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UPD releases annual Clery ReportBy Carlee lammers

City editor

The West Virginia Univer-sity Police Department re-cently released its annual Clery Report, the campus security and fire safety re-port for 2011.

This report includes WVU Campus Crime Statistics for the last three years and fire safety statistics. Information about WVU policies related to campus security, alcohol

and drug use, crime preven-tion, reporting of sexual as-sault, fire safety and other information are included in the report.

The Clery Act requires all colleges and universi-ties that participate in fed-eral financial aid programs to keep and disclose in-formation about crime on and near their respective campuses.

Named after 19-year-old Jeanne Clery, a freshman

student at Leigh University who was raped and mur-dered in her residence hall – the Clery Act was put in ef-fect in 1998 as an adaptation to the federal 1990 Campus Crime Awareness Act.

“We’re required to re-port felony, murder, forc-ible and nonforcible sexual assault – nonforcible mean-ing incest or sexual assault – robberies, aggravated as-sault, arson and motor ve-hicle theft,” said UPD Chief

Bob Roberts. Roberts said University

police felt it was important to also add destruction of property, simple assault and theft to its list, as he be-lieves those are some of the most prevalent issues on campus.

“We added those be-cause they are the three most prevalent on our cam-pus. We believe the student body should know what those statistics are,” he said.

Since 2006, the number of on-campus liquor law offenses and arrests have been on the rise, according to the report.

From 2010-11, the num-ber of liquor law offences rose from 366 in 2010 to 493 in 2011.

The number of liquor law violations that resulted in an arrest went from 529 in 2010 to 640 in 2011.

According to the report, the number of drug, liquor

and weapons crime of-fenses has risen from 1.263 percent in 2006, to 1.945 percent of the WVU popu-lation in 2011.

While the number of al-cohol related infractions has been on the rise over the past few years, Roberts said there are many fac-tors that play into the sta-tistics, which can be easily overlooked.

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University to screen film on future of energyBy shelBy Toompas

Staff writer

West Virginia Universi-ty’s Office of Sustainabil-ity is offering students, faculty, alumni and com-munity members an invi-tation today to watch a free screening of a new docu-mentary looking at the fu-ture of energy.

The WVU Office of Sus-tainability, along with the Division of Resource Man-agement, National Re-search Center for Coal and Energy and the Regional Research Institute, will in-troduce a documentary they have been developing since June.

T h e d o c u m e n t a r y “Switch” by Arcos Films has not yet been released. Viewers will have the first look at the film, which ex-plores the future pathway of energy in and around the globe.

Wesley Burnett, Assistant Professor in the Division of Resource Management of WVU’s Davis College, said the film’s producer and nar-rator, Scott Tinker, is the di-rector of the Bureau of Eco-nomic Geology and the state geologist of Texas.

In this film, Tinker goes on a global adventure to find what the future of en-ergy really holds, Burnett said.

“According to the pro-ducer’s press kit, Tinker and director Harry Lynch seek the world’s leading en-ergy sites from coal to so-lar, oil to biofuels and many highly restricted, never-be-fore-seen footage,” Burnett said. “Also, the film visits 11 countries, 26 world-leading energy sites, and Tinker in-terviewed approximately 53 experts.”

The film is a part of the Switch Energy Project, a diverse effort primarily de-signed to educate students and the public on how to develop a balanced, na-tion-wide understanding of energy.

“The film is a fairly bal-

anced and unbiased as-sessment about the future of energy,” Burnett said. “Most energy documen-tary films, such as ‘Gas-lands’, have a specific po-litical agenda or slant ; however, ‘Switch’ has no such agenda.”

Since the screening is a one-day event, Tinker will be visiting WVU on March 19 as the featured speaker for the Festival of Ideas, which will be followed by a lecture and Q&A session.

Brian Anderson, along with the Department of Chemical Engineering, is helping to create an En-ergy Club on campus,

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Diversity expert to lecture on inclusiveness

By ashley TennanTCorreSpondent

West Virginia Universi-ty’s Office of the Provost, along with the National Science Foundation’s AD-VANCE Program, is spon-soring the speaker series “Why Diversity Matters.”

In collaboration with the Vision 2020 Strategic Plan, the two groups are striving to make WVU a more diverse and inclu-sive campus by introduc-ing new ideas of how di-versity is beneficial to students, faculty and peo-ple in societies through-out the world.

The first public lecture, “The Benefits of Diversity,” will be lead by Scott Page, the director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and Leonid Hur-wicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan.

West Virginia Univer-sity Professor of Woman’s Studies and Interim Assis-tant Director of the AD-VANCE Center Kasi Jack-son said she believes Page will be a perfect fit for the series.

“Scott Page was actu-ally recommended to us from a premier program officer at the National Sci-ence Foundation; she ex-

plained Page to us as a re-ally eminent scholar who has fun and entertaining presentations about why it’s important to do things like diversify the science and engineering fields,” Jackson said.

Jackson said she en-courages students and faculty to attend the lec-ture because she believes in educating both groups on the importance and benefits of having differ-ent types of people work-ing together.

“Page’s work really speaks to that. He’s re-ally looking at how hav-ing a really diverse group of people tackling a prob-lem can be beneficial, so we would really like peo-ple to understand why it is important to seek diver-sity,” she said.

Jackson said Page brings to the table an in-teresting view on success, something she believes will benefit the series greatly.

“So, a lot of people will say maybe that person’s really smart or good with their hands, but Dr. Page sort of looks at it in terms as if we all have different tool boxes, which are ways that we think about the

OIT stresses MyID password update

zak vorehStaff writer

Students who have not yet registered for MyID, West Virginia Universi-ty’s unified login program, will encounter problems in October, according to the WVU Office of Information Technology.

“As of this week there are approximately 2,300 active students who have not ac-tivated their MyID and 2,500 who have allowed their MyID password to expire,” said Sara Bishop, Assistant Director of En-terprise Eystems Services at OIT.

WVU MyID is a single set of login credentials that can be used to enter sev-eral WVU services, includ-ing MIX, eCampus and computers across campus.

The MyID program was designed to make it easier for faculty and students to access multiple school re-sources with the use of one username and password.

“Before MyID, students and employees had to re-member multiple user ac-

counts – some of which may have been the same and others very similar, all with different password ex-pirations,” Bishop said.

“Beginning in Octo-ber 2012, however, all ac-counts not activated in MyID or with a password expired more than 14 days prior will be locked, mean-ing individuals will not be able to log in to Univer-sity resources until they go to the MyID website,” she said.

To restore access to sys-tems, individuals will need to visit the MyID self-ser-vice web page, https://myid.wvu.edu.

Bishop said using just one password across mul-tiple systems. is secure.

“The MyID system im-plemented information security best practices by having security assess-ments conducted during its development and testing,” she said. “The MyID sys-tem continues this practice by conducting scheduled information security as-sessments as part of its op-erating procedures.

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University hosts summit to address bullying, spread compassion

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By zak vorehStaff writer

While bullying has become a universal issue, prevalent on many college campuses, West Vir-ginia University is working to address students ways for students to put an end to it.

Though physical bullying may not be a large is-sue for many college students, cyber bullying has evolved to become one of the main types of bully-ing students will encounter.

Alan Goodboy, Associate Professor for the De-partment of Communications Studies, said he was interested in understanding how communication studies could potentially help the situation.

“We are interested in bullying as a problem in society, and basically, how communication stud-ies can help the problem – so, we are interested in things like how parents communicate to a bullied child, how they respond to it and how the admin-istration handles it,”he said.

The Stop the Bullying program, run by the Uni-versity’s Human Resources Department, pro-vides an opportunity for students, faculty and the

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West Virginia University are more aggressive statutes in place than you’ll see at any other campus,” Roberts said.

Roberts said perhaps the largest contributing factor to the statistics is the number of issued referrals grouped along with offenses.

Rather than issuing a ci-tation or an arrest, Roberts said a referral allows the po-lice officer or residence as-sistant to handle the situa-tion personally through the judicial system on a case-by-case basis.

Roberts said another con-tributing factor to the rise of violations are downtown bar regulations and the layout of WVU as compared to other campuses.

“Some campuses are spread out in a square block,” he said. “That’s not Morgantown. Our campus is spread out throughout the city.”

Roberts said WVU’s rise in alcohol-related offenses is

no different than any other large university’s statistics.

“They are most of our ar-rests, but that’s not unusual at a large public university. We mirror society in that re-spect,” he said.

As an effort to combat the rising statistics, Roberts said WVU has initiated multiple alcohol education programs for first- time offenders.

“If a first-time offender is cited, we actually have a counseling program that, if they complete it, their cita-tion will be dismissed,” he said. “We want people to be responsible.”

Roberts said as compared to previous years, UPD has seen more reports of violent crimes and theft. However, the rise has not yet reached a significant level.

Students received a copy of the report via MIX last week.

For more information or to view the report, visit www.police.wvu.edu/clery_reporting_crime_statistics_incident_log.

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world - things that we no-tice, experiences we have had, maybe training we have had in our major. He has some specific theoreti-cal models that he looks at,” Jackson said. “We all kind of bring these tool boxes to look at problems. So, un-der certain circumstances if we have people with dif-ferent tools, they might see problems differently.”

Jackson said she is ex-cited for Page’s lecture, as it will reflect society in an in-teractive and fun manner.

“The way I think about it is that’s how we make it rel-evant to society. Sciences and engineering kind of have to reflect society so

all interests of our society are represented,” Jackson said. “Page has a reputation for providing a lot of really solid quantitative data to support his arguments, but he does so in a way that’s really light hearted and fun – so, he wants to engage with the audience and re-ally make sure people get the main message.

“He seems like he’s a re-ally good balance of some-one who’s going to give us a very rigorous lecture, but do so in a way that’s going to be a lot of fun. “

The Benefits of Diver-sity series will be held on Wednesday in Ming Hsieh Hall, room 126 from 3-5p.m. A reception will be held following the lecture.

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Burnett said. Anderson will be present

at tonight’s event to discuss his own energy-related re-search and his hopes for a future club at WVU.

Cosponsors for this event include the Davis Col-lege, along with NRCCE, RRI and the WVU Office of Sustainability.

“Anyone interested in learning more about the future of energy is encour-aged to come out to the event,” Burnett said. “There will also be free food and beverages provided by NRCCE.”

A lot of work went into making “Switch” possible.

Burnett said he has read several great reviews, in-cluding many from well-re-spected energy researchers.

Burnett also teaches two energy economics courses at WVU and is interested in helping students find the connection between energy and economics.

The screening begins at 7 p.m., but in case of a large crowd, there will be an additional screen-ing of “Switch” at 9 p.m. in the Gluck Theatre in the Mountainlair.

For more information on the documentary, visit www.switchenergyproject.com, or learn how to get in-volved at www.wecan.wvu.edu.

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“Through scheduled in-formation security assess-ments, the MyID system provides WVU applica-tions a secure authentica-tion process.”

Bishop explained how OIT is constantly evolving to combat security threats.

“Enterprise Systems Services (ESS) within OIT works closely with multiple other OIT units, as

well as other areas on cam-pus, to address the ever-evolving needs for identity and access management, and to continually moni-tor activity within the MyID system to ensure the accu-racy and confidentiality of the data associated with in-dividuals provisioned ac-cess within WVU centrally managed systems,” she said.

To learn more, visit OIT’s website at http://oit.wvu.edu.

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Iran’s president dismisses nuclear threats

NeW yORK (aP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ah-madinejad on Monday dis-missed threats of military action against Iran’s nuclear program, arguing that his country’s project to enrich uranium is only for peace-ful purposes and saying that Iran has no worries about a possible Israeli attack.

Ahmadinejad spoke be-fore a group of editors and news executives after his ar-rival in New York for the an-nual U.N. General Assem-bly. He told the group that it was not too late for dialogue with the United States to re-solve differences.

But in his remarks, Ah-madinejad sought to dele-gitimize U.S. ally Israel’s his-toric ties to the Middle East and its political and military power in the region and the world, saying that Israelis “do not even enter the equa-tion for Iran.”

“Fundamentally, we do not take seriously threats of the Zionists,” Ahmadinejad said. “We believe the Zion-ists see themselves at a dead end and they want to find an adventure to get out of this dead end. While we are fully ready to defend ourselves, we do not take these threats seriously.”

Ahmadinejad declared Israel has no place in the Middle East, saying that Iran has been around for thou-sands of years while the modern state of Israel has existed only for the last 60 or so years. “They have no roots there in history,” he said.

White House press secre-

tary Jay Carney responded to Ahmadinejad’s remarks, telling a midday news brief-ing, “Well, President Ah-madinejad says foolish, of-fensive and sometimes unintelligible things with great regularity. What he should focus on is the fail-ure of his government of Iran to abide by its interna-tional obligations, to abide by United Nations Security Council resolutions.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had met with Ahmadinejad on Sunday and “urged Iran to take the measures necessary to build international confidence in the exclusively peaceful na-ture of its nuclear program,” U.N. spokesman Martin Ne-sirky said. The U.N. chief also raised the potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric “from various countries in the Middle East,” Nesirky said.

On other topics in his meeting with editors, Ah-madinejad said that Iran fa-vors a negotiated settlement to the civil war in Syria, and denied that Tehran is pro-viding weapons or train-ing to the government of President Bashar Assad, as Assad’s opponents and oth-ers have alleged.

“We like and love both sides, and we see both sides as brothers,” he said. He referred to the conflict in Syria as “tribal” fighting and said that international “meddling from the outside has made the situation even harder.”

romney assails obama after us ambassador’s death

PueBLO, Colo. (aP) — Mitt Romney led a chorus of Re-publican criticism of the ad-ministration’s foreign policy on Monday, accusing Presi-dent Barack Obama of min-imizing the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya as a mere “bump in the road” rather than part of a chain of events that threatens Ameri-can interests.

White House press secre-tary Jay Carney called the ac-cusations “desperate and of-fensive” as Romney and his allies sought to gain politi-cal advantage in the latter stages of a political campaign that seems to be trending Obama’s way.

The president did not com-ment on the criticism when he and first lady Michelle Obama taped an appear-ance on ABC’s “The View” that blended the personal with the political. Asked if a Romney presidency would be a disaster, Obama said the nation can “survive a lot.” He added: “The American peo-

ple don’t want to just survive, we want to thrive.”

The back and forth on for-eign policy occurred as Rom-ney said he was shifting to a more energetic schedule of public campaign events, bid-ding to reverse recent erosion in battleground state polls. After days spent largely rais-ing campaign cash – and try-ing to minimize the fallout from one speech to donors last spring – he pledged to make the case for “real and positive change.”

While national polls make the race exceedingly close, Obama has gained ground on Romney in many recent surveys when potential vot-ers are asked to compare the two rivals in their ability to fix the economy. Sluggish growth and national unem-ployment of 8.1 percent make the economy by far the domi-nant issue in the race, and the two men have focused much of their time and advertising budgets on highlighting their differences on taxes, spend-

ing and plans for job creation.The same polls show

Obama with a healthy lead over Romney when voters are asked which candidate is better equipped to handle foreign policy, and the presi-dent has not shied away from trumpeting his decision to order the secret mission by U.S. forces that killed terror-ism mastermind Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani hide-out more than a year ago.

At the same time, Rom-ney’s advisers say voters are more inclined to question Obama’s handling of foreign policy after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, earlier this month re-sulted in the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Not only Romney, but other Republicans, as well, challenged Obama on for-eign policy on Monday.

In a conference call with reporters, Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the House majority leader, said: “Israel continues

to find itself on the receiving end of harsh language by the president of the White House. ... There is a somewhat con-tinued pattern of throwing Israel under the bus when Israel stands as our closest ally.”

And the National Repub-lican Senatorial Committee issued challenges to Demo-cratic candidates in several races to “share their view” on Obama’s remarks in an inter-view with CBS’ “60 Minutes” over the weekend.

In the interview itself, Obama was responding when asked if recent events in the Middle East gave him pause for supporting govern-ments that came to power following a wave of regime changes known as the Arab Spring.

He said he has long noted that events were going to be rocky, adding that the question itself “presumes that somehow we could have stopped this wave of change.”paign’s thinking.

general public to learn about bullying as well as ways to help avoid and prevent it.

Joy Faini Saab, chair of Curriculum and Literacy Studies and Director of the Office for Diversity and Global Initiatives within the Human Resources De-partment, said the idea be-hind the Stop the Bullying program is provide partici-pants with ways to counter-act bullying.

“We wanted it to be the nature of an intimate inter-active seminar that people from different colleges, pub-lic schools, business – wher-ever there’s a concern about bullying – could come to-gether and address the is-sues, to continue the study of bullying and the measures we can use to counteract bullying,” she said.

Saab said she encourages everyone who witnesses in-stances of bullying to take action and put an end to violence.

“First of all, if you see it happening, intervene and

try to prevent further esca-lation, but sometimes, be-cause of your physical stat-ure, you may not want to jump right in, you may want to go and request assistance from law enforcement that is nearby,” she said. “It does make a difference when people say ‘hey, you know that’s not cool’, and express it to someone who is doing the bullying.

Sometimes that is enough to change what will occur and to register the idea that other people don’t agree with what is being said or done.”

Saab said she was excited for the series to continue so members of the WVU com-munity could learn more about a variety of topics.

“Sharing in the research, having experts in social stud-ied education and counsel-ing, a talk about adverting school shootings; just a vari-ety of speakers we’ll have as panelists, who have had var-ious experiences,”she said.

The next event will be held on Oct. 17 at 3 p.m. in Allen Hall, room 802B on the Evansdale campus.

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Clifford the Big Red Dog feted on 50th birthday NEW YORK (AP) — School

kids sang “Happy Birthday” and Scholastic unfurled a huge banner worthy of a big red dog from the roof of its headquarters Monday to fete Clifford, the beloved book and TV character, for his 50 years of nudging kids to read.

His creator, 84-year-old Norman Bridwell, took questions from a few dozen first – and second-graders during a webcast beamed live into more than 5,000 classrooms around the country from the party held outside the downtown building as tourists snapped photos from atop open-air double-decker buses stuck in traffic.

And Bridwell’s real-life daughter, the all-grown-up Emily Elizabeth, spoke to re-porters of her special place in publishing history as the inspiration for the perky, blond girl who shares her life – and 90 books worth of adventures – with the gawky, big-hearted Clifford.

She was just a year old when her father, a struggling artist from Indiana, and his wife, aptly named Norma, were trying to eke out a liv-ing in New York. It wasn’t going well when Norma suggested he try his hand at illustrating children’s books.

Norma came up with the name Clifford, based on an imaginary friend she had as a girl.

But Bridwell’s 10 paint-ings for kids were roundly rejected. One staffer at a publisher told him if he wanted to work on chil-dren’s books, he’d have to write one of his own.

His story eventually landed at Scholastic at a time the company was just

starting in the trade fiction market. Clifford is now one of Scholastic’s most suc-cessful endeavors, with more than 126 million cop-ies in print in 13 languages, a TV show and a multitude of products.

“I remember my mother was visiting from Indiana,” Bridwell said, lounging in a chair and munching some fruit after the festivities.

“The baby had been cry-ing all night and this woman called from Scholastic and said we’ve got this book here, `Clifford the Big Red Dog.’ We’d like to publish it. I never expected it to be accepted. My wife said af-ter the first book, `Well, you could do more of these,’ and I said, `Don’t count on it. This is just a fluke.’”

Mayor Michael Bloom-berg is a fan. He declared Monday as Clifford the Big Red Dog Day, though he wasn’t on hand for the party.

Bridwell, who lives on Martha’s Vineyard in Mas-sachusetts, had a simple vision when he dreamed up Clifford: He wanted to write about a dog as big as a horse. What he wound up with is a dog bigger than a house who shared some of the characteristics of kids. Clifford happens to be red because that’s the color of the jar of paint Bridwell had nearby.

“I don’t really understand it,” he said of Clifford’s en-during nature. “Whether it’s his color, or if it’s the fact that he’s clumsy, like a lot of kids are clumsy. And a lot of kids would like to be for-given for their mistakes, and Emily always forgives him when he makes a mistake.”

Bridwell had no partic-ular teachable moment in

mind. He just wanted to entertain kids. Later, Scho-lastic gave Clifford “10 Big Ideas” that include matters of human and dog decency: sharing, respect, believing in oneself and helping oth-ers among them.

“I said to my editor, I think after about the sec-ond or third book, `Maybe I should be putting mes-sages into this.’ And she said, `Well you’re not a message person. Just give them something that’s fun to read.”

At the time, 1962, re-called Norma, paperback children’s books weren’t so easy to find, and “a lot of kids couldn’t have books because they were too expensive.”

For her part, the 51-year-old Emily Elizabeth of Car-lisle, Mass., cites Clifford as part of the reason she be-came a preschool teacher.

“As I got older and as I started to meet parents who really loved the books, they would express to me how much they meant to their family and how much they meant to their children. Then I started to realize it was something special.”

Bridwell’s granddaugh-ter, 17-year-old Alissa, also attended the party. She thought the Clifford sto-ries were just for her grow-ing up.

“I didn’t get that every-body else had them, too,” she said. “I thought it was just this special thing be-tween me and my grandpa.”

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Punk and grunge fans can breathe easy – the Mel-vins are coming to 123 Pleasant Street Wednesday, Sept. 26.

The Melvins are currently touring in support of their album “Freak Puke,” re-leased this summer. It was released under the moni-ker “The Melvins Lite” and is more experimental than previous albums.

The band was originally formed as a three-piece but has played with four members in recent years by adding a second drum-mer. Since forming in Mon-tesano, Wash., in 1983, The Melvins have stayed true to their sludgy punk rock sound – at least until “Freak Puke.”

“While ‘Freak Puke’ likely is an ‘experiment,’ the term

doesn’t quite do justice to the recordings. Rather, ‘Freak Puke’ is an experi-ment that works so well, it’s no longer an experiment but an advancement,” said Punknews.org, in a review for “Freak Puke.”

The Melvins experienced the height of their fame dur-ing the early ‘90s after Nir-vana’s “Nevermind” be-came a worldwide success and ultimately caused the grunge explosion.

The origin of their name came from a grocery store clerk, Melvin, who worked with The Melvins’ singer/guitarist Buzz Osbourne. Melvin was largely despised by his co-workers, and Os-borne, with his penchant for the ridiculous, found “The Melvins” to be an ap-propriate band name.

Major influences of the band include The Sex Pis-tols, Black Flag and The

Stooges, although many critics have described them as sounding similar to Black Sabbath.

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number one cause of injury-related deaths in the United States? If you answered car ac-cidents, gun violence or fall-ing, you would be incorrect.

According to a new study conducted by a group of re-searchers at the West Virginia University School of Pub-lic Health, suicide is now the number one cause of injury deaths in the country, sur-passing motor vehicle col-lisions, which previously topped the list. The study – led by Ian Rockett, a professor in the WVU School of Public Health’s Department of Epi-demiology and published in the American Journal of Pub-

lic Health – found that from 2000 to 2009, the suicide mor-tality rate increased by 15 per-cent. On the other hand, the study found that deaths from car accidents fell by 25 per-cent during that same time. Poisoning, falls and homicide were the next three top causes of injury mortality.

The findings of this study underscore the urgency of America’s growing suicide problem. According to a re-cently published report is-sued by the Center for Dis-ease Control, more than 8 million adults reported hav-ing serious suicidal thoughts between 2008 and 2009. Dur-ing that same period, more

than two million adults made suicidal plans, and more than one million attempted sui-cide. These suicide attempts resulted in close to 40,000 deaths.

Moreover, data from the Substance Abuse and Men-tal Health Administration re-veals that although 20 percent of American adults struggled with mental illness in 2010, only a little over a third of them were treated for their illness. This disparity high-lights the colossal failure of our mental health institu-tions to reach a majority of those suffering from mental illnesses. It is also undoubt-edly, at least in part, a result

of the stigma of mental ill-ness that pervades our soci-ety. Thus, it is incredibly im-portant for us to fight these damaging misconceptions that discourage many from seeking treatment.

Mental disorders are real illnesses, characterized by irregular biological pat-terns. They are also treatable problems, which makes the high number of preventable deaths they cause all the more tragic.

Here at WVU, WELL-WVU: The Students’ Center of Health offers a full range of mental health treatment options through the Carruth Center for Psychological and

Psychiatric Services.If you think you may be suf-

fering from a mental illness, don’t let the fear of being judged by your peers or family members dissuade you from seeking treatment. If some-one close to you is struggling with their mental health, en-courage them to get profes-sional help.

As the old adage goes, the first step to solving a problem is recognizing that one exists. Unfortunately, this is a prob-lem that is often neglected, and the consequences of this are as heartbreaking as they are inexcusable.

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By now, most Americans have probably heard about Gov. Romney’s “47 percent of Americans” remarks, in which he essentially wrote off nearly half of the coun-try as immovable barnacles on the underbelly of soci-ety. For anyone who hasn’t heard it yet, here is the quote in full:

“All right, there are 47 per-cent who are with him, who are dependent upon gov-ernment, who believe that they are victims, who be-lieve the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an en-

titlement. And the govern-ment should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.”

He went on to add, “My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never con-vince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

First, we must put the quote in context. Romney was speaking to a room of donors at a $50,000 per plate fundraiser in May of this year. Naturally, Rom-ney was unaware that any-one was recording his re-marks at the time, and the person who recorded the video has chosen to remain anonymous.

As it turns out, Romney’s assessment of 47 percent of Americans is a bit off. First,

it is true that roughly 47 per-cent of Americans do not pay income tax.

However, nearly two-thirds of these people pay payroll tax. That said, 18.1 percent of American house-holds do not pay payroll tax or income tax. Ten percent of these households are se-nior citizens, and another 6.9 percent of the house-holds make fewer than $20,000 a year, exempting them from income tax. So, it seems Romney’s remark may have been misleading.

Of course, poor people aren’t the only ones who get out of paying income taxes. It turns out that about 13,000 of the richest peo-ple in America (one percent of the richest one percent) did not pay income taxes ei-ther. The Tax Policy Center also states there are roughly

4,000 millionaires in the U.S. who paid no income taxes in 2011.

Finally, Romney has de-cided to step up and lead the charge against these tax-dodging sponges who are refusing to take personal responsibility.

But Romney’s remarks extend beyond the realm of imperious gaffes and into the realm of bad politics. It turns out the majority of se-niors support Romney by a substantial margin. So, he’s now attacked his own sup-porters by accident.

Furthermore, it turns out seven of the 10 states that boast the lowest income tax liabilities are traditionally Republican-leaning states (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina).

Romney’s aspersions af-

fect another target partic-ularly close to home: his own father. George Rom-ney, Mitt’s father, was on welfare for a time before he ran for office. Mitt’s mother was featured in George Romney’s 1962 gubernato-rial campaign video talking about how America gave George Romney a chance to succeed, with a large part of that chance coming from welfare.

So, it seems Mitt Romney did not fully think his state-ments through, because if he had, he would have real-ized he was about to refer to his own father as someone who didn’t take personal re-sponsibility and care for his own life.

And while cracking wise about 47 percent of Ameri-cans being unreachable was perhaps the worst of Rom-

ney’s gaffes during the fund-raiser, it was far from his only questionable statement.

He went on to joke it would be much easier for him to win the Hispanic vote if his mother had been Mex-ican and said he wanted to use Ann Romney sparingly so that the American people wouldn’t grow tired of her.

These are not inflamma-tory remarks, as was his 47 percent comment, but they do paint an eerie portrait of a candidate who views the American people as a hos-tile electorate rather than his fellow Americans.

So, Romney has explic-itly stated he does not care to win the hearts and minds of Americans or even watch out for the best interests of nearly half of the country. It’s not his job to care about those people, after all.

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We believe in free speech. We believe this even when a video as offensive as it was poorly done causes riots throughout the world. It is important that we remem-ber that.

However, it is also impor-tant that we remember the purpose of free speech. Free speech exists to defend a mi-nority position. It does not exist to discriminate arbi-trarily against a group.

As the riots in the Mid-dle East reached their peak last week, the French mag-azine Charlie Hebdo pub-lished lewd depictions of the prophet Mohammed de-spite numerous objections. The editors defended their decision in the name of free speech. They called it a sat-ire of the film and the news dominating our headlines of the demonstrations and vi-olence that it has triggered. Stephane Charbonnier, the director of the magazine, stated explicitly that this “gro-tesque film,” not the prophet Mohammed, was the target of the cartoons.

Why then do the cartoons depict Mohammed naked and performing sexual acts? What is the point of these car-toons in the wake of violence and death?

Clearly, they can exist only to insult and inflame religious tensions. In the context of the past week, these cartoons are no longer idiotic and petty caricatures but threats to the safety of many in the region. Multiple French consulates and embassies have closed in anticipation of potential repercussions.

Yesterday, Nicholas D. Kristof wrote in The New York Times about the rela-

tionship between violence and insults to Islam. It is true that other religions do not re-act violently to religious in-sults. And it is also true that many Muslims counter-pro-tested and apologized for the recent protests.

But it is true as well that religion may be a means as well as a motive. Within the region, religious identity is the ideal means of political exploitation, easier than eth-nic identity and more effec-tive than national identity. By manipulating religion, an extremist group transforms a cheap and amateur video into a call to arms against the

West’s hatred of Islam and its way of life.

Last Friday, the Obama administration defined the attacks on the United States consulate in Benghazi as in-tentional acts of terrorism. There is strong evidence that the groups behind these at-tacks initiated the protests and even more evidence that they have exacerbated the conflict in pursuit of their own ends.

We can only understand the danger of the French cartoons within this con-text. Any exploitable con-tent is ideological ammuni-tion. The right catalyst could

ignite the region and mobi-lize an extremist group from the periphery to the center of power.

The purpose of free speech does not just depend on its initial context. It also de-pends on the use of that speech in the public sphere where any group may manip-ulate its use.

The Middle East remains suspended on the edge of in-stability and any event may tilt the balance. “A revolution isn’t an event, but a process,” Kristof writes. And he is right, but certain events may accel-erate the process and cause it to ignite.

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BORN TODAY This year you ex-press a unique creativity that seems to solve problems, create great fun and add to your desirability. The un-expected occurs when dealing with others. Someone who was predict-able no longer is. You need to accept this person for who he or she is. If you are single, you could enjoy sev-eral different flirtations. Know that it might take a while to decide which one you want to hang out with. If you are attached, you could encoun-ter a conflict, as you both have gone through a change. Given time, you will come back together. AQUARIUS makes you laugh.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHHH Launch into the day with enthusiasm and an appreciation for excitement and variety. You’ll hear news that could be exhilarat-ing. A meeting might be critical in producing a positive outcome. De-fer to a friend. Tonight: Accept a pal’s invitation.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Pressure builds to act in a certain manner, especially in public. What is new about that? You have felt free to resist others’ demands in the past; you can do it one more time. Take a risk financially. Buy a lottery ticket if you feel lucky. Tonight: Into the wee hours.

G E M I N I ( M AY 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH Reach out for more in-formation. You could be surprised by what happens when you gain more understanding. A friend might be instrumental in opening a door. Ex-press your deeper feelings, though

cut some of the drama if possible. Tonight: Go for something different.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Curb a need to be possessive or com-petitive, as it will not help you. In fact, if you feel insecure, decide on a path that will build your self-confidence rather than one that pushes you to act out; you will get a much better result. Tonight: Out with a favorite person.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You could feel energized as the result of an argument, though you might not want to talk about it. You also could become sunnier by the day’s end. Do not stand on ceremony with a key person. Make an important call. You might be surprised by what you hear. Tonight: Hang out with some friends.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH You might feel unusually restricted as you deal with your finances and problems involving them. Be honest with yourself. You are feeling pushed to the max. An important talk with someone a bit more experienced could help. Tonight: Accomplish what you must.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHHH A sense of mischief surrounds you. Clearly, someone wants to get to know you better. You often push way beyond your limits. If you’re feeling wiped out, who do you really have to blame? Opt for a nice and easy pace. Tonight: Let the fun begin.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH You could find out what is going on with a family member, but many of you would prefer to bypass the issue, which you will. Fatigue marks this sit-uation, mainly because of its redun-

dancy. You might be more negative than you realize. Tonight: Head home.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH The spring in your step in-dicates a lot more confidence. You act spontaneously and resume a strong presence with a key matter. Oppor-tunities come forward because of a strong relationship in your life. To-night: Put yourself on the line. Ex-press what you want.

C APRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Be aware of what you of-fer. Do not take risks with your fi-nances, though you might get a positive monetary surprise. You do not need to act immediately. A boss or cohort seems unusually upbeat. Tonight: Treating others does not need to break the bank.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You know when you are on top of your game. Your creativ-ity emerges when your finances take an unexpected swing. Don’t worry -- the swing easily could be for the better. Communication surges, which allows a greater ex-change of ideas. Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Know when to pull back and do less. Sometimes, no matter how well-in-tended you are, there is a backfire. Realize what is happening, and fo-cus your energy on home or a family member. You might be taken aback by an offer. Tonight: Make a favor-ite meal.

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The second round of West Virginia University’s singing competition, Mountaineer Idol, was held Friday in the Mountainlair ballrooms.

Sponsored by Wishmak-ers on Campus, a WVU stu-dent organization, Friday’s action provided a chance for the competitors to put on a performance and give back to a great cause.

For every $5 the sing-ers collected for the Make-A-Wish foundation, one point was earned for their final judging score, and this incentive proved to be influential.

“I am so very proud to an-nounce that each of the 13 contestants raised at least $25 and raised over $600 for the Make-A-Wish Foun-dation,” said Sonja Wilson, senior programming ad-ministrator for the WVU Mountainlair.

Also benefitting from this

endorsement was 12-year-old guest judge Emily, a Morgantown native who was selected as Wishmak-ers’ “wish kid.”

In receiving that dis-tinction, Emily joined Miss West Virginia, Kaitlin Gates, as the night’s second guest judge.

With stars lining the stage to commemorate Make-A-Wish’s contributions, com-petitors performed for Em-ily and the other judges with stellar results.

The night’s theme was “songs from the year you were born,” and tunes from a wide variety of early ‘90s bands were performed ex-pertly by the 13 remaining contestants.

“This has been a record year for us,” Wilson said. “A record number of students auditioned for Mountain-eer Idol, a record number of money (was) raised for Make-A-Wish and I know other records will be bro-ken as well.”

With three contestants eliminated from competi-tion Friday night, Moun-taineer Idol is turning to so-cial media outlets Facebook and Twitter to garner expo-sure for the final 10 singers.

In effect until Friday at 9 p.m., Idol is boasting a social media contest on its Face-book and Twitter pages.

Voters will find pictures of each of the remaining 10 Idol hopefuls, and they can either “like” or “retweet” the image of their favorite competitor.

The contestant with the most combined likes and retweets will be granted im-munity for the upcoming round of singing, which au-tomatically qualifies him or her for round four.

With campaigns like this and two successful rounds already in the bag for Moun-taineer Idol, Wilson urges students to participate in the competition and make an attempt to catch the tal-ent in person.

“I hope that students will come out to future shows to actually see the talent that we have here at WVU,” Wil-son said.

Round three, which is themed “oldies,” will be hosted Friday in the Mountainlair Ballroom at 9 p.m.

In honor of Homecom-ing weekend, Mountain-eer Maniacs is hosting the round and giving out wrist-bands to the first 150 guests in attendance.

Do not miss your chance to support your Mountain-eers as they battle for micro-phone supremacy and the chance to become the next Mountaineer Idol.

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‘Sesame Street’ switching things up for Elmo

NEW YORK (AP) — Elmo will be carrying a new tune on “Sesame Street.” Sev-eral, actually.

A shift in how the pop-ular puppet is deployed marks the most visible change on “Sesame Street,” the children’s program that began its 43rd season on public television on Monday.

The “Elmo’s World” seg-ment is being phased out after 13 years, replaced by a new segment, “Elmo the Musical.” Ten new skits, each lasting 11 minutes, have been prepared.

The idea is to incorpo-rate music into the “Ses-ame Street” emphasis on introducing concepts in science, technology, en-gineering and math to the preschool-aged view-ers, said Rosemarie Trug-lio, senior vice president of education and research at Sesame Workshop, the company that makes the series.

Elmo will use singing and dancing to draw at-tention to the need for

problem-solving skills and make the learning en-tertaining, she said. The character will be featured in “Sea Captain the Musi-cal,” “Mountain Climber the Musical” and “Presi-dent the Musical.”

The current Elmo, geared largely to 2-year-olds, had some repetitive music segments. “Elmo the Musical” will have seven or eight songs in each skit, and will be aimed at pre-school youngsters who are slightly older.

“With really young chil-dren, the arts are very rele-vant to their lives,” Truglio said. “We want to be able to use the arts as a tool.”

“Sesame Street” began its emphasis on science and technology last season.

The children’s show is also bringing in its usual series of guest celebri-ties this season: Charl-ize Theron, Halle Berry, Melissa McCarthy, Steve Carell, John Hamm, Zac Effron, Blake Griffin, the rock band Train and rap-per Common.

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Mountaineers successful in Longhorn InvitationalBy RoBeRt KReIs

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The West Virginia wom-en’s tennis team traveled to Austin, Texas, last weekend, to compete in the Longhorn Invitational, a tournament that featured the highest level of competition the program has faced in its history.

“I think it went pretty well,” said head coach Tina Samara. ”The level of com-petition was way higher than anything we’ve seen in the past.”

Dealing with an inexpe-rienced team, Samara be-lieves the high level of com-petition at tournaments like the Longhorn Invitational will provide the Mountain-eers with valuable informa-tion for their fall season.

“(Fall) prepares them for the competition they are go-ing to see during the dual-match season,” Samara said. “Because of the individual aspects of tennis, this time is really important. If (team members) come in really pre-pared after the summer, they can get some really good op-

portunities to get some wins in the fall that they might not get in the spring.

“That can potentially get them into the NCAA tour-nament or the All-Ameri-can tournament the follow-ing year.”

Arguably the most suc-cessful Mountaineer last weekend was freshman Hai-ley Barret. Barret dropped her opening singles match on day one of the compe-tition, but came back on day two ready to play. Bar-ret beat both Natalie Hand of Texas-San Antonio and Liselot Koenen of Houston in straight sets. After two victo-ries Saturday, Barret battled before losing the next match in three sets.

“Hailey just got a little tight, and that was her issue all tournament; she got a lit-tle tight in the bigger points in the bigger games,” Samara said. “That’s nothing that we are worried about at all be-cause that’s normal playing your first tournaments in college.

“To go three sets against that level of player right off

the bat, we are pretty excited about (it).”

Barret has shined while playing for the Mountain-eers. Samara attributes the freshman’s success to her commitment to the game year-round.

“Hailey played all sum-mer, and that’s exactly why Hailey is doing well,” Samara said. “She hasn’t used the fall to get back into shape physi-cally or mentally.

“With Hailey, you are talk-ing about a 6-foot kid who’s only going to get faster, stron-ger and mentally tougher. Barring any major injuries, she is going to be a very excit-ing kid to follow for the next couple of years.”

While Barret looks to leave her mark on the program, senior Emily Mathis contin-ues to leave her mark on the Mountaineer tennis team. One of only two returning players, Mathis won two sin-gles matches this weekend, including her final match of the season. As the only re-turning senior, Mathis con-tinues to lead the Mountain-eers by example.

“Emily always has been the one that competes ev-ery time she is on the court,” Samara said. “She has im-proved in some areas, and that is why we are seeing the results we are seeing.

“Because she works every

day and competes every day in practice, she is improving.”

As Samara and the Moun-taineers continue their tour-nament season, the coach would like to see more of Mathis’ leadership skills in the rest of the team.

“In my book, leadership can come from every person on the team,” Samara said. “Everyone on the team can bring a leadership quality, and it starts with hard work.”

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Holgorsen ready for Big 12 opener with Baylor

By NIcK ARtHuRASSociAte SportS editor

Big 12 Conference play is no longer something the No. 7 West Virginia football team can look forward to.

It has arrived.Head coach Dana Hol-

gorsen and his staff will spend the remainder of the week preparing for No. 25 Baylor’s first trip to Morgan-town Saturday at noon.

“Obviously, there’s been a lot of excitement about join-ing the Big 12, and it’s finally here,” Holgorsen said in his weekly teleconference. “A lot of anticipation, not only within the state of West Vir-ginia, but across the country … I’ve got a program that’s pretty established and used to winning. I don’t think that will take away from any of our preparation.”

The Mountaineers enter conference play with a 3-0 record, including a tough-fought 31-21 victory against Maryland last Saturday.

Despite just 21 points scored, the Terrapins were able to move up and down the field at will while expos-ing weaknesses in the West Virginia defense.

Baylor is averaging more

than 50 points per game, and the Mountaineers will rely on their defense much more heavily against the Bears.

“(The defensive) side of the ball is important; I don’t care who you’re play-ing. Obviously, Baylor poses a problem with more expe-rienced guys,” Holgorsen said. “I think they’ve got seven or eight seniors and four or five juniors that play on that offensive side. We just need to worry about us and try to get a little bit bet-ter than we were last week.”

If West Virginia wants to keep up in scoring with the explosive Baylor offense, it will need a quality perfor-mance from senior quarter-back Geno Smith.

Smith was sacked Satur-day for the first time since Dec. 1, 2011, and he had more incompletions against the Terps than in his first two games combined.

Yet, the Heisman candi-date was still able to put to-gether an impressive game.

“Everyone wants to say he didn’t play very good last week, but I think he played pretty good,” Hol-gorsen said. “He did a great job of taking care of the ball.

We put a lot more on him in the passing game because we couldn’t get our running game going.”

Baylor runs a similar style of offense as the Mountain-eers. But, Holgorsen isn’t looking too far into the similarities.

“There are some similar-ities. But there are quite a bit of differences as well,” he said. “Any time you spread the ball around and you try to throw it around and play with some tempo, there are going to be some similarities.”

Holgorsen spent multi-ple years in the Big 12 as an assistant before taking the head coaching position at WVU.

His history of playing against Baylor could be something he could use to his advantage Saturday. But, the second-year head coach feels it works both ways.

“There are a lot of guys on our staff that have coached against them (Baylor),” Hol-gorsen said. “With that said, they’re going to know a lot about our team on all three sides of the ball, too.”

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but more importantly, it was also able to force some extremely critical turn-overs and even scored a defensive touchdown on Doug Rigg’s 51-yard fumble recovery. The play-ers were able to make the big plays when it mattered most.

The Mountaineers will almost always be at an ad-vantage when the defense can cause these turnovers because Geno Smith has shown an excellent abil-ity to take care of the ball and manage the offense, but it can also be dan-gerous to always rely on forcing turnovers to be consistently successful, es-pecially against the usually efficient offenses of the Big 12.

These in-conference of-fenses West Virginia will face over the next few months, beginning with Saturday’s game against a Baylor team that is averag-ing more than 51 points per game, will test the Moun-taineers in more ways than any of the non-conference opponents were able.

Because of this, the de-fense must continue to im-prove in its new scheme as the undefeated Mountain-eers begin to really make their case for another BCS bowl appearance.

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— The NFL’s top shutdown cornerback likely will be shut down for the season.

Darrelle Revis has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that will re-quire surgery, a huge blow for the Jets that leaves coach Rex Ryan without his best defensive player.

A somber Ryan stopped short of ruling Revis out for the season Monday, saying he just learned of the MRI results. But Re-vis will have to wait two or three weeks before surgery, Ryan said, and the recovery from an ACL tear is usually six to nine months. So the chances of Revis return-ing this season appear ex-tremely slim.

Ryan added that he will speak with Revis first before the team decides whether he will be placed on injured reserve.

“It’s just disappointing,” Ryan said. “This guy wants to win. As great a player as he is individually, he’s a great teammate and just wants to win. That’s why he was so excited about this year.”

The 27-year-old Revis was injured in the third quarter of the Jets’ 23-20 overtime victory at Miami on Sunday, falling awk-wardly and grabbing his knee even before he hit the grass. It was a noncontact injury, and he covered his face with gloved hands in obvious pain. He was able to walk off the field, but was taken into the locker room on a golf cart.

Ryan suspected the in-jury was serious when talk-ing to Revis on the plane ride home. MRI results the next day confirmed the team’s worst fears.

“It’s something we have to overcome as a football team. ... We’re going to lose that presence. I don’t know what else to say about it,” Ryan said. “I guess that’s the horrible thing that came out of the game.”

This was Revis’ first game after missing a week with a concussion from the sea-son opener against Buffalo. He had missed only three games before this season, all in 2010.

“I know the way Darrelle is that this is a guy who’s as competitive as it gets, and I don’t think there’s any doubt that he’s going to come back strong from it,” Ryan said.

The Jets will now be with-out perhaps the league’s top cornerback on a de-fense Ryan had considered his best since coming to New York. Kyle Wilson, the team’s first-round draft pick in 2010, will now step into Revis’ starting role opposite Antonio Cromartie.

While Wilson has not lived up to expectations and the drop-off from Re-vis is great, the Jets still have two first-rounders starting at the position.

“Most teams have just one No. 1 corner and some teams don’t even have any,” Ryan said. “We’re fortunate that we have the best in the league in Darrelle and a No. 1 corner in Cromartie. We’re fortunate there. We drafted Kyle Wilson to ba-sically be a No. 2 corner, and that’s what he’s going to play, that role, and I’m confident in Kyle.”

Ryan insists he is not panicking.

“It never happens,” he said. “We have enough to get it done here. ... We’ll find a way to get this done.”

Ryan also did not rule out looking to sign a free agent. The Jets released defen-sive lineman Marcus Dixon on Monday, and Ryan said the move was made in part so the team could pursue other players. Rookie wide receiver Stephen Hill has a hamstring injury that could sideline him a week, so the Jets might need help at that position, too.

Seven of the Jets’ current players have had ACL oper-ations during their careers.

Among them is Cromartie, who missed his final year at Florida State with a similar injury before being a first-round pick of San Diego in 2006.

The Jets, despite their mistake-filled win at Mi-ami, are in first place in the AFC East at 2-1, holding the tiebreaker over Buffalo. But tough home games against San Francisco and Houston coming up.

“This is a team game, and as a team, we’ve got to step it up,” Ryan said. “I think we’ll respond. We certainly have to accept the challenge, and we’re going

to come out and compete. We might do it a little dif-ferently, but we’re certainly going to give it our best shot, without question.

“Is it a major blow when you lose a great player like Darrelle Revis? Of course, it absolutely is. But this is a football team, and I think we showed that yesterday, too.”

While having a talent like Revis in the secondary al-lowed Ryan and defensive coordinator Mike Pettine to be more creative with defenses, the Jets have no plans to be less aggressive now.

“The most aggressive de-fense in the history of the National Football League was the Bears back when my Dad was there,” Ryan said. “He played with three college safeties and a col-lege receiver from Yale. That was how his back end was made up.”

The injury further clouds the contract status of Revis, who reported for training camp in July despite saying he was unsure if he would because he was hoping the Jets would rework the $46 million, four-year deal he signed in 2010. He is set to earn $13.5 million during

the next two years after the deal — reached after a 36-day holdout in 2010 — was front-loaded with $32.5 mil-lion in the first two years.

But after not getting a new deal this offseason, many thought Revis and the team would re-visit the matter after this season. If he doesn’t have a new con-tract by training camp next summer, he could become a free agent after the 2013 season.

“Yeah, I want to be a Jet for life,” Revis said in July. “If management don’t see fit (to) that, then I have to move on.”

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Smith getting more comfortable with position change to centerback in 2012By RoBeRt KReis

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West Virginia women’s soccer head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown does not scare easily when it comes to the sport to which she has committed her life.

After all, she has led the Mountaineers’ women’s soccer program from its birth 17 years ago, to con-ference championships, coaching all-American players, and even through a conference change.

But if there is one thing that strikes fear in Izzo-Brown’s eyes, it resides in the middle of the West Vir-ginia backline, where op-ponents are bullied and battered.

“I will tell you, there is only one player on this team who intimidates me, and that is Mallory Smith,” Izzo-Brown said. “I don’t know other people’s opin-

ion, but if I had Mallory Smith coming at me, I would think a little bit.”

Smith plays centerback for the Mountaineers. The senior, who was voted cap-tain by her teamates, tow-ers over most opponents at 5-foot-11. Smith anchors the heart of Mountaineer’s defense, causing all offen-sive attacks to go through her.

“Everything is going to go through the middle,” Smith said. “I feel like I just need to bring that lead-ership, whether it’s com-munication or leading by example.”

Smith’s leadership is vital to a Mountaineer defense, which plays with an al-most completely reworked back line compared to last year. The backline also fea-tures two freshmen, Jess Crowder and Leah Emaus, who play on either side of Smith. Not only is half the

line made up of freshmen, but the position is also new to Smith.

In her junior season last year, Smith started the final 18 games at defensive mid-fielder, before Izzo-Brown moved her to the backline this year.

“You are always going to make mistakes in any new position,” Izzo-Brown said. “I think she is just trying to learn and clean up her game back there.”

Each game provides a new learning experience for Smith. As she has tran-sitioned, she has relied on her coaches, teammates and even former team-mates to help ease the bur-den that comes with the last line of defense.

“It’s a lot more pressure, I would say,” Smith said. “Everyone’s helped me, from (senior defender) Bry McCarthy to (freshman defender) Leah Emaus to

(former teammate) Drea Barklage.

“They’ve really taught me well, and I feel like I’m more comfortable as games progress.”

Not only is Smith getting better with each game, but the backline as a whole also excels with each game.

“We are definitely feed-ing off each other. We know what we are good at,” Smith said. “We are reading each other a little bit better than in the beginning of the season, which is kind of expected.”

While Smith’s primary position is on defense, a few times a game she gets to show off her skills on the offensive side of the ball. Because of the se-nior’s menacing size, Izzo-Brown puts Smith in po-sition to head the ball off corner kicks. The defender headed her first goal Fri-day in the Mountaineers’

Big 12 Conference opener win against Texas Tech.

“I’ve been working on my headers all season and in the summer,” Smith said. “I just hadn’t gotten the right timing on it, so it is great to get one.”

Smith may be scor-ing for the Mountaineers, but her first goal is to crip-ple the Big 12 offensive at-tacks with physical play, a style that fits nicely with the Mountaineers’ new conference.

“With our mentality, I feel like a lot of players are tenacious. They want to get into hard tackles, especially our backline,” Smith said. “The Big 12, they are all corn-fed. They’re just big.

“You can’t really drib-ble around them, they’re just going to come right through you. We have to dish it right back.”

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Last weekend, the Mary-land Terrapins proved that West Virginia’s defense is going to need notice-able improvements head-ing into Big 12 Confer-ence play, which begins Saturday at home against Baylor.

The Mountaineer defen-sive unit was stout against the capable offense of James Madison just a week before, but it was consis-tently exploited through-out Saturday’s contest by the Terps, the No. 119 de-fense in the NCAA with a woeful 258 yards per game of total offense heading into the game.

Maryland only scored 21 points on 351 total yards against the Moun-taineers, so it wasn’t nec-essarily a huge outburst, but the Terps consis-tently seemed to pick up the yardage needed in big spots against West Virgin-ia’s defense – most notice-ably and consistently in underneath throws from Maryland’s quarterback Perry Hills to a myriad of Terrapin receivers.

Their rushing attack was contained well – the Terps barely averaged more than a yard per carry.

But the fact that a true freshman quarterback was able to throw for 305 yards and three touchdowns in his fourth collegiate start after getting off to a fairly slow start against teams like William & Mary and Temple was far from com-forting for Mountaineer supporters.

Maryland was obvi-ously a noticeable step up talent-wise compared to both Marshall and James Madison, as it was the first true BCS-Confer-ence team the Mountain-eers faced this season. But again, Maryland also had the reputation of being a defensive team, if anything.

The success of the Ter-rapins offense against the Mountaineer defense played an immensely im-portant factor in the game in more than one way, be-cause Geno Smith and the explosive Mountain-eer offense were either kept off the field, or out of rhythm due to the length of some of Maryland’s drives.

And this was something quarterback Geno Smith and the offense didn’t have to deal with in either of their first two noncon-ference victories against Marshall and James Madison.

It’s how the best of-fenses usually get beat: the opponent keeps the team’s defense out on the field, and the explosive offen-sive personnel stands idle on the sidelines waiting for a stop. The best teams do this by exploiting de-fenses on critical downs, which has been probably the biggest single issue for the Mountaineer defense throughout three games in 2012.

The Mountaineers al-lowed Maryland to convert on 50 percent of its third down attempts – a percent-age that was even higher throughout the majority of Saturday’s game.

It’s an issue West Vir-ginia head coach Dana Holgorsen brought up im-mediately after the sea-son opener with Marshall. If WVU can’t correct this aspect quickly, oppos-ing Big 12 offenses will be able to rule time of posses-sion and continue to keep WVU’s dynamic players off the field.

The bright spot is that – ultimately – West Vir-ginia’s defense did in-deed play well enough to win the game by a dou-ble-digit margin. A lot of that had to do with the fact that although the de-fense gave up their share of yards and three scores,

Doug WalpSportS writer

MaC still to present challenges for WVuBy Doug Walp

SportS writer

The West Virginia men’s soccer team started its first year of conference play in the Mid-American Confer-ence successfully by dom-inating Florida Atlantic University in a 4-0 victory Sunday afternoon at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

“It was our first ever MAC game and we were excited,” said senior de-fender Eric Schoenle.

The Mountaineers (5-2-1, 1-0) also continued their successful inaugural season overall in the MAC after exiting the Big East Conference last year.

The change in confer-ence was more a result of the Mountaineers’ football team migrating to the Big 12 Conference in a monu-mental offseason move, fis-cally and logistically, and because the Big 12 doesn’t offer a division for men’s soccer, the Mountaineers were forced to seek an al-ternative conference at the last minute, and they even-tually landed in the MAC.

It was initially seen as step back by some of the Mountaineers’ support-ers, but West Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc has said repeatedly that re-gardless of the team’s con-ference home heading for-ward, it won’t affect his team’s level of play or the way it prepares for each opponent.

Although the MAC may feature some less notori-ous opponents than the Big East had in recent years, there is definitely talent within the conference.

“I think I’m going to save my judgment for later on,” LeBlanc said, following the Mountaineer’s blow-

out win in their first con-ference game. “But I know that after Iona, West-ern Michigan is sitting at 7-2 right now, and I’ve watched them play as well, and they’re a dangerous team. Very good, very orga-nized and it will be a diffi-cult task looking forward.”

The Broncos of Western Michigan actually have the best overall winning per-centage of any team in the conference at 7-2, but have yet to play a confer-ence game. They’ll host the Mountaineers in the team’s next conference appear-ance Saturday.

The true leader of the conference is unquestion-ably Akron, though. The Mountaineers’ players and LeBlanc have consistently mentioned the Zips in the same regard as any of the best teams in the entire country and have painted their Oct. 20 match in Ak-ron against the Zips as easily one of the biggest matches of the season. If the Mountaineers can top-ple the Zips on the road, it could definitely help seal an NCAA tournament se-lection for WVU down the stretch.

Akron shut out confer-ence opponent Bowling Green 2-0 in the only other MAC men’s soccer match of the season so far. The Zips are 5-1-2 and ranked No. 10 in the NSCAA coaches’ poll, with their only loss coming against No. 4 Notre Dame in South Bend.

After the matchup with Iona Wednesday night, six of the Mountaineers’ eight remaining matches will be against conference opponents, leading up to the critical MAC tourna-ment in the beginning of

November.It’s vital that the Moun-

taineers finish no worse than second in the confer-ence if they hope to have any chance of having a high enough RPI to be selected for the NCAA tournament.

West Virginia undoubt-edly has the talent to com-pete with the best teams in the country, but they may have to overcome the col-lective weakness of their conference to make it into

the tournament in the first place; Saturday’s 4-0 drub-bing of F.A.U. in the first conference matchup of the year was a great start.

But LeBlanc said, de-spite WVU’s impressive shutout victory start to play in the MAC, his team will ultimately have to continue to improve as it progresses through conference play.

“I’ve got to continue to push them, because we’ve got a long way to go,” LeB-

lanc said. “It’s only been one game so far. That’s a team that I think we prob-ably should be able to play well against, but we gave them a little bit too much.

“I thought we took the foot off the gas a little bit. We’re going to have to be better as we go on; more teams are going to have more information on us.”

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Matt sunday/the daily athenaeuMSenior Travis Pittman and the No. 18 West Virginia men’s soccer team opened Mid-American Conference play with a 4-0 vic-tory against Florida Atlantic Sunday.

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