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City talks new TIF, HUD money by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

City officials agree there is a growing need for affordable housing for retired people in Morgantown, and the Fairmont-Morgantown Housing Development authority has a plan to develop a $50-60 million community to fill this need.

The Authority asked city council at its Tuesday night committee meeting of the whole to designate a 20acre parcel of vacant land off Liberty Street and along Braddock Street a Tax Incremental Financing district to raise the money to build the community.

“From my personal experience with older parents that lived in a retirement community that have moved on to assisted living, I just think this is a win-win for everybody,” said Mayor Marti Shamberger. “It just improves everybody’s quality of life.”

TIF districts are widely used across the United States to redevelop urban

areas and municipal buildings. Typically, municipalities commit future property taxes the area will produce toward building a project or redeveloping some part of the district.

“TIF financing has become a very commonly used tool now…” said Councilman Wes Nugent. “Some

new TIF district, the benefits of its creation far outweigh any side effects.

Along with affordable housing for retired people, the Housing Authority wants to build a family scholar house complex— an apartment complex with 40-48 units which provide support services to moth-

“I just think it’s a win-win for everybody. It just improves everybody’s quality of life” —Marti Shamberger

Morgantown Mayor

people have asked, ‘Well, why don’t we make the entire city a TIF district?’”

Morgantown already has four TIF districts: the first in the Falling Run Road area (created in 2003), the second along the Monongahela River Front (also created in 2003), the third in the Sunnyside neighborhood (created in 2008) and the most recent is the Willey-Spruce-Brockway district (created at the end of 2014).

For proponents of the

ers who want to go back to school or pursue some kind of higher education.

The complex could offer day care, transportation and tutoring assistances. Housing Authority representatives said women enrolled in houses like these have about 90 percent graduation rate.

Since council can’t take any action during a committee of the whole meeting, it will discuss the project at a future regular meeting after City Manager

Jeff Mikorski irons out some of the its finer details.

“I don’t know whether you’ve heard this number before or not, but within five years, 50 percent of WVU’s employment base is eligible for retirement,” said John Martys, executive director of the local housing authority. “So they are looking at this as a possible way to keep folks in town and keeping Morgantown an active community for retirees.”

JAKE JARVIS/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Councilwoman Jenny Se- City Manager Jeff Mikorski talks to council about ironing out the details of a fulin said that members of the ture TIF district. local school board want to know if the TIF district will provide funds to support schools since the complex, in theory, will bring more children into the school system.

Also Tuesday, David Bott, head of the city’s Community Development Office, presented a plan for how to divide up more than $420,00 in federal Housing Authority grant money and other revenue to local organizations.

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City councilors listen to a plan for grant money.

AN UNEXPECTED THIRD PARTY With primary deadlines approaching, independent voters dominate in W.Va.

Law professor tells story of groundbreaking conservationist by rACHEL MCBRIDE STAFF WRITER @RACHELGMCB

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he deadline to register to vote for the May primaries in West Virginia is less than a month away, and after a legislative session that heard bills featuring some of the most contentious issues in the country, soon political parties will be amping their efforts to target undecided and independent voters.

In West Virginia specifically, independent voters can hold the power to make or break elections, as their numbers grow rampantly despite the state’s current inclination for right-wing politicians and politics.

The politics in the Mountain State transformed significantly in the 2000s, when George W. Bush turned the consistently blue state red for the general election. Then in 2014, Shelley Moore Capito broke a 58-year streak of

no Republican senators in the state when she was elected as the first Republican senator since 1959.

West Virginia is one of just eight states that hold a semiclosed primary. While state code supports closed primary voting, meaning only registered party members can vote in the primary election, eight years ago the state’s Democratic party opened its primaries to non-affiliated voters, something the state’s Republican party had done for years prior.

Despite the surge in Republican power in the state— the party currently controls both the House of Representatives and the Senate—there has not been an increase in the right-side’s voter numbers to reflect such a change.

Since February 2006, the Democratic party lost about 65,000 voters in the Mountain State, decreasing by 10 percent, and Republicans gained about 24,000, increas-

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When thinking of wellknown primate conservationists, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey come to mind.

But a book by a West Virginia University law professor chronicles the life and work of Rita Miljo, who is also known as “the Mother Teresa of Baboons.”

In 1989, Miljo founded the Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education in Phalaborwa, South Africa. Based on the edge of Kruger National Park, CARE is the largest rescue and rehabilitation center for Cape baboons.

The wildlife rehabilitation sanctuary “is dedicated to the care, welfare, rehabilitation and protection of injured and orphaned indigenous wild animals,” according to the CARE website. The center has rescued and rehabilitated chacma baboons for 26 years.

Michael Blumenthal, who has been a professor of law at WVU since 2009, said no researcher has ever taken such an interest in baboons until Miljo began her life-long efforts in 1972.

Blumenthal was looking to start a new chapter in his life, and after coming across a television special aired on Animal Planet in 2007, which focused on Miljo and her work, inspiration is exactly what he found.

“I’ve always been fascinated with primates and watched a lot nature shows,” Blumenthal said.

“But I was so fascinated with her work that I had to find out if I could go over there for a few months.”

After getting in contact with officials, Blumenthal packed his bags and soon found himself in an incredibly different culture. Although Blumenthal found his new environment intriguing, he said adapting to South Africa’s way of life took some getting used to.

“It’s not exactly the place a boy who’s originally from New York City usually ends up,” Blumenthal said.

During his time at CARE, Blumenthal became close friends with Miljo. He was able to volunteer at her organization through tasks like making sure the baboons’ pens were clean, assisting in the feeding of the primates and helping nurture infant baboons whose mothers had been killed by hunters or wildlife.

Miljo and Blumenthal’s friendship strengthened during his time at the facility. Blumenthal said he interviewed Miljo regarding her devotion to her work nearly every day during his stay in South Africa.

Because of their close bond, Miljo eventually entrusted Blumenthal with the telling of her personal story and writings before her tragic death several years ago.

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WVU students design bow ties representing sustainability by tessa iglesias staff writer @dailyathenaeum

A bow tie is symbolic for West Virginia University students, thanks to University President E. Gordon Gee and his affinity for the men’s accessory. Bow tie cookies were passed out on his birthday, and students now have the opportunity to design their own wooden bow tie in a Ties to Sustainability Contest.

The competition is hosted by the Davis College’s Wood Sciences and

Technology program and is sponsored by the WVU Forestry Products Society.

Students will be able to use their creativity to decorate and design a wooden bow tie with a chance to win a $50 debit gift card and get their photo taken with President Gee on April 15 at WVUp All Night.

David DeVallance, the program coordinator for the wood sciences and technology program, said students design the bow ties themselves using a CNC Router, which is a computer-controlled cut-

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“I’m helping the students (from the Forest Products Society), guiding them and planning their promotional program that they’re putting together,” DeVallance said.

The species of wood used for the bow ties is red maple, and the wood comes from the Westvaco Natural Resources Center WVU Research Forest, which is part of the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources.

The research forest is used for research activities,

recreational activities and student education and encompasses an area of 7,600 acres. The forest cover consists of 60- to 80-year-old stands of mixed oak and mesophytic hardwood types.

This contest is meant to educate students about renewable materials and bio-energy.

“Sustainable bio materials-wood is a part of that because if we talk about sustainable it means we have the forest which can sustain by itself,” said Jingxin Wang, a professor

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and program coordinator for the Wood Science and Technology program.

“So you harvest trees and you grow trees, but the key thing is you have to manage (trees) in a sustainable way. If you don’t carve all of them but you carve a portion depending on the purpose or the plan then the tree can regrow. This is what we call sustainability and so that wood is part of that management process.”

Students can register for this contest until April 6 and pick up a free wooden bow tie until Friday.

Ties to Sustainability will feature two competitions: A social media contest as well as a live vote contest.

In the social media contest, participants must take a photo of their decorated bow tie as well as the hashtag #MyWVUBowtie and post it to any, or all, of three social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram or Twitter—with a caption as to why their design should win. Contestants may submit three en-

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In this Feb. 17, 2016 file photo, an iPhone is seen in Washington. The FBI’s announcement that it mysteriously hacked into an iPhone is a setback for Apple and increases pressure on the technology company to restore the security of its flagship product.

Apple remains in dark on how FBI hacked iPhone without help WASHINGTON (AP)—The FBI’s announcement that it mysteriously hacked into an iPhone is a public setback for Apple Inc., as consumers suddenly discover they can’t keep their most personal information safe.

Meanwhile, Apple remains in the dark about how to restore the security of its flagship product.

The government said it was able to break into an iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, but it didn’t say how. That puzzled Apple software engineers - and outside experts - about how the FBI broke the digital locks on the phone without Apple’s help. It also complicated Apple’s job repairing flaws that jeopardize its software.

The Justice Department’s announcement that it was dropping a legal fight to compel Apple to help it access the phone also took away any obvious legal avenues Apple might have used to learn how the FBI did it.

Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym vacated her Feb. 16 order, which compelled Apple to help the FBI hack

their phone, on Tuesday.

The Justice Department declined through a spokeswoman to comment Tuesday.

A few clues have emerged. A senior law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI managed to defeat an Apple security feature that threatened to delete the phone’s contents if the FBI failed to enter the correct passcode combination after 10 tries. That allowed the government to repeatedly and continuously test passcodes in what’s known as a brute-force attack until the right code is entered and the phone is unlocked.

It wasn’t clear how the FBI dealt with a related Apple security feature that introduces increasing time delays between guesses.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss the technique publicly.

FBI Director James Comey has said with those features removed, the FBI could break into the phone in 26 minutes.

The FBI hacked into the iPhone used by gunman

Syed Farook, who died with his wife in a gun battle with police after they killed 14 people in December in San Bernardino.

The iPhone, issued to Farook by his employer, the county health department, was found in a vehicle the day after the shooting.

The FBI is reviewing information from the iPhone, and it is unclear whether anything useful can be found.

Apple said in a statement Monday that the legal case to force its cooperation “should never have been brought,” and it promised to increase the security of its products.

CEO Tim Cook has said the Cupertino-based company is constantly trying to improve security for its users.

The FBI’s announcement - even without revealing precise details - that it had hacked the iPhone was at odds with the government’s firm recommendations for nearly two decades that security researchers always work cooperatively and confidentially with software manufacturers before revealing that a prod-

uct might be susceptible to hackers.

The aim is to ensure that American consumers stay as safe online as possible and prevent premature disclosures that might damage a U.S. company or the economy.

As far back as 2002, the Homeland Security Department ran a working group that included leading industry technology industry executives to advise the president on how to keep confidential discoveries by independent researchers that a company’s software could be hacked until it was already fixed. Even now, the Commerce Department has been trying to finetune those rules. The next meeting of a conference on the subject is April 8 in Chicago and it’s unclear how the FBI’s behavior in the current case might influence the government’s fragile relationship with technology companies or researchers.

The industry’s rules are not legally binding, but the government’s top intelligence agency said in 2014 that such vulnerabil-

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ratings run congruent to partisanship in states; if a state is predominately Republican, the approval of a Democratic president will be lower, and vice versa.

West Virginia, however, fits in as a political anomaly in this perspective. The Mountain State sits directly in the center of left leaning or right leaning attitudes. Other states with the lowest approval ratings for Obama, like Wyoming and Utah, hold the lowest left-leaning attitudes

as well.

Currently for the presidential race in the state, Donald Trump (R) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt) are leading the polls for the Republican and Democratic parties respectively, according to polling data from Orion Strategies. Ted Cruz is trailing Trumps 38 points with 11 percent support in the state.

Hillary Clinton, who West Virginia Democrats hailed in the 2008 primary against Obama, is trailing eight points behind

Sanders.

Citizens must register to vote for the primaries by April 19, and for the general election by Oct. 18. While voting in the primary isn’t required for voting in November’s general election, some argue the former is more consequential than the latter.

To register to vote, West Virginia citizens can contact the Secretary of State’s office online at http://sos.wv.gov

Continued from page 1 ing by only 7 percent. Disparately, there were 120,000 more independent, or 95 percent more, in the same time period, according to the West Virginia Secretary of State.

Nationally, West Virginia has the lowest approval rating for President Barack Obama, according to data from Gallup polls. Usually approval

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Miljo lost her life in a fire in her home on a 50-acre preserve in South Africa in 2012. She was 81.

“She was an incredible person who lived an incredible life,” Blumenthal said.

Blumenthal’s time spent with Miljo and the baboons in South Africa not

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Continued from page 1 Each year, organizations request funding from the office by proposing projects that, among other things, combat poverty, homelessness and improve infrastructure.

The proposed budget will be approved at a future meeting.

Most organizations were awarded close to their requested amounts. The Bartlett House, Morgantown’s homeless shelter, could receive only 32 percent of what it requested.

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ities should be reported to companies.

“When federal agencies discover a new vulnerability in commercial and open source software - a so-called ‘zero day’ vulnerability because the developers of the vulnerable software have had zero days to fix it - it is in the national interest to responsibly disclose the vulnerability rather than to hold it for an investigative or intelligence purpose,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement in April 2014.

The statement recommended generally divulging such flaws to manufacturers “unless there is a clear national security or law enforcement need.”

Last week a team from Johns Hopkins University said they had found a security bug in Apple’s iMessage service that would allow hackers under certain circumstances to decrypt some text messages. The team reported its findings to Apple in November and published an academic paper after Apple fixed

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“That’s the way the research community handles the situation. And that’s appropriate,” said Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She said it was acceptable for the government to find a way to unlock the phone but said it should reveal its method to Apple.

Mobile phones are frequently used to improve cybersecurity, for example, as a place to send a backup code to access a website or authenticate a user.

The chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, said keeping details secret about a flaw affecting millions of iPhone users “is exactly opposite the disclosure practices of the security research community. The FBI and Apple have a common goal here: to keep people safe and secure. This is the FBI prioritizing an investigation over the interests of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.” as originality and creativity of the bow tie.

Contestants may also have their bow tie design displayed in the Mountainlair on April 15 where it will be judged by WVUp All Night attendees in a silent live­vote. Contestants must be present to win.

For more information, visit http://woodscience. wvu.edu/mywvubowtie. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

only inspired the creation of his new book, but also two previously published articles for The National History Magazine and The Washington Post, which have gained national recognition and attention over the years.

Blumenthal’s book, “Because They Needed Me: Rita Miljo and the Orphaned Baboons of South Africa,” is drawn from Miljo’s journals which span over approximately 30 years of her

life. The book is divided into three parts: Narratives from Miljo’s perspective, Blumenthal’s standpoint and the combination of their experiences and viewpoints during their time at CARE. Blumenthal will read from and discuss “Because They Needed Me” at 6 p.m. today in the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom at the WVU College of Law. The event is free and open to the public.

quested $23,500 but wasn’t awarded any money in this proposal. The organization spent all of the money it received through the office last year, but “has yet to do much with it yet,” Bott said.

The group planned to use last year’s money to place homeless people in housing, but it couldn’t find enough mentors to participate in the project.

“The biggest concern I have is the project has a lot of liability,” Bott said.

“I don’t think they though through all the issues, issues they probably should have thought through before they asked through the money so they had a contingency plan.”

Bott also said the overall decrease is due in part to how much money the office received this year from Office of Housing and Urban Development.

In 2014, when Morgantown was first awarded money through the Community Development Block Grant, it received about $650,000. Bott said the city received less and less each year because after Hurricane Katrina hit the next year, HUD focused more money on revitalizing the southern coast.

City Council will meet again at 7 p.m. on April 5 in City Hall.

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The dangers of helicopter parenting The role of a parent is often up for debate in modern times. Some argue parents should take a passive role in their children’s day-to-day activities while others insist that being involved in every facet of their children’s lives until adulthood is the only way to parent effectively.

However, in today’s world, it’s become apparent that “helicopter parents” are hindering their children from reaching their fullest potential.

On Sunday, what was intended to be a calm Easter egg hunt for children sponsored by PEZ Candy turned into the stuff of nightmares.

Before children could grab any eggs, parents rushed onto the field and were reported to have pushed children aside in their haste to collect the most eggs for their own sons and daughters. As a result, one toddler ended up bloody, and a 2-year-old was pushed

face-first into the mud.

This isn’t the first time parents have acted out of line on behalf of their children. Parents have been known to show up alone for college campus visits intended for future graduate students and have even continued to do their child’s laundry for them throughout their time as an undergraduate. Dictating a child’s diet, playtime, study time, extracurriculars and even friendships aren’t unheard of in helicopter parenting.

However, this parental overinvolvement only hurts children. In an article from Global Post, helicopter parents were noted to influence a fear of failure, lack of confidence and unhealthy codependency in children. If children aren’t given the chance to make mistakes and learn from them as they grow older, they can easily find themselves lost and confused

once the responsibilities of adulthood truly hit.

This logic appears to hold true in college students. In one study, the number of college students seeking help for anxiety and depression was noted by 95 percent of the school counselors and psychologists across universities to be a “growing concern on campus.”

Julie Lythcott-Haims, the author of “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success,” claims that because this problem is not confined to any particular tier of schools, this plethora of anxious and depressed young adults must be rooted in some other factor - most likely their upbringing.

Parents who attempt to make all of their children’s decisions for them only make it more difficult for

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An Easter egg hunt sponsored by PEZ Candy was ruined when parents stormed the field on behalf of their children. their child to mature and know how to handle themselves as a productive adult in society. In the case of this year’s Easter egg hunt, what was supposed to be an enjoyable and relaxed event

for all turned sour when parents took complete control and didn’t allow their children the chance to participate and make mistakes.

It’s normal for parents to want to give their children

all that they can, but a line must be drawn when overprotective behavior starts to affect a child’s future success. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Mistreatment of tenants reflects poorly on Trump emily torbett columnist @emilytorbsda

The year was 1981, and it seemed that 35-year-old Donald Trump was on top of the world. The New York City real estate tycoon had already negotiated multimillion dollar deals, revitalized blighted landmarks and flipped massive apartment buildings all while amassing a fortune and a reputation for himself along the way. He was a business behemoth and an idol of capitalism, and it seemed that nothing could stand in his way—until one deal almost did.

An article from the New York Times states Trump decided to purchase an older, rent-stabilized Manhattan apartment building that stood at 100 Central Park South during that year.

With its prime location and picturesque views of Central Park, the property made the perfect spot upon which to build a slew of luxury condominiums to cater to New York’s wealthy elite.

Within a few weeks of buying the building, Trump applied for a permit to blow it up. He fired the apartments’ management and put it under control of Citadel Management. Trump himself owned a 60 percent stake in the company, and as he later noted in his bestselling memoir and business advice

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100 Central Park South was slated for destruction by Donald Trump in the 1980s. book, “The Art of The Deal,” it specialized in relocating tenants.

Relocating the tenants, who benefited greatly from the rent stabilization laws in place to keep their cost of living from skyrocketing during New York City’s real estate boom, was the only thing Trump needed to take care of before leveling the place to make room for bigger, better and more expensive housing. The building’s occupants were mostly made up of middle class retirees and working professionals, and

the majority of them had resided there for decades. Few had the desire to abandon their homes and begin anew.

If Trump wanted them gone, he would have to remove them by force. Little did they know, that was exactly what he had in mind.

On New Year’s Eve, 1981, the tenants at 100 Central Park South began receiving notices from Citadel Management. While the old building manager had allowed tenants to knock down walls and renovate apartments to their liking,

this policy was now revoked.

Tenants had twelve days to put their apartments back to original condition or would face eviction.

It was around this same time, in the middle of a bitter New York winter, that all building repairs stopped. According to court documents from a lawsuit filed on behalf of the tenants, broken heating systems were left untouched, which left residents without heat or hot water. Shortly after, regular cleaning of the building’s common areas also

stopped. Garbage piled in elevators and hallways and rats began to swarm. Water leaks became so bad that one man reported mushrooms sprouting up from his bedroom carpet. An elderly cancer patient’s apartment filled with dust and dirt from shoddy workmanship in the apartment directly above hers.

Some tenants fled 100 Central Park South, which freed up apartments that were previously occupied.

Trump’s next move was to advertise the building in New

York newspapers as a shelter for the homeless, compromising tenant security by allowing anyone from the street to squat in the building’s abandoned units. According to court documents, Citadel Management then instructed the superintendent to spy on tenants and keep track of their personal habits as much as possible.

Still, tenants stood their ground and the battle played out in court. By 1986, Trump had spent approximately $1 million fighting the tenants, and only $160,000 on building maintenance.

In the end, Trump settled with the tenant association for over $500,000 dollars. The building remains in place today. Some tenants purchased their apartments outright, but Trump maintains ownership of 18 units.

Some might think Trump’s slumlord past has little to do with the kind of president he would make today. However, it is revealing of his character as a man who sees dollars and cents over lives and people.

The president of the United States is tasked with the upkeep of far more than an economic spreadsheet.

While Trump’s callous attitude has made him a marketplace success and has drawn fans from all walks of life, it is unsuited to the very humanistic job of upholding the best interest of the people. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Taking offense: The price of free speech in modern America trent cunningham guest columnist @Dailyathenaeum

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

The above quote is attributed to George Orwell, the widely successful, though perhaps equally controversial, mid-20th century novelist whose literary works revolved around the idea that modern social and political trends would ultimately result in a “thought dictatorship.”

His most prominent works, such as “1984,” specifically highlight the manner in which a relatively free society can gradually morph into one bereft of individual expression, enforced by institutional propaganda and coercion.

The manner in which Orwell’s haunting vision can be applied to the present is reflected in many of the current social and political trends.

Over the past several years, as race and cultural relations have encountered turbulence in many aspects

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Public protests are guaranteed protection by the First Amendment. of American life, questions revolving around freedom of expression and the press have presented themselves.

A notable reflection of this transpired during the race-based controversy at the University of Missouri last year.

Amid the black student protests on campus, a school journalist was de-

nied access to the protestors by a university professor, who claimed direct documentation of the protests would risk placing the protestors in a negative light and potentially jeopardize their cause.

Whether the professor’s concerns were valid is irrelevant in the sense that she interfered with the young

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journalist’s right to observe and report on a public protest. Though she was rightly disciplined for her unconstitutional behavior, her actions were merely a microcosm of a much broader phenomenon: A growing belief that one can deprive another of their most basic of rights just because he or she doesn’t like what one

might say.

The belief seems to be extremely prominent among those who protest the political rallies of Donald Trump.

There is nothing wrong with protesting a politician with which one strongly disagrees; however, one does not have the right to protest in a manner that directly interferes with and undermines the First Amendment rights of Trump and his supporters to assemble and express themselves.

That mentality was recently illustrated in Chicago where protesting of an imminent Trump rally took on a deliberately hostile tone, generating a dangerous environment that prompted Trump to cancel his event.

Based on perspective, there are really two ways to interpret the events in Chicago.

From the perspective of Trump’s opponents, the forced cancellation of his rally is trumpeted as the will of the people of Chicago. From the perspective of Trump’s supporters, the cancellation was an attack on their First Amendment rights.

Though not a Trump advocate, I tend to side with

his supporters’ interpretation of the Chicago situation, as it seemed to hold a semblance of coercion through mob rule. Silencing someone through threats of violence and unrest just doesn’t seem to jive with the spirit of the Constitution.

Perhaps most troubling is that the spirit of the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, seems to be lost on a growing portion of college-aged adults— the policy makers of the future—given the rather cavalier approach they take toward it.

A recent study by Young America’s Foundation showed that though 93 percent of college students view free speech as very important, the percentage drops sharply when asked whether speech they view as insensitive or offensive should be protected.

Orwell’s warnings continue to reverberate.

Ultimately, one does not have the right to not be offended. Once that right is granted, free speech is officially dead. The risk of being offended is the price of the First Amendment. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Miles Davis’ musical struggle told in new biographical film, ‘Miles Ahead’ stars Don Cheadle by meg weissend A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

The successful, yet tragic life of notorious jazz legend and self-proclaimed music game-changer Miles Davis is now compiled into a movie.

Packed with shootouts and high-speed chases, “Miles Ahead” is a biographical film starring and directed by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle that will premiere April 1.

Wi d e l y c o n s i d e re d one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century, Davis was, together with

his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, third stream, modal jazz, post-bop and jazz fusion. It was not uncommon for Davis to blow his own horn; many believed he had a great amount of cockiness and arrogance.

Growing up in a black family in the 1930s and in the heart of East St. Louis, the scene of some of this country’s most violent “race riots,” was not easy for Davis. During his early musical career, Davis was introduced to the cold world of drugs. His cocaine and heroin addic-

tions added to his wild and careless life.

Davis died on Sept. 28, 1991 at the age of 65. His presence in the history of American jazz, however, did not.

When Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, his nephew stated that Cheadle was the only person who could play Miles and that a film was coming soon. At the time, there were no actual plans for the movie, and the comments came to Cheadle as a surprise.

Channelling Davis’ unorthodox journey to fame was not an easy task for

Cheadle. To really capture the musician’s unique character, Cheadle had to learn how to play the trumpet, but he knew what he was getting himself into.

“I thought, ‘If I was going to do something with this person, who’s probably one of the most creative human beings ever to walk on the planet, it would have to feel impressionistic, improvisational, wild, over-the-top. It would have to feel how I feel when I think about Miles Davis,’” Cheadle said in an interview with Billboard.

Instead of a linear retelling of the late trumpeter’s life and career, the

film centers on Davis’ unlikely late-’70s hiatus, between his groundbreaking rock-fusion work in the early ’70s and his ’80s pop comeback.

“Miles Ahead” also stars actors Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emayatzy Corinealdi and many more.

The film is as far from a conventional Hollywood biopic as you can get, which may explain why it took Cheadle nearly a decade to get his directorial debut off the page and into theaters.

Those who have seen a sneak peek of the anticipated film were impressed

with the opening scene.

“Miles Ahead” begins with a cold open of sorts, in which Davis flees a slew of gunfire in the streets of New York City. Just as the escape seems certain, Davis drops a tape recording, which the audience later learns contains a lost studio session Columbia Records is desperate to get its hands on. Before anyone can find out the fate of Davis and the tape, the scene cuts to the middle of an interview.

“Miles Ahead” will premiere this Friday in theaters. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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If you could only listen to one genre of music for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Music is almost universally loved. Since mankind discovered how to put various sounds together with rhythm, it has become an ubiquitous aspect of life. Music is everywhere: At parties and in your room after a breakup, playing softly in a spa and ramping up your heart rate as a movie killer enters the scene.

Yesterday, 89 students in the Mountainlair were asked, “If you could only listen to one genre of music for the rest of your life, what would it be?”

Since music genres and sub-genres are practically infinite (yes, reggae death-metal is a thing), replies were categorized by the broadest genre.

Rock was the most popular response with 43 percent of the replies. However, it is important to note that rock is a relatively older style of popular music and encompasses many sub-genres. Responses in the rock category included 2000s pop-punk, classic rock, various forms of metal, indie and alternative.

Rap/hip-hop was the second most popular reply with 20 percent of the responses. This category was rather straightforward as the rap genre has had less time to splinter and diversify when compared to rock music.

Electronic dance music, or EDM, was the least popular genre with only six percent of the responses. Although the genre is quite popular, many students said they liked it but would prefer something more timeless like rock or country if they could only listen to one thing forever.

The “other” category contains genres that did not get enough responses on their own to warrant a piece of the pie. Jazz, ska, big band, classical music and reggae made up this category.

If you could only choose one, what genre of music would you pick? Tweet us your response @dailyathenaeum.

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One-day-only art exhibit, ‘A Salon’ coming to 123 Pleasant St. Friday

By Rayla Claypool A&E Correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The Bench, stylized as “The Bench: an artist’s collective,” is putting on an art exhibition called “A Salon” this Friday at 123 Pleasant Street.

The Bench was founded in Sept. 2015 by Avery Williamson, Caleb Milne and Patrick Bayly to bring together artists from all genres. They hold weekly critique meetings from 7-10 p.m. on Mondays in the basement of Gene’s Bar in South Park. All meetings are open to the public and accept any and all forms of art. Whether it’s a short story, an oil painting, a musical arrangement or a metal sculpture, The Bench will take it.

“The goal of the collective is to form a foundation and community where artists across all genres can network and create greater art together,” said Amanda Doss, WVU stra-

tegic communications student and public relations director for The Bench.

“We want to support the arts in the community and create a place where artists can meet one another and create their own community.”

Doss is a painter and said The Bench helps her expand her own artistic ventures.

“I love that I can meet other people who see the world in the beautiful ways I do,” Doss said. “And they see it differently, too, which allows me to see it in other beautiful ways.”

“A Salon” will feature pieces from both members of The Bench and non-members who saw the open invitation to submit pieces. There is no limit for the number of pieces that can be submitted and fairly loose submission guidelines. Submissions of every type are accepted and considered, and according to Doss, the final selection process is

never about a certain type of art, only what pieces will make the smoothest show.

“We don’t really have a certain type of work that we look for to put in shows, that’s a pretty prejudice way of going about it considering art is subjective,” Doss said.

Part of what the organization aims to accomplish with Salons is bringing art into places that do not usually have it. Past salons have been hosted

by The Grind, a house in South Park, Octane in Evansdale Crossing and now 123 Pleasant Street.

Each time, the place is converted into a one-dayonly art exhibition.

Salons also bring the artists closer to the viewers. In traditional art galleries, viewers can see the piece and interpret it based on their own perception of it. At events by The Bench, the artists are present and available to discuss their pieces. It al-

The Facebook banner for ‘A Salon’ art exhibit. lows the artists to further engage the viewer and vice versa.

“It will change how you view art,” Doss said about the Salon. “It will raise questions in your

mind about how art is produced and why it’s important.”

The Salon starts at 6 p.m. this Friday at 123 Pleasant Street. For more details about The Bench

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‘American Idol’ promises spectacular series finale LOS ANGELES (AP) — “American Idol,” which gave the world Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Jennifer Hudson, has one more chance to mint a star before it fades into TV and music history.

Whether viewers choose a future chart-topper or trivia question remains to be seen. But executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, who helped translate Britain’s “Pop Idol” into the Fox version that debuted in 2002, said the farewell episode will be memorable.

“It’s going to be a rather spectacular show,” Lythgoe promised, with all the former winners on hand along with past contestants and “other surprises” in the two-hour finale.

“It’s about the American idols, about reminding people of 15 seasons,” he said, as well as giving the final winner his or her share of the spotlight.

The contenders for the title are finalists MacKenzie Bourg, 23, of Lafayette, Louisiana; Trent Harmon, 24, of Amory, Mississippi; La’Porsha Renae, 22, of McComb, Mississippi; and Dalton Rapattoni, 19, of Dallas.

The field will have been trimmed to three for the final competition episode,

8-9 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 6, with the winner announced the next night, 8-10:06 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 7. Lythgoe, who exited the series in 2013, returned to produce the concluding night’s broadcast.

Clarkson, the inaugural “Idol,” is set to perform, as are Underwood and the other winners including Ruben Studdard, Fantasia, Jordin Sparks and Scotty McCreery. Among the many contestants taking part: Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry, Katharine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Elliott Yamin and LaToya London.

Past “Idol” finales became known for flaunting superstars, perhaps none more important than Prince. His performance in the 2006 season-ender signaled that the show had transcended its image as overblown karaoke and become a respectable showcase for established artists.

But Lythgoe downplays the importance of celebrities as part of the finale - or the contest itself.

“It isn’t about big stars coming on and singing their record. ‘American Idol’ was never about that.

It was about the young stars we created,” he said.

Lythgoe can’t avoid a bit of impish humor involving a certain pair of divas, former judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj, who famously clashed during their shared 2013 tenure.

“I’ve invited them back to the finale to sing ‘That’s What Friends Are For,’” he said.

Current judges Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban will help usher the show out.

Before the finale, Fox is stoking nostalgia with “American Idol: American Dream,” a 90-minute special airing at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 5. Host Ryan Seacrest, original judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson and former contestants will be among those reminiscing and sharing insider tidbits.

Season seven contestant David Hernandez already is feeling a sense of loss.

“I only really associate great memories with being on that show,” he said.

While some others are reluctant to credit their careers to “Idol,” he gladly admits it - and so, he points out, does one of the show’s biggest graduates.

“Even to this day, when Carrie Underwood accepts her Grammys and other awards, she says, ‘Thank

Hit TV show ‘American Idol’ comes to an end after 15 seasons. you, ‘American Idol,’ this wouldn’t be possible,’” Hernandez said. “I’m so thankful just to have fans in the Philippines or in Europe who say, ‘I remember you on that show. I bought your album.’”

“Idol” was as much a boost for Fox as any of its young singers, ruling the TV ratings as the No. 1 series for an astounding nine consecutive years.

Lythgoe said he was confident that British megaproducer Simon Fuller’s “Pop Idol” format, with its unusual behind-thescenes view of contestant auditions, would export well. And he told Fox executives just that.

“You realize this program is going to take you across the board, from grandchildren to grandparents,” Lythgoe recalled saying. “This was a family show at a time when family members were each disappearing into their own rooms to watch television.”

Although he firmly believed in it, he said, “Simon Cowell packed his suitcase for two weeks.”

While Cowell’s barbed criticism of contestants helped drive the show’s popularity, it also made for a rocky start with Abdul, who favored a more nurturing approach with the show’s young talent.

“Paula couldn’t under-

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stand how this English guy next to her could be so rude and ruthless,” he said. “So she was in tears a great deal of the time and terribly upset. Then to see them come together. ... Simon, Paula and Randy are the three judges that everybody will remember.”

Season six winner Sparks calls the show worthy of a grand send-off.

“It fulfilled so many dreams and encouraged so many people, even if they aren’t singers. There are people who watch the show and are touched by it. I’m sad that it’s going to be gone because of that, because of the lives that it touched.”

‘Dazed and Confused’ sequel shows college Remembering Patty Duke “ Ever yb o dy Wants Some!!” is Richard Linklater’s self-described spiritual sequel to “Dazed and Confused,” and, somewhat miraculously, the spirit has remained intact.

It’s been 13 years from one to the other: long enough to literally watch a boy grow up. But between the 1970s high-school graduation of “Dazed” and the first college days of the 1980-set “Everybody Wants Some!!” it feels like hardly a summer has passed. We left off with Foghat’s “Slow Ride”; we pick up with the Knack’s “My Sharona.”

The song’s thumping bass, which opens the film, is an early signal (if the double exclamation points didn’t already give it away) of the exuberance to come in “Everybody Wants Some!!,” Linklater’s marvelously loose and affectionately antic portrait of college life. It’s a chapter that Linklater’s “Boyhood” never got to. But it’s rendered here with the same attention to the rhythms of youth and the in-between moments the director has long been drawn to.

But unlike “Boyhood,” it also has bong hits, disco dancing and sex - lots of it. It’s a laid back “Animal House,” with shots of philosophy mixed in.

Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner) is a freshman baseball pitcher who arrives in September 1980 at Southeast Texas University, where he moves in with his future teammates and fraternity brothers. Bros are not the most loved of college types, but Linklater’s frat guys, aside from being competitive, womanizing boozehounds, are mostly clever, curious and likable.

Just as with “Dazed,” Linklater has assembled a strong ensemble of young, promising actors. They include the mustachioed star senior Glenn (Tyler Hoechlin), the philosophizing chatterbox Finn (a tremendous Glen Powell) and the

‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ is the spiritual sequel to the popular film ‘Dazed and Confused.’ bearded stoner transfer from California, Willoughby (Wyatt Russell). Jake easily and confidently joins them as they bounce from nightclub to nightclub, and prowl the parking lots for women.

There isn’t much tension in the mild and innocent “Everybody Wants Some!!” (nor is there any political correctness or sexual assault). The guys of the movie are all eagerness and appetite, with their lives ahead of them. Though the team is nationally ranked and they take their sport seriously, professional baseball is largely an acknowledged pipe dream. Besides, there’s so much more to be excited about. Every night is a different club (disco, country line dancing, punk). Books and records are passed around like joints.

A countdown to the start of classes runs throughout, but not in a foreboding way. Out of the aimlessness, a sense of purpose is growing. The world is opening up to Jake, who begins dat-

ing a theater student (Zoey Deutch).

By focusing on baseball players, Linklater has given a far tenderer, more dynamic (and largely true) picture of young male athletes than they are usually afforded. But he’s also limited his canvas compared to the more varied, crisscrossing teens of “Dazed.”

And while the sunny and sure Jenner is winning, he’s maybe too much so. “Dazed and Confused” took its center from Wiley Wiggins’ timid teen, but the Jake of “Everybody Wants Some!!” has no anxieties to overcome; his first blush with college life is a home run. “ Ever yb o dy Wants Some!!’ is Linklater’s selfportrait of the artist as a young frat boy. The Austin writer-director of “Slacker” and the “Before...” trilogy went to college on a baseball scholarship before segueing into playwriting.

His light touch remains a marvel. Though his characters are often just bouncing from conversation to

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conversation, night out to night out, the film’s direction is never lackadaisical.

The performances are uncommonly natural. Scenes that play out through car windows, over foosball tables or between bong hits are buoyant, funny and meaningful. Though stuffed with ‘80s details and a soundtrack from Van Halen to the Sugar Hill Gang, the period setting matters far less than the capturing - and appreciation - of a moment.

Like many of Linklater’s films, “Everybody Wants Some!!” radiates something both slight and profound.

In the immortal words of David Lee Roth, “Everybody wants some. Baby, how ‘bout you?” “ Ever yb o dy Wants Some!!” a Paramount Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language throughout, sexual content, drug use and some nudity.” Running time: 117 minutes. Three stars out of four.

President Obama becomes a media critic NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama’s turn as a media critic this week may not have thrilled many journalists, but it has forced a new look at how a media-saturated presidential campaign is being covered.

Obama’s challenge to reporters to be more probing comes at a time the media is facing two seemingly contradictory strains of criticism for its treatment of Republican front-runner Donald Trump: that it has covered him too much, or not done enough to look into his background and promises.

Obama, speaking Monday night at a Syracuse

University awards ceremony honoring the late political journalist Robin Toner, said he’s not the only one dismayed by the tone of the campaign to succeed him. “I was going to call it a ‘carnival atmosphere,’ but that implies fun,” he said. He said he always believed there was a price to pay if a politician said one thing and did another and wondered “in the current atmosphere, is that still true?”

For reporters, he said “a job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone.”

The billions of dollars in free media should come with “serious accountabil-

ity, especially when politicians issue unworkable plans or make promises they can’t keep,” he said.

Steve Capus, executive producer of the “CBS Evening News” and a former NBC News president, said Tuesday that he’s wary of politicians who become media critics. Lumping all of the media together is neither fair nor accurate, he said.

“When he calls for holding people accountable and talks about the role of the press in a free society, we would agree,” Capus said. “I kind of think that’s part of our marching orders on a daily basis.”

Obama’s criticism fell

flat on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Host Joe Scarborough and Politico founder Jim VandeHei said that while Obama is urging the press to do better, he’s had his own challenges running an open government.

Much of the criticism seems directed at cable news networks, which have been covering the campaign virtually nonstop for the past several months. They’ve been rewarded financially: Fox News Channel reported Tuesday that it will finish the first three months as the top-rated network in all of cable TV, the first such quarterly victory in the network’s history.

NEW YORK (AP) — After months of seeing his mother in pain and holding her hand when she died, Sean Astin turned his mourning over Patty Duke’s death Tuesday into a bit of celebration after he saw the flood of tributes in her honor.

“It’s just such an affirmation of the best part of her and such a relief to be able to enjoy that as opposed to the pain that everyone was feeling,” Astin said in a phone interview with The Associated Press, hours after his Oscarand Emmy-winning mother died at age 69. “We’re so grateful to her for living a life that generates that amount of compassion and feeling in others. So, this last hour’s a joy moment for me.”

Duke died from sepsis due to a ruptured intestine at a hospital in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, where she had lived for the last 25 years with husband Michael Pearce.

Astin, one of her three children, said she had dealt with a multitude of ailments over the years, including emphysema after years of smoking. The actor talked about her pain, her triumphs, and what her legacy might be, among other thoughts he shared about his famous mother.

HER SICKNESS “There was so much suffering. She really, really suffered in a way that -- we were desperate to help relieve her suffering, and so it’s just a blessing that she’s not suffering anymore.

“She had a lot of different things that she went through, a lot of different ailments.

Several of them you thought, ‘Oh, this is a dire one,’ and then she would beat it.

“She talked a lot about her heart bypass, her heart surgery. Obviously her bipolar disorder was very public but she had a lot of things that were plaguing her and she finally got to a place where things were OK, and then this episode happened

where her lower intestine basically ruptured and then there was septicemia. So she was alert and she was able to talk to the surgeons when she went in and that was a very good and healthy process. It was clear how serious it was. ‘This is a very, very sick woman,’ the doctor said and so everyone knew that it was a potentially fatal moment for her and she came out on the other side of the surgery ... So from Thursday until this morning at 1:20 a.m (it) was a really, really, really hard process. It was hard for her, it was hard for the people who love her to help her, it was hard for the professionals.”

ON HER MARRIAGE: “The true story of her life isn’t her work and it isn’t her advocacy, it’s the love relationship she’s had with her husband Mike for the last 30 years. ... He was a drill sergeant in the Army when they met and he became her 30year project, and she finally in her life had a protector.

And so she showed him the world and he took care of her and until this morning at 1:20 they were connected with a bond that is impossible to describe.”

MORE THAN AN ACTRESS: “Her career ebbed and flowed and sometimes she was stressed about it and sometimes she was at peace with it, and the she’d get to do something that she could sink her teeth into and reminded her of what she was capable of and she had her speeches, her mental health speeches. She literally traveled all over the country and lobbied Congress ... she was a blistering advocate for her cause and that was just the biggest and most important cause. She worked on behalf of so many causes, fundraisers and grand marshals in parades. She did it all. She was president of the union, the Screen Actors Guild, and she cared about the union.

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Center situation looks dire without Williams With the loss of Devin Williams, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team is losing its foundation. While Williams’ announcement that he will forgo his senior season and declare for the NBA Draft hurts the Mountaineers tremendously, it also doesn’t do much for Williams’ NBA hopes.

As of Williams’ declaration on Tuesday, the junior center ranked No. 35 in DraftExpress’ ranking of college juniors, and his name is generally absent from mock drafts at this point.

We’re still early in the process, but the conventional wisdom is that Williams right now is not a serious candidate to be drafted in the NBA. There’s no doubt that Williams has the pure power, strength and athleticism to compete with anyone in the pro ranks, but his 6-foot-9 height is on the short end of NBA centers, and with the style of the league skewing small, he might not have the fine skill or shooting ability to stick in the NBA as a power forward.

That may leave Williams, despite his productive collegiate career, in the lurch regarding an NBA future.

Luckily for Williams, he can still have a long and fulfilling professional career even if he never steps foot on an NBA court – he can go overseas, make very good money and provide for his family, which may be more important to Williams than anything else.

Or, Williams could stick it out in the NBA D-League and work that way to try and break into the NBA. While declaring for the draft doesn’t make it any easier for Williams to break into the NBA, he at least has some options.

That’s something you might not be able to say about next year’s Mountaineers. Williams was this year’s squad’s most crucial building block, and his absence will leave a giant hole in the frontcourt that head coach Bob Huggins may not be able to fill.

Other than Williams, only two centers saw any playing time for West Virginia last season: Sophomore Elijah Macon and junior Brandon Watkins.

Macon showed that he still has quite a long way to go, and his development in the upcoming offseason will be crucial.

Macon is a big, athletic center with potential, but his tenacity around the basket pales in comparison to Williams.

Meanwhile, Watkins was mostly a nonfactor after returning midseason from a severe knee injury – he’s shown the ability to be a very effective rim protector in the past, but the rest of his game remains mostly undeveloped.

If Macon or Watkins fail to effectively shoulder Williams’ load, it will place a huge burden on West Virginia’s freshmen.

The 6-foot-8 forward Sagaba Konate has the strength, size and athleticism that reminds one of a young Devin Williams, while three-star Polish prospect Maciej Bender stands 6-foot-10, but appears to have more of a finesse skillset than that of a true interior player.

The pickings are slim at center for West Virginia, and while Williams may not make the NBA, West Virginia will miss him more than he’ll miss West Virginia. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU star Williams to forgo senior season, enter NBA Draft

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Associate Sports Editor @CJacksonWVU

Just more than a week removed from a sudden first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament, WVU junior forward Devin Williams announced his intentions for next season.

In a press release with WVUsports.com, Williams decided he will end his Mountaineer career after three years to chase his NBA dreams in the 2016 Draft.

“This is something I’ve thought about over and over, and I believe that this is the best decision for me and my family,” Williams said in a press release. “I can’t say enough about the three years I have had

at West Virginia University. At the same time, I’m grateful to be in this position to be able to fulfill a lifelong dream.”

A l t h ou g h Wi l l i a m s hasn’t hired an agent – making him eligible to still return by May 25 unless one is selected – it’s likely he sticks with the decision.

None of the most recent NBA Mock Drafts have Williams being taken in the two-round selection process held in Brooklyn on June 23. DraftExpress ranks Williams as the NCAA’s No. 35 junior, two spots behind Kansas State’s Wesley Iwundu.

Williams was named an All-Big 12 Second Team selection after posting 13.3 points and a team-high 9.5 rebounds per game, lead-

ing the conference in double-doubles (16).

He finished his threeyear stint in Morgantown with 1,134 career points and 846 rebounds, becoming the 50th player in program history to reach 1,000 points.

“We support Devin in his decision to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a professional basketball player,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins.

“We wish him nothing but the best and appreciate his contributions and the impact that he has had on Mountaineer basketball.”

WVU climbed all the way up to a No. 8 ranking by the Associated Press heading into the NCAA Tournament, leading to a 26-8 regular sea-

son and a No. 3 seed in the postseason.

The Mountaineers fell to Thomas Walkup and head coach Brad Underwood of Stephen F. Austin – recently hired as the new Oklahoma State coach – in the first round, in a game that became one of the largest upsets this year.

Williams was the leading candidate in the Mountaineers’ first run to the Big 12 championship since joining the conference in 2012, scoring a career-high 31 points in the finals loss to eventual Elite Eight qualifier Kansas.

Through WVU’s massive turnaround after his freshman year when the team went 17-16, losing two big transfers to Michigan State and NC State and missing

the NCAA Tournament for a second straight season, Williams was an integral piece in its rebirth under “Press Virginia.” The Mountaineers went to the Sweet Sixteen in 2015, their first second-weekend appearance since the 2010 Final Four run.

“I would like to thank my teammates, coach Huggins and the coaching staff, Mr. Lyons, President Gee, all of the basketball support staff and the entire Mountaineer Nation for all their guidance and support during the last three years,” Williams said. “This has been a tremendous experience for me, and I will always be a Mountaineer.” cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

BASEBALL

Walks doom WVU to midweek letdown against Canisius

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

The little-known Canisius Golden Griffins headed into Morgantown as a bit of an afterthought for the West Virginia University baseball team, as the Mountaineers headed into a long homestand and a crucial weekend series against Oklahoma State.

Despite head coach Randy Mazey’s warnings to not overlook their midweek visitors, the Mountaineers (12-9) stumbled to a 7-5 extra-inning letdown loss on Tuesday night, ensuring the homestand would start on a dull note.

“Just like we tried to tell them, this team’s hitting .225, they have a record that’s under .500, and we have a big weekend coming up,” Mazey said. “We tried to tell them not to overlook people. You try to avoid letdowns, but we walked 11 guys. (Morgantown High School) or (University High School) would have beaten us tonight.”

Sophomore righthander BJ Myers received the start for the Mountaineers, after his scheduled start Sunday at Kansas was canceled due to snow. With another start coming this weekend against Oklahoma State, Myers threw only two innings last night, keeping the Golden Griffins (10-13) off the board in both.

But after Myers’ shortened outing, West Virginia was forced to employ a series of seven relievers, who combined for the aforementioned 11 walks, nine hits and seven earned runs.

“I was looking for somebody to throw strikes,” Mazey

WVU’s KC Huth is thrown out trying to steal second base against Canisius on Tuesday. said. “Bring a guy in, he walks lowing three runs in the top tum, however, and the game a guy. Bring another guy in, of the fourth. stalled at 5-5 as it moved he walks a guy. Just keep tryWhile West Virginia into extra innings. Then, in ing until someone’s willing to quickly evened the score in a nightmare 10th inning, step up and throw it over the the bottom half of the inning Mazey was forced to use four on a Jackson Cramer double different pitchers — Conner plate.”

West Virginia struck first and an Ivan Vera sacrifice fly, Dotson, Jeff Hardy, Michael in the bottom of the third off righty Brandon Boone imme- Grove and Shane Ennis — to Canisius starter Andrew Kne- diately surrendered the lead get the final out, with the bullussle, as freshman Kyle Gray again on three walks and a pen walking in the two windrove in third baseman Kyle base hit in the top of the fifth, ning Canisius runs. Dotson Davis with a double off the making it 5-3 Canisius. picked up the loss to drop his Sidearmer Jackson Sigman record to 4-2. center field wall, narrowly missing his first career home settled things down for the “I thought we had good atMountaineers afterward, al- bats and offensively we did run in the process.

But as they did last week lowing West Virginia to make OK, but it seemed like pitchagainst TCU and Penn State, its comeback. West Virginia ers were afraid to throw it the bullpen struggled might- scratched out a run in the bot- over the plate,” Mazey said. ily in the middle innings, giv- tom of the fifth, and freshman “If you’re a pitcher, you can’t ing up five of Canisius runs in right fielder Darius Hill tied get people out without them the fourth and fifth innings. it up with a double into the hitting the ball, and I think we Freshman Braden Zarbni- left field corner in the seventh tried to get through the whole game without them hitting sky, who also played desig- inning.

West Virginia failed to capi- the ball.” nated hitter throughout the Freshman Tanner Campgame, started things by al- talize on its offensive momen-

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bell, who was originally in line to start last night before Myers’ start was pushed back, is set to pitch today at 3 p.m. as WVU searches for a split with Canisius — the righthander is 1-0 with a 3.77 ERA in three starts this season.

And while the Mountaineers search for redemption after Tuesday’s disappointing showing, they still don’t feel like there’s much cause for concern.

“I don’t think we need to change much,” center fielder KC Huth said. “We just need to keep playing solid baseball and have trust in anyone who steps on the field. From the top to the bottom of the roster, we have some good players and we all have trust.” djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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Women’s Basketball

WVU has deep talent and bright future after tournament run

BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

While the West Virginia University women’s basketball team will say its goodbyes to three of its seniors, including star scorer Bria Holmes, the sixthyoungest team in the nation is ready to benefit

from playing in the NCAA Tournament and looks forward to next year.

WVU head coach Mike Carey stressed to his team near the end of the season that the eight freshmen aren’t freshmen anymore; they gained the experience of playing in a conference with some of the elite teams in women’s

basketball.

“It’s great for these young players to come in here and get this experience,” Carey said prior to the Mountaineers’ first round matchup against Princeton. “Hopefully they can build on this.”

The Mo u n t a i n e e r s went on to defeat Princeton, a team that went 236. Freshman Tynice Martin recorded a season-high eight rebounds, and junior Lanay Montgomery led WVU in rebounds.

This was Martin’s first opportunity to compete in the national tournament, with the opportunity coming after a season where she earned Freshman of the Year honors in the Big 12 Conference.

NCAA matchups against top teams in the Ivy League and Big 10 conference proved that she can handle anything thrown her way.

After scoring 16 points in the win against Princeton, Martin would register identical numbers against the Ohio State Buckeyes, putting up 16 points and

eight rebounds.

Ultimately, the Mountaineers would lose to the Buckeyes in the second round, 88-81; sophomores Teana Muldrow and Chania Ray recorded 23 and 17 points respectively in the two rounds.

It’s the same story that has been written all year: the youth of the Mountaineers is what made the difference in games, while also giving the bench more options. With Holmes and starting forward Arielle Roberson leaving, it creates a void in the starting lineup, which could potentially be filled with Martin and Muldrow.

Point guard Jessica Morton’s departure will be one that affects West Virginia just as much as Holmes’ and Roberson’s. In the final stretch of the season, including the conference tournament and NCAA Tournament, Morton was a standout scorer.

Coming in to potentially fill that gap or look for a larger role will be WVU signee Kristina King. King, who will be a junior when

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Chania Ray runs past an Oklahoma defender in February. she comes to Morgantown, was named the 2016 WBCA JUCO College Player of the Year.

She is with Gulf Coast State College, where her Commodores won the state championship behind King ’s 24-point outburst.

The Mountaineers have three more signees along with King, but the 6-foot-3 forward gives West Virginia another player who has benefited from playing at the college level.

After its loss to the Buckeyes, Martin put everything in perspective for the Mountaineers, proving that West Virginia will use the unfortunate result in its favor.

“We’ll just have to build on from this,” Martin said.

“We know what our weaknesses are, we know what we have and we know what we’re getting next year. All we have to do is build on it.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Track

Mountaineers ready for two meets this week

By Joel Norman Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Sometimes being in two places at once impossible, but this is not so for the West Virginia women’s track and field team.

The Mountaineers return from Spring Break with two events this week, starting with the Texas Relays today and concluding on Saturday.

In the middle of the Relays, the Mountaineers will also compete at the Stanford Invitational on Friday.

The team will split up and send specific athletes to the best event for them.

Head coach Sean Cleary has not clarified who will be where this week but

has high expectations of all of his girls, regardless of where they are competing.

“We don’t split the team up very often, but when we do, we do so with the intentions of hitting NCAA qualifying marks,” Cleary said in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Our goals are simple this weekend: To qualify as many as we can for the NCAA Championships. The following week, we will bring the entire team together as we travel to George Mason.”

Splitting up a team for multiple events is typical of Major League Baseball spring training. The hope is that more players will get a chance to play and prove their worth.

So, too, is the case this

week. As Cleary mentioned, this quirk in the schedule that forces the severing of the roster gives West Virginia the best chance to gain as many qualifiers as possible.

This isn’t the first time Cleary has had to split up his team this school year.

On Oct. 16, West Virginia competed in two different races in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania at the same time.

The Wisconsin runners were labeled as the “fittest” group. On the flip side, the Pennsylvania bunch was called a “developing group.”

That could be the case again this week.

West Virginia last competed on March 19, the fi-

nal of two days spent at the Wake Forest Open. Sophomore Millie Paladino led the Mountaineers by winning the 1,500-meter run in a time of 4:21.93.

“I was especially pleased to see that we are starting off the outdoor season on a positive note,” Cleary said.

“While some were running in off events, we competed well.”

The event was the first of the regular season for West Virginia outdoor track and field. The indoor season concluded on Feb. 27.

Events at the Texas Relay begin at 11:30 a.m. today, at noon at Thursday and at 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Gymnastics

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By Carter Sokolowski Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The West Virginia University gymnastics team rode its wave of momentum from the regular season all the way to Frisco, Texas, where it placed third in the Big 12 Championship with a score of 195.925.

The Oklahoma Sooners were the eventual champions, finishing with a score of 198.05 and claiming their fifth straight Big 12 title. Although they finished miles behind the Sooners, Denver claimed second place in the competition with a score of 196.725.

Iowa State took the fourth spot with a 195.35 total.

Some of the usual suspects put together strong performances for the Mountaineers, a few of which include Alexa Goldberg, Zaakira Muhammad, Melissa Idell and the freshman duo of Tiara Wright and Big 12 Newcomer of the Year Kirah Koshinski.

These gymnasts are the essential ones to watch heading into the NCAA Regional Championships in

Tuscaloosa.

Goldberg has been a leader for the team all season, having competed in all four events in eight different meets this year. She leads the team comfortably in total points with 409.5.

The bulk of her points this season have come from the uneven bars, where she has five first-place finishes this season and ranks in the top 50 nationally with a regional qualifying score (RQS) of 9.87.

During the course of the season, WVU has needed to use her scores on every event in just about every meet. Don’t expect that to change heading into the final competition.

Following just behind her in total points is Muhammad with 392.0. Muhammad has been a staple for the team on the bars, vault and floor. She ranks second on the team on vault with a 9.875 RQS, placing her No. 37 nationally on the event. She has earned six wins this year, two of which were all-around.

Senior Idell has been a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy event for

the Mountaineers on the beam. She has scored a 9.8 or better on the beam five times this season and currently leads the team with a 9.81 RQS in the event.

Idell has also been one of the team’s top performers on the floor, earning scores of 9.8 or higher in eight of 12 meets this season. She earned a team season-high score of 9.95 in a meet against Ohio State and Bowling Green.

One of the many important freshman contributors this year is Wright, who has served as a go-to on the bars throughout the season. She ranks just behind Goldberg with a 9.855 RQS and has scored a 9.8 or better in six meets this year.

Late in the season, Wright was given a bigger role on the team when she also began to compete on the beam and floor every week. She has proven herself as more than capable of handling the responsibility, as she has scored a 9.8 or better three weeks in a row on the floor and two weeks in a row on the beam.

Koshinski has arguably been the most important

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Zaakira Muhammad competes on the Dance Mat during a meet against Kentucky in February. gymnast for West Virginia this season. Ranking No. 12 nationally with a 9.9 RQS, she has been an absolute ace on the vault. She earned wins in six out of 12 meets this season on vault and has never scored below a 9.85.

She has also appeared on the beam on a few occasions, owning a pair of 9.8 scores. Floor has been her second-best event, yet she still owns the highest

RQS on the team with an impressive 9.875. She has earned a 9.8 or better in all but two meets and tied the team season-high mark of 9.95 when she and Idell put on a show against Ohio State and Bowling Green.

Koshinski’s impeccable freshman season has landed her a spot on the second team All-American list, an honor that has not been held by a Mountaineer since Janae Cox earned

first team honors in 2007.

She was also named Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, having been honored as the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week five times during the season.

This tremendously talented group of gymnasts has a chance to make some real noise heading into the NCAA Regional Championships this Saturday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu