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Landlord Giuliani plans to sue city by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

James Giuliani, the local landlord mogul that many West Virginia University students rent from, is mad at the city of Morgantown.

So mad, that he’s suing—again.

During city council’s regular meeting Tuesday night, he stood up and chided the council for not considering his request to be a member of a commission.

“What happened here was not transparent…” Giuliani said. “The city manager did not take my appli-

YouTube star Laci Green to talk at Ming Hsieh

cation,” even though the city clerk, Linda Tucker, told him that she gave it to him.

For weeks, Giuliani—a regular and often outspoken attendee of city council meetings—has asked to be considered for the planning commission. Since he’s one of the few members of the public who regularly attends the meetings, he wondered who would be better prepared to sit on the commission.

He said he found out that the vacant seat on the commission was filled only when he showed up for the meeting and saw an unfamiliar face.

“I had a discussion with Mr. Giuliani and also talked with City Manager and I asked City Manager to look further into that because the language is not consistent with state code,” said Councilman Ron Bane. “If there has been a mistake made, we need to correct it.”

The Daily Athenaeum could not obtain a copy of Giuliani’s suit against the city in time for this publication.

Also Tuesday night, city council checked in on the city’s struggling trash collection, which, as of late, has come under increased scrutiny.

Steven Deveny, a general manager of Republic Services, was called in last year to whip the local division in shape and increase accountability. Dozens of city residents made calls to members of city council to complain their trash wasn’t being picked up.

He told the city that he has “never failed,” and that he’d fix the problems.

Deveney moved on to a regional office in Wheeling and doesn’t have direct control over the local dayto-day operations. Council members praised John Connerton, the new division manager, for a modi-

cum of improvement.

In addition to previous efforts to improve its service, Connerton said that many trucks now carry an extra person to audit truck drivers and make sure they’re following the proper route and everyone who is paying for service is receiving it.

“Going forward, we are working on that,” Connerton said. “The company did put in place an automatic call system, but that only works if we have accurate phone numbers.”

Acquiring the numbers will take some time, but the most pressing issue on Connerton’s plate looms ahead.

CHANGING THE FUTURE Women’s and Gender Studies students present semester projects at biannual fair

It’s the day when thousands of students prepare to leave their temporary Morgantown homes and create towering piles of trash.

Connerton said Republic, the police department, fire department and other local government agencies have a plan to better prevent dumpster fires and overflows of trash this year when West Virginia University housing officially closes on May 7.

City Council will meet again at 7 p.m. on April 26 in City Hall for its committee meeting of the whole. jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

Farming program provides rehabilitation opportunities to ex-inmates

by rachel mcbride

by john mark shaver

Sexual Assault Awareness Month focuses on the building blocks of sexual assault prevention. West Virginia University is continuing its support of SAAM through the “It’s On Us” campaign by hosting YouTube sensation and sexual assault prevention and awareness advocate Laci Green.

Green’s YouTube channel, Sex Plus, aims to entertain, educate and connect internationally with viewers by promoting a comprehensive model of sex education and feminist framework through the use of technology. Green commonly challenges subjects including body image, sexuality, gender, relationships, feminism and sex education through her channel.

The sex education activist lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Green originally launched her YouTube channel while studying at University of California, Berkeley. According to her website, Green started the project in response to what she believes to be “a nationwide failure to provide comprehensive sex education and to adopt healthy, realistic attitudes about sexuality.”

According to the website, Sex Plus now has more than 1,000,000 subscribers and viewers in all 196 countries.

The project is made up of a biweekly video series, daily blogging, a robust university lecture circuit and community activism. This makes her one of the most popular sexual violence prevention advocates and sex educators accessed online.

As of late 2015, Green has worked with more than 100 universities, conferences, military groups and government

Thanks to the Kanawha Institute of Social Research and Action, proficient local farming and employment in West Virginia may be on the rise.

KISRA’s main goals are to promote social change and familial growth through “social enterprises,” businesses which use the power of the marketplace to make a positive impact on the social environment.

Two of its members came to West Virginia University last night to explain the organization’s farming program, Paradise Farms.

“Paradise Farms is one of our huge social enterprises,” said KISRA farm supervisor Ture Johnson. “We had to find a way to neutralize the background of individuals that we were working with, which happens to be those with an incarceration on their record.”

Paradise Farms currently employs six ex-inmates, ranging from custodians to farmers to supervisors.

“When you have a salad, you really don’t care who grows (its ingredients), right?” said KISRA COO Carl Chadband. “You just want to know if it tastes good. We’ve effectively neutralized someone’s criminal background by essentially being the front for them…KISRA has this business that is working with these individuals who can’t do it on their own.”

Chadband and Johnson explained in their presentation that social enterprises are the result of blending social justice, economic development, fiscal responsibility and public safety.

Paradise Farms’ goal is two-fold. Not only does it help create jobs for ex-convicts, but

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Ebony Matthews speaks about gender equality at the Women’s and Gender Studies Fair held in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

by amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The Mountainlair Ballrooms were full Tuesday with 300 students presenting their semester projects at the biannual Women’s and Gender Studies Fair.

The women’s and gender studies fair is held each semester to showcase projects students spend much of the semester working on. Topics ranged from the 2016 presidential election candidates to the problems with maternity and paternity leave in the United States to sexual violence on campus.

“The work that (the students) have put in is outstanding. The passion that comes through their work is phenomenal,” said Nina Riivald, instructor for the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. “Most of the presentations are pre-

senting a problem, a question, and trying to propose answers to whatever issues there are.”

The fair offers an opportunity for WVU students and community members to learn more about women’s and gender studies and experience the community in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.

“Community is a big component of the Women’s and Gender Studies department. (At the fair) you have different classes interacting with each other and building a community. You have outside community agencies coming in and interacting with students and other community agencies,” Riivald said. “For me, it’s community and learning a little bit more about how we can take that information into the community and advocate for social justice.”

Hunter Robinson, a

sophomore exercise physiology student, and his group examined Appalachian stereotypes in horror movies. “These negative stereotypes are not usually true,” Robinson said.

Robinson and his group used the film “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil” to illustrate this. It is a comedy horror film that overplays stereotypes to show how ridiculous they are. Robinson’s group is from West Virginia.

“We’ve lived through the Appalachian stereotypes. You just see it everywhere in the media,” Robinson said. “We wanted to address that these stereotypes aren’t true: That hillbillies are just really dumb and they’re inbred; that people from Appalachia are illiterate and just like to drink beer and hunt and sometimes kill people and eat them. Just ridiculous stereotypes.”

Jennifer Kreger, a soph-

omore forensic science student, and her group researched rape culture for their project. They examined myths and stigmas about sexual assault and how sexual violence can affect all genders.

For example, one myth is that the majority of all rapes or sexual assaults are reported to the police, when in reality, up to 90 percent are not reported.

“I actually have past experience with this, so I’m interested in people being more knowledgeable and having more information about this topic,” Kreger said.

Kayla Wimmer, a senior multidisciplinary studies student, and her group watched the movie “8mm” about a woman whose husband dies. While going through his belongings, she finds a pornographic film

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Freshmen celebrate the end of the year at “Sophomore Celebration” event by james mason staff writer @news_with_jamie

Whether it be not gaining the ‘freshman 15’ or getting a 4.0, West Virginia University freshmen came together to celebrate Tuesday evening.

The “Sophomore Celebration” was held in the Evansdale Blue and Gold rooms. Hundreds of students gathered for free food, giveaways, chances to win prizes and much more as a celebration of a successful freshman year. This event was co-sponsored by WVU’s Office of Housing and Residence Life and the Division of Student Life.

“This is the time to celebrate the end of their year, it’s a success situation where

we want to show how important it is to be successful,” said Trish Cendana, the Director of Residence Life.

“Part of the residence hall experience is helping them transition from freshman to sophomore and it’s an opportunity to showcase that celebration.”

This event was a huge success, according to Cendana. Within the first 20 minutes of this celebration, more than 300 students had walked through the door.

This is the sixth year of this celebration and the festivities continue to grow.

“I think this program every single year has brought in a lot of students,” said Heidi Muller, a Residence Hall Coordinator. “We also bring in more and more different vendors each year to

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give out some free ‘swag’ to our students.”

Faculty and staff quickly had to get extra tables for the students because the floors were slowly filling up with students sitting down eating their meals.

The dining services from the Evansdale Towers moved into the Blue and Gold rooms for the night, but offered much more than an average meal at a dining hall. Cotton candy, popcorn, snow cones and free desserts were available along with a BBQ-style meal.

“I just came here to eat dinner,” joked Andy Sorah, a freshman exercise physiology student. “I’d say it was better than the dining hall.”

Along with all of the food options, local businesses

and organizations from the University came out to support the celebration.

A few WVU organizations that made an appearance and gave out free items and advice for the sophomore year include Student Engagement and Leadership, Academic Resources Center, Well WVU, University Police Department and the Student Insurance Office. Some of the off-campus groups that came out include Mon Hills Records, Qdoba, Sheetz and PNC. Jake Boice, a medical laboratory science student was particularly pleased with the outcome from the University and the community.

“I think it’s important that the University shows that they appreciate the students as much as we appre-

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Qdoba provides students with a chance to win prizes at the Sophomore Celebration held in Towers. ciate the University,” Boice some things.” said. “The University Police The University begins Department had a bunch the planning for this event of pamphlets about differ- at the beginning of the acaent things, things to look demic school year because out for, an app to keep you see freshman on PAGE 2 safe…I definitely learned

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Court overturns Virginia school’s transgender bathroom rule RICHMOND, Va. (AP)—A Virginia high school discriminated against a transgender teen by forbidding him from using the boys’ restroom, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have implications for a North Carolina law that critics say discriminates against LGBT people.

The case of Gavin Grimm has been especially closely watched since North Carolina enacted a law last month that bans transgender people from using public restrooms that correspond to their gender identity. That law also bans cities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances, a response to an ordinance recently passed in Charlotte.

In the Virginia case, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - which also covers North Carolina ruled 2-1 to overturn the Gloucester County School Board’s policy. The court said the policy violated Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination in schools. The ruling also said a federal judge who previously rejected Grimm’s discrimination claim ignored a U.S. Department of Education rule that transgender students in public schools must be allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.

“We agree that it has indeed been commonplace and widely accepted to separate public restrooms, locker rooms, and shower facilities on the basis of sex,” the court wrote in its opinion. “It is not apparent to us, however, that the truth of these propositions undermines the conclusion we reach regarding the level of deference due to the department’s interpretation of its own regulations.”

Maxine Eichner, a University of North Carolina law professor who is an expert on sexual orientation and the law, said the ruling - the first of its kind by a federal appeals court - means the provision of North Carolina’s law pertaining to restroom use by

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This Tuesday Aug. 25, 2015 file photo shows Gavin Grimm on his front porch during an interview at his home in Gloucester, Va. A U.S. appeals court has overturned a policy barring a transgender student from using the boys’ restrooms at his Virginia high school.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, April 19, 2016 that the Gloucester County School Board policy is discriminatory. A federal judge had earlier rejected Grimm’s sex discrimination claim. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) transgender students in Virginia and South Caro- the nation’s most con- restroom.

Grimm called the polschools that receive fed- lina. While those states are servative federal appeals eral funds also is invalid. directly affected by the ap- court, but a series of va- icy stigmatizing. School “The effects of this de- peals court’s ruling, Eich- cancies in the last few officials said the policy recision on North Carolina ner said the impact will be years has allowed Obama spects the privacy of all are clear,” she said, adding broader. to reshape it. Including students. that a judge in that state “It is a long and well- the two senior judges, the The 1 6 - y e a r- o l d will have no choice but to considered opinion that court now has 10 judges Gloucester High School apply the appeals court’s sets out the issues,” she appointed by Democrats junior said he was “dead ruling. said. “It will be influential and seven by Republicans. to the world asleep” at North Carolina Re- in other circuits.”

The school board could noon, catching up afAppeals court Judge appeal the decision to the ter a couple of nights publican Gov. Pat McCrory, speaking to report- Paul V. Niemeyer, who full appeals court or the of insomnia, when the ers just after the decision was appointed to the ap- U.S. Supreme Court. Da- phone rang with what was made public, said he peals court by Republican vid Patrick Corrigan, attor- he called the best news strongly disagrees with President George H.W. ney for the school board, he can remember ever what he calls Democratic Bush, wrote in a dissent- did not immediately re- receiving.

President Barack Obama’s ing opinion that the major- spond to a telephone Because the school “objective to force our high ity’s opinion “completely message. board could appeal furschools to allow a boy in tramples on all univerGrimm was born female ther, it’s unclear whether a woman’s or girl’s locker sally accepted protections but identifies as male. He Grimm will be able to room facility.” He said high of privacy and safety that was allowed to use the use the boys’ room anyschools should be allowed are based on the anatom- boys’ restrooms at the time soon - but he said to make “appropriate ar- ical differences between school for several weeks he’s not worried about rangements for those stu- the sexes.” in 2014. But after some that. dents that have unique The majority opin- parents complained, the “Hopefully this is the circumstances.” ion was written by Judge school board adopted a beginning of the end of McCrory said the ruling Henry F. Floyd and joined policy requiring students the situation,” Grimm “puts a whole dynamic” on by Judge Andre M. Da- to use either the restroom said in a telephone interNorth Carolina’s law. vis, both Obama appoin- that corresponds with view. “I’m just going to Other states in the 4th tees. The Richmond-based their biological gender take things one day at a Circuit are Maryland, West court was long considered or a private, single-stall time.”

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of all the cooperation from the community this event involves.

Cendana said that most of the aspects of the celebration are inexpensive because students use meal swipes for the food, the Division of Student Life sponsors and provides many of the giveaways and the other organizations and groups provide their own items to offer to students.

Also making an appearance at the celebration was Corey Farris, the Dean of Students, who gave a brief message to the students about the importance of success how much they have already accomplished.

“Congratulations for making it through the 20152016 year,” Farris said. “I will say you have three more years to go, but three more years isn’t really that much time…three years ago you were in ninth grade!” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 offices on sexual health and sexual violence prevention efforts. She also works with MTV as the host of their first original YouTube channel, MTV Braless, in addition to producing videos for Planned Parenthood.

Mariana Matthews, Title IX education specialist and WVU peer advocate coordinator said WVU students should come to see Green speak because this event can be considered an open and inclusive space for all in attendance. It is an opportunity that sheds light on what healthy sexual relationships look like and how to define personal boundaries, according to Matthews.

“Because the University recognizes that we are living in a time where the defined “hook-up culture” is so prominent, we are taking steps toward making sure that our students really understand what consent is and how alcohol can have an effect on their decisions regarding sexual relationships,” Matthews said.

“Our event helps us start this conversation with some students and continue it with others.”

The talk will allow students to start an open conversation about rape culture, according to Breanna Kreutzer, an “It’s On Us” advocate.

“Talking about rape culture will not only allow students to find the resources available to them if needed, but will also provide understanding of consensual healthy relationships and stigmas around sexual assault,” Kreutzer said.

According to Matthews, this event is about much more than just safe sex, consent, alcohol usage and sexual assault prevention. Matthews said this event also addresses the importance of personal empowerment through the clear definition of one’s own personal boundaries. Matthews said that different individuals are comfortable with different levels of sexual interaction.

“Green does an excellent job of making sure that, regardless of what the societal norm is regarding sexual relationships, individuals maintain jurisdiction over their own bodies and should never feel pressured to do anything sexually that they are not comfortable with,” Matthews said.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. today in Ming Hsieh G-21.

This program is free and is open to the public. This program is sponsored by the WVU Title IX Office and the WVU Peer Advocate program and supported by the WVU Office of Multicultural Programs and Student Government Association.

For more information, email: Mariana.Matthews@mail.wvu.edu, or call 304-293-5600. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia University Dean of Students Corey Farris speaks at the annual Sophomore Celebration.

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THE BIOLOGY OF PURPOSE AND POSITIVITY Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D. Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adjunct Professor of Management, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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it also brings about economic and food growth to less-farmable areas of the state.

Paradise Farms, which is one of only eight farms in the state to be Good Agricultural Practices certified, currently uses two hydroponic greenhouses, in which plants are grown with the help of nutrients and water, without the use of soil.

The lack of soil eliminates the chance of local chemical runoff affecting the growing produce while allowing more crops to grow in one space.

Although Paradise Farms produces its fair share of fruits and vegetables, Chadband said that it hardly makes a dent in the state’s produce demand.

“The state of West Virginia has the opportunity to do $7 billion worth of agriculture every year,” Chadband said. “(The state) is only producing $600 million of that $7 billion.

Of that $600 million, $500 mil-

lion is in chicken production.”

KISRA is also experimenting with vertical farming, which further eliminates the need for plenty of acreage to efficiently farm.

Johnson said that, through vertical growing, they could produce more than 40 species of plants on a station the size of a magazine rack.

KISRA is looking to use vertical growing in West Charleston, where the organization hopes to start urban farming by renovating old warehouses, a method that’s becoming more and more popular in bigger cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.

Chadband and Johnson said that, with methods like vertical and urban farming, the state would rely less on other regions to supply its produce, create jobs for lowincome workers and ex-prisoners and supply the area with clean, healthy produce in one fell swoop.

To learn more about KISRA, visit http://kisra.org.

where the woman appears to die at the end of the film.

The wife is concerned and hires an investigator to find out whether the woman actually died. The wife and investigator discover the world of “snuff films,” pornography in which the female actresses are killed at the end of the film.

“It starts out with a girl that thinks she is doing porn and then she’s murdered at the end. People pay a lot of money for them,” Wimmer said. “In real life, they don’t know whether they’re real or not, but regardless people are still wanting to watch these things. We did our project on the intersection of pornography and horror and why it’s arousing to watch for some.”

The women’s and gender studies fair is a way for more people to get involved in the department. It is also a place for people to learn about the issues still facing women and minorities.

“There is a misconception, I believe, in large populations that feminism is dead, that equality has been achieved across the board, and I think it’s important to have these fairs to let people know there are still issues when it comes to gender, race, class, ethnicity and other forms of social identities,” Riivald said.

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Improving driverless car technology Though West Virginia has yet to see self-driving cars take the road in mass numbers, this doesn’t mean their influence isn’t already being felt in other parts of the country. What problems driverless cars will bring with them remains to be seen, but it’s highly unlikely driverless cars will ever truly mimic human driving and problem-solving behavior to the extent that all accidents can be avoided.

Google’s self-driving cars made headlines in February when one car out for a routine test-drive caused an accident for the first time. The Verge reported on the event on Feb. 29 by stating the car made contact with the side of a bus after pulling out in front of it, with the car’s programming likely assuming the bus would either slow down or stop long enough to let the car merge into the lane.

The article included excerpts from Google’s monthly self-driving report

about the incident, which stated the car was preparing to make a right turn and was in a relatively wide lane.

Most human drivers would hug the right side of the road in this instance so cars continuing straight could pass the turning car. However, in this case, the driverless car encountered a blockage on the right side of the road and was forced to re-enter the middle area of the lane, where the accident occurred.

This failure on Google’s part is relatively old news, but it illustrates several problems unique to driverless cars and other self-operating machinery that developers should consider as development into driverless cars continues. In the case of the accident, Google had implemented a rule in driverless car programming that most human drivers would view more as an option; if a human driver had seen debris blocking the road, they would simply stay in the middle of the lane to bypass

it and then execute the turn.

This problem may seem minute, but it illustrates the true scope of the difficulty in creating programs that attempt to imitate human-like judgment. Creating a robot able to outsmart human chess players is one thing, but when lives are at stake with this new technology, discovering problems along the way during testing on real roads could lead to deadly consequences.

In fact, the ethics of implementing a technology that hopes to reduce total number of deaths but could potentially cause some in the process may not sit well with all Americans.

If Google’s self-driving car had taken a life, for instance, the story may be much different. The Atlantic speculated in an article from March titled “Can Google’s Driverless Car Project Survive a Fatal Accident?” that though the introduction of driverless cars is predicted to reduce the same number of deaths

One of Google’s driverless cars caused its first accident in February. as anti-smoking campaigns yearly, humans may not be ready to accept loss of life “for science” as the program’s kinks are worked out and reprogrammed.

Though humans aren’t known for always making

the right decisions themselves, rendering total control is not the way to move forward. Self-driving cars will someday revolutionize transportation, but until the program can be implemented as safely as possi-

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Enacting anti-pornography legislation is a step forward emilY torbett columnist @emilytorbsda

The state of Utah has taken a stand against Governor Gary Herbert calling Internet pornography “a public health crisis.” However, if the new resolution moves through the Utah state government without a hitch, the state could become the first to combat porn and its dangers in much the same way smoking has been targeted in recent decades.

“Pornography perpetuates a sexually toxic environment,” the resolution states.

“Efforts to prevent pornography exposure and, additionally, to educate individuals and families concerning its harms and to develop recovery programs must be addressed systematically in ways that hold broader influences accountable.” While the anti-pornography legislation is primarily backed

by Utah’s religious groups, its measures could prove to be beneficial for all. It aims to expose the pervasiveness of the many consequences brought on by the explosion of readily available and easily accessible Internet porn.

According to a Huffington Post article from 2013, pornography is currently the most accessed type of content on the Internet and gets more views than Amazon, Netflix and Twitter combined. For the purpose of comparison, Netflix is visited by only 46 million viewers in the span of a month and Twitter by only 160 million.

An astounding 30 percent of the entire Internet industry is pornography, and porn websites are visited by 450 million users every month.

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The average age kids are most often exposed to hardcore porn is 11 years old.

Aside from parental controls that can be implemented on an individual basis, there are virtually no roadblocks to keep Internet pornography from being accessed by children. In the pre-Internet era, a person may not have seen their first adult video until reaching sexual maturity; however, the article “Sex, Lies And Statistics” from Forbes magazine showed that American children now begin consuming hardcore pornography at an average age of 11. However, the average age at which most Americans first engage in consensual sexual activity with a partner is 17. This means that for most kids, pornography is their very first glimpse of sexuality.

Anyone who has ever viewed pornography can probably attest to its por-

trayal of female submissiveness to degradation by a male perpetrator. This is not only a common feature of pornography, but also an expected component in almost every genre. The desire to see women that are, in many ways, “fake” or “a fantasy” to the viewer engaging in behavior often considered too explicit and vulgar for reality may feel like a way to explore one’s sexuality in an innocuous way. However, before long, the things we see in porn begin to shape our real life sexual desires and expectations. Often times, this does much more harm than good.

Enough is Enough, an anti-pornography and Internet safety website, detailed on its “Internet 101” page that when the content of the 50 best-selling adult videos was analyzed, each of the 304

total scenes contained an average of 11.52 acts of either verbal or physical aggression, ranging from none to 128 per scene. Out of all 3,376 acts of aggression seen in these videos, 94 percent were committed against women. The women seen in these videos reacted to these many instances of abuse exactly as they were expected: With pleasure and enthusiasm.

When Harvard researchers studied the effects of pornographic violence, it was concluded that “substantial exposure to violent sexually explicit material leads to a greater acceptance of the ‘rape myth,’ in its broader sense—that women enjoy being coerced into sexual activity, that they enjoy being physically hurt in sexual context, and that as a result a man who forces himself on

a woman sexually is in fact merely acceding to the ‘real’ wishes of the woman, regardless of the extent to which she seems to be resisting…”

The results across every study conducted on the topic seem to be unanimous. Exposure to violent porn increases violent behavior and violent desires. In addition to shaping the sexual behavior of adult audiences, pornography’s ease of access on the Internet has some pretty surprising unintended consequences; namely, its accessibility to increasingly younger users.

What they are seeing on screen and learning is that men, in a sexual context, are supposed to act violently and aggressively toward women when engaging in intercourse. Perhaps even more dangerous is that they are

also internalizing the idea that this behavior is acceptable by women. Women are not only expected to be tolerant of such aggression but also to respond with outright enthusiasm and enjoyment.

While online pornography may seem like nothing more than a brief escape from reality, it has now become possible that exposure to this content could produce a generation of children who, because they have grown up regularly seeing violent sexual behavior, will view it as natural and acceptable. Legislation that promotes an educational approach is not only a promising step forward on this issue, it is absolutely necessary to combat devastating consequences for future generations. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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‘Real Housewives’ get sassy in Texas

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the drama.

by Chelsea Walker A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

From oil rigs to tumbleweeds, it’s clear to see everything is bigger in Texas, including the drama. “The Real Housewives of Dallas” premiered this week, and viewers got a first glimpse of what it takes to be a Dallas debutante.

With franchises in cities such as Atlanta, New York and Orange County, California, “The Real Housewives” series on Bravo takes viewers into the lives of some of America’s wealthiest and whiniest wives. Tables flip and wigs are pulled in a typical episode, but the Dallas housewives seem to be pulling out the most catty stunts yet.

“The Real Housewives of Dallas” has an impressive five-person cast, with a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, a former carny kid and a housewife who once starred in a softcore porn HBO series. Within the first two episodes of the show, the housewives of Dallas instantly showcase their southern belle ways and their whacky sense of humor. The self-professed “mouth of the South” and former carnival kid, LeeAnne Locken, has made her stance on the show as the queen of the coopkeeping, the pecking order in line; Locken’s role in the charity world has made her the ultimate Southern belle.

Locken’s outlandish catfights against fellow cast members are shockingly harsh, but the Dallas doll has a long way to go to compete with the likes of housewives “villains” such as Lisa Vanderpump and Nene Leakes.

Kicking off the show with juicy drama, Locken and former Cowboys cheerleader, Brandi Redmond, quarrel over Locken’s stiff Southern belle facade and Redmond’s raunchy sense of humor. In the world of galas and charity balls, her

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sense of humor doesn’t get her far. Lucky for Redmond, her gal pal, housewife Stephanie Hollman, understands the slightly ditzy Dallas debutante’s shortcomings. The two engage in juvenile behavior and laugh at bizarre jokes and riddles. Hoffman, whose husband leaves her chores to complete for her weekly allowance, seems to be the only one who understands, or is at least willing to associate, with Redmond.

Perhaps the most comical and clever housewife, registered nurse and Dallas doll, Cary Deuber, leaves nothing to the imagination when opening up about her personal life. Originally living on the East Coast, Deuber harassed her plastic surgeon husband until he could no longer refuse to marry her. The nurse and mother swears she will ship her daughter to Switzerland and lives a life full of yoga and her husband’s injectables.

Locken’s sidekick, actress and exotic former model Tiffany Hendra, has already seen time on the big screen. Leaving Texas 15 years ago, Hendra entered the adult film industry in Los Angeles. Using the alias Tiffany Bolton, the actress starred in three separate soft core series before settling down in 2004 with her now-husband ,Aaron. Hendra’s hubby is expected to make many future appearances in the series. Viewers have already caught a glimpse at the two’s rocky relationship Hendra’s husband was caught saying he regretted the couple’s move to Dallas.

These Bravo housewives may live in Dallas, but they don’t resemble stereotypical Texas rodeo queens; rather they don glamorous gowns and heels as high as the rising tension.

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WVU Wind Symphony celebrates year-end performance by brittany osteen A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Last night at the Creative Arts Center, the Wind Symphony presented its last performance of the year. The show featured more than 50 students, and entertained a packed audience. The music ranged from being very fast and upbeat to slow and light. During the entire performance, the musicians showed precision and control as every note seemed to be filled with purpose.

Dearl Drury, associate conductor, Christopher Nichter, assistant conductor and Stephen Lane, graduate conductor, all conducted songs before the intermission.

After intermission, John Hendricks III conducted his last show as he concludes his career as Director of Bands at West Virginia University. He has been a band director for a total of 31 years, spending

23 of those years at WVU, his alma mater.

The concert featured six pieces, which included “Jubilee,” “Farandole,” “Festal Scenes,” “Solid Men to the Front,” “Landing Among the Stars,” and “Symphony No. 4.”

“The performance was great. It was my first time actually being able to attend one of the instrumental concerts here and it was quite impressive,” said Michaela Woodbrey, a freshman vocal performance student. “As a voice major, I honestly think that it is important to support the other music majors outside of my primary field of study. I believe it is beneficial for expanding your musical knowledge. I don’t just think this for music majors, but for other students as well as community members. It builds a new sense of appreciation for the talent at our own school.”

The first song, “Jubilee” was a light and fun piece from George Chadwick. The piece

is the first movement in the suite “Symphonic Sketches.”

This song was conducted by Nichter.

Next was “Farandole,” the fourth and final movement from the second suite in the play “L’Arlesienne,” and was conducted by Lane. The play was unsuccessful, however, Bizet rescored the music.

This song presents the stately march theme and the lively dance from themes of Southern France.

Following “Farandole” was a Japanese piece titled “Festal Scenes.” This is made up of four Japanese folk songs that were originally commissioned by the Ominato Band of the Japan Maritime SelfDefense Force. Since its premiere, it has also been used by the United States Air Force Band. This song was conducted by Drury.

Also conducted by Drury, “Solid Men to the Front,” was one of the ten marches that John Philip Sousa composed during his time with

the Navy.

After the intermission, Hendricks began conducting with a song dedicated to himself and the WVU Wind Symphony. This song, “Landing Among the Stars” was composed for the second half of the concert by WVU graduate Evan Boegehold. Boegehold has a double bachelor’s degree in music composition and trumpet performance. He has since received a double master’s degree in composition and orchestral conducting from Central Michigan University.

Finally, The last piece was “Symphony No. 4” composed

by David Maslanka.

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student poll: iPhone or android?

Which is more popular on campus, iPhone or Android?

Smartphones dominate today’s society. Everyone carries a personal computer in their pocket, more powerful than machines that have come before. Entertainment, communication and the sum of all human knowledge is never more than an arm’s reach away.

The smartphone market is currently dominated by two operating systems: Apple’s iOS, and Google’s Android.

Yesterday, 85 students in the Mountainlair were asked what kind of phone they have, iPhone or Android. iPhone won by far with 81 percent of the responses.

Clearly, Apple still dominates the phone market.

Only two people fell into the “other” category. One person had a Windows phone, and the other owned a “dumb” phone.

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‘I’d Watch That’ is open marketplace of creativity, judge TV ideas LOS ANGELES (AP) — You’re mystified by the number of destined-for-failure shows on TV and figure you could make better picks than network executives.

Or you sneer at the recycled concepts of too many dull series when you have a killer original story to tell.

Whether you fall into either camp or both, there’s a new website for you to play on: I’d Watch That, which launched five months ago with some heavyweight financial backers.

It invites aspiring TV makers to post a “sizzle” reel of up to two minutes in length that demonstrates an idea’s potential to become a series. The public gets to judge the proposals, with research methodology used to analyze the results and create a popularity ranking, said CEO Tom Zito.

The goal is sell the top ideas to the exploding number of content-hungry broadcast, cable and online outlets with Big Pic-

ture Inc., the website’s parent company, on board as a producer. The investors include William Randolph Hearst III; former AOL chairman and CEO Barry Schuler, and John Fisher of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

I’d Watch That is designed as an open marketplace of TV ideas in a closed, relationship-bound industry, an approach that aims to turn the annual multibillion-dollar process of developing new series “on its head,” said Zito, a journalist turned entrepreneur.

In the traditional approach, “until money is spent to get shows made into pilots, no consumer sees a project,” he said. Even Amazon, which does online testing of potential new series, makes full pilot episodes for consumers to assess, Zito said.

One proposal featured on I’d Watch That is a 1960s drama about women working at a Cosmopolitan-like magazine during the dawn

of feminism (“Mad Men” meets “Sex and the City,” Zito calls it) from a filmmaker-writer, PJ Posner.

Another is “The Last Templar,” about a 14th-century vengeance-seeking survivor of the soldiers whose duties included protecting the Roman Catholic Church until they were betrayed.

Its creator is Daniel Madore, who earned a media and film degree in 2011 from the University of San Francisco. He’s been paying his dues in a variety of jobs, including production assistant, art director and grip, while directing music videos and short films on the side.

“When it comes to getting your work shown, it is quite the headache and the grind,” he said, with uncertainty surrounding every avenue from film festivals to YouTube. While he’s cautiously optimistic about what the I’d Watch That website might yield, he says the concept has merit.

“Crowdsourcing is part of

The website, I’d Watch That, allows the public to pitch and judge TV shows. a new generation of viewers. The audience now has a very strong voice and one would be foolish to ignore it,” Madore said in an email exchange from Europe.

One expert agrees with that perspective.

“The idea of democratizing Hollywood for the world and democratizing good stories is an interesting one,” said Peter Csathy,

CEO of Manatt Digital Media, a business consulting and legal services firm.

But to be effective the new website will have to “break through the (online) noise” to garner a critical mass of participants among both content creators and the audience judging their work, Csathy said.

Zito, formerly a staffer at The Washington Post and

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contributor to New Yorker magazine, saw what he considers the dysfunctional TV process up close as a writer on a short-lived drama series. “Capital News,” set at a Washington newspaper, lasted for three low-rated episodes in 1990 before it was axed.

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Michael Strahan leaving daytime’s ‘Live’ for ‘GMA’ NEW YORK (AP) — Former football star Michael Strahan is being shifted from the daily talk show he co-hosts with Kelly Ripa to work full-time on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

The change comes as “Good Morning America” tries to shore up sinking ratings at a time of tighter competition with NBC’s “Today” show and reflects the importance of the show to parent Walt Disney Co.’s bottom line.

Strahan has worked a couple of days a week at “GMA” for the past two years, but he always has to leave midway through to head to the “Live with Kelly and Michael” studio on Manhattan’s upper West Side. He’s joining the show’s regular cast of Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Lo-

gan, Amy Robach and Ginger Zee. Starting in September, he’ll be there five days a week for the full two-hour show.

The former New York Giant was selected in 2012 to replace Regis Philbin as Ripa’s co-host on the talk show, which airs directly after “Good Morning America” at 9 a.m. in most markets.

“Michael’s proven to be a tireless and versatile broadcaster with an incredible ability to connect with people, from veterans and all kinds of newsmakers to a host of American cultural icons,” said ABC News President James Goldston. “He is a great modern thinker and leader.”

“Good Morning America” remains television’s most popular morning show, averaging 4.96 mil-

lion viewers a day since the beginning of the year.

But that audience is down 10 percent from 2015, according to the Nielsen company.

Mo re i m p o r t a n t l y , “GMA” is down 15 percent among viewers aged 25to-54, and that’s the demographic that most advertising rates for news programs are based upon.

NBC now leads ABC in this category for 2016.

Given a choice of trying to help one show while simultaneously hurting another, it was no contest: Disney has much more money at stake with “Good Morning America” than with “Live with Kelly and Michael.”

ABC said Tuesday that a search for Strahan’s replacement as Ripa’s partner will begin in the fall.

“Live” is a solid performer in the ratings, and was a

close second to “Dr. Phil” among daytime syndicated shows in the most recent ratings report.

Ripa and Strahan shared an Emmy for outstanding entertainment talk show hosts last year.

“The combination has been great for the show,” said Bill Carroll, an expert in the syndication market for Katz Media. “Michael has brought a new audience to the show and a great energy working with Kelly.”

The show’s chief advantage in

searching for a replacement is longtime producer Michael Gelman, who dates back to the show’s formative years with Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, he said. The show has commitments to be on the air at least through 2020.

Strahan, who retired from the NFL in 2008 following a 15-year playing career, will remain as a cohost of “NFL on Fox” on the weekends.

Young adult fiction booms on Broadway Shelton lawsuit NEW YORK (AP) — When actress and playwright Claudia Shear was first approached to turn a novel for young adults into a Broadway musical, she was slightly stunned.

“You want me for a children’s thing?” she asked the producers.

Shear, after all, often writes about fearless women making their way in an unforgiving world and isn’t frightened by suggestive situations or salty language. She agreed to the new project but didn’t change her style.

“I went at it without any concept of it being for children,” she said. “Truth is truth and humanity is humanity. That is the thing that supersedes any genre.”

The musical was “Tuck Everlasting,” Natalie Babbitt’s powerful story about a girl who stumbles onto a mysterious family that has discovered a fountain of eternal life. It opens on Broadway on April 26.

It will cap a remarkably rich few years for shows based on young adult fiction, including “Matilda the Musical,” ‘’War Horse,” ‘’Aladdin” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” All stubbornly refuse to talk down to kids.

“The only difference between them and us is that they’re smaller and they know a little bit less,” said playwright Dennis Kelly, who won a Tony Award for adapting “Matilda” from the children’s novel by Roald Dahl. “Their brains are just as good as ours and they know as much about the world as we do.”

It turns out that Shear was in good company: Musicals based on young adult books have recently attracted writers who usually deal with adult material and don’t want to coddle their younger audiences.

Kelly, like Shear, wasn’t someone you’d immediately associate with children’s literature. He writes caustic satires, including a play about how a climate of terror can lead neighbors to torture, and another about the evils of greed-is-good capitalism.

“When I was doing ‘Matilda,’ I didn’t think I was writing for kids. I was just having a really good time,” he said by phone from London. “I mean, clearly, there are some things you might well steer clear of, but you’ll find you’re naturally steering clear of it.”

Playwright Simon Stephens was similarly an in-

teresting choice to adapt Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” about a teenager with Asperger’s syndrome. He writes gritty dramas that are often bleak, dark and violent.

“My imaginary world tends to be a dark old place populated by psychopaths and killers,” Stephens said.

But it was precisely that dark quality that appealed to Haddon: Stephens wouldn’t be sentimental when it came to adapting his novel.

For “Tuck Everlasting,” the central character comes to learn that eternal life might be a curse and not a blessing. It explores living in the moment and the meaning of life and death. Shear was naturally attracted to it.

“Children’s’ literature is so potent,” she said. “All great children’s literature has death in it - Beth dies in ‘Little Women,’ the horse dies in ‘Black Beauty,’ ‘Bambi.’ Any great children’s book deals with things that are so profound.

It isn’t just the pretty dress.”

She teamed up with Tim Federle - who has written a series of children’s books like “Better Nate Than Ever” and just published “The

Great American Whatever,” his first young adult novel.

Federle said their object was to not just write a good show for children but one adults and children could love. “Our goal is to always give them a sophisticated show that feels like it’s worth a Broadway ticket price but that evokes the magic of being young,” he said.

More family-friendly musicals are expected to land on Broadway in the next 18 months, including “Frozen” led by edgy director Alex Timbers, “Anastasia” with a book by Tony-winner Terrence McNally, and another Dahl adaptation, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

Kelly, who created a truly unforgettable villain in the terrifying headmistress Miss Trunchbull for “Matilda,” said his advice for any young adult adapters is always to focus on the story, not the audience.

“Kids, more than anything else, are responding to a story. They just want to be told a good story. And if you can’t do that, then you’ve got no chance with them,” he said. And, he advised: Don’t hold back: “We really do expect them to be stupid but they’re big thinkers.

They love a big old think.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Shelton’s defamation lawsuit against In Touch Weekly will proceed after a judge Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss the case by the tabloid’s publisher.

U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder in Los Angeles ruled that the country music star had shown that a headline the tabloid published in September 2015 that declared “Rehab for Blake” could be interpreted by the average reader as meaning the singer was receiving addiction treatment.

Shelton sued Bauer Publishing Co. in November over the headline and an accompanying story that included several anecdotes of the country music star’s supposed drunken antics.

Shelton, who is a judge on NBC’s “The Voice,” denies several key events in the story occurred and states he does not have a drinking problem.

Bauer’s attorney Elizabeth McNamara did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. She said last week that if Snyder’s ruling becomes official, it will be appealed. She argued that the Grammy-nominated singer had created his “entire reputation around excessive

drinking.”

Snyder rejected that argument in her ruling, saying that Shelton was not in fact “libel proof.”

Shelton’s attorney Stanton “Larry” Stein attacked McNamara’s arguments during a hearing last week and In Touch’s story, saying it was “absolutely 100 percent false.”

Snyder urged the attorneys at the April 11 hearing to settle the case, saying it would be costly for both sides if it went through an appeal.

The “Boys ‘Round Here” singer has also denied the magazine’s claims, writing in a sworn declaration submitted to Snyder, “Not only was I not in rehab or headed to rehab when it was published, but I also do not have a drinking problem.”

Shelton noted the September 2015 story came at a time when he was working on new music, negotiating endorsement deals and his role hosting Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards was about to be announced.

“I felt that the Rehab Story jeopardized both my personal and professional reputation and that I needed to do everything I could to set the record straight,” Shelton wrote.

Tribeca documentary ‘The Last Laugh’ surveys humor and the Holocaust NEW YORK (AP) — “Do you have a Holocaust joke?”

That was director Ferne Pearlstein’s first, icebreaking question when she sat down to interview comedians for “The Last Laugh,” her documentary about taboos and comedy, particularly in regard to the Holocaust.

Gilbert Gottfried, master of the over-the-top punchline, didn’t miss a beat.

“There was a Holocaust?!” he replied. “Nobody told me!”

“The Last Laugh,” which premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, pokes and prods at the question of “Where’s the line?” in comedy, teasing out comedy’s cathartic, healing role in even the worst tragedies. It’s a debate with many differing perspectives, even in the comedy community where stand-ups are often taken to task for “going too far” or “too soon.”

Pearlstein’s film doesn’t only examine the issue from those with a microphone, but through Holocaust survivors who add a deeper dimension to the film: humor as a necessary survival tool. Some, like 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor Renee Firestone, frankly confess that among themselves, survivors, too, tell jokes about life in the camps.

“Humor kept me going after the Holocaust,” Firestone said in an interview alongside Pearlstein and her co-writer and husband Robert Edwards. “Without humor I don’t think I would have lived this long.”

By seeking humor in the darkest dark, “The Last Laugh” gets at the intrinsic nature of comedy.

“Comedy puts light onto

‘The Last Laugh’ interviews famous comedians such as Mel Brooks (above) on how humor can help bring light to the darkest topics. darkness, and darkness can’t live where there’s light,” Sarah Silverman says in the documentary.

“So that’s why it’s important to talk about things that are taboo because otherwise they just stay in this dark place and they become dangerous.”

But there is discord even within many of the comics in the film. (Among them are Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Larry Charles and Susie Essman.) Brooks, creator of the Hitler-skewering “The Producers,” acknowledges he can do Nazi jokes, but not Holocaust jokes. When he reflects on Silverman’s

introduction of him for a 2014 AFI lifetime award, he cringes at her joke: “What do the Jews hate most about the Holocaust? The cost.”

“The film doesn’t answer the question,” says Pearlstein of what’s offlimits. “We wanted to provoke discussion.”

One thing everyone comedians and survivors alike - seem to agree on: Roberto Benigni’s 1997 Holocaust tragicomedy “Life Is Beautiful” is sentimental, implausible claptrap. Brooks calls it “the worst movie ever made.”

Famously never released was Jerry Lewis’ “The Day

the Clown Cried,” made in 1972, in which Lewis plays a German clown forced to entertain children before they were sent to the gas chambers. (Lewis has sworn no one will ever see it.)

For Pearlstein, a veteran filmmaker whose previous films include the 2003 Japanese wrestling documentary “Sumo East and West,” it’s a complex chemistry that goes into determining whether a joke is offensive or not: Who’s telling it? When was it said?

Was it funny or not?

“I don’t have a philosophy about it,” Carl Reiner says in the film. “I just

know that it’s much more fun to laugh than not to laugh.”

In some scenes in the film, Pearlstein documented survivors watching YouTube clips from the likes of Larry David and Ricky Gervais. “Watching Renee’s face during these jokes, it was not the same,” said Pearlstein. “I was hearing them differently.

It hit me differently.”

The line may be evershifting, impossible to pinpoint and necessary for comedy to flirt with. But what’s most important to both Pearlstein and Firestone, is not to censor discussion.

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“I feel very strongly that in order to move beyond these horrible events, everybody has to know about everybody’s pain,” says Pearlstein.

Firestone, who travels tirelessly to speak about genocide as a threat to all people, vividly recalls the absurdity of Auschwitz.

One doctor examined her and advised her to have her tonsils removed should she survive.

“Our treatment was so ridiculous that you either had to cry or laugh about it,” says Firestone. “Wherever there are survivors, any kind of survivor, they must have some humor.”

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Jamal Crawford is first-ever three-time winner of NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jamal Crawford needs to make more room at home for another trophy.

The 36-year-old Los Angeles Clippers guard won the NBA’s Sixth Man Award on Tuesday, becoming the first three-time winner as the league’s best reserve.

Two years ago, he was the oldest to receive the honor.

“It’s always weird being up here by yourself because this is truly a team award,” he said during a presentation at the team’s practice facility, with teammates including Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and J.J. Redick joining in a standing ovation.

“I made shots but I couldn’t do it if Doc (Rivers) didn’t draw up the plays and my teammates didn’t pass me the ball. It’s not just about me.”

Crawford received 51 first-place votes and 341 points from a panel of 130 sports writers and broadcasters in the U.S. and Canada. NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala of Golden State finished second with 288 points (33 first-place votes), and Oklahoma City’s Enes Kanter was third with 182 points (19 first-place votes).

Crawford averaged 14.2 points in 79 games, coming off the bench in 74 of them.

He ranked second in the NBA in free throw percentage at 90 percent.

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Jamal Crawford celebrates during a game last season.

“This is his best year. We things as if I’m as young as needed him,” Rivers said. possible.”

“When you look at a guy at Kevin McHale, Ricky his age that’s still improv- Pierce and Detlef Schrempf ing, it says why he’s the all won the Sixth Man Award Sixth Man of the year. Sixth twice. Crawford is the only man doesn’t mean that you player to win with multiple shouldn’t be a starter. It teams. means that you’ve accepted “I never envisioned mya role to help your team. It’s self being a sixth man,” he a really unselfish role and said. “I always started my Jamal epitomizes that.” whole life. Starting is the The 16-year veteran cool thing and everybody added his latest trophy to wants to do it.” his awards in 2009-10 with Crawford first took on a the Atlanta Hawks and 2013- reserve role with the Hawks 14 with the Clippers. under coach Mike Wood“If I keep my muscles fir- son, who is now a Clippers ing, I don’t feel age is an ex- assistant. He flourished and cuse,” Crawford said. “I keep has embraced leading the

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bench ever since.

“Jamal’s impact on our team goes so far beyond what you can actually even see. It’s the things in the locker room, it’s the calming presence on the bench, it’s the steady hand,” Griffin said. “We, as a team, value Jamal so much, but it’s great to see him get that recognition from other people for his impact on our team.”

Crawford’s wife, Tori, their children J.J. and London and his mother joined him for the presentation.

Crawford’s wife is expecting a baby girl in late June, his mother said. Crawford has

Pacers playoffs next chapter in George’s comeback INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When the burning sensation in Paul George’s shattered right leg finally subsided in August 2014, the Indiana Pacers young star made a commitment to himself and his fans.

He would return to the basketball court even better.

Twenty months after suffering the unforgettably gruesome injury in Las Vegas, George has written the next chapter in his comeback tale with an incredible start to the NBA playoffs.

In Game 1 against Toronto, George scored 27 of his 33 points in the second half, almost willing the Pacers to a 100-90 victory over the East’s No. 2 seed. He added 28 points in Monday’s loss, leaving George with two-game totals of 61 points, eight rebounds, seven assists, five steals and a field-goal percentage of 54.1 percent. He’s 6 of 8 on 3s and 15 of 17 from the free-throw line, playing the same way he did when he led the Pacers to backto-back Eastern Conference finals against LeBron James and the Miami Heat.

“There’s no stopping PG. He’s playing phenomenal,” Raptors All-Star guard Kyle Lowry said after Toronto’s 98-87 victory in Game 2.

“You’re not going to stop him from getting 25 or 30.

He’s going to get that, that’s how talented he is.”

George’s amazing journey has been a series of steady steps.

Eight months after snapping his leg when he crashed into a basketball stanchion during a U.S. national team scrimmage and countless hours of grueling rehab, George returned to game action sooner than many thought possible.

Seven months after that, the 6-foot-9 forward was named November’s Eastern Conference player of the month after averaging 27.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists.

In February, George made his third All-Star appearance, started for the second time, broke the AllStar Game record with nine 3-pointers and finished with 41 points, one short Wilt Chamberlain’s record from 1962. George finished the regular season ranked among the league’s top 10 in scoring (23.1 points), steals (1.9) and 3-pointers made (210) and produced the highest single-season point total (1,874) of his career.

On Thursday, George will have a chance to give

the Pacers a 2-1 lead in this best-of-seven series when he makes his first home playoff appearance since May 28, 2014.

“I’m real excited to be back on the stage where I was able to make my name,” George said.

Yet George isn’t completely healthy.

Last week, coach Frank Vogel said this season was expected to be a “recovery year” for George and that there are times George feels soreness in his surgicallyrepaired right leg.

“I knew right away, in training camp, that I was going to be OK. I knew I was OK last summer,” George said. “But I’ve still not regained all of my strength and explosiveness. I’m hopeful I’ll get that explosion, that quick step back and be lighter on my feet. I do feel good with where I’m at right now.”

George spent this transition year learning how to play the four spot after spending his first five seasons playing almost exclusively at the three spot. He still thrived - and he doesn’t turn 26 until May 2.

Vogel figures George is only scratching the surface of what’s possible.

“It (the comeback) is re-

markable. It’s just a testament to his work ethic and his competitiveness to get back to this level this fast,” Vogel said. “Injury aside, guys grow from year six to year 10, so we do still think there’s more there.”

First, though, George has big plans for the rest of this year.

He believes the Pacers, who have won seven of nine, are playing their best basketball at the right time and could make a surprising postseason run. And whenever the Pacers season ends, George has another goal - playing for Team USA at the Rio Olympics, another major step on the comeback trail.

“It’s a dream of mine,” he said. “I want to represent my country and do it alongside the best players in the country. We’ll see, after the season, how my body is feeling.”

So far, things look just fine.

George is playing well, his body is holding up and the Raptors have discovered how difficult the matchup can be.

“We’ve just got to make it a little bit more difficult (on George),” Lowry said. “He’s getting to his spots a little bit too easy.”

Sports federations concerned about venues for Rio Olympic Games LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — International sports federations expressed concern Tuesday over problems with venues for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including power failures at the gymnastics arena this week.

Two top International Olympic Committee officials, meanwhile, will be dispatched to Rio for frequent visits to monitor the final preparations for South America’s first games.

Members of the Association of Olympic International Sports Federations reviewed the status of the Rio Games, which open in less than four months on Aug. 5.

“They miss some very important details in each field of play,” ASOIF President Francesco Ricci Bitti said at the group’s annual meeting during the SportAccord conference in Lausanne.

Ricci Bitti told delegates that IOC President Thomas Bach “is worried like you, like me” about details for Rio. Rio’s sports director acknowledged to the 28 Olympic sports that the city’s seven-year preparations “were not perfect or up to your expectations” but said the games would be a success.

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the athletes will not have any problems in games time, nor any of you in your events,” Agberto Guimaraes said.

The comments followed complaints raised by the gymnastics federation, known as FIG, which is holding its artistic gymnastics test event at Rio Olympic Arena this week.

FIG official Ron Froehlich cited power outages lasting from 15 to 90 minutes, putting at risk athletes’ safety and the scoring system, plus missing equipment at an underfunded temporary training venue.

“Most important, they have problems with regard to the Omega (scoring) system,” Froehlich said. “Furthermore, power outages while the athletes were performing, which is a very serious issue.”

The absence of flooring at a temporary training center venue was “due to lack of funding,” he said.

Earlier, ASOIF director general Andrew Ryan disclosed that two senior IOC officials will travel to Rio soon to work more closely on preparations.

Christophe Dubi, the Olympic Games executive director, and sports director Kit McConnell are “moving

permanently” to the host city, Ryan said.

The IOC said Dubi and McConnell would spend more time in Rio but would not live there full time. Dubi’s predecessor, Gilbert Felli, was assigned to work there with local organizers two years ago amid growing concerns about Rio’s readiness.

In a later speech to SportAccord delegates, Bach thanked Olympic sports bodies for supporting Rio organizers, “even in challenging circumstances” in Brazil.

“If everyone plays their part and continues to show this kind of solidarity I am confident these games will be a great success,” Bach said. “We are all in this together.”

Guimaraes also addressed longstanding problems of water pollution and “floating garbage” in Rio, and the possibility of officials’ accommodation - including a Trump hotel - not being ready, before giving further assurances.

“The athletes will be happy with the results they we have achieved,” he said.

“You and your federations will be happy with the level of service that we will provide to you.”

Rio organizing committee head Carlos Nuzman said the impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff would not affect the final preparations.

“Until today we have no involvement, no problems with any political or economic situation in the country,” Nuzman said.

The ASOIF meeting was the last formal gathering of sports federations before they gather in Rio. After a year of scandals damaging FIFA and the IAAF, whose former presidents and top officials are under criminal investigation, the meeting agreed to a project assessing members’ standards of good governance.

During the debate, International Handball Federation president Hassan Moustafa of Egypt reacted angrily to what he said was a disrespectful tone, insisting: “We are not criminals.”

In two uncontested elections, Italy’s Ricci Bitti won another four-year term as ASOIF president, while C.K Wu - the Taiwanese president of boxing’s international body - was nominated to continue representing the umbrella group on the IOC executive board.

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SPORTS

Wednesday April 20, 2016

Rebuilding special teams is crucial for WVU

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Winning the field position battle is always one of the most important tasks for any football team. Getting a shorter field than your opponent is often one of the factors that decides who wins and loses, and it often comes down to special teams.

And despite having a less-than-explosive kick and punt return game, West Virginia finished with a net positive in field position last season: about two yards better than its opponents on average.

The Mountaineers achieved that by having terrific kick and punt coverage teams. Quietly one of West Virginia’s greatest strengths last season, those units were loaded with veterans, sophomores and juniors who realized that buying in on special teams was their opportunity to get their foot in the door.

Al-Rasheed Benton, Sean Walters, Justin Arndt and Nana Kyeremeh were the linchpins of these special teams units, embracing the role and doing it extremely well. So well, in fact, that Benton, Walters and Arndt are currently listed as the defense’s three starting linebackers at this point in the spring, and Kyeremeh may also start at cornerback.

You can see the problem here. Benton, Walters, Arndt and Kyeremeh have earned the right to play big minutes on defense, but their promotions may mean one of the team’s most crucial strengths will lose its best performers.

That presents an obvious need: West Virginia needs new, hungry players to buy in and step up on special teams. Luckily for special teams coach Mark Scott, he’s found a few so far this spring who look like they might make an impact.

“David Long looks really good,” Scott said.

“He is all over the place on defense as well. Some of those younger safeties stick out. Khairi Sharif was really good at coverage units for us – Deamonte Lindsay. Our young linebackers as well. Jordan Adams is a guy who has some speed. He’s not afraid to come at you, so he is going to be a guy that we throw in there as well. “ Those are the type of players who fit the mold cast by last year’s special teams units. Linebacker David Long, safety Deamonte Lindsay and cornerback Jordan Adams are athletic defensive backups who have their eye on larger roles, and know that special teams could be their ticket. Meanwhile, Sharif was one of West Virginia’s top special teamers last season, and he looks set to once again have a bigger role on that side of the ball than he will on defense.

The way players like Long, Lindsay and Adams settle in on special teams will be extremely important for how WVU fares in the field position battle next season.

And, in a pinch, the leaders from last year have no problem with getting back out there again.

“Being a leader on those teams isn’t something you just give up and stay on the sideline,” Benton said. “If it comes down to it and the coaches don’t want me to, then alright, I’ll take it.

But right now, I’ve got a lot of fight in me and I can do it all, so I’m ready to play those special teams.”

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WVU’s Cole Austin is greeted by his teammates after homering against Youngstown State last night.

Mountaineer offense crushes YSU Penguins in 13-3 home rout

BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER @GEARTY83

Behind a parade of extrabase hits, the West Virginia University baseball team defeated the Youngstown State Penguins 13-3 last night. The 13 runs are the most the Mountaineers have recorded this season.

“We got 12 hits, nine of them were extra-base hits.

Going into Oklahoma, you couldn’t have scripted this any better,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “With the pitching the way it was and the offense how it was, like I said, you couldn’t have scripted it any better.”

Darius Hill didn’t have to wait long to get the Mountaineers on the scoreboard, as Hill sent the fifth pitch of

the game over the right field wall, giving the Mountaineers a 1-0 lead.

Hill added another RBI late in the game, and Andrew Zitel, who was a late roster change, added two RBIs of his own.

The 13-run explosion was vital, in particular for Cole Austin, who entered the game with a .188 batting average.

The game saw the freshman third baseman break out of his slump with three RBIs, including a home run in the bottom of the fifth inning.

“It definitely meant a lot,” Austin said. “It definitely hasn’t been going my way. Me and Coach (Steve Sabins) have been working on some things and to come out and for it to pay off, it

meant a lot going forward.”

Austin’s third homer of the season broke the 1-1 tie, after a fielder’s choice RBI

by Youngstown State’s Lorenzo Accuri evened things up two innings before.

Among Mountaineers that broke a slump at the plate, Jackson Cramer followed Austin’s home run with an RBI double. Cramer recently had his streak of reaching base snapped at 50 games, after going hitless in the last two games.

After the seventh-inning stretch, West Virginia kept building its lead with eight Mountaineers crossing home plate.

Braden Zarbnisky pitched through three innings of work in his first career start. Normally behind the pitcher in the field, Zarbni-

sky had an impressive outing, striking out four batters and escaping the third inning allowing one run.

“Zarb, Mr. Offensive Hero, showed that he’s going to be a pretty good pitcher here,” Mazey said. “We got him out of there early so he’s rested and ready to use this weekend.”

While Zarbnisky had a strong first start, Mazey indicated the freshman, who holds a .294 batting average, will be back in the field against Oklahoma.

Brandon Boone replaced Zarbnisky and received four innings of work, tying his season-high of four innings on March 12. Boone allowed one run and ultimately got the winning decision.

In the eighth, Youngstown State’s Ryan Cordova hom-

ered off West Virginia lefthander Seth Jordan, nearly clipping the left field foul pole for his first home run of the year. Jesse Slinger received the losing decision.

Up next for the Mountaineers are the Oklahoma Sooners as teams resume conference play. West Virginia and Oklahoma are in fifth and sixth place respectively in the Big 12 standings and this matchup is vital for conference positioning.

“They have a lot of good players,” Mazey said. “We just need to play good baseball. It’s been a while since we’ve been on the road so I’m anxious to see how we come out down there, but it’s a really big weekend for us.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

men’s basketball

Williams hires agent, officially forgoes college eligibility

WVU’s Devin Williams throws down a dunk last season against Baylor. guard Terry Rozier, a memBy Chris Jackson Associate Sports Editor ber of the Boston Celtics. @CJacksonWVU Williams averaged 13.3 points and 9.5 rebounds reWest Virginia forward bounds as a junior, leading Devin Williams has hired the Big 12 in double-douan agent, as first reported bles (16) en route to a Secby ESPN’s Jeff Goodman. ond Team All-Big 12 selecWilliams’ de cision tion alongside fellow WVU comes a month after an- guard Jaysean Paige. nouncing his intentions to West Virginia advanced enter the NBA Draft, which to the NCAA Tournament left the possibility of him twice in his three years on deciding to return without campus, including a Sweet breaking NCAA rules. But Sixteen appearance in 2014 once an agent is hired, the – the program’s first since player’s college eligibility is 2010. forfeited.

It was a long ride over Aaron Turner will repre- the last month for Williams, sent Williams, who’s also who stated after the first the agent of former Baylor round NCAA Tournament forward Taurean Prince. loss that he could possibly One of Turner’s five clients skip his senior season.

WVU head coach Bob according to realgm.com is

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Huggins and Williams’ mother believed there was a possibility of Williams returning to finish his college career.

“We support Devin in his decision to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a professional basketball player,” Huggins said in a March statement. “We wish him nothing but the best and appreciate his contributions and the impact that he has had on Mountaineer basketball.”

He’s one of the 80 underclassmen this year to enter the NBA Draft early, marking a new trend among basketball. Only 48 announced their intentions a year ago, and it’s possible more will with five days until the

deadline.

None of the latest NBA Mock Drafts have Williams projected to be selected in the first two rounds. DraftExpress rated him as the No. 35 junior across college basketball, making it appear that he’ll likely sign with a professional organization as a free agent.

His performance in the NBA Summer League will likely determine if he makes an NBA roster, serves in the D-Leagues—the minor league system of the NBA— or finds his way overseas.

Williams was a fourstar prospect out of perennial high school basketball power Montverde Academy (Florida), transferring there from Cincinnati’s Withrow

High School. He was the No. 42 recruit in the ESPN 100 for the class of 2013, choosing the Mountaineers over Memphis and Ohio State.

It also marks the first time a WVU basketball player has left the program early to pursue professional basketball since 2010, when Devin Ebanks became the 43rd overall pick to the Los Angeles Lakers.

“I can’t say enough about the three years I have had at West Virginia University,” Williams said in a March press release. “At the same time, I’m grateful to be in this position to be able to fulfill a lifelong dream.” cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

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Golf

Wednesday April 20, 2016

Track

Three Mountaineers honored WVU freshmen still fighting for

by Big 12 for academic success their opportunities to contribute

By Neel Madhavan Sports Writer @theneel64

This past week, three members of the West Virginia University men’s golf team were honored for their achievements off the golf course. Juniors Chris Williams and Alan Cooke and senior Mason Short were named to the Big 12’s All-Academic team for the 2015-16 season.

Williams was named to the first team, and Cooke and Short earned second team honors for their accomplishments. Academic success is one of head coach Sean Covich’s five “core values” that he always tries to instill in his players.

According to Big 12 requirements, in order to qualify for the first team, golfers must maintain at least a 3.20 GPA, and second team members need to keep between a 3.00 and a 3.19 GPA. Regular students often have a tough time balancing classwork, extracurricu-

lar activities and a part-time job, so it’s hard to imagine what student-athletes have to go through when it comes to balancing team practices, traveling across the country and competing in team tournaments and matches along with maintaining a high GPA. “It’s tough,” Williams said.

“It takes a lot of time management, although I think they kind of go hand-in-hand.

If you’re doing well in the classroom, it makes it easier to spend more time at the course rather than focusing more time on one or the other. I think it’s just putting equal amounts of effort into them both so you can excel at both of them.”

The finance student doesn’t have any tricks up his sleeve when it comes to how he is able to maintain his successes both on the golf course and in the classroom other than just old-fashioned hard work.

“Every day is different, a little bit,” Williams said. “I guess just try to get better at either golf or school every

day. As far as routine, I’m not sure if I have anything set like that. Just working hard and trying to do both of those things.”

Both Williams and Cooke are West Virginia natives who began their college golf careers at different schools. Williams started off at Coastal Carolina and transferred home midway through his sophomore season. Whereas Cooke, a Parkersburg native and marketing student, transferred from the University of South CarolinaBeaufort last year.

The Mountaineers are riding high after finishing off the regular season with a secondplace finish at the Rutherford Intercollegiate at Penn State.

The team’s first competitive season in over 30 years has had its ups and downs, but Covich and the Mountaineers are focused on ending the inaugural season strong with a quality performance at the Big 12 Championships April 29-May 1. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @STORMINJNORMAN6

Freshmen do not always get their chance.

Sure, West Virginia University’s baseball team has five regular freshman starters, but things are a little different for the track and field team.

With 10 freshmen on the 36-women roster, head coach Sean Cleary is not always able to get them all in action for every event the team competes in.

This past weekend at the Bison Outdoor Classic, the outdoor track and field team competed in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The biggest story event of the weekend came from an upperclassman: Senior Tori Bertrand won the pole vault with a 3.75-meter leap. A week before, Bertrand won the pole vault at the Mason Spring Invitational. Her 3.91-meter jump was the best score of her collegiate career.

However, five freshmen also competed at the Bison

Outdoor Classic. First-year competitors Faith Penny, Danique Bryan and Chaqieta Robinson all finished in the top 15 of their respective events. Penny leaped 1.65 meters to ninth place in the high jump, and Robinson finished in 15th place in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.58.

Bryan participated in two events. In the 100-meter dash, Bryan got 25th place in a time of 12.88. Next, in the long jump, her leap of 5.78 meters got her fifth place.

However, not all of them were directly able to help the team. Olivia Hill and Candace Jones ran unattached in the 3,000-meter run and the 800-meter run, respectively.

Hill won the 3,000-meter with a time of 1:01.90.

Running or competing unattached means a runner’s finish will not affect the overall team score. However, it does give them a chance to compete and continue to get better.

Simply limiting an athlete to practice will not help them

or the team to improve. How can a runner gain a competitive spirit if she never faces any competition? Conversely, freshmen are the future of the team. Relying only on upperclassmen will prove futile if the freshmen do not receive the proper exposure in events.

Cleary is dedicated to getting as many of his athletes to the NCAA Track and Field Championship as possible.

Whether they are freshmen or seniors, it does not matter.

With West Virginia far enough outside of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll to not qualify for the championship as a team, anyone who can make it to the championship individually will go.

“For those that did compete up to the standards that have been set for them, it’s very simple. Go home, take care of business in practice and in the classroom,” Cleary said in an interview with WVUsports.com. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Wednesday April 20, 2016

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Johnny Manziel violence case to go to a grand jury on Thursday DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas grand jury is scheduled to consider this week whether to charge troubled NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel with attacking his ex-girlfriend in a January incident.

Prosecutors will present the Manziel case to a grand jury Thursday, Brittany Dunn, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney, said Tuesday. The grand jury could announce an indictment as soon as Monday. Police originally presented a misdemeanor assault case to prosecutors.

That charge carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

Manziel, a former Cleveland Browns quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner at Texas A&M, is accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley so hard that she temporarily lost hearing in one ear.

Crowley requested and was granted a protective order against the 23-yearold quarterback that prevents him from seeing her for two years.

She says she and Manziel had a confrontation in

a Dallas hotel room, which continued downstairs at the valet station. She said he forced her into a car and a valet ignored her pleas for help. The two drove to where her car was parked in front of a Dallas bar, she said in an affidavit. She accused Manziel of getting into the driver’s seat and beginning to drive. She says when she tried to jump out of the car, Manziel stopped, dragged her back into the car and hit her.

Police said they have spoken to Crowley, interviewed several other witnesses and reviewed medical records. But they did not arrest Manziel, instead taking the unusual step of asking the district attorney’s office to present the case to a grand jury.

It’s not yet clear whether Manziel or Crowley will testify before the grand jury this week. The district attorney’s office and lawyers for both Manziel and Crowley did not immediately respond to questions.

Manziel was cut by the Browns in March after two tumultuous seasons marked by inconsis-

Johnny Manziel scrambles away from Washington linebacker Will Compton in a 2014 preseason game. tent play and off-the-field headlines about his partying and drinking, including one stint in rehab. His future in the NFL is uncertain at best, and might be nonexistent without a second stint in treatment that two agents have demanded.

The first one, Erik Burkhardt, cut ties with Manziel after last season. Burkhardt’s replacement, Drew Rosenhaus, dropped Manziel on Tuesday.

The little time Manziel spent on the field for the Browns the past two sea-

sons, he didn’t have much impact. He passed for 1,675 yards with seven touchdowns and seven interceptions in 14 games.

And his admission after his rookie season that he didn’t spend enough time preparing will be another

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factor in any team’s decision to pick up Manziel. Cleveland delayed the quarterback’s release for two days trying to find a trade partner, but Manziel’s value has declined since his days as a dynamic playmaker with the Aggies.