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Tuesday November 3, 2015

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Halloween crime rates stay consistent by robert lee staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Morgantown may have seen an increase in thrills and chills by zombies, ghosts and peculiar costumes during Halloween weekend, but West Virginia University’s Police Department feels crime activity remained consistent with last year’s numbers.

Offenses are split into two groups. Group A consists of arson, assault, bribery, burglaries and felonies, and Group B consists of DUIs,

public intoxication and trespassing, according to UPD Chief Bob Roberts.

In 2015, there were 15 Group A offenses, including six assaults and five drug-related crimes, and 34 Group B offenses, including 28 underage alcohol citations, Roberts said.

Throughout the weekend, there was a total of 375 calls of service and 31 arrests made by UPD, according to Roberts.

In 2014, there were 11 Group A offenses, six of which were drug related, and 28 Group B offenses, in-

cluding 15 underage alcohol citations. There were nearly 400 calls of service and 25 arrests made by UPD, Reberts said.

“We were busy (this year), but it wasn’t a high amount of offenses. It was about the same activity as last year,” Roberts said. “Halloween weekend isn’t as big here as it is in other places, but we’re always prepared to handle a situation that unfolds.”

One way Roberts prepared was by placing officers in heavily populated areas during the night to serve as a deterrent for anyone at-

tempting to commit a crime, he said.

“I felt that there were lot more people out downtown compared to last year, maybe the drink specials or promos offered at the bars and clubs helped,” said WVU senior Katelyn Amato.

A lot of factors play into crime activity annually, but Roberts believes alcohol consumption appears to be the common denominator each year.

“When the weather outside is warmer, it tends to attract more people to come out with their friends,” Rob-

Students, faculty take part in tree planting ceremony, plant sugar maple on campus

By Jordan Miller Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

A tree planting ceremony was held outside of the Mountainlair on Monday in honor of Mountaineer Week, a West Virginia University tradition that symbolizes the importance of history, community and culture in the Mountain State.

Members of the Mountaineer Week committee, along with students and faculty, came together at noon and planted a sugar maple—the state tree— to dedicate a permanent part of the Downtown campus to the people of West Virginia.

“Mountaineer Week gives us a chance to really celebrate our heritage and culture, and this event specifically kind of adds some longevity to that,” said Mountaineer Week co-chair Josh Young, “so it’s cool to see that this will be here for the next few decades at least.”

A different tree used to occupy the plot where yesterday’s sugar maple was planted, but it had previously died or been removed, and Sonja Wilson, Mountaineer Week adviser, wanted to replace it. She said planting a tree to recognize the University’s special week was the perfect opportunity to bring the spot back to life.

The tree will allow current Mountaineers to honor their history and remind them to look forward to the growth of the future, according to Wilson.

“I think what we can do now is just continue to watch our culture and heritage grow as we continue to showcase that for our students,” Wilson said.

Daylin Myers, another co-chair of Mountaineer Week, said the tree planting ceremony is a general understanding of what Mountaineer Week is.

“It’s a great way to remember all the things that we do as a unit,” Myers said.

But the ceremony was just one of many events in WVU’s 2015 celebration of 68 years of Appalachian heritage. The rest will continue throughout the week. “(Mountaineer Week) is a way for the student body to get involved with something that everyone else on the campus is involved in and loves,” Myers said, “and it’s such a great way for everybody to join together.”

The celebration was first held in 1947 to encourage more school spirit and Mountaineer pride as a weekend event before a WVU football game against Kentucky. A dance and a costume contest followed.

The next year, more activities and a parade were added to the festivities and in 1949, WVU held its first beard growing competition.

At the 25th anniversary, the celebration grew into the week-long festival we now call “Mountaineer Week.”

Other events added along the way included the Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer competition, the arts and crafts festival, Mountaineer Idol and the Mountaineer mascot reunion held every five years.

All students, faculty and community members are welcome to attend Mountaineer Week events. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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erts said. “But, the hour set back allowed bars to remain open longer, allowing people more opportunity to drink.”

Roberts said there is no ‘real’ police explanation for what causes the influx in crime activity, other than more intoxicated individuals getting into arguments.

The only thing police can do is respond to the situation, provide information and educate the public on possible solutions to help in staying safe.

Authorities suggest people stay away from situations

involving loud arguments and to travel in pairs, stay in well lit areas, drink responsibly and use proper judgment and communication amongst friends.

Morgantown Police Department Chief Ed Preston was not available for comment pertaining to Halloween weekend activity by publication time, and all statistics offered were recorded solely by UPD. To report a crime or suspicious activity, call (304)-293-3136. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Members of the Sigma Kappa sorority participate in the PRT Cram event in front of the Mountainlair.

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WVU students take part in annual PRT Cram, fit 47 passengers in one car

By Amy Pratt

Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

As part of the Mountaineer Week tradition, West Virginia University students competed Monday afternoon to determine which organization or group of friends could cram the most people into one PRT car in the annual PRT Cram.

The PRT cars are built to hold 16 people, but for the Cram, various student groups competed to pack in as many people as possible. Managing to fit 47 people, Chi Omega and Sigma Kappa members made up this year’s winning teams.

“I think (this event) is symbolic of the campus as a whole because it’s unique that we have the PRT,” said Morgan Hylton, a freshman journalism student who participated with her sorority.

Mountaineer Mascot Michael Garcia, who also attended the event, agreed the PRT and the PRT Cram make the University special. “… Whenever we can show how we differentiate ourselves from other people, it’s really cool,” he said.

“And it’s just fun, you get to get your friends together.

I know a lot of fraternities and sororities do this, but I even just texted all my friends and said, ‘Hey, meet me at the PRT.’” While 47 isn’t close to the all-time record—97 Chi Omegas succeeded in

2000—the Cram is still an important event for students to participate in, and for WVU’s history.

“I don’t know if we will ever get that number again,” said Sonja Wilson, senior programming administrator at the Mountainlair.

“I don’t know if we’ll ever break that record because of the new rules that are in place. The University wants us to be more careful.”

Wilson remembers when the PRT first came to the University in 1971 and the annual Cram began.

“I’ll never forget the year I got a phone call from the gentleman I used to work with,” she said. “He called me and said that Sherwin-Williams had a lot of paint, and they were going to paint some of the PRT cars …. And they asked if we would object to our very own Mountaineer Week PRT car.”

WVU quickly received its own PRT car with the quilt square logo and Mountaineer Week written across it.

But even before the PRT, cramming too many people into a small space was still part of Mountaineer tradition.

“In the past, they used to do an outhouse cram, but they thought they looked bad for the school’s image,” said Molly Callaghan, Mountainlair personnel administration.

Once the PRT was built,

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Michael Garcia sings “Country Roads” along with other students attempting the PRT Cram outside the Mountainlair.

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Sorority groups and random students are counted off while they exit the PRT for the annual PRT Cram event held outside of the Mountainlair.

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Tuesday November 3, 2015

WVU student selected as Rhodes Scholarship finalist by tessa iglesias correspondent @dailyathenaeum

For the first time since 2013, a West Virginia University student, Clara Beth Novotny, has been selected as a finalist for the globally recognized Rhodes Scholarship.

Awarded to 32 Americans annually, the scholarship helps scholars pursue their graduate degrees at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Novotny, a dual major in biochemistry and Spanish, hopes to study infectious disease and global health at Oxford, an opportunity she believes would be once in a lifetime.

“There are faculty at Ox-

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Mountaineer Week was originally started by Governor Arch Moore as a way to promote and encourage school spirit. Since then, WVU aims to promote school spirit and teach students about West Virginia’s culture and history.

“Our number one priority in planning Mountaineer Week is to educate our students on our culture and history, and we do have a very vibrant history,” Wilson said. “It’s still to have school spirit on campus, but to also educate our students on the culture and history of our state. I think things like the PRT cram do arouse school spirit on campus and gives you a little common bond.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

ford that are leaders in the field (global health), and there are champions of reproductive health, which is what I want to work with,” Novotny said. “So for this reason, the Rhodes Scholarship seemed like a really good vehicle for me to be able to pursue those goals.”

If Oxford doesn’t work out, Novotny hopes to attend medical school and pursue her dream of becoming a doctor, focusing on global health for infants and pregnant mothers.

Novotny has participated in two mission trips to Honduras, where she took part in humanitarian service work as well as medical missions. During these past travels, she was able to take ad-

vantage of both her biochemistry studies and her Spanish studies, translating for American doctors and attending to patients.

Her experiences in Honduras inspired her to pursue the path she is on now, but while incredible, Novotny felt she didn’t make as much of an impact as she wished. Pursuing medicine, however, will give her a chance to influence more people and improve methods of medical care in situations similar to those in Honduras.

The Rhodes Scholarship has a rigorous application process, something Novotny believes to be beneficial to those applying.

“I had all of these sep-

arate passions that I was interested in, but the Rhodes Scholarship application allowed me to kind of unify them all into one common path in which I could use my Spanish, biochemistry, the work I’ve done in Honduras and the research I’ve done and put it all together with one common goal,” Novotny said. “(It) forces you to align your goals...”

Writing the personal statement portion of the application was the most difficult aspect for Novotny, she said.

For most scholarships, Novotny would normally use outside resources like ASPIRE, an office in WVU that helps students craft and perfect competitive scholarship applications, to help her edit her state-

ment. But with the Rhodes Scholarship, Novotny was forbidden from showing her personal statement to anyone, as the application is exclusive.

Though the ASPIRE team couldn’t help with her personal statement, Novotny acknowledged that the ASPIRE Office and everyone she talked to at the University throughout the application process gave her an overwhelming amount of support.

Novotny will travel to Chicago on Nov. 20 to be interviewed by the District XI committee of selection, after which she will find out if she will become a Rhodes Scholar. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

WVU debate teams to square off on current political issues

By Jamie Mason Correspondent @DailyAthenaeum

Four West Virginia University student organizations will join together at 6 p.m. tonight in the Mountainlair ’s Rhododendron Room, for a political debate.

Featuring the WVU Left Alliance, WVU Young Democrats, WVU College Republicans and WVU College Libertarians, the debate will provide students and faculty in the WVU community a chance to learn more about political issues that are affecting everyday lives, according to Tyler Henry, the president of WVU College Republicans.

“It’s important to talk about politics,” Henry said.

“If college students didn’t go out and vote (at the) last election, there might have been a different turnout.”

The College Republicans on campus are here to pro-

mote conservative values, Henry said. He wants students to understand how important it is to be knowledgeable of current political issues and the different sides to each stance.

“We were a key part of winning the Republican majority in 2014, which is the first time since FDR that the Republicans have had a majority in the state,” Henry said.

At the debate, topics to be discussed will include gun control, environmental issues, foreign policy and social issues, like immigration, health care and LGBTQ rights. More controversial subjects will cover economics and recent arguments over minimum wage in America.

Travis Boothe, president of WVU Left Alliance, agreed these issues, and politics in general, are important for students to take an interest in.

“Politics affect these students’ lives in every way,”

he said.

Because the Left Alliance is so different from the other student groups, Boothe said the audience will hear different approaches to problems presented compared to the other participating parties.

“Naturally, there will be topics that are politically charged,” he said. “Left Alliance, however, encourages that these topics be discussed head on with facts rather than political rhetoric.”

Although the students may have different opinions, Marshall Amores, president of WVU Young Democrats, said they’re all politically-minded thinkers who want to get more peers involved, especially considering all four organizations are currently focused on gaining more members.

WVU Young Democrats believe the debate is more about advertisement and recruitment than anything

else.

“We believe that we are progressive, open-minded and willing for change in the most positive manner,” Amores said. “The Young Dems are a growing family of like-minded, progressive thinkers that are open to finding alternative options to solve problems… and who believe in meaningful change and not excluding anybody.”

Connor Adamson, president of the WVU Libertarians, believes his group’s beliefs will also set them apart from the other three contenders. “...Our beliefs are focused on consistent freedom in all aspects—social and economic,” he said. “I think the debate will be a great showcase not only for our group, but for everyone as a whole.”

The debate will commence at 6 p.m. and is open to the public.

MOUNTAINEER WEEK SCHEDULE Kidwell’s Funnel Cake & other Appalachian Treats Outside, Front of Mountainlair Wild West Kettle Corn Outside, Front of Mountainlair Bavarian Nuts and Cotton Candy Mountainlair, First Floor “Fiesta: A Mountaineer Country Tradition Since 1936” Exhibit Evansdale Library, Main Floor and Second Floor Presented by Anna Schein and Martha Yancey Mountaineer Week Photo Contest Display Mountainlair, First Floor Presented by All-Pro Photography Health & Wellness Expo 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Mountainlair, First Floor Featuring various organizations and information. Presented by WVU Medicine Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum 6 p.m., HSC – School of Pharmacy (to the left of the main office) In a room at the School of Pharmacy is a trove of oddities from the days when pharmacy was evolving. Pickled leeches, bleeding instruments, snake oil and much more can be seen.

Mountaineer Week Challenge Games 4 p.m., Mountainlair Plaza (Inclement weather: Mountainlair Ballrooms) Bob Huggins 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament 6 – 11 p.m., WVU Rec Center

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Officer sex cases plagued by lax supervision, policies WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP)—As darkness falls, the most tattered section of this town’s main drag feels more desperate with each passing hour. Under the cover of night, a slow but steady flow of wandering souls emerges - addicts, prostitutes, drifters. Sergio Alvarez knew the pickings were easy.

As a rookie officer on the West Sacramento police force, Alvarez was assigned to the overnight shift on a beat that included West Capitol Avenue - a one-time Las Vegas-style strip now lined with low-rise motels that rent rooms by the week or the hour.

Most officers are more than happy to eventually escape the post, but Alvarez volunteered to stay on late-night duty. Over his nearly six years on the job, he gained seniority and almost always patrolled alone.

With the solitude came opportunity.

“That’s where Alvarez falls through the cracks,” said Sacramento attorney Justin Gingery, whose firm represented four of eight women who said they were sexually assaulted by the officer, many in the same dumpster-lined alley near “West Cap.” Convicted last year of kidnapping five of those women and either raping them or forcing them to perform oral sex, Alvarez is now serving 205 years to life in prison.

Alvarez is a poster child of a predator cop - and also of the flaws in policies, technological glitches, and culture of policing that can allow such behavior to go unnoticed or unpunished until it’s too late. His case prompted multiple civil claims against his department and the city of West Sacramento over police procedures, with a total of $4.1 million in public funds to be paid to six victims who sued.

It also has left a new chief taking a hard look at the

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Lights flash on a police car during a stop on April 20, 2015, along the West Capitol Avenue strip in West Sacramento, Calif.

The street is the same one where, according to court testimony, police officer Sergio Alvarez cruised for victims while on patrol. Last year, Alvarez was convicted of kidnapping and raping several of those victims. way the department does business.

“It hurts the heart to see victims. But it makes it even worse when you are, in one way, shape or form, a contributing factor to them being hurt,” said Tom McDonald, a former captain with the Los Angeles Police Department who took over in West Sacramento after Alvarez’s arrest.

A yearlong Associated Press investigation illuminated the problem of rape and sexual misconduct committed by law officers in the United States, uncovering about 1,000 cops, jail guards, deputies and others who lost their licenses from 2009 through 2014 for such incidents. Most certainly there are even more than that, because some states did not provide records and others, including New York and California, said they do not decertify officers for misconduct.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police spotlighted the issue of sex abuse in a 2011 report prompted by a spate

of crimes. The report noted conditions of the job that can create opportunities for officers to take advantage of victims - having authority over others, patrolling alone and late at night, and engaging with vulnerable citizens.

Those issues were hallmarks of the Alvarez case and many others, along with critical breakdowns in policies and procedures. Those include a lack of supervision and training fueled by budget cuts; misuse or malfunction of electronic systems meant to monitor officers; warning signs about potential misconduct that are overlooked; and a good old boy culture in which inappropriate behavior is ignored or even condoned.

A lack of supervision was a major finding in a March Department of Justice report about the San Diego Police Department that some call a blueprint for preventing sexual misconduct. That force has been hit with several incidents in recent years, including the case of 18-year veteran Anthony Arevalos, convicted in 2011 of sexual battery and assault following accusations that he attacked 13 women.

Despite departmental reforms put into place that same year, two more big cases followed. One officer was at the center of a lawsuit brought by a woman who said he groped her and exposed himself in 2013; he

left the department with no criminal charges. And last year, former officer Christopher Hays was sentenced to a year in jail and three years’ felony probation after three women said he touched their breasts and other private areas during searches.

The cost to the citizens of San Diego has been significant: The city has paid more than $7 million to settle lawsuits brought by the women in all three cases.

In its investigation, the Justice Department found that budget cuts had hit the San Diego department hard, with staffing reductions a “key problem.”

Nearly a quarter of sergeant positions - considered first-line supervisors - had been filled with acting sergeants who lacked the training and authority of their predecessors. Sergeants also were not always working the same shifts as the people they supervised, and sometimes saw subordinates only once a week, “creating an environment more vulnerable to undetected misconduct,” the report said.

The situation left peers often supervising peers for short stretches, said Jeff Jordon, a sergeant on the force and vice president of the San Diego Police Officers Association. He is hopeful that a new contract with better compensation will cause more veteran officers to stay so the department

can improve supervision.

But there is much work to do, he added.

“We’re a damaged brand, and we realize we’re a damaged brand,” Jordon said.

Shelley Zimmerman, who took over last year as chief in San Diego, has said that she welcomed the federal review and is now, among other things, requiring patrol officers to wear body cameras to bolster accountability. Overall complaints have dropped 23 percent in three divisions where officers began wearing the cameras in July 2014, she said.

Zimmerman also reinstated an internal misconduct investigative unit, and now requires that more than one officer be present when any women are transported by police.

Police officials often say that the first line of defense in stopping any bad cop is the screening and hiring process. But in the Alvarez case, Gingery said his own investigation on behalf of his clients found nothing about Alvarez’s life before he joined the West Sacramento force that might have foreshadowed the trouble to come.

Alvarez was a hometown boy who graduated from the local high school, got married and worked at a grocery store before being accepted into the police academy. His test scores were average, but his local ties and his ability to speak Spanish made him an attractive candidate for a department trying to build more trust with residents, Gingery said. He also passed a psychological evaluation.

Alvarez joined the department in 2006, but it was only after he had been on the force for a few years that problems started and signs were missed.

In a letter read at the criminal trial, Alvarez’s estranged wife, Rachel, said that she began fearing his unpredictable rage and wondered what had become of the once-adored father of their three children. By 2012, she wrote, “Sergio became a stranger to me.”

That was the same year he found many of his victims, using the power of the badge and any leverage he had - pending warrants, drug possession - to

get what he wanted. When there was no dirt, Alvarez kept victims detained until they capitulated.

“The first analogy that came up was the predator that stalks the weak, the sick, the injured - the sociopathic predator mentality that would target those who are already vulnerable,” said Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig, who supervised the case.

Among the victims was a methamphetamine user Alvarez took to the site of several of his assaults - an alley off West Capitol tucked between a wooded area and a strip mall. He told her to wipe off her lipstick before forcing her to give him oral sex, a command she and other victims described in court.

Another woman he targeted was an alcoholic, often seen on the streets collecting bottles, cans and scrap metal for money.

“I remember when I was done, I stood up and I glanced straight at his name tag, and he said, ‘Now everything Mr. Alvarez does is a secret,’” she testified, recalling the first of four sexual incidents with the man she called a “creepy cop.”

The criminal case uncovered several previous red flags: The GPS unit in Alvarez’s squad car was not working, which meant that no one could track or verify his location. He also routinely ignored an order to use the audio-visual recording unit inside his patrol car. The device captures what happens during traffic stops, recording the scene in front of a patrol car and also the back seat - where, in Alvarez’s case, investigators eventually found seminal fluid matching him and the vaginal fluid and DNA of one victim.

Six months before his arrest, Alvarez was reprimanded for failing to use the recording unit whenever he detained someone. Gingery said that, according to Alvarez’s personnel file and depositions in the civil case, the reprimand came after a woman reported that Alvarez had handcuffed her during a stop and forced her to touch his genitals through his uniform. The woman later recanted, however, and investigators had no video.

OPINION Handling police brutality cases 3

Tuesday November 3, 2015

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Spring Valley High School in North Carolina made headlines when a resident police officer was filmed grabbing and dragging an African American girl out of class for refusing to stop using her cellphone.

After both the teacher and the vice principal had asked her to leave class, physical force was utilized in order to remove her from the classroom.

Many are using this incident as a textbook example of the police brutality present in modern society.

However, after the officer was dismissed from his position over the incident, more than 100 students at Spring Valley staged a protest by making T-shirts and even walking out of class in order to bring Officer Fields back to their school.

News sources across the country appeared baffled by this reaction. Taken out of context, a white cop exerting violence on a black teenage girl seems unnecessary and a cause for con-

cern. However, immediately dismissing the officer may not have been the best move. Students have stated Officer Fields makes them feel safe at their school and wanted to protect his reputation by staging the protest.

In the past year, police brutality cases have appeared often in the news, but perhaps the issue is more complicated than once thought. Treating each case as merely a symptom of a larger societal problem instead of as a uniquely nuanced set of circumstances can be helpful in some cases, but could be causing more harm than good in others.

Humans have created good-versus-evil, us-versus-them stories since the beginning of organized society, and it’s not difficult to see how the tendency to storytell and portray the same archetypal characters may occasionally leach into news reports. The shooting of Michael Brown, an un-

Around 100 students protested Officer Ben Fields’ removal from Spring Valley High School after an incident with a female student. armed black teen shot by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, paved the way for many other police brutality stories that have influenced the current negative stigma surrounding police officers today. However, lump-

ing all policemen and future police brutality stories into a single category and portraying an entire group as “the bad guys” does not work toward solving the problem.

Regardless of whether

or not Fields’ actions were right for the situation, students at Spring Valley High School have demonstrated that removing him from his position after the incident was not in their best interest. In the future, this ed-

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itorial board believes police brutality cases should be handled individually and free from the influence of past cases across the country. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Study indicates people prefer a female’s touch kayla mccormick columnist @kayattheda

A study was recently conducted by the University of Oxford and Aalto University on social touch, specifically concerning which areas men and women were and were not OK with having touched by members of their social group.

For the study, researchers asked nearly 1,500 men and women from Finland, England, Italy, France and Russia to color in a silhouette of both sides of the human body designating where specific members of their social group could touch them comfortably. The diagrams were depicted like a topographical map, where lighter colors in any given location on a diagram represented where people were most comfortable with being touched in that location.

The opposite was true for darker colors, and untouchable areas were marked with a blue outline.

As expected, the results of the study showed that the closer someone was in a person’s social group, the larger the range of OK-totouch areas were depicted in the diagram. A person’s partner, friends and parents had the fewest untouchable areas.

The partner diagrams were the only diagrams where both men and women were comfortable

The body maps above depict where people do and do not want the indicated relations to touch them, with darker colors denoting more restricted areas. being touched anywhere on their body. While all others showed some degree of discomfort in being touched in certain areas, it was predominately being touched by male social figures that yielded the most areas marked as “taboo” or untouchable.

This study showed several interesting phenomena. Woman reported being more comfortable with being touched than men, and men stated they were more at ease with being touched by strangers than by women. Perhaps most intriguing, however, is that both men and women demonstrated they were more comfortable being touched

by female social figures than men.

Out of all of the categories in the study (partner; mother/father; sister/ brother; aunt/uncle; and male and female friends, cousins, acquaintances and strangers), only a person’s partner, mother, sister, female friend, female acquaintance and female stranger were marked as OK to touch anywhere on someone’s body, though some social discomfort was admitted.

I believe this is related to the nature of the relationship men and women have to sexual violence, as well as the relationship they also have to the masculine/femi-

nine binary.

Men and women have, for the most part, very different experiences with sexual violence. While men can and have been victims of sexual violence, it’s safe to say that most men don’t walk around in their lives consciously aware of it or worrying that it might happen to them. The same can unfortunately not be said for women, so it should be no surprise that women are generally more at ease when being touched by a woman than a man.

Relationship expert Wendy Walsh stated for a CNN article, “Women have evolved mechanisms to be choosy about whom they

mate with and to fear rape by a stranger. However, touch by friends is both relational—women tend to befriend as a buffer against stress—and pleasurable.

Touch gives a nice boost of dopamine, the ‘feel-good’ hormone.”

Another probable factor in both men and women preferring a woman’s touch is society’s seemingly unwavering belief in the masculine/feminine binary. In the current binary bubble in which society exists, women are feminine, men are masculine and all else is considered an oddity. While it is more accepted for women to be flexible in their femininity, the standards of

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masculinity are ever ridged.

Many men are afraid to touch another man in fear of being perceived as homosexual. Because of the pressure on men to be “masculine” all of the time, male on male physical contact, despite the innocence of its nature, often causes social discomfort.

The relationship physical touch has with our social relationships is both fascinating and revealing, and while the study done by Oxford University and Aalto University was very helpful in gaining insight, I personally am excited for further research on the topic. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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There’s a time and place for Internet: Smartphone use hurts students jenna gilbert columnist @dailyathenaeum

How often when walking around campus do you see someone staring at their smartphone on their way to class? Once you enter a classroom, how many more do you see? Internet usage has increased dramatically in recent years, but maybe it’s time to put the phone down.

As a journalism student and an active member in a handful of clubs, I spend a lot of time attending guest lectures. While I am there, I notice a lot of audience members openly staring at their phones in their hands while the guest speaker is talking. It astounds me just how many people scroll through their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds during these events, but it’s no different than a classroom setting.

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Students often use their cell phones in ways that are disrespectful to professors and guest speakers. of their day to come speak to a group on campus deserves more than an audience of cell phone screens. It makes me wonder if their parents ever used the phrase, “Look at me when I’m talking to you.”

Dr. Shannon M. Rauch of Benedictine University said, “One of the main reasons we use social media is for self-distraction and boredom relief.” However, when someone is talking, there is no need for further dis-

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traction. The more time we spend making eye contact and nodding at the speaker to demonstrate interest, the faster time passes.

Inside classrooms and during guest events aren’t the only places smart-

phones have taken over.

Social interaction on a daily basis is affected too. While sitting in the Mountainlair, how often do you see people simply staring at their phones? Sometimes they are conversing with their friend group while doing so, but other times they’re so absorbed in their phone that communicating with others becomes impossible.

Unfortunately, simply being in the same place at the same time does not count as communicating with others.

When it comes to getting help from professors throughout the semester, how often do students send emails instead of taking advantage of office hours?

Email is admittedly much easier than conversing in person, but it doesn’t allow for getting to know a professor one-on-one. They don’t get the chance to match our names with our faces, and we miss out on networking opportunities by relying on email over face-to-face

interaction.

Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s media regulatory service, reported that people between the ages of 16 and 24 spend more than 27 hours on the Internet each week. Ten years ago, that number was half of what it is now. If this trend continues, this number could double again.

It’s unhealthy to spend too much time on the Internet because it causes us to miss out on interactions that could benefit us in multiple ways. Smartphones can be used to pass the time in situations like waiting in line, but now they rarely appear to be put down when in the presence of others. This affects the quality of our interactions and can even affect friendship strengths.

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Aaron Watson to bring Texas twang to Schmitts performance

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Texans are sad to see him go, but West Virginians are happily rejoicing as country singer-songwriter Aaron Watson takes the Morgantown stage. The Texan who has been playing music for more than 15 years is coming to play on Wednesday night at Schmitts Saloon.

Still one of the hardest working musicians in the genre, Watson will perform around the United States until the end of the year, and a few weeks into 2016 will depart for a few touring performances in Europe.

Watson grew up in Amarillo, Texas, before going to Abilene Christian University where he learned to play guitar. This was the moment where a new door to opportunity presented itself to Watson, and he realized there was another path in life that he could take to find his fortune and happiness.

He started playing around the area, before releasing his first couple of albums to generally responsive regional audiences.

By 2006, Watson had collaborated with the legend Willie Nelson and released his fifth album, “San Angelo”, which received mainstream attention, peaking at No.60 on the Billboard country charts.

In the last 10 years, Watson has found national success as an independent artist. He has experiemented with gospel music, as well as released the kind of music he is proud of on a daily basis. His last five albums have progressively risen on the Billboard country charts until his 12th album, which was

released in February 2015, “The Underdog” reached number 1.

There has been a lot of talk about this album, as Watson is personally very proud of this particular record. He wrote almost all of the songs himself, and he came up with the album’s concept and cover alone.

Watson says “The Underdog” is more than just an album title, but rather a mission statement for people to put their faith in and follow.

“If your dreams aren’t handed to you on a silver platter, that’s okay,” Watson said. “You go out there, and you chase them. You may have to work hard for them, but don’t let anyone discourage you.”

Watson is adamant about writing and performing songs that have a subject he personally believes in, and mainly that stays in the realm of family, faith and love. Sometimes these songs come out very heavy—approaching things like searching for the little bit of light that you can give yourself over to, or about the death of a loved one.

But, a good country artist knows that sometimes you have to stray from the narrative songwriting style and play something light and fun. Watson is able to blend these styles and make some really fun intelligent country music for his fans, and he will happily keep doing that for a long time.

Doors for the Wednesday show open at 5 p.m.

Aaron Watson takes the Schmitt’s Saloon stage at 10 p.m. for his set. General admission tickets are $12 and can be purchased online or at the door. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Celebrating the sacred history and rich culture that seeps through the Mountain State, the 68th annual Mountaineer Week taking place on campus will feature films, discussions and events focused on Appalachian heritage.

This week, West Virginia University pays tribute to the traditions and legacies that make West Virginia the state it is today. The Cecilia Rollins Brown Bag Lunch Film and Discussion Series kicked off on Monday and featured a presentation by WVU English Professor Kirk Hazen titled, “The West Virginia Dialect Project: Dialect Research in the 21st Century.” Hazen’s presentation featured findings from the research his team here at WVU is currently working on, which is to understand the language within the Mountain State and how that language is translated in society.

The Cecilia Rollins Brown Bag Lunch Film and Discussion Series features projects and films that focus on multicultural issues and stories. It also allows for viewers to ask questions and for expert directors and speakers to receive audience feedback.

On Wednesday in the Mountainlair’s Gluck Theatre, “After Coal” will showcase director Tom Hansell’s journey through Southern Wales and the western coalfields of eastern Kentucky to explore what happens to communities after the coal boom.

With an economy that is moving away from the use of fossil fuels, Hansell’s documentary looks into the effects that transition has on the families and residents of coal-fueled towns. The essay aims to answer Hansell’s primary question, how do resource rich regions transition from their historic dependence on fossil fuels while sustaining the communities those fuels helped build?

As a project that started in 1974, political sociologist John Gaventa and

Carl Shoupe is interviewed in Benham, Kentucky for the documentary ‘After Coal.’

Appalachian scholar Helen Lewis wanted to look into the coal mining cultures in both Appalachia and Wales. Hansell’s use of music and language specific to each region featured in the film adds to the stories of hope, happiness and tragedy.

Hansell’s documentary essay follows this experience and hopes to shed light on the future of coal mining town’s after fossil fuels.

On Thursday, WVU Associate Professor of English Rosemary Hathaway will present “A Brief History of the WVU Mountaineer” in the Mountainlair’s Gluck Theatre. Raised in Ohio, Hathaway may have been born a Buckeye, but her family’s roots in West Virginia is what led Hathaway back to the state she has always been so attached to.

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Hathaway’s work focuses on the history of the iconic WVU mascot. First appearing at WVU sporting events in the late 1920s, the Mountaineer has always represented the University’s school spirit, enthusiasm, academics and community involvement. As a member of WVU’s student body, the Mountaineer is a true reflection of the student body housed in Morgantown.

Hathaway’s presentation will look into the heritage of the mascot as well as the qualities that make the Mountaineer exemplary today.

Mountaineer Week will take place on campus from Oct. 30 to Nov. 7. For the weekly schedule of Mountaineer Week events, visit http://mountaineerweek.wvu.edu/events. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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It is not Halloween in Morgantown without a visit to Fright Farm in Smithfield, Pennsylvania.

The “Tales of Terror” at Fright Farm did not disappoint this year as it left children crying and grown adults running through the attractions. The five consecutive attractions may not have been in order by what is “scariest” but certainly left guests a little uncomfortable.

Fright Farm consisted of five attractions, a live band and a scary movie projected for guests waiting in line to get into the farm.

The evening begins with the Haunted Hayride, where characters jumped into guests’ faces on the hayride and scream into ears of frightened children. The horrid scenes were enough to give anyone nightmares.

The classic chainsaw massacre had a twist this year, featuring a tall man with a pumpkin face chasing the tractor.

The anticipation led to the Frightmare Asylum in the

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Fright Farm features a haunted hayride as one of it’s main attractions. castle, which was by far the scariest attraction of all. Attendees had to walk through a mystical castle having no idea what to expect, with stairs leading to different scenes. Characters jumped out of corners and chased people down the halls.

Hallow Grounds followed with the same ordeal.

Creepy characters and monsters chased guests through the attraction, whispering in their ears and laughing in their faces.

The terror maze added clown flair as attendees fought their way through the maze while running into clowns on the way. The maze was poorly lighted and

lined with black walls and cages, intensifying the task at hand.

The last attraction, Distortions, was not as scary as the advertisements entailed. Distortions was a rave, blasting music as laser lights made it hard to see. No characters were really in this attraction, but the suspense

made it slightly daunting.

Students of West Virginia University go to Fright Farm due to its close location and positive reviews. Graduate student Abigail Roberts has attended Fright Farm four times throughout her residency in Morgantown. She attended with the student organization The Moun-

taineer Maniacs. The group rented out a VIP tent that included a bonfire and an enclosed area with a selection of seats. Roberts believes Fright Farm gets better every year, and it is the little things that make it worth going back to.

“Being in a big tent, finding out what group is next to you and getting home with mud covering your shoes are all what make Fright Farm unique,” Roberts said. “It is an experience that we cannot get here in Morgantown.

Only a 25 minute ride to Smithfield is worth the trip.”

Roberts also believes the haunted house attraction, the Frightmare Asylum, was the most frightening feature.

“Being in a small hallway with loud noise and no light is not pleasant,” Roberts said. “I hate when you would turn a corner, and the suspense of something popping out at you or not is the worst part.”

Fright Farm is closed for the season, but it certainly did not disappoint this year.

For more information and updates about next season, visit http://frightfarm.com/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Cops versus Tarantino ‘Spotlight’ movie uncovers scandal NEW YORK (AP) — Calls by police groups to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” are putting pressure on one of December’s most anticipated releases and inserting one of Hollywood’s top directors into a pitched cultural battle.

In recent days, a growing number of police groups have called for the boycott of the upcoming Weinstein Co. release. After local police organizations in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, the National Association of Police Organizations recently joined the ranks opposing Tarantino after remarks the director made during a recent rally against police brutality.

“We ask officers to stop working special assignments or off-duty jobs, such as providing security, traffic control or technical advice for any of Tarantino’s projects,” the organization said in a statement. “We need to send a loud and clear message that such hateful rhetoric against police officers is unacceptable.”

Tarantino attended the Brooklyn rally against brutality on Oct. 24 where he told The Associated Press: “I’m a human being with a conscience. And if you believe there’s murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I’m here to say I’m on the side of the murdered.”

Tarantino’s comments drew condemnation from, among others, New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton. “Shame on him,” he said, speaking shortly after the recent fatal shooting of NYPD officer Randolph Holder in East Harlem.

“There are no words to describe the contempt I have

for him and his comments at this particular time.”

The response has made Tarantino a regular topic on Fox News and at Hollywood soirees, alike. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly last week said Tarantino “lives in a world of his own.” At the Hollywood Film Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Jamie Foxx, star of Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” defended the director. Foxx urged him: “Keep telling the truth and don’t worry about none of the haters.”

Tarantino’s father, Tony Tarantino, has even issued a statement through the New York Police Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association saying his son is “dead wrong” about police officers. The director has previously said that his father “was never part of my life.”

Tarantino has yet to respond publicly to the backlash. Representatives for the director didn’t respond to messages Monday.

Expectations are high for “The Hateful Eight,” which opens Christmas Day exclusively in film projections of 70mm before expanding to nationwide theaters January 8. Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell, it’s a wintery Western about a group of bounty hunters holed up together during a blizzard.

Tarantino’s last film, 2012’s “Django Unchained,” earned $425.4 million globally and won two Oscars, including best screenplay for Tarantino.

Harvey Weinstein, cochairman of the Weinstein Co., has a long history of using media storms to stoke interest in a movie. This time, the fortunes of “The Hateful Eight” - for better or worse - risk being altered by a controversy not of his making.

Mark Ruffalo never walks in “Spotlight.” His very slowest is just shy of a flat out jog. It’s a minor detail, but it’s crucial to appreciating why this studied, smart look at The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the abuses of the Catholic Church is also utterly exhilarating.

This is the kind of simmering process film that makes you want to roll up your sleeves and do some work. To knock on some doors, ask some questions, ignore warnings, crack open a beer, burn the midnight oil and really do something - or maybe that’s just what every journalist watching this film will think.

After all, investigative print journalism isn’t the most cinematic of endeavors. It’s tedious and quiet and there are more dead ends than big revelations.

It’s a test of endurance - a long distance run where the finish is not even clear.

Of course, unlike an ongoing investigation, we know the outcome here already. The trick of “Spotlight” is making the potentially unsexy “how they got there” into not only one of the best movies of the year, but one of the best journalism movies of all time.

Spotlight refers to the paper’s four person investigative team responsible for exposing the systematic cover-up of the pedophilia of more than 70 local priests - editor Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), reporters Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), and researcher Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James).

Director Tom McCarthy’s movie presents a realistic, but still absorb-

ing portrait of a close knit town and the well-meaning folks at the local paper who for years remained unwittingly complicit in the rampant abuse of power in the Church. “Spotlight” pulls off the tricky feat of detailing the tick-tock of it all, while also giving due respect to the victims, the enablers and the believers.

It takes the arrival of a true outsider to challenge everyone to look a little harder at what’s happening. In this case, it’s the Globe’s new editor in chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber). One character who questions his arrival notes he’s an unmarried Jew who hates baseball. But most damning of all - he’s not a local.

Early on, the publisher warns him that over 50 percent of their subscriber base is Catholic. Baron retorts that he thinks they’ll find it interesting, and he proceeds.

There’s a wonderful and all too true resistance in the Globe’s ranks when the investigation gets underway. The paper hasn’t shied away from covering the one off cases over the years, and there’s a wellearned weariness in agitating the Church. Even though many of the reporters refer to themselves as “lapsed” Catholics, the institution remains paramount and the connections run deep.

The Globe editors attend events for Catholic charity, they have sit downs with the leaders of the Boston Archdiocese, and they golf with litigators who settle cases that victims have brought against the Church. A major American city has never seemed like such a small town.

Thankfully the viewer

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‘Spotlight’ follows an investigative journalism team looking into church corruption. need not have Boston or Catholic roots to care. The thrill of watching a charismatic crew work to accomplish something societally important is enough. This isn’t some hand-wringing, grandstanding, exploitative drama either. Everyone in the ensemble feels very deeply human - they are smart and funny, but serious when they need to be. You know you’re in good company when Stanley Tucci and John Slattery are there as support.

Ruffalo, in particular, uses his full physicality to embody a reporter who’s determined to the point of near mania (though he goes too far in a wet-eyed monologue late in the film). McAdams also shows grit and power both in executing the professional duties of her character and in

making the viewer feel how the revelations of the investigation impacts her close relationship with her religious grandmother.

The filmmaking might rely too much on the cheap cutaway - the school bus outside the house of a suspected priest, the laughing kids riding their bicycles in the area, the young choir singing Christmas carols but that too recedes to the background as you root for the scrappy reporters to defy the system, their families and their town for the greater good.

“Spotlight,” an Open Road Films release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “some language including sexual references.”

Running time: 128 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.

No. 1 with a bullet: singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini has a big debut NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For Kelsea Ballerini, one is the luckiest number. Her auspicious debut on the country music scene has earned her a lot of firsts this year, from hit singles to award nominations and big performances.

With her debut album, “The First Time,” Ballerini caught the attention of a fan base starved for the singer-songwriter countrypop sound that Taylor Swift perfected. The 22-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee, who is nominated for two Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, has been able to check off a few items off her bucket list.

“I have a goal list,” Ballerini said in a recent interview. “And I like marking stuff off of it, but I like adding to it and making it a thing I can attain.”

She sat down in the studio to talk with The Associated Press about her big year.

BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING Ballerini’s song, “Love Me Like You Mean It,” became the first debut single by a solo female artist to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country airplay chart -

Country singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini is filling the pop-country void left by Taylor Swift’s departure into pure pop. which tracks radio airplay - since 2006. She also joins a small group of female country artists to have a hit with their first single, including Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood.

“Looking at the other females that have done it

and just seeing the careers that they have had from that moment on, all I can think of is, ‘I just want to keep going and see what else I can do,’” Ballerini said.

AN INDEPENDENT STREAK Ballerini’s song became

the first country hit for Black River Entertainment, a still young independent record label in Nashville.

The label, whose other artists include Kellie Pickler and Craig Morgan, signed Ballerini first as a writer for their publishing arm.

“It’s a lot of these little

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victories that we get to celebrate together,” she said.

“It’s cool to be able to experience these firsts as a writer, as an artist and then have the same firsts happening for everyone at the label.”

WHO, ME? Ballerini got a big sur-

prise when she got to hear her own name called out when she and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler announced the CMA nominations on live television in September. She is nominated for female vocalist and new artist of the year, which are her first CMA nominations.

“All you can hear me say in the video clip is, ‘That’s not real! That’s not real!’

Like over and over again,” Ballerini said, laughing.

JOINING THE SQUAD Ballerini has had a lot of Taylor Swift moments, since the country-turnedpop star started tweeting about Ballerini’s first EP, released last year. Ballerini then wrote Swift a handwritten letter and included a burnt CD of her full album, which was released in May. The two became friends and this year Swift invited Ballerini onstage as a special guest when the “Bad Blood” singer played in Nashville in September.

“I knew I was going to do that performance like months before, and I told way too many people,” Ballerini confessed. “I could not keep it a secret.”

Judge orders Bill Cosby deposition in Janice Dickinson defamation lawsuit LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby and his former attorney can be deposed by lawyers for Janice Dickinson in the model’s defamation lawsuit against the embattled comedian, a judge ruled Monday.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debre Katz Weintraub ruled Cosby and his former lawyer Martin Singer must give their sworn testimony before Nov. 25.

Dickinson, who is among dozens of women alleging that Cosby molested them, is suing Cosby for defamation over statements last year denying the comedian drugged and raped Dickinson in 1982.

The ruling states Dickinson’s lawyers can only seek answers as to whether the denials were made maliciously, and Cosby and Singer can assert attorneyclient privilege and refuse to answer some questions.

Dickinson never reported the rape to authorities and has said she was

afraid if she did that her career would be damaged and Cosby would retaliate.

She sued Cosby in May, claiming she has been revictimized and her reputation has suffered because of pointed denials by Cosby’s attorney that the comedian drugged and raped her in a Lake Tahoe, California, hotel room more than 30 years ago.

The suit detailed Dickinson’s allegations that Cosby raped her after giving her wine and a pill in the hotel room, and how she wanted to go public with her story in a 2002 autobiography but was prevented from doing so by the book’s publisher.

Dickinson’s ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, supported her account and said he and the book’s editor talked Dickinson out of including the rape allegations.

“She was visibly shaken by the memory, full of anger,” Fenjves said. “I basically said, ‘Listen, we can’t include that in the book.

It’s a he-said, she-said situ-

ation and he’s a very powerful man.’”

Fe n j v e s said he has already given a sworn statement in the case.

Cosby’s lawyers are attempting to throw out the case and Dickinson’s lawyers argued they needed sworn testimony from the comedian and Singer to properly oppose their efforts.

Cosby’s lawyer Christopher Tayback declined comment after the hearing.

Cosby fired Singer, his longtime attorney, last month.

Dickinson’s attorney Lisa Bloom said she was pleased by the ruling.

Neither Cosby, 78, nor Dickinson, 60, attended Monday’s hearing.

The lawsuit is one of several filed against Cosby.

Singer has denied Cosby raped Dickinson. Cosby has never been charged in connection with any of the allegations.

Singer represented Cosby for more than a de-

cade, and he was sued for defamation in 2006 by Andrea Constand, a Temple University worker who accused Cosby of abusing her and reached a settlement before trial. Constand’s lawsuit focused on statements made by Singer denying Cosby drugged and abused her. The lawsuit revealed Singer had been involved in a deal with the National Enquirer that granted the magazine an exclusive interview with the comedian in exchange for killing a story about another woman accusing Cosby of abuse.

Singer also issued numerous denials that Cosby had drugged and raped women, including Dickinson’s claims last year.

The judge cited the denial and said ultimately it may be able to prove that Cosby’s denials, or Dickinson’s claims that she was raped, are true.

“In other words, either the rape did occur or it did urbansplatter.com not occur,” Weintraub said. Dickinson is another woman on the long list of Cosby rape victims.

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Choose what’s best for family. SomeCANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH one brings home a surprise.

Follow your star. Arrange travel plans carefully. A conflict between love TAURUS (April 20-May 20) and money could slow the action.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Taking leadership includes learning to delegate (if you’re not already a master). Invite participation by engaging people with their own interests. Overbuild your foundations.

Follow your intuition, and an unexpected bonus gets revealed. Stash it for later.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Find a way to steal time away, just the two of you. Private time in peace and quiet restores you.

Turn off your phone. Don’t take on new challenges yet. Decrease stress.

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BORN TODAY Expand your communities this year. Whatever you stand for together triumphs. Discipline with financial matters grows your bottom line. Springtime brings loving transitions, new passions, tranquil reflection and retrospection. By next autumn, your group project flowers. Play with the ones you love.

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Mystery, confusion surround Russian plane crash in Egypt ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP)—Mystery and confusion surrounded the final moments of a Russian jetliner that plummeted suddenly from high altitude to the Egyptian desert, killing all 224 people aboard. The airline Monday ruled out pilot error or a technical fault, but Russian aviation officials dismissed those comments as premature.

Some aviation experts raised the possibility that a bomb on board the Metrojet Airbus A321-200 brought it down, while others cited an incident in 2001 when the aircraft grazed the runway with its tail while landing.

James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said that while there is no direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet, it couldn’t be excluded that the plane was brought down

by Islamic State extremists in the Sinai Peninsula.

“It’s unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out,” he told reporters in Washington.

Asked if a terrorist attack could be ruled out, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: “No versions could be excluded.”

The Metrojet was flying at 31,000 feet over the Sinai when it crashed Saturday only 23 minutes after taking off from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for St. Petersburg with mostly Russian passengers.

Metrojet firmly denied that the crash could have been caused by either equipment failure or crew error.

“The only possible explanation could be an external impact on the airplane,” Metrojet’s deputy director Alexander Smirnov told a news conference in Moscow. When pressed for more details, Smirnov said he was not at liberty to discuss them because the investigation was ongoing.

Asked if the plane could have been brought down by a terrorist attack, he said only that “anything was possible.”

But Russia’s top aviation official, Alexander Neradko, dismissed the company’s statement as premature and unfounded.

In televised comments from Egypt, Neradko said it

would be possible to draw conclusions about the crash only after experts examined the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders and studied the wreckage.

He said the large area where debris were scattered indicated the jet had broken up at high altitude, but he refrained from citing a reason for the crash pending the investigation.

Viktor Yung, another deputy director general of Metrojet, said the crew did not send a distress call and did not contact traffic controllers before the crash.

Egyptian officials have offered conflicting accounts on whether or not the plane issued any distress calls.

Experts say planes break up in flight usually due to one of three factors: a catastrophic weather event, a midair collision or an external threat, such as a bomb or a missile.

A local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group has claimed it brought down the aircraft, which crashed in the northern Sinai where the Egyptian military and security forces have battled militants for years.

Both Egyptian and Russian officials have dismissed that claim as not credible.

Still, the U.S., Germany and Britain all had overflight warnings in place for the Sinai. They advised airlines to avoid flying over the peninsula below 26,000 feet and to avoid the Sharm el-Sheik airport due to extremist violence and, notably, the use of anti-aircraft weapons.

British military analyst Paul Beaver said he thought the crash was most likely caused by a bomb on board, because the IS hasn’t been known to possess surfaceto-air missile systems capable of striking passenger planes at cruising altitude.

“That’s a very serious piece of equipment, and I don’t think they have that sophistication,” Beaver said, adding that the Sinai desert is well-scrutinized by intelligence agencies, so a missile system would have been seen.

Robert Galan, a French aviation expert, said Metrojet’s claim of an “external impact” pointed to two possibilities: a bomb or sabotage.

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People look at photos of the plane crash victims attahced to the fence at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015. In a massive outpouring of grief, thousands of people flocked to St. Petersburg’s airport, laying flowers, soft toys and paper planes next to the pictures of the victims of the crash of a passenger jet in Egypt that killed all 224 on board in Russia’s deadliest air crash to date.

“Either a bomb was crashed Saturday was built plane’s skin is checked for year. placed during the stopover more than 18 years ago and cracks using a device that At the crash site in the Siand programmed to ex- changed several operators employs low voltage elec- nai, emergency workers and plode after takeoff, or a me- before entering Metrojet’s tricity or special dye. aviation experts from Russia chanic sabotaged the plane,” fleet in 2012.

“That’s a very complex and Egypt searched the barhe said. “These are the two One area investiga- repair and it requires very ren terrain for more bodies most probable hypotheses.” tors will look at closely is special expertise,” said Cox, and examined the debris.

Sabotage would require whether the tail separated a former airline pilot and acTeams finished combfamiliarity with the elec- from the rest of the plane in- cident investigator. Investi- ing a 20-square kilometer trical or fuel systems of flight as the result of damage gators will “look not only (7.7-square mile) area for the A321-200, but hiding caused by a previous inci- at whether the repair done bodies by afternoon and a bomb would need less dent in which the tail struck properly, but were the in- expanded the search to a knowledge, he added. the runway during a land- spections of the repair done 30-square kilometer (11.6 Galan said an analysis of ing, said aviation safety con- on a regular basis during the square mile) area. Rusthe plane’s data and voice sultant John Cox. Such “tail normal heavy maintenance sian Emergency Situations recorders - the “black boxes” strikes” can cause extensive checks.”

Minister Vladimir Puchkov - will not confirm either a damage to the aircraft’s skin If damage from a tail promised they will not rest bomb or sabotage, as it re- in the region located by be- strike returned, it would until all victims’ remains are cords only the pilots’ com- hind the rear lavatories and be in form of small cracks found. munications and technical galley.

Investigators from France that grow larger with the readings. But he said invesThe incident occurred in normal stresses of re- and Germany, representing tigators could know within Cairo in 2001. Metrojet said peated pressurization and Airbus, and from Ireland, 48 hours whether a bomb the jet underwent factory depressurization. where the plane was regisdowned the jet because the repairs and was safe to fly.

In 2002, China Airlines tered, were to join investiCox said monthly mainte- Flight 611 disintegrated in gators in Egypt. debris would show traces of nance checks typically can’t midair while flying from TaiWhite House press secexplosives.

The plane’s operator has spot a return of damage wan to Hong Kong, killing retary Josh Earnest said the a spotty safety record and from a tail strike because the all 225 people aboard. Ac- U.S. offered support for the was rebranded recently in cracks are inside the plane cident investigators cited investigation, but he added the wake of another deadly in an area that’s not nor- metal fatigue caused by in- that he’s not aware of any reaccident. The airline, reg- mally accessible during vi- adequate maintenance af- sources that have been dedistered as Kogalymavia, sual inspections. ter an earlier tail strike as icated to it so far. changed its trade name to “Rather than speculatInstead, tail strike repairs the probable cause of the Metrojet after one of its Tu- are examined during heavy accident. ing on what may have led to 154 jetliners caught fire in maintenance checks that The Irish Aviation Au- this terribly tragic incident, 2011 while taxiing before typically take place about thority said the Metrojet we’re going to allow the intakeoff, killing three people every four to five years, he plane was registered in Ire- vestigation to move forand injuring more than 40 said. Parts of the plane are land and regulators there ward to try to get the botothers. disassembled so that in- found its safety documen- tom of what happened,” he The Airbus A321-200 that spectors can see inside. The tation in order earlier this said.

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Royals reveling in first title since 1985 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The jersey that Eric Hosmer wore in the decisive game of the World Series is headed to the Hall of Fame. So is the glove Salvador Perez used, the spikes Lorenzo Cain laced up and the bat that third baseman Mike Moustakas took to the plate.

Maybe they ought to ask for the goal posts from the University of Kansas.

Those were torn down inside Memorial Stadium in the wee hours Monday morning, shortly after the Royals beat the New York Mets to win their first championship in three decades.

Thousands of fans shot off fireworks, stormed sporting goods to buy the latest apparel, and spent the night partying as if it was New Year’s Eve in downtown Kansas City.

“Our fan base and our team share a real special bond,” Hosmer said. “That’s grown throughout the whole entire world, I think, as the fans have watched us compete throughout this postseason.”

Indeed, the Royals made plenty of new fans with their scrappy, fight-to-the-lastout style.

President Barack Obama called manager Ned Yost on Monday and said the team was fun to watch and made Royals fans proud, according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest, a Kansas City native.

They won 95 games during the regular season and earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

But they never seemed to be the favorites - not against the plucky Astros, the powerful Blue Jays or against the hard-throwing Mets’ starting rotation.

“I think the resiliency of this team and the way we can come back and the way we just count ourselves in every single game, I think it makes for a fun team to watch,” Hosmer explained.

“It’s definitely a fun team to play for.”

That resiliency was evident throughout their October ride.

In the Division Series, they trailed the Astros by four runs in a game that could have ended their season, then rallied to win the series. They kept fighting back when the Blue Jays kept pounding home runs, eventually winning their second straight AL championship.

It was in the World Series that they really shined, though.

The Royals trailed in all five games against the Mets, winning three times when they were down in the eighth inning or later - something no team had ever accomplished. In the decider, the Royals became the first team since the 1939 Yankees to trail by two runs in the ninth inning or later of a potential clinching game and somehow rally to victory.

All told, Kansas City trailed by at least two runs in seven of its 11 playoff wins.

“The way guys played all season,” Cain said, “the way guys stepped up even though we were down the entire game, it was a huge team effort.”

Now, that team that formed such a bond with its city the past two seasons will get to revel in a championship together. Their victory parade is Tuesday in downtown Kansas City, a route that will take the entire entourage about 2 miles to historic Union Station.

The victory rally at the base of the National World War I Memorial will begin when the parade arrives, and thousands of fans lining the parade route are expected to converge there.

“It’s a dream come true, not just for the players, but the staff, for the front office, for most importantly, the fans of Kansas City,” outfielder Jarrod Dyson said.

“It’s been a long time since Kansas City raised a trophy like that and I’m just happy to be a part of it.”

Long time, indeed.

The Royals were once one of baseball’s model franchises, but the 1990s and 2000s were marked by historic ineptitude: Nine straight losing seasons (twice), three straight 100loss years, token All-Stars chosen for the Midsummer Classic simply because every club needed to be represented.

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West Virginia has a chance to turn its season around

BY DJ DESKINS

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October was a month the West Virginia University football team would like to forget.

After a 3-0 start, the Mountaineers opened Big 12 play with four losses in games against four ranked programs in Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and TCU. All but Oklahoma remain undefeated.

WVU finished its stretch with a 40-10 blowout loss to TCU, capped by a Heisman-like performance by Horned Frog quarterback Trevone Boykin.

“We lost to a really good football team,” said head coach Dana Holgorsen. “I’m tired of saying it, but it’s true.”

Holgorsen’s frustration was evident after Boykin escaped several tacklers in the backfield, scrambled for positive yards and avoided any WVU defenders by stepping out of bounds on the Mountaineer sideline. Holgorsen high-fived Boykin and walked away, shaking his head and laughing in disbelief.

So what can WVU do to salvage its season and find a way to become bowl eligible?

First, it’ll need to patch up its bumps and bruises and stay healthy.

The season came to an abrupt halt when star AllAmerican safety Karl Joseph went down with a season-ending knee injury several days before the Oklahoma State game. Joseph was the heart and soul of the defense and was proving to be a legitimate top-end NFL talent.

Senior defensive back Terrell Chestnut has been battling a shoulder injury this month, and the lingering issue has prevented him from taking as many snaps as he and defensive coordinator Tony Gibson would like.

Running back Wendell Smallwood has also faced some lingering issues stemming from a sprained ankle, prevent-

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ing him from being as effective as he can be. He’s posted several 100-yard games and served as part of a formidable duo with Rushel Shell in the backfield. They combined for 127 yards against TCU but were unable to find the end zone.

Second, the Mountaineers will need to develop better chemistry between quarterback Skyler Howard and his receiving corps.

Jovon Durante and Shelton Gibson proved to be two exciting and promising young wideouts at the start of the season. Since conference play began, they’ve lacked the same production they showed they were capable of in the first three games of the year.

Skyler Howard went from having the top quarterback rating in the country to barely eclipsing a 50 percent completion rating on the year.

A portion of that comes from dropped passes, and West Virginia receivers have missed their fair share of catchable balls.

Desperate for an answer, Holgorsen burned freshman David Sills’ redshirt so he could go out and make a difference.

Sills, recruited as a quarterback, has caught five passes for 106 yards and a touchdown in two games.

Finally, they need to develop some consistency on both sides of the ball.

The Mountaineer offense has looked deadly at points, combining Holgorsen’s famous air raid attack with a newfound love of the run game.

The defense ranked atop the nation in points allowed at one point this season. That can’t be faked, regardless of who a team plays. The loss of Joseph hurt WVU, but it’s not a mortal wound.

If the Mountaineers can string together some good drives and defensive stops, they could very well win out and finish with an 8-4 record.

No. 2 WVU prepares for Big 12 Tournament

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West Virginia soccer players join in a group hug after a goal against Florida Gulf Coast last month.

BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER @dAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s soccer team will play Oklahoma State in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, Missouri this week.

The No. 2 nationallyranked Mountaineers (151-1, 6-0-1) were supposed to conclude their historic regular season with a match at Baylor this weekend, but the match was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions leading to the pitch flooding in Waco, Texas.

The first round matchup will not be an easy one, as it took West Virginia extra time to defeat the Cowgirls (9-8-2, 2-4-2) by a 2-1 score last weekend. The Mountaineers are 5-0 all time against Oklahoma State, with every match being decided by just one goal.

The Mountaineers already have possession of their fourth straight regu-

lar season Big 12 conference title and possess the top seed for the tournament. They have won every regular season title since joining the Big 12 in 2012. They are the first team in Big 12 history to win four consecutive outright season titles and the first to boast three seasons of unbeaten conference play.

Yesterday the Big 12 season accolades were announced, West Virginia, to no one’s surprise, took home the most awards.

Head coach Nikki IzzoBrown is the Big 12 Coach of the Year, Kadeisha Buchanan is the Defensive Player of the Year for the third straight year and Bianca St. Georges is sharing the freshman of the year title with Baylor’s Lauren Piercy.

Buchanan was named to the All-Big 12 First Team along with defender Maggie Bedillion, forwards Michaela Abam and Kailey Utley and midfielder Ashley Lawrence.

The All-Big 12 Second

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Team features St. Georges, goalkeeper Hannah Steadman, midfielder Amanda Hill, and utility Cara Portillo.

St. Georges and forward Nia Gordon were both also named to the All-Big 12 Freshman Team.

The Cowgirls are the lowest seed, holding down the eighth and final spot in the tournament. Baylor, who the Mountaineers would’ve played Friday night in Waco, possess the second seed. The cancellation of Friday’s game could prove interesting, with the two teams hypothetically meeting in the conference championship on Sunday afternoon without having played each other yet this season.

Before that, WVU will have to beat the Cowgirls and then defeat the winner of the game between No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 5 Texas Tech. No. 2 Baylor will have to defeat No. 7 TCU and then play the winner of No. 3 Texas and No. 6 Kansas before even having a shot at West Virginia.

Although Kansas, which the Mountaineers defeated 6-0 in a record-breaking win, sits as an unintimidating No. 6 seed, they are the only team to knock off the Bears this season. West Virginia is 3-0-1 all-time against Baylor.

Assuming West Virginia can make it out of the Big 12 Tournament, it is expected to be a regional host for the NCAA Tournament as the No. 2-ranked team in the country. The Mountaineers are 5-1-1 in three Big 12 Tournaments.

The Mountaineers could very likely break the conference record for shutouts in a season this week.

The team is second in the country with 13 thus far, one short of the program record of 14.

Remarkably, West Virginia is the only team in the country ranked in the top five in shutout percentage (No. 2 with 0.765) as well as scoring offense (No. 4 with 2.71 goals per game).

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Mountaineers host Penn in last nonconference game

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Today’s nonconference matchup won’t affect the West Virginia University men’s soccer team’s postseason hopes, but it could potentially send them in the right direction.

Following four straight losses, the Mountaineers will face off against the University of Pennsylvania tonight before the regular season finale against MidAmerican Conference foe Northern Illinois on Friday.

“We’ll look at making some changes and seeing what we can do,” said WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc.

“I think for us it’s just focusing on getting a result in the last conference game more so than (today). I think (today) is almost secondary to us. We can still get into the conference tournament with a win and a little bit of help with NIU next weekend.”

Although Friday’s contest with Northern Illinois determines whether the Mountaineers qualify for the MAC tournament, a victory over Penn would likely put them right back on track.

WVU’s 6-6 record just three weeks ago has dwindled to 6-10 and a 1-3 slate in the MAC after the team’s roughest stretch of 2015. The Mountaineers have suffered four consecutive defeats after once reeling off impressive victories over Western Michigan and Penn State.

They’ve since mustered just two goals throughout the past four games, both coming in a 3-2 overtime

West Virginia’s Ryan Cain plays the ball last week against Akron. loss to Princeton. Oppo- back games against Saint Jonents have outscored them seph’s and Cornell.

9-2 in that span, with MAC Penn’s recent 2-1 loss opponents handing them to Brown was just the fifth three shutouts. game in which it mustered Today’s matchup in Mor- a goal this season. Six of its gantown provides a golden nine losses have resulted in chance for WVU to claim its shutouts, including a pair first victory since Oct. 13. of ties where it scored one Penn enters at 2-9-2, hav- combined goal. ing failed to get into the win Jerel Blades and Joe Swcolumn since registering its enson’s two goals apiece only two victories in back-to- lead the way, with the team

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scoring just nine times this season and getting outscored 21-9.

Coach LeBlanc likes the Mountaineers’ chances heading into potentially their final week. Many of their losses have come from missed execution on scoring chances, defensive breakdowns for 30 seconds and unlucky bounces and calls in the latter part of contests.

Wednesday’s 2-0 loss to No. 6 Akron was no different, as the Mountaineers surrendered a goal in just the third minute, and goalie Daniel Diaz slipped as he attempted to save the second goal of the evening.

“This has been kind of the story of our season,” LeBlanc said after the Akron game. “We’ve been really good a lot, and tonight

was a good example of it where we played very, very well. Akron’s a very good team, but as the game wore on we started to find more and more of it and take more and more control of it. We just didn’t do a good job of finishing and getting a goal back that we gave up so early.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

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Two West Virginia women’s swimmers wait poolside against Georgia Tech last month.

High school star Bullock chooses West Virginia

BY ROGER TURNER SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s swimming and diving team came up big this weekend on the recruiting trail, landing Zeeland, Michigan native and individual medley specialist Morgan Bullock over the weekend.

Bullock, who is currently in her senior season for Zeeland West High School, announced she will attend WVU next fall to continue swimming at the collegiate level. A local

star coming out of the state of Michigan, Bullock currently holds two Michigan state records in the 100free and 200-free and was an All-American in medley and IM events.

“I picked WVU because as soon as I was with the team I felt like I belonged,” Bullock said. “The campus is beautiful. I can’t wait to be there next year.”

Bullock will reunite with Zeeland West teammate Julia Calcut when she arrives in Morgantown next fall. Calcut is currently a freshman on the WVU women’s diving squad and

has placed in the top four in the 1-meter and 3-meter board events in each meet so far this season.

Bullock possesses great versatility as a freestyle and IM specialist in the water and could fill an important role for the Mountaineers as a freshman.

Bullock’s best finishes in the 200- and 400-IM events would have placed her as the top finisher for WVU at last year’s Big 12 Championships. Bullock’s top time of 51.02 in the 100-free would have placed the talented swimmer in the Afinal in last year’s confer-

ence meet, as well.

As a junior, Bullock finished runner-up at the 2014 MHSAA Girls Division I Championship in the 200-IM and 100-fly. In that year, Bullock also received All-American and All-State honors for her top performances in the 200-IM and 100-fly events.

Bullock has also competed in USA Swimming Junior Nationals and has already made multiple A-finals for this year’s Indianapolis Long Course Sectional meet.

Although fly and freestyle events are her strong

suit, Bullock can also contribute to the WVU women’s relay teams in 2016.

As a junior, Bullock was an All-American selection for the 400-free relay after placing second in the Michigan state championships that same year.

WVU will welcome Bullock with open arms when she lands in Morgantown, as the soon-to-be freshman possesses talent good enough to step into the role filled by seniors who will depart after this year.

The women’s relay teams will miss the presence of seniors Jaimee Gill-

more and Natalie Johnsen, who are both legitimate competitors in 400- and 200-relay events. Gillmore, who was selected as Swimmer of the Week by CollegeSwimming.com earlier in the season, has placed in the top three in every event she has competed in thus far in the season.

The addition of Bullock in the 100-fly and 100- and 200-IM events to replace Gillmore should keep the 2016 edition of the women’s team on par with this year’s squad. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

CROSS COUNTRY

Nothing certain for Mountaineers in weeks leading up to NCAA races

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s cross country team is still alive.

Two weeks after head coach Sean Cleary was frustrated with an underwhelming performance at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, he was jubilant after an unexpectedly strong showing at the Big 12 Tournament.

Two weeks ago in Madison, Wisconsin, the Mountaineers placed 27th out of 36 teams in an event that

Cleary said West Virginia was bringing its “fittest and fastest” runners to.

On Saturday, the Mountaineers finished third out of the 10 teams in the Big 12.

Cleary was s u rprised with the sudden turnaround.

“Boy that was puzzling,” Cleary said in an interview with WVUsports.com.

“With a third-place finish, we’re thrilled. We trained extremely well over the last few weeks.”

Savanna Plombon, Amy Cashin, Brynn Harshbarger, Maggie Drazba,

Millie Paladino, Anna French and Kelly Williams all competed at Wisconsin and at the Big 12 Championship. Ironically, all seven of them had better individual times at the Wisconsin meet than at the Championship. If anything, that speaks to how much more difficult the course in Stillwater, Oklahoma is.

Drazba just missed making the All-Big 12 team. The top 15 runners to complete the 6K race automatically make the team. Drazba was 6.5 seconds and four places away

from qualifying.

West Virginia is focused on team achievements over individual awards.

Before the Big 12 Championship, Harshbarger talked of improving as a unit.

“I know trusting the plan and staying relaxed as we continue to train this season will bring out the best performances,” Harshbarger said. “Regardless of the performance outcome, I believe our team can and will do great things this season as we stay focused on the path before us.”

Now the Mountaineers

need to continue building team unity as an even bigger race approaches: The NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship is on Nov. 13. West Virginia will compete against 38 schools in its final race before the NCAA Championships.

After falling out of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll two weeks ago, the Mountaineers hope their impressive showing at the Big 12 Championship will put them back among the 30 ranked teams.

Even if they are not back in it, Cleary is focused on preparing for the next race.

“I expect us to train extremely well over the next 10 days,” Cleary said.

“Hopefully we can put it all together at the NCAA Regional Championship.

Today may have helped our cause to slip into the championship meet, but time will tell.”

Another stellar showing could get West Virginia in the NCAA Championship, but for now nothing is certain. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Toledo’s Campbell rockets up NCAA coaching ranks TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Before Toledo coach Matt Campbell meets with the media on Monday, he first faces about 175 Toledo fans, most old enough to be his father or grandfather. And they have questions.

At the weekly luncheon held in the lobby of the basketball arena, Campbell gets grilled about the Rockets’ recent 51-35 victory against Massachusetts.

Coach, why so many

penalties?

Coach, why are the kickoffs so short?

Coach, why do we use only one running back at a time?

Those multimillion dollar coaches in the Power Five don’t have to run this gauntlet every week. But Campbell, the 35-year-old fourthyear Toledo coach, doesn’t miss a beat.

Campbell gives detailed answers that seem to sat-

isfy the questioners. And why not? He’s had all the answers this season for the 20th-ranked Rockets (7-0), who play Mid-American Conference rival Northern Illinois at home on Tuesday night.

The Ohio native isn’t climbing the career ladder as much as he is bounding up the stairs to success.

He caught the New England Patriots’ attention as a 23-year-old graduate as-

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sistant. Urban Meyer tried to hire Campbell before he had ever met him.

Instead of rushing toward the big time, Campbell stayed close to his roots and still he is on the verge of becoming one of the most wanted coaches in college football when the hiring season starts in about a month.

Campbell grew up in Massillon, the son of a coach. Rick Campbell chose not to coach his son, though, instead working at rival high school Jackson.

Matt Campbell played at Perry High School for coach Keith Wakefield, an Ohio high school Hall of Famer.

The lessons Campbell took from his father and Wakefield made him a young coach with an old football soul.

“Really learned the value of a very old-school, principled coach. Attitude and effort. The ability to come every day with a purpose.

I still use a lot of that today when I coach our teams,” Campbell said.

Campbell won three conference championships as a player in high school and played on three national championship teams at Division III Mount Union.

In between, Campbell got a taste of what it was like to be part of losing team.

He went to Pittsburgh out of high school and was part of a fractured team in 1998 that went 2-9.

Campbell did not see the attitude and effort he was accustomed to seeing in

high school. If this was Division I football, it was not for him.

“I draw so much today on that nine months at Pitt that I never want a kid in our program to feel or to touch what I really feel like now, as I look back, didn’t look right or feel right,” he said.

On the drive home from Pitt the following July, he stopped off at Mount Union, the Division III powerhouse and his father’s alma mater.

“There’s 60, 70 Division III football players and they’re all working out. I’m thinking, this is amazing,” said Campbell, who transferred to Mount Union and played for two national championship teams.

He immediately jumped into coaching after he was done playing as a graduate assistant with Bowling Green. The former defensive lineman immersed himself in the spread offense that Meyer had left behind after his brief stay at the school.

During a scouting visit to Bowling Green by then New England Patriots director of player personnel Scott Pioli, Campbell was assigned to make sure the VIP had everything he needed. Pioli came away impressed enough to offer Campbell the opportunity to interview for a job with the most successful team in the NFL. Campbell passed. He instead returned to Mount Union with boxes of VHS tapes to help transition the Purple Raiders to a spread offense.

“Matt really jumped in and did the pre-planning. And he would come to each staff meeting with an agenda and ideas,” said former Mount Union coach Larry Kehres, who is now the school’s athletic director. “He showed me that he wanted to be the offensive coordinator and perhaps the playcaller, but I didn’t just say, ‘Do that.’ He showed that he wanted to and then he showed that he could.”

Campbell was part of two more Mount Union championships as a coach. Then it was back to Bowling Green and eventually to Toledo, where coach Tim Beckman made him a 30-year-old offensive coordinator in 2010.

“As an assistant coach, you could tell this is going to be a guy who’s going to move,” Toledo athletic director Mike O’Brien said.

The big move came after the 2011 regular season.

Beckman was hired by Illinois and O’Brien turned to Campbell to be at first the interim head coach as Toledo prepared for a bowl game, and then the permanent replacement.

“Went to the first practice not to check up on Matt, just to check the temperature in the room,” O’Brien said. “We had not missed a beat.” Toledo beat Air Force in the Military Bowl and at 32 years old Campbell was the youngest head in major college football.

“He was born, in my view, to be a head football coach,” O’Brien said.