by caroline petersstaff writer

The West Virginia Uni-versity College of Business & Economics will host guest speaker Joseph A. Hardy III today at 10:00 a.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms as part of the B&E Distin-guished Speaker Series. The event is free, and refresh-ments will be served.

Hardy is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where he obtained a degree in industrial engineering.

He opened a “cash and carry” lumber yard in 1956 in the small rural town of Eighty Four, Pa. He was fond of the town’s name and de-cided to name his company 84 Lumber.

84 Lumber has proven to be a success and ranks as the third-largest home improvement chain in the United States.

Jose Satarelli, Milan Pus-kar Dean of the WVU Col-lege of Business & Eco-nomics, said Hardy’s entrepreneurial spirit is a good characteristic for stu-dents to emulate.

“Mr. Hardy is a busi-ness icon: a highly suc-cessful businessman who has shown what can hap-

pen with determination, opportunity and business sense,” he said. “The Univer-sity community will greatly benefit from him sharing his experiences, and we are thrilled that the founder of these internationally rec-ognized businesses can be part of our speaker series.”

Hardy also founded Nemacolin Woodlands Re-sort, which earned the pres-tigious AAA Four Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide 4 Star resort awards.

The resort is also home to the Nemacolin Woodlands Spa, a shooting academy, three hotels, 36 holes of golf, a variety of award-winning restaurants and the Mystic Rock golf course.

Hardy’s success hasn’t stopped with those two ventures. His desire to cre-ate jobs and help the com-munity led him into politics. He was elected for Fayette County Commissioner in 2003 and served as vice chairman of the Board of Commissioners until 2007.

Students of all majors are welcome to attend, re-gardless if they have an in-terest in entrepreneurial endeavors.

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Tech, funding issues delay meters

entrepreneur to lecture on

business success

Series gives ‘up close’ look at unique art

by ashley tennantstaff writer

The West Virginia Uni-versity Art Museum is working to give the WVU community an “up close” sneak peek at some unique artwork this semester.

The museum will host its final “Art Up Close!” event for the fall semester today.

The presentation, which is sponsored by The Friends of the Art Museum, will focus on Blanche La-zzell’s white-line color woodblock print “The Graveyard.”

Robert Bridges, assis-tant professor of art at WVU and art museum cu-rator, said the event pro-vides members of the WVU community with an oppor-tunity get an in-depth ex-planation of the work and its history.

“We take an individual work of art from the uni-

versity’s museum’s art col-lection, and we focus on one piece of art for the eve-ning,” he said. “We have various individuals talk-ing and giving their per-sonal view of that work of art. This time, I will be do-ing a recent acquisition to the collection, which is a color woodblock print by Blanche Lazzell entitled ‘The Graveyard.’”

Bridges will deliver a PowerPoint presentation about the work, in which he will go into detail about the art’s history, as well as its artistic significance to the museum’s collection.

“It’s our hope that peo-ple will take the time to re-ally study the work of art. We talk about the various types of research that go into a study of an art col-lection,” he said.

“The Graveyard” is a

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lacey palmerstaff writer

For many West Virginia University stu-dents, the last week of classes before fi-nal exams is spent tying up loose ends and pulling all-nighters to complete large projects.

Coined “dead week” because of the lack of academic obligations, the last week of classes has become the busiest for students.

After dead week at WVU, many students report feeling exhausted or “dead”.

“I have three exams and four papers due this week,” said sophomore student Nicole Curtin. “I will definitely be dead by the end of this week.”

Some students believe dead week is more frustrating and detrimental because of the increased amount of work and effort.

Senior Danielle Masol said she believes dead week would be much less exhausting if professors wouldn’t teach new material while students are trying to retain and re-call the information taught throughout the rest of the semester.

“My dead week is just as busy if not busier than any other week,” Masol said. “I wish professors would make sure the material you need to learn for the semes-ter was all taught before dead week so stu-dents wouldn’t have to study for finals and learn new material.”

According to the WVU Undergradu-ate Course Catalog, “practical laboratory tests, make-up examinations, and regularly scheduled short quizzes are the only tests permitted for day classes during the week of classes preceding finals week.”

The clause goes on to say that a fi-nal exam is allowed to be given dur-ing the last week of classes only if the “faculty member petitions the associate provost for Undergraduate Aca-demic Affairs and the petition is approved by the beginning of the second week of the

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Wythe WooDs/the DAIly AtheNAeumThe Downtown Library will soon be bustling with students preparing for their upcoming fi-nal exams.

Wythe WooDs/the DAIly AtheNAeumStudents fill the Downtown Library computer stations to prepare for semester’s end.

Students rush to campus libraries to prepare for semester’s end exams

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by carlee lammersCity editor

The West Virginia Univer-sity Department of Trans-portation and Parking has delayed implementing new parking meters in two short-term campus park-ing lots because of techni-cal and funding difficulties.

In September, the de-partment said it planned to introduce new pay parking meters in the Mountainlair

garage and short-term Parking Area 9 on Fine Arts Drive across from the Cre-ative Arts Center.

Rates were projected to remain the same; however, Assistant Director of Park-ing Management Eric Rosie said the new meters would be more user-friendly.

“The current meters don’t give change and don’t take credit cards. The meters are not customer-friendly with modern times,” he said.

“They don’t take credit cards. Everywhere you go today takes credit cards.”

The new meters will also feature a pay-by-space method.

“Right now, you could technically receive a ci-tation on your car while you’re in the process of buy-ing a permit,” Rosie said. “With the pay-by-space feature, you will no longer need to print a permit for your dashboard.”

Rosie said the new me-ters would also have a text message parking extension feature.

The new system will send a text message to students when their parking time is nearing expiration. Stu-dents will then have the op-tion to extend their parking time by replying to the text message.

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A short-term parking meter sits unwrapped in the Mountainlair garage.

parking meters have yet to be implemented.

“The hold up initially was a tech problem with the equipment,” said Hugh Kierig, Director of the WVU DOT.

“Some machines use cel-lular technology to trans-mit data. The problem is we didn’t have a strong enough signal in this market to op-erate the technology.”

Kierig said while the technology issues have been resolved, the depart-ment is working to solve a funding issue that has re-cently surfaced.

Kierig said the depart-ment is currently wait-ing on cash funds from the

state to place in each meter so they are capable of giving change to patrons.

“We’re just waiting on cash funds from the state to load cash into the meters,” he said. “We’re expecting it to come any day now.”

While Kierig said the new meters are projected to be in use within a few days, many students are angered by the delay and the incon-venience it has created.

Sophomore student Kayci O’Neil said she relies heavily on parking available in the Mountainlair and was frustrated by the delay.

“The fact that the school promised us credit and debit card parking in the lair back in September is extremely frustrating,” she said. “Many students rely on parking in the garage

and need exact change back. The meters we have now do not do so. You may not think a quarter here and there is a lot, but eventually the costs add up.”

Rosie said the depart-ment is excited to debut the new meters and hopes it will alleviate any concerns or complaints those park-ing in the Mountainlair may hold.

“Hopefully, this will cut down on the com-plaints and the issues in the Mountainlair garage,” he said. “Over the next five years, we’re hoping to place the meters in all of the short-term lots.”

For more information, call the parking office at 304-293-5502.

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semester in which the final exam is to be given.”

All final exams must be given according to the final examination schedule un-less otherwise approved by the University.

The WVU Office of the Registrar website states “the only tests permitted during the week of classes preced-ing finals are final examina-tions for evening classes.”

Although the clause is in the undergraduate catalog, many students believe it does nothing for the issue at hand: an overload of work during the week before finals.

“Giving exams a week early isn’t the problem. It’s all the papers, projects, homework and what-not,” said sophomore Marena Royal.

Sara Tresser, a senior stu-dent, said it’s difficult for stu-dents to be studying for cu-mulative finals during dead week while also trying to complete other projects.

“Dead week should truly be ‘dead’ with no class, as-signments or exams so stu-dents can dedicate their time to studying for the cumula-

tive finals they have in every class,” Tresser said. “A few of my professors did a great job of planning the course-work this semester, and now, instead of cramming this week, we are reviewing the entire semester. I think if all professors plan everything out ahead of time, then we wouldn’t have an overload of work the week before finals.”

Many students think a uni-versal policy should be en-forced at the administrative level to help students have more time to study for finals and to limit the amount of work professors can assign during dead week.

“I think that the professors should not be allowed to have anything due during the last week of class and should not be allowed to teach new ma-terial during the last week of class as well,” said Ashley Mc-Culla, a senior student.

Some universit ies throughout the country re-ceive days without classes to study – usually the Thursday and Friday prior to the week of final exams. Others for-mally recognize dead week, unlike WVU.

Although the WVU Li-braries schedule says “dead week,” it is a phrase that is not used anywhere else within

the University.The University makes an

effort to ensure students ap-proach the semester’s end with help.

One effort students seem to appreciate most is the ex-tended library hours. The ma-jority of the next two weeks the Downtown Campus Li-brary and the Evansdale Li-brary are open 24 hours. The entire library schedule can be viewed at http://www.librar-ies.wvu.edu/hours.

Hilary Fredette, Head of Access Services at the Down-town Library, said staffing the extended hours is not a problem, because many staff members adjust their schedules to enable them to do so.

“The students actually asked the dean to have the li-brary open all hours on a sur-vey that was given a number of years ago,” Fredette said.

“There are always many students taking advan-tage of the overnight study hours.”

Fredette said the coffee shop in the library, Eliza’s, helps out during these next few weeks by providing free drinks and snacks to students after midnight.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM TUESDAy DeceMber 4, 20122 | NEWS

explosives plant cleanup disrupts louisiana town

dOyLINe, La. (aP) — The cleanup of 3,000 tons of explosives haphazardly stored at a munitions plant has frayed the nerves of residents who evacuated, closed the high school and spawned a criminal investi-gation of the company that owns the materials.

Authorities said about half the town’s 800 resi-dents had heeded requests that they leave during the cleanup that started Sat-urday, but some appeared to be trickling back to their homes. Some displaced res-idents were exasperated by the sheer volume of explo-sive material, which is more than authorities initially es-timated. Adding to the un-certainty was a forecast of thunderstorms Tuesday that could slow efforts to move the propellant used in artillery shells to safer stor-age sites.

“We got outside the evac-

uation area when they said there was a million pounds. Now it’s six million,” said Frank Peetz, 71, who was staying with his wife in a camper among several dis-placed residents at a nearby state park. “Maybe we ought to be up in Arkansas somewhere.”

State police say some of the propellant was found spilling out of boxes crammed into buildings, and they have opened a criminal investigation into why the materials were not stored in bunkers at the state-owned site, leased by Explo Systems.

Weather could compli-cate the transfer of roughly 6 million pounds of explo-sives. If lightning is spotted within five miles of the site, authorities will suspend ef-forts to move the artillery propellant, Lt. Julie Lewis said. No lightning was ex-pected Monday, but thun-

derstorms were forecast for Tuesday.

Col. Mike Edmondson, commander of Louisiana State Police, said the ma-terial is stable and would need an ignition source to explode. The precautions were taken because officials fear that any spark could set off a huge explosion of the material, which they said was stored improperly in a relatively small area.

Edmondson was hesitant to estimate when it would be safe for Doyline residents to return home. He also said state police weren’t sure how much damage an explosion of the material could cause, even after con-sulting with Department of Defense officials.

“Nobody can tell you what 6 million pounds of ex-plosives would do if it went up,” Edmondson said in a telephone interview. “And I don’t want to find out.”

Police have checkpoints on roads leading into Doy-line, though residents are allowed to come and go. The evacuation was voluntary, and some residents elected not to leave their homes in the town that has been used to film some scenes for the HBO vampire series “True Blood.”

Edmonson said that Ex-plo Systems leases and con-trols about 400 acres of the 15,000-acre Camp Minden, a former ammunition plant that now is a state-owned industrial site and home to a National Guard train-ing facility. He estimated that the M6 propellant was stored in an area of less than 10 acres.

It was discovered there, stored indoors and out-doors, sometimes in con-tainers that had spilled open, by a trooper follow-ing up on an October explo-sion at the facility.

“It was stuffed in corners. It was stacked all over,” Ed-monson said.

Just outside the evacu-ation area, Doyline High School teacher Linda Wat-son stopped Monday to buy chicken strips at D&H Hard-ware, which has a small kitchen serving fare that also includes burgers.

Watson said she has not evacuated and has no plans to. Like some others around here, she’s accustomed to living near an ammunition plant.

“I’ve been there the whole time. I’ve lived here all my life and we used to have the ammunition plant,” she said.

Her main concern is the school having to tack on days to the end of the year to make up for classes be-ing out during the evacua-tion. The school was to re-main closed Tuesday.

John Finklea, who was

working the register at the store his family owns, said business is down because of the evacuation. He said there’s too much being made of the situation.

“I understand people get scared,” he said, adding that he considered leaving but ultimately chose not to.

Explo has not publicly commented on the investi-gation. Neither a company executive nor an attorney who represents the com-pany returned calls Mon-day. Its website says the company has been in exis-tence for seven years and that its management has been “demilitarizing” and recovering explosives and propellant for 15 years.

Authorities had initially estimated the total of M6 stored at the site at 1 million pounds after the first inves-tigator saw cardboard boxes on long rows of pallets be-hind a building.

ApLaw enforcement personnel stand at a roadblock along Hwy 163 just south of Doyline, La., Saturday.

Laura DeMarco, a busi-ness student and Treasurer of the Society for Human Re-source Management club, said every academic disci-pline will benefit from listen-ing to Hardy’s presentation.

“Accounting majors and other business majors might not think they should go,” she said. “It’s good for any stu-

dent in the business school – not just entrepreneurs – because he is going to talk about how he started his businesses.

“The companies he started are huge, so he can definitely offer students guidance and advice in our competitive field.”

Hardy made a lifetime do-nation to the WVU Founda-tion in 2004 of $100,000 per year to support the West Virginia University Fayette

County, Pennsylvania Schol-arship fund.

Five $5,000 scholarships are awarded annually to students from all high schools in Fayette County to attend West Virginia University.

For more information on Hardy and the B&E Speaker Series, visit be.wvu.edu/speaker_series/joe_hardy.htm.

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colored woodblock print, which may also be called a white-line print, or Provinc-etown print.

Bridges said the style re-ceived its name based on the method of white-line woodblock printing that began in 1915 in Province-town, Mass.

“Lazzell’s ‘The Graveyard’ was produced in 1918. It was her third print that she did in that method, so it’s a very early print. The University has a very elaborate and in-depth collection of the art-ist’s work,” he said. “In fact we have the largest public collection of her work any-where. So, this early colored woodblock print is very im-portant to show how her style developed.”

Bridges said he encour-ages those interested in historic artwork to attend the event as an opportunity to catch a firsthand glimpse of some of the museum’s pieces.

“People who attend will actually be able to see the print. I will do a lecture and give some of the back-ground of the print and some of the research in-volved in locating and ob-taining this from the collec-tion,” he said.

Bridges said the research has been an ongoing proj-ect at the University, and it gives individuals an op-portunity to see works of art from the collection prior to the museum’s opening.

“Right now, the commu-nity does not have access to a lot of these works, be-cause the museum is not open. So, the idea is we are

giving people the access to the works and trying to get more interest and excite-ment around the opening of the museum,” he said.

The “Art Up Close!” pre-sentation will be held 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Museum Education Center, which was formerly the Erickson Alumni Center.

The center is adjacent to the WVU Creative Arts Cen-ter. All the events are free and open to the public.

The “Art Up Close!” se-ries will continue in the spring semester. Following each presentation, a recep-tion will be held with light refreshments.

For more information about “Art Up Close!”, con-tact the Art Museum of WVU, or visit www.ccarts.wvu.edu/art_museum.

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Wythe WooDs/the DAIly AtheNAeumCeleste Rosencrance, a sophomore Biology student, studies during dead week for her upcoming final exams.

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omAr ghAbrA/the DAIly AtheNAeumThe current machines in the Mountainlair garage, pictured above, do not dispense change.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 3Tuesday December 4, 2012

‘Twilight’ author brings new novel to silver screen

fanpop.comA character reacts violently toward heroine Melanie after learning her body is inhabited by an alien.

As even the lowliest movie critic can and will tell you, some of the worst and most hyped movies of our generation are none other than the trilogy that seemed never ending until just last month.

Yes, you guessed it.I speak of the poison that

infected the hearts of both teens and sexually frus-trated moms everywhere – “Twilight.”

If making a film adap-tation of “Twilight” wasn’t bad enough, Stephanie Meyer’s (author of the “Twilight” series) second failed attempt at tolerable literature, “The Host,” is now set to hit the big screen in 2013.

Just when “Twilight” ma-nia ended, Hollywood de-cided to suck even more blood out of the fantasy writer’s endeavors. Oh, joy.

Though this is Meyer’s lesser-known tale, it actu-ally tells a more adequate story than any of the “Twi-light” novels, which says a great deal for Meyer but relatively little in the grand scheme of literature.

Set in the future, this story depicts earth overrun by aliens who take over hu-man bodies and create their own utopian society out of a world that the humans have practically destroyed.

While most of society has been overrun, there are a few stragglers who survive on the outskirts of civiliza-tion with only one goal: to survive.

Here Meyer introduces her two favorite literary de-vices: an incredibly flawed heroine and a seriously messed up love triangle.

Melanie Stryder, who has been on the run for some time, has just been caught. An alien has taken over her body, but something unex-pected has happened.

She is stronger than any-one has anticipated, and she survived inside her own mind and is willing to do whatever it takes to fight

back.Though she might be

able to fight off aliens, out-smart and outrun trained specialists and the like, who could blame her for losing her mind when it comes to the love of two fellow refugees?

Meyer, you just couldn’t help yourself, could you?

The truth is, once you get past the almost pathetic ro-mance that Meyer attempts to weave throughout even the simplest of plot devices, the general story is okay.

With the absence of both Robert Pattinson and the ever-shirtless Taylor Laut-ner, though, “The Host” will more than likely lack the

same following the “Twi-light” films brought to the theaters.

It’s probably for the best, considering even the pre-view looked sad and horri-bly made.

For a film with a $44 mil-lion budget, the produc-tion crew seems content with giving the audience a

show unworthy of the price of even the cheapest movie ticket.

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I’m judging the book by, well, the book here and predicting “The Host” will be an absolute failure.

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madeline careya&e writer

Will and Kate expecting a baby, UK palace confirms

arthur Edwards/apBritain’s Prince William meets with a young member of the public as she arrives at the Guildhall during a visit to Cambridge, England.

LONDON (AP) — Brit-ain doesn’t have to wait any longer: Prince William’s wife, Kate, is pregnant.

St. James’s Palace made the announcement Mon-day, saying that the Duch-ess of Cambridge – formerly Kate Middleton – has a se-vere form of morning sick-ness and is currently in a London hospital. William was at his wife’s side.

The news drew congrat-ulations from around the world, with the hashtag “royalbaby” trending glob-ally on Twitter.

The couple’s first child will be third in line to the throne – behind Wil-liam and his father, Prince Charles – leapfrogging the gregarious Prince Harry and possibly setting up the first scenario in which a female heir could bene-fit from new gender rules about succession.

The palace would not say how far along the 30-year-old duchess is, only that she has not yet reached the 12-week mark.

Palace officials said the duchess was hospitalized with hyperemesis gravi-darum, a severe form of morning sickness that af-fects about 1 in 200 women and can lead to dehydra-tion or worse if left un-treated. They said she was expected to remain hospi-talized for several days and would require a period of

rest afterward.Until Monday’s an-

nouncement, the duchess had shown no signs of be-ing with child. She was pho-tographed just last week bounding across a field clad in black high-heeled boots as she played field hockey with students at her former school.

Still, speculation has swirled about when she and William would start a fam-ily from almost the moment they were wed on April 29, 2011, in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

The attractive young couple is immensely pop-ular – with William’s easy common touch reminding many of his mother, the late Princess Diana – and their child is expected to play an important role in Brit-ish national life for decades to come.

For months, Kate’s every move has been scrutinized for clues about a possible pregnancy – from each time she touched her stomach to whether her outfit choices hinted at a baby bump.

In September, tongues wagged over why she might be avoiding alcohol when the duchess opted to toast with a glass of ice water in-stead of champagne during a banquet in Singapore.

Last week, the rumor mill kicked into high gear when a beaming Wil-liam accepted a baby out-

fit from a well-wisher that bore the phrase, “Daddy’s little co-pilot.”

“I’ll keep that,” he report-edly said.

The confirmation of Kate’s pregnancy caps a jam-packed year of highs and lows for the young royals.

They have traveled the world extensively as part of Queen Elizabeth II’s Dia-mond Jubilee celebrations and weathered the embar-rassment of a nude pho-tos scandal, after a tabloid published topless images of the duchess.

Joe Little, managing ed-itor of Majesty magazine, said the news ended a year that saw the royal family riding high in popular es-teem after celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne.

“People enjoyed the royal romance last year and now there’s this. It’s just a good news story amid all the doom and gloom,” he said.

In the chilly night air at London’s Camden market, concertgoers and shoppers seemed surprised by the news – though all agreed that it had been widely anticipated.

“It feels a lot like a Christ-mas present for the nation!” said Ravian Van Den Hil, a Dutch student studying in London. “It makes me feel quite happy.”

Others wondered why Britain continues to spend so much to support the royal family. “I don’t think it’s a good thing,” said Ste-phen Jowitt as he strolled down Camden High Street. “It reinforces a class system.”

The palace said the royal family was “delighted” by the news.

British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted he got a heads-up about the pregnancy, saying he found the news “quite dif-ficult” to keep to him-self and expressing con-fidence the young couple will make “absolutely bril-liant parents.”

The pregnancy comes af-ter a 2011 decision by the leaders of Britain and the 15 Commonwealth na-tions endorsing new rules that give girls equal status with boys in the order of succession. Those changes make Kate’s pregnancy all the more significant for the royal family, said Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine.

“This is the first child who will be an heir to the throne, whatever sex they are,” she said. “It’s a new beginning.”

Like Kate, William’s mother, Diana, also report-edly suffered from morn-ing sickness for months, and was the subject of con-stant media attention after

she became pregnant just four months after her wed-ding to Prince Charles. “The whole world is watching my stomach,” Diana once said.

According to Britain’s Department of Health, se-vere morning sickness most often affects women early in their pregnancy, and is more common in young women, women who are pregnant for the first time and those expecting multi-ple babies.

Dr. Daghni Rajasingam, a spokeswoman for Brit-

ain’s Royal College of Ob-stetricians and Gynaeco-logists, said women with severe symptoms – includ-ing dehydration, dizziness and persistent vomiting – need to be hospitalized for treatment, including being given fluids intravenously.

“However, this usually only means a few days in (the) hospital,” she said in a statement. “The best ad-vice for anyone suffering from (severe morning sick-ness) is to get plenty of rest and drink lots of fluid.”

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Dead week is upon us again, which is why, as a cour-tesy, The Daily Athenaeum would like to encourage the students of West Virginia Uni-versity to step back, take a deep breath and shake it out.

Many students have prob-ably already made a schedule of their finals and prepared a study plan, if not a contin-gency plan that involves bor-der crossing and a box of hair dye. To avoid a “drastic times call for drastic measures” sce-nario, here are a few tips for conquering dead week – and the week beyond.

1. Make a study planStudying can be hard. To

complicate matters, the luck of the draw can load students

down with several tests in the same one- or two-day span. To avoid unneeded mental breakdowns, students should be sure when each of their tests is happening and plan accordingly.

The schedule for final ex-ams can be found on the reg-istrar’s website, registrar.wvu.edu/current_students/finals. Exam times are organized ac-cording to class, section and time.

Once you know where and when, it becomes a question of how. Marking times for studying specific material, as well as communicating with classmates and organizing study groups, are effective ways of making the most of

the week.2. Be preparedStudying is great, but it

all falls apart pretty quickly when you’re caught with-out a scantron or a No. 2 pen-cil. Every instructor has dif-ferent expectations when it comes to administering finals – some will offer take-home exams;,other, larger classes might opt for computer based testing but many exams re-quire the old standards: a scantron (not just any scan-tron, either. Check the sylla-bus.), No. 2 pencils and a valid WVU ID. A calculator might be nice for a math test, and a magical talisman is probably prudent if you’re turning in your capstone paper.

3. Relieve stressStop freaking out. Seri-

ously, stop. It’s fine.WELLWVU: The Students’

Center of Health is offering different programs through-out the week as part of its chillWELL campaign. The program has organized an-other chillWELL day Thurs-day in the Mountianlair from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Hearts of Gold therapy dogs will be present for students to interact with, along with tea brewing, Play-Dough and other activities.

For more information on WELLWVU events and op-portunities, visit www.well.wvu.edu.

4. Take advantage of WVU extended hours

The Downtown Campus Library and the Evansdale Library are open around the clock from 9 a.m. the Monday of Dead Week until Friday at 10 p.m. Dormitories will in-stitute 24-hour quiet hours in the residence halls, and stu-dents who are considered too disruptive or loud may be fined double during dead week.

Eliza’s coffee shop, located on the 4th floor of the Down-town Library, offers late-night snacks for after-hours library goers.

So, plan accordingly, and breathe some life back into dead week.

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Surviving the last two weeks

Morgantown’s gamers will suffer a serious blow Dec. 21. The LAN café and gaming center Save Point, located in the South High St. Station, will be shutting its doors. Save Point has been serving area gam-ers for just over two years, bringing console and PC gamers together in har-mony. And now, it is close to going the way of the dodo.

Save Point’s owners, Sarah Baucom and Owen

Raudenbusch, cite their location’s steep rent as a chief factor in their clos-ing. The couple opened the business when they got tired of their nine-to -five jobs and decided to follow their dreams. But rather than give up after this setback, Sarah and Owen are seeking a new location for Save Point. They plan to reopen early next year, if they find a suitable spot and suffi-cient interest to revive the game center.

Save Point faced many challenges during its life-time, not the least of which was lack of publicity. Even

now, it’s likely that many people reading this arti-cle never even knew that Morgantown was home to such a place. And while Save Point most certainly had its own devoted cast of repeat customers, in the end their patronage alone was not quite enough to keep the lights on.

But what did Save Point bring to the community? Well, first and foremost, it was a living rebuttal to the idea that gamers are antisocial creatures. Even when they were not able to stop long enough to ac-tually game, many folks would come in during the

day just to hang out and chat a bit. It eliminated the conundrum of being forced to partner with fel-low gamers online and provided an element of personal connection not always present in an on-line setting.

Save Point also served as a host for many video game tournaments, draw-ing gamers from out of state to come and com-pete. Whether they were Super Smash Bros. tourna-ments for bragging rights or in-store credit or Star-Craft II tournaments for cash prizes, Save Point made each event into

a true spectacle, with a cheering audience watch-ing players’ every move.

The passing of Save Point is also particularly sad on a personal level, gaming center aside. Sarah and Owen are small busi-ness owners, the sort of people whose story is of-ten romanticized by poli-ticians of both parties. But as it turns out, making it as a small business can be harder than it might seem. The couple has worked at their gaming center nearly every day since it opened, tending shop from 1 p.m. until 1 a.m. on weeknights and 3 a.m. on weekends.

Nearly every part of their lives was beholden to the place, in one way or an-other. They even changed apartments to be closer to the store at one point.

So, if you believe that this kind of place has a home in Morgantown, if you believe that Sarah and Owen deserve a sec-ond chance and if you think Save Point should get another shot, just hop on Facebook and tell them so on their official page. They would most certainly appreciate it, and you can keep tabs on what they do moving forward. Don’t bet against them, though.

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When pressed to make predictions, pundits some-times retort that they are “not in the prediction-mak-ing business.” They say this, of course, because they don’t want to leave their re-sults-disoriented business. The trick is to make a predic-tion so far in the future that no one could check if you were right anyway. With that in mind, I predict that there will not be an independent Palestinian state by 2040.

Three major events hap-pened over the last month in Palestine: Gaza and Is-rael waged an eight-day battle, Palestine became a non-member observer state at the United Nations, and Israel simultaneously cut their aid to the Palestinian Authority and expanded the construction of settlements

in East Jerusalem. Collec-tively, these actions sym-bolize another lost gener-ation on the never-ending path to peace and Palestin-ian statehood.

Let’s look at each event individually.

There are a couple of very bad ways to understand the conflict in Gaza. Unfortu-nately, these are also the most popular ways. The first one is to count dead bodies and then use them to make an argument about “ethics.” If you are seeking the lazi-est moral standard possible, just remember, whichever side had the lowest number of people die is automati-cally the bad guy!

Another fallacious way to understand the conflict is to ask who started it. Israel technically broke a peace agreement when it killed Al-Jabari, Hamas’s military commander. But Hamas is officially committed to Is-rael’s destruction, so all peace deals are temporary.

Al-Jabari himself led an op-eration that smuggled hun-dreds of rockets from Iran into Gaza through Sudan and Egypt.

The latest battle between Gaza and Israel really re-volves around the develop-ment of military technol-ogy over the last 10 years, not to mention Iran’s piv-otal role in that develop-ment. Whereas Gaza’s rock-ets in the 2008 engagement with Israel were highly inac-curate and faulty, often with a range under 10 miles, the new Fajr-5 rockets weigh more than 2,000 pounds and are capable of reaching Tel Aviv. Although Israel and Gaza arrived at some sort of peace agreement, Hamas’s new access to high-level Iranian military technol-ogy raises the stakes both within Palestine and across the region.

Unlike the conflict in Gaza, the “achievement” of non-member observer state status by Palestine’s presi-

dent, Mahmoud Abbas, could probably be described as a charade. Crowds in the West Bank greeted Ab-bas like a conquering hero, which a cynical observer could describe as the only concrete goal of the vote at the United Nations.

Abbas claimed that his ef-fort to receive non-member observer state status for Pal-estine was motivated by the stalled status of peace ne-gotiations with Israel and the continued develop-ments of settlements. That’s half nonsense. The Pales-tinian Authority’s long-time president desperately sought public support as Gaza slipped further from his sphere of influence and he appeared helpless in the face of Israeli settlement construction. Regardless of whether one wants to attri-bute Abbas’s move to Israeli intransigence or his own motivation to stay in power, the move unequivocally sets back the peace process.

Regardless, Abbas will need all the public support he can garner in the West Bank, too, if the Interna-tional Monetary Fund’s eco-nomic predictions are cor-rect. The IMF’s mission chief for the West Bank, Oussama Kanaan, predicted in Sep-tember that the Palestinian economy would soon expe-rience an economic slump and a spike in unemploy-ment. He blamed Israel’s limits on Palestinian trade and a severe drawback in donor money from the Arab world.

This brings us to the lat-est event. In the aftermath of the vote at the United Nations, Israel quickly re-sponded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu authorized the plan-ning and zoning for con-struction in the area of West Bank town, Ma’ale Adumim. Building in that area would “make it nearly impossible to create a contiguous Pal-estinian state.”

Yesterday, Israel chose to withhold its transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, accusing them of violating peace deals by upgrading their status at the United Nations. This will only exacerbate the so-cial unrest engendered by the West Bank’s economic slump.

In the coming decades, observers will ask them-selves how the region slid from the promise of the Oslo Accords to these lows. They may discover that this last month’s events were the wa-tershed moment when both sides committed their next generation of youth to the never-ending conflict.

As someone with close Israeli and Palestinian friends, I sincerely hope that the passing of time will prove me wrong. His-tory may prove once again that pundits should avoid the prediction-making business.

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WVU senior Tavon Austin played his final game at Mountaineer Field Saturday. He recorded 187 yards and a touchdown.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

BORN TODAY Extremes mark your year. Sometimes you go way over-board enjoying yourself. You also be-come very demonstrative and ex-pressive. If you are single, hold back a little, as a new person might not un-derstand where you are coming from. If you are attached, your loved one could be taken aback by this change. This person initially might be over-sensitive, but after he or she makes an adjustment, a great time will be had by all. Excessive communication seems to be happening all around you. Try to avoid misunderstandings by confirming what you hear and also by clarifying anything that does not make sense.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHHH Express more of your feel-ings. Someone could respond with total confusion. You might not under-stand what eludes this person. Con-sider that it might just be that this person does not know how to take you. Tonight: Let the fun begin.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH You could come across as being irri-table or tenacious when you are teas-ing several friends. Be careful! Some-one else might not read this behavior as it is intended. Your actions could be the source of a misunderstanding. Laugh and lighten up. Tonight: Play it low-key, please.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You have the ability to express your-self clearly. You can’t seem to get past a hassle or a problem, which is a re-sult of others not understanding you. Invite those who seem confused into a conversation in order to figure out

where the mix-up lies. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH You will buy a loved one a gift or a token of affection, which could be separate from this person’s Christmas present. Your thoughtfulness makes a big difference, yet there is an ele-ment of confusion surrounding this gift. Listen and share openly. Tonight: So what if you overindulge?

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You experience clarity with your feelings, and it opens you up to new possibili-ties and exciting changes. Neverthe-less, in a discussion about a partic-ular topic today, you might feel as if you are wading in quicksand and that someone is not getting your message. Tonight: All smiles.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH You might feel as if you are playing a game of “Who’s on first, What’s on second” with someone. You just can’t seem to get clarity, as nearly every question leads to more questions. Say little, and become the observer in order to get more answers. Tonight: Do a vanishing act.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You might want to approach a situa-tion in a different way. You’ll deal with others better and will succeed more often if you work within groups. The confusion that mounts will be short-lived. Perhaps someone involved just needs to relax. Tonight: Where your friends are.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Take a look at the amount of work or errands you need to complete before making other commitments, as en-ticing as they might be. A long lunch

with a loved one could make you very happy. A touch of chaos adds to the day’s intrigue. Relax. Tonight: Could be late.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH You are right in your ele-ment and are willing to gain a better sense of what is needed. A partner or an associate might be vested in add-ing confusion, which makes it neces-sary and wise to postpone your deci-sion. Look at the big picture. Tonight: Read between the lines.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Work through and deal with a problem involving a partner. Expressing compassion could be difficult amid all the confusion. You might want to rethink a decision that seems like a good idea. Give yourself time to come up with an adequate conclusion. Tonight: Chat over dinner.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Defer to someone else, and remain sure of yourself. You want to understand where he or she is com-ing from. Let this person follow the natural course that is determined by his or her thinking, and both of you will be pleased with the end results. Tonight: Just do not be alone.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Pace yourself, and know what your expectations are. A loved one might try to determine exactly what it is that you want. His or her ques-tions make little sense to you. Fol-low through on what you know to be best, yet be kind to this person. Tonight: Try a relaxing activity.

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EVERY TUESDAYM O U N TA I N E E R S F O R

CHRIST, a Christian student organization, hosts free sup-per and Bible study at its Chris-tian Student Center. Supper is at 8:15 p.m., and Bible study begins at 9 p.m. All students are welcome. For more infor-mation, call 304-599-6151 or visit www.mountaineers-forchrist.org.

SIERRA STUDENT COALI-TION meets at 7 p.m. in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainlair. The group is a grassroots environmental or-ganization striving for tangi-ble change in our campus and community. For more infor-mation, email hlargen@mix.wvu.edu.

ECUMENICAL BIBLE STUDY AND CHARISMATIC PRAYER MEETING is held at 7 p.m. at the Potters Cellar of Newman Hall. All are welcome. For more information, call 304-288-0817 or 304-879-5752.

MCM is hosted at 7:30 p.m. in 293 Willey St. All are welcome.

AMIZADE has representa-tives in the commons area of the Mountainlair from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. to answer questions for those interested in studying abroad.

THE WVU SWING DANCE CLUB meets at 9 p.m. in Mul-tipurpose Room A of the Stu-dent Recreation Center. No partner needed. Advanced and beginners are welcome. For more information, email wvuswingdance@gmail.com

CONTINUALWELLNESS PROGRAMS on

topics such as drinkWELL, loveWELL, chillWELL and more are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELLWVU: Well-ness and Health Promotion.

W E L LW V U : S T U D E N T HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confidential. For appointments or more in-formation, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgan-town and Fairmont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. To find a meeting, visit www.aawv.org. For those who need help urgently, call 304-291-7918.

CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL-ING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is of-fered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educa-tional, career, individual, cou-ples and group counseling.

Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.

WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, sup-plemental foods and immuni-zations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. For more informa-tion call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.

NEW FALL SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPOR-TUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Cen-ter. The groups include Un-derstanding Self and Oth-ers, Sexual Assault Survivors Group, Mountaineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thyself: An Inter-personal Process Group. For more information call 293-4431 or contact tandy.mc-clung@mail.wvu.edu.

MOUNTAINEER SPAY/NEU-TER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM is an all-volunteer nonprofit that promotes spay/neuter to re-duce the number of homeless pets that are euthanized ev-ery year. M-SNAP needs new members to help its cause, as does ReTails, a thrift shop lo-cated in the Morgantown Mall. For more information, visit www.m-snap.org.

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking volunteers for one-on-one tutoring in basic read-ing and English as a second language. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learn-ers, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year and help with one fundrais-ing event. For more informa-tion, call 304-296-3400.

LATER IN THE WEEK

THE WVU PLANETARIUM, now located on the PL floor of White Hall, will present its annual holiday show “Tis the Season” at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Fri-day. Please be 5-10 min-utes early for seating as it is started promptly at the hour. Admission is free, al-though reservations are re-quired. Call 304-293-4961.

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Interested in Volunteering at the 2013 Scouting National Jamboree?

For more information about theScience Behind Cycling contact:Ryan.Stocking@mail.wvu.edu

For more information about Forensic Science contact:Chris.Bily@mail.wvu.edu

FUN ADVENTURE

West Virginia Universityhas partnered with the Boy Scouts of Americato provide exciting learning opportunities in the STEM disciplines at the 2013 National Scouting Jamboree, July 14-July 25. Two opportunities are available, one related to Forensic Science and a second related to the Science Behind Cycling. Student volunteers are needed to facilitate the learning experience for the Scouts. Training, transportation, meals and lodging will be provided for each volunteer.

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Showcase: ‘The Walking Dead’

Frank OckenFels/aMcThe third season of AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ gives viewers a reason to tune in and believe in the hype of the series.

Not watching ‘The Walking Dead’? Here’s why you need to start now

AMC’s hit series “The Walking Dead” has cap-tured the hearts and minds of zombie lovers world-wide since its inception in 2010.

After a disappointing second season that fea-tured more melodrama than your grandma’s favor-ite afternoon story, “The Walking Dead” needed to step up its game to avoid a sharp decline into a pit of irrelevancy.

I’ll be honest: I was one of the many viewers who

was down on this show af-ter its lazily written, low-budget second season left me craving the show of old. I wanted more zom-bies, I wanted some legiti-mate tension, and I wanted a reason to care about the characters on my television screen.

After a nearly flawless mid-season finale, I can confidently say this series has totally redeemed itself.

With new characters, a change of scenery and a completely refocused cast, “The Walking Dead” gave me a reason to tune in ev-ery Sunday to watch my fa-vorite brain-bashing, skull-crushing heroes go to work on the undead flesh-sacks

that populate their world. For me, this season of

“The Walking Dead” is the best showing for the writ-ers of the series to date. They masterfully worked two separate stories to-gether, and each week, these divided plotlines be-came increasingly involved with each other.

This sense was height-ened in the mid-season fi-nale, when the two camps quite literally overlapped and became entangled in a blaze of gunfire and ut-ter chaos.

This served as the per-fect culmination of a sea-son’s worth of plot devel-opment, and the execution of this climactic siege was

brilliant. Season three also pre-

sented the transformation of several characters’ per-sonalities, and this added a new dynamic to the show and released the viewers from the stale character traits.

I’m not sure how many more times I could watch Rick and Lori awkwardly babble about their now-irrelevant pasts or how many more instances of Carl’s disregard for author-ity I could stomach, but the third season rectified these problems and reshaped the cast’s motivations and desires.

You see, “The Walking Dead” is less about zom-

bies and more about hu-mans. While it is techni-cally a show about a zombie apocalypse, the real con-tent is found in the human-to-human interactions.

How will people act when everything they have known and will ever know is gone? Can peo-ple change their ways and adapt, or will their stub-born, me-first tendencies lead them to the grave?

By restructuring the characters for season three, “The Walking Dead” has reopened these questions and provided us with many more to sink our teeth into as the show moves forward.

I, for one, cannot wait to see how the remainder of

this intricate web of love, loss, hope and despair is spun, and I cannot con-tain my excitement for the show’s future.

“The Walking Dead” is every bit as good as you have heard.

I was ready to hate it and laugh at the mindless zombies who adored it af-ter season two left me dis-appointed and disgusted, but the writers just will not let that happen.

Now, here I sit, remote in one hand, a tiny snack of cerebellum in the other, anxiously awaiting the Feb-ruary return of my post-apocalyptic friends.

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The future is not dead: season three promises continued excellence

“All this time running from walkers, you forget what peo-ple do.”

These words, spoken by Maggie in “Made to Suf-fer,” the mid-third season fi-nale episode of “The Walk-ing Dead,” offer a pretty clear indication of this season’s theme.

One of the first things that really attracted me to this se-ries was the uniqueness of these characters’ situation and subsequently their reac-tions to it.

They exist in a post-apoca-lyptic world overrun by hos-tile creatures, and they are forced to literally fight for their lives on a daily basis. However, this season, we are presented with a forgotten foe: humanity.

In the midst of this new hostile world, people have

forgotten the extent to which man’s cruelty can reach. And as Maggie points out, The Governor has arrived in the form of a brutal reminder.

The series’ most recent ep-isode featured a lot of plot ac-tion, just like the rest of the season.

The war between Rick and The Governor has finally be-gun, and Sunday we wit-nessed the first battle.

Andrea’s side is still un-decided, however, and we’ll have to wait until next year to see if she’ll come to her senses (if she ever had any).

Rick doesn’t fully trust Mi-chonne yet, which is disap-pointing but understandable, I suppose, especially consid-ering she’s always showing up covered in blood and talking in that creepy whisper voice.

On the other hand, Mi-chonne trusts them all too much, in my opinion, which she demonstrates when she lets Andrea off the hook for getting in between her and The Governor.

The beloved character from the comics, Tyreese, fi-nally showed up with his iconic hammer and a group of characters who will prob-ably die by the end of the sea-son. And lastly, Daryl and Merle Dixon are reunited once again, but they find themselves in a rather hope-less situation.

Overall, the mid-season fi-nale was both rewarding and unnerving. Although basi-cally everything I wanted to happened in this episode happened, we were still left with an incredibly frustrating cliffhanger.

It seems all of the events were setting us up for the next half of the season, when Rick and The Governor will truly engage in battle.

And judging by the events so far this season, there is now a question of whether or not Rick is up to the fight. A promo for the next half of the season hinted that Rick may begin to consider the possi-bility of not leading the group,

a change that would alter the entire landscape of the show.

His character hit a breaking point recently, and his group seems to be faltering without his emotional support. This season, they’ve all proven to have mastered killing walkers, but I don’t think they’ve ever been able to truly deal with the rest of this world’s harsh realities.

If you’ve been enjoying all of the action so far this season, you’ll be happy to hear there’s much more on the way. Even though so much has hap-pened, we’re just getting into the meat of the story, and the second half of the third sea-son has the potential to be the most eventful yet.

Danai Gurira, who plays Michonne in the series, reas-sures us of this in an interview with amctv.com.

“Please don’t think any-thing slows down,” Gurira said. “There’s more and more and more.”

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wallsdl.cOMMichonne (pictured) has emerged as one of the series most interesting characters in season three.

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BATTLE AT THE CAPITAL

by shea ulisneysports writer

The No. 25 West Virginia women’s basketball team will take on in-state rival Marshall in the Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic.

This will be the 52nd meeting between the two teams. Marshall has fallen to WVU in the past seven meetings, including a 69-57 defeat last season.

“It’s always great to get back here. We had a great crowd here last year, and hopefully we will have a great crowd here this year too,” said head coach Mike Carey. “It’s a good game.

It is a rivalry between two state schools; it is a great game to have, and we al-ways look forward to it.”

This past weekend the Mountaineers improved their record, 4-2, after pull-ing off a win against Vir-ginia 54-47 at Paul Jones Arena.

The win came at a much-needed time for West Vir-ginia, as it got the Moun-taineers back in the win column following back-to-back losses to LSU and Iowa in the FIU Thanksgiv-ing Classic.

Marshall head coach Matt Daniel is in his first season with a Herd team

that returns six of its top nine scorers from 2011.

The Herd finished third in the EKU Comfort Suites tournament at Eastern Ken-tucky during the weekend, falling to Jackson State 67-63 and defeating Presbyte-rian College 59-51, improv-ing their record to 4-3.

Sophomore guard Shay Weaver hit five 3-points in each of those games and currently averages 12.7 points per game.

Weaver was named to the All-Tournament team. She tied a career high in the win against Presbyterian, scor-ing 19 points while going 5 for 6 in 3-pointers. Weaver

finished the weekend with 36 points.

Sophomore forward Chukwuka Ezeigbo leads the Herd, averaging 6.4 re-bounds per game. Ezeigbo ranks No. 40 in the nation in blocked shots, 2.14 per game. Senior guard/for-ward Veronica Ruiz leads the Herd in defensive re-bounds averaging 3.7 per game.

“They are very organized and well-coached,” Carey said. “They have some ath-letes, have some shoot-ers and have a couple post players that can score in the paint. We will change it up a little defensively,

and I think it will be a good game.”

After defeating Virginia this past weekend, the Mountaineers look to keep their winning momentum rolling.

Leading the Mountain-eers in scoring is the out-standing duo of Palmer and Caldwell. Palmer leads WVU with 66 points, aver-aging 11 points per game. Caldwell recorded 62 points and averages 10.3 points per game.

In West Virginia’s win against Virginia, the Moun-taineers forced 23 Cavalier turnovers, capitalizing 21 points off the turnovers.

Sophomore forward Averee Fields led WVU in stealing with four of the team’s 14 total steals.

Senior center Ayana Dunning averages 9.7 points per game and cur-rently leads the Mountain-eers with 7 rebounds per game.

West Virginia’s defense averages 13.3 steals per game.

The game will be tele-vised on three different networks, including WPBY, WNPB, and WSWP. Gen-eral admission tickets will be sold for $7.

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matt sunday/the daily athenaeumHead coach Mike Carey talks to the West Virginia women’s basketball team during a timeout earlier this season. The Mountaineers will take on Marshall Tuesday night in the Capital Classic.

West Virginia women look to extend winning streak vs. Marshall in Capital Classic

Qb smith’s final home game at West Virginia ‘as good as it gets’

by nick arthurassociate sports editor

Geno Smith experienced it all in 2012.

Going from the Heisman Tro-phy frontrunner to taking the burden for West Virginia’s unex-pected five-game losing streak, he’s dealt with it just about as much as you can ask a 22-year old college kid to deal with.

“The finger pointed at him a lot when we weren’t doing spe-cific things well,” said Mountain-eer head coach Dana Holgorsen. “He’s a great kid and will be re-membered around here for a long, long time.”

Despite the rough road Smith experienced during his senior campaign, he found a perfect way to end his career.

The senior captain completed 23 of 24 passes for more than 400 yards and three touchdowns while tying the single-game FBS completion percentage record.

“It’s about as good as it gets, I guess,” Smith said after the 59-10 rout of Kansas Saturday. “It was just an accumulation of every-one out there executed the game … That’s what football is about – guys making plays. And today we did so.”

Smith’s only incompletion, which was intercepted by Kan-sas, technically wasn’t an incom-pletion, due to the fact it didn’t hit the ground.

“Any time you can throw for over 400 yards and not throw an incompletion, that’s pretty good,” Holgorsen said. “He didn’t have a ball hit the ground all day.”

Smith hit some lows dur-ing the season, including only throwing for 143 yards and two interceptions against Kansas State amid the aforementioned five-game slide.

But Saturday against Kansas, Smith may have ended his reg-ular-season career with his most impressive performance yet.

“I really challenge myself ev-ery game to not throw any in-completions. I try not to let that ball hit the ground because every play is critical and every down counts,” Smith said. “As long as the ball is in my hands, I need to do my job to get it to the play-makers that we have.”

Smith’s illustrious career as a Mountaineer includes more than 11,000 yards passing and 96 passing TDS to just 21 interceptions. matt sunday/the daily athenaeum

Senior quarterback Geno Smith runs out of the tunnel on Senior Day before West Virginia’s victory against Kansas on Saturday.

Geno has bright future in NFL

For about two years now, I’ve been confident that Geno Smith would be able to start for an NFL team one day.

The Mountaineers’ senior quarterback has a powerful and yet accurate right arm, a great understanding of offen-sive systems, as well as a myr-iad of intangibles, including his notoriously unshakeable resolve.

But as I watched the New York Jets’ Mark Sanchez de-jectedly head to the bench at Met Life Stadium late Sun-day afternoon, showered by a wave of thunderous boos, it became clear that Smith can possibly make an impact as a quarterback in professional football right away.

Sanchez is just one exam-ple of the quarterback futil-ity that’s plagued a number of NFL teams this year. The Arizona Cardinals, Jackson-ville Jaguars and Minne-sota Vikings, to name a few, have also been the victim of miserable quarterback play this season, and it’s hard to

imagine that the four players who started taking snaps for those teams Sunday will be around in a starting capac-ity next season. They’ve just been too consistently awful.

In fact, the current starters of those three teams com-bined with Sanchez for an av-erage quarterback rating of a mere 37.3 this Sunday.

Let that sink in for a bit. Four NFL quarterbacks couldn’t surpass a collective rating of 40, even with Jack-sonville’s Chad Henne inflat-ing the group’s average with a rating of 57.8 against the 5-7 Buffalo Bills.

Sure, all of those quarter-backs are already more sea-soned than Smith will be when he enters the league next season, but is that even a relevant point to make any-more with the way rookies are impacting the NFL now?

For example, Indianapo-lis’ Andrew Luck and Wash-ington’s Robert Griffin III began their rookie seasons as starters this year despite having never taken a single snap at the NFL level, and they’ve been two of the most outstanding quarterbacks in the entire league, on teams

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez will start the season in what’s be-come a familiar place: the disabled list.

The New York Yankees said Monday the third baseman will have surgery on his left hip, an injury that could sideline him until the All-Star break and may explain his spectacu-larly poor performance during the playoffs.

“It’s a significant blow,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “But we’ve dealt with signifi-cant blows and, hopefully, we’ll be able to deal with this one, as well.”

A 14-time All-Star and baseball’s priciest player at $275 million, Rodriguez has a torn labrum, bone impingement and a cyst. He will need four to six weeks of physical therapy to strengthen the hip be-fore surgery, and the team anticipates he will be side-lined four to six months af-ter the operation.

This will be Rodriguez’s sixth trip to the disabled list in six seasons. A-Rod had right hip surgery on March 9, 2009, and re-turned that May 8.

“It is a more compli-cated surgery with a lon-ger recovery time because there is a little bit more

that needs to be done,” Cashman said, citing the bone impingement. “I don’t think it’s age related. Butt at the same time, the older you are, the slower you’re going to recover re-gardless. But the bottom line and the message I’ve been receiving is that this is a solvable issue.”

Rodriguez, who turns 38 in July, complained to manager Joe Girardi of a problem with his right hip the night Raul Ibanez pinch hit for him – and hit a tying ninth-inning home run – against Baltimore during Game 3 of the AL division series in Octo-ber. He went to New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s emergency room and was checked out then.

“Up to this point, there was no complaints of any nature at all from his hip, or anything really,” Cash-man said. “At that point Joe went to Alex in the dug-out and said, ‘I’m going to pinch hit for you and we’re going to pinch hit Ibanez,’ and Alex said to Joe at that moment, ‘OK,’ he said, ‘I’ve got to talk to you about something. I think my right hip needs to be looked at. I just don’t feel like I’m fir-ing on all cylinders.’”

Cashman said the test on the right hip “was

clean” and the left hip was not examined.

“I can tell you if a patient shows up in the emergency room with a complaint, they’re going to focus on where the complaint is, not something else,” he said.

Rodriguez, owed $114 million by New York over the next five years, re-mained a shell of his for-mer self on the field. He was benched in three of nine postseason games and pinch hit for in three others. He batted .120 (3 for 25) with no RBIs in the playoffs, including 0 for 18 with 12 strikeouts against right-handed pitchers.

A-Rod broke his left hand when he was hit by a pitch from Seattle’s Fe-lix Hernandez on July 24. He returned Sept. 3 and hit .195 with two homers and six RBIs over the fi-nal month of the regular season.

Cashman said Rodri-guez’s left hip injury was detected last month when he had an annual physi-cal in Colorado with Dr. Marc Philippon, who oper-ated on the right hip 3 1-2 years ago. Rodriguez got a second opinion from Dr. Bryan Kelly of New York’s Hospital for Special Sur-gery, who will operate on A-Rod next month, and

the injury was made pub-lic Monday by the New York Post.

Cashman said “they’re not your typical injuries” but wouldn’t speculate whether they are related to steroids use. Rodriguez admitted in 2009 that he used steroids while with the Texas Rangers from 2001-03.

“It doesn’t matter what I wonder,” Cashman said.

With Derek Jeter, who turns 39 in June, coming

off surgery to repair a bro-ken ankle, the left side of the Yankees’ infield could be even more of a defen-sive problem.

Jeter expects to be ready for opening day. Eric Chavez, who filled in for Rodriguez for parts of the last two seasons, is a free agent and Cashman said there are few options on the market.

Rodriguez had a strained quadriceps in 2008, the hip surgery in 2009, a strained

calf in 2010, knee surgery in 2011 and the broken hand this year. While he is fifth on the career list with 647 home runs, he had just 34 the last two seasons.

“When he’s healthy – obviously at one point he was spectacular,” Cashman said. “One player doesn’t make a team, and so we have a full roster of guys plus our farm system be-hind that that’s going to have to fill in. We’ve done it before.”

A-Rod needs hip surgery, will miss start of season

APNew York third baseman Alex Rodriguez will have surgery on his left hip and will miss the start of the season and possi-bly the entire first half.

APMiami Heat forward LeBron James, center, laughs with guards Mario Chalmers, left, and Dwyane Wade as they sit on the bench during the end of the second half of the Heat’s win against the Brooklyn Nets Nov. 7.

LeBron James named SI’s Sportsman of the Year

MIAMI (AP) — When LeB-ron James learned he was Sports Illustrated’s Sports-man of the Year, the Miami Heat star was surprised.

Not because he thought his achievements in 2012 weren’t worthy, but because he figured what happened in 2010 was still holding him back.

Apparently, that’s no longer the case. The mag-azine announced its an-nual choice Monday, with James becoming the first NBA player to win the award since Heat teammate Dwy-ane Wade in 2006.

‘’I remember just like yes-terday when I signed here

and basically, like the roof caved in,’’ James told The Associated Press, referring to the fallout from his infa-mous ‘’Decision’’ to leave Cleveland for Miami in 2010. ‘’To see that I and my team and everyone around me was able to patch that roof up, to come to this point, to come to this point and receive such a presti-gious award, it’s huge.’’

Past winners include Muhammad Ali, Jack Nick-laus, Wayne Gretzky, Arthur Ashe, Tom Brady, Derek Jeter and Michael Phelps. College basketball coaches Mike Krzyzewski – James’ Olympic coach – and Pat

Summitt shared the honor last year.

Time Inc. Sports Group editor Paul Fichtenbaum said one thing separating James this year was that when Miami needed him most ‘’he came up the big-gest.’’ In particular, Game 4 of the second-round series at Indiana and Game 6 of the Eastern Conference fi-nals at Boston.

‘’LeBron kind of made it easy on us,’’ Fichtenbaum said. ‘’In a year that had re-ally high standards, he just stood taller than everybody else.’’

James won essentially all he could win in 2012:

He became an NBA cham-pion for the first time, won the NBA Finals MVP trophy, helped the U.S. win Olym-pic gold for the second time and picked up his third NBA MVP award.

Fichtenbaum said James was the choice not only for his play but also because of his charitable work, espe-cially involving schoolchil-dren in his native Akron, Ohio.

‘’I do think there has been some sort of closure - maybe not entirely in Cleve-land, but across the nation,’’ Fichtenbaum said. ‘’LeB-ron’s jerseys are now the No. 1-selling jerseys. I think

there’s a reason for that. I think people really appre-ciate him for everything he can do.’’

This is the 18th time James will be on SI’s cover, the magazine said. His first time was as a high school ju-nior in February 2002, when the magazine famously dubbed him ‘’The Chosen One’’ and touted how he would have been an NBA lottery pick even then.

The first 17 covers were different: Only this one has James wearing an NBA championship ring.

James said the sports-man honor was humbling considering this was year in

which Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Gabby Douglas and Missy Franklin starred at the London Olympics, Miguel Cabrera became baseball’s first Triple Crown winner in 45 years and Roger Federer captured Wimbledon for the seventh time.

‘’Do I need it? I don’t need it,’’ James said. ‘’I don’t ever look for individual ac-colades. I do what I do be-cause I love it and I want to continue to get better at it.’’

The Dec. 10 issue of SI is out Wednesday, the same day James will be honored at the magazine’s Sports-man of the Year awards gala in New York.

College basketball coach Rick Majerus diesST. LOUIS (AP) — At Rick

Majerus’ final stop, the lone concession to the coach’s health woes were the footstools stationed at each corner of the practice court.

Close by anytime he needed a breather. Close enough, too, to jump up for some hands-on assistance with the proper stance or to lead a quick walkthrough.

The jovial, basketball-obsessed coach who led Utah to the 1998 NCAA fi-nal and had only one losing season in 25 years with four schools, died Saturday. He was 64.

Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman, the coach’s longtime friend, confirmed in a statement released through The Salt Lake Tri-bune that Majerus died of heart failure in a Los Ange-les hospital. The coach had been hospitalized there for several months.

Players remembered Majerus, who got his start as an assistant under Al McGuire at Marquette, as a coach who was exacting and perhaps a bit unorth-odox at times, but always fair. Majerus was known for

assembling rosters with an international flair, and his final team at Saint Louis had players from Australia and New Zealand.

“It was a unique experi-ence, I’ll tell you that, and I loved every minute of it,” said Saint Louis guard Kyle Cassity, who was mostly a backup on last season’s 26-win team after starting for Majerus earlier in his col-lege career. “A lot of people questioned the way he did things, but I loved it. He’d be hard as hell on you, but he really cared.”

At the postgame news conference following Saint Louis’ four-point loss to top seed Michigan State in the NCAA West Regional, Ma-jerus and his players wept.

“Coach has done so much,” Brian Conklin said back then. “Being his first recruiting class, he told me that we were going to help him build something special here. He’s a great coach. I couldn’t imagine playing for a better coach, a better person. He doesn’t just teach you about bas-ketball, it’s about life.”

Saint Louis athletic di-rector Chris May said in

a statement that what he would remember most about Majerus “was his en-during passion to see his players excel both on and off the court.”

“He truly embraced the term ‘student-athlete,’ and I think that will be his last-ing legacy,” May added.

The school announced Nov. 19 that Majerus wouldn’t return to Saint Louis because of the heart condition. He ended the school’s 12-year NCAA tournament drought last season, and bounced back from his only losing sea-son, with a team that won its opening game and took top regional seed Michigan State to the wire. The Bil-likens were ranked for the first time since 1994-95.

Majerus was undergo-ing evaluation and treat-ment in California for the ongoing heart trouble and the school announced he was on leave in late August.

“That’s a tough one for me,” Boston coach Doc Rivers, a former Marquette star, said after the Celtics’ loss in Milwaukee. “He’s the one that gave me my nickname. I knew before

(the game) that he wasn’t going to make it through the night. I don’t want to talk much about it.”

San Diego State coach Steve Fisher first met Ma-jerus at a camp when Ma-jerus was a graduate as-sistant at Marquette and Fisher was coaching at the high school level in Chicago.

“Rick would hold court at night with a case of beer in the basement,” Fisher said. “Phenomenal coach, a better person, cared about family, cared about people. He will be missed by everyone.”

Loyola of Chicago coach Porter Moser, an assis-tant under Majerus at Saint Louis from 2007-10, tweeted, “RIP to my friend and mentor Coach Ma-jerus. I learned so much about the game and life. We lost One of the best! My heart is heavy tonight.”

Missouri coach Frank Haith said it was a “sad day for all of college basketball.”

“Coach Majerus was a tremendous coach and one of the all-time great personalities in our pro-fession,” Haith said. “Our

hearts and prayers go out to Rick’s family and friends and all the wonderful stu-dent-athletes and staff at Saint Louis University.”

Majerus had a history of heart and weight problems dating to 1989 that per-sisted despite a daily con-stitutional of a mile swim. He had a stent inserted in August 2011 in Salt Lake City and missed some games in the 2011-12 sea-son after gashing his leg in a collision with players.

He backed out of a com-mitment to coach South-ern California due to heart problems.

Majerus was 95-69 in five seasons at Saint Louis and had a 25-year record of 517-216, with 15 20-win seasons and two 30-win seasons. He had his most success at Utah, going 323-95 from 1989-2004. He was at Marquette from 1983-86, and Ball State from 1987-89.

Ball State was 29-3 in 1988-89 under Majerus, including the school’s first NCAA tournament victory. At Utah, Majerus produced 10 conference champion-ships in 13 seasons.

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His final trot onto Moun-taineer Field was a memora-ble one.

However, No. 12 admits he probably won’t be hit with the realization of his career at home being over for quite some time.

“Many things went through my mind. It hasn’t hit me yet,” Smith said. “I’m going to look back at this game, this season; every sin-gle time I stepped out on this field, and I’m going to be appreciative.”

Following the victory against Kansas Saturday, Smith found his way into the crowd to sing “Country Roads” with members of the West Virginia student body.

It was a moment he will never forget.

“It was just spur of the mo-ment. I wanted to go out on a high note,” Smith said. “Just to be able to stand up there and sing ‘Country Roads’ in the student section; I hope that becomes a tradition. It’s one of those feelings you don’t actually know until you’re a part of.”

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that were both just horrific last year.

Both Griffin III and Luck, taken No. 1 and 2 in last year’s draft, had tremendous colle-giate careers at their respec-tive universities, as the two combined for 19,726 passing yards and 160 touchdowns in their seven college seasons (Luck skipped his senior sea-son at Stanford).

Lofty numbers, to put it lightly.

But Smith has actually completed a higher percent-age of his passes for more yards and more touchdowns than either RG III or Luck, although it should be noted that Luck probably would have edged Smith in yards and touchdowns had he re-turned for his senior season.

Still, Smith’s numbers speak for themselves. The school’s most prolific passer now holds the records for most completions, passing yards, and touchdowns in a single game, an entire sea-son and in a career for any player in WVU history. It should also be pointed out that Smith rewrote some of those records multiple times.

Some critics will still say Smith still has to prove he can move out of Dana Hol-gorsen’s shotgun spread of-fense and operate an NFL, pro-style offense before they’ll hand down their ap-

proval, but Smith’s transition to an NFL offense won’t be as difficult as the naysayers would have you believe.

Holgorsen himself has al-ready said on numerous oc-casions that Smith is perfectly capable of taking snaps un-der center, and honestly, this year’s NFL season has shown that more teams are willing to adopt the up-tempo offense than at any other point in the league’s history.

So in essence, Smith may actually be more prepared than the average NFL quar-terback to take on the evolv-ing responsibilities of the position when he gets to the league.

Regardless, Smith has demonstrated an excellence over his career at WVU that can’t be ignored come 2013’s NFL draft. He can make any throw at practically any time and will come to work each day with the exact same mentality – an integral trait for a quarterback playing at the highest level.

This excellence, paired with the abysmal play from a number of incumbent NFL starters this year, ultimately means that there’s at least a decent chance Mountaineer fans will be treated to another season of watching Smith light up opposing defenses next year.

It’ll just be a day later than when they’re normally used to.

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by austin seidelsports writer

As the halfway point of the West Virginia swim-ming and diving season passes, head coach Vic Riggs is left to reflect on his team’s performance in the U.S. Winter Nationals this past weekend.

The Mountaineers left their mark in Austin, Texas, during an extended invita-tional event in which sev-eral WVU swimmers saw top 10 performances in an event that carries Big 12 Conference Championship connotations.

“Coming off the last two meets, we have some great confidence,” Riggs said. “And now we need to carry that on and fine tune what each athlete needs to get better by February. I think they are ahead of where we as a staff thought we would be at this time of year.”

S e n i o r s w i m m e r s Rachael Burnett and Man-die Nugent commanded the attention, as both swim-mers placed themselves in the finals of their respec-tive events. Burnett placed fifth in the 1650 meter free-style event with a time of 16:09.92 while Nugent placed sixth in the women’s 200m fly event with a time of 1:58.10. In the 1650m freestyle consolation fi-nals, senior swimmer Kata Fodor placed eighth to help bolster the Mountaineers’ top 10 efforts.

On the men’s side of the event, sophomore swim-mer Daeton Davenport placed 12th in the 1650m freestyle while the young relay team of freshmen An-drew Marsh and Ross Glegg and sophomores Julien Vi-alette and Nathan Cobbe took a ninth place finish in the 400m freestyle relay event.

“They have come to-gether really well and are continuing to make the steps needed to compete well,” Riggs said of his young male swimmers. “I am starting to see some leadership from them that will direct this team in a positive direction as we get closer to our championship

meets.”The Mountaineer swim-

mers were not joined by their diving cohorts, but West Virginia diving coach Michael Grapner returned to his alma mater with his team in tow as the young WVU diving squad took part in the Miami (Ohio) Invitational.

Entering the event the expectations held by Grap-ner for his divers were on par with the expectations held by Riggs and his swim-mers. Grapner’s team in Miami, Ohio consisted of just a pair of juniors as the remainder of the men’s and women’s team consisted of sophomore and freshman divers.

Don’t tell the West Vir-ginia divers they lack expe-rience, however, as sopho-more diver Haily VandePoel and freshman diver Chris-tian Parker each took top 10 finishes in their respec-tive one- and three-meter board events as Parker and several other members of the diving team took part in their first major meet in their collegiate careers. Fellow freshman Lindsay Schmidt also claimed a pair of top 10 finishes with her sixth- and seventh-place finishes in the one- and three-meter events, respectively.

While the youth of the team shined, junior Rich-ard Pokorny went about the invitation in the “business as usual” mindset, claim-ing fifth in both the one and three-meter board events despite carrying one of the most technically difficult dive sets.

The swimming and div-ing teams will each have a layoff until Jan. 12, 2013, but Riggs has faith in his team’s ability to prepare and maintain focus during the extended break.

“They are stepping up to each challenge as pre-sented to them very well,” Riggs said. “We have the second half of the season to go, but I feel they are in a very good position to get themselves ready for Big 12s and NCAAs.”

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WVU builds confidence in U.S. Winter Nationals

by keVin hookersports correspondent

Led by record-setting perfor-mances, the West Virginia Univer-sity track and field team kicked off its 2012-13 indoor season at the Marty Pushkin Track Classic Saturday.

Other schools from West Virginia, including Wheeling Jesuit Univer-sity, and Glenville State College com-peted in the meet.

Stormy Nesbit, a junior, posted the fourth-best triple jump in school history with a mark of 11.89 meters while senior Heather Adams re-corded the third-best weight throw in school history with a distance of 16.53 meters.

Junior Chene Townsend also im-pressed and took first place in the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles.

“It was a nice rust buster,” said WVU head coach Sean Cleary. “The girls have been training hard all fall, and it’s nice to get inside and start getting fired up for winter (season).”

The Mountaineers took the top

three spots in the 400-meter dash as well. Junior Shakiyla Cosby won the race with a time of 59.8 seconds while freshman Brianna Kerekes fin-ished in second place with a time of 1:01.53. Hannah Stone, also a fresh-man, finished third with a time of 1:04.45.

The track team also took the top four spots in the 500-meter dash. Peyton Hampson, Alyssa Scherich, and Arielle Gaither, all running un-attached, took the top three spots, re-spectively. Freshman Shannon Daly finished fourth.

The Moutaineers earned the top three spots in the 800-meter dash. Junior Allison Tyree won the event with a time of 2:27.42, while fresh-man Christa D’Egidio and senior Lauren Moskal came in second and third, respectively.

In the field, WVU won all possible events, led by Stone, who finished first in the high jump with a leap of 1.7 meters. The team took the top four spots in pole vaulting, with ju-nior Katlyn Shelar taking first place.

Freshman Kiley Defibaugh placed second while sophomore Caitlin Walton and senior Lindsay Kopen-haver tied for third.

While Cleary was happy for Nesbit and Adams, who set records for the Mountaineers, he said he wasn’t too surprised by his team’s performance in the first meet of the year.

“We have some very good athletes on this team,” he said. “I would ex-pect a few (records) to be broken by year’s end.”

The track team is now off until Jan. 12, and Cleary hopes the team will remain busy during its break.

“The key to our teams success will be how focused we remain through the holidays,” he said. “We will ei-ther be prepared or come back dis-appointed. Our destiny is on our own hands.”

The Mountaineers will travel to Kent, Ohio, for a meeting against Kent State University for their next meet.

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matt sunday/the daily athenaeumJunior Chene Townsend won the 60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles in the Marty Pushkin Track Classic.

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