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Tuesday November 17, 2015

WVU students reflect on Paris tragedy

By Jake Jarvis Staff Writer @NewsroomJake

It was like any other day.

When Lamia Trifi got off work Friday, she headed straight for her bed.

She needed a break after working in West Virginia University’s Culinary Creations all day, so she wrapped herself up in blankets and let her mind relax, if only for a short nap.

When she woke up, she checked Facebook. One of her friends had posted something about France’s “heart bleeding right now.”

After what happened in January, where self-described Islamists gunned down 11 staffers at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, Trifi tried not to let her mind wander too far.

She ran into the living room.

“Turn on CNN now,” she said to her three other roommates in their University Place apartment.

Trifi is a 24-year-old foreign exchange student from Lille, France, a city about two hours north of Paris. Her time thus far at WVU has been marked by friendships and first experiences that made her friends in France jealous.

“PARIS ATTACKED,” scrolled across the bottom of the television screen, and for the first time, Trifi longed to for home.

More than 100 people lost their lives in Paris in a series of targeted, organized attacks on Friday which ISIS claimed responsibility for shortly after. There were mass shootings, suicide bombings and hostages taken.

“Being here, not being there and not being able to do anything, it makes me feel useless,” Trifi said.

“I really wish I was there.

I would at least go out in the streets and show my support.”

Trifi’s family is far enough away from the attacks that she wasn’t immediately worried for their safety.

WVU released information Friday and said that all five of its students studying in France were safe.

“There are two students in Lille, two hours north of Paris; one in Grenoble, five hours south; and two based in Strasbourg, who are on a scheduled excursion in Frankfurt, Germany for the weekend,”

the release read.

Trifi remembers a warning she got just before coming to the United States. She had applied for a job in France, but had to decline the opportunity after she learned she was accepted into the foreign exchange program. “(My potential employer) said to me, ‘Aren’t you worried about going over there?’” Trifi recalled. “I didn’t know what she was talking about.

She said to me, ‘Well you know how they treat Middle Eastern looking people over there…”

Unlike some of her peers in the West, Trifi is able to detangle Islam from other cultural forces. In France, she’s a second-year graduate student finishing up her master’s in cross-cultural relationships and international cooperation.

Her emphasis? The Arab world.

“I just don’t understand how (others) think killing people is part of Islam,” Trifi said. “I just don’t understand.”

Her confusion is shared by members of WVU’s Muslim community.

Sara Berzingi, a sophomore biology student, is president of the Muslim Students Association. She said she’s scared of how she’ll be treated here in the U.S., every time ISIS makes headlines overseas, especially now with several presidential candidates calling for President Obama to declare war on radical Islam.

Berzingi recalls an uncomfortable situation from Saturday, in two separate occasions while wearing her hijab, bystanders yelled obscenities at her.

“I think right now, more so than ever, we need unity,” Berzingi said.

When Trifi thinks of her home, unity is one of the first words that come to mind, along with freedom of speech and solidarity.

Trifi doesn’t plan to return home anytime soon, though. As she continues on with her education, she struggles to grieve far away from home.

“I felt guilty leaving the T.V. that day,” Trifi said. “So I just sat there and watched the news all day… And I still don’t understand how people think (killing) is allowed by religion.” jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

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Students gather in front of the Mountainlair Monday night to remember the victims of the Paris and Beirut attacks.

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SGA, international students hold vigil to honor lives lost in Paris by trey santorine correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Students gathered Monday night for a candlelight vigil honoring those who lost their lives in the shocking terrorist attacks that hit Paris and Beirut this weekend.

Three coordinated attacks on restaurants and a concert hall left at least 129 dead in Paris while two suicide bombers in a busy shopping area in Beirut killed 43, with tolls expected to rise in both cases.

“Daesh (the extremists) won’t win...” said Alison Lenoir, a French student studying English at West Virginia University. “The Parisians will continue to be happy. We’ll continue to dance, to sing, to drink, to love each other.”

WVU Provost Joyce McConnell began the vigil by thanking those in attendance and speaking briefly about showing solidarity in the face of terror.

Following her speech, students expressed their reactions to the attacks. Many spoke of sympathy for the victims and their families, as well as the terrible toll of terrorism worldwide.

One Iraqi refugee, now a social work student, spoke about his experiences fleeing his country in the face of a constant terrorist threat.

Another student urged listeners to use the attack as a catalyst for political change in the United States.

Several students expressed solidarity with Muslims and warned against conflating terrorism and religion, and numerous French students echoed this sentiment.

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Gatherers leave flowers, create memorial for those affected by the Paris and Beirut attacks.

“I just want to say that this doesn’t “I hope everyone leaves with a at all represent Islam, that it has more open mind than they came nothing to do with the Islamic reli- with,” Click said.

Click was surprised at the turnout gion,” said Morgane Dubois, a busifor the vigil. ness student from Paris.

“I don’t even like the term ‘Islamic “The administration provided us extremist’ because it makes it seem with 300 candles and by the time the like they’re a part of a real religion vigil started there were none left,” Click said. “To feel that one person and not just violence.”

The candlelight vigil was orga- can bring so many together for such nized primarily by Justin Click, an a good cause is incredible.” intern for the WVU Student GovernClick also applauded the bravery of the speakers themselves, thankment Association.

After seeing news of the attack ing them for their courage in standon Beirut, and then a day later on ing in front of a crowd and sharing Paris, he was filled with grief and personal information to help reach thought something needed to be other people. done to honor the lives lost. Click “If anyone took anything away wanted to give the WVU commu- from tonight,” Click said, “I hope it nity a space to pay homage, but also was a greater sense of humanity and a place to facilitate discussion and purpose in a turbulent world.” ideas between different groups of students. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

WGST classes present, promote gender awareness by amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Women and Gender Studies students gathered in the Mountainlair Ballrooms Monday afternoon to display their semester projects.

The West Virginia University WGST fair was a way for students to showcase what they learned in the classroom while spreading awareness about a wide range of issues. The event allowed students to see real world applications for their coursework.

“This is a platform that they can show their research and have a project that promotes some sort of social change,” said Nina Riivald, lecturer at WVU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. “The real world application is the most important part.”

Jennifer Orlikoff, director of WVU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, also said the fair illustrated

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Talia Betourney smacks a chocolate-filled penis pinata at the Women’s and Gender Studies Fair inside the Mountainlair Ballrooms. the number of fields that about multiple topics, rang- about reproductive rights. contribute to WGST. ing from campus violence Their whole thing is bodily “It’s an interdisciplin- to Planned Parenthood to anatomy,” she said. “What’s ary field, and this event re- women in Appalachia. really interesting is the first Ashley Wallace, a so- theorist I used wrote her arally highlights that aspect...

(The fair) demonstrates the cial work student, and her ticle in 1884, and the second University’s support of all group focused their project one was in 1994. So we’re of these different related is- on Planned Parenthood and 21 years out of the last piece sues,” Orlikoff said. “Diver- related it to feminist theory. that I used, and we’re still sity is a big need on camWallace examined the having the same conversapus, and this highlights the political rhetoric surround- tion about it. It just goes to diversity we do have on ing Planned Parenthood show how far we haven’t campus.” and the recent scandal. come as a society.”

The fair featured booths “(Feminist theorists) talk Clarissa Cottrill, a visual

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journalism student, and her group deconstructed Persepolis, a graphic novel, from a feminist theory perspective and applied other theories in the field to the novel by using real life case studies, which brought the project to life.

“We showed the progression of cultural texts and feminist theory and analyzation, and then applying it to real life. We all just had so many ideas, we decided to do it with everything we could put into this novel and apply it to feminist theory,” Cottrill said.

Both Wallace and Cottrill are students in a feminist theory class, but Lauern McMillen, a political science student, was in a class studying women in Appalachia.

McMillen’s project focused on poverty in Appalachia and what causes it. She studied the poverty rates in each county and the local organizations working to combat poverty.

“During my research, I

found the biggest things that keep us from getting out of poverty are usually education, transportation and overall lack of access,” she said. “... I (also) focused on West Virginia Women Work, which is a non-profit organization here in Morgantown. They basically train women for nontraditional jobs in construction and whatnot. They then, usually, earn above the minimum wage.”

Riivald and Orlikoff hoped that students visiting the fair would find a topic that interested them and consider enrolling in WGST courses.

“What we also want to have happen with this fair is that people will come and be excited by the variety of projects and say, ‘Oh there’s a place for me in women and gender studies,’” Orlikoff said. “I hope people recognize the community we have and want to be part of it.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Tuesday November 17, 2015

West Virginia cities supporting LGBT non-discrimination laws

By Jake Jarvis Staff Writer @NewsroomJake

Members of the Young Democrats at West Virginia University are calling for laws that protect members of the LGBT community from being fired from their jobs or kicked out of their homes due to their sexuality or gender identity.

The group, after unanimously passing a resolution recently, joined a growing wave of support from state and local leaders who want to see the Mountain State get ahead of the anti-discrimination curve.

“Our generation needs to make noise…” said Justin Click, member and parliamentarian for the Young Democrats. “The Employment/Housing Non-Discrimination Act will be a safety net for our young

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Obama arrives in Asia, eyes on Middle East MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Barack Obama landed in Southeast Asia Tuesday for string of summits with Asian leaders, a visit he had hoped would highlight progress in his seven-year charm offensive in the region — but was instead overshadowed by the fight against Islamic terrorism in the Middle East.

The attacks in Paris and talk of reprisals against the Islamic State group threatened to cloud Obama’s good-news tour to the Philippines and Malaysia this week. While Obama was ready to talk up his freshly inked trade deal and military cooperation in Asia, the rest of the world was looking for leadership on the Islamic State’s relentless terror spree.

It was hardly the first time the Middle East has kept Obama from making the pivot his administration once imagined would be central to his foreign policy legacy.

Instead of ending under Obama’s watch, old conflicts in the Middle East have morphed into new, equally intense ones. Instead of gradually moving to center stage, Obama’s agenda in Asia has had to compete for time and attention.

The White House was determined this week to show it would keep a steady focus despite the tragedy that consumed European allies. Obama left Washington as scheduled just hours after the night of violence in Paris left 129 people dead and hundreds more injured.

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people when they go out into the state.”

Click and other activists are lobbying for the state to support a bill similar to the one gubernatorial candidate Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall) proposed in 2014.

The bill declared that people in the LGBT community couldn’t be fired and couldn’t be kicked out of their rental homes because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

In Washington, LGBT activists have struggled to make ground on an employment non-discrimination act, even after passing the Senate in 2013 and having President Barack Obama’s support.

In West Virginia, activists are taking the fight to small cities and towns.

Sutton, West Virginia, a town with less than 1,000 people, joined five other

municipalities in the state to approve EHNDA ordinances. Morgantown became the second city to approve its ordinance in February 2014, after Charleston.

At least four other municipalities have resolutions supporting non-discrimination, and Fairness WV has ongoing campaigns in seven other locations.

On Monday night, Charles Town’s city council considered a proposal for an EHNDA ordinance one of the city’s residents proposed.

“This changes the conventional wisdom that these ordinances can only pass in large cities with a significant LGBT population,” said Andrew Schneider, executive director of Fairness WV, the state’s LGBT rights group.

“That’s been proven false now.”

In fact, West Virginia is home to the smallest town in America that has passed a non-discrimination ordinance so far. All five residents of Thurmond, West Virginia—three councilors, one mayor and one town recorde, govern the town— unanimously approved an ordinance in February.

Many activists like Schneider assumed nondiscrimination policies would have come first, and then marriage equality.

Marriage equality, Schneider said, should have been the “icing on the cake.”

“The fact is the cake has never been baked,” he said.

LGBT activists struggle to even turn on the oven.

Schneider and others across the state struggled to defeat three anti-LGBT bills, including the “West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act” in March.

Had the legislature acted on that proposed bill, it would have effectively destroyed the six existing ordinances in the state.

In the meantime, Fairness WV is actively helping municipalities across West Virginia draft their own versions of EHNDA ordinances.

“Things like EHNDA give me a reason to stay,” Click said. “I see it as a challenge.

If I can stay here and get into politics, I can make a change. I can’t do that if I leave.”

After attending a weekend conference Fairness WV hosted, Click drafted the resolution and brought it to others in the group.

Click said he and others in the Young Democrats recognize the dire need for EHNDA policies.

The need for non-discrimination policies greatly increased after the Supreme

Court issued its ruling in June declaring same-sex marriage a constitutional right, Schneider said. “(Marriage equality) made our community more visible,” he said. “Now, just like a heterosexual, LGBT employees can go in the office with a ring on their finger, with a photograph of their loved one on their desk, with their loved ones to a company picnic.”

Despite this, if an employee is caught or overheard talking about their partner, or even if an employer suspects the employee is homosexual, that employee can still be fired.

“There’s no consequence whatsoever,” Schneider said, “because there are no protections in state or federal law to ward against that.” jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

Experts say states lack legal authority to turn away refugees DETROIT (AP) — Governors across the U.S. have threatened to stop accepting Syrian refugees following last week’s attacks in Paris, even as experts counter they lack legal authority to block the relocations.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama, whose administration recently pledged to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees, argued Monday that the United States needs to allow them because many are fleeing terrorism.

Some state leaders disagree with Obama’s assertion the country can simultaneously welcome refugees seeking safety and ensure citizens’ security. Several have called for a complete halt to resettlement, others for temporary delays and a few seek more information from federal officials on the vetting process.

The Homeland Security Department says refugees face the highest level of security screening of anybody entering the U.S., but officials will work to allay states’ concerns.

Here’s a look at why some states are balking, what federal officials and refugee experts are saying and how the refugee resettlement process works.

WHAT ARE THE STATES’ PRIMARY CONCERNS AND WHAT ARE THEY CALLING FOR? Governors in many

states, mainly Republicans, are responding to heightened concerns terrorists might use the refugees as cover to sneak across borders. Authorities said a Syrian passport was found near one of the attackers in Friday’s deadly attacks, and the Paris prosecutors’ office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

The governors of several states are calling for the temporary suspension of accepting new refugees.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas’ refugee resettlement program not to accept any more Syrians and in a letter to Obama, the Republican also urged scrapping federal plans to accept more Syrian refugees into the country as a whole. He said the federal government can’t perform “proper security checks” on Syrians.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called for an immediate halt and wrote he was “invoking our state’s right ... to receive immediate consultation by federal authorities” to address the state’s concerns.

Iowa GOP Gov. Terry Branstad acknowledged governors might lack authority but added he wants more information about refugee placement and the vetting process.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group,

called the governors’ comments and recommendations “un-American,” adding that rejecting refugees projects “our fears to the world.”

WHAT DO REFUGEE EXPERTS SAY? Lavinia Limon, president and CEO of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigration, said under the Refugee Act of 1980 governors cannot legally block refugees. Each state has a refugee coordinator, a post created as part of that law, she said. Funded by the federal government, the post coordinates resettlement efforts with agencies such as hers and directs federal funds for refugees.

Westy Egmont, director of Boston College’s Immigrant Integration Lab, said the law previously withstood state challenges partly because the federal government has worked to equally distribute refugees being resettled. Some states have worked with resettlement agencies to limit new refugee arrivals to those with family ties to the community while families or individuals with no ties to a specific state have been sent to other locations with better prospects for jobs, housing and integration programs.

WHAT EXACTLY HAS OBAMA PROPOSED AND HOW DOES THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PRO-

GRAM WORK? The Obama administration has pledged to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next 12 months.

The State Department said the refugees would be spread nationwide, though many go on to places where they have family or cultural connections, such as Detroit, New York, Chicago or Los Angeles.

According to government statistics, the U.S. has taken about 2,150 Syrians since Oct. 1, 2011 — most in the last year.

Obama said Monday the U.S. needs to continue to accept refugees from Syria because many are fleeing terrorism: “Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both.”

Refugees are generally invited to move to the United States after being referred to a State Department Resettlement Support Center by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In some cases they can be referred by a U.S. embassy or non-governmental agency.

In other cases, potential refugees who are close relatives of people granted asylum in the U.S. or other refugees already in the country can apply directly with the U.S. government. The average wait time for a refugee

to be cleared to enter the U.S. is about two years, but often longer for people from Syria and elsewhere.

The Homeland Security Department said refugees being accepted into the United States are subject to the highest level of security screening of anyone coming to the U.S. It added officials will continue to consult with states to allay concerns they have about security.

HOW ARE LAWMAKERS AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES REACTING? Republican members of Congress called for suspending the Syrian refugee program and threatened to try to stop it. New House Speaker Paul Ryan neither endorsed nor rejected that course.

Many GOP candidates, already skeptical if not hostile to welcoming refugees, came out even stronger.

Donald Trump said the U.S. should increase surveillance of mosques, consider closing any tied to radicals and be prepared to suspend some civil liberties.

Ben Carson said, “Until we can sort out the bad guys, we must not be foolish,” and of Syrians already in the U.S., he added: “I would watch them very carefully.”

Calls by GOP rivals Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush to give preference to Christian refugees prompted a sharp rebuke from Obama.

Mayor seeks federal investigation into weekend shooting MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis on Monday asked for a federal civil rights investigation into the weekend shooting of a black man by a police officer during an apparent struggle.

Mayor Betsy Hodges said she wrote to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and to the U.S. attorney for Minnesota seeking the investigation in the “interest of transparency and community confidence.”

The state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is already conducting a criminal investigation, but Hodges said the city needs “all the tools we have available to us.”

Authorities have released few details about the shooting, which has angered some community members after witnesses said the man was handcuffed when he was

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shot. Police said their initial information showed the man, a suspect in an assault, was not handcuffed. He was taken to a hospital after the shooting, and his family says he is on life support.

The incident sparked protests Sunday and an overnight encampment at the north Minneapolis police precinct near the site of the shooting. Community members and activists called for a federal investigation, as well as for authorities to release video of the incident and the officer’s identity.

Protests continued Monday, with a few hundred people gathering at an evening rally outside the same precinct, beating a drum and chanting for justice. At least eight tents were set up outside, and a handful of protesters were sitting behind glass doors in the foyer, including one who was knitting.

“We’re still not moving until we get that footage,” said Michael McDowell, a member of Black Lives Matter.

Later, hundreds of demonstrators blocked Interstate 94, shutting down the northbound lanes for about two and a half hours. State Patrol Lt. Tiffani Schweigart said 43 adults and 8 juveniles who refused multiple orders to disperse were arrested.

Two officers are on paid leave, standard practice after such an incident. Police Chief Janee Harteau said the officers were not wearing body cameras, but declined to say whether squad car or surveillance video was available, citing the ongoing investigation.

Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP, called the civil rights request a step in the right direction, “given that we do not trust Minnesota law enforcement

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Ramona Dohman, the Outrage and a civil lawsuit “I hate that this is going commissioner of the Min- followed the 2013 death of on right now. My heart is so nesota Department of Public 22-year-old Terrance Frank- crushed. I have not stopped Safety, said the officers’ iden- lin, a burglary suspect whom crying,” he said, adding that tities would be released after police pursued and shot in some protesters are lookinvestigators interview them. a Minneapolis basement. A ing for an excuse to be anShe declined to say how long grand jury declined to indict gry. “I think everything is bethe investigation could take. the officers involved. ing gone about in the wrong Harteau said she In 2014, prominent civil way. ... Peace is always the welcomed a federal rights activist Al Flowers way. You can’t bring peace investigation. complained of being the with aggression.”

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Staying mindful of Internet reviews A study conducted in New York City found that users of Yelp, a popular forum for posting restaurant reviews, may be inadvertently promoting racism. Reviews of restaurants in a predominantly white neighborhood were phrased positively and included words like “cozy,” while others from a predominantly black neighborhood featured words like “gritty” and “dangerous.”

Though no explicit terms or statements about race were included in the text, researchers noted reviewers often offered commentary about the neighborhood the restaurants were located in, which a professional restaurant review would not have mentioned.

Reviewers also chose to talk about things like a loss in authenticity of a

Yelp reviews are not written by professional critics, which makes their credibility questionable. white neighborhood when a new restaurant opened but mentioned the benefits a new restaurant opening in a black neighborhood would bring to the area.

Both of these statements demonstrate implicit racist sentiments as well as support for gentrification, which involves wealthy individuals buying property

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in an impoverished area and renovating it in order to attract wealthier residents and upscale businesses to the area.

Gentrification may seem

good for a community on the surface, but lesswealthy families are typically coerced into selling their homes or apartments and relocating elsewhere as a result. This can be a difficult process both financially and emotionally if a family has lived in the area a long time. If a family chooses to stay, increased rent rates or property taxes can eventually drive people further into poverty. In this manner, poorer families are systematically driven out of their neighborhoods and herded into increasingly smaller lowincome areas.

Author Rebecca Solnit stated gentrification advocates for “a new American economy where most of us will be poorer, a few will be far richer, and everything will be...more homogenous and more controlled or controllable.”

Though both gentrification and race have been controversial subjects since the beginning of urbanized society, it should be noted that Yelp is not the appropriate platform to be making comments about a neighborhood or its residents in the first place. A restaurant should be judged by the quality of its food and service, not about what it could potentially bring to or take away from a certain geographic area.

More should be done to take out biased statements from amateur reviews on all websites. Crowdsourcing can be beneficial in drawing support and being noticed, but trusting the opinion of someone with no true authority in an area can lead to unintended negative consequences. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Higher education costs, tuition need reevaluating jenna gilbert columnisT @j3nn_1f3r

The price of a quality education is undoubtedly unquantifiable, but the growing rates of college tuitions and lack of funding makes it difficult, if not impossible, for certain Americans to receive that education.

The road to a higher education is not easy. When I first started applying to colleges, I had my heart set on going to Pennsylvania State University and was accepted. Unfortunately, the price was too much for me, and I was forced to withdraw and attend community college for a year to adjust my plans.

When I decided on West Virginia University, I found it easier to receive funding through scholarships.

However, the additional money still wasn’t enough.

Last August, I spent all of my savings just to pay for one semester living on campus, and I knew in January I would have to come up with the same amount of money again.

Getting upward of $5,000 together in three to four months is a near-impossible task, even for someone who works full time.

I work two jobs at minimum wage and still have not saved nearly enough to pay for next semester.

It always seemed that if you worked hard, you would be rewarded. However, despite maintaining

Students protest in Los Angeles about the debt recent graduates face just to attend college. good grades and working to support myself, it still isn’t enough to stay enrolled. Unfortunately for me and thousands of other college students nationwide, being born into lower-income families definitely adds to the struggle of earning a four-year degree.

Numerous studies have been conducted on graduation rates and their correlation to students’ family incomes. Each of these studies yield the same results: the lower the economic stature of the family, the less likely the student will graduate in six years with a bachelor’s degree.

First-generation, mi-

nority and low-income students all face the enormous burden of paying for college with little, if any, funding from family. They are often forced to work minimum wage jobs fulltime while also being a full-time student. Should a crisis emerge, money will immediately grow tight, and I can guarantee the first thing cut from the budget will be school.

The Center for National Education conducted a study of 100 students from 2002 to 2008 and kept track of those who were able to graduate and those who weren’t. In those six years, 21 students dropped out, and the majority of these

students were from the middle and lower class.

To be more specific, seven lower-class students gave up their chance to receive a higher education while only three from the upper class did the same. Of the 30 students who graduated in six years, only four students from lower class standings finished their degree as opposed to 12 from the upper class.

Some may question why these students don’t choose to pursue an associate’s degree instead of a bachelor’s. Associate’s degrees can be achieved at a community college, where the full cost of courses is usually covered by finan-

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cial aid.

While attending community college isn’t horrible for students trying to save money, I quickly found it wasn’t for me. An associate’s degree does help a student earn more money post-graduation, but it simply won’t allow them to earn enough over time to pull them out of their current economic standing. Without a bachelor’s degree, less than half of the students who graduate high school and go straight into the workforce will not be able to make the leap from their current economic standing to the next.

The Washington Post

covered a story about higher education’s relationship with the lowerclass. In the story, a recent first-generation college student said, ”Higher education is supposed to be a public good, not just a private purchase that wealthy students get to enjoy.” Unfortunately, this is exactly what receiving a higher education feels like today.

Having been told I’m “too poor” for college clearly illustrates a problem in the way the higher education system works.

There needs to be change. First, there should be more help for lower-income families. Financial aid takes away some of the burden, but when funds offered at a four-year institution barely cover a third of the cost, money runs out before a degree can be completed. What can’t be covered by financial aid tends to be paid by student loans, which leaves students drowning in debt after graduation. We either need more funding to cover the cost of tuition, or we need a lower cost to attend.

The American government should take a look at what other countries are doing for their students and start discussing what could work better for this country. It’s clear the policies we have in place have made it increasingly difficult for low-income students to stay enrolled in college. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Fear is the cause of irrational prejudice, knowledge is the answer kayla mccormick columnist @kayattheda

I was scrolling through my Facebook timeline the other day when I saw a picture of a snake. Because the snake was cute and I had nothing better to do, I opened up the comments section of the post and was surprised to see several comments that were basically variations of, “Oh my God, a snake!

Kill it!” The reaction of the commenters brought forth in my mind images of Puritans with pitchforks, demanding the head of the witch.

This made me think about how strange the human mentality is in relation to fear. Instead of thinking, “Wow, a snake. I should leave it alone,” those who commented on the Facebook post seemed to jump immediately to extremes.

While it is a tragedy that snakes, much like sharks, are killed thoughtlessly out of fear, the aforementioned snake can be viewed as a metaphor to a larger prob-

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lem: Its prevalence in an increasingly hostile world.

In September of 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot to death at the gas station where he worked in Mesa, Arizona. The man responsible for the murder claimed to be exacting revenge for 9/11, stating as he was arrested that he was “all American, all the way.”

Balbir Singh Sodhi wore a turban and could trace his ancestry back to South Asia, but he was neither the same ethnicity nor religion as the suicide bombers of 9/11. His death is an example of fear-based reactions, which, more often than not, are born out of misguidance or misinformation.

According to the American Journal of Sociology, “Man’s fear is fear of something or for something: of illness, loss of money, dishonor; for his health, family, and social status.”

These violent reactions to fear, whether it be aimed at an animal or another human being, are a result of the fear of something: A fear of the unknown.

Dharambir Rai Sharma, a retired professor from Banaras Hindu University

in India, said that, in reality, “…the unknown can never cause fear because fear arises from thoughts, and thoughts are always in the realm of the known.”

He proposes instead that what we refer to as “a fear of the unknown” is actually a fear of a loss of the known, such as what might happen if we lost our family members or the ability to maintain our current lifestyle.

While it is interesting to consider, I politely disagree with this statement. I am a strong believer in the power of knowledge, and I have seen firsthand the devastation that can occur at the hand of hatred fueled by ignorance, otherwise defined as the unwillingness to know in the first place.

Take Muslims, for example. An entire group of people have been relentlessly punished for the actions of a few, all because of belligerent societal fears. What was once a minor problem has upgraded itself to an epidemic, and people are lashing out and spreading hatred because they are not properly informed

Prejudice doesn’t solve the world’s problems—in fact, it can exacerbate them. about what Islam truly advocates for or attempts to accomplish as a major religion.

The theory of evolution argues these fears come from a survival instinct - to fear the unknown because the unknown could potentially be one wild beast or another ready to kill one of our unsuspecting ancestors. However, we have

evolved since then and this reactionary fear is no longer necessary or useful. Because of this, I propose we resign the ignorance-based hatred felt in the world today.

Often, the problem lies in the fact that people have difficulty distinguishing between something bad and something they are afraid of. However, being

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In fact, I believe being afraid can be viewed as an opportunity. Most of the time, fear is based in a lack of understanding, and not understanding something yields the chance to grow and gain a new, broadened perspective of the world. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Good music, good drinks and good people — that’s exactly what’s in store on Thursday at the Love and Theft show at Schmitt’s Saloon.

Love and Theft consists of Stephen Barker Liles and Eric Gunderson, two men who came together in Nashville to make country music. The band formed in 2006 with an additional member, Brian Bandas, who completed the singing, guitar-playing trio.

Love and Theft caught its big break when it was signed to Carolwood Records, a subsidiary of Lyric Street, in 2009 after getting signed on as an opening act for Taylor Swift’s Fearless tour. That same year, it made its chart debut with the single “Runaway,” which reached the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart before the release of the band’s debut album, “World Wide Open.”

The band’s success continued with another single and a big performance at the Grand Ole Opry before the 2010 disband-

ment of Lyric Street Records.

During its time between labels, Bandas left the band, turning it into the duo it is now. Liles and Gunderson then signed with RCA Nashville in 2011, where they released their single, “Angel Eyes.” The song went on to become the group’s first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and preceded their self-titled release in the summer of 2012.

After a couple of years, Love and Theft left its label and began work on new music. They self-released the single “Whiskey On My Breath” before releasing their third album with the same title in Feb. 2015.

The duo is a blend of countrypop and rock, which is a quickly evolving genre in contemporary popular music.

Their songs lean toward partying, summer and good vibes — some of the usual country styles. Instead of narrative storytelling, the band likes to sing fun songs with catchy hooks incorporating some synthesizing to accompany the alternating lead vocals and guitars from Liles and Gunderson.

The harmony and collaborative relationship between the two is what makes them such talented live performers, since being on stage with one of your best friends making music and improvising contains a spirit that cannot be imitated. Especially in an intimate concert environment like Schmitt’s, where you are in a familiar and comfortable setting surrounded by friends and country music fans who are all rocking along together to Love and Theft.

Love and Theft continues touring and promoting its album, “Whiskey On My Breath,” through the end of 2015 on the “Can’t Wait For the Weekend” tour.

They will kick off their Morgantown show with special guests Joel Crouse and Stevie Monce.

The show starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Schmitt’s Saloon. Tickets are available online for $30.

Love and Theft will perform hits from its ‘Whiskey On My Breath’ album.

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Morgantown packs local holiday event calendar ally litten

“The Polar Express” Pajama Party

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Fall is coming to a close and the holiday season is upon us. It is essential to start planning out your Winter Break. To help narrow down festive and fun-filled events, here is a list of the top five holiday outings in and near Morgantown.

The WVU Barnes and Noble Bookstore is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic children’s book, “The Polar Express,” by hosting a special party inside the bookstore. Held on Dec. 4, the pajama party will begin at 7 p.m.

The event will consist of games, crafts and much more.

Anyone interested in attending should don their favorite PJs in celebration of the beloved book.

Celebration of Lights

Local Christmas Parades Oh yes, Morgantown does have a parade for every season. In fact, so does Star City. Both parades will feature local groups and organizations proudly marching down the main streets of the towns. Local groups of all kinds, such as the Morgantown High School Marching Band, will fill the community with Christmas cheer. The Morgantown Christmas parade will be held from 7-8 p.m. Dec. 4 on High Street. The Star City Christmas Parade will be held on the evening of Dec. 11 in the heart of the small town.

Held by the South Fairmont Rotary Club, this holiday light show is local and affordable. Although the Celebration of Lights is only a 1.3 mile drive, the Rotary Club was wvgazettemail.com named “The Favorite Marion County Event” in 2014. Featuring the lighted outlines of cars, trains of presents and Oglebay Resort transforms into a holiday light spectacular for the months of NoSanta riding on a motorcycle, the event truly has a deco- vember and December. ration for everyone. The Celebration of Lights will be held at Morris Park starting on Black Friday and ending on the last Sunday of December.

Festival of Lights at Oglebay Resort This Christmas light show is a must-see. Located in Wheeling, West Virginia, the festival is widely known throughout the area. Thousands of people travel to the resort to see the sparkling lights every year. The best part about the light show is that you don’t even have to get out of your car and face the cold weather. Covering 300 acres, participants drive through the six-mile stretch of the Festival of Lights in their own cars. If you’ve been to the festival before, consider going again to check out its new light displays. The event will be held now until Jan. 3.

2nd Annual Ugly Holiday Sweater 5k This event is perfect for those looking to combine a hard work out and an Ugly Christmas Sweater themed party.

Held on Dec. 6, the marathon will begin at the WVU Student Rec Center and will continue throughout the Evansdale campus. Presented by the WVU School of Physical Therapy Class of 2017, the race is a great way to give back to a local organization, celebrate the holiday season and work off all the yummy food you enjoyed at Thanksgiving. Grab your ugliest Christmas sweater and visit https:// runsignup.com/Race/WV/Morgantown/2ndAnnualUgly HolidaySweater5KRunWalk to register.

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Review: Game over in the dreary ‘Mockingjay Part Two’

“The Hunger Games” movies have unfolded in a relative blitzkrieg - four movies in four years and in a fan-fueled fever that has masked some seriously silly political allegory with the thrill of survival games and the awesome star power of Jennifer Lawrence. In the final installation, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2,” the game is over.

Having left behind the “arena” a wooded realm where teenagers from across the districts of the totalitarian Panem are set against each other in a televised kill-or-be-killed death match - at the conclusion of 2013’s “Catching Fire,” ‘’Mockingjay” moves into a greater war, where Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), the reluctant participant plucked out of the mining region of District 12, discovers a wider net-

work of like-minded rebels.

In part two, the march toward the Capitol takes on an air of inevitable victory as the revolution, led

by President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), contemplates power after the expected fall of the dictator Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland). Wary of replacing one corruption with another, an increasingly grave Katniss discovers the truth of that old maxim: revolution is easy; democracy is difficult; and stretching the thin conceits of “The Hunger Games” into four films is even harder.

The pop pleasures of the early installments (the best of which was “Catching Fire”) are gone in the gray-and-gloomy part two of “Mockingjay.” All the color and vibrancy of the series has been drained away; a sizable chunk of ac-

tion takes place in the sewer as Katniss and a band of rebels, navigating various traps, stealthily storm toward Snow, with plans to assassinate him.

From the start, though, it’s clear “Mockingjay Part 2” is neither intended for critics nor newcomers.

It’s for the fans of Suzanne Collins’ books, to which the franchise has slavishly sworn its fidelity. “Mockingjay Part 2,” directed by Francis Lawrence (who has helmed all but the first film) and penned by Danny Strong, Peter Craig and Collins, picks up where the last film left off, with barely a glance backward.

That, perhaps, is as it should be.

“The Hunger Games” is for its passionate fans and - certainly in its final films - not anyone else.

At the heart of the phenomenon is Collins’ clever rendering

of passage into adulthood as survival through the (literal) slings and arrows of a cruel system that pits teenagers against one another in a competition that, for some, is barely more cutthroat than high school.

Katniss’ ascent comes not through her mastery of the game, but her rejection of its rules.

That’s been somewhat true of the films, too, which have put a strong female protagonist at the heart of the franchise and surrounded her with only a limp love triangle (between Liam Hemsworth’s Gale and Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta, who was brainwashed in the last film) that’s always been secondary to Katniss’ plight.

Katniss does, though, have a curious habit of blacking out at key moments of battle. And in “Mockingjay Part 2,” she’s still fighting

against being used as a public-relations pawn for the rebellion, just as she was for Snow’s regime. Unfortunately lacking much screen time are two of the most lively and gaudy characters of the films - Stanley Tucci’s master of ceremonies and Elizabeth Banks’ chaperone who always gave things a kick.

Instead, the film is, well, dull.

If Donald Sutherland is the most bubbly thing in your teenage sci-fi dystopia (and he is, by a mile), you may have stretched the seriousness too far.

Instead, a feeling of time passing “The Hunger Games” by pervades. What should have been one movie was stretched into two.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died nearly two years ago but remains here as the rebel leader Plutarch, is a ghostly, abbreviated presence.

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MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR NETWORK It’s almost time for the Thanksgiving break—meaning that most of you will be returning home to enjoy time with family, eat too much turkey, and prepare for the looming end-of-semester finals. However, you should also make time over the break to practice networking by and connecting with professionals in your area.

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Join the campus chapter of a professional society that relates to your career choice. In many ways, a professional society is an instant network. You’ll be with others who have the same general career interest. Plus, you may be able to learn more about your field from them

Particularly in a competitive job market, networking can be the deciding factor that helps you land a job. In fact, many jobs are filled by people who learned about the opportunity through their professional network before it was formally announced. So it is important that you start building your professional network as soon as possible.

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Volunteer at a local museum, theater, homeless shelter—anywhere that even remotely relates to your field of study. By volunteering, you’ll not only learn about your chosen field firsthand, you’ll also be able to connect with people who are in that field.

What is networking when it comes to the job search?

Networking is a lot about who you know could be what helps you land a job, but it’s not about using people. Just as you look to build personal relationships through social networks, it is also important to you want to build formal relationships to foster your professional life. These relationships can help you not only in your current job search but again in the future down the road as you build your career.

Networking also isn’t one-sided. You offer assistance to others just as they offer assistance to you. Perhaps the easiest way to think about networking is to see it as an extension of being friendly, outgoing, and active.

Here are some tips for building and maintaining a healthy professional network: 1.

Make a list of everyone you know—and people they know—and identify how they could help you gather career information or experience. Who do you know at school? Professors, friends, and even friends’ parents can all be helpful contacts. Did you hold a part-time job? Volunteer? Serve an internship? Think about the people you came into contact with there.

4.

Create a LinkedIn profile: it’s free. And then, work your profile. Add work history (including internships), skills, and keywords. Make connections to people you’ve worked with or met through networking. Ask for “recommendations” from people who have worked with you. You’ll find LinkedIn is a good source of suggestions for people in your field to contact for informational interviews.

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Remember to be courteous and tactful in all your conversations, to send thank-you notes to people who help you, and to find ways to help others as well.

Don’t drop your network once you have gotten a job. Nurture the relationships you’ve built and look for opportunities to build new connections throughout your career.

Getting started might be uncomfortable, but with time and practice, networking will be second nature.

For more on networking strategies, visit Career Services in the Mountainlair Monday–Friday 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. or visit our website at careerservices.wvu. edu.

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Clemson’s Watson chasing RBs in Heisman race CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — In the year of the running back, Clemson’s Deshaun Watson is making a late push to keep the Heisman Trophy in a quarterback’s hands.

The best player on the nation’s No. 1 team is just now starting to emerge as a serious Heisman contender.

The sophomore is chasing star running backs such as Alabama’s Derrick Henry, LSU’s Leonard Fournette, Ohio State’s Ezekiel Elliott, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and Florida State’s Dalvin Cook, but he seems to be gaining ground.

Around this Death Valley, though, there is no doubt about Watson’s place in the Heisman race and whether he should be in New York on Dec. 12 when the winner is revealed.

“I definitely plan on him being there and I hope he takes me with him,” Clemson tight end Jordan Leggett said Monday.

Quarterbacks have won the last five Heisman trophies and 13 of the last 15. Watson checks a lot of the same boxes as recent winners.

Nine of those quarterbacks played in the BCS championship game or in the case of Oregon’s Marcus

Clemson’s Deshaun Watson looks downfield earlier this season.

Mariota last year, the Col- very good. lege Football Playoff. WatHe is averaging 319 total son and the Tigers (10-0, yards per game, 15th in the 7-0) are three wins from go- nation. His passer rating of ing to the playoff. The eas- 160.3 is 14th best. He has aciest of those games comes counted for 28 touchdowns.

Saturday at home against He has some work to do, Wake Forest (3-7, 1-5). however, to catch up to the Dual-threat, spread-of- gaudy stats put up by those fense quarterbacks have recent Heisman winners. also gotten a lot of love from Manziel averaged 393 toHeisman voters in recent tal yards per game. Griffin years. Think Robert Grif- averaged 383. Tebow acfin III, Johnny Manziel, Tim counted for 55 touchdowns Tebow and Mariota. and became the first major Watson can also do it all, college quarterback to have too, and his numbers are at least 20 rushing touch-

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downs and throw at least 20 touchdown passes. Mariota’s passer rating was 181.75.

At least part of the reason Watson’s numbers don’t jump off the screen is the way Clemson has used its superstar, who was coming off a major knee injury. Cooffensive coordinator Jeff Scott said the plan was to be judicious with Watson as a runner and save his wheels for the big games.

“Early in the year we weren’t as aggressive in running him and just knew that

he’d get a certain number of carries on his own, just in scrambles,” Scott said. “He wants to run the ball.”

Watson had 64 carries, including 16 against Notre Dame, in Clemson’s first seven games. He has 44 carries in the last three games and he has gone over 100 yards rushing in each of the last two.

“They wanted me to get in the feel of the game, and the first few games, I would only play a half, so there was no need for me to run the ball,”

Watson said.

On Saturday at Syracuse, as Clemson was having a hard time putting away the Orange, Watson went to Scott and asked to carry the ball on a couple of key thirddown plays.

“That right there from your quarterback, especially a talented guy like him, that says a lot,” Scott said.

As far as Scott is concerned, Watson greatest value to the Tigers doesn’t necessarily show up on the stat sheet.

“In my opinion of all the attributes that he has, strengths that he has, I think his decision-making at the line of scrimmage and when the ball is snapped, is as good as I’ve ever seen and ever been around,” Scott said. “He gets us out of bad looks and gets us into good situations.”

Don’t expect Watson to start touting himself for the Heisman. He’ll let his teammates do that and just see where things go over the next three weeks.

“It’d be an honor,” Watson said. “Another step to where I want to be. Another goal I want to achieve. If it happens, then me and my family and coaches and teammates are going to enjoy it and celebrate it.”

Resilient Roethlisberger keeps Steelers rolling PITTSBURGH (AP) — Most days when the starting quarterback limps off the field, the resulting emotion as the backup jogs out to the huddle isn’t relief.

Sunday, however, wasn’t most days. And Ben Roethlisberger isn’t most backups.

Wearing a modified cleat to protect his sprained left foot, Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers tormented the Cleveland Browns yet again in a 30-9 triumph that sent the Steelers surging into their bye week while providing a reminder that even on one good leg, Roethlisberger remains at the height of his considerable powers.

Roethlisberger laid out the proof over three sometimes spectacular hours, throwing for 379 yards and three scores and hardly

looking like the same guy taken to the locker room in a cart a week earlier.

“The guy was literally in a boot and on crutches Monday,” wide receiver Antonio Brown said. “I can’t speak highly enough about him.

He is a tremendous warrior. You never know what he is capable of doing. He is on the brink of greatness.”

And when he’s on the field, so is Pittsburgh’s offense.

The Steelers (6-4) rolled up 459 yards of total offense, not including the 141 yards Pittsburgh picked up thanks to a series of pass interference penalties against the Browns, whose depleted secondary simply couldn’t keep up.

All this from a player who began the sun-splashed afternoon posing with former teammates who gath-

ered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pittsburgh’s fifth Super Bowl title and walked onto Heinz Field as the “in case of emergency, break glass” option behind Landry Jones. Head coach Mike Tomlin gave the start to Jones after Jones took the majority of reps in practice while Roethlisberger gave his foot more time to heal.

It’s a decision Roethlisberger hardly argued, though one that made his coach look a little too cautious in retrospect. When Jones’ left ankle turned awkwardly after getting stepped on during Pittsburgh’s second possession, Roethlisberger and his familiar No. 7 jersey started warming up.

Roethlisberger’s first drive ended with a Pittsburgh field goal. His third with a touchdown flip to a

wide-open Brown. By the time the half ended, the Steelers led by 18 and Roethlisberger had already piled up 286 yards through the air.

“I knew when he came in, he was going to be great for us,” Pittsburgh tight end Heath Miller said.

Roethlisberger was quick to deflect the praise, something he might not have done during that breakout season 10 years ago when he became the youngest quarterback ever to win it all. He has a far deeper respect for his station in life and for the talent around him. He’s also largely ditched the swashbuckling tactics that used to be his trademark.

Roethlisberger no longer tries to hold onto the ball like a cranky toddler does a blankie. He only took

one sack after stepping in for Jones and was rarely hit, instead getting rid of the ball and letting Brown and Martavis Bryant go to work.

“We needed to go out there and say that no one is going to stop us,” Roethlisberger said. “The only time we get stopped is when we stop ourselves.”

The performance put the Steelers into the top of the AFC wild card race heading into their week off. Heady territory for a team missing running back Le’Veon Bell and center Maurkice Pouncey, both out for the season with injuries.

The steady play of replacements DeAngelo Williams and Cody Wallace have enabled Pittsburgh to survive. The Steelers are even 3-2 in games Roethlisberger didn’t start, though he had more than a little to

do with that last victory.

Jones managed to make it back to the sideline with his ankle heavily taped but there was no discussion about him coming back in even with Pittsburgh comfortably in front, a decision Jones jokingly figured came down to economics. “(Ben) is maybe the most expensive backup in the NFL,” Jones said with a laugh.

If only for a couple of series. When Pittsburgh returns from its break to prepare for a trip west to face Seattle, Roethlisberger will be back in his customary spot. So will his team as it battles for playoff position.

“We’ve got a heck of a stretch run coming up after the bye,” he said. “We’re just trying to get as healthy as we can and be ready to go.”

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Freshman forward Esa Ahmad shoots a layup in Friday’s game against Northern Kentucky.

West Virginia takes down James Madison in Charleston, 86-73 by chris jackson sports writer @dailyathenaeum

A rough start wasn’t enough to keep USA Today’s 22nd ranked team out of the win column.

Led by sophomore guard Jevon Carter and junior forward Devin Williams’ brilliant displays for a second straight game, WVU (2-0) defeated James Madison (1-1), 8673, on Monday evening in Charleston.

But WVU needed key plays in the final minutes to secure the victory after letting the lead slip into

single-digits.

“I thought we were playing to put on a show there for a while rather than playing to win games,” said head coach Bob Huggins.

“In the second half, we made ridiculous turnovers that we shouldn’t (have).

We were screwing with the ball and doing things we shouldn’t be doing.”

Carter’s 19 points followed up a 24-point effort from Friday’s 107-61 drubbing of Northern Kentucky, going 6-of-11 from the field and adding a pair of steals.

Williams finished with his second straight dou-

ble-double and the 19th of his collegiate career, totaling 19 points and 10 rebounds in 27 minutes of action. His dunk with 4:38 remaining put away any hopes of a James Madison comeback, extending the Mountaineers’ lead to 76-61.

WVU also forced 19 turnovers and had nine steals, featuring four steals from junior Tarik Phillips and upping his total to seven through two games.

Fouls kept James Madison in it for a majority of the contest as the team went 22-for-24 from the line. Four of its players

were perfect at the line, with Tom Vodanovich missing the only two.

Shakir Brown also kept JMU within striking distance, finishing with a game-high 21 points.

Brown is coming off a week in which he earned Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Week honors.

“It was a good game,” Huggins said. “They are well-coached. If they shoot like that all the time they are not going to lose many more.”

Second half opportunities once again presented themselves for coach Huggins’ squad, closing with

22 offensive rebounds and 26 second chance points.

Jonathan Holton led the way with eight offensive rebounds, following up seven in the season opener on Friday.

Holton remains a force through the first couple of games, recording consecutive double-doubles. He finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds, including a four-for-four effort from the free throw line.

S o p h o m o re Da xt e r Miles also showed flashes in the second half, scoring nine of his 12 points after halftime. Miles sat out the final 16 minutes of the first

half after committing two early fouls.

Three-point field goals once again haunted the Mountaineers, going 6-of16 from Tuesday. They’ve converted just 29 percent of their chances from long range thus far.

Now a matchup with Stetson awaits on Friday in Morgantown, featuring an opponent who is 0-1 and coming off a 108-85 loss to Richmond. Stetson went 9-22 last season and 3-11 in conference play, receiving a last place finish in the Atlantic Sun. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Holmes leads with 23 points, WVU rolls past Coppin State 96-64 by roger turner sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University women’s basketball team improved to 2-0 last night, defeating non-conference foe Coppin State 96-46 at the WVU Coliseum.

Unanimous All-Big 12 first team selection, Bria Holmes played like a unanimous pick, scoring 23 points in the Mountaineers’ second win of the season. “Even though we’re younger this year, I feel like we have more options and scoring,” Holmes said.

She added seven rebounds and two steals to pad her season-high scoring performance.

The Mountaineers controlled the first half from start to finish, jumping out to a 62-29 lead by halftime.

A big spark came from Teana Muldrow off the bench, who’s finding rhythm as sixth-man. The sophomore scored 17 points off the bench, and led the Mountaineers with eight rebounds

to close out the night.

“She’s a good threat,” Holmes said. “Last year she was used to playing guard, and this year she plays the five and can still step out with her shot.”

Muldrow shot six for seven from the field, and also led the Mountaineers in steals with three. Starting center Lanay Montgomery recorded a team-high four blocks and tallied nine points on the night. Freshman guard Katrina Pardee totaled nine points to assist Holmes in the starting backcourt.

Head coach Mike Carey’s Mountaineers ended their second non-conference matchup of the season four points shy of 100, which would please most, but Carey wasn’t satisfied with his team’s second-half performance.

“I thought the first half we came out and played hard.

We played defense, and we got our fast-break going,” he said. “Second-half we stopped playing. We didn’t play defense and didn’t

rebound.”

A combination of lackadaisical defense and poor execution allowed Coppin State to outscore WVU 3833 in the second half. Turnovers plagued the young Mountaineer women’s team, as WVU committed six turnovers in the half. Freshman Alexis Brewer recorded all three of her turnovers in the third and fourth periods, while posting seven points in 20 minutes off the bench.

Carey rotated all 13 players dressed for Monday’s game, but saw production from the bench dwindle in the third and fourth quarter.

“I’d like to keep rotating a lot of people, but I’m not going to if they don’t play defense and do what they’re supposed to do,” Carey said.

“Doesn’t make sense to play a lot people if we’re not going to execute.”

Although last night’s win marked the second consecutive for WVU, much of Carey’s disappointment in his team’s defensive and rebounding efforts during the

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Senior forward Arielle Roberson attempts a shot in last night’s game against Coppin State. second-half stems from the Mountaineers will round out see where we’re at.”

Mountaineers’ upcoming the invite against Grand CanGonzaga is next up for games versus Gonzaga and yon at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, WVU at 5 p.m., on Sunday USC. Nov. 24. for their first of three games WVU heads to Spokane, “This whole year is going in the year’s edition of the Washington for the Naismith to be a learning experience,” Naismith Memorial BasMemorial Basketball Hall of Carey said. “It’s good to play ketball Hall of Fame WomFame Women’s Challenge, the teams we’re going to play en’s Challenge in Spokane, where they are set to take on there. We’re going to get a Washington.

Gonzaga this Sunday and good test on the road, which USC the following day. The is good for this young team to dasports@mail.wvu.edu

FOOTBALL

Rejuvenated Mountaineers hope to win out at 8-4

BY DAVID STATMAN

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

After a 40-10 loss to TCU in late October sent the West Virginia University football team to 0-4 in the Big 12 Conference, head coach Dana Holgorsen and his seniors got together to talk about the future.

With the team’s overall record sitting at 3-4 and bowl eligibility hanging in the balance, Holgorsen and his squad set new goals for the remainder of the season, with an eye toward re-energizing the team after an absolutely brutal run against the toughest teams in one of the nation’s toughest

conferences.

Since then, West Virginia is 2-0, its record is back above .500 and it has impressively dispatched the two strongest teams remaining on the schedule.

The Mountaineers have been through the ringer, and with three games left in the regular season, they’re taking nothing else for granted.

“It’s hard to win in the Big 12, so when you do, you have to enjoy it,” Holgorsen said after Saturday’s 38-20 win over Texas. “Our team is enjoying it in the locker room. We got together a couple of weeks ago, and we set a goal. We are on track to accomplishing that goal.”

The Mountaineers might have been forgiven for feeling like they had lost their groove after failing four straight tests against teams that have spent at least part of the season in the nation’s top 10: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and TCU. It was certainly one of the toughest stretches that any team in Division I has had to face this season, and WVU didn’t do itself any favors with turnovers and miscues on both sides of the ball that at least cost it chances to knock off Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

But even during the darkest parts of the season, West Virginia’s players maintain that they kept

their head up, allowing them to get back on a winning track once the schedule got a little bit easier.

“We never felt like we lost our mojo,” said junior cornerback Daryl Worley.

“We just wanted to keep working. We knew that those games were tough, whether it was on the road or a tough overtime loss at home. Regardless, there’s no easy week in the Big 12. We know that we can’t harp on a loss, we have to get ready for the next week no matter who the opponent may be.”

West Virginia rebounded with two impressive wins over two tricky opponents: A win over Texas Tech in which the Mountaineers

held the second-most prolific scoring offense in the nation to just 26 points and a convincing 38-20 win over a wildly unpredictable Texas Longhorns squad that still ranks as the only team to hold a win over conference title contender Oklahoma.

West Virginia is still searching for its first conference road win of the season. That can be rectified on Saturday, when it travels to Lawrence, Kansas to face a Jayhawks team that hasn’t won a game all season.

West Virginia also faces a 3-7 Iowa State team and a 3-6 Kansas State team to finish out the season, meaning that it’s an abso-

lutely reasonable proposition that the Mountaineers could win out to finish the season 8-4.

That would be the best regular season finish in the Dana Holgorsen era at West Virginia, setting it up to end the year in a quality bowl game – and the Mountaineers are expecting nothing less.

“8-4 is definitely the goal,” Worley said. “Just like 12-0 was the goal, just like when we lost one game, 11-1 was the goal.

We just want to keep working, and we want to win every game. We don’t go in with a losing mindset at any point.” djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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Sophomore midfielder Carla Portillo on the ball in a game against Longwood earlier this season.

Portillo’s crucial goals spurring Mountaineer run

BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s soccer team defeated Duquesne 4-0 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament Friday night in Morgantown. The teams’ second matchup of the year began in similar fashion to the first. In the Aug. 30 matchup, a Mountaineer goal in the first three minutes led to a dominant 5-0 win.

Carla Portillo’s goal in the first four minutes on Friday night led to a similar result, advancing the No. 4 Mountaineers to the

second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013.

The sophomore midfielder from Mississauga, Ontario was a 2014 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year selection and has been essential to the West Virginia offense late in the season.

This was evident on Friday night, when Portillo’s goal in the 4th minute sparked the nation’s seventh-best offense, ending the night with four goals and 26 shots.

The win was extremely instrumental for a team who made an early exit from the Big 12 tournament and has not won a NCAA tournament game in regu-

lation since 2010.

“It’s definitely a huge confidence builder for us,” said coach Nikki IzzoBrown regarding Portillo’s early goal. “When you’re playing in this type of arena and knowing the NCAA Tournament is one and done, for us to know and have confidence that we were able to put the ball away was huge.”

Portillo’s performance late in the year has been a huge contribution to victories to continue the season.

In addition to the gamewinning goal to advance to the second round, Portillo had a goal late in a match against Oklahoma State to conclude the regular sea-

son with a victory.

Despite splitting time with Leah Emaus and Amanda Hill for much of the season, Portillo still ranks seventh on the team in scoring, with three goals and six assists.

Portillo is one of six Canadian natives to act as a staple on the West Virginia roster. Prior to attending WVU, she played alongside current teammates Kadeisha Buchanan, Ashley Lawrence and Amandine Pierre-Louis on Canadian U-20 teams.

If not for a remarkable performance by Duquesne’s goaltender Vanessa Perdomo, Portillo’s goal could have sparked a

historical first-round blowout. Perdomo saved 10 of 14 shots on net, including eight in a row in the first half. It was extremely evident that the goal to open the game brought out the confidence in the WVU offense.

“Our players felt a little free after that, and they were able to do some things that they would’ve questioned if (Portillo) didn’t finish that opportunity,” said Izzo-Brown.

Portillo will need to continue to be a key component if the Mountaineers are to make it through a doubleheader this weekend at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. The Mountain-

eers will host Northwestern Friday night; if they were to win, they would then face the winner of Minnesota and Loyola Marymount on Sunday afternoon in their first Sweet 16 appearance since 2010.

All three matches of the second and third round will be played at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium this weekend. Minnesota and Loyola Marymount will kick off at 3 p.m. on Friday, followed

by West Virginia and Northwestern at 6 p.m. The winners will face off in the Sweet 16 on Sunday at 1 p.m. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

VOLLEYBALL

Serbian native Hadzisehovic contributing at WVU

BY JOHNNA HERBIG SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @dAILYATHENAEUM

At 6-foot-4, West Virginia University volleyball player Dzeni Hadzisehovic is anything but your average college athlete.

Hadzisehovic was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. While in her native country, she competed for Red Star, Postar 064, Vizura Belgrade, Jedinstvo Stara Pazova and Radnicki Jugopetrol. In 2010, she was a part of the Serbian national team, which was able to achieve top-three finishes at the European Tournaments. In 2011, she assisted Jedinstvo to earn third-place in the First Serbia National League.

Now, she’s made the trip from Serbia to Morgantown and is competing in her first season as a Mountaineer.

“My greatest attribute to the team that I can give is being a good teammate,” Hadzisehovic said. “I am a team player who is always playing for the team and do everything I can to serve my team in the best way possible so we can succeed more. I am a winner, I don’t like losing the game, and I am always fighting to the end and never give up. I always try to find a way to come out as a winner.”

The right-side player signed a National Letter of Intent earlier this year, making this season her first here at WVU. Head coach Reed Sunahara, as well as the Mountaineers, were very excited for her to become a member of the team.

“Dzeni brings size and physicality to help us compete in the Big 12,” Sunahara said in an interview with WVUSports.com after Hazisehovic signed with WVU. “With playing experience at different collegiate and national levels, I think she’s be a great addition to our squad.”

Before Hadzisehovic was a Mountaineer, she attended North Idaho College for her sophomore year in 2014 and was enrolled at Wyoming Community College for her

Junior Dzeni Hadzisehovic rises to hit the ball against Iowa State last week. freshman year in 2013. She total of 13 blocks. was a part of the volleyball Other than having her team at both schools. love for playing volleyball, During her time at North Hadzisehovic enjoys going Idaho College, she led her shopping, reading and going team with 204 blocks for out with her friends. When the season and averaged it isn’t volleyball season, she 3.52 blocks per set. She was spends her time playing tennamed Second Team All- nis and basketball to have SWAC, as well as ranking some fun. She also has a passecond for hitting percent- sion for traveling, which she age and third in kills per set does when she has down time during the summer. for the SWAC overall.

While at Wyoming ComAfter graduation, Hadzisemunity College, she av- hovic plans to continue eraged 2.45 kills per set her career in volleyball and throughout all 21 matches hopes to one day competshe participated in. During ing at the highest levels of that time, she was awarded the sport.

Region Nine All-Tournament “One of my biggest goals Team honors. is to return to the national Hadzisehovic led WVU team and play for the senior in its match against Kan- national team and definitely sas State last month. The ju- be in the Olympic Games nior had the team high of with them,” she said. “I set 11 kills in the match against up that goal when I started to play volleyball, but maybe Wildcats.

So far this season, that will happen one day.”

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Kubiak benching Peyton Manning for Bears game ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning won’t suit up against the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

Broncos coach Gary Kubiak is going with backup Brock Osweiler as he tries to get his 39-year-old quarterback healthy.

Kubiak said he met with Manning for an hour Monday morning and told him of his decision - which Manning didn’t like.

“I’ve never met a player who agreed to that,” Kubiak said. “I mean, no, he’s up there today and he wants to go, he wants to do everything he can for his football team and I knew that and I expected that.

“I tried to express to him my concern to getting him back to himself and feeling better and I think he understands the position I’m in and I sure as hell understand the type of person he is and the player he is.”

Manning won’t practice this week nor will he suit up against the Bears, when rookie Trevor Siemian will be Osweiler’s backup, Kubiak said.

Manning will spend lots of time with team athletic trainer Steve Antonopulos this week.

“All the attention is toward getting him healthy,” Kubiak said.

Kubiak wouldn’t spec-

ulate how long Manning might be out, saying, “our focus is not going past today or the Chicago Bears. We’re all in this week as a football team to get better and get ready to go play.”

The only time Manning ever missed a start in his 18-year career came when he sat out the entire 2011 season following a series of neck surgeries that ultimately led to his departure from Indianapolis and his signing with the Broncos.

So, Osweiler’s first NFL start will come on his 25th birthday. He’s a fourthyear pro from Arizona State whom GM John Elway selected in the second round of the 2012 draft with the explicit intention of serving as Manning’s protege and eventual successor.

Osweiler’s first start comes against former Broncos coach John Fox and his staff, who know all about his strengths and tendencies.

Manning had the worst game of his career Sunday in Denver’s 29-13 loss to Kansas City. He completed 5 of 20 passes for 35 yards with four interceptions and had a 0.0 passer rating.

Manning is dealing with a variety of ailments, including a torn plantar fascia in his foot, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Mon-

Peyton Manning warms up before a game this season. day. He also has a sore right ter thinking about it overshoulder and a ribcage night and watching the injury. game film.

After the game Sunday, “I just think it’s the grind Kubiak said he should have of the season, a bunch of held Manning out against bumps and bruises and obKansas City but reiterated viously the shoulder, the that Manning was his quar- foot bothering him comterback and would start next ing out of Indianapolis and week if healthy. had some rib issues,” KuHe changed his mind af- biak said. “... So, I think it’s a

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combination of things. And with that didn’t come all the normal preparation but you know he was doing everything he could do to play for his football team.

“And he would do it again this week, too. I can tell you that. He would do it this week, too. And I know that, and I respect that, but I feel

like I need to make this decision and I know through my conversations with him and everything, I have no doubt that it’s the best decision as we move forward this week.”

Quick thinking averted massacre at Stade de France SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The suicide bombers’ remains, clingy flecks of flesh spread in a 10-meter (yard) radius around where they exploded, were flushed down the drains of the city they sought to terrorize, washed away by municipal workers with detergent sprays and power hoses.

All that’s left of them now are questions.

Their explosive belts, packed with shrapnel that shattered windows and lodged in walls, were designed to kill and maim.

Yet instead of detonating inside the national stadium packed with 79,000 people

watching France beat Germany at soccer, they detonated on less crowded streets outside, during the match, including one in a lonely dead end street 500 meters (yards) away.

Clearly, the casualty count of just one bystander killed and several dozen injured in three explosions outside the Stade de France could have been far worse.

Such blasts inside the stadium or outside among crowds before and after the game would have been more murderous and caused even more panic, further overloading Paris hospitals and rescue ser-

vices scrambling to treat hundreds of casualties with battlefield wounds shot or blown up in the city center.

A combination of solid security at the huge arena, quick thinking in a crisis, modern stadium infrastructure and apparent mistakes in the attackers’ planning appears to have averted a massacre, suggesting that the host of next year’s European soccer championships, which are expected to draw millions of fans from far and wide, is as well-equipped as any nation can be against this vicious new type of threat.

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loved because it was there that the national team won the World Cup in 1998, was the first target hit in Friday night’s murderous spree of six separate gun and suicide bomb attacks. The two city-center teams of attackers killed 128 people and injured more than 300. But the third team, at the stadium, was far less deadly.

As chaos unfurled outside, authorities decided spectators would be safer kept inside and the match went on. That decision was taken by President Francois Hollande, in consultation with French Football Federation officials, the presidential Elysee Palace says.

At least one of the attackers tried to get in, despite not having a ticket, but was turned away, said an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss the complex and fast-evolving investigation.

One police theory is that the attackers never expected to get inside, knowing they likely wouldn’t get past security pat-downs with their suicide vests, and instead planned to detonate as people filed in before kick-off or filled out after France’s 2-0 victory.

But their timing may have been off, officials say.

When they triggered their vests - two during the first half of the match, the third at half-time - the bulk of the crowd was safely inside, enjoying itself.

“We think this operation failed,” a police official said, speaking on condition of

anonymity because French law doesn’t allow the release of details from ongoing investigations. “Badly organized.”

A police union official for Saint-Denis, the stadium district on Paris’ northern outskirts, said they still can’t explain why the attack unfolded as it did.

“It’s a total mystery,” said the official, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

“Everyone has a theory.”

Bley Bilal Mokono, who arrived late at the game with his 13-year-old son Ryan and a friend, believes he saw one of the attackers - “a man with a beard and a gaunt face” - in the toilets of a restaurant opposite the stadium’s Gate D. “His face was sweaty, he looked distressed, staring at the mirror in front of him with his hands on the sink,” Mokono told French broadcaster BFM. He saw him again outside, where Mokono had stopped to buy a sandwich. Then came a powerful blast. Mokono was hospitalized with a collarbone injury and damaged hearing.

That first blast, which also killed the bystander, sent shrapnel and flesh whizzing through the restaurant and left a large shattered dent in its frontage of triple-layered toughened glass.

Jeremy, a stadium security guard who would only give his first name for fear of losing his job, said he’d just arrived to help with the aftermath of that blast when a second went off minutes later, 200 meters (yards)

away outside Gate H. “Everyone was stepping on each other,” he said. “It was a mess.”

The third attacker, for reasons still unknown, waited another 23 minutes to trigger his vest, killing only himself, away from the stadium, next to a tree and a traffic sign in a small side-road wedged between office buildings.

The shrapnel shot bulletlike holes in windows and shattered glass in the cab of a parked truck.

Back at the stadium, after the match, truck driver Abdelaziz Boucenna was thrown to the floor and trampled, breaking two fingers and bones in the wrist of his left hand, as people panicked as they were filing out. By then, word of the attacks had spread in the crowd. As Boucenna, his son and nephew neared an exit, they heard people yell, ‘he’s coming, he’s coming!” and imagined it must be an attacker.

“I picked up our kid. I wanted to protect him. We were thrown to the floor.

The crowd arrived like a wave. My fingers were all twisted,” Boucenna said.

“The kid’s shocked,” he added. “In his imagination, the guy was carrying a bomb that was about to explode. He thought we were going to die.”

Boucenna’s nephew, Mohammed Chelay, said they were directed to the stadium infirmary. But when shown Boucenna’s fingers, “The woman took a look and said, ‘There’s nothing I can do,” Chelay said.

He added that a riot policeman they also asked for help replied: “’Listen to me, a bomb exploded 25 meters (yards) from me, so I don’t give a (expletive) about your little scratch.”

Another spectator who left the stadium before the end of the match said he ran into chaos outside, with “people hitting the ground and others treading on them. There was a woman sitting on the ground with a head injury and spilling blood.”

He only gave his first name, Said.

Stadium operators and one of the companies in charge of venue security wouldn’t speak to an Associated Press reporter who went Monday to their headquarters.

The stadium will host seven matches, including the final, at Euro 2016.

The president of the French Football Federation, Noel Le Graet, said security functioned well.

“Dramatic things happened outside the stadium but inside, the police, stewards and spectators were exemplary,” he told French sports daily L’Equipe. “No crush, no panic. There could have been a veritable catastrophe. That wasn’t the case.”