BY ASHLEY TENNANT STAFF WRITER Yesterday evening at the West Virginia University Col- lege of Law, famed Supreme Court Attorney Paul M. Smith spoke about his experiences with LGBT law in the United States. Smith is most known for fighting against and help- ing overturn prior law in the landmark Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas – the case that made same-sex re- lationships and sexual activ- ity legal in every state and ter- ritory in the United States. e event was organized by OUTlaw, a WVU organi- zation that promotes open networking and communica- tion between gay and straight communities and educates others on gay rights issues. During the lecture, “Gay Rights in the Supreme Court from Lawrence to Perry,” Smith explained how LGBT equality has changed during the past 26 years and what changes he hopes to see in the near future. “I think students already understand this issue. ey, in their bones, believe there should be equality,” he said. “e reason why the move- ment is going to succeed is precisely because of the younger generation.” Because it is still legal to discriminate LGBT individ- uals when it comes to hous- ing and employment in many places – including West Vir- ginia, – Smith said you can lose your job, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it. “Just because your boss found out you were gay, you can lose your job as well as be excluded from an apart- ment,” he said. “So, one of the big things that has to happen regard- less of what the Supreme Court does, it has to face the federal statute, which is a fed- eral law that states, ‘you can’t discriminate in employment and housing against people just because they are gay.’” Smith said this battle isn’t a new one. “is is what so many peo- ple have been trying to do for 12-15 years; it just hasn’t got through yet. It has to go through Congress,” he said. As far as same sex mar- riage goes, Smith said the Supreme Court may make a new law regional, covering the US state-by-state, but he feels it will eventually cover the whole country. “e cases this year are based on the case 10 years ago, the Lawrence vs. Texas case, which was the founda- tion case that established all the arguments that are being made now,” he said. Stephen Skinner, West Vir- ginia House of Delegates 67th District and founder of Fair- ness West Virginia, also spoke briefly during the lecture. “We have come a long away in a very short amount of time,” he said. “You under- stand, when I graduated from Law School in 1994, I think there was one openly gay stu- dent. ere was no organiza- tion like OUTlaw. Although it may seem like a very long BY SHELBY TOOMPAS STAFF WRITER Morgantown’s newest ad- dition to the Suncrest Towne Centre, Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, opened its doors to customers for the first time Friday. Once the phrase “Open for business” went viral on Face- book Friday evening, Mor- gantown residents and stu- dents came out to see what the Joint was all about. Patrick Martin, owner of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, said they expected it to be busy since it’s the new buzz around town, but they didn’t expect it to be quite as busy as it was. “Real barbecue joints run out of food, and this is some- what of a foreign concept up here in Morgantown,” Mar- tin said. “I’m not saying there aren’t real barbecue joints nationwide, but the real, true old-school Joints in the south run out of food.” Without a freezer or a mi- crowave, only so much food can be made per day. “We are cooking today for tomorrow,” he said. “My standards are very high and non-negotiable because we want individuals to appre- ciate quality, good food. We cook what we can cook, and when we run out, we run out because everything is from scratch.” Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint is open weekly from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. but will close when they run out of food. Approximately 300 -600 customers came out for their first experience at the Joint. Morgantown residents Craig and Shawnda Lough have always been a fan of barbecue and found out about Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint through Facebook and wanted to try it out for themselves. “Even though they only had a few items left and we had to wait in line, I was still able to get the ribs, which I had planned to get,” he said. “I heard they’re already talk- ing about possibly adding an- other smoker too.” e Loughs both said they enjoyed the customer ser- vice and overall experience offered by the restaurant employees. “I had the pulled pork, and it was very good,” Shawnda said. “Everyone is friendly and helpful, and if you needed extra sauce, they were right there when you needed them.” Craig said he is excited more restaurants are coming into Morgantown because he is eager to try something new. “It’s nice to have some- thing new and different,” he said. “I liked it overall, and I’m definitely full.” e Joint’s one-of-a-kind ribs and the notorious “Red- neck Taco” were the most popular items over the week- end, according to Martin. “Hopefully everyone will be patient with us,” Martin BY CARLEE LAMMERS CITY EDITOR It’s a bird...It’s a plane... It’s Maniac Man and Mountain Momma. This basketball season, West Virginia University students Mary Catherine Hamilton and Matt Idle- man have added a heroic twist to the student sec- tion of the Coliseum. For each home men’s basketball game, the cou- ple of nearly two years sports Batgirl- and Bat- man-like Maniac Man and Mountain Momma costumes. Hamilton, a junior el- ementary education stu- dent from Keyser, W.Va., said the idea sparked from a last minute Halloween costume idea and has turned into something much more. “I had no idea what to be for Halloween that night, and I thought af- ter ‘it would have been so cool if we could have been WVU superheroes.’ Then I thought that maybe we could do it the next year,” she said. “Then Matt said ‘Well, why don’t we just dress up for basketball games?’ I thought that was the best idea ever.” As leaders in the Moun- taineer Maniacs, the cou- ple thought the costumes would provide an op- portunity to electrify the WVU student section. “We love all Mountain- eer sports, especially bas- ketball. I always thought it would be so cool to be part of a student sec- tion that really rowdies behind our team win or lose,” Hamilton said. “So, this is kind of our contri- bution toward making the student section like that.” Idleman said he had al- ways liked the idea of sup- porting the men’s basket- ball team in a unique way, so when Hamilton told him her idea, he was im- mediately onboard. “It’s something that I have been thinking of do- ing for a couple of years,” he said. “We get to the game early and get seats down in front. I’ve al- ways kind of wanted to do something like this and dress up as a persona.” However, conjuring the heroic attire was no easy task. “They’re semi-home- made. For Matt’s I was just searching for blue and gold super hero costumes. I found a Batman cos- tume that was blue and gray, so I had to get his. “Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.” THE DAILY ATHENAEUM TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2013 VOLUME 125, ISSUE 100 www.THEDAONLINE.com da The West Virginia rifle team set a national air rifle record at the NCAA qualifier last weekend in Columbus, Ohio. SPORTS PAGE 10 40° / 21° AM LIGHT RAIN INSIDE News: 1, 2 Opinion: 4 A&E: 3, 6 Sports: 7, 8, 10 Campus Calendar: 5 Puzzles: 5 Classifieds: 9 CONTACT US Newsroom 304-293-5092 or [email protected]Advertising 304-293-4141 or [email protected]Classifieds 304-293-4141 or DA-Classifi[email protected]Fax 304-293-6857 The West Virginia men’s basketball team fell to Kansas State 71-61 in Manhattan, Kan., Monday night. SPORTS PAGE 7 MANHATTAN MAULING ON THE INSIDE A message on The Daily Ath- enaeum’s role in the SGA elections. OPINION PAGE 4 ELECTION SEASON Famed attorney talks LGBT rights Students add ‘super’ twist to student section WellWVU celebrates employees’ health BY MADISON FLECK STAFF WRITER West Virginia Univer- sity students are always getting health information from WELLWVU: The Stu- dents’ Center of Health, the on-campus wellness authority. This week, the Bene- fits Administration of the Human Resources De- partment is offering WVU employees the same op- portunities during WVU Employee Health Matters Week. “We are focusing on employee wellness here at WVU and how important that is,” said Toni Chris- tian, the director of Ben- efits Administration. Christian said at last spring’s event, partici- pants showed interest in the wellness topics. “Overwhelmingly, the employees suggested that we offer them ad- ditional wellness topics and wellness events,” she said. “So versus one day, we thought we would try something different and do a week’s worth of events on all three campuses.” The program is offer- ing 75 different events, including educational workshops, comprehen- sive wellness screenings and open houses. Sixteen different work- shops were offered yes- terday, with each session ranging from 15-20 peo- ple, and some days may have more events than others. “Part of a healthy life- style is having that work- life balance,” Christian said. “It’s creating a healthy lifestyle for employees, and many of these events are also open to their fam- ily members.” The activities will be held all week on the Downtown, Evansdale and Health Sciences cam- puses starting at 8:30 a.m. There will be an open house today at the College of Creative Arts from 5-8 p.m. and an open house at Martin’s Bar-B-Que sees big opening week see MARTIN’S on PAGE 2 see SUPER on PAGE 2 see SGA on PAGE 2 see EQUALITY on PAGE 2 see HEALTH on PAGE 2 GO TIME SGA candidates kick off 2013 campaign with midnight banner drop BY JACOB BOJESSON CORRESPONDENT The ballots for the 2013 Student Government election open in one week, and the candidates have already be- gun vying for students’ support. Since the election banners were dropped in the Mountainlair Sunday night, the Revolution Party and THE Party have been campaigning both in person and on the web. The Revolution Party met at 6 a.m. to put up posters and meet with students. “We’ve been planning a platform like this for the past couple of weeks. It’s a rush of energy to finally start,” said Ryan Campione, presidential candidate for The Revolution party. “We’re starting a bunch of new initiatives. We have a whiteboard up in the Mountainlair, and we’re encour- aging everyone that walks by to write their issues on the board,” he said. “It’s exciting to hear what every- one’s saying.” According to its members, The Revolution Party is aiming to do what their name implies: revolutionize student government. “We feel like the student government hasn’t really been there for students as much as it could be, both in transparency, in representing students and kind of tack- ling real, working issues,” Campione said. “It seems like when the campaign is over, people revert back to their CHECK OUR SPORTS BLOG Get the latest on Mountaineer sports in our WVU Sports Insider Blog at http://blogs.thedaonline.com/sports/. MEL MORAES/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Presidential candidate Ryan Campione speaks with supporters of The Revolution Party after the banner drop Sunday night. MEL MORAES/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM THE Party drops its banner Sunday night.
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by ashley tennantstaff writer
Yesterday evening at the West Virginia University Col-lege of Law, famed Supreme Court Attorney Paul M. Smith spoke about his experiences with LGBT law in the United States.
Smith is most known for fighting against and help-ing overturn prior law in the landmark Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas – the case that made same-sex re-lationships and sexual activ-
ity legal in every state and ter-ritory in the United States.
The event was organized by OUTlaw, a WVU organi-zation that promotes open networking and communica-tion between gay and straight communities and educates others on gay rights issues.
During the lecture, “Gay Rights in the Supreme Court from Lawrence to Perry,” Smith explained how LGBT equality has changed during the past 26 years and what changes he hopes to see in the near future.
“I think students already understand this issue. They, in their bones, believe there should be equality,” he said. “The reason why the move-ment is going to succeed is precisely because of the younger generation.”
Because it is still legal to discriminate LGBT individ-uals when it comes to hous-ing and employment in many places – including West Vir-ginia, – Smith said you can lose your job, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it.
“Just because your boss found out you were gay, you can lose your job as well as be excluded from an apart-ment,” he said.
“So, one of the big things that has to happen regard-less of what the Supreme Court does, it has to face the federal statute, which is a fed-eral law that states, ‘you can’t discriminate in employment and housing against people just because they are gay.’”
Smith said this battle isn’t a new one.
“This is what so many peo-
ple have been trying to do for 12-15 years; it just hasn’t got through yet. It has to go through Congress,” he said.
As far as same sex mar-riage goes, Smith said the Supreme Court may make a new law regional, covering the US state-by-state, but he feels it will eventually cover the whole country.
“The cases this year are based on the case 10 years ago, the Lawrence vs. Texas case, which was the founda-tion case that established all the arguments that are being
made now,” he said. Stephen Skinner, West Vir-
ginia House of Delegates 67th District and founder of Fair-ness West Virginia, also spoke briefly during the lecture.
“We have come a long away in a very short amount of time,” he said. “You under-stand, when I graduated from Law School in 1994, I think there was one openly gay stu-dent. There was no organiza-tion like OUTlaw. Although it may seem like a very long
by shelby toompasstaff writer
Morgantown’s newest ad-dition to the Suncrest Towne Centre, Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, opened its doors to customers for the first time Friday.
Once the phrase “Open for business” went viral on Face-book Friday evening, Mor-gantown residents and stu-dents came out to see what the Joint was all about.
Patrick Martin, owner of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, said they expected it to be busy since it’s the new buzz around town, but they didn’t expect it to be quite as busy as it was.
“Real barbecue joints run out of food, and this is some-
what of a foreign concept up here in Morgantown,” Mar-tin said. “I’m not saying there aren’t real barbecue joints nationwide, but the real, true old-school Joints in the south run out of food.”
Without a freezer or a mi-crowave, only so much food can be made per day.
“We are cooking today for tomorrow,” he said. “My standards are very high and non-negotiable because we want individuals to appre-ciate quality, good food. We cook what we can cook, and when we run out, we run out because everything is from scratch.”
Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint is open weekly from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. but will close when they run out of food.
Approximately 300 -600 customers came out for their first experience at the Joint.
Morgantown residents Craig and Shawnda Lough have always been a fan of barbecue and found out about Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint through Facebook and wanted to try it out for themselves.
“Even though they only had a few items left and we had to wait in line, I was still able to get the ribs, which I had planned to get,” he said. “I heard they’re already talk-ing about possibly adding an-other smoker too.”
The Loughs both said they enjoyed the customer ser-vice and overall experience offered by the restaurant employees.
“I had the pulled pork, and it was very good,” Shawnda said. “Everyone is friendly and helpful, and if you needed extra sauce, they were right there when you needed them.”
Craig said he is excited more restaurants are coming into Morgantown because he is eager to try something new.
“It’s nice to have some-thing new and different,” he said. “I liked it overall, and I’m definitely full.”
The Joint’s one-of-a-kind ribs and the notorious “Red-neck Taco” were the most popular items over the week-end, according to Martin.
“Hopefully everyone will be patient with us,” Martin
by carlee lammersCity editor
It’s a bird...It’s a plane... It’s Maniac Man and Mountain Momma.
This basketball season, West Virginia University students Mary Catherine Hamilton and Matt Idle-man have added a heroic twist to the student sec-tion of the Coliseum.
For each home men’s basketball game, the cou-ple of nearly two years sports Batgirl- and Bat-man-like Maniac Man and Mountain Momma costumes.
Hamilton, a junior el-ementary education stu-dent from Keyser, W.Va., said the idea sparked from a last minute Halloween costume idea and has turned into something much more.
“I had no idea what to be for Halloween that night, and I thought af-ter ‘it would have been so cool if we could have been WVU superheroes.’ Then I thought that maybe we could do it the next year,” she said. “Then Matt said ‘Well, why don’t we just dress up for basketball games?’ I thought that was the best idea ever.”
As leaders in the Moun-taineer Maniacs, the cou-
ple thought the costumes would provide an op-portunity to electrify the WVU student section.
“We love all Mountain-eer sports, especially bas-ketball. I always thought it would be so cool to be part of a student sec-tion that really rowdies behind our team win or lose,” Hamilton said. “So, this is kind of our contri-bution toward making the student section like that.”
Idleman said he had al-ways liked the idea of sup-porting the men’s basket-ball team in a unique way, so when Hamilton told him her idea, he was im-mediately onboard.
“It’s something that I have been thinking of do-ing for a couple of years,” he said. “We get to the game early and get seats down in front. I’ve al-ways kind of wanted to do something like this and dress up as a persona.”
However, conjuring the heroic attire was no easy task.
“They’re semi-home-made. For Matt’s I was just searching for blue and gold super hero costumes. I found a Batman cos-tume that was blue and gray, so I had to get his.
“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Tuesday February 19, 2013 Volume 125, Issue 100www.THedaONLINe.comda
The West Virginia rifle team set a national air rifle record at the NCAA qualifier last weekend in Columbus, Ohio.SPORTS PAGE 10
The West Virginia men’s basketball team fell to Kansas State 71-61 in Manhattan, Kan., Monday night. SPORTS PAGE 7
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A message on The Daily Ath-enaeum’s role in the SGA elections. OPINION PAGE 4
ELECTION SEASON
Famed attorney talks LGBT rights
students add ‘super’ twist to student section
WellWVU celebrates employees’ health
by madison Fleckstaff writer
West Virginia Univer-sity students are always getting health information from WELLWVU: The Stu-dents’ Center of Health, the on-campus wellness authority.
This week, the Bene-fits Administration of the Human Resources De-partment is offering WVU employees the same op-portunities during WVU Employee Health Matters Week.
“We are focusing on employee wellness here at WVU and how important that is,” said Toni Chris-tian, the director of Ben-efits Administration.
Christian said at last spring’s event, partici-pants showed interest in the wellness topics.
“Overwhelmingly, the employees suggested that we offer them ad-ditional wellness topics and wellness events,” she said. “So versus one day, we thought we would try something different
and do a week’s worth of events on all three campuses.”
The program is offer-ing 75 different events, including educational workshops, comprehen-sive wellness screenings and open houses.
Sixteen different work-shops were offered yes-terday, with each session ranging from 15-20 peo-ple, and some days may have more events than others.
“Part of a healthy life-style is having that work-life balance,” Christian said.
“It’s creating a healthy lifestyle for employees, and many of these events are also open to their fam-ily members.”
The activities will be held all week on the Downtown, Evansdale and Health Sciences cam-puses starting at 8:30 a.m.
There will be an open house today at the College of Creative Arts from 5-8 p.m. and an open house at
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SGA candidates kick off 2013 campaign with midnight banner dropby jacob bojesson
Correspondent
The ballots for the 2013 Student Government election open in one week, and the candidates have already be-gun vying for students’ support.
Since the election banners were dropped in the Mountainlair Sunday night, the Revolution Party and THE Party have been campaigning both in person and on the web.
The Revolution Party met at 6 a.m. to put up posters and meet with students.
“We’ve been planning a platform like this for the past couple of weeks. It’s a rush of energy to finally start,” said Ryan Campione, presidential candidate for The Revolution party.
“We’re starting a bunch of new initiatives. We have a whiteboard up in the Mountainlair, and we’re encour-aging everyone that walks by to write their issues on the board,” he said. “It’s exciting to hear what every-one’s saying.”
According to its members, The Revolution Party is aiming to do what their name implies: revolutionize student government.
“We feel like the student government hasn’t really been there for students as much as it could be, both in transparency, in representing students and kind of tack-ling real, working issues,” Campione said. “It seems like when the campaign is over, people revert back to their
CHECK OUR SPORTS BLOGGet the latest on Mountaineer sports in our WVU Sports Insider Blog at http://blogs.thedaonline.com/sports/.
mel moraes/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumPresidential candidate Ryan Campione speaks with supporters of The Revolution Party after the banner drop Sunday night.
mel moraes/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumTHE Party drops its banner Sunday night.
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offices, but we want to get out into the open and actu-ally find out what people’s issues are.”
During this week, Cam-pione and his ticket are try-ing to meet with as many students and student orga-nizations as possible.
They have also sched-uled a “meet the candi-dates” event in Towers Friday to give new voters a chance to get to know the candidates and learn more about the election process.
“One of the unique things we’re doing is that we’re reaching out,” Cam-
pione said. “There are 393 student organizations on campus, and our goal is to visit as many of those as possible. We’ve already talked to about a third of them.”
Christian Guy and his running mates in THE Party are also working on getting their voices heard.
Throughout the week, they will be campaign-ing across campus and are planning several outreach events.
“I’m feeling great. Every-one is really excited. I think we have a great ticket and a great chance to win this election,” Guy said.
THE Party bases their campaign around three
words: trusted, hardwork-ing and experienced.
“I just want students to know that I’ve created a diverse ticket that rep-resents the student body as a whole, and we are all dedicated to making stu-dents’ lives better,” Guy said. “We are trusted, ex-perienced and hardwork-ing; that is our motto. We are THE Party.”
Along with the motto, Guy has created a three-part platform for what he hopes to accomplish if elected.
“My platform is to over-all improve your college experience from start to finish, and we’re going to do that by achieving three
platforms,” he said. “The first one is making a safer university, the second one is building a community and the third one is start-ing new traditions.”
A debate between the candidates will take place 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25 in the Mountainlair Food Court.
The election ballots will be open from 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. Feb. 26-28 in the Mountainlair and the Stu-dent Recreation Center. A third and rotating location will be in either the Health Science Center, the Engi-neering Sciences Building or Brooks Hall.
early Monday morning, seven individuals were dis-placed, three injured and one arrested following a fire on Maryland street in South Park.
Three of the residents were West Virginia univer-sity students, according to WVu officials. Corey Nei-dhart, 22, and Charles Pell, 23, of Wheeling and Zac Cholak, 26, of Canonsburg, Pa., were in the house when it caught flame.
WVu student affairs is working to find alternative housing for the students.
A n o t h e r f o r m e r WVu student, Derek blankenship, was arrested after police say he in-terfered with police and firefighters.
Fire department offi-cials don’t believe the fire is suspicious and put out the blaze in a few hours.
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three injured, one arrested after fire
Then I added some gold, I added ‘Flying WV’s,’ and he’s so tall so I had to make it taller for him. Mine took a lot more work. I bought a leotard, I cut it, I added gold to it and sparkles,” she said. “It took me pretty much all of Thanksgiving break , plus a few more weeks (to make them). It took a pretty long time.”
Despite the effort to cre-ate the costumes, the cou-
ple agreed their passion for Mountaineer athletics makes it worth their while.
“We love Mountaineer sports,” Hamilton said. “In the past two years I’ve been here, I’ve gone to pretty much every home basketball game, football games and a bunch of soc-cer games. We just try to go to everything.”
Idelman, a graduate civil engineering student, said he has had a passion for WVU athletics from the time he was young, so he believes the costumes are
an excellent continuation of his passion as a fan.
“It’s something that I grew up with. My dad went here and is a big WVU sports fan. As far back as I can remember, I was ei-ther listening to the games on the radio or watch-ing them on T.V. I just love WVU sports,” he said. “I’ve really never considered a different school. I always wanted to come here. It was my passion to be a Mountaineer.”
Idleman said taking on the personas of Ma-
niac Man and Mountain Momma isn’t something the couple does for atten-tion; it’s a way to highlight their passion for the Uni-versity and engage fans.
“It’s fun, and it’s some-thing there at the game that everyone can enjoy. I don’t really do it for the attention or anything like that,” he said.
“It’s just fun to try and get everybody into the game and to jump around.”
mel moraes/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumCurrent SGA administration members, including President Zachary Redding and Vice President Jarred Zuccari, pose for a photo Sunday night before the banner drop.
said. “In the restaurant indus-try, there is never a restaurant that opens up smoothly, but now that everyone has gotten their feet wet, this is going to be a dynamic restaurant for Morgantown.”
As a fast, casual restau-rant, individuals may dine-in, take-out, cater or go through the drive through when it be-comes available in the future.
Martin said there has been a consistent line wrapped back to the door from Friday evening up until Monday’s lunch.
Martin said he expects ser-vice to continue to pick up through the remainder of the week.
“We talk about running out of food, but this is real,” Mar-tin said. “There is a whole hog on the patio smoking, and smoke is in the restaurant.”
Not only was it a success-ful business weekend for Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint but Martin said it was a fun week-end as well.
“I love this demographic, and I love this town, it just fits,” he said. “It’s definitely a synergy with the brand and the town, it has the same demographic appeal from down south, and I think peo-ple are really going to like it.”
For more information on Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, visit www.martinsBar-B-Quejoint.com, or visit their Facebook page.
submITTeDWest Virginia University students Mary Catherine Hamilton and Matt Idleman pose before tip-off of a WVU men’s basketball game at the Coliseum.
time ago, in the scheme of things, it wasn’t,” he said.
Skinner explains how and why he became the founder of Fairness West Virginia, which is a civil rights orga-nization dedicated to LGBT rights.
“I was living in New York, and when I moved back to West Virginia, there was no organization fighting for gay rights on a state level – no lob-bying here,” he said. “You can only complain about things so much before you have to get up and just do it, so I did it.”
Skinner also described his experiences being the state’s first openly gay member of the legislature.
“To be in Charleston, I think you have to remem-
ber, it’s just like being openly gay anywhere else: it doesn’t matter most of the time,” he said. “So I bring my part-ner to events, and obviously I bring a new perspective to the table.”
He said being openly gay was a personal choice.
“When we’re talking about real-estate laws in the judi-ciary committee or gun rights, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “However, as we take up gay rights legislation, I think it will be important. I’ll be able to have a level of trust with my colleagues; that’s the point in being out.”
For more information about Paul M. Smith, visit jenner.com/people/Paul-Smith, and for more informa-tion about Fairness West Vir-ginia, visit www.fairnesswv.org.
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‘Dead Space’ franchise continues to impress with third installment
edge-online.com‘Dead Space 3’ protagonist Isaac Clarke takes aim at one of his many foes.
“Dead Space 3” is a game worthy of its name and accolades.
Let’s get that on the re-cord right away. As it stands now, the game is rated at 78 on Metacritic, making it the lowest-rated of the three main “Dead Space” titles.
I tend to agree with the fact that, of the three “Dead Space” games, this one is the “weakest” entry by a hair’s breadth.
But being the worst “Dead Space” game still means it’s a lot better than almost ev-ery game out there.
“Dead Space 3” has some very impressive visuals along with great voice act-ing and facial capture.
The entire presentation, from the user interface to the clanking gizmos at-tached to your guns, is tac-tile and enjoyable.
The game does a fantastic job of putting the player into
the game world rather than above it.
The textures are incon-sistent though, with some objects looking photoreal-istic while others look like they were ported over from a Playstation 2 game. Even so, the game has a physical-ity that even “Dead Space 2” lacked.
A great deal of the game’s success in grounding the player in the game world can be attributed to the best sound design I have ever en-countered in a video game.
The audio staff at Vis-ceral Games took this game on their backs and decided to make something special. When many reviewers criti-cized “Dead Space 3,” they said the game isn’t scary enough to be a true “Dead Space” game. Well, it’s safe to say these people did not use headphones while play-ing the game.
Even the most banal ac-tivities echo with a hint of malice through the metal-lic corridors of the game’s surprisingly diverse envi-rons. Something as simple
as opening an elevator fills your ears with dreadful in-dustrial clanking. This, in turn, causes you to whip around in search of any un-heard threats which may be approaching. If you find yourself underwhelmed by the auditory element of this game, slap on some head-phones, and then tell me how you feel.
The way “Dead Space” 3 approaches scaring the player is also different than the first two games in the se-ries. To maintain its effect, it would have to be, after all.
The first “Dead Space” was really out of left field; nobody knew what to ex-pect at any point.
“Dead Space 2” relied on a lot of the same scare tac-tics as the first game but with the benefit of a creepy cultist backdrop which re-ally amped up the scares.
“Dead Space 3,” by con-trast, is not interested in playing coy with the enemies.
So much of the tension in the first two games was based on the times that
monsters didn’t spring out and scare you, but you were sure that they would. Now, the monsters are an inevi-tability. They saturate every nook and cranny of the en-vironment. Pick the worst time for a horde of necro-morphs to show up, and that’s when they’ll pop up to chase you. You can al-most set your watch to the enemy encounters in “Dead Space 3.”
But this was all planned by Visceral because they want the player to see it all coming. They want the player to see the hordes of enemies pouring into the room and to quake when faced with the insurmount-able odds.
This makes sense from a narrative standpoint, too. Isaac Clarke, the game’s pro-tagonist, has already been through two necromorph infestations; he’s not going to be surprised by them any-more. He is, however, going to be taken aback by their sheer number and ferocity of their assault as he scram-bles to find any advantage
in the ceaseless onslaught of necromorphs at every turn.
That is where the game’s new weapon system comes in. Players can craft new combinations of guns us-ing spare parts and blue-prints they find throughout the world. These new weap-ons can range from tradi-tional projectile weapons to industrial mining charges, with the added potential to place two weapon types on each frame.
This empowers play-ers to choose their own ap-proaches to combat. Prefer to play up close and per-sonal with these beasts? Pick up a hydraulic hammer and start swinging. Want to pick them off surgically? Use the good old plasma cutter.
The game’s story is a good one. It possesses some inter-esting characters, but it has its share of annoyingly con-trived scenarios, as well.
Isaac’s group really needs to just outfit him with one of those kid leashes, be-cause he is constantly sepa-rated from them by missiles, crumbling ground, faulty
equipment or stiff breezes. It’s annoying and predict-able, but it doesn’t really de-tract from the game in any significant way.
Still, Danik, the new an-tagonist, can’t hold a candle to Tiedemann, the antago-nist from “Dead Space 2.”
Danik isn’t present for most of the game, so it’s hard to really hate him.
Essentially, “Dead Space 3” is a successful, enjoy-able entry in the illustrious “Dead Space” series.
It succeeds in creating a tense atmosphere through fantastic sound design and a never-ending series of tough battles against the series’ trademark necromorphs.
Horror game fans might be aghast that the game has lost a measure of its “hor-ror” purity, but then again, if “Dead Space 3” had been another game with the same scare formula as the first two, you’d be hearing these same critics complain that the game was a stale retread of past ideas.
The Dave Matthews Band announces summer tour datesby lacey palmerassociate a&e editor
Need a sign that sum-mer is right around the corner?
The Dave Matthews Band (DMB), one of the most successful touring groups of the past 20 years, announced Monday they will hit the road again this summer – this time to sup-port their newest album, “Away From the World.”
“Away From the World” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in September 2012, mark-ing the band’s sixth album to hit the top of the charts within the first week of
release. Rolling Stone magazine
named the recent album one of the Top 50 Albums of 2012.
The tour, which has 38 stops, will run from May-September this summer.
It will begin May 17 in Woodlands, Texas, and the band will wrap up the tour Sept. 8 in Mountain View, Calif.
Thankfully for Morgan-town-based fans, Dave Matthews and company will make a stop just an hour and a half down the road.
The tour will stop in Burgettstown, Pa., at the First Niagara Pavilion May
31. The group visited this
same venue July 13 and 14 last summer.
The next closest tour spots for this year include Scranton, Pa., Hershey, Pa. and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
The Dave Matthews Band’s live shows have be-come a signature part of the band’s overall appeal.
Shortly after any given performance by the group, the Internet explodes with live videos and live ver-sions of the group’s songs, proving that these live events are a hit.
Tickets for the tour will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. March 22.
An exclusive online pre-sale for DMB Warehouse Fan Association members begins 10 a.m. Thursday.
Also, Citicard members will be able to purchase tickets early through Ci-ti’s Private Pass Program starting noon March 18.
Prior to the beginning of the tour, the band will also perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 28.
With a band of this fame, the chances of a sell-out are always high, so act fast if you want to catch the group in action this summer.
mark Byron/cincinnati.comDave Matthews performs at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Monday marked the be-ginning of the Student Gov-ernment Association’s cam-paign season. As our next generation of student lead-ers transitions into cam-paign mode, The Daily Ath-enaeum staff would like to express our sincere hope that this year’s campaign will be a positive one and that the candidates who can best serve West Virginia University’s student body are ultimately victorious.
We would also like to take a moment to clarify our role in covering campus politics, as it has come to our atten-tion that there is a wide-spread misunderstanding of our coverage of Univer-sity issues, including SGA.
As an independent stu-dent newspaper, our job first and foremost is to pro-vide our readers with the latest accurate informa-tion concerning issues that are important to them. The fact that we are an indepen-dent publication means we – students from a variety of backgrounds and majors who were hired to work at The DA – have complete ed-
itorial control over our con-tent. This is critical because it enables us to report on all issues objectively, without the fear that we will be cen-sored if we are overly criti-cal of WVU.
As WVU’s only student newspaper, we also serve as a voice for the students, pro-viding them a forum in our opinion section with which they can participate in the discourse on the latest con-troversial issues.
However, our job is not to serve as a cheerleader for the University or any en-tity that falls under the WVU umbrella. Our job is to re-port the truth, irrespective of how unpleasant or incon-venient it may be.
When it comes to our cov-erage of SGA, this means we will cover the good as well as the bad. Make no mis-take, there has been plenty of both.
It is our responsibility to provide students with all the information they will need to make a responsible deci-sion when casting their bal-lot. Unfortunately, in recent years that has included re-
porting on an election that was nullified due to what the University called “mas-sive voter fraud.” If we failed to provide students with the information about such an incident, we would be fail-ing to meet our responsibil-ities as journalists to hold those in positions of power accountable.
However, we have also been there when the SGA has functioned effectively, a fact underscored by the re-ality that most of our SGA-related stories have been overwhelmingly positive. We would be just as guilty of failing to meet our re-sponsibilities if we ignored the progress SGA has made.
Unfortunately, this point seems to be lost on those who accuse The DA of be-ing involved in a witch hunt against SGA. This year, these accusations have re-sulted in The DA being ex-cluded from the SGA de-bate for the first time in years. This move is some-what puzzling, as it under-mines the credibility of a legislative body that is al-ready struggling to deal with
an extraordinarily apathetic student body (last year, only 9.6 percent of students voted in the SGA election). The whole point of having the debate hosted by an ob-jective third party, with no stake in the election, is to ensure the debate provides potential voters with the op-portunity to hear from the candidates in an unscripted manner. This gave students the opportunity to see with their own eyes which can-didates genuinely under-stood the issues and were passionate about serving the University.
Nonetheless, we wish all the candidates the best and we hope this year’s cam-paign season will not be marred by the negativity that has stained SGA’s repu-tation in recent years. How-ever, we stand by our cover-age of SGA’s ups as well as its downs, and we reiterate our commitment to bring-ing WVU students the un-adulterated truth, whether or not it sheds a positive light on the University.
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President Obama had the misfortune of the en-tire nation seeing his face become more and more pinched and constipated-looking during Dr. Benja-min Carson’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast this past week.
Carson, a neurosurgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hos-pital, took the stage Thurs-day morning with a speech that critiqued the tax sys-tem, Obamacare and po-litical correctness – all while referencing Jesus. It was beautiful and it made me wish C-SPAN was a more watched channel.
While Carson’s speech began innocent enough, quoting verses from the Bible such as “‘With his mouth the Godless de-stroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escapes,’” the rest of the speech drifted far from anything Obama expected.
Carson first ripped apart the entire idea of politi-cal correctness (thank the Lord – wait am I allowed to say that, or will too many people be offended?). He condemned it as some-thing that “muffles” Amer-ican citizens. Needless to say, his speech certainly was not deterred by any such muzzle – though I’m sure Obama would have appreciated that.
On the subject of taxes, Carson made not only his case plain and simple but also plan plain and simple.
“When I pick up my Bi-ble” he said, “I see the fair-est individual in the uni-verse, God, and He’s given us a system. It’s called tithe.”
For non-religious folk out there, tithing is the act of giving God 10 percent of your income through the means of the church. Wealthy Christians don’t give more than poor Christians. It’s always 10 percent.
Basically what Carson suggests is all Americans, no matter their income, give the same percentage of their income in taxes, just as all Christians give 10 percent to the church. Honestly, if it’s good enough for God, surely it should be good enough for the government.
Now I – nor Carson I’m sure – am not implying that everyone’s Christian or everyone in the govern-ment should do it this way because the Bible says so. That would be silly and in-fringe upon separation of church and state. The gov-ernment should do it the way Carson describes be-cause it just bloody makes more sense for all Amer-icans to have to give the same percentage.
Carson then went on
to mention Obamacare, despite being two seats away from Obama him-self. I don’t pretend to un-derstand all the mechan-ics of the healthcare policy he suggested, but the word “efficient” was used: a word that is disturbingly lacking from the vocabu-lary of our policymakers.
Carson suggested that a citizen should have a “health savings account to which money can be at-tributed pre-tax from the time you’re born until the time you die. When you die you can pass it on to your family members so that when you’re 85 years old and you’ve got six dis-eases, you’re not trying to spend up everything, you’re happy to pass it on and there’s nobody talking about death panels.”
After that statement, Obama switched his atten-tion to the ground.
The idea of being able to pass on your health-care to loved ones espe-cially makes Carson’s plan stand out. Especially in a world in which little is le-gally allowed to pass on from parent to child – our own iTunes libraries don’t even actually belong to us (sorry future daughter, I guess my hardy collect-ing of Taylor Swift songs has been in vain). If I can give whatever amount of healthcare money I failed to use to my children, that will almost make up for them missing out on hours upon hours of Taylor Swift enjoyment.
Although it was obvi-ous how uncomfortable Obama was throughout the speech, Carson still managed to be one of the few to stand up and speak out about the gov-ernment’s inefficiency – an action other citizens would do well to follow.
Carson embodies ev-erything that’s needed in a leader. Not only did he point out problems with the government, but he also offered common sense solutions, the lat-ter of which many politi-cians seem to be lacking lately. Maybe we need a change from politicians in the White House. Maybe it’s time for just an aver-age Joe, or even a neuro-surgeon to lead our coun-try in the right direction (no pun intended).
I’d like to hope that be-fore the country’s next presidential election, our current president would learn from Carson. I’d like to hope Obama will take all the wonderful points from Carson’s speech and try to incorporate a few into his own plans, or even for Vice President Joe Biden to have taken some-thing to heart.
Then again, I’m also hopeful that reporters will start being fair and bal-anced – so I shouldn’t hold my breath.
Did you watch the State of the Union address on Feb. 12? Don’t feel bad if you didn’t – I wasn’t able to either. Did you at least try to read up on what hap-pened via Twitter and the Internet? If so, you proba-bly came away with a whole bunch of Ted Nugent jokes and Sen. Marco Rubio GIFs, but as for the actual speech, you probably didn’t come away with much.
The Internet has done a lot for spreading and shar-ing political discourse, but all of that has been drowned out by the ex-traneous distractions that
come with Internet culture.Take, for example, the
Sen. Rubio water inci-dent that happened dur-ing the Republican’s re-sponse to the State of the Union address. Sen. Rubio, the GOP’s next big hope and current frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination, reached over awkwardly to take a sip of his water during the open-ing of his speech. It was a strange moment, and defi-nitely funny.
But for some people, it was like his speech ended there. Critics argued that the water incident was yet another sign of Republi-can incompetence, when it was just an innocent mis-take. There were many con-
tentious points brought up by Sen. Rubio in his re-sponse about the role of the government, gun con-trol, and energy, but all of those points are somehow negated by his blunder. In fact, when you search for Marco Rubio on Google, the first suggested search is “Marco Rubio water.” On the serious news sites
Ted Nugent’s case is even more frustrating. The famous gun advocate was invited to the State of the Union by a representative from Texas and showed up to the speech in jeans. Ev-erybody joked about and commented on what reac-tion the Republicans would have if a rapper who made threats against a Republi-
can president was invited to the State of the Union. When the media should be focusing on how Obama has to beg the Congress to vote on gun control bills and the inflexibility of the Republican controlled House of Representatives on this issue, they’re devot-ing valuable coverage time to a fringe lunatic like Ted Nugent.
There’s a valuable dis-cussion out there on the merits of Obama’s speech and his plan to right the ship for the next year and beyond. Unfortunately, when there’s so much triv-ial information out there, it’s hard for a normal per-son who doesn’t follow pol-itics to find the right discus-
sions. Most likely, they’ll get sucked into the jokes about Ted Nugent and Marco Rubio.
There’s obviously a place for humor in politics, as Jon Stewart and Stephen Col-bert have proven several times over the years. But their humor is derived from serious issues, and often their viewers come away more enlightened about serious issues that they wouldn’t be exposed to otherwise. It’s only a prob-lem when the jokes be-ing made are about things that really have no impact on the political landscape at all.
I know it’s part of the In-ternet culture to be irrev-erent and silly, but it’s se-
riously impacting the level of discourse we can partici-pate in. How can we expect to have thoughtful conver-sations on timely issues like gun control or the role of the U.S. in the Middle East when all people are reading about are totally off topic and irrelevant “issues”?
Like many things, you get from the Internet what you put into it. There are all sorts of good stories and analysis of politics out there for those who want that and it’s not that hard to find if you put the effort into seeking it out. If you’re not interested in doing that, then please stop try-ing to pass off your cheap jokes as relevant political arguments.
DAVID PERRYcolumnist
It’s me, common sense
AshlEY PIERcEmustang daily
The joke’s on us: How the Internet ruins political discourseAP
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with The Associated Press in his Capitol Hill office in Washington. Rubio delivered the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
BORN TODAY This year you experi-ence some tension regarding what you want to do and the way in which you go about executing those goals. Others might feel as if you are send-ing them mixed signals. You can go from being deeply emotional to highly intellectual within a few min-utes. Confusion surrounds your com-munication. If you are single, you could have a few starts-ups to rela-tionships with different people. Po-tential partners might be confused by your varying needs, but the right person won’t be. If you are attached, the two of you need to work on your communication.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You have a way with words that is clear and concise. Right now, whether confusion lies on your side or someone else’s, do your best to clear it up. Not pointing fingers leads to good will and continued ease when relating on a one-on-one level. Tonight: Be clear and direct.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You might have made an error finan-cially -- or maybe someone else has, yet you’re the one who has to deal with it. Don’t turn down someone’s offer to help. Once your finances are back in order, you can make that pur-chase you’ve been eyeing. Tonight: Treat yourself on the way home.
G E M I N I ( M AY 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH Go full speed ahead. Don’t worry about the outcome of a situation. Rethink a personal mat-ter involving a child or a new friend. Clearly there is a lot of caring be-
tween the two of you. If a misunder-standing occurs, don’t take it person-ally. Tonight: All smiles.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH You are able to make a difference, and you will do your best to make someone feel more comfortable. Don’t worry so much about the long-term implications of a situation, as it might not be the best time to clear the air. Tonight: Get a little extra R and R.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH Listen to news with a touch of cyni-cism. You might sense that someone has distorted the story or left out an important fact. Show interest and ask questions. Others appreciate your at-tention. A meeting takes a positive turn, which leads to success. Tonight: Find your friends.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Others will look to you to take the lead, so do so. You might be confused by recent events. Ask questions and trust your judgment. Your friends and loved ones will demonstrate their caring because of your kind person-ality. Tonight: Burn the midnight oil.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHHH Take an overview. You know what you did wrong, but you also might be cu-rious about others’ reactions. Explore this further by asking questions. Your creativity and gentleness might seem like a ploy to some, but that is who you really are. Tonight: Watch some-one open up.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Work with individuals rather than groups, and you will be happier with the results. You might need to sort out some recent confusion. How you
feel about someone could change once you put a misunderstanding to bed. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You always have strong opinions. Allow others to make the first move and express their ideas and feelings. Everyone, including you, gets to see the end results of his or her actions. On some level, this expe-rience could be important. Tonight: Defer, defer, defer.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Focus on each task on your to-do list, and work toward meeting your goals. Your ability to move through a prob-lem marks your interactions. Others trust you to get the job done. Un-derstand what your expectations are from a certain situation. Tonight: Lighten up and relax.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH The unexpected occurs, and you might profit from the outcome of handling it the way you want. Others might take a little while to regroup. If you are wondering what’s going on, try to walk in their shoes. You are in the mood to overindulge. Tonight: Ever playful.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH Stay close to home. You might want to reconsider an investment involv-ing real estate or your domestic life. Investigate and discuss different courses of action with a family mem-ber or roommate. You will come to a mutually acceptable idea as a result. Tonight: Order in.
BORN TODAY Astronomer Nico-laus Copernicus (1473), actor Beni-cio del Toro (1967), singer/songwriter Smokey Robinson (1940)
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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 [email protected].
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 [email protected]
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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.
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NEW SPRING SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPOR-TUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Center. The groups include Understand-ing Self and Others, Sexual As-sault Survivors Group, Moun-taineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thy-self: An Interpersonal Process Group. For more information call 293-4431 or contact [email protected].
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.
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Local music review: Sweet Life
Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMSweet Life performs at 123 Pleasant Street.
One of Morgantown’s most promising bands, stoner-punk masters Sweet Life, released their new ex-tended play (EP), “Disen-chanted,” today in hopes of taking the next step toward widespread notoriety.
In the bloated swath of bands that is the mu-sic scene of the fine city of Morgantown, you have to be unique to stand out from the pack.
Or, in this band’s case, you can simply levitate above the masses.
“Disenchanted” is truly an album to be reckoned with.
Rarely does one see from a local punk band the kind of attention to detail and scope of vision displayed by Sweet Life on this al-bum, but the quartet prove they’re no run-of-the-mill act. Packed tight with hazy, stoner rock riffing that goes heavy on the low end and the assaulting chord strum-ming of punk rock, the al-
bum is a continually flow-ing journey that manages to maintain a defined sound and feel throughout.
This is a feat many young bands fail to accomplish.
Don’t let the quality of the execution fool you, though. These tracks are flat-out raw and “jammable” in the best possible sense; they all light up.
Powerful, howling vo-cals escort “Rock ‘N Roll III” through a galloping sec-tion. This gives way to some ambitious harmonies and a cathartic ending, serving as a cry for a reprieve from scum-drenched city life as it says, “This California sun-shine’s callin’ my name/I’ma get there/How? I don’t care.”
The sentiment is accented by simple but striking low-end, bluesy groove riffing.
Tracks like “Loser’s Club” also display a slightly darker-tinged lyricism, highlighted by an eerily serene guitar lead near the end.
“Disenchanted” features several impressive total in-dividual performances aside from the undeniable riffing of the guitarist.
Though slightly under-
represented in the mix (as is the case with many bands of the genre) the vo-calist shows immense talent on the release, as he seam-lessly transitions from his gritty but aurally pleasing howl to almost a croon. This diversity helps to create the band’s flawlessly executed harmonies.
The drummer is also suc-cessful on the release, strad-dling the line between punk aggressiveness and a subtle sense of groove.
Shimmering cymbals help to set the mind-addled mood of the album.
Additionally, the bass work gives the album its depth and contrast and cre-ates a roar of fuzz that drives the music forward on sev-eral tracks, like “Rhythm of Uncertainty.”
Together, the four have put together a promising effort worthy of praise, and they have earned a place firmly on the radar of this writer.
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APWest Virginia head coach Bob Huggins comes onto the court and is called for a technical foul during the second half against Kansas State Monday night.
West Virginia falls 71-61 on road to No. 13 Kansas State
see Men’s on PAGE 8
By Nick Arthurassociate sports editor
West Virginia is unde-feated against the teams ranked below it in the Big 12 Conference standings.
But it’s the teams ahead of the Mountaineers in the standings they just can’t seem to figure out.
The Mountaineers (13-13, 6-7) fell to 0-7 against teams ranked higher than them in the Big 12 standings with a 71-61 defeat at the hands of No. 13 Kansas State (21-5, 10-3) Monday night in Man-hattan, Kan.
“I don’t know if I’ve ever misjudged a group as much as I misjudged this group,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins on his postgame radio show. “We’re not good enough to not do everything we’re sup-posed to do.”
The Wildcats rushed out to a 20-6 lead early in the first half and never looked back, improving their record to 13-1 inside Bramlage Coli-
seum this season.The Mountaineers were
able to cut the deficit to 13 at the half but couldn’t get any closer in the second frame while shooting 40 percent from the field.
“The truth of the matter is, we had some wide-open looks, and we didn’t make them. They had some wide-open looks, and they made them,” Huggins said.
Kansas State connected on 50 percent of its shots and held West Virginia freshman guard Eron Harris scoreless for the first time since early December.
Harris only logged eight minutes and got off only two shot attempts because of constant foul trouble throughout the game.
WVU senior forward Deniz Kilicli finished with 16 points despite also find-ing himself in foul trouble and on the bench for most of the first half.
“I honestly thought we could make a run in the sec-ond half, because Deniz
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By roBert kreis sports writer
Grinding through the toughest schedule in pro-gram history, the West Vir-ginia tennis team lost to two top 50 opponents this weekend and fell to 1-6 on the season.
“The one thing that we need to keep on reminding ourselves is that the sched-ule that we’re playing is a very demanding one,” said West Virginia head coach Tina Samara. “There’s cer-tainly no question – we knew this year was going to be challenging.”
The weekend started with a trip to William & Mary Sat-urday. Samara sensed the Mountaineers where in for a long day before the team even got on the courts.
“That morning when we went down to break-fast, no one looked excited. There was no energy,” Sa-mara said. “We’re stilly try-ing to figure it out. Are they scared? Are they nervous? (Do) they just not under-stand how to behave?”
Samara knew she was in for a tough year when she made the demanding schedule, but she was hop-ing the Mountaineers would blossom when no one ex-pected them to win.
“I feel like with this sched-ule this year, every match we have is an opportunity,” Samara said. “You’re the underdog every single time you play, so you should be able play good tennis then.”
Instead of the Mountain-eers putting so much em-phasis on winning, Samara wants to see them concen-
trate on evolving their ten-nis game.
“The need to understand that the best that they can do this year is to take every match and learn from it,” Sa-mara said. “Win or lose, this is a schedule that you can really learn from if you’re willing to understand that.”
Samara was pleased, de-spite losing to both teams by a 6-1 margin.
“VCU (was) the first time, in my time here, that my top four players were com-peting at a high level at the same time,” Samara said. “It seems really weird if you look at the scores, it looks like we got slaughtered, but actually all four of those matches were competitive.”
make up the top four. Mathis was the only Mountaineer to record a win this week-end on the singles court, earning a victory in both matches.
“When we had her at No. 1 or 2 last year, that was a little much,” Samara said about Mathis. “I think she’s in a spot right now where she knows can win. It’s never easy because we’re playing way tougher teams, so the No. 4 player, theoret-ically, is a lot like a No. 1 or 2 player last year.”
Samara said she wants the underclassmen to learn from Mathis.
“That’s what I’m trying to do with this schedule for the other kids, so that next year it’s not as big a deal,” she said.
Head coach Tina Samara and the West Virginia tennis team lost two matches over the weekend.
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Clint Hurdle is going to get a chance to finish a turn-around he’s started with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
A person with knowl-edge of the deal told The Associated Press the Pirates are planning to extend the third-year manager through the 2014 season with a club option for 2015. The person spoke on condition of ano-nymity because a formal an-nouncement is expected on Wednesday, when owner Bob Nutting addresses reporters.
The agreement was first reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Hurdle is 151-173 in two seasons with the Pirates. He was entering the final sea-son of a three-year deal he signed when he took over for John Russell in Decem-ber, 2010. Pittsburgh went 79-83 in 2012, tied for the franchise’s best record in 20
seasons, though the Pirates went through a late swoon that dropped them out of playoff contention.
The 55-year-old Hurdle – who led the Colorado Rock-ies to the 2007 World Series – acknowledged on Monday he’d been in “discussions” with the team about an ex-tension but did not confirm it was complete.
“I’ve been a manager with a multiyear contract, I’ve been a manager with a one-year contract and I’ve been a manager without a contract, which made me a non-manager,” Hurdle said. “So, I’m not getting too far ahead of myself now. I’m humbled by the fact that we’re having conversation.”
Hurdle said he “loves” Pittsburgh, and his posi-tive energy brought a sense of fresh air to a stale club-house. The Pirates were the worst team in the major leagues in 2010 but jumped
to 72-90 in 2011.Pittsburgh was 16 games
over .500 in August before a stunning collapse as the pitching staff faltered and the team’s bats fizzled. Hur-dle accepted a large portion of the blame for the stum-ble to the finish but wasn’t bothered by the lack of an extension.
He arrived at the team’s spring training complex with a renewed sense of op-timism. Now he shouldn’t have to spend the next few months answering ques-tions about his status.
“There’s not one day I take the opportunity lightly,” Hurdle said. “I try to model the right behavior for the men, so they understand that everyday there’s an opportunity to represent and build something very unique together.”
Pittsburgh tweaked its roster during the offsea-son, adding All-Star catcher
Russell Martin and free agent left-handed starter Francisco Liriano. The core group, however, re-mains largely intact. All-Star centerfielder Andrew McCutchen is coming off a breakthrough season in which he finished third in the MVP voting and vet-eran right-hander A.J. Bur-nett anchored a sometimes overachieving pitching staff.
The extension takes away a potential distraction for a team and a city eager to snap 20 miserable seasons of losing.
“I think we’ve reignited the fan base to some de-gree,” Hurdle said. “We have gotten our team men-tality and our environment in a place it needs to be. But you’re always working to fulfill a dream, to be part of a championship team. The best way to do that is to build championship men.”
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Rifle team continues to hit markcody schulermanaging editor
This isn’t a desperate plea for students and Mountain-eer fans of all walks of life to drop everything they’re doing and start beating their collec-tive chests in support of the No. 1 West Virginia rifle team.
It’s not.Nobody’s trying to con-
vince you to don body paint, show up in droves and tail-gate for the next contest the Mountaineers compete in – though, admittedly, I think that would be a lot of fun.
A little barbeque and smallbore never hurt any-one, am I right? Sounds like the makings of a nice little Saturday.
The rifle team really gets an unfair cut in the fans’ per-spective of intercollegiate ath-letics at this institution. When it does well – which is often – praise is offered as a kind of half-hearted, “Hey, you guys
are great, but we aren’t that interested,” kind of deal.
When it does badly, no-body even knows because nobody is talking about it.
Right now, West Virginia is the top-ranked team in the country and just broke a na-tional air rifle record it set ear-lier this season.
The Great American Ri-fle Conference Champion-ships (GARC) are coming up this weekend, and the team’s trajectory is trending to-ward perhaps another con-ference and maybe even na-tional championship. You still don’t care.
And that’s fine.Regardless of how much
you know about competitive rifle shooting or the team that competes here, I can tell you people truly do have a sense of pride about the success this team achieves. That’s part of what it means to compete un-der the effervescent devotion of West Virginia fans.
Whether they openly ex-press it at convenient times or don’t even realize it, Moun-
taineer fans have at least some appreciation for the success West Virginia has been able to achieve.
What’s best about the West Virginia rifle team is how it continues to thrive regardless of the ever-shifting landscape of college athletics.
Schools change confer-ences, coaches leave after making promises and 18-22 year-old kids do stupid, un-predictable things. Things like money and television reign supreme. Forty percent of the team’s roster is foreign.
But through all the noise and all the change, the rifle team moves on, straight shot after straight shot.
Jon Hammond, now in his seventh-year as head coach of the rifle team, spent this off-season competing in the Olympics. So did senior Petra Zublasling. You can’t make this stuff up.
We don’t have to pretend to like or understand compet-itive shooting. Before I started working here in the spring of 2010, I honestly didn’t know
a single thing about the rifle team, which was just coming off of a national champion-ship run.
Once, somebody asked me if the rifle team was a club sport.
You’re not going to jump in and become rabid fans of the sport, but I’ll say I’ve certainly become an ardent supporter of what the team stands for.
Last year, Hammond in-vited our rifle beat writer, Alex Sims, to come watch one of the team’s practices. He even let him shoot with the team.
They are a group of unbri-dled, uncompromised com-petitors breaking records and winning matches with a chilling sense of purpose and precision.
So the next time some-body mentions the rifle team to you as a Mountaineer fan, tell them the honest truth.
You don’t know a single thing about them, but you’re damn proud of what they have done.
hardly played in the first half,” Huggins said. “You keep hoping that guys are going to make shots.”
The Mountaineers fell
to 0-5 this season against ranked opponents and have now lost their last 10 outings against teams in the top 25.
The amount of ranked teams on the schedule this season, particularly in non-conference play, is some-thing Huggins may regret have setting up.
“You find out about peo-ple in times of adversity. You find out what they’re made of,” Huggins said. “We can say what we want to say, but reality is I probably over-scheduled because I thought we were better than we are.”
West Virginia will face an-other ranked opponent Sat-
urday at home when No. 14 Oklahoma State travels to Morgantown.
Huggins and his team are in desperate need of mar-quee wins.
“You know me – we’re go-ing to fight,” Huggins said.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Tuesday February 19, 201310 | SPORTS
Rifle
No. 1 West Virginia breaks NCAA air rifle recordby robert kreis
sports writer
It was another record-setting performance for the No. 1 West Virginia ri-fle team this weekend at NCAA Qualifiers as it shot a 2381 in the air rifle, which broke the NCAA record the Mountaineers set ear-lier this season against Ole Miss.
The 2381, plus the Mountaineers’ 2335 in smallbore, combined for a total score of 4761.
“Our focus is still on finishing out the season, rather than getting too carried away. But the team obviously performed really well,” said West Virginia head coach Jon Hammond. “I knew that we were capa-ble of shooting that type of air rifle score, so I was just really pleased for the team members to do that.”
NCAA Qualifiers was the first of three matches the Mountaineers will par-ticipate in over the next month, and with the post season in full swing, Ham-mond wants his team to fo-cus on each match one at a time.
“Every match is dif-
ferent. It’s not just a case of getting on a hot streak and rolling with it,” Ham-mond said. “Every match is a new match and a new day. You can’t afford to get complacent or overconfi-dent. We’ve just got keep working.”
Sophomores Maren Pre-diger and Meelis Kiisk shot personal bests at qualifi-ers, while Olympian Petra Zublasling led the entire Mountaineer team with a score of 1191, so Ham-mond is not worried about West Virginia’s skill level.
“They all have the tal-ent,” Hammond said. “For the remaining two matches, they’ve got to keep working really hard and keep their focus.”
Prediger was arguably the most impressive Moun-taineer Sunday. Her air ri-fle personal best of 598 combined with her small-bore personal best of 593 to give the Germany native a personal best 1191 aggre-gate score.
“She’s definitely got plenty of courage and de-termination,” Hammond said. “A month or so ago, for her, a little bit of the struggle was finishing the
last 20 shots. She’s worked hard on that, and the last two matches she’s per-formed really well.”
While Prediger has come on late, Zublasing has led West Virginia all season.
“She continues to work very hard, and she’s very good at analyzing the match and herself and what she’s doing within that match,” Hammond said. “Whenever she might struggle with a few shots, she’s really good at catching it and finding the problem.
Zublasing, Prediger and the rest of the Moun-taineers now have a quick turnaround, with the Great American Rifle Confer-ence championship this weekend.
“Business as usual. We have to refocus again and get a bit of practice in this week,” Hammond said. “It’s a great pre-match be-fore NCAAs, with the com-petition that’s there, the number of people, the set up.
“We just have to stay fo-cused and go down there and do the best we can.”
The West Virginia gym-nastics team (6-5, 1-1 Big 12) earned its highest regular-season score on the road since 2004 and finished second with a 195.775 in Maryland’s tri-meet Sunday at the Com-cast Center in College Park, Md.
The No. 18 Terps finished first (196.175), and Rutgers finished third (195.05). Maryland wore pink leo-tards for the annual Pink meet, which raises aware-ness and money for breast cancer research.
WVU opened the meet strong with a meet-best 49.0 on beam, behind ju-nior Amanda Carpenter’s 9.825 career-best perfor-mance. Carpenter fin-ished in second place after an inquiry from Maryland gave sophomore Stephanie Giameo first with a 9.875. Sophomore Beth Deal, ju-nior Hope Sloanhoffer and senior Kaylyn Millick each scored 9.8. Senior Alaska Richardson finished with a 9.125 on beam.
W V U ’s i m p re s s i v e mark placed them in sec-ond behind Maryland, who scored 49.1 on vault, with Rutgers following in third after a 48.55 bars performance.
In the second event, the Mountaineers tallied 48.975 on floor. Floor an-chor Richardson made up for her unimpressive beam performance with a team-best 9.85. Millick earned a 9.825 on floor, while Sloan-hoffer and freshman Me-lissa Idell finished with a 9.775. Junior Makenzie Bristol earned 9.750 in her season debut, the same score as senior Chelsea Goldschrafe.
Butts said he was not sure whether he would put Bristol or Haley in the lineups for floor until he saw Bristol’s warm up at Maryland.
“She’s really been com-ing on strong lately, and we don’t have exhibition matches to see who has lineup spots, they have to prove it in practice,” Butts said. “Makenzie and Haley were really close in prac-tice, but Mak (Bristol) just had the better warm up, and I couldn’t be more proud of her score.”
After the second rota-tion, WVU moved into first place with a 97.975 score. Maryland placed sec-ond (97.775) after scoring 48.675 on the uneven bars event, and Rutgers placed
third (97.175) with their 48.625 score on balance beam.
The Mountaineer lineup won the vault with a sea-son-high 49.225. Richard-son earned a career-best 9.925 while Lawrence tal-lied a 9.9.
Lawrence, who aver-ages a 9.845 on vault, was moved to the prestigious anchor position for the meet. Millick finished with a 9.825, and Sloanhoffer scored a 9.8 on vault. Soph-omore Dayah Haley fin-ished above her vault aver-age with a 9.775, and junior Bethany Yurko scored 9.725 in her second vault showing of the season.
Lawrence and Richard-son took the top two spots for vault, while Katy Dodds, ranked No. 4 nationally on vault, finished third.
“Lawrence and Richard-son really came through for us tonight, to go into Maryland and beat them on their best event was re-ally fun,” Butts said.
WVU stayed in first place (147.2) going into the final rotation. Maryland trailed (146.75), and the Scarlet Knights again placed third (146.2).
In the final rotation, the Mountaineers earned a 48.675 on uneven bars and lost first place after the Terps scored 49.425 on the floor event. Millick matched her career-best of 9.9 while freshman Gina Costa earned a career-best 9.825. Sloanhoffer scored a 9.8, Lawrence earned a 9.650, Haley scored a 9.625 and junior Erica Smith scored a 9.6 on bars.
Millick finished in first place for the second straight week, and Sloan-hoffer finished fourth in all-around performance Sunday.
Although his team didn’t place first in the meet, Butts is still impressed at the consistency he is see-ing from his team.
“This team is definitely doing what they need to as we get closer to postsea-son play. This is definitely a confidence booster for this team,” he said.
WVU continues to lead the series with UMD, 35-15-1, and owns a 54-0 se-ries against RU.
The Mountaineers are back in action when they return to the Coliseum Sunday for the first ever Wendy M. Roach Invita-tional against No. 3 Mich-igan, New Hampshire and Towson at 2 p.m.
