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Monday February 1, 2016

Merow, McIntyre likely to run unopposed

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Groups on campus Students and faculty attend celebratory grand opening of Evansdale Crossing embrace black history month by madeleine hall

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This time last year, 54 students from three tickets buzzed around campus for a chance to be part of the West Virginia University Student Government Association.

They yelled, they waved and they stood for hours in a snow storm.

SGA election officials project an entirely different race this year.

Only one ticket picked up the required packet of information to start collecting signatures to officially get on the ballot.

For now, it seems Julie Merow and Mac McIntyre will run unopposed in the race for student body president and vice president respectively.

Emma Harrison, the SGA elections chair isn’t planning any last ditch efforts to attract potential candidates.

“We really try to focus on social media, trying to tweet about the dates and then just word of mouth, really,” Harrison said. “It usually ends up being the same people in the same circles…

That’s probably a weak point.”

Potential candidates can still pick up information packets in the Student Engagement and Leadership office next to the Career Services Center in the Mountainlair. To get on the ballot as member of the BOG and as an athletic councilor, students need to collect 500 signatures; to get on the ballot for student body president and vice president takes 1,000 signatures.

Even if Merow’s ticket is unopposed, there will still be a vote on March 1-2 considering one person is running independently for a seat on the Board of Governors and a constitutional amendment needs voted on.

“We’ll still definitely have a big presence and be out there (campaigning) from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day,” Merow said.

“It might be that not as many students will hear about the election since there won’t be as many people, but Mac and I have said we still want to run it like we’re running against another ticket or two.”

Harrison thinks there could be a waning interest in participating in SGA among the student body, or the lack of interest could be because students just don’t know about the upcoming election.

Merow and McIntyre both received the highest number of votes to sit on the BOG. “A lot of people have said to me they don’t really see why someone would want to put all their time and energy into a campaign if they don’t really have that great of a chance

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Students show off the various technology the Reed College of Media uses in its classes.

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Months of anticipation ended Friday when the Evansdale Crossing building officially opened its doors to the public with a celebratory grand opening.

The building, which was partially opened in November, connects the Evansdale Campus and offers several amenities for students housed on Evansdale that didn’t exist before, including student services, classrooms, a Barnes and Noble and a range of new restaurants.

“I really wish this was here as a freshman, it would have been so cool,” said Cameron Bostic, a journalism student.

On the first floor of the building, restaurants from the Crossing Market Place, including Collo Rosso Pizza, Taziki’s, Little Donkey and Hugh Baby’s, offered free food samples to guests.

“As a student who has been here for four years, the food options on this campus have drastically im-

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proved with this building,” Bostic said.

The grand opening gave students the opportunity to explore the entire Evansdale Crossing and ask any questions they may have about how things work.

“It’s a great student area to come to, it is a hub,” said George Yanchak, director of the Mountaineer Hub. “It’s a place for students to come and to learn and interact.”

The Mountaineer Hub combined student services that used to be offered in different areas downtown to one central office on the second floor of the Crossing.

The Hub offers students the convenience of one-stop problem solving, Yanchak said, and at Friday’s event, there were specialists from the Office of Student Accounts, the Office of the University Registrar and the Office of Financial Aid present to help students with any questions regarding the FAFSA, student employment and scheduling, among other things.

“They may come in with other questions, and we’ll

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Hannah Toney tries out the HooToo 3D Virtual Reality Glasses, which were available for a demo at Evansdale Crossing’s grand opening. help them find the answers, “Students have been surwe’re not going to try and prised about what’s all in send them away,” Yanchak here,” Bostic, a student amsaid. “We’re going to help bassador for the Reed Colfind them the answers they lege, said, “especially the need and service them augmented reality and the right here the best we can.” cool tech they didn’t know The Reed College of Me- was here,” dia also hosted an open In addition to highlighthouse event for its Media ing new initiatives, the Reed Innovation Center, inviting College invited those in atthe public to experiment tendance to share some of with new technology, such their deepest desires with as 360-degree cameras, and #WhatWouldYouDoIfYoucheck out work stations WerentAfraid. Guests were that focused on alternative encouraged to fill out a storytelling techniques, like virtual reality. see crossing on PAGE 2

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This month, West Virginia University’s Center for Black Culture and Research, WVU’s NAACP and other groups on campus will commemorate the accomplishments of African Americans who forged the ground for a civil rights movement that continues today.

“It’s going to be great,” said Jihad Dixon, student president of WVU’s chapter of the NAACP. “Black History Month is about emphasizing our culture and what our ancestors have done.”

The Center for Black Culture and Research will hold a “Conversation with Cops” at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Shenandoah Room in the Mountainlair. The event is cosponsored by the Office of Multicultural Programs.

“There’s a divide between law enforcement and the younger generation,” said Eric Jordan of the Center for Black Culture and Research. “Not talking to each other isn’t helping.”

“Conversation with Cops” invites students and the community to build trust by having frank discussions with local and state law enforcement.

“People of color need to build further relationships with law enforcement,” Dixon said.

“There’s a stigma between the black community and police officers.

In Morgantown, luckily, (law enforcement) supports us in everything we do.”

Morgantown law enforcement, led by Police Chief Bob Roberts, has formed a solid relationship with the NAACP at WVU, recently coming out to support the solidarity demonstration with the University of Missouri.

“Nationwide, there’s this stereotype that we’re supposed to fear cops,” Dixon said. “But they’re public servants just like a teacher or a mayor. They should be engaged with the public.”

The Center for Black Culture and Research is sponsoring a music showcase at 7 p.m. on Feb. 10 in the Gluck Theatre, featuring nationally known rap artist Chris Allen and Mountaineer Idol winner Derrick Ward.

“I love giving young artists an outlet to perform,” Jordan said. “You can’t grow without performing.”

The event will feature R&B, soul, hip-hop and rap music.

“It’s good to see that our young African American people are doing in a predominantly white state,” Dixon said.

Other events for Black History Month include a program at 7 p.m. on Feb. 15 in the Mountainlair ballrooms featuring former NBA

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Monday February 1, 2016

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Two Virginia Tech students charged in death of teen girl BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP)— Two Virginia Tech engineering students have been arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl whose disappearance last week from her Virginia home set off a frantic, fourday search.

Blacksburg Police say David Eisenhauer, 18, was arrested Saturday and charged with first-degree murder and abduction in the death of Nicole Madison Lovell, who disappeared from her home Wednesday.

Natalie Keepers, 19, of Laurel, Maryland, was arrested Sunday and faces charges of improper disposal of a body and accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony.

Both are being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail. A spokesman for the Blacksburg

Police Department said officials would not know until Monday when the two would make their first court appearances.

Police said they have evidence showing that Eisenhauer and Lovell knew each other before she disappeared.

“Eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-yearold and then kill her. Keepers helped Eisenhauer dispose of Nicole’s body,” Blacksburg police said in a statement.

The investigation remained under way Sunday as a state police search and recovery team searched a pond on the Virginia Tech Campus. Police Spokeswoman Corrinne Geller would not say what officials were trying to find.

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cated Lovell’s remains Saturday afternoon in Surry County, North Carolina, just over the Virginia border. Hours later, police announced the arrest of Eisenhauer, a freshman from Columbia, Maryland.

Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson told The Roanoke Times that Eisenhauer has not confessed to involvement in Lovell’s death and did not give police information that led to the discovery of her body.

Police initially charged Eisenhauer with abduction; he was charged with murder once the girl’s remains were found.

The girl had been missing since last week. Her family says she disappeared after pushing a dresser in front of her bedroom door and climbing out a window.

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Trust Ted? Cruz facing growing attacks on credibility

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Attendees applaud and wave signs during a campaign event featuring Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, RTexas, at Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016.

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP)— Ted Cruz needs you to trust him.

Trust is the cornerstone of this fiery conservative’s campaign, which may live or die with his ability to convince voters in Iowa and across the nation that he’s the most consistent and trustworthy among the pack of White House hopefuls.

Yet as he strives for victory in Iowa’s Monday caucuses, a chorus of Republican critics led by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is tearing at the fabric of Cruz’s message.

His GOP opponents cite a history of political opportunism they say is more in line with a used car salesman than the “consistent conservative” he claims to be. In debates, TV ads and on the campaign trail, fellow Republicans are highlighting inconsistencies in Cruz’s policies on immigration, foreign policy and even his dedication to Christian conservative values. They’re also reminding voters that the self-described outsider is an Ivy League-educated lawyer who served in former President George W. Bush’s administration.

“If you are going to campaign as the most principled, the most consistent conservative, then your record better support that,” said Rubio’s senior strategist Todd Harris.

“As long as he holds himself out to be holier than thou on all things conservative, we’re going to continue to point out that he’s not.”

Cruz is betting his 2016 campaign he can win the trust argument.

The slogan, “TRUSTED”, is emblazoned on red, white and blue signs at every appearance and across the back of his campaign bus.

And his closing message at debates, campaign rallies and speeches is almost always the same: “It is now up to the men and women of this great state to make the determination, who do they trust?” Cruz this week in Fenton, Iowa. “As voters, we’ve been lied to over and

over and over again. The stakes are too high for us to be burned again.”

He added, “The men and women of Iowa want a consistent conservative.”

Trump, now locked in a close race for the lead in Iowa, has repeatedly called Cruz a liar in recent days.

Chris Christie calls him a flip-flopper. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won Iowa’s caucus in 2008, has seized on reports that Cruz told a group of New York donors last year that he wouldn’t make fighting gay marriage a priority if elected. That’s in sharp contrast with his public promises to fight the Supreme Court’s decision.

“He’s saying one thing to a group of folks in Marshalltown (Iowa), something totally different to a group of folks in Manhattan,” said Huckabee spokesman Hogan Gidley. “Voters want someone they can trust. And it is painfully obvious at this point that Ted Cruz can’t be trusted.”

The criticism comes despite Cruz’s overwhelmingly positive ratings from conservative groups, such as the American Conservative Union, which gives him a 100 percent rating over his first two years in the Senate. In Washington, the Texas senator is often accused of being an ideological purist to a fault.

He led his party’s unsuccessful fight to strip funding from the federal health care overhaul in 2013, leading to a government shutdown. He favored a similar approach last fall in the fight to fund Planned Parenthood, but was rebuked by his party leaders still angry about his guidance two years earlier.

Now, Cruz’s own conservative purity is under intense scrutiny in the final hours before Iowa voters decide the 2016 campaign’s opening primary contest.

His competitors regularly attack Cruz’s evolutions on foreign policy, ethanol subsidies and immigration in

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particular. He was targeted in last week’s presidential debate by several opponents for previously supporting a pathway to legal status for immigrants in the country illegally. Cruz’s campaign suggests he wasn’t being sincere when he said in 2013 that he supported an amendment that would have granted legal status to such immigrants.

“Everybody’s for amnesty except for Ted Cruz,” said a sarcastic Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul during the debate. “But it’s a falseness, and that’s an authenticity problem.”

No one has hit Cruz harder than Rubio. The two are fighting for a role as the leading alternative to Trump as the Republican nomination contest takes off.

“People are starting to learn the truth about Ted on immigration and a bunch of other issues, and it shows a history of calculation,” Rubio said as he campaigned in Muscatine, Iowa this week.

He added, “I know we’re not going to beat Hillary Clinton with a candidate who will say or do anything to gain a vote.”

Yet there is little doubt that Cruz’s conservative bona fides run deep.

He has built his campaign around the argument that he’s a “consistent conservative,” arguing that his devotion to upholding the Constitution dates back to when he memorized and recited it across Texas with a group of high school students. He also points to his record as Texas’s top lawyer, arguing nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Chris Bolvenz, a farm coop manager from Hubbard, said he became a Cruz supporter after his 2013 filibuster trying to block funding for President Obama’s health care law - a move that led to a partial government shutdown.

“I think he’s authentic,” said the 54-year-old Bolvenz.

“He’s more conservative than the other candidates.”

But it’s not hard to find Iowa voters who question Cruz’s claims.

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did not immediately return messages seeking comment Sunday.

Davy Draper, who said he’s a close family friend and knew Lovell most of her life, said she had a liver transplant when she was a child and had to take daily medication. Despite her health problems, Draper said Lovell was an energetic and outspoken girl who got along with everyone.

“She was an awesome little girl. She was an angel here on Earth and she’s an angel now,” Draper said.

Eisenhauer was as a standout track and field athlete in high school, who was named Boys Indoor Track Performer of the Year

by The Baltimore Sun in March. The Sun said Eisenhauer had moved to Columbia from Yakima, Washington for his junior year and

quickly became a star on the East Coast. His coach told the newspaper that Eisenhauer was “the best-kept secret in Maryland.”

Joe Keating, who said he was a co-captain alongside Eisenhauer on the Wilde Lake High School track team, described him as a normal kid who seemed to enjoy being at school and never started any problems.

Keating said he’s “appalled” by the thought that Eisenhauer could be involved in Lovell’s death.

“All of my friends that knew him, that graduated with him, as well as everyone on the team, we’re just in total shock about this entire thing. We would never have seen this coming,” Keating said.

Virginia Tech said on its website that Eisenhauer was a freshman engineering ma-

jor at the school and that hundreds of students and researchers had assisted in the search for Lovell.

The school said in a statement Saturday that he has been suspended from the university.

A number listed for Eisenhauer’s parents was busy Sunday. A message left at Keepers’ home in Laurel, Maryland was not immediately returned. Officials at the county jail where the two are being held would not say whether either suspect has a lawyer.

Virginia Tech president Tim Sands said the case left the school community “in a state of shock and sadness.”

“Speaking on behalf of our community, let me say that our hearts go out to Nicole’s family and friends,” he said in a statement posted to the school’s website.

Donald Trump faces his Iowa Test CLINTON, Iowa (AP)— For Donald Trump, Iowa is more than just a race for delegates. It’s a test of whether the celebrity businessman and political newcomer will be able to transform his record crowds into caucus-goers willing to brave the cold on Monday night to cast their votes.

Trump, who appears to have emerged from a dead-heat with rival Ted Cruz to re-capture his position atop state polls, has done little to minimize expectations, predicting again and again that he’ll do better than the polls suggest.

And as he traveled across the state in the final weekend before voting, Trump had a quiet air of satisfaction, with seemingly little worry about the outcome.

“We began this journey - it’s a journey, we did it together - and it’s been an amazing experience,” he told a crowd gathered in the auditorium of a middle school in Clinton Saturday. “Nobody thought it was going to turn out this way.”

But Trump nonetheless implored his supporters to caucus Monday with equal doses of guilt, threats and humor.

“Wouldn’t that be terrible if I lost in Iowa, won everywhere else? I’d be very angry, but only for a day,” he said, adding, “the bigger we can win by, the bigger the mandate, the more we can do.”

While other candidates have a great deal to lose or gain in the schools, churches and community centers where Iowans will gather after dark on Monday evening to cast the first votes of the 2016 presidential nominating contest, for Trump, the spotlight is glaring.

Many remain skeptical Trump has the organizational structure to pull off a commanding win.

But even then, said Doug Watts, a GOP strategist who recently parted ways with Trump rival Ben Carson’s campaign, a win for Trump is “pretty critical.”

If he doesn’t win, Watts said, “people will start saying, ‘Hmm, well, maybe he’s not so inevitable. Maybe Marco Rubio can climb into a solid second in New Hampshire.’”

“It leaves enough of a vacuum that the other campaigns can play off it, can leverage it into the spin that this is the beginning of the end. And you’ll see a lot of that if he doesn’t win,” he said.

A first-place finish in the state, coupled with a strong win in New Hampshire, where Trump is leading widely, could effectively shut Cruz out, starving him of momentum heading into the southern contests where he expects to do well in March.

Trump himself has spoken about the potential “psychological” consequences of a loss in the state, which will set the tone for the election going forward.

“They say bad psychological things happen if you lose,” he offered in a rare moment of introspection at a rally in Norwalk, Iowa. “I don’t know what the impact is.”

The outcome will rest on turnout and whether Trump’s campaign is able to lure the non-traditional caucus-goers who may have never participated in the caucus process.

Trump’s team has been notoriously secretive about its operation, imposing what the campaign’s Iowa archi-

tect, Chuck Laudner, recently described as “radio silence.”

Still, the confidence from team Trump is palpable. Laudner told reporters earlier this month he felt “fantastic about the ground game.”

“There’s nothing about this campaign that’s like all the rest or any of those in the past,” he said. “We do things different. And we reach out to people that wouldn’t normally be caught dead at caucus events. And so we feel really good about our chances, we feel really good about our reach and I think you’re going to have a surprise on a caucus night.”

With few details emerging from the campaign, there is only anecdotal evidence gleaned from voters, many of whom still report never having received phone calls from the campaign or guidance on how to caucus.

A recent Monmouth University poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers found that, of the 45 percent of likely caucus-goers who’d been contacted personally by a campaign - 13 percent had been contacted about Trump, versus 25 percent for Cruz.

While Trump continues to draw massive crowds, many of those who attend Trump’s rallies have attended three or four times. At events across eastern Iowa Saturday, many people in his audiences had traveled from out-of-state, traveling from nearby Illinois and as far away as Wisconsin.

Many of his recent events have also been held on college campuses, which guarantee flocks of students, but fewer committed caucus voters.

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Continued from page 1 athlete Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and women’s college basketball star Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir.

Co-sponsored by the Muslim Student Association and the Islamic center of Morgantown, the program will examine the intersection of faith, race and sports.

On Feb. 23 and 24 in the Mountainlair ballrooms, the Morgantown community is invited to see “The Colored Museum,” a play by George C. Wolf and directed by Mya Brown of the WVU School of Theatre and Dance.

For more information on Black History Month at WVU, visit the website for the WVU Center for Black Culture and Research at http://cbc.wvu. edu/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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In the last 30 years, only student body presidents have run unopposed. There’s still time for another ticket to come out of the wood works, though, as signatures don’t need to be turned

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Maryanne Reed thanks the people who were responsible for creating the new Media Innovation Center at Evansdale Crossing.

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Continued from page 1 post-it note with their answers and hang them on the wall for others to see.

For students in majors located on the Evansdale campus, like engineering, creative arts and forestry, the new building gives them the same opportunities students located downtown already had.

“It leaves me somewhere to stay while I wait for my classes, I don’t have to go all the way downtown and come across (to) here,” said Olivia Madden, a fashion merchandising student. “It makes Evansdale more appealing, because everything is downtown, but now you have a reason to come down here because there’s a new place here.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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OPINION

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Regulating gun advertisements As social media becomes a greater part of our daily lives, laws and regulations are struggling to keep up with its exponential growth. In an effort to protect its features from being used for the wrong reasons, two major social networks, Instagram and Facebook, recently banned the use of their services to advertise and sell guns and other firearms.

The ban applies to users who may post about guns for sale, but does not prohibit advertisements from licensed gun distributors who may sell guns on a separate website. The new rules were set into motion by two gun control advocacy groups: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and Everytown for Gun Safety.

With the new regulations in place, the groups hope to prevent unlicensed gun distributors from selling their products to peo-

Peer-to-peer gun sales are now forbidden to be advertised on Facebook and Instagram. ple who have not received background checks.

The United States currently has the highest homicide death rate caused by firearms out of any developed nation by a wide

margin. In 2013, The Atlantic reported that several countries’ gun death rates are roughly equal to those of U.S. cities.

For example, Chile’s gun homicide rate was equal to

that of Portland, Oregon, and Phoenix, Arizona’s gun death rate was slightly higher than the entire country of Mexico’s. The U.S. also has the highest unintentional gun death

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rate in the world, which is double that of Greece, the nation with the secondhighest rates.

Substances with the ability to take lives, such as pharmaceuticals, are al-

ready regulated by the government and are allowed to be distributed only by licensed doctors, pharmacies and hospitals. Facebook and Instagram’s new laws simply extend this feature to items with the same deadly potential.

One cannot deny the role guns play in American culture. They served a pivotal part in both American and West Virginian history and are still utilized today in a variety of pastimes such as hunting and skeet shooting.

Gun enthusiasts should still be able to take part in their favorite recreational activities, but acquiring their equipment off social media in a responsible fashion is not too much to ask. Doing so may both decrease rates of violence in the U.S. and promote a sensible use of guns in future generations. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Gender-based pricing is discrimatory to women shelby bradford columnist @shelbybradfordda

Like it or not, shopping is something we all have to do eventually. Whether it involves a trip to the grocery store, back-to-school shopping or outfitting a new wardrobe, all Americans become consumers at some point in their lives.

With this in mind, many may find additional taxes and gouged prices frustrating. This is a problem many women experience on a daily basis when shopping for items specifically labeled as “women’s.”

Prices for women’s products such as shampoo, razor blades and shoes can be anywhere from $2-20 more than a comparable “men’s” item.

Recently, the “Pink Tax” has come to many female shoppers’ attention. The name refers to a typical price increase placed on women’s merchandise and was highlighted on a segment of the “Today” show in June 2015 and again on CBS in late January of this year.

The two news outlets found that products in the women’s sections from the same company with the same ingredients could be anywhere from $0.10 more to double the cost of those found in the men’s section.

The shows’ reporters said the reason this frequently goes unnoticed is because the merchandise is found in separate aisles in the stores, which makes comparing prices more difficult. However, the truth of the matter is that over the course of a

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Research suggests a variety of products geared toward women are priced higher than products geared toward men. lifetime, a woman can pay up to $1,400 more per year than a man just by buying the women’s versions of basic personal hygiene items.

Unfortunately, the price hikes do not end in the bath and beauty aisle. A study released in December 2015 by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that in over 90 brands, a women’s product would cost 7 percent more on average than the equivalent men’s product.

Additionally, in the entire sample of almost 800 items, the women’s ver-

sion was priced higher 42 percent of the time.

The study did not look at only shampoo and razor blades, but items like shirts (both children’s and adults’), children’s toys and home healthcare products. On many occasions, the only difference between the items was the color or packaging of the product.

To extend the problem even more, some services are explicitly biased against women. Dry cleaners often charge double or more when laundering women’s clothing than their prices for men’s clothing. The

only justification given for this disparity is that the machines used in pressing clothes are designed for men’s clothing, meaning laundromats must hand press women’s shirts and blouses.

As women purchasing their clothes are usually not aware of this and do not have any control over the fact that companies have not yet made a smaller machine that will fit their dry clean-only apparel, the entire process is hugely discriminatory.

G ender-discriminate pricing has been around for centuries, dating back

to the mid-1800s when women’s hats and gloves would have higher importation taxes than men’s clothing. Back then, this was a logical increase because these items were viewed as fine goods and had higher import costs.

Today, there is still a higher import tax for women’s merchandise, but the reasoning is not as clear as it was then.

This is not to say there are never good reasons to make some women’s products more expensive. Some women’s shampoo and razor blades have additional features the men’s equiv-

alent does not have, such as having “volumizing formulas” or “comfort strips.”

Certain fabrics for women’s clothing also require special maintenance or are more expensive and laborious to produce.

In these cases, it is reasonable that women’s merchandise is priced differently than men’s. However, outside of these cases, there is simply no reason women should be paying extra for the same brand, the same ingredients and the same product but with a pink package. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

letter to the editor

Morgantown and W. Va. need ridesharing services to protect pedestrians Ashley Morgan WVU Student Body vice president

It’s a Saturday night in a college town. Students are going to friends’ houses downtown to have a drink or two or are just hanging out and celebrating the weekend. Many students all across the state are walking far distances to and from their destinations on dimly lit paths or along dangerous sidewalks.

They are putting themselves at risk because the cab line is hours long, and they don’t want to get in a car with a drunk driver.

Get people home safely, get pedestrians off the poorly or even unlit streets and keep drunk drivers off the roads.

It just makes sense. Keeping our communities safe is our

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goal, and right now as a state, we are slacking. By keeping ridesharing services out of the state, we are putting our students and residents at risk.

Mother’s Against Drunk Driving reports that by adding ridesharing services in California, there was a 6.5 percent decrease in drunk driving arrests. In California alone, that is a decrease in 60 crashes due to drunk driving each month. Seattle also saw a 10 percent decrease in drunk driving arrests in 2014 after adding ridesharing to its city.

MADD also reports that the city of Pittsburgh sees an increase in ridesharing demands after the bars close for the evening. The report indicates that 78 percent of survey respondents stated that their friends are not as likely to drive under the influence because of the increase in

the availability of ridesharing services.

The West Virginia State Senate has introduced the Senate Bill 324: Allowing Transportation Network Companies to Operate in West Virginia. A similar bill was tabled last session, but this year is our chance to make our voices heard and push the West Virginia Legislature to permit ridesharing services.

We must let our state representatives know that having ridesharing services could positively benefit our state and local communities.

As students who live in West Virginia, we owe it to both our peers and ourselves to ensure that there are safe alternatives to getting home and further preventing drunk driving accidents. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Ridesharing has the potential to benefit the Morgantown community.

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Sia’s new album showcases raw talent

‘This is Acting’ was released on January 29.

Woody Pond

A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

The music world has been abuzz since the beginning of 2016, and things are really starting to heat up as the days fly by. Drake just released a new single and announced a full album is coming out in April. Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa have a really weird beef going on right now, and both have albums releasing in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Sia and J. Cole just released some innovative new records which found their way into my weekend music queue.

Sia, whose raw talent and ubiquitous persona have been growing in fame and importance in the art world in the past couple of years, gave us her seventh album, “This is Acting.” Sia is such an interesting artist, with a unique Australian voice that fluctuates in its range as she gets consumed by her own lyrics and meaning.

Known for her ghostwriting skills, every song besides “One Million Bullets” was originally written by Sia for other artists. I think having the ability to keep her songs and finally present them as her own is one of the driving forces of the album’s appeal.

There are club anthems, such as “Alive” and “Move Your Body,” that were conceived in the pop spectrum, but Sia’s voice and true artistic nature really dominate attention on the more tender moments of the album. “Reaper” shows Sia feeling upbeat and happy as she laces harmony after harmony into her mesmerizing melody as the song moves effortlessly from verse to chorus to bridge and back again.

It’s a different kind of pop record, although to me that is who Sia has always been.

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On the flip side, J. Cole did something unexpected. He turned his entire hometown performance of 2014 Forest Hills Drive into a full-length, live album and released it on his birthday, Jan. 28.

Back in April, Cole performed his entire album along with a couple of throwback jams in a small setting in his home of Fayetteville, North Carolina; the performance was filmed and later developed into an HBO documentary special. “Forest Hills Drive: Live” contains every song from the original cut, besides the extended album loser “Note to Self,” as well as an “Intermission” in which Cole performed pieces of “Lights Please,” “In The Morning” and “Nobody’s Perfect,” with Missy Elliot making an appearance for her verse on the latter.

The vocal quality is great and well-mixed, and the sounds of the crowd, and the stories Cole tells throughout the show give the whole album a positive atmosphere.

Some new songs stand out with gripping live versions, like the slow but deep “Hello” where J. Cole sings with his fans over a building piano instrumental.

All of the live instrumentation is so clean and meshes perfectly with the aesthetic of the show and its significant emotional tenseness.

The intro sets the mood early and only continues picking up speed until the beautiful climax at the end of “Love Yourz.” J. Cole leaves his fans with two words; “Peace” and “love” before letting the sound of the crowd’s cheers fade at the end of the eightminute finale.

With so much new music coming out this month, there will be a lot to look forward to for fans of rap music. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Chili tasters analyze this year’s chili.

Triple S Harley-Davidson hosts 9th annual chili cookoff Westley Thompson Associate A&E editor @westleyt93

Saturday was Triple S Harley-Davidson’s 9th annual chili cook-off and bake-off.

According to Jennifer Shuttleworth, the COO of Triple S Harley-Davidson, the event originally came about as a way of getting riders to gather together in the winter months, a time when the cold and icy conditions make riding a motorcycle both uncomfortable and dangerous.

Triple S prides itself on giving back to the community, so each year proceeds from the chili cookoff are given to a different charity. Since the event’s inception, thousands of dollars have been raised.

This year, the proceeds were donated to Operation Welcome Home, an organization that aims to alleviate the often difficult transition veterans have when returning to civilian life.

The event opened at noon and the venue quickly became packed as guests flooded in. This year, a total of 14 chili contestants and four baked-goods contestants entered. Ten of the chili contestants were individuals, and the other four were non-profit organizations hoping to win money for their cause.

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Chili chefs and tasters enjoy homemade chili at this weekend’s Chili Cookoff.

The event was lively as contestants exchanged playful banter and guests walked around tasting chili.

Chili flavors and styles ran the gamut from traditional to experimental, sweet to sinisterly spicy.

One contestant even used bear meat in his chili.

It was clear the contestants took pride in their chili and each had their own philosophy on how to make the best.

One contestant, Ryan Sommerkorn, had a particularly long ingrediant list and said he liked to give his chili a smoky flavor.

“Smoky is the name of

the game for me,” Sommerkorn said. “I like to layer the flavors, start out sweet and keep a smoky undertaste.”

The chili cookoff was a popular event and by 1:15 p.m. a lot of the contestants had run out of samples to give.

At the end of the event winners for each category were announced. From the 10 individual contestants, Darrin Hogue of Jefferson, Pennsylvania won both the people’s choice and judges’ choice. In the nonprofit category Morgantown Marathon Mayhem won the people’s choice, along with $500 for their

cause. The baked goods category saw a split, with Heather Gapen of Greensboro, Pennsylvania winning the people’s choice and Kelly Virgin of Mount Morris, Pennsylvania winning the judges’ choice.

In total $1,605 was raised for Operation Welcome Home.

Everyone’s chili was well-made, and the event helped out a good cause.

Be sure to check out Triple S’s event calendar online for information on next year’s chili cook-off as well as other events. http:// triplesharley-davidson.com. wethompson@mail.wvu.edu

Bridal Extravaganza showcases wedding supplies Brittany Osteen A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

For many people, getting married is the most exciting day of their lives. There is the exquisite dress, the delicious food and the cake.

Wedding planning can be a great experience, but it can also be very stressful.

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Bridal Extravaganza Sunday. For three hours, future brides and their fiances and families were exposed to all the things that can go into a wedding.

“We do change the event every year based on current trends,” said Kelly Saunders, the catering sales manager. “This year, the current trend is pinks and blushes and champagne colors. We find out what the

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There were stands for catering companies, makeup, flower arrangements, table settings, jewelry, tuxedo companies, DJs, photographers and even destination weddings.

“I think the best part about this expo is that it really sparks creativity and new ideas. All of our vendors set up little samples of what they do, and sometimes it spurs people to think of thinks they never would have thought of,” Saunders said.

One of the flower vendors shared how they make their arrangements and specifically for different events. The Flower Shop is a small family business. One day while going in to pick up flowers, the owner of the store explained they were selling it.

They jumped at the opportunity, and now the business is family-run.

“A lot of time and love goes into each arrangement and each bouquet because we really take what the person wants to heart,” said Lael Hixenbaugh, the office and marketing director. “We definitely try to take their ideas and their dreams and make it into their own little masterpiece. Everything is 100 percent custom.”

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Kristen McGril, a student from Fairmont State, works Bonnie Belle’s Pastries’s booth during the bridal extravaganza. biggest difference between flowers for weddings,baby showers and funerals is the colors.

While she is not a part of the family, she said they have welcomed her into the business as if she were family. Even this past Christmas, they spent it all together.

Krystal Stevens, a music therapist, attended the

show with her mother Traci Stevens and grandmother Nancy Gagne. Krystal Stevens is planning to get married in October and has recently begun wedding planning. So far, her favorite part has been the food, and she is currently in the process of picking a wedding dress.

“He and I met in college.

We are both music thera-

pists, and he is a big musician. His proposal was this huge, elaborate thing with a string quartet, and he is a part of a fraternity so he had his brothers serenade us after a walk in the park,” Krystal Stevens said. “A lot of our friends afterward were like, ‘You have ruined it for everyone.’” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ kicks way to top of the box office LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Kung Fu Panda 3” kicked its way to the top of the North American box office with a respectable $41 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.

The DreamWorks Animation film cost a reported $145 million to make and earned a strong “A’’ CinemaScore from audiences 70 percent of whom were families.

“It’s a bold move to take a franchise which has had great success in that summer corridor and move it into late January, which is generally considered a very slow time,” Rentrak’s senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian said. “It also filled a huge void in the marketplace.”

The first film opened to $60.2 million in 2008 and the second to $47.7 million in 2011.

For Fox, switching up the release was a no-brainer after seeing the successes of “The Lego Movie” and last year’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” in this time frame.

“We know that when the market conditions are right, this business really is a 365-day-a-year business,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s domestic distribution chief. “We saw an opportunity and we grabbed it. We’re thrilled with the results.”

There are a number of winter holidays coming up where kids will be out of school and “Zootopia,” 2016’s next big animated release, doesn’t open until March 4.

The animated sequel also fared much better than the weekend’s other new openers, like Disney’s Coast Guard adventure

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Animated comedy ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ tops the North American box office currently.

“The Finest Hours,” which debuted in fourth place with $10.3 million.

Based on a real life 1952 rescue mission, “The Finest Hours” stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Ben Foster and cost around $80 million to make.

Dergarabedian thinks that the nautical theme might have seemed too similar to the recently released “In the Heart of the Sea” for audiences.

The opening is similar to last year’s “McFarland, USA,” another fact-based drama from Disney, which opened with $11 million in late February and went on to earn $44.4 million.

The “Fifty Shades of Grey” parody “Fifty Shades

of Black,” meanwhile, earned a modest $6.2 million, but it only cost a reported $5 million to produce. Marlon Wayans co-wrote, stars in and produced the R-rated takeoff.

“Spoof movies and parodies have a very mixed box office record,” Dergarabedian said. “The reviews are never good on these movies. You have to really hope you’re riding a wave of the popularity of the movie you’re spoofing.”

“Fifty Shades of Grey” was released last February and its sequel isn’t expected until next year.

The Weinstein Company’s Natalie Portman-led Western “Jane Got a Gun” misfired out of the gates,

bringing in only $803,000 on a $25 million budget.

Overall, there wasn’t much space for newcomers with strong holdovers like “The Revenant” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which took second and third place with $12.4 million and $10.8 million, respectively. Both fell only 23 percent from last weekend.

Notably, Fox’s “The Revenant,” once considered a possible box office disaster with its gritty subject matter and reported $135 million budget, has earned $138.2 million to date in six weeks in theaters thanks in part to its awards hot streak with multiple wins for star Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of high-profile Oscar

nominations.

“It’s a marvelous thing for us, for the industry, for filmmaking in general. To have a hold like this is really heartening,” Aronson said. “This is a pretty good weekend. There’s a very balanced marketplace here. There’s something for everyone out there now, and I’ve always said that’s when this business is at its best.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak.

Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. “Kung Fu Panda 3,” $41 million ($75.7 million international).

2. “The Revenant,” $12.4 million ($24.3 million international).

3. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” $10.8 million ($12.6 million international).

4. “The Finest Hours,” $10.3 million ($1.6 million international).

5. “Ride Along 2,” $8.3 million ($5.1 million international).

6. “The Boy,” $7.9 million ($3.5 million international).

7. “Dirty Grandpa,” $7.6 million ($5.5 million international).

8. “The 5th Wave,” $7 million ($13 million international).

9. “Fifty Shades of Black,” $6.2 million ($200,000 international).

10. “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” $6 million ($1.5 million international).

--Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada), according to Rentrak: 1. “Kung Fu Panda 3,” $75.7 million.

2. “The Revenant,” $24.3 million.

3. “The 5TH Wave,” $13 million.

4. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” $12.8 million.

5. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” $12.6 million.

6. “Creed,” $7.5 million.

7. “The Big Short,” $6.8 million.

8. “The Hateful Eight,” $6.5 million.

9. “Daddy’s Home,” $6.4 million.

10. “Dirty Grandpa,” $5.5 million.

From SAG Awards to Sundance, diversity makes a comeback In a flurry of wins at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Sundance Film Festival, diversity made a comeback.

Over just a few hours Saturday night, the SAG Awards and Sundance showered their honors on a parade of performers and films that presented a stark contrast to the crisis that has plagued the Oscars.

Shortly after the screen actors handed out awards to Queen Latifah, Uzo Aduba, Viola Davis and Idris Elba (twice), Nate Parker’s Sundance sensation “The Birth of a Nation,” a drama about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, swept the festival’s awards.

The two ceremonies, in Los Angeles and Park City, Utah, offered a night of reprieve from weeks of rancor over systemic inequality in the movie business and a second straight year of allwhite Academy Award acting nominees.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to diverse TV,” said Elba in his third trip on stage as a presenter at the SAG Awards. His first two were to accept awards for his supporting performance in the Netflix child soldier drama “Beasts of No Nation” and for his lead performance in the BBC miniseries “Luther.”

Soon thereafter, at Sundance, Parker took the festival’s grand jury prize and its audience award.

“Thank you, Sundance, for creating a platform for us to grow, in spite of what the rest of Hollywood is doing,” said Parker, whose directorial debut sold for a record sum to Fox Searchlight Pictures.

The SAG Awards top honor, best ensemble in a film, went to the newspaper

drama “Spotlight,” which came into Saturday badly in need of some momentum.

The ensemble award had seemingly come down to “Spotlight” or Adam McKay’s high finance tale “The Big Short,” which last week took the Producers Guild’s top award. The win assures a competitive and unpredictable Oscars finale, with “The Martian,” ‘’The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” also in the mix.

“No way,” said Mark Ruffalo, one of the stars of “Spotlight.”

He praised the writer-director Tom McCarthy and co-writer Josh Singer for their purposeful accuracy in penning the journalistic procedural about the Boston Globe’s reporting on sexual abuse by Catholic priests. The two, he said, “took every single opportunity to tell the truth. They didn’t take any cheap way.

It was always the truth.”

Elba made no direct reference to the uproar that has swept through Hollywood in the last two weeks, which might have been less severe had he been nominated by the Academy Awards, as many expected.

But it was on the minds and tongues of seemingly everyone in Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium.

Accepting the most outstanding ensemble award in a comedy series for Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” co-star Laura Prepon gestured to the cast of the prison comedy standing behind her.

“Look at this stage,” said Prepon. “This is what we talk about when we talk about diversity.”

SAG winners for individual performances the last three years have corresponded with eventual

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Idris Elba won two awards at the recent Screen Actor’s Guild Award ceremony.

Academy Award winners.

Thus Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”), Brie Larson (“Room”) and Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) all cemented their status as Oscar favorites. Each won, as expected.

But supporting actor will differ this year. The category’s perceived favorite is Sylvester Stallone for the Rocky sequel “Creed.” Stallone, though, wasn’t nominated by the screen actors.

Actors make up the largest branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which is why the SAG Awards are a closely watched harbinger of the Oscars. But the Screen Actors Guild is massive by comparison: some 160,000 members to the academy’s

6,000-plus. Voting for the SAG Awards, which concluded Friday, also overlapped with the widespread debate over the industry’s inclusiveness that followed Academy Awards nominations.

Latifah gave one of the evening’s most stirring speeches while accepting the award for most outstanding female performance in a TV movie or miniseries for HBO’s Bessie Smith tale “Bessie.”

“I hope that anyone out there who does not come in the package that people say you should, keep fighting for it,” said Latifah.

Backstage, Latifah added: “Hopefully our business will continue to supply the demand that people are

asking for. The people want it. Give it to the people.”

Aduba, accepting her second straight SAG Award for best actress in a comedy in “Orange Is the New Black,” praised creator Jenji Kohan for making “a show that reflects and represents so many people.”

For the third time, “Downton Abbey” won best ensemble in a drama series.

Best actor in a TV comedy went to Jeffery Tambor for the acclaimed Amazon series “Transparent.” Kevin Spacey won his second SAG Award for “House of Cards.”

The great comedian Carol Burnett accepted the SAG lifetime achievement award from presenters Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Recalling the uphill battle

she faced, Burnett remembered being warned that “comedy variety is a man’s game.” She then dramatically shook her head and mouthed: “No.” Davis, who in September became the first African American to win best actress at the Emmys, won again for her performance in “How to Get Away With Murder.” She reminded that “diversity is not a trending topic.”

“All of the actors of color I know don’t place any limitations on themselves,” said Davis. “So regardless what is going on with the academy, what is going on with Hollywood, they will find a way to be excellent. We always have and we always will.”

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WVU suffers second straight defeat against No. 4 Baylor

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

After holding Baylor’s centers to a combined 15 points in its previous meeting, the West Virginia University women’s basketball team looked for a similar result against the Lady Bears on Saturday evening.

Instead, the freshman duo of Beatrice Mompremier and Kalani Brown made their presence known by recording 16 and 11 points, respectively. The Lady Bears (21-1,8-1) took the season series against the Mountaineers (16-6,5-4) with the 71-61 win.

“This game was going to be won in the paint, and that’s exactly how it was won,” said WVU Head Coach Mike Carey.

“We just didn’t do a good job.”

It seemed the duo was virtually impossible to contain as they would either score or WVU would foul them. Both players, especially Mompremier, exposed how the Mountaineers were playing her. Baylor outscored WVU in the paint, 44-22, and WVU had no answer for it.

“We let her catch it anywhere she wanted,” Carey said. “She’s too good to do that.”

Outside the paint, WVU held BU’s Alexis Jones to 6-for-21 shooting, but she connected on seven of eight free throws. It was nothing that the Mountaineers had seen before, as Jones recorded 20 points in the first matchup as well.

In the first quarter, WVU created an eightpoint lead. However, Baylor crawled back after Jones’ three beat the buzzer, cutting the deficit to three. Baylor then used the momentum to start the second quarter on a 6-0 run.

“It was big until we had to sit some people down because of fouls. We were shorthanded,” Carey said.

“One of our posts didn’t play, and then Teana picked up her second foul and we had to put Holmes at the four.”

The string of scoreless runs by the Mountaineers allowed Baylor to cush-

ion its lead with momentum, something they didn’t have in the Jan. 12 meeting. Baylor closed the second quarter on a 9-0 run, giving the Lady Bears a five-point lead.

While Baylor was dominant in the paint, WVU’s pressure on many of the Lady Bears kept the game close as Baylor recorded a mere six assists and turned the ball over nine times.

“Carey makes those girls guard you, they’re physical,” said Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey. “ When West Virginia was up in us tight defensively, we turned it over three or four times at the beginning of the game.”

In retrospect, the Mountaineers displayed a similar offensive output to Baylor. While the Lady Bears had four players reach double-digit scoring, WVU had three of its own.

Tynice Martin led the Mountaineers in scoring with 17 points,while Bria Holmes and Jessica Morton were each tied with 11 points apiece. The Mountaineers possessed the scoring depth but couldn’t reach the defensive depth it needed with Arielle Roberson’s absence.

“I just think (Baylor) can bring more bodies off the bench,” Carey said. “ We just don’t have those bodies to bring off the bench inside right now.”

As the game reached the latter stage, two jumpers from Morton gave Mountaineer fans hope that the team could put together another lastminute push, but the clock management from Baylor sealed the game for the Lady Bears.

West Virginia is currently riding a twogame conference-losing streak, having little time to dwell on it as the team travels to Lubbock, Texas to face Texas Tech.

Last time WVU met up with the Lady Raiders, it was a 79-57 win for the Mountaineers.

“It’s over and done with now,” Holmes said.

“We just have to regroup and re-focus and come ready to get ready for Texas Tech.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

WVU’s Jaysean Paige stumbles on his way to the hoop earlier this month against Texas.

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Without Holton, WVU goes down quietly at Florida

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

It’s still in a tie for first place in the Big 12 Conference, but the West Virginia University men’s basketball team sustained a distressing loss down south on Saturday.

Facing unranked Florida (14-7, 5-3 SEC) in a non-conference Big 12/ SEC Challenge tilt, the No. 9 Mountaineers (17-4, 6-2 Big 12) fell behind early and lacked the defensive rigor to lock down one of the SEC’s lowest scoring teams in a sloppy 88-71 loss.

“We didn’t guard, and our pressure is close to non-existent anymore,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “We’ve got guys worried about fouling and guys worried about staying in the game longer.”

Renowned across the college basketball landscape for their relentless defensive press, the Mountaineers failed to assert themselves on that end of the floor, losing the turnover battle for just the third time this season.

West Virginia trailed by 15 at the half and never led in the loss, as the SEC’s poorest 3-point shooting team hit 12 of its 20 long-range attempts, led by star senior Dorian Finney-Smith (24 points, 5-7 3-point shooting) and guard KeVaughn Allen (19 points, 2-5).

West Virginia forced a respectable 14 giveaways in Gainesville but turned the ball over 18 times. In a game where the Mountaineers were playing catchup from the beginning, every turnover was extremely costly.

“We continue to turn the ball over,” Huggins said. “I counted five transition opportunities where we had big numbers and turned the ball over before we could get a shot off. That’s 10 points that would have gotten us back into the game and given us a chance.”

Although the Mountaineers have struggled at times to win the turnover battle since beginning Big 12 play, that aspect of their game was thrown another hurdle with the suspension of senior forward Jonathan

Holton for a violation of team rules before the game.

While not always a stat sheet-stuffer, Holton is possibly West Virginia’s most important player, serving as the head of the press defense and an unendingly tenacious force on the offensive glass. Holton is expected to remain on the sidelines possibly two more games.

Holton’s absence – and the return of freshman Esa Ahmad from a knee injury that kept him out of last week’s game with Kansas State – slotted Morgantown High School product Nathan Adrian into Holton’s spot in the lineup.

Adrian responded with a solid 10 points on 4-5 shooting, but the rest of the starting lineup continued its worrying offensive struggles. The other four starters combined for just 8-27 shooting – junior center Devin Williams led the way with 12 points and 13 rebounds but shot just 4-15 from the field.

Backup guards Jaysean Paige and Tarik Phillip (15 points each) continued their strong play off

the bench, but they weren’t able to provide enough of a spark as West Virginia went down quietly in Gainesville.

“It was a combination: They played really, really well, and we didn’t play well,” Huggins said. “We have to play with our hair on fire because we’re not the greatest shooting team in the world.”

Holton is oftentimes the one to provide that burst of manic energy that allows the Mountaineers to play with their hair on fire and assert the press. But without him, West Virginia is forced to find a new formula heading into an extremely tough conference stretch – and the early returns are not promising.

West Virginia returns to action on Tuesday when the Mountaineers travel to Ames, Iowa to battle Hilton Magic and the No. 14 Iowa State Cyclones. West Virginia then returns home to play perpetual thorn-inthe-side No. 17 Baylor before a rematch with No. 4 Kansas on the road the following week. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

football

KJ Dillon, Nick Kwiatkoski shine at Senior Bowl

BY CHRIS JACKSON

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @CJACKSONWVU

For West Virginia’s KJ Dillon and Nick Kwiatkoski, the NFL may come calling a bit sooner than expected.

The duo showcased their impressive talents in Saturday’s Reese’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, combining for eight tackles. But Dillon’s efforts all week had everyone noticing his name.

Dillon blocked a field goal in the third quarter, delivered a crucial block downfield on the ensuing 73-yard return and had the entire crowd buzzing about his performance on the play.

CBS Sports rates Dillon as the No. 10 strong safety in the 2016 NFL Draft class. His performance likely brings his name further up the charts, including practices that had scouts raving about his abilities on the gridiron.

He stuffed a run four yards in the backfield during the third day of practice.

Then he had a five-tackle performance during the Senior Bowl, highlighted by the blocked field goal.

“Play of the Day? No doubt, that belongs to West Virginia safety KJ Dillon,” said Tyler Dunne in an article with The Buffalo News.

“He blew up one running play about 3-4 yards in the backfield, drawing a roar. Just crushed him.”

During Dillon’s four-year stint in Morgantown, he fin-

WVU’s KJ Dillon celebrates after a win over Maryland this season. ished with 159 tackles (17 for the hammer when given the loss) and four interceptions. opportunity.”

Dillon compiled 6.5 tackles However, Dillon wasn’t for loss and a pair of inter- the only Mountaineer to ceptions in his final season, shine in Alabama. Fellow picking up an even larger linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski workload after potential All- had an eye-catching week American Karl Joseph went of practice, earning captain down with a season-ending honors for the North.

Kwiatkoski began by knee injury.

“Some angry safety play plowing through USC fullcoming out of Morgan- back Soma Vainuku in practown this year,” said ESPN’s tice, immediately followed Kevin Weidl. “Both Karl Jo- by Dillon dashing to him in seph and KJ Dillon will drop celebration.

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Then he had a three-tackle effort in the Senior Bowl, with all three occurring on the same third-quarter drive. It was a 15-minute stretch that Mountaineers exuded their flair throughout, and Kwiatkoski had one of the toughest hits of the afternoon.

After Alabama running back Kenyan Drake rushed through the line en route to a six-yard run, Kwiatkoski halted the attempted spin move and stuffed him to the

turf.

“He’s a throwback,” said WVU defensive coordinator Tony Gibson. “People use that term a lot, but he’s a guy that could have played in any decade ever since I’ve been involved in football. He’d be a guy that could be on any team I’ve ever been around and be as productive as he is right now. He’s a special kid who just keeps working and getting better.”

Ranked as the No. 12 in-

side linebacker in the 2016 NFL Draft class, Kwiatkoski is projected as a mid-to-late round pick. Coaches believe he’s destined for stardom in the pros, especially after his First Team All-Big 12 selection.

“I think his best football is still ahead of him,” Gibson said. “I think he’ll be a guy who will be a 10-12-year guy in the NFL.” cgjackson@mix.wvu.edu

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Rifle

Mountaineers cruise past NC State to stay perfect

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Michael Bamsey looks at the scoreboard during Saturday’s win over NC State.

By Connor Hicks Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The West Virginia University rifle team continued its path of dominance this weekend, easily putting down Great American Rifle Conference opponent North Carolina State.

The No. 1 Mountaineers (10-0, 6-0 GARC) had another astounding day, outscoring the No. 10 Wolfpack (23-4, 5-3 GARC) by a remarkable 4,719-4,654 final tally. The win came on a special day for the program as the team hosted the first

match in Morgantown outside of the Rifle Range in program history.

After winning the smallbore discipline 2,3462,320, the teams moved to the WVU Indoor Track to complete the air rifle portion, which the Mountaineers won 2,373-2,334. The portion at the indoor track featured a crowd of nearly 300 faithful Mountaineer fans, the largest in program history.

“We had a fantastic turnout today,” said WVU head coach Jon Hammond in an interview with WVUsports.com. “I think today

was a successful day for the sport of rifle. We had so many people come in today to learn about the sport and this team, and that was great.”

Following the match, the team offered a free clinic for spectators to teach the sport of rifle and grow the fan base. The Mountaineers didn’t disappoint, with another stellar performance in the team’s first performance since a historic 4,740-point performance on Jan. 17 against Akron to break the NCAA record.

Senior Meelis Kiisk led the field in smallbore

with a 589, and freshman Ginny Thrasher was the highest scorer in air rifle with a nearly perfect 597.

Both were just points shy of career bests for the two Mountaineer shooters.

Thrasher’s 1,182 aggregate was the highest among both teams. Kiisk and senior Garrett Spurgeon tied for second, each shooting a 1,181 for West Virginia.

Three Mountaineers shot a perfect 200 in the prone category of smallbore.

“The team’s performance was really good today,” Hammond said. “This afternoon’s environment was

different for us, but it was similar to what we may see at the NCAA Championships, and so today will go a long way in helping us prepare for the postseason.”

While shooting in a new environment could have been a difficult adjustment for the nation’s top team, it had no impact on the team’s final scores as the Mountaineers’ total in air rifle was four points higher than the team’s average of 2,369 through the first 10 matches. Hammond believes the crowd support, something the team is not typically accustomed to,

could have played a factor.

“We had a lot of cheering during the final, and that was really cool – that’s exactly what this final was designed for,” Hammond said.

“Today was just a cool day.”

With the victory, the Mountaineers move to 17-0 all time against GARC foe NC State. West Virginia will face possibly its most difficult opponent of the season next weekend in the final home match of the 2015-16 season, facing No. 3 Kentucky at 8 a.m. on Feb. 6 at the WVU Rifle Range. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Wrestling

WVU continues losing slide against top competition

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DAILYATHENAEUM

The schedule has not been kind this season.

The West Virginia University men’s wrestling team lost both of its weekend duals to drop to 5-8 on the season. Six of those losses have come in the last six duals.

On Jan. 29, West Virginia lost 32-3 to the Virginia Tech Hokies. Two days later, the Mountaineers fell again, this time to the North Carolina State Wolfpack, 24-9.

During this six-dual losing streak, West Virginia has lost to four top-10 teams. Virginia Tech began the weekend ranked No. 10,

and North Carolina State placed No. 3 in the latest USA Today/National Wrestling Coaches Association poll. The Mountaineers did not appear in the poll.

On Friday, West Virginia’s only victory came when 197-pound sophomore Jacob A. Smith defeated Dylan Cook, 8-2. Smith, ranked No. 7 by InterMat wrestling, was anticipating a match-up with No. 8 Jared Haught. However, Haught did not weigh in, and Smith faced Cook instead. Prior to the match, Smith said he’d be ready, regardless of who his opponent was.

“I stay consistent,” Smith said. “My training stays the same, and I treat each match like it’s the number one guy in the country.”

Smith’s win streak came to an end on Jan. 31. In the third sudden victory period, North Carolina State’s Michael Boykin took down Smith to claim a 5-3 victory.

Smith’s streak began on Jan. 15 with a 4-2 sudden victory period win over Oklahoma State’s Preston Weigel. Smith moves to 23-7 on the season.

Junior Dylan Cottrell entered the weekend 23-5, the best record on the team.

However, the 157-pounder lost both of his matches.

No. 4 Nick Brascetta defeated Cottrell, 19-6, in a major decision victory Friday, and Cottrell fell to Thomas Gantt, 10-8, in the first sudden victory period Sunday.

West Virginia won two

more matches on Sunday than it did Friday, but the result was still the same.

After the Wolfpack won five consecutive matches, the Mountaineers struck for two consecutive victories. Senior Ross Renzi defeated Nicky Hall in the 174-pound category.

In the next weight class, 184 pounds, fellow senior Bubba Scheffel proceeded to beat Pete Renda, 7-5, in the first sudden victory round.

Three matches went into at least one sudden victory period on Sunday, with the Wolfpack winning two. No matches went beyond regulation against the Hokies.

The Mountaineers suffered a combined three major decision defeats.

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A WVU wrestler gets taken down against NC State.

In the two duals, West The Wolfpack’s victory Virginia faced a combined on Sunday was its 20th 11 ranked wrestlers, five consecutive. from Virginia Tech and six dasports@mail.wvu.edu from North Carolina State.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

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WVU’s James Koval competes in the 1,000-meter freestyle last weekend against Villanova.

West Virginia splits weekend matchups with Villanova and Iowa State

By Roger Turner Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

A busy weekend for the West Virginia swimming and diving program concluded in defeat for both teams following a dominating win for the men’s team on Senior Night in the WVU Natatorium.

WVU hosted Villanova and Iowa State Friday in the Natatorium, as Mountaineer seniors were recognized before the events for Senior Night. The WVU men’s 400-yard medley team of Nate Carr, Max

Spencer, Andrew Marsh and Ross Glegg opened the meet, sweeping the event with a time of 3:22.39. The men’s team ended the night winning every race en route to a victory over Villanova.

“The men had a very strong showing, and I think our racing was good,” said WVU head coach Vic Riggs.

Six Mountaineers on the men’s team won two individual events, including sophomore divers Alex Obendorf and Mike Proietto. WVU dominated from the diving platform ver-

sus Villanova, sweeping the one- and three-meter events with top-five finishes in both. Obendorf walked away with a win in the one-meter, while Proietto won the three-meter event with a score of 296.40.

“The guys made a lot of the corrections we’ve been working on through the week,” said WVU diving coach Michael Grapner. “On the women’s side, they had their work cut out for them. They did a nice job, but both the men and women need to continue to work on recover-

ing capitalizing on the second event.”

On the springboard for the women’s squad, senior Lindsay Schmidt concluded her final home meet with a win on the women’s three-meter and finished second in the one-meter event.

Also for the women, swimmers Jaimee Gillmore, Courtney Miller and Emma Harris placed runner-up on Friday. While the women fell short of victory against the Wildcats and Cyclones, Saturday’s meet in Columbus dealt defeat to both Mountain-

eer teams.

“Today I put the teams in a difficult position, and I feel they responded to it well,” Riggs said. “However, both teams competed very hard. Today’s situation will definitely help us prepare for the third day of the Big 12s, and that was the goal.”

In an away meet hosted at Ohio State, the WVU men’s team was defeated

by Ohio State, Buffalo and Michigan. The Mountaineer women finished behind Ohio State, 153-90, with Emma Harris recording a first-place victory in

the 200 breaststroke. Senior Andrew Marsh placed third in the 100-yard backstroke to pace the Mountaineers, touching the wall in 48.86. Obendorf and Proietto placed fifth and sixth in the 1- and 3-meter events, respectively. Freshman Austin Smith finished fourth ahead of Proietto in the 1-meter to lead the men on the springboard.

Up next, the WVU divers will head to Harrisonburg, Virginia to compete in the James Madison Diving Invite on Saturday, Feb. 6. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

TENNIS

West Virginia regroups, earns split of weekend sets

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Coming off a loss to rival Pitt in the spring opener, the West Virginia University women’s tennis team was looking for a win, and the Mountaineers didn’t disappoint. Back-to-back 6-1 wins over Toledo (1-2) and Cleveland State (0-3) moved the WVU women to 2-1 on the young season.

“There were a few things that we were focusing on today where I thought we executed fairly well,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac. “In the first match, our doubles was better than where we were about a week ago.

A few players during singles, I thought, played well and showed what we were looking for from them, but a few still have some things to work on. For the most part we did well, but there are still a few things we want to improve on going forward.”

The Mountaineers started off fast in doubles taking two quick victories, 6-3 and 6-3, to secure the doubles point against the Rockets.

In singles, senior captain Hailey Barrett took down Toledo’s Emily Mazzola at the No. 1 position with relative ease, 6-1 both times. WVU swept every singles position in straight sets with the exception of the No. 4 position,

WVU’s Kaja Mrgole hits a return shot earlier this season. where sophomore Caro- ties late in the tiebreak that lina Lewis dropped a gruel- allowed Miller to escape with ing three set match to Tole- the win. Sophomore Habiba do’s Megan Miller, 6-2, 2-6, Shaker also continued her 12-10. Lewis struggled in winning ways at the No. 2 the first set against her ag- position.

Despite a slow start in gressive opponent, as she was constantly on the de- doubles, the Mountaineers fensive during baseline ral- dispatched the Vikings with lies. An admirable second set relative ease. The Mountaincomeback allowed Lewis to eers dropped two of the three force a third set “super-tie- doubles matches, which albreaker,” but she squandered lowed Cleveland State to two match point opportuni- take the doubles point for

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the match. But it was the only point the Vikings would muster, as West Virginia would go on to sweep all six singles matches, four of them in straight sets. WVU’s Barrett and Shaker cruised while freshman Paula Goetz (No. 3) and sophomore Lyn Yuen Choo (No. 5) had to battle their opponents, as their matches stretched to three sets. At the No. 4 spot, Lewis managed to pick up

her first singles win of the season in a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 victory.

The Mountaineers’ consistency from the baseline was key in both victories, with both Toledo and Cleveland racking up a number of unforced errors that contributed to their defeats.

“In doubles, we want to make sure that we stick to the aggressive game plan that we’ve been working on,”

Lisac said. “We can’t slow down our focus. In singles, we need to make sure that we stay engaged and consistent all the way through matches, whether we’re fighting back or whether we’re ahead in the match.”

The Mountaineers will head out for the first of a three-game road trip at Akron on Feb. 7. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers make strides from last time at PSU by joel norman sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Back in State College, Pennsylvania, for the second time in two weeks, the West Virginia University women’s track and field team left the event after a better performance than its first trip.

Flash back to Jan. 18., when the Mountaineers competed in the Nittany Lion Challenge. Three runners finished in the top five of their respective categories. Freshman

Danique Bryan won the women’s long jump with a six-meter jump.

This past weekend at the Penn State National Invitational, West Virginia produced six top-five finishes. While no competitors won their event this time, the Mountaineers were top heavy in the scores.

“Today was a little bit of everything,” said head coach Sean Cleary in an interview with WVUsports. com. “We had some great performances that we are proud of and will con-

tinue to work on, as well as some that we would like to forget. It’s very important that we come home from this trip and make the right moves before Big 12’s arrive. We need four or five more ladies to emerge and be ready for the championship portion of our season. To be ready for that, we must embrace the next 30 days as they are the most important days of the year thus far.”

Tw o Mo u nt a i n e e r s came close to winning the 1,000-meter run in Sunday’s Invitational. Sopho-

more Rebecca Wendt and senior Kelly Williams finished second and third, respectively. Wendt finished with a time of 2:55.64, while Williams ran it in 2:55.93.

Sophomore Shamoya McNeil also just missed winning her event. She finished second in the triple jump with a final distance of 12.72 meters, 0.25 off of the winner.

Several distance runners excelled for West Virginia over the weekend. Candace Jones finished with the best fresh-

man time in the one-mile run with a time of 5:03.49, good enough for third place. In the one-mile run invitation, sophomore Millie Paladino took fourth place in 4:47.67.

Finally, in the 1,000-meter run invitation, junior Amy Cashin finished second with a time of 2:49.61.

Cashin was just more than two seconds behind the winner.

Sophomore Maddie Gardner left Penn State with a sixth-place finish in the pole vault with a final distance of 3.75 meters.

Including the seven aforementioned names, five other West Virginia competitors finished in the top 10 of their events.

Of that group, senior Marsielle McBeam came the next closest to cracking the top five. Her 1.75-meter high jump tied her with two others for seventh place.

As a whole, West Virginia improved at the Penn State National Invitational in comparison to the Nittany Lion Challenge. dasports@mail.wvu.edu