“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.” THE DAILY ATHENAEUM WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21, 2013 VOLUME 126, ISSUE 4 www.THEDAONLINE.com da Random violence could be result of boredom. OPINION PAGE 4 82° / 66° ISOLATED T-STORMS INSIDE News: 1, 2, 3 Opinion: 4 A&E: 3, 6 Sports: 7, 8, 10 Campus Connection: 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 After losing its two best defenders last season, the West Virginia women’s soccer team is looking to rebuild with a young, talented back line. SPORTS PAGE 7 LOOKING TO THE FUTURE ON THE INSIDE Fun, food and books were all featured at Bookholders Tues- day. A&E PAGE 6 BOOKAPALOOZA SGA maps out 2013-14 project goals BY LAURA HAIGHT CORRESPONDENT The Student Govern- ment Association has big plans for the 2013-14 aca- demic year, starting with a list of 60 projects to better the West Virginia Univer- sity campus. Student body president Ryan Campione and vice president, Ben Seebaugh, compiled a list of projects ranging from advocating college affordability to the funding of club sports. Campione used skills from an engineering class to build a computer pro- gram that creates an out- line of the projects SGA hopes to accomplish this year. The outline pulls in- formation from all over SGA to track progress. “This list has never been done in student govern- ment before,” Campione said. Campione said he thinks students should be aware of SGA’s doings. “You can always be on the same page as everyone else about what is going on in SGA and how we’re progressing.” Ashley Morgan, athletic councilor, is working with the Athletic Department on club sports funding and student involvement. “The major concern is students don’t know how to get involved, where to get involved, or what to do to get involved,” Mor- gan said. According to Morgan, SGA is compiling a list of club sports’ practice times on a website. Morgan is also attempt- ing to get Mountie Bounty into the stadiums, which would make concession purchases more conve- nient for students. During the SGA cam- paign last spring, students had the opportunity to voice what they thought WVU needs. Among these sugges- tions were transgender bathrooms and resource pamphlets for student organizations. These student opinions had a major impact on the project list. “Some of these proj- ects we never would have thought of had it not been for recommendations from students,” Campione said. Campione is looking for- ward to creating a coun- seling service for students who have endured a trau- matic event during their academic career. “There are some pro- fessors who are extremely good at helping students out in times of need,” Campione said. “We want to put together a panel of professors who have han- dled situations really well in the past and create ‘tips and tricks’ from the best (professors).” The counseling services will include a follow-up with students after their counseling sessions end. SGA officials are track- ing progress by having monthly meetings. They are also making use of the computer program to track completion in percentages. Officials hope to make the project list available to the public online, but it is currently posted in the SGA office. For more information on SGA, visit sga.wvu.edu. [email protected]THE DA IS HIRING WRITERS Inquire about paid positions at The Daily Athenaeum at [email protected]or pick up an application at our office at 284 Prospect St. BY MEGAN CALDERADO STAFF WRITER e wait is finally over. Beech View Place apart- ments are now open and leasing after two-and-a half years of construction. Beech View Place, lo- cated along Beechurst Av- enue, offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for up to 420 students. e building also houses a variety of shops and bistros. Tim Janidas, a manag- ing partner of Beech View Place, said although there wasn’t a formal announce- ment of the complex’s completion, he is excited to showcase the nearly fin- ished product, one project he believes has been well worth the wait. “We wanted to have nice housing and safe hous- ing. ere are a lot of run- down properties here and we noticed that a lot of the nicer apartments were out of town, so we thought that making something in walk- ing distance would be bet- ter,” Janidas said. Even though residents are within walking distance from the main Downtown campus, Beech View Place also offers parking spots for 355 residents in its parking garage. “Parking’s a premium here in town. A lot of peo- ple are concerned in Mor- gantown because there’s not enough parking. Res- idents get upset when the students come in and park their cars everywhere,” Jan- idas said. Although the apartments are open and ready for students, the bottom floor, which consists of shops and bistros, will not be open until late September. The shops will consist of a grocery store, a gyro shop, Cafe Euro (straight from Greece), a hot food restaurant with items such as hotdogs and ham- burgers, as well as tan- ning, beauty and nail salons. While Janidas said the apartments are only about 30 percent full, he can’t re- ally see any disadvantages of living there. “It was built for student housing. …There’s great quality of living space, its quiet and convenient, see APARTMENTS on PAGE 2 SPLAT BY SHELBY TOOMPAS STAFF WRITER With approximately 40 clubs at West Virginia University, each and every student can find an extracur- ricular activity that suits them. Drew Irvin, President of WVU’s Paintball Club, said he started the club back up last winter. Irvin recruited members from the paintball social network, PBna- tion.com, and contacted members through Facebook. “The club started in the early 2000s, but after the team went to na- tionals and lost a lot of its seniors, no one picked it back up,” Irvin said. “After talking to a few other individ- uals, we decided to start the orga- nization back up and get it where it was.” In the past, the club has played against UNC Charlotte, East Caro- lina University, Coastal Carolina University, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and James Madison University. “We’ve enjoyed the sport and we’re growing this year,” Irvin said. “As of right now, there are 20 members.” As a member of the National Col- legiate Paintball Association, the club hopes to travel and compete against more paintball teams in its conference this year. Jonathan Michael, a previous member of the club and senior busi- ness student, said he played paint- ball throughout high school and joined the club as a freshman at WVU. “When I first started my freshman year, we had about 10 members, and it eventually grew to about 20,” Michael said. Michael said paintball tends to be very expensive as well. “You have a non-reusable item you’re playing with, so it adds up if you don’t already have the gear ahead of time,” he said. The Paintball Club is looking forward to recruiting more stu- dents as the semester goes on. “It’s a really fun sport and it gets your adrenaline going,” Mi- chael said. “It’s definitely some- thing I think everyone should try once.” Paintball might be costly and time-consuming, but all students are encouraged to give it a try. “A lot of people are afraid of it because they hear it’s pain- ful or it’s not fun, but I’ve met people who have played for the first time and they have all enjoyed it,” Michael said. The club plans to have two tournament teams, as well as recreational teams. “We want everyone to go out and have fun,” Irvin said. Irvin said the club would like to plan KYLE MONROE/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Beech View Place is now open and leasing apartments for WVU students. Beech View Place apartments provide unique housing for students WVU Paintball club invites new members to try hand at the trigger see PAINTBALL on PAGE 2 Graphic by Carlee Lammers Photo by WVU Paintball team
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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Wednesday August 21, 2013 Volume 126, Issue 4www.THedaOnLIne.comda
Random violence could be result of boredom. OPINION PAGE 4
After losing its two best defenders last season, the West Virginia women’s soccer team is looking to rebuild with a young, talented back line. SPORTS PAGE 7
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
ON THE INSIDE
Fun, food and books were all featured at Bookholders Tues-day.A&E PAGE 6
BOOKAPALOOZA
SGA maps out 2013-14 project goalsBy Laura haight
correspondent
The Student Govern-ment Association has big plans for the 2013-14 aca-demic year, starting with a list of 60 projects to better the West Virginia Univer-sity campus.
Student body president Ryan Campione and vice president, Ben Seebaugh, compiled a list of projects ranging from advocating college affordability to the funding of club sports.
Campione used skills from an engineering class
to build a computer pro-gram that creates an out-line of the projects SGA hopes to accomplish this year. The outline pulls in-formation from all over SGA to track progress.
“This list has never been done in student govern-ment before,” Campione said.
Campione said he thinks students should be aware of S GA’s doings.
“You can always be on the same page as everyone else about what is going on in SGA and how we’re
progressing.”Ashley Morgan, athletic
councilor, is working with the Athletic Department on club sports funding and student involvement.
“The major concern is students don’t know how to get involved, where to get involved, or what to do to get involved,” Mor-gan said.
According to Morgan, SGA is compiling a list of club sports’ practice times on a website.
Morgan is also attempt-ing to get Mountie Bounty into the stadiums, which
would make concession purchases more conve-nient for students.
During the SGA cam-paign last spring, students had the opportunity to voice what they thought WVU needs.
Among these sugges-tions were transgender bathrooms and resource pamphlets for student organizations.
These student opinions had a major impact on the project list.
“Some of these proj-ects we never would have thought of had it not been
for recommendations from students,” Campione said.
Campione is looking for-ward to creating a coun-seling service for students who have endured a trau-matic event during their academic career.
“There are some pro-fessors who are extremely good at helping students out in times of need,” Campione said. “We want to put together a panel of professors who have han-dled situations really well in the past and create ‘tips and tricks’ from the best (professors).”
The counseling services will include a follow-up with students after their counseling sessions end.
SGA officials are track-ing progress by having monthly meetings. They are also making use of the computer program to track completion in percentages.
Officials hope to make the project list available to the public online, but it is currently posted in the SGA office.
THE DA IS HIRING WRITERSInquire about paid positions at The Daily Athenaeum at [email protected] or pick up an application at our office at 284 Prospect St.
By Megan CaLderadostaff writer
The wait is finally over. Beech View Place apart-
ments are now open and leasing after two-and-a half years of construction.
Beech View Place, lo-cated along Beechurst Av-enue, offers one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for up to 420 students.
The building also houses a variety of shops and bistros.
Tim Janidas, a manag-ing partner of Beech View Place, said although there wasn’t a formal announce-ment of the complex’s completion, he is excited to showcase the nearly fin-ished product, one project he believes has been well worth the wait.
“We wanted to have nice housing and safe hous-ing. There are a lot of run-down properties here and we noticed that a lot of the nicer apartments were out of town, so we thought that making something in walk-ing distance would be bet-ter,” Janidas said.
Even though residents are within walking distance from the main Downtown campus, Beech View Place also offers parking spots for 355 residents in its parking garage.
“Parking’s a premium here in town. A lot of peo-ple are concerned in Mor-gantown because there’s not enough parking. Res-idents get upset when the students come in and park their cars everywhere,” Jan-idas said.
Although the apartments are open and ready for students, the bottom floor, which consists of shops and bistros, will not be open until late September.
The shops will consist of a grocery store, a gyro shop, Cafe Euro (straight from Greece), a hot food restaurant with items such as hotdogs and ham-burgers, as well as tan-ning, beauty and nail salons.
While Janidas said the apartments are only about 30 percent full, he can’t re-ally see any disadvantages of living there.
“It was built for student housing. …There’s great quality of living space, its quiet and convenient,
see APARTMENTS on PAGE 2
SPLat By SheLBy tooMPaS
staff writer
With approximately 40 clubs at West Virginia University, each and every student can find an extracur-ricular activity that suits them.
Drew Irvin, President of WVU’s Paintball Club, said he started the club back up last winter.
Irvin recruited members from the paintball social network, PBna-tion.com, and contacted members through Facebook.
“The club started in the early 2000s, but after the team went to na-tionals and lost a lot of its seniors, no one picked it back up,” Irvin said. “After talking to a few other individ-uals, we decided to start the orga-nization back up and get it where it was.”
In the past, the club has played against UNC Charlotte, East Caro-lina University, Coastal Carolina University, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and James Madison University.
“We’ve enjoyed the sport and we’re growing this year,” Irvin said. “As of right now, there are 20 members.”
As a member of the National Col-legiate Paintball Association, the club hopes to travel and compete against more paintball teams in its conference this year.
Jonathan Michael, a previous member of the club and senior busi-ness student, said he played paint-
ball throughout high school and joined the club as a freshman at WVU.
“When I first started my freshman year, we had about 10 members, and it eventually grew to about 20,” Michael said.
Michael said paintball tends to be very expensive as well.
“You have a non-reusable item you’re playing with, so it adds up if you don’t already have the gear ahead of time,” he said.
The Paintball Club is looking forward to recruiting more stu-dents as the semester goes on.
“It’s a really fun sport and it gets your adrenaline going,” Mi-chael said. “It’s definitely some-thing I think everyone should try once.”
Paintball might be costly and time-consuming, but all students are encouraged to give it a try.
“A lot of people are afraid of it because they hear it’s pain-ful or it’s not fun, but I’ve met people who have played for the first time and they have all enjoyed it,” Michael said.
The club plans to have two tournament teams, as well as recreational teams.
“We want everyone to go out and have fun,” Irvin said.
Irvin said the club would like to plan
Kyle monroe/tHe DAIly AtHenAeum Beech View Place is now open and leasing apartments for WVU students.
Beech View Place apartments provide unique housing for students
WVU Paintball club invites new members to try hand at the trigger
see PAINTBALL on PAGE 2
Graphic by Carlee Lammers
Photo by WVU Paintball team
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Pedestrian struck, killed in South High Street accident
A Morgantown pedestrian was struck and killed by a driver Monday night, according to the Morgantown Police Department.
The victim has been identified as 79-year-old Morgantown resident James Robert McClain.
The driver of the vehicle was trav-eling north on South High Street to-ward the West Virginia University campus.
Morgantown emergency of-ficials said in a release, McClain was crossing South High Street near the intersection of Simp-son Street when the driver struck him.
According to the MPD, the incident is still under investigation.
Police are encouraging anyone with information to call 304-284-7522.
—crl
The West Virginia University Police De-partment has released its incident report following FallFest Monday night.
University Police Chief Bob Roberts said the use of screening wands by event staff and the prohibition of bags helped the police force ensure the safety of all attendees.
“The event staff didn’t allow bags this year, so I actually think that really helped with the screening process,” Roberts said.
“It helped ensure people were safe. That’s our goal at the end of the day, to make sure everyone was safe.”
In total, University Police issued 15 ci-tations and made 12 arrests.
“We had 15 total citations for the en-tire night, which was comparable to years past,” Roberts said. “Thankfully, it wasn’t anything too out of the ordinary.”
—slr
UPD attributes minimal FallFest incidents to new regulations
a large scenario game against the University of Pittsburgh to revive the Backyard Brawl and get all the students out and active.
For more informa-tion about the WVU Paintball Club, email w v u p a i n t b a l l @ y a h o o.com or visit their page on Facebook.
dUnCan, Okla. (aP) — With a motive that’s both chilling and simple – to break up the boredom of an Oklahoma summer –three teenagers randomly targeted an Australian col-legiate baseball player who was attending school in the U.S. and killed him for fun, prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the boys with murder.
Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys “thugs” as he described how Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, was shot once in the back and died along a tree-lined road on Duncan’s well-to-do north side. He said the three teens, from the grittier part of town, chose Lane at random and that one of the boys “thinks it’s all a joke.”
Hicks charged Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards, Jr., 15, of Duncan, with first-de-gree murder. Under Okla-homa law they will be tried as adults. Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan, was charged with using a ve-hicle in the discharge of a weapon and with accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court.
Jones wept in the court-room after he tried to speak about the incident but was cut off by the judge who said it wasn’t the time to sort out the facts of the case. Jones faces anywhere from two years to life in prison if
convicted on the counts he faces.
The two younger teens face life in prison without parole if convicted on the murder charge.
“I’m appalled,” Hicks said after the hearing. “This is not supposed to happen in this community.”
In court, Hicks said Luna was sitting in the back seat of a car when he pulled the trigger on a .22 caliber re-volver and shot Lane once in the back. Hicks said Jones was driving the vehicle and Edwards was in the passen-ger seat.
Edwards has had prior run-ins with the law and came to court Friday – ap-parently after the shooting – to sign documents related to his juvenile probation.
“I believe this man is a threat to the community and should not be let out,” Hicks said as he requested no bond for Edwards. “He thinks it’s all a joke.”
The two younger boys were held without bond; bond was set at $1 million for Jones.
Before the hearing, Ed-wards’ father, James Ed-wards Sr., said he knew where his son was 95 per-cent of the time and would call or text him. The 15-year-old was involved in wres-tling and football, his father said, and was trying to forge the same sort of athletic ca-reer as Lane. He was head-ing into his sophomore year in high school.
Edwards Sr. said Luna was also like a son to him.
Luna’s mother, Jenni-fer Luna, said her son likes to play basketball at a lo-cal court and play on his iPhone and Xbox.
“I know my son. He is a good kid,” she said.
Lane played baseball at East Central University in Ada, 85 miles east of Dun-can, and had been visiting his girlfriend and her par-ents in Duncan after he and his girlfriend returned to the U.S. from Australia about a week ago.
Duncan police Chief Dan Ford has said the boys wanted to overcome a bor-ing end to their summer vacation – classes in Dun-can resumed Tuesday – and that Jones told offi-cers they were bored and killed Lane for “the fun of it.”
Family and friends on two continents were mourning Lane, who gave up pursuit of an Australian football career to pursue his passion for baseball, an American pastime. His girl-friend, Sarah Harper, tear-fully laid a cross at a street-side memorial in Duncan, while half a world away, an impromptu memorial grew at the home plate he pro-tected as a catcher on his youth team.
“We just thought we’d leave it,” Harper said as she visited the memorial in Duncan. “This is his final spot.”
APJennifer Luna, right, the mother of 16-year-old murder suspect Chancey Luna, turns away from the media following a court appearance by her son.
APLiz Fleetwood, left, comforts her friend, Rachel Padilla, the sister of 15-year-old murder suspect James Edwards Jr., after finding out bail has been denied for Edwards following a court appearance.
BY LAcEY PALMERA&E EDITOR
One tree on campus will look much different after the West Virginia Univer-sity School of Art & Design completes a unique cre-ative event in conjunction with Morgantown’s 2013 celebration of “The Year of the Tree,” which sets out to protect the trees in our city.
Visiting artist Carol Hummel will work along-side students, faculty, staff and the community as they cover the large tree located near the road between the Coliseum and the Creative Arts Center with colorful, blue and gold crocheted yarn.
The school of Art & De-sign is reaching out to the University and the commu-nity to find volunteers who can knit and crochet to as-sist in the project.
In order to protect the tree, Hummel will use an open stitch for this tempo-rary project, which will al-low the tree to breathe with-out damaging its growth, according to Dylan Col-lins, visiting assistant pro-fessor and project manager. Hummel’s yarn is also syn-thetic; therefore it will hold its color well.
“With both this project and the groundbreaking for the Art Museum of WVU happening in September, there’s a lot of exciting ac-tivity in the local art com-munity,” Collins said. “We
are excited to share with passersby the numerous ways the College of Cre-ative Arts has a positive impact on our community. Because Carol’s project is coordinated with Morgan-town’s ‘Year of the Tree’ celebration, we hope this installation cultivates an appreciation for the posi-tive impact trees have on our community.”
Collins has personally known Hummel for over a decade; they both attended Kent State University and earned their Master of Fine Arts degrees there.
Hummel has quite the impressive resume with similar installations on trees in Chicago, Cleveland Heights, Oh., Drangedal, Norway and New Delhi, India.
“Carol is one of the most talented, hardworking peo-ple I have ever met,” Collins said. “Her numerous in-stallation projects around the world have given her a unique, global perspective on the art world, and we are fortunate to be hosting her at WVU.”
Hummel, along with the rest of the visiting artists at the School of Art & Design this year, was selected as part of the School’s Global Positioning Studies (GPS) initiative, which positions students at the crossroads between a local sense of place and a global under-standing of that place in the world.
“This initiative is built on direct, hands-on expe-rience, which is a critical aspect of Carol’s art mak-ing process,” Collins said. “Therefore, we believe our students are going to get an unbeatable educational ex-perience from working with her.”
Collins believes this proj-ect is vital to the University.
“This project is impor-tant because it showcases the vibrant role the arts play in our University,” Col-lins said. “This project will be displayed in a public, high-visibility area, and as such, it will become a sym-
bol for the amazing creativ-ity brimming forth from the College of Creative Arts.”
To get involved with the project, attend one of the information sessions hap-pening this week at the Arts Monongahela Gallery to-night at 7 p.m. and at the
Creative Arts Center Thurs-day at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Room 2251. All sessions are free and open to the public.
To view other examples of Hummel’s work, visit www.carolhummel.com.
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the Mike Dillon Band out of New Orleans will take the stage at 123 Pleasant street and headline the Camp Barefoot Pre-Party tonight at 10 p.m.
Originally, ZOOgMA was set to open for the group but had to cancel unexpectedly due to an unforeseen illness. the group plans to reschedule and will release the new date as soon as possible.
Instead, surgeon’s general Warning will now open the show.
the pre-party’s goal is to increase attendance at Camp Barefoot August 22-24 in Bartow, W.Va.
tickets are $5, and concertgoers must be age 18 and older.
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Pure Romance offers unique at-home party idea for women, career opportunities
pureromance.comSamples of Pure Romance beauty products are passed around during at-home parties for guests to try.
BY LAcEY PALMERA&E EDITOR
A new type of party is tak-ing over college campuses everywhere.
Pure Romance sponsors parties much like Pampered Chef but with very different items.
“Pure Romance is an in-home party plan that spe-cializes in a ‘girl’s night in,’” said advanced consultant Anna Casale. “Our mission is to empower, educate and entertain women while sell-ing an elegant line of rela-tionship enhancement products.”
There are a variety of items at a Pure Romance party including scented lo-tions and adult toys.
However, Casale said that the company’s purpose goes beyond that.
“We sell so much more than ‘toys,’” Casale said. “Our parties focus on help-ing ladies build both their self confidence and sexual health knowledge.”
According to Casale, the focus on education and women’s sexual health sets Pure Romance apart from similar companies.
“Our founder, Patty Bris-ben, started the company 20 years ago with the idea that women would not only have fun but would also leave knowing more and feeling more confident,” she said.
Casale said she rarely comes across any uncom-fortable guests at the par-ties she has hosted.
“In my experience, when ladies have attended my parties, they are surprised at how comfortable they felt and how many products they loved,” Casale said.
Aside from “showing and telling” all of the products at the party, the group also plays a few games and has food and drinks during the party as well.
“Women love having a girl’s night where they can laugh and unwind with friends, learn new things and leave with awesome products,” Casale said. “The atmosphere is always fun and relaxed.”
According to Casale, hosts and guests must be 18 years or older to have a party.
“By hosting a party, young ladies will have the opportunity to be educated in sexual health in a com-fortable atmosphere while also having fun with their friends,” Casale said. “Plus, when they host a qualifying party, they can get a lot of great products for free.”
When you sell a certain amount of product through a party you host, you be-come eligible for a certain amount of free product afterward.
Casale also encourages involvement in the actual
company, as she believes it provides much flexibility and room to grow.
“If any lady would like to make some extra cash or even make a career, they can also contact the corpo-rate office or go to the web-site to get details on starting their own business,” Casale said.
According to Casale, con-sultants have training op-portunities regularly where
they receive the most ac-curate, up-to-date sexual health information from leading doctors and experts in the industry, along with ideas on how to keep things entertaining at the parties.
“By being a consultant, women have the opportu-nity to work for themselves,” Casale said. “They get to set their own hours and make their schedule fit into their lives, as consultants work
their business how they want.
“Therefore, if they just need some fun money for spring break, need to pay utilities or want to work up to a six-figure salary, Pure Romance will provide them the tools to do it.”
To receive more infor-mation or host a party of your own, call 1-866-RO-MANCE or visit www.pur-eromance.com to request a
consultant.“I love my job because
I get to change women’s lives,” Casale said. “I don’t dread going to work, and I have an awesome net-work of women all around the world that are my col-leagues that share ideas and attend trainings to support one another – not a lot of people can say that.”
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apSarah Harper, Christopher Lane’s girlfriend, stands beside a memorial along the road where police say Lane was shot and killed Friday in Duncan, Okla.
FILE pHOTOBull dozers tear down a part of Grant Street. The destruction officially began April 2013.
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Assault, rape and mur-der are unfortunately a larger part of our society than we would like to imag-ine. And living in the rel-atively small city of Mor-gantown makes it hard to understand the daily vio-lence that occurs in larger cities and harder still to comprehend the intensity that goes along with living in a gang-oriented area or the risk involved just step-ping foot outside your front door.
In the big scheme of things, Morgantown is a safe place to live, and it’s difficult to think any differ-ently of the place we have come to call home.
But with the recent mur-der of Christopher Lane, a 22-year-old Australian college baseball player in Duncan, Oklahoma – a city of 24,000 people, com-pared to Morgantown’s 30,000 – it’s apparent that even small towns are sus-ceptible to such atrocities.
What is even more dis-turbing about what hap-pened to Lane, who was shot running along the street, was that the motive for his death appeared to be an extreme case of nor-mal teenage boredom.
“We were going to kill somebody,” is the excuse one of the alleged mur-derers offered police when
questioned for motive. Lane was apparently cho-sen at random and shot in the head.
The ever-increasing vi-olence and the alarmingly young age of offenders has become a huge issue in our society. These days, people who are barely old enough to drive are as much of a threat as fully grown adults.
So why are younger and younger children commit-ting such heinous acts?
For one, there is the is-sue of boredom. While most of us resolve this through school activities, Netflix binges, clubs and sports, many teenagers do not have the opportunity or
the interest to keep them-selves off the street and away from the influence of violence.
While many maintain that people who commit these acts of violence have an inherent nature to do so, there is one aspect that we as a community can take advantage of: the nurtur-ing of these at-risk people.
While children often re-ceive the benefit of spe-cialized clubs and organi-zations, whose very aim is to get them away from the mess that of streets and into a more loving and sup-portive area, often this idea falls short when kids reach the awkward teenage years
where these groups fail to accommodate them.
Teenagers are often over-energized, and even if they do attend school for seven hours a day, there are still the off-hours of wasted time. And, because there is nothing else to do, a lot of older kids land themselves in trouble.
While naturally it’s im-possible to say for sure, there is the chance that, had the alleged perpetra-tors been busier with com-munity projects, school clubs or other organiza-tions, Christopher Lane may still be alive today.
The beginning of the school year is always a hec-tic time, and there is no bet-ter example of this than on move-in day.
A typical move-in day in-cludes traffic backed up for miles, lots of parties in the downtown and Sunnyside areas and hoards of new stu-dents meandering their way around Morgantown for the first time. Couple that with general excitement about the upcoming school year, frazzled parents, and the hellacious experience that is buying books, and you’ve got a textbook example of move-in day at West Virginia University.
But this year there was a new addition to the bed-lam that overtakes Mor-gantown every year around this time. Some houses, es-pecially in the Grant Street area, proudly displayed post-ers addressing parents of in-coming students, with state-ments like “We’ll teach your daughter what high school didn’t”, “Moms drink free” and “Put out or drop out.”
While this is a demonstra-tion of the sophomoric hu-mor many students at WVU share, there is no doubt that anxious parents – and even students – were a little put off by the obvious orneriness displayed by these banners.
Grant Street has been the subject of many a debate that has, in recent years, spread to involve the entire Sun-nyside area. This once-in-famous party street, notori-ous for the riot that occurred there two years previously, was partially torn down at the end of the spring semes-ter. Along with the general confusion that accompa-nies such a large-scale de-molition, further complaints
from students regarding the university’s lack of transpar-ency only served to worsen the issue.
It is not a secret that Grant was a prime house party lo-cation, and the fact that a substation of the Univer-sity police will be one of the many amenities taking over the area in the upcoming years does little to dissuade this idea.
While admittedly student riots aren’t exactly a univer-sity-approved activity, the obvious slap on the wrist from the University may have done little more than
incite the same party-hardy attitude Grant has been fa-mous for.
It is a classic example of what anyone dealing with kids has experienced; you tell someone not to do some-thing, and the desire to do that very thing increases ex-ponentially. Although Grant is currently a bit less of a party location than it was last year at this time, it seems that the University’s attempt to prevent more rowdy stu-dent parties has only been a slight success at best.
Granted, tongue-in-cheek posters aren’t exactly on the
same level as student riots, but the fact remains WVU students do like to party – as is evidenced by our presence on multiple party school rankings.
Whether or not this is a reputation we should take pride in is not as much of an issue as the fact that the parties that do occur here should be more of a safety affair than an all-out de-struction of prime party real estate.
Instead of encouraging safe play, the University has tried to put its foot down and stomp out a majority of the
parties that once took place in this area of Morgantown with limited success. Beverly Avenue, just above Grant, seems to be enjoying its new house party status, as the fun that used to occur just a block away appears to have only moved up.
Given WVU only has so many excuses to knock down residential buildings, it remains to be seen what actions, if any, will be taken against whatever the new Sunnyside area party place will be.
At the end of the day, when more than 20,000 un-
dergraduate students are thrown together, something a little outrageous is bound to happen.
While I don’t condone ri-ots or other potentially dan-gerous mass revolts, the swift hand of University punish-ment went a bit too far. Kids will be kids, and WVU should focus less on com-pletely obliterating the op-portunity for students to en-joy our party reputation and more on ensuring students remain as safe as possible while doing so.
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BY LACEY PALMERA&E EDITOR
Bookholders took a unique approach to pro-moting their book sales this semester – while also sup-porting the local entertain-ment scene.
Bent Willey’s resident DJ Wayne Brady and local indie rock band, I Am A Sea Crea-ture both performed at Boo-kapalooza yesterday.
The event provided those
picking up or ordering text-books an opportunity to grab a hot dog, refreshment and some free merchandise, including Bookholders bot-tle openers, while listening to upbeat, local music.
Lauren Kelly, junior West Virginia University student, works at Bookholders and was grilling hot dogs at the event.
“I believe the event will definitely draw in more cus-tomers, especially with all
the new freshman who may not know about Bookhold-ers,” Kelly said. “I mean, we have free food. Who doesn’t want free food?”
Bookholders man-ager Thomas Robertson has been working with the store for a little more than two years and decided to plan the first Bookapalooza event this year not only to increase business but also to promote the local enter-tainment scene.
“Basically, we just have a lot of good local artists that live in Morgantown who may not get enough atten-tion, especially with every-one still being excited from FallFest,” Robertson said.
Kelly agreed with Robert-son amd said the event was a great way to promote the local music scene.
“We do have actual stu-dents that go here that do musical things in the area and also work at Bookhold-
ers,” Kelly said. “It’s a really great promoting event that no other bookstore has ever done.”
One of Robertson’s main goals of the event was sim-ply for the students to enjoy themselves.
“We have this huge park-ing lot in the middle of town, and it’s really loud; everyone is able to hear it,” Robertson said. “We just thought it would be some-thing fun to do for the stu-
dents to just come down and get some free food and hear some music.”
Kelly has been working with Bookholders for the past year, and she hopes they continue the Booka-palooza event.
“If we continue to have a good turnout today, I’m sure we will do it during upcoming semesters,” she said.
MTV looks for cast members for upcoming dating showBY NICK WESDOCK
A&E WRITER
If you’re single and look-ing for love, it might just be your lucky day, thanks to a new TV series coming to MTV.
The network is currently casting for a new dating show that will take place in a tropical destination.
Contestants will be eligi-ble to win a big cash prize and possibly true love.
Damon Furberg works for Lighthearted Entertain-ment and is the supervis-ing casting director for the show, which has yet to be named.
“It’s a relationship show where contestants try to find their perfect match.
If they succeed, then they win money and love,” Fur-berg said. “It’s important to emphasize that this is not a typical dating show like ‘The Bachelor.’ There is a potential match for ev-ery contestant, and no one gets voted off – everyone is on for the full duration of the show.”
MTV will choose 20 sin-
gles between the ages of 21 and 24.
“We are looking for peo-ple who are a great ‘catch’ but have encountered ob-stacles in their dating life that have stopped them from finding love,” Furberg said. “We’re looking for big personalities, and (having) a good sense of humor is a big plus. We want people
who are genuinely trying to make a love connection.”
Applicants are required to submit a brief home video and will be inter-viewed over Skype. The cast will be chosen de-pending on how well they are liked by the casting team and whether or not the team can find a match.
Anyone interested can
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GETTING DEFENSIVE
File PhotoAfter losing former Defensive Player of the Year Bry McCarthy to graduation, West Virginia will look to several young players to step up and make an impact this season.
West Virginia will have to rely on young talent to repeat as Big 12 Champions in 2013BY JOE MITCHIN
SportS writer
The West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team outscored their Big 12 foes 14-6 in their inaugural season in the conference a year ago.
With stats like that, it’s no surprise that a team that started the season with so much uncertainty could finish it by hoisting the regular season Big 12 ti-tle. In fact, the Mountain-eers gave up a total of just 20 goals in 20 games last season.
One big reason for this success comes in goal with senior keeper Sara Keane. Now in her third year as the starter, Keane is a leader of a team looking for more in 2013.
Keane has started in all
42 matches of her West Virginia career. The Mt. Laurel, N.J., native saved 84 shots in 2012, good for fourth in the Big 12 and sixth in single-season pro-gram history. Her .808 save percentage was second in the conference.
Despite a very respect-able season in goal for the Mountaineers, Keane was largely out of the spotlight because of the defensive line in front of her.
Br y McCarthy was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year last sea-son and Mallory Smith was a leader on and off the pitch for the team. WVU lost both of them to grad-uation last year. This sea-son, Keane is ready to be relied upon.
“I’m typically a pretty
vocal person,” Keane said. “I try to do my best to help (the team) as much as I can.”
Keane played in every minute of West Virginia’s 20 games last season. She earned herself eight shut-outs, including four in-side conference play. Her performance earned her an NSCAA Scholar All-East Region honorable mention.
However, Keane isn’t yet satisfied with her play be-tween the posts.
“There’s always a lot I can improve on,” she said. “Just making sure I have a presence in the box and keeping everyone orga-nized is going to be big for the success of the team.”
The Mountaineers must turn to new, young talent
for their back line this sea-son. The squad has sev-eral veteran forwards and midfielders returning, but it lacks a ton of experience defensively.
Head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown has several options on her roster to replace McCarthy and Smith this season. Freshman Kadei-sha Buchanan appears to be a prime candidate for a starting spot along with sophomore Halie Con-roy and redshirt freshman Carly Black.
WVU will return two de-fensive starters this season in junior Jess Crowder and sophomore Leah Emaus.
“There are definitely question marks,” Izzo-Brown said. “Who’s going to step up? Who’s going to fill the role? It’s a great op-
portunity for a couple of players to come in and take that on.”
One thing we do know, however, is that Keane will return to the net for West Virginia and have a chance to help WVU win their sec-ond straight Big 12 title and team goal of advanc-ing well into the NCAA Tournament.
She isn’t concerned with the insertions of the new members of the start-ing defensive line. To her, it’s all about improving throughout the season.
“They’re going to make mistakes, I’m going to make mistakes,” Keane said. “It’s just all about learning from them and trying to get better.”
Keane needs to add 77 saves to move into sec-
ond place all-time on the Mountaineers’ career saves list. With one year remain-ing in her collegiate career, Keane may find herself at the very top by the end of it.
The West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team opens its new season Friday night at the Penn State Invitational when they take on the No. 4 Nittany Lions.
T h e Mo u nt a i n e e r s quickly return to the pitch on Sunday in a match against Syracuse in Uni-versity Park.
The team won both of its preseason scrimmages preparing for the new year, defeating Rutgers at home 3-0 before topping No. 18 Georgetown 1-0 last weekend.
Orlosky takes center jobBY GREG MADIAMULtiMeDiA eDitor
For West Virginia, a team with position battles all over the field, no com-petition (other than the quarterback job), may be more important than the starting center job.
As the anchor of the of-fensive line, the center is largely responsible for making calls and checks in passing protection in Dana Holgorsen’s offense.
Redshirt freshman Tyler Orlosky looks like he will be the starting center in game one against William and Mary.
In the case of Orlosky, a year makes a massive difference. Playing foot-ball as a redshirt freshman compared to running around on the field as a true freshman makes an even bigger difference.
Last year at this time Or-losky wasn’t even a center. Instead, he was playing guard and participating in training camp with the understanding he likely would never see the field in 2012.
“Coming into play right away as an offensive line-man in college football is extremely difficult. Not many people can do it,” Orlosky said. “It isn’t about size or anything, but how much faster the game is than high school football.”
Now Orlosky is on his way to becoming the start-ing center for the Moun-taineers in 2013.
In a heated position bat-tle through training camp with fellow redshirt fresh-man Tony Matteo, WVU offensive line coach Ron Crook feels Orlosky has separated himself as the front-runner for the job.
“I think Tyler (Orlosky) has been working really well there; he’s done a great job. He understands the offense,” Crook said.
Crook is in agreement with WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen, who said Orlosky has asserted him-self as well.
“Tyler Orlosky has been doing well,” Holgorsen said. “Orlosky has the upper hand at center. He is probably a little bit ahead physically.”
Having made the posi-tion change from guard to center during the spring, Orlosky is still adjusting to being the anchor of the offensive line. Getting used to playing center fun-damentally, the St. Edward High School product sees the one glaring difference between the guard and center spots.
“The only difference is snapping the ball,” Orlosky said. “You have to handle the ball instead of putting your hand on the ground, but other than that the fundamentals of the posi-tion is the same as playing guard.”
Orlosky has asserted himself as the leader of the center position competition.
Hav i n g a d d e d 2 0 pounds since last sea-son, Orlosky is ahead of Matteo on the depth chart, and forced possible front-runner and junior college transfer Stone Underwood to move to guard. Orlosky attributes that to under-standing what Crook is looking for out of the cen-ter position.
“He wants us all to be able to be leaders and work to better ourselves, better the people around us,” Orlosky said. “Obvi-ously as a redshirt fresh-man, you don’t see many leaders as a redshirt fresh-man, so I had to step into that spotlight, be that leader and vocal guy.”
Coach Crook has seen Orlosky develop into a player on the field who can communicate as a leader.
“I don’t think it really is in his personality to be a loud talkative person. He’s very quiet and very seri-ous,” Crook said. “But with that seriousness comes an understanding that this is my job and this is what I have to do, so he’s done a pretty good job with it.”
So, just one year af-ter being redshirted and not placing a foot on the field, Orlosky will have the ball in his hands on every play and will snap the ball for West Virginia.
The Cleveland native is unsure of what he’ll feel during the first game of the season, but whatever that feeling is, Orlosky is excited for it.
“It’s easy to sit here and say ‘Yes, I’m physi-cally and mentally ready to play’, but I won’t know for sure until that first day comes around,” Or-losky said.
With the season opener against William & Mary less than two weeks away, that day is fast approach-ing for Orlosky and the Mountaineers.
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Luck names new women’s tennis coachBY AMIT BATRA
SPORTS EDITOR
West Virginia Univer-sity Athletic Director Ol-iver Luck named Miha Lisac WVU’s new wom-en’s tennis coach Tues-day afternoon.
Lisac, known for his winning ways and expe-rience in collegiate ten-nis, will bring a new look to the Mountaineers’ pro-gram following former head coach Tina Sama-ra’s departure to Wiscon-sin.
Lisac is a former stu-dent-athlete and men’s assistant coach at Georgia State, finishing his sixth season with the program as head coach following the 2012 campaign.
He was named the 2009 CAA Coach of the Year, leading his alma mater to a conference title. Other accomplishments in-clude a berth in the Sun Belt Conference Cham-pionship Finals, back to back CAA Championship finals appearances and two other berths in the
CAA Championship semi-finals in his career.
At Georgia State, Lisac was the assistant coach from 2005-2007 before taking over head coach-ing duties. His overall re-cord as a head coach is 55-38.
Lisac is very enthusi-astic about the opportu-nity to become the next head coach for West Vir-ginia and rebuilding its program.
“I have to thank Oliver Luck, Keli Cunningham, who was in charge of the search committee, Mary Ellen Jones, Terri Howes, Matt Borman and every-body I had a chance to meet for believing in me, giving me this opportu-nity and putting faith in myself and in the vision that I presented for the women’s tennis program,” Lisac said in a statement.
“I feel very fortunate to be in this position and to be a part of such an insti-tution. It is an outstand-ing opportunity.”
Lisac will officially start at West Virginia Tuesday.
His vision for what he can achieve in Morgantown with his squad in the Big 12 is something special.
“I have formed a vision for what I see a top pro-gram in a top conference or in the nation, to look like,” he said.
“Obviously, West Vir-ginia playing in the Big 12, which on the women’s side is extremely strong, it is one of the top confer-ences around and having the potential to also com-pete for some of the top spots in the nation, I’ve really kind of ironed out a plan as to what the pro-gram will look like.
“The vision that I put together is a long-term vision and we will have to take a step-by-step ap-proach to getting to that point, but it is very im-portant to me that we take the right steps and start building the team from the inside out.
“There are a lot of steps we will be taking from here on and we will be setting the bar at the highest standard.”
With Lisac’s pride and eagerness to win, Luck-said West Virginia can become a championship program.
“It is clear that Miha has experienced much success both as a student-athlete and most recently, as a coach,” Luck said.
“He is the type of per-son that takes pride in do-ing things the right way and knows what it takes to win. We are eager for him to come in and continue to grow the Mountaineer women’s tennis program to a championship caliber program.”
When senior West Vir-ginia cross country runner Katie Gillespie was told she would not be able to compete with her team for the fall 2012 season, many thought the season was over before it even started. Instead of staying deflated by the loss of its star run-ner, the team gathered up the pieces and moved forward.
The cross country girls achieved success in vari-ous forms and even sent out former All-American Sarah-Anne Brault to the NCAA championships. While sidelined with her injury, Gillespie saw the team she inspired both on and off the field turn things around and begin to inspire her.
“The girls all around are like my family. We were all on the same page last year, working together, even with my injury,” Gillespie said. “Even on my weak-est days they were there to help me.”
Gillespie has not seen
action on a cross coun-try course in over a year and a half due to ongoing problems with stress fac-tures. During her time off the course, Gillespie en-dured a lengthy rehab as-signment, which included staying off the track for 4-6 weeks.
“Rehab is pretty stan-dard, but it is healing quickly,” she said. “It started with staying off the leg and then we moved to natural motions. I did a lot of biking and water running, and eventually started to work on my base mileage.”
With rehab assignments coming to an end and the Lehigh Invitational only 11 days away, Gillespie has one last challenge to over-come – the actual feeling of a real race in more than 18 months. Luckily for her, this will be the easy part as competition comes natu-rally, and she goes back to doing what she loves.
“Racing will be interest-ing for me this year since I haven’t raced in so long,” Gillespie said. “Even after not competing this long,
racing just comes naturally to me. I feel like I will be a little nervous, but I love it.”
Leadership comes just as natureally as nerves for the senior. She is already leading the new recruits and plans to build on the success from last year. See-ing one runner represent WVU in the NCAA cham-pionships was a huge ac-complishment for Gil-lespie last year, but only sending one player won’t garner the same praise this time around.
“This season is already looking promising,” she said. “This is a team that is talented all the way from the top down to the bot-tom. It was great seeing one of us compete at the end of the year, but this year it is about getting the whole team down there.”
The cross country squad will make its debut Aug. 31 at the annual Lehigh Invi-tational in Bethlehem, Pa.
The NCAA champion-ships are already sched-uled for Nov. 23 in Terre Haue, Ind.
WVU SPORTS INFOKatie Gillespie looks to rebound from missing the fall 2012 season.
fOOTball
BY AMIT BATRASPORTS EDITOR
Going into West Vir-ginia University’s first game against William & Mary on Aug. 31, the of-fensive line has seen its highs and lows.
West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen has seen the offensive line mature in his two years as leader of the Moun-taineers. There were times when former WVU quarterback Geno Smtih would struggle with the amount of time he had to get a pass off, and there were also times when the offensive line showed poise and toughness.
WVU had one of its most experienced offen-sive lines last year. With Joe Madsen and Jeff Braun leaving for the NFL, there will be new guys battling for starting positions. And
there is still time to figure out who will start where.
“One of our guys gave out a temporary depth chart with a starting lineup, but we will keep adjusting that,” Holgorsen said during the first week of fall camp. “For instance, Pat Eger and Nick Kindler are acting and playing like starters, which is going to create depth. They are two swing guys right now that can play either one of the tackle spots.
“(Quinton) Spain and (Curtis) Feigt have both gotten their bodies in phenomenal shape, but Kindler is going to con-cede the battle to them. We have three centers that have not played a lot of ball here. Stone (Under-wood) is learning and has a long way to go. (Tony) Matteo is snapping the ball well – he’s a fresh-man, and (Tyler) Orlosky
is a freshman. We just need to keep working to see who is going to win that job.”
While Orlosky eventu-ally came away victorious with the center position, there are still question marks with him replacing former Mountaineer Joe Madsen.
In his first year with West Virginia after mov-ing on from his position at Stanford, offensive line coach Ron Crook will keep his team physical throughout camp and the course of the season.
Because pads were brought into play in camp, Crook saw the physical-ity and toughness of his group.
“I think we have a bunch of tough guys that want to come off the ball, that want to get after peo-ple,” Crook said earlier this month. “They’re not
doing things perfect by any stretch, but I think we’re moving in the right direction and we’re play-ing with some toughness.”
Holgorsen and Crook have both acknowledged the progress the linemen have made in the sum-mer, both physically and mentally.
Crook said that on the first day of camp, the staff could tell the group looked fit and strong and moved well.
In order to replace what they lost last season, the Mountaineer offensive line will have to gel and play as a unit.
With new offensive linemen and a new quar-terback, uncertainty re-mains about whether West Virginia can put up the offensive numbers it did last season.
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Defensive changes key
for WVUIt’s no secret that West
Virginia will embark on its second ever season in the Big 12 Conference this year with considerably less of-fensive firepower than it had in 2012.
But success in 2013 won’t hinge on the fact that the Mountaineers lost three of the most prolific offen-sive players in school his-tory this offseason. Rather, it will depend on how West Virginia’s defense responds to its collectively nightmar-ish performance last year. The Mountaineers allowed a staggering 495 total points last season. During its first seven games in the Big 12, West Virginia scored less than 40 points only once, when TCU won against the Mountaineers 39-38 in Morgantown.
The team ended up 2-5 during that stretch, with its only wins coming as a result of West Virginia’s of-fense scoring 70 against Baylor and 45 against Texas. That’s not going to happen again.
The only absolute way that the Mountaineers are going to be able to compete on a regular basis in this year’s conference, and for years to come, is if they can develop a reli-able defensive unit that can come up with a stop when it really needs it.
The good news is that WVU head coach Dana Hol-gorsen believes this year’s defense is already signifi-cantly ahead of where last year’s unit was at this point. The flip side is that the only way Holgorsen and his staff have been able to measure the capabilities of that de-fense is against its own of-fense, which none of the staff has put an overwhelm-ing amount of faith into early on, including Hol-gorsen or offensive coordi-nator Shannon Dawson.
One shortcoming of last year’s defense was with-out a doubt the collective youth. The Mountaineers tried to survive a grueling conference schedule with many true and redshirt freshmen playing key roles against some of the most talented offensive play-ers in the country. Former defensive coordinator Joe DeForest even reported at one point six true freshmen were playing together on defense at the same time, a true recipe for disaster.
But now, a year later, the experience earned last sea-son should factor in signif-icantly. The Mountaineers are returning seven defen-sive starters and even more personnel with real game experience. The freshmen who saw time with last year’s defense weren’t just playing garbage minutes at the end of games. Be-cause of injuries and a host of other issues with the de-fense, many true and red-shirted freshmen got a chance to play critical min-utes throughout the season.
Even though those min-utes certainly didn’t re-sult in a lot of production last year, they could end up making a major differ-ence during this season’s campaign.
The Mountaineers have already thrust former line-backers coach Keith Pat-terson into the defensive helm, supplanting DeFor-est. However, according to Holgorsen, the overall scheme still won’t see a lot of changes.
Instead of starting from scratch, Patterson has said he will attempt to improve the existing scheme. He hopes some new wrinkles and disguises coupled with more experienced person-nel will make up a majority of the difference.
Clearly, there has been no shortage of adjustments to the West Virginia defense after a season of complete disappointment, because the coaches know that suc-cess in the Big 12 stems from being able to make stops and getting your de-fense off of the field. And in just 10 days, the entire contingent of Mountaineer fans will at last see if and how those adjustments fi-nally end up paying off.
Eagles’ coach Chip Kelly names Vick starterPHILADELPHIA (AP)
—Michael Vick took a pay cut and had to compete for his job when he returned to the Eagles.
Part of the choice had to do with the up-tempo of-fense mapped out by new coach Chip Kelly.
“I just thought,” Vick said. “this was the best op-portunity, the best fit for me.”
Turns out, Vick was the best fit for Kelly.
With his first chance to put his stamp on Philadel-phia’s offense, Kelly named Vick the starting quarter-back on Tuesday, giving the veteran the nod over Nick Foles after a sterling effort in the preseason.
“He’s our starter for the season,” Kelly said. “It’s not a one-game trial basis.”
There wasn’t a lot of sus-pense with Kelly’s decision, which was announced af-
ter practice on Tuesday, and after the coach met with both players. About the only surprise was the timing - Kelly had hinted he might not name a starter until closer to the opener. But Kelly, in his first sea-son after coaching at Or-egon, ended the mystery and will have Vick taking the snaps when Philadel-phia opens the regular sea-son at Washington Sept. 9.
“I’m not surprised at all,” Vick said. “I told him, `Thank you, I appreciate it and I won’t let you down.’”
Vick has been solid in two preseason games, and Foles, in his second season with the Eagles, has strug-gled to grasp Kelly’s mul-tifaceted offense. Vick has thrown for 199 yards this preseason and will take a 113.2 quarterback rating into Friday’s game at Jack-sonville (0-2).
Foles has been sacked six times in two games, and has a quarterback rat-ing of 65.5, after show-ing flashes as a rookie last season while Vick was in-jured. Vick played in just 10 games last season, while Foles topped 340 yards twice as a rookie.
The Eagles (1-1) are coming off a 4-12 season, coach Andy Reid’s last, and haven’t made the playoffs since they won the NFC East at the end of the 2010 season.
“We had a good amount of tape, a good amount of us seeing them on the field,” Kelly said. “And see-ing them in a lot of differ-ent situations, and wanted to put a guy in place, if we could, in enough time to get us to prepare the season.”
Kelly has only shown flashes of his up-tempo
offense in the first two preseason games and de-fenses already seem tired and confused while the Eagles are moving the ball with ease. The first-team offense led by Vick and Foles has four touch-downs on eight-plus pos-sessions in two games. One drive ended with an end-zone interception and two others ended with fumbles.
Behind Foles will be Matt Barkley, a rookie from Southern Cal.
“The competitor in me, you always want to be the one on the field play-ing,” Barkley said. “At the same time, I love Mike. We’ve gone about it the right way. We’ve kept our great friendship and we’ve pushed each other. I’m proud of him. I’m going to do anything I can to help him become the best quar-terback possible.
“I’m excited for him. Nothing changes in my preparation. I’m going to prepare the same way.”
Vick had a breakout year under Reid in 2010, lead-ing the Eagles to the divi-sion title, winning The As-sociated Press Comeback Player of the Year award and starting in the Pro Bowl. But he’s battled in-juries and inconsistency the last two years.
Now 33, Vick sustained a concussion in week 10 last year and Reid decided to let Foles play the rest of the way because the Eagles were in last place. Vick re-turned to start the season finale against the New York Giants because Foles was hurt. He finished the year with 2,362 yards passing, 12 touchdowns and 10 in-terceptions. He lost five fumbles.
