“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.” THE DAILY ATHENAEUM MONDAY DECEMBER 3, 2012 VOLUME 126, ISSUE 69 www.THEDAONLINE.com da Redshirt junior Stedman Bailey is regarded as one of the best receivers in the country, but the Mi- ramar, Fla., native may not have decided what he wants to do next year yet. SPORTS PAGE 10 63° / 53° MOSTLY CLOUDY 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 No. 25 West Virginia women’s basketball team used a second-half surge to beat Virginia 54-47 Sunday. SPORTS PAGE 7 WINNING ON THE ROAD ON THE INSIDE Unlike other schools, WVU doesn’t give students a break before finals. OPINION PAGE 4 NOT-SO-DEAD WEEK WEST VIRGINIA 59 | KANSAS 10 ROCK CHALK ROUT Mountaineers rout Jayhawks, send seniors out on high note West Virginia earned its sec- ond consecutive win Satur- day thanks to an offensive onslaught, and the team’s 21 seniors closed out their ca- reers with one last victory at Mountaineer Field. Read more from Satur- day’s game against Kansas in Sports. PATRICK GORRELL/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM PATRICK GORRELL/DA KATIE FLOWERS/DA MATT SUNDAY/DA “I felt a lot of love. At the end of the day, I’m just glad I had the opportunity to come to West Virginia and be successful.” — West Virginia senior inside receiver Tavon Austin Community joins for holiday fun BY MEGHAN BONOMO CORRESPONDENT West Virginia University and the Mor- gantown community came together in the Mountainlair Friday to spread holi- day cheer to less fortunate children. At WVU’s Holiday Community Night, people gathered in support of Toy Moun- tain and Students Helping Other People (S.H.O.P) programs led by WVU students to benefit local children during the holi- day season through gift donations. “The S.H.O.P. program and Toy Moun- tain have been around and have been supported by student organizations for many, many years, but this is the first year where we wanted to really expand and give the communities an opportu- nity to give back,” said Gretchen Hoover, special event coordinator of the Office for University Events. “The Office of University Events joined with Student Works and the Mountainlair, and we are just try- ing to have a fun night and invite the Hot Dog Man a local nightlife staple BY ALYSSA PLUCHINO CORRESPONDENT Around midnight every evening, most people in the labor force have already set their alarm, hopped into bed and dozed off into a comfortable night’s sleep. However, for Joe Stone, midnight marks the beginning of his shift for an average night’s work. Stone is locally known as the High Street Hot Dog Man, and he has been catering to the students of West Virginia University for more than thirteen years. Many students have become regular customers of Stone’s, and while many customers have only stopped by on their way to the bar, there is no denying Stone’s hotdogs have become a popular delicacy here on campus. Stone began his business in 1996 af- ter purchasing the stand from a friend. “He wanted to sell it, but I didn’t want it at first,” Stone said. “I thought he was crazy selling hotdogs in the middle of the night.” After some consideration, Stone de- cided to give vending hotdogs a chance and eventually left his previous job at a railroad company. Now, more than a decade later, any- one who has talked with Mr. Stone would agree he genuinely enjoys his work. see MOUNTAIN on PAGE 2 see STAND on PAGE 2 Bell-ringing honors, celebrates lives of fallen Mountaineers BY LACEY PALMER STAFF WRITER Friends, family and many other Mountaineers gath- ered Friday morning to re- member the lives of two West Virginia students who have recently passed away. WVU’s Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity holds a bell-ringing ceremony fol- lowing any WVU student’s death. The ceremony is meant to honor and re- member the student’s time as a Mountaineer. Charity Walker, 37, and Robby Venturino, 25, were truly proud to attend WVU, according to their families and professors. “Although their time with us at WVU was very short, it was a precious time that was spent with all of you, and I know for which you are all grateful,” said Tom Sloane, senior associate dean of students. “I know that Robby and Charity will always be alive on our cam- pus through the memories and experiences you shared together.” As the clock in Woodburn Hall struck noon, memo- rial bell-ringing chair Tra- vis Day of Alpha Phi Omega chimed the memorial bell in Olgebay Plaza three times, followed by a moment of si- lence for the students. Walker, a Morgan- town resident, attended Youngstown State before transferring to WVU. Walker is survived by her daughter, Mia Walker, and enjoyed music and spend- ing time with her children, according to Kim Mosby, senior associate dean. “Ms. Walker told me that her (mother) was so ex- cited about returning to school and was very happy to be here at WVU,” Mosby said. According to Sloane, Venturino was battling a rare form of cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma, a disease in which cancer cells are found in bone or soft tissue. Sloane had the opportu- nity to meet Venturino in his Japanese culture course last semester. “He was an inspiration to everyone he encountered with his courage and brav- ery in fighting that disease,” Sloane said Venturino was an active member and leader of the 4-H youth organzization. He previously attended West Virginia Southern Community College and Moorhead State University, where he was on a full aca- demic scholarship. Sloane said he remem- bers Venturino as always living life to the fullest while being upbeat and positive. “I’ve learned also how much WVU meant to Robby and how the Gold and Blue was such a part of his life,” Sloane said. Day offered the family members of the students the chance to say a few words. Charity’s daughter spoke on behalf of her mother. “When my mom got ac- cepted into WVU, she was see RINGING on PAGE 2 GAMEDAY GALLERY Check out additional photos from WVU’s latest game on The Daily Athenaeum’s Facebook page. MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Senior quarterback Geno Smith sings ‘Country Roads’ with fans after West Virginia’s 59-10 defeat of Kansas Saturday. FOR MORE SEE SPORTS PAGE 7
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Monday December 3, 2012 Volume 126, Issue 69www.THEdaonLInE.comda
Redshirt junior Stedman Bailey is regarded as one of the best receivers in the country, but the Mi-ramar, Fla., native may not have decided what he wants to do next year yet. SPORTS PAGE 10
The No. 25 West Virginia women’s basketball team used a second-half surge to beat Virginia 54-47 Sunday.SPORTS PAGE 7
WINNING ON THE ROAD
ON THE INSIDE
Unlike other schools, WVU doesn’t give students a break before finals. OPINION PAGE 4
NOT-SO-DEAD WEEK
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“I felt a lot of love. At the end of the day, I’m just glad I had the opportunity to come to West Virginia and be successful.”
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Community joins for
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West Virginia University and the Mor-gantown community came together in the Mountainlair Friday to spread holi-day cheer to less fortunate children.
At WVU’s Holiday Community Night, people gathered in support of Toy Moun-tain and Students Helping Other People (S.H.O.P) programs led by WVU students to benefit local children during the holi-day season through gift donations.
“The S.H.O.P. program and Toy Moun-tain have been around and have been supported by student organizations for many, many years, but this is the first year where we wanted to really expand and give the communities an opportu-nity to give back,” said Gretchen Hoover, special event coordinator of the Office for University Events.
“The Office of University Events joined with Student Works and the Mountainlair, and we are just try-ing to have a fun night and invite the
Hot Dog Man a local nightlife
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Around midnight every evening, most people in the labor force have already set their alarm, hopped into bed and dozed off into a comfortable night’s sleep.
However, for Joe Stone, midnight marks the beginning of his shift for an average night’s work.
Stone is locally known as the High Street Hot Dog Man, and he has been catering to the students of West Virginia University for more than thirteen years.
Many students have become regular customers of Stone’s, and while many customers have only stopped by on their way to the bar, there is no denying Stone’s hotdogs have become a popular delicacy here on campus.
Stone began his business in 1996 af-ter purchasing the stand from a friend.
“He wanted to sell it, but I didn’t want it at first,” Stone said. “I thought he was crazy selling hotdogs in the middle of the night.”
After some consideration, Stone de-cided to give vending hotdogs a chance and eventually left his previous job at a railroad company.
Now, more than a decade later, any-one who has talked with Mr. Stone would agree he genuinely enjoys his work.
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Bell-ringing honors, celebrates lives of fallen Mountaineersby lACEy pAlmER
StAff writer
Friends, family and many other Mountaineers gath-ered Friday morning to re-member the lives of two West Virginia students who have recently passed away.
WVU’s Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity holds a bell-ringing ceremony fol-lowing any WVU student’s death. The ceremony is meant to honor and re-member the student’s time as a Mountaineer.
Charity Walker, 37, and Robby Venturino, 25, were truly proud to attend WVU, according to their families and professors.
“Although their time with us at WVU was very short, it was a precious time that was spent with all of you, and I know for which you are all grateful,” said Tom Sloane, senior associate dean of students. “I know that Robby and Charity will always be alive on our cam-pus through the memories and experiences you shared
together.”As the clock in Woodburn
Hall struck noon, memo-rial bell-ringing chair Tra-vis Day of Alpha Phi Omega chimed the memorial bell in Olgebay Plaza three times, followed by a moment of si-lence for the students.
Walker, a Morgan-town resident, attended Youngstown State before transferring to WVU.
Walker is survived by her daughter, Mia Walker, and enjoyed music and spend-ing time with her children,
according to Kim Mosby, senior associate dean.
“Ms. Walker told me that her (mother) was so ex-cited about returning to school and was very happy to be here at WVU,” Mosby said.
According to Sloane, Venturino was battling a rare form of cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma, a disease in which cancer cells are found in bone or soft tissue.
Sloane had the opportu-nity to meet Venturino in his Japanese culture course last
semester.“He was an inspiration to
everyone he encountered with his courage and brav-ery in fighting that disease,” Sloane said
Venturino was an active member and leader of the 4-H youth organzization. He previously attended West Virginia Southern Community College and Moorhead State University, where he was on a full aca-demic scholarship.
Sloane said he remem-bers Venturino as always
living life to the fullest while being upbeat and positive.
“I’ve learned also how much WVU meant to Robby and how the Gold and Blue was such a part of his life,” Sloane said.
Day offered the family members of the students the chance to say a few words.
Charity’s daughter spoke on behalf of her mother.
“When my mom got ac-cepted into WVU, she was
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community in and give back at the same time.”
Upon entering the Mountainlair, guests were tantalized with an array of Christmas cookies, hot chocolate and decorations, turning the Mountainlair into a winter wonderland.
Children and adults of all ages were entertained by a cookie-decorating sta-tion, discounted bowling, a chance to make a per-sonalized mug, face paint-ing with Miss Tea Cup, pic-tures with Santa and free refreshments.
Amid all the activities, a mountain of toys began to shape up from donations.
“It is its 26th year here at WVU, and the mission of S.H.O.P is to raise finan-cial contributions to take less fortunate families and their children to go shop-ping for Christmas pres-ents for the children to open on Christmas,” said Ryan Cox, Interfraternity
Council President. “A lot of times, this is the
only gift that these kids get to open on Christmas and is quite literally the dif-ference from these fam-ilies’ children having a merry Christmas and not having Christmas at all,” he said.
WVU faculty, staff and students are encouraged to drop off new, unwrapped toys (valued at $5 or more) at the Student Organiza-tion Services office in the Mountainlair.
The toys will go to the Salvation Army and Chris-tian Help.
Additionally, there will be a financial and toy con-tribution collection at the men’s basketball game vs. Virginia Tech Saturday at 4 p.m. and the women’s basketball game vs. St. Bo-naventure Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
“This program really is the essence of West Vir-ginia; it is something that has, without fail, been a success and touched a lot of lives of families here in
Morgantown,” Cox said.“WVU is a huge fam-
ily, and I think it’s great that not only the students and the University fac-ulty families come out but everyone in the Mor-gantown community,” said 2012 Ms. Moun-t a i n e e r Hi l a h Z i a. “Obviously, you can see there’s dining services and there’s Miss Tea Cup, Santa and all the String of Pearls Dancers – it’s not just a University aspect; it’s a whole community involved.”
WVU students inter-ested in volunteering to help with S.H.O.P. can contact Kristin Klein-Schmidt at 304-293-4397 or [email protected].
To learn about other ways to contribute, follow S.H.O.P. and Toy Moun-tain on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ShopAtWestVirginiaUniversity?ref=stream or on Twitter @SHOP_WVU.
Although providing food for alcohol-fueled students may seem like a nightmare to many, Stone said the people he serves are actu-ally his favorite part of the job.
“Lots of them know me from their freshman to senior year,” Stone said. “Most everybody is cool with me.”
Stone even joked the night life is entertaining enough to compensate for the extreme weather he sometimes experiences.
Many of the regular cus-tomers Stone has accumu-lated throughout the years not only pay him a nightly visit, but they also swear by his hot dogs.
“This man is the best hot dog vendor ever,” said An-drew Candelino, an adver-tising student from Moun-tainside, N.J.
C a n d e l i n o l a u d e d Stone’s hot dogs while waiting in line for his usual order of two hot dogs topped with chili, cheese and hot sauce.
“Hotdog vendors in New York City cannot even compare to the hotdogs this man serves.”
Onalee Makam, an ex-ercise physiology student
from Great Falls, Va., only recently became a fan of Stone’s hot dogs.
Makam, like many oth-ers, fell in love at first bite.
“The service here was much quicker and efficient than anywhere else I have eaten,” she said.
“The hot dogs are amaz-ing and are a cheap way to fill you up on your way back home.”
During the quieter nights of the week, Stone spends his time with his wife and three chil-dren, living outside of Morgantown.
He has two daughters, ages 16 and 10, and one son who is 8 years old.
Stone added he and his wife have been together for more than 23 years, and his family means everything to him.
Aside from his hot dog stand, Stone also owns an-other business in which he remodels and sells mobile homes.
Customers can rely on Stone for their fa-vorite midnight snack Thursday-Saturday, 12- 6 a.m.
Whether it ’s rain, sleet, snow or freezing outside, Stone says he’ll be there, ready to feed anyone looking for a good snack.
one of the happiest people I’d ever seen,” Walker said. “She always used to tell me that no matter what it took, she would graduate from WVU.”
Ve n t u r i n o’s f a m -ily also spoke during the bell-ringing.
“Robby was probably the one soul in this world who I had the best connection with – we understood each other,” said Robby’s father, John Venturino. “At his fu-neral, I had so many people comment on what two fine sons we raised, and with-out even thinking, my re-sponse was that we had a lot of help,” he said.
I truly think that we are the sum of all of those we meet and get to know – friends, teachers, bosses, everyone we learn from – we are the sum of that, and Robby truly enjoyed his friends and all those around him.”
Robby’s mother, Tami Smith-Venturino, said she was grateful to be a part of the Mountaineer fam-ily – even in the midst of hardship.
“My heart is so full, not just with the love for my child but for all the people here – there’s no way to put in words what it means to us as a family to know that everyone here is a part of
our family as well because of Robby,” Smith-Venturino said.
Smith-Venturino said her son’s dream had al-ways been to attend WVU, and she aimed to help him achieve that goal however she could.
According to Smith-Ven-turino, during his clini-cal trial and chemother-apy treatments at home, Robby asked his mother to help him with the paper-work and applications to fulfill his dream to attend WVU.
In August of 2011, Ven-turino’s scans came back positive and he and his fam-ily received word he was in remission.
Two days later, they drove to Morgantown and moved Robby into a dorm.
“All my friends asked how I was going to go off and leave him after helping him for so long, but I knew that this was his time,” Smith-Venturino said.
“My friends asked what I did when I left, and ac-tually Robby was taking a nap while we unpacked his things because he was re-ally tired. I jostled him a bit and said, ‘Honey, I love you. It’s time for me to go, and it’s time for you to get back to your life. Call me if you need anything.’ Then I kissed him on top of his little, bald head, and I left. He got some time here and that’s what he wanted.”
Day said he believes bell-ringing ceremonies are im-portant because they are a way for the University to give back to the Mountain-eer families that have lost someone.
“It shows that the Univer-sity really cares, and I think that goes a long way with the families,” Day said.
Smith-Venturino said she would be forever grateful for the support the WVU com-munity has given her family.
“To think that a school would do this much and it’s not just this; they sent flow-ers to the funeral home and people came to the service, which was a four-hour drive away. It’s just amazing and heart-touching – especially to a mother’s heart,” Smith-Venturino said
“If there was one thing Robby would probably say today, aside from a good joke, he would tell every-body not to take one sin-gle minute of your lives for granted and live life as full as you can, even if someone tells you that you probably shouldn’t, because you’ll get tired or your counts are down and you might get sick.
Push on, keep liv-ing, keep loving and keep learning.
Never stop asking ques-tions, reach out to the peo-ple you love, hold them close and hold them tight.”
The Morgantown Police Department is currently in-vestigating the stabbing of a West Virginia University student.
Nicholas Ashley, 24, was stabbed following a distur-bance just after midnight near Van Voorhis road.
Despite the stab wound on his abdomen, police said Ashley was able to walk himself to ruby Memorial Hos-pital, where he underwent surgery.
Ashley’s condition is currently unknown.The MPD encourages everyone to be a partner in po-
licing and to report suspicious criminal activity.The MPD is asking anyone with information to call
304-284-7522.—crl
morgantown police investigate stabbing
of WVu student
Toys for Tots, sororities join together for holidaysby SummER RATClIff
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Each year, the Veterans of West Virginia University partner with the Toys-For-Tots Foundation to collect thousands of toys for lo-cal children who otherwise may not have gifts to open on Christmas morning.
In 2006, Sgt. Will Weber, the North Central W.Va. Di-rector of Toys-For-Tots and a former U.S. Marine, de-cided to reinstate the effort here in Morgantown be-cause of his personal con-nection to the organization.
“As a child, I actually re-ceived toys from Toys For
Tots, and after my time serving as a Marine, I de-cided to use this organiza-tion as my way to give back to the community,” he said.
For the second year in a row, The Veterans of WVU have teamed up with all of the sororities on campus and created a competition among the houses to see which could collect more toys.
At the beginning of No-vember, boxes for the toy collection were placed in each of the eight sorority houses. The Veterans group instructed the sororities to work to collect items for children ranging from tod-
dlers to teenagers.The Veterans group trav-
eled to each house Thurs-day with Santa Claus to col-lect more than 600 toys.
The Veterans presented each house with a certifi-cate of appreciation from Toys For Tots and spent time mingling and sing-ing Christmas carols to the sisters.
Jessica Latham, VP Foun-dation of Delta Gamma, said the house decided to get involved, because they place a large emphasis on giving back to the commu-nity – especially around the holiday season.
“There are so many un-
fortunate children here in our area that really need our support, so we strongly encouraged every one of our girls to get involved in this effort,” she said.
For the second year in a row, Alpha Omicron Pi col-lected more than 200 toys and won the competition.
Kelsey Young, President of Alpha Omicron Pi, said the house was very excited to participate again this year and was motivated to ensure they won again.
“We see that it really does make a difference. Knowing that we can help brighten the holidays for children in our local com-
munity really hits home with us,” she said.
In January, the Veterans of WVU will return to the Alpha Omicron Pi house and prepare a breakfast for the sisters as a reward for their efforts.
In addition to the toys collected from the sorori-ties, two Toys-For-Tots tail-gates hosted fans with a va-riety of snacks and drinks prior to Saturday’s football game between West Vir-ginia and Kansas.
The first tailgate was held at the Law School for anyone 21 years of age or older, and the second tail-gate was located in the
Blue Lot and hosted by the Mountaineer Maniacs and the crew from the USS West Virginia.
A donation of one toy was required for admission to either tailgate.
The Veterans of WVU are also looking for student volunteers to help sort and package toys.
Interested students and organizations who would like to sponsor a Toys For Tots event can contact Dan Alexander at [email protected] be-fore December 15 for more information.
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Patrick Gorrell/tHe DailY atHeNaeUMLocal favorite Fletcher’s Grove contributed their musical talent to Fair Trade 2.0’s event Thursday night at 123 Pleasant Street.
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Patrons at 123 Pleas-ant Street turned out to support a different kind of brew during Fair Trade 2.0’s benefit concert Thursday. The event fea-tured several musical acts, including local mainstays The Tom Batchelor band and Fletcher’s Grove.
Fair Trade 2.0 began in 2009 under the leadership of West Virginia Univer-sity geography professor Bradley Wilson. The proj-ect aims to support fami-lies in Central America that rely on the fleeting coffee industry for support.
Because the industry is far from lucrative, many families suffer, especially in down seasons. Fair Trade 2.0 lends its hand to these families and tries to help in any way it can.
The combination of Wil-
son’s existing relationships in the region and the inter-est of students were the in-gredients needed to launch the project and maintain its involvement and impact in Central America.
“The people in the or-ganization are really ac-tive on campus. I know they can get other people involved in it, so I came out to support them and support the fair growing of coffee and harvesting and sale,” said WVU alum-nus Josiah Daily. “It seems like it’s pretty packed in there for Fletcher’s; every-body always comes out for Fletcher’s Grove.”
Proceeds from the event go directly to the project’s investment funds for their work with Cooperativa La Hermandad, a small farming cooperative in Nicaragua.
“All of the proceeds from coffee sales and benefits go
into our First Hand invest-ment fund, which is in-vested in projects on the farm,” said Alanna Markle, WVU alumna and found-ing member of Fair Trade 2.0.
“Last year’s concert went directly to a four-acre market garden on the farm, so they are producing food for the family, the seasonal coffee workers and also for market. In addition to that, we did a 100-hen hen-house. We call it our ‘food sovereignty’ project.”
First Hand Coffee is farmed and harvested at Cooperativa La Herman-dad and then imported to the United States to 19 Cof-fee Company in Washing-ton, Pa., where it is roasted and then sold by Fair Trade 2.0.
In addition to Fair Trade 2.0, the organization has developed community partners in order to in-
crease its market, and ulti-mately, its impact. Coffee is now sold at Mountain Peo-ple’s Co-op and brewed at The Blue Moose Cafe, Ze-nclay Cafe and Studio and Black Bear Burritos.
“What we are looking for now is a new commit-ment from the University, and this spring we want to make our coffee avail-able on campus,” Wilson said. “We want to build a campaign in the spring to put our coffee on cam-pus so that WVU students, through their daily cup of coffee, can make a contri-bution to the work we are doing in Nicaragua.
“If we could make coffee available at WVU on a cup-by-cup basis, it could be at one location, and we are talking about a real jump in our ability to reach out to communities in Central America.”
The organization also
works with the coopera-tive toward diversifying its income through projects such as the market garden, also working toward food sovereignty, all driven by the idea that “one cannot live by coffee alone.” The project works with the co-operative via Skype con-ferences and visits to the farm where these plans are implemented.
“The idea is we are try-ing to build a local-global economy where we are di-rectly connected with this group of producers in the global south in a way that allows us to build mean-ingful, human relation-ships and meaningful, economic relationships directly between these groups that are usually widely separated on the commodity chain in the global economy,” Markle said.
“The key thing is that a
lot of people, when they think about a global econ-omy or transnational com-panies, you think about a corporation, but what I am realizing more and more is that with the access to technology that we have, even as students, we are able to create these kind of connections between small producers and small groups of people inter-ested in making positive change, and I think it is a very powerful tool.”
Fair Trade 2.0 is always looking for new student members from all back-grounds and an interest in helping international communities. Meetings are held every other Wednes-day on the third floor of Brooks Hall at 7 p.m.
More information can be found at www.wvu-fairtrade.blogspot.com.
WASHINGTON (AP) —David Letterman’s “stupid human tricks” and Top 10 lists are being vaulted into the ranks of cultural ac-claim as the late-night co-median receives this year’s Kennedy Center Honors with rock band Led Zeppe-lin and three other artists.
Stars from New York, Hollywood and the music world gathered Sunday in Washington to salute the comedian and the band, along with Dustin Hoff-man, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova.
The honors are the na-tion’s highest award for those who influenced American culture through the arts.
P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k Obama will host the hon-orees at the White House before they are saluted by fellow performers in a show to be broadcast Dec. 26 on CBS.
Meryl Streep introduced the honorees Saturday during a formal dinner at the U.S. State Department and noted that Letterman had surpassed his mentor, Johnny Carson, in sustain-ing the longest late-night television career for more than 30 years.
Stephen Colbert and
Jimmy Kimmel joined in celebrating Letterman’s influence on many other comedians.
“I knew Johnny, and I loved Johnny. Johnny was beyond reproach,” Col-bert said in a toast to Let-terman. “Dave was stupid. Dave was ours. Dave was like us.
“We wanted to throw things off of buildings... We would love to stick our heads out the window of 30 Rock and yell at pass-ers-by, `I’m not wearing any pants!’”
Colbert marveled at Let-terman receiving such an award after he “corrupted the minds of a generation.”
Paul Shaffer, Letter-man’s longtime band leader, said he knew his boss was uncomfortable hearing such accolades, but that he knew Letter-man was enjoying every second of it.
To salute Led Zeppelin, big names from the rock world dressed in black tie for their music heroes as a string ensemble played the band’s hit song “Kash-mir” and other tunes at the State Department.
Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl said he never took any music lessons when he was starting
out because “my teach-ers were Led Zeppelin. ... They were the most pow-erful thing in my life.”
Lenny Kravitz said their influential music, at its ze-nith in the 1970s, became a lasting part of the culture of rock and roll.
“It’s very difficult,” he said. “You get four guys that come together and make something so much more powerful than they all are.”
Zeppelin front man Robert Plant said he was flattered and over-whelmed in receiving the American culture prize.
He said he was glad to see his former band mates, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, using good table manners.
The trio is scheduled to appear Monday on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman.” They are of-ten asked if they’ll reunite.
Plant told The Associ-ated Press he plans to con-tinue traveling the world and wants to make new music along the way.
“If anybody wants to write some new songs, I’m game to write songs,” he said.
Hoffman was honored for charting his own path after taking a junior col-
lege class in acting that “nobody ever flunks.” Streep, a 2011 honoree, said Hoffman’s quest to become an actor required waiting tables and typing for the yellow pages by day.
“He’d do anything if it meant at night he could find himself on the stage,” she said.
Glenn Close toasted Hoffman for defining the character actor as lead-ing man in such movies as “The Graduate,” “Rain Man” and “Tootsie” – and as an artist who insisted on setting the highest standards for himself.
President Bill Clinton saluted Guy, the Chicago bluesman who was born into a family of share-croppers with no elec-tricity or running water in Louisiana.
He went on to pioneer the use of distortion and feedback with his electric guitar.
“Buddy Guy’s life is a miracle,” Clinton said. “Just imagine you want to be a guitar player and you get your first strings by tearing off the screen door... He came from that to this.”
Secretary of State Hill-ary Rodham Clinton said
the ballerina Makarova “risked everything to have the freedom to dance the way she wanted to dance” when she defected from the Soviet Union in 1970.
Makarova quickly made her debut with the Amer-ican Ballet Theatre and later was the first exiled artist to return to the So-viet Union before its fall to dance with the Kirov Ballet.
Clinton also took spe-cial note of Letterman, saying he must be won-dering what he’s doing in a crowd of talented artists and musicians.
“Dave and I have a his-
tory,” she said. “I have been a guest on his show several times, and if you include references to my pant suits, I’m on at least once a week.”
The crowd of artists and entertainers gave Clinton a standing ovation as she hosted her final salute to the nation’s artists as sec-retary of State.
Kennedy Center Chair-man David Rubenstein gave her a subtle nudge to run for president in 2016, saying there’s another room at the State Depart-ment to name after a sec-retary who later becomes president.
Late-night comedian David Letterman up for jabs with Kennedy Center Honors
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University should revise finals policyToday marks the be-
ginning of the ironically named “dead week.”
Of course, for all of us who have been here before – that is to say, all of us ex-cept the freshmen experi-encing this dreaded time of the year for the first time – this week is anything but “dead.” As the last week of class, this week typically in-cludes the due dates for all final projects, term papers, lab final exams and even some lecture final exams.
For some professors, it also provides an oppor-tunity to cram in as much material as possible be-
fore finals week. So why is it called “dead week”? Well, the idea behind it is that professors aren’t allowed to administer exams dur-ing this week so students have enough time to pre-pare for finals. However, the reality at WVU is that this designation is nothing more than a recommenda-tion for professors to take it easy on students in the week leading up to finals. This is a recommendation most choose to ignore.
It’s time for the Univer-sity to clearly define a “dead week” policy that takes the problems with the status
quo into account. It is incredibly unreason-
able to expect students to endure a week of complet-ing final projects, term pa-pers, and lab exams and then only have a week-end to prepare for multiple comprehensive finals.
Many of WVU’s peer in-stitutions enforce a strict dead week policy in which no assignments are due and no new material can be covered in lectures. Others take this a step further and give students a short break – anywhere from two days to an entire week – to pre-pare for finals. WVU should
seriously consider adopting this policy.
Again, it is ridiculous to expect students to review an entire semester’s worth of material for multiple classes in two days. Due to the fact they are worth a substantial portion of the final grade in any course, a student’s grade point aver-age for any given semester can hinge on how success-ful or unsuccessful they are during finals week. With the current system, the entire process is made unneces-sarily stressful for students.
This can easily be rem-edied, and it is hard to
fathom why this prob-lem hasn’t already been addressed. For example, the University could sim-ply start finals week on a Wednesday and give stu-dents the Monday and Tuesday for additional preparation time. Finals week can then extend until the following week.
Most students would be more than willing to shorten their break by a couple of days if it means they are given a fair shot at earning the grade they deserve.
APMembers of the Kansas City Chiefs and Carolina Panthers pray together following an NFL football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday.
Back in early Novem-ber, after the devasta-tion caused by Hurricane Sandy, the much-heralded New York City Marathon was canceled.
Mayor Michael Bloom-berg said at the time that, “We would not want a cloud to hang over the race or its participants, and so we have decided to cancel it. We cannot allow a contro-versy over an athletic event – even one as meaningful as this – to distract atten-tion away from all the criti-cally important work that is being done to recover from the storm and get our city back on track.”
Saturday morning in Kansas City, Missouri, Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher allegedly mur-dered his girlfriend, drove to Arrowhead Stadium and the Chiefs’ practice facil-
ity, then committed sui-cide by shooting himself in the head feet away from his head coach, Romeo Cren-nel, and the team’s gen-eral manager, Scott Pi-oli, among other team employees.
According to a statement from the team on Saturday, “After discussions between the league office, Head Coach Romeo Crennel and Chiefs team captains, the Chiefs advised the NFL that it will play tomorrow’s game vs. the Carolina Pan-thers at its originally sched-uled time.”
This decision is terribly insensitive, especially con-sidering the precedent re-spectfully created by Mayor Bloomberg with the can-celing of the New York City Marathon – which was, in many accounts, a much more difficult event to call off.
Tens of thousands of runners paid entrance fees and traveled to New York City for the 26.2-mile run,
and many of those partici-pants had family members and friends come along with them for the event. Furthermore, sponsors had donated millions of dollars for the marathon, and elite runners were promised ap-pearance fees for compet-ing in the race. Yet, because of what Bloomberg deemed as “critically important” – getting NYC back up and running – he pulled the plug on one of New York City’s biggest events of the year.
All the NFL had to do was delay the game – maybe even just push it back to Monday – to give players, team employees, and fam-ilies a little time to pro-cess and grieve. It would have cost some money for sure, but the feeble Chiefs were already having trou-ble selling tickets for Sun-day’s game vs. the Pan-thers. TV scheduling could have been accommodated for, and so could necessary staffing for the game by
compassionate Kansas City residents who understood the severity of the situation.
Several notable people, including those associated with the Chiefs, weighed in on the fact that the team and NFL went ahead with the scheduled game.
Sports columnist Bill Simmons tweeted, “Chiefs game has to be postponed 1 or 2 days. How is this even a question? Do the right thing, NFL.”
Chiefs wide receiver Steve Breaston took to In-stagram on Saturday and wrote, “There is no way we should be playing this game tomorrow.”
Instead of taking Mayor Bloomberg’s lead and put-ting people ahead of profit, the NFL chose to proceed. This isn’t something new, but it isn’t something we should accept.
The Chiefs’ head coach will be calling football plays a little more than 24 hours after seeing a player he’s coached and spent
time with for a couple of years kill himself right in front of his eyes. Team-mates will take the field and make football deci-sions just one day after one of their friends committed a violent crime and took his own life at their prac-tice facility, within walking distance of the very field they play on. The obvious rebuttal to my frustration is, “What is a one-day de-lay doing to do?”
Sure, one day isn’t enough time to heal or re-cuperate from this type of tragedy. It’s probable no one on or affiliated with the team will ever be the same, especially those who witnessed Belcher’s death. However, delaying the game would be, at least, a small sign of solemnity for the events that happened, and it would give players, coaches, and those related to the team some time to rest and process.
Like I said, putting profit ahead of people isn’t some-
thing new for the NFL (or most big corporations, re-ally). For years, the NFL has failed to take neces-sary action against con-cussions that are perma-nently damaging players’ brains, and they’ve been downright stingy when it comes to taking care of re-tired NFL players suffering from health consequences they obtained during their NFL career. The decision to go ahead and play the game as scheduled is just another incident in which health and integrity were sacrificed for profit and convenience.
While to the NFL “the game must go on”, we as consumers, fans, and hu-mans should rethink how we let governing institu-tions negotiate priorities. Playing the Chiefs vs. Pan-thers in the wake of the terrible tragedy surround-ing Jovan Belcher was a mistake.
Hopefully, it never has to happen again.
micah coNkLiNgcolumnist
In 1954, while recov-ering from back surgery, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy began to write a book. It was a study of eight U.S. senators and their then-unpopular decisions that they thought were right for America. It won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize and helped raise Kennedy’s national profile.
The book began with a quote from English states-man Edmund Burke: “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serv-ing you, if he sacrifices
it to your opinion.” To-day, there is an epidemic of lawmakers sacrificing their judgment not to pub-lic opinion, but only one man: Grover Norquist.
You may be asking yourself, as President George H.W. Bush did in an interview with Parade Magazine, “Who the hell is Grover Norquist, any-way?” He is a colorful anti-tax crusader whose group Americans for Tax Reform maintains a “Tax-payer Protection Pledge,” Washington’s version of a blood oath.
Any politician who signs it risks the wrath of Norquist and his exten-sive network of allies if he votes to raise tax rates or eliminate deductions at all for the rest of his ca-
reer. It sounds more like a mafia hit list than a tool for tax reform.
After decades of skulk-ing in the back alleys of Washington with shady characters like lobbyist Jack Abramoff, he burst on the national stage with the debt-ceiling crisis of last year. His pact, signed by almost every Republican in Congress, almost pre-vented the United States from paying their debts. Now he’s back in the spot-light again with the com-ing “fiscal cliff ” of tax in-creases and spending cuts, which is about to hit the economy hard.
His obstruction of a po-tential deal has brought anti-Norquist sentiment to a head. Former Repub-lican Sen. Alan Simpson
said he wanted Norquist to drown in a bathtub. That’s a reference to Norquist’s idea that government should be “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” Peter King, one of the Republi-cans who has denounced the pledge, said this of Norquist in response to his insults against King’s wife: “He better hope he doesn’t (meet my wife). She’ll knock his head off.” Clearly, things are getting ugly.
Amidst all the ugliness, Republicans are slowly beginning to back away from Norquist and his ilk. They do this despite the threat of being “prima-ried” by more conserva-tive opponents and the all-powerful Norquist.
Seven prominent con-gressional Republicans – Sens. Tom Coburn, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker, Lindsey Graham and La-mar Alexander, and Reps. Peter King and Tom Cole, among others – have come out against the pledge in recent days. They offer a modern-day profile in courage, willing to stand up against their party and this hooligan and do the right thing for the country.
Norquist maintains that he’s not worried; af-ter all, he’s been Washing-ton’s chief obstruction-ist for 20 years and has a pretty good success rate. Take his response to Lind-sey Graham: “If you had a pink unicorn, how many dollars in taxes would you raise to trade for the pink
unicorn? Since pink uni-corns do not exist in the real world, it’s never oc-curred to me to worry about the senator from South Carolina.”
T h e s e c o u r a g e o u s congressmen can’t do it alone. Neither can Presi-dent Barack Obama, who said on Wednesday: “I can only do it with the help of the American people. … Do what it takes to com-municate a sense of ur-gency.” He requested that people call their congress-man, just as they did last summer.
Let’s get on it. Let’s mo-bilize in support of these profiles in courage and show Mr. Norquist that he should be really worried. Let’s show him pink uni-corns are real.
beN turNerthe university of missouri
Pink unicorns are real, Mr. Norquist
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BORN TODAY This year interactions with others generally are very fortu-nate for you. It is through these con-tacts that many opportunities will arise. Impulsiveness works in your favor. You will want to detach when you feel triggered. If you are single, someone very special strolls through your door. This person could be very significant to your life history. Come next summer, you will experience a greater intimacy than you have in a long time, or possibly ever before.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You could feel challenged by financial news and/or a partner’s reserved attitude. You have what it takes to break out of this stifling sit-uation within a few hours. You’ll nat-urally find the right approach, which you impulsively will put into action. Tonight: Let the games begin.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH Someone you usually count on could be rather cold toward you right now. If you can’t figure out what gives, it is important that you find out. You know how to talk this person out of his or her reticence long enough to tell you what is wrong. Tonight: Hap-pily at home.
G E M I N I ( M AY 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH You appear to be robust and quite happy, until a normal en-counter becomes too serious for your taste. You might consider distancing yourself from this person, as he or she seems to be the source of a chill in the air. Hang with your more jovial friends. Tonight: At a favorite spot.
C ANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH You might not like what a risk brings, but you are very tempted to find out. Make an effort to move past the obvious. Consider what would happen if this idea goes south. If you resist the temptation, you de-serve a pat on the back. Tonight: Treat yourself. You choose what.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH You beam, no matter what you do. Others respond in a big way to your efforts. A situation could drain you if you allow it to, but you won’t. Good news heads your way. A meeting could be more important than you realize. Tonight: Your wish is some-one’s command.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HH Know when to step back and handle a sit-uation differently. You are on top of your responsibilities, but you still are mulling over an important idea. Lis-ten rather than talk. Ask all the ques-tions you need to. Choose to do a stressbuster. Tonight: Get some ex-tra sleep.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH You could feel a bit insecure and might be left wondering just how much others expect of you. Regardless, you’ll take the lead in a meeting. Your opinions make a difference to many people. Would you present yourself differ-ently if you felt slightly surer of your-self? Tonight: With pals.
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ativity. Share your opinions. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You could be questioning what you want to do and why. De-tach, and you will see that you need no explanations. It is your life; choose to live it well. Think more carefully about what is happening around you. You do need some feedback. Tonight: Let your mind wander.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Deal with someone directly. In fact, everyone you deal with would appreciate your personal attention. Consider the possibility that every-thing would run more smoothly if you shared more one-on-one time with others. Tonight: With a favorite person.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Stay on top of surprising requests or an unexpected financial development. Your original reaction could be very different from your fi-nal response. Lady Luck increases your options if you tap into your cre-ativity. This allows you to see situa-tions differently. Tonight: Return calls.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHH You might want to rethink recent de-velopments in your daily life. You might need to let go of a pattern or a certain way of thinking. You will be much happier in the long run. A child or family member seeks you out with good news. Tonight: Choose some-thing relaxing.
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EVERY MONDAYKAPPA PHI, a Christian
women’s service organiza-tion, meets at 7 p.m. at Wes-ley United Methodist Church on the corner of N. High and Willey streets. For more infor-mation, email [email protected] or visit www.freewebs.com/kappaphipi.
RIFLE CLUB meets 6-8 p.m. in Room 311 of the Shell Building. For more in-formation, email Abbey at [email protected] or Bob at [email protected].
FREE ENGLISH AS A SEC-OND LANGUAGE ADVANCED CONVERSATION GROUP meets at 6 p.m. at the Blue Moose Cafe for conversation, friendship and free English conversation lessons. New friends are always welcome. For more information, email Erin at [email protected].
WVU CLUB TENNIS is prac-ticing from 9-10 p.m. at Rid-geview Racquet Club. For car-pooling, call 304-906-4427.
New members are always welcome.
CHESS CLUB meets from 6-9 p.m. in the food court of the Mountainlair. Players of all skill levels are invited to come. For more information, email [email protected].
T R A D I T I O N A L K A R AT E CLASS FOR SELF-DEFENSE meets at 9 p.m. in Multipur-pose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.
THE WVU EQUESTRIAN TEAM meets in Room 2001 of the Agricultural Sciences Building. The English Eques-trian Team will meet at 7 p.m. and the Western Equestrian Team will meet at 8 p.m.
RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCI-ATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. Any issues pertaining to resi-dence halls can be brought up and discussed at this meet-ing. For more information, email [email protected] or visit rha.wvu.edu.
CONTINUALWELLNESS PROGRAMS on
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W E L LW V U : S T U D E N T HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more in-formation, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgan-
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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. To find a meet-ing, visit www.aawv.org. For those who need help ur-gently, call 304-291-7918.
CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL-ING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychi-atric Services. A walk-in clinic is offered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educational, career, individ-ual, couples and group coun-seling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, sup-plemental foods and immuni-zations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. For more informa-tion, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
NEW FALL SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPOR-TUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Cen-ter. The groups include Un-derstanding Self and Oth-ers, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Mountaineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thyself: An Inter-personal Process Group. For more information call 293-4431 or contact [email protected].
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‘Blood Wedding’ captivates Creative Arts Center with thrilling plotby Corey Zinn
A&E writEr
The West Virginia Uni-versity School of The-atre & Dance performed its final showing of “Blood Wedding” yesterday at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre in the Creative Arts Center.
“Blood Wedding” is a morbid love story written by the notorious Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. The WVU School of Theatre turned this tale into a fantastically horrid, poetic romance that had the audi-ence on edge.
The story opens with a concerned mother and her eldest son. The audi-ence quickly discovers her previous family was mur-dered years before. Her liv-ing son is getting married, and she has yet to meet the young bride. The mistrust-ful mother is worried the bride will hurt her son, and the story unfolds from there.
When her son leaves to work in a vineyard, a neigh-bor visits the mother and re-veals the bride used to be in-volved with a man named Leonardo Felix – a relative of the men who killed the mother’s husband.
Leonardo is now mar-ried to the bride’s cousin and becomes furious when he hears of the groom’s in-tent to marry the bride. The bride also seems unhappy with the wedding, and she
reveals that she, too, still has feelings for Leonardo.
As the small town pre-pares for the wedding, tension builds between the mother’s worries, the bride’s confusion and Leon-ardo’s fury.
The theatre stage set the perfect scene to foreshadow a tragic ending.
The torn-up set and gloomy lighting made for a shadowy and eerie set-ting, and the costumes were ripped to crafted shreds. Similarly, masks of dread-ful crows and black horses with red eyes were profes-sionally crafted.
By highlighting these ex-quisite designs, the original music throughout the show played a paramount role in painting this disturbing and horrible story.
The only thing that seemed below the high standards of the production quality was the acting.
Many actors were effec-tive, but a few characters lacked depth and their mo-tivation remained hidden. It is important to remember this is a Spanish play trans-lated to English.
Much can be lost in trans-lation, and as poetic as the dialogue was, it still felt un-natural at times.
Still, everyone’s emo-tions were so focused on foreshadowing the terror to come that character devel-opment fell short.
The most impressive characters were the super-natural ones.
There is a scene at the end in which the characters are chasing each other through foggy woods. The trees come alive and speak to each other, acting as a sort of a Greek chorus.
As the trees sway and scream unnervingly, sev-eral crows fly up poles and squawk in the faces of the audience. As the scene builds a tension even thicker
than the fog, the character representing death emerges and converses with the moon about the blood that must be shed.
The moon is an illumi-nated goddess who carefully balances herself in a hoop high above the scene.
The moon lowers herself and performs an entrancing and exotic dance of contor-tion in beautiful form.
The play’s nature was ac-tually so frightening and gripping that the ending felt
anticlimactic. “Blood Wedding” is
nearly 80 years old, so the imaginations of the audi-ence are perhaps much more gruesome than when it was written. I found my-self waiting and waiting, an-ticipating a terrifying twist that would make sense of all the plot, but it ended in a simple and predictable fashion.
Although the ending was disappointing to some, when looking at the play as
a whole, it was a truly ironic and fitting end to the con-flict presented.
Even with the difficul-ties of the translation, the School of Theatre & Dance did a magnificent job pro-ducing this dark and blood-curdling piece.
You will never see or feel anything like it, and I highly recommend you check out a future production if the op-portunity presents itself.
FacebookWVU School of Theatre & Dance delivers a scene from Federico Garcia Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding.’
Brantley Gilbert to play Coliseum
submitted Brantley Gilbert will bring his country-rock sound to the WVU Coliseum Feb. 9.
by hunter homistekA&E Editor
Country superstar Brant-ley Gilbert is set to bring his “Hell on Wheels” tour to the West Virginia Univer-sity Coliseum February 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Breakout artist Kip Moore will serve as the night’s opening act.
With these two artists on the bill, the night promises an abundance of country rock excellence. Tickets are on sale now, and they’re go-ing quickly.
“The response to the show has been fantastic,” said David Ryan, WVU Arts & Entertainment public re-lations specialist. “We’ve seen a lot of very excited people on Twitter and Facebook talking about the show, which is always great. We love to bring in acts peo-ple will enjoy, and we hope everyone has a great time.”
Gilbert forged a niche in the modern country land-scape by introducing heavy, untuned guitars to a nor-mally acoustic and clean, country sound.
His first single, “Kick it in the Sticks,” epitomizes this sound and is as appealing to fans of hard rock as it is to modern country fans.
In addition to this hit track, Gilbert has twice en-joyed success atop the U.S. country music charts for his songs “Country Must be Countrywide” and “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do.”
“Brantley Gilbert has a sound as much rock as it is country, and that’s helped build him a great fan base, thanks to some great songs and performances,” Ryan said. “With Kip Moore, this concert will be a perfect night for anyone that wants to have a good time with some great music.”
Like Gilbert, Moore found success early in his career by implementing a grungier sound fueled by passion and angst.
His debut album, “Up All Night,” was released in April 2012, and it includes his hit singles “Mary Was the Marrying Kind,” “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” and “Beer Money.”
While all three songs
have enjoyed success and airplay across the nation, “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” stands as Moore’s most successful release to date. The single was certified platinum by the Record-ing Industry Association of America, and it enjoyed a 34-week stay on the U.S. country charts, where it peaked at No. 1.
Thanks to the combined success of Gilbert and Moore, it’s a sure bet the Coliseum will be hopping when these two country standouts come to town.
“Demand for tickets has been great, so if you’re thinking of going, act fast – you don’t want to leave it until the last minute,” Ryan said.
Tickets can be purchased at the Creative Arts Center and Mountainlair box of-fice locations or by phone at 304-293-SHOW.
Pricing ranges from $25-38, and WVU students will receive a $5 discount at the campus box offices with a valid student ID.
Breakout country artist Kip Moore opens for Brantley Gilbert Feb. 9.
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WVU to play ‘Cuse in Pinstripe BowlBy nick Arthur
AssociAte sports editor
Late Sunday evening, West Virginia University officially accepted a bid to play in the 2012 New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York City.
The bowl, held at the new Yankee Stadium Dec. 29,
marks the 11th-straight year the Mountaineers will make an appearance in postsea-son play and their 32nd postseason appearance in program history.
“We finished the sea-son strong with two straight wins, and I am glad our play-ers get the reward of playing in a bowl game,” said head
coach Dana Holgorsen. “Playing in New York City will provide a national stage, and Yankee Stadium will be a great venue for our seniors to finish their careers.”
Awaiting the Mountain-eers in New York City will be the Syracuse Orange. West Virginia and Syracuse were rivals in the Big East Con-
ference and have met ev-ery season since 1955 – 59 times overall – while com-peting for the Ben Schwartz-walder Trophy, with the Or-ange leading the all-time series 32-27.
“An exciting West Vir-ginia football team in the 2013 New Era Pinstripe Bowl vs. Syracuse pits two
high-powered offenses with elite talent on both sides of the ball, setting up to be one of the premiere bowl-game matchups this sea-son,” said Mark Holtzman, Yankees Executive Direc-tor of the New Era Pinstripe Bowl. “The Mountaineers’ players, alumni and fans will surely enjoy an exciting
bowl week in New York City and a memorable game in Yankee Stadium.”
In the last meeting be-tween the two schools one year ago, Syracuse upset then-No. 15 West Virginia 49-23 at the Carrier Dome.
The Mountaineers ended
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A clear, December sky was distorted by the haze of musket gunfire as smoke lingered above Mountain-eer Field during a Senior Day victory lap for the three most prolific offensive play-ers in West Virginia history.
The trio of Mountaineers: quarterback Geno Smith and wide receivers Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey, circled the stadium to pose for pictures, slap high fives and sing “Country Roads” with the berth of West Vir-ginia fans who stayed to witness their last song fol-lowing Saturday’s 59-10 vic-tory against Kansas.
If you’ve followed this team this season, you’ve accompanied players and coaches on a roller coaster ride of dizzying heights and sickening lows.
For the senior class, this was supposed to be the year West Virginia showed the Big 12 Conference it was the real deal; as crazy as it sounds, an appearance in the Fiesta Bowl might not have been ambitious enough at season’s start.
Now, though, with the memories of a top-five ranking and illusions of a national championship long-gone, fans are sulk-ing in the departure of the most powerful offense to ever play at this University.
Talking to a student, you can tell it’s difficult to appreciate. Heck, I’ve watched these players up close – seen them after wins, after losses and after breaking records – and I don’t even know how to put it into proper perspective.
Records older than I am that took four seasons to set were falling in a fraction of the time.
Geno Smith had more passing touchdowns in this season’s first four games than former Mountaineer quarterbacks Greg Jones, Jake Kelchner, Jerry Yost and Jarrett Brown had in their entire careers.
Stedman Bailey, a red-shirt junior who could po-tentially leave early for the NFL draft, has caught 23 touchdown passes this season – almost double the previous single-season re-cord of 12.
Tavon Austin has gained 7,141 career all-purpose yards – 1,380 more than the existing record – and he still has a bowl game to play.
Imagine you are a West Virginia fan of more than three decades; you’ve seen Jeff Hostetler, Major Har-
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Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMWest Virginia senior receiver Tavon Austin celebrates in the fourth quarter of West Virginia’s 59-10 victory against Kansas Saturday.
Austin, fellow seniors end home career with 59-10 bashing of KUBy nick Arthur
AssociAte sports editor
For a season full of ups and downs, West Virginia found a way to end its season in impres-sive fashion.
Following their longest losing streak since 1986, the Mountain-eers ended the 2012 regular sea-son with back-to-back wins.
Quarterback Geno Smith didn’t guide a single pass attempt into the Milan Puskar Stadium turf Saturday while leading 21 senior members of the West Virginia football team (7-5, 4-5) to a 59-10 rout of visiting Kansas (1-11, 0-9) in front of 51,112 spectators.
Smith, who finished 23-of-24 for 407 yards and three touch-downs, had his only incomple-tion fall into the hands of the Jay-hawks for his sixth interception of the season.
“He didn’t throw an incomple-tion today. Anytime you can throw for over 400 yards and not throw an incompletion, that’s pretty
good,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “Techni-cally, the one incompletion was an interception. But he didn’t have a ball hit the ground all day, which is pretty impressive.”
Senior receiver Tavon Austin and junior receiver Stedman Bai-ley also ended the regular season with a bang.
Bailey had 11 catches for 159 yards and two touchdowns, bring-ing him to 23 receiving touch-downs on the season – the na-tional record for most in a single season among BCS schools.
Austin finished with 110 re-ceiving yards and 77 yards on the ground, further evidence that he is one of the most versatile play-ers in the country.
Following the game, Austin and his fellow seniors shared their fi-nal moments on Mountaineer field with members of the West Virginia faithful.
“I felt a lot of love,” Austin said. “At the end of the day, I’m just glad I had the opportunity to come to
West Virginia and be successful.”Many seniors, including Smith,
found their way into the crowd for the traditional post-victory rendi-tion of “Country Roads.”
“I was just happy that the 21 guys were able to experience that,” Holgorsen said. “These guys have been through coach-ing changes, they’ve been through conference changes, and they’ve never said once ‘This is too hard’ or ‘This isn’t fair’ … They’re here because they love it here, and they’re a very tight group.”
Holgorsen was pleased with his team’s ability to overcome adver-sity in 2012 and finish on a high note.
“(I) thought we had a chance to play our best ball in game 12, and all three sides of the ball, I think we did that,” Holgorsen said. “I’m excited about the way we finished, and they had a tre-mendous amount of fun out there.
“The only way these seniors are going to go out on top and have good memories is if they win their
last game.”Senior running back Shawne
Alston was injured earlier in the season and contemplated apply-ing for a medical redshirt, but in-stead opted to play through pain to end the season.
The victory, for Alston, was surreal.
“It means everything,” he said. “The fans are one of the main rea-sons I choose to come to West Vir-ginia University. Just to celebrate that win with them was a life-changing moment,” Alston said.
The Mountaineers dominated nearly every statistical category against the Jayhawks on their way to the win.
But the true victory for many seniors was the opportunity to play four years in the ol’ Gold and Blue.
“Every opportunity to represent this university, my teammates and these coaches is just a bless-ing for me,” Smith said.
no. 25 West Virginia defeats uVA on roadWOmeN’S BASkeTBAll
By Amit BAtrAsports writer
West Virginia wom-en’s basketball head coach Mike Carey said he wanted to have a schedule with tough road games early in the season.
That was the case Sunday when the No. 25 Mountain-eers traveled to Virginia to take on the 5-1 Cavaliers at the John Paul Jones Arena.
WVU looked to bounce back from two losses to un-ranked teams in LSU and Iowa at the FIU Thanksgiv-ing Classic last weekend. A win against UVA could bring the mental confi-dence needed for con-ference play later in the season.
Trailing by three at half-time, the Mountaineers used a 13-3 run to bust open a 36-28 lead to start the second half and went
on to win 54-47.The Cavaliers were up
26-23 at the half but shot poorly and around 20 per-cent for the majority of the first half.
Junior guards Christal Caldwell and Taylor Palmer and senior center Ayana Dunning were relatively quiet in the first half, but they were able to be more productive offensively in the second half.
Led by Caldwell’s 19 points, four rebounds and three steals, the Moun-taineers were able to out-score the Cavaliers 31-21 in the second half. Palmer added 11 points, five re-bounds, three assists and a steal, while Dunning re-corded eight points and five rebounds.
Caldwell shot 8-of-21 from the field and 33 per-cent from long range (2-of-6) to lead WVU to a 4-2 re-
cord. Of those 19 points, 17 came in the second half. The Mountaineers are per-fect away from home this season (2-0). UVA fell to 5-2 on the year.
West Virginia shot 35.6 percent (21-of-59) from the field, 26.3 percent from 3-point range (5-of-19) and 50 percent from the free-throw line (7-of-14).
The Cavaliers were poised throughout the game, but weren’t consis-tent in their offensive ef-forts. Virginia shot 25.9 percent (15-of-58) from the field, 14.3 percent from long range (3-of-21) and 70 per-cent from the charity stripe (14-of-20).
UVA’s Simone Egwu led the Cavaliers in scoring with 14 points off the bench. Ataira Franklin added 12 points for Virginia.
Freshman guard Bria Holmes contributed nine
points for West Virginia off the bench.
West Virginia’s larg-est lead was 13 points af-ter the second-half spurt. With 11:39 remaining, the Mountaineers had a 43-30 lead after Caldwell contrib-uted three 2-point baskets and a 3-pointer to give WVU some breathing room.
UVA kept knocking on the door as it cut the lead down to three with 3:12 left in the second half. How-ever, Caldwell would an-swer each time. The junior guard nailed a 3-pointer and a layup to give West Vir-ginia a 53-47 lead with 35 seconds remaining.
The Mountaineers will have very little time to rest as they travel to Charleston to face in-state rival Mar-shall in the Capital Classic Tuesday at 7 p.m.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt offered his condo-lences Sunday to the fam-ilies affected by the mur-der-suicide involving one of his players, calling it “an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family and for our organization.”
Hunt spoke to The As-sociated Press on the field before the Chiefs’ game against the Carolina Pan-thers. He said the Chiefs consulted with the league about whether to play the game as scheduled, but ul-timately left it up to coach Romeo Crennel and the team captains to decide.
Crennel, general man-ager Scott Pioli and defen-sive coordinator Gary Gibbs were in the parking lot of the Chiefs’ practice facility Sat-urday morning when line-backer Jovan Belcher shot
himself in the head. Belcher had shot his girlfriend mul-tiple times at a nearby resi-dence minutes earlier.
Hunt said Pioli called him from the parking lot immediately after the shooting, and that he flew from his home in the Dallas area to Kansas City on Sat-urday afternoon.
“I spent the evening last night at the team hotel with them,” Hunt said. “I wanted to be there with the team, with the coaches, to let them know I love them and sup-port them and know what they’re going through, and particularly the guys who were present in the parking lot when Jovan took his life. I know this has to be incred-ibly difficult.”
The Chiefs had several counselors on hand at the team hotel Saturday night. The NFL and the players’ as-sociation have also pledged their support to the team.
Hunt said that Belcher was “a player who had not had a long concussion history.”
Belcher was in his fourth year with the Chiefs after making the team as an un-drafted free agent out of Maine, and team officials said he was particularly close to Pioli.
“We have a lot of players who were struggling, peo-ple who had spent count-less hours with Jovan over the last several years, the linebacking group in par-ticular,” Hunt said. “I know it’s going to be difficult for them today. I told them all we can do in a situation like this is pull together as a family and support each other.”
Kansas City police have not released a motive for the shooting of 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, other than to say the cou-ple had been arguing in re-cent days. They left behind a 3-month-old daughter, Zoey, who was being cared for by family.
The Chiefs intend to help start a foundation to help the infant later in the life.
“We lost two members of the Chiefs family,” Hunt said. “Kasandra was part of our Chiefs women’s organi-
zation, and had done things in the community with the CWO group. They have a daughter now, Zoey, who is an orphan. I can’t imagine how difficult that’s going to be for her.”
Some of the Chiefs hud-dled together in prayer in the tunnel leading to the field prior to pregame stretching. The Chiefs had a moment of silence for all victims of domestic abuse before the national anthem on Sunday. After running back Peyton Hillis scored a touchdown on the open-ing possession, he ran to the sideline and gave the ball to Crennel along with a hug.
Hunt said that he had a number of conversations
Saturday with Commis-sioner Roger Goodell on whether to play the game against Carolina as sched-uled. Ultimately, Hunt asked Crennel to discuss with team captains how they wanted to proceed.
“Of course, the captains had been in conversation with their teammates,” Hunt said, “and they unan-imously believed the right thing to do was play the game.”
The Chiefs family has dealt before with murder-suicide. Retired tackle Jim Tyrer, a mainstay on the Su-per Bowl champion team of 1969, was reportedly de-spondent over not finding a job when he shot his wife
and himself in their Kansas City home on the morning of Sept. 15, 1980.
There have been other tragedies that have struck close to home.
Mack Lee Hill, an un-drafted fullback who went on to star for the Chiefs in 1965, died of complications following surgery on an in-jured right knee. The Chiefs later inaugurated the Mack Lee Hill Award given ev-ery year to the outstanding rookie.
On Feb. 8, 2000, eight-time Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Thomas died of a massive blood clot two weeks after he was para-lyzed in a traffic accident. He had been thrown onto
the pavement when the ve-hicle he was driving flipped on a slick, snow-covered highway.
On June 29, 1983, popu-lar running back Joe Del-aney drowned in his na-tive Louisiana while saving three children from drown-ing. He had rushed for 1,121 yards his rookie year in 1981, and set four team records, helping the Chiefs post their first winning re-cord since 1973.
“I’ve spent a fair amount of time reflecting on the other losses the organiza-tion has suffered, and no two of them were the same,” Hunt said. “Every situation is different, but it’s still a loss, a tremendous loss.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Against the backdrop of an unthinkable tragedy, the Kansas City Chiefs gave themselves a reason to be proud Sunday – and perhaps the impetus to let the heal-ing begin.
Brady Quinn threw for 201 yards and two touch-downs, and Jamaal Charles ran for 127 yards in the Chiefs’ 27-21 victory over their Carolina Panthers. The win snapped an eight-game losing streak during one of the most difficult sea-sons the franchise has ever experienced.
The win came just one day after Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girl-friend multiple times at a residence near Arrowhead Stadium, then drove to the team’s practice facility and turned the gun on himself as general manager Scott Pioli and coach Romeo Crennel looked on.
Pioli walked through the
press box before the game and said he was doing “OK,” though he didn’t stop to talk. Crennel was on the sideline coaching his team to an up-lifting victory.
Cam Newton threw for 232 yards and three touch-downs for the Panthers (3-9), who were informed the game would be played as scheduled while they were heading to Kansas City on Saturday.
DeAngelo Williams added 67 yards rushing for the Panthers, carrying the load with Jonathan Stew-art out with an injury. Steve Smith, Greg Olsen and Louis Murphy caught their TD passes.
Peyton Hillis had a touch-down run for Kansas City (2-10), while Tony Moeaki and Jon Baldwin had touchdown catches. Ryan Succop hit a pair of field goals, including a 52-yarder with 4:54 left that forced the Panthers to score a touchdown to steal
the win.Instead, the Panthers
went three-and-out, and the Chiefs were able to run the clock down to 31 sec-onds before giving back the ball. Newton completed two quick passes to reach the Carolina 38, but his final heave as time expired was caught by Smith short of the end zone.
Panthers coach Ron Ri-vera greeted Crennel at mid-field and gave him a hug.
The game was played in a half-empty stadium before a sparse crowd that could only muster some subdued cheering most of the after-noon given the tragedy that had occurred.
Chiefs players gathered in the tunnel leading to the field for a brief prayer be-fore their pregame stretch-ing. A few fans held up signs referencing the shootings, and there was a moment of silence prior to the national anthem to remember all vic-
tims of domestic violence.Kansas City police have
not released a motive for the shootings, which claimed the life of Belcher and 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, and left a 3-month-old girl, Zoey, an orphan.
“It’s been an incredibly difficult 24 hours for our family and our entire orga-nization,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt told The Associ-ated Press on the field be-fore the game. “We have so many guys on our team and our coaching staff who are really, really hurting.”
The emotions were raw even after the kickoff.
Kansas City took the opening possession and marched 74 yards in just six plays, including a 21-yard pass to Dwayne Bowe and a 34-yarder to Baldwin that got the Chiefs to the 2.
Hillis powered in to score the first touchdown for Kansas City on the open-ing possession of a game
since Dec. 26, 2010. It was also the first touchdown drive engineered by Quinn since December 2009, when he helped the Browns beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.
Hillis ran to the sideline after scoring his first touch-down of the season and handed the ball to Crennel, then gave the affable head coach a big bear hug.
The Panthers answered with a long touchdown drive. The big play came when safety Abe Elam watched Olsen haul in a 47-yard pass from Newton for the tying touchdown.
The Chiefs had tacked on a field goal when the Pan-thers struck again, this time after Newton completed three passes to convert third downs. The last of them was to Smith in the corner of the end zone from 23 yards.
But Kansas City finished off the half with one of its best drives of the year. It
took up the final 7:25 and went 80 yards, highlighted by Bowe’s dramatic catch over the middle. Hillis was stuffed at the line on third-and-goal, and Crennel al-lowed the clock to hit 2 sec-onds before calling timeout. On the final play of the half, Quinn saw Moeaki open in the back of the end zone and delivered a soft toss for a 17-14 lead.
Breathing room came late in the third quarter when the Chiefs used 17 plays to go 87 yards on a drive that lasted another 10 minutes. Quinn finished it with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Baldwin.
Carolina mounted a comeback with the opening drive of the fourth quarter, marching from its 20-yard line inside the Kansas City 5. Newton found Murphy on a quick slant route from the 8 to get the Panthers within a field goal with 12:21 left.
They represented the last points Carolina would score.
APKansas City Chiefs players stand arm-in-arm during a moment of silence before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday.
Kansas City Chiefs owner Hunt: ‘So many people are hurting’
APKansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt pauses while talking to reporters before an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday.
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the season with back-to-back victories over Iowa State and Kansas, respec-tively, after posting a five-game losing streak – their longest since 1986.
“I am pleased that our football team will get the reward of playing in a bowl game. Changing confer-ences has been an adjust-ment, and I am proud of how our players have han-dled themselves and pre-pared,” said WVU Director of Athletics Oliver Luck.
“I am also excited for our fans, who will get the chance to visit a great city in close proximity to the state of West Virginia. I am look-ing forward to seeing Yan-kee Stadium filled with Gold and Blue.”
Available tickets allot-
ted to WVU are $90 each, and seats are located in the 200-level of Yankee Sta-dium. Student tickets are available for $45 each and may be purchased at the WVU Coliseum.
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A struggling West Vir-ginia wrestling team headed into Las Vegas this weekend, looking to find some luck to help it get back on track at the Cliff Keen Invitational.
Head coach Craig Turn-bull was excited for the ex-perience to be gained from the tournament. It gave his a team a stress-free venue to try to regain some confi-dence while competing for some national attention.
“I thought the approach to this meet was consis-tently better,” Turnbull
said. “We still didn’t wres-tle the way I wanted us to, but this meet was less stressful. There is a ton of action going on every-where; it was a good way for guys that I was con-cerned about to have a dif-ferent setting in to kind of kick-start their swagger.”
Juniors Nathan Pennesi (141) and Lance Bryson (184) took full advantage of the relaxed environ-ment and placed sixth and eighth for the Mountain-eers. Pennesi battled his way to the championship quarterfinals before suf-fering a loss to Ohio State’s Hunter Steiber. Bryson fell
to Josh Ihnen from Ne-braska in the champion-ship bracket but came back to defeat Oregon State’s Ty Vinson 8-1.
“This is one of the top two or three tournaments outside the NCAA. It really is an elite tournament,” Turnbull said. “You can’t place in this tournament without putting in a lot of good work. Nathan (Pen-nesi) was down a lot in matches and showed a lot of grit by coming back and fighting every time.”
Even though no other wrestlers finished in the top ten for WVU, Turnbull believes this setting was
beneficial to everyone.“There is always im-
portant information to be learned,” he said. “Every-one valued from this, from the guys that placed – they get good national attention – to the guys that didn’t; they still come away with a lot of good information.”
The wrestling team will be out of action for two weeks until it hits the road again and takes part in a similar tournament in Reno, Nev. The Reno tour-nament marks the return of senior Shane Young and freshman Bubba Scheffel.
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By michAEL cArVELLisports editor
For most receivers across the country, what Stedman Bailey did Saturday against Kansas would be one of the best games of their career.
But, it was just another day at the office for the red-shirt junior wide receiver. In the Mountaineers’ 59-10 win, Bailey had 11 catches for 159 yards and two scores – his fifth game with more than 10 catches this season.
After the game, one of the first questions Bailey was asked had nothing to do about his performance. With his junior season com-ing to a close and the se-nior class he came to Mor-gantown with graduating, many have started to won-der if a senior year is in the cards for Bailey or if he will make the jump to the NFL a year early.
“I’m not sure about that yet,” Bailey said. “All the fans want me to stay. They tweet me all day, every day, about it. I appreciate that.
“There’s nothing like Mountaineer Nation.”
With his performance Saturday, Bailey ended the regular season with 23 touchdowns – the most ever for a receiver from the BCS conferences.
Bailey got started quickly Saturday, catching a Geno Smith pass deep across the middle of the field for a 45-yard gain. It was some-thing the Mountaineers have been looking to do for weeks in order to get started fast.
“The last three games, I took a shot (at the be-ginning of the game) and wasn’t able to complete it. (Offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson) sat me down. ‘Can we just com-plete one to start the game off?’ I told him ‘I got him,’”
Smith said. “It was a great route by Stedman; the of-fensive line protected, and I was able to put it out there for him.”
The 5-foot-10 Miramar, Fla., native is one of three finalists for the Fred Bi-letnikoff Award, which is given each year to the na-tion’s best wide receiver. Although he’s going up for the award against USC’s Marqise Lee and Baylor’s Terrance Williams, the numbers may be on Bai-ley’s side.
The only receiver who won the award and had more touchdowns than Bai-ley is former Marshall wide receiver Randy Moss, who finished the 1997 season with 25 touchdowns.
Following the game Sat-urday, Bailey and fellow WVU receiver Tavon Aus-tin were stopped by Kansas head coach Charlie Weis, who had a few words he wanted to say to them.
“He just let me and Ta-von know that we’re great players, and he hasn’t re-ally seen many guys in his time coaching like me and Tavon,” Bailey said. “He said to just never get con-tent with how we are and al-ways work hard.
“He could see us having a long future in the NFL.”
But what’s left for Bailey to accomplish at the college level?
There’s one big thing that would keep a receiver who has plenty of WVU re-cords from leaving a year early – especially with play-ers like Smith and Austin graduating.
“I would just say to try to finish on top of the NCAA – break all the records I could possibly break,” he said. “That’s probably what would keep me back.”
Bailey still uncertain about future at West Virginia
Matt Sunday/the daily athenaeuMWest Virginia junior wide receiver Stedman Bailey interacts with the crowd during West Virginia’s 59-10 win against Kansas Saturday.
file photoThe West Virginia football team fell to Syracuse 49-23 last season.
ris, Marc Bulger, Rasheed Marshall and Pat White play quarterback. You’ve watched Cedric Thomas, David Saunders, Chris Henry and Jock Sanders catch passes.
The absolute very best players in West Virginia history are watching three guys completely rewrite every page of the offensive history on the same team, in the same year, on the same field.
Are you seeing how re-markable this is yet?
Statistically, these three are the best in history at their respective positions. How long, if ever again, will it take for a West Virginia fan to say that?
How long will it take for any fan to say that about any team?
It’s truly unbelievable what the triumvirate of Smith, Austin and Bai-ley has been able to ac-complish. Yes, this season may have been a disap-pointment in the record column, but individually, each player has given fans memories they will never forget.
Tavon Austin gained 572 all-purpose yards in the Mountaineers’ 50-49 heart-breaking loss to Oklahoma – six yards shy of the best performance in FBS his-tory and 216 more than the previous, 47-year West Vir-ginia record of 356.
Geno Smith and Sted-man Bailey shattered more than a handful of records
in the Mountaineers’ 70-63 win against Baylor. Smith’s 656 passing yards and eight touchdowns were a full 193 yards and two touchdowns better than the previous re-cords – records he set last season.
Bailey’s five touchdown grabs and 303 receiving yards in that game bested his previous touchdown record (4) he shared with Austin and shattered Chris Henry’s nine-year single-game receiving yards re-cord by 94 yards.
The statistics don’t seem real, but neither does the idea of having three players on the same team with the offensive prowess Smith, Austin and Bailey possess.
All things considered, the figures that accompany the lines in the record book are not as important as the fact that the three of them played together.
I have to imagine the odds of something like this occurring are astronom-ical; you would be hard- pressed to find another team at any level of play – college or professional – that could say the same thing West Virginia can.
Maybe one day, many years down the road, I’ll be able to view these records through a broader scope – and will appreciate exactly how special and rare what I have watched truly is.
Until then, I’ll enjoy watching the last game these three will play to-gether, because there’s no telling what they’ll do or how long it will be until you or I see it again.
