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‘Day of Play’ fights childhood obesity by james pleasant correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Several former West Virginia University football players returned to Morgantown on Sunday to inspire local children to adopt healthy lifestyles.

Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer, a local campaign dedicated to fighting West Virginia’s childhood obesity epidemic by encouraging children to pursue physical activity and healthy lifestyles, hosted a Day of Play event with 103 local children who had the opportunity to play football-related games with

current WVU players, as well as former WVU players who made it to the National Football League, like Keith Tandy and Najee Goode, among others.

The players educated the kids with tips for staying healthy and met with children and their families to sign autographs and take pictures.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling (participating in Day of Play),” said Tandy, current Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety and former WVU player. “West Virginia did so much for me in the five years I was here… Anytime I get the chance to give back, I want to do so.”

This year, Day of Play was organized completely by students in Reed College of Media associate professor Elizabeth Oppe’s strategic communications capstone class.

“With the problems of obesity… we just want (children) to think about being outside, and maybe even promote (healthy eating and fitness) within their families,” Oppe said.

Oppe, who founded Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer in 2014, was inspired to create Day of Play after watching former WVU quarterback—and current New York Jets player—Geno Smith doing drills while

she was grading papers. She believed former Mountaineer players could come back to West Virginia to motivate children.

“We feel (these kids) can look up to these football heroes and learn from them as role models to eat healthier and be more active,” said Lacie Geary, a Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer executive, as well as a WVU graduate student.

West Virginia has the second highest adulthood obesity rate in the nation, according to a report by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Chantz Lenhart catches a pass while playing a game of football during the “Day of Play” event hosted by the Once A Mountaineer, Always A Mountaineer campaign.

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WVU International Student Organization hosts annual International Dinner with Middle Eastern spin by amy pratt

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West Virginia University students, faculty and community members had the opportunity to sample food from the Arab Gulf States and experience cultures from around the globe at the International Dinner on Sunday evening.

The International Dinner is an annual event held each spring semester by the WVU International Student Organization. The organization picks a theme or region for the food, and students from the chosen region are the ones who make the food as close to authentic as possible with American ingredients. “(The International Dinner) is meant to represent all the cultures that are at WVU. It’s an easy way to get to know the cultures, especially if you can’t travel abroad or it’s too far so you can’t go there, but you want to learn about it,” said Iryna Kovtoniuk, the president of the International Student Organization who is from the Ukraine. “It’s a way to get to know things about those countries and also try delicious food served and presented the way they would in

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The food this year was from the Gulf States since 57 percent of the international students at WVU are from that region, according to Raza Ravjani, the vice president of the International Student Organization. There was Kabsah from Saudi Arabia, gyro meat from the Middle East, Harees with lamb, which is ground wheat cooked with meat, from the United Arab Emirates and other dishes.

Abdala Alzaabi, a sophomore petroleum engineering student from the United Arab Emirates, helped cook the Harees.

“It’s a traditional food.

It’s Harees seeds (wheat), smashed and mixed with water and cooking oil,” Alzaabi said. “It’s a traditional food from our country. (Other countries) make it, but it came from us.”

Students from the Ukraine, Malaysia and Oman put on a fashion show to display clothes from their countries after the food was served.

“I chose my dress for the fashion show because it has the three colors (red, white and green) of my country’s flag. I’m from Oman,” said Reem Albalushi, a sopho-

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Students from around the world were invited to attend the International Dinner in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. more political science student. “We would like to show WVU the picture of us because many people don’t know a lot of the countries in the Middle East, especially Oman.”

The Barbara Alvis award is presented each year at the international dinner to a person who has offered outstanding help to international students. This year, it went to Becky McDaniel, WVU advisor to incoming

exchange students.

“I think it’s just a gift God gave me,” McDaniel said. “I stand in front of you 11 years later, much more culturally minded than I was before. I hope through my position my exchange students have seen we are a united country and we welcome you.”

McDaniel began working for WVU in 1991 as a data entry operator in the department of human resources. She started taking

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part-time classes at WVU in 1993, while working full-time and being a single-mother. It took her twenty years to get a four-year degree, but she does not regret that time.

Her exchange students have described her “like their mother away from home.”

The proceeds from the dinner will go to a charity and be used to fund next year’s dinner. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

West Virginia University’s “It’s On Us” campaign is a national initiative to engage college students and campus community members to make a personal commitment to be a part of the solution to end campus sexual assault.

The movement aims to shift the way people think about sexual assault by encouraging everyone to see it as their own responsibility, urging them to step in to prevent it. The campaign stresses sexual assault isn’t just an issue involving the perpetrator and the victim, but one we all have a role in which to play.

The program is committed to creating an environment where sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are supported.

“Often times, victims are not receiving the help they need due to the fact they are placing blame on themselves and remaining silent because they see it as their fault,” said Breanna Kreutzer an advocate for the campaign. “No one deserves to be sexually assaulted, and everyone needs to know the victim is never to blame.”

Sexual assault is a social issue close to Kreutzer’s heart, as she herself is a survivor of sexual assault on the WVU campus. Following her assault, Kreutzer said she did not speak of the incident to anyone for three years.

“I was embarrassed of what happened to me, and I convinced myself I was at fault for the experience,” Kreutzer said. “It was an extremely heavy burden to carry all on my own, day in and day out.”

Kreutzer does not want anyone to go through what she did because of a lack of knowledge, resources or support.

“If I can even save one person through this campaign from going through what I had to, it will be well worth it,” Kreutzer said.

Kreutzer said the entire campus community benefits from this campaign.

She believes if the campus

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In this Jan. 20, 1981, file photo, President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan wave to onlookers at the Capitol building as they stand at the podium in Washington following the swearing in ceremony. The former first lady has died at 94, The Associated Press confirmed Sunday, March 6, 2016.

Former first lady Nancy Reagan dies at 94 in California

LOS ANGELES (AP)— Nancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president - and finally during his 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease - has died. She was 94.

The former first lady died Sunday at her home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, assistant Allison Borio told The Associated Press.

Her best-known project as first lady was the “Just Say No” campaign to help kids and teens stay off drugs.

When she swept into the White House in 1981, the former Hollywood actress partial to designer gowns and pricey china was widely dismissed as a pre-feminist throwback, concerned only with fashion, decorating and entertaining. By the time she moved out eight years later, Mrs. Reagan was fending off accusations that she was a behind-the-scenes “dragon lady” wielding unchecked power over the Reagan administration - and doing it based on astrology to boot.

All along she maintained that her only mission was to back her “Ronnie” and strengthen his presidency.

Mrs. Reagan carried that charge through the rest of her days. She served as a full-time caretaker as Alzheimer’s melted away her husband’s memory. After his death in June 2004 she dedicated herself to tending his legacy, especially at his presidential library in California, where he had served as governor.

She also championed Alzheimer’s patients, raising millions of dollars for research and breaking with fellow conservative Republicans to advocate for stem cell studies. Her dignity and perseverance in these postWhite House roles helped smooth over the public’s fickle perceptions of the former first lady.

The Reagans’ mutual devotion over 52 years of marriage was legendary.

They were forever holding hands. She watched his political speeches with a look of such steady adoration it was dubbed “the gaze.” He called her “Mommy,” and penned a lifetime of gushing love notes. She saved these letters, published them as a book, and found them a comfort when he could no longer remember her.

After Reagan was shot

by John Hinckley just three months into his presidency, he was said to have famously wisecracked to her, “Honey, I forgot to duck.”

In announcing his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 1994, Reagan wrote, “I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience.” Ten years later, as his body lay in state in the U.S. Capitol, Mrs. Reagan caressed and gently kissed the flag-draped casket.

In a statement Sunday, U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama spoke of the Reagan’s journey with Alzheimer’s disease.

“Later, in her long goodbye with President Reagan, she became a voice on behalf of millions of families going through the depleting, aching reality of Alzheimer’s, and took on a new role, as advocate, on behalf of treatments that hold the potential and the promise to improve and save lives,” the Obama’s said.

As the newly arrived first lady, Mrs. Reagan raised more than $800,000 from private donors to redo the White House family quarters and to buy a $200,000

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“It’s really appreciated that (the former WVU football players) took the time to come here,” said Sierra Singleton, a WVU student and member of Oppe’s strategic communications Capstone class.

“Morgantown doesn’t get a lot of big names because we’re so small, so it’s great we can get these popular players to come out and dedicate their time to teaching these kids about healthy lifestyles.”

Other WVU football greats such as Kevin

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Continued from page 1 culture is changed and survivors can feel comfortable coming forward and sharing their stories, they will better receive the resources they need to heal.

Additionally, if WVU students are taught to take responsibility when they see something questionable happening, they won’t restrict that behavior to the WVU campus.

“When these students go back home over breaks and ultimately graduate and enter the real world, they will continue to step in and take responsibility,” Kreutzer said. “It is our hope that this behavior will become contagious and will be mimicked all over.”

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set of china bordered in red, her signature color. She was criticized for financing these pet projects with donations from millionaires who might seek influence with the government, and for accepting gifts and loans of dresses worth thousands of dollars from top designers. Her lavish lifestyle - in the midst of a recession and with her husband’s administration cutting spending on the needy - inspired the mocking moniker “Queen Nancy.”

But her admirers credited Mrs. Reagan with restoring grace and elegance to the White House after the austerity of the Carter years.

Her substantial influence within the White House came to light slowly in her husband’s second term.

Although a feud between the first lady and chief of staff Donald Regan had spilled into the open, the president dismissed reports that it was his wife who got Regan fired.

“The idea that she is involved in governmental decisions and so forth and all of this, and being a kind of dragon lady - there is nothing to that,” a visibly angry Reagan assured reporters.

But Mrs. Reagan herself and other insiders later con-

White, Brandon Hogan and Super Bowl XLVIII champion Bruce Irvin participated in previous Day of Play events.

Oppe plans on converting Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer into a full-scale nonprofit organization in the summer and wishes to organize a couple small “Day of Play” events per year to help promote the main event.

The event also helped raise money for WVU’s C h i l d re n ’s Ho sp i t a l , which serves as one of Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer’s partners. All proceeds will inated from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. WVU signed on to the campaign in January 2015 and has endorsed it since through programs and groups such as the WVU Peer Advocates and the Title IX Office, among others.

The campaign is year round, and Kreutzer said WVU plans on supporting it on the campus for a long time to come.

During the first week of April, which is sexual assault awareness month, the WVU Peer Advocates will be hosting an “It’s On Us” week. Events will include movie showings, speakers, trainings, dog therapy and an awareness walk.

Women are the vast majority of sexual assault victims in the United States, according to a recent study by The White House

firmed her role in rounding up support for Regan’s ouster and persuading the president that it had to be done, because of the IranContra scandal that broke under Regan’s watch.

She delved into policy issues, too. She urged Reagan to finally break his long silence on the AIDS crisis. She nudged him to publicly accept responsibility for the arms-for-hostages scandal.

And she worked to buttress those advisers urging him to thaw U.S. relations with the Soviet Union, over the objections of the administration’s “evil empire” hawks.

Near the end of Reagan’s presidency, ex-chief of staff Regan took his revenge with a memoir revealing that the first lady routinely consulted a San Francisco astrologer to guide the president’s schedule. Mrs. Reagan, who had a longtime interest in horoscopes, maintained that she used the astrologer’s forecasts only in hopes of predicting the safest times for her husband to venture out of the White House after the assassination attempt.

Anne Frances Robbins, nicknamed Nancy, was born on July 6, 1921, in New York City. Her parents separated

soon after she was born and her mother, film and stage actress Edith Luckett, went on the road. Nancy was reared by an aunt until 1929, when her mother married Dr. Loyal Davis, a wealthy Chicago neurosurgeon who gave Nancy his name and a socialite’s home. She majored in drama at Smith College and found stage work with the help of her mother’s connections.

In 1949, MGM signed 5-foot-4, doe-eyed brunette Nancy Davis to a movie contract. She was cast mostly as a loyal housewife and mother. She had a key role in “The Next Voice You Hear ...,” an unusual drama about a family that hears God’s voice on the radio. In “Donovan’s Brain,” she played the wife of a scientist possessed by disembodied gray matter.

She met Ronald Reagan in 1950, when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild and she was seeking help with a problem: Her name had been wrongly included on a published list of suspected communist sympathizers. They discussed it over dinner, and she later wrote that she realized on that first blind date “he was everything that I wanted.”

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William Crest Jr. talks with children at the “Day of Play” event inside the Caperton Indoor Facility on Sunday afternoon. go directly to the hospital. eer, visit http://umounFor more information taineers.com/. about Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaindanewsroom@mail.wvu.edu Council on Women and Girls. Nearly one in five women—or 22 million— have been raped in their lifetimes.

Men, however, are also at risk. One in 71 men, 1.6 million, have been raped during their life.

This same study concluded young people are especially at risk for sexual assault. Nearly half of female survivors were raped before they were 18 years old, and more than a quarter of male survivors were raped before they were 10 years old.

Joyce McConnell, Provost of WVU, said sexual assault is an issue on all college campuses and one of the most important goals of a university is to make its students feel safe.

“We want our students to know that prevention of sexual assault means widespread education,” McConnel said. “We know

that the students of WVU will come together to protect one another.”

Anyone interested in joining the campaign can go online to http://ItsOnUS.org and take the pledge to end sexual assault. Those interested in helping with events or the peer advocate program can contact the WVU Title IX Office, attend an advocate class held in the CPASS building from 6-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday nights, or reach out to the WVU peer advocates on social media.

“If spectators simply understand a victim is never deserving of sexual assault,” Kreutzer said, “and it is everyone’s responsibility to step in to stop it, it is my belief our campus culture will be impacted in a way that makes everyone proud to be a mountaineer.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Chinese television and LGBT youth As of July 2015, 18 countries legally recognize gay marriage and have taken steps to ensure and protect gay rights, such as allowing sexual reassignment surgery and letting gay and lesbian couples adopt children. However, 72 countries still either refuse to recognize same-sex relationships or criminalize homosexual activity.

China, a more progressive country than others because it has decriminalized same-sex relationships and allows for sexual reassignment surgery for those above the age of 20, has recently banned content featuring same-sex relationships from appearing on television. LGBT relationships, though legal, were deemed “vulgar, immoral and unhealthy,” and all content that “(exaggerates) the

dark side of society” was taken off the air.

Chinese television shows featuring homosexual relationships left television briefly and were edited to no longer emphasize romantic attraction between people of the same gender.

A show called “Addiction” that features a gay relationship was taken off the air entirely but has since become wildly popular through illegal streaming websites.

Censoring certain content in the media presents major problems for Chinese youth and is an ultimately misguided attempt at influencing behavior. For example, the media can serve to help non-heterosexual young adults better understand their own bodies and know that what they’re experiencing is normal instead of having little to no

instruction in this area.

Television also serves educational purposes and can provide a healthy template on which young gay couples can model their own relationships. A television show about a dysfunctional gay couple could help gay young adults better understand what traits healthy relationships exhibit and what behaviors should be avoided. Without any guidance in this area, gay couples may enter into abusive relationships without knowing how to recognize red flags or problem behaviors.

Depicting something on television does not always mean the media seeks to promote it in an agendasetting manner. What is healthier for a society: Forbidding the portrayal of activities that leaves ado-

Chinese television show “Addiction” was banned in China for featuring a gay couple. lescents and young adults ashamed and directionless or giving them an easily accessible way to understand both themselves and different lifestyles?

American television shows like “Full House” and “Boy Meets World”

were applauded for addressing common issues of teenagers, such as the temptation of stealing or sneaking out at night, and providing solutions and strategies for young people to use in these situations. A show able to pro-

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vide advice and instruction for homosexual relationships could be beneficial for all gay and lesbian young adults around the world, regardless of its country of origin. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Morgantown user fee not fair for student workers shelby bradford columnist @shelby_b_127

Effective Jan. 1, Morgantown introduced a user fee of $3 per week to be taken out of Morgantown employees’ paychecks to aid road maintenance and police protection. The specific services funded from this fee include street resurfacing, winter road treatments and road improvements. The improvements are expected to cost almost $2 million per year in total and provide the ability to pay for additional security detail and increase police presence to 24/7.

There is no debate these are relevant services to both residents and commuters of Morgantown. In fact, $3 per week is significantly less than what other cities charge employee paychecks. However, the revenue expected to be generated from this fee was based upon an employee population of 30,000 people, which does not represent the student population of this town. This bears the question as to why students of West Virginia University are being affected by this fee.

After Jan. 30, paychecks administered by WVU reflected the Morgantown user fee. For most employees in Morgantown, the fee is an unnoticeable deduction and many are happy a solution to the infrastruc-

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Potholes are one of the many issues the Morgantown user fee will fix. ture dilemma is taking place.

However, WVU students found themselves affected by the fee despite wording on the city’s website that states students aren’t included in the employed population of Morgantown.

It also becomes a financial problem for students who do not make large paychecks.

There are a few stipulations to student employees which do not apply to other residents. The most prominent is, as students, we are not permitted to work more than 20 hours per week,

even if we have multiple jobs. I work at more than one establishment, and at my primary job I make a little over $200 every two weeks before taxes.

I admit a $6 reduction in that number is not going to kill me financially, but I have been at my job for almost three years and have received appropriate pay raises. A new employee working the same number of hours as me at minimum wage would not even earn $100 dollars before taxes. $6 off of their paycheck could have more of a financial impact on their lives.

What may be the most troubling is resident assistants are also subjected to the user fee. First-year RAs are paid a stipend of $100 dollars per month in 2 paychecks of $50 each. For each year the student remains an RA, this wage increases by $10 per paycheck. However, after the user fee went into effect, I found out an RA friend lost $6.50 to this fee before state and federal taxes. This means RAs are losing 13 percent of their total income before taxes. For a first-year RA, this takes an original $100 per month to below $50 after taxes.

With such a low income, every dollar counts. Morgantown needs a means of funding a sufficient police force and public services like road repairs, and I would much rather have a small fee coming from my paycheck as opposed to the introduction of toll roads.

However, this simply cannot come at the cost of some individuals losing a significant percentage of their income per month.

If the estimated number of individuals in the Morgantown workforce is correct, then there are sufficient means of meeting the

required totals for the proposed street and security improvements without including WVU students. At the very least, students making less than a livable wage should be excluded from the population who must pay the user fee.

I believe a small fee on working residents will prove to be beneficial to all people utilizing Morgantown’s streets and attractions. However, it should not come at the expense of some students losing a notable portion of our income. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Graduate students are university employees, deserve a union robby ralston columnist @robbyralstonda

If someone teaches for a university and receives economic benefits in return, are they considered an employee of the university?

For almost two decades, graduate students have fought to require universities to answer “yes” to this question. These students teach classes, grade tests and aid with research. They provide labor for the university and usually receive tuition reductions, stipends, healthcare and other economic benefits in return. If the term “employee” means anything, it should cover graduate students.

However, this is not the view of many large universities. Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees of private institutions are allowed to unionize and collectively bargain against their employer with few restrictions. Thus, if graduate students are employees, they should also be allowed to unionize at private universities. However, it is unsurprising these entities have been opposed to graduate student unions, as they would allow students to bargain for larger benefits, better health

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Graduate students at Columbia University have petitioned to form a graduate student union. care, childcare coverage and more.

This is the current scene at Columbia University, where the highest arm of the National Labor Relations Board has agreed to review graduate students’ petition to form a union. Last week, representatives of nine Ivy League universities filed a friend-ofthe-court brief arguing graduate students should not be considered employees. This brief presents several arguments framing the graduate student union debate.

After its introduction, the brief contends there is no reason to overturn previous precedents set by the Board.

In 2004, the NLRB ruled in a similar case that the relation-

ship between graduate students and universities was purely educational.

This position ignores the fact that appointments to the NLRB are political decisions and not based entirely on who is the best interpreter of the law. The Board that decided the 2004 case was chosen by President George W. Bush while the current Board was appointed by President Barack Obama, suggesting the previous board was more conservative. Of course, the brief would harken back to this more conservative time, as they are arguing a conservative position to a more liberal board.

The brief then argues graduate students are not

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employees because the institutions “do not establish stipends for graduate students based on the market value of teaching and/or research services” and “do not measure teaching and research by graduate assistants in commercial or economic terms.” Instead, they claim benefits are decided based on maximizing educational value for the students.

This seems difficult to believe. Since universities can use graduate students to teach classes and help with research instead of professors, fewer professors need to be hired. This makes decisions about how many graduate students to accept and how to incentivize them inti-

mately entwined with hiring decisions and cost analysis at the university. These are certainly commercial and economic matters.

Moreover, though students may learn from teaching and researching for the university, this is just like any other job. It would be ridiculous for a restaurant to refuse to call chefs employees because they are learning valuable stills about the culinary arts while making food.

Graduate students learn while they work, but they are still working as employees.

A third argument claims allowing for collective bargaining would threaten academic freedom at universities. Though this is not obvious at first, the brief asks what would happen if a professor decided to turn a multiple choice exam into an essay test, and the graduate student graders took issue with this. The authors claim the graduate student union could make such decisions into an extended legal process, which would hurt a professor’s ability to control their class and the mentor-graduate student relationship.

This argument ignores the major areas where graduate students wish to use collective bargaining: Stipends, benefits and tuition waivers.

However, even in this manu-

factured case, if the professor wanted to grade the exams herself, nothing would be at issue. Only when instructors would require graduate students to increase their workload would such a situation arise.

Proponents of graduate student unions object it would be possible to legally distinguish between a graduate student’s role as an employee and as a student. For instance, collective bargaining could be used to try for better healthcare but not to have easier exams. Moreover, this argument does not seem to be questioning whether these individuals are employees, but what degree of control employees should be allowed to have over their employers and in what domains this control should exist.

These arguments seem like desperate attempts to find loopholes in labor law in order to deny a class of workers access to collective bargaining. I think we should use a bit of common sense when considering these complex legal arguments.

Do these individuals do work and receive economic benefits? If yes, then they are employees and have the same right to unionize as all other employees. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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««««« It has been a long and messy wait for Macklemore’s highly anticipated follow-up to his Grammy winning album “The Heist.” Now that album is finally here. Titled “This Unruly Mess I’ve Made,” the Seattle rapper and his immensely talented partner, Ryan Lewis, created another token Macklemore album with more solidarity around the board. A handful of spontaneous features, including some old school rappers like KRS-One and new faces like Chance the Rapper, help flesh out this album, and, as Macklemore puts it, he’s bringing the essence of hip-hop back to his music.

After a long period of silence following his Grammy win, Macklemore returned to the world stage to commemorate the birth of his first child, Sloane, with a song. His collaboration with Ed Sheeran, “Growing Up,” was not only the album’s first single but also her song. In the lyrics, Macklemore questions if he is mature enough to be a good father and talks about the ways he will raise his daughter and the lessons she will have to learn. Sheeran contributes a beautiful chorus as well, singing, “But who am I if I’m the person you become, if I’m still growing up.” This whole idea is very prevalent throughout the album. Many songs show Macklemore being extremely self-critical and examining the negative sides of his drug use, wild antics and succumbing to fame.

The album’s opening song, “Light Tunnels,” is a complete review of Macklemore’s successful night at the Grammys in 2014. From the red carpet to sitting and looking

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around during the ceremony to the moment his name was called for winning the Best Rap Album - Macklemore reveals everything going on behind the scenes during that special night. His mixed feelings on the event are interesting and powerful, and Macklemore’s incredible storytelling leads fans into the album with exactly the message he wants them to learn.

As usual, Ryan Lewis’s production on the record is out of this world.

With an extremely diverse soundtrack of horns, strings, electronic samples and masterful piano playing, Macklemore was blessed to create another eclectic album with his partner in crime. Although it is still as different from song to song as “The Heist,” there is a new polish to the sound keeping it all in the same ballpark.

He brings humorous tracks, like the hit single “Downtown” and “Brad Pitt’s Cousin,” as well as his introspective, thoughtful style on “St. Ides” and the powerful “White Privilege II.” Macklemore explains his position on the racism struggle in America, pointing out he is aware he can never truly understand the African American situation but has strong feelings toward it and wants to help by using his voice.

In an interview, he said he knew writing a song like this was controversial and could affect fan support or album sales but it was not as important to him as standing up for his beliefs.

Macklemore is one of the most unique rappers in the game, and with all the hype surrounding “This Unruly Mess I’ve Made,” he has arguably delivered.

It’s still the same Macklemore just with a new perspective on the world and on himself. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Bethesda’s best-selling video game, ‘Fallout 4,’ is slated to recieve many content updates in the coming months.

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“Fallout 4” was the most anticipated game of 2015.

In fact, the game was so big Pornhub’s traffic dropped 10 percent on Nov. 10 (the day “Fallout 4” was released).

More than three months since the game came out, Bethesda, the studio behind the blockbuster video game, is preparing new content to keep “Fallout 4” fresh.

Starting later this month, Bethesda will release three new downloadable adventures, as well as a free update that significantly overhauls survival mode.

The first downloadable content, or DLC, for “Fallout 4” is called Automatron and will release later this month.

Automatron adds new quests to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi game. A mysterious villian called the Mechanist arrives in the wasteland bringing with him an army of robotic soldiers. It is up to the player to defeat this threat and hunt down the hoards of robots infesting the Commonwealth.

In additon to the new missions, Automatron will expand “Fallout 4’s” customization options, allowing players to build their own robot companions from hundreds of different parts.

Automatron will add new depth to the companion system in “Fallout 4.” Since the beginning, players had the option to have companions follow them around. However, in a game where everything can be customized, companions are strangely stagnate. Automatron will fix this, and players are already excitedly discussing how they’ll customize their robot friend.

One of “Fallout 4’s” most exciting features when it first released was the ability for players to construct their own settlements throughout the radiation-scarred wasteland. Bethesda’s second DLC, Wasteland Workshop, will expand on that, adding a bunch of new features and construction options for players to take advantage of. Wasteland Workshop will also allow players to construct cages in the wasteland, capturing mutant beasts and en-

Advertising art for ‘Fallout’s’ first DLC, Automatron. emy raiders. Once these creatures are captured, they can be tamed or brought back to a settlement and forced to fight in gladiator-like combat arenas.

The third DLC, Far Harbor, will release in May. According to Bethesda, Far Harbor will be their biggest add-on ever in terms of landmass.

Players will travel with detective Nick Valentine to a remote and heavily irradiated island off the coast of Maine.

Here they will find new faction quests, settlements, dungeons and gear. Exploration is key, and players will undoubtably pour a lot of time into finding all of the island’s secrets. Far Harbor is exciting news for those growing tired of exploring post-war Massachusetts because the island of Far Harbor promises to be quite different from Boston and its surrounding area.

Besides the three announced DLCs, “Fallout 4” will also soon receive a free update that will significantly overhaul survival mode. As it stands now, survival mode is simply just another difficulty setting above hard mode.

Enemies deal more damage, take more damage and the player heals slower. This will

all soon change.

The new survival mode will alter the fundamental rules of the game. Manual saving is gone. Players now have to sleep for at least an hour in-game to save.

Fast travel is also removed, meaning players can no longer “teleport” to a location they’ve already discovered.

They’ll have to walk everywhere. Travel now becomes a daunting task as survival mode overhauls combat as well. Players deal and take more damage, meaning every bullet counts, and every confrontation can mean life or death.

The new survival mode increases the realism of the world, too. Ammo now has weight, meaning players can’t magically carry thousands of rounds of ammunition with them. The player’s character will also need to eat, sleep and drink to remain healthy. Significant penalties are in effect for players who go too long without rest or nourishment. The player’s character also has the capability of getting sick. Unfiltered water and too much contact with certain enemies will impart terrible diseases on the player. After the

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update, survival mode will no longer be “extra hard mode,” it will be a beast of its own and turn “Fallout 4” into an entirely different game where even the best players will find themselves challenged.

If the official add-ons and updates aren’t enough, Bethesda will soon release their creation kit, a software application allowing the player community to create and distribute their own mods. These mods will be available on both PC and consoles. Knowing Bethesda’s fan base, the mods will be numerous and add a lot of variety to the game. Only time will tell what these fanmade mods will be.

“Fallout 4” was 2015’s biggest game, and Bethesda’s best-selling title. It is amazing in its standard form, but all good things require upkeep, and Bethesda is well aware of this. With three DLCs announced, three more under wraps in development, a significant update to survival mode and a slew of fan-made content on the horizon, players will have reasons to keep adventuring in post-nuclear apocalpyse of Boston. wethompson@mail.wvu.edu

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Kallie Nealis and Michael Garcia start out the 2016 Dancing with Our Mountaineer Stars competition with an explosive per- Carlton Smith and Marissa Bailey received their first prize award at the Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars dance compeformance in the Mountainlair Ballrooms on Saturday evening. tition on Saturday evening.

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Remembering Nancy Reagan’s Hollywood career LOS ANGELES (AP) ‑ Before Nancy Reagan became a fixture in the national consciousness and on home television sets, the late first lady also shared the big screen with the likes of Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, Glenn Ford and Ray Milland in her short career as a Hollywood actress in the post-war era.

After a few years on Broadway, Reagan, then Nancy Davis, moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer, leading to roles in 11 features - her last of which was the 1958 feature “Crash Landing,” a middling Fred F. Sears drama about a pilot (Gary Merrill) reflecting on his troubled marriage (to Reagan’s character) in the midst of an engine crisis over the Atlantic.

She was never the biggest star, but she had her moments in a wide variety of genres from noir to melodrama, often as loving and supportive wives and girlfriends.

THE DOCTOR AND THE GIRL (1949) Nancy Reagan’s first big screen role was in director Curtis Bernhardt’s drama about a wealthy doctor (Glenn Ford) who defies his family’s wishes by opening a practice in a poorer neighborhood. Reagan played the main character’s sister Mariette, who is engaged to a class-lusting physician (played by Warner Anderson).

EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (1950) In this Mervyn LeRoy-directed melodrama about a married couple torn apart by the husband’s infidelities, Reagan played Helen Lee, a socialite and best friend to Barbara Stanwyck’s wronged wife. James Mason played Stanwyck’s philandering husband, one of whose consorts was Ava Gardner.

“The ladies all wear expensive garments and the gentlemen drink expensive booze. But that still doesn’t elevate the effort above the level of hopeful pretense,” wrote New York Times critic Bosley Crowther in his review.

SHADOW ON THE WALL (1950) After a run of playing mostly wives and girlfriends, Reagan got a particularly meaty and serious role in this Pat Jacksondirected psychological crime thriller about a 6-year-old girl (Gigi Perreau) who loses her memory after witnessing the murder of her stepmother. Reagan played a doctor who endeavors to help cure the girl and makes some critical discoveries about the nature of the murder along the way.

The New York Times said Reagan gave a “beautiful and convincing” performance.

THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR ... (1950) When God starts giving radio broadcasts in this odd little William A. Wellman film, a married couple (James Whitmore and Nancy Reagan) and their 11-year-old son living in suburban Los Angeles are forced to confront their own faith.

Reagan was praised for her “delightful” performance as the kind, gentle and very pregnant wife in the film.

NIGHT INTO MORNING (1951) Reagan plays a widow who saves Ray Milland from his depression and drunkenness after his wife and child die tragically in a fire. Milland and Reagan were both applauded for their performances, but the melancholy story was seen as a bit of a letdown.

HELLCATS OF THE NAVY (1957) This WWII-set film about a submarine commander charting minefields off the Japanese coast marks the only time Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, already married for five years, shared the big screen. As the land-locked love interest, Nancy Reagan didn’t have much to do besides fret though.

It’s far from a classic - in fact it’s somewhat derided - but the film remains an interesting document of historical value mix1065fm.cbslocal.com just by nature of the fact that it features the future President Nancy Reagan briefly starred on Broadway before pursuing an acting career. and first lady.

‘Zootopia’ sees successful debut, ‘London Has Fallen’ dethrones ‘Deadpool’ LOS ANGELES (AP) ‑ “Deadpool’s” three-week reign atop the box office has ended thanks to a handful of new openers, including “Zootopia” and “London Has Fallen.”

The top spot went to Disney’s “Zootopia” which staged a box office stampede in its first weekend in North American theaters with $73.7 million, according to comScore estimates Sunday. It’s the fourth highest March opening ever and a best for a Disney Animation three-day debut.

The studio’s previous record-holder, “Frozen,” grossed $67.4 million over three days in its Thanksgiving opening.

Critics and audiences love the film, which features the voices of Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin. It got a coveted A CinemaScore and a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score. According to exit polls, families made up 73 percent of opening weekend audiences.

Dave Hollis, Disney’s Executive Vice President of Distribution, said “Zootopia” is the latest in a “creative renaissance” for the Disney Animation group, including “Tangled,” ‘’Frozen,” ‘’Big Hero 6” and “Wreck-It Ralph.”

“There is consistency at a really high level of delivering great stories, amazing worlds and characters who people can relate to,” Hollis said, noting that “Zootopia” is the only true all-audience film in the marketplace until Disney’s “The Jungle Book” bows on April 15.

“Zootopia” also brought in $63.4 million internationally, where it is in its fourth weekend. The film has grossed $232.5 million globally to date.

In second place, “London Has Fallen,” a sequel to the “Die Hard” in the White House pic “Olympus Has Fallen,” earned $21.7 million. The main cast returned for the film, including Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman, which cost a reported $60 million to make.

While it’s a decent debut, it does lag behind the first film’s $30 million opening. But it’s a welcome change of

pace for Butler, whose “Gods of Egypt” bombed in its opening last weekend.

In its fourth weekend in theaters, “Deadpool” fell to third place with $16.4 million, bringing its domestic total to a staggering $311.2 million.

The Tina Fey comedy “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” meanwhile, debuted in fourth with an estimated $7.6 million. The film cost a reported $35 million to produce.

The movie, which finds Fey’s journalist character on assignment in Afghanistan, has garnered mixed to positive reviews from critics. According to exit polls, audiences were 56 percent female and 89 percent over 25.

Fey’s last film, “Sisters,” was budgeted at $30 million. It opened to $13.9 million against “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and went on to earn $87 million domestically.

“It’s a great weekend,” said comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “And it’s another betterthan-expected debut in a time of year that doesn’t usually breed great opening weekends.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to comScore 1.”Zootopia,” $73.7 million ($63.4 million international).

2.”London Has Fallen,” $21.7 million ($12 million international).

3.”Deadpool,” $16.4 million ($21.2 million international).

4.”Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” $7.6 million.

5.”Gods of Egypt,” $5 million ($15.7 million international).

6.”Risen,” $3.9 million.”

7.”Kung Fu Panda 3,” $3.5 million ($3.1 million international).

8.”The Revenant,” $3.3 million ($12.5 million international).

9.”Eddie The Eagle,” $3.1 million.

1 0 .” T h e Wi t c h,” $ 2 . 5 m i l l i o n Zootopia is now playing in theaters nationwide. ($590,000 international).

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Why not ‘Downtown Abbey?’ Series’ mysteries revealed NEW YORK (AP) ‑ After six seasons, people get it: The name of that series is “Downton Abbey.” Not “Downtown Abbey.”

In early discussions, there was a bit of confusion among the public. And for TV critics, inadvertently typing that second “w’’ was a constant risk from which spell check offered no relief.

So why not a less risky title for the series - and for the fictional British estate that lent the series its name?

As “Downtown,” er, “Downton Abbey” concludes its magnificent run, we asked Julian Fellowes (who created the series, executive-produced it and wrote every word) to explain: “I have always been rather an admirer of my great-grandfather, Professor John Wrightson, 1840-1916, who was an experimental agriculturalist,” Fellowes set forth in an email.

“His eldest brother, Sir Thomas Wrightson, Bart., of Neasham Hall in Yorkshire, had done great things in the world of steel and their aunt was married to Lord Armstrong, the British Krupp of armaments, but John was more interested in farming.

He had an estate in Wiltshire called Charford Manor and I thought of calling the

series ‘Charford Abbey,’ but we decided it was too near Cranford, and so we settled on ‘Downton’ after Downton College of Agriculture which Wrightson founded in 1880 and which, for a quarter of a century, was at the forefront of agricultural innovation.

“He had several children and his daughter, Georgiana, married Henry Shirley Morant Fellowes. They were my grandparents.

“I also used Eryholme, an early seat of the Wrightson family, as the house the Crawleys nearly left Downton for, and there were other references to the family.”

Got it. Then we posed one more question for Fellowes, who, before “Downton Abbey,” won the 2002 Oscar for best original screenplay for the film “Gosford Park”: Why “Abbey”?

“I called it ‘Abbey’ after Ramsey Abbey, a Fellowes house in Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire),” he replied.

“I didn’t want to call it ‘Downton Park’ as, coupled with ‘Gosford Park,’ I think I would have been known as the Park Keeper.”

The series finale of “Downton Abbey” airs on PBS’ “Masterpiece” on Sunday at ‘Downton Abbey’ returns for its sixth and final season.

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Ke$ha chokes up at award dinner, thanks fans for support NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‑ Pop star Kesha, who says her producer sexually and psychologically abused her, choked up after accepting an award for her stance against harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

The Human Rights Campaign Nashville on Saturday presented the pop singer with their Visibility Award, which recognized her for using her spotlight to speak out against bullying of LGBT youth.

The honor comes just after the pop singer lost an initial request last month to be freed from her contract with hitmaker Dr. Luke, who denies her claims and says she is smearing him to get out of her contract.

"As many of you know I am going through some personal things that have been really intense and hard lately and I just want to say thank you for the support I have received," she told the audience

during a dinner in Nashville, Tennessee, where she grew up.

In a sworn statement in August, Kesha said that the producer, born Lukasz Gottwald, raped her a decade ago after giving her a pill that knocked her out and bullied her to lose weight.

Lawyers for Dr. Luke note that Kesha said he "never made sexual advances at me" during sworn questioning in another lawsuit in 2011. Her lawyers say she was too intimidated by him for years to speak out.

At one point in her speech on Saturday, she started to choke up and stepped away from the microphone to compose herself. The audience cheered her on.

The singer, whose given name is Kesha Rose Sebert, said growing up, she was a "misfit" and was drawn to others in the LGBT community.

She said even after her career

took off, she still feels like an outsider and had trouble dealing with criticism she received for just being herself.

"My message today is don't be afraid to speak up against any injustice you experience," she said.

"Don't let people scare or shame you into changing the things about you that make you unique."

Kesha has said her 2010 hit song "We R Who We R" was intended to be a pride anthem for young people who have felt victimized for being themselves.

"We can't be afraid to fight for our dignity," she said.

"These are our basic human rights."

Supporters of the "Tik Tok" singer created a Twitter hashtag "#freekesha" and numerous other singers and celebrities have voiced their support, including Lady Gaga, Adele and Taylor Swift, who Kesha accepts the Visibility Award in Nashville, Tennessee. gave $250,000 for her legal fees.

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Joey Feek of country duo Joey + Rory dies at age 40 after cancer battle NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‑ Joey Feek, who with her husband, Rory, formed the award-winning country duo Joey + Rory, died Friday, her manager said.

Feek, who had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago, died at home in Indiana, Aaron Carnahan said.

The brunette singer from Alexandria, Indiana, found success when she paired up with her songwriter husband on the Country Music Television singing competition “Can You Duet?” in 2008. Joey Feek sang lead and her husband, known for his sideburns and blond flattop, provided harmonies on such traditional country songs as “That’s Important to Me.” In 2014, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, which continued to spread despite multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Last fall, Rory Feek wrote on his blog that they had decided to end treatment.

In a blog post Friday announcing her death, Rory Feek wrote, “My wife’s greatest dream came true today. She is in Heaven.”

Even after the diagnosis, the couple continued to record, and an album of hymns topped the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in March. Since her diagnosis, the music community responded by honoring the couple with award nominations. Their song “If I Needed You” was nominated for best country duo/group performance at the Grammy Awards and they are also nominated at the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards for vocal duo of the year.

They have a 2-year-old daughter, Indiana.

Rory Feek documented their life together and later his wife’s cancer diagnosis on his blog, http://thislifeilive.com .

“Though this is, and has been, a time of many tears of sorrow, it has also been a time of countless tears of joy,” Rory Feek wrote on his blog Friday. “There have been too many beautiful moments to count or even begin to share in this blog. But I try.

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Joey Martin Feek of the country music duo Joey and Rory dies at age 40 after battling cervical cancer.

When a person has been through as much them a host of fans of traditional counpain and struggle as Joey’s been through, try and western music. And on “Cheater, you just want it to be over. You want them Cheater” and other songs they showed to not have to hurt anymore, more that they could also handle upbeat and witty you want them to stay with you. And so, it material. makes the hard job of saying goodbye just In a 2009 interview, Rory Feek told The Associated Press that being together all a little easier.”

Their first album, “The Life of a Song,” the time didn’t make them get on each was a surprise hit in 2008 and earned them other’s nerves. a spot opening for the Zac Brown Band on “We’re really good friends,” Feek said, tour. Although their songs were never top while cuddling his bride. “I know everyairplay hits, the couple’s plainspoken style body says that, but you know, this is one and Joey Feek’s sweet, smoky voice earned of those times that everything we’re do-

ing, we are both interested in. We’re both passionate about country music and we are both thrilled to be here and we really do get along well.”

In the tradition of such couples as John and June Carter Cash and Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, their blended voices and deep bonds made them beloved by fans of country music.

“We’re experiencing everything together,” Joey Feek told The Associated Press in 2010. “That’s been the highlight of it all.”

The Feeks seemed like old friends to their fans and fellow Tennesseans. They met at a songwriters night at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe, married in 2002 and lived on a farm in rural Pottsville, Tennessee, about 45 miles south of Nashville.

Even as their fame was rising, the two opened a restaurant inside an old general store that became a community center.

The restaurant and their community were featured in their music video, “This Song’s for You.” Tourists from all over would stop at Marcy Jo’s Mealhouse to grab a bite to eat and maybe even spot Joey behind the counter.

They earned three nominations, including for the fan-voted new artist of the year, during the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards and won the Top New Vocal Duo of the Year award. They followed up with “Album Number Two,” in 2010, then released a Christmas album in 2011 and a collection of gospel songs, “Inspired,” in 2013.

The couple were always entertaining fans from their farmhouse through their weekly television show on RFD-TV or on their radio show that aired on WSM-AM before the Grand Ole Opry, or through their farmhouse concerts.

Feek will have a private funeral service, but in a statement from their manager, the family asked that in lieu of flowers, a donation can be sent to Joey and Indy at P.O. Box 5471 Vancouver, WA 98668.

Celebrities urge world leaders to fight for girls and women NEW YORK (AP) ‑ A number of high-profile entertainers - including Oprah Winfrey, Mary J. Blige, Charlize Theron and Meryl Streep - have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to fight for gender equality across the globe.

The letter released Sunday states that some 62 million girls around the world are denied the right to education, 500 million women can’t read and 155 countries have laws that discriminate against women.

“Nowhere on earth do women have as many opportunities as men. Nowhere,” the letter states.

“The fight for gender equality is global.”

Signers also include Tina Fey, Robert Redford, Shonda Rhimes, Ashley Judd, Amy Poehler, Colin Farrell, Danai Gurira, Connie Britton, Elton John, Patricia Ar-

quette, Muhammed Ali, Sheryl Sandberg and Sean Parker. The push is organized by the ONE Campaign, co-founded by Irish rocker Bono to end extreme poverty and disease.

“We still living in a time period where the most impoverished and disadvantaged people in the world are, without question, women and girls,” said Gurira, the playwright of the Broadway show “Eclipsed,” in an interview. “The light and the potential of women and girls in the world today is being blocked.”

The letter comes a few days before International Women’s Day, which is Tuesday. It calls on leaders to help girls and women fight HIV and malnutrition and support female economic empowerment.

Gurira, who also plays a sword-

wielding zombie assassin on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” has long been an advocate for women and will travel to Capitol Hill to meet with members of Congress on Tuesday.

“Enough is enough. We have to close this gap, and we have to make a concerted, focused effort and that requires speaking directly to the global leaders who have the power to make change,” Gurira said. “It’s an extension of myself to fight for and, as much as I can, give voice to those who are in systems of oppression based on their gender.”

An accompanying report called “Poverty Is Sexist 2016” reads: “In too many countries, being born poor and female means a life sentence of inequality, oppression seattletimes.com and poverty - and in too many Philanthropist Oprah Winfrey addresses an audience after accepting the W.E.B. Du Bois medal at cases also a death sentence.”

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By David Buch In previous years the WELLWVU drinkWELL campaign has primarily aimed to increase students’ knowledge of protective factors related to alcohol use, and to decrease the negative consequences associated with alcohol misuse.

Even though the key goal of the drinkWELL initiative is to educate students on responsible drinking habits, drinkWELL extends further than alcohol use. To further encourage students to continue enhancing their wellbeing, WELLWVU has recently implemented drinkWELL expansion efforts to raise awareness of other beverage choices.

WELLWVU has partnered with the West Virginia University Extension service to promote the “Rethink Your Drink” campaign. The campaign was designed to motivate people to reduce their intake of sugar packed beverages, and to increase their water consumption. In recent years “soda/energy/sports drinks” have been ranked among the top five sources of calories for ages 2+ (NHANES 2005-2006). The WVU Extension Service aims to create a longstanding impression by emphasizing the importance of developing healthy drinking habits. The Rethink Your Drink campaign has also reached its audience through mediums such as community events, billboard and radio ads, digital marketing and its mascot Quench.

The “Rethink Your Drink” campaign promotes a similar message that snowboarders Bryan Fox and Austin Smith have been advocating through their copyrighted “Drink Water” brand. The trademark of the brand is a faucet logo with the text “Drink Water” underneath. The Drink Water campaign was shaped as a friendly reminder to drink water, and has since evolved into a movement supported by its own clothing line. The brand has received a considerable amount of social media attention through the use of the “#WEDRINKWATER” hashtag. The New York Times, ESPN and other notable media outlets have covered Bryan and Austin’s story. The Drink Water campaign stresses the importance of giving back by donating 10 percent of its apparel driven sales to Water.org.

Water.org is a nonprofit organization co-founded by actor Matt Damon, and provides clean water and sanitation in Africa, southern Asia and Central America.

Bryan and Austin noticed the lack of water brands rivaling the likes of Redbull, Rockstar or other energy/sports drinks, and wanted to make it clear to snowboarding fans that you can drink water and still maintain a favorable status. Bryan and Austin claim, “Our goal is to spread this message; the simple idea that has become a movement of people questioning what’s being sold to them. Join us in saying something different, something simple, something as obvious as Drink Water.”

By noting the efforts being made by #RethinkYourDrink, #WEDRINKWATER and other healthy beverage campaigns, it is apparent that such messages should continue to be circulated. Increasing these efforts can be as simple as retweeting or sharing posts on social media, spreading the message to our peers or setting a public example by drinking water.

Most people prefer the taste of sweetened beverages over water, however several other alternative beverage choices can provide similar tastes. Fruit infused water, seltzer, green tea and fruit smoothies are great tasting options to consider when craving a sugary beverage. These drinks may not be as accessible as soda products, but the health related benefits are worth the extra effort.

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WVU finishes opening road trip with fourgame split in Hawaii

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

The West Virginia University baseball team’s surging momentum hit a slight snag over the weekend as the Mountaineers (7-3) finished their season-opening road trip by splitting a four-game series in Hawaii (6-7).

West Virginia alternated wins and losses in the four-game series but rebounded to take a 9-2 victory in the series finale on Sunday in a game WVU head coach Randy Mazey said could be a microcosm of the coming season.

“The character of our team is being tested right now,” Mazey said after the game three loss in an interview with WVUsports. com. “We were feeling really good coming here for this series, but we haven’t played well out here. Tomorrow will be a statement on the character of the team, so tomorrow’s game will tell a lot about how the rest of the season is going to go.”

Coming into the series on a five-game winning streak, WVU saw its momentum halted with a 4-1 loss in the opener Thursday night with an uncharacteristically wild Chad Donato allowing three runs in 6.1 innings.

Hawaii’s Brendan Hornung threw seven scoreless innings with WVU’s only run coming on a Jackson Cramer RBI single in the eighth inning.

“Just when you think you have it good and you’re playing well, this game will humble you in a hurry,” Mazey said. “We didn’t have a great approach at the plate, and Chad Donato was uncharacteristic on the mound.

But good teams bounce back from stuff like this, and we’ll come back tomorrow ready to play, I’m sure.”

And, they did, as the Mountaineers bounced back to claim a 4-1 victory on Friday night behind another strong performance from senior starter Ross Vance. Vance pushed his record to 3-0, allowing one run on four hits in seven innings, with an RBI triple

in the sixth inning from freshman Kyle Gray helping to put the game away.

WVU strung together 11 hits, three of them from designated hitter Shaun Corso, as freshman reliever Michael Grove finished the game with two scoreless innings to earn his first career save.

“I’m happy with how we came back from yesterday,” Mazey said.

“Good teams can come back from stuff like that and play a good game right after they play a bad game. We pitched well, we played good defense and we swung the bats pretty well.”

However, WVU wasn’t able to build on that momentum in a 6-2 loss on Saturday as sophomore righthander BJ Myers was touched up for five runs in six innings in his first defeat of the year.

Hawaii jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the early innings, and WVU only managed to scratch one run off lefty starter Alex Hatch.

Third baseman Kyle Davis knocked his third home run of the season in the bottom of the sixth, but Hawaii immediately struck back for a run to end any hope of a comeback.

However, with freshman Tanner Campbell on the mound for his first career start, WVU secured a series split with a 9-2 win on Sunday with the Florida native allowing two runs in 4.1 innings.

WVU scored in each of the game’s first four innings, but after Campbell allowed two runs in the fifth, sophomore Conner Dotson was called in to steer WVU out of trouble.

Dotson threw 2.2 innings of relief to earn his first win of the season as catcher Ray Guerrini struck for two home runs and freshman rightfielder Darius Hill went 3-5 with a double, a triple and two RBIs. With the weather warming in Morgantown, the Mountaineers will start their home schedule this weekend at the Monongalia County Ballpark when they face Old Dominion in a three-game series. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU clinches second in Big 12 with Baylor win

BY CHRIS JACKSON

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @CJACKSONWVU

The preseason rankings left the Mountaineers out, and voters projected them to finish sixth in the Big 12. But they found a way to overcome the odds for a second straight year.

WVU won its last four games and secured the program’s highest conference seeding since taking the No. 1 seed in the 1989 Atlantic 10 Tournament, finishing off the season in style on Saturday.

No. 10 West Virginia (24-7, 13-5) held No. 19 Baylor’s stars in check for most of the afternoon en route to a 69-58 road victory, clinching the Big 12’s No. 2 seed and completing the season sweep.

“We wanted to go with a No. 1, that was the whole idea,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins.

“I think Jay (Jacobs) put something up on the board before the game that we’re playing for the second spot

in the league, and we were picked sixth. I don’t know if we even got votes. Now they’re in the top 10.”

Rico Gathers went 2-of-7 from the field and finished with five points in both meetings with WVU this year. Taurean Prince was 5-of-17 in both meetings as well, but nearly reeled off a Baylor comeback.

Prince hit three of Baylor’s five straight 3s midway through the second half, leading a run to cut the deficit to 53-48 with 6:00 remaining. He finished with a game-high 19 points and 10 rebounds, his fifth double-double of the season.

“I thought Nate (Adrian) did a great job on Taurean Prince,” Huggins said.

“He’s as hard to guard as there is in our league. I though Nate did a really good job on him. Nate kept balls alive, too.”

However, WVU found its groove late and saved its No. 2 seeding for the upcoming conference tournament. Freshman Esa

Ahmad’s 3-point play with three minutes remaining extended its lead to 6251, putting the game out of reach on Baylor’s Senior Day. Ahmad’s eight points were his highest total since a 14-point outburst against TCU in February, also recording two blocks and a highlight-reel dunk.

Jaysean Paige added a team-high 14 points off the bench, going 2-of-3 from 3-point range, leading strong guard play from WVU all afternoon. Despite Paige playing with four fouls down the stretch, WVU’s depth came into play as the bench held a 35-14 advantage over Baylor’s.

“We’ve got a lot of guys who can step up and make plays,” Paige said. “I was comfortable where I was at. Obviously I wasn’t happy with the four fouls, but Esa (Ahmad) came in and did a really good job bringing in solid minutes and helped seal the game.”

Tarik Phillip had 11

points in 16 minutes and Daxter Miles added 10, following up a 15-point effort in Wednesday’s rout of Texas Tech. Miles also tallied a season-high 20 points in the last meeting against Baylor.

Sophomore Jevon Carter also had his third game without committing a turnover during conference play, concluding the contest with eight points and a team-high eight assists.

Carter’s efforts helped the Mountaineers’ bid at a first-round bye in the Big 12 Tournament, as they’ll face the winner of Texas Tech and TCU in the quarterfinals Thursday evening.

“We’re getting better and better,” Huggins said.

“We’re still playing some young guys. Our seniors have been really good for us. They’ve done a great job of leading. I thought it was Jevon Carter’s best since he’s been here. He actually played like a point guard.” cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

women’s basketball

WVU falls short to Texas in Big 12 semifinal, 67-51

BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER @dAILYATHENAEUM

The last time the West Virginia University women’s basketball team met the Texas Longhorns in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals, it was in 2014. At that time, it was the Mountaineers who earned a berth in the conference championship game.

However, two years later, it was Texas who advanced as the Longhorns defeated the Mountaineers, 67-51 to end West Virginia’s stay in Oklahoma City, as well as its four-game winning streak.

“Give Texas credit. They got into the paint, got our bigs in foul trouble,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey to WVUsports.com.

“I thought we competed for about five minutes in the second half and we can’t win games against a team like Texas not competing for forty minutes.”

West Virginia started its tournament quest with a 74-65 win over Kansas State, in the quarterfinals. WVU’s bench outscored the Wildcats 47-10, and the team shot 47.5 percent from the field; it was a performance that is typical from the Mountaineers.

After defeating the Wildcats, along with the Longhorns’ win early in Saturday afternoon, the two teams met for the third time this season. Both meetings resulted in a lopsided result in the Long-

Teana Muldrow tries to finish a tough layup last month against TCU. horns’ favor, an 11-point pushed the Texas lead to win in January and a seven, foreshadowing what 23-point victory in late would be an effective night February. for the Longhorns beyond The Mo u n t a i n e e r s the arch. needed a strong start WVU’s Bria Holmes was against a defensive- held scoreless in the openminded Texas team. In- ing quarter, with her first stead, WVU allowed the points of the game comLonghorns to start on a 9-0 ing at the 7:54 mark in the run, shooting 50 percent second quarter. She ulticompared to the Moun- mately finished with eight taineers going 1 for 10. points and five rebounds.

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figures, led by Celina Rodrigo’s 12 points. Rodrigo recorded two points in the first two matchups, but in Oklahoma City the senior flourished.

In the two games Texas has played, Rodrigo led the team in scoring, including 13 points in the quarterfinal. As the Mountaineers found themselves down 32-21 in the second quarter, slowly chipping at the Longhorn lead,

Rodrigo came back with a three-pointer to extend her team’s lead.

McCarty and Ariel Atkins finished with 11 points, while Imani Boyette proved to be difficult to contain, shooting 50 percent with 10 points, and four rebounds.

Teana Muldrow and Jessica Morton continued the trend of depth scoring for WVU by recording 12 and 13 points, respectively.

The duo was West Virginia’s most efficient shooters, even as they shot a combined 32 percent.

In the third quarter, Texas’ defense did not allow WVU to put anything together, including a span where the Mountaineers only recorded four points in the first five minutes of the third. At the end of the third, the Longhorns held a 23-point lead.

West Virginia attempted a comeback late in the final quarter with an 11-0 run, however only a slight dent was made in the lead that Texas had built.

The Mountaineers now wait to see where they will head next in the NCAA Tournament. While WVU didn’t clinch a seed by winning the tournament, the team has a resume to return to the tournament, after competing in the WNIT last year.

WVU will have over a week before the national tournament starts and Carey is using that time to have his team regroup and focus to the next task.

“It will give us time to take a couple days off, get in the training room, get ‘em healed up and continue to work hard, and then get back full go,” Carey said.

The first round of the NCAA Tournament starts on March 18, with the Mountaineers expected to take the fifth seed in its region. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Paige, Williams, Carter honored with Big 12 awards

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

After their best regular season in years, the No. 10 West Virginia University men’s basketball team was well-represented when Big 12 awards were announced on Sunday.

After a breakout senior season, guard Jaysean Paige was honored with Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year and joined junior center Devin Williams with a place on the All-Big 12 Second Team.

Paige became the first WVU player to win a major Big 12 award since the Mountaineers joined the conference in 2012, after leading the team in scoring (14.3 points per game) and scoring at a higher rate per minute than any Mountaineer player in the 21st century.

“He’s been terrific in a lot of ways,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins.

Jevon Carter guards Texas Tech’s Keenan Evans last week.

“I think he’s really helped key times for us.” our young guys when Despite only startthey’ve watched his work ing one game this seaethic and, consequently, son, Paige was sixth in the success he’s had be- the conference in scorcause of it. That alone ing. His teammate joining helps your program. He’s him on the All-Big 12 Secbeen really, really good. He ond Team, Devin Williams, has not just scored points, finished 13th in the Big 12 but scored points at very by scoring (12.7 points

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per game) and third in rebounding (9.1 rebounds per game).

Williams accrued more double-doubles this season than any other player in the Big 12. Although he struggled offensively down the stretch, he still made big strides from a soph-

omore season where he finished as an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention. Paige and Williams were joined on the Second Team by Kansas guards Frank Mason III and Wayne Selden Jr., along with Iowa State point guard Monte Morris.

The All-Big 12 First Team consisted of Baylor’s Taurean Prince, Kansas’ Perry Ellis, Iowa State’s Georges Niang, Texas’ Isaiah Taylor and the Big 12 Player of the Year, Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield.

In addition, WVU point guard Jevon Carter was named to the All-Defensive Team, for his efforts as one of the driving forces behind the Mountaineers’ famed press.

Carter finished behind TCU’s Malique Trent only because of steals per game this season. Texas’ shotblocking senior center Prince Ibeh was named the Big 12 Player of the Year.

It was a good day for West Virginia in terms of

awards, but despite leading the Mountaineers to second place in the nation’s toughest conference after being picked to finish sixth during preseason, WVU head coach Bob Huggins was denied a chance at winning his second consecutive Big 12 Coach of the Year Award.

The award instead went to Texas Tech head man Tubby Smith, who guided a Red Raider squad searching for its first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly a decade to a .500 conference record and a good chance to reach March Madness.

Smith can ensure his team’s spot in the tournament with a strong performance in the Big 12 Tournament, which starts on Wednesday. As the No. 2 seed, West Virginia will face the winner of the game between Texas Tech and TCU at 7 p.m. Thursday. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

WRESTLING

Cottrell, Scheffel earn automatic NCAA bids at Big 12 Championships

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Bubba Scheffel faces off with Oklahoma State’s Nolan Boyd.

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The West Virginia University wrestling team finished sixth at the Big 12 Championship this past weekend.

While West Virginia did not qualify for the NCAA Championship as an entire team, two Mountaineers earned automatic bids with their performances at the two-day event.

Junior 157-pounder Dylan Cottrell and senior 184-pounder Bubba Scheffel both finished in third place in their respective weight classes.

Cottrell entered the bracket as the No. 3 157-pound wrestler of the 10 schools. North Colorado’s Eleazar De Luca, No. 6, upset Cottrell 2-1. In the consolation bracket, Cotrell picked up a 15-6 victory over Utah Valley’s Raider Lofthouse, No. 8, and a win against Wyoming’s Archie Colgan, No. 4.

In the third-place bout, Cottrell faced De Luca again, but

won 6-0 this time.

For 184-pound wrestlers, Scheffel was seeded No. 3. In his first-round match, he defeated No. 6 Andrew Dixon of Oklahoma, 3-2. Scheffel moved to the consolation bracket after a 10-1 loss to Oklahoma State’s Nolan Boyd, No. 2. In the consolation semifinal, Scheffel defeated No. 8 Ben Stroh of Wyoming, 13-7. Scheffel claimed third place at 184 pounds by shutting out Iowa State’s Dan Pestano, No. 4, with a score of 4-0.

Two other Mountaineers left Kansas City, Missouri, with top-10 performances.

Freshman Connor Flynn entered as the No. 4 165-pound wrestler, and he concluded the tournament with a fourthplace finish. Junior Tony DeAngelo exceeded expectations by finishing in fifth place at 141 pounds after entering at No. 8.

Freshman Keegan Moore, junior Jacob A. Smith and senior Ross Renzi all finished in sixth place at 133, 197 and 174 pounds, respectively.

“I’m very proud of our men and the way we battled,” said head coach Sammie Henson in an interview with WVUsports.com following the Big 12 Championship. “As always, we wanted more, but I truly believe we are on the verge of something great here at WVU with our wrestlers, coaches and support staff. We will look to see how many wrestlers we can get into NCAAs in New York City. We appreciate the family, friends and fans for their loyalty and support.”

Oklahoma State won the Big 12 Championship with 161 points. The Cowboys entered the tournament ranked No. 5 in the USA Today/National Wrestling Coaches Association Poll.

The NCAA Championship is next for West Virginia. Cottrell and Scheffel will travel to New York City to battle the nation’s best. The rest of the team is awaiting word of whether any other wrestlers will join Cottrell and Scheffel. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

GYMNASTICS

Historic performance earns WVU win in tri-meet

By Carter Sokolowski Sports Correspondent @DailyAthenaeum

The No. 25 West Virginia gymnastics team put on a show at home Sunday, earning a season-high 196.8 score and defeating Ohio State and Bowling Green in a tri-team meet.

The outstanding score of 196.8 is the eighth highest in program history and the best score the team has achieved under head coach Jason Butts.

“This team has been incredible. I’ve really enjoyed working with them,” Butts said. “I don’t really focus on scores, but it’s nice to see the plan come to fruition.”

On a day that was owned by the Mountaineers, Ohio State and Bowling Green both performed at a high level, putting up scores of 195.975 and 195.725, respectively. The 195.975 total is the Buckeyes’ second highest team score of the year, and Bowling Green hit its seasonhigh mark with 195.725.

West Virginia started the day on vault led by sophomore Robyn Bernard, who received a score of 9.725.

Four Mountaineers achieved a score of 9.8 or better, including three scores of 9.825 from freshman Kirah Koshinski, sophomore Zaakira Muhammad and junior Amanda Bowman, who tied her career-high record. The team finished with a 49.0, .028 points below its season average.

This left the door open for Ohio State, which finished with a team score of 49.025 on the bars with impressive performances from freshman Kaitlyn Hofland and sophomore Alexis Mattern. Hofland led the team with a 9.85 score, and Mattern pulled in second with a 9.825, setting a new career-high. Ohio State led all competitors going into the second rotation.

Bernard once again took the team in the right direction to start the second rotation, recording a career-best

9.775 on bars. Not to be outdone, freshman Tiara Wright set a new career-high mark with an astounding score of 9.9, beating her record of 9.875 from last week’s meet.

Junior Alexa Goldberg also had a solid routine, tying her season-high score of 9.9. These three performances led the Mountaineers to a team score of 49.15, their best of the season. This put West Virginia at 98.150 on the day and placed them first among all competitors.

Ohio State’s worst team performance of the day came during the second rotation on the beam, where it earned a score of 48.8. The combination of a poor team score and Bowling Green’s inspired performance on the floor led to the Buckeyes getting leapfrogged by both WVU and BGSU. To start the third rotation for West Virginia, Goldberg led with an electric performance, earning a score of 9.8 and beating her season-high of 9.725. Four Mountaineers scored a 9.8 or better on the beam, headlined by Muhammad’s season-high score of 9.85 that helped bump the team score up to 49.075.

WVU used two alternatives in its beam lineup with Muhammad and Wright and remarkably managed to grab its highest team score of the year.

“We talked about consistency at practice this week,” Butts said. “Whoever is going to warm up the best is going to get the spot. It’s something that we changed a couple of years ago and has worked out well for us so far.”

The Buckeyes’ best team score of the day came during the third rotation when they achieved a mark of 49.1 on the floor.

Sophomore Stephaine Merkle led the team with an impressive score of 9.9. Three Ohio State gymnasts finished with a 9.8 or better.

With Bowling Green faltering on vault with a score of 48.850, the Buckeyes passed them in the standings and

closed the gap on WVU going into the final rotation.

The Mountaineers were a force to be reckoned with on the floor in the fourth and final rotation, posting a jaw-dropping team score of 49.575, the third-highest floor total in program history.

“We have some depth at that event. That’s a score we’re capable of getting every time we step out on the floor” Butts said. “It’s one of the moments I’ve been waiting for all season long because I knew the potential was there.”

The gymnasts competing for WVU on the floor all earned a score of 9.8 or higher. Freshman Jaquie Tun, sophomore Jordan Gillette, senior Melissa Idell and Koshinski all set career-high totals in the event.

Tun led the rotation with an impressive 9.825, followed by Gillette’s 9.875.

With two strong back-toback routines, the home crowd started to get into it.

Idell stepped up and delivered the first 9.95 of the day, a near perfect performance.

Not to be outdone, Koshinski reeled in the second 9.95 of the day in a routine that brought the house down.

With a pair of 9.9 scores from Muhammad and Goldberg, the Mountaineers were able to grab four podium spots for the floor.

Goldberg and Muhammad earned first and second place all-around with scores of 39.325 and 39.275, respectively. This was Goldberg’s second all-around victory of the season.

With a second straight week of a score above 196.0, it would be hard to imagine West Virginia is going anywhere but up in the National Rankings.

“We’re peaking at the right moment, and we just have to keep this going,” Butts said.

“This should help us move up in the rankings this week, and it should be enough to put us in the postseason.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Monday March 7, 2016

Swim and Dive

WVU readies for NCAA Zone A Diving Championships today

By Roger Turner Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Divers for the West Virginia men’s and women’s teams will travel to Annapolis, Maryland to compete in this year’s NCAA Zone A Diving Championships for the three-day meet beginning today.

For the West Virginia men’s team, the 2015-16 season has been nothing short of a success for both swimmers and divers. The Mountaineers walked away victorious in two of its quad meets earlier in the season and closed out the regular season with three head-tohead wins.

The men capped off the season as a team with an impressive second-place finish in the Big 12 Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in their last meet. Not only has the experience of senior swimmers, such as Andrew Marsh and Max Spencer, been a plus this season, but also the young talent on the diving platform for the Mountaineers has been a crucial component for the success that’s been seen this season.

Sophomores Alex Obendorf, Michael Proietto and

Logan McHenry have all finished in the top-three on platform events in each of West Virginia’s wins this season. Obendorf finished with All-Big 12 First Team Honors a season ago and is one of two Mountaineer men’s divers making a return to the NCAA Zone Diving Championships.

As a freshman, Obendorf placed 12th on the high platform diving event in the finals of last year’s Zone A Championships. Also making a trip to Annapolis for the second consecutive year, Proietto has sights on seizing a top-eight finish after placing 16th overall on the high platform event last season.

This year marks McHenry’s first appearance in the regional championship meet.

Joining the Mountaineer sophomore divers will be freshmen Emmott Blitch and Austin Smith.

The West Virginia women’s team has struggled to compile more team wins than a season ago but has seen steady production from qualifying divers Lindsay Schmidt and Julia Calcut this year. A senior from Warrington, Pennsylvania, Schmidt placed fifth overall in the three-meter event at the Big 12 Swimming and

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WVU swimmers dive into the pool during an October meet against Marshall.

Diving Championships, scoring a career-best 332.30.

Schmidt has consistently provided the WVU women’s team with quality points from the springboard this season and will return to the NCAA Zone Diving Championships for the fourth year in a row.

Freshmen Calcut and

Madelyn Woods came up big for the WVU women down the stretch to close out this season. Calcut finished in the top-15 with Schmidt in the Mountaineers’ final meet of the regular season, which featured competitors from Zone A. Woods and Calcut placed in the top-10 of the preliminary rounds of

Big 12 Championships, with Woods advancing to the finals. Woods placed fifth overall, earning a trip to Annapolis in her first season as a Mountaineer.

Last season, no WVU divers finished in the top seven of any event, resulting in no Mountaineers qualifying for the NCAA Swimming and

Diving Championships.

WVU diving coach Michael Grapner anticipates his divers finishing strong in this season’s NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, especially with four West Virginia divers returning to the regional championship meet. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Tennis

No. 75 Mountaineers struggle in weekend defeat to Terrapins

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Despite climbing into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Poll for the first time in program history, the No. 75 West Virginia University women’s tennis team dropped its first match as a ranked team this weekend to Maryland, 5-2.

“Maryland came out very well in doubles today, and they deserve all the credit for taking the doubles point,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac in an interview with WVUSports.

com. “However, I thought we responded well and battled back in singles.

It was a battle both ways.

There are valuable lessons that we can take away from these matches in order to get better and prepare for Big 12 play.”

The Mountaineers (64) dropped the doubles point against the Terps (46, 1-0 Big Ten) for the third time this season. The slow start in doubles hurt West Virginia, and the relative hangover trickled into singles play. None of the three doubles matches were close, with the No. 1 and 3 positions losing 6-2 and

6-0, respectively. At No. 1, the duo of senior captain Hailey Barrett and sophomore Habiba Shaker lost their second match of the season.

In singles, West Virginia took only two of the six singles matches against the Terps. Shaker continued to be a major bright spot for the Mountaineers as she extended her singles winning streak to four, with her lone loss coming against Virginia Tech, while also improving her season record to 9-1.

The other winner of the day for the Mountaineers was freshman Paula Goetz.

Goetz bounced back from a loss against Cornell last week, to a 6-2, 7-6 win over Maryland’s Cassandre Thebault.

Barrett’s straight sets loss to Maryland’s Alexandra Stanova at No. 1 continued the senior’s up-and-down spring campaign. Sophomore Carolina Lewis got off to a good start in her match against Maryland’s Kristina Hovsepyan, winning the first set. But Hovsepyan lifted her game to another level, finishing off Lewis in three sets, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

Sophomore Yvon Martinez started at the No.

6 position for West Virginia, while sophomore Lyn Yuen Choo moved up to No. 5 in place of junior Kaja Mrgole, who continued to rest her stress fracture injury. Martinez fell in straight sets to Maryland’s Caroline Williams, but Choo faced a tough, grueling match against Maryland’s Olga Bredikhina.

Both the first and second sets went to tiebreaks, which were split, but since the result of the overall match between WVU and Maryland had already been decided at that point, they only played a 10-point super-tiebreaker

third set instead of a normal set, which Bredikhina won 10-6.

Across the board, it was a poor showing from the Mountaineers. A win would have validated the team’s ascent into the ITA rankings, but the loss will likely drop the team out when the next poll is released.

Next weekend, in the third match of its current five match road trip, West Virginia will wrap up nonconference play with a visit to in-state rival Marshall on Friday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu