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Deaths from car crashes declining State police credit decline to targeting areas with high DUI rates by corey mcdonald staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia State Police reported a significant reduction in motor vehicle fatalities in 2014 during a press conference last Friday.

The press conference was held by department headquarters to discuss highway safety and the reduction of fatalities during 2014.

In 2014, 271 fatalities in 240 fatal crashes were reported which is a significant decline from previous years.

During 2013, 332 fatalities in 305 fatal car crashes took place and 2012 reported

339 fatalities in 318 fatal car crashes.

State police accredit this fatality decline to their approach regarding specific highway patrols. Their new targeted approach involves reviewing areas with high rates of fatality or DUIs throughout the state, and thus stepping up enforcement in and around these areas.

Patrols are conducted as much as manpower allows.

Patrols are directed during peak traveling hours when motorists are commuting to and from work. More emphasis is also put on holidays and peak traveling

seasons, such as when students arrive into a county from out-of-state to begin a new semester.

The state is divided into troops, or sectioned areas monitored by the state police and highway patrol.

The State Police rely heavily on grants provided by the Governor’s Highway Safety Program in order to appropriately address highway safety concerns.

“Every grant has a specific purpose for what is to be used,” said Lt. Michael Baylous of the West Virginia State Police.

The grants provided create an outline as to what

type of patrols are to be conducted. They may be specified for particular patrols such as Distracted Driving Enforcement, Work Zone Safety Enforcement, Seatbelt and Child Restraint Enforcement or DUI Enforcement.

“There is no emphasis on one patrol or another,” Baylous said. “Not that I’m aware of.”

These grants provide aid for the state police that otherwise would not be available due to a lack of funds to pay officers. These extra funds allow troopers to

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2014 saw 68 fewer fatalities compared to 2012.

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SGA working on BEHIND long-term projects the scenes by caitlin coyne correspondent @dailyathenaeum

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he West Virginia University Student Government Association election season began this month with potential candidates walking around campus asking students to sign their forms and listen to their mission statements.

SGA has been the subject of criticism within the past year as students wonder what it accomplishes for the student body. As these hopefuls pass around their forms, it’s inevitable that the question be asked again.

“When people don’t see things happening everyday, they assume there is nothing productive going on,” said SGA Faculty Advisor Daniel Brewster.

Brewster believes many people aren’t pleased with SGA’s work because there is a lack of instant gratification in the projects they take on.

“I’ve never really thought it was like a check list, things are worked on simultaneously and these

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SGA Governor Julie Merow looks through email on their computers Monday afternoon in the SGA Office.

things usually take a lot of time,” Brewster said.

According to Student Body President Chris Nyden, the goal for this year was to stop working on shortterm fixes for problems.

“A lot of our focus is on the bigger picture now,” he said, citing his ongoing battle with other West Virginia institutions to stop state budget cuts to education that would lead to hikes in tuition for WVU students. “This isn’t something that is going to have results right away.”

The role of SGA is to represent the student body’s voice to the administration, with Nyden sitting on the WVU Board of Governors as a voting member.

“My job is pushing the issues that are most important to students,” Nyden said.

Past members of SGA have been involved in issues as big as re-

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Mississippi, West Virginia toughest on school immunizations

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With rampant diabetes and obesity, Mississippi and West Virginia have struggled with health crises.

Yet when it comes to getting children vaccinated, these states don’t mess around.

The states, among the poorest in the country, are the only ones that refuse to exempt school children from mandatory vaccinations based on their parents’ personal or religious beliefs. Separate efforts to significantly loosen those rules died in both states’ legislatures last week.

Mississippi has the highest immunization rate in the country for children entering kindergarten at 99.7 percent, while West Virginia is at roughly 96 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The figures cover vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella; diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis; and varicella, or chickenpox.

Public health officials say a 90 percent immunization rate is criti-

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Dr. Mariel Milan, right, joins other pediatric residents from the University of Mississippi Medical Center as they confer with state Sen. Will Longwitz, R-Madison, about childhood vaccinations during a visit to the Capitol, Tuesday Jackson, Miss. cal to minimizing the potential for a disease outbreak.

“Mississippi is not traditionally viewed as a leader on health issues. But in this area, they should be proud of the fact that they have not changed this law. Mississippi and West Virginia could be role

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models for other states,” said Dr. Mark Schleiss, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher at the University of Minnesota.

A recent measles outbreak that has sickened more than 100 people has brought attention to policies in 48 states that allow parents

to opt out of vaccinating their children because of their religious beliefs or personal beliefs, or both.

But in West Virginia and Mississippi the rules are firm: Barring a significant medical reason, kids who haven’t been vaccinated can’t attend school — public or private.

Dr. Rahul Gupta, West Virginia’s state health officer, said the limit on exemptions is the reason his state has been spared from any measles outbreaks for decades.

And the policy has been relatively uncontroversial.

“The overwhelming majority of the public ... support having more of their children protected through vaccinations than less,” he said.

Some parents in West Virginia are perplexed that people wouldn’t vaccinate their kids.

“I don’t think it’s a big deal,” said Paula Beasley, whose daughter attends fifth grade in Cross Lanes, West Virginia. “Everyone needs to.

It’s all for the greater good.”

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WVU Students headed to NASA competition By kendall snee staff writer @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University is proudly sending a team of students to the 2015 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage forum. For the third year, WVU students will participate in an engineering design competition sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace. The competition will be held in Cocoa Beach, Fla., June 14-17.

The team’s chosen mission is to design a permanent lunar base. Aaron Dunkle, a senior aerospace engineering student, explained the hardships he and his team faced were both predictable challenges as well as problems that never would have crossed his mind.

“Finding a power source was a challenge because when you’re in space, you only have a few options,” Dunkle said. “So I just thought, solar. And I was the (leader) of the group so I picked that and everyone else wanted to go with it.”

Dunkle said with every choice the team made, there were repercussions.

“The other idea we had was nuclear power but we decided not to go with it because the idea is that this report is supposed to be written as if it was being submitted to NASA, and congress and politicians don’t really like nuclear power,” Dunkle said. “So that was a big factor. Even though nuclear power is better it is also harmful. I felt that a well-maintained and constructed solar panel would be better, and not have to deal with any horrible backlash of using nuclear power.”

Dunkle said the teams in the competition need participants with a variety of skills and backgrounds to be successful.

“It really is like a real-world thing with the proposal and the research, and you’re actually submitting something and there’s funding that this project has implemented. Anyone can join, and for a project like this we need so many different types of people, not just engineers. It’s really a multidisciplinary thing,” Dunkle said.

Melanie Wieland, a junior electrical engineering student and another team leader, explained the structure of her team’s dynamic.

“Basically what happens is that I get the team organized, we take each group and go through everything that they’ve done and then collaborate and come up with some ideas that we can continue researching on, and then I put the final paper together and then I talk as sort of a go-between,” Wieland said.

Wieland said she joined the team because of her deep interest in space and how comforting it is to be around people with similar interests.

“It’s a really good opportunity because no matter what major or year in school you are, you can be a part in it as long as you have interest,” Wieland said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Missouri inmate set to die for killing neighbor in 1990 ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate who killed his neighbor 25 years ago was to be executed early Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court and the state’s governor denied appeals to spare his life.

Walter Timothy Storey was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing a woman inside her apartment in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles. After a Missouri-record 10 executions in 2014, it would be the state’s first this year.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon turned down Storey’s bid for clemency around 8 p.m.

Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court also denied his appeal arguing that the lethal drug could cause a painful death. Four justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan — would have granted the stay.

Missouri obtains its execution drug, pentobarbital, from an unnamed compounding pharmacy, and prison officials refuse to disclose details about how or if it is tested. Storey’s attorney argues that the secrecy makes it impossible to know if the barbiturate

will quickly work or cause an unconstitutionally painful death.

“After all, compounding is not necessarily a matter of changing a drug’s flavor, but rather it is a matter of combining different ingredients in new, untested ways,” Storey’s attorney, Jennifer Herndon, wrote.

She cited an anesthesiologist who said that that “sub-potent pentobarbital” could severely disable the prisoner without killing him, potentially leaving him alive but permanently brain-damaged.

In a response, the Missouri attorney general’s office noted that virtually every recent inmate facing execution has raised the same issue.

“A dozen Missouri executions using pentobarbital have been rapid and painless,” the response read.

Herndon also expressed concerns about Missouri’s use of the sedative midazolam prior to executions.

The state has said the drug is administered to help calm the nerves of inmates, and only to those who want it.

Herndon wrote that midazolam was used in three botched executions in other

states in 2014.

Storey, 47, was sentenced to death three separate times in the same case.

He was living with his mother in a St. Charles apartment on Feb. 2, 1990, when he became upset over his pending divorce. He spent an angry night drinking beer.

He ran out of beer and money, so he decided to break into the neighboring apartment of Jill Frey to steal money for more beer.

Frey, a 36-year-old special education teacher, had left the sliding glass door of her balcony open. Storey climbed the balcony and confronted Frey in her bedroom, where he beat her.

Frey suffered six broken ribs and severe wounds to her head and face.

Storey used a kitchen knife to slit her throat so deeply that her spine was damaged. Frey died of blood loss and asphyxiation.

Storey returned the next day to clean up blood, throw clothes in a trash bin and scrub Frey’s fingernails to remove any traces of his skin.

But he missed a key piece of evidence: blood on a dresser.

“There was a really good palm print in blood,” said Mike Harvey, a retired St. Charles detective who now works as an investigator for the St. Charles County prosecutor.

Lab analysis matched the print to Storey, whose prints were on file for a previous crime.

Storey was convicted and sentenced to death.

The Missouri Supreme Court tossed the conviction, citing concerns about ineffective assistance of counsel and “egregious” errors committed by Kenny Hulshof, who was with the Missouri attorney general’s office at the time and handled the prosecution. Hulshof was later a congressman and a candidate for governor.

Storey was tried again in 1997, and sentenced again to death. That conviction was also overturned, this time over a procedural error by the judge. Storey was sentenced to death a third time in 1999.

Herndon said Storey is remorseful for his crimes and has spent “thousands AP of hours” working in a restorative justice program in In this Jan. 1, 2012 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections prison, trying to help crime is Walter Storey of St. Charles, Mo., who faces the death penalty for killing Jill Frey in 1990. victims.

Hundreds pack Vermont Statehouse to debate gun bill MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Hundreds of Vermonters on Tuesday night debated proposed legislation that would expand background checks for gun buyers and impose other new firearms restrictions.

At a packed Statehouse, the Senate Judiciary and Health and Welfare Committee heard testimony from supporters and opponents of the legislation, though opponents in the hall and nearby rooms where video was piped in easily outnumbered supporters.

S e ve ra l o p p o n e nt s pointed to Vermont’s rank in FBI statistics as the safest state in the country.

They argued that Senate

Bill 31 isn’t needed.

“If I’m being assaulted on a city street, I’d rather have a .38 on me than a copy of S. 31,” said Erika Eldred.

Supporters of the legislation told emotional stories of themselves or family members being a victim of violence and argued that easy access to firearms was one cause.

“My mother, Helen Klassen, was murdered 46 years ago in Indiana in violence that involved a gun,” said Bess Klassen-Landis of Windsor. No one was convicted, but the killer was believed to be a patient of Klassen-Landis’ father, a psychiatrist, she said. “When my 11-year-

old sister came home on the early bus that day, she found our mother naked, bruised, lying in a pool of blood. She had been shot four times.”

Others spoke of the fear triggered in children in school drills meant to prepare for a mass shooting.

Bruce MacLean, a retired teacher at Oxbow Union High School in Bradford, told of living in fear that “one day, some distraught, anguished individual would get off Route 5, walk into that school and start blasting away.”

One sign of the passionate support for gun rights stirs in Vermont, otherwise one of the most liberal states in the country: Tues-

day’s hearing included two unscheduled recesses after opponents of the legislation offered raucous applause against the instruction of Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, who chaired the session.

Statehouse obser vers said it was the biggest crowd to descend on the Statehouse since 2000, when Vermont debated and ultimately passed a civil unions law, making the state to grant marriagelike rights and responsibilities to same-sex couples.

Opponents insisted the bill would put Vermont on a path to gun registration and possibly confiscation, either by the state or federal government.

“Mao, Hitler, Stalin and Castro all instituted gun confiscation before they killed their own people,” said Bob Shea of Fairfax. “We are headed on a slippery slope toward confiscation.”

Some lawmakers said the bill would face slim chances. Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat and lifelong hunter, opposes it.

Why the Second Amendment fervor in a state that Election Day exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and other media have found to be among the most liberal?

“I think it’s a result of

years and years of Vermonters respecting guns as a tool to manage wildlife and to put food on the table,” Shumlin said in an interview. “That’s what motivates us to own a gun. It’s not necessarily what motivates someone who lives in Manhattan to own a gun.”

Whether people grew up in a hunting family as he did “really influences how you look at this,” the governor added.

Hunters have nothing to worry about, said Ann Braden of Brattleboro, president of the group Gun Sense Vermont, which supports the measure.

“This legislation doesn’t affect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. It’s focused exclusively on keeping guns out of the hands of convicted abusers, violent felons, and drug traffickers,” she said.

FBI figures showed Vermont was the safest state in the country in 2013, with 115 violent crimes per 100,000 people. That was less than a third the national rate of 368 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

That’s often attributed to having no big urban areas — the state’s largest city is Burlington, population about 40,000. A sparser population and civic traditions like the New Eng-

land town meeting also are sometimes cited. “I think there’s a strong sense of community in Vermont,” said Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn.

The bill, sponsored by the top three Democrats in the Vermont Senate, has three main components: — It would expand background checks to private sales, with an exemption for sales between family members. If one neighbor wants to sell a gun to another, they must approach a federally-licensed firearms dealer, who would run an electronic background check through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

— It would make it a violation of state law as well as federal law for convicted felons to possess firearms.

This would give state and local police new power to enforce the law.

— It would require that anyone found by a court to have a mental disorder making him or her a danger to self or others, or who had been found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity, or who had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility, to have that information forwarded to the federal background check database for exclusion from being allowed to buy a gun.

SGA

Nyden admitted SGA had a difficult start last semester, citing PR issues and a lack of communication between the student body and the organization as a whole.

SGA is scheduled to launch a new website next month, marking progress toward better student body communication, according to Nyden.

Another issue Nyden believes is detrimental to accomplishing the goals set in members’ platforms is the large turnover rate each season that allows each member to usually only serve one year in office, which he believes is a very short time to accomplish everything proposed.

Brewster voiced his worry that some platforms, while they may sound great to students, can sometimes be idealistic. For instance,

textbook affordability.

“I don’t know if a student government can fix a problem like that, it’s very bureaucratic,” Brewster said.

Both Brewster and Nyden believe the format of SGA can be further improved with more involvement from the student body.

“There has to be accountability on both sides,” Brewster said. “Students think they’re relatively powerless and they hold this idea that SGA can’t do anything for them, but that’s only true if they don’t give SGA the chance.”

All students have a chance to voice their issues and concerns to SGA at the weekly meetings at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays in Hatfields.

safety, we’re not highway patrol,” Baylous said. “We have less than 700 troops to govern all of these troops.”

Grant money given to the state police by the Governor’s Highway Safety Program has remained steady in recent years, with little variation in the amount given each year.

While state police have reported a correlation with these targeted patrols and the reduction of fatalities in the state, many factors contribute to motor vehicle accidents.

“We have been focusing on these patrols, but so much more than that can be involved,” Baylous said.

“Last year we had extreme winter weather, and that may have played a part.”

Baylous also suggested

that the increase in media campaigning has aided in decreasing fatalities on the road.

“There’s been a lot of emphasis on highway safety through media campaigns (and) these have been in the media for a couple years now,” Baylous said.

“We’ve been hammering that message home, that people need to be aware.

But if people used common sense, it would be a lot safer.”

Despite any unforeseen variables, state police concluded the decline in motor vehicle fatalities is directly correlated to an increased and improved presence on state highways, utilizing the new targeted approach.

Continued from page 1 figuring GEC requirements for the University and were part of the dialogue that led to the Student Rec Center construction.

So far this year, SGA has been successful in extending the student health care insurance deadline that passed in the beginning of the fall semester as well as pushing for wheelchair accessible seating at football games, the latter of which was already in the works by the University.

SGA was also successful in launching the Catalyst of Change Scholarship, which considers student idea proposals and awards the winning student with funds to accomplish their goals.

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work special patrols on their days off, during vacation time, before a regular shift begins or after a regular shift has ended.

“All of the grant money received goes directly to overtime money, that’s all it is,” Baylous said. “That money provides an extra person that would not have been available otherwise.”

State troopers sometimes run into issues of availability in terms of highway patrols, and state police jurisdiction involves tackling other issues unrelated to highway safety.

“We can’t have members just focus on highway

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New jobs good progress for W.Va.

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On Tuesday, Procter & Gamble announced it will be constructing a 450 acre manufacturing plant in Berkeley County.

This was spurred by Berkeley County’s decisions to expand an industrial park by 600 acres in 2012.

Berkeley County has made an impressive move regarding the mission of keeping students and jobs in-state. By making them-

selves more appealing to larger companies, they have created an outlet for job and career growth and expansion. And the rest of the state should take notice.

The idea of creating new jobs and bringing in new opportunities is on the mind of every state leader in the U.S. Everyone wants their state to be the most appealing or the most innovative. Therefore, it was

a smart move by officals in Berkeley County to set up not only their county, but the state as a whole, as a place someone would want to build a business.

Monongalia County should follow the lead of our fellow West Virginians. While West Virginia University’s home county may seem well endowed with jobs, there are few major players other than

the University and Mylan Pharmaceuticals.

Think about the advantages new options would bring not only to permanent W.Va. residents, but also students coming into the state.

Students from out of state may come to WVU and fall in love with the state which houses them. It would be hard for them not to with the beautiful foliage and

mixture of city and country options. But, they find after some research that outside of University jobs or chemical plant options, there is little career and growth opportunity.

In order to keep students in state and draw in more residents from out of state, all counties in W.Va. need to make moves such as the one made by Berkeley County.

This will help foster and

support the growing generation, while also bringing in more revenue for the state.

As students, we should support and encourage this change the best way we can. It is important to realize change made in the state is for the better and to voice our encouragement for more change of the same variety. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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From hugs to hashtags: Relationships in the digital age abby humphreys columnist @obiwan_baloni

Like many others at the beginning of middle school, I was once addicted to relationship quizzes.

I knew not to take those mindless time-wasters seriously, but there was something incredibly alluring about the thought of knowing what direction my love life would take. I’d spend hours seeing what my hair color said about the person I’d marry or how many children I might have.

These nonsensical predictors didn’t disappear as I got older. In between makeup tutorials and outfit pairings, Seventeen magazine preached never to enter into a relationship with a friend’s ex or a coworker.

Other articles from different magazines warned of what meals to avoid on first dates and listed common body language signaling a first kiss.

I devoured these words with a hungry eye before starting college, but had no idea just what was waiting for me once I arrived.

Within three months of my first semester, I’d already committed Seventeen’s most terrible of all evils: “floorcest,” or dating someone from the same dorm floor.

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Though I knew doom surely awaited me, a month passed. Then two. Then three. What could have been an awkward and uncomfortable breakup situation transformed into a surprisingly wonderful and fulfilling partnership.

The relationships around me have consistently defied the rules I’ve learned over the years from assorted magazines and websites, rendering their guidance useless. A good friend has been dating his

girlfriend since middle school and has managed to make long distance work for over a year. At the same time, other friends’ romantic hookups and promising dates have fallen apart when they should have worked out.

Magazine advice isn’t the only thing negatively influencing today’s relationships. Immediately after joining Instagram and Twitter, I was bombarded by numerous posts about friends’ and classmates’

significant others.

Photos of candlelit dinners and Man Crush Monday kisses crowded my phone screen, each with a substantial number of likes and comments.

Everyone seemed eager to post pictures of their loved ones or recall stories of how they met in lengthy captions, but it soon appeared as though the only thing validating their relationship was how often they showcase their affection to others.

With such a desperate need for answers in an area as emotionally-involved as relationships, we might take the word of articles or stories written merely for amusement as serious advice. Society also rewards “cute” relationships with attention, which may drive some to enter into partnerships just to have something to post about.

Emotional Reddit testimonies about finding “the one” and too many romcoms with unlikely pair-

ings paint a false portrait of what experiencing love is like in the real world. It’s possible the “relationship porn” surrounding us every day on assorted apps drives some to read too much into certain situations and confuse exceptions with the rule.

Though we may not like to admit it, there is just no surefire way to predict where we might find happiness or success in a relationship. Even words of wisdom from close friends cannot replace our own gut feelings.

This Valentine’s Day, I urge readers to take a step back from outside influence and evaluate both themselves and their relationships. I know from experience what it’s like to confuse society’s views with my own, and in doing so, I risked never pursuing someone I now hold very dear to me.

So eat a cheeseburger on the first date and keep an open mind when looking for love. If you’ve already found it, put away the cell phone camera and focus on being present with your significant other.

As Morrie Scwartz (of “Tuesdays with Morrie” fame) said, “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Respecting artistry by respecting accomplishments of others emily torbett columnist @dailyathenaeum

Anyone watching Sunday night’s Grammy Awards ceremony was likely bracing themselves for the worst when Kanye West jumped onstage after it was announced Beck’s Morning Phase had been awarded Album of The Year over Beyonce.

Just as the rapper appeared ready to speak into the microphone, he backed away with one finger in the air and his eyes aimed downward. Rather than appearing angry or frustrated with Kanye stepping in front of him, Beck attempted to playfully call him up again, saying, “Come back! I need some help up here!”

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While Kanye was silent on stage during Beck’s acceptance speech, he had plenty to say after the ceremony, bashing not only Beck, but also the Grammy Awards as a whole. During E!’s post-Grammy show, West explained that his action was in itself a protest.

“If they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us,” West said. “Beck needs to respect artistry, and he should have given his award to Beyonce.”

He continued, “At this point, we tired of it! Because what happens is, when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration.”

Beck, who seemed legitimately stunned to have been awarded such an honor, responded to the rapper’s brutal and outlandish comments in the most humble and laid-back way possible.

“I was just so excited he was coming up,” he told US Weekly during the Universal Music Group after-party. “(West) deserves to be onstage as much as anybody.

How many great records has he put out in the last five years, right?”

Beck continued to affirm his non-offense to West’s criticism by stating he was surprised to have beaten out Beyonce.

“I thought she was going to win. Come on, she’s Beyonce,” Beck said. “You can’t please everybody, man. I still love (West) and

think he’s genius. I aspire to do what he does.”

Kanye and his infamous awards show antics - who could forget the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards incident in which the rapper took to the stage to steal the microphone from a young Taylor Swift’s hand as she accepted her award for Music Video of the Year - are still frequently the butt of many jokes. In fact, it can be argued West jumping on stage before Beck should be viewed as nothing more than a joke. However, in this case, nobody is laughing.

With Kanye’s growing irrelevance, it’s no surprise he feels the need to make inflammatory comments and steal the limelight from other musicians. However, Beck’s success is well deserved, as is his Grammy

for Album of The Year. A true musician and artist, he not only plays 12 different instruments, but writes and produces his own music. Famous for his willingness to experiment with and blend a wide range of musical styles, it may be argued Beck is the nominee who performs what Kanye referred to as “true artistry.”

What Kanye believes to be bold and monumental protests in the face of the music industry are actually nothing more than the embarrassing actions of a petulant child who will cry when things don’t turn out exactly the way he wants them to.

A textbook sore loser, Kanye is the sort of guy who responds to loss by whining the game isn’t fair. If there is any one industry that has been and contin-

ues to be colorblind, it is music. Kanye’s actions only serve to diminish this progress. With his hyper-vigilance and over-willingness to throw down the race card, he brings an obvious negativity to every event.

The time has come for Kanye to either find a spotlight of his own to shine in, or stop attending award shows altogether. His history of stealing what should be proud moments from other musicians does nothing but detract from the artistry music award shows aim to celebrate.

In other words, Kanye, I’m real happy for you, and I’m going to let you finish, but please stop embarrassing yourself and focus on your own career. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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The WVU Jazz Ensemble preforms, featuring General McArthur Hambrick, Monday night.

By Hannah Harless A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University jazz ensemble Big Band performed at the Creative Arts Center Monday night in a Mardi Grasthemed celebration.

The Gladys G. Davis Theatre ignited with the rumbles of drums and brassy sounds of saxophones at 7:30 p.m. Musicians poured in through all entrances of the theater, dressed in Mardi Gras-themed attire, including masks, necklaces, feathers, purple and green pants and sequined fedoras, getting the audience pumped.

The WVU Jazz Ensemble is under the conduction of both Paul Scea, the director of jazz studies, and WVU jazz faculty member Craig Fraedrich.

Both Scea and Fraedrich

compose their own work, are active musicians and have had a thorough background in music prior to their experiences with the jazz ensembles at WVU. The WVU Big Band is just one of WVU’s 11 jazz ensembles. The WVU Big Band consists of nearly 20 members in four basic sections. These sections include saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a rhythm section.

“The jazz ensembles are composed of WVU students from all different majors, although the majority of members are music majors,” Scea said.

“Any student can audition to be in a jazz ensemble.

For people not majoring in music, it is a way to stay musically active and make new friends.”

Many alumni of the band have become musicians in major cities, been honored with Fulbright

scholarships, become faculty members at major universities and have moved abroad to further their careers in music.

The performance began as the musicians played the song “Second Line” by Joe Avery, arranged by Fraedrich. The musicians performed this piece as they were moving to their seats center stage.

Not only did the musicians play their instruments, but they also showcased quick-step dance moves to add to the jazz flair.

Following the first performance piece, Fraedrich grabbed a microphone and welcomed the crowd with an elated introduction. Fraedrich then went on to talk about the historical significance of jazz music.

He began by talking about when and where it originated, followed by the transformation of the

genre over the years, as well as about significant figures that played a role in its dissemination. Fraedrich even gave a music lesson to audience members, using musicians in the band as examples to signify what makes this music “jazz.”

The band went on to perform many traditional jazz tunes such as “Bourbon St. Parade,” “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky AWay.” The concert also featured soloist General McArthur Hambrick, an assistant professor of dance from the School of Theatre and Dance, who performed songs such as “Basin St. Blues” and “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?”

The audience was filled primarily with students from the University.

“I was really excited about the whole WVU Big Band experience. I love

jazz music, I’ve always been a fan. My favorite instrument would have to be the trumpet,” said Margo Folwick, a student in the Eberly College who attended the event.

Promotion from the University’s courses significantly impacted the number of people in the audience.

“I’m in a Great Composers in History class, and we were required to attend five concerts. They mentioned this concert, and I felt like it would be a great one to go to since I was in jazz band in high school,” said Gabriel Britcher, a student in the Statler College.

The WVU Jazz Ensembles will hold more concerts as the spring semester progresses. Dates for these performances can be found online. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Senior Averee Fields drives down the lane in last night’s game against Kansas.

Bria Holmes scores 27 points, leads WVU to victory over Kansas, 59-56 by nicole curtin

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Last night the West Virginia women’s basketball team bounced back with a win over the Kansas Jayhawks, 59-56.

Junior guard Br ia Holmes finished with a team high 27 points, leading the Mountaineers. Senior forward Averee Fields posted 10 points and grabbed seven rebounds, center Lanay Montgomery grabbed eight boards and senior guard Linda Stepney had seven as well.

“I thought Averee played well, Bria Holmes played well, she has been playing well the last three games,”

said head coach Mike Carey. “We didn’t execute well in the end. I kept saying ‘don’t help in’ and we help in, they hit four or five threes.”

Kansas was never able to take the lead over West Virginia and although the Jayhawks are fourth in the conference in 3-point shooting, they attempted 21 threes last night and only made seven.

The Mountaineers came out strong in the first half.

About eight minutes into the game they had a 14-5 lead, and held a decent distance for the rest of the half.

The biggest lead of the game was a 12-point difference going into half

time, when WVU was up 27-15.

In the first half the Mountaineers shot 40.7 percent from the field and 66.7 percent from the free throw line. Holmes was leading the team with 14 points.

“I just had a different mindset coming off a loss last week,” Holmes said.

“Being more aggressive and just attacking (and) when I see my players open, pass the ball.”

With such a lead at the half, it seemed like the energy West Virginia had would carry over when they came out of the locker room, but that wasn’t the case.

Kansas went on an early

5-0 run, cutting the score to 31-25.

They quickly pulled into Mountaineer territory and 13 minutes into the second half the score was 37-34. West Virginia continued to fight on, but the defense left some holes for wide open 3-point shots by Natalie Knight and Asia Boyd.

“They withstood the run that we made in the second half and jumped on us early,” said Kansas head coach Bonnie Henrickson.

“We weren’t aggressive and didn’t attack, it’s certainly a tale of two halves, but in this league you’ve got to play 40 minutes.”

In the last four minutes

of the game it looked like Kansas wasn’t going home without a win.

At the 4:03 mark they came within five points, with the score at 53-48.

WVU and Kansas made buckets back and forth until there were 24 seconds left and Kansas’ Boyd was sent to the free throw line for three shots.

Boyd sunk each shot putting the score at 57-56.

Lauren Aldridge fouled Stepney with six seconds left on the clock. Stepney mad each shot and Kansas got the ball back.

The game just barely avoided overtime. Right after the buzzer went off Kansas attempted a last 3-point shot, and it went

in.

“Thank goodness there wasn’t another second on the clock in the end, because that ball went in,” Carey said.

Although West Virginia held a lead through most of the game, the late open threes gave Kansas a perfect opportunity to come back.

The Jayhawks finished with a 41.8 field percentage, 33.3 percent from beyond the arc and 60 percent at the foul line.

WVU has six games left this season and will face No. 3 Baylor on the road this weekend. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

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Daxter Miles Jr. takes a jumpshot during a game earlier this year. by connor murray taineers’ attention turns sports writer to Kansas State, a team @dailyathenaeum they defeated on the road Jan. 27.

Two-straight losses The things that brought in blowout fashion have the Mountaineers into forced No. 21 West Vir- the conversation as a top ginia to take a long tier Big 12 team: Preslook at itself in the sure defense that forces mirror. opponents into a monAfter having three full strous amount of turndays to recuperate from overs and outworking optheir 18-point home loss ponents on the boards to the Bears, the Moun- have vanished in the last

week.

In their back-to-back losses to Oklahoma and Baylor, the Mountaineers have been even with their opponents in terms of rebounding and have committed just one less turnover than the opposition.

When this team was clicking, it was compiling a decided advantage in both areas.

So, how will West Virginia get back to its winning ways? As he is prone to do, and as his right as one of the winningest coaches in college basketball is, Bob Huggins turned to history for a lesson.

“Think about those (WVU) teams in the Sweet Sixteen and Final Four.

They didn’t turn the ball over. They rebounded.

We started out doing those things and now we got away from them,” he said.

West Virginia honed its persistent pressing style in the early stages of the season, when the opposition wasn’t as stiff and the grind of conference play was still far in the distance. Now that the Mountaineers are in the thick of things in terms of their schedule, the wheels on the bus have shown signs of falling off.

“I think the opposition has stepped up, but that doesn’t mean you stop doing what you’re doing. We thought our bigs would finish better than what we’re finishing. They haven’t finished,” Huggins said.

The opposition has certainly stepped up, espe-

cially within the Big 12.

Kansas State will provide another stout challenge with senior forward Thomas Gipson, who is one of the toughest big men in the conference.

While Gipson provides a matchup problem, the Wildcats have struggled to find complementary scoring since the suspension of sophomore guard Marcus Foster, who has put up 14 points per game so far this year.

Kansas State’s current weakness in terms of depth has been West Virginia’s strength for much of the year.

Huggins has employed one of the deepest rotations in the country, and it has a cumulative effect on the opposition over the course of a game when those 10 or more options are operating at full-go all the time. According to Huggins, that hasn’t been the case lately.

“Our five aren’t a better than a lot of people, but our ten are. We don’t have the same amount of effort.

We don’t have the same amount of resolve,” Huggins said.

“I saw it coming. It’s like kids. You don’t want to see them make mistakes you made, but it’s hard to stop them. You tell them and tell them, but it hasn’t done any good.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Freshman Zeke Moisey pins redshirt sophomore Kyle Larson during the Mountaineers’ match against Iowa State.

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Although the West Virginia University wrestling team fell to then-No. 11 Iowa State Saturday, 125-pound Zeke Moisey continued his exceptional freshman campaign in dominating fashion.

Moisey scored back-toback major decisions over Clarion’s Hunter Jones Friday and Iowa State’s Kyle Larson Saturday, earning Big 12 Wrestler of the Week honors. The true freshman has compiled a 25-11 over-

all record this season, including a team-high of 42 takedowns.

However, despite his success in his debut season with the Mountaineers, first-year head coach Sammie Henson originally intended to redshirt Moisey prior to the start of the season. It wasn’t until Moisey faced Virginia Tech’s Joey Dance, who is currently ranked No. 4 in the nation at 125, that Henson decided to pull his redshirt.

“He wrestled Joey Dance 3-2 in a tournament that we were at. And also at Michigan State he wres-

tled a Michigan kid that was ranked at the time – fairly high,” Henson said. “From my experience, I’ve pulled (redshirts from) quite a few people before … J’Den Cox last year. For me, it’s always watching the guy and see how they are doing in the open tournaments.”

Wrestling unattached at the Michigan State University Open in November, Moisey placed third at 125, including wins by pin and technical fall.

Before pulling his redshirt, Henson said Moisey asked one question: Why? “He basically said, ‘Why

do you want to pull me?’ Because I was adamant about not pulling him,” Henson said. “But right now, when you’re going 3-2 with Joey Dance and you’re beating kids that are ranked 11th in the country, you’re ready.

“If you’re ready, in my book, you get on the mat and do it now. Because you never know what’s going to happen.”

In West Virginia’s first dual meet of the season against Arizona State, Moisey earned a 12-2 major decision over Judson Preskitt.

The freshman went on to

place third at the Navy Classic and tallied a 2-1 record for the Mountaineers at the Northeast Duals, losing only to then-No. 2 Nahshon Garrett of Cornell.

Moisey was one of three Mountaineers to place at the Cliff Keen Invitational, which features a bevy of the nation’s most elite teams and wrestlers, finishing eighth. In West Virginia’s two losses to Oklahoma and then-No. 8 Oklahoma State, Moisey earned a 7-4 decision over Oklahoma’s Ryan Millhof before losing to then-No. 4 Eddie Klimara of Oklahoma State.

“I think this year’s going how I expected it to go.

I lost a few matches that I could’ve won, but it’s all preparation for the end of the year,” Moisey said. “I’m ready to go All-American at nationals. That’s the goal.”

For a true freshman, Moisey certainly doesn’t lack the self confidence needed to succeed in a physically and mentally demanding sport.

“We’re going to keep fighting and we’re going to keep working hard until we get there.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia ‘bigs’ need to improve in order for WVU to win by ryan petrovich sports writer @dailyathenaeum

No. 21 West Virginia is coming off two-straight losses. Both losses to Oklahoma and Baylor were ugly, and the same could be said about the play of the Mountaineers’ forwards.

All season long, Devin Williams has been the staple for West Virginia. He’s easily the most consistent forward on the roster, and only being a sophomore he hasn’t even hit his peak.

Behind Williams, however, there isn’t a whole lot to brag about.

“I’ve put a lot on Devin Williams, and he’s a sophomore,” said head coach Bob Huggins after the Baylor game. “We have a couple guys who have just been to high school and junior college. It’s different here—it’s different pressure and different players.”

Jonathan Holton hasn’t lived up to his full potential.

Holton is the team’s third leading scorer, behind Juwan Staten and Williams, but has had issues when it comes to foul trouble.

While he can be a difference maker, it doesn’t mean anything when he isn’t on the floor. Holton has had foul trouble all season, coping fouls early and having to sit on the bench to prevent further damage.

Even though Holton is the team’s third leading scorer, he could still do more. Where he does shine is on defense, particularly in the press, which Huggins has claimed to be crucial to the Mountaineers’ defensive success.

Brandon Watkins, Elijah Macon, BillyDee Williams and Nathan Adrian round out the rest of the forwards on West Virginia’s roster.

Watkins is far from effective. At times he seems lost on the court and only averages 1.8 points per game. There was hope at the beginning of the season Watkins could be the shot-blocker the Mountaineers desperately needed, but thus far Watkins hasn’t proved much of anything.

Macon is only a freshman, but has shown small flashes of a quality player. He needs time to adjust and grow in terms of understanding this level of college basketball.

He’s still averaging 4.8 points per game.

Adrian has seen a lot of time this season, but he’s really not a sure-fire forward.

Often times Adrian plays outside the arc and looks for 3-pointers and could be considered a utility guy, playing both guard and forward.

BillyDee Williams, another player unaccustomed to this level of basketball, has seen scarce time this season. He’s athletic, but was hindered early in the year due to injury—he hasn’t made much of an impact since returning.

He too has a long way to go before lighting it up underneath the basket.

Following the loss to Baylor, Huggins cited turnovers as an issue and pointed a finger at his big men inside the lane.

“I think most of our turnovers were from our ‘bigs,’” Huggins said following Saturday’s loss. “We don’t work on dribbling in the post. We don’t ever say catch it, dribble it and put your head down— I wouldn’t tell a fifth grade team that. But they did, so consequently there’s a huge disparity.”

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Forward Jonathan Holton boxes out Johnathan Motley during WVU’s game against Baylor.

The Mountaineers turned Devin Williams, the Moun- can manage, but he needs the ball over 16 times to the taineers were outscored in- a support system inside the side the paint, 40-32. lane. That’s where the other Bears.

Against Oklahoma, the Without Devin Williams, forwards must improve.

Mountaineers were without Oklahoma rolled over the This team is young but Williams due to an illness and Mountaineers and took ad- should they find better play his absence was evident. The vantage of West Virginia’s from other forwards, it would team turned the ball over 15 lower-end forwards who be a huge boost to the team all-around. times and was outscored in- filled in.

As long as Devin Williams side the paint, 38-22.

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WVU tries to bring momentum back to Morgantown by emily eisenhuth correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University women’s tennis team returns home with wins against both the Buffalo Bulls and the Niagara Purple Eagles this weekend. The Mountaineers now hold a record of 3-1 this season.

“We started out strong against Buffalo, but had a letdown in doubles, which almost (lost) us the dou-

bles point,” said Coach Miha Lisac. “We always focus on playing from ahead.

(We) have to continue to work on sustaining the lead and stay on our opponents once we get ahead.”

In the double matches against the Buffalo Bulls, the girls started off strong and fast. WVU scooped up a No. 1 spot as Kaja Mrgole and Ikttesh Chahal defeated Buffalo’s Dayana Agasieva and Margarita Kotok. Additionally, WVU freshmen Habiba Shaker

and Yvon Martinez teamed up and took on Buffalo’s best Tanja Stojanovaska and Doris Aleksoska for a win at the No. 3 spot.

WVU freshmen Shaker, Carolina Lewis, Martinez and senior Chahal took the No. 3-No. 6 spots in singles matches. Lewis was able to tally her first win for the spring season with a score of 6-2.

“Overall we played well today,” Lisac said.

The following day, the girls traveled north to Ni-

agara for their first time.

The girls got their third win of the season with a score of 6-1.

The Mountaineers once again started off with energy, as they secured every win in doubles competition. Shaker and Martinez came out undefeated in double matches together in the last two meets.

In singles, the team came out on top after taking five of six victories against the Purple Eagles.

Carolina Lewis also sept

this weekend through her first two matches of the spring season.

Though these two wins mean a lot, there is still a lot the girls need to learn, especially with the weekend coming up. The biggest thing Lisac is glad to be seeing from the team and the program is its progress.

“Playing double-headers is a challenge that requires maturity and sticking to the right things, and this is the first time we will

be taking on (the) challenge,” he said.

The Mountaineers look forward to being in front of a home crowd for the first time this season, as their first double-header for the spring season will be Friday against Youngstown and Towson at the Ridgeview Racquet Club. The girls will start off at noon against Youngstown, and later face Towson at 4 p.m. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Fans begin making their way to the Edward Jones Dome (the current stadium) before a Rams game in St. Louis, Mo. ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri vate investment to this area, an NFL team to Southern was not deemed among the Gov. Jay Nixon announced build an iconic stadium California would require top 25 percent of NFL stadideals with a power com- and transform these de- multiple steps and approv- ums based on various cripany and railroad Tuesday serted streets into a thriving als from NFL owners. The teria. The city’s Convention that he said represent “con- destination,” Nixon said. memo does not refer to the and Visitors Commission, crete progress” in plans to The Rams informed offi- Rams, the San Diego Char- which operates the dome, build a riverfront stadium cials earlier this month that gers or the Oakland Raid- proposed a new glass adthat could help St. Louis re- they were going to a year- ers, which have been con- dition, outdoor terraces main an NFL city. to-year lease, clearing the sidering a move. and a new scoreboard, imNixon held an outdoor way for a potential move.

Los Angeles, the nation’s provements of less than news conference in near- Billionaire team owner Stan second-largest market, has $200 million, with the Rams freezing temperatures Kroenke is part of a joint been without an NFL team picking up half of the cost. along with leaders of Ame- venture that announced since 1995 when the Raid- The Rams countered with a ren Missouri and Termi- plans earlier this month for ers moved back to Oakland more elaborate and expennal Railroad Association an 80,000-seat stadium in and the Rams moved from sive plan featuring a sliding at the proposed site for the the Los Angeles suburbs. roof that city officials said Anaheim to St. Louis.

64,000-seat, open-air staAny move would be subUnder terms of a 30-year would cost at least $700 dium that would replace ject to approval by the NFL agreement reached in 1995, million.

St. Louis officials are the Edward Jones Dome, and its owners. The NFL the Rams had the ability to now 20 years old. Ameren has said no moves would convert its dome lease to working directly with the would relocate transmis- be made in time for next annual terms if the facility NFL in efforts to keep footsion towers and the rail- season, but Commissioner road would move tracks Roger Goodell has estabout of the stadium foot- lished an internal commitprint, which Nixon said tee to review stadium opwas mostly vacant lots tions in Los Angeles and • Burritos • Quesadillas Eat-in • Salads • Sides & Dip and empty buildings in a coordinate any possible & • Tacos blighted area just north of move to Southern Califor• Chili • Enchiladas • Draft Beer Carry out the dome. nia, according to a league • Wings and much Nixon said the cost of the memo obtained Monday by move for Ameren would be The Associated Press.

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“I’ve not personally spoken with Stan, although there’s been a great deal of contact between all parties on this,” Nixon said.

If the team moves, Nixon said it would cost the state about $10 million in annual income tax revenue paid by NFL players. Officials appointed by Nixon to pursue a stadium deal did not attend the news conference because they were meeting with the league.

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“It’s in a demographic that is growing dramatically,” Nixon said. “I’m convinced the MLS is going to continue to grow.”

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