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THERE’S SN W STOPPING US ASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

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Fraternity and sorority members gather on Spruce Street for snowrelated fun on Saturday morning.

Nathan Browning rides a sled on his belly down from Woodburn Hall to the Brooks Hall parking lot.

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A couple go off a jump in the middle of Spruce Street on a cold Saturday.

A group of students share a sled while descending the hill behind Woodburn Hall.

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Students on Spruce Street set up a Winter X-Games-esque spectacle on a snowy Saturday morning.

As a result of up to two feet of snow brought by Winter Storm Jonas, West Virginia University students took full advantage of their first official snow day of the year.

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With the University shut down, students enjoy snow tubing hijinks on Spruce Street.

Sledders and snowboards climb the steep hill to Woodburn Hall.

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Deonte Hill wipes out on a snowboard coming down Spruce Street.

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Joseph DeMaio glides through the air off of a ramp set up on Spruce Street on Saturday.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

No. 9 WVU returns home to face Kansas State

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @dJSTATMAN77

After slipping back into a four-way tie for first place in the Big 12 Conference, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team will take a shot at further asserting its hold at the top when they face Kansas State (12-7, 2-5 Big 12) tonight in Morgantown.

The Mountaineers (163, 5-2) regained their momentum in conference play Saturday afternoon, when Tarik Phillip scored eight points in the final minute to lead a late West Virginia comeback against Texas Tech.

It was a vital win for West Virginia, who dropped out of the top spot in the conference after a listless 5649 home loss to Texas a few nights before.

“That shows you how resilient we can be,” Phillip said. “We knew this was a must-win for us. We had to leave everything on the floor.”

Tonight’s meeting with Kansas State takes on additional importance when one considers the Mountaineers’ extremely difficult road ahead. After tonight’s game – and Saturday’s tricky non-confer-

ence test at Florida – the Mountaineers face the toughest and most important stretch of their season.

After returning from Gainesville, West Virginia takes off for Ames, Iowa to face a highly dangerous Iowa State team and its “Hilton Magic.” Afterward, West Virginia returns home to take on Baylor, a team that has given them immense trouble in recent years, before traveling back out to the plains for a road date with Kansas, desperate for revenge after the Mountaineers knocked them off their No. 1 perch in Morgantown on Jan. 12.

For the Mountaineers, time is of the essence.

West Virginia has to go into this stretch with some positive momentum, and they will be favored against Kansas State, a team yet to win a conference road game. West Virginia already holds a win over the Wildcats in its conference opener on Jan. 2, muscling out an 87-83 double-overtime win in Manhattan, Kansas.

Just as they did at Texas Tech, the Mountaineers relied on their backup guards to pull them through at Kansas State last time

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INSIDE

Australian comedy “Danger 5” entertains A&E PAGE 4

SHOWERS

News: 1, 2 Opinion: 3 A&E: 4, 5, 6 Sports: 7, 9, 10, 12 Campus Calendar: 8 Puzzles: 8 Classifieds: 11

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Deonte Hill wipes out on a snowboard coming down Spruce Street.

Waka Flocka Flame coming to Mainstage Morgantown Caitlin Worrell A&E Editor @dailyathenaeum

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Junior guard Tarik Phillip drives to the basket during a game earlier this season. out: senior Jaysean Paige get Kansas State back into dropped a game-high 25 contention after last year’s points, then a career-high, disappointing showing. while Phillip scored 14 Since then, Kansas State points on 6-8 shooting in has claimed home Big 12 a wild game that saw West wins over Texas Tech and Virginia shockingly fail to Oklahoma State, while fallwin the turnover battle. ing to Texas, Oklahoma, Fourth-year head coach Iowa State and Baylor.

Bruce Weber has a tour- In their last time out, the nament pedigree, having Wildcats avoided a threetaken Deron Williams, Dee game losing streak by conBrown, Luther Head and vincingly beating Oklathe Illinois Fighting Illini homa State 89-73, with to a 37-2 record and the five Wildcats scoring in 2005 national title game, double-figures.

For Kansas State, tight a team widely considered to be one of the best defense – the Wildcats ever to not win a national have the second-best scoring defense in the Big 12, championship.

After leading his team behind only West Virginia to two NCAA Tournament – and balanced scoring appearances in his first have been the name of the two seasons in Manhatsee hoops on PAGE 2 tan, Weber is looking to

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POLICE BRUTALITY More non-lethal methods should be utilized OPINION PAGE 3

Downtown Morgantown is gearing up to go hard after Mainstage Morgantown’s announcement of artist Waka Flocka Flame to their growing lineup. The show is set to go down on April 21, as the rapper makes his tour across the nation.

Juaquin James Malphurs, better known by his stage name Waka Flocka Flame, is an Atlanta based rapper with a knack for intense rhymes. Flocka gained his quirky stage persona from a cousin who first called him “Waka” after the Muppets character Fozzie Bear’s catch phrase, “waka waka.” The addition of Flocka Flame came from friend and hip-hop star Gucci Mane.

Flocka was a shoo-in in the hip-hop industry as his mother, Debra Antney, previously managed Gucci Mane. He is also a member of the hip-hop crew 1017 Brick Squad alongside Gucci Mane, OJ Da Juiceman, Frenchie and Wooh the Kid. His first taste of fame came in 2009 with the re-

lease of his first single “O Lets Do It,” which peaked at No. 62 on the US Billboard Hot 100. His album “Flockaveli” which dropped in 2010, showed rap fans Flocka is a force to be reckoned with.

MTV even caught wind of his success, voting him eighth hottest MC of 2010.

Waka Flocka followed up his debut release with another stellar collection of tracks on his “Triple F Life: Friends, Family & Fans” album. In 2011, he also teamed up with fellow Brick Squad rapper and speculated rival Gucci Mane to drop “Ferrari Boyz.” Both albums are flooded with big name features, including Nicki Minaj, Meek Mill, Drake and Trey Songz.

Following his release of “Flockaveli 2,” which featured Timbaland, Drake and Wyclef Jean, Waka Flocka got extra creative with his work.

He branched out of his usual hip-hop roots and released an EDM album titled, “Turn Up God.” Flocka also released a series of star-studded mixtapes in 2014. “DuFlocka Rant 2” and “Re-

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BENCH MOB WVU’s youngsters provide vital scoring depth SPORTS PAGE 7

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Tuesday January 26, 2016

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In this Jan. 22, 2016 file photo, pro-abortion rights signs are seen during the March for Life 2016, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court will not allow North Dakota to enforce a law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The justices on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, turned away the state’s appeal of lower court rulings that struck down the 2013 fetal heartbeat law as unconstitutional. The law never took effect and abortion rights supporters said it was the strictest anti-abortion measure in the country.

Justices won’t let North Dakota enforce tough abortion law

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP)— The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review lower court rulings overturning North Dakota’s ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy—before many women know they’re pregnant.

The justices turned away the state’s appeal of decisions striking down the 2013 fetal heartbeat law as unconstitutional. The law never took effect, and abortion-rights supporters said it was the strictest antiabortion measure in the country.

The high court last week rejected Arkansas’ bid to enforce its own fetal heartbeat law, banning some abortions at 12 weeks. Both measures

had been struck down by a unanimous panel of three judges appointed by President George W. Bush to the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

“We knew it was unlikely and it came as no surprise,” North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said of the high court’s refusal to review the case.

The Supreme Court gets about 7,500 requests each year but takes on fewer than 100 cases.

“It was a long shot,” Stenehjem said. “And it’s the end of our litigation on this issue. Even some of staunchest pro-life groups agree there isn’t much more we can do at this

point.”

The appeals panel judges said the laws were inconsistent with the standard set by the Supreme Court that generally ties abortion restrictions to the viability of the fetus. But they urged the Supreme Court to re-evaluate its abortion cases to take account of changes in medicine and science, and the wishes of elected state lawmakers. The current framework “discounts the legislative branch’s recognized interest in protecting unborn children,” Judge Bobby Shepherd wrote for the panel, which included Judges William Benton and Lavenski Smith.

North Dakota’s Republi-

can-dominated legislature approved the law in 2013, though it was quickly put on hold after the state’s lone abortion clinic, the Red River Clinic in Fargo, filed a lawsuit that July.

Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple has called the law “a legitimate attempt by a state Legislature to discover the boundaries of Roe v. Wade.” But opponents called it an attempt to shutter the clinic that is backed in its legal fight by the Center for Reproductive Rights.

Nancy Northrup, president and CEO of the New York-based group, praised the high court’s refusal to review the law.

Grand Jury indicts leader behind planned parenthood videos AUSTIN, Texas (AP)— A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide.

David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs.

Another activist, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

It’s the first time anyone in the group has been charged criminally since the release of the videos, which began surfacing last year and alleged that

Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue to researchers for a profit in violation of federal law. Planned Parenthood officials have denied any wrongdoing and have said the videos were misleadingly edited.

The footage from the clinic in Houston showed people pretending to be from a company called BioMax that procures fetal tissue for research touring the facility. Planned Parenthood has previously said that the fake company sent an agreement offering to pay the “astronomical amount” of $1,600 for organs from a fetus. The clinic said it never entered into the agreement and ceased contact with BioMax because it was “disturbed” by the overtures.

In a statement announcing the indictment, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson did not provide details on the charges, including what record or records were allegedly tampered with and why Daleiden faces a

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nine points off the bench, and scored a team-high 20 points in these two teams’ previous meeting this season.

In a meeting of the two best defenses in the Big 12, points will be at a premium. The West Virginia-Kansas game is set for 7 p.m. tonight at the WVU Coliseum, and will be televised on ESPNEWS.

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Kansas State has four players averaging double figures in scoring: junior forward Wesley Iwundu, senior guard Justin Edwards, freshman forward Dean Wade and freshman guard Kamau Stokes. In addition, freshman guard Barry Brown is averaging

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charge related to buying human organs. Her office said it could not disclose more information and a court spokesman said it was unclear whether copies of the indictments, which typically provide more insight, would be made public Monday.

“We were called upon to investigate allegations of criminal conduct

by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast,” Anderson, an elected Republican, said in her statement. “As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us.”

Daleiden issued a statement saying that his group “uses the same undercover techniques” as investigative journalists and follows all applicable laws.

“We respect the processes of the Harris County District Attorney, and note that buying fetal tissue requires a seller as well,” he said.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,

who has his own ongoing investigation into Planned Parenthood, said Monday that the “the videos exposed the horrific nature of abortion and the shameful disregard for human life.”

The Texas video was the fifth released by the Center for Medical Progress. The videos provoked an outcry from the anti-abortion movement and prompted numerous investigations of Planned Parenthood by Republican-led committees in Congress and by GOPled state governments.

Congressional Republicans unsuccessfully called for cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood has said a few clinics in two states used to accept legally allowed reimbursement for the costs of providing tissue donated by some of its abortion clients. In October, Planned Parenthood announced that it would no longer accept reimbursement and would cover the costs itself.

“This utterly cruel and unconstitutional ban would have made North Dakota the first state since Roe v. Wade to effectively ban abortion,” she said in a statement.

North Dakota lawmakers set aside $400,000 to defend lawsuits arising from a spate of new abortion laws in 2013, and the Legislature added another $400,000 last year.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show the state had used $320,029 to defend the abortion laws as of December, most of which was spent on the fetal heartbeat measure.

No n e w ab o r t i o n measures were introduced by the Legisla-

ture last year, after two of the most ardent antiabortion state lawmakers were ousted by voters in the highly religious red state.

“Lawmakers need to know that citizens care about all issues, not just one,” said Stenehjem, a Republican seeking the nod for governor to replace Dalrymple, who is not seeking re-election.

The Fargo clinic, which performs about 1,250 abortions a year, is served by out-of-state physicians licensed to practice in North Dakota. The nearest other abortion clinics are four hours south to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and four hours away in Minneapolis.

Health insurance deadline approaching The deadline for purchasing insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace is Sunday, and all eligible are urged to purchase a plan for their needs through the healthcare.gov website.

Not having health insurance is against the law, and those without healthcare will be charged either a $695 fine or 2.5 percent of their income.

“Healthcare.gov plans are a great option for dependents of students who are no longer covered by the WVU Student Health Insurance Plan and are not offered health coverage from another source like Medicaid or job-based coverage,” read a press release by West Vir-

ginia University public relations.

There are plans available for as little as $75, according to the press release, and 86 percent of West Virginians can qualify for monetary assistance in meeting monthly premium fees.

Those eligible are strongly urged to purchase their plans before Jan. 31 to avoid paying penalty fees for 2016.

For more information on individual options and payment plans, visit http:// healthcare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596.

Kelly Taylor of WVU is available for free, in-person help and can be reached at 304598-5150 or by email at ktaylor5@hsc.wvu. edu.

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Continued from page 1 Up” featured artists including T.I., French Montana, Lil Way n e and Ace Hood.

Waka Flocka’s upcoming performance at Mainstage Morgantown will be the rapper’s first time in the “wild and wonderful” state. The announcement of his show comes amid speculation the venue was preparing for a big name hip-hop act. Waka Flocka is perhaps one of the largest hip-hop acts to frequent the new multi-stage venue.

The rapper is also generating buzz among students, as the Brick Squad member is a notorious college favorite. Tracks such as “Hard in the Paint” and “No Hands” quickly filtered in to the mainstream

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and on to our playlists.

While he is new to Morgantown, this isn’t Waka Flocka’s first time turning up in a college town.

Flocka has previously performed at the University of Alabama, the University of

Texas Austin and Bethany College.

Waka Flocka Flame will hit the Mainstage Morgantown stage on Thursday, April 21 at 9 p.m. Early bird tickets are available for $20. The show is re-

stricted to guests aged 18 and older. For more information and ticketing on Waka Flocka’s performance, please visit MainstageWV.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

OPINION Protecting historical artifacts 3

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Cartoons often show clumsy characters breaking valuable pieces of art as a means of providing comedic relief for viewers, but they don’t often show the real-life consequences that may result from attempting to piece them back together.

In a bizarre turn of events, eight museum workers in Egypt are accused of damaging King Tutankhamun’s famous head covering. They face legal consequences after an investigation revealed the mask’s beard had been broken off and haphazardly glued back on.

Scratch marks caused by a knife scraping away pieces of dried glue have permanently damaged the mask, which is visited by millions of tourists each year. The beard’s detachment was

said to have taken place more than a year ago during a routine repair to a light fixture in the mask’s museum display, but it appears none of the workers involved reported the damage to authorities at the time.

Whether accidental or on purpose, people making headlines from damaging historical artifacts is nothing new. In March 2015, two tourists from California were caught after carving their initials into Rome’s Colosseum and taking a selfie with their work.

The two faced heavy fines as a result, and one tourist from Russia was fined the equivalent of $21,000 for the same offense just months earlier.

Historical artifacts deserve respect, especially

from those who tend them.

Monuments and landmarks generate interest from foreigners in other countries and are sources of pride for those who live there. Defacement from tourists and museum workers, however accidental it may be, is ultimately a sign of disrespect to the locals.

If the workers had notified the appropriate authorities instead of attempting to repair the mask themselves, they could have prevented unnecessary damage from occurring to such a famous tourist attraction.

Instead of remaining a dignified national treasure, King Tut’s beard will forever be remembered for its cheap repair job. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Police need fewer weapons, more communication jenna gilbert columnist @ J3NN_1F3R

In the United States, the Black Lives Matter movement’s response to multiple lives taken at the hands of police officers has brought many police brutality cases to the public’s attention.

The movement has some suggesting police should be given more non-lethal weapons, such as pepper spray and Tasers, to counteract negative press surrounding the police officer community. However, by allowing officers to use other means for controlling aggressive situations, it prevents the real issue from being addressed.

The phrase, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” is the best way to describe the ongoing issue of unwarranted deaths caused by police. Giving officers other tools that are still violent in nature doesn’t change the fact that there is a serious trigger control problem in the training of new cops.

Instead of teaching members of our law enforcement to first attempt to defuse a situation without the use of weapons, we simply give them tools less likely to be lethal instead.

I can’t say I think giving police officers pepper spray or a Taser is a bad idea. I believe they should have more than one means of gain-

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Body cameras are one way to prevent bias in police brutality cases. ing control over a situation without having to pull out their gun at every altercation. However, giving them a wider variety of non-lethal weapons to choose from won’t fix this nation’s current problem of using more force than necessary.

In short, officers need proper training; not just with their weapons, but in how to appropriately demonstrate control over a situation with the use of communication and preplanned strategies. Even though one cannot know what a person with criminal intent is capable of in any given situation, law enforcers have been around long enough to know routine traffic stops, domestic vi-

olence calls and public intoxication should not each need to be handled with the same amount of force.

Law enforcement should receive suitable training in how to calm an event without needing to use a gun or a Taser. This will not be an overnight change, but educating officers on how to react non-violently during tense times is a good place to start.

Many articles on police reform state officers are taught to shoot first and ask questions later. That thought process needs to end, as it’s currently only building the tension between civilians and the police force. Every interaction between police and

the public should be reviewed and broken down: What worked? What didn’t?

What caused the situation to escalate? How did the officer respond?

Overtime departments should be able to recognize patterns in what causes people to react negatively toward an officer. Body and dashboard cameras should be placed on officers and equipped inside every police car so the actions of both parties can be seen from an unbiased angle.

It also seems unnecessary force is most often used to deal with a situation quickly as opposed to non-violently. I believe the goal should be to help without causing any physical

harm whatsoever, not simply seeing how fast the officers can get the job done.

The Atlantic, an online magazine, reported two incidents in which no force whatsoever was used to end potentially deadly situations. In 2014, police officers in Kalamazoo, Michigan spent 40 minutes settling a predicament with a man carrying a rifle by communicating with him and carrying out non-violent actions. As a result, the man and the officers shook hands and both were able to walk away unharmed.

In 1997, the Seattle Police Department spent 11 hours successfully ending a standoff with a mentally ill man with a weapon. In

the end, the man was detained and everyone was safe. In both situations, officers had guns drawn but no shots were fired.

The relationship between the public and law enforcement officers needs urgent repair. The best way is to start identifying some of the problems and creating solutions to fix those issues instead of continuing to operate in the same ways as before. Police ultimately need to be trained to dissolve situations without using extreme force of any kind. Just because they have a gun doesn’t mean they should pull the trigger. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Crowdfunding: Best of capitalism or questionable accountability? kody goff columnist @retrosyk

“Mighty No. 9” is a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter that has recently gained a lot of attention - both positive and negative. At first, potential investors were interested because of the project’s connection with the classic video game series “Mega Man,” but after the project’s creators announced a delay in release, expectations for their product have dwindled.

“Mighty No. 9” was one of crowdfunding’s first success stories, but it could now be showing the public the faults of such a system.

Crowdfunding is precisely what it sounds like.

One or more people propose a project that requires funding to complete, and if enough people toss in their money, their product is delivered to the general public. In theory, crowdfunding combines the best aspects of capitalism, but in practice, it becomes an accountability nightmare.

Online, one can find innumerable horror stories of funded projects not delivering their products or of semi-funded proj-

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“Might No. 9” draws heavily from the “Mega Man” franchise. ects being shut down for not showing working prototypes. It seems when the general population is given the power of a corporation, it becomes difficult for them to handle such responsibility.

The people behind “Mighty No. 9,” however, have no such excuse. One of the main men behind the project is Keiji Inafune, one of the creators of “Mighty No. 9’s” spiri-

tual predecessor, “Mega Man.” The “Mega Man” games were enormously popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s and were massive critical successes for Capcom, the company for which Inafune worked.

Having that kind of background should provide some insight on how to properly deliver a product like this.

“Mighty No. 9” was successfully funded in Sep-

tember 2013 but still faces development problems today. Adding to the controversy is the failure of Inafune’s other Kickstarter video game, “Red Ash: The Indelible Legend.” Surely it’s not a good idea to crowdfund another project before the first is even finished.

Games traditionally set longer development times, especially when made by anything less than a major

developer, but “Mighty No. 9” is a fairly simple game in terms of design. The game may still turn out to be fantastic despite its bloated development cycle, but far too many products that become mired in “development hell” come out worse for wear. Dozens of long-unreleased movies and games can attest to this fact.

Toward the end of 2015, Kickstarter, by far the most

influential crowdfunding website, pressed down hard on projects that may appear to have questionable accountability to consumers. For example, projects that had nothing tangible to give to their consumers after reaching their funding goals were shut down and suspended.

There are still some kinks in the system to iron out, however: Certain projects may get funded in their entirety by just one person, making the project creator look more credible in the process.

There are more crowdfunding websites than just Kickstarter, and each come with their own unique accountability problems.

Sites like IndieGoGo and GoFundMe may not even require the project to be fully funded before the donated money can be spent by the project’s creator, which can lead to obviously disastrous results for the consumer.

Despite all of these problems, great projects have become successful thanks to crowdfunding. This fairly new Kickstarter craze may have some major issues, but it certainly allows for great opportunities. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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A playlist for snow days

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Allow R. Kelly’s music to keep you warm next time you’re snowed in.

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Two words can explain this past weekend in Morgantown: Cabin fever. Snowstorm Jonas left behind more than 20 inches of snow, leaving West Virginia University under a blanket of white. Although binge watching Netflix, eating cookie dough and reorganizing an iTunes music library may seem productive, it’s probably old by now.

Here are a few select songs from The Daily Athenaeum’s exclusive snow day playlist for the next winter blizzard we are bound to receive.

“Love Yourself” by Justin Bieber: This song is most likely on your most recently played playlist. Justin Bieber made a comeback by releasing his new album, “Purpose,” which displayed a whole other side of the rebellious pop star. “Love Yourself” is the perfect ballad for a breakup, but it’s also a lot of fun to belt out with best friends. The song is the perfect goodbye to a past significant other. The witty lyrics and catchy melodies make this song addicting after hearing it for the first few times. This song may give anyone the urge to get up and get their blood flowing, especially after being cooped up indoors for days. Bieber’s hottest track is taking the Billboard charts and the hearts of girls everywhere by storm.

“House Party” by Sam Hunt: Sam Hunt is country music’s most popular name, making a groundbreaking impact on the genre within the past few years. “House Party” is about staying in and inviting friends over for a party. The song is not only perfect for the occasion of a snow day but is catchy in every aspect.

Even if you do not like country music, this song provides rocking beats and unique lyrics that appeal to many students of WVU. “House Party” is a song that will stick in your head hours after you hear it. In the wise words of Sam Hunt, “If you are gonna be a homebody, we are gonna have a house party.”

“Ignition (Remix)” by R. Kelly: If you do not know this song, you should type it into the search bar of Google and listen as soon as possible.

“Ignition (Remix)” is one of the most played songs on college campuses. The track was released more than 10 years ago in 2003 but still manages to pump up a crowd within seconds. This song is perfect for a snow day, giving energy to those who feel like they could sleep endlessly. It is hard to keep still while this song is playing because, like the others, it is catchy and enjoyable to dance to. “Ignition (Remix)” is about having fun on the weekend and enjoying the time off. This song could give you some motivation to get through the week or easily make the snow day livelier than “Netflix and chill.”

No matter your music taste, these tracks will get you moving and off the couch. From the newest songs on the charts to classics you have heard since fifth grade, this playlist will help you weather the next snowstorm coming toward Morgantown. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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The Danger 5 team works to stop another of Hitler’s dastardly plans.

Wonky Australian spy-parody ‘Danger 5’ hits every mark Westley Thompson Associate A&E Editor @westleyt93

“Hitler is up to another nefarious scheme, and it’s up to the Danger 5 team to stop him.” That tagline is perhaps the only way to accurately sum up the best show you’ve never seen.

“Danger 5” is a 2012 Australian live-action comedy series that is currently one of Netflix’s hidden gems. The show follows the eponymous Danger 5 team, a group of five international agents who must oppose the Nazi regime.

The show is self-aware, incredibly campy and heavily inspired by men’s pulp magazines and ‘60s TV adventure series. Each episode has the team of beautiful and comically sterotyped spies tasked with the mission to stop the Fuhrer’s plots. The cast consists of: Tucker, the perpetually smug Australian leader; Ilsa, the femme fatale Russian assassin; Jackson, the allAmerican macho with a cigarette constantly hanging from his lip; Claire, the beautiful and intellectually overlooked blonde and Pierre, the cocktail- and woman-loving Frenchman.

Hitler himself is a caricaturized villain of the moustache-twirling variety, hatching ridiculous plots on a weekly basis in

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Hitler, his scientist and two Nazi dinosaurs look at their latest device for global domination. his quest for world domination. One week will have Nazis airlifting national monuments in a contrived attempt at power; the next week they’ll be building a super-weapon at the bottom of the sea.

With episode titles such as “Lizard Soldiers of the Third Reich” and “Fresh Meat for Hitler’s Sex Kitchen,” it is easy to see that the show values one thing - ridiculous, overthe-top humor more than anything else.

The show’s purposeful campiness makes it incredibly entertaining to watch. The Danger 5 team always wins, and each episode ends with Hitler jumping out of a window under a hail of the heroes’ bullets, so he can return next time with Japa-

nese death robots, or some other equally stupid plan.

When designing anything to be so bad that it’s good, it is easy to miss the mark and end up with a dud. Thankfully, the team behind “Danger 5” is the same group of people who created the successful web series “Italian Spiderman,” and so-bad-it’s-good is their specialty. Attention to detail is what really binds the jokes together, and the team’s skilled use of scale-models, rubber suits and other ‘60s era special effects solidify the vibe they were aiming for.

Constant running jokes keep the audience entertained and offer the potential to attract a strong cult following. For example, Pierre seems to be old drinking buddies with ev-

eryone the team meets, sharing a wild night out partying with apparentally half the world. Additionally, for some bizarre and never-explained reason, everyone who dies in his arms uses their last breath to describe the “best” version of some random cocktail. The man’s drink list is also a running body count.

With each episode lasting just under 30 minutes, it is easy to find time for one or two episodes a day, or to binge watch a whole season and not feel too guilty. “Danger 5” delivers enough strange, parody-laden humor that it is almost impossible not to love it. Add it to your Netflix must-watch list. wethompson@mail.wvu.edu

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Box office top 20: ‘The Revenant’ on top with $16 mil.

NEW YORK (AP) — In its third week of wide-release, Alejandro Inarritu’s Oscarnominated “The Revenant” rose to the top of box office with $16 million, according to final studio figures Monday.

“The Revenant” ascended to no. 1 amid the kind of snowy conditions central to the frigid and brutal 1820s frontier thriller. The snowstorm that battered the East Coast - and caused hundreds of movie theaters to temporarily close - took approximately a 10 percent bite out of overall North America receipts.

Last week’s top film, the Kevin Hart-Ice Cube comedy “Ride Along 2,” dipped heavily to third with $12.5 million in its second week.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak: 1. “The Revenant,” 20th Century Fox, $16,009,718, 3,711 locations, $4,314 average, $119,202,240, 5 weeks.

2. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Disney, $14,078,648, 3,365 locations, $4,184 average, $879,110,994, 6 weeks.

3. “Ride Along 2,” Universal, $12,456,050, 3,192 locations, $3,902 average, $58,606,090, 2 weeks.

4. “Dirty Grandpa,” Lionsgate, $11,111,875, 2,912 locations, $3,816 average, $11,111,875, 1 week.

5. “The Boy,” STX Entertainment, $10,778,392, 2,671 locations, $4,035 average, $10,778,392, 1 week.

6. “The 5th Wave,” Sony, $10,326,356, 2,908 locations, $3,551 average, $10,326,356, 1 week.

7. “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi,” Paramount, $9,030,400, 2,917 locations, $3,096 average, $32,763,829, 2 weeks.

8. “Daddy’s Home,” Paramount, $4,940,848, 2,789 locations, $1,772 average, $138,451,113, 5 weeks.

9. “Norm Of The North,” Lionsgate, $3,828,087, 2,411 locations, $1,588 average, $14,024,290, 2 weeks.

10. “The Big Short,” Paramount, $3,176,529, 1,351 locations, $2,351 average, $56,390,370, 7 weeks.

11. “Sisters,” Universal, $1,770,620, 1,602 locations,

$1,105 average, $84,807,610, 6 weeks.

12. “Brooklyn,” Fox Searchlight, $1,720,675, 962 locations, $1,789 average, $27,584,996, 12 weeks.

13. “The Forest,” Focus Features, $1,675,558, 2,010 locations, $834 average, $24,982,975, 3 weeks.

14. “The Hateful Eight,” The Weinstein Company, $1,365,069, 1,277 locations, $1,069 average, $50,975,744, 5 weeks.

15. “Room,” A24 Films, $1,335,563, 862 locations, $1,549 average, $7,864,357, 15 weeks.

16. “Spotlight,” Open Road, $1,273,626, 1,030 locations, $1,237 average, $32,902,971, 12 weeks.

17. “Joy,” 20th Century Fox, $1,136,527, 966 locations, $1,177 average, $54,196,165, 5 weeks.

18. “Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” 20th Century Fox, $1,105,310, 1,204 locations, $918 average, $82,521,026, 6 weeks.

19. “Airlift,” B4U US, $878,699, 122 locations, $7,202 average, $878,699, 1 week.

20. “Ip Man 3,” Well Go USA, Inc., $784,839, 103 locations, $7,620 average, ‘The Revenant’ tops the box office in its third week of release. $784,839, 1 week.

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Pope Francis answers burning 2 Sundance films explore a journalist’s questions in new children’s book on-air suicide NEW YORK (AP) — “Dear Pope Francis,” 10-year-old Mohammed begins, “Will the world be again as it was in the past?”

Signed “Respectfully yours,” the boy wrote from a Jesuit-run school for refugee children in Syria and was treated to a long and personal answer from the pope himself. So were 29 other children who posed questions to Francis in letters from around the globe for a new book poignantly illustrated with their own artwork.

The book, “Dear Pope Francis,” is out March 1 from Loyola Press in Chicago. It’s a project that likely wouldn’t have materialized without the help of Father Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit like the pope and the director of La Civilta Cattolica, a Roman Catholic journal published in Rome.

Tom McGrath of the Jesuit-founded publishing house co-edited the book with Spadaro after reaching out to the priest for help. Spadaro brought about 50 letters with questions to the pope so he could select 30. Spadaro sat with the pope as he responded to each. Francis often complimented the artwork of the children.

“He knows Pope Francis very well,” McGrath said of Spadaro. “We tried

to make it as easy for the pope as possible.”

The pope’s response to Mohammed spoke in part of suffering and the people who inflict it.

“There are those who manufacture weapons so that people fight each other and wage war. There are people who have hate in their hearts. There are people who are interested only in money and would sell everything for it. They would even sell other people,” he wrote.

More to Mohammed’s point, Francis answered: “No, when the time comes, the world will not be as it was. It will be far better than it was in the past.”

Once the pope agreed to participate in the project, Loyola reached out to priests and lay people around the world to connect the publisher with children to write the letters.

The 30 kids in the book range in age from 6 to 13.

In all, about 250 letters were received in 14 languages from 26 countries around the globe. The pope wound up with about 50 letters from which to choose.

“He loved the project right from the beginning,” McGrath said. “He has this great affection for children, who have a great affection for him. He was

surprised at the depth of the questions.”

There was no condensing or editing of the pope’s responses. In a 90-minute session with Spadaro last August in Rome, Francis responded verbally in a mixture of Italian and Spanish. Spadaro served as transcriber in addition to connecting Loyola Press with the Vatican.

“These are the pope’s exact words,” McGrath said. “At one point he mentioned, ‘These are tough.’ He realized that he owed the kids a deeper answer than right off the top of his head.”

Spadaro said via email that the pope truly pondered when answering the children.

“Often he looked off into space and tried to imagine the child in front of him,” he said. “And in his gaze I saw care, love.”

Loyola will publish the book in English and Spanish. As an international Jesuit project, it will also be published simultaneously around the world, including in Brazil, Indonesia, Slovenia, Mexico and India.

Arrangements were still being made but Loyola Press plans to bring 10 of the children included in the book to Rome to meet the pope in person, hopefully in February before its

March publication date.

“The pope is eager to meet them,” McGrath said. “He was quick to say he would like to make that happen.”

They’ll be traveling with their parents from China, Ireland, Argentina, India, Canada, Kenya, Singapore, Australia, the United States and the Philippines.

Mohammed will not be among them, but 8-yearold Natasha from Kenya will make the trip to Rome. She asked the pope in her letter: “I would like to know more about Jesus Christ. How did he walk on water?”

The pope’s response?

“You have to imagine Jesus walking naturally, normally. He did not fly over the water or turn somersaults while swimming,” he wrote. “He walked as you walk! ... Jesus is God, and so he can do anything!”

While one child wanted to know why parents fight and another why the pope wears such a tall hat, 7-year-old William of the United States asked: “If you could do one miracle what would it be?”

“Dear William,” the pope said. “I would heal children. I’ve never been able to understand why children suffer. It’s a mystery to me. I don’t have an explanation.”

Bowie interview 15 years of missed connections NEW YORK (AP) — A brief “60 Minutes” piece on the late David Bowie that aired Sunday was the result of a 15-year journey of missed connections involving three of the newsmagazine’s correspondents and a rock star gone underground.

Bowie talked about his artistry and getting old in interview clips from 2003 that were never aired before Sunday on “60 Minutes.” The rock star died of cancer at age 69 on Jan. 10.

Robert Zimet, an editor at “60 Minutes,” proposed an in-depth profile of Bowie for the newsmagazine in 2000, and correspondent Ed Bradley was assigned.

Before much was done, the 2001 terrorist attacks happened. Then the Iraq War. A rock-star profile wasn’t a priority.

The idea was resurrected as Bowie prepared his “Reality” album and tour in 2003, and Zimet and producer Peter Klein traveled to Woodstock, New York, to record some material and conduct preliminary interviews. Bradley was to follow but the correspondent, who died in 2006, became ill and had to cancel.

Zimet convinced Mike Wallace to take over the story and arrangements were made for an interview in Poughkeepsie, New York, where Bowie was performing in advance of his tour.

Wallace, who was in his mid80s at the time, fell on vacation and doctors ordered him to take it easy.

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‘60 Minutes’ had difficulty getting in contact with David Bowie during his life. volved - Lesley Stahl - and she spoke with Bowie. There wasn’t enough time to do the in-depth interview that the show wanted before Bowie had to leave for his European tour, however.

It was on this tour, in 2004, when Bowie suffered a heart attack and receded from public view. He stopped giving interviews. When Bowie surprised his fans with the

2013 album, “The Next Day,” Zimet approached his camp to complete the profile but was rebuffed. It was the same thing late in 2015, when Zimet learned that the “Blackstar” disc was coming.

The 2003 footage remained on a shelf at CBS until Zimet took it out to include in an online story about Bowie’s death. His bosses took notice and the

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material was used on “CBS This Morning” and in the brief piece introduced by Bill Whitaker on Sunday.

“I had never given up hope that at some point we would be able to complete this,” Zimet said. “It was a good interview. He was a great subject. I always had hope. Unfortunately, it was not the way I wanted it to get on the air.”

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Two films are being made about Christine Chubbuck, the TV journalist who shot herself on-air in 1974.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — When two movies are released at about the same time on the same subject, the topic is often something silly and big and spectacle-filled, like “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” or “White House Down” and “Olympus Has Fallen.”

But this year at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences found themselves with an unusual double feature. The Festival hosted the premieres of two films exploring the largely forgotten story of Christine Chubbuck, a 29-year-old on-air journalist in Sarasota, Florida who shot and killed herself during a live broadcast on July 15, 1974.

One, “Christine,” is a fictionalized, narrative depiction of her life before the suicide starring Rebecca Hall. The other is an experimental documentary about an actress, indie mainstay Kate Lyn Sheil, preparing to portray Chubbuck called “Kate Plays Christine.”

“I was kind of shocked that there had never been a movie made about it,” said “Kate Plays Christine” director Robert Greene. “It’s the kind of story that makes you think about why you want to know about it. I still haven’t answered that to this day.”

The moments before Chubbuck shot herself have been cited as the inspiration for the 1976 Sidney Lumet film “Network” and Peter Finch’s mad-ashell anchor.

On the morning of July 15, a tape from the scene of a local shooting from the night prior didn’t roll.

Chubbuck, sitting behind the anchor’s desk, then said, “in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first attempted suicide” before taking the gun out of her bag and pulling the trigger.

She’d even left a written news item about her own suicide on the desk.

“Christine” director Antonio Campos learned about the story when screenwriter Craig Shilowich approached him with a script.

“Craig dug very deep and tried to understand her,” Campos said. “For me, having learned about it through this script made it so much more human.”

Actress Rebecca Hall

questioned the utility of telling the story at all but the script convinced her otherwise.

“I do think there’s something quite irresponsible about glorifying something as some sort of macabre act of heroism when actually it’s a tragedy and awful and she shouldn’t have died,” Hall said. “I read the script and thought, ‘Oh, it doesn’t do that. What it does is make a human case.

It makes an audience understand mental illness and sympathize with it.’”

Both filmmakers and actresses had to deal with the fact that there is precious little information available about Chubbuck.

They knew that she suffered from depression, that she had to go through a surgery to remove an ovary which would jeopardize her ability to have children, and that she was a virgin. But there aren’t videos online readily available of Chubbuck, and the facts of the story, even in Sarasota, have blurred.

Hall had only one 20-minute taped interview to study, and even that brought up more questions than answers.

The interview is about the rezoning of a hospital and Hall said it’s terribly dry. But she took what she could get and used it as a jumping-off point to study Chubbock’s voice and mannerisms.

“There are a couple of heartbreaking indicators in it that were real prompters for me,” Hall said. “There was this bit where she says something so impassioned and it’s about something really banal.”

“Kate Plays Christine” operates like a journalistic investigation into the story. They talk to co-workers, townspeople, and even visit the store (now relocated) where Chubbuck purchased the gun.

“The Christine Chubbuck story has always made me stop and take pause and made me think about presumptions I have about women, about myself, about what makes a depressed person go that far. ... It should make you really think about the people you know in your life and what they’re going through and what you’ve gone through,” said Greene. “If that’s one result of these two films being made at the same time, that’s just great.”

Hillary Clinton courts youth with celebrities, but many prefer Sanders IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton has a lot of celebrity pals on her side, like actress Lena Dunham and singers Katy Perry or Demi Lovato, the latter of whom belted out hits at a campaign concert at the University of Iowa.

It’s a play to help the former secretary of state connect with younger voters.

But so far, the star power isn’t swaying the college set.

Many say they prefer her rumpled 74-year-old rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, regardless of whether he got star power behind him or not.

“Bernie appeals more to my cool,” said Alex Bare, 19, a University of Iowa student who plans to caucus for Sanders, but said he likes Clinton and came for the free concert in Iowa City Thursday. “He refuses to take money from super PACs. That’s a really bold move and for me, that makes him cool.”

The push for younger vot-

ers comes amid an intensifying battle for the Democratic nomination. While Clinton and Sanders are locked in a tight race in Iowa, and Clinton has held the lead nationally, Sanders has a clear advantage among younger voters. A recent Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa poll forecast that Sanders will have 59 percent of Democratic caucus-goers 45 and under, compared to the 27 percent expected to back Clinton. And in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll Sanders led 60 percent to 31 percent among Democratic primary voters under 45.

“He has the hipster vote,” said Erin Kelleher, 26, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, who said she was deciding between Clinton and Sanders. But she said the Lovato show wouldn’t sway her because “I don’t care about the celebrities.”

Sanders has collected some celebrity buddies too.

Actress Susan Sarandon and actor Justin Long are appearing at Sanders rallies in Iowa ahead of the Feb. 1 caucus. The campaign also has a number of celebrities doing media outreach on Sanders’ behalf, including hip hop artist Killer Mike and musicians from the bands Foster the People and Vampire Weekend. But Sanders is drawing big student crowds without them on the bill.

It’s not that the students were negative about Clinton - they simply like what Sanders has to offer more. They are packing his rallies by the thousands because they like his push for free tuition at public universities and his long record on liberal issues.

They like that he doesn’t take money from political action committees. They even dig his rolled-up shirt-sleeves and his grumpy grandpa demeanor.

Most of all, they love the slogan: “Feel the Bern.”

“Bernie gets me stoked,”

said Ian Wold, 20, a junior at the University of Iowa who plans to vote for Sanders in the state’s kick-off caucus.

The fight for younger voters harkens back to the 2008 race, when Clinton lost the youth vote to President Barack Obama. While younger voters tend to be less reliable participants, they can make all the difference in a close race. In addition, young enthusiasm helps a candidate project momentum.

About 1,700 students came to hear Lovato and Clinton Thursday. Backed by a small band, Lovato performed several songs, including her hit “Confident,” after which she said “I don’t think there’s a woman more confident than Hillary Clinton.”

Clinton then came on stage and spoke for about five minutes, calling Lovato an “extraordinary young woman” and urging the students to caucus. She drew

enthusiastic applause pledging to fight for equal rights and to “take on those big special interests.”

Earlier in the day, Clinton held an event at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. The room packed with more than 500 people was largely older. Hannah Friesen, a 20-year-old student who said she was undecided, said that when Sanders came to campus, “a ton” of students attended and some “made their own shirts.”

Some students at the University of Iowa and at the concert were Clinton fans.

Austin Graber, 22, said he thought Clinton was “the most qualified.” And Lauren Ellbogen, 18, said she’d be working at the caucuses for Clinton and said she didn’t think Sanders was “realistic.”

Huge numbers of young people turned out to rallies for Sanders on college campuses in eastern Iowa over the weekend. Over 2,000

people came to hear Sanders at Luther College in Decorah Sunday morning. Decked out in “Feel the Bern” shirts, students screamed and cheered when Sanders touted his lack of a super PAC and pledged to provide free tuition at public universities. The crowds chanted: “Bernie, Bernie, Bernie,” and frequently yelled “We love you Bernie.”

Celebrities have been campaigning for Hillary for months. Wearing an American flag cape and a Clinton campaign pin, pop starlet Katy Perry performed at a Clinton rally in Des Moines in October. Actress Lena Dunham toured Iowa and New Hampshire and did events in Boston and Chicago for Clinton this month.

Many students said the Lovato concert was a good move for Clinton, but they weren’t all convinced. Jen Moulton, 18, who leans to Sanders, said the concert was “kind of cool, but it comes off like she’s trying really hard.”

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Songwriting sets Grammy nominee Barnett apart NEW YORK (AP) — Even with rock ‘n’ roll on the outskirts of popular music today, you can still pass by thousands of garages pulsing with the sharp, guitarbased sound favored by Courtney Barnett and her band.

What sets Barnett apart, and earned the 28-yearold Australian a Grammy nomination for best new artist, is her distinctive songwriting. Her compositions are packed with details, with inventive twists that turn stories like a respiratory attack or search for a suburban home into compelling listening.

The song “Avant Gardener” introduced her to an American audience two years ago, the tale of an ambulance visit unfolding with poignant and amusing asides. “The paramedic thinks I’m clever ‘cause I play guitar,” she sings. “I think she’s clever ‘cause she stops people dying.”

With her debut album, “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit,” that was among the most highlyregarded of 2015, Barnett proved she wasn’t a fluke.

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Courtney Barnett’s songwriting is what seperates her from the other Grammy nominees. storytelling ability of fellow Australian Paul Kelly and the quirky sensibility of American Jonathan Richman.

“I’ve messed around with a lot of different styles of songwriting,” she said by phone. “I just found when I pulled it apart and slowed it down and just focused on the small details, it was a lot more therapeutic for me and made more sense.”

Kelly, one of Australia’s

most respected singersongwriters, said Barnett has mapped out her own territory.

“Like all great songwriters she creates a world,” Kelly said in an email interview. “It’s a familiar world but also completely idiosyncratic. She demonstrates the voraciousness of genius. Anything and everything can be devoured and spat out in a song. I wish I’d written ‘Nobody Really Cares If

You Don’t Go to the Party.’”

Barnett is capable of Elvis Costello-like wordplay, like this couplet from “Pedestrian at Best”: “I must confess, I’ve made a mess of what should be a small success. But I digress, at least I’ve tried my very best, I guess.” She’s rarely that showy, however. Her observations often seem offhand, disguising the amount of work that went into them.

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in “Elevator Operator” alive, about a friend who went to a building’s roof to take in the view when a businesswoman mistook him for a potential jumper.

“A tortoise shell necklace between her breasts, she looks him up and down with a Botox frown,” Barnett sings. “Depreston” conveys complex emotions, when the narrator imagines the life of a potential home’s previous occupant.

Barnett said she didn’t grow up around much music, but was influenced by tapes of guitar-based acts like Nirvana, Metallica and Jimi Hendrix that were given to her and her brother.

She learned of her best new artist nomination at the end of a long flight home, when her drummer checked his phone and exclaimed, “Oh, my God. You’re nominated for a Grammy.”

“It’s a hugeness of recognition,” she said. “It’s great. Ten-year-old me didn’t think I’d be growing up to be nominated for a Grammy.”

She’s taking some down time back home to write songs. She runs a small record label and also plays in a duo with her girlfriend Jen Cloher. Barnett earned a nomination for international female solo artist at the Feb. 24 BRIT Awards against Bjork, Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor. On the Grammys, which will take place in Los Angeles on Feb. 15, she’ll compete for best new artist with James Bay, Sam Hunt, Tori Kelly and Trainor.

“I think we’re going to come over and drink some champagne, or whatever it is you do at the Grammys,” Barnett said.

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Analysts speculate that Apple’s iPhone may have reached its peak sales, and that a decline is soon to follow.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple could soon face one of its biggest challenges to date: Peak iPhone.

Most analysts believe Apple surpassed its own record by selling more than 74.5 million units of its flagship product in the final three months of 2015. But there are signs that iPhone sales in the first three months of 2016 will - for the first time ever - show an abrupt decline from the same period a year earlier.

That could mark a pivotal moment for the Silicon Valley giant. Apple is the world’s biggest company, in terms of stock value, thanks to the iPhone’s surging popularity around the world.

In business terms, Apple makes most of its money from iPhone sales.

But concerns about slowing growth have sent the stock into a months-long slump, fueling debate about what kind of company Apple will be in the future.

The iPhone contributed nearly two-thirds of Apple’s $234 billion in revenue last year. None of the other new products Apple has launched in recent years have emerged as blockbusters. That’s led some critics to suggest Apple has lost its innovative touch, while others say it’s evolving to depend on a broader base of related tech products and services.

One thing is clear, said analyst Angelo Zino at S&P Capital IQ: “Last year was an unprecedented year for Apple and the iPhone.... You’ll never see that type of growth from the iPhone again.”

When CEO Tim Cook reports Tuesday on Apple’s sales for the last three months of 2015, investors will be watching closely for any hints about how Apple’s signature smartphone is faring in the current quarter. Sales usually fall somewhat after the holiday shop-

ping season. But analysts say it appears Apple has cut production orders from key suppliers in recent weeks, suggesting it’s lowered its own forecasts.

Apple hasn’t commented on iPhone sales since last fall, when Cook struck an upbeat tone. In part, Zino and other experts say, the company is suffering from its own success. Apple sold 61 million iPhones in the March quarter of 2015, or 40 percent more than it did a year earlier. To match that growth rate, Apple would need to sell more than 85 million in the current period. Instead, analysts are expecting around 55 million.

An estimated 500 million people own iPhones now, which means Apple can rely on a significant number to upgrade each year.

But some have put off buying a new model because they didn’t see a strong reason to upgrade.

Despite some new features, “people are feeling like there hasn’t been anything that’s really new” in the latest iPhone models, known as the 6S and 6S Plus, which came out last fall, said market researcher John Feland of Argus Insights.

Apple will likely make significant changes in the next major iPhone release, expected in September, which could fuel another surge in sales. Some tech blogs have reported a new model might even be coming this spring.

The company went through a similar cycle a few years ago, when iPhone sales growth slowed to 7 percent in the final months of 2013. The next year, Apple introduced new models with significantly bigger screens. That sent sales skyrocketing, especially in Asia, where consumers had previously flocked to buy bigscreen phones from rival

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But there may no more equally dramatic changes left to jump-start sales like that again. “Apple really pulled the big lever they had left un-pulled, up to then,” said tech analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research.

“That was sort of a one-off event.”

While iPhone sales may be slowing, Apple has launched other products and services tied to the iPhone - from the Apple Watch to the digital payments service known as Apple Pay, the subscription-based Apple Music and “smart home” software that lets users control their lights and appliances with Siri, the voice-enabled digital assistant on the iPhone and iPad. These are designed to make the iPhone itself more useful, while producing a steady stream of new revenue.

None of those new products have sold like the iPhone itself, however. Sales of the iPad have been declining for two years.

“Apple still has a lot of value, a lot of cash flow, so it’s not to say the company is in trouble. But it’s difficult to say that it’s on the cutting edge,” said Murillo Campello, a finance professor at Cornell University who follows Apple closely.

Others say it’s premature to count Apple among former tech giants, like Hewlett-Packard, that have struggled for relevance as their pace of growth and innovation declined.

Apple is working on a wide range of future products, from streaming video to virtual reality and even self-driving cars, said FBR Capital Markets’ analyst Daniel Ives in a recent note to clients.

“Apple’s often surprised us with what they end up doing,” added Dawson.

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Scientists are encouraging citizens to help create a crowd-sourced maps of flooding using private drones.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Forget about selfies. In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline’s changing face.

Starting this month, The Nature Conservancy is asking tech junkies to capture the flooding and coastal erosion that come with El Nino, a weather pattern that’s bringing California its wettest winter in years - and all in the name of science.

The idea is that crowdsourced, geotagged images of storm surges and flooded beaches will give scientists a brief window into what the future holds as sea levels rise from global warming, a sort of a crystal ball for climate change.

Images from the latest drones, which can produce high-resolution 3D maps, will be particularly useful and will help scientists determine if predictive models about coastal flooding are accurate, said Matt Merrifield, the organization’s chief technology officer.

“We use these projected models and they don’t quite look right, but we’re lacking any empirical evidence,” he said. “This is essentially a way of ‘ground truthing’ those models.”

Experts on climate change agreed that El Ninofueled storms offer a sneak peak of the future and said the project was a novel way to raise public awareness. Because of its crowdsourced nature, however, they cautioned the experiment might not yield all the results organizers hoped for, although any additional

information is useful.

“It’s not the answer, but it’s a part of the answer,” said Lesley Ewing, senior coastal engineer with the California Coastal Commission. “It’s a piece of the puzzle.”

In California, nearly a half-million people, $100 billion in property and critical infrastructure such as schools, power plants and highways will be at risk of inundation during a major storm if sea level rises another 4.6 feet - a figure that could become a reality by 2100, according to a 2009 Pacific Institute study commissioned by three state agencies.

Beaches that Californians take for granted will become much smaller or disappear altogether and El Nino-fueled storms will have a similar effect, if only temporarily, said William Patzert, a climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“When you get big winter storm surge like they want to document, you tend to lose a lot of beach,” he said.

“In a way, it’s like doing a documentary on the future. It’ll show you what your beaches will look like in 100 years.”

What the mapping won’t be able to predict is exactly which beaches will disappear and which bluffs will crumble - all things that will affect how flooding impacts coastal populations, said Ewing, the California Coastal Commission engineer.

“We’re not going to capture that change,” she said.

“We’re going to capture

where the water could go to with this current landscape and that’s still a very important thing to understand because it gets at those hot spots.”

So far, project organizers aren’t giving assignments to participants, although they may send out specific requests as the winter unfolds, said Merrifield.

If users wind up mapping real-time flooding events along 10 or 15 percent of California’s 840-mile-long coastline the project will be a success, he said. A realistic goal is a “curated selection” of 3D maps showing flooding up and down the coast at different dates and times.

The Nature Conservancy has partnered with a San Francisco-area startup called DroneDeploy that will provide a free app to drone owners for consistency. The app will provide automated flight patterns at the touch of a screen while cloud-based technology will make managing so much data feasible, said Ian Smith, a business developer for the company.

Trent Lukaczyk heard about the experiment from a posting in a Facebook group dedicated to drone enthusiasts. For the aerospace engineer, who has already used drones to map coral reefs in American Samoa, the volunteer work was appealing.

“It’s a really exciting application. It’s not just something to take a selfie with,” he said, before heading out to collect images of beach erosion after a storm in Pacifica, California.

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Bria Holmes skies to the hoop this month against Kansas.

Despite inexperience, WVU’s scoring depth has been the driving force

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

With less than a dozen games left in the regular season, the West Virginia University women’s basketball team finds itself in a position it wasn’t in last year. The Mountaineers are in third place in the Big 12 and are 5-2 against conference opponents, compared to a 2-6 record this time last season. WVU became an all-around dynamic team with a lot more depth in a short period of time.

“The good part about having players that can

come in off the bench is you see who’s playing well,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey. “Last year when we did bad, we didn’t have a lot of people to put in. This year, we do.”

Su n day ’s matchu p against TCU was an example of how Carey went with the players who weren’t being stopped. Jessica Morton and Teana Muldrow scored 26 and 21 points, respectively. Morton set a new career high, while Muldrow put together her first career double-double.

Along with Bria Holmes, it was the first time since 1996 that a WVU team had

three players score more than 20 points in a game.

If one were to look at where the Mountaineers were statistically last year, it would leave them wondering how a team with eight freshmen and three other newcomers made the turnaround.

Currently, WVU is in the top five of every major statistic in its conference, compared to being in the bottom half last year. Overall scoring is one part of the Mountaineers’ game that improved after there was doubt about who would provide secondary scoring after the departure of

Averee Fields.

Prior to the current season, Holmes said the surplus of shooters would take the pressure off her, and it’s showing. Holmes’ points per game decreased by 1.5, but her teammates’ averages went up to a more balanced attack for the eight other players.

The Mountaineers’ top three leading scorers are Holmes, Muldrow and Tynice Martin. The latter two aren’t even starters, averaging a combined 10.2 points per game. In 201415, WVU’s bench leaders averaged 6.8 points per game.

Outside of Holmes, Mar-

tin and Muldrow became the one-two punch the Mountaineers needed.

Martin recorded a season-high in points on Jan. 16 with 18 and led the team in scoring. The performance left Kansas’ head coach Brandon Schneider bewildered.

“It’s a rare thing in the game today to be a proficient jump-range shooter, and I think that’s what makes her tough to cover,” Schneider said.

The real test for the Mountaineers comes down to this stretch of the season, where the team plays No. 19 Oklahoma twice, No. 4 Bay-

lor and No. 6 Texas.

While WVU’s two conference losses came at the hands of Baylor and Texas, both games came down to the wire. On the other hand, Wednesday will be the team’s first meeting with Oklahoma. All teams have proved they can hang with the best and play spoiler.

However, a positive mindset is being maintained throughout the Mountaineer locker room after a week-long break.

“I feel like we are going down the right path”, Martin said. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU’s Keegan Moore fends off Oklahoma State’s Gary Harding at a meet this month.

WVU’s “Big Four” still making contributions through adversity

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

There is still light amongst the darkness for the West Virginia University wrestling team.

Despite extending its season-long losing streak to four matches, West Virginia showed signs of improvement this past weekend; Zeke Moisey, Keegan Moore, Dylan Cottrell and Jacob A. Smith all went undefeated.

Moisey, ranked No. 13

by InterMat wrestling at 125 pounds, defeated his first opponent 9-3 before

defeating his second opponent in the first sudden victory period.

After being injured in the Southern Scuffle, freshman phenomenon Moore returned to action by winning both of his decisions. Moore, unranked in the 133-pound category, improved to 16-10 on the season after debuting on Dec. 4.

Cottrell, ranked No. 14 by InterMat, has been West Virginia’s most consistent wrestler in the 2015-16 season. He picked up two more victories this past Saturday, including the Mountaineers’ only

major decision victory of the day.

Smith has dominated the 197-pound competition lately. Saturday, he allowed his opponents to score a combined two points. Ranked No. 7 by InterMat, Smith has now won four consecutive decisions and is second on the team with 22 victories.

This past Saturday, West Virginia lost consecutive matches to Arizona State, 18-17, and Stanford, 2015. Though the end result was the same for both matches, the Mountaineers looked better this weekend than last.

In losses to ranked opponents Oklahoma State and Oklahoma, West Virginia won only four headto-head battles. The Mountaineers were never in these matches, falling behind early and unable to come back.

Last weekend in Tempe, Arizona, West Virginia started off much better, winning four of the first six decisions against Arizona State, then winning four of the first five against Stanford.

Starting hot is important, but it is not enough to win a match.

After the two Big 12

losses, head coach Sammie Henson said the team needed to go back to the drawing board to work on several things.

After the two narrow defeats this past weekend, Henson did not believe the team was back on track yet.

“We had some good wins and some bad wins,” Henson said in an interview with WVUsports.com on Saturday. “We need to capitalize on bonus points. We had opportunities in some matches, and we just didn’t make it happen. We have to believe in the system and keep

grinding. All in all, it was a tough weekend with some missed opportunities.”

West Virginia’s biggest problems have come from wrestlers outside of its “Big Four.” Wrestlers outside of the aforementioned four went a combined 2-10 against Arizona State and Stanford.

U n f o r t u nat e l y , t h e schedule does not offer West Virginia a large break to add in additional practice time. The Mountaineers face Virginia Tech followed by North Carolina State Sunday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU’s Shaker finds success in new country

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The WVU tennis team plays in the shadow of the Coliseum.

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Moving to a country where you don’t know anyone can be a tough transition. But sophomore tennis player Habiba Shaker has adjusted to the change with great aplomb.

One of the biggest changes she had to endure coming to the United States to play for West Virginia was the team aspect of college tennis. Tennis is primarily an individual sport and through-

out her years playing in junior competitions and prep school competitions in Egypt, she only had to worry about herself, her game and how she fared on the court. But playing on a team means she has to look out for not only herself, but her teammates as well.

“Being on a college team, you have to think about ever yone else, how everyone else is doing and how you can contribute to the whole team, not just about yourself in your match, but for team-

mates in their matches as well,” said Shaker in an interview with WVUSports. com.

After a freshman season in 2014-15 in which she tallied a combined 34-14 record in singles and doubles, Shaker came into the 2015-2016 season with high hopes and expectations.

She finished the fall season with a phenomenal 9-1 singles record and recorded the lone team point in the Mountaineers’ loss to rival Pittsburgh this past weekend.

“The practices have been intense,” Shaker said.

“I think we have been focusing on a lot of things, specifically, with each person and as a group, and that is what has made us better.”

“She (Shaker) was a freshman last year, which comes with a level of learning,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac. “I feel like going into her sophomore year, she has hit her stride, and she understands being a student athlete at a higher level. She has been doing well. We observe

them daily, and not just in the matches they play.

They have been doing well since the beginning of the semester. Her results are reflective of the work she has put in.”

Shaker’s favorite professional tennis player is 17-time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer, which is fitting because the style of play she showcases on the court mirrors that of the Swiss great. Federer is known for his offensive, aggressive style of tennis, along with an allcourt game. When watch-

ing Shaker compete, it’s easy to notice many similarities between their approaches to the game, and Federer’s too.

“I like to play aggressively,” Shaker said. “I look for balls I can finish, and I look to go into the court, too.”

Shaker and the Mountaineers will look to rebound from their loss to Pitt with a doubleheader matchup against Toledo and Cleveland State on Friday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Tuesday January 26, 2016

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Florida State settles Jameis Winston suit TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University has settled a Title IX lawsuit with a former student who said the school failed to adequately investigate allegations that she was raped by former star quarterback Jameis Winston.

The settlement was announced a day before Winston’s accuser, Erica Kinsman, had been scheduled to give a deposition in the case. As part of the settlement, FSU is making a fiveyear commitment to sexual assault awareness and prevention. The university also has agreed to publish annual reports for the next five years about those programs.

Florida State said in a statement that it has formed a Sexual Assault Prevention Task Group, hired a fulltime Title IX coordinator, added six positions to improve campus safety and required all incoming freshmen to complete an online course to make “more informed choices about sex and relationships.”

FSU President John Thrasher also noted that there have been more than 100 training sessions conducted on campus dealing with sexual assault and how to prevent it.

The settlement also calls for a $950,000 payment to Kinsman and her attorneys. A copy of the settlement says Kinsman’s attorneys will get $700,000 of that money, though they say that figure was inserted by the university and that they will receive far less for their fees.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston warms up before a preseason NFL football game.

people who say they have been sexually assaulted, but Kinsman has spoken publicly about her case, including in a documentary.

Thrasher said in a press release Monday that the university settled to avoid spending millions on the lawsuit.

“Although we regret we will never be able to tell our full story in court, it is apparent that a trial many months from now would have left FSU fighting over the past rather than looking toward its very bright future,” Thrasher said in the release.

Jim Ryan, a partner with Cullen and Dykman who deals in Title IX cases, said typical settlement amounts range from $250,000 to $500,000, but most are kept confidential.

Kinsman has said she was drunk at a Tallahassee bar in December 2012 when Winston and others took her to an apartment,

where she says the quarterback raped her.

Winston has said the allegations are false and that he and Kinsman had consensual sex. Prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to win a conviction and that there were gaps in Kinsman’s story.

A lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston and a countersuit he filed against her claiming she is trying to take advantage of his newfound wealth as the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are ongoing and are not affected by the settlement.

A Title IX investigation by the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Education also is ongoing.

Title IX is a federal statute that bans discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The department in 2011 warned schools of their legal responsibilities to immediately investigate allegations of sexual assault,

even if the criminal investigation has not concluded.

Baine Kerr, one of Kinsman’s attorneys, told The Associated Press that the university wanted Kinsman to withdraw her complaint, but she refused. Kinsman will graduate this spring from another four-year university.

Melissa Ashton, who had been director of FSU’s victim advocate program until August, said in a deposition given this past summer that football players receive special treatment at the school. She said most of the estimated 20 rape victims she encountered during the past decade declined to press student conduct charges.

“My hope is that the federal investigation of my complaint by the Office of Civil Rights will produce even more positive change, not just at FSU, but across the country,” Kinsman said in a statement.

Big East looks like beast, Tournament to tell OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When the Big East underwent its metamorphosis in 2013 and returned to its basketball-centric roots, the question was whether the conference could recapture the magic of its heyday.

The initial answer wasn’t promising. Four of its 10 teams reached the NCAA Tournament and none made it past the first weekend.

“I was one of those saying, ‘This is being called the Big East, but it’s not the same league,” ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said.

Year Two saw six teams make the tournament, but top-seeded Villanova lost in the round of 32 for the second straight season and only Xavier advanced to a regional semifinal.

How the Big East fares in the NCAA Tournament this year will determine how far the conference has come in terms of perception. But with three teams among the top 10 in this week’s Associated Press poll - No. 6 Villanova, No. 7 Xavier and No. 10 Providence - the season has been more like the Big East brass envisioned when the conference was made over.

In the RPI, Villanova is No. 2, Xavier is No. 4, Providence is No. 21 and four other Big East teams are in the top 90.

The Big East’s 26-18 record (.591) against opponents from the Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern conferences - the so-called power five - is second only to the Big 12’s 19-12 mark

(.612). The Big East’s 7-8 record against Top 25 nonconference opponents is best in the nation.

“I’m really excited where the conference is,” said Jay Wright, who’s coached Villanova since 2001. “I’d like to say this is what we all predicted. I think it’s what we all hoped.”

Wright’s Wildcats saw their 22-game win streak against Big East opponents end Sunday when they lost to Providence 82-76 in overtime. Xavier, Providence, Creighton and Georgetown all start this week tied for second place, 1 1/2 games behind Villanova.

Last year marked the first time since the conference was founded in 1979 that none of its players were taken in the first round of the NBA draft. There is no

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Providence point guard Kris Dunn is considered the best player in the league and is joined by conference scoring leader Ben Bentil. Josh Hart is putting up big numbers for Villanova, which also has Ryan Arcidiacono and Daniel Ochefu.

Xavier’s Edmond Sumner and Marquette’s Henry Ellenson are among the league’s top young players.

Butler has a force in Roosevelt Jones and one of the nation’s premier shooters in Kellen Dunham.

Georgetown again is led by D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera.

Few people represent the glory days of the 1980s Big East more than Chris Mullin, the first-year coach at St. John’s. The Big East had nine teams when Mullin, Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing and Villanova’s Ed Pinckney were the league’s biggest stars. It had 15 in 2012-13, the season before it was reconfigured.

“It got to a point where there were so many teams, I didn’t know who was in the conference,” Mullin said.

When the conference was revamped, eight football-playing schools departed and the seven schools whose No. 1 sport is basketball were joined by like-minded Butler, Creighton and Xavier.

“I really like the way it’s set up now,” Mullin said.

“I like the fact that you play each other home and away. I think that will develop real rivalries. I think given time, it’ll be what (Big East founder) Dave Gavitt created.”

The Big East probably needs a couple of its teams to make long postseason runs to silence critics who contend the conference has lost elite status. But Georgetown coach John Thompson III, whose father became the league’s No. 3 all-time winningest coach in 20 years with the Hoyas, said the Big East doesn’t need validation.

“Our identity has never changed,” Thompson said.

“The Big East is the Big East. What I think is happening is that possibly the rest of the world is realizing, ‘Oh, wow, they didn’t go anywhere.’ Without a doubt, we have some of the toughest, some of the best teams in the country.

That has always been the case. The rest of the country, who for some reason thought we were going to go away, is now realizing we’re not.”

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1BR WESTOVER. W/D. No pets. Parking.

Available February. $475/mth.

304-288-6374 1-2-3 APTS/HOUSES. 5 min walk from downtown. Free W/D. Parking. 2-3BR available Spring 2016 by semester is acceptable.

1BR available May. 304-288-2499 or email: doina.jikich@yahoo.com

Walk to classes!

Downtown campus NO BUSES NEEDED

1/BR APT ON BEECHURST. Available now. $580. 304-290-4468

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2/BR SOUTH PARK. W/D. No Pets, $650/mo. Available now. 304-288-6374.

1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 BEDROOMS IN SOUTH PARK and Campus area. W/D, & many more desirable amenities. Call for more information. 304-292-5714 2 ROOMMATES NEEDED for 3BR. 5 min walk to downtown campus. Parking available, W/D. 304-288-2499 3 BR 2 BTH on Battele. Available now. $900 plus utilites. 304-290-4468.

3 BR ON BEECHURST . $1050 month + all utilities. Available now ($350 per person) No pets. 304-290-4468.

3 BR UNIT with AC. D/W, W/D. Disposal.

Parking. Very close to campus.

304-284-9634 4 BR 2 BTH Apartment. Larger than most available. Parking. W/D. Disposal. AC. D/W. Very near campus. 304-284-9634.

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4/BR, 2/BA DUPLEX. W/D, DW, off-street parking. Very nice. $1200/mo 304-319-0437 ALL UTILITIES. NEWLY RENOVATED 1, 2, 3 & 4BR APARTMENTS and HOUSES. Downtown/Evansdale. UTILITIES INCLUDED. Prime downtown location.

304-288-8955.

DOWNTOWN 1-3 BEEDROOM APARTMENTS. 5 minute walk to Downtown/Campus. From $350 per Bedroom. W/D, Parking. Call: 304-685-7835.

LARGE 3BR APTS. TOP OF HIGH ST. All utilities included. 304-292-7233.

LARGE, MODERN, 2BR. University Ave/Star City. W/D, Off-street parking. No pets. $650/plus utilities. 304-692-1821 NOW RENTING 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6BR APARTMENTS on Prospect and Spruce for 2016-2017. Contact Nick: 304-292-1792

Barrington North NOW LEASING FOR 2016 Prices Starting at $650 Security Deposit $200 2 Bedroom 1 Bath 24 Hour Maintenance/Security Laundry Facilities Minutes to Hospitals & Evansdale Public Transportation

NO PETS

Quiet Peaceful Neighborhood

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Affordable Luxury Bon Vista & The Villas Now Leasing 2016 1 & 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Apts

Prices starting at $550 Security Deposit $200 Walk in Closets, Jacuzzi Balcony, Elevators W/D, DW Garages, Storage Units Sparkling Heated Pool Minutes to Hospitals, Downtown and Shopping Center

NO PETS

24 Hr Maintenance / Security

304-599-1880

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May 2016!

Very Affordable Rent

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Minutes from class and night life

August and May Leases

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Downtown Off Spruce Street!

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NOW SHOWING FOR 2016. 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts. Downtown & South Park. Call 304-296-5931 for info.

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NOW LEASING UNFURNISHED / FURNISHED OFF-STREET PARKING EVANSDALE / STAR CITY LOCALLY OWNED ON-SITE MAINTENANCE MOST UNITS INCLUDE: HEAT, WATER & GARBAGE SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED MOUNTAIN LINE BUS SERVICE EVERY 10 MINUTES MINUTES FROM PRT

304-599-4407 ABSOLUTELY NO PETS WWW.PRETERENTAL.COM RICE RENTALS & STADIUM VIEW Affordable Rent, Great Location Rent starting at $340.

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SMITH RENTALS, LLC

304-322-1112

● Houses ● 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments $500 - $900 per month

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Now Leasing Thru June 2016

TERA PROPERTIES, NEW 1 & 2 BR/ 2 Bath Apts. $635-950+ electric. Locations include: Lewis, Stewart, Irwin Streets & Idlewood Dr. Walking distance to Downtown/Hospital. No Pets. 304-290-7766 or 304-288-0387. www.rentalswv.com 1 & 2BR APARTMENTS Spacious, Nice. Parking Available. High Street/Downtown.. $450-$650/mth. Some Utilities. 304-319-2355

2 BR UNIT with AC. D/W, W/D. Disposal.

Parking. Very close to campus.

304-284-9634

4 or 5 BEDROOM HOUSES. 5min walk to Downtown/Campus. Prices from $385-$450 per Bedroom. Call: 304-685-7835 341 MULBERRY ST., 2 BR, 1 BTH, garage, W/D. $950 + utilities. No Pets.

304-685-3457 4,5,6 BR. WALK TO CLASS. W/D some parking. Lease/sec. dep. No pets. Max Rentals. 304-291-8423. Available 06/01/16.

542 Brockway Avenue. Large 4 B/R brick house. 2 car garage. $350 per person plus utilities. No pets. 304-692-1821 617 NORTH ST. 4BR/2 baths, W/D. Single car garage. 5 car parking, exc. condition, $395 each + utilities. 304-685-3457 3/4 BEDROOM HOUSE Available May 20th. Please Call 304-365-2787 Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM 4-5 BR CAMPUS & JONES AVENUE AREAS. W/D, & many more desirable amenities. Call for more information.

304-292-5714 5BR HOUSE across Walnut Street Bridge. Living Room, Dinning Room, Kitchen, 2BTHS. Available 2016-2017.

Contact Nicole: 304-290-8972 AVAILABLE 5/8/15. 3 BR house. Recently remodeled. Partially furnished. Close to campus. Off-street parking. 304-296-8801.

LIBBY RENTALS LLC. Nice and Spacious, 1-4BR Houses.

Jones Ave., Sunnyside. Maryland St., South Park. $350-$475/mth. Pet Friendly. 304-319-2355

AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks.

Any make! Any model! Any condition!

304-282-2560

HELP WANTED BLACK BEAR BURRITOS hiring kitchen staff. Will train. Apply at either location.

MARIO’S FISHBOWL NOW HIRING Full or part-time experienced cooks and servers. Apply in person at 704 Richwood Ave. or e-mail resume to fishbowl@mountain.net

FURNISHED HOUSES

1-4 Bedrooms

NEXT TO CAMPUS W/D, DW, Central Air Sunnyside, Locust, Stewart St., Fife St., Willey St.

Contact us: 304-685-3243

UNFURNISHED HOUSES 1 BEDROOM SPRUCE STREET. Available immediately. Call 304-365-2787.

CHARMING 3/BR 1/BA W/D, UPDATED Kitchen and bath. Basement. 5 min. walk to campus. Very clean. No Pets. No smoking.

2yrs lease. $1425+utilities. Available 06/16.

704-281-4237.

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12 | SPORTS

Tuesday January 26, 2016

Game 20 January 26, 2016 7:00PM VS

#25 WESLEY IWUNDU Junior, F 6-7 210lbs

Kansas State’s leading scorer at 12.6 ppg...majoring in family studies and human services...childhood nickname was “milkdud”...middle name is Deshawn...from Houston, Texas...haircut looks like he was playing with high-voltage powerlines...tweets vague statements regarding relationship problems...only player left from 2012 freshman recruiting class… threatened over twitter he was leaving KState after Malek Harris was dismissed from the team...opposing coaches have compared him to Scottie Pippen.

@_Iwundu25

BOO HIM EVERY TIME HE TOUCHES THE BALL

The West Virginia Mountaineers, coming off an impressive comeback road win in Lubbock over the Texas Tech Red Raiders play host to the 127 Kansas State Wildcats tonight at the Coliseum. The Mountaineers who are 16-3, fell 3 spots in the polls yesterday after a tough home loss to Texas and look to sweep the Wildcats after winning in Manhattan, KS in Double OT on January 2nd. The game will be televised on ESPN News. The weather is finally cooperating, so put on your gold and blue and get to the Coliseum tonight and show KSU what a real student section looks like!

LET’S GO MOUNTAINEERS!

#41 HURT, STEPHEN

@Swagga_Steve41

Sr. F 6-11 265 Wears rec specs most likely because he wants to be like Devin Williams...from Murfreesboro, TN...transferred to KState from Northwest Florida Sate (JUCO)...girlfriend’s name is Victoria Hansen (@victoriauhhhh)...his twitter bio reassures us of the fact that he is a #90sBaby...big fan of rap music.

#32 WADE, DEAN

@deanwade3232

Fr. F 6-10 225 Middle name is Jackson...originally from St. John, Kansas...majoring in geology...was considered the top recruit from Kansas last year...sister Teresa also attends KSU...enjoys talking trash to/about the 20 KU football fans in existence

#3 STOKES, KAMAU

#14 EDWARDS, JUSTIN

Fr. PG 6-0 170 Originally from Baltimore, MD...was arrested in late October for failure to appear in court...majoring in physical science...spent one year at Fork Union Military Academy...played high school basketball with Daxter Miles...also attended same high school as Tavon Austin for one year.

Sr. G 6-4 200 Canadian national...born in Ontario...majoring in nutrition and kinesiology...likes to refer to himself as “Air Canada”...couldn’t live up to the hype after his transfer to KSU, averaged only 6.3 points per game last year...said he wasn’t prepared for the intensity of the Big 12.

@Killa_Mau

@Justedwards14

HEAD COACH:

BENCHWARMERS

Barry Brown #5 G: From St. Petersburg, FL...snapchat is barrybrown05...send him snaps of his turnovers DJ Johnson #4 F: From St. Louis, MO...averaging 6.8 ppg...ugliest dreads in the Big 12...flexes in all of his pictures Austin Budke #35 F: From Beloit, KS...huge Carolina Panthers fan...majoring in chemical engineering...

Carlbe Ervin II #1 G: From Oklahoma City, OK...transferred from community college

BRUCE WEBER Took Bill Self’s Illinois team to the final four...was quoted last year about WVU’s press:

“It’s awful. It’s just bad basketball, but they're what, 17-3? I'd be happy too." "It's just their style.”

VISITOR INTRODUCTIONS: Turn around and read the paper while the opposing lineup is announced, then rip the paper up and throw it up like confetti when WVU makes its first basket JUMP: Just jump up and down and go nuts after a made 3-pointer or dunk!

SHOT CLOCK: Alternate countdown methods, first when the opponent has the ball and the shot clock reaches thirteen, countdown beginning from 10. For the next countdown begin when the shot clock reaches 7, but countdown beginning from 10. Switching the countdown every time can really screw up timing.

OPPONENT FOULING OUT: As the player steps, chant: “Left, Right, Left, Right” until the player sits down then yell “SIT DOWN!”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

It’s a four-way logjam at the top of the Big 12 ing loss to Iowa State, the Sooners bounced back in a huge 82-72 win at No. 13 ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR Baylor. Four different play@CJACKSONWVU ers reached double-figures in scoring, led by Jor1. Oklahoma (16-2, dan Woodard’s 20 points.

5-2) They made 57 percent of Following a disappoint- their long-range attempts,

CHRIS JACKSON

showing why they’re the No. 1 3-point shooting team in America.

2. West Virginia (16-3, 5-2) Before nearly everything came crumbling down, junior Tarik Phillip saved the Mountaineers from a

VS

KANSAS STATE TUESDAY, JAN. 26 • 7 P.M.

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three-game losing streak.

He scored the game’s final eight points in Saturday’s 80-76 thriller over Texas Tech, pushing them to 5-2 in the Big 12 and a fourway share for first place.

Despite Tuesday’s loss to Texas behind a 35 percent mark from the free-throw line, they hit 79 percent against Texas Tech. It was a very ugly week for coach Huggins’ squad, but they still hold a win over Kansas and nearly defeated Oklahoma a few days later.

3. Kansas (16-3, 5-2) Kansas once again struggled on the road, suffering an 86-67 defeat in Stillwater to the Oklahoma State Cowboys. They’re rated as the nation’s fourth-best 3-point shooting team at 44 percent, but they converted only six of their 22 attempts against the Cowboys. But they did bounce back in a 76-67 victory over Texas on Saturday, led by 26 points from senior Perry Ellis.

4. Baylor (15-4, 5-2) If not for Taurean Prince and his double-double (19 points, 13 rebounds), Baylor likely falls to Kansas State and enters this week at 4-3 in the conference.

It took two overtimes to get past the seventh-place Wildcats. They didn’t struggle much offensively, however, against No. 1

Oklahoma on Saturday yet still managed to suffer a 10-point defeat. There’s not much you can do when the opposition hits 67 percent of its shots, especially when you hold a 34-18 rebounding advantage.

5. Iowa State (15-4, 4-3) They might be in fifth place, but they’re sure not playing like it. Iowa State has won three straight and just defeated No. 1 Oklahoma on Big Monday a week ago. Monte Morris followed that up with an 18-point, six-assist effort in an 83-70 win over TCU. 6. Texas (12-7, 4-3) Despite a recent loss at Iowa State, it’s been nothing but success for Shaka Smart in his first year at Texas. Star guard Isaiah Taylor only scored four points, and the Longhorns still mustered a seven-point victory at No. 6 West Virginia. They’ve won three of four, beating two ranked opponents and losing at Allen Fieldhouse against Kansas.

7. Kansas State (12-7, 2-5) It didn’t take much to get back on track. After a pair of losses to ranked teams in Baylor and Iowa State, the entire starting five finished as doubledigit scorers in an 89-73 rout of Oklahoma State.

They made more than half

their shots from the field and 3-point line, cruising to an early 19-point halftime lead.

8. Texas Tech (12-6, 2-5) The record may not indicate how tough coach Tubby Smith’s squad is.

They nearly completed the upset of No. 6 West Virginia after Justin Gray’s three put them up 76-72 with under a minute remaining. But eight straight points from WVU’s Tarik Phillip ended all hopes of a court storming in Lubbock, instead dropping them to 2-5 in the Big 12.

9. Oklahoma State (109, 2-5) Everything seemed to be going in Oklahoma State’s favor after an 86-67 annihilation of No. 3 Kansas, but it was anything but that in the following game against Kansas State. The defense faltered early on, leading to a disappointing 16-point loss to the Wildcats.

10. TCU (9-10, 1-6) With its top player out, nothing’s seemed to have gone right in Fort Worth.

TCU has lost four straight and won one conference game. If any positive news can be taken out of it, three of the losses during the skid have come to top 25 teams. cgjackson@mix.wvu.edu