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Monday March 14, 2016

Kansas’ hot shooting sends WVU home emptyhanded in Big 12 final

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FUELING THE FUTURE Will 2016 be the year West Virginia breaks free of the fossil fuel cartel?

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WVU forward Devin Williams drives to the basket during Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship. by david statman job than that if we’re in that sports editor position again,” said guard @djstatman77 Daxter Miles Jr. “We have to focus on every possession.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Be- We turned the ball over a lot fore heading west to Kan- today. We can’t do that.” sas City, the West Virginia None of West Virginia’s Mountaineers talked about games in the Big 12 Tournot just getting their first- nament have been pretty, ever Big 12 Tournament so why would the title game win, but bringing a trophy be any exception? WVU and back home to Morgantown, Kansas combined for 40 turnovers, 24 of them in the West Virginia.

But No. 9 West Virginia first half, with the Mounhad no answer for No. 1 taineers looking particuKansas’ hot shooting, and larly sloppy on the offeninstead, they’ll return home sive end all night. with nothing to show for Behind some hot early their run to the Big 12 Tour- shooting from Graham, nament final.

Kansas jumped out to an “It’s that feeling you get eight-point lead as the all the time when you want Mountaineers failed to hit something and you don’t a 3-pointer in the first half. get it,” said WVU point guard Williams, however, sinJevon Carter. “It isn’t a good glehandedly dragged the feeling, but it’s a good thing Mountaineers back into the for us that this isn’t the last game.

Fending off a slew of game of the season. We still have the NCAA Tourna- Kansas big men, Williams ment, so we just have to go scored 18 of West Virginia’s there and try to accomplish 34 first-half points. He connected well with freshman our next goal.”

Kansas connected on forward Esa Ahmad, who nine of 15 3-point attempts made easily his greatest in an 81-71 win, most of impact on the tournament. those coming from Big 12 Ahmad slammed home a Tournament Most Out- dunk off a backdoor pass standing Player Devonte from Tarik Phillip to cap a Graham (five 3-pointers, a 7-0 and tie the game at 24, career-high 27 points) and and the two teams traded Wayne Selden Jr. (three leads down the stretch of 3-pointers, 21 points). a first half that ended with Meanwhile, the Mountain- WVU up, 34-33. eers lost the long range Kansas started hot out touch that propelled them of the gate in the second past TCU and Oklahoma, half, with Graham pushshooting just 2-14 on ing the Jayhawk lead to 12, 3-point tries. but West Virginia managed West Virginia, who turned to chip away. Devin Wilthe ball over 20 times Sat- liams did everything he urday night, instead relied could to get WVU back in it, entirely on a career perfor- and the Mountaineers cut mance from junior center it to four with four minutes Devin Williams (31 points, remaining.

10 rebounds) to keep them But with a chance to in it. But in front of a Sprint make it a two-point game, Center crowd that at times TarikPhillip missed two critsounded just like the Phog ical free throws, and Kansas’ back in Lawrence, Kansas, LandenLucas converted an nothing Williams could do and-one on the other end in was enough.

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Senate President Bill Cole is vying for election in the state’s 2016 governor’s race. Cole has already begun receiving money from oil and gas interests for his campaign.

by corey mcdonald, kara loyd and lauren mcmillen mountaineer news service

Even before the 2016 gubernatorial race begins in earnest, Senate President Bill Cole (R – Mercer) has already received substantial contributions from oil and gas interests in West Virginia. He has been endorsed by a super PAC that has so far raised $70,600 ($10,000 from oil and gas interests), and he has been backed by the West Virginia Coal Association. He has also spoken to highend donors at an exclusive retreat organized by affiliates of the Koch brothers, two conservative billionaires who own a vast empire of oil and natural gas interests.

Cole is one of the many state politicians from both political parties who have filled their campaign war chests with money from the fossil fuel industry over the years. But this year, there are some candidates running for state office without backing from the fossil fuel industry. Instead, they are running on a platform of diversifying the state’s economy.

“Coal production is falling, and this is a new reality that we’re faced with,” said Evan Hansen, president of an environmental consulting company in Morgantown and a candidate for the 51st district of the House of Delegates.

“There’s more and more of a recognition that this is not just a cycle and what we need to do is to think of ways to expand the economy so that we have many different industries that provide jobs.”

Even so, candidates like Hansen are fighting an uphill battle against the status quo: the outsized influence of the fossil fuel industry on West Virginia politics via generous campaign contributions and lobbying.

The vast majority of West Virginia’s lawmakers have received substantial campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests. And in this year’s race for Governor, it seems as though it will be business as usual.

“I think most people feel there is some connection between big money and politics,” said Matthew Jacobsmeier, assistant professor of political science at West Virginia University. “And in some sense, we would expect that because why would people be spending all this money if they’re not getting anything out of it.”

Also running for Governor on the Democratic side is Jim Justice, a coal baron who is widely considered the richest man in West Virginia with a net worth of roughly $1.63 billion. Justice is the principal owner of Justice Energy Company Inc., which generates $8.2 million in annual revenue with mines in Wyoming and McDowell counties

as well as Kentucky. Justice’s mines have a history of safety violations, and according to several news reports, he has failed to pay millions of dollars in overdue fines for those safety violations.

Booth Goodwin and Jeffrey Kessler are also running in the Democratic primary for Governor. Kessler, the Senate minority leader, has received considerable campaign contributions from the coal and natural gas industries during his 18-year tenure as a state lawmaker. Goodwin, who stepped down as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia after prosecuting Donald L. Blankenship, Massey Energy Company’s former chief executive at the time of the Upper Big Branch explosions that killed 29 miners, announced his candidacy for governor early in January. Since the first campaign finance filing deadline for 2016 is April 1, information on donations to Goodwin’s campaign is not yet available.

Cole, who will more than likely be the Republican contender, is endorsed by Accelerate West Virginia, a super PAC that has raised $70,600 from a number of businesses, including the oil and gas industry, according to a year end report of its financial receipts for 2015. And he continues to do the oil and gas industry’s bidding. For example, he supported Sen-

ate Bill 596, which would have allowed gas company surveyors onto private property without the property owners permission in order to plan potential pipeline paths. That bill was narrowly defeated in the Senate Feb. 29, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

Cole also supported another pro-industry bill, SB 705, which would cut the current severance tax rate of 5 percent to 4 percent beginning in July 2018 and then cut it again, to 3 percent, at a time when the state already faces a $380 million budget shortfall due to severance tax shortages.

Although the Senate approved this bill, it was recently tabled by the House Finance Committee for further study. If it had passed, the state of West Virginia would have lost close to $159 million in revenues per year while local governments would lose approximately $11.6 million per year, according to a report by the WV Center on Budget and Policy.

“With our problems with the budget right now, a cut in the severance tax would blow an even bigger hole in the budget,” said Michael Plante, president of Plante Associates, a political consulting and public relations firm.

One of the bill’s sponsors, Mike Hall (R-Putnam)

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WVU took in almost $3.9 million last year from short-term, long-term parking by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

Parking at West Virginia University brings millions of dollars into the University, according to documents obtained by The Daily Athenaeum under the state’s Freedom of Information Act. Clement Solomon, director of the Department of Transportation and Parking, said the department receives no funding from the state, and all of the money it generates from parking goes back into maintaining the department.

“Our goal is to look at ease in mobility rather than just focusing on building parking lots and other structures,”

Solomon said.

Overseeing the transportation efforts of the University, Solomon asks himself: Can students access the existing transportation?

“How do we focus on improving an integrating mode (of transportation) rather than just building parking lots,” Solomon said. “I understand the need for parking, so that’s not it at all. It’s taking a look at the big picture—that holistic approach of managing all these modes.”

In 2015, the department took in $626,992 from select parking violations on campus. University Police issued 1,510 of the 32,509 violations in that year.

And then, there are the students who park on cam-

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pus legally. During the last academic year, from August 2014 to July 2015, WVU took in almost $3.9 million from short-term and long-term parking.

Full-term parking— the kind where someone buys a pass to park at, say, the College of Law all day, everyday— yielded $2.7 million during the last academic year. Those 6,962 full-term permits ran about $394 on average.

Short term parking— the kind where a student pays to park in the Mountainlair for a few hours in the afternoon— yielded about $1.1 million.

Solomon said with the short-term lots in the Mountainlair, at University Place, near the College of

Business and Economics and the free lot at the Coliseum, “there is enough inventory” of parking near campus.

It takes between $5,00010,000 to build and maintain regular parking stalls each year and between $12,00025,000 to build and maintain parking stalls in a parking garage.

“Parking lots just don’t operate and maintain themselves. We need to pave them, we need to surface them—just like you operate any building,” Solomon said. “We also are upgrading our technology. If you look at what we’ve done in the past year or two, every parking machine is brand new, saved for the machine at the Erickson Alumni Center.”

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Students exit the Recreation Center parking lot through the gate located next to Evansadale Crossing.

Some of the money WVU frugal in what we do and how gets from parking goes to pay we do things, but all of this for the department’s staff,” adds up because we don’t get Solomon said. “Everything is self-sustaining. We’re very see PARKING on PAGE 2

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Monday March 14, 2016

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GOP hopeful Donald Trump stands by his campaign rhetoric BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP)— Showing few signs of trying to ease the nation’s tense political atmosphere, Republican front-runner Donald Trump is standing by his antagonistic campaign rhetoric, rejecting any responsibility for violence at his rallies and defending his supporters who have been charged with assaulting protesters.

“We’re not provoking.

We want peace. ... We don’t want trouble,” he told a large crowd in Bloomington, Illinois, the first of two comparatively docile events Sunday as he campaigns ahead of another critical slate of largestate primaries.

Trump’s remarks come after a near-riot Friday night in Chicago as Trump canceled a scheduled rally amid widespread altercations among his supporters, detractors and authorities.

His three-state schedule, which ends Sunday evening in Florida, also comes less than 48 hours before polls open in a five-state slate that could determine whether he wins the GOP nomination without a contested summer convention.

Against that backdrop, Trump continued to blame protesters, media and even Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders for the increasingly caustic campaign environment that his rivals assailed as “cause for pause” and certain “to do damage to America.”

Interrupted only sparingly in Illinois, Trump assured his backers their frustration is righteous rage against a corrupt political and economic

system. He cast his naysayers as “bad people” that “do harm to the country.”

He’s tried since Chicago to shift focus to Ohio, where he faces a late push from the popular governor, John Kasich. The outcome will help determine whether Trump can reach the 1,237 delegates required for nomination and avoid a contested GOP convention this summer in Cleveland.

“If we can win Ohio, we’re going to run the table, folks,” Trump said in West Chester, Ohio, his second event Sunday.

At an earlier stop this weekend, Trump aimed directly at Kasich, calling him “a baby” and deliberately mispronouncing the governor’s Czech surname.

“He’s not the right guy to be president. He’s not tough enough, he’s not sharp enough,” Trump said at an event outside Dayton.

In line with his protectionist economic pitch, Trump noted Kasich’s support for the North American Free Trade Agreement as a member of Congress in the 1990s.

He went on to incorrectly identify the governor as KASE-itch. “Like, most people don’t even know how to pronounce his name.

Kase-ick! Kase-ick!” Trump mocked. “He cannot do the job, folks. He’s not your president.”

Kasich, meanwhile, reversed his months-long practice of avoiding the topic of Trump.

Speaking with The Associated Press aboard his campaign bus between stops in

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a rally Sunday, March 13, 2016, in Bloomington, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Ohio, Kasich brandished his what Ohio goes for.” who was physically assaulted iPad and read a list of Trump Later Sunday, Kasich told at a November rally deserved quotes compiled by an a crowd in Hanoverton, Ohio, the treatment. He confirmed aide. without mentioning Trump: earlier Sunday that he was The quotes included “Do we go to the dark side, considering paying the legal Trump’s comments that his with negativity, the gnashing fee of a North Carolina man audiences should “hit back” of teeth, the division of peo- charged with assault after a little more and a statement ple? Or do we go to the hope- video captured him suckerpunching a protester at a that he’d like to punch a pro- ful and the light side?” tester in the face. In all, he Trump’s events unques- March 9 rally in Fayetteville, read roughly a dozen quotes. tionably have become in- North Carolina.

“I never really had looked creasingly tense over the He began this weekend through those quotes,” he course of his campaign, and blaming protesters on Sandsaid. “It’s really cause for the candidate has frequently ers, saying the Vermont senpause.” called for aggressive tactics ator’s campaign organizes Kasich says the “toxic” against protesters. “disrupters” at Trump events.

Indeed, some protesters at tone Trump has created Besides the quotes Kasich makes it even more impor- noted, Trump often declares Trump events are seen carrytant for him to win Ohio, the country must “toughen ing Sanders’ campaign signs, adding of Trump, “this is not up,” and suggested one man but Sanders scoffed Sun-

COLE

butions since the 2008.

Phillips and Cole are two of the many state legislators who continue to blame the coal industry’s current woes on Obama and the EPA. “Get rid of Obama, we’ll help the coalfields.” Phillips said in a recent interview.

In reality, there has been a consistent decline in coal jobs since the 1980s, with a brief recovery in 2006 when significant tax cuts were made to the corporate income and business franchise tax. Market analysts say that coal’s decline is largely due to market competition from cheaper natural gas and cheaper coal produced in western states like Wyoming.

While coal has been in decline for some time, state officials expected severance taxes on the growing natural gas industry in West Virginia to make up for the shortfall in taxes from coal.

But the declining price of natural gas, caused by a current glut, has reduced severance tax revenues from that industry as well. West Virginia’s estimated $380

million budget shortfall can be directly attributed to the state’s overall drop in severance tax revenues.

Some analysts say the real cause of the state’s fi-

Continued from page 1 has received $22,150 in contributions from the mining and oil and gas industries over his 18 years in state office, while the other sponsor, Dave Sypolt (R-Preston) has received $20,600 from the industries over his 12 years in state office.

The Legislature also recently passed a bill to cut “excess” severance tax revenues that were put into place in 2005 to pay off debts related to the state’s workers’ compensation, according to a report by the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

That bill was signed into law

by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin March 1, and one of its lead sponsors in the House was Rupert Phillips Jr., a lawmaker from coal-producing Logan County. Phillips, an employee of the mining industry himself, has received campaign contributions totaling $24,900 from the mining industry, close to 20 percent of his total contri-

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nancial woes can be traced back to the significant corporate tax cuts made by then Governor Joe Manchin’s administration in 2006.

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day at the notion that he’s responsible.

“To suggest that our campaign is telling people to disrupt his campaign is a lie,” Sanders said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Trump wrote on Twitter and suggested again on the Sunday talk show circuit he would urge his backers to protest Sanders rallies.

Sanders’ official Twitter account retorted: “Send them.

They deserve to see what a real honest politician sounds like.”

Sanders said on CNN that Trump “is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you see.”

Trump counters that he’s due credit for canceling the Friday rally and avoiding a worse outcome. Still, he claimed incorrectly that “nobody gets hurt” at his rallies, despite multiple videos showing protesters pushed, punched and bullied at his events.

The remaining Republican hopefuls piled on Trump, as well.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Trump’s closest competitor in delegate count, was careful to criticize protesters for their methods, but said Trump encourages an essentially unAmerican atmosphere.

“I’m troubled by the rallies that Donald holds, where he asks all the people there to raise their hand and pledge their support to him,” Cruz said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” continuing, “This is America. We don’t pledge allegiance to a man. We pledge allegiance to a flag.”

“We’ve had budget shortfalls for several years now, and those can be tied directly to a series of tax cuts that we passed back in 2006 and 2007,” O’Leary said.

“When you add all those tax cuts up, that’s $400-425 million a year in lost revenue, and that is directly tied to our recent budget problems.”

Manchin’s financial reports during his candidacy for governor in 2004 reveal a range of special interest contributions, including coal-related businesses and other mining interests that provided at least $100,000 of his campaign funds, according to the Associated Press.

While the state legislature was controlled by conservative “blue-dog”

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Democrats like Manchin for most of West Virginia’s history, Republicans have had the upper hand since 2014.

With a Republican backed legislature, Cole arguably has the advantage in the 2016 Gubernatorial race. The WV Coal Association has already endorsed Cole as their candidate for governor of West Virginia.

“Coal and natural gas interests have spent a lot of money in West Virginia, and they continue to spend a lot of money,” Plante said. “I think the industry is still going to spend heavily in (future) political campaigns in order to try to get whatever edge they can.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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state funds.”

Another important aspect of transportation and mobility at WVU is the Mountain Line bus service, which Solomon said the University tries to arrange to feed into the PRT. The future of the Mountain Line is hanging in the air after it announced that unless county voters approve a transportation levy to give money, the service routes across the county could be slashed, and routes within Morgantown’s city limits might look entirely different.

“The Mountain Line is our partner,” Solomon said. “We fund nearly a million dollars with Mountain Line to provide routes that are still connected to campus.”

Solomon said the three routes running along campus— the Blue and Gold, Campus PM and Valley View routes— won’t change, even if the levy isn’t approved by voters in May.

a huge five-point swing.

Selden nailed a three one possession later, just about putting the game out of reach.

You know, today, we couldn’t make a shot,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “We shoot 13 percent from three, they shoot 60 percent.

We couldn’t make a free throw, when we had to make a free throw. We just didn’t make shots when you need to make shots and they did.”

Despite the loss in Kansas City, West Virginia’s strong performance in the Big 12 Tournament might have been what it needed to push its NCAA Tournament standing up to a two-seed. The Mountaineers will have to wait to find their fate on Selection Sunday— and they’ll have to do so without a trophy in their case.

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OPINION

Monday March 14, 2016

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Dishonesty in ingredient labels Man-made chemicals can be found in almost every product we use. Pesticides are utilized on crops to prevent weeds and insects from infesting food, hair dyes and face washes contain bleaching and degreasing agents, and even microwave meals hold a number of preservatives to keep food fresh for extended periods of time.

Though these chemicals make products last longer and aid in their effectiveness, many people have chosen to invest in companies pledging to not use them and prefer more natural alternatives.

Investors in the Honest Company may be doubting the true honesty of the company in this area. The company creates and markets alternative cleaning and household products like baby wipes and window cleaner that are said to not contain common

The Honest Company’s laundry detergent has come under fire for containing sodium lauryl sulphate. chemical additives. However, ironic to their name, the Wall Street Journal revealed that though the company pledged never to use sodium lauryl sul-

phate, a cheap surfactant commonly found in products like dish soap and shampoo, lab testing revealed large amounts of the chemical in its laundry

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detergent.

More investigation into the Honest Company’s manufacturing process and ingredient list is necessary in order to dis-

cover the truth behind these claims, but the controversy raises important questions about how to hold companies accountable for its actions. Similar to the Volkswagen bedlam in fall 2015, companies should not be expected to follow the rules on principle alone.

Not reporting the correct ingredients can have serious consequences. Sodium lauryl sulphate is used in labs for the purpose of irritating skin in order to test other products and can cause eczema flare-ups. However, failure to name additives and preservatives in food may yield the most devastating effects in humans.

Certain artificial food colorings can trigger asthma attacks, and common preservatives like benzoates and sulfites can cause outbreaks of hives.

Critics of the organic

movement and anti-chemical craze have attributed the paranoia surrounding the use of synthetic chemicals in food to overcaution, but in a case like the Honest Company’s, the immediate health effects associated with sodium lauryl sulphate and any other chemicals that may be found in their products should be taken seriously.

People want companies to be honest in reporting what their product is made of because proper labeling can save lives, not simply to appear like they’re buying into a certain kind of lifestyle. At the very least, if a company is going to use a cheap filler chemical, they should market their product as such and remain honest to consumers, as their name would imply. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

commentary

Clinton’s pragmatism may not benefit America robby ralston columnist @robbyralstonDA

Recent Democratic debates between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders center on one major theme: Clinton’s levelheaded pragmatism versus Sanders’ optimistic idealism. Clinton supporters often claim her willingness to seek out common ground and cut deals with detractors would allow her to accomplish more than Sanders, who seems less willing to compromise on his ideals.

However, to someone more familiar with Clinton’s record as Secretary of State, the word “pragmatism” should have an inhuman ring to it. Clinton has been willing to compromise in the past and uses political leverage to achieve her goals. But when you head the State Department, this sometimes means making decisions that affect millions of people based on which of your aims it can be traded for.

For example, take the 2009 Honduran coup. In the early morning of June 28, 2009 Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was forced from his home by masked soldiers. He was taken to a nearby military base and forced to fly out of the country, which ended his presidential term.

By official accounts, the Supreme Court of Honduras ordered the military to remove Zelaya in response to his attempts to change the Honduran constitution. The constitution does not allow for amendments, so Zelaya decided to hold a vote where people would decide whether or not he had the power to call a vote

Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Porfirio Lobo, the Honduran presidential candidate following Manuel Zelaya’s removal from office. for a constitutional assembly in which the constitution could be changed.

The day after the coup, President Barack Obama spoke of the action, “the coup was not legal… Zelaya remains the president.” The United States, among other countries, also sponsored a successful United Nations resolution later that week, calling the ousting a coup and demanding the restoration of Zelaya. The Organization of American States, a regional body with representatives from every country in North and South America, also condemned the “coup d’état in Honduras” within the week.

However, Clinton’s State Department did not label the action a military coup or condemn the new government. If she had called

the action a military coup, all non-humanitarian U.S. aid to Honduras would have immediately been withdrawn in accordance with U.S. law. This would have put pressure on the coup government to reinstate Zelaya, as President Obama, the U.N. and the O.A.S. had called for.

In her memoir “Hard Choices,” Clinton explains this decision, saying, “In the subsequent days (after the coup) I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere… We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.”

According to the Huffington Post, this passage

was removed from the paperback version of her memoirs.

Thus Clinton’s objective was not to restore Zelaya, but to hold elections under the coup government. This position was opposed by many, including recentlymurdered Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, who thought that holding elections under the new government would legitimize its rule. These elections eventually did take place in November 2009, with Zelaya’s party losing.

However, as is usually the case with elections under military rule, the results were disputed by several major figures. According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, political repression and human rights violations had

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already escalated under four months of the coup government, and demonstrations against the coup government or for Zelaya’s party often ended with dead protestors. Human rights violations have escalated in Honduras since the elections, leaving the country with one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Why did Clinton refuse to side with the international community and demand Zelaya’s reinstatement? This was a case where she took a definitive stance against Obama. The O.A.S. and the U.N. had succeeded, but with horrendous consequences.

The recent email disclosures from Clinton’s email scandal can give us some insight. During the coup, two key State Department

appointments were being blocked in Congress by a small group of Republicans who were in favor of the coup government led

by George LeMieux and Jim DeMint.

LeMieux and DeMint were notable for their staunch anti-communist stance, especially against Cuba, and this contributed to their dislike of Zelaya.

Zelaya is not a socialist, but he successfully pushed for Honduras to become a member of El ALBA, a regional trade alliance started

by Cuba and Venezuela which excludes the U.S. They used procedural maneuvers to block Clinton’s appointments in hopes of influencing her policy in Central America.

Clinton capitulated. As time moved on, she continually refused to label the ousting of Zelaya as a military coup and, days after elections were held, her appointments were allowed

by LeMieux and DeMint.

During this time, a Clinton staffer received a message from LeMieux saying, “I have received sufficient commitments from Secretary Clinton that the Administration’s policy in Latin America, and specifically in Honduras and Cuba, will take a course that promotes democratic ideals and goals.”

Though the situation is more complicated, from these facts we get a picture of Clinton, the pragmatist, allowing an illegitimate government to rule a country in order to side with Republicans in Congress so that State Department appointments could go through. Perhaps we should examine more closely what pragmatism means when it comes to U.S. policy. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Gwen Stefani finally releases new album

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After delays, Gwen Stefani’s newest album will release later this month.

by Chelsea Walker A&e Writer @dailyathenaeum

Spring break isn’t the only thing to look forward to after tackling this final week of classes and studying. While many are packing bags for travels, turning in last minute assignments and looking forward to the week of relaxation, hiphop and pop artists iLoveMakonnen and Gwen Stefani will release albums just in time for the weeklong vacation.

American pop-star Stefani has been through the ringer this year. Enduring a publically embarrassing divorce, Stefani found inspiration in her failed marriage. Initially, the album was scheduled to release in December 2014 but was delayed after dropping two singles “Baby Don’t Lie” and “Spark The Fire” that both disappointed on the charts. Stefani claimed during her time writing for this particular album that she experienced long periods of writer’s block.

Scrapping everything she had been working on, Stefani started to rewrite tracks for her album. The American recording artist described songs on the record as “breakup anthems,” and stated that the album as a whole has a sarcastic tone with dark-humor and a real and joyful vibe.

The album’s lead single, “Used To Love You,” released in October 2015, received positive response from critics for the tune’s honest ballads. Recently, the artist released the single “Make Me Like You,” which was accompanied by a music video created on live television. Recorded during a 2016 Grammy Awards commercial break and later posted on Vevo, Stefani reclaimed fame and gained critics’ appreciation with her pop beats and catchy lyrics. “This Is What The Truth Feels Like”

will feature 12 pop tracks that showcase Stefani’s personal struggle and the artist’s patience in creating the album. Stefani’s “This Is What The Truth Feels Like” album will officially drop this Friday.

Also set to drop a new mixtape, hip-hop recording artist iLoveMakonnen will release the sixth installment of his series, “Drink More Water.” Best known for his catchy track “Tuesday,” that was remixed by Drake in 2014, iLoveMakonnen went from underground rapper to a major hip-hop recording artist overnight.

However, iLoveMakonnen’s love for hip-hop wasn’t an overnight affair. Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Makonnen Sheran was influenced by the sounds and styles of Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane. In the early 2000s, the young artist who was only enrolled in high school began mixing pop, rock and hip-hop beats.

Capitalizing on the Internet and its sharing capabilities, Sheran used MySpace to post his tracks and network with fellow artists such as Lil B and Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em. Working with Miley Cyrus’s goto producer and friend, Sheran linked up with Mike Will Made It, who recorded and produced iLoveMakonnen’s hit track, “Don’t Sell Molly No More.” Featured in XXL Magazine’s “The Come Up” edition, iLoveMakonnen was discussed as an upcoming artist with an unconventional voice and recording style.

“Drink More Water 6” is set to feature 11 tracks, including the recent single released “Sellin’” that incorporates iLoveMakonnen’s usual style, where the artist spits ballads about drugs. This sixth mixtape will drop this Friday via Warner Bros. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Mike Zandron catches air on a superpipe.

WVU Snowboard Team selected by Red Bull for competition

by ALly Litten A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

A real Mountaineer is courageous, brave, adventurous and proud. One club at West Virginia University portrays the true spirit of a Mountaineer: the WVU Snowboard Team.

Started in 2003 by Brandon McMahon and Ross Schweitzer, the WVU Snowboard Team has grown into one of the most successful clubs at West Virginia University. Many students have used the team as a steppingstone to improve their skills for slopes out in California, Colorado and Utah.

Currently lead by President Nolan McMullen, and Vice President, Mike Zandron, 10 qualified snowboarders get a spot on the elite club roster.

“Currently there are 10 people on the snowboard team,” McMullen said. “We try to keep the roster full and usually run a tryout when we are losing people to graduation to fill open spots. We don’t really have a captain, we try to eliminate the whole individuality aspect and make all of our decisions as a team and try to keep everyone involved.”

Although Morgantown is mountainous, there is not a local ski resort to call home. However, the team practices at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, a resort

located east of Uniontown.

“Our home mountain is Seven Springs Mountain Resort located about an hour and 15 minutes from campus in Southwestern Pennsylvania,” McMullen said. “Seven Springs boasts seven terrain parks and the only 22 foot superpipe on the East coast.”

After the 2015 Motown Throwdown, the team has battled the unusually warm winter weather.

However, many team members spent Winter Storm Jonas snowboarding and skiing around the streets and slopes of Morgantown.

In February, the Snowboard Team was given a great opportunity to participate in the Red Bull Bracket Reel contest, an online video contest.

“Red Bull selected 16 of the top collegiate snowboard and ski teams around the country to take part in an NCAA March Madness-type video contest where we were faced head-to-head with other teams,” McMullen said.

“It was a big deal that we were selected for this contest and it was a great way to get our name out there with some of the other big ski and snowboard schools out west.”

The WVU Snowboard Team has no plans on slowing down. By concentrating on the fun aspects of the sport, the team continues

Nolan McMullen grinds on a rail. to thrive and grow.

“Our plan is to keep riding, filming and competing in the future. The goal for the team has always been to push each other and get better by doing that, and that’s what we hope to keep doing,” McMullen said.

“Snowboarding has, and always will be about having fun, so the plan for the future is to keep that in mind and just add the element of competitiveness to it.”

The fun, laid-back environment of the team continues to draw in pro-

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spective members and encourages them to get involved.

“It’s pretty cool to see more and more students around campus getting into snowboarding every year, and I hope we can keep the team thriving for the years to come,” McMullen said.

For more information about the WVU Snowboard Team and its current adventures, visit its Instagram page @ WVUSnowboarding. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Cute ‘Zootopia’ has strong message, funny writing

by Meg Weissend A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

People are visiting theaters to see Walt Disney’s “Zootopia,” an animated movie with a courageous bunny named Judy Hopps as the adorable protagonist.

Delighting critics, “Zootopia” broke records collecting $73.7 million in North American theaters. To compare this success, Disney’s “Frozen” received $67.4 million in its first weekend of ticket sales in 2013.

“Zootopia” also hit the record for the highest three-day opening ever for Disney Animation and the fourth biggest March debut.

The action-packed film follows Judy on her quest to to become the first rabbit police officer in the bustling metropolis of Zootopia.

Judy graduates from the police academy and ends up on the force in Zootopia, but her boss (Idris Elba) relegates her to parking-ticket duty while more experienced officers investigate 14 missing-mammal cases. While obsessively

writing tickets, Judy meets Nick (Jason Bateman), a world-weary hustler who slowly becomes her friend and adviser as she pokes her nose into the missingmammal epidemic despite her boss’s resistance.

Critics have strongly praised “Zootopia” for its humor and strong message. The film explores racism and other intolerance in its portrayal of relations between two kinds of animals in the city.

“The thing I love most about this movie is that it was a surprise to even me when I saw how not just timely and relatable it was, but also in realizing that this movie was written years ago, how timeless these issues are and how maybe we should’ve dealt with them a long time ago,” said Ginnifer Goodwin, the voice of Judy, in an interview with National Public Radio.

Other voices featured in the family-friendly film include that of Bonnie Hunt, Octavia Spencer and Shakira.

Movie buffs credit the popularity of Disney’s re-

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‘Zootopia’ stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy, the plucky rabbit police officer. cent animation films to the major $7.4 billion buyout of Pixar, the animation powerhouse behind “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo,” in 2006. Many believe films such as “Tangled,” “Big Hero 6,” “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Frozen” would not have been nearly as successful if Disney’s anima-

tion studio did not have the brainpower of previous Pixar geniuses.

Although they were released under the Walt Disney Animation Studios banner, Pixar’s DNA - a double helix of artistic daring and technological innovation - is evident in all of the films produced. As

part of the Pixar purchase, the company’s leaders Ed Catmull and John Lasseter assumed responsibility for all of Disney’s animated output.

Experiencing its first financial flop with “The Good Dinosaur,” Pixar has focused on sequels to their original blockbuster

hits. Hoping to introduce equally crowd-pleasing installments of “The Incredibles,” “Cars” and “Toy Story,” soon, Pixar is fighting for fame. “Finding Dory,” a follow-up to “Finding Nemo” will release this June. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Ben Bagdikian mourned as ‘major figure’ NEW YORK (AP) ‑ Tributes and remembrances for Ben H. Bagdikian came flooding in Saturday following the death of the renowned reporter and media critic who was a passionate voice for journalistic integrity.

“Ben was a major figure in 20th century U.S. journalism and journalism education, and we’re all his beneficiaries,” wrote Dean Edward Wasserman of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bagdikian, who helped publish the Pentagon Papers and wrote the groundbreaking book “The Media Monopoly,” died Friday morning at his home in Berkeley, California, said his wife, Marlene Griffith Bagdikian.

Facebook was filled with former colleagues and students mourning the loss, including Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, who had this comment: “Ben was a wonderful man. All of us who loved him have to step up our decency now.”

Bagdikian’s five-decade career in journalism included covering the civil rights struggle in America and riding with an Israeli tank crew during the Suez crisis.

In 1953, he and other reporters on the Providence Journal in Rhode Island shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of a bank robbery and police chase. He also held a Peabody Award for broadcast commentary.

In the 1970s, while serving as ombudsman for the Washington Post, he posed as a convicted murderer to get inside a Pennsylvania maximum-security prison for articles about problems and abuses in the prison system.

Bagdikian once said he had spent most of his career “exposing the neglected suf-

fering of others.”

In the 1970s, he obtained the Pentagon Papers - a secret history of U.S. strategy and involvement in Vietnam - for the Washington Post from leaker Daniel Ellsberg. Published revelations in the Post and the New York Times helped bolster opposition to the Vietnam War. “When you were confronted by a publisher who was scared, or had turned hostile, or a powerful institution that wanted to squash you, Ben would volunteer without hesitation to stand shoulder to shoulder with you. His example lives on,” wrote UC Berkeley professor Lowell Bergman.

In 1976 Bagdikian joined the journalism faculty at the UC Berkeley. He later became dean of the graduate school of journalism, retiring in 1990.

Bagdikian perhaps was best-known for his media commentary and criticism. In 1983, he published “The Media Monopoly,” which criticized the impact on journalism of mergers that were consolidating broadcast outlets and newspapers in the hands of giant corporations.

It went through numerous editions, including a 2004 update in which Bagdikian declared that a handful of corporations now had more control of communications “than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.”

“That book, and its subsequent editions, re-energized a whole tradition of critical coverage of the media business,” Wasserman wrote. “It inspired a generation of journalists and progressive scholars to look with fresh interest at the chilling consequences of concentrated corporate control of news Ben Bagdikian mounred as a ‘major figure’ in U.S. journalism. and entertainment.”

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Javier Camarena gets another encore at Met Opera NEW YORK (AP) ‑ Javier Camarena loves it when he has a do-over at the Metropolitan Opera.

The Mexican tenor with the ringing high notes was allowed to perform a repeat of his aria “Povero Ernesto! (Poor Ernesto!)” during Saturday’s matinee of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” which was broadcast on radio around the world.

“I don’t know if the right word is overwhelming,” he said.

Camarena and fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Juan Diego Florez are the only singers who have performed aria encores in regular performances of full operas at the house since 1942. Camarena also was allowed repeats twice during Rossini’s “Cenerentola (Cinderella)” two years ago.

Met programs in the 1920s stated, “POSITIVELY NO ENCORES ALLOWED,” but Peter Gelb has permitted them at times since becoming general manager in 2006.

After finishing the aria for the first time, Camarena was given a long ovation, and baritone Ambrogio Maestri peeked through a curtain on the set. Camarena and conductor Maurizio Benini nodded at each other, and Camarena repeated the latter stages of the aria, which culminates in a D-flat.

“It’s this kind of communication, this link between the public, and you can feel it,” Camarena said. “This was a really enthusiastic audience today, right from the beginning, and it went on during the whole show.”

After hearing loud ovations during two earlier performances in this run of five, Camarena said he discussed the possibility of an encore Saturday morning with Benini, who alerted the orchestra. Gelb gave his approval.

Maestri broke character after the encore to briefly applaud.

According to the Met, the previous encores in the past seven decades were by Pavarotti in Puccini’s “Tosca” on Oct. 31, 1994; by Florez in Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)” during four performances in April and May 2008; by Florez in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixer of Love)” on March 31, 2012; and by Florez and Camarena in two performances each of “Cenerentola” in April and May 2014.

Camarena, who turns 40 on March 26, is to appear at the Met next season in Bellini’s “I Puritani” and Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)” and is scheduled for future revivals of Rossini’s “Semiramide” and Bizet’s “Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers).”

Up ahead are lyric tenor role debuts as the Duke in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu in March 2017 and Edgardo in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” in 2018.

“I have to really consider what is happening with the Javier Camarena is a tenor from Mexico. voice and which direction I’m taking,” he said.

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Keith Emerson of Emerson , Lake and Palmer dies at age 71 LOS ANGELES (AP) ‑ Keith Emerson, founder and keyboardist of the progressive-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died.

He was 71.

Emerson’s longtime partner, Mari Kawaguchi, called police to his condominium in Santa Monica, California, at about 1:30 a.m. on Friday.

Emerson had an apparent selfinflicted gunshot wound to the head, and authorities are investigating his death as a possible suicide. Kawaguchi told police that Emerson could have died anywhere between Thursday evening and Friday morning.

Emerson, drummer Carl Palmer and vocalist/guitarist Greg Lake were giants of progressive rock in the 1970s, recording six platinum-selling albums. They and other hit groups such as Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues and Genesis stepped away from rock’s emphasis on short songs with dance beats, instead creating albums with ornate pieces full of complicated rhythms, intricate chords and time signature changes. The orchestrations drew on classical and jazz styles and sometimes wedded traditional rock instruments with full orchestras.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s 1973 album “Brain Salad Surgery” included a nearly 30-minute composition called “Karn Evil 9” that featured a Moog synthesizer and the eerie, carnival-like lyric: “Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends.”

A musical prodigy, Emerson

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Keith Emerson dies at the age of 71 from an apparent suicide. was born in Todmorden, Yorkshire in England. By his late teens, he was playing in blues and jazz clubs in London. He helped form one of the first progressive rock groups, the Nice, before hooking up with Lake and Palmer in 1970 and debuting with them at the Isle of Wight Festival, shows that also featured Jimi Hendrix and the Who. Although it filled stadiums, ELP also was ridiculed as the embodiment of the pomposity and selfindulgence that rock supposedly stood against. When the punk movement took off in the mid’70s, the band was a special tar-

get, openly loathed by the Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten among others.

Years later, Rotten (then calling himself John Lydon) and Emerson became friends, Lydon told News of the World in 2007.

“He’s a great bloke,” Lydon said. “I’ve told Keith in no uncertain terms that what put me off his band were those 20-minute organ solos and that film of their convoy of trucks crossing America.”

ELP broke up in 1979, reunited in 1991, later disbanded again and reunited one last time for a 2010 tour.

Throughout, Emerson continued to compose and perform,

sometimes solo and other times with various musicians, including Lake.

Palmer said in a statement that Emerson “was a pioneer and an innovator whose musical genius touched all of us in the worlds of rock, classical and jazz.”

Steve Hackett, who was Genesis’ lead guitarist from 1970 to 1977, called Emerson a “great showman.”

“A lot of pop stars are there because they’ve got great hairstyles or could dance wonderfully,” he said. “But he was, above all, a fantastic musician, arranger and writer.”

Despite his influence, Emerson never considered himself a rock or pop icon and his true musical devotion lay elsewhere.

“At home, he listened to either classical or jazz. We never listened to rock,” Kawaguchi said.

“He hated being called rock star or prog-rock star...he wanted to be known as composer,” she said.

“He never succumbed to being commercially successful. He had no interest. He always said: ‘I’m not a rock star. I’ve never been a rock star. All I want is to play music.’”

Kawaguchi said Emerson was able to compose without any instrument.

“He was just natural. The music was always in his head, always,” she said. “Even when he was sleeping, you know, I could tell he was always thinking about music.

Sometimes he would wake up and compose music. And it was all so, so beautiful.”

Emerson had been composing and working with internationally known symphonies, including two in Germany and Japan, and was about to embark on a short tour in Japan starting on April 14 with his band, Kawaguchi said.

His work included a classical piano concerto.

“All these people from the classical world were playing his music,” she said. “When he was young, he was using classical music for rock and now the wheel has turned and now the classical world is using his compositions.”

Review: ‘Blackbird’ with Daniels and Williams is brilliant NEW YORK (AP) ‑ It turns out there is a place more uncomfortable to be on Broadway than a bulletridden hut watching sex slaves try to preserve their humanity. That would be among the audience watching the harrowing and absolutely brilliant revival of “Blackbird.”

David Harrower’s play is so intimate and emotional and charged that it makes “Eclipsed” seem like a comedy in comparison. It’s also impossi-

ble to stop watching because both characters are fully realized and equally sympathetic.

That’s hard to do, since one is a woman who was sexually abused 15 years ago when she was 12 and the other is the man, who at 40, was the one who seduced her. It is a rich stew of anger and shame and love that opened Thursday at the Belasco Theatre.

Mi c h e l l e W i l l i a m s plays the spiky, vengeful and still-broken vic-

tim, and Jeff Daniels is the stressed-out, humiliated one-time aggressor. With this indisputably superb cast, the play ducks and weaves enough to take your breath away under Joe Mantello’s taut direction.

The woman arrives unannounced during closing time at her former abuser’s place of employment, a nondescript modern, soulless office. He has served prison time, changed his name and

has started a new life, even becoming involved with a woman his own age.

Daniels plays the man suddenly made raw, slightly bowed and disheveled as he is reminded of his horrific past. In her presence, he fights the reemergence of tics and is absent-mindedly obsessed with picking up the litter in the break room where they meet, as if he could make everything clean again.

There is also harshness

to Daniels’ character, and he goes to the edge of violence to try to get out of having this confrontation, here and now. He’s protective of the new life he created and suspicious of his visitor’s motives. He even rifles though her bag to see if she’s got a weapon.

“I didn’t agree to this,” he says.

“I lost more than you ever did,” she replies.

While the play’s topic might initially put some off, this cast makes the

spare and human dialogue soar. These are two actors at the top of their game, holding back nothing. At a recent preview, the audience was absolutely rapt, the theater silent. It gets so intimate you might be embarrassed to be so close.

Williams arrives for the confrontation in a girlish dress and high heels and a burning anger. She wants admissions and details and, above all, an explanation. “I hate the life I’ve had,” she tells him.

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‘Zootopia’ opens with a roar NEW YORK (AP) — Moviegoers didn’t have much to go on with the mysterious “10 Cloverfield Lane,” but the words “Cloverfield” and “J.J. Abrams” were enough.

The Abrams-produced monster movie, a so-called “spiritual successor” to 2008’s found-footage hit “Cloverfield,” opened with a better-than-expected $25.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

That was good enough for second place to the Disney animated hit “Zootopia,” which stayed on top with $50 million in its second week, a slide of only 33 percent from its opening weekend.

The weekend’s biggest disappointment was Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Brothers Grimsby,” which flopped with a mere $3.2 million.

It’s a career low box-office debut for the shape-shifting British comedian by a wide margin.

Perhaps sensing trouble, Sony Pictures had postponed the release date of the R-rated comedy numerous times. Whereas Cohen’s most popular characters - Borat and Ali G - were deployed largely to satirize America, moviegoers showed less enthusiasm for the British parody of “Brothers Grimsby,” a poorly reviewed R-rated, U.K.-set spy comedy.

With the multiplexes stuffed with R-rated offerings (“Deadpool,” ‘’London Has Fallen,” ‘’Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”), the acclaimed “Zootopia” has had family audiences all to itself. The film, which imagines a metropolis inhabited by animals, will have little competition before “The Jungle Book” arrives in mid-April.

Taking in $83.1 million internationally over the weekend, “Zootopia” has already made more than $430 million globally.

“With the marketplace loaded with R-rated fare, if you’re a family with kids, the only game in town right now is ‘Zootopia,’” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. “That film is reaping the benefits of studios somehow not realizing: ‘Hey, there’s a big void in this marketplace.’”

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Although netting $25.2 million, ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ could not compete with the cute and cuddly ‘Zootopia.’

The directorial debut of Dan Trachtenberg, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” arrived with the opposite kind of hoopla that preceded Abrams’ previous film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The release of “10 Cloverfield Lane,” made for just about $13 million, wasn’t much advertised until an ominous Super Bowl spot.

Megan Colligan, head of distribution and marketing for Paramount Pictures, said the sly, cryptic campaign got people talking about a movie that revealed little except its two stars (John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead) in a bunker.

“From a marketing level, it’s a challenge when a movie takes place in a relatively enclosed space and

you’re promising but not showing a bigger final act,” Colligan said. “But I think part of the excitement and mystery around the ‘Cloverfield’ name led to the promise that something exciting was going to happen, and the trust in J.J. as a brand that he delivers.”

Making little impact in their debuts were Lionsgate’s romantic comedy “The Perfect Match” ($4.2 million) and Focus Features’ Christian tale “The Young Messiah” ($3.4 million).

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to comScore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.

Final domestic figures will

be released Monday.

1. “Zootopia,” $50 million ($83.1 million international).

2. “10 Cloverfield Lane,” $25.2 million ($1.5 million international).

3. “Deadpool,” $10.8 million ($11.3 million international).

4. “London Has Fallen,” $10.7 million ($12 million international).

5. “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” $4.6 million.

6. “The Perfect Match,” $4.2 million.

7. “The Young Messiah,” $3.4 million.

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“The Brothers Grimsby,” $3.2 million ($3.2 million international).

9. “Gods of Egypt,” $2.5 million ($26.4 million international).

10. “Risen,” $2.3 million.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Actress Kate del Castillo says in an article published Sunday that she only met secretly with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman for a project to document his life in a movie, and denied suggestions she had received any money from the drug lord.

Del Castillo wrote of the meeting in a first-person article published in the Mexican weekly newsmagazine Proceso. She explained how she was contacted by the capo’s attorneys, the discussions leading up to the encounter and ultimately her October 2015 meeting with Guzman and American actor Sean Penn in a remote area of northeastern Mexico.

The Proceso article comes just two days after The New Yorker magazine published part of an interview with the actress. It was the first she had given to any medium about the meeting with the drug lord.

“What I wanted to do was document the life of a man named enemy number one by the most powerful nation in the world,” she wrote.

Guzman, known as the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was captured on Jan. 8 after a nearly six-month manhunt following his escape last July from a max-

imum security prison through a tunnel built under his cell. It was his second such escape from a penitentiary.

The actress wrote that the capo’s attorneys contacted her via email in 2014 and later met with her. The lawyers said that “El Chapo” wanted to give her the rights to tell his story in a movie, one that she would also appear in.

“Why me?” the actress recalled asking.

“Because he admires you, respects you, and fully trusts you,” she said one of the lawyers told her.

Del Castillo told of the trip she made Oct. 2 with Penn and two producers to meet with Guzman. One of the capo’s sons met the group at a hotel and then took them on a journey by land, air, and land again.

Mexican authorities have said they were investigating whether Guzman gave money to Del Castillo’s tequila company. Officials here have also sought to interrogate the actress, although they have said they consider her a witness not a suspect.

In a second article published in Process on Sunday, Del Castillo denied that the capo had given money to her to make the movie, or to her company.

“I have never received money from Mr. Guzman,” she said.

Girls keep out: Female video gamers face vile abuse and threats NEW YORK (AP) — Nico Deyo, a 33-year-old ecommerce specialist from Milwaukee, used to enjoy mixing it up with players from around the world in the popular online fantasy game “World of Warcraft.” Then a stalker began harassing her on the game’s forums, impersonating her in the game and, later, sending her barrages of Twitter messages, some threatening her with graphic rape and murder.

While the stalker didn’t drive her from the game, the experience helped sour her on multiplayer gaming. “There’s a lot of things about the community that are very hostile,” she says of Warcraft. Deyo largely gave up the game almost two years ago and now mostly spends her time on playing

other games by herself.

Deyo is far from alone.

In the male-dominated world of multiplayer online games like “Grand Theft Auto,” ‘’Halo,” and “Call of Duty,” many women say they’ve had to take drastic steps to escape harassment, stalking and violent threats from male players. Some quit particular games. Others change their screen names or make sure they play only with friends.

Online harassment of women, often involving threats of horrific violence, has become a big issue and video games are a frequent flashpoint. Two years ago, the online “Gamergate” movement, ostensibly a protest over the ethics of game journalists, also fueled Twitter attacks on female critics replete with

gutter-level abuse and assault threats. Some targets left their homes or canceled speaking engagements, fearing for their safety.

On Saturday, the South

by Southwest Interactive festival plans a daylong summit on online harassment ; one panel will address problems in “gaming and geek culture .”

That summit, however, almost never happened; last October, the festival canceled two gaming-issue panels after receiving “numerous threats of on-site violence .” Organizers reversed themselves a few days later after BuzzFeed and Vox Media threatened to boycott the festival entirely.

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sole makers Microsoft and Sony and game developers like Blizzard Entertainment have “terms of service” that explicitly ban stalking and other harassing behavior.

The companies have the right to ban reported bad actors from their public forums. Players say that rarely happens - and when it does, as in Deyo’s case, their harassers often follow them onto Twitter and other social channels.

Becky Heineman, the 52-year-old founder of the Olde Skuul game studio in Seattle, was an aficionado of shoot-em-ups like “Halo” and “Call of Duty.”

But constant catcalls from other players and questions about her bra size or “whether I do it on top or bottom, or other derogatory things,” she says, wore her down.

Reporting her harassers never seemed to make a difference, she says. She limited her play to friends for a while, but now mostly focuses on simple singleplayer games like “Cookie Clicker” on her phone and computer.

Contrary to popular stereotypes, women are avid video gamers; one recent survey showed that about half of all women play video games, about the same as men. But men are far more likely to identify themselves as “gamers,” and experts say that “hardcore” shooting and action games remain mostly male.

It’s only recently that “women players have been recognized as valid gamers that are interesting for companies,” said Yasmin Kafai, a University of Pennsylvania professor who focuses on gender and gaming.

Microsoft says recent changes to its Xbox Live service make it more likely that players with bad reputations will end up playing each other. It adds that

its enforcement team monitors complaints at all times and that all reports are investigated. Sony, Blizzard and the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group, did not respond to requests for comment.

Those moves don’t impress some women in the industry.

“While they have very good statements about harassment and, you know, responsibility to the community and all that kind of stuff, the enforcement side of it is pretty lax,” says Kate Edwards, executive director of the International Game Developers Association.

“Players basically have to adopt their own strategies to deal with it.”

Games and online game networks, for instance, let players “mute” messages from opponents and turn off voice chat, where trash talk can easily shade over into harassment. Xbox Live also labels players who get lots of complaints with a red marker so that other players can avoid them.

But constantly muting or reporting other players interrupts what’s supposed to be a fun pastime. And it doesn’t change harassing behavior.

“If I just block somebody, is that stopping them from doing the abuse?” says Kishonna Gray, an Eastern Kentucky University professor who wrote a book about racist and sexist interactions within Xbox. “They can go to the next person and do the same thing.”

That’s especially true when harassment shades into the real world. Mercer Smith-Looper, a 27-yearold Boston woman, found it annoying when male players patronized her and told her how to play. Then she started receiving unwanted gifts - a necklace, a sword in the mail. One gamer unexpectedly showed up at

her workplace after calling her repeatedly.

Fed up, she changed her gamer name and now sticks to playing privately with friends or alone. “I’m kind of in hiding,” she says.

What would effective anti-harassment measures look like? Experts like Edwards and Gray point to Riot Games, the maker of “League of Legends,” for its efforts to change player culture. Riot built a system based on artificial intelligence and player feedback to determine appropriate behavior during gameplay, and uses it to punish or reward players who draw complaints, according to the company’s onlinesupportdocuments .

When players show “signs of toxicity,” Riot can block them from competitive play, limit their chats or ban them entirely. The company shows players what behavior other players didn’t like when it punishes them. Jeffrey Lin, Riot’s lead game designer for social systems, has said that because of these efforts, only 2 percent of its global games experienced racist, homophobic, sexist language or excessive harassment.

Riot Games declined to comment when contacted

by The Associated Press.

IGDA’s Edwards acknowledges that dealing with harassment is a difficult challenge. “You’re dealing with minors versus adults,” she says. “You’re dealing with free speech issues. It’s a struggle for companies to figure out exactly how to approach it.”

And while Riot-style moderation might limit harassment, it’s unlikely to solve the problem on its own. “This is a social and cultural problem, not a technological one,” says Dmitri Williams, CEO of game analytics firm Ninja Metrics.

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National Safety Council visited WVU to highlight a culture of safety

By Hannah Wigal Last week a team of reviewers from the National Safety Council visited WVU to highlight a culture of safety. The visit was the final step in the accreditation process by the National Safety Council in designating WVU, the Greater Morgantown Community and Monongalia County as a Safe Community. A Safe Community in the U.S. is a community coalition that promotes safety and healthy behaviors to protect residents from harm.

Eight cities, six counties, four universities and one state region hold the Safe Communities designation, while the WVU-Greater Morgantown Safe Communities Initiative will be the first of the nation’s Safe Communities to be a collaboration between a city, a county and a University. Implementing such initiatives has been proven to decrease injuries within a community by building an effective community coalition.

The application process began in April 2014, and since coalition members have made extensive strides in preparation for the National Safety Council visit. The WVU Greater Morgantown Safe Communities Initiative has been a collaborative effort between individuals representing various WVU schools, departments and offices; municipal and county government officials; a member of the House of Delegates representing Monongalia County; and other community partners representing business, non-governmental organizations, federal agencies and others. In order to move forward with the Safe Communities initiative, data was collected to determine primary causes of injury and evaluate current safety efforts.

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WVU earns No. 3 seed in NCAA Tournament

By Chris Jackson

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After falling in their first-ever Big 12 Championship game Saturday, the West Virginia Mountaineers learned their tournament fate Sunday evening.

They’re the No. 3 seed in the East Region, facing No. 14 seed Stephen F. Austin in the round of 64 on Friday. It’s the program’s highest seed since receiving the No. 2 seed in 2010, following a Big East title and weeks before their first Final Four appearance since 1959.

Stephen F. Austin went 27-5 and won the Southland Conference title, defeating Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 82-60 in the championship. It claimed a huge victory over Shaka Smart and No. 5 seed VCU two years ago to open the NCAA Tournament.

“They run offense pretty well, they’re a good team,” said WVU senior guard Jaysean Paige. “They’re in the tournament for a reason so we’ve got to come to play and don’t take them lightly.”

The winner of WVU and Stephen F. Austin faces either Notre Dame or Michigan/Tulsa in the round of 32, with a possible Backyard Brawl matchup against No. 10 seed Pittsburgh in the Sweet Sixteen if everything falls both teams’ ways.

“I keep hearing about that, that’ll be a fun game,” Paige said. “If that works out, that’ll be a great old school rivalry back in effect.”

SFA has now appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the third straight year, marking its fourth overall showing. The Lumberjacks fell to No. 5 seed Utah in the round of 64 last season, 57-50.

Head coach Brad Underwood’s led SFA to an 88-13 record during his three years at the helm, winning the Southland Coach of the Year in each of the three years. There’s been just one conference loss since 2014, coming in a 17-1 campaign a year ago.

Underwood’s team has scored 80-plus points in each of the last six contests, including a 10468 victory over Houston Baptist in the conference semifinals.

“Brad’s a really good guy, he’s done a great job,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “I know he had the most wins of any coach ever in the first two years in college basketball.

That’s pretty good.”

Since the emergence of “Press Virginia” last season, WVU overcame a twoyear NCAA Tournament drought and has now secured two consecutive NCAA Tournament bids.

Since taking over his alma mater in 2007, head coach Bob Huggins has led the Mountaineers to the postseason in all but two of the years (one was an NIT bid, the other was no postseason appearance).

Huggins turned the program around after the departures of Eron Harris (Michigan State) and Terry Henderson (NC State) in 2014, guiding WVU to a Sweet Sixteen run a year ago, and winning the Big 12 and Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year awards.

“We had a good run last year, but it was kind of short,” Paige said. We made it to the Sweet Sixteen, but it went by so fast.

We want to make a little bit of a longer run this year.”

Most of the key contributors return as they’re poised for another deep postseason run, highlighted by Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year Jaysean Paige.

Jevon Carter also scored 26 points in the thrilling semifinals victory over Oklahoma, and Daxter Miles held Big 12 Player of the Year Buddy Hield to six points on one-of-eight shooting.

Devin Williams is coming off a career-high 31-point outing in the Big 12 championship loss to Kansas, hauling in 10 rebounds to secure his 15th double-double of the year.

He’s one of many hungry players looking to avenge the loss to Kansas in the conference championship.

“Coming off a loss, we didn’t play too well, and we still get a chance to beat the No. 1 team, No. 1 seed in the country,” Paige said. “It was a little bit of a confidence boost, knowing that you didn’t play so well and still had a chance to win the game. That’s a big confidence boost.” cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU freshman Ginny Thrasher puts on her suit and smiles during a January match against NC State.

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Mountaineers capture 18th national title

By Connor Hicks Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Although the environment in Akron, Ohio this weekend was eerie and cloud-covered, the faces of the West Virginia rifle team were bright as they hoisted their fourth consecutive national championship trophy. The West Virginia rifle team is once again the NCAA national champions, topping last year’s score to shoot a 4,703 aggregate in the finals this weekend. In addition, WVU freshman sensation Ginny Thrasher captured both individual titles.

While an accolade might lose its prominence when constantly achieved, this was not the case for the Mountaineers. In fact, this one might have been more special to Jon Hammond’s squad solely because of the level at which West Virginia dominated the rest of the country. The team consistently bested some of the nation’s top teams by unprecedented margins. It was the year of the Mountaineer, and unlike the top ranked Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks of 2015, the nation’s top team was able to close off a perfect season to capture the title of best team in the country for an NCAArecord 18th time.

The weekend started difficult for the nation’s top team, as the Mountaineers trailed No. 3 TCU (the only team in the eight-team field they hadn’t beat in the regular season) by eight points

going into the final round of the smallbore competition.

The Mountaineers finished strong, topping the Horned Frogs by just five points to grasp the smallbore title.

The top five teams were separated by just 20 points following the smallbore portion on Friday afternoon.

Five members shot for the Mountaineers, with senior Michael Bamsey shooting a 587 to lead the field. Freshman Ginny Thrasher was the lone lowerclassman to shoot for West Virginia, shooting a 586 to tie for second with Murray State’s Ivan Roe. Impressively, the Mountaineers took three of the top four spots in the smallbore individual final, with Thrasher outshooting teammate Meelis Kiisk in the final to take the individual title, adding to her GARC individual title.

“Ginny has done a great job on focusing on the process,” said WVU head coach Jon Hammond. “She was confident going into today’s final, and it was an exciting match to watch. She managed to hang in there and shoot the best standing toward the end of the match.

She came away as a winner.

It is great to watch all three of them in the final and for them to come out in first, second and fourth place.”

On the second day as the pressure grew for the Mountaineers, the team who has consistently been the best in the nation delivered again, shooting a 2,365 to capture

the air rifle title. The 2,365, along with the team’s 2,338 in smallbore, combined for a 4,703, which was enough for a national championship for the Mountaineers.

While the Mountaineers have repeatedly been successful under coach Jon Hammond, it was only the second time WVU captured both individual titles and the aggregate national title under Hammond.

“I am really proud of this team, and I am glad that we were able to come out on top at the end of the weekend,” Hammond said. “That is one of the best teams we have ever had. Their strength all year has been their consistency, and to be able to win both events is a great achievement. It is a great feeling to take away all three trophies.”

Thrasher paced the team in the category, shooting a 593 on the day to advance to the individual finals. Senior Garrett Spurgeon shot a 592 and the three other Mountaineer seniors followed.

Thrasher shot a 208.8 score in the finals to capture the air rifle individual title, adding to her hardware from the previous day. Thrasher becomes the second Mountaineer to win both individual titles and the third WVU female shooter in the past four years to win at least one individual title.

For her performance, Thrasher was named the NCAA Championships’ Top Performer.

“It feels amazing,” Thrasher said. “I am glad to have the team behind me and to have great support from our coaching staff, led by coach Jon Hammond. The fact that this started with our senior class right now, I am happy that I can help them come full circle.”

No. 3 TCU finished second with a 4,694 and No. 2 Murray State took third with a 4,940.

The Mountaineers’ 4,703 was the second highest score in NCAA Championship history and a point higher than last year’s tally.

The Mountaineer senior class of Meelis Kiisk, Garrett Spurgeon, Michael Bamsey and Patrick Sunderman will graduate having won a national championship every year, a feat that is nearly unheard of in college sports.

“All four of our seniors have been incredible. They all have amazing stories, and I am just happy to be a part of them,” Hammond said.

West Virginia is now the first team to win four consecutive national championships since Alaska-Fairbanks accomplished the feat in 2001-04. In addition, the Mountaineers have won half of the national titles since rifle became an NCAA sport in 1980, boasting 18 of 36 national championships.

The National Champion West Virginia rifle team will meet with fans tonight at 4 p.m. in Room 172 of the WVU Coliseum. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Baseball

Galusky’s walk-off lifts West Virginia to series victory Saturday

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Until Saturday night, Jimmy Galusky had never been at the receiving end of a dog-pile celebration.

As he singled home two runs in the bottom 12th inning to complete the comeback for the West Virginia University baseball team, he got his chance, and it was a special moment for the West Virginia native.

“I was telling some of the guys, I would have passed out down there… but I wasn’t going to say anything,” Galusky said.

“It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever done.”

Galusky went 2-for-6 with two RBI’s.

BJ Myers received the start in the game and wasn’t allowing the Monarch batters to produce anything. Myers retired the first 11 batters before a Nick Walker walk with two outs in the fourth inning broke up the perfect game.

Ivan Vera made his first start for WVU and showed his offensive potential. After recording a double in his second at bat, he scored to give WVU an early lead.

Vera finished the day going two-for-three at the plate.

Old Dominion recorded its first hit in the seventh inning with a double down the right field line by Jason McMurray. While Myers had everything going his way, he couldn’t escape the inning.

After allowing two runs and ODU tying the game, Conner Dotson came on in relief, allowing two more runs. The Monarchs held a 4-2 lead until the bottom of the ninth.

Galusky led the inning with a triple and tied the game after Kyle Davis’ sacrifice fly to right field.

With two outs left in the inning, the Mountaineers’ winning run was 90 feet away. ODU’s Nick Matheson got the best of freshman Marquis Inman as Inman grounded out to head to extra innings.

It was all quiet until ODU scored in the top of the 11th to make it 5-4, but with runners on second and third and Galusky up to bat, the redshirt freshman delivered by scoring both KC Huth and Ray Guerrini for his first walkoff hit as a Mountaineer.

Earlier in the day, WVU and Old Domin-

ion announced the two teams would play a doubleheader due to expecting inclement weather on Sunday. Ross Vance took the mound in Game 1.

Old Dominion got to Vance rather quickly as ODU catcher Kyle Beam singled Connor Myers home in the first inning.

After the Monarchs added two more runs, and the bases loaded, Vance was done after 3.2 innings pitched, his shortest outing of the season.

Brandon Boone came on in relief for Vance, and while Boone walked in the first batter he faced, he allowed one hit in over four innings of relief.

While WVU head coach Randy Mazey doesn’t believe he will crack the starting rotation, he believes Boone can be a backup plan if needed.

“We’ve molded him to be a starter this year,” Mazey said. “He could have gone longer, but he kept them right where we needed to and gave us a chance to win.”

Heading into the bottom of the ninth inning, the Mountaineers had the opportunity to erase their three-run deficit. Af-

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WVU freshman Jimmy Galusky gets ready before Friday’s win over Old Dominion. ter Kyle Gray and Galusky were on third and first with no outs, Gray then scored on an ODU’s wild pitch to cut ODU’s lead in half.

Darius Hill had the next opportunity to tie the game, ultimately advancing Galusky with a double to centerfield. Cole Austin then tied the game after a double down the right field

line.

While on second with the game tied, Austin attempted to steal two bases off a wild pitch, but was tagged out at home on what would have been the winning run.

In the top of the 10th, ODU catcher Kyle Beam led the inning with a home run and gave the

Monarchs a 5-4 lead. Ultimately, the Mountaineers couldn’t bounce back, and dropped Game 1.

The Mountaineers will face Radford University at 3 p.m. Tuesday, marking WVU’s last game before Big 12 play begins Friday at TCU. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Monday March 14, 2016

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Gymnastics

WVU closes regular season with two victories over Pittsburgh

By Carter Sokolowski Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The No. 25 ranked West Virginia University gymnastics team finished its regular season with a bang, earning two wins in a home-and-home series against the University of Pittsburgh.

The Mountaineers finished the regular season with a record of 10-6 after winning eight straight games and turning around their season. The team has put themselves in a good position heading into postseason play next weekend at the Big 12 Championship in Frisco, Texas.

The Backyard-Brawl series kicked off Friday night in Morgantown, the team’s last home meet of the season. This would also be the last home meet for Seniors Melissa Idell, Jaida Lawrence and Audrey Tolbert, who were honored with a video tribute of their careers at WVU set to the song “Country Roads.”

West Virginia started a little shakey in the first rotation, earning a team score of 48.925 on vault, below their season average. Junior Alexa Goldberg, who is normally rock-solid on every event, fell during her attempt at the vault and earned a 9.0, her lowest vault total of the year.

The Mountaineers vault score was saved by key performances from Lawrence, freshman Kirah Koshinski and sophomore Zaakira Muhammad. Lawrence and Koshinski both tied their season-high vault marks with scores of 9.835 and 9.925, respectively.

Muhammad continued to show her consistency in the event, earning a score of 9.875. She has not scored below a 9.8 on vault at any point this season.

With a solid performance from Pitt on the bars, WVU led the Panthers by a score of only 48.925-48.875 heading into the second rotation.

West Virginia expanded its lead with an exceptional showing on the bars, earning a team score of 48.925, above it’s season average score of 48.811.

Goldberg recovered from her mistake on the vault by earning the highest overall score on the bars with a score of 9.875.

Freshman Tiara Wright also impressed with a score of 9.825.

Riding a 97.85-97.675 lead heading into the second half of the meet, the Mountaineers finished the meet with solid team scores on the beam and the floor.

After an uncharacteristic slip up from Idell, Tolbert stepped up and earned her second-highest total of the year on beam with a mark of 9.825.

The freshmen on the team were the saving grace for the Mountaineers, earning a career-high 9.775 from Wright and a solid 9.8 from classmate Carly Galpin.

“As good as our seniors were tonight, I have to give a nod to our freshmen class – our newcomers are contributing some big-time scores this year,” said WVU head coach Jason Butts in an interview with WVUSports.com.

West Virginia closed the meet with a dominant per-

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Audrey Tolbert competes on the balance beam against Bowling Green and Ohio State last Sunday. formance on the floor. Five of six Mountaineer gymnasts earned scores of 9.8 or higher, led by Koshinski and Goldberg with a pair of 9.875 scores.

Idell redeemed her slip up on the beam with a great showing on the floor, earning a 9.825 in her final event in Morgantown.

The Mountaineers were the eventual victors, beating Pittsburgh by a score of 195.925-193.875.

Less than 48 hours

later, the team travelled to Fitzgerald Fieldhouse to close their regular season in the second leg of the Backyard Brawl series.

Both teams brought their A-game and competed in a closely contested battle for superiority. The Mountaineers came out on top with a final meet score of 195.825-195.675.

West Virginia’s score of 195.825 is its secondbest road score of the year, and 196.675 is Pittsburgh’s

highest team-score overall this year. It is the first time the Panthers have earned a score of more than 195.0 this season.

The Mountaineers relied heavily on their vault score, losing to Pittsburgh on bars, beam and floor.

Thankfully, a combination of high scores from West Virginia and low scores from the Panthers led to a large win of 49.05-48.625 on vault, an event that made all the difference in

the results of the match.

Wright continued to show her transformation into a star gymnast on the squad with career-high marks on bars (9.9), beam (9.85) and floor (9.8).

West Virginia is looking to use its momentum heading into a big opening weekend of postseason play in at the Big 12 Championship on Saturday in Texas. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Tennis

Mountaineers suffer tough defeat to in-state rival Marshall

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The West Virginia University women’s tennis team fell to in-state rival Marshall (5-8, 0-2 Conference USA), 4-3, over the weekend in a hard-fought match.

“The doubles point was huge, and it cost us the match overall,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac in an interview with WVUSports. com. “It was a good battle, and we had players respond well in singles play, but the doubles point was huge today. Overall, we responded well going from doubles to singles, and we battled back into the match.”

The Mountaineers (6-5) got off to a slow start, losing the doubles point for the second straight match.

WVU’s top doubles duo of senior captain Hailey Bar-

rett and sophomore Habiba Shaker dropped their second match in a row, 6-1, to fall to 8-3 on the season.

While at No. 2, the Mountaineers didn’t fare much better, falling 6-1 as well.

In singles, WVU tried its best to mount a comeback, but the effort fell short. It didn’t help that Barrett was forced to retire with an apparent injury after dropping the first set to Marshall’s Derya Turhan, 6-2. Barrett retiring put the Mountaineers in an early 2-0 hole to the Herd. At No. 3 singles sophomore Carolina Lewis got back on the winning track after a loss last week, defeating Marshall’s Maddie Silver 7-6, 6-2.

Shaker improved her singles record at the No. 2 position to 10-0 (10-1 overall) with a routine, winning in straight sets over Marshall’s Rachael Morales.

After sophomore Lyn

Yuen Choo won her match at No. 5 singles in straight sets and freshman Paula Goetz fell at No. 4, the match score was knotted at 3-3. It came down to sophomore Yvon Martinez at the No. 6 position against Marshall’s Marija Bogicevic. Although Martinez dropped the first set to Bogicevic, she fought back in the second set to force a tiebreak. She had opportunities to take the set and level the match but was unable to close it out, falling to Bogicevic, 7-6, in the second set.

The loss to Marshall wraps up the nonconference portion of the Mountaineers’ schedule. West Virginia opens Big 12 Conference play this weekend against No. 13 Oklahoma State, still searching for its first Big 12 win since joining the league in 2012.

“I’m very much looking

forward to this stage of the season where we’re getting into the nits and grits of the season,” Lisac said. “The matches we’re playing now

are another step to prepare 12. Teams will come ready us for what’s coming in the to play. Teams will come Big 12. Because, honestly, ready to fight and battle.” there’s nothing different we’re going to see in the Big dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Golf

Mountaineers struggle in weekend’s last place finish in Florida

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @dailyAthenaeum

No one ever said building a program from scratch would happen overnight.

In its second tournament this spring, the West Virginia University men’s golf team put together a 14th place finish in the 14-team field at the Seminole Intercollegiate this past weekend, finishing with a team score of 30-over 894.

“Overall, as a team, we’re obviously disappointed, but the bottom line is that

there will be a lot of learning experiences during our first year,” said WVU head coach Sean Covich in an interview with WVUSports. com. “We will certainly take our hits this year, but with guys like Max (Sear), you can see we are building for the future success of this program. It might be hard to see now, but it will pay off for the future.”

No. 3 Auburn was the tournament winner, finishing two strokes ahead of host and No. 4 ranked Florida State. The Tigers held off a late FSU rally in the

third round, with a strong finish of their own on the closing stretch of holes. No. 16 Hank Lebioda of Florida State was the tournament’s medalist, finishing with an 8-under 208.

One of the bright spots of the tournament for the Mountaineers was the performance by freshman Max Sear. After an even-par 72 in the first round and a 1-over 73 in round two, Sear put together West Virginia’s best individual round of the weekend, with a 3-under 69 in the final round. It included a remarkable run

of five birdies in six holes, catapulting him 17 spots up the leaderboard, tying for 13th place.

Senior captain Easton Renwick dug himself an early hole with a 5-over 77 in the first round, but followed it up with a respectable 2-under 70 in round two. He closed out the tournament with a 2-over 74 in round three to finish 50th.

Freshman Tristan Nicholls’ performance was almost a full 180-degree reversal of Renwick’s. Nicholls started strong with an even-par 72 in round one,

but his inexperience eventually got the best of him as he followed up with a 7-over 79 and a 5-over 77, where he finished at 12over par, good enough for 67th place.

Juniors Alan Cooke and Chris Williams struggled all weekend to figure out the trials of Southwood Golf Course. Cooke finished tied for 73rd with a 17-over 233, while Williams was alone in 75th, shooting an 18-over 234.

Lack of consistency has been the story of the season for the Mountain-

eers. A strong competitive round is usually followed by a lackluster round causing both the team and the players to fall down the leaderboard.

“There are some pieces in place that will allow us to be successful in the future,” Covich said. “Right now, we just lack depth. I think that’s why the bottom of our lineup has been a revolving door this year. Big picture-we are building for the future, and with that in mind, I am pleased.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

AP

Breaking down every early round matchup in the NCAA Tournament KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sixty-eight teams will tip off in the NCAA Tournament this week. Four will make it to the final weekend at NRG Stadium in Houston. Here is a look at the matchups set on Selection Sunday: --SOUTH - 1 Kansas vs 16 Austin Peay: The Jayhawks, the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, open against the Ohio Valley champs as they seek their first national championship since 2008.

- 8 Colorado vs 9 Connecticut: After setting a school record for regular-season wins, the Buffaloes were rewarded by facing one of the hottest teams in the nation in American tourney champion UConn.

- 5 Maryland vs 12 South Dakota State: Led by Melo Trimble and Diamond Stone, the Terps began the season 15-1. But they struggled down the stretch and fell to Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament.

- 4 California vs 13 Hawaii: Pac-12 freshman of the year Jaylen Brown will try to bounce back after a tough league tournament against big man Stefan Jankovic and the Big West champion Rainbow Warriors.

- 6 Arizona vs 11 Vanderbilt/Wichita State: Wildcats

coach Sean Miller is still seeking his first Final Four trip, while the Commodores and Shockers are veteran teams many believe underachieved.

- 3 Miami vs 14 Buffalo: Sheldon McClellan and Angel Rodriguez give the Hurricanes one of the tourney’s top backcourts, while the Bulls’ buzzer-beating MAC tournament title was their second straight.

- 7 Iowa vs 10 Temple: The Hawkeyes’ late-season collapse reached a nadir with a loss to Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament. The result is a date with the guard-dominated regular-season American champs.

- 2 Villanova vs 15 UNCAsheville: The Wildcats’ loss to Seton Hall in the Big East title game dropped them to the second line, where they face the defensive-minded Big South tourney champions.

--WEST - 1 Oregon vs 16 Holy Cross/Southern: No. 1 seeds for the first time, the Ducks begin pursuit of their first national championship against the winner of the matchup between Holy Cross and Southern.

- 8 Saint Joseph’s vs 9 Cincinnati: The Hawks won the A-10 Tournament title despite senior star Papa Ndao getting tossed. Can he keep his poise

against the Bearcats, who lost a four-overtime thriller against UConn in the American tourney quarterfinal.

- 5 Baylor vs 12 Yale: The Bears gave Kansas a scare in the B12 Tournament. Yale is making its first appearance since 1962 as it tries to keep moving forward following the dismissal of one of its captains.

- 4 Duke vs 13 UNC-Wilmington: The defending national champions look much different than a year ago, though Grayson Allen is still around. Wilmington last appeared in the tournament in 2006.

- 6 Texas vs 11 Northern Iowa: Shaka Smart is no stranger to the NCAA Tournament, having been there plenty with VCU. Neither is Northern Iowa, which has a habit of knocking off highprofile teams (Right, North Carolina and Iowa State?).

- 3 Texas A&M vs 14 Green Bay: After losing in overtime to Kentucky in the SEC title game, the Aggies open the NCAA Tournament against the Horizon League champions.

- 7 Oregon State vs 10 VCU: The Beavers hope Tres Tinkle, their star freshman, will be back from a foot injury. The Rams are trying to replicate their success under Smart for first-year coach Will Wade.

- 2 Oklahoma vs 15 Cal State-Bakersfield: Buddy Hield, Ryan Spangler and the rest of the Sooners start their last stand against the Roadrunners.

--EAST - 1 North Carolina vs 16 Florida Gulf Coast/Fairleigh Dickinson: The Tar Heels looked like title contenders with their ACC Tournament title, while Florida Gulf Coast takes on a Fairleigh Dickinson team making its first appearance since 2005.

- 8 Southern California vs 9 Providence: Andy Enfield’s surprising Trojans get Kris Dunn, Ben Bentil and the Friars, whose defense has been the culprit when they haven’t played well.

- 5 Indiana vs 12 Chattanooga: The regular-season Big Ten champs flopped against Michigan in the league tournament. Can Yogi Ferrell and Co. rebound against the class of the Southern Conference?

- 4 Kentucky vs 13 Stony Brook: After a second straight SEC Tournament title, Kentucky’s youngsters are hitting their stride. They’ll face the Seawolves, making their first NCAA Tournament appearance.

- 6 Notre Dame vs 11 Michigan/Tulsa: The Fighting Irish are one of the most balanced teams in the nation with five

starters averaging in double figures, while the Wolverines and Golden Hurricane were among the last at-large teams to get into the field.

- 3 West Virginia vs 14 Stephen F. Austin: The Mountaineers’ intense pressure will be a challenge for the Lumberjacks, who have leaned on their own defense to win their last 20 games.

- 7 Wisconsin vs 10 Pittsburgh: Greg Gard got the Badgers going midway through the season, and now NCAA Tournament vets Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig want to make another Final Four run.

They get a physical, Big Tenstyle opponent to start things off.

- 2 Xavier vs 15 Weber State: Underrated much of the season, coach Chris Mack’s Musketeers feature an exotic 1-3-1 zone that can cause all kinds of fits. Weber State has the guard play to deal with it.

--MIDWEST - 1 Virginia vs 16 Hampton: Malcolm Bronson leads the Cavs in a clash of styles. Virginia tries to play at a deliberate pace, while the Pirates were the highest scoring team in the MEAC. - 8 Texas Tech vs 9 Butler: The Red Raiders are back in the tournament for the first time since 2007, and the reward is a matchup with Kellen

Dunham and the NCAA Tournament darlings from Butler.

- 5 Purdue vs 12 Little Rock: The Trojans are deep, experienced and have one of the best defenses in the country, but can they deal with the size of the Boilermakers’ A.J. Hammons and Caleb Swanigan?

- 4 Iowa State vs 13 Iona: Coach Steve Prohm succeeded in taking Fred Hoiberg’s boys back to the dance.

Their first task is slowing down high-scoring guard A.J. English and the Gaels.

- 6 Seton Hall vs 11 Gonzaga: Sophomore guard Isaiah Whitehead led the Pirates to a surprising Big East tourney title. The Bulldogs merely won the West Coast Tournament for their 18th straight appearance.

- 3 Utah vs 14 Fresno State: Enjoy watching Pac-12 player of the year Jakob Poeltl of Utah and Fresno State guard Marvelle Harris, two of the best players in this region.

- 7 Dayton vs 10 Syracuse: The Flyers’ Kendall Pollard has been bothered by a sore knee. Will he be close to 100 percent against an Orange team that played better when Jim Boeheim returned from a suspension?

- 2 Michigan State vs 15 Middle Tennessee State: The Spartans had a strong argument for a No. 1 seed after winning the Big Ten.