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West Virginia Universi-ty’s campus is aflame with discussion about last Satur-day’s chaotic post-game cel-ebrations, and WVU’s Stu-dent Government joined in the discussion Wednesday night during its meeting.

Student Body President Zach Redding said he was happy to hear fans were ex-cited about the win against Texas, but he was disap-pointed with the actions of students.

“Having won a BCS (bowl game) in three out of the last seven years, our fans should know how to act after a big win,” Redding said. “With

that said, I’m incredibly dis-appointed with the behavior of some individuals in show-ing no class, sportsmanship or respect for authority.”

Redding said he believes a minority of students can be blamed for the entire stu-dent body’s problem.

“I’ll take all the feedback you’ll give me,” Redding said. “Basically, all I can em-phasize to our administra-tors, city council, mayor and everyone in the town is that we, as students, need to find a solution.”

He believes students can be the source of the solution.

“We are the ones who know the people out there getting maced or burning couches or causing riots, so

we should be the ones who can voice our opinions and come up with a solution,” Redding said.

SGA Governor Ryan Campione said one thing that struck him are the re-actions to the incidents on Grant Street.

According to Campione, fellow students have said things such as “Did you see Grant Street? I really wanted to be there!” or “I walked out of my house when I saw ev-erything on Twitter, because I wanted to see the action.”

“I keep hearing it time and time again, and I don’t think people are realizing it,” Campione said. “We’ve de-monized the situation and put so much negativity on

it to a point where it’s al-most become a circus that is drawing people to the attention.”

Campione said he be-lieves the University and the student body needs to look at the issue from a cultural aspect, similar to the way in which Fallfest was started on WVU’s campus.

According to Campione, these patterns of excessive partying and couch fires date back to the ‘80s.

The behavior got so out of control in the ‘90s that President Hardesty cre-ated FallFest for students who wanted to party with-out participating in criminal

“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”

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by carlee lammerSCity editor

For Nefeterius McPher-son, Saturday’s West Vir-ginia vs. Texas game was more than a record-break-ing crowd at Darrell K. Royal- Texas Memorial Sta-dium or a history-making Mountaineer victory. It was a connection to the young girl who gave her the gift of life.

In 2005, during her first

year as a law student at Southern Methodist Uni-versity, McPherson was di-agnosed with (the rare bile duct liver disease) (second-ary sclerosing cholangitis.)

“I was told that I may, one day, need a liver trans-plant,” she said. “Either one of those situations alone is stressful, but it was almost like my two worlds col-lided. You have this medi-cal condition, and then you have law school. It’s just

by the grace of God that I stayed sane.”

In 2009, McPherson – relatively healthy at the time – moved to Washing-ton D.C. to serve under the Obama administration as the as the press secretary for United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk.

McPherson said she knew Washington was where she belonged all along.

“I had always lived in

Texas. I just knew I needed to move to D.C. I just knew that’s where I was sup-posed to be,” she said.

By last May, McPher-son’s condition worsened, and she was placed on a national liver transplant list.

Nov. 6, just 172 days af-ter she was placed on the list, McPherson received a call from Georgetown Uni-versity Hospital saying a match had been found.

McPherson’s donor was 12-year-old Taitlyn Hughes of Martinsburg, who died of a brain hemorrhage caused by an AVM rupture.

“It is amazing to me now when I look back on every-thing. See, I thought I was supposed to move to D.C. just to be a political ap-pointee for the Obama ad-ministration. I now real-ize it was destined for me to move to D.C., because that’s where I was going to

be transplanted,” she said. “You never really know

what those plans are that God has for you. I look back on it now and think ‘wow.’ I thought I was going to D.C. for one reason, but I was clearly going for a couple of reasons.”

Ever since her trans-plant, McPherson has made a commitment to carrying out Hughes’ story

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West Virginia University’s ultimate green challenge is underway.

Ecolympics is an annual, month-long challenge for WVU students, staff and faculty to win prizes and make a difference.

“This challenge encourages different campus build-ings to see who can recycle the most,” said Stephanie Toothman, operations coordinator for Facilities Man-agement Recycling Services.

The challenge hosts a variety of recycling and con-servation events for the WVU community, including an environmental research seminar or simply visiting the Morgantown Farmers’ Market.

The residence hall with the most student participa-tion at the end of the month will win entertainment equipment worth $3,000, and the campus building with the most participation will award its employees with a two-hour work release luncheon.

New to Ecolympics this year is the potential to win the challenge on an individual level.

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by JacOb bOJeSSON Correspondent

Before presenting at the Festival of Ideas lecture in the Erickson Alumni Cen-ter Wednesday, one of the world’s leading oncologists and bestselling author Dr. David Agus sat down to talk about his new book and how he believes human health can be improved.

Agus released his New York Times no. 1 bestsell-ing book “The End of Ill-ness” in January.

“Two or three times a week, I see people dying,” Agus said. “I don’t want to do that anymore, so I wrote the book because I want to prevent disease.”

The book offers several simple solutions on how one can prevent diseases.

“‘The End of Illness’ is a way of looking at the body as a whole system to pre-vent disease into our ninth and 10th decade,” Agus said. “If everybody in the country over the age of 40 took a baby aspirin a day, we would save about $90 billion a year in health care costs.”

According to Agus, citi-zens tend to think they lead healthier lives than they actually do.

Agus said sitting down

most of the day can be more dangerous in terms of future diseases than being a smoker, even for those who go for a run ev-ery morning.

Agus refused to call this statement controversial, backing it up with a study of 26,000 workers at the British transit authority in 1954.

“Half were the bus driv-ers that sat 90 percent of the day, and half the ticket takers that walked around and took the tickets,” Agus said. “They weighed the same, ate the same, lived in the same neighborhoods. There was 70 percent less heart disease and about 40 percent less cancer in the ticket takers.”

Agus said even though he is working in an office environment, he has found ways to stay active during the day.

“I move a lot during the day,” Agus said. “I got one of those phones in my of-fice where I look like an air traffic controller.”

“The End of Illness” also covers a large debate on the effects of multivitamin supplements.

Agus suggests multivita-mins are not beneficial and

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Yesterday morning, John Raese, the West Vir-ginia Republican candi-date for the senate, met with students in front of the Mountainlair to ex-press his views and to gain support.

Although the West Vir-ginia University alumnus has lost previous elections – most recently against Democratic Senator Joe Manchin – he has not lost hope.

“I think I’m going to do very well against Joe Manchin. West Virginia is looking for a new kind of leadership, so I’m making myself available,” Raese said.

One of the reasons Raese said he is confi-dent is because he sup-ports the Republican can-didate for president, Mitt Romney. Although he does not completely agree with Romney’s policies, Raese is willing to compromise.

“In politics, if you can agree with 80 percent of what somebody says, then

I think that’s somebody you can live with,” he said.

On the other hand, he disagrees with most of Barack Obama’s campaign platform.

“We’re talking about a guy who is a neighbor-hood organizer, and he’s trying to lead the largest free-enterprise system in the world,” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

Raese believes President Obama isn’t supporting job growth in West Virginia – another reason Raese feels confident about his prospects of victory.

“Obama has a vicious campaign aimed at West Virginia,” Raese said.

“He wants to replace sulfur fuels. How can Man-chin play for that team? It doesn’t have the best in-terests of West Virginia at heart.”

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and maintaining contact with her family.

“I wanted to learn more about the person – the sweet 12-year-old – who gave me my second chance at life, who gave me the gift of life, she said. “I have just always felt like, first, it was meant for me to get her liver (and) second, I wasn’t supposed to keep this story to myself. I was supposed to tell the world, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do.”

Ever since her trans-plant, McPherson said she’s stunned by the humil-ity shown by such a young girl.

“What really struck me

was finding out that at the tender age of 11, she made the decision that, if any-thing were to ever happen to her, she wanted to do-nate her organs and save lives.

I don’t know about you, but at age 11, I wasn’t think-ing about those things,” McPherson said. “To know that at age 11, she made such a grown-up decision – it’s just always resonated with me.”

M c P h e r s o n , a fifth-generation Texan, had the opportunity to at-tend last Saturday’s game in Austin.

However, McPherson wasn’t wearing burnt or-ange and white. Instead, she said she proudly wore Hughes’ WVU T-shirt dur-

ing the game, which was on the 11-month anniversary of the transplant.

“I just always knew I had to be at that game,” she said. “I seized it as an op-portunity to say ‘I’m from Texas, and my organ do-nor is from West Virginia. This is her shirt, and it is an honor to wear it to this game today.’”

Currently, there are more than 115,000 people waiting for an organ trans-plant, she said. Another name is added to the trans-plant waiting list every 10 minutes.

McPherson said she has dedicated her time to tell-ing the world how organ donation saved her life.

“The downside to that is that 18 people die each

day, unfortunately, be-cause there are not enough donors,” she said. “And so I speak out about Taitlyn’s story, about my story be-cause I want to help de-bunk some of those myths that are out there.”

McPherson said the gift she has received and the connection she has with Hughes will be one she for-ever treasures, and wishes she could repay.

“Thank you, sweet girl, for unselfishly donating your organ to save people like me,” she said. “I can never repay you for the gift, but I do know you wanted to help change the world – and I’m determined to help you do just that.”

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“Individuals can com-pete and receive points for the events that they partic-ipate in. We are keeping a binder for students, faculty and teachers to sign off on to show that they partici-pated in the event,” Tooth-man said.

Each event is worth at least five points, and the individual with the most points at the end of the challenge will win a green-themed gift package.

Wednesday, participants attended an e-cycling event that took place at the Coli-seum. Competitors brought

their own personal elec-tronics to be recycled, in-cluding old comput-ers, printers, stereos and microwaves.

WECAN collaborated with P.C. Renewal, a Mor-gantown company that specializes in recycling old technology.

P.C. Renewal properly recycled all the equipment that was brought to the event.

Typically, there is a fee to recycle these types of tech-nology, but the WVU Office of Sustainability covered the cost to recycle these items to promote the effort. “There are two major as-pects of Ecolympics. It is ed-ucating and building aware-ness on sustainable energy by bringing the commu-nity together, and it helps waste to be managed more effectively,” said Clem-ent Solomon, director of sustainability.

Toothman said in pre-vious years WVU has been ranked as high as 18th in the nation among green campuses.

“It is a challenge, but ev-ery year we see more partic-ipation, more interest, and we continue to grow.”

Ecolympics began at WVU in 2007 and each year, it has had increasing suc-cess, Toothman said.

“The whole purpose of Ecolympics is to raise

awareness of sustainabil-ity and help students make good decisions to help their economy, environment and lifestyle,” said Traci Li-ebig, WVU conservation specialist.

Liebig, who has contrib-uted to planning the Eco-lympics since it first began, said she believes students are getting better and bet-ter at recycling efforts.

“Many students come from a place where there is a more established form of recycling, so they’re used to it, and that really makes a difference,” she said.

In an effort to help Mor-gantown become increas-ingly green-friendly, the city will be implementing a new single-stream recycling sys-tem within the next year.

The single-stream system will allow residents to mix recyclables and take them out to the street, rather than sorting by material.

“We have Ecolympics be-cause it is an opportunity for the WVU community to learn about easy and quick ways to be more green,” Toothman said. “From en-ergy to conservation, it is important to do our part.”

For more informa-tion, including a complete schedule of events, visit http://wecan.wvu.edu/ecolympics.

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may in fact increase the risk of diseases significantly.

Many have suggested that Agus’ research lacks scien-tific proof, but he is sure of his cause.

“For twenty years, they’ve been paying money, buy-ing the vitamins, and I took away their crutch – said it wasn’t right,” Agus said. “We put all the data in there.”

Agus said he has also re-ceived support from higher authorities.

“Several months ago, (the government) made the an-nouncement that nobody in the country should take cal-

cium/vitamin D,” Agus said. “That most of the things (in) the book have been success-ful is validated over the last year.”

Despite dealing with death on a daily basis, Agus said he strives to be a posi-tive person.

He said he wants to al-ways keep a smile on his face, and upholds his be-liefs that human health will improve.

“You may or may not agree with the things in the book, but that’s okay; I want the discussions to happen,” Agus said. “I believe we can make impacts quickly.”

Agus is currently ap-proaching a new method of conducting research.

He is taking in experts from areas other than med-icine to receive a broader perspective when produc-ing new medicines.

His team includes him-self, a Nobel Prize-win-ning physicist and the man who built the first super computer.

“Think about it this way – a climate modeler looks at the shapes of the clouds, the wind speed and the tem-perature, and they predict the weather, and they are pretty good,” Agus said. “I want cancer doctors to be like that. To look at these other factors other than just a couple of blood values.”

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decreasing the national deficit.

“I want to grow this econ-omy, and I want to down-size government. I want to cut the spending down and balance the budget,” he said.

“I think this country taxes too much and spends too

much. They print too much money and have too many regulations”.

According to recent polls, it seems 62 percent of West Virginians show support for Manchin, and 23 per-cent will support Raese, according to polls pub-lished on Real Clear Poli-tics. However, this fact has not brought down Raese’s campaign.

“How many times did

Abraham Lincoln lose? About six or seven in a row,” Raese said. “Don’t be dis-couraged in life. There’s a road block every once in a while, and it’s an opportu-nity to show my issues and my values”.

To learn more about Raese’s campaign, visit http://www.raeseforsenate.org/.

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activities. “Both as a governor and

a student, I encourage all of us to work on that cul-tural aspect,” Campione said. “Punishing people is a good thing, but let’s also look at a way to celebrate passionately and take some of the attention away from those students who are do-ing wrong.”

Redding asked everyone to act respectfully, espe-cially toward authority after any future wins.

“There are certain things that are tradition, but there are certain things – like ri-oting and being disrespect-ful – that are not even close to tradition,” Redding said. “We’re a top-class institu-tion, academically and ath-letically, and we need to show it.”

During the open student

forum, a representative from the Students for Sensible Drug Policy Andrew Gavin spoke to the governors re-garding a medical amnesty policy.

According to SSDP liter-ature provided at the meet-ing, a medical amnesty policy would decrease the likelihood of students hes-itating to seek help in an alcohol or drug-related emergency.

“If you and a friend are both underage and intox-icated at a party, and you need to call 911 for them, under this policy, you would be allowed to call and nei-ther of you would be sub-ject to law enforcement ramifications,” Gavin said. “You could be forced into a rehabilitation program or to do community service, but there will be no seri-ous ramifications from the university.”

According to Gavin, more

than 30 universities have passed this policy, and those aware of the policies are 2.5 times more likely to call 911 when necessary.

Governor Joe Reidy told Gavin that he, Governor Ky-lie Sphar and former gover-nor Kyle Hess have been looking into this issue as well.

“Many campuses have a one and done or a two-strike policy, and we see that as a serious flaw within the program,” Reidy said.

“You shouldn’t be afraid to use up your strike, be-cause that’s really not the intention of an amnesty program.”

The SGA also approved five $500 grants Wednes-day evening for the Public Relations Student Society of America, Silver Wings, the WVU Flute Club, the WVU Oboe Club and Alpha Kappa Psi.

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submItteDNefeterius McPherson, a fifth-generation Texan, had the opportunity to support her tie to West Virginia on the eleventh anniversary of her transplant.

submItteDTaitlyn Hughes, a Martinsburg, W.Va., native, donated the liver that kept Nefete-rius McPherson alive.

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“30 Rock” entered its sev-enth and final season Oct. 4.

After six years, the char-acters Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) and the rest of the gang will finally be put to rest.

Although the series has produced some of televi-sion’s funniest moments – remember Dr. Space-man (Chris Parnell), Kelsey Grammer’s one-man Abra-ham Lincoln play and “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” – it may finally be time for our favorite characters to come

to an end. Last week’s premiere ep-

isode, “The Beginning of the End,” was met with dis-appointing ratings. In fact, they were lower than any of the show’s past premieres.

Only 3.4 million viewers tuned in to watch the epi-sode, according to www.tv-line.com.

The episode centered around Jack’s attempts to create an awful fall lineup for the fictional network Ka-bletown, which we later dis-cover is his way of “tanking” the show. This becomes ev-ident when Liz sees a show on the network titled “Tank It.”

Taking Jack’s advice and applying it to her own life, as Lemon often does, she decides to also “tank” her role as maid of honor in Jenna’s (Jane Krakoski)wedding.

Meanwhile, Hazel’s (Kris-ten Schaal) character is still a focal point of the show, as the story follows her and Kenneth’s (Jack McBrayer) dinner party for Tracy Jor-dan (Tracy Morgan), which is really Hazel’s feeble at-tempt at seducing Tracy.

There are some classic “30 Rock” moments of hi-larity in the episode, in-cluding Tracy’s naively in-sightful remarks, the jabs at

Kabletown mirroring their own network, NBC, and Liz’s “there’s no cake?!” voice.

But overall, the pre-miere simply wasn’t up to the standards of the past six seasons.

It seems the writers are recycling the same jokes in the seventh season – not literally, of course – but by using the same come-dic points and making fun of the same things or peo-ple we’ve seen in every epi-sode so far. They just aren’t adding anything new to the equation.

We know Kenneth is odd with his small-town, back-

ward perspective. We know Jack is manipulative, and we’ve seen Liz get over-whelmed with work and life and then have it all come together in a Jack-induced epiphany at the end.

It’s the same tired plot.The jokes referencing the

network and other real-life people and situations are always funny, but it’s not enough to carry the show. Instead, “30 Rock” needs to find a way to go out strong, with a season that makes us say, “Oh! I remember why I love ‘30 Rock,’” rather than, “Oh, I’m totally OK with this ending.”

And that is precisely how

I’m feeling right now. I will definitely continue

to watch the last season, as Tina Fey is still funnier than 90 percent of everything else on television, but I still expected more of the series. Ultimately, I think the show could leave us all with feel-ings of disappointment and regret.

To keep watching and supporting Fey’s final sea-son, tune in to NBC tonight at 8 p.m.

If you would rather relive the show’s glory days, re-visit its first six seasons on Netflix.

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latest album from Muse experiments, disappoints

Beloved English experi-mental hard-rock trio Muse released their sixth album, “The 2nd Law,” Oct. 1.

Frontman Matthew Bel-lamy promised “something radically different,” and this is definitely what they achieved.

Muse has amassed a ded-icated following that dates back to their debut album, “Showbiz.”

The trio contains three music legends. Singer and guitarist, Bellamy, has gained the respect of mu-sicians with his intricate licks, screeching improvisa-tion and impressive piano technique.

Some have named bass-ist Chris Wolstenholme a champion of his craft for fu-turistic sounds and ability to play the synth.

Dominic Howard is a drummer with an excellent ear and feel for the beat, al-ways playing exactly what is needed – never too much or too little.

Like other bands that hit it big, after the massive success of “Black Holes and Revelations” in 2006, Muse has undergone some changes. Their next album, “The Resistance,” was re-leased in 2009. The record was a huge success, and, al-though it may not have lived up to the prior release, it was chock-full of new, ma-ture ambitions and classical influences.

The aftermath of a highly praised album is some-times devastating and irre-versible. “The 2nd Law” is an example of this.

Adding a “dubstep track” to an album is something that Justin Beiber might do, but not the legendary Muse. The record is not exactly a flop, it has some interesting experimentation, but Muse should be past this stage.

As a whole, it is a mess of colorful ideas from talented

minds, but all the colors mix to brown.

The album opens with “Supremacy,” a promising beginning with familiar Bel-lamy-style guitar and a dy-namic military feel, mixed with epic hard rock.

One of their singles, “Madness,” abruptly fol-lows, completely pushing the album’s course toward awkward electronic pop.

“Panic Station” inter-rupts this flow, introducing what resembles a mix of Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Mooney Suzuki covering “Supermassive Blackhole.”

Just when you’ve thrown away all prior impression of Muse, “Prelude” reminds you of their past success, but you quickly realize you thought too soon when what sounds like “Grace Kelly” begins.

You’re still not entirely convinced the old Muse is gone, but the other single, “Follow Me,” rips you open and dubsteps all over your heart. This is not a Muse take on dubstep; this sounds like a Nero remix from com-mercialdubstep.com.

Muse then attempts to bring you back with “Ani-mals,” a return to their re-laxed, ominous, signature sound.

“Explorers” maintains this nostalgic and gloomy feel, while “Big Freeze” con-trasts with an overly cheer-ful, U2-like track.

The next two songs – Wol-steholme’s first composi-tions – are arguably the most successful experiments on the album.

The first, “Save Me,” is a

spacious ballad that ex-plains, despite the hard-ships you may put your family through, they are al-ways there for you.

The second, “Liquid State,” was written after he gave up alcohol and de-scribes the state of inebri-ation in which your drunk and sober selves battle it out within your mind.

The record ends with a two-part song, “The 2nd Law: Unsustainable” and “The 2nd Law: Isolated System.” The first is an im-pressive display of Bella-my’s ability to mimic the erratic sounds of a dubstep track, but I’m not sure that is something to brag about.

For some reason, the sec-ond part has little correla-tion to its predecessor, but is very effective. It is min-imal at first, but Bellamy’s fantastically ambient piano leads you through tranquil orchestration, as the bass resounds as if playing in the club next door.

This is a great way to end the album, and hope-fully this track signifies the change Muse was searching to capture.

Put simply, this album is not on par with Muse’s past creations.

The group clearly has enough money to ignore the requests of the pop scene and make profound music for themselves and diehard fans, and I am op-timistic Muse will make a comeback and destroy the curse of a band killed by American success.

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Back to the drawing boardWednesday, West Vir-

ginia Students received another one of those emails from Vice Presi-dent for Student Affairs Ken Gray and SGA Presi-dent Zach Redding about how they should celebrate the accomplishments of their sports teams more responsibly.

These emails have be-come somewhat of a tra-dition at WVU, as reck-less student behavior has attracted negative atten-tion for the University on a regular basis. The fact this problem has persisted over the years, despite these vigilant emails, sug-gests there is a significant, deep-seated problem at WVU that needs to be ad-

dressed in a much more assertive, comprehensive manner.

Tuesday, President James P. Clements de-nounced the destruc-tive behavior from the past weekend in his an-nual State of the Univer-sity address, outlining a number of steps the Uni-versity plans to take, in-cluding a stronger security presence after games, and an increase in the number of surveillance cameras around campus.

Although it is certainly a positive development that the University is acknowl-edging the problem and taking steps to deal with it, it’s going to take more than a few reactive measures to

resolve this issue.There is a problem with

the culture at WVU. This fact is underscored by the consistent flaring up of this problem on a yearly basis. Increasing the secu-rity presence, instituting harsh punishments and sending out polite emails are not going to trans-form the student culture in Morgantown.

If the University admin-istration genuinely wants to make WVU a school that is known for its academics as opposed to being noto-rious for the frenzied be-havior of its students, it’s going to have to accept the inconvenient truth that this problem is not limited to “a small number of stu-

dents,” as we are all contin-ually reminded.

“A small number of stu-dents” don’t make WVU the number No. 1 ranked party school in the coun-try. “A small number of stu-dents” don’t ignite 35 fires in one night. An angry mob pelting bottles at police fit-ted in riot gear is not com-prised of “a small number of students.”

Again, there is a cultural problem here that perme-ates a significant portion of the student body. Even if the behavior itself is re-stricted to a small number of individuals, there can be no denying it is widely celebrated throughout the student body.

An increased police

presence and harsh pun-ishments will not instantly transform this broken cul-ture. Such an undertaking will require long-term ac-tions that target the root of the problem. These ac-tions should include an evaluation of the Universi-ty’s admissions standards, which should be aimed at creating a better student body, even if it may not be a larger one.

The coming days will reveal whether the Uni-versity’s pleas for sanity will have any impact at all. WVU’s recent history when it comes to these incidents suggests it might be time for a new approach.

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The issue of criminal penalties for the use of mar-ijuana is one of the most sensitive issues that we face in our state. There are no easy answers that sat-isfy all sides and opinions on this issue, but there are some compelling facts that we should all consider in proposing decriminaliza-tion of marijuana.

First, marijuana is a nat-urally growing plant almost everywhere. Except for the drying process, it is pri-marily a natural substance in our nation. Current laws which make posses-sion and use of marijuana illegal fly in the face of its natural presence in our

environment.Second, the use of mari-

juana is a self-decision pro-cess, whether for medical or medicinal purposes or for personal pleasure. It is ap-propriate for our state and national public health ser-vices to provide and pub-lish all public health issues associated with the use of marijuana, but not to dis-courage its use through legislation. All detrimental aspects of the use of mari-juana should be made pub-lic and the background re-search provided openly to all citizens.

Numerous states and communities are sanction-ing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. This creates a difficult situation where individuals have to obtain medical prescrip-tions for specific and of-ten unidentifiable diseases

while the drug is still illegal in other states. Given the benign character of mari-juana use, this is inappro-priate discrimination.

Often the dangers to the public of marijuana use such as driving impedi-ments, public nuisance, abnormal social behavior, etc., are claimed as justifi-cation for maintaining ille-gal use status for the drug.

These arguments side-step the real issue, namely that we are all responsi-ble for our conduct in so-ciety all the time, regard-less of what drugs we use or avoid, and we are all re-sponsible for our driving and any other social func-tion that might bring harm to another. The prosecu-tion of any individual for any crime against another citizen must be pursued equally regardless of the

underlying cause. We are all responsible for our ac-tions at all times.

The criminalization of the possession and use of mar-ijuana has led to the pros-ecution, fining and/or in-carceration of citizens who are guilty of no crime, have caused no damage to soci-ety, other citizens or their property, and may have their future lives ruined by an innocent transgression of inappropriate laws. Our prisons are packed with people who have done no harm to society. The use of marijuana is a self-inflicted process. All self-decided activities that have no in-fluence upon others must be removed from the crim-inalization process.

Our courts and law en-forcement officers have bet-ter things to do that search for and arrest marijuana us-

ers. There are real criminals in this nation that cause harm to all of us, and they are the ones upon whom our attention should be focused.

Let me make clear that I do not advocate or promote the use of marijuana, and I would continue to encour-age sound research and publication of detrimental effects.

I also denounce the pro-motion of use to any other individual. And I denounce the sale of any drugs includ-ing marijuana to any minor or to any person who is le-gally, mentally or socially unable to make his or her own personal decisions. The violation of these laws must receive full prosecu-tion. But your personal use is your own decision.

As Governor, I would promote the legal public

sale and taxation of mari-juana as a luxury consum-able product, and I would promote the adoption of significantly high taxation on its sale and use. It is, af-ter all, a nonessential prod-uct in our world … we can all get along quite well with-out it.

The Libertarian philoso-phy is that “We all have the intrinsic right to live in any way we wish as long as our actions have no adverse or detrimental effect on any other human or inhibit their rights to free life.” This is a good and sound credo for life, and it applies well to the use of marijuana.

Now, get back to your studies. After all, that is why you are here at the University.

David Moran is the Lib-ertarian candidate for West Virginia Governor.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

BORN TODAY This year you often are easygoing and fortunate; however, at times you could be fussy and dif-ficult when it comes to dealing with certain people. Others who relate to you might not know which voice is re-ally yours. The answer is: both! Deal-ing with you could be challenging, es-pecially as you have developed a short fuse. If you are single, you are desirable, but often, people back away as they get confused by your mixed signals.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH You hit a wall of confusion. Step back, and allow the situation to unravel nat-urally. Focus on work -- whatever that may look like for you -- and worry less about gathering information. You’ll discover a hands-off approach that will help clarity develop. Tonight: Re-member, you need to take a break sometimes.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You have difficulty grasping a long-term desire. Frustration emerges, yet you are able to get to the bottom of a problem. If you need to, choose an easy stressbuster in order to relax; take a walk around the block, for example. Your creativity soars, and answers ap-pear. Tonight: Time for some fun.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Complete tasks in the morning. In the afternoon, a gentle haze moves in. Be-fore you realize it, you could be walk-ing in a fog. It’s not just you -- others feel similarly. Forcing clarity will only compound the situation. You might become frustrated, but on the other hand, you also might find time to do something you have been putting off. Tonight: At home.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH

Allow openness in financial discus-sions. You might be unusually re-sourceful, but others cannot hear your suggestions. Communication allows greater give-and-take, but don’t make any decisions just yet. Use care around machinery and all electronic items, as your mind easily drifts to yonder lands. Tonight: Share a dream.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Get an early start on the day. Listen to your instincts regarding your assets, which could involve an innate talent. You might decide not to let a conversation drag you down; however, ignoring it might not be the best idea, either. Frus-tration fuels anger. Tonight: Choose a stressbuster.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Lis-ten before acting on a decision. More information might come in. Given time, your conclusion could change. Uncertainty prevails in the evening, even though you have a lot of energy and want to get moving. Do only what you are 100 percent sure about. To-night: Finally, others follow your lead.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH How you feel in the morning might be very different from your mood in the eve-ning. Clarify important details, and fol-low through on what you feel counts. Interpersonal relationships will be highlighted. Your ability to create and imagine remains high. Tap into that energy later today. Tonight: Make it exclusive.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You might feel as if you are always be-hind the podium directing. An unde-fined swing of events or a change in energy finds you on the lead horse. As a result, success seems guaranteed. You might be stunned by the differ-ence between reality and your percep-

tions. Tonight: Where people are.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Reach out for more informa-tion. A long-distance contact could be involved. You might be unsure of which way to head, as you juggle your home life with different, and nearly op-posing, interests. Give time a chance to work its magic, and you will like the re-sults. Tonight: Into the wee hours.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Your imagination blazes in a discussion, and what emerges is a willingness to break past self-imposed mental boundaries. The ability to con-ceptualize and express some of your thoughts could be difficult later. Just wait a day or two, and try not to worry so much. Tonight: Let your mind lead the way.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH A partner or friend is relieved. Finally, you make time for him or her. Your re-cent popularity has been overwhelm-ing, and this person has powerful feed-back for you, if you are willing to listen. Confusion surrounds money. Be care-ful when dealing with an associate who expresses his or her anger. Pull back some. Tonight: Go for something cozy.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Your understanding could be dis-tinctly altered by the rose-colored shades you’re wearing. You could find yourself feeling disappointed, but real-ize that the cause is your distorted re-ality. Much can be said about positive thinking. Forget losing your temper. Tonight: Go with a suggestion.

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tHROWBACK tHURSDAY

Back in the mid-1990s, Tamagotchi was huge.

You couldn’t go to school without seeing at least half of your classmates with one attached to their backpacks, trapper keepers, or stowed away in their pockets.

These little handheld digi-tal pets required constant at-tention if you wanted yours to grow from a small egg into an adult alien.

The story is that a small alien species deposited an egg on Earth to see what life was like, and it is up to the player to raise the egg into an adult creature. The crea-ture would develop differ-ently and at faster or slower rates, depending on how good or bad a Tomagotchi parent you were.

If you were a really bad

parent, your pet would die. The needy little things would beep constantly – usually at the most inconvenient time, like 2 a.m.

The interface consisted of three buttons and a black and white screen.

There was a health meter, food meter, play meter, toilet meter, discipline meter, med-icine meter and an attention meter.

They are a fad of most of our grade school days, but they are still being produced. As of 2010, more than 76 mil-lion Tomagotchis were sold worldwide.

Their constant need for at-tention and the consequence of their death is what made them so addicting.

As an eight year old, it’s hard enough to keep track of yourself, let alone one of these alien parasites.

However, they were oh-so-addicting. Tomagatchi truly was the little thing every kid loved to hate.

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DETROIT (AP) – Alex Karras was a man of many roles.

Fearsome NFL defensive lineman. Lovable TV dad. Hilarious big-screen cowboy.

And in the end, a demen-tia victim who blamed the NFL for his illness along with thousands of former play-ers in lawsuits accusing the league of not doing enough to protect them from the long-term effects of head injuries.

The 77-year-old Kar-ras, who managed to be tough, touching and tragic in the span of a lifetime, died Wednesday at his Los Ange-les home surrounded by fam-ily members, said Craig Mit-nick, Karras’ attorney.

Karras was one of the NFL’s most ferocious – and best – defensive tackles for the De-troit Lions from 1958-70, bull-ing past offensive lineman and hounding quarterbacks.

The charismatic bruiser went into acting after his foot-ball career, and in his signa-ture scene dropped a horse with a punch as the soft-hearted outlaw Mongo in the 1974 comedy “Blazing Sad-dles.” He also portrayed the father in the 1980s sitcom “Webster,” along with his ac-tress-wife Susan Clark, and was in the “Monday Night Football” broadcast booth along the way.

“Perhaps no player in Li-ons history attained as much success and notoriety for what he did after his playing days as did Alex,” Lions pres-ident Tom Lewand said.

Born in Gary, Ind., Karras starred for four years at Iowa and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Detroit drafted him with the 10th overall pick in 1958, and he was a three-time All-Pro defensive tackle over 12 seasons with the franchise.

He was the heart of the Li-ons’ defensive front that ter-rorized quarterbacks. The Li-ons handed the champion Green Bay Packers their only defeat in 1962, a 26-14 up-set on Thanksgiving during which they harassed quar-terback Bart Starr constantly.

Packers guard Jerry Kramer wrote in his diary of the 1967 season about his

trepidation over having to face Karras.

“I’m thinking about him every minute,” Kramer wrote.

Karras was All-Pro in 1960, 1961 and 1965, and he made the Pro Bowl four times. He was recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a de-fensive tackle on the All-De-cade Team of the 1960s and retired from the NFL in 1970 at age 35.

But Karras also had run-ins with the NFL long before his lawsuit. He missed the 1963 season when he was suspended by NFL Commis-sioner Pete Rozelle in a gam-bling probe. Karras insisted he only wagered cigarettes or cigars with close friends.

“Alex Karras was an out-standing player during a time when the NFL emerged as America’s favorite sport,” the league said in a statement. “He will always be remem-bered as one of the most colorful characters in NFL history.”

For all his prowess as a player, Karras may have gained more fame as an actor.

He had already become known through George Plimpton’s behind-the-scenes book “Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback,” about what it was like to be an NFL player in Detroit.

Karras and Plimpton re-mained friends for life, and one of Karras’ sons is named after the author. Karras played himself alongside Alan Alda in the successful movie ad-aptation of the book, and that opened doors for Karras to be an analyst with Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford on “Monday Night Football.”

In Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles,” Karras played a not-so-bright, rough-around-the-edges outlaw who not only slugged a horse but also deliv-ered the classic line: “Mongo only pawn in game of life.”

In the 1980s, he played a sheriff in the comedy “Por-ky’s” and became a hit on TV as Emmanuel Lewis’ adoptive father, George Papadapolis, in the sitcom “Webster.”

“I had a very heavy heart this morning and I did not

know why. I understand now,” Lewis said. “Rest in peace, my friend.”

Karras also had roles in “Against All Odds” and “Vic-tor/Victoria.” He portrayed the husband of famed female athlete “Babe” Didrikson Za-harias in the TV movie that starred Clark in the title role. The two later formed their own production company.

Clark has said that Karras started to show signs of de-mentia more than a dozen years ago, and she said his quality of life had deteriorated because of head injuries sus-tained during his playing ca-reer. He could no longer drive and couldn’t remember rec-ipes for some of the favorite Italian and Greek dishes he used to cook, she said.

In April, he became the lead plaintiff in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Phila-delphia. He is among about 3,500 retired football players who accuse the league of not protecting them better from head injuries.

“This physical beating that he took as a football player has impacted his life, and therefore it has impacted his family life,” Clark told the AP earlier this year. “He is inter-ested in making the game of football safer and hoping that other families of retired play-ers will have a healthier and happier retirement.”

The NFL maintains that it did not intentionally seek to mislead players and says it has taken action to better pro-tect players and advance the science of concussion man-agement and treatment.

“It’s an ironic tragedy that Alex had to live with devas-tating effects from playing the game he loved,” Mitnick said.

He said the NFL on Aug. 30 filed a motion to dismiss all the players’ actions, and the plaintiffs’ response is due Oct. 30.

Mitnick said the family hasn’t decided whether to do-nate Karras’ brain for study, as other families have done. The family released a statement listing his other ailments as kidney failure, which recently hospitalized him, stomach cancer and heart disease.

Alex Karras, former NFL lineman, actor, dies at 77

Many fads have come and gone in my lifetime.

However, one is an ever-last-ing memory: the game pogs.

I don’t remember obtaining my first pog, or the first slam-mer I threw down to win my first game, but the game creates a sort of nostalgia for my younger years.

For those unfamiliar with the game, pogs was played with a stack of discs, similar to round cards. One player would use a “slammer” in the attempt to overturn the opponent’s pogs. The slammer was similar to the pogs, but much heavier and usu-ally made of plastic.

It was always a competition to see who had the coolest pogs. There were an unbelievable number of designs available for players to collect, and that went for slammers, too.

When the game was in the

height of popularity, I was in the third grade. There wasn’t a single boy in my grade who didn’t play the game, and many of the girls played as well.

Being the hardcore types, my friends and I would play for

keeps. This meant if I turned over my opponent’s pogs, they were mine.

While most of my fellow stu-dents understood the severity of high stakes pog matches, others would leave the game upset. It wasn’t long before the game was banned from my school.

Most of the students were not happy about the ban and most of their frustrations were taken out on the few students who caused it in the first place.

The school was correct for banning the game, although I was pretty upset at the time. In hindsight, it taught me more about gambling than anything else.

It wasn’t too long after the ban the game wasn’t “cool” anymore , and eventually the thought of pogs became a distant memory.

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THE CHALLENGE AHEAD

WVU offense ready for tough test against Texas Tech defenseby cody schuler

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West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen is no stranger to change. In just three years, the Davenport, Iowa, native served stints as a coach at Houston, Oklahoma State and West Virginia.

Texas Tech can sympa-thize with that notion of change, as the Red Raid-ers have had four defensive coordinators in four years. Only five games into his ten-ure, Art Kaufman has pro-vided a level of stability and success unrivaled by his predecessors.

The Red Raiders are ranked No. 2 in total defense and also boast the nation’s

top pass defense – some-thing Holgorsen and the rest of the Mountaineers are well aware of.

“Defensively, they’re one of the top teams in the coun-try. They have given up 200 yards per game, so people haven’t moved the ball on them,” he said.

“We were in here 16 hours yesterday, trying to figure out creative ways to get first downs. They do a good job against the run, they do a good job against the pass, and they create turnovers.

“We’re going to have to play as good as we have all year offensively.”

Senior quarterback Geno Smith said the Red Raiders’ defense will get an additional

boost from its home crowd – more than 60,000 fans will be in attendance for what will serve as Texas Tech’s home-coming game.

“They do a great job on making it tough on quarter-backs. They get a lot of inter-ceptions and turnovers,” he said.

“They really make things complex with the way they react to the ball. They do a great job of reading the quar-terback’s eyes and reacting to the ball.”

Holgorsen said Texas Tech is not a heavy-blitzing team, instead opting to drop back into coverage to make things difficult on opposing quarterbacks.

“They’re not very tricky.

They’re very, very sound and are never out of posi-tion. They blitz 8 percent of the time,” he said.

“They’re not a gimmick defense – they’re a sound effort defense. They play hard, and their guys are in position.

“That poses problems when you don’t know what they’re going to do, and that aggravates you from a game-plan standpoint. We can come up with a bunch of plays, but it’s hard to exe-cute against them.”

In order to open up the passing game, West Vir-ginia will look to sopho-more running back Andrew Buie to field another strong performance.

Buie, who rushed a career high 31 times for 209 yards and two touchdowns against Texas, said he will look to make the most of what the Red Raiders present to him on defense.

“It was a good win against Texas. We were glad that we were able to go out there and put that win together. Now it’s about moving forward and getting ready for Texas Tech,” he said.

“I just want to go out and play my game. If the oppor-tunities are there, I just want to make the most of my op-portunities and play ball.”

For Buie, a big key to his success against the

red raiders looking to bounce back vs. WVu after loss to sooners

by doug Walpsports writer

This Saturday, No. 4 West Virginia will travel to Lub-bock, Texas, a former home-stead of Mountaineer head coach Dana Holgorsen, to face off against the Red Raid-ers of Texas Tech for the sec-ond time in the schools’ histories.

Texas Tech fell 7-6 to the Mountaineers in their only other series meeting in 1938 in El Paso, Texas.

The Red Raiders (4-1, 1-1 Big 12) are led by head coach Tommy Tuberville, whose Auburn team also feel dur-ing a loss to WVU in 2008.

Texas Tech’s only loss this season came at the hands of No. 10 Oklahoma two weeks ago.

The Red Raiders are well-equipped on all three sides of the ball, but the defense has been the team’s stand-out unit so far. In fact, Texas Tech’s defense is the sec-ond-ranked defense in the nation, allowing just 210 to-tal yards per game.

The Red Raiders know they’ll have their biggest test of the season when senior quarterback Geno Smith and the Mountaineers come into town.

“Just knowing the quar-terback they have, if any-body has the front-running lead of this championship, it will be them - with all the ex-

perience and speed they’ve got,” Tuberville said. “We’ve got to play on both sides: offense and defense. We can’t just worry about tackling them. We have to score points. In the last two weeks, our offense has not scored points.

“We won on defense at Iowa State, pretty much, and last week offensively we couldn’t get anything going consistently. We get in the red zone, and we’ve got to score some points, not lay back and kick field goals all the time.”

The defensive unit is an-chored by two veteran safe-ties, seniors D.J. Johnson and Cody Davis. The two Texas natives lead the team in tackles this season with 28 and 32 total stops, re-spectively, and have com-bined for nearly 450 tack-les in their combined time in Lubbock.

“They’re not a gimmick defense – they’re a sound effort defense,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “They play hard, and their guys are in posi-tion. That poses problems when you don’t know what they’re going to do, and that aggravates you from a game-plan standpoint. We can come up with a bunch of plays, but it’s hard to ex-ecute against them.”

WVU showed toughness

against TexasThings weren’t easy in

West Virginia’s win over Texas last week.

There were plenty of times when the Mountaineers could have packed it in and would have gone home with a loss.

That’s probably what would have happened last season.

But, as it had already shown glimpses of in the first four games of the sea-son, West Virginia proved it is tougher this season. There’s something different about this team that hasn’t been around in past years.

West Virginia showed it could finish a close game a week before in its shootout against Baylor, but last week was a completely different game.

Admittedly, I was a little skeptical about how this team would be able to handle be-ing in a hostile road environ-ment like Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium, not to mention,against a talented Texas team in front of more than 100,000 fans.

But, as they’ve done for the first five games of the season, the Mountaineers answered the challenge.

And, like head coach Dana Holgorsen preaches on a weekly basis, they did it by playing well and making plays when they needed to in all three aspects of the game.

Of course, the offense did its job, putting up 48 points, while being led by senior quarterback and Heisman Trophy frontrunner Geno Smith, and other players like sophomore running back Andrew Buie stepped up, as well.

Even the defense – which had just gone through one of the worst games by any Mountaineer defense, allow-ing 63 points and more than 600 yards of offense against Baylor – made plays when it mattered.

The thing that is so dif-ferent about this team com-pared to the Mountaineer team that won the Orange Bowl last season is the atti-tude. Nothing can faze them.

With players like Smith, re-ceivers Stedman Bailey and Tavon Austin, and experi-enced defense like defen-sive lineman Will Clarke and linebacker Terence Garvin, this team has leaders who have played a lot of snaps in their careers and can help navigate the Mountaineers through any difficult times that will come with playing a very tough and competitive Big 12 this season.

Despite the outcome of each game, the Mountain-eers are always looking for-ward rather than dwelling on what happened before.

This was evident during the game against the Long-horns, as West Virginia was faced with a lot of adversity against a good team on the road.

The Mountaineers went from a 21-7 lead to being down 28-27 heading into the half. Would last year’s team have overcome that kind of letdown and emerged ready to win in the second half?

Probably not.But this team is differ-

ent. To put it the way Hol-gorsen did this week on the Big 12 teleconference, there is a sense of urgency with this group.

They know their own po-tential. From a talent stand-point, there has never been uncertainty regarding this team’s ability to compete with anyone in the country.

But in order to be a real championship contender, West Virginia had to prove it could come up big when it mattered most.

Last week, it proved it could do just that.

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apTexas Tech senior quarterback Seth Doege has thrown for 1,392 yards and 15 touchdowns this season.see tech on PAGE 8

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Set aside the high-pressure task of postseason pitching that Chris Carpenter rou-tinely masters for the St. Louis Cardinals and think about this:

Even the take-it-for-granted act of breathing feels odd on occasion now that he’s missing a rib and two neck muscles.

Taking the mound for only the fourth time in 2012 after complicated surgery to cure numbness on his right side, the 37-year-old Carpenter spoiled the re-turn of postseason baseball to Washington by throwing scoreless ball into the sixth inning, and the defending champion Cardinals beat the Nationals 8-0 Wednes-day to take a 2-1 lead in their NL division series.

“To go from not being able to compete, and not only compete but help your team, to be able to be in this situation,” Carpenter said, “it’s pretty cool.”

Rookie Pete Kozma de-livered a three-run homer, and a trio of relievers fin-ished the shutout for the Cardinals, who can end the best-of-five series in Thurs-day’s Game 4 at Washing-ton. Kyle Lohse will start for St. Louis. Ross De-twiler pitches for Washing-ton, which is sticking to its long-stated plan of keeping Stephen Strasburg on the sideline the rest of the way.

“We’re not out of this, by a long shot,” Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. “Shoot, I’ve had my back to worse walls than this.”

With the exception of Ian Desmond – 3 for 4 on Wednesday, 7 for 12 in the series – the Nationals’ hit-ters are struggling might-ily. They’ve scored a total of seven runs in the play-offs and went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base in Game 3.

Rookie phenom Bryce Harper’s woes, in partic-ular, stand out: He went 0 for 5, dropping to 1 for 15. He went to the plate with an ash bat and no gloves in the first inning, tried wearing anti-glare tinted contact lenses on a sun-splashed afternoon – noth-ing helped.

“Nothing I can do,” the 19-year-old Harper said. “I just missed a couple.”

All in all, quite a damper on the day for a Nationals Park-record 45,017 red-wearing, towel-twirling fans witnessing the first major league postseason game in the nation’s capi-tal in 79 years. They didn’t have much to enjoy, in part because of the prob-lems created by Nation-

als starter Edwin Jackson, who was on the Cardinals’ championship team a year ago.

“I didn’t feel like I was out of rhythm. I didn’t feel like I couldn’t throw strikes. I just missed across the plate with a couple of balls and it cost me,” Jack-son said.

He gave up four consec-utive hits in the second, the biggest being Kozma’s first-pitch homer into the first row in left off a 94 mph fast-ball to make it 4-0. Kozma took over as the Cardinals’ everyday shortstop in Sep-tember, replacing injured All-Star Rafael Furcal, and only had 72 at-bats during the regular season.

But he’s only the latest in a series of “Who’s that?” stars of this postseason.

With the Capitol Dome rising beyond left field, the crowd of today was ready to root, root, root for the home team, breaking into chants of “Let’s go, Nats!” after player introductions and again after a four-jet flyover. And, boy, did they boo – when Cardi-nals outfielder Jon Jay was announced as the game’s first batter, when first-base umpire Jim Joyce missed a call, when catcher Yadier Molina trotted to chat with Carpenter, even when Car-penter paused between pitches to tie his red-and-gray right shoe.

“Carp’s been a domi-nant pitcher his whole ca-reer. Big-game pitcher. He showed up,” Washington’s Jayson Werth said. “He pitched well today. We had him in some spots. We had him on the ropes a couple of times. We were just one bloop away from a totally different ballgame.”

The Cardinals won 10 fewer games than the ma-jors-best Nationals this season and finished sec-ond in the NL Central, nine games behind Cincinnati, sneaking into the postsea-son as the league’s second wild-card under this year’s new format. But the Car-dinals become a different bunch in the high-pressure playoffs – no matter that slugger Albert Pujols and manager Tony La Russa are no longer around.

Carpenter still is, even though even he didn’t ex-pect to be pitching this year when he encountered problems during spring training and needed what Cardinals manager Mike Matheny termed a “rad-ical” operation in July to correct a nerve problem.

“Everyone had written him off, kind of,” Jay said. “It could have been a sea-son-ending injury, where he could have just gone home and said, ‘See you later.’”

The top rib on Carpen-ter’s right side was re-moved, along with mus-cles that were constricting blood flow up there. Af-ter Wednesday’s game, he squeezed his big right hand with his left, explaining, “Basically, my nerves were getting squished down by all the scar tissue and all the muscles and every-thing. There wasn’t enough space.”

Still adjusting to the way breathing feels different, he returned Sept. 21, going 0-2 in three starts totaling 17 innings, so it wasn’t clear how he’d fare Wednesday.

Yeah, right.Carpenter allowed seven

hits and walked two across his 5 2-3 innings to improve

to 10-2 over his career in the postseason. That in-cludes a 4-0 mark while helping another group of wild-card Cardinals take the title in the 2011 World Series, when he won Game 7 against Texas.

The 10 victories tie Car-penter for seventh-most, behind Andy Pettitte’s re-cord 19.

“If the baseball world doesn’t know what an amazing competitor he is by now, they haven’t been paying any attention,” Car-dinals left fielder Matt Hol-liday said.

Carpenter collected a pair of hits, including a double off the wall in the fifth that was about a foot or two away from being a homer. When he reached second base, he raised his right fist.

E a r l i e r, Ca r p e nt e r stepped to the plate for his first at-bat and chatted with umpire Joe West.

“I say hello to him. And he said hello back, and he talked about what a beauti-ful day it was to play a base-ball game. And I was like, ‘You ain’t kidding,’” Car-penter recounted. “Beau-tiful weather. The crowd is going crazy. ... There’s no question you take time to reflect on that.”

Reds replace Cueto on playoff roster

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds dropped injured ace Johnny Cueto from their division series roster Wednesday, replacing him with right-hander Mike Leake a few hours before Game 4 against the San Francisco Giants.

Major League Baseball granted permission for the move at 11:30 a.m., less

than five hours before the first pitch.

Cueto pulled muscles in his side during the first in-ning of the series opener Saturday night. The Reds had been hoping their 19-game winner would im-prove enough to be able to pitch again, but the injury was still bothering him.

Cincinnati was reluc-tant to make the move with Cueto because it also leaves him ineligible to pitch in the NL champion-ship series, should Cincin-nati make it that far. The Reds lead the best-of-five series 2-1.

“It’s tough taking your potential Cy Young guy out of your rotation,” gen-eral manager Walt Jocketty said.

Jocketty said the Reds filed the paperwork for the roster switch shortly be-fore 10 a.m. on Wednesday and got MLB’s permission at 11:30. Leake, their No. 5 starter, had been told that the move was possible, so he should be ready to start.

The Giants went with left-hander Barry Zito, who has been at his best late in the season. San Francisco had won the last 11 games he started.

The Reds’ medical staff determined that Cueto’s injury could bother him into the start of the NLCS, which was a major factor in the decision to remove him from the roster.

“It was a very, very tough decision to make, but our medical staff felt at best, Johnny would be able to pitch maybe one game in the next series if we get there, if he were available for that series,” Jocketty said.

The Reds’ other option

was to keep Cueto on the roster and start Mat Latos on only three days of rest, putting the pitching staff in flux. Latos will pitch Game 5 if needed.

“It’s quite a blow but at the same time, you hope Leake steps up and pitches well,” manager Dusty Baker said.

Cueto pulled up after throwing a pitch in the first inning of Cincinnati’s 5-2 win in San Francisco on Saturday night. The injury was initially diagnosed as muscle spasms in the back, but a strain in his right side was later detected.

That’s an especially troubling injury for Cueto, who turns his back to the batter before each deliv-ery, putting a lot of stress on his side.

“It’s kind of a quandary as far as the injury goes,” pitching coach Bryan Price said.

The Reds were con-cerned that if they sent him back to the mound before the injury was fully healed, he could cause worse damage.

“It’s more of a mus-cle strain in the side that was very mild, but with his torque and the way he pitches and his twisting motion, we didn’t want to take the risk of injuring him,” Jocketty said.

The major setback comes at the end of a re-cord-setting season for the Reds’ rotation. None of the five starters got hurt, a franchise first.

Leake had to be pushed back a day during a series against Cleveland in June, when a stomach virus went through the team. Other-wise, the rotation had im-peccable health.

“A lot of it, I think, is just good fortune and good luck,” Price said.

Leake went 8-9 with a 4.58 ERA, making him the obvious choice to be left off the playoff roster. When Cueto got hurt Satur-day, the Reds told Leake to start preparing to replace him if needed. He left the ballpark on Tuesday night knowing he might start Game 4.

“He knew there was a good chance,” Baker said. “He’s known for possibly a couple of days, not that he would be pitching but that he was preparing to pitch. He was studying the charts. He was looking at the game. He was in the video room.”

Leake faced the Giants once this season, throwing the first complete game of his career for a 5-1 victory at AT&T Park on June 19. He also homered off Matt Cain in that game.

carpenter pitches cardinals past Nationals 8-0mLb

apSt. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter throws a pitch in the sixth inning of Game 3 of the National League division baseball series Wednesday.

Longhorns was the stellar performance by the offen-sive line. Without the O-line, Buie said he would not have been able to play the way he did against Texas.

“The offensive line did a phenomenal job up front and opened up big creases. The fullbacks did a good job,” he said.

“The guys out on the pe-rimeter did a good job block-ing downfield. It was a total team effort on offense that al-lowed me to get those yards.”

Texas Tech is limiting op-posing teams to just 16.8 points per game. Though the Red Raiders have played weaker teams – Texas State and Northwestern State –

Holgorsen said the level of talent on the field is indica-tive of why Texas Tech has been able to achieve its early season success.

“They play quite a bit of people. The safeties are the guys that always show up. No. 12 (D.J. Johnson) and No. 16 (Cody Davis) have been around there for a long time – they’re both seniors,” he said.

“Those are the two guys on defense that I remember from when I prepared against them four years ago and three years ago. They’re big kids. They come downhill a lot and are the two leading tacklers.

“Other than that, they play a lot of people. They play sev-eral different backers and ro-tate their D-line, much like they’re doing at receiver.”

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Coming off a disappoint-ing loss to Oklahoma a week ago, Tuberville said it’s go-ing to be important for his team to come out ready to play against the Moun-taineers, and it starts with his team coming out with a lot of emotion Saturday afternoon.

“We’ve had a lot of emo-tion on the sideline,” Tuber-ville said. “I thought Sat-urday, after our first drive ... we lost a lot of emotion, and that comes from the coaches, but it also comes from your seniors.

“It was kind of like we weren’t expecting that to happen. I told them, ‘You

better expect anything to happen in the games com-ing up, because everybody has good players.’”

After starting the season on such a strong note, the loss to the Sooners left a sour taste in some of the players’ mouths.

But the Red Raiders said they won’t get down; they’re ready to bounce back and try to pull off an upset Saturday.

“It motivates me,” said senior quarterback Seth Doege. “I’m just motivated to get back out there. I had confidence going into OU. I’m confident in my abilities, and I think we’re going to win a lot of games and sur-prise a lot of people around here.”

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Everybody on West Vir-ginia’s cross country team is doing their part to get ready for this weekend’s Pre-National race in Lou-isville, Ky.

Head coach Sean Cleary has made sure his run-ners stay healthy and are still practicing hard, while the athletes continue their training and make strides to get better.

This weekend’s meet will be the most important of the season for the Moun-taineers, against the best schools they have faced all year in what junior Sarah Brault calls the Mountain-eers’ most competitive meet of the season.

“This is the biggest race yet; it is really exciting. We haven’t had many high-level meets yet, so this is new,” Brault said. “This is the first time we are going against bigger schools, so we don’t know where we stand.”

Like the rest of the team, Brault is hoping their long practices will pay off when the pressure is really on, but with the summer workouts and previous meets under their belts, Brault feels the team is in very good shape heading into the meet.

“Everyone has been hav-ing really good workouts. Some girls are expecting to race really well. Every-one feels really confident. Everyone loves this Louis-ville track,” Brault said.

This course will be fa-miliar to veterans, who ran it last year, as well as the young group, who ran it a few weeks ago in the Greater Louisville Classic, so the team has a good feel for the track.

Running on it again this upcoming weekend will only get this group more comfortable with the course.

“Racing this course will give us more experience. The only difference now is that there are faster peo-ple on the track now. We just have to try and get the course down really well; we need to know every corner,” Brault said.

Practice will continue for the rest of the week, so Cleary knows his team will be ready to compete.

Getting his athletes in the best shape possible every week isn’t the only thing bothering the coach, though. Brault said he al-ways worries about the weather change this time of year.

“Coach Cleary gets par-anoid at this time of year,” she said. “This is the time when everyone gets sick. He just wants us to be able to stay healthy and keep training.

“The week is almost done, and we are going to keep going until the end.”

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WVU SportS InfoJunior runner Sarah Brault and the West Virginia cross country team travel to Lou-isville this weekend for Pre-Nationals.

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After a solid win against Army in its first meet of the season, the No. 1 West Vir-ginia rifle team looks to continue its success with a target on its back this weekend when it travels to Columbus, Ohio, to take on Ohio State and Akron.

“(I) really just want to see some more good per-formances. We obviously had a fantastic result last weekend at Army,” said head coach Jon Ham-mond. “This is another road match, so it’s another chance for them to go in and get some experience at a different range.”

Hammond hopes this

weekend’s trip to Lt. Hugh W. Wylie Range at Con-verse Hall on the cam-pus of Ohio State will not be the team’s last visit this season. He is also hop-ing some Mountaineers learned from their last trip to Columbus.

“Hopefully, we will be going back to Ohio State for NCAAs in March,” said Hammond. “This will be a really good opportunity for any of them that haven’t been there to see the range and get a feel for it, and also those (who) where at NCAAs last year, to go back and erase some of the not-so-good memories from last year’s championships.”

West Virginia looks to avenge last year’s sixth-

place finish in the NCAA championships with wins over Ohio State and Akron. Despite the disappointing outcome, Hammond has still built the Mountain-eer rifle program into a dynasty.

Under Hammond’s di-rection the past six years, West Virginia has earned a spot in the NCAA champi-onship each year the young coach has been here, in-cluding a National Cham-pionship in 2009. Dur-ing the past three years, the No. 1 ranking has only been held by three teams – West Virginia, fellow GARC conference member Ken-tucky and TCU.

“It’s not something that happens overnight, that’s

for sure,” Hammond said about his team’s No. 1 ranking.

“West Virginia defi-nitely has a really good history and tradition with rifle going all the way back to the ‘80s and ‘90s. But when I started, it was having a plan for the pro-gram, having a vision of what I wanted to do and what kind of atmosphere I wanted to have. And then it was just a case of recruiting and slowly improving year by year.”

Hammond and the West Virginia rifle program have consistently shown im-provement. Being one of the three teams to be ranked No. 1 through-out the past few years has helped West Virginia land prized recruits – including some Olympians.

While Italian Olympic gold medalist Nico Cam-prini has graduated, one of Camprini’s fellow Ital-ians, fellow Olympian Pe-tra Zublasing will return for her senior year to shoot for the Mountaineers.

“Anytime you have someone coming back from the Olympics, and a competitor at the Olym-pics, it’s a huge benefit for the team,” Hammond said. “She brings back a huge amount of knowledge, a huge amount of experi-ence from being in those kind of situations and the motivation for all the guys on the team (whose) goal is to be an Olympian.

“If Petra can do it, they can do it.”

While Zublasing and the rest of the team’s ultimate goal may be the Olympics, all Hammond has them concentrating on now is Ohio State and Akron.

“I just want to see them progress, have good per-formances, and I’m sure, hopefully, we can come out of there with two wins as well.”

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