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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017

NEWS

OPINION

SPORTS

City Council approves measure restricting concealed carry

Why the downfall of Milo Yiannopoulos should not gain sympathy

How Elijah Macon’s improvements on and off the court benefit WVU

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Have your pancake and eat it, too!

Local 5-year-old Leah DeBarr overcomes odds stacked against her by getting Cinn-a-stack Pancakes back on the IHOP menu.

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NEWS Caity Coyne Editor-In-Chief Jennifer Gardner Managing Editor Andrew Spellman Art Director Kayla Asbury City Editor Adrianne Uphold Associate City Editor Chris Jackson Sports Editor Erin Drummond Culture Editor Emily Zekonis Associate Culture Editor Brandon Ridgely Opinion Editor Abby Humphreys Blogs Editor Brady Smearman Social Media Editor Joel Whetzel Senior Design Editor

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WEDNESDAY The David C. Hardesty Festival of Ideas is hosting a panel on the “fake news” phenomenon. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

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Cover photo by Rob Simmons. IHOP surprised local 5-year-old Leah DeBarr with a pancake dinner for her and her friends to announce the temporary return of her favorite menu item: Cinn-a-stack Pancakes.

WEDNESDAY

Women’s basketball takes on the TCU Horned Frogs at 7 p.m. in the Coliseum. Students get in free with a student ID.

THURSDAY Hydary Bossa, a recent refugee from Uganda, will be giving a presentation on the plight of the LGBTQ community in Uganda. The presentation is at 4 p.m. in Hodges Hall G-06.

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NEWS | 3

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City Council approves new concealed firearm law

BY ADRIANNE UPHOLD ASSOCIATE CITY EDITOR

A new Morgantown law will go into effect to determine who can carry concealed firearms on city properties.

Before Council adopted the new policy, West Virginia state law allowed concealed carry with a permit on city property.

The addition of this law will limit who can conceal carry in these areas.

With the legislation, only active and retired law enforcement officials will be able to carry a firearm inside municipal property. Registered permit holders can carry firearms on city property—but not inside buildings.

Municipal properties af-

fected by this law include sidewalks, streets, federal buildings or any other buildings Morgantown controls.

The Morgantown City Council approved the law 4-3, after a public hearing that left some citizens angry.

“Police are first responders, which means they respond after the fact that something has happened,” said Bill Ray, a Morgantown resident. “I ask you to vote no, do not strip the public of their right to defend themselves. I don’t think a sticker outside a building that says ‘no guns allowed’ will stop a criminal from going in and doing something.”

Carol Wilson, Morgantown resident, was just one resident that spoke during the public hearing, approving the bill to

remove concealed guns from city property.

“The way I see it is that we are a community,” Wilson said.

“We have agreed to work with each other. We have law officials that can handle these circumstances; public buildings are better protected by professionals.”

Councilwoman Jennifer Selin said some of these city properties should be known that a concealed firearm is not allowed.

“An example is the airport.

It is municipally run and there is not an expectation of a firearm because you are going on an airplane,” Selin said. “We are protecting our buildings, our democracy and our ability to have professional security dealing with these issues.”

Following the approval of modifying the law on firearms on city property, City Council approved 53 paving projects to start in 2017.

These 53 projects will span over 10.3 miles of road throughout Morgantown, and cost an estimated $2.2 million.

Damien Davis, Morgantown

city engineer for the projects, said the paving will hopefully be done by late August to early September.

“A 10-year paving list will be put together. A maintenance list as well, once the roads are paved we will look at them in a few years to adjust any problems that need fixed,” Davis

said.

The 10-year paving list consists of 100 miles of road throughout Morgantown. Davis said the 2017 plans will start in early April.

The Morgantown City Council will meet again at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7 in City Hall Chambers on Spruce Street.

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4 | OPINION

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017

OPINION

Milo Yiannopoulos’ latest public Fake news is old news controversy in line with his others GUEST EDITORIAL

BY BRANDON RIDGELY

BY DR. ELIZABETH COHEN

On Dec. 1st Milo Yiannopoulos spoke at WVU on invitation from the University’s College Republicans. Yiannopoulos brought new controversies to the campus targeting professor Daniel Brewster and displaying Brewster’s face next to the words “Fat F*ggot.”

Over the last few days, Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News, lost a book deal and was uninvited from CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) amid controversy over comments he made regarding pedophilia.

These comments surfaced from a “Drunken Peasants” podcast posted Jan. 4, 2016.

Yiannopoulos is no stranger to controversy, and certainly no stranger to tackling tough topics. But the self-defined provocateur made comments even he now regrets.

Yiannopoulos called the idea of consent “arbitrary” and “oppressive.” He critiqued the idea of consent as being incongruent with how messy and complex humans are. He described some relationships between younger boys and older men as “sort of coming of age relationships.”

Yiannopoulos explained that he is certainly not defending pedophilia, clarifying that he believes some people just misunderstand “what pedophilia means.”

“Pedophilia is not a sex-

The real truth is, fake news is old news. From grocery store tabloids to The Onion to hoax stories about Betty White kicking the bucket (she’s still safe!), to urban legends that your nutty family members spam your e-mail with. Even founding father John Adams attempted to influence public opinion by publishing fabricated news stories.

But if fake news is nothing new, why should we worry about it now? This is what we’ll tackle in the “Truth and Consequences: Fake News, Filter Bubbles and Democracy” panel in the Mountainlair tonight at 7:00.

Personally, I believe the fake news hysteria is rooted in a broader concern about how we process information. A majority of Americans report getting news from places like Facebook and Twitter, which means that they are getting a near-constant stream of information. Who really has time to read all that? That’s why, to navigate this steady flow of news, we have to take mental shortcuts to help. Even if we don’t have time to read the full article or watch the entire video, we can get a lot of information and make quick judgments from glancing at the headline or just looking at that crazy photo of Vladimir Putin riding a bear to get the gist.

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Former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos holds a sign opposing him during his visit to WVU on Dec. 1, 2016. ual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty.”

But a child is not defined by puberty, and is rather defined by being below “the legal age of majority.” This is much greater than 13 years old.

Yiannopoulos said he doesn’t think every relationship between a 13 and 28 year old is okay, but only because he doesn’t know the specific circumstances of each case.

Yiannopoulos said these relationships “can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys.”

Of all the things Yiannopoulos has said and done, it seems that the topic of pedophilia was the breaking point. Per-

haps because it finally felt like something Yiannopoulos was entirely genuine about, something that’s rare amidst his performative outrage.

Yiannopoulos has been very open about his history, where relationships with older men at a young age made major impacts on his life.

At 17 Yiannopoulos was involved with a 29 year old man, something he says lasted over ten years. He also was open about being sexually abused as a child between the ages of 13 and 16. In Yiannopoulos’s apology regarding the comments he made, he states, “to be a victim of child abuse and at the same time being accused of being an apologist for child abuse is absurd.”

But Yiannopoulos saying

things in conflict with his identity is precisely one of the most notable things about his character. He is, after all, an openly gay man who toured the country under the name “The Dangerous F*ggot.” Despite being homosexual, Yiannopoulos has also argued that lesbians “don’t exist.”

It is clear Yiannopoulos’s comments were incredibly out of line, and his history as a victim of abuse has likely accounted for some of his views on the subject. But Yiannopoulos’s unfiltered attacks on many other groups of people make it incredibly hard to sympathize.

On a campus where Yiannopoulos openly targeted one of our own with a slur, forgive us if we don’t invite him back to tell the story.

Admit it, you do it all the time. The problem is, the headline could be misleading.

That picture could be photoshopped. The article that you didn’t read, might not even be accurate. That impression that you formed of the story probably isn’t 100 percent fair.

To make matters worse, news organizations (all of them, but especially the ones in the business of cranking out actual fake news) don’t want you to just skim their article, they want you to click on it and maybe share it! They get money for every click. For this reason, they bait us with sensational headlines and weird photos that will stand out, appeal to our emotions, confirm our existing beliefs and make us want to click to read more. Sadly, human memory is tragically flawed and we tend to remember misinformation better when it’s packed in these entertaining but often misleading “clickbait” trappings.

A lot of people think that the way to solve misinformation boils down to getting rid of it. I think that’s impossible and it doesn’t address a larger problem. Even with all of our flaws as news consumers, evidence suggests that when people are educated about the shortcuts they use to process news, they become better at weeding out misinformation. Fake news has and will always be with us. What we need is more media education to help us deal with it.

So come to our panel and register to take my media classes!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017

DA EATS | 5

The DA Eats

Fresh and clean: The DA Eats reviews Panera Bread’s additive-free menu THE DA EATS TEAM: ABBY HUMPHREYS, BRADY SMEARMAN, KODY GOFF, DREW MOSSOR AND ISABELLA TENNANT Panera Bread declared it was ending its use of additives and preservatives in 2014, and by the 2016 holiday season, it unveiled its preservative-free menu to the public. All ingredients are now delivered fresh each day, according to Courtney Ickes, the assistant manager at Panera’s Willey Street location, and the restaurant chain’s focus is entirely on delivering the freshest, cleanest food to customers.

The DA Eats team was invited to try Panera’s revamped menu and review several items that have undergone the preservative-free treatment: the Chipotle Chicken Avocado Melt, the Southwest Chicken Tortilla Bowl, the Kitchen Sink cookie, and coconut macaroons. Here’s what we thought of the food: The Kitchen Sink cookie contains everything but the kitchen sink—including chocolate chips, pretzel pieces, caramel and sea salt on top.

Drew: “It’s weird in a good way.”

Abby: “It’s the best of a toffee and a chocolate chip cookie in one.”

Brady: “Just the right amount

of crunch.”

Kody: “I can’t tell what’s in it, but it’s great.”

Isabella: “It’s crisp at the edges, which I like.”

The Chipotle Chicken Avocado Melt is made with Gouda cheese, smoked chicken, chipotle mayonnaise and peppadew peppers on focaccia bread.

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Abby: “I’d order it from now on.”

Drew: “I like the sauce on it, and I could definitely eat it again.”

Brady: “It’s toasted well, and everything is warm. The avocado adds smoothness.”

Kody: “It’s everything a sandwich should b. Everything inside blends together well and isn’t too much.”

Isabella: “The avocado did not have a strong flavor, which I enjoyed.”

The Southwest Tortilla Bowl contains, corn, chickens, onions, and other vegetables and boasts a topping of corn chips in a tomato-based broth.

Kody: “It seemed like someone took all of the leftovers of a Mexican dinner, threw it into a bowl and said, ‘Hey, that’s pretty good.’ I really like the broth.”

Drew: “I didn’t like it, but I am also not too fond of soup to begin with.”

Brady: “It has a super mild spice, which I enjoyed.”

Isabella: “I’m particular about what Mexican food I eat, so this wasn’t what I thought it

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The Southwest Tortilla Bowl contains a variety of ingredients to produce a mild spice—but tasty—meal. would be.”

Abby: “It was tasty, but I probably wouldn’t order it for myself as a meal.”

The macaroons were made with heaps of coconut and were dipped in milk chocolate.

Drew: “I’m not a fan of coconut, but I really like this.”

Kody: “It’s like the Girl Scout Samoa cookie, but better.”

Isabella: “I don’t like coconut, so this wasn’t the dessert for me.”

Brady: “I’m not generally into coconut, but this was a good little snack. The chocolate helped.”

Abby: “I liked the flavor.”

Overall, we had a positive experience of the meal and look forward to seeing how Panera Bread fares with its new menu this year.

“Even though the food didn’t have preservatives, it still had a good taste,” Isabella said. The healthier aspect didn’t affect how much I enjoyed the food.”

Did you know Panera Bread donates all leftover breads and pastries to local organizations? Visit TheDAEats.Wordpress.com for more information, including more photos and interviews from the review.

6 | CULTURE

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY. 22, 2017

CULTURE

IHOP butters up local 5-year-old, puts Cinn-a-stack Pancakes back on the menu

BY ERIN DRUMMOND CULTURE EDITOR

Five-year-old Leah DeBarr had her heart broken when she discovered her favorite food was removed from IHOP’s menu.

Cinn-a-stack Pancakes, or “cinnamon,” as she calls them, were a temporarily featured item on the menu and later discontinued.

Leah’s mother, Erin DeBarr, used Facebook to show her daughter’s disappointment by attaching a photo of Leah in tears after the discovery.

Back in November, when the Cinn-a-stack Pancakes were taken off the menu, Erin sent a Facebook message to IHOP’s corporate Facebook page. The message included the photo of Leah crying, and a note asking for the corporation to reconsider the removal of her daughter’s favorite menu item.

“When they first came on the menu, (Leah) pretty much asked any time we’ve come out to eat to come to IHOP,” said Brian DeBarr, Leah’s father. “Since they left, she still asked about three times a week ‘can we get them back’ or ‘what can we do.’”

Leah’s love for IHOP has led to many surprises, including a trip to Disney World planned by her parents.

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With the help of a chef from IHOP, Leah DeBarr makes the batter during her surprise pancake dinner.

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LEFT: Leah high-fives the IHOP chef after making a stack of pancakes.

RIGHT: Leah shows off her IHOP-shaped pancakes before eating.

“We actually surprised her here with our Disney trip a year and a half ago,” Erin said. “Cinderella left her a bag with our waitress who brought it out to us to tell her she was going to Disney World.

We’re here often for spe-

cial occasions.”

Once IHOP saw the picture of Leah crying, corporate decided to do something special for their biggest fan.

“There was a photo of Leah crying and that really kind of started this where

we said we have to do something for her; she’s such a tremendous fan,” said Stephanie Peterson, the executive director of communications for IHOP. On Tuesday, Feb. 21, Morgantown’s very own IHOP, located on Venture

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Road, hosted a surprise pancake party for Leah.

Six of her friends as well as her grandparents gathered in the restaurant to surprise Leah, where she was able to cook her own pancakes.

However, another surprise was in store for little Leah.

As the group of friends sat down to eat, Leah was presented with a stack of Cinn-a-stack Pancakes, which is now known as Leah’s Legendary Cinn-astack Pancakes.

The special return of the item will only be at

the Morgantown location, and only for the next six weeks, all in Leah’s honor, Petereson said.

“We weren’t really expecting it,” said Brain DeBarr, Leah’s father. “You kind of expect the generic response so it was out of the blue. You see these things and you don’t ever expect them to be your kid or just to happen to you.

We were just shocked, it’s above and beyond.”

When asked what she hopes for with these pancakes, Leah’s response was “that they’ll stay on the menu!”

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017

PROFESSOR PROFILE | 7

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Dancing With Our Mountaineer Stars

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Eric Minor never wants a student to feel like looking for a job is impossible. Having worked in the journalism field, he knows just how competitive the market can be.

Managing Editor Jennifer Gardner spoke to Minor about how he helps students look for internships and jobs and the challenges he faces.

Q. What are some of the most common problems you see students run into when they are looking for an internship or a job?

A. Just being too passive about it and waiting for it to come to them. What I’m trying to teach is some search strategy on top of it all. It’s that whole “teach a person to fish, and they’ll eat for a lifetime.” Truly, the first step is just putting in the title of internship you’re looking for and the market you’re looking to work in. Now, that’s not the last step, because there’s a lot of stuff out there that is confusing and a lot of stuff that is fraudulent, so that’s why I’m here to help you kind of weed stuff out. But there’s a lot out there that you can find on your own.

Q. Do you get many students who are intimidated?

A. Well, of course, and I totally understand that.

The goal is to get them to not be so intimidated that they don’t try. There’s lots of reasons to take it very seriously and to be cautious in it, but there’s no reason to be afraid when people are advertising for a position. They are looking to solve a problem and so as long as you’re offering them a solution to their problem, you’re not bothering them or putting yourself in a position to be yelled at. The very worst they’ll do is not hire you, which is disappointing, but not catastrophic.

NOW HIRING

Q. How do you help students who might feel “stuck” or unsure of where to start looking?

A. I give them something they can take action on, not just say “hey, it’s going to be okay,” but “it’s going to be okay, and will be even better if

BY ERIN DRUMMOND CULTURE EDITOR

Meet the contestants of before Saturday’s competition kicks off in the Mountainlair Ballrooms

Sabrina Ridenour & Tanner Filben

Two engineering students, Sabrina Ridenour and Tanner Filben, come together this weekend to dance their night away in the competition.

Ridenour, a senior mechanical engineering student of Frostburg, MD, has a minor in vocal performance along

with a small background in theater from elementary and high school. At WVU, she’s involved in the American Association of University Women, WVU Chamber Singers, Society of Women Engineers, Honors College, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mortar Board and the Gold and Blue Student Ambassadors.

“I don’t consider myself a dancer,”Ridenour said. “Tanner and I are both engineers, so we are both out of our comfort zones here.”

Dan Gibson, the president, assistant coach and 2015 national champion at 165 lbs of the WVU Club Boxing Team,

will try his talents elsewhere as he pairs with Whitney Godwin for the upcoming competition.

Godwin, 27 of Flatwoods, WV was the former WVU Feature Twirler with the Pride of West Virginia.

“I’ve been doing ballet and lyrical (dance) since age 5,” Godwin said. “But I’ve only been ballroom dancing for a couple of months now.”

Eric Minor Director of Student Careers and Opportunities you do this thing.” So “actionable inspiration” is my mantra. If I’m sitting here at a loss for what to tell a student, that is directly above (their) head (on a bumper sticker) to remind me that’s what I need to work on first, something that gets you over the fear.

Q. Is it difficult to help students who come to you at the last minute?

A. It’s really hard, it’s really, really, really hard.

The thing that I don’t want to do is say “you’re behind,” but the fact is that they are are.

Students who wait until the very last minute to either explore and find out that they don’t like their career, or think about how to use the skills they have to earn a paycheck make it hard, and it’s a big part of why I have put so much into talking to our incoming freshman.

Q. What challenges do you see our current graduates facing when it comes to setting themselves apart in the application pool?

A. I always feel like all of us can make more stuff. I think the curriculum is fabulous for helping you start to establish your portfolio but you have to realize that everybody in that class has had that same opporunity to work on that same project. Those are phenomenal experiences and they have led to jobs, but having more is always going to help. Our students can and should be doing as much as they can do without making themselves physically ill or causing their academics to suffer. I just think everybody needs to be making more “stuff.”

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Luckily, Gibson is able to help in that area seeing as he has more practice in ballroom dancing.

“I’ve been dancing for fun for about three years now,” Gibson said. “Whitney, my partner, has been great to work with. She’s a fast learner and is on top of everything.

We wouldn’t be where we are without her organization.”

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Filben agreed with Ridneour.

“Both of us basically have no idea what we’re doing when it comes to dancing,” Filben, a biomedical engineering student of Glen Dale, WV, added. “So going through the rehearsal process together has been pretty funny.”

Filben is known as the Director of Operations for the Mountaineer Maniacs, as well as for his involvement in the Biomedical Engineering Society and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary.

Amber Kaska and Nicholas Mireles are excited to entertain the crowd during their performance on Saturday.

Kaska, a 21-year-old economics student from Pitts-

burgh, has been dancing since she was three. She is a member of the honors student association Alpha Lambda Delta and social sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Mireles, 21 of Fredericksburg, VA, is a computer engineering student, and this is his first time officially dancing.

He is involved in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Culturas, robot-

ics team and Amateur Radio Club “My only previous experience has been dancing for fun and attending a few salsa and swing lessons,” Mireles said. “Working with Amber is great, she definitely knows what she’s doing and can pick up the slack.”

Kaska encouraged the audience to look forward to their costumes, which will be “lit.”

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SPORTS | 9

SPORTS

WVU’s “Zen Master”: Elijah Macon

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS EDITOR

MEN’S BASKETBALL The first years of Elijah Macon’s Mountaineer career didn’t go as expected.

He was a highly sought-after recruit, rated as the nation’s No. 45 overall recruit by ESPN in the class of 2012 while starring at Huntington Prep before playing one season of prep basketball at Brewster Academy.

But his first two years didn’t go as planned, with Macon dealing with inconsistency on the court and the loss of his mother.

Now, the junior forward is providing spectators what they envisioned when he first arrived on campus.

In Saturday’s game against Texas Tech, Macon posted the best outing of his career, recording his second double-double to the tune of 17 points and 12 rebounds.

“I think that’s the Elijah Macon everybody thought we got when we recruited him,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins.

“He was a very heavily recruited guy. His attitude has been so much better.”

Macon credited his performance to talking to family, prayer and his newfound enjoyment of zen music. It’s a style people listen to before bed, to relax and to meditate. However, Macon used it in a different capacity.

Of course, he uses it for relaxation. Except the calm, soothing sounds were aired during his pregame playlist.

And it didn’t affect his energy on the court.

“I had crazy energy…I don’t know where it came from,” Macon said. “I felt dead in shootaround and everything and it just came out of nowhere.”

Simply put, he’s West Virginia’s “Zen Master.”

It’s a moniker former NBA

Hall of Fame head coach Phil Jackson carries, meditating everyday and earning the nickname during his career when he coached the Bulls and Lakers to a combined 11 titles.

“I actually heard about him doing that and listening to the same music,” Macon said. “I thought I was the only one that did it.”

Macon became interested in zen music during a trip to Beijing two summers ago. He’s always been drawn to the culture, dating back to his childhood memories spent with his father.

“I grew up watching Bruce Lee, the whole nine yards,” Macon said. “It’s all about Chinese culture.”

None of his teammates are into the same music as Macon, but due to its unique style, that’s expected. They rally around him, highlighted during the wild affair against Texas Tech.

Before winning the tipoff, which led to six straight Moun-

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WVU’s Elijah Macon surveys the crowd during the Mountaineers 77-62 victory over Texas on Feb. 20, 2017. taineer points to begin the second overtime, Macon delivered a message to his counterparts.

They weren’t going to let the same spells doom them again.

They were going to win it.

“I kept telling everybody ‘we can do this, we can do this,’” Macon said. “I feel like everybody was motivated to go out there

and get the stops and do what we were supposed to do.”

With his performance Saturday and his recent surge—scoring in double figures the past two games while finding more success from the free throw line—Macon is heading a frontcourt many expected to take a step backward during the first

year without Devin Williams.

Now, with an improved mindset, WVU’s “Zen Master” is developing into the player everyone thought he would be.

“He’s become extremely coachable,” Huggins said. “He’s kind of bought in more to try to understand, not just play basketball, but understand basketball.”

Cottrell named Big 12 Co-Wrestler of the Week

BY PATRICK KOTNIK SPORTS WRITER

WRESTLING WVU senior and No. 11/19 Dylan Cottrell can add yet another achievement to his already impressive resume.

Cottrell was named Big 12 Co-Wrestler of the week for the second time this season and the third time in his twoyear career with WVU in an

announcement by the league office on Monday.

This honor comes after Cottrell finished off his dual match career by going 2-0 this past weekend with a 9-3 decision over No. 9/12 Austin Matthews of Edinboro and a 5-1 victory over Clarion’s Evan DeLong at 165 pounds.

“I’m so proud of our men,” said WVU head coach Sammie Henson in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Espe-

cially (Cottrell), who battled through some adversity this year and is still performing at such a high level.”

Through the course of this season, Cottrell has battled a minor injury that sidelined him for six weeks.

The Spencer, WV native returned to the mat for WVU’s dual matches against Cal Poly and CSU Bakersfield on the road and split a pair of matches, going 1-1.

Cottrell missed back-toback dual matches against North Carolina State and South Dakota State toward the end of the regular season due to injury, but then returned for WVU’s matchup against Iowa State and has been active ever since.

He played a vital role against Cyclones, pinning Logan Breitenbach as the Mountaineers earned its first ever Big 12 win.

Despite his absence from this season, Cottrell has remained ranked in the top 20 at 165 pounds and was ranked as high as fifth according to The Open Mat. The senior also ended his final regular season on a sixmatch win streak. He is second on the team with 15 victories and leads WVU in bonus-point victories with six.

With the Big 12 champion-

ships a week and a half away, Cottrell will look to cap off his college wrestling career on top as he looks to build off last season’s postseason run that included a third-place finish at the Big 12 Tournament at 157 pounds and a 3-2 record at the NCAA tournament, advancing to the blood round.

“We look for big things in the remainder of the season from this homegrown young man,” Henson said.

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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Mountaineers rally, beat in-state rival CLASSIFIEDS

BY MATT GOLD SPORTS WRITER

TENNIS West Virginia tennis had to fight back in its match to get past Marshall, rallying in the last two matches to come away with the win.

In doubles, WVU was able to sweep all three matches.

The teams of Kaja Mrgole/ Christiana Jordan, Habiba Shaker/Sofia Duran and Paula Goetz/Lyn Yuen Choo all won, with the scores 6-6 (2-5, unfinished), 7-5, 6-3, respectively.

“It was very important for us to do better in doubles, not necessarily in terms of the game, but to close out dou-

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Habiba Shakur returns a serve during WVU’s doubles match against Marshall. bles point,” said WVU head coach Miha Lisac. “It was important for us to play ahead and we were able to accomplish that in both matches this weekend.”

In singles, West Virginia took the point in the first match, but Marshall stormed back and took the next three points to go ahead 3-2. Habiba Shaker beat Derya Turhan

7-5, 6-2. Mrgole, Goetz and Jordan all fought hard, but their matches ended in defeat.

The next two matches proved to be critical for West Virginia to get the win. Lyn Yuen Choo and Sofia Duran played great matches to lock it up as Choo won 6-0, 6-2 and Duran won 6-4, 6-2.

This victory pushed WVU’s record to 4-5. With Indiana serving as the only non-conference opponent remaining before Big 12 play starts, it is important to keep this momentum going into conference play.

“Sofia (Duran) and Lyn Yuen (Choo) came through for us in a big way today,” Lisac said. “It was very good to see Habiba (Shaker) bounce back from yesterday.”

Undersized freshman brings versatility to WVU

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS EDITOR

FOOTBALL Tevin Bush is smaller in stature than many high-profiled recruits, but his abilities on the gridiron give Mountaineer coaches reason to be excited.

Standing at 5-foot-6 and 170 pounds, Bush isn’t the usual size for an athlete making his way to the Division 1 landscape. Head coach Dana Holgorsen joked about his height at Wednesday’s press conference, but he and the coaching staff are excited to let the youngster loose on the football field.

They’ve seen what he can do on the field, shining at running back, receiver and on special teams—part of the reason he was recruited by WVU. “A 1,000-yard receiver, a 1,000- yard rusher, right Ryan

(Dorchester)?” Holgorsen said.

“Probably have something at running back, and receiver.

He’s kind of fun to watch.”

Bush—hailing from LandryWalker High School in New Orleans—was always overlooked because of his size. Although he received seven offers in addition to the one from WVU, with five of those coming from power-five programs, the Bayou phenom was passed on by many schools.

The top program in his home state—LSU—never sent an offer his way. Louisiana-Lafayette and Tulane were the only schools in Louisiana to present a scholarship to the in-state star.

“Everybody gets caught up in stature,” said former WVU running backs coach JaJuan Seider, who was the primary recruiter for Bush. “We’ve won a lot of games with guys like him, too.”

Seider is referring to Jock Sanders and Tavon Austin, a duo that contributed in a multitude of ways offensively and presented a similar frame as Bush. Neither one was a physical specimen, but both were key pieces for WVU in the past decade.

Sanders was listed as the same height as Bush, but contributed in a number of ways offensively while also helping the Mountaineers to a 38-14 record during his four years. The 5-foot-9 Austin would shine every Saturday while donning the blue and gold, featuring the 572-yard Oklahoma performance in 2012 while becoming a two-time All-American.

“He reminds me a lot of Jock Sanders and Tavon (Austin) or somewhere in between because he can do a lot of the same stuff they can do,” Seider said.

Austin and Sanders would go on to show size didn’t matter; Austin was a first round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft and recently signed a four-year contract with the Los Angeles Rams last offseason, while Sanders saw a brief stint in the NFL before playing a few years in Canada.

Those players earned their share of success, and the WVU coaching staff believes it can achieve similar feats with Bush.

As a senior, he tallied more than 2,500 all-purpose yards and 29 touchdowns, guiding LandryWalker to a 13-2 record and an appearance in the state championship.

The first tackler rarely takes him down, displaying a unique toughness for a player his size.

“The kid knows how to compete. He’s tough,” Seider said.

“You know where he comes from and he loves football.”

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The Daily Athenaeum, WVU’s award-winning student media, is hiring for two reporting internships this summer.

Interns will report for thedaonline.com, covering news and features about the University and Morgantown. Internship hours are Monday through Friday for 8 weeks (June 5 to July 28) and include a $250 weekly stipend. All majors are welcome to apply, applicants need reporting and social media experience and will recieve training.

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