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‘More Than a Beat’: race and reporting by madeleine Hall correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Professors at the Reed College of Media think they’re training the best and the brightest of future journalists in West Virginia and across the nation.

That’s why the college’s administrators and the Center for Black Culture

and Research invited a series of media experts to the school to speak about the vital role of media in communicating incidents involving the color of one’s skin in “More Than a Beat.”

“These front-line journalists are changing the way we look at race, are reporting on the militarization of our local police and are raising lots of

University releases Clery report for 2012-14

new and interesting questions about how journalism functions in society and affects all of us,” said Joel Beeson, a journalism professor at West Virginia University.

Speaking at the event at 7:30 p.m. in G21 Ming Hsieh Hall are the following experts: Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post, Ryan Reilly of Huffington

Post, Chelsea Fuller of Youth Criminalization with the Advancement Project and Errin Whack, an independent journalist.

Each of these experts bring something different to the table.

“We want to make sure that our up-and-coming journalists understand the kind of impact their reporting on race re-

lated incidents can potentially have,” said Marjorie Fuller, director of WVU’s Center for Black Culture and Research. “Ferguson, Cleveland and Baltimore— as tragic as they were— have opened our eyes in a sense.”

These tragedies all tied in with the Black Lives Matter movement, which gained momentum through so-

cial media reporting by citizens and those in proximity to events, as opposed to traditional journalistic style.

This “ubiquitous documentation,” shot through cell phone cameras and shared over sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, fundamentally

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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN SKATE?

by Caity Coyne

associate city editor @caitycoyne

The West Virginia University Police Department released the Clery report yesterday, which documents crime on and around campus from 2012 to 2014.

In the two-year span, burglaries in Morgantown have decreased by more than 50 percent with 29 committed in 2014 compared to 65 in 2012.

Also on the decrease are alcohol-related arrests, with only 696 reported in 2014 and 1027 reported in 2012.

Other noticeable decreases included larceny, which had 68 less cases in 2014 than in 2012, and University referrals for alcohol, which had 1,305 less cases in 2014 than in 2012.

While many crimes had decreasing trends between the two years, some still increased.

Arson, for example, had only one documented case in 2012, but there were six in 2014.

Forcible sexual assault around campus increased from five cases in 2012 to more than triple that in 2014, with 18 reported.

There were also 16 cases of stalking reported last year, compared to one in 2013 and no data from 2012.

The Jeanne Clery Act was passed in 1990, after public backlash of unreported college crime following the murder of Lehigh University student Jeanne Clery in her dorm room in 1986.

According to clerycenter. org, the Clery Act is a consumer protection law requiring all U.S. colleges and universities that receive federal funding to share information about crime on campus and their efforts to improve campus safety.

The report is distributed to University students, fac-

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Five members of the Morgantown Roller Vixens warm up with some laps before practice.

Roller derby in Morgantown gains attention and participation, offers new sport for women by rachel mcbride staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

Imagine playing rugby on skates while simultaneously playing chess—that’s roller derby.

At least that’s what President of Morgantown Roller Vixens Joanna Thompson, better known as “Deja Boom,” thinks. She’s encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to strap on their helmets and try a new type of sport.

Roller derby is a contact sport not for the faint of heart. Many players leave practice or games with large bruises and sometimes major physical injuries.

“You’ve got to be pretty tough physically,” she said. “There’s a spot for everybody, but you’ve got to remember to be tough mentally first.”

Before participating in roller derby bouts, as roller derby players are called, the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association has certain requirements women must meet before competing.

Women need to be able to hop over an object six inches high and skate at least 27 laps around a regulation derby track in five minutes.

Wednesday evening’s practice was the second day in the group’s Fresh Meat Bootcamp, an eight-week program that’s teaches interested women how to be tough and skilled enough to play the sport competitively.

Although the boot camp might come across as nothing but terrifying at first, Thompson is sure it will provide women with the abilities they need to thrive in the sport.

“It’s a lot of information for them to take in,” Thompson said. “The girls that succeed are the girls that work hard.”

In roller derby, there is one jammer, a player identified by the star on their helmet and four blockers on each team. Jammers score points by passing members of the other team on the track.

The competing teams aggressively try to keep the opponent’s jammer from passing members of their own team.

Many might perceive the sport as rough and vigorous. Tayna Wells, a new member of the team, says it’s the most enjoyment she’s had in a while.

“It just looked like a lot of fun,” she said. “I

didn’t realize derby was becoming an actual sport, and now, it’s the best stress reliever I’ve ever had.”

The USA Roller Sports Association said that roller derby is more than just a fad—in 2014 there were more than 1,500 leagues in approximately 40 different countries. It is spreading like wildfire, “as it continues to be one of the most rapidly growing sports.” “(Roller derby) is definitely growing by leaps and bounds,” Thompson said.

The Roller Vixens were founded in 2010 and have been rolling up attention from the local community ever since. They show their rough sides in each bout, but the West Virginia University student organization gives back to the community by dedicating each bout to a local charity.

Although roller derby is increasing in terms of popularity, MRV is the only roller derby team in North Central West Virginia. For more information, visit http://morgantownrollervixens.com/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

SGA supports safer, more convenient options for night students by caity coyne

associate city editor @caitycoyne

In order to provide more safety and convenience for students, the Student Government Association approved the first reading of a resolution Wednesday night to give more parking options to those taking night classes at West Virginia University.

Governor Madison Thompson and Governor Trevor Kiess proposed the

resolution to SGA to gain the Board’s support before bringing it to the Office of Transportation and Parking or the Faculty Senate at a later date.

“If SGA approves this resolution, literally the next day we already have a meeting with parking and transportation, so regardless, we’re going to them with it,” Thompson said. “We’re going to talk with them and then go down to logistics.”

A resolution passed by the Board of Governors bears no

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actual weight on University activities and is instead just a show of support from the Board.

The resolution supports opening some of the parking lots that close after a certain time or are available only to permit holders to students with night classes.

Despite not formally introducing the resolution to faculty or transportation yet, Kiess and Thompson said they are confident the resolution will be met with sup-

port from the Office of Transportation and Parking.

“We have support from the faculty, we have support from, actually various groups,” Thompson said.

“We’re just trying to go to them with all this different stuff and hash out the logistics.”

Those logistics include figuring out where parking options could be offered, how the parking will be monitored, when the parking can be an option and how much

students will be asked to pay for the parking opportunities. “(It could be) something where (students) might just have a parking pass that’s effective from 6 p.m.-6 a.m.,” Kiess said. “Something along those parameters to allow students who do have night classes and have no way to get back and forth other than driving to have an opportunity.”

Ideally, he’d like to see the permits go for somewhere between $20 and $50.

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“This isn’t going to be open to every student in the University,” Thompson said.

“You’ll have to prove that you have a night class.”

Kiess and Thompson also worked with Governor Elizabeth Sabatino and Governor Dustin Seabolt, two students who both ran on campus safety platforms.

“This is more of a safety issue as opposed to a financial issue,” Seabolt said. “It’s more

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Key takeaways from the GOP’s undercard presidential debate

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., answers a question during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif.

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP)— The four Republican presidential candidates who didn’t make the cut for the 11-person prime-time GOP debate met Wednesday for an undercard event at the Ronald Reagan presidential library, each searching for a breakout moment.

George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, Rick Santorum and Bobby Jindal sought the kind of performance that former technology executive Carly Fiorina put on at the first GOP debate last month, which helped propel her onto Wednesday night’s main stage.

Absent from both debates was former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, the lone Republican who did not register high enough in national polls to make the cut for either debate.

Key takeaways from the first of Wednesday’s two debates: TWEAKING TRUMP Three of the four candidates eagerly took the bait offered by the debate moderators to attack GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who was the subject of the first several questions.

Jindal, Louisiana’s governor, hurled the sharpest verbal jabs, saying Trump shouldn’t be treated as a Republican or a conservative. “He’s a narcissist who only believes in himself,” he said. Pataki, the former chief executive in New York, chimed in to call Trump “unfit to be president of the United States or the party’s nominee.”

Santorum held his tongue, the former senator from Pennsylvania saying such personal attacks “just please one person, Hillary Clinton.”

HAPPYGRAHAM Graham made the wrong impression during the undercard debate last month, as the South Carolina senator came across as the saddest candidate in the room. At one point, he gloomily noted that he is unmarried and doesn’t have any children.

This time, Graham let his quirky personality and his foreign policy knowledge shine.

The approach took an odd tone at times, as he repeatedly called for more military action in places such as Syria, but did so while delivering cheeky one-liners.

Shortly after declaring, “We’re at war, folks,” Graham said: “First thing I’m going to do as president? We’re going to drink more.”

PROXY PARTY FIGHT ON IMMIGRATION

Graham and Santorum rumbled on immigration policy, an exchange representative of the dispute inside the Republican Party over how to approach an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.

Santorum, who finished second to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, said Americans are hurt by immigration and he accused much of the GOP field as being for “amnesty.”

Graham and Pataki said it’s impractical to deport all estimated 11 million people who are in the country illegally. Graham also argued that Hispanic voters are an untapped source of voters for Republicans.

“We need to win fighting for Americans. We need to win fighting for the workers in this country who are hurting,” Santorum said, leading Graham

to rebuke him: “Hispanics are Americans” A P R O G R E S S I VE PATAKI? Along with his comments on immigration, Pataki sounded like a Democrat in one other way: He forcefully said that Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, should have lost her job.

“If she worked for me, I would have fired her,” he said, drawing applause from the crowd at the debate. “When you’re an elected official and you take an oath of office to uphold the law, all the laws, you cannot pick and choose or you no longer have a society that depends on the rule of law.”

He closed by arguing that he is a pragmatist who can get

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elected in a general election and work in a bipartisan way.

OUTSIDERS RULE Jindal allowed that he had one thing in common with Trump: They both dislike Washington “insiders.”

“It’s time to fire all of them,” he said. He later gave credit to Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid for fighting for what they believe in, something he said Republican leaders in Washington no longer do.

In his closing remarks, Jindal tried to emphasize his “outsider” credentials. He said he’d “take on the D.C. permanent governing class.” It was a nod to Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who have never held political office and stand atop the latest GOP preference polls.

Outcry after Muslim teen is detained over homemade clock IRVING, Texas (AP)—A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got an invitation to the White House after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to class with a homemade clock that school officials thought resembled a bomb.

Police declined to seek any charges against Ahmed Mohamed, but his arrest and suspension ignited a wave of criticism of police and the school and raised suspicions that they had overreacted because of the boy’s religion.

“I built the clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her. So it was really sad she took the wrong impression of it,” Ahmed said at a news conference in front of his family’s home.

Ahmed was pulled from class Monday and taken to a detention center after showing the digital clock to teachers at his suburban Dallas high school.

Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said the clock looked “suspicious in nature,” but there was no evidence the boy meant to cause alarm at school. Boyd considers

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SGA is expected to hear the proposal for a second time and vote at its next weekly meeting.

Presentations on the new student portal and on the recently adopted General Education Foundations system were also given last night to familiarize the governors

the case closed.

Ahmed said he plans to transfer out of MacArthur High School.

Asked what he would say to other kids who like tinkering, he replied: “Go for it! Don’t let people change who you are, even if you get a consequence for it. I suggest you still show it to people, at least show them your talent.”

In a matter of hours, the clock made Ahmed a star on social media, with the hashtag (hash)IStandWithAhmed tweeted more than 1 million times by Wednesday evening.

Linda Moreno, an attorney representing Ahmed, said the family is considering taking legal action against police after officers interrogated, handcuffed, searched, booked and fingerprinted the teen.

She would not give details on questions he was asked by police.

Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union condemned what they called the school’s heavy-handed tactics.

“Instead of encouraging his curiosity, intellect and ability, the Irving (school district) saw fit to throw handcuffs on a frightened 14-year-old Muslim boy wearing a NASA T-shirt

and then remove him from school,” Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU in Texas, said in a statement.

Among those messaging their support on social media were President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

In a tweet, Obama called Ahmed’s clock “cool” and said more kids should be inspired like him to enjoy science, because “it’s what makes America great.”

Asked if bias was involved, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it was too early “to draw that direct assessment from here.” But, he added, Ahmed’s teachers had “failed him.”

“This is an instance where you have people who have otherwise dedicated their lives to teach our children who failed in that effort, potentially because of some things in their conscience and the power of stereotypes,” he said.

The boy was invited to participate in an astronomy night the White House is organizing sometime next month with premier scientists.

The case also came up briefly during a debate

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among the second-tier GOP presidential candidates, with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal saying the greatest discrimination in America is against Christians.

In a post to his site, Zuckerberg said, “Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause.”

“Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I’d love to meet you,” Zuckerberg posted. “Keep building.”

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, said his son is a wizard at electronics, repairing the family’s clocks, phones and electricity.

Ahmed said he has built a go-kart.

The father, a Sudanese immigrant, said he was moved by the support for his son from across the country.

“I am grateful to the United States of America,” he said, attributing the widespread support to “something that was touching the heart for everybody.”

At one point during the news conference, he gestured toward the family home and said, “We’ve been here in his house for more than 30 years.”

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and students with upcoming changes to the University.

While governors applauded the transition to GEF requirements—and the potential fewer classes— SGA Advisor Hillar Klandorf voiced worry over what it may mean for the integrity of degrees.

“From a faculty standpoint in the value of degrees, where does it end?”

Klandorf asked. “What does it mean by decreasing (the number of credit hours), because that’s a huge change in credit hours.”

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ulty and staff and includes various University resources for help or information with several different topics, including drug and alcohol abuse and sexual assault assistance. There is also a section on emergency planning and response and evacuation procedures.

A copy of the Clery report can be found at http://police. wvu.edu/clery-act.

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changed the way racially motivated crimes were exposed and conveyed to the public, according to Beeson.

Citizens and journalists using their cell phones to record police interaction on the ground in places like Ferguson and Baltimore also reduced the authorities’ ability to control communication and reach of racially motivated incidents, Beeson

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In this Sept. 14, 2015 photo provided by Eyman Mohamed, her brother Ahmed Mohamed stands in handcuffs at Irving police department in Irving, Texas. The 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday, Sept.

16 and got an invitation to the White House after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to class with a homemade clock that school officials thought resembled a bomb.

Ahmed said he was suspended until Thursday.

School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver declined to confirm the suspension, citing privacy laws. Weaver insisted school officials were con-

cerned with student safety and not the boy’s faith.

The police chief said the reaction to the clock “would have been the same regardless” of his religion.

“We live in an age where you can’t take things like that to school,” Boyd said.

said.

Despite the attention given recently to movements like Black Lives Matter, Fuller believes a postracial America does not yet exist, but opening the conversation through reporting has allowed people to see a potentially different reality.

“We now recognize,” Fuller said, “that there’s much more that we can do to make (our country) a better place for all of us to live in.”

There will also be a workshop offered at 9 a.m. Friday through the

Reed College of Media, giving the panelists an opportunity to work oneon-one with a smaller group of attendants. Students who RSVP’d will see presentations by the panelists and participate in smaller activities about racial and cultural reporting.

To RSVP or read more about the panelists and discussion, visit http://reedcollegeofmedia.wvu.edu/ about/featured-events/ more-than-a-beat. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Mac Miller’s epic album homecoming Woody Pond

A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

After endless months of quiet buzzing, Miller has finally risen like a phoenix from the ashes to bless the world with his third studio album, “GO:OD AM,” on Sept. 18. He is promoting this release by holding a weekend of festivities Sept. 16-20 in Pittsburgh full of scavenger hunts, giveaways, a bowling tournament and much more.

This all culminates with the album release show and kickoff to his international tour on Sunday Sept. 20.

“GO:OD AM” is a stylized version of the phrase “good morning,” which Miller named his album convey that after a long night holed up in the studio recording, he is finally up and ready to deliver a breath of fresh air to the industry with his major label debut. Miller took to Twitter at the end of July to tell fans the album was finished, after nine previous albums had been recorded and then scratched, and that the final product was going to be the fans’ “favorite album.”

August saw Miller release a creative new music video for the album’s first single, “100 Grandkids,” which was met with praise and hype for the forthcoming fall album. Since then, two more singles were released through iTunes and Apple Music—“Break the Law” featuring uncredited vocals from Juicy J and “Clubhouse.” Mac is known for rarely following a typical hip-hop song archetype, choosing to sing or rap where he pleases on songs, and this is evident in the first three singles. It sounds like a very balanced mix between his work on “Macadelic,” “Watching Movies with the Sound Off ” and his most recent mixtape, “Faces,” which will most likely appease his fan population.

Miller does not like to do things half-heartedly, so he decided to release his album and start his tour in none other than his hometown of Pittsburgh.

Of course, it was only necessary for him to take the four days leading up to the show to make appearances all over Pittsburgh throwing fun events for fans and townies.

It all began on the 16th

with Miller throwing the first pitch at the Pirates game and giving away a copy of his album early to an entire lucky section at the game. The following day Mac will throw a three- hour “GO:OD AM” Bowling Tournament at Arsenal Bowling Lanes where participants get a custom jersey and fight for the chance to bowl against Miller’s team.

On Friday, the album drops ,and fans have the opportunity to attend a private dinner and listening party with Miller and his friends. Miller has kept details about the dinner unknown until he decides it is time to give people a chance to sign up for the event.

Finally, Saturday, Miller will host a softball tournament at Arsenal Park, giving fans the chance to play him and his team in the finals. That night there will be a REMember party, celebrating his album and his thriving label, with surprise performances and free admission. The location of the party is undisclosed, similar to the details of the listening party Friday. Sunday before the

Mac Miller will release his “GO:OD AM” album on Friday, Sept. 18. show, you will find Mac at the Steelers game waving the Terrible Towel with the stadium’s attendees.

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bum release show is at tion for Sunday’s show, Stage AE’s outdoor venue visit http://homecoming. at 7 p.m. For more infor- haveagoodam.com. mation on the weekend’s events or ticket informadaa&e@mail.wvu.edu

W. Va Botanic Garden hosts seasonal birding event jillian clemente A&e writer @dailyathenaeum

Fall is a time of change, and for birds, that time can go from July to November.

“Migration drags out over a couple of months, and right now, we’re in the peak of it,” said John Boback, a caretaker at Dorsey’s Knob Lodge.

Boback is also the featured bird walk leader for Bird Day this Saturday at the West Virginia Botanic Garden, a 15-minute drive from campus.

Bird Day is the first of its kind for the WVBG. “This is the first year we’ve done it,” said Erin Smaldone, a part-time education director and volunteer coordinator at the WVBG. “It’s special because it goes for three hours. The bird walk is the first thing in

the morning, and it’s a fall bird walk so we’ll see more migrants and local resident birds.”

The day starts at 8 a.m. with a one and a half-hour birding walk.

“It’s good we’re starting early in the morning,” Boback said. “A lot of these migrate overnight in the dark.”

That means in the morning, the birds are awake, chirping and begging for food. Their activity means the bird watchers can see the movement.

“Broad-winged hawks are flying south now, and on a really good day, you can see more than 100 broadwinged hawks in Morgantown,” he said.

Migration for these birds comes late compared to some other birds. “(Migration) started in July with shore birds like the sandpipers,” Boback said.

Currently, it’s song-

bird migrating season, and ducks are to come in late October and early November. But, the other morning, Boback saw a plethora of the warblers, a type of songbird, at his house.

“There were birds everywhere, and I think I counted 13 species of warblers outside my front door,” he said.

“I hope we find something like that at the Botanical Garden.”

He encourages attendees to bring binoculars if possible.

But even if binoculars aren’t in your pack, the Aviation Conservation Center of Appalachia is bringing a few hawks to present.

The three are Canaan, a red-tailed hawk; Crystal, an eastern screech owl; and Westley, an american kestrel, according to Jesse Fallon, a board and founding member of the ACCA. “Our education birds

are non-releasable,” Fallon said. “They sustained injuries that keep them from being released.”

The ACCA takes in sick and injured birds and rehabilitates them until ttheir be release. For example, some birds get X-rays and surgery to get fixed. The ones going to the WVBG are strictly for educational purposes.

“We don’t have a wild bird slated for this release - we’ll just be doing an education program,” Fallon said.

In addition, Sue Olcott, a biologist, will givea slideshow presentation about winter birds. Some birds are still active in the winter months, and it allows birders to enjoy all types of birds throughout the year.

Bird Day goes from 8 a.m. to noon this Saturday at the West Virginia Botanic Garden. All ages are welcome. buildlivegreen.me

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The Met prepares for “The Golden Horseshoe” Melanie Smith A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

The story of West Virginia’s heritage is hitting home this weekend at the Metropolitan Theatre.

The Golden Horseshoe Musical tells the story of West Virginia’s history through the imagination of an eighth- grade student named Wes. The Golden Horseshoe is an annual standardized test students of West Virginia can take in public school. The top-scoring students in each county receive the Golden Horseshoe Award and are inducted into the Golden Horseshoe Society as “knights” and “ladies.”

The story of the musical starts with a father helping his son, Wes, study for the annual test while coping with the recent death of his own father, Wes’s grandfather. The musical starts to unfold the story through historical scenes in

Wes’s imagination.

The audience will meet characters that are prominent in the state of West Virginia’s history, including John Brown, Stonewall Jackson, and many more characters.

The show provides a way of celebrating the state’s history while incorporating jokes and entertainment.

The musical is making its debut performance in Morgantown with audiences expected to fill the Metropolitan Theatre. Junior strategic communications student Chiara Pulice is working on a public relations project through the Reed College of Media. Part of her project is focusing on promoting The Golden Horseshoe Musical throughout the Morgantown community.

Chiara Pulice and her project partner, sophomore strategic communications student Lauren Harvey, have sentpress releases, contacted media, and to gain student and teacher in-

terest from West Virginia University.

Pulice grew up doing musical theatre, sparking her interest in working public relations for the musical.

“The musical is based off the real-life history of West Virginia, and the characters portrayed are the people who helped shape the great state of West Virginia into what it is today,” Pulice said.

Pulice believes the musical builds community awareness of West Virginia’s culture and provides an educational opportunity for middle school students and their instructors. The musical is a chance for people to see the true state of West Virginia and help beat the stereotypes associated with the state.

“The great thing about this state is that everyone has so much pride,” Pulice said.

“This musical beautifully celebrates all of the wonderful people and places that

helped make West Virginia a place to be proud of.”

Sophomore biomedical engineering student Emily Brezler took the Golden Horseshoe exam when she was a student in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Looking back six years ago, she feels the exam helped her embrace her pride as a native West Virginian.

“The test was not just about the state flower or state bird. It was about the state’s history, government and how it all started from the beginning,” Brezler said. “I am so excited that there is a musical to tell all of the historical stories of West Virginia. I hope to see it this weekend.”

The musical debuts at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the Metropolitan Theatre. Tickets will be sold for$15 for adults and $10 for seniors and children.

For more information, visit http://www.goldenhorseshoemusical.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Botanic Garden guests can enjoy various natural sites on the grounds.

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The right to succeed in high school Racism and sexism are two heavily disputed topics at the forefront of news outlets today, but one disadvantaged group may have been left by the wayside in the fight for representation: the mentally challenged and the mentally ill. Aside from dealing with widespread social stigma, mentally ill and disabled people are often passed over in terms of having their rights guaranteed as members of the community.

For example, a high school student with Down syndrome is being forced to switch high schools due to his disability. Roy Stevens, a junior high school student living near Hundred, West Virginia, is being asked to make the transition to Magnolia High School, even though the school is located more than an hour away from his home.

Roy first attended Magnolia High School his freshman year due to a policy dictating special-needs

Roy Stevens and his family petition to allow him to graduate from Hundred High School. students across the county must transfer to the bestequipped school, but problems with waking up early to catch the bus caused frequent attendance issues.

Wetzel County’s Board of

Education then allowed Roy to attend the closer Hundred High School for two years, where he joined band, took regular-education classes and made many friends. However, the

school board is now saying Roy must return to Magnolia because the school is better suited for special-needs students than Hundred.

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cess of a mentally challenged or mentally ill student doesn’t simply mean attending the school that can provide the most services to all disabled students; it can also mean

building a network of friends and making the most out of extracurriculars. According to his parents, these are both things Roy had clearly achieved at Hundred High. Other members of the community also recognize this fact and have shown support for Roy by organizing peaceful protests in his honor in hopes he can graduate with the rest of his class at Hundred High.

While West Virginia’s education system isn’t perfect, recognizing success among individuals is hard to miss, and both Roy’s parents and the Hundred community agree Roy’s academic record and the social support he received exceeded that at Magnolia. This editorial board believes every student deserves the chance to excel in the environment that suits him or her best, regardless of his or her IQ or mental capabilities. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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A layer of the Internet exists that few have experienced firsthand. Called the “Deep Web,” this hardto-access portion of the Internet has been a popular topic of discussion since its creation. The Deep Web, also called the Dark Web, refers to the part of the Internet most people cannot easily find. Some parts require unique software to access while others are simply left unindexed by search engines, rendering them impossible to be discovered by the common web user.

This hidden portion of the Internet has become legendary for its illegal and highly questionable activities. Illicit pornography, arms trafficking and illegal gambling occupy fairly large segments of the Deep Web, and with search engines unable to properly scour them, there wasn’t much able to be done about their existence up until now.

Researchers employed by the military have created a search engine called Memex, which is able to see the parts of the web search engines like Bing and Google cannot. This could lead to many positive outcomes, most notably the end of prolific drug and sex trafficking.

Take the case of the 16-year-old British boy who attracted suspicion from an anti-terror operation when he tried to order poison off the Deep Web in large

quantities from an unindexed site, or the “3 Guys 1 Hammer” video depicting a live murder scene by group of Ukrainian men.

The video eventually surfaced to the “light” side of the Internet due to its popularity and led to the men’s arrests, but Memex may make exposing criminal activity online much easier than simply waiting for grotesque footage to cross over into more visible parts of the web.

If you thought you had seen the worst of what’s online just by browsing around Facebook or Twitter, you would be highly mistaken. The sites and networks belonging to the Deep Web constitute communities much smaller than any social network, but the sheer number of these small niche communities has swelled the Deep Web to a size much larger than the standard Internet.

Much like an iceberg, there is more below the surface, and what lurks below is far deadlier.

Earlier this year, a group of artists and programmers in Switzerland devised a web robot designed to buy items at random from marketplaces within the Deep Web. The items would eventually be showcased in an art display to depict the secret underbelly of the Internet to unsuspecting museum-goers. Most of the items were fairly benign: There were bootleg designer clothes, cigarettes, some sketchy sneakers, and a slightly-worrying baseball cap outfitted with a hidden camera. However, there was one purchase that forced authorities to

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The bot had stumbled across the infamous Silk Road: An enormous online drug marketplace serving thousands of patrons every day. The F.B.I. had it shut down twice in both 2013 and 2014, but to no avail.

Once in the Silk Road, the robot stayed true to its programming and purchased 10 pills of MDMA (Ecstasy). The authorities subsequently confiscated and destroyed the drugs.

Thankfully, the Deep Web is fairly difficult to access for those not techno-

logically-savvy, and it’s nearly impossible to simply stumble across one of the numerous seedy websites. However, there are plenty of websites bordering between light and dark.

Infamously-amoral websites like 4chan.com lie just along the thin line separating the majority of Internet users from the terrors of the hidden web. Pictures of brutally murdered, sexually violated corpses have been posted on the site at various points, and though it is not truly part of the Deep Web, visiting its message boards

is akin to playing with fire every day.

While the Deep Web is much larger than the easily accessible parts of the Internet by scale, it has far fewer users as a whole.

Most people have never once utilized the Deep Web and would never dream of it. Degeneracy has a way of looking much worse than it actually is when told secondhand, but the deep, dark, scary hidden Internet has attained mythical status for a reason. So few people have actually experienced it, it is only spo-

ken of in anecdotes and virtual legends told strictly to frighten and astound those unfamiliar.

There are many articles and videos explaining how the Deep Web isn’t nearly as messed-up as one might expect. Yes, there are still illegal drugs, porn and gambling, but all of those are inevitable. However, utilizing Memex to control and regulate the parts we previously could not will at least diminish the creeping illegality of the Deep Web. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Last week, Stephen Colbert began his tenure behind the “Late Show” desk on CBS. Though he’s only got a few episodes under his belt so far, he’s off to a rousing start.

During his first episode as host, which aired Tuesday, Sept. 8, actor George Clooney and presidential candidate Governor Jeb Bush were guests. Actress Scarlett Johansson and PayPal and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk appearing on the show on Wednesday, followed by Vice President Joe Biden and Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick. Colbert finished his first week with guests comedian Amy Schumer and author Stephen King—not bad for a

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first week, right?

But beyond the numerous accomplished people who Colbert will continue to interview on the show, what sets “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” apart from other latenight talk shows airing that makes his show worth watching?

Those of us who know Colbert grew to love him during his time as host on the popular satirical news show, “The Colbert Report,” which aired on Comedy Central from Oct. 2005 to Dec. 2014.

Before “The Colbert Report,” he was part of the cast of Comedy Central’s other parody-news show “The Daily Show,” during which he won three Emmys as a writer. On “The Colbert Report”, which was a spinoff of “The Daily Show,” he hosted as a fictional anchorman of the same

name who is somewhat of an idiot.

On “The Late Show,” he’s abandoned his fictional anchorman persona and is hosting as himself, but he’s still armed with strong interviewing skills, quick wit and an impressive array of knowledge, as viewers had seen on his previous show.

Colbert’s ability to comment on and discuss pretty much anything—from music to politics to pop culture to the economy—and relay to viewers what’s important in a way they can understand is an asset he’s already demonstrated on “The Late Show.”

His interview with Vice President Joe Biden, which started off somewhat humorous, quickly got serious as they discussed the recent loss of Biden’s son, as well as the deaths of his first wife and daughter. The interview with Biden has

already set Colbert’s show apart, as what Colbert did— asking questions but letting Biden talk and share, and allowing a more tragic note to enter his show—is something seldom seen from other hosts on late-night talk shows.

While watching Colbert and Biden bond over shared loss (Colbert lost his father and two of his brothers in an airplane crash when he was 10) and speak candidly about Biden’s faith and family, viewers feel as if they are getting a rare glimpse into the heart and mind of Biden. It’s inspiring and moving to see.

Colbert was able to balance the poignancy of Biden’s emotional venting with humor, and transition the interview from talking about tragedy to other things with a lighter tone.

Beyond that, his guests are also more eclectic than other late-night talk shows.

Aside from the more renowned celebrities sprinkled into the mix who have already graced his couch, he also will have more presidential candidates than other shows, in addition to other influential businessmen and entrepreneurs.

Other guests slated to appear on the show include actors Kerry Washington, Lupita Nyong’o, Hugh Jackman and social activist and Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, plus other presidential hopefuls including Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, whom Colbert has already had a field day berating.

While many critics have said Colbert’s “Late Show” does need to straighten out some glitches, the show has already received high praise.

“Variety’s” Brian Lowry said, “Facing almost impossibly high expectations, Stephen Colbert seemingly

raced through a checklist of agenda-setting moments in his mostly terrific The Late Show debut.”

James Poniewozik of “The New York Times” wrote, “This show may not completely know what it is yet, but it knows exactly who its host is: a smart, curious, playful entertainer who’s delighted to be there.”

“Salon” writer Sonia Saraiya said, “One thing is immediately clear about Stephen Colbert as the anchor of The Late Show: He’s very good at it … Colbert has this in the bag; it’s now just a question of letting him do his thing.”

So if you didn’t tune in to “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” during its first week, make sure you do in the future: Colbert is definitely going to make his mark on late-night, and his show is one you don’t want to miss.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When he arrived in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, Eli Broad once said, he found himself in a city without a cultural center. So the billionaire arts patron decided to build one.

On Sept. 20 that effort takes a major step forward with the opening of The Broad, a shining, popart styled museum holding 2,000 works by arguably every important contemporary artist of the past 60 years.

The $140 million project featuring 50,000 square feet of exhibition space is the most recent accomplishment in Broad’s ongoing effort to remake a once seedy section of downtown Los Angeles into the cultural arts center he has long envisioned.

But more than that, says Joanne Heyler, a veteran curator and the new museum’s director, The Broad stands to remake Los Angeles into the nation’s contemporary art capital.

“Los Angeles is now a place, a city, where if you’re serious about collecting contemporary art, if you’re serious about understanding contemporary art, you cannot not come here,” she said as she led a recent tour through the museum.

The three-story building itself is almost as much a pop-art creation as the numerous works by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Chris Burden and scores of others that it contains.

Its unusual appearance, created by Diller Scofidio Renfro, the architectural firm that envisioned New York City’s High Line park, features a white, honeycombed “veil’ made of fiberglass-reinforced concrete.

It’s a wrapping that envelops the building from its roof to the ground, providing an enclosed public sidewalk from which passers-by can gaze in at some of the works.

The museum itself sits directly across the street from LA’s Museum of Contem-

porary Art, of which Broad (BROHD’) was the founding director when it opened in 1979. It is next door to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened in 2003 after a $250 million fundraising effort spearheaded by Broad, who made a fortune in real estate and investments before turning his attention to the arts and philanthropy.

Like the sometimes controversial contemporary works inside, reaction to the new building has been mixed. Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne recently gave it a lukewarm review, calling its facade “surprisingly punchless,” especially when compared to that of its more flamboyant neighbor, the shimmering silver Disney Hall designed by Frank Gehry.

Whatever people come to think, of it, Heyler said, it will be a museum that resembles no other.

For one thing, there will be no admission desk in the

lobby because there will be no admission fee.

Instead, the lobby will resemble an Apple store, with museum “associates” armed with smartphones wandering the floor, checking visitors in and directing them to the nearly two dozen galleries.

Although admission is free, reservations are recommended so visitors can get in at the times they prefer.

Some 40,000 people made reservations during the first two days they were offered earlier this month, causing the museum’s computers to crash.

With works arranged chronologically, first-time visitors are advised to take an escalator to the third floor, where among the first things they’ll see is Jeff Koons’ brilliantly colorful “Tulips” sculpture.

Around the corner will be many of the most influential pop-art works of the 1960s, including Warhol’s famous “Small Torn Campbell’s

Soup Can (Pepper Pot)” and other prominent pieces

by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

From there it’s a trip through the pop, abstract and contemporary art worlds of the 1960s, `70s, `80s and `90s, with paintings, sculptures, photographs and other works by the likes of Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Charles Ray and others.

Among the many highlights are Ruscha’s heralded “Norms La Cienega On Fire” painting and Koons’ stunning porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson and his pet chimp Bubbles.

On the first floor are more recent works, including Takashi Murakami’s colorful yet sobering 82-foot mural “In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow.” The painting, inspired by Japan’s deadly 2011 earthquake and tsunami, covers most of two walls.

Nearby, in a darkened gallery, is Ragnar Kjartansson’s whimsical performance-art

Celebrities becoming media moguls NEW YORK (AP) — Oreo by double-stuffed Oreo, Khloe Kardashian fills a glass jar in her kitchen with dozens of cookies carefully arranged in a pattern. It’s a chore she does once a month to keep the goodies fresh.

For a subscription fee of $2.99 a month, now there’s an app that lets you watch.

Khloe and her much-exposed sisters this week launched new apps and websites designed to give fans a further peek into their lives - and fatten their bank accounts in the process.

It’s the latest example of celebrities involved in creating their own media outlets, diverse projects that go beyond connecting with fans on Instagram or Twitter. Celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow and Derek Jeter have found them solid investments that give them tighter control over their images.

“It can be a good business,” said Ken Doctor, founder of Newsonomics, a company that tracks digital development. “It can be a big business.”

-Paltrow’s Goop website was launched in 2008. It has established itself as a digital player in the lifestyle area, offering shopping opportunities, trend stories and recipes. This week on the site people can read a Q&A with an expert on ear piercing, discover romantic sites for proposals and learn about composting. The site recommends products and helps you shop for them. Users can also sign up for an email from Paltrow, delivered every Thursday.

-Kutcher and two partners launched the site A Plus last year and raised more than $3 million in funding in less than a year, according to Business Insider. It’s a curated news site of “positive journalism” reflecting the interests of the actor, who was renowned in the early days of Twitter for all of his followers. On Wednesday, the site featured stories on a philanthropist who is funding math and science teachers in New York City and twin brothers from Po-

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Ashton Kutcher founded a ‘positive journalism’ site. land reunited after 70 years apart.

-Legendarily private baseball star Jeter seemed the least likely person to start a media outlet after his retirement, but The Players’ Tribune is in character. The site cuts out reporters to offer athletes the opportunity to address fans directly. New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey took to Players’ Tribune this month to address a controversy over how many innings he will pitch this season, his first after major arm surgery.

-Actress Lena Dunham is promising to start a newsletter, Lenny, this fall with Jenni Konner, a writer who works with her on the HBO series “Girls.” The Lenny website said “there’s no such thing as too much information” and said it will feature talk on feminism, style, health and relationships. In a preview, Konner writes about her mother getting an abortion.

-Jay Z curates Life + Times, an arts and culture website. Click on its home page Wednesday and you’ll find articles on the DJ Rathchett Traxxx and the Web series “Money & Violence,” and a link to Jay Z’s video for “Glory.”

Smart celebrities noticed when Arianna Huffington, a public figure but not very well known, started The Huffington Post in 2005 and saw it take off, Doctor said.

Smarter celebrities noticed when AOL Inc. bought the site for $315 million in 2011.

Media investors have expressed interest in celeb-

rity projects, which means more are probably on the way, Doctor said.

The Kardashian project was created by Whalerock Industries, a Santa Monica, California- based firm started by former ABC executive Lloyd Braun. Khloe, Kim Kardashian West, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner all have their own apps, at $2.99 a month a pop.

Kourtney’s app is still under development, said Jared Heinke, head of digital at Whalerock.

Each sister has separate websites where fans can find material, and it directs people to the paid app if they seek more content.

The material they’ve made available reflect their interests, he said. Kylie curates a radio station, Kim offers makeup tips with her styling team, while Khloe’s app had fitness and lifestyle content.

“If Khloe wants to create an organizing video, where she walks you through how to organize a pantry, we will do it for her,” Heinke said.

“By the way, she did, and it’s amazing.”

Whalerock has also created an app for rap star Tyler, the Creator. The company will look for opportunities to work with other celebrities; a successful Kardashian app would be the best advertising possible.

“In every business, you want to both control your distribution and control your revenue stream, so I don’t know why this would be any different,” he said.

piece “The Visitors.” Displayed on nine video screens, it features musicians playing and singing a brief musical snippet inspired by the group Abba over and over for more than an hour. Among the performers is the Icelandic artist himself, who sits naked in a bathtub, strumming his guitar.

The second floor holds the museum’s vault and, thanks to a large porthole, visitors will actually be able to look into it and see works not currently on display.

It’s a vault being constantly added to, said Heyler, who noted that the museum acquires an average of one new work a week.

Asked who makes the final decision on those pricey acquisitions, she laughed.

“He tends to have the last word,” she said of Broad, the 82-year-old arts patron who has been collecting for more than 50 years and who is said to have paid $11.7 million for that Warhol soup can painting on the third floor.

Ticketing begins at 4:01 p.m. Friday, September 18.

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The Mountaineers kickoff at 3:00 p.m. against Maryland on September 26 Here’s The “Game Plan”

Bring your student ticket (paper or digital) and WVU ID to the stadium for admittance; enter through East gates of stadium; gates open 1 1⁄2 hours before kickoff.

If you want to take advantage of the new mobile ticket option on game day, follow these steps. Claim your ticket, then, login to your account on your smart phone, select ‘Your Tickets’ then ‘Print’ to have your ticket displayed on the phone screen.

Next, take a screenshot of that image and save it on your phone so that you can show it with your student ID on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium. No paper ticket needed!

Guest tickets - if available after the initial request period - will be located in the Upper Deck and Spirit Section 121; be sure to select one of these sections when requesting guest seats.

Tickets are nontransferable. Any attempt at fraudulent ticket reproduction will result in disciplinary action, including loss of athletic privileges and possible expulsion. If you do not have BOTH your ticket and student ID, you WILL NOT be admitted to the game.

Have Fun. Be Safe.

Be Respectful.

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2. No foul or abusive language 3. No smoking in the seating or concourse areas.

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5. No ignoring of the instructions of Event/Security personnel.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HH You will be weighing the pros and ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH cons of an idea. You might not be You might decide to indulge your- ready to share it with others yet. In self or a loved one. You will follow any case, a friend will try to reel you through with this behavior, even in. Rather than being annoyed, join if you are trying to restrain your- this person. Share some of your priself right now. Expect some sur- vate thoughts. Tonight: Returns calls prises . Try to get rid of any limiting and emails. thoughts. Tonight: Live it up.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH If you don’t feel like joining your Others look to you to take the lead. loved ones, know that that’s OK. You probably are not aware of what You usually are a people person, but a commanding figure you are. You’ll perhaps you have better plans. You appreciate the sentiment, but you don’t need to share everything that might want to do something else. is on your mind. Deal with a touchy You don’t have to make excuses. To- person carefully. Tonight: With a favorite person. night: Go out on the town.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might have a serious meeting on your schedule, but you still will make time to visit your friends. You can get quite intense if you feel a lack of control. Realize that the only person you can control is you. Others surprise you with their choices.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You generally are full of fun, yet you seem to be more serious right now. A friend will try to tease you out of your mood. Just be true to yourself. You could be surprised by what happens as a result. Communication will flourish if you are willing to talk. Tonight: Hang out.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH You’ll see a new beginning as others seem to reveal much more. You have the ability to add excitement wherever you are. You might get a little too assertive in a conversation. Try to make fewer judgments. Tonight: Bottoms up.

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Media can’t ignore college athlete indiscretions After two WVU football players were dismissed following being stabbed in a fight downtown, one has to wonder why legal incidents involving college athletes are rarely publicized to the extent of a professional athlete.

Shows like “SportsCenter” and “First Take” were dominated on a daily basis with the Deflategate scandal, domestic violence issues of Greg Hardy and Ray Rice and the child abuse situation surrounding Adrian Peterson. These issues should be effectively covered, because they’re important issues that touch areas much bigger than sports, with the exception of Deflategate.

However, when similar incidents involve an athlete at the collegiate level, they can be highly underreported.

A prime example is the Rutgers University football program. In the past month, six players have been charged with assault, including one assault on a woman.

The first incident occurred last spring and a resulting investigation led to charges against Ruhann Peele, 22; Nadir Barnwell, 20; Razohnn Gross, Delon Stephenson and Andre Boggs, 20. Several former Rutgers players were also charged.

The five were involved in an attack on a group of people, including at least one student at the University whose jaw was broken, according to Egg Harbor Township police.

Peele was also charged with assault in 2014 after allegedly pulling the hair and scratching the face of his girlfriend, but the charges were later dropped.

Over the weekend, Rutgers’ leading receiver Leonte Carroo was suspended indefinitely after he allegedly slammed a woman into the concrete outside the team’s football facility.

The report, filed in Bergen County municipal court, alleges Carroo was romantically involved with the victim. He pled not guilty and remains free on a $1,000 bail. Another school that has found its athletes in trouble with the law is Florida State.

Freshman quarterback De’Andre Johnson was kicked off the team before the season started after a video was released of him punching a woman at a bar.

Star running back Dalvin Cook was suspended from the team indefinitely after reports surfaced that he was involved in a similar incident.

While these incidents were reported by many news outlets, it wasn’t to the extent of the situations involving professionals.

An exception to this trend has been FSU student Erica Kinsman’s accusations of rape against former Seminole Heisman Trophy winner, and the number one pick in this year’s NFL draft, Jameis Winston.

Much like former college quarterbacks Johnny Manziel and Tim Tebow, Winston has the notoriety of a professional athlete, which is likely why it received extensive coverage from nearly every major news outlet.

It makes sense for media outlets to report on stories involving athletes with more recognition because it can lead to more viewership.

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West Virginia rides win streak to best-ever national ranking

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The West Virginia University women’s soccer team sits at No. 4 in the country in this week’s TopDrawerSoccer.com poll. The ranking is the highest in program history, and the first time they’ve reached those heights in nearly 13 years.

The Atlantic Coast Conference dominates the poll, holding six of the top 10 spots. Virginia, Florida State and North Carolina sit in the top three spots respectively.

Notre Dame ranks just behind the Mountaineers at No. 5, while Virginia Tech and Clemson round out the poll at No. 7 and No. 10 respectively. No. 17 Texas Tech is the only other Big 12 team to make the top 25.

Looking at the Mountaineers’ performance through their first eight games, it’s a similar result to last year.

The Mountaineers (7-1) dropped an early game to a strong No. 15 Virginia Tech,and have gone on to dominate, winning six straight.

Last season, the Mountaineers started the year 1-2 following losses to Penn State and Duke. Those were the last losses they’d see for months, winning 16 straight before losing to Georgetown in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The defensive situation is the same. Kadeisha Buchanan, a member of the Canadian National Team in the 2015 Women’s World Cup, leads a defense that has recorded a shutout in each of its seven wins.

The lone two goals surrendered came in the 2-1 loss to No. 15 Virginia Tech.

Buchanan, along with the performance of senior goaltender Hannah Steadman, has resulted in a defensive unit that currently ranks 15th in the country in goals against average.

The key to the Mountaineers’ success has been the emergence of an offensive chemistry. Freshman Nia Gordon, one of the most sought-after recruits last year, has found returners Kailey Utley, Ashley Lawrence and Michaela Abam to create an attack that has

unstoppable thus far. The four are WVU’s top scorers, combining for 17 of the team’s 24 goals this year.

“The team chemistry right now is really good.

The more they get to play together, the more understanding they have, the better,” said head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.

Gordon scored the gamewinning goals in the Mountaineers’ first two wins this season, earning Big 12 Rookie of the Week honors. Despite being the lone freshman on the team, she has adjusted quickly. She credits this to the mentoring she has received from Buchanan and Lawrence.

“Keish (Buchanan) and Ashley (Lawrence), they have so much experience with the World Cup, and they’re about to go to the Olympics,” Gordon said.

“They’re just always giving me little tips for things I can work on.”

Abam set program records in an 8-0 win over Villanova on Sept. 6 with four goals. She was the first to accomplish the feat in the program’s 20-year history.

Following an upset of No. 6 Penn State and the historic 8-0 thrashing of Villanova last weekend, the Mountaineers attained a No. 5 national ranking, the secondhighest in program history and the highest since 2012.

Following their wins over No. 15 Ohio State and Longwood, the Mountaineers moved up another spot, sitting at No. 4 in the latest national poll. The ranking is the highest in program history, and the first time the Mountaineers have achieved a No. 4 ranking since 2002.

Virginia Tech, the Mountaineers’ only loss this season, sits right behind West Virginia at No. 7, but has yet to enter an ACC schedule that will feature the top three teams in the country.

Hopes are high for the Mountaineers, with only two opponents remaining before a Big 12 slate that features only one ranked opponent in No. 17 Texas Tech. The Big 12 has offered West Virginia little competition since the Mountaineers joined in 2012. The Mountaineers have won the con-

ference title all three years since joining and have posted a regular season record of 22-1-2 against Big 12 opponents.

Following a 4-0 win against Longwood on Sunday, the Mountaineers possess a 15-game win streak at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. That home winning streak dates back to Aug. 29 of 2014, when West Virginia fell to Duke. During that time span, the Mountaineers outscored opponents at home 55-7.

Now that the Mountaineers are through the hardest part of their schedule, they’re emphasizing maintaining focus and taking opponents seriously.

“We just want to keep fighting. We’re going to try our hardest and play how we play, and hopefully good things will come,” Gordon said.

The Mountaineers take on Buffalo at 7 p.m. Friday, and Florida Gulf Coast at 1 p.m. Sunday at home, before opening Big 12 play against Texas next weekend. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

GYMNASTICS

Mountaineer gymnastics team ready for 2016 season

BY DAVID STATMAN

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

On Wednesday, West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons and the Mountaineer gymnastics team announced their schedule for the upcoming 2016 season.

West Virginia’s schedule features five home meets, interspersed with frequent travel and contests with all three Big 12 opponents, before the Big 12 Championships and NCAA National Championships later in the spring.

The Mountaineers are set to open up the season on Jan. 9, when they travel to Denver, Colorado to face Big 12 opponent Denver and Southern Utah. One week later, the Mountaineers will kick off their home season against New Hampshire, with another competition in Morgantown against Western Michigan and William & Mary following on Jan. 24.

The West Virginia University Coliseum will also host meets against Kentucky, Ohio State, Bowling Green and Pitt, but it’s West Virginia’s road schedule that really has Butts’ attention. The Mountaineers will travel to face Big 12 opponents Iowa State and Oklahoma in early February, and will also compete in Tuscalo-

osa, Alabama, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

“I’m excited for all the road challenges that await this year’s team,” head coach Jason Butts said in a press release. “I think we will be tested, and these meets will help prepare this squad for a great postseason. I’m also happy we will see each of our Big 12 opponents during the regular season before we all meet in Texas for the conference championship.”

The road schedule could end up being hard for the Mountaineers, but Butts is confident that his team, which features returning contributors Alexa Goldberg, Nicolette Swoboda and Melissa Idell, will be up for the challenge.

“This is a pretty brutal travel schedule, but this team is so ready,” Butts said. “We have a very cohesive group this year, and they’re ready to get back into competition.”

One of the highlights of West Virginia’s 2016 season is a home-and-home Backyard Brawl showdown with Pitt. On March 11, West Virginia will host the Panthers at the WVU Coliseum, before heading to Pittsburgh on March 13 for the return leg of this year’s Brawl.

“I’m really looking for the Pitt weekend,” Butts said. “This is a new Back-

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WVU’s Nicolette Swoboda perches on the balance beam last season against Penn State. yard Brawl tradition we’re gional Championships “I really think we need hoping to schedule each will be held on April 2, fol- to face tough teams each season.” lowed the NCAA National season,” Butts said. “We The showdown with Pitt Championships from April have a really high level of will be West Virginia’s last 15-17. talent this season, and I competition of the seaWith the start of the sea- think this squad is going son before they travel to son a few months away, to be ready for these road Frisco, Texas for the Big 12 Butts will have to hope that challenges.”

Championship on March his team is ready for the 19. This year’s NCAA Re- high level of competition. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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black bears

West Virginia wins NYPL Championship Tuesday

Catcher Chris Harvey prepares to swing at a pitch in a game against Hudson Valley in June. by nicole curtin West Virginia finished lations and another loss, sports editor the season with a record of West Virginia hammered @nicolec_WVU 42-34. the nail in the coffin in In the last few series’ Sunday’s game, winning In the start of the season, of the regular season the 4-0 and heading into the and even 10 games into Black Bears faced the league championship. the season, fans probably Williamsport CrosscutStaten Island was in never imagined that the ters who were leading the the same position as West West Virginia Black Bears league for a while and also Virginia throughout the would win the New York the top seed going into the season, and the teams matched up previously in Penn League Champion- Wild Card. ship after a very close Wild West Virginia ended the season, but the stakes Card race into the playoffs. up winning the series but were higher Monday and That is exactly what losing one game to Wil- Tuesday night and West played out the last two liamsport, before fac- Virginia was ready to bring weeks for the Black Bears, ing the Crosscutters again it. who in their inaugural sea- about a week later for the Only two wins were necson won the NYPL title, playoff. essary to take the title, and which is a huge reward.

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field advantage for the series, so the last two games were scheduled there.

Monday’s game went in to 11 innings where the Black Bears came out on top 4-3. The Yankees started off scoring first and kept a 1-0 lead until the bottom of the third inning when the Black Bears loaded the bases and scored three runs on a triple with two outs.

In the top of the eighth inning, Staten Island knotted up the score, and neither team scored again until the end of the game. In

the end of the 11th inning, designated hitter Daniel Arribas hit a line drive to center field, bringing home runner Mitchell Tolman and taking the first win of the series.

Tuesday night, the Black Bears played in New York, and the game played out very similarly to Monday’s.

Both teams were scoreless until the fifth inning when Yankees’ right fielder, Jhalan Johnson, hit a runner home and took the lead 1-0.

West Virginia answered in the seventh inning when

first baseman Carlos Munoz hit a solo shot to right field, tying up the game. In the top of the ninth, third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes started off with a single and center fielder Casey Hughston brought himself and Hayes home on a double to right field.

The Black Bears took a lead of 3-1, and relieving pitcher Julio Eusebio remained solid in the end of the ninth, giving the team its first-ever league championship. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

men’s soccer

Larmond carves out a role in freshman season after club experience

BY ALEC GEARTY

SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University men’s soccer team may have found a future cornerstone player when Rushawn Larmond signed his letter of intent this May. Larmond, a native of Philadelphia, came to Morgantown as one of the team’s top recruits.

The road to Morgantown has been quite the journey for the freshman midfielder, as he was left with a torn decision on his playing career.

Larmond could continue to play high school soccer or train with the United States developmental team, FC Delco. He decided to join FC Delco.

“Giving up high school (soccer) was a hard decision…I would have been able to play with my brother, which would have been extremely fun,” Larmond said in an interview with GametimePA.com.

In 2013-14, Larmond led the club in goals with 11 goals in 23 games, the only player’s goal total to reach

double digits. The next year, he followed up agan, leading the team with 12 goals and establishing himself as the team’s offensive cornerstone.

“He’s a goal scorer. He’s a new-age player that’s coming through in soccer as being the best athlete,” said head coach Marlon LeBlanc in a signing day statement. “Rushawn is the type of kid who is so athletically gifted and will add the ability to make something happen on his own and score goals.”

Larmond found himself in a role where he isn’t a starter on the team yet. He is a substitute and usually plays an average of 21 minutes per game.

However, that didn’t stop a section of “Larmond” shirts from invading Dick Dlesk Stadium when the Mountaineers took on San Francisco.

“The support from my family in my entire career has been fantastic,” Larmond said. “When you’re having bad days, they are there to pick you up and there to cheer you on.”

Larmond made an appearance in the game, but as time was coming to a close, the assumption of him not scoring was becoming a reality. That was until the 89th minute, when Felix Angerer split the defense and fed the ball to Larmond for a breakaway goal. The goal didn’t play a crucial role in the 6-2 win, but the Larmond section exploded as if he scored the game-winning goal.

“Having the family support is awesome, and it just keeps you going,” Larmond said.

The freshman forward is in the Mid American Conference top 10 in goals and just outside the top five in goals per game. They are both outstanding statistics for a player that comes off the bench, but what could we see from the Philadelphia native as his WVU career progresses?

Larmond hopes to be the team player huge names such as Ryan Cain and Andy Bevin before him were. “[I want to be] working hard for my teammates, playing defense and try to

Freshman Rushawn Larmond scores a goal in West Virginia’s game against JMU. finish opportunities that men and coaching staff, they give me in the game,” understanding how everyone plays and interacts with he said.

Being that the season is each other, so I would say so young, Larmond is us- it’s a learning process.” ing this time as a learning His family, especially his experience. father, Colin, always knew “I’m still learning as it what to say when his son goes, it’s a transition from was down on himself. academy to college,” Lar“Even when you’re havmond said. “I’m getting ing your bad days, my dad used to the team, getting always told me, ‘You can used to the upperclass- do better, don’t worry, just

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focus on your next game,’” Larmond said.

When Larmond officially committed to West Virginia, he felt like he was going in the right direction. His collegiate career is still in the infant stage, but with the support of his family and team, the ceiling is high for the 18-year-old. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

men’s golf

Cooke struggles with nerves, fights to improve

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Nerves are part of the golf game. Even the best golfers in the world get nervous. Recall the 2006 U.S. Open, when five-time major champion Phil Mickelson had a oneshot lead heading into the 18th hole in the final round, and then double-bogeyed the hole to finish one shot out of a playoff.

Or, more recently, at the 2015 U.S. Open, nine-time PGA Tour tournament winner, Dustin Johnson, was faced with a short birdie putt to win the championship on the 72nd hole but instead three-putted for bogey to give, the championship to Jordan Spieth.

Most of the time, golfers are able to keep the levelheaded mentality that is necessary to be successful on the course. That’s why West Virginia native Alan Cooke was surprised by how nervous he was when he and the Moun-

taineers teed off their first event in 30 years last week at the Tiger Turning Stone Invitational.

“I was really nervous,” Cooke said. “I haven’t been that nervous on a golf course in I don’t know how long.”

The nerves got the better of him at Turning Stone as he struggled to a 6-over 78 in the first round. But he finished strong with a two-over 74 in round two, and a one-under 71 in round three.

“After the first few holes, I was able to calm down and settle in,” he said.

Head coach Sean Covich attributes Cooke’s improvement to experience and repetitions.

“The more you play a golf course, the more comfortable you get,” Covich said.

Having that first tournament experience under his belt and jitters out of the way, Cooke was able to put together a solid performance this week at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational in Huntington, West Virginia.

He played lights out in the first round, shooting a 4-under 67 that put him in the top five for the tournament. But he came back to earth in the second and third rounds as he shot a five-over 76 and a two-over 73, respectively, to finish at three-over 216.

Before he went to the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, Cooke was named to the 2011 and 2012 West Virginia AAA All-State Team while he was at Parkersburg High School. He transferred to WVU after his sophomore year at USC-Beaufort, when he found out the university resurrected the men’s golf team. The prospect of playing for the school he grew up cheering for and playing in the tough Big 12 Conference was impossible to turn down.

Cooke and the Mountaineers now have an off week to prepare for their next tournament, the Graeme McDowell Shoal Creek Invitational in Birmingham, Alabama. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Going for it on fourth down a boost in ACC CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — When it comes to thirddown conversion rates, no league at college football’s top level is off to a better start this season than the Atlantic Coast Conference.

And on fourth down, the ACC is even better.

Going for it on fourthand-whatever has looked easy around the ACC so far in 2015, with the league’s teams combining to convert 31 of 38 chances - an wildly impressive 82 percent - in those situations.

No other conference even comes close to that sort of percentage on fourth downs, and the only FBS teams in America off to 5-for-5 starts in that department are Illinois and Miami.

“As our defense has improved over the last 15 games, so has our ability to go for it on fourth,” Miami coach Al Golden said.

“I don’t think there’s any question we have the utmost faith in our defense now.”

Miami has been dreadful on third downs to start this season, with only five teams at the FBS level off to a worse start than the Hurricanes’ 6-for-24 rate there through the first two games.

But when adding in that 5-for-5 on fourth downs, it all doesn’t look so bad to Golden.

“We just have a lot of confidence in our guys,” said Golden, whose team went for it twice on fourth downs on its first possession of the season - passing both times and converting both. “If it takes four downs, it takes four downs.

They’re both money downs to us.”

The Hurricanes are hardly the only ACC team with a punting-optional approach.

ACC clubs are converting on nearly 50 percent of their third-down tries so far this year, and the gaudy fourth-down numbers make it look more impressive across the league.

North Carolina State has more fourth-down conversion tries this season (seven) than it has punts (six). The Wolfpack are 5-for-7 on the ultimate down already in 2015, after going 5-for-10 on those plays in 2014.

“It’s always about execution,” said North Carolina

State coach Dave Doeren, whose affinity for going for it on fourth down goes back to his time at Northern Illinois before arriving in Raleigh in 2012. “You’ve got to execute and just make the right decision.”

No. 14 Georgia Tech has long had a penchant for leaving its offense on the field on fourth downs.

Sometimes it’s to try drawing an offsides penalty (if that doesn’t work, the Jackets will simply take a timeout), but it’s also not uncommon for coach Paul Johnson to just give his triple-option offense one more shot at converting.

The Jackets have been a juggernaut offensively this season. Their totals through three games: three punts, and 3-for-3 on fourth downs.

Among ACC teams, Duke has the most fourthdown tries (117, according to STATS) since the start of the 2011 season. Take away the league’s newcomers and the average for ACC clubs in that span is 80.3 fourth-down attempts.

There’s one very notable exception on that front.

Ninth-ranked Florida State had a fourth-down conversion in last week’s win over South Florida, after not having a single one in the entire 2014 season.

Since the start of 2011, the Seminoles are a mere 9 for 24 when going for it on fourth downs, a clear sign that Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher is no fan of what he seems to deem unnecessary risks.

And why would he be, considering Florida State has one of college football’s top kickers - maybe ever - in Roberto Aguayo.

“There’s no set reason to go for it or not go for it,” Fisher said. “We have a great field-goal kicker. A lot of times, I call that no man’s land when you’re out there. A lot of guys will go for it but we’ve got a great kicker, so a lot of times we’ll get field goals.”

The risk does seem to usually come with a big reward.

When ACC teams have converted on fourth downs this season, a trip to the end zone tends to follow.

Out of the 31 conversions, 18 have come on what became touchdown drives.

“If it takes two,” Golden said, “that’s what we’ll do.”

Start of SEC play a chance to erase losses Trying to keep his Razorbacks focused after a stunning defeat, Arkansas coach Brett Bielema points to reigning national champion Ohio State’s turnaround from an early season loss last year for encouragement.

Bielema just as easily could mention Alabama.

The Southeastern Conference, so mighty and strong just a week ago with a record 10 teams in the Top 25, suddenly looks a lot less powerful after an ugly weekend.

Arkansas lost 16-12 to Toledo at home, Auburn needed overtime at home to beat Football Championship Subdivision program Jacksonville State and Tennessee blew a 17-point lead and lost in overtime to Oklahoma.

Falling out of the Top 25 were Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State, which lost to LSU. Ah, but that was last week.

Divisional play cranks up this week with No. 18 Auburn at No. 13 LSU and No. 15 Ole Miss at No. 2 Alabama, starting the SEC’s annual war of attrition in earnest. Now the league that put a team in the national championship game every year from 2006-13 has to work a bit harder to ensure someone stands among the nation’s final four at season’s end.

Tennessee coach Butch Jones said nothing has changed, though it’s a little easier for him to say that since his Vols at least lost in double overtime to a Top 20 team.

Tennessee’s SEC debut comes Sept. 26 at Florida.

“The teams that can manage the natural adversities that a long football season brings about are the ones that go to bowl games and win championships,” Jones said. “Every-

one wants to push that red panic button across the country when something happens with their team.”

Auburn and Arkansas might not have panicked last weekend, but neither game was pretty. Ranked sixth nationally, Auburn had fans scrambling to figure out where Jacksonville State is before the Tigers finally escaped 27-20 in overtime. Auburn, which had been ranked sixth, fell 12 spots in the Top 25.

Wide receiver Melvin Ray said Auburn isn’t worried about suddenly facing diminished expectations or criticism.

“You have to tune it out because at the end of the day we’re 2-0,” Ray said. “If we just keep winning, what we did no matter how we won, it will still be a win. That’s all that’s going to matter.”

That approach worked for Alabama after the Crimson Tide lost 23-17 to Mississippi last season. Alabama simply won every other SEC game along with the league championship to earn the No. 1 seed in the national playoffs.

Winning three of the last six national championships has helped prep the Tide to be ready every week.

“That’s the nature of the beast when you play at Alabama,” Tide center Ryan Kelly said. “Now we’re starting SEC play. So every week is going to be a test. ... Every time you get into SEC play, it feels like it gets ramped up a little bit.”

Especially Saturday night when Alabama gets its rematch with Ole Miss. Nobody in the Football Bowl Subdivision has scored more than Ole Miss this season, and coach Hugh Freeze says he really doesn’t know if his Rebels are ready for SEC play.

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Houston’s Carlos Correa slides into third on an attempted steal aganist Texas during the two team’s critical AL West series this week.

Rangers finally overtake Astros for AL West lead ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adrian Beltre and Prince Fielder teamed up again in a tense Texas showdown, and this time the Rangers overtook the Houston Astros for first place in the AL West.

Beltre’s fourth hit Tuesday put the Rangers in position to win in the bottom of the ninth inning a night after Fielder pulled them within a half-game of the Astros with a tiebreaking two-run home run with Beltre aboard in the eighth.

Mitch Moreland’s sacrifice fly finished the 6-5 victory Tuesday night.

Eight games back and in third place in the division after losing on Aug. 1, the Rangers have gone 2714 since. They’ve won five straight over the Astros, who had been in first place since July 28. Texas won the

first two of this four-game series.

“They have fought, scratched, clawed all ways imaginable to get to this point,” first-year manager Jeff Banister said. “We’re not done done yet. Still got a long ways to go.”

Fielder opened the ninth with a single to left off Oliver Perez (0-2), and pinchrunner Drew Stubbs went to third on a single from Beltre, who drove in two runs with a single in the first and a tying double in the fourth.

Moreland sent a 1-0 pitch from Will Harris to Colby Rasmus in shallow center field, but Rasmus’ throw was off target and bounced, allowing Stubbs to score easily.

“If I make the absolute perfect throw, I might have a chance at Stubbs,” said

Rasmus, who had moved over from left field in the eighth. “He can fly. I might have tried too hard to make the perfect throw instead of just throwing it.”

Texas closer Shawn Tolleson (6-3) pitched a scoreless ninth as the Rangers (77-67) moved into sole possession of first place for the first time this year, at a season-high 10 games over .500.

The team, citing Elias, said the Rangers joined five teams since 1969 to take the first division lead this late in the season. The most recent was Oakland in 2012 when the A’s finished a three-game sweep of the Rangers on the final day of the regular season to win the AL West.

“We’re not going to look at us being in first or wherever we’re at right now,”

Moreland said. “We’ve still got a couple of weeks left in the regular season and we’re going to continue to focus on each game.”

Houston (77-68) holds the second AL wild card, 1 1-2 games ahead of Minnesota after the Twins lost to Detroit 5-4. The Astros have lost six of eight on the road trip and have one of the worst road records in the AL at 29-44.

“This is really intense baseball,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “It’s fun to do it; it’s not fun to lose. I felt we deserved a little better fate.”

HOLLAND FALTERS Texas starter Derek Holland couldn’t hold a 4-0 lead after the first, immediately allowing the first four hitters to reach in the second before Jake Marisnick’s sacrifice squeeze

bunt scored Jonathan Villar to get the Astros to 4-3.

Evan Gattis finished the rally in the fourth with a two-out, two-run single for a 5-4 lead. His soft two-strike liner over leaping shortstop Elvis Andrus kept Holland from escaping after the Astros put runners at the corners with nobody out.

TRAINER’S ROOM Astros: 3B Jed Lowrie was out of the lineup after getting banged up on consecutive pitches in Monday’s series opener. He fouled a ball off his left shin, and then got hit by a pitch on his left foot. He ended up leaving the game. Manager A.J. Hinch said he wasn’t sure if Lowrie would be available off the bench. ... CF Carlos Gomez (left rib muscle) rejoined the team Tuesday after being scratched

from the lineup Sunday at the Los Angeles Angels and getting evaluated Monday in Houston. Hinch said he was day to day.

Rangers: C Robinson Chirinos (strained left shoulder) caught in the cages for the first time since re-injuring the shoulder last Wednesday at Seattle.

UP NEXT Astros: LHP Dallas Keuchel (17-7, 2.22 ERA) has allowed three runs in 22 innings over three starts against the Rangers this season. He has just one win, though — 10-0 on July 19.

Rangers: LHP Martin Perez (2-5, 5.43) got an extra day of rest when the Rangers moved Holland in front of him in the rotation, which also helped Texas line up the pitching staff for the postseason.

“Pacman” Jones fined $35,000 for in-game fight CINCINNATI (AP) — Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was fined $35,000 by the NFL for his personal foul against Raiders receiver Amari Cooper during their opener on Sunday.

Jones got on top of Cooper, knocked off his helmet and slammed his head against it at the end of a play during the second quarter, drawing a penalty for unnecessary roughness.

He wasn’t ejected, and a scrum resulted after the play ended.

Jones said Wednesday that he’s going to appeal the fine.

“Everything will work itself out,” Jones said. “I’m going to appeal things. It’s way too much - $35,000 is a lot of money for a guy out playing football.”

The NFL won’t publicly confirm fines until Friday.

Bengals coach Marvin Lewis chastised Jones on the sideline after the play.

The Bengals won the game 33-13.

Lewis talked to his players about on-field conduct again on Monday. Safety George Iloka also drew a penalty for taunting during the game.

Raiders coach Jack Del Rio declined to discuss Jones’ conduct after the

game, waiting until he had a chance to see the video. On Monday, Del Rio said Jones’ conduct was “clearly way over the line.”

“I really don’t understand how that was missed, and we’ll certainly report that and inquire as to how something like that could be missed,” Del Rio said, referring to Jones avoiding an ejection.

“There seemed to be enough eyes on the situation. It was right there at the end of the play and clearly a part of the end of the play.”

Jones had a history of suspensions before he revived his career with the

Bengals. He has moved up from the No. 3 cornerback to starting across from Dre Kirkpatrick this season.

“Everybody is trying to make something way bigger than what it is, but it’s always going to be magnified when I do it, too,” Jones said. “I’m prepared for it. I’ve got thick skin.

I’ll be through this.”

Jones acknowledged that he should have controlled his temper better.

“I’m not going to change the way I play for nobody,” Jones said. “So as long as it’s not hurting my team, I’m cool. I know the difference between playing smart and reckless and

playing smart, reckless and doing dumb things, so hopefully that won’t happen again.”

The Bengals host the San Diego Chargers (1-0) on Sunday, looking to stop Philip Rivers.

He completed a clubrecord 20 consecutive passes while closing out a 33-28 win over the Lions on Sunday, four completions shy of the NFL record.

Rivers is 3-3 against the Bengals. He led the Chargers to a 27-10 win in an opening round playoff game at Paul Brown Stadium during the 2013 season.

“It’s a new team,” Jones said. “They have a whole new line. They have two new backs. It’s going to be interesting.”

Notes: Safeties Reggie Nelson (groin) and Iloka (ankle) missed practice on Wednesday. CB Leon Hall and LT Andrew Whitworth were limited as Lewis gave the veterans a little rest. .. DT Marcus Hardison (knee) and CB Josh Shaw (groin) also missed practice. ... The Bengals have won their past three home openers. They’re trying to start 2-0 for the second straight year - they won their first three games last season.

Rutgers coach suspended for illegal contact NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Rutgers has suspended football coach Kyle Flood for three games and fined him $50,000 for contacting a faculty member over a player’s grade - an issue separate from a string of recent player arrests.

Rutgers President Robert Barchi announced the punishment Wednesday, a day after he said he received an internal investigative report that found a professor felt pressured by Flood into allowing a player to complete an additional assignment in an attempt to improve his grade.

The report found that Flood emailed and met in person with a faculty member even though he knew or should have known of the university’s policies prohibiting coach-initiated contact with faculty members regarding students’ academic standing.

“I believe that the discipline is severe and justified for his failure to follow pol-

icy,” Barchi said in a letter to the Rutgers community, adding he met with Flood and that the coach accepted responsibility for his actions and the discipline.

In a statement Wednesday, Flood accepted responsibility but defended looking out for the academic interest of players.

“I care deeply about my student-athlete’s academic performance,” he said. “As the head coach, when I recruit players, my responsibility to them and their families is to do all I can to make sure they leave Rutgers with a degree and are prepared for a successful life off the football field.”

The report also found that Flood provided grammatical and minor editorial suggestions for a player’s paper after talking with the student and professor to come up with the plan for him to improve his grade. The report said that assistance was in line with standard student support

and did not constitute academic misconduct.

Athletic Director Julie Hermann said in a statement that running backs coach Norries Wilson will run the team for the next three weeks, including the team’s game Saturday against Penn State. He is the only staff member with previous head coaching experience. He was the first African-American head football coach in the Ivy League with Columbia (2006-11).

Barchi said the university needs to protect academic integrity and ensure that faculty members are free of intimidation and interference by outside parties Barchi said the investigation started on Aug. 12 and focused on whether Flood intervened on behalf of junior cornerback Nadir Barnwell.

The investigation found that Flood used his personal email to contact the faculty member and had

an in-person meeting with the faculty member regarding Barnwell’s academic standing. The multiple email contacts came both before and after the meeting, which occurred at an off-campus location.

The meeting with the teacher came after a member of the athletics academic advising staff reminded Flood not to have contact with any faculty member regarding a student’s academic standing.

Flood still had the meeting.

The faculty member agreed during that meeting to review an additional paper as partial satisfaction for the requirements of a course the student had already completed.

The paper was submitted but ultimately was not graded and the academic status of the student and his final grade were not changed.

The professor told an investigator that “she felt unable to resist the implied

pressure from someone like Coach Flood and thus felt uncomfortable not agreeing to an additional assignment to allow the Student to become eligible,” according to the report.

The penalty comes with Rutgers (1-1) reeling from a series of player arrests and suspensions over the last month. Six players have been dismissed from the program - including Barnwell - following arrests.

Three former players also were arrested.

Star receiver Leonte Carroo was suspended indefinitely this past weekend after he was charged with body slamming a woman he was once romantically involved with following the Scarlet Knights’ loss to Washington State on Saturday.

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Barchi said he hopes this doesn’t hurt the reputation of New Jersey’s flagship state university.

“Make sure we put this in perspective,” he said.

“We’re talking about actions that are occurring with a single coach and a single team.”

The penalty for Flood relates only to the academic improprieties and not the string of arrests of players and former players this month on allegations including home invasion and dorm-room robberies and domestic violence.

Barchi said that because the alleged crimes are part of an investigation by a prosecutor, the university can’t do its own probe now.

“There’s no correlation or interrelationship between the two at all,” he said of the legal issues and Flood’s talking to a faculty member about a student’s status.

Flood is entering his fourth season as coach. He has a 23-16 record and took the Scarlet Knights to bowl games in each of his first three seasons.