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Morgantown issued nearly 160K parking tickets over three years, totaling just under $1.3 million STAFF REPORTS Morgantown Parking Authority issued nearly 160,000 parking citations that totaled just under $1.3 million from January 2016 to December 2018.

The largest amount of citations give in one month in this time period was in April 2016, when MPA issued 6,134 tickets, which add up to $53,152.50, according to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

The citations issued include fees for expired meters, no parking permits displayed, backing into spaces, impounds, tow aways, among a few other charges.

In 2018, MPA issued 52,447 citations, totaling $434,696.17. MPA also tracks the outstanding balance, or amount unpaid, for unpaid tickets, which for 2018 was $77,308.69.

In 2017, MPA issued 52,758 citations, totaling $413,035. $52,641.50 of that amount has not been paid to the date listed in the available documents requested.

In 2016, MPA issued 54,751 citations, totaling $443,247.50. $39,886.50 of that amount has gone unpaid.

The outstanding balance for all three years was $169,836.69; the total amount of citations issued were 159,986, totaling $1,290,978.67.

2017

2016 Number of citations issued: Jan. 4,275 Feb. 5,699 March 5,594 April 6,134 May 4,024 June 3,807 July 3,280 Aug. 5,243 Sept. 4,945 Oct. 5,565 Nov. 4,014 Dec. 2,172 Total 54,751

Amount paid:

Amount unpaid:

$35,217.50 $49,377.50 $45,200.00 $53,152.50 $30,567.50 $27,165.00 $22,730.00 $46,447.50 $41,242.50 $43,897.50 $30,865.00 $17,385.00 $443,247.50

$2,517.50 $4,320.50 $3,640.00 $5,757.50 $2,343.50 $2,142.50 $2,070.00 $5,325.00 $4,100.00 $4,447.50 $4,447.50 $1,795.00 $39,886.50

Number of citations issued: Jan. 5,369 Feb. 5,027 March 4,812 April 4,722 May 3,700 June 3,276 July 3,235 Aug. 5,263 Sept. 4,924 Oct. 5,470 Nov. 3,918 Dec. 3,042 Total 52,758

2018

Amount paid:

Amount unpaid:

$40,777.50 $38,780.00 $37,345.00 $35,387.50 $28,230.00 $23,300.00 $22,357.50 $47,307.50 $40,047.50 $44,967.50 $30,495.00 $24,040.00 $413,035

$2,835.00 $3,082.50 $4,635.00 $4,781.00 $3,030.00 $3,197.50 $2,492.50 $6,990.00 $6,562.50 $8,260.00 $5,067.50 $4,435.00 $55,368.50

Number of citations issued: Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept.

Oct. Nov. Dec.

4,934 5,040 4,705 5,252 3,420 3,243 3,246 5,024 5,278 5,143 4,345 2,817

Total

52,447

Amount paid:

Amount unpaid:

$36,820.00 $39,505.00 $39,582.50 $45,795.00 $27,847.50 $25,885.00 $25,505.00 $43,480.00 $43,697.14 $43,744.50 $37,208.00 $25,262.53 $434,332.17

$5,119.19 $5,887.50 $6,090.00 $7,802.50 $4,640.00 $4,715.00 $4,497.50 $9,532.50 $6,679.00 $8,161.00 $8,204.50 $5,980.00 $77,308.69

Former SGA vice president discusses personal addiction, opioid epidemic

BY DOUGLAS SOULE EDITORINCHIEF While Jake Evans was the 2014-15 WVU Student Government Association vice president, he was addicted to opioids.

Now, he aims to help students who are in similar situations.

“There’s a lot of people who struggle with substance abuse, whether it’s in the shadows or if it’s out in the open, and they don’t really know where to turn,” Evans said.

As a college student with an addiction, Evans said he hadn’t known

where to turn. Now, he works as an admissions counselor at Tree House Recovery, the place he credits with saving his life.

Evans’ introduction to opioids Evans said he was first introduced to opioids during a Model United Nations trip, when another student offered him a 30 mg Roxicodone pill.

“I stayed busy, because I didn’t like being alone with my own thoughts,” Evans said. “I tried it that one time, and all those cares and worries just went away.”

Evans said he took it throughout the trip. During the bus ride back, he

felt ill.

“Almost like I had the flu, and I couldn’t figure out what it was,” he said. “I started describing it to my dad, and he said, ‘It sounds like you’re going through some kind of physical withdrawal.’ And then it all just clicked.”

As Evans got off the bus, he said the student who had introduced him to the drug told Evans he could hit him up for more.

“As soon as that happened, it created a backdoor in my mind to escape the feeling I was feeling,” Evans said.

“It probably wasn’t 30 minutes before

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WVU’s 2014-15 student body President Chris Nyden, left, and Vice President Jake Evans, right, are applauded after being sworn into office.

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Reed hopes to adapt curriculum to better serve today’s job market in provost role “I love the college of media, obviously, but to have the opportunity to be a part of WVU’s future and help to shape that with the leadership team that’s already in place, is very exciting.”

BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR Starting July 1, Maryanne Reed will become WVU’s provost, where she plans to use her 26 years of experience at the University to begin the next chapter of academic affairs at the institution she’s been a part of since 1993.

Reed served 15 years as the dean of the Reed College of Media (no relation) and spent the previous 11 years as a WVU faculty member. That experience, she said, will help her become an effective head of all academic affairs at the University.

“I’m an experienced administrator; I’ve gone through the faculty ranks,” she said. “I do understand the institution from the perspective of faculty and from being a dean.”

When it looked as though current Provost Joyce McConnell was heading west to become the next president of

-Maryanne Reed, next WVU Provost

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Media college dean Maryanne Reed will begin her role as provost on July 1.

Colorado State University, WVU President E. Gordon Gee had to make the decision of who would take the post next. Reed said Gee simply just asked her if she’d take the job.

“I was very flattered, humble and a little overwhelmed, so I had to think about it, but not for very long,” she said.

The media college at WVU has undergone significant changes since Reed took

over as the dean in 2004. She was first head of the P.I. Reed School of Journalism, and years later worked toward centralizing the journalism, public relations, advertising and general communications programs and created the Reed College of Media in 2014.

WVU opened the lavish Media Innovation Center in the Evansdale Crossing in 2016 as part of that move.

Reed said she believes her work condensing the media college to better fit the modern job market was why Gee asked her to take the position, hoping Reed can work toward similar changes University-wide.

“I think what I bring, and

what the president is most excited about, is a willingness to adapt and evolve to a changing world, and I think you would see that in the college of media, how we’ve completely adapted our curriculum, our programs, our facilities to prepare students for the industry, but also to help evolve the industry and advance the industry,” she said. “Approaching my job or my role with that lens is something that I’m interested in doing and I think the president is excited about.”

“We’ve really anticipated where our industries are headed and evolved our curriculum to respond to those changes, so I would like to be

involved with that at the University level,” she added.

Reed hired Eric Minor in 2013 as the media college’s first director of student careers and opportunities. She said that by professionalizing advising and bringing in a person solely dedicated to enhancing career opportunities for students, the college has made strides in securing students internships and post-graduate careers.

“That’s the part of education that isn’t just the classes, right, that’s really that support structure that enables students to succeed,” Reed said.

As for other objectives she wants to accomplish as provost, Reed said she wants to use the University’s research capabilities to develop various new programs in the state of West Virginia. She mentioned WVU’s research in increasing the lifespan of residents, developing recreational tourism, applying new technology and creating sustainability in the

state.

Reed also praised her predecessor for the work she did as provost, and she said the way McConnell worked with the deans across campus will be similar to how she wants to conduct herself.

“She has made social justice a top priority at the University, so I want to continue to support those efforts,” Reed said. ”She’s been very collaborative with the deans, which is something I appreciated as a dean, and I will continue in the provost’s role.”

Reed said while it will be tough leaving the media college, she thinks with her new position, she’ll be able to use her experience to implement productive programs across campus.

“I love the college of media, obviously, but to have the opportunity to be a part of WVU’s future and help to shape that with the leadership team that’s already in place, is very exciting,” she said.

WVU offering buyouts for veteran employees to balance budget

BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR On Monday morning, around 1,300 WVU employees received an email offering them a potential voluntary separation from the University in exchange for a year or half a year’s pay.

WVU Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Rob Alsop told Hoppy Kercheval on WV MetroNews “Talkline” on Monday that due to the minimal tuition increases and rising employee costs, the University needed to clear $14.8 million from the 2019-20 budget to stay afloat.

“We’ll be offering to certain employees, those with 20 years of experience or more, the opportunity, again this is voluntary, if they want to, to separate from the University,”

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Vice President for Strategic Inititaives Rob Alsop.

Alsop said on the radio show.

“If they do that, there would be a buyout that they would be entitled to.”

In an interview with the DA on Tuesday, Alsop said around 50 or 60 employees had already reached out to WVU and inquired about the option,

called the Voluntary Separation Incentive Plan (VSIP).

Alsop said the makeup of those 1,300 eligible employees is not a 50-50 distribution of faculty and staff, but close.

Staff at WVU include departments like Facilities Management and University Police.

WVU President E. Gordon Gee told the DA in March that because the state stabilized the University’s funding for the next budget year, any tuition increases would be ‘modest.’ The WVU Board of Governors voted earlier this month to raise tuition about 1.4% for both in-state and out-of-state residents next year, which is the lowest increase in 20 years.

However, Alsop said the minor tuition increases weren’t enough to cover rising employee and goods and services costs, which is why the VSIP program was imple-

mented. He said some employees received a pay raise last year, which added to the rising costs.

“We just thought we needed to do this sort of broad program to make sure that we can hit our cost-reduction target,” he said.

Alsop told MetroNews the University is aiming for a little less than 10% of employees to make it all the way through the program.

“Most of those employees are happy and not ready to retire or separate,” Alsop said.

“From that, a small fraction of that [1,300 employees], we think, less than 10% would make it all of the way through the process. We think through that ultimate savings to the University on an annual basis would be about $7 million,” Alsop said.

Asked by the DA what

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would happen if the University couldn’t come up with the near $15 million it needs to balance the budget, Alsop said WVU has experience in maneuvering budget cuts due to funding cuts from previous years.

He added the University may see higher retention rates than anticipated next semester and also the size of next year’s freshman class has not been determined.

If an employee is approved for the program, they can choose to exit the University on Dec. 31 and receive a full year’s pay. If an employee were to leave at second exit date, June 30, 2020, they would receive a half year’s pay.

In an interview with the DA in September, Gee said he was in favor of privatizing some utilities on campus, like the University did with Sodexo

for dining. Alsop said this program is not directed toward privatizing future utilities, like Facilities Management, and they don’t have any current plans to do so.

“This move really isn’t about where we think we have workers that aren’t productive or a model that’s not working as well, this is really -we need to reduce some costs so that we remain strong from an overall budget perspective,” he said.

Any eligible employee who are open to receiving a buyout must respond by May 5 at 5 p.m., according to MetroNews.

WVU will be holding Campus Conversations events about the VSIP program on Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Erickson Alumni Center and on Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

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Humanity is responsible for protecting environment, religious leaders say

BY ALAYNA FULLER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Three local religious leaders discussed the interconnectedness between faith and environmental protection at an environmental stewardship discussion on Monday.

Father Walter Jagela of St. John University Parish, Pastor Zac Morton of Morgantown First Presbyterian and Rabbi Joe Hample of the Tree of Life Congregation spoke to a crowd of about 30 inside 123 Pleasant Street about humanity’s responsibility to care for the earth.

“Humanity’s nature is that we are deeply connected to divine goodness and just as I affirm that my nature is deeply connected to the goodness of God, it is not fundamentally different from the rest of creation,” Morton said. “The rest of creation is just as inherently good as I am as a human being, and so it’s also created with the same sense of divine goodness.

“Therefore,” he added, “I need to treat the world around me accordingly and treat it with the same nature as I would treat other human

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Various faith leaders on stage at 123 Pleasant Street talking enviornmental protection. beings with which I would treat myself, and treat it with the same sacredness not only that the environment, that the world, that creation deserves, but really that it demands.”

One recurring message from the panelists throughout the discussion was that the earth and all of creation is a gift that humanity should respect and care for. It is the human responsibility to care for God’s world instead of damage and destroy it.

“The blessed holy one took Adam and enlightened him

Evans cont. from p. 1 That Model UN trip was during his senior year of college. The next year, during his first year of law school at WVU, he served as SGA vice president.

After that trip, Evans said he didn’t go a day without taking opioids for more than a year.

“I had run rampant in my addiction,” he said.

The Saving Grace “If it wasn’t for the saving grace of that one woman, I don’t know that I’d be alive today,” Evans said.

That saving grace, Camille Riley, was a WVU law professor.

Evans said Riley pulled him aside one day and asked him if he was alright.

“I just broke down and told her everything,” he said.

“She went with me to the dean’s office, sat down and helped me out immensely,” Evans said. “She was really the conduit for me getting healthy.”

The dean at the time was Kendra Fershee, a WVU law professor who served as associate dean for academic affairs until May 2018. “[Riley and Fershee were] a huge asset,” he said.

Evans received treatment from Tree House Recovery, located in California, where he now works.

Riley helped Evans out a second time years later, Evans said.

Evans eventually went back

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Jake Evans for a visit to the law school, considering entering it again. Evans said Riley asked him what he wanted to do, and whether he needed a law degree to do it.

“My answer to her was I wanted to help people, I wanted to serve people, I wanted to make a dent in this thing and allow my testimony to really serve this impact, this hope, this guidance, for people who were suffering the way I was,” he said. “I know that I am capable of getting in [law school], and I know that I could handle myself as far as that’s concerned. This opioid epidemic, what I’m truly passionate about at this juncture, is serving people.” “[Riley] has been like a godsend in my life,” he said. “Two separate conversations with her have changed the trajectory of my life.”

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about all the trees in the Garden of Eden and told him see my works, how beautiful and excellent they are and everything I created, I created for you,” said Hample, quoting Rabbinic legend. “Be careful not to damage or destroy my world for if you damage it, there is no one to repair it after you.”

Jagela said humanity’s concern for the earth is no longer optional, and we can no longer turn a blind eye to the filth that invades our society like atmospheric pollution,

“[The goal is to] create a seamless, streamlined process for anybody who is struggling [with addiction], or if you know anyone who is struggling,” he said. “It takes education, collaboration and then action.”

Evans said he had recently begun reaching out to University and county officials. Evans suggests a treatment system that allows for follow-through.

“Getting that individual from an overdose situation, beyond a hospitalized setting, getting them into acute care so then they can detox properly, move on to a residential program, to potentially go on to a longer-term program,” Evans said.

Evans said the goal next should be getting those who go through the program back to WVU. “It’s really about providing a full continuum of care, and having follow through from the initial incident all the way through the process,” he said.

Evans said there is a fear to reaching out to those who may be struggling with addiction.

“Because somebody superseded their fear, because they moved beyond that fear, decided to reach out to a stranger, decided to reach out to me and ask me for help [is why] I’m alive today,” Evans said. “There’s no doubt in my mind that I’m here today because of her grace.”

This is why Evans says everyone should get involved in a systematic approach to address addiction.

the warming climate and polluted water.

Jagela also spoke about the interconnectedness of humans with the rest of creation and that what we do here affects people in other parts of the world, because we are all a universal family.

“Everyday a 40-foot tree takes 50 gallons of dissolved nutrients from the soil, raises this mixture to its topmost leaves, converts it into 10 pounds of carbohydrates, and releases about 60 cubic feet of pure oxygen into the air,”

Jagela said. “Now there’s interconnectedness. There’s an interconnectedness to what we do.”

Morton said in the same way humanity was created to be good, all of creation was created to be inherently good as well. From there, humanity can start to embrace being part of creation and realize that it must be protected.

“Our deepest, most fundamental nature is part of this sacred order of creation,” Morton said. “We are breathed and crafted into existence through grace and love and this ecstatic benevolent movement of the divine and we are all created with that simple word good. I think if we can tap into that with our own certain experience, we can find that to be true in us.”

“The whole of creation; seas, stars, spiders, koala bears, all of it is good and it’s all created inherently good and God specifically says that. I think to embrace that and start there from discovering and thinking about what is our deepest nature as human beings, I think that’s a really good place to start,” Morton said.

Morton added that people such as the first St. Fran-

cis used terms like brother, sun and sister moon. To see creation as siblings who are on an equal level in terms of their sacredness, their connection with the divine, their ability for God to speak through them, is an essential part of how we approach caring for the world.

Hample said as humans, we’re here to partner with God in making the world as good as it can possibly be and to remember the phrase Tikkun Olam, which translates to the act of repairing the world.

After the discussion, Morgantown Working Families launched the Mon County Environmental Stewardship Challenge to encourage faith communities to take two actions between now and next year on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The first action is to have one conversation that’s led by the community about how your specific values interact with concepts of environmental stewardship.

The second, is to take one significant action to reduce your carbon footprint.

For more information on the challenge, visit https:// monstewardshipchal.wixsite. com/about.

“I think we can make a dent in the opioid epidemic, and we can see a huge shift just in the social awareness [of addiction],” he said. “If we can work together, band together, get everybody on the same page, we can see a systematic shift.”

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mg Roxicodone pills.

“I shouldn’t be alive right now,” he said.

After Evans became sober, he said one of best friends died of an overdose on Thanksgiving Day. For Evans, he said helping those who are struggling with addiction is a higher calling.

“It’s more about giving back what was so freely given to me,” he said.

Evans and his wife are expecting a child soon.

“With welcoming our first child in late May or early June, I decided to dive full into this passion project of service,” he said.

Applications can be found at thedaonline.com

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Student publication highlights acts of resilience in the region

BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR On Wednesday night, Mirage Magazine hosted a release party and panel discussion to promote Resilience, the Spring 2019 issue of Mirage Magazine.

Mirage Magazine is a publication created by students in the organization Ed on Campus.

This year they chose the theme Resilience to have the opportunity to discuss difficult issues in a positive way.

Kristen Uppercue, a senior journalism student from Martinsburg, West Virginia, is the editor-in-chief for Mirage Magazine.

“So often as media students, we are working on stories and discussing really disheartening topics,” Uppercue said. “For this issue, we wanted to do something that had substance and address those topics but in a more positive light.”

As a part of the release party, Ed held a panel discussion with members of the community working to fight the opioid epidemic.

“We wanted to highlight the people in our community that are working to address and overcome challenges our region faces, which is what inspired us to call this the Resilience Issue,” Uppercue said.

In this issue, writers discussed topics including the opi-

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Maura Flynn and Kristen Uppercue moderate the panel. oid epidemic, the problems of fast fashion and how small businesses are striving to stay alive despite a harsh business inventory tax, among many other topics.

“We wanted this to be unlike the rest — especially because through this issue, we were trying to spark important conversations and one of those main ones being the opioid ep-

idemic and what our community is doing to help. This initiated the idea for us to have a panel to encourage our peers to engage in this conversation.

So often when people think of recovery and the opioid epidemic, they think of traditional rehabilitation, so we wanted to highlight the other amazing resources and service available in our area,” Uppercue said.

Five ways to destress during finals

BY SETH MITCHELL STAFF WRITER You’re cramming harder than any other student has before. You’ve abused your body by drinking energy drink after energy drink to stay awake, and you haven’t had a good night’s sleep in a solid month. You’ve been worrying so hard about the grade of the last project you sent in that you probably developed a stomach ulcer.

That just isn’t healthy for you.

Finals week is the most crucial time in any student’s campus life, a time where you shut yourself away in the library or your dorm and knock out the books. Killing yourself with stress isn’t the best way to deal with it, however.

Here’s a few things to keep in mind to help you relax for a few minutes, so you can survive until the summer: 1.) Just Take a Deep Breath: As cliché and pointless as that sounds, if you find yourself about to rip your hair out be-

cause you don’t understand something, just step away from the desk for a moment, close your eyes and inhale. This part of the year might suck, but things will get better. Steel yourself with the knowledge that you will make it out in the end. It’s going to be okay.

2.) Watch Some TV: Netflix is a gift from the heavens during finals week. If you’re finding yourself about to shut down from nonstop studying, shut down the computer instead and pull up your favorite comedy or drama series.

Think you’re dying from finals?

Pull up “Game of Thrones” on HBO GO and watch your favorite characters die instead. Take a break from reality and just unwind. By that same token, you can also: 3.) Play Some Games: Games, whether they’re of the video, board or sports variety, are all great ways to relieve stress and tension. The competition within these games is a healthy outlet to vent your frustrations and have a little

fun along the way. Don’t crush your keyboard out of frustration, crush that guy talking trash over the microphone on “Halo” instead.

4.) Head Out for Awhile: Drop the textbook, get some friends together and just go out on a walk. Get some food, unwind and enjoy the cool spring air. It’s beautiful outside, don’t spend all your time in your room like a book-craving troglodyte.

5.) Listen to Some Music: If you absolutely can’t stop studying, try and add some tunes into the mix to make the experience a little more enjoyable. Something in the background, no matter what, is almost always a good way to refresh your brain and keep you energized.

Ultimately, just do your best to stay afloat and stay happy.

This is a rough time, and sometimes it might not go the way you think it will, but there’s no reason to make yourself miserable over it. You can make it through this; just try not to kill yourself along the way.

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Members of Ed on Campus laughing at the Mirage Magazine release party.

This is the fourth release party for Mirage Magazine and Uppercue’s last one as EIC. “I was here when Mirage Magazine was first created, and it has been a whirlwind to work within this publication and one of the most rewarding experiences at WVU,” Uppercue said.

“We’ve spent two years establishing the brand, so I hope that next year’s team will use the

publication as a way to have more conversations like these and work with other organizations as we started to this year.”

The panel was in collaboration with Her Campus at WVU. Maura Flynn, a junior journalism student from Cleveland, Ohio, is the president of Her Campus.

“It’s important for student organizations on campus to

collaborate and work together because the point of being an active Mountaineer is to support your peers and better your community,” Flynn said.

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Suggestions for your finals week playlist

BY PARIS RUSSELL STAFF WRITER As finals week approaches, stress will inevitably overtake us.

Most students find their own way of coping through the times of high stress to find some serenity in and amidst the chaos. One common vehicle for keeping your mind from drifting completely astray is music.

My finals week playlist is one that sets the tone for your approach against the adversary. The music we listen to during finals week is a multipurpose aid used to not only pass tests but to keep oneself sane.

Whether you are getting motivated for an upcoming test or relaxing the brain for an extensive study session, music will have your back.

This is a diverse guide to your finals week playlist.

A calm, relaxing song can put your mind at ease while

looking over scribbled notes and study guides. It can also ease the panic when anxiety takes hold. Twangy guitars over a carrying, mid-tempo beat with bassy undertones help to create a soothing environment and are likely to put the mind at ease.

Songs for chill: “Ode to Viceroy” - Mac Demarco “Sweet VA Breeze” - D.R.A.M. “Speaking Terms” - Snail Mail “Dusty Rose” - Oxford Comma “Weight of Sound” - Stick Figure The flip side of the finals week playlist is the motivational side. Sometimes what a student really needs is a catalyst to change the mindset from passive to

driven. This can be done through faster, louder music. These punchy tunes are bound to get you up from your desk and march you out the door to face the exams head on. The rocksteady drums, combative vocals, and themes of overcoming hardships are what makes these songs the perfect addition to the finals playlist.

Songs for motivation: “Perseverance” - Hatebreed “Fight the Power” - Public Enemy “A Poor Recipe For Civic Cohesion” - Western Addiction “Hard In Da Paint” Waka Flocka Flame “Teen Age Riot” - Sonic Youth

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Student journalism will always be vital to a college campus

BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR There are two basic things that a student newspaper is responsible for: being the voice of the students and holding our University accountable.

A week before classes began last August, our editorial staff read through a readership survey about the DA taken last summer. The results were humbling. Hardly anyone read us, nobody knew who we were and those that did read us didn’t know we were independent from the University.

Even better, almost all of our editorial staff had never had a leadership position before. I had only worked at the DA for one year as a reporter, and now I was in charge of a whole news team.

We needed a culture change, and our staff recognized that. We were all in this together, and this year, we weren’t going to half-ass it.

I’m very proud of the work our staff did this year. But I’m happier that we put the spotlight back on the importance of student journalism.

One thing I’ve found is that

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Joe Severino, left, sits with Douglas Soule the editor-in-chief during Wednesday’s production night. a lot of people just don’t understand student journalism.

“Can I talk to your editor?”

“Can your editor check my quotes?”

“Why are you making the University look bad when you’re a part of them?”

First off, we run the show;

there’s no “adult” in the room telling us what to do.

We work other jobs. We’re involved in Greek life. We’re athletes on WVU sports teams. We’re involved elsewhere than here; most importantly, we’re students too. We make mistakes, but

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it’s our job to own them.

Student journalism is especially important in a city like Morgantown, where there is hardly any coverage of WVU and the day-in and day-outs of it. The core role of student journalists is to tell the stories you won’t

hear anywhere else.

This year, we reported on WVU scrapping funding for a child care program for low-income student parents.

Who’s to say if the program would have came back if we didn’t shine a light on it? But that’s not the point; we did what we were supposed to do: find a story that’s important enough to demand public attention.

That famous David Sills picture throwing the horns down on Texas? You know which one I’m talking about.

Our photo editor, Temitayo Adesokan, was the only person in the world to get that shot from that angle.

This year, we published sealed court records. We found that WVU has the highest loan default rate in the Big 12. We were on the ground and in the crowd on the Spruce Street snow day, and our reporting was featured on the TODAY Show and in the Washington Post.

We published photos of a doll with a blackened face that a sorority was briefly suspended for. We covered the fraternity disassociation extensively. We were the first media outlet to recognize the IIFC as a legitimate organi-

zation. We covered campus carry and its path through the legislature, while also covering how it was impacting students and faculty on campus.

Our sports staff was at every football game, home or away. They missed class to attend midday press conferences. We’re the only newspaper you’re ever going to find golf, gymnastics and swimming coverage in daily.

The point is, you’re not going to find these stories anywhere else, and if you do, they’re not going to be written by students who are going through it with you.

It absolutely made my day when I saw someone reading the DA or when someone brought up an article in class. It was awesome to see scores of sports websites steal Adesokan’s amazing photo; it meant we were doing good things.

So, if you’ve liked what we’ve done this year, please let us know. Just like local journalism, it’s vital that we continue to support student journalism. There is still so much work to be done.

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NFL Draft to find homes for Grier, others

BY JARED SERRE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

With the 84th annual NFL Draft kicking off on Thursday, many former Mountaineers are expected to find homes at the next level.

Six members of the West Virginia football team participated in February’s NFL Combine and are expected to hear their name called.

Will Grier, rated as one of the top quarterbacks available, is projected to be one of the first Mountaineers to come off the board. During his two years as the starting quarterback at WVU, Grier threw for 7,354 yards and 71 touchdowns while completing 65.7% of his passes.

Yodny Cajuste, WVU’s former starting left tackle, was named Big 12 Conference Co-Offensive Lineman of the Year following the 2018 season. He is currently working through recovery after having surgery

to repair his quad muscle in late March.

David Sills is one of two WVU wide receivers that made an appearance at the Combine. Despite transferring to El Camino College for his sophomore season before returning to Morgantown, Sills started in 26 games wearing the old gold and blue. Sills’ 35 career touchdowns are second most all-time in the history of the WVU football program.

Also climbing up record boards during his time at West Virginia is Gary Jennings, who is currently sixth in program history in receiving yards with 2,294.

Despite hauling in only one touchdown during his junior season, Jennings will finish his WVU career with 17 total scores.

David Long, the lone defender of the Combine invitees, started in 31 games over three seasons with the Mountaineers. The line-

backer led the team in tackles last season with 111, while the next closest defender had only 77.

Trevon Wesco, who was named All-Big 12 First Team tight end last season, hauled in 26 catches for 366 yards last season. In addition to playing tight end, Wesco is being looked at by some teams as a potential fullback.

Nine other WVU football players participated in West Virginia’s March Pro Day and could also find homes in the NFL. They are wide receiver Dominique Maiden, offensive linemen Joe Brown and Isaiah Hardy, defensive linemen Kenny Bigelow Jr., Jabril Robinson and Ezekiel Rose, safeties Dravon Askew-Henry and Toyous Avery, and punter Billy Kinney.

All three days of draft festivities will be broadcast, live from Nashville, Tennessee, on ABC, ESPN and NFL Network. The first round

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Top 10 sports moments of 2018-19 Athletic director Shane Lyons chose Troy head coach Neal Brown and the fanbase responded well.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot be more excited to be your head football coach,” Brown said in his introductory press conference. “We’re going to work, we’re going to compete, we’re going to have fun, at the end of the day, we’re going to make you proud.

Cue Country Roads, let’s go Mountaineers.”

BY JOHN LOWE SPORTS EDITOR

1. #HornsDown The game that started a movement. In what ended up being the Mountaineers’ final road win of the season (and Dana Holgorsen’s WVU tenure), Will Grier and wide receivers David Sills and Gary Jennings dazzled a national television audience in a 42-41 win over Texas. With 16 seconds remaining, Grier found Jennings for a 33-yard touchdown to potentially set up overtime. But Holgorsen elected to go for the win and on the two-point conversion, Grier ran to the left corner of the end zone to give WVU the decisive 42-41 win.“#HornsDown” became a creed all over campus in the ensuing weeks after the legendary win.

2. Jermaine Haley sinks game-winning layup against Kansas It’s tough at times to find silver linings in a season like the one the WVU men’s basketball team just went through. It was a season that seemed to suck the energy out of most of the fanbase and even the team itself.

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David Sills memorably throwing the “Horns Down” during the Texas game.

That being said, one bright spot came on Jan. 19, when Jermaine Haley sunk a layup with eight seconds remaining to down the seventh-ranked Kansas Jayhawks. The win came on the backs of one of the worst losses in Mountaineer history, a 98-67 loss to TCU.

3. WVU hires Neal Brown When Dana Holgorsen left Morgantown to become the new head coach at Houston, many names were being connected to the new vacancy, with Cincinnati’s Luke Fickell and defensive coordinator Tony Gibson being among them.

4. Izzo-Brown delivers another Big 12 title Despite finishing second in the conference standings, coach Nikki Izzo-Brown led the women’s soccer team to consecutive wins over Oklahoma, Texas and Baylor to clinch the Big 12 Tournament title.

5. Alek Manoah deals consecutive complete game shutouts In two straight starts at Mon County Ballpark, Friday starting pitcher Alek Manoah delivered two straight complete game shutouts to lead-off series wins over Texas Tech and Kansas.

In both wins, he tossed 15 strikeouts.

6. Huggins: “We’re not dead yet.”

To end the WVU men’s basketball regular season, the Mountaineers went on an improbable run the Big 12 Conference tournament.

With wins over Oklahoma and eventual national finalist Texas Tech, excitement built around the new young WVU basketball team.

Along with a famous tweet from head coach Bob Huggins stating that the team “was not dead yet”, the fanbase were finally able to rally around the Mountaineers.

7. LeBlanc’s troops clinch first-ever MAC title In their seventh season as a member of the Mid-American Conference, the Mountaineers finally clinched their first title with an undefeated in-conference record.

Wi n n i n g t h e M AC clinched WVU their first bid in the NCAA Tournament since 2011, advancing to the second round before losing to Georgetown.

8. Sagaba Konate sets WVU career block mark In the non-conference portion of Huggins’ Mountaineers’ schedule, Sagaba

Konate saw significant minutes. In West Virginia’s 6959 win over archrival Pitt, Konate’s seven blocks secured the program mark for blocks in a career.

The game proved to be Konate’s last in the old gold and blue, and he will move on to the NBA. 9. Carey’s Mountaineers upset Texas in Austin In the highlight of the year for the women’s basketball team, Tynice Martin hung 27 points on the 12th-ranked Texas Longhorns in Austin, leading to a 64-58 win.

10. Swimmers conclude tenure in Natatorium In the final swim meet at the WVU Natatorium, the Mountaineer men’s and women’s teams cruised to wins over TCU. Following the win, current and former swimmers surrounded the pool and sang “Country Roads.”

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Mountaineers searching for NCAA at-large bid in Big 12 Championship

BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

In only the fourth season since golf returned to West Virginia University, the Mountaineers are hosting the Big 12 Championship, beginning Friday morning at The Greenbrier.

“First of all, to play in this prestigious championship, you’ve got the best teams and the best players in all of college golf — it’s a great opportunity,” WVU head coach Sean Covich said.

“And then the fact that it’s here in the home state, at a place like The Greenbrier, a lot of tradition, a lot of history, PGA Tour venue, the guys are excited.”

WVU has only competed in the event three times before, each time finishing last in the conference, but this season there’s a possible atlarge bid to the NCAA Tour-

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being one of the 81 teams selected to participate in a regional championship of the NCAA Tournament.

“It would mean everything for this program, starting from scratch just four

years ago to sort of climb its way, and fight its way, into a position to get an at-large bid and play in the NCAA Tournament,” Covich said.

The Mountaineers’ final chance to secure a selection

will begin the Big 12 Championship’s first two rounds, with WVU set to compete against Kansas State.

The Wildcats most recently finished in fourth place at the Hawkeye Intercollegiate and are led by Jacob Eklund’s 71.33 stroke average.

Eklund has captured four top-10 finishes on the year, including three finishes in the top-five, in helping K-State to a 285.33 per round team average this spring.

“Believe it or not, Kansas State might be one of the better teams as far as what they’ve done this spring,” Covich said. “I think they’ve improved over 60 spots in the rankings since the fall, so they’re playing better than anybody, almost anybody, right now.”

Leading WVU against Kansas State will be its two seniors — Tristan Nicholls and Max Sear.

Nicholls and Sear were part of the original recruiting class at WVU for Covich, and are “the founding fathers of WVU golf,” according to their head coach.

Sear owns a 71.52 stroke average through 27 rounds played this season, the best mark of his career, while Nicholls has only played in 11 rounds and has a 77.09 stroke average so far this season.

“Those two guys — they’ve seen it all,” Covich said of Nicholls and Sear.

“They’ve seen some really bad times, but now they’re sort of enjoying this year.

We finally have a really close-knit group, it feels like a family now, and we never had that before. I think they’re really enjoying this season and our success.”

West Virginia tees off starting at 9:30 a.m. on Friday on the Old White TPC at The Greenbrier.

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