we should

already know the answer.Dan Cathy’s comments

and the subsequent fight-ing weren’t just about chicken sandwiches. Like with any debate, it seemed like group number three – the apathetic – sighed and stuffed their faces with waf-fle fries and waited for it all to blow over.

Cathy’s comments, while beliefs he has a right to hold, were inappropriate for a CEO of a company who prides itself in treating others with kindness and respect. Also, the whole “God is going to bring judg-ment on America” thing is just tiresome.

It was right of the LG-BTQ community, employ-ees of the Chick-fil-A fran-chise and other supportive citizens who disagreed with Cathy to question his

actions and create move-ment. While abstaining from chicken sandwiches might seem like a trivial game plan, reform exacts itself in usual ways. Folks probably scoffed at the first people to chain them-selves to historic buildings to prevent them from get-ting bulldozed.

Windmeyer’s column and his relationship with Cathy are indicative of something better than pro-test – something we need to learn from and put to use in all of our discussions and disagreements. In the midst of chicken sandwich eating and lack of chicken sand-wich eating, two very dif-ferent men with extremely separate views of the world started a relationship, and with that friendship came dialogue.

Windmeyer wrote: “I will not change my views, and Dan will likely not change his, but we can continue to listen, learn and appreciate ‘the blessing of growth’ that happens when we know each other better.”

Protest is often neces-sary. Voices need to be raised, especially in the face of oppression and big-otry. Sometimes, chicken sandwiches need to be ab-stained from, people need to chain themselves to trees, and marches need to be marched on the Na-tional Mall.

But that is just the pro-cess, and we can’t forget there’s got to be more to the story than mere dis-gust and voicing frustra-tion. Eventually, when pos-sible, we must move from the argument and toward

reconciliation. I’m proud of Dan Cathy

for trying, just as I am of Shane Windmeyer for en-gaging in a friendship with Cathy. I’m sure they have both taken some flack from their separate bases for the compromise – for watch-ing football with the en-emy. There is so much to be discouraged about when it comes to gender, sexuality, race and religious relations, but Cathy and Windmeyer’s attempts at understanding presents a positive model at how two sides begin to drop their swords and appreciate one another.

I hope this attitude seeps into their tribes and other arenas of American dis-course. Maybe we can eat chicken sandwiches again. We should at least try to know each other better.

Can we enjoy our chicken sandwiches again?miCah Conklingcolumnist

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CHICAGOPHOENIxChick-fil-A has reportedly stopped donating to anti-gay organizations.

Last week, President Barack Obama unveiled a set of proposals to reduce gun violence after a se-ries of deadly mass shoot-ings. Several key parts of his proposal are de-signed to restrict or ban so-called “military-style assault weapons,” which are a “category” of weap-ons that were used by the Sandy Hook Elementary School and Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooters.

However, most of the gun-control legislation be-ing introduced at the state and federal levels – in par-ticular, the ban on assault weapons – will not affect the rate of violent crime committed with firearms. Rather, it is a set of “feel-good,” ineffectual and mis-

guided legislation that is unsupported by statistics and history and will not affect the rate of gun vio-lence in the United States.

The recent wave of mass killings in the U.S. is shocking and horrific, but we need to recognize that mass shootings are ex-tremely rare and nearly im-possible to prevent. In fact, the total number of deaths in 2011 from mass shoot-ings represents less than 1 percent of the number of people killed with guns in the U.S. that year.

Similarly, the FBI re-ported that rifles of all types, including hunting rifles and .22s, were used in about 2.5 percent of murders in 2011. Since as-sault rifles constitute about 2.2 percent of all rifles, it is reasonable to assume that murders involving assault rifles are very rare. Ban-ning the sales of assault

weapons and high-capac-ity magazines, as was done from 1994-2004, is likely to prove just as ineffective at reducing gun violence as the last Assault Weapons Ban was. In fact, after the AWB expired, the National Institute of Justice was un-able to find any evidence that the AWB led to a re-duction in gun violence.

We also need to take a closer look at the language and intent of the new gun-control legislation. Pro-posed legislation bans features of assault weap-ons that include telescop-ing stocks and pistol grips, which can look “scary” and “military-styled” to the uninformed but which have absolutely no effect on the lethality of a fire-arm. (These features only exist for cosmetic and er-gonomic purposes.) Pro-posed bans on high-ca-pacity magazines, which

hold more than 10 rounds, are likewise ineffective at hindering mass shooters – magazines can be reloaded in less than two seconds with minimal practice and there is no way to stop someone from accumu-lating multiple magazines. The Virginia Tech shooter carried over a dozen 10-round magazines.

Even the terms “assault weapons” and “gun vio-lence” are intentionally designed to invoke images of violence. Using these terms would be akin to say-ing “bat violence” or “ham-mer violence,” blunt ob-jects that were used in 2011 to kill about 1.5 times more often than rifles, let alone assault rifles. In addition, the term “pro-gun” is often pejoratively used to refer to supporters of gun rights. I own guns, and I have used them in the Marines and as a civilian for self-defense

and recreational purposes, but I am no more “pro-gun” than I am “pro-ham-mer” or “pro-screwdriver” – a gun is simply a tool that I use, not a shrine that I worship. The language and images associated with this legislation are designed to divide and ostracize those who would oppose it.

Finally, we must real-ize that this legislation is primarily designed to tug at the heartstrings of cer-tain constituents. Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza murdered 20 middle-class, suburban, primarily white children – is that not rea-son enough for new re-strictions on guns? While the Sandy Hook shootings certainly were tragic, this incident pales when com-pared to the 4428 people murdered in 2011 in met-ropolitan areas with ex-tremely strict gun laws, such as Chicago, New York

and Washington, D.C. Rather than attempting to legislate weapons (which, as these cities have dem-onstrated, is ineffective), we need to address issues like gang violence, socio-economic and racial in-equalities, and the other factors that are the root causes of interpersonal violence.

In 1994, after the first AWB was passed, even supporters of the ban, such as the Washington Post editorial board, ad-mitted that legislation was “mainly symbolic” and merely a “stepping stone to broader gun control.” I hope that my fellow citi-zens can discard rhetoric and emotional appeals and recognize this new legisla-tion for what it really is – purely symbolic – and in-stead demand a plan that will actually accomplish something.

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Boxing, MMA knock out Motown crowd

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Caged Power 4 stormed the Morgantown Event Center Friday evening and put forth a rowdy and ener-getic display of face-smash-ing, rib-cracking profes-sional fighting action.

The event, arranged by local fight promoter Ste-phen Simons, featured am-ateur and professional box-ing, as well as professional mixed martial arts, and the crowd certainly approved of the violence.

Morgantown’s Eric Wat-kins, a student in his third year at West Virginia Uni-versity, emerged victorious in the professional boxing main event, snagging his 11th career victory with a furious technical knockout (TKO) finish of his oppo-nent, Jay Holland.

“It felt good to be back in Morgantown in front of my home fans,” Watkins said. “They’re always rowdy, al-ways appreciative of a good fight, and they make me go the extra yard. Morgantown fans are better than Las Ve-gas fans.”

Despite the dominant finish, Watkins’ victory was not without adver-sity. Holland caught Wat-kins with stiff punches in the first round on multiple occasions, staggering his foe and almost earning a knockdown.

The Morgantown fighter recovered quickly, however, and he roared back in the second round.

Watkins blasted Holland with a left hook to the body early in the second round, sending him to a knee on the canvas. After realizing these body shots would be his ticket to victory, Wat-kins zeroed in on his foe’s midsection and continued to punish his ribs and liver until the referee stopped

the bout. “The game plan is always

to go to the body,” Watkins said. “His body looked soft. We knew his body was soft, and the body will drop any-body if you hit it right.”

Following the victory, Watkins will fight for the West Virginia Light Heavy-weight title March 9 in Mad-ison, W.Va.

“Any support you can give me— if you see me in the lair, if you see me on the track, if you see me in the rec – just give me a shout-out, and let me know you’re in my corner,” Watkins said. “Anything’s appreciated.”

After Watkins’ impressive win, action turned to the mixed martial arts (MMA) cage, and David Forsyth and Tom Backman kept the in-tensity cranked to 11.

Philadelphia’s Backman took home a unanimous de-cision victory against Fair-mont, W.Va.’s, Forsyth who, despite the hometown sup-port, couldn’t do enough to earn the victory.

The bout featured all of the aspects of a proper MMA fight. Striking, wres-tling, clinching and Bra-zilian Jiu-Jitsu took center stage, and Backman earned the judges’ nod after 15 min-utes of closely contested action.

Backman gave all of the credit to his coaches and training partners at Bra-zen Boxing and MMA in Philadelphia.

“We do everything – we box, we wrestle, we kickbox, we do Muay Thai,” Backman said. “We make guys pay. We hurt them with basics, and then we come with the flair.”

Forsyth, to his credit, withstood some precarious situations and showed tre-mendous heart and solid all-around skills in defeat.

“I guess I underestimated him, because he (Forsyth)

was stronger than I gave him credit for,” Backman said. “He hit me with that right hand a couple times and made me a little bit gun-shy.”

AJ Bosley of Uniontown, Pa., kept things rolling with a dominant first-round victory against Chauncey Gnagey, and the stage was set for the night’s main event.

Pittsburgh Fight Club’s Justin “The Hawk” Steave squared off against Tray Taylor of Sidney, Ohio, and the Steel City reigned su-preme in dramatic fashion.

After a brief feeling-out process, Steave clipped Taylor with a hard right cross and Taylor tumbled to the canvas. “The Hawk” pounced on his wounded prey and ended the bout with some explosive ground-and-pound, halting the action just 19 seconds into round one.

“It was awesome, man,” Steave said. “It was high-en-ergy; everything just seemed like it was going right.”

The finish shocked all in attendance, including Steave.

“I thought it was going to be a stand-up war for a little bit, maybe go the ground a little bit,” Steave said. “But I caught him slipping. He dropped that left hand, and I came with the right.”

The quick knockout fin-ish capped off an excellent night of fighting at Caged Power 4, and a vast and ap-preciative Mountain State crowd once again showed up to support the warriors inside the ring and the cage.

The next installment of Simon Promotions’ Caged Power series will take place March 8 in Connellsville, Pa. For more information on future events, visit www.si-monspromotions.com.

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Patrick Gorrell/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMMorgantown, W.Va., boxer Eric Watkins (left) looks for an opening Friday evening at Caged Power 4.

Patrick Gorrell/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMPhiladelphia’s Tom Backman (right) looks for a D’Arce choke against his opponent, David Forsyth, at Caged Power 4 Friday night.

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Despite complications, metal acts deliver at 123

Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMBlack Mass Confession performs for eager metalheads Thursday evening at 123 Pleasant Street.

by josh ewersa&e writer

A trio of bands including Hovel, Sweet Life and Black Mass Confession took the stage Thursday night at 123 Pleasant Street.

Not every show is life-al-tering. Not every show goes according to plan.

Such was the case on this particular wintery night.

Originally planned to headline the show, metal band Straight Line Stitch had to cancel at the last minute due to transporta-tion complications.

In a true show of respect and dedication to Morgan-town and to 123 Pleasant Street, the band resched-uled a second run for Tues-day night.

Due to these unfortunate circumstances, the fine folks at 123 offered patrons a refund of the ticket price or the option to keep it for Tuesday, when Straight Line Stitch will perform.

However, it wasn’t all gloom and doom, as nights like these bring out the mu-sic fanatics who you can tell really want to be in attendance.

It separates the men from the boys.

Take exhibit A: Two tired-looking guys who en-tered the venue, only to hear the news Straight Line Stitch had canceled. They explain they’ve driven two hours to be there and, while leaving, simply stated, “Be back Tuesday.”

Once the chaos sur-rounding the cancellation calmed, a grand total of about 30 people decided to stay and watch the show go on without its headliner, and these troopers were treated to a great show.

Also to be commended on this front are the mu-sicians themselves, who stuck it out, despite losing a lot of potential exposure.

They didn’t harbor any ills toward Straight Line Stitch.

”It’s no big deal. We un-derstand,” said Hovel mem-ber Woody O’Hara. “It’s happened to us before.”

These bands suddenly had more pressure placed on them, but they all seemed unphased and ea-ger to perform.

“You have to pick up the ball,” O’Hara said. “Ev-

eryone here is our friend, so it’s going to be a good time.”

The show managed to get on the road around 9:45 p.m., one hour and fifteen minutes past the originally scheduled time, with Black Mass Confession.

The band put on a roller coaster performance that featured great highs with a few low points scattered throughout.

Among the negatives were unnecessarily long banter sessions between songs and a few measures where the drummer would get off time.

For the most part, how-ever, the group played an excellent and short set of Black Label Society-style hard rock tunes with a groovier edge.

Their set was highlighted by a few lightning-fast, fret-scorching guitar solos and duets.

Sweet Life came up next and really upped the ante.

Unapologetically a “stoner band,” the boys of Sweet Life played their set in front of a backdrop of a pot leaf and let the crowd know, “We like to play rock n’ roll to smoke weed to.”

They proceeded to layer the room with their dron-ing, stoner-punk jams.

Though the venue was still pretty empty, a haze of warm, aggressive strum-ming and the soulful but primal voice of their vo-calist filled the room and leaked out into the cold night.

Hovel rounded out the festivities in crushing fashion.

This show marked the second time I’ve seen the band. The first time, they were a late addition to the lineup, but this time they were the de-facto headliners.

These guys get it done under pressure. Never one to disappoint at 123, the veteran band spewed forth their blend of psychedeli-cally grooving jams at warp speed.

Down-home, south-ern classic rock vibes and army of boisterous and dis-torted riffs clashed about the audience.

The master musician-ship of Hovel was on full display.

If you missed out, fear not; there’s more Hovel on the horizon. Currently, the band is expecting to play a handful of dates and re-lease new material in the spring.

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The Daily Athenaeum Super Bowl special edition: An in-depth investigation of the broadcast’s best commercials

By NicK WESDOcKA&E WrITEr

Every year, football en-thusiasts gather for the Su-per Bowl, but unless your team is playing, the com-mercials often steal the show. Super Bowl XLVII was no different.

There was humor, con-troversy, cuteness, sex ap-peal and sentiment among this year’s advertisements. Some were better than others, but overall, they did not disappoint.

Let’s start with one of the most prominent Su-per Bowl advertisers: Bud-weiser. The Anheuser-Busch Company had the first commercial of the game and one of the most anticipated. Of course, it starred one of their signa-ture Clydesdale horses.

It was a real tearjerker for animal lovers. In the commercial, a man visits Chicago and is reunited

with the horse he raised.But come on, these

commercials are supposed to make us laugh, not cry – especially the beer com-mercials. Don’t get me wrong, it was cute and un-doubtedly very popular, but Budweiser missed its target audience with this one.

GoDaddy.com is well known for their promiscu-ous commercials. While they did have one of the game’s “hottest” ads, they also premiered one that took a new direction.

When supermodel Bar Refaeli kissed the com-puter geek in Go Daddy’s first commercial, every guy in the room was watching. It definitely got people’s attention, but it was also overwhelmingly awkward. Sex appeal is one thing, but in this case, it was too much.

On the other hand, Go Daddy broke away from

their usual with the “Big Idea” commercial. The in-tentionally cheesy ad fea-tures spokeswoman Dan-ica Patrick as the pilot of a private jet, flying a couple who was lucky enough to register their idea on Go-Daddy.com before other couples from around the globe with the same idea.

There were a number of Doritos ads in the midst of the commercials, none of which were worth not-ing. A pet goat that eats 156 bags of Doritos just isn’t that funny.

Volkswagen stirred up a lot of controversy with the endorsement of their 2013 Beetle. Many people called out Volkswagen for their Jamaican-themed commercial, including New York Times columnist Charles Blow who says it is “so racist” and “Blackface with voices.”

However, the ad was created in good spirit and promoted upbeat feelings. Racist or not, get used to seeing this commercial, because it will be around for a while.

“We view it as a compli-ment,” said Wykeham Mc-Neill, Jamaica’s minister of tourism and entertain-ment. “People should get into their inner Jamaica and get happy.”

Another big hit Sun-day night was Taco Bell’s “gameday” commercial, in which a gang of elderly people get into some teen-age antics, ending their night with a trip to the lo-cal Taco Bell. A Spanish version of Fun.’s popu-lar tune “We Are Young” serves as background mu-sic to the group’s night out on the town. This one is definitely among the frontrunners for best com-mercial of the night.

Alongside Taco Bell for winning commercials was Samsung with their Galaxy ad, featuring Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, and Ske-chers with their GOrun 2 shoes.

The former of the two relies on the comedic talents of Rudd and Ro-gen. While in the board-room with a Samsung ex-ecutive, they must come up with alternate names for the Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers and the Super Bowl itself. In the end, they refer to the teams as the Baltimore “Black Birds” and the San Francisco “50 minus 1ers.” No surprise that two co-medians help make this one of the funniest ads in this year’s Super Bowl.

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As usual, most of these commercials will soon be forgotten, but, over-all, they were entertaining enough to keep most non-football fans interested in this year’s Super Bowl. Af-ter all, that’s what they’re supposed to do, right?

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TURNING THINGS AROUND

APWest Virginia’s Terry Henderson, Deniz Kilicli and Juwan Staten, from left, defend Texas Tech’s Ty Nurse during a game in Lubbock, Texas, Saturday.

West Virginia forces 21 Texas Tech turnovers, ends losing streak

WVU committed to rejuvenated

brand of playI have to be totally hon-

est: After watching the first 10 minutes of yesterday’s women’s game between West Virginia and Okla-homa, I thought it was go-ing to be more of the same flat, monotonous play that has plagued the Mountain-eers for the majority of the season.

This team has played well, and poorly, never achieving a level of consistency that is a prerequisite for success in the Big 12 Conference.

Trailing by double digits, it appeared the Mountain-eers were doomed for an-other conference loss, serv-ing as yet another blow to the team’s postseason prospects.

Boy, was I wrong.Forget about the West

Virginia team you saw the early part of the season. Ev-erything that happened in the past – the weak finishes in the second half and the squandering of leads – I’m ready to move past.

This is a new team.There is a phenomenon in

the study of enzymes called “the committed step,” in which an irreversible reac-tion occurs at decision, or branch, point in the formu-lation of some molecules.

In other words, there’s no going back. The path of the molecules are set, moving forward in a new way.

This team has taken the committed step. It happened Sunday, and there’s no go-ing back.

West Virginia has won consecutive games against ranked opponents – includ-ing a tremendously difficult road win against Oklahoma State, which had lost only five times in 77 home games

Cody SChulerManaging Editor

by niCk arthurassociatE sports Editor

After losing five of its pre-vious six games, West Vir-ginia got a much-needed win at Texas Tech Saturday afternoon.

The Mountaineers (10-11, 3-5) made 10 of their 18 3-point attempts, forced 21 Red Raider (9-10, 2-6) turn-overs and ran away with a 77-61 road victory in front of 8,407 at United Spirit Arena.

The final score may be somewhat deceiving, con-sidering WVU led by just four with less than six min-utes to play.

Head coach Bob Hug-gins wasn’t pleased with his

team’s ability to put away their opponent until the fi-nal minutes.

“There are a lot of things these guys show me that I never thought I’d see,” Huggins said. “We did such boneheaded things. We kind of had the game go-ing the way we wanted the game to go, but we kept throwing the ball to them.”

Mountaineer fresh-man guard Eron Harris re-bounded from a rough of-fensive outing against No. 1 Kansas Monday with 19 points, tying a career high and playing a career-high 36 minutes.

Junior center Aaric Mur-ray and sophomore guard Juwan Staten both contrib-

uted double-digit scoring off the bench and freshman guard Terry Henderson, who has been hampered by a lower back injury, tal-lied nine points on three 3-pointers.

“We’re good when we get people spread,’’ Huggins said of his team’s offense. “But you have to make shots to get people spread. Today we made shots.’’

West Virginia shot 56 percent from the field and 55 percent from the 3-point range. It was the first time since a 2008 game against Iowa the Mountaineers shot at least 55 percent in each category.

“One thing they did, they made shots, and that’s

something we didn’t antic-ipate, because it’s some-thing they struggled with all year,” said Texas Tech head coach Chris Walker.

The 77 points from the Mountaineers were the most in a game from them this season since Novem-ber against Virginia Mili-tary Institute.

There was an apparent confidence on offense for WVU that hadn’t been dis-played often this season.

Harris feels this could spark something in the future.

“We were knocking them down with confidence,” Harris said. “That could be the start of something big.”

Very few of West Virgin-

ia’s wins this season have come easy, and Texas Tech had its opportunities in the second half to draw even, despite trailing 13-2 and 16-4 to start the contest.

“We continue to do things to shoot ourselves in the foot,” Huggins said. “But we came out in the second half and took pretty good care of the ball. The only time they made a run, we threw the ball away twice.”

Huggins and the Moun-taineers will return home tonight to face Texas at 9 p.m. at the Coliseum.

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West Virginia upsets no. 20 oklahomaby amit batra

sports writEr

Three points separated West Virginia and Oklahoma in the first meeting between the two schools this season in Norman. In the devastat-ing loss for the West Virginia women’s basketball team, the Sooners proved to be a bit too much in the late stages of the game.

The Mountaineers had their chance for revenge against the No. 20 Sooners Sunday afternoon. It’s safe to say WVU capitalized on the opportunity to face a famil-

iar foe with a dominating 82-63 victory in front of 3,153 at the Coliseum.

“I love it (seeing teams twice a year),” said junior guard Christal Caldwell. “We let one slip away at Okla-homa, and we came here on our home court and took care of business. We have to do that with a few more teams.”

Although they were down in the early stages of the first half, West Virginia main-tained its composure and had a 34-27 halftime lead. Caldwell ignited the Moun-taineers with 15 points, as

she shot 50 percent from the field.

Despite some strong work from OU in the paint, WVU was able to get some key steals and easy transi-tion points from Caldwell and freshman guard Bria Holmes. The freshman had eight points at the half.

The Sooners were up by as many as 11 points in the first half, but a 23-5 run in the fi-nal nine minutes gave West Virginia the 7-point lead at halftime.

After only hitting one 3-pointer in the first half, WVU used its seven steals to

give OU trouble in the first 20 minutes of action.

Caldwell and Holmes picked up right where they left off in the first half. Four Mountaineers were in dou-ble figures, but the junior and freshman led the way when WVU was in dire need of a bucket.

Despite a double-double from Sooners’ senior power forward Joanna McFarland, West Virginia used its defen-sive pressure and attack to cause Oklahoma to force the ball over more than it would

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West Virginia falls to No. 2 OUby meghaN carrsports correspondent

The 10th-largest crowd in the West Virginia gymnas-tics team’s 40-year history came to watch the Moun-taineers’ first Big 12 Confer-ence showdown Friday night against the top-ranked team in the conference and two competitive non-conference opponents.

“The crowd was electri-fying. I love that we had so many people turn out,” said WVU head coach Jason Butts. “I love that we had such a great performance in front of our home crowd. I felt like our team really fed off the energy in here.”

Oklahoma head coach K.J. Kindler was also impressed with the atmosphere in the WVU Coliseum.

“I thought it was a great atmosphere. A lot of fans showed up, so I thought it was a good to see a lot of people and it was a very fun meet,” he said.

It was WVU’s second quad meet of the season and it featured William and Mary, Western Michigan and No. 2 Oklahoma. This was the first Big 12 meet of the season for both WVU and OU.

The 1,881 fans watched the top two teams from the Big 12 battle until the end.

Each team competed at the same time on separate events, but knowing the im-portance of this meet, would look up to the scoreboard to catch a glimpse of where each team stood. This meet held Big 12 bragging rights.

Senior Kaylyn Millick shone from the beginning, finishing third in overall per-formance with a total score of 39.4 and leading her team to finish second behind OU with a season-high 196.05.

“I’ve been here for three years now trying to work on my confidence and doing the gymnastics I know I can do, and it showed tonight,” she said.

The Mountaineers re-sponded in a big way to their coach’s remarks about wanting to see more consis-tency by scoring a season-best 196.05 – the quickest a

WVU gymnastics team has reached this total in a sea-son since 2004.

“I’m absolutely thrilled with this, and we just have to keep doing it every week-end,” Butts said.

WVU started strong in a meet that included the WVU Mountaineer, cheer-leaders and record-breaking moments.

Beginning the competi-tion on the vault, the Moun-

taineers finished with the second-best mark of the sea-son, scoring 49.0 overall.

Powerful freshman Jaida Lawrence received a 9.9 and tied OU’s freshmen Keeley Kmieciak and Haley Scaman for first place on vault. Senior Alaska Richardson anchored the line up scoring a 9.825 – good enough for fifth place overall.

The OU squad began on uneven bars and finished

with a 49.150, placing them in first place. Western Mich-igan finished third, and Wil-liam and Mary finished fourth after the first event.

The next event for the Mountaineers was uneven bars, an event that has given WVU problems in the past. But in this meet, WVU hit six-for-six routines and scored a season-best 48.775. Millick, whose name was mentioned many times that night, re-ceived a team-best score of 9.825.

WVU would go on to fin-ish second behind OU with a score of 49.050 on beam, the best the team has scored on beam since the 2011 sea-son opener in the Cancun Classic.

Beth Deal, who was back in competition for the first time in the 2013 season, an-chored the lineup on beam and finished with a score of 9.750.

“I’ve been waiting for my opportunity, and I finally got it,” Deal said. “I love the pres-sure and performing in front of everyone, so it was great to be back.”

The Mountaineers hit five out of six routines on beam, and once again Mil-lick led the way with a team-high and career-best score of 9.875.

The Mountaineers scored a season-best 49.225 on the floor exercise, coming in second behind the Soon-ers, who had a team total of 49.450. Millick would once again come up big for the Mountaineers scoring a 9.9 on the floor exercise and ty-ing with fellow teammate junior Hope Sloanhoffer for third place overall in the floor exercise.

Millick and Sloanhof-fer, who Coach Butts called “rocks for this team,” finished third and fifth in overall per-formance. Sloanhoffer had a season-high total of 39.3.

Oklahoma, in control of the meet from the beginning, finished with a season-high 197.375 and gave the Moun-taineers a preview of what to expect in the upcoming Big 12 Championship.

WVU finished the meet in second place (196.05), West-ern Michigan finished third (192.475), and William and Mary finished fourth overall (192.225).

Although WVU came in second behind Big 12 foe Oklahoma, Millick said she is proud of the way her team performed.

“OU is a great team, but we stood our ground to-night,” she said.

The Mountaineers will compete at home again Sunday at 3 p.m. against an-other Big 12 opponent, Iowa State, for the “Beauty and the Beast” competition. All tickets will be on sale for $1, courtesy of United Bank.

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West Virginia starts fast, falls at home to Panthersby jon fehrenS

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Having a full and healthy lineup has been an ongo-ing problem for head coach Craig Turnbull and the West Virginia wrestling team.

Turnbull believes with his full lineup his team can compete with some of the best in the nation. But with Colin Johnston and Bru-tus Scheffel scratched from the starting rotation, WVU struggled against Pitts-burgh, falling 31-9.

“If we have those two in the lineup that may even the matches up at five apiece, which may give us the momentum to take one of the matches that we didn’t take this evening.” Turnbull said.

Senior Shane Young was able to give the Mountain-eers an early spark with a 8-3 decision of Godwin Nyama at 125 pounds. At 133 pounds, freshman Sean Fee was named the starter in place of the struggling Johnston. Fee tried to stay

competitive with the No. 16 wrestler in the nation, but in the end the Panthers’ Shelton Mack came out with a decisive 14-5 win.

Like he has all season, junior Nathan Pennesi went out at 141 pounds and found a way to give his team some much-needed points.

This was a nostalgic match for Pennesi; his op-ponent, Travis Shaffer, was his workout partner throughout high school. The two old friends squared

off in a close match, and with only 30 seconds left Pennesi earned a reverse takedown and was awarded two nearfall points that won him the match.

“When he did get that takedown I just did what I was taught to do, and I kept moving. We know each oth-er’s tendencies so well, so once I was able to get the advantage and work the nearfall point it felt really good,” Pennesi said. “I was able to find his wrist once I was on top and from there,

I knew I just needed to roll him.”

After the win at 141 pounds, Pittsburgh con-tinued to dominate the match. The Panthers won every match until freshman Bubba Scheffel stopped the bleeding at 174, earning an escape point early in the third period and following with a take down to win the match.

“Scheffel just willed his way to that win. He willed his way out of mul-tiple takedowns, and he is

a great athlete and is just such a competitor.” Turn-bull said.

Pittsburgh won the re-maining three matches to close the deal on the win. West Virginia will return to action Sunday at 3 p.m. as it takes on Ohio Univer-sity in the WVU Coliseum. The match will be part in the “Beauty and the Beast” event, in which WVU gym-nastics and wrestling com-pete at the same time.

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have liked on the afternoon. McFarland ended the night with 14 points and a career-high 16 rebounds. However, she also finished with four fouls and was in foul trouble for the majority of the game.

WVU used 40 bench points and 13 steals to pick up the energy following a 22-11 deficit. Caldwell finished with 24 points and Holmes added 17 points off the bench. Junior forward Jess Harlee, noted as the team’s energy spark by many team-mates and head coach Mike Carey, added 12 points and nine rebounds off the bench. The forward also provided three steals.

“I just knew I had to step it

up on defense and get some easy steals,” Harlee said. “We had to pick up our defense so our offense could pick up, too. It (my energy) just comes naturally. I’ve always been that player who dove into bleachers or gets on the ground and has bruises all over my body. That’s just how I play, and I’ve always played like that.

“I just attacked the bas-ket when I was open and at-tacked the basket on offen-sive and defensive rebounds.”

West Virginia shot 42.7 percent from the field against the Sooners. Oklahoma, struggling to hold onto the ball for the majority of the afternoon through 17 turn-overs, shot 34.9 percent from the field.

“I thought we missed several layups, which are big momentum shifters,”

said OU head coach Sherri Coale. “It could obviously be a huge advantage for you, but when you miss them, it’s al-most a greater disadvantage for you. That was part of it, and then we began our little turnover-fest.”

When asked if Oklahoma is used to playing that physi-cal type of game, Coale sim-ply said “No.”

Carey was satisfied with West Virginia defeating its second-straight ranked team and earning a big win on its home floor.

“Needless to say (it) was a big win for us,” he said. “The first four minutes we came out and played flat. We brought some people off the bench that gave us energy. Bria Holmes came in and gave us some scoring, and Jess Harlee played great off the bench. For the first four

minutes, they did exactly what we knew they were go-ing to do, and we let them do it. Then afterwards we were able to shut that down.

“It’s a great win for us, but we have to win a lot more. You look at us the first four minutes of the game and you look at us the last four min-utes; it’s like night and day. It was the energy. We have to play like that for 40 minutes.”

WVU improves to 13-8 and .500 in the conference with a 5-5 mark. Oklahoma drops to 16-5 overall (6-3 Big 12).

The Mountaineers have little time to celebrate as they head to Lubbock for another chance at redemption when they take on the Texas Tech Lady Raiders Wednesday night.

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before the Mountaineers’ breakthrough last week.

Oklahoma pulled out a 3-point victory against the Mountaineers in Norman,

Okla., but Sunday, West Vir-ginia would not be denied.

A 23-5 run in the final nine minutes of the first half catapulted the Mountain-eers to a seven-point half-time lead.

In the second half, West Virginia didn’t let up, instead punching on the accelera-

tor and finishing the contest with a 19-point whomping that had the scent of revenge all over it.

After the game, West Vir-ginia head coach Mike Carey shared the team’s new phi-losophy that will follow them into March.

“We just want to continue

to be aggressive,” he said. “We’re not playing anymore not to lose.

“We’re not going to stand there and try not to lose a game anymore, and that’s what we had been doing. We have to keep attacking.”

The West Virginia team of old didn’t have the kill

switch that was flipped Sun-day. It didn’t have the gutsy bench play – 40 points in all Sunday – that can flip a game in your favor.

Despite a height disad-vantage, the Mountain-eers owned the paint, best-ing Oklahoma 44-26 from inside. Nine players scored

for West Virginia, includ-ing four who finished in double-digits.

It was the balanced, ef-ficient, physical, energy-filled style of play Carey has been looking for all sea-son. Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale summed it up best when she described the Sooners’ struggles with West Virginia’s press.

“We just weren’t tough enough to survive the in-bounds pressure,” she said.

Frankly, there aren’t many teams in the Big 12 that wouldn’t have suc-cumbed to the Mountain-eers’ rejuvenated brand of pressure Sunday.

This season West Virginia has lost to Iowa State and Texas Tech by four points, Oklahoma by three points and Kansas by one point.

After the win, red-shirt junior guard Christal Caldwell, who finished with a game-high 24 points in the win, described how she felt about having to play confer-ence foes twice per season.

“I love it,” she said. “We let one slip away at Oklahoma and came here on our home court and took care of busi-ness, and we have to do that with a few more teams.”

That sounds like a player and a team committed to ex-acting revenge in the same fashion as it did Sunday against Oklahoma.

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Mel MorAes/The DAily AThenAeuMThe WVU women’s basketball team celebrates after defeating No. 20 Oklahoma Sunday.

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by miChael CarVellisports Editor

When Aaric Murray was sitting out last season after transferring to West Virginia from La Salle, he heard one constant message from a lot of people close to him.

“Just play in Morgantown for a year before moving on to bigger and better things in the NBA.”

For a 6-foot-10, 245 pound cen-ter who can stretch the floor and had already emerged as one of the nation’s premier big men in his first two seasons in college, that wasn’t completely out of the ques-tion. But make no mistake about it, it put a lot of pressure on the junior.

“It was just a lot of weight on my shoulders coming into every game,” he said. “You feel like you need to go out and perform like some kind of NBA prospect every night, and you start to press a little more. It was tough to stay focused.”

And it showed early on in his first season with the Mountaineers.

Although he leads the team in points, rebounds and blocked shots, Murray has also lost a start-ing job and at one point was left at home while his teammates went to Brooklyn, N.Y., to take on then-No. 3 Michigan.

Throughout this roller coaster of a season, Murray learned those

things everyone was telling him were wrong. He’s not ready to leave Morgantown just yet.

“I don’t want to leave like this,” Murray said. “I’m not leaving like this.

“I definitely came here to have a great college career with Coach (Bob) Huggins and, as of right now, things are up and down. I’m not leaving like that ... I’m in no rush.”

One of Murray’s toughest crit-ics this season has been Huggins, who sees the potential his big man has to offer.

Murray is currently on his lon-gest streak of double-digit scoring games of the season.

In the last three games, Mur-ray has scored at least 10 points – including going for 17 points and seven rebounds as the Mountain-eers nearly upset Kansas a week ago.

It was a game that, even though WVU came out on the losing end, Murray showed a little bit of his progress maturing as a player and handling when Huggins takes him out of games.

“He was miserable to start the (Kansas) game. Let’s be honest, he was terrible,” Huggins said. “But to his credit, he came back and played pretty good and played with some enthusiasm.

“Earlier in the year, he wouldn’t

have responded that way.”For Murray, the ability to do

that came with the realization he needed to just focus on playing basketball, not the person on the sidelines, when he’s in the game.

“You can’t let Coach (Huggins) get to you if he’s yelling at you. You have to listen to the message and not how he’s saying it,” Mur-ray said. “I was listening to how he said it instead of what he was say-ing and getting frustrated and wor-rying about him instead of playing the game.”

The Mountaineers’ victory against Texas Tech this weekend brought them back to just a game below .500 with a stretch of win-nable games on the horizon for the next few weeks.

Now’s the time, he said, for WVU to start working toward get-ting back to the NCAA tournament for the sixth straight year.

“We’re still pushing to get to the NCAA tournament,” he said. “It’s just frustrating to keep losing so much and having people that are counting on you feel like they should have never counted on you to do what you’re supposed to do.

“We get all this support from the West Virginia fans, and for us to come out and keep losing – it’s just embarrassing and frustrating.”

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Mel MorAes/The DAily AThenAeuMJunior center Aaric Murray, right, leads the West Virginia men’s basketball team in points, rebounds and blocks this season.

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After its second success-ful weekend road trip in the Big 12, the West Virginia men’s basketball team will return home to attempt a regular-season series sweep against the Texas Longhorns Monday night at the WVU Coliseum, in the second of two contests between the schools this year.

It’s also a chance for the Mountaineers to win con-secutive games in the con-ference for the first time since joining the league this season.

West Virginia (10-11, 3-5) defeated a struggling Texas Tech (9-10, 2-6) Sat-urday afternoon in its last appearance, but it has

fallen in each game it has had an opportunity for a potential winning streak in conference play.

“We executed better than we have all season on offense,” said starting sophomore point guard Juwan Staten. “I think that might be the biggest thing. Every shot we planned on getting, we got. And then when we didn’t get a shot, we got to the free-throw line. We made free throws, and we just played like we can play.”

The win came at an op-portune time for the sput-tering Mountaineers, who are currently trying to re-bound from their worst start in a decade while somehow maintaining their current streak of five straight NCAA tournament

selections.But with a sub-500 re-

cord and just 10 games re-maining in the season, that streak could be in serious jeopardy. Still, West Vir-ginia head coach Bob Hug-gins says all hope of playing in the postseason is not yet lost for his team.

“If we can get on a run, I think we’ve got a chance,” Huggins said. “If we play well in the conference tour-nament, then we’re going to have a chance.”

Huggins also said he thought the Mountaineers’ strength of schedule, along with the fact the selection committee has historically let in teams with just 17 or 18 wins, could bode well for his team.

But it all begins with par-laying their latest league

win into their first Big 12 winning streak Mon-day night at home against Texas if West Virginia truly has any postseason aspira-tions this season.

The Longhorns (10-11, 2-6), meanwhile, have also faced some adversity this year. Normally a perennial conference and nationwide power, Texas possesses its own sub-500 overall record that includes just two con-ferences wins, neither of which came on the road.

Sophomore guard Shel-don McClellan leads all Longhorn players with 14.8 points per game, while Texas’ lone other double-figure scorer, Julien Lewis, averages just less than 12 points per contest.

In addition to picking up their third league vic-

tory, the Longhorns will be out to avenge their Jan. 9 loss to the Mountaineers, when WVU erased a dou-ble-digit lead in the final five minutes of regulation in Austin before eventually outlasting Texas 57-53 in overtime.

And that certainly wasn’t the first close game be-tween the two teams. In four all-time meetings be-tween the newly appointed conference foes there has never been a game decided by less than four points. In fact, Texas and West Vir-ginia have each won two games in the series, which dates back to 1973, and all four contests have been de-cided by a sum of just nine total points.

The Mountaineers will only have about a day and

a half to prepare for the Longhorns after its second-longest round-trip road trip of the entire season (3,002 miles) after down-ing Texas Tech in Lubbock, but for once, West Virginia actually has some positive momentum to build off of heading into their second Big Monday appearance on ESPN in as many weeks.

“I’m really proud of our team because we came down here on the road. We knew this was a must-win game,” Staten said. “We re-ally haven’t been having a great season, but we came down here and pulled this one off.

“Now we go home – Big Monday against Texas. We gotta get that one, too.”

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Texas head coach Rick Barnes looks on during a game earlier in the season.

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Texas Longhorn Edition Official Newsletter of the Mountaineer Maniacs February 4th, 2013

The WVU Men's basketball team is ready to get a huge Big 12 home win against the University of Texas Longhorns. Over the weekend the Mountaineers won a big road game at Texas Tech 77-61 to improve their record to 10-11. The Longhorns also come into this game with a record of 10-11 after beating TCU on Saturday 60-43. Let's send the Longhorns back to Austin with a loss!!! LET’S GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!

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BUM OF THE GAME BOO THIS MAN!!!! #1 Sheldon McClellan

# NAME POSITION INFORMATION 3 Javan Felix-FR

5-10 190 G Hometown: New Orleans, La.

In his free time Javan enjoys going cow tipping with head coach Rick Barnes. Javan hasn’t declared a major yet, his mother’s name is Tina.

14 Julien Lewis-SO 6-3 190

G Hometown: Galveston, Texas Julien has spent most of his time thus far at Texas trying out all the local fajita restaurants. He is also an undeclared major, and his mother’s name is Sharonda.

1 Sheldon McClellan-SO 6-4 200

G Hometown: Houston, Texas Sheldon has one of the largest collections of teddy bears in all of Texas. He usually prefers to watch episodes of the “TeleTubbies” before games, Sheldon’s mother’s name is Angel.

33 Ioannis Papapetrou-FR 6-8 225

F Hometown: Athens, Greece Pronunciations are Ioannis: ee-yo-ON-nis Papapetrou: pa-pa-PEH-troo Son of Argiris and Anastasia, who are both Greek gods, his brother is Hercules. Ioannis played for Greece in the Under-16 Euro Championship.

55 Cameron Ridley-FR 6-9 270

C Hometown: Richmond, Texas When Cameron was 6, he set the international twinkies consumed in a hour record with a mark of 276. Rick Barnes had a bunk bed installed in the Texas cafeteria for Cameron. Mother’s name is Sharon

WVU students: A change to your game-day experienceIf you’re headed to the Coliseum for tonight’s game, follow these instructions ...

1. Make sure to look at the Maniac Musings (above) while you wait for the game to start.2. Hold up the da like you’re reading the newspaper to ignore Texas as the Longhorns are introduced prior to tipoff.

Stay completely quiet while Texas is being introduced.3. While the intro video is played on the video board, crumple or rip up your da.

4. as the Mountaineer mascot shoots his rifle following the intro video, throw your crumpled or ripped da up into the air (but noT onto the court) and cheer as loud as you can to welcome the Mountaineers.

The DA 02-04-2013

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