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Students ring in Chinese New Yearby jacob bojesson

correspondent

The Okey Patteson Audi-torium in the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center was packed above its limit when more than 500 people came together to celebrate the Chinese New Year Saturday.

The festival was hosted by the WVU Chinese Student Association to recognize

one of the most significant holidays in Chinese culture.

“It’s very important for us, and that’s why we host this party. Normally we just make dumplings and enjoy shows,” said Xiang Li, pres-ident of the WVU Chinese Student Association. “This morning, the Chinese gov-ernment held a very impor-tant and fantastic show that had maybe two million peo-ple involved.”

The festival in the Okey Patteson Auditorium was of a slightly smaller scale, but was just as impressive – the hour-and-a-half-long show featured 25 acts and around 100 performers of all ages.

It included everything from traditional Chinese dance acts to American rap music and was rounded off with an authentic Chinese buffet.

“It’s the biggest part of the

year for us Chinese people, like Christmas in the U.S.,” Li said. “Everyone is supposed to come here with their fam-ilies and enjoy the day.”

Li said the festival was a great way to gather the Chi-nese community in Mor-gantown together and in-troduce Chinese culture to anyone interested.

To integrate Appala-chian culture with the cel-ebrations, the Morgantown

Old Time Music group per-formed, and the show ended with a Mandarin translation of “Country Roads.”

“This gives us an oppor-tunity to enjoy this time and eat together with our Chi-nese friends, and we want to invite American people to take part,” Li said. “Chi-nese people can share a ta-ble with American people and talk. I think it’s a good opportunity for everyone.”

Unlike the Gregorian cal-endar used in America, the Chinese calendar is cen-tered on 12 animals. Each year is dedicated to one animal.

The lucky year of the dragon ended on Saturday, and the less important year of the snake started Sunday.

“Each year has differ-ent attributes to people

Zumbathon dances for

more birthdaysby summer ratcliff

staff writer

West Virginia Univer-sity’s Arnold Hall added a Latin kick to its efforts in the fight against cancer.

Arnold Hall staff mem-bers hosted their second annual Zumbathon Satur-day as an opportunity to raise money for their Re-lay for Life team and dance for hope.

Last year when Alexis Claassen, a residence assis-tant for Arnold Hall, found out her father had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her coworkers and friends rallied around her and planned their first suc-cessful Zumbathon.

Shortly after last year’s event, Claassen’s father passed away.

This year’s event was held in his honor, and more than 180 people came to show their sup-port through dance.

“Today we wanted to dance for people like my dad – our heroes – who couldn’t be with us today,” Claassen said. “The peo-ple that are struggling with cancer now and the people who take care of them.”

Claassen said while the event is a part of the dorm’s fundraising efforts, she had her mind set on one goal: putting an end to cancer.

“Ultimately, we are here to dance for more birth-days,” she said.

Molly Hott, also an RA

for Arnold Hall and one of the event’s Zumba instruc-tors, said she believes it is important to conduct fun-draisers that keep cancer awareness in the spotlight and the message of hope alive.

“People always are em-pathetic for those who have cancer, but you never assume it’s going to hap-pen to you,” Hott said. “So whenever something like that does happen to someone close to you, knowing there are peo-ple doing things like this is important.”

Participants were asked to give a $5 donation, with 100 percent of the pro-ceeds going to Relay for Life.

The event raised a total of more than $1,400.

Evive Station, Fastees, Kaplan Testing Center, Tailpipes and Sweet Frog sponsored the event and provided prizes for Zum-bathon participants.

While a majority of the Zumbathon participants were female, Tommy Skin-ner, one of the male partic-ipants, said he thoroughly enjoyed the event and had fun raising money for a great cause.

“I really did like the guy to girl ratio – it was defi-nitely a fun time,” Skin-ner said. “Raising money like this is really awesome, and doing something fun

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The deadline to pick up an application to become the Mountaineer Mascot for the 2013-14 school year is today.

Those interested in ap-plying have until Wednes-day at 3 p.m. to submit their applications.

Students may pick up an application at three different loca-tions on campus – the Mountainlair help desk, the Towers main desk or the front desk at Eliz-abeth Moore Hall – or download one online at http://www.wvu.edu/documents/2013%20Mountaineer%20applica-tion%201.doc.

All applications must be turned in to the front desk at Elizabeth Moore Hall.

Questions can be di-rected to Selection Com-mittee Chairperson Derek Wetsch at Derek.wetsch@mail.wvu.edu or Co-Chair-

person Steven Staffileno at steven.staffileno@mail.wvu.edu.

The selection commit-tee, made up of West Vir-ginia University students and staff, will review ap-plications and interview potential candidates to narrow the field down to four.

The four finalists will then participate in a cheer off at the WVU Coliseum during a home men’s bas-ketball game.

Applicants must be full-time students and maintain at least a 2.5 GPA. Some of the tasks required by the Moun-taineer Mascot include participation at all home football, men’s basket-ball and women’s basket-ball games, as well as se-lect road athletic contests and other events in the community and across the state.

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Tyler HerrInTon/THe DaIly aTHenaeumThree participants splash water as they enter the river during Saturday’s Polar Plunge.

Tyler HerrInTon/THe DaIly aTHenaeumA participant in the Polar Plunge enters the chilly water with support from the crowd Saturday.

Chilly tradition sends WVU students, Morgantown residents into Mon River

freeZinG for a reason

Tyler HerrInTon/THe DaIly aTHenaeumA participant dives in head-first during Saturday’s Polar Plunge.

by lydia nuZumeditor-in-chief

Can any feeling parallel the breathless shock of plunging into a frigid river during winter?

What about the satisfaction of knowing a few moments of discomfort could make a difference for special needs children across the state?

More than 100 Morgantown residents par-ticipated in the 9th annual West Virginia Po-lar Plunge Saturday. The plunge, which took place in a cordoned section of the Mononga-hela River at the Star City Park & Marina, raised more than $20,000 to benefit the West Virginia Special Olympics.

“It gives us an opportunity to do something special for an organization that needs it,” said Janet Scarcelli, WV Special Olympics volun-teer and Polar Plunge committee chair. “Spe-cial Olympics provides opportunities for indi-viduals with intellectual disabilities to be able to do things that they might otherwise never be able to do.”

The Morgantown event is the longest-run-ning plunge in the state, and the program has expanded to Charleston, Parkersburg and Beckley, W. Va. Participants in the event can choose to pay anywhere from $50-500 and re-ceive various incentives, and teams of plungers can choose to enter the costume contest along with the plunge.

Scarcelli said she believes the WV Special Olympics facilitates learning and growth in a way that allows individuals with intellectual disabilities to thrive.

“Special Olympics affords people the oppor-tunity to learn and grow – physically, in terms of competitiveness, but also in terms of the self-esteem they acquire, and just being able to do things they never thought they could do,” she said. “Just imagine how wonderful that must feel.”

Special Olympics West Virginia provides year-round sports training and athletic com-petition to more than 5,500 West Virginia chil-dren and adults with intellectual disabilities.

Morgantown resident Benjamin Bradley said he decided to do the plunge at the last minute because he believed in the cause and thought it would be a fun experience.

“It was cold, but I’m actually originally from Alaska,” Bradley said. “I heard about it and knew that it was a good thing and it was for a good cause, so I got a bunch of people together and we headed out.”

Joe Michael Fusco, a third-year pharmacy student and member of pharmacological ser-vice fraternity Phi Lambda Sigma, said he par-ticipated with members of his fraternity to show support for WV Special Olympics.

“It’s something we do every year, because

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apJennifer Renz and her dog Gus run down East Third street in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston early Sunday morning in Boston.

PRoVIdEnCE, R.I. (AP) — Emergency crews and res-idents struggled to clear roadways and sidewalks from a storm that rampaged through the Northeast, dumping up to 3 feet of snow and bringing howling winds that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.

Municipal workers from New York to Boston labored through the night into Sun-day in snow-bound com-munities, where some mo-torists had to be rescued after spending hours stuck in wet, heavy snow. President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency for Con-necticut, allowing federal aid to be used in recovery, and utilities in some hard-hit New England states pre-dicted that the storm could leave some customers in the dark for days.

“We’ve never seen any-thing like this,” said county official Steven Bellone of New York’s Long Island, which got more than 30 inches of snow.

More than 300,000 homes and businesses were without power Sunday, down from a peak of about 650,000. Some school districts announced they’d be closed Monday, complicating parents’ back to work schedules but giv-ing kids another day for frolicking.

At least 11 deaths in the U.S. were blamed on the snowstorm, including an 11-year-old boy in Boston

who was overcome by car-bon monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shoveled Sat-urday morning. That death and the illnesses of several others exposed to carbon monoxide set off a flurry of safety warnings from public officials.

Roads across the North-east were impassable and cars were entombed by snow drifts on Saturday. Some people found the snow packed so high against their homes they couldn’t get their doors open.

“It’s like lifting cement. They say it’s 2 feet, but I think it’s more like 3 feet,” said Mi-chael Levesque, who was shoveling snow in Quincy, Mass., for a landscaping company.

In Providence, where the drifts were 5 feet high and telephone lines encrusted with ice and snow drooped under the weight, Jason Har-rison labored for nearly three hours to clear his blocked driveway and front walk and still had more work to do.

Rhode Island Gov. Lin-coln Chafee cautioned that while the snow had stopped, the danger hadn’t passed: “People need to take this storm seriously, even after it’s over. If you have any kind of heart condition, be careful with the shoveling.”

Blowing with hurricane-force winds of more than 80 mph in places, the storm hit hard along the heavily pop-

ulated Interstate 95 corridor between New York City and Maine. Milford., Conn., got 38 inches of snow, and Port-land, Maine, recorded 31.9, shattering a 1979 record. Several communities in New York and across New Eng-land got more than 2 feet.

Still, the storm was not as bad as some of the forecasts led many to fear, and not as dire as the Blizzard of ‘78, used by longtime New Eng-landers as the benchmark by which all other winter storms are measured.

“Considering the sever-ity, of the storm, the amount of snow and the wind, we’ve come though this pretty well,” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Boston got up to 2 feet of snow, according to the Na-tional Weather Service. The 14.8 inches that fell Saturday alone broke the city’s record for of 12.4 inches in a single day, set in 1994. Bradley Air-port near Hartford, Conn., got 22 inches, for the No. 2 spot in the record books there.

Concord, N.H., got 24 inches of snow, the second-highest amount on record and a few inches short of the reading from the great Bliz-zard of 1888.

In New York, where Cen-tral Park recorded 11 inches, not even enough to make the Top 10 list, Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg said the city “dodged a bullet” and its

streets were “in great shape.” The three major airports serving the city – LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark, N.J. – were up and running by late morning after shutting down the evening before.

Most of the power out-ages were in Massachusetts, where at its peak more than 400,000 homes and busi-nesses were in the dark. In Rhode Island, a high of around 180,000 customers lost power, or about one-third of the state.

Massachusetts, Connect-icut and Rhode Island im-posed travel bans to keep cars off the road and let plows do their work, and the National Guard helped clear highways in Connecti-cut, where more than 240 ac-cidents were reported. The Guardsmen rescued about 90 people, including a few who had hypothermia and were taken to hospitals.

On Long Island, hun-dreds of drivers spent a cold and scary night stuck on the highways. Even snow-plows got bogged down or were blocked by stuck cars, so emergency workers used snowmobiles to try to reach motorists, many of whom were still waiting to be res-cued hours after the snow had stopped.

Richard Ebbrecht, a chi-ropractor, left his office in Brooklyn at 3 p.m. on Fri-day and headed for home in Middle Island, N.Y., but got stuck six or seven times on

the Long Island Expressway and other roads.

“There was a bunch of us Long Islanders. We were all helping each other, shovel-ing, pushing,” he said. He fi-nally gave up and settled in for the night in his car just two miles from his destina-tion. At 8 a.m., when it was light out, he walked home.

“I could run my car and keep the heat on and listen to the radio a little bit,” he said. “It was very icy under my car. That’s why my car is still there.”

Local police said Sunday that all known abandoned cars were searched and no one needing medical help was found. But A 27-mile stretch of the expressway re-mained closed in both direc-tions so crews could remove snow.

Around the New York metropolitan area, many victims of Superstorm Sandy were mercifully spared an-other round of flooding, property damage and power failures.

“I was very lucky and I never even lost power,” said Susan Kelly of Bayville. “We were dry as anything. My new roof was fantastic. Other than digging out, this storm was a nice storm.” As for the shoveling, “I got two hours of exercise.”

Across much of New Eng-land, streets were empty of cars and dotted instead with children who had never seen so much snow and were

jumping into snow banks and making forts. Snow was waist-high in the streets of Boston. Plows made some thoroughfares passable but piled even more snow on cars parked on the city’s nar-row streets.

Boston’s Logan Airport resumed operations Satur-day, and limited train and bus service in the metro area started again Sunday.

Authorities hoped to restore most service for Monday.

Life went on as usual for some. In Portland, Karen Willis Beal got her dream wedding on Saturday –com-plete with a snowstorm just like the one that hit before her parents married in De-cember 1970.

“I have always wanted a snowstorm for my wedding, and my wish has come true to the max,” she said.

Some spots in Massachu-setts had to be evacuated because of coastal flooding, including Salisbury Beach, where around 40 people were ordered out.

One concern going for-ward was a forecast for rain Monday in New England. While warmer temperatures might begin melting snow, the rain on top of snow al-ready piled up on roofs could pose a danger of collapse.

“We are encouraging peo-ple as they can do so safely to use snow rakes and so forth to move the snow off of their roofs,” Patrick said.

who were born that year. For example, last year was a dragon year, which is ex-tremely lucky, so many peo-ple try to have children in dragon years,” said Em-ily Morgan, a student who is majoring in Chinese and one of four hosts for the night. “When people make important decisions – when to get married, when to make financial decisions – they have to take into ac-count what year it is.”

Zhengjun Wang, vice president of the WVU Chi-nese Student Association, had been planning the event for two months.

“At WVU there are about 300 students and 17 Chinese

faculty members. If you in-clude people that work here and their families, it’s prob-ably about 1,000 Chinese people (living in and around Morgantown),” Wang said. “Last night, I think we had about five or six hundred, so it was a big success.”

A large portion of the at-tendees were students who wished to learn more about Chinese culture, and most of them were impressed with the show.

“I love taking in all kinds of cultures. I’ve never been to an official New Year’s celebration so this is some-thing very cool,” said Will Armentrout, a WVU physics student. “I know very little, only from what I’ve seen on Chinese television.”

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we know the Special Olym-pics is such a great organi-zation that does so much for so many kids around the country, so we just wanted to come out and support it today,” Fusco said.

Fusco said plunging into the Monongahela River was much colder than he had expected when he

chose to participate in the plunge.

“It was so cold,” he said. “It was so much colder than I could have ever ex-pected. Once I hit the wa-ter my shoe broke, my pockets filled up with wa-ter – it was like I couldn’t get the water away from me quick enough.”

To learn more about the Polar Plunge, visit www.w v p o l a r p l u n g e . c o m /morgantown.

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Tyler HerrInTon/THe DaIly aTHenaeumA group of participants make the walk down to the river at Saturday’s Polar Plunge.

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Islamists attack Malian troops in northern Mali

ApA Malian soldier takes cover behind a truck during exchanges of fire with jihadists in Gao, northern Mali, Sunday.

GAO, Mali (AP) — Black-robed Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 auto-matic rifles invaded Gao in wooden boats Sunday to launch a surprise attack on the most populous city in northern Mali, two weeks after French and Malian troops ousted the jihadists.

Gunfire echoed for hours across the city of mud-walled buildings. The com-bat started at about 2 p.m. in downtown Gao and the fighting was continuing as night fell. Later the sound of gunfire was replaced by the clattering of French military helicopters overhead.

The attack in Gao shows the Islamic fighters, many of them well-armed and with combat experience, are determined and daring and it foreshadows a pro-tracted campaign by France and other nations to re-store government control in this vast Saharan nation in northwest Africa.

The Islamic radicals fought against the Malian

army throughout the af-ternoon and were seen roaming the narrow streets blanketed in sand and on rooftops in the center of Gao, which had a popula-tion of 90,000 before the conflict caused thousands to flee.

Families hid in their homes. One family handed plastic cups of water through the locked iron gate to others hiding on their patio. Piles of onions lay unattended where mar-ket women fled when the Islamists arrived. There were no signs of civilian casualties.

The fighting appeared to center near the police head-quarters, where Malian sol-diers with rocket propelled grenades traded fire with the combatants believed to be from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO. The only sound in the city was gunfire and the bleating of goats. Soldiers were posi-tioned at every corner in the

neighborhood.Ever since French forces

took Gao on Jan. 26, the Is-lamic rebels had clashed with security forces on the city’s outskirts. This was the first time they succeeded in entering the strategic city.

The Islamic fighters used pirogues, large wooden dugouts with motors, and other boats to cross the Ni-ger River and penetrate Gao, according to French Gen. Bernard Barrera, who cited Malian officials.

The Islamic radicals had already tried to spread vi-olence into Gao. On Satur-day night, a suicide bomber detonated himself at a checkpoint at the entrance to the city, killing himself and wounded one Malian soldier. An earlier suicide bomber on a motorcycle also blew himself up at the same security spot on Fri-day, killing only himself.

Besides Gao, French and Malian forces have also re-taken the fabled city of Tim-buktu and other northern

towns, pushing the Islamic extremists back into the desert, where they pose a constant threat to Malian and allied forces. But the Is-lamic fighters made strate-gic retreats and are dug into desert hideouts, from where they are expected to con-tinue challenging the con-trol of the cities by French, Malian and allied forces. Several African nations have contributed troops to battle the extremists, who imposed their harsh version of Islamic Shariah law when they controlled the north-ern cities.

The armed Islamic fight-ers seized the northern half of Mali in April 2012, send-ing poorly disciplined and equipped Malian forces re-treating in disarray. France launched its military inter-vention in its former colony on Jan. 11 when the Islamic radicals, many of whom had fought for ex-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, began encroaching on the south, threatening the cap-

ital Bamako which lies deep in southern Mali, 1,200 ki-lometers (750 miles) from Gao.

France has said that it wants to hand over respon-sibility to the Malian mili-tary and other African na-tions who have contributed troops and has raised with the United Nations Security Council the possibility of establishing a U.N. peace-keeping operation in Mali.

Sunday’s open combat and the two suicide bomb explosions have frightened many Gao residents.

Fears of suicide bombing attacks in Gao have been high since the discovery of industrial-strength explo-sives in the city last week. Four Malian soldiers also were killed by a land mine in the town of Gossi, rais-ing fears the militants were planting explosives in the road.

Friday’s suicide bomber had been living at a known jihadist hideout in Gao, ac-cording to local residents. A

guard at the home said that it had been visited three months ago by the one-eyed terror leader Moktar Belmoktar, who claimed responsibility for the attack on the BP-operated natu-ral gas plant in Algeria last month.

Other jihadist lead-ers from MUJAO also had stayed in the luxurious two-story home with a verdant courtyard, which the mili-tants took over when they captured Gao last year, the guard said.

On Sunday, crowds of nearby residents gathered under the shade of a few trees by the site of the sui-cide bombing attack. It was the second time in as many days that their homes had been shaken by blasts from suicide bombers.

“I am really afraid. You hear about these kinds of things in Pakistan or Af-ghanistan,” said Maouloud Dicko, 30, as he sat on his motorcycle. “Gao is becom-ing like Pakistan.”

Rebels, troops battle for key Damascus highwayBEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) —

Opposition forces targeted Damascus with mortars, a roadside bomb and a sui-cide attack on Sunday as they pressed ahead in their quest for the seat of Presi-dent Bashar Assad’s power.

Outside the capital, gov-ernment troops battled reb-els for the fifth straight day for control of a key high-way. Both sides consider the fight for Damascus the most likely endgame in a nearly two-year-old civil war that has already killed more than 60,000 people.

Sunday’s fighting was the heaviest in Damascus since the first rebel push into the capital in July. The rebels then managed to capture several neighborhoods, but were soon bombed out during a punishing govern-ment counteroffensive.

Since then, the rebels have threatened the heavily fortified capital from oppo-sition strongholds around the city. Damascus, how-ever, has been spared the kind of violence and de-struction that has been seen in other major urban cen-ters during the conflict.

Checkpoints on the main artery into the capi-tal have changed hands sev-eral times since Wednesday when the latest rebel cam-paign for Damascus started. The road is strategically im-portant because it leads to northern Syria and the re-gime uses it to move troops

and supplies. Rebels cut the road off from Damas-cus with burning tires on Friday after seizing check-points from regime troops in fighting that brought the civil war within a mile of the heart of the capital.

A rebel fighter told The Associated Press that op-position forces on Sunday overran another roadblock, al-Adnan checkpoint in Jo-bar, northeast of Damas-cus. He spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

But the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime ac-tivist group, said that while the fight for the highway continues, government troops regained control of the area on Sunday after using fighter jets to bomb rebel positions the day before.

A mortar that hit a Da-mascus street near Sha-bandar Square killed four people and injured several others, a government offi-cial told the AP on condi-tion of anonymity because he was not allowed to brief the media.

State-run SANA news agency said a roadside bomb detonated at Arnous street, in the heart of Da-mascus, injuring several people. In another part of the city, a suicide bomber blew himself up. He was the only one who died in the blast in Rouken al-Deen neighborhood, the official news service said.

The rebels’ latest push for Damascus is similar to rebel offensives in other Syrian cities. The opposition con-trols large swathes of land outside urban centers – like Homs in central Syria and Deir el-Zour in the east, and even whole neighborhoods like in the northern city of Aleppo – but cannot oust all government troops because of the regime’s superior fire power.

The fighting has settled into a bloody stalemate and

shows no signs of stop-ping, despite several ten-tative proposals from both

sides to find a peaceful res-olution to the conflict.

Also on Sunday, rebels fought a fierce battle with troops for control of military airport and artillery base that houses the Syrian ar-my’s 113th Brigade just out-side the city of Dei el-Zour, the Observatory said. The Observatory said the reb-els were using tanks they previously captured from the military in their assault on the regime’s outposts in the city, which has the same name as the oil-rich prov-ince along Syria’s border with Iraq that has been the scene of some of the heavi-est fighting in the civil war.

ApA Free Syrian Army fighter sits behind an anti-aircraft weapon in Aleppo, Syria.

Two months absent, still no sign of Chavez

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two months have passed since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez climbed the stairs of the presidential jet, blew kisses to his support-ers and flew to Cuba to un-dergo his fourth cancer-re-lated surgery.

Chavez hasn’t been seen or spoken publicly since that de-parture to Havana on Dec. 10, and the mystery surrounding his condition has deepened while the government’s up-dates have remained opti-mistic but have lately offered few specifics.

“The president is in charge and making decisions,” Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said Satur-day after meeting with Brazil’s foreign minister. “It’s a slow, slow recovery process. But he is fighting his battle with great faith, and clinging to Christ and clinging to life ... and with the conviction that he is going to win this battle, too.”

Jaua, who visited Chavez

in Cuba last week, said the 58-year-old president has been making political and economic decisions. On Fri-day, for instance, the govern-ment announced it is devalu-ing the currency.

Confidants including Jaua have recently said the presi-dent has overcome complica-tions including a severe respi-ratory infection following his Dec. 11 surgery for recurrent cancer in his pelvic region.

Vice President Nico-las Maduro, whom Chavez named as his potential suc-cessor before the surgery, has said that the president should be able to return home once his condition permits it.

When that might be re-mains unclear, and the long silence of a leader who used to speak on television al-most every day has led many Venezuelans to wonder why he is unable to say at least a few words to the country by phone.

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Last week, the West Vir-ginia University Student Government Association launched a website aimed at encouraging students to participate in the upcom-ing SGA election.

The website’s visitors are greeted with a simple question: “Did you vote last year?” Based on the fact that less than 10 percent of the WVU student body voted in last year’s SGA election, the answer to this question is “probably not.”

We applaud the SGA

for recognizing that the startlingly low turnout for SGA elections is a signifi-cant problem that needs to be addressed. We hope this website is one of many steps they will be taking to encourage more students to participate in student government.

There are plenty of rea-sons you should be con-cerned with the SGA elec-tions. The student body president and vice presi-dent serve as your repre-sentatives within SGA, the

University as a whole and nationally. It is in all of our best interests to make sure the most qualified individ-uals are elected to these positions so they can re-flect positively on the University.

The Board of Governors, which students will also be selecting in the upcom-ing elections, serve as the SGA’s legislative body. In addition to passing reso-lutions, the Board of Gov-ernors is responsible for a six-figure budget that is

distributed among various student organizations. This is your money, so again, it is in your best interest to elect the best people to carry out these responsibilities.

Students are tradition-ally not particularly in-volved in real-world poli-tics, so it’s easy to see why so many disengage them-selves from campus poli-tics. But participating in the SGA election requires min-imal effort, and the wide-spread apathy of the stu-dent body regarding SGA

only serves to exacerbate some of the problems that have plagued our student government.

The Daily Athenaeum staff encourages all stu-dents to take the time to read up on the candidates and their party platforms and cast their vote when the time comes. It’s your University, and it’s your money, so why would you pass up the opportunity to make your voice heard?

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It’s been almost 20 years since “Prozac Nation,” Eliz-abeth Wurtzel’s memoir about depression, suicide and drug therapy, was re-leased. The book attempted to capture the zeitgeist of our culture’s dependence on antidepressants. In al-most two decades, Wurtz-el’s assertion that we live in “The United States of De-pression” seems to have only been confirmed, as anxiety and depression are increasingly pervasive illnesses.

Royce White, a for-mer Iowa State basketball player drafted by the Hous-ton Rockets in this year’s NBA draft, has received at-tention because of his is-sues with mental illness. White has a diagnosed anxiety disorder and takes medication to help control his problems.

Ever since the Rock-ets drafted him, White has been in a wrestling match with the team over proto-col regarding his illness. He wants the team to pay for him to have his own doc-tor, whose job would be to clear White for basketball activity based on the sever-ity of his anxiety.

White doesn’t just suf-fer from anxiety, though. He’s become an activist, encouraging people who deal with mental illness to be honest about their suffering.

In a recent interview, White told Chuck Klos-terman, “At the end of the day, we don’t associ-ate mental health disor-ders with having severe health risks, and they do.” His main concern is a fear that, since mental illness is more or less invisible, the millions of Americans who deal with anxiety and de-pression aren’t being taken care of in a healthy manner.

What piqued my inter-est most in the Klosterman interview is when White brought up the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act. According to White, “You can’t discriminate against somebody [based on an ill-ness], because that’s ADA law.”

Studies vary, but a con-

sensus estimate is that one in four Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness. It’s an enormous amount, and it shows no signs of decreasing.

The Americans with Dis-abilities Act protects peo-ple with disabilities against discrimination in the work-place and in other state ac-tivities; this includes col-leges and universities.

Under the ADA, employ-ers and state agencies are required to provide “rea-sonable accommodations” for folks who have disabil-ities. This results in things like different workloads, job modifications and hour adjustments.

If what Royce White is advocating for – a broader,

more inclusive definition and acceptance of men-tal illnesses like depres-sion and anxiety – begins to unfold, the way busi-nesses and educational in-stitutions operate could be drastically changed. Our culture, too, could be rad-ically shaped if depression and anxiety continue to be seen as disabilities.

Chances are, the ma-jority of the 25 percent of the American population struggling with mental ill-ness aren’t documented, nor are they currently eligi-ble for aid under the ADA. Obviously, not all of the 25 percent would even apply for assistance.

But if discourse sur-rounding mental illness

becomes more acceptable and people with anxiety and depression continue to open up about their strug-gle, authority could shift, and more action could be taken in terms of making accommodations for those with struggles.

These types of illnesses make it difficult for people to function and often per-form everyday tasks, and it is conceivable that the way mental illnesses are treated might mean more help un-der the ADA for people who suffer from anxiety or depression.

One action Royce White wants to see take place is for clinics in the vein of Planned Parenthood, but for mental illnesses, to be

built in neighborhoods. With more free and authen-tic conversation about anx-iety and depression, like White’s discourse, flowing in society, a troubling and growing reality in Ameri-can society will have to be confronted. It should be.

Anxiety and depression are illnesses that have, in a way, slowly crept up on our country. While we are wor-ried about war, the econ-omy and education, we often forget about effects the outcomes of those is-sues can produce. Con-versations are beginning, and art is being produced that tackles an uncomfort-able reality that needs to be discussed.

David O. Russell, direc-

tor of the film “Silver Lin-ings Playbook,” which fea-tures a character with bipolar disorder, has said, “I’ve had people tell me that the film helped them to see someone they know differently – see themselves differently.”

As paradigms shift and mental illness becomes more discussed in society, viewing mental illness and people differently is going to be a necessary posture. En route to changes in per-ception and policy actions, empathy and understand-ing must be employed.

We should do so with humility and start ques-tioning some of the reasons why so many people begin struggling in the first place.

Discussions on mental illness should be grounded in empathymicah conklingcolumnist

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APBradley Cooper, nominated for best actor in a leading role for ‘Silver Linings Playbook,’ arrives at the 85th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, Feb. 4.

Despite our 2012 presi-dential debates devolving into mud-slinging over the intricacies of each candi-date’s tax plan, the con-versation stemming from the election did little to advance tax policy in the United States. Namely, for all of the discussion of closing tax loopholes, both candidates failed to signif-icantly address the source of one of our most signifi-cant tax inefficiencies: the flawed definition of what constitutes capital gains.

A capital gains tax is a special tax paid on, unsur-prisingly, gains from capi-tal investment. The prob-lem, however, stems from the fact that under the cur-

rent tax code, people who make their money through the management of capi-tal, instead of through its investment, are also taxed at the flat capital gains tax rate of 15 percent, rather than through the progres-sive income tax. While this may seem like semantic quibbling more suited for an accountant’s office than the Oval, this policy leads to significant losses in gov-ernment revenue.

The problem arises from the difficulty in de-fining the income of capi-tal managers. Hedge fund and private equity manag-ers, including venture cap-italists, are compensated based partly on a manage-ment fee (usually between two percent and three per-cent of fund size) as well as a performance-based fee (usually around 20 percent

of the gains from invest-ment.) The argument in favor of the existing policy goes as follows: since fund managers are paid based at least partly on the perfor-mance of their funds, their earnings represent capital gains and should be taxed as such. The logic behind the capital gains tax be-ing lower than all but two of the marginal income tax rates (historically 15 percent, though raised to 20 percent in the January 2013 fiscal cliff compro-mise) is that the money in-vested was initially taxed as someone’s income, and it would be unfair to tax that income twice at the same rate. While this ar-gument holds water for wage-earning Americans who choose to invest the fruits of their labor, it does not for those fund manag-

ers whose primary income is from capital gains. While fund managers’ income may be performance-based (and in that no dif-ferent from salesmen who work on commission), it is no more capital gains than any other form of income. Working to maximize oth-ers’ capital gains is not capital gains itself.

In the context of our current political budget mania, it is strange that such an obvious loophole should exist, let alone go largely unacknowledged. A quick look at the campaign contributions made to var-ious members of congres-sional leadership, how-ever, quickly makes the reason plain. Key leaders in Congress on both sides of the aisle are major recip-ients of hedge fund money. Both House Speaker John

Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) count Paulson & Co, one of the most successful funds in the United States, among their top five largest do-nors. Paulson & Co is also the single largest donor to Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Securities and investment firms number among the top donors by industry for every single member of the 112th Con-gress’ leadership.

While it probably comes as no surprise that politi-cians have a vested finan-cial stake in policies that favor the titans of finance, this breach of fiscal logic has gone unaddressed for far too long. Even in the most recent presidential election, so dominated by

debates over the relative tax policies of the two can-didates, neither seriously mentioned reforming the government’s definition of capital gains.

This shortcoming in Congress’ examination of the capital gains prevents lawmakers from utilizing a significant tool for defi-cit reduction. Even if only the 25 most successful hedge fund managers were taxed according to the sys-tem of progressive income tax, the government could raise millions of dollars of lost tax revenue from the so-called “one percent.” As the congressional battle over budget austerity rages on, the time has come for Americans to push lead-ing politicians to address this tax oversight, even if in doing so they must bite the hand that feeds them.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

BORN TODAY This year you have a lot to say, and you’ll say just that ... provided you have a receptive audi-ence. Your way of thinking changes in the course of the year, and some-thing that irked you in the past no longer will be an issue by 2014. Curb any sarcasm if you want your mes-sage to be heard. If you are single, you could meet someone unexpect-edly. Check out this person carefully, as he or she might be emotionally un-available. If you are attached, avoid struggling over money by keeping separate checking accounts.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH Know that much is brewing behind the scenes. You might not know any or all of the details, but you sense that something has changed. Trying to get to the bottom of the situation might not work. Step back and ob-serve; allow the information to come to you. Tonight: Not to be found.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Many ideas come from you, but keep in mind that just as many ideas come to you. This ebb and flow could inter-fere with your normal schedule. De-cide what your priorities are as others seek you out. Consider postponing a discussion till late afternoon. Tonight: Chat with a friend.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Issues seem to be contagious to-day. Don’t fight the inevitable -- just choose to work through it. By late af-ternoon, you’ll see the dust start to settle, and you’ll feel a greater sense of self-worth. You feel accomplished and satisfied. Tonight: Get a head

start on tomorrow.

C ANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Keep reaching out for new ideas, where you are forced to break the ice. Accept what is happen-ing, and try taking a new path. Exper-iment with different directions before making a final decision. Information keeps coming in. Tonight: Let your imagination run wild.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Take news with a grain of salt, espe-cially if it comes from an associate. You usually take this person at his or her word, but if you ask more ques-tions, you’ll build a more solid rela-tionship. Don’t challenge him or her -- just demonstrate more interest. To-night: Out late.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Others will find you, even if you close your door and pretend you’re not there. You are needed for feed-back. Be flattered and understand your worth to others. Events taking place now will reveal others’ opin-ions. Tonight: Visit with a loved one, and catch up on news.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH Rec-ognize your physical limits. You are a wise sign, and you’ll work on or-ganization and priorities right now. Accept your limitations, and others will, too. You can’t expect people to respect your boundaries if you don’t. Tonight: Finish up work, but get much-needed sleep.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You have the creativity and knowl-edge to come up with the right so-lution and make it work. You might hesitate to take an active role, as oth-ers want to brainstorm. Welcome this

exchange of ideas. It will help you to think outside the box. Tonight: Fun and games.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH Stay centered, and know what you need to accomplish. You have many ideas brewing right now. See if they are workable before deciding to put them into action; you will be a lot happier as a result. Understanding evolves. Tonight: A roommate and/or family member needs your time.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You will say what you need or want to say, but be sure to choose your words carefully in order to pre-vent triggering someone. This person could have a strong reaction anyway, but the effort is good practice. Keep communication open. Tonight: Hang out with a friend.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Your hand is forced. You have a lot to do that you would prefer to post-pone. No such luck! You need to deal with these matters here and now. Un-derstand that you will feel better as a result. Loosen up, and get to the bot-tom of your resistance. Tonight: Take care of your bills.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH You might be capable of nearly anything right now. Settle in by organizing your priorities and by understanding what is happening with others. Emphasize the group, but do not lose sight of the fact that this is your life. You need to take charge. Tonight: Where the action is.

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CHRIST, a Christian student organization, hosts free sup-per and Bible study at its Chris-tian Student Center. Supper is at 8:15 p.m., and Bible study begins at 9 p.m. All students are welcome. For more infor-mation, call 304-599-6151 or visit www.mountaineers-forchrist.org.

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

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

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

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

THE WVU SWING DANCE CLUB meets at 9 p.m. in Mul-tipurpose Room A of the Stu-dent Recreation Center. No partner needed. Advanced and beginners are welcome. For more information, email wvuswingdance@gmail.com

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W E L LW V U : S T U D E N T HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more in-formation, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgan-town and Fairmont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. To find a meeting, visit www.aawv.org. For those who need help urgently, call 304-291-7918.

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL-ING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is of-fered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educa-tional, career, individual, cou-ples and group counseling.

Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, sup-plemental foods and immuni-zations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. For more informa-tion call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

NEW SPRING SEMES-TER GROUP THERAPY OP-PORTUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Cen-ter. The groups include Un-derstanding Self and Oth-ers, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Mountaineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thyself: An Inter-personal Process Group. For more information call 293-4431 or contact tandy.mc-clung@mail.wvu.edu.

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

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

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GUEST ARTIST RECITAL FOR ROY SONNE AND YEEHA CHIU will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m in the Bloch Learning and Performance Hall at the Creative Arts Cen-ter. Sonne was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for 28 years. Chiu is a Steinway artist, originally from Hong Kong, and now lives in Pittsburgh.

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BY NICK WESDOCKA&E WRITER

West Virginia University employees showcased their skills in the Mountainlair Ballroom Friday evening for the University’s third-annual faculty/staff talent show.

Kevin Hamric, a public relations specialist, took home the first-place trophy for singing and playing the guitar to his original song “Solar Powered Love.”

Carlton Smith and James Johnson placed second and third, respectively.

Smith is a WVU Police of-ficer who won Mountaineer Idol as a student in 2005. He sang “A Song for You”

by Donny Hathaway. John-son is an administrative as-sociate in the multicultural programs department who danced to Michael Jack-son’s “You Rock My World.”

“I grew up singing in church, and basically my whole family has always been singing, so I just joined in with everybody else,” Smith said. “This is a song I’ve known for a long time, so I practiced it. There wasn’t any tedious preparation, just making sure I still knew the words and everything.”

The show was judged by five WVU celebrities – Mountaineer football player Ryan Nehlen, Moun-taineer Mascot Jonathan

Kimble, Ms. Mountaineer Hilah Zia, 2012 Mountain-eer Idol Paris Winfrey and Miss West Virginia, Kaitlin Gates.

Winfrey gave the contes-tants a few words of advice about stage presence.

“A lot of times, having a smile on your face, enjoy-ing what you’re doing, can totally offset any mistakes that you have onstage,” he said. “So just remem-ber to smile and please the crowd.”

Graduate student Steven Staffileno and junior pub-lic relations student Daryn Vucelik hosted the event.

“I am so excited that we had this place full and that we had such great atten-

dance,” Vucelik said of the crowd, which numbered upward of 200 people. “I just hope it grows every year. Next year I hope we have twice as many people because I think it’s so cool to see your professor, you know, playing the guitar. It’s not a part of them you usually see.”

Before any of the faculty or staff took the stage, 2012 Mountaineer Idol winner Paris Winfrey performed John Legend’s “Ordinary People,” accompanied by bandmate Mike Niemann on the piano.

Fourteen WVU staff m e m b e r s c o m p e t e d throughout the night.

Country music was a

popular theme among this year’s talents.

Administrative secretary Pamela DeBarr and nutri-tion outreach instructor Karen Bright both chose to honor the late female star, Patsy Cline.

Carrie Underwood was also honored twice on Friday night, when Am-ber Tennant, assistant di-rector for the Division of Human WVU Resources, sang “Good Girl” and Pa-mela Shriver, a PR special-ist, sang “Jesus Take the Wheel.”

Chris Honaker from WVU Dining Services paid tribute to Johnny Cash when he sang and played the keyboard to “Folsom

Prison Blues.”Mountainlair supervisor

and audiovisual technician Jeff Jordan proved there is more to electronic music than just dubstep when he performed “The Model” by the German band Kraft-werk on his keyboard.

Jordan even sang one of the verses to the song in German.

Among the most unique talents of the night were Ja-son Burns’ storytelling and Jeff Fidan playing the ham-mered dulcimer.

Other performers in-cluded Rosemary Stephen-son, Lisa Parlik and Thiri-machos Bourhai.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys is not such a lonely boy af-ter all.

The singer-guitarist took the early lead at the Grammy Awards, picking up three trophies and as-sisting with a fourth dur-ing the pre-telecast show. Auerbach won producer of the year alone and best rock song for “Lonely Boy” and rock album for “El Camino” with his bandmate Patrick Carney, joining electronic dance music innovator Skrillex atop the early lead-erboard. He was also pro-ducer for another winner, Dr. John.

A slew of artists sit one back going into the main awards show Sunday night at the Staples Center, in-cluding Kanye West and Jay-Z, Gotye, former best new artist winner Esperanza Spalding, jazz man Chick Corea and Christian singer-songwriter Matt Redman.

Most of the attention has been on Frank Ocean go-ing into the awards, but his fellow lead nominees got an early lead on the R&B singer during the pre-tele-cast show.

West and Jay-Z won best rap song and best rap per-formance for the song “... in Paris” from their “Watch the Throne” collaboration and lost a third for short form video for “No Church in The Wild,” which featured Ocean. Ocean will be up for five awards later in the evening.

Other early winners in-cluded Rihanna, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Mumford & Sons, one of six top nom-inees with six nods apiece. Ocean is up for the major awards best new artist, al-bum of the year and record of the year when the show airs live on CBS at 8 p.m. EST from the Staples Center.

The Grammy pre-tele-cast awards show at the

Nokia Theatre had 70 tro-phies up for grabs, includ-ing rock, pop, rap and coun-try categories.

Skrillex won best dance recording for “Bangarang,” featuring Sirah, best dance/electronica album for “Ban-garang” and best remixed recording.

“Let’s keep making mu-sic,” he said. “... We’re a big family. We’re a big com-munity. We support music and forward-thinking ideas here.”

Gotye won best alterna-tive album for “Making Mir-rors” and best pop/duo per-formance for “Somebody That I Used To Know,” fea-turing Kimbra.

Spalding had one of the most touching moments of the pre-telecast awards show, taking the stage with her longtime jazz teacher Thara Memory for their win in the best instrumental ar-rangement accompanying vocalist category. She also

won for best jazz vocal al-bum for her “Radio Music Society.”

Corea, who competed against himself in two cate-gories, won best improvised jazz solo for “Hot House” with Gary Burton and best instrumental composition for “Mozart Goes Dancing.”

And Redman won best g o s p e l / c o n t e m p o r a r y Christian music perfor-mance and best contempo-rary Christian music song (in a tie) for “10,000 Rea-sons (Bless The Lord).”

Other early winners in-cluded Rihanna, who won short form music video for “We Found Love” fea-turing Calvin Harris, and Swift won the Grammy for best song written for visual media for “Safe & Sound,” her collaboration with The Civil Wars on “The Hunger Games” soundtrack. It was Swift’s seventh Grammy and the third for Joy Wil-liams and John Paul White

of The Civil Wars.“I think it’s appropriate

that Taylor thanks us be-cause we’ve been carry-ing her for a while and it’s getting really tiring,” White joked.

Beyonce won for best tra-ditional R&B performance, Mumford & Sons took their first Grammy, winning along with Old Crow Med-icine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros for their long form video documentary “Big Easy Express.”

Celebrities began roll-ing down the red carpet in the early afternoon, but it remained to be seen if any would try to skirt CBS’s mandate that stars dress appropriately with butts, breasts and other sensitive areas covered adequately.

“I think it’s just, you know, we should always stay classy and dress ac-cording to the event that’s being held,” Ashanti said on the red carpet. “So I don’t think people should be lim-ited so much and told what you can and cannot do. But, you know, you do have to have a certain class and prestige about yourself.”

Celebrities also felt an in-creased Los Angeles Police Department presence in light of a manhunt involving an alleged cop killer. Police were everywhere, including atop the hotel across from the Staples Center.

Ocean might be riding a wave toward some of the night’s biggest honors. He is still up for five awards going into the night along with fel-low top nominee fun.

“It feels cool,” Ocean said on the red carpet. “It’s really bright, a lot of beautiful la-dies walking around being fancy. I have to perform to-night so the wheels are con-stantly spinning. You can’t really just sit in your seat

and take it all in.”All the night’s major

awards are still to come. Jack White’s “Blunderbuss” competes with fun.’s “Some Nights,” Ocean’s “chan-nel ORANGE,” Mumford’s “Babel” and The Keys’ “El Camino” for the night’s top award, album of the year.

Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” featur-ing Kimbra, Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” join the fun., Ocean and Black Keys entries in record of the year.

Fun. and Clarkson also are nominated for song of the year along with Ed Sheeran’s “The A Team,” Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and Miguel’s “Adorn.”

And rounding out the major categories, fun., Ocean, Alabama Shakes, Hunter Hayes and The Lu-mineers are up for best new artist.

Swift will kick things off with a show-opening per-formance. Fun. and Ocean will take the stage. Others scheduled to perform in-clude Justin Timberlake, Carrie Underwood, Clark-son, White and Juanes.

There will be no short-age of mashups the Gram-mys have become famous for, either. Elton John, Mavis Staples, Mumford, Brittany Howard, T Bone Burnett and Zac Brown are salut-ing the late Levon Helm, who won the Americana Grammy last year a few months before his death. The Keys will join Dr. John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on stage. Sting, Rihanna and Bruno Mars will perform together. Other team-ups include Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bent-ley, and Alicia Keys and Ma-roon 5.

Katie Flowers/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMKevin Hamric sings his original song, ‘Solar Powered Love,’ to win the talent show.

The Black Keys, Skrillex take home gold at the Grammy Awards

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‘Elk and Wolf’deals with pressing issues BY CAROL FOXcopy desk chief

An intimate theater space was transformed into the austere interior of an interrogation room this weekend, when local the-ater company M. T. Pockets presented their second ma-jor production of the 2013 season, “Elk and Wolf.”

Co-written by Profes-sor Emeritus Don Fidler and Travis Teffner, who plays Trevor “Tracker” Wolf in this production, the play deals with some of the most pressing issues in the United States today. Fidler and Teffner tackle health care, terrorism and consumerism, which is no small feat. And they did so on such a personal and re-latable level that many in the audience were brought to tears by the play’s end.

The performance opened with FBI Agent Marga-ret Finch, played by Mya Brown, an MFA theater stu-dent at WVU, interrogating a young man in an orange jumpsuit. We learn this young man’s name is Bailey Caulfield Ross, (played by Sean Marko,) and he is the

son of affluent globetrotters who never had time to de-vote to rearing a child.

Also, we learn Bailey has just committed his first act of terrorism by blowing up a Shell gas station.

Bailey, a spoiled junior WASP from the U.S., cer-tainly calls into question what we think of when we imagine terrorists. How-ever, he has definitely worked for the last eight years of his life to plan what is essentially an act of ter-rorism meant to capture the attention of the U.S. government.

Agent Finch can’t seem to get anything out of Bai-ley, though, and she de-cides to send in one of her FBI interns, the nervous but promising Tracker Wolf.

As the play progresses, Tracker and Bailey grow close in a relationship that can’t really be called a friendship but certainly in-volves a level of respect and understanding.

Tracker is able to win Bailey’s confidence, and we learn Bailey has been on a mission for more complete and cost-effective health care since he was 14.

Bailey was diagnosed with leukemia at 13. He was sent to a clinic, where he met Alfonso “Mex” Or-tiz. Mex becomes his best friend, but because he can-not afford the treatments for leukemia he passes away. Bailey is crushed by the injustice.

After eight years of plan-ning, Bailey has certain people – what we can only imagine as a mobilized force that also wants so-cial change – carry out the master plan while he sits in solitary confinement after the first explosion. The tar-gets of his plan aren’t only Shell gas stations; he hits many major corporations, including Wal-Mart and McDonald’s.

The relationship be-tween Bailey and Tracker flourishes because Tracker is naturally good at his job. He is clearly a dedicated FBI agent, which can be seen when the play takes the action from the inter-rogation room to Tracker’s home, with his expecting wife, pediatrician Teanna, (played by Shannon Up-hold, a sophomore theatre student at WVU.) His care

for her and the strife his dedication to his job can cause are both obvious but often at odds.

As the play progresses, we see Bailey’s plan get out of hand.

It turns out many peo-ple are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., and Bailey’s call to ac-tion fuels many more acts of terrorism. This inabil-ity to control the situation leads to a breakdown on all fronts, and the play leaves us unsettled in such a way that feels true to our times but awfully grim.

With such a small cast, each member of the en-semble had to deliver an impressive performance for the play to work so well.

Watching Teffner as Tracker’s transformation from shaky newbie to an in-censed agent back to a man unsure of the federal sys-tem was remarkable. And with each stage in the char-acter’s development, Teff-ner brought an unrivaled emotional intensity to the role.

At the beginning of the performance, Teffner por-trayed tracker as unsure of himself and a little afraid of Bailey – literally shaking as he talked to the young man.

But as his relationship with Bailey evolved, and as the terror Bailey in-cited came closer to Track-

er’s home, he transformed into a man determined to save the lives of inno-cents. And, by the end of the play, Tracker was back to his shakiness, but this time it’s because he has lost so much – control, his wife and baby and faith in justice.

Marko as Bailey de-serves some recognition, as well. In a medium often focused on movement and filling the theatrical space, Marko performed the entire show in handcuffs and an-kle cuffs. He was excellent at mitigating this for two reasons.

First, even though his mobility was restricted, he made the most by mov-ing his body as much as possible, talking with his hands and making deliber-ate moves across the stage. Secondly, Marko’s facial ex-pressions were impeccable. He brought all the disturb-ing force of a slightly de-ranged youth.

Brown as Agent Finch perfectly portrayed a pow-erful, no-nonsense female agent with a sass and frank-ness that often provided comic relief. And Uphold as Teanna provided the layers of happiness and sorrow of an expecting mother bring-ing a baby into an often tu-multuous world.

The set design by An-drew Amadei also deserves

some mention, as it was un-like any other I have seen at M. T. Pockets. The main wall in the interrogation room was made so it could swing against the back wall of the stage, and it became the fireplace of the cozy first home of Tracker and Teanna. A quick set crew made the change each time the setting changed, and it truly transformed the mood of the play.

If you’re looking to es-cape into a good story and see some amazing perfor-mances, M. T. Pockets has a diverse season planned for 2013. Filled with every-thing from comedies to dra-mas, play festivals and hol-iday plays, this year should be a very exciting one for M. T. Pockets.

The next show, the Pulit-zer Prize and Tony Award-winning “Doubt: A Para-ble,” written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Christian Cox, will run Mach 8-9 and 14-16 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be $14.50 for adults, $12.50 for senior citizens and $9 for students.

M. T. Pockets is located next to Book Holders at 1390 ½ University Ave. For more information, includ-ing upcoming productions and how to purchase tick-ets, please visit http://mt-pocketstheatre.com.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Dur-ing every season of designer previews at New York Fash-ion Week a few key, quirky items seem to pop up on dif-ferent runways. They’re not quite trends since one has to think they’re partly for run-way effect not retail orders, but they’re part of the style zeitgeist nonetheless.

This time there were fur mittens – oversized like boxer mitts – at Alexander Wang and Altuzarra. What were the odds? And how does the ball start rolling on items such as oversized fur mittens, harnesses or sleeve-less coats?

It’s safe to say designers don’t take a meeting together to decide what direction to go in.

“The honest answer is some of it is plain and sim-ple coincidence,” said Cindi Leive, editor in chief of Glamour magazine. “These designers are creating hun-dreds of looks over the course of a season. It would be more unusual if there were no overlap.”

Still, she said, there also are fashion cycles and soci-ological factors to consider as catwalk collections are prepared.

Take fur – both real and fake. Leive said Sunday it has been on every runway so far on this fourth of eight days of fashion week.

After the recession, no one was touching fur, she said, but it has slowly made a comeback as people feel a lit-tle more comfortable about spending money. The inter-pretation this go-around has been impactful, with an em-phasis on oversized unex-pected fur touches such as hoods, handbags and boots, but they’re not as expensive as a full-length coat.

It’s important for fash-ion insiders to be aware of what’s happening in other parts of culture, including politics and art, said Marie Claire executive editor Nina Garcia earlier in the week as she prepared to judge as-piring designers at “Project Runway.”

“Successful designers soak it all in,” she said.

Fashion week continues in New York through Thursday, when the influential Marc Ja-cobs closes out things. Run-

way previews then move on to London, Milan and Paris.

VICTORIA BECKHAMThe opening look at Vic-

toria Beckham’s show was a windowpane plaid coat. She also incorporated more sweaters and knits into her collection, with a nod to mod with some geometric, color-blocked shift dresses.

The most unexpected looks were the flashes of bright yellow, including a sleeveless trench; the techno shine she added to pleated skirts that the audience could only see as the models walked; and the long cape-style tuxedo coat.

One of the important evo-lutions for fall is the softer shoulder, which she used to tweak one of her popu-lar zip-back, slim-fit dress silhouettes.

For shoes, she put models in lower kitten heels, made in collaboration with Manolo Blahnik, which was a bit of a surprise for a woman known for skyscraper stilettos.

“I’m always designing what I want to wear,” she said.

DKNYDonna Karan’s DKNY la-

bel features a lot of lipstick red and hot pink looks for fall.

Yes, there were tough-girl looks, including a long quilted bomber jacket and a long silk-and-jersey dress with sheer panels in black. But it was the brights, and especially the animal-print brights, that lit up the runway.

There was a “heartthrob red” quilted crop top worn over a flowing, long silk dress and a tailored, peak-lapel blazer in “pop pink” over a button-down shirtdress. The animal prints showed off a long tunic-length sweater silhouette.

Colorblocking was fresh-est when Karan used sophis-ticated camel, crisp white and downtown black on a paneled parka, and when she mixed gray herringbone, white and black on a flirty dress with a slim bodice, full skirt and soft shoulders.

DEREK LAMDerek Lam says a navy-

black mix is one of his favor-ite combinations.

“There’s something very unpretentious about navy, and black is very crisp and stark. The navy breaks up the black. And black gives the navy an urban feel,” the designer said backstage after his fall-winter preview.

Lam paired a navy-and-white satin top with a black wool trouser. A navy-and-gray wool jersey T-shirt came with a navy-and-black jacquard trouser, plus black shoes and bag. A felt coat came in navy, black and white wool, covering an ivory lace dress.

Another big color on Lam’s runway this season: luxurious camel. A classic, loose coat in camel cash-mere opened the show, and a roomy cashmere duffel coat looked glamorous with sunglasses of the same color.

Camel was also used for a wool cashmere pullover, a wool-and-cashmere dress and a big boucle cape.

Capes in general were a popular item. One particu-larly nice look was an elbow-length black leather cape that tied in front.

A red, knee-length fox fur vest, paired with wine-col-ored flat boots, was by far the most flamboyant item in the show. A shorter, navy fox vest was more understated and in line with the rest of the collection. It was paired with a navy crochet dress and brown ankle boots.

CHRISTIAN SIRIANOThe “Project Runway”

alum used the Russian opera as the inspiration for his fall runway show, using a book of Russian opera houses as reference.

The girl wearing this col-lection, he said, was on her way to see the Russian opera.

“I wanted it to be a story of what she wears during the day, what she’ll wear for a cocktail dress, what she’ll wear to the opera,” he said.

His vintage-inspired day looks evoke many eras, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and were mostly separates of tur-tlenecks paired with loose leather trousers and faux fur vests in muted colors such as white, black and camel.

One ensemble included a pointed-toe flat in a penny loafer style, a surprise in-clusion given fashion’s love for the high heel. Siriano ex-plained it as a way to ensure

its wearability, and also be-cause he “wanted it to be a bit more demure, a bit simple.”

Other shoes in the collec-tion included bootie heels and heeled penny loafers with gold trim, echoing the filigree that anchored many of the evening dresses that closed the show.

JOSEPH ALTUZARRAJoseph Altuzarra’s urban,

confident, fashion-forward customer wears graphic black-and-white leather – layers it on, in fact – and then there’s the fox or mink fur on top. She’s not shy about drawing attention in fur mit-tens, shiny grommet embel-lishment and strategically

placed zippers. She wears her high-waisted trousers with a low-slung belt.

His fall-winter collection also includes optic white pants and a khaki cotton sleeveless trench worn with a khaki four-button tailored skirt.

The silhouette he offers his customers is strong and slim, sometimes with a little bump at the hip.

“The design and construc-tion emphasize the nip of the waist and exaggerate the hip, while shrunken proportions mixed with a bolder shoul-der volume sharpen the clas-sic silhouette,” he says in de-scribing the shape.

ap.orgA model walks the runway at New York Fashion Week.

New York Fashion Week sees many replicated pieces; coincidence or conspiracy?

Katie Flowers/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMSean Marko, left, plays Bailey in the interrogation scene from M. T. Pockets Theatre Company’s production ‘Elk and Wolf.’

Katie Flowers/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMSean Marko plays Bailey in a tense scene during ‘Elk and Wolf.’

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Brantley Gilbert packs Coliseum

BY NICK WESDOCKA&E WRITER

Country music returned to West Virginia Univer-sity Saturday night with Brantley Gilbert’s “Hell On Wheels” tour.

The Coliseum was packed and rockin’ for the sold-out show.

“This was my first coun-try concert,” said soph-omore business student Garrett Stryker. “I didn’t know a lot about Brantley, but I had a lot of fun.”

Two acts preceded the headliner. First was up-and-coming country singer Brian Davis, who sang his signature song “Pull up a

Tailgate.”Next up was Kip Moore,

who started off with “Reck-less” and went right into his new hit song, “Beer Money.” He really got the crowd going when he sang his last song, “Somethin’ ’Bout a Truck,” in a Geno Smith jersey. It was the per-fect opening act for a rowdy bunch of Mountaineers.

Moore definitely stole the show Saturday night.

“Kip Moore killed it,” said sophomore engineer-ing student Christopher Bupp. “He had more en-ergy and just really got the crowd into it.”

Many other fans felt the same way.

However, there was a lot of down time between the acts, which helped deaden the hype and mood.

Flashing lights and smoke filled the en-tire building as Gilbert came onstage to a roaring applause.

Gilbert played the song that inspired the title of the tour, “Hell On Wheels.” He also sang “My Kinda Party” and “Dirt Road An-them,” which he wrote, but were made popular by friend and colleague Jason Aldean.

The country star slowed it down a little bit with his two latest singles, “More Than Miles” and “You

Don’t Know Her Like I Do,” but he still kept true to his southern rock style with lots of guitar.

Drummer Ben Sims had his time in the spot-light with a great solo dur-ing Gilbert’s new song, “Read Me My Rights,” but was outshined by the awe-some guitar solo of band-mate John Merlino during “G.R.I.T.S.” Even bassist Jonathan Waggoner had a short solo during the concert.

Every time Gilbert men-tioned West Virginia on stage, which was in or be-tween nearly every song, the crowd erupted with cheers and applause.

After thanking all the fans for coming out, Gil-bert performed an ener-getic “Kick it in the Sticks” to end the show.

All three performers got the crowd excited, and all three sounded just as good live as they do on the ra-dio. Gilbert’s band played especially well, and when they weren’t playing, Gil-bert was entertaining the audience with stories of his

success and his new fiance.No one was disappointed

at the end of the night, and overall it was a good show.

But that said, many country fans have seen better.

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‘Identity Thief’ tops box officeLOS ANGELES (AP)—

“Identity Thief” has turned out to be the real thing at the North American box office.

The comedy starring Ja-son Bateman and Melissa McCarthy debuted at No. 1 with a $36.6 million open-ing weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

“Identity Thief” opened solidly despite the winter storm that buried much of the U.S. Northeast. Dis-tributor Universal Pictures estimates the storm might have choked off as much as 10 percent of the movie’s business.

“It took such a chunk out of the business this week-end. But we can’t control Mother Nature,” said Nikki Rocco, Universal’s head of distribution. “We probably could have hit $40 million if it weren’t for the weather this weekend.”

The previous weekend’s top movie, the zombie ro-mance “Warm Bodies,” fell to No. 2 with $11.5 million. That raises its domestic to-tal to $36.7 million.

The weekend’s other new wide release, Steven Soder-

bergh’s thriller “Side Ef-fects,” had a modest open-ing of $10 million, coming in at No. 3.

Tom Cruise’s 1986 hit “Top Gun” took flight again in theaters with a 3-D reis-sue that pulled in $1.9 mil-lion in narrow release of 300 theaters. The movie has a short run on the big-screen leading up to its Feb. 19 3-D release on DVD and Blu-ray.

Overall domestic reve-nues were down sharply from a year ago, when four movies had big openings - “The Vow,” “Safe House,” “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” and a 3-D reissue of “Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.”

Receipts totaled $105 million, down 45 percent from the same weekend last year - which was the only non-holiday weekend to have four movies open with more than $20 mil-lion, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

“The same weekend a year ago was such a tremen-dous weekend,” said Hol-lywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “It’s really

tough to live up to a week-end like we had last year. It was sort of a foregone con-clusion that this was going to be a down weekend.”

“Identity Thief” came in above industry expecta-tions despite the storm and poor reviews for the com-edy, which stars Bateman as a man chasing down a con artist (McCarthy) who has racked up thousands of dol-lars of charges in his name.

The combination of the actors and the prem-ise made it a review-proof comedy, Rocco said.

“I think people just want to be entertained,” Rocco said. “The chemistry be-tween Jason and Melissa is the reason why this picture is doing so well.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian the-aters, according to Holly-wood.com. Where avail-able, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. “Identity Thief,” $36.6 million ($230,000 international).

2. “Warm Bodies,” $11.5 million.

3. “Side Effects,” $10 million.

4. “Silver Linings Play-book,” $6.9 million.

5. “Hansel and Gre-tel: Witch Hunters,” $5.8 million ($11.6 million international).

6. “Mama,” $4.3 million ($6.1 million international).

7. “Zero Dark Thirty,” $4 million.

8. “Argo,” $2.5 million.9. “Django Unchained,”

$2.3 million.10. “Bullet to the Head,”

$2 million.

Tyler HerrinTon/THe DAily ATHenAeUMBrantley Gilbert performs for a packed Coliseum Saturday night.

Tyler HerrinTon/THe DAily ATHenAeUMKip Moore pumps up the crowd at the Coliseum.

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TEXAS TRI-FECTADon’t buy

into WVU’s recent success

Unfortunately for the West Virginia men’s basket-ball team, we live in a world in which, generally speak-ing, success isn’t achieved by simply doing what we’re supposed to do.

The best example I can think of this is one that hap-pens on campus. If you showed up on time for your 8:30 a.m. class this morning, it definitely took some extra effort. I know how difficult it can be to wake up early on a cold Monday morning and trek to class – especially af-ter a long weekend.

However, your profes-sor probably didn’t stop his lecture and congratulate you on making it to class on time. It’s what you’re sup-posed to do – what’s ex-pected of you. So why are some fans praising the re-turn of West Virginia when all it has done so far is (fig-uratively) show up to class?

I know winning on the road in the Big 12 isn’t easy, but Texas Tech and TCU are not wins to get super ex-cited about. Honestly, wins against Seton Hall and Prov-idence would impress me more.

Holding off Texas at home was a nice win, but the game got close when it didn’t have to be, and ultimately, it was a game the Mountaineers should have won.

What impressed me most in the Mountaineers’ recent string of games wasn’t a vic-tory, but a narrow defeat. The amount of fight and en-ergy West Virginia displayed in a five-point loss to then-No. 2 Kansas made me think perhaps the direction of the season wasn’t quite charted yet.

However, Kansas’ back-to-back conference losses, including one at home, have lessened the value of that performance.

It’s okay for West Virginia fans to have a little more

cody schulermanaging editor

mel moraes/the daily athenaeumFreshman guard Eron Harris, left, and sophomore guard Jabarie Hinds scored 14 and 12 points, respectively, in West Virginia’s win against TCU Saturday.

mel moraes/the daily athenaeumThe West Virginia women’s basketball celebrates after a win earlier in the season.

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Mountaineers win crucial road game vs. Kansas

West Virginia beats TCU, earns third-straight win

by doug walpsports writer

Following its worst start to a season in the last 10 years, the West Virginia men’s basketball team continued its apparent turnaround Saturday afternoon against TCU, dropping the Horned Frogs 63-50 to complete the Mountaineers’ third sepa-rate three-game winning streak this year.

The win brings West Virginia (12-11, 5-5) back to .500 in conference play and marks the first three-game conference win streak since WVU joined the Big 12 this season.

“The exciting thing is now we’re 5-5 in the league,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins, who coached his 1,000th game Saturday afternoon. “There will be some people who lose today that will come falling back to us. Now we go home, we take a day off, we go at it for two days, go to Waco.”

Freshman guard Terry Henderson scored a game-high 17 points on 5 of 6 shooting from the field, including 3 of 4 from behind the arc, and a perfect 4 for 4 from the free-throw line.

It was Henderson’s highest output since being limited by a lower back in-jury in the beginning of January.

“I’ve been feeling good – just treating it, getting back to normal,” said Hender-son of his former injury. “(I’m) trying to get my athleticism and my core back to where it needs to be, but I felt good out there today.

“I felt like they were leaving me too open, and, you know, I just let it fly and it went in tonight.”

Fellow freshman guard Eron Harris also let it fly Saturday afternoon against the Horned Frogs, netting 14 points on 50 percent shooting from the floor. Harris was also 2 of 3 from long range.

“Everybody loves it just because we’re young guys,” Harris said. “We’re com-ing in and contributing as freshmen, and that’s a bright future for us. People like to see that.”

Henderson echoed Harris’ sentiments.“Yeah, it’s fun playing with him,” Hen-

derson said. “And it’s hard for the defense to figure out. We’ve got two athletic shoot-ers – that’s hard to cover. And it’s just go-ing to be a bright future for both of us.”

Sophomore guard Jabarie Hinds also scored 12 points to go with four steals, four assists and four rebounds in West Virginia’s second regular season series sweep against a Big 12 team this year.

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by aMit batrasports writer

The West Virginia wom-en’s basketball team de-feated the Kansas Jay-hawks in Lawrence, Kan., Saturday afternoon in a much-needed quality win for its NCAA tournament resume.

In the 72-56 win, the Mountaineers got a spark from senior center Ayana Dunning; she paved the way with a near double-double of 19 points and nine rebounds. It was Dun-ning’s ninth time leading West Virginia in scoring this season and her 10th time leading the Moun-taineers in rebounding.

“YaYa (Dunning), espe-cially in the second half, our players were doing a good job getting the ball to her,” said head coach Mike Carey. “She was hit-ting some shots and finish-

ing, and when YaYa plays well, we play well. I hate to put all that pressure on her, but I will.”

WVU (14-9, 6-6 Big 12) was able to pull away against KU in the late stages of the second half after both teams went back and forth with the lead. While up 50-46, West Vir-ginia’s Christal Caldwell hit a key 3-pointer to ig-nite a 10-0 run and give the Mountaineers a 14-point lead with more than six minutes remaining.

While Kansas (14-8, 5-6 Big 12) struggled to hold on to the ball and score during WVU’s late game run, the Jayhawks weren’t able to contain the Moun-taineers in Saturday af-ternoon’s battle in Allen Fieldhouse.

Carey’s squad shot a season-high 43.8 percent from the field (28-of-64) in conference play. While KU

led the league in field goal percentage coming into the game with 42.8 per-cent, it struggled against WVU’s aggressive style, shooting 36.8 percent on the afternoon, still held below its scoring average.

The first half proved a back-and-forth battle, as there were nine lead changes and five ties after the Mountaineers led 7-6 in the early stages of the game. Neither team could get the slightest bit of sep-aration, and both were un-able to pull away by more than 4 points in the first half.

West Virginia had a 29-28 lead at the half, but the Jayhawks’ Carolyn Davis chipped in half of those points with an impressive 14 at the break. She would be held scoreless in the second half.

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The West Virginia men’s and wom-en’s diving teams took three of four events from the visiting George Ma-son Patriots Saturday at the WVU Natatorium.

In their last regular season meet before the Big 12 championships the Mountaineers were able to get back on track and get some live competi-tion, rather than waiting a full-month or more between meets, as they origi-nally planned.

Diving head coach Michael Grap-ner scheduled the meet with George Mason to prevent the team from get-ting rusty between regular and post-season meets, and the Mountaineers responded with a solid performance.

Leading the way for the Mountain-eers was sophomore Haily Vande-Poel, who took first-place finishes on the one- and three-meter boards with scores of 259.80 and 288.67.

VandePoel has emerged as one of the Mountaineers’ most consistent performers this year. Saturday’s com-

petition marked the fourth-straight dual meet in which the sophomore had at least one first-place finish, either on the one or three-meter boards.

Freshman Christian Parker put a cap on what has been an impres-sive first year, taking first place on the three-meter board with a score of 284.33.

Following his victory on the three-meter, Parker capped a solid day with a second-place finish on the one-me-ter board with a score of 270.30.

VandePoel’s two victories coupled with Parker’s first-place finish gave the Mountaineers the advantage in three of the four events in Saturday’s meet.

Keeping with the trend of under-classmen coming up big, freshman Tori Taffner managed a second-place finish on the three-meter board with a score of 226.12, and sophomore Jen-nifer Rey earned a second-place fin-ish on the one-meter board with a score of 238.65.

Although he has had an outstand-ing season to this point, junior Rich-

ard Pokorny experienced a few bumps in the road Saturday.

The two-time Big 12 Men’s Diver of the Week could manage only a third-place finish on the one-meter board, with a score of 260.70. Pokorny fin-ished in seventh place on the three-meter board, putting up a score of 233.10.

With the regular season now be-hind them, the Mountaineers will now have nearly three weeks to rest up and work out any kinks before they take part in the biggest com-petition of the season at the Big 12 championships.

For the Mountaineers to have suc-cess on the big stage at the conference championship, they will need Haily VandePoel to continue her hot streak with another solid performance. If the team can get a showing from the underclassmen similar to the one they had against George Mason, they could certainly make some noise in Austin, Texas, in their first experience at the Big 12 championships.

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As a team, the Moun-taineers shot better than 50 percent from the field for just the fifth time this sea-son. West Virginia is now 39-1 all-time when the team shoots 50 percent or better from the field under Bob Huggins.

In addition to West Vir-ginia’s offensive efficiency, the Mountaineers’ defense again held TCU to the low-est total of any opponent faced this season. This came less than 72 hours

after the Horned Frogs scored 62 against Kansas in what’s being called one of the biggest upsets of the entire college basketball season.

“Defensively, we didn’t play near where we have shown we can do,” Har-ris said. “And I don’t know why we didn’t come out ag-gressive, but second half we just fixed that. It felt like the zone slowed them down a little bit and made them force jump shots.”

TCU also scored just 50 points in the first meeting Jan. 23 in Morgantown.

Now, despite West Vir-

ginia’s return to .500 in conference play, it should be noted all five wins have come against the teams with the three worst re-cords in the Big 12 – Texas, Texas Tech and TCU.

The Mountaineers are still 0-5 against Big 12 teams with a winning con-ference record, but they’ll have several opportunities down this critical stretch to change that mark, includ-ing two very important games against Baylor that, if West Virginia were to win, would significantly help WVU supplant the Bears as the sixth-best team, by re-

cord, in the conference.Harris said that, on the

heels of this latest three-game winning streak, the Mountaineers are al-ready playing with the be-lief they’re competing at as high a level as anyone in the Big 12 right now.

“We definitely have the confidence to be in the top three in the conference now,” Harris said. “We’ve just got to keep winning these games.

“We’ve got three in a row; let’s make it four.”

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A report commissioned by Joe Paterno’s family says the late coach did noth-ing wrong in his handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and por-trays Paterno as the victim of a “rush to injustice” cre-ated by former FBI director Louis Freeh’s investigation of the case for Penn State.

The family’s critique, re-leased Sunday, argues that the findings of the Freeh report published last July were unsupported by the facts.

Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, one of the experts assem-bled by the family’s lawyer to review Freeh’s report last year to Penn State, called the document fundamen-tally flawed and incomplete.

Freeh’s report reached “inaccurate and unfounded findings related to Mr. Pa-terno and its numerous process-oriented deficien-cies was a rush to injustice and calls into question” the investigation’s credibility, Thornburgh was quoted as saying.

In a statement released Sunday through a spokes-man, Freeh defended his work.

“I stand by our conclu-sion that four of the most powerful people at Penn State failed to protect against a child sexual pred-ator harming children for

over a decade,” he said.Paterno’s family released

what it billed as an exhaus-tive response to Freeh’s work, based on indepen-dent analyses, on the web-site paterno.com.

“We conclude that the observations as to Joe Pa-terno in the Freeh report are unfounded, and have done a disservice not only to Joe Paterno and the univer-sity community,” the fam-ily’s report said, “but also to the victims of Jerry San-dusky and the critical mis-sion of educating the pub-lic on the dangers of child sexual victimization.”

Freeh’s findings also im-plicated former administra-tors in university president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and re-tired vice president Gary Schultz. Less than two weeks after the Freeh report was released in July, the NCAA acted with unchar-acteristic speed in levying massive sanctions against the football program for the scandal.

“Taking into account the available witness state-ments and evidence, it is more reasonable to con-clude that, in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most pow-erful leaders at Penn State University – Messrs. Span-ier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley – repeatedly con-cealed critical facts relating

to Sandusky’s child abuse” from authorities, trustees and the university commu-nity, Freeh wrote in releas-ing the report.

The former administra-tors have vehemently de-nied the allegations. So, too, has Paterno’s family, though it reserved more extensive comment until its own report was complete.

The counter-offensive began in earnest this week-end. The family’s findings said that Paterno:

– Never asked or told anyone not to investigate an allegation made against Sandusky 12 years ago, Sat-urday, Feb. 9, 2001.

– Never asked or told for-mer administrators not to report the 2001 allegation.

– And never asked or told anyone not to discuss or hide information reported by graduate assistant Mike McQueary about the 2001 allegation.

“Paterno reported the in-formation to his superior(s) pursuant to his understand-ing of university protocol and relied upon them to investigate and report as appropriate,” the family’s analysis said.

Paterno’s widow, Sue, broke her silence Friday in a letter to hundreds of for-mer players informing them of the report’s impending release. “The Freeh report failed and if it is not chal-lenged and corrected, noth-

ing worthwhile will have come from these tragic events,” she wrote.

“I had expected to find Louis Freeh had done his usual thorough and pro-fessional job,” Thornburgh said in a video posted on paterno.com. “I found the report to be inaccurate in some respects, speculative and unsupported to the re-cord compiled ... in short, fundamentally flawed as to the determinations made to the role – if any – Mr. Pa-terno played in any of this.”

Freeh was brought in to conduct an independent in-vestigation of the school’s response to allegations and find any shortcomings in governance and com-pliance to make sure fail-ures don’t happen again, Penn State said in a state-ment Sunday. Freeh made 119 recommendations to strengthen policies, and the majority have been im-plemented, according to the school.

University trustees and leaders have been criti-cized by some dissatis-fied alumni, ex-players and community residents for their handling of Paterno’s dismissal, the Freeh report and the sanctions.

“It is understandable and appreciated that people will draw their own conclusions and opinions from the facts uncovered in the Freeh re-port,” the school said.

Paternos issue report, challenge Freeh’s findings

“In the first half, they were hurting us in the paint with Davis,” Carey said. “We made some ad-justments at halftime and did a good job on her the second half; that was the key.”

Junior guard Christal Caldwell added 15 points for the Mountaineers, and

WVU earned some solid bench play as sophomore forward Crystal Leary and freshman guard Dar-ius Faulk combined for 15 points. West Virginia also out-rebounded Kansas 45-34 on the afternoon.

KU had 15 turnovers Sat-urday, while WVU had its own season-low of nine. A struggling statistic against Texas Tech was the amount of free throws the Lady Raiders had: a whopping

42 (converting 36). Kansas and West Virginia both had 19 free-throw attempts, but the Mountaineers shot the ball 10 percent better from the charity stripe.

Davis led the Jayhawks in scoring with her 14 first-half points and a game-leading 11 rebounds. Chel-sea Gardner chipped in 11 points and Angel Goodrich added 9 points, six assists and six rebounds.

“Angel Goodrich is one

of the better point guards in the country, and I thought we did a good job on her,” Carey said. “She can hurt you at any time. She can drive it and shoot it, and I thought our girls did a good job on her.”

West Virginia returns home Wednesday night to take on Oklahoma State. The game will tip at 7 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.

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hope than they had a week ago. After all, it’s the first time since December the Mountaineers have been able to string together three consecutive wins.

Coach Bob Huggins’ boys have finally found a little bit of a rhythm offensively, and the Mountaineers’ 7-of-10 effort from beyond the arc in Saturday’s 63-50 win against TCU was only the second time in 14 years West Virginia connected on 70 percent or better in a game from three-point territory.

West Virginia is above .500 for the first time since Jan. 5 and holds a modest 5-5 record in Big 12 play.

There’s no denying this team is playing as well as it has all season in conference play, but there are serious hurdles ahead that need to be cleared in order to reach some of the lofty projections some fans are sketching out in their newfound hope.

Perhaps the most fright-ening aspect of West Vir-ginia’s remaining sched-ule is the road games. The Mountaineers have two trips to the Sunflower State to tangle with Kansas State and Kansas. They also have to travel to Oklahoma to

play a team that has beaten West Virginia twice this sea-son and just knocked off the Jayhawks at home.

Then there’s that whole thing with Baylor. The Mountaineers have yet to play the Bears (15-8, 6-4) this season, but they’ll play them twice in a two-week span starting Wednesday, when the Mounties travel to Waco, Texas.

Excluding Baylor, West Virginia has a 1-5 record against its final six oppo-nents. They’re not supposed to win those games, but can they?

I don’t know.I have to give West Vir-

ginia credit for fighting its

way back into the discus-sion. A mere week ago, it was laughable to suggest the Mountaineers could sal-vage anything from this sea-son that somewhat resem-bled a solid year.

Things are different now, and I give you that. I’m far away from being sold, though.

Before I start buying into any postseason destina-tions, I need to see some-thing I don’t expect – like a West Virginia win when they’re not supposed to.

Or a professor applaud-ing a student for showing up to class on time.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Monday February 11, 201312 | SPORTS

gymnastics

Mountaineers earn first Big 12 win over Iowa St.

By jon fehrenSsports writer

Despite competing in front of an energized crowd, the West Virginia wrestling team fell to the Ohio Bobcats 29-9 in the second annual Beauty and the Beast event.

WVU head coach Craig Turnbull said he liked the effort he saw from a few wrestlers, but he was critical of the team’s pas-sion overall. Dropping a match in front of a big crowd is what Turn-bull sees as the biggest disappointment.

“It is kind of like a morgue back there; you know they care, but now they have to translate into a little more passion and intensity,” Turnbull said. “What brings people back is that they want to see a tough battle, and it’s just not there right now. We are just not getting enough from this young group that we have. We just have to hope there is some learn-ing taking place, and it better show up soon, be-cause we are running out of time.”

The opening match at Beauty and the Beast was at 197 pounds, where freshman A.J. Vizcarrondo took on Ohio’s Phil Wel-lington. Vizcarrondo gave 4 early points to Welling-ton, who only built on his lead before the match ended in a 12-5 victory for Wellington.

It wasn’t until No. 24 Shane Young wrestled at 125 pounds to finally put the Mountaineers on the scoreboard. Young domi-nated his opponent in the second and third rounds, scoring a win by decision, 11-5.

Junior Colin Johnston has been subject to criti-cism regarding his weight and got the start at 133 pounds against Ohio’s Joe Munos. Johnston opened up the scoring by gaining an escape point early in the second period. A late take-down would seal the deal for Johnston, finally ending his absence from the win column.

“Today’s atmosphere was amazing, and it was a lot of fun to wrestle in front of a crowd like this. I have a lot more confidence now.

Not being in that win col-umn for a while helps a lot; it will only get easier from here,” Johnston said. “I was a little rusty today, but I am only going to get better now.”

Junior Nathan Pennesi, who has been the model of consistency for this wres-tling team, had to fight through a match in which points were hard to come by to extend the win streak to three. Pennesi was awarded an escape point early in the third period to break the tie and win the match 1-0.

Pennesi’s win was the last of the day for WVU as Ohio rattled off five matches in a row to claim a 29-9 victory. West Virginia will be out of action for the week, giving the team a lot of time to refocus and condition.

“It is right back to work-ing out and conditioning. It is the only way we will get better,” Johnston said.

West Virginia will return action when it hosts Edin-boro in the WVU Coliseum Feb. 23.

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wrestling

Turnbull sees lack of passion in WVU loss to ohio

By Meghan carrsports correspondent

The West Virginia gym-nastics and wrestling teams hosted the second ever Beauty and the Beast event at the Coliseum Sunday.

Facing their second Big 12 Conference opponent for the season, the Moun-taineers finished with a season-high 196.15 and beat Iowa State who fin-ished with a season-high 194.825 for their first Big 12 win of the season.

“It’s awesome. Iowa State is a very completive team, and so to have it hap-pen in front of the home crowd and get our first Big 12 win ever – it was an awe-some feeling,” said head coach Jason Butts.

The Mountaineers per-formed in front of another record crowd as 2,522 fans watched the WVU gymnas-tics and wrestling teams compete simultaneously – the sixth-best crowd for WVU gymnastics.

“The crowd was amaz-ing, and just the energy that they brought into the Coliseum today, we feed off of that energy, and I felt that they were a loud crowd – even louder than last week,” Butts said.

WVU opened the meet on vault and finished with its highest score of the season – 49.200 – while ISU began on uneven bars and finished with 48.700.

Freshman Jaida Lawrence won the vault event, scor-ing 9.875.

WVU placed first after the first rotation and never relinquished its lead.

The Mountaineers then rotated to the uneven bars event, in which they fin-ished with another sea-son-high score of 49.200. Junior Hope Sloanhoffer and senior Kaylyn Millick both finished with meet-best 9.875 scores.

“It’s nice; these girls work really hard, and it’s nice for them to get to show off in front of this many people,” Butts said.

Th e Mou nt a i n e e rs scored a 48.850 behind sophomore Beth Deal’s 9.850 performance. In just her second meet of the sea-son, Deal scored the high-est on the team. Millick fin-ished second with a score of 9.825.

Some of the Mountain-eers struggled on the bal-ance beam, including Sloanhoffer, whom Butts considers the most consis-tent gymnast on the team. She surprised her team and the crowd when she fell from the balance beam mid-routine.

“I think when she makes a mistake, it just shocks ev-eryone, because she is so consistent. I think she just had a little bit of an off day, but she’ll get into the gym this week and really work on the mistakes that she made,” Butts said.

For the final rotation, the Mountaineers competed on the floor event and fin-ished with a 48.9. Senior Alaska Richardson scored a team-best 9.850, followed by Millick’s score of 9.825.

Millick placed first in all-around score with a 39.375, and she has become one of the most consistent all-

around competitors for WVU.

“I’ve been here for three years now, and trying to get that all-around spot and get confident. It just seems really natural to me now, and it’s good for my senior year,” Millick said.

The Mountaineers won every event and finished

with a season-high 196.15 in their first Big 12 win of the season.

“I’m so proud of this team. We started train-ing in August, and we are just getting better and bet-ter every meet,” Sloanhof-fer said.

Butts said he hopes to continue the Beauty and

the Beast event every year. “I would love to do this

every season, and one thing that Coach Turnbull and I are looking at is try-ing to get Pittsburgh for both teams for this event. I think that would be a huge draw for a crowd,” he said.

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MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James scored 32 points on 12-for-18 shooting in a re-cord-setting show, Dwyane Wade scored 30 and the Mi-ami Heat beat the Los An-geles Lakers 107-97 on Sun-day for their fifth straight win.

It was James’ fifth straight game with at least 30 points, a franchise record. He’s shot better than 60 percent in all five of those games.

Mario Chalmers scored 13 and Chris Bosh finished with 12 points and 11 re-bounds for the Heat.

Kobe Bryant had 28 points and nine assists for the Lakers, who also got 18 points from Earl Clark. The Lakers had eight turnovers in the fourth quarter, while Miami had none.

With the win, Miami moved 2½ games clear of the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference stand-ings. The Knicks lost to the Los Angeles Clippers ear-lier Sunday.

Dwight Howard and Steve Nash each scored 15 for the Lakers.

Wade also shot 12 for 18 for Miami, which shot 55 percent as a team and held a 38-29 edge in rebound-

ing. James scored 20 in the second half and Wade had 18 in the final two quarters, but it took the reigning NBA champions until the final minutes before they could pull away.

Wade had five straight points for Miami, the last of them coming with 7:15 left when his three-point play put the Heat up 89-82 – at that point, their biggest lead of the day.

A minute later, Wade started what might have been Miami’s signature se-quence of the game.

He stepped in front of a pass by Bryant under the basket, then flipped it to Bosh before falling out of bounds. Bosh got the ball to Norris Cole, who beat Nash down the court, then lobbed a pass over his head to James, who soared for a slam that gave the Heat a seven-point lead once again.

With 3:25 left, James turned in another highlight.

He stole a pass, drove down the court and Nash – who found himself in the lane against a fast-charging James plenty of times Sun-day, all to no avail – simply had no chance.

It was almost as if Nash wasn’t even in James’ field of vision. He leaped for a dunk, giving him 30 points and the franchise record, and Miami’s lead was nine. Bryant scored on the next Lakers posses-sion, but Shane Battier hit a 3-pointer with 2:42 left to put Miami up 100-90 for the first double-digit lead for either team all day.

And the Heat weren’t challenged again.

The Lakers outscored Miami by one in the first quarter, and the Heat re-turned the favor in the sec-ond quarter. Los Angeles led by as much as seven in the half, the last time when Bryant made a fadeaway for a 44-37 advantage.

Miami came right back with a 7-0 run, James set-ting up Battier’s 3-pointer to cap that little burst. And after James went to the bench with three fouls – the first time this season that’s happened in a first half – the Heat didn’t let the Lak-ers take advantage, and the clubs went into intermis-sion tied at 53.

Much like the first half, the third period didn’t al-low either team much in the

way of breathing room ei-ther, until the final seconds.

That’s when James started flexing some muscle.

James scored Miami’s

last 11 points of the third, all in the final 4:20, and four of those came in the last six seconds. He was fouled by Clark and made the first free throw. Then the second

attempt was tipped back out by Battier to James, who was just beyond the 3-point line. He connected from there, and the Heat took a 78-73 lead into the fourth.

James scores 30 for fifth-straight game, Heat top Lakers 107-97nba

Mel Moraes/The Daily aThenaeunSenior Kaylyn Millick performs Sunday against Iowa State.

Mel Moraes/The Daily aThenaeuMThe West Virginia wrestling team fell to Ohio Sunday at the WVU Coliseum.

aPMiami Heat forward LeBron James celebrates after scoring during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday.