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WVU changes tuition payment process by caity coyne city editor @caitycoyne

As finals approach and the fall semester winds down, students will inevitably think about what the spring semester will bring, from new classes and new friends to tuition payments.

The West Virginia University Office of Student Accounts has redesigned tuition payment, removing

United Way Campaign raises more than $300,000

the 60/40 payment plan and activating one final due date for spring tuition.

“This makes it easier for the students to understand what their obligations are, and it’s easier for them to understand when their obligations are due,” said Dan Durbin, WVU senior associate vice president for finance.

Now, tuition payment is due in full by Dec. 18, and a 1.5 percent late fee is processed on any outstanding

balance in a student account on Jan. 11. The 1.5 percent late fee will be charged monthly on any money a student owes to the University. This late fee existed last year, as well, Durbin said.

In the past, the 60/40 payment plan allowed students to pay 60 percent of their tuition earlier than the final 40 percent, giving them time to make the necessary arrangements.

However, Durbin said the

system just complicated things for students.

“It created more confusion than it helped,” he said. “(Students) felt we had too many due dates.”

Last fall, Durbin and others in his department started recording and organizing all calls coming in to the Office of Student Accounts so they could improve their process.

A majority of calls spurred from confusion about the 60/40 payment

Spring 2016 Tuition - Tuition in full due Dec. 18 - 1.5 percent late fee processed Jan. 11 -60/40 payment plan removed plan, Durbin said. but Durbin said there are Students who depended still resources available to on the 60/40 payment plan help them. for its flexibility may be “We didn’t want to unsure of how to approach see tuition on PAGE 2 their tuition next semester,

HUGS FOR HUMANITY

Student organizes event offering free hugs to debunk social stigmas

By Kayla Asbury Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

By Rachel McBride Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

West Virginia University recently raised more than $300,000 through the 33rd annual United Way Campaign, which runs from September through December.

The United Way Campaign is an annual fundraising operation to raise money for local health and human service agencies, according to Brett White, United Way director of development and marketing. Currently, the campaign supports 49 various programs at 27 local agencies.

“The agencies that receive United Way funding are literally changing and saving lives every single day,” White said. “Many of the agencies would not be able to operate their programs without this financial support.”

Since 2007, WVU has raised more than $250,000 each year for the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties, topping $2.8 million in contributions. White said WVU’s first United Way campaign began in 1982 and has been conducted every year since.

WVU students helped raise more than $29,000 for the campaign this year through the Gold Rush T-shirt sale and the Blue and Gold Mine Sale. More than 4,000 limited edition T-shirts were sold for the football game against Maryland alone.

More than 750 University employees and retirees also donated to the United Way campaign, contributing to its success.

With the help of 150 volunteer team captains, WVU had a record number of fundraisers throughout campus, hosted by different departments within the University. At one fundraiser, Health Sciences volunteers raised more than $1,000 by hosting basket raffles and events.

The University celebrated the campaign’s accomplishments Dec. 2 at Milan Puskar Stadium where a check was presented to the

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By Amy Pratt

Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Students at West Virginia University were greeted on Wednesday with calls of “Free hugs!” as they passed in front of the Mountainlair.

By amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Finals are coming, and so is the stress of finishing papers and projects.

Luckily for West Virginia University students, the University offers ways to relax before diving into the stress of the end of the semester.

Wednesday, in the Mountainlair, students were able to stop and “pet a pup” as part of Fun Before Finals week. The puppies were service dogs in training from Hearts of Gold. The goal was to give

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“It’s a cold day,” volunteers chanted, “warm up with a free hug!”

WVU’s Hugs for Humanity event was an idea from WVU student Mustafa Rfat, who was a refugee from Iraq. In a Peer Advocacy class, Rfat thought of holding the friendly gathering

and organized the event to remind people to respect and care about each other because they are human before anything else.

The peer advocates who contributed, represented It’s On Us, a national campaign to end sexual violence on college cam-

puses by giving out free hugs to spread awareness about diversity and love for humanity.

“I came to this point where we are human, we have a lot in common, and that’s why I wanted to

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WVU offers stress relief activities during finals week

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‘It’s on US’ puts on free hug day outside the Mountainlair.

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Merow, McIntyre announce bid for 2016 student body president, vice president

students an opportunity to de-stress by petting puppies, while giving the puppies some time to be loved on by humans, according to Lindsay Parenti, from Hearts of Gold.

“We don’t really know why, but there is a lot of anecdotal research showing that petting a pet reduces stress. We don’t really know the mechanism, but there seems to be a reaction,” Parenti said. “It’s a double win, for the students and the dogs.”

Katie Nowak, an English and secondary education student, participated because it helped her re-

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Student Government Association Vice Chair Julie Merow and Governor Mac McIntyre announced their bids for 2016 student body president and vice president respectively at Wednesday night’s weekly SGA meeting.

“Growing up in Morgantown and being a diehard Mountaineer fan, I have watched our University grow from 20,000 to 25,000 to 30,000 and the many accomplishments and innovations that WVU has had along the way,” Merow said.

“Our University as a whole and our student government have made great strides to put us on the same level as our peer institutions in academics, athletics, recruitments and so much more. It is time we take the final leap to put our University on a level it has never seen before. I want to lead this leap.”

Merow, a junior public relations and economics student, was elected to the SGA Board of Governors last semester on the MAD Movement’s ticket.

“I am honored and humble to stand here alongside Vice Chair Merow,” McIntyre said.

“I’ve considered her a close friend and colleague since we entered SGA’s intern program three years ago. I can say without reservation that she has the courage, intelligence and strength of character to be an exceptional student body president.”

McIntyre, also elected to the BoG on the MAD ticket, hopes serving as Student Body Vice President will empower other students at WVU. “Our role as student leaders is to help our fellow students realize their power,” McIntyre said. “Every student deserves to realize how significant they are.

Every student deserves to feel they matter. Every student deserves to know their voice is being heard. The only way to do that is to create an inclusive, representative SGA.” Also Wednesday, SGA gave a presentation on the SGA Big 12 Conference seven members at-

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Thursday December 3, 2015

National Dining-In Day promotes family meals

By Jamie Mason Correspondent @DailyAthenaeum

People across the nation are calling for Americans to put away their cell phones and dine with their families for National Dining-In Day. “(National Dining-In Day) is a campaign that calls attention to the benefits of family meal time and also calls attention to the field of Family Consumer sciences,” said Elaine Bowen, a West Virginia University Extension health promotions specialist.

Throughout the year, and

particularly on this day, families are encouraged to put away technology or any other distractions and have dinner together. The event is part of the Family and Consumer Sciences Day, sponsored by the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences.

“When families get together, they connect. So you are developing the relationship and the bonds between parents and kids and siblings,” Bowen said.

National Dining-In Day is extremely important for America, according to Bowen. She said there is a

significant amount of research that documents the positive benefits of families eating meals together.

WVU Extension Services Public Health Specialist Kristin McCartney agreed on the campaign’s significance, believing it has a number of beneficial outcomes for both children and busy parents.

“In today’s lifestyle, there are few opportunities for families to sit down together around the dinner table,” McCartney said.

Not only are family meals a good time to eat healthy, they’re also a chance for

family members to talk about their day and really interact with each other, McCartney said.

Bowen said students should think of this as a challenge to focus more on “good meal time experiences as often as they can.”

Eating as a family allows all members, especially children, to “learn to communicate with each other, learn to know more about each others feelings and opinions, family values and traditions,” Bowen said.

Even though most WVU students don’t live at home during the school year,

Bowen and McCartney said students should still take part in the national event because it’s a way to connect and form relationships.

“The dining halls provide a nice setting for people to get together,” Bowen said, “so it can be your campus family.”

Many times, you’ll be sitting at a dinner table and realize everyone is on their phones, McCartney said. No one actually communicates anymore.

“I think it may be even more important to people of the college age to set down the devices and socialize

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Holocaust survivor, rescuer reunited in New York City

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Michael Hochberg, right, talks with Krystyna Jakubowski while surrounded by reporters at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. The Jakubowski family sheltered Hochberg for more that two years during the Holocaust. They two were brought back together by the The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

with their friends,” she said.

Bowen said the campaign is more important now than it has been in the past. Over the last couple decades, Bowen believes America has shifted away from eating as a family and talking face to face.

“I miss eating dinner with my family every night,” said Ali Murphy, a WVU sophomore. “My parents made it a point to have dinner as a family Monday through Friday, and we would always talk about our day.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties.

All contributions for WVU’s United Way campaign stay within the local community, and will be donated to agencies that do not have the necessary resources to carry out their own fundraising campaigns and that rely heavily on additional funding. “(The agencies’) work relies on our community’s support to continue, and this campaign offers employees and individuals an opportunity to give back,” White said. “The United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties enhances the quality of life in our community by helping those in need.”

The campaign takes place at more than 100 local workplaces with participating employees, White said, including WVU. Other community individuals can take part by donating online or through the residential mailing campaign, as well.

Mylan Pharmaceuticals is the largest contributor to the campaign, followed by the University and WVU Medicine.

United Way as a whole “improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good,” according to its website. Creating projects in both the United States and around the world, United Way can “advance the common good by creating opportunities for all.”

For more information on United Way, visit https://unitedway.org/.

NEW YORK (AP)—An Israeli man and a Polish woman were reunited Wednesday in New York, seven decades after her Catholic family saved him during the Holocaust.

Michael Hochberg, 77, sat holding hands with 86-year-old Kr ystyna Jakubowska at Kennedy International Airport, locking eyes as their relatives looked on.

“He was a very pretty boy and he was very good - no problems with him as a child,” she said with a smile, speaking in Polish through a translator. “But

I was scared, because the Germans announced on the street what would happen if somebody is saving a Jew.” The punishment was death.

On We d n e s d ay , Jakubowska flew in from Warsaw to meet Hochberg.

The Polish woman’s family had taken in the boy at age 4 after he was literally thrown over the wall of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw by a friend so as not to fall into the hands of the Nazis who herded hundreds of thousands of Jews there, many of them then sent to an extermination

camp.

For two years, the child lived with Jozef and Rozalia Jakubowska - friends of his family - and their son and three daughters including Krystyna, then a teenager. The family made sure no one discovered that he was circumcised, and therefore Jewish; most Christian babies did not undergo the procedure at that time.

Hochberg had escaped just before the 1943 uprising that sent the ghetto up in flames he could see from the balcony of the Jakubowska apartment.

The boy never again

saw his parents or grandparents, who all died. And he could never venture out of the apartment except at night.

“Very few people helped the Jews,” Hochberg said on Wednesday. “In the Jewish tradition, you say, whoever saves one soul saves the whole world.”

Jozef Jakubowska, who fought against the Nazis as a member of the Polish underground, was killed in combat. The rest of the family, including the boy, was forced out of the city into the countryside, where the mother died.

At the end of the war,

“I just hugged everybody, and I had to leave,” said Hochberg, who grew up in a Jewish orphanage in the town of Otwock, eventually moving to Israel, where he had three sons and eight grandchildren.

The sur vivor and Jakubowska had previously met briefly in Poland in 2006. They were brought together in New York by The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

Hochberg and his wife live in the Israeli city of Haifa and are now spending a month in the U.S. They also plan to visit Las Vegas and Miami.

tuition

the semester, is available to students who need the assistance.

The accelerated due date, on Dec. 18 this year instead of in January like in past semesters, is also meant to help students, Durbin said.

“Before, if students couldn’t come up with the 60 percent, they had a very short time frame to be able to get some financial ar-

rangements in order to be able to make the first day of class,” he said. “That was really pinching the students time wise, and the parents too because they were trying to come up with the tuition money.”

The extra time will hopefully give students more opportunities to find help if they need it, instead of having them panic about paying tuition as classes

commence.

“If we can get to a student sooner, or more importantly if a student can get to us sooner to get help, we have a longer window to be able to work with them on potential aid or loans or tuition pay or something like that,” Durbin said. “It gives the students a little more room.”

Durbin and a group of administrators have been

meeting for several months to improve the enrollment process at WVU, he said, and after they facilitated those changes, the logical next step was to improve the billing system.

“We want to make sure we take care of our students,” Durbin said. “That’s the bottom line.”

For more information on TuitionPay, visit

https://tuitionpaymentplan.com/wvu.

For any questions or concerns regarding billing or tuition payment, call the Office of Student Accounts at (304)293-4006, email the office at OSA@ mail.wvu.edu or stop by the new Mountaineer Hub located at the Evansdale Crossing.

offering free hugs to anyone who wanted one. They did not hold a sign with their own religion because they wanted to show being human comes first.

Marina Matthews, a Title IX education specialist and professor for the Peer Advocacy course, said it was an important event to raise awareness for all.

“Regardless of what you believe in, you’re a fellow Mountaineer, you’re a fellow human, and we all need to love each other on this campus and be respectful of

each other’s choices. It’s a powerful student-led event to show that this is a group of very diverse individuals who’ve come together to show that we all come together as Mountaineers,” she said.

Even WVU President E. Gordon Gee joined in on the love. Impressed with the event’s message and the compassion of students, he decided to attend and receive a hug of his own.

“I think it’s one of the really powerful things I’ve seen since coming here.

We have all this disruption on university campuses, we have been pointing fingers at each other across the country,” Gee said. “The fact that our students take the lead and say we trust each other, say we believe in our humanity, and we believe in each other. I’m just moved to tears.”

Aria Asmussen, a WVU student, was also moved by the event. She was overwhelmed by gratitude, saying it was an event “someone (had) to do.”

“I didn’t know what to ex-

pect when I came up here at all. You’d think how many people would actually stop, but the amount of people who have, it almost makes me cry,” Asmussen said.

Jed Walkup, another WVU student, was one of the people giving out hugs. Part of University Christian Fellowship, Walkup wanted to be a part of Hugs for Humanity because he believes it embodies Christian teachings about love and acceptance.

“I know a lot of (times) when I’m on social media I see a lot of Christians saying

some things about other religions or refugees that are, quite frankly, not Christlike… So I think it’s import to be out here and learn what it is to love your neighbor like yourself,” Walkup said.

“That’s what Jesus taught us… and that’s anyone, regardless of religion, creed or sexual identity.”

To learn more about It’s on Us and Title IX, contact James Goins Jr., WVU’s Title IX coordinator at james. goins@mail.wvu.edu.

and sort of blow off some steam and have some fun before they have to really get down to the hard part of studying,” said Sabrina Cave, assistant vice president for Student Life communications.

On Thursday, there will be free hot chocolate at the Creative Arts Center, ice skating at the Mountainlair plaza, Laser Tron at the Mountainlair, a life size snow globe at Woodburn Circle and WVUP All Night food. Friday will include time to talk with Bob Huggins, massages in the Health and Education building, meditation practice, a hot chocolate bar at the Mountainlair and

other activities.

“All of the events that are planned this week are truly student ideas,” Cave said.

“So, a lot of the events and activities are just meant to be easy, stress relieving activities for them that don’t require a lot of time, don’t require a lot of thought, don’t require any preparation, just a time for them to enjoy, relax and relieve some stress. Everything is free.”

Along with Fun Before Finals week, WVU chillWELL will host a ChillFest to help students relax. ChillFest will be 3-7 p.m. on Friday. Starting at 7 p.m., there will be yoga classes in the Student Rec

Center.

There will also be a mantra workshop where students can learn to create positive self-talk and breathing techniques, according to Hannah Wigal, marketing and communications graduate assistant for WVU Health and Wellness promotion.

“ChillFest is something that WVU has every year as a component of the chillWELL campaign… The aim is to target stress and encourage students to optimize their quality of life and performance,” Wigal said. “By hosting this ChillFest, we’re really hoping that students will take advantage of these oppor-

Students play with a service pup in the Mountainlair to relieve some of the stresses of finals week. tunities and realize that For the full Fun Bejust by doing these simple fore Finals schedule, visit activities or learning how https://funbeforefinals. to control your breath, wvu.edu/events. you can transform those stresses.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Continued from page 1 change things without giving students the opportunity and the avenue to get some help,” he said.

TuitionPay, a tuition payment plan that allows students to pay a small registration fee and then pay off their tuition throughout

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Continued from page 1 remind people that we need to care about each other. We need to respect each other,” Rfat said. “Let’s look beyond religion, let’s look beyond culture, race and ethnicity.

All of these things are personal, and we have no right to discriminate between human beings.”

Those who participated held signs with different religions on them and stood

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Continued from page 1 a lot fatter though,” Nowak said. “I was actually looking forward to this all morning. I found out online that the puppies were going to be here, so I was excited to come pet the dogs.

Fun Before Finals week is a new program to provide students with a quick and easy way to relieve stress around finals.

“We just decided to really package an entire week long group of activities to really focus on students to just relax

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Fourteen dead, more than a dozen wounded in Calif. shooting SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.

(AP)—At least two heavily armed attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services center for the disabled Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others in a precision assault that looked “as if they were on a mission,” authorities said.

About four hours later, police hunting for the killers riddled a black SUV with gunfire in a shootout 2 miles from the late-morning carnage, and a man and woman with assault rifles, handguns and “assaultstyle clothing” were killed, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said.

A third person who was spotted running near the gunbattle was detained, but Burguan said it was unclear if that person had anything to do with the crime.

The shooting at the social services center occurred at a holiday celebration for workers, not the disabled.

It was the nation’s deadliest mass shooting since the attack at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, three years ago that left 26 children and adults dead.

Police shed no light on the motive for the massacre. David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said the bureau is looking at several possibilities, including workplace violence and terrorism. He did not elaborate.

Late Wednesday, a law enforcement official who was briefed on the case identified one of the suspects as Syed Farook. The official was not authorized to speak to the media about the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The attackers invaded the Inland Regional Center and began shooting around 11 a.m. Wednesday. They opened fire in a conference area that the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health had rented out for an employee banquet, said Marybeth Feild, president and CEO of the nonprofit center.

Police spokeswoman Sgt.

Vicki Cervantes said witnesses reported seeing one to three gunmen.

“They came prepared to do what they did, as if they were on a mission,” Burguan, the police chief, said.

Burguan said that someone had left the morning event after “there was some type of dispute,” but investigators were not sure whether that had anything to do with the subsequent massacre in the Southern California city of 214,000 people about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

As gunfire echoed through the large threebuilding complex, several people locked themselves in their offices, desperately waiting to be rescued by police. Some texted or telephoned their loved ones and whispered to them what was going on.

“People shot. In the office waiting for cops. Pray for us. I am locked in an office,” Terry Petit’s daughter texted him.

Petit, choking back tears as he read the text for reporters at the scene, said his daughter works at the center, where social workers find jobs, housing and transportation and provide other services to people with disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

Ten of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition, and three were in serious condition, Fire Chief Tom Hannemann said.

That the violence happened at a place dedicated to helping people with developmental disabilities even if they were not targeted - made it even harder for some to comprehend.

“These are all disabled kids, very disabled,” said Sherry Esquerra, who was searching for her daughter and son-in-law, both of whom work at the center.

“She gets all the services she possibly could for these kids. So I just don’t understand why somebody would come in and start shooting.”

FBI agents and other law enforcement authorities converged on the center and searched room to room for the attackers. Triage units were set up outside,

and people were wheeled away on stretchers. Others were marched from the building with their hands up so that police could search them and make sure the attackers weren’t trying to slip out.

They had indeed escaped. One witness, Glenn Willwerth, who runs a business across the street, said he heard 10 to 15 shots and then saw an SUV with blacked-out windows pull out “very calmly, very slowly” and drive off.

As the manhunt dragged on, stores, office buildings and schools were locked down in the city, and roads were blocked off.

About four hours later, with police looking for a dark SUV, officers staking out a home in the nearby city of Redlands saw a vehicle matching that description leave. They pursued the vehicle, the SUV crashed, and a gunbattle broke out around 3 p.m., authorities said. One officer suffered a minor injury.

The aftermath of the shootout was captured live by television news helicopters.

Each of the dead had a rifle and handgun and was wearing tactical clothing, including vests stuffed with ammunition magazines, said Agent Meredith Davis of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. An explosive device was found at the social service center, and during the car chase, the couple hurled a fake bomb - a metal pipe stuffed with cloth - out of the SUV, she said.

President Barack Obama was briefed on the attack by his homeland security adviser. He said it was too early to know the shooters’ motives but urged the country to take steps to reduce mass shootings, including stricter gun laws and stronger background checks.

“The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world, and there’s some steps we could take, not to

eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don’t happen as frequently,” Obama told CBS. The shooting sounded like “an organized plot,” and preliminary information seems to indicate that “this is personal, and there seems to suggest some element of revenge and retaliation,” said Erroll G. Southers, director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies at the University of Southern California and a former FBI agent.

“What it says to me, it’s someone who’s familiar with the facility, it’s someone who knew exactly what room they were going to go to. They knew exactly which way they needed to escape,” Southers said. “They’ve done their homework.”

The social services center has two large buildings that require a badge to get in, said Sheela Stark, an Inland Regional Center board member. However, the con-

ference r o o m w h e r e many public events take place - including the banquet Wednesday - is usually left open when visitors are expected.

Marcos Aguilera’s wife was in the building when the gunfire erupted. He said a shooter entered the building next to his wife’s office and opened fire.

“They locked themselves in her office. They seen bodies on the floor,” Aguilera told KABC-TV, adding that his wife was able to get out of the building unharmed.

Olivia Navarro said her daughter, Jamile Navarro, a case manager at the social service center, called her

and whispered that she was taking cover in a locked room.

“Of course you’re going to be quiet, so we hung up,” she said. “I said, ‘All right, I’ll be there, turn off the lights, don’t make a sound.’ And that was it.”

The daughter made it safely out of the building.

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Two women embrace at a community center where family members are gathering to pick up survivors after a shooting rampage that killed multiple people and wounded others at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015.

Ex-wife says Colorado supsect vandalized another clinic CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic left a decades-long trail of broken marriages, scant social connections and a reputation for religious zealotry that didn’t match his yen for gambling and extramarital affairs.

New court documents and interviews reveal Robert Lewis Dear as an occasionally violent, fundamentalist loner who was known to nurse a grudge.

He had one for at least 20 years against abortion providers, going so far as to put glue in the locks of a clinic in Charleston years earlier, a common protest technique among activists trying to shut down abortion clinics.

But still unknown is what caused Dear, 57, to escalate from petty vandalism to the fusillade he is accused of unleashing at the Colorado Springs office, where a law enforcement official said he ram-

bled about “no more baby parts” after his arrest. Colorado Springs police have refused to disclose a motive for Dear’s violence, but there’s mounting evidence that Dear was deeply concerned about abortion.

Dear’s ex-wife, Barbara Mescher Micheau, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her former husband came home one day bragging about gluing the doors of a clinic. Micheau, who lives in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said Dear never talked much about Planned Parenthood, although “obviously he was against abortion.”

“He was always plotting revenge against people he felt did him wrong and you know it didn’t take much for him to feel like somebody did him wrong,” Micheau said. “So he would spend a lot of time trying to get back at people, trying to figure out ways to get back at people.”

Micheau was Dear’s sec-

ond of three wives, and in the affidavit she filed to divorce him in 1993, she described him as angry and isolated.

Micheau said Dear had no friends, according to the document. He would listen to music on headphones for hours, ignoring her. He’d vanish for gambling trips to Las Vegas or Atlantic City and suddenly explode in anger at home, kicking her and pulling her hair.

“Rob’s anger erupts into fury in a matter of seconds and is alarming,” she wrote. “You have to constantly monitor his emotional state.”

She added that he appeared devoutly religious.

“He claims to be a Christian and is extremely evangelistic, but he does not follow the Bible in his actions,” Micheau wrote. “He says as long as he believes he will be saved, he can do whatever he pleases. He is obsessed with the world coming to an end.”

Dear’s problems were evident even before their marriage ended. He jumped between jobs in fast-food management before joining the South Carolina electric company Santee Cooper.

There “he got in trouble a lot and played hooky a lot” before he eventually quit and became an artist’s representative, selling prints wholesale to art galleries, Micheau said.

“He liked the freedom of being his own boss and not having anyone to answer to,” she wrote in the divorce complaint. Money was tight and she said her former husband used his money for “personal pleasures,” such as a motorcycle and an expensive gun, rather than their bills that piled up.

In 1992, after Dear and Micheau were separated, he was arrested in North Charleston, South Carolina, on a charge of criminal sexual conduct after a woman said he put a knife

to her neck, forced her into her apartment and sexually assaulted her after hitting her in the mouth.

No records show how the case was ultimately handled.

Dear also married Pamela Ross, who told The New York Times that he didn’t seem overly zealous, standing against abortion but not dwelling on it.

Court records show they divorced in 2001. Neighbors who lived beside Dear’s former Walterboro, South Carolina, home say he hid food in the woods as if he was a survivalist, warning neighbors about government spying. One neighbor put up a wooden fence separating their land because Dear liked to skinny dip.

Dear also lived part of the time in a cabin with no electricity or running water in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

About a year later he moved again, having convinced another woman he

met in South Carolina to live with him in his white trailer marked with a cross on a desolate stretch of land in Hartsel, Colorado, ringed by Rocky Mountains. Living more than 60 miles west of the clinic in Colorado Springs, Dear rarely waved to neighbors, who saw him heading into the mountains on an ATV to gather firewood or stopping to get his mail at the post office.

Relatives of Dear’s girlfriend, Stephanie Bragg, said they hadn’t heard from her much since they moved. But her father, Gary Turner, was concerned.

“Gary said Stephanie was living in Colorado and that she was living off the grid, so he doesn’t hear much from her,” Bragg’s former stepmother, Patricia Stutts, said. “It caused him a lot of distress.”

Authorities have spoken with Bragg, who couldn’t be located for comment Wednesday.

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other student leaders who are facing similar problems that we are (facing) here on our campus, and then bring ideas back from that to make our own organization better,” Capel said. “Beyond that, it was a great time for us to pull programming ideas and cool things that they do on their campuses that we know our students would enjoy, as well.”

After speaking on how other universities had much larger student governments, Daniel Brewster, SGA’s faculty advisor, said the conference showed WVU’s SGA could work on improving its student involvement.

“One of the reasons our SGA is so different is because the vision was to serve as a mini board of governors, like what we have here at the institution… I would love if we

could get this kind of buyin from our students,” Brewster said. “Can you imagine, 98 people getting elected for office, what kind of accomplishments could be found if everyone had buy-in?”

The conference was composed of breakout sessions, which included meetings for the presidents and vice presidents, and other sessions focused on student representation, voicing issues, finance and the legislative branch.

Student Body Vice President Ashley Morgan said discussion with other presidents and vice presidents was the most influential thing she had been a part of as vice president.

“We talked about issues we were facing and things that we can improve on,” Morgan said. “We are facing similar issues on diversity and campus safety and

housing... It was a really open discussion on ways we can be better.”

Governor Trevor Kiess explained the differences between WVU’s SGA and student governments across the country.

“The big difference between us and everybody else, of course, is the number,” Kiess said. “The second thing is that we all run on platforms, issues— they don’t really have that.

They don’t necessarily run on a platform they want to see accomplished, they run more as a representative from their college.”

SGA members that attended the conference had several plans after returning, including utilizing a point system among governors, basing the elections on a calendar year instead of an academic year and working with other governing groups on

campus.

SGA Chief of Staff Erin Heeter said the conference was beneficial for those who attended as student leaders.

“It definitely showed us how other universities work and how they run,” Heeter said. “It gave us insight on how we can better our SGA in upcoming years and take some ideas from them and make them our own here at WVU.” Attending this year’s conference was part of SGA’s preparation for the SGA Big 12 conference that will be held at WVU in November 2016.

“We want it to go well, obviously, because we want to showcase the good parts of WVU. We took a lot away from that conference,” Capel said. “We wanted to go to make sure that we can make our conference next year bigger

than what Texas’ was this year.”

The Board also appointed Shannon Redmon as SGA’s Big 12 liaison and Nathan Tehrani as the Graduate Student Senate liaison.

Executive Haley Quigley announced SGA Intern of the month, Justin Click, whom singlehandedly organized the WVU vigil for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut.

Also, Kiess and Governor Blake Humphrey authored and supported a resolution to create and add the reading of the SGA Mission Statement to the SGA meeting agenda.

SGA regularly meets at 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday in Elizabeth Moore Hall.

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The conference was a time for WVU’s SGA members to meet with 60-80 delegates from collegiate student governments in other Big 12 schools, such as Baylor and Texas Christian University. The delegates gathered to discuss important issues and strategies they each use when working on their local campuses.

For Student Body President George Capel, the conference was an opportunity to better the University’s student government.

“It was just really cool to be in a setting where we could bounce ideas off of other student governments, and also talk with

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Ensuring fair treatment for workers America was considered to be the land of opportunity at the turn of the 20th century for many immigrants worldwide. Families often risked their lives traveling to this country and faced many hardships upon arrival, but still managed to thrive in their new setting.

In fact, it’s possible a majority of West Virginia University students have direct foreign ancestry as a result of the mass European migration to America from 1880 to 1924.

Today’s immigration atmosphere is much different. The paperwork necessary to immigrate into the United States can take months or even more than a year to be approved, and many costs to both families and individuals can accumulate as a result. Once immigrant families finally arrive in America, however, their circumstances can become even worse than in their home country.

The immigration issues surrounding Syrian refugees being allowed into the coun-

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Most H-2 visa carriers are seasonal agricultural workers. try has been a rising topic in the past few months, but thousands of immigrants already in the United States are currently undergoing unfair treatment.

The H-2 guest worker visa program allows immigrants to work unskilled labor jobs instead of requiring a higher level of education and train-

ing like other visas, but according to MSNBC, those who carry it have been subjected to receiving inadequate pay, physical abuse and even the threat of deportation if they complain about their conditions.

The number of people receiving H-2 visas has increased by 50 percent in the

past five years. However, the immigrants holding these jobs are preventing Americans from working. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, current unemployment rates indicate there is no unskilled labor shortage in America requiring foreign workers to take unskilled jobs, so immi-

grants are in direct competition with American workers for the same positions.

Companies like Hamilton Gowers, which supplies vegetables to major grocery store chains, have used the H-2 to their advantage. In the past, they have hired large numbers of Americans to fill a quota and then par-

ticipated in mass layoffs in order to only employ those who carry an H-2 visa. Doing so saves the company money because they become exempt from payroll and unemployment taxes when non-Americans are hired.

The H-2 visa was initially created in order to provide a solution to potential labor shortages, but serves no real purpose in helping today’s workforce. It not only keeps American workers out of jobs, but also leaves immigrant laborers to live and work in poor conditions they cannot escape from without losing their source of income.

The H-2 visa should either stop being administered so frequently, or greater restrictions should be placed on companies who use immigrant workers to their financial advantage. Regardless of nationality, companies should treat unskilled laborers fairly in all aspects. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Let’s Play videos create unique player-viewer relationship Kaitlin licause columnist @kaitlinlicauseda

Some might remember the brutal satire from South Park’s last season concerning Let’s Players—people who play video games and post their reactions online for others to watch.

While South Park’s review of this new form of entertainment is less than flattering, the success of the Let’s Player genre online proves this industry is filling a very important niche for the current gaming industry.

Playing video games while surrounded by friends has been a tradition since the first days of arcade games. Now through the use of online streaming, anyone can have an audience to watch them scream in terror at the newest horror game or speed-run their way through an old favorite in less than a few clicks.

Sometimes this streaming goes beyond being just a hobby. There are many Let’s Players whose sole income revolves around filming and posting their videos. Some are paid through ad revenue; others set up Patreon accounts, which allow their fans to support their favorite gamers through monthly donations.

With the amount of money that the most popular Let’s Players make (Felix Kjellberg, more commonly known as the Let’s Player Pewdiepie, recently revealed he made nearly $7.4 million dollars last year from his gaming videos on Youtube), it’s not hard to see why online game streaming continues to be one of the entertainment industry’s leading markets.

But why are these gamers reaping so much success?

What sets them apart from other Youtube entertainers or from critics of other genres? I believe the difference lies not just in the medium, but in the connection fostered between many Let’s Players and their audience.

The modern Let’s Player is more than just a new breed of critic. Critics experience something and state their opinions on it afterward, but Let’s Players operate in the moment and provide firsthand reactions to a game in order to create the feeling of an authentic experience. You can’t watch the critic watch the movie and see his face light up or hear his rants of frustration.

The Let’s Player’s immediacy gives the viewer the feeling they are experiencing this game in real-time with another person.

The notion of camaraderie is an important part to

Let’s Play gaming channels such as Video Games Awesome! show real-time reactions to games and interact with fans through chat. why Let’s Players carry such an appeal. Many Let’s Players are very open with their fans and directly communicate with them, which fosters a positive produceraudience relationship that makes fans feel like they are directly involved with the content the producer is creating. Some Let’s Players go as far as to play games with some of their fans while others take admirers’ suggestions on which games to play next.

Ultimately, Let’s Players foster a sort of authenticity

that makes their audience feel like they are part of a bigger group. Take Fraser Agar from the show Video Games Awesome!, who not only plays video games but also streams himself and his friends watching new trailers for movies and giving their firsthand reactions.

For many, these segments aren’t just about seeing new trailers, but is about feeling like you’re having a good time with a group of friends.

Some might say this feeling of connection to the Let’s Players you watch is

a little delusional, but the power of community can be a very real thing. This year, for example, the gaming channel Rooster Teeth held a fundraiser called Extra Life for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas , which raised over $500,000 from fan donations. Other gamers have banded together for similar causes, which shows that this goes beyond just enjoying a game or two; it means being part of a bigger community.

Whether you like watch-

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ing someone rage at a particularly hard level of VVVVV or joining a group of friends laughing at a round of You Don’t Know Jack, there’s always someone out there playing. If you feel like joining, it’s easy to find a new player or community to join up with, or if you feel like you want to be the one playing, there’s nothing stopping you from starting a Let’s Play of your own. Either way, all you have to do is press start. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Treading lightly: The implications of Obama’s carbon emission initiative tommy mcquain columnist @dailyathenaeum

A United Nations conference was recently held over the issue of global climate change and what nations can do to correct it.

President Barack Obama attended this meeting to propose strict, mandatory limitations on carbon emissions. This plan of action, much like anything the president does in this day and age, stirred plenty of controversy. The greatest opposition to the carbon limitations Obama faces comes not from other countries, but from the right wing of his own country.

America, known for being a world leader in industry, is also a world leader in carbon emissions. According to The Union of Concerned Scientists, America’s total carbon emissions in 2011 were more than the emissions of Russia, India and Japan combined.

Given this information, to say that America holds some responsibility for carbon-related climate change

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Obama spoke about the pressing matter of carbon emissions at the U.N. conference on Dec. 1. is a bit of an understatement. As such, Obama attended the U.N. conference with reforms in mind that would go against the best wishes of the Republican House of Representatives and other icons of the Republican Party.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush was quoted by CNN saying, “I’m not sure I would have gone to the climate summit if I was president today.”

What strikes me the most

about this statement is the very idea that a current presidential candidate believes a United States president—a world leader by any standard—should not have attended this U.N. assembly at all, rather than simply standing against proposed reforms while still present.

Those opposed to Obama’s legal limitations on carbon emissions do so out of fear that such limitations are detrimental to the American economy, as this

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country still heavily relies on carbon-based industry. This fear likely stems from thoughts of lost jobs or bottlenecking our technology. The misconception that arises from such stipulations is that the economy will become permanently damaged; however, this will likely never be the case so long as human beings remain innovative.

The limitations on carbon emissions would certainly stimulate demand

for alternative fuels, which would no doubt raise funding to the sciences involved in healthier energy exchanges with Mother Nature.

With increased funding comes increased staff and increased alternative fuel options in development; with some time, progress would pull the enigma known solely as The American Economy out of the red and into the thematically appropriate green.

There is another compelling effect to the U.N.’s imposition of Obama’s binding global carbon emission regulations: Governmental power. Giving the U.N. the authority to regulate carbon emissions on an international level will mean that it will have the authority to lawfully intervene in a country’s affairs for the sake of keeping carbon levels in check.

While this may seem negligible at first, it could mean that the U.N. will be able to override the sovereign authority of a nation in order to reduce a country’s carbon output. Obama, with his emphasis on positive global relations, likely sees that failure to attend

and advocate for the imposition of these carbon regulations would strain diplomatic relationships between the U.S. and other members of the U.N., which may lead other countries to action against the U.S. Maintaining friendly relationships with other countries is an absolute necessity to Obama, reflected in his statement: “American leadership involves not just playing to American constituency back home, but you now are in fact at the center of what happens around the world. And that your credibility and America’s ability to influence events depends on taking seriously what other countries care about.”

With the necessity to reduce airborne carbon increasing every day without change, carbon output reforms in America are inevitable. Hurting relationships with other leading members of the global community for the sake of procrastinating an economic dip will not help the economy, but merely raise the stakes when the time comes for reform. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Culinary Crawl gives tasting tour in Morgantown’s historic district chelsea Walker A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Treating Morgantown residents to a taste of the town, Saturday will commence the Morgantown Culinary Crawl, showcasing some of downtown’s most popular eateries in preparation for Morgantown’s debut Restaurant Week.

Students enrolled within a strategic events planning course at WVU’s Reed College of Media teamed with Main Street Morgantown to conceive and coordinate the event. The class has also partnered with community stakeholders Morgantown Social Networx, the Monongalia Arts Center and Greater Morgantown CVB. Sydney Haley, a senior strategic communications student with an emphasis in public relations, along with her team of fellow classmates, has assisted in every step of the event’s execution.

Haley said her professor, Geah Pressgrove, decided to add an element to this year’s Morgantown Culinary Crawl by extending a week-long event in Restaurant Week where downtown restaurants can participate in showcasing specialty dishes

for discounted prices.

“It has been a lot of fun, but also hard work,” Haley said.

“I have definitely learned a lot in the process. Working with our Morgantown clients and the different businesses has been a great learning experience, it really shows you what to expect in the real world.”

Haley said she feels this event will help locals rediscover the culture and amazing food in downtown Morgantown by visiting businesses in the area. The WVU senior said she couldn’t think of a better way to help the community while having a great time.

The event will attempt to revamp the downtown Morgantown economy by featuring the diverse culture within downtown restaurants and businesses. The Morgantown Culinary Crawl will allow individuals to taste and sip samples of various courses and beverages from participating restaurants. With more than a dozen restaurants participating in the event, the self-guided tour will allow participants to browse featured restaurants at their own pace, following given maps to avoid any confusion.

Restaurants Chico’s Fat, the Morgan-

town Brewing Company, Sargasso, Table 9, Apothecary Ale House and Café, Garcia’s Latin Market, High Street Pasta, T.K.’s Juice, Tin 202, Black Bear Burritos, The Cupcakerie, Iron Horse Tavern, The Vintage Room, Sugar Bear’s Wall Street Grill and Zaytun will partake in the event. Each downtown eatery will showcase a special course of their choice from “Devil’s on Horseback,” from Table 9, to a seasonal cupcake treat from The Cupcakerie.

Of the participating restaurants, Black Bear Burritos will prepare their specialty dish inspired by Yucatecan cuisine. The restaurant will serve a house fried tortilla cup filled with shredded achiote chicken garnished with pickled onion and served with a side of refried garbanzo beans.

Kitchen manager at Black Bear Burritos, Ben Brady said the shredded chicken is rubbed down with achiote paste, a marinade that is composed of ground annatto seed. Brady said the chosen dish inspired by the Yucatan region was chosen based on the restaurant’s popular special featuring the refried garbanzo beans.

“The beans are super smoky,” Brady said.

“They’re cooked down with onions and garlic, they’re so good.”

The dish will also be paired with a craft beer, compliments of Chestnut Brew Works. Brady said events like the Morgantown Culinary Crawl encourage a strong sense of community among downtown businesses.

“I feel like the sense of community is just getting stronger and stronger here in Morgantown every year with events like these,” Brady said.

“It’s really good to connect us to other businesses and for us to directly talk to our customers instead of being in the back and cooking. It’s cool to see the customers’ reactions to the food.” Brady also said Black Bear Burritos will house its original aesthetic, where local craft beers will be served with the specialty dish, while the restaurant is filled with live, local music.

The Morgantown Culinary Crawl will start at 3 p.m this Saturday at The Monongalia Arts Center. For more information on the event, visit http://morgantowneats. com/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

MACglee to take fresh spin on holiday classic hits jillian clemente A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Holiday music has been playing on the radio since October, but not the way MACglee is going to perform it.

“The concert is called ‘Holiday Pops’, and it will have a whole variety of Christmas songs and special arrangements of songs. It’won’t just be ‘Jingle Bells,’” said MACglee director of three years Ken Godwin.

The Monongalia Arts Center created the group after noticing a hole in the sound form of art.

“They do plays and artwork there (the MAC), and they wanted a vocal group,” Godwin said.

MACglee is a community group of singers ranging from college students to parents to residents of Morgantown to Preston, Taylor and Harrison counties.

Typically, MACglee has two concerts a year: one in winter and another in the springtime.

“These people have jobs and there’s a couple of college students in the group. The singers don’t have time to pick up and go every weekend,” he said.

“They have their own family and responsibilities.”

The community aspect is very important to Godwin.

“The singers have spent many, many hours on Wednesday nights of rehearsal time and preparation, and we really encourage the community to take time out of their weekend and support the community,” Godwin said. “People don’t always come out for things, and people need to come to support the singers, the local talent that’s here and enjoy the music and be supportive of the community activity.”

The concert is still in the community but is no longer at the MAC. The concert is at Avery United Methodist Church to make it more accessible for guests.

“We think the parking is gonna be better, easier and more handicapped accessible,” Godwin said.

A special addition is com-

ing to play with the group: Sue Garton. She’s a handbell player hailing from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and plays a range of types of music using three octaves of handbells and chimes spread over two tables.

“Many times, she has at least three bells in her hand. She’ll lay down an F-sharp, and 54 measures later, she’ll remember where she put that F-sharp!”

Godwin said.

Garton will perform around eight selections for this holiday concert. The MACglee singers will be accompanied by bass, percussion and pianist Christina Baran.

“People can sit there and hum along and enjoy about an hour of concert, of choral singing, of vocal singing and Sue playing handbells,” Godwin said.

The concert is free of charge, but a $5 donation per attendee is encouraged.

“Holiday Pops” is at 2 p.m.

Sunday at Avery United Methodist Church, 1152 Cheat Rd. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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WVUp All Night offers stress relief before finals, laser tag to transform Lair Hannah Harless A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

WVUp All Night hosts ‘Fun Before Finals’ to give West Virginia University students the opportunity to participate in fun and relaxing activities before the start of final exams.

WVUp All Night is a university program established to provide students with free, entertaining and safe weekend activities, offering an alternative to the party scene. WVUp All Night has hosted many events during the 2015 school year including Campus Moviefest, WVUp All Night Extended at Towers Residence Halls and the Rec Center and WV Symphony BEO String Quartet.

Fun Before Finals is the last series of events hosted by the organization before 2015 closes.

Fun Before Finals weekend festivities begin at 9 p.m. and last until 2 a.m. on Saturday.

The events and activities will take place at various locations around campus, including the Mountainlair, Woodburn Circle, High Street and the WVU Coliseum.

Activities for Thursday evening include “Got Skates?” in which students have the opportunity to ice skate on the Mountainlair Plaza and TRON Cube: Laser Tag at the Mountainlair Food Court.

WVUp All Night will feature laser tag, a life-size snowglobe and Chalk Talk with WVU Basketball Coach Bob Huggins.

“I think one of the biggest events is going to be ice skating on the Mountainlair Plaza.

We’ve hosted it inside before, but getting together with your friends for an outside event is always fun. We like when we are able to bring something the stu-

dents have enjoyed in the past but give it a new twist,” said Mountainlair Student Union Special Events Coordinator Erin Blake.

Students will also have the opportunity to take a tour inside a life-size snow globe at Wood-

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“Although it’s not winter yet, it will be coming up, so some of our activities are geared to getting students in the mood. Students can walk inside the snow globe and see images swirl around them. We’re hoping to

see a lot of fun pictures on social media from this,” Blake said.

Friday’s Fun Before Finals activities include a Chalk Talk with Men’s Basketball Coach Bob Huggins at the Mountainlair Food Court, a hot chocolate bar, the Morgantown Holiday Parade on High Street, the Planetarium Season of Light Show at White Hall and at the Mountainlair Food Court, carnival games and a chance to design and personalize a cookie.

“Why not particpate? Everything is free and there are new activities and some old favorites.

We see this as our last chance to bring students some fun programming before they leave for the semester,” Blake said.

The last day of Fun Before Finals activities will take place Saturday and include a WVU Football watch party, an X-Box video game tournament, and an ornament making station.

A food bar filled with free hot dogs, black bean burgers, waffle fries, nachos and popcorn will be available on all event days.

“This weekend is all about relaxing before final exams begin.

We understand studying for finals can be hard so the committee got together to plan one last fun, stress-free weekend for students that is full of activities for everyone,” Blake said. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Meet the nemesis of ‘Jessica Jones’ NEW YORK (AP) — In person, David Tennant has charm aplenty, but nothing like the control freak he plays in the new Netflix series “Jessica Jones.”

As the villainous Kilgrave, he plagues the show’s title character - a lapsed superhero played

by Krysten Ritter - with superhuman persuasion. Kilgrave’s every wish is Jessica’s command.

“There wasn’t a massive amount of research I could do to play a mind-controlling psychopath,” says Tennant.

“At first glance, Kilgrave’s power might sound attractive. But what would it really be like to live with?”

Viewers are invited to explore that at their chosen pace, since all 13 episodes of “Jessica Jones,” based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, are available for streaming on the Netflix website.

Tennant says he’s “properly hooked.”

“My character doesn’t really get going until episodes five or six or seven,” he says.

“Not being heavily featured in those early episodes allowed me to join them as a viewer without having to stare at myself.”

Kilgrave is only the latest in a stable of varied, vivid characters tackled by the Scottish actor. They include a singingand-dancing lawman in the TV crime drama “Viva Blackpool”; the 10th Doctor in the hallowed “Dr. Who” franchise; Barty Crouch Jr. in the film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”; and a detective investigating murder in a quiet British village in the hit series “Broadchurch” (plus the same role in the U.S. version that aired on Fox).

Tennant grew up in a small town outside Glasgow.

He was the son of a minister, whose line of work, he notes, entails a certain element of theater, “so I’m sure that, somehow, watching my father ‘perform’ must have inspired me.”

Shielded by youthful idealism from any recognition that “trying to make a living as an actor is a bloody stupid idea,” he was accepted at age 17 to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and has been working since he was 20.

Now a boyish-looking 44, he is asked to explain his acting process. He bursts out laughing, with his insistence that he doesn’t have one underscored by the T-shirt he

happens to be wearing that proclaims, “Anybody Can Do What I Do.” But then, playing the good sport, he gives it a shot: “It’s a bit like wearing in a pair of shoes,” he begins.

“You put them on your feet, and at first they squeak and hurt and you can’t really walk. But you LIKE these shoes, so you work away at it until the shoes feel comfortable.”

He shakes his head and chuckles again: “What am I saying?!”

A model of humility, Tennant counts himself among those actors “just waiting for someone to tap you on the shoulder and go, ‘Enough, man! We’ve all had a laugh.

Now it’s time to stop pretending you’re any good at it.’

You exist in a constant sense that you’re balancing on some very shaky floorboards and at any time it’s going to collapse, and you’ll be left looking for a job at Starbucks.”

But if that’s the case, Tennant’s balancing act continues to go well, “and I’m very grateful,” he says. “Within

the small range of choice you have as an actor, I do tend toward things I haven’t done before. My response i s, ‘What an unusual thing to be asked to do! I should probably say yes to that.’

And I feel very lucky that, thus far, my spectrum of choice has been broad enough to keep things bubbling along.

“As an actor, you just want to keep joining the jobs up - and keep feeling a little scared.”

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Spike Lee’s blistering film ‘Chi-Raq’ burns with rage More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “ChiRaq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide” of South Chicago and explodes with full-hearted (and gloriously lewd) pleas for peace.

It’s wildly uneven but it is wild. There’s plenty here to quibble with (the film’s title prompted outrage in Chicago), but unassailable is its passion to bring attention and compassion to Chicago’s blood-soaked streets.

“This is an emergency” flashes across the screen early in “Chi-Raq,” a hiphop musical and a social satire that Lee cowrote with Kevin Willmott (“C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America”) and sets to the beat of Terence Blanchard’s score. It’s an updating of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek comedy “Ly-

sistrata,” in which Athenian women wage a sex strike against their warrior men to end the Peloponnesian War. Lee and Willmott have transplanted the tale to Chicago, where the murder rate has far surpassed the number of Americans killed in Iraq.

Lee is best as a megaphone for street-level outrage. Whereas most filmmakers gradually ebb in spiritedness as they age, Lee - in good and not-sogood films - has remained uniquely unpredictable and remarkably prolific.

His last great film, 2006’s “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” fed off the fury of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina.

“Chi-Raq,” which takes its title from the controversial nickname for the violenceplagued city, is Lee’s most vital film at least since then.

It’s a farce, wrapped heavily in stylistic overtures, with maybe a half-dozen introductions to Chicago and to “Chi-Raq,” including Nick Cannon’s “Pray 4 My City,” played with lyrics blazed across the screen, and Samuel Jackson’s pimplike narrator, Dolmedes, who raps, “We can’t take this much more.”

The story takes a long time to arrive, and when it does, it and the characters remain secondary to the overall frenzy of the movie, all of which is in rhyming verse. Here, Lysistrata is played by Teyonah Parris (“Dear White People”). She’s the girlfriend of Cannon’s guntoting gangbanger, also named Chi-Raq. His gang is the Spartans, while the Trojans are led by Wesley Snipes’ Cyclops. Inspired by the Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee,

Lysistrata organizes a “total abstinence from knocking the boots” among the women of the Spartans and Trojans to stop the gang warfare.

Many scenes aren’t about strictly advancing the story line but rather deepening the pain, outrage and absurdity. Particularly good is Dave Chappelle’s cameo, in which he, at a strip club, frets about “the penis power grid” being shut down.

Some scenes don’t work, particularly a cartoonish one with a racist Dixieland general (David Patrick Kelly), who ends up straddling a Civil War cannon in Confederate flag underpants. John Cusack as the Rev. Mike Corridan, who preaches at a funeral, is jarringly bad casting.

There’s also a lingering feeling that in bringing the gender roles of an-

cient Greece to present-day South Chicago, Lee has reduced modern women to sex objects (albeit empowered ones) and men to libido-driven dogs.

But the outrageousness - the madness - is the point. In Chicago, Lee sees a seemingly helpless, tragic situation and he’s marshalled all of himself - every ridiculous rhyme, every bit of bombast - for a truly impassioned film. By the time “Chi-Raq” reaches its powerful climax, he has made a sensational, stirring case for love, not war.

“Chi-Raq,” an Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “strong sexual content including dialogue, nudity, language, some violence and drug use.” Running time: 127 minutes. Four stars out of four.

Designers channel their ‘Star Wars’ geekdom for charity NEW YORK (AP) — Chewbacca never had it so good.

The ultra-hairy “Star Wars” character isn’t known for his fashion sensibility, but he was the inspiration for not one but two highly furry ensembles displayed Tuesday by designers indulging their inner “Star Wars” geekdom with new looks - to be auctioned off for charity - as fans hotly await the seventh installment later this month, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

The dozen or so garments in the “Force 4 Fashion” collection - by the likes of Diane von Furstenberg, Rag & Bone and Opening Ceremony - were based mainly on new characters in the latest film, but also a few veterans. Most recognizable were the stormtrooper ensembles

created by Ovadia & Sons, which presented a floorlength boxy white coat with black trim, and by Opening Ceremony, which displayed a more tightly tailored look well, for a stormtrooper - in white microsuede.

As for Chewie, he (or it?) inspired a luscious merino shearling coat by Billy Reid, lined with brown leather and paired with a white turtleneck sweater and gray wool track pants. The creature was also embodied in a furry Todd Snyder ensemble, pairing a brown coat with white top and tan pants.

Some designers went for the glamour. Not surprisingly, Diane von Furstenberg incorporated her signature “wrap” effect into a gold, filmy ensemble for

Rey, the new film’s female protagonist, played by Daisy Ridley. Parker presented a glittery Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie), inspired by ancient tribal warriors; the same character got a dramatic printed gown from Giles Deacon.

Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of Rag & Bone, self-professed “Star Wars” fans, also clothed Rey, but in a much sportier style emulating their athletic urban streetwear. (The designers also offered a darker look for villain Kylo Ren.) There was some definite gender-bending happening, particularly with Halston.

The label’s designer, Maria Mazelis, decided to give the male Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) a female identity, probably because, well,

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“I was really excited by the idea of a villain,” Mazelis said, standing alongside her sleek dark gown, with a plunging neckline, sheer back and revealing side slits, topped off with a beaded mask that covers the eyes. “The complexity of this character was intriguing. It’s powerful, but emotional too.

Strong and yet vulnerable. I wanted to show that duality.”

And Cynthia Rowley gave a human character to the droid BB-8, putting the character in a white pants, a sweatshirt with a big ‘8’ on it, and a round football-style helmet.

Disney and Bloomingdale’s are partnering for the fundraising initiative; proceeds from the auction will

go to the Child Mind Institute. (There are, as yet, no plans to recreate the pieces for sale.) A separate auction will feature a custom, bejeweled BB-8 created by Kay Jewelers, weighing more than one and a half pounds and made of gold and diamonds. Proceeds from that auction will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, a representative said, noting that the piece had been appraised at $135,000.

Though a number of the designers are said to be big “Star Wars” fans, Mazelis was thinking of her kids, ages 4 and 6, whom she called “superfans.” Will her design earn her some points with them?

“One day they will appreciate it,” she replied hopefully.

Holiday decorations WASHINGTON (AP) — New at the White House this holiday season: penguins, snowmen and snow women, and hanging snowflakes.

Returning this season: larger-than-life replicas of dogs Bo and Sunny, an 18 1/2 -foot Blue Room tree dedicated to military families, and a gingerbread White House - covered in dark chocolate, instead of white chocolate as in years past, and weighing in at nearly 500 pounds.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, expect to welcome more than 68,000 guests in the weeks before Christmas.

They’ll be greeted at the East Wing entrance by a family of plywood penguins before walking down a hallway with paper snowflakes hanging overhead. There’s one snowflake for each state and U.S. territory, along with others made by local schoolchildren who adorned them with hand-written wishes.

Outside the hallway windows, 56 snowmen and women, some wearing hats and scarves or earmuffs, look on from the first lady’s garden.

The first lady unveiled the decorations Wednesday, giving military families the first peek. Afterward, she led a group of children dressed in their finest clothes to the East Room where they prepared crafts and treats with help from the White House executive chef, head pastry chef and head florist.

Mrs. Obama said celebrating the start of the season with military families is an important part of her family’s White House tradition.

“We do this because of everything that you all do every day to make our country great,” she said. Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, started a nationwide campaign in 2011 to generate more public support for active-duty and retired service members and their families.

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Plenty of team still left in playoff picture

With very few games remaining on the college football schedule, the playoff picture is starting to take form.

The College Football Playoff committee announced its top four teams were Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Iowa, with Michigan State and Ohio State as the first two out.

Oklahoma is the only team who has clinched a spot. With no Big 12 Championship game, the 11-1 Sooners clinched the conference title with a win over Oklahoma State.

The last three spots remain up in the air based on this weekend’s games.

No. 1 Clemson seems unlikely to get bounced. Although the Tigers face a top-10 team in North Carolina, this isn’t as close of a matchup as it seems.

The Tar Heels have won every game on their schedule after dropping the 2015 opener to South Carolina. However, Deshaun Watson and company are just too talented this year and carry enough momentum to negate whatever North Carolina brings.

Alabama has cruised through the latter part of their schedule, mostly on the back of star running back Derrick Henry.

It’s shocking to think that the Tide is the SEC’s only program with a shot at the playoff, considering the next highest ranked SEC team is No. 13 Ole Miss, who sports three losses.

Alabama faces off against Florida this weekend. The Gators are fresh off a loss against rival Florida State where they only managed to score two points. This should be an easy win for Nick Saban’s squad.

Iowa remains the big question mark. The Hawkeyes didn’t receive a single preseason vote in the AP or Coaches poll, but sit at No. 4 and a perfect 12-0.

The knock on Iowa is its strength of schedule. Its best competition this season was Pitt and Northwestern, which isn’t up to par with the rest of the playoff hopefuls.

The Hawkeyes face Michigan State this weekend in the Big 10 Championship and could very well get blown out, invalidating their entire season.

If the entire college football landscape is shaken this weekend, several other teams could find themselves big winners with a spot in the playoff.

The first four teams outside looking in are Michigan State, Ohio State, Stanford and Notre Dame.

Both Big 10 squads have only one loss and the latter two each have two.

If Iowa loses, Michigan State is definitely in. If Michigan State loses and either Alabama or Clemson loses as well, Ohio State finds itself back in the mix looking to repeat.

If all Alabama, Clemson and Iowa lose, Michigan State and Ohio State should get in. Whether they’re joined by Stanford or Notre Dame relies on the Cardinal’s matchup against USC. If Stanford wins, it should be in by default because of its win over Notre Dame last weekend. If they lose, the Irish will likely get the nod.

The dark horse is UNC. If the Tar Heels blow out the No. 1 Tigers, North Carolina could vault itself into the top four in shocking fashion.

There likely won’t be too much surprise this weekend and the playoff will feature Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Michigan State as the lone newcomer. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Carey takes most wins at WVU with 94-65 win by roger turner sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Coach Mike Carey recorded career win number 302 against Morehead State Wednesday night, surpassing legendary West Virginia University head coach Kittie Blakemore to become the school’s alltime winning coach.

A Clarksburg native Carey remained humbled after the team’s 9465 dismantling of Morehead State. Last night’s victory is the third home win for the Mountaineers this season.

“This program has come a long way the 15 years I’ve been here. Everything has come a long way,” Carey said. “It’s never one person, it’s a bunch of people

that take part in that.”

Carey surpassed WVU Sports Hall of Fame’s Blakemore, who compiled a record of 301-214 over a 19-year career. In his tenure as coach for the Mountaineers, Carey has reached the NCAA Tournament eight times and compiled a .689 winning percentage.

Leading the way for WVU on the court, senior guard Bria Holmes scored a game-high 29 points, finishing the game 12-18 from the field. Holmes also collected seven rebounds and dished out five assists to propel the Mountaineers to a rugged victory.

“They took a lot for granted that first half,” Carey said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do and

we’ve got to get a lot better. We’re going to have to turn it on both halves in order to beat good teams.”

WVU trailed Morehead State 26-18 at the end of the first period; the first time the Mountaineers have trailed at home in the opening period.

At the helm for the Eagles, guard Eriel McKee recorded 17 points and collected nine rebounds.

Tuesday’s loss marked the fourth road loss, and fifth loss this season for the Eagles.

T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s picked it up in the second-half and took a fourpoint into the half, leading 42-38.

Carey wasn’t pleased with the overall first performance, but was impressed with the positive

reinforcement from the Mountaineer bench.

Guards Teana Muldrow and Alexis Brewer recorded eight points, as the Mountaineers found a rhythm to open the third quarter, scoring 34 points.

Freshman guard Olivia Seggie provided a huge impact on offense and defense, recording 21 minutes and handing out nine assists.

WVU center Lanay Montgomer y dropped 12 points and pulled in a game-high 18 rebounds.

Montgomery owned the boards in the second half, after shaking off the first half struggles.

West Virginia ended the final period outscoring Morehead State 1810 to record the Moun-

taineer’s fifth win of the season.

A Coliseum crowd of 1,302 was in attendance on the memorable night for Carey, who admits he didn’t know whether he’d still have the opportunity to be coaching at West Virginia at this point.

“I’ve had a lot of great players, and I had a lot of great assistant coaches a n d a d m i n i s t rat i o n ,” Carey said. “It’s great to have an opportunity to still be here.”

The Mountaineers will hit the hardwood for the sixth home game of the season at 4 p.m. Sunday to take on Farleigh Dickson University challenging Carey for win 303. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

FOOTBALL

WVU looks to overcome recent history against K-State

BY DAVID STATMAN

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @dJSTATMAN77

In its final regular season game of the year, the West Virginia University football team is trying to exact a little bit of payback on one of the few teams they’ve never beat since moving to the Big 12: the Kansas State Wildcats.

The Mountaineers are winless against Kansas State since the conference switch in 2012, and they’ll need to correct that if they intend on reaching their best record as members of the Big 12.

For Mountaineer veterans, especially, who have come up short multiple times against legendary head coach Bill Snyder and the Wildcats, their past failures are just extra motivation.

“It’s a big deal,” said junior center Tyler Orlosky.

“I read that the last time we defeated them was 1930.

They and Oklahoma are the only teams we haven’t beaten in the Big 12, and we take that as something we have to fix. Hopefully we do this weekend.”

West Virginia’s last win over Kansas State was indeed in 1930, back when the squad from Manhattan, the Wildcats were known as the Aggies, and Kansas State University was called Kansas State Agricultural College.

Led by head coach Ira Errett Rodgers, West Virginia pulled out a 23-7 win over the Aggies at the old Mountaineer Field on Nov. 8, 1930 – and since then, the Mountaineers have gone 0-4 against Kansas State.

WVU wide receiver Shelton Gibson returns a kick last season against Kansas State.

The matchups haven’t giate action in relief of inbeen considerably close jured starter Clint Trickett either since the two be- but couldn’t quite comgan sharing a conference. plete a comeback in MorIn 2012, Heisman Trophy gantown. West Virginia fell candidate Collin Klein 26-20, despite limiting the and the then-No. 4 Wild- Wildcats to only a single cats smashed a reeling rushing yard.

Mountaineer squad 55-14 WVU’s seniors have in WVU’s worst loss of its seen Kansas State three 7-6 season. times now, and they know Kansas State also won exactly what makes Snyhandily in 2013 at Bill der’s Wildcats such a probSnyder Family Football lem for them.

“They’re probably the Stadium in Manhattan, 35-12, behind a workman- most disciplined, welllike three-touchdown ef- coached team in the fort from quarterback Jake country,” said senior cornerback Terrell ChestWaters.

Last season’s encoun- nut. “They have guys who ter was the closest of the are going to work hard for bunch, as WVU quarter- Coach Snyder, and they back Skyler Howard got don’t make a lot of mental his first meaningful colle- mistakes. We have to ex-

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ecute everything perfectly to take them out.”

Although West Virginia is motivated by getting the winless streak off its record, Kansas State will have plenty of motivation Saturday. Not only are the 5-6 Wildcats playing for bowl eligibility, they’ll be taking the field in what might be the 76-year-old Snyder’s final game.

In his 24 seasons in Manhattan, Snyder has built a program that Sports Illustrated once called “America’s most hapless team” to nearly 200 wins. Along the way, the Wildcats have gained a reputation for a hard-nosed style of ball that reminds the Mountaineers of themselves.

“They’re similar to us,” Orlosky said. “They’re a blue-collar team. They obviously don’t have topnotch recruits every year like a Texas or an Oklahoma would have, but they’re a team that works hard and fights for everything they have. We know they’re going to give us a fight, and hopefully we can match their intensity.”

The Mountaineers will attempt to overcome recent history, and the Wildcats’ rushing attack, at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU head coach Bob Huggins speaks to senior forward Jonathan Holton after he fouled out against Stetson earlier this season.

West Virginia among teams struggling to adjust to new NCAA rules

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS WRITER @dAILYATHENAEUM

A 6-0 start seems to be in the West Virginia University men’s basketball team’s favor, but modifications to the NCAA’s rules have it among the many teams struggling with officiating.

This season, fouls appear to be called with the slightest contact. Teams are reaching all-time highs in fouls called per game, and West Virginia is one of them.

There were 58 combined fouls in the seasonopening win over Northern Kentucky. Three players fouled out, featuring Eli-

jah Macon in just six minutes of action.

“We’re going to make adjustments,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins.

“Honestly, I think as we go along, I hope that the powers that be make adjustments as well; not to call fouls, but you can’t be in legal guarding position and have the offense come bump into you and have it be a foul on you.”

Subtle contact has developed into a routine foul, sparking frustration in many coaches. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo recently voiced his displeasure about the recent officiating, stating how it’s disrupted the flow of the game.

Forty-one fouls were called in Michigan State’s most recent matchup against Providence, sending both teams’ star players to the bench with early foul trouble. It’s become an epidemic in college basketball, one that might not be stopping anytime soon.

Nearly every team is losing its top players for long periods of time due to foul trouble. Coaches are struggling to comprehend fouls called on little contact 30 feet from the rim, leaving many voicing their opinions in front of and away from the referees.

Versatile teams similar to West Virginia are the most likely victims of the trend, with tenacious and

WRESTLING

Senior Scheffel tweaks style, wins big at Joe Parisi Open

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

It was a preview of things to come.

The West Virginia University wrestling team did not compete against other teams at the Joe Parisi Open on Nov. 21. Instead, it was strictly an individual affair.

WVU head coach Sammie Henson liked this, because the most important matches of the year are not scored based on how an entire team does.

“At Joe Parisi, it was nice to be in an actual tournament setting, more like the NCAA (Tournament), even though it was just for a day,” Henson said.

This allowed individuals to stand out and compete for themselves.

Bubba Scheffel used the event to make a statement, as the 5-foot-11 Scheffel claimed the 184-pound title by defeating all three of his opponents.

The senior from Oakland, Maryland began the day with a 10-4 decision victory over Danny Hicks of the University of Illinois. Next came a 4-0 win against another member of the Fighting Illini, Roger Smith-Bergsrud.

However, Scheffel felt his best match was his tournament-winning pin of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Derek Nagel in just over four minutes.

“The final was my best performance because I was able to secure an early takedown and utilize a good top game,” Scheffel said. “I got my offense off a lot more effectively than I have earlier in the season. I definitely started off a little rusty, I made some mistakes and gave up some points that shouldn’t have.”

Last season, Scheffel went 20-17, placed third at the Big 12 Championship and qualified for the NCAA Tournament. While it was a solid season, he did not enter this season ranked.

After the Joe Parisi Open, Scheffel remains unranked.

However, he is now 6-3 and hopes that this is a turning point in his season.

“I’ve been doing this for a long time. You’ve got to just keep plugging away and keep a positive attitude about it all,” Scheffel said. “I get excited about any small thing in practice and think it will be a break-through of being a top 10 guy. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m still very optimistic about it. If it’s not already in progress, I think it will happen soon.”

This year, Scheffel has changed his wrestling style.

He is focused on properly utilizing his top game to secure victories. While early on it produced mixed re-

sults, Scheffel seems to have turned a corner after sweeping his opposition at the Joe Parisi Open.

“It’s working a lot better than it has in the past, but it’s not coming with as many back points or falls, but I’m starting to get back points,” Scheffel said.

“When I’m able to do that (consistently), then I’ll be more successful and win a lot more matches.”

West Virginia had two weeks to prepare for this weekend’s Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. Scheffel looks to continue his success and continue perfecting his new style. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

in-your-face defenses playing with plenty of physicality the entire 40 minutes.

The pressure-style basketball that has become the new WVU brand is the top victim of such a change.

“We’re trying like crazy to understand what they want, how they want us to play and that kind of thing,” Huggins said. “We are honestly working hard at it, but at the same time, if we’re going to enforce verticality, let’s enforce verticality.”

However, not every change in statistics has gone against WVU and the rest of college basketball.

Scoring totals have risen for nearly every program across the nation since the

shot clock was reduced from 35 to 30 seconds.

Teams are now averaging 74.61 points per game, a sharp increase from last year’s 67.64.

Defensive powerhouses became dreaded sights on television throughout the years, often wasting the entire 35-second shot clock and settling for victories in the 50-point range.

Now there’s more scoring ever ywhere, and there’re more up-tempo offenses that are finding their ways to the basket.

But there’s still WVU’s pressure defense that teams can’t get through.

The 30-second shot clock continues to work in its

favor defensively, forcing teams to have to play at a faster pace than usual against a high-flying group of athletes.

The Mountaineers’ 12.3 steals and 22.2 turnovers forced per game lead the nation, stopping nearly each and every opponent that tries to use a faster-paced offense to its advantage.

Just ask San Diego State, a team that mustered just 50 points and gave away 30 points off 21 turnovers. The Aztecs are always among the most versatile under Steve Fisher, but they had trouble finding the scoreboard Friday evening. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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AP

Report: Rio Olympics 2016 waters badly polluted, even far from shore RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year’s games: He’d wear plastic overalls and peel them off when he was safely past the contaminated waters nearest shore.

Heil, 26, was treated at a Berlin hospital for MRSA, a flesh-eating bacteria, shortly after sailing in an Olympic test event in Rio in August. But his strategy to avoid a repeat infection won’t limit his risk.

A new round of testing

by The Associated Press shows the city’s Olympic waterways are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains.

That means there is no dilution factor in the bay or lagoon where events will take place and no less risk to the health of athletes like sailors competing farther from the shore.

“Those virus levels are widespread. It’s not just along the shoreline but it’s elsewhere in the water, therefore it’s going to increase the exposure of the people who come into contact with those waters,” said Kristina Mena, an expert in waterborne viruses and an associate professor of public health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

“We’re talking about an extreme environment, where the pollution is so high that exposure is imminent and the chance of infection very likely.”

In July, the AP reported that its first round of tests showed disease-causing viruses directly linked to human sewage at levels up to 1.7 million times what would be considered highly alarming in the U.S. or Europe. Experts said athletes were competing in the viral equivalent of raw sewage and exposure to dangerous health risks almost certain.

The results sent shockwaves through the global

athletic community, with sports officials pledging to do their own viral testing to ensure the waters were safe for competition in next year’s games. Those promises took on further urgency in August, after preOlympic rowing and sailing events in Rio led to illnesses among athletes nearly double the acceptable limit in the U.S. for swimmers in recreational waters.

Nevertheless, Olympic and World Health Organization officials have flipflopped on promises to carry out viral testing in the wake of the AP’s July report.

Now, the AP’s most recent tests since August show not only no improvement in water quality - but that the water is even more widely contaminated than previously known. The number of viruses found over a kilometer from the shore in Guanabara Bay, where sailors compete at high speeds and get utterly drenched, are equal to those found along shorelines closer to sewage sources.

“The levels of viruses are so high in these Brazilian waters that if we saw those levels here in the United States on beaches, officials would likely close those beaches,” Mena said.

Brazilian, Olympic and WHO officials now say Brazil needs only to carry out testing for bacterial “markers” of pollution to determine water quality. That’s the standard used by nations around the globe, mostly because it’s been historically easier and cheaper.

WHO said Wednesday that it had no comment on the AP’s latest findings.

The Rio 2016 Olympic organizing committee said in an emailed statement that “the health and safety of athletes is always a top priority and there is no doubt that water within the field of play meets the relevant standards.”

“Rio 2016 follows the expert advice of the World Health Organization, whose guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments recommend clas-

sifying water through a regular program of microbial water quality testing.”

However, in recent years technological advances have made it simpler and less expensive to monitor viral levels, too.

That’s why many in the scientific communities in the U.S. and Europe are pushing for legislation that would require viral testing of water. They argue that repeated studies dating back decades have shown little to no correlation between the levels of bacteria pathogens in water, which quickly break down in salty and sunny conditions like those in tropical Brazil, and the presence of viruses, which have been shown to last for months, and in some cases years.

That disparity has surfaced in AP’s testing in Rio, where the water often falls within safe levels of fecal bacteria, but the same water sample shows levels of viruses akin to raw sewage.

Many of the testing points show spikes in bacterial contamination, too - especially in the Olympic lagoon and in the marina where sailors launch crafts.

Rio’s waterways, like those of many developing nations, are extremely contaminated because most of the city’s sewage is not treated, let alone collected.

Massive amounts of it flow straight into Guanabara Bay. The Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and the famous Copacabana Beach also are heavily contaminated.

Rio won the right to host the Olympics based on a lengthy bid document that promised to clean up the city’s scenic waterways by improving sewage sanitation, a pledge that was intended to be one of the event’s biggest legacies.

Brazilian officials now acknowledge that won’t happen.

The AP’s first published results were based on samples taken along the shores of the lagoon where rowing and canoeing events will be held. Other samples were drawn from the marina where sailors enter the wa-

ter and in the Copacabana Beach surf, where marathon and triathlon swimming will take place. Ipanema Beach, popular with tourists and where many of the expected 350,000 foreign visitors will take a dip during the games, was also tested.

Since then, the AP expanded its testing to include offshore sampling sites inside Olympic sailing courses in Guanabara Bay and in the middle of the lagoon where rowing and canoeing lanes were located during recent test events.

The tests found the lagoon and bay to be consistently virus-laden throughout, but it also captured a spike in the bacterial fecal coliforms in the lagoon - to over 16 times the amount permitted under Brazilian law.

Mena, the waterborne virus expert, said it makes sense for athletes to think that deeper into the bay and lagoon would be safer, but the testing doesn’t bear that out.

“One would expect to see more fluctuations with the levels of any pathogen in the water, but it’s not there,” she said.

As a result, none of the venues are fit for swimmers or boaters, she said. Athletes who ingest three teaspoons of water have a 99 percent chance of being infected by viruses.

That assessment was echoed by Brazilian virologist Fernando Spilki, coordinator of the environmental quality program at Feevale University in southern Brazil, who is conducting monthly tests for the AP. “Samples from the sailing courses and inside the lagoon prove that the viruses are present even away from the shore, away from the sources of pollution, and that they maintain extremely high viral loads,” he said.

Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and pre-

emptively taking antibiotics - which have no effect on viruses.

Despite those efforts, athletes at a competition in August still fell ill. The World Rowing Federation reported that 6.7 percent of 567 rowers got sick at a junior championships event in Rio. The International Sailing Federation said just over 7 percent of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill - but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.

Mena and other experts say it’s difficult to put those figures into international context as each geographic location has unique threats.

But in the U.S., for instance, the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum illness rate for swimming is 3.6 percent - and many experts say that is too high.

The German sailor, Heil, was one of those who got sick at the Rio test event.

“I’ve never had infections on my legs. Never!” he wrote on the German sailing team’s blog in late August as he underwent painful treatment to scrape the infections off his hips and legs. “The origin must be the Marina da Gloria. In the future, we will try to travel to Rio right before the start of any event, so that any diseases that show up only occur when we are already back home.”

In the year preceding the Olympics, AP is examining monthly water samples for three types of human adenovirus as well as enterovirus, rotavirus and bacterial fecal coliforms.

The viruses are found in human intestinal and respiratory tracts. They cause digestive illnesses including vomiting, explosive diarrhea and respiratory problems - all of which would knock athletes out of competition. Serious heart and brain disease are also possible, though rare. One

type of analysis tests for adenovirus types 2 and 5, markers for the sewage contamination.

Water quality experts say a virus count hitting 1,000 per liter in the U.S. or Europe would cause extreme alarm, leading in many cases to beach closures.

Viral levels were all 30,000 times higher than what is highly alarming in the U.S. or Europe at each of the AP’s new offshore sampling sites: at a point 600 meters (yards) offshore and within the Sugarloaf sailing race course; at 1,300 meters (yards) offshore within the Naval School sailing circuit; and at a spot inside the Olympic lagoon where rowing lanes are located, about 200 meters (yards) from shore.

In September tests at the Naval School race course and offshore lagoon points, the water was positive for enterovirus, a major cause of respiratory illness, gastrointestinal ailments and, less often, serious heart and brain inflammation.

Subsequent cell culture testing showed the viruses in the lagoon water to be “active and infectious,” but the samples taken from the sailing courses in the bay were not. Mena, the risk assessment expert, said several factors inhibit viruses from growing in a laboratory, but the sheer number of pathogens in Rio’s waters means the risk to human health is unacceptable.

Rio de Janeiro state authorities promised to complete sewerage infrastructure near the Marina da Gloria by the end of this year and are making progress. Authorities say Olympic venues will then be safe.

But the high levels of sewage-linked pathogens found in the offshore sailing courses “show that these viruses don’t just come from the marina - there are many, many points where sewage enters the bay,” Spilki, the Brazilian expert, said. “These pathogens we’re looking for, especially the viruses, are able to migrate in the currents in a big way.”