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by laura haightstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
With final exams ap-proaching, West Virginia University students wish they could skate away from the stress of school.
The Morgantown Ice Arena offers them the chance to do so.
Sarah Lancotti, who has been ice skating for several years, said she attends a free-style session every week at the arena.
“It’s freeing. I like com-ing here and just forgetting everything once I get on the ice,” Lancotti said.
Lancotti said she also en-joys the atmosphere in arena.
“It’s very welcoming, you feel like you’re part of a com-munity,” Lancotti said. “The people here are very nice, and you feel like you belong to a nice club.”
The rink is a full collegiate hockey-sized rink, and where the West Virginia University hockey team and Figure Skat-ing Club practice.
The rink offers lessons for beginners who aren’t com-fortable with learning to skate independently. WVU also of-fers a ice skating courses, which count as physical edu-cation credits.
Ice skating classes range from beginner to immediate and students can also take a class to learn how to play hockey.
Larry Casteel, the rink
manager, handles the day-to-day operations of the rink.
Casteel said he believes ice skating is a great way to get out and do something.
“It’s a good stress reliever, and it’s good exercise,” Casteel said. “There are a lot of good things that happen at the ice rink.”
The rink started as an out-door rink, but is now fully enclosed. The rink opens in August and closes for the summer in April.
Becca Salvatore, a sopho-more journalism student, said
she likes to ice skate, because it reminds her of being in New York City.
“Ice skating at the arena re-minds me (of) skating in the city during the holidays with my family,” Salvatore said. “I love the holiday cheer.”
Salvatore said she enjoys being able to get away from the stress and do something different.
“It’s an affordable way to have fun and take a break from being at the library studying for all my finals,” Sal-vatore said. “I feel less stressed
now.”The rink holds public ses-
sions Fridays 7-9 p.m., Satur-days 1:30-3:30 p.m., again at 7-9 p.m. and Sundays 1:30-3:30 p.m.
The Ice Arena is located off of Greenbag Road at 1001 Mis-sissippi St. in Morgantown.
Admission to the rink is $5 and skate rentals cost $3.
For more information on the BOPARC Ice Arena, visit www.boparc.org/ice-arena.html.
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Holiday Book Drive keeps W.Va. children reading
by hannah Wigalcorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Uni-versity College of Educa-tion and Human Services has kicked off its fourth annual Holiday Children’s Book Drive.
The WVU CEHS is teaming up with the Col-lege of Education and Hu-man Services Alumni As-sociation and the WVU Extension Service’s En-ergy Express Program to help more than 3,000 disadvantaged elementary school students in West Virginia.
Energy Express is an award-winning summer reading and nutrition pro-gram for children in rural and low-income areas in the state.
Books collected from the drive will be distributed by Energy Express program advisers.
A mission of the CEHS is to enhance and improve educational opportunities in West Virginia.
Mary Beth Sickles, CEHS Alumni Relations and Special Events coordina-
tor, said books are crucial to a child’s educational development.
“Disadvantaged chil-dren have limited ac-cess to books, especially in their homes,” Sickles said.
More than 1,300 books were donated and distrib-uted to children through-out the state in 2012.
The goal for the 2013 Holiday Book Drive is 1,800 books.
“This drive is a way
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Sga talks univ. president search, textbook partnership
by Sam boSSermanstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Univer-sity Student Government Association held its last reg-ular meeting of the fall se-mester Wednesday night.
The meeting featured lengthy discussions on sev-eral topics with potentially wide-reaching repercus-sions for the entire student body.
SGA president Ryan Cam-pione announced the Uni-versity is looking to fill sev-eral spots on the presidential search committee with stu-dent representatives.
Campione said the Uni-versity wants to make sure every group on campus is represented in order for all potential concerns and ideas to be heard.
“In the selection of the new University president, it is important that everyone’s viewpoint is considered, and students are just as an important part of that as are faculty and staff,” Campione said. “When President Cle-ments was selected, there was a selection committee where students who served on it had a significant role in addressing the personality characteristics they’d want to see in a future University president.”
Campione said the Uni-versity is looking for a cross-
section of the student body to serve on the committee, and he encourages anyone interested to get involved.
“We really wanted to open this up to the entire student body,” he said. “The trick is getting equal repre-sentation by having under-grads from different col-leges and potentially even a graduate student if any are interested.
“We are mandated to find a student representative from the Health Sciences Campus.”
Anyone interested in serving on the commit-tee should get someone to nominate them by send-ing an email to [email protected] with their resume and contact information in-cluded. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
In addition, the SGA Board of Governors unani-mously passed a resolution endorsing a partnership with the website Textbook-Friend.com.
The resolution will see the WVU SGA officially pro-mote the use of the web-site, which offers a platform for students to buy and sell textbooks.
Gov. Chris Nyden, one of the resolution’s co-spon-sors, gave a brief tour of the website before the vot-ing began. He said the res-olution represents SGA’s commitment to the student
body.“I’ve cared a lot about
getting something like this in place for about two years, and it’s like the per-fect storm that brought this on now,” Nyden said. “It re-ally is a good deal for SGA and an even better one for the student body.”
During the discussion of the resolution, a concern over spending SGA money to promote a private com-pany was raised.
Nyden said he recognizes where the concern is coming from but any money spent on promotion would be well worth the investment.
“This is the way govern-ment should work; it’s about looking at the private sector and realizing they can also provide an efficient service,” Nyden said. “What typically happens in a private public partnership is the private sector is efficiently provid-ing a public good, in this case it’s a platform for find-ing cheaper textbooks.”
Nyden said he was happy to see the resolution pass unanimously despite res-ervations from board members.
“I thought there may be a few nays but it turned out to be a unanimous vote, and I’m proud of that,” Nyden said. “The bottom line is the company is not
Four students announce intent to seek candidacy Wednesday
Famouri, Motwani hope to guide
through transition
Nyden, Evans seek to continue to better
WVU
Kyle monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeumChris Nyden, left, and Jacob Evans announce their intent to run for SGA office Wednesday.
Kyle monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeumFarah Famouri, right, and Kartik Motwani announce their intent to seek candidacy in the upcoming SGA election.
Board of Governors members Chris Nyden and Jacob Evans announced their intent to seek the offices of stu-dent body president and vice president for the 2014-15 school year.
Nyden said the motivating force be-hind his decision to run is the individ-ual stories and problems he has heard directly from students and his desire to reach out and help each of them.
“The rewards of being a member of this body are not the bullet point on your resume or the recognition you re-ceive when doing good work,” Nyden said. “Those are nice, but the real re-ward is being able to look people in the eye and know that your work, however meager or insignificant it may seem to many, is bettering their lives while at this University.”
Nyden and Evans both serve as Gover-nors in the current Student Government Administration.
Farah Famouri and Kartik Motwani announced their intent to seek the of-fices of student body president and vice president for the 2014-15 school year.
Both Famouri and Motwani have been active members of Student Government Association through-out their years at West Virginia University.
Famouri currently serves as the Chief of Operations, while Motwani is the SGA’s Director of Academics.
“The University is in a transi-tional period right now in its ad-ministration, so we need stabil-ity on the student level,” Famouri said. “Now is the time to do better, we’ve done a lot but we can do much more.
“We can have cleaner campaigns, we can have everyone in the organization involved rather than just a few notable
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to build the inventory of age-appropriate books in rural schools across the state, so that low-income children have access to books, which provides a strong foundation needed to develop important skills required for school,” Sick-les said.
New or gently used
books will be collected un-til Dec. 20.
Donations can be dropped off at the follow-ing locations: The Morgan-town Mall Children’s Play Area; Black Bear Burrito’s Downtown and Evansdale location: Healthworks’ Ma-ple Drive location; 802 Al-len Hall on the Evansdale Campus ; or United Bank’s Cheat Lake, Sa-braton and Waterfront locations.
Additional collections
will be organized in Park-ersburg and Charleston.
There are book collec-tions that will benefit Mc-Dowell County school li-braries and the Boys and Girls Club of Parkersburg.
For more informa-tion about the CEHS Hol-iday Book Drive, email Mary Beth Sickles at [email protected].
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“ G o v . N y d e n and I have worked together on a lot of proj-ects, especial ly my LiveSafe proposal,” Ev-ans said. “When he ap-proached me about run-ning for vice president it was an offer I couldn’t refuse.
“I look forward to work-ing with him, as well as what I’m sure will be a great group of people elected by the student
body.”Students interested
in interviewing with the Nyden-Evans ticket should visit http://www.nydene-vans.com/.
“We’re looking for ex-perienced and hard work-ing students who believe in leaving this Univer-sity a better place than they found it,” Nyden said. “Dedication and de-termination coupled with a heart of passion is what our student body needs. We will provide all of this and more.”
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people.”Famouri and Mot-
wani worked together for the past year to estab-lish a primary school in Ghana as part of Moun-taineers for International Disease Awareness.
Both said throughout this work they were able to prove the level of effective-ness they can achieve as a team.
“We’re clearly a proven
team,” Motwani said. “The focus of our work in SGA is to help foster a growing en-vironment at WVU for the benefit of our fellow stu-dents and generations to come.”
Students interested in interviewing for a position on the Famouri-Motwoni ticket should visit http://farahkartik2014.com/.
“We’re in this for the right reasons,” Famouri said. “We want any stu-dent who wants to make WVU a better place.”
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charging anything for this service and students will not be asked to pay any-thing for it either.”
WVU SGA meetings will resume at the start of the spring semester. Meetings will be held Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Hatfield’s B in the Mountainlair.
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toronto mayor tried obtaining tapeTOrONTO (aP) — New
court documents released Wednesday suggest Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may have offered $5,000 and a car to suspected drug dealers in exchange for a video that appears to show him smok-ing crack.
The information is con-tained in police wiretaps of alleged gang members who spoke about delivering drugs to Ford and having pictures of him using drugs. One alleged gang member is heard telling another that he rejected the offer for the tape and planned to meet the mayor and ask for “150,” meaning $150,000.
On one wiretap on April 20, an alleged gang member is heard saying, “Rob Ford was smoking his rocks to-day” and that he would post a picture on Instagram. On another wiretap, one man says he has many pictures of Ford “doing the hezza,” which police say is known to be slang for heroin. An-other man suggests those pictures would be worth a lot, the document says.
On Wednesday, Ford
laughed and ignored ques-tions as he left his office.
Ford, who’s become an international media sen-sation, acknowledged last month that he smoked crack in a “drunken stupor” about a year ago. He previ-ously denied the existence of the video.
Ford has refused to re-sign as mayor of Canada’s largest city and financial capital, despite mount-ing pressure after a string of incidents that have em-barrassed Canadians, from public drunkenness to ap-pearing in another video that showed him threaten-ing “murder” in an inco-herent rant. Toronto’s city council has stripped him of most of his powers.
Ford admitted that he smoked crack after police said they had obtained a video that appears to show him puffing on a crack pipe as part of an investigation into his friend Alexander Lisi.
The newly released court documents say police heard on the wiretaps that Ford had his phone stolen or lost
it at a home they believe to be a crack house and that Lisi was trying to get it back.
Police say they over-heard that Lisi threatened to “put the heat on” the gang if he didn’t get Ford’s phone back and that the al-leged gang members said they would not tolerate Li-
si’s threats because they had a picture of Ford “on a pipe,” which police be-lieved meant a crack pipe. Police say Lisi gave the men marijuana in exchange for the return of the mayor’s phone.
Dennis Morris, Ford’s lawyer, said the wiretaps are
snippets of alleged gang-sters who are talking among themselves.
“It’s very dangerous to put any weight into any of this,” Morris told The Asso-ciated Press. “There’s noth-ing to address.”
City councilor Joe Mi-hevc said police need to ex-amine the allegations that Ford tried to obtain the tape.
“The mayor can’t come out and say, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’” Mihevc said. “This man needs help. He needs a lot of help.”
Toronto Police Bill Blair declined to comment on the newly released documents. The wiretaps are evidence in the case against Lisi, who faces trial on drug and ex-tortion charges. The mayor has not been charged.
“All of the evidence that was gathered in that case has been reviewed by inves-tigators and with the Crown prosecutors in this case, and where reasonable and probable grounds to lay a charge exists, charges have been laid,” Blair said.
Police were in the midst
of a drug and weapons in-vestigation involving al-leged members of the Dixon Bloods gang when the may-or’s name surfaced on wire-taps in March and April. Police didn’t open an inves-tigation into Ford and Lisi until May, when U.S. web-site Gawker and the Toronto Star reported that alleged drug dealers were shopping around the crack video.
Ford says he has quit drinking and adopted a healthier lifestyle. And he’s not avoiding the spotlight. He’s agreed to appear on a Washington-based sports talk show to make NFL picks.
Councilor Janet Da-vis said the image of Ford laughing at the newest revelations demonstrates his arrogance and lack of judgment.
“If he laughed today, and thousands and thou-sands of people of the city of Toronto saw that he was laughing at what was re-vealed today, it will just simply deepen the anger toward this man,” Davis said.
APToronto mayor rob Ford watches the buffalo bills play the Atlanta Falcons during the first half of an nFl football game, in Toronto. saying he’s a big Washington redskins fan and will “go on any ra-dio,” scandal-plagued Ford has agreed to appear on a Washing-ton-based sports talk show to make nFl picks.
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WVU Children’s Hospital celebrates 12th annual Cards of Hope project
by jake jarvisA&e writer
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The West Virginia Uni-versity Children’s Hospital is celebrating its 12th an-nual Cards of Hope charity project. This heartwarm-ing event allows Morgan-town residents and people around the country to con-tribute to finding a cure for cancer while providing holiday cheer.
Lora Edgell, the Chil-dren’s Miracle Network Di-rector for WVU’s Children Hospital has been organiz-ing this project from the beginning. Of the many
events she organizes, she said this one in particular carries the most emotional reward.
“This is one that is very near and dear to my heart,” Edgell said.
In the summer months, active patients in pediat-ric cancer cancers, for-mer patients and siblings of patients are invited to draw a Christmas card. The best of these cards are voted on by a commit-tee of members from the community.
The top 10 cards are chosen to be a part of the Holiday Collection, which will be for sale to the pub-
lic. The proceeds from these sales go directly to the Cure Kids Cancer Fund at the hospital.
“The cards are un-derwritten this year by Kroger,” Edgell said. “Therefore, when some-one purchases a pack of cards, 100 percent of their donation goes directly to families in need.”
One of the artists return-ing this year is 15-year-old Glenn Koon. Glenn’s mother, Michelle, said he and his family participate year after year.
“We participate to give back to the hospital that took such good care of
us,” Michelle said. “Glenn draws his cards in memory of his brother Johnny who died in 2005 from brain cancer.
“Being involved for 12 years, I see the card or-ders come in every year,” Edgell said. “It amazes me the people who purchase them year after year.”
This year, orders have come from across the country. Cards will be de-livered from California to New York.
Tracy Burcham, a West Virginia resident, has pur-chased cards for the past five years and said it is def-initely a part of her Christ-
mas traditions.“It just wouldn’t feel
like Christmas without the kids’ cards hung up on my mantle,” Burcham said. “They’re so precious that I never end up send-ing them out, I just keep them for myself.”
For only $15, a pack of 20 cards can be purchased that include two copies of each one-of-a-kind de-sign. Designs range from reindeer to snowmen and Christmas trees. Each re-flects the personality of the child who created it.
After the holidays end, people can still help the pediatric patients at WVU
Children’s Hospital. Un-like some others, this is a nonprofit hospital.
“What that means is that no child is ever turned away, regardless of their ability to pay,” Edgell said. “Fundraising dollars assist in the day-to-day needs of our patients and their families.”
To make a donation, visit http://www.give-towvukids.com.
To purchase a pack of cards, visit http://w w w . w v u k i d s . c o m /w v u h / Ho m e / S u p p o r t /Cards-of-Hope.
WVU alumni wins best director at NY Independent Film Festival for documentaryby westley thompson
A&e writer @dAilyAthenAeum
It’s the height of the Cold War in 1961, and the U.S.’s fear that Central and South America will side with communist territories cre-ated tension throughout the Western Hemisphere.
After meeting a Colom-bian student, a group of American college kids un-dertook an exciting expedi-tion. The groups’ eyes were opened to U.S. foreign pol-icy and attitude toward Latin American countries.
They decide to buy a sur-plus military amphibious vehicle and take a yearlong goodwill trip throughout the Americas. Throughout this trip the boys learned perseverance is the great-est asset one can possess.
This documentary, re-leased in October by
award-winning director Matt Twomey, is called “The Duck Diaries: A Cold War Quest for Friend-ship Across the Ameri-cas.” The group’s journey starts at “The Today Show” in New York City. They left the States and crossed the country into Mexico.
The group planned to hit every major university throughout Latin Amer-ica and extend a hand in friendship. In the process, they made efforts to learn about the cultures of other countries, while at the same time teaching others about their own ways.
Every town the group entered was full of people curious about this group of men and their strange vehicle.
The journey was full of challenges. Crossing the borders was difficult. Guards didn’t know what
to make of these unoffi-cial ambassadors of good-will. The men also met much mechanical trou-ble brought on by the poor roadways that plague these regions, and their vehicle was never designed for dis-tance or endurance.
Their most harrowing challenge took place at sea. In order to cross the treach-erous Darien Gap separat-ing Panama from Colom-bia, the group had to take to the water. After being at sea for three days in rough con-ditions, the amphibious ve-hicle’s propeller broke, and everyone was left stranded ashore on a tropical island.
Thematically this docu-mentary has a lot to offer. Within the adventure, there are two different themes.
Firstly, the documentary showed the importance of reaching across cultures with friendship. Too often
people write off other cul-tures without ever learning about them first. By mak-ing the effort to understand and befriend those who are different, we can learn to peacefully coexist.
Secondly, the story deals with the power of true com-mitment. Throughout their adventure, the group faced many challenges, but their commitment to finish-ing the trip always pushed them forward.
Twomey learned some of these lessons himself.
With the exception of some aid for voice-overs and certain technical as-pects, everything put into this documentary was done by Twomey. It took a lot of commitment to bring such a large project to fruition.
Towmey won best direc-tor for “The Duck Diaries” at this year’s NY Indepen-dent Film Festival.
For him though, this movie is more than just an interesting adventure from the Cold War. His father was actually a member of the group.
“One of the guys on this was my dad,” Twomey said. “So I knew the story grow-ing up, and I’ve seen the footage from time to time.”
The difficulty came in putting the film together to create a narrative arc. Due to age, a lot of the footage was damaged and needed to be professionally salvaged.
Taking all of the stories and interviews and compil-ing them together in a com-prehensible way proved to be the greatest challenge.
“There are a million ways to put a story together with all this footage,” Twomey said. “You have to decide which ones to use to make a narrative arc.”
Twomey is a gradu-ate of West Virginia Uni-versity, and he grew up in Morgantown. His fa-ther was a professor at the University for some time. He completed an under-graduate English program at WVU and learned a lot from his experience at the University.
“I’ve always been a be-liever in the power of story telling,” he said. “We take lessons from them.”
Twomey said he wants to take the documen-tary to other film festi-vals and have it shown at universities.
For more information on the film, visit its Facebook page or Twomey’s web-site, http://matttwomey-works.com, for clips from theis documentary and his other works.
Florida Georgia Line releases deluxe album ‘Here’s To The Good Times... This Is How We Roll’
Country duo Florida Georgia Line has skyrock-eted to the top of the charts and in country music since the debut of their first al-bum. Fans of the group wanted more, and Flor-ida Georgia Line delivered with the release of their de-luxe album, “Here’s To The Good Times… This Is How We Roll.”
Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line released their first al-bum, “Here’s To The Good Times” in December 2012. Since then, the duo has come into great fame and success, beginning with their single, “Cruise.”
FGL then created a coun-try-pop crossover sensa-tion through a remix of “Cruise” featuring rapper Nelly, which topped the charts.
Florida Georgia Line has won numerous awards since their first CD, includ-
ing the Academy of Coun-try Music award for New Artist of the Year and the Country Music Association award for Vocal Duo of the Year.
Florida Georgia Line wanted to continue the success of their first album with a deluxe version. The “This Is How We Roll” de-luxe album includes all of the songs from their first al-bum, five new songs and a DVD with music videos and behind-the-scenes footage of the band.
Florida Georgia Line opens up the deluxe por-tion of their CD with the ti-tle track, ”This Is How We Roll.” Featuring Luke Bryan, the song explains how Hub-bard and Kelley live their lives. This song resonates with many country music fans, and the vocals on the track are impeccable.
The next new song de-buted on the album is “Take It Out On Me.” This track is very sensual and talks about consoling a girl who is fed up with her boy-friend. The background music is reminiscent of their newest single, “Stay”
and takes what could be a slow song and make it rock.
“People Back Home” is a way for Hubbard and Kelley to thank those who have helped them get where they are today. The song is extremely relat-able and puts the typical “thank-you” to shame. The funky beat along with Hub-bard’s rap talent makes it unforgettable.
“Headphones” is a rock-influenced hit that could very well be FGL’s next single. The song explains how he thinks of a girl ev-ery time he listens to mu-sic. This track is upbeat and fresh, making for a great track.
When “Here’s To The Good Times” was originally released, a version sold at Target included two extra
tracks. These tracks were released again on the de-luxe version and have res-onated well with fans.
One of the extra tracks, “What Are You Drinking About” is a fan favorite. From the hundreds of cov-ers on YouTube, it is obvi-ous that the track is a hit. “What Are You Drinking About” can remind the lis-tener almost of a boy-band song, but with a grown-up message.
Florida Georgia Line made a smart move by re-releasing their chart-top-ping CD with some fresh songs. The extra content makes the CD definitely worth buying and proves FGL has so much to offer to fans of all genres of music.
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BOSTON (AP) — Actor and comedian Will Ferrell told students he was “liter-ally in a glass case of emo-tion” Wednesday as Em-erson College temporarily named its School of Com-munication after Ron Bur-gundy, his character in “Anchorman.”
Ferrell appeared as Bur-gundy, the fictitious televi-sion anchorman he plays in the 2004 hit movie as well as its sequel, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” which opens this month.
The renaming was one of several recent promotional events for the movie. Fer-rell anchored a newscast as Burgundy in North Dakota over the weekend. Then he helped cover curling trials in Canada.
A spokeswoman said Em-erson received no money for the appearance. The idea came from Ferrell’s publi-cist, an Emerson alum.
Many people had asked why the school would name itself after Burgundy, even for a day, said Phillip Glenn, professor and in-terim dean of the School of Communication.
“Why indeed?” he said. “Why not?”
Ferrell pretended to cry as he hugged Glenn and Emerson President Lee Pelton.
“To be finally recognized for my work as a journalist is truly extraordinary,” he said. “I can’t believe it’s fi-nally happening.”
He took questions from students and reporters, telling them he gets a lot of news from carrier pigeons and offering hair advice including “use a leave-in conditioner.”
He also offered this rec-ommendation for journal-ism students: “Keep a $20 bill in your shoe. You never know.”
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When the calendar offi-cially says December, most people automatically think “Christmas! Santa! Fa la la la la!”
However, college stu-dents know there is a loom-ing obstacle to survive be-fore they start dreaming of eggnog and shiny gifts un-der the tree. This hindrance is referred to as final exams.
There are always students who claim they don’t have any finals, which leaves me baffled and amazed. Most of us aren’t so lucky and are slammed with multi-ple exams, some of them cumulative.
I believe I speak for the
majority here when I say Thanksgiving Break turns my brain to mashed pota-toes and gives me a glim-mer of hope for the laziness to come during Christmas break.
Coming back from a week of home cooked meals and no textbooks in sight, it’s dif-ficult to push through finals week with the same fresh determination many of us possessed at the beginning of the semester.
Doing well on your finals doesn’t have to equate to water torture. The key is to study smarter, not harder. This is a concept many peo-ple don’t fully grasp even after years of oversaturating their brain with irrelevant information.
Every class, no matter what subject, has crucial key
concepts. If these are laid out in
a study guide, your job is pretty simple. It starts out with identifying the con-cepts and breaking them down into definitions, maps, diagrams – whatever it is that clicks for you.
Instead of simply looking back over your notes, do something with your notes that will solidify these con-cepts into your brain.
For me, mnemonic de-vices work wonders. If you doubt the power of mne-monics, just think about how many song lyrics have been permanently drilled into your brain throughout the years. If you can create a jingle, rhyme, or memora-ble saying out of a confusing concept, it’s so much easier to recall come test time. It
may even stick in your head long after the exam is done, which is pretty remarkable. Most of us get so obsessed with memorizing but not re-ally understanding that ev-erything we studied flies out the window immediately af-ter the test.
My next piece of advice might seem counter-pro-ductive, but is something I swear by after three years of college. Sleep is more ben-eficial than that last hour of studying you try to cram in.
You’re not being weak or lazy by slumbering, but ac-tually allowing your body to repair itself both mentally and physically. Sayings like, “I can sleep when I’m dead,” are delusional and harmful, yet too many students con-tinue to put themselves at a disadvantage. During the
REM stage of sleep, all the information swirling around your brain is consolidated; the new stuff is solidified, and the unnecessary fluff is cleared to make room for to-morrow’s information.
Ever notice how the days start blurring together when you’re sleep deprived? That goes for information too – everything gets jumbled and confused. After a good night’s sleep, you are much more likely to think logically and perform better on a test.
No matter how you de-cide to study during finals week, just make sure it’s ac-tive. This might mean talk-ing out loud, pulling out the highlighters, drawing pic-tures of concepts or e-mail-ing your teachers for further clarification.
It took me until my ju-
nior year of college to real-ize your professors are there to help you. You might un-derstand a difficult concept much easier when meet-ing one-on-one instead of learning in a 200-per-son person lecture hall. It’s also always helpful to teach someone else the concept you’re learning; your room-mates might completely ig-nore you, but it can’t hurt to try.
Whatever you do, make sure you are actively engag-ing yourself in your studying and not just drooling over a ten pound textbook.
It is possible to still get some sleep, exercise, and maybe even a little social interaction if you choose to study smarter, not harder.
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Online shopping has grown and advanced to new levels during the last couple of years. But what Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, introduced on CBS “60 Minutes” Sunday is revolutionary.
Bezos has developed “octocopters,” which are delivery drones that drop off packages gently on the customer’s front doorstep. The idea still has a long way to go, but the thought of this becoming a reality is difficult to wrap your mind around.
Bezos is trying to empha-size Amazon’s mission of, “we do everything to make products cheaper and life easier for our customers.” If I can order a package from Amazon and have it de-livered to my doorstep by a drone, I would be more shocked than happy.
Since the idea is still only a concept, we can all imagine what it would be to walk out your front door and watch Amazon drones fly overhead and deliver online shoppers their newest purchases and gifts. Of course when Bezos’ revealed his deliv-ery plan, immediate safety concerns and uproar rum-bled through the social me-
dia world. But most people like me could not be more excited to see this new de-livery system be imple-mented and watch this fu-turistic technology with our own eyes.
Through the last couple of years we have seen tech-nology change how we live our everyday lives. With the world so accepting and open to new technology, it might not be as far-fetched as it appears.
“It will work, and it will happen, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun,” Bezos said.
Unless the drones are se-cretly working for the CIA, or falling out of the sky, this should change the way items from the Internet are
delivered.What I find so intrigu-
ing about this news is what the Amazon drones can develop into. Because we don’t know the exact num-bers and engineering be-hind the drones and what they can carry, it’s hard to fully understand their potential.
But can you imagine a day where you can get your groceries, appliances or even furniture delivered through the sky to your doorstep?
Amazon’s mission to make their customers happy is definitely felt, but I can foresee some tremen-dous safety problems for these drones.
For one, they need to have internal GPS sys-tems to get to and from the houses without hitting trees, cable lines or any-thing the drone can’t de-termine while flying. The problem is once a drone goes down, doesn’t deliver a package on time or harms a human being, house or car, how will society react?
Also, what if people start shooting down or finding ways to take the drone out of the sky and steal another person’s gift? What is Ama-zon supposed to tell to the customer then, because I’m sure they wouldn’t be too happy about that cer-tain scenario.
Now I’m sure these are
just some of the many is-sues and problems Ama-zon is trying to figure out for the next couple of years, but once they iron out the kinks changed the world forever.
I don’t know if society is completely ready for these drastic changes, but the transformation we’re go-ing to experience in the next few years will be un-believable, and we’ll look back to Amazon drones as a mere afterthought.
As a society, with the help of Amazon and other innovators, we’re slowly transitioning into the life from The Jetsons.
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ABCNEWS.GO.COMAn Amazon octocopter is tested in California Tuesday. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, claims the goal is to have customer’s packages delivered within 30 minutes of ordering with the new delivery drones.
One of the biggest changes to the 2013-14 West Virginia University academic calendar was the addition of a “fall break.” This short break was in-tended to be a chance to refresh during the lon-ger block of classes after the Labor Day recess and Thanksgiving Break.
Students often used to complain they started to get burned out from school in the middle of the se-mester with no pressure to start tackling larger proj-ects and the constant mo-notony of class discussion and homework.
A fall break, then, seemed like the perfect solution. The break, which fell this year on Oct. 14-
15, gave the students a four-day weekend to re-turn home to visit their families, catch up on sleep and course work or simply take some personal time to relax.
While most enjoyed the time off, no one truly an-ticipated the unintended consequences of this ad-ditional break.
As a result of the Mon-day and Tuesday without meeting for class, the finals week scheduled shifted drastically.
Traditionally, there was a week of full classes after Thanksgiving Break and then a period called “dead week,” during which stu-dents were supposed to take the week to prepare
for the final exams and projects, and the instruc-tors were supposed to re-view for their finals and give students a chance to ask questions. This term has also been adapted to describe the look on the students’ faces as they emerge from the library at 1 a.m.
While not all teachers adhered to this code and not all students took to the library, the system worked fairly well. Or it was at least familiar.
This year, there will be one full week of classes after Thanksgiving Break before turning over to fi-nals week Dec. 12, next Thursday. Finals will con-tinue through Wednesday,
Dec. 18. This does not in-clude time for a “dead” pe-riod, only a “reading day” Wednesday before the start of finals.
This cuts the week of fi-nal exams into two halves, with a weekend in be-tween. This could be a time to study, or this could be a time to head out to the bars for a quick pick-me-up.
This schedule affects the syllabi of many teach-ers, forcing them to decide to continue classes into next week and wholly los-ing the attention of their students or choosing to forgo meeting altogether Monday-Tuesday.
This seems like a disas-ter waiting to happen, but like all trial runs, there’s
no way to tell how it will all turn out. Perhaps there will be no problems, and the entire test-taking pro-cess will go off without a hitch.
If that is the case, the administration will need to revisit the schedule and work out any kinks, as they’ve already promised.
As it stands, the only outcome of this finals schedule has been to cause additional stress and con-fusion to both students and teachers.
So, everyone, make sure you visit http://reg-istrar.wvu.edu/current_students/finals to deter-mine when your finals will be and double check your syllabus to find out where.
As always, study hard, take breaks often, and just think – in two weeks’ time, this whole nightmare will be over.
Look up this year’s final schedule at:
http://registrar.wvu.edu/current_students/
finals.
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‘A Celebration of Dance’ to feature WVU studentsby nick wesdock
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West Virginia Univer-sity’s dance program will put on their annual winter showcase, “A Celebration of Dance,” tonight and Friday at the Creative Arts Center.
“It’s basically (designed) to showcase students and their work, both as performers and as choreographers,” said Pro-fessor Yoav Kaddar, director of the dance program.
The 80-minute show will feature 17 dances, more than any of the previous years. WVU dance students cho-reographed all of the dances that will be performed, but any student could audi-tion. Many different styles of dance will be exhibited, in-cluding tap, African, modern and Irish step.
“About 80 dancers at-tended our audition in Sep-tember, and we have been re-hearsing from then on,” said
Olivia Kinney, a senior phar-macy student. “Any WVU student can audition; we op-erate on the motto that ‘ev-eryone’s a dancer,’ so we al-ways welcome new dancers to our program.”
Kinney said she has been dancing since the age of three and chose to come to WVU in part because of its dance program.
“A Celebration of Dance” is officially considered an informal concert, but it has all the elements of a formal production.
“It doesn’t have a large and heavy production value,” Kaddar said. “It’s pretty for-mal, (and) it’s really well put together.
“(It) presents a wide vari-ety of student works and mul-tiple genres.”
Kaddar and other dance instructors have been work-ing with students through-out the semester, giving them feedback on their work. Now in its fourth year, “A Celebra-
tion of Dance” is one of the changes Kaddar made when he first arrived at WVU.
“Students were asking for more performance opportu-nities,” he said. “So we have such a concert at the end of this semester and also at the end of next semester.”
Rehearsal won’t end af-ter this weekend’s perfor-mances, as five of the 17 dances were chosen to move on to “Dance Now!,” another of the dance programs an-nual concerts in February.
“We are looking forward to presenting the dances we have been working on all se-mester,” Kinney said. “A lot of hard work goes into creat-ing a piece, and it’s very re-warding to share it with an audience.”
“A Celebration of Dance” will have three showings, starting tonight with shows 7 and 9 p.m., and Friday at 7 p.m. General admission is $9.
file photoThe 2012 ‘A Celebration of Dance’ featured dances choreographed and performed by WVU students.
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Disillusion Effect drum-mer Jacob Miller announced he is leaving the band for per-sonal reasons, leaving the lo-cal metal outfit with a void to fill at the position.
Miller, who also plays the drums in the local fan-favor-ite group The Soul Miners and provides lessons at Faw-ley Music in Sabraton, W.Va., cited family issues and an overflowing schedule as his reasons for stepping away from Disillusion Effect.
“It wasn’t healthy for me – mentally or physically – to continue,” Miller said. “I was doing too much, and I wasn’t giving them 100 percent anymore.”
In addition to his work as a musician, Miller is a sin-gle father of his two-year-old son, Nathan, and he per-forms heating and cooling repair work on the side with his family business.
“I had to become a bet-ter father, and I had a lot of pressure to step up my game in that area,” Miller said. “I wasn’t satisfied with the job
I was doing for my son. When you realize something like that, it really hits home.”
For the band, Miller’s de-parture was untimely and un-expected, leaving them in a scramble to piece together the group’s future and ensure their continued growth.
The then-four-piece group recently finished recording its first EP at Zone 8 recording studio in Granville, W.Va., and they booked a Jan. 11 gig at 123 Pleasant Street to release their work to the masses.
Now, these plans are in limbo, and the band has yet to make a final decision whether or not they can con-tinue with this plan.
“We’re just going to do the release digitally now, rather than make hard copies,” said guitarist Jimmy Rhodes. “But we might still play. We might use the drum tracks from the studio and play over them, just to show up and to be pro-fessional by not canceling.”
The members said while they recognize Miller’s con-siderable talents behind the kit, they understand replac-ing him and his skill set is not an impossible task.
“There is no denying the
incredible talent that is Jacob Miller,” said vocalist Chris Ra-bideau. “That said, we don’t need somebody who can match him note for note. We need somebody who is dedi-cated and who will put in the work to do what we need to do.”
Miller said he is happy to hear the band will continue without him, despite the ten-sion that currently exists be-tween himself and his former bandmates.
“When I heard they were looking for a new drummer, that was the greatest news to me,” Miller said. “That means that somebody else can ful-fill the dream that I couldn’t.
“I wanted the DE to do great things, but now some-body else will get to live that in my place.”
The band urges any drum-mers interested in the posi-tion to contact them on their Facebook page.
“This train (isn’t) stop-ping,” Rabideau said. “We’ve put in too much work, too much time and too much money to stop it now. We are not done.”
Disillusion Effect loses drummerGavin deGraw to perform at cAcby LAcey PALmer
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Singer, songwriter and musician Gavin DeGraw will return to Morgantown in March for the first time since 2004, providing West Virginia University students and the Morgantown area a melodic, soulful concert experience.
“We’re excited to wel-come back Gavin DeGraw to Morgantown,” said Da-vid Ryan, WVU Arts and En-tertainment public relations specialist. “It’s great to see so many people on Twitter ex-cited for the show.”
DeGraw is most com-monly known for his hit sin-gle “I Don’t Wanna Be” from his 2003 debut album but has continued to impress fans since. His recent album,
“Make A Move,” is proof the artist continues to create suc-cessful music.
The debut single from his recent release, “Best I Ever Had,” mentions West Vir-ginia, which is sure to excite audiences at the concert.
DeGraw has toured with Maroon 5 and Train, and his music has been featured on popular television shows, such as “One Tree Hill.” De-Graw is also well known for his songwriting ability.
“Gavin’s music has touched millions of people around the world with hits like ‘Chariot’ and the latest wave of hit songs from his new album,” Ryan said.
Pop and soul group Para-chute and Adam Levine’s first signed artist, Rozzi Crane, will open for DeGraw.
Parachute, with popular songs such as “She Is Love,”
and “Kiss Me Slowly,” prom-ises to provide a relaxing yet upbeat experience. Crane, whose music has been featured in “The Hunger Games,” will bring her own element of soul, as well.
“Parachute and Rozzi also promise to deliver some ter-rific music,” Ryan said. “The Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre really connects the audience with the music. It’s the per-fect venue for this music.”
The show will take place March 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Creative Arts Center.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at the Mountainlair and CAC box offices, online at ticketmaster.com or by calling 304-293-SHOW and range from $34.75-$60.75. WVU students receive $10 off with a valid ID.
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West Virginia looks to put an end to road struggles
After two full seasons of football in a new confer-ence, West Virginia should not only be at the forefront of the lobbying effort to add more teams to the Big 12, but ideally to add be-tween two and four more teams from the eastern re-gion of the United States, in particular.
Let’s face it. While it’s certainly a good thing the Mountaineers escaped the collapsing Big East Con-ference when they did, the transition also hasn’t necessarily been smooth, especially in regard to the on-the-field success of WVU’s various athletic programs.
Because apart from a few minor exceptions – the dominant women’s soccer team being the most no-table – West Virginia has collectively and mightily struggled in conference play the last two years, es-pecially on the road.
West Virginia’s two big-gest revenue-generating sports, football and men’s basketball, have pooled a pitiful 12-24 in confer-ence play since joining the Big 12, which includes an abysmal six combined road wins during that span.
But after nearly two complete seasons – bas-ketball still just getting un-derway, baseball still a few months off – it’s also be-come fairly clear West Vir-ginia is in fact at a distinct disadvantage regarding its hefty travel requirements, which are more significant than any other team in the conference.
Now, while it would be foolish to blame West Virginia’s struggles com-pletely on the burden of its travel, it would be equally foolish to dismiss it as a non-factor. Both Dana Holgorsen and Bob Huggins have commented on how much more tax-ing the lengthy and com-plicated travel has been compared to their initial expectations.
For example, quite re-cently the WVU men’s bas-ketball team traveled to Cancun for the four-team Cancun Classic Tourna-ment. And believe it or not, the trip south of the border actually took less time than the team’s trip to Texas Tech in Lub-bock, Texas, in the 2012-13 season.
Just let that sink in for a second. It took less time for the Mountaineers to get to Mexico than to the campus of a conference opponent.
But things could still change in the coming years.
There continue to be some rumblings he Big 12 could still be contem-plating an expansion to 12 or perhaps even 14 to-
tal schools at some point in the future.
For West Virginia and its fans, this is really the best-case scenario. By adding more (preferably eastern-based)schools into the fold, the Big 12 could follow the trend of the four other power foot-ball conferences (SEC, ACC, Big 10, Pac-12) and establish two divisions with a season-end confer-ence championship game.
The Playoff Selection Committee – of which WVU Athletic Director Ol-iver Luck is now a mem-ber – has officially stated at this point the lack of a league championship game won’t affect a team’s consideration for one of the four playoff spots, al-though it still seems a conference championship game is still the best way to ultimately determine a conference’s best team.
What’s the biggest problem with expanding, specifically expanding east? It’s the simple lack of schools that are either not already tied to one of the aforementioned ma-jor football conferences or are actually talented enough across the board athletically to even war-rant the Big 12 accepting them, as conference of-ficials certainly wouldn’t want to risk watering down the level of competition.
For example, some of the eastern-based schools that have been potentially tied to some of these early Big 12 expansion rumors are universities like Cin-cinnati, UConn, UCF and USF. On one hand, it could be considered somewhat enticing, because you could theoretically revive some old Big East rivalries for WVU while also poten-tially curbing some of the Mountaineers’ travel. On the other hand, it’s proba-bly safe to say not a single one of those school’s ath-letic programs are even as collectively proficient as WVU, which has obviously struggled mightily with its own move into the Big 12.
Regardless, it’s highly unlikely that adding WVU and TCU will be the last time the Big 12 expands, especially with the end of the BCS-era now nearly upon us. Realistically, there’s really no telling how the four-team playoff will affect the various con-ferences, but one would think it will certainly af-fect every single program and conference across the country to one degree or another.
The point is: sooner, rather than later, con-ference expansion talks within the Big 12 will un-doubtedly reach yet an-other fever pitch.
This time around, how-ever, it will be absolutely critical that WVU lobbies long and hard for the ex-pansion to occur a little closer to home.
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MEL MORAES/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFreshman Devin Williams jumps for the opening tip-off Monday against Loyola.
West Virginia travels to take on Missouri at the Mizzou Arena Thursday
MEL MORAES/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMJunior guard Juwan Staten takes a jump shot Monday against Loyola.
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The West Virginia men’s basketball team is back on the road to face Missouri to-night as part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. and will be aired on ESPN2.
The Mountaineers (6-2) will look to win their second straight game and give the Tigers (7-0) their first loss of the season.
“They’re talented,” said WVU head coach Bob Hug-gins of Missouri. “Their guards are different than anybody we’ve played, be-cause they have good size.”
Five West Virginia players scored in the double digits Monday night en route to a 96-47 blowout victory over Loyola. The Mountaineers have won five of their last six games.
Eron Harris continued his strong play, scoring 14 points and grabbing seven rebounds. His points per game dropped to 20.3 points per game, which trails only Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart for best average in
the Big 12 Conference.Terry Henderson finally
got on track this season, scoring 16 points in 19 min-utes. Henderson has strug-gled with his shot which has limited his playing time. He failed to score in 10 minutes of action against Wisconsin Nov. 27.
“We were able to score, because Remi Debo and Nathan Adrian made some shots. Terry Hen-derson kind of looked like Terry again,” Huggins said. “(Henderson) had some bounce to him. Hopefully he continues.”
As a freshman, Hender-son averaged 7.8 points per game in the 2012-13 season while shooting more than 45 percent from the floor. He was the top-3 point shooter in the Big 12 but is shoot-ing just 31 percent from downtown through the first month of this season.
“(Henderson) can make shots, and he may be our best offensive rebounder,” Huggins said. “He gives us that other dimension that we haven’t really had.”
Missouri is coming off an 83-70 victory over Ne-
vada. Three Tigers players scored more than 20 points, including a 28-point, 9-re-bound effort from guard Earnest Ross.
“Their (guards) are re-ally athletic,” Huggins said. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try and in-vert some things and try to post up Juwan (Staten) and (Harris).”
Missouri leads the South-eastern Conference (SEC) in field goal percentage at 50.5 percent. Tonight’s matchup should include
plenty of offense ,with both teams averaging more than 80 points per contest.
Tonight’s game marks the first game of a tough pre-Christmas stretch that includes Gonzaga, Marshall and Purdue.
“We’re getting ready to get into some competi-tive play,” Huggins said. “A victory over Wiscon-sin would’ve put us on the map. It would’ve helped us to beat a top-10 team.”
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No. 9 Baylor vs. No. 23 Texas
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Morales leading WVU BY NAYEF ALABDULjABBAR
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Junior Mike Morales is returning from a yearlong wrestling hiatus.
Now, he is one of the lead-ing Mountaineers with a re-cord of five wins and two losses this season.
In his first year of colle-giate wrestling at West Vir-ginia University in the 2010-11 season, he started his career with an 18-11 record at 141 pounds. In the Eastern Wrestling League, he placed third after defeating three opponents.
The season ended with Morales being fifth for team wins with 18. He was third on the team in major decision victories with six wins.
In his second season in 2011-12, he was No. 26 na-tionally and earned a record of 18 wins and four losses. He also scored his first NCAA Championships berth, but
lost to Iowa’s Montell Marion, who finished in second place in the national title match.
He had an 8-2 record for duals, a 5-1 in the EWL and was second on the team gaining eight wins by fall.
After redshirting, he came back to the current season competing at 149 lbs and starting against Iowa State Nov. 15 following a tweaked ankle and an MCL sprain.
“It’s coming along pretty well,” Morales said about his ankle. “It’s not going to be an issue for the next match.”
In terms of practice and training, Morales said he has been doing more cardio and less work on his injured knee and ankle.
“Mostly whatever I can do that doesn’t bother me so as to not push the pace,” Mo-rales said. “My shoulder is feeling pretty well from sur-gery, so hopefully I’ll stay healthy.”
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Bell arrested for DUIBY AMIT BATRA
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West Virginia University redshirt junior cornerback Travis Bell was arrested for the second time in 10 months Sunday morning.
Bell, who started in nine games and played in all 12 in the 2013 season, is fac-ing DUI charges follow-ing an incident that took place at approximately 3 a.m. Sunday.
Following an argument with his girlfriend out-side Creekside Condos in Morgantown, Bell failed all field sobriety tests and was booked for DUI and driving with a sus-pended/revoked license, according to the Monon-galia County Sheriff ’s De-
partment. The redshirt ju-nior’s license had been suspended for failure to pay traffic fines.
In February, Bell was arrested and charged with domestic battery. State police were called to Bell’s residence for a domestic dispute, in which the vic-tim claimed he hit her, threw her to the ground and threw her around by the hair. A witness also said Bell made verbal threats to the victim.
In Bell’s nine starts this season, he recorded 45 tackles, one interception and one pass break-up.
With one year of eligi-bility remaining, Bell’s sta-tus with the football team is uncertain.
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