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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.” T HE D AILY A THENAEUM TUESDAY AUGUST 24, 2010 VOLUME 124, ISSUE 3 www.THEDAONLINE.com da The success of the West Virginia cross country will heavily depend on senior Kaylyn Christopher. See page 7. 74° / 61° FEW SHOWERS INSIDE News: 1, 3 Opinion: 4 A&E: 8, 10 Sports: 5, 7 Campus Calendar: 6 Puzzles: 6 Classifieds: 8, 9 CONTACT US Newsroom 304-293-5092 or [email protected] Advertising 304-293-4141 or [email protected] Fax 304-293-6857 The West Virginia football team and assistant coach Lonnie Galloway has its go-to receivers, but it is looking to fill one more position. SPORTS PAGE 5 GALLOWAY’S GROUP INSIDE THIS EDITION Check out the 123 Pleasant Street alternative. A&E PAGE 8 & 10 FALLFEST COVERAGE Ken Hechler, US Senate candidate, to speak at WVU BY TRAVIS CRUM CITY EDITOR West Virginia University will play host to a campaign speech by one of the 15 can- didates for the U.S. Senate. Ken Hechler, a 95-year-old former West Virginia Secre- tary of State and U.S. Con- gressman and democrat from Huntington, will be speaking in the Mountainlair at 7 p.m. today to raise sup- port for his campaign. He plans to tell students and Morgantown residents about an issue that is ruin- ing the state, he said. “Mountaintop removal is my number one issue, and it will be the first bill I will introduce into the Senate,” he said. “This is the most devas- tating form of mining, when the coal industry blasts off the tops of mountains and dumps the trees, rocks and soil down into people’s yards in the valleys.” Mountaintop removal mining is a process of ex- tracting coal from a moun- tain’s coal seam by removing the layer above it. Hechler said this pro- cess pollutes air, water and soil and could lead to health problems for West Virginians. Recently, Hechler re- ceived an endorsement by key environmental move- ment groups such as Sierra Club West Virginia. Jim Kotcom, Sierra Club West Virginia Political Com- mittee chair, said his group was excited about the work Hechler is planning. Kotcom said WVU stu- dents should get more in- volved in environmental is- sues within the state. “It’s the Mountain State, why wouldn’t we care about mountains?” Kotcom said. “How can we have Moun- taineers if there are no mountains?” Hechler would like to meet with members of WVU’s Si- erra Club Coalition to listen to their concerns about the issue. Members of the club are also looking forward to meeting with him. “I’m excited to see him speak, because he is a good candidate for West Virginia,” said Meredith Brown, orga- nizer for the Sierra Club Co- alition. “I look forward to hearing what he has to say about state policies.” Brown said she hopes students in attendance will learn more about the issue, even those from out of state. “I would like people to understand how this mining process does relate to them,” she said. “(Many states) are using coal from mountain- top mining sites that are re- sponsible for destroying mountains across the state.” Hechler said he decided to enter the Senate race because he was not satis- fied with Gov. Joe Manchin “electing himself,” he said. [email protected] BY MACKENZIE MAYS ASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR Chants of “Luda” were heard throughout the densely packed Mountainlair Green Monday night, as rapper Lud- acris attracted one of the larg- est and most intense FallFest crowds in recent years. Ludacris gave a high-energy show, performing old favor- ites like “Act A Fool” and new hits like “My Chick Bad,” past midnight, making the crowd quick to forget the delay be- tween sets. Erin Carver, a senior psy- chology and child develop- ment major at West Virginia University, said Ludacris’ performance exceeded her expectations. “I’m a huge fan of Ludac- ris, mainly because he’s been on the rap scene forever, and I’ve grown up listening to his music,” Carver said. “He had a lot to live up to tonight, and he definitely didn’t disappoint anyone here. He did an amaz- ing job and kept the crowd go- ing from start to finish.” Despite the intermittent rain, fellow headliner Maroon 5 promised a good time. “I love the rain; it don’t mat- ter. I say bring that s--t on,” said lead singer Adam Levine to pump up the crowd, open- ing with current hit single “Misery.” The band gave energy- packed performances with hits like “Harder To Breathe” New student groups created to focus on diversity BY NICK ASHLEY STAFF WRITER Two new student organi- zations have started to serve African-American students at West Virginia University. The WVU student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists began in the spring semester and in June was officially accepted by NABJ. WVU NABJ is committed to diversity and providing opportunities for black stu- dents, said Morgan Young, NABJ president and senior print journalism major. “It allows you to meet many great people,” Young said. “I received an internship through NABJ. It was a great experience.” Bringing diversity to cam- pus and opening up opportu- nities are some of the benefits of NABJ, Young said. Two members, Chelsea Fuller, NABJ vice president, and Brandon Radcliffe, NABJ member, attended the 2010 NABJ Annual Convention and Career Fair in San Diego this past summer. “This group can offer a di- rect chance to network with professional people,” Rad- cliffe said. “The people in this group truly care about stu- dents and want to see them successful in the future.” The group has various plans for its first year as a recognized WVU student organization. “Right now, we are try- ing to plan a mentoring pro- gram through the Journalism school,” Young said. They are also working on putting together a basketball tournament, chili cook-off and community service proj- ects through organizations such as the Red Cross and the Bartlett House, Young said. NABJ is also looking at or- ganizing a flag football game, bake sales on campus and pizza parties, Radcliffe said. Another black student organization starting this year is the Black Graduate Association. Members of the organiza- tion began doing research this summer, networked with students at other universities and received support from the National Black Gradu- ate Student Association, said Robert Wells, president of BGA, in an e-mail. “We were inspired by Pres- ident Clements’ desire to in- crease the diversity of WVU’s learning community,” Wells said. “There was a shared in- terest amongst graduate stu- dents to start up BGA for the purpose of networking and fellowship.” BGA plans on being active this year with community ser- vice projects, roundtable dis- cussions, networking and so- cial events as well as an end of year banquet, Wells said. Their first event is a mixer on Sept. 3. Wells hopes these events will help students academ- ically as well as provide a positive environment for them. “In these social settings, we are able to talk about the chal- lenges of academia, gain new perspectives and improve our community,” Wells said. The group has several goals, which include serving graduate students at WVU and becoming an affiliate member of NBGSA. “I want BGA to further prove that WVU is a preemi- nent institution where peo- ple from all backgrounds and walks of life learn from one another as we engage in in- novative research,” Wells said. [email protected] Faculty Senate discusses new policy for graduate students’ ‘incompletes’ BY JESSICA LEPPAR CORRESPONDENT Faculty Senate members discussed a change to the grading policy for graduate students at Monday’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting. e change would affect graduate students conduct- ing research in an attempt to limit the use of “I” (incom- plete) grades. “e grade of ‘I’ should not be used as a routine place- holder for grades for the graduate courses,” said Jon- athan Cumming, associate provost for Graduate Aca- demic Affairs. Cumming proposed that faculty members use the grades “S” (satisfactory) and “U” (unsatisfactory) in place of incomplete grades. “S” and “U” grades would not be used in the calculation of GPA. is allows graduate students to maintain their av- erage GPA without overly in- flating or deflating the stu- dent’s overall GPA, Cumming said. Beginning this semes- ter, all “I” grades that have been on a transcript for lon- ger than three years would be converted to “INC” (per- manent incomplete) grades by course instructors, Cum- ming said. If the course instructor is no longer at the institution, chairs or deans would then convert the students’ grades. If students are currently conducting research in their program with “I’s” on their transcripts, the “I” grades would be changed to high- light the work done during the semester it was issued as long as it was before Aug. 15, Cumming said. Starting in the fall 2010 se- mester, “I” grades would no longer be issued unless the coursework is unavoidably incomplete. e “S” and “U” grades for these courses should be ap- plied for the same semester in which the student has reg- istered for the course, Cum- ming said. This allows students to know the satisfaction level of their work for successful graduate study, he said. One subsequent “U” grade in research for master’s stu- dents or two subsequent “U” grades for doctoral students may lead to suspension or dismissal, Cumming said. Incomplete grades will no longer stay on transcripts while they wait for students to defend their theses or dis- sertation, Cumming said. Faculty members dis- cussed developing a rubric, which would assist students in determining whether their research studies were considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory. The proposition for the new grading system will go to the graduate council for fur- ther review before being dis- cussed further in the Senate. In other news, faculty members discussed possibly changing the hours required to obtain a bachelors degree from 128 to 120 hours in the future. e issue was brought up Despite showers, FallFest brings an intense, energy-packed crowd CHECK US OUT ON iWVU In addition to our print coverage, The Daily Athenaeum posts version of its print edition on iWVU. Download it in the iTunes Store. see GRADES on PAGE 3 To see more coverage on FallFest, 123 Pleasant Street’s alternative FallFest and more of the interview with Kris Allen, read page10. FOR MORE INFORMATION FallFest was ‘Ludacris’ MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Fans cheer on Ludacris when he asks where the ‘Independent Women’ are in the crowd at West Virginia University sponsored FallFest Monday evening. see FALLFEST on PAGE 3 MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Kris Allen plays on stage in front of the early FallFest crowd.
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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUMTUESDAY AUGUST 24, 2010 VOLUME 124, ISSUE 3www.THEDAONLINE.comda
The success of the West Virginia cross country will heavily depend on senior Kaylyn Christopher. See page 7.
74° / 61° FEW SHOWERS
INSIDENews: 1, 3Opinion: 4A&E: 8, 10Sports: 5, 7
Campus Calendar: 6Puzzles: 6Classifi eds: 8, 9
CONTACT USNewsroom 304-293-5092 or [email protected] 304-293-4141 or [email protected] 304-293-6857
The West Virginia football team and assistant coach Lonnie Galloway has its go-to receivers, but it is looking to fi ll one more position.SPORTS PAGE 5
GALLOWAY’S GROUP
INSIDE THIS EDITION
Check out the 123 Pleasant Street alternative.A&E PAGE 8 & 10
FALLFEST COVERAGE
Ken Hechler, US Senate candidate, to speak at WVU
BY TRAVIS CRUMCITY EDITOR
West Virginia University will play host to a campaign speech by one of the 15 can-didates for the U.S. Senate.
Ken Hechler, a 95-year-old former West Virginia Secre-tary of State and U.S. Con-gressman and democrat from Huntington, will be speaking in the Mountainlair at 7 p.m. today to raise sup-port for his campaign.
He plans to tell students and Morgantown residents about an issue that is ruin-ing the state, he said.
“Mountaintop removal is my number one issue, and it will be the first bill I will introduce into the Senate,” he said.
“This is the most devas-tating form of mining, when the coal industry blasts off the tops of mountains and dumps the trees, rocks and soil down into people’s yards in the valleys.”
Mountaintop removal mining is a process of ex-tracting coal from a moun-tain’s coal seam by removing the layer above it.
Hechler said this pro-cess pollutes air, water and soil and could lead to health problems for West Virginians.
Recently, Hechler re-ceived an endorsement by key environmental move-ment groups such as Sierra Club West Virginia.
Jim Kotcom, Sierra Club West Virginia Political Com-
mittee chair, said his group was excited about the work Hechler is planning.
Kotcom said WVU stu-dents should get more in-volved in environmental is-sues within the state.
“It’s the Mountain State, why wouldn’t we care about mountains?” Kotcom said. “How can we have Moun-taineers if there are no mountains?”
Hechler would like to meet with members of WVU’s Si-erra Club Coalition to listen to their concerns about the issue.
Members of the club are also looking forward to meeting with him.
“I’m excited to see him speak, because he is a good candidate for West Virginia,” said Meredith Brown, orga-nizer for the Sierra Club Co-alition. “I look forward to hearing what he has to say about state policies.”
Brown said she hopes students in attendance will learn more about the issue, even those from out of state.
“I would like people to understand how this mining process does relate to them,” she said. “(Many states) are using coal from mountain-top mining sites that are re-sponsible for destroying mountains across the state.”
Hechler said he decided to enter the Senate race because he was not satis-fied with Gov. Joe Manchin “electing himself,” he said.
BY MACKENZIE MAYSASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR
Chants of “Luda” were heard throughout the densely packed Mountainlair Green Monday night, as rapper Lud-acris attracted one of the larg-est and most intense FallFest crowds in recent years.
Ludacris gave a high-energy show, performing old favor-ites like “Act A Fool” and new hits like “My Chick Bad,” past midnight, making the crowd quick to forget the delay be-tween sets.
Erin Carver, a senior psy-chology and child develop-ment major at West Virginia University, said Ludacris’ performance exceeded her expectations.
“I’m a huge fan of Ludac-ris, mainly because he’s been on the rap scene forever, and I’ve grown up listening to his
music,” Carver said. “He had a lot to live up to tonight, and he defi nitely didn’t disappoint anyone here. He did an amaz-ing job and kept the crowd go-ing from start to fi nish.”
Despite the intermittent rain, fellow headliner Maroon 5 promised a good time.
“I love the rain; it don’t mat-ter. I say bring that s--t on,” said lead singer Adam Levine to pump up the crowd, open-ing with current hit single “Misery.”
The band gave energy-packed performances with hits like “Harder To Breathe”
New student groups created to focus on diversityBY NICK ASHLEY
STAFF WRITER
Two new student organi-zations have started to serve African-American students at West Virginia University.
The WVU student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists began in the spring semester and in June was officially accepted by NABJ.
WVU NABJ is committed to diversity and providing opportunities for black stu-dents, said Morgan Young, NABJ president and senior print journalism major.
“It allows you to meet many great people,” Young said. “I received an internship through NABJ. It was a great experience.”
Bringing diversity to cam-pus and opening up opportu-nities are some of the benefits of NABJ, Young said.
Two members, Chelsea
Fuller, NABJ vice president, and Brandon Radcliffe, NABJ member, attended the 2010 NABJ Annual Convention and Career Fair in San Diego this past summer.
“This group can offer a di-rect chance to network with professional people,” Rad-cliffe said. “The people in this group truly care about stu-dents and want to see them successful in the future.”
The group has various plans for its first year as a recognized WVU student organization.
“Right now, we are try-ing to plan a mentoring pro-gram through the Journalism school,” Young said.
They are also working on putting together a basketball tournament, chili cook-off and community service proj-ects through organizations such as the Red Cross and the Bartlett House, Young said.
NABJ is also looking at or-
ganizing a flag football game, bake sales on campus and pizza parties, Radcliffe said.
Another black student organization starting this year is the Black Graduate Association.
Members of the organiza-tion began doing research this summer, networked with students at other universities and received support from the National Black Gradu-ate Student Association, said Robert Wells, president of BGA, in an e-mail.
“We were inspired by Pres-ident Clements’ desire to in-crease the diversity of WVU’s learning community,” Wells said.
“There was a shared in-terest amongst graduate stu-dents to start up BGA for the purpose of networking and fellowship.”
BGA plans on being active this year with community ser-vice projects, roundtable dis-
cussions, networking and so-cial events as well as an end of year banquet, Wells said. Their first event is a mixer on Sept. 3.
Wells hopes these events will help students academ-ically as well as provide a positive environment for them.
“In these social settings, we are able to talk about the chal-lenges of academia, gain new perspectives and improve our community,” Wells said.
The group has several goals, which include serving graduate students at WVU and becoming an affiliate member of NBGSA.
“I want BGA to further prove that WVU is a preemi-nent institution where peo-ple from all backgrounds and walks of life learn from one another as we engage in in-novative research,” Wells said.
Faculty Senate discusses new policy for graduate students’ ‘incompletes’
BY JESSICA LEPPARCORRESPONDENT
Faculty Senate members discussed a change to the grading policy for graduate students at Monday’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting.
Th e change would aff ect graduate students conduct-ing research in an attempt to limit the use of “I” (incom-plete) grades.
“Th e grade of ‘I’ should not be used as a routine place-holder for grades for the graduate courses,” said Jon-athan Cumming, associate provost for Graduate Aca-demic Aff airs.
Cumming proposed that faculty members use the grades “S” (satisfactory) and “U” (unsatisfactory) in place of incomplete grades.
“S” and “U” grades would not be used in the calculation of GPA. Th is allows graduate students to maintain their av-erage GPA without overly in-fl ating or defl ating the stu-dent’s overall GPA, Cumming said.
Beginning this semes-ter, all “I” grades that have been on a transcript for lon-ger than three years would be converted to “INC” (per-manent incomplete) grades by course instructors, Cum-ming said.
If the course instructor is no longer at the institution, chairs or deans would then convert the students’ grades.
If students are currently conducting research in their program with “I’s” on their transcripts, the “I” grades would be changed to high-
light the work done during the semester it was issued as long as it was before Aug. 15, Cumming said.
Starting in the fall 2010 se-mester, “I” grades would no longer be issued unless the coursework is unavoidably incomplete.
Th e “S” and “U” grades for these courses should be ap-plied for the same semester in which the student has reg-istered for the course, Cum-ming said.
This allows students to know the satisfaction level of their work for successful graduate study, he said.
One subsequent “U” grade in research for master’s stu-dents or two subsequent “U” grades for doctoral students may lead to suspension or dismissal, Cumming said.
Incomplete grades will no longer stay on transcripts while they wait for students to defend their theses or dis-sertation, Cumming said.
Faculty members dis-cussed developing a rubric, which would assist students in determining whether their research studies were considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
The proposition for the new grading system will go to the graduate council for fur-ther review before being dis-cussed further in the Senate.
In other news, faculty members discussed possibly changing the hours required to obtain a bachelors degree from 128 to 120 hours in the future.
Th e issue was brought up
Despite showers, FallFest brings an intense, energy-packed crowd
CHECK US OUT ON iWVUIn addition to our print coverage, The Daily Athenaeum posts version of its print edition on iWVU. Download it in the iTunes Store.
see GRADES on PAGE 3
To see more coverage on FallFest, 123 Pleasant Street’s alternative FallFest and more of the interview with Kris Allen, read page10.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
FallFest was ‘Ludacris’
MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFans cheer on Ludacris when he asks where the ‘Independent Women’ are in the crowd at West Virginia University sponsored FallFest Monday evening.
see FALLFEST on PAGE 3MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Kris Allen plays on stage in front of the early FallFest crowd.
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Editor’s note: This is the sec-ond in a two-part series about SGA reform.
Building an army is Ron Cheng’s way of involving a more diverse and increasing amount of students in West Virginia University’s Student Government Association.
SGA President Chris Lewal-len and Cheng, vice presi-dent, created new fields and amended past administra-tion’s ideas to allow more stu-dent involvement in the orga-nization this summer.
Lewallen said involvement increased first in the number of executives hired: 25.
“They’re working very hard. We’re trying to spread people out and get them as much in-volved in the community and city as possible,” he said. “We like to tell student govern-ment that nothing’s too big, nothing’s too small.”
InternsThe 15-member SGA Board
of Governors will now super-vise interns interested in a fu-ture SGA position.
The BOG will have first pri-ority over interns, but other members of SGA can earn interns.
“It’s a privilege, not a right,” Cheng said.
Interns will assist gover-nors on working on their plat-forms, and they will be chosen around Sept. 29, Cheng said.
Student ConnectionsCheng is now taking the
group on as his “baby for the year.” The group was started in 2007 to increase freshman in-volvement in SGA.
Student Connections will also be under the leadership of Alyson Leo and Jason Butts and will meet in Hatfields at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday eve-nings before the 7 p.m. SGA meeting.
It will be more of a “com-mittee-type atmosphere,”
Cheng said, and the group will “become a different animal” during the spring semester.
“(It will) actually be more geared towards helping peo-ple who are interested in running to be able to run if they’re not on a ticket,” Cheng said.
One information session was held last year for students interested in running for an SGA position, but this year Cheng hopes to host multiple sessions for different aspects of running including filling out packets, posters and re-serving booths.
SGA ReservesThe SGA Reserves was cre-
ated for people wanting to get involved in SGA community service, Cheng said.
“Anytime we have an event or a booth that needs to be staffed, we’ll just send a big e-mail to reserves and whoever responds, we’ll keep track of it,” he said.
Student Connections
will send the e-mail to the reserves.
Anyone can be involved in the reserves, Cheng said, and because of its partner-ship with Lyon Tower, all res-idents and those involved in the Tower will be included.
“As you can tell, we’re build-ing an army,” Cheng said.
Community Relations Committee
Lewallen said every mem-ber of SGA will be a part of the newly created Community Relations Committee.
The goal of the committee is to reach out and help peo-ple in the community, Lewal-len said.
Examples of what it might do include shoveling snow and assisting the Morgantown City Council.
Cheng said this is a key time for the SGA Reserves to get in-volved, and Lewallen hopes to involve fraternities.
Council to search for city manager this yearBY SAMANTHA COSSICK
ASSOCIATE CITY EDITOR
While the Morgantown City Council shapes the commu-nity through its decisions, its biggest goal this year is to find a new city manager.
Dan Boroff, city manager for the past 18 years, will re-tire Oct. 1.
“We have a firm that we’ve contracted with to se-lect some candidates,” Byrne said. “Then City Council will go about selecting a new city manager from that pool of candidates from that search firm.”
The council is made up of seven members elected from each ward citywide as well as the city manager, said Don Spencer, deputy mayor.
“We are the body that en-acts the ordinances, pass the laws and oversee the city
manager and make sure the job is being done correctly,” said Mayor Bill Byrne.
The Council helps the man-ager by setting policy and ad-dressing any issues that might come up, Byrne said.
The three different types of actions the City Council can take are ordinances, which become city code.
They can also make reso-lutions, which are general policy statements and proc-lamations, which are usually related to events or recogni-tion, Spencer said.
The Council meets twice each month, on the first and third Tuesdays, for regular meetings as well as the last Tuesday of each month for a Committee of the Whole meeting, he said.
“The way that most is-sues are acted upon by the City Council is that they are
brought up to the Commit-tee of the Whole, which is a discussion meeting,” he said. “After they’ve been discussed, they are brought to regular meetings to be voted on.”
It typically takes two votes to pass all ordinances with a public hearing that takes place before the second vote, he said.
The Council is also respon-sible for selecting the volun-teer personnel of the city, he said.
Currently, there are 250 staff employees of the city and 250 volunteers who serve on city boards, commissions and standing committees.
Whereas the Council elects the mayor annually, the city manager serves until he re-tires, Spencer said.
This year, the Council’s big-gest goal is to find a new city manager since The Council
also hopes to run the city so that it thrives.
“This has been a time in the nation of recovering from tough times. Although Mor-gantown has survived most of this economic downturn, we have had to do some belt tightening and be a little more conservative in our spend-ing,” Byrne said.
“Our budget this year re-flects that so we’ll be watch-ing the budget carefully,” he said.
Byrne advises students to know what is going on within the city and City Council since Morgantown will be their home for the next four or five years.
“In addition to being stu-dents of the University, they’re citizens of Morgan-town,” Byrne said.
SGA pushes for student involvement
by the West Virginia Advi-sory Council of Faculty and will be discussed further at a later date.
Michele Wheatley, provost and vice president for Aca-demic Aff airs, discussed sev-
eral new options to increase undergraduate student suc-cess rates.
Some of these include al-lowing mid-semester grades to come out during week four and providing more ac-ademic advisement tailored to each major.
GRADESContinued from PAGE 1
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and slowed the crowd down, making them sway side-to-side, lighters in hand, to slower songs like “She Will Be Loved.”
George Magnone, a soph-omore biochemistry student, was impressed by Maroon 5’s set, which made him stop to appreciate opportunities like FallFest.
“FallFest is an awesome, free chance to see a variety of genres of live music, and it basically gives you one last summer break before you have to begin all the hard work that classes bring,” he said. “It starts the year off right.”
“American Idol” winner Kris Allen also performed, singing tracks off his latest self-titled album like “The Truth” and “Live Like Your Dying.”
Junior exercise physiology
major Brittany Streets expe-rienced FallFest for the fi rst time and came out specifi -cally for Allen.
“I love Kris Allen, he has such a great style and I grew to love him while watching American Idol so it’s great now to be able to go and see him in concert and on tour,” Streets said.
Travis Zimmerman, a se-nior computer science stu-dent at Fairmont State Uni-versity and former WVU student, has attended FallFest for four years.
“A lot of students here grew up listening to Ludacris so it was great to see some-one so big right here on cam-pus,” Zimmerman said. “I like FallFest because it gives freshmen a great fi rst college experience and off ers upper-classmen a time to relax, have a drink and enjoy good mu-sic. It gives us all something to actually look forward to on the fi rst day of school.”
FALLFESTContinued from PAGE 1
MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMMaroon 5’s Adam Levine sings during a downpour to a soaked WVU crowd during FallFest 2010.
Count me among the mi-nority of Americans who sup-port the construction of the “Ground Zero mosque.”
Actually, since I happen to be a supporter and politi-cally conservative, make that the extreme minority. Th ank-fully I live in a country that, while certainly ruled by ma-jorities, has a Constitution that respects the rights of the social outcasts in the minority.
Well, kind of. When it’s a good minority, and we (that would be the majority) don’t feel too threatened by what-ever it is that particular group has planned.
But when backstabbing ter-rorist sympathizers decide they want to plant a war me-morial on the site of the worst terrorist attack in American history, who cares about what our most important founding document and the combined
weight of American jurispru-dence and legal tradition sug-gest is the right course of ac-tion. Th is is an outrage, an aff ront, a sacrilege.
And so it might be, if that was actually happening.
Yet, outside of Newt Gin-grich’s hyperbole that “Amer-ica is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political off ensive de-signed to undermine and de-stroy our civilization,” nothing of the sort is occurring.
Consider this: Th e “Ground Zero mosque” is actually a large community center com-plete with a swimming pool, gym, restaurant, 500-seat au-ditorium, day care center, li-brary and yes, an attached mosque, called Park51.
It’s not located at Ground Zero, or even visible from the site. It is being built at the site of an old Burlington Coat Fac-tory about two blocks away, and since it will stand only about 15 stories, in New York City, it is dwarfed and eas-ily swallowed up by the sur-rounding skyline.
The original name for the center was the Cordoba
House, which was intended to invoke images of the toler-ance, cultural mixing and in-ter-faith acceptance that ex-isted in the capital city of Muslim Spain during the 13th century.
Th e Muslim cleric respon-sible for the project is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a moderate who rejects violence and au-thored a book titled “What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America.”
Conservative commenta-tors have attempted (with-out a shred of evidence) to label Rauf a terrorist sympa-thizer or connect him to ter-rorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, despite the fact that an FBI investigation de-termined no such links exist, and the State Department se-lected him as the leader of a foreign service mission to the Middle East to promote mod-erate Islam and U.S. relations with the Islamic world.
Rauf has released several statements explaining that one of the goals he has for Park51 is to “push back against ex-tremists” and “elevate the dis-
course about Islam.” He hopes to demonstrate that an Islamic facility isn’t always a terror-ist factory, but instead it can serve in the same capacity as many Christian (or Jewish or Mormon) facilities do in com-munities across the country.
Th e legal arguments against Park51 are weak to non-exis-tent, so its opponents have turned to emotional ones.
Newt Gingrich said he’ll support the mosque as soon as Muslims allow a church or synagogue near Mecca – because obviously America needs to take a lesson in re-ligious tolerance from Saudi Arabia.
Others claim Ground Zero is a sacred site, and a mosque (even just in the general vicin-ity) somehow befouls or des-ecrates it. A recent Charles Krauthammer column spelled this one out in the most tactful way possible, by referencing the legal notion of “time and place concerns.”
I won’t dispute the emo-tional resonance of Ground Zero, but the power of this argument dissipates quickly
when one realizes that at least two strip clubs, a sex shop and a large off -track gambling par-lor exist within a block of the World Trade Center footprint. If these racy sites do not cast a shadow over hallowed ground, how does a place of refl ection and worship manage to do so?
Other popular lines of at-tack include “the feelings of the Sept. 11 families should be given paramount consid-eration” and “just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.”
Yet both arguments miss their marks.
Th ere is no clear consensus among the relatives of Sept. 11 victims about Park51: Some vigorously oppose it, while others strongly support it. And their opinions only mat-ter (more than yours or mine) if one interprets the mosque’s location as a provocative shot directed at them, which it clearly is not.
The latter argument ac-knowledges that by no rea-sonable legal standard should the construction of Park51 be prevented but implies that the
wave of public sentiment that considers the mosque to be in “bad taste” and an aff ront to many people’s sensibilities should be enough to discour-age Rauf and his compatriots from following through with their plan.
I could not disagree more with this position. In this sit-uation, I hope that instead Rauf embraces a motto of “because I can, I will.” Let the Park51 community center and mosque become a symbol to the world of America doing more than just paying lip ser-vice to our core values and principles.
Let it be a lesson on the pro-tections aff orded to all by a na-tion that respects the rule of law.
Let it help us understand that when we protect the rights of minorities, especially those who unsettle or disturb us, we reinforce the precedents that protect our own.
Let Park51 remind the world that America is the land of the free – not because we call our-selves that, but rather because we live it.
Complete AlcoholEdu to avoid penaltyIn an effort to curb under-
age alcohol abuse and con-sumption, West Virginia University is requiring all in-coming freshmen and un-der-21 transfers to enroll in AlcoholEdu, an online alco-hol awareness program that will be administered by WELL WVU.
While the unofficial dead-line to complete part one of the AlcoholEdu program has come and gone, new West Virginia University students still have until Sept. 3 to fin-ish the opening portion of the online program before a $50
penalty is charged to their student accounts.
To avoid the penalty, The DA would like to remind qualifying students to com-plete the program by logging on to http://well.wvu.edu/alcoholedu and following the instructions provided by WELL WVU.
Part two must be com-pleted by Sept. 25.
The program focuses on health behaviors and conse-quences associated with al-cohol consumption and takes approximately two to three hours to complete.
A quick tour of the program reveals videos, comics, car-toons, intermittent quizzes and surveys gauging relative attentiveness and personal alcohol-related behavior.
At certain points, users may be paying more atten-tion to the early 90s hairstyles than the actual content of the message.
Fortunately, it does not have to be completed in one sitting and can be finished over multiple log-ins.
Still, AlcoholEdu claims to be effective.
But then, what company
claims the services they sell aren’t?
Yes, a culture of all-night partying and binge drinking has become almost common-place at this University. And there are ample opportunities to do so.
And yes, the University needs to take steps to curb al-cohol abuse among students.
Past tragic incidents and yet another top party school ranking are clear proof of that.
But the effectiveness and the cost of this program to stu-dents has to be questioned.
Because the program is already in place, however, freshmen and transfer stu-dents should remember to enroll in and finish the course requirements before Sept. 3, if only to avoid paying the penalty.
All students required to complete AlcoholEdu should visit http://well.wvu.edu/al-coholedu to log-in and com-plete the required portions.
Besides, perhaps a few students will actually learn something.
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It’s that time of year again: I hear people griping about pay-ing their student fees. It’s a lot of money, for sure. But we get a lot of great services for our stu-dent fees.
Here are a few that are well worth taking advantage of. Un-less otherwise noted, every-thing mentioned here is free to West Virginia University students.
Student Rec CenterTh e WVU Student Recreation
Center is an amazing facility. It’s modern, comfortable, well-equipped and smells far bet-ter than most gyms. And it has more to off er than you might realize.
There are personal train-ers available for free. Whether you’re out of shape and looking
to trim up or developing a se-rious weight-lifting plan, make an appointment with one of the trainers.
First, they’ll do a compre-hensive analysis of your fi tness. Th en they’ll develop a plan for you.
And if you like, they’ll go through your workouts with you once a week, so you can be sure you’re maximizing the benefi ts of your workout rou-tine and minimizing the possi-bility of injury.
Ever considered taking up rock climbing? The climb-ing wall has free equipment to check out. And if you don’t feel like getting up on the ropes, bouldering (climbing low on the wall, so you can just jump or fall off ) is a great way to get started or to work on your form and climbing muscles.
There are classes in yoga, spinning, Zumba (I admit, I don’t know what it is, but the people in the pictures look aw-fully fi t) and probably fi fteen other things I don’t know about.
Th ere are triathlons, poker tournaments and kayak roll sessions as well as intramural sports leagues.
Th ere’s the outdoor recre-ation center that will rent you everything from snowshoes and winter camping gear to kayaks and paddles (for a small fee).
Th ey also organize trips that are a great way to get into out-door activities, help you explore some parts of West Virginia that you might not have seen, and make new friends.
LibrariesFirst off , you have access to
nearly every book ever printed through WVU Libraries.
If it’s not in the collection, you can get just about every-thing through E-ZBorrow or In-terlibrary Loan (textbooks and some not-so-popular new re-leases aren’t available).
And that’s not just stuff for classes. You can also get the latest fi ction, music instruction books and travel guides.
There are powerhouse Mac computers with mon-ster screens in the Downtown Library’s basement that you can use for movie and music editing.
Th ere are copiers you can use to scan documents or refer-ences, and you can e-mail them to yourself for free.
Th ere are reference librar-ians that want to help you – many of them studied library science – with anything you could possibly need help with.
Th ere are also some really nice chairs in beautiful, quiet rooms that make a great place to take a mid-day or between-classes break. And there are group study rooms that you can reserve for those tough group projects.
Student HealthTh e Student Health Center
off ers complete physicals for $30, including lab work. A phys-ical at a private doctor’s offi ce could cost more than 10 times that.
You know you should have one every year – take advantage of the amazing price. Th ey also off er gynecological exams, cho-lesterol and blood sugar test-ing, STD and HIV screening and more, all at very reason-able prices.
And they have free condoms. Th e Carruth Center off ers
12 free counseling sessions a year to students. Out in the real world, that’s at least a $1,200 value.
Whether you’ve got major issues to work through (And who doesn’t?) or you just need someone to talk to about some relationship worries, counsel-ing can be helpful. If you’re hav-ing trouble adjusting to some facet of college life, go talk with someone – many students fi nd just a few sessions very helpful.
Student Legal ServicesIn the basement of E. Moore
Hall is the Student Legal Ser-vices offi ce.
They have professional lawyers on staff to help you
through any legal diffi culties that you may have. Whether it’s a disagreement with a landlord or questions you have about a run-in with the police, free legal advice is a huge blessing.
And that just scratches the surface.
While I was writing this ar-ticle, I looked up something about the Rec Center and learned there’s an arts and crafts center in the basement of Braxton Tower in the Evansdale Residential Complex where stu-dents can make pottery, stained glass, tie dye, beaded jewelry, candles, and more.
You’re going to spend a lot of your time at WVU studying, and you’ll probably spend a decent amount partying, too. But there’s so much more here. You’re paying for these ser-vices already through your stu-dent fees.
So look around, talk to peo-ple, and be open to opportu-nities, and you’ll fi nd that your student fees are actually quite a bargain.
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BY BRIAN GAWTHROP ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Too many players and not enough positions.
Th at’s the way wide receivers coach Lonnie Galloway sees his depth chart entering the 2010 sea-son. Full of playmakers, the third-year coach said his talent level has surely increased since his fi rst sea-son with the Mountaineers and so have his decisions on who to play.
“Right now, there’s a group of guys out there fi ghting for one spot,” he said. “Th ey all want the ball, and that’s one thing we talk about. Th e point that I try to tell them is ‘be in the right place at the right time;’ because you never know when the ball is coming. If the ball comes your way, make a play; and don’t complain if you don’t get it.”
Th at open spot is the No. 4 re-ceiver position. Senior Brad Starks will anchor the receiver core as the Mountaineers’ No. 1 outside receiver while sophomore Tavon Austin will play opposite of him. Jock Sanders, who fell six catches shy of breaking the school’s single season reception record in 2009, will start in the slot.
But the fourth man when WVU goes into a four receiver set still re-mains to be decided. In WVU’s fi nal scrimmage of the preseason Sat-urday, the team rarely went into a four-receiver set and used tailback Noel Devine in such cases.
“Jock, Tavon, Noel and Bradley all need to touch the ball,” Gallo-way said.
In the running to become the fourth receiver is redshirt freshman Stedman Bailey, redshirt sopho-
more J.D. Woods and true fresh-man Ivan McCartney.
Woods was the early favorite to take the spot entering camp, ac-cording to Galloway, but the team elected to go with Bailey to fi ll in for an injured Starks in Saturday’s scrimmage.
“If he doesn’t start, it’s his fault,” Galloway said of Woods. “It’s going to be a big, big fall for him. If he suc-ceeds, he has a chance.”
It may be Bailey and McCartney who have been the camp’s most pleasant surprises, however. Th e pair were both teammates at Mi-ramar High School in Miramar, Fla., where their quarterback was current WVU starting signal caller Geno Smith.
The two were one of five
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OPTOR
Is J.T.’s injury more serious?For most of his final pre-
season camp, J.T. Thomas has been stuck watching from the sidelines as the senior line-backer nursed his injured neck.
Seeing the unquestioned leader of the Mountaineer defense in a green, limited-contact jersey for most of camp has raised questions of whether or not Thomas will be ready for the season opener Sept. 4 against Coastal Carolina.
Thomas has all the answers.“I don’t want anyone to get
too worried or worked up,” he said. “I’ll be ready to go when it’s time to go.”
The injury isn’t anything serious, according to Thomas. MRIs have repeatedly come back clear, and all Thomas says he has is a slight bruise on his neck.
West Virginia head coach Bill Stewart said Thomas is dealing with little pain.
But Mountaineer fans shouldn’t let those comments completely clear their minds that Thomas is ready to play.
The injury itself may just be minor. But then again, a neck injury isn’t anything to mess around with.
Even more concerning is that Stewart said it was the same injury Thomas suffered during spring camp, which caused him to miss multiple practices including the an-nual Gold-Blue Game.
So it may not be serious, but it is reoccurring. If you’ve ever had one of those contin-ual injuries that just don’t seem to go away, you can surely understand how an-noying they can be.
Sure, players can still play with injuries such as those, but they usually don’t at full strength. They tend to be hes-itant, and with good reason.
Even once the player be-gins to feel comfortable again, with as dangerous and fragile as a neck injury can be, the injury will usually eventually return.
Will this be another Reed Williams-type injury that con-tinues to reoccur throughout the remainder of the season and cause Thomas to miss time every now and then?
Thomas doesn’t think so. He repeatedly emphasized he’ll be fine for the season.
But, if his injury wasn’t able to fully heal after nearly four months of rest during the summer, will it ever be fully cured, especially once the season starts and Thomas tries to play through it?
Highly unlikely.Thomas did play sparingly
in the Mountaineers’ scrim-mage Saturday, which sig-naled the end of preseason camp, without any issues – which is a positive sign that his injury really may actually be taken care of for now.
Another “bright spot” in this scary situation is that, de-spite sitting out of most con-tact drills, Thomas isn’t fall-ing behind much, if at all.
A luxury the Mountaineer coaching staff has right now is they can keep Thomas out of drills to assure his health only because he’s been around five years and won’t fall behind.
Anymore, preseason camp is only a crash course for vet-erans like Thomas.
It may not be such a bad thing for him to watch from afar anyway.
Even sophomore quarter-back Geno Smith and safety Robert Sands have been in-tentionally held out of prac-tices so they could “learn from teaching.”
When Williams missed time with his shoulder, he called watching from the side-lines one of the most benefi-cial drills he could have done.
Then, Williams took the opportunity to bring along some of the younger players by becoming a coach during practice.
Thomas has been doing the same.
“J.T. is always out there yell-ing and keeping us on our toes,” said fellow linebacker Najee Goode.
It’s a role that, for Thomas’ sake, he hopefully doesn’t get used to.
Veterans lead receiving corpsWVU FOOTBALL POSITION PREVIEW: RECEIVERS/TIGHT ENDS
BY BRIAN GAWTHROP ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Stedman Bailey set one goal to accomplish in his true freshman season.
Entering his collegiate career, the 5-foot-10 re-ceiver wanted to test his skills at the Division I level just months after being removed as one of the top wide receiver prospects in the country.
Avoiding a redshirt was his top priority.
It was a situation he couldn’t evade.
“It was painful,” said Bailey, who didn’t appear in a game last season. “I’ve never been a guy to sit on the sidelines.”
Th is year, the redshirt fresh-man realized failing to meet his goal last season may have been a blessing in disguise. Bailey is one of the Mountaineers’ most hyped receiv-ers entering the 2010 season after a standout fall camp. WVU head coach Bill Stewart said he “just keeps getting better and better.”
While some may take their redshirt season lightly, Bailey did the opposite. He especially took the opportunity to study his plays, as he said his inability to pick up quickly on the playbook may have been the deciding factor between redshirting and seeing the fi eld.
“I know a lot more coming into this year’s camp,” he said. “Last year, everything was just thrown at you so fast, but now I understand what I’m sup-posed to be doing. I’m comfortable now, and I’m fi nally putting it all together.
“(Th e redshirt) really helped me better my game in every aspect. It was a learning experience for me. I got to sit back and really understand how the game goes. Now I’m more prepared for what I’m about to be up against.”
Th at comfort is clear to everyone around him, especially Stewart. It’s been Bailey’s ability to catch
Team fi nds positives in season-opening loss
BY BEN GAUGHANSPORTS WRITER
Losing the first game in a season is not going to make or break a soccer season. That’s the mantra the West Virginia women’s soccer team is taking this week.
After the Mountaineers dropped a 2-1 overtime game to No. 11 Penn State, they are focusing on the next task at hand: beating Bowl-ing Green Friday night.
The Mountaineers play on the road at Bowling Green Friday at 5 p.m. at Cochrane Field.
The team was satisfied with its effort against the Nittany Lions but agreed it needed to make the most of its opportunities when it mattered most.
“We have to focus a lit-tle more offensively, and we should be better,” said sophomore midfielder Bri Rodriguez.
Missed chances like se-nior midfielder Ashton Lar-kin’s shot that hit the post in a scramble in front of the net less than 10 minutes into the game could have given the Mountaineers an early lead and a chance to put away a scoring opportunity, West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said.
“We had our chances, they had their chances, and the game is about the team that finishes,” she said. “Un-fortunately, we didn’t to-night, but I thought it was an evenly played game. Un-fortunately, we didn’t come up on top.
“It’s a good starting point. They know that Penn State is a very good team, and hopefully we’ll continue to get better and finish those opportunities.”
In addition to finishing opportunities, the Moun-taineers are also focused on clearing up some defensive breakdowns, which cost the team against Penn State.
The team is looking to continue to work on over-all team defense, which achieved a school record-
tying 13 shutouts in 2009. “The defense is tough,”
Izzo-Brown said. “We had some track stars coming at us (against Penn State).
“For us to deal with that constant pressure, I was very proud of the way we played.”
Izzo-Brown said West Vir-ginia didn’t allow Penn State forwards to get behind the Mountaineers’ back line, but the Nittany Lions capi-talized on minor mistakes.
“In my opinion, we can fix all of the breakdowns,” Izzo-Brown said. “As a coach, you’re pleased knowing that you can fix it.
“If there were things that you couldn’t fix, it would be a whole other day.”
Rodriguez said work has to be done on the defense’s shape.
“Now, we just need to make sure that once we get the ball, we have to work to possess it a little more and not give it right back to them so we’re back on defense,” Rodriguez said.
Making smooth transi-tions with many different players having to come in and play important roles will be a prominent part of WVU’s success.
“We’re battling some things early on and try-ing to find lineups,” Izzo-Brown said. “There’s been injuries and different things like that. We’re trying to find a little bit of a rhythm, but I was really proud of who went out there and did their thing, so that was good.”
Izzo-Brown is pleased with where the team is physically and how the pre-season conditioning helped them for the fast-paced teams like Penn State.
“The kids that were go-ing through preseason def-initely did what we wanted them to do,” she said. “A couple of the kids that have not participated in pre-season yet gutted it out and found a way to stay on the field.”
see RECEIVERS on PAGE 7 see BAILEY on PAGE 7
Galloway with plenty of options for fourth receiverFILE PHOTO
West Virginia sophomore receiver Tavon Austin catches a pass over an East Carolina defender in the Mountaineers’ game with the Pirates in 2009.
Bailey
Bailey’s ‘painful’ redshirt paying dividends in ’10
WVU WOMEN’S SOCCER
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM TUESDAY AUGUST 24, 20106 | CAMPUS CALENDAR
ACROSS1 Urge5 It’s not what it pretends to be9 Chef’s topper14 Vesuvius fl ow15 O’Hara home16 Prevent17 Pins and needles holder18 Capital of Rh™ne department19 Military lifesaver20 Apple hater’s purchase?23 Grind, as teeth24 Prefi x with -naut25 Bygone French coin28 Aliens, for short29 Drive up the wall31 Guerrero y Oaxaca34 Run the show36 City of NE Italy37 2004 Daytona 500 winner42 Gaming pioneer43 Mends, as socks44 Divided diff erently, as city land47 10 mi. on a clear day, e.g.48 Eggs in labs51 Principal tonality, as of a concerto52 Ploy54 __ artery: forearm blood vessel56 “Wichita Lineman” singer59 Bordeaux brother62 Biblical physician63 Qualifi ed64 Mystiques65 Life sentences?66 Nothing, in Normandy67 Takes a look inside?68 Homes, colloquially69 Ocular malady
DOWN1 Heavy hammer2 It may be pending3 Tonsil neighbors4 Vagabonds might ride them5 Normandy town decimated in WWII6 Powerful punch7 Soap-on-__8 Farm fertilizer9 Bring under control10 No longer hung up on11 Logical abbr.
12 Ocean State sch.13 Mail Boxes __21 Give one’s two cents22 How-__: instruction books25 Change text26 Because, e.g.: Abbr.27 One at a keyboard, often30 JVC competitor32 Uncovers, as evidence33 Inserts34 Dulles Airport terminal designer Saarinen35 Stop37 Nyctophobe’s fear38 Suit to __39 Like a couch potato40 Give birth41 Shapiro of NPR45 Before, before46 Longtime tire brand48 At all49 Geological depression, and what the fi rst
word of 20-, 37- and 56-Across is50 “What’s My Line?” panelist Francis
53 Explore reefs, in a way55 Construction pieces56 Confederate color57 Take away58 Benefi ciaries of Bill Buckner’s famous
World Series error59 Phoned document60 1921 sci-fi play61 Nostalgic period
HOROSCOPES
COMICS
PUZZLES
TodayWINANS/EXTRAS will have a re-
cruitment table in the Mountainlair Commons from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Aug. 25CONTEMPORARY SERVICES COR
PORATION is hiring event staff for football games and will have a re-cruitment table in the Mountainlair Commons from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
RESCARE will have a recruitment table in the Mountainlair Commons from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Aug. 26GENERATION ENGAGEMENT, a
volunteer network event, will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn at the Suncrest Towne Center at 5:30 p.m. For more information or to RSVP., e-mail Kate McKeen at [email protected].
THE MORGANTOWN SONGWRITER CIRCLE will meet at the Monongalia Arts Center at 7 p.m. This is an informal group for songwriters to meet and work on new material in a casual setting. For more informa-tion, contact Jim at 304-212-8833 or e-mail [email protected].
Every TuesdayMOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST,
a student Christian organization, hosts free supper and Bible study at its Christian Student Center. Supper is at 8:15 p.m., and Bible study begins at 9 p.m. All students are welcome. For more information, call 304-599-6151 or visit www.mountaineers-forchrist.org.
WVU SWING DANCE CLUB meets at 8:45 p.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center. No partner needed. Advanced and beginners are welcome. For more in-formation, e-mail [email protected].
SIERRA STUDENT COALITION meets at 7 p.m. in the Mountain Room of the Mountainlair. The group is a grassroots environmental orga-nization striving for tangible change in our campus and community. For more information, contact Kayla at [email protected].
THE CHEMISTRY LEARNING CENTER is open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Room 408 of Clark Hall. The lab will not be open on University holidays or during the last week of classes.
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 7:37 p.m. in the Campus Ministry Center at 293 Wil-ley St. All are welcome.
BCM meets at 8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on High Street.
THE CARRUTH CENTER off ers a grief support group for students struggling from a signifi cant per-sonal loss from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the third fl oor of the Student Ser-vices Building.
AMIZADE has representa-tives in the Commons Area of the Mountainlair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
to answer questions for those inter-ested in studying abroad.
WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE meets from 10 p.m. to midnight at the Shell Building. No experience is necessary. For more information, e-mail Sarah Lemanski at [email protected].
THE CONDOM CARAVAN, a proj-ect of WELL WVU Student Wellness and Health Promotion, will be in the Mountainlair from noon to 2 p.m. The Caravan sells condoms for 25 cents or fi ve for $1.
PI SIGMA SIMGA PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES HONORARY will meet at 5:15 p.m. at Woodburn Hall.
ContinualMOTOWNPOETS is looking for po-
ets who are interested in practicing and sharing poetry with others on an online forum. For more informa-tion, visit www.groups.yahoo.com/group/motownpoetry.
MON GENERAL HOSPITAL needs volunteers for the information desk, pre-admission testing, hospitality cart, mail delivery and gift shop. For more information, call Christina Brown at 304-598-1324.
WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics such as nutrition, sexual health and healthy living are provided for inter-ested student groups, organizations or classes by WELL WVU Student Wellness and Health Promotion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.
WELL WVU STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confi dential. For appointments or more information, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.
CHRISTIAN HELP needs volun-teers to help with the daily opera-tions of six programs: a free cloth-ing store, food pantry, emergency fi nancial assistance, Women’s Ca-reer Clothing Closet, Working Man’s Closet and the Furniture Exchange. For more information or to volun-teer, contact Jessica at 304-296-0221 or [email protected].
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgantown and Fair-mont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.
ALCO H O LI C S AN O N YM O US meets daily. For help or a schedule, call 304-291-7918. For more informa-tion, visit www.aawv.org.
CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofi t organization serving West Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care items and volunteers to support all aspects of the organization’s activities. For more information, call John Sonnen-day at 304-985-0021.
CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychologi-cal and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is off ered weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services include edu-cational, career, individual, couples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to fi nd out more information.
SCOT T’S RUN SET TLEMENT HOUSE, a local outreach organiza-tion, needs volunteers for daily pro-grams and special events. For more information or to volunteer, contact Adrienne Hines at [email protected] or 304-599-5020.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC pro-
vides education, supplemental foods and immunizations for preg-nant women and children under 5 years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class re-quirements. For more information, contact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is avail-able on the fi rst Monday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caritas House offi ce located at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are confi dential. To make an appointment, call 304-293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Broth-ers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. Community-based mentors pick up a child at his or her home and do ac-tivities the two of them choose to-gether on a weekly basis. School-based mentors meet with a child at an area elementary school during the after-school program for one hour, one day per week for home-work help and hanging out. To vol-unteer, contact Sylvia at 304-983-2823, ext. 104 or e-mail [email protected].
ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult pa-tients and their families to stay while receiving medical care at WVU, is looking for service organizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. Although the hospital cafeteria is only steps away, guests enjoy a home-cooked or restaurant-donated meal. People may, individu-ally or as a group, provide the food, serve and clean up on a regular ba-sis or as a one-time event. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or e-mail [email protected].
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seek-ing volunteers for one-on-one tutor-ing in basic reading and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, re-port volunteer hours quarterly, at-tend at least two in-service trainings per year, and help with one fund-raising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or e-mail [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John University Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volun-teer nonprofi t that promotes spay/neuter to reduce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized every year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop located in the Morgantown Mall. For more infor-mation, go to www.m-snap.org.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP is an interdenominational student-led organization that meets weekly on campus. Everyone is wel-come to attend events. For more information, e-mail Daniel at [email protected] or visit the IVCF website at www.wvuiv.org.edu.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE meets on the second Monday and fourth Tuesday of ev-ery month at noon at Hatfi elds in the Mountainair. All students and faculty are invited. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
BORN TODAY This year, you manage to clear out problems with ease. Part-ners, associates, family and friends could challenge your ideas often. You are be-ing asked to question your fundamentals and perhaps certain key goals. Transform your life with the help of others’ feed-back. Your popularity soars if you are sin-gle. You could tumble into a very intense relationship. The intensity could be real and long term, but give yourself a year before making a judgment call. If you are attached, your relationship will have the quality of new lovers. Enjoy. PISCES often presents a diff erent point of view.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) ★★★ You might have your hands full as you strive to clear out work. Others suddenly become vocal and emotional, perhaps drawing the same reaction back. Take a walk before you react. Tonight: Under-standing evolves to a new level.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) ★★★★★ You juggle many diff erent vices and con-troversial opinions. Detachment allows you to pull out what appears to be impor-tant. An easy, steady pace always proves to be an asset. Meetings add zest to a sit-uation. Tonight: Where your friends are.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) ★★★ Listen to feedback. Demands, requests and ex-tremes mark your day. Knowing where to put your energy might be critical. A part-ner gives you powerful insight. Tonight: You cannot get out of the limelight!
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) ★★★ Cre-ativity could be the outcome of diff erent
interests and hectic communication. A partner helps you gain insight into what seems difficult to grasp. News easily could be mixed with opinions, not facts. Tonight: Let your mind detach, then take another look at events.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) ★★★ Gain in-sight and handle a personal matter di-rectly. Your sense of direction could be tossed into limbo by a fi nancial slip. Use this situation to tighten up your budget. Reorganize plans if need be. Tonight: Touch base with a friend who always gives you a new perspective.
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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) ★★★★ You might be juggling people and events, as are many people today. You have the abil-ity to integrate what you are hearing. You turn a situation into a plus, while others really don’t know what to do. Tonight: Let your innate people skills emerge.
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PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) ★★★★★ The Full Moon points to you being piv-otal. You might not be able to do as much as you would like. Understanding grows as you listen to others, who certainly don’t see eye to eye with you. Be a hero, and fi nd an acceptable solution for every-one involved. Tonight: Whatever makes you smile.
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nearly everything thrown his way that has caught the atten-tion of the head coach. One of those catches occurred on the fi rst play of the Mountaineers’ Aug. 18 scrimmage in which Bailey bent down to prevent a low-thrown ball from becom-ing incomplete.
Th e result: touchdown. “Every day I see No. 10. He
just keeps getting our atten-tion,” Stewart said. “It’s time for him to step up to the plate. He’s such an athlete.”
Bailey is currently listed as the backup to the Moun-taineers’ go-to receiver Brad Starks on the outside. Last season, Bailey alternated be-tween the outside and the slot receiver position.
“I see Stedman as a guy that can go out there and play like any of our wide receivers, yet he has the shiftiness to play slot, too,” Stewart said. “He can vertically stretch the fi eld on the outside, but he also has that shiftiness to get in those middle routes and fi nd the digs and open areas.”
But with so many receiver positions still up for grabs, the Miramar, Fla., native said he has to stay focused on playing at a high level.
“Last year, I didn’t even get a chance to play, so to come out and possibly be a starter would be real big for me,” he said. “I think I should play a big role, but I just have to go out there and make the plays I’m supposed to make and do everything I’m supposed to.”
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receivers to earn Division I scholarships on the team and are favorites of WVU head coach Bill Stewart for their abilities to make the tough catches look easy.
Bailey caught 68 passes for 1,163 yards and 14 touch-downs as a senior and has made prolifi c growths in the off season, specifi cally with his increased knowledge of the playbook.
“Stedman is going to be a big surprise, not to me, but to the league,” Galloway said. “He’s done a lot of things and made a lot of plays. He can say, more than anyone on this team, that he knows what Geno is think-ing. It’s such a good chemistry that he has.”
McCartney, meanwhile, comes to WVU as a U.S. Army All-American after end-ing with 37 catches for 747 yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior. Adjusting from high school to Division I football isn’t as easy as it looks, accord-ing to Galloway.
“Th e worst thing about be-ing a highly rated freshman is that what you did was in high school,” Galloway said. “Now, you come in. There’s new plays. It’s faster.
“He’s a hard worker. He
wants to play, and I’m going to give him every chance to play.”
Th e receiving corps will also get some help from two tight ends – junior Tyler Urban and senior Will Johnson – along with redshirt freshman Chris Snook.
“Th ey’re coming along re-ally well,” said tight ends coach Dave McMichael. “Tyler Ur-ban has had a good camp, and Will Johnson is doing well. We’re going to bring Chris Snook along.”
WVU ranked 90th in the country in pass off ense last season, averaging 191 pass yards per game. The mark was the worst in the Big East Conference.
FILE PHOTOSlot receiver Jock Sanders needs just 55 catches to break David Saunders’ school record for career receptions.
Christopher’s leadership key in 2010 BY DEREK DENNENY
SPORTS WRITER
For most athletic pro-grams across the nation, los-ing three all-Americans to graduation would lead to a rebuilding year.
That is not the case for the West Virginia cross country team.
Though the Mountaineers lost their three top runners, they return a bevy of young runners eager to make an in-stant impact this season.
With a roster full of under-classmen, West Virginia head coach Sean Cleary is looking for leadership from the few upperclassmen on the roster.
Senior Kaylyn Christopher returns for her senior season after coming off an impres-sive 2009 campaign.
After being selected for all-region honors the past two seasons, Christopher is the perfect candidate to lead the Mountaineers back to the NCAA Championships for a fourth-consecutive year, Cleary said.
“Kaylyn’s experience and leadership will be needed throughout our roster. Kay-lyn has been here from the start of our streak within the top 10,” Cleary said. “The younger girls really look up to Kaylyn. They have watched her run for years and are proud to be with her on this quest.”
Christopher is no stranger to the success West Virginia has experienced in the past few seasons.
She has been an intricate part to the team’s success and is excited to attempt to dupli-cate those efforts in 2010.
“I am really looking for-ward to this season and the opportunity to help lead this program back to where we have been the past few years,” she said. “It’s going to be a fun year, and I am confident that we can get back into the top 10 again.”
Though she admitted that it will be tough to get back to the heights of 2009, she is go-
ing to do whatever she can to get the team there.
She has already started different ways to help get the team going.
“I would really like to make team unity and spirit a pri-ority this year,” Christopher said. “I think it would be very beneficial to us to be close to each other. That way we can help motivate each other and know that we have a support system.”
Christopher will not only lead the team out on the course this season but will set an example with her work in the classroom.
After being named an aca-demic all-American in 2010, Christopher’s work in the classroom will serve as a bar for the rest of the team.
“Kaylyn’s accomplish-ments in the classroom are something that should never be overlooked,” Cleary said. “Simply put, Kaylyn is a na-tional-class student-athlete.”
Christopher has some big shoes to fill this season, but it seems that all the intangi-bles are in place for success.
With the goal of the season being a return to the NCAA national event, her leader-ship will be necessary, but it seems that she may very well be the most viable candidate.
“Should Kaylyn lead this team back into the top 10, she will be the first Moun-taineer to experience such an achievement,” Cleary said.
WVU SPORTS INFOWest Virginia senior Kaylyn Christopher will be counted on to lead the Mountaineers this season after the program lost three all-Americans to graduation.
Emotional Piniella retired due to aid ailing mother
CHICAGO (AP) — After all the wins, all the losses and all those arguments, Lou Piniella clearly felt it was time to leave.
Saying the fi nal goodbye af-ter a half-century in baseball, that was the hard part.
“I cried a little bit after the game. You get emotional. I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be,” the Chicago Cubs manager said Sunday, his eyes tearing up again and his voice cracking.
Th e 66-year-old Piniella an-nounced before the Cubs-At-lanta game that he was retiring immediately after it was over and planning to spend more time with his ailing mother.
“My mom needs me home and that’s where I’m going,” Piniella said.
The Cubs didn’t do him many favors on the field in his wrapup, losing 16-5 to the Braves.
He was in the dugout when it ended, and he waved his hat across the fi eld to his friend, longtime Atlanta manager Bobby Cox, who has said this is his last season.
Th e Cubs gave up 11 runs over the fi nal three innings to fall 23 games under .500. Many in the crowd of 37,518 had al-ready left Wrigley Field when Sam Fuld grounded into a game-ending double play.
“It’s a good day to remember and also it’s a good day to for-get,” Piniella said.
Third base coach Mike Quade was promoted to in-terim manager, getting the nod over bench coach Alan Tram-mell, who was thought to have been a candidate to succeed Piniella next season.
But general manager Jim Hendry said Trammell was not going to be considered for the job, so Quade was selected to fi nish out the season. Specu-lation is rampant that former Cubs star Ryne Sandberg, now their Triple-A manager, will be hired.
From the start, it was an emotional day for a man known for his fi ery ways as a player, manager and executive for 48 years.
Piniella teared up at home plate when the umpires wished him well with his mom. He
shook hands with Cox after they reached the plate, hugged each other and exchanged back slaps as Piniella’s No. 41 was posted on the center-fi eld scoreboard.
Cox was announced to the crowd and took his cap off and waved it to the fans.
Th en the public address an-nouncer ran down Piniella’s achievements as he stood at the plate, and scattered cheers of “Louuu” could be heard throughout the crowd.
After Piniella and Cox posed for a picture with the umpires, the managers hugged each other again.
Piniella then headed to the dugout and, as the cheers got louder, took off his cap, waved it to the crowd and began to clap for the fans.
When Piniella made the fi rst of three trips to the mound in the seventh inning to change pitchers, fans behind the dug-out gave him a standing ova-tion as he came off the fi eld and he acknowledged them with a little wave of his hand.
Piniella said last month he planned to retire at the end of the season and reiterated his plans just Saturday.
But he missed four games in August to be with his mom in Florida and decided this weekend his divided attention wasn’t helping anyone.
“She hasn’t gotten any better since I’ve been here,” said Pini-ella, who turns 67 on Saturday. “She’s had a couple other com-plications, and rather than con-tinue to go home, come back, it’s not fair to the team, it’s not fair to the players. So the best thing is just to step down and go home and take care of my mother.”
The surprising announce-ment was made in a team handout Sunday morning af-ter Piniella had repeatedly in-sisted he would fi nish the sea-son. Cox empathized with his counterpart.
“It’s in your blood that long, but Lou’s mom is in ill health,” Cox said before the game. “It’s a sad day for me, because I kept on thinking that Lou would be back, not here but somewhere else.”
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“mass appeal.”“Th ere are some (songs) that
have it, but you have to listen deep to get it,” he said. “With D-WHY’s song, (the song) immedi-ately appeals to you.”
Th e single will be included as part of his forthcoming album “Don’t Flatter Yourself.”
“The mixtape/album will be very diverse. It may actually scare people at fi rst, as far as the range of music that will be on it,” he said. “But ‘Party Girl,’ as part of the CD will bring a fun and commercially viable edge to the project.”
Th e CD does not yet have a re-lease date but will be “sometime this fall.” D-WHY has been work-ing on the album for “about a year,” he said, though “Party Girl” has been fi nished for a while.
Th e album is a solo project, and there are “no features” on the album. “I want to demonstrate my ability, as an artist, to carry an entire project by myself,” D-WHY said.
As for “Party Girl,” D-WHY has high hopes.
“Although I’m from West Vir-ginia and attended WVU, I have spent a lot of time preparing my music for a national level,” he said. “I really feel as though ‘Party Girl’ has the potential to do that. I really appreciate every-one who supports the song, and my music.”
political fi gures like President Barack Obama.
“I just want my dorm to look nicer and have people follow the ‘Wedding Crashers’ rules,” said freshman exercise phys-iology major Jordan Mitchell.
Mitchell purchased a “Wed-ding Crashers” poster for her-self and a “Rocky” poster for a friend.
Pre-pharmacy major Tay-lor Evans was also shopping for posters of musicians such as Th e Beatles and John Mayer, her main goal being to deco-rate her dorm so that “it doesn’t look like a jail.”
Th e poster sale will continue in the Mountainlair Commons through Friday, with the booth opening around 9 a.m. and closing around 6 p.m.
For those unable to make it to the Mountainlair this week, the sale will be back the fi rst week of next semester.
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FALLFEST 2010
In my fi ve years at West Vir-ginia University (two degrees), I have attended FallFest each and every year.
I thought that after my fresh-man year, when Th e Roots and Staind rocked out to a crammed Mountainlair Green, a packed High Street and crowned off by all of Stalnaker hill, that any fu-ture live music ventures would be anticlimactic, at best.
And for the next three years, that was the case. Sophomore year with Dashboard Confes-sional was virtually rained out and miserable.
Junior year with Lupe Fiasco was much better, but spiraled downhill once Daughtry began crooning on stage.
My fi rst senior year, history repeated itself as Third Eye Blind gave a solid performance before giving way to Akon and what sounded like an assist from some pre-recorded vocals.
FallFest 2010, however, spurred memories of my fi rst true college experience.
I arrived late as the crowd be-gan to collect during VV Brown’s hit “Shark in the Water.” I was pleasantly surprised at the qual-ity of her vocals.
Tasked with performing to a sparse crowd in the middle of blowing wind and light rain, Brown’s vocals came through with almost studio quality, a testament to what appears to be immense talent and a stel-lar voice.
Catching the end of her set,
I wish I had departed the offi ce more quickly, especially after I heard only two songs before a 25 minute intermission in what had by then become pouring rain.
As an aside, I really wish the music industry would take a les-son from NASCAR and speed up the set-change process.
After that not-so-brief inter-mission, Kris Allen came to the stage and began jacking beats left and right. Chief among these was, of course, the song “Live Like We’re Dying” by Irish rock band Th e Script.
Yet, in retrospect, maybe bor-rowing heavily from more tal-ented artists is a good plan for an artist (and a surprisingly good guitarist) whose claim to fame is winning a reality TV show in the twilight of its heyday.
He shall not be mentioned again.
After yet another lengthy in-termission (it can’t be more dif-fi cult than changing four tires and fi lling up on Super-Ultra)the crowd was wet and ready as Maroon 5 came to the stage and the skies began to clear.
While I have long been a closet fan of Maroon 5, I was completely surprised by the all-around quality of the band’s music and vocals, as well as the willingness to branch off from their own hits to put their own spin (get it Allen: alter your cov-ers) on hits like Alicia Keys “If I Ain’t Got You” and Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”
In fact, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine hit notes higher than what any man with a denim jacket and tattooed fore-arms should. To borrow heavily from the popular vernacular of
silly freshmen and sophomores, he “owned.”
Th e band fi nished by pound-ing out – and literally, I mean pounding out – their chart top-per “Th is Love.”
With the crowd alive from Maroon 5’s performance and anxious for Ludacris to “be bumpin’” (as it was repeatedly described by a pair of females to my stage left) the momen-tum built during the longest in-termission of the night.
As any respectable rapper will do, Ludacris was brought out on the stage by his emcee with sev-eral thousand hands beating the air.
Going into the concert, I had my trepidations regarding Luda. Yeah, I’m a fan. He’s cre-ated some of the most appealing music videos and has smooth yet always amusing lyrics.
When Luda puts his name on a track, it’s going to be hot.
But one of his most recent for-ays included a misguided feat. on a Justin Bieber song. Justin Bieber. No.
Once he took the stage, how-ever, I knew the crowd was in for a treat.
And for a few brief moments, I wasn’t a fi fth year college stu-dent with a loaded course schedule and multiple jobs. I was pimpin’ all over the world. I was rollin’ out. And I was seeing classy women in various United States area codes.
Ludacris, Maroon 5 and VV Brown rocked. I have high hopes for future WVU music festivals. So much so that I might have to venture back to Morgantown in 2011 to crash the party.
BRANNAN LAHODAOPINION EDITOR
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FallFest kicks year off in styleMATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Ludacris waves to the crowd as part of his set at FallFest Tuesday night.
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Bonnie Prince Billy plays at 123
2008 ‘American Idol’ winner Kris Allen makes his college debut at FallFest
BY MACKENZIE MAYSASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR
For the last few months, Kris Allen has been on the road.
Touring with FallFest per-formers Maroon 5 and VV Brown, Allen has been learn-ing the tricks of the trade.
“As a band we’ve learned a ton being on the road, and we’ve had fun doing it,” Al-len said. “Maroon 5 puts on an incredible show, and we’ve learned a lot from them. They’ve been around for a while, and they’re great artists, and they’ve inspired us to do the same.”
West Virginia University is the fi rst college campus Allen has performed at, and prior to
the show said he was excited to experience what he heard was “one big party.”
Winner of the eighth sea-son of “American Idol,” Allen overcame competitor Adam Lambert and released a suc-cessful album within the same year, featuring his well received acoustic rendition of Kanye West’s “Heartless” and cur-rent radio hit “Live Like We’re Dying.”
Allen’s main goal is to give his audience as great of a time as he and his band have on stage.
“I’m a huge fan of having fun, and that’s really what needs to come across to my audience. We like to get the crowd in-volved as much as we can and
like to see you just dance and have a good time – that’s what it’s all about for us,” Allen said. “We just want everyone to en-joy our show and help give stu-dents a good time on the fi rst day of school. We’re happy to entertain them.”
Allen discussed his new al-bum, taking most pride in the track “Red Guitar,” which he wrote himself, and his appre-ciation of his success but ad-mitted rushing into the process of compiling an album.
“I’m so happy I even got the chance to make a fi rst album,” Allen said. “Everyone wants to make that fi rst album perfect, and I feel like I may not have taken enough time to work on my fi rst, so now I plan to take
more time on the next album and hope for a perfected, raw sound.”
While his road to success may be different than other artists in the industry, having gained fame from being a con-testant on “American Idol,” Al-len said the work has been just as hard as others.
“Th e ‘Idol’ experience defi -nitely made me more humble, but for me it’s been a lot of hard work just like for most artists. But it’s defi nitely not the easy route like some people seem to think,” he said. “ I’ve worked my tail off for this every day, and I appreciate everything I’ve been able to accomplish.”
Rapper D-WHY releases new single ‘Party Girl’
BY DAVID RYANA&E EDITOR
Former Morgantown and West Virginia University-based rapper D-WHY released his new single “Party Girl” today.
The single was released midnight.
D-WHY, real name David Morrison, graduated West Vir-ginia University in 2009 and is now based in New York City.
“‘Party Girl’ is hopefully going to be the theme song for every girl at WVU who enjoys having fun with their friends and hang-ing with their girls,” he said.
“Th e song is about girls, and it’s obviously for girls. Th en since I am a guy and wrote the song from my perspective, I tried to make it so that the fellas could also embrace and relate to the song.”
He described the song as “pop/dance meets down south hip-hop.”
“Th e tempo of the song bor-ders between dance and hip-hop, and is fi lled with bouncing keys, brass hits and infectious drums,” he said.
“Th e song’s chorus was cre-ated with the intention to stick
in people’s heads instantly,” he said. “I want people to listen to it for the fi rst time and know the words to the chorus before the song is over.”
Th e song will be featured in the fi rst hour of Tuesday night’s “Urban Diner” show on U92, the WVU college radio station. Th e show airs 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Kelen Conley, director of the show and local rapper B Hyphen, said the song has
D-WHY‘PARTY GIRL’
‘Party Girl’ is available as a free download at http://d-whymusic.com. Follow D-WHY on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dwhy.
see D-WHY on PAGE 8
Lair poster sale gives students chance to
spruce up dorm roomsBY JAMIE CARBONE
CAMPUS CALENDAR EDITOR
Looking for something to spruce up that cold dorm room wall?
All this week students can visit the Mountainlair Com-mons and pick up posters of movies, music and television shows.
“We’ve got the best selec-tion around downtown Mor-gantown,” said Mike Reese, who has been with Beyond the Wall for two years.
Posters of all shapes and sizes are available, including those that simulate 3-D.
Others include tapestries and various doodads like bookmarks and key chains.
Equipment necessary to hang posters are available, in-cluding sticky tack and frames.
Th e posters, which can cost anywhere from $3 to $30, are supplied by national poster company Beyond the Wall and cover all sorts of popular subjects.
Students can get posters of fi lms “Old School” or “Lab-yrinth,” bands like Fall Out Boy, copies of art by Van Gogh and inspirational quotes from
TARA MAYLE/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFreshman exercise physiology majors Jordan Mitchell and Nick Post look through the post-ers available at the poster sale in the Mountainlair Monday afternoon.
see POSTERS on PAGE 8
BY TRAVIS CRUMCITY EDITOR
Will Oldham, the real name of the headlining act at 123 Pleasant Street Monday night, hopped barefoot on stage dur-ing one of his well-known songs.
Oldham, who goes by the performing moniker of Bonnie “Prince” Billy, was backed by the Cairo Kings.
M Iafrate & Th e Priesthood opened for Oldham, perform-ing songs from their album, “Christian Burial.”
Th e band also played music from previous releases.
O l d ha m’s s e t f e a -tured songs from the sing-er’s expansive collection, such as a song from 1998, “Magdalene Mary” and newer release “Go Folks, Go.”
Julia Kauhman, a WVU
alumna who received a degree in exercise physiology, said she came from Charleston just to see Oldham and his band.
“I saw him in Portland in the spring, and it was very diff er-ent than this,” Kauhman said. “Every one of his shows is diff erent.”
Oldham said before the show that the vibe of his per-formances is aff ected by West Virginia.
Oldham has played at 123 Pleasant Street for many years, said Kauhman.
Everywhere he goes every-one smells diff erent, he said.
He joked that only white people come to his shows. Th ey are all the same in the dark, he said.
After listening to some of Oldham’s discography, Kevin Johnston said he was excited to see him perform.
Two sisters stayed close to the front stage. It was a tra-dition to come to one of the bar’s bigger performers such as Oldham.
Caitlin Adams, said she came to 123 show 10 years ago with her sister.
“(123) is an altar for West Virginia’s music,” said Ann Adams, a WVU alumna who traveled with Caitlin from Pitts-burgh to see the show. “Th ere is a diff erent incarnation of this bar all the time and (Oldham) has been here for it all.”
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMBonnie Prince Billy sings during a concert at 123 Pleasant Street Monday night. The concert served as an alternative to West Virginia University’s FallFest.
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