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Raising awareness of hearing loss by tessa iglesias staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Hearing loss affects approximately 36 million American adults, according to the West Virginia University Hearing Center.

Students and faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at WVU have put together a 5k “MountainEAR” walk to raise awareness.

“We just try to raise awareness…(for) our community and other students about hearing loss and how it can be prevented and we

try to do that through some community service activities that we have,” said Shyler Phillips, a member of SAA and a second year graduate student in the audiology program, who is acting as the race coordinator.

This year’s race will be the fifth annual MountainEAR 5k, hosted by the WVU Chapter of the Student Academy of Audiology, which is the national student division of the American Academy of Audiology.

Phillips said the 5k is the SAA’s biggest activity, and all proceeds will benefit the WVU Speech and Hearing

May graduation is quickly approaching A look at what’s ahead, what seniors should be prepared for by corey mcdonald staff writer @coreymacc

Just four weeks left.

That may resonate with some seniors at West Virginia University—for better or for worse. For the next four or five weeks, students will be soaking in the last of a four year college experience in Morgantown.

With May commencement quickly approaching, students should make sure they are prepared to graduate.

May commencement will consist of a three-day period, May 13-15. Each college will have a specific time during one of the three days.

Commencement locations will also be broken down by the graduating college. Three locations will hold the ceremony, including the Coliseum, the Creative Arts Center and the Morgantown Event Center which is located at the Waterfront Place Hotel. Graduates are expected to arrive at least an hour before the ceremony begins.

There are important things to note if your ceremony is being held at the Coliseum, as the facility is being renovated, according to the Office of the President. Graduates will line up at the basketball practice facility—which is behind the Coliseum at the red gate.

“We are in the process of planning for trailer restrooms, because the restrooms inside will not be operational,” said Lisa Martin, special events coordinator for the Office of the President.

Seating will also be on a first-come, first-serve basis for guests of graduates. Anyone with different accessibility to the location should contact the Office of Accessibility Services at 304-293-6700.

IMPORTANT DATES On Friday, May 13, the Reed College of Media will kick off the ceremony at the coliseum at 9 a.m., with the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences following at 12:30 p.m. and concluding with the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design at 4 p.m.

Also on Friday, the Creative Arts Center will host ceremonies for the College of Law at 12:30 p.m., with the College of Creative Arts following at 4 p.m. The School of Public Health’s commencement will be held at 4 p.m. at the Morgantown Event Center.

On Saturday, May 14, the School of Dentistry will hold their ceremony at the Morgantown Event Center starting at 8:30 a.m., followed by the School of Nursing at 12 p.m. and the School of Pharmacy at 4 p.m. The Coliseum will host the University College and the College of Education and Human Services at 9 a.m., followed by the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering & Mineral Resources at 12:30 p.m. and the College of Business and Economics at 4 p.m.

And finally on Sunday, May 15, the Morgantown Event Center will host the School of Medicine, starting at 8:30 a.m., and the School of Medicine Professional Programs, starting at 12:30 p.m.

The Coliseum will be hosting the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences—with Master and Ph.D. students starting at 9 a.m. The original scheduled time for Bachelor degrees was changed from 4 p.m. to 2 p.m., which will allow for an earlier ceremony, according to the Office of the President.

Don’t forget to visit the Ericson Alumni Center before or after the ceremony to attend the Mountaineer Send-Off, where there will be free food, giveaways and entertainment. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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client fund, assisting clients with their financial limitations. Clients who need medical attention for hearing related problems but cannot afford it will be able to get the assistance they need thanks to the proceeds from this 5k.

“When you think about going to a doctor, do you think about going to get your ears tested ever? It’s not anyone’s first thought so we just try to raise awareness,” Phillips said.

At the conclusion of the 5k, medals will be given to the top three overall males and females for each of the

seven age groups.

“This is the only event that focuses on communication disorders in Morgantown, even though it is one of the most common disabilities in the United States,” said Rachel Halbritter, a third year doctor of audiology student.

Halbritter detailed the joys of her studies in audiology.

“You know all of those videos of people who are hearing for the first time?

That’s us. That’s our job.

We choose this field to give communication to those who don’t have it or are struggling with it. I smile ev-

ery day,” Halbritter said.

If you have yet to register for the 5k, but still want to participate, it’s not too late. Packet pickup will take place at at 5 p.m. on April 8 at the WVU Hearing Center on the third floor of Allen Hall, located on the Evansdale campus. Free hearing screenings will be given to participants during this time.

There will also be a packet pickup at 9 a.m. on April 9 right before the race, where you can registerif you haven’t already.

Registration includes the race, a t-shirt (guaranteed

only if you registered before April 9), a registration packet with hearing health information and goodies, as well as food and drinks after the race.

The MountainEAR 5k will take place at 10 a.m. April 9 at Hazel Ruby McQuain Park.

“We just try to encourage the community and the students to come out and help support us,” Phillips said.

“I know it’s supposed to be freezing and snowing but we would love everyone to come out.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Who FEMINISTS SHOULD VOTE for by amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Which presidential candidate should feminists vote for? According to panelists in a West Virginia University fireside chat, Bernie Sanders is the best choice.

Dustin Teel, Audrey Charbonneau and Justice Hudson were on the panel Thursday evening. Teel is a junior computer science student with a minor in women and gender studies, he is also a candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates for the 32nd district. Charbonneau is a womens and gender studies student. Hudson is a freshman women and gender studies and history student at WVU, and was in Iowa during the caucus.

“I see Bernie Sanders as the most liberal candidate on the democratic side…”

Hudson said. “I think he’s probably the biggest feminist running for candidacy right now and he has a very nice background of extensive human rights.”

All panelists agreed that feminists should not vote for Hillary Clinton just because she is a woman. They disagreed with Clinton because of her inconsistent record, moderate approach to women’s healthcare, disinterest in expanding welfare and support for the Iraq war, among other issues.

“We have to remember that in warzones, where there’s no safety net anymore, that’s when patriarchy really comes out to play.

That’s when women are really vulnerable,” Charbonneau, who described herself as left of Sanders, said.

The panelists discussed concern over Clinton’s support from super PACs and

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Justice Hudson talks about who he thinks feminists should vote for Thursday afternoon.

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“You can be a white man and understand that there are problems with discrimination against women and minorities…”

Logan Webster Freshman communications student

wealthy democrats. Sanders has a more grassroots activism campaign, which could be a way to fight the current democratic establishment.

One of the biggest parts of Sanders’ platform is income inequality in the United States. Young voters care about this issue and see Clinton supporters as out of touch with the younger generations.

Hudson explained by addressing income inequality, Sanders could also tackle the wage gap, which seems to be a lesser issue than women’s health in this election.

The panelists were asked to explain how a man could

represent feminists. Hudson explained that President Obama, who is not gay, helped create housing and job protection for gay people.

“You don’t have to be a certain type of person to understand their problems,” said Logan Webster, a freshman communication studies student who attended. “You can be a white man and understand that there are problems with discrimination against women and minorities… As long as the problems are known and addressed, they can be improved upon.”

The panelists discussed polarization of the Democratic Party and the Repub-

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lican Party in regards to the election.

It is possible that if either candidate is elected more polarization will occur, said Charbonnaeu. Or, republicans supporting Sanders could reduce polarization.

The panelists agreed that a neo-confederate spirit is growing in parts of America, while others are advocating for a more liberal society.

“It’s an identity crisis …

America is going through an identity crisis,” Hudson said. “Are we white supremacists, we hate everyone who is not us? Or, are we an accepting liberal society?” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Poet tackles heavy topics: meaning of life, death, war by rachel mcbride staff writer @rachelgmcb

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Hugh Martin meets with an audience member after the public reading of his poems on Thursday evening.

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The West Virginia University English Department allowed students to question the meaning of life, death and war by hosting a poetry reading by A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize winner, Hugh Martin in Colson Hall Thursday evening.

Martin, a veteran of the Iraq war and Ohio native, centers his work on the military experience and the examining of the soldier psyche. During the

event Martin shared poems from his recently published collection of poetry, “The Stick Soldiers,” as well as other previously published essays and prose. Martin brought light to issues of veteran stereotypes, what it means to identify as a veteran, as well as the different ways people deal with the effects of war.

“Men died because they were embarrassed not to,” Martin said. “War in the purest sense meant the test of whether you are coming or

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Ex-prosecutor: Ex-coal chief will serve full year in prison CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Ex-coal company chief Don Blankenship should have to serve his full, one-year sentence in a minimum-security federal prison because time off for good behavior only applies to terms of more than a year, the former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Blankenship said Thursday.

Blankenship was sentenced Wednesday to the maximum penalties of a year in prison and a $250,000 fine for a misdemeanor of conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards at Upper Big Branch Mine, which exploded in 2010, killing 29 men. It was the deadliest U.S. mining disaster in four decades.

On Thursday, Blankenship filed a court document to begin appealing the case.

Former U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Thursday he expects the ex-Massey Energy CEO to serve the full year.

“That’s why you often see people sentenced to a year and a day,” Goodwin said.

Blankenship’s top-dollar defense team has vowed to appeal his conviction, but

there are critical timing issues to juggle.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Irene Berger declined to let Blankenship stay free on a $1 million bond while he appeals. Blankenship’s attorneys are also appealing that ruling and want a decision before a date is set for the former coal baron to report to prison. So far, that date hasn’t been set.

Blankenship’s attorneys worried that he could serve up to his entire sentence by the time the appeals court decides his case.

Goodwin said it generally takes about two months before someone reports.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals process usually takes upward of a year, said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor.

“Sometimes it takes less and sometimes more — it depends on the panel and how quickly they reach a decision,” Garrett said. “Even scheduling the argument can take months.”

Goodwin left office after Blankenship’s conviction to run for governor.

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‘The Stick Soldiers,’ a collection of poems by Hugh Martin, was availalbe for purchase at the public reading session at Colson Hall.

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Martin said that it is a necessity to have poems about war, as these works are one of the strongest ways outside viewers can understand the minds of soldiers. “(Soldiers) go through different experiences,” Martin said. “There’s a desire to communicate and understand those experiences.”

Martin began writing the poems that are featured in his most recent publication in 2006, and the collection of poetry was published in 2013.

Martin is currently working on a new manuscript of poems titled “Service,” which he has been editing and reviewing for the last four to five years.

Martin said part of his writing process includes listening to the language of poetry and of the voice he is trying to convey in each piece.

“You feel compelled to write about something that’s so confusing,” Martin said. “I want to write something that will help people understand the war.”

Caleb Milne, senior creative writing student and attendee of the event said that after hearing Martin speak,

he has a new personal view of the military.

“Poetry and literature, such as what Martin writes, is refreshing,” Milne said. “It allows you to see things from another perspective.”

Martin spent six years in the Army National Guard and eleven months in Iraq.

His chapbook, “So, How Was The War?” was published by the Wick Poetry Center, and his full-length collection “The Stick Soldiers,” was published through BOA Editions in March 2013.

Martin is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the winner of the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse and The New Republic.

Martin graduated from Muskingum University and has an MFA from Arizona State. Currently, Martin is an Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.

A brief Q&A session was held and light refreshments were available after the reading.

For more information on Martin or his most recent collection of poetry, visit http:// www.hugh-martin.com/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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University of Texas students embrace during a gathering for fellow student Haruka Weiser on campus, Thursday, April 7, 2016, in Austin, Texas. Weiser, a first-year theater and dance student from Oregon, was found dead on campus after she was reporter missing earlier this week.

Officials: Texas student’s killing on campus ‘horrifying’ AUSTIN, Texas — A firstyear University of Texas dance student whose body was found near the heart of campus was the victim of a “horrifying and incomprehensible” killing that was the first on school grounds since the bell tower mass shooting nearly 50 years ago, university officials said Thursday.

UT President Greg Fenves identified the victim as 18-year-old Haruka Weiser of Portland, Oregon, during a somber news conference, and said the “unthinkable brutality against Haruka is an attack on our entire family.” Students who spoke later in the day at a vigil that drew hundreds of people on the Austin campus said the killing will leave them unsettled during their nightly walks home.

Weiser was last seen around 9:30 p.m. Sunday leaving UT’s drama building.

“She never made it to her dormitory that night,” Assistant Austin Police Chief Troy Gay said.

Her roommates reported her missing shortly before noon the following day, and Weiser’s body was discovered Tuesday in a creek near

the alumni center and football stadium, an area bustling with activity day and night.

The route to her dorm often took her along the creek where her body was recovered, and Gay said authorities “knew the direction that she traveled” based on what she texted to one of her friends.

Details of how Weiser died haven’t been released. An autopsy showed that she was assaulted, but Gay refused to elaborate, saying it was too early in the investigation.

Gay showed a surveillance video of a man he said was a suspect pushing a red or pink bicycle north of the stadium around 11 p.m. Sunday. Gay said there was no indication that the man in the video was a student or that he had sought to target Weiser specifically. He said authorities believe the man was in the area for at least a couple of hours, and that no weapon was recovered.

Weiser’s was the first oncampus homicide since former Marine Charles Whitman climbed to the top of UT’s bell tower on Aug. 1, 1966, and opened fire, killing 16 people and wounding scores of others.

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University of Texas students take part in a moment Thursday, April 7, 2016, in Austin, Texas.

In response to this week’s monitoring, lighting and slaying, the university has ex- building security systems. panded programs in which “We would like the stupolice escort students across dents and faculty to concampus to ensure their safety. tinue to have a high degree School officials also are urg- of awareness and vigilance ing students to walk in groups until our suspect is arrested,” and avoid walking at night or said Gay, who added that while distracted with cell- law enforcement is offerphones or headphones. ing a $15,000 reward for “To our students, you ex- information. pect and deserve to be safe,” In Oregon, Weiser was known for her dancing. As a Fenves said.

UT asked Austin police to sixth-grader in the Portland lead the investigation with suburb of Beaverton, home to the help of the Texas Depart- Nike, Weiser entered the Arts ment of Public Safety, which & Communication Magnet has assigned 20 state troop- Academy and also attended ers to campus per day — in- Dance West, a dance comcluding some on horseback. pany at the school geared DPS is also reviewing security toward the most talented on campus, including video students.

EU threatens to put sanctions on Panama, other tax havens BERLIN — A European Union official threatened Thursday to sanction Panama and other nations if they don’t cooperate fully to fight money laundering and tax evasion, after a leak of data showed the small country remains a key destination for people who want to hide money.

The 11.5 million documents from the Panamabased law firm Mossack Fonseca showed it helped thousands of individuals and companies from around the world set up shell companies and offshore accounts in low-tax havens. Because such accounts often hide the ultimate owner of assets,

they are a favored tool to evade taxes, launder money or pay bribes.

So far, the scandal has brought down the leader of Iceland and raised questions about the dealings of the presidents of Argentina and Ukraine, senior Chinese politicians, famous actors, athletes and the circle of friends of Russian Vladimir Putin, who some allege has profited indirectly from such accounts. On Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged he profited from his father’s investments in an offshore tax haven before being elected.

“People are fed up with these outrages,” said Pierre Moscovici, who heads financial affairs for the 28-nation EU. He took to task countries like Panama that facilitate such secretive, low-tax accounts.

“The amounts of money, the jurisdictions and the names associated with this affair are frankly shocking,” he said.

Panama is listed by the EU as a country that is not cooperative on tax issues, and Moscovici urged the country to “rethink its position in this regard.” The EU has to “be ready to hit them with appropriate sanctions if they refuse to change,” he said.

The Central American country’s government is offering to cooperate more. On Wednesday, President Juan Carlos Varela announced the creation of an international committee of experts to recommend ways to boost transparency in Panama’s offshore financial industry.

But Varela defended his country against what he called a “media attack” by wealthy nations that he says are ignoring their own deficiencies and unfairly stigmatizing Panama.

Ramon Fonseca, a cofounder of the law firm at the center of the scandal and until recently a top adviser

to Varela, said Thursday the only law that has been broken so far is the right to his clients’ privacy. He said the biggest source of secretive shell companies is Europe and the U.S. “If a company in England has problems nobody says anything against England, but when it happens to a firm in Panama it’s a big problem and the entire world beats up on poor Panama,” Fonseca told The Associated Press in an interview.

He said his firm creates about 20,000 shell companies annually but also rejects about 70 to 80 clients every year due to conflicts that crop up during due diligence.

“We’re not perfect and some surely escape by,” he said. “But in all our years in business we’ve never been accused or condemned by a court.”

Europe also is home to countries with a record of acting like tax havens and providing banking secrecy — Luxembourg, Switzerland, Andorra, among others. The United States has also become a haven, with several states including Wyoming and Delaware now popular places to open anonymous accounts that are cheap to maintain and pay little or no local tax.

Since the first reports based on Mossack Fonseca documents were published Sunday, prominent politicians, celebrities and businesspeople have had their offshore business dealings dragged into the spotlight. On Thursday, the German newspaper that first obtained what have been dubbed the “Panama Papers,” said it won’t publish all the files, arguing that not all are of public interest.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung received the documents from an unidentified source more than a year ago and shared at least parts of them with doz-

ens of other media outlets around the world.

Fonseca said his firm has hired forensic experts to investigate and have already uncovered the method used to penetrate its systems. He said the hack was probably carried out from Europe and dismissed speculation it may have been an inside job.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which helped coordinate reporting on the leak, have said they won’t make the complete set of 11.5 million documents available to the public or law enforcement but rather mine the information for details of public interest.

Responding to readers’ queries about the absence of prominent German or American politicians in the reports, Sueddeutsche Zeitung said such names haven’t yet been found in the documents. It said the documents include copies of the passports of 200 Americans and about 3,500 shareholders in offshore companies have listed addresses in the United States Fonseca said his firm has only a handful of American clients, mostly expats living in Panama. He said both he and his German-born partner have longstanding ties to Europe and over the years have focused their business there and in Latin America.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Cameron looks to become the next European politician ensnared by the scandal. After four days fending off headlines about his family’s finances, he acknowledged Thursday that he and his wife, Samantha, sold shares worth 31,500 pounds (currently $44,300) in an offshore fund named Blairmore Holdings in January 2010 — five months before Cameron became prime minister. They had paid 12,497 pounds for the shares in 1997.

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Panama Papers should be made public

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As of now, the Panama Papers will not be shared with the public in their entirety.

A leak of information from the Mossack Fonseca law firm has revealed the truth behind offshore shell companies.

The Panama Papers, which contain more than 11 million documents, were obtained by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and were released on April 3.

The documents journalists have sorted through so far show 12 current and former world leaders and 72

current and former heads of state were using offshore shell companies to avoid paying taxes, according to Vice News.

The documents have revealed ties between the offshore companies and David Cameron, Vladimir Putin and Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister of Iceland, who has stepped down after public outrage at his investments in these offshore companies.

Though the Panama Papers have brought into light the greed and scheming behaviors of public officials and the wealthy, Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the other news outlets involved with the documents should not have kept the information under wraps for a year.

The paper received the information more than a year ago, and journalists from the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and

other popular news sources began to unearth this evidence of greed and moneyhoarding of many world leaders. Although 11.5 million documents is a massive undertaking, media outlets should have made the information public as soon as there was an idea of what the documents contained.

As the newspaper discovered new information, it should have been made public.

The crimes of those in

public office should not have been kept secret for more than a year. Revealing tax evasion by the affluent sooner could have made an impact on the way public offices were filled, and the billions of dollars missing in taxes could have changed the way countries operated.

Additionally, the Panama Papers “won’t be made available to the public or to law enforcement agencies.

That’s because the SZ isn’t the extended arm of pros-

ecutors or the tax investigators,” according to CBS News.

The wealthy deserve to be fairly tried for breaking the law. Not allowing the Panama Papers to become public information is an injustice to global citizens. People around the world deserve to be aware of the way wealthy citizens and their leaders hoard money and avoid paying taxes. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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To help and do no harm: The case for vegetarianism robby ralston columnist @Robbyralstonda

“Don’t harm, and do help.” In a 2009 Veritas Forum debate about whether God is necessary for morality, Yale Professor of Philosophy Shelly Kagan gave this statement as the most basic reason which makes an action right or wrong.

Most would agree with this principle, and it seems obvious that we should try to help others and do no harm. But as often happens in philosophy, this simple principle has far-reaching consequences, especially in how we treat non-human animals.

According to Kagan, “the question is, ‘Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?’ And the answer is, ‘Of course they can.’ Consequently, I think it’s immoral to harm them. And that seems to me to provide a very strong moral reason to be vegetarian.”

As a vegetarian myself, this is roughly why I decided to stop eating meat three years ago. Since we must kill an animal in order to eat it, and killing is usually a form of harm, then we must harm animals in order to eat them in most cases.

If we have a moral obligation not to cause harm, eating animals is then an immoral action.

Most people do not find this sort of argument convincing, and the issues involved can quickly become

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Large-scale livestock production makes up a significant amount of global carbon dioxide emissions each year. intricate and complicated.

However, many do not realize that there may be another moral reason to avoid eating meat.

Climate scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body organized by the United Nations, have indicated that climate change is a major threat to the wellbeing of humans and animals. In their 2014 Synthesis Report, the IPCC says, “Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause… long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.”

These impacts include mass extinctions, decreased food security, increased risk for many diseases and damaged properties near sea level.

Climate change refers to the fact that Earth’s average temperature is slowly rising, as well as the widelyaccepted scientific theory explaining why things may be heating up. According to NASA, more than 97 percent of publishing climate scientists agree the Earth has been warming and human activities, especially greenhouse gas emissions, are a primary culprit.

What does climate change have to do with vegetarianism? In their 2009 study,

“Climate Benefits of Changing Diet,” scientists from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency pointed out 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by various elements of livestock production. They include “fossil fuel burning during production of fertilizer for feed production, the livestock production process, processing and transportation of refrigerated products,” as well as mass deforestation to create more grazing land, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States. As a result, widespread reduction in meat-eating may be a viable option in mitigating the

effects of climate change.

Though the proposal would face many challenges, switching to a low-meat or no-meat diet on a large scale could substantially reduce gas emissions and costs associated with handling negative climate effects by 2050.

While these changes could not single-handedly end climate change, they could be an integral part of a global effort to combat its effects.

Thus, our best science indicates climate change will likely have drastic negative effects for humans and other animals unless somehow kept in check, and one way of reducing its effects may be to have large amounts of people reduce

their meat consumption. If we agree with Kagan’s principle, we should reduce our own meat consumption in order to help others and refrain from causing harm.

This is especially true in the developed world where dietary changes are easier to accomplish.

Skeptics may respond that individual changes in diet would not have any noticeable effect on the climate as a whole. They would likely say it makes no difference whether any individual kept eating meat or not, and of course it would be wrong to make eating meat illegal.

While I agree that eating meat should not be outlawed, I am not convinced by this response. First, I would suggest the skeptic underestimates the power of leading by example. When people see someone turning down a hamburger at a cookout and become exposed to the idea of vegetarianism, I think they would be more likely to consider the idea seriously. Moreover, social change always starts with a few activists making very little difference, but this does not suggest no one should try to make social changes.

We should take Kagan’s words very seriously. If we wish to help and not harm, maybe we should start by examining our everyday actions. By simply opting for vegetarian options, we could have a noticeable impact on our environment and the world around us. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Mystery on the Docks’ to be performed by WVU

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WVU’s Opera-on-Wheels will perform ‘Mystery on the Docks,’ a child-friendly opera starring anthromorphic rats.

by Rayla Claypool A&E Correspondent @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University’s Opera-on-Wheels is starting a new round of shows this weekend in the Creative Arts Center.

WVU Opera-on-Wheels takes various operas and cuts them down into 50-minute shows for young children. Last year, in its first season, Opera-onWheels performed a shortened version of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ at 13 elementary schools throughout Monongalia County. Each school was sent music and

education material about the show.

“I think the K-5 grades are especially excited to see a show come into their school and to hear live music,” said Rebecca Kreider, a voice instructor for the WVU School of Music and leader of the Opera-onWheels program. “They get to experience classical music up close and personal. It takes the stigma away from opera being something highbrow and elitist.”

The 2016 show is called “Mystery on the Docks,” an opera in which all of the characters are rats. The composer, Edward Barnes,

took the story of a shortorder cook named Ralph and an opera star named Edwina Bombastina and added Big Al and his villainous rat pack. Ralph and Edwina are kidnapped by Big Al, but Ralph has some tricks of his own to help him and Edwina escape.

Kreider originally began Opera-on-Wheels at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A similar outreach program was founded at Western Illinois University before Kreider came to WVU and started WVU Opera-on-Wheels. She is excited to expose as many kids as possible to opera and the

beauty of music.

“Our goal over the next few years is for WVU Opera-On-Wheels to visit every county in West Virginia and bring the joy of music to thousands of our children,” Kreider said.

The cast of “Mystery on the Docks” is made up of WVU graduate and undergraduate students majoring in voice performance.

The show hits the road with a van full of everything needed to put on the show: set, costumes, singers and a pianist. Each show is performed in the host school’s gym or cafeteria.

Two shows in the Falbo

Theater in the Creative Arts Center mark the beginning of this year’s tour. The show runs under an hour to allow time to introduce the cast and take questions from kids in the audience.

This year, Opera-onWheels is capitalizing on a generous grant from the Parkersburg Area Foundation to expand the reach of the show. The grant provides them enough resources to tour 12 schools through Wood and Mason counties starting on April 11. In addition, they will perform for 500 Charleston area elementary school kids in the Charleston Cul-

ture Center Theater in May. “If WVU Opera-OnWheels can introduce classical music and the beauty of the trained singing voice to young children throughout West Virginia then we will have succeeded in our goal,” Kreider said.

The first two shows are at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Falbo Theater in the Creative Arts Center. Both performances are free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://music. wvu.edu/opera-theatre/ opera-on-wheels. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

EDM artist Figure to perform bass-heavy concert at Mainstage

By Brittany Osteen A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

For every heart that beats to bass heavy music, Figure is visiting Mainstage Morgantown tonight.

Joining Figure is dusbstep artists Subtronics and Dubsicle.

Josh Gard, the creative mind behind Figure is from Evansville, Indiana, and he works as a music producer and DJ. He is currently traveling for his Paradox tour. Even though he has been in music for a long time, his growth in the industry has skyrocketed since 2011.

Many students are excited to dance and let some stress out at this show. Sophomore psychology student, Jackson Jacobs, is even more ready for this concert after his tests this past week.

“Nothing jives me into a

dancing frenzy than when I’m out and good beats come on. His latest work seems to be bringing back the genre and pleases all people from nose-high music enthusiasts to the Saturday nightcrawlers,” Jacobs said.

His most recent album release was “Gravity” which holds 17 songs, however his biggest success has come from his “Monsters” series. The Monster series features drumstep tracks with horror movie references. This series includes “Monsters of Drumstep” Vol. 1,2,3,4,5 and 6.66. He also released two selected remix albums. He has followed up with the “Destruction Series.”

When talking about his music, Gard explains he has been interested in the heavy stud and the creepy Halloween thing for a while. Now, he is hoping

to expore more sound and stretch his music farther with the album “Gravity.”

Figure’s song “Monster Mania” was featured in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Due to the success of the album, Figure worked with Universal Studios to supply music for the haunted maze for its Halloween Horror Nights.

Scoring positions among the charts and opportunities to showcase his work with companies has been a large part of his success, but a substantial amount of credit has come lately from some of the leading artists in electronic music saying they see his live performance skills as some of the best in the business.

Some of these artists include Tommy Lee, Deltron 3030, DJ Chuckie, Excision, BT and Tommy Sunshine. More supporting artists who recently

played at Mainstage include Diplo and Flux Pavillion. These big names for the music genre will be joined by Borgore on April 22.

“I just like how artists present a package of something close to an adventure… Like a theme park of sound that is an experiment and experience for everyone,” Gard said during an interview with MTV. Subtronics is the creation of Jesse Kardon, a dubstep artist from Philadelpia, Pennsylvania.

Some lucky winners won a meet and greet with Figure.

“If you are looking for an impressive set or killer show - which I know that I am looking for both then catch him on Friday. I just need to keep my phone in its case. I don’t want it to break when he drops the beat,” Jacobs

Figure draws a lot of inspiration from horror movies.

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For more information, The show is at 9 p.m. to- visit http://mainstagewv. night at Mainstage Mor- com. gantown. Tickets are $20 daa&e@mail.wvu.edu and the show is open to anyone 18 and over.

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Documentary ‘Nothing Left Unsaid’ explores Gloria Vanderbilt’s life NEW YORK (AP) — For much of his career, CNN’s Anderson Cooper rarely talked publicly about being Gloria Vanderbilt’s son.

He wasn’t ashamed. Cooper just didn’t want the baggage, the assumption that his life was set because he was a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the world’s richest business magnates of the 1800s. Since he has the last name of his father, actor Wyatt Cooper, it was easy to keep this quiet.

All of that changes with “Nothing Left Unsaid,” a documentary that premieres Saturday on HBO (9 p.m. EDT). The film explores Vanderbilt’s remarkable life and offers families a blueprint for conversations with aging parents.

Cooper wasn’t as close with his mother as he wanted to be, and when she had a health scare a year ago, realized he didn’t want to be left with questions when she couldn’t answer them.

His mother, now 91, has likely been in the public eye longer than anyone else alive. At age 9, she was on newspaper front pages as the “poor little rich girl,” the subject of a custody battle between her mother and other relatives (her father died when she was 15 months old).

The nickname “bothered me enormously,” Vanderbilt said in an interview. “I didn’t see any of the press - the newspapers were kept from me. I didn’t know what it meant. I didn’t feel poor

and I didn’t feel rich. It really did influence me enormously to make something of my life when I realized what it meant.”

Money wasn’t an issue; Vanderbilt inherited $4.5 million in 1941. Yet she lived a young life unmoored, with no father and a mother uninterested in child-rearing. She was fascinated with Hollywood, dated Errol Flynn when she was 17 and had a short-lived marriage as a teenager. She married conductor Leopold Stokowski when she was 20 and he was 63. The marriage produced two children and ended when Frank Sinatra began pursuing her.

Vanderbilt later married director Sidney Lumet and then Wyatt Cooper. The Cooper marriage seemed the most grounded, but he died when Anderson was 10.

Even in her tenth decade, Vanderbilt said she believes she has a great romance ahead of her.

“She’s the most vulnerable, optimistic person I know,” Cooper said. “She’s the most trusting person.

I’m not as trusting as her at all. She’s incredibly optimistic, and I believe the next catastrophe is right around the corner and I want to prepare for it.”

Cooper looks more like his father and always believed he was most like him. Through the film and its accompanying book, he learned all he had in common with his mother. Both fruitlessly believed their fa-

‘Nothing Left Unsaid’ traces the life of Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress and mother to famous journalist Anderson Cooper. thers had left behind letters has created throughout her window of his mother’s for them to read after their life. Her brand of designer high-rise apartment. She deaths. jeans - for many people, the watched, and pleaded with “The whole Vanderbilt thing they most associated him to stop. Vanderbilt says side never had any reality with her - gets barely a min- in “Nothing Left Unsaid” to me at all,” he said. “My ute in the nearly two-hour that she contemplated folmom didn’t feel connected. film. lowing him, but the thought She felt like a changeling, an There’s a sadness in her of how it would devastate impostor. We grew up with- eyes. Vanderbilt was long Anderson stopped her. out any real connection. estranged from her mother, Carter’s death, capped by My father took me to see and one of her sons with Sto- Cooper and Vanderbilt visthe statue of Commodore kowski cut himself off from iting his grave together, is Vanderbilt in Grand Cen- the family for more than 40 the film’s emotional centertral, and I thought all grand- years (since the film was piece. Filmmaker Liz Garbus parents turned into statues made, there has been some includes an interview with when they died.” contact). And she suffered a Carter’s former girlfriend, Cooper is a gentle guide parent’s ultimate nightmare who says she turned down through the film, going with the loss of a son, Ander- his request to come over the through boxes of memo- son’s brother Carter. night of his suicide because rabilia and drawing stories In 1988, shortly after his she had a pimple and didn’t out of his mother. Much graduation from Prince- want him to see it. time is spent on the art she ton, Carter jumped out the Vanderbilt and Cooper

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had no hesitation reliving the painful time. “It brings him alive when you talk about him,” she said. “I’m close to a lot of his friends who were in Princeton with him and I always enjoy seeing them and talking to them.”

Mother and son hope that some people who see the film will be encouraged to speak to elderly relatives about their lives.

“Anderson really knew little about my childhood because I’d never spoken about it,” Vanderbilt said.

“So we really got to know each other and became really close in a way that we never had before.”

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A chronological timeline of the ‘Star Wars’ universe LOS ANGELES (AP) — Everyone knows “Star Wars” is set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but with the Thursday release of the trailer for the latest installment, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” which comes out in December and is set before the events of “A New Hope,” it’s understandable if the chronology is getting a little jumbled.

Here’s a quick timeline of all the theatrical releases, with release dates, to help keep the “Star Wars” timeline straight.

Earlier

“Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace,” released May 19, 1999.

later

“Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith,” released May 19, 2005.

“Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones,” released May 16, 2002.

“Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope,” released May 25, 1977.

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” scheduled for December 16, 2016.

“Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi,” released May 25, 1983.

“Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back,” released May 21, 1980.

“Star Wars: Episode VIII,” scheduled for December 15, 2017.

“Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens,” released December 18, 2015.

“Star Wars: Episode IX,” scheduled for 2019.

Playwright celebrates Celebrities inspire kids at first CA WE Day immigrants in prize speech NEW YORK (AP) — Composer and playwright LinManuel Miranda has accepted one of the largest prizes given for the stage by celebrating immigrants, saying that his creation of the Broadway smash “Hamilton” was sparked by learning about Alexander Hamilton’s overseas roots.

Miranda, who on Thursday was awarded The Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, told of reading a biography of the first U.S. treasury secretary by Ron Chernow and learning that he was born and raised in what was then the West Indies.

“I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard,” Miranda, whose family came from Puerto Rico to New York, said in his acceptance speech.

“When I found that out about Hamilton, I said, ‘I know this guy. I know this guy and he’s not going to let me go.’ And he didn’t let me go for seven years.”

The prize, bestowed by Columbia University, was created to honor a new play or musical that explores the United States’ past and deals with “great issues of our day.” It comes with $100,000. This is the fourth year the prize has been given and the first time a musical has won.

“We are all in awe,” Edward M. Kennedy Jr., the son of the late senator, told Miranda. “You’ve made history come alive. And ‘Ham-

ilton’ makes us all want to learn more about history.”

Before the ceremony, Miranda got a chance to see some of Columbia’s Hamilton memorabilia, including his wedding band, enrollment papers and his final letter to his wife, Eliza, written on the morning of his fateful duel. He was also serenaded by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, performing songs from “West Side Story,” a musical that inspired him to songwriting.

The prize was established by Kennedy’s sister, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, in consultation with playwright Tony Kushner.

The year’s recipient is announced every Feb. 22, the anniversary of the late senator’s birth.

“Hamilton” explores Hamilton’s life and is told by a young African-American, Asian and Latino cast and with music that blends musical theater, rap and pop.

The show has won a Grammy Award and awards from the Outer Critics Circle, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and the Drama Desk, and it is a likely candidate for Tony Awards this summer. The show’s album became the highest-debuting cast recording on the Billboard Top 200 in over 50 years.

Miranda said he hoped his work would inspire more: “History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it,” said Miranda.

“I’m excited to see what stories come out of this and what comes next.”

Celebrities such as Charlize Theron, Seth Rogan and Selena Gomez work to inspire California kids to work to improve the world.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato were among the stars bringing thousands of Los Angeles-area school kids to their feet Thursday at California’s inaugural WE Day celebration.

The educational event drew 16,000 local students to the Forum in Inglewood, California, for a day of inspirational speeches and celebrity appearances. Students earned admission to the WE Day gathering by participating in yearlong community service projects with their schools.

Theron challenged the young audience to become the generation that ends AIDS. Rogen shared how a lack of resources for Alzheimer’s disease inspired him, a self-described “lazy man-child,” to start his own charitable organization. Zooey Deschanel and the cast of TV’s “New Girl” encouraged the students to participate in a group hug.

Gomez opened the show by performing “Kill Em With Kindness.” Lovato roused the crowd with her new song, “Stone Cold.” Henry Winkler, Martin Sheen, Joe Jonas, Hollywood couple Nikki Reed

and Ian Somerhalder, Tyrese Gibson, Amandla Stenberg, Kermit the Frog and singer Big Sean were among other entertainers addressing the students, who represented 550 California schools.

Several student activists were also recognized during the program for creating their own charities or advocating for overcoming gender stereotypes and physical challenges.

Among them were teenage skiers Corrine Hindes and Katrine Kirsebom, who started an organization that donates hats and gloves from ski resorts’ lost

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and found boxes to homeless people in Northern California.

Kids at WE Day California heard about cultural appropriation, the plight of disappearing bees, the global need for clean water and how to become more eco-friendly. Fourteen WE Day events are being held across the United States, Canada and the U.K. The organization also provides curricula and guidance to schools to identify needs in their neighborhoods and ways to get involved.

Highlights from the program will air as a TV special August 28 on ABC.

‘Quantum Break’ has good concept, marred by tiresome gunplay What would you do if you could control time?

Visit the future and grab an iPhone 50? Kill a despised historical figure while he’s still a baby? Carve out some time to catch up on your Netflix queue?

Will Joyce, the genius who discovers time travel in “Quantum Break” (Microsoft, for the Xbox One, PC, $59.95), wants none of that. He’s the kind of quirky brainiac who just wants to unlock the secrets of the universe. Unfortunately, his tinkering has busted the time-space continuum so badly the whole thing’s about to collapse.

You play Jack Joyce, Will’s brother, who’s dragged into the whole mess by an old friend named Paul Serene. Paul is head of Monarch Solutions, one of those mysterious corporations that’s so powerful it needs its own military - and he has his own ideas about how to harness time travel. Is Paul insane? Can Will be saved?

It’s up to Jack to find the answers.

Fortunately, he’s the kind of average-Joe who turns out to be ridiculously skilled with firearms. Unfortunately, saving the world is going to require him to kill hundreds of people who made the mistake of signing on with Monarch. So what could have been a brainbending time-travel romp turns into yet another trig-

‘Quantum Break’ has the potential for cool, mind-bending time control gameplay, but wastes its potential on just being another tired shooter. ger-happy orgy of violence.

Sigh.

At least Jack’s exposure to Will’s device gives him some unique talents. He can dodge bullets, freeze enemies and unleash “time blasts” that hurl opponents into the air. Occasionally, Jack needs to use his powers to solve rudimentary puzzles - like, say, reversing time to restore a broken bridge.

What’s most distinctive about “Quantum Break” is the way it’s presented.

Most of the time you’re controlling Jack in computer-generated scenarios, like you would in a typical video game. But on occasion you’re invited to put down your controller and watch what Paul and the other characters are up to.

These non-interactive episodes are shot on full-

motion video, with human actors in real-life settings. The quality is decent - about on the level of an episode of “24” - and the cast has some familiar faces, like “The Wire” veterans Aiden Gillen and Lance Reddick. Jack is played by Shawn Ashmore, best known for “The Following,” and it’s a little disconcerting to switch from watching the real actor to

controlling a computerized version.

The combination feels like binge-watching a season of a middling TV thriller, except you have some control over the outcome. The video segments you see are determined by some of the choices you make in-game, enough so that you’ll want to play through “Quantum Break” a few times to see all the

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variations.

That makes it all the more disappointing when the drama wraps with an exasperating firefight that depends more on oldfashioned ballistics than trippy quantum physics.

“Quantum Break” pulls off some neat tricks with its overall presentation - I just wish its separate elements were cleverer. Two stars out of four.

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Difficulty Level Medium

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

thursday’s puzzle solved

Across 1 Walks, on scorecards 4 Rehab hurdle 7 Calm 13 “Well, __-di-dah!”

14 Deli choice 15 Ducks’ home 16 Some Anne Rice novels 18 Dupes 19 *Assist Charles M. Schulz?

21 Completely 22 Wapiti 23 ID checker 24 “__ any drop to drink”: Coleridge 26 Surface 32 *Free ticket given to Target Field players?

35 Burn soothers 38 Modern reaction to a riot?

39 Group of species 40 *Timepiece at a stag party?

43 Important Philippines export 44 Bros, e.g.

45 Fraction of a joule 48 Not allow to atrophy 50 “My vegetable love should grow / __ than empires ... “: Andrew Marvell 53 *Law office?

58 Option play option, in football 59 Home of the god Pan 60 Beverage sometimes served with mint 61 Besides 62 Inning trio 63 Botched (up) 64 Model of industry 65 Put into words Down 1 Failed miserably 2 Industry leaders 3 Fan letter?

4 Meaning 5 Industry leaders 6 Prepare tuna, in a way 7 Converse, e.g.

8 Take in 9 Quaker pronoun 10 It may be skillfully created by one who’s all thumbs 11 Rests 12 Acute care letters

15 Eponymous skater Paulsen 17 Ring decision 20 One putting on an act 25 Home of Norway’s royal family 27 Bank holding: Abbr.

28 Carafe kin 29 __ Tin Tin 30 Shaggy-tailed bovid 31 First of September?

32 Lot of trouble?

33 “A Hard Road to Glory” writer 34 Merrie __ England 35 Plant bristle 36 French narrative poem 37 Like some stocks, briefly 41 Misspoke, as lines 42 Surround 45 Rachmaninoff’s “__-tableaux” 46 Light-sensitive layer 47 __ spoon 49 Upholstered piece 51 Fancy tie

52 Hotel amenity 53 Derby, perhaps 54 Some bills 55 Chances 56 Speck 57 It may be mined 58 Objective reference

Thursday’S puzzle solved

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Friday April 8, 2016

WVU gets chance to play closer to home this weekend

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BY NEEL MADHAVAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

After playing much of the spring in the southern United States, the West Virginia University men’s golf team returns a little closer to home this weekend as they’re set to compete at the Robert Kepler Invitational, hosted by Ohio State.

Due to the possibility of inclement weather, Ohio State shortened the tournament from 54 to 36 holes. The first 18 will be played Saturday, and the second round of 18 will be played Sunday.

With the Mountaineers having not played up to expectations in recent tournaments, head coach Sean Covich has shuffled up the WVU lineup. Sophomore Avery Schneider and freshman Max Sear will retain their place in the lineup, as will freshman Tristan Nicholls, rather than competing as an individualist like he did at Mississippi State. New additions this week will be freshman Cole Hand and senior Mason Short. This will be both Hand and Short’s first competitive action since the President’s Day Challenge in February.

“We are shaking up the lineup this week to get our younger guys some valuable tournament experience before the end of the season,” Covich said, in an interview with WVUSports.com. “It will be nice to have Avery Schneider in the lineup, as he’s from Columbus and has played several rounds on the Scarlet Course. Having him there will help the younger guys get familiar with the course. Weather conditions will certainly be a factor this weekend, temperatures are expected to be in lower 30’s with high winds and rain or snow. We will find out how mentally tough our guys are in these adverse conditions.”

The Scarlet Course will be one of the longest golf courses the Mountaineers have played this season, sizing up at 7,455 yards. Ohio State’s course was designed by Alister MacKenzie, the same course architect who designed Augusta National, home of this week’s Masters tournament on the PGA Tour. Renovations in recent years were overseen and designed

by PGA Tour legend and Ohio State alum Jack Nicklaus.

Concerns of fatigue remain for the Mountaineers after playing two tournaments back-toback this past weekend, with only a short threeday turnaround before the tournament at Ohio State.

“We’re trying to take any sort of load off that we can,” Covich said.

“It’s going to be tough. I talked to Brian (strength and conditioning coach) about trying to take it easy on them at workouts.

At this point we’re trying to maintain the energy we have.”

West Virginia will see a number of big name teams this weekend, most notably from the Big Ten, including Northwestern, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State.

After back-to-back letdowns this past weekend, the Mountaineers are eager to turn things around with the Big 12 Championships only three weeks away. A packed April schedule hasn’t done them any favors, but in order to close out the season strong, West Virginia will need the likes of Sear, Schneider and Nicholls to regain their early season form. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU catcher Ivan Vera awaits a pitch at the plate Wednesday night against Eastern Michigan.

Mountaineers face former conference foe in SoCon’s Furman

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

Amidst a run of crucial Big 12 series, the West Virginia University baseball team won’t face Texas, Oklahoma or Baylor this weekend. They’ll instead be facing Furman, a team only dimly remembered by some West Virginia fans as an old foe from the Mountaineers’ Southern Conference days in the 1950s and ‘60s.

For WVU head coach Randy Mazey, the Furman Paladins are far from obscure — they’re a blast from the past.

“I know all about the Furman Paladins because I was a Clemson Tiger, which is only about 30 or 40 miles up the road,” Mazey said. “They’re going to come in here and

play hard. They’ve played really well against Clemson and South Carolina this year.”

Mazey met Furman a number of times during his days as a star player for Clemson in the 1980s, and he’s kept a close eye on his old rival this season heading into the Mountaineers’ (16-11) three-game meeting with the Paladins (1117) at Monongalia County Ballpark.

Although Furman’s record is unimpressive, considering their comparatively weak strength of schedule in the Southern Conference, they’ve proven competitive against major conference foes Clemson and South Carolina in tight nonconference losses.

West Virginia has had issues with overlooking unheralded opponents this season

— one only needs to look at the two-game sweep at the hands of Canisius last week — and the Mountaineers need to keep the mental focus that carried them to midweek wins over Marshall and Eastern Michigan.

“We need to treat this like a Big 12 weekend,” Mazey said. “If we don’t, they’re very capable of winning this series against us. We can’t think that we can take this weekend off.”

Furman is coming into the weekend having lost five out of its last six games, starting with a 9-7 loss to Clemson in Greenville, South Carolina.

The Paladins dropped two of three against East Tennessee State last weekend and last lost to Gardner-Webb 2-1 on Thursday.

Making matters tougher for the Southern Confer-

ence’s seventh-place team is the fact that its two top hitters, freshman outfielder Jabari Richards and senior third baseman Jordan Simpson, are suspended for the series. Furman still has hitters who can get it done as first baseman Brandon Elmy, second baseman Sims Griffith and outfielder Carter Grote are all hitting over .300.

West Virginia hopes to carry in the same veteran pitching rotation it has used every weekend this season, with junior righthander Chad Donato facing Furman’s Will Gaddis on Friday, Ross Vance taking on junior Matthew Quarles on Saturday. Senior Harry Norman is set to start for Furman Sunday, but WVU’s starter is yet to be determined after regular Sunday starter BJ Myers left his last start with an

injury.

The Mountaineers are prepared for the schedule to change this weekend, however, as inclement weather may force a doubleheader.

“We’re playing pretty well right now,” Mazey said.

“We’ve won four out of five, and we need to carry this into the weekend because it looks like we may have some weather issues and may have to play a doubleheader for one of the games. That’s always a cause for concern.”

Weather concerns have already forced one change to the schedule, as Friday’s game was moved up an hour and a half to a 5 p.m. first pitch. Saturday’s game is set for 4 p.m., and first pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m on Sunday. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU readies for first home spring game with Georgetown

BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER @dailyathenaeum

After two lopsided losses so far this spring, the West Virginia women’s soccer team hopes to rebound this weekend as it plays host to Georgetown at Dreamswork Field in Morgantown.

The game, originally scheduled for Saturday afternoon, was moved to Sunday at 1:30 p.m. due to threat of inclement weather, and will be played on Dreamswork Field, the team’s practice facility, in order to avoid damaging the pitch of Dick Dlesk Stadium.

The Mountaineers have fallen to Georgetown in their last two meetings, first in last year’s NCAA Tournament and again in an exhibition match last August.

The match is the third of a difficult six-game spring slate for the Mountaineers, who fell to Penn State in the Elite Eight last season.

Last weekend, West Virginia fell to rival Pitt 3-0.

Over spring break, WVU also lost 3-0 to the Western New York Flash of the Women’s Professional Soccer League.

It is important to note that these two losses can’t be taken too seriously, considering the team is playing in the absence of Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence, both of whom are practicing with the Canadian national team to prepare for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.

So far, the spring has had less of a focus on the Mountaineers’ usual winning ways and more of a

WVU’s Bianca St. Georges prepares to send in a cross last season against Duquesne. focus on allowing younger is maturing as well as team’s first two opponents players to get playing time coach Nikki Izzo-Brown this spring, Izzo-Brown in order to get a better idea could hope. The goalten- and her coaching staff of what has to be done for der is playing with a fairly hope progress will be seen inexperienced defense in not just by next season, but next season.

Most importantly, soph- front of her and will cer- by the end of the six-game omore goaltender Michelle tainly have an easier time spring schedule.

Newhouse has stepped in once the All-American Bu“We learned a lot on to the net for the Moun- chanan returns for the fall where we need to imtaineers, filling the void left season. Regardless, Ne- prove,” said assistant coach

by Hannah Steadman, who whouse has posted some Marisa Kanela in an interwill graduate this spring as miraculous saves through view with WVUSports.com the most successful goal- the spring, as well as a first- last weekend following the tender in the program’s 20- half shutout against the loss to Pitt.. “Defensively, year history. professional Flash. we need to work on orgaWhile the score might With several underclass- nization. Offensively, we not accurately reflect her men seeing the majority need to work on bearing performance, Newhouse of the playing against the down in front of the net so

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we can finish our opportunities. Thankfully, we have four more games, and we’re excited about those chances to continue on the road to improvement.”

Because the match has been moved to Dreamswork Field, there will be limited seating for fans, but attendance is still encouraged. Kick-off is set for 1:30 p.m.. Dreamswork Field is located across the street from Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers search for first Big 12 win

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Coming off its bye week, the West Virginia University women’s tennis team is set to return to action this weekend with two matches against No. 34 Kansas (12-5, 2-2 Big 12) and Kansas State (8-9, 0-4 Big 12).

“During the bye week we took a step back and went back to working on the basic things that we were focusing on over winter break, technical things and issues, foot work, conditioning, things like that,” said head coach Miha Lisac.

For the Mountaineers (68, 0-3 Big 12), the journey toward their first ever Big 12 win continues. With senior captain Hailey Barrett still out with a foot injury, sophomore Habiba Shaker will again lead the Mountaineers at the top of the lineup. Shaker has blazed a trail through her opponents this season, amass-

ing an 11-1 overall record in singles.

Junior Kaja Mrgole returned from a stress fracture injury two weeks ago in the match against Iowa State. Even though she dropped her singles match, she paired up with sophomore Lyn Yuen Choo to win her doubles match. According to Lisac, it’ll take Mrgole a few matches to get back to full-match fitness, especially after being out for a couple of months. The Mrgole-Choo duo has compiled a team best 5-0 doubles record and looks to improve on that this weekend.

Freshman Paula Goetz and sophomore Carolina Lewis have struggled in recent matches, but both still boast near .500 singles records. Lewis suffered a heartbreaking three-set loss against Iowa State, but looks to get back to her winning ways against the Jayhawks and Wildcats.

“We do have to continue to get better,” Lisac said.

“Our doubles lineup hasn’t necessarily been working out, especially in recent weeks. I feel like we were able to figure out a lineup when Haley was still in the lineup, but that has not been working as well as we would have liked it to since Haley went out. In general, we have to get better in doubles. It doesn’t matter necessarily who the pairings are. The execution has to be a lot better than where we are right now.”

Kansas is reeling as of late. After a 12-2 start to the season, the Jayhawks have dropped three straight matches, including two straight in Big 12 play. The Jayhawks are led by No. 95 Anastasiya Rychagova, who in addition to being 11-4 this spring, has defeated a number of other nationally ranked players this season, including No. 65 Viktoriya Lushkova of Oklahoma State.

The Wildcats and the Mountaineers are a lot

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alike; both are young teams still trying to find and establish their identities. The match against Kansas State might be the best opportunity that West Virginia has this season to get over that hurdle of winning the program’s first Big 12 Conference match.

“Both teams are going to be tough, I mean just like everybody in the Big 12,” Lisac said. “Kansas has been doing very well. They’re having a very good season. I mean it’s nothing we haven’t seen.

They’re definitely moving down the right road, but nothing we haven’t seen in the past or wouldn’t be able to compete against.”

The Mountaineers will face the Jayhawks at 3 p.m. today at either Ridgeview Racquet Club or the Mountaineer Tennis Courts behind the Coliseum depending on weather conditions, and will face Kansas State at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning.

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The WVU men’s soccer team travels to Richmond, Virginia, Saturday to take on the VCU Rams in game two of its five-game spring slate.

The Mountaineers opened the spring soccer exhibition period against rival Pitt in a backyard brawl matchup that came down to the wire last Saturday. Senior captain Joey Piatczyc scored a game-winning goal to secure a 2-1 victory for the Mountaineers. Last week’s meeting between West Virginia and Pitt was the first time the two border rivals have faced each other since the Mountaineers departure from the Big East in 2011.

All 16 West Virginia players saw action in the first exhibition match against the Panthers. Junior Felix Angerer and Piatczyc recorded the two goals for the Mountaineers, while freshman goalkeeper Konrad Dziedzic made his debut for WVU. The 2-1 final from Ambrose Athletic Field in Pittsburgh was the first victory for WVU, who looks to start the 2016 spring exhibition season on the right foot, coming off a 7-12 record and

With another weekend comes another road event for the Mountaineers.

After splitting up last weekend, the West Virginia outdoor track and field team reunites this weekend for the Mason Spring Invitational in Fairfax, Virginia, on Saturday.

Last year at the Invitational, then-freshman Shamoya McNeil got second place in the triple jump with a then-career best 13.39-meter jump.

Last weekend, West Virginia competed in the Texas Relays and Stanford Invitational.

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Joey Piatczyc tracks the ball near the goal against UNC Greensboro in September.

MAC semifinals appearance last season.

The Rams have taken on Division I opponents James Madison and Navy and also faced off against the semipro Richmond Kickers organization in an exhibition contest.

VCU touts a young crop of talent this spring after coming off a 7-10 record last season and a trip to the Atlantic 10 Championship ending in a bitter defeat against conference foe Dayton. The

Rams feature a squad of 27 players, with 10 freshman and nine sophomore members that will benefit from action this spring. West Virginia comes into the exhibition match with 16 players on the spring roster, as the incoming recruiting class will join the team for fall competition.

After the Mountaineers’ contest against VCU and home exhibitions versus Charleston and Bucknell, the team will host open

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tryouts for any WVU students interested in joining the program. The tryouts will take place on Tuesday, April 19, just three days before the final spring game when the Mountaineers take on alumni at Dick Dlesk Stadium.

Saturday’s exhibition game between WVU and VCU will kickoff at 1:00 p.m. at Sportsbackers Stadium on the campus of VCU. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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cast to the world on the Longhorn Sports Network via ESPN, McNeil jumped 12.75 meters for a fifth-place finish in the triple jump. Bryan’s mark of 5.54 meters in the long jump section B earned a ninth-place finish.

“Texas was good to our student-athletes,” head coach Sean Cleary said afterwards in an interview with WVUsports. com. “The weather was not what we were hoping for, but both Shamoya (McNeil) and Danique (Bryan) went out and competed very well. This was Shamoya’s best opening meet, while Danique appears to be rounding into shape.

This trip was successful.”

Sophomores Brynn Harshbarger, Jillian Forsey and Bria Welker traveled to California for the Stanford Invitational. Harshbarger got 34th

place in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 35:28.09. Forsey’s 16:05.89 time earned her a 14th-place finish in the 5,000-meter run, while Welker rounded out the group with a 33rd-place finish in a time of 58.9 in the 400-meter run.

“Jillian (Forsey) ran a tremendous race. She ran the second fastest time of her life and achieved a mark that will be required for the NCAA Championships,” Cleary said.

“Jillian ran a little faster than we expected her to run today.

This bodes well for the season.

Brynn (Harshbarger) was unfortunately not quite up to strength after developing a respiratory sickness over the past few weeks. While she did run her fastest time ever, she was hoping for a little more out of herself. Savana (Plombon) unfortunately did not

make it to the line after contracting a virus just hours before the race. It was heartbreaking pulling her from the race. In the long run, we will be glad that we did so.”

Cleary has stressed various times the need for West Virginia to gain NCAA qualifiers. Last weekend, no Mountaineers finished higher than fourth place. Granted, there were only five total athletes competing in the two events, but West Virginia needs improved results if the goal of reaching the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship remains.

Now the Mountaineers turn their attention to the Mason Springs Invitational. West Virginia looks to grab a few victories in Fairfax. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Philadelphia 76ers move ahead in rebuilding process without Hinkie PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sam Hinkie quit on The Process.

The Philadelphia 76ers threw a pizza party.

No, the two events were not related, though it was a bit peculiar to find the team’s practice facility festooned with balloons as select season-ticket holders gorged on food a day after perhaps the most bizarre departure in 76ers history.

With Franklin, the blue dog mascot, waving from a window, the Sixers wound down practice with Drake’s “Energy” blaring through the court.

“I got enemies, got a lotta enemies / Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy.”

Might as well have been Hinkie’s theme song.

The Sixers are moving

ahead in their painful rebuild without the general manager who methodically turned the organization into one of the worst in professional sports.

The new era comes a day after Hinkie informed the team via a 13-page manifesto littered with references to Abraham Lincoln and flightless birds that he was out.

Coach Brett Brown was again left holding the bag as Hinkie scrammed out of town.

“He obviously felt like this was not something he wanted to be a part of,” Brown said Thursday. “He didn’t want to be a part of the collaborative effort.”

Brown decided to stick out this elongated rebuild and was rewarded - rewarded? - earlier this sea-

son with a contract extension. Hinkie was hired by owner Josh Harris in 2013 to find a creative way to turn the Sixers into winners.

Hinkie’s plan - gut the roster of any solid NBA talent, shred payroll and stockpile draft picks to build for the future - had the initial backing of ownership.

The 76ers went 19-63 on his watch in his first season and 18-64 last season.

Year 3 has been even worse even by those miserable standards.

The Sixers started 1-30 and Harris had been embarrassed enough. Hinkie’s power was weakened in December when the Sixers hired Jerry Colangelo to oversee basketball operations. Hinkie ran an analytics-minded front office and when the Sixers wanted to

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76ers general manager Sam Hinkie speaks at a press conference this season. add more basketball people, mitted to the path that we he balked. said we were going to be Hinkie was pushed and on three years ago. No matbecame more defiant, in- ter who was going to be in sisting he didn’t help and charge of the draft this seathat his sour relationship son, next season, we’re with agents would improve jumping into the free-agent once he started throwing market.” cash at free agents - which Harris and co-owner Dathe Sixers are finally poised vid Blitzer attended practice and did not speak to to do this summer.

Hinkie did not share in the media.

Philadelphia’s vision of havHinkie was also at the ing him adjust or add to the practice facility and met power structure, so he quit. with some of the players.

Following Hinkie’s de- He did not talk to the media. parture, the 76ers looked to Hinkie made his statethe family tree for a replace- ment in a farewell letter, obment - Bryan Colangelo had tained by ESPN, that blindlong been mentioned as sided management and having a future role in the caught Brown off guard. organization after stints in “There has been much Phoenix and Toronto. criticism of our approach,” The Sixers are set to hire he wrote. “There will be the former NBA executive more. A competitive league of the year as their general like the NBA necessitates a manager, according to a zig while our competitors person with knowledge of comfortably zag. We often the decision. The person chose not to defend ourspoke on condition of ano- selves against much of the nymity because Colangelo’s criticism, largely in an efhiring was not official. fort to stay true to the ideal Brown said after practice of having the longest view in Thursday he learned Hinkie the room.” quit through the team’s meHinkie doesn’t exactly dia relations department. leave behind a barren cupHinkie lasted less than board - Nerlens Noel, Joel three full seasons and left Embiid, Jahlil Okafor and the Sixers with the worst re- overseas prospect Dario cord in the league at 10-68. Saric still have potential on The Process, Part II is the court or as trade bait, the underway.

Sixers have about $60 mil“It doesn’t mean things lion in salary cap space, and have been blown up,” they could have up to four Brown said. “We’re com- first-round picks in the 2016

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draft. Even without Hinkie in place, Brown’s job is safe.

“I know he’s taking his hits all over the place,” Brown said. “But he hired me. I was his partner.”

Like any partnership, they squabbled.

The 2014 draft could define the organization for a generation.

With two top-10 picks, the Sixers selected Embiid and Saric. Embiid was picked at No. 3 and has yet to play because of foot injuries and there’s no guarantee he’ll become even a serviceable NBA player. Saric has been stuffed overseas and could play there for at least one more season.

Hinkie shaped a roster this season that failed to include a solid point guard or any veterans to help guide the young players. Okafor, the No. 3 pick of the 2015 draft, had his season marred by a series of off-court incidents and he served a twogame suspension for his role in a Boston street fight.

Management refused to address Okafor’s behavior or punishment, leaving Brown as the lone spokesman.

Through the draft, the Colangelos, or free agents, Brown said the worst is behind the Sixers.

“I feel like patience as we’ve known it isn’t going to have to be required as much anymore,” he said.

Former basketball player injured in Brussels attack ready to win the day

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BRUSSELS (AP) -- Sebastien Bellin, a 6-foot-9 (205cm) giant once celebrated for his skills on the basketball court, is better known now as the man photographed lying bloody on the floor of Brussels’ main airport after the March 22 bombings.

But as he recovers at the Erasmus Hospital in Brussels, Bellin says he’s grateful the picture was taken.

It shows him how close to death he was and reminds him of all the people who helped save his life.

“That picture set off an incredible amount of positivity ... that ultimately ended up with me keeping both my legs, being alive,” says Bellin, a former member of the Bel-

gian national team who also played at Oakland University in Michigan. “So is that the determining factor? No, probably not. But is it one of the factors? Absolutely.”

It’s almost as if he feels everyone around the world who saw the photo was pulling for him.

“People in general are good people. They see somebody suffering, they see somebody in obvious pain, well, the first instinct is: ‘Man, I hope they are going to be OK,’” says Bellin, who also played professional basketball in Belgium and is a wellknown figure in this small country of 11 million. “If you can get collectively a massive amount of people that think that, I’m pretty sure that does something to the overall outcome.”

The 37-year-old resident of Battle Creek, Michigan, who now works for a sports video company, had been in Belgium on business and was on his way home on the day of the attack. He had just checked in for his flight when the first blast went off. At first there was darkness. He started to run, and the second explosion threw him into the air. He remembers hitting the ground.

“The first thing I noticed was my hip,” he says. “I remember a huge ball of kind of bone and flesh just kind of sticking out of my hip.”

From that point on he said to himself he had to get out of there - but his legs wouldn’t cooperate. He couldn’t move.

“At one point, somebody came and dragged me to behind the column, where the famous picture was taken,” he says. “So I was holding my one leg, which was almost detached from my body, and they were grabbing me, they were pulling me with my other arm. I can remember the pain.”

A military medic applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding in one leg. Later, another passenger tied one on the other.

He ended up losing 50 percent of his blood, but he remained conscious throughout and kept pushing for treatment. A triple helping of

pasta carbonara the night before had kept his blood sugar up, preventing him from passing out.

Police had cordoned off the attack zone, fearing another attack. Eventually, Bellin was placed on a luggage cart and pushed out of the cordon.

After insisting he needed to go, he kept asking to be pushed to the front, to get out of the airport.

“It’s that survival instinct,” he says. “You want to push yourself in the front of the line.”

Now Bellin is using that positive attitude to rebuild his life. Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “win the day,” he says he’s focused on two things: rehabbing his shattered legs and spending more time with his wife and two daughters.

“The hardest part is not on me, it’s on my family, it’s on my loved ones who saw that picture,” he says.

Back home in Michigan, his wife Sara was getting their daughters ready for school on March 22 when friends started messaging. She signed on to her computer and turned to the news, only to be confronted with the image of her husband, blood and debris beneath him, his legs splayed awkwardly in front.

“I lost it,” she says, now sitting on the hospital bed next to her husband, whose left leg is propped up on pillows, the sheet thrown aside to reveal the traction.

Bellin occasionally shifts his massive shoulders by pulling on a triangular trapeze suspended above the bed, trying to get comfortable as he recounts the events.

Family members blanch - some are hearing the details for the first time. His father Jean, the family rock, has crossed his arms across his chest and seems to be hanging on for dear life. Sara recoils as the gruesome truth is described. Jean’s wife, Lisa, reaches out to comfort her.

And yet as Bellin talks, there is optimism. He was close to death and he survived. Can it get better than that?