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WVU mulls mandatory insuranceby cody schuler

managing editor

Health insurance might be required for all West Vir-ginia University students as early as next year.

Yesterday, WVU released a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking an outside vendor to develop a com-prehensive health insur-ance coverage plan for stu-dents. The proposal would also lead to the plan be-ing offered to WVU’s divi-

sional campuses, including Potomac State College and WVU Tech.

Cathy Yura, assistant vice president for WELL-WVU: The Students’ Center of Health, said the RFP isn’t a guarantee of action, but it does indicate the potential for considerable changes to the current policy.

“The RFP means they are just out there looking. This is a long process, so it’s go-ing to take a while before anybody gets anything you

can really bring out,” she said. “They’re just looking for different plans and costs and trying to make sure it’s the right thing.”

RFPs are typically used to gauge interest and iden-tify potential courses of ac-tion for a variety of topics. They allow the University to garner specific information that can be used to aid de-cision making.

Currently, WVU offers coverage through Aetna Student Health. The cov-

erage is optional for most students but Graduate As-sistants and international students are automatically enrolled in the plan unless they provide proof of com-parable coverage.

The idea of mandatory health insurance is not a new one and is a present policy in schools such as the University of Maryland, The Ohio State University and Rutgers University.

New Jersey state law re-quires all students of pub-

lic or private higher ed-ucational institutions to possess “adequate health insurance.” No such law exists in West Virginia, but students could serve to benefit from such an arrangement.

Shelley Sheppeck, an in-surance coordinator at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said their univer-sity’s policy ultimately pro-vides students with care they couldn’t otherwise get.

“What we’re able to do

for our students is – yes, we have mandatory insurance, but the policy we offer is typically better than the parents’ offer, and it works very well here in Boulder, as well as nationwide,” she said.

Sheppeck, who also spent 20 years as an insur-ance broker and owned an insurance agency, said universities can cater their coverage to meet the

sGA resolution boosts student

org grantsby bryAn bumGArdner

associate city editor

At Wednesday night’s West Virginia University Student Government As-sociation meeting, a res-olution was passed that could potentially in-crease the amount of grant money available to stu-dent organizations.

Currently, student or-ganizations seeking grants for financial aid with a specific trip or project can receive $500 or $250 from SGA’s grant budget.

However, some trips require several thousand dollars – making $500 a drop in the bucket, accord-ing to Governor Christian Guy.

“That’s why we’re here – to help student organi-zations,” he said. “Some of these trips cost thousands and thousands of dollars – $500 is just a small per-cent of that.”

The resolution, as read by Governor Guy, is de-signed to utilize the full potential of SGA’s grant budget by allowing for an increase of the amounts of grants on a case-by-case basis. The need for this amendment is based on increased travel costs on student organizations (due to WVU’s entrance into the Big XII conference), and

the leeway available in the grant budget.

Each year, SGA is allot-ted $60,000 to grant to stu-dent organizations.

If a portion of the bud-get isn’t spent, it doesn’t carry to the next year – meaning a large portion of the budget goes unused.

“It’s a shame,” Guy said. “It’s just kind of wasted when student organiza-tions could be getting more help.”

In essence, the SGA Grant Allocation Commit-tee will review each grant application and suggest a grant amount based on the applicant’s financial need, member base, campus contributions and public reputation.

The suggested grant amount will be presented to the Board of Governors, who will vote to approve or amend it.

This resolution is al-lowed under the SGA bylaws. It changed the wording of the Grant Ap-plication, allowing for a variable amount of grant money. The Board of Gov-ernors has the power to make this change, and it was unanimously approved.

“This is really an ex-perimental thing,” said

Delivery service connects restaurants,

local customersby shelby toompAs

staff writer

While Morgantown con-tinues to accept new res-taurants, a new service can help you enjoy them in a different way – in your own home.

Straight2YourDoor is a restaurant food delivery service that provides meals from a variety of favorite dining locations delivered straight to your home, of-fice or hotel.

Jason Moldoff, founder and current vice president and operations officer for Straight2YourDoor, said the program started in the college town of Blooming-dale, Ind., in 2006, but merged with Morgantown’s “Down Right Delivery” ser-vice in April, 2012.

“After meeting with the David Vignovic, a founder of Down Right Delivery, we formed a team effort to take on the West Virginia mar-

ket,” Moldoff said.Manager and owner of

Straight2YourDoor David Vignovic said the idea for Down Right Delivery de-veloped through a business plan competition in WVU’s College of Business and Economics in 2011. Even though his team didn’t win, they started their business.

Straight2YourDoor cur-rently delivers for Chili’s, Chaang Thai, Cold Stone Creamery, Colasessano’s, Chico’s Fat, Soul House Bistro, Zenclay Cafe, Tutto Gelato Cafe, Kenyan Cafe, Yesterday’s Restaurant, Bar and Grille, Ali Baba, Coach’s Bar and Grille, Peking House, Mountain State Brewing Company, Dairy Castle, PeppeBroni’s Pizza, Terra Cafe, Yama and Saffron.

“We are really work-ing hard to try to offer Morgantown with as many

Photo contest kicks off WVU summer funby cArlee lAmmers

city editor

The summer months at West Virginia University can be a time of friends, fun and adventure.

The WVU Extended Learning Office is work-ing to highlight the sum-mer experience through its new “Wish You Were Here” e-photo postcard contest.

“The purpose of the contest is to try to raise awareness about summer programs,” said Lynn Re-inke, director of commu-

nications for the Extended Learning program. “So we came up with the idea of having a contest so that if we could get students to send e-postcards to their friends saying that they’re taking summer classes or that they have taken sum-mer classes that may be a really great way for stu-dents to help us promote the benefits of summer classes.”

To enter the contest, students are asked to up-load as many as 10 origi-nal photos highlighting

the essence of summer to create visually stunning e-postcards.

The photos can be of campus, their homes, an adventure trip or activities with friends.

The grand prize winner will receive $500 toward WVU summer tuition, and three $250 prizes will be granted for winners in the categories of people, places and things.

In order to be eligible for prizes, students must email their here” e-post-card to friends.

“We came up with this idea of ‘Wish You Were Here,’ because one of the things in the summer is that it’s really, really nice here in Morgantown. But our students travel all over the world in the summer, and they go on these ad-venture trips, both in the state, in the region and out in the West,” Reinke said.

Reinke said she believes the contest is a great way to allow students to em-brace their creative sides

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Member of Little Rock Nine shares experiences of segregationby cArolIne peters

staff writer

In honor of Black History Month, the West Virginia University Center for Black Culture & Research invited Ter-rence Roberts to speak Wednesday.

Roberts was a member the Little Rock Nine. In 1957, The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African Amer-ican students helped to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.

Director of the WVU Center for Black Culture & Research, Marjorie Fuller said she was excited for the opportunity to hear from a man who was monumental in African Ameri-can history .

“It’s an amazing opportunity to meet someone whose memory and vision are still so clear about his ex-periences in Little Rock. He’s a walk-ing and talking piece of history,” Fuller said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be in his presence.”

During his presentations, Roberts shared a glimpse into his life as a black student during a time of segregation.

“I was a good student. I learned the rules of segregation and obeyed them,” he said.

Roberts said experiences from his youth are what sparked his desire to stop obeying the segregation rules.

“When I was 13, I loved eating at Crystal Burger, so I walked in and or-dered my food to go. Unthinkingly, I sat down. Upon reflection of the place, it was almost empty. However, everyone stopped what they were do-ing and was onto what Terry Roberts was doing,” he said.

Roberts said this event caused him to want to bring about change.

He knew that something was not right.

When Roberts was a boy, he said his district school authorities ad-dressed his school and said they needed students to begin desegrega-tion. Roberts said 150 people, includ-ing himself raised their hands; how-ever, the administration only took nine.

“I had to raise my hand, because this was the opportunity to change

the way things were. When you live under those conditions for 15 years. It doesn’t feel right and change is nec-essary,” he said. “They said, ‘you kids have to take an executive responsibil-ity of learning.’ You have become the CEO of your own independent learn-ing enterprise.”

Roberts said the Little Rock Nine had half of the African American community supporting them and half the community concerned.

“My parents said, ‘we will support your decision 100 percent.’ It was re-markable. I was prepared to argue my point and didn’t have to,” Roberts said. “However, Black people in Little Rock lost jobs and opportunities be-cause we were in school there.”

Roberts said he felt it was clear the Little Rock Nine were not welcome upon their arrival on the first day Lit-tle Rock Central High.

“We show up, and the opposition was there in the form of the Arkansas National Guard. They didn’t speak to us, so I got in line. I stepped back and looked left. I saw students entering

KatIe Flowers/tHe DaIly atHeNaeumTerrence Roberts speaks at WVU on his time at Little Rock Central High School.

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dining experiences as pos-sible,” Moldoff said. “We want the dining experience brought to your home.”

Even though many res-taurants don’t deliver, Straight2YourDoor offers a unique variety to Mor-gantown residents and stu-dents who can’t or don’t want to leave to go get food.

Straight2YourDoor takes orders seven days per week, starting at 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11 a.m.-midnight Friday

-Saturday.Payments with cash,

Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express are all accepted, but with every order there is also a $3.99 delivery fee.

S t r a i g h t 2 Yo u r D o o r claims that individuals will have their delivery within 60 minutes or less, but steak might take more time than ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery.

“If individuals get a de-livery over 75 minutes or more, we will go ahead and buy your delivery fee,” Moldoff said. “Also, if you’re unhappy with your service

of any kind, then we will do our best to fix it whether we issue you with credit, give you a gift certificate or bring you more food.”

Moldoff said they are trying to bring back quality service and strive to make each customer happy.

“We have a large deliv-ery area, covering at least 25 square miles, so that the majority of individuals can order from any restaurant,” he said.

Moldoff said when they came to Morgantown, there was no competition and it was a unique opportunity to work with the restau-rants and provide this type of service.

“The idea is that you can be home in your apartment studying for a final or you’re too busy to run out and grab something to eat, so that’s where we step in and make it convenient for custom-ers,” Moldoff said.

All drivers are equipped with iPhones, as well.

“With the iPhones, we are able to track the driv-er’s car and see who is clos-est to each restaurant to get the best driver possible for each order,” Vignovic said.

Not only are the driv-ers equipped with appro-priate technology, but Vi-gnovic said they are also

trained professionals when it comes to driving in harsh weather.

“We definitely get a lot more business when it’s raining or snowing,” he said. “A lot of people don’t want to go out in the weather, but we are all trained to go out and handle the weather so individuals don’t have to.”

Moldoff is trying to es-tablish his business as a valuable part of town.

“Our goal is to make sure whenever somebody wants to order something for de-livery or even ‘to-go’ that we are the first thing that indi-viduals think of,” Moldoff said.

“Right now we are fo-cusing on restaurants, but down the road we would love to bring even more or-ders from places such as Walgreens, grocery stores, the mall and more.”

Straight2YourDoor is hoping to introduce a mo-bile app before fall 2013.

“I simply just love work-ing for me and build-ing something from the ground up and making it work so that it’s success-ful, whatever it is,” Vignovic said.

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while highlighting the benefits of the various summer programs the Uni-versity offers.

“We just see all these wonderful photos that stu-dents have taken. We were thinking that this might be a good way, with the Ins-tagram generation, to let them use some of their creativity to promote summer (programs) to highlight some of the stuff that they do and enable us to promote the summer classes.”

Reinke said students of-ten hold misconceptions about the summer term, and she hopes to be able to eliminate some of them through the contest.

“I think sometimes peo-ple come in, and especially once they come from high school, and they hear ‘sum-mer classes’ – people of-ten think remedial classes, or that you’re being pun-

ished to take a summer class or something,” she said. “But in college, and here at WVU, we have so many really fun and inter-esting classes in the sum-mer. Also, the summer term isn’t like the other traditional terms. It’s flex-ible scheduling; you can find classes that are three weeks and get three cred-its in three weeks.”

Reinke said other courses involve travel opportunities.

“We want students to be thinking and realize that the summer term isn’t like fall and spring in many ways,” she said.

“We have nontradi-tional scheduling, and then we also have some other opportunities that they couldn’t have during the year.”

For more information or to submit an entry to the photo contest, visit www.summer.wvu.edu/contest.

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Governor Dillon Knox, a major contributor to the resolution. “When I came into office, we kept it at $500 for a reason – we didn’t know how much money we were going to spend. Now we do.”

With only two months of the semester and grant budget utilization hover-ing around 16.5 percent, Governor Knox believes the resolution can be im-plemented this year with-

out taxing the budget.“We’re opening it up to a

trial run,” he said. “It’s im-portant student organiza-tions know the money is there.”

Both Knox and Guy as-sured the grant evaluation process would be rigorous, preventing improper – or illegitimate – dispersal of funds.

“(The Grant Allocation Committee) is there to help us get a recommen-dation; that’s what they’re good at,” Guy said. “They’ll make sure those funds are allocated correctly.”

The Grant Allocation Committee consists of Chief Financial Officer Kevin McBride, Director of Student Organizations Ce-cil O’Dell, Treasurer Anna Kimberling and Finance major Jordan Damron. The committee is looking to re-cruit pre-business and di-rectly admitted Business and Economics students.

“It’s many people from different backgrounds, so you have as much diversity as you can get,” Knox said.

Even still, the Grant Al-location Committee can only issue recommenda-

tions – the governors can override the committee’s suggestions with a vote.

Governor Guy is hopeful this resolution will greatly benefit the student body.

“It’s something that’s needed to happen for a long time,” he said. “The more I heard people talk about it, the more I knew we needed to get this done.”

Learn more about SGA, or download a grant appli-cation at http://sga.wvu.edu.

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Gas leak reported before blast leveled restaurant

apOfficials inspect a burned out JJ’s Restaurant at the Plaza shopping district of Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday.

KaNsas CITy, Mo. (aP) — A day after a natural gas explosion leveled a popu-lar restaurant, investigators raced to search the rubble and tried to understand how the blast happened despite suspicions that flamma-ble fuel had been leaking, maybe for weeks, some-where in the busy outdoor shopping area.

Hours before the explo-sion, witnesses reported a

strong smell of gas, and fire-fighters were summoned to the scene at one point but left without ordering an evacuation.

As the cleanup got under way Wednesday, search-and-rescue crews recovered a body. Mayor Sly James de-clined to identify the victim, but the mother of a missing restaurant server said her family was awaiting con-firmation that the remains

were those of her daughter.More than an hour be-

fore the blast, a subcon-tractor working for a cable company hit a gas line with underground boring equip-ment. Then something in-side the restaurant ignited the fuel, authorities said.

Surveillance video from a nearby travel agency shows a fireball erupting from the restaurant’s roof, shower-ing the street with debris

and throwing up a cloud of dust and smoke. The blast could be felt for a mile and shattered glass in neighbor-ing buildings.

Fifteen people were in-jured. Six were still hospi-talized Wednesday, James said.

People who live and work in the area reported smell-ing gas for some time before the accident.

Jeff Rogers was waiting at

a bus stop down the street from JJ’s when the explosion knocked him and another man to the ground.

He said he had smelled gas – although “not strong” – at the intersection for the past couple of weeks. Then the odor intensified Tuesday.

William Borregard, who lives with his sister and her fiancé in the apartment building nearest to JJ’s, said

he too had noticed a strange smell for weeks that had worsened in recent days. On Tuesday, they called the apartment manager.

“We said, it’s very pun-gent and you should come out here and check it out,” he said. “He came over and rapped on the door and said there’s nothing to worry about. Stay in your apart-ment.” The blast happened five minutes later.

students’ needs, as well as help clarify what is other-wise a difficult concept to understand.

“Coming from the bro-ker world, it really is a great thing for students, and how the university decides to implement that – that’s up

to the university,” she said.“Really, what we do is

cater our group policy to what our students’ needs are. A lot of that is prescrip-tion drugs, a lot of that is free birth control – which is covered under health care reform under most policies – and we also cover nonge-neric (prescription drugs).

“Parents don’t always understand how (insur-

ance) works. Nobody un-derstands health care re-form. Everyone is at a loss, saying, ‘What am I sup-posed to do?’ and I can tell you that our student health plan – you would not be able to find that (good) of a plan at that price.”

Students at the Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder are automatically enrolled in the university-offered

health care plan. To exit the coverage and use one from an outside source, such as one provided by parents, students must opt out and fill out a waiver. This can be done online.

The RFP indicates that there is a chance WVU could adapt a similar “hard-waiver” policy.

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at another entrance. I got in line again. I then realized that we were not welcome. These kids were vicious.”

Roberts said the year he spent at Little Rock Central High was filled with hatred, which lead him to re-evalu-ate his decision.

“I’d wake up every morn-ing with the thought, ‘Do I have to go back?’ I’d go to

school fearful and angry,” he said.

Many WVU students said they enjoyed the presenta-tion and found Roberts’ story as an inspiration to their own lives.

“I’m doing my minor in

African studies, and I like Black History so much that I study it on my own,” said Prarissa Rogers, president of Omicron Upsilon Chap-ter of Delta Sigma Theta So-rority Inc., “Dr. Roberts re-minds me of myself, because

he is one of those people that wanted to do work to make a difference.”

WVU student Kimelle Ash said she found encourage-ment in Roberts’ presenta-tion that she will carry over into her own struggles.

“I’m really glad I came be-cause I got assurance that I can prosper through any lit-tle racial insensitivities that I may encounter in life,” she said.

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edge-online.com‘Far Cry 3’ places gamers in a fight for their lives on the beautiful but violent Rook Island.

LONDON (AP) — Brit-ish music put on a brash, confident show at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, cel-ebrating a resurgent indus-try whose bands and artists are topping charts around the globe.

Winners ranged from es-tablished acts such as Cold-play and Adele to world-conquering boy band One Direction, who won in the new Global Success category.

One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson called the prize “absolutely mind-blowing.”

American artists Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey were among the non-British winners at a ceremony that embraced the mainstream while rewarding artists with distinctive personalities.

Surfing English folk singer Ben Howard and chanteuse Emeli Sande each won two awards.

Sande was named best British female artist and won the album of the year prize for her debut “Our Version of Events,” which has been in the British charts for more than a year. Scotland-raised Sande got a big boost in 2012 when she performed at both the opening and closing cer-emonies of the Olympics.

“This is a dream, really,” said Sande, who beat Alt-J, Mumford & Sons, Plan B and Paloma Faith to the al-bum prize.

She thanked everyone “who made me feel like I’m part of something much bigger.”

Howard was named Brit-ish breakthrough act and British male artist of the year.

“I’m not very good at speeches,” the 25-year-old singer said, accurately –

though he may have to get good at it if his career con-tinues to take off.

Long derided as dull, the Brits have become a lively celebration of “Cool Britan-nia” music and style, featur-ing a dinner for hundreds of artists and industry figures followed by a televised con-cert and awards show for thousands of paying fans.

Hard rockers Muse opened the show at Lon-don’s O2 Arena with a typi-cally robust performance of their song “Supremacy” – all thundering music, dazzling light show and 60-piece or-chestra. Other performers ranged from tween-pleas-ing One Direction to Amer-ican artists Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake.

Timberlake, dapper in a tuxedo as he performed “Mirrors,” was described by host James Corden, in a nod to Europe’s horse meat scandal, as “95 percent beef-cake with just a little touch of horse.”

One Direction performed a mashup of post-punk clas-sics “One Way or Another” and “Teenage Kicks,” their single for Britain’s Comic Relief charity.

Mumford & Sons were named best British group. The banjo-twanging band topped U.K. and U.S. charts with their second al-bum “Babel,” which was named album of the year at the Grammys earlier this month.

Soul singer Amy Wine-house – who died in July 2011 from accidental alco-hol poisoning – was among the other nominees for British female artist, eligi-ble thanks to her posthu-mous “Lioness: Hidden

Treasures” album. Her fa-ther, Mitch Winehouse, ar-rived for the awards cere-mony at London’s O2 Arena wearing a waistcoat embla-zoned with a picture of his daughter.

Coldplay was named best British live act, beating nom-inees including The Rolling Stones, who celebrated their 50th anniversary with a se-ries of sold-out shows last year.

Adele won the best Brit-ish single prize for her James Bond theme “Sky-fall.” The soulful singer sent a message from Los Angeles, where she is rehearsing for Sunday’s Academy Awards.

There was no repeat of last year, when she was cut-off mid-speech because the show was running late – an incident Corden referred to in mock-embarrassment

several times.The Black Keys were

named best international group, while Del Rey took the trophy for international female solo artist. The U.S. singer, who began as an Internet sensation, won a breakthrough Brit award last year and on Wednesday thanked Britain for support-ing her.

The international male trophy went to R&B star Frank Ocean, who said it was “definitely a long way from working fast food in New Orleans” – and was the only winner to thank artist Damien Hirst for creating the polka-dot Brit Awards statuette.

Style standouts included Swift, who performed “I Knew You Were Trouble” in a hoop-skirted white num-ber – more wedding cake

than wedding dress – that she shed to reveal black un-dergarments. Jessie J drew attention in a deeply low-cut black dress.

Most of the awards are chosen by more than 1,000 musicians, critics and record industry figures, with several decided by public vote.

Mumford & Sons, Adele among winners at Wednesday night’s Brit Awards

The three installments of the “Far Cry” series are so different they don’t even seem like they are part of the same franchise.

The first “Far Cry” is a science fiction adventure full of mystery, while “Far Cry 2” put players in Africa attempting to stop an infa-mous gun runner.

“Far Cry 3” goes even further away from its pre-decessors, placing play-ers in the shoes of extreme sports and hair gel enthusi-ast Jason Brody on the ge-neric Rook Island.

Jason and his brothers and friends were given bad vacation advice, as they sky -dive onto Rook, having no idea it is covered with pirates.

This bit of misfortune leads to their capture, and plans are hatched to make their lives as brutal and miserable as possible.

After being threatened by the sadistically charis-matic Vaas, Jason and his brother Grant are able to escape from captivity, only

for Grant to look at a map at the most inconvenient time possible and get shot for his troubles.

Jason must now learn to be a soldier with the help of the locals, save his friends and topple Vaas’ re-gime before challenging his boss, the mysterious Hoyt.

To put it simply, Rook Is-land is trying to kill you.

From the wide variety of predators to the acciden-tal falls to the gun toting-pirates, there are hundreds of ways to meet your doom on this perilous island.

Players will curse their luck every time a Komodo dragon bite leads to their death.

That said, gamers can turn the tables on their foes and cause them just as much pain.

With tools like AK-47s, machetes and C4 explo-sives, enemies can be de-stroyed in seconds if you play smart, and figuring out the best plan of attack is part of the game’s reward.

For all its danger, Rook is a beautiful place. With picturesque vistas, wa-terfalls and chances to go hang gliding and pseudo-scuba diving, this game is

a lot cheaper than traveling to the Bahamas, and sand won’t get everywhere.

“Far Cry 3” also stands out for its well-done voice acting, with special consid-eration given to Michael Mando, who did the voice and was the model for Vaas – one of the most memora-ble game characters in re-cent memory.

Besides the superb sin-gle-player story line, there is also a multiplayer mode in which up to four people can work as a group of sur-vivors who escape from a cruise ship taken over by pirates.

The multiplayer mode is fun and features some great competitive mini-games, but at the end of the day is just sprinkles on top of the “Far Cry 3” sundae. Without them it would still be a great game.

“Far Cry 3” is available on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, and it stands as the most entertaining fight-for-your-life game I have played.

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West Virginia is known for many things – some of them good, some of them not so good and some which only inspire intrigue.

The Charleston Gazette reported Wednesday that West Virginia is among the bottom five states in the nation in terms of its pass rate for high school students taking Advanced Placement courses for col-lege credit. Ranked No. 46 overall, West Virginia grad-uates who achieved a 3 or higher on the test’s 5-point scale stands at 9.8 percent,

well below the national av-erage of 19.5 percent.

This comes as an im-provement for the state – the number of students taking and passing the tests has steadily increased in the last 10 years, according to the report. As it stands, 20 percent of high school graduates in the state ever take an AP exam.

There are myriad under-lying reasons for the dis-parity between students in the Mountain State and elsewhere, many of which are not readily clear. Ac-cess and availability are

important considerations; compared to many other regions of the country, far fewer West Virginia students have access to AP courses at their high schools.

In 2011, the state De-partment of Education teamed with the Center for Professional Development, the Department of Educa-tion and the Arts, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the College Board in sign-ing the WVAP2014 agree-ment, which was designed to create policies and prac-

tices to ensure 25 percent of the state’s high school graduating class will par-ticipate in one or more AP courses, that 15 percent of the graduating class will score a 3 or higher on at least one AP exam, and that the equity and excel-lence gap for minority stu-dents will be eliminated by 2014.

In furthering this aim, 2013 is the first year the Department of Education will require teachers to at-tend AP summer institutes every three years and fall institutes every two years.

Despite its lackluster performance in the past, West Virginia’s overall improvement in testing garnered it the AP Bea-con Award last year for its dedication to increasing student achievement and college preparedness.

The state has taken steps to improve its commitment to educa-tion and should be com-mended – whether that commitment can result in a better grade remains to be seen.

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McDowell County has a rich history of coal min-ing. The southernmost county in West Virginia paints the picture of coal’s impact upon the state. In the early 1950s ,the county had a population of more than 100,000 and was the largest coal producer in the world.

During the subsequent decades, as coal reserves dried up, many people lost their jobs. People began to move out of communities, and local businesses shut down.

All that remains of the once-booming coal towns of Welch and Gary are va-cant buildings with “for sale” signs in the win-dows and a former First National Bank building for lease. Shops are filled with old equipment, dusty and discolored from years of abandonment, yet the towns still have a hum-ble beauty to them – a re-siliency that tells you life goes on, and a community will not die that easily.

A beautiful riverfront park built several years ago sits beside a colorful mural sprawling all four floors of a building in downtown Welch. The same build-ings that once showcased Welch as a prosperous town still stand proudly.

While walking through downtown Welch or driv-ing through Gary, it is diffi-cult not to think about the past. The mark of a hard but decent living is seen in the company houses built by coal companies that once flourished. Some houses in the communi-ties have stood the test of time better than others. Others have been com-pletely renovated – com-pany houses are now fam-ily homes. An old drive-in movie theater sits just out-side Welch. Vacant build-ings and shuttered busi-nesses cannot help but remind one of a once busy downtown, filled with cars and packed housing.

Alas, it is not the past. It is 2013, and the popula-tion of McDowell County is down to 22,000. The county now ranks No.10 among the 30 coal coun-ties in West Virginia. The poverty rate is more than 33 percent. A majority of citizens receive some gov-ernment support, with 44 percent of the total per-sonal income coming from transfer payments in 2011. One of the only strong growth industries recently has been prisons.

The county suffers from drug-related deaths at a rate nearly four times the state average. Re-cently, it was reported by Kids Count that McDow-ell County had the highest teenage pregnancy rate in

the state by far. The outlook is depress-

ing, and the only thing holding McDowell County together appears to be its metallurgical coal – coal in high demand because of its use in melting steel.

Mining has lifted many West Virginian families out of poverty, giving them good pay for a very tough job. It has allowed miners to risk their lives so their children may go to college or live a life their parents were unable to. The stories and successes of mining are seen all around West Virginia each day, and it has had an immeasurable impact on the economic growth of West Virginia.

However, the nature of extractive resources such as coal is that they will eventually run out. There is a finite amount of coal in the ground, and whether using conservative or lib-eral estimates for the life of the state’s coal reserves, West Virginia has serious questions to answer in the near future.

This is the ugly side of coal. It is easy for one to laud its successes, speak-ing on the tremendous in-come it has brought to the state. It is much harder to look down the road and see what overdependence on a natural resource will do. The time will come when West Virginia has no choice but to move beyond coal after its long, storied

history in the state.Recently, this discus-

sion has been brought up against charges of “anti-coal” and “job-killing” rhetoric.

Senator Robert C. Byrd, a man who served the state of West Virginia for almost his entire adult life, warned of this rigid mind-set, saying, “Change has been a constant through-out the history of our coal industry. West Virginians can choose to anticipate change and adapt to it, or resist and be overrun by it.”

In response, the coal industry acknowledged some of his points but re-mained steadfast, citing how critical it is to the na-tion’s energy needs and our state’s economy.

This is a fair point. Re-gardless of environmental concerns, coal is neces-sary. Currently, renewable resources cannot compete directly with coal, but the economic argument does not require competition yet. It does, however, re-quire that we take an ap-proach to the future so that our economy does not be-come crippled once coal has run its course.

The coal industry should not be expected to take this approach. It is their job to provide power and run a profitable business for as long as possible. Their ob-ligations are to the busi-ness and their sharehold-

ers – not the citizens of the state. This is precisely why state officials need to think differently.

In the 1980s, the eco-nomic thought on extrac-tive resources began to change. It was hypothe-sized that countries and regions rich in natural re-sources experienced more tepid growth than less re-source-rich regions. This is now referred to as a re-source curse – an appar-ent paradox that despite having the natural tools for economic growth, one experiences less growth. This usually results from a lack of diversification in economies.

In order to combat the problem of declining re-sources, western states such as Wyoming and Montana have created a “rainy day” fund from coal severance tax dollars to be used for economic devel-opment projects one day.

The West Virginia Cen-ter on Budget and Policy concluded the creation of an “Economic Diversifica-tion Trust Fund” could cre-ate $2 billion in cumula-tive funding by 2035. This could place many options on the table for West Vir-ginia and ensure that coal does not solely benefit the state for as long as it re-mains in high production.

On the road leaving Key-stone, W.Va., right before Northfork, a sign reads, “We love where we live.”

Coal strikes at the very fi-ber of being and living for many people in southern West Virginia. It is not just a black rock. It’s a way of life. It has long been car-ried out of our mountains and valleys by train cars to power up a nation.

Once it is exhausted, people are left with tough decisions. Many have left. Some have turned to what-ever makes their lives just a little better, holding on to what they own and love; others have turned to drugs. But many people have remained hopeful in McDowell County, despite having the odds stacked against them.

The debate is now about more than who is for or against coal. The peo-ple who frame the debate in this manner do a great disservice to communities who have relied on min-ing to bring them to their greatest heights.

These people stand in the way of economic prog-ress in the state, and their shortsightedness has left McDowell County in its current position.

All of West Virginia must learn the lessons of Mc-Dowell County. This dis-cussion will not be easy, but we can make the easy decision to be proactive now, or we can be reactive later. It is not too late yet. I, like the good people of McDowell County, remain hopeful for our future.

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PHOTOTREEWelch, located in McDowell County, W.Va., was once a thriving coal town. It is now struggling to survive, largely due to the decline of the coal industry.

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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

BORN TODAY This year, dare to dream. That step will be important in turning a fantasy into a reality. Speak up about these desires. Your immediate circle of friends might be changing because you are transform-ing. A new person in your life could be quite controlling, which could be-come problematic. Don’t bring this person in close until you know him or her better. If you are single, sum-mer 2013 could bring a very special suitor. Enjoy this connection. If you are attached, you will be unusually content with each other. Schedule a wonderful retreat together.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHH You have plans, and you are goal-oriented. Events easily could change your schedule around in the morn-ing, which leaves the remainder of the day to play catch-up. Your intu-ition guides you through compli-cated situations. Tonight: Remain sensitive to a difficult person.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH Understand someone’s opposition. Ask yourself whether this is a knee-jerk reaction or a well thought out response. You have a choice to make, but approach a power play with care. If you don’t, it could be a waste of time. Tonight: Hang out with friends and family.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH Put the reins on spending if you see some smoke signals floating around you. Your response could be more significant than you are aware of. Root out the issue with care, and you probably will be happier as a result.

Tonight: Make weekend plans with close friends.

C ANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHHH Listen to others who seek you out. They might perceive you as being more powerful than you think you are. Give yourself space to do what you feel is necessary, and ap-preciate that others could be put-ting you on a pedestal. Tonight: Fol-low your own ideas.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH Re-spond to situations after listening to your inner voice. You might need -- and want -- to back off, at least for a little while. Your gregarious na-ture could demand a different out-let. Handle what needs to be done in solitude. Tonight: You don’t have to tell everyone everything.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHHH Zero in on what needs to happen. Your creativity might be challenged by someone, and you’ll have to come up with quite a few ideas. Brainstorm with a friend who often doesn’t agree with you; you will have several solu-tions to choose from. Tonight: Take a stand.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Reach out for more information, as you might not have all the facts. Someone in your domestic life could let you know how little he or she thinks you know. Detach from the situation, and you just might find this matter to be humorous. Tonight: Good times happen.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Others who are involved in a proj-ect you’re working on will join you in a brainstorming session. What-ever the objective of this meeting is,

you’ll find that a certain individual can be unusually challenging. Don’t lose sight of your objective. Tonight: Read between the lines.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHH Understand what is hap-pening with someone. This person might need you to make more of an effort to get together. A money is-sue could be the root of the problem. Recognize a liability, and establish a boundary, if need be. Tonight: Listen rather than speak.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You can be a hard person to resist. You are more than willing to play devil’s advocate. You take this role rather seriously. A person you play this role with might not be as secure as you would like. Try to straighten out this issue. Tonight: Your treat.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH If you are able to avoid a difficult person, you could have a nearly perfect day. Accomplish what you must, but take some time for yourself. Schedule an appointment or a checkup. Include some exercise, or take a walk if you can. Tonight: Run an important errand.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHHHH Your creativity comes forth, which brings you many op-portunities. Honor what is happen-ing around you, and find the space to incorporate more of a specific experi-ence into your life. You will feel better as a result. Tonight: Act like this is the beginning of your weekend.

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Fat Daddy’s goes country

Gerri Medley/Take Two PhoToGraPhyMorgantown-based country outfit Rustic Highway will bring a slice of Nashville to the Mountain State crowd at Fat Daddy’s Bar and Grill tonight.

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Fat Daddy’s Bar and Grill continues its weekly tradi-tion of Live Music Thurs-days tonight at 9:30 p.m. with Appalachian-inspired group Rustic Highway and The Short Brothers.

For an event that has pre-viously featured primarily electronic dance music and traditional rock ‘n’ roll, these groups will provide a wel-come change of pace for the Thursday night crowd.

“It’s no secret that West Virginia loves country mu-sic, and Morgantown is no different just because it’s a predominantly younger population,” said event pro-moter Adam Payne. “I’ve

found when researching via social media what acts to bring to Morgantown that WVU is filled with many country-craving students.”

A five-piece outfit from Morgantown, Rustic High-way draws a strong inspira-tion from the country roads and undulating mountain-tops that define the Moun-tain State.

With a modern country sound shaped by today’s most popular and respected artists within the genre, Rus-tic Highway exhibits the def-inition of a crowd-pleasing band.

“We are a modern sound, similar to Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Jason Aldean,” said Joshua Swiger, Rustic Highway bassist. “[It’s] really

upbeat and fun. We will burn down the house with some great fiddle and tele(caster) picking guitar.”

While the group focuses mostly on this modern sound, Rustic Highway does not shy away from tradi-tional bluegrass. Their No.1 priority is to get the crowd moving and clapping, and no genre barrier can get in their way.

“Rustic Highway’s live show catalog is an even blend of new country and old country,” Payne said. “Sprinkle in some good old-fashioned West Virginia bluegrass, and this progres-sive country act is ready for a hoe down.”

Swiger said while the band looks to provide a fun, party-

happy atmosphere, the per-formance is still all about the music, and the group takes their job seriously onstage – a point reflected by their original compositions.

“We don’t shy away from smacking the crowd in the face with good music,” Swiger said. “We want you up and partying but listen-ing, as well. We got originals that will stand with your fa-vorite covers.”

Also on the night’s bill are Terra Alta, W.Va., natives The Short Brothers.

Greg and Luke Short are well-versed in a variety of genres. From Southern rock to country to blues and ev-erywhere between, The Short Brothers are guaran-teed to please.

“The first time I saw Greg Short play was with Moun-taineer basketball player Deniz Kilicli at an open mic. Everyone was raving about Deniz, who was awe-some, but I couldn’t stop listening to Greg’s twelve string,” Payne said. “I made it a point to catch him again, and the next time was with his brother Luke. They dis-played the kind of chemistry only brothers could possess, and you could only imagine the amount of hours they have picked guitar together.”

Such a connection is vital to the group’s ability to tra-verse a wide variety of genres and stay on track. As a result, The Short Brothers are ab-solute masters of their craft.

With Rustic Highway, The

Short Brothers and Fat Dad-dy’s usual spread of food, drinks and good times, to-night’s performance pro-vides the perfect end-of-the-week getaway from the stresses of work and school.

“We expect a lot of cow-boy hats, tight Daisy Dukes, rocking cowgirls, bar-top dancing, tequila shots and good old rowdy fun,” Swiger said.

Festivities kick off at 9:30 p.m. with The Short Broth-ers, and Rustic Highway will take the stage following their performance.

There will be a $5 cover charge, and concertgoers must be 21 years or older to attend.

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On Twitter, a peanut gallery mocks the Oscars NEW YORK (AP) — You

can simply tune into the Oscars. Or you can watch them with the peanut gal-lery on Twitter.

While Hollywood pa-rades in tuxedos and gowns, grandly celebrating itself, a freewheeling cacophony of quips and sarcasm – some-thing like a digital, million-times multiplied version of those balcony Muppet on-lookers, Statler and Waldorf – will provide a welcome and riotous counter-narra-

tive to the pomp.The second-screen expe-

rience is never better than on Oscar night, when a sep-arate (and some might say superior) entertainment experience plays out on so-cial media.

The running commen-tary, in which comedi-ans and others parody the glamorous stars and their sometimes laugh-able speeches, has become as central to the Academy Awards as the red carpet.

“Following the Oscars on Twitter is like watching the show with one hundred million of your drunkest friends,” says Andy Borow-itz, the humorist and author who’s often been a standout tweeter on Oscar night. Last year, he succinctly sum-marized the previous two best-picture winners, “The King’s Speech” and “The Artist,” as “an English dude who couldn’t speak” and “a French dude no one could hear.”

Live tweeting major TV events, from the Super Bowl to the Grammy Awards, has become engrained in our viewing by now, forming a virtual water cooler that has boosted ratings. But the Academy Awards stream is particularly captivating be-cause it provides an anti-dote to the on-screen, but-toned-down glamour. It’s as if there’s not an “SAP” but-ton on your remote, but a “YUKS” one, bringing you play-by-play from some of the funniest people in cy-berspace. Comedians as-semble as if by duty.

“You gotta say some-thing. Someone has to say something,” says come-dian Billy Eichner. “To just stand by and watch it hap-pen is almost too tense. It’s cathartic. You’ve got to just get it out on Twitter be-cause if not, we’re all going to be bottled up thinking about how awkward Anne Hathaway made it for one billion people in real time. I don’t begrudge her the award; I’m just saying she’s a ridiculous person.”

As host of Funny or Die’s “Billy on the Street,” which airs on Fuse, Eichner ag-gressively and comically interviews passersby about pop culture. So he’s partic-ularly adept at expressing all-caps mockery when it comes to the stars of Holly-wood. In the awards circuit leading up to the Oscars, he’s zeroed in on Anne Ha-thaway, the odds-on favor-ite to win best supporting actress for her performance in “Les Miserables.”

In Hathaway, Eichner

recognizes a great actress, but also a striving theater geek. Nothing is funnier, he says, “than the mix of ego and lack of self-awareness, like Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes speech.”

“Ultimately, it’s just fun because the whole thing is so ridiculous,” says Eichner. “It’s like, why not comment on it? What is it even there for other than to be com-mented on?”

The Oscars has become one of the biggest social media events of the year. Last year’s telecast at one point set a then-record for 18,718 tweets-per-second. A statuette could be handed out for a new award: most tweeted tweet. In 2011, that honor went to The On-ion, which lamented: “How rude – not a single charac-ter from Toy Story 3 both-ered to show up.”

Last year, “The Artist” may have won best pic-ture, but Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” easily bested it with 110,179 tweets to 78,509 for “The Artist,” according to Twitter metrics analyst TweetReach.

This year, the academy has partnered with Twitter to track the top categories with an index measuring the percentage of positive tweets about the nominees.

Leading as of Tuesday wasn’t the favorite “Argo,” nor was it Steven Spiel-berg’s “Lincoln,” but rather David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook.” So if the film, widely considered the dark horse in the best pic-ture race, wins on Sunday, Twitter will have predicted

it.Mark Ghuneim, chief

executive of social media measurement firm Tren-drr, says that during the Oscars, Twitter is “`Mys-tery Science Theater 3000,’ for real,” referring to the cult TV show in which a man and two robot side-kicks wisecrack their way through B-movies.

“It’s really like you’ll never watch TV alone ever again, if you don’t want to,” says Ghuneim. “It’s a nat-ural evolution in televi-sion and that’s why it’s so prevalent.”

With real-time data from services like Trendrr, the Oscar conversation can be tracked, revealing which moments resound and pro-voke audiences.

Last year, Angelina Jo-lie’s leg-barring pose as a presenter immediately put Twitter in hyper-drive, spawning parody accounts from the perspective of her right leg.

It’s such moments where Twitter becomes Oscar’s dance partner. Viewers cel-ebrate with – and chortle at – Hollywood’s self-serious-ness, combining together for a TV experience greater than the sum of its parts.

When the 85th annual Academy Awards air Sun-day on ABC, countless co-medians and others at home will be ready on their mobile phones and laptops with tweets to skewer.

“I just pray we all survive Anne Hathaway’s accep-tance speech,” says Eichner. “And, to be honest, I have my doubts.”

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The Mountaineers will get their second oppor-tunity at the top-ranked Lady Bears after falling by 18 points in the first meet-ing in Waco, Texas.

WVU will also get its second chance at trying to stop 6-foot-8-center Brittney Griner. In the first meeting, she nearly had a triple-double with nine blocks on top of her usual double-double.

Against TCU this week-end, Griner had 22 points and 10 rebounds in only 23 minutes of action. While TCU isn’t necessar-ily the cream of the crop in the Big 12 Conference, having a double-double in that amount of time is impressive.

Make sure to tune in and pack the Coliseum for this once-in-a-lifetime occa-sion. Often, you won’t see a girl who dunks in collegiate basketball, so this will be an event you will not want to miss.

Up to this point in the season, Baylor hasn’t lost a conference game. Head coach Kim Mulkey has done a phenomenal job of having this team show up game in and game out. Now, the Lady Bears are on the brink of yet another Big 12 regular season champi-onship. In the win against the Horned Frogs, Baylor at least clinched a share of the conference title.

BU extended its nation-leading streak to 53 home wins, 36 league victories and 22 straight this year. The Lady Bears are argu-ably playing their best bas-ketball so far.

That is more of a reason for you to come to the Col-iseum and support West Virginia against this peren-nial power.

Griner has been in dou-ble figures in 106 straight games. With her block against TCU’s Donielle Breaux, she’s had at least one rejection in 74 straight games. The list of accom-plishments for her and this team goes on and on.

While the Mountaineers have their work cut out for them, you never can truly put your finger on how some games will turn out. West Virginia may not nec-essarily get the victory, but if it can keep it close, that may be something that this team could be proud of.

So get ready for some-thing special March 2. Just like when KU played WVU when it was No. 1, there is always the extra motivation to shock the nation when all the eyes are on your team.

Against a top-5 team in Connecticut two years ago, WVU was very close to up-setting the Huskies. Unfor-tunately for the Mountain-eers, Maya Moore was too good in the second half for West Virginia.

This time around, Bay-lor will be the UConn of 2010. The Lady Bears have played with as much con-fidence after their loss against Stanford earlier this season as any team in the country.

Even if basketball is not your favorite thing to watch, this one should be an exception for you. Bay-lor is very entertaining with how well it dominates the game, and West Virginia is still a quality team fighting for its postseason berth.

Head coach Mike Carey and the Mountaineers will appreciate your support for this momentous game. This is not just your typi-cal, everyday team; Baylor is that much better.

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After missing action for a week, the West Virginia wrestling team is ready to hit the mat in the WVU Col-iseum for the last home match of the season against Edinboro. Saturday will be Senior Night for the Moun-taineers, which head coach Craig Turnbull hopes will inspire his team.

“Shane Young has had a tremendous career here and will go down as one the fin-est lightweight wrestlers in the history of the program. He’ll compete in his last dual meet here and hope-fully qualify for the National Championships,” Turnbull said. “And you have Phil Mandzik, who came in here with a lot of heart and has won a lot of hearts over here in the program.

“It is a bittersweet time.”The wrestling team will

do everything it can to send the seniors out with a win but that will be a little tougher as WVU’s top wres-tler, Nathan Pennesi, suf-fered a broken hand in prac-tice and will not wrestle in any upcoming dual meets.

“We took a couple steps forward but then a big one back when Pennesi broke his hand in practice last week,” Turnbull said. “He is out, and we will injury default him for the Big 12 tournament. We believe, though, that his strength of

schedule is good enough to get him into the national tournament.”

Despite the situation, Turnbull is optimistic for Pennesi when it comes to the NCAA championships.

“Sometimes when the season ends and you have three or four weeks off, you come back wrestling stron-ger and sharper than you have all season,” Turnbull said. “We are framing it that he comes back fresh, and we will be doing a lot of things with his condi-tioning, so when he comes back, he will feel like he was just on a break and not out with an injury.”

With Pennesi out un-til the NCAA champion-ships, the team will have to lean on the two remaining ranked wrestlers they have in Young and freshman Bubba Scheffel to help lead the way for the team.

Young moved up one spot in WrestlingReport’s poll to the No. 23 spot, and Scheffel now holds No. 27 and has eight wins on the season.

“Pennesi’s injury doesn’t change anything. These guys know that if they go out and win a couple dual meets there is business to be done still,” Turnbull said.

Senior Night is set to be-gin Saturday at 7 p.m. in the WVU Coliseum.

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file photoQuarterback Geno Smith will be one of four former West Virginia football players to participate in drills at the NFL Scouting Combine.

tyler herrinton/the daily athenaeumWide receivers Tavon Austin, left, and Stedman Bailey combined for 228 catches, 2,911 yards and 37 touchdowns last season.

patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeumThe West Virginia wrestling team will take on Edinboro this weekend.

Smith leads four Mountaineers participating in NFL Scouting CombineBy greg mAdiAmultimedia editor

Last year at the 2012 NFL Com-bine, former West Virginia defen-sive end Bruce Irvin catapulted his NFL draft stock and became the 15th overall selection. Experts said prior to that Combine per-formance, Irvin was probably no higher than a second-round pick.

This year in Indianapolis, four more Mountaineers will take their crack at the NFL Scouting Com-bine while vying for positions in April’s draft.

Quarterback Geno Smith, wide receivers Tavon Austin and Sted-man Bailey and center Joe Mad-

sen all will participate in drills this weekend. Madsen will work out Saturday, while Smith, Austin and Bailey work out Sunday.

Smith has plenty to gain this weekend and can solidify himself as the top quarterback in the draft ahead of Southern California’s Matt Barkley and North Carolina State’s Mike Glennon. Smith put up dazzling numbers, throwing for more than 4,000 yards during both his junior and senior campaigns at West Virginia, but NFL experts, scouts and general managers have their doubts about Smith’s accu-racy and ability to make quicker

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PRETORIA, South Af-rica (AP) — The prosecu-tion case against Oscar Pistorius began to unravel Wednesday with revela-tions of a series of police blunders and the lead in-vestigator’s admission that authorities have no evidence challenging the double-amputee Olympi-an’s claim he killed his girl-friend accidentally.

Detective Hilton Botha’s often confused testimony left prosecutors rubbing their heads in frustration as he misjudged distances and said testosterone – banned for professional athletes in some cases – was found at the scene,

only to be later contra-dicted by the prosecutor’s office.

The second day of what was supposed to be a mere bail hearing almost re-sembled a full-blown trial for the 26-year-old run-ner, with his lawyer, Barry Roux, tearing into Botha’s testimony step by step dur-ing cross examination.

Police, Botha acknowl-edged, left a 9 mm slug from the barrage that killed Reeva Steenkamp inside a toilet and lost track of il-legal ammunition found inside the house. And the detective himself walked through the crime scene without wearing protective shoe covers, potentially contaminating the area.

Authorities, Roux as-serted, were selectively taking “every piece of evi-dence to try to extract the most possibly negative connotation and present it to the court.”

The case has riveted South Africa, with journal-ists and the curious crowd-ing into the brick-walled courtroom where Pisto-rius, dubbed the Blade Runner for his prosthetic legs, faces a charge of pre-meditated murder in the Valentine’s Day slaying.

Pistorius says he mis-took Steenkamp for an in-truder and shot her out of fear, while prosecutors say he planned the killing and attacked her as she cow-ered behind a locked bath-room door.

The day seemed to start out well for the prosecu-tion, with Botha offering new details of the shoot-ing that appeared to call into question Pistorius’ account of the moments leading up to the 29-year-old model’s death.

Ballistic evidence, he said, showed the bullets that killed her had been fired from a height, sup-porting the prosecution’s assertion that Pistorius was wearing prosthetic legs when he took aim at the bathroom door. The athlete has maintained he was standing only on his stumps, and felt vul-nerable and frightened as

he opened fire from a low position.

Projecting a diagram of the bedroom and bath-room, prosecutor Gerrie Nel said it showed Pistorius had to walk past his bed to get to bathroom and could not have done so without seeing that Steenkamp was not asleep there.

“There’s no other way of getting there,” Nel said in disputing Pistorius’ claim that he had no idea Steen-kamp was no longer in bed when he pumped four bullets into the bathroom door, striking her with three.

Botha backed the pros-ecutor up, saying the hol-ster for Pistorius’ 9 mm pistol was found under the left side of the bed, where Steenkamp slept, and it would have been impossi-ble for Pistorius to get the gun without checking to see if she was there.

“I believe that he knew that Reeva was in the bath-room and he shot four shots through the door,” the detective said.

Botha described how bullets struck Steenkamp in the head and shattered her right arm and hip, eliciting sobs from Pisto-rius, who held his head in hands.

However, when asked if Steenkamp’s body showed “any pattern of defensive wounds” or bruising from an assault, Botha said “no.” He again responded “no” when asked if investigators found anything inconsis-tent with Pistorius’ version of events, though he later said nothing contradicted the police version either.

Testimony began with the prosecutor telling the court that before the shoot-ing, a neighbor heard “nonstop” shouting be-tween 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. at Pistorius’ upscale home in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria.

However, Botha later said under cross examina-tion that the witness was in a house 600 yards (me-ters) away, possibly out of earshot. He cut that esti-mate in half when ques-tioned again by the prose-

cutor, as confusion reigned for much of his testimony.

At one point, Botha told the court that police found syringes and two boxes of testosterone in Pistorius’ bedroom – testimony the prosecution later with-drew, saying it was too early to identify the sub-stance, which was still be-ing tested.

“It is not certain (what it is) until the forensics” are completed, Medupe Si-masiku, a spokesman for South Africa’s National Prosecution Agency, told The Associated Press. It’s not clear if it was “a legal or an illegal medication for now.”

The defense also dis-puted the claim. “It is an herbal remedy,” Roux said. “It is not ... a banned substance.”

Still, Botha offered po-tentially damaging details about Pistorius’ past, say-ing the athlete was once involved in an accidental shooting at a restaurant in Johannesburg and asked someone else “to take the wrap.”

The runner also threat-ened men on two separate occasions, Botha said, al-legedly telling one he’d “break his legs.”

The detective said police found two iPhones in Pis-torius’ bathroom and two BlackBerrys in his bed-room, and none had been used to phone for help. Guards at the gated com-munity did call the athlete, Botha said, and all he said was: “I’m all right,” as he wept uncontrollably.

Roux later suggested that a fifth phone, not collected by the police, was used by Pistorius to call for help.

The question now is whether Botha’s troubled testimony will be enough to convince Chief Magis-trate Desmond Nair to keep Pistorius in prison until trial. While Pistorius faces the harshest bail require-ments under South African law, the magistrate has said he would consider loosen-ing them based on testi-mony in the hearing. Final arguments were scheduled for Thursday.

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Hampered by injuries and sure to be tested by new conference competitors, the West Virginia women’s bas-ketball team knew it would have to find players to step up if it wanted to achieve the lofty goals it set for itself in the preseason.

Though there are many players who have stepped up in key situations, there is one in particular who is leaving her mark as the Mountain-eers march toward the end of Big 12 play.

That player is Averee Fields.

The sophomore forward from Murray, Ky., is on a tear the last two games, scoring seven critical points in the win against Iowa State and a career-high 19 points in the previous game’s loss to Okla-homa State.

Fields said after the Feb. 13 loss to Oklahoma State the Mountaineers needed to make a run down the stretch to position itself for the postseason.

“We definitely felt con-fident. We’ve been prepar-ing for these teams,” she said. “We know we have to win these games down the stretch.”

Fields is averaging 8.4 points and 4.9 rebounds per game this season, but her tra-jectory is trending upward as she continues to grow com-fortable on the court.

A viable option as a reserve last season, Fields has been thrust into the starting lineup this season and has exceeded expectations. However, if West Virginia isn’t able to finish the final segment of its schedule strong, there might not be a postseason for Fields to shine in.

“At the end of the season if we don’t win these games, then we won’t have a post-season, and we won’t get on a run later,” she said. “Every single person has to bring it whether if they play one min-ute or 20 minutes.”

The Mountaineers’ 68-66 comeback road victory against Iowa State would not have been possible if it weren’t for Fields.

With 48 seconds to play and the score tied at 66-66, Fields stole the ball from Iowa State’s possession and was fouled while shooting a layup.

On the subsequent free-throw attempts, Fields con-verted one-of-two tries and gave the Mountaineers a lead it would never relinquish.

After the win, head coach Mike Carey said he thought the win against Iowa State was essential to rebuilding the momentum the Moun-taineers lost in the Oklahoma State game.

“I thought we did a good job. We had to make it ugly, because we weren’t scor-ing, so we had to have more quickness and try to get some traps and turnovers,” he said.

“(Iowa State) does a great job. They’re a great team and very physical. They had some foul trouble, and we were in foul trouble, but we were able to pull it off at the end. It’s a big win for us coming off a loss at home against Okla-homa State,” he said.

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The West Virginia track and field team will travel to Ames, Iowa, this weekend for their first Big 12 Confer-ence indoor track and field championships.

Competition is slated to begin Friday at 10 a.m. in the Lied Recreational Ath-letic Center at Iowa State University.

Texas A&M University won the meet last season, winning for the fifth time in as many years. However, the threat of Aggie domi-nance won’t be prevalent this weekend, as they’ve joined the Southeastern Conference this year.

“The philosophy of this year’s team is to learn what we need to be ready for the future,” said head coach Sean Cleary.

Although the Mountain-eers will be in uncharted waters this weekend, Cleary and the team are hoping to make a splash in their Big 12 Conference debut.

“The challenge of a new conference is finding the right formula to excel in a league that is very different from our past,” Cleary said. “We have (several) athletes that I feel are ready for this conference.”

The Mountaineers will rely on seniors Sydney Cummings and Heather Adams, who have been dominating throughout the indoor season.

“(Adams) has worked hard and prepared to the best of her ability,” Cleary said. “I see no reason why she will not return home happy.”

Last weekend, the Moun-taineers hosted the Gold-Blue Open, the last home meet of the indoor season. Cummings leads in the high jump with a distance of 1.77 meters, which was good enough for third all-time in WVU’s top-5 in pro-

gram history.“Cummings has the abil-

ity and enough confidence from this winter to make a mark in the high jump,” Cleary said. “She will be one of our highlights.”

In addition, The Moun-taineers earned the top four spots in the 500-meter run, with two freshmen, Pey-ton Hampson and Christa D’Edigio, leading the way. Junior Arielle Gaither came in third place with a time of 1:18.46, and junior Allison Tyree finished fourth with a time of 1:22.67.

Freshman Ashanti Bess placed first in the 60-meter dash with a personal best time fo 8.09 seconds and the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.53 seconds. She also took second place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 59.84.

Jordan Hamric recorded a first-place finish in the

1,600 meter-run with a time of 4:59.24. Shannon Daly also took first place in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:24.41.

Senior Alanna Priits and sophomore Karissa Kna-benshue earned the top two spots in the weight throw. Knabenshue posted a first-place finish in the shot put for the first time this season with a mark of 11.95 meters.

Despite their success last weekend, the Mountain-eers know the importance of the meet this weekend.

“For us, we need to stick to our plan and emerge as quickly as possible to be ready for the new chal-lenges,” Cleary said. “I am excited to see how (our ath-letes) fare.”

A full recap will be posted on WVUsports.com after the competition.

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decisions. “With Geno Smith, I see

flashes of everything you want with a top 10 quar-terback, but I also see a lot more inconsistency than I see those flashes,” said NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock. “He – to me – is a real risk/reward scenario.”

Smith is listed as the top quarterback of the 2013 class on most draft boards, but since he is throwing and completing drills at the Combine, he will be under a microscope this weekend.

Scouts will be nitpicking Smith to see if his three- , five- and seven-step drops are perfect or near perfect as well as his ability to hit basic NFL routes such as the slant, post, out and go with ease.

Mayock projects Smith being drafted between picks No. 20-32, but with a strong performance, Smith could rise due to his throw-ing ability, athleticism and proven accuracy.

Former WVU wide re-ceiver Tavon Austin will have NFL scouts eyes glued on him all week-end. Each time the all-pur-pose star participates in a drill, he will have the abil-ity to break a Combine re-cord. Not only should Aus-tin be able to run a below 4.4-second forty yard dash, according to multiple NFL experts, he has a shot to break the three-cone re-cord – a drill that will show scouts how quickly Austin is changing direction.

“Tavon Austin is a play-maker. People want to make the comparison to Percy Harvin, (but) he’s 20 pounds lighter than Percy Harvin,” Mayock said. “To me, he’s more like a Wes

Welker and tremendous re-turn guy.”

Right now, the Balti-more, Md., native is a pro-jected late first-round pick.

Austin’s partner in crime at West Virginia, Stedman Bailey, led the NCAA with 25 receiving touchdowns and was a 2012 Biletnikoff Award finalist. But he is be-ing largely overlooked by NFL experts and currently a projected third round pick.

By running a sub-4.5 forty-yard dash would prove to NFL scouts that he has the straight-line speed to do what he did so well in college, executing the go route.

Typically one difference between college and the NFL is that wide receivers are larger on the outside and at 5-foot-10, Bailey has to prove he has the speed to compensate for the lack of height. If he can do so, Bai-ley’s pass-catching ability in conjunction with speed should move him up into at least the middle of the sec-ond round.

Last for center is Joe Madsen, who is considered a fringe, six- to seven-round prospect at this point. At West Virginia Madsen started 50 career games an-choring the WVU offensive line that thrived protecting Geno Smith during 2012. Madsen, who played in the Senior Bowl, helped him-self by proving he can play one-on-one against bigger defensive tackles.

But to up his stock even more, Madsen must have a good bench press to prove his strength. Though Mad-sen will also have to do a kick slide drill to show he can move with a defender, it won’t be as important as him snapping the ball and scouts measuring how quick his first two steps are out of his stance.

If Madsen can do those two well, he can help him-self move into the second tier of centers behind Bar-rett Jones of Alabama and Khaled Holmes of South-ern California.

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comBineContinued from PAGE 7

patrick gorrell/the daily athenaeumThe West Virginia track and field team will compete in the Big 12 Conference championships this weekend.

file photoFormer WVU center Joe Madsen is one of four Mountaineers to compete in the NFL Scouting Combine.

fields stepping up as consistent force for Wvu

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mountaineers ready for Big 12 championships

Wythe Woods/the daily athenaeumWest Virginia sophomore Averee Fields attempts a shot against Iowa State.

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