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WVU starts dialogue on budget cuts by kayla asbury associate city editor @kaylaasbury_

West Virginia University’s budget for the 2017 fiscal year has yet to be announced.

“WVU Budget 101: Challenges and Opportunities” was the first of several planned Campus Conversations aiming to educate students, faculty and staff on the University’s budgetary plans, challenges and constraints for the 2017 fiscal year.

Narvel Weese, vice president of administration and finance, and Russ

Dean, WVU’s vice provost, presented information and hosted questions from the audience about what state budget cuts could mean for the University and what the University is doing to prepare, in order to increase transparency between WVU and the community.

“Everything we’re doing right now dealing with budget (and) transformation is standing on (University President E. Gordon Gee’s) three pillars of educating the state, providing high-quality health in the state and increasing prosperity in the state,”

Dean said.

The University is a $1.1 billion operation, and changes to the state budget will impact tuition, salaries and more.

“We should know (the fiscal year budget) soon,” Dean said. “That may be a bit challenging for next year, but we think there are a lot of opportunities for WVU. If we look down the road just two or three years, we’ll see a much stronger, more vibrant University as a result of the work we’re doing.”

Sixteen percent of WVU’s funds come from student tuition and fees.

The University’s tuition rates have increased 260 percent—or $251 million—from 2000-2014.

Higher education funding was cut 4 percent in the past school year. With an additional cut to higher education looming, students can expect another raise in tuition.

“I don’t know the exact amount, but yes (we expect a tuition increase),” Dean said. “Particularly with the state appropriation dropping, we don’t see anyway we could keep things going, to pro-

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West Virginia University Vice President for Administration and Finance Narvel Weese discusses the university budget at Monday’s Campus Conversations session.

CONSCIOUS CONSUMPTION

Feds won’t pursue civil rights charges in police shooting MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says there is insufficient evidence to pursue criminal civil rights charges against police in a 2013 fatal shooting in West Virginia.

The Justice Department announced the decision Monday after a review of evidence in the March 2013 shooting of Wayne Arnold Jones of Stephens City, Virginia.

Civil rights leaders had pressed for the investigation.

Jones, who was black, was shot more than 20 times after Martinsburg police said the 50-yearold shrugged off two jolts from a stun gun, fought with officers and stabbed one of them. The officers are white.

U.S. District Judge Gina Groh in 2014 dismissed a $200 million lawsuit filed

by Jones’ family against police officers and the city of Martinsburg.

Groh ruled the use of deadly force was reasonable and justified.

WGST department to host biannual fair by amy pratt

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James Johnson, an administrative associate from the Office of Multicultural Programs, asks what students at West Virginia University can do to aleviate the problem of low-income labor in America.

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WVU groups present documentary to spark conversation among students

The ninth semi-annual women’s and gender studies fair is today and is held each semester so students can display the projects they have worked on throughout the semester.

Students in Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies, Scream Queens, Women in Appalachia and other women and gender studies classes will participate.

The students in Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies picked from a selection of topics to study.

In the past, their projects have covered issues such as human trafficking, female genitalia mutilation and sexual assault, said Zhoe Lesher, a senior women’s and gender studies student who will be at the fair.

Scream Queens is a class exploring the roles women play in the horror genre.

Holly Fry, a freshman journalism student in Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies, will present her group’s project about how media influences and changes people’s views of Planned Parenthood based on the media’s coverage of events relating to Planned Parenthood.

“You have all these outlets coming to you and you’re raised with a certain set of principles of how you think about Planned Parenthood, but then the media wants you to have this bad connotation of it, abortions are bad and that kind of thing,” Fry said.

“But that’s really just a small part of what Planned Parenthood does and people don’t know that. It’s only about 3 percent of everything they do.”

Fry’s group topic is media, and they were allowed to examine its effects in anyway they wanted, deciding to study its effect on Planned Parenthood.

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resh produce can be conveniently bought for most people at local supermarkets, but consumers rarely consider where that produce comes from and how it gets to the grocery store.

To kick off Hunger Awareness Week, the WVU Office of Multicultural programs, WVU Food Justice Lab, the OXFAM America student chapter at WVU and the UNICEF Campus Initiative at WVU hosted a screening of “Food Chain$,” a 2014 documentary, Monday night in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

“Food Chain$” explores the human cost of America’s food system by recording the efforts of tomato workers in southern Florida to bring justice to the fields. According to “Food Chain$,” farm labor today remains one of the most difficult and underpaid jobs in America.

“Why do (farmers) not have enough money to buy food, if they are the ones that are investing their lives into producing food?” asked Amanda Stoner, president of the OXFAM America student chapter at WVU. “This movie does a really good job at looking into how supermarkets and large corporations like Kroger and Walmart kind of manipulate the market and set the prices at which they will purchase produce, and that really puts a stress on producers.”

The film focuses on a group of tomato pickers from Immokalee, Florida, who formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in order to revolutionize farm labor.

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Becca Speer, the vice president of the Sierra Club at West Virginia University, presents the documentary film “Food Chain$,” discussing the problem of lowincome labor in America, on Monday evening in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

“I go hungry today so my children won’t have to tomorrow,” reads a sign held by a female member of the CIW at the beginning of a six-day hunger strike documented in the film.

The strike was an attempt by CIW to convince the Floridian chain supermarket “Publix” to join the Fair Food Program, and pay just a penny more per pound of tomatoes from producers to double farm worker wages. “Food

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Simpson tops fundraising in 5-way Dem primary for U.S. House CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)—Cory Simpson raised the most money in the fiveway Democratic primary for Republican U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney’s seat, and a group fueled by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers gave $100,000 to a super PAC supporting Republican Bill Cole for governor.

Those were two highlights of the federal campaign finance reports that were due late last week as the May 10 primary election looms.

According to his report, Simpson, an Army veteran from Charleston, raised

$115,000 from January through March.

He loaned his campaign $20,000 and has $106,500 cash left. He also brought in a check from a top Democratic congressional leader, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer.

Two other Democrats running also put their own money into their campaigns. Attorney Harvey Peyton from Putnam County raised $57,400 and loaned himself $25,000, with $31,500 cash remaining. Charleston attorney Mark Hunt raised $12,800 with a $42,500 loan. He has

$3,100 left.

Hunt and Simpson have begun running TV ads supporting their bids.

Reports weren’t available for Democrats Tom Payne, a Martinsburg resident, and Robin Wilson of West Virginia Citizen Action Group.

Mooney raised $147,900 from January through March and has $376,900 left as he seeks a second term in Congress.

Mooney’s GOP primary opponent, Marc Savitt, raised $11,900 and has $2,200 remaining.

The 2nd Congressional District stretches hun-

dreds of miles east to west, through Martinsburg and Charleston.

GOVERNOR In the open race for governor, Freedom Partners Action Fund, Inc. wrote a $100,000 check in March to a pro-Cole group named Accelerate West Virginia.

The group is independent of Cole’s campaign, and the two aren’t allowed to coordinate.

Freedom Partners Action Fund, one of the few Koch-connected groups that discloses donors, had

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GHOST IN THE SHELL Movie casts white actress as Japanese woman for monetary reasons, not racial OPINION PAGE 3

der studies fair is an important opportunity for the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies to increase their visibility on campus. Lesher said because the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies is in Knapp Hall, which is not on the main part of downtown campus, not all students are aware of it.

“I think this fair really gives us an opportunity to show the important work we’re doing,” Lesher said. “(Knapp Hall) doesn’t really give people the opportunity to stumble upon our department, which is fine, but at the same time the fair really gives the opportunity to have our students’ voices heard and make ourselves as a department visible so more people who want to take the classes get a preview of what we’re doing as a department.”

One of the main focuses of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies is social justice, Lesher said, which makes it an important part of WVU. “Our main focus is social justice so that’s the main reason we’re so important because we are the biggest advocates on campus, I would say, for social justice,” Lesher said. “That’s what our coursework is all about: social justice and the people at the margins.”

Visiting the women’s and gender studies fair is a way for students to start to learn about social justice and get more information about women’s and gender studies classes.

“People need to know feminism isn’t over, women are still fighting for rights even though it seems like we’re equal, we can vote, we can do things, but it’s still an ongoing battle we have to deal with,” Fry explained.

The fair will be held from 3-6 p.m. in Mounainlair ballrooms. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

MIDWEEK MADNESS Zarbnisky, WVU take on Youngstown State SPORTS PAGE 7

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Clinton, Trump seek to quiet critics in N.Y. primaries NEW YORK (AP)—From a car wash in Queens to a hockey arena in Buffalo, both parties’ presidential candidates spread out across New York Monday in a final quest for votes, a surreal scene for a state that hasn’t experienced contested White House primaries in decades.

For Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, victories in New York Tuesday could help quiet critics who have questioned their strength as front-runners. Each has suffered losses in recent contests that emboldened their rivals, though they still lead in delegate counts and are favored in New York.

Clinton, who represented the state as a senator for eight years, spent the final hours of campaigning trying to drive up turnout among women and minorities, her most ardent supporters. Since Sunday, she’s danced to Latin music at a Brooklyn block party, vowed to defend abortion rights to female supporters in Manhattan, prayed at black church in Westchester, drunk a bubble tea at a dumpling shop in Flushing and cheered newly unionized workers in Queens.

“We’re not taking anything for granted,” she said Monday after greeting workers at the Hi-Tek Car Wash & Lube in Queens.

“Tell your friends and your family, everyone, to please vote tomorrow.”

Clinton’s campaign was blunter in outlining the state of the Democratic race. Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook declared the primary effectively over, saying Sanders faced a “close to impossible path to the nomination.” With the contest between Sanders and Clinton becoming increasingly tense, Mook said the Vermont senator had to choose whether he wanted to stay on a “destructive path” that could hurt the party’s eventual nominee.

Sanders has rattled off a string of wins in recent primaries and caucuses. But unless he can topple Clin-

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, second from right, waves to the crowd with former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, right, and the first lady of New York City Chirlane McCray during a Women for Hillary event in New York, Monday, April 18, 2016. ton in a state like New York, gest question for him head- said Monday in brief re- ample, well-connected ahead of Cruz with 545 where 247 Democratic del- ing into Tuesday is whether marks to reporters in the GOP officials say Cruz, as and Kasich with 144. It egates are up for grabs, he he captures more than 50 lobby of Trump Tower. “You well as Ohio Gov. John Ka- takes 1,237 to win the GOP faces increasingly limited percent of the vote state- look at the other folks that sich, is already courting nomination. opportunities to change the wide, which would put him are running, they couldn’t would-be delegates in case Among Democrats, Clintrajectory of the race. in strong position to win care less about New York.” of an open national con- ton has accumulated 1,758 While polling shows all of the state’s 95 GOP A big win for Trump is vention. Trump’s campaign delegates to Sanders’ 1,076.

Clinton with a comfortable delegates. crucial if he hopes to clinch is nowhere to be seen, ac- Those totals include both lead in New York, Sanders Trump was closing his the nomination before the cording to Republicans in pledged delegates from held out hope for a closer New York campaigning party’s convention in July. the state. primaries and caucuses, race.

Cruz, who infamously as well as superdelegates, with an evening rally in If the race isn’t settled by “Let’s look at the real poll Buffalo, where thousands then, he faces the very real panned Trump’s “New the party insiders who can tomorrow,” Sanders said on were expected to pack the prospect of losing to Ted York values” earlier in the back the candidate of their NBC’s “Today Show.” ‘’Gen- city’s hockey arena to catch Cruz, whose campaign primary, was bracing for a choice regardless of how erally speaking, polling has a glimpse of the billionaire is mastering the compli- tough showing. He was al- their state votes.

Heading into Tuesday’s underestimated how we do businessman. He’s spent cated process of lining up ready looking ahead on the the past week emphasizing individual delegates who primary calendar, spend- primary, Sanders needs to in elections.”

For Trump, New York is his ties to New York, partic- could shift their support to ing Monday campaigning win 68 percent of the rean opportunity to rebound ularly New York City, where the Texas senator after the in Maryland, where voters maining delegates if he from a trying stretch for his he was born and where first round of convention head to the polls next week. hopes to clinch the Demoballoting.

Trump leads the GOP cratic nomination. It takes campaign - and with an ex- buildings bear his name. clamation point. The big“We love this city,” he In New Mexico, for ex- race with 744 delegates, 2,383 to win.

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vide high quality education to students unless we do some sort of tuition increase.”

In contrast, 61 percent of the University’s money goes to salaries, wages and benefits for faculty and staff.

“One of the challenges we are facing is we have a contracting appropriation from the state, and we have some challenges on enrollment,” Weese said. “We’re in a very competitive enrollment environment.”

Gee has created a plan for a 90 percent retention rate for freshmen students, and for the WVU family to grow to 40,000 across the Morgantown, Potomac State and Tech campuses.

The current retention rate sits at 79 percent.

“Moving 11 percentage points will not be easy,” Weese said. “With the programs being discussed and implemented this fall, we actually think that might be a realistic goal.”

In the face of budget challenges, Weese said it was important to be innovative and prepared for change.

Part of the University’s plans included strategic investments which would focus on philanthropy, increasing enrollment and streamlining bureaucracy within the University.

$15 million cash available through February. Charles Koch gave $3 million in December.

In late January, Cole spoke about right-to-work laws at a retreat organized

by David and Charles Koch. Cole’s campaign told the Charleston Gazette-Mail he didn’t raise money or campaign while there.

Cole, the state Senate president, is unopposed in the Republican primary.

Billionaire businessman Jim Justice, ex-U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and state Senate Minority Leader Jeff Kessler also are running as Democrats.

OTHER CONGRESSIONAL SEATS Incumbent Republican Reps. Evan Jenkins and David McKinley continued to rake in six-figure fundraising hauls for their re-election bids.

In the 3rd Congressional District that snakes through the southern coalfields, Jenkins raised $141,900 from January through March. He has $566,200 on hand.

He faces Democrat Matt Detch, a former Secret Service agent, in November. Detch brought in $13,600 and has $10,900 cash remaining.

McKinley yielded $151,000 and has $654,400 in the bank for his re-election in the northern West Virginia 1st Congressional District. McKinley opted to seek another two-year House term instead of running for governor.

His Democratic opponent in the general election, former state Del. Mike Manypenny, reported raising $3,000 and ending March with nearly $1,000 in debt.

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Continued from page 1 Chain$” said this would cost Publix $1 million of their $2 billion in annual profits and would increase a family of four’s cost of tomatoes by only 44 cents per year.

The Fair Food Program asks large retailers like supermarkets and fast food restaurants to not only pay just a penny more per pound of tomatoes, but to refuse to buy tomatoes from farms found guilty of human rights violations.

The typical farm worker in Immokalee takes home between $10,500 and $13,000 per year, but the low wages

Audience members listen and take notes during Monday’s Campus Conversations session.

“As we pursue efforts to reduce bureaucracy, it’s really about making it transparent to the campus,” Weese said.

Twelve transformation teams have also been created to fully utilize funds, adjust financial assumption and explore graduate student funding, among other things.

Although the University has many plans to create revenue, Weese joked those planning the

changes had “only been at this for three weeks.”

“Two ways of dealing with the shortfall,” Dean said. “One is we can create new revenue, the other is we can reduce cost.”

Common questions from faculty and staff in the crowd were about the possibility of layoffs and salary decreases.

“We can say safely we’re committed to continuing the salary increase programs in the out years. In

are not the only problems these workers face. The documentary highlights that slavery is still an issue in modern day America when it comes to farm labor, and the farm labor industry has been exploiting the work of migrants who have been desperate enough to work for next to nothing ever since farms became obligated to pay workers.

“Farmers have used wave after wave of migration as a source of labor to make the system work,” said Eric Schlosser, executive producer of the film and author of “Fast Food Nation”.

The film also estimated about 80 percent of female farm workers are victims of sexual harassment from their predominantly male manag-

ers and coworkers, compared to other jobs in which 25 percent of female worker’s experience harassment.

To this day, Publix has still not agreed to join the Fair Food Program, however other large corporations and restaurants have, such as Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, McDonalds, Chipotle and Subway, among others, thanks to the work of the CIW. “I hope when students walk away from this film and they go and buy tomatoes at Kroger, they think about where that tomato came from and who has invested their time and their energy into making that tomato, and if they were paid a fair wage,” Stoner said. “(I hope students

fiscal 2017, it’s going to be challenge,” Weese said.

Weese and Dean assured the faculty and staff the University was dedicated to retaining the “best and brightest talent.”

“We are very positive about the future of the University,” Dean said.

Though the overwhelming majority of those in attendance at the event was faculty and staff, the information presented was critical to students as well.

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“It gives students some idea of how the money that is collected... is actually used to run the University,” Dean said.

The next Campus Conversation will be held at 10 a.m. on April 21 at the Erickson Alumni Center.

Interested students, faculty and staff can learn more at http://bureaucracybusters.wvu.edu/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Joshua Childs attends the screening of the documentary film “Food Chain$,” presented by the Office of Multicultural Programs, WVU Food Justice Lab, OXFAM AMERICA at WVU, and UNICEF Campus Initiative at WVU. consider) what is happening and we can’t run without our to the farm workers who will farm workers.” make America run, because we couldn’t run without food, danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Transitioning into a new era of radio “Video Killed the Radio Star” is a song by British band The Buggles. Originally performed in 1980, the song was the first music video ever played on MTV. The song has since become symbolic of new forms of media doing away with the old. While this is true, The Buggles got one thing wrong: It is not video that will kill the radio star, but podcasts.

Radio traditionally has three purposes: To broadcast news, music and talk shows.

Twitter took care of providing news coverage, MP3 files and streaming sites like Spotify took care of music and podcasts are taking care of talk radio.

Podcasts have been around since the mid-2000s and are almost always in audio format, although some exceptions such as video podcasts exist. They, like all forms of digital media, have three main advantages over what they are replacing. Podcasts have horizontal production, can cater to niche interests and can be consumed at one’s convenience.

Unlike radio broadcasts, podcasts are able to cover a wide variety of subjects.

Horizontal production means a lack of using expensive production tools or licenses. With podcasts, consumers can become producers and vice versa.

In traditional radio, production is expensive. A person needed access to stations and broadcast towers in order to produce content.

Radio funds itself through the use of advertisements, which gives a hint at how much it costs to keep a radio station going: The radio station WHOU 100.1 FM from Houlton, Maine states on its advertisements page a single ad played five times per day five days a week can cost more than $250—

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considering how much airtime on each radio station is spent airing ads every hour, this adds up to quite a bit of money.

This is not the case with podcasts. While radio talk show hosts undoubtedly do excellent jobs creating compelling content, the shows inherently lack variety due

to relatively few people being content creators at studios. Since anyone can make a podcast, the variety is endless, and exciting new show ideas are able to be created more regularly.

Due to this variety, podcasts are also able to cater to niche interests, which is something traditional radio is usually unable to do.

Since radio broadcasts have to appeal to as many people as possible, content is often limited to broad topics that would appeal to as much of the general public as possible. This often means content is watered down and over-generalized. For example, consider just how many similar political talk shows, sports broadcasts or relationship advice segments radio stations across the country air each week.

Podcasts have no such limitations. Since consumers can choose from such a wide variety, podcasts of even the most obscure subject matter can find their niche audiences and thrive with just a few listeners. Interested in

how that annoying computer chip got on your credit card recently? Listen to Planet Money. Want an in depth retelling of an infamous crime?

Then download Serial.

Convenience of consuming is the third advantage.

With traditional radio, if one would like to hear a particular show or segment, one must be tuned in at the right time. If a person is busy or misses a key point of the show, then they’re simply out of luck. Podcast episodes are downloaded at the consumer’s convenience and can be rewound and listened to at any time, so content can be enjoyed multiple times anywhere in the world.

Media is always changing, and what is new often beats the old. The failing of radio is not a reflection on the people who worked hard for its success, but a reflection on the natural evolution of technology. Radio stars and novices alike should partake in the exciting world of podcasts. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Ghost in the Shell’ cast decision has alternate explanation kody goff columnist @retrosyk

With summer slowly rolling in, movies are taking their place at the center of public consciousness. With this in mind, two upcoming films have recently caused public outcry in regards to their casts. The upcoming adaptations of “Ghost in the Shell” and “Doctor Strange” have come under scrutiny and awakened discussions of “whitewashing” and racial inequality in major studio films. Yet, however heinous these choices may be, I don’t believe they were made for purely racial reasons.

Whitewashing, for those unaware, refers to the alleged tendency of Hollywood directors to cast white actors and actresses in the roles of characters who were non-white in their respective source material.

Both “Ghost in the Shell” and “Doctor Strange” involve characters originally of Asian origin being played by white actresses.

In the upcoming adaptation of the fan-favorite anime “Ghost in the Shell,” Scarlett Johansson is slated to play protagonist Motoko Kusanagi. Within the fiction of the original anime, Kusanagi is a cyborg who can transfer her mind between bodies, and so some argue she could well have chosen a Caucasian body.

However, “Ghost in the Shell” is a story which takes place in a dystopian, cyberpunk Japan, and it goes without saying Kusanagi was intended to be Japanese. To make matters worse, Screen Crush, a movie news website, re-

‘Ghost in the Shell’ stars Scarlett Johansson, a white actress, in a role undoubtedly intended for a Japanese woman. ported last Friday on a rumor that Paramount studios tried using computer-generated graphics and makeup effects to make Johansson look “more Asian.”

This bit of gossip put many fence-sitting supporters of Johansson over the edge, with this supposed backward view of race being too reprehensible and ignorant to even fathom.

Paramount denied the allegations, but the damage has likely been done.

The other film which has

been put under a racial microscope is Marvel Studios’ upcoming “Doctor Strange,” which is considerably further into its development than “Ghost in the Shell.”

The whitewashed character is known as The Ancient One, Doctor Strange’s mentor and teacher of the mystic arts. Originally, The Ancient One was an old, withered male Tibetan monk who was later revealed to be a nigh-immortal manifestation of Earth’s magic.

Far fewer people are upset about this choice for a multitude of reasons. As mentioned above, The Ancient One is a magical being, not something or someone people would traditionally assign a race to. Not only this, but the character has been genderswapped and is now being played by Tilda Swinton.

Adding female representation into positions of power is something dedicated movie-goers seem to like, as demonstrated most recently by critical acclaim

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for Charlize Theron’s role in “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

I honestly believe these changes weren’t made to exclude Asians or any other race or ethnicity. From the “Doctor Strange” trailer, released on YouTube earlier this month, it looks like Swinton was cast for her acting chops and not simply because she is European.

One could argue the same thing about Johansson’s casting in “Ghost in the Shell,” yet the film’s production crew seems much more reliant on the

actress’s name recognition than staying true to character depiction. Paramount Pictures may have trouble marketing “Ghost in the Shell,” as the vast majority of people have never heard of it. In this way, casting a well-known actress in this role may be a smart move profit-wise.

Marvel Studios already succeeds at capitalizing on obscure stories due to studio reputation alone. Consider 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” in which a previously niche property became an extremely profitable franchise all because it was a Marvel film. In this way, “Doctor Strange” did not need to pander to audiences in its casting choices in the same way “Ghost in the Shell” appears to be doing. Paramount cast Johansson as Kusanagi not to erase the character’s Asian identity, but to draw in fans of sci-fi action thrillers starring Johansson.

Whitewashing is prevalent in movie casting, and just once is one time too many. Kusanagi could have been played by a lesserknown Japanese actress, but Paramount most likely didn’t want to risk losing box office sales over this decision. Max Landis, director of “Chronicle” and son of “Blues Brothers” director John Landis, even said as much in a video descriptively titled, “If You’re Mad about ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ You Don’t Know how the Movie Industry Works.”

It’s clear these casting decisions weren’t motivated by something horrible like racism, but were driven by something more understandable: Money. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Coachella returns for first weekend of music and fashion, Calvin Harris and Sia among performers by mel smith

A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Imagine spending a weekend in the desert of California with the world’s most admirable musicians and appearances of Hollywood’s elite wherever you turn. Where are you? The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

The festival, shortened to Coachella, is a two-weekend annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The festival grounds are located in the Inland Empire’s Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert. Since 1999, Coachella has brought music’s renowned legends and respected emerging artists to the West Coast.

The festival includes a variety of genres of music, with several stages hosting performances simultaneously. This year, the unofficial theme of performances has proven to be star-studded surprise guests. The four most memorable performances are as follows.

THE CHAINSMOKERS The EDM duo from New York is famous for its catchy, bass-dropping singles across college campuses. The duo visited West Virginia University in August 2015, bringing thousands of students to the Mountainlair Green.

During their performance at Coachella on Sunday evening, the pair had no shortage of special guests ready to shock the crowd. Tiesto, a fellow DJ, joined The Chainsmokers to perform the joint song “Split (Only U).”

Walk the Moon appeared shortly after to perform its smash hit “Shut Up and Dance,” which had the crowd going insane. Other special guests include the singer Rozes, who was expected to appear for the top hit, “Roses.” Third Eye Blind’s Stephen Jenkins shocked the crowd with his appearance as well as rapper G-Eazy, who had a microphone malfunction and only rapped half of his hit, “Me, Myself and I.” Regardless, the

duo played a memorable set and proved it can make its mark during its first appearance at Coachella.

DISCLOSURE The electronic music duo, brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence, is originally from Surrey, England. The brothers have made their mark on American culture through top hits “Latch” featuring Sam Smith and a variety of appearances at Coachella, Lollapalooza Music Festival and Sasquatch Festival. The pair’s newest album, “Caracal,” features vocals from all of the guests during the evening’s performance. The crowd at Disclosure’s set on Saturday evening was in for a treat as the British duo began the performance with an appearance from Aluna Francis of AlunaGeorge to perform their collaboration “White Noise.” Lorde surprised the crowd soon after to perform “Magnets,” while Kwabs prepared to emerge for the performance of “Willing & Able.” Lion Babe’s Jillian Hervey put a spin on the track “Hourglass,” and Brendan Reilly belted the blues track “Moving Mountains.” Last but not least, Sam Smith was the final guest of the evening as he sang “Omen” and “Latch.” Though reviews state that Smith did not carry the performance, the collaboration made the performance thrilling for fans of Disclosure.

SIA The disguised pop artist, Sia, did not leave her podium once during her performance, and it was still one of the most talked about performances of Coachella thus far. Sia is known for her latest hits “Elastic Heart,” “Alive” and “Chandelier,” but came to fame through her past chart toppers “Titanium” and “Breathe Me.” Sia became even more popular durignthe past two years through her erotic music videos and dance sequences for her songs, with “Dance Mom’s” Maddie Ziegler’s dance to “Chandelier” being the most notorious of all. As fans expected, Sia’s artistic vision came to life on stage Sunday evening. She

Sia performs her hit single ‘Chandelier’ at Coachella this past weekend. performed all of her hits with accompanied emotional dance performances by Kristen Wiig, Paul Dano, Tig Notaro and Maddie Ziegler, either through on-stage or pretaped on-screen performances. Sia’s set has been talked about as not only a musician’s performance, but also an artist’s gallery. The show was nothing less than a chilling, unforgettable performance.

CALVIN HARRIS The first headlining DJ of Coachella in the history of the festival graced the stage Sunday evening with a few friends to help him out. Scottish DJ and producer, Calvin Harris, brought down the house with an intense surprise in his set: Barbados’ pop queen, Rihanna. Calvin Harris is not a stranger to the

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festival scene, earning his way to become a headliner of the 2016 festival. Through his performance, drop-ins by John Newman and Big Sean were crowd-pleasers. Big Sean performed his hit, “I Don’t F*ck With You,” and the crowd did not miss a beat.

Rihanna made her debut in a red and white tasseled jacket, singing her hit song “We Found Love.” Her appearance was slightly expected, but certainly lived up to the hype. Stars were in the crowd for the performance, including Taylor Swift and her group of girlfriends. Fireworks ended the evening, and Harris closed down the first weekend of Coachella like a pro. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

‘Jungle Book’ remake scores big at box office

by Westley THompson ASSociate A&E Editor @westleyt93

“The Jungle Book” released in theatres last weekend, grossing $294 million so far. This live action movie is an adaptation of Disney’s 1967 animated film of the same name.

It combines the story of the animated film with some elements of Rudyard Kipling’s original writings, which both movies are based on.

The story’s protagonist is Mowgli, a young boy who was orphaned in the jungle and raised by talking animals. Under the guidance of the panther Bagheera, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Despite the wolves viewing the young boy as one of their own, Mowgli struggles with his identity as he lacks the wolves’ natural physical prowess and is chastised by Bagheera for using his “human tricks” such as tool making.

One day, while at the watering hole, Mowgli is spotted by the villainous tiger Shere Khan. Shere Khan declares he wants the boy dead, but jungle law dictates that animals cannot attack at the hole during the dry season. The tiger promises to kill the boy, and anyone who stands in his way, once the rainy season begins.

Mowgli knows his presence is a danger to his wolf pack and sets off into the jungle with Bagheera to find the human village. He encounters many perils along the way.

Overall, “The Jungle Book” was OK. Despite its live-action performances and darker tones taken from Kipling’s original stories, the movie was still very much aimed at kids.

“The Jungle Book” is a visually stunning movie. Heavy use of realistic CGI gives the jungle and the characters a grounded yet mystical feel. The environment feels like the jungles of India as viewed through a fairy tale book.

The coolest, and creepiest, scene is when Mowgli is caught in python Kaa’s treetop lair. The atmosphere goes from dreamlike to nightmarish as creative wide shots slowly reveal how massive and all-enveloping Kaa is. The hellish snake, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, hypnotizes the young boy as she constricts him. The last scene as her jaws fully extend over the young boy is terrifying and memorable.

Baloo, the lazy and cunning bear voiced by Bill Murray, is another highlight of the movie. Baloo’s scenes are the funniest of the film as he lounges about, encouraging the boy to harvest honey.

The film’s cast is impressive, with A-list actors voicing the talking animals. Ben Kingsley lends his distinct voice to Bagheera, Idris Elba voices Shere Khan and Christopher Walken voices the great monkey King Louie.

Although the film has its moments, it struggles to hold the viewer’s attention. Although some darker elements are added, the story is still heavily filtered through Disney’s family-friendly lens. Kipling’s original book was much darker and more violent, and this movie gives that up to attract children.

One also cannot get over the sense they’ve seen it before. Yes, the graphics are improved and Mowgli is a real boy instead of a cartoon, but it’s the same exact story we’ve all grown up with. Mowgli goes on an adventure, finds out his differences are actually his strengths and everyone is good at something, beats Shere Khan and everyone lives happily ever after.

“The Jungle Book” is a classic but well-worn tale. It’s an updated but underwhelming tread down the same old screenrant.com path.

‘The Jungle Book’ has grossed over $249 million since its debut. wethompson@mail.wvu.edu

WVU School of Theatre presents Arabian Nights at the CAC

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Shahryar, played by Afsheen Misaghi, holds a knife to Scheherezade, performed by Nativa Kesecker, during “The Arabian Shahryar quiets his adviser during “The Arabian Nights” at the Creative Arts Center.

Nights” at the Creative Arts Center.

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Battle of the streaming services ‘Hamilton’ wins

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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon.com Inc. is taking on Netflix and Hulu with its own stand-alone video streaming service, just weeks before Netflix raises prices for longtime subscribers.

New customers can now pay $8.99 a month to watch Amazon’s Prime video streaming service. Previously, the only way to watch Amazon’s videos was to pay $99 a year for Prime membership, which includes free two-day shipping on items sold by the site, and other perks.

At $8.99 a month, Amazon’s stand-alone streaming service is $1 less than Netflix’s standard membership and $1 more than Hu-

lu’s basic subscription.

Netflix said earlier this year that a “substantial number” of its longtime members who paid $7.99 monthly - and have been protected from price hikes - will now pay an additional $2 starting in May. Amazon’s decision to break off its video streaming service could cause some defections at Netflix, wrote Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter in a note to clients.

Both companies have invested heavily in original and exclusive programing. Netflix has “Orange is the New Black,” ‘’House of Cards” and a couple of series based on Marvel comic characters. Amazon’s offerings include “Transpar-

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ent,” ‘’Mozart in the Jungle” and previously aired HBO shows. With Hulu, users can watch many current TV episodes a day after they air on a network. Hulu is also growing its exclusive offerings, with “The Mindy Project” and “Difficult People.”

Netflix Inc. declined to comment Monday. Representatives for Amazon and Hulu did respond to a request for comment.

Amazon may be a rival, but Netflix is also an Amazon customer. The Los Gatos, California-based streaming company uses Amazon Web Services to store its content and help run parts of its site and apps.

Besides its stand-alone

video service, Amazon is also offering a new payas-you-go option for its full Prime membership for $10.99 a month and comes with free two-day shipping, video streaming and other perks. Amazon’s website said that users who opt to pay $10.99 monthly, instead of the $99 annual fee, can cancel at any time. The $99 a year option remains the cheapest way for most people to get both free two-day shipping and video streaming, equaling about $8.25 a month.

Shares of Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. rose $5.22 to $630.11 in afternoon trading Monday. Netflix Inc. shares fell $4.44, or 4 percent, to $107.07.

Plight of refugees among themes of prize winners NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the awarding of the 100th-annual Pulitzer Prizes (all times local): 4:55 p.m.

The plight of refugees is among the social issues tackled by this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners.

Among the prize’s arts categories, former refugee Viet Thanh Nguyen (VEE’eht tahn gwihn) won the fiction prize Monday for “The Sympathizer” - an immigrant tale told in a “wry, confessional voice.”

“Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Caribbean emigrant Alexander Hamilton, won for drama.

In journalism, The Associated Press won for public service. It documented the use of slave labor in the commercial seafood industry in Indonesia and Thailand.

The New York Times and Reuters won for heart-wrenching breaking news photos of desperate refugees.

In one Times photo, a man with blood streaming down his face shields a child in a cloud of tear gas as migrants try to surge into Hungary from Serbia.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda says he’s “living in the highlight reel section” of his life after winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his musical “Hamilton.”

Miranda told The Associated Press on Monday that’s he’s humbled and overwhelmed by the win. He wrote the music and story for the Broadway show about the nation’s first U.S. Treasury secretary.

Miranda joked that he had a “home-court advantage” because the prizes were announced at Columbia University, which is Alexander Hamilton’s alma mater.

The drama award was widely expected to go to Miranda this year. The album for “Hamilton” won a Grammy Award and became the highest-debuting cast recording on the Billboard Top 200 in over 50 years. The show is a leading favorite in this summer’s Tony Awards.

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“Ozone Journal” by Peter Balakian has won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

The Pulitzer board said Monday that Balakian’s poems “bear witness to the old losses and tragedies that undergird a global age of danger and uncertainty.”

Finalists in the category were “Alive: New and Selected Poems” by Elizabeth Willis and “FourLegged Girl” by Diane

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Written by an award-winning journalist, ‘Black Flag’ gives a detailed explanation of how the Iraq War led to the formation of ISIS. Seuss.

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“Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS” by Joby Warrick has won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

Warrick is a journalist with The Washington Post and a previous Pulitzer winner. The Pulitzer board says he was honored for “a deeply reported book of remarkable clarity showing how the flawed rationale for the Iraq War led to the explosive growth of the Islamic State.”

Warrick also won the Pulitzer in 1996 as part of a team reporting on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina’s growing hog industry.

Finalists were “Between the World and Me,” the much-celebrated work by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and “If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran” by Carla Power.

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The Washington Post has won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

The Post’s staff was honored Monday for creating and using a national database to illustrate how often and why police shoot to kill.

The Post found that in 2015, on-duty police officers shot and killed 990 people nationwide. It reported that unarmed black men were seven times more likely to die at the hands of police officers than unarmed whites were. More than 50 of the

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officers had killed someone before.

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“In for a Penny, In for a Pound” by Henry Threadgill has won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

Judges described the recording as “a highly original work in which notated music and improvisation mesh in a sonic tapestry that seems the very expression of modern American life.”

Other finalists included “The Blind Banister” by Timo Andres and “The Mechanics: Six from the Shop Floor” by Carter Pann.

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The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune have won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative repor ting for a project on mental hospitals.

The Tampa Bay Times also won the local reporting category for studying the effects of education in Pinellas County, Florida, when schools in poor neighborhoods were essentially desegregated and neglected.

This is the contest’s 100th year. The winners were announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University in New York City.

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“Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

The dazzling, exuber-

ant musical by creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows, having already won a Grammy Award, a spot on the Billboard 200 charts and mentions on “Saturday Night Live.” It’s a leading favorite in this summer’s Tony Awards.

The musical tells the story of how an orphan emigrant from the Caribbean rose to the highest ranks of American society, as told by a young AfricanAmerican and Latino cast.

It becomes the ninth musical to win the drama award, joining such shows as “South Pacific,” ‘’Sunday in the Park with George” and “Rent.” The last musical to nab the prize was “Next to Normal” in 2010.

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The Associated Press has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for articles documenting the use of slave labor in the commercial seafood industry in Indonesia and Thailand.

The award was announced Monday at Columbia University in New York City.

AP journalists Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan (TOO’-san) documented how men from Myanmar and other countries were imprisoned, sometimes in cages, in Indonesia and forced to work on vessels that sent seafood to Thailand.

The project involved interviewing captives and tracking slave-caught seafood to processing plants that supply supermarkets, restaurants and pet stores in the U.S. --11:30 a.m.

The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music are set to be announced in New York City.

The year marks the 100th year of the contest. The prizes are set to be announced Monday afternoon at Columbia University.

The Pulitzer Prizes will recognize the best journalism of 2015 in newspapers, magazines and web sites. There are 14 categories for reporting, photography, criticism and commentary.

In the arts, prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music.

The very first Pulitzer Prize in reporting was given in 1917 to Herbert Bayard Swope of the New York World.

Swope reported from the German front lines during World War I.

‘Hamilton’ wins a Pulitzer Prize for best drama.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama, honoring creator Lin-Manuel Miranda for a dazzling musical that has captured popular consciousness like few Broadway shows.

The Columbia University’s prize board on Monday cited “Hamilton” as “a landmark American musical about the gifted and selfdestructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible.” Other finalists were “Gloria,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and “The Humans,” by Stephen Karam.

“I feel really humbled and really overwhelmed,” Miranda told The Associated Press. “Columbia is Hamilton’s alma mater so I think that gave me a homecourt advantage. But it’s extraordinary to be recognized in this way.”

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,” a debut novel set in the final days of the Vietnam War and narrated in flashback by a former Communist agent who infiltrated the South Vietnamese Army, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The 45-year-old author, currently in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to promote the paperback edition of his novel, told The Associated Press that he wrote “The Sympathizer” for himself but feels many can relate to it.

“I think most people in their inner selves are conscious of being an impostor, being an observer, not being the person everyone thinks they are,” he said.

“For the novel I took that to the extreme in using a spy and adding the dimensions of the thriller and historical fiction.”

“Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS” by Joby Warrick won for general nonfiction. Warrick also won the Pulitzer in 1996, as part of a team reporting on the environmental and health risks of waste disposal systems used in North Carolina’s growing hog industry.

“There’s nothing like getting hit by lightning twice,” Warrick said in a telephone interview.

Warrick said that if there was a chief lesson he sought to impart in his new book, which traces the origins and growth of ISIS, it was that “decisions have consequences” and the West, in many ways, helped propel the group. “We are not innocent in the rise of this organization,” he said.

The history prize was won by “Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,” by T.J. Stiles, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.

He told The Associated Press that he had long been interested in the story of George Armstrong Custer, the butt of jokes for the disastrous Battle of the Little Big Horn.

“Custer is a difficult subject, because he’s very familiar and someone who has been reduced to caricature, if not an effigy in American memory,” he said. “Writing about him in an honest way, without apologizing for him, is an incredibly difficult thing to do.”

The book “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life,” by William Finnegan won in the biography or autobiography category, cited as a “memoir of a youthful obsession” and “Ozone Journal” by Peter Balakian won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

“In for a Penny, In for a Pound,” by Henry Threadgill was named the winner in the music category. The 72-year-old Chicago-born jazz artist said he wrote the

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composition for members of his band, Zooid, which includes drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee, cellist Christopher Hoffman, guitarist Liberty Ellman and Jose Davila on trombone and tuba.

“It was something to showcase each musician in the ensemble, that was the big thing,” Threadgill said.

“It was like a series of small concertos in a way, small solo pieces.”

But it was the drama award that generated the most buzz. “Hamilton,” about the first U.S. Treasury Secretary, becomes the ninth musical to win the drama award, joining such shows as “South Pacific,” ‘’Sunday in the Park with George” and “Rent.”

The last musical to nab the award was “Next to Normal” in 2010.

It tells the story of how an orphan immigrant from the Caribbean rose to the highest ranks of American society, as told by a young African-American and Latino cast. Miranda leaned on Ron Chernow’s biography of the Founding Father, but told the tale in common language and verse, transforming Hamilton into “the $10 Founding Father without a father.”

Miranda, 36, who wrote the music and story, already has a Tony for creating the Broadway musical “In the Heights,” a show which was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2009 and this month won three Olivier Awards in London. He also has an Emmy for writing the opening number for the 2013 Tony Awards.

In the past year, Miranda, whose family came from Puerto Rico to New York, has won a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, which came with $100,000.

The drama award was widely expected to go to Miranda this year. The album for “Hamilton” won a Grammy Award and became the highest-debuting cast recording on the Billboard Top 200 in over 50 years. The show is a leading favorite in this summer’s Tony Awards. The libretto, published last week, immediately became a top seller on Amazon.com “I’m just trying to stay as present and in the moment as possible because I’m fully aware that this speeds by in the highlight reel. I’m living in the highlight reel section of my life,” Miranda said. “I want to slow the montage down.”

“Hamilton” was a soldout sensation this year when it debuted off-Broadway at New York’s Public Theater and amassed a $60 million advance on Broadway. It has been cheered by politicians as diverse as Dick Cheney and President Barack Obama, and celebrities like British actress Helen Mirren, musician Questlove and many others.

The music is a mix of breezy pop, rap battles and slinky R&B. Lyrics are smart and playful, including Hamilton declaring: “In the face of ignorance and resistance/I wrote a financial system into existence.”

The Pulitzer drama award, which includes a $10,000 prize, is “for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life,” according to the guidelines.

Previous playwrights honored include August Wilson, Edward Albee, Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.

Recent winners include Annie Baker’s “The Flick,” Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced” and Stephen Adly Guirgis’s “Between Riverside and Crazy.”

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Netflix has more original programming than HBO SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Look out, HBO. Last year, Netflix produced more original programming than cable’s premium-network l e a d e r,

according to numbers from both companies. The Internet video service isn’t slowing down either, even if means risking subscribers with price increases needed to help pay for more exclusive TV shows and movies.

Since its push into exclusive shows kicked off in earnest with the 2013 debut of “House of Cards,” Netflix has hit the fast-forward button. Last year, it put out 450 hours of original programming, compared to 401 from Time Warner’s HBO. This year, both companies say they expect to release roughly 600 hours of original material.

HBO, of course, is the network Netflix CEO Reed Hastings set out to emulate when his service began charting a course away from streaming TV reruns and previously

released movies. Ted Sarandos, the company’s head of programming, famously told GQ back in 2013 that Netflix’s goal was “to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.”

Netflix is aiming to put itself into “an entirely different and supreme league” from its rivals, says Tom Numan, a former TV network and studio executive who now lectures at UCLA’s graduate school of theater, film and television. In effect, he says, the company is aiming to become the first global network for original shows and movies.

Amazon.com, Hulu and other services are scrambling to catch up with their own moves into original programming. Its own original slate is only a quarter the size of Netflix’s, but Amazon.com can boast that its shows won more Emmy awards last year than its rival.

Netflix is counting on a vast library of original programming to help keep subscribers on board as it meets new competition. Amazon, for instance, just started offering its streaming-video service for $9 a month ; previously, you had to sign up for the company’s $100-ayear Prime service, which includes free shipping from its e-commerce site and other goodies.

Amazon is undercutting Netflix’s $10 monthly price for its most popular videostreaming plan, as is Hulu, which charges $8. HBO charges $15 per month for a video-streaming service it launched last year to compete against Netflix.

Netflix will test the loyalty its long-time subscribers next month when it hikes their prices 25 percent, following a two-year

freeze that kept rates at $8 per month. The increase will hit 17 million to 22 million U.S. subscribers, based on analyst estimates.

Original programming doesn’t come cheap. The Los Gatos, California, company ended last year with $10.9 billion committed to Internet streaming rights, nearly doubling from $5.6 billion at the end of 2012.

Netflix hasn’t disclosed how much of that spending has gone toward original series and exclusive movies, but the percentage has been steadily increasing.

The cost of licensing and overseas expansion has whittled Netflix’s profit margins. In its first-quarter results, released late Monday, the company said it earned $28 million, or 6 cents per share, on revenue of nearly $2 billion. Investors, though, are far more focused the company’s subscriber growth.

So far, the company has delivered. Netflix picked up an additional 6.74 million customers in the first quarter to boost its worldwide audience to 81.5 million subscribers - up from 33 million before the first season of “House of Cards.”

Such gains helped propel Netflix’s share price, which has more than quadrupled since then, creating about $36 billion in shareholder wealth.

But the stock price dropped more than 10 percent in extended trading late Monday after the company predicted it would only add 500,000 U.S. subscribers in the second quarter. The conservative forecast reflected the anticipated loss of some longtime subscribers due to the price increase.

There’s a worrisome history here. In 2011, subscrib-

ers fled when Netflix split off its DVD-by-mail operation from its burgeoning streaming business, a shift that hiked prices as much as 60 percent for some subscribers.

Netflix lost 3 percent of its U.S. subscribers at the time. A similar reaction to next month’s price increase might cost it 510,000 to 660,000 subscribers in the second quarter.

Analysts think a repeat is unlikely. “I don’t think you are going to see a lot of people bailing out and running for the exits,” said Rosenblatt Securities analyst Martin Pyykkonen - largely because Netflix now has so many shows you can’t find anywhere else.

That original programming appears to be a major draw for many subscribers. In a recent online survey of 2,500 U.S. adults conducted by Morgan Stanley, 45 percent cited it as a reason to subscribe to Netflix.

HBO, however, still has a huge advantage over Netflix in terms of prestige.

Last year, HBO won 43 Emmys, more than any other TV network, while Netflix’s original programs garnered just four one less t h a n

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‘The Night Manager’ promises psych thrills Box office top 15: ‘The Jungle Book’ reigns supreme

Tom Hiddleson and Hugh Laurie face off in AMC’s spy thriller mini-series ‘The Night Manager.’

NEW YORK (AP) — The premise of “The Night Manager” is simple. Or might seem so.

Jonathan Pine, a former soldier now in a different kind of service as night manager of a luxury hotel, is drawn into a risky mission to bring down international arms dealer Richard Roper by posing as a fellow merchant of evil.

But this six-part miniseries (premiering on AMC Tuesday at 10 p.m. EDT) is based on the John le Carre spy thriller of the same name, which should strongly suggest this is no simple cloak-and-dagger affair.

Somehow “The Night Manager” manages to be as menacing and methodical as any film noir, yet at the same time teem with color, sweep and action cloaked in stillnesss.

Meanwhile, its brilliant co-stars, Hugh Laurie (who plays Roper) and Tom Hiddleston (the intrepid Pine) - well, they speak for themselves.

Literally.

The series, Hiddleston explained in a recent interview with them, “deals with the more fascinating aspects of the psyche and identity and to what extent we tell lies to ourselves to justify who we are.”

“I think that sums everything up,” said Laurie, pretending to take his leave. “Our work is done.”

Not quite.

Laurie said he had yearned to appear in a movie version - even at-

tempting to option the novel himself - ever since its 1993 publication.

But the book seemed to resist being shoehorned into a feature-length film.

“There is a pace and a density to the interior lives of the characters that makes it hard to do justice to (in a movie),” said Laurie. “Le Carre is writing thoughts rather than deeds. Everything is oblique and concealed, and it’s the painstaking discovery that’s the fascination of it.”

Originally, Laurie saw himself as Pine, but when the chance arose to play Roper, “I fell to my knees in an indecent display of pleading.”

Who indeed could resist playing anyone so charismatic yet so wicked that he is described as “the worst man in the world”?

“That’s quite a complicated metric to establish,” Laurie acknowledged with a laugh, “but clearly he qualifies for the semifinals. He does it with charm and skill and daring, and he’s fun to be around, the way one imagines the devil would be. If he was just a tattooed thug with ‘Devil’ on his forehead, we’d all give him a wide berth. Richard Roper is NOT like that.”

In effect, Laurie spent two decades preparing for the role.

“From the moment I read the book, I felt like I could picture and hear and almost smell this character.”

And from the mo-

ment viewers confront this character, Laurie, 56, guarantees with his performance they will forget his eight TV seasons on “House M.D.” playing the crusty yet lovable Dr. Gregory House.

As for the 35-yearold Hiddleston, whose past projects have included “Thor,” Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” and the role of Hank Williams in the recent “I Saw the Light,” he described the first “Night Manager” script as “immaculate.” After reading it, he was in.

Infiltrating Roper ’s world, Pine is a model of disarming polish and suave restraint.

“I wanted to do as little as possible,” said Hiddleston, “and trust the audience to join the dots. I worried that I wasn’t doing enough, but there’s something very active about the way Pine is passive. It was a fascinating challenge to try to communicate how deep those still waters run.”

“The tendency that all actors have,” said Laurie, “is to constantly tell the story with every line and every look, and the audience very quickly reacts against it. But Tom is able to BE, to simply be.

“The audience wants to participate in the construction of the story. And often that requires an actor who has the confidence to just be. There probably aren’t more than a half-dozen actors who can accomplish that, and I couldn’t name the others.

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So let’s just say ‘one’ - and he’s sitting right there.”

“Goodness,” said Hiddleston on hearing this accolade, then, recovering, turning the tables on Laurie: “I’ll tell you one thing I’ve never said before.”

“Bloody hell!” Laurie responded in mock dread.

“Hugh has a rigor about his work,” said Hiddleston, “that’s as far away from ego as you can imagine. Sometimes actors are shy about that kind of active involvement because they don’t want to rock the boat. But if something doesn’t feel right, Hugh is unafraid to say so, and it’s all in the service of the whole.”

That tribute left Laurie speechless. But only for a flash. The inevitable James Bond question must be dealt with, and Laurie waggishly went for it.

“I refuse to deny that I’m being considered for Bond,” he replied, deadpan. “I also refuse to deny that I’m being considered for Cleopatra.”

With that, he turned to Hiddleston, who in fact has been buffeted by gossip recently that he might headline the next Bond sequel. “Poor bloke,” said Laurie. “What can he say?

There’s no way of answering the question that doesn’t increase this tabloid dialogue.”

“I’m just trying to take it as a compliment,” said Hiddleston, for now very pleased to play a breed of spy even James Bond would applaud.

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‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’ came in a solid second place in this week’s box office rankings.

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Jungle Book” ruled the box office with $103.3 million in its debut weekend, the latest Walt Disney Co. live action adaptation of one of the studio’s cartoon classics to score big with moviegoers.

The larger-than-expected debut succeeded by drawing a wide audience to the well-reviewed PG-rated film. Only five PG-rated films have had larger openings. But Jon Favreau’s CGIenabled update of the “The Jungle Book” landed the second highest April opening ever.

Opening solidly in second was Ice Cube’s “Barbershop: The Next Cut” with $20.2 million, according to final box office figures released Monday. The Kevin Costner action thriller “Criminal” limped into theaters with $5.8 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore: 1. “The Jungle Book,” Disney, $103,261,464, 4,028 locations, $25,636 average, $103,261,464, 1 week.

2. “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” Warner Bros., $20,242,415, 2,661 locations, $7,607 average, $20,242,415, 1 week.

3. “The Boss,” Universal, $9,958,855, 3,495 locations, $2,849 average, $40,140,765, 2 weeks.

4. “Batman v Superman:

Dawn Of Justice,” Warner Bros., $9,028,356, 3,505 locations, $2,576 average, $311,330,086, 4 weeks.

5. “Zootopia,” Disney, $8,142,641, 3,209 locations, $2,537 average, $307,386,397, 7 weeks.

6. “Criminal,” Lionsgate, $5,767,278, 2,683 locations, $2,150 average, $5,767,278, 1 week.

7. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2,” Universal, $3,258,720, 2,297 locations, $1,419 average, $52,094,210, 4 weeks.

8. “Miracles From Heaven,” Sony, $1,938,766, 2,082 locations, $931 average, $56,969,578, 5 weeks.

9. “God’s Not Dead 2,” Pure Flix, $1,718,304, 1,585 locations, $1,084 average, $16,980,978, 3 weeks.

10. “Eye in the Sky,” Bleecker Street, $1,553,083, 891 locations, $1,743 average, $13,113,068, 6 weeks.

11. “MET Opera: Roberto Devereux,” Fathom Events, $1,500,000, 900 locations, $1,667 average, $1,500,000, 1 week.

12. “Hardcore Henry,” ST X Enter tainment, $1,445,326, 3,015 locations, $479 average, $8,117,998, 2 weeks.

13. “The Divergent Series: Allegiant,” Lionsgate, $1,370,630, 1,484 locations, $924 average, $64,011,791, 5 weeks.

14. “Fan,” Yash Raj Films, $1,357,212, 280 locations, $4,847 average, $1,357,212, 1 week.

15. “10 Cloverfield Lane,” Paramount, $1,058,603, 1,085 locations, $976 average, $69,793,284, 6 weeks.

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Job Offers and Benefits: Know What You’re Worth Courtesy of the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Preparing for life after college can be a formidable undertaking. For months now, your focus has been on doing everything necessary to build a perfect resume and to sharpen your interviewing skills to perfection. With so much emphasis on preparing for a job, it is common to do little to actually consider what to do first when an offer is made. As you look for your first job, you are probably not thinking about retirement, investing or becoming ill or injured.

However, that is exactly the decisions you will need to make immediately upon accepting a job. Benefits are a very important part of your compensation package and something that you need to consider before accepting a job offer. Understanding the various benefits available will help you make a more informed decision when that offer comes.

Commonly Offered Benefits Health Insurance: This is an important benefit because even if you have to pay for all or part of the coverage, it’s cheaper to get insurance through an employer at group rates than to purchase it on your own. If you get sick or have a skiing (or horseback riding or bungee-jumping) accident, your medical treatment is paid for (in part or in full, depending on your policy).

Annual Salary Increases: More money? Of course that’s a good thing. In recent years, some employers have frozen salaries—not given any raises—or given minimal, 1.4 percent raises.

Tuition Reimbursement: One way to get ahead in your career is to continue learning and keep up with the latest trends in your profession. In this case, your employer pays all or a portion of your tuition costs for classes related to the business of the company.

401(k) Plan: This is a retirement plan that allows you to put a percentage of your gross (pre-tax) income into a trust fund or other qualified investment fund. In many cases, employers will match your contribution up to a certain percentage—this is “free” money that can add to your overall compensation package. Why is this important to you when retirement is still 30 or 40 years away? The earlier you start saving, the more money you will have to live on when you retire.

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Family-friendly Benefits: Do you have to have a family to collect these benefits? Absolutely not! Family-friendly benefits can mean a lot of thing such as flextime that allows you to vary your workday start and stop times (within limits), paid time off (PTO) deposits lets you to allocate your vacation or sick days as you wish, and telecommuting permits you to work from home or at an alternative work site for part of the week.

Declining a Job Offer After considering a job offer (the job, salary, benefits, etc.) and weighing the pros and cons, you might make the decision not to take a job. If you choose to reject the company’s offer, here are five things to know: 1. It’s okay to say no, thank you. You aren’t the first person to reject a job offer. In addition, the position is going to be filled by another candidate.

2. A rejected employer may appreciate your answer. Hiring an employee is expensive. Accepting a job offer you are unsure of—and then resigning a few months later—costs time and money for both you and the organization.

3. Say thank you. Be sure to thank the person offering the job for their interest in hiring you. Leave a good impression. You may want to work for that company in the future!

4. Be professional when you tell other people. Don’t bad-mouth a company or specific person within an organization.

5. Give them your decision in writing. Keep rejection letters professional and concise.

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SPORTS

Tuesday April 19, 2016

Chris Jackson Associate Sports Editor @CJacksonWVU

McKoy looks like the ‘other No. 4’ Running backs coach JaJuan Seider knows he’s got a special talent in the backfield.

Freshman running back Kennedy McKoy has turned heads all spring.

He’s quick, plays well after contact and his football IQ is off the charts.

Plus, he can line up at receiver­ — a trademark under Dana Holgorsen’s offenses the last few years, with Charles Sims and Wendell Smallwood excelling in that mold.

“I won’t recruit a kid that can’t play running back and slot guy for us,” Seider said. “It’s too valuable in our offense. We won’t recruit a 230-pound guy that can only do one thing. We don’t work that way. It won’t help us. We want guys that can do multiple things. Guys who catch the ball are going to move ahead of the guys who can only do one thing.”

Everyone has begun to notice McKoy’s talents. Wendell Smallwood left early for the NFL and Rushel Shell appears to be his No. 1 replacement, leaving questions about who would take over Shell’s No. 2 role from last year.

And the North Carolina product appears to be just that. McKoy has shown Smallwood-type qualities. You name it and he can do it, ready to showcase his talents on the field come September.

“He’s getting close to being ready,” Seider said.

“If we have a game, I feel comfortable playing that kid in any situation.”

But it’s his exceptional smarts on and off the field that have coaches buzzing. He’s a 4.0 student and that translates to the football field.

Yes, he’s one of the smartest freshmen Seider has ever been around. Not a bad feat for a first year athlete, especially an early enrollee.

“I could say that,” Seider said. “The way that kid came in and picked up our offense. When you look what we do with him, not just in the backfield. We’re putting him out at wide receiver.

He understands when they’re blitzing, how to shorten his routes. That’s what lets you know how smart the kid is.”

With junior college transfer Justin Crawford and incoming freshman Martell Pettaway coming in during summer camp, it appeared two of them would possibly redshirt.

Instead, Jacky Marcellus is transferring and Donte Thomas-Williams is suspended, leaving a glaring need at the position behind Shell. It always helps when a player is able to step in and fill a void during spring practice.

Now it’s McKoy’s time to shine, and he appears up to the task. The spring game will tell a lot about his growth, but the future appears bright for the young running back.

“Getting a kid like him, especially a kid we can count on him next here,” Seider said. “His redshirt is now. He’s going through his redshirt.

It doesn’t take long to watch him and notice he’s going to be a player for us.”

It doesn’t hurt that the freshman plays like future NFL running back Wendell Smallwood. “ Ke n n e d y Mc Koy is way better than expected,” Holgorsen said.

“He’s wearing No. 4 out there and it resembles the other No. 4.” cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

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MARCH OF THE PENGUINS

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Braden Zarbnisky talks with WVU head coach Randy Mazey in last Tuesday’s loss to Pittsburgh.

Zarbnisky earns first career start for tonight’s game with YSU

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @gearty83

The West Virginia University baseball team (1816) will take a short hiatus from conference play this week, hosting the Youngstown State Penguins (7-21) tonight at 6:30 p.m.

While the Mountaineers got the result they wanted their last time out, WVU head coach Randy Mazey hopes the result against Kansas State will generate a positive impact on his team.

“There’s always a point in the season what you call ‘a moment of team unity,’” Mazey said. “I hope that was it.”

However, the meeting with Youngstown is a midweek game, a scenario that isn’t too friendly with the Mountaineers, holding a 3-5 record in games during the week.

Even though the weekday mark isn’t in West Virginia’s favor, this matchup is one that benefits the Mountaineers heavily.

In terms of Horizon League statistics, Youngstown State is dead last in every major offensive category, including a .223 overall batting average and 209 hits recorded; it marks a 110-hit difference between the two teams.

YSU’s Andrew Kendrick and Billy Salem are the Penguins’ main source for offense at this point in

the season. Kendrick holds the highest batting average and leads the team in RBIs, while Salem leads the Penguins in at-bats and hits.

While there is a lopsided statistical difference and the team has regained its confidence, WVU isn’t looking past its opponent, who is 14 games under a .500 record.

“Midweek games have been tricky for us,” said WVU catcher Ray Guerrini.

“We can’t take any team for granted, any team could beat us at any day of the week if we don’t play our game. If we come in and stick with our approaches, and stick with our attitude, I think we can take care of them.”

Guerrini was one of

the two runs that eventually led to its comeback victory, two days ago. He capped off the day by hitting 3-4 and a RBI. He led the offensive charge for the Mountaineers.

A lot like West Virginia, the Penguins enter tonight coming off a huge conference win.

Coach Mazey has announced that Braden Zarbnisky will get his first career start against the Penguins.

Zarbnisky, a dual-threat for the Mountaineers had played 22 games in the field but other than a eight innings of relief work, this is his first chance as a starter.

Zarbnisky is getting an opportunity to pitch due to both Tanner Campbell and

Michael Grove, who are the normal midweek starters, pitching a combined two innings in the Mountaineers 15-2 loss over the weekend.

Youngstown State will have Joe King take the hill.

King holds a record of 1-4 with an ERA of 4.22. He last saw action on April 15, where he received a loss after pitching through four innings.

The game will be the last at Monongalia County Ballpark before the Mountaineers continue conference play at Oklahoma on Friday. West Virginia will then return home for a 12game home stand on April 26. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Football

Bosch, Lazard look to regain starting roles from last year

By David Statman Sports Editor @DJStatman77

The offensive line is the backbone of any football team, and the West Virginia University football team has a wealth of experience at its disposal this season.

But just days away from the Blue-Gold Spring Game this Saturday, not every spot is settled.

WVU returns six players who have started games, but according to head coach Dana Holgorsen, only three have earned starting spots: rapidly improving sophomore left tackle Yodny Cajuste, senior left guard Adam Pankey and the team’s bellwether, star center Tyler Orlosky.

The right side of the line is still unsettled, despite two of last year’s regular starters remaining in the mix. Right guard Kyle Bosch and right tackle Marcell Lazard finished last season in the starting lineup, but it’s no guarantee their spots are safe.

“There’s some competition at the right side, and it has nothing to do with how Bosch or Marcell are doing,” Holgorsen said. “It has everything to do with how Colton (McKivitz) and Tony Matteo are doing. Those guys are fighting for a job right now.”

Matteo was in the thick of the race for the right guard spot last season, with the Michigan transfer Bosch earning the starting job in the end. Matteo saw significant time on the field anyway and even started a game against TCU when the Mountaineers shuffled their line combination.

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Kyle Bosch prepares for spring practice on April 9.

McKivitz, a redshirt freshman from Ohio, is one of the most impressive members of WVU’s stable of young tackles. Standing 6-foot-7, McKivitz was only rated a two-star prospect by recruiting services out of high school, but despite his youth and inexperience he’s pushed Lazard hard this spring.

“They’re going to continue to push Kyle and Marcell,” said offensive line coach Ron Crook. “If they don’t keep improving, then they’re going to find themselves watching a little more than they want to. That’s

healthy. Good players want to be pushed and improve.”

Although the then-freshman Lazard took an impressive turn at right tackle when placed in the starting lineup at the end of the season, his spot may be the most tenuous on the line.

He’s less established than Bosch, who started every game last season. Lazard only started the final six, after sitting behind senior Marquis Lucas and Cajuste through the balance of the year.

The competition between Bosch and Matteo is a clash of veterans with

hard-earned experience.

As a redshirt senior, this is Matteo’s last chance to start.

But despite how much playing time they’ve had, Crook is looking for the same thing from them that he is from the youngsters Lazard and McKivitz: “I expect them to not overthink things,” Crook said. “Go out and play, and anticipate things but don’t sit and slow yourself down worrying about what the defense is going to do.”

With only a couple more practices before the spring game on Saturday, Bosch and Lazard still have the

inside track, but they can’t stop looking over their shoulder. Competition is a given in college football, and they have no choice but to welcome the edge it brings.

“You’re always in a competition when you’re playing college football,” Bosch said. “There’s always someone underneath you or playing right next to you that can take your job at any time. Having that sort of competition on the offensive line is good for everyone.” djstatman@mix.wvu.edu

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

Tuesday April 19, 2016

Men’s Soccer

WVU honors players at banquet

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Joey Piatczyc leaps into the stands after scoring a goal against Western Michigan in October.

By Roger Turner Sports Writer @Rturner_11

As the spring exhibition season comes to an end for the WVU men’s soccer team this weekend with the annual alumni game, seniors of the 2015 squad parted ways with the program at the team banquet this month.

Just before kicking off for the spring, the West Virginia men’s soccer team held its team banquet for one final farewell to last year’s seniors in early April. Players, family members and other guests in attendance were treated to a 17-minute highlight video paying tribute to the seven seniors graduating in May. The annual event serves not only as one final gathering for departing seniors but also provides players leaving a chance at being honored as award recipients. The Players’ Player of the Year Award and the Coaches’ Award are handed out annually, and this year’s award presentation paid tribute to more than just the recipients.

This year’s graduating class of Mountaineer men’s soccer players consisted of seven student-

athletes who completed outstanding careers as part of West Virginia’s program.

Seniors Haydon Bennett, Ivo Cabral, Ryan Cain, Francio Henry, Zak Leedom, Griffin Libhart and Jamie Merriam profiled this year’s ceremony.

The evening also recognized the contributions of the talented returning group of players who hit the field against Pitt the following day to open the spring exhibition period.

During the awards ceremony this year, players dedicated a special moment to former WVU player Abel “Shadow” Sebele before presenting the Player of the Year Award.

Voted annually by members of the team, the Players’ Player of the Year Award was renamed in memory of Sebele this year.

A former midfielder for the Mountaineers from 200912, Sebele passed away in San Diego in January.

Sophomore Joey Piatczyc was named the Abel “Shadow” Sebele Players’ Player of the Year for his performance on the field in 2015. Piatczyc scored seven goals and led the team in assists through the first three games of the spring season.

A native of Lee’s Sum-

mit, Missouri, Piatczyc ranks in the National Men’s Soccer Top 100 and returns for his junior season as one of the MidAmerican Conference’s top players to watch.

The Coaches’ Award was the final award handed out at the banquet. Presented

by WVU coach Marlon LeBlanc, the Coaches’ Award honors the player who best exemplifies what it means to be a Mountaineer men’s soccer player.

LeBlanc and assistant coaches base their selection on eight principles: Honor, respect, philanthropy, leadership, academic success, selflessness, character and integrity. Leedom was recognized as this year’s recipient.

All seven seniors were also given a framed jersey and poster-sized action photo as memorabilia for their careers as a Mountaineer.

Seniors will have a chance to lace up their cleats on the WVU men’s soccer practice field when they take on returning players as alumni in the annual players versus alumni spring game on Friday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Informational Meeting: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Rhododendron Room Tryout Dates: April 30th and May 1st

For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.wvusports.com/page.cfm?section=8463

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Tuesday April 19, 2016

Track

WVU succeeds over weekend

By Joel Norman Sports Writer @StorminJNorman6

The Mountaineer track and field team emerged victorious in two categories, competing at the two-day Bison Outdoor Classic in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania over the weekend in the 90-team event.

On day one, six Mountaineers were in action, two of whom finished in the top 10 in the high jump. Hannah Stone finished in second place with a leap of 1.70 meters, her best score of the season. Freshman Faith Penny got ninth place with a 1.65-meter mark.

Sophomore Meghan JeanBaptiste also competed in the high jump, jumping 1.60 meters to take 13th place.

Three other Mountaineers were in action on Saturday.

Sophomore Allie Diehl recorded her career-best score in the 5,000-meter run. She finished the dash in 18:06.96, good for 21st place. Fellow sophomore Corrine Kule also ran in the 5,000-meter.

Kule finished just after Diehl in 22nd place in a time of 17:28.25.

Junior Megan Yuan also

competed, getting 12th place n the 1,500-meter run in a time of 4:29.71.

On day two, West Virginia had countless competitors.

Freshman Olivia Hill ran unattached in the 3,000-meter run.

Hill won the event by six seconds with a time of 10:01.90 and had the best overall time of the two sections.

Senior Tori Bertrand won her second pole vault event of the year with a 3.75-meter mark. Sophomore Sara Finfrock also competed in the pole vault and got third place with a 3.60-meter jump.

Two Mountaineers competed in the 800-meter run.

Freshman Candace Jones ran won section eight in 2:10.96.

Jones’s score was the second best of the nine sections.

Sophomore Rebecca Wendt also competed in the 800-meter run and took ninth place in a time of 2:15.16.

In the 100-meter hurdles, Jean-Baptiste competed for the second time of the day.

This time, she got second place in section six with a 14.86-meter mark. Stone also competed in her second event of the weekend. She finished third in section by leaping 15.21 meters.

Sophomore Bria Welker won section six of the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.61, the fifth best score of the seven sections.

Sophomore Shamoya McNeil and freshman Danique Bryan both ran in the 100-meter dash. McNeil finished 33rd with a mark of 12.96. Bryan got a score of 12.88 to get 25th place. Both also participated in the long jump. McNeil placed third with a leap of 5.80 meters, while Bryan finished in fifth with a jump of 5.78 meters.

In the 400-meter hurdles, freshman Chaqieta Robinson got 15th place in a time of 1:04.58.

Four Mountaineers competed in the 200-meter dash.

Robinson got 23rd with a time of 26.03, Jean-Baptiste finished 22nd in 26.02, Welker placed 16th in a time of 25.95 and Stone’s time of 25.76 was good for 13th place.

Bertrand winning her second pole vault event in two weeks is the biggest storyline, but the entire team showed improvement. This should allow it to continue moving up in the rankings. dasports@mail.wvu.edu