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Friday January 29, 2016

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WVU students invited to preview completed Evansdale Crossing by jamie mason staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Although parts of Evansdale Crossing have been open since last semester, it’s finally time for a grand opening celebration for the entire facility.

The businesses and services within Evansdale Crossing will welcome students and guests by providing free food and drink samples and tours of all five levels of the building in an open house from 1-3 p.m.

Barnes and Noble, the Mountaineer Hub, the Media

Innovation Center, the WVU LaunchLab and all six food and drink options will participate in this celebration. “(Today) is an opportunity not just for students but for anyone to come over and see the new facility,” said George Yanchak, director of the Mountaineer Hub. “It’s an opportunity to come and explore and see some of the areas that some students haven’t seen yet.”

Students will have the opportunity to visit the Mountaineer Hub and learn more about all of the services it offers. The Mountaineer Hub

provides students with a onestop shop for several critical student services, including the Office of the University Registrar, the Office of Student Accounts and the Office of Financial Aid. “The service that you will be able to receive here, you won’t have to go to different areas,” Yanchak said. “The best thing about it is that students can come here and be serviced for all of those offices.”

Also providing academic services and opportunities at the Crossing is the LaunchLab. The LaunchLab

‘Annie’s Project’ aims to educate female farmers in W.Va. by rachel mcbride staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Female farmers in West Virginia are learning how to build successful farm businesses with the help of Annie’s Project, a program dedicated to instilling problemsolving, record-keeping and decision-making skills among women in agriculture.

More than a quarter of farms in West Virginia are either owned or operated by women, according to Doolarie Singh-Knights, assistant professor and extension specialist for agricultural economics at West Virginia University. This comes to about to 9,320 women who either run or own farms in the state.

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“Women have always played a role on the farm, but they weren’t always leaders.”

Doolarie Singh-Knights WVU Assistant Professor

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“Women have always played a role on the farm,” Singh-Knights said. “But they weren’t always leaders.”

The mission of this project is to create strong and educated female leaders in the agricultural industry. According to its website, Annie’s Project is currently “strengthening women’s roles in the modern farm enterprise” by offering programs in 33 states across the nation.

Annie’s Project provides training, resources and networking opportunities to help women across thecountry build efficient and effective farm businesses. Successful business plans, risk management training and marketing are covered in the project’s educational programs.

WVU adopted the program’s model in 2011 and has continued to mold the project’s platform in order to meet the needs of female farmers in West Virginia. The program is provided by the WVU Extension Service faculty and staff at locations statewide, as well as online.

“We do have unique challenges when it comes

to agriculture in West Virginia,” Singh-Knights said. “We want women to continue to grow successful agricultural businesses in our state.”

Singh-Knights said in terms of numbers, women in West Virginia are entering farming careers at a growing rate three times the national average. However, SinghKnights also said officials have started to see these impressive numbers trending down from the last census’s statistics.

“If the statistic patterns remain the same, we will see these numbers trending downward,” SinghKnights said. “Unless (West Virginia Agricultural Service Providers) make a concerted effort state-wide to help this progressive group become viable and profitable and build sustainable businesses for the long run.”

Singh-Knights said economic contribution per farm is lower in many cases when compared to neighboring states.

Those in WVU Extension Services hope that through Annie’s Project, West Virginia farms can be transformed to profitable and sustainable businesses while continuing to meet the needs of the growing demographic of female farmers.

The West Virginia Annie’s Project has provided services to more than 400 women involved in West Virginia agriculture and has been a significant influence in programming efforts to serve female clientele throughout the state in need of risk management assistance.

Mu l t i - w e e k t ra i n ings specific to certain agricultural areas are planned to start this January and go through May. The cost of participating in the program is $25 and covers all materials and refreshments that will be provided.

Pre-registration for the programs is required. The local WVU Extension Service office can provide information about when classes are in certain areas as well as how to pre-register for events.

For more information on registration, visit : http://ext.wvu. edu/county_offices/. For more information about Annie’s Project nationwide, visit : http://anniesproject.org/. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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is a place where students can bring business ideas and put them to the test with the goal of launching their product. Today, the lab is premiering facilities and will be opening up labs for students to learn about and see products that students have launched with the support of the LaunchLab. The lab “will have about 15 entrepreneurs across the different disciplines demoing and talking about their businesses,” said Fonda Holehouse, the director of the WVU LaunchLab. “It’s an opportunity to showcase stu-

dent entrepreneurs at WVU...

We have so many that are doing such amazing things.”

Holehouse wants students to know that everyone is welcome and anyone can have an idea—the LaunchLab is there to assist you.

“You don’t have to be a business student to have an idea for a business. And if you have an idea, WVU is invested in you,” Holehouse said. “The LaunchLab is here for any WVU student, and we can help you figure out how to turn your idea into the next big thing.”

In case students need

books or some Mountaineer apparel while on the Evansdale Campus, Barnes and Noble has opened a new location inside Evansdale Crossing.

Barnes and Noble has invited two authors to today’s event who are local to the area. Susan Malcom, author of “The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Bucket List,” will be in the store from 9 a.m.-noon, and James Alexander Thom, author of “Fire in the Water,” will be there from 3-7 p.m.

“The authors coming are

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Listeners gather around as Renee K. Nicholson gives a touching speech on the experience she had in helping a patient with ALS write a memoir of his life.

WVU’s Center for Women and Gender Studies hosts Fireside Chat, discusses narrative medicine by amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Renee Nicholson received a call from a palliative doctor in January 2015.

The doctor was looking for a creative writer. He had a patient who wanted to write a memoir, Nicholson said during her Fireside Chat hosted by West Virginia University’s Center for Women and Gender Studies.

The patient, Jamie Shumway, had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Nicholson, a WVU assistant professor of multiple-disciplinary studies, met Shumway and agreed to help him write his memoir. The two spent hours with their heads together in Shumway’s kitchen as they worked through the 500 pages of memories he had already put together.

“Jamie’s desire to write

was stronger than the oppressive cocoon of his illness,” Nicholson said.

It was through this project that Nicholson came to know about narrative medicine and gain understanding about her own writing.

“I privileged and prioritized his writing over my own,” Nicholson said. “And I learned a valuable lesson about voice.”

Nicholson has rheumatoid arthritis. Before she was a writer, Nicholson was a ballet performer. At age 36, she had knee surgery and her performance career ended.

“I came to write when rheumatoid arthritis prevented me from dancing,” Nicholson said.

At first, Nicholson’s poetry about her condition was angry and dark, but after working with Shumway, she began to write more reflectively and with less anger.

Nicholson read one poem from before meeting Shumway and then another from during her work with Shumway to show the stark difference.

Narrative medicine is using the power of writing and story-telling to help ease the suffering of the ill. Some patients write as a way to heal their mind.

“I came to see how this art, how writing could be useful,” Nicholson said.

“Narrative medicine helps patients find meaning in suffering… The belief at the heart of (it) is in the power of writing.”

Shumway died in September. Nicholson is now working with Shumway’s wife, Betsy Pyle, a retired WVU geography professor, to finish Shumway’s memoir. They currently have a 250-page working draft.

“We’re still trying to

package the chapters and think about what format we want to put the book out in. There are lots of people here, our friends, people Jamie worked with… there are people scattered all over who can’t wait to read his stories,” Pyle said. “There are a lot of stories in his memoirs of adventures because he loved international travel and doing outdoor, active recreation, but he also talks about his disease and challenges he faced in the medical school, so there’s a little bit of everything. It really is a memoir of his life.”

Nicholson is currently working with a writing group in assisted living and a neurologist to study the effect of narrative medicine. She is also working with a palliative doctor and physician clinic to bring narrative writing into cancer research. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

‘A State of Minds’ campaign at $938 million by corey mcdonald staff writer @dailyathenaeum

With nearly two years remaining, the WVU Foundation’s ‘A State of Minds’ campaign has raised $938 million– 9 percent of its $1 billion goal.

The campaign, which was announced in June of 2012, is set to run through December 2017 and contributes directly to student scholarships, as well as faculty chairs and professorships.

“The money goes to a number of different things, from scholarships and fellowships to research funds to funds that help to attract

and keep highly-skilled faculty,” said Bill Nevin, assistant vice president of communications for the WVU Foundation.

According to Nevin, contributions also go to academic programs and upgrades to laboratories and buildings on campus.

WVU Foundation is dedicated to maximizing private charitable support and providing services to the University and its affiliated organizations.

“We extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to alumni and friends who have partnered with us in this campaign to enhance the experience for not only

our students, but our faculty, researchers and patients as well,” said WVU Foundation President and CEO Cindi Roth in a release from the Foundation.

There have been more than 81,000 donors, including donations from more than 34,000 alumni and 6,000 corporations.

With these campaign contributions, 661 endowed student scholarships have been created, as well as 26 endowed faculty chairs, 26 endowed professorships and 202 new funds to assist research efforts at the University.

More recently, in the spring of 2015, WVU Pres-

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ident E. Gordon Gee announced the ‘Dreams First’ initiative within the Campaign to help raise $50 million specifically for undergraduate scholarships and fellowships.

Since its announcement, the initiative has raised $26.9 million, 54 percent of its total goal.

“The response to this campaign is just one of the many indicators of the momentum that is building at West Virginia University,” Gee said in a press release. “This University is improving and advancing at an impressive speed.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Members of the Michigan National Guard load bottled water at a fire station, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 in Flint, Mich. The Michigan Legislature voted Thursday to direct another $28 million to address Flint’s water emergency, allocating money for bottled water, medical assessments and other costs in the city struggling with a lead-contaminated supply.

Michigan lawmakers approve $28 million more for Flint water crisis LANSING, Mich. (AP)— Michigan lawmakers directed another $28 million on Thursday to address Flint’s lead-contaminated water supply, allocating money for bottled water, medical assessments and other costs for the financially struggling city.

The quick and unanimous approval by the House and Senate came just over a week after the funding was proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder, who is expected to sign it quickly.

“We obviously have a number of issues that we have to deal with, whether it’s infrastructure, whether it’s folks having to pay for water that obviously is undrinkable,” said Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, D-Flint. “But the most important I think right now ... is to start the focus on the assessment and the providing of services.”

This is the second round

of funding enacted since the crisis was confirmed in the fall, bringing the total allocated to nearly $39 million. Snyder has promised to put forward more funding for Flint in his upcoming annual budget proposal - when he also will detail plans for a one-time $575 million surplus - but has not said how much.

It is unlikely to be as high as the up to $400 million figure mentioned in Congress on Thursday. Senate Democrats proposed that amount in emergency federal aid to Flint, with a requirement that the state match the spending on Flint pipes, dollar for dollar.

“This is a state responsibility,” Michigan Sen. Gary Peters said at a news conference at the Capitol. “The state broke it. They need to fix it.”

Flint’s water became contaminated when the city, under emergency state

management, switched from the Detroit municipal system and began drawing from the Flint River in April 2014 to save money.

State regulators failed to ensure the new water was properly treated and lead from pipes leached into the water supply. Some children’s blood has tested positive for lead, which has been linked to learning disabilities, lower IQ and behavioral problems.

The Board of State Canvassers rejected petitions Thursday to recall the Republican governor over his handling of Flint’s water.

Meanwhile, Progress Michigan, a liberal group critical of Snyder, released emails showing the state was sending water coolers a year ago to employees at a state office building in Flint.

That occurred after Flint announced it had briefly flunked some drinking water standards apart from

the current lead contamination. The state told workers they could use the water cooler or drinking fountains.

“We have provided it continuously. That was a decision we made as the building owner” in Flint, said Caleb Buhs, a spokesman for the agency that manages state buildings.

The damage to Flint’s water distribution infrastructure potentially is $713 million, according to an assessment cited in the state’s request for federal assistance, but Snyder and the Republicans who control the state Legislature said it is far too early to talk about a wholesale replacement of the pipes.

The governor’s spokesman Dave Murray said the federal legislation is being reviewed but declined to say if Snyder supports it.

Snyder is “always grateful for support from our federal

partners,” he said.

Snyder’s administration has estimated it could cost up to $55 million to repair some 15,000 lead pipes. Officials are hopeful that the addition of anti-corrosion chemicals will effectively recoat the lines.

The state spending bill includes $500,000 for outside experts to study the integrity of the water system infrastructure.

“Before we start throwing money into infrastructure, we need to know really what the condition is, where the pipes are, how many there are,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Al Pscholka, RStevensville. “There’s a lot of unknowns.”

The money approved Thursday will pay for developmental assessments of children age 3 and younger, additional school nurses, lead and blood testing, plumbing fixture replace-

ments and other costs.

The largest allotment $4.6 million - is for bottled water, filters and replacement cartridges being distributed to residents in the city of nearly 100,000 people. About $3.9 million will be used to treat children with high blood-lead levels.

Snyder said Wednesday that about 200 children have been identified but more need to be tested.

Ananich pointed to an unknown number of people who were potentially exposed before the disaster came to light and were never tested before the toxin dissipated from their body.

“We have to assume this is population-wide,” he said.

Legislators also voted to extend Michigan’s emergency declaration until mid-April, which coincides with a federal emergency declaration.

Orange County jail teacher arrested for helping three escape SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP)—A woman who taught English classes at a Southern California jail was arrested Thursday on suspicion of helping three inmates - including an alleged killer - escape the lockup, and the men are believed to be riding around in a stolen van.

Nooshafarin Ravaghi, 44, of Lake Forest, was arrested nearly a week after the men - one an alleged killer - cut their way through steel bars, climbed through plumbing tunnels, made their way to the roof, cut razor wire and, using rope made of braided bedsheets, rappelled four stories to freedom from the roof of the Orange County Central Men’s Jail. The escape on Jan. 22 wasn’t noticed for 16 hours.

It was the first escape from the maximum-security lockup in more than 20 years.

Ravaghi was taken into custody about an hour before the arrest was announced Thursday afternoon and remained jailed. It was unclear whether she had an attorney.

Ravaghi had worked since 2014 as a part-time instructor of English as a second language in the inmate education program operated by the Rancho Santiago Community College District, the

school said in a statement.

One of her students was Hossein Nayeri, 37, the alleged mastermind of the escape, who was awaiting trial on charges that he kidnapped and tortured a marijuana dispensary owner - finally cutting off his penis - in a bid to learn where he might have cached money.

“There was some type of relationship that developed between the two” that was close, Hallock said, but he didn’t know whether it was a romance.

Ravaghi denied supplied any tools to the inmates, but investigators suspect she provided Google maps that potentially could have helped the inmates plan their route after fleeing the jail, Hallock said.

According to a personal website that sells children’s books designed by Ravaghi under the name “the Noosha Collection,” she was born, like Nayeri, in Iran.

She traveled in Europe and Asia as a child and attended college in Tehran before coming to California in 1997, where she got a masters’ degree in education and began teaching English to non-native speakers.

She had undergone a sheriff’s background check before beginning her assignment

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Authorities with the Orange County Central Jail stand on the top jail floor in Santa Ana, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Three inmates, including a man suspected of a killing, cut through metal, crawled through plumbing tunnels, climbed a roof and rappelled down four stories to freedom last week using ropes made from bedsheets.

The sheriff’s department has been slow to add more rooftop security cameras at the jail despite a grand jury’s recommendations for eight years straight, according to a report Monday. in the jail, and the college is Hallock said investigators van that was stolen on Satur- and taking it for a test drive, working closely with sheriff’s believe he and the others - day in southern Los Angeles. Hallock said. “They may be officials to provide anything alleged killer Bac Duong, 43, Duong apparently stole driving around and potenthey need, the school’s state- and Jonathan Tieu, 20 - are the vehicle from someone tially living in the back” of the living in a white GMC Savana after responding to a sales ad van, he said. ment said.

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Continued from page 1 not a usual thing for the University,” said Peggy Frum, manager of the Evansdale Crossing Barnes and Noble.

“We are very proud of the new location and the new store and we think that everyone should be aware that we are here now.”

Frum is hoping for a successful turnout today and

thinks that there will be a nice showing.

“We’re hoping to have at least a thousand people come through our store (today),” Frum said. “We’re very excited to be here and I think it’s a wonderful thing for the Evansdale campus.”

A popular restaurant at the Crossing, The Juice Bar, will give free samples and offer deals all day. The Juice Bar, which has been open since November, has had “booming” business and is excited

for more Mountaineers to check them out today.

“Juice Bar alone is going to offer our kale salad and butternut squash soup, and (students) can sample that for free,” said Kristina Baker, director of operations of the fifth floor. “It’s a great atmosphere, very upbeat, good music… We’ve got everything you could think of.”

The Reed College of Media’s new Media Innovation Center will also host an open house today from 1-3 p.m.

This new center is a way for students and faculty to connect while using handson innovation and providing resources for students, including more creative ways to solve problems and ways to learn about the role of media, technology and entrepreneurship.

For more information on the Evansdale Crossing, visit their Twitter at @WVUCrossing. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Keeping science valid, objective The year 2015 was recently named the warmest year on record, but this news doesn’t mean anyone is taking immediate action against lessening further carbon emissions. In fact, legislators voted last year that global climate change isn’t caused by humans at all.

On Jan. 22, 2015, the United States Senate voted 49-50 in favor of rejecting global climate change as having human causes. The vote denied the truth of vast scientific evidence demonstrating how emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have led to the existence of extreme weather patterns worldwide. Devastating floods, record heat waves and massive snowfall causing the deaths of thousands of people since the beginning of this decade were thus deemed to be merely coincidental.

This mindset is present in West Virginia lawmakers as well. Days before Winter Storm Jonas hit West Virginia, delegate Rupert Phillips, a Democrat from Logan County, mockingly handed out small bottles of sunscreen to other state delegates and said, “You’ve got global warming going on.

It’s not cold outside. It’s in your mind.”

Not only does Phillips’ sarcastic act indicate a complete misunderstanding of how climate change works, it makes light of the 48 deaths caused by the snow nationwide over the past week. The record-breaking weather events over the past two years are not without cause, and humans will have to either learn to live with future record-breaking storms or suffer the consequences of a lack of preparedness.

Aside from climate

change, the Senate’s decision ultimately represents a fundamental flaw in our political system that should not be allowed to continue under any circumstance: A body of people simply cannot vote to decide what is true and what isn’t.

If evidence can be either accepted or discarded at the will of our government, then striving for validity and objectivity in scientific fields will become obsolete. Imagine if the theory of gravity was regularly up for debate, or if the existence of a new species had to be voted on before being accepted as truth.

Scientific evidence should speak for itself, especially when the consequences are as severe as those of global climate change. If science cannot be trusted, then what can? daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Climate change denial is still prominent in many parts of America.

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Defunding abortion clinics will not stop abortions Shelby Bradford columnist @shelbybradfordda

Jan. 22 was the 43rd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade court decision.

Several times this year, both state and federal governments voted on bills proposing to defund or eliminate abortion services in women’s health centers. As a young female who appreciates the freedom to make my own reproductive choices, it personally offends me that politicians think they are both smarter than my own doctor and have more right to my body than me.

Abortion was made legal by the Supreme Court in 1973 with Roe v. Wade, which included the right to terminate a pregnancy alongside a woman’s right to privacy in regard to her own body. When performed by a certified doctor, a medical abortion is a safe procedure.

Above all else, it is socially and economically necessary to have abortion services available for women who face adverse circumstances.

These few reasons alone should be enough to quell the unrest about doctors and organizations performing safe abortions. If not, consider this--making abortion illegal does not stop them from happening, but only endangers the lives of women.

Prior to 1973, medical abortion services were not offered and the act was illegal in most states. However, this does not mean they weren’t being performed elsewhere. For the few doctors who performed them in private, they were incredibly expensive because they were black market services.

Female patients often sought out other cheaper sources as a result, which led to many botched abortions. Women

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Many women believe politicans should not be able to make choices about their bodies for them. either received them from under-educated sham-doctors or even self-induced them, which often led to severe organ damage, internal bleeding and even death from peritonitis or blood loss.

Last year, 16 pieces of legislation attempted to limit or defund organizations offering abortions. However, the Hyde Amendment already prohibits the use of federal funds for any part of an abortion procedure outside the need to save the life of the woman. Regardless, what this needless legislation truly does is put a disadvantage to underprivileged women who may become unintentionally pregnant because they cannot afford to terminate their pregnancy.

Recently, many states have imposed what are known as “20-week bans,” or laws against electively terminating pregnancies after 20 weeks. The problem is that women seeking abortions at

this time do so for two reasons: The appearance of fetal anomalies or the inability to obtain an abortion sooner, usually due to lack of finances. In other words, these two pieces of legislation are condemning socioeconomically disadvantaged women who become pregnant unintentionally.

Currently in West Virginia, there are six bills waiting to be introduced that relate to preventing women from being able to obtain an abortion. Some aim to directly restrict abortion access by reducing the period in which they can abort, or indirectly by refusing compensation for transportation to an abortion-performing doctor’s office. In any sense, these bills have one purpose, and it is not to promote women’s health.

Many lawmakers seem to believe that by preventing medical abortions, they can simply stop them from happening altogether. Consider

what happened in Texas at the end of last year: Almost half of the clinics offering abortions had been forced to close due to mounting restrictions. This led to some women trying to induce abortions with the drug Misoprostol. As none of the abortions were performed safely by a doctor, women who took the drug experienced intense cramping and excessive bleeding. This provides evidence that shutting down abortion providers won’t stop abortions.

People forget that, medically speaking, it is more physically taxing and potentially dangerous to carry a fetus to term than it is to have a first-trimester abortion performed by a doctor.

Besides this, prenatal care is expensive; since the majority of women seeking abortions are single-income or low-income already, they doubtfully have the means to pay for the necessary checkups for the entire gestation

period.

Finally, there is also a considerable social stigma associated with unplanned pregnancies. Women can lose their entire reputation, which could prevent them from continuing or bettering their education and possibly losing their job. Faced with these circumstances, many women, even if they would rather do so, cannot elect to put the child up for adoption.

Nobody likes the thought of abortion. There is absolutely no such thing as a “pro-abortion” individual.

The reality is that women have a right to choose what happens to their body, and sometimes that means making a very emotionally stressful decision about whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. Too many times people condemn women for terminating a pregnancy, even when it is their only viable option.

Preventing women from

choosing what happens to their bodies is the most nonsensical movement I have ever heard of, yet that is specifically what many current pieces of legislation are essentially doing. Why should a politician get to control the personal decisions a woman makes regarding her body?

Why does society have more say on the reproductive decisions of women than a regular medical patient? Lastly, why can Viagra and cosmetic surgeries like breast enlargements be subsidized, but a medical procedure to terminate an unplanned or possibly detrimental pregnancy not be?

The simple answer is that we have allowed moral obligations to overshadow economical ones. Here is my advice to people opposed to abortion: Do not have an abortion, and choose a healthcare practitioner who does not perform abortions. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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British band The 1975 makes changes Chelsea Walker A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

With a chameleonlike aesthetic that seems to morph and mutate, British band The 1975 is somewhat of an enigma within the music industry.

Flashback to two years ago, and you’d probably find The 1975 on the road promoting their underground and undiscovered self-titled album, The 1975, with a much darker aesthetic. Today, the colorful and lively group is busting down the door to major stardom with their pop-inspired ‘80s record, “I Like When You Sleep For You Are Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It.” The British boy band composed of lead singer Matty Healy, drummer George Daniel, guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald and saxophonist John Waugh, grew up playing covers together under the name of various band aliases within garages of their small, Manchester homes.

Guises included “Bigsleep,” “Talkhouse” and “Drive Like I Do” before the group ultimately settled on “The 1975,” after Healy, finding inspiration from scribbling within a diary, settled on the band’s official name.

If ever history repeats itself, it’s here we first see The 1975’s thriving restlessness with creativity.

“The idea of our music being cinematic is a very natural evolution – it comes from the way that we perceive our life,” Healy said to MTV News.

“It comes from the way that anybody perceives their life. Nobody has a clinical view of their memories, memories are more like Polaroids – it’s that kind of faded splendor.”

With their collections of EPs, the group released “The 1975” in September of 2013. The 16-track record featured hits “Chocolate” and “Sex” that received mainstream attention from popular radio stations and even DJ Zane Lowe on BBC’s Radio 1 show. The boys, whose lyrics speak of being “dressed in black from head to toe,” looked as if they stepped out of a cinematic motion picture, clad in monotone colors with black and white lights illuminating the concert venues they graced. When hits dropped from the group’s debut album, the no-name boy band from Manchester debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, gaining praise and recognition from mainstream media.

In that same year, The 1975’s music career took off to new heights, as the band took the stage at some of the world’s largest music festivals, from Coachella to The Apple Music Festival and Glastonbury Festival in England. Healy, while on

the festival run, continued to warn the press of the impending change that was well on its way.

“We’ve been writing quite a lot and there’s a lot of new music for the next record, but I’m not supposed to talk about it at the moment,” Healy said in an interview with Billboard. “We don’t even know what it is yet, really.

It needs time to become its own thing. We’ve got a very good idea of what’s going on, but that could change, too.”

After going on a hiatus following their tour and festival run, The 1975, who blew up on the scene, subtly slid back into nothingness. Leaving fans with only a single album, it wasn’t long before band members began stirring at the soon-to-come content.

Teasing with the date that was so relevant to fans of the band, the group promised big things to come on June 1. It was a day before June 1 when the group’s website and social media sites went dark, after the band members tweeted a cryptic photo of a cartoon strip that seemed to indicate the band was disassembling.

The first of June greeted fans of The 1975 with a new website, new look and new set of tour dates leading to the anticipated drop of their new bizarre album, “I Like When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It.” Members of The 1975 posted a message for the future, a new outlook from the same group that continues to ruffle the feathers of the pop music industry.

“This is the beginning of a new chapter for The 1975,” said members of the group.

“Our new record signifies the start of a new world for us, a more colorful world and a less colorful world.

In a new and colorful pink style, the once mysterious and dark boy band now dons pink leather, rather than black, and their sound is just as vibrant. With a poppy, 1980s-soaked vibe, The 1975 has managed to channel Michael Jackson and Prince in their tracks such as “Love Me,” “UGH!” and “The Sound,” all the while maintaining their eclectic, perplexing and artsy aesthetic.

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Young Morgantowners got the chance to participate in the mini Day of Play at the Shack House on Osage Road outside of town.

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Children from the Shack Neighborhood House After School program got a taste of what it means to be a Mountaineer athlete at a one-of-a-kind hour of power.

Organized by the “Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer” campaign, the Mini Day of Play event is a way to get children in the Morgantown area moving and motivated.

The event, which was originally delayed due to inclement weather, was bustling with kids eager to show off their sporting skills.

Children ages six through 12 participated in an array of football-inspired games, such as a ball-catching circuit and an agility course.

Kids got an extra push from a few special guests in attendance. West Virginia University football players and cheerleaders joined in on the after-school fun.

The Mini Day of Play is an idea formed in part by students in Elizabeth Oppe’s strategic communications capstone course and is all part of their effort to get Morgantown’s youth living active, healthy lifestyles.

“It was my idea to have the Mini Day of Play to promote the Big Day of Play,” Oppe said. “After-school programs really love the idea of having these activities, especially with WVU

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Former West Virginia running back Quincy Wilson catches passes at one of the stations at the mini Day of Play. cheerleaders or football players or athletes.”

Oppe hopes the Mini Day of Play will inspire more of Morgantown’s youth to get amped up about in the “Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer” main event in March.

“Today we had a football toss – the kids tossed the balls through hula hoops,” said Molly Higgins, a senior WVU student in Oppe’s capstone class. “The football players had them run little football drills and do a few other games.”

Football players weren’t the only ones who got hands-on at the kickstarter event. Students from the WVU Reed College of Media prepared for the Mini Day of Play behind the scenes.

“We have tried to put together the games that they played,” Higgins said. “We

are working on the events and the media aspects of it, like the public relations.

We have a fundraising team and a research team – basically covering every aspect that goes into it to make sure the event is fun and brings everyone together.”

Although the “Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer” campaign has clearly made a positive impression on its volunteers, it is the community who has truly seen an impact.

“We are sending (the kids) home with a takehome bag with a water, a piece of food, an apple and flyer about March 6,” Oppe said. “It’s free to the kids, and it will just be bigger than what we had here today.”

Although turnout wasn’t quite what they had ex-

pected, organizers are optimistic about the success of Thursday’s event.

“I think we had about 20 or 25 (participants), and that was such a great experience for us,” Oppe said.

“But we also have a boy here, I believe his name is Jamie, that has gone to both years of Big Day of Play with “Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer,” and he’s excited to come back this year.”

The “Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer” Big Day of Play will be held from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, March 6 at the WVU Indoor Practice Facility.

For more information on future “Once a Mountaineer, Always a Mountaineer” events, please visit http:// umountaineers.com/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Barbie gets three new body types NEW YORK (AP) — Poor Barbie. She had plastic surgery to become more socially acceptable. But a lot of her critics still don’t like her.

Barbie’s manufacturer, Mattel, announced Thursday that the doll has three new body types - curvy, tall and petite. Barbie will also now come in seven skin tones, 22 eye colors and 24 hairstyles. Mattel spokeswoman Michelle Chidoni said the product is evolving to “offer more choices” to make

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“the line more reflective of the world girls see around them.”

But Kris Macomber, who teaches sociology at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, says she’s “reluctant to celebrate Barbie’s new strategy because it doesn’t change the fact that Barbie dolls and other kinds of fashion dolls still over-emphasize female beauty. Sure, all body types should be valued. And, sure, all skin colors should be valued equally. But why must we keep sending girls the message that being beautiful is so important?”

Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said Barbie’s changes are a testament to activists who for years have challenged her “unrealistic and harmful body type.” But body type “was only one of the criticisms,” he said. “The other was the brand’s relentless focus on appearance and fashion.”

Kumea Shorter-Gooden, co-author of “Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America,” has said in the past that Barbie has a bigger impact on black girls struggling with messages about skin color and hair. ShorterGooden applauded Mattel “for diversifying the size and look of Barbie,” but noted that “European-American hair still prevails,” and that the dolls’ outfits still “convey a traditional and constraining gender norm about how girls and women should look.”

Aside from whether Barbie’s looks will ever measure up to society’s changing expectations, another question

worth asking is whether kids still want to play with Barbies.

Barbie sales fell 14 percent in the most recently reported quarter, with worldwide sales falling every year since 2012.

A study by BAV Consulting found that consumers perceive the Barbie brand as being “less relevant” than 80 percent of 3,500 brands in 200 categories BAV studied. BAV’s data analysis also found that consumers perceive Barbie as being in the bottom third of all brands when it comes to social responsibility but in the top 2 percent when it comes to being traditional.

Mattel said it will still sell the original 11.5-inch Barbie.

The new versions will begin arriving on U.S. store shelves in March and will roll out globally after that. They are available for preorder at shop. mattel.com, and will ship in February.

Quiana Agbai, an AfricanAmerican mother of two who has written about “the effects of dolls not looking like my 5-year-old daughter” on her blog, www.harlemlovebirds. com, said Barbie’s new look is “a step in the right direction” but noted that “there are brands already filling this need in greater detail.” Agbai’s husband’s family is Nigerian, so she found a Nigerian princess doll for her daughter from a line called Queens of Africa. Agbai herself grew up playing with the American Girl doll Addy, whose story line involved escaping from slavery.

Some, however, saluted the new Barbie wholeheartedly.

Trina Finton, a Hispanic mom from Simi Valley, California, who works in tech and

once bought herself an engineer Barbie from the doll’s career line, was “thrilled” to hear about Barbie’s new looks, especially the curly hair. In the past, when she’s taken her 3-year-old daughter to Target, “I avoid the Barbie aisle. I just don’t want her to feel bad that she can’t see a doll that looks like her.”

Kelly Brownell was a Yale psychology professor when he concluded in a 1995 study that young girls notice the body shapes of icons such as Barbie and translate them into unhealthy images. Today, as a dean at Duke University, Brownell said the new Barbie “represents real progress, not only by having additional skin tones but by beginning to correct the wildly unrealistic body shapes and sizes of earlier days.

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The Morgantown winter Farmers Market offers some of the most unique products that are exclusively offered twice a month. The Morgantown Farmers Market takes place in the summer, as well as sporadically throughout the winter months. Products vary with the changing of seasons.

The Farmers Market is a congregation of local farmers in and around Morgantown. It’s a very “go-green” environment with organically made products, which is a good change of pace from the typical processed food most people are accustomed to eating. Vendors pride themselves on the quality of the products offered, whether that be foods made with the freshest ingredients, organicallygrown produce or items crafted with the components straight from their

farms.

All vendors must live and produce anything they sell within a 50-mile radius of Morgantown. Similar to the summer Farmers Market, the winter Farmers Market has a wide variety of items for sale, not just produce.

There are locally-made cheeses, freshly made bakery items and the inevitable fresh produce that is harvested from the gardens of the participating farmers, usually the day prior to being sold. You simply don’t get that type of organic quality at Kroger or Walmart.

Fresh produce in January isn’t easily attainable in a state like West Virginia, where the weather isn’t favorable for outdoor gardens.

“It’s possible because they use high tunnel hot houses and greenhouses,” said Becky Evans, assistant marketing manager of Morgantown Farmers Market.

Each vendor has a unique approach with different products, which adds to

the diversity of the Farmers Market. They all have something slightly different that they have spent quality time perfecting. In addition to edible items sold, there are also novelties, like handcrafted wood-working pieces and wool products.

Amy Umbel crafts custom pieces and daily items like eating utensils, cutting boards, bookends and much more.

“She doesn’t use any kind of mechanical or electrical equipment,” Evans said.

“She’s also growing the trees and producing them off of her property.”

Amy is an example of how the winter Farmers Market strives to remain local and true to its word about organically made products. Her shop, Fiddlehead Woodworking, was a 2014 Martha Stewart American Made design finalist.

“She’s one of the jewels of our market,” Evans said.

Kathy Evans of Evans Knob Farm has a plethora

of specialty items. Located in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, Kathy has three acres of farmland where she utilizes her cattle for products just as often as produce.

From pasture-raised eggs and poultry to homemade jams and jellies, Kathy does it all.

Additionally, Evans Knob Farm produces cow’s milk soap. Though it sounds odd, milk soap has its benefits that aren’t available in your Irish Spring or Dove. The milk allows for natural exfoliation and moisturization, while still accommodating sensitive skin with its gentleness.

Wool products are also made from u s i n g ewes on their farm.

There are 27 ewes that are sheared, and their sheepskin is used for hats, gloves, rugs, ornaments, sweaters and other useful goods.

There’s a form of trust maintained between the c u s t o m e r s and vendors.

The customers instill faith in the

farmers and their products.

“Not only do they get to meet the people that are growing their produce, but they know exactly where it’s coming from,” Evans said.

For more information, visit https://facebook.com/ MorgantownFarmersMarket/ and http://www.morgantownfarmers.org/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Women, youngsters dominate in rock field at Grammy awards NEW YORK (AP) — For years, men - and legacy acts - have dominated in the rock category at the Grammy Awards, leaving little room for female stars who rock as loud and hard as the guys and young bands hoping to breakthrough on the music scene.

But at this year’s Grammys, there is a shift with women and budding acts dominating in the rock field, thanks to the Brittany Howard-led Alabama Shakes and Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine with four nominations each to promising performers such as James Bay and Highly Suspect, both up for best rock album and rock song.

Elle King, the 26-year-old carefree, raspy-voiced newcomer, earned nominations for best rock song and rock performance for the platinum single “Ex’s and Oh’s,” which topped the Billboard rock and alternative charts last year.

“There’s been space for people to make different music that’s not so pop-driven ... that’s why we went with alternative because I didn’t think I was another Katy Perry of this world,” King said in an interview. “But to be in the rock category at the Grammys, for me and my heart, it’s like, ‘(Expletive) yes, that is so rad!’ That made me extremely happy.”

Alabama Shakes’ nominations include album of the year and best alternative music album for “Sound & Color” as well as rock performance and rock song for “Don’t Wanna Fight.”

Florence + the M a chine are also up for the latter two rock honors with the

single “What Kind of Man,” along with best pop vocal album for “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” and pop duo/ group performance for “Ship to Wreck.”

The Grammys, which are being held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 15, could bring the often-praised Howard, 27, and Welch, 29, their first gramophones after earning multiple nominations in the past.

“I feel like women have always written incredible songs, but I feel like right now what’s so rad is we’re all taking back the conversation and supporting each other and holding each other up,” said Hayley Williams, the 27-year-old frontwoman of Paramore.

“We’re taking notice of each other earlier on in each other’s careers.”

Paramore won its first Grammy last year for best rock song with “Ain’t It Fun,” the anthemic groove that gave the band its first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

A year before that, Imagine Dragons took home best rock performance for their breakthrough track, “Radioactive”; Halestorm, with frontwoman Lzzy Hale, won best hard rock/metal performance in 2013.

Also in recent years, seasoned acts like Foo Fighters, Black Keys, Jack White and Beck have won rock Grammys, though the awards have usually been

reserved for veterans in the vein of U2, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. And in the past women have had an even tougher road than the young acts: Before Paramore’s win, Alanis Morissette was the last woman to win best rock song in 1999.

It was the same year Sheryl Crow won best rock album; a woman hasn’t won the honor since.

“I think it’s time that they’re back in the mix as far as the Grammys goes, in a larger way because it’s undeniable that women rock,” said Bill Freimuth, the Recording Academy’s senior vice president of awards.

This year, nominees for best rock performance include four women, or female-led acts, with King, Alabama Shakes, Florence + the Machine and Wolf Alice, whose lead vocalist is 23-year-old Ellie Rowsell.

The fifth nominee is the Foo Fighters.

The best rock song nominees are made up exclusively of women and new acts with King, Alabama Shakes, Florence + the Machine, Bay - the acclaimed 25-year-old British singerguitarist - and Highly Suspect, the trio made up of 3 0 - y e a r- o l d twins Ryan and Rich

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It’s a sea change from 2014, when nominees for best rock album included David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Kings of Leon and winners Led Zeppelin.

Best rock song nominees that year included The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney.

“I think that some of the legacy artists, if you look at their catalog of work, some of the things that may have been in contention for this year, is it their best work or is it the name? I think we’re getting away from that and looking at what is the best work,”

said Grammy-winning producer Jacquire King, who has worked with Bay, Kings of Leon and Tom Waits. “I think that’s what the Grammys have needed to focus on and this year there’s a lot of proof that the focus is getting sharper.

I love what these categories represent for music.”

Williams, who said Paramore is busy writing its upcoming fifth album, said she remembers how tough it was to be taken seriously as a teen musician when the band released its debut album a decade ago. And King, whose debut was released a year ago, says she’s slowing seeing how some people view her as a young, female rock

singer.

“It’s funny because for years I said, ‘No way, I’ve never had any hurdles or speed bumps or anything, and it literally wasn’t until the past couple months where I realized ... I didn’t (expletive) realize that people didn’t take me seriously and I finally saw it, and it kind of broke my heart a little bit, a lot of musicians that I knew,” she said.

“And so now I’m just like, seriously like, ‘I will show you and all these other women who are literally taking over rock ‘n’ roll right now will all (expletive) kick your asses, seriously.’” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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No. 24 West Virginia heads to Waco in bid to upset No. 4 Baylor in major Big 12 test

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

In what may be its most meaningful game this season, the No. 24 ranked West Virginia University women’s basketball team will attempt to upset the No. 4 ranked Baylor Lady Bears (20-1, 7-1 Big 12) this Saturday at the WVU Coliseum.

It will be the second meeting between the two teams, as the Lady Bears defeated the Mountaineers (16-5, 5-3 Big 12) in early January. Baylor has won three straight since the last matchup.

In the last game between the two teams, Baylor exploited WVU in the paint as the Lady Bears outscored the Mountaineers, 34-26, in that area.

Lanay Montgomery, Jessica Morton and Chania Ray each fell into foul trouble, with Morton and Ray both fouling out.

WVU’s critical mistake was failing to hold onto its lead, quickly allowing Baylor to establish a dominant offensive presence.

BU’s Khadijiah Cave single-handedly led a 5-0 run to down the Mountaineers. It’s something that was all too familiar in Wednesday’s matchup with Oklahoma.

“I think the difference in the game is they executed with three minutes to go and we didn’t,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey in an interview with wvusports.com. “I thought it was a good game. Both teams battled and played hard.”

It will ultimately be a battle between two of the Big 12’s top offenses. While Baylor averages 78.7 points overall compared to WVU’s 72.8, WVU has the scoring edge in conference play by just more than one point.

The two offenses are nearly identical in style.

However, WVU’s bench play could be the dif-

ferent, suddenly turning into the conference’s deepest bench.

West Virginia’s bench outscored Baylor’s bench, 37-25, behind Tynice Martin’s 12 points. Morton and Alexis Brewer each finished with nine points.

After scoring 30+ points in the eighth consecutive game, WVU’s bench will be a key component in achieving that goal, in terms of an upset.

An individual matchup to watch may be Bria Holmes up against Nina Davis. Holmes and Davis are each in the top five in Big 12 scoring with 17.0 and 16.9 points, respectively.

Holmes is coming off a stretch of games where her lowest scoring total was 12 points. Davis followed a similar path by recording 14. Both players have the tendencies to become automatic from all around the court.

Davis leads the Lady Bears in scoring, but WVU found a way to hold her to a mere six points. However, limiting its leading scorer but still finding a way to win is what makes Baylor such a dominant program.

It’s the system that Baylor Head Coach Kim Mulkey implemented at Baylor back in 2000. It led to Baylor’s 13 conference titles and propelled it to be the Big 12’s top scoring offense for the past six years.

WVU hopes to cut into Baylor’s three game conference lead with a win that will certainly look impressive come tournament time. The Mountaineers hold a 16-2 record when leading at halftime, with the two losses coming from Baylor and Oklahoma.

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In the middle of the grueling Big 12 schedule, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team will go on the road this weekend to face a tough opponent.

But the Mountaineers aren’t going to be facing Kansas, Oklahoma or Baylor – instead, WVU will be taking on SEC opponent Florida in the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge,.This year, the challenge is occurring as a non-conference oasis in the middle of conference play.

This is the third time that West Virginia has participated in the Big 12/ SEC Challenge, which began in 2013. The Mountaineers are 0-2 in this competition, which previously has been held in early December, during the regular nonconference schedule.

West Virginia lost 80-71 to Missouri in 2013, and fell 74-73 to LSU at the WVU Coliseum on a Josh Gray layup with less than 10 seconds left. This Mountaineer squad is undoubtedly a tougher one than those that came before, however, and they’re coming off a pair of

vital conference wins.

After a listless loss to Texas last Wednesday, WVU rebounded with a late comeback at Texas Tech Saturday and seized control in a convincing win over Kansas State Tuesday. The difference, according to WVU head coach Bob Huggins, has been his team’s vitality.

“I think we can get better, but I think the positive of today is that we had more bounce in our step again,” Huggins said after the Kansas State game. “We made plays from behind that we haven’t been making. We had that bounce that is critical for the way we play.”

With starter Esa Ahmad out with a sprained knee and their starters struggling, WVU had the chance to showcase its depth on Tuesday. Junior forward Nathan Adrian, starting in Ahmad’s place, had what Huggins called “the best game of his career,” while littleused backup guard, Teyvon Myers provided a major offensive boost in his most effective game of conference play.

With Ahmad’s status still in question and regular starters such as Devin Williams and Daxter Miles Jr. working through rough

patches, WVU may need that depth again against an unfamiliar opponent.

This season has been one of transition for the Florida Gators, who come into Saturday’s game with a record of 13-7, 5-3 in SEC play. Last year was Florida’s first losing season in 17 years; after the season, legendary head coach Billy Donovan, who won two national titles and went to four Final Fours in 19 years in Gainesville, left to take the head job of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder.

In his place is 38-year-old Mike White, former coach of Louisiana Tech, who guided the Bulldogs to three straight NIT appearances over the last three years. No stranger to the SEC, White played college ball at Ole Miss in the late 1990s. He was an assistant coach there under Rod Barnes and Andy Kennedy from 2004-11.

This is a new-look Florida team, adding to the unfamiliarity factor their opponents face – but that unfamiliarity may also prove to be beneficial for West Virginia.

“It’s a good and a bad thing,” said guard Tarik Phillip. “Teams know that we have a really good press,

but that might be a shock to them.”

Florida may be the worst shooting team in the SEC but they survive with their tight defense (they have the second-best scoring defense in the conference) and voracious rebounding.

The Gators have survived by keep games low-scoring and close, and by having a series of players who play hard and can hit the boards, led by senior Dorian Finney-Smith, 6-foot-11 Nigerian center John Egbunu and sophomore forward Devin Robinson.

Finney-Smith, who doubles as one of Florida’s only real outside shooting threats, leads the Gators in scoring (14.4 points per game) and rebounding (8.3 per game), and is the reigning SEC Player of the Week after big performances last week in wins over Mississippi State and Auburn. Florida comes into this game off a 60-59 loss at Vanderbilt.

The West Virginia-Florida game is set for noon Saturday at the O’Connell Center in Gainesville, Florida.

The game will be televised on ESPN. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

RIFLE

No. 1 WVU heads down stretch, faces No. 10 NC State

BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University rifle team will be back in action this weekend, hosting North Carolina State following two weeks off. The team’s match at Navy was postponed due to winter storm Jonas, and in turn, the nation’s top team has not faced an opponent since a recordsetting win over Akron on Jan.,17.

The No. 1 Mountaineers (9-0, 5-0 GARC) are the hottest team in the nation, and coach Jon Hammond has no doubt that the team is in top form for another national title run. This two-week break is the longest since a twomonth break following the first half of the season.

But the Mountaineers came back from that break

with two consecutive NCAA bests over No. 5 Alaska-Fairbanks and No. 11 Akron. The postponement of last weekend’s trip to Annapolis gave West Virginia extra time to prepare for two important matches coming up to conclude the season.

No. 10 North Carolina State (9-3) has a strong record, but should pose no threat to the nation’s topscoring team. The Wolfpack have outscored most opponents they have faced, but have only broken 4,650 points in just three matches this season. The team set a school record of 4,666 in a win over No. 3 Kentucky on Jan., 17, but that record still falls 30 points short of the Mountaineers’ lowest total this season.

It appears at this point that the Mountaineers are in a league of their own, averag-

A WVU shooter focuses during a meet last year. ing 4,712 points per match, thus far. almost 50 points higher than The Wolfpack’s top the rest of the country. Re- shooter, Lucas Kozeniesky, gardless of how well other leads the team in both disciteams perform, they are no plines. The Fairfax, Virginia competition for the strong native broke the school reMountaineer shooters, who cord in smallbore and total have dominated every match aggregate score in the team’s

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program record-breaking win over No. 3 Kentucky.

Kozeniesky’s 591 in smallbore was nothing short of remarkable, out-shooting West Virginia’s team best of 590, shot by Garrett Spurgeon in a Nov. 1 win over Ole Miss.

After Kozeniesky, the Wolfpack scores drop off, demonstrating the reason why the team doesn’t achieve scores comparable to the Mountaineers. The entire West Virginia roster consistently shoots high tallies, combining for an aggregate score that leads the nation.

The Mountaineers will host North Caroline State at 8 a.m., on Saturday morning.

Spectators are welcome to attend the match being held at the WVU Rifle Range, located directly behind the WVU Coliseum. The team will host a youth clinic following the air rifle portion of the match.

The team will then conclude the season by hosting No. 3 Kentucky and traveling to Annapolis to take on No. 13 Navy once the rescheduled date has been decided. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

TRACK

WVU returns to action this weekend at Penn State

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

After an unexpected weekend off, the West Virginia University women’s track and field team is competing again.

Last weekend, the Marty Pushkin Classic was cancelled due to winter storm Jonas. With Morgantown covered in snow, the Mountaineers got their only week off during the regular season. From Jan. 29-Feb. 27, the Mountaineers will com-

pete every weekend from the Penn State National Invitational until the Big 12 Indoor Championship.

“Moving forward from two weeks ago when we were at Penn State, training has gone well since then,” said head coach Sean Cleary in an interview with WVUsports.com. “While it was disappointing not to have a home meet last weekend, we were able to get a block of training in despite the weather. We’re looking to continue on from where we were. In all of the

events this weekend, we have important goals.”

Two weeks ago, West Virginia began their season at Penn State. This week, because of the loss at their only home event of the year, they are back in State College, Pennsylvania.

At the first event, the Nittany Lion Challenge, eight Mountaineer competitors finished in the top 10 of their respective categories.

One of them won her event.

Freshman Danique Bryan won the women’s long jump by leaping 6.00 meters.

West Virginia impressed at the Challenge in the high jump, with three competitors finishing in the top 10.

Senior Marsielle McBeam and freshman Faith Penny finished consecutively; McBeam in sixth with a 1.70 meter jump and Penny in seventh with a 1.65 meter jump. Shortly after them, senior Hannah Stone tied for ninth place with a 1.65 meter jump.

Three more Mountaineers impressed in the 1,000 meter run. Sophomore Millie Paladino finished in sixth

place with a time of 2:45.80.

Behind Paladino were seniors Savanna Plombon and Kelly Williams, with Plombon finishing 12th overall in 2:52.25 and Williams placing 13th in a time of 2:53.67.

This weekend’s event in State College is the Penn State National Invitational.

The competitions begin at noon today. The two day event will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

A combined 38 men’s and women’s team will meet for the indoor event.

West Virginia will go up against three ranked women’s teams; Georgetown (No. 10), Stanford (No. 14) and Akron (No. 25).

After the Nittany Lion Challenge, Cleary said that he expected his team to be even better when they return to Penn State. The season began well, but he hopes for an even better showing this weekend. With two weeks to prepare for it, Cleary expects them to be ready for the Invitational. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers still optimistic heading into weekend competitions

BY JOEL Norman SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Despite four straight losses, optimism dominates the locker room.

The West Virginia University men’s wrestling team has not won a dual since Dec., 12. Regardless, the Mountaineers aren’t making excuses.

Last week, West Virginia lost to Arizona State and Stanford despite splitting the 10 head-to-head battles in each match.

“We wrestled some good teams,” said junior Dylan Cottrell. “A couple of us didn’t pick up bonus points when we should have. I controlled a match against Arizona State and didn’t pick up bonus points that I could have. It’s just the little things, there’s so many things that could have happened in those matches that contributed to us losing.”

Cottrell and fellow junior Jacob A. Smith are standouts on the team. Cottrell is 23-5 with nine major decisions, while Smith is 22-6 and riding a personal fourmatch win streak. Both are preaching consistency and hard work in the wake of the Mountaineers’ worst stretch of the season. While they aren’t satisfied with the latest results, they understand the big picture.

“Right now we’re in a slump, we have an extremely tough schedule with wrestling,” Smith said.

“We wrestle some powerhouses in wrestling. So right now we need to stay consistent and push through this, show a little perseverance.

We’re going to get through it and we’re going to get better.”

The chance to get back on track begins Friday in Blacksburg, Virginia, against Virginia Tech. Smith is looking forward to the match because he will face a familiar foe: Jared Haught, the No. 8 197-pound wrestler in the country, according to InterMat wrestling.

“Me and Dylan actually know Jared Haught, we grew up traveling on the same team with him,” Smith said. “My training stays the same and I treat each match like it’s the number one guy in the country. We faced off earlier this year in Las Vegas, which was pretty cool.”

In that match on Dec. 5, Smith, who is ranked No. 7 by InterMat, defeated Haught to finish in third place at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Collegiate Open.

The match against Virginia Tech is at 7 p.m., tonight. After a day off, West Virginia hosts North Carolina State at the WVU Coliseum at 1 p.m., on Sunday.

Haught and the Hokies will provide a challenge for the Mountaineers on Friday. Virginia Tech is ranked No. 10 in the latest USA Today/National Wrestling Coaches Association poll.

North Carolina State won’t be a pushover either. The Wolfpack are No. 3 in that same poll.

Breaking the losing streak is on West Virginia’s mind, but they choose to not let it dominate their thoughts.

“You just can’t get discouraged about stuff like that,” Cottrell said. “You have to keep your head down and keep working hard and the wins will come.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Friday January 29, 2016

Swimming and Diving

Mountaineers set for challenging weekend schedule

By Roger Turner Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The WVU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have a competition-filled weekend ahead as the Mountaineers will host Villanova in the WVU Natatorium on Friday and head to Columbus, Ohio on Saturday for quad meet action against Ohio State, Michigan, and Buffalo.

Both men and women will be in action over the course of the weekend, beginning with the Mountaineer men’s and

the women’s team squaring off against Villanova and Iowa State on Friday, respectively.

A visit from Villanova makes the Wildcats the fourth Big East program to visit Morgantown this season. In the fall, WVU hosted Big East opponents Seton Hall, Xavier and Butler for the first Big 12 vs. Big East Weekend meet.

The WVU men’s squad comes into this weekend competition slate having won their previous two head-to-head meets.

The Mountaineers men’s swimming and diving teams defeated Pitt in the

annual Backyard Brawl to open 2016 and came away on top against TCU in a close meet that came down to the last event. The men will go for three in a row in a dual meet against Villanova, a rivalry that dates back to the old Big East.

“There is a pre-existing rivalry here with Villanova,” said WVU head coach Vic Riggs. “Both programs have equal respect for one another.”

The WVU women’s team is set to also faceoff versus Villanova as well as Big 12 opponent Iowa State. The Mountaineers are 1-3 on the season and

have dropped two straight to Pitt and TCU. Seniors Jaimee Gillmore and Lindsey Schmidt will be called on to step up in the pool and on the springboard for the women’s team. Iowa State is 5-3 in head-to-head meets, while Villanova is coming in fresh for their first meet of 2016.

Once Senior Night has ended on Friday, West Virginia will hit the road and head to Columbus for a quad-meet at Ohio State.

Both teams will compete against Ohio State, Michigan and Buffalo for one of the season’s cornerstone meets as the Big 12 Championships are quickly approaching.

“Going to Ohio State gives our teams a good preview of what to expect when we head to the Big 12 Championships next month,” Riggs said. “Their facilities and entire atmosphere is top of the line.

I’m excited to see how our swimmers and divers compete when events get under way Saturday.”

Ohio State men’s and women’s teams both came away victorious over Michigan State in their last meet. The Buckeyes’ men’s team currently ranks No. 15 nationally

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A WVU swimmer prepares to dive into the pool. and the women are ranked quad-meet action.

No. 25 in the country. This Competition will begin will be the first time the at 1 p.m. Saturday inside Mountaineers have faced the McCorkle Aquatic PaNo. 15/25 Ohio State, Buf- vilion in Columbus. falo and the No. 6 ranked Michigan Wolverines in dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU’s Lyn Yuen Choo prepares to serve earlier this season.

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WVU prepares for doubleheader

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Coming off a tough loss to rival Pittsburgh, the West Virginia University women’s tennis team looks to get their first win of the season as they return home today for a doubleheader against Toledo (11) and Cleveland State (02). The Mountaineers (0-1) faced Toledo in tournament play at the WVU Pink Invitational in September.

“We are at the point where we are looking to put the whole picture to-

gether,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac. “Our goal is the same as far as making progress, as far as getting better, and we have to be more consistent in everything we do. We see positive signs, but when it comes to tennis matches, or competing as a team, just seeing positive signs is not good enough. We are going to have to be a lot more consistent as players and as a team. That continues to be our goal going into this weekend.”

Toledo has had an upand-down start to their spring season. After tak-

ing a 7-0 trouncing at the hands of a talented Michigan State team, the Rockets picked up their first win of the season against Cleveland State. Toledo is lead by Emily Mazzola and Sidnay Huck, a duo that recorded two doubles wins against the Mountaineers at the tournament in September.

The Vikings dropped their opener against Toledo and then fell in 4-3 Duquesne. Cleveland State has struggled as of late, but they are still capable of beating anyone when their game is on, so the Mountaineers have to be wary.

Junior Princess Gbadamosi and senior Mathilde Orange lead the way for the Vikings. Orange is coming off a win in her last match against Duquesne and looks to be playing well.

Sophomore Habiba Shaker was the lone match winner for the Mountaineers against Pitt, so the rest of the team will be looking for their first singles wins of the season against the Rockets and Vikings. Fellow sophomores Carolina Lewis and Lyn Yuen Choo had solid fall seasons and will look to get their spring seasons back on track with wins today.

“I want to see them step up,” said WVU assistant coach Emily Harman.

“We talked about it all fall, in terms of what needs to happen, about what our expectations are. The thing is, our expectations for the team are extremely high to come into a match environment, and to actually put into play all of the things we have been talking about, all of the things we have been preparing for, that is really what I want from them.”

The Mo u nt a i n e e r s start off against Toledo at noon and face Cleveland State immediately afterwards at 4 p.m. at the Ridgeview Racquet Club in Morgantown. dasports@mail.wvu.edu