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WVU professor to brief Congress by james pleasant correspondent @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University Reed College of Media professor Joel Beeson will visiting Washington, D.C. tomorrow to brief Congress about the black experience during World War I. In this Congress briefing, Beeson will speak about how racial tensions from the World War I era compare to racism that still exists in the United States.

Two other professors— from Emory University and

New York University—will join Beeson on the briefing panel.

The event, sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, aims to earn the support of Congress and other organizations to educate people about the contributions blacks made during World War I. Beeson is enthusiastic about speaking to Congress and said it’s important to examine problems of the past in order to understand problems of the present.

“The work Beeson is doing is not only highlighting

(the participation of blacks in World War I), but highlighting it accurately,” said Majorie Fuller, the director of WVU’s Center for Black Culture and Research.

Beeson has researched the involvement of blacks in World War I for the past decade. He became fascinated with the subject after studying the history of AfricanAmerican veterans in World War I, while working with the Library of Congress.

In World War I black soldiers were still passionate about fighting for the U.S. despite mistreatment and racial

injustices in the army, Beeson said. After serving overseas, black veterans hoped to receive the same type of freedom they helped fight for during the war.

However, conditions never changed, and black veterans were still treated as second-class citizens. These veterans felt a sense of empowerment after being exposed to equal treatment from European troops and fought back against racial oppression. Many of them went on to become civil rights leaders, advocating for equal treatment.

KEEP IT CLASSY Students invited to practice dinner etiquette at Morgantown Holiday Inn

Reactionary groups such as the Ku Klux Klan reemerged because many Americans attributed economic problems and sociopolitical changes to blacks, according to Beeson.

“We’re being divided and fighting amongst ourselves,” Beeson said. “We aren’t going to get our democracy back if we don’t respect differences and do what’s best for the country.”

Beeson compares the racial tension from the Jim Crow South to today, saying political and economic forces exploit the fears, anx-

ieties and anger of Americans using bigoted rhetoric that pins groups such as Muslims and immigrants as scapegoats for wealth disparity, and other problems in the US. “People seem to vote against their best interest based on this rhetoric,” Beeson said. “They’ll vote people into office who are completely of the elite, who support the extension of social inequality that keeps increasing.”

Beeson has been

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Engineering students recognized during National Engineers Week

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Engineering students enjoying free breakfast early Wednesday morning.

by jamie mason staff writer @news_with_jamie

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The tables properly set, the guests properly dressed; the College of Business and Economics held its annual etiquette dinner Wednesday evening.

by tessa iglesias correspondent @dailyathenaeum

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ormal business dinner etiquette is a crucial skill to hone for young adults preparing to join the working world. If taken out for a meal by a potential employer, proper table etiquette can impress employers and perhaps even help one secure a job.

Every year, the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics holds a professional etiquette dinner.

The dinner was held from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday evening at Atria’s restaurant at the Holiday Inn on Pineview Drive.

“Ninety-nine percent of business deals are completed over a meal,” said Susan Robison, the assistant director of the Center of Career Development, as well as coordinator for the etiquette dinner. “The bottom line is that they’re looking at your skills.”

At the etiquette dinner, students learned how to pass the salt, pepper and bread, how to properly place silverware on a plate after a meal and how to properly eat soup, among other things. They also learned how to network with an employer in a dinner setting, learning what topics to cover, what topics to stay away from and how to properly exchange contact information.

This year, 250 students were in attendance as well as 15

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Students sat at tables with prospective employers as well as B&E faculty. employers, nine of which were looking to sponsor students.

The registration fee was $15 and included a four-course meal sponsored by Enterprise Rent-a-Car. The Business Etiquette Dinner is not only a learning opportunity for students, but is also a networking opportunity. Employers actually sit with students at tables to teach them proper etiquette techniques so they can network with

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The National Society of Professional Engineers is celebrating National Engineers Week until Sunday, and this is the second year it’s been celebrated at West Virginia University.

The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources is hosting daily activities and events for students to attend in appreciation of National Engineers Week.

“It’s a chance to celebrate all of the great things engineers do, the contributions they make to society and our lives at large,” said Mary Dillon, the marketing and communications director for Statler College. “A lot of people take what engineers do for granted, and this is a chance for us to share information with the public at large, but also to celebrate the hard work of our students.”

This week, the college has had free jeopardy and Chickfil-A, a free pancake breakfast and lectures from Kim Simpson of Continental Tire and David Wade of Air BP America’s Performance.

“(Engineers) are asked to do so much throughout the year; they’re some of the best students on campus,” Dillon said. “(Yesterday) was probably the most excited I’ve seen the students… From 8:30-10 a.m., we had a line of students down the hall waiting to get free pancakes.”

It’s not just the free food and games students find the most beneficial. The engineering career fair was popular among students, as well.

“We’re not doing it because of the free food,” said Colin Frosch, a graduate student in civil engineering.

“It’s really to get the opportunity to get information out to the students, to get them involved in these activities.”

At the career fair, there were more than a dozen representatives from various companies around the world looking for potential engineering graduates.

Companies present included Connors Group, CME Engineering, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, Antero Resources and Heery, among others.

“Engineer’s Week is a good time to branch out and expand your network,

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SGA supports student’s efforts to refurbish Mountainlair arcade by caity coyne city editor @caitycoyne

The West Virginia University Student Government Association voiced its support for a renovation to the Mountainlair arcade at its regular meeting on Wednesday evening.

In September, Ryan Simms, a freshman computer engineering and electrical engineering student, came to the Board of Governors and shared his desire to help renovate the arcade by using his skills as

an arcade technician.

The resolution, passed by the board unanimously, was created and proposed as a way to show WVU faculty the student body supports the initiative. “(Simms) has really been waiting on the resolution because it was pitched to him (by administration) that he needed support from the student body,” said Governor Mac McIntyre, who sponsored the resolution. “Basically, that’s exactly the purpose of a resolution; to show student support for some-

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thing. So it fit really well that we could help him out.”

Simms plans on using the connections and skills he learned while working at Adventure Park in Maryland as an arcade technician to help repair some of the broken machines and build some of the equipment necessary to make the arcade functional again.

The Mountainlair is expected to undergo renovations within the next few years, according to the resolution, and the cost of the renovations for the arcade

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The food drive will conclude on March 10. Until then, canned food dropoffs can be found at residence halls and in the Mountainlair.

Also at We d n e sday’s meeting, the Board approved: - A $1,460 grant for the Student Occupational Therapy Association to attend a national conference in Chicago. The money will go toward lodging for the event.

- A $518 grant for WVU’s UNICEF chapter to attend a service trip to Virginia. The

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money will go toward covering registration and lodging for seven students to attend the trip.

- A $521.64 grant for the WVU Solar Decathlon, an annual event challenging teams from colleges to design and operate solarpowered houses.

Because of voting for SGA elections, SGA will not meet again until Thursday, March 3. The exact time and location will be announced later. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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“If the arcade isn’t refurbished, the space would be renovated into office space or something similar,” Mac said.

“It gives students a safe, fun thing to do in between classes. I think it’s really important to keep (the space) as something for students.”

Also at Wednesday’s meeting, SGA unanimously approved to sponsor a WVUp All Night event in addition to the Ryan’s Rally 5k and the Mountaineer Food Drive.

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Murray Energy idling West Virginia coal mine LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)—A large West Virginia underground coal mine owned

by Murray Energy is halting production for nearly two weeks, and the rest of the company’s mines are running on part-time schedules due to reduced demand from electric utilities, the company’s chairman and CEO said Wednesday.

The Marion County mine will be idled until at least March 7, Robert Murray said. The mine employs about 500 workers after laying off 80 people in December.

Demand for electric power is down as manufacturing moves overseas, and utilities are increasingly turning to natural gas and other alternative sources to generate electricity, Murray said.

“So as a result, even though there are contracts with these utilities for them to take the coal, they abrogate their responsibilities, they don’t take the coal,” Murray said. He said suing over the contracts doesn’t work because “they’re still the customer you have to deal with.” He declined to name the utility companies he has contracts with.

Ohio-based Murray Energy is one of the nation’s largest coal producers, and like many coal operators it is feeling the sting of a slumping market. Other major operators, including Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources, have filed bankruptcy in recent months.

Murray said regulatory enforcement from President Barack Obama’s administration is causing less coal to be mined as well as making coal less palatable for power plants, which must adhere to tougher environmental rules.

Electricity generation in the U.S. was down 5 percent in November from the previous November, and coal consumption was down 24 percent in the same period, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Natural gas usage was up 21 percent.

Murray’s operations in West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Utah are running on reduced schedules, and the company’s workforce has shrunk from 8,400 in May to 5,800 this month, he said. Murray said his mines are running two to four days a week, or “not at all.” The company’s Monongalia County Mine in West Virginia is running again after being idled in December and January, he said.

Murray said he is confident the Marion County mine will reopen, but that it ultimately depends on the utilities’ demand for his coal.

Murray bought the Marion County mine along with four others from Consol Energy in 2013.

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The dinner is important for students across all disciplines to learn proper etiquette skills.

“Manners are something

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Continued from page 1 especially with corporate relationships,” Frosch said. “A lot of these out-of-class activities are geared more towards our career development.”

Dillon said the point of having this week is to thank engineering students and to get them to take a break for a little bit.

“I always think it’s good to have a good brain break. To sit your work down for a lit-

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Senate confirms Robert Califf as head of FDA

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In this Nov. 17, 2015 file photo, Dr. Robert Califf, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate has confirmed Califf to be commissioner of the FDA. Senators voted 89-4 Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, to confirm Califf after a handful of Democrats delayed action in a protest over the agency’s inaction on the abuse of opioid painkillers.

WASHINGTON (AP)— The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama’s nominee to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday despite frustration over the agency’s response to the epidemic of painkiller abuse.

The vote was 89-4 for Dr. Robert Califf, a prominent cardiologist and medical researcher at Duke University for more than 30 years and the FDA’s No. 2 official.

With only a year left in Obama’s presidency, Califf will be tasked with wrapping up many of the administration’s initiatives at the agency, including unfinished tobacco regulations and food safety and labeling reforms. He is expected to follow through on his pledge to re-evaluate how the agency regulates prescription painkillers like OxyContin.

“If addiction to opioids and misuse of opioids is the enemy, then we underestimated the tenacity of the

enemy,” said Califf, in an interview with The Associated Press. “We’ve got to adjust.”

Under pressure from the Senate, Califf said earlier this month the agency would add new warning labels to the most widely prescribed painkillers and increasingly consult with outside advisers on the medications.

For years, the FDA has made only minor changes to its system for approving painkillers, despite record levels of abuse and death tied to the medications.

Whereas the FDA previously based its decisions on whether new drugs would benefit patients, Califf says the agency must now consider the broader effect on the country.

“The impact of addiction on all society is profound,” Calif said. “I don’t think anyone anticipated the magnitude of this effect.”

In 2014, U.S. deaths linked to misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers

climbed to roughly 19,000, the highest number on record, according to federal figures. Deaths tied to the drugs have risen more than four-fold since 1999 amid increased prescribing by U.S. doctors.

“I believe Dr. Califf understands the dire nature of the opioid epidemic and, accordingly, I believe he is today the right person to lead the FDA in a new direction,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said this week.

Califf’s nomination was initially expected to sail through the Senate, given his background as a highlyrespected academic and clinical trial researcher for the pharmaceutical industry, a key interest group. But those industry ties proved a liability.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Ed Markey of Massachusetts held up Califf ’s nomination for several

weeks in an effort to force the agency to be tougher on opioids and also prescription drug prices.

Manchin, Markey, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire voted against the nomination.

“The FDA needs new leadership, new focus and a new culture,” Manchin said.

In 2006, Califf founded the Duke University Clinical Research Institute, the world’s largest contract research organization, which primarily works with pharmaceutical companies.

Sanders did not leave the campaign trail to vote on the nomination, but he said in a statement that he would have opposed it.

Ayotte is in a tough reelection campaign, and New Hampshire has a significant drug abuse problem. She said on the Senate floor Tuesday that “there is so much more we need to do” on the prescription

drug issue.

“There isn’t a place I go in my state where I don’t hear from a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, a grandmother, a grandfather, a friend about someone who lost a loved one, lost someone they care about, because of heroin, opioids, Fentanyl, the deadly combination that is killing people,” she said.

Despite the opposition, Califf ’s nomination enjoyed wide Republican support in a year in which many of Obama’s nominees have been held up.

Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Republican chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said he is confident that Califf can lead the agency “fairly and impartially.”

The prior FDA commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, left the job early last year. The FDA’s chief scientist, Dr. Stephen Ostroff, has served as acting head of the agency.

Powerful storm kills three in Virginia, raising death toll to six WAVERLY, Va. (AP)— A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, killing three people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the region.

A day earlier, the system spawned about two dozen tornadoes along the Gulf Coast, damaging hundreds of homes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.

Three people were killed and dozens were injured.

Forecasters had warned that more than 88 million people were at risk of seeing some sort of severe weather Wednesday. In you have to learn, and they change all the time, so being aware of the basics in manners means you can go to a meeting, and if you are comfortable with your manners, others around you will feel more comfortable as well,” Robison said.

The evening also included a business fashion show to tle bit, to step away from your studies and get some fresh air,” Frosch said. “It helps you get reenergized and then get back and hit the ground running again.”

This year had more for engineering students, but the faculty and staff at the college hope to see the celebration at WVU grow and more students get involved.

“We try to make sure there are a lot of activities for our students here at the college and also students around the state have the opportunity to learn what engineers are and to take part in the Engineer’s Week celebration,” said Cate Schlobohm, the outreach program coordinator for Statler College. “We’re trying to get the word out about what engineering is and celebrating it this week.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

the Midwest, heavy snow and biting winds led to mass flight cancellations at Chicago airports and school closings in several states.

In Virginia, Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency Wednesday evening. The tiny farming town of Waverly in the state’s peanut-growing region took the brunt of the storm. The Virginia State Police said at least five structures were damaged in the town of approximately 2,000.

The names of the victims were not released, but state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in a help students learn proper attire for interviews or dinner outings.

“When you go out to dinner, you’re obviously not dressing for the club, and you’re obviously not dressing to go to class. You have to find the perfect balance of in-between,” said Paul Bernstein, a senior accounting and fi-

statement that they were a 2-year-old child and two men, ages 50 and 26.

She said their bodies were found about 300 yards from their mobile home.

Roads leading into the town had to be closed because of downed trees and debris tossed by winds gusting to 60 mph, Geller said. A 7:30 p.m. curfew was imposed so search and rescue teams could go door to door checking on people.

Witnesses said the storm swept through Waverly with little warning.

Timothy Williams said a friend had just come by to take his new car for a drive

when the storm hit.

“It picked the car right off the ground, and put it right back on the ground,” said Williams, 44. He said they remained in the car until the storm passed.

The storm blew down electrical wires “in a big ball of fire, thrashing all about each other,” Williams said. He said they both escaped shaken but uninjured.

“I’m just a little nervous and jittery, but overall I’m OK,” Williams said.

In Appomattox County, a funnel cloud left an 8to 10-mile path of destruction, injuring seven

nance student who attended the etiquette dinner the past two years. Bernstein was one of 10 students who participated in the fashion show this year.

Bernstein believes the etiquette dinner offers many students an opportunity they’ve probably never had before, but is a key compo-

nent to future success.

“It’s important for students to attend because many of them have only had dinner with friends and family,” Bernstein said. “Not many of them have actually had dinner with someone they’re trying to work for.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Rachel Ligman, a talent scout from Eaton Corporation, hosts a “Jeopardy” game during Engineers Appreciaion Day in the Engineering Science Building.

people, state police said.

On Tuesday, one of the hardest-hit areas along the Gulf Coast was a recreational vehicle park in the town of Convent, in southern Louisiana. RVs were tossed about and lay on top of wrecked cars and pickup trucks.

Two people were killed there, and 31 injured people were taken to area hospitals, said St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin.

An all-night search of the RV park found no additional injuries or fatalities, the sheriff said. One person was still unaccounted for.

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Beeson also produced and directed the 2008 documentary, “Fighting on Two FronAts: The Untold Stories of African-American WWII Veterans.”

Beeson is involved in many multimedia projects and is working in augmented and virtual reality to further help educate the masses about race relations and black history.

“The study of history and research of the (American) black experience is incredibly important to our understanding of who we are not only as individual people, but as a nation,” Fuller said. “Black history is American history. It’s a part of who we all are.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Common Core fails in social studies West Virginia’s Board of Education adopted the the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 2010, and it was fully implemented in the public school system during the 2014-15 school year.

Unfortunately, Common Core Standards, which are meant to prepare students for college, are only for English language arts and math.

The Common Core Standards have been adopted by 42 states, as well as four territories and the District of Columbia. These regions now all teach roughly the same material to children, which bridges the gap between education that previously existed between different states. According to the WV Board of Education’s website, Common Core is meant to “focus on fewer concepts while stress-

ing deeper learning and understanding, and are part of an overall drive to better prepare today’s students for college or careers.”

The Common Core Standards only focus on English and math in order for students to build skill sets that can be used in other areas, but the absence of standards in social studies is reason for alarm.

In most school systems, test scores are the determining factor in what classes are offered and how classes are taught. If scores in social studies decrease in importance, classes like history or political science won’t be emphasized or even offered in the future.

While developing skills in math and English grammar are important, an understanding of our country’s background and political

system is essential information that high school graduates are missing when they enter college.

Taking classes such as sociology or psychology allow students to further their understanding of themselves, others and their society.

These classes, as well as other social sciences, aren’t considered “important” enough to be part of Common Core.

What’s more, the Common Core Standards often catch flack for more than just its lack of emphasis on social studies. According to the National Review, common criticisms of Common Core Standards are that standards for reading emphasize government manuals instead of classic literature or fiction, math standards are based on memorization and there is a lack of rigorous content

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Students will sorely lack an understanding of the American government if social studies classes are cut. in general.

As with any standardized testing and learning system, Common Core is expected to have flaws. However, a lack of emphasis on social studies is a flaw that

cannot be overlooked, as it is harmful to both current students and future generations that may enter college or into a career without sufficient knowledge of the world around them.

Until Common Core adopts social studies into its standards, it cannot fully “prepare America’s students for college and career.” daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Cancer is complicated: A response to cancer conspiracists shelby bradford columnist @shelbybradfordda

Everyone knows someone who has been diagnosed with cancer. I know several members in my own family who have experienced some form of it, and in my friends’ families as well. The disease is not only stressful for the afflicted individual but also their loved ones, as they are forced to see the side effects of the imperfect treatments their loved one endures firsthand.

It is no doubt that everyone who has been in this predicament yearns for a better cure for cancer beyond chemotherapy and radiation. However, the next time I hear someone proclaim the government is purposefully withholding a cure that already exists, I am going to lose my mind.

Cancer affects millions of people every year. In fact, for 2015, the National Cancer Institute predicted more than 1.6 million new cases and over 500,000 cancer-related deaths in the United States alone. While the survival trend is increasing among many types of cancer, it still does not usually have an optimistic outcome.

Every year, millions of dollars are donated to cancer research foundations in order to improve the lives of individuals affected by cancer. This help doesn’t take the form of just research, but also includes patient care, prevention education and

technology developments.

Sadly, a misconception about these funds has spread rapidly. Many people have accused research foundations of withholding cures in order to drive up profits. From a scientific standpoint, I can assure readers this is far from true.

Cancer is much more complicated than most people realize.

When a person contracts a cold or the flu, a doctor takes their temperature, asks for other symptoms they’ve experienced and will even take a throat culture if necessary. A prescription for antibiotics or steroids is typically given at the end of the visit, and that’s the end of it.

However, the problem with cancer is that it is a

disease of the genome: the incredibly complex system of information storage contained in our DNA. It is much harder to pinpoint the exact problem because of this, and it’s even more complicated to detect in an individual before significant damage has already occurred.

Cancer is actually an umbrella term to describe uncontrolled cell growth in any area of the body. To make matters even more difficult, there are hundreds—if not thousands— of possible DNA mutations which can lead to this abnormal growth that results in a tumor.

Because cancer is so widespread in society, it’s no wonder that many organizations are commit-

ted to finding treatments for this disease. Unfortunately, many people doubt the legitimacy of scientists working for these organizations and discredit the work they do. These people often claim that these organizations have already developed cures for cancer but have chosen to withhold it from the public in order to raise more money for their own gain.

This kind of conspiracy is detrimental to progressing scientific understanding that would better the lives and outcomes of cancer patients. These claims have no scientific or other substantial evidence, but like most instances in society, the people who know the least often seem to speak the loudest.

On paper, cancer is easy to treat. However, the practice is a double-edged sword. The process that allows for cell growth to spiral out of control and cause tumors is the same process that every other cell in our body uses regularly to grow, differentiate and divide—a process that keeps us alive. Today, there is simply no way to target only cancerous cells with treatment.

This is why chemotherapies are so taxing on the body—the treatment attacks every cell in the body to try to stop the tumor growth. Scientists can very easily deduce what is wrong and how to fix it, but at this point in history, putting that knowledge into practice without also damag-

ing healthy cells is a major obstacle.

No one likes being told bad news. It is always upsetting to hear, and I understand that sometimes people grasp at straws when bad things happen without explanation or an easy solution. However, accusing the very people attempting to improve a disease is not going to make the pain easier to deal with.

Right now, modern medicine cannot distinguish between natural cell growth and unnatural cell growth in fighting cancer. Until it can, we all must take a step back, trust our doctors and researchers and stop spreading lies and conspiracies about cancer research. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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English spelling doesn’t need revision to reflect pronunciation thomas mcquain columnist @dailyathenaeum

Throughout the past couple of years, a movement targeting childhood literacy has proposed a simplification of the English language, most notably in the area of spelling. The English Spelling Society, a group advocating for this movement, radically claim that “…English spelling is probably the most irregular spelling system of all those based on the alphabetic system.”

This claim is directed at homophones, words that are identical in sound but not in spelling or meaning, and believes them to be too confusing for newcomers to the English language.

The spelling alteration proposed by reformers proposes that words be spelled as close to their phonetic construction as possible, meaning no silent letters and only one way to spell words such as “there” or “your.” Proponents for this change have raised points on the debate website IDebate.org and have proposed new spelling changes.

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English spelling rules are considered highly irregular when compared to other languages. “cough” should become “coff,” “women” should become “wimmen” and “nation” should become “nayshun,” as these words will be typically pronounced in this fashion in an American school setting. By matching pronunciation with prose, advocates for English simplification believe English literacy rates for both children and foreign students will improve.

The immediate problem with this kind of phonetically-centered revision is that not all people speak

English with the same accent. For example, a Minnesota accent and the common southern drawl have almost completely different pronunciation rules for even the simplest words. If the English Spelling Society’s change were set into motion, people from these areas would likely have great difficulty when reading each other’s writing.

English-speaking countries like Australia and New Zealand would have a very difficult time communicating with much of

the United States via text, which could lead to an international breakdown of communication.

To say that the English language is the “most irregular” in terms of spelling strikes me as a claim made with a lack of experience with other languages that use phonetic alphabets. German, for example, corresponds the spelling of nouns with an assigned gender: masculine, feminine or neuter. Many inanimate objects, such as an apple, are either mascu-

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line or feminine and may go against common sense.

In this case, apples are technically the female part of an apple tree, but it has a masculine noun. This extra level of spelling complexity is something nearly extinct in modern English, with the only major remnants being our gendered pronouns. If the German language adopted the same suggestions made by the English Spelling Society, extreme difficulty would likely arise in communication, as even the spelling of words used to

denote gender or a noun’s function would be subject to the writer’s accent.

Natilly Macartney, an English Language Assistant and graduate from Cambridge University, mentions in an article that the greatest concern of this language simplification movement is what it overlooks: “I am concerned that it is the English language which has been targeted and criticized and not the methods which are used to teach reading and spelling. It is important to acknowledge that reading and spelling in English are not impossible.”

Millions of people have acquired a useful level of English literacy and continue to do so as our language becomes even more globalized. As people learn or use English in a new way, it begins to change, just as every other language does.

Over time, the English language may simplify itself for the sake of efficiency or rising social trends. However, it is too regionally diverse and spoken by far too many isolated individuals for any universal phonetic simplification to ever take place. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Judges score the competitor’s performances in Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars last year in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars returns for its fifth charitable season by corey elliott A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Just a week from Saturday, Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars returns for its fifth season.

With the name inspired by the popular television show, “Dancing with the Stars,” WVU puts its own charitable spin on the event.

As part of WVUp All Night, and in association with the American Red Cross, Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars is a perfect opportunity for a blood drive. In addition to participants having fun, raising awareness and collecting blood donations are the main reason why this event was created.

“We partnered with the American Red Cross, and we have a blood drive in conjunction with this. We try to get the dancers to get together and get people that can give blood for them,”

said senior programming administrator of the Mountainair, Sonja Wilson.

The couples will each perform a themed dance and be graded by a panel of judges who will determine a score. The scoring will be dictated, partly by the creativity and choreography, but mainly by how many individuals the dancers can gather to give blood. So if one dancing couple gets 12 people to donate blood, they receive an additional 12 points to their score.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean the best dancing couple is going to win, because not everything is about winning, it’s about giving back,” Wilson said.

This year, there are 32 total dancers. Each of the 16 dancing couples are made up of WVU “celebrities.” Being part of WVU as a member of staff, faculty or student body is a requirement to be considered a WVU “celebrity.”

One participant is someone who has some type of dance experience and their partner is someone with not so much experience, similar to ABC’s version.

“We’ve got a lot of personality in it, and I’m excited to see the audience’s reactions,” said Ankur Kumar, a sophomore industrial engineering student, who is one of the 32 dancers.

Revealing too much of a couple’s plan would make for a less suspenseful performance. However, Kumar hinted that he and his partner’s dance will include something everyone can appreciate.

“Let’s just say we’ve got Bieber fever,” Kumar said.

The WVU Mountaineer, Michael Garcia, is joining Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars this year. Garcia took over as the Mountaineer in April of 2014.

Partnered with Garcia is Kallie Nealis, co-captain of the WVU Dance Team.

Another notable participant is former WVU basketball player, Kevin Noreen.

Noreen is now a graduate student studying industrial relations. Paige Klingensmith, a junior strategic communications student and someone who danced in her youth, is partnered with Noreen.

Awards are given out to first, second and third place.

Just like ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” WVU’s version hands out the mirror ball trophies. Also, the “People’s Choice Award” will collect votes from the audience via Facebook and an award will be given to the chosen couple.

The blood drive is on Tuesday from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballroom. Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars will be on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballroom and is free of cost. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

WVU Lab Theatre presents 2002 drama by woody pond A&e Writer @dailyathenauem

WVU Lab Theatre is set to take on another renowned playwright, this time with the sentimental drama, “Waving Goodbye.”

Wr itten by Jamie Pachino, the 2002 play is being directed by senior BA theatre student Kayla Lutz as a part of her capstone. It features three female and two male actors from WVU’s Theatre Department.

Pachino’s play tells the story of Lily Blue, a 17-year-old artist and photographer who has recently moved in with the mother who abandoned her as a child after the tragic death of her father in a climbing accident. Lily wants nothing to do with her at first and takes refuge in her work and a budding rela-

tionship with her friend, Boggy, while she is haunted by the memories of her father, Jonathan. This feeling of loss is shared by Lily and her mother, and they work to build a new relationship in the shadow of these events. Megan Peters is playing Lily Blue in Lutz’s production and found a lot of herself in Lily as she was working on the show.

“When I first read it, she reminded me so much of me when I was younger.

I’ve always been into art and making things out of nothing, and she says what she thinks, which I think is really compelling in a character,” Peters said.

Since the last Lab production, “Disgraced,” only closed two weeks ago, it has been a quick ride for Lutz and her cast.

The team has been working very hard to put in re-

hearsal and work time for designing their set, the way they will handle the many props and art pieces required for this show. This is also Lutz’s first time directing a full play, and she commented on how much of an exciting, but stressful, challenge this experience has been for her.

“On one hand, doing a play is just doing a bunch of scenes mushed together.

A manageable way to deal with it is to take it piece by piece. But you have to tell a bigger story, and making all of these scenes come together to tell that story is pretty difficult actually,” Lutz said.

The cast and director were all in agreement about the meaning behind “Waving Goodbye.”

They felt strongly about its themes and how important and effective these themes

would be to an audience.

“It’s about learning to move on, and coping with your feelings and all of the bad things in your life primarily through art and also through your relationships with people. There’s some pretty emotional and poignant moments. I’m hoping to hit my audience in the feelings, and make them think and maybe even help with them some heavy things they have been going through,” Lutz said.

“Waving G o o dbye” starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Vivian Davis Michael Theatre, and continues its run with a show Saturday night at the same time. There will also be a matinee showing at 2 p.m on Sunday. Admission is free, and the show runs for about two hours.

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Since the late ‘50s, Del McCoury has been an icon of bluegrass music. Almost 20 years ago, a special thing happened- McCoury found himself on a stage with Phish, putting on an amazing collaboration for excited fans. In that amazing moment, an idea was born: Delfest.

Located only an hour away from Morgantown in the small town of Cumberland, Maryland, Delfest has become one of the most popular bluegrass festivals in the nation. Although it is a smaller festival, the quality of the music and art creates an intimate setting for musicians of all kinds to come and collaborate together.

Starting in 2008, Delfest has done nothing but grow.

Partnered with Stan Strickland, from Rainmaker Music Management, and Roy Carter, from High Sierra Music, McCoury and his family have dedicated much of their lives to making Delfest an extension of their home.

This year’s festival will feature headliners such as The Tavelin’ McCourys, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemak-

ers, Greensky Bluegrass, Railroad Earth, Sam Bush Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Wood Brothers, The Infamous Stringdusters, Keller Williams and more.

The festival is located at the Allegany County Fairgrounds. Nestled next to the North Branch of the Potomac River and a lush mountain ridge, the campsite is serene and peaceful.

Delfest offers two stages for optimal entertainment. The main stage, or the Grandstand Stage, is for bigger guests, whereas the Potomac Stage is perfect for a small, more intimate, artist.

Dave Williams, President of McClarran & WIlliams advertising firm, has worked with McCoury for years and has gotten to know him well.

“Delfest is a very, very unique event because it is based around the flexible and broad music of Del McCoury,” Williams said. “If he isn’t the father of blue grass, he was certainly in the room when he was born.”

Although Delfest is the event, Del McCoury is the attraction. More than 10,000 people come from all over the country just to be part of his “family” for the weekend.

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They really take it personally that you are their guests.”

With a big heart and an even bigger smile, McCoury has helped the local community more than words can express. In the past nine years, McCoury and his family have started the Delfest Academy, a week long music program, and the Delfest Foundation, a charity which gives back to the local community.

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McCoury has never forgotten this local support and continues to give back.

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Del has always been thinking outside of bluegrass,” Williams said. “If you come to the festival, you get to see the way they view the world, and we’re just fortunate to be at the party.”

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Bria Holmes takes a jumper last night against TCU.

Bria Holmes carries West Virginia to season sweep of TCU, 83-72

BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s basketball team has always found a way to win whenever facing the TCU Horned Frogs; the last and only time the Mountaineers lost to TCU was on Feb. 24, 2015. Exactly one year later, Bria Holmes was not going sit still and watch the same thing happen.

West Virginia went into the final quarter down by four once TCU started the quarter with a three.

While there was still time left, it seemed as if the Horned Frogs offence was too much. However, led

by Bria Holmes’ 11 points in the fourth quarter, the Mountaineers (21-8,10-6 Big 12) went on to defeat the Horned Frogs (15-12, 7-9 Big 12), 83-72.

Holmes recorded a season-high 30 points. The senior shot 50 percent from the field and added four assists to her total.

Holmes is now 16 points away from becoming the first Mountaineer to reach 500 points in three consecutive seasons.

“She stepped up today, and took over the game, when we needed her the most,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey. “She made some big, big plays.”

The first quarter found both WVU and TCU ex-

changing offensive punches, making basket after basket. By the end of the first quarter, the Mountaineers were shooting 66.7 percent, while the Horned Frogs converted on 50 percent of its shots.

Coming out of the opening quarter, TCU’s leading scorer, Zahna Medley, recorded only 4 points.

However, Medley went into halftime scoring 11 of TCU’s 21 points in the second quarter. The Mountaineers had no answer in stopping Medley, who scored 16 points last meeting. Medley finished with 23 points and seven assists.

It was only the beginning of what seemed to be a long night defensively

for the Mountaineers. As the Horned Frogs continued their offensive success, the Mountaineers hit a scoreless patch at the worst time.

With the Mountaineers nearly tying the game back up at 49, the Horned Frogs went on a 16-2 run to hold a 9-point lead. However, as the Mountaineers faced the deficit with TCU shooting at an improbable rate, WVU responded with a run of its own, ending the third with 9-0 run.

TCU had eight turnovers entering the fourth quarter. The Horned Frogs protected the basketball and the Mountaineer defense needed a time to step up.

The West Virginia defense

forced six turnovers en route to a 21-3 run over six and half minutes.

“Once we started playing defense, you can see we held them to eight points,” Carey said. “I thought in the Texas game when we got behind like that, we didn’t play hard. This game we did.”

WVU’s Teana Muldrow added 20 points, falling 1 point shy of her seasonhigh, also set against TCU. Jessica Morton was quiet on the offensive side, with no points entering the final quarter, but she ultimately finished with 8 points and five rebounds, playing a crucial role in the comeback.

Four of the five Horned

Frogs’ starters finished in double-figure scoring.

Along with Medley’s 23; Veja Hamilton finished with 13, AJ Alix with 12 and Jada Butts with 10.

The victory gives the Mountaineers their second highest conference win total since joining the Big 12. It also keeps the Mountaineers in an all-important battle with Oklahoma State, as both teams are tied for third in the conference.

West Virginia and Oklahoma State will meet on 7 p.m. Satrurday., in what will be the Mountaineers’ final regular season home game. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

FOOTBALL

Holgorsen’s uncertain contract situation already costing WVU CHRIS JACKSON ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @CJACKSONWVU

Many Mountaine er fans want athletic director Shane Lyons to pull the plug on West Virginia University football coach Dana Holgorsen after securing just his first eightwin season since joining the Big 12 in 2012.

Although he hasn’t surpassed the seven-win mark during the regular season in the Big 12 era and won only two bowl games, including a 43-42 thriller over Arizona State in the Cactus Bowl in January, the circumstances surrounding Holgorsen’s contract continue to raise questions about the state of the program.

Heralded defensive backs coach Brian Mitchell suddenly departed for Virginia Tech last week and surprised the entire college football landscape. His unit tallied 23 interceptions last year, the second highest total in the nation.

Mitchell left to join first-year head coach Justin Fuente, who guided Memphis to a 19-6 record during his final two seasons, coaching likely first round quarterback Paxton Lynch.

Mitchell’s departure comes just weeks before spring practice begins and two months before the spring game, leaving WVU without a coach in the secondary at a crucial point. It lost all but one of its starters in the secondary, with junior Dravon Askew-Henry the only returner.

Daryl Worley left a year early for the NFL Draft, and Terrell Chestnut grad-

Dana Holgorsen forlornly watches his team walk off the field after a loss to Oklahoma last season. uated. KJ Dillon shined at five seasons have resulted program in a multitude of the Senior Bowl and is a in a 36-28 overall record ways, highlighted by the likely NFL Draft selection and a 20-23 showing in the sudden exit of Mitchell. in April. Even Rick Rumph, Big 12, failing to execute in The 2017 recruiting who replaced Worley in the latter part of his first class has just one commit, the Cactus Bowl after Wor- four seasons. the lowest total in the conley was academically inelAlthough a Cactus Bowl ference. Despite finishing igible, also graduated. victory ensured his first the 2016 class strong in But Mitchell took his eight-win season since an the waning moments betalents to Blacksburg, to Orange Bowl season (his fore Signing Day, the upa program in its first year first year) in 2011 during coming crop of talent feawithout legendary coach the program’s final year in tures one lone player from Frank Beamer. Now Dana the Big East, it was his first Morgantown, Maverick Wolfley.

Holgorsen and WVU have bowl win in five years.

He and Shane Lyons Recruits struggle to to deal with the effects of losing one of the nation’s failed to reach an agree- choose a school where ment on an impending the future is up in the air top position coaches.

And it could possibly be contract extension. Hol- and questions linger, esHolgorsen’s last season in gorsen’s uncertain future pecially when talks on a Morgantown. His previous continues to affect the contract extension have

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ceased. It’s relatively early in the process and many have the Mountaineers near the top of their list, but unknown futures are what opposing recruiters and coaches feast on when talking to potential prospects.

In this day and age, coaches aren’t given long amounts of time to prove themselves.

They either find a way to win right away or the new home they found is a place they used to live.

Holgorsen has one more year to prove himself and he likely needs to sur-

pass the seven-win regular season mark to remain in Morgantown.

If the Mountaineers don’t surrender a 10-point halftime lead at Kansas State in the regular season finale, there may be little-to-no discussions surrounding Holgorsen’s future.

Instead, it’s led to halted contract extension talks that hinge on 2016’s success and a schedule that features Missouri and BYU in the nonconference slate. cgjackson@mix.wvu.edu

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Men’s Basketball

WVU gets bounce back after heeding Huggins’ harsh message

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

West Virginia University men’s basketball head coach Bob Huggins has never been one to mince words.

But Huggins’ candor after West Virginia’s 76-62 home loss to Oklahoma on Saturday was jarring; after the Mountaineers’ third loss in four games, Huggins expressed his frustration with his team’s desire and hinted at possible roster changes.

“If they feel sorry for themselves, then I’ve got the wrong guys,” Huggins said after the loss to Oklahoma. “If I’ve got guys feeling sorry for themselves tomorrow, you probably won’t see them next year. I want guys who are going to compete. I want guys who are pissed off because I’m pissed off. Let’s go win.”

This late in the season, it was a message that the Mountaineers couldn’t afford to miss, one way or another – star center Devin Williams saw Huggins’ message when the video of the press conference popped up on his Facebook feed.

For Williams, it was simply Huggins demanding the effort that his team has to give, and an affirmation of

the work ethic the Mountaineers need to compete at this level.

“He just wants guys to go out there and compete, and that’s why he recruited the guys he recruited,” Williams said. “He believes in us being tough and being able to grind it out. He gave us a mouthful in the locker room that day. To be in the position that we’re in, we have to be grateful for where we are, and we have to stay humble, keep working and not get complacent.”

And come Sunday, West Virginia showed that the message had been received. The Mountaineers responded with what Huggins called one of their best practices of the season, responding with an extra spring in their step as the team continues to get healthy after injuries to guards Daxter Miles Jr. and Jaysean Paige.

And with Miles back in the lineup on Monday night, West Virginia looked rejuvenated in an important 97-87 win over No. 17 Iowa State.

“I thought we had more bounce,” Huggins said after the Iowa State game. “I told them yesterday that I thought it was the best practice we’ve had in a long time. We were bouncing around again.”

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WVU head coach Bob Huggins yells at his team during a game against TCU on February 13.

Miles’ return means that West Virginia once again has its full complement of players healthy, although Huggins still elected to start junior guard Teyvon Myers.

Miles scored three points and dished out three assists in 13 minutes, although his return was overshadowed

by brilliant bench performances by Paige and Tarik Phillip, who both set career-highs in scoring as the Mountaineers scored 69 bench points.

West Virginia needs its whole roster playing with peak energy with only three games left before the start

of the Big 12 Tournament.

The ringer that is the Big 12 conference schedule – Huggins has called it the toughest league he’s ever coached in – has a tendency to wear teams out, especially heading into postseason play.

Huggins can’t play the frenetic style that he wants

to play without having his entire team healthy, and it looks like the Mountaineers’ bounce is back at the right time. West Virginia is next set to go on the road to face Oklahoma State Saturday night at 6 p.m. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

SWIM and Dive

Mountaineers conclude Day 1 at Big 12 Championships Wednesday

By Roger Turner Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The West Virginia University swimming and diving program kicked off the first day of competition in Austin, Texas for the Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships. On Wednesday, WVU men’s divers and the women’s relay teams got the four-day meet underway.

Competitors in the men’s 1-meter diving event took to the pool first

on Wednesday. Four out of the five West Virginia men’s divers competing in the event moved on to the finals, with sophomore, Michael Proietto, leading the way for WVU. Proietto placed third in the 1-meter finals scoring 328, while fellow sophomore, Alex Obendorf, also finished in the top-five with a score of 314.75.

The 200-yard medley relay event followed the diving prelims and both West Virginia teams recorded top-five finishes. For the

men’s, WVU finished second with a time of 1:27.56, and the women placed fifth in the event. A team compiled of Andrew Marsh, Max Spencer, Chase Williams and Frank Csonka finished 3.22 seconds behind first-place, which was claimed by Texas.

The West Virginia women’s team claimed fourth place in the 800-free relay, which was the final event of the evening. A relay team, which featured freshmen Amelie Currat and Sydnee Karam, and

upperclassmen Kelsey Frantz and Emma Skelley, finished with a time of 7:23.57 to claim the topfive finish. Through the first five events, the WVU women’s team sat tied with TCU for fourth place.

The Mountaineer men’s team closed out the first day with a band in the 800-free relay, touching the wall in second-place, again, behind the reigning champions, the Texas Longhorns. Underclassmen Chris McMahon and Drew Damich joined upperclassmen Ross Glegg and Nate Carr in the event as the team finished with a time of 6:32.28. The men’s second-place finish in the final relay event of the night was the high mark for the WVU men’s team as the squad holds first-place in the conference championships following the first day of events.

Events for the second day of competition at the Big 12 Championships will commence throughout the day. In the first session, preliminary rounds for the

A WVU swimmer swims the butterfly in an October meet.

500 freestyle, 200 IM and 50-yard freestyle will be featured. Swimmers will receive an intermission until 2 p.m., while divers competing in the women’s 1-meter event will hit the platform.

Finals for the women’s 1-meter event will take place during the third session of the day, which will begin at 7 p.m. at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Swim-

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mers will return to the pool during this session for the finals of the 500-yard freestyle, 200 IM, 50-yard freestyle and the 400-medley relay.

Thursday’s events will follow the same format with the women’s events first, followed by the men’s events and Championship relays will be swum prior to B relays. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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AP

FIFA reduces Blatter, Platini’s suspensions to six years

Sepp Blatter speaks at a FIFA meeting last year.

ZURICH (AP) — Sepp BlatBut following hearings ter and Michel Platini had last week, an in-house aptheir bans from soccer re- peal committee comprisduced from eight years to ing members of federations six by FIFA’s appeal body on voting in Friday’s presidenWednesday, two days be- tial election decided to refore the sport’s ruling body lax the suspensions. The tries to turn the page on committee is headed by years of scandals by elect- Larry Mussenden of Bering a new president. muda, who is currently Blatter and Platini were campaigning to win a May initially found guilty of vote to become president of wrongdoing by FIFA’s in- CONCACAF and a FIFA vice dependent ethics com- president.

“The appeal committee mittee, which is led by a German judge, over a pre- considered that Mr. Platini’s viously-secret 2011 finan- and Mr. Blatter’s activities cial transaction. and the services they had Platini, the UEFA presi- rendered to FIFA, UEFA and dent, said not being cleared football in general over the was an “insulting decision, years should deserve apshameful and a denial of propriate recognition as a rights” - and announced he mitigating factor,” FIFA said will appeal to the Court of in a statement.no Arbitration for Sport.

Blatter said in a stateBlatter, as FIFA presi- ment that he was “deeply dent, authorized a payment disappointed” with the verof 2 million Swiss francs ($2 dict. Having hoped to be million) to Platini which cleared in time to preside was found to be unethical over the electoral congress and a conflict of interest. on Friday, Blatter might

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have run out of time for an urgent CAS hearing.

Both Blatter and Platini have constantly denied wrongdoing and claimed they had a verbal deal for additional salary that former France great Platini would receive for working as Blatter’s presidential adviser from 1999-2002.

Platini had been the leading candidate to succeed Blatter in FIFA’s emergency election before the payment was revealed in September.

“The reasons given against me are baseless, trumped up and surreal, given the facts and explanations that I gave during the hearing of the appeals board,” Platini said in a statement released through his legal team. “This decision is in reality a political decision taken by the FIFA administration.”

He added: “I am the victim of a system that had

only one goal: To prevent me from becoming FIFA president in order to protect certain interests that I was about to bring into question.”

Platini said he would pursue all possible means to appeal, starting with CAS, and that he had asked his legal team to launch an appeal to the Lausanne-based court “without waiting.”

Platini has previously said he asked for a salary of 1 million Swiss francs when approached in 1998 to work for the newly-elected Blatter.

Blatter said there was a contract for 300,000 Swiss francs, the same as FIFA’s then secretary general in line with its salary structure, plus a “gentleman’s agreement” to get the rest later.

Swiss law obliged FIFA only to pay the deferred money within five years.

It was not until 2010 that

Platini, by then UEFA president, reportedly asked for the balance, and was paid in February 2011.

That timing has raised suspicion as the payment came during a FIFA presidential election campaign. UEFA later urged its members to support Blatter - who promised them it would be his final term - against Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar.

Blatter won that 2011 election unopposed after Bin Hammam was implicated in bribing Caribbean voters. From then on, Platini was the likely successor to lead FIFA. Platini’s provisional suspension by the ethics committee last October, pending a full investigation, stalled his presidential bid and the ban in December effectively ended it.

Both were fined by the ethics judges in December. Blatter was ordered

to pay 50,000 Swiss francs ($50,000) and Platini was fined 80,000 Swiss francs ($80,000).

The Platini payment emerged during a wider Swiss federal investigation of FIFA business, including suspected money laundering in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests.

Switzerland’s attorney general, Michael Lauber, opened criminal proceedings against Blatter in September for alleged mismanagement and misappropriation of FIFA funds.

That case also relates to Blatter signing off undervalued 2010-2014 World Cup broadcast rights for the Caribbean to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner.

Platini’s status in the Swiss investigation is “between a witness and an accused person,” Lauber has said.

Rockies adjust to spring training without Jose Reyes SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Colorado Rockies have had some of the uncertainty surrounding Jose Reyes’ status resolved, at least for spring training, but manager Walt Weiss says he understands the process is still unfolding.

The four-time All-Star shortstop has been placed on paid leave under Major League Baseball’s new domestic violence policy pending the outcome of criminal proceedings.

“It helps to have some direction,” Weiss said Wednesday, “but I don’t think we’re going to be surprised by anything throughout the process.”

Reyes was arrested Oct. 31 at a resort in Hawaii on a charge of abuse of a family or household member following an altercation with his wife. He pleaded not guilty and a trial is set for April 4, the day the Rockies open their season at the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Reyes is the first player to be impacted by the policy agreed to by the MLB and

the players association, so this is uncharted territory.

“We’re sitting back waiting on our marching orders, basically, is what it comes down to,” Weiss said. “As the process continues, there will be more and more clarity.”

The MLB decision came down on Tuesday, two days before the Rockies begin full-squad workouts. MLB said Commissioner Rob Manfred will not decide on possible discipline for Reyes until after the criminal proceedings and an MLB investigation. Discipline is not dependent on a criminal conviction.

With Reyes not participating in spring training, the way could be cleared for prospect Trevor Story to make Colorado’s opening day roster.

“He’s going to compete,” Weiss said. “We know he’s a talented young kid. We’re going to let that play out.

There’ll be some competition at that position.”

Story is one of three shortstops, other than

Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes puts on his batting helmet at a game at Washington last August.

Reyes, listed on Colorado’s 40-man roster. The others are journeyman utility player Daniel Descalso and young Christian Adames.

Rafael Ynoa, listed as a third baseman, also can play shortstop.

“There’s a few guys at different stages of their careers,” Weiss said, “but all

intriguing.”

The 23-year-old Story hit .279 with 20 home runs and 80 RBIs last season in 130 games for Double-A New Britain and Triple-A Albuquerque.

He was a supplemental first-round pick - the 45th selection overall - by the Rockies in 2011 out of Ir-

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ving High School in Irving, Texas.

Asked if the Reyes situation opened the door for him to make the team, Story said, “maybe a little bit.”

“But you know I look at it a different way,” Story said.

“I try to come in and worry about what I can control,

just do what I can to make the team, regardless of who’s here and who’s not.”

Descalso, 29, hit .209 in 101 games with Colorado last season, with five homers and 22 RBIs. Adames, 24, is still considered a rookie because he had only 53 at-bats with the Rockies last season, batting .245. He spent most of last season with Albuquerque, where he hit .311.

Ynoa, 27, hit .260 in 72 games with the Rockies last season.

None of them comes close to the impact of the 32-year-old Reyes, who came to Colorado last season in the deal that sent shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and pitcher LaTroy Hawkins to Toronto. Reyes has two years left on the six-year, $106 million contract he signed with Miami in 2012.

“He brings a certain energy to our club that was nice to see last year,” Weiss said earlier this week. “But I’ve got to coach and manage the guys that are here.”

Rangers’ Hamilton has injured knee, will start season on DL SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton will start the season on the disabled list because of an injured left knee.

Rangers assistant general manager Thad Levine said the five-time All-Star, bothered by swelling in the knee, received a stem cell and platelet rich plasma injection Monday, when he was examined by Dr. James Andrews.

Hamilton, the 2010 AL MVP, will be on crutches for seven-to-10 days and is projected to need eight weeks of recovery time.

Levine said Hamilton likely would start a minor league rehabilitation assignment

in late April and the Rangers hope he will return to their lineup in early May. “Obviously it’s frustrating and disappointing,” Hamilton said Wednesday. “As an athlete, you don’t want to be pushed back and wait and have a drawn-out time period to get back. That stinks. At the same time, I really felt like it was something that needed to be done now.”

Hamilton will be making his 11th trip to the disabled list.

“The reason we are giving him an eight-week program is so we don’t cut any corners and give him a full spring training,” Levine said.

After reporting to spring training last week, Hamilton experienced pain caused by an inflamed capsule behind his left knee.

He had surgery twice on the knee last year, in September and then after the season after returning for the end of the regular season and the playoffs.

Following the October operation, Hamilton didn’t take batting practice again until Jan. 22, the day after a cortisone shot.

“This is something different, that I haven’t tried yet,” Hamilton said. “This was the next step to go. We’ve exhausted things. If this makes it 50 percent better, I’ll be good to go. Every-

body I’ve talked to who’ve said they had any kind of stem-cell stuff said they’ve had good results from them, so that’s positive and encouraging. It will never be right, but I just want to get better. That’s the simplistic way to put it. There’s always that fear there that it might not work.”

Hamilton, who turns 35 on May 1, never went to spring training last year with the Los Angeles Angels when he was coming off shoulder surgery and a self-reported relapse with alcohol and cocaine. An arbitrator ruled Major League Baseball could not discipline him for that.

He was traded back to

Texas at the end of April and made his season debut May 25. Hamilton hit .253 with eight homers in 170 atbats over 50 games for the Rangers last season.

Hamilton tore ligaments in his left thumb in the eighth game of the 2014 Angels’ season and did not return until June 3. Injuries limited him to one game after Sept. 4 and he has appeared in just 139 games the past two seasons.

Candidates to play left in his absence include prospects Joey Gallo, Nomar Mazara and Lewis Brinson, plus Ryan Rua. Gallo, 22, is primarily a third baseman, but appeared in 19 games last year in the outfield.

Mazara is 20 and Brinson 21.

Rua was the 2015 opening-day starter in left but sprained his right ankle and fractured a heel in the first game that required surgery and went on the 60-day DL. “I feel we are in a good place with the guys we have in camp,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. “How that all shakes out, we have 40 days until the end of it.”

Texas also is looking outside the organization.

“We are very aware of the players who are out there on the free-agent market, and we’re still having conversations with those guys, as we have been for weeks,” Levine said.

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AP

Tiger Woods posts video to disprove rumors of his demise PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods posted a video of him swinging a 9-iron in a golf simulator on Wednesday to shoot down rumors on social media that suggested his recovery from back surgeries had worsened to the point he could not even sit in a chair.

The 13-second video Woods posted on Twitter shows him dressed in shorts and golf shoes, and he takes a smooth swing on a golf simulator.

“Progressing nicely,” Woods wrote.

The video (http://bit. ly/1oHi2If ) had a time stamp of Wednesday.

If nothing else, it provided the first update on Woods since he spoke at the Hero World Challenge the first week of December.

This was intended primarily, however, because of the social media storm that began over the weekend with a Twitter account called “Secret Tour Pro.” Mark Steinberg, Woods’ agent at Excel Sports Management, released a statement Monday that said the rumors were “ridiculous and absolutely false.”

“With everything that

went on this weekend with Twitter exploding and the ridiculous and erroneous discussions - I don’t even want to call it reporting we were inundated with fans saying: ‘Wow. How can this be true?’ Clearly, it wasn’t true,” Steinberg said Wednesday.

“If I picked up the phone and called you and said he’s doing some chipping and putting and making some swings up to a 9-iron - and that’s what the club was - is that impactful or a visual evidence of that?” he said. “We felt that was a more appropriate way to go.”

Woods first had a microdiscectomy a week before the 2014 Masters, which kept him out nearly three months. He took off another three months to get stronger, but then announced another back surgery in September, and a third one at the end of October.

He has not played since August. He has not won since August 2013.

The tweet Sunday from “Secret Tour Pro” - who claims to be a tour player, though it has never been verified - said that Woods’ condition had worsened since Christmas and that he

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Tiger Woods tees off at the 2015 Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina. has to ride in a car with the seat full reclined. The tweet also said Woods has to lay down for the majority of the time and sitting in chair is no longer possible.

Robert Lusetich, who wrote a book about Woods’ 2009 season after returning

from knee surgery, tweeted similar information the next day that he attributed to his sources, and talked about it on a national radio show.

Steinberg could not say if Woods would have posted the video without the rumors.

“He does want to keep people in the loop to some degree,” he said.

Missing from the update was anything beyond “progressing nicely.” Woods said in December that he misses competing and wants to return, though he does not

appear to be in any rush this time. He has said he tried to come back too early from the first back surgery.

“He’s going to learn from the past,” Steinberg said.

“We don’t want to put a timetable on it. He’ll come back when he’s ready.”

Nonprofits to NFL: Stop pushing children to play Fantasy Football BOSTON (AP) -- The National Football League should stop offering fantasy sports competitions to children because the games could lead some young sports fans down the path of gambling addiction, two nonprofit groups said in letters sent to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

The two groups -- the National Council on Problem Gambling and the Campaign for a CommercialFree Childhood -- said in letters Wednesday that the NFL “aggressively marketed” a fantasy sports game on “NFL Rush,” its website and smartphone app for children, as well as on SIkids.com, Sports Illustrated’s website for children,

and through an elementary school curriculum based on the contest.

The weekly “NFL Rush Fantasy” games ran throughout the football season and were open to children ages 6 to 12. Each week, an Xbox One console and Madden NFL 2016 video game was awarded to the contest’s top performer.

The two contest participants with the highest number of points at the end of the 17-week promotion also won a $5,000 check - which the league called a “scholarship” - plus a four-night trip to Hawaii to attend the Jan. 31 Pro Bowl game with up to two guests.

Like typical fantasy sports contests, the games

required the young players to pick teams of real life athletes in order to rack up “fantasy” points based on how well those athletes did in games.

Keith Whyte, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Council on Problem Gambling, wrote in his letter to Goodell that the contests “may encourage children to spend excessive amounts of time trying to win these prizes, thus planting the seeds of addiction.”

Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a Boston-based group that opposes childtargeted marketing, called the league’s fantasy sports-

based curriculum “particularly egregious.”

“NFL Rush Fantasy-Learn, Play, Score!” was a math and language arts program that required students to sign up for the NFL’s fantasy football game in order to access lesson materials and complete assignments.

“Educators should not be called upon to assist the NFL in promoting an activity which is potentially harmful and addictive when engaged in by children,” Golin wrote to Goodell.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, in response to questions from The Associated Press, said the curriculum initiative ended after the 2014 season. He declined to provide further

details.

Of concerns about the contest, McCarthy said parents had to provide consent before their children could play the games.

He also maintained that the contest, which just completed its seventh year, is more like the free, seasonlong fantasy sports games familiar to many Americans than the daily versions that have increasingly come under scrutiny from some policymakers as illegal sports betting operations.

“Whether or not it constitutes daily fantasy sports, there is the bigger issue that it indoctrinates young children into a potentially harmful and addictive behavior,” David Monahan, of

the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, responded.

In its five-page letter to Goodell, the campaign also suggested the contest’s parental consent was easy to circumvent.

The NFL asked each child to provide an email address of a parent or guardian so it could send them a form to verify their child’s age and permission to play for prizes.

McCarthy didn’t address the campaign’s concern and declined to provide details about how many children participated in the contest.

Instead, he noted that parents also had the option to let their child play without a chance for a prize.

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