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Paraguay ambassador visits WVU by lauren caccamo staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Ambassador Igor Pangrazio of Paraguay visited the West Virginia University campus yesterday evening to speak with students about an exchange program with the National University of Asunción, a college located in the country’s capital.

Pangrazio, who arrived in Washington to serve as ambassador only last September, said he has learned firsthand the true value in travel and engaging in cul-

tures across the globe.

“Two things in life I can share with you: You have to travel and educate yourself. It’s the key to success,” Pangrazio said. “The more you get to know people, the more you understand people.”

Pangrazio said he has been to almost 100 countries and more than 30 states and still plans to visit more.

A graduate of the University of Kansas, Pangrazio also took part in a student exchange program that allowed him to attend a high school in California for a

year, showing he has not only visited many places in the U.S., but has also experienced American culture at an intimate level.

Pangrazio’s international experiences have compelled him to try to encourage American students to come to his home country, listing many compelling reasons for doing so.

In a 2014 Gallup poll, for instance, Paraguay was rated the happiest country in the world. Paraguay also has an abundance of wildlife with regions rated second best-preserved, just

beneath the Amazon, housing native groups that have had little-to-no contact with modern civilization. Meanwhile, Paraguay’s economy has had a growth streak, growing 14 percent in 2013.

Still, Pangrazio recognizes that Paraguay is not perfect.

“It is an amazing experience and the wildlife is unbelievable. But we have our problems. We are trying to reach an equilibrium between development and sustaining our environment, which is very important to us,” Pangrazio said. “It’s an

experience I think we can share.”

In 2011, President Barack Obama launched the “100,000 Strong in the Americas” initiative to promote international study in Latin American countries and foster region-wide prosperity through student exchange programs. The initiative offers fellowships to U.S. senior graduating college students, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study or conduct research abroad.

WVU provost Joyce McConnell, who was also pres-

ent at the event, said she believes this is a “truly wonderful opportunity” for WVU students to take advantage of. Pangrazio said he agrees.

“The sky is the limit in this potential partnership and we want students to be the product of that partnership,” Pangrazio said. “When we learn together, we progress together.”

McConnell presented West Virginian-made candles to the ambassador as a gift on behalf of the University. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

MICHAEL GARCIA F. BRIAN FERGUSON/The Charleston vGazette

A man watches across the Kanawha River as train cars burn after a derailment in Fayette County on Monday afternoon. The train, which was carrying rail cars with crude oil from North Dakota to Virginia, derailed near Mount Carbon and Deepwater around 1:30 p.m.

West Virginia train derailment sends oil tanker into river MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) — A train carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil derailed in southern West Virginia on Monday, sending at least one into the Kanawha River, igniting at least 14 tankers and sparking a house fire, officials said.

One person was being treated for potential inhalation issues, but no other injuries were reported, according to a news release from CSX, the train company. Nearby residents were told to evacuate as state emergency response and environmental officials headed to the scene about 30 miles southeast of Charleston.

The state was under a winter storm warning and getting heavy snowfall at times, with as much as 5 inches in some places. It’s not clear if the weather had anything to do with the derailment, which occurred about 1:20 EST along a flat stretch of rail.

As federal railway and hazardous materials officials were heading to the scene, the company said it’s still investigating what caused the train to come off the tracks.

Public Safety spokesman Lawrence Messina said responders at the scene reported one tanker and possibly another went into the river.

Messina said local emergency responders were having trouble getting to the house that caught fire.

Kanawha County Manager Jennifer Sayre said a reported 14 to 17 tankers caught fire or exploded.

James Bennett, 911 coordinator for Fayette County, said a couple hundred families were evacuated as a precaution.

The rail company said it’s still sorting out many specifics in its response.

“CSX teams also are working with first responders to address the fire, to determine how many rail cars derailed, and to deploy environmental protective and monitoring measures on land, air and in the nearby Kanawha River,” CSX spokesman Gary Sease said in a news release.

The fire continued burning along a hillside Monday evening, and small fires could be seen on the river.

David McClung said he felt the heat from one of the explosions at his home about a half mile up the hill.

His brother in law was outside at the time of the derailment and heard a loud crack below along the riverfront, then went inside to summon McClung, his wife and their son.

One of the explosions that followed sent a fireball at least 300 feet into the air, McClung said.

“We felt the heat, I can tell you that,” McClung said. “It was a little scary.

It was like an atomic bomb went off.”

Becky Nuckols heard the train hit the house directly across the river from her house in the community of Boomer.

“I thought it was a snow plow,” she said. That’s what made me look out.

All you heard was a big boom.”

After calling 911 Nuckols said she ran outside and saw a man leave the house and take off running.

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Garcia hopes for a second year as Mountaineer Editor’s Note: Each day this week, we’ll feature one of the four competitors vying to be the next Mountaineer Mascot. Today, we’re featuring Michael Garcia, the current Mountaineer. by lauren caccamo staff writer @dailyathenaeum

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ven without the buckskin hat and rifle, Michael Garcia’s full beard and tall stature make it easy to recognize him as the Mountaineer. But appearances have little to do with the responsibility attached to the role as West Virginia University’s mascot, and Garcia said he understands that even more as he approaches the end of his term as the Mountaineer Mascot.

“I’ve done a lot this past year, and from the experiences that have come with being the Mountaineer, the drive I have to represent the University is there now more than ever,” Garcia said.

Garcia was recently chosen as one of four finalists to represent WVU as the Mountaineer for the 2015-2016 school year.

Since being awarded the mascot position last April, Garcia has traveled to 36 of the 55 counties in West Virginia and attended a majority of the University’s sporting and alumni events. Meeting people from all over the state leaves little time to relax with family and friends.

“You have to make the sacrifices, but they are sacrifices worth making,” Garcia said.

A Fairmont native, Garcia said he practically grew up a Mountaineer when both of his older siblings attended WVU. Between football games and the proximity of Fairmont to

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Saira Blair reflects on time in office so far by jennifer skinner staff writer @dailyathenaeum

As her first session hits the halfway point, West Virginia Delegate Saira Blair (R) reflects on a positive experience so far in the West Virginia Capitol.

A native of Martinsburg, W.Va., Blair serves the state’s 59th district in the West Virginia House of Delegates and was elected during her first semester as a freshman economics student at West Virginia University.

“I love it. I’ve learned a lot,” Blair said. “(Thursday) was the halfway mark,

and we’ve already accomplished so many things.”

On that list of accomplishments is sponsoring a bill that requires photo identification in order to vote and reforming the judicial system by electing nonpartisan judges, Blair said.

“The number one thing I ran on was bringing jobs to West Virginia so my friends wouldn’t have to go to college here at WVU and then leave the state to find a job,” she said. “We’ve got more court reform coming. We have some major issues related to jobs, prevailing wage and right to work. There are big issues

SAIRA BLAIR we’ll be tackling in the next few weeks. I’m looking forward to it.”

Although it is a different lifestyle from being a student, Blair said she enjoys the fast pace of work-

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ing in the state capitol and experiencing the diversity of other delegates.

“It’s non-stop. I wake up really early in the morning

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Tuesday February 17, 2015

WVU launches new ‘Mountaineers Go First’ campaign by cameron gleason correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The Mountaineers Go First campaign has set out to rebrand West Virginia University and define the University’s core values.

In an email sent to all WVU students, President E. Gordon Gee helped launch the campaign by starring in a video highlighting WVU’s “firsts.” Some of the University’s firsts include a Mountaineer being the first-ever female to dunk a basketball during a NCAA game and being the first University named as an academic partner with the FBI. In the video, Gee also called on students to grow and find their personal Mountaineer “first.”

“What I want you to know is each and every one of you Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM are now adding your first to An Honors student reads a banner for the ‘Mountaineers Go First’ campaign on the University - you’re makthe first floor of Honors Hall. ing a difference,” Gee said

BLAIR

Continued from page 2 and go to bed really late,” Blair said. “It’s constantly moving, but it’s amazing because I’m from the Eastern panhandle, and it’s a lot different there than the rest of the state. So, working with these delegates who are from different backgrounds, they bring different things to the table. Every day, I learn something new that I never even knew to learn about.”

After winning the 2014 midterm election, the 18-year-old made history as the youngest legislator in the nation and recently made the Forbes “30 Under 30” list.

“I still don’t believe it,” Blair said. “I don’t really think I’m that special.

I can’t believe that they chose me over some candidates on the list. It is an honor but at the same time I’m just worried about getting the job done in Charleston.”

The coolest part about making the list, according to Blair, is the new connectivity to the other young, innovative minds from the list.

“They have an app for your phone, you can interact with them and they live all over the country,” she said. “I have the ability to communicate with them.

That was what I was most excited about, the opportunity to talk to these people who have done incredible things.”

Blair explained the youth is “prominent” in the capitol building, but her colleagues have not treated her any differently because of her age. As a young leader in West Virginia, Blair has received both encouragement and criticism for her political views.

“I’ve gotten an incredible amount of support from young people,” she said. “Out of the nine delegates that are under 30, seven of them are conservative and Republican. I think we’re starting to see a shift, not a dramatic one, but I think more young conservatives are willing to be a little more outspoken on their beliefs than they have in the past.”

Last Wednesday, Blair voted in support of HB 2568, a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks in West Virginia and was passed without amendments in the House of Delegates by a vote of 87-12.

“The second that I picked up my microphone, I knew that there were going to be people unhappy of what I had to say. Regardless of that fact, my belief and the belief of my district is that voting yes on the bill was correct,” Blair said. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s not the first and it will not be the last time that many people have hated me, especially on the Internet. A lot of people I interact with on a daily basis, some of them even professors, but everybody has their own opinions and I respect theirs and I respect the fact that they disagree with me.”

Blair said she wants her generation to realize the decisions being made in Charleston today will affect them in the future.

“We’re the working class. The state and the country are on our backs.

We’re going to have families soon and we’re going to have to start looking out for them,” she said.

As for her future in politics, Blair said she will probably run again for the same seat in the next election, but when her term ends, she will focus on being a full-time student again.

“I’m going to school right now studying economics in order to become a financial advisor,” Blair said. “I don’t agree with the concept of a career politician; that’s why I’m a strong supporter of term limits. People who are there too long forget what it’s like to just be a common citizen.”

After spending the spring semester in Charleston, Blair will resume classes at WVU in the summer.

“I’m really happy with the way everything has gone and I’m looking forward to the second half, but I’m also looking forward to getting back to Morgantown this summer,” she said. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 the University, Garcia said his heart really opened up to the idea of spending his college years on the WVU campus. His love for the school even held priority over his desire to play soccer.

“When I was in high school I wanted to come here and play soccer at WVU, but that didn’t really happen. Maybe I could’ve gone to a D-2 school and played, but I just loved it here so much,” Garcia said.

By the time Garcia was a sophomore at WVU, he had already applied to be the school mascot.

“I applied because I wanted to be involved in the University and really do something that mattered,” he said. “I had my first year to adjust that everybody needs, but by my second year I realized that I wanted to do something special around here.”

Now a senior political

in the video to students.

“You’re making a difference for those who will follow you. You’re building on the traditions and history of this institution and you will tell our story, tell our story all over the world.”

Although Gee’s video highlighted actual firsts by Mountaineers, the campaign is not limited to just that.

“Mountaineers go first every day by fearlessly pursuing progress,” the campaign’s website reads. “We may be the 100th person to do something, but we’re the first to do it differently.

To do it better. Or to do it bigger.”

Research for the campaign began last summer when a team assembled and delved into the character of the University to determine what different members of WVU are accomplishing.

“There is a lot of great innovation and creative solu-

tions that are being developed here, and we can begin to elevate those solutions in the market place so people know what our faculty, staff and students are really doing,” said Sharon Martin, vice president of University Relations.

The campaign’s goal is to show how students and faculty alike are making strides academically and professionally to better themselves and their future, among other boundless feats and triumphs. This program hopes to flaunt the achievements starting on campus and then eventually expand to a much larger scale.

“We really want people to understand what we do here, and how valuable our work and our research is,” Martin said. “I say a lot that I can market the institution outside of West Virginia or the city, but if we don’t believe it internally then it

doesn’t do any good.”

The founders of the Mountaineers Go First program tested the perceptions of in-state residents and non-residents through a market study to learn how WVU is viewed. The studies showed that many people know a great deal about WVU’s athletic programs, but their knowledge of the academic program is not as strong.

“Really I think it’s about helping making sure the public understands that WVU has high-quality academic programs, and that if you choose to come here it’s not just about coming here because we have high quality sports programs, particularly basketball and football,” said Vice Provost Russell Dean. “But also that we have academic programs that are on par with the rest of the country.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

AP

Many sex offenders killed in California prison SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Shortly after 2 a.m. on April 6, 2010, a guard at Salinas Valley State Prison noticed Alan Ager’s cellmate trying to stuff something under a mattress. It was Ager, blood trickling from his mouth and a cloth noose tied around his neck.

The convicted child molester died 10 days later without regaining consciousness, his death earning his cellmate a second life sentence.

California state prisoners are killed at a rate that is double the national average — and sex offenders like Ager account for a disproportionate number of victims, according to an Associated Press analysis of corrections records.

Male sex offenders made up about 15 percent of the prison population but accounted for nearly 30 percent of homicide victims, the AP found in cataloging all 78 killings that corrections officials reported since 2007, when they started releasing slain inmates’ identities and crimes.

The deaths — 23 out of 78 — come despite the state’s creation more than a decade ago of special housing units designed to protect the most vulnerable inmates, including sex offenders, often marked men behind bars because of the nature of their crimes.

In some cases, they have been killed among the general prison population and, in others, within the special units by violence-prone cellmates. Officials acknowledge that those units, which also house inmates trying to quit gangs, have spawned their own gangs.

Corrections officials blamed a rise in the prison homicide rate on an overhaul meant to reduce crowding. As part of the effort, the state in 2011 began keeping lower-level offenders in county lockups, leaving prisons with a higher percentage of sex offenders and violent gang members.

Violence and homicides won’t decline unless the state goes well below the prison population level set by the courts — 137.5 percent of the system’s designed science student, Garcia has applied to continue his mascot legacy into the next school year while he continues his studies into graduate school.

“I feel like I have a lot more to give to the University,” Garcia said. “In the next year I think I’m going to have a more ‘seize the day’ mentality where I’m going to go out every day with a really driven purpose to mentor the young adults in the area. I want to dedicate myself and renew that dedication to the University by being the best person I can to try to be and live up to that example of being the Mountaineer.”

Garcia said he feels he is the best candidate to be next year’s Mountaineer. Not because he already holds the title but because he embodies the passion and ability needed upon being approached by countless people during sporting events and regularly throughout the community.

Though he is the 63rd Mountaineer, Garcia said

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In this Tuesday, July 8, 2014 photo, Dan Ager holds a graphite sketch showing his father, Alan Ager, and him, while standing outside San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. Alan Ager was killed in 2010 at Salinas Valley State Prison and also served time in San Quentin. California state prison inmates are killed at a rate that is double the national average, and sex offenders like Alan Ager account for a disproportionate number of victims, according to an Associated Press analysis of corrections records. capacity, said James Austin, president of the JFA Institute, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm that works on prison issues.

“Until the state gets its prison population below 100 percent of capacity, you’re going to have this,” he said.

Overall, 162 California prisoners were killed from 2001 to 2012, or 8 per 100,000 prisoners — double the national average over the same time period and far higher than that of other large states, including Texas, New York and Illinois, according to federal statistics.

Officials in Oklahoma mainly blamed gang violence for giving that state the nation’s highest long-term prison homicide rate, 14 per 100,000, although a quarter of its inmate homicide victims in the last decade had convictions for sex crimes.

In California, from 2012 to 2013, the most recent years for which data were available, the rate rose to 15 per 100,000, according to a report by a federal court receiver, though corrections officials said the number of deaths dropped last year.

Department spokeswoman Terry Thornton would not comment on the possible reasons for California’s long-term trend of inmate homicides. he holds a genuine interest in upholding the tradition behind the mascot.

“I’m not in this for personal glory or gain. I’m in this to represent this University in its stride for greatness and to support those around me who are making some amazing achievements,” Garcia said.

With some of the negative press the University has received in the past few months, Garcia said WVU needs somebody to express all of the positive things happening around campus.

“The school needs an ambassador—someone that can represent a lot of the different things we have going on here and can be there to support all the students in their endeavors and really care about them,” Garcia said. “Being the mascot has taught me that every person you come into contact with matters and that it’s important to treat them that way.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

The problem is most acute with sex offenders.

Last fall, the corrections department’s inspector general reported that so many homicides occurred in the “increasingly violent” special housing units reserved for vulnerable inmates that the department could no longer assume that inmates there could peacefully co-exist.

The report looked at 11 homicide cases that were closed in the first half of 2014 and found that 10 victims were sensitive-needs inmates. Using corrections records, the AP found that eight of them were sex offenders.

The inspector general recommended the reinstatement of a policy dropped 15 years ago that required potential sensitive-needs cellmates to fill out a compatibility form before they are housed together and that inmates with a history of violence toward cellmates should be housed alone.

Thornton said the report led to an ongoing review of the policy of housing most prisoners, including vulnerable inmates, two to a cell.

Experts said the state could better protect sex offender inmates by separating them into their own facilities. Prison gangs, though made up of inmates often

convicted of heinous crimes themselves, have long made it a practice to target sex offenders.

“They’re going to clean up anybody on that yard with ‘hot charges,’” said former inmate Todd Siefert, referring to any crime against a woman or child, including a sex offense. The very lowest rung is reserved for child molesters.

Seifert said he was confronted by white supremacist inmates less than a halfhour after he arrived at the California Institution for Men in Chino in 2004 and was severely beaten by a half-dozen fellow inmates for his sex crime involving a woman.

Corrections department spokesmen in Illinois, New York and Texas said the targeting of sex offenders is not considered a problem there.

Some states have stricter protocols for keeping sex offenders away from other inmates.

Those participating in Maine’s rehabilitation therapy program are housed separately, and none has been injured or killed in the decade it has been in existence, said Dennis McNamara, executive director of the Counseling and Psychotherapy Center Inc., which runs the program.

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regulations for rail shipments of crude, which can ignite and result in huge fireballs.

Responding to a series of fiery train crashes, including one this spring in Lynchburg, Virginia, the government proposed rules in July that would phase out tens of thousands of older tank cars that carry increasing quantities of crude oil and other highly flammable liquids. It’s not clear how old the tankers were on the derailed train.

The Lynchburg train also was hauling Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to Yorktown, Virginia.

Continued from page 1 Ray Tomblin, which has issued a state of emergency, said the tanker cars were loaded with Bakken crude from North Dakota and headed to Yorktown, Virginia.

Local emergency officials said all but two of the 109 cars being hauled were tanker cars.

West Virginia American Water spokeswoman Laura Jordan said the company shut down a water treatment plant, located about 3 miles from the derailment, at about 2:30 p.m. The plant serves about 2,000 customers.

State health officials said another water plant downstream in the town of Cedar Grove also closed its intake. They asked customers from both water systems to conserve water.

The U.S. Transportation Department is weighing tougher safety

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Helen Mirren comes to NYC to portray Queen Elizabeth in ‘The Audience’ NEW YORK (AP) — Trust Helen Mirren to look regal while surrounded by rats, seat hogs and grime.

The 69-year-old Oscar winner has been spotted riding the city’s squalid subway system and offering a lesson in elegance along the way.

She was photographed during one commute sitting up straight in a furtrimmed coat and long lavender gloves. A sleek taupe tote sat politely on her lap, not beside her.

“I would never dream of putting my bag on the seat,” the actress said during a recent interview during rehearsals of her new Broadway play. “You’ve got to leave room for other people.”

Mirren seems a bit bewildered by all the fuss over her underground style, which Buzzfeed declared “the classiest thing to ever happen on the subway” and prompted InStyle to offer a shopping list inspired by her outfit.

She said she adores New York, even in the depths of winter: “I love it. I’ve got nice cozy boots, warm coat and hat and scarf.” And on her decision to brave the city’s public transport system, she didn’t hesitate: “It’s the quickest way to get around.”

Mirren may be queen

Drake releases dark album

AP — Drake, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” (Cash Money) For as long as Drake’s been around, almost everything about him - his Mr. Sensitive image, his sweater collection, his cheesy photos with various professional athletes - has been the subject of a neverending stream of Internet memes.

Still, Drake and his talent are no joke, and the Grammy winner’s surprise album, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” dares critics to say otherwise. Released six years to the day that Drake debuted his super successful “So Far Gone” mixtape, the Toronto native’s latest set finds him in a serious space, not asking for respect, but demanding it.

If the mixtape’s previously released track, “6 God,” wasn’t warning enough, Drake is more confrontational these days. “Please don’t speak to me like I’m that Drake from four years ago, I’m at a higher place, thinkin’ they lions and tigers and bears, I go huntin’, put heads on my fireplace,” he raps on “Energy.”

As usual, he’s bragging about his crown (see: opening track “Legend”) but brooding over its weight (“No Tellin’”).

Compared to previous projects, though, “If You’re Reading This” is darker and grittier, with a mix of lyrics and tone, that Drake, his longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib and crew have no doubt fashioned to match the brutal cold of Toronto, or “the 6,” as they call it. (The name nods to the city’s 416 and 647 area codes).

The set is as much about the rapper’s hometown as it is about his hometown crew, whose Canadian and Jamaican accents distinguish the music and whose names are strewn throughout standout track “Know Yourself.”

On another gem, “You & the 6,” Drake credits Toronto and his mother for raising him. But the message is far from saccharine. “I got no friends in this, mama,” Drake raps about the business.

“I don’t pretend with this, mama. I don’t joke with this, mama. I pull the knife out my back and cut they throat with it, mama.”

On the flip side, the very smooth “Company,” featuring Travi$ Scott, and the sexy “Jungle” prove Drake still has a way with R&B. There’s no word yet on when Drake’s tentatively titled “Views from the 6” will be released. But like any good mixtape, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” lays down promising ground work.

of the subway these days, but she’s a monarch above ground, too. She’s playing Queen Elizabeth II in the play “The Audience,” which wowed crowds in London in 2013.

Peter Morgan’s play imagines the private weekly meetings between the monarch and Britain’s prime ministers over her six-decade reign, including Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. It begins previews Tuesday at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

“It’s about the clash of her being, on the one hand, the most visible woman in the world and, on the other hand, the most invisible woman in the world,” said director Stephen Daldry.

“Helen is extraordinary.”

Mirren was initially reluctant to join the show since she’d already portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the movie “The Queen,” another Morgan-written story set after the 1997 death of Princess Diana.

“I didn’t want to go back to her, I must say,” Mirren said. “It felt as though I was going backward. And it’s always a mistake for an actor to get overly identified with any particular character.”

That changed somewhat when she read Morgan’s clever script for “The Au-

dience.” He sent it to her to read, and she sent him a two-word email back: “You bastard.”

Both projects have forced Mirren, who was raised in a “staunchly republican” family, to evolve her view of the monarchy.

These days, she’s not exactly a monarchist, but she calls herself a “queenist.”

“I never really thought of the queen. She was just there, like Big Ben. You see it, but you don’t really think about how it works,” she said. “You just sort of see it and like that it’s there.”

Mirren’s respect for the queen has burgeoned. “I just found I liked her more and more,” she said. The actress thinks Elizabeth works hard and likely hates the dull paperwork and meetings associated with being monarch.

“She just wants to be walking across the moors with the dogs. She’d be very happy as a farmer’s wife,” Mirren said. “So that’s her sentence - to be in palaces when actually she just wants to be in a muddy lane in a pair of Wellington boots and dogs running around.”

The Broadway version of the play will have some actors from the West End run, but many will be American, including Judith Ivey

Actress Helen Mirren will again portray Queen Elizabeth, this time on Broadway. as Thatcher and Dylan Baker as John Major. The playwright has changed a few things, including tweaking the David Cameron meeting and adding a whole new Tony Blair chat.

Mirren, who was acclaimed for her starring role in the TV detective series “Prime Suspect,” isn’t certain that her royal por-

trayal is perfectly accurate but stresses it’s an interpretation.

“This is my portrait.

And, in a way, there’s as much of me in it as there is the queen,” she said.

“I’m the artist, and it’s reflected obviously through my sensibility.”

So far the queen herself hasn’t said anything.

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Mirren and the monarch have met several times, and Queen Elizabeth II hasn’t brought up any of her portrayals.

“I have to say, if she had mentioned it, I wouldn’t tell you. But she didn’t mention it, in fact,” Mirren said. “But there is an understanding whenever we see each other.”

‘50 Shades of Grey’ released on Valentine’s, smart move

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in a scene from the recently released ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Northeast was battling se- at least the first two days of theatrical release.

When Universal bumped vere winter storms.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” from Produced for a modest Day one would be for August 2014 to Valentine’s $40 million with no tested the die-hard fans. Day two Day, 2015, it seemed like a star-power in front of the would be for the couples.

“That was a shrewd cheesy gimmick. Now that camera, Universal and box office results are in, Focus were hedging their move,” said Pandya. “This it’s clear that was the most bets from the beginning, is the one weekend of the keeping costs reasonable entire year where men will brilliant stroke of all.

The adaptation of au- and stoking the buzz ma- see a film that they do not thor EL James’ erotic novel chine with a coy market- want to see. The other 51 debuted to an astound- ing campaign playing on weeks of the year are a liting $94.4 million domes- the interest of those who tle different.” tic and $172 million inter- hadn’t read the book.

Whereas most films national across the long Not only did it spark a with ardent fan bases drop President’s Day week- culture-wide dialogue, it off dramatically on day end, breaking box office became an event movie two, “Fifty Shades of Grey” records for the month of centered on a single date: grew. The first “Twilight” film fell 40.8 percent on its February, female film- Valentine’s Day. makers and R-rated mov“It follows in the tradi- second day. “Fifty Shades” ies in what is proving to be tion of the edgier, naugh- spiked 21 percent. a perfect storm of intrigue, tier, so-called romance Nick Carpou, Univerbrand, and crafty execu- movies, and that paid off. sal’s President of Domestion by Universal Pictures. Audiences like a good R- tic distribution sees the “Fifty Shades of Grey” rated escape,” said Paul film as a resounding vicwas always expected to be Dergarabedian, senior tory on all levels. He creda fruitful endeavor - that’s media analyst for box of- ited the “careful choice” of why nearly every studio in fice firm Rentrak, noting a release date and an entown clamored to scoop racy films like “Last Tango ticing marketing campaign up the rights to James’ in Paris,” “9 1/2 Weeks,” that emphasized “qualities phenomenally successful and “Basic Instinct.” of the piece that are unitrilogy in 2012. When Fo“Fifty Shades of Grey” versally accepted,” such as cus Features and parent is poised to surpass all of romance.

“We overachieved in the company Universal were them.

“Certainly the fan base South and the South Centhe lucky winners, the hype only intensified as came out, but to reach tral and, interestingly, in fans hungered for every- these numbers, you have the Northeast, which is thing from casting rumors, to go broader than the weather challenged,” said to first photos of stars Da- built-in audience,” added Carpou. “It’s a very motikota Johnson and Jamie Gitesh Pandya, editor of vated audience base.”

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age of 25-years-old for the R-rated film. Racially, an estimated 52 percent were Caucasian, 22 percent Hispanic, 15 percent African American, and seven percent Asian.

Still, moviegoers didn’t seem to be thrilled with the results. According to market research firm CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a dismal C+ rating.

“I’m expecting very large declines and rapid erosion in the days and weeks to come. This is one that is not going to have much stamina going forward,” said Pandya.

That said, Pandya does note that the way the movie is tracking internationally, it could ultimately make over $600 million worldwide.

“It’s going to be remarkably profitable and I’m sure they’re getting the next film up and running,” he said.

Although director Sam Taylor-Johnson and Dornan have alluded to imminent sequels in interviews, Universal, who holds the rights to the trilogy, is staying mum on the topic. Any suggestions of planned

shooting and release dates are just speculation at this point.

As for what comes next for this franchise, Pandya thinks that “Twilight” is a good comparison for the future of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and not just because James’ book started out as “Twilight” fan fiction. The second film in the popular vampire series doubled the first film’s opening weekend.

“Universal knows it has a franchise that is huge now, but can be made even bigger with future films if they play their cards right,” he said.

But copycats should take note: The success of “Fifty Shades of Grey” does not necessarily mean that S&M is going to be a fixture in mainstream cinemas going forward.

“I don’t think that this is going to open the floodgates to a lot more S&M movies. I think this worked not because it was some random S&M story. It was a popular book which happened to have this type of material,” Pandya said.

“This is a specific brand.

It’s one entity.”

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CSX should have released information Tragedy has struck the Kanawha Valley again.

Monday afternoon, a 109-car CSX train carrying crude oil derailed in the community of Adena Village near Mount Carbon and Deepwater.

Crude oil spilled into the Kanawha River, a house caught fire, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency for Kanawha and Fayette County, and it feels like we’re back in the West Virginia water crisis of 2014.

In October, The Charleston Gazette tried to obtain information about CSX’s shipsment of crude oil throughout the state, but West Virginia’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management withheld details pertaining to the amount of crude oil being shipped, routes and frequency- basically everything the public actually needed to know.

CSX said, under state Freedom of Information Act laws, it reserves the right to withhold this information as the information contains “trade secrets or confidential information.”

After an increase in shipments of crude oil by trains, President Barack Obama issued mandates stating train companies must disclose this information to emergency response agencies.

But one must ask, why would CSX want to withhold this information from West Virginia citizens?

In 2014, a train derailed on the same route this train was on.

CSX seems to be just hiding behind the trade secrets exemption to hide from our state exactly what its organization is doing: Putting our lives at danger.

Sure, train companies like CSX are free to continue to ship crude oil dangerously close to communities, but we are not given the freedom to decide if we want to live next to these shipments.

For example, a family with small children searching for a home probably wouldn’t buy a place next to the highway. The same family might also search through records to see if any sex offenders live in the neighborhood..

Bottom line, we decide what neighborhood we live in and this should impact our decision.

In other cases similar to this, trains don’t want to disclose similar information because of alleged threats to the United States’ national security.

Once again, hiding behind national security is a wimp thing to do. This information should be readily available to citizen it might imact. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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A fire burns Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, after a train derailment near Charleston, W.Va. Nearby residents were told to evacuate as state emergency response and environmental officials headed to the scene.

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We should’ve seen Christian Grey’s parts in ‘Fifty Shades’ MOLLY ROBINSON COLUMNIST @Dailyathenaeum

Much like every other college female and a few unlucky boyfriends, I went to go see “Fifty Shades of Grey” last weekend.

Having read the books, my expectations were approximately as high as they were for acing my next anatomy exam.

While I’m no film critic, I thought the movie was pretty entertaining without being completely Xrated. The sex scenes were, for the most part, tasteful, and except for a few instances where lead actress Dakota Johnson appeared to forget to shave her legs, I was pleased with the movie.

Except, of course, that lead actor and sexpot Jamie Dornan apparently refused to show his parts to the same extent as his co-star.

As we all know, “Fifty Shades of Grey” is an erotic novel that primarily appeals to women, especially due to the heavy descriptions author E.L. James supplies of her main male character, Christian Grey.

So I was expecting to see parts of Jamie Dornan that

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I only ever really see in my aforementioned anatomy textbooks, and, frankly, I was looking forward to it.

Instead, I saw a whole lot of lady parts.

In a movie that revolves entirely around sex and the mind games that stem from it, I expected to see

both actors’ bodies, not just the female.

Couple that with the fact that it was primarily women in the theater, for a book-based movie specifically marketed toward females, and I can’t really understand why I saw way more of Johnson’s breasts

than I did any scandalous parts of Dornan.

With the recent body image issues and feminist topless debates being tossed around these days, I don’t feel there was even remotely a problem with seeing so much of an actress. In fact, her body

was completely healthy and realistic, a very positive example of the “real world” body type everyone complains they don’t see enough of in models and mannequins.

So then why is it still taboo for a penis to make an appearance in a movie?

Granted, there have been several movies that display this part of a man’s body, but very few of them are in a sexual context outside the porn industry.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” had the ability to bridge the two film types. Never has there been an erotic novel so well received by the general public. But with Dornan’s apparent disinterest in displaying his own parts, a vital piece of the movie was lost.

With a film as hot and heavy as “Fifty Shades of Grey,” it seems inconceivable that the lead actor would refuse to showcase his own genitals. And, if we’re going to talk about gender equality, it’s almost laughable to think that any actress trying out for Anastasia Steele would be chosen if she similarly had reservations about showing parts of herself.

I’m not the first person to point out little petty inequalities between men and women, but I would have assumed such a highprofile movie would have been a little more willing to give its (primarily female) audience more to work with. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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What Jon Stewart leaving ‘The Daily Show’ means for college students ELANA GOODWIN OHIO STATE

Earlier this week, Jon Stewart announced he’s leaving “The Daily Show,” the Comedy Central news satire program he has hosted since January 1999.

During his time on “The Daily Show,” Stewart established the show as the place where hard journalism and entertainment meet, as he mockingly updated viewers on current events and politics, delivering the news with his signature sharp humor and fake anchorman identity.

But Stewart hasn’t just been the heartbeat of the satirical news genre — he’s also been a vital and influential source of news for millions of

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young Americans, who studies have shown get much of their political news from Stewart, rather than other TV programs or newspapers.

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press in 2012 found that 39 percent of “The Daily Show’s” regular views fell between the ages of 18 and 29, though that age group makes up only 23 percent of the general public. That demographic is key and reaching that audience can be crucial which is why so many politicians come on the show even knowing Stewart can be unpredictable.

In fact, a 2007 survey found that Americans who were the most aware and knowledgeable about what was going on in the world tended to be viewers of “The

Daily Show” or the recently ended Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report.”

In 2009, an online poll conducted by Time magazine showed Jon Stewart had been selected as America’s Most Trusted Newscaster, beating out Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson, with 44 percent of the vote.

Stewart’s impending departure sometime this year leaves the future of fake news shows uncertain. Stephen Colbert, who had long hosted “The Colbert Report,” a spin-off of “The Daily Show,” told fans last year that he was leaving his show and would be taking over “The Late Show” on CBS when David Letterman retired.

With both Stewart and Colbert leaving their longtime satirical news programs

on Comedy Central, there is a huge need for comics to fill their shows, impossible as it may be.

Unfortunately, one of the most qualified people to take over “The Daily Show” is British funnyman John Oliver, who used to be a correspondent on the show and even took over for the summer of 2013 when Stewart took some time off to do a movie.

It’s unfortunate because Oliver was already given his own show on HBO called “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” with a contract for two years that came with complete creative freedom and no ratings pressure.

So who will step behind Stewart’s desk at “The Daily Show”? I don’t know but Comedy Central certainly has their work cut out for them.

During the last decade and a half, Stewart has helped define the satire genre, influenced generations of viewers, imparted countless pieces of wisdom, and shared brilliant moments of wit with some great quotes.

A few gems include “If we amplify everything, we hear nothing;” “I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance;” and “Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant.”

Under Stewart’s tutelage, “The Daily Show” has won two Peabody Awards for its coverage of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections and has also won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards (plus another two Emmys were won by various editors on the show for Outstanding Picture

Editing for Short-Form Segments and Variety Specials).

Stewart didn’t specify an exact date that he’ll be leaving, just that it would be sometime this year, and that he and Comedy Central were still working out the details of his retirement from “The Daily Show.”

“It’s been an absolute privilege. It’s been the honor of my professional life. And I thank you for watching it.

For hate-watching it. Whatever reason you were tuning in for,” said Stewart as he announced his departure to the unsuspecting audience at Tuesday’s taping of the show.

“You get in this business with the idea that maybe you have a point of view and something to express, and to receive feedback from that is the greatest feeling you could ask for, and I thank you.”

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Underground Comedy College returns this week How Tom Sobel’s dream became a reality, WVU has ‘longest running comedy show at a college campus’

By Ally Litten Correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Tom Sobel had a dream 27 years ago: He wanted to make people laugh. To make that dream come true, Sobel created the Comedy Caravan, which consists of a group of professional road comics that perform on college campuses. The first stop is at West Virginia University.

“West Virginia University has the longest running comedy show at a college campus,” Sobel said. “After 27 years, there is a lot to think about.”

Over the years, many comedians have visited and started from WVU. Ray Zawodni, Josh Copen and Andy Hendrickson are just a few of the entertainers that started here in Morgantown.

The comedians entertain students twice a month at Comedy Night held by the Mountaineer Comedy Club in the Side Pocket of the Mountainlair.

To spin off Comedy Caravan, Sobel started the Underground Comedy College to help amateur comedians generate ideas and improve their stand-up routines.

“Underground Comedy College is our way of helping people learn about stand-up whether it be business, writing, improv or performing,” Sobel said.

In the forms of classes and workshops, the purpose of the Underground Comedy College is to find things you feel passionately about and then find what is funny about it.

“Comedians need to learn to attach strong emotions to things,” said comedian Adam White.

“It is important because when you are trying to generate material, it is a lot easier to think about things you are really passionate about or really afraid of.”

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White works with the Underground Comedy College to help amateur comedians find their true emotions, opinions and thoughts and help work them into comedy routines.

“An example I like to use is Spongebob.

Spongebob doesn’t have emotions that are not extreme,” White said.

White uses simple writing exercises to help his students.

“People need to make jokes about what they think is funny,” White said. “No one wants to watch someone tell a joke they don’t even think is funny.”

The Underground Comedy Club is always looking for laugh wherever it can get it.

“Our job is to find the funniest people in America before the general public ever finds out,” Sobel said. “By the time you know of them, you are buying a ticket to their show.”

As the years have gone by, Comedy Caravan has grown and adapted to modern times.

However, Sobel will never forget his first radio advertisement.

“Is your sex life in a dry spell? Comedy Caravan research has found women want to laugh as much as men want to have sex. Take the woman of your life to Comedy Caravan, and consider it foreplay. Comedy Caravan: Still cheaper than a hooker.”

White and Tim McClendon will be hosting an Underground Comedy College workshop from noon - 6 p.m. Thursday in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair.

On Saturday, Last Comic Standing will be held at 9:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair food court.

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The pop star shared the news on her Instagram account Monday. She posted a photo of a ring on her finger and wrote: “He

gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!” Lady Gaga and Kinney met on the set of her “You & I” video in 2011. Kinney stars in the NBC series “Chicago Fire” and had a role in the film “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Lady Gaga’s hits include “Poker Face,” “Bad Romance” and “Applause.”

She recently won her sixth Grammy Award, for her “Cheek to Cheek” album with Tony Bennett.

She’s scheduled to perform at Sunday’s Academy Awards.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Emphasize your goals. Reach out to friends to see where it would be helpful for you to be more supportive.

Warm feelings seem to be in abundance, which could make you feel as if you want to respond in kind. Your perspective will be valued. Tonight: With a favorite person.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Explore your options rather than accept the same old routine. You suddenly might realize how many choices you really have. Remain direct when dealing with someone at a distance. You might be surprised by what you hear. Tonight: Listen to a favorite piece of music.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You might want to understand more of what is motivating a key person in your life. Try not to verbalize how erratic you find this behavior; instead, say little, and be more of an observer. As a result, you’ll gain a new perspective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Deal with a partner directly. Others will be flattered to have your time and attention, and you’ll enjoy connecting with others on a one-on-one level.

Even in unpredictable situations, you will land on your feet. Trust your judgment. Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You might wonder whether others are ganging up on you. People will have so much to share with you that you could feel overwhelmed. You will hear some news from someone at a distance that puts a smile on your face. Tonight: Just do not be alone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You might be focused on your plans and on whom you want to spend time with. The unexpected will annoy you, as it is likely to slow you down. Know when enough is enough. Be willing to try someone else’s suggestion.

Tonight: Make it easy.

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which it is received. Understanding your limits might be more important than you realize. A fun call from someone at a distance will lighten the mood.

Tonight: Out late.

sudden call could force you to verbalize your thoughts about a certain matter. You’ll know the right thing to say without giving everything away.

Tonight: Accept an offer.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH When you hit an obstacle, just go around it. The unexpected tends to run through your plans, and you often find yourself on a very different track from what you had intended. A boss or parent might seem unusually happy. Tonight: Expect to burn the midnight oil.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Other people seem to be more in touch with your assets and talents than you are. Sometimes you give too much of yourself. A close friend or associate might ask you to join him or her. You aren’t likely to say “no.” Whatever you do, you’ll feel revived. Tonight: Let the party go on.

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West Virginia guard Bria Holmes going through midseason slump by david statman sports writer @dailyathenauem

Shooting slumps can strike even the best scorers at any time. You’re doing everything exactly the way you’ve always done it, but the ball just isn’t going in the net. For a lot of players, the only solution is to just keep shooting and hope the problem resolves itself.

But when Bria Holmes, the leading scorer for the West Virginia University women’s basketball team, ran into a long cold stretch

of her own, it took a conscious change in her shot selection to allow her to find her groove again. “For a while she was either taking a three or trying to get all the way to the rim,� said head coach Mike Carey. “There’s a lot of basketball in between there that you can score at. Those are things we’re trying to get her to do, to understand that sometimes weak side is going to be set up, but you’re beating your man so let’s pull up for a little jumper and she’s starting to do that.�

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who does most of her best work in transition, Holmes was chosen as the Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year based partly off her reputation as one of the deadliest 3-point threats in the conference.

But after she led the team with 70 made 3-pointers and a 34 percent mark from long range last season, Holmes’ performance from 3-point range has taken a nosedive this year. Holmes is shooting just 23.7 percent from beyond the arc, and has only made multiple triples once in 13 Big 12 games.

As she continues to fight herself from long range, Holmes has expanded her offensive repertoire in recent weeks and has finally found a bit of a groove again.

Holmes says she’s allowing the game to come to her, and her change in approach has been what’s allowed her to get back in the scoring column. “I would say that it’s how it’s coming in the flow of the game,� Holmes said. “I try not to just go out and jack up threes all the time, and just let the game come to me as it comes, and lately it’s just

been layups and pull-ups so that’s what I’ve been doing.�

While Holmes was routinely chucking away upwards of 3-point tries a night early on in Big 12 play, she’s reduced her output from beyond the arc lately to improved success.

Holmes broke out of her long slump with a 30-point night against TCU two weeks ago, taking just three 3-pointers in 38 minutes.

Holmes took no threes in scoring 13 points on 5-7 shooting against Iowa State the next time out – last week against Kansas, she carried

the team to a 59-56 win with a game-high 27 points, and missed her only 3-point attempt of the night.

With five games left in the regular season, the Mountaineers are going to need Holmes to keep scoring if they’re going to have any chance at sneaking into the NCAA Tournament field.

And if that means that the 3-pointer continues to not be an option for the junior guard, it’s doubtful that either Holmes or Carey will mind.

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Westbrook has 41, West edges East in NBA All-Star game NEW YORK (AP) — Mixing Broadway and basketball, this NBA All-Star Game was a West Side Story.

Ru s s e l l We s t b ro o k scored 41 points, one shy of the All-Star record, and the Western Conference beat the East 163-158 on Sunday night in the highest-scoring All-Star Game ever.

The Oklahoma City speedster had a record 27 points by halftime and closed out the scoring with two free throws, falling one point shy of Wilt Chamberlain’s 42 points in the 1962 game. He was voted the game’s MVP at Madison Square Garden.

The NBA’s return to New York showed off everything about the Big Apple, and by the time Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York� played after the game, it was clear Westbrook was king of the hill. “It’s amazing. It’s a blessing to be here in New York City,� Westbrook said during the MVP ceremony.

James Harden added 29 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the West, which built a 20-point lead in the first half and then pulled away after it was tied at 148 with a little more than 4 minutes remaining.

The combined 321 points surpassed the 318 scored last season, and the 48 3-pointers smashed last year’s record of 30.

LeBron James finished with 30 points, but couldn’t lead the East to the victory in his favorite NBA arena. “Don’t get no better, man. You play in the Garden in front of these fans,�

James said.

Harden’s 3-pointer

snapped the final tie with 4:02 to play and Chris Paul followed with consecutive baskets. Westbrook’s fifth 3-pointer put it away at 158-149 with 2:22 to go. “We just talk about having fun all game long and then at a certain point in the fourth quarter it’s time to win,� Paul said.

Atlanta’s Kyle Korver made seven 3-pointers and scored 21 points for the East, while Washington’s John Wall had 19.

But right from the start, the players were sharing the stage.

Christina Aguilera appeared from behind a giant big apple, and belted out some New York-inspired numbers to start the show, joined by the Rockettes.

Entertainment’s elite were all over the arena, with players hobnobbing with Jay-Z and Floyd Mayweather near their courtside seats at halftime. But the biggest roar came for a star from another sport - politics.

President Bill Clinton, who had a big night of his own at Madison Square Garden when he was nominated here during the 1992 Democratic National Convention, got a pair of loud ovations when he was shown during Queen Latifah’s performance of the national anthem.

Players were quizzed during comedic skits on New York talk and terms, and fuhgeddaboudit, Pau Gasol had no idea what a stoop was. (Stephen Curry came close, comparing it to a porch - really it’s the steps and landing leading to a building’s entrance).

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WVU’s young pitching staff passes first test by connor murray sports writer @dailyathenaeum

For the last three years, West Virginia’s pitching staff has been anchored

by Harrison Musgrave, a left-handed ace who paved his own way to the professional ranks with his deceptive style and propensity for making opposing hitters look foolish.

Musgrave was the foundation, the cornerstone, of the staff in head coach Randy Mazey’s first year at WVU in 2013.

That didn’t change last year either. So when Musgrave was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in June, it left a sizable void.

Coming into this season, Mazey himself pondered whether the expe-

rience, or lack thereof, on his pitching staff would be a hindrance in a league that usually feasts on young hurlers.

With only sophomore Ross Vance remaining from last year’s threeman weekend rotation, West Virginia has plenty of question marks when it comes to pitching this year.

Those questions were put aside this weekend.

Freshman BJ Myers trotted out to the mound on opening day against No. 24 Clemson with all the adrenaline in the world pumping through his veins.

After a rocky start where he allowed Tigers all over the base paths, Myers settled in and got to work, grinding out five innings

of scoreless baseball and striking out five Clemson hitters in his collegiate debut.

“It was tough. Those first couple innings my nerves were hitting me and I was a little amped up. I just had to calm myself down, step off the mound and just execute the plan that coach set out for us, do the best I could do to just throw strikes and make them put the ball in play,” Myers said in an interview with WVUsports.com.

The man who came in to relieve him was in a similar boat. In his WVU debut, reliever Blake Smith put the clamps on Clemson the rest of the way, using a mitt-popping fastball to keep the Tigers scoreless for the remaining four innings and securing a sea-

son-opening victory for his team.

“The fastball felt good.

In the bullpen I had a couple of my pitches going but I was really confident with my fastball,” Smith said in an interview with WVUsports.com.

“It’s a huge boost for us; a huge boost of confidence. We’re ready to go now. We know that we can come in and compete against a ranked team, and we can win.”

So, on the first night of the 2015 season, West Virginia had two of its question marks come through in definitive style.

The story was the same in the series finale and rubber game Sunday afternoon. Sophomore Chad Donato, who saw extremely limited

work out of the bullpen in 2014, plowed his way through Clemson’s powerful lineup, working six innings of one-run ball while striking out five and walking just one.

“It’s a huge boost for us; a huge boost of confidence. We’re ready to go now. We know that we can come in and compete against a ranked team, and we can win,” Mazey said.

All told, it’s just the opening salvo in the war of attrition that is the college baseball season, but if WVU’s young staff can duplicate its opening weekend performance with any kind of consistency, this team may have a higher ceiling than most originally thought. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU faces woes in several weight classes

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Zeke Moisey struggles to keep his opponent down in a match last weekend against Ohio University.

by dillon durst sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Despite edging Ohio, 19-16, Sunday, the West Virginia University wrestling team dropped five consecutive decisions at 149, 157, 165 and 174 for the second straight match.

The Mountaineers were also blanked from 149 to 174 in losses to Iowa State, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Despite handling 1-16 Clarion, 26-9, Feb. 6, the Bald Eagles claimed victories at 157, 165 and 174.

Senior Mike Morales, junior A.J. Vizcarrondo and freshman Zeke Moi-

sey have been reliable for West Virginia at 141, heavyweight and 125, respectively, but the middleweights have kept the Mountaineers out of a few close matches this season.

In West Virginia’s first dual meet of the season against Arizona State in November, the Mountaineers dropped five straight matches at 149, 157, 165, 174 and 184, creating a 15-0 deficit.

West Virginia won decisions in four of the following five bouts at 197, heavyweight, 125 and 141, but the Sun Devils left Morgantown with a 19-13 victory to begin the Sammie Henson era.

West Virginia’s second meeting with Arizona State on Jan. 5, a match the Mountaineers won, 22-12, largely followed the same narrative.

Freshman Parker VonEgidy earned a 14-4 major decision over Matt Schneider at 174 to start the dual, but lost three straight decisions at 149, 157 and 165 to finish the meet.

In an individual match, wrestlers can earn three team points for a win by decision, four for a major decision, five for a technical fall and six for a pin. Of the Mountaineers’ eight losses this season, four have been by six points or

fewer.

With the remaining four losses each coming against nationally-ranked opponents, including then-No. 3 Cornell and then-No. 8 Oklahoma State, West Virginia’s record could look a lot different had it been able to get two wins out of lost bouts at 149, 157, 165 or 174.

The Mountaineers’ middleweights will face four nationally ranked wrestlers in their final two dual meets against No. 15 Edinboro and Pittsburgh. Edinboro features No. 1 Dave Habat and No. 20 Patrick Jennings at 149 and 174, respectively. No. 8 Tyler Wilps at 174 and No.

20 Mike Recciato at 149 round out Pitt’s nationallyranked middleweights.

The Mountaineers will likely rely on strong performances from Morales, Moisey and Vizcarrondo to set the tone. West Virginia has shown it can win without winning the majority of its middleweight matches, but a few wins might take pressure off the rest of the starting lineup.

West Virginia will host the Fighting Scots at 8 p.m.

Friday in the WVU Coliseum before traveling to Pittsburgh Sunday for a 2 p.m. start time in Fitzgerald Fieldhouse. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Kentucky unanimous No. 1 for third week by john marhsall ap basketball writer

Kentucky won its two games last week to push its record to 25-0, matching the best start in school history.

The Wildcats’ run has sparked debate about whether they can become Division I’s first undefeated team since Indiana in 1976.

But before Kentucky closes in on that piece of history, another rare achievement is within sight: Wire-to-wire No. 1 in The Associated Press’ Top 25.

The Wildcats were the preseason No. 1 ahead of the 2014-15 season and were still there on Monday, when they were the unanimous pick for the third straight week, receiving all 65 votes from a media panel.

Should Kentucky re-

main at the top over the next five polls, it will become the eighth team to stay at No. 1 all season and first since UNLV in 1991.

It doesn’t figure to be easy. The Wildcats already have had some close calls, including one last week, and still have six regularseason games and the SEC tournament to get through before the final AP poll on March 16.

“You keep taking everybody’s best,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said.

“We’re in a championship fight every time we walk into a building.”

Kentucky’s run nearly came to an end last Tuesday, when LSU rallied from a 13-point secondhalf deficit and led by six with less than eight minutes left.

As they have all season, the Wildcats pulled it out, holding off the Tigers 71-69 before closing

out the week with a rout over South Carolina to earn the unanimous No. 1 pick for the eighth time this season.

Next up for Kentucky is a road game against Tennessee on Tuesday, then a home game on Saturday against Auburn. The Wildcats close out the regular season with road games against Mississippi State and Georgia, with home games against Arkansas and Florida.

Manage to get through those, Kentucky still has to play in the SEC Tournament before the final poll comes out, so there’s still a chance for the Wildcats to get tripped up - particularly with every team gunning to be the one to take them down.

“Every team they play thinks they’re going to be the one to beat Kentucky,” LSU coach Johnny Jones said.

No one has done it yet, keeping the Wildcats’ hopes of making history alive.

NORTHERN I O WA RISES: Northern Iowa made a name for itself in the 2010 NCAA Tournament, when it reached the second weekend after knocking off UNLV and Kansas.

The Panthers are making noise this season with a steady rise up the poll.

Coming off victories over Illinois State and Missouri State last week, Northern Iowa (24-2, 13-1 Missouri Valley Conference) climbed two spots in this week’s poll to No. 11 for its highest ranking ever.

The Panthers have won 13 straight after making 12 3-pointers in the 68-57 win over Missouri State.

“They stole our energy and stole our spirit,” Missouri State coach Paul

Lusk said. “That’s what good teams do.”

Northern Iowa has three games left before facing a season-finale showdown at No. 13 Wichita State.

RISING AND FALLING: The teams in the Top 25 remained the same from last week, but there was plenty of shuffling, including a couple teams in the top 10.

Utah returned to the top 10 this week, moving up two spots to No. 9 after rolling over Stanford and California.

L ouisville dropp e d three spots to No. 12 after losing to North Carolina State on Saturday.

The bottom three teams - West Virginia, Ohio State and VCU - all remained in the poll despite losses.

Arkansas had the biggest jump, up six spots to No. 18, and VCU the biggest fall, down five spots to No. 25.

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West edges East in NBA All Star Game, 163-158

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Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook dunks during the first half of the NBA All-Star game Sunday night, scores 41 points for the West Team.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mixing Broadway and basketball, this NBA All-Star Game was a West Side Story.

Russell Westbrook scored 41 points, one shy of the AllStar record, and the Western Conference beat the East 163-158 on Sunday night in the highest-scoring All-Star Game ever.

The Oklahoma City speedster had a record 27 points by halftime and closed out the scoring with two free throws, falling one point shy of Wilt Chamberlain’s 42 points in the 1962 game. He was voted the game’s MVP at Madison Square Garden.

The NBA’s return to New York showed off everything about the Big Apple, and by the time Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” played after the game, it was clear Westbrook was king of the hill.

“It’s amazing. It’s a blessing to be here in New York City,” Westbrook said during the MVP ceremony.

James Harden added 29 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the West, which built a 20-point lead in the first half and then pulled away after it was tied at 148 with a little more than 4 minutes remaining.

The combined 321 points surpassed the 318 scored last season, and the 48 3-pointers smashed last year’s record of 30.

LeBron James finished with 30 points, but couldn’t lead the East to the victory in his favorite NBA arena.

“Don’t get no better, man.

You play in the Garden in front of these fans,” James said.

Harden’s 3-pointer snapped the final tie with 4:02 to play and Chris Paul followed with consecutive baskets. Westbrook’s fifth 3-pointer put it away at 158149 with 2:22 to go.

“We just talk about having fun all game long and then at a certain point in the fourth quarter it’s time to win,” Paul said.

Atlanta’s Kyle Korver made seven 3-pointers and scored 21 points for the East, while Washington’s John Wall had 19.

But right from the start, the players were sharing the stage.

Christina Aguilera appeared from behind a giant big apple, and belted out some New York-inspired numbers to start the show, joined by the Rockettes.

Entertainment’s elite were all over the arena, with players hobnobbing with Jay-Z and Floyd Mayweather near their courtside seats at halftime. But the biggest roar came for a star from another sport - politics.

President Bill Clinton, who had a big night of his own at Madison Square Garden when he was nominated here during the 1992 Democratic National Convention, got a pair of loud ovations when he was shown during Queen Latifah’s performance of the

national anthem.

Players were quizzed during comedic skits on New York talk and terms, and fuhgeddaboudit, Pau Gasol had no idea what a stoop was. (Stephen Curry came close, comparing it to a porch - really it’s the steps and landing leading to a building’s entrance).

Pau won the jump ball against little brother Marc to begin the first All-Star Game featuring two sibling starters, but for a while it looked as if that would be the East’s only win of the night.

The West shot out to a 20-point lead, but the East chipped away and cut it to 83-82 before pop star Ariana Grande’s halftime performance.

It was New York’s first time hosting the weekend since 1998 and a rare journey to the north for the NBA, which has preferred to stage the festivities in the warmth of the South and West.

Even some of the NBA’s most fashionable had to

choose bundling up over dressing up, a concession to the frigid temperatures they faced during the weekend.

But next year might be worse, when the game heads north of the border to Toronto.

Carmelo Anthony struggled to 14 points on 6-of20 shooting for the East in what may have been his final game of the season.

The Knicks star has been battling a sore knee for much of the season and may opt for surgery with the team owning the NBA’s worst record.

But even the Knicks’ misery couldn’t dampen the spirts for this basketballrich city. Players on the floor were surrounded by some of New York’s hoops royalty, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving. There was even time to celebrate the Knicks: Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley, Phil Jackson, Earl Monroe and Bernard King were honored during a break in the action.

Tim Duncan had one basket in his 15th All-Star Game, second only to Abdul-Jabbar’s 18. Duncan’s first was here in 1998, as was Kobe Bryant’s.

Bryant had to sit out along with Anthony Davis and Blake Griffin, leaving the West without three elected starters.

But they had more than enough talent left, not surprising in another season where the West is the more powerful conference from top to bottom.

East coach Mike Budenholzer played his four Atlanta Hawks together in the first quarter, Al Horford joining Jeff Teague, Paul Millsap and Korver.

“I thought we would all be out there together quite a bit. We were kind of hand signaling to run a few plays, but you weren’t really running plays,” Korver said. “It was just up and down. But it was great for the Hawks and for the city of Atlanta. It was really cool.

Armstrong loses $10 million arbitration ruling

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An arbitration panel ordered Lance Armstrong and Tailwind Sports Corp. to pay $10 million in a fraud dispute with a promotions company for what it called an “unparalleled pageant

of international perjury, fraud and conspiracy” that covered up his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

Dallas-based SCA Promotions announced the 2-1 decision against the

former cyclist when its lawyers said Monday they had asked Texas’ 116th Civil District Court in Dallas to confirm the arbitration ruling, dated Feb. 4.

The panel included a neutral chairman, who

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ruled in favor of SCA, and one person selected by each side.

Tim Herman, a lawyer for Armstrong, insisted the ruling is contrary to Texas law and predicted it will be overturned by a judge.

SCA paid Armstrong and Tailwind, the sincedissolved team management company, about $12 million in bonuses during Armstrong’s career, when he won seven Tour de France titles.

Those victories were stripped after Armstrong and his U.S. Postal Service teams were found to have used banned performance-enhancing drugs.

SCA disputed the bonuses in arbitration in 2005, and the case produced the foundation of the doping evidence later used against him.

Despite allegations of cheating, Armstrong continued to deny doping and the company settled with Armstrong and paid him $7 million in 2006.

The company sued Armstrong to get its money back after Armstrong’s cheating was exposed by a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and a televised confession interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The case was sent back to the original arbitra-

tion panel of independent chairman Richard Faulkner, SCA selection Richard Chernick and Armstrong pick Ted Lyon.

In the 2005 arbitration hearings, Armstrong testified under oath that he did not use performanceenhancing drugs.

“Perjury must never be profitable,” the majority wrote in the new decision.

“Tailwind Sports Corp. and Lance Armstrong have justly earned wide public condemnation. That is an inadequate deterrent.

Deception demands real, meaningful sanctions.”

SCA President and founder Bob Hamman praised the ruling.

“It is hard to describe how much harm Lance Armstrong’s web of lies caused SCA but this is a good first start toward repairing that damage,” Hamman said.

Armstrong argued his original settlement could not be overturned under state law.

The arbitration majority said the $10 million was a penalty for Armstrong’s lying and efforts to intimidate or coerce witnesses in the previous case.

“This award is unprecedented,” Herman said.

Herman noted Lyon’s dissent said the panel was not deceived in the orig-

inal settlement when it signed off on a voluntary agreement entered by SCA. “There is no Texas case or statute that allows for this type of sanctions motion nine years after the award was given,” Lyon wrote in his dissent.

Lyon’s dissent also attacked SCA, writing that in 2005 the arbitration panel had found the company to have engaged in selling insurance in Texas without a license, which could have exposed it to more than $22 million in damages under Armstrong’s original claims.

“No party in this case came here with clean hands,” Lyon wrote.

“The final decision by the panel reminds me about the `do right rule.’

It doesn’t matter what the law is, let’s just do what is right,” Lyon wrote.

“Arbitrators, like judges, don’t have that luxury, and the Panel exceeded its authority by indulging itself here.”

Armstrong also is being sued by the federal government and former teammate Floyd Landis in a whistleblower fraud action over his team’s sponsorship contract with the Postal Service.

That case is not set to go to trial before 2016.