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Admiral talks service, religion

Panel to explore future effects of electionBy JacoB BoJesson

Correspondent

The Black Graduate Stu-dents Association will host a panel discussion tonight about the influence of pol-itics on health, education and community of minor-ity groups.

The theme of the semi-nar is “Same Color, Differ-ent Culture” and will focus on last week’s elections and what effects citizens can expect to see in the near future.

Amy Hunter, Treasurer of BGSA, said she encour-ages people to come to the event to learn more about issues that will directly im-

pact their lives.“I’m a public health ma-

jor, so it’s really important for me to have initiatives where we can educate peo-ple,” Hunter said. “Through education we’ll be able to make some changes.”

Hunter said because of the low minority popula-tion at West Virginia Uni-versity, BGSA started host-ing panel discussions in the spring to bring to-gether colored minorities on campus.

“Originally, we started this series as a unifying event for students of color around campus. You have African-American stu-dents, Caribbean-Ameri-

can students and African students, but we’re really co-mingling,” she said. “Since we’re a really small minority population, we thought it was important to get those groups together.”

Education and health care were two of the major issues discussed in both the Presidential election as well as the state elections.

Hunter said she is hope-ful the panel discussions will give people some clar-ity of what the election re-sults will mean in their per-sonal lives.

“The affordable care is something that’s really rel-evant right now, and (it’s) not just affecting students

of color but also affecting students and people in the community,” Hunter said. “Also, issues like prop-erty tax and gentrification, just anything that’s go-ing to affect not just stu-dents of color but anyone who serves in this diverse community.”

The panel will consist of six students, both cur-rent and former, from vari-ous educational and ethnic backgrounds.

Hunter said she is confi-dent the panelists will offer unique and personal per-spectives that will lead to good discussions, and they

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WVU honors war vets with

breakfastBy shelBy Toompas

staff Writer

In honor of Veterans Day, West Virginia Univer-sity’s Division of Human Resources, in partnership with the President’s Office for Social Justice, held the annual Veterans Apprecia-tion Breakfast Monday.

The event began with presentations on the Wounded Warriors Project and a presentation from keynote speaker Maj. Gen. James A. Hoyer.

As a 29-year veteran born and raised in West Virginia, Hoyer began by thanking and representing the 6,500 men and women of the West Virginia Na-tional Guard.

“I’m here on Veter-ans Day to tell you that there are no finer men and women who have served their nation like our West Virginians,” Hoyer said. “I think, as a state, we often overlook our own history, because one thing that we hold dear in our National Guard is that we hold the oldest, continuous serv-ing flag of any unit of the United States military.”

Hoyer said he was proud of what West Virginia has become as a state and the way its citizens support the

nation’s veterans.“This is a time that most

veterans will tell you – even though they don’t make a career out of it – it’s a time they cherish, and I’m al-ready dreading to say I have to leave the service,” Hoyer said. “It’s a brother-hood and a sisterhood that I can’t even explain, but you feel a connection with people, because you have shared experiences.”

All veterans within the WVU community, both re-tired and continuing their service, were welcome to attend the breakfast.

WVU provided transpor-tation to the event to those in need.

Andrea Yanego, Direc-tor of Employment Ser-vices for WVU’s Division of Human Resources, said human resources has been planning the event for sev-eral months, and it’s some-thing they strive to host each year.

“The veterans do so much for us, and this is a way for us to recognize and give back to us,” Hoyer said. “We wouldn’t have the freedom we have without their service, so it’s a way for us to say thank you all the veterans here at WVU.”

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Runway show puts a twist on internship

By lacey palmerstaff Writer

While some students will be gaining experience in an internship position, West Virginia University stu-dents will be given a differ-ent type of learning oppor-tunity at Whisper Lounge in early December.

Rent the Runway is an e-commerce business that allows women to rent de-signer dresses and acces-sories off of the Internet for special occasions such as weddings, banquets or even a night on the town.

The goal behind Rent the Runway is to save women money as well as allow them to wear de-signer dresses at afford-able prices.

Also, Rent the Runway provides internship oppor-tunities to students across the country. The internship positions at each school are fully run by the students.

According to Anna Ben-moha, a senior public re-lations student and pub-lic relations representative for WVU’s branch of RTR, the internship brings stu-

dents in close contact with RTR’s corporate office in New York.

“I chose to apply for this internship because I’m graduating in May, and I needed a little something extra to spice up my re-sume,” Benmoha said.

For the first time on WVU’s campus, the RTR interns will be putting to-gether a Trunk Show to promote RTR.

“We have meetings ev-ery week to plan this event out,” Benmoha said. “I re-ally want to see this event be successful.”

Dec. 6 at Whisper Lounge from 7-9 p.m., girls will get the opportunity to rent dresses on the spot for significantly reduced prices and will avoid pay-ing shipping, insurance or tax. By browsing the RTR website, girls can se-lect up to five dresses that they would be interested in seeing at the trunk show and can email those se-lections to rtrwvu@gmail.com by Nov. 25 to guar-antee at least one of their

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By madIson FlecKstaff Writer

To mark Veterans Day on campus, Vice Admiral Douglas Katz, a retired na-val officer, visited West Vir-ginia University Monday.

Katz held one of the high-est positions held by a Jew-ish person in the Navy.

He discussed his life and military experiences in a West Virginia University Pi Lamda Phi Jewish Studies Lectureship called “From

Ensign to Admiral: a Jewish-American Naval Officer’s Story.”

While Katz was a minor-ity, he said the status never influenced him while he was serving his country.

“It was just never an is-sue,” he said. “I had a few anti-Semitic contacts early in my career.

It was an anti-Semitic commanding officer that gave my wife and I a hard time. He didn’t care for us, and he was kind of tough on

my wife and I.”Katz said the officer who

had given him a hard time was never promoted and from then on, there was never a bias against him.

“In fact, most of the time it was positive. People who supported me that I didn’t even know were Jewish,” Katz said.

While serving in the Navy, Katz spent the majority of his time in the cruiser-de-stroyer force serving on nu-merous ships where he spe-

cialized in maintenance and training, weapons systems procurement and tactical employment.

“We thought this would be unique opportunity for the public to hear the in-tersection of two important topics,” said Aaron Gale, As-sociate Professor and Coor-dinator of WVU’s program for religious studies.

Katz, a Bluefield, W.Va., native, said he was not dis-criminated against as a young child.

“I come from down on the southern borders in a very small community and a small Jewish commu-nity,” he said. “Growing up, it was largely Christian, and I was playing football in the coal fields, so no one cares if you’re Jewish; it’s more if you can survive.”

Katz was able to survive in the Middle East, where his Jewish roots were not a factor.

“In the Middle East, if there was danger created,

it wasn’t because I was Jew-ish; it was because I was an American senior naval offi-cer,” Katz said.

Through his visits, Katz studied and established re-lationships with small Jew-ish communities throughout the Middle East, particularly in Bahrain.

“It became an impor-tant aspect of my career,” he said. “I guess it was thought that my being Jewish gave

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will be able to answer any questions the audience may have.

“The panel will have two African-American student panelists and two African student panelists of vary-ing degree programs,” Hunter said.

“We have some stu-dents completing Ph.D.’s and some students completing master ’s degrees.

There will be a re-ally broad range of perspectives.”

Although the discus-

sion will focus primar-ily on minorities, Hunter said it will be of interest to everyone who decides to attend.

“It’s primarily com-prised of students of color on campus, but we wel-come all students like any organization on campus,” Hunter said.

“What you’ll take away from it is some educa-tion and some different perspectives.”

The “Same Color, Dif-ferent Culture” event will be held tonight at 7 p.m. in the Laurel Room of the Mountainlair.

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choices will be at the show. Size should be included in the email.

Anyone 18 and older is permitted to attend, in-cluding men. There will be $2 drafts and $3 mixed drinks for those in atten-dance of the legal drinking age.

“Girls can start picking their dresses now,” Ben-moha said. “Just simply send us the link and dress size you need, and we can guarantee at least one of the choices being there.”

RTR is rapidly increas-ing membership and is now at 3 million members with dresses and accesso-ries from more than 160 designers.

Via the website women can select a date six months in advance and rent the

dress for four to eight days. RTR also sends the selected dress in two sizes when rented online.

When finished, the renter simply drops the pre-paid envelope with the dress in any mailbox, and dry cleaning is handled by the business.

“Rent the Runway is be-coming more and more well known and has recently been endorsed by big name celebrities like Kendall Jen-ner,” Benmoha said.

The trunk show cuts the cost to rent significantly.

If interested in an in-ternship at WVU with RTR, Benmoha suggests students contact RTR toward the end of the year when the corpo-rate RTR offices will look for replacement interns.

Visit renttherunway.com to learn more about the show.

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secretary senior for WVU’s Division of Human Re-sources, Debra Gawthrop, said most of the veterans who came out were em-ployed or studied at WVU, and they were encouraged to reach out to other local veterans to invite them to the event.

“This event is very impor-tant for WVU to reach out to the community, employees and students to let them know we are a caring insti-

tution and it’s a great time in our nation to come to-gether,” Gawthrop said. “To-day is a day that is certainly loud and clear, and it’s so overwhelming to know that so many people appreciate the veterans, which is the message we want to give.”

Many veterans in atten-dance agreed Veterans Day isn’t a single day on their calendar.

Former Marine and West Virginia native Jamie Sum-merlin said the event pro-vides an opportunity to re-member and reflect on the fact so many men and

women served for the coun-try, and many still do.

“We want to continue to raise awareness, not just for our wounded warriors who are returning home but for all military members,” Sum-merlin said. “We want to let them know that they are not forgotten, and we want to take care of them and their families.”

Summerlin said he be-lieves the breakfast event is something with which WVU does a great job and hopes they continue to have this event in years to come.

“It just makes sense for

us to get out and honor and thank those who are cur-rently in school or still serv-ing in our country,” Sum-merlin said.

Hoyer said when oppor-tunities such as the break-fast emerge, he believes it’s something special.

“I think the country and the state is doing a great job at appreciating what veter-ans do,”he said.

For more information, visit www.wvuveterans.wvu.edu or www.employment.hr.wvu.edu.

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petraeus shocked to hear of emails, associates say

apFormer Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus, left, shakes hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of ‘All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.’

TaMPa, Fla. (aP) — CIA Director David Petraeus was shocked to learn last summer that his mistress was suspected of sending threatening emails warning another woman to stay away from him, former staff mem-bers and friends told The As-sociated Press Monday.

Petraeus told these asso-ciates his relationship with the second woman, Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, was pla-tonic, though his biogra-pher-turned-lover Paula Broadwell apparently saw her as a romantic rival. Re-tired Gen. Petraeus also de-nied to these associates that he had given Broadwell any of the sensitive military in-formation alleged to have been found on her com-puter, saying anything she had must have been pro-vided by other command-ers during reporting trips to Afghanistan.

The associates spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause they weren’t autho-rized to publicly discuss the matters, which could be part of an FBI investigation.

Petraeus, who led U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned his CIA post Friday, acknowl-edging his extramarital af-fair with Broadwell and ex-pressing deep regret.

New details of the in-vestigation that brought an end to his storied ca-reer emerged as President Barack Obama hunted for a new CIA director and mem-bers of Congress questioned why the months-long probe was kept quiet for so long.

Kelley, the Tampa woman, began receiving harassing emails in May, ac-cording to two federal law enforcement officials. They, too, spoke only on condi-tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. The emails led Kel-ley to report the matter, eventually triggering the in-vestigation that led Petraeus to resign as head of the in-telligence agency.

FBI agents traced the al-leged cyber harassment to Broadwell, the officials said, and discovered she was ex-

changing intimate mes-sages with a private gmail account. Further investiga-tion revealed the account belonged to Petraeus under an alias.

Petraeus and Broadwell apparently used a trick, known to terrorists and teenagers alike, to conceal their email traffic, one of the law enforcement offi-cials said.

Rather than transmit-ting emails to the other’s in-box, they composed at least some messages and in-stead of transmitting them, left them in a draft folder or in an electronic “dropbox,” the official said. Then the other person could log onto the same account and read the draft emails there. This avoids creating an email trail that is easier to trace.

Broadwell had co-au-thored a biography titled “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,” published in January. In the preface, she said she met Petraeus in the spring of 2006 while she was a gradu-ate student at the Kennedy

School of Government at Harvard and she ended up following him on multiple trips to Afghanistan as part of her research.

But the contents of the email exchanges between Petraeus and Broadwell suggested to FBI agents that their relationship was intimate. The FBI concluded relatively quickly – by late summer at the latest – that no security breach had oc-curred, the two senior law enforcement officials said. But the FBI continued its investigation into whether Petraeus had any role in the harassing emails.

Petraeus, 60, told one for-mer associate he began an affair with Broadwell, 40, a couple of months after he became the director of the CIA late last year. They mu-tually agreed to end the af-fair four months ago, but they kept in contact because she was still writing a dis-sertation on his time com-manding U.S. troops over-seas, the associate said.

FBI agents contacted Pe-traeus, and he was told that

sensitive, possibly classi-fied documents related to Afghanistan were found on her computer. He as-sured investigators they did not come from him, and he mused to his associates that they were probably given to her on her report-ing trips to Afghanistan by commanders she visited in the field there. The FBI con-cluded there was no secu-rity breach.

One associate also said Petraeus believes the doc-uments described past operations and had al-ready been declassified, al-though they might have still been marked as “secret.” Broadwell had high secu-rity clearances on her own as part of her job as a reserve Army major working for mil-itary intelligence. But those clearances are only in effect when a soldier is on active duty, which she was not at the time she researched the Petraeus biography.

During a talk last month at the University of Denver, Broadwell raised eyebrows when she said the CIA had

detained people at a secret facility in Benghazi, Libya, and the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base there was an effort to free those prisoners.

Obama issued an execu-tive order in January 2009 stripping the CIA of its au-thority to take prisoners. The move meant the CIA was forbidden from oper-ating secret jails across the globe as it had under Presi-dent George W. Bush.

CIA spokesman Preston Golson said: “Any sugges-tion that the agency is still in the detention business is uninformed and baseless.”

Broadwell did not say who told her about CIA ac-tivities in Libya. The video of Broadwell’s speech was viewed on YouTube.

A Petraeus associate said the retired general was shocked to find out about Broadwell’s emails to Kel-ley. Petraeus was not shown the messages, but investi-gators told him the emails told Kelley to stay away from the general in a threatening tone.

me a unique capacity for understanding.”

Katz graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned June 9, 1965. He was promoted to vice ad-miral in October 1992 and commanded the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the Middle East Force

just prior to its re-designa-tion as the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

He assumed com-mand of the Naval Surface Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet in September 1994 and retired from active duty in August 1997.

His personal decora-tions include the Distin-guished Service Medal (three awards); Legion of Merit (three awards); Bronze Star with Combat “V”; the Meritorious Service Medal

(three awards); the Navy Commendation Medal (two awards); the Navy Achieve-ment Medal; the Vietnam Staff Service Medal, First Class; Order of Bahrain, First Degree and numerous unit commendations and citations.

Although Katz was not discriminated against, he was still considered a minority.

“If you come in from an environment when you’re

the minority, you’re used to being a minority, and you adapt. If you don’t make a big deal out of it, then no one else will,” he said.

Vice Admiral Katz retired from active duty August 1, 1997, after 32 years as a sur-face naval officer.

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Perfect harmonies, haunting melodies and lyrics about more than just romance or unintelli-gible, surreal subjects – these ideas embody the sounds of the up-and-coming folk group The Staves.

The Staves consists of three sisters: Camilla, Jessica and Emily Staveley-Taylor.

Apart, their voices are merely pretty. But together, these girls create a sound that is both full and exquisite.

“Dead & Born & Grown” is The Staves’ first full-length al-bum and was produced by Glyn Johns, the genius behind the Rolling Stones and The Beatles, and his son Ethan.

They began singing at home and on long car rides with their parents – a home that was in-fluenced by Feist, Fleet Foxes, Simon & Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield and Motown. The Staves have been filed next to such greats as Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling and The Pierces.

“I think being sung to is the nicest thing in the world. There’s nothing more comfort-ing or enjoyable. And I would hope that this is what people feel when they hear us sing,” el-dest sister Emily said in an in-terview with The Guardian, and it really does sum up the listen-ing experience of their music.

The Staves blend U.K. folk with U.S. singer-songwriter styles, creating an innovative sound.

While the album has a no-

ticeable flow, each song fea-tures a different tone, with both melodic, instrumental and lyri-cal content.

On “Winter Trees,” their voices have that cold sharp precision born of the Anglo folk tradition, while “In The Long Run” explores a more Ameri-can flavor, and their harmonies embody the innocence of West Coast hippie idealism.

“Snow” is a song of strength-ening independence that com-mands your attention from start to finish. It is the mark of a perfect piece of music and doesn’t stop just at this be-ginning song; the whole al-bum seems to keep your ears pricked.

But The Staves aren’t all about sweet lullabies.

“Tongue Behind My Teeth” is a song that proves this trio can embody a tough, take-no-prisoners attitude; however, the music video may have something to do with this.

“Pay Us No Mind” may have been described as one of the more forgettable songs of the album, but I fully disagree. It might seem like a lullaby, but it is lyrically fierce. The vul-garity used works as a kind of break from their prim and proper phrasing, but the emo-tion isn’t overdone and doesn’t feel forced.

The most popular song be-fore the album’s release, “Mex-ico” exemplifies The Staves’s iconic sound.

A simple guitar melody pre-vails, and the sisters’ voices blend together in perfect har-mony; each voice standing out but moving together, leav-ing the audience in stunned

silence. The three young ladies of

The Staves are shy and humble, which may not come across in recordings.

To truly experience the group, you absolutely have to watch their live recordings and see their endearing quirks for yourself.

You’re more likely to find The Staves performing in a bar or someone’s living room to a small crowd, but that will hopefully change soon.

The Staves are currently touring with Bon Iver and re-leased their debut album Monday.

To find out more about the

group or to purchase their al-bum on CD, mp3 or even vi-nyl, visit their site at www.thestaves.com.

You won’t regret it.

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Walt Disney brings the story of Oz back to lifeby nick weSdock

a&e writer

In 1939, MGM studios adapted the novel “the Wonderful Wizard of Oz” into one of the most fa-mous films of all time. Now, Walt Disney Pic-tures offers its rendition of a prequel to the iconic movie.

James Franco and Mila Kunis have teamed up under the direction of Sam Raimi to create Dis-ney’s “Oz: The Great and Powerful.”

Franco plays a Kan-sas magician named Os-car Diggs, who struggles with somewhat of an iden-tity crisis in the beginning of the film. He is always pushing the envelope and looking for the next great trick.

“I start off as kind of a good showman,” Franco said to USA Today. “But I am bound by the natural laws of this world. I don’t have fantastical powers.”

Then, Diggs discovers the Land of Oz, and his life is changed forever. “Oz: The Great and Powerful” follows Diggs’ quest to kill the Wicked Witch and be-come the next king of Oz.

According to Disney’s plot synopsis, “through

illusion, ingenuity – and even a bit of wizardry, – Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.”

Franco is excited to team up with Kunis and said that he has had only limited opportunities to work with her in the past.

“I’m very, very excited to work with Mila. I’ve done two small things with her; I did something with her for ‘Funny or Die,’ a spoof of ‘The Hills’ – the televi-sion show – and then we did a little scene in ‘Date Night.’ She’s just great. I love working with her,” Franco explained in an in-terview with MTV News.

“‘Oz,’ the film, will be kind of a mix of tones. (Raimi) is, I think, a mas-ter of capturing a feeling of old kind of Hollywood charm and matching it with the latest technol-ogy. And so he’s going to create this amazing world and take you to this place, but the characters are very funny in kind of an old Hollywood way,” Franco said of the film.

In her own MTV News interview, Kunis sheds some light on her charac-ter, Theodora and some others.

“I play a character named Theodora who is also a witch,” Kunis said. “She has a sister, Eva-nora, who, too, is a witch, (played by) Rachel Weisz, who is fantastic. So you have Glinda, Theodora and Evanora. One is good, two are not so good … one

is really bad.”Kunis also said to The

Hollywood Reporter the most enjoyable part of playing her character was “the idea of being able to understand a charac-ter that I grew up loving so much and truly ground her in a way that makes her

seem real.”As for Raimi, he hopes

to be able to put viewers in the fairy tale and un-derstand the characters he has conceived.

“I hope they feel ex-hilarated by the good-ness in (Glinda’s) perfor-mance and the wickedness

in certain others’ perfor-mances and they feel like they have been on a real, grand, richly detailed fairy tale,” he said

“Oz: The Great and Pow-erful” hits theatres March 8, 2013.

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Elmo puppeteer accused of underage relationshipNEW YORK (AP) — The

puppeteer who performs as Elmo on “Sesame Street” is taking a leave of absence from the iconic kids’ show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Puppeteer Kevin Clash has denied the charges, which, according to Ses-ame Workshop, were first made in June by the ac-cuser, who by then was 23.

“We took the allegation very seriously and took im-mediate action,” Sesame Workshop said in a state-ment issued Monday. “We met with the accuser twice and had repeated com-munications with him. We met with Kevin, who de-nied the accusation.”

The organization de-scribed the relationship as “unrelated to the work-place.” Its investigation found the allegation of un-derage conduct to be un-substantiated. But it said Clash exercised “poor judgment” and was disci-plined for violating com-pany policy regarding In-ternet usage. It offered no details.

“I had a relationship with the accuser,” Clash said in a statement of his

own. “It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to characterize it as something other than what it was.”

Sex with a person un-der 17 is a felony in New York if the perpetrator is at least 21. It was un-clear where the relation-ship took place, and there is no record of any crim-inal charge against Clash in the state.

Clash, the 52-year-old divorced father of a grown daughter, added, “I am a gay man. I have never been ashamed of this or tried to hide it, but felt it was a per-sonal and private matter.

“I am taking a break from Sesame Workshop to deal with this false and defamatory allegation,” he said.

Neither Clash nor Ses-ame Workshop indicated how long his absence might be.

“Elmo is bigger than any one person and will con-tinue to be an integral part of `Sesame Street’ to en-gage, educate and inspire children around the world, as it has for 40 years,” Ses-ame Workshop said in its statement.

“Sesame Street” is in production, but other pup-peteers are prepared to fill in for Clash during his ab-sence, according to a per-son close to the show who spoke on condition of an-onymity because that per-son was not authorized to publicly discuss de-tails about the show’s production.

“Elmo will still be a part of the shows being pro-duced,” that person said.

Though usually behind the scenes as Elmo’s voice and animator, Clash has become a star in his own right. In 2006, he pub-lished an autobiography, “My Life as a Furry Red Monster,” and was the sub-ject of the 2011 documen-tary “Being Elmo: A Pup-peteer’s Journey.”

In addition to his mar-quee role as Elmo, Clash also serves as the show’s senior Muppet coordina-tor and Muppet captain.

He has won 23 daytime Emmy awards and one prime-time Emmy.

Clash has been a pup-peteer for “Sesame Street” since 1984, when he was handed the fuzzy red pup-pet with ping-pong-ball eyes and asked to come up

with a voice for him. Clash transformed the character, which had languished as a marginal member of the Muppets family for a num-ber of years, into a major star that rivaled Big Bird as the face of “Sesame Street.”

Among children and adults alike, Elmo was quickly embraced as a frol-

icsome child with a high-pitched giggle and a ten-dency to speak of himself in the third person.

“I would love to be to-tally like Elmo,” Clash said in a 1997 interview with The Associated Press. “He is playful and direct and positive.”

Besides “Sesame Street,”

Elmo has made guest ap-pearances on dozens of TV shows.

He starred in the 1999 feature film “Elmo in Grouchland.” And he has inspired a vast product line, notably the Tickle Me Elmo doll, which created a sales sensation with its in-troduction in 1996.

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Only a few days remain until we all get a refreshing week off to mark the week of Thanksgiving.

After we return from this holiday, there are only two weeks of class left in this se-mester. It’s hard to believe we are already in that final stretch of the semester, yet here we are.

Whether you are doing well in your classes up until this point and need to main-tain your good performance in the final weeks of the se-mester or your grade is in

a precarious position and you need these final weeks to bring it up, the most im-portant thing to do at this point is avoid becoming complacent. Seeing the fin-ish line and lulling yourself into a lazy conclusion to the semester is a very easy and tempting trap to fall into.

But if you wish to meet your academic goals, it is imperative you put forth 100 percent effort in the fi-nal weeks of the semester.

Our final projects, term papers, and of course, our

final exams will all be com-pleted within this time frame. These often amount to anywhere from a third to half of our final grade in any particular course.

Thus, regardless of how you are doing in any class right now, these final as-signments that will make such a substantial impact on your final grade will ei-ther serve as an oppor-tunity for you to improve your grade or a stumbling block that could greatly di-minish it. To avoid the lat-

ter of these two possibili-ties, get organized and draw up a game plan for the next month.

With the avalanche of as-signments and exams stu-dents will have to survive in the coming days and weeks, even the most over-achiev-ing students can find them-selves overwhelmed. Write down everything you have due, when it is due, and when you have time to do it somewhere you will have easy access to.

Moreover, be sure to take

advantage of the week-long break coming up next week. It’s easy to forget about all of your school-related re-sponsibilities when you are home on vacation, but this break provides you with an entire week to either get caught up, or preferably, get ahead on your school work.

This is your opportunity to spread your workload to make the final weeks of the semester significantly more manageable. Don’t blow it.

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APPresident Barack Obama delivers his victory address, Nov. 7.

The majority of Ameri-cans, while loving their right to vote and their civic duty almost as much as seasonal Starbucks cups and bever-ages, are relieved the elec-tion is over.

Gone, for a while, will be the political Facebook sta-tuses everybody loathes, the television advertisements that teem with mudslinging hatred and the debates that interrupt our favorite shows on weeknights. One man won, one man lost, and our nation has an almost four-year break from the insan-ity. To close the chapter, or casket, on this most recent election cycle, let me offer a few reflections.

The Republicans need a new platform.

Two GOP Senate hope-

fuls lost their respective races because of insensitive comments about rape. Mitt Romney’s lack of “I could get a beer with this guy” swagger and his 47 percent comments made him seem way out of touch with the av-erage American.

How did minorities vote? 93 percent of African-Amer-ican voters, 71 percent of La-tino voters, and 73 percent of Asian-American voters cast their ballot for Barack Obama. In an America in-creasing in diversity, these are poor numbers for the Republican Party, and it’s obvious their platform, poli-cies and personalities aren’t reaching across races.

The GOP needs to realize not only is America not just a country of white men but the majority of Americans don’t want to be perceived by the rest of the world as a country of white men, either.

Disgruntled voters need

to understand the rest of the world.

One of the annoying backlashes post-election is the number of people who say they’re going to move to Canada or Australia since the candidate they voted for didn’t win. For all of the people who say they’re moving to Canada or Aus-tralia because Obama won and Romney lost, I suggest doing some research about those countries. The Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, is a single woman who doesn’t believe in God and supports legal abor-tion. Same-sex marriage is legal in Canada, and their health care system is pub-licly funded.

Sullen voters need to re-alize that it’s not just Amer-ica that is becoming more liberal; it’s the rest of the world. For those people who would still like to emigrate, I suggest Texas.

People still believe in

that “hopey, changey stuff.” Barack Obama didn’t

have much to say during the election cycle about his plans to fix a faltering economy, other than blam-ing things on the Bush tax cuts or the gridlock in Con-gress. However, without much of anything new to offer the American people, he still somehow captured the youth vote and a stag-gering amount of electoral votes. A good deal of that is owed to his support of more liberal social issues (wom-en’s rights, gay marriage and health care initiatives).

Obama’s charisma can-not be ignored, though. He consistently made it clear that he and Romney of-fered two different paths for America, championing equality as his main issue. For voters, it worked.

Two billion dollars is a lot of money.

That’s how much was spent on the 2012 Presi-

dential election. So, when President Obama said in his victory speech “I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly,” maybe we should hold him to it and call for campaign finance reform. Especially around events like the devastating loss of property and life caused by Superstorm Sandy, exces-sive spending on ads and campaign luxuries should frustrate the voting public.

Americans need to start thinking about the voting process.

Long lines, issues with machines and concerns about voter identity were all topics that arose during this election cycle. These are not the type of matters that go away, especially in a digital age. Calls for electronic vot-ing (possibly on the Inter-net?) are not far off, nor are ideas about changing the voting day or length of days in the voting process. Amer-

icans need to being think-ing critically about the way we vote and about the possi-ble ways the voting process might change.

The future will be interesting.

Isn’t change the only constant we have alongside death and taxes? The GOP is leaving this election bruised and looking out of touch, and smart strategists – plus party icons like New Jer-sey Governor Chris Chris-tie – will assuredly move to make the party more attrac-tive and relevant.

The urgency of attempt-ing to reconnect with the American public will, hope-fully, be good for the coun-try. Competition breeds a better product for consum-ers. Better yet, if the GOP refuses to join the 21st cen-tury, perhaps it will finally make the landscape fertile for a third party candidate.

Ron Paul will only be 81 in 2016.

Reflections on the 2012 election seasonmicah conklingcolumnist

Congratulat ions to those satisfied with Tues-day’s verdict, and my apol-ogies to those upset.

To preface this week’s column, some words of wisdom from John F. Ken-nedy: “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

G et your popcorn ready. The “fiscal cliff ” that you’ve been hearing about for the last month

is on its way, set to hit the-aters – send us into an-other recession, namely – starting Jan. 1 if policy changes aren’t enacted by Dec. 31.

What’s this “fiscal cliff,” you ask?

It should be fairly obvi-ous that our country has deficit issues. If that’s not obvious to you, take a look at the annual reminder. In the past 30 years, our government’s budget has been in the black just four times. This is a serious problem.

If politicians don’t act before Dec. 31, tax in-creases and automatic spending cuts will take place, quickly cutting our federal deficit through sudden austerity mea-

sures. This contractionary effect would pull back ag-gregate demand, casting us into another recession.

Government officials are worried – and they should be – but we can’t forget the reason why this cliff is ahead. Con-gress and the President put these measures into place in the summer of 2011, assuming the econ-omy would be better off at this point.

The problem is, it’s not. And it’s also not the time to raise the debt ceiling, when the economy is just climbing itself out of a deep recession.

Allowing the govern-ment to drop off the fis-cal cliff is rather enticing, especially given the fact

that Bank of America es-timates the U.S. govern-ment would save roughly $720 billion in 2013 alone, or 5.1 percent of GDP. These austerity measures aren’t just ethically hon-orable; they are unequiv-ocally necessary.

The addition of tax in-creases and reduction in deficit spending can dem-onstrate long-term sol-vency to creditors, thus encouraging consump-tion spending and yield-ing overall economic expansion.

Let’s face it, being a “deficit hawk” isn’t nec-essarily an electable at-tribute, but continued awareness and attention towards the federal debt is vitally important to the fu-

ture of our country in the long run.

Obama and Repub-licans must come to an agreement, especially when it comes to payroll tax cuts and employment benefits. Extending pay-roll tax cuts and avoiding spending cuts to benefits are crucial in aiding an economy that’s slowly on the up rise.

Bush tax cuts for up-per-income Americans are not an effective way to boost economic growth in the short-term. Sorry Boehner, but you’re go-ing to have to let that part expire.

Many Americans chim-ing in on the “fiscal cliff ” debate cite “Clintonom-ics” in the 1990s, when the

illustrious budget surplus wasn’t just myth. They say, accept the spending cuts of the bipartisan ne-gotiated sequester and cut our annual deficit in half.

I’m a huge fan of this, but not in our current eco-nomic state. Fifteen years ago, we were in a much better place economically and it’s ludicrous to sug-gest a similar yield will oc-cur if we progress in the same way now.

As the economy gains momentum, we must un-derstand that we have to take the plunge some-time or another. I predict a strong bipartisan push for taking the “fiscal cliff ” hit in the coming years, and it’s been a long time coming.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

BORN TODAY This year you could experience important yet surpris-ing changes. You might even see a change on the professional front or in your relationship status. During the next 12 months, you’ll be on some-what of an emotional roller coaster. Hold on tight, and as a result, you will emerge a stronger person. It will take the full 12 months to determine the outcome. You will not be bored this year. If you are single, you meet a lot of potential suitors. Choosing the right person could involve making a mistake or two at first. If you are at-tached, your sweetie is adjusting to all the changes. Be indulgent and un-derstanding.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Others will not be happy un-less you give them the full attention they feel they deserve. Communica-tion falls into the proverbial situation where everyone only hears what they want and nothing more. Try a differ-ent approach. Tonight: Relax with a less stressful person.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Defer to others, as they are so de-manding that you have little choice. You might feel as if many people do not understand what you are sharing. It would be a different story if they weren’t so self-involved. Recognize that you are wasting your energy. To-night: Go with someone else’s choice.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Stay even-tempered, and focus on ac-complishing as much as possible to-day. The pace is hectic, but you are up to it. Clearing up as much as possible now will allow you to accept an invi-

tation that otherwise you couldn’t. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Others could be tumultuous and even exhausting to watch. Communi-cation might be confusing, and your reaction could take you down an odd path as a result. Stop and center your-self, then go over the situation in your mind. Tonight: Let the fun begin.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH In-stinctively, you want to retreat from others. People could be overly de-manding and not into negotiating. You might decide to spend a quiet day at home in order to steer clear of the uproar and watch some basket-ball. Tonight: Fall asleep while doing something you love.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH Your personality comes out in a dis-cussion, which might surprise a busi-ness associate. You always are so pro-fessional, and people expect nothing less. Allowing others to see your au-thentic self won’t hurt. Tonight: Have an important discussion over dinner.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You are totally occupied with your finances right now. Unless you have the ability to pull white rabbits out of black hats, you are unlikely to find a money tree in your backyard. Stay realistic. You could get yourself into some trouble otherwise. Tonight: Spend wisely.

SCORPIO (OC T. 23-NOV. 21) HHHHH You could be over-whelmed by the many possibilities you see. As a result of the enormous amount of activity and tasks you have taken on, you have become rather

me-oriented. Understand that some-one might be needier than you. To-night: All smiles.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH Lying low is acceptable if you are feeling drained. A discussion with a friend or loved one might help. Ac-tually, your fatigue could be blamed on today’s solar eclipse. Be aware that others might be experiencing a sim-ilar effect. Tonight: Not to be found.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH Emphasize what you want, and focus on that very thing. Friends surround you, but their moods might be volatile and unpre-dictable. Confusion surrounds a key meeting. Could you be mixing busi-ness with pleasure? Tonight: Where the fun is.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHHH Others can’t seem to con-centrate or handle a particular prob-lem. Your popularity skyrockets as others reveal how much they need you and want your support. Be will-ing to say “no” if need be. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Remember that there is a solution, and you just have not found it yet. Remain confident and detach from the immediate issue. Your inner sense of confusion could be playing an im-portant role in what is happening. To-night: Follow the music. BORN TODAY Comedian Jimmy Kimmel (1967), actress Whoopi Gold-berg (1955), actor Noah Hathaway (1971)

EVERY TUESDAYM O U N TA I N E E R S F O R

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONTINUALWELLNESS PROGRAMS on

topics such as drinkWELL, loveWELL, chillWELL and more are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELLWVU: Well-ness and Health Promotion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FEATURE OF THE DAY

THE DAVID C. HARDESTY, JR. FESTIVAL OF IDEAS will feature Candace Gingrich-Jones. She is an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues and the author of “The Ac-cidental Activist: A Per-sonal and Political Memoir. The event will take place in the Mountainlair Ball-rooms at 7:30 pm.

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BY jack lakea&e writer

West Virginia Public Ra-dio’s historic show Moun-tain Stage took the West Vir-ginia University Creative Arts Center for an intimate spin down melody lane Sun-day with the sounds of artists from around the country.

The “on air” box shone red as artists took to the stage in front of a live audience while recording the broadcast for the entirety of the state to tune in.

“We’ve been going to shows, gosh, probably for 30 years,” said Clarksburg res-ident Walter Williams. “We probably go to three or four a year – down in Charleston, here in Morgantown as well. They are always good.”

The show kicked off with Jeffrey Foucault, who strummed his lone guitar and sang his brand of coun-try and blues songs.

Following Foucault, Char-lie Mars took center stage and pleased the crowd with his songs and the jokes and stories that went along with them.

Alex Wong, a repeat vis-itor to Mountain Stage, made his return with a new musical project, “A City on

a Lake,” accompanied by Mexican singer-songwriter Ximena Sarinana. Switch-ing between the piano and his acoustic guitar, Wong sang selections from his new project and received warm applause.

“We just happened to be in town, and it is always fun, and I always see new artists and hear new things,” Wil-liams said. “They’re always good shows. You hear a lot of interesting and diverse types of music.”

Taking the stage next was New Orleans-based roots rock band The Iguanas. The band took the stage for the third time since they first be-gan playing music together and said they enjoy coming back when they can.

“I think we played the first time probably 20 years ago when our first record came out about ’91 or ’92, and then we didn’t play again until like 10 years after that, and then now we are back,” said Rod Hodges, Iguanas guitarist and vocalist. “So, this is our third time over the span of 20 years; it’s always fun, a great gig.”

Hodges also said the au-dience and crowd participa-tion is a particularly fun as-pect of Mountain Stage.

“The people are just great. Everyone is super profes-sional, and they treat you with a lot of respect,” Hodges said. “It is a fun thing to do just because of that. When you are playing in night clubs and all that, some-times it can wear on you.”

The band entertained the crowd with their bluesy, Cajun sound, while vocalist and saxophonist Joe Cabral received much applause for his smooth sound and intri-cate solos.

Closing out the evening’s festivities was singer-song-writer Mike Doughty, who is well-known for his former work in ’90s alternative rock band Soul Coughing.

Doughty took the stage and engaged the crowd, tell-ing stories from the industry and making jokes about the University’s PRT. The artist’s set included several covers and ended the show with his popular tune, “Drunk on the Train to Chicago”.

“A lot of good memories – they do a great job, the Mountain Stage folks,” Wil-liams said. “They’re just so nice and always do such a wonderful job. It’s been a lot of fun for us over the years.”

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Jack Lake/ The DaiLy aThenaeumCharlie Mars performs during Mountain Stage Sunday.

Jack Lake/The DaiLy aThenaeumThe Iguanas entertain the audience at Mountain Stage Sunday.

Jack Lake/The DaiLy aThenaeumJoe Cabral, saxophonist for The Iguanas, impresses Sunday’s audience during Mountain Stage.

Mountain Stage offered a variety of styles

A year in, YouTube’s channels not must-see TV, yetNEW YORK (AP) — When

Google announced its plans to fund some 100 new chan-nels of original programming on YouTube, many expected a transformation in television.

Google had disrupted other industries and TV ap-peared to be next in line. The YouTube channels were trumpeted as the next iter-ation in television: Just as a handful of networks begat a few hundred cable channels, YouTube would now fos-ter the birth of thousands of channels online.

The revolution has not yet been YouTubed.

Though a year later such a cultural sea change isn’t pal-pable – and likely shouldn’t be expected so soon – You-Tube’s developing platform of original programming is gradually taking shape, building steadily into an enormous, global video eco-system wherein the tools to

produce a mini TV station are anyone’s.

YouTube is now doubling down on its investment. It re-cently expanded into Europe with another 50-plus chan-nels. And now, YouTube is re-investing in 40 percent of the channels that have already launched. That means more than half of the channels have failed to catch on, yet is still a rate of success that any net-work programmer would kill for.

But for YouTube, success at this stage is measured less by view counts than by changing perception.

“What we’re trying to do is galvanize the creative and ad-vertising community,” Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s global head of content and the leader of its channels initiative, said in an interview. “And we’re suc-ceeding at that.”

Since it was founded in 2005, YouTube has been pre-

dominately the home of user-created video. But by putting out a welcome mat to Holly-wood, the site is trying to lure viewers to stay for longer and coax advertisers to pair their brands with known talent.

Kyncl says the first year has been one of defining where YouTube’s channels fit into the media landscape.

“I feel we’re 300 percent smarter than we were in Jan-uary,” he says.

YouTube has declined to make public the size of its in-vestment. The initial channel launch was reportedly fueled by $100 million, a number YouTube executives dispute. Kyncl will go no further than to confirm the $200 million he pledged to spend marketing the channels at YouTube’s TV-style upfront presentation to advertisers in May – a flashy event capped by a perfor-mance by Jay-Z, who recently launched a lifestyle channel

called Life and Times.Jamie Byrne, director of

content strategy, said the sec-ond round of funding would be relatively similar to the amount of the first round, on a per channel basis. Those not being offered more money aren’t canceled; they are en-couraged to keep going, but will have to pay their own way.

A simple glance at the site reveals how central the chan-nels initiative is to YouTube. The fabric of the video be-hemoth – where 72 hours of video are uploaded every minute – has been reoriented to emphasize a user’s playl-ist of channels, a move that has increased channel sub-scribers by 50 percent, exec-utives say. It may sound like a small tweak, but behind it is the mission to alter the very nature of YouTube.

“Up until now, the primary noun on YouTube has been video. You watch a video, you share a video, a video has view counts and so on,” Shishir Mehrotra, director of product management at You-Tube, said in a separate inter-view. “We’re gradually shift-ing the site so the primary noun on the site is the chan-nel, and you tune into the channels that you care about.”

Sometimes lost in the fan-fare over YouTube’s channels initiative is that it’s only a drop in the bucket for all of You-Tube’s channels. Through ad revenue sharing, more than 1 million content creators are earning money through You-Tube, from pennies to hun-dreds of thousands of dollars.

The channels that have re-ceived funding from YouTube aren’t separated from the tens of millions created sans fi-nancial backing by users, up-start production outfits and large media companies.

Those funded by YouTube are just seedlings in endless pastures of video, planted with the hope of spouting more.

The first harvest, though, has not impressed some on-lookers. Forrester analyst

James McQuivey, who spe-cializes in digital video and was among those who pre-dicted YouTube’s channels would be a landmark shift, has not seen the progress he expected. He would like to see YouTube try to produce some mainstream originals, as Net-flix and Hulu have, in order to attract mass audiences, not just niche ones.

“If the requirement for showing progress for Google is that they’ve disrupted tele-vision, then they haven’t met that condition,” says Mc-Quivey. “They haven’t re-ally changed the way peo-ple watch TV. That said, to have expected to do that in a year would have been kind of crazy.

“I see nothing in what’s happened so far that says, `Yep, Google has definitely sewn this up. Two, three years out, they will have changed the future of television,’” he says. “I think they’ve laid the groundwork from which they had learned how to do this, but it’s going to require signif-icant investment.”

Perhaps the closest a You-Tube channel has come to a mainstream viewing event was Red Bull’s October 14 webcast of daredevil Felix Baumgartner’s free-fall jump from space. Some 52 million watched the channel’s live stream, a viewership that far outpaced the 7.6 million who watched it on the Discovery Channel in the U.S.

Such breakthroughs have been seldom, though. Most programming has been more of the talk show vari-ety. Rainn Wilson gets meta-physical on his channel “Soul Pancake.” Amy Poehler gives young women a role model with “Smart Girls.” Shaquille O’Neal flexes a new muscle with “Comedy Shaq.” Others have sought the drama of a scripted serial, like the Bryan Singer-produced sci-fi series “H+” or the female-focused “WIGS” channels from Ro-drigo Garcia (“In Treatment”) and Jon Avnet (“Fried Green Tomatoes”).

The most popular few channels typically draw 5-10 million viewers weekly. Among the usual chart-top-pers are Warner Sound, which features music videos and behind-the-scenes fea-tures on the label’s acts, WWE Fan Nation, Maker Studios (a sprawling digital network of hundreds of channels), and the gaming channel Machin-ima Prime.

Most channels, though, re-ceive less than 100,000 views per week and some draw just a few thousand.

Kyncl describes this stage as gear three of a five-shift process. The next iteration, he promises, “will be reserved for partners who by then are big, successful and growing fast” and will take them to “the next level.” The message to content brands is clear: Get on board now, or you’ll miss out.

One advance in the You-Tube viewing experience has been the launch of skippable ads, which now run on about 65 percent of videos. Mehro-tra says this is more palatable to both viewers and advertis-ers, who only pay for ads that are watched.

“TV has generally made more money by showing more and more advertising,” says Mehrotra. “Our view is that we should actually show you fewer ads but make sure the ads are actually being seen.”

Drawing a distinction – not a commonality – between YouTube and TV has become part of the mission statement. Kyncl stresses that YouTube’s content is largely short-form, and that mobile is their “first screen,” rather than TV: “We go left, TV goes right,” he says.

And it’s helping the ama-teurs catch up with the pros, handing out instruction man-uals and conducting semi-nars, meet-ups and training programs and opening “cre-ator spaces” – studios with available filmmaking equip-ment – in London and New York, with another coming this month to Los Angeles.

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‘WE’VE GOT TO GET IT BACK’

by michael carvellisports editor

Following a win against Texas in early October, things couldn’t have been going much better for the West Virginia football team.

The Mountaineers were 5-0, armed with an un-stoppable offense and had dreams of making a possi-ble trip to the BCS National Championship Game.

But after its fourth-straight Big 12 Conference loss Saturday against Okla-homa State, the team’s goals heading into the final three games of the season have changed drastically.

“We just want to make sure we get to a bowl game,” said redshirt junior wide re-ceiver Stedman Bailey. “It’d be very disappointing if we

weren’t (in a bowl game), and we won’t let that hap-pen. That’s our goal now; just get to a bowl game.”

Since their win against Texas, the Mountaineers have been outscored by op-ponents 198-100 and have lost three games by 20 or more points. It’s the first time they’ve lost that many games by that margin in a single season since 2001.

And its four-game losing streak in Big 12 Conference play is the first four-game conference losing streak in program history.

“It just seems like we can’t find a way to win. We’re finding ways to lose,” said senior quarterback Geno Smith. “We’ve just got to figure it out. Some-how, someway, we’ve got to bounce back.

“We’ve got three weeks left. We’ve got to pick our-selves up and get off the mat and get back to work.”

Smith was considered the Heisman frontrunner after that Texas game.

Since throwing for more than 300 yards in each of the first five games of the year, Smith surpassed that number for the first time in WVU’s four losses with his 364-yard output against Oklahoma State, but is av-eraging just 261 yards per game with seven touch-downs during the slide.

“It’s heartbreaking. That’s the only way to sum it up,” Smith said. “I’ve got to fig-ure out a way to play bet-ter, obviously, and get our offense to score enough points to win the game.”

Following the loss to the

Cowboys, the players said they could start to see frus-tration building among the team, and the Mountain-eers weren’t playing to-gether with the cohesion they saw at the beginning of the season when things were going well.

“Whatever it is, some-thing’s got to change. Every-body’s got to play as a unit; everybody’s got to play for each other,” said redshirt freshman linebacker Isaiah Bruce. “We’ve got to play for fun. It’s like we’re not hav-ing fun anymore.

“With how the last cou-ple of weeks have been go-ing, it’s just not what it used to be, and we’ve got to get it back.”

Seeing how quickly things have dropped off in the matter of four games

has been difficult for the Mountaineers to handle. But it’s tougher for seniors like Smith who know this was their last chance to make their mark on WVU football.

And the senior signal caller has noticed it’s both-ering some people a little more than others.

“I don’t think it means as much to every one of us as it means to some of us,” Smith said. “It’s hard because this is my last time playing with these guys. It’s my last time suiting up in the West Vir-ginia gear. I wanted to win them all.

“I wanted to win a na-tional championship, but that’s all down the tubes now, and it’s hard.”

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Five reasons WVU will be better in 2012

Nick arthurAssociAte sports editor

It won’t take long for you to realize this is a much dif-ferent WVU men’s basketball team this season.

Guys such as Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant, who have been the face of the program during the last few seasons, have graduated, leaving be-hind redshirt sophomore Kevin Noreen and senior Deniz Kilicli as the only two names on the roster who have been around for longer than a single season.

But don’t let the uncer-tainty or lack of familiar faces lead you to believe this sea-son’s squad will be less tal-ented than 2011’s.

No, I’m not saying this team has a Final Four-cal-iber roster, but I do believe the 2012-13 Mountaineers will be better than the 19-14 team that lost its first game in the NCAA tournament a year ago.

Here are five reasons why:

Disclaimer: This column was written before WVU took on No. 19 Gonzaga late last night and do not judge the Mountaineers’ season off its performance against the very, very talented Bulldogs.

1) WVU has a true point guard

I’m not taking shots at Truck Bryant or what he was able to accomplish in his four years as a Mountaineer. How-ever, Bryant was more of a scorer than a distributor. I’ve always been a fan of a point guard who makes sure the offense is set up and run ef-fectively, doesn’t turn the ball over and makes the right pass to the right players at the right time.

Dayton transfer Juwan Staten appears to be exactly that. He recorded six assists and zero turnovers in WVU’s exhibition win against Glen-ville State and has poten-tial to be one of the better point guards in the Big 12 Conference.

2) DepthWith 10 players on the ros-

ter who have logged legiti-mate playing time at the Di-vision I level, this is one of the deepest teams Bob Hug-gins has had while in Mor-gantown. There’s no reason to think this team can’t play 10-12 guys game in and game out. And with how hard Hug-gins demands his teams play, this could definitely work to West Virginia’s advantage.

3) Athleticism From point guard Juwan

Staten to center Aaric Murray and many in between, this is the most athletic team I’ve seen in Morgantown in quite some time. Even freshmen Eron Harris and Terry Hen-derson have shown some bounce. And again, with the style of play Huggins likes to exhibit, this is just another team quality that can work in the Mountaineers’ favor.

4) ExperienceNot to be confused with

the depth at the Mountain-eers’ disposal, this team is also experienced. Granted, there are only three play-ers on the entire roster who aren’t listed as a freshman or sophomore. But compared to last season, this team is more experienced. I can’t tell you how many times coach Hug-gins would sit at the podium a year ago and talk about how it was if no one on the team knew where to go or what to do when on the court.

5) SizeTransfer Aaric Mur-

ray (6’10”) and a much fit-ter Deniz Kilicli (6’10”) will set the tone for a large front court. A healthy Kevin Nor-een (6’10”), Ukraine native Volodymyr Gerun (6’10”) and a more experienced Dominique Rutledge (6’8”) will provide size off the bench. Remember, though, Gerun must sit out the first six games because of NCAA regulations.

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mEN’S SOCCER

mountaineers miss Ncaa tournament

Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMWest Virginia wide receiver Stedman Bailey walks off the field after the Mountaineers’ 55-34 loss to Oklahoma State Saturday.

WVU changing season goals after fourth-straight loss Saturday

by Doug Walpsports writer

The West Virginia men’s soccer team’s season offi-cially came to a close last night as the Mountain-eers were passed over by the official selection com-mittee for the 2012 NCAA Championship.

It’s the first time in three years that West Virginia hasn’t advanced to postsea-son play in the College Cup, and only the third time un-der current head coach Mar-lon LeBlanc that WVU has failed to advance past the conference championship stage.

“The numbers just didn’t work out in our favor this year,” LeBlanc said after the bracket was released Mon-day night. “Obviously it’s dis-appointing, but we had op-portunities to win big games and we didn’t. I think we were probably a win away, which makes it a little harder to swallow. But at the end of the day we feel good about our team, we just lost two big games this year, and the numbers game of the RPI is really what outdoes us.”

Although the Mountain-eers had faced some adver-sity away from home early on in the season, they still ap-peared to be a lock to at least to be selected for the NCAA championships up until the beginning of October.

To that point they had fallen to, but also competed with, teams like former No. 1 and defending national champion North Carolina and No.13 Wake Forest on their home pitches early in the year, while also playing to a draw against Penn State at State College.

But five losses in the Mountaineers’ final seven matches, including two shutouts at the hands of Northern Illinois and an un-der .500 team that also didn’t make the tournament, ulti-mately doomed West Vir-ginia, according to LeBlanc.

“At the end of the day we had two results in particu-lar that cost us our spot, and those were the NIU games,” LeBlanc said.

In addition to the two crit-ical losses to NIU down the stretch, West Virginia also didn’t have the benefit of playing in a power soccer conference like the Big East this season.

Eight Big East teams high-light the tournament field this year, versus a single team from the MAC – Akron, also the only MAC school ranked in the top 25 of the NSCAA Coaches’ poll throughout the year – which means the Mountaineers had a limited amount of chances to dem-onstrate their quality against higher-tier opponents down the stretch of the season, which is dominated by con-ference play.

“We had the 20th best non-conference schedule in the country, which was actually better than it was a year ago, and we did pretty well against it,” LeBlanc said. “Unfortunately, the major difference was our lack of conference strength. Our strength of schedule from our conference re-ally hurt us in a big way this year.”

LeBlanc also pointed to the fact that WVU didn’t get a full schedule in as some-thing that could have neg-atively affected their RPI. West Virginia was sched-

uled to play Stony Brook, a top 50 RPI team, at home in their second to last regular season match of the season, but it was eventually can-celled because of Hurricane Sandy.

But again, WVU also didn’t get a winning result in any of the few chances that they did have to play against teams that were ranked in the NCAA’s top 25 this year. The most frustrating part from the Mountaineers’ per-spective has to be that they only lost all by a single goal to all four of those teams, so it’s feasible that they could have defeated or at least played a draw against any one of those four opponents. (No. 1 Akron, No. 3 North Caro-lina, No. 13 Wake Forest and No. 23 Elon)

West Virginia will return just two seniors in 2013 while losing both its goal-keepers, starter Pat Eaven-son and backup Yale Tiley, as well as three of its four

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patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeuMWest Virginia head coach Marlon LeBlanc and the West Virginia men’s soccer team missed the NCAA tournament when the bracket was revealed on Monday.

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With no BCS bowl aspira-tions left on the line for West Virginia, the Mountaineers are trying to salvage what is left of the 2012 season.

Head coach Dana Hol-gorsen and the Mountain-eers are not giving up on the season and will look to avoid a five-game losing streak when No. 12 Okla-homa comes to Morgan-town this week.

“We’re still fighting for the same thing that we were a couple weeks ago, which is to get better each week, try to win the game and try to improve our bowl status and figure out why we play this game that we love,” Hol-gorsen said.

West Virginia has found every way to lose through-out the past month. They have lost in upset fashion a month ago against Texas Tech, lost via the blowout to No. 1 Kansas State, lost in a devastating heartbreaker

in double overtime to TCU and made what Holgorsen called “junior high mis-takes” that led to a loss to Oklahoma State.

“We’re looking for bodies that play with a tremendous amount of effort because it means a lot to them,” Hol-gorsen said. “We will con-tinue to look for guys that bring effort, bring energy, get out there and play hard because playing the game of football means a lot to them.”

During the Big 12 tele-conference, Holgorsen said he played sophomore wide receiver Connor Arlia and redshirt senior wide re-ceiver Ryan Nehlen because they were guys who care about football. And the two of them will need to step up after news that junior wide receiver Ivan McCartney left the team for personal rea-sons and along with fresh-man Travares Copeland be-came the second receiver to leave the team in the last five days.

Holgorsen will need all of his players on board this week if he wants his team to upset Oklahoma.

“Your goal every week is get your guys ready to play, get your guys excited to play. You start to lean on some of your seniors at this point to finish the year strong,” he said.

WVU’s offense will be tested against one of the top pass defenses in the country this week. Okla-homa has not allowed an opposing quarterback to throw for 300 yards all sea-son long. Geno Smith, who has thrown for more than 300 yards in five games this season, will face a different style of defense for the first time.

“We’ve seen a lot of zone coverage, drop seven to drop six. These guys are a man coverage team, they got tremendous athletes. They have tremendous foot-ball players. They have big thick guys up front against the run and about six guys

that can cover,” Holgorsen said.

But no matter what scheme Oklahoma runs, Holgorsen claims it is the effort with which they play that puts them over the top.

“Bob Stoops is a great de-fensive football coach. I’ve competed against them for many years; the one thing that never changes is the effort they play with and nastiness they play with,” Holgorsen said. “They play with a tremendous amount of energy, and regardless of what the scheme is, that may be more important than anything.”

If West Virginia cannot match the intensity Okla-homa plays with, Hol-gorsen knows it could be a long day.

“Our approach needs to be ready to play the game. We need to be excited to play the game. We need to get fired up about the op-portunity,” Holgorsen said.

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Holgorsen, WVU not giving up on 2012 season

Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMWest Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen exits the field after the Mountaineers’ 55-34 loss to Oklahoma State Saturday.

Cross Country

by jon feHrenssports writer

In only her second race of the season, junior Sarah-Anne Brault not only ran her lifetime-best 6k time but also individually qual-ified for the NCAA cham-pionships next weekend in Louisville, Ky.

Brault finished the race in seventh place with a time of 20:35. This will be Brault’s third-straight trip to the NCAA championships.

“I am really happy that I qualified. The entire season is bascailly based off nation-als,” Brault said. “It is hard to qualify for a team but just as hard to qualify indvidually. It is just a relief.”

Brault is no stranger when it comes to competing in the biggest races of the season. But when anyone enters the national spotlight by them-selves, nerves can become a factor.

“Every time you race in nationals, you learn about yourself. It is a race like no other,” Brault said. “You have to try and treat this race just like a normal race and try not to get nervous about it.

“There are so many fast people, and the crowd re-ally gets into it. There won’t be any surprises for me, so I just need to deal with my nerves and my emotions the best I can.”

Brault will continue to work with head coach Sean Cleary this week to prepare for the championship with a hard workout Tuesday but will ease up as the week

goes on. Cleary said he likes where

Brault is right now and that if she has a repeat perfor-mance of this past week-end’s race, she can come away very happy.

“Brault has been getting better by the week. We are very happy for Sarah that she has found her way back into the national champion-ship,” he said. “Should Sarah find a way to run a similar race next weekend, she will emerge very happy from na-tionals. I feel like she has a little more in her. If she finds it, she can garner some seri-ous hardware.”

Brault will make head-lines for having such an outstanding race and qual-ifying for the NCAA champi-onships, but the work of her freshman teammates give West Virginia cross country a very bright future.

Freshmen Kelly Williams and Sydney Scott both ran personal-best times and crossed the line second and third for the Mountaineers.

Seeing results like this from freshmen has Cleary already looking forward to next season. Next year’s team will not be a re-loading one but one with experience.

“We return next year with a team with experience. I would expect that the younger girls that watched their team run so well on the weekend will become inspired, and a new gener-ation of elite distance will emerge,” Cleary said.

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WVu SportS infoJunior runner Sarah-Anne Brault competes in a race last season.

WVU ends fall seasonbrault runs personal best time in 6K to qualify for nCaas

by sHea Ulisneysports writer

The WVU rowing team ended its fall season by win-ning five medals Saturday at the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J.

“Our novice and varsity squads put together an over-all solid day of racing,” said Mountaineer head coach Jimmy King. “There are of course many, many things on which we need and will continue to improve, but for where we are at this point of the year, the results were good.

The Mountaineers started the race placing first, second and fourth in the women’s open doubles competition, with the “A” crew finishing with a time of 8:02.05, the “B” crew finishing with a time of 8:09.92 and the “C” crew finishing with a time of 8:22.89.

In the novice eight the West Virginia “A” crew of Al-ison Coates, Summer So-cha, Angelica Fell, Sue Hart-love, Kim May, Mary Beth Bulriss, Kendra Welker, Tif-fany Hatcher and coxswain Sarah Dodd finished first in their race with a time of 8:17.76. The novice eight “B” crew finished with a time of 8:41.85 for a fourth-place finish.

The novice four “A” crew of Alison Coates, Sue Hart-love, Angelica Fell, Tiffany Hatcher and coxswain Alli-son Arnold crossed the fin-ish line in 9:01.27 for first place in their flight. The West Virginia “B” crew fin-ished second in their race, and the Mountaineers “C” crew finished third.

In the varsity four, the “A” crew of Courtney Schrand, Karen Verwey, Elizabeth

Kantak, Jessica Hurlbert and coxswain Ellen Shu-lar, finished first with a time of 8:04.05. The “B” crew of Mary Ignatiadis, Hilary Meale, Kelly Kramer, Mol-lie Rosen and Caitlin Mad-amba finished with a time of 8:09.68 for a first-place fin-ish. WVU’s “C” crew finished second in the third race.

The Mountaineers de-feated George Mason a team which, according to King, is West Virginia’s reg-ular competition.

The varsity eight, the “A” crew of Courtney Schrand, Karen Verwey, Jessica Hurl-bert, Danielle Widecrantz, Brianna Dendler, Danika Rencken, Kelly Kramer, Eliz-abeth Kantak and coxswain Mallory Fisher finished sec-ond in the first race with a time of 7:12.11. The “B” crew finished third in their second race with a time of 7:37.06.

The Mountaineers used this weekend to focus on providing quality racing op-portunities for the group as a whole rather than focusing on individual crews.

By the time the eights raced, many of the row-ers had already been to the line once earlier in the day – some twice, according to King.

“Despite the fatigue fac-tor, the eights rowed rela-tively well from start to finish in their races. I was particu-larly pleased to see how well they responded to charges made by other crews in the midst of racing,” King said. “Although we didn’t win in those events, there were a lot of good things occur-ring that we can build upon as we continue working to-wards the spring.”

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Lakers hire Mike D’Antoni as new coach after Brown firingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The

Los Angeles Lakers hired Mike D’Antoni late Sunday night, signing the former coach of the Suns and Knicks to replace Mike Brown.

The Lakers and D’Antoni’s agent, Warren LeGarie, con-firmed the deal two days af-ter the Lakers fired Brown five games into the season.

D’Antoni agreed to a three-year deal worth $12 million, with a team option for a fourth season.

D’Antoni got the high-profile job running the 16-time NBA champions only after the club’s top brass ex-tensively discussed the job with former Lakers coach Phil Jackson.

The 11-time NBA cham-pion coach met with Lak-ers owners Jerry and Jim Buss and general manager Mitch Kupchak on Saturday to weigh a return for a third stint on Los Angeles’ bench.

The Lakers instead went with D’Antoni, a respected offensive strategist who coached Lakers point guard Steve Nash in Phoenix dur-ing the best years of their re-spective careers. D’Antoni was less successful during four seasons in New York, but at least restored the once-moribund Knicks to competence before resign-ing last March.

“Dr. (Jerry) Buss, Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak unani-mously agreed that Mike was the best coach for this roster at this time,” Lakers spokes-man John Black said.

The 61-year-old D’Antoni underwent knee replace-ment surgery earlier this month, and could be physi-cally limited early in his ten-ure. Black said the Lakers aren’t certain when D’Antoni will travel to Los Angeles to begin work.

Interim coach Bernie Bickerstaff will continue running the Lakers until D’Antoni arrives. Los Ange-les beat Sacramento 103-90 on Sunday night, improving to 2-0 under Bickerstaff after a 1-4 start under Brown.

The Lakers’ next game is Tuesday night against San Antonio at Staples Center.

After Brown’s dismissal, Nash and Kobe Bryant both expressed enthusiasm about the prospect of playing for D’Antoni, although Bryant also campaigned eagerly for Jackson.

Bryant idolized D’Antoni while growing up in Italy, where D’Antoni was a star player for Olimpia Milano in the Italian pro league. D’Antoni also has been an assistant coach on various U.S. national teams featur-ing Bryant, including the

gold medal-winning squad at the London Olympics.

Nash won two MVP awards while running D’Antoni’s signature up-tempo offense for the final four seasons of the coach’s five-year tenure with the Suns.

Nash and D’Antoni won at least 54 games each sea-son and reached two West-ern Conference finals — and they eliminated Bryant’s Lakers from the first round of the playoffs in 2006 and 2007, still the only first-round exits of Kobe’s 17-year career.

D’Antoni then coached New York to just one play-off appearance and no post-season victories. He also coached the Denver Nuggets during the lockout-short-ened 1998-99 season.

But his NBA accomplish-ments can’t measure up to Jackson, who won five titles and reached seven NBA fi-nals during two stints to-taling 11 seasons with Los Angeles.

Jackson walked away from the club 18 months ago af-ter a second-round playoff sweep by Dallas, and Brown led Los Angeles to a 41-25 mark followed by another second-round playoff defeat last summer.

The Lakers then traded for Nash and Dwight Howard,

setting up a season of enor-mous expectations for Brown — but the Lakers struggled to learn his new, Princeton-in-fluenced offense while play-ing mediocre defense.

After the Lakers stumbled out of the gate while How-ard and Bryant missed pre-season games to preserve their health, Nash incurred a small fracture in his leg

during the Lakers’ second regular-season game, keep-ing him out of the lineup for their past five games and for at least another week.

The Lakers have improved to 3-4 under Bickerstaff af-ter following up their winless preseason with four losses in their first five regular-season games, the club’s worst start since 1993.

apThen-New York Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni reacts during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game against the New Jersey Nets at Madison Square Garden.

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top point scorers, center back Eric Schoenle, forward Uwem Etuk and midfielder Travis Pittman. The leader-ship of forwards Peabo Doue and Shadow Sebele will also be sorely missed, as the two talented seniors combined for 24 goals and 85 points over their careers at WVU.

But LeBlanc isn’t worried too worried about reloading after seeing just how capable his underclassmen were this season.

“I think one of the pleas-ant things we saw out of this team this year was that we had so many different players that were able to contribute,” LeBlanc said. “The fact that we have so many guys that have played a lot of minutes for us and got goals is some-thing you feel good about.

“So we feel good about the players and what we’re doing and the position that these guys can have us in next year.”

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Tuesday November 13, 201210 | SPORTS

WOmEN’S BASKETBAll

Wvu avoids upset in 60-57 win over boston

VOllEyBAll

West virginia falls to baylor in three straight sets by austiN seiDel

sports writer

The West Virginia volley-ball team extended its los-ing streak to 13 games Sat-urday after losing to Baylor in three straight sets (25-23, 25-12, 25-16). Follow-ing the loss, West Virginia head coach Jill Kramer praised her team’s game plan against the Bears.

“I think that was the most intricate match plan against a team that we’ve had all year,” Kramer said. “I was very proud of the way we executed that plan in the first set. That was the differ-ence between the first set and the rest of the match; we managed our attack well but also defended the other team pretty well.”

Kramer’s Mountain-eers played a solid first set against the Bears as the young West Virginia team pounded out 12 kills and blocked two strong shots from Baylor’s hitters to pull the match even at 23.

Junior middle blocker Ar-ielle Allen recorded a per-fect first set, while convert-ing on all three of her kill attempts as well as placing a key block early in the set to help WVU draw even with Baylor at six all.

“This season, I’ve moved

around a lot,” Allen said. “I’ve gotten very comfort-able playing middle, and with the work I’ve done in the gym during the week, I feel good about today.”

Allen’s sentiments to-ward her own game were not shared by the Moun-taineers’ freshman outside hitter Hannah Sackett, who lamented at her own per-formance despite placing double-digit digs in a game where digs were vital to keeping offensive posses-sions alive.

“I’m not very happy with how I played,” Sackett said. “Obviously, there’s always room to push forward and just be smarter offensively and defensively. I’m just excited to get back into the gym and work on the things I did not do well on today.”

Kramer defended Sack-ett’s defensive performance as well, citing the need for better defensive play against opposing middle at-tacks that have plagued the Mountaineers during their Big 12 Conference schedule.

“Double-digit digs is re-ally good,” Kramer said. “The last two matches, middles have hit over .700 against us; that’s unreal. We’ve really made a con-certed effort to give our players a better idea of what

the middles are doing.”The Mountaineers strug-

gled in the second set, as they have for majority of the season, losing 25-12 and providing Baylor with a two-sets-to-none lead heading into the third set. Weighed down by a flat zero hit per-centage, West Virginia pro-vided little resistance to the Baylor attack led by red-shirt junior Zoe Adom, who accounted for 15 kills for the Bears in a dominating performance.

“Going into the match, we knew (Adom) was going to get her kills,” said Kramer. “She’s a tough player stop, but I felt like we defended (Baylor’s) middles well overall.”

The final set of the match began in a similar fashion to the first, as both teams locked into a seesaw battle until Baylor chiseled out a 10-2 run to give them the 25-16 set victory as well as the match.

The Mountaineers will have a difficult finale to their schedule as they take on No. 3 Texas in Austin, Texas, and then return home for their final home match against No. 20 Iowa State. Their sea-son ends with a match on road against TCU Nov. 24.

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The West Virginia volleyball lost its 13th consecutive game Saturday against Baylor.

soccerContinued from PAGE 7

patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeuMSenior center Ayana Dunning led the West Virginia women’s basketball team in its 60-57 victory against Boston University Monday night.

by amit batrasports writer

In an early non-conference test, the No. 14 West Virginia women’s basketball team trav-eled to Boston University for a showdown Monday night in the second game of the season.

The Mountaineers were able to bounce back from first half struggles to outscore BU 32-24 in the second half en route to a 60-57 thriller in Case Gym.

WVU struggled in the first half and trailed 33-28 at half-time while shooting just 27.8 percent from the field (10-of-36) and 20 percent from three-point range (2-of-10).

Still, BU was able to shoot a very impressive 55.6 per-cent from the field on 10-of-18 shooting. The Terriers also shot 37.8 percent from beyond the arc.

Junior guards Christal Caldwell and Taylor Palmer struggled, as each player had only two points in the first half. Palmer and Caldwell made just two of their 14 attempts from the field and missed all five three-point attempts.

Senior center Ayana Dun-ning recorded her second con-secutive double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. She also recorded four blocks and a steal.

Sophomore forward Crystal Leary contributed 11 points and two steals off the bench. Soph-omore forward Averee Fields also had 11 points for West Virginia.

WVU had problems contain-ing the Terriers’ senior guard Chantell Alford, who had 30 points, nine rebounds, two as-sists, a steal and a block. Bos-ton’s senior guard Mo Moran added 12 points and five assists.

West Virginia shot 35.7 per-cent from the field and 23.1 per-cent from deep on the night.

West Virginia increased its defensive pressure in the sec-ond half, as BU went from 55.6 percent from the field in the first half to an average 38.3 percent.

For the second straight game, the Mountaineers were able to control turning the ball over af-ter a 14-turnover performance against UNCW in the season opener. Against the Terriers, WVU only had 13 turnovers.

Boston won the rebounding advantage 34-28, assist advan-tage 12-7 and had more blocks with a 6-5 edge.

West Virginia (2-0) used its star center Dunning to carry the load in the second half as it was down by eight points with 12 minutes left before a vicious Mountaineer rally. WVU tied the game at 45-45.

The lead changed hands when WVU jumped on a 12-5 run and to a seven-point lead at one point. The Terriers re-sponded and answered seven of their own to tie the game at 57-57 with 29 seconds remaining.

With Dunning hitting a shot from the charity stripe after a personal foul, the lead was in the Mountaineers favor at 58-57. The senior missed the sec-ond, but Fields won the offen-sive rebound and handed it to Dunning, and the senior was fouled once again.

The center would hit both free throws to give WVU a 60-57 advantage.

With two seconds remaining, the Terriers inbounded the ball to Alford, who missed the ty-ing three-point jumper to seal the deal.

WVU had 24 points from its bench and 34 points in the paint on the night.

The Mountaineers will re-turn to Morgantown for a home game this Saturday against USC Upstate at 1 p.m.

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