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Clutch Wing Shop is now open and ready to serve Morgantown. A&E PAGE 3

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SGA talks possible ticketing changesby sam bosserman

correspondent

During Wednesday’s regular Student Govern-ment Association meet-ing, SGA president Ryan Campione announced major changes in the works regarding the way students gain admis-sion to home basketball games.

Campione said he had met with Univer-sity administrators and discussed the possible changes.

“I’m really proud to say that in the coming times, the University is going to be ticketing for basketball games in a very similar manner to how ticketing is done for football,” Cam-pione said.

“This is a brand new kind of concept (for bas-ketball) and the details still need to be worked out.”

Campione said stu-dent feedback will be re-quired in order for these changes to be properly implemented.

“We are not going to move forward on this without student input,

so what I’d like to ask ev-eryone is to think about football ticketing proce-dures and ask themselves what they like and dis-like about it,” Campione said.

Campione urged stu-dents to make their opin-ions known by sending tweets to @WVUSGA with suggestions.

In addition to the tick-

eting announcement, SGA held a lengthy debate on an amendment to the as-sociation’s bylaws, which would create a Bureau of Finance.

Under the proposed amendment, the bureau would be staffed with fis-cally oriented individu-als and would be charged with advising the SGA Board of Governors on all

student organization grant requests.

SGA chief financial offi-cer Dillan Knox said these changes would benefit both the board and the organizations requesting grant funds.

“The creation of this bureau is a way to help manage workflow that

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WELLWVU promotes safe drinking habits, encourages awareness

mIck poSey/tHe DAIly AtHeNAeumWELLWVU hosted a booth in the Mountainlair Wednesday demonstrating through games and tips how to more responsi-bly consume alcohol.

by aLexIs randoLpHcorrespondent

WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health works to bring various types of awareness to the students at West Virginia University. The liveWELL program is one of the many ways the organization keeps students healthy and aware on campus.

The liveWELL campaign is based out of the Office for Wellness and Health Promotion, which has monthly topics that cover informa-tion on different aspects of college life. Some of the programs include drinkWELL, loveWELL and sleepWELL.

The program promoted its drinkWELL and WEllaware campaigns in the Mountainlair, Wednesday.

DrinkWELL promotes healthy drinking habits in college students and provides them with information about alcohol consumption. At the event, students were given a chance to play “Bartender School”, a game designed to teach students about the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption.

“We are trying to introduce students to the

concept of alcohol serving sizes and show per-ception versus reality,” said Shannon Foster, health educator for the WELLWVU program.

Students were given a cup and told to pour out how much they thought a shot was; then their guess was dumped into an actual shot glass. Most students were off the mark.

“The actual serving cup is usually overflow-ing,” Foster said. “When you are at a party, the drink being poured for you or that you are pour-ing, is often much more than the serving size.”

Danielle Lore, a senior intern for WELLWVU, worked the other game at the event.

Lore had students spin a wheel with several program names on it. Students were then asked a question about the program.

“Our goal is just to bring awareness to stu-dents, like (recommending) things like drink-ing water and eating while you drink,” Lore said.

The other program promoted at the event, WELLaware, is a pro-gram to raise awareness about sexual assault.

Irish dancers bring Celtic style to WVU

by KaITy WILsonstaff Writer

As the student popula-tion at West Virginia Uni-versity grows, the diversity of student organizations on campus grows, as well.

This spring, several stu-dents took advantage of this growing diversity and created the WVU Irish Dance Team.

Kathryn Baker, captain of the Irish Dance Team, has been dancing since middle school and was looking for a way to con-tinue dancing while at WVU.

“I was thinking maybe there was a way to draw in other people who dance,”

Baker said. “I wanted to bring (Irish Dance) to Mor-gantown because it never really was here.”

Hayden Marushi, co-captain of the team, has been privileged enough to perform around the world since the age of 12.

He was able to practice dance while living in Flor-ida, Virginia and even Sin-gapore, but hit a bump in the road when he came to Morgantown.

Fortunately, Marushi met Baker and some other students who had a love for Irish dance, and they be-gan talking about forming a team.

Federal budget cuts threaten telescope fate

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by sam bossermancorrespondent

The Green Bank Tele-scope located in Poca-hontas County, W.Va., is so large it could fit two football fields within its dish and can be seen from miles away.

According to D.J. Pi-sano, West Virginia Uni-versity astrophysics pro-fessor and astronomer, the GBT is the world’s largest fully steerable ra-

dio telescope and is able to see about 85 percent of the sky.

Despite these distinc-tions, the telescope’s exis-tence is in jeopardy due to cutbacks by the National Science Foundation.

Pisano said a review by the NSF concluded the GBT should be removed from the federally funded agency’s research portfo-lio during a period of five

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by jaCob bojessonstaff Writer

Chabad, the Jewish student or-ganization on campus, invited the Morgantown Jewish community to partake in the celebration of Rosh Hashanah Wednesday eve-ning in the Mountain Lair.

Rosh Hashanah is a three-day celebration marking the beginning of the Jewish New Year. In the Jew-ish religion, the holiday is the an-niversary of the creation of the first man and woman, Adam and Eve.

About 50 people of all ages

erIN IrWIN /tHe DAIly AtHeNAeumChaya Gurevitz, 7, lights a candle for the Rosh Hashanah service Wednesday in the Mountainlair.

erIN IrWIN /tHe DAIly AtHeNAeumA group of women say a blessing after each candle is lit during the Rosh Hashanah service Wednesday.

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“One in four women will be sexually assaulted while in col-lege, and one in six men will be assaulted in their lifetime,” said Colleen Harshbarger, di-rector of WELLWVU.

Harshbarger said WELL-aware aims to decrease this number on the WVU campus.

According to Harshbarger, 90 percent of sexual assault cases involve alcohol.

“The program is about personal safety,” she said.

“It’s about defining what consent means, and we tie in drinkWELL, be-cause the two go hand in hand.”

Kevin Lapp, a freshman agribusiness management student, said he found the event to be was interesting and informative.

“You learn different things that you wouldn’t think,” Lapp said. “I learned that one shot is equal to one beer.”

Another resource WELL-WVU offers students is the Circle of 6 app for iPhone and Android.

The app allows the user to pick six close, local friends who they could reach out to in a bad situation. The app also gives the user access to rape and sexual assault hotlines as well as a relationship abuse hotline.

Students can download the app for free or visit www.circleof6app.com, for more information.

For more information about the WELLWVU cam-paign and its programs, visit http://www.well.wvu.edu, or call 304-293-WELL.

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mIck poSey/tHe DAIly AtHeNAeumWELLWVU held a booth for students in the Mountainlair Wednesday to promote safer and healthier alcohol consumption methods.

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In January, the Irish Dance Team was born with about eight regular mem-bers. They are now affili-ated with the WVU dance program and have been able to perform at several concerts and events so far.

“We are very happy to be a team now,” Marushi said.

Irish dancing is a tradi-tional form of dance char-acterized by rapid foot movement.

“It’s not really like what you see on TV,” Marushi said. “It’s about technique and tradition.”

The team’s goal for this year is to get their name out and be able to perform more often.

“We would like to expand

to out in the community,” Baker said.

Baker said she hopes to begin planning smaller per-formances at places like lo-cal pubs and is also con-sidering offering lessons in the community, if there is interest.

Overall, the WVU Irish Dance Team hopes to have fun and educate the com-munity about this lively form of dance.

“One of my favor-ite things is being able to move my feet that fast and being able to make the sounds and beats,” Marushi said.

The team will be holding tryouts today in Elizabeth Moore Hall at 7:30 p.m.

For more information about the WVU Irish Dance Team visit http://idc.stu-dentorgs.wvu.edu.

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years. Numerous efforts have

been launched in an at-tempt to save the tele-scope, and now WVU is throwing its support be-hind the GBT, as well.

The University is invest-ing $1 million over the next two years to the cause. Pi-sano said, in return, the University will be granted access to the telescope for research purposes.

Pisano said the decision by the University is laud-able, as the investment will greatly benefit stu-dents and faculty.

“This investment is great for students, be-cause it guarantees them access to come in and use

the data from this tele-scope in their research,” Pisano said. “The relation-ship built with the GBT in general has really helped grow this program and has made WVU an excellent place for astronomy.”

Pisano said the tele-scope’s importance is more than just its useful-ness to researchers; the GBT plays a much larger role in the community, as well.

“In addition to the ob-vious economic benefits, such as providing well-paying jobs, the observa-tory also hosts the Gover-nor’s School of Math and Science every summer,” he said. “It’s a great expe-rience for a 13-year-old student to get to come in and use the telescopes; it really gets them interested and thinking about the sciences.”

The telescope also has

outreach benefits, and Pi-sano said he has seen its ef-fect on students firsthand.

“I’ve seen multiple West Virginia students come into WVU studying phys-ics or astronomy because of an interest that was sparked, in part, due to ac-tivities at the GBT,” he said.

WVU graduate phys-ics student, Katie Rabi-doux, said she agrees with the University’s de-cision to invest in the GBT.

“The GBT is doing great science; it’s making new discoveries in the field of astronomy, and so for the University to step up and say that this is important is a great thing,” she said. “Personally speaking, my thesis research uses GBT data, and it is important to me to have that data available.”

Both Pisano and Ra-bidoux said the fund-

ing issues the GBT is facing will require long-term solutions which may be difficult to acquire.

“The current bud-get conditions are tight, and traditionally the sci-ences are an easier tar-get for cutbacks, because the effects are seen over the long-term instead of the immediate,” Pisano said.

The loss of the telescope would, without a doubt, have a negative long-term impact on West Virginia and WVU, Pisano said. He said he encourages students to take a look at the information about the GBT.

For more information on the movement to save the GBT visit http://www.savethegbt.org.

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Formal sorority recruitment to begin next weekby LaUra HaIGHT

correspondent

With formal sorority recruitment rapidly ap-proaching, students cam-pus-wide have been spend-ing the past few weeks attending extensive prac-tices to prepare for the week-long event.

West Virginia University has eight National Panhel-lenic sororities, all of which have been preparing since last semester.

Recruitment, which be-gins Sept. 15, can seem in-timidating to anyone who hasn’t gone through it.

Potential new members start the week by visiting each sorority’s house for a tour. At the end of the day, the potential new mem-bers can eliminate two so-rorities through an online process. However, the re-maining rounds are invita-tion-only events.

This mutual selection goes on throughout the week, and the process can be nerve-wracking to po-tential new members.

Jess Holterhoff, Panhel-lenic vice president of re-cruitment coordination, said there’s nothing to fear.

“It’s your game; these

(sorority) girls are trying to impress you, (and) you are the prize,” Holterhoff said. “If you get that sense of confidence, you can sit in that chair and be like ‘You want me to be in this chapter.”

A common stereotype about Greek life is that members are “paying for their friends.” Although there are fees associated with membership, those involved in Greek life say they feel it is much more than dues and mandatory events.

“This is an opportunity to be a part of something

larger than yourself,” Holt-erhoff said.

Meet the Greeks, which will be held today in the Mountainlair from 11 a.m.–1 p.m., offers female students the opportunity to get to know the differ-ent chapters before going through recruitment.

The event will also pro-vide information about each sorority including their philanthropy, social and sisterhood events.

Greek life provides many opportunities for academic enrichment, leadership, philanthropic service and friendship.

Natalie Jones, a junior nursing student and active member of Alpha Xi Delta, said her new member pe-riod after she was offered a bid was the best part of joining her sorority.

“You’re with each other so much, and you finally understand what your so-rority and Greek life (are) all about, rather than just the glimpse you get during recruitment,” Jones said.

Chapters have one week to show what their soror-ity has to offer to poten-tial members and to show them what being a part of their sorority is like.

Sarah Gottshall, a ju-nior international studies student and treasurer of Kappa Kappa Gamma, said she decided to go through formal recruitment her freshman year to meet friends.

“Greek life has been such a positive experience for me,” Gottshall said. “I en-courage all girls to see what a sorority can offer them.”

For more information about WVU Greek life or to sign up for formal sorority recruitment, visit greeklife.wvu.edu.

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participated in the celebra-tion in the Rhododendron room.

“It’s one of our most im-portant holidays, and it starts off the season of adornment,” said Rachel Spero, co-pres-ident of the Chabad. “This is the beginning. We have a brand new clean slate to start with, and from here, we want to start our year on the right track, so we ask for forgive-ness for everything we’ve done.”

The celebration began as women lit the holiday can-dles to usher in the holi-day, followed by a service by Rabbi Zalman Guervitz.

“We do a blessing over the candles, and it’s a way of wel-coming in Shabbat and also

different holidays,” said Sa-bina Aliverdi, co-president of Chabad. “We also do a blessing over the bread and the wine. We have a service and then we eat.”

The dinner tradition-ally features food soaked in honey combined with wine, which in this case was substi-tuted with grape juice.

“We celebrate with lots of honey because we want to commemorate having a sweet new year, having a good year,” Aliverdi said.

Chabad is a worldwide or-ganization that brings Jew-ish students around the world together on college campuses.

There are nearly 1,000 Jewish students enrolled at WVU, and Chabad is a way of meeting people and forming friendships.

“Even though we all go to WVU, we all understand

each other in a different way, so it brings the community together which is important in our religion,” Aliverdi said.

The group plans to find a location close to campus in the near future to serve as a synagogue where services can be held.

“We’re planning to buy a house downtown, which will be a home for Jewish stu-dents, and hopefully by next year we will have a location within 300 steps from the Mountainlair,” Guervitz said.

The Chabad celebrates the Jewish holidays and hosts dinners every Friday to get together, and with no Syna-gogues in Morgantown, ser-vices are held at Rabbi Guer-vitz’s house in South Park.

For more information about Chabad, visit http://jewishwv.org.

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erIN IrWIN /tHe DAIly AtHeNAeumCandles are lit at the Rosh Hashanah ceremony in the Mountainlair Wednesday.

has, in the past, been unstable and quite hec-tic at times,” Knox said. “This is a means of advis-ing the board and helping them be a little more fi-nancially educated.”

During the discussion of the new amendment, a point was raised by Gov. Spenser Wempe that all of the new appointments created by the amend-ment would be chosen by the SGA president, and none of the positions were specifically designated to represent the legislative branch.

“I’d like to see more

legislative representa-tion on the bureau as it does deal with student organization grants as well as dealing with the SGA budget,” Wempe said.

“We all have impor-tant projects, and I want to make sure all those the student body voted into of-fice, which includes gover-nors, receive their share of budget.”

Gov. Chris Nyden, who co-sponsored the amendment, said the measure was good for students.

“The bureau, for the most part, is meant to stand alone from the board of governors,” Nyden said. “We trust in the ex-

ecutive branch’s ability to find the most quali-fied people to fill this new role.”

Nyden and CFO Knox said any concerns of the executive abusing this new responsibility are ul-timately unfounded since the bureau simply serves in an advisory capacity, and the board of governors would retain the final vote on all matters relating to finances.

The second reading and vote for this matter will be held next week.

SGA holds its reg-ular meeting at 7:30 in Hatfields B in the Mountainlair.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 3Thursday September 5, 2013

Local Morgantown bands will fill the stage at 123 Pleasant Street tonight.

Stonewall Jackson 5ive, Ghost House and Tenant are all set to rock the house with their music.

Starting the evening’s jams is Stonewall Jackson 5ive, a rock ‘n’ roll band that includes a few em-ployees of 123 Pleasant Street. Known for their costumed Hal-loween performances, Stonewall Jackson 5ive is a veteran band to 123 and often gets the crowd

excited.Following will be Ghost House,

an upcoming indie rock group. Founded in 2012, Ghost House is comprised of four guys who crank out tunes such as “Still Alive” and “Man on the Moon.”

Debuting tonight is Tenant, a newer band that includes Brian Spragg, a returning musician to the 123 stage.

Jason Pownell, 123 manager and event promoter, said the bands should bring a good turnout.

“Everyone who will be on stage has a lot of experience playing for local Morgantown crowds,” Pow-nell said.

All the bands have their own unique sound and will definitely bring in a large variety of audi-ence, especially with the debut of Tenant, which many 123 patrons have been anticipating.

The show starts at 10 p.m., and cover is $5 for anyone 18 and older.

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Clutch Wing Shop finds success in genuine customers

Mick Posey/THe DAiLy ATHeNAeUMDylan Newman cooks up a customer’s order at Clutch Wings on Beechurst.

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“I get my fashion sense from celebrities or what I see on Tumblr. I like to think my style is a mix between preppy and a Californian vibe. I’m pretty much the gay version of Lauren Conrad,” said fashion and de-sign student Keegan French.

BY NICK WESDOCKA&E WRITER

When Tailpipes owner Evan Tauber and manag-ing partner Joe Reilly were looking for ideas to ex-pand their business, they realized there are very few restaurants in Morgan-town that deliver chicken wings.

“Is there a place you can get wings in town? Yeah, for sure, but most of them are bars, and as far as wing delivery, nobody special-ized in it,” Reilly said.

With the help of the staff at Tailpipes, the pair decided to open Mor-gantown’s newest wing joint, Clutch Wing Shop, along Beechurst Avenue across from the Seneca Center.

Clutch Wing Shop offi-cially opened Aug. 24, af-ter a four-day soft open-ing, but preparations had been in the works for six months.

“We knew it was go-ing to be a challenge, but we have really great peo-ple at Tailpipes so when you have really great peo-ple who work for you, it al-lows you the opportunity to expand and be able to do those things,” Tauber said.

Tauber and Reilly, who both graduated from WVU, hope to build the same re-lationship between Clutch Wing Shop and its cus-tomers that Tailpipes has established with theirs.

“The points of empha-sis that we have are do-ing really good food, having really cool spe-cials and getting the food there quick,” Reilly said.

Both Tauber and Reilly emphasized that the most important aspect of their business is great customer service.

“I believe a lot of places forget that we’re in the service industry,” Tauber said. “We’re here for cus-tomers, and we have to go above and beyond to be able to make sure that any one of their needs are al-ways achieved.”

Clutch Wing Shop boasts a plethora of wing flavors including tradi-tional buffalo-style, BBQ, Old Bay, Tailpipes fry sauce and PB&J.

“There is a cult follow-ing behind our fry sauce, and it was the most or-dered wings right off the bat,” Tauber said.

As for the PB&J wings, Clutch Wing Shop mixes Thai peanut sauce with

jelly to make a sweet and spicy “dessert” wing.

The menu also fea-tures 10 grilled sandwich melts and a number of tater tot flavors such as Bacon Cheese and Mac Daddy, which is a com-bination of tots, mac-n-cheese and Sriracha sauce.

“Our success is directly related to the people that work for us,” Tauber said. “That’s something that, as we expand, will never change. We’re pretty happy with some of the responses we’ve gotten so far.”

“If we’re not getting bet-ter then we’re not being professionals,” Reilly said.

If everything goes well for Clutch Wing Shop,

Tauber and Reilly hope to expand in the future.

“As of right now, we’re obviously focused on what we have in place and trying to make that on the same level of quality we have (at Tailpipes), but we have other concepts and other things that we’ve built along, and if every-thing lines up, if the time is right, we have a cou-ple other things we’d love to introduce to Morgan-town,” Tauber said.

Be sure to follow @Clutchwings on Twit-ter for daily specials and updates and visit https://w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /ClutchWingShop to view the full menu.

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Mick Posey/THe DAiLy ATHeNAeUMDylan Newman, 25, mixes wings with one of many Clutch Wing’s sauces.

Paul and Laura Mesaros Galleries open first exhibit of the year at CAC

worDPress.coMThe Mesaros Galleries attract visitors with their elegant look and feel.

BY CarOl FOxA&E WRITER

As the semester gets ear-nestly underway, the oppor-tunities for repose at West Virginia University are fewer and farther in between.

But a chance for calm and casual reflection, as well as

the opportunity to view some remarkable contemporary artists, will be available at the Creative Arts Center begin-ning today.

An exhibit called “Fathom Out: Arctic Works” will be on display in the Laura Mesa-ros Art gallery at the CAC through Oct. 3.

The exhibit’s opening, which will begin at 5 p.m., will feature a lecture by Beau Carey and Cedra Wood, the showcased artists. The lec-ture will take place in the Bloch Learning and Perfor-mance Hall, room 200A, in the CAC. A reception will fol-low at 6 p.m. in the Mesaros

Galleris. Carey received his Bach-

elor of Fine Arts in 2006 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2010 in painting and draw-ing from the University of New Mexico. Carey was the Redline Denver artist in resi-dence from 2010-12 and did residencies with The Arc-

tic Circle and Denver’s Sus-tainability Park. He has had exhibitions at the Andrew J. Mackey Gallery at the Boul-der Museum of Contempo-rary Art, the Rude Gallery Rocky Mountain College of Art and Designand the Bright Rain Gallery in Albuquerque, N.M.

His artwork largely fea-tures landscapes and exper-iments in color and lines.

Some of Carey’s most in-teresting work considers il-lusions and color manip-ulation caused by natural occurences. For example, his “Fata Morgana” series fo-cuses on mirages that occur directly above the horizon, and his “Fulgurite” series references the natural hollow glass tubes, called fulgurites, that are formed when light-ning strikes certain minerals.

Wood received her BFA from Austin College in 2005, and her MFA with a distinc-tion in painting and drawing from the University of New Mexico in 2010.

Among many other spaces, Wood has exhibited her work at the Ida Green Gallery at Austin College, the 5G Gallery in Albuquer-que, N.M., and Mokah Art Gallery, LIFE in Depp Ellum Cultural Center in Dallas. In addition to residencies at The Eden Project with the Aus-tralian National University Field Studies Program and the Ghost Town Arts Collec-

tion in Denison, Texas, and like Carey, Wood did a resi-dency with The Arctic Circle.

That residency, partici-pated by both in 2012, al-lowed both artists – in ad-dition to about 20 others, including artists, writers, composers and scientists – to travel by ship to the Arctic Circle. They trekked around Norway’s Svalbard archipel-ago, which is located about 10 degrees from the North Pole.

Because both Carey and Wood’s art focuses on land-scapes, they were inspired by the Arctic to paint and cre-ate. And the pieces selected for this exhibit reflect this inspiration.

Wood included pieces consisting of a 200-[age sketchbook and a series of miniatures the size of post-cards. Each of these serve as visual travelogues of her Arc-tic voyage.

Carey’s work includes a se-ries of oil landscapes, “arctic Studies,” which capture the majesty and colors of the Arctic environment.

The Mesaros Galleries are free and open to the pub-lic. They are open noon-9:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday and are closed Sunday and on University holidays.

For more information, contact curator Robert Bridges at 304-293-2312.


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Although it may have been awhile since you’ve had to take a standardized test, the anxiety associated with the SATs is not a feeling one is likely to forget.

In fact, studies have shown specific SAT scores are able to predict how well a student will do in college, with Col-lege Board citing a score of 1550 and above is a good in-dication of success in higher-level education.

While Latin Americans and African Americans, with average scores of 1356 and 1273, respectively, struggle to reach this projected value, it stands to reason certain mi-nority groups are struggling to get past the SAT, much less

graduate from a university.Minorities aren’t the only

ones suffering from less than stellar scores. In 2006, av-erage scores of all test-tak-ers were 1518, while 2012 boasted a flimsy average of 1498. Math, English and writing sections of the SAT all showcased a drop in aver-age scores as well.

The SAT underwent a ma-jor renovation back in 2005 in an effort to appeal to the greater ethnic range found throughout the country. With a Caucasian average decreased by four points and other ethnic groups down about twenty-two points, it’s hard to believe this new and improved SAT is actually new

and improved.With the glaring excep-

tion of Asian Americans – whose average scores have increased wildly by an aver-age of 41 points – it would ap-pear the difference in ethnic scores is primarily based on income.

Studies have mirrored this idea: students from families that make upward of $200,000 have a higher tendency to complete the coursework necessary to even take the SAT, while stu-dents from families making less than $20,000 often com-plete only 65 percent of the classes needed before taking the test.

Why is financial income

even a relevant aspect to how students do on a standard-ized test?

Granted, part of the finan-cial aspect of the SAT is the opportunity for students to take SAT prep classes, which for a Kaplan test prep can cost upwards of $299.

And on an income lower than $20,000, sometimes that’s not feasible.

If SATs are really such an accurate indication of college admission and later success, something should be done about the apparent finan-cial and ethnic drawbacks on students.

While schools do make an effort to enroll their students in classes that teach subjects

that will be on the SAT, there should be more of an in-school effort to rehash these subjects, not expecting stu-dents to take out-of-school courses that some can’t even begin to afford.

The point of standardized testing is to provide an even playing field for all students, regardless of race or financial background. It is supposed to be an indication of what type of schools a prospective university student could at-tend and how well he or she will do at that school, not work against students before they’ve even entered the test-ing site.

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The first exciting day of college football is over, and our beloved Mountaineers pulled out a win against Wil-liam & Mary.

Saturday, we are headed down to Norman, Okla., to tear the wheels off the Soon-er’s wagon and leave with two wins under our belt. Then Sept. 14, we play the Georgia State Panthers here in Morgantown.

How sweet it would be to go undefeated and get to play in the National Champion-ship. I know we aren’t Ala-bama or Ohio State, but a boy can dream.

Unless he’s a fan of a for-gettable school.

After some successful years, we got the option to move out of the Big East to a real football conference and have the ability to try to reach for a National Championship or a meaningful bowl game. That’s all because of the in-flux of great athletes.

Five-star prospects would probably rather go to Michi-gan or Alabama, but we still draw water in the commu-nity that is the NCAA. It’s a vi-cious cycle: to get good play-ers, you must be a good team, but to get a good team, you must have good players.

So how can schools with a bad team get good player?

There is an off chance a 6-foot-6 high school quar-terback with an arm like a Howitzer cannon was con-tacted by a higher power and told to go play for Wil-liam & Mary, but that is un-likely. Usually players who are faster than a speeding

bullet and more powerful than a locomotive go to big-name schools for the team’s athletic prowess and ability to win championships.

If you were the next An-drew Luck or Eddie Lacy, would you go play for the Buffalo Bulls or the Miami Hurricanes? Only one of those teams has the possibil-ity to make it to a meaning-ful bowl game or the National Championship, and it’s not the team located in the win-tery summits of New York.

Imagine how it feels to be a fan of the Buffalo Bulls, Geor-gia State or even William & Mary. They could never do anything of significance, and even if they do make it to some kind of subpar bowl and win, they still won’t be treated with respect around the country.

People who grew up in Ohio or Texas flock to see

their teams compete in Na-tional Championships. I grew up in Monroe, Conn., where we watched the Uni-versity of Connecticut Hus-kies lose game after game, maybe making it to the Papa John’s Bowl or the Fiesta Bowl.

Even if we were to win those, we still wouldn’t win the respect of the NCAA, and players who are exception-ally good athletes would still rather pack their bags and leave their home in Monroe or Bridgeport and head to University of Florida, which plays in the South Eastern Conference, a conference of respect and tradition.

A hierarchy reigns in the NCAA of popularity; no-body will give the Western Kentucky Hill Toppers any thought when they can drool over the flashy uniforms of Oregon or the dynasty that

holds supreme in Alabama. This results in zero popu-

larity, which results in lesser quality athletes, which re-sults in a bad team, which results in zero popularity – a damn roundabout of failure.

Nothing can fix the in-justice college football does to fans. Even if their subpar team goes undefeated, they still won’t attract big names or go to the National Cham-pionship, and the team knows this, which has got to take the wind out from under their sails.

The worst part is that noth-ing can be done about it; you can’t make kids go to cer-tain colleges. It’s all just a big mess, which is why the NFL reigns as the best outlet for football-related entertain-ment. It’s fun, it’s fair, and it’s all around more entertaining.

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Tuesday the Obama administration met with Congress to give a brief-ing of the administra-tions case against the Syrian government. It is still unclear on whether or not the administra-tion will win congres-sional support. Accord-ing to CNN, this meeting comes after President Obama announced Sat-urday that he wants the United States to take lim-ited action against Syr-ia’s government, which Washington says has used chemical weapons on its own civilians.

As of now, many sen-ators are still undecided on the issue and ex-pressed concern with the broad terms used in the briefing. CNN states, Re-publican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, told re-porters the biggest con-cern among members was “a very broad re-quest for authority with a supposedly very nar-row intent.” In addition, Democratic Rep. John Carney of Delaware com-mented, “There’s a lot to think about,” and further stated that the decision is weighing heavily on many of his colleagues.

CNN reporters Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh,

Ted Barrett and Ashley Killough stated that, if a vote were taken today, it would likely not pass, which is why the presi-dent is not calling Con-gress back early from its recess. The White House needs time to present its case and lobby law-makers, and top admin-istration officials are set to meet with members of Congress this week in addition to Sunday’s briefing.

Overall from the re-ports, it is clear that the vote is still very much up in the air and many Con-gressmen want to be ex-tra cautious before mak-ing any decisions. Rep Hahn of California stated that, “ Members of Con-gress that came back here today are taking this very seriously, are very con-cerned and asking a lot of hard questions, probably some questions that were not asked 10 years ago.”

The past memories of the Iraq War seem to be weighing on the lawmakers decisions. There is also the fact that the British Parlia-ment strongly voted against a Syria strike. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Con-necticut said, “The UK has always been at our side when we’ve under-taken these things, and this time, they’re not, so there’s a lot of questions about that.”

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thedailybruin.comWinners of the 2009-10 Campus MovieFest at UCLA react to their victory’s announcement.

BY SHAWNEE MORANA&E WRITER

Campus MovieFest, which is the world’s largest student film festival, is coming to West Virginia University for the first time Tuesday.

Sponsored by WVUp All Night, this festival provides students the opportunity to make a five-minute film and offers all the equipment they will need to complete the process.

In addition to gaining film-making experience and see-ing projects come to life, top filmmakers will also have the chance to win great prizes, in-cluding more than $30,000 in cash, professional gigs, gear, grants and industry exposure.

And the best part about Campus MovieFest? It’s ab-solutely free for students.

This film festival has grown

since its start by four students at Emory University in 2001; Campus MovieFest has now reached more than 500,000 students and has given them an outlet to create and tell their stories through film.

Sonja Wilson, the senior programming administrator at WVU, couldn’t be more ex-cited for Campus MovieFest to come to Up All Night.

“I am thrilled to be able to bring the world’s largest stu-dent film festival to West Vir-ginia University,” Wilson said. “Our students will get first-class video equipment to use, will have excellent direction from the Campus MovieF-est staff and will be afforded the chance of a lifetime to ad-vance to Hollywood for their amateur filmmaking skills.

“This will be our signa-ture WVUp All Night event this year, and I hope that all

students will consider par-ticipating in this awesome opportunity.”

Campus MovieFest will provide participants with technical support and train-ing, a microphone and tripod, Adobe CS6 editing software, an Apple Macbook Pro and a Panasonic HD camera. The laptops provided to participat-ing students will be preloaded with Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes Premiere, Il-lustrator, After Effects, Photo-shop and more.

However, students shouldn’t worry if they don’t have previous experience with the software. Nishant Gogna, the promotions manager for Campus MovieFest, said stu-dents of all majors and back-grounds are encouraged to participate.

“Campus MovieFest is free and open to all WVU students,

regardless of major. If you’re a science major, if you’re a phys-ics major or even an English major, this is for you,” Gogna said. “In fact, 50 percent of people who sign up actu-ally have no film experience whatsoever.

“(Students) get involved, and it opens up a new world for them. It’s free, so why wouldn’t you give it a shot?”

The event will be launched Tuesday in the Vandalia Lounge in the Mountainlair noon-5 p.m. Students will need to provide two forms of ID in order to sign up and participate.

“Students can either come with their team or just the team captain (can come) to pick up their equipment. And from there, they’ll have seven days to make a movie that’s five minutes or less on the topic of their choosing,”

Gogna said. “It could be hor-ror, comedy, drama, sci-fi, a commercial or even a music video. There are no prompts or themes.”

Past submissions are posted on their website to provide examples and inspi-ration. From a comedy about hipsters to a drama about a serial killer, the options are endless.

The movies will be turned in Sept. 16, screened and judged by a select group of students, faculty and staff at the University. The top 16 films will be chosen and showcased in the Gluck The-atre for WVU’s Red Carpet Fi-nale Sept. 20 at 8 p.m.

“It’s going to be a red carpet event,” Gogna said. “There’s going to be a 20-minute award ceremony where we award the best films, including the best picture, best comedy and

best drama.”The top films will move on

to the national event in Los Angeles in June 2014. Dur-ing 2012’s tour, 200 films ad-vanced to Hollywood. Young filmmakers have attended filmmaking panels, work-shops and even had their films screened at Universal and Fox Studios.

“I think students here are really going to enjoy this,” Gogna said. “Our staff is ex-cited to see what WVU stu-dents can bring to the table.

From what I’ve noticed, this school has a lot of brimming talent, and we’re very excited to see what happens.”

For more information about Campus MovieFest, to sign up and view previous winners’ movies, visit www.campusmoviefest.com.


Ballroom dancing instructor to lead session at WVUp All NightBY STEPHANIE MESSENGER

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WVUp All Night is back in full swing for the 2013 fall semester, and there are new activities for stu-dents to mark down in their calendars.

Sept. 13 dance instructor William Duff Jr. will be of-fering a free ballroom dance class during Up All Night to any students willing to learn.

“I want to give students another alternative to the

downtown night life,” Duff said.

He said he also believes dancing helps develop so-cial skills and create better attitudes. Regardless of the participant’s background, dance seems to shine some light on any situation.

Duff said though a will to work hard is the key to learn-ing, dance is much more than just a movement of the body.

“Dance is a gift from the universe that allows us to

be happy while moving our body and at the same time, creating health, happiness and spiritual blessings,” he said.

Duff found his love for dancing again after a tem-porary phase of what he calls being a “couch po-tato” in 1991, until a friend of his convinced him to dance again. He said dance seemed to change his world, and he only hopes to bring back the popularity it once held.

And Duff actively works to do just that; he teaches ball-room dance to 5th-, 8th- and 12th-grade participating dancing classroom schools that have taken a part of the arts-in-education program.

Born and raised in Mor-gantown, Duff is well-es-tablished locally. He taught multiple styles of dance for the past 13 years and has performed both nationally and internationally, landing first place in regionals in Bir-mingham, Ala., and finish-

ing fourth overall in the 1999 World Championship in San Antonio, Texas.

Duff has also performed at WVU’s Creative Arts Cen-ter and is a certified teaching artist for dancing classrooms through the American Ball-room Theater.

There are many places in the area that offer dance classes, including the WVU Lifetime Activities Program, and Duff ’s dance classes, which he teaches every Sunday at the Dance Cor-

ner in Westover. He also of-fers dances twice a month at BOPARC, the next being at Wiles Hill Saturday.

Duff will be demonstrat-ing from 9-11 p.m., which will be followed by the WVU Swing Dance Club from 11 p.m.-1 a.m.

For more informa-tion about Duff and future events, visit his website at www.duffy727.wix.com/html_duffys-dance.


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PLAYING UNDERDOG

ERIN IRWIN/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMJunior quarterback Paul Millard hands off to junior running back Dreamius Smith in West Virginia’s victory against William & Mary Saturday. Millard and the Mountaineers will look to beat heavily favored Oklahoma in Norman this weekend.

Quarterback Paul Millard and West Virginia comfortable as underdogs against No. 16 Oklahomaby connor murrayassociate sports editor

It’s no secret. After barely escaping with a 24-17 win at home against an FCS team in William & Mary, West Vir-ginia will be a heavy under-dog when it travels to Nor-man, Okla., to take on No. 16 Oklahoma Saturday night.

Despite not playing up to expectations in Week 1, the Mountaineers seem to be embracing the underdog role as they head into their first Big 12 Conference game of the 2013 season.

“Our kids are excited for the opportunity to go into that type of environment. As far as nerves (go), I think

the nerves are done. They (the players) know it’s go-ing to be a huge challenge, but they’re looking forward to it,” said defensive coordi-nator Keith Patterson.

Gaylord Family Okla-homa Memorial Stadium holds 82,000 fans and cre-ates an environment that has become notorious across the conference and nation.

“I know it (OU’s stadium) gets pretty rowdy. It’ll be loud, but we’re excited. I love challenges,” said junior quarterback Paul Millard.

“They have a great team. We’re going to get prepared this week, and it’s going to be a lot of fun, because a lot

of people don’t believe in us, and we just want to go out there and prove people wrong.”

Senior defensive lineman Shaq Rowell was on the field in 2012 when Oklahoma pulled out a 50-49 victory on its last drive of the game. Al-though he has never played at Oklahoma in his college career, Rowell appears to be confident heading into the game.

“We’re expecting a hostile environment. We’re looking forward to the challenge. They (OU fans) are going to be on our backs, and I’m looking forward to it,” Row-ell said.

“There is no better uni-

versity that we’re going to face this year than Okla-homa. Nobody is counting on us to win. We’re 21 point (underdogs).

There’s nothing like hav-ing all that on your back, and I’m ready. I like every-one saying that we’re going to lose; it’s just fuel to the fire to me.”

Senior safety Darwin Cook had a similar re-sponse to Rowell’s when asked about how many people gave West Virginia a chance to pull off an upset this weekend.

“My momma’s giving me a chance. That’s all that mat-ters, right?” Cook said.

Unlike the enthusiastic

fans at Mountaineer Field, very few people in Norman will be pulling for West Vir-ginia Saturday. As a result, the Mountaineer players will have to act as their own fan base, pulling for each other from the sidelines and on the field.

“It’s fun to see our team come together on the road like that when everyone is against us. We just have to play with great effort,” said offensive lineman Pat Eger. “If we play with great effort for four quarters, it’s going to put us in a situation to win the game.”

Leading 49-44 with 27 sec-onds left, West Virginia had a chance to spring the upset

on No. 12 Oklahoma in 2012. On fourth-and-three from the five-yard line, wide re-ceiver Kenny Stills beat cor-nerback Ishmael Banks on a slant route for the game-winning touchdown.

Now a redshirt junior, Banks is ready to make up for that play Saturday and help West Virginia finish the job this time.

“How else would you want it? On the road, at Okla-homa; it’s big time. That’s what you dream about as a kid,” Banks said. “You can’t be scared. They (Oklahoma) put their pants on one leg at a time just like we do.”

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Blosser to face old rivals in Duke, UNC

FILE PHOTOSenior Kara Blosser, who transferred from NC State, will face old rivals Duke and UNC this weekend.

by joe mitchinsports writer

Kara Blosser said she can remember soccer ev-ery second of her days at North Carolina State. Play-ing in the ACC, one of the most dominant women’s soccer conferences in the country, was a special ex-perience for her.

This weekend, Blosser and the rest of the West Virginia women’s soccer team will step inside the league to face two of the ACC’s best: No. 12 Duke and No. 1 North Carolina.

WVU will face both soc-cer powers at the Duke Nike Classic in Durham, N.C., in one of the biggest weekends in the rich his-tory of the program. The 3-0-1 Mountaineers en-ter the tournament ranked No. 9 nationally and will rely on one player who has seen this brand of soccer before.

“It seems like just yes-terday to me,” Blosser said. “Every girl dreams of going to UNC when they are younger. When I played UNC for the first time, it was an amaz-ing experience. Playing Duke was also an amazing experience.”

Blosser played at NC State for the first two years of her collegiate career be-fore transferring to West Virginia in 2011. She was a two-year starter for the Wolfpack, earning ACC All-Freshman Team hon-ors in 2009. Blosser scored nine goals as a freshman and three more the next season. All in all, she ap-peared in 37 matches at NC State, starting 35 of them.

Blosser redshirted dur-ing her first year on cam-pus in Morgantown in 2011 and began her play-

ing career last season. She was a part of the Big 12 All-Newcomer Team after starting 18 games for the Mountaineers. Her trans-fer is best put by WVU head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown, who once described the reason for Blosser coming to West Virginia as “just wanting to win.”

Perhaps what is most impressive about Bloss-er’s college career is off the pitch and in the class-room. The midfielder and forensic science student has been named to both the ACC and Big 12 All-Academic team in her ca-reer and is a main fixture on the President’s List each semester.

T h e S p o t s y l v a n i a County, Va., native is so familiar with the team’s two opponents this week-end that the coaching staff asked her to create her own scouting report of Duke and North Carolina because of how well she knows the players from her past.

“It’s strange, you go on an away trip, and it’s just 10 minutes down the road,” Blosser said as she recalled traveling to the schools while at NC State. “We’re huge rivals down there, and it was an amazing at-mosphere in the ACC.”

Blosser said that the current NC State wom-en’s soccer team will be in attendance Friday night for West Virginia’s match against Duke. In fact, for-mer NC State head coach Steve Springthorpe is now an assistant for the Blue Devils. She said she is excited to see some old friends and teammates af-ter attempting to defeat a top-15 school earlier in the evening.

West Virginia will be

joined by UCLA, another top-5 team, this weekend in North Carolina. All four teams at the Duke Nike Classic are firmly sitting inside the top 25, giving the event a College Cup-type feel.

“It definitely feels like that,” Blosser said. “It’s going to be an amazing atmosphere.”

The Mountaineers take on No. 12 Duke Friday night at 6 p.m. before bat-tling the defending na-tional champion Tar Heels Sunday at 11 a.m.

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QuEsTIONaBLE CaLLsWhich of the three quarterbacks will have the best overall season?

by amit batrasports editor

Statistically, Paul Millard will have the best overall season.

Against William & Mary, Millard converted about 80 percent of his passes. De-spite the fumble and a near pick-6, the junior showed poise and was able to con-trol the pace of the game.

Throughout the game, Millard was able to use his fast pace to make the Tribe uneasy. Millard will have a big test on Saturday against OU.

While he hasn’t played a team of this caliber, he has drastically improved since last year when he threw the long bomb to Stedman Bai-ley against Oklahoma State.

A successful outing against the Sooners could do wonders for Millard and his confidence going into the rest of the Big 12 Con-ference slate.

While redshirt junior Clint Trickett and redshirt freshman Ford Childress could be given their op-portunity at some point this season, Millard seems to be in the driver’s seat after the victory over the Tribe.

At this point in the sea-son, it’s difficult to tell if Trickett will receive reps in more games, but Millard seems to be the most con-sistent in Holgorsen’s style of offense. After all, he has the most experience of the three guys.

Millard has the oppor-tunity to cement himself as the starter Saturday at Oklahoma.

by CONNOr mUrrayAssoCiAte sports editor

With the most experi-ence in head coach Dana Holgorsen’s system, ju-nior quarterback Paul Mil-lard appears to be the best option moving forward for West Virginia.

Millard showcased his familiarity and comfort level in the offense against William & Mary, going 19-25 for 237 yards and a touchdown.

Other than the one fum-ble he lost while taking a sack, Millard kept mistakes to a minimum, something that will be critical for the Mountaineer signal caller if he wants to be named the outright starter.

While Clint Trickett only got two drives to prove himself against William & Mary, he appeared to be somewhat uncomfort-able with the snaps he did take. Trickett is new to this system and would better serve in a backup role this season.

Millard’s style of play is well suited to the areas of strength on West Virginia’s offense this season. With the depth at running back, West Virginia’s coaching staff could decide to move away from the typical air raid offense Holgorsen usually runs.

After the win over Wil-liam & Mary, Holgorsen praised Millard’s ability to “manage the game”.

He is the type of quarter-back who can do enough to keep the offense on sched-ule without taking risks.

by GrEG maDiaMULtiMediA editor

In his first start, Paul Mil-lard looked like a quarter-back capable of leading West Virginia. On the field and in the stat sheet, Mil-lard showed he can do what it takes to win games.

He completed 76 percent of his passes while throw-ing for 237 yards and a touchdown.

On his first ever-drive, Millard was four of four for 40 yards leading an efficient scoring drive. His single best play came late in the third quarter when he found Ron-ald Carswell on a 69-yard play action touchdown pass.

Millard proved he has the arm. He can complete most throws and understands head coach Dana Holgors-en’s offense the best of the three quarterbacks.

More importantly, Millard has teammates who want to play for him and want him to succeed because of the leadership that he has shown throughout his career.

“One thing I’ve tried to do ever since I got here, even when I wasn’t getting a lot of snaps was just being a pos-itive guy,” Millard said. “I want to encourage the guys, I just want them to go out there and be positive, if we’re having fun, we’re going to play better. That’s one thing I’ve kept in mind throughout this time.”

Until Clint Trickett catches up by learning the offense, there really is no way that Trickett or Ford Childress see the field enough to war-rant Millard’s not to playing.

by KEViN HOOKErsports Writer

At this point, it’s assumed Paul Millard will take the ma-jority of the snaps again this Saturday and for many Sat-urdays to come.

While it wasn’t always pretty, Millard went 19-for-25 with 237 yards and a touchdown. He was under center for 65 snaps; perhaps implying that the quarter-back competition with Clint Trickett isn’t as competitive as originally thought. Trickett struggled in Saturday’s vic-tory, leading the offense to back-to-back three and outs in the two series’ he played.

While Trickett will likely see more action this Satur-day, the Mountaineers will need the quarterback who feels more comfortable be-hind center.

Facing No. 16 Oklahoma will be no easy task and the Mountaineers must limit their mistakes on offense. Holgorsen even admitted that Millard knows the of-fense best, considering this is his third year with the team.

“Clint has more game ex-perience, but without the game experience in our of-fense,” he said. “Paul has the experience with our signals and communicating it to the players.”

It’s obvious the Mountain-eer offense won’t be nearly as explosive as it was a year ago. With only 24 points to show against FCS team Wil-liam & Mary, it shows how unproven the quarterback situation is, and how inexpe-rienced these new wide re-ceivers are.

by DOUG walpsports Writer

West Virginia’s most ef-fective quarterback in 2013 will be Paul Milllard, and the junior showed why in the Mountaineers’ season opener Saturday.

Millard showed presence in the pocket, and an abil-ity to control West Virginia’s offense, and perhaps even more importantly, its tempo. This was evident from the very first drive, as Millard commanded the offense down field and into the end-zone after just eight plays and two minutes and 24 seconds.

West Virginia’s offense had some lapses, but most of the problems were because of breaking Millard’s rhythm and putting another quar-terback in the game.

The junior recovered and led a second half comeback that prevented a loss that could have put a damper on the rest of WVU’s season.

Millard is also the most knowledgeable quarterback of the three within Dana Hol-gorsen’s notorious Air Raid offensive system. He spent two years backing up the most prolific passing quar-terback in school history and although he technically had a little less game experi-ence than FSU transfer Clint Trickett, Millard was the only quarterback on the roster who has actually taken a snap in a game as a Mountaineer.

Ultimately, it’s this famil-iarity that will make him West Virginia’s most productive signal caller in the school’s second-ever Big 12 Confer-ence campaign.

by jOE mitCHiNsports Writer

The quarterback who will shine the brightest for West Virginia this season has to be Paul Millard.

There are just too many question marks with both Clint Trickett and Ford Chil-dress. Millard played all but two series in WVU’s sea-son opener against William & Mary. Trickett played the other and the team went three-and-out on both drives.

Millard has been in Dana Holgorsen’s system for three years now and was the first re-cruit he brought to Morgan-town in 2010 when he came from Oklahoma State.

Last Saturday certainly wasn’t pretty, but Millard stayed out of trouble and min-imized mistakes. Other than a lost fumble, Millard conceded no other turnovers.

The fact Trickett played just six snaps is definitely con-cerning as to the amount of playing time he’ll see this sea-son; some expected both Mil-lard and Trickett to play the same amount. Clearly, that did not happen. For Childress, he looks to begin another year on the sideline for the Moun-taineers and may not see the field in the 2013 season. If Millard and Trickett were the two that stood out in summer camp, how far away was Chil-dress in the discussion?

Saturday night in Okla-homa is likely Trickett’s last opportunity to show the West Virginia coaching staff that he transferred from Florida State to become the starter. Millard is the man for the Mountain-eer offense.

bruce, mountaineer defense look to contain Knight Saturdayby GrEG maDiaMULtiMediA editor

In his college debut against Louisiana-Mon-roe Saturday, redshirt freshman Trevor Knight became the first Okla-homa quarterback to rush for more than 100 yards since Jason White in 2001.

Knight isn’t the typi-cal Oklahoma field gen-eral who sits back in the pocket and slings the ball all over the field.

Knight isn’t Sam Brad-ford nor Landry Jones. He is actually more comfort-able outside the pocket.

That enables Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops to run some read option, or

for Knight to just elude pressure or extend a play by escaping the pocket.

In order to contain Knight, West Virginia’s defense must play assign-ment-based football. This week, it is more important than ever for each defen-sive player to do his own job.

For SPUR linebacker Isaiah Bruce, he under-stands what Knight’s skills entail for his assign-ment against Oklahoma.

Bruce, who switched over from middle line-backer to SPUR, is in un-familiar territory, as he has to stay in his position defensively while lurking for Knight to keep the ball

or give it to his running back on read option.

“It is tough, because I like to react fast. This will slow me down just a lit-tle bit, but it goes back to everyone doing their job,” Bruce said.

“I can’t try to do too much. If my job is to get the quarterback, and they’re running (the) op-tion, my job is to get the quarterback.”

Knight is surrounded by a slew of talented backs in Damien Wil-liams, Brennan Clay and Roy Finch, which means Bruce cannot make a de-cision on who to tackle until Knight has made a decision with the football.

Bruce has to process this mentally in a matter of milliseconds, other-wise Knight or one of his backs will be racing up the field.

“It definitely opens the door for a lot of things and makes us play more (soundly),” Bruce said. “There are so many op-tions he (Knight) can take, and since he is a dual-threat quarterback, we have to play sound football and do our jobs.”

Defending the read op-tion is clearly not easy to do, but it is even more dif-ficult for Bruce, who is still in the process of adjusting to his new position.

Bruce played a little bit

of outside linebacker in his freshman and sopho-more year of high school, but moved inside dur-ing his junior year and had never been moved until WVU had him move outside during the preseason.

Bruce, West Virgin-ia’s second leading tack-ler in 2012, said he feels one of the biggest chal-lenges he’s faced thus far in his collegiate career is between the position change and having to de-fend Knight.

“It’s probably not the toughest thing I’ve had to do in college. It’s proba-bly up there, but because it’s definitely new to me,

I just have to slow down and once again just do my part,” he said.

Aside from the desig-nated read-option, Knight has an impromptu run ability West Virginia has to worry about.

“If he doesn’t have a re-ceiver open, he’s going to run it,” Bruce said.

“For us to stop it we have to key him, put eyes on receivers running routes then key back on him.”

Bruce and WVU will try to tame Knight Satur-day evening at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m.

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by meghan carrsports writer

Senior goalkeeper Sara Keane is returning for her second season as a starter for the West Virginia Uni-versity women’s soccer team.

Keane is a second-gen-eration soccer player. Her father Mike Keane played collegiate soccer for Wil-kes University.

“To be honest, I’m not entirely sure how much soccer he actually played,” Keane said. “I don’t know how much he really left the bench.”

Keane also has a younger brother who plays collegiate soccer; Ben Ke-ane is a defender for Uni-versity of Cincinnati.

Keane has 18 saves so far this season and holds an 85.7 save percentage. Sara’s career total saves is currently standing at 182, which places her in fifth place for career saves.

However, she will most likely move into the No. 4

spot after this season.Keane picked up the

slack early this season, while her younger defen-sive players acclimated to their positions and learned to play together. Early defensive position-ing errors made Keane step up and be ready for more offense then she was used to facing, but she said she has more con-fidence in her defensive line now.

“I’ve seen a lot of im-provement from them, since preseason and our opening weekend. I think we are all getting better each weekend, and that’s what you want to see.”

Keane will need every-one on their game this weekend, as they face the No. 1 and 2012 national champion University of North Carolina.

Keane and WVU will travel down to North Car-olina for the Duke Nike Classic and will be look-ing to remain undefeated after the challenging

weekend.Although both teams

will be tough this week-end, Keane said she em-braces the challenge of playing top-tier teams. Many people would crum-ble under the pressure of playing goalkeeper. Soc-cer is a team sport, but the goalkeeper does hold the game in her hands.

“I do get a little ner-vous because I know how good these teams are, es-pecially from an offen-sive standpoint, but at the same time, I know what my team can accomplish and what we have accom-plished,” Keane said.

Both Duke and UNC are very good offensive teams, and UNC showed it when it outshot VCU 30-4 and went on to win 4-0.

Keane is used to receiv-ing recognition for her ability to defend her net.

She was named the 2012 Most Valuable Player by her team for playing every minute of the 2012 season – 1,905 to be exact.

She is the only Mountain-eer to have accomplished that feat in the 2012 sea-son.

In 2012 Keane tied No. 6 Lana Bannerman for most saves in a single season, at 84. She is also ranked No. 8 for her 2011 season when she netted 80 saves.

Keane has started for the Mountaineers the past two seasons. She was medically redshirted her freshman year and then redshirted her sopho-more year.

Keane will have to be prepared to face the best this weekend when she sees 2012 consensus Na-tional Player of the Year and UNC forward Crystal Dunn on the field.

“Knowing we beat Stanford last year defi-nitely gives us confidence going into this weekend. I think it puts in the back of our minds that we are capable of pulling off the upset,” Keane said.

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cross country

file photoSenior goalkeeper Sara Keane will look to have a strong season for the No. 9 WVU women’s soccer team.

cleary, no. 29 cross country look to find success by jon fehrens

sports writer

West Virginia University head coach Sean Cleary has essentially built the cross country program from the ground up.

Cleary, an Ontario, Can-ada, native, first accepted the coaching position at WVU in 2007 and quickly went to work. In his first year as head coach, Cleary led his team to the first-ever Big East Champion-ship in school history. Along with his champi-onship, he coached a re-cord three All-Big East performers and brought

the cross country program back into the national rankings for the first time since 2004.

Five years later Cleary has yet to slow down, de-spite losing the team’s best runner last year, Kaitlyn Gillespie. Cleary still man-aged to send All-American Sarah-Anne Brault to the NCAA championships.

During his seven-year tenure at the helm of WVU cross country, Cleary has learned coaching tech-niques that produce re-sults for a more personal-ized sport.

“Coaching long-dis-tance runners might ap-

pear to be an easy task if you do not understand the complexity of our sport; reality shows that it’s a tough balance be-tween individual and team goals,” Cleary said. “Some distance coaches choose to line up a team and coach it as one.

“My feeling is that hav-ing five running well is not a success; my goal is to see the entire group ex-cel, and thus comes the individual plan.”

Setting goals for a coach is seemingly easier for a team sport such as bas-ketball or football. All the players can relate to the

goal and work together to achieve it. Establish-ing a team atmosphere in a sport where the ath-lete can’t rely on anyone beside themselves can be prove to be a challenge.

Talk to any of Cleary’s athletes, and they will say they feel a strong bond among the team. He finds success in bringing the girls together by keeping things light as the season carries on.

“Developing a level of respect for each and ev-ery athlete in the pro-gram is essential. If they understand the overall in-dividual and team goals,

it makes it much easier to embrace the system,” Cleary said. “Bottom line, we train in themes.

“We blare music, wear high school uniforms and have color nights. We do what is required to keep things loose.”

Keeping loose will be important as this season carries on. This year’s cross country team is al-ready slated to finish No. 5 in the Mid-Atlantic Re-gion and ranked No. 29 in the National Coaches poll.

Expectations are high for this year’s team and Cleary has gone on re-cord to say this team is

the deepest he has ever had. With all the added depth and the return of All-American Gillespie, the cross country team is poised to make a run at another great season.

“We take great pride in running for the state of West Virginia. Represent-ing WVU is at the forefront of their minds,” Cleary said.

Cleary and the cross country team will con-tinue to represent the Gold & Blue at the Spiked Shoe Invitational at State College on Sept. 13.

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Geno Smith is the new face of the franchise for the New York Jets.

Well, at least for the opening game of the season.

Beyond that, we’ll see.The rookie quarterback

will start in the opener at home Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The team finally confirmed Wednesday what had been expected since Mark San-chez injured his right shoulder in a preseason game against the Giants on Aug. 24.

“They’ll try to rattle my cage,” Smith said about the Buccaneers. “I expect those guys to come out fired up and they want to

make a statement. They’ve got a rookie quarterback and they’ll want to hit me and get me off my game, but I expect those things. And I look forward to it.”

But, will Greg Schiano’s defense be able to unnerve him?

“No,” Smith said with a confident smile.

Smith, who had an up-

and-down preseason, was the team’s second-round draft pick out of West Vir-ginia after he was pro-jected by many to be se-lected early in the opening round. After Smith threw three interceptions and took a safety in three-plus quarters against the Giants, it was widely as-sumed Sanchez had won

the job. But Rex Ryan chose to put Sanchez in the game in the fourth quarter – and he suffered the injury that could side-line him several weeks.

“We realize that a rookie quarterback and all that, that’s certainly a chal-lenge,” Ryan said. “I think our guys are ready to rally behind Geno, and the big thing we’ve told Geno is, ‘You just have to be part of the solution.”

Despite announcing Smith as the starter for this week, Ryan wouldn’t commit to him as the long-term guy under center. It was an approach that was echoed by owner Woody Johnson and general man-ager John Idzik.

“We’ll always put the best player we can on the field on Sunday, and that will continue,” Johnson said. “The competition’s ongoing.”

With Smith stepping into the starter’s role, it makes Sanchez’s status with the team unclear. Ryan has still never de-clared a winner to the com-petition – and he might not ever do so. If Smith can be solid during Sanchez’s ab-sence, he could make it hard for Ryan to pull him.

And, by never saying whether Smith or San-chez had won the job, Ryan would never tech-nically have benched the anointed starter.

While many look at the move as the team moving forward with a new quar-terback, Idzik was asked if, when healthy, Sanchez has a chance to be the starter again.

“Yes, of course he does,” Idzik said.

The Jets also have the in-experienced Matt Simms, who had a terrific pre-season, and recently signed journeyman Brady Quinn. But with Sanchez

not ready to play Sunday, the choice for Ryan, Idzik and offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg was easy for this week.

“We’ll go through some ups and downs, I guaran-tee you that,” Mornhinweg told the team’s website. “Knowing Geno, hope-fully there will be more ups than there are downs.”

Smith was off to a great start in training camp, go-ing several practices with-out throwing an intercep-tion and outperforming Sanchez on some days. But Smith sprained his right ankle in the third quarter of the Jets’ pre-season opener at Detroit and didn’t play in the sec-ond game against Jackson-ville because of the injury.

He started against the Giants, with the general thought being he could potentially secure the starting job with a solid performance.

Instead, Smith showed his inexperience during a miserable performance –hurt in part by his ailing ankle – that appeared to tip the tightly contested competition in Sanchez’s favor.

“I don’t think I’ve been rushed,” said Smith, who took 69 snaps in preseason games. “They wouldn’t put me out there if they didn’t think I was ready.”

But the quarterback sit-uation changed when San-chez took a crunching hit to the shoulder from the Giants’ Marvin Austin.

“We all regret that Mark got hurt, and obviously that’s unfortunate,” Ryan said. “It’s unfortunate that it happened, but these things do happen and we’ve moved on.”

The Jets have said only that Sanchez – the starter since his rookie season in 2009 – was day to day with simply a “shoulder injury.”

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