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Wednesday September 30, 2015

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WVU earns national attention in VW scandal by john mark shaver staff writer @dailyathenaeum

It was just a normal, late- summer Friday for WVU’s Center of Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions research team.

“It was an extremely normal day,” said Arvind Thiruvengadam, research assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, with a laugh. “(We were) just deal-

ing with the administrative problems that we had and were dealing with students. It was a proper day.”

A proper day, that is, until news of the group’s past research led to a global scandal.

Researchers from CAFEE had been testing the emission rates of several Volkswagen vehicles and discovered that their test results did not match the company’s reports.

These studies led to the

WVU football team ranks in top five for player arrests

by Abby Lafferty, Dakota Hoover and Ethan Rohrbaugh

Mountaineer News Service, West Virginia University

In the early morning hours of Sept. 13, two members of West Virginia University’s football team were stabbed after an altercation at Lux, a downtown nightclub on High Street. The players, Tyree Owens and Kenyatta Greene, both 19-year-old freshmen redshirt players, were rushed to a nearby hospital, along with a third man who was also stabbed and treated for non life-threatening injuries. The two were then dismissed from the team.

This incident is only the latest in a string of crimes involving University student-athletes. WVU football players have been arrested 20 times in the last five years, earning the team the dubious honor of having the fifth-most player arrests in the nation, according to arrestnation.com, a website that collects crime statistics from public records.

Some observers attribute the high arrest numbers among WVU athletes to insufficient punishment, and the fact that student-athletes here and elsewhere are treated differently than other students by their universities and the criminal justice system.

“Nationally, it doesn’t take too long to look around and see that there are incidences that you can find that the treatment (of athletes) is different,” said WVU Police Chief Bob Roberts.

“To say that that doesn’t happen (here) would be naive.”

Associate Athletic Director Michael Fragale

said University athletes are treated the same as other students, and they also face discipline from their head coach.

“Our coaches pretty much take care of the situations,” Fragale said.

Even so, there are a number of recent cases where WVU football players, particularly those with valued positions on the team, have received preferential treatment when compared to other students.

Take, for example, Kyle Rose, a senior defensive lineman who was taken into custody by police after getting a drunk at Bent Willey’s, a nightclub in downtown Morgantown last April.

Rose, who returned to the club after being thrown out earlier in the night, had to be physically subdued by officers after resisting arrest and striking an officer in the face.

The 6-foot-4, 294-pound fifth-year senior was charged with four misdemeanors including public intoxication, disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer and battery on an officer.

Rose pleaded guilty to intoxication, disorderly conduct and obstruction, while the charge of assault and battery on an officer was dropped. Rose was ordered by Head Coach Dana Holgorsen to clean the team weight room and sweep the stadium bleachers, but the only legal punishment he received was being assessed $600 in fines.

“Some people don’t think that cleaning the stadium at five in the morning is discipline, some people do,” Fragale said.

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EPA discovering that VW installed a “defeat device” into its cars that controls emission rates based on whether the car is undergoing emission testing ot not, according to a press release issued on Sept. 18.

While Thiruvengadam and the research team is proud of their role in revealing the scandal, Thiruvengadam noted his disappointment in VW. “I wouldn’t say ‘happy’ is the word, because when

a huge company goes through this fallout, there are huge economic implications for the country,” Thiruvengadam said. “The economy of the people is affected. ‘Happy’ is not the right word, but I would say I’m disappointed (in Volkswagen).”

It was also revealed that VW cars were emitting nitrous oxides, a common air pollutant, up to 40 times more than the normal standard.

Now, two weeks later, the VW emissions scandal has been trending worldwide, seeing VW’s stock plummet and its CEO resign, mainly in response to the independent research done by CAFEE. News organizations covering the incident ranged from classic news stations, like CNN, to entertainment shows, like “Conan”.

Thiruvengadam said this newfound attention

is unfamiliar to him and his colleagues.

“It’s just new,” Thiruvengadam said. “We’ve never been in that kind of a spotlight. The only people that we’ve gotten recognition from in the past is ironically manufacturers. It’s only been a small circle of people who have actually appreciated our research.”

The scandal has brought

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‘CONNECT, INSPIRE AND HONOR’

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WVU President Gordon Gee speaks with West Virginia Congresswoman Charlene Marshall prior to the start of the Women of Color Luncheon Tuesday afternoon.

WVU hosts annual Women of Color Luncheon, brings genders and ethnicities together by paige czyzewski staff writer @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University’s Council of Women’s Concerns held its 28th annual Women of Color Luncheon Tuesday afternoon to “connect, inspire and honor” women—and men—of all colors.

Keynote Speaker Katherine Dooley, along with WVU faculty and staff, spoke to audience members about embracing diversity, while also recognizing that the public has a long way to go before complete acceptance.

“While the progress has been great, there is still resistance to full inclusion in our society for people of color,” Dooley said. “(It’s) not in all aspects, but certainly enough (that) the topic cannot be glossed over. So today, we claim to value diversity, to embrace it, to benefit from it, to encourage it, but despite that, the evidence continues to mount that we are not there yet.”

WVU’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion considers the luncheon to be one of the largest parts of Diversity Week, since its founding in 1987.

Each year, members from the CWC choose and vote on specialty speakers for the event. The Council aims to highlight both men and women with strong ties to WVU or the community, and who advocate for gender equality and the advancement of women.

This year, there were nearly 380 attendees filling every seat and awaiting to hear the empowering words of the chosen speakers.

They were not let down with Dooley’s rendition of Maya

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The 28th Annual Women of Color Luncheon was held in the Mountainlair Ballrooms on Tuesday, September 29, 2015.

Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Women.”

“That is us,” she said.

Dooley, a 1990 WVU Law graduate, was selected to speak due to her numerous years of service and positions that allowed her to break ground for women of color.

Not only is she an attorney with The Dooley Law Firm in Charleston, but she was also the first female cadet to complete the U.S. Army Airborne training, and she served as a U.S. Army Captain.

She has received additional awards from the West Virginia Human Rights Commission, the YWCA and the NAACP.

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WVU engineering student looks to renovate Mountainlair arcade by amy pratt

correspondent @dailyathenaeum

On the first floor of the Mountainlair is an arcade.

It’s old and a bit gloomy, but there are 10 working game machines, an air hockey table, ski-ball and a foosball table.

Some machines need to be fixed, and a foosball table needs a new coin slot.

These are problems that Ryan Simms, a freshman John Allen/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM computer engineering Ryan Simms plans to add something new to the Mountainlair by building and cre- and electrical engineering student, wants to fix. He’s ating a fun environment where students can feel like kids again

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loved arcades since his mom bought him a Namco game cartridge with Galaga on it and he started visiting arcades around town. “ There’s something about playing on an actual cabinet as opposed to sitting in your house playing on your Xbox,” Simms said. “Feeling the tactile, the bumps and dips that activate as you’re pressing down on the buttons, the satisfaction of the clicking noise as you move the joy stick around on the circle.”

Simms was disappointed by the state of

WVU’s arcade. He worked at Adventure Park in Maryland as an arcade technician, which is where he learned the ins and outs of arcade machines.

“I went down (to the arcade) and I saw everything, and I was like, ‘I know how to fix these,’” he said. “So I went down to the front desk and I was like, ‘Hey, can I fix these?’ ... I’ll do this for free, you just need to pay for the parts and I’ll put it all together.”

Mary Malorey, an employee at the arcade, agrees that some work could be done.

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RACIST SENTIMENTS The Confederate flag will continue to be offensive, regardless of its intended meaning

“People want to play, but there’s a lot of broken games,” she said. “I don’t know if they need to be updated or completely fixed, but we would make more money if all those were fixed.”

Simms hopes to be able to make arcade cabinets out of raspberry pies, which are basically micro controllers that would function as the brain of the machines, and then build new wooden housing for the machines. He also wants to repair the broken

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Wednesday September 30, 2015

Latino students discuss pressing cultural issues during Diversity Week event by cameron gleason staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Culturas, a student organization celebrated Latin American and Hispanic heritage, with an educational panel discussion in the Greenbrier room of the Mountainlair on Tuesday evening.

The organization’s members and other panelists spoke about their individual cultures and backgrounds, what their culture means to them and how stereotypes have, unfortunately, been something these students have to deal with occasionally.

“I am not allowed, at least within the United States

culture, to celebrate my diversity within myself,” said Lisette Hernández, a visiting librarian. “Within my community in Puerto Rico or even in the Caribbean in Latin America, I just have to say, ‘I’m Puerto Rican,’ and I can go ahead and wear my ethnic clothing, I can celebrate my African and Native American-ness.”

Self-identification was a main theme throughout the discussion. People often assume someone is simply “Hispanic” or “Mexican,” according to panel members, but those misconceptions ignore other cultures that are less prevalent, but are still valued immensely by the person.

Hernández understands

such sentiments, as she is also 40 percent African and 40 percent European.

“When I am here among other people that are nonLatinos, I have to choose a box, but not really because those boxes are chosen for me,” she said. “Because of my light skin, I am not allowed to celebrate my blood… I am not allowed to celebrate (my) ancestry or the people that died to make me, and it’s very hurtful. I do go home at night sometimes, and I cry because something has been stolen from me.”

As an organization, Culturas hopes to raise awareness about these issues, such as wrongly identifying someone on the basis

of their looks.

Ryan Payan, a co-founder of Culturas, said Diversity Week presents the opportunity to inform students and community members about these pressing issues.

“Diversity is what makes up America,” Payan said.

“Diversity Week is just a way for us to educate our students and for us to use the education we’ve gotten to further educate the world.”

Payan believes one Diversity Week on campus is simply not enough, though.

He has, in the past, advocated for WVU to dedicate a second week to culture.

“I think there should be a Diversity Week in the

spring,” Payan said. “I ran for (Student Government Association) Board of Governors last year, so that was actually one of my big things, and I still want to work on it.”

Payan said he feels the University could have put forth a greater effort to contribute to the promotional aspect of Diversity Week, as well.

“I think that, overall, the University’s offices need to work more on helping the Office of Diversity promote the events…” Payan said. “I bet you half the professors don’t know what’s going on with Diversity Week. That’s an issue.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Obama says fight against Islamic State group will take time UNITED NATIONS (AP)— President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged all possible tools - military, intelligence and economic to defeat the Islamic State group, but acknowledged the extremist group has taken root in Syria and Iraq, is resilient and continues to expand.

Obama hosted a U.N. gathering of world leaders working to expand the battle against terrorism, a day after he and the leaders of Russia, China and Iran addressed the General Assembly during its 70th anniversary. The fight against terrorism, particularly in Syria, has seized the attention of top officials, but

there has been no overall agreement on how to end the conflict there.

“I have repeatedly said that our approach will take time. This is not an easy task,” Obama cautioned, while adding that he was “ultimately optimistic” the brutal organization would be defeated because it has nothing to offer but suffering and death.

“This is a long-term campaign - not only against this particular network, but against its ideology,” he said.

The meeting also heard from the Iraqi leader, who sought more help against IS in his country, and learned from Obama that three

Environmental groups seek end to all Arctic Ocean drilling ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)—Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to end its quest for oil in the Arctic waters off Alaska sparked jubilation among environmental activists, who said Tuesday that they will seize the opportunity to seek an end to all drilling to in the region.

But while Shell’s move is a definite setback for oil companies, it does not mean offshore drilling is dead or that the Arctic Ocean has any greater protection now than it had last week.

Shell’s decision gives advocates on both sides a chance to pause and consider whether Arctic drilling should continue, said Mike LeVine of the oceanadvocacy group in Juneau known as Oceana.

“Meaningful action to address climate change is almost certainly going to mean we can’t keep looking for oil in remote and expensive places,” LeVine said. “Rather than investing in programs like this, we need to figure out how to

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“To be able to have someone who has such a distinguished career as Katherine Dooley to speak to us is a win-win,” said David Fryson, vice president for the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

“It’s a win for her to share her expertise and background, but it’s great for the women of our community and, particularly, the women of color to see the possibilities.”

Dooley used her speech to emphasize issues people of color face daily and how implicit—or unconscious— bias affects attitudes, ste-

ARRESTS

Continued from page 1 However, Chief Roberts said he was uncomfortable with the level of punishment doled out in the Rose case.

“I don’t know that I would have necessarily been satisfied with that when it comes to battery of an officer,” Roberts said.

Dilia Koenick, a senior psychology student at WVU, was treated much more harshly than Rose after a similar incident. After getting into a physical altercation with a fellow student at Fall Fest last year, Koenick was detained by police at the event. According to the arrest report, she then struck one of the officers, earning her charges for two counts of battery of

more countries - Nigeria, Tunisia and Malaysia - were added to the coalition fighting the group.

In other events at the annual gathering of world leaders: - Obama held talks with Cuban President Raul Castro, the second time the leaders of the once-estranged nations have met this year.

- The European Union’s top diplomat emerged from a high-level meeting on Syria’s humanitarian crisis to tell reporters that she sees possible “political space for new initiatives in the coming weeks,” with no details.

- Ukraine’s president

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Simms has contacted the Association for Computing Machines and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers about his project and said they will help with the project if he gets the funding.

While his plan is still in its early stages, Simms plans on working with the Residence Hall Coun-

condemned Russia’s aggression against his country, and urged the international community to restrain Moscow’s veto power in the U.N. Security Council.

- Guyana’s president, David Granger, accused Venezuela of being a bully as the two countries brought their long-running border dispute to the world body.

- Japan said it is providing $1.5 billion for assistance of refugees and stabilization of communities facing upheaval in the Middle East and Africa.

- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon scolded South Sudan’s president, warning “not betray and

disappoint us” in implementing a new peace deal.

The fight against terrorism has been complicated by a Russian military buildup in Syria in support of President Bashar Assad.

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Monday that Russia could launch airstrikes against the militants in Syria, if sanctioned by the United Nations or requested by Damascus.

Obama and Putin are at odds over Russian involvement because Washington has said Assad must be removed from power. Obama and Putin laid out competing visions for Syria during their U.N. speeches Monday.

cil as a start for funding.

He has also talked with the Student Government Association and Mark Wise, the director of the Mountainlair.

“I don’t know where we’re going with this yet, it’s a bit too soon,” Wise said. “We don’t know enough about it at this point.”

Since the project is just beginning and many people don’t know about the arcade, Simms wants to encourage other interested students to help.

“This is another way we can try and bring the school closer together.

Community involvement is everything with arcades,” Simms said. “You don’t sit in your house and play an arcade, you go to an arcade to play with people and have that experience. It really lives or dies by the body behind it. Getting the word out there about what this is, what this project is, is a great first step.”

CAFEE, believe this newfound recognition could mean new opportunities for WVU. “We’ve had people flying in from Japan, from Germany to come here to visit, and when they see the city and they see the University, they’re amazed...” Carder said at last week’s Board of Governors meeting. “I don’t think people recognize and realize what (WVU has) until (they) get here, and I think that’s very important.”

Miss West Virginia Chelsea Malone also performed and promoted her mental health platform called “Break the Silence.”

Danielle Conaway, cochair for the CWC, said women receive cultural messages that are sometimes unfriendly, but they must love and accept themselves and unite as allies.

“Trying to help people meet allies is really what the goal of the whole Women of Color Luncheon is about,” Conaway said. “It’s an hour and 30 minute long event, but hopefully you can just connect with people and the spirit of the whole thing and carry that out into the world.”

transition away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable energy.”

Shell announced Monday that it would abandon exploration in U.S. Arctic waters “for the foreseeable future” after a well drilled this summer in the Chukchi Sea off the Alaskan coast failed to find natural gas and oil in sufficient quantities.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC spent more than $7 billion on Arctic offshore development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas and was dogged at every regulatory level by environmental groups, which feared that a spill in the harsh climate would be difficult to clean up and devastating to polar bears, walruses, seals and other wildlife.

The next step for many environmental advocates is to establish “some sort of binding policy so that these decisions are not up to oil companies,” said Cassady Sharp, spokeswoman for Greenpeace USA in Washington, D.C.

positive attention to WVU, bringing praise for the University’s research and its role in exposing VW. “It’s not only positive for our research group, but it’s positive for WVU itself,” Thiruvengadam said. “Not many people know that WVU has (CAFEE), which has been doing this work for a long time now.”

Thiruvengadam said the research team hopes

to “put their heads together” and capitalize on their current popularity, while continuing to do the work that allowed them to gain recognition in the first place.

“We do great research at this institution,” said WVU President E. Gordon Gee at last week’s Board of Governors meeting. “We do it each and every day, and some of it doesn’t get as recognized as much as it should, and some make an enormous difference.”

University administrators such as Dan Carder, the interim director of

reotypes and the decisions we make without intent.

People may say they are not racist, sexist, prejudice or bigoted, she said, “but their actions tell you different.”

“Too often we have visual diversity, which is not functional diversity or inclusion,” Dooley said. “We’re window dressing. If invited into the corners of power in the Fortune 500, (people will see) little has changed.”

Dooley discussed hate crimes within the past year across America, including Sandra Bland’s death and the three Muslim students killed at Chapel Hill in North Carolina. She said implicit bias affects housing, education, health and criminal justice alike.

Though people will try to hide evident racism and sexism, Dooley believes we have to call out people who make discriminatory comments just because they are around people they think will not stand up to them.

“We have to stop giving people passes to be racist and sexist and homophobes,” she said.

Dooley said diversity should not be only in athletics, but in all areas for all students—not just the majority. Students of color should not just be “awarded championships but not degrees.”

“We are committed to improving not just our plight, but the plight of our sisters and brothers and all who would celebrate you

today, there is yet work to do,” she said. “We’re not there, but we’re on our way.”

Referring to Maya Angelou’s “Phenomenal Women,” Dooley asked attendees to come together as a “sisterhood” and create change through action.

“Would you ‘phenomenally, phenomenal women,’ go (with) me and answer this call so our generations can be better than the generations before,” she said.

In addition to Dooley, Dr. Mohindar Seehra, an Eberly College distinguished professor, received the Mary Catherine Buswell Award for his encouragement and support in professionally advancing women in science fields.

an officer.

“The police report says that I shoved (an officer) in the arm and kicked him in the leg,” Koenick said.

Koenick was assigned a public defender to represent her in her case but did not get to meet the attorney until the day before trial.

“I only talked to her twice,” Koenick said.

After a nearly year-long legal battle, one of the two charges against Koenick was dropped, but she was still convicted on one count of battery of an officer. She was given a sentence of probation for one year and required to do 100 hours of community service.

“For (Rose’s) charges to be dropped, that’s very nice…but if you lay your hand on somebody else, no matter who it is, you should be reprimanded, especially if it’s a law enforcement of-

ficer,” Koenick said.

Indeed, Rose’s punishment even seemed to go against the precedent set

by Holgorsen last season when he suspended Elijah Wellman, a redshirt freshman fullback, for one game after Wellman received a citation for disorderly conduct following WVU’s game against Baylor University.

Rose, unlike Wellman, is a starter for the Mountaineers and plays an important role on the team’s defense. Two games into the 2015 season, Rose ranks second on the team in total tackles.

Fellow defensive standout Daryl Worley, a junior cornerback, also drew a short suspension from the football team after his arrest last September on a misdemeanor battery charge. Worley was accused of grabbing a woman

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by the throat and throwing her to the ground. The incident, as in the case of Owens and Greene, occurred at Lux Nightclub just hours after a WVU football game.

Following Worley’s arrest, he was indefinitely suspended from the football team. He pleaded no contest to the charge, and prosecutors recommended a six-month jail sentence.

However, Worley’s request for a suspended sentence was granted. He was placed on unsupervised probation and received no jail time.

After the quick plea agreement was reached, Worley was fully reinstated to the team. He missed just two games.

Some students say that there is an obvious bias that protects athletes in the legal system. Unlike Koenick, who could not afford an attorney and ended up with a

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DIVERSITY WEEK SCHEDULE 3:00 - 4:00 p.m., “From Russia with Love” Laurel Room, Mountainlair Maria Matveenko, a TESOL and Linguist graduate student, will expound on her life as a graduate student back home and in Morgantown, sharing the similarities and differences. She has found her place at WVU! 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., LGBTQ and Equity in an Age of Globalization and Personal Liberties Gold Ballroom, Mountainlair The individuals participating on this panel are graduate instructors with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and will discuss LGBTQ+ equity in an age of globalization and individual liberties.

5:00 p.m., “From Tragedy to Triumph” Laurel Room, Mountainlair Come hear Raquel Echeverria, a political science doctoral candidate, speak about her journey when “life happens” that changed her plans around.

5:00 – 6:00 p.m., Study Abroad: Germany Classroom G102, Engineering Science Building Students will discuss experiences studying abroad in Germany on a facultyled trip. Featuring Dr. Todd Hamrick and study abroad students.

5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Art Imitating Life: A Discussion of Race Neighborhoods and the Criminal Justice System Greenbrier Room, Mountainlair Come and engage in a discussion that proves this current generation embodies the power to reverse the trends of race and injustice, and if not, what happens?

6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Reporting on Race and Justice: A Virtual Reality Tour of Selma, Alabama.

Rhododendron Room, Mountainlair Professor Joel Beeson will demonstrate the Virtual Reality (VR) documentary “Fractured Tour: An Immersive Tour of Selma’s Divides,” and share behindthe-scenes insights into the reporting and storytelling process. WVU student Shaleah Ingram and Morgan State University student Emily Pelland will also lead a discussion.

6:30 - 9:30 p.m., What They Won’t Tell You About Diversity Week: An Interactive Discussion Event Hall, College of Law The structure of Diversity Week, and the conversations about diversity and inclusion throughout colleges, businesses and American society, revolve around the need to insure inclusion of underrepresented minorities. Some claim these events are empowering and others claim they are marginalizing. Some even argue the aims of diversity week ultimately defeat the purpose they claim to serve.

7:30 - 9:30 p.m., Multicultural Awareness Blue Ballroom, Mountainlair Interested in joining a historically black Greek fraternity/sorority? Want to learn more about African, Latino or Native American Student Organizations?

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public defender, WVU football players often have legal resources made available to them.

Chief Roberts said the justice system should view athletes the same way it does other citizens.

“If (athletes) are put up on that pedestal and not held to the same standards as the rest of society, then they have a skewed view of what’s going on around them,” Roberts said. “That’s just not fair to them, and certainly not fair to society.”

In the most recent incident involving student-athletes, the two WVU football players apparently got into an altercation with Devin Colston, an Alderson Broaddus University basketball player, outside the nightclub. He allegedly stabbed them and another man. In a statement released at the time, Morgantown Police

Chief Ed Preston said that Colston was arrested “because he committed the most serious offense.”

The two freshmen players were dismissed from the football team for an unidentified violation of team rules. However, sources close to the situation said Owens and Greene were dismissed from the team because football players are not supposed to frequent nightclubs during football season.

Assistant Dean of Student Conduct, LiDell Evans, said the University has no intentions of penalizing Owens and Greene any further, calling the pair “victims” in this situation.

“They were victims,” Evans said. “Why would I penalize a victim for being stabbed?” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Wednesday September 30, 2015

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Eradicating intolerance in schools After the landmark decision to remove the Confederate flag from its place in front of the capitol building of South Carolina in July, controversies of a much smaller scale have erupted across several southern states.

In West Virginia, some students at Hurricane High School have continued to fly the flags on their trucks while in the parking lot of the school. One student reportedly destroyed the flags during a football game because he found them offensive, and his actions have resulted in his suspension from school and a possible trial.

Though some schools have banned the Confederate flag due to its racist implications, the flags have been allowed to fly at Hurricane High for more than a decade after a court ruling because there was no previous indication of racial problems or tension at the school. According to the U.S. News, 95 percent of Hurricane High students are Caucasian.

In response to the flag’s destruction, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported one student saying, “My stepdad’s black… We’re not doing it against black people at all.”

Simply because an overwhelming majority of students are of one race and would have no reason to bicker over the flags’ presence at the school does not mean they aren’t promoting racist attitudes and mindsets. Regardless of whether the flags are being flown to celebrate southern heritage or not, they undoubtedly represent and bring to mind an era in history in which slavery thrived and racial subjugation and discrimination was commonplace.

Following the same logic as the students of Hurricane High, it’s as if someone sporting the Nazi symbol in America is merely claiming to wear it for its original religious purposes. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, the swastika originally symbolized good fortune and is still a common

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Many students fly the Confederate flag on their trucks to show their southern pride. sight in areas where Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism are practiced. However, the symbol has become so inexplicably tied in this country to its more recent meaning of anti-Semitism and genocide that the wearer’s intent is irrelevant.

Though the school sees no issue in letting the flags fly because racial violence isn’t a current problem among the student body, this mindset misses the bigger picture. All students will be confronted with people of different religions, backgrounds, races and ethnic-

ities sometime after graduation and to not see a problem with presently allowing students to sport symbols with racist implications is to not promote future tolerance of all people.

Public school systems should do their best to encourage the celebration of

differences between individuals and promote acceptance in both present and future circumstances, not simply ignore racist memorabilia because it isn’t causing short-term harm. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Where does freedom of speech end on campus? rhiannon winner gettysburg college

What began as a club for conservative students, called Young Americans for Freedom at Gettysburg College, has set off a national debate about freedom of speech on college campuses. The trouble began when YAF began posting flyers around campus emblazoned with slogans like “do you enjoy hugging babies vs killing them,” which referenced abortion.

YAF also used chalk on sidewalks to write similar statements.

The group drew immediate criticism from liberal students, but also from conservative students who did not condone the rudeness and immaturity of hanging up shock-value posters.

From social media to club meetings, everyone was talking about YAF. It even drew national attention. A Fox News van even interviewed students on campus to cover the story.

YAF played the victim when students tore down their posters and poured water over the offensive chalk statements.

The group has made repeated statements on their Facebook page stating that they’re being “attacked by liberal students,” yet YAF appears to be doing most of the attacking through their flyers and chalk messages.

They’ve even released the

Students at Gettysburg College discover the limitations of free speech. full names, headshots and biographies of students who oppose them on a national website.

They have certainly sparked a debate, albeit not the kind they initially intended: Where does freedom of speech end on college campuses? Does YAF have the right to post statements offending a majority of the student body, and do students have the right to tear down or erase those messages?

The answer is more complicated than you would expect. YAF has the right under the First Amendment

to freedom of speech, and thus are more than welcome to share their views, no matter how offensive the majority may find them to be.

However, YAF is operating on a college campus.

While Gettysburg College’s student handbook outlines a student’s right to freedom of speech, there is one exception: the time and place clause.

The college states, “This freedom (of the First Amendment), however, is subject to reasonable restrictions of time, place, and manner so that the ac-

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tivities do not intrude upon or interfere with the academic mission and daily functions of the College, or with the rights of members of the College community as defined under college policy.”

What are the rights of members of the Gettusburgh College community, then? Gettysburg College’s own policy says, “…Inappropriate bias behavior is defined as an act (speech, written or verbal, or conduct) targeted at a person or group creating what the College deems an insensitive or unwelcoming

environment.”

Calling students baby killers or anchor babies (as multiple women attending the college have had abortions, and the college has children of undocumented immigrants attending) creates an extremely unwelcoming environment for these targeted students. At the very least, it is insensitive, which still fits within the definition of actions the college prohibits.

An article was published on The Liberty Standard with the names, headshots, and bios of a couple of students who opposed YAF. YAF shared this article on its Facebook page, followed mostly by members of the Gettysburg College community.

As Gettysburg only has a few thousand students, the campus community is extremely close-knit. Many people recognized the students targeted in the article. This opens them up to personal attacks and makes them unsafe on campus.

Putting students in a position where they are open to verbal and physical violence is in blatant violation of Gettysburg College’s harassment policy, which states, “…harassment includes any written, verbal, or physical acts (including electronically transmitted acts) that are reasonably perceived as creating an intimidating, or hostile work, living, or learning environment.”

On the flip side, it can be argued that those who erased or tore down YAF’s

messages violated the college’s policy as well by stifling freedom of speech (although under the policy, the college’s staff should have torn down or erased offensive messages anyway). However, to argue that, you must assume that the College cares about enforcing its own policies.

Evidently, Gettysburg College doesn’t care when students violate policy. The school’s dean sent an email to students acknowledging YAF’s messages “(are) causing some students to feel personally offended, attacked and perhaps even unsafe.”

The dean recognizes YAF broke the college’s policy, but instead of calling on their members to cease posting such offensive statements, the dean said she “welcomed discussion.” Despite being in clear violation of policy, even in the dean’s own words, YAF has yet to be reprimanded by the Gettysburg College.

Why is one group of students allowed to blatantly violate College policy and get away without any consequences? Why are they allowed to release personal information concerning those who disagree with their views?

Freedom of speech is a core American value that should be vigorously defended, but when you agree to live on a college campus, you also agree to abide by their rules. Those rules are meant to ensure that a college is a safe, welcoming community.

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Boy’s arrest indicates unfair racial profiling among police force matthew bruner Florida state university

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old aspiring engineer, constructed an alarm clock out of a pencil case and brought it to class to show his teacher on Sept. 14. She misconstrued her student’s invention for a makeshift bomb and proceeded to call the police. Ahmed was led out of his school in handcuffs and was subsequently interrogated.

“I built a clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her,” Ahmed said. “It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it.”

Ahmed’s arrest sparked a social media campaign denoted by the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed and triggered responses from many influential people, such as Mark Zuckerberg

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and even President Barack Obama, who invited Ahmed to visit the White House via Twitter. The teenager was eventually released from jail and the charges were dropped.

Ahmed thanked his supporters and told reporters he is planning on transferring schools.

“I felt pretty down that no one would know about this, but after seeing all the support it made me feel happy,” Ahmed said.

The police chief from Ahmed’s hometown, Larry Boyd, told reporters the officers were justified in detaining Ahmed based on the information they received, saying they would have treated this case the same had Ahmed been white.

As much as the police department would like to tiptoe around the subject, the racial undertones of this situation are just another reflection of the stagnant racial stereotypes present in

Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. this country.

Regardless of their comments, this situation would have certainly been handled differently if Ahmed were of any other race. Racial profiling leads people to conclu-

sions that just aren’t there, and in Ahmed’s case, it had a direct effect on what happened. America’s culture is incredibly diverse, so it’s a shame anyone is singled out in a negative way simply

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based on the color of their skin.

After the #IStandWithAhmed campaign started, it opened up discussions on Islam and ethnicity. Many people voiced their out-

rage over what happened to Ahmed on social media, and though their outspokenness is certainly a positive sign, racial profiling still remains a problem in this country.

Every week there are an increasing number of stories with racial undertones.

What happened to Ahmed will continue to happen as long as these negative stereotypes are perpetuated through ignorance and intolerance.

Ahmed has a strong mentality and will hopefully continue to invent things that build upon his education. However, it’s not fair he and so many others have to experience traumatic events like this for reasons entirely out of their control. The only way to fix this problem is to face it head on with unrelenting poise.

People must coexist with one another, and it will certainly take a collaborative effort to eradicate the racial notions blighting our existence.

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Tent City 2.0: Back with a mission

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This is more than just another living arrangement.

It’s a student organization, a community service project and a new tradition for West Virginia University. It’s Tent City, and it’s officially a Homecoming Week event.

This year, a student organization called Tent City Committee is advocating camping on the Mountainlair Green to support the Mountaineers. This year takes things one step further, however, with an added community service component.

“Our minimum fundraising goal is to raise $2,500 for Empty Bowls,” said Tommy Skinner, the first camper of Tent City 2014 and a current MBA and MSIR student.

“It’s something that we lacked in the past,” he said. “We figured with that many people there, it would be very easy to make a difference.”

Tent City Committee will sell T-shirts with two-thirds of the profits going to Empty Bowls, an international grassroots campaign to fight and end hunger. The other third will go toward putting on the camp-out event on campus.

“We just recognized a large need within that organization, and they have a history in Morgantown and the county with helping a ton of people,” Skinner said. “We figured it would definitely be a good organization to be involved with.”

Local businesses are also involved by donating a chosen amount per tent setup. For example, a business can give a donation of $10 for their tent site.

“It’s nice to bring in the community and let them know we’re here for the community as well as to get an education,” said Brittany Brown, a senior criminology student

and another founding member of Tent City 2014. “We want to send a better message of the student body, especially after the riots (last year). That wasn’t the first thing in mind, but it was definitely better to bring the better environment.”

Now with a clear plan for 2015, students can continue building and expanding Tent City in the coming years.

“Hopefully, in the years to come, it’ll be a tradition,” Brown said. “It’s really cool that we’re one of the first people that started it.”

To keep with tradition, the setup will be the same as 2014, just more organized.

“We’re trying to keep it the same as possible to make sure everyone has a good time,” Skinner said. “We’re not there to police anybody. We’re there to just have fun.”

Some organized events are planned, but Skinner said he just wants participants to let loose and enjoy the week.

“We’re just asking that everyone is respectful of the university and the area,” Skinner said. “Rain or shine, we’ll have a good time.”

Tent City is concurrent with Homecoming Week. Beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 5, students can pick up a tent number and pitch it on the Green. Tent City Committee asks that everyone be packed up and off the Green by noon on Friday to give full attention to the Homecoming Parade on Oct. 9.

As for rules manning the tent, Tent City Committee is encouraging students to attend class.

“If there’s times no one’s in there, that’s understandable, but someone should be in the tent as much as possible,” Skinner said.

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The Little Earth Company brings nature to cosmetics Brittany Osteen A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

As colder, rainier and snowier weather approaches, it may be time to take your summer skin care routine to the next level. The Little Earth Company provides handmade natural and organic bath and body products to help do just that.

The home business is owned and run entirely by one woman, Heather Sawyer. All products are made in her kitchen. The idea for the company came from her son’s eczema problem.and her search for ways to help him.

One of the easiest solutions was making the switch to handmade soap. After she bought her first bar and saw the difference it made for her son, she began to make it herself. Over the years, she has perfected her recipe and grown her inventory.

“A goal of mine is to become well-known locally so that if someone in my area wishes to buy handmade products, they know exactly where to go,” Sawyer said.

The Little Earth Company now sells two types of soap, green line and blue line. The green line features standard soaps and the blue line is specialty soaps. Locals can also buy other homemade products including lip balms, body creams, lotion bars, dead sea face

masks, shower melts, bath bombs, soap nets and body scrubs.

All products come with various scent options. Some of the soap scents, which are based on natural ingredients and essential oils, include citrus ginger, lavender vanilla, peppermint, oatmeal honey, cinnamon vanilla, lavender sage, dead sea mineral mud, orange dream and coconut lime. Other products have similar scent selections. Custom orders give customers the opportunity to create their own label and handpick a new scent.

New products might be one of the best ways to combat dry skin and sickness. While they do not claim to have any therapeutic or drug-related benefits, they do claim their products may make skin appear softer, more moisturized and pores appear smaller.

Previous customers have reported their skin conditions have improved or gone away.

The business works hard to be as eco-friendly as possible. It does its part by using old shredded paper and newspaper as packing material, reusing boxes and packing material when available and making all product containers recyclable and/or reusable. Even the products have ingredients that are mostly natural or organic and no synthetic additives are used.

“The main reason I wanted to

The Little Earth Company offers products such as this lavender and sage soap online for purchase. go eco-friendly and the whole reason I started the business was to have products that didn’t have the chemicals,” Sawyer said. “It all started from there.”

In 2011, The Little Earth Company partnered with American Forests to help restore forests. The company has agreed that for every

new customer, it will help plant one tree. It will also help plant 10 trees for every custom order.

The Little Earth Company recently attended the Wine and Jazz Festival on Sept. 19 and 20. They are also going to have a booth during Mountaineer Week for the craft show. Mountaineer Week begins

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Oct. 30 and runs through Nov. 8.

The craft show will take place in the Mountainlair from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1.

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Dopapod gets funky at Mainstage Morgantown

Dopapod rocking the stage at Mainstage Morgantown last Wednesday night.

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Michelle Obama: Girls, don’t hold back in school NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for teenage girls: Don’t shy from being the smartest kid in the class. And never mind what the boys think.

“Compete with the boys.

Beat the boys,” she told about 1,000 schoolgirls and young women Tuesday at an event aimed at publicizing her “Let Girls Learn” campaign to expand girls’ access to education in developing countries and encourage American girls to take advantage of their opportunities. But the first lady also gave some impromptu, personal pep talks on handling the pressures of adolescence.

On dealing with the frustrations, embarrassments and slights of high school: “I know being a teenager is hard,” but it’s temporary and not a template for the rest of life: “Half these people, you’re not going to know when you’re 60.”

And on whether being brainy comes at a social cost: “There is no boy, at this age, that is cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education,” the water pump op-

erator’s daughter-turnedHarvard-trained lawyer said. “If I had worried about who liked me and who thought I was cute when I was your age, I wouldn’t be married to the president of the United States.”

(To her point, the Obamas met well after high school, while both were working at a law firm.)

Mrs. Obama has made girls’ schooling one of her signature issues during her husband’s second term, particularly after the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April 2014.

After she and the president unveiled Let Girls Learn in March, she traveled to Japan, Cambodia and London to promote it and introduced an online offshoot Saturday at the Global Citizen Festival, asking concertgoers in New York’s Central Park to tweet photos of themselves with the hashtag (hash)62MillionGirls. The number represents the number of girls worldwide the U.S. Agency for International Development has said are not in school.

Let Girls Learn involves

hundreds of grassroots projects aimed at countering economic or cultural pressures that spur many girls to drop out - pressures such as early or forced marriage, fear for girls’ safety as they travel to and from school, the expense of school fees, or societal beliefs that it’s less important to educate girls than boys.

And for American girls, “we want this to spur and inspire you to not take your education for granted” and to use it to help the cause, Mrs. Obama said at Tuesday’s discussion at Harlem’s Apollo Theater.

Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron, who founded an AIDSprevention charity in Africa, and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard joined in the discussion, sponsored by Glamour magazine.

Firdaws Roufai, a 15-year-old sophomore at New York’s Central Park East High School, appreciated hearing the first lady acknowledge that being a teenager can be stressful.

“It encouraged me to Michelle Obama is encouraging girls to reach their academic potential. keep going,” she said.

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Moore’s authentic, moving performances elevate ‘Freeheld’ Few actresses bring the simple authenticity to the screen that Julianne Moore does; it’s virtually impossible to imagine this actress sounding a false note. And so it’s hardly a surprise that she is deeply convincing indeed, heartbreaking at times - in the real-life role of Laurel Hester, a dying woman who fought to her last breath to give her domestic partner rights to her pension benefits.

If “Freeheld,” directed

by Peter Sollett, packs much less of a punch than did Moore’s shattering Alzheimer’s drama “Still Alice,” which justly won her an Oscar, it’s not because of the acting - Ellen Page and Michael Shannon also turn in admirable work - but because the film (and the script by Ron Nyswaner) doesn’t give these characters, or their relationships, enough detail and depth to really bring us in below the surface. Instead, it’s a wellmade but matter-of-fact account of a gripping story, one made more poignant by the advances made in gay rights in the decade since.

We begin in 2002. Laurel Hester is a devoted police detective in Ocean County, New Jersey, with two decades of work under her belt and the goal of becoming the first female lieuten-

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Julianne Moore’s portrayal of Laurel Hester is excellent in ‘Freeheld.’ ant on her force. With this goal in mind, she hides her sexuality from colleagues, even from her longtime partner, Dane (Shannon).

Indeed, she goes all the way to Pennsylvania to find a date. At a volleyball game, she meets Stacie Andree (Page), a much younger auto mechanic.

A year later, they’re an established couple, renovating a home and becoming official domestic partners.

But then tragedy hits. A per-

sistent pain in Laurel’s torso turns out to be advanced lung cancer. Stacie vows the couple will beat the disease.

Laurel, never one for sugarcoating a situation, knows how bleak the odds are.

The movie then takes an abrupt turn into a legal drama. Laurel requests in writing that her pension benefits be transferred to Stacie, who otherwise will have to leave their beloved home, upon her death. The decision falls to the Ocean

County freeholders, a body of five Republicans, and they turn her down, despite the existence of a state Domestic Partnership Act. One of the freeholders worries: “People could just make anybody their partners.”

Only one member is sympathetic to Laurel’s cause, but joins in a unanimous vote.

The fight escalates when Laurel appears at a freeholder’s meeting, but the decision remains the same.

The case gets into the me-

dia, though, and pressure grows. Meanwhile, we watch Laurel endure the ravages of chemo, see her get violently ill, see her hair fall out. We’ve watched this sad trajectory in countless movies, but Moore has a way of making most anything seem like we haven’t quite seen it before.

The film changes tone yet again when Steve Carell enters the picture as Steven Goldstein, a larger-thanlife activist who urges Lau-

rel to broaden her fight to include gay marriage. Laurel, ever the pragmatist, says that’s not her battle. Carell makes Goldstein brash, passionate and broadly funny, and though his entertaining characterization might well be accurate (the real Goldstein was sitting in front of me at my screening, and seemed to greatly enjoy the portrayal), the sudden influx of humor is somewhat jarring, given the tone until then.

The final scenes are both cathartic and, in the case of Laurel’s final moments, hard to watch - Moore is frail, white, and completely bald. It’s impressive to see the photos of real-life scenes at the end, and realize how carefully the filmmakers recreated the story.

And it’s hard not to get swept up in the moment when an onscreen epilogue reminds us that in June, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples can marry. Which makes “Freeheld” an important lesson in how quickly times, and attitudes, can change.

“Freeheld,” a Lionsgate release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America “for some thematic elements, language and sexuality.” Running time: 103 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

Damon, Scott return to space in ‘The Martian’ Networks’ top shows TORONTO (AP) — “The Martian” was briefly stranded in Hollywood development when Ridley Scott reached out to Matt Damon, the star attached to the stalled projected.

The script by Drew Goddard (“Cabin in the Woods”) from Andy Weir’s novel was full of the kind of nerdy humor and science geekery that few would associate with the masculine epics Scott is known for.

But the 77-year-old British director tends not to concern himself with such trifles.

“He goes, `We’ve never met,’” recalls Damon, barking an impression of the no-nonsense Scott. “And I said, `No, we’ve never met.’ He goes, `The script is good!’ And I said, `Yeah.’

He goes, `It’s (expletive) great.’ `Yeah.’ `Why aren’t we making this?’ I said, `I guess we are.’”

The unexpected combinations of talent that went into making “The Martian” are fitting for a movie of such hybrid entertainments. It’s a space tale more grounded in science fact than fiction; a 3-D popcorn movie full of mathematics; an ode to science that’s funny.

“The Martian,” which 20th Century Fox will release Friday, is that rare earthly creature: a blockbuster with brains. There may be water on Mars, as NASA announced Monday, but there’s been a drought

at the multiplex.

Damon stars as astronaut Mark Watney, whose crewmembers, thinking him dead from a flying piece of debris, leave him behind on Mars as they rush to flee a sand storm.

Alone on the red planet, Watney’s fate is seemingly sealed, but through his own scientific ingenuity, improvises his survival.

NASA (including an ensemble of Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jessica Chastain) mounts a rescue mission with its own scientific dexterity.

Rarely has there been a film more celebratory of the space program and the problem-solving power of science. NASA has embraced the film with celestial warmth, screening it for the crew on the International Space Station.

The solitary extreme of “The Martian” may be reminiscent of “Gravity,” but its closeness to another recent space drama infused with the spirit of space exploration - Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” in which Damon was also alone on a distant planet - gave the actor pause.

Damon (who spoke in a recent interview before comments he made about diversity and sexuality drew criticism) took a year and a half off from acting while his family (he has four daughters with wife Luciana Barroso) moved to Los Angeles. “The Mar-

tian” was his first film since “Interstellar.”

“I said, `Look, I’m in Chris’s movie. I’m stranded on a planet,’” Damon recalls telling Scott. “If I then follow that up with a guy stranded on a planet...”

The director sought out Nolan to see an early cut of “Interstellar” and decided the similarity wasn’t an issue. “I mean, they’re making another Batman movie already,” laughs Damon, alluding to the upcoming role for his friend, Ben Affleck.

Space, of course, is also a familiar frontier to Scott, who forever endeared himself to sci-fi fans early in his career with “Blade Runner” and “Alien.” Decades later, he’s found himself firmly back in the genre with “The Martian” and 2013’s “Prometheus,” for which he’s currently prepping one and, he says, possibly two sequels.

“I loved it,” says Scott.

“I realized on the first day how much I missed it.”

“The Martian,” which largely drew raves out of its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been portrayed as a return-to-form for Scott following critical disappointments like “Exodus” (which was slammed for its largely white cast) and his Cormac McCarthy adaptation “The Counselor.”

“The press can be very negative,” Scott says. “I never let it get to me, not

for a long time. The last time I got upset about press was `Blade Runner.’

No one liked it.”

Having Scott aboard, Damon says, mitigated his concerns about playing most of his scenes alone.

Like a video diary, Watney speaks the majority of his lines to cameras situated around the Mars habitat.

“You have no one cosigning your fantasy,” Damon says. “It is kind of like when you were a kid making a game up in your room. It’s entirely dependent on not cracking. It was the challenge of the movie and kind of why I wanted to do it.”

Besides prepping the “Prometheus” sequel, “Alien: Paradise Lost,” Scott is managing his busy production company, Scott Free Productions. Damon, following his short hiatus, has packed in a shoot in China with Zhang Yimou, a new “Bourne” film with director Paul Greengrass and a planned Alexander Payne movie (“Downsizing”).

But “The Martian” aligned the men’s orbits for a mutual return to space, propelled by the workmanlike Scott. Not that the director is one to get all cosmic about it.

“I learned very early on: You better be entertaining,” says Scott, who started in advertising. “You want bums in seats. That’s what you do. That’s my business.”

NEW YORK (AP) — “Empire” came back to the Fox lineup with a flourish, while NBC’s thriller “Blindspot” looks to be one of the season’s hottest new shows.

Meanwhile, reliable CBS continued atop the Nielsen company’s television rankings as a new broadcast season started, on the strength of old reliables like “The Big Bang Theory,” “NCIS” and “60 Minutes,” with younger shows “Scorpion” and “Life in Pieces” also hitting Nielsen’s top 20.

A new season means new habits for viewers, or at least getting back into old ones.

Among the top four networks, CBS held its own compared to the first week of last season while NBC, ABC and Fox all slipped.

But Nielsen’s same day ratings only tell part of the story now; networks will get a truer measure of successes and failures when they can factor in time-delayed viewing.

There’s no need for second looks at “Empire,” which was seen by 16.2 million viewers upon its return. Even better for Fox, half of those viewers were in the 18-to-49year-old age group that advertisers love, and no other scripted show had as many as 6 million viewers in that demographic.

NBC’s “Blindspot,” the heavily promoted series about a mystery woman found in Times Square with a world of tattoos, feels like a hit out of the box with 10.6

million viewers.

CBS averaged 10.9 million viewers for the week.

NBC averaged 8.9 million, and won among the 18-to49-year-old viewers demographic. ABC had 6.9 million, Fox had 4.2 million, Univision had 2.3 million, Telemundo had 1.5 million and the CW and ION Television averaged 1 million.

ESPN as the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.99 million viewers in prime time. The Disney Channel had 1.86 million, Fox News Channel had 1.72 million, USA had 1.59 million and Adult Swim had 1.29 million.

NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.3 million viewers. ABC’s “World News” was second with 7.9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.5 million viewers.

For the week of Sept. 2127, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Denver at Detroit, NBC, 22.07 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 18.2 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 18.19 million; NFL Football: Washington at N.Y. Giants, CBS, 16.88 million; “Empire,” Fox, 16.18 million; “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 15.62 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 15.04 million; “NFL Post-Game,” CBS, 13.03 million; “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 12.62 million; NFL Football: N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, ESPN, 12.48 million.

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Wednesday September 30, 2015

DAVID STATMAN associate sports editor @djstatman77

WVU can prove it’s ‘for real’ on Saturday There are a lot of reasons to be excited about this year’s West Virginia University football team.

The Mountaineers rolled through their nonconference schedule, beating Georgia Southern, Liberty and Maryland in most impressive fashion. Their defense has statistically been the best in the nation, and after their 45-6 demolition of Maryland last weekend, West Virginia has moved into the top 25 for the first time this season, ranking No. 23 in the AP Poll.

All of this is great, and the Mountaineers and their fans should be proud.

However, those accomplishments came against Georgia Southern, Liberty and Maryland, and a new test is coming for the Mountaineers on Saturday.

West Virginia has looked like world-beaters in the early goings, but Saturday’s game at Oklahoma will represent a giant step-up in competition. While the Mountaineers should be encouraged by their dominant performance against a Power 5 conference team last weekend, Oklahoma is not only one of the best teams they’ll face this season, they’ll have to head out on the road for the first time this season.

In their fourth year as a Big 12 program, West Virginia now fields a roster composed entirely of players who have only known life in the Big 12. This team has history against Oklahoma, and it hasn’t been that positive.

West Virginia has managed to play Oklahoma competitively during the last three years – Tavon Austin’s record-setting day in a heart-stopping 50-49 loss in 2012 still stands out as one of the most thrilling games in program history – but WVU is still 0-3 in Big 12 games against Oklahoma.

This is an Oklahoma team that looks like a legitimate contender to the Big 12 title this season. New offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley – an old compatriot of Dana Holgorsen’s at Texas Tech – has brought a modified version of the spread offense to Norman, suiting explosive playmakers like quarterback Baker Mayfield, running back Samaje Perine and wide receiver Sterling Shepard very well.

The immediate returns have been promising for Oklahoma. The 3-0 Sooners dropped 40-plus points on Akron and Tulsa and nabbed maybe the best nonconference win by any Big 12 team this year with their double-overtime win over Tennessee in Knoxville.

That said, the Mountaineers have to be coming in filled with confidence.

Their early performances have been far beyond what most people expected, and if they look half as good as they did against Maryland and Georgia Southern, they’ll give Oklahoma a very tough game.

West Virginia has much higher goals than just winning three or four Big 12 games this season. They want to be true Big 12 contenders for the first time in their history – and if they intend to do so, they’re going to need to knock off at least one or two of Oklahoma, TCU or Baylor.

All three of those games are on the road, starting with Saturday’s tilt in Norman. If West Virginia can keep their run going and knock the Sooners off, they might have a big chance to break into the ranks of the conference’s elite.

So are the West Virginia Mountaineers for real?

We’ll find out on Saturday. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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RUSHING SHELL

Junior running back Rushel Shell runs around Georgia Southern defenders in the 2015 season opener.

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Rushel Shell ready to prove himself on the field this season by nicole curtin sports editor @nicolec_WVU

In 2013, redshirted freshman running back Rushel Shell transferred to West Virginia University from the University of Pittsburgh after a productive freshman season.

Shell ran for 641 yards and four touchdowns for the Panthers before sitting out for the 2013 season for NCAA transfer rules.

Last season, Shell played in 12 games, started eight and was the Mountaineers’ leading rusher. Going 176 for 788 yards and seven touchdowns on the season, he also accumulated 21 catches for 140 yards, all of which earned him rankings in the Big 12 including No. 5 in rushing yards and No. 14 in all-purpose yards in the conference.

So far this year Shell has posted 34 carries for 148 yards and two touchdowns. While he is on pace

to finish around the same, if not better, than he did last season, he doesn’t want to hog the ball at all.

Shell’s stats were considered low in the Georgia Southern game, but it was all caused by his relationship with partner running back Wendell Smallwood.

“I already had a touchdown, Wendell didn’t. I felt that I would rather all of us have a touchdown than me have five touchdowns,” Shell said. In the game against the Eagles, Shell gave up a series to give Smallwood a chance.

“It’s the same way with him right now - I have a touchdown, so he might get a touchdown, it’s like the brotherhood that we’ve got. We just want the best for each other.”

According to Shell, people have been giving him a hard time, and he really came out to play against Maryland on Saturday, gaining 15 carries for 78 yards and a touchdown.

He has even caught passes when the opportunity presents itself, grabbing two catches for 33 yards against the Terps alone.

“Sometimes I’ve got to go out to wide receiver, so we really focused on this whole offseason and spring. I feel like I’m way better than I was last year,” he said. “I felt like my back was against the wall. I had to prove a lot of people wrong - I had a lot of people doubting me and saying I wasn’t doing the things that I used to do last year. So my main focus was just not even thinking about it and just running.”

This time last year, West Virginia had already played four games. Shell earned his first start in the gold and blue against Alabama in the season opener where he had 10 carries for 38 yards. The Mountaineers then played Towson, where Shell posted 14 for 71, followed by running 98 yards on 27 runs

against Maryland at College Park. In the Big 12 opener against Oklahoma last September, Shell earned 60 rushing yards on 15 carries.

For the people who have motivated him to “prove himself,” they might have a point, but this team’s operation is also different than 2014’s.

Quarterback Skyler Howard has more rushing yards than Shell himself because he sees the opportunity to run and takes it.

Howard has 153 rushing yards on 35 carries, not counting the sack yards lost, but his runs are not something to be overlooked when comparing Shell’s performance this year to last year.

The WVU coaching staff is playing in to Shell’s motivation to improve, as well.

“Coach Holgorsen did a good job in the beginning of the game getting in my

head,” Shell said after Saturday’s win. “This whole week he’s just been on my back. ‘Can you make a play? You’re soft. You can be the baddest man on the field when you try,’ stuff like that.”

Running backs coach JaJuan Seider has also supported his goals to prove people wrong this year.

According to Shell, Seider told him Smallwood and Shell can be the best tandem in college football.

Heading into the Big 12 this weekend, Shell feels he and his teammates are ready for the challenge.

“I feel like we’re on the right path, and I like us against anyone in college football right now,” he said. “I like our offense, our defense, our special teams, everything’s just really clicking. Everyone’s wanting the best for everyone else, not just for themselves.” ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

men’s golf

West Virginia finishes last at Shoal Creek

BY NEEL MADHAVAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Growing pains were expected in this inaugural season for the West Virginia University men’s golf team. After promising showings in the first couple tournaments of the season, the Mountaineers finished in last place at the Graeme McDowell/ Shoal Creek Invitational this week, shooting a team score of 37-over 901.

The Shoal Creek Invitational marked the toughest test thus far of the Mountaineers’ young season, with a stacked field of nationally-ranked opponents also participating, including hosts UAB, No. 7 South Carolina, Georgia Regents University of Augusta, North Florida, the College of Charleston, Troy, Winthrop, Houston, Ole Miss, No. 21 Washington and head coach Sean Covich’s former school, Mississippi State. A number of

the participating schools also had strong showings at the NCAA Regionals and national tournaments last season.

In addition to a highly competitive field, Shoal Creek Country Club is a tough, nationally-renowned golf course. The 7,154-yard, par-72 course was designed by the legendary Jack Nicklaus and is typically ranked as one of America’s top courses, recently being ranked No. 50 by Golf Digest.

It has played host to a number of PGA tournaments, including two PGA Championships, and in 2018, it’s scheduled to host the U.S. Women’s Open.

It’s a course that rarely sees many low-scoring rounds - in fact, only one team managed to shoot under par, tournament champions and host UAB at 13-under 851.

On top of the tough competition and the difficulty of the course, the Mountaineers faced in-

clement weather for the first time this season as they were forced to play through occasional rain showers on the first day of play.

Despite the adversity, Covich was satisfied with how his team responded.

“I’m very proud of these guys,” said Covich in an interview with WVUSports. com.

“They did everything I asked of them to do this week. This is a great event against some of the best teams in the country on a difficult golf course. We will be a better team for having played in events like these.”

The bright spot of the poor performance by the Mountaineers was the performance of West Virginia native Chris Williams.

Williams, who transferred back home from Coastal Carolina in the spring, rebounded after a 3-over 75 in round one, with a strong 3-under 69 in round two that left him in a tie for

eighth at even-par 144.

Unfortunately for Williams, a 7-over 79 in the final round dropped him from the leaderboard into a tie for 32nd.

After a top-10 finish two weeks ago at the Marshall Invitational, senior captain Easton Renwick succumbed to the trials of Shoal Creek, shooting an 8-over 152 after the first two rounds which left him in a tie for 42nd place.

Renwick managed to turn himself around in the final round with a 1-over 73 that allowed him to finish tied for 35th place with teammate Max Sear.

Sear started the tournament poorly with a 6-over 78 in round one, but managed to hang around thanks to a 3-over 75 and an even-par 72. A triple bogey on the par-3 13th hole cost Sear a chance at shooting under-par in round two.

In his season debut for the Mountaineers, Tristan Nicholls was unable to get

himself out of the hole he had dug himself on day one. The Australian shot a first round 6-over 78 and a second round 8-over 80, which left him with a 14-over 158. He finished in 62nd place, after a final round 6-over 78.

Avery Schneider had a solid start to his second event of the season, as he had the Mountaineers’ best first-round score with a 2-over 74; however, he came back to earth in the second round with an 8-over 80 that dropped him to a 10-over 154. To finish off the tournament, he shot a 3-over 75 that put him at 13-over 229 and tied for 53rd place.

With the challenge of Shoal Creek behind them, the Mountaineers can look forward to the Wolfpack Intercollegiate at Lonnie Poole Golf Club in Raleigh, North Carolina on Oct. 5-6. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Wednesday September 30, 2015

CROSS COUNTRY

Local runners are key to WVU’s cross country success

BY JOEL NORMAN

SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

West Virginia University is known for recruiting instate students, for better or for worse – but for the WVU women’s cross country team, it’s certainly for the better.

“In this year’s class, we have three or four girls that are from the greater Morgantown area,” said head coach Sean Cleary. “It’s a good area for track and field and cross country.”

Those four runners are junior Brianna Kerekes, sophomore Brynn Harshbarger and freshmen Millie Paladino and Andrea Pettit.

“Nobody is calling Morgantown a gold mine, but there’s ability and talent in every corner of this country,” Cleary said.

The most experienced of the group, Kerekes made the Academic All-Big 12 First Team last season. Her best race was the Lehigh Invitational, where she finished 11th overall with a time of 23:04.53. At the 2015 WVU Alumni Open, Kerekes tied for the fastest individual time of the relay race with 11:10.

Harshbarger had an im-

pressive redshirt freshman season after missing all of 2013. She earned United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Honors and made the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

She finished 16th overall at the Big 12 Championship with a time of 20:58.9 and competed at the NCAA Cross Country Championship, where she finished with a time of 21:13.5.

Paladino also competed at the NCAA Cross Country Championship last season, where her time was 22:01.3.

Paladino competed in three other races en route to making the Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team.

In high school, Pettit made the All-State cross country team and was a National High School Coaches Association Academic All-American.

“Our biggest success has come from girls who never ever quit working,” Cleary said.

“People from the Morgantown area dream of running for the Mountaineers, and that pride carries us. It’s been a formula that has worked fairly well for us.”

After only one race in the month of September, West Virginia will have a busier month in October. None of these four runners competed at the Penn State Spiked Shoe Invitational on Sept. 11.

Four races are scheduled in the next five weeks.

This Friday, the ladies travel to Kentucky for the Greater Louisville Classic. After a break from competition from Oct. 4-15, the Mountaineers have back-to-back races on Oct. 16 and 17. First off is the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, followed by the Penn State Open the next day.

After the race at State College, the regular season is finished. The postseason begins on Oct. 31 with the Big 12 Championship.

“We set up a season to get a little bit more difficult as we go on,” Cleary said. “(The Wisconsin Adidas Invitational) in some ways is a little more difficult than the national championship.”

The Mountaineers’ depth will be tested this season, but thanks to their local runners, it might not be an issue.

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Runners cheer at the start of the WVU Alumni Open earlier this month.

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by NCAA, SMU hit with postseason ban

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SMU head coach Larry Brown at a press conference last year.

DALLAS (AP) — The NCAA UCLA was 42-17 in Brown’s banned the SMU men’s bas- two seasons, but the Bruins’ ketball team from postseason runner-up finish in the 1980 play Tuesday and suspended NCAA Tournament was later veteran coach Larry Brown vacated by the NCAA after for nine games after conclud- two players were determined ing that he lied to its investi- to be ineligible.

Michael Adams, the Pepgators and simply turned his back on a case of academic perdine chancellor who was fraud involving one of his the chief hearing officer, said players.

SMU’s past transgressions In a scathing report, the were taken into account this NCAA noted that Brown, who time. He said Brown’s past, previously coached at Kansas and leaving Kansas and UCLA and UCLA, made “choices before sanctions hit those against his better judgment programs, were not factors. when it came to compliance “The committee’s responsibility is to look at this instituissues” at SMU. “These choices included tion and to look at what may or not reporting possible viola- may not have been done imtions in his program, initially properly in this case,” Adams lying to the enforcement staff said. “I don’t remember any during the investigation and online or offline discussion providing no specific guid- about any previous activities ance to his staff on rules of the basketball coach, and it compliance,” the NCAA said probably would be improper in punishing SMU for its na- for us to have done so.” tion-leading 10th major inThe infractions were refractions case. vealed more than eight The school said it was months after the school acstudying the report and would knowledged an NCAA invesdecide within the next two tigation and six months afweeks whether to appeal. ter the Mustangs went to the “Our compliance program NCAA Tournament for the is among the best in the na- first time since 1993. tion, but we acknowledge that SMU’s acknowledgement even the strongest compli- of an investigation in January ance programs can fall short came after an appeal of an acwhen individuals act in an un- ademic suspension that sideethical manner,” SMU Presi- lined sophomore guard Keith dent Gerald Turner said in Frazier the rest of the season. a statement issued before a That was also days after assisnews conference. tant coach Ulric Maligi, who The basketball team will recruited Frazier out of Kimlose nine scholarships over ball High in Dallas, took an inthe next three seasons and definite leave of absence for could have some if not all of personal reasons. Maligi is no its 2013-14 season vacated, a longer on staff.

While no names were reseason in which it went 27-10 and lost in the NIT champi- vealed in its report, the NCAA onship game. The 75-year-old said a former assistant men’s Brown, the only coach to win basketball coach encouraged both NCAA and NBA titles, is an athlete to enroll in an onalso subject to a show-cause line course to meet NCAA iniorder over the next two years. tial eligibility standards and “I am saddened and dis- be admitted to the university. appointed that the Commit- The NCAA also said a former tee on Infractions believes men’s basketball administrathat I did not fully fulfill my tive assistant hired by Brown duties and I will consider my then completed the courseoptions to challenge that as- work; she then provided false sertion in the coming days,” information to NCAA investisaid Brown, who is 69-34 in gators and also attempted to three seasons at SMU. “Still, influence the player to also there was a violation in our provide false information.

According to the report, program and I take responsibility for that and offer my Brown learned of the misconsincere apologies to the uni- duct in 2014 and didn’t report versity community.” it to anyone for more than a The NCAA said Brown ac- month.

When asked by the NCAA knowledged “his failed judgment” during a hearing on enforcement staff about the the case. potential violations, he ini“But I realize, you know, in tially denied having any inforhindsight that was a terrible mation about conversations mistake on my part,” Brown with the former administrasaid, according to the NCAA tive assistant and player. He report. later explained why.

“I wish I could have “Now, this might sound so changed all that. But we had silly, when all these allegathat interview with the NCAA, tions are read, and when (enI don’t know why I lied. You forcement staff) was basically know, dealing with people taking the position I didn’t do that I really care about, and I the right thing, I can’t argue used terrible judgment, and with that,” Brown said, acI tried to acknowledge that cording to the NCAA. “There as quickly as I could, but it is no excuse for not going to doesn’t seem to make a dif- (the athletic director) when ference. I realize that.” (the student-athlete) told SMU is still the only school me he didn’t do this online ever given the NCAA’s so- the course. That’s all he said called death penalty in foot- to me. There is no excuse for ball for multiple violations that, there is no excuse to go and the program was shut before the committee and not down for two seasons, 1987 tell the truth when a question and 1988. The latest case in- is directed at you. I have no cluded violations in the com- excuse for that. I did not do pliance office, men’s golf and that promptly.”

There were also scholarthe revived Mustangs basketship and recruiting reducball program run by Brown.

Brown led Kansas to the tions issued for the men’s golf 1988 national championship team. Among the infractions with Danny Manning lead- cited by the NCAA were that ing the way before returning between Dec. 6, 2012, and to the NBA as San Antonio’s Oct. 23, 2013, the former head coach. But the Jayhawks were golf coach and an assistant banned from postseason play coach engaged in 64 imperthe next season and placed on missible recruiting contacts probation for recruiting viola- with 10 men’s golf prospects tions during Brown’s tenure. and seven parents.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

10 | SPORTS

Wednesday September 30, 2015

VOLLEYBALL

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West Virginia’s volleyball team huddles up before their match with Texas this season.

WVU faces old coach Kramer and TCU tonight by nicole curtin sports editor @nicolec_WVU

Tonight, the West Virginia University women’s volleyball team will continue its conference play against the TCU Horned Frogs.

Last week, the Mountaineers opened the Big 12 season against then-No. 2 Texas and dropped the matches 3-0. WVU comes into the match 5-8 on the season with the lone conference loss, while TCU comes in 10-4, but 0-2 in the Big 12.

TCU is home to previous

WVU volleyball coach Jill Kramer who played for the Horned Frogs before graduating and beginning her coaching career. Kramer is now the director of volleyball, and this is the first time the two teams have met since she took the position.

The Horned Frogs lead the all-time series 5-2, the first match dates back to 2009, and both teams have played each other twice each season since WVU joined the Big 12 in 2012.

Last time the series was played in Morgantown, the Mountaineers took the win 3-2.

Leading the TCU offense is junior outside hitter Ashley Smith who’s averaging 2.87 kills per set, she has accumulated 132 so far this season. Behind her is Regan McGuire with 98 kills averaging 2.13 per set, sophomore setter Kaylee Smith is a huge help for the hitters at the net with 237 assists this year. Senior Alexia Heist has also put in numbers for assists, she has 231 on the season.

Senior defensive specialist and outside hitter, Sutton Sunstrum, is leading the TCU squad in digs with 183 this year, followed

by Ashley Smith who has

135.

Those numbers are pretty high compared to West Virginia’s offense, led by sophomore Morgan Montgomery who has 193 kills, followed by senior Caleah Wells with 124. Senior setter Brittany Sample is right on pace with the assist leaders for the Horned Frogs though, she has 479 assits and sophomore libero Gianna Gotterba has contributed 37.

The Mountaineers are going to have to bring their A-game against the net for TCU’s hitters, this year the leading blockers are middle blocker Hannah Shreve

with 50, and Mia Swanegan with 26. TCU’s leader McGuire has 75 blocks this year followed somewhat closely by Natalie Grower with 43 and Sarita Mikals with 42.

With tough blockers on the Horned Frogs’ side of the net and already somewhat low attacking numbers, West Virginia has another challenge with TCU tonight.

Attacking errors have really hurt the Mountaineers in previous matches this season and especially against Texas, giving up those points will not help them gain the lead and

take a win.

Kramer returning to Morgantown for the first time since her departure to Fort Worth will be a storyline itself, considering the players on the roster who played under her direction and were recruited by her to play for West Virginia.

Tonight’s game also has a “Way Back Wednesday” theme featuring throwback entertainment throughout the match.

Tonight’s game gets underway at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum, entry is free for students with a valid ID. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

ROWING

West Virginia will rely on youth in upcoming season

BY VINCE GAUDIO

SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

With the 2015-16 season approaching, West Virginia rowing head coach Jimmy King can look forward to seeing how youth can lead his team to another year of success.

After the losses of 10 seniors - Alison Coates, Lisa Deklau, Elizabeth Duarte, Addie Dulaney, Kaitlyn Eason, Kelly Kramer, Kimberlie May, Bethany Sapen, Melinda Sharon, Melinda Sharon and Rachel Cokeley - King now has to turn to underclassmen, along with only five seniors for leadership and experience.

Rowing is currently a sport for WVU that encourages walk-ons, tryouts and novices. Anyone who wants

WVU rowers compete on the Monongahela River last season. to try the sport is highly anda, Janae Hurst, Carly recommended.

Ledbetter, Kaitlin Sullivan King has an interesting and Emma Winders (Duneroster going into his ninth din, New Zealand) are the season, as his rowers range freshmen this year trying from all different ages and to help the team any way locations. His roster is set they can. to include athletes from 13 No matter how young the different states, and three team is, they should be fully from New Zealand. prepared. The team has to Freshmen Madison Hry- go through great suffering

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throughout the year with early morning practices and training every day.

Sophomore Anna Cokeley will look to continue her success in the hopes of making an impact on the varsity team after winning Most Valuable Player for the novice team. Cokeley is stepping in for her older sis-

ter, Rachel, who just graduated from the varsity team.

Aside from success in the sport, it’s important for all athletes to strive to be the best on and off the court, field or in this case, the water.

Numerous current athletes have been acknowledged with awards on and off the water.

Last season, Alisha Brownfield, Emily Deming, Madison James and Louisa Morgan won CRCA Scholar Athletes.

According to wvusports. com, in order to be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be in their second, third or fourth year of eligibility, rowed in at least 75 percent of their team’s spring races or a regional conference event and must maintain a cumulative GPA

of 3.5 or better for their careers.

The West Virginia University women’s rowing team is coming off the spring season after the Mountaineers competed in five regattas and finished in fifth place at the Big 12 Championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

During the spring season, the team traveled throughout the country to gain experience and faced some serious opposition. WVU traveled to face Duquesne along with Indiana to scrimmage the Hoosiers, who are currently ranked No. 14 overall in the country.

The team opens its fall season with the Head of Ohio at 8 p.m. Saturday in Pittsburgh. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

AP

Offensive linemen often come to NFL pretty raw VS

TCU

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College football’s spread offenses are producing wide receivers and quarterbacks ready to play as NFL rookies - and lots of linemen who need more prep for prime time.

ESPN analyst Jon Gruden recently bemoaned how quarterbacks have been under siege. He said the passers are to blame for not directing protections properly or getting rid of the ball fast enough but that the babyfaced behemoths aren’t keeping pass-rushers at bay, either.

“You’re getting a lot young offensive linemen out of college these days that have never been in a three-point stance, have never been in a huddle. They don’t have a real good background in how to get (in) the stance and get out of a stance and pass protect let alone pick up stunts, blitzes, handle audibles,” Gruden said.

“It’s a whole new world.

I think that’s why you see a lot of teams running dive options with built-in bubble screens.”

Add in the fewer padded

practices, the pendulum swinging away from TD celebrations and toward sack dances and QBs end up with bruised bodies the color of last week’s blood moon.

Pro Bowl guard Evan Mathis, who left behind an O-line in Philadelphia that’s struggling without him for one in Denver that’s struggling with him, gave an impassioned defense of rookie linemen, saying “some guys can learn that stuff in no time.”

Ravens coach John Harbaugh, however, said Gruden has “a valid point.

It’s definitely something that we have to contend with all across the league.”

O-linemen used to the spread offenses are getting crash courses in the pros, learning how to disguise run blocking and pass protections. They are learning both technique and technical nuances while devouring playbooks and adjusting to quicker, stronger, savvier defenders.

“I don’t know whether the cupboard is bare, they’re all playing defense or what. It

just seems like you get talented players, but you end up not having as many around that really know what they’re doing,” Denver offensive coordinator Rick Dennison said.

“And I’m not faulting anybody. They’ve got to do what they think they’ve got to do best to win, right?

“Offensive linemen, they’re always in a twopoint, rarely are they in a three-point. Centers, oftentimes all they do is shotgun snap. We have to put them under center. But that’s just what it is. If that’s what the trend is, that’s what the trend is and we’ve got to just coach and teach more when they get here.”

Broncos defensive lineman Antonio Smith said that regardless of whether they come out of schools that run pro style or spread offenses, “usually rookie offensive linemen are easy to beat.”

“If you can tell that an offensive lineman is in a run stance or a pass because he’s not savvy enough to know how to disguise it, you’ve got the edge on him,” Smith said.