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Safety month reaches WVU’s campusBy Lacey PaLmer

Staff writer

Across the country, and even close to home, ran-dom acts of violence have become more prevalent, in-stilling fear in many.

September marks Na-tional Campus Safety Awareness Month, and the West Virginia University Po-lice and Morgantown police are reminding the commu-nity to be cautious.

“National Campus Safety Awareness Month is actu-ally a national campaign sponsored by Security on Campus, which is part of the Clery Act,” said University Police chief Bob Roberts. “The goal is to raise aware-ness of the level of crime on campus and teach people how to protect themselves and get involved in crime prevention.”

Many programs have been created on campus to

address violence and safety concerns on campus. Pro-grams such as Green Dot and leadWELL aim to teach bystanders to do more than just stand by and watch crimes occur.

Recently, members of the Morgantown City Council discussed possible solutions to the incidents downtown late at night.

The council is consider-ing passing ordinances to have last call for bars at mid-

night, and possibly altering the patron entrance age to 21 for all local bars.

“This is a concern we have here in the city, and we need to address it, but we need to get all of the entities to-gether to discuss this – the city, WVU, business owners and the county – sit down and see what we can do in-stead of just shot gunning things,” said Mayor Jim Ma-nilla. “We can’t just think of doing random things right

off the bat, but we need to really address this and ad-dress this.”

WVU’s recent partner-ship with the International Town & Gown Association further proves its interest in solving these issues.

The International Town & Gown Association is an organization that puts to-gether officials and repre-sentatives from many uni-versities to solve common issues.

“It will be interesting to see what’s happening on those campuses and how they are dealing with some of the issues we have here in Morgantown,” Manilla said. “I think that join-ing the ITGA and looking at how other communities deal with situations like we have will benefit us here in Morgantown.”

Morgantown resident Brandon Jackson said he

rDVIc raises awareness of

sexual violence By SheLBy ToomPaS

Staff writer

West Virginia University welcomed students, staff, faculty, alumni and com-munity members Thursday to attend the Rape and Do-mestic Violence Informa-tion Center’s event, “RAINN Day.”

RAINN Day is the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network Day of Action awareness campaign, which takes place on college cam-puses throughout the nation on Sept. 27.

Senior public relations student Naseem Amini said by interning for RDVIC as part of a service-learning project for her public rela-tions class, she and another student teamed up to help raise awareness.

“The goal of this event is to educate people on sexual violence,” Amini said. “Col-leges are doing different things for RAINN Day, but we decided to decorate um-brellas to donate to the shel-ter here in Morgantown, as well as have a mini Drop-A-Cop seminar.”

The Drop-A-Cop event oc-curred on the Mountainlair Green and was taught by members of the WVU Po-lice Department, while stu-dents decorated the um-brellas in the Mountainlair’s Rhododendron Room from 1-3 p.m.

Amini’s teammate or-ganizing the event, Rachel Sleighter, said even though the event was not affiliated with the University, they have both been involved with the organization for a month and hoped the event would grab students’ attention.

“The umbrella decorat-ing was a competition as well,” Sleighter said. “Once the decorating is over, we choose the best one and give away gift cards to Kroger and Kegler’s Sports Bar & Lounge.”

Both students said they feel strongly about the cause because it’s a serious and prevalent topic – especially on college campuses.

“People were able to learn about sexual vio-lence and how to prevent it,” Amini said. “They will also learn more about our organization.”

RDVIC not only acts as a shelter for battered men, women and children, they also strive to provide vari-ous community education opportunities.

“I’ve learned that sexual assault and domestic vio-lence is a lot more common than people think, so I’m glad that RDVIC hosts events like this to spread awareness in a fun, engaging and cre-ative way,” Amini said.

First ever ‘Speed Network Event’ todayBy KaITy WILSon

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The West Virginia Uni-versity Department of Communication Stud-ies will launch its newly formed Student-Alumni Mentoring Program today with its first ever Speed Networking Event.

The event will be held at 3 p.m. in the Gold Ball-room of the Mountainlair and will allow students to

meet with alumni about fu-ture career paths.

Undergraduate Curric-ulum Coordinator for the Department of Communi-cation Studies, Andrea We-ber, said the department’s mentoring program has been evolving throughout the past few years.

“We thought we would do something different where our students would have the opportunity to meet even more alumni in

a smaller group setting,” Weber said.

Groups of students will be assigned a table and given 10 minutes for a Q&A session with alumni.

Similar to speed dating, a bell will ring and the stu-dents will rotate to the next table. The alumni men-tors have careers in event planning, project manage-ment, business manage-ment, public relations, hu-man resources and more,

Weber said. Jay Mason is one of the

17 alumni who will attend the event.

Mason is currently the project manager at West Virginia Rural Health Re-search Center and said he is very excited about get-ting to share his experi-ences with students.

“I think back to when I was a student in the

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John Chambers, chair-man and CEO of Cisco Systems, will give a lec-ture today at 9 a.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

Chambers, a Charles-ton, W.Va., native and West Virginia alumnus, is currently in his seven-teenth year as head of the San Jose, Ca., based com-pany. Chambers earned his undergraduate degree from West Virginia in 1971 and subsequently earned his Juris Doctor from the WVU College of Law in 1974.

Cisco Systems is a lead-ing provider, designer and manufacturer of network-ing equipment; Under Chambers’ watch, Cisco has been named to For-tune’s “America’s Most Admired Company” list

seven times, and Cisco has been named one of the top 10 places to work in countries such as the United States, China, Ger-many, France, India, Aus-tralia and Singapore, among others.

Chambers has been named one of Time Mag-azine’s “100 Most Influen-tial People,” one of Bar-rons’ “World’s Best CEOs,” was Vice Chairman of the President George W. Bush National Infrastruc-ture Advisor Council and served on President Bill Clinton’s Trade Policy Committee.

The lecture is part of the 60th Anniversary Speaker Series in the WVU College of Business and Economics.

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believes safety is an issue problem that will continue to plague Morgantown.

“It’s just another day in Morgantown, if you ask me,” Jackson said. “The area I live near West Run Road has a break-in every other day. I honestly don’t think there’s a safe town around any-more, even if it is a small, country town.”

Sophomore journalism student Ryan Glaspell be-lieves it will take more than just laws to solve the prob-lem, and some may have to learn the hard way.

“Nobody is going to feel less safe until they directly experience something to

make them feel otherwise,” Glaspell said.

Many students recog-nize these incidents are oc-curring all over the United States, and being more cau-tious is an adjustment ev-eryone will have to make.

“I still feel the same level of security as I did freshman year when I came to Mor-gantown,” said junior man-agement information sys-tems student Brice Barker. “I realize there is always a level of danger if you’re out late or walking alone in an isolated area, but I try to stay as smart as possible by staying in lighted areas and avoiding alleys. I’ve never encountered any problems in almost four years here.”

Barker said he believes the acts of violence are not

limited to Morgantown, and citizens have to be cautious everywhere they go.

“This may occur in Mor-gantown more often be-cause of the alcohol in-volved and people coming home late from downtown alone, but if you’re alone at night, that stuff can hap-pen anywhere,” Barker said. “You just have to try to stay as cautious as possible.”

Morgantown resident Courtney Schindler said she believes the community can’t live in fear – regardless of these incidents.

“It’s not a matter of feel-ing safe or not; we have to continue living our every-day lives,” Schindler said. “It could happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time.”

According to Roberts, 90 percent of the incidents that occur on record are preventable.

If two people walk to-gether, it reduces the chances of attack by 85 per-cent, and if an individual walks with three or more, it becomes 95 percent pre-ventable, Roberts said.

“It’s important that stu-dents know where the emer-gency phones are on cam-pus and how to get in touch with us,” Roberts said. “If an incident happens while they’re on or near campus, they should call us immedi-ately. If you see something going on, call the police. In society, people want to think about ‘ratting out’ people, but you’re not ‘ratting’ peo-ple out; you’re making your community safe.”

Fore more information, visit http://police.wvu.edu.To speak with an officer, call 304-293-3136.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention, 20-25 percent of women in college have re-ported experiencing an at-tempted rape or have been raped.

“That’s why it’s impor-tant that college women are educated on this matter,”

Sleighter said. This event also served as

a way to kickoff other events soon to follow.

“Sexual violence is an aw-ful thing, but we don’t want to be seen as an organization that brings depressing and unfortunate news to people. We want to be uplifting and have fun events that bring hope to individuals and show them that we can prevent and overcome this terrible thing,”

Amini said. “I want students to take

a break from their classes and get their creative juices flowing while also learning about an important cause.

Self-defense tactics are very valuable to know as well.”

Other events in October include a Light in the Win-dow awareness campaign, in which purple candles will be sold to businesses, groups

and individuals to be dis-played throughout Morgan-town, and the second annual Loud Voices event, which is a night for sharing poetry read-ing, spoken words and open mic at the Terra Cafe.

To learn more about RDVIC and upcoming events, visit www.rdvic.org or email [email protected] .

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communication depart-ment and how helpful something like this would have been to me,” Mason said.

“The event itself is a fun way to have conversa-tions with alumni in a set-ting that is not as formal as other events.”

Mason also said he

hopes this event will help pave the way for other de-partments within WVU to hold similar events.

He said the event will help students pre-pare for what comes after graduation, and will al-low them to network – which he believes is a c r i t i c a l l y i m p o r t a n t part of the job searching project.

Communication stud-ies student Brittany Swope

said as a student and soon-to-be graduate, she is really excited about this event.

“I’m really happy that our department has worked so hard to put to-gether a great program to really help us in prepara-tion for the job search,” Swope said.

Weber said the depart-ment wants students to ex-pand their networks and narrow their focus for pro-

fessional development.“Our hope is that our

students utilize this oppor-tunity to see the variety of career options available to someone with a communi-cation studies degree,” We-ber said.

For more information, contact Weber at 304-293-3905 or contact her via email: [email protected].

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The West Virginia Uni-versity College of Business and Economics is host-ing a miniature Olympic Games Friday, Sept. 28, in the green space behind the B&E building.

Vickie Trickett, events manager of the Office of Development at the Col-lege of Business and Eco-nomics, said these games are a competition among organizations that repre-sent the different majors within the college.

“The events are sports- related. For example, the

participants will be doing the 50-yard dash, tug-of-war, arm wrestling, sponge racing and a frozen T-shirt race,” Trickett said.

There are six teams with eight-10 members on each team. These members are students and faculty who represent a major within the college, and they can perform an event individ-ually, in pairs or in teams.

Everyone can come to the Olympic Games to sup-port the different teams.

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nyc to round out skyline with tallest Ferris wheel

ApIn this image released by the New York Mayor’s Office, Thursday is an artist’s rendering of a proposed 625-foot Ferris wheel, billed as the world’s largest, planned as part of a retail and hotel complex along the Staten Island waterfront in New York.

NEW yOrK (aP) — The Big Apple is getting another “biggest”: the world’s tall-est Ferris wheel, part of an ambitious plan to draw New Yorkers and tourists alike to the city’s so-called “forgot-ten borough.”

The 625-foot-tall, $230 million New York Wheel is to grace a spot in Staten Island overlooking the 305-foot-tall Statue of Lib-erty and the downtown Manhattan skyline, offering a singular view as it sweeps higher than other big wheels like the Singapore Flyer, the London Eye and a “High Roller” planned for Las Vegas.

Designed to carry 1,440 passengers at a time, it’s ex-pected to draw 4.5 million people a year to a setting that also would include a 100-shop outlet mall and a 200-room hotel.

It will be “an attraction unlike any other in New

York City – in fact, it will be, we think, unlike any other on the planet,” Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg said as he unveiled the plans against the backdrop of New York Harbor. While the privately financed project faces var-ious reviews, officials hope to have the wheel turning by the end of 2015.

The wheel would put Staten Island on the map of superlatives in a place where “biggest” is almost an expectation — home to the nation’s biggest city popu-lation, busiest mass-transit system, even the biggest Ap-plebee’s restaurant.

The attraction stands to change the profile of the least populous and most re-mote of the city’s five bor-oughs, a sometime munici-pal underdog that has taken insults from New Jersey and was once known for having the world’s largest ... landfill.

“It’s going to be a real

icon. The Ferris wheel will be Staten Island’s Ei-ffel Tower,” Sen. Charles Schumer enthused.

As a visible addition to the skyline around the har-bor, the wheel “gives Staten Island an identity beyond its role as a suburban commu-nity,” while letting it tap into the stream of tourist money in a city that drew 50.9 mil-lion visitors last year, said Mitchell Moss, a New York University urban policy professor.

The project is expected to bring $500 million in pri-vate investment and 1,100 permanent jobs to the bor-ough’s St. George water-front, and the developers will pay the city $2.5 million a year in rent for the land.

Staten Island isn’t en-tirely off the tourist map. Its free ferry is the city’s third-largest tourist attraction, carrying an estimated 2 mil-lion visitors a year alongside

millions of residents, offi-cials say.

But the city has long struggled to entice tourists off the boat and into Staten Island. Much-touted Staten Island sightseeing bus tours fizzled within a year in 2009 for lack of ridership.

Australian tourists Leah Field and Adam Lica, for ex-ample, were riding the ferry Thursday for its views of the Statue of Liberty. They thought they might have lunch on the Staten Island side but weren’t planning to explore further.

“We weren’t sure what there is to do there,” ex-plained Lica, 32, of Mel-bourne. But were there a giant Ferris wheel, the cou-ple likely would go ride it, he said.

But Henriette Repmann, a German university stu-dent, said she wouldn’t bother.

“You don’t have to have

the biggest Ferris wheel in the world to get a good view of New York,” Repmann, 20, of Leipzig, said Thursday as she visited the Empire State Building.

Largely a bedroom com-munity for other parts of the city, Staten Island boasts about 470,000 residents and a minor league ballpark, cultural sites and quirky at-tractions, from locations in the video for Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach” to the Staten Island Zoo, home to New York’s answer to Penn-sylvania’s prognosticating groundhog. The Staten Is-land rodent bears the du-bious distinction of having once bitten Bloomberg.

But Staten Island, the only one of the city’s five boroughs not accessible by subway, tends to get over-shadowed by its bigger neighbors, so much so that some have at times sug-gested it secede from the

city.And residents often bris-

tle at an image shaped by such television shows as “Mob Wives” and “Big Ang” — and by a former New Jer-sey beach town mayor who portrayed Staten Islanders in a blog post as heavy on hairspray and light on class. (The ex-mayor, Ken Prin-gle of Belmar, visited Staten Island in 2008 to make amends.)

Resident Miatta Bry-ant thinks the wheel might bring the borough more respect.

“People always say Staten Island is so boring,” the 26-year-old certified nurs-ing assistant said.

The Ferris wheel, state As-semblyman Matthew Titone hopes, will show the world a different Staten Island than the one they see on TV.

“They will see our cultural institutions and will see that we are not idiots,” he said.

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Israeli report says sanctions hitting Iran hard

apPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel shows an illustration as he describes his concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions during his address to the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In his most detailed plea to date for global action against Iran’s nuclear pro-gram, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the world has un-til next summer at the lat-est to stop Iran before it can build a nuclear bomb.

Netanyahu flashed a dia-gram of a cartoon-like bomb before the U.N. General As-sembly showing the prog-ress Iran has made, saying it has already completed the first stage of uranium enrichment.

Then he pulled out a red marker and drew a line across what he said was a threshold Iran was ap-proaching and which Is-rael could not tolerate – the completion of the second stage and 90 percent of the way to the uranium enrich-ment needed to make an atomic bomb.

“By next spring, at most by next summer at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage,” he said. “From there, it’s only a few months, possibly a few weeks before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.”

Israel considers a nu-clear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing Ira-nian denials of the Holo-caust, its calls for Israel’s de-struction, its development of missiles capable of strik-ing the Jewish state and its support for hostile Arab mil-

itant groups.On Thursday he pre-

sented his case to the world just why a nuclear armed Iran would be a danger to many other countries as well. Casting the battle as one between modernity and the “medieval forces of rad-ical Islam,” Netanyahu said deterrence would not work against Iran as it had with the Soviet Union.

“Deterrence worked with the Soviets, because ev-ery time the Soviets faced a choice between their ideol-ogy and their survival, they chose survival,” he said. But “militant jihadists behave very differently from sec-ular Marxists. There were no Soviet suicide bombers. Yet Iran produces hordes of them.”

Netanyahu has repeat-edly argued that time is run-ning out to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and that the threat of force must be seriously consid-ered. Israeli leaders have issued a series of warnings in recent weeks suggesting that if Iran’s uranium en-richment program contin-ues it may soon stage a uni-lateral military strike. This week Iranian leaders sug-gested they may strike Is-raeli preemptively if they felt threatened, stoking fears of a regional war.

President Barack Obama has vowed to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power but has rejected Ne-tanyahu’s demands for set-ting an ultimatum past

which the U.S. would at-tack. His administration has urgently sought to hold off Israeli military action, which would likely result in the U.S. being pulled into a conflict and cause region-wide mayhem on the eve of American elections. Ne-tanyahu’s 2013 Israeli dead-line could be interpreted as a type of concession, but Is-raeli officials insisted action was still needed immedi-ately and that in his speech Netanyahu was referring to the absolute point of no return.

Netanyahu appeared to be trying to soothe his differ-ences with the White House when he thanked Obama’s stance, adding that his own words were meant only to help achieve the common goal.

And he thanked the U.S. and other governments that have imposed sanctions which, he said, have hurt Iran’s economy and curbed its oil exports but have not changed Tehran’s intentions to develop the capacity to build nuclear weapons.

“I believe that faced with a clear red line, Iran will back down. This will give more time for sanctions and diplomacy to convince Iran to dismantle its nu-clear weapons program al-together,” the Israeli prime minister said. “Red lines don’t lead to war, red lines prevent war.”

Netanyahu did not detail what should be done if his “red line” was crossed, but

the insinuation was clear. In perhaps his final plea before Israel felt the need to take matters into its own hands, Netanyahu pounded away at the dangers posed by Iran.

“To understand what the world would be like with a nuclear-armed Iran, just imagine the world with a nuclear-armed al-Qaida,” he said. “Nothing could im-peril the world more than a nuclear-armed Iran.”

Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but Israel, the U.S. and other Western al-lies suspect otherwise. Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have already been placed on Iran.

A U.N. report last month only reinforced Israeli fears, finding that Iran has moved more of its uranium enrich-ment activities into fortified bunkers deep underground where they are impervious to air attack. Enrichment is a key activity in building a bomb, though it has other uses as well, such as pro-ducing medical isotopes.

While Israel is convinced that Iran is pursuing a nu-clear weapon, American officials believe Iran has not yet made a final deci-sion to take the plunge and that there is still time for diplomacy.

Iran’s talks with world powers over the issue have stalled, however, and Ne-tanyahu argued Thursday that “Iran uses diplomatic negotiations as a means to

buy time to advance its nu-clear program.”

Israel’s timeline for mil-itary action is shorter than that of the United States, which has far more power-ful bunker-busting bombs at its disposal, and there is great suspicion in Israel over whether in the moment of truth Obama will follow through on his pledge.

“Each day, that point is getting closer. That’s why I speak today with such a sense of urgency. And that’s why everyone should have a sense of urgency,” Netan-yahu said. “The relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The rel-evant question is at what stage can we no longer stop Iran from getting the bomb.”

Netanyahu has a history of fiery speeches about Iran before the U.N. General Assembly.

In 2009, he waved the blueprints for the Nazi death camp Auschwitz and invoked the memory of his own family members mur-dered by the Nazis while making his case against Iran’s Holocaust denial and threats to destroy Israel. And last year, he warned about “the specter of nuclear ter-rorism” if Iran were not stopped.

While the bulk of Netan-yahu’s speech dealt with Iran, he also rebuked Pales-tinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who spoke shortly before him to the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly and accused Israel of ethnic cleansing for

building settlements in east Jerusalem.

“We won’t solve our con-flict with libelous speeches at the U.N.,” Netanyahu said. “We have to sit together, ne-gotiate together and reach a mutual compromise.”

Israel captured the east-ern part of Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Mid-east War and later annexed it in a move that hasn’t been recognized internationally. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state along with the Gaza Strip and the rest of the West Bank.

In his speech, Abbas also said he had opened talks on a new bid for international recognition at the U.N.

The Palestinians will ap-ply to the General Assem-bly for nonmember state status, in stark contrast to last year’s failed bid to have the Security Council admit them as a full member state.

If Palestine does become a U.N. observer state, it will not have voting rights in the world body but will have in-ternational recognition as a “state.” This could enhance the possibility of the Pales-tinians joining U.N. agen-cies and becoming parties to treaties including the In-ternational Court of Justice or the International Crimi-nal Court.

Abbas insisted that the new quest for recognition was “not seeking to delegit-imize Israel, but rather es-tablish a state that should be established: Palestine.”

Egypt: Christians flee town after militant threats

CAIRO(AP) — Coptic Christian families have fled their homes in a town in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, fearing for their lives after receiving death threats from suspected Islamic militants, a local priest said Thursday.

Father Youssef Sobhi said that Islamic militants dropped leaflets on the doorsteps of shops owned by Copts in the city of Ra-fah near the border with Gaza and Israel, order-ing them to leave town within 48 hours and mak-ing an implicit warning of violence if they failed to do so. Two days later, masked militants on a motorcycle opened fire on one of the shops before speeding off, Sobhi said. No one was hurt in the shooting.

When Christians met Tuesday with the prov-ince’s top government of-ficial, who was recently appointed by Egypt’s new Islamist president, Moham-med Morsi, the governor promised to facilitate the Copts’ move to the nearby city of el-Arish but did not offer to protect the commu-nity to ensure that it stayed in Rafah, according to the priest.

“I was shocked at the governor’s response,” Sobhi

said. “This is simply dis-placement by the govern-ment’s consent.”

An Egyptian intelligence official confirmed that a number of Coptic families had fled Rafah because of a militant threat. Another security official denied the reports and said that no Christians were forced to leave. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not autho-rized to brief the media.

It was not exactly clear how many Christians have left the town, but Sobhi said that the number of Copts in Rafah had dwindled from 14 families to two since the uprising that pushed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power in February 2011.

A first wave left Rafah

after the only church in the town, The Holy Fam-ily Church, was looted, torched and destroyed in several militant attacks over the past year. The church is built on the site where Christians believe the Holy Family first stopped to rest after crossing into Egypt.

Sobhi was in the first group of Christians to flee, although he returns fre-quently to Rafah check on his parish.

Mamdouh Nasef, the Coptic shop owner who re-cently came under attack, said that his Muslim neigh-bors are urging him to stay and pledging to protect him.

“They can’t guard me 24 hours a day, and I fear for my children,” Nasef said by telephone.

apA minaret of a mosque is silhouetted in front of the St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt.

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In the wake of Mitt Rom-ney’s now infamous com-ments about the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay income tax, there has been a considerable di-vision in interpretation. Some on the right have defended his words. Oth-ers have pointed out how the assertion is misleading, and many of these 47 per-cent are either students, el-derly or unemployed.

For many of us, however, our worst thoughts about Mitt Romney were con-firmed last week. Mr. Rom-ney does not understand what it is like to strug-gle every day, nor does he

make an attempt to under-stand. This attitude will be very hard for him to over-come in the next month, as Americans want a leader who understands their stories.

When John F. Kennedy ran in the Democratic pri-mary in 1960, he came to southern West Virginia to talk to coal miners. West Virginia, a very Protestant state, was already suspi-cious of the possibility of a Catholic becoming Presi-dent. An elder miner asked Kennedy if it was true he was so rich he never had to work a day in his life. Ken-nedy admitted that yes, it probably was true. “Well, son,” the miner grabbed his hand and said, “You ain’t missed a damn thing.”

The difference is this: while Kennedy did not

know what it was like to risk his life going hun-dreds of feet into the earth to work, he did his best to understand the lifestyle of those miners.

Kennedy, like Romney, led a very privileged life as the son of a business-man. And he did not ex-actly seem like an average citizen with his Harvard education and the way he spoke. But he made up for it in his dedication to peo-ple from all walks of life. Kennedy’s willingness to humbly accept that he did not work hard compared to coal miners, shows a great deal about the man’s character.

Kennedy understood that without the dreams of the least privileged be-ing achievable, his dreams were also in danger. That

is how a politician should view the less fortunate. America has always been marked by its ability to not let one’s unlucky or slow start determine his or her finish at the end of the race. It has been marked by the resiliency of its people to rise up and create some-thing great out of humble beginnings.

I do not fault Mitt Rom-ney for having a very privi-leged childhood. What I do fault him for is criticizing many of the hardest work-ers in our country and sim-ply not understanding that many of them need a little help to achieve greatness.

Underlying Mr. Rom-ney’s comments is a very disturbing thought: the 47 percent includes most of the 30,000 students at West Virginia University. These

students do not pay taxes, and many rely on govern-ment-subsidized loans to combat ever-rising tuition prices.

Yet, instead of offering his support and inspiring these students, he said, “I’ll never convince [the 47 percent] they should take personal responsibil-ity and care for their lives.” Never mind the factual in-accuracy here. What Rom-ney is essentially saying is he does not believe in stu-dents who rely on the gov-ernment for help, as they certainly will never take personal responsibility for their lives. The man run-ning for the highest of-fice in the United States of America does not even be-lieve in his country’s future.

Malcolm Forbes, former businessman and pub-

lisher of Forbes Magazine, once wrote, “You can eas-ily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.”

In this election, the pol-icy differences are huge. And this arises from two very different world-views from the two candi-dates. But shining brighter than all their differences is a deep difference in character.

I might not be able to say for certain what Mitt Romney’s motives are, and I am in no position to say if he’s good person or not. But I say with certainty that he is not a man who under-stands or supports the av-erage American enough to be the president of these United States.

Israel draws a hard line on IranIsrael has drawn the

line – in bright red marker – when it comes to Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu warned the United Na-tions in an address Thurs-day that allowing the “me-dieval” regime in Iran access to nuclear weap-onry would create a situa-tion in which rampant ter-rorism is unavoidable.

“The relevant ques-tion is not when Iran will get the bomb,” Netanyahu said.

“The relevant question

is, at what stage can we no longer stop Iran from get-ting the bomb?

The red line must be drawn on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, be-cause these enrichment fa-cilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.”

U.S. foreign relations with both countries have been strained in the past, but President Obama has made it clear that he does not yet feel military inter-ference in Iran is necessary to address the issue.

The sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Iran, how-ever, have not been enough to curb Iran’s “enthusiasm” in garnering enough en-riched uranium to pose a global threat – at least, ac-cording to Netanyahu.

The geopolitical climate in Iran and Israel can serve to highlight some of the major concerns of U.S. for-eign policy.

A m e r i c a h a s, i n intervening abroad in the past, created a prece-dent that cannot be easily undone.

How can U.S. policy-

makers effectively ar-gue against taking ac-tion instances that may involve terrorism efforts when it has made more aggressive decisions in the past?

The relations between Israel and Iran have been less than friendly since the Islamic Revolution in the late 1970s.

Iran has severed all dip-lomatic and commercial ties with Israel and has for-mally refused to acknowl-edge Israel as a sovereign state, preferring to refer to it as a “Zionist Regime.”

Te n s i o n s b e t w e e n the two nations have only heightened since the election of Iranian P re s i d e nt Ma h m o u d Ahmadinejad in 2005.

While this issue has made excellent fod-der for political cam-paigns this election cycle, it’s important to remember that the problem will still exist after November has come and gone.

The question is, who will end up picking up the pieces and how?

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This upcoming presi-dential election will not be defined by the victory of Obama or Romney. Rather, the congressional elections are what matter most. With polls suggesting an Obama victory alongside major Re-publican wins in House and Senate races, this country is looking toward four years of divided government.

The last time this coun-try had a Democratic pres-

ident serve alongside a Re-publican-controlled House and Senate – between 1995 and 2001 – Bill Clinton was president. Some may argue that the Clinton adminis-tration, and the nation as a whole, benefited from this setup. We were deficit neu-tral, achieved welfare reform and boasted an economy that was performing well. Not to mention that Repub-licans and Democrats were able to work together.

I find it difficult to envi-sion a similar situation to-day. The Republican and Democratic parties have be-

come polarized to the point where their ideologies alien-ate many middle-of-the-road voters. This widening disparity makes ideological and political compromise between the two parties un-likely. Divided government will risk creating a govern-ment in gridlock and will of-fer few solutions to today’s most important problems.

Speaking of polarization in American politics, the Re-publican Party platform to-day asks for an audit of the Federal Reserve, revisits the gold standard debate and even wants to require a two-

thirds vote for any legisla-tion that would raise taxes. These dramatic shifts to the right are due to the party’s response to the Tea Party movement and the rise of a more individualist senti-ment among other grass-roots movements.

The Democrats, however, are not off the hook. They have become more active in personal economics, and they’ve bailed out industries and providedw vast funds to Wall Street in the name of a stimulus package. Their re-covery has seemed less like hope and more like crony-

ism. Slow and expensive, the recovery remains a work in progress, and Americans in the hardest-hit states are waiting for solutions.

With Obama in the White House and the Republicans controlling Congress, what can the American electorate expect? Acidic language, po-litical gridlock and polarized politics, to name a few.

Due to the high likelihood of government gridlock, the presidential pendulum is bound to swing back to the right in 2016. And it will do so only to repeat the same pro-cess that has unfolded before

our eyes from 1995 to 2008.These political processes

illuminate the central prob-lem in American politics: our two-party system. As we have seen, polarized parties alien-ate the electorate and limit the value of the independent voter. So my plea to Ameri-cans who wish to be politi-cally involved is this: Do not align yourself with the beliefs of just one party.

Instead, think indepen-dently, selectively choose your political beliefs and promote change through reason rather than political appeasement.

United States on the road back to divided governmentDaniel Pierrothe hoyageorgetown university

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BORN TODAY This year you feel

luckier than you have in many years, as you often find yourself in the right place at the right time. Learn to de-tach from certain issues before a problem arises. If you are single, be open to the person who seems very different and unusual. You will grow enormously because of the tie you form with this person, even if you later decide that you’d like to relate to someone different. If you are at-tached, the two of you need to plan a trip together. Make sure to do it this year, and you will become much closer. PISCES reveals emotions that can be a bit much for you to han-dle.

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You might look scattered to an observer, but you are moving quickly in order to get a lot done. You also have many incoming calls and could feel somewhat overwhelmed. You know how to funnel your energy, and you do this effectively. Accept a last-minute invitation. Tonight: Not to be found.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHHH You have a lot invested in a project or goal. You might have to jump a small hurdle in order to succeed, but you will do so with ease. A last-min-ute offer could encourage you to look the other way. You’ll feel as if you can tackle any problem. Tonight: Curb ex-cess spending.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You certainly are a force to be ad-mired. You know your limits and which direction you are going. You might want to change the tone of

your days and take advantage of the upcoming weekend. Make an effort to complete a project. Tonight: In the limelight.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHHH Try to detach, especially if you be-come triggered. You will remain an-chored and positive as a result, and your instincts will guide you. Verify what you feel before acting. You want to make a solid choice. Tonight: Be open to a new adventure.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH You work well with others. You might want to emphasize your goals. If you want to move in a new direction, you will have others’ support. Your high energy and optimism draw a key person into your life. Tonight: Enjoy a loved one.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH You have your hands full just with being responsive to others, not to mention what you feel you must ac-complish. Be as direct as possible in dealing with others. A key person you look up to could be quite pleased with the way you are handling your-self. Tonight: Share with fun people.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH Pace yourself and stay ahead of the moment. Listen to news, yet also use your observational skills to figure out what is going on around you. Use care with your spending. Once you get going, it is hard to stop. Honor your natural limitations. Tonight: Out with a cohort.

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It’s time to shine, Mor-gantown: GLOWfest is tak-ing over Mylan Park today at 1 p.m.

A college music festi-val comprised of some of the hottest up-and-coming electronica acts, GLOWfest promises to satisfy the mu-sic fan looking for a night out to relieve the week’s stress.

For those unaccustomed to the electronic dance mu-sic (EDM) genre, GLOWfest provides the perfect oppor-tunity to dabble in this ris-ing scene.

“For people new to elec-

tronic dance music con-certs, I think this will revo-lutionize their idea of what a concert can be,” said Chris Kennedy, GLOWfest pub-lic relations coordinator. “All different kinds of peo-ple show up to have a great time, dance and have their hearts rattled by subwoof-ers while looking up at stage lighting intricate enough to rival a Fourth of July fire-works display.”

To achieve this lofty prop-osition, GLOWfest is bring-ing a lineup studded with some of EDM’s finest artists.

Among the 15 acts per-forming are Porter Robinson and Zedd, Krewella, Bingo

Players, Paper Diamond and Twin Syndrome.

“We’re truly excited about the stacked lineup of bands,” Kennedy said. “Each of these musicians has been referred to as a prodigy of the genre by numerous publications.”

Porter Robinson, in par-ticular, boasts an impressive resume within the genre. As an internationally touring electronic house producer and disc jockey, Robinson has toured alongside Dead-mau5, Skrillex and many others.

Making today’s perfor-mance even more intrigu-ing, GLOWfest marks Rob-inson’s first time embarking

on a back-to-back tour alongside another festival favorite, Zedd.

Commonly referred to as Skrillex’s protege, Zedd draws his musical inspira-tion from a wide variety of genres in his quest for sonic satisfaction. His style is most commonly noted for its huge bass and layered tex-ture – huge hits among fans of EDM.

“We’re excited by the di-versity and magnitude of these performers,” said Deuce Thevenow, GLOW-fest co-founder. “We booked these groups with the inten-tion of having the fastest ris-ing new generation of elec-

tronic musicians at the same festival, and we’re excited to bring this unique event to West Virginia University’s homecoming festivities.”

Adding to the local ap-peal, GLOWfest will also feature a smattering of local talent, with progressive folk favorites Fletcher’s Grove and always entertaining DJ Clintronics also performing at the event.

“We have had a lot of great shows come through the city within the past few months and hope to con-tinue to be able to have the shows so often,” said Ryan Krofcheck, vocalist and gui-tarist for Fletcher’s Grove.

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The Melvins played a sold-out show at legend-ary Morgantown venue 123 Pleasant Street Wednesday night.

People were into it. West Virginia University

history student James For-tuna said the show was a dream come true.

“I went inside, and I couldn’t believe the Mel-vins were playing,” Fortuna said. “It was so sick.”

The Melvins are a his-toric rock band best known for influencing Nirvana. They are currently on a tour that will cover 51 cities in 51 days – a feat that may be a first in the music world.

Morgantown marked the group’s West Virginia pit stop, and they made it a good one.

The show began with a slight audio tease, in which Buzz of the Melvins came on stage, picked up his axe and hit the strings with such precision the walls of

the venue moved. People were struck. Mes-

merized, Fortuna recalls closing his eyes and letting the music take him away.

“It was like being on cloud nine, only it was cloud 10,” Fortuna said.

The show carried on at a mellow pace at first. The Melvins warmed up the crowd with a slow, heavy progression of notes. They built up tension, and while they played, they did not seem afraid to carry on and keep the crowd waiting for the eventual climax.

And once it hit, it hit.A charismatic young

man with curly hair went along with the build of the notes. He began leaping up and down as the excite-ment drew near, and after a certain point, he moved to-ward the front of the crowd and linked arms with a buddy.

The band rocked back and forth, egging the crowd on. They wanted chaos.

Nearby members of the audience showed resis-tance to the curly-haired music lover and pushed back. The shoves were read as menacing. A punch was thrown, and the curly-haired man was struck.

Luckily, though, a fight

was snuffed out before it could begin, and the show moved along.

The crowd stood at at-tention, and heads began to bob.

At moments, the Mel-vins’ sound would reach its peak, and the riffs would rage on, but overall the band strung out its set into a melodic piece, un-dermining the expected quick in-and-out thrash experience.

I found it quite intrigu-ing, and it showed these artists as more than just the grunge-punk hybrid they are commonly made out to be.

The night concluded in heavy applause.

A relatively new band known as Tweak Bird took the stage before the main act and impressed the vet-eran crowd with their own brand of garage rock.

A two-piece band, Tweak Bird’s drummer really stuck out throughout the perfor-mance – he was simply fun to watch.

As I left, the show seemed to sink in as quite a unique thing to watch.

Morgantown was lucky to host such an event.

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Renowned comedic mastermind Lewis Black is returning to Morgantown Sunday at 8:30 p.m.

Black will perform his notoriously abrasive stand-up routine at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center as a stop on his current “Run-ning on Empty” tour.

This is Black’s third time performing in Mor-gantown, and the crowd have always been great for his shows.

“It’s terrific. You got people who can get through a paragraph with-out fainting,” Black said on his return to WVU.

“Morgantown gets nicer and nicer and nicer. That’s one of the things people seem to miss the point of ... (people) are going nuts around the whole coun-try, while there are cit-ies around the country in the past 20 years that have gone from being marginal around the edge and have come into their own, and Morgantown’s one of them,” Black said.

With millions of follow-ers and a nationwide fan base, Lewis is best known for his long-running “Back in Black” segment, fea-tured on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

These bits include his original, witty and hilari-ous views wrapped in po-

litical and social rants.“We’ve known each

other for a lot of 30 years, it’s nice to work with him (Stewart). I’m on a great show, how lucky am I,” Black said about his work on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.’

Dave Ryan, WVU Arts and Entertainment public relations specialist, said with the election heating up, the timing for Black’s return to Morgantown could not be better.

“He’s always a hit with audiences because of his hilarious views of the world,” Ryan said. “We’re thrilled to have him come back to the Creative Arts Center and give Morgan-town another great show.”

Black’s unique style of ranting satire leaves no topic off limits, and it fre-quently touches on cur-rent events, politics and pop culture.

Appealing to a wide range of audiences, in-cluding celebrities and television personalities, Black expresses his love–hate relationship with American culture in a straightforward and bril-liantly funny line of attack.

By combining sarcasm with profanity and pas-sionate fist-shaking anger, Black releases his fury and leaves audiences roaring with laughter.

“Anyone familiar with Lewis Black knows his brand of comedy – lively, hilarious and with a tinge

of rage,” Ryan said. “His brand of delivery has earned a lot of awards and a reputation as one of the biggest touring comedians today.”

The multitalented comic has been featured in nu-merous recognizable roles and stand-up productions.

Black played the Dean in the 2006 college com-edy “Accepted,” and he currently serves as the voice for Ricky Owens on “Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.”

He was voted No. 51 of the 100 Greatest Stand-up Comedians of All Time by Comedy Central in 2004 and has released specials on HBO, including “Black on Broadway” and his most recent 2010 production “Stark Raving Black.” Ad-ditionally, he has released three books and 10 live (concert) performances.

“Lewis Black is popu-lar with anyone who can appreciate a good laugh,” Ryan sad. “He is certainly proving to be a comedy force to be reckoned with.”

Tickets are on sale now at the CAC and Mountainlair box offices, ranging from $42-$67 for the general public.

All student tickets are $28 with a valid WVU stu-dent I.D.

Tickets can also be pur-chased from www.ticket-maser.com or by phone at 304-293-SHOW.

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http://www.pollstaronline.com/Lewis Black performing his ‘Back in Black’ segment on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.’

lewis black will be ‘running on empty’ at wVU

http://www.acttheatre.orgLewis Black will perform at the Creative Arts Center Sunday.

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A NEW CHAPTERNo. 7 West Virginia set for first Big 12 game in program history

MEN’S SOCCER

WVU has Marvel-ous

talent on field

Cody sChulermanaging editor

No. 17 WVU travels to Western Michigan

by amit batrasports writer

In the second Mid-American Conference game in West Virginia men’s soccer history, the No. 17 Mountaineers travel to Western Michigan for a showdown Saturday.

The Broncos are 7-2-1 on the season after wins against quality oppo-nents DePaul and Loyola. The two losses have come against Michigan State and Canisius.

Western Michigan has dominated the shots cate-gory this season, outshoot-ing opponents 150-98. The Broncos are also leading in

goals 19-7.Leading Western Mich-

igan will be Marco Lobo and Ryan Lemasters. Lobo has four goals and two as-sists, while Lemasters has two goals and five assists.

It’s safe to say that WVU may have a very difficult challenge in the Broncos.

With only two full days of rest, the Mountain-eers will need to regroup quickly for their first road test since Penn State ear-lier this season.

“The important thing for us is to rest and re-cover,” said head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “It’s go-

tyler herrinton/the daily athenaeumSenior defender Eric Schoenle has scored three goals in four games for the West Virginia men’s soccer team.

see soccer on PAGE 10

by NiCk arthurassociate sports editor

No more tune-ups. Big 12 Conference play has arrived.

When No. 7 West Virginia runs out of the Milan Pus-kar Stadium tunnel Satur-day at noon, an unfamiliar opponent – No. 24 Bay-lor – will be awaiting the Mountaineers.

West Virginia (3-0) will face the Bears (3-0) after de-feating Maryland at home Saturday.

And the Bears will be presenting a much dif-ferent challenge than the Terrapins, particularly in the speed and tempo departments.

“Baylor is faster,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen. “Mary-land did not have a verti-cal passing game. They sat there and watched the clock go down to one, and then they snapped it and just tried to put it in play.”

The quick tempo has helped the Bears average more than 51 points per game through their first

three outings, and senior quarterback Nick Florence has been the catalyst of their offensive success.

“He’s a good player and a program player,” Holgorsen said. “He understands his system, he gets them in the right play and he does a good job of complet-ing passes. He takes some chances, and hopefully he takes a few too many that we can capitalize on.”

But don’t let the offensive efficiency from Florence and company overshadow the Baylor’s talented de-fense, which has been ex-posed this season.

“They look pretty good on film. They look pretty solid on defense,” said West Vir-ginia junior wide receiver Stedman Bailey. “They have some good defensive backs, and their guys up front do a good job of creating pres-sure on the quarterback. They’ve given up quite a bit of points the past few games, but that’s no reason for us to take them lightly.”

Multiple festivities are planned Saturday outside of the game, making this more

than just another gameday in Morgantown

“I can’t wait. It’s a new experience, new game (and) new people,” said West Virginia senior center Joe Madsen. “I think we are going to go out there and play our best, and hope-fully we have a good time and play our hearts out. It’s a special thing. I hope we bring this conference a lot of great things.”

Country music singer Trace Adkins will be per-forming the “Star-Span-gled Banner” and fans are encouraged to stripe the stadium in blue and gold.

Much like the com-mon theme among fans, the Mountaineer players are ready to turn to a new chapter of West Virginia athletics.

“Everybody has been waiting on this very mo-ment,” Bailey said. “Bay-lor is our first Big 12 oppo-nent, and we just have to take it week by week. We’re excited to play Baylor and kick off the Big 12.”

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matt sunday/the daily athenaeumDana Holgorsen and the West Virginia football team takes on No. 24 Baylor this weekend in the Mountaineers’ first Big 12 Conference game of the season.

Earlier this year, a movie debuted in theaters depict-ing the superhero conglom-erate, “The Avengers.” It was by all measures a mas-sive critical – and financial – success.

The Marvel Comics su-perhero team took to the big screen and left fans in awe, shattering records in the process. The film had the biggest opening weekend in North America in history, and it was the fastest film to gross $1 billion worldwide.

Many were blown away by the sheer power, size, strength and speed of The Avengers; it seemed like when they were working together, they couldn’t be beaten.

Sounds like another group of superheroes I know based here in Morgantown.

At first glance, redshirt junior wide receiver Sted-man Bailey and Tony Stark don’t seem to have anything in common. However, when you look at the big picture – especially on Saturdays – it seems they actually are more alike than you’d think.

Bailey puts on his Moun-taineer uniform and bears an uncanny resemblance to Iron Man. Once he straps his helmet on, Bailey possesses superhuman strength, the ability to jump high into the air and a bevy of lethal weapons – like amazing speed and precise route-running – that are night-mares for villains – erm, I mean defenses.

Alongside Bailey is se-nior running back Shawne Alston, who many defenses have taken to calling The Hulk.

There’s a rumor that the team once dumped a cooler full of Red Bull on Shawne Alston; the next day, he ran for 123 yards and two touch-downs against Marshall. Co-incidence? You tell me.

As a freshman, senior in-side receiver Tavon Austin was bitten by a radioactive spider in his dorm room; he now has more recep-tions than any other player in school history.

His uniform, much like Bailey’s, gives him abili-ties the Marvel hero Spider Man possesses. Along with superhuman strength and speed, Austin shares a sixth sense that alerts him to de-fenders – much like spidey-sense alerts Spider-Man to danger.

Though it is impossible to see with the human eye, it is rumored Austin is able to shoot a web-like material from his gloves,which aids him in pulling down passes from senior quarterback Geno Smith.

Smith, the leading con-tender in the Heisman race this season, might remind you of Captain America.

Last spring when head coach Dana Holgorsen ar-rived on campus, Smith drank a special can of Hol-gorsen’s Super Player Se-rum – marketed to the pub-lic as Red Bull – and the rest is history.

Though he also possesses a rocket-arm, super endur-ance and amazing strength, the thing that sets Captain West Virginia apart from his comrades is his leadership ability.

A brilliant tactician, Smith is able to process and analyze opposing defenses faster than any other quar-terback in Mountaineer his-tory; his decision-making has literally been flawless this season.

All of these super-players would be nothing without the Holgorsen Institute for Higher Learning – formerly known as Holgorsen’s School for Gifted Players.

Under Professor Hol-gorsen’s tutelage, these players have grown to-gether and found ways to utilize their separate pow-ers into a combined effort that is nearing the realm of unstoppable.

And to think, people thought the more well-known comic book “Aveng-ers” were superheroes.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

mountaineers hit the road to face tCu

by shea ulisNeysports writer

The No. 21 West Vir-ginia women’s soccer team will travel to Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend to take on TCU in its first Big 12 Conference game away from Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

It will be the Horned Frogs’ first Big 12 confer-ence match this season and the first time they have squared off against the Mountaineers in school history.

TCU returns six starters from last season, led by first-year head coach Eric Bell.

The Horned Frogs ended their three-game winning streak Friday night in a 2-1 overtime loss at Denver. The overtime match was TCU’s first since Nov. 2, 2011 when they played in a 1-1 double overtime tie to Wyoming.

Junior forward Brittany Slyman leads the Horned Frogs’ offense with three goals and two assists and a team-best 16 shots. Se-nior midfielder Monica Alvarado has also scored three goals. And freshman midfielder Makenzie Koch had her fifth assist of the season in Friday night’s loss and is tied for league lead in assists.

TCU’s defense has al-lowed only eight goals in 10 matches this season. The eight goals allowed ranks second in the Big 12; only Baylor has allowed fewer goals of five in its first 12 games.

TCU goalkeeper Vitto-ria Arnold currently has the best save percentage in the Big 12 (.860). Ar-nold has made a season-high nine saves.

Arnold ties West Vir-ginia goalkeeper Sara Ke-ane for league-best five shutouts this season.

The Mountaineers are

on a four-game winning streak, defeating Big 12 conference teams Texas Tech (3-2), and defend-ing Big 12 champions No. 7 Oklahoma State (1-0) and non-conference teams Towson (5-0) and High Point (6-0).

Head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown was pleased with the result of the team’s first two conference matches in the Big 12 and hopes to continue success on the road.

“All week we’ve tried to focus on improving our possession and defend-ing,” said sophomore mid-fielder Ali Connelly. “We had a good start in the Big 12, and if we can im-prove on those things for (today’s) game, we hope to continue our success.”

Leading the offense for West Virginia is the out-standing duo of junior for-ward Frances Silva and sophomore forward Kate Schwindel with 18 points each. The duo has five of the six game-winning goals for the team.

After the weekend, Silva scored three goals, includ-ing both game-winners, to give WVU its first Big 12 victories. She was named Soccer News Net’s National Player of the week, ECAC Division I Women’s Soccer Player of the Week, College Sports Madness Women’s Soccer’s Offensive Player of the Week and Big 12 Player of the Week.

Silva leads the Moun-taineer offense and the Big 12 with eight goals and two assists. Schwindel has seven goals and four assists.

Defensively, the Moun-taineers have posted three shutouts in their last four matches. Keane has played every minute in the goal and has a 0.93 goals-against average.

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ing to be better for us to get on the road. You know, it’s nice to play games at home, but there’s also that com-fort zone.

“It’ll be good for us to get back on the road and have a little bit of that edge back.”

West Virginia will be on the road for the first time after a four-game homes-tand in which the Moun-taineers won each game.

LeBlanc realizes the challenge of facing the Broncos and winning on their home field.

“They’re well-coached, and they’re physical,” he said. “They are organized and a very solid team. They’re not going to beat themselves. For us, under-standing that they’re not going to beat themselves, we need to be the aggres-sor. We’re going to go on the road and try to get af-ter them.”

While Western Michi-gan has a good record in the MAC, it still doesn’t get the attention it deserves, according to LeBlanc.

“The biggest thing for them is that people prob-ably underestimate them,” LeBlanc added. “We’re not going to underestimate them. We’re going to get af-ter them and put pressure on them. If we do that and have the right mindset, I think we’ll be okay.”

The Broncos will be the

first team over .500 the Mountaineers have faced in the last three games. Sub-par opponents in FAU and Iona were easy business for WVU.

In five out of seven wins, the Broncos were able to shutout the opponent. WVU has been an offensive powerhouse lately in shots and scoring goals, but the opponent will be a bit more difficult this time around.

The action gets underway from Kalamazoo, Mich., Saturday at noon.

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soCCerContinued from PAGE 9

matt sunday/the daily athenaeumWVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc and the men’s soccer team takes on West-ern Michigan this weekend.

Patrick Gorrell/the daily athenaeumJunior forward Frances Silva and the No. 21 West Virginia women’s soccer team travel to TCU this weekend to play their first Big 12 Conference road game.

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