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Bus levy threatens Mountain Line by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

After a visit from Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders, early voting began yesterday in West Virginia.

In addition to deciding which candidate should represent the Democratic and Republican parties, residents of Monongalia County have a series of lev-

ies they must decide on.

One of the most prominent is a $2 million levy to benefit the Transit Authority, which officials from Mountainline hope will save the county’s bus system.

After coal severance tax decreases in the county, the county commission had to reduce how much money it could give the authority.

“If it doesn’t pass, pretty

much most of the service that’s outside the city will cease,” said Councilman Ron Bane at a previous city council meeting.

“The county commission has already said they are going to cut all funding to the Transit Authority. What that looks like is pretty devastating.”

Currently, no county taxes are going toward supporting Mountainline, however, some city taxes

do. Representatives from Mountainline have said they will try to not reduce service in the city.

“This isn’t one of those things where it would be nice to have new buses or it would be nice to have this or that, this is critical operations,” Bane said. “If it doesn’t pass, it will cease— done. It doesn’t come back.

There’s not going to be some knight in shining armor running in.”

But still, if the levy doesn’t pass, the routes in the city will probably change.

Clement Solomon, West Virginia University’s director of transportation and parking, said the Blue and Gold route transporting students from the Evansdale Campus to downtown would not go away.

Also on the ballot are five other levies that would benefit the Morgantown

Public Library, local parks, a youth baseball/softball field, botanical garden, fire protection and county fairs.

To visit a sample ballot before casting your vote, visit http:/monongaliacountyclerk.com/index. php?option=com_conte nt&task=view&id=64&Ite mid=20. Early voting continues through May 7. jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

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Breaking down the student body’s decision to restructure SGA Total voters

177 in favor of amendments 5 against amendments — Restructure the student legislature by adding a Student Representative branch comprised of two representatives from each of the nine academic colleges at West Virginia University . The representatives will be voted on each fall by the students within each college, and will vote on all student government association matters, save for constitutional amendments. The current Board of Governors will become the Student Senate, and athletic councilors will become Senators of Athletics and be granted voting rights in the senate.

— Adding a Vice President of Graduate Student Affairs to SGA’s executive board. The position will act as a liaison between graduate students and SGA. — Transforming the Judicial Board into the Judicial Court, comprised of three law students, three graduate students and three undergraduate students.

This is different than the current Judicial Board, where there are five law students, two graduate students and two undergraduate students.

This constitutional amendment also extends the term of those serving on the Court to academic-life terms, meaning members are eligible to sit until they graduate.

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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” exposes feminist issues by jamie mason staff writer @news_with_jamie

Feminism is the belief men and women should have equal rights and opportunities, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Although America has made many efforts to achieve gender equality, a movie released in 2014 sheds light on times that were not so easy for females.

Sixteen students and Morgantown residents came together Wednesday evening to learn more about the feminist movement during the late 1960s by viewing “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.”

“My mother was involved in the women’s movement, and what I think this documentary does really well is highlight how important many of these issues still are today,” said Jessica Wolfendale, an associate philosophy professor.

“I think this serves as a really powerful history lesson and also a primer for thinking about contemporary issues.”

This documentary, directed by Mary Dore, has been nominated for several awards, including a People’s Choice Award for the Best Documentary category.

“This was the first time I saw the movie (and) I really did like it,” said Jennifer Orlikoff, the director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. “My parents went through this.

They are both really strong feminists and now I understand visually what they went through and why it was so important to them.”

In the past 20 years, America has made many strides toward gender equality, and many of the efforts have been tackled head-on by feminists like the ones featured in “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.”

“The Full Participation Report,” a report on gender equality sponsored by the Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, found that countries around the world are doing many things to resolve the

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WV Department of Environmental Protection releases clean power plan feasibility study by corey mcdonald staff writer @coreymacc

The Clean Power Plan stayed in the Supreme Court on Feb. 9 of this year after a 5-4 court decision with support from West Virginia lawmakers. But the new vacant seat could potentially turn the tides on the progress of the plan and could set West Virginia’s worries back into motion.

On April 21, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection released a feasibility report detailing what the state could do to reach compliance under the Clean Power Plan, President Obama’s plan of action against climate change.

While the report acknowledged that compliance is “feasible from an economic standpoint,” it added that the targeting of coal-fired power plants “in combination with other federal environmental regulations and the forces of a changing energy market place, can be expected to have a profound impact on West Virginia’s power industry, coal industry and overall economy.”

Given that 95 percent of the electricity generation

in West Virginia comes from coal, the state may be in for a tumultuous transition if it is going to seek efficient compliance.

The report recommends the state take a massbased approach. This would mean West Virginia would be treated as a giant bubble, measuring the total amount of carbon emissions produced, rather than taking a rates-based approach, which would focus specifically on the amount of carbon being produced to a more granular level—at a coal-fired power plant for example.

The report also detailed the most efficient way to seek compliance would be to adopt a mass-based approach while also trading “compliance credits.”

Under the written implications of the Clean Power Plan, electric utility companies would be able to trade allowances between states – thus creating a cap and trade market for carbon emissions.

Cap and trade markets have been done in the past with successful results, according to Trina Wafle, deputy director of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy.

“The cap and trade business was tried with sulfur

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emissions in the 1990s,” Wafle said. “And because of that cap and trade system I think that it helped incentivize more investments in technologies and more adoption of technologies and we actually met emission standards ahead of schedule.”

This component of the CPP meant to incentivize emission improvement could cause a serious challenge for West Virginia.

It is improbable that West Virginia will have the capability to reach emission levels without the trading of compliance currencies, given it’s reliance on coal. But the written implications of the plan does “not allow trading between rate-based states and mass-based states,” limiting any trading to other states that choose the mass-based approach.

Ultimately, West Virginia will have to look toward other states for compliance allowances. The report shows that “trading only within the state can be expected to have dramatically negative impacts on the ability of West Virginia-generated power to compete in energy markets.”

And while state utili-

ties will depend on energy efficient states in the surrounding regions, the cost of this dependency will fall on electricity consumers in their monthly bills, according to multiple sources.

“The allowances would be purchased by the utilities and the cost would be passed on to the consumers,” Hansen said. “If we use (the mass-based approach) it would probably result in increased electric rates.”

Experts speculate the natural gas industry, which is already underway in the state, is necessary for a successful transition to seek compliance.

“One way that you can get credit towards compliance is with natural gas power plants, because natural gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal,” Hansen said.

A natural gas plant is currently underway in Moundsville, West Virginia, and will be operational soon, with two more plants being planned in in the northern panhandle and Harrison County, according to Hansen.

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Thursday April 28, 2016

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Trump goes ‘presidential’ in speech; Cruz picks early veep WASHINGTON (AP)—With the general election in his sights, Republican Donald Trump delivered a sober foreign policy address Wednesday aimed at easing fears about his temperament and readiness to be commander in chief. Rival Ted Cruz made a desperate attempt to jolt the GOP race by tapping Carly Fiorina as his running mate.

Both moves underscored Trump’s commanding position in the GOP race.

Though the businessman must keep winning primaries in order to clinch the nomination before this summer’s national convention - he needs 48 percent of delegates still up for grabs - he has breathing room to start making overtures to general election voters. All Cruz can do is throw obstacles in his path.

Cruz announced Fiorina as his vice presidential pick during a rally in Indiana, a state he must win next week in order to keep his White House hopes alive. He cast the unusual announcement as a way to give voters confidence in their choice if they vote for him.

“You deserve to know exactly where a candidate stands,” he said.

Fiorina immediately went after Trump and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, embracing the aggressive role of a No. 2 on the White House ticket.

She cast Trump and Clinton as a pair of liberals who would do little to shake up Washington.

“They’re not going to challenge the system - they are the system,” Fiorina said.

Trump mocked Cruz at a rally in Indianapolis Wednesday night, saying, “Cruz can’t win, what’s he doing picking vice presidents?”

“He is the first presiden-

tial candidate in the history of this country who’s mathematically eliminated from becoming president who chose a vice presidential candidate,” Trump said.

Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are trying to keep Trump from securing the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch, thereby pushing the Republican race toward a contested convention. But Trump strengthened his standing this week with a sweep of five Northeast primaries, giving him 80 percent of the delegates he needs.

Trump headed to Indiana Wednesday as well, following his address in Washington.

Before an audience of foreign policy experts in Washington, Trump outlined a doctrine that he said would put American interests first, leaving allies to fend for themselves if they don’t contribute financially to back up security agreements. He vowed to send U.S. troops into combat only as a last resort, a break from years of hawkish Republican foreign policy.

“Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction,” he declared in the 38-minute address that was heavy on broad statements and light on specific policy details. Unlike his rambunctious, freewheeling rallies, Trump read prepared remarks in a measured tone off a teleprompter.

He also used the address to target Clinton, his expected opponent in a general election. He assailed her handling of the deadly 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and said that during her tenure as secretary of state, the U.S. had a “reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy.”

Clinton’s campaign sees foreign policy as an area

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, hugs former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina during a rally in Indianapolis, Wednesday, April 27, 2016, where he announced he has tapped Fiorina as his running mate. ripe for a sharp general election contrast with Trump, given her years at the State Department and his lack of experience. In a campaign conference call Wednesday, Clinton supporter and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright called Trump’s views “incoherent.”

“I’ve never seen such a combo of simplistic slogans and contradictions and misstatements in one speech,” Albright said.

Like Trump, Clinton emerged from this week’s Northeastern primaries with a stronger claim on her party’s nomination.

With four victories Tuesday, she now has 91 percent of the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

Vermont Sen. Bernie

Sanders, campaigning in Indiana as well Wednesday, conceded that the delegate math was not in his favor. He said his campaign still aims to win the nomination but will also seek to assemble as many delegates as possible to influence the party’s platform and message.

“Our job, whether we win or whether we do not win, is to transform not only our country but the Democratic Party, to open the doors of the Democratic Party to working people and young people and senior citizens in a way that does not exist today,” Sanders said.

Cruz hoped that adding Fiorina to his potential ticket would be a draw for Republicans desperate to keep Clinton out of the White House. Fiorina,

the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, was frequently praised for her tough criticism of Clinton during her own presidential campaign and irritated Trump with her sharp retorts during GOP debates.

Since dropping out, she has become Cruz’s most active surrogate, making frequent campaign appearances alongside him and on her own.

Candidates typically wait until they’ve secured their party’s nomination before picking a running mate, in part to avoid appearing to be getting ahead of the will of the voters.

But in Cruz’s case, the announcement seemed aimed at keeping up the idea that he has a claim to the nomination and potentially at-

tracting more voters in Indiana and other remaining states - including Fiorina’s home state of California.

Asked on “Fox & Friends” about Cruz naming a running mate, Trump said, “To me it looks ridiculous, he’s not going to get the nomination.”

Trump emerged with more than 50 percent of the Republican votes in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland, and scored over 60 percent in Delaware and Rhode Island. Similarly, Clinton won convincingly in four of the five contests, scoring 56 percent in Pennsylvania and 63 percent in Maryland - the two biggest contests of the night. Sanders won the Rhode Island primary with 55 percent of the vote.

Regulators relax monitoring of decade-old gulf oil leak BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)—Federal regulators have relaxed a pollution monitoring requirement for a company responsible for a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, a slowmotion spill that could last another century.

In 2008, the Coast Guard ordered Taylor Energy Company to conduct daily flights over the site of its leak to visually monitor chronic oil sheens that often stretch for miles off Louisiana’s coast.

That requirement remained in effect until December, when the Coast Guard amended the order to reduce the minimum number of required overflights to twice a week.

Regulators didn’t announce the change at the time. The Coast Guard confirmed details of its new order on Tuesday in response to an Associated Press inquiry.

Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash said flights are often cancelled due to weather and “other safety issues,” and they rarely detect the presence of oil that could be recovered from the water’s surface.

“Based on this historical knowledge and consistent patterns of sheening near the site, the new overflight frequency will target calm days when there is greater likelihood to observe dark, recoverable product on the water’s surface,” Nash said in a statement he attributed to “Unified Command,” which includes federal regulators and Taylor Energy itself.

Government experts believe oil is still leaking

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Continued from page 1 is that once those three plants come online that will go quite a long way toward West Virginia’s compliance,” Hansen said.

But regardless of what approach West Virginia ultimately decides to utilize, how it plans to seek regulation compliance, or even if the Clean Power Plan is upheld in court, carbon emission regulation is a reality the state cannot avoid.

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This March 31, 2015, file photo shows an oil sheen drifting from the site of the former Taylor Energy oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. In 2008, the Coast Guard ordered Taylor Energy to conduct daily flights over the leak site. In December, federal regulators relaxed the pollution monitoring requirement and the Coast Guard amended the order of flights to twice a week. The Coast Guard confirmed the new order Tuesday, April 26, 2016, in response to an Associated Press inquiry. at the site where waves whipped up by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 triggered an under water mudslide, which toppled a Taylor Energy-owned platform and buried a cluster of its oil wells under mounds of sediment. Last year, regulators estimated the leak could last a century or more if left unchecked.

Taylor Energy has said nothing can be done to completely eliminate the persistent slicks. The New Orleans-based company claims the sheens are coming from residual oil Power Plan, it’s going to be something else,” said James Van Nostrand, professor at the West Virginia University College of Law. “The EPA has made the decision; they have issued the endangerment finding that says we are going to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. So if not the Clean Power Plan, the EPA will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with something else. Regulating carbon emissions is going to happen.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

oozing from sediment on the seafloor.

In 2008, the Coast Guard initially ordered the company to fly over the leak site twice a day but reduced the requirement to once a day in 2009.

“The frequency of overflights has historically been reviewed and revised where conditions warrant modification,” Nash said.

Environmental groups led by the New York Citybased Waterkeeper Alliance sued Taylor Energy

in 2012, accusing the company of withholding information about its government-supervised efforts to stop the leak. The company pledged to share more information with the public when it reached a settlement with the groups last year.

“The government making this change without notifying the public is on par with its complete lack of transparency from the beginning,” said Waterkeeper Alliance staff attorney Larissa Liebmann.

When slicks are visible

during flights, a Taylor Energy contractor submits a pollution report to the Coast Guard’s National Response Center. Last year, an Associated Press analysis of data identified roughly 2,300 pollution reports on the Taylor Energy site since the leak began.

SkyTruth, a West Virginia-based environmental watchdog group, has used satellite images and Coast Guard reports to track the leak since 2010.

The group counts only 40 Coast Guard reports for

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very much by the achievements of the Women’s Movement,” Wolfendale said. “...The educational opportunities, the job opportunities, things like that.”

Savaughna Johnson, a sophomore communications student said she believes this movie is a great example of how anything can be done if you try hard enough, even an issue as large as gender equality.

Although there have been improvements in the area of gender equality, Matthew Talbert, a WVU philosophy professor said there is still work to be done.

Reproductive rights issues, which include the right to terminate a pregnancy and gain access to reproductive services, were mentioned in the film.

“I think women’s reproductive rights being rolled back in certain states is a very bad thing,” Talbert said.

Students and professors alike are interested in improving some of the issues facing women and feminists today, and according to Talbert, coming to a showing of a film like this is a great place to start.

Orlikoff agrees with Talbert that one person can

Continued from page 1 issue of gender equality. In the past two decades, twice as many women held political office positions, girls and boys enroll in primary school at nearly equal rates globally and the economic and employment gap has also been narrowed.

If it were not for the feminists taking the lead and making changes, many women would not be where they are today.

“Certainly the choices I have made were shaped

Taylor Energy’s leak site since Jan. 1.

The AP’s investigation last year revealed evidence that the leak is worse than the company, or government, reported.

Presented with AP’s findings, the Coast Guard provided a new leak estimate that’s about 20 times larger than one cited by the company in a court filing last year.

SkyTruth estimated last year that between 300,000 and 1.4 million gallons of oil spilled from the site between 2004 and 2015 and it sees no end in sight.

Satellite images from April 23 show a slick measuring 27 miles long and 3,500 feet wide and at its widest point, the group noted Monday in a Facebook post.

John Amos, SkyTruth’s president, questioned why regulators would ease the company’s monitoring obligations.

“Why would we drop our vigilance about what’s happening at the site knowing that the job isn’t done?” he said. “As shoddy and as demonstrably inaccurate as these (companysubmitted pollution) reports are, they’re the only public record of what’s been happening out there since the leak began in 2004.”

Taylor Energy, which sold all its offshore leases and oil and gas interests in 2008, says it has spent more than $480 million on its efforts to stop the leak. The company sued the federal government in January to recover more than $400 million in additional money that it set aside for leak-related work. make a difference.

“Activism does start with a single person and individuals can make a difference, especially if they get collectively involved in an issue,” Orlikoff said. “I think it’s important they do realize they can make a difference.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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NCAA should pay student athletes For decades, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has freely profited from the use of the names and likenesses of student athletes without the athletes themselves seeing a single cent of compensation.

However, those days may be coming to an end soon, and it frankly can’t happen fast enough.

USA Today Sports reported earlier this month that some college athletes have started to receive checks for the use of their likenesses in NCAA video games. One of them is West Virginia senior center Tyler Orlosky, who, according to an article from West Virginia Sports’ website on April 18, appeared in two NCAA Football video games and reportedly received close to $1,000 in compensation.

It was the culmination of a fight that began more than five years ago, when former University of Califor-

nia at Los Angeles basketball star Ed O’Bannon filed a landmark lawsuit against the NCAA and EA Sports for the unauthorized use of his likeness.

This cash will be a brief windfall for a select group of current student athletes who are old enough to have appeared in NCAA video games, which were discontinued after “NCAA Football 14” was released in July 2013. For the rest, they’re still left out in the cold, and the NCAA continues to prevent them from profiting from their work.

As it stands, NCAA student athletes are barred from making money from their names and likenesses, meaning they’re not allowed to sell autographs or memorabilia they own. These are called “impermissible benefits,” and the NCAA continues to crack down harshly on those who violate this nonsensical rule.

Take the case of former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who saw his collegiate career essentially end in 2010 over allegations that he had made money selling autographs and memorabilia. USA Today reported in December 2010 that Pryor and four other student athletes were suspended for five games for selling personal memorabilia to fans. Though Pryor was eventually able to hold a career in the National Football League, many are not so lucky.

How many student athletes from impoverished backgrounds could have helped their families with money made from selling autographs or memorabilia? As long as the NCAA continues to prevent athletes from profiting from their names and likenesses, it continues to broadcast that it feels it owns its student athletes.

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Tyler Orlosky received around $1,000 as compensation for his likeness appearing in an NCAA video game.

If you are a student athlete during your college career, everything you are belongs to the NCAA. You’ll get an education and maybe even a minimal chance at

making money from your sport one day, but your name is ultimately not your own.

This cannot be allowed to stand; however, the prec-

edent set by these video game lawsuits may mean that it might not for much longer. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Crystal healing: Pseudoscience or effective treatment? thomas mcquain columnist @thomasmcquainda

Over the last few years, a phenomenon in alternative healing methods known as “crystal healing” has been on the rise. Advocates of crystal healing claim the use of crystals, such as quartz or lapis lazuli, can rid the body of diseases and mental ailments. Though numerous scientific sources state crystals have no healing properties, the placebo effect may be real enough to inspire true change in an individual’s physical health.

The practice of crystal healing is based off the reallocation of stress in chakra points, which are areas of the body where stress is thought to accumulate in Eastern medicine. Various types of gems and crystals are used to “rebalance the body’s energy,” thus making the patient feel well again. Gems are thought to have unique healing properties; for example, wearing rose quartz is said to increase one’s self-esteem and feelings of self-love.

However, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. An article titled “Crystal Healing: Stone-Cold Facts About Gemstone Treatment” from LiveScience states crystal healing “is not popular with most medical doctors and scientists, (and) many of whom refer to it as a pseudoscience.” Using the scientific method, crystal healing has been put to the test for any discernable physical and emotional benefits to its implementation, but results have consistently come up negative.

Yet even with science’s disapproval of this alternative art, crystal healing has many believers who claim to experience positive results

Crystals have no healing properties, but this doesn’t mean the placebo effect can’t cause real physical or mental change in practitioners. after using crystals. On YouTube, videos from crystal healing practitioners often report feeling emotionally uplifted after a session, even though crystals are scientifically proven to not cause any physical change in the body. To explain this, one must consider the strength of the placebo effect.

The placebo effect refers to the practice of providing a fake treatment alongside an actual treatment in order to determine a causal relationship between the real treatment and the prevention of a disease or disorder present in a patient. Though one would expect patients receiving the placebo to not experience any physical change in medical trials,

WebMD states in an article explaining the placebo effect that positive effects can be felt with disorders like depression and chronic pain, even if the patient is aware that the medicine they’re taking is a placebo.

The aforementioned LiveScience article mentions a study conducted by Christopher French, head of anomalistic psychology research at the University of London.

He examined people wishing to try crystal healing by using real and fake quartz to test the crystal’s healing properties. French found that “the effects reported by those who held fake crystals while meditating were no different than the effects reported by those who

held real crystals,” indicating that any reported recoveries were likely just placebo tricks of the mind.

However, if real mental effects are experienced by the patients, one could argue crystals do, in fact, aid believers of crystal healing in real ways that benefit their lives. The mind is a powerful tool, but this doesn’t mean it can’t be tricked into feeling better even when scientific evidence says otherwise.

Psychology Today reported in an article from 2011 that a person’s beliefs can affect the strength of the placebo effect. In a study performed with energy drinks, a person who noted before drinking that they expected the drink to strongly

influence their mental ability performed better at a word unscrambling task than people who did not believe it would affect them.

When applying these findings to crystals, it’s possible that people who strongly believe in crystal healing may experience real effects due to the strength of their placebo effect. This could result in experiencing symptoms such as less muscle tension, fewer headaches and an overall improved outlook on life.

Unfortunately, taking this one step further by using crystals in place of modern medicine to cure severe physical ailments is extremely dangerous and should not be attempted. Pa-

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tients considering sessions of crystal healing over institutionalized medical care risk their disease persisting and potentially worsening as a result. If anything, crystals should be used for minor physical or mental grievances only.

Though crystal healing does not have a place in the science or medical fields, it still finds a home in many ritual religious practices in cultures around the world today, where its practitioners frequently include them for their positive effects. New Age practices may not be based in science, but this does not mean they can’t inspire real mental change. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Find serenity at downtown’s yoga escape, Morgantown Power Yoga inspires spirituality by ally litten A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Snuggled between The Mirror’s Image and Brick Yard Pub is a small business bringing calm and relaxation to the hustle and bustle of downtown: Power Yoga Morgantown. Located at 235 Spruce St., the yoga studio is known for its zen classes and workshops.

Opened by Jared Callahan and Amanda Love in 2012, the yoga studio has not only inspired others but also empowered them to find their inner greatness.

Power Yoga Morgantown offers four kinds of classes: power flow, basic flow, yoga tour and restorative flow. While the basic flow classes focus on the basic building blocks of yoga, power yoga focuses on the strength and mindfulness one can use in and out of the studio.

Restorative flow focuses on extending the body and centering and calming the muscles. For those looking for a less traditional and more energetic yoga practice, the yoga tour classes offer all that and more.

Any yoga goers interested in these classes need to bring a mat or rent one at the front desk. The only requirement for all classes is a smile.

“All of our classes are for all levels. A first time practitioner could drop into any one of the classes on the schedule we offer,” said Callahan. “A beginner simply must be comfortable stepping outside their comfort zone and trying something new.”

The studio also offers many unique classes, such as $5 drop-in practices on Friday, as well as training for anyone looking to become a yoga instructor.

“We are a yoga teacher training school.

We now focus on training and certifying

the next generation of yoga teachers,” Callahan said. “Every Tuesday at 5:45, we have a class featuring a live beat with a professional percussionist from New York City, Lisa Pegher. We just finished up three teacher trainings and have an amazing new team of teachers who are inspired to connect with new students.”

Power Yoga Morgantown understands the sacrifices students, educators and veterans give on a daily basis. The yoga studio offers discounted rates for these special community members.

“For students, educators and veterans, we offer classes for just $10, five class passes for $45 and ten class passes for $75 as well as memberships which would be unlimited yoga for $90 a month,” Callahan said.

The yoga studio has no plans on slowing down during the summertime, in fact, they are just getting started. On Memorial Day, Power Yoga Morgantown will be offering a special 90 minute hot yoga practice.

Later in the summer (Aug. 4-7), the studio will be taking a retreat to nearby Ohiopyle for some yoga, hiking and white water rafting. This retreat will help one escape from everyday stresses into the wild and wonderful nature around us. For $499, guests can enjoy the weekend at the Trilium Lodge.

A yearly tradition, Callahan has already started to list his favorite aspects of the trip: “The remote lodge setting, the awesome community, clean, nutritious food, the optional world renowned class five white water rafting, waterfall hikes, and of course, the daily yoga practice.”

For more information on Power Yoga Morgantown, visit http://poweryogamorgantown.com.

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Fans eager as RiFF RaFF invades Morgantown by brittany osteen A&E Writer @dailyathenaum

Tomorrow night, RiFF RaFF will shake up Morgantown right before finals week. Joining him at Mainstage Morgantown is DJ Afterthought.

Horst Simco, otherwise known as RiFF RaFF, goes by various names including Jody HiGHROLLER, the Freestyle Scientist and Jody 3 Moons. In 2005 he began making homemade CDs of his rapping and passing them out.

He now has the album “Purple Icon” out and has been touring this album since March. Some of his songs have more than one million listens.

During an interview with VLAD TV, Diplo talked about the “nobrainer” decision of signing RiFF RaFF. “RiFF RaFF is like Apple computers in 1971, a little wooden box with an apple on top of it,” said Diplo. “When I saw him I was like, ‘This is gonna be something different,’ and his stock just kept rising.

Like, ‘Let me get in early, I’ll buy all that stock.’”

RiFF RaFF traveled from his

hometown of Houston to Atlanta, GA, to audition for MTV’s reality show “From G’s to Gents.” After finding out he was casted for the second season of the show, he got the MTV logo tattooed on his neck.

He was eliminated from the show by the second episode, but made a lasting impression through his crazy style and attitude.

In 2009, his rap career changed.

Simon Rex, a comedian and rapper, contacted RiFF RaFF after watching one of his freestyle videos. The two soon became friends and partners. This was the start of RiFF RaFF and Dirt Nasty. They then joined forces with Andy Milonakis and became “Three Loco.”

In 2013, he released singles such as “Dolce & Gabbana,” “Mr. Popular,” and was featured on Far East Movement’s single “The Illest.” Finally he released the first official single for his much-anticipated album “Neon Icon.” The song was “How to Be the Man.” Before announcing the album, he dropped extra songs that weren’t on the album including “Real Boyz,” “Suckas Askin’ Questions” and “Shoulda Won a Grammy.”

Rolling Stone recognized “Neon

Icon” on its list of “27 Must-Hear Albums of 2014” before the album’s release.

RiFF RaFF was featured on previous Mainstage Morgantown performer’s songs such as “Doctor Pepper” with Diplo and “Who Wants to Rock” with Flux Pavilion.

Many students are excited about the upcoming concert.

Freshmen, Kenneth Miller, an industrial engineering student, and James Spencer, an exercise physiology student, expressed how excited they are for the show.

“I think it is pretty cool he is coming. He seems like a wild guy who would have a good concert people would have fun at,” said Spencer.

“I can’t wait for RiFF RaFF this Friday. It will give me one final chance to de-stress before the horrors of finals week hit me,” said Miller.

RiFF RaFF is performing at 9 p.m. tomorrow at Mainstage Morgantown. General admission tickets are $20 and are almost sold out.

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Riff Raff will perform this Friday at Mainstage Morgantown.

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Prince’s estate to be temporarily controlled by trust company MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ‑ A Minnesota judge appointed a corporate trust company on Wednesday to temporarily oversee Prince’s multimillion-dollar estate, saying the emergency appointment was necessary because the superstar musician doesn’t appear to have a will and immediate decisions must be made about his business interests.

Judge Kevin Eide granted a request from Prince’s sister to appoint Bremer Trust as special administrator, giving the company authority to manage and supervise Prince’s assets and identify his heirs. Eide said Prince had no appointed personal representative but had substantial assets and owned businesses that require immediate attention and ongoing management.

The judge also noted that identities and addresses of Prince’s heirs need to be determined. Prince’s only full sibling, Tyka Nelson, requested the move Tuesday, telling the

court she believed her brother didn’t have a will. Prince also has five surviving half-siblings who could share in the estate.

Eide wrote that Prince died “intestate,” meaning he did not have a valid will, and said there was no pending application or petition for probate of a will in any court. However, someone could still come forward with a will or trust document, which happened after Michael Jackson died in June 2009. Jackson’s longtime lawyer John Branca filed a will six days after his death, upending moves by Jackson’s mother to become his estate’s executor based on her assumption there wasn’t a will.

For now, Bremer Trust will act as special administrator for six months or until a personal representative is appointed, whichever is less.

Later Wednesday, the estate already had its first claim against it, with a filing from a California man who claimed that Prince had transferred ownership of his music catalog to him

in 1995.

Prince, 57, died last week at Paisley Park, his famous home and recording studio complex in suburban Minneapolis. His cause of death hasn’t been released. An autopsy was conducted Friday, but results aren’t expected to be released for weeks.

The value of his estate isn’t known. Prince made hundreds of millions of dollars for record companies, concert venues and others, and the outpouring of grief and nostalgia after his death prompted fans to buy 2.3 million of his songs in just three days.

Prince also owned a dozen properties in Minnesota, most of it undeveloped land and some houses for relatives, worth about $27 million, according to public records. He also sold more than 100 million albums, and concert industry magazine Pollstar reported that in the years Prince’s tours topped the charts - 10 years over four decades performing - they raked in

$225 million in ticket sales.

But it’s not clear how much money Prince had when he died, given that he had to pay record labels and staff and cover other expenses.

On Wednesday, Eide said Bremer Trust was in the best position to handle Prince’s estate.

The judge noted that its affiliate, Bremer Bank, had worked with Prince and has knowledge of his personal and business finances.

The judge said Nelson and one of Prince’s half-brothers, Omarr Baker, were part of the telephone conference that prompted his decision Wednesday. The judge said no one objected to appointing a special administrator.

Under Minnesota law, if a person dies without a will - and with no surviving parents, children, or grandchildren - the next people in line to share in the estate are the surviving siblings, including half-siblings. Prince wasn’t married and had no known living children.

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Author Jon Krakauer, public deserve to see records BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) ‑ “Into the Wild” author Jon Krakauer and the public deserve to know why the University of Montana reversed its decision in 2012 to expel a star quarterback who was accused of rape, an attorney for the writer told the Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Krakauer watched from the audience as lawyer Mike Meloy spoke to the justices before a packed Montana State University auditorium. Meloy asked the court to uphold a lower judge’s ruling to release the documents about former quarterback Jordan Johnson’s disciplinary proceedings.

“We don’t care about the behavior of Jordan Johnson. We care about the behavior of the commissioner and the dean who reinstated him,” Meloy said. “Not only do we deserve to know that, the public is entitled to know that.”

An attorney for the Montana University System told the justices that releasing the documents Krakauer seeks would violate student privacy and an education law that could threaten the University of Montana’s federal funding. Plus, the documents’ release may prevent future students from testifying in disciplinary proceedings for fear their identities could be made public, attorney Viv Hammill said.

“Most importantly, we want to keep student confidentiality ... because we want students to come forward and report and seek help,” Hammill said.

The justices did not make an immediate ruling after the arguments.

In 2014, Krakauer requested records of any action Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian took in the disciplinary proceedings against Johnson,

who was accused of rape by another student. Krakauer sought the records for his book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town,” which was released in April 2015.

Krakauer said any information contained in the documents would be included in an afterword in future editions of the book.

“The people of Montana, the people of the country, need to know what happened, why this seemingly preferential treatment happened,” Krakauer told The Associated Press.

Johnson was acquitted of raping the woman in 2012. Before that case went to state court, it went through the university’s disciplinary process, which concluded the rape most likely occurred and Johnson should be expelled.

University President Royce Engstrom upheld the decision, and Johnson appealed to Christian.

Johnson was not expelled, and it is unclear what action Christian may have taken to reverse the decision or why.

Krakauer said he believes, based on a reference to the case in a U.S. Justice Department letter, that Christian sent the case back to the university with instructions to use a higher standard of proof before deciding to expel Johnson.

University system spokesman Kevin McRae said he cannot speak about individual cases.

“Families and students have an expectation when they enroll in school that colleges and universities will not be disseminating their records, whether that’s their grades, whether that’s their health information or that’s their conduct information,” McRae

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Jon Krakauer is the author of the famed novel ‘Into the Wild.’ said after the hearing.

Christian’s attorneys said they could not legally comply with Krakauer’s records request because the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act prohibits the release of confidential student information, and the state could lose its federal education funding, including scholarship aid, if the documents are released.

Krakauer said he believes the university is hiding behind the

federal law. He hopes his case will stop universities from using the law to withhold documents that could shed light on how they deal with student sexual assaults.

“Until you have transparency, until we see how universities deal or don’t deal with rape, this problem will not be solved,” Krakauer said. “If my lawsuit helps get rid of FERPA and forces universities to be honest and open about how often rapes occur, how they are

adjudicated, that should make it safer for women on campuses.”

District Judge Kathy Seeley of Helena ruled for Krakauer after finding the federal education law threatens to withhold funding only if there is a systemic release of confidential information.

A one-time release of information with the names of the students blacked out would not go against the federal law, she said.

Poignancy is polished in musical ‘Tuck Everlasting’ NEW YORK (AP) ‑ “Tuck Everlasting,” the new musical that deals with eternal life, has wisely been put in the hands of someone whose work on Broadway never seems to die - director Casey Nicholaw.

Nicholaw has three hit shows running concurrently - “The Book of Mormon,” ‘’Aladdin” and “Something Rotten!” - and his fourth is this adaptation of the 1975 young adult book by Natalie Babbitt. Like the others, it’s in great hands.

The show that opened Tuesday at the Broadhurst Theatre is wonderfully crafted, a Nicholaw hallmark. Poignancy mixes well with humor, the songs are fresh and sweet, the set is blissful and the performances honest. It has a polished feel. All of the parts work smartly.

Babbitt’s book is about a young girl in the 1880s who befriends a unique family that has gained immortality. Another musical, “Finding Neverland,” tells the origin story of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up. This is the story of a family of four who are frozen in time.

The “Tuck Everlasting” adapters - Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear and author Tim Federle - have smartly made some changes that open the short novel up. They’ve killed off the girl’s dad to let her experience loss, added a circus-like fair and created comedy by producing or enhancing minor characters.

The Tucks - parents Carolee Carmello and Michael Park and their sons, played by an exuberant Andrew Keenan-Bolger and a solid Robert Lenzi - have their secretive world turned upside down when Winnie Foster (11-year-old Sarah Charles Lewis, making an auspicious Broadway debut) discovers their secret.

A mysterious man in a yellow suit (the gloriously menacing

‘Ghostbusters’ back in business

NEW YORK (AP) ‑ For decades, the quest for another “Ghostbusters” movie was as elusive as an ectoplasmic phantom.

Various iterations for a third “Ghostbusters” movie cycled through countless rumors and possibilities that had one thing in common: Bill Murray just didn’t want to do another one.

Eventually, the proton pack was passed to Paul Feig, the “Freaks and Geeks” creator turned de facto filmmaker of female comics (“Bridesmaids,” ‘’Spy”).

Amy Pascal, then-Sony Pictures chief, convinced Feig to take on a reboot of the 1980s comedy franchise.

“I was like: OK, how would I do it? I don’t want to compete with the memory of those guys, but if I got the funny women that I love working with, that, to me, I have ideas with,” Feig says.

“In my mind, it would avoid comparisons going: ‘He’s not as funny as Bill Murray’ or ‘He’s not as funny as Dan Aykroyd.’ And the main reason being: I love my funny ladies.”

“Ghostbusters,” which opens July 15, stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones as the ghost-fighting foursome. Of all the summer’s blockbuster-hopefuls, none has had more eyes on it than “Ghostbusters.”

It’s the rare big-budgeted comedy (reportedly costing more than $150 million to make), so the stakes are as

high as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. And “Ghostbusters” has proven a curious kind of lightning rod to some, in part for nothing more than the gender of its paranormal pursuers. When the film was announced, some on social media decried it.

“This is the first time I’ve actually done something where right out of the gate, people cared so much that it just brought all this extra scrutiny on it,” says Feig.

“Truth be told going into it, I kind of thought: This will be fun and didn’t realize there would be a small segment so vocally against it.”

Feig understands those who simply didn’t want to see a beloved classic remade, but not those who object to his female-led cast.

“Look, I totally understand the fear of somebody touching something you love. I completely get that.

That’s kind of why I wanted to do a reboot because that’s almost the more respectful way to do it,” says the director. “Then there’s a small, tiny segment that have a problem with it being women, and that’s a nonstarter for me. That just is ridiculous.”

More controversy followed, though. When the film’s trailer debuted in March, some questioned why Jones, the lone black star in the leading quartet, wouldn’t play a scientist like the other characters.

Terrence Mann) threatens to expose everything, but a sweet, dim constable (Fred Applegate, a master of comic timing) is on his trail, with his deputy, a new character, a fine Michael Wartella. Nicholaw, who also did the choreography, adds the ensemble gentle dancing in the background to scenes.

An overly hectic first song laying out the narrative stumbles, but the show soon rights itself, continues strongly and ending with a blissful, wordless ballet that caused many sniffles at a recent preview. Humor wonderfully leavens the weighty issues. (“Nobody is shooting anybody,” mom warns a gun-toting son at one point. “I just cleaned.”)

The music by Chris Miller is magical, grounded in folk, footpounding earthy beats and soaring melodies. Everyone gets a song and some of the standouts are “Good Girl Winnie Foster,” ‘’Everlasting” and “The Wheel.”

Nathan Tysen’s lyrics are even better - delving into complex themes with elegance. Here’s a section of “The Wheel,” sung by one of the eternals: “You can’t have living without dying/So you can’t call this living what we got/We just are, we just be/No before, no beyond/A rowboat anchored in the middle of a pond.”

Walt Spangler’s evocative sets are anchored by a massive tree, whose bark looks like huge wood shavings. (One of its branches reaches across the stage, sturdy enough to hold two performers.)

Twinkling fireflies and a croaking rubber frog make the outdoors even more magical.

It’s a quirky story, but the musical’s cast and creative team have done it justice, particularly Nicholaw, who has masterfully shaped a lovely night of theater. Long may it ‘Tuck Everlasting’ is now on Broadway. live.

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Keith Cloutier PREPARES FOR A SECTION OF HIS FRENCH FINAL

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WVU’s Kyle Davis crosses home plate after a three-run home run against Marshall last night.

West Virginia holds on late to secure season sweep of rival Marshall

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

When in-state rival Marshall is on the schedule, West Virginia head baseball coach Randy Mazey has come to expect wild ones.

Wednesday night’s clash between the Mountaineers and the Thundering Herd was no different, as West Virginia (21-18) had to fend off a furious late rally to top Marshall (21-17) 9-8 at Monongalia County Ballpark.

“I told the guys before the game started, every single time we’ve ever played Marshall it’s been like this,” Mazey said. “It’s been a dogfight. They get super fired up for the game.

They just so happen to have the best team they’ve had

since I’ve been here, which is good. I want Marshall to be good. I want Pitt to be good. I want Penn State to be good. That challenges the Mountaineers to play well.”

After starting pitcher Braden Zarbnisky threw three scoreless innings, regular Sunday starter BJ Myers went four innings out of the bullpen to earn his fifth win of the season, in what could be part of a reshuffling of the WVU pitching rotation that would see freshman Michael Grove taking over a weekend spot.

West Virginia jumped out to a lead right off the bat, as the Mountaineers put up two runs in the first inning on a sac fly by Ivan Vera and an RBI single

by Jackson Cramer. WVU added another tally to the

lead in the fourth, as Cramer contributed another RBI base hit to make it 3-0.

But when Zarbnisky was lifted after three innings, the Thundering Herd made its rally. Facing Myers, making a rare midweek appearance out of the bullpen, Marshall catcher Sam Finfer hit a two-run homer to right-center to cut it to 3-2 in the fifth. Marshall followed the homer up with three straight singles to tie the game.

But as Marshall threatened to take the lead, Vera made perhaps the biggest play of the game. A catcher pressed into service at third base for the first time in his career, Vera made a terrific diving stop on a hardhit ground ball to end the inning and keep the Herd from pulling ahead.

Vera hadn’t played third base since his sophomore year of high school before Wednesday, but Mazey moved him to the hot corner in order to find a way to fit him, Zarbnisky and catcher Ray Guerrini into the same lineup. The freshman was immediately tested, and rose to the challenge in the field.

“Before the game, when Jackson Cramer saw I was playing third, he came up and said ‘Pudge, the balls are going to find you today,’” Vera said. “Sure enough, right off the bat, I get a double play, get a couple ground balls and then I end up making the diving play. He was right.”

With a tie intact, Cramer put the Mountaineers back ahead with his third RBI of the game in the sixth.

Then, in the seventh, left fielder Kyle Davis struck the game’s biggest blow with a three-run home run, making it 7-3.

WVU tacked on two more runs in the inning on a Vera triple and Cramer’s fourth RBI of the day, and it looked like smooth sailing. But an extremely shaky WVU bullpen reared its head again in the eighth, as Brandon Boone and Jacob Brewer combined allowed five runs, four of them coming on a grand slam by Marshall third baseman Tyler Ratliff.

With the tying run on, West Virginia closer Blake Smith was called into action to get a five-out save, and he came through.

Smith escaped the eighth with no damage, then retired the side in the ninth,

striking out 6-foot-7 power hitter Tommy Lane in a climactic battle for the final out.

“I was starting with fastballs out, and I was able to do that early,” Smith said.

“Then I was trying to bury a slider and I missed a couple, I think I threw two sliders up, and then I tried a changeup and I did the same thing. Then he gave me a slider, I said ‘This has got to be the one, I have to get it down.’ I finally got it done.”

With the win, West Virginia claims a series sweep over its in-state rival, after beating the Herd in Charleston on April 5. Next, WVU will play Baylor in a home conference series this weekend. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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Joseph, WVU prepared to make history on first day of NFL Draft

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @gearty83

The West Virginia University football team has an opportunity to make school history this weekend as five Mountaineers are projected to be selected in the 2016 NFL Draft in Chicago.

WVU hasn’t had five players selected in the same draft since 1999, when six different Mountaineers were selected.

But in a class highlighted by its defensive talent, the chances of “West Virginia” being announced on stage is highly likely.

Karl Joseph is the top rated safety in the draft according to NFL.com’s Mike Mayock and has the highest draft projection out of his West Virginia counterparts. In 2015, Joseph had put together his best season at WVU, but an ACL injury abruptly ended his season, leaving his draft stock dwindling.

At the time of his injury, Joseph led the FBS with five interceptions in a mere four weeks. Joseph also recorded 20 tackles and one sack, but it was the physical play that put Joseph on the map.

While the ACL injury has lowered his draft stock, ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper has Joseph selected with the 21st pick to the Washington Redskins, but other projections have the safety going to the Pittsburgh Steelers at 25, especially after Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin made an appearance at WVU’s pro-day on April 4.

Along with Joseph, linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski has

built off a strong performance last year and in the NFL combine. He’s WVU’s No. 2 draft prospect on Kiper’s big board.

In his senior season, Kwiatkoski showed why he’s one of the most pure linebackers in the draft.

He led the Mountaineers in tackles and recorded 11 tackles for loss, accumulating to upwards to 44 yards, the most of any Mountaineer in 2015.

At the Combine in Indianapolis, Kwiatkoski was a top performer in the 20yard shuffle with a time of 4.22 seconds, but also broad jumped 120 inches and bench pressed 19 reps.

Kwiatkoski’s long journey at WVU has ended.

From redshirting his first year in Morgantown to leaving with a bowl win, Kwiatkoski is ready for the next challenge: the NFL. His draft selection is projected in round five or six, with teams like the New England Patriots rumored around his name.

Daryl Worley skipped his senior year and is directly behind Kwiatkoski on the draft charts as Worley is the No. 114 ranked player, sitting behind Kwiatkoski’s No. 108 ranking.

Worley and Joseph made the WVU secondary, one of the scariest in college football.

In 2015, Worley led the Mountaineers in interceptions and recorded 49 tackles. He was unable to showcase his talent in the Cactus Bowl due to an academic issue, but his consistency from his WVU tenure is what attracted NFL scouts.

Since his freshman year, Worley had only one sea-

WVU’s Karl Joseph in between plays last season against Liberty. son where he finished with dling punt/kickoff duties sub-40 tackles, and that for WVU. In that time, Dilwas his first year in Mor- lon filled in for Joseph durgantown when he still had ing his injury and recorded 36 tackles. His interception two interceptions. production increased as What separated Dillon well, in part to being a part from a lot of safeties in the of a very defensive scheme. draft class is his 40-yard Worley is projected to be a dash time at the combine.

Among safety prospects, late round pick.

K.J. Dillon is the last de- Dillon recorded the fourth fensive player to be a WVU fastest 40-time at 4.53 secdraft prospect. However, onds, 0.20 seconds off the Dillon is the most versatile record. Much like Worley, player position wise, able Dillon’s draft projection is to be on defense and spe- similar, where he is projected to be a sixth or sevcial teams.

Dillon recorded 76 yards enth round selection. on 10 returns while hanWendell Smallwood

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rounds out the top five and is the only offensive player to be a projected selection.

Smallwood, the reigning Big 12 conference-rushing leader, is the highest rated running back from the Big 12. Like Worley, Smallwood took advantage when his draft stock was up and declared for the draft early.

He piled together over 1500 yards rushing in 13 games and in the Combine was a top performer in the three-cone drill, used to test agility and highly regarded in recruiting and the 60-yard shuffle. Small-

wood is looking to be the first WVU RB taken in the NFL draft since the Tampa Bay Buccaneers took Charles Sims in 2014.

Smallwood is also projected as a late round pick, but many teams could use his style in the backfield.

The draft will last all weekend starting with round one at 8 p.m. tonight. Rounds two and three begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, while the final four to seven rounds start at noon on April 30. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Al-Rasheed Benton high-fives WVU students after beating Maryland in September.

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From one talented group to the next, West Virginia junior Al-Rasheed Benton is already making his mark on and off the field.

Benton’s become one of the restocked defenses team leaders at linebacker.

His qualities haven’t gone unnoticed, and he’s played behind some of the best to don the blue and gold at the position.

Now it’s his time to shine.

“He has emerged as one of our defensive leaders,” said WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen. “He is very vocal. He has been here for four years, and he has played behind some pretty good people.”

He’s played behind the likes of Jared Barber, Nick Kwiatkoski and Shaq Petteway since he arrived on campus as a freshman in 2013. He learned a lot from that group, ranging from techniques to how to read a play.

The Newark, New Jer-

sey product sat back and watched what they did for three years, incorporating some of what they helped him with into his game.

“You need to know what you need to be looking at before the play starts to put yourself in position to make the play,” Benton said.

“That’s the biggest thing those guys helped me with.

Just establishing my reads, establishing what I need to be focusing on before the play and the pre-snap as opposed to once the play actually starts.”

Benton has built a special rapport with the new starting three at linebacker. He, Justin Arndt and Sean Walters have formed a cohesive unit since their days on the special teams units.

It built a lasting bond on and off the field that’s helped the trio grow into becoming the new faces at linebacket.

“We all played together on the second team as well,” Benton said. “We already had that chemistry with each other. Once I know I can look to my left and have those guys with me and

know they’ve got my back just as much as I had theirs, it means a lot. Now that we’re out there playing on defense together, that doesn’t go away. We still reminisce about those times.”

And Benton’s overwhelming leadership qualities have helped the group grow even more. They ‘bring the fire’ in the words of defensive coordinator Tony Gibson.

They’re ready to take the reigns, especially Benton.

In one start last year replacing Jared Barber, he amassed seven tackles en route to becoming the defensive player of the game.

That’s when they knew they’d be in good hands once last year’s group left Morgantown.

“He started game two last year when (Jared) Barber was out,” Holgorsen said.

“He was our MVP of the defense that game. He has ability. He is very vocal. He is one of those guys that we are going to lean on when it comes to that side of the ball.”

Both groups are similar, but they’re also very differ-

ent. This one is more vocal.

They get in your face.

They don’t shy away from conversations on the field, and that’s something Benton loves.

“We like to talk a little bit more,” Benton said. “Sometimes that’s not always the right thing to do. We try to tone that back a little, but I like it. I like when my defense is out there talking. It just brings a fire to the game that I enjoy. I think that’s something that’ll work to our advantage this year.”

It’s all worked in Benton’s favor as he’s developed into one of the top players on a revamped defense. He ‘brings the fire’ and he’s done everything the coaches can ask for.

That’s most of what you hope for in a leader.

“I think Al’s doing a really good job stepping up and being a leader on the defensive side,” Gibson said. “He’s the guy who’s taken charge and making all our calls and checks. I really like the way he’s progressing.”

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By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @TheNeel64

After finishing the regular season as the No. 10 seed in the Big 12 Conference, the West Virginia University women’s tennis team is in Stillwater, Oklahoma this week to compete in the Big 12 Championships.

Just like they did a season ago, the Mountaineers (614, 0-9 Big 12) have drawn No. 7 seed Oklahoma (813, 3-6 Big 12) in the first round.

The Sooners dominated the meeting during the regular season 4-0, but the Mountaineers were without two of their upperclassmen starters in senior captain Hailey Barrett and junior Kaja Mrgole, both of whom

were out due to injuries.

“This is what we’ve been working towards,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac. “During the season we’ve been very up-anddown, not necessarily upand-down from match to match, but as far as which players were playing well on a particular day. But, now we’re beginning to put things together more overall. That is the number one thing that we have to take into the conference tournament. It’s good for us to have an opportunity against a team like Oklahoma. If we are able to put everything together, I think we’ll be able to get over the hump and get that first win.”

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The Sooners come into the match having won just one of their last five matches to end the regular season, a 4-2 win over Kansas State in the season finale. Oklahoma is led by talented sophomore Lily Miyazaki, who was ranked No. 116 in the latest ITA rankings. Behind Miyazaki, is Emma Devine, who has had an up-and-down senior season. She has paired well with Miyazaki in doubles, as the duo are ranked No. 55 in the country.

Should West Virginia attain that elusive first Big 12 win and get by Oklahoma, they would face No. 2 seed TCU in the second round.

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By Joel Norman Sports Writer @StorminJNorman6

West Virginia University students are starting their finals countdown, and the women’s outdoor track and field is doing the same.

This weekend, the ladies travel to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays. The three day-event begins today and ends Saturday. Once all events are concluded, West Virginia’s regular season will be a thing of the past.

After failing to appear in the top 25 of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association again, the Mountaineers do not have a good chance at making it to the NCAA Outdoor Track and

Field Championship as a team.

The bright side is that West Virginia still has a good chance at sending multiple athletes to the NCAA Championship. The Mountaineers last competed at the Virginia Challenge and Jesse Owens Classic last week. West Virginia won the pole vault and high jump categories at the Virginia Challenge.

Sophomore Madelin Gardner captured the pole vault category with a 3.90 meter jump. Senior Hannah Stone leaped 1.74 meters to win the high jump.

Head coach Sean Cleary called it “the best weekend” of the outdoor track and field season.

“Coming off of a very nice meet a week ago, I

wondered how we might respond,” Cleary said.

“While we still have some holes to fill, I am especially pleased that we continued to build momentum.”

Gardner and Stone weren’t the only Mountaineers that Cleary lauded.

“Danique (Bryan) and Shamoya (McNeil) jumped well this weekend,” Cleary said. “Danique had her best meet since arriving at West Virginia. Maddie (Gardner) was jumping again at her lifetime best while winning the vault, and (Sara) Finfrock sets a six-inch personal best.

That group continues to develop. Megan (Yuan) had a college best in the hurdles, while (Hannah) Stone also in a winning jump narrowly missed a

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lifetime mark. In the distance races Megan and Savanna (Plombon) both ran themselves into consideration for the NCAA Championships.”

Gardner’s victory represented the third straight weekend that a Mountaineer won the pole vault. Senior Tori Bertrand won it the last two weekends at the Mason Spring Invitational and the Bison Outdoor Classic. Cleary did not mention Bertrand after a tough weekend that saw Bertrand finish 15th.

Now the Mountaineers travel to Eastern Pennsylvania. The Penn Relays have been going on since 1895, easily the oldest event in North American track and field history.

West Virginia looks to

Tori Bertrand competes in the pole vault earlier this season. make some history of its own. In Cleary’s eight years as head coach, the Mountaineers have sent at least one runner to the NCAA Championship all but one time. The team likely won’t make it as a whole, but many members still have

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Women’s competition at the Penn Relays begins at 4 p.m. today. Events the following day begin at the same time and begin at 9 a.m on Saturday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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