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FallFest officially Sunday Aug. 16 by nicole curtin managing editor @nicolec_WVU

At the end of last school year Dr. Bill Schafer, West Virginia University vice president of student life, announced FallFest would be moved to an unspecified time.

Traditionally FallFest has been held on the

Mountainlair Green at the end of the first day of school but incidents surrounding the show have made enough of an impact to change the date.

FallFest will now be held on the Sunday evening before classes start as part of a welcome back weekend celebration.

According to WVU To-

day it will be part of a street festival-like event with performers as usual.

Because of the incidents involving drinking and party related activities, which resulted in the date being changed, the number of bands or singers has slowly declined over the past few years.

It will not be announced

Monongalia County wins 2014 Summer Steps Challenge by john mark shaver staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Earlier this month, Monongalia County was recognized as the winner of the 2014 Summer Steps Walking Challenge, beating 29 other counties and earning an award and walkability study.

The challenge, presented by the West Virginia University Extension Service Team and the West Virginia Association of Counties, encourages over 700 West Virginia citizens each year to get active.

“We started this program four years ago because we knew that only about a third of West Virginia adults are active on a daily basis and actually meeting the recommended guidelines for physical activity,” said Elaine Bowen, a state specialist with the WVU Extension Ser vice. “We wanted to find a way to encourage and motivate people to be active during the summer, which is when most people think of going out and doing these activities.”

Participants register online and record their activity using the challenge’s online tracker.

“It’s a way that people can track their own progress personally,” said Cassie Thomas, WVU Extension Services’ Communications and Marketing Manager. “As an individual, they can track their progress and say ‘I’ve walked X amount of miles in X amount of days’ and track their progress for themselves.”

In addition to an official award, Monongalia County, which logged in over 2,400 hours in last year’s competition, was

given the opportunity of a walkability study done on one particular community. The County Commission chose the town of Osage for the study.

“It’s a way to translate the walkability to the reality of ‘Do we have communities that can promote and sustain walkability?’”

Bowen said. “The team went out, met with community stakeholders and citizens, learned for about the community itself, and collaboratively did this walkability study.”

According to a press release, walkability studies have found that “towns and cities with better walkability report increased real estate values, tax revenues and civic engagement, as well as better air quality. They also report less crime and fewer pedestrian/cyclist injuries.”

The 2015 Summer Steps Walking Challenge started on June 1 and will conclude on August 31. Those interested can sign up anytime under the county they’ll be representing.

“I would encourage anybody to go ahead and register because they can help out their county to be the next winner,” Bowen said. “It’s also very contagious. When we have communities where people are out walking in public, then it helps other people who may not be as active say ‘Maybe I should walk instead of drive my car down the street’.”

Bowen believes the walking challenge is a way for West Virginia to improve its reputation while simultaneously improving the health of individuals in the state.

“Try to role model a healthy lifestyle because if we want West Virginia

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until the week before the show who is coming to perform at FallFest.

Other aspects of the new Welcome Week celebration will include a big event at Milan Puskar Stadium for the incoming freshman class to learn about the traditions of WVU and get to know some of their classmates. They will also

participate in the regular Mountaineer Welcome on Sunday held at the Coliseum.

Last year the University prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol on the Mountainlair Green during FallFest to reduce alcohol-related issues.

There will still be the same kind of security and

law enforcement around the event and students are still allowed to bring one guest as of now, all students need their student ID with them to enter the event.

There will be more information on performances announced as the concert gets closer. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

IT’S A GOLD RUSH!

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Above is an image of O’Hara’s winning 2015 Gold Rush design.

O’Hara wins contest, releases design for shirt by jake jarvis staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

James O’Hara’s design for this year’s Gold Rush T-Shirt was recently released. He couldn’t be more excited to see thousands of Mountaineers wear the shirt.

The first step to designing this year’s shirt was looking back to previous designs. He noticed many of the other tees used a western-style typeface.

“I wanted something very bold and straight to the point,” O’Hara said. “I thought, ‘What could I do that hasn’t been done yet?’”

O’Hara bought a Gold Rush T-Shirt annually. Now, he’s excited to see thousands of students across campus wearing his designs.

The proceeds from selling the shirts will go toward the United Way, said Matt Elder, spokesman for the organization. Last year, approximately $1,500 was raised for the organization.

Elder said at the height of T-Shirt sales in 2011, approximately $21,000 was raised.

O’Hara, a rising senior graphic design student, was one of only two who submitted designs to the contest, according to Elder. This year marked the first time students could submit their designs for consideration.

“This year’s design looks really, really good I think,” Elder said. “Not as much is going on likes ones in the past. Hopefully people like how this one looks more.”

O’Hara was a graphic design intern for the football team last year and was encouraged by the Department of Athletics to submit a design. He previously designed T-Shirts for “The Pride of West Virginia,” the Mountaineer Marching Band.

The choice to come to Morgantown was easy. Before his parents moved to upstate New York, he and his siblings went to school in the Beckley area.

“However short you are in West Virginia,” O’Hara said, “it never really leaves you. Morgantown, for me, is the college town when I think about college. Every other campus I’ve visited didn’t feel like how I felt when I came to Morgantown.”

He didn’t just follow his siblings to Morgantown, he followed them to their extra-cirricular activities.

His siblings were also a part of “The Pride.”

“We basically all followed into the same thing,” he said.

The Gold Rush game will take place Sept. 26 where West Virginia will face Maryland. The T-Shirts will sell for $10.

For more information on the tees or the game, visit http://unitedway.wvu.edu/goldrush. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Marti Shamberger elected Mayor of Morgantown by ally litten staff writer @dailyathenaeum

In a 4 to 2 vote, Marti Shamberger was elected Mayor of Morgantown earlier this summer, allowing her to take office this July, when she will start initiating her big plans for the community.

After serving as Deputy Mayor for two years and sitting on multiple committees, Shamberger is ready to improve the city, starting with the City Council.

“One of my big goals is communication and to work together as a team,” Shamberger said.

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“We have a lot of exciting development around town, especially around the airport. I would also like to promote the downtown area.”

Beautification is next on Shamberger’s list.

With a budget and limited resources, she hopes local community members will help clean up the city and surrounding areas.

Working with George Capel, West Virginia University Student Body President, Shamberger is calling for students to be involved in this process as well.

“I think we need to look at our gateways into

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town and those kind of areas and also downtown,” Shamberger said. “I think sometimes when you live somewhere for so long, you become numb to things around you. I think we should have more pride in city and how it looks. We have a budget and we only have limited resources to keep things up. Part of being a citizen is taking part in your community.”

Despite the recent debate about having a nonvoting WVU representative on City Council, Shamberger sees this as an opportunity to include students in the process.

“Well, we had asked stu-

dents to bring more information to us,” Shamberger said. “I think everyone has the opportunity to run for City Council.”

Shamberger received little opposition during her election, but some council members disagree with her being elected as mayor.

However, new Deputy Mayor Bill Kawecki thinks Shamberger will do Morgantown some good. Not only does Shamberger have experience, but she also can utilize past mayor Jennifer Selin as a resource to help the transition.

“I have known her for a long time,” Kawecki said.

“She is very organized.

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The transition between her and Jenny is going really smoothly.”

Kawecki has served on the Planning Commission as well as the Historic Landmark Committee. He is hoping to do all he can as Deputy Mayor to make the improvements Morgantown needs.

“I am looking forward to do what is next to move the city forward,” Kawecki said. “I am looking forward to the idea of doing what I can to make this a better place to live.”

Kawecki and Shamberger are ready to dive into new projects and exciting new opportu-

nities, such as the upc o m i n g Mo r ga nt ow n Marathon.

“It has been wonderful.

I have received congratulations from all kinds of people and all kinds of encouragement from previous mayors and people all over town,” Shamberger said. “It is fun to welcome people to our city.”

Shamberger’s vision of a more beautiful Morgantown will be coming true July 31 at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new development at the Morgantown Municipal Airport. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 to be perceived in a positive light as a healthy population, we have to make it happen ourselves,” Bowen said.

For more information on the Summer Steps Walking Challenge or to sign up, visit http://fh.ext. wvu.edu/summer-steps. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Wednesday July 22, 2015

CampusWise to bring textbook options by john mark shaver staff writer @dailyathenaeum

CampusWise, a new student-to-student textbook service at West Virginia University, is aiming to solve the problems of expensive textbooks, waiting delays and low buyback prices that commonly ail college students each fall.

The service was created

by Old Dominion University students Max Hall and Austin Jones and will allow students to sell their old textbooks directly to other students. After creating an account, students can buy listed books via PayPal, credit or debit and will be put in touch with the seller.

“It sets a conversation up on the site between the buyer and the seller,” Hall said. “We send an email right away that lets both of

them know that there’s been a transaction.”

To eliminate the risk of students trying to scam each other, all transactions are prepaid on the website before students meet to sell their books.

“Through the site, we deal with the transaction so when the students meet up with other students to exchange the book, they’re just exchanging the book and there’s no cash involved,” Hall said.

The site officially opened earlier this spring after Hall realized how expensive textbooks were at the University Bookstores.

“Freshman year, I went through the same struggle that everyone goes through where you buy all the books for your classes and you realize that you really didn’t need half of them,” Hall said.

“Then when you go back, you realize the book store

only gives you $10 compared to the $150 that you spent. I saw that everyone around me was frustrated, just as I was.”

According to Hall, CampusWise helped sell 56 books in its first three weeks of operation earlier this year. After price checking, Hall said those 56 books would’ve sold at the University Bookstore for over $5,000, but only cost $1,300 on CampusWise, saving students a total of over $3,700.

“The student selling the book gets a higher price than they would at a bookstore and the student buying the book is able to get a much lower price than they would anywhere else. You can’t lose,” Hall said.

In addition to WVU, CampusWise will be introduced to many colleges in the eastern United States, such as Penn State University, Vir-

ginia Tech and Ohio State University. Campus representatives, referred to as CampusReps, were hired

by Hall and Jones at each of these schools.

“We’re still getting and accepting CampusReps from different universities, but it looks like we’re going to be at least 15 to 20 [universities] this fall,” Hall said. “We’ve been very fortunate to have some amazing CampusReps apply to be a part of the team at those universities.”

Before this coming semester, CampusWise was only available at ODU, and in addition to growing more this fall, the young company plans to expand even more as the year goes on.

“We helped students save a massive amount of money, and our goal is to help get that to as many students as possible,” Hall said.

“We’re hoping to spread

to more and more schools across the country by winter. We’re hoping to have a presence in most of the major schools in the United States by the spring semester next year.”

While the service will not officially be offered until the fall semester begins, WVU students are welcome to register with the website at any time. There is also a smart phone app in production.

“Our long term goal is really just to create a more convenient and better college experience. There are so many things that college students have to work on. It’s such a tough process and we just wanted to make it easier,” Hall said.

To find out more or to register with CampusWise, visit http://www.campuswise.com/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Senators reach highway bill deal, action delayed WASHINGTON (AP) — With a deadline looming for a cutoff of highway aid to states, Senate Republicans failed Tuesday to muster enough votes to take up a bill that would extend transportation programs for six years.

Democrats complained they’d had only an hour to read the 1,040-page bill.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would give Democrats more time, but added he intends to push forward with the bill even if it means keeping the Senate in session over the weekend.

A motion to begin debate failed 41 to 56, falling far short of the 60 votes needed.

Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the No. 3 Democratic leader, said, “I can’t remember a time where I have been asked in all my years in the Congress to

vote yes ahead of time on a bill we haven’t seen, and there are no amendments” allowed.

While the bill would authorize highway and transit programs for six years, it contains only enough money — about $47 billion, according to a list of offsets supplied by McConnell’s office — to close the current funding gap for transportation programs for three years. The government currently spends about $50 billion a year on highway and transit aid, but the federal gas tax and other transportation taxes and fees raise only about $35 billion a year.

Some Republicans also expressed unhappiness with the bill. Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said he objected to one of its moneyraising provisions that would reduce the dividend

that the Federal Reserve pays to member banks, worth $16.3 billion.

“You’re taking money and there’s no connection between small banks, medium-sized banks and building highways and transit and you’re going to weaken the banking system. I’d be against that,” he told reporters.

The banking provision is the biggest source of money in the legislation to pay for transportation programs, according to a list provided

by McConnell’s office. Another $9 billion would come from the sale of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve, the nation’s energy stockpile for emergencies.

Indexing customs fees to rise with inflation would raise $4 billion. Extension of Transportation Security Administration fees paid by airline passengers would raise another $3.5 billion.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called the bill “a black hole.” He said Democrats have been told changes have been made to auto, trucking and rail safety provisions that were agreed to last week on a party-line vote by the Senate commerce committee, but no details were provided before the vote. Some Democrats have described the provisions as giveaways to industry that would undermine safety.

Safety advocates poring over the bill text late Tuesday said some of the controversial provisions were “tweaked,” but remain in the bill. One provision allows some states to effectively reduce the eligible age for an interstate commercial truck driving license from 21 to 18. The trucking industry says more drivers are needed to relieve a shortage.

The bill would also prevent the public from seeing the government’s safety ratings of truck and bus companies. The trucking industry says the government’s methodology for the ratings is flawed.

Congress faces a July 31 deadline to act. That’s when authority for transportation programs expires, eliminating the Transportation Department’s ability to process promised highway and transit aid payments to states.

But simply renewing the department’s authorization isn’t enough. Without an infusion of cash, the balance in the federal Highway Trust Fund is forecast to drop by the end of the month below $4 billion, the minimum cushion needed to keep money flowing to states without interruption.

The House last week passed its own $8 billion

bill keep transportation programs going until Dec. 18 while lawmakers try to work out a longer-term funding plan. But McConnell has said that he wants to pass a bill that keeps programs going at least through next year’s presidential election, if not longer.

“I think the Senate should take up our short-term bill as is, and pass that,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters. He said “everyone” wants to pass a long-term bill, but a better bill might be achieved with more time.

Congress has passed 34 temporary extensions of authority and financial bailouts of highway and transit programs since 2009. The uncertainty over federal aid has caused several states to delay or shelve transportation projects.

CSX provides update on train derailment cleanup GLEN FERRIS, W.Va. (AP) — CSX is continuing to closely monitor the environmental impact of a fiery oil-train derailment in southern West Virginia, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The company held a public informational meeting that drew a sparse turnout Tuesday evening at the Glen Ferris Inn. On Feb. 16, 27 cars of a CSX train's 109 cars derailed during a snowstorm in Mount Carbon. Twenty of the cars leaked oil, some of which burned or was released into the ground.

Under a March consent order with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the railroad agreed to a long-term plan for cleaning up and restoring the area around the

derailment.

"It's important for the community to know that we said we would be here," CSX spokeswoman Melanie Cost said. "This is part of that process. We want to keep the open dialogue for them."

Donna Shabdue lives near the derailment site and was forced to evacuate her home for more than a day. She showed up to the meeting to voice her concerns about local emergency response and pleaded for quickly informing the public about future incidents.

"They need to have a plan," she said. "We didn't know what to do. There needs to be a siren somewhere go off to evacuate.

We didn't know what to do. I just want out of there

safely."

The train was carrying 3 million gallons of Bakken crude and headed to Yorktown, Virginia. In recent years, trains hauling crude from the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana have been involved in fiery derailments in six states.

The Federal Railroad Administration is investigating the West Virginia accident, which shot fireballs into the sky, burned down a nearby house and caused fires on the ground that smoldered for days.

The cause of the derailment hasn't been released.

Speed had previously been ruled out as a factor. The FRA has said the train was going 33 mph at the time of the crash. The speed limit

was 50 mph.

CSX said more than 181,000 gallons of crude oil was recovered after the accident. About 10,000 tons of soil has been removed and shipped for disposal. Additional soil removal is planned next to the Kanawha River and a tributary at the derailment site.

Air, water and soil sampling continues. The water monitoring is at five locations along the river, including a drinking water intake, because of the occasional presence of oil sheens. CSX said the local drinking water supply has been unaffected by the spill.

Oil-absorbing booms were attached to a metal wall more than 410 feet long in the river as an

An aerial photo of the train derailment in Feb. 2015. additional containment measure. The wall will eventually be taken down once the sheens are no longer detected, Cost s

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Cost declined to disclose how much the company has spent on the cleanup.

Status update on the Chattanooga shootings

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.

(AP) — The latest on the Chattanooga shootings at two military facilities: 6 p.m.

U.S. and state flags in South Carolina are flying at half-staff through Saturday to honor the five military service members killed in last week’s shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Gov. Nikki Haley directed the lowering of flags on state property after President Barack Obama issued a proclamation Tuesday regarding U.S. flags flown at public buildings across the country.

Obama’s order came five days after four Marines and one Navy sailor were killed during shootings at two Tennessee military sites.

The president’s move followed congressional orders to lower flags at the U.S. Capitol.

South Carolina also recently flew its flags at halfstaff to honor nine black parishioners gunned down in Charleston last month.

Their deaths sparked a nationwide conversation about race and Confederate symbols after photos emerged showing the man accused of the killings pos-

ing with the Confederate flag.

2:40 p.m.

A person close to the family says the man who killed five troops in an attack on two military sites in Tennessee wrote in late 2013 of being a failure and having a worthless life after he lost his job at a power plant.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity on Tuesday out of concern that being identified publicly would have business repercussions. The person says the writings of Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez were that of someone who was clearly depressed.

The person says the writings were described by the family, but the person has not read them. The writings were found by the FBI in the family home.

Abdulazeez was fired from a job at an Ohio power plant in 2013 after what an official described as a failed drug test.

2 p.m.

An attorney says the man who killed five troops in an attack on two military sites in Tennessee stayed with an uncle in Jordan last year, but only to help him with his business.

Abed al-Kader Ahmad al-Khateeb says his client is an uncle of the gunman, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. He says his client, Asaad Ibrahim Asaad Haj Ali, was arrested Friday

by Jordanian government officials.

Al-Khateeb says investigators took computers and cellphones from his client’s home but have not charged him with anything. Al-Khateeb says he has not been allowed to meet with his client.

The attorney says Abdulazeez is not religious and did not belong to any sort of organization or political party.

A Jordanian government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case with the media, could not immediately confirm whether the uncle was in custody.

12:45 p.m.

The U.S. flag atop the White House is flying at halfstaff in remembrance of five service members who were killed in last week’s Chattanooga, Tennessee shooting.

President Barack Obama issued an order Tuesday to lower the flag, following

similar moves at the U.S. Capitol and even by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The order also follows criticism of the White House.

U.S. flags flown at all public buildings and grounds, including military posts, will fly at half-staff until sunset Saturday.

Four Marines and one Navy sailor were killed during shootings by 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez at two Tennessee military sites.

11:45 a.m.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. will keep doing everything in its power to protect American military members after last week’s killing of five troops in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Obama is speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Pittsburgh.

He says the U.S. honors the four Marines and one sailor killed. He says the nation is drawing strength from Chattanooga as it sends an unmistakable message that the U.S. won’t give in to fear or attempts to change the American way of life.

Obama says the U.S. must remain vigilant in protect-

ing the homeland. He says the details about the Chattanooga attack aren’t yet clear.

But he says the Islamic State group and al-Qaida have encouraged attacks on U.S. soil, including against U.S. troops.

Obama says small terrorist cells and so-called “lone wolves” are hard to prevent.

11:25 a.m.

A lawyer says an uncle of the shooter in last week’s killing of five U.S. servicemen in Tennessee has been in custody in Jordan since a day after the attack.

Abed al-Kader Ahmad alKhateeb told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he was barred from seeing his client and that family members were prevented from visiting. Al-Khateeb identified his client as Asaad Ibrahim Asaad Haj Ali, a maternal uncle of the Tennessee attacker, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.

The Tennessee shooter had spent several months in Jordan last year, and a Jordanian government official said Tuesday that some of Abdulazeez’ relatives in Jordan were being questioned as part of an investigation into his stay in the kingdom.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case with the media, did not know if the uncle was in detention.

7:24 a.m.

Qatar says the shooter in the killing of four Marines and a U.S. sailor in Tennessee last week transited through the Gulf state on his way back from a visit to Jordan but never set foot outside the airport.

Qatar’s government media office made the comments in a statement responding to questions from The Associated Press on Tuesday following news reports that Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez had visited the country.

The statement says Abdulazeez changed planes Doha’s Hamad International Airport on his way to the United States in November 2014.

It adds that statements suggesting “Abdulazeez entered the State of Qatar are false.”

Qatar has emerged as a major long-haul transit hub in the Middle East thanks to the rapid growth of government-backed Qatar Airways.

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Jeff Bianchi makes W.Va. debut on summer tour Caitlin Worrell a&e editor @dailyathenaeum

With his echoing chords turning heads across town, classical guitarist Jeff Bianchi captivated guests at the Monongalia Arts Center last Saturday evening. Classical music fans filled the Tanner Theatre with high hopes for the renowned instrumentalist. Morgantown was just one stop on Bianchi’s summer concert tour, but his first show in West Virginia will surely not be his last.

Dimmed lights and candlelit tables created a soft, quiet and almost mysterious atmosphere for guests.

This dark ambiance forced guests to focus all of their attention to the single spotlight on the Tanner stage where Bianchi sat with his guitar. The skilled performer, dressed in all black, let the music speak for itself though as he flowed through his diverse, multicultural set. His set for the evening included an array of classical guitar works from across the world and across multiple time periods. He began the evening with “Suite in D Minor,” a

Jeff Bianchi plays late 17th century guitar music for the crowd at the Monongalia Arts Center’s Tanner Theatre.

French piece from the late ing chords. These rather Merlin. Performing the seventeenth century. The dainty melodies enthralled “Four Songs of Love for the four songs slowly opened audience members as they Guitar,” Bianchi spoke to his set, building sound and watched Bianchi’s hands on the audience before playmomentum for more var- the guitar in awe. His quick, ing to give more context on ied musical elements to precise but above all gentle the set. He noted he was income. movements created a clas- spired by the notion that we He followed his Euro- sical trance, easily making all walk the same circle in pean set with another group each song blend into the life and essentially, how we of songs from across the next. are all in this together. Bianpond, as Bianchi effortlessly Perhaps the height of chi asked guests to listen for glided into his “Works from his performance came as these deeper meanings and England” set. These songs he began one of his South messages as he plays. embraced higher tones American pieces by Argen“He just seems very pasand more delicate sound- tinian musician Jose Luis sionate about his music.

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He conveys that and he involves you, I think,” said Melanie Fisher of Bianchi’s artistry. “Each piece tells a story and makes an image for you.”

This Latin-inspired series sped up the pace a bit with quick strumming and more variety in tone. Bianchi is able to create the musical depth far beyond the few chords of his guitar.

“He has a gentle, quiet approach,” said Darien Bloom,

an audience member and budding guitarist herself.

“Once he starts playing, we are superfluous.”

Continuing with the Latin theme, he finished the evening with “Works from Brazil,” which included four uplifting songs. The Spanish influence seen throughout much of his performance creates a notable twang for the audience. His intricate hand movements drew in the audience as he nailed each chord and key perfectly.

After receiving a standing ovation, Bianchi delighted guests with a traditional encore to his stellar Morgantown performance. His Fernando Saur song choice was a popular choice for guests like Bloom who are new to the world of classical music.

“I thought the encore was the best because it was the most accessible,” said Bloom. “If you play the guitar, that guitarist is in all the beginning guitar books.”

Saturday night’s show was an affordable and convenient venue for music enthusiasts, adding to the overall success of the performance. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

24th Annual Senior Showcase brings variety to Benedum Gallery Caitlin Worrell a&E editor @dailyathenaeum

This month, visitors at the Monongalia Arts Center are in for a special kind of presentation from a diverse selection of local artists. Debuting July 10, the annual Senior Showcase will be on display in the center’s Benedum Gallery.

In its 24th year, the showcase features a variety of artistic works, from paintings and sketches to wood carvings and pottery. The showcase is exclusive to artists throughout the local community – age 50 or older – who express passion and meaning through their art.

As you walk through the glass doors of the gallery, you immediately become enthralled in the hundreds of colorful, vibrant works hanging throughout the room.

While all of the intricate works were breathtaking in their own way, a few specific pieces were too special for a single glance.

Gleaming in the corner were two handmade glass pieces. A bowl and dish laced with a sparkling splash of color by community artist Tom Milne were the first of many artistic works that caught my

eye. The dish, which mimicked a basket woven texture, incorporates stripes of gold glitter and color to create a perfectly patched appearance. However, the bowl took on a much different aesthetic.

While the bowl also boasted a slew of vibrant colors, this worked entitled “Water Lily,” depicted a dainty white flower in the center. Milne even created an iridescent dragonfly that sits on the rim of the bowl, fitting with the piece’s water lily theme.

Milne’s use of color and weaving technique was enough to snag second place in the Senior Showcase for his “Diachronic Patchwork” plate.

Another set of standout pieces for me were from local artist Linda Gribko, who translated her passion for art into two photographic illustrations. Both pieces visually portrayed two different types of chakras in a kaleidoscope style image. The first, “Power Chakra,” embraces many tones of yellow and gold as it creates a flower burst illusion for the observer. Other earth tones, such as deep olive green and maroon, also add contrasts to the puzzlelike image.

The second, “Creativity

Chakra,” features even more vibrant colors with blobs of orange and red creating a strong point of focus for the spectator. The center of this image is mostly green with more detailed elements at its core, going along with the theme of creativity.

The final piece that kept me lingering in the gallery was the third place piece by Jeanette Janezic-Campbell. This oil painting, entitled “Clearwater Festival,” reminded me of all the joys of the summer season.

Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM The scene shows a calm beach with a pier jutting out into the A visitor admires a painting on display for the Senior Showcase exhibit at the Monongalia Arts Center. water. The pier is covered in dozens of multicolored beach umbrellas masking a majority of the dock’s appearance.

Her hand technique is delicate, with the light blue effortlessly fading into the shoreline. Clouds in the sky appear incredibly realistic as they melt into the background of the scene.

While most of the colors in this piece are dull and muted, the contrast of the umbrellas lining the pier quickly draw your eye in. This isolated splash of color makes a quiet, empty beach suddenly seem full again.

Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM A mannequin head makes an appearance at the Senior Showcase in the Monongalia Arts Center along with other works daa&e@mail.wvu.edu of sculptures and paintings.

Student rapper soars with mixtape Fletcher’s Grove on ‘All Good’ vibes Woody Pond

a&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Music affects everyone differently, but it is safe to say it has the uncanny ability to make us feel and to entertain. This is what West Virginia native Thomas Okel’s second mixtape “Medicine” is all about—drawing its audience out of the harshness of reality and taking them on something similar to the magical Willy Wonka boat ride.

Okel is a new, electrifiying hip-hop artist from Wheeling, W. Va who has taken great strides from the release of his first verse in September 2014. His style can be compared to that of the newer, darker Mac Miller and Earl Sweatshirt.

The dark melodies on his instrumentals are very descriptive and offer imaginative wordplay that has no boundaries in its subject matter. Already with over twenty publicly released songs in his Soundcloud discography, Okel has tapped into a significant Internet audience and has worked with talented collaborators who have helped increase his exposure from a mere one hundred listens to thousands and counting.

Okel first found his knack for writing music when late one night he wrote a rhyming poem. He was so amazed at what he had done that he kept going, writing several poems with the intent of performing them for friends as spoken word pieces. This

soon evolved, as he decided to write some of them to music. When he finally met his audio engineer John McFarland in his first year at WVU, he began recording a few verses here and there to string together into one project as an experiment.

“I was finding my brandtouching on different music styles that I knew I liked and seeing which one worked for me,” Okel said.

“Medicine” was released on Soundcloud July 14, and with it Okel introduced to us that personal sound he had been honing all spring.

The whole eight track playlist flows very nicely from the opening piano keys of “Medicinal” through the dark horn synths and wavy strings that crop up throughout the mixtape.

The lyrics are inventive, with clever takes on some of Morgantown night life’s greatest treasures as well as themes of peace, love, and the healing power of music.

“Music is my medicine. I was in a dark place last year…I had family issues, and I was struggling in school, but I was getting better at writing because I was doing it all the time,” Okel said. “It was therapy for me, to get out of my head and onto the page.”

Occasionally Okel will erupt into an explosive release of what seems like a hundred words a minute, as he expertly flaunts his developing writing skills and his rapid fire rhythm. But, his greatest moments come when he pulls his foot off the gas a little and coasts through songs like “Loun-

gin” confidently with catchier and more memorable flows.

The whole mixtape sounds like cough syrup (in a good way) as it takes you away from the struggle of your real life. Okel mixes an ambient, electronic fusion of dance and classical instrumentals with creative and sometimes unbelievable rhymes and storytelling. The song “Ronin” plays like a swordfighting sidescroller over a haunting horn melody, as Okel tells the tale of a samurai on his path toward redemption and vengeance. Two other fantasy pieces, “Retrospace Therapeutic” and “Island Love,” discuss Star Trekesque space adventures and finding an exotic stranger to fall for on an island getaway, respectively.

Okel has no plans to stop the train he is on now, as he is already planning his next project. He says his work with John has really tightened up and gone from a chore to something he wishes he could do all day long.

“John and I have become much closer and learned to work together better,” Okel said. “He has gone from my producer to one of my closest friends, and I like to give him a lot of freedom because I trust that he knows what is gonna work for me to make my song the best it can be.”

“Medicine” can be found on Okel’s Soundcloud page, http://soundcloud.com/ okel. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Ally Litten

A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Local music festival All Good brought nothing but great vibes July 9-11. Primus, moe., Cake, Thievery Corporation, Lotus, SOJA, Railroad Earth, Keller Williams, Yonder Mountain String Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Greensky Bluegrass and many other bands performed. Among the listed of talented musicians was Morgantown’s own Fletcher’s Grove who grooved along with the best of them.

Ryan Krofcheck on vocals and rhythm gutiar, Matt Marion on percussion and vocals, lead guitarist and flute player Wes Hager, bass player Taylor Pratt and drummer Tommy Bailey are the perfect combination of funk and rock.

After being moved to Berry Hill Farm in Summit Point, W.Va., All Good Music Festival turned out to be a different experience than what festival goers originally thought.

Although it was not a bad location, fans missed the serene environment Marvin’s Mountaintop, W.Va., offered a few years back.

“All Good for me was overall a good experience. It’s no Marvin’s Mountaintop but it wasn’t trying to be either,” Pratt said. “I’m glad to have it back in West Virginia but I’m not sure Summit Point is the right place to have it. Seclusion and shade were the best parts of Masontown and it’d be nice to see it come back to a location similar to that.”

Early Friday afternoon, Fletcher’s Grove stormed the Believe in Music Stage. One of the two bands represent-

ing wild and wonderful West Virginia, Fletcher’s Grove offered All Good a true Appalachian experience.

“It felt good not only to be joining the ranks of such successful bands, but also to represent our home state as one of only two West Virginia groups, the other being local to the area,” Bailey said. “I think the festival went really well. The crowds were great and all the bands brought their best energy. [I’m] really looking forward to next year!”

After reflecting on their set, Fletcher’s Grove was pleased with their performance and the energy of the crowd.

“Our show went really well!

We had a great hometown crowd and felt like we brought a lot of good energy to the afternoon set,” Krofcheck said.

“I really feel like we represented our state well.”

Besides being a part of music making, Fletcher’s Grove also got to join the crowd after their set. Many of the

bands they admire the most jammed on the same exact stage as they did, making it the complete All Good experience.

“Hands-down the best set was Primus,” Krofcheck said.

“They really brought in a full stage production with giant inflatable mushrooms and a visualizer screen. Besides Primus, the best daytime set had to have gone to Chris Robinson’s Brotherhood and Railroad Earth. Two of my favorite bands playing back to back.

Neil Casal from the Brotherhood even sat in with Railroad for a song.”

Despite the location, once again, All Good Music Festival was a hit. Even though the festival frequently changes location, it never fails to bring great vibes and wonderful people together.

For more information about Fletcher’s Grove, go to http://fletchersgrove.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Bill protecting LGBT students killed It is no secret that high school can be a trying time for students of all backgrounds, but it is also true that being an LGBT student adds another layer of difficulty. In fact, LGBT teens and young adults are shown to be at a pronounced risk for suicide attempts and suicidal ideation. According to GLAAD, 55 percent of students feel unsafe at their school because of their sexual orientation and 38 percent because of their gender

identity. In spite of all this, current legal protections of minorities in schools do not extend to LGBT students.

That’s why Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota has devoted so much time to his attempts to pass a bill that would set protections in place for LGBT students in K-12 public schools nationwide.

Unfortunately, the bill only obtained 52 of the 60 votes required for it to pass, receiving 45 opposing votes. In a move that

should surprise no one, all votes against the bill were cast by Republican senators, including our own Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. Tennessee’s Sen. Lamar Alexander rallied his colleagues against the bill, claiming such concerns would be better handled at the local rather than federal level. However, if antiLGBT bullying were already being handled efficiently at the local level, there would be no need for this ongoing

discussion of federal protection for LGBT students.

In this day and age, a time where children in American schools are protected by law regardless of gender, disability, or race, it only makes sense that LGBT students should be entitled to these legal protections as well.

Every student in the United States should be guaranteed the right to feel safe at their school. To deny LGBT students a safe learning environment is to deny them the

best education they could possibly receive.

While we cannot force the 45 naysaying Republican senators to have concern for the wellbeing of the LGBT students that they continue to allow to be bullied, it is entirely possible for citizens to voice their displeasure. Contact your senator, be it via letter, email or even social media and allow your voice to be heard. As a country that proclaims itself to be “The Land of the Free,”

we simply cannot allow the youth of our nation to be raised knowing some of us are more equal in the eyes of the law than others. It is imperative we do as much as possible to institute cultural change when it comes to anti-LGBT bullying in our schools, and our representatives taking action to protect our LGBT youth would be a crucial step toward that change. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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An RA’s plea to incoming freshmen: “Just ask” kaitlin licause guest columnist @dailyathenaeum

Resident Assistants, or RAs, are the invisible backbone of the freshman experience. Their job is almost entirely dedicated to shaping an entire year around you, the new student, from the way you spend your evenings to the people you turn to when you have nowhere else to go. They are rarely ever ‘off the clock’ from morning ‘til, well, the next morning, an RA has to be prepared for anything and everything to happen at a moment’s notice. They are basically paid to be a dorm’s resident jack-of-all-trades.

Which begs the question: why, if RAs are there for that exact purpose, are freshmen so utterly terrified of asking their RA for help?

Freshman residents that I have dealt with over my two total years of RA work seemed beyond hesitant, nearly downright unwilling to ask me, or any other RA for that matter, for the smallest of things. From day one onward, it felt like students were tip-toeing around me in the hallways, trying their best to avoid eye contact even when I said hello. When they finally did need something, it was always an awkward experience, as if they weren’t quite sure if it was okay for them to speak to me one-on-one.

Working as a living, breathing resource is tiring enough, but having to convince students to interact with you makes it significantly harder. Many RAs have voiced their frustration over how impossible it is to feel on top of things, mainly because we’re often the last to know when something drastic has happened to one of our students.

We get it. We’re like the cops. We seem unapproachable because we’re supposed to be rule-enforcers, and yes, that can be intimidating, especially when you’re telling us something you might get in trouble for.

However, in my two years as an RA, the amount of time I spent dealing with

people breaking rules was surprisingly small, maybe only once or twice a week.

The rest of it was trying my hardest to figure out what my residents needed to get through the year. This meant everything from solving roommate conflicts, giving scholarship advice, and even hashing out romances gone terribly, terribly wrong. The most difficult part about the job was that it often wasn’t the student looking for help that brought their troubles to my attention; I would often hear it through a roommate or, even worse, through a rumor that turned out to be true.

It might point to how RAs are instructed to present

themselves at the beginning of the year. A lot of that fateful first encounter between freshmen and their RAs centers purely on the rulebook; that is, what the residents shouldn’t do, rather than what they should. With the first week of classes already being a hectic mess for most new students, the purpose of the RA can easily be lost, and they can be put straight into the “cop” role once they begin dealing with rulebreakers.

There is only so much your RA can do. Even if it seems like it, they can’t read your mind. The real problem isn’t that we’re swamped with so much work that we don’t have time for the little things; it’s that we don’t

know where we’re needed.

A plea to all incoming students as well a reminder to all RAs: please, this upcoming fall semester, let’s open the channels of communication from the beginning and keep them open for the rest of the year. Ask questions when you need to ask them, even when it seems inconvenient or you doubt that it will help.

Your RA should be your goto whenever you’re having a difficult moment, even if it’s just for support and some words of encouragement. You never have to face freshman year on your own, so please, please just ask. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Pseudoscience a troubling issue within academia

A University of Toronto class has come under fire for controversial curriculum regarding alternative medicine.

Toronto caught wind of the Our lives are made longer through the use of pharmainstructor’s bogus claims.

Kody Goff As someone who would ceuticals, transplants and columnist consider themselves a skep- advanced surgical tech@retrosyk tic, as well as someone who niques. Yet there are people Recently it was made will be working in the medi- who manage to get into uniknown that the Univer- cal field in a scant few years, versities and tell students sity of Toronto in Canada of course I’m going to take the results of this scientific hosted a course that made issue with someone spout- endeavor are wrong. some truly ridiculous claims ing nonsense about modern Obviously I’m not saying about health. The class, medicine. It’s not even that scientific thought should taught by homeopath Beth I’m particularly invested reign supreme and unLandau-Halpern, informs personally in the claims of challenged, for that is prestudents that vaccines ac- science being accurate; it’s cisely the opposite of what tually damage the immune just that they demonstrably science and skepticism is system and cancer func- are accurate. about. Look at the schools We live in a world built of thought that have brought tions as a survival mechanism. This course, dealing on the backs of scientific true results. Pharmaceutiwith the always nebulously inquiry and advancement. cals, as expensive and cumdefined “alternative med- Most of us carry in our pock- bersome as they are, reicine” was investigated af- ets computers more power- ally can make a difference ter higher-ups at the medi- ful than those used by the in people’s lives. This modcally-oriented University of space program of the ‘70s. ern medicine is founded

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on the same line of thought that put men on the moon and that computer in your pocket.

As a tangent, I’d like to address anyone who thinks working “alternative medicine” cures and treatments are covered up by big name pharmaceuticals. Really stop and think about it, does that make any sense at all? If something works, then people are willing to pay money for it and the assumed greedy capitalists that supposedly inhabit pharmaceutical companies’ higher rungs would pour money into those treatments in order to get more money out of the general public. No, we use the scientific method

because it works. It may be slow-going and at times infuriating, but what else has provided such widespread success?

Now, getting back to the matter of pseudoscience in academia, this is certainly not an isolated issue. While it is unlikely these kinds of “woo-woo” will crop up in a true STEM class, the social sciences are just rife with these kinds of ideas. Even I can remember being in a humanities class in which we were encouraged to find alternatives to pharmaceuticals, such as acupuncture and homeopathy. Yes, this was at West Virginia University, and yes, I believe it happens at other places as well.

As stated before, dissidence and debate are healthy in academia, and especially so for scientific thought, but when we begin promoting ideas that have either been proven demonstrably false or are just plain useless, we risk giving credence to charlatans and snake-oil peddlers. There are two wise, skeptical thoughts to keep in mind when confronting any new idea: “Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out” and of course “That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Syracuse University is officially tobacco-free Though today only 8 percent of teens smoke — which is down from 23 percent in 2000 — tobacco is still the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., making tobacco-free policies extra important. truth, one of the most successful and one of the largest national youth smoking prevention campaigns, exposes the tactics of the tobacco industry, the truth about addiction and the health effects and social consequences of smoking.

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to teens, the campaign is credited with keeping hundreds of thousands of teens from starting to smoke.

The number of colleges and universities with 100 percent smoke- or tobacco-free policies has tripled in recent years, growing from 446 campuses in 2010 to 1,543 campuses in 2015. Because 94 percent of smokers start before age 20 and tobacco-free policies are proven effective tobacco control strategies, targeting college campuses proves highly effective. However, 6,100 col-

lege campuses in the U.S. have not adopted these tobacco- or smoke-free policies, including University of Southern California, Howard University, Northwestern University, George Mason University and Texas A&M. But now, truth can at least celebrate one more university that has turned from the trend to put an end to tobacco use on its campus. On July 14, 2015, Syracuse University officially became a tobaccofree campus, according to a recent press release, prompting the award-win-

ning truth campaign to celebrate the victory in a new online video and to launch an online petition to spur more colleges and universities to adopt tobacco-free policies. truth is highlighting Syracuse as an example of an effort to spark youth to use their passion, creativity and social influence to push their schools to go tobacco-free as a part of its Finish It campaign, which launched in August 2014.

“The Syracuse Orange experience offers a powerful example of how students can rally together to end tobacco,” said Robin

Koval, CEO and President of Legacy, the national public health foundation that directs and funds truth, and a graduate of Syracuse University. “I’m proud of my alma mater, and I’m proud that truth is using Syracuse’s bold action to encourage other college students and campuses to go tobacco-free.” truth is highlighting additional areas of progress in the effort to make this the generation that ends tobacco use. Find these other “progress reports” online. “College students have the power to end to-

bacco use,” said Ritney Castine, Director, Youth Activism at Legacy. “This online effort starts with the premise that any student can start or join a movement on his or her campus, share progress with students elsewhere and contribute to nationwide progress in the fight against the tobacco epidemic.” Follow Syracuse University’s example and lead the charge on your campus to end tobacco use. Call on your college or university by signing on to the petition at thetruth.com.

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People’s Co-Op makes new home on Pleasant St. Jillian CLemente A&e writer @dailyathenaeum

The Mountain People’s Co-Op is growing up and moving, but not that far away. It needs more space for bigger and better things, like a larger selection of natural and organic products to better serve the Morgantown area.

“This is something we’ve been working on for several years and have been looking at a bunch of different properties and we wanted to stay downtown and be accessible to students,” said Ashley Keane, the general manager of the Co-op.

The Co-op focuses on getting the best products to serve its community and its new street by going through a number of steps to make sure the products sold are truly the best.

“We only focus on the dirty dozen for organics and clean 15 to get certified organics (for the Coop),” Keane said. “We also look very hard into a company before we bring them in.”

She continued, saying they check out the company’s socio-economic dealings, making sure the workers are taken care of with a social security equivalent, housing programs and more.

“It’s an easier way to shop with responsibility and strong ethics,” she said.

The Co-op also buys in bulk so it can sell to the

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The new store front of the Mountain People’s Co-Op located on Pleasant Street.

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The new Mountain People’s Co-op offers many organic alternatives to everyday products. other stores on its new street, Pleasant Street.

“We wholesale to them, all the restaurants on the block, and we hope to expand now that we’re more accessible to them,” she

said. “We’re hoping to coordinate especially with 123 Pleasant Street to do some late-night things. We started wholesaling about 4 years ago and we’re trying to get the word out and

let other local businesses know that they can get clean food.”

This mostly-organic food location wholesales to the University as well.

“The First Hand Cooperative, we house them in our building as well. We work with the WellWVU program and we’re hoping to coordinate with more clubs this year.”

In the basement of the new location is a bakery as well, to further help out the community and just another business for the Coop to assist.

The new location also has higher ceilings, according to Keane, which allows for more room for possibility.

“We have a lot more room that we can build into, but right now we’re focusing on currently getting more feedback (for the space),” she said.

One possibility is more room for local artisans’ works.

“We want more people to work with our consignment program and support more local artisans,” Keane said. “We have such a low consignment rate that it’s a good jumping off price.

Hopefully, they (the artisans) do well enough that they can branch out on their own.”

While the Co-op serves to provide support for its community in most ways, the main goal is to provide organic food in a new, larger location to allow more products to be available to this West Virginia community.

“It hits home when they (customers) can taste the difference,” Keane said, referring to the differences in taste between organic and nonorganic products.

“Some kids have never seen where that vegetable has come from.” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Mountainfest returns to Morgantown Album Corner: Alternative mashups Chelsea Walker A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Morgantown is revving up for one rumbling ride, as the Wild and Wonderful Mountainfest Motorcycle Rally returns to Mylan Park.

For seven years, Wild and Wonderful Mountainfest has united bikers through the love of stunts, music and motorcycles.

As a non-profit organization, Wild and Wonderful Mountainfest, with the help of sponsors and donors, donates proceeds to numerous local nonprofits in the area. With the assistance from bike enthusiasts from across the country, Mountainfest Motorcycle Rally has granted over $500,000 to various groups such as the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of North Central West Virginia, Girl Scouts and the Alternative Learning Center, an organization focused on aiding atrisk high school students in achieving their educational goals.

In 2004, Mountainfest Motorcycle Rally began impacting Mylan Park, when the intersection between I-79 and I-68 became a topic of interest for various community stakeholders in the Morgantown, Fairmont and Bridgeport area. With an interest and urge to host a raging motorcycle rally in West Virginia, a committee made up of board members from the surrounding areas began making phone calls to bike fanatics and motorcycle dealers. Hosting the first

rally in 2005, the board that so eagerly brought to life the Mountainfest experience decided to donate all funds to non-profits within the Mylan Park location.

With the help from volunteers belonging to the countless non-profits in the Mylan area, Mountainfest is now known as one of the most exciting motorcycle events on the east coast. Mountainfest blends individuals from all over the US, from seasoned bikers to attendees looking to catch enthralling stunt skits and live entertainment.

Cliff Sutherland, who has been working with Mountainfest since its establishment, said riders not only travel to the east coast from all across the US, but from countries such as Germany, Australia, Italy, Great Britain and Japan.

“Over the four days, over 50,000 attend the event,” Sutherland said.

Sutherland said Mountainfest brings an incredible economic impact to the community, raking up an estimated $1012,000 from vendors and acts. Sutherland said according to the WV Tourist Centers, motorcycle touring statewide has increased since Mountainfest’s start, even producing an attendance boom at state parks through the riding season.

With food and motorcycle vendors, attendees can purchase official Mountainfest gear, leather, jewelry, hats and eyewear. A Budweiser Brew Master tour will take place Thursday through Sunday, giv-

ing individuals the chance to see how beer is made, while the Bud Light Beer Experience will feature a full foldout bar equipped with endless drafts. The traditional Parade of Bikes will take place on Saturday, allowing sponsors and attendants to proceed behind the WVU Mountaineer, this year’s parade marshall.

Mountainfest’s token entertainment will be featured during the fiveday affair, with stages set up at endless locations such as, The Coal Bucket, Triple S Harley-Davidson and other local town bars. With assorted venues hosting live entertainment, Mountainfest Motorcycle Rally’s artist roster is full of classic acts from Travis Tritt and The Charlie Daniels Band, America and The Marshall Tucker Band. Hometown favorites The Davisson Brothers Band as well as American rocker and Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame’s Joan Jett and the Blackhearts will see stage time as well.

Featuring new vendors, stunt teams and even new unique events such as “dwarf wrestling,” and roller derby. Mountainfest has revamped and re-upped to make 2015 a one-of-a-kind rally.

“You will be entertained, there is plenty to see and do,” Sutherland said.

Wild and Wonderful Mountainfest Motorcycle Rally will take place July 22-26. For more information visit, http://wvmountainfest.com/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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“DS2” by Future “Dirty Sprite 2” was supposed to be Future’s trap opus, as the summer was deemed his after his recent success in the genre with his previous mixtapes. But, Future’s third album “DS2” falls a little short of album of the summer, and instead floats along in a druginduced haze beside the other decent rap albums of 2015.

Hooks, drugs, 808’s, and a lot of attention to vocal design are the cornerstones of Future’s sound. This does not go unnoticed on the album, as each mix has its own repetitive hook over booming bass with a different effect depending on the mix of Future’s voice.

He has a raspy low voice that can be altered and presented in so many ways depending on the EQ—it can range from a slow, syrupy voice to a fast, sharp sound that cuts through the bass.

Future sticks to mostly darker trap, unlike the happier sound characterized by Fetty Wap for example, as most of his beats stick mostly to the minor key. The instrumental production is excellent, with several credits from a talented producer named Metro Boomin as well as the trap magnate Zaytoven. Lyrically it is dirty, aggressive and very focused on sex, drugs or threatening invisible enemies on the horizon.

But, what can I say? Future is rich now and these are the things he feels like rapping about. The album draws out a bit towards the end, as soon as you realize that you heard a similar rendition of the same material on the previous ten songs already, but there are a

few gems scattered throughout. The collaboration with Drake on “Where Ya At” will surely be popular for a while since the two are both very popular in their own respective musical environments.

There are songs worth checking out on “DS2,” but don’t mark it down as a classic.

“A u t o m a t o n ” b y Gossamer Evan Reiner did not like that his music professors were telling him what sound was “right.” So he made an experimental side project called Gossamer to explore his own strange artistry. On July 10, Reiner released his first album “Automaton,” which he calls one full day in the crazy world that is his mind.

The whole album in its entirety is very ambient, with slow and calculated transitions. Each song is episodic, and they each have their own unique sound that tells a story for each part of the day. The sound is almost unbelievable, as Reiner uses so many different forms of percussion and bongos along with many types of keys, strings, synths, even a xylophone. More than just this, Reiner went mobile to find the best sounds to include for the “Automaton” environment. He recorded a train station, a rusty bicycle, and even played some instruments in empty tunnels simply for the natural echo. The opening track sounds like the breaking of day, as we hear birds chirping and then a beautiful chorus of vocal samples sneak up on us. The album closes with the setting of the sun and night enveloping the earth as cricket chirping fades in during the closing seconds.

Gossamer has a very interesting and alternative style,

and this album is definitely worth a listen if not at least to see how creative some people’s minds truly are when nobody is telling them what to do.

“Sing Into My Mouth”

by Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell Folk artist Sam Beam of Iron & Wine teams up with Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell for a folk/Southern rock cover album called “Sing Into My Mouth,” a lyric taken from the opening song “This Must Be The Place” by Talking Heads. You probably won’t recognize many of the songs, which may make you detached from the record, but from a musical standpoint this album has some very solid moments.

Both artists take turns singing the lead on each song, depending on which one of their personal vocal styles will work the best for the cover.

The album is very mellow most of the time—with lilting fiddle, saxophone and accordion appearing at times to add some robustness—but Bridwell occasionally opens up and sings with strength and conviction to rock the place out a bit more. His biggest success is on the song “There’s No Way Out of Here,” originally performed by Unicorn and penned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, where he breaks out and powers his way through a beautiful chorus in the manner of Bob Dylan. The song choice is questionable at times, and the whole thing sounds like the background music of a bar scene, but all in all the duo made some nice music and that always deserves acknowledgement. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Footloose: West Virginia Public Theatre puts on their dancing shoes

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Above: The cast of Footloose receives a standing ovation.

Left: Adriana and Morgan Reilly Star in Footloose.

Bottom: Matt Augustyniak stars as Ren McCormack in the West Virginia Public Theatre production.

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CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 2 | DAsports@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia wide receiver Shelton Gibson runs with the ball during the Gold-Blue Spring Game last spring.

WVU receiving corps looks to find their footing without White, Alford by connor murray sports writer @Dailyathenaeum

For many programs across the landscape of college football, losing two top flight receivers to the NFL Draft would be an insurmountable burden.

West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen finds himself facing that exact dilemma heading into the 2015 season after losing Kevin White and Mario Alford, but you won’t catch him wringing his hands over it.

Why is that? Well, for starters, it’s not the first time Holgorsen has been in this boat. Coming off WVU’s first season in the

Big 12, Holgorsen had to find a way to move on without two of the best wide receivers in program history: Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey.

While it may have taken some time, Holgorsen and his coaching staff transformed a pair of relative unknowns in White and Alford into the toast of the Big 12 in terms of receiving duos. How did he do it? Well, the answer may be simpler than you think.

“Just got to coach them up. No one knew who those guys were a year ago. We weren’t really talking about those guys a year ago. We’re going to coach up the guys we’ve got,” Holgorsen said.

With two additional seasons of Big 12 head coaching experience and two additional recruiting classes under his belt, Holgorsen said his team is better equipped to handle that kind of loss this time around.

“We’re in a much better place than we were two years ago when we lost 99 percent of our receiving production. Right now, even with those guys gone, we’ve got at least 50 percent of our receiving production coming back,” he said.

“Jordan Thompson is a good little player, keeps getting better. Daikiel Shorts is a very solid guy that has a chance to be one

of those replacements on the outside. Shelton Gibson is probably the fastest player I’ve ever coached.”

Thompson and Shorts both saw plenty of action last season, catching a combined 73 passes for 944 yards and four touchdowns. A crowded depth chart and an early case of the drops limited Gibson’s role in the offense, but with speed that compares to Tavon Austin’s, at least according to Holgorsen, he figures to have a much bigger impact this season.

Combined with the recruits Holgorsen and company have brought in over the past two seasons, who will have their chance to make their mark in live

practice starting in fall camp at the beginning of August, there are plenty of candidates to be the next man up.

“We brought in three guys who I think all three are a different caliber player than we’ve recruited for the last several years. All those guys are young, but we coached them a little bit in June, but it’s hard to really assess it when you don’t really have the football. I like those guys’ mentality and the way their bodies are.

We’ve just got to get out and practice,” Holgorsen said.

The last thing to think about when considering the state of WVU’s receiv-

ers heading into the year is Holgorsen’s pedigree in coaching the position.

From Wes Welker and Michael Crabtree at Texas Tech, to Justin Blackmon at Oklahoma State and Austin, Bailey, White and Alford at West Virginia, Holgorsen is one of the best in the business at producing high quality receiver talent.

“If you look back at the history going all the way back to the 2000s and Texas Tech, we’ve had a fairly successful rate of developing receivers. So I don’t see this year being any different,” Holgorsen said. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Women’s Soccer

Buchanan, Lawrence keep Canada’s Pan Am run going by ashley conley sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The Pan Am Games, the world’s third largest international multi-sport games, are still in progress in Toronto, Canada.

Close to 7,000 athletes in 36 sports began competing on July 10 to earn medals for their respective country. As of July 21, the United States lead all countries with 171 total medals including 65 gold.

Canada is a close second with 149 medals, 56 of which are gold, and Brazil currently holds third place with 104 total medals, of which 31 are gold.

West Virginia’s Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence have been competing on the Canada Women’s National Soccer Team for the last few months in both the 2015 World Cup, where Canada lost in the quarter-fi-

nals, and the 2015 Pan Am Games where the Canadians are still standing in the semi-finals.

A 2-0 win by Ecuador over Costa Rica earlier in the Games helped set Canada, the defending Pan Am women’s soccer champions, up with an opportunity to continue a shot at winning back-toback titles. The Canadians needed to lose to Brazil by fewer than five goals in order to advance, which was not easy thanks to Brazil’s experienced roster. A majority of the Canadian’s roster is below the age of 23.

In the first round, the Canadians dominated Ecuador in Group B Match 4 ultimately winning the match 5-2. In Group B Match 8, Canada fell to Costa Rica 2-0 pushing them to Group B Match 12 against Brazil, where they lost 2-0. Since the loss to Brazil stayed within their

five-goal loss limit, Canada now moves to the semi-finals on July 22.

“We knew going into this game that (Brazil) was an experienced team who just came from the Women’s World Cup and would play against our team who average at around 20 years old,” Lawrence told the National Post. “I’m extremely proud of our performance. We conceded two goals, but we will take all of our lessons learned onto the next game.”

Due to school commitments at West Virginia University, both Buchanan and Lawrence were unavailable to Canada during the match against Costa Rica. On July 20, Buchanan made a stop by DreamsWork Field in Morgantown to visit with WVU Women’s Soccer summer campers where she signed autographs and shared some of her new experiences with young, hope-

ful girls who share her love for the game of soccer.

“Super Star (Kadeisha Buchanan) came to see some campers this morning! She told girls to keep training hard and believe! #WVU” West Virginia women’s soccer coach Nikki Izzo-Brown tweeted a few hours after Buchanan’s visit. Buchanan represented her nation by wearing Canada red around West Virginia’s campus during her visit.

Both Buchanan and Lawrence played the full 90 minutes for Canada in the two games they were available. Both players also have one yellow card to their name in the stat columns thus far throughout the Pan Am Games.

Canada’s semi-final match with Columbia is scheduled for Wednesday, July 22 at Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium in Hamilton, Ontario at 8:35pm. The match will

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West Virginia’s Kadeisha Buchanan dribbles the ball against Villanova last year.

take place after the first for 5:35pm. semi-final between Mexico and Brazil scheduled dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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RIFLE

National Champions ready to defend their title

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WVU’s Maren Prediger competes on the rifle range for the National Championship last season.

by josh adkins

sports correspondent @dailyathenaeum

A rematch of last year’s National Championship highlights the West Virginia Mountaineers’ rifle schedule released last week. They will also face five of the top eight teams in the country this upcoming season.

“We will face many familiar opponents this year, as well as some of the nation’s top teams, which will challenge us on a weekly basis,” said head coach Jon Hammond in an interview with WVUsports.com.

Every match against Alaska Fairbanks in the 2014-2015 season was a nail-biter. After West Virginia edged out a victory by three points, Alaska Fairbanks returned the favor just days later beating the Mountaineers by one point for their lone loss of the season. WVU did get revenge by defeating Alaska Fairbanks to win its third straight National Championship.

WVU’s season starts out with two matches in Colorado, facing Air Force on Oct. 10 and Nebraska Oct. 11.

“A lot of student-athletes have traveled to Col-

orado before, but no one has shot at Air Force, so this will be a fun seasonopening trip,” Hammond said.

After a two-week break the Mountaineers go back on the road for a pair of Great American Rifle Conference matches. The first match will be at Memphis on Oct. 31, which WVU won last year, 4,718 to 4,637, followed by a trip to Mississippi on Nov. 1 for a matchup against the Rebels. To round out the road trip the Mountaineers will travel to Akron, Ohio to face Murray State. WVU will hope to make a return appearance to Akron for

the National Championship later in the season.

The Mountaineers finally get a home match to close out the fall season as they host Army on Nov. 14 and Ohio St. on Nov. 21. They receive no favors starting the spring season with their first match being against Alaska Fairbanks on Jan. 12. To end the season four of their last five matches will be at home.

“Hosting Alaska and Kentucky at the WVU Rifle Range certainly gives the team an advantage,” Hammond said. “We’re always looking for challenges near the end of the season

to prepare us for the NCAA Championships, and both of those matches will help us.”

Having this type of schedule to end the season should bode well for the Mountaineers. West Virginia will host an NCAA Qualifier again with VMI on Feb. 20. Following the qualifier WVU will travel to Oxford, Miss. to compete in the 2016 GARC Championships Feb. 27 and 28.

All of this leads up to the NCAA Championships held in Akron, Ohio on March 11 and 12. WVU will be going for its fourth consecutive championship and a record 18 overall.

Coach Hammond is hoping for some home field advantage this season. “The NCAA Championships will be held in our own backyard this year, and we’re certainly looking forward to those logistical advantages,” he said.

Following an 11-1 record and a National Championship last year the Mountaineers have an opportunity to continue their winning ways and capture yet another National Championship. With great leadership and experience they look poised to do just that. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

FOOTBALL

Beaty embracing challenge of rebuild at Kansas by connor murray sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The only thing that has been consistent about Kansas football for the last five years is change. After reaching unprecedented heights with a 12-1 season that culminated in an Orange Bowl win in 2007, followed by another strong season that saw the Jayhawks finish 8-5 and win the Insight Bowl, things went south in a hurry.

Former head coach Mark Mangino had people believing in the Kansas brand, and after starting 5-0 in 2009, it appeared his program had staying power. But a seven-game losing streak cost his team a chance at a third-straight bowl game and played a role in his resignation at season’s end.

Since then, the Jayhawks have spent five years in the wilderness.

Turner Gill couldn’t turn them around in his two year stint as the head man in Lawrence, compiling a 5-19 record in those seasons. Then the school made a big splash, in more

ways than one, bringing in Charlie Weis as the appointed savior of the program in 2012.

Weis’ excellent college and NFL pedigree that included successful stints at Notre Dame and with Bill Belichick in New England were just a tease in the end, as he lasted just 28 games as the Jayhawks coach.

Defensive coordinator Clint Bowen took over as the interim coach for the last eight games of the 2014 season, and did inject some life into his team, but it was decided that another outside hire would be the way to try and fix what has been ailing this program.

Enter David Beaty, who is as inside an outside hire you’ll ever find. Twice he has served on the Jayhawks staff; once as the wide receiver coach from ’08-’09 and once as the cooffensive coordinator and wide receiver coach in ’11.

With a depleted roster that contains just 64 scholarship players heading into this season, Beaty has a realistic, long-term outlook when it comes to

rebuilding this team.

“Realistically, we have a long way to go. We are just starting our program,” Beaty said. “In Year 4, we’ll look back at this year and wonder how we ever ran a football play. We just will.”

As for now, Beaty and his staff are in the infant stages of implementing their style into the culture of Jayhawk football, and trying to make their program one that is appealing to recruits not just in the state of Kansas, but across the map. “ We’ re currently wrapped up in preparing our staff and our team to create a brand of Kansas football that is tough, fast‑paced, disciplined, highly competitive, fun to watch, and, man, fun to play in. If you’re a guy that wants to play college football, we want you to want to come play in this,” Beaty said.

“We feel like we have something really special in Lawrence, and we look forward to seeing great things as our time turns forward there.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

WVU’s Jarrod Harper tries to block a punt during last year’s game with Kansas.

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Feds drop remaining charges against Barry Bonds SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- After a nearly decadelong prosecution, the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday formally dropped what was left of its criminal case against Major League Baseball career home run leader Barry Bonds over allegations he received performance-enhancing drugs.

The prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly with the Justice Department’s one-paragraph court filing announcing that its solicitor general would not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a lower court’s reversal of Bonds’ felony conviction.

A jury convicted the former San Francisco Giants star in 2011 of obstruction of justice for giving a meandering answer to a federal grand jury when asked about steroids injections.

An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

overturned that conviction in April.

The DOJ had to ask the solicitor general’s office for permission to appeal the ruling, said Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. The DOJ said in its court filing that the solicitor general would not appeal the case, meaning the reversal of Bonds’ conviction would stand.

Little said the decision was not a surprise. Though the 9th Circuit’s ruling exposed confusion over the federal obstruction of justice law, it was not a good candidate for review by the U.S. Supreme Court because it generated four different opinions.

“You have 11 judges splitting four ways,” he said.

“That’s not a very clean vehicle for Supreme Court

review.”

Bonds attorney Dennis Riordan declined to comment early Tuesday, saying he needed to speak with his client before discussing the case publicly. Major League Baseball had no immediate comment on the Justice Department decision.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in San Francisco didn’t respond immediately to a phone call seeking comment.

The decision brings an end to the case against Bonds, which stemmed from an investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative that began in 2002 and saw the convictions of Olympic track gold medalist Marion Jones, elite sprint cyclist Tammy Thomas and former NFL defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield along with coaches, distributors, a trainer, a chemist and a lawyer.

The investigation also helped lead to the drafting of the Mitchell Report, which called out many of baseball’s best players, including Roger Clemens, for alleged steroid use. Clemens was acquitted in 2012 on all charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress in denying he used performanceenhancing drugs.

Bonds was called before a grand jury investigating BALCO in 2003. He was charged four years later with lying to the grand jury about receiving performance-enhancing drugs and went on trial in 2011.

A jury convicted him of obstructing justice because of the answer he gave the grand jury when he was asked if his personal trainer Greg Anderson ever injected him with steroids.

“That’s what keeps our friendship,” Bonds replied.

“I was a celebrity child, not

just in baseball by my own instincts. I became a celebrity child with a famous father. I just don’t get into other people’s business because of my father’s situation, you see.”

Anderson refused to testify at trial and was imprisoned on contempt of court citations. The jury failed to reach verdicts on three counts charging Bonds with making false statements, and the government later dismissed those charges.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in April said Bond’s answer when asked whether Anderson ever injected him with steroids didn’t amount to obstruction. The court said the answer wasn’t “material” to the sprawling federal investigation into sports doping.

After the 2011 trial and conviction, a federal judge sentenced Bonds to 30 days of home confinement, two

years of probation, 250 hours of community service in youth-related activities and a $4,000 fine. Bonds served the home confinement before his conviction was overturned.

Bonds ended his career after the 2007 season with 762 career home runs, surpassing Hank Aaron’s longstanding record of 755.

Though Bonds is no longer a felon, many fans - and even some baseball peers - have concluded that he cheated by using performance-enhancing drugs.

Tuesday’s decision to drop the case against him is not likely to help him with Hall of Fame voters.

In his third year on the Hall of Fame ballot this year, Bonds received 202 votes for 36.8 percent from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. A player must garner at least 75 percent of the vote to be elected.

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Jordan happy with L.A. Clippers after free agent “fiasco” LOS ANGELES (AP) -DeAndre Jordan thought the Dallas Mavericks offered everything he wanted, including a fresh start and a starring role.

Then Jordan thought about it some more, and the craziest free-agent recruitment story in recent NBA history ended with him back on the Los Angeles Clippers.

“When free agency started, this whole fiasco was not my intent,” Jordan said Tuesday.

Jordan celebrated his 27th birthday at Staples Center with the Clippers, proudly holding up the revamped version of his familiar No. 6 jersey alongside new teammates Paul Pierce and Josh Smith.

Yet Jordan realizes he nearly derailed the Clippers’ title hopes and definitely disrupted Dallas’ retooling plans by backing out of his verbal commitment. The two-time NBA rebounding champion changed his mind after days of existential angst and a frantic trip to Houston by the Clippers’ leaders to sit out the final hours of the signing moratorium together.

Jordan knows he picked an awfully weird way to stick with the same team, but he regretted the decision to join the Mavs shortly after making it.

“Originally with Dallas, I thought I wanted change,” Jordan said. “I wanted a bigger role and more responsibility, and I was ready to embrace and accept that challenge. But (when) I got by myself and I was able to think about everything that just happened, I realized that being with the Clippers was the best decision for me.”

Jordan has spent his entire seven-year career with the Clippers, who have made four straight playoff appearances for the first time. After decades of incompetence, they’ve become one of the NBA’s elite teams with Jordan, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin leading the way under coach Doc Rivers.

Jordan decided he had to find out how this story ends.

“I realåly thought about being on one team for my entire career,” said Jordan, who agreed to a four-year, $87.6 million deal to return.

“That was really important to me. I’ve been here, and the past few seasons I’ve had have been pretty successful. I also feel like personally, I know the city. I know the fans. I’m used to the city of L.A., and I love it here.”

With four straight winning seasons and a growing fan base, the Clippers have shaken off their lamentable history under Donald Sterling and opened a prosperous new era under billionaire owner Steve Ballmer.

The Clippers also retooled their roster after their second-round playoff exit this spring - even if it would have meant much less if the big man had left a

hole in the middle. Instead, Jordan was all smiles at Staples Center alongside fellow returnee Austin Rivers and five new teammates: Pierce, Smith, Wesley Johnson, Cole Aldrich and rookie Branden Dawson.

“First of all, he never left,” Rivers said. “I keep hearing that he came back. He never left. He talked about it, but he came back. I tell DJ all the time, you should be celebrated for making the right decision. I think he had that right to do that. It has happened before. It happens in business all the time, and the difference is, what we do is public, so everybody gets a chance to talk about it.”

Jordan realizes he left plenty of angry fans back in his home state. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has dismissed the apology posted on Jordan’s Twitter account.

“We make decisions in life, and when you go back and change your mind on them, I feel like the only thing you can do is man up and apologize for it,” Jordan said. “And that’s what I did. I can’t speak for Mark or anybody else.”

Jordan has led the league in rebounding and fieldgoal percentage for two straight years, yet his initial logic for leaving the Clippers suggests he occasionally feels overlooked in the shadow of his two AllStar teammates. Still, he scoffed at the idea he has a fractured relationship with Paul.

“I love Chris,” Jordan said. “When Chris got here, he changed the culture of our team. He helped me out in so many ways on and off the floor, just becoming a better player and a student of the game. I know it may look (like an argument) on the floor because we’re both emotional and vocal players. But when it comes down to it, we’re criticizing each other because we want what’s best for the team.”

Rivers and Jordan both laughed at the memory of July 8, which the Clippers’ leaders spent holed up in Jordan’s home before he could sign his deal. Griffin kept fans entertained by tweeting photos of a chair wedged under the knob on Jordan’s front door, or a tent in the backyard at the supposed siege.

“It wasn’t a hostage situation,” Jordan said with a grin. “I feel like I’m a pretty big guy, and I don’t think they could lock me inside my own house.”

“Oh no, we could lock him up,” Rivers interjected.

“If we wanted to, that would have happened.”

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