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By Trey SanTorineCorrespondent

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Students in West Vir-ginia University’s Print Making Club from the College of Creative Arts are holding a holiday sale of student-made prints on Thursday and Friday in the Mountainlair.

The sale runs from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and all pro-ceeds from the sale will go toward travel fund-ing for the 2016 South-ern Graphics Council In-ternational Print Making Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Since 2004, The WVU Print Making Club has attended the Confer-ence. It is one of the larg-est print making con-ferences in the world, according to a WVU To-

day press release, with at-tendees from as far as Aus-tralia, Europe, India and China.

Print Making Club pres-ident and senior art stu-dent Jessica Poole at-tended the conference last year in Knoxville, Ten-nessee. She said that par-ticipating in the confer-ence can help students grow artistically and professionally.

“Going to the Confer-ence helped me realize all of the different ave-nues for the field I’m pur-suing,” Poole said. “Before I went, I didn’t know the wide variety of (things) I could really do with print making.”

The Conference serves as an important network-ing event for up and com-ing artists, and students that may want to work in

printmaking and other re-lated arts.

Students that attend the conference will have the opportunity to dis-cover new techniques in the printmaking field, stay up to date with the

most effective equip-ment and exchange works from all corners of the globe.

Portfolio exchanges, which are often themed,

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West Virginia Universi-ty’s student services offices began consolidation into a central hub with the reloca-tion of several core service offices to the new Evansdale Crossing.

Starting last week, stu-dents visiting various ad-ministrative offices down-town found themselves directed to the new Moun-taineer Hub in the new

Evansdale Crossing. The Hub was created to

consolidate various offices students often visit consec-utively to resolve adminis-trative issues. It houses the Office of Student Accounts, Office of the University Reg-istrar and the Office of Fi-nancial Aid. Included with these offices are the offices of Student Employment, Scholarships, as well as Rev-enue Services.

“With the offices sepa-rated downtown—the Reg-istrar’s Office was one build-

ing, and the financial aid office was in one building, and the scholarship office and student accounts in an-other building—this was a way to bring all of these of-fices together, to one area, under one roof,” said George Yanchak, director of the Mountaineer Hub. “When students have any one con-cern, they will be able to call or email one central office—or hub—to help with all but the most specific questions.”

Students will now be able to more easily avoid

the “campus run-around,” a complaint Brenda Thomp-son, senior adviser for strate-gic initiatives, said was heard frequently on campus.

“By this time next year, I think that students will be thinking about the Moun-taineer Hub as an effective resource where they can go to find information or re-solve any issues they may have,” she said.

The Mountaineer Hub will also serve to help integrate the services each office pro-vides to students. Often is-

sues or concerns that stu-dents may face between the offices of Financial Aid and Student Accounts can over-lap or be intertwined. By helping to solve each stu-dent’s issues as a whole, rather than dividing them into pieces, the new consol-idated office aims to serve students more quickly and effectively.

To this end, the Hub is currently hiring nine new full-time staff members that will be cross-trained to aid students with a variety of

problems. While some students ex-

pressed frustration that these offices are no longer on the Downtown Campus, the Mountaineer Hub’s loca-tion in the Evansdale Cross-ing is still easily accessible using the bus or PRT, and parking is available.

The Mountaineer Hub can be found on the second floor of the Evansdale Crossing, across from the Engineering station on the PRT.

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AmeriCorps is seeking 500 volunteers for West Vir-ginia University Extension Services’ 23rd annual En-ergy Express summer read-ing and nutrition program.

The eight week program needs mentors and com-munity coordinators for nearly 80 sites in up to 40 West Virginia counties, ac-cording to John Lyonett, En-ergy Express’ AmeriCorps coordinator.

Lyonett said the program, which serves children en-tering first through sixth grade, is designed to pre-vent the “summer slide,” a pattern seen in school-aged children living in low-in-come or rural areas, who fall behind when school ends for the summer.

The summer slide hap-pens because low-income and rural families often do not have the same sum-mer opportunities, like camps, vacations or ac-cess to books, Lyonett said, which would allow them to keep learning outside of the classroom from June to August.

During the long sum-mer break, these children lose both momentum and valuable ground in their learning, and quickly fall behind their peers, es-pecially in reading and comprehension.

“The kids from the low-income families often don’t have the readiness. They’ve done nothing wrong, but they’re already behind,” Ly-onett said. “Some of (these students) are just as bright, but they just fall behind be-cause of the environment and the circumstances that they come from.”

Many Energy Express participants are also eligible for free and reduced meals at their schools, which aren’t available to them during the summer. The nutrition portion of Energy Express’s program provides participants with breakfast and lunch everyday to en-sure they won’t go hungry.

“We give them breakfast and lunch, we give them a safe and secure environ-ment, and we do the read-ing related activities. Be-tween the three of them, instead of having them run-ning in the streets and not having anything to eat, we try to address both compo-nents, reading and nutri-tion,” Lyonett said.

When students graduate 6th grade and become too old to take part in the pro-gram, Energy Express often hires them as mentors, so

they can continue to ben-efit from the learning and free meals Energy Express provided them with before.

To qualify for an Energy Express program, a county must have at least 50 per-cent of its school aged chil-dren needing free and re-duced lunch. There were about 13 eligible counties in West Virginia when the program started 23 years ago, but now that the need has grown, there are around 46 counties eligible for the program.

Energy Express’ volun-teers are compensated for their service with a living al-lowance and a Segal Amer-iCorps Education Award to help them pay tuition or student loans.

An award-winning pro-gram, 74 percent of Energy Express participants either maintained or improved their achievement test read-ing scores last year by at-tending the program.

Energy Express reaches about 3,000 children in West Virginia each year, and last summer they distrib-uted nearly 18,000 books.

“Our goal is just to main-tain in the summer, be-cause if they can main-tain their skills then we’ve really helped them,” said Terri Collier, literacy and academic success special-ist for WVU Extension Ser-vices and director of Energy Express, “but we actually see children (whose) read-ing achievement improves sometimes (in) as much as three or four months.”

Collier said the noncom-petitive environment at En-ergy Express is crucial for the children’s success be-cause it allows them to learn and develop a love for books without the pressure of grades, tests and scores.

“Many times in a school setting, I can say that as a (former) teacher, we’re fo-cused on the mechanics of reading… and sometimes that can become difficult for children,” Collier said. “So, at Energy Express, we’re fo-cusing just on enjoying it, trying to develop a desire and enjoyment for reading, which will then impact their skills as well.”

Those interested in ap-plying for a position as an Energy Express mentor or community coordinator can find more information at https://energyexpress.wvu.edu or by calling (304) 293-3855.

The selection process will begin March 1, and ap-plications will be available until all positions have been filled.

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KrISten UppercUe/tHe dAILY AtHenAeUmWest Virginia University students form a line to keep from falling on the ice skating rink behind the Mountainlair.

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Thursday night, Fun Before Finals week brought an-other opportunity for West Virginia University students to chill before finals start next week. The University rented a portable ice rink for the Mountainlair plaza.

Once again, the goal was to provide students with an easy, inexpensive way to have a bit of fun before hit-ting the books.

“We were trying to think of things that would really just relax students,” said Sonja Wilson, Lair person-nel administration. “That’s why we’ve had the therapy dogs. Just things that you can do on the spur of the mo-ment, you don’t have to plan to be here, so ice skating is one of those things where you can just go out and re-

lax, clear your mind.”Even students who had no experience skating could

try the rink out, such as Marissa Hovey, a psychology student.

“I’ve never ice skated before,” she said. “I am always up for trying new things and I had never ice skated, so I thought, ‘Hey, ice skating, might as well try.’ I saw it on the Fun Before Finals website and I decided if I had time I would come down and try it.”

While the night was cold, heating lamps were set up around the rink to keep students waiting in line warm. But the low temperatures were cause for the Lair per-sonnel to consider moving the rink to the Student Rec-reation Center.

“We were going to move it to the rec center when it was

Art students sell work to raise money

SHeLbY tHObUrn/tHe dAILY AtHenAeUmJessica Poole sells her artwork including homemade Christmas cards in the Mountainlair.

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SaN BErNardiNO, Calif. (aP)—California gunman Syed Rizwan Farook had been in contact with known Islamic extremists on social media, a U.S. intelligence official said Thursday, and police said he and his wife had enough bullets and bombs to slaughter hun-dreds when they launched their deadly attack on a hol-iday party.

The details emerged as investigators tried to de-termine whether the ram-page that left 14 peo-ple dead was terrorism, a workplace grudge or some combination.

The husband-and-wife killers were not under FBI scrutiny before the massa-cre, said a second U.S. of-ficial, who likewise was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Wearing black tactical gear and wielding assault rifles, Farook, a 28-year-old county restaurant inspector, and his wife, Tashfeen Ma-lik, 27, sprayed as many as 75 rounds into a room at a

social service center for the disabled, where about 75 of Farook’s co-workers had gathered Wednesday morn-ing. Farook had attended the event but slipped out and returned in battle dress.

Four hours later and two miles away, the cou-ple died in a furious gun-battle in which they fired 76 rounds, while 23 law of-ficers unleashed about 380, police said.

On Thursday, Police Chief Jarrod Burguan of-fered a grim inventory that suggested Wednesday’s bloodbath could have been far worse.

At the social service cen-ter, the couple left three rigged-together pipe bombs with a remote-control det-onating device that appar-ently malfunctioned, and they had more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition re-maining when police killed them in their rented SUV, Burguan said.

At a family home in the nearby town of Redlands, they had 12 pipe bombs, tools for making more,

and over 3,000 additional rounds of ammunition, the chief said.

“We don’t know if this was workplace rage or something larger or a com-bination of both,” Attor-ney General Loretta Lynch said in Washington, echo-ing President Barack Obama. “We don’t know the motivation.”

Investigators are trying to determine whether Farook, who was Muslim, became radicalized - and, if so, how - as well as whether he was in contact with any foreign terrorist organization, said the U.S. intelligence official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The same official said Fa-rook had been in touch on social media with extrem-ists who were under FBI scrutiny.

The second U.S. official said the FBI was treating the attack as a potential act of terror but had reached no conclusion that it was. The official said Farook had

communication with in-dividuals who were under FBI scrutiny. But the con-tact was with “people who weren’t significant players on our radar,” dated back some time, and there was no immediate indication of a surge in communication before the shooting.

The official cautioned that such contact by itself doesn’t mean someone is a terrorist.

Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, an or-ganization that tracks and analyzes extremists, said it hasn’t found any connec-tion between Farook and jihadi groups. But she also said that some of Farook’s social media posts seem to have been deleted before the attack.

Wednesday’s rampage was the nation’s deadli-est mass shooting since 2012, when 26 children and adults were slain in New-town, Connecticut.

In San Bernardino, a Southern California city of 214,000, the victims ranged in age from 26 to 60. A fur-

ther 21 people were in-jured, including two po-lice officers, authorities said. Two of the wounded remained in critical condi-tion Thursday.

Nearly all the dead and wounded were county employees.

Authorities said the at-tack was carefully planned.

“There was obviously a mission here. We know that. We do not know why. We don’t know if this was the intended target or if there was something that trig-gered him to do this imme-diately,” David Bowdich, as-sistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said as the bureau took over the investigation.

Farook has no known criminal record, Burguan said. He was born in Chi-cago to a Pakistani fam-ily, raised in Southern Cal-ifornia and worked at San Bernardino County’s De-partment of Public Health for two stints totaling four years since 2010, according to authorities and acquain-tances. The Saudi Embassy

said he traveled to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014 for nine days.

As for Malik, she came to the U.S. in July 2014 on a Pakistani passport and a fiancée visa, authori-ties said. To get the visa, immigrants submit to an interview and biometric and background checks - screening intended to identify anyone who might pose a threat.

They were married on Aug. 16, 2014, in nearby Riv-erside County, according to their marriage license. Both listed their religion as Muslim.

The couple had a 6-month-old daughter who they dropped with relatives Wednesday morning before the shooting.

Adam Lankford, a crimi-nal justice professor at the University of Alabama, said his review of mass public shootings in the U.S. indi-cates this is the first one in recent history involving a male-female team.

Farook was a devout Muslim who prayed every day and recently memo-rized the Quran, according to brothers Nizaam and Ra-hemaan Ali, who attended Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah mosque in San Bernardino with Farook.

Rahemaan Ali said he last saw Farook three weeks ago, when he abruptly stopped going to the mosque. Ali said Farook seemed happy and his usual self, and the brothers never saw a vio-lent side.

“He never ever talked about killing people or dis-cussed politics, or said that he had problems at work,” Rahemaan Ali said. “He always had a smile on his face.”

Federal authorities said Farook legally bought two handguns used in the mas-sacre and their two assault rifles were legally bought by someone else.

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cold and then we thought, ‘No, because why would you not be in the cold while you’re ice skating,’” Wilson said.

The ice rink, though, was not actually made of ice. It was synthetic to make it portable. Wilson said that she contacted H and H Enterprises looking for a rink, and they were able to subcontract one to WVU.

“It’s a synthetic. It’s iceless, there’s no ice in it at all. What they do is, you have to have special skates, they were all free.

It went up kind of like an inflatable because they have to inflate it,” Wilson said.

A synthetic skating rink has actually been at WVU before for Up All Night, and when Fun Before Fi-nals week was created this year, they decided to bring it back, Wilson said.

O r i g i na l l y , Wi l s o n hoped to have the rink set up in Woodburn Circle, but the ground was not flat enough. Instead, they got a life-size snow globe to give students a good place to take pictures.

“It was a great opportu-nity for pictures for social media. When you were in-side it looked like the snow was falling down on you,” said Wilson.

Students were also able to go inside the Mountainlair for the usual Up All Night free food.

Though the night was cold and the line for skat-ing was long, students en-joyed ice skating, as Wiley Martin, a pre-nursing stu-dent said.

“It was fun, I had fun out with my friends,” Mar-tin said.

Giving students a break before studying was im-portant to WVU this year.

“It was really good for students to, well, chill,” Wilson said. “They could just relax and let it all go and get ready to study for finals as we’re headed into the holiday season.”

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allow artists to share their work and see what their peers are producing.

“Sometimes people express themselves in a more abstract way, or more line-art or pop-art,”

Poole said, “and it’s cool to see that and compare to it.”

Prints sold during the sale are handmade by WVU students us-ing techniques such as silk screens, etching, lithographs and relief prints.

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SHeLbY tHObUrn/tHe dAILY AtHenAeUmJessica Poole sells her artwork including homemade Christmas cards in the Mountainlair.

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KrISten UppercUe/tHe dAILY AtHenAeUmMany students of all kinds enjoyed the ice skating rink that was located outside

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ApLisa Gonzalez, right, wipes a tear away as she waits to return to her home near a Black SUV that was involved in Wednesday’s police shootout with suspects, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, in San Bernardino, Calif. A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers Wednesday, killing multiple people and seriously wounding others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, they died in a shootout with police.

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Gender equality in the militaryWomen first aided the

U.S. military forces by pro-viding care as nurses and helping the wounded dur-ing the Revolutionary War. Though women have been included in each branch of the United States military since the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act was put into place in 1948, they were prevented from holding combat positions for decades.

Yesterday, Ash Carter, the defense secretary of the U.S., changed this by announcing women would soon be allowed to enter combat positions across all branches of the military, and be included in infantry units. Though this is a mile-stone for women eager to serve their country, many have raised concerns about the ethics of this practice.

An academic article from the European Jour-nal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physi-ology found that on aver-age, women in top physi-cal condition have roughly half the amount of upper body strength as men. They also have less dense bones, which can lead to more fre-

quent breakages, and their total endurance is less than that of men. Across all sports, men consistently surpass women’s world re-cord times and distances.

This is not to say women as a whole are weaker than men, but that the female biology is simply not de-signed to emphasize ar-eas like speed and stam-ina. Because of this, many throughout history have not considered women to be useful assets in roles re-quiring frequent combat.

However, the Marine Corps saw several female graduates in 2013 during a trial in which they allowed 20 women to undergo in-fantry training. Though none completed the train-ing at first, opening the course to more women saw greater success: According to the Marine Times, four women completed the Combat Endurance Test in 2013, which deems them physically eligible to par-ticipate in actual combat scenarios.

The Marine Corps com-bat training already has an annual dropout rate of 25 percent in male partic-

ipants. Though this rate may be higher in even-tual female participants, those who can complete the course have proven they have the right to join “the few, the proud” on the battlefield.

Physical performance is just one part of being a

successful soldier. Women leading infantry units into battle may provide differ-ent perspectives or strate-gies that could prove to be very efficient. There is also significant evidence stating that women react to stress-ful situations differently than men, which may de-

termine how crisis situa-tions are handled and lead to more lives saved.

Claims that women couldn’t emotionally han-dle combat situations or are generally weaker over-all are simply false and are based on sexist ste-reotypes. The women who

prove themselves physi-cally capable are now no longer denied the oppor-tunity to directly serve their country, and this marks a historic breakthrough in reaching true societal gen-der equality.

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Cryogenics: An overly optimistic solution to death

Matheryn Naovaratpong, a 2-year-old girl from Thai-land, was cryogenically fro-zen after she died of a brain tumor. Her parents made the decision in hopes that their daughter can be rean-imated and revived at some point in the future when the technology becomes avail-able. Though this tragic story may be touching in its optimism, I believe it may be grounded in wish-ful thinking.

Cryogenic technology has always been the sub-stance of science fiction. Though scientists around the world may make ad-vances in this field, most cryogenic technology is still speculative. The parts of cryogenic sciences uti-lized today are very simple. The word “cryogenic” sim-ply implies that very low temperatures are involved, and the branch of cryogen-ics that would encompass the freezing of a person is more properly known as “cryonics.”

The field of cryonics is a somewhat turbulent one, with supporters and skep-tics both making valid ar-guments for the practice of cryopreservation. Several people have already been cryogenically frozen, hop-ing one day another form of technology will revive and cure them. However, when one considers the numerous obstacles to re-vival, these processes look more and more like a des-

perate last effort in the face of death.

Human tissues need many things to survive. Ox-ygen is vital to the survival of any organ system, and you cannot breathe when you’re dead. Tissue dam-age from oxygen depriva-tion is inevitable in frozen organisms.

Not only will the lack of air hurt the body, but the chemical cocktails used to protect organs from ice crystals are very poisonous. These chemicals, referred to as cryoprotectants, have

noticeable toxicities when introduced to living things.

Cryonic scientists have to contend with reviving a long-dead body as well as fix nigh-irreversible tissue damage from both cellular starvation and injection of toxins. Even if a cryogen-ically frozen person can be revived, there’s no tell-ing what might have hap-pened to their organs, least of all what could be wrong with their oxygen-deprived brain. The bottom line is the technology to revive human beings is nowhere

near ready to handle these kinds of complications.

This is by no means a rea-son to give up hope in the field of cryopreservation. One never knows when a major breakthrough will oc-cur, and perhaps this tech-nology will surface as early as tomorrow. However, I personally think a fam-ily placing their trust in a field which has few practi-cal applications may be an unhealthy way to grieve for their daughter.

Science is about making use of the knowledge at our

disposal, and the knowl-edge necessary to revive a cryonically frozen person just is not there. If we do achieve this in the future, what kind of world would the frozen person come back to? Everyone they know may be long gone. I ask the reader which is more preferable: Giving your loved one a life in a strange future and most likely never seeing them again, or moving on and ac-cepting the inevitable?

Death is both inevitable and tragic. A toddler’s life

ended by a brain tumor be-fore it could truly begin is a horrible injustice of nature, but it is unfortunately the reality of human mortality. Perhaps instead of holding out invalidated hope for a miracle of science to bring a loved one back to life, it’s best to honor their memory and move on. It’s not giv-ing up, and it’s certainly not pessimism; it’s simply ac-ceptance and pragmatism, and it’s how humans move forward.

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The West Virginia Uni-versity School of Music and Community Music Program will celebrate the holiday season with the University’s seasonal pre-sentation of “O Holy Night.”

The performance will take place at 2 p.m. Sun-day in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre located in WVU’s Creative Arts Center. The concert will feature WVU’s Women’s Choir, WVU’s Men’s Cho-rus, WVU’s Chamber Sing-ers and the West Virginia Community Choir, all un-der the direction of WVU Director of Choral Activi-ties, Kym Scott.

Prior to taking her posi-

tion at WVU, Scott, an Aus-tralia native, graduated from the Queensland Con-servatorium of Music in 1997 with a Bachelor of Mu-sic for Piano Performance.

“My experience work-ing with the WVU Choirs has been very rewarding. I enjoy working with a vari-ety of students from voice performance majors with a variety of students from voice performance ma-jors, to non-music ma-jors, to members of the Morgantown commu-nity,” Scott said. “ There is a place for everyone in the WVU Choral Program, and I very much enjoy the diversity within each ensemble.”

Junior mechanical en-gineering student, Sabrina Ridenour, is a third year so-

prano in the WVU Cham-ber Choir. Since joining the ensemble as a freshman, she has toured through the nation and performed alongside the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Rid-enour found a family in the choir, something she wasn’t expecting.

“Overall, WVU’s choral program is such a reward-ing experience for me, and WVU is very fortunate to have a director like Profes-sor Kym Scott, who has so much talent and passion to share with us,” Ridenour said.

The program will also feature special guests, in-cluding the Morgan-town Children’s Choir un-der the direction of Helen Comber. The Morgan-town Children’s Choir

is composed of the local youth of community ages 7 – 15.

The WVU choirs have been practicing for the event since early Octo-ber. Students and com-munity members alike take part in weekly re-hearsals in order to pre-pare for the event. Mem-bers must work together to perfect a uniform sound, insync with all musical sections.

“There is a great deal of potential within the choral department at WVU,” Scott said.

A selection of Christmas songs will be performed throughout the program making for a festive atmo-sphere. This includes fa-vorites such as ‘O Mag-num Mysterium,’ ‘Hodie’

and ‘Rise Up Shepherd and Follow.’

“We have a combi-nation of music. Some pieces are festive and fun, others are more reflec-tive. But all music aims to capture the magic of the holiday season,” Scott said.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased at the WVU Box Office and are priced at $10 for adults and $5 for children. Con-cessions at the event are $6 per person.

“There will be something for everyone at this con-cert,” Scott said. “The au-dience members will hear some new songs as well as many of their seasonal favorites.”

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Starting this weekend, when you “Make a Date with Delicious,” you won’t break the bank with this year’s weeklong Morgan-town Eats.

“The Culinary Crawl this year, is a kick off to the to the Morgantown Eats to Restaurant Week,” said Geah Pressgrove, the pro-fessor for the event plan-ning class that created Morgantown Eats.

Tomorrow will be the first day of Restaurant Week starting with the Culinary Crawl tours. For the crawl here will be two tours, and tickets are re-quired. This year for Res-taurant Week, restaurants are offering specials and deals all week long for ev-eryone. The best part of the week is that there are no tickets necessary. All you have to do is mention that you are there for res-taurant week to secure the deal.

“They are set up com-pletely different,” Press-grove said. “The culinary crawl lets you go into 10 different businesses, but you will just get bites of things. During Restau-rant Week there are actu-ally almost 20 businesses that are offering.”

During Restaurant Week, there will be 19 res-taurants offering different specials and sales. Busi-nesses such as Cafe Bac-chus, The Vintage Room, Tin 202 and The Mont-martre are offering spe-cial three-course menus at a discounted price.

Other places such as Sargasso, Sugar Bear’s Wall St. Grill and Moun-tain State Brewing Co. are offering simple 20 percent off everything.

Places like Yama and Soul Brothers are offer-ing a buy one get one or free desert with purchase, respectively.

Other businesses par-ticipating include Black Bear Burritos, Chico’s Fat, The Cupcakerie, Garcia’s Latin Market, High St. Pasta Co., Iron Horse Tav-ern, Morgantown Brewing Co., Table 9, T.K.’s Fruit, Produce & Bubble Tea and Zaytun.

“If you can’t go on the culinary crawl, definitely try to come out during Restaurant Week,” said Hannah Toney, a junior strategic communica-tions student at WVU. “I would say, because of the deals and the specials, pick a restaurant that you wouldn’t normally go to and try it because you don’t really have much to lose.”

The class this year has added an improved map. The map is interac-tive and mobile friendly. Now, you can see exactly where you are and land-marks around you. It is also color-coded and has pop-ups to tell you where parking is, price, time limit and a description of each restaurant. The map is available use year round.

“It’s a part of our com-munity. So it is a chance for these students to do something for a com-munity that they have been eating in, working in, whatever, and so they want to do things to sup-port their downtown,” Pressgrove said.

“They are excited and have a lot of pride to be able to give back to their community as part of this downtown West Virginia University. I have a whole list of restaurant that I would like to try, but you end up getting in a rut and going to the same places over and over again so this is the perfect op-portunity to try all those places,” Toney said. “Go to a couple this week. It is a great value, so you might as well take advantage of it.”

Restaurant Week be-gins tomorrow with the Culinary Crawl and con-tinues through Dec. 12.

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Bituminous Coal Institute paintings rediscovered

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One of the 10 famous 1940s paintings commis-sioned by the Bituminous Coal Institute is currently held at the Art Museum of West Virginia University.

“To Make Dream Homes Come True,” can be viewed in the museum’s opening exhibition, and will be the topic of conversation in art historian Dr. Eric Schru-ers’ presentation, “Rock-well Kent’s Lost Bituminous Coal Series Rediscovered.” The “Art Up Close!” event begins at 5:30 p.m. on Tues-day in the Museum Educa-tion Center Grand Hall.

The large oil painting was created by Rockwell Kent, an American painter, printmaker, illustrator and writer. A transcendentalist and mystic in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kent found most of his artistic in-spiration in the wilderness.

The Bituminous Coal In-stitute, along with the Ben-ton and Bowles Advertising Agency, asked the popular 20th century realist to create a series of paintings for ad-vertisements demonstrat-ing the promise of coal as the energy source for post-war America.

With each painting in the series depicting a scene showing the benefits deriv-ing from coal, Kent’s artwork was a glorification of the coal industry and the con-tributions it made to mod-ern civilization.

“Every work in the series is a unique image. Each fea-tures the ‘spirit’ of coal, re-ferred to as the ‘Coal Ge-nie,’ hovering over some aspect of American life that was seen as benefitting from the industry,” Schru-ers said. “There is nothing

comparable to the series in American art at that time. It’s essentially a blend of social realism and perhaps surrealism.”

In 1945, Kent painted “To Make Dream Homes Come True,” which was number six in the series, and pro-moted coal for home heat-ing. The masterpiece helped strengthen the reputation of the coal industry, appearing in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post.

In the painting, a fig-ure resembling an ancient Greek God holds a lump of black coal glowing with a whitish light. The coal in the figure’s hand illu-minates a future housing development.

After the series was com-pleted, each painting was donated to a university noted at the time for its min-eral industries programs. In 1948, WVU received “To Make Dream Homes Come

True,” although the painting was not always stationed in WVU’s campus.

Schruers is highly quali-fied in the field of art, cur-rently serving as temporary assistant professor of art his-tory at Fairmont State Uni-versity and also as instruc-tor of art history and gallery director of the Martha Gault Art Gallery at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

“I received my MA and Ph.D. from Penn State and have been teaching art his-tory at the university level since 1992,” Schruers said. “I have taught every period of Western Art from Prehis-toric to Contemporary, and many areas of World Art as well.”

Schruers is co-author of the book, “Wonders of Works and Labor: The Stei-dle Collection of American Industrial Art” and has pub-lished widely in the area of industrial art, particularly

in the relation of the coal industry.

“Art Up Close!” events present WVU faculty and guest artists from vari-ous disciplines discussing a single work of art, and is co-sponsored by the Art Museum of WVU and the Friends of the Museum, a membership group for peo-ple who enjoy the arts and social, educational and cul-tural activities revolving around art.

WVU students are en-couraged to attend the presentation and visit the museum to view the rich historical painting pertain-ing greatly to West Virginia.

A question-and-an-swer session and light re-freshments will follow the presentation.

For more information, contact the Art Museum of WVU at (304) 292-4359.

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wvutoday.wvu.edu‘To Make Dream Homes Come True’ is a painting from a series commissioned by The Bituminous Coal Institute to sell America on the benefits of coal.

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WVU, how prepared are you for finals?

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With finals week fast ap-proaching and an ever shortening dead week, stu-dents are beginning to feel the all-too-familiar pressure of final exams.

Finals are often the make-or-break point for a stu-dent’s grade in a class. Per-form well and a high GPA awaits. Perform poorly and maybe working for under-the-table pay at your uncle’s used car dealership isn’t so unattractive anymore.

Yesterday 100 students in the Mountainlair were polled on how prepared they felt in regard to their upcoming final exams. They were given three options to choose from: very pre-pared, somewhat prepared and “Oh God, Jesus take the wheel’. The last option is a tongue-in-cheek way of signifying that they were terrified, unprepared and possibly in need of some supernatural intervention to save their delicate grade point average.

By just the slightest mar-gin “Oh God, Jesus take the wheel” was the most pop-

ular option with 46 percent of the responses. This is to be expected as many stu-dents still have some lin-gering papers and projects to finish up before the true final reviews begin next week.

Second place by only two percentage points was the “somewhat prepared” op-tion with 44 percent of the responses. Students either chose this option because they felt confident about some classes but not others, or because they have begun studying for every class’s fi-nal but haven’t gotten too in depth with the reviews yet.

Only 10 percent of stu-dents polled said they were very confident about their final exams. A few were self-confessed prepara-tion freaks who have begun studying well in advance of their peers. Others had only one or two finals to worry about.

How are you feeling about your upcoming fi-nals? Tweet us at @dailyath-enaeum and let us know.

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Kanye West gives rambling shoe event speech NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye

West skipped the red car-pet at a footwear indus-try event where his Adidas Yeezy Boost was honored as shoe of the year. Instead, he stood just feet away from waiting media, sipping a drink and chatting before he slipped into the cere-mony crowd nearby.

When it came time to collect his statue Wednes-day night at the Foot-wear News Achievement Awards, he gave a ram-bling, 20-minute speech that was good as gold.

Some highlights:---“I completely, you know,

have absolutely no plans for what I’m going to say. This could land completely wrong, but it doesn’t really (bleeping) matter, does it? ... You can go to the bathroom.”

“Basically as I talk, it’s just a mood board. That’s my new style of speeches. It’s very unorthodox. It’s vibes, you know. You guys are designers. You know how to put it all together at the end of the night. Or you feel free to just talk (bleep). It’s good to have someone to talk (bleep) about. Ev-erybody’s so, like, I just don’t want people to talk (bleep) about me. I don’t give a (bleep), you know.”

“As a creative, it doesn’t matter how big the house is, how big your name is,

how much money you have, your job is to cre-ate while you’re here, and if anyone is in the way of that, if anything gets in the way of that, if anything is stopping that or slowing it down, you’ve got to burn it to the (bleeping) ground. You have to die. This is me talking to you. I’m not giv-ing you any suggestions. You have to die for what is in you because that thing might inspire someone.”

“The (Adidas) contract said 25 (pieces) in the clothing collection. I was supposed to do a fash-ion show with 25 SKUs - I don’t know how that was supposed to happen. And

the original talent bud-get was $500,000 - I don’t know how I was supposed to put a design team to-gether for that, but luckily I was a multimillionaire rap-per and I covered the rest of it. ... Hooked you guys up, you know.”

“When I was at Fendi ... we’d visit Stockholm, you know, on the weekends. That was in my single days. It was fun. ... My exile (after cutting off Taylor Swift on stage) was pretty fun. You know, what does Kanye do when he pisses every white person off on the planet? He goes to Stockholm and dances with more white people!”

“I look at you guys and think, like, raise your hand if you got a private plane. Don’t be embar-rassed. There’s definitely some people with some private planes tonight. ... We’re here to make amaz-ing product that we love that also sells, that makes money. We really like nice things. ... I want a house equal or better than Cal-vin Klein’s house in the Hamptons.”

“I’m trying to take it full ‘Will Ferrell level drunk brother at the wedding’ level. Have I reached that level yet? Have I (bleeped) it up? Good. Here’s to (bleeping) everything up!”

huffingtonPost.comKanye West gave an off-the-hip speech at a shoe event.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Hitch-cock/Truffaut,” one of the most essential books about moviemaking and a his-toric tete-a-tete between two of the greatest filmmakers (one a Hollywood veteran, the other a rising star of the French New Wave), began with a letter.

“There are many directors with a love of cinema, but what you possess is a love of celluloid itself and it is that which I would like to talk to you about,” Francois Truffaut wrote to Alfred Hitchcock.

What followed was a week of interviews in a windowless Hollywood office that culmi-nated in 27 hours of record-ings in which Truffaut dis-cussed Hitchcock’s artistry, film by film. The new docu-mentary “Hitchcock/Truf-faut” by critic, filmmaker and New York Film Festival head Kent Jones, is about that ex-traordinary meeting and its long reverberations through cinema.

“It was the birth of an idea of cinema and film culture as a world unto itself,” says Jones.

It also had really cool pic-tures. Shot-by-shot photo montages of scenes, like the infamous shower stabbing of “Psycho,” were what first cap-tivated Jones as an already movie-crazy 12 year-old. He was far from alone. The book, published in 1966, four years after the interviews, is roundly considered a kind of bible for cinephiles and film-makers, alike. In the film, David Fincher (who is cur-rently remaking Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train”) re-calls pouring over the images as a kid. Martin Scorsese de-scribes the book’s celebration of Hitchcock as “like a weight taken off our shoulders.”

“It conclusively changed people’s opinions about Hitchcock,” says Peter Bog-danovich in the film. “Hitch-cock began to be taken much more seriously.”

Though Hitchcock is now among the most revered di-rectors ever (his “Vertigo,” ini-tially received coldly by crit-ics, currently ranks as the top film of all time in Sight & Sound’s poll), Truffaut’s book was the first full apprecia-tion of his genius. A post-war cultural exchange between Hollywood and France (the birthplace of cinema) was then stoking a new appraisal of studio films and film-makers. Led by the Cahiers du Cinema (for which Truf-faut wrote before becoming a filmmaker), French critics

saw directors -- good ones, at least -- as the authors of their films, even when work-ing within the confines of the 1940s and ‘50s studio system.

For Jones, “Hitchcock/Truffaut” was ultimately about the emergence of film as its own cultural realm, not in comparison to litera-ture or anything else. In the conversation of two titans of filmmaking -- each from wildly different backgrounds, speaking through a transla-tor but united by a com-mon obsession -- lie many of the things that makes mov-ies movies: how shots ed-ited together make a scene; how space is used; how ob-jects take on a hyper, dream-like significance; what Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman can do together.

“It’s the sensuality and the tactility and the danger and the ecstasy and the moder-nity all at once,” says Jones. “That’s cinema.”

Jones’ passion for the book, and the conversation it began, is easily apparent. The film, too, continues the conversation, with filmmak-ers like Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson still teas-ing out the craftsmanship of Hitchcock.

It’s easy to see the book (Truffaut called it a “livre-film” or his “Hitchbook”) as a bridge between two eras of movies: Hitchcock’s classical period, with its careful com-positions and classical per-formances; and the coming shift of more brazenly per-sonal filmmaking and act-ing, and self-consciously ar-tistic movies.

“Hitchcock/Truffaut” connects those eras, not so much marking the distance between them than their commonality of pursuit. The book was a sizable event in the lives of its two partici-pants, too. Initially planning to do it in a few months, Truf-faut spent nearly four years on it, effectively pausing a red-hot career kicked off by “The 400 Blows,” ‘’Shoot the Pianist” and “Jules and Jim.” Hitchcock, who would go on to make a handful more films, remained friends with Truffaut. The two wrote fre-quently afterward, often ex-changing ideas on various projects.

Hitchcock was touched by Truffaut’s interest from the start. “Your letter brought tears to my eyes,” he re-sponded to Truffaut’s invi-tation, “and I am very grate-ful to receive such a tribute from you.”

Book shows interaction between

two movie greats

theguarDian.com‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’ outlines the relationship between two great movie-makers.

Nielsen data shows phones are killing television LOS ANGELES (AP) —

The use of Internet-ready devices like smartphones appears to have seriously cut into the time Ameri-cans spend watching tra-ditional TV, new Nielsen data show, potentially un-dermining the notion that mobile devices merely serve as “second screens” while people are plopped in front of the set.

Data provided to The Associated Press show an increase in the number of 18-to-34-year-olds who used a smartphone, tab-let or TV-connected de-vice like a streaming box or game console. That grew 26 percent in May com-pared with a year earlier, to an average of 8.5 million people per minute.

Those devices, which all showed gains in us-age, more than offset de-clines in traditional TV, ra-dio and computers. In the same age group, the demo-graphic most highly cov-eted by advertisers, use of those devices fell 8 per-cent over the same period to a combined 16.6 million people per minute.

It’s not a one-to-one tradeoff, though. Some-times people are using smartphones while watch-ing TV, or using them out-side the home where it wouldn’t cut into TV time. In addition, some mobile device use is, well, to watch TV shows.

Nielsen’s inaugural “Comparable Metrics” re-port for the first time pres-ents data on average use per minute, making it pos-

sible to directly compare various devices. The study counts all apps, Web surf-ing and game play but not texts or calling.

The results confirm a trend in other Nielsen data that found viewing of tra-ditional TV - through a ca-ble or satellite connection or an antenna - peaked in the 2009-10 season.

“It’s pretty clear the in-creased use of mobile de-vices is having some ef-fect on the system as a whole,” said Glenn Enoch, Nielsen’s senior vice pres-ident of audience insights.

The audience for TV viewing alone fell by 10 percent, to 8.4 mil-

lion people a minute, in the 18-to-34-year-old category.

The new Nielsen data also looks at time spent watching video on various devices, but not for TV-connected devices, where users were clocked playing games as well.

However, even exclud-ing TV-connected devices, the shift in video watch-ing away from the TV is pronounced.

For the young group, viewing on TVs fell 10 minutes to an average of 5 hours and 43 minutes a day. That’s more than com-pensated for the 33-minute gain in viewing video on

computers, smartphones and tablets, which rose to 3 hours and 43 minutes.

Since Nielsen inaugu-rated its tracking service in 1949, average daily TV viewing has grown steadily, from 4 hours and 35 min-utes a day to a peak of 8 hours and 55 minutes in 2009-10. That increase co-incided with growing num-bers of TV sets sold and the proliferation of program-ming on cable channels.

But viewership has been declining ever since. From late September until mid-November this year, daily TV watching accounted for only 8 hours and 13 min-utes, Nielsen said.

Playbuzz.comData suggests that our smartphones may be aiding in the decline of cable television.

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Pixar shows under ‘Cars’ hood LOS ANGELES (AP) —

Pixar is unlocking exactly how Lightning McQueen runs in a new museum exhibit.

The animation studio is showing off what’s under-neath the “Cars” character’s metal body at the newly overhauled Petersen Auto-motive Museum.

The exhibit features a life-size version of Lightning McQueen, original art by “Cars” production designer Bob Pauley and several dis-plays with real-world ren-ditions of the character’s engine, suspension and other running parts. Pixar

teamed with the Pe-

tersen to create its first mu-seum exhibit to teach fami-lies about the interworking of automobiles.

How will children feel about seeing a dissected rendition of the beloved animated race car voiced by Owen Wilson?

“It was tricky,” said Jay Ward, creative director of the “Cars” franchise. “We were very careful about not showing a cut-away of McQueen. For all the parts, we’re only showing vignettes. We didn’t want the character’s head open or anything like that. It is a living character who hap-

pens to be a car, but when you watch the films and these characters fly through the air, all that stuff is un-der there.”

Ward said the creators at Pixar wanted to plot an exhibit that was both edu-cational and fun but didn’t feel like a rehash of the “Cars”-themed land at Dis-ney’s California Adventure theme park in Anaheim, California.

“I didn’t want this space to feel like a preschool,” said Ward during a Thurs-day preview. “I didn’t want it to feel like a place where you would just drop your kids off. I wanted it to be

place where the whole family

can engage. We came

up with some-

thing where you can hope-fully walk away from it and feel like you learned how your car runs.”

The exhibit also includes an augmented reality ex-perience voiced by “Cars” actors that drives visitors through the second floor of the museum, which features exhibits on motorcycles, hot rods and alternative power.

Besides the “Cars” injec-tion, the Petersen under-went a $90 million make-over that added a new floor of exhibition space, steel ribbon exterior and an up-scale restaurant, as well as several “Forza MotorSport 6” driving simulator stations and vehicles featured in films and TV shows, such as rides from “Batman,” ‘’Spec-tre” and “Magnum P.I.”

The updated Petersen Automotive Museum re-opens to the public Dec. 7.

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5 essential film books NEW YORK (AP) — The

new documentary “Hitch-cock/Truffaut” delves into one of the most beloved movie books there is. Few match the conversations between Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut, but there are others, from in-terview-based books like “This Is Orson Welles” by Peter Bogdanovich, to great biographies like Elia Kazan’s “A Life.” And there are more being writ-ten all the time, like last year’s “Five Came Back,” an account of post-World War II Hollywood by Mark Harris.

Here are five others that should find a place on any cinephile’s bookshelf:

- “Making Movies,” Sidney Lumet. The great New York filmmaker goes through how he makes movies with the same straight-forward clarity as his films. Nuts and bolts from a master.

- “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies,” Manny Farber. Some might prefer a col-lection of another critic, say Pauline Kael or An-drew Sarris. There are many vital ones, but Far-ber remains foundational, especially when it comes to his fondness for what he called “termite art.”

- “Easy Riders, Rag-ing Bulls,” Peter Biskind.

Among the many colorful histories of Hollywood, few match Biskind’s tales of the wildness, on screen and off, of the ‘70s.

- “A Biographical Dic-tionary of Film,” David Thomson. First published in 1975 but frequently up-dated since, Thomson’s is a singular attempt to ap-praise each significant di-rector and star of movie history. Though it’s alpha-betized like a dictionary, it’s no simple reference book. Thomson’s defi-nitions are his own: pro-vocative, thoughtful and distinct.

- “Film Noir: An Ency-clopedic Reference to the American Style,” Alain Sil-ver and Elizabeth Ward. This is a straight-ahead reference book, but it’s one of the most exhaus-tive and beautiful: the only way to hold the great-est movie genre right in your hands.

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Shell-shocked smuggler pleads guilty ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)

— A Canadian man caught at a border crossing with 51 turtles taped to his body pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling or attempt-ing to smuggle more than 1,000 of the reptiles out of southeastern Michigan.

Kai Xu, 27, would order turtles online and travel to the U.S. to pick them up and then ship them to China or return with them to Ontario, Can-ada. He pleaded guilty to six crimes in federal court in Ann Arbor and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

It’s illegal to export wild-life from the U.S. with-out a permit from the government.

Xu “regularly deals in turtle shipments worth $30,000, $80,000 or $125,000,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward said in a court filing. “In China, the turtles he smug-gles are worth two to three times the amount he pays here.”

Defense attorney Matt Borgula declined to com-

ment after the guilty plea.Xu has been in custody

since his arrest in subur-ban Detroit in September 2014. He describes himself as an engineering student at the University of Water-loo in Waterloo, Ontario, although the university said he wasn’t enrolled at the time of his arrest.

In summer 2014, weeks before his arrest, Xu was under surveillance in De-troit. After picking up a box at a United Parcel Service

site, he hid behind trucks and emerged with “irreg-ularly shaped bulges” un-der his sweat pants, wild-life agent Ken Adams said.

Xu returned to Ontario but was stopped by Ca-nadian border authorities who found 51 live turtles in plastic taped to his legs, including box turtles and terrapins.

Despite the bust, “he did not cease smuggling tur-tles. He did not even slow down,” Woodward said.

huffingtonpost.comA turtle smuggler has plead guilty.

An un-bearable situation in Denmark COPENHAGEN, Denmark

(AP) — A man jumped inside a polar bear pit Wednesday at the Copen-hagen Zoo, forcing zoo-keepers to fire rubber bullets at the 621-kilo-gram (1,369-pound) bear so they could rescue him.

The man leaped into the enclosure shortly af-ter noon as guests, in-cluding children, were watching the 10-year-old bear.

Zoo staffers at first yelled to distract the an-imal from his potential prey before others with firearms arrived, firing rubber bullets to get the huge animal to back off. Once the bear returned to its cage, zoo employees entered the enclosure to rescue the intruder.

“He walked up to the male bear of his own free will” but was able to get away with “only super-ficial wounds,” said park manager Steffen Straede, who was visibly upset at the incident.

The man, reportedly in his twenties, was not iden-

tified and his motive for entering the enclosure was unclear. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.

The zoo has no plans to make any changes to the enclosures following Wednesday’s incident, Straede added.

In July 2012, Siberian tigers fatally mauled a

21-year-old Afghan-born man inside an enclosure at the same zoo. The Co-penhagen Zoo also made international headlines last year when it killed a giraffe for inbreeding reasons, then dissected it and fed it to lions in front of visitors, including children.

hngn.comA man was rescued after jumping inside a polar bear pit at the Copenhagen Zoo.

Scientists convene to discuss ethics, implications of genetic engineering WASHINGTON (AP) — A

tool to edit human genes is nowhere near ready to use for pregnancy - but altering early embryos as part of care-ful laboratory research should be allowed as scientists and society continue to grapple with the ethical questions surrounding this revolution-ary technology, organizers of an international summit con-cluded Thursday.

“It would be irresponsible” to edit human sperm, eggs or early embryos in a way that leads to pregnancy, said No-

bel laureate David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology, who chaired the summit.

Tools to precisely edit genes inside living cells, espe-cially a cheap and easy-to-use one called CRISP-Cas9, are transforming biology - and potential treatments created by them promise to do such things as cure sickle-cell ane-mia or fight HIV and cancer.

But depending on how it’s used, it also could alter hu-man heredity - maybe cre-ate “designer babies” - rais-

ing ethical questions that triggered three days of de-bate by scientists, policy-makers and ethicists from 20 countries. This so-called germline editing - manip-ulating sperm, eggs or early embryos - wouldn’t affect just one sick person but his or her descendants.

The question gained ur-gency after Chinese research-ers made the first attempt to alter genes in human em-bryos, an experiment that showed scientists don’t yet know how to do that safely

and effectively.The summit’s organiz-

ers endorsed treatment-re-lated gene editing research, and said lab research on germline issues “is clearly needed and should pro-ceed” with appropriate over-sight as international debate continues.

The panel offered what geneticist Eric Lander of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard called “a framework for deciding if and when” the reproductive use of gene edit-ing ever moves forward.

“As scientific knowl-edge advances and soci-etal views evolve, the clini-cal use of germline editing should be revisited on a reg-ular basis,” the commit-tee concluded. It urged the sponsors of this week’s sum-mit - the scientific acade-mies of the U.S., Britain and China - to create an interna-tional forum to help “establish norms concerning accept-able uses of human germline editing.”

Here are some takeaways from the high-profile summit:

REAL-WORLD USE OF ANY KIND IS YEARS AWAY

First-step testing of an ini-tial gene editing therapy, us-ing older tools, has begun in people.

Sangamo Biosciences is developing an HIV treatment - pulling immune cells from patients’ blood, editing a gene that boosts resistance to the virus, and returning those cells. So far, 80 HIV patients have received the therapy in first-stage testing, with good results so far, said Sangamo senior scientist Fyodor Urnov.

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ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH look closely at the num-bers. Find sweet deals, with Venus in Scorpio for the next month. In-crease your assets. Budget for holi-day expenditures, and get creative to keep it. Travel could get complicated.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH There’s more work than one person can handle alone. Get creative today and tomorrow to manage it ... there’s no time for fuss-ing. collaboration is key this next month, with Venus in Scorpio. love grows with shared commitment.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH Play music to maintain harmony. an intense professional phase begins, with more fun (and profits) over the next month, with Venus in Scorpio. Practice your game, especially today and tomorrow. Find the romance.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Get busy at home today and tomor-row. Decorate and beautify. create delicious aromas. keep secrets and whip up surprises. This month re-veals sensual pleasures, with Venus in Scorpio. love and recreation com-bine for sizzle. Savor each other.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Make your home into a cozy love nest this month. Domestic pleasures

especially satisfy, with Venus in Scor-pio. Try new recipes. Research, net-work and share over the next two days. create works of beauty and ex-quisite flavor.

V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH learn voraciously for about four weeks, with Venus in Scorpio. Study with passion. Re-search, write and share your discov-eries. The next two days can get es-pecially lucrative. keep deadlines, and provide satisfying results. Tap new revenues.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HH Take charge. You have extra energy and confidence today and tomorrow. With Venus in Scorpio over the next

month, enjoy an especially lucrative phase. Track cash flow to increase it. Make bold promises and keep them.

S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Savor peace and quiet to-day and tomorrow. Productivity be-hind closed doors completes a proj-ect. With Venus entering your sign for the next month, your personal charms flower. Refine your image or style. Beautify your brand. Pamper yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH Enjoy parties and gather-ings today and tomorrow. Team-work goes far. Pass along what you’re learning. Expect inner growth over the next month, with Venus in Scor-

pio. nurture your spirit with com-forting rituals and peaceful reverie.

c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Focus on professional pri-orities today and tomorrow. Do your best, and a status rise is possible. For the next month, with Venus in Scor-pio, you play especially well with others. Your popularity is growing. create beautiful works together.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH new career opportunities appear over the next month, with Venus in Scorpio. Take on more responsibil-ity. Personal effort gets results. Trav-els and research have your attention. Investigate further before investing heavily. Plan your itinerary carefully.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Expand your territory. Balance trav-els with career developments over the next month with Venus in Scor-pio. Extra focus on financial manage-ment today and tomorrow supports your professional plans. chart your course for increased fun and profits.

BORN TODAY Persistence for personal goals reaps abundant har-vest this year. a new home phase begins. a team effort changes di-rection after . Evolve into social ex-pansion. Your crew needs you but so does family, especially after. Ex-press your love,

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After its smashing success in the Las Vegas Invitational, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team is back home for the first time in nearly two weeks, as the Mountaineers attempt to continue their undefeated start at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow against the 2-7 Kennesaw State Owls.

The No. 20 Mountaineers (6-0) knocked off Richmond and San Diego State out west, winning the tournament fi-nal against the Aztecs 72-50 last Friday behind a smoth-ering defensive effort.

But while West Virginia stepped up and knocked

off the best competition it’s faced this season, head coach Bob Huggins can’t help but look back to the last time his squad played at home, a 97-44 win over Bet-hune-Cookman on Nov. 23.

“We have to keep win-ning,” Huggins said. “They’ve tried to get better. My frus-tration with them in the Bet-hune-Cookman game was that they were just out there. We weren’t really working at our craft, and we’ve got so much more upside. We’ve got to continue to work hard at it, and this gives us an op-portunity to do that.”

With all the talk of work-ing on their craft and im-proving themselves, one could easily see the Ken-nesaw State game as a tune-

up for Tuesday’s bigger test against Virginia at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

West Virginia’s players and coaches got a glimpse of this team’s full potential in their rout of a strong San Diego State team, and after getting more than a week of rest after returning from Las Vegas, the team’s focus is on sustaining that effort.

“We saw what the team can be like when we actu-ally come together and fo-cus,” said junior center Devin Williams. “That’s what we’re trying to get every day. We’re going to get it as the games pick up.”

Williams has been the center of West Virginia’s world as the team has raced

off to a 6-0 start, beginning his season with five straight double-doubles, and miss-ing a sixth by only a single rebound against San Diego State. Williams was the first Mountaineer to pull that feat to start a season since Rod Thorn in 1960, and he looks to have established himself as one of the top big men in the Big 12 Conference.

If Williams wants to start another double-double streak, he’ll have a great op-portunity against Kennesaw State, a team that lacks a big man with the size to match the 6-foot-9, 255-pound junior.

The second member of the Atlantic Sun Conference that WVU has faced in its non-conference slate – the

Mountaineers dispatched Stetson by 41 points on Nov. 20 – Kennesaw State has faced several power confer-ence opponents in its 2-7 start to the season.

The Owls began their sea-son with losses to SEC op-ponents Alabama and LSU, with Tigers freshman phe-nom Ben Simmons putting up 22 points and 9 rebounds in the latter game. Three days later, Kennesaw State lost to the Pac-12’s Arizona State by 38 points – KSU has gone 2-4 since, with its only wins coming over IUPUI and on Wednesday against Florida A&M.

It’s been a rough start for new head coach Al Skinner, who came to Kennesaw with a strong resumé. The 2001

National Coach of the Year, Skinner is the winningest head coach in Boston Col-lege history, and guided the Eagles to seven NCAA Tour-nament appearances and the 2001 Big East Tourna-ment title. Kennesaw State is Skinner’s first head job since he was fired by Boston Col-lege in 2010.

Now, Skinner takes over a Kennesaw program that has won just 19 games in the past three years combined. Bob Huggins is no stranger to Skinner’s teams, having coached against him many times in the Big East, and he’ll look to get on the upper hand of this reunion at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow.

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Junior forward Devin Williams dribbles past a Stetson defender in last week’s game.

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The West Virginia Uni-versity football team looks to finish its regular sea-son with a win over Kan-sas State. The Mountain-eers have never beaten the Wildcats since joining the conference; with this goal in mind, they are also look-ing to finish with the best record West Virginia’s had in the Big 12.

Kansas State comes into the matchup with a 5-6 re-cord, 2-6 in the overall and a series lead of 4-1. The losses include some close games like the 36-34 loss to Oklahoma State in Still-water in October. The Cow-boys are averaging 357 passing yards per game, seemingly went off against

the Wildcats completing 441 yards in the air, but K-State hung in the game un-til the end finishing with 207 itself over its 174 sea-son average. Oklahoma State ran away with the win in the end, kicking a 37-yard field goal with 32 sec-onds left, and that’s not the only team K-State has kept up with. The Wildcats took on TCU while they were posting 50 points per game and also blowing every team out for the exception of Texas Tech, and scored 45 points themselves.

Along with the close losses though remains the 55-0 dismantling from Oklahoma immediately following that TCU game. Needless to say, this Kansas State team is one to be pre-pared for and head coach Dana Holgorsen knows it

might not be an easy win for the taking.

“When you put on the video, it still looks like a very competitive football team,” Holgorsen said. “They had Oklahoma State beat at Oklahoma State, they had TCU beat. They were up 10 late in the game, and they didn’t quite get that fin-ished. The guys play hard, the guys care, they will be playing as well as they have all year this Saturday.”

West Virginia needs win number eight to have the most successful sea-son thus far in the Big 12. The 20 seniors who finish their season this weekend and eventually in a bowl game in a few weeks have a dream to not only achieve that for themselves but for the team as well.

Senior tight end Cody

Clay said accomplishing the eighth win, instead of finishing at 7-4, is some-thing they have been pre-paring for since the middle of the season.

“Say it out loud and you can tell the difference be-tween the two,” Clay said. “The seniors met with Dana earlier in the season and our goal was to win out. We wanted to leave West Vir-ginia football a better place than we found it as a senior class.”

K-State’s junior quarter-back Joe Hubener is aver-aging 159.3 passing yards per game and running the ball about 55 yards per game himself, contribut-ing to the teams 170 rush-ing yards per game. Taking on the fourth best defense in the Big 12 in West Vir-ginia, Hubener is going to

have a task on his hands as well.

WVU ranks third na-tionally in interceptions with 21, No. 15 nationally in third down defense, No. 3 in turnovers gained and No. 11 in turnover margin. In the last four games alone the defense has forced 13 turnovers and scored 48 points off of those turn-overs gained. After fac-ing Kansas two weeks ago and takings its first Big 12 shutout, and holding Iowa State to 93 rushing yards last weekend, which is the seventh time in the last two years a WVU defense has held its opponent to under 100 yards, this defense is talented and strong enough to win out.

Holgorsen as well as other coaches mentioned the discipline at Kansas

State and how the Wildcats have always been that kind of team. With the tough sea-son West Virginia had, in-cluding four straight losses in October, taking on this team is a challenge to cap it all off. The Mountaineers have definitely bounced back from the negative talks last month and come away from those losses.

“Everybody just comes to work every day,” said senior corner back Terrell Chestnut. “We have a lot of people that have played a lot of ball here. Everyone has been honed in on tech-niques, and coaches have really been harping on us about it. It’s really about preparation and going out there and executing.”

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West Virginia looks to finish 8-4 record on the road at Kansas State

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Let’s get ready for class.Here’s what you need to do for spring semester.4 STEPS TO GET READYFOR SPRING SEMESTER.1. Check MIX for your account balance.

2. Double check any expected fi nancial aid awards.

3. Have any questions or concerns? We’re here to help. Call us at (304) 293-4006 or email us at [email protected].

4. Pay your account balance in full by December 18, 2015.

Need a monthly payment plan? We can help with that! You can enroll through TuitionPay at https://tuitionpaymentplan.com/wvu.

We want you to be ready when classes start in January. So if you have questions regarding your account balance, or need assistance in paying your balance, please call us at (304) 293-4006.

You can also visit the Mountaineer Hub at Evansdale Crossing: your connection to the offi ces of Registrar, Financial Aid, Scholarships, Student Employment, and Student Accounts.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY ALEC GEARTYSPORTS WRITER

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The West Virginia wom-en’s basketball team will attempt to continue its home-court dominance on Sunday, as the team wel-comes the Fairleigh Dick-inson Knights to the WVU Coliseum.

The Mountaineers are coming off a historic win against Morehead State that saw head coach Mike Carey become the all-time wins leader at WVU and Bria Holmes move into ninth place on WVU’s all-time scoring list.

Fairleigh Dickinson holds a record of 1-4 go-ing into Friday, its most recent win coming against Grand Canyon at the Na-ismith Memorial Hall of Fame Challenge, a tour-nament the Mountaineers also competed in.

Much like Morehead State, the Knights’ scoring primarily relies on its two star players. Senior Kelsey Cruz leads the Knights in scoring with 19.6 points per game, which ranks her inside the NCAA top 50.

Along with Cruz, red-shirt senior Erika Liver-more is the only other Knight who averages dou-

ble-digit scoring with 14.4 points per game.

It appears that the same approach the Mountain-eers took against More-head State will be in place on Sunday. However, Carey reiterated his fear of falling into holes early on.

“The problem is when we play a good team, we’re not going to come back,” Carey told wvusports.com. “We’re not going to turn it on and off, because we’ll be so far behind.”

While Holmes and other veteran players have led the team thus far in the season, it appears the freshmen and newcomers

finally understand what their coach expects from them.

Freshman Olivia Seggie, who joined the team as a walk-on, is establishing herself as one of the team’s top playmakers. The Mor-gantown native recorded a career-high nine assists against Morehead State, which was the ninth-most by a WVU freshman in a game, and ranks ninth in assists in the Big 12.

“I can remember one play, she dove on the floor and saved the ball. We tipped it out and scored on the other end,” Carey said. “She makes those plays,

and that’s why she’s on the floor.”

Early in the season, WVU is showing it will be hard for an opponent to rattle the team on its home court. The Mountaineers average 89.0 points at WVU Coliseum, while their op-ponents are held to an av-erage of 51.3 points.

Th e Mou nt a i n e e r s hold a 2-0 all-time record against Fairleigh Dickin-son. Their most recent win came last season, where Holmes led with 25 points and Lanay Montgomery had a then-career-high eight-rebound perfor-mance, which helped ig-

nite her dominant play from there on.

Sunday’s tip-off will be at 4 p.m., and fans who bring a new, unwrapped toy to the game will re-ceive a free ticket to a fu-ture game.

WVU has only a hand-ful of games before Big 12 conference play begins, so the remaining non-confer-ence matchups down this stretch will serve as tune-up for what could be a dog-fight to the end.

“They think they can just show up,” Carey said. “We have a lot of work to do.”

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After a two-week hiatus, the West Virginia Univer-sity wrestling team is back in action.

The Mountaineers head to Las Vegas, Nevada to-day for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. West Virginia will be one of 40 schools participating in the Invitational.

Head coach Sammie Henson acknowledged that the Mountaineers will be facing off against some of the best teams in the country.

“At this Las Vegas Invita-tional you have a collective group of teams from differ-ent conferences that are really tough,” Henson said. “I’ve been to this tourna-ment every year when I’ve coached and every year it’s pretty solid, but this year it seems like everyone is coming back. We have a lot of quality teams this year

that are going to challenge us.”

That stiff competition includes No. 3 Ohio State, No. 6 Virginia Tech and No. 7 Oklahoma.

West Virginia opened the season ranked No. 21 in the National Wrestling Coaches Association Poll. After sweeping the Moun-taineer Quad, the Moun-taineers moved up to No. 19, but two losses at the Northeast Duals dropped them to No. 24 in the lat-est poll.

Henson made it clear that these rankings are not of any concern, but that West Virginia has “some work to do.”

“I don’t worry about those rankings. For me it’s more about the NCAA Tournament. The rank-ings are just rankings until the end of the year,” Hen-son said. “The schedule we have (is difficult); Vegas is going to be real tough, Southern Scuffle isn’t go-ing to be any easier, Lock

Haven between that. Our schedule is set up for us to be prepared for the end of the year.”

Henson has a point. Each of the three previous events was against more than one opponent. While it provides the Mountain-eers with a challenge, it can be exhausting. How-ever, from Jan. 15 until the end of the season, West Virginia faces a single op-ponent in all but one of their 10 events. The early tests could prove fruitful in the long run.

After three straight weekends of matches, the Mountaineers did not face any opponents on Thanks-giving weekend. Instead, they used that extra time to their advantage.

“We turned up the in-tensity a lot this week. We were here all break and every single one of us was going hard,” said se-nior Bubba Scheffel. “Sam-mie had us working on a lot of things that we strug-

gle with, things that we do well, and where we want to get better with.”

Scheffel stood out from the pack at the Joe Parisi Open on Nov. 21 by cap-turing the 184-pound ti-tle. West Virginia will need similar efforts on Friday to

climb the rankings again. “What we have to do is

just wrestle,” Henson said. “We’ve got to continue to believe and be consistent in what we do and have a short term memory. We’ll have some tough losses, but we’ll fight through

those losses and get better from them.”

WVU’s drive for consis-tency begins Friday morn-ing at 9 a.m., more than 2,000 miles away from Morgantown.

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West Virginia Univer-sity swimmers Nate Carr, Ross Glegg, Andrew Marsh and Jaimee Gillmore rep-resented the Mountaineers during the first day of com-petition at the AT&T USA Swimming Winter Nation-als, while three more Moun-taineers are set to com-pete in events during the weekend.

Junior men’s swim-mer Nate Carr opened for the Mountaineers in the 200-meter individual med-ley, competing in heat seven of 10 during the Thursday morning prelims. Carr fin-

ished 32nd overall with a time of 2:05.74, which was a few seconds off his 2:03.83 qualifying time. Carr will lead the Mountaineers at Winter Nationals, compet-ing in six events over the three-day meet.

WVU short-distance swimmers Ross Glegg, An-drew Marsh and Jaimee Gillmore all competed in the 50-meter freestyle event to conclude the Mountain-eers’ first day of preliminary round action. Gillmore rep-resented the women’s team as the only swimmer to make the trip and touched the wall in a time of 26.74 to finish sixth in the first heat of the women’s event. Gill-more placed 67th overall,

and fell short of qualifying for the final in her only race of the weekend.

Marsh placed sixth in his heat for the 50-meter with a time of 23.73. The senior from Bemus Point, New York finished 1.5 seconds behind Josh Schneider’s top time of 22.23. Glegg touched the wall in a time of 24.18 to tie for 94th overall and sev-enth in his heat. Marsh and Glegg will have a chance to reach the finals during the weekend, as the two are also set to compete on Friday and Saturday. Marsh will race four more times while Glegg will compete twice.

Senior men’s swimmers Jay Hickey and Max Spencer will have a chance to earn

Olympic qualifying times with strong swims in Fri-day and Saturday’s events. WVU coach Vic Riggs antic-ipates the weekend events to prepare the swimmers for competition in the Olympic Trials, and also the NCAA Championships later in the year.

“For Jaimee, Max, Jay, James and Ross, along with having to swim fast in pre-lims, this gives them an-other opportunity to earn an Olympic Trial qualify-ing time,” Riggs said. “For Andrew and Nate, it will be great for them having to swim fast in prelims to earn a second swim in the finals, which they will need to do at the Olympic Trials

and hopefully the NCAA Championships.”

Carr will again dive into the pool first for the Moun-taineers competing in the second day of events in Fed-eral Way, Washington. Carr is set to swim in the 400 in-dividual medley, 200 free-style and 100 backstroke on Friday. Along with Carr, Marsh and Glegg will also compete in the 200 free-style, which will be the fi-nal race of the weekend for Glegg. Marsh will swim in three events Friday, ending the second-day prelims in the men’s 100-meter back-stroke along with Carr.

Sophomore distance swimmer James Koval and senior Jay Hickey compete

Saturday in the final day of the AT&T USA Swimming Winter Nationals. Hickey and Carr will start the day off in the 200 backstroke, and Marsh and Glegg will follow up as competitors in the 100 freestyle. Max Spen-cer and Carr will swim in the 200 breaststroke prelim, and Koval will end the day competing in the 1,500 free-style for his only event of the weekend.

Prelims for Friday and Saturday’s events will com-mence at noon, while finals will be conducted at 9 p.m. at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As members of FIFA’s execu-tive committee prepared to vote on reforming soccer’s scandal-plagued govern-ing body, Swiss government agents swept into a luxury hotel before dawn for a sec-ond wave of arrests on cor-ruption charges in the wake of another sweeping indict-ment by U.S. prosecutors.

Five current and former members of FIFA’s ruling executive committee were among 16 additional men charged with bribes and kickbacks in a 92-count in-dictment unsealed Thursday that took down an entire gen-eration of soccer leaders in South America, a bedrock of FIFA and World Cup history.

“The betrayal of trust set forth here is truly outra-geous,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. “The scale of corruption alleged herein is unconscionable.”

Led away by Swiss fed-

eral police at Zurich’s Baur au Lac hotel were Juan An-gel Napout of Paraguay, pres-ident of the South American confederation (CONME-BOL), and Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, head of the North and Central American and Caribbean governing body (CONCACAF).

The arrests - at the same hotel where initial raid oc-curred in May - came just before FIFA’s executive com-mittee met to approve reform and transparency measures long resisted by soccer’s top leaders but ones that gained traction in the aftermath of the scandal.

Rafael Callejas, Honduras’ president from 1990-94, was indicted, as was Hector Tru-jillo, a judge on Guatemala’s Constitutional Court.

Also among those charged was Ricardo Teixeira, the president of Brazilian soc-cer from 1994-2012. Teix-eira is a former son-in-law of

Joao Havelange, who was FI-FA’s president from 1974-98. In addition, guilty pleas were unsealed for former CONCA-CAF President Jeffrey Webb and former executive com-mittee member Luis Bedoya.

The 236-page indictment was handed up by a grand jury in New York on Nov. 25.

Eleven current and for-mer members of FIFA’s exec-utive committee have been charged in the investiga-tion, which alleges hundreds of millions of dollars in ille-gal payments. The last three presidents of CONCACAF and CONMEBOL have been indicted.

“The message from this announcement should be clear to every culpable indi-vidual who remains in the shadows, hoping to evade this ongoing investigation: You will not wait us out and you will not escape our fo-cus,” Lynch said.

Fourteen men were

charged in May, when four additional guilty pleas were unsealed, with prosecu-tors alleging bribes involv-ing the media and marketing rights for the Copa America, the CONCACAF Gold Cup, World Cup qualifiers and other competitions. Eight more guilty pleas were un-sealed Thursday, including three by men indicted in May: Webb, marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco and Jose Margulies, described by pros-ecutors as an intermediary.

Webb, a Cayman Islands citizen who has been re-leased on bail and is largely restricted to his home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, pleaded guilty to racketeer-ing conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud conspiracy and three counts of money laun-dering conspiracy. He agreed to forfeit more than $6.7 million.

One woman pleaded guilty. Zorana Danis, co-

founder and owner of New Jersey-based International Soccer Marketing Inc., ad-mitted to wire fraud conspir-acy and filing false tax re-turns, and agreed to forfeit $2 million.

FIFA President Sepp Blat-ter, elected May 29 to a fifth term running through 2019, said June 2 he would leave of-fice when a successor is cho-sen. Blatter was provisionally suspended by FIFA on Oct. 8 for 90 days as part of a sep-arate investigation into a $2 million payment in 2011 to European soccer head Mi-chel Platini, who hoped to succeed him when FIFA’s 209 member nations vote Feb. 26. Blatter also is under Swiss criminal proceedings.

Blatter and Platini face lifetime bans from soccer at ethics hearings expected this month. Lynch would not re-spond directly to Blatter’s al-legation that the inquiry re-sulted from U.S. anger at

losing to Qatar when the ex-ecutive committee chose the 2022 World Cup host.

“I think he’s probably spending a lot of time read-ing through” the indict-ment, she said during a news conference.

The indictments list a who’s who of soccer executives.

“We still have a number of avenues under investigation,” Lynch said.

Among those charged were Marco Polo del Nero, a Brazilian who served on the executive committee from 2012 until last week; Rafael Salguero, a Guatemalan who left the executive committee in May; former South Amer-ican confederation secretary general Eduardo Deluca; for-mer Peru soccer federation president Manuel Burga; and current Bolivian soccer pres-ident Carlos Chaves, already jailed in his own country for embezzlement.

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) —The 10,500 athletes at next year’s Olympics will feel first-hand the deep bud-get cuts buffeting the Rio de Janeiro Games: they won’t have air condition-ing in their bedrooms un-less someone pays for it.

Charging for air con-ditioning is part of what games organizers call finding “fat” and cutting it.

Mario Andrada, spokes-man for the Rio Games, said in an interview that organizers have found up to 2 billion reals ($520 mil-lion) that needed to be cut as part of balancing the operating budget of 7.4 billion reals ($1.9 billion).

Asked specifically about the need for AC in the bed-rooms, Andrada replied: “We don’t think it’s going to be critical (to have air conditioning) there.”

Though the games take place in the South Amer-ican winter - Aug. 5-21, 2016 - it could still be hot. This year on Aug. 19 the temperature soared to 35.4 degrees C (95.7 degrees F).

Andrada said national federations might pay for some athletes, though it’s unclear if poorer feder-ations could handle the added costs.

Rio Olympic organizers are being hit by a deep re-cession, a steep fall in the value of the local currency against the dollar, and 10 percent inflation. There is also a spreading cor-ruption scandal involving state-run oil giant Petro-bras that has been part of triggering impeachment proceedings against Bra-zilian President Dilma Rousseff.

This wasn’t the mood in 2009 when Rio won the bid, setting off wild cele-brations on Copacabana beach.

“We are discussing with our partners, especially the IOC, what kind of lev-els of service we can re-duce,” Andrada said.

Rio officials say most of the cuts involve “be-hind-the-scenes” facil-ities, unseen on televi-sion or by ticket-paying customers. This could in-volve organizers buying cheaper products and ser-vices, reducing signage, or using more temporary structures.

“It (cutting) hasn’t been painful so far,” Andrada said. “It will be painful from now on because we need to finish the process.”

The games were to have 5,000 employees when they open in eight months. That’s been scaled back by 500.

“Some of them are going to be unhappy,” Andrada said. “That’s normal.”

The cuts will be wel-comed by those ask-ing why Brazil, with poor schools, under-funded hospitals and high taxes, has spent more than $20 billion to organize last year’s World Cup and the Olympics.

The image of thrift suits International Olym-

pic Committee President Thomas Bach, who has tried to change a percep-tion the games are too ex-pensive and benefit only a few.

In a reply to an email, the IOC congratulated or-ganizers “for working to-ward a balanced budget.”

The IOC contributes about $1.5 billion to the operating budget.

Fernando Meirelles, the famous Brazilian film-maker of “City of God” who is working on the open-ing ceremony, accepts the austerity.

“A country that doesn’t have basic sanitation can’t spend the fortune that was spent in London or Bei-jing,” he said.

Andrada said the cuts would not affect the sports themselves.

“As long as we don’t compromise the games, the quality of the compe-titions, the experience of the public - then we have to look for efficiencies,” he said.

The operating budget is for running the games themselves with income from the IOC, market-ing, tickets sales and local sponsorship sales.

A separate capital bud-get of about 39 billion reals ($10 billion), a mix of pub-lic and private money, is being used to build sports venues, roads and other fa-cilities needed to stage the games.

Andrada said a $700 mil-lion “contingency fund” backed by the federal gov-ernment in the original bid document could still be used as a bailout.

The IOC requires host countries to make up for any budget shortfalls.

“We haven’t been told that they (government) won’t put up the money,” Andrada said. “The $700 million is a commitment the government made in the contract, so it’s for the government to decide.”

Unrelated to budget cuts, Andrada said orga-nizers had yet to sign a contract with a private en-ergy company to supply electricity for the games, meaning that power may come only from temporary generators.

“We do have a concrete plan,” Andrada said. “The plan is being executed but we haven’t got the final so-lution for the problem.”

Andrada termed us-ing only generators the “B Plan” and said the respon-sibility to provide energy belonged to the national government.

The IOC said “we ex-pect the Brazilian organiz-ers to deliver” on energy provision.

Andrada acknowledged delays were tied to Brazil’s bureaucracy, particularly with the politics and cor-ruption scandals upstag-ing the Olympics.

“This is a problem that should have been fixed a while ago,” he said. “We will have energy. Don’t get scared.”

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