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The West Virginia University community came together Monday for a candlelight vigil outside the Mountainlair in solidarity with Mi-chael Brown and Ferguson, Mo.

The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson on Aug. 9 and the protests that followed have dominated the news throughout the past few weeks.

On Monday, the movement hit Morgantown and WVU where ap-proximately 60 people took part in a candlelight vigil.

The gathering was co-hosted by the Muslim Student Association and the WVU Collegiate Chapter of The National Association for the Ad-vancement of Colored People, two minority organizations on campus said they believe the issue of police brutality is of national concern and needs to be addressed at WVU.

“We’re here to bring awareness and information to our campus about the injustices that are happen-ing in Ferguson,” said Jihad Dixon, President of the WVU College Chap-ter of the NAACP. “The injustices of police brutality are happening every day in America, so we need to bring awareness wherever we are because it’s an injustice that needs to be cor-rected. I think it’s important that we bring awareness to the entire cam-pus, because we are one campus.”

Police brutality has long been a topic of discussion around the coun-try. The candlelight vigil was a way to share three things: information, sup-port and unity.

Dixon said he believes the killing of Michael Brown is just the tip of the iceberg in a series of events lead-ing up to the outrage taking place around the country.

“There has been a new police bru-tality case almost every year,” Dixon said. “Trayvon Martin, Jordan Da-vis, these people need to be sup-ported and their families need to be supported.”

Mouaz Haffar, president of the Muslim Student Association, said the Michael Brown shooting af-fects all minorities, not just African Americans.

“As a minority here in America, I feel like the African Americans took the first blow for all the minor-ities,” Haffar said. “They represent all the minorities. Their struggle is our struggle. The moment that we realize that, as minorities, we stand and unite with each other, is the mo-

ment that we’ll start getting change in society.”

Each person taking part in the can-dlelight vigil lit the candle of the per-son to his or her right, before they stood in silence for about 20 minutes.

The participants faced University Avenue to get the attention of drivers and pedestrians passing by.

Before Haffar ended the vigil with a prayer, the participants held up their hands to pay respect for Brown.

Student Body President Chris Nyden took part in the vigil and said universities around the country play an important role in eliminating racism.

“I think that right here on col-lege campuses, these are the kinds of places where we need to start dis-cussing racism in America,” Nyden said. “The conversation is just not

happening at a national level. I think that here at WVU we have a good op-portunity to discuss these issues can-didly and intelligently.”

Many African American students on campus have been greatly af-fected by the recent events and said they feel scared for their families and loved ones.

“It makes me worried for my fam-ily members,” said Kamaria Dingle, a business and finance student at WVU.

“This could have been my brother or my cousin, so I’m very worried for our family members.”

A similar gathering to raise aware-ness of police brutality will be held around 5 p.m. today outside the Mountainlair.

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InFoRM, sUPPoRT, UnITe Board of Governors oversees direction of University

JAcob boJesson/tHe DAIlY AtHenAeumAttendees raised their hands Monday evening as a representation of Michael Brown’s last actions before he was gunned down by an officer in Ferguson, Mo.

Editor’s note: This is the second story in a five-

part series outlining or-ganizations on cam-

pus that make decisions that impact the WVU

community.

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The West Virginia Uni-versity Board of Gover-nors serves as the govern-ing body of the University and makes important de-cisions affecting the ev-eryday lives of students, faculty and employees.

“The Board of Gov-ernors is a 17-member board that oversees and manages financial, busi-ness and education pol-icies at West Virginia University,” said Becky Lofstead, Assistant Vice President for University Communications.

The Board is composed of the current student government president, two faculty representa-tives, one staff represen-tative, the BOG chairman, BOG vice-chairman, BOG secretary and 10 other members dictated by the governor.

Approving and alter-ing tuition and budgets are two of the many tasks the Board of Governors is responsible for. They also deal with other finan-cial tasks, business de-cisions and educational programs.

Every five years, the

Board of Governors over-sees a review of all aca-demic programs at the University so WVU can compete with other uni-versities globally. They also manage person-nel matters such as em-ployment and compen-sation of the University’s employees.

This past year, the Board of Governors dealt with a monumental per-sonnel matter when they appointed current WVU President Gordon Gee.

Former Student Body President, Ryan Cam-pione, was the student member on the Board of Governors when the se-lection was made.

“The Board of Gover-nors deals mostly with the oversight of the direc-tion of the University and the actions of the Univer-sity president,” Campione said. “Last year one of the biggest things I got to work on was the selection of the new president.”

The Board was able to use Campione to gain a valuable insight from stu-dents and faculty in re-gards to their choice of WVU President.

“You take a lot of differ-ent opinions into consid-eration,” Campione said. “One thing I did was ask students, faculty and em-ployees at the University what they expected and wanted to see out of the University president.”

THE DECISION MAkERS

The WVU Board of Governors meets every two months at the Erickson Alumni Center. The next meeting will be held on Sept. 19.

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West Virginia Univer-sity has been awarded a contract with the Cen-ter for National Response to help train and keep America’s military safe.

This contract will en-sure training conducted by the WVU Fire Ser-vice Extension to spread knowledge the armed forces need to stay safe in emergency situations. This is the second time WVU has been awarded this contract.

During the previ-ous award term, Univer-sity experts traveled all around the country train-ing approximately 15,000 military members.

The WVU Fire Ser-vice Extension is located near WVU Jackson’s Mill in Weston, W.Va. It trains more than 2,000 firefight-ers and first responders every year from West Vir-ginia and surrounding states.

WVU Extension Service is the primary outreach division of the University. There are offices in all 55 counties of the state, with WVU faculty members in each of those offices.

“Instead of teaching in a classroom, those faculty members teach in com-

munities,” said Cassie Thomas, communica-tions & marketing man-ager for WVU Extension Service. “It’s essentially the land-grant mission in action, where we take University resources and provide them to commu-nities outside of Morgan-town, so that the entire state benefits from the University’s research and work.”

The WVU Extension Service was created by an act of Congress and is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The entity that WVU Fire Extension Service works with in the contract is the Center for National Response. This is an oper-ational component of the Joint Interagency Train-ing & Education Center that is a National Guard training activity operated by the Chief National Guard Bureau and the Adjutant General of West Virginia.

This training complex provides multi-scenario exercises for the mili-tary or joint operations with military and first responders.

According to the WVU State Fire Training Acad-emy website, WVU Fire Service Extension serves

WVU Fire Service Extension to train armed forces

“These are the kinds of places where we need to start discussing racism in America ... Here at WVU we have a good opportunity to discuss these issues candidly and intelligently.”

— WVu sGa President Chris Nyden

JAcob boJesson/tHe DAIlY AtHenAeumMuslim Student Association President Mouaz Haffar, second from right, stands amongst attendees Monday evening in front of the Mountainlair.

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Having a representative of the student body is a unique attribute of WVU’s Board of Governors.

“State code dictates members of the board,” Campione said. “One of the things that we’re re-ally lucky for at WVU

compared to the rest of the nation is that we have a student member every year that is a voting mem-ber of the Board.”

By utilizing the student member, the Board can encourage all students to be more cognizant of the decisions that the Board is making.

“It affects students’ ev-eryday lives, so we want

students to know of the decisions that the board makes,” Lofstead said.

Campione said stu-dent awareness is instru-mental to help foster the University.

“Most of the decisions the board makes will never affect the current year. It will take effect a year out,” Campione said.

“So, I think it is really

important that students know what is going on so that they can give input onto where the University is headed.”

The Board of Governors meets every two months.

The next regular meet-ing will be held Sept. 19 at the Erickson Alumni Center.

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as the entity responsible for conducting certifica-tion through the National Board of Fire Service Pro-fessional Qualifications in the State of West Virginia.

“Education and train-ing are vital to keeping firefighters safe across the state, especially since we tend to rely on volunteer firefighters in the more ru-ral areas,” said Lanny Ad-kins, WVU Extension Ser-vice program coordinator in a press release. “We have

established history of pro-viding training, and we’re proud to be able to help give the men and women the know-how to protect their communities.”

Certification from this nationally accredited en-tity is a statement of suc-cess, an indisputable mark of performance belonging to individual fire service professionals.

The West Virginia Uni-versity Fire Service Exten-sion is a leader in provid-ing critical, high-quality training to the state’s emer-gency responders and will make a large impact on all

of America’s military dur-ing their training because of this new contract.

Firefighters everywhere serve as the first line of de-fense in emergencies well beyond fire and rescue op-erations. Other emergen-cies firefighters encounter are chemical spills, terror-ist threats and weapons of mass destruction.

There is also a Junior Firefighter Camp run by the WVU Fire Extension Service program for future first responders. Campers participate in a variety of classroom and practical training scenarios includ-

ing personal protective equipment and self-con-tained breathing appara-tuses, CPR, and many other emergency scenarios.

WVU Extension Ser-vice has many compo-nents other than the fire extension service, includ-ing experts in agriculture and natural resources, economic development, health, leadership, safety and youth development.

For more information on any of the WVU Extension Services visit, http://ext.wvu.edu.

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american held in syria freed after nearly 2 years

WasHINGTON (aP) — As the U.S. mourned an Amer-ican journalist beheaded by Islamic militants, the nation found something of a reprieve with the re-lease of another freelance reporter who had been held hostage for nearly two years by an al-Qaida-linked group in Syria.

Peter Theo Curtis, who wrote under his birth name of Theo Padnos, was freed Sunday, offering consola-tion to U.S. officials, a jour-nalism community and family members deeply unnerved by the grisly video of James Foley’s be-heading in a desolate des-ert landscape.

Curtis’ father, Michael Padnos, said Curtis spoke to his mother in Boston Sunday night and that he seemed to be in good phys-ical health.

Padnos said his son was in Tel Aviv and would be flown back to Boston once he is ready to travel. Pad-nos praised the work of the U.S. and other govern-ments in getting his son freed.

“We are very thrilled, and we hope the same thing is going to be true for all the others (journal-ists held),” said Padnos, speaking in a telephone interview from a boat out-side Paris.

Curtis’ release appeared to have been aided by the oil-rich nation of Qatar, which said Sunday that it had “exerted relentless ef-forts” to win the Ameri-can’s freedom. Qatar is a leading supporter of the Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad and has been in-volved in mediating past hostage releases.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Curtis had been held by Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, an al-Qaida-linked militant group fight-ing Assad’s government.

Curtis was not believed to be among the hostages held by the Islamic State group that killed Foley. Is-lamic State was formally disavowed by al-Qaida earlier this year after be-ing deemed too brutal.

Curtis’ release was likely to renew questions about the intentions of different militant groups in Syria and Iraq and how the U.S. should deal with hostage takers.

President Barack Obama

was briefed on the release Sunday morning as he wrapped up a vacation in Massachusetts.

“The president shares in the joy and relief that we all feel now that Theo is out of Syria and safe,” said White House spokes-man Eric Schultz. “But we continue to hold in our thoughts and prayers the Americans who remain in captivity in Syria, and we will continue to use all of the tools at our disposal to see that the remaining American hostages are freed.”

A senior administra-tion official said Curtis was released in the Golan Heights, where he was met by U.S. government per-sonnel who were trans-porting him to Tel Aviv. The official was not authorized to speak by name and dis-cussed the release on the condition of anonymity.

The United Nations on Monday said it had been contacted by the U.S. and the Qataris on Saturday to facilitate a handover, and U.N. officials worked the phones overnight into Sunday.

Stephane Dujar r ic, spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, told re-porters that Curtis received a brief medical checkup with U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights and “seemed fairly healthy” be-fore he was handed over to U.S. authorities.

Dujarric said the U.N. was not involved in nego-tiations for Curtis’ release.

In a video obtained by The Associated Press and dated July 18, 2014, Curtis sits cross-legged on a floor with his hands bound, and appears to read from a sheet placed in front of him on the floor. Address-ing the U.S. and European governments, he pleads for them to contact a named intermediary before it is too late.

“They have given me three days to live,” he says as a man holding an as-sault rifle and dressed in camouflage stands next to him. “If you don’t do any-thing, I’m finished. I’m dead. They will kill me. Three days. You have had 20 days, and you’ve done nothing.”

He does not specify any demands, only urg-ing Western governments to make contact with the intermediary.

Foley’s captors had de-manded $132.5 million (100 million euros) from his parents and political concessions from Wash-ington. Neither obliged, authorities say.

Betsy Sullivan, a cousin of Curtis, said intermediar-ies involved in negotiations threatened the family and made ransom demands of varying amounts. But the family said that ultimately they were assured by Qa-tari representatives than no money was paid for Curtis’ release.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that Qatar was encouraged not to pay a ransom.

His family said they be-lieve Curtis was captured in October 2012, shortly af-ter crossing into Syria.

“My heart is full at the extraordinary, dedicated, incredible people, too many to name individu-ally, who have become my friends and have tirelessly helped us over these many months,” Curtis’ mother, Nancy Curtis, said in a statement from the family. “Please know that we will be eternally grateful.”

The Obama administra-tion used Curtis’ release to insist that it was deter-mined to find those re-sponsible for Foley’s death and pursue the release of other hostages.

“Theo Curtis, Jim Foley and other journalists trav-elled to Syria to shed light on the unspeakable hor-rors being committed against innocents - only to become victims of brutal forces unleashed and abet-ted by the conflict,” U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power said in a statement. “So long as any American is held captive, the United States government will do everything in our power to bring them home safely.”

Curtis, under the Theo Padnos byline, has writ-ten for the New Republic and in 2011 wrote a book called “Undercover Mus-lim: A Journey Into Ye-men,” which studied the radicalization of disaf-fected youths. His family said he changed his legal name to Peter Theo Cur-tis after publication of the book to make it easier to travel in Arab countries.

In another video from June 30, 2014, a man with a beard and disheveled hair identifies himself as Pe-ter Theo Curtis from Bos-ton, and says he is being treated well.

“I have everything I need. Everything has been perfect — food, clothing, even friends now,” he says. He appears to be reading from a script.

In a statement, Kerry said that over the past two years, Washington had “reached out to more than two dozen countries ask-ing for urgent help from anyone who might have tools, influence or lever-age to help secure Theo’s release and the release of any Americans held hos-tage in Syria.”

AROUND THE WORLD

WasHINGTON (aP) — While in office, former Pres-ident George H. W. Bush once plaintively asked, “What is it about August?”

Indeed, this sultry month usually associated with the doldrums of summer has burdened modern presi-dents with personal, do-mestic or international cri-ses. And for President Barack Obama, who returned to Washington Sunday from a two-week Martha’s Vine-yard vacation, what remains of the August calendar looks perhaps more daunting than when he left.

Islamic militants person-alized their fight in Iraq and Syria by beheading Ameri-can journalist James Foley. Russia escalated tensions in Europe by moving artillery and troops on the Ukrainian border and pushing a con-voy into the former Soviet republic without Kiev’s ap-proval. And a Chinese fighter jet provocatively buzzed a Navy plane in international air space.

His arrival back in the na-tion’s capital came with one positive note — Sunday’s re-lease of an American free-lance journalist who had been held hostage by al-Qa-ida affiliates in Syria.

Still, Obama faces his own self-imposed end-of-summer deadline for how to sidestep Congress on changes to U.S. immigration policies. And while racial tensions in Ferguson, Mis-souri, over the police killing of an unarmed young black man have subsided, the St. Louis suburb remains un-der the White House’s wary gaze. Amid all that, he’ll give a speech to the American Le-gion in Charlotte, North Car-olina, on Tuesday and raise money for Democrats in New York and Rhode Island on Friday.

He certainly is not the first commander in chief to find August so vexing.

President George H.W. Bush had to respond to Sad-dam Hussein’s August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Bill Clin-

ton admitted to an inap-propriate relationship with Monica Lewinski in August of 1998 and days later or-dered air strikes against ter-rorist bases in Afghanistan in retaliation for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania earlier in the month.

For Obama, it’s the over-seas trouble spots in Iraq and Syria and along Ukraine’s eastern border that present the president with his most immediate challenge — pushing U.S. allies beyond their comfort level to con-front Russia and the Islamic State militants.

Obama, who has already ordered limited air strikes against Islamic State mili-tants in Iraq, now must de-cide whether to expand that fight into Syria — a step he has previously been reluc-tant to take. “The president has not made a decision to pursue any military ac-tion in Syria,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.

The U.S. has been in talks with Britain, France, Aus-tralia and Canada on how they can become more in-volved in confronting Is-lamic State by sharing intel-ligence, providing military assistance to Kurdish forces in Iraq and to moderate op-position forces in Syria, and if necessary, participating in military action. But direct use of force could be a tough request to make from coun-tries that were part of NATO forces in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“In a lot of capitals there is retrenchment and they need the United States to lead them and pressure them so they can justify it to their own publics,” said Sam Brannen, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Pentagon official in the Obama administration.

One argument for en-gaging Europe in the fight against Islamic State is the growing number of Europe-ans among the militants, a

point reinforced by the Brit-ish accent of Foley’s killer.

William McCants, a for-mer senior adviser at the State Department on coun-tering violent extremism, said that despite European reluctance to engage militar-ily, Foley’s beheading might make some reconsider.

“The beheading is not just a message to the Obama ad-ministration,” McCants, now a fellow at the Brookings In-stitution, said. “It’s also a message to all the Western governments that ‘we have some of your own fighting with us and we can unleash them on you back home.’”

Worries about such for-eign fighters has grown to the point that Obama next month will chair a United Nations Security Coun-cil meeting devoted to the subject.

“We’re concerned about the ability of foreign fighters to come from Western coun-tries and seek to come back,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser.

In the Ukrainian crisis, the European Union has al-ready imposed tough eco-nomic sanctions on Russia, following the U.S. lead in the aftermath of the downing of a Malaysian commercial air-liner over eastern Ukraine.

But any further escala-tions, such as the unauthor-ized Russian convoy that crossed the border on Fri-day, could prompt calls from the U.S. to further squeeze the Russian economy, a diffi-cult pitch to make to Europe-ans whose own economies are more linked to Russia’s.

The convoy returned to Russia on Saturday, eas-ing some of the immediate strain.

But NATO Secretary Gen-eral Anders Fogh Rasmus-sen said the convoy cross-ing was especially troubling because it coincided “with a major escalation in Rus-sian military involvement in Eastern Ukraine since mid-August, including the use of Russian forces.”

Obama back in DC amid crises, as if he never left

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many memoirs are coming out this fall, written in so many ways.

Neil Patrick Harris, for instance, decided that his early 40s was too young for a “life” story, even for a Tony- and Emmy-winning actor. So he has completed “Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography,” in which Harris steps back into the second person to al-low you to imagine yourself onstage, on television, or, in November 2006, on edge as you prepare to tell the world you’re gay.

“I couldn’t wrap my mind around a structure that made sense to me - to pass on words of wisdom or to write some salacious tell-all. My life hasn’t been like that,” Harris said during a re-cent interview.

“So I came upon this con-ceit of ̀ choose your own ad-venture,’ to allow readers to choose which autobiogra-phy they were interested in. You can have poignancy; you can have funny remem-brances, or whatever path you want to follow.”

Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame has written “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s `Learned,’” a non-ad-vice advice book in which she hopes that readers will know when and when not to emulate “a girl with a keen interest in having it all.” Amy Poehler’s “Yes Please” promises a “big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friend-ship and parenthood and real life advice.”

Keith Richards, having

taken care of sex, drugs and rock `n’ roll in his million-selling “Life,” turns sen-timental with the picture book “Gus and Me,” a tribute to his grandfather, musician Gus Dupree. Neil Young honors a favorite hobby in “Special Deluxe”: cars. “Jimmy Page” is a “photo-graphic autobiography” by the Led Zeppelin guitarist. “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story” is not entirely in his own words, alternating be-

tween first-person memo-ries and third-person ac-counts by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author-jour-nalist Rick Bragg.

Former President George W. Bush already has written a memoir, “Decision Points,” so for his new book (cur-rently untitled) he tells the story of his father, George H.W. Bush. “Steve Jobs” author Walter Isaacson re-turns to the virtual world with “The Innovators: How a

Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digi-tal Revolution.”

Fiction readers can look forward to books from Ste-phen King, Janet Evanov-ich, John Grisham and Da-vid Baldacci, among others. Anne Rice brings back the undead for “Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles” and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Mar-tin shares some of the back story in “The World of Ice &

Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire).”

Some of the top literary writers also have books out. David Mitchell of “Cloud At-las” fame has written “The Bone Clocks” and fellow British novelist Ian McE-wan’s latest is “The Chil-dren Act.” Hilary Mantel, a two-time Man Booker Prize winner for her novels about the court of King Henry VIII, names names in the 20th century with the story col-lection “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.” De-nis Johnson’s “The Laugh-ing Monsters” is the au-thor’s first full-length work of fiction since “Tree of Smoke” won the National Book Award in 2008. Mari-lynne Robinson returns to the Iowa setting of her Pu-litzer-Prize-winning “Gil-ead” with “Lila.”

Six years ago, few noticed when Garth Stein had the bright idea to write a novel told from a dog’s point of view, “The Art of Racing in the Rain.” Thanks to 4 mil-lion copies sold, and more than three years on The New York Times’ best-seller list, Stein should have plenty of attention for “A Sudden Light,” which features a boy and a mansion.

“It’s what every writer dreams of, to be talked about as much as I was for ̀ Racing in the Rain,’” Stein says. “But I’m a writer, and a writer’s got to write and I finally had to announce my retirement from `Racing in the Rain.’ As I said to my publisher, `I have to go in the cave. Don’t come in here. I’ll come out

of the cave when it’s time.”For some books this fall,

the bold-faced name isn’t the author.

“The Monogram Mur-ders” is a new mystery fea-turing Agatha Christie detec-tive Hercule Poirot. Christie gets star billing on the cover, but the writer, approved by the Christie estate, is Sophie Hannah. “Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot” offers a new case to solve for baseball star-turned police chief Jesse Stone, the sleuth of nine novels by Parker, who died in 2010. The author this time is Reed Farrel Coleman.

Sidney Sheldon lives on, at least in name, through British author Tilly Bag-shawe. Her latest is “Sidney Sheldon’s Chasing Tomor-row,” a novel written “in his inimitable Sheldon style,” Bagshawe promises on her website. Dick Francis died in 2010, but a new thriller is called “Dick Francis’s `Damage’” in U.S. editions. The author’s son, Felix Fran-cis, wrote the novel and pre-fers the British title: “Dam-age,” with FELIX FRANCIS printed above the title and “A Dick Francis Novel” at the bottom.

“It’s a Dick Francis novel in that it’s got horses and was written in the first per-son and the main char-acter is both courageous and loyal,” Felix Francis said.

“I like the idea that I am giving my father im-mortality, or perhaps I am keeping his name alive. I just hope that if it goes on it becomes a little bit smaller and mine a little bit bigger.”

Beyonce has a touching moment at the VMAsThey don’t call her Queen

Bey for nothing.Beyonce not only stole

the show at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sun-day night with many of the world’s top female pop stars in attendance hustling for our attention, she used the moment to erase the cyni-cal cloud around her family status with an adorable ap-pearance by daughter Blue Ivy and doting husband Jay Z to finish off the night.

“MTV, welcome to my world,” Beyonce said near the top of her performance, and for the next 15 minutes it was a complete takeover.

The performance was mesmerizing television, from the seemingly endless medley of hits to the ex-tended look at the adorable Blue Ivy, who wore a gold bow in her hair and clapped her hands and said, “Yea, Mommy,” after Jay Z carried her onstage while present-ing her mother with MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Van-guard award.

Here’s a close up on the night’s most interesting mo-ments. You know, the things we’ll be talking about Mon-day morning, for better or for worse:

- Nicki All Night: Much of the focus prior to Beyonce’s arrival was on Nicki Minaj -

and her booty. She helped open the show with a snake-themed performance of “Anaconda” that included a lot of attention on Minaj’s most jiggly asset.

Then after what appeared to be an honest wardrobe malfunction during her sub-sequent team up with Ari-ana Grande and Jessie J - “We ran out of time getting the dress zipped up,” she said afterward - things got really booty-centric when she joined Usher on stage for “She Came to Give It to You.” Usher dropped to his knee while playing the bass after Minaj appeared on stage, then banged his head against her rear end in a new version of the bump. He leapt to his feet and gave her a smack before she walked away.

-The Front Row: You’ve got to feel bad for Riff Raff. The Houston rapper arrived on the red carpet in a Lam-borghini with Katy Perry in the passenger seat. But it was clear she was way more into Sam Smith, spend-ing the night with the pop star’s arm draped over his shoulder.

Other unexpected pairs who spent the night seated together along the front row included Taylor Swift and Lorde, who celebrated their

friendship by dancing the night away together. Lorde even introduced Swift’s per-formance of “Shake It Off”: “On the surface, this next performer and I are noth-ing alike. She’s tall, blonde and doesn’t wear quite this much black. But we both base our art on the things that delight, terrify and con-found us, and for that I’m grateful she exists.”

- Sam Slays: Perry wasn’t the only attendee fixated on Smith. The VMAs have a reputation for over-the-top moments, and there were plenty. But the quiet, com-manding performance of “Stay With Me” by the British singer drew the night’s first - and most sincere - standing ovation.

- Serious Moments: The VMAs aren’t known for po-litical statements, but some of Sunday’s most memo-rable moments came with messages. Common asked for a moment of silence to remember 18-year-old Mi-chael Brown, killed by a police officer in Fergu-son, Missouri: “The people in Ferguson and St. Louis and communities across the country have used their voices to call for justice and change to let everyone know that each and every one of our lives matters.”

Rapper Marion ‘Suge’ Knight shot, witnesses wantedWEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

(AP) — Los Angeles County detectives are reviewing security camera footage and seeking witnesses to a shooting at a packed night-club that injured three people, including Death Row Records founder Mar-ion “Suge” Knight.

Sheriff ’s Sgt. Richard

Biddle said Monday that in-vestigators believe as many as 20 people witnessed the gunfire early Sunday at 1OAK on Sunset Boule-vard in West Hollywood. But he says no poten-tial witnesses have come forward.

Detectives have not identified a suspect.

Knight and the two other victims were taken to a hospital for treatment and are expected to survive.

Knight’s Death Row Re-cords was on the leading edge of rap music in the 1990s. He eventually de-clared bankruptcy and the label was auctioned off.

Prince to release new album, ‘Art Official Age’ while ‘Hit & Run’ tour comes to an end

Emmy Awards kick off with host Seth MyersLOS ANGELES (AP) — The

red carpet at the Emmy Awards was filling up Monday as TV stars in elegant gowns and formal suits arrived at the Nokia Theatre and were met by a phalanx of scream-ing fans and reporters. “A lot of people being led, pushed and herded. I’m one of them,” joked Sarah Silverman.

Host Seth Meyers and Jesse Tyler Ferguson of “Modern Family” were two early arriv-als Monday on the red car-pet. Ferguson showed up in a black double-breasted suit to support his show’s at-tempt to tie “Frasier” as the all-time sitcom champ with five statuettes.

Others spotted include “Nashville” star Hayden Pa-nettiere wearing a metallic gown that accentuated her baby bump; Colin Hanks, nominated for his FX drama “Fargo”; actress Christine Ba-ranski from “The Good Wife”; Kate McKinnon of “Satur-day Night Live”; and Kate Mulgrew from “Orange Is the New Black.”

“This is my first Emmys in 40 years. The feeling is indis-putably a festive one,” said Mulgrew, whose other fa-mous TV part was as Capt. Kathryn Janeway in “Star Trek: Voyager.”

Mulgrew wasn’t along

representing her show. Tay-lor Schilling, in a slinky pale gown; Laverne Cox, in a daz-zling white one; and Natasha Lyonne, in a black dress with lace arms, also thanked fans as they showed up.

The 66th prime-time Em-mys air at 8 p.m. EDT on NBC. The ceremony moved from its usual Sunday home in Sep-tember to avoid conflicts with “NBC Sunday Night Foot-ball” and MTV’s Video Music Awards, held Sunday.

Netflix’s freshman com-edy series nominee “Orange Is the New Black” and sopho-more drama series contender “House of Cards” could score breakthroughs as the first online shows to capture top Emmy Awards.

Among other potential his-tory-making wins:

- If “The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons is crowned as best comedy actor, it will be his fourth Emmy and put him in league with Kelsey Gram-mer and Michael J. Fox.

- A victory for “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston would give him a tie with four-time best drama actor champ Dennis Franz.

- Matthew McConaughey, nominated for the drama se-ries “True Detective,” will join an exclusive club if he wins, according to awards his-

torian Tom O’Neil, joining Helen Mirren, Helen Hunt, Liza Minnelli and George C. Scott as the fifth actor to win both an Emmy and Oscar in a single year. In March, McCo-naughey nabbed the best ac-tor Academy Award for “Dal-las Buyers Club.”

- “Scandal” star Kerry Washington would be in a class by herself if she receives the best drama series actress award, becoming the first Af-rican-American to conquer the category.

Although the Emmys are about celebrating the best of TV, they also include “in me-moriam” tributes to indus-try members who died in the past year. Among those who will be remembered: Robin Williams, with Billy Crystal honoring his longtime friend and fellow comedian and actor.

NEW YORK (AP) — Prince is releasing a new album on Sept. 30.

The pop icon an-nounced Monday that he would release “Art Official Age” on Warner Bros. Re-cords, the label Prince was signed to from 1978 to the mid-1990s, but later bat-tled for the rights to his music.

He reached a deal with Warner in April, earning the rights to the music he recorded on the label.

Prince will also release the album “PlectrumElec-trum” with his all-female band 3RDEYEGIRL on Sept. 30. Both albums are available for pre-order.

“Art Official Age” was

described in a news release as a mix “of soul, R&B and funk.” It’s his first album since 2010’s “20Ten.”

Prince released key proj-ects like “Purple Rain,” `’1999,” `’Diamonds and Pearls” and “Around the World in a Day” on War-ner. The agreement with the label comes years after his relationship with War-ner soured as he failed to gain possession of the mu-sic he recorded for the la-bel. Prince changed his name to an unpronounce-able symbol and wrote the word “slave” on his cheek. He also vowed to rerecord the 17 albums he released on the label and sell them

on his own.After Warner, Prince

began releasing music in 1996 over the Inter-net, and struck deals with Arista Records and Co-lumbia Records, where he saw a comeback with the Grammy-winning “Musi-cology” in 2004.

His second upcoming al-bum, “PlectrumElectrum,” will feature 3RDEYEGIRL, the band that includes guitarist Donna Grantis, drummer Hannah Ford Welton and bassist Ida Nielsen.

Prince and the trio per-formed in Europe this year during their “Hit & Run” tour.

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A grand slam for Mon County Who doesn’t love pea-

nuts and Crackerjacks, 7th inning stretches and team chants? Well, more of America’s favorite sport is headed our way. Profes-sional baseball is finally coming to Morgantown.

On Monday, the City of Granville, the Mononga-lia County Commission, and Monongalia View De-velopers announced the Jamestown Jammers, one of 14 short-season Class-A New York-Penn League clubs and affiliate to the Pittsburgh Pirates, will be relocating to Morgantown for the 2015 season. The team will use the in-prog-ress Monongalia County Ballpark. Construction started in October 2013 with its groundbreaking.

This collaboration will do wonders for the City of Granville and the sur-rounding areas, includ-

ing Morgantown. Not only will we no longer have to sit in rush-hour traffic to get to Pittsburgh to see a pro game, but it will bring in visitors and out-of-town dollars to boost the local economy. Frank Coonelly, Pirates President, told MiLB.com the organiza-tion is absolutely thrilled to bring the Pirates to Morgantown.

The minor league team was founded in 1989, and hails from Jamestown, N.Y. Currently the Jam-mers’ mascot is “Bubba Grape, The Baseball Ape,” but once the team gets to town, it will be holding a contest for fans to deter-mine the new mascot. So put your thinking caps on and get excited to see some up and coming Pi-rates stars.

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Food insecurity hitting hard on college campuses

The beginning of the fall semester brings with it the promise of a great new year at West Virginia Uni-versity, but also growing expenses. From the rising cost of tuition and books to the often overwhelm-ing price of rent and other living expenses, many stu-dents will likely find them-selves with little wiggle room in their budgets. For some, this can mean cut-ting back on expensive so-cial outings and opting for free public transit instead of paying for gas and park-ing passes, but for others, this could mean going hungry.

This year, more col-lege students will expe-rience food insecurity – the lack of ability to find or afford nutritious food – than ever before. This trend has much more se-rious consequences than you may think. A study published in the January 2014 edition of the “Jour-nal of Nutrition Educa-

tion and Behavior” found that nearly 60 percent of students at a midsized university were threat-ened with food insecurity sometime during the pre-vious year, and that figure is only expected to grow. In fact, college students are four times more likely to experience this con-cern when compared to all U.S. households, although this problem has received scarcely any attention tar-geted toward the college demographic.

Several factors lead to food insecurity. The ris-ing cost of school and liv-ing expenses is the most obvious, but also playing a major role is the grow-ing number of first-gen-eration and low-income students that are now at-tending college.

Many of those students may lack the family sup-port they need. Even the working students who were studied (more than half of the students in-cluded worked an aver-age of 18 hours per week) experienced food inse-curity. In fact, working students were twice as

likely to be faced with the problem.

Going hungry can have far more consequences than a growling stomach. According to researchers in, food insecurity during college years (ages 19-24) could adversely affect cog-nitive, academic, and psy-

chosocial development. Food insecurity is also di-rectly correlated to poorer health and a lower grade point average. Students experiencing food insecu-rity were far more likely to have a GPA less than 3.1 when compared to their food secure classmates,

and it’s no wonder why. According to health

professionals, hunger al-most immediately leads to headaches, dizziness and confusion, and lessens the ability to think clearly. Those experiencing hun-ger often have difficulty sleeping and getting ade-

quate rest. The prevalence and

negative consequences of food insecurity among college students is noth-ing short of alarming. It is a very real issue that many are facing and needs to receive much more atten-tion from school adminis-trators and government of-ficials. Additionally, those students facing financial difficulty leading to food insecurity should not let embarrassment keep them from speaking up and seeking out the help that they need.

WVU has made efforts to combat this growing trend and keep students from going hungry.

In fact, WVU has set up a free food pantry, The Rack, to help aid students facing hunger. Students are wel-come to come to the Stu-dent Organization Office to visit The Rack and take what they need. Students and faculty are also wel-come to come by and help stock the rack when possi-ble, and donations are al-ways accepted.

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You know what’s boring? Studying.

Unlike something con-crete like homework, you never actually know when you’re finished with study-ing. Can you ever really be finished? Studying actu-ally takes a while to mas-ter, which is weird because technically we have been doing it our whole lives.

Personally, I didn’t fully learn how to study until I got to college. I mean like really study. In high school you do have to study, but not as much as you should. You know that your home-work grade will pretty much guarantee your good grade, so studying for like half an hour will probably be fine there.

College is a whole differ-ent ballgame. Homework hardly counts for anything, and sometimes it doesn’t even count, leaving your grade to be determined by your ability on your mid-terms, finals and papers.

This is a daunting real-ization, especially when you are fresh out of high school. While there are many ways to approach studying, I have found

that having a regular study buddy for homework and tests alike can be a great way to get things done and learn the material.

So why should you get a study buddy? Let’s take a look:

You get your stuff done:Every Monday, Wednes-

day, and Friday, I would meet with my friend to go over our German home-work. We would either do it together, or if we were pressed for time, go over answers or figure out the main concept to really hard things.

Though sometimes I re-ally wanted to take a nap instead of go and study, it really helped me get all my homework and study guides finished in about an hour, and left me with a lot more time to do other things.

Unlike German classes in the past, I now never had to stay up until mid-night, stumbling over the translations and about ready to pull my hair out.

The key to getting a lot out of your study buddy is to make regular meetings and stick to them! Sure, sometimes life gets in the way and you have to skip, but try and go as much as you can.

You learn the material

faster:Having to explain some-

thing to someone else causes you to think it out in a way that is easy to under-stand, helping both your study buddy and yourself.

Everyone has different strengths, which is what makes studying with some-one else so wonderful. The things that you find diffi-cult, they might have com-pletely down, and vice versa.

You’ll be able to ask each other questions right then and there, instead of having to wait until the next time you see your professor.

It also helps when you

both find something con-fusing, because then you know it’s not just you and maybe the professor didn’t cover it enough. It’s al-ways nice knowing some-one else is in the same boat as you.

Tackling it together will most likely give you the re-sults you are looking for, and if not, you at least have someone who will stay af-ter class with you and talk to the professor.

A great friendship is born:

You definitely want a study buddy who you get along with and is on a simi-lar level as you. Study bud-dies might not always turn

into friendships, but if you are meeting regularly over coffee and helping each other through the class, chances are you will start to want to hang out outside of the study environment. You’ll have someone to sit next to in class and some-one to grab a snack with af-ter class.

The best thing to do is keep your study group to only one or two study bud-dies. This makes it eas-ier to plan meetings and keeps the stress of a bunch of people talking at once out of it.

Three can be really great because it’s still small, but gives you that one extra

person to bounce ideas off of. And you’ll gain two new friends along the way.

I’ve tried the larger group thing, and we hardly got any studying done. No one wanted to focus so we ended up talking about random things and while it was fun, it wasn’t very productive.

If you have a hard enough time getting your-self to focus, the last thing you want to do is put your-self in an environment where focusing will be out of the question.

You learn how to study:As mentioned before,

there are many different methods to studying, and if you study with someone else, you can compare and contrast methods to see which you like best and will bring the best results.

They like flashcards? Give it a go! You can both also use different methods and then have a friendly competition to see who did better on the midterm us-ing which method.

As you can see, it is def-initely worth your while to acquire a study buddy. You’ll breeze through your homework, study more than you would other-wise for your exams, and gain a new friend. Happy studying!

Study buddy your way to that A, a great study habit for everyoneFrancine Fluetschuc santa cruz

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Born today This year you have the ability to understand people with more sensitivity. As a result, you will be far more nurturing than you have been in the past. You will need to partake in some form of medita-tion in order to reduce your stress. If you are single, approach a new love interest carefully, as he or she could be emotionally unavailable. This sit-uation might occur more than once. If you are attached, the two of you have a unique opportunity to clear up a difficult problem. By letting your guard down, you will accept your sweetie more and understand him or her much better. LEO makes a great doctor for you.

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH A loved one might see you as being full of surprises. Un-

fortunately, you could trigger some strong reactions, especially from those closest to you. Make an effort to be more forthright when dealing with others. Tonight: Act as if the weekend is just beginning.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHH Continue spending time at home, and treat yourself to whatever makes you happy. A partner could be un-usually withdrawn. It is important not to react to this behavior; instead, just let this person work through it. He or she will need your stability. To-night: Order in.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH Understand what is happening with a relative. You could be exhausted by listening to what he or she has to say. You are full of high energy, and you’ll want to go join others. Make a difficult conversation short and

sweet, for everyone’s sake. Tonight: Talk over munchies.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH You could be overwhelmed by a need to make your point. Your cre-ativity is likely to soar to an unprec-edented level, but only if you can get past a self-imposed restriction. Avoid getting into an argument with a loved one. Tonight: Your treat.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You might be more willing than other people to pursue a unique course. Try to incorporate a jealous or irri-table roommate or family member into your plans. Both of you will be happier as a result. Tonight: There’s no stopping you.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH How you deal with someone could affect the relationship much more

than you might believe is possible. Do your best to avoid resorting to sarcasm and criticism. In the long run, you know you can’t take back words that have been said. Tonight: All smiles.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHH Join friends as soon as possible. You might need to straighten out a money matter first; otherwise, it could prevent you from enjoying yourself. A loved one’s unexpected action might delight you way more than you are willing to admit. To-night: Only where the crowds are.

ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Be willing to take a stand, yet be open to hearing the other side of a discussion. If you feel isolated or limited, you could become angry. Try to take responsibility for what is

going on. Tonight: Could go till the wee hours.

S AG I T TA R I U S ( N O V. 22- D E c. 21) HHHH Greet the morning with phone calls to those you of-ten don’t have time to chat with. You might need to deal with some withheld anger so that it doesn’t erupt and ruin your day with a dear friend. Be aware of your in-ner voice. Tonight: Rent a movie.

c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Deal with a loved one directly. In fact, you will be best off dealing with everyone you en-counter today on a one-on-one level. Much could happen, and a better understanding will be reached. Let a family member be unpredictable. Tonight: At home.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Others will come forward, which will allow you to relax. Some-one you look up to could be neg-ative and/or hostile right now. Try to avoid internalizing this person’s message. Tonight: Enjoy the one you are with.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HH Pace yourself -- you have a lot to do. At the same time, you might want to squeeze in some fun. Someone at a distance might not be return-ing your calls. Don’t make assump-tions. When you catch up with this person, he or she will share what has occurred. Tonight: Get some rest.

Born today Baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. (1960), actor Steve Guttenberg (1958), comedian Dave Chappelle (1973).

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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13 Camera types, for short18 “A snap!”19 Missouri range23 Potato chip flavor, briefly24 Prophet whose name sounds like a mineral25 __ nova: Brazilian music genre26 Exemplary27 Viking language28 Hula or hora29 Travels with the band30 Binge31 Lowly laborers33 Beijing-born martial arts actor34 Apartment contract36 Stopped the ship, in nautical lingo39 Still on the plate40 Bar sing-along43 Expanse near the Capitol, with “the”44 Coke competitor45 Churlish types46 Sales slip: Abbr.47 “... __ saw Elba”48 “Auld Lang __”

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From the opening performance by Ari-ana Grande, Jesse J, and Nicki Minaj to Beyonce’s 20-minute final perfor-mance, today’s top musi-cians put on a one of a kind show at MTV’s Video Mu-sic Awards.

In case you missed it, here is a recap of the 31st annual VMAs.

While most tuned in to watch live performances, the sincere moments from Miley Cyrus’s acceptance of “Video of the Year” and the appearance of power family Jay-Z, Beyonce, and daughter Blue Ivy stole the show.

While Cyrus is known around the world for her controversial per for-mances, one might have been surprised by her taking a back seat at this show.

Instead, Cyrus had a formerly homeless man, who identified himself as “Jesse,” accept her Moon-man statuette to bring

awareness to the “54,000 human beings that have no place to call home” in Los Angeles.

“I’ve survived in shel-ters all over the city,” Jesse said. “I’ve been an extra in your movies, I’ve been an extra in your life.”

The heartfelt speech left the audience in awe and Cyrus in tears.

Another highlight was Beyonce’s 20-minute clos-ing performance where she performed her mem-orable hits. The perfor-mance had everyone in the audience on their feet.

As the performance came to an end, Jay-Z, carrying Blue Ivy, pre-sented the Michael Jack-son Vanguard Award to Beyonce as she gratefully accepted.

Jay-Z said Beyonce is “the greatest living entertainer.”

The performances of the night were composed of the hottest hits America has been singing along to all summer, and as antic-ipated, truly came to life onstage.

Nicki Minaj returned to the limelight with a per-

formance of her new sin-gle “Anaconda.”

Minaj’s performance brought audiences to a jungle, but this time, Minaj ditched the snakes.

E! News reported that one of Minaj’s backup dancers was bitten by a boa con-strictor during a rehearsal.

Another standout per-formance was Taylor

Swift’s debut of her new single, “Shake it Off.”

Swift has branched out from the country music genre with this new song. It’s a fun, upbeat and

wildly catchy pop tune. While the video for

this song caused a lot of buzz on the internet, the performance was very classy, giving a nod to her birth in the year 1989.

Although sounding modern, the performance brought the audience back in time with a glamorous and gleaming wardrobe and set.

Ariana Grande also cap-tured attention during the show performing twice. Once for her new sin-gle “Break Free” and the another alongside Nicki Minaj and Jessie J in the song “Bang Bang.”

Grande also took home the award for best pop video with her song, “Problem,” featuring Iggy Azalea.

Other notable perfor-mances included those by Maroon 5, Sam Smith, Usher, 5 Seconds of Sum-mer, Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora.

A much anticipated photo montage tribute to Robin Williams played, set to Coldplay’s song, “A Sky Full of Stars.”

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‘sin City’ sequel delivers action

Nine years after the first “Sin City” was released, audiences return to Frank Miller’s corrupt city for a second go at crime, intrigue, passion and violence.

“Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,” like the first install-ment, is a movie comprised of smaller stories.

Each story is rela-tively independent from the others, usually tak-ing place at different times

and featuring different characters.

The one common thread through the different plot lines is Sin City itself, a cor-rupt, urban environment consisting of sprawling ghettos and projects, dirty cops and enough strip bars to keep Charlie Sheen en-tertained for weeks.

The city itself acts as a character in the movie, choking the other charac-ters with its inescapable and soiling influence.

By far, the most striking aspect of “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” is its artistic style.

The movie is highly styl-

ized. It’s almost entirely filmed in black and white, with the exception of cer-tain objects, like a char-acter’s eyes or a woman’s dress, which are given a bright hue.

The entire movie is a nod to old crime noir novels and movies with a modern spin.

A particularly subtle touch was the use of light boxes on the characters’ eyes. This method of pro-jecting a small rectangle of light over the actor’s eyes was used in the earlier days of Hollywood to increase at-tention given to the actor’s face.

In “Sin City” this adds to the crime noir effect.

The film style also gives the movie a very graphic, comic book feel. Certain frames consist only of sil-houettes and outlines, black against white.

Often times, objects in the background be-come silhouettes as well. All of these different graphic nuances come to-gether to create an im-pressive and sleek looking film.

“A Dame to Kill For” features all of the gratu-itous violence and nudity one would come to ex-pect from a joint project by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez.

Fight scenes in the film are gloriously over the top, with gun shots and punches knock-ing characters back great distances.

The heroes survive wounds that would kill a man 10 times over, while the villain’s horde of goons col-lapse like paper dolls at the slightest impact.

Everything from the stan-dard fist and pistol, to the exotic crossbow and sword, are used to kill.

All of these things, from the art, the violence and characters, serve to make this one very entertaining movie.

“A Dame to Kill For” doesn’t try to raise aware-ness about a social issue, nor for any political moti-vation. It knows it’s an ac-tion movie, and that’s what it delivers. It’s over-the-top and awesome because it wants to be.

Ridiculous things hap-pen, like katana and ma-chine gun wielding escorts, people surviving shots to the head and coming back with a vengeance, and more.

But that’s OK, because “Sin City”’s main goal is to be cool, and it cer-tainly does a fine job of that.

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O-line must start strong

SaturdayThe amount of story lines

that can be discussed enter-ing Saturday’s season opener for West Virginia University against No. 2 Alabama is tre-mendous. But for me, one story line reigns above the rest for the Mountaineers: The of-fensive line.

WVU’s offensive line will have no time to waste once Saturday afternoon rolls around and the Mountain-eers are quickly eye-to-eye with 2013’s No. 5 total defen-sive squad in the nation.

But still, second-year WVU offensive line coach, Ron Crook, said between he and his returning players, the Mountaineers have a chance to silence the critics in 2014.

“The biggest thing right now is that they trust each other very well, and they’re comfortable with each other because they’ve been to-gether for a while now,” Crook said.

“They are an athletic group. They’ve got good quickness, but they also have good power surges. There are a lot of things that they’re doing well together right now.”

However, confidence can only carry this Mountaineer squad so far, right?

In 2013, Alabama finished the season ranked No. 7, but the Tide could have easily made it to the BCS National Championship game if not for one extremely costly play against Auburn in late No-vember. The Crimson Tide defense allowed 10 or fewer points in nine of their 13 games.

When the Tide won the BCS National Championship in the 2012-13 season, its de-fense allowed 14 or fewer points in 11 of the 14 games during their second consecu-tive national title run.

OK, so Alabama’s defense knows how to play some football.

But Mountaineer offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Shannon Dawson said although he’d like to see the offensive line continue to get better, his offense can still play some ball too.

“I still don’t think we are as deep up front as we need to be, but we’re deep enough. We’re probably as deep as we been,” he said. “We need to get seven or eight in a rotation. I never had as many as 10, but typically you have a starting five and at least two guys that can bump.”

Depth will be needed up front to help give some added cushion to redshirt senior quarterback Clint Trickett.

Trickett, who will ultimately be responsible for how WVU’s match up with the Tide will go, said he’s learned a lot from his first year on the squad and feels fully recovered from his shoulder surgery.

But will that be nearly enough for who and what he may encounter in just a few days?

Dawson said he believes it will be.

“A year makes a big differ-ence in the make-up of a quar-terback. There’s no doubt,” he said.

“It has a lot to do with ex-perience around him too (and) having a lot of capable bodies around you at quar-terback helps, especially up front. Those five guys are do-ing a great job up front, which makes our job a lot easier.”

Though the WVU offen-sive line and coaches remain positive heading into game one, a few mishaps early on against the Tide by any part of the WVU squad, and 2014 can easily turn into an extremely long and tiring season for the Mountaineers.

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West Virginia’s depth is being put to an imme-diate test. Due to an aca-demic issue, the NCAA has suspended redshirt senior cornerback Ishmael Banks for the first three games of WVU’s season.

Banks has been rein-stated to the team, how-ever, and will be allowed to practice with the Moun-taineers between now and when West Virginia kicks off its Big 12 schedule against Oklahoma Sept. 20.

“He’ll be back for the Oklahoma game and the remainder of the Big 12 schedule after that. So we’re glad that he got it resolved and thank the NCAA for their ruling on that,” said West Vir-ginia head coach Dana Holgorsen.

The most experienced member of the Mountain-eer secondary, Banks was slotted into a starting role before the suspension.

With Banks sidelined, Holgorsen said the Moun-taineers have several expe-rienced backups who can fill the second corner role.

“Terrell Chestnut has been playing well. He’s going to take snaps. Tra-

vis Bell has been play-ing well, and he’s going to take snaps. Jaylon Myers is a full go. He’s still learn-ing because he was late to camp, but he’s ready to go.

“Ricky Rumph is back and healthy. He’s doing a good job. We’ve got bodies at corner. We’ve got bod-ies that have played. We’ve just got to see how they re-spond,” Holgorsen said.

Of the options Hol-gorsen mentioned, Bell is the most experienced. The redshirt senior has played in 39 games for West Vir-ginia and started 10. He played nine games at cor-nerback for the Moun-taineers during the 2013 season.

Rumph played in nine games during the 2013 season. He missed some time with an injury during camp, but as Holgorsen said, he is healthy and will try to help fill the void left by Banks.

Chestnut has seen ac-tion at cornerback and special teams in the past. He played in 10 games dur-ing the 2013 season, but did not start.

Myers came to WVU in the off-season after trans-ferring from Hutchin-son Community College. He snagged eight inter-ceptions and broke up six

passes during the 2013 season and was named a First Team NJCAA All-American.

While West Virginia has plenty of options to turn to at the second cornerback spot, Holgorsen said only live game action will show who is most prepared.

“You get to a point in camp where you’re not go-ing to get a whole lot bet-ter. You really don’t know what you have until you get them under the lights and you get them into live situations where you see how they respond,” he said.

Elsewhere in the sec-ondary, Holgorsen and his staff are still trying to decide between freshman Dravon Henry and sopho-more Jeremy Tyler for the starting free safety spot.

“We’re still battling on that position. They both had good camps. They’re both playing well. I don’t know which one is going to get the nod to start,” Hol-gorsen said.

Although the coaching staff hasn’t yet decided on a starter, Holgorsen said who takes the field first is less important than how they play when they get an opportunity.

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West Virginia Director of Athletics Oliver Luck called it a “historic occasion” as he announced the short-season Class-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates is moving to Morgantown.

The Jamestown Jam-mers, who currently play in Jamestown, N.Y., will be making a three and a half hour drive south to relo-cate to their new home at the brand new Monongalia County Ballpark beginning in the 2015 season.

The ballpark, which broke ground Oct. 17 at the University Towne Cen-tre, has been labeled with

a price tag of $21 million. Even with barely any-thing physical to show for it yet, those involved showed a great deal of ex-citement during Tuesday’s announcement.

Robert Rich, owner of the Jamestown Jammers and chairman of the multi-billion dollar Rich Produc-tions Corporation com-pany, said having his team move to the Mountain State was something he’s always wanted.

“We’re extremely excited to find a state-of-the-art home for our team here in Morgantown, West Virginia and to partner with every-one at West Virginia Uni-versity,” Rich said.

Monongalia County Ball-

park, which will seat 2,500, will also be the home the Mountaineers beginning in the 2015 season. With multiple teams beginning to use the state-of-the-art facility just months apart from each other, Luck said the excitement coming to the area is huge.

“On behalf of West Vir-ginia University, we’re de-lighted to have Rich Base-ball as part of the sports fabric of West Virginia,” he said. “We’re looking for-ward to a long and produc-tive relationship.”

By having players who have recently entered the Pirates system begin their Minor League days in Mor-gantown, Rich said the fans are the foremost important

element to an overall great experience for both fans and players.

“We’re about giving the fans what they want by giv-ing them a great entertain-ment form,” he said.

Eldon Callen, a Monon-galia County Commis-sioner, said the opportunity of being just months away from welcoming profes-sional baseball to this area of West Virginia is some-thing he never thought was possible.

“Two and a half years ago, I never though this day would come,” he said.

Callen said he has ex-treme passion when it comes to the game of baseball. He said imagin-ing himself bringing his

2-year-old grandson to the ballpark as he grows up makes Callen beyond happy.

Pat O’Connor, Minor League Baseball CEO and President, said after see-ing the facility first-hand Tuesday, he has no doubt the ballpark will not just be a great one, it will be one of the best Minor League baseball facilities in the country.

Although the current name of the Pirates affiliate is the Jamestown Jammers, the team will be holding a naming contest for fans to help with the selection of the club’s new name dur-ing the fall.

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WVU’s Steadman earns starting spotBy Ryan PetRoVich

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After battling all preseason to win the starting goalkeep-ing job, junior Hannah Stead-man got the nod in West Vir-ginia’s season opener last weekend.

“It definitely feels great. It’s what I’ve been work-ing for. It boosts my confi-dence and it shows my back line that I can play for them,” Steadman said.

Steadman battled along-side senior Katie Osterman

and redshirt freshman Mi-chelle Newhouse this off-season. Even though Stead-man edged them out and won the job, she said that she owes a lot of credit to her teammates.

“I owe a lot to the other goal keepers,” Steadman said. “They pushed me.”

In West Virginia’s season opener, the Mountaineers gave up an early lead to the No. 11 Penn State Nittany Li-ons. West Virginia trailed 3-0 going into the second half and ultimately fell 3-1.

Despite letting three shots

into the net, Steadman said she wasn’t down on herself at all. In fact, she said she was actually quite pleased with her performance.

“It was a great game be-tween the two of us,” Stead-man said. “We went down 3-0 in the first half, but in the second we showed we could hang with a team like Penn State. It was no per-sonal discouragement for me. I’m pretty happy with myself. There are just a few small changes to make, noth-ing major.”

Dropping the season

opener to Penn State was quickly erased from the Mountaineers’ minds as they managed to pick up a win against Missouri just two days later.

Trailing yet again, the Mountaineers made a come-back victory and downed the Tigers 3-2.

“I can’t tell you how hard we fought. We knew we weren’t walking off the field without a win,” Steadman said. “Penn State was a wake up call. (The game against Missouri) was a pride-check.”

Steadman finished the

game against the Nittany Li-ons giving up three goals and having just one save. Against the Tigers, she allowed just two goals and saved five shots. She played the full 90 minutes in both matches.

The Mountaineers display a 1-1 record and will look to avoid falling below .500 as they host No. 18 Duke in the team’s first home match of the season.

Steadman and company will try to get off to a better start than they did the last two matches. Surrendering an early lead to a nationally

ranked opponent is some-thing head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown deemed unaccept-able following the loss to Penn State.

Duke will enter the matchup with an 0-2 re-cord for the first time since 1996. Despite the 0-2 re-cord, the Blue Devils will still be another early test for West Virginia.

West Virginia and Duke will kick off on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A week after the loss of three-year starting quar-terback Braxton Miller, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is going through fi-nal preparations for the Buckeyes’ opener on Sat-urday against Navy.

He says his team is ready.

“Oh, yeah. If you have good players, a good team (then you’re excited),” he said, pausing before jok-ing, “I’ll fake it sometimes, if you don’t have a good team.

“But I can tell you this: I think we got a good team.”

Meyer disclosed that Miller, a two-time Big Ten player of the year and on the short list of Heisman Trophy frontrunners, will have surgery on the torn

labrum in his right (throw-ing) shoulder on Tuesday. Dr. James Andrews, re-nowned for his work with athletes, will perform the operation.

Normally, this would be a week of celebration for Miller, who was hurt a week ago in practice. He was voted a team cap-tain, along with tight end Jeff Heuerman, defensive lineman Michael Bennett and two unrelated players named Grant – defensive back Doran Grant and line-backer Curtis Grant.

Instead, Miller will miss Saturday’s game while re-covering from the surgery taking place in Gulf Breeze, Florida. He is not expected to return to the field until next August.

J.T. Barrett, a redshirt

freshman who has never taken a collegiate snap, will start in his place. He will be backed by redshirt sophomore Cardale Jones, who has thrown a total of two passes in his Ohio State career.

Both may see action, al-though Barrett has a slight edge.

“It was thrust upon us pretty quickly because in my heart I thought Brax-ton would be ready to go. I didn’t envision this,” Meyer said. “I thought, man, this would be a really close battle for the backup spot. J.T. is the starting quarter-back, but there’s not a big separation.”

The Buckeyes still have several other spots up for grabs.

Meyer said Billy Price,

Joel Hale and Antonio Un-derwood were fighting for the starting job at left guard, the one starting cor-nerback would be either Gareon Conley or Eli Apple and that Jacoby Boren and Alabama transfer Chad Lindsay continue to chal-lenge for the starting cen-ter spot. In addition, there are six players in the wide-receiver derby but only three will start the game at M&T Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday afternoon.

A lot of the talk after Monday’s practice dealt with Barrett and picking up the slack for the loss of Miller.

Taylor Decker, the only returning starter on the line at left tackle, likes what he’s seen so far out of Bar-rett. But also recognizes

that the rest of the team must bear a little bit more of the burden with such a new player at the controls.

“He’s been taking the reins of the offense,” Decker said. “He’s stepped up, he’s voiced up and he’s kind of taken control. That’s good to see that he’s not going to back down from it. Him being a young guy and not have a lot of experience, we just have to make him look better. The line has to play that much harder protect-ing and the receivers have to make plays until he gets comfortable.”

Wide receiver Evan Spencer believes that many won’t be able to no-tice a substantial differ-ence on Saturday. Barrett’s last complete season was as a junior at Rider High

School in Wichita Falls, Texas, three years ago.

“We’re running the same offense (as last year),” he said. “There’s only so many ways to scheme up things. He’s very mobile, and he can make all of throws on the field. It’s going to be different, but at the same time when you see us out there this week a lot of stuff will look pretty similar.”

Meyer – this time he wasn’t kidding – said he was enthused about where the Buckeyes are men-tally and physically with the start of the season looming.

“I like where we’re at, es-pecially after today’s prac-tice, and I like how they responded to Braxton’s in-jury,” he said. “So I think we’re pretty ready.”

ap photoOhio State senior QB Braxton Miller is out for the entire 2014 season.

Jets suspend cB Dimitri Patterson ‘indefinitely’FLORHAM PARK, N.J.

(AP) – Dimitri Patterson ended his puzzling ab-sence after 48 hours, but his future with the New York Jets is now uncertain.

The Jets “indefinitely” suspended the veteran cornerback Monday af-

ter he left the team Friday without contacting the or-ganization. General man-ager John Idzik said Pat-terson spoke to him and coach Rex Ryan on Sun-day night, but neither Id-zik nor Ryan would dis-cuss the reason for the

absence.“Obviously, Dimitri felt

he acted appropriately, but until we discussed it last night, you don’t un-derstand,” Idzik said. “And, to be honest, we’re still trying to understand all that went behind it. So, I would rather not charac-terize it.”

Idzik added that the “indefinite” suspension will be “brief,” but the 31-year-old Patterson will face more discipline once the team has gath-ered all the facts. Patter-son wasn’t on the practice field Monday.

“It’ll give us a little time to gather more in-formation around what led to his behavior,” Id-zik said. “I think that way, we’ll feel like we’ll make a very well-informed de-cision as to what disci-pline will be forthcoming — and there will be disci-pline involved.”

Idzik wouldn’t specu-late whether that could result in further suspen-sion, fines or Patterson being released. Ryan said “it’s safe to say” he has never been involved in a situation in which a player didn’t show up for a game.

“I don’t want to say any-thing one way or the other about the situation be-cause it’s a serious situa-tion,” Ryan said after prac-tice. “How I feel, whatever, I’ll just leave as private thoughts right now.”

Patterson was with the team last Thursday night at a walkthrough practice at Hofstra University. Idzik said he was also at meet-ings, a walkthrough and the pregame meal Friday, but didn’t show for the preseason game against the Giants at MetLife Stadium.

Patterson, who has been dealing with ankle, calf and quadriceps injuries

all summer, was expected to play against the Giants, but it was uncertain how much. He gave the Jets no warning he would leave the team, and no one in the organization knew if Patterson was even OK physically until his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, was able to confirm that Saturday.

Idzik announced that Patterson had gone miss-ing during a conference call Sunday. A few hours later, Patterson, through Rosenhaus, told Idzik he would return to the facil-ity that night to speak to them.

“The conversations we had with Dimitri will re-main private,” Idzik said. “He presented what led up to that, and basically last night was a listening ses-sion for Rex and for me, to understand what went into it. Now that the lines of communication are open, there will be two-

way discourse now, which I think will be healthy.”

In a text message to ES-PN’s Josina Anderson, Pat-terson said he was OK, but took issue with reports that said he was AWOL, calling them “comical.”

When told of Patter-son’s comments, Idzik said: “I’ll just say, he left and we didn’t hear from him until we saw him yes-terday evening.”

Patterson’s teammates said they had no idea he was going to not show up for the game, and they were surprised to hear he was nowhere to be found.

“Dimitri’s a great per-son and I never expected him not to show for the game,” cornerback Dar-rin Walls said. “I’ve never known him to miss any-thing. He’s always on time and he’s always present for everything else, so to not see him was kind of a shock.”

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM CLASSIFIEDS | 9Tuesday August 26, 2014

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 201410 | SPORTS

AP

Alabama QBs Coker, Sims still vying for top spot

APAlabama quarterbacks Blake Sims (6), Jacob Coker (14) and Alec Morris (11) listen to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Lane Kiffin.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Nick Saban is keeping Alabama’s quarterback situation shrouded in as much mystery as possible.

The second-ranked Crimson Tide’s coach said Monday that no decision has been made on whether Jake Coker or Blake Sims would start Saturday against West Virginia in At-lanta, or if both would play.

Saban did employ a baseball analogy involv-ing Yankees manager and friend Joe Girardi to indi-cate that the starter won’t be guaranteed of going the distance whatever the plan going into the game.

“I mean, Joe Girardi tells (Masahiro) Tanaka

he’s starting in the game, he’s not telling him he’s go-ing to pitch nine innings,” Saban said. “Does he tell them that or does he just pitch until he doesn’t pitch well anymore?”

Of course, the goal is not to need a bullpen as the season progresses.

Coker and Sims are vy-ing to replace Heisman Trophy runner-up AJ Mc-Carron, who went through a similar situation in 2011. McCarron started the opener against Kent State and alternated every few series with Phillip Sims.

Both were intercepted twice in the first game but McCarron was awarded the starting job the next

game against Penn State, and wound up helping the Tide win the next two na-tional titles.

That’s the big question facing new Alabama quar-terbacks these days: Can he lead the Tide to the title?

“Both of those guys are capable of leading us to the national champi-onship,” fullback Jalston Fowler said. “We just have to support them and be be-hind them and make sure they’re confident and have that confidence every week no matter who is playing.”

Sims has the advantage of experience in Alabama’s offense after two seasons as McCarron’s backup and

one as a running back. He’s still only attempted 39 passes in two seasons and both quarterbacks are working with new of-fensive coordinator Lane Kiffin.

Coker didn’t arrive in Tuscaloosa until May. He left Florida State after last season when Jameis Win-ston won the Heisman Tro-phy and led the Seminoles to a national title.

Saban said know-how often comes before con-fidence not the other way around.

“We say players play without confidence, but to think that a guy can play with confidence when he doesn’t yet have knowl-

edge is almost, like, stu-pid,” Saban said. “A player has to be able to develop knowledge and under-standing of what he’s sup-posed to do for him to re-ally have confidence in doing it.

“Young players struggle with this and somebody at the quarterback posi-tion who is in a new sys-tem, terminology and all that, that’s got to be a bit of a factor.”

He said both contend-ers have done “a very, very good job.”

Whoever wins will have a strong supporting cast led by tailbacks T.J. Yeldon, Derrick Henry and Kenyan Drake and receivers Am-

ari Cooper and Christion Jones. They’ll also have a freshman left tackle since Cam Robinson is listed as the starter in the depth chart released Monday.

Tide players measured their words carefully on the quarterback situation but said it hasn’t been a distraction and both can-didates are helping each other out.

“They both push each other and they’re both getting better day by day,” right tackle Austin Shep-herd said. “I think that kind of helps, but we honestly have no idea who’s going to start yet. I’m just happy to see both of those guys suc-ceeding and doing well.”

AP

APGregory Polanco swings and misses at a pitch during a game against the Nationals earlier in the 2014 season.

Pittsburgh sends down struggling Gregory Polanco

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are hop-ing Gregory Polanco can use a little time out of the spot-light to fix his swing.

Pittsburgh sent the 22-year-old rookie out-fielder back to Triple-A In-dianapolis on Monday, be-lieving a week in the minors will help Polanco break out of his freefall.

Polanco made his ma-jor league debut on June 10

and recorded at least one hit in his first 11 games but has slumped since the All-Star break. He is just 1 for 30 since Aug. 13, with his batting average dipping to a season-low .241.

The Pirates plan to recall Polanco when rosters ex-pand next week provided he works his way back.

“The timing is off in his swing and I don’t think the best way to spend the next

week was with him sitting on the bench,” Hurdle said. “This will give him an op-portunity to get down, get some at-bats and get out of the spotlight that is here ... so he can help this ballclub in September in a very pos-itive fashion.”

Hurdle gave Polanco a few days off last week but it provided no immediate div-idends. Polanco went 0 for 3 in a 4-3 loss to Milwaukee

on Sunday.Polanco’s slump coin-

cided with a surge from reserve outfielder Travis Snider, who is hitting .319 with six home runs and 18 RBIs since the All-Star break entering Monday night’s game against St. Louis.

Snider excelled as a pinch hitter before becoming a regular in the lineup over the last three weeks. Hur-dle wasn’t certain Polanco

would benefit from serv-ing in the same role while he tried to tinker with his swing.

“We want him to go down there and he’ll get an oppor-tunity to have four to five at-bats a night without mag-nification on him,” Hurdle said. “We want him to keep it simple, ‘Get your foot down early, get your bar-rel to the ball, hit it where it’s pitched and come back

Sept. 2 and help us.’”Tabata hit .289 in 62

games with the Pirates ear-lier this season but has spent most of the summer in Indianapolis following Polanco’s promotion.

“I know I’ve got to do my job, got to work more 100 percent, 200 percent,” Ta-bata said. “You know it’s frustrating sometimes but if you’re not strong, you’re done.”

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