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“We had plenty of opportunities to win the game, and we failed to do so on all three sides of the ball.”

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Honorary member

joins WVU family

by madison fleCkSTAff WRITER

During halftime in the West Virginia University vs. Texas Christian Univer-sity football game Saturday, an honorary member was inducted into the Mountain-eer family.

Nefeterius McPherson, a fifth-gener-ation Texan who survived a debilitating disease thanks to a liver transplant from Taitlyn Hughes, a 12-year-old girl from Martinsburg, W.Va., was given the title of Honorary Mountaineer.

A graduate of Southern Methodist Uni-versity and the press secretary for United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk with the Obama adminstration, McPherson came to WVU to honor Hughes for her life-saving donation.

McPherson recalls when she was diag-nosed with her liver disease.

“I was referred to the Mayo Clinic and was diagnosed with secondary sclerosing laryngitis, which is a very rare bile duct and liver disease,” said McPherson.

She was in law school at the time of her diagnosis and was able to graduate on time despite her illness.

“I think it was my tenacity that got me through it,” she said. “I moved to DC in February 2009, and I started having a great life. I was traveling internationally, but when I came back from trips, my body

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Today at noon, the Association for Women in Science will host an informal networking luncheon at Hatfields in the Mountainlair.

AWIS is an international network that helps achieve equality for women in sci-ence, technology, engineering and math-ematics (STEM). AWIS offers support, advice and a bevy of other resources to members.

Additionally, the luncheon is a benefi-cial opportunity for networking with ex-perienced researchers in various fields of study.

Amy Keessee, president of the AWIS chapter in West Virginia, said the purpose of the networking luncheon is to get sev-eral women together who are at differ-ent levels of their research and provide them with an opportunity to share ideas, as well as discuss any issues they may be

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experiencing. “Individuals get a chance

to vent their frustrations or just take a break from what they’re doing during the day,” she said.

“Also, people have the op-portunity to talk to others and get their advice about how they’ve dealt with sim-ilar situations and hope-fully learn about what other people are doing in their research.”

Keessee said during the luncheon, members will dis-cuss a wide range of topics. The event provides a nice, informal chance to meet with each other and talk about what is important to the members.

“It’s really beneficial for anybody. We are always wel-coming new people to come join us,” she said.

“We currently have a set of regulars that come each time.”

Keessee said the AWIS Networking Lunch happens about twice a month, so in-terested parties can always attend the next meeting.

“It’s something we try to do on a regular basis, and we move it around so we can ac-commodate people’s sched-ules. For instance, occasion-ally, the AWIS-WV luncheon will be held on the Evans-dale Campus,” she said.

“We just have a few stu-dents that come right now, but we’re always looking for more students. It’s a great chance for people, wherever

they are in life, and if they are encountering any problems in their research, or if they just want to describe their research to others in differ-ent fields and practice their ability to communicate that,” she said.

AWIS also offers an out-reach program for middle school girls interested in STEM fields.

“We are currently plan-ning our outreach event for the spring. We generally go somewhere in the state and do a bunch of hands-on proj-ects with middle school girls, so if any students or faculty are interested in volunteer-ing or attending the work-shop, we are always looking for volunteers,” she said.

Keessee said although the association is geared toward women, it does not discrim-inate against men attending the luncheon, because one of the main purposes of the AWIS is to promote equality for everyone.

“We welcome men and anyone who supports women, diversity and sci-ence. It’s a nice place for people to have a supportive environment sometimes,” she said.

AWIS Networking Lunch will be held today at a ta-ble toward the back of Hat-fields, which will have a yel-low AWIS sign.

For more information about the AWIS visit http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/awis or contact Amy Keessee at [email protected].

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A veterans appreciation breakfast will be held at the erickson Alumni Cen-ter Nov. 12 from 8-9:30 a.m. The President’s office for Social Justice and the Divi-sion of Human resources are hosting the event. WvU veteran students and vet-erans are invited.

The breakfast will fea-ture the national anthem, the presentation of the colors and a variety of speakers.

Professor emeritus Forest “Jack” bowman will be the head of the ceremonies.

The Adjutant General for the West virginia Joint Forces, major General James A. Hoyer, will also attend.

The presentation of col-ors will be done by the WvU Air Force and Army Cadets. Col. Douglas L. Flohr, U. S. Army for oper-ations, will lead a prayer for the soldiers.

Dr. Keith Jackson will lead the WvU Trombone

Choir, and Jamie Summer-lin will attend on behalf of the running for Wounded Warriors assignment.

West virginia Univer-sity recognizes veteran’s Day as a “Day of recogni-tion.” This allows WvU vet-eran and military students to miss class to participate in veteran-related events. Staff has been asked to be lenient with veteran students who may miss class to attend the breakfast.

WvU employee veterans and student veterans will be provided with trans-portation to the break-fast. The mountainlair will run buses to and from the event, with the buses de-parting at 7:40 a.m. to ar-rive for the breakfast.

Wednesday is the dead-line for registration.

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wasn’t recovering as quickly as it used to.”

McPherson was in and out of the hospital fre-quently and was put on the liver transplant list May 18, 2011. She waited only 172 days for her transplant.

“I get to Georgetown Uni-versity hospital in DC, and the transplant team comes in and say the words that I will never forget: ‘Ms. McPherson, we need to get over to the children’s hospi-tal,’ and it was at that point that I realized my donor was a child,” she said.

McPherson said she had a difficult time dealing with this – it was difficult for her to be excited.

“It was bad enough for me to know someone was going to die for me to have the gift of life, but it’s a completely different thing when you re-alize that it’s a child who has saved your life,” McPherson said.

Before being released from the hospital, she was able learn more about who

her organ donor was via Facebook.

McPherson was able to keep in contact with the Hughes family and has vis-ited them on numerous occasions.

“Darian, Taitlyn’s older sister, texted me the other day and said, ‘I can’t wait to see you.’ That, to me, is just amazing,” she said. “I feel like they’re my family.”

Nefeterius was able to identify with Taitlyn through her Facebook page and stumbled across a picture of Taitlyn sporting a WVU shirt.

“Its my favorite picture of her. She has the camera pointing down at her, but it’s like she’s looking up toward heaven,” said McPherson.

Taitlyn’s mother, Ni-cole, gave Nefeterius the shirt to remember Taitlyn. McPherson said at first she didn’t know what to do with the shirt, but when WVU played Texas University, she wanted to wear the shirt for her donor.

“Not only were WVU and UT playing in Austin, but they were playing on my 11-month transplant anni-versary. I had to go to the

game,” she said. “I’ve never been prouder to say that I am from Texas, but I am now a West Virginia Univer-sity fan.”

McPherson posted a pic-ture on Facebook of her wearing the shirt and of Ta-itlyn wearing the shirt. As soon as she posted the pic-ture to Taitlyn’s wall, it went viral.

“I would refresh my page, and it would have a hun-dred something notifica-tions,” she said. “I had to close my laptop; I was just like, ‘I cannot deal with this right now.’”

McPherson said Taitlyn had wanted to change the world, and McPherson is helping her do it by making people aware of the impor-tance of organ donation.

“Organ donation is one of those things that renews your faith in mankind. You see so much horrible, neg-ative news, and to see the media grab hold of this story and be passionate about it has baffled me,” McPherson said.

According to McPher-son, there are 116,000 peo-ple waiting for a transplant

right now.“One person can save up

to eight people, and if they donate tissue, they can save up to 50 people,” she said.

It has been a year since Nefeterius McPherson’s transplant, and she is doing well, she said.

“I was just told by my doc-tors that I don’t have to see the transplant team for an-other six months, which is a blessing,” she said. “The only thing I can’t do yet is run. I’m only a year out, so I guess in time, that will come.”

She said she not only found comfort with the Hughes family, but she found it with the Mountain-eer family.

“People talk about the West Virginia family, and I feel that that’s the epitome of this school, of this city and of this state,” she said. “I feel at home here, and I feel like I’ve brought a piece of Tait-lyn home.”

For more information on organ donation, visit http://donatelife.wv.gov or http://donatelife.net.

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key democrats come to morgantown for rally

by kaiTy WilsonSTAff WRITER

Local and state democratic candidates gathered Sunday afternoon at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in downtown Morgantown to continue to push for last-minute voters.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Sen. Joe Manchin were in at-tendance, as well as Attorney General Darrell McGraw, WV State Treasurer John Perdue, WV Supreme Court

candidate Tish Chafin, Au-ditor Glen Gainer and many others.

Tomblin became gover-nor of West Virginia in Octo-ber 2011, filling the space left by Manchin’s election to the U.S. Senate. He is running for re-election as governor.

In his discussions, Tom-blin said he is a proponent of higher education, and he hopes to meet the needs of college students in the up-coming years.

One of the ways he hopes to do this is by continuing to create new scholarships and encouraging students to complete college.

“We often find that stu-dents are dropping out of col-lege over as little as $700,” he said. “We can’t allow that to happen anymore.”

Tomblin is competing for re-election against republi-can Bill Maloney

Manchin is a junior Sena-tor from West Virginia who is

running for re-election. After Senator Robert Byrd died in office in 2010, Manchin won the special election to fill the opening.

Manchin said his job is one of public service, not self-service.

“Our priorities are based around our values,” he said. “In West Virginia, it is our children and our education.”

Manchin said he prom-ises to uphold these values for West Virginia if reelected

and to continue to take care of what is essential to West Virginians.

Tomblin is competing against Bill Maloney, the re-publican candidate for gov-ernor who narrowly lost the 2011 special election by less than 8,000 votes.

Those who spoke at the rally were thankful for all the early voters but aimed to per-suade those who are waiting until Tuesday to vote for-Democrats in West Virginia.

The group continued their final campaign efforts in Har-rison County and Marion County later that day.

Election Day is Tuesday, and the University will not be open for classes. Essential services such as dining and residential support will con-tinue to operate.

More information can be found at www.wvdemocrats.com.

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matt suNday/the daIly atheNaeumFormer Mountaineer Mascots, as well as current Mountaineer Mascot Jonathan Kimble, surround Nefeterius McPherson on Mountaineer Field Saturday.

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Divisions emerge at Syria opposition conference

apBurhan Ghalioun, leader of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), left, shakes hands with an attendee of the meeting of the General Assembly of the Syrian National Council in Doha, Qatar, Sunday.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Sharp disagreements arose Sun-day on the first day of a Syr-ian opposition conference meant to forge a more cohe-sive leadership that the in-ternational community says is necessary before it will boost its support for those trying to overthrow Presi-dent Bashar Assad.

The main opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Council, balked at a U.S.-backed plan that would largely sideline it to make room in a new lead-ership council for fighters and activists inside Syria. However, with interna-tional pressure mounting, the SNC also suggested it is willing to negotiate a com-promise that would give the SNC more influence in a new leadership team.

The international com-munity has long urged the SNC, widely seen as dys-functional and out of touch, to broaden its base and in-clude a greater spectrum of Syrian society, especially those fighting inside the country. Last week, U.S. Sec-retary of State Hillary Rod-ham Clinton was unusually harsh, suggesting the SNC’s leadership days are over.

Failure to reach a deal in Doha could further heighten tensions between Syria’s political opposition and the international com-munity. Opposition leaders feel abandoned by the U.S. and other foreign backers, saying they are not provid-ing the money and weap-ons the rebels need to defeat Assad in a stalemated civil

war. Washington and oth-ers say they can’t step up aid unless the opposition stops bickering and establishes a more representative – and unified – leadership.

The conflict erupted nearly 20 months ago as a peaceful uprising that esca-lated into a civil war and has claimed more than 36,000 lives, according to a tally by activists.

At the conference in Doha, the SNC will have to decide whether to accept a plan proposed by a prom-inent dissident, Riad Seif, to set up a new leadership group of about 50 mem-bers. The SNC would get some 15 seats, meaning its influence would be diluted, while military commanders and local leaders in rebel-held areas would win wider representation.

Seif said his plan has broad international backing and portrayed it as a step-ping stone to more robust foreign aid.

SNC chief Abdelbaset Sieda dismissed Seif’s opti-mism, saying he and others in the SNC no longer trust promises of international support that are linked to restructuring of the opposition.

“We faced this situation before, when we formed the SNC (last year),” he told The Associated Press. “There were promises like that, but the international commu-nity in fact did not give us the support needed for the SNC to do its job.”

The SNC is to decide Wednesday whether to ac-

cept Seif’s plan. Sieda said the SNC believes it de-serves at least 40 percent of the seats, should it decide to join the new group, sug-gesting the group may have decided it’s under too much pressure to reject the plan entirely.

In Cairo, Lakhdar Bra-himi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, but they dif-fered in their assessments.

Brahimi called the situ-ation “deplorable,” adding, “The solution will either be a political one that all sides agree on, or the future of Syria is very bad.”

Lavrov blamed the Syrian opposition for not accept-ing a cease-fire proposal that left the door open for a transitional period with Assad still in power.

The Arab League sched-uled a special session of its Syria committee for Nov. 12.

As opposition leaders haggled in Qatar, activists said rebels captured an oil-field in eastern Syria on Sun-day after three days of fight-ing with government troops, and shot down a Syrian war-plane in the area. The Brit-ain-based Syrian Observa-tory for Human Rights said rebels overran the Al-Ward oilfield in the province of Deir el-Zour near Iraq.

Oil was a major source of revenue for Assad’s re-gime before the U.S. and the European Union im-posed an embargo on Syr-ia’s crude exports last year, in response to Assad’s brutal crackdown on the uprising

against him. Syrian officials have accused rebel units of targeting the country’s infra-structure, including blowing up the oil and gas pipelines.

Syrian state media, meanwhile, said rebels det-onated a car bomb near the Dama Rose hotel in the cap-ital, wounding several peo-ple. The hotel has been used in the past by U.N. observ-ers visiting Syria. The re-ports also said rebels were behind the assassination of a leading member of the rul-ing Baath party in northeast Raqqa province.

The Syrian opposition leaders met at a luxury ho-tel in Doha, the capital of the small Gulf state of Qatar that has emerged as a major backer of the Syrian rebels. Organizers said more than 400 delegates are attending four days of internal SNC meetings and will choose new SNC leaders on Tues-day. A day later, the SNC is to vote on Seif’s plan.

On Thursday, Seif will attempt to form the new leadership group with the backing of the SNC. If he is successful, the Friends of Syria, an alliance of coun-tries backing the rebels, is to convene in Morocco, he said.

The 66-year-old Seif, who left Syria few months ago af-ter having been detained by the regime, said that if his plan is accepted, “the whole world will be behind” the new opposition leadership.

At the Morocco confer-ence, “maybe 100 countries will recognize this new lead-ership as the legitimate and

only representative of the Syrians,” said Seif, who suf-fers from cancer and is not seeking a leadership role.

He did not say what kind of practical support the opposition could ex-pect, but suggested the Mo-rocco gathering would be a launching pad for a transi-tional government.

A senior U.S. official has said the Washington did not want to attend another Friends of Syria confer-ence unless the opposition comes up with a new, more representative leadership. Many of the current SNC leaders live in exile, and ap-pear to have little say over the course of the rebellion inside the country.

Sieda bristled as the criti-cism, saying that “it is unfair to say that the SNC repre-sents (those) outside Syria.”

The SNC argues that it represents several dozen groups, including a number based in Syria.

Abdel-Rahman al-Haj, a spokesman for the group, said the international com-munity’s criticism of the SNC is meant to deflect from the world’s failure to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

“The international com-munity ... did not give us any help, support and weap-ons,” he said. “We just hear talking.”

Al-Haj, a 41-year-old Syr-ian exile in Malaysia, said the SNC is considering the possibility of setting up its own transitional govern-ment if it decides to reject Seif ’s plan. However, he said everything is still open

to debate.The disagreements at

the conference reinforced doubts in the opposition’s ability create a new struc-ture the U.S. and its allies can work with. The U.S. hopes a more representa-tive body can provide a reli-able partner, buffer against interference by extremists and help bring Syria’s allies Russia and China on board with change.

However, divisions among political leaders are not the only concern.

Rebel fighters are split into small largely autono-mous groups, some led by local figures little known outside Syria. Most nomi-nally belong to the umbrella Free Syrian Army, but their ties to it are often just lip-service. In many hotspots, fighters from a radical Is-lamic group inspired by the al-Qaida terror network have taken on prominent roles.

In his opening speech at the conference, Sieda said the SNC is trying to unify all military groups under one leadership, in part to pre-vent “any extremism, mis-takes or atrocities” from be-ing committed. Earlier this week, a video appeared to show rebel fighters killing a group of unarmed, cap-tured Syrian soldiers execu-tion-style, prompting an in-ternational outcry.

Sieda urged all com-manders and rebel fighters to respect human rights and said those violating them on the rebel side would be brought to justice.

Russian nationalists protest Putin, eye mainstream MOSCOW (AP) — Thou-

sands of nationalists marched through Moscow on Sunday chanting slogans such as “Russia for the Rus-sians” to protest President Vladimir Putin’s govern-ment, which they accuse of lavishing privileges on mi-grants and minorities while ignoring ethnic Russians.

The anti-Kremlin tone of the nationalists, who once backed Putin, comes as the movement’s leaders try to broaden their base in the wake of last winter’s his-toric opposition protests against the Russian leader. Some nationalists are even denouncing violence and racism, moves many main-stream opposition activists view with suspicion.

Sunday’s march took place on Unity Day, a na-tional holiday established in 2005 to replace commem-orations of the Bolshevik Revolution. It has become associated with the nation-alist “Russian March,” which has taken a stridently anti-Kremlin tone. More than 40 Russian Marches were held throughout the coun-try during the day.

Putin marked Unity Day by laying flowers at a mon-ument in Red Square com-memorating the expulsion of Polish-Lithuanian occu-piers from the Kremlin 400 years ago in 1612. It was his first public appearance since speculation about his health rose sharply last

week. Putin walked slowly but without assistance, and his condition was unclear. His spokesman has said he has pulled a muscle but has denied it occurred during a widely publicized Septem-ber flight in a motorized hang-glider.

The protesters were stri-dent in their criticism of the Russian leader. Putin is “scared of us. He feels his time is coming to an end, because the future be-longs to us,” Alexander Be-lov, leader of the national-ist group Russkie, told the marchers in Moscow.

The Levada Center, an independent Russian sur-vey agency, says its stud-ies indicate that nearly half of Russians resent govern-ment subsidies to the res-

tive, mostly Muslim Cau-casus republics and dislike migrants from both the Cau-casus and the former Soviet Central Asian states.

Such sentiments often overlap with the opposi-tion movement that dra-matically rose up last De-cember after parliamentary elections tainted by fraud claims. Prominent opposi-tion figure Alexei Navalny has called on the Kremlin to “stop feeding the Cauca-sus,” particularly Chechnya, and was one of the Russian March’s organizers until this year.

Nationalist leaders be-lieve many ordinary Rus-sians share their concerns but that they are put off by their movement’s more radical members. As a re-

sult, some nationalist lead-ers have denounced racism and violence and some are even trying to set up a more mainstream political party.

“You hear it all the time: ‘I’ve really had it with the darkies, but I’m still not a nationalist,’” nationalist leader Konstantin Krylov told The Associated Press last week.

Although they make up a small part of the broad anti-Putin protest movement, nationalists are among its most visible members, thanks in part to their expe-rience organizing Russian Marches. Nationalists have spoken at rallies alongside major opposition figures and ran for the opposition movement’s elected gov-erning council last month.

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Time to head to the pollsTomorrow, Americans

across the country will head to the polls to finally cast their ballots and elect our coun-try’s next wave of leaders.

For many, this day will be highlighted by the comfort-ing fact that we will all no lon-ger constantly be bombarded by a ridiculous volume of campaign advertising. How-ever, the importance of this date cannot be understated.

Throughout the past sev-eral months, candidates from both sides of the aisle have

made their case to the Amer-ican people. We’ve tuned in to the debates, registered to vote, researched the is-sues (hopefully), and now all that’s left is to head to the ballot box and fulfill our civic duty.

This is a duty none can justifiably neglect, and it’s as important as it has ever been that we all take advantage of our privilege as citizens of a democracy and make our voices heard.

With a series of historic

problems – including the lagging economy, our failing public schools and the lon-gest war in American history – that need to be dealt with, Americans must decide how they want these problems addressed.

Standing on the sidelines is simply inexcusable. Unfor-tunately, college-aged stu-dents are notorious for their traditional lack of participa-tion in the political process, despite their growing ability to influence the outcome. As

of last year, 18-29-year-olds comprised 24 percent of the electorate.

Although the youth voter turnout was higher in 2008 than it has typically been, it was still lower than the over-all percentage of eligible Americans who cast their ballot. This behavior is ir-rational, as our leaders are a lot less likely to respond to the needs and desires of young people if this demo-graphic does not vote in large numbers.

Thankfully, the University is closed tomorrow. Enjoy your day off, but set aside the brief period of time required to vote. Many lives were lost to earn you the right to vote, and millions of people across the world can only dream of similarly participating in the political process in their own countries.

Don’t take this opportu-nity for granted.

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Get informed before casting your ballot

APSouth Floridians mark their ballots during the last day of early voting in Miami Beach, Fla., Saturday.

Depending on whom you ask, Nov. 6 has a lot of differ-ent meanings. For some, it’s a day we have off school. For others, it’s simply a Tuesday.

But for a select few, next Tuesday is Election Day – the time of year when we, as citizens of the United States, are given the power to choose our next presi-dent, and thus, decide the future of our country.

Many commercials, ad-vertisements and other mass media sources are ac-tively encouraging younger people to vote, by promot-

ing ideas such as “rock the vote” and getting celebrities to endorse this message; it’s obvious that the youth vote is an important factor in this year’s election.

But does that necessarily mean that everyone eligible should vote?

Initially, voting was lim-ited to the “upper eche-lon” of society. In our na-tion’s youth, only white male property owners 21 and older were allowed to participate. This later ex-panded to all white males 21 and older, then to all males, regardless of ethnicity, 21 and older and eventually to women 21 and older as well. Finally, in 1971, the le-gal voting age was dropped

to 18.But while our country

does try to get more indi-viduals to vote, is that really such a good thing?

I will be the first to admit that I don’t know a thing about politics. I am utterly ignorant when it comes to foreign policy, and my knowledge on the current national debt, health care, tax reforms and other big ticket issues is laughable.

However, I have just as much right to vote as any other college student 18 and older. I even have a voter’s registration card. But this year, I will not be exercis-ing my right as an American citizen. I will not be voting, and I don’t believe every in-

dividual with a voter’s card should be, either.

Why? Because not all of us are politically involved. Not all Americans watch CNN or Fox news for up-dates on the campaigns. Not everyone researches the candidates and their is-sues. Some of us don’t even watch the debates or read about politics in the news-paper (guilty as charged).

All of this adds up to an uninformed choice. It’s not that the resources aren’t out there – it’s that if you don’t have the time or the desire to make an informed deci-sion about where you think our country should be headed, don’t head out to the polls this Tuesday.

In other words, leave it to the professionals. Let those who genuinely understand the state of our nation and want to decide on the is-sues we are facing go out and “rock the vote.”

They can make the most informed decisions, and they care the most about who lives in the White House next year.

Don’t vote for Obama just because he seems like a cool guy or Romney be-cause he always looks so pulled together.

Vote because you truly believe, based on what you have learned from a variety of sources, that what you are doing will help our country. And if you don’t know the

issues, or the candidates’ opinions, or even your own opinions, please don’t pick up a ballot.

I am not completely igno-rant when it comes to Nov. 6. I know that whoever our next president will be will have more than enough on his plate, and I know there will be people who do and do not like him. I know there will be some people who will vote for the wrong rea-sons, but I also know there will be even more who will choose our next president for the right reasons.

I also know I have a biol-ogy exam next week, and a day off on Tuesday sounds like a great day to spend in the library.

Molly robinsoncolumnist

When the Kony 2012 video was published in March, it re-ceived more than 50 million views within five days of be-ing posted. Alongside the video, the ideas behind Kony 2012 were broadcast almost interminably for about a week around the rest of the Internet.

Currently, the video has a little more than 93 million views on YouTube. I haven’t read a tweet about Kony in months, except for the occa-sional “Hey, whatever hap-pened to that Kony guy?” from a wisecracking friend.

If you need a refresher, the idea behind Kony 2012 was that Joseph Kony, leader of

a Ugandan guerilla group known for enlisting child soldiers and slaying many people, had to be captured and stopped. The video was supposed to incite an intervention.

Remember Occupy Wall Street? How about Trayvon Martin? Bradley Manning?

These three instances, each culturally and globally important issues, have died out in the media and con-versation, exhibiting a phe-nomenon in our media and society that needs further examination.

One of the scourges of be-ing a consumerist society driven by the need for enter-tainment is our ravishing ap-petite for the new. This, com-bined with the convenience of social networking and news, allows us to not care

about things anymore – at least not deeply.

Wendell Berry once wrote, “Leadership without mem-bership is a terrible thing.” I think today we can add that membership – real belong-ing to a society, culture, and country, without appropri-ate participation and a sense of permanence – is a danger-ous thing.

What I mean by this type of citizenship being precarious is that our minds and hearts are so fleeting. When situa-tions such as Kony, Trayvon, and Wikileaks strike, they only matter to us for a little while.

Do we think Darfur is completely saved? What happened from our turning Twitter avatars and Facebook profile pictures green dur-ing the Iranian revolution in

2009?It came to me that maybe

the same type of ailment I’m talking about might be plagu-ing West Virginia University and the issues it has had with couch burning and excessive partying after football games. When it’s fresh and students are getting tear-gassed, it’s a hot-button topic, but since the Texas win, nothing ma-jor has happened.Thus, no progressive steps have been taken to nip it in the bud if it occurs again.

Sure, there have been sub-sequent emails from the mas-cot and the SGA about being polite, but there have been no substantive actions taken to curb the problems that made our University look so terrible to the public.

We react, and then if noth-ing happens for a while, we

forget and hope it doesn’t re-occur, if we remember at all.

As students who belong to a university – and more broadly as citizens of a larger community – we need to re-think membership and our level of involvement. This doesn’t mean to simply join extracurricular activities. It means to view ourselves as participants in world events, not simply as consumers or spectators. We need to be people who dig in and par-take – not just critique.

There is a danger of our generation being labeled eternally as apathetic. Sure, it’s not all our fault, but we can’t blame a lack of jobs for our discontentment, and we can’t let indifference or dis-appointment mar the oppor-tunity for social change and commitment to community

responsibility. We also can’t let the ease

and accessibility of proclaim-ing our opinions or pleas for social justice on a social net-working platform substitute real membership.

Maybe a day will come when we’re all plugged into computers and conversing digitally, and all problems can be solved with the touch of a button or a few clicks. To-day is not that day. Until then, and I hope this never comes, let’s participate and be real members.

We can do more with ac-tions and a sense of steward-ship than we ever will be able to with fleeting statuses and comments. Our memories might be short, but the ca-lamities and struggles of our world are often not. Do them and yourself more justice.

Micah conklinGcolumnist

A new sense of engagement is needed in digital age

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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Use the morning well, when you are a powerhouse and feel close to in-vincible. You could be overserious and not willing to take a risk. The unexpected works for you -- just remember to slow down if you be-come upset. Tonight: Treat time.

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George Lucas’ filmmaking rooted in rebellionLOS ANGELES (AP) —

There’s no mistaking the similarities. A childhood on a dusty farm, a love of fast vehicles, a rebel who battles an overpowering empire - George Lucas is the hero he created, Luke Skywalker.

His filmmaking outpost, Skywalker Ranch, is so far re-moved from the Hollywood moviemaking machine he once despised, that it may as well be on the forest moon of Endor.

That’s why this week’s an-nouncement that Lucas is selling the “Star Wars” fran-chise and the entire Lucas-film business to The Walt Disney Co. for more than $4 billion is like a laser blast from outer space.

Lucas built his film oper-ation in Marin County near San Francisco largely to avoid the meddling of Los Angeles-based studios. His aim was to finish the “Star Wars” series- his way.

Today the enterprise has far surpassed the 68-year-old filmmaker’s original goals. The ranch covers 6,100 acres and houses one of the indus-try’s most acclaimed visual effects companies, Industrial Light & Magic.

Lucasfilm, with its head-quarters now in San Fran-cisco proper, has ventured into books, video games, merchandise, special effects and marketing. Just as Anakin Skywalker became the villain Darth Vader, Lucas -once the outsider- had grown to be-come the leader of an empire.

“What I was trying to do was stay independent so that I could make the mov-ies I wanted to make,” Lucas says in the 2004 documen-tary “Empire of Dreams.” “But now I’ve found myself being the head of a corporation ... I have become the very thing that I was trying to avoid.”

After the blockbuster sale announcement Tuesday, Lu-cas expressed a desire to give away much of his fortune, donate to educational causes and return to the experimen-tal filmmaking of his youth. Still, the move stunned those who’ve followed him. He’d contemplated retirement for years and said he’d never make another “Star Wars” film.

Dale Pollock, the author of the 1999 biography “Skywalk-ing,” said Lucas disdained the Disney culture in interviews he gave in the 1980s, even though he admired the com-pany’s founder. “He felt the corporate `Disneyization’ had destroyed the spirit of Walt,” Pollock said.

Lucas said through a spokeswoman on Saturday that he never said such a thing. But his anti-corporate streak is renowned. In the Lucasfilm-sanctioned docu-mentary “Empire of Dreams”,

Lucas says on camera that he is “not happy that corpora-tions have taken over the film industry.”

Growing up in the central California town of Modesto, the independent streak was strong in young Lucas. The family lived on a wal-nut ranch and Lucas’ father owned a stationery store. But, like his fictional protege Luke, George had no interest in tak-ing over the family business. Lucas and his father fought when George made it clear that he’d rather go to college to study art than follow in his father’s footsteps.

Lucas loved fast cars, and dreamed that racing them would be his ticket out. A near-fatal car crash the day before his high school graduation convinced him otherwise.

“I decided I’d better settle down and go to school,” he told sci-fi magazine Starlog in 1981.

As a film student at the University of Southern Cali-fornia, he experimented with “cinema verite,” a provocative form of documentary, and “tone poems” that visualized a piece of music or other ar-tistic work.

The style is reflected in some of the short films he made at USC: “1:42:08” fo-cused on the sound of a Lo-tus race car’s engine driving at

full speed and “Anyone Who Lived in a Pretty How Town,” inspired by an e.e. Cummings poem. In later interviews, Lu-cas described his early films as “visual exercises.”

Lucas’ intellectual explo-rations led to an interest in anthropology, especially the work of American mytholo-gist Joseph Campbell, who studied the common thread linking the myths of dispa-rate cultures. This inspired Lucas to explore archetypal storylines that resonated across the ages and around the world.

Lucas’ epic battle with the movie industry began af-ter Warner Bros. forced him to make unwanted changes to an early film, “THX 1138.” Later, Universal Pictures in-sisted on revisions to “Amer-ican Graffiti” that Lucas felt impinged on his creative free-dom. The experience led Lu-cas to insist on having total control of all his work, just like Charlie Chaplin and Walt Dis-ney in their heyday.

“In order to get my vision out there, I really needed to learn how to manipulate the system because the system is designed to tear you down and destroy everything you are doing,” Lucas said in an interview with Charlie Rose.

He shopped his outline for “Star Wars” to several studios before finding a friend in Alan

Ladd Jr., an executive at 20th Century Fox. Despite budget and deadline overruns, and pressure from the studio, the movie was a huge success when it was released in 1977. It grossed $798 million in the-aters worldwide and caused Fox’s stock price at the time to double.

In one of the wisest busi-ness moves in Hollywood his-tory, Lucas cut a deal with dis-tributor Fox before the film’s release so that he could re-tain ownership of the sequels and rights for merchandise. He figured in the 1970s that might mean peddling a few T-shirts and posters to fans to help market the movie. Over the decades, merchandising has formed the bedrock of his multi-billion-dollar enter-prise, resulting in a bonanza for Lucas from action figures, toys, spinoff books and other products.

Industrial Light & Magic, the unit he started in a make-shift space in the Los Angeles suburb of Van Nuys, moved to the ranch in northern Cali-fornia and lent its prowess to other movies. It broke ground using computers, motion-controlled cameras, models and masks. Its reach is breath-taking, notably among the biggest science fiction mov-ies of the 1980s: “E.T. The Ex-tra-Terrestrial,” “Poltergeist,” “Back to the Future,” “Indiana

Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and more.

“Between him and (Ste-ven) Spielberg, they changed how movies got made,” said Matt Atchity, editor-in-chief of movie review website Rot-ten Tomatoes.

These days, the talent at ILM has spread around the globe, and many former em-ployees have become top ex-ecutives at other special ef-fects companies, said Chris DeFaria, executive vice pres-ident of digital production at Warner Bros.

“You meet anybody who’s a significant executive or artist at a company, they’ve spent their time at ILM or got their start there. That’s prob-ably one of George’s greatest gifts to the business,” DeFaria said.

Lucas helped make the tools that were needed for his films. ILM developed the world’s first computerized film editing and music mix-ing technology, revolutioniz-ing what had been a cut-and-splice affair. Pixar, the imaging computer he founded as a di-vision of Lucasfilm, became a world-famous animated movie company. Apple’s Steve Jobs bought and later sold it to Disney in 2006.

But the goliath Lucas cre-ated began to weigh on him. Fans-turned-critics felt the

“Star Wars” prequel trilogy he directed fell short of the first films. Others believed his re-visions to the re-released classics undid some of what made the first movies great.

Giving up his role at the head of Lucasfilm may shield him from the fury of rebel-lious fans and critics. He said in a video released by Disney that the sale would allow him to “do other things, things in philanthropy and doing more experimental kind of films.”

“I couldn’t really drag my company into that.”

Still, Lucas is not planning on going to a galaxy far, far away.

Speaking on Friday night at Ebony magazine’s Power 100 event in New York, Lucas said: “It’s 40 years of work and it’s been my life, but I’m ready to move on to bigger and better things. I have a foundation, an educational foundation. I do a lot of work with education, and I’m very excited about doing that.”

This week he assured the incoming president of Lu-casfilm, Kathleen Kennedy that he’d be around to ad-vise her on future “Star Wars” movies -just like the appari-tion of Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi helps Luke through his adventures.

“They’re finishing the ho-logram now,” he told Ken-nedy. “Don’t worry.”

apGeorge Lucas, director of the Star Wars series poses at Skywalker Ranch in San Rafael, Calif.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ac-tor and outspoken liberal John Cusack is developing a movie about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Cusack’s production com-pany said Friday.

The working title is “Rush,” Cusack’s New Crime Productions con-firmed, offering no other details.

Hollywood director Betty Thomas, who’s set to work on the film, said the production company is putting finishing touches on a script that will star the actor. Production is set for

next year, Thomas said.Limbaugh is in the front

ranks of colorful and pro-vocative media figures. Earlier this year, Limbaugh called a Georgetown law student a “slut” and a “pros-titute” on air for arguing to Democrats in Congress that health plans should pay for contraception.

This week, the host mocked Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris-tie for his “bromance” with Obama after Christie praised the president’s re-sponse to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Cusack as Limbaugh isn’t typecasting, politics aside.

Cusack is a slender, dark-haired 46-year-old, while Limbaugh is 61, bald-ing and portly. But Hol-lywood’s makeup experts have probably had greater challenges.

A publicist for Limbaugh said Friday he would check with the host for comment. The agency representing Cusack, Creative Artists Agency, declined comment on the project.

Cusack’s credits range from the teen flick “Sixteen

Candles” to offbeat films like “Being John Malkov-ich.” He attended President Barack Obama’s 2008 inau-guration but has criticized Obama over his military and civil liberties policies.

Thomas is a former ac-tress (“Hill Street Blues”) and an Emmy-award win-ning director (“Dream On”) whose big-screen films in-clude Howard Stern’s “Pri-vate Parts” and “The Brady Bunch Movie.”

Thomas’ latest project is an online series, “Audrey,” that is showing on the You-Tube channel WIGS.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Pop star Katy Perry is sporting a skin-tight minidress with President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan “For-ward” emblazoned across it at the president’s rally in Milwaukee.

Perry came on stage at Saturday’s event ini-tially wearing a red, white and blue dress and hold-ing a microphone shaped like the Statue of Liberty’s torch.

But after her first song, a cover of Al Green’s soul hit “Let’s Stay Together,” she tossed aside the dress to reveal the bright blue minidress.

Obama’s slogan “For-ward” is also Wisconsin’s state motto.

Perry paused midway through her set to make a pitch for donations to vic-tims of Superstorm Sandy.

Obama’s rally with Perry comes before he’s set to be in Madison on Mon-day with rocker Bruce Springsteen.

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Lamar performs at the Metropolitan Theatreby jack Lake

a&e writer

The Metropolitan The-atre hosted a different sort of show Friday, when rap-pers Kendrick Lamar and D-WHY performed for a sold-out crowd.

The show came af-ter the Oct. 26 show fea-turing Gym Class Heroes and Kendrick Lamar was cancelled.

Opening for Lamar was West Virginia native and former Mountaineer Da-vid “D-WHY” Morris.

D-WHY kicked things off with an energetic set, using his signature style of designer digs and way-farer shades and dancing around the stage.

With his parents in the audience, the rapper per-formed original tracks such as “2000 Miles” and “Ballad of an Asshole” while DJ ETrayn scratched and mixed the music.

Though on his home turf, D-WHY took a harsh heckling as a mob booed and shouted during his set from the safety of the balcony.

Despite the disrespect, D-WHY pressed on, ac-knowledging his fans and disregarding the critics. He brought everyone in end-ing the show with a sing-along rendition of “Coun-try Roads.”

“I think they were not having a good time. I don’t think he deserved it, be-cause he did a good job,” said senior engineer stu-dent Ibrahim Alhajji. “I respect him for that ; he didn’t care about the peo-ple and kept going. He was focusing on the peo-ple dancing and having fun and ignoring the peo-ple that were booing him. He handled it well.”

As Lamar finished up his set and exited the stage, the audience instantly filled

the air with applause and cheering, quickly syncing up to chant the rappers name, bringing him back on stage for an encore.

“I think it was great. One thing that surprised me was there were a lot of real Kendrick Lamar fans. I feel like the whole theater was into it, and the vibe was re-ally good,” said West Vir-ginia University engineer-ing student Ben Kiruthu. “He has great songs. I am so happy he did his old songs to and he didn’t just stick to the new ones ev-eryone likes.”

“I’ve been a Kendrick Lamar fan for about a year or so now. He’s the com-plete package – his lyrics are great ... he is complex; there isn’t just one Ken-drick Lamar. He is some-thing completely differ-ent,” Kiruthu said.

The air inside the the-ater was saturated with a strange blend of cologne and marijuana smoke as the rapper rhymed about the usual drinking, women and drugs.

Lamar performed a number of his hits in-cluding “Swimming Pools (Drank)” and he blessed the crowd with a few orig-inal freestyles.

It was apparent true fans were in attendance ,as the show proved to be one long sing-along. La-mar kept the fans engaged, taking requests, shouting instructions and cutting the music to let fans sing along without missing a beat or lyric.

“I thought that it could have been louder, but I thought it was pretty tight,” said senior Logan Noll. “I thought he killed it. (I) Definitely (like) his lyrics – it’s just the way he puts it all together and tells stories.”

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Kendrick Lamar raises his microphone to the audience during his show at the Metropolitan Theatre in Morgantown Friday night.

Foxx, Wonder among stars honoring Eddie Murphy

LOS ANGELES (AP) — However riotous the Eddie Murphy stories from Ar-senio Hall, Tracy Morgan, Adam Sandler and Rus-sell Brand, the highlight of Spike TV’s tribute to Mur-phy was the comedian’s duet with Stevie Wonder.

Murphy joined the sub-ject of one of his most clas-sic impressions for a rous-ing rendition of Wonder’s 1973 hit “Higher Ground” during the taping of the Spike TV special “Eddie Murphy: One Night Only,” which is set to air Nov. 14. The Roots served as the house band.

Jamie Foxx, Tyler Perry, Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock and Keenan Ivory Wayans were also among those paying tribute to Murphy Saturday at the Sa-ban Theater.

Accompanied by a pretty blonde, Murphy beamed throughout the two-hour program, say-ing he was touched by the tribute.

“I am a very, very bitter man,” he said with a be-guiling smile. “I don’t get touched easily, and I am really touched.”

Morgan called Murphy “my comic hero” and came onstage wearing a replica of Murphy’s red leather suit from his standup show “Delirious.”

“He set the tone for the whole industry a long time ago,” Morgan said before taking the stage. “He in-spired me in a fearless way.”

Sandler was still in high school when he first saw “Delirious,” which he de-scribed as “one of the most legendary standup spe-cials of all time.”

“Everybody on the planet wanted to be Ed-die,” he said. “He funnier than us. He’s cooler than any of us.”

Samuel L. Jackson said Murphy “changed the course of American film history” by giving Jackson his first speaking role on the big screen, in 1988’s “Coming to America.”

“If it weren’t for Eddie, we might not have all the wonderful films that I’ve made,” Jackson quipped.

“He is a true movie star,” Jackson continued, laud-ing Murphy’s performance in “48 Hours” and “Bev-

erly Hills Cop.” “You be-came an inspiration for all young African-Ameri-can actors.”

The program featured clips of Murphy’s standup shows, his film appear-ances in “Shrek” and “Nutty Professor” and his work on “Saturday Night Live.”

Murphy insisted before the tribute that he is re-tired from performing.

“I’m just a retired old song and dance man,” he said, adding that he only makes rare appearances these days. “That’s what you do when you’re re-tired: You come out ev-ery now and then and talk about the old days.”

The 51-year-old enter-tainer took the stage at the conclusion of the tribute to say he was moved by the honor.

“This is really a touch-ing moving thing, and I re-ally appreciate it,” he said. “You know what it’s like when you have something like this? You know when they sing happy birthday to you? It’s like that for, like, two hours... and I am Eddied out.”

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The three Mountaineer Idol finalists stood hand-in-hand onstage Sunday as they anxiously waited for the moment they had all worked toward.

The final round of com-petition had come to a close, and when the mo-ment of truth came, it was Paris Winfrey who won the crown and was named the 2012 Mountaineer Idol.

“(I’m) overwhelmed right now; it’s been crazy – this last thirty seconds of my life,” Winfrey said. “I was freaking out; I just had so many thoughts running through my head.”

The final round con-sisted of three rotations in which each contestant performed a song from a previous round, a song of their choice and a song selected by the hosts, re-spectively. Before the first contestant took the stage alone, a group rendition of Queen’s “Somebody to Love” was performed by all three contestants and former Idol hopefuls.

Alexa Gonzalez began the competition by sing-ing “What Hurts the Most” by Rascal Flattrs, followed by Scott Link’s lively per-formance of “Walking in Memphis.” Winfrey took the stage accompanied by the Cherry Street Band, and performed “Supersti-tion” by Stevie Wonder.

“I think it went really well. I was happy with all of my performances and had my quick changes that went smoothly,” Gonza-

lez said. “It really wasn’t about the money for me. It’s about singing and hav-ing a good time, and I am so happy for Paris and Scott.”

The trio of finalists were not the only ones to take to the stage; several of the previous contestants were invited back to perform, including Paige Madden, Capri Salas and Patrick Garcia.

Gonzalez began the sec-ond round with a soulful cover of “Hallelujah,” gain-ing favor and applause from the audience. De-termined to raise the bar, Link followed with a strong performance of “Faith” by George Michaels, walking down the aisles and inter-acting with the audience.

“Everyone did so great, and I felt like I did a good job,” Link said. “There were a lot of people that auditioned and, like I said before, week one, every-one was great, so to make it here I was really proud of myself.”

Closing out round two, Winfrey sang a smooth cover of “Ordinary People” by John Legend.

Before the final round began, 2011 winner Chel-sea Malone took the stage for the last time as the reigning Mountaineer Idol singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

The “cohost’s choice” round began when Gon-zalez turned up the heat with her version of “Baby One More Time” by Brit-ney Spears, accompanied by members of the Cherry Street band, including

Winfrey.Link continued the

round with a passion-ate performance of Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up.” Winfrey, accompanied again by his band, sang “Santeria” by Sublime to finish out the round and competition.

Winning the competi-tion was not the only sweet surprise of the day for Winfrey; his family drove more than nine hours from North Carolina to pay him a surprise visit and sup-port him.

“My mom and my brother drove all the way from Charlotte, N.C., with-out telling me to come see me tonight,” Winfrey said. “I’m so happy they are here.”

Winfrey said his plans now are to catch up on homework and focus on finishing his band’s up-coming album. The Moun-taineer Idol plans to use most of his $1,000 win-nings on producing the album.

Though only one winner was chosen, all of the con-testants worked really hard and sang their hearts out, winning the respect of the audience and judges alike.

“Overall, I think every-body did an excellent job,” head judge and 2009 Fac-ulty Idol winner Shirley Robinson said. “Through-out the competition, I have seen how each con-testant has improved tre-mendously and the out-come of tonight. I wasn’t surprised.”

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West Virginia drops third straight in double overtime thriller vs. TCUBy Cody SChuler

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It took two overtimes and a gutsy two-point con-version, but visiting TCU was able to erase a seven-point deficit with 1:28 re-maining in the fourth quarter and escape Mor-gantown with a 39-38 vic-tory Saturday.

On the Horned Frogs’ first play in the second overtime, sophomore wide receiver Brandon Carter took a wide receiver re-verse and threw a 25-yard pass to senior tight end Co-rey Fuller for a touchdown, bringing the Horned Frogs within one point of West Virginia’s 37-36 lead.

Instead of kicking the extra point, TCU opted to go for the two-point con-version and on the en-suing try, redshirt fresh-man quarterback Trevone Boykin hit junior wide re-ceiver Josh Boyce in the end zone to deliver the victory.

TCU head coach Gary Patterson said the hostile road environment was one of the reasons he elected to go for the win and not the tie.

“I’m one of those peo-ple who believes when you play someone on the road, you have to go take ball games. If you try to just play around, you see what happens – like with

the punt return,” he said.“The two-point play was

the same one we used at the Boise game, where we isolate Josh (Boyce), and we’re fortunate enough we made a play.”

Boyce finished the game with six catches for 180 yards and two touch-downs, and his most im-portant catch came before overtime.

With less than 90 sec-onds left to play in regula-tion, Boykin eluded a near sack and connected with Boyce for a 94-yard touch-down pass that tied the game at 31-31.

It was a play West Vir-ginia head coach Dana Holgorsen said dampened

the Mountaineer defense’s improved efforts.

“It’s sad to see them get that long pass – 80 or 90 yards for a touchdown – after they played so well. That was tough to see,” he said.

This loss marks the first time since 2004 West Vir-ginia has lost three consec-utive games and the first time since 2001 the Moun-taineers have dropped three straight games in conference play.

“Well, the season is not over. We’ll get back to work tomorrow,” Holgorsen said. “(The players) have approximately 20 hours to digest the TCU game be-fore we move on.”

Senior inside receiver Tavon Austin put West Vir-ginia in position to win af-ter he returned a fourth quarter punt 76 yards for a touchdown, pushing the Mountaineers in front 31-24 with 3:19 to play.

Austin led West Virginia in receiving, finishing with 11 catches for 101 yards and a touchdown.

Junior wide receiver Ivan McCartney started in place of redshirt junior Stedman Bailey, who saw limited ac-tion due to what appeared to be a lower leg injury, but that didn’t stop Bailey from making one of West Virgin-ia’s most important plays.

WVu clinches spot in MAC tournamentBy AMit BAtrA

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After a 1-0 shutout vic-tory against Bowling Green, the West Virginia men’s soccer team earned a spot in the Mid-American Con-ference tournament.

The Mountaineers won their first road game of the season in what turned out to be a crucial match in terms of making the MAC tournament and potentially the NCAA tournament.

Although it was a score-less affair for the majority of the game, WVU was able to put it away late to improve to 9-5-2 on the season. The Mountaineers improved to 4-2-1 in conference play. The Falcons fell to 8-8-3 overall and 3-3-1 in MAC play.

With the win, West Vir-ginia earned the No. 3 seed for the MAC Tournament. It will take on No. 2 North-ern Illinois Friday at 4 p.m. The top-seeded Akron squad will host No. 4 Bowl-ing Green.

The Mountaineers earned a goal from senior defender Eric Schoenle in the 84th minute. His team-leading sixth goal was a header off of a corner kick by senior Travis Pittman.

With such a crucial match taking place in the fi-nale of the regular season, West Virginia’s All-Ameri-can was able to provide a potential spark for WVU leading into the postseason.

“It was a big win for us,” Schoenle said. “Our whole season was basically on the line. We’re in survive-and-advance mode right now, so we knew coming in that it was a must-win.”

The Mountaineers held a 5-3 shot advantage and a 5-0 corner kick advan-tage heading into halftime. Both teams finished with an equal 10 shots, and WVU had the advantage in cor-ner kicks at the end of the game (6-1).

Senior goalkeeper Pat Eavenson had two saves on the night in his fifth shutout of the season. The shutout couldn’t have come on a better night for a struggling West Virginia team.

“I thought our perfor-mance was excellent,” said head coach Marlon LeB-lanc. “We got a pretty good team effort tonight in tough conditions, in a tough place to play and against a team that was as committed to winning as we were. We did a good job of showing our character and class when it mattered the most.”

The victory helped WVU clear its two-game hurdle against MAC opponents. A strong showing in the MAC tournament could secure

an NCAA tournament berth for the Mountaineers as se-lection time draws near.

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Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMSenior defender Eric Schoenle, right, celebrates a goal earlier in the season.

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Offense failed to pick up defense in

loss to TCUFor as much heat as the

West Virginia defense has taken over the past few weeks following bad performances against Texas Tech and Kan-sas State, Saturday’s loss was a major step forward for the unit.

With the exception of the 94-yard touchdown at the end of regulation that sent the game into overtime, West Virginia came in and – for the most part – looked like a completely different team from the defense ranked among the worst in the coun-try in just about every statisti-cal category.

Sure, it allowed more than 400 yards of offense again, but WVU also forced seven three-and-outs against the Horned Frogs after forc-ing just 14 through the first seven games of the year, while TCU also committed three turnovers.

Time and time again, when they needed to step up and make a play, the Moun-taineers seemed to find a way to get stops defensively to give the ball back to the offense.

But for the third game in a row, the offense couldn’t make the plays it needed to in order to give the Moun-taineers a chance to win the game.

And until that happens, West Virginia will continue to struggle.

There were multiple times throughout Saturday’s game when the offense had a chance to take over the mo-mentum and put the Horned Frogs away but just didn’t do it.

With a three-point lead in the third quarter, the Moun-taineer defense was pinned deep in its own territory, and it appeared they were about to lose the lead until fresh-man linebacker Isaiah Bruce intercepted a Trevone Boykin pass in the end zone.

Three plays later, the West Virginia punt team was back out on the field to give the ball back to TCU.

The way this offense has gone downhill since the Texas game is truly remark-able. WVU has gone from averaging close to 600 yards per game and scoring when-ever it wanted to an offense that has scored just seven touchdowns in the last three games.

On its eight possessions in the second half, West Virginia punted four times, missed two field goals, lost a fumble and scored three points on senior Tyler Bitancurt’s only made field goal out of five attempts.

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scored in the final two quarters of regulation came thanks to a Tavon Austin punt return with a little more than three minutes to play.

In a Big 12 Conference in which offenses constantly put up points, performances like that won’t win games – even if you have the best de-fense in the conference. And with a defense as young and inexperienced as WVU’s, things need to turn around as quickly as possible.

Yes, the Mountaineers made a ton of progress on the defensive side of the foot-ball. It was a performance that will give them a much-needed confidence boost

heading into the final stretch of this season.

But in order for West Vir-ginia to really get back on track and start winning games again, it has to be able to get that kind of perfor-mance from its defense and get the offense back to where it has been in the past.

WVU will continue to struggle until it finds a way to put together a complete game on all three sides of the ball.

Because if the Mountain-eers expect to win performing the way the offense has in the past few weeks, that’s not go-ing to happen.

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Saturday’s match against Oklahoma continued a los-ing trend for the West Vir-ginia Mountaineer volley-ball team as the Sooners swept WVU in three con-secutive sets at the WVU Coliseum.

The Mountaineers have lost 12 in a row and have yet to record a victory against a Big 12 Conference oppo-nent this season with only five games remaining on the schedule.

“It’s always tough,” said West Virginia head coach Jill Kramer. “I know they haven’t given up; they show a great work ethic every day in practice, and they show up to play every game.”

After losing a tight first set to the Sooners, West Virgina struggled mightily in the sec-ond set as they saw Okla-homa march out to an early 13-4 lead. The lead would not change hands as the young Mountaineer team failed to keep the set close, losing 25-10.

“There are areas of our game that need to improve

drastically,” Kramer said in a post-game interview with WVUsports.com. “We have to figure out what is going on between the first and second set and why we are not put-ting it together in the sec-ond set.”

Junior outside hitter Ari-elle Allen led the way for the Mountaineers with eight kills, three service aces and a set of block assists to aid the defensive effort.

Allen’s .583 hit percentage contributed greatly to a WVU run in the third set, in which the Mountaineers climbed back from down 12-5 to eventually draw within one point, at 20-19 Oklahoma. The Sooners’ Grace Whitley recorded a kill to put Okla-homa up 21-19. Whitley’s kill was the first of a five-to-one run that would give Okla-homa the 25-20 set victory, ending the match.

Kramer praised her team’s performance in the mid-dle attack as she noted the Mountaineers greatly in-creased their hit percent-age, specifically the .375 hit percentage, which fueled a third-set comeback attempt for WVU.

“We actually got some production out of the mid-dle,” Kramer said. “Which we haven’t seen in a long time.”

The appearance of fresh-man libero Anna Panag-iotakopoulos helped the Mountaineers recover from a dramatic decrease in digs during the past three weeks. Panagiotakopoulos’ nine digs tied with freshman set-ter Brittany Sample’s totals for the team lead for the match.

Panagiotakopoulos last saw the court Oct. 6 before heading to the bench with a back injury that did not seem to limit her against the Sooners on Saturday.

“She’s a spark plug,” said Kramer. “She’s definitely a leader on the team, and her effort is great.”

The Mountaineers will now set their sights on a Sat-urday showdown against Baylor in what will be the first of the final two home matches of the season for West Virginia. Game time is slated for 5 p.m. in the West Virginia Coliseum.

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The West Virginia men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams returned home Friday night with another victory on the sea-son after sweeping Cincin-nati by a combined score of 340-251.

Following their victory, the Mountaineers pro-gressed to 3-1 on the sea-son as they dominated the Bearcats, despite a difficult road trip in which the West Virginia team bus broke down while en route to Cincinnati.

“I am very proud of how the team responded today,” said West Virginia head coach Vic Riggs. “I know that seven-plus hours on a bus is not something that helps, but our men and women responded well and raced with a lot of determination.”

For the women, vet-eran performance was at its peak as the senior trio of Rachael Burnett, Kata Fodor and Mandie Nu-gent each took first-place victories. Burnett led the women with first-place fin-ishes in the 200-meter and 500-meter freestyle events, in which she posted times of 1:54.07 and 5:02.38.

Conversely, the men’s team claimed victories on the strength of their

freshman and sopho-more swimmers as soph-omores Christopher Brill and Julian Vialette and freshman Chase Williams claimed two victories each in an excellent showcase of what is to come for the Mountaineers.

“I was very satisfied with how our men performed,” Riggs said. “They came out very strong today and did what they had to do. Against a program of Cin-cinnati’s caliber I expect us to be competitive, and both teams went out and did just that.”

S ophomore sw im-mer Daeton Davenport added to the Mountain-eers’ victory total later in the day, claiming first place in the 1,000-me-ter freestyle event. Hugh Simmonds also claimed a first-place finish, as he re-corded a 1:41.93 time in the 200-meter freestyle event to provide the vet-eran presence for the West Virginian men.

“I saw a lot of improve-ments against Cincy,” Riggs said. “I was glad to see the younger swim-mers post some strong times and claim a few vic-tories. A lot of these men and women are planning for the NCAA (champion-ship tournament) and they need to be focused on their individual performances.”

The West Virginia relay members also provided a set of strong performances as the men’s and wom-en’s 200-meter medley squads each claimed first-place victories. The men’s 200-meter freestyle relay squad also claimed a vic-tory as their female coun-terparts claimed second place with a 1:37.41 time.

Despite several strong performances by the West Virginia swimmers, the men’s and women’s div-ers stole the show for the Mountaineers, claiming each of the top three places in both board events.

Sophomore diver Haily VandePoel added to her NCAA Zone “A” cham-pionships bid with first-place victories in the one- and three-meter boards for the women while the men’s Liam McLaugh-lin and Christian Parker took first place in the one- and three-meter boards, respectively.

McLaughlin’s victory in the one-meter board qual-ifies him to compete in the NCAA Zone “A” Champi-onships in March.

Moving forward, the Mountaineers will take time to train for the Pitt invitational Nov. 16-18, af-ter four consecutive weeks of racing.

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andy Menarchek/the daily athenaeuMSophomore Evyn McCoy sets to serve in a match earlier in the season.

Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMSenior quarterback Geno Smith threw three touchdowns and an interception Saturday against TCU.

On the first play of the second overtime, senior

quarterback Geno Smith made a 25-yard pass to Bai-ley for a score, giving the Mountaineers a 38-31 lead.

S m i t h c o m p l e t e d 32 of 54 passes for 260 yards, three touchdowns and one interception in the loss.

Holgorsen called Smith’s play “very average” and said he played “probably as bad as he’s been since he’s been here.”

The Mountaineers’ of-fensive attack figured to be bolstered by senior Shawne Alston’s return. However, West Virginia could only muster 78 yards on the ground at a pedes-trian 2.2 yards per rush.

TCU outgained West Vir-ginia 405-338 in the game with Boykin throwing for 254 yards, two touchdowns and one interception in the win.

The Mountaineers seemed to be in control after taking a 21-14 half-time lead, extending this to 10 points by way of a ca-reer-long 52-yard field goal from senior kicker Tyler Bi-tancurt at the 12:14 mark in the third quarter.

On West Virginia’s ensu-ing possession, however, the Horned Frogs forced a fumble, and redshirt se-nior defensive end Domi-

nic Merka returned it for a touchdown.

Bitancurt would miss his next two tries and fin-ished the game 1-of-5 on field goals. It was the fifth time ever – the first since 2006 – West Virginia tried five field goals in the same game.

After Cooper tied the game at 31-31, West Virginia drove to the TCU 38-yard line and seemed to have a shot to win the game before overtime.

On a fourth-and-10, the Mountaineers sent Bitan-curt out for a 55-yard try, but the kick missed wide left.

In overtime, Bitancurt had a second chance to finish the game – this time with a more manageable kick.

After the West Vir-ginia defense held TCU to a missed field goal try on its first possession, the Mountaineers set up for a 36-yard try, but junior cor-nerback Jason Verrett got a hand on the kick, knocking it to the ground and giving the Horned Frogs the boost they needed to make it to a second overtime, and ulti-mately, a win.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Monday November 5, 201212 | SPORTS

By Nick ArthurAssociAte sports editor

After allowing an aver-age of 53 points in its first four Big 12 Conference games leading into Satur-day’s matchup against TCU, many assumed a qual-ity performance logged by the No. 21 West Virginia defense would lead to a Mountaineer victory.

And, after allowing just 24 points during the first 58 minutes of Saturday’s con-test, it appeared the Moun-taineer defense was set to seal the win.

But broken coverage on a 94-yard Horned Frog touchdown pass forced overtime and opened the door for an eventual TCU victory.

Despite the bad taste left in the mouths of all mem-bers of the West Virginia football team, apparent improvements were made on the defensive side of the ball.

“I can’t say enough about what our defensive staff has accomplished over the last two weeks,” said West Vir-ginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “We stayed the course, and we got a lot of things corrected. You know – just didn’t get much help from the offense.”

Co-defensive coordina-tor Keith Patterson, who was moved from the press box to the sidelines for the game, was also pleased with the performance.

“I saw drastic improve-ments. I thought our kids played extremely hard. We did a great job of commu-nicating,” Patterson said. “You just got to build on the positives. College foot-ball gives you no time to sit and dwell on it. You have to move on and figure out how to win next week.”

Defensive coordina-tor Joe DeForest, who was moved from the sidelines to the press box to call plays for the tilt, also saw progress from his aerial perspective.

“If you look at the big picture, we got better on defense. We made plays when we needed to. We pressured when we needed to,” DeForest said. “The open week came at a great time. We went back to fun-damentals, and it showed.”

DeForest calling plays from upstairs was just one of a few changes made of the West Virginia coaching staff this week.

Redshirt sophomore safety Ishmael Banks moved to cornerback and played most of the game,

and senior cornerback Ce-cil Level moved to the start-ing safety position.

The decision to insert the two into the lineup proved beneficial.

“They brought a lot of the excitement to the game,” said freshman linebacker Isaiah Bruce. “They’re al-ways running to the ball. They’re always pushing as hard as they can go. And we need that on a defense.”

The defensive perfor-mance has been overshad-owed by the heartbreaking loss suffered by West Vir-ginia, which has now lost three-straight games for the first time since 2004 and back-to-back home games for the first time since 2001.

“I know it (the loss) hurts our kids and our coaches and our fans, but we showed improvement,” Pat-terson said. “Hopefully, we can build on what we did positively today and take it on to the next game.”

Bruce admits it’s diffi-cult to take positives from a loss.

“As of right now, I’m looking a lot at the score-board,” he said. “If we don’t come up with the only stat that counts, then it doesn’t matter.”

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Patrick Gorrell/the Daily athenaeumTwo members of the West Virginia defense attempt to recover a fumble by TCU Saturday.

Wrestling

WVu beats Johns hopkins, falls to No. 15 Maryland

By JoN fehreNssports writer

The West Virginia wrestling team took part in the first dual meet of the season during the weekend. It was a long Sunday for the Mountaineers, but the team managed to split meets between Johns Hopkins and No. 15 Mary-land. It was a day full of compet-itive matches, and it was a solid way to begin the year.

In its first match of the year, the wrestling team looked sharp shutting out Johns Hopkins 43-0. Senior veteran Shane Young came out first and earned a last-second take-down against Paul Bewak, leading Young to claim his first victory of the season.

Junior Nathan Pennesi started his season with two huge vic-tories in both matches. Both Pennesi and head coach Craig Turnbull already notice a lot of confidence in the way he started of the season.

“This year is going to be a long and really challenging year,” Turnbull said. “But he is already wrestling with a lot of confidence. This could be a very positive year for him.”

In order for Pennesi to carry that confidence into next week-end’s tournament, he knows he needs to continue to execute and work hard in practices.

“I believe in myself this year. I

just need to stay confident, exe-cute what needs to be done and believe in my technique.” Pen-nesi said.

WVU came into its second match of the day as huge under-dogs against the No. 15 Terrapins, and they dropped the meet 24-10. The team believes they could have pulled out a win, but drop-ping several matches and not having Young compete left points on the mat that could have pro-pelled the upset.

“You have to wear two hats in this kind of situation,” Turnbull said. “You just have to find ways to win. It is a huge disadvantage not having Young out there – it is a nine-point swing with him there. But you have to step be-yond the loss. It is challenging but it is the sport.

“This match will be good for us later on, though. If we take these matches and a month later we do it again, I believe we can take them.”

Many teams shrink when they are faced against a monster fa-vorite, but Turnbull is pleased with how his group came into the match ready to fight.

“This was a hard-fought match against a hugely favorited team, and we managed to turn it into a competitive fight. We took down some nationally ranked guys, and we will learn from this. Next time we get this opportunity, we will

make it count,” Turnbull said.West Virginia will take a week

to get better in practice and at the gym before taking part in the Navy Classic in Annapolis, Md.

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By sheA ulisNeysports writer

The West Virginia University nov-ice rowing team placed in the top 10 in the women’s novice four event and the women’s novice eight event Saturday at the Head of the Occo-quan Regatta on the Occoquan River in Fairfax Station, Va.

“Because this was our novices’ first real test, we went into this race not really knowing what to expect,” said assistant coach Grace Doepker.

The novice four “A” crew of Car-oline Mullins, Sue Hartlove, Mary Beth Bulriss, Summer Socha and coxswain Allison Arnold finished with a time of 22:14.12 for a fourth-place finish.

The novice four “B” crew of Al-ison Coates, Tiffany Hatcher, Erin Close, Kendra Welker and coxswain Sarah Dodd finished with a time of 22:28.69, earning them a sixth-place finish.

The novice four “C” crew of Katie Cook, Alison Pytlak, Sarah Taylor, Ali Burns and coxswain Jana Simpson finished in ninth place with a time of 22:45.63.

The Mountaineers’ novice eight “A” crew of Caroline Mullins, Sue Hartlove, Alison Coates, Summer Socha, Mary Beth Bulriss, Erin Close, Katie Cook, Tiffany Hatcher and coxswain Sarah Dodd finished with a time of 20:41.36, earning them a placed seventh out of 26 to-tal crews.

The novice eight “B” crew of Sarah

Taylor, Emily Smith, April George, Kendra Welker, Allison Arnold, Ali-son Pytlak, Carrie Moran, Ali Burns and coxswain Brittany James fin-ished with a time of 22:09.53, plac-ing them 17th.

Both assistant coach Grace Doep-ker and head coach Jimmy King were pleased with the outcome of the Regatta and see room for improvement.

“I’m pretty pleased with the ef-fort they put forth, and I think we’re leaving with a good understanding of what we need to work on and im-prove,” Doepker said. “It was a chal-lenging day against tough crews, and most of our rowers raced in both the novice four and novice eight events.”

“The novice squad had a solid debut at the Occoquan,” King said. “The grouping of our three fours within 30-35 seconds was certainly good to see from those crews. As is usually the case this early in the year for novice crews, there is much room for growth and improvement, meaning there is more speed to come.”

The Mountaineers will return to the water Nov. 10, when the varsity and novice squads will travel to Phil-adelphia, Pa., to compete at the Phil-adelphia Frostbite Regatta on the Cooper River.

“This week, we’re going to keep up the intensity and keep moving forward as we prepare for our next race,” Doepker said.

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Mountaineers place two boats in top 10

file PhotoHead coach Craig Turnbull and the West Vir-ginia wrestling team started its season this weekend against Johns Hopkins and No. 15 Maryland.

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