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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Friday OctOber 12, 2012 VOlume 126, Issue 40www.THEdaONLiNE.comda
The West Virginia men’s basketball team is looking to replace its top two scorers from last season with a group of talented sophomores.SPORTS PAGE 6
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The West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team will host its final regular season home game of the year when it takes on Baylor.SPORTS PAGE 7
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Are you ready for Diversity Week? Check out our Diversity Week Highlights for a partial schedule of events on NEWS PAGE 2 and be sure to check The Daily Athenaeum throughout the week for coverage of one of WVU’s most thought-provoking and enriching traditions. Diversity Week runs from Oct. 15-19.
DIVERSITY WEEK IS COMING
By Carlee lammersCity Editor
West Virginia Univer-sity voice professor Hope Koehler took to the spotlight Tuesday, performing at the renowned Carnegie Hall.
“It was breathtaking to consider stepping onto a stage where so many great performers have been ad-mired by so many,” Koehler said. “It was a bit intim-idating, but it was also inspiring.”
Koehler, sang a collection of American Folk songs by Appalachian Composer John Jacob Niles. She per-formed two groups of songs composed by the Appala-chian composer John Jacob Niles.
Koehler said Niles has been a composer that she has been particularly inter-ested in for a few years.
“I drew strength from the lingering presence of those great artists. One could almost feel the bril-liance and success of those great performers flood into one’s performance, imbu-ing it with immediacy and power,” she said.
Koehler, who has al-ways had a passion for mu-sic, said she owes a lot to WVU for providing her with opportunities.
“Singing chose me more than the other way around. I simply can’t imagine my life without singing, and hon-
estly, it’s the thing I’m best at that gives me the most joy.
I have always sung, all my life, for any reason or no rea-son at all. Singing on stage is pure bliss,” she said. “I ended up at WVU primar-ily because I am the most blessed person you can imagine. Once I got on cam-pus I felt so at home that I knew if I didn’t get this job, I would be desolate. I love it here.”
In 2008, Albany Records released a recording of Koehler performing Niles’ songs entitled “The Lass from the Low Countree”.
This fall, Multigram Re-cords will release her sec-ond recording of Niles’ work, “Lost Melodies.”
“It’s called that (“Lost melodies”) because the songs on the recording are either unpublished or have been out of print for de-cades,” she said.
Both recordings were musically accompanied by WVU professor James Douglass.
Douglass also accompa-nied Koehler on the Carn-egie Hall stage.
Koehler’s performance was made possible by var-ious private donations, along with a Senate Grant from the University.
“I’m incredibly grate-ful to have had this
Professor performs at Carnegie Hall
WVU, City officials discuss fire plansBy Carlee lammers
City Editor
Officials from the city of Morgantown have teamed with West Virginia Univer-sity to crack down on last weekend’s post-game be-havior and take preventa-tive measures for this week-end’s game against Texas Tech.
The Morgantown Fire Department confirmed 35
malicious street fires set late Saturday night and into early Sunday morning.
During the riots, debris was also pelted at police of-ficers, firefighters, vehicles and bystanders.
According to the Morgan-town Police Department, WVU students Andrew Thompson of Centerville, Va.; David Jospeh Costa of Germantown, Md.; Robert F. Comorosky of Loveland,
Ohio; and Brett Zachary Stevens of Highland, Md., were charged with mali-cious burning.
This weekend, WVU stu-dents James Richard Zito of Glenelg, Md.; Kathryn Durko of Cokeburg, Pa.; Timothy Watkins of West-minster, Md.; and Alexan-dra Amato of Morgantown, were arrested for vari-ous charges, including ob-structing an officer, battery
of a police officer and un-derage possession or con-sumption of alcohol.
Dean of Students Co-rey Farris said University and City officials are work-ing to proactively educate students on acceptable cel-ebration behavior – par-ticularly in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
“Within the next 24-48 hours, University and City Police are going to be trav-
eling to hot spot areas and going door to door,” he said. “Some of our Sunny-side landlords are going and talking to their tenants re-minding them on their ‘no party’ clauses.”
Farris said officials would also be traveling to both Summit and Honors Halls on Grant Avenue to edu-cate on-campus students on ways to stay safe and cel-ebrate responsibly.
Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston said the police department is taking an ag-gressive stance in identify-ing individuals involved in last weekend’s mayhem and putting an end to the violent behavior.
“It’s clearly a safety is-sue, and it is also affecting our city’s and the Univer-sity’s fine reputation, and we simply won’t tolerate it,”
Adventure WV fosters inclusiveness
By Bryan BumgardnerassoCiatE City Editor
Adventure WV is a pro-gram that provides stu-dents with experiential education, leadership ex-perience and personal de-velopment through travel programs.
For Adventure WV Pro-gram Manager Marcedes Minana, the program pro-vides college students with something priceless.
“We foster ‘belonging-ness,’ and that is huge,” she said. “We really are a family.”
Originally a freshman orientation program, Ad-venture WV since ex-panded and now offers ev-erything from week-long local trips to month-long study-abroad programs.
Incoming freshmen have the opportunity to take an orientation trip:
a week-long camping ex-cursion throughout West Virginia. The trip is linked with a course, and major-specific trips are offered for students in the School of Journalism and the College of Business and Economics.
But according to Minana, these trips aren’t just about traveling – they help students grow.
“It’s about learn-ing about the Univer-sity, learning about this state, because this is your home,” she said. “This is your back yard.”
Minana said some-times, incoming freshmen have no friends or mentors at WVU.
“For most incoming stu-dents, one of the biggest concerns coming into col-lege is ‘am I going to make friends? Am I going to fit
Chestnut Ridge Park to offer ‘Tour of the Night Sky’By sHelBy ToomPas
staff WritEr
Chestnut Ridge Park has teamed with West Virginia University’s Astronomy Club to host its first annual Stargazing event, “A Tour of the Night Sky,” Saturday.
Chestnut Ridge Park Ranger Justine McCoy said the event is some-thing she was involved with when she lived in Florida, and she believed it would be perfect to bring
to Morgantown. “I started thinking about
this last spring, because I came here from Florida, and I had volunteered at a park there that partici-pated in this event,” Mc-Coy said.
D.J. Pisano, assis-tant professor of phys-ics at WVU, will deliver a 30-minute presentation at the start of the event.
McCoy said she believes the presentation will be a fun and engaging way to
kick off the event and will allow participants to learn more about what they will see.
“He will set up a pro-jector and screen begin-ning at 7 p.m., and observ-ing through the telescopes will begin immediately af-ter that,” McCoy said.
The stargazing event is family-oriented, and it gives WVU’s Astronomy Club and Pisano the op-portunity to showcase their organization, she said.
“We suggest that those individuals that attend bring a lawn chair so that they can enjoy a bon-fire, roasting marshmal-lows and making s’mores throughout the evening,” McCoy said. “We will pro-vide the graham crackers, the marshmallows and the chocolate, as well as hot chocolate for everyone.”
McCoy said she hopes those who attend have
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amazing opportunity. I ap-preciate WVU and the pri-vate donors and my recital partner Dr. James Douglass for making this happen,” Koehler said.
“I stayed with a good friend while I was in NYC, and I can’t begin to express how appreciative I am of her generosity.”
sPoTlIgHTContinued from PAGE 1
enjoy an evening of star-gazing and gain some knowledge about the night sky.
“I think this event can be inspiring,” McCoy said. “Whether or not one learns anything about as-tronomy, they will defi-nitely enjoy themselves.”
McCoy said she hopes
the event is a fun, family opportunity and there will be more to host in the years to come.
The stargazing event will be Saturday 7-10 p.m. at Chestnut Ridge Park.
The cost is $2 per per-son to.
For more information, visit www.chestnutridge-park.com or call the park office at 304-594-1773.
sTargazeContinued from PAGE 1
Preston said. For the first time, the
Morgantown Police De-partment is turning to so-cial media as a means to identify those involved in the events.
According to a recent re-lease from the Morgantown Police Department, through efforts of law enforcement and the help of the public through tips, social media and news media, several in-dividuals have been identi-fied committing illegal acts during last week’s riots and will be charged accordingly.
Through archiving pho-tos from students and local media platforms, Facebook and Twitter posts, YouTube videos and the city’s own surveillance, both the city
and University are working to identify those involved.
According to Farris, the University and local police departments have received an overwhelming response from community, state and region.
“Earlier today, I called (those responsible) hoo-ligans,” he said. “They are. Those weren’t Mountaineer fans. True fans wouldn’t do this.”
Farris said as student of-fenders continue to be iden-tified, they will face both University and local court disciplinary measures.
On the University side, he said, students found re-sponsible could face sus-pension or expulsion from the University.
“It is the hope of many that they will be prose-cuted to the fullest extent,” he said. “This will all con-
tinue to take place, as long as we continue to identify people in photos.”
Farris said as the Univer-sity works to develop a long-term solution to the issue, he wants focus on the Uni-versity to remain positive.
“WVU does have a whole lot to be proud of. There have been many great ac-complishments, and stu-dents have gone on and done some great things,” he said. “For the long-term, we need figure out how we channel all of the excite-ment that should be there in a positive way. Everything should be on the table.”
For more information, or to aid police in identifying any individuals responsible, visit the Morgantown Po-lice Department’s Facebook page, or call 304-284-7522.
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in?’” she said.The Orientation Trips
bring these students to-gether and help them con-nect, Minana said.
“The sleeping in tents, day hikes, rock climb-ing, backpacking, build-ing Habitat for Humanity houses – those are the tools we use to produce ‘belong-ingness,’” she said.
Upon their return, stu-dents are asked to write re-flection papers about their trips, and Minana has no-ticed a trend in student responses.
“It is not uncommon to see: ‘This was the best ex-perience of my life; I didn’t know what I was before this trip – I met all my best friends on this trip,’” she said. “It never ceases to amaze me how we impact people.”
Orientation Trips host approximately 600 students annually. The Sophomore Outdoor Adventure Reori-entation (SOAR) is a similar program offered to incom-ing sophomores that hosts 20 students each year.
Apart from the orienta-tion programs, Adventure WV offers between three
and four study-abroad trips per year.
Students can go snorkel-ing off the coast of Fiji, kay-aking in the pristine lakes of Patagonia, explore the history of Machu Picchu in Peru and backpack through the mountains of New Zea-land – all while earning col-lege credit.
“I think study abroad will grow you,” Minana said. “I will always advocate for students to have these ex-periences, because you’re going to learn things you’ll never learn from a book.”
These trips allow stu-dents to learn about ec-otourism, history, sus-tainable development and back-country liv-ing in exotic, hands-on environments.
Minana said she believes these trips are perfect op-portunities for interested students.
“If somebody has any inkling, a want to expand their comfort zone and see the world, they should go in this group setting. There’s something fundamen-tal in realizing that we are part of this bigger picture,” she said. “This is going to change your world.”
Erin Irwin, a sophomore journalism student, at-tended the School of Jour-
nalism Orientation Trip through Adventure WV.
“I’m really glad I went, because now I have some of my best friends from that trip,” she said. “We all started out together, and I’ve never felt that lonely feeling about being at school and not knowing anyone.”
Besides meeting friends, Irwin said she met profes-sional contacts who helped her earn an internship.
“It was a networking tool, and I got to meet a lot of my professors,” she said. “I wouldn’t have gotten an in-ternship if it wasn’t for the trip.”
Robert Riddle, an animal and nutritional sciences student, went on an Orien-tation Trip and is now re-turning as a student leader.
“You get to engage your-self with people in an en-vironment without cell-phones or technology, which really lets you rely on each other,” he said. “I wanted to go back and be able to give incom-ing freshmen the same opportunities.”
To learn more about Ad-venture WV’s upcoming programs, visit http://ad-venturewv.wvu.edu.
advenTureContinued from PAGE 1
HIGHLIGHTSDIVERSITY WEEKTHURSDaY, OCT. 18MONDaY, OCT. 15
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WeLLWVU
bringing Some GLee to Diversity Week: Social Justice on the TV Screen
WVU Dance Group
Does Diversity Matter?
The Islamic Hijab
The Power of Privilege
The Value of a Veteran
Journey Series: Living the Journey
connecting With everyone
creating community: A Forum About bullying
What is your reAL color? communication and the Value of Team Diversity
Native American Luncheon
Safe Zone (for students)
equality For All? Not If You’re Fat
Diversity Week roundtable
The Importance of Voting: Lessons from Suffragists
Social Media Impacts
Life rolls On!
We’re a culture, Not a costume
Peace Tree ceremony
WVU African Dance and Music ensemble
Taste of Desserts From Around the World
creating Inclusive conversations from the classroom to the boardroom
The Modoc War
25th Annual Women of color Luncheon
Israeli Folk Dance: One circle Many cultures
Journey Series: The Integral experience of a Day Dreamer
Telling Amy’s Story
everyone Must Get Stoned!
The DreAM AcT: Why can’t We All Just Find Agreement?
Deaf Jam
Pitch an eco Idea
Morgantown International Festival
WVU Hip Hop
Zumba Gold
Journey Series: Kenya for Life
engineering experience Overseas
Improve Your Learning with read and Write Gold
Women’s Soccer: WVU vs. Oklahoma
ballroom Dance Lessons
beautify Your bin
Airbrush Tattoos
“World Dance Party”
* For more information and a full schedule of events, visit http://www.socialjustice.wvu.edu/news/2012/9/14/2012-diversity-week-schedule
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American Airlines stumbles on path to recovery
ApMore than 200 American Airline pilots march on a picket line at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.
DALLAS (AP) — Just weeks ago, American Airlines was working its way through bankruptcy court, on sched-ule for one of the fastest turnarounds in aviation his-tory. Planes were full. Rev-enue was pouring in. Then seemingly overnight, Ameri-can became the butt of jokes from Facebook to late-night TV.
A slowdown that Ameri-can blamed on pilots caused massive delays and cancel-lations. Then rows of seats came loose on a few planes. Passengers wondered if they’d get where they were going on time – and in one piece.
“American Airlines has a new slogan,” Jay Leno joked on NBC’s “The Tonight Show.” ‘’Your seat is free to move about the cabin.”
Some travel experts ad-vised booking on other airlines to avoid getting stranded on American. Low-cost rival Spirit Airlines picked on American with this ad: “We let low fares loose, not seats.”
American’s on-time re-cord fell well below its com-petitors, and its cancella-tions were the highest of any airline. There are signs that the trouble – which began in September when Ameri-can threw out the union con-tract of its pilots – is causing passengers to switch. Do-mestic traffic fell by 7.1 per-cent in September from the
same month a year earlier. No other major airline expe-rienced a drop like that.
Thomas W. Horton, CEO of American and parent AMR Corp., acknowledges that a few weeks in Septem-ber were “very difficult on our customers.” American has said little else to ease customers’ concerns.
Horton and other execu-tives instead steer conversa-tions toward the airline’s re-cent financial performance, which by many measures has led the industry. For six straight months, Ameri-can – the nation’s third-larg-est airline – has reported larger gains in a key reve-nue-per-mile statistic than rivals United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and US Airways. But its profit margin continues to lag.
AMR, which filed for Chapter 11 in late Novem-ber, could still emerge from bankruptcy protection early in 2013. That would mark a quicker turnaround than the 38 months it took United and the 19 months for Delta.
Such speed would im-press the bankruptcy court, creditors and potential in-vestors, but it wouldn’t boost Jason Case’s confidence in the beleaguered airline.
“I haven’t scheduled any of my upcoming flights on American because of the uncertainty,” says Case, who owns a consulting business in Brookhaven, Miss., and
usually flies twice a week on either American or South-west. He says he booked on Delta and Southwest instead.
American has offered pas-sengers a refund if their flight is delayed more than two hours and they choose not to fly. They also can switch to another American flight at no charge or fly on another airline, if seats are available.
Robert Mittelstaedt, an aviation expert and dean of the business school at Ari-zona State University, says it’s critical that American show more empathy for pas-sengers. “The biggest prob-lem they have right now is the potential to lose their most-frequent fliers,” he says.
American spokesman Mike Trevino says the com-pany “communicated what we knew as soon as we knew it. As for reassuring passen-gers, the best way to do that is to identify the cause of a problem and fix it. That’s what happened.”
American has a long his-tory of problems – it lost about $10 billion from 2001 to 2010. The airline’s recent troubles began Sept. 4, when a federal bankruptcy court judge let it throw out the pi-lots’ contract and set its own pay and work rules.
Almost immediately, de-lays started to pile up as some pilots called in sick or wrote up more maintenance issues. Some, the airline sug-gested, were trivial. A flight
from Philadelphia to Miami was delayed 80 minutes be-cause of missing springs in the co-pilot’s seat. Pilots’ union officials denied an or-ganized slowdown.
Only 59 percent of Amer-ican’s flights arrived on time in September, according to flight-tracking service Flight-Stats.com. United’s on-time percentage was 81 percent, and the other big U.S. carri-ers – Delta, Southwest and US Airways – were all at least 86 percent. American also canceled 1,391 flights last month, more than any other airline.
The airline’s chief com-mercial officer, Virasb Va-hidi, concedes that Ameri-can lost money because of the problems. It had to put some displaced passengers on other airlines, and saw a downturn in last-minute bookings – expensive tickets usually purchased by busi-ness travelers.
American’s cancellations have declined and on-time performance has improved in the past two weeks, since it threatened to haul the pi-lots’ union into court over the slowdown and the two sides resumed negotiations on a new contract. But it’s still struggling. American’s on-time rate was just 65 per-cent Wednesday, 11 points lower than its closest major rival.
As that crisis receded, another arose. On three
flights, rows of seats came loose on Boeing 757s that had recently gone through cabin renovations that in-volved removing and rein-stalling the seats. The airline grounded 48 planes for re-pairs and canceled 94 flights late last week, inconvenienc-ing about 14,000 passengers.
The seat issue likely got more attention because American was already in the spotlight over the delays.
Two days in a row, ABC News led off “Good Morn-ing America” with updates on the loose seats.
“It could be sabotage, or it could just be sloppiness. But either way, it’s kind of a di-saster for the airline,” George Hobica, founder of Airfare-Watchdog.com, said on the show.
American rushed to say the incidents had nothing to do with its bankruptcy status or labor relations.
The cause of the loose seats – which American first blamed on a part called a saddle clamp, then on soda and other gunk gumming up the locking mechanism on seat-row feet – might not matter. The damage to its reputation was done.
Henry Harteveldt, a travel-industry analyst and co-founder of Atmosphere Research Group, says Amer-ican “has descended into and now below mediocrity. It doesn’t lead in anything that matters to customers. It
doesn’t lead in on-time per-formance, product innova-tion or the best customer service.”
Granted, other airlines have also hit rough patches during bankruptcy. US Air-ways had a public relations nightmare over the 2004 Christmas holiday when bad weather and a staffing short-age caused nearly 4,000 de-lays and hundreds of can-cellations. Many employees angry about wage cuts and the restructuring called in sick or refused to work extra hours.
Some think American can still regain travelers’ trust with a few months of good, solid performance.
“If I’m a traveler who has a choice, I wouldn’t book them right now,” says Bob McA-doo, an analyst with Impe-rial Capital LLC and a for-mer airline executive. “But once this is over, I’ll go back to picking them for the same reason I did in the first place, whether it was their schedule or something else.”
Mitzi Campbell, a man-agement consultant from the Dallas area and top-tier elite flier with American, says she has no plans to abandon the airline.
“I’ve had one minor de-lay, no cancellations, and I have been flying every week” in the past several weeks, Campbell says. “The whole thing is getting blown out of proportion.”
Mont. Native Americans sue over lack of election servicesHELENA, Mont. (AP) —
Fifteen Native Americans are suing state and county officials over a lack of elec-tion services on three Mon-tana reservations, saying their inability to vote early or register late there is an unconstitutional denial of equal voting access.
The plainti f fs on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Billings to issue an emergency order requiring the state and counties to open satellite election of-fices on the Crow, North-ern Cheyenne and Fort Belknap reservations.
They say they now must drive between 27 and 113 miles round trip to reach their county offices, the only places that allow in-person absentee voting and late registration, both of which began Tuesday.
“Our position is the state
has the duty to provide the same opportunities for ab-sentee voting as non-In-dians,” said plaintiffs’ at-torney Terryl Matt. “We have a system designed right now where non-Indi-ans can walk in and vote (absentee). So why can’t Indians?”
Traveling can pose an especially heavy finan-cial burden for residents of reservation communi-ties where unemployment rates can top 70 percent and the poverty rate is as high as 39 percent, the law-suit said.
Montanans can vote early by mail or by deliv-ering absentee ballots in person to county offices. Late registration begins at county offices a month be-fore Election Day.
Voting access on Elec-tion Day is not an issue in
the lawsuit.Secretary of State Linda
McCulloch said Thursday she sympathizes with the plaintiffs and would sup-port opening satellite of-fices. However, she added, a legal opinion from the state attorney general’s office on the matter said the offices are discretion-ary and the state elections agency can’t force the in-dividual counties to open
them.Also, time is running
short before the Nov. 6 election.
“I think their claims have merit. I wish they would have started it a year or more ago,” McCull-och said.
Matt said Blackfeet tribal leaders first made their re-quest in May, but were de-nied until the attorney gen-eral’s opinion in July.
ApU.S. Sen. Jon Tester campaigns at the state Capitol in Helena, Mont., while dis-cussing election services for Native Americans.
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Did Joe Biden smile too much? How will Paul Ry-an’s anecdote about the bean-shaped embryo of his daughter poll with in-dependent voters in the key battleground states? Who “won” the debate?
These are some of the questions that dominated the pundit-led discussion following Thursday night’s vice presidential debate.
Our media’s obsession with winning and losing and the petty nuances of the candidates’ demean-ors, as opposed to the sub-stance and honesty un-derlying their arguments, underscores the increas-
ingly hollow nature of our public discourse.
Does the quantity of wa-ter Paul Ryan drank during the debate have any rel-evance whatsoever to his ability to serve as vice pres-ident? No? Then why was this trivial topic discussed after the debate?
The press has a responsi-bility to hold the candidates accountable after these de-bates by thoroughly fact-checking their statements. Biden and Ryan made sharply contradictory state-ments concerning a variety of issues including Medi-care, the state of the econ-omy and the recent terrorist
attack in Benghazi, Libya. When the candidates utter such differing statements on matters of fact, one of them isn’t telling the truth. So why, then, is our media wasting the valuable op-portunity to set the record straight by instead debating the political implications of it all?
This ratings-driven ob-session with the horse-race and disregard for accountability only con-tributes to the polarization of our population and our government.
According to a recent Pew poll, this polariza-tion is at its highest point
in decades, and there can be no questioning that it has contributed to the po-litical gridlock in Washing-ton, which is also at historic levels.
The Daily Athenaeum had the opportunity to sit down with Sen. John D. Rockefeller last week to discuss Congress’s un-precedented inability to get things done. Sen. Rock-efeller lamented that the current Congress’s paraly-sis is worse than anything he has seen throughout his 25-year career in the Senate. To illustrate this, Rockefeller described the frustration he faced when
trying to compromise with Republicans on the health care reform bill.
Even though there were individuals on the Repub-lican side who believed in the necessity of health care reform and wanted to vote for the bill, they were ulti-mately pressured to vote against it by a party leader-ship hell-bent on obstruct-ing the president, even if it meant preventing action on an issue they all agreed needed to be dealt with. This anecdote illustrates everything that is wrong with our political system.
We need our leaders on both sides of the aisle to
understand there are times when disingenuous politi-cal rhetoric needs to be set aside for the good of our country.
However, when our pol-iticians know their feet won’t be held to the fire if they stretch the truth, they will not hesitate to conjure convenient “facts” that make their opponents look bad.
And when our politi-cians can’t even agree on the facts – at least publicly– how can we expect them to work together behind closed doors?
To say my Face-book and Twitter news-feeds were blowing up after the presidential de-bate last week would be an understatement.
Personally, I would de-scribe the magnitude of posts from friends and fellow students to be more akin to an atom bomb—it seemed like everybody I knew had an opinion about something, from economic policies to health care reforms.
Now, shocking as this may be, I love opinions. I’m an advocate for people ex-pressing their ideas and be-liefs, even if they do concern issues such as Mitt Romney’s hairdo. But with everyone I know complaining about Obama’s expenditures or Romney’s “47 percent” state-ment, I learned something remarkable: Politics suck.
Don’t get me wrong—I respect people who do their homework and research opinions, and I love a good debate—just not about poli-tics. In fact, unlike everyone else, I have absolutely no po-litical statements to make, except about how I don’t like political statements.
I personally stay out of the political pool—and suggest others do as well—because at the end of the day, poli-tics only ends up making our nation bitter and divided. At a time when the country should be coming together and working for a common goal, we are too busy over-analyzing the Republicans vs. Democrats battle that we ultimately lose sight of the big picture—the betterment of our people.
In fact, the whole “polit-ical party” idea is toxic in and of itself—given that our country has seen both excel-lent Republican and Dem-ocratic presidents, it’s rea-sonable to conclude that both Democrats and Repub-licans, as well as other par-ties, have ideas that help our nation succeed.
But choosing one side over another and discrimi-nating against people of dif-ferent parties is not the way to achieve a better United States. Instead of promoting the idea of cohesion, politics serve to divide our commu-
nity and promote sour rela-tions among us.
But the bitterness doesn’t end there. The head bash-ing of political debates, even amateur ones among stu-dents, is over-dramatized. Many politically-minded in-dividuals are heated about this policy or that, and are quick to become irate when someone opposes their be-liefs. In fact, people become so incensed about their opinions meeting counter-opinions that often anger is more prominent in a debate than logic and facts.
But why do we involve
ourselves in this labyrinth of resentment? Yes, it’s won-derful that Americans are so opinionated. Yes, it’s im-portant that everyone has a voice and that these voices are not quieted by an over-bearing government but are instead encouraged in our country.
And yes, it’s even informa-tive and interesting to watch the presidential debate to know where each candidate stands.
But our individual opin-ions are irrelevant; all that matters is who we choose to place in the Oval Office.
If you have an opinion that Romney shares, then vote for him.
If Obama’s statements are more significant to you, then by all means, choose to elect him for another four years. But allowing our opinions to come between us as peo-ple does not lead to a better America; it leads to a divided one.
So don’t allow yourself to be drawn into the political animosity.
Accept that everyone has an opinion, that yours is one of them, and that it is neither better nor worse than any-
one else’s. Every opinion has an equal weight when we vote for our next president, so why bother discriminat-ing against an opposing one?
Whatever happens in the next few years, it is impera-tive that we all accept it and learn from our successes and mistakes, because both candidates will have their share of the two.
Keep a cool head, or—if you’re like me—just stay out of it altogether. But in the meantime, I’ll be sure to stay off social networking sites when the next presidential debate rolls around.
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APVice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky, Thursday.
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BORN TODAY You will be able to an-swer that question this year. You often will feel overwhelmed. You might not know which way to go or what choices to make. Stay as level as possible, and be sure to express your authentic-ity and kindness. By centering your-self, you will make good decisions. If you are single, check out a potential sweetie with care. This person might be withdrawn or emotionally unavail-able.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Communication is active, which pres-ents you with many possibilities. Schedule a lengthy lunch with some-one of interest, as you have much to share with this person. Your ability to get past a problem demonstrates once more an innate resilience. To-night: Out with a couple of friends.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Your creativity soars. Though some ideas might seem a little off-the-wall, you’ll share them with someone who is open and willing to tell you his or her thoughts. You’ll hear from an in-dividual who might be pivotal in the near future. Throughout the day, your softer side emerges. You’ll laugh with ease and share a lot. Tonight: Christen the weekend well.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Be aware that you might be left to your own devices. Invite a friend to join you, or consider making other plans. The pressure you feel to always seem upbeat could become trouble-some. Share your feelings more often. Others might think you are a handful, as you’ll want to let go and enjoy your-self. Tonight: Let your wild child out.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Express feelings you normally hold back. Be direct with a family mem-ber. Your ability to share can only en-hance the present situation. Do not worry about what is happening; you will land on your feet. You are like a cat with nine lives. Let your instincts guide you. Tonight: Out and about.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Oth-ers gravitate toward you. You could have mixed feelings about taking a risk with a recent expenditure. A loved one might like to pitch in and help you. Consider whether you can deal with the negative ramifications, then decide. Friends surround you. Tonight: TGIF with the gang.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH The Moon in Virgo highlights you, whether you’re dealing with a pow-erful figure in your life or just being yourself at work or at home. Others find your willingness to be vulnera-ble appealing. In the near future -- if not today -- you will receive an offer that might be too good to be true. You have earned it. Tonight: Lead the gang into the weekend.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHH You might not be comfortable with recent events. You could misinterpret what someone says and take away a differ-ent meaning than was intended. You smile, and others are drawn in. Are you willing to open up? Tonight: Do a quick vanishing act.
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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Eyes tend to follow you. Are you being admired? Talked about or envied? Be aware that others are more observant than you initially thought, especially a boss. You might want to move forward with a project. This could be the perfect time for it, as long as you don’t make it personal or private. Tonight: Go where you want to be.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH You want feedback from someone at a distance. Unless you ask, it might not be forthcoming. How you see a situation could change dramati-cally after detaching and/or once you let other perspectives in. Do not hold back with a friend; share your feelings. Tonight: Take off ASAP.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Rethink an important relationship in your life. How you handle a personal matter could change. You might not be ready to make a grand an-nouncement just yet, but you will soon enough. Your creativity is on the upswing. Tonight: Your mood is contagious.
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The West Virginia Moun-taineer volleyball team re-corded its sixth-consecu-tive defeat against No. 23 Iowa State, losing in three straight sets (14-25, 13-25, 16-25) Wednesday.
Th e Mou nt a i n e e r s struggled to get going in the first set and continued their struggles as the game progressed, being held to a season-low .010 hit per-centage and recording 21 errors, scoring 22 kills as a team.
West Virginia’s Nikki At-tea and Elzbieta Klein led the team with six kills each, with Klein also leading the team in digs at 12. Attea has settled down quite a bit this month after a Septem-ber in which she recorded double-digit kills in all but three matches.
The Mountaineers have not had much luck with their Big 12 Conference schedule so far in the sea-son and their loss to the Cy-clones brings their confer-ence record to 0-6 as they head into Saturday’s match against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech.
“Honestly, I don’t re-ally let it get to me,” said West Virginia outside hitter Hannah Sackett. “I’m just happy to be here, to be on the court every day with these girls. I’m lucky. We have such great chemistry and we just get along so
well that I know this (los-ing streak) is going to end.”
The Mountaineers will return home to face Texas Tech Oct. 13 and will be looking for strong perfor-mances from their fresh-man core as they hope to end their losing streak and record their first Big 12 victory.
The Red Raiders will have similar goals enter-ing Saturday’s game. The team has a nine-game los-ing streak and familiar 0-5 conference record.
Both teams have strug-gled with the juggernaut that is Big 12 volleyball, and neither team has been successful in its matches
against the Big 12’s ranked members, as they are a combined 2-21 in sets against top 25 teams.
The Mountaineers will look to their strong hit-ting core to lead them past the Red Raiders, who have struggled to limit their opponents in kills and have suffered from nearly 100 service errors on the season.
A win against Texas Tech would bode well for the young West Virginia team as they enter the final 10 games of the season and hope to reach the end on a high note.
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When things got tough for the West Virginia men’s basketball team last sea-son, it could turn to Kevin Jones to come up with a big basket.
This season, after Jones and guard Truck Bryant graduated, the Mountain-eers will look to replace more than 50 percent of their points from last season.
Heading into the sea-son, they won’t be looking to just one or two players to take their place. It will have to be a team effort.
And in head coach Bob Huggins’ experience, sometimes that’s the best way to go about it.
“When I had a group of guys and you couldn’t key so much on a certain guy, we were harder to guard, because you never knew where it was coming from. Hopefully we can do that,” Huggins said. “Hopefully we can get points from a variety of places and take advantage of what they’re doing.”
Much like they tried to do more of last season, the Mountaineers are going to try to run the floor more. With sophomores Juwan Staten, Jabarie Hinds and
Gary Browne, WVU will have three point guards with experience handling the ball the majority of the time to help get that tran-sition game going more often.
“It’s going to be real good. We’re all really com-fortable whenever we have the ball in our hands,” Hinds said. “Whoever gets it, we’ll be able to push it up the court and make things happen. It’s going to be real exciting.”
Hinds and Browne will be two of the five sopho-mores on this year’s team who played their first sea-son at West Virginia a year ago.
Huggins is already see-ing the group make signif-icant strides, which will be expected to do a lot more this season.
“We’re a lot better, but we’re a lot better for a lot of reasons,” Huggins said. “They’re so much more comfortable with what they’re doing.
“You can’t think and play. If you think, it’s al-ready done. It’s so much a game of reaction and, with a year under their belt, they’re so much better.”
But with more expecta-tions come more responsi-bilities for the group.
“We can’t make little
mistakes we used to make,” Browne said. “Right now we’re all looking forward to being more of a team and make sure everybody is ready to do what it takes to win games and be suc-cessful in the Big 12.”
And they’ll be looking to make more contributions while adjusting to a new conference in their first sea-son in the new conference.
While the Big East Con-ference is always thought of as one of the premier con-ferences in the country, the veteran head coach said the Mountaineers will have to be ready every night in the Big 12. West Virginia was picked Thursday to finish in sixth place in the league.
“I love the Big East, and there were 10 teams that were as good as anybody. But there were also five or six teams that never made the NCAA tournament while I was there,” Hug-gins said. “Honestly, we couldn’t play well at home, and we’d still beat some of those teams (in the Big East). We can’t do that in the Big 12.
“I think their prepara-tion will be terrific because of the quality of coaching. If we’re the sixth-best team, it’s a hell of a league.”
4.5 sacks – the best among NFL rookies. Some media outlets have reported Irvin could be a very strong con-tender for NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, an honor shared by players such as Lawrence Taylor, Charles Woodson, Brian Urlacher and Julius Peppers, among others.
Just days ago, Irvin forced a critical fumble from Pan-thers quarterback Cam New-ton, the NFL’s most daz-zling rookie from a year ago, which was recovered by a teammate to seal a vital win for the Seahawks in Week 5.
Irvin has also been criti-cized because of his size, and even though at 6-foot-3 and 248-pounds, Irvin is any-thing but small by normal standards, the majority of the personnel in the NFL are a different breed of athletes.
What sets Irvin apart from others is his ability and speed. It’s been mentioned Irvin may even be tried out at an outside linebacker po-sition at some point.
The 25-year-old Atlanta, Ga., native may not be able to play every down yet in the league, but with the amount and quality of capable team-mates and coaches around him in Seattle, Irvin is in an ideal situation to not only contribute right away, as ev-ident from his 4.5 sacks in just five games, but to learn how to continue progress-ing while simultaneously becoming a more complete player overall.
Irvin is currently thought of as strictly a third-down, pass-rushing specialist, but I really think Irvin has the tools, desire and ability to become an immensely effec-tive pass rusher who plays a
majority of downs, like Jason Pierre-Paul.
And frankly, the way the NFL is evolving into more and more of a pass-happy league every year, the value of an explosive edge rusher has never been higher.
That’s why as long as Irvin can stay focused on and off the field, which I don’t think will be a problem, there’s a great chance Irvin will not only become a perennial threat for double-digit sacks every season, but can even-tually learn to be more ef-fective against defending against opponent’s rushing attacks, as well.
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By Shea UliSNeySportS writer
No. 16 West Virginia women’s soccer team re-turns home after suc-cess on the road to com-pete against No. 20 Baylor tonight at 7:00 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium
Both teams are unde-feated in Big 12 Conference play.
West Virginia is now on a seven-match winning streak, with wins last week-end against Kansas and Iowa State.
“(Baylor) is a very good team. They lead the Big 12 in every statistic, from fouls, to goals, to goals against,” said head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown. “We’re seeing a team with an RPI of 15 and we’re at 27, so we definitely have our hands full.”
“They’re a good team, very physical,” said sopho-more forward Kate Schwin-del. “We have to be men-tally and physically tough, and I think we’re prepared.”
Tonight’s game will ac-knowledge the talents of the WVU seniors for senior night. Mountaineer fans can catch one of 50 WVU women’s soccer scarves that will be tossed into the stands at halftime.
The 2012 seniors include two defenders, one midfielder, one forward, one goalkeeper and one team manager. Together they have combined for 261 games played with a record of 54-21-10 under the direc-tion of Izzo-Brown.
The 54 wins rank as the No. 24 best mark in the country during the last four seasons.
Forwards Frances Silva and Kate Schwindel lead the offense with a com-bined 18 goals and nine assists.
Schwindel was named NSCAA National Player of the Week and Big 12 Offen-sive Player of the Week af-ter her five-point weekend.
“That duet is tough to deal with,” Izzo-Brown said. “I’m confident in them and I believe in them and I’m glad they’re on my team.”
The Mountaineer de-fense has recorded six shut-outs this season and WVU has held 10 of 15 opponents to five shots on-goal or less.
Baylor currently leads the Big 12 in every offensive statistical category: points (103, 7.36), goals (37), as-sists (29) and shots (316, 22.57). Defensively, the Bears led the Big 12 with nine shutouts in 14 games, giving them a shutout per-centage of .643.
Head coach Marci Jobson is in her fifth season with Baylor. Jobson lead her 2011 team to its first NCAA tour-nament appearance since 1999 and its first ever tour-nament victory.
Baylor has been un-beaten in its last 10 matches, since its double-overtime loss against Long Beach State, 2-1.
The Bears have a 2-0-1 re-cord in the Big 12, the first
time Baylor has been un-beaten in its opening three league games since 1998.
Forward Dana Larsen leads the Bears in team points with 18, including seven goals and four as-sists. Midfielder Lisa Sliwin-ski has scored four goals in the last five games.
The Bears have tallied nine shutouts in 14 games. Sophomore goalkeeper Mi-chelle Kloss has allowed seven goals in 14 matches for a 0.51 goals-against average.
Admission is free for WVU students with a valid student ID, $5 for adults, and $3 for youths, 18 and under, and seniors. Tickets are $2 per person for groups of 10 or more.
“I hope people pay trib-ute to support our unbeaten streak but also to support our seniors,” Izzo-Brown said. “I want us to lead the Big 12 in attendance, and hopefully we can do that (tonight).”
Patrick Gorrell/the Daily athenaeumSophomore forward Kate Schwindel and the No. 16 West Virginia women’s soc-cer team will look to win its eighth straight match against No. 20 Baylor tonight.
No. 18 Mountaineers set to host hartwick
By aMit BatraSportS writer
The No. 18 West Vir-ginia men’s soccer team looks to finish out a three-game homestand with a crucial win against the Hartwick Hawks Sunday afternoon.
The Mountaineers are coming off a 2-0 shut-out win over Buffalo last weekend. WVU is 7-3-2 on the season.
The Hawks are 3-5-2 in 2012. Hartwick is 0-4-1 away from home and 1-1-0 in the Mid-Ameri-can Conference.
While WVU has a dom-inant home record, Hart-wick has taken care of the inferior opponents this season, while battling against the more difficult foes. The Hawks have lost games against No. 22 Cor-nell, Colgate, Northern Il-linois, Robert Morris and Saint Joseph’s.
Senior forward Cleyon Brown will be leading the Hawks into Morgantown. Brown has five goals and an assist on the season. He’s had 23 shots, 10 shots-on-goal and 11 points in Hartwick’s 10 games.
In a 3-0 win vs. NJIT, Brown had two goals on three shots. He was able to score against a ranked op-ponent in Cornell, as well.
WVU looks to gain mo-mentum from this game into the biggest remaining game of the regular season Oct. 20 against Akron.
Still, any outcome can occur on the soccer field, as West Virginia learned earlier this season against an Elon opponent that won in the last five minutes.
The Mountaineers look to come into Sunday’s game with extra rest fol-lowing a tough beginning slate with a lot of games in a 10-day span.
“We’re through that aw-ful, rigorous part of our schedule,” said WVU head
coach Marlon LeBlanc. “There is a correlation that our two worst results hap-pened during those two 10-day stretches where we had so many games. I think it’s the unfortunate effect of the conference change.
“Now, we get a little more balance back in it and we can rest our guys. We can get more coaching in during the week instead of just resting between games.”
The Mountaineers are 2-1-1 in the MAC to this point in the season. West Virginia tied with West-ern Michigan on the road while beating Florida At-lantic and Buffalo at home.
WVU has been on a tear with the advantage in shots and scoring opportunities over the opponent lately.
In the Mountaineers’ 12 games thus far, 12 players have scored at least one goal. Senior defender Eric
Schoenle leads the way with five goals for West Virginia.
It will be interesting to see who starts for WVU as only nine players have played every match this season. Various different starting lineups and rota-tions have been of use for LeBlanc to this point in the season.
Senior goalkeeper Yale Tiley took over for Pat Eav-enson against Buffalo Sun-day for his second start of the season. Tiley has played in three games on the year.
The Mountaineers are outshooting their oppo-nents 191-91 and have 11 more goals, as well - 21-10.
West Virginia will need to do more of the same Sunday at Dick Dlesk Soc-cer Stadium. It all gets un-derway at 1 p.m.
tyler herrinton/the Daily athenaeumSenior defender Eric Schoenle and the No. 18 WVU men’s soccer team host Hart-wick Sunday.
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No. 4 West Virginia looks to stay perfect in road tilt with Texas TechBy Nick arthUr
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After returning from the Lone Star State only five short days ago, the No. 4 West Virginia football team will make another trip to Texas.
West Virginia (5-0, 2-0) travels to Texas Tech (4-1, 1-1) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in hopes of earning bowl eligi-bility for the 11th consecu-tive year.
The Mountaineers
scrapped out a road win against No. 11 Texas Sat-urday, while the Red Raid-ers fell at home to No. 17 Oklahoma.
The loss was Texas Tech’s first of the season.
“Texas Tech is a good football team,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “They had a set-back last week, but they’ll be ready to go. From their fan standpoint, there will be some 60,000 people that will be anxious to get a crack at
the Mountaineers.”Something has to give in
Lubbock, Texas as Holgors-en’s offensive unit is averag-ing more than 50 points per game and the Red Raider de-fense is allowing less than 17 points per outing.
“Defensively, they’re (the Red Raiders) one of the top teams in the coun-try. They have given up 200 yards per game, so people haven’t moved the ball on them,” Holgorsen said. “We were in here 16 hours yester-day trying to figure out cre-ative ways to get first downs. They do a good job against the run, they do a good job against the pass, and they create turnovers. And we’re going to have to play as good as we have all year offensively.”
In order for West Virginia to be successful on offense, it must continue to get Heis-
man-like play from its senior quarterback Geno Smith. Smith has logged 24 pass-ing touchdowns on the sea-son and is still yet to throw an interception.
But the latter statistic isn’t discussed often in the sec-ond-year head coach’s office.
“We don’t talk about that. We talk about completions and putting the ball where you need to put the ball,” Holgorsen said. “The pro-tection has to be good, and we have to run the ball good to keep some heat off Geno, as far as having him have to throw the ball into eight peo-ple who are dropping. When the ball is in the air, it’s up to the receiver to attack it and makes sure it is ours.”
This will be first trip in WVU program history to Lubbock. Many players don’t know what to expect in the new venue, but they
do know one thing – the at-mosphere will be hostile.
”There will be 60,000 that care about their football,” Holgorsen said. “We need to get used to being in those types of environments and having those types of games. That’s why we wanted to be in the Big 12.”
West Virginia has played in rowdy environments in each of its last two games, including playing in front of more than 100,000 fans against Texas.
It appears loud at-mospheres are a com-mon theme in the Big 12 Conference.
“I can’t wait; if they all thought that (against Texas) was fun and Baylor was fun, then they will probably have a good time this weekend,” Holgorsen said.
Irvin proving first-round
valueFormer West Virginia de-
fensive end Bruce Irvin is making a memorable debut for the first five games of his rookie season in the NFL.
In April, many NFL-en-thusiasts outside the state of West Virginia scratched their heads when the Seat-tle Seahawks used its first-round pick – the 15th over-all selection of the 2012 NFL draft – to select the Moun-taineers’ Irvin, despite the fact he tallied 22.5 sacks in just two electrifying seasons in Morgantown.
Still, the overwhelming belief about Irvin was the Se-ahawks had “made a reach” in selecting Irvin so early, but there were others who knew the capabilities of the young, explosive pass rusher.
“This might be the most natural pass rusher in the en-tire draft,” said Mike Mayock, former NFL safety and cur-rent color commentator for the NFL Network as Irvin came off the board in April.
The red flags of the ex-plosive pass rusher’s off-the-field past were immedi-ately brought into question by critics, but Seattle head coach Pete Carroll, who is notorious for taking chances on players with off-the-field issues, didn’t hesitate to make a splash in the 2012 draft right away by taking Irvin much higher than he was projected by most me-dia associations.
And through the early part of the season, Carroll and Se-attle’s front office decision have been completely vindi-cated by the explosive play of Irvin in his first five games.
The rookie defensive end is second on the team with
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BTBAM is the ideal progressive metal band
Bizarre time signatures, polka sections, space-rock, spoken word, furious shredding and blast beats are not usually considered concepts that can be suc-cessfully utilized together, but they’re the kind of el-ements that Between the Buried and Me combines with apparent ease.
Whether or not you per-sonally appreciate metal, know that BTBAM are vir-tuosos in the truest sense.
Their latest effort, the highly anticipated “The Parallax Part 2: Future Sequence,” was released Oct. 6 by Metal Blade Re-cords, and the boys of BT-BAM have again crafted a masterpiece.
The album begins with a calming and beautiful acoustic intro on “Good-bye to Everything.”
Vocalist Tommy Rog-ers and lead guitarist Paul Waggoner capture their inner Pink Floyd, creating a soundscape filled with rich, slow-moving melody and just enough haunting chill to remind you this is actually a metal album.
But, as is expected from the band, the next track quickly takes a turn in the opposite direction. “Astral Body” is highlighted by an uplifting opening riff fol-lowed by an abundance of tasteful guitar noodling.
Unlike the band’s last album, “The Great Mis-direct,” the songs are co-hesive on “The Paral-lax II: Future Sequence.” While the musical mood changes, the tone and themes flow throughout. This notion is more in line with their most critically heralded effort, “Colors.”
The album doesn’t leave the heavy at home either. “Lay Your Ghosts to Rest” is a 10-minute, slamming, spiraling, rage-fueled de-scent, which stems out into a chorus that is su-premely bouncy and uti-lizes some really interest-ing melodic patterns and harmonies.
This is the magic of this band – nothing is out of bounds as long as it works. Just when you think they’ve gone too far with experimentation, they bring it back to another moment that leaves you absolutely floored.
Tracks six and seven, “Parallax” and “The Black Box,” respectively, are rela-tively short, but they serve as welcome and dynamic changes of pace.
When things pick back up on “Telos,” the record’s single, they do so with force and immediacy.
This track offers one of the most memorable sec-tions of the release when a crushing groove guitar line gives way to a catchy vocal melody.
The band then exhib-its its signature chemis-try on “Bloom,” with ex-plosions of greatness. While the track isn’t tied together very well, it is much shorter at only 3:30, so it isn’t a significant fault. Plus, it has a shred-ding piano line, which is awesome.
The next track, “Melt-ing City,” is the only com-plete misfire on the album. It simply doesn’t go any-where or say anything mu-sically – a rare filler track from an otherwise excel-lent band.
The last few tracks, which total to more than 30 minutes of music, pick up the slack. It provided an end the album with a veritable big-bang of brutality.
Waggoner apparently woke up on the wrong side of the bed the day he recorded the sick riffs on “Silent Figures,” because they have an extra agita-tion about them the other songs just lack.
In addition, the jam ses-sion that ends the song is on par with the group’s finest work to date.
On the highest possible note, the band brings ev-erything full-circle, neatly wrapping everything with a big bow on “Goodbye to Everthing Reprise,” further cementing themselves as the Pink Floyd of metal.
Overall, there are very few moments when the songs seem too long or overdone – the big-gest knock on Between the Buried and Me for detractors.
There are more than enough brilliantly crafted songs here for this criti-cism to prove insignifi-cant, especially given the misses are in the smallest of minorities.
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“Arrow,” the latest in a string of superhero screen adaptations, premiered its first season Wednesday on The CW network. The new series is based on DC Com-ics’ character Green Ar-row, but with some minor changes to the story.
The show follows charac-ter Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) as he returns home to Starling City after being shipwrecked on an island for five years and presumed dead. His father perished in the accident, as well as the sister of Queen’s then-girl-friend, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy).
Taking a turn from the comic’s storyline, the first episode introduced Queen’s mother, Moira (Susanna Thompson) and younger sister Thea (Willa Holland). The addition of these char-acters add a lot of emotional depth and grounding to Amell’s character and high-light the dramatic aspects of the show.
After returning home, Qu e e n i m m e d i at e l y steps back into his previ-ous spoiled-rich-kid per-sona. He allows his friend Tommy Merlyn (Colin Don-nell) to throw him an elabo-rate “Welcome Home” party and admits to Lance his de-sire for debauchery. How-ever, it is made evident to the viewer this isn’t Queen’s real personality anymore. In the
various flashback scenes, as well as his personal relation-ship with his sister, Thea, we see that Queen has changed deeply from his former self.
And, of course, the most obvious clue of this transfor-mation is Queen’s new habit of dressing in a green hood and face paint and taking down criminals.
We eventually learn, through a series of flash-backs, the reasons for this adopted vigilante persona.
While stranded on a life raft in the ocean, Queen’s fa-ther sacrificed himself and a fellow passenger to give his son the best chance at sur-vival. His dying words to his son were, “Right my wrongs,” which Queen apparently took very seriously.
The scenes featuring Amell as Green Arrow were by far my favorite of the epi-sode. While his life as Oliver Queen felt a little too dra-matic in the classic CW way, the scenes featuring him as Green Arrow stole the show. His character’s main weapon is his bow and arrow, but he also has extremely adept hand-to-hand combat skills, and no qualms about killing for the greater good.
My only complaint is many of the fight scenes leave a lot to the viewer’s imagination. I understand the network has certain limitations, but I would have really loved to see more of the action and less of the cut-aways.
The biggest question at this point is what happened
to Queen while he was ship-wrecked. The events on the island will be told through-out the season in the same gritty flashback style we saw in this first episode, slowly clueing us in on his myste-rious transformation period.
There will be a strong dis-tinction between the two sto-ries – the island flashbacks and Queen’s present-day life – but the two arcs will mir-ror one another thematically. In the second episode, the flashbacks will begin with him stepping foot on the is-land for the first time.
It’s no secret the major draw of this series is its rela-tionship to the comic books.
And, according to an inter-view with show producers Andrew Kreisberg (“Ware-house 13,” “Eli Stone”) and Marc Guggenheim (“Green Lantern,” “Eli Stone”) on col-lider.com, we will be seeing a lot more references to the DC Comic universe.
China White will appear in the second episode. Jessica De Gouw is set to play Hel-ena Bertinelli aka The Hunt-ress, a darker version of Ar-row who seeks revenge on her family for her father’s crime empire and will first appear in episode six.
Also in episode six will be The Royal Flush Gang, but with a more grounded ap-
proach than they take in the comics. “You’ll see with The Royal Flush Gang that the dy-namic of the family and the iconography of the playing cards are going to be there without the supernatural bent,” Kreisberg said.
A friend of Queen’s little sister, Thea, referred to her as “Speedy” in the premiere, but there haven’t been any confirmations about the character yet. Also set to play an unnamed character in the first season is John Barrow-man, who has acted in “Doc-tor Who” and “Torchwoood.”
However, if you’re getting your hopes up about any big-name DC characters in the
first season, don’t get too excited.
Kreisberg said, “As much as we love bringing in the DC comics characters, it’s really important to us that this is really a show about Oliver Queen. When you get too close to the massively iconic characters, like Batman and Superman, you’re starting to suggest that there’s a big-ger world outside of Starling City. For right now, we really want people to feel like Oli-ver Queen is the star of the show, because he is.”
“Arrow” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW Network.
http://www.greenarrowtv.com‘Arrow’ premiered on The CW Wednesday.
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It’s hard to say if NBC’s new “Chicago Fire” will last very long after just one epi-sode. For the most part, the characters and storylines have yet to be developed.
The show focuses on the characters, their lives and their relationships, both in and out of the firehouse. However, it doesn’t effec-tively connect with the audience.
In the pilot episode, which premiered Wednes-day night, the firefighters and rescue squad of Chi-cago’s Firehouse 51 are immediately called to a house fire in the opening moments of the show. Not long after they arrive, one of the men gets caught in a backdraft and dies.
Much of the rest of the episode focuses on the conflict that arises from this death. The two most prominent characters – Casey (Jesse Spencer), leader of the truck squad, and Severide (Taylor Kin-ney), leader of the rescue squad – have a falling out after the incident. Each blames the other for the death of their friend.
Near the end of the ep-isode, Casey and fireman
Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg) fall through the floor of burn-ing building. Severide and his rescue squad find and attempt to save them. Her-rmann was injured, so they pulled him out first, leav-ing rivals Severide and Casey behind to save one another.
There were a number of side plots throughout the episode, but nothing that seemed to affect the show in a big way – at least not yet.
Paramedic Gabriela Dawson (Monica Ray-mund) struggles with hav-ing made a crucial mistake that may have cost a little girl her life. Herrman is in danger of foreclosure on his home.
Peter Mills (Charlie Bar-nett) is the classic new guy, constantly being teased and hazed.
There is definitely a lot going on in Firehouse 51, but so far, the show doesn’t quite have the energy ex-pected from a firehouse drama. While the show attempts to create dra-matic action scenes, they lack emotion and tension. It feels very cliche and al-most cheesy at times.
A lot of the details al-luded to in the first epi-
sode may come into play later, but for now, the plot lines have been dull and overused.
We’ve seen shows like this before, and if this show wants to keep viewers in-terested, writers need to come up with something more interesting than a grudge between two hot-head firefighters.
The show was entertain-ing, but it’s going to take a lot more to keep peo-ple coming back. To find out if “Chicago Fire” takes that turn, tune in to NBC Wednesdays at 10 p.m.
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Donna the Buffalo, a folk rock/Americana band hail-ing from Ithaca, N.Y., will re-turn to 123 Pleasant Street Saturday.
The band has toured the United States for the past 20 years, making frequent stops in Morgantown.
“This band has been play-ing 123 for the past 20 years. They have a rabid following, affectionately referred to as ‘the herd,’ which is made up of all walks of life from 20-somethings to 60-some-things. The show has always been a great time and al-ways has a super vibe,” said 123 Pleasant Street owner Louis Giuliani.
Donna the Buffalo de-scribes their music as “feel-good, groove-oriented, danceable and often so-cially conscious.”
DTB’s long nights on the road and late-night gigs has earned them respect from
various music critics around the country.
Beat Magazine wrote, “Donna the Buffalo is in the enviable position of being a homegrown entity – a group that finds itself outside the coloring lines of the ac-cepted formula – a formula that is now in the past tense … People doing what they love, and better, sharing that passion to the benefit of the public, is the strongest busi-ness formula ever written. Donna the Buffalo is living proof of that.”
In addition to touring respected venues around the country, DTB regularly performs at music festivals such as MerleFest, Suwan-nee Springfest & Magnolia Fest, All Good Music Fes-tival, Floyd Fest, The Great Blue Heron Festival, DelF-est, and Targhee Bluegrass Festival.
They have also performed with top-name acts such as Jim Lauderdale, Preston and Keith Frank, Railroad Earth,
Bela Fleck, John Paul Jones, Bill Kreutzmann, The Avett Brothers, Del McCoury and Rusted Root.
“It’s one of the shows that if you like to dance to real music being played by real people, this is the night,” Gi-uliani said. “One of the lo-cals’ favorite shows for sure.”
The show begins at 9 p.m. and tickets are $20. All at-tendees must be 18 years-old to enter, 21 years old to drink alcohol.
Donna the buffalo returns to 123 Pleasant street
holdmyticket.comDonna the Buffalo will play at 123 Pleasant Street Saturday.
http://hometownhiker.blogspot.comDonnan the Buffalo onstage at the 2011 MagnoliaFest, Live Oak, Fla.
holdmyticket.comDonna the Buffalo incorporates various styles and instruments in their music.
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