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Merow administration takes charge by caity coyne city editor @caitycoyne

The 2015-16 West Virginia University Student Government Association Board of Governors officially finished its term last night when members turned their seats over to the 2016-17 governing board.

Before the brief ceremony, now-former members of the B.O.G gave heartfelt goodbyes to their colleagues and messages of good luck to their successors.

“I couldn’t be more proud of everybody that’s involved in SGA right now.

For next year’s administration and this year’s administration, really,” said George Capel, now-for-

mer student body president. “All the people we have are so accomplished, so hardworking and so passionate.”

The meeting was bittersweet, with several Board members in tears as they realized their term governing with the people who had “become their family” was at an end.

The incoming Board, led by Student Body President Julie Merow and Student Body Vice President Mac McIntyre, was voted into office after an almost completely unopposed race in March.

This time last year, when Capel and Ashley Morgan, now-former student body vice president took the board, they made several promises to the student body: Create a student

summit with representatives from all parts of the University, earn a WVU student a seat on the Morgantown City Council and make a “statewide day of service” in every West Virginia county with a WVU Extension Services office, among other things.

While these goals were not necessarily accomplished, Capel believes his administration was crucial to setting up the necessary components for future administrations to finish what they started.

For example, a main component of Merow’s platform includes the creation of a student senate consisting of two delegates from every college at WVU. “We ran into a lot of obstacles and logistics that I’m certain (Merow) will

find her way around,” Capel said. “To set up something that big, you’ll need to start from day one because it’s going to take all year.”

Last night, Merow announced her current plans for April 2016; pass a constitutional amendment for the creation of the student senate, and a constitutional amendment granting athletic counselors the same voting rights as governors.

For city council, Billie Murray, SGA city council liaison, and Matt Blair, SGA attorney general, currently hold active seats on the city’s Human Rights Commission. These are positions that students have never

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Newly elected Vice President Mac McIntyre begins the new session for the WVU Student Government Association.

Mylan Park officials name new athletic facility by jamie mason staff writer @news_with_jamie

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International conservationist and carnivore ecologist, Mordecai Ogada presents “Conservation Revolution and Wildlife Tourism in East Africa: The Fallacy of Selling Intrinsic Values Based on Exotic Perceptions.”

Ecologist discusses dangers of conservation in Kenya, East Africa by amy pratt

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A carnivore ecologist who has worked with cheetahs, lions and hyenas visited West Virginia University Wednesday evening to give the Maurice Brooks lecture.

Mordecai Ogada works to end the current model of conservation in Kenya and other parts of East Africa. He wants to save the animals, but conservation is hurting the people.

Ogada explained the origins of conservation have caused many of the problems with it today.

Conservation began in the Victorian era when the British colonized Kenya.

British game wardens were hired by nobility and the wealthy to keep common-

ers — Kenyans — off game land so they could hunt.

This created a history of conservation as a luxury that was detrimental to the local communities in east Africa.

“It was conservation so we can exploit it. This theme still runs very deep through conservation, even today,” Ogada said.

“There’s a lot of people that base conservation on tourism. That is something of a fallacy. Tourism should be a byproduct of conservation. It cannot be the basis for conservation.”

Ogada explained conservation efforts take away grazing lands for the locals’ livestock. This destroys their livelihood and makes them reliant on conservation organizations. These conservation facilities cannot employ

enough people to support communities.

“The l i v e s t o c kbased economy is being squeezed, it’s dying. We say tourism can provide employment, but the kind of tourism that is done here provides very little employment,” Ogada said.

And, those who do work for tourism companies are often used as props to create an exotic experience for tourists.

Ogada also examined the irony of local poachers being arrested for hunting game for meat to eat, while people are allowed to hunt game for exotic meals in luxury restaurants.

“These people are doing the same thing, but what is the difference between them?” Ogada asked.

The answer: race, he

said. The white tourists may enjoy high-end exotic food, but the local people cannot hunt for survival.

Jessica Bland, a senior biology student who attended the lecture, traveled to South Africa as part of a research trip.

While there, she noticed similar problems to what Ogada described was happening in eastern Africa.

“You can definitely see the tourism of it. In some ways, it does help. You can see it does bring employment, but it does have an impact on agriculture. And you can see it on an economic level,” Bland said.

“There’s a lot of places that are just very poor.

But then you go and see

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A $25 million project finally has a name.

On Wednesday evening, Mylan Park officials released the name and final plans for the Mountaineer Center for Wellness and Education, a project announced in November 2015. The Mountaineer Center, which will include an aquatics center and a track, is set to break ground this spring.

After discussion with residents, Mylan Park officials decided ‘Mountaineer’ was essential to the name of the complex.

“We continued to meet and talk about what we wanted to be and how we wanted to be identified,” said Ron Justice, president of the Mylan Park Board. “…We are in Mountaineer Country.”

Although this plan excites many Monongalia residents, this is not the first time they have had this feeling. This is the third time the city has attempted to build an athletic center like the one proposed, according to Justice.

Justice and other officials are ensuring this plan does not fall through so Mylan Park can provide Monongalia County residents with a center they’ve been wanting.

“The biggest difference is we have collaboration with WVU, Conventions & Visitors’ Bureau, Inc., County Commission (and) the city of Westover,” Justice said. “We’re all working together, versus just one entity trying to do it… that’s the difference.”

Unlike many things in the Morgantown area, this center will be available for usage by students as well as residents. Justice said both members and non-members could have access to the complex.

Justice said he has been clear from the beginning the Mountaineer Center is for the community.

“Quality of life is very important in the community, and working together to enhance the quality of life is something we all strive to do,” Justice said. “I think it’s very important that from the youngest child up to the oldest person in the community, they have an opportunity to take advantage of the center.”

The Center’s architecture was tackled head on

by Paradigm Architecture.

Paradigm, whose home office is in Morgantown, is aware of the area’s geography and what features are necessary for an athletic center to be successful.

Paul Walker, the lead architect from Paradigm, said the center will attract people from all over the region.

The complex will include a one mile cross-country course around the complex, a quarter mile track, a “first class walking surface” on the outside perimeter of the competitive track and more than 250 parking spots, according to Walker.

The aquatics center will be home to a competitive pool, a community recreational pool, a splash pad for children and a therapy pool for healing and medical purposes.

“Its great to see the interest in the community in a project I think is one of the most exciting projects that’s taken place in Morgantown in some time,” Walker said. “It’s just very exciting to be a part of.”

The aquatics center was modeled after Virginia Tech’s complex and the track and field center was modeled after many other state of the art NCAA facilities.

“The aquatics (center) is definitely needed because it gives us a year-round op-

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CyberWVU to compete in national cyber security competition by john mark shaver staff writer @johnmarkshaver

Starting tomorrow, cyber defense will be the name of the game as West Virginia University’s cyber-security club meets seven other teams from the tri-state area in a hacking competition at Johns Hopkins University.

After qualifying for the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition last month, CyberWVU is more ready than ever, according to the club’s vice president and graduate

electrical engineering student Jacob Tyo. “I’m not even nervous because we’re at the point to where there’s so much unknown about (the competition), and there’s so much to deal with, we don’t even have enough to get nervous about,” Tyo said.

This year’s competition, titled “Operation Cyber Bailout,” will pit the students against cyber-security professionals, having the teams defend the systems, infrastructure and information of simulated financial institutions.

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“The scenario for this year’s competition is one cyber-security professionals face every hour of every day, and it’s one of the reasons the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition is such a respected testing ground for these students,” said Lewis Lightner, MidAtlantic CCDC director, in a press release. “We give them real-world scenarios, real-world equipment, and throw some of the best ‘bad guys’ in the world at them to see how they can handle the challenge.”

CyberWVU will compete

with several other schools from the east coast, including Towson University and University of Maryland.

“We’re certain our systems are going to be broken into,” Tyo said. “That’s the whole point of the competition. It’s going to happen.

We’re going to focus on (getting) a set methodology on what to do, how to resecure (the system) and make sure nothing bad happens.”

Tyo also said the team is focusing heavily on backing up information, as other teams in past competitions have been disabled from the

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“In previous years, we’ve heard of people getting their systems broken into and then all of their stuff will get deleted or broken,” Tyo said.

“They’re pretty much done for the whole competition because they didn’t have any backups or anything like that.”

Another challenge facing the team is the possibility of being split up, according to CyberWVU President and senior computer science major Brian Sizemore.

“Every member of our team has domain-specific

knowledge in different areas that allows us to work well together as a team,” Sizemore told WVUToday. “In this competition, we may actually be separated from each other, which means we have to be prepared to work outside our area of expertise.”

The skills learned from the competition will transfer into real-life abilities, and can make the competitors stronger candidates for jobs in the cyber security field.

In fact, before the com-

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War on women? GOP silent as Trump sounds off on abortion

MADISON, Wis. (AP)— Frustrated Republicans grappled with new fears about Donald Trump’s impact on their party Wednesday, as the billionaire businessman’s campaign rivals targeted his punitive plan for fighting abortion and extraordinary defense of his campaign manager, who police say assaulted a female reporter.

Concern rippled through Republican circles nationwide, yet few dared criticize the GOP front-runner directly when pressed, leery of confronting the man who may well lead their election ticket in November.

Their silence underscored the deep worries plaguing the party’s leaders - particularly its most prominent women - who are growing increasingly concerned that a Trump presidential nomination could not only cost the 2016 election but also tarnish the party brand for a generation of women and young people.

“A nominee who cannot speak to women cannot win,” New Hampshire party chairwoman Jennifer Horn said, though declining to rebuke Trump by name.

Trump added to his challenge when asked to explain his prescription to fight abortion, a subject that remains highly controversial decades after the Supreme Court legalized it.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks to supporters as he leaves a campaign stop Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in Appleton, Wis. He told MSNBC during the taping of a town hallstyle event in Wisconsin that abortions should be banned and, if they are, women who get them should receive “some form of punishment.”

That sparked an immediate backlash from both sides of the debate, and Trump’s campaign quickly back-

tracked, releasing a statement that sought to take back his words. It said that only those who perform abortions would be “held legally responsible, not the woman.”

“The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb,” the new Trump statement said.

The abortion comments came as Trump questioned the findings of Jupiter, Florida, police, who charged his closest political adviser, Corey Lewandowski, with misdemeanor battery on Tuesday after examining surveillance video of an incident in which a reporter said she was grabbed and

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shoved. The police report said the woman’s arm revealed “bruising from what appeared to be several finger marks indicating a grabbing-type injury.”

“I don’t know who created those bruises,” Trump said Wednesday.

The Republican frontrunner suggested his cam-

paign manager was simply trying to protect him from Michelle Fields, a reporter for Breitbart News at the time, who was trying to ask him a question after a March 8 campaign appearance.

“She’s got a pen in her arm which she’s not supposed to have and it shows that she’s a very aggressive person who’s grabbing at me and touching me,” Trump said. “Maybe I should file charges against her.”

As Trump assailed Fields from a television studio, Republican rival Ted Cruz surrounded himself with women as he courted Wisconsin voters ahead of the state’s high-stakes primary next Tuesday. Cruz leads the state by 9 points among likely voters, according to a Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday.

Cruz campaigned in Madison with his wife, mother, two daughters and even their nanny in what he called a “celebration of women.”

“We’re here because we love our families,” Cruz declared, declining to repeat his harsh criticism of Trump from the day before. “Women are not a special interest. Women are a majority of the United States of America. And every issue is a women’s issue.”

North Carolina bathroom law could be decided in Virginia RICHMOND, Va. (AP)—The fate of North Carolina’s new law aimed at restricting restroom use by transgender people could be determined in Virginia, where a school board has ordered a teenager to stay out of the boys’ room.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond could rule any day now in the case of Gavin Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male. Grimm says he has to take a “walk of shame” to use a restroom at Gloucester High School.

Whatever the judges decide, the impact will be far more sweeping than what Grimm envisioned when he challenged the policy last year.

“I did not set out to make waves - I set out to use the bathroom,” Grimm says.

North Carolina’s bathroom bill was unveiled, debated and signed into law in a single day last week, two months after the appeals court in Richmond heard arguments in Grimm’s case. But two workers and a transgender student at the University of North Carolina are making similar arguments as they seek a federal injunction preventing enforcement of the new law.

Among other things, the law directs public schools, public universities and government agencies to designate bathrooms and locker rooms for use only by people based on their biological sex, and says transgender people can only use bathrooms matching their gender identity if they’ve had their birth certificates changed, which in North Carolina usually re-

quires sexual reassignment surgery.

The law has prompted a national backlash. Businesses and politicians have announced boycotts of North Carolina, and legal challenges ensure that the wedge issue will dominate the Republican governor’s re-election campaign against his Democratic challenger.

Advocates on all sides will closely read the ruling, since U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, an appointee of President George W. Bush, will have to adhere to any precedents set by the appellate court, said Joshua Block, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing Grimm.

“One way or another, what happens in Gavin’s case is likely going to set the rules of the road for how the North Carolina case proceeds,” Block said.

Grimm alleges that school board policy requiring him to use girls’ restrooms or a single-occupancy unisex bathroom available to all students violates Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in public schools. He also says the policy denies him equal protection rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

The North Carolina suit raises similar claims, alleging that transgender people who haven’t received a sex-change operation and changed their birth certificate can’t access their preferred restrooms, and are therefore treated unequally from non-

transgender people.

Since Grimm’s trial judge has yet to decide constitutional issues, the appellate ruling will focus on the Title IX question and “won’t provide guidance about the constitutionality of the North Carolina law,” said Kevin Walsh, a University of Richmond expert in constitutional law.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a “statement of interest” in Grimm’s case in July declaring that failure to allow transgender students to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identities amounts to sex discrimination under Title IX. In North Carolina, gay rights advocates warned that the new law puts billions of dollars in federal educational funding at risk.

North Carolina’s law also bars local governments from making their own restroom ordinances, providing other protections from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, or requiring businesses to pay higher wages or paid sick leave, raising authority questions that aren’t at issue in the Virginia case.

Block sees a possible road map in the 4th Circuit’s ruling striking down Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban.

A federal judge later told North Carolina lawmakers that the appellate court made such laws unconstitutional throughout the fivestate circuit, which also includes South Carolina, Maryland and West Virginia.

The U.S. Supreme Court later legalized gay marriage nationwide.

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While a statewide day of service was not performed, Capel said the efforts to initiate one allowed him and SGA to make connections with WVU satellite schools, like Potomac

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tries around the world, was given a $500 award for winning student organization of the year.

Other nominated groups, each of which received a $100 award, included Engineers Without Borders, Psychology Club and the Society of Women Engineers.

The inaguaration for the 2016-17 governing board will be held on Sunday, April 3 at the Erickson Alumni Center. crcoyne@mail.wvu.edu

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petition, a job fair will be held for the teams, featuring both private firms and government agencies.

“You always hear of these break-ins at (places like) Target or Home Depot,” Tyo said. “All of those skills we’re practicing now will help us be able to work with those companies to prevent issues like that.”

The competition lasts through April 2.

For more information on MACCDC, visit http:// maccdc.org. Those interested in joining CyberWVU can email Jacob Tyo at jtyo@mix.wvu.edu.

portunity for swimming and other programs that don’t exist here because we cant do those yearround (activities),” said Jamie Summerlin, a Morgantown resident and parent. “We travel all over the state, up in Pennsylvania, Ohio, doing events we could be hosting right here in Morgantown, (the center) could be great revenue generation for the community…”

The complex is being financed through a traditional loan process. The fees the tenants will eventually pay to use the center will be put to paying off the loan.

Memberships fees have not yet been discussed, but Justice assured community will be kept in mind when deciding on prices and membership fees.

The construction is predicted to be finished and the complex open to the public in the fall of 2017.

tourist places that are just huge… It can be helpful for animals, but the normal people that live there don’t get as much out of it.”

The Maurice Brooks lectureship is given every few years in honor of former WVU professor Maurice Brooks from the Davis College of Agricultural, Natural Resources and Design.

He was described by his peers as “a renaissance naturalist of the Appalachian region”.

“Over the years, the Brooks lectureship has been designed to bring in folks from various backgrounds...” said Jim Anderson, a professor from the WVU Davis College.

“We’ve had people from all kinds of different backgrounds and that’s, I think, the unifying theme. Something related to wildlife and/or conservation, since (Brooks) was such a broadly trained naturalist.”

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Financial incentives in college admissions The high price of college tuition is one of many hot topics politicians have recently debated. Leftwinged candidates have long pushed for making college tuition cheaper or even free for students but have yet to succeed in their efforts. It seems that charging exorbitant amounts for tuition is too lucrative for college administration to feel comfortable abandoning entirely.

This fact was exemplified by the University of California after a state audit revealed it lowered admissions standards for outof-state applicants over the past few years. Out-ofstate students whose test scores consistently fell below UC’s student median scores were found to be admitted on a far-too-regular basis.

UC charges all undergraduate students the same tuition costs of $13,000, but “supplemental tuition” for out-of-state students is an additional $23,000, which equals $36,000 per semester overall. This fee does not include room and

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The University of California was found to have admitted 16,000 unqualified out-of-state students for financial gain. board, meal plans or textbook costs.

Given these numbers, it’s evident UC had financial incentive to admit a greater number of outof-state students, even if those students didn’t perform as well as their in-

state counterparts. During the past few years, UC admitted more than 16,000 unqualified students to its several campuses across the state.

UC’s actions do a disservice to all of its students.

Its adjustment of admis-

sions standards lowers the prestige and quality of the school and forces unqualified out-of-state students into an academic environment they aren’t suited for, which could potentially affect dropout and retention rates and force students to

waste thousands of dollars.

According to Business Insider, all of UC’s campuses maintain a majority of California residents in their student bodies and their admissions process “overwhelmingly favors” those who live instate. However, the outcry from California students who were rejected from UC campuses in favor of less qualified out-ofstate students cannot be ignored.

West Virginia University is known for its relatively low tuition for out-of-state students, which makes it a great option for students from states whose universities charge high in-state tuition, such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Maryland. However, there is still a $14,500 difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition.

Many first-generation college students and those from less affluent families are able to go to college at a very low cost because of West Virginia’s Promise Scholarship, which covers a large portion of tu-

ition in colleges across the state. This has helped students who may have been unable to go to college obtain four-year degrees and have greater career options after graduating.

However, if WVU put financial gain over providing a quality education and favored admitting out-ofstate students, the opportunity for in-state students to lead more prosperous lives would be at stake.

Perhaps the true issue at hand is the high price of college to begin with. If colleges were more concerned with providing a well-rounded education and less absorbed with sponsoring activities and facilities only a small proportion of students use, the issue of costly tuition would not be a problem at UC or any other college in the future.

Regardless, UC should be held accountable for its actions and admit applicants by merit, not their home state. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Budget cuts to remedy state deficit only hurt residents thomas mcquain columnist @thomasmcquainDA

West Virginia’s lawmakers have been busy with their scissors this fiscal year, which has resulted in budget cuts across the board.

Two of the most notable cuts make their marks on the state’s public education aid and the state budget for higher forms of education.

These cuts were made to help close a budget shortfall roughly $400 million deep.

With financial resources now sparse across the state, public education has found itself included in the recent budget cuts. Last October, according to WV Metro News, Tomblin’s budget for this year requires roughly a 1 percent cut to school aid, resulting in more than $16 million in funding reductions. Schools on a county level will lose tens of thousands of dollars in financial aid, increasing the burden on an already economicallystressed school system.

Having worked in a summer reading and nutrition program for elementary students in West Virginia, I worry our already financially-starved education system will suffer greatly from these cuts. Teachers are already finding it harder and harder to locate the resources to provide the ed-

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Budget cuts to education makes teaching struggling students all the more difficult. ucation necessary for West Virginia students to prosper academically. If these educational budget cuts continue, many state-funded schools will likely have to close, forcing people to go elsewhere for a proper education.

Governor Tomblin also proposed a budget cut on West Virginia’s higher education this January, which totaled around $14 million.

To stay afloat, schools alternatively generate income by raising student tuition in order to maintain funding for

classes and extracurricular activities. This, of course, increases the financial burden on the student body, who may therefore choose to pursue their education out-of-state.

Despite the consequences of these budget cuts, this is not the first year West Virginia has seen them. WV Public Broadcasting interviewed Concord University’s President Kendra Bogges, who mentions “there are certain things like public education in the code that mandates a certain amount

be spent on schools…but we’re not that, and so we are one of the areas that can be cut when there is an inadequate budget.”

By reducing the amount of funding given to higher education, we risk losing potential graduates looking to settle down in West Virginia, thereby damaging our future educated workforce even further. Simultaneously, a bill was proposed this month that would reduce the severance tax, a tax for extracting non-renewable resources, on coal

and natural gas. WV Public Broadcasting writes, “The end result would be a severance tax of 3 percent by July 1, 2018, which is estimated to cost the state more than $100 million in revenues.”

Industry sponsors claim these substantial tax breaks will help prevent job loss.

However, by giving the state far less money to work with, the loss of jobs will merely be dispersed to other industries affected by the state’s reduced budget rather than be prevented.

It is clear the current

budget system is not working. Working with an undercut budget puts West Virginia in a difficult situation for improvement, as financial woes tend to snowball as unpayable debt increases.

With coal and natural gas on the way out the door as new technologies become available, innovation both to our industries and to our budget could be very beneficial. Industries and jobs already in place need not disappear, but rather take a new approach to bolster their usefulness, and I refuse to believe this is impossible in a state with as many natural resources as ours.

As for the budget, what we have in place is neither generating enough income nor doing it in a way that isn’t equally detrimental to the state in some alternate fashion. Perhaps by reducing tax burdens from working class individuals and dispersing them carefully on a case-by-case basis, we could find a better balance.

Tristate Update even mentions supporters of medical marijuana hypothesize a tax on marijuana could greatly aid in closing the budget shortfall.

Regardless of what we do, West Virginia is capable of getting out of this financial hole—it just takes the right approach. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Abandoned virtual worlds, websites hold potential for recording culture kody goff columnist @retrosyk

During the past few days, a video of a nearly-abandoned virtual world has grown substantially in popularity. It features Vinny, a popular YouTuber from the video game streaming channel Vinesauce, as he explores the 20-year-old world of “Active Worlds,” a videogame featuring one of the first truly expansive ingame universes.

Ironically, this digital space is now anything but active, as it has been largely abandoned since around the year 2002. “Active Worlds” is just one of the many massive online worlds which have long since died, and its current state brings up questions about the role of digital worlds and storage in society.

“Active Worlds” went online on Jun. 28, 1995. Like the vast majority of massively multiplayer online games, it was designed with user socialization in mind.

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Not only was it highly accessible in that players could do whatever they pleased, but it was available in eight languages, which gave it worldwide appeal. In many ways, “Active Worlds’” large world and sense of freedom was succeeded by the now infamous “Second Life,” which was released not long after the former game’s popularity dropped off.

The game’s eventual demise proves it’s impossible to predict what will catch on in society. While online social services like MySpace and “Active Worlds” may have faded away, similar creations like Facebook and “Second Life” have since taken their place. Who knows when these will also fade into obscurity? When will the densely populated lands of “World of Warcraft” become little more than a cyber-desert?

Unlike abandoned buildings or even abandoned towns, these hollow virtual worlds have very little impact on resources. As with “Active Worlds,” all it takes is one dedicated server to remain online for a game

with such an expansive ingame world to still be functional years after its parent company stopped charging a fee to play.

However, what impact do these abandoned worlds have on today’s daily life?

Considering their large scale, I believe they could function as unlimited time capsules. This could even be applied to long-dead social media websites as well, as mind-boggling amounts of information can be stored for very little cost on the Internet.

Unlike fragile historical artifacts or delicate cave paintings, as long as there is a server hosting the content from this online world, it will not fade away. Whatever digital landscapes may still exist in 50 years will likely be scoured for the slightest scraps of information about the culture of the time.

One of the most famous tangible collections of knowledge was the historic Library of Alexandria, which was burnt to the ground sometime in the first or second centuries. In modern times, we see the

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Video games like ‘Active Worlds’ and ‘Second Life’ allow users to do anything they want in a virtual context. library’s destruction as a symbol of the preciousness and fragility of acquired human knowledge.

However, the Internet can store more information than any number of libraries in existence. Current estimates state that without images, every article on Wikipedia would take up 2,265 volumes, and this is not to mention all of

the other independent “wikis” about a variety of subjects which have sprung up in recent years.

As long as there is electricity to power servers, people are willing to transcribe information into a computer, and humanity thirsts for things to know, the virtual worlds of the Internet will stand testament even when physical build-

ings have succumbed to the forces of nature.

When one looks at an empty game world such as “Active Worlds,” it’s easy to see the grave marker of a passing trend. Yet, tombstones can’t be explored and mausoleums cannot be reshaped by those who reside in them. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Young Thug concludes the slime season series with ‘Slime Season 3.’

by Corey Elliott A&E WRiter @dailyathenaeum

The Slime Season series has concluded with Young Thug’s most recent release.

“Slime S eason 3” dropped March 25, and though it is considered a mixtape, it cannot be downloaded for free. Young Thug’s latest project is available for $7.99.

The Atlanta-born rapper picked up steam a couple of years ago. Before establishing himself as the unique rapper he is. Young Thug put himself on the map with his single, “Stoner,” in 2014.

He made another wave a few short months later with his feature on Rich Gang’s, “Lifestyle,” with Rich Homie Quan.

Just as he is barely comprehendible in “Lifestyle,” Young Thug maintains his inability to clearly spit verses on “Slime Season 3.” Rap Genius is almost a necessity with all of Young Thug’s sounds.

With the type of sound that often blows up in today’s generation, lyrics are often insignificant. Young Thug certainly is not for everyone, but Eminem said it best a few years ago: “It is not about lyrics anymore, it’s about a hot beat and a catchy hook.”

“Slime Season 3” is the third and final piece to his Slime Season project that kicked off in September of 2015. Following the first tape was “Slime Season 2,” which dropped October 2015.

With the way Young Thug consecutively released the first two parts, the four month absence of the Slime finale was odd for his casual fans. This was probably due to the fact Young Thug was busy working on a nine track mixtape titled “I’m Up,” in

February.

The first two mixtapes in the Slime trilogy were free and much lengthier, with “Slime Season 1” consisting of 18 tracks and “Slime Season 2” loaded with 22 tracks. This provoked confusion with last week’s release being a mere fraction of the first two mixtapes with only eight tracks.

Even though this tape only includes eight songs, there has surely been no shortage of new music from Young Thug.

All of the eight tracks are solely produced by London on da Track with only one collaborative track, titled “Slime S**t,” which features Yak Gotti, Duke and Peewee Roscoe.

The mixtape is comprised of well-produced beats with Young Thug’s signature obscure noise making talent.

Some would compare Young Thug’s style, delivery and eccentric ways to Lil’ Wayne. Both his rapping style and fashion style are quite peculiar and distinctive. Legendary Elton John appreciates Young Thug - high praise to say the least. He even compared Young Thug to the late Beatle, John Lennon.

The overwhelmingly generous compliments from musical geniuses don’t stop with Elton John. Recently, Kanye referred to Young Thug as Bob Marley and hoped to work on a project with him.

Don’t be surprised if Young Thug branches out and makes music with both of these artists in the future, as he’s been on a roll since he made his splash into the rap pool.

“Slime Season 3” currently sits at two on iTunes top albums, trailing only Zayn’s debut album, “Mind of Mine.” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

WVU alumn successful Morgantown business owner

By Meg Weissend A&E WRiter @dailyathenaeum

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ray Glymph attributes his successful career to the work ethic he possessed at a young age.

Glymph started as a McDonald’s and Starbucks employee, and now, according to him, he is the youngest, and only black, bar owner in Morgantown.

The driven entrepreneur knows a thing or two about triumph in the world of business.

Glymph currently owns and operates a restaurant, a sports bar and a nightclub at the age of 26.

It all began when Glymph moved from the city to attend West Virginia University. Having family in the area made it easier on the transition, and Glymph majored in industrial engineering before dropping out his sophomore year in search of business opportunity.

“The Taco Truck was my first business,” Glymph said. “It raised a lot of controversy and friendly competitions in downtown Morgantown.”

Since then, the Taco Truck has been sold and Glymph started up the successful sports bar, 4th and Goal, on Walnut Street.

Morgantown is known for its nightlife, so there has always been a heavy competition within the downtown bars and nightclubs.

With an understanding of business, Glymph made enough profit to open up Liquid Lounge.

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A look outside of Liquid Lounge, one of three establishments owned by Glymph in Morgantown.

“I love the impact busiWorking in bars since he macaroni and cheese in all was around 18 years old, of Morgantown through a nesses can have on people’s lives,” Glymph said. “I Glymph has always loved community vote. the nightlife. Bringing a litSoul Brothers offers a like building relationships tle bit of the big city here type of southern cooking with both my employees to Morgantown, he created not otherwise offered in and my customers, and Liquid Lounge - a fusion of Morgantown. After a long making a difference in the his passion for bars and road trip that involved dis- community.” business. cussing possible business Glymph hopes he’s “Each business is a lot ventures, Glymph and his made a positive change in different,” Glymph said. business partner Mark Morgantown.

“If I ever do leave this “Liquid Lounge tends to Kammer felt Morgantown cater more toward a col- needed soul food at an af- town I want to leave a lege crowd, though.” fordable price. Everything good footprint and open One of Morgantown’s served at Soul Brothers is the door for other people hottest hip hop ven- authentic and based on who want to one day own ues, Liquid Lounge offers recipes straight from the businesses,” Glymph said. unique water features, VIP South.

“I followed my dreams.”

The 26-year-old has bottle service, great drinks, Glymph also partners in food and music. On week- a daycare business and is plans for something new ends, WVU students flock involved with a plumbing in the future. to the nightclub. and drain cleaning comAlthough it is sometimes Glymph’s fourth busi- pany as well. an uphill battle, Glymph Through self-motiva- challenges himself on a ness, Soul Brothers, is widely recognized for the tion and a lot of determi- daily basis and continues award-winning food. Re- nation, Glymph was able to find success. cently, the restaurant was to achieve his dream of bechosen for having the best coming an entrepreneur. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Zayn releases ‘Mind of Mine’

by Chelsea Walker A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Shedding his One Direction boy band image for a more mature look and sound, Zayn Malik is proving he can hold up his own solo act.

Malik is taking on ventures he never could have dreamed of while traveling with the British boy band.

Currently, the artist is dating one of the world’s top models, crafting a new genre of R&B and setting the industry ablaze.

Busting out of his pop-infused boy band mold, Malik’s newest album “Mind of Mine” proves the artist is no longer a mere boy among men. Dropping his last name and former One Direction band members, the British heartthrob has found his new calling in R&B. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Malik discussed the artist’s breakout solo album and his new venture without band mates, stating he needed to find himself musically.

“I think I always kind of wanted to go. From like the first year really, I never really wanted to be there in the band. I just gave it a go because it was there at the time and then when I realized the direction we were going in with the music, I

instantly realized it wasn’t for me because I realized I couldn’t put any input in,” Malik said in an interview on Beats 1.

“I couldn’t give my opinion on this or that because it didn’t fit the grain of what we were as a band or what we represented. That’s when it became frustrating for me, that’s when I had to be like, I’ve got to start thinking of myself.”

“Mind of Mine” is a solo album of mass proportions showcasing just how talented of an artist Malik is.

Oversexed and filled with an array of influences, “Mind of Mine” is a record acting as one lusty love letter. While tracks like the successful single, “PILLOWTALK” and “LIKE I WOULD” bleed passion and desire, other hits such as “lUcOzAde” seem to fall flat with strange lyrics. Featuring R&B leading lady Kehlani, Malik’s “wRoNg” is one of the most well-rounded tracks on the record, with both Malik and Kehlani coming together vocally.

Overall, Malik’s “Mind of Mine” features sounds similar to those taken from albums produced by The Weeknd, Justin Timberlake and Miguel, however, Malik’s bone-chilling vocals take the entire record to another level. “Mind of Mine” seems to successfully incor-

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Business owner Ray Glymph walks out of Soul Brothers Wednesday afternoon.

Former One Directioner Zayn Malik released his newest album. porate the adult R&B feel Malik intended to capture with this album. With lusty lyrics, R rated ballads and whimsical beats, “Mind of Mine” has all of the fixings needed to create the perfect R&B record, but with flat line lyrics, the only memorable aspect of this album is the killer unhinged vocals from Malik.

In an interview with The Fader, Malik opened up about his newfound freedom within music and how this album allowed him to experiment with his own passions and styles.

“If I’d sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would al-

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ways be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, generic as f***,” Malik said.

“I just wasn’t convinced with what we were selling.

I wasn’t 100 percent behind the music. It wasn’t me.”

With an impeccable voice crafted for R&B ballads, Malik’s “Mind of Mine” successfully showcases the British musicians ability to hit all the high notes. As the artist finds his own way within the industry, we can only hope his lyrics will mature as well, creating an album filled with blue-sy ballads and beats. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Casting call ruckus NEW YORK (AP) — The Broadway smash “Hamilton,” which has been cheered for reclaiming the nation’s founding story by a multicultural cast, has oddly come under fire for specifically seeking “nonwhite men and women” for upcoming roles in future versions.

That went too far for the Actors’ Equity Association union, which said Wednesday that the show’s language was not official or in compliance with their rules.

The show responded by saying it regretted the confusion and will amend the notice to add that “we welcome people of all ethnicities to audition.”

No such outcry was heard when the show was first being mounted, which called specifically for nonwhite actors to play the likes of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson and Eliza Hamilton. Only King George II was supposed to be filled by a white man.

“Hamilton” producers said such a stance adheres to the accepted practice that certain characteristics in certain roles constitute a legal and “bona fide occupational qualification.” Other shows also cast with ethnicity in mind.

Since it opened offBroadway last year, the

show has been celebrated for putting minorities at the center of America’s birth.

The show’s African-American, Asian and Latino actors have been cheered by President Barak Obama, British actress Helen Mirren and many others.

The latest snag occurred when the show posted on its website a call for “nonwhite men and women, ages 20s to 30s, for Broadway and upcoming tours.” Equity, which usually reviews casting notices, said it had not in this case.

“Our audition rules are created to provide the broadest access possible for our members to be seen for roles,” the union said.

The show is by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the show’s book, music and lyrics, and stars in the title role.

It stresses the orphan, immigrant roots of Hamilton and has a terrifically varied score, ranging from pop ballads to gospel to sexy R&B. A Chicago production will open this fall and a national tour will travel to San Francisco and then Los Angeles in 2017. “’Hamilton’ depicts the birth of our nation in a singular way,” producer Jeffrey Seller said in a statement. “We will continue to cast the show with the same multicultural diversity that we have employed thus far.”

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Visitors discuss their interpretations of William Schumacher’s 1916 painting, “Floral Landscape.”

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Patty Duke’s bravery and talent recalled, actress dies at age 69 NEW YORK (AP) ‑ The courage that a teenage Patty Duke portrayed on-screen as Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker” was breathtaking and Oscar-winning.

Duke’s own gritty struggle against bipolar disorder was equally admired. She opened up about her condition at a time when such candor was unusual and she became an activist for mental health causes.

The actress, who died Tuesday at age 69, was “a warrior,” said her son, actor Sean Astin. “You watch this 4-foot-10, tiny imp of a lady who’s more powerful than the greatest military leaders in history.”

“We’re so grateful to her for living a life that generates that amount of compassion and feeling in others,” Astin told The Associated Press in reflecting on the outpouring of sentiment from fans at the news of her death.

Colleagues responded with equal passion.

“I will miss her every day but I will find comfort in the words of Helen Keller: ‘The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart,’” wrote Melissa Gilbert, who starred with Duke in a TV remake of “The Miracle Worker.”

Duke died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, where she had lived for the past quarter-century, according to Teri Weigel, Astin’s publicist.

She astonished audiences as the young deaf-and-blind Keller first on Broadway, then in the acclaimed 1962 film version, appearing in both alongside Anne Bancroft as Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan (Bancroft won an Oscar of her own).

“Her performance in ‘The Miracle Worker’ brought Helen Keller’s indomitable spirit to life and inspired generations to pursue careers serving the deaf-blind community,” Joseph F. Bruno, chief executive of Helen Keller Services, said in a statement.

In 1963, Duke burst onto the TV scene starring in her own sitcom, “The Patty Duke

Show,” which aired for three seasons. She played dual roles as identical cousins Cathy, “who’s lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Berkeley Square” while (according to the theme song) “Patty’s only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights.

What a crazy pair!”

In 2015, she would play twin roles again: as a pair of grandmas on an episode of “Liv and Maddie,” a series on the Disney Channel.

Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York borough of Queens on Dec. 14, 1946, she had a difficult childhood with abusive parents. By 8 years old, she was largely under the control of husband-and-wife talent managers who kept her busy on soap operas and advertising displays.

They also supplied her with alcohol and prescription drugs, which accentuated the effects of her undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

In her 1988 memoir, “Call Me Anna,” Duke wrote of her condition and the diagnosis she had gotten only six years earlier, and of the subsequent treatment that helped stabilize her life. The book became a 1990 TV film in which she starred.

With the end of “The Patty Duke Show” in 1966, which left her stereotyped as not one, but two squeaky-clean teenagers, Duke attempted to leap into the nitty-grittiness of adulthood in the 1967 melodrama “Valley of the Dolls,” in which she played a showbiz hopeful who falls prey to drug addiction, a broken marriage and shattered dreams.

The film, based on the best-selling Jacqueline Susann pulp novel, was critically slammed but a commercial sensation.

During her career, she would win three Emmy Awards, for the TV film “My Sweet Charlie,” the miniseries “Captains and the Kings,” and the 1979 TV version of “The Miracle Worker,” in which Duke played Annie Sullivan with “Little House on the Prairie” actress Gilbert as Keller.

In the 1980s, Duke starred in a trio of short-lived sitcoms: “It Takes Two,” ‘’Kar-

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Actress Patty Duke dies at age 69. en’s Song” and “Hail to the Chief,” cast as the first female president of the United States.

“Her career ebbed and flowed,” said Astin, her son with her third husband, actor John Astin, “and sometimes she was stressed about it and sometimes she was at peace with it. And then she’d get to do something that she could sink her teeth into, that reminded her of what she was capable of.”

In addition to her acting career, Duke served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988.

She starred in several stage productions,

including a return to Broadway in 2002 to play Aunt Eller in a revival of the musical “Oklahoma!”

By then, she already had spent a dozen years living in Idaho with her fourth husband, Michael Pearce (who survives her), seeking refuge from the clutter, noise and turmoil of big cities, and from the tumultuous life she had weathered in the past.

In describing the role of Aunt Eller, and perhaps herself, to The Associated Press, she once said, “This is a woman who has had strife in life, made her peace with some of it and has come to the point of acceptance. Not giving up.”

Celebrities and medical communtiy butt heads, Hollywood’s influence NEW YORK (AP) ‑ When celebrity and science collide, harmful side effects may occur.

The latest case happened last weekend when the Tribeca Film Festival pulled a documentary from its program by a discredited former doctor whose research into the connection between vaccines and autism has been debunked. After festival co-founder Robert De Niro initially defended the film’s inclusion, Tribeca - facing an uproar from doctors and experts - pulled it.

The film, “ Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” is directed by Andrew Wakefield, a former British gastroenterologist who was stripped of his medical license in 2010. The British medical journal BMJ called Wakefield’s study connecting autism and vaccines - which was retracted by the Lancet, a medical journal - an “elaborate fraud.”

Scientific research has consistently found the MMR vaccine (given to children for measles, mumps and rubella) to be safe and have no link to autism. Cases of measles, however, have increased in recent years, largely infecting unvaccinated people.

De Niro acknowledged he personally chose to program

the film at the festival, something he had never previously done. “My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family,” said De Niro, who, with his wife, Grace Hightower De Niro, has an 18-year-old son with autism.

No one would question that the issue is personal to De Niro.

But the Tribeca Film Festival, which opens its 15th edition on April 13, is an extremely public event. When news of the documentary’s scheduled screening spread, disease experts were distressed that the festival would lend its megaphone to a film by a disgraced doctor. Michael Specter, the New Yorker staff writer and medical expert, called it “a disgrace” for the festival, and compared Wakefield’s film to “Leni Riefenstahl making a movie about the Third Reich.”

The episode is only the latest instance of the medical community being forced to combat the influence of a celebrity promoting questionable science.

It has particularly bedeviled questions over vaccinations, beginning with the anti-vaccination advocacy of TV personality Jenny McCarthy.

“Celebrities have had an

out-of-proportion impact on the public’s understanding of vaccine risk,” says Arthur L. Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University. “I don’t want to overplay it; most people vaccinate. It’s not like hordes of people are listening to Jenny McCarthy and saying, ‘Forget the American Association of Pediatrics, I’m going with the former Playboy Bunny.’”

Jim Carrey and Rob Schneider have also spoken out against vaccines, as have some politicians. In a GOP debate last year, Donald Trump, while saying he supported them, added a story about a 2-year-old boy developing autism following vaccination.

Wakefield has vowed to press on with his film. He called the Tribeca Film Festival reversal “another example of the power of corporate interests censoring free speech, art, and truth.”

Steven Silberman, author of “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity,” believes the claims of anti-vaccination campaigners are rooted in a misunderstanding of autism history.

Autism isn’t a historical aberration, he says, but has long been part of humanity - just

less diagnosed.

“I have tremendous respect for Robert De Niro and tremendous compassion for his interest in prompting a conversation about his son’s condition,” says Silberman. “The problem is that if we’re arguing about vaccines, we’re having the wrong conversation. We should be talking about how we should give people like Robert De Niro’s son a better future, one in which they can live more independently, have access to the support and resources they need, and have a chance to make a living.”

Increasingly, doctors are fighting to seize the spotlight for health and medicine issues from celebrities, whose public platforms have far more reach than medical journals. Celebrities are also sought out to be spokespeople for new drugs, blurring their role. Since Milton Berle stumped in the 1950s for an antidepressant called Miltown, they’ve been prominent endorsers, from Jack Nicklaus for high blood pressure to Brooke Shields for thin eyelashes to Sally Field for osteoporosis.

Their influence can be considerable, sometimes for good.

After Katie Couric’s live on-air colonoscopy on the “Today” show in 2000, researchers re-

corded a nationwide increase in colonoscopies of more than 20 percent.

But often, the health advice of celebrities - well-meaning as it may be - could come with its own Surgeon General warning.

Reality star Kristin Cavallari (who has also spoken out against vaccines) recently caused a stir when she provided a homemade goat’s milk baby formula recipe to People Magazine. The magazine listed it online under the section “Great Ideas” before removing it. (The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breast feeding for an infant’s first six months, and warns against the dangers of homemade formulas.)

“It’s part of the general impact celebrities are having on health,” says Caplan. “Gwyneth Paltrow is certainly emitting an unceasing stream of hot air about many health practices, from colonics to who knows what. It’s a constant battle to try to correct misperceptions.”

That battle, though, can come at a cost.

“As long as we’re talking about Andrew Wakefield and ‘ Vaxxed,’” says Silberman, “we’re not talking about giving autistic people and their families happier, healthier and safer lives.”

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LeBron James saga keeps on rolling

Does anyone remember a time when LeBron James seemed to be comfortable with his hometown team and the drama of leaving seemed to disappear?

So do I. Now, the never-ending saga continues. Some presume he’s in for another “decision” to break Cleveland’s hearts, sending the struggling and gloomy sports city another dose of depression.

It’s a city revolving around LeBron James and its hometown hero. He’s been Cleveland’s lone marketable star, with the Browns struggling year after year and continually mustering out quarterbacks - including Jonny Manziel’s constant attention-grabbing - and the Indians have advanced to the MLB Playoffs a mere two times since 2007.

But Cleveland’s lone sports hope may force a second breakup with the Cavaliers since he left for the Miami Heat in 2010, going on to win both of his NBA titles in South Beach.

He and the Cavaliers were unable to defeat this year’s record-breaking Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, carrying a heavy workload for his team following the injuries of Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving.

If the Cavs come up short again this time around with the Warriors and always dangerous San Antonio Spurs appearing to be the NBA title frontrunners out of the Western Conference, could Cleveland be in for another rude awakening?

News broke out last week that LeBron unfollowed the Cavaliers Twitter account, a tragic and unfortunate tale in the age of social media.

It likely doesn’t mean as much as the world perceives it to, but it’s deemed “news” nonetheless with the overwhelming popularity surrounding Twitter.

Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck published a story stating LeBron would suffer a “pay cut” to unite with Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwayne Wade. He couldn’t possibly reunite with Wade once again and send Cleveland into a state of hysteria.

He probably wouldn’t be allowed back into town. Ohio might not allow it either.

Could it possibly occur because of two-time MVP Stephen Curry stealing the spotlight all over national television? Could it be angst in the Cleveland locker room, as some reporters have mentioned as possibilities?

LeBron was the centerpiece of the NBA until the Warriors stole his thunder to win their first NBA title since 1975. Another missed shot in Cleveland could propel him to forming another “super team,” similar to the one he had with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami.

Of course, it’s all speculation until the summer.

His new two-year contract expires after next season, but there’s a player option for the second season.

Until the NBA Finals come and go, we’ll await to see what James decides to pull out now. Although it’s likely he wouldn’t leave again - especially with a city he created a huge piece published in Sports Illustrated stating he was “coming home” – anything’s possible in a time when players don’t stick around with franchises like they used to.

Only time will tell. Until then, enjoy the Warriors’ ride into NBA history. cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU’s Jimmy Galusky tries to tag out a Canisius runner Wednesday.

WVU finishes embarrassing home sweep to Canisius, 9-0

BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Not even 24 hours after dropping the series opener in 10 innings, the West Virginia University baseball team experienced a nightmare performance Wednesday afternoon against the Canisius Golden Griffins, losing 9-0.

Th e Mou nt a i n e e r s dropped to 12-10 on the season after registering three hits against Canisius.

This marks the first time West Virginia has been swept by a non-conference opponent this season.

“Our at-bats were awful today,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “I don’t understand because

if you were to talk to Kansas’ coaches and ask what they had on the Mountaineers, they would say, ‘That’s a good hitting team.’ If you talk to these guys today, they would say the exact opposite.”

West Virginia called upon Tanner Campbell to pitch the series’ finale and the freshman was cutting through Canisius’ lineup.

Campbell had allowed one hit and recorded two strikeouts through three innings.

It seemed as if the Mountaineers were heading in the right direction after a disappointing ending the night before, but Canisius had a freshman of its own take the mound, Nolan Hunt.

Hunt went four innings

and allowed one hit, earning his first victory of his collegiate career.

Canisius’ Anthony Massicci started the scoring off with a solo home run to left field off Campbell in the top of the fourth.

Campbell went two more innings before being replaced by Shane Ennis, and the Golden Griffins then cushioned their lead with three runs.

Mazey recognized Massicci’s home run as where the game took a turn for the worst for his team, including the struggling offense.

“If we would have scored more runs, his outing would have looked a lot better,” Mazey said. “In the fifth inning, it was still a game; he had only given

up a solo homer and that doesn’t usually beat you, but when you don’t score any runs, a solo home run will beat you every time.”

Heading into the eighth inning, the Mountaineers were down by four runs and had a realistic chance at a comeback until a mix of a resilient Golden Griffin offense and WVU’s bullpen woes put a damper on any hope.

After consecutive walks and an error, Canisius had the bases loaded with no outs. As a result, the Mountaineers walked home two runs and allowed three RBIs. Kyle Casserly, Darius Hill and Ivan Vera were the only Mountaineers to register a hit. WVU went 0-11 with

runners on and 0-5 with runners in scoring position.

The Mountaineers had their best scoring opportunity in the fifth inning with Jackson Cramer on third base with one out but as Cramer reached third, the next two batters were retired quickly.

West Virginia won’t have long to sulk over the loss, as the team starts its first conference series to Monongalia County Ballpark against Oklahoma State on Friday.

“I’m anxious to get them in town,” Mazey said. “Guys just have to motivate themselves when they get in the batter’s box to have good at bats because we have a good offensive team.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

baseball

As losses mount, Mountaineers still waiting to click

WVU’s Kyle Davis and head coach Randy Mazey talk at third base against Old Dominion.

BY DAVID STATMAN freshmen and sophomores themselves,” Mazey said.

SPORTS EDITOR take over the lineup, and “The coaching staff isn’t a @DJSTATMAN77 while the individual num- bunch of cheerleaders, we bers have generally been try to coach the games and as Look up and down the quite good, a winning streak much as you try to tell them, they have to come out and West Virginia University has not yet followed. baseball team’s roster, and Despite boasting three re- do it.” you see plenty of talent, clear liable veteran starting pitchThat struggle has been exas day. But the Mountain- ers and seven regulars hitting emplified by a bullpen that eers (12-10) are still waiting .280 or above, West Virginia has struggled mightily refor things to click, and their has now dropped six of eight, cently to find a successpair of midweek losses to including an embarrassing ful formula, despite being relatively unknown Canisius 9-0 drubbing on Wednes- loaded with veterans. Mounshows just how far they need day where it managed only taineer relievers surrendered three hits.

12 runs in the two games to go.

In a season that will be His team’s struggles have against Canisius.

West Virginia’s bullpen filled with lessons for the provided no end of frustrayoung Mountaineers, they tion to head coach Randy also combined for 14 walks – learned a new one this week: Mazey, who’s still waiting for seven relievers were pressed Never overlook an opponent. his upperclassmen to take into service on Tuesday “I’ve never really heard charge and push the rest of night, including four differof Canisius before, but we the team onto winning ways. ent pitchers trying and fail“You can tell them until ing to get the final out in the know who they are now,” said sophomore third base- you’re blue in the face, the 10th inning. man Kyle Davis. leaders on this team have The next day, Mazey was West Virginia has seen a to step up and find a way forced to use six relievers to slew of extremely promising to motivate each other and get through three and two-

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thirds innings, allowing five runs along the way.

Almost all of West Virginia’s relievers saw action over the two-game series, and most of them struggled even to throw strikes. Despite the rough patch, West Virginia’s relievers – many of whom are tested veterans – still preach confidence that they’ll figure things out.

“We’ve pitched in tough situations before, this is just a blip on the radar, so many standard deviations away from what we are,” said sophomore reliever Jackson Sigman. “We’re not worried about it, this is something to learn and grow from. We’re going to bounce back and do well, especially with conference play coming up too.”

But although West Virginia’s words are positive, the Mountaineers aren’t im-

mune to feeling that they’ve left vital wins on the table heading into the meat of their conference schedule.

The Mountaineers are aware of just how talented they are, and as the losses mount, they feel the frustration that the whole has not yet matched the sum of its parts. Now, the mission is to channel those feelings in a positive way.

“We’re all super frustrated, but it’s key to maintain the frustration and put it elsewhere,” Davis said. “Go get it out in the cage, go get it out taking more ground balls.

Just keep working, that’s all we can do. Baseball’s a funny game. They’ll hit bleeders into the outfield and we’ll hit balls right at people. It’s just how this game works.” djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

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Swim and Dive

Marsh, WVU have lots of positives following 2015-16 season

By Roger Turner Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

While the men’s and women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, MLB Spring Training and NBA Playoff races all got under way during last week’s break, the 2015-16 season for West Virginia men’s swimming and diving teams came to an end after Andrew Marsh’s third and final swim on Saturday at the NCAA Championships.

2015-16 ended on a high note for the WVU men’s team, which featured the program’s only NCAA qualifier in Andrew Marsh. A native of Bemus Point, New York, Marsh capped off a senior season for the record books by setting Big 12 and school records in the pool, as well as being named an All-Big 12 Academic First Team honoree and Big 12 Swimmer of the Week twice this year. Talented fellow senior swimmers Max Spencer, Ross Glegg, Aiden Fumagalli, Jake Iotte, Jay Hickey and Chase Williams accompanied Marsh in leading the men’s team to two first place finishes, and three head-to-head wins in a row to close out the regular season.

This year’s men’s team got off to a shaky start of the season, falling to ACC challengers Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech in the team’s opening head-tohead meets. However, the Mountaineers walked away victorious against Big East opponents Seton Hall, Butler and Xavier during the inaugural Big 12 vs. Big East Weekend at the WVU Natatorium. The Mountaineers then endured the nation’s best in Federal Way, Washington while

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Austin Green and Chase Williams dive into the pool against Villanova and Iowa State in February. competing in the USA Swimming Winter Nationals. Federal Way is where Marsh secured a spot in the NCAA Championships for the second-consecutive year, and also earned an Olympic Trial cut time along with Spencer.

While the upperclassmen shined throughout the year for the Mountaineers, so to did the young talent on the diving platform. Sophomores Alex

Obendorf, Michael Proietto and Logan McHenry earned crucial points down the stretch for West Virginia.

“Looking at the big picture, I’m thrilled with the progress of such a young team,” said WVU diving coach Michael Grapner.

“The attitude on the men’s side was different. They have all made a lot of improvements this year.”

Obendorf, Proietto and

McHenry qualified for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships in Annapolis, Mar yland prior to this year’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.

Although none were able to advance to the NCAA Championships, the talented group of sophomores placed top-five in diving events at the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas to close out the

season.

West Virginia led reigning champion Texas after the first and second day of competition but finished in second-place as a team in Austin. Also at this year’s Big 12 Championships, Marsh set a conference and school record in the men’s 100 breaststroke to make him the first WVU swimmer to hold a championship record in any event.

In his ninth season as West

Virginia’s head coach Vic Riggs was honored as the Men’s Swimming Coach of the Meet for his team’s efforts.

“This has been an amazing season for our team,” Riggs said. “I couldn’t as to work with a better group of coaches and the kids here.

I am blessed and honored to be this program’s head coach.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Golf

Mountaineers worked to improve over last week’s Spring Break

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Like much of the West Virginia University student body, the men’s golf team spent spring break travelling to tropical locales in the southern United States. With the winter months behind them and the brunt of the spring season coming up in April, head coach Sean Covich wanted to take advantage of the time off and get solid practice time on some of the best and toughest golf courses in the country.

While many students were enjoying spring break, WVU golfers were hitting the links in northern Florida. The Mountaineers played courses that would be similar to the courses they would be playing the rest of this season. The team visited the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Florida, just outside of Jacksonville.

The y then playe d courses like Marsh Land-

ing, Pablo Creek and The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.

TPC Sawgrass is the home of the PGA’s The Players Championship and the site of the famous island hole.

With the Big 12 Championships a month away, Covich is optimistic about the state of the program in just its first competitive season in over 30 years.

Although they may be going through growing pains now, the Mountaineers are laying the foundation for the future of WVU golf.

Freshmen like Max Sear and Tristan Nicholls are the building blocks of the program and have shown flashes of potential throughout the fall and spring.

“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 build-

ing for the future and with that in mind I am pleased.”

But Covich will be the first to admit he’s realistic about how competitive the Mountaineers can be this season, next season and even the season after that.

“First of all, winning a college event takes some luck,” Covich said. “In most college athletic contests, like basketball or football, you have oneon-one, so automatically you have a 50% chance of winning, but with golf, we have 15 different opponents, mathematically we have less than a 7% chance of victory.”

“I don’t want to say winning would be a miracle, but being a brand new program with limited scholarships from a cold weather climate, we have to be able to set realistic goals each and every week. Is winning a goal? Certainly. But is it an expectation? I’ll say this, you need a lot of things to go right to even have a chance to win an event. Our goal is to play the best that we can play,

WVU senior Easton Renwick overlooks a shot earlier this season. do it in a way that represents WVU with class. If we do that, I’ll be happy.

Eventually we will win an event, might be this year, might not. Might be next year, might not. But when WVU wins a golf tournament it will be a special

day.”

The Mountaineers have an action-packed week ahead of them as they return to competitive play for the first time since the Seminole Intercollegiate three weeks ago. They start with the Mason Ru-

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dolph Championship this weekend at Vanderbilt, followed immediately on Monday with the Old Waverly Collegiate Championship at Mississippi State. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

AP

Lakers dismayed D’Angelo Russell’s video of Nick Young going public

D’Angelo Russell makes his way down the court against the Atlanta Hawks on March 4.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) -- Lakers coach Byron Scott is “disappointed” that an unflattering video of Nick Young apparently taken by rookie teammate D’Angelo Russell became public.

Scott declined to address any details about another

embarrassment for the Western Conference’s worst team after their shootaround for Wednesday’s game against Miami. Russell and Young plan to address the media before the game, team spokesman John Black said.

Russell apparently re-

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corded a video in which he asked Young about being with women other than his fiancée, rapper Iggy Azalea.

The video began circulating online in the past week, although the circumstances are still unclear.

ESPN.com reported Tues-

day that the breach of locker room protocol has driven a wedge between several Lakers and Russell, the No. 2 overall pick in last year’s draft. Scott declined to talk about the mood in the locker room heading into the final two weeks of what is likely to be the worst season in the 16-time NBA champion franchise’s history.

“The only thing that I’m disappointed about is that it got out,” Scott said. “We’re a family, and we try to keep everything in-house.”

Scott said he hadn’t spoken to Russell about his actions, and he didn’t plan to do so. Scott has publicly questioned Russell’s maturity several times this season. Russell is averaging 13.1 points, 3.4 assists and 3.4 rebounds this season, occasionally showing dynamic offensive skills.

“That’s an internal matter that our guys will deal with,” Scott said.

The 20-year-old Russell declined to speak to reporters at the shootaround at the Lakers’ training complex, say-

ing there was “nothing to talk about.” Russell stayed on the court for several minutes after his teammates, working alone with assistant coach Thomas Scott and player development coach J.J. Outlaw.

Azalea’s wedding to Young had been postponed even before the video drama. The Australian musician posted an interesting response on her Twitter account: “hmmm i see D Angelo Russell is trending... I actually liked his film. Thanks bro.”

Young hasn’t played for the Lakers in 10 straight games, sitting out while healthy before missing the last two games with what the Lakers said was a gastrointestinal problem. Young largely has played poorly this season for the Lakers, but is under contract for next season with a player option for 2017-18.

The video flap is just the latest tawdry mistake by a roster that sits 29th in the overall NBA standings, leading only Philadelphia.

Earlier this month, Young

and starting guard Jordan Clarkson were embarrassed when a woman claimed they had made inappropriate, harassing gestures at her while their cars were stopped at a traffic light in Hollywood, leading the players to claim the incident was “a miscommunication.”

Kobe Bryant’s farewell season also has been a disaster on the court for the Lakers, who are 15-59 heading into their meeting with Miami. They’re wrapping up the worst threeseason stretch in club history after last season’s Lakers went 21-61, setting the franchise record for losses and worst winning percentage.

The Lakers will miss the playoffs in three straight seasons for the first time in team history. The only upside to the ineptitude is the increasing probability that the club will keep its first-round draft pick, which must be given to the 76ers if it doesn’t land in the top three after the NBA draft lottery, thanks to the conditions of the long-ago trade for Steve Nash.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

10 | SPORTS

Thursday March 31, 2016

AP

Hield’s Final Four run with Oklahoma payoff for senior return NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Buddy Hield’s results have usually caught up with his imagination.

This season has surpassed even his wildest dreams as Oklahoma heads to the Final Four this week.

The senior guard considered leaving for the NBA last year, but returned to school to improve his game and has been nearly unstoppable this season. He’s second in the nation in scoring and averaging 29.3 points in the NCAA Tournament heading into the national semifinal Saturday night against Villanova.

Hield said when he came back to Oklahoma, he knew he had to average at least 17 points.

“Maybe 19, 20 points,” he said. “To average 25 on a nightly basis is kind of tough to do. Everybody’s coming at you, and you’ve still got to put up huge numbers. It’s a blessing.”

Oklahoma’s run to the Final Four reassured Hield that he made the right decision.

The Sooners are rolling and the Bahamas native is a pro-

jected lottery pick after being considered a late first-round or early second-round pick a year ago.

“I can’t be more happy than this,” he said.

Oklahoma assistant coach Chris Crutchfield said Hield has improved because he put in the time.

“He’s been special because he’s worked harder,” Crutchfield said. “His drive has been way more than anybody else I’ve coached.”

Hield shoots 46.5 percent and leads the nation with 4.1 3-pointers per game. He has been at his best in key moments. He scored 46 points at Kansas and made seven of his eight 3-pointers in the second half on his way to 32 points against LSU. Hield hit a game-winning 3-pointer against Texas and scored 39 in the Big 12 Tournament against Iowa State.

In the tournament, he’s scored big against VCU and Oregon. A repeat against Villanova could lift his team to the title game Monday against the winner between North Carolina and Syracuse.

“A lot of times you talk about guys, especially good players, who have ‘it,’” Crutchfield said. “You can’t put a tag on it.”

Hield was mostly a slasher as a freshman, when he started about half the games.

He worked on his shot mechanics and became more of a spot-up shooter as a sophomore. Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said Hield also was persistent with the mental game.

“After every practice - and it sounds like I’m exaggerating, but no, it was after every practice - ‘Coach, what do I need to work on? What do I need to do?’” Kruger said.

Hield learned to better balance his shooting and attacking during the second half of his junior year and was named Big 12 Player of the Year. That’s when he thought it might be time to head to the NBA. After listening to evaluators, he stayed.

“I know I needed to improve, but I wanted to go so badly,” he said. “I was just caught up in the moment, and I saw friends going, and I thought, ‘OK, it’s your turn,

Buddy Hield attempts a layup during February’s game at West Virginia. too.’ But I had to be patient.”

He improved his dribble in traffic, became a stronger finisher at the rim, improved his movement away from the ball and learned to create more space when closely covered.

“A lot of times, young people go in the gym and do the things they’re most

comfortable doing,” Kruger said. “Players that keep getting better are going to the gym and working on things that they’re less comfortable doing.”

Hield also improved his shot. He was named conference player of the year again and has continued to elevate his game as defenses tried to

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find new ways to slow him down.

Kruger said his game has even changed in the last month, saying Hield Is separating more from defenders without the ball by changing pace and direction.

“He’s got a good feel for what he needs to do to get open,” Kruger said.

Craig Sager in high spirits as he works recent Wizards-Warriors game OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Craig Sager has a blood clot behind his right ear that is affecting his hearing, and that’s just another annoyance he is accepting as he continues to work NBA games for Turner Sports with fervor despite his leukemia no longer being in remission.

Dealing with the clot, which Sager compared to swimmer’s ear that won’t subside, could cause him to bleed to death given his blood levels, he said.

Sager’s spirits are undeterred by the latest challenge in his cancer fight, even if it meant a redeye flight after Tuesday’s Wizards-Warriors game to get to a doctor’s appointment in Houston on Wednesday morning before another game Thursday. His new reality includes twice-

weekly blood work and regular transfusions, the latest done Monday in Atlanta before he flew West.

“Nice to be here, that’s for sure,” said Sager, who stood up and saluted Steve Kerr as the Warriors coach discussed the one-of-akind broadcaster before the game. “I always get here over three hours before tip. It’s fun.”

Sager waved when he received a standing ovation and cheers from one large section of Oracle Arena as he walked along the baseline during a fourth-quarter timeout.

For the occasion of covering the defending NBA champions, Sager purchased a new outfit - wearing a “Golden Gate Bridge” orange sport coat and shirt with a bright tie that lists its 15 colors on the back.

His special Nike sneakers say “Mr. Fancy” inside the tongue of the left shoe and “Suits” on the right one.

“Excited to see him,” Kerr said. “Thinking a lot about Sager and his family, and there he is. ... Fired up you’re working the game, Sags.”

Oh, and for anyone wondering how he’s holding up emotionally, Sager said defiantly: “I think my demise has been prematurely reported. I think I’m going to kick this and make medical history and I really believe that.”

The 64-year-old is set to work Thursday in Houston, where he receives his chemotherapy treatments - eight days of chemo coming soon starting the final week of the regular season and into the first week of the playoffs.

“I got a bag of platelets and a blood transfusion.

It kind of pumped me up, got me going,” Sager said of Monday’s trip to the hospital. “It’s like having an old car. You’ve got to put gas in it. If it’s leaking oil, you’ve got to put oil in it every day, too.”

If all goes well during Wednesday’s checkup, Sager figures he won’t have to go back until Friday for more blood work.

“Obviously not good but it’s keeping me going.

I have no choice,” he said.

Sager said there’s “no doubt about it” that he’ll work through the playoffs.

He hopes to be assigned to San Antonio in the first round so he can go back and forth to Houston.

“He’s a battler. He’s going to fight this tooth and nail, that’s who he is and

that’s who he’s got to stay,” said Wizards coach Randy Wittman, who as a player in Atlanta met Sager and later had a business with him.

Sager also is taking on some duties as a spokesman for leukemia awareness. Whatever he can do to help in a cause that needs more attention, he said.

Warriors assistant Jarron Collins found Sager with a hug outside Kerr’s office, and injured Golden State big man Festus Ezeli wrapped his arm around Sager courtside. Sager chatted up reigning MVP Stephen Curry, of course.

Afterward in their postgame interview, Curry said: “Seeing you and doing what you’re doing, we’ve got no excuses.

You’re an inspiration for us

to keep doing what we’re doing, keep fighting.”

“It’s obviously been very surprising and overwhelming the support I’ve gotten,” Sager said. “So many times when you’re doing a job you feel like you’re nuisance sometimes to people and you’re intruding on their space and you’re asking questions maybe they don’t want to deal with at the time and it’s not as, ‘Hey, welcome, here’s Craig.’ Whereas now it’s kind of been different.

I’ve always been one I’ve always liked to talk to people in the stands. I understand when people come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, ‘We appreciate what you’re doing, we appreciate your fight, don’t give up, we love your attitude.’ That’s just me.”