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NEWS | 3
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WVU Lecturer weighs in on Dakota Access Pipeline controversy BY ALANNA LONGNECKER CORRESPONDENT Less than a month ago, actress Shailene Woodley was arrested for criminal trespassing at Standing Rock in North Dakota while protesting the progress of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The DAPL is a project focused on building a 1,172mile pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois in a “more direct, cost-effective, safer and environmentally responsible manner,” according to its website. However, there has been a significant amount of controversy over its progress as of late. Darla Spencer, archaeologist and Charleston native, gave a presentation on Na-
tive American Heritage: Fort Ancient Culture and weighed in on the issue Tuesday night in the Mountainlair as part of Mountaineer Week. She recently wrote a book titled “Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture” and has been an active participant in West Virginia’s archaeology as one of WVU’s educators on Native American studies. In her presentation, Spencer touched on the effect the DAPL will have on America’s native people. “That’s amazing to me that they got this far if there were sacred sites, especially under NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act),” Spencer said. NAGPRA is a 1990 federal
law that states tribes inhabiting any area under construction or under archaeological presence must be contacted if there are human remains on site, Spencer said. It is a felony under state law to disturb Native American burial sites, which is why the DAPL is taking so many by surprise, even professionals in the field, such as Spencer. “Expense-wise, it’s probably going to be really good for local economy,” said Drea Trice, senior finance student. “I mean, think of how many jobs that would open up.” A majority of Spencer’s presentation focused on the simplicity of Native American life in early villages. As an archaeologist, she has witnessed the excavation
of bone whistles assumed to be used for music and social life, as well as traded marine shells used for jewelry. Though ancient native life seemed to be simple, the controversy surrounding the DAPL is anything but. “It’s really harmful for the Native Americans that live there,” said Courtney Dorsey, senior environmental geoscience student. “If it bursts, it has a large potential for polluting their main source of water, and they could then suffer from adverse health effects due to water contamination.” As Spencer concluded, “There has to be a balance between native people’s wishes and the developers.”
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Darla Spencer, author of Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient People, signs her novel for fans who came to see her presentation about some of the ancient artifacts she found while on digs throughout the Ohio Valley Region. The presentation was hosted by The Native American Studies department during Mountaineer Week at West Virginia University on Nov. 1, 2016.
Morgantown City Council approves Downtown Task Force BY KAYLA ASBURY & ADRIANNE UPHOLD STAFF The Morgantown City Council approved a resolution supporting a Downtown Task Force at its meeting Tuesday evening. Reverend John Sonnenday, the executive director of coordinating council on homelessness, first proposed the task force to the Council during the public portion of the Oct. 25 meeting. Sonnenday said he proposed the task force because
citizens have expressed discomfort about the loitering of homeless people in Downtown, Morgantown. The proposition passed at last night’s meeting with a 7-0 vote. But, preventing panhandling and loitering is only one of the issues the task force hopes to resolve. “We want to be thoughtful to people who are in need, but we also need to be sure we are protecting and strengthening the business community,” said Councilor Jennifer Selin. According to the resolution, the task force will “promote community use of the
Downtown area and prevent inappropriate conduct that limits the public’s enjoyment of Downtown Morgantown.” It aims to create spaces and activities for people to enjoy downtown, as well as to construct public restrooms or facilities. “People have noticed over time that the downtown isn’t as vibrant as we would like it to be,” Selin said. “We would like to see people downtown during the daylight business hours… so it can compliment the nighttime economy.” Councilor Nancy Ganz believes the task force will
be beneficial to the nightlife in downtown Morgantown. “(The main goal of the task force) is to make the Downtown more livable, and make people more comfortable Downtown,” Ganz said. She said four out of five public intoxication charges in Downtown Morgantown are WVU students, and that the City spent $15 million “cleaning up.” According to Mayor Martie Shamberger, the task force welcomes student involvement. Shamberger hopes the task force will be able to im-
prove nightlife by creating spaces where community members can socialize without drugs or alcohol. “I would like to see a sober bar,” Shamberger said. “I would like to see a place people who don’t drink can go and dance and hang out. I’d like to see more alcohol free activity.” The task force is in collaboration with City of Morgantown, Mon County Commission, Main Street Morgantown, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, Safe Communities, the Chamber of Commerce and WVU.
The task force’s collaboration with the University is especially important, according to Selin. “Since this University is half of our population we need to make sure we are welcoming to everyone and getting ideas from everyone,” Stelin said. It will be divided into several committees including entertainment, public intoxication, positive activities and infrastructure. Approximately 80 community members were interested in being involved with the task force, with 10-15 people in each subdivision.
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Get your Excedrin ready, scheduling and advising season is upon us BY ALEX WEIDMAN CORRESONDENT We’re now past the halfway point in the semester, which for students means scheduling is here. This week SGA’s weekly open topic is focusing on student experiences with scheduling and advising. Their question is: “What have your experiences been with scheduling and advising this year and in years past?” For college students, scheduling brings its own anxieties and difficulties to a semester. A couple weeks ago I wrote about a specific incident I had scheduling this semester that left me incredibly frustrated. I tried to go up against WVU’s 20-credit limit as a senior only to be rejected. Students here experience many other potential woes. When scheduling finally begins, things like full
classes, advising holds and a slow or crashing MIX website can make the time a nightmare. There were multiple times as a freshman and sophomore engineering major that classes I’d planned on taking were full before I could even schedule. Until I started scheduling as a senior, MIX crashed each morning scheduling opened. And as a commuter, advising holds due to parking tickets have been the absolute bane of my college experience. But one thing I’ve always appreciated were the advisors I met with. Despite scheduling problems my advisors—both when I was an engineering major and now as an English major—have been as helpful and supportive as I could ever ask. I sought out advice about classes to take from my professors, who sometimes had
a better idea of my own interests and abilities than I did. With so much chaos and pressure, a third or even fourth opinion can be extremely helpful, and asking about it is something I definitely recommend. At a university of more than 30,000 there is always going to be competition for the limited amount of classes, and especially the choice time slots. With this, minor glitches and obstacles can exacerbate the stress of trying to get into small or popular classes. But the people I’ve worked with have always come across as caring, dedicated and helpful. And that seems much more important to me. As always, SGA will be having an open discussion on this topic at its Wednesday night meeting in Hatfields, at 7:30 p.m.. All students are invited to participate and share their experiences.
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Students Sound Off: Scheduling and advising On advising: “I’ve had great experiences. I actually just went back and saw a scheduling conflict and my advisor found other classes that could fit and rescheduled everything. I’ve never had a bad experience with advising.” -Alex Monos Senior International Studies student Herdon, Virginia
On scheduling: “Scheduling this year was pretty easy. I got lucky with some classes because I scheduled really late. I scheduled in August like four days before classes actually started. But I got in all the classes I wanted so I got lucky I guess.” -Pim Trommelen Freshman Sociology student Dongen, Netherlands
On advising: “I’ve had great experiences with advising especially for someone who has studied abroad and wanted to make the most out of the credits that I received. My advisor has always been on the lookout for me. Her name’s Trish, shout out to Trish! At a university that’s so big it’s just really helpful to have someone who knows all of your options and is willing to share those with you.” On scheduling: -Hilary Kinney Senior Journalism student Moundsville, West Virginia
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The Life and Career of President Gee Born: Feb. 2, 1944 Hometown: Vernal, UT Alma Mater: University of Utah (B.A.) Columbia University School of Law (J.D.) Teachers College, Columbia University (Ed. D.)
Positions Held: 1978: Professor and Associate Dean at Brigham Young 1979-1980: Dean of the West Virginia University School of Law 1981-1985: President of West Virginia University 1985-1990: President of the University of Colorado 1990-1997: President of The Ohio State University 1998-2000: President of Brown University 2001-2007: President of Vanderbilt University 2007-2013: President of The Ohio State University 2013: Interim President of West Virginia University 2013-present: President of West Virginia University
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E. Gordon Gee is more than the president of WVU, he is a staple of the University. He is candid and familiar with his students; some nights he can be found on High Street mingling at the bars and talking to students. Some days he’ll explore dining halls and join in on dinner and lunch conversations. He is the centerpiece of thousands of selfies, an avid drinker of diet Dr. Pepper, a master of witty one-liners and an avid collector of bowties. As President of WVU, though, there is much more going on with Gee behind the scenes. Between fundraising, research, student quality and student satisfaction, the President’s umbrella of responsibilities covers a myriad of topics, but it varies college to college. With a university the size of WVU, administratively, whoever holds the title of president is indirectly responsible for many things, and directly not so much, especially with the number of smaller colleges and programs within the University. It’s a trickle down effect of sorts; the president sets the tone for a campus’ administrative objectives, then appoints deans and vice presidents to help spread the message, and they appoint associates and others, and so on, and so on. “There is only so much a president can do,” said Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Ed. “(People) imagine the president turning on the lights and picking textbooks… But
(his role is) more big picture.” As West Virginia faces a state budget crisis that has resulted in cuts across the board to education and funding initiatives, Gee entered office in 2013 to a difficult setting. Since then he has been adamant about one thing; WVU, he said, is consistently better than we believe it is, and other universities seem to be caught in the trap of thinking they are better than they are. In Gee’s first State of the University address in 2014, he set hefty goals for the administration—heightened enrollment, retention and graduation rates, an expanded endowment fund and a shift in campus culture, both academically and socially. Three years, in the grand scheme of any sort of University plan, is not long at all, though. And that applies to Gee’s varied efforts to change things throughout WVU. It’s hard to judge if something is successful or not when it is ongoing, as many of Gee’s initiatives are, so these grades are based primarily on efforts that have been started and their effects so far on both students’ wellbeing and the University’s.
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President Gee’s Report Card: Retention
C+
Retention rates are an indicator of student satisfaction on campus; the higher the retention rates, the more students decide to return to WVU for another year of classes. Retention rates at WVU have remained steady, at about 77 percent, throughout Gee’s time here, but it’s clear there has been a strong emphasis on efforts to improve this number
Culture Change
B+
Anyone who has been on this campus for any amount of time has probably heard the buzz-phrase which dominates our conversations about WVU: Culture change. For those unfamiliar, culture change is the effort to have WVU
Endowment
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Gee has been honest about the realities of higher education funding in West Virginia; it is challenged, to say the least.
in his office. In 2014 Gee appointed (then-Dean of the Law School) Joyce McConnell as WVU’s provost. Since, the provost’s office, including McConnell and the personnel she has underneath her, have been integral for student success programs like Project 168, a campus initiative that urges students to take advantage of every hour available to them throughout the week. (There does seem to be an administrative downfall of these projects and efforts in the turnaround time between announcement and implementation. For example, Project 168 was announced by Gee in Oc-
tober, 2014, but has yet to be implemented full-scale to the student body.) While campaigns like this are well meaning and beneficial to students, in order to be successful, student participation is necessary. And that seems to be where these projects fall short. But this is also an aspect of Gee’s leadership on campus. He has always been adamant that students cannot just be told what to do, they have to be provided with the necessary tools so they can improve themselves. Gee, in his 2014 State of the University, also announced the
need for a dean of completion, however that position was not filled until October 2016, when Joe Sieman was appointed as interim executive director of academic advising and student success—another example of delayed action. In addition to having a staff that values the ideology necessary to accomplish better retention and graduation rates, there are overarching projects that intersect with retention and student satisfaction— most notably campus updates and beautification projects, like University apartments, that intersect with a lot of different interests around campus.
By building better, high-tech facilities, University administration hopes to attract more students, but is it effective? University apartments, on average, are still 35 percent unfilled. (UPlace, for 2015-16, operated at a $2.6 million loss, and the building of these structures (UPark, UPlace, College Park and Vandalia Hall) has had an unprecedented impact on the city’s real estate market, which has had an adverse effect on the student population through landlords cutting corners on upkeep and maintenance in independent housing.) While unintended consequences, these should still be
considered, especially since the long-term effects of these projects on the city is unknown, and probably will be for years. Like the student in class who studies regularly, but is sometimes stunted by long-terms projects and exams, Gee is trying.) Better retention and graduation rates certainly aren’t something that happen over night, but between the steady retention and graduation numbers, the decrease in campus enrollment and the initiatives put in place, Gee receives a C+ on the end of retention and completion.
be known for more than its drinking and party culture. This means raising the bar for accepted students, cracking down on student behavior and providing trainings and resources to educate students—both in greek life and not. In January 2015, Gee appointed William Schafer as vice president of student life, and during his time at the University (Schafer stepped down from his post about two weeks ago) Schafer was instrumental in attempts to redefine
campus culture at WVU. In summer 2015, he announced an initiative to reshape Greek life at WVU, and in turn, the social culture. Most notable were his initiatives to hire a Director of Greek Life (Roy Baker was hired for the position in 2015), deter formal recruitment for fraternities and sororities (implemented in Fall 2016) and provide leadership and Title IX trainings for all Greek leaders, which took effect immedi-
ately in Fall 2016. Schafer also pushed for the Office of Student Conduct to deal with Greek violations of the conduct policy instead of the Office of Greek Life, which was integral to balancing the playing field for Greek and non-greek members. So what of the effects? Since 2013, there hasn’t been a steady incline or decline in campus alcohol and drug violations. There was a peak in 2014, and then a drop again in 2015, according to the most re-
cent data available. And even then, it is very difficult to connect culture change to singular actions; an increase in alcohol violations, for example could mean more cops are charging students, according to interviews with WVUPD, or that more students are drinking. And again, something like culture change requires a give and take with students; they must be willing to better themselves if they want to reap the benefits of this. Cul-
ture change, perhaps more than anything else, is a collaborative effort on campus that needs almost, if not all, involved in its implementation. For this, Gee seems to be the student caught in a hefty group project where his grade is dependent on all other players. While some seem as determined as him, there are others almost refusing to cooperate, and for this Gee receives a B+ on culture change.
West Virginia is one of few states to consistently cut higher education spending per a student, according to reports from the WV Higher Education Policy Commission. In return, tuition increases have been necessary to supplement the lack of state and federal funds. Initiatives by Gee to bring in money have been effec-
tive, according to the form 990 tax returns filed by the WVU Foundation rom 20122015, WVU’s private nonprofit counterpart headed by Cynthia Roth since 2013. And so far in 2016, the States of Mind campaign topped $1 billion, the largest fundraising effort ever performed by WVU. In 2015, according to WV HEPC reports, more than
$40 million in endowment money went toward research initiatives, which in turn brings prosperity to the state. In 2016, WVU was recognized as an R1 research institution by the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education, and without necessary funding, initiatives like the Volkswagon emissions schedule last semester may not have been
possible. An increase in the University’s endowment has real world effects, as West Virginia struggles to diversify its economy in the years after the fall of big coal. Gee has talked in length about the needs to diversify West Virginia’s economy, and he recognizes that it is part of WVU’s duty to do that through research, so the en-
dowment efforts toward research make sense. In this case, Gee is more of a student teacher than anything, pushing his students to focus their efforts more on long-term investments than short-term fixes, and it is working. For the University’s endowment, Gee receives an A-.
10 | CULTURE
WEDNESDAY NOV. 2, 2016
CULTURE
WellWVU hosts “Meditation Mob” to relieve stress BY JACKSON MONTGOMERY CULTURE EDITOR You know this feeling. There’s an exam tomorrow morning you’ve barely studied for. You have to work a double tonight and your friends are begging you to go out with them. Your parents want to know when you’re coming home for break, but you haven’t even had time to think about when you’re going back to your apartment for food and sleep. You might be one of 33 percent of WVU students who reported stress levels so high that their academic performance has seen a negative impact, accord-
ing to data from the American College Health Association’s 2016 National College Health Assessment. At WVU, 72 percent of students reported an interest in receiving information on ways to manage all this pressure. That’s where WellWVU comes in. Each month during the fall and spring semesters the Office of Wellness and Health Promotion focuses on a different theme, and November’s is ChillWELL, focused on stress management. ChillWELL kicked off yesterday with a “meditation mob” in front of the Mountainlair. Like its namesake, the
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Students meditate in front of the Mountainlair as part of WellWVU’s “Meditation Mob” aimed at relieving stress. flash mob, the meditation mob consisted of a group of students who suddenly appeared in the free speech zone with WellWVU-branded yoga mats,
sat down in formation, closed their eyes and practiced mindfulness for about 15 minutes as curious students and cars filed past. “Personally, that was the
first time I’ve tried (meditation), but I felt very relaxed out there,” Freshman Emma Rafter, a member of WellWVU’s Student Wellness Ambassador Team said. For those who were hesitant to join the solemn sit-in, sport and exercise psychology doctoral student Spencer Ingels suggests smaller acts to center yourself throughout the day. “It doesn’t have to be a big thing... Even one breath,” Ingels said. “Life tends to be easier on days that I meditate than days I don’t.” Acknowledge the thought “I am stressed,” but don’t fight it, he said. In addition to medita-
tion, the Office of Wellness and Health Promotion will be hosting several chillFESTs throughout the month: the first will be 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Nov. 9 in the Mountainlair, another from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Nov. 18 at the Health Sciences Center, and the final one will be 4-8 p.m. on Dec. 1 at the rec center. The events will feature free massages, mindful coloring, yoga exercises, a therapy mini horse and more to help students relax before finals and get their brains back on track. For more local culture, visit: http://TheDAOnline.com
U92 on the Review: Humans Etcetera - RED TAPE Album Review BY PATRICK MCKAY U92 CORRESPONDENT Upon seeing Humans Etcetera live earlier this year at U92’s Moose Fest, I was surprised by a fantastic display of creativity and intimacy. Time signature changes and complex, hard-hitting breakdowns, reminiscent of King Crimson and Yes (though sounding more in the vein of lo-fi garage rock), led me to approach frontman Christopher Henry after the set. I told him that the band’s music made a unique impression on me; it sounded like Modest
Mouse doing Rush (in the most complimentary way possible). This in mind, I expected equally striking passages from Humans Etcetera’s new project, RED TAPE. This one is performed and recorded by just Henry himself during his time in WV and partly in China, where he is currently studying. This album patches together a series of field recordings, demo-tape instrumentation and studio oddities to form an intriguing composition. The album starts with “Never Make Threats,” which sets the mood for succeeding tracks. A re-
cording of a man talking is surrounded by distant sirens and lonesome acoustic guitar strums, and later by lo-fi drums and echofilled vocals. The music on this track and others on the album (specifically “Sticky Trap” and “Swim Date”) remind me of calmer moments on Modest Mouse’s The Lonesome Crowded West, all the while incorporating unfamiliar sounds from world instruments, synth bass, and more vocal samples. On a lyrical front, these songs provide a moving sense of loneliness and isolation with nihilistic undertones,
acting as calculated counterparts to the music in their respective pairs. The album’s first significant turn occurs on “Machine,” a song Henry wrote about his washing machine. Electronic drums and synthesizers matched with electropop-esque vocals and oddly anecdotal lyrics create an airy, down-tempo track that sits as a highlight among the track listing. What follows on songs “Old Star,” “Pretty” and “Mazu 987” is more like what I heard from their live set. Biting guitars, manic drums and inflamed vocals yield more of the aggressive,
intricate music typical of Humans Etcetera’s back catalogue and Henry’s previous band Fuck Your Birthday. Songs like “Sunburned,” “Grim Reapers” and “Hand” offer more subtleties. With reverberating guitars and droning vocals, these postrock statements exhibit bursts of lyrical depth and tempered observation. The album tapers off with the title track. Menacing guitars, drums and distorted vocals create an eerie atmosphere around a vocal sample of the same man from the first track, tying the album together in its final stretch. The track pro-
gresses with swells of noise and heavily-effected guitars, filling any remaining void. An emotive chorus closes out the first movement, leaving the back end of the track; heavy with synth bass, ambiance, and echoing vocals, RED TAPE comes to fruition. This collection of songs acts as a stream of consciousness in crudest form; a furrow into actuality, however imperfect, represented by a variety of sonic curiosities. Humans Etcetera provide a set of engaging tracks, quilted together by hums and buzzes, as well as an honest attention to reality.
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Melissa Morris likes to take things apart and find a better way to put them back together. She says to be an engineer, you must not only be curious, but also a problem solver. Morris spoke to Managing Editor Jennifer Gardner about what it means to be a faculty member in a major like engineering. In 2015, MORRIS earned the WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching, only four years after completing her doctorate in mechanical engineering. As an adviser, she says her favorite part is getting to help students achieve their goals. Q. What are some of the problems engineering students face when they enter the major? A. One big problem students face, is that college is a whole different ballgame than high school, especially first year students who are in chemistry, calculus and engineering classes right off the bat. Also what we find is working in teams is challenging for engineering students because a lot of them maybe aren’t the most social, outgoing types of people, and we put them into teams with people from different backgrounds who they’ve never met before. It can be really challenging because they might be used to being a really strong personality that does everything themselves, but then they realize they need to accept other people’s ideas and brainstorm with them. Q. How are you able to help students face a social transition like that? A. We host social activities and things like that for them so they can form relationships with other engineers. We are doing a trivia night this Friday, but then we also talk in class about the teamwork, and about the issues they’re going to run into in their teams. In the real world, you’re going to go out there and you don’t get to pick who you work with, so it’s important that we teach it the very first semester. Q. What was your favorite part of being an engineering student at WVU? A. I was captain of the Mini Baja team. It’s a senior project where we compete against other colleges. Basically they give you a 10 horsepower Briggs and Stratton engine and a rule book and you design and build a car. It’s kind of like an all-terrain vehicle, so you can go through the woods and that kind of thing and we race against other schools. I did a lot of machine and design work.
Melissa Morris Teaching Assistant Professor and Academic Advisor B.S., M.S., Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering Q. How does the Mini Baja team prepare for their competition? A.We have two semesters, so the first semester we do a lot of design work. The first thing we do is take last year’s car and dismantle it, weigh every component and analyze it, what went well, what didn’t go well for them and what can we learn from it and then try to design our plan. Then we start in usually in December building and fabricating it, and then we always try to get it done by April so we can test it because the competition is in June. My year we were actually in the river at like 6 a.m. the day we left because our car had to float for part of our competition, so we were like testing it out the day we left to go to Alabama for our competition. Q. What kinds of other challenges did you guys run into? A. We had a pretty small team so we didn’t have a large workforce to get it all done. It was certainly a challenge to make a 400-pound car float. There was also a challenge to figure out our gearing and figure out if we needed a reverse gear, and figure out what type of suspension we needed. You could design every aspect of it. It’s challenging because you have different people designing the suspension and then the frame then the drive train. You have to all work together to make sure your components fit. Q. Why do you enjoy a career as challenging as engineering? A. I’ve just kind of always been interested in cars, that’s my hobby. I kind of like learning by doing. I’ve always worked on them with my dad and I have a 1967 Mustang that is my project car. When I get time, I try to work on it. My dad is actually a mechanical engineer and has been a faculty member here for 30 years this month. I had him for a couple of classes which was terrifying but it’s kind of cool.
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WVU gets back to work after first loss of season BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER
FOOTBALL As the WVU football team entered the week with its first loss, WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen had one message for his team: it’s time to “get back to work.” “In speaking with the team on Sunday night, it was very apparent that our guys want to win and they want to be successful,” Holgorsen said. “They were disappointed in it, but they’re realistic to the point where they know just get back to work. So that’s what we’re going to do.” While the 17-point loss to
Oklahoma State pushed the Mountaineers back in the conference standings, it’s nothing that they are dwelling on as they approach a Saturday night matchup with Kansas. “We just got to know there’s a lot more football to be played,” WVU safety Jarrod Harper said. “One loss isn’t going to dictate our season.” As the Mountaineers failed to produce the offensive output that they’ve done in recent weeks, they are focused on remaining positive. “It was just a bad week for us,” said WVU sophomore receiver Jovon Durante. “We got to get back on track and everything will be alright.”
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A group of Oklahoma State defenders brings down WVU running back Justin Crawford during the 37-20 Cowboys victory on Oct. 29 in Stillwater, OK. Durante was apart of the unit that totaled one touchdown on 212 yards in the air. Getting into the endzone is something Holgorsen is continually stressing to his offen-
sive unit. “We’ve got to score,” Holgorsen said. “We just have to keep drives going—we got to get the ball in the endzone. We are still not scoring what we
need to be successful.” Out of the five remaining teams on WVU’s schedule, three produce more points per game than the Mountaineers do (31.1): Baylor (42.3), Oklahoma (45.4) and Texas (36). At OSU, converting on plays was something that doomed the Mountaineers. They were just “off ” against the Cowboys. “We didn’t play as fast as we’ve been playing this year,” said WVU senior receiver Daikiel Shorts. “We have to start taking care of our bodies so we’re able to play fast on Saturdays.” This is where teams resented the early rest weeks. It meant a more rigorous sched-
ule down the stretch, but the Mountaineers say that isn’t to blame. It’s just getting the body ready each week. After its two early bye weeks, No. 14 WVU will have to continue grinding out the rest of the schedule that includes the aforementioned teams directly in front of them in the AP Poll; No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 13 Baylor. With Holgorsen keeping the team’s work mentality a priority, he has a simple formula on continuing the success in the conference. “When we win, we play well together,” Holgorsen said. “That’s the formula of this team. We need to get back to playing well together.
No. 1 WVU begins Big 12 Tournament tonight in Kansas City BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER
WOMEN’S SOCCER Holding the No. 1 ranking in the nation, West Virginia is in familiar waters with just a week left before the tournament starts. While the No. 1 Mountaineers didn’t hold the top spot at this point last season, they are accustomed to the top seed in the conference tournament. As the tournament starts in Kansas City Wednesday evening, West Virginia has every reason in the world to feel confident, and one major reason to not.
With a 3-0 win over Oklahoma State last weekend, West Virginia became the first team in conference history to not concede a goal in conference play. The team outscored opponents 15-0 in eight conference games and holds the top seed in the conference tournament for the fifth year in a row. As the top team in the nation, WVU just has to do what it did in conference play to win three games and go into the tournament with the No. 1 ranking, a feat the team hasn’t accomplished in its 21-year history. “But that’s an added pressure as well because we know what we’re capable of and we
want to continue to keep the shutouts coming and we have goals of breaking our own team record,” said WVU senior defender Carly Black. “We’re confident but we know that we still need to put the same effort out there because we’ve got bigger places we want to get to.” While WVU dominated the same opponents it will face in Kansas City, it has no reason to feel overly confident, as the team will open play on Wednesday with the same team that sent them packing from the tournament last year. Texas Tech, who played the Mountaineers to a tough 1-0 final just two weeks ago, will
await WVU in the first round. The Red Raiders have had unimpressive season following their conference title a year ago, but anything can happen in the postseason, as West Virginia learned the hard way last season. “Most coaches will tell you it’s definitely sometimes very difficult to beat a team twice,” said WVU head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown. “We’ve done it in the past. Texas Tech is a very dangerous team. We know that they’re playing for their lives right now and how hard they’re going to want to come, but it’s going to be a great match Wednesday.” If West Virginia does per-
form the way it should and defeats No. 8 seed Texas Tech, it will then face the winner of No. 4 seed Oklahoma and No. 5 seed Iowa State at 4:30 p.m. Friday The conference championship game will take place on at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The tournament will be the final conference games for seniors Ashley Lawrence, Kadeisha Buchanan, Carly Black and Ashley Woolpert. With a conference tournament win, the Mountaineers will bring back an eighth conference title (regular season and tournament) in five years since joining the Big 12 conference. A title should also guarantee the top spot for West
Virginia prior to tournament seeding, which would guarantee that WVU would play host to every round up until the final four, which is played at a neutral site. West Virginia has not lost a game at Dick Dlesk Stadium in regulation since August of 2014. “That’s what we’ve been playing for,” Izzo-Brown said. “Everyday we’ve been playing for that home seed advantage and I hope that the NCAA committee knows that we’ve done enough to get that and we’re just going to continue to do what we need to do to get those important games at home throughout the tournament.”
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