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SGA expenditure report questioned by jake jarvis Managing Editor @Newsroomjake

The Youth Party’s most recent expenditure report was called into question by the Student Government Association’s Attorney General Syed Akhtar and Elections Chair Richard Larson Monday.

The report, signed by the Youth Party’s presidential candidate Spenser Wempe, states a total of $358 was spent on T-shirts. The report, which Akhtar said didn’t include any of the required receipts or use proper formatting, notes a

$5,760 refund for T-shirts the ticket isn’t using.

“In terms of my perspective, I feel like you can’t put an anticipated refund on an expenditure report,” Larson said. “That’s how much money they spent and they may or may not get that back.”

Wempe said the retailer from whom the ticket ordered tees messed up the design of the T-shirt and delivered them well past the promised delivery date of Feb. 23.

Instead of having the ticket’s logo across the front of the shirt, the image is only on the breast pocket.

“Regardless, from how our Elections Code is written,” Akhtar said, “anything you have on your campaign must be reported.”

Akhtar said he had an informal conversation with one of the Youth Party candidates who said the company is not willing to work with the group to refund the money.

Wempe said she did not have invoices from the retailer concerning the refund, but also said she does have confirmation the ticket will receive the $5,760.

If the business refunds the cost of the T-shirts, Akhtar and Larson said the

tees would be considered a donation from the business to the campaign, and as such, would still have to be reported.

“From what I see, and what I’m going to pitch to the judicial board, is that they have shirts,” Akhtar said. “They paid for them.

They have not gotten the refund. They’re lying about the refund, and they’re also lying about the number of shirts.”

After not receiving the tees until this weekend, Wempe and her team decided to change tactics.

Instead of handing out Tshirts as is tradition by tick-

ets past and present, the Youth Party focused its efforts toward one-on-one conversations with students. A small number of T-shirts, totaling the $358 reported, were distributed to the Youth Party’s candidates, campaign staff and students who previously reserved one online.

Wempe said the report included the cost all of the campaigning materials being used by the ticket, but does not include the unused T-shirts. She said after learning of the retailer’s mistake, she tried unsuccessfully to cancel the order. Wempe said the printer

will probably donate the tees.

In addition to these questions, Larson said the report was submitted Tuesday when the report deadline was Monday. Wempe said she submitted the report on time but it was not picked up from the SGA office in the Mountainlair.

Akhtar and Larson said they will file an Elections Code violation for the expenditure report they feel misrepresents the numbers and will speak with SGA’s Judicial Board on the issue today. jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

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Phone scam targets WVU students by courtney Gatto

“Some of the phone calls are couched as ‘Let us help you, we can fix this for you’, the police department also told us that some of them were threatening people with arrest,” said Vicki Smith, communications director of WVU Information Security Services. “The nature of the call can vary but don’t give the information.”

For students who receive a call from the Charleston Police Department or one similar to these examples, Information Security Services urges anyone to hang up and immediately file a police report.

“Don’t provide any of that information and contact the University Police Department, 293-COPS, and submit a report with a phone scam originating from the Charleston Police Department, if that’s the number,” Jalso said. “Then, contact information security at defendyourdata@ mail.wvu.edu and we’ll

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Bronon Hammack purchases one of the first Sheetz Cards following the grand opening of Sheetz located inside University Place on University Avenue.

Sheetz opens its doors in University Place, steps from Sunnyside Superette by cameron gleason correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The new Sheetz in Sunnyside has officially been open for business for 24 hours. From the looks of it, there has been consistent foot traffic in and out of the doors since they were unlocked. Although this may be positive for the Sheetz franchise and the University Place, not everyone is pleased with the arrival of the store on campus.

The Sunnyside Superette has been supplying students with general convenient goods for the past 75 years. The Superette was built in 1964 and has been in the same location ever since. In recent weeks, the

Superette released a typed list on its Facebook page and around the store entitled “Top 10 Reasons for Superette Loyalty (After The Sheetz Opens).” In this list, the Sunnyside Superette compares the arrival of Sheetz to gentrification stating, “That’s what rich people do!”

“You know, we’re a small business, and I personally have been here for 15 years. I mean, we run on a shoestring. It’s an eight month business, and we do not have the deep pockets that the large corporations have,” said Peter McGinley, owner of Sunnyside Superette.

Despite the release of the Top 10 Reasons list and much of the public voic-

ing disapproval toward the new Sheetz, Public Relations Manager for Sheetz, Tarah Arnold, was unaware of the Superette’s concerns and still believes Morgantown is a great fit for the Sheetz.

“We are optimistic for a successful partnership with the Morgantown community. The location of our new store is in a great area and we are excited to bring this restaurant and grocery concept to the students and locals of Morgantown,” Arnold said.

One of the ironic points McGinley has continued to bring up throughout the construction of Sheetz and the countdown to its opening has been the selling of tobacco and packaged beer

on campus property. According to McGinley, no other store on campus is allowed to sell these items on any form of property that belongs to West Virginia University.

“We’re trying to just bring it into the public eye the amount of hypocrisy WVU, (of ) which I am an alumnus, is showing by banning tobacco use on campus but allowing Sheetz to sell tobacco,” McGinley stated.

“The reason for this is no other store on campus is allowed to sell tobacco, or packaged beer, or anything besides Coca-Cola products. Sheetz is going to do all three of those things for

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West Virginia University students are being targeted in a phone scam that is attempting to obtain personal information from its victims.

On caller ID, these calls appear to be coming from a seemingly reliable source, but that is far from the truth.

“Somehow, an outside entity got ahold of student contact info and is using the Charleston Police Department as their cover number,” said Alex Jalso, director of WVU Information Security Services.

Many students have reported these phone calls as messages stating their scholarships or financial aid funds are at serious risk and can only be helped if they immediately provide personal information, but it is not actually the Charleston Police Department making these calls.

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City unanimously passes 2015-16 budget, $3.6 million less than previous HOLLIE GREENE correspondent @dailyathenaeum

At its regular meeting Tuesday, the Morgantown City Council discussed several important topics, including the adoption of the 2015-16 annual city budget.

The new budget, consistent with the past several years’ trend, will be reduced by an estimated $3.6 million.

Council member Bill Kawecki of the second

ward attributed a majority of the decline to the estimated amount of B&O construction taxes the city anticipates to incur.

Several council members brought up questions and concerns surrounding the new budget.

One of these was a request from Ron Bane of the first ward for a contingency plan for the possible revenue reduction in the next fiscal year. Other considerations consisted of looking for ways to increase revenue by $1.4 million.

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After the council members came to a consensus based on their feelings concerning the matter, the consideration was unanimously passed.

Mayor Selin ended the budget discussion by stating, “I’m interested in making sure that we continue funding at the current levels, that we look into funding at higher levels and that we continue to look after all of our responsibilities.”

Another topic brought up for consideration at Tuesday’s meeting was the

adoption of a new set of Fire Civil Service rules.

Fire Chief Mark Caravasos presented the Council with a new set of requirements and regulations that would be implemented for future prospective firefighters.

Chief Caravasos described the need for the updated tests.

“The previous ones relate somewhat to the job that we do,” he said. “However, since we’ve adopted those, the national standard has come out and other testing

has come out that is more in line with what we do and the jobs we perform.”

The new requirements are designed to test strength and agility in direct relation to the job of a firefighter. Unlike the previous tests, the new system will allow the department to conduct testing inside their own facilities.

The council members agreed to adopt the new regulations by a unanimous 7-0 vote.

Other important matters voted on by the Council

consisted of a new caution light at the intersection of Routes 119 and 73, the construction of a Colonel Zackquill Morgan statue downtown and a grant of $3,000 to help Empty Bowls Monongalia.

All of the considerations received unanimous 7-0 votes.

City Council will have its next regular meeting on Tuesday, March 17 at the Morgantown Municipal Building.

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Ex-CIA chief admits sharing military secrets with mistress RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose once-bright political future was all but destroyed over an affair with his biographer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges he shared classified material with her for her book.

The plea agreement — which carries a possible sentence of up to a year in prison — represents another blow to the reputation of the retired four-star Army general who led American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and was perhaps the most admired military leader of his generation.

Petraeus, 62, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. The agreement was filed in federal court Tuesday in Charlotte, where Paula Broadwell, the general’s biographer and former mistress, lives with her husband and children.

In court papers, prosecutors recommended two years of probation and a $40,000 fine. But the judge who hears the plea is not bound by that and could still impose a prison sentence. No imme-

diate date was set for a court hearing for Petraeus to enter the plea.

As part of the deal, Petraeus agreed not to contest the detailed set of facts laid out by the government to underpin their case against him.

Prosecutors say that while Broadwell was writing her book in 2011, Petraeus gave her eight binders of classified material he had improperly kept from his time as the top military commander in Afghanistan. Days later, he took the binders back to his house.

Among the secret information contained in the “black books” were the names of covert operatives, the coalition war strategy and notes about Petraeus’ discussions with President Barack Obama and the National Security Council, prosecutors said.

Those binders were later seized by the FBI in a search of Petraeus’ Arlington, Virginia, home, where he had kept them in the unlocked drawer of a desk in a groundfloor study.

Prosecutors said that after resigning from the CIA, Petraeus signed a form falsely attesting he had no classi-

fied material. He also lied to FBI agents in denying he supplied the information to Broadwell, according to court documents.

Petraeus’ lawyers, David Kendall and Robert Barnett in Washington, declined to comment. A telephone message left for Broadwell was not immediately returned.

Her lawyer, Robert Muse of Washington, said he had no comment.

Petraeus admitted having an affair with Broadwell when he resigned as CIA director in November 2012.

Both have publicly apologized and said their romantic relationship began only after he had retired from the military.

Broadwell’s admiring biography of him, “All In: The Education of David Petraeus,” came out in 2012, before the affair was exposed.

He held the CIA post less than a year, not long enough to leave a significant mark on the spy agency. The core of his identity has been a military man.

A Ph.D. with a reputation as a thoughtful strategist, Petraeus was brought in

by President George W. Bush to command multinational forces in Iraq in 2007, a period when the war began to turn in favor of the U.S., though recent events have proven how ephemeral that was.

His command coincided with the “surge” of American forces in Iraq and a plan to pay Sunni militias to fight alQaida in Iraq.

Petraeus, who wrote the Army manual on counterinsurgency, was then promoted to commander of U.S. Central Command, which has authority over the Middle East. When Gen. Stanley McChrystal was fired in 2010

by Obama as commander in Afghanistan after his staff made impolitic remarks to a Rolling Stone reporter, Petraeus was brought in to replace him.

Since his resignation as CIA director, Petraeus has slowly taken steps to re-enter public life — hitting the speaking circuit, becoming a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and taking a position at a private equity firm.

If he manages to avoid prison, Petraeus’ plea deal

will result in far more lenient punishment than that meted out to others convicted of leaking classified information.

In 2012, former CIA officer John Kiriakou pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally disclosing the identity of a covert agent to a reporter and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Then the CIA director, Petraeus hailed the conviction as a victory for the agency.

“Oaths do matter, and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy,” Petraeus said at the time.

David Deitch, a former federal prosecutor who handled counterterrorism and national security issues, said those deciding Petraeus’ fate likely weighed his decades of service to the nation when considering his punishment.

A public trial involving classified material might also potentially reveal information the government would

rather keep secret.

“What is achieved by sending David Petraeus to jail?” asked Deitch, now in private practice with a Washington firm. “What will be achieved in terms of deterrence, in terms of punishment, in terms of rehabilitation? The conclusion is ‘Probably not much.’”

Deitch compared the Petraeus case to that against former CIA Director John Deutch, who was negotiating a plea agreement with prosecutors on charges stemming from mishandling classified material when he was granted a pardon by President Clinton.

After Petraeus’ impending guilty plea was announced Tuesday, longtime supporter Sen. John McCain said it is time to consider the issues raised by the ex-general’s extramarital affair closed.

“At a time of grave security challenges around the world, I hope that Gen. Petraeus will continue to provide his outstanding service and leadership to our nation, as he has throughout his distinguished career,” the Arizona Republican said.

Victims to relive horror of marathon bombing as trial begins

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Thelma Blakes carries her laundry into “80 East Washer,” laundry facility outside a billboard which is near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, bearing an image of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The ad put up days ago by a group dedicated to honoring Forrest invites visitors to see Selma’s “War Between the States” historic sites, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in Selma, Ala.

Civil rights landmark bridge is named for reputed KKK leader SELMA, Ala. (AP) — When the nation’s first black president steps onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the marchers beaten there 50 years ago, he’ll be standing on a structure that’s at once synonymous with the civil rights struggle and a tribute to a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.

The latter fact had all but faded from local memory until recently, when a Selma student group launched an online petition to rename the landmark bridge.

During his 50th anniversary address Saturday, President Barack Obama will be flanked on one side by a new historic marker commemorating “Bloody Sunday,” when white police beat demonstrators marching for black voting rights on March 7, 1965. The sign, erected earlier this year by the state tourism department, notes Obama’s 2007 appearance there just before his election and the accolades for “Selma,” the recent film about the march.

It offers no details about Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate general and U.S. senator who lived in Selma after the Civil War. The Encyclopedia of Alabama, an online database sponsored by the University of Alabama, Auburn University and the Alabama Department of Education, says Pettus held the title of grand dragon of the Alabama Klan in 1877 — an assertion that’s questioned by some historians.

Just beyond the other end of the bridge, a billboard erected recently bears a heroic image of another Confederate general, Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. The ad, sponsored by a group dedicated to honoring Forrest, invites visitors to see Selma’s “War Between the States” historic sites; next month is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Selma, in which Forrest fought.

As the “Bloody Sunday” anniversary approaches, a

student group in Selma is petitioning to rename the bridge, whose twin metal arches soar above the murky Alabama River. The online petition, addressed to Selma Mayor George Patrick Evans and to the National Parks Service, has been up for about two weeks. It does not propose a new name for the bridge.

John Gainey, executive director of Students UNITE, a racially integrated youth group that began the petition, said having a white supremacist’s name attached to the city’s most visible landmark illustrates the city’s deep racial divisions a half-century after the marchers were beaten at the bridge.

Just as in the 1960s, Gainey said, Selma is split by race. Blacks attend public schools, most whites go to private academies and many blacks still live in run-down shanties while whites occupy nice homes with manicured lawns, he said. Yet the town of nearly 20,000 people is about 80 percent black.

“We think it really does repres ent s omething larger,” said Gainey.

The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader, agrees the bridge’s name should be changed to quit honoring someone with alleged Klan ties.

“They’re responsible for too much death and misery. We don’t need to honor them,” said Lowery, a lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. who participated in the 1965 Selma-toMontgomery march. “I’m with the kids. Let’s change it.”

However, Selma historian Alston Fitts doubts Pettus had anything to do with the KKK. Although the city was a hub of racial animus in the 1960s, Selma was known as a “safe place” for blacks aligned with liberal Republicans after the Civil War during Reconstruction partly because of a lack of Klan activity, he said.

“He was a pretty lousy Klan leader if that’s what he was,” said Fitts.

Pettus’ views on race were widely known during Reconstruction. In July 1871, when Pettus testified before a congressional committee investigating the Klan, he made it clear he believed whites, not blacks, were the victims in the post-Civil War South.

Pettus asserted that any campaign of intimidation was being waged by Republicans and “carpetbaggers” seeking to incite blacks to commit “acts of aggression on their part against the white people,” according to congressional archives.

Michael Fitzgerald, a professor of history at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, is researching a book on Reconstructionera Alabama. He said he hasn’t found “persuasive evidence” that Pettus was a Klan officer or even member, but he said Pettus was “almost certainly” involved with the White League, a later terrorist organization.

“He is a Confederate general, he is a Democratic leader when white supremacy is their slogan — is what they exist to do,” he said. “What I would say is Edmund Pettus is definitely a strong white supremacist.”

An attorney who entered the Confederate army as a major in 1861 and rose to the rank of brigadier general by 1863, Pettus was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1897 after Reconstruction and served until his death in 1907 at age 86.

Pettus’ legacy was still well known in Selma when the bridge was constructed just east of downtown in 1940, so the span was named for a man revered locally as a tenacious Southern leader. With Jim Crow laws still in effect, blacks had virtually no say in the decision.

And until now, there has never been a serious effort to rename it.

BOSTON (AP) — In the two years since twin bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon finish line, the case against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has focused on arguments over where his trial should be held, who should sit on the jury and what evidence prosecutors should be allowed to use.

But starting Wednesday, a day after a jury was selected, the focus will shift dramatically from the legal process to the harsh reality of what happened that day: the explosions, the screams, the chaos and the blood.

Prosecutors are expected to present graphic images of the carnage caused by the bombs, including a surveillance video that authorities say shows Tsarnaev placing a backpack just feet from 8-year-old Martin Richard and his family. The boy died in the explosion.

The bombs set April 15, 2013, killed three people and injured more than 260.

At least 16 people lost limbs.

“When people start streaming into that courthouse — many with missing limbs — and the prosecutors get up off their chairs and start talking about this again, people are going to relive the enormity and the awful nature of this,” said Gerry Leone, a former state and federal prosecutor who led the prosecution of shoe bomber Richard Reid but is not involved in the Tsarnaev case.

“It wouldn’t surprise me to see the young boy’s parents as the first witnesses.

Oftentimes, in a homicide case, you humanize the victims right away, and you’re brought right back to that day,” Leone said.

A blast from the second bomb killed Martin and tore off his 7-year-old sister’s left leg. Lingzi Lu, 23, a Boston

University graduate student, was also killed by that blast.

Krystal Campbell, a 29-yearold restaurant manager from Medford, was killed by the first bomb.

Authorities say Tsarnaev, then 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, 26— ethnic Chechens who had lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the volatile Dagestan region of Russia — carried out the bombings to retaliate against the U.S. for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The brothers came to the U.S. with their parents and two sisters about a decade before the bombings.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died following a shootout with police several days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 21, faces 30 federal charges in the bombings and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days later. Seventeen of the charges carry the possibility of the death penalty.

Some bombing survivors have said they plan to attend the trial; others say they have no desire to be there.

“It’s not something I feel I need to do,” said Jarrod Clowery, who suffered burns and shrapnel wounds. “I have closure in my life. I’m happy. I have a second chance at life, and I’m living it.”

Clowery was watching the marathon with his friends, Paul and J.P. Norden, when the bombs exploded. The Nordens each lost a leg.

The Norden brothers also plan to stay away from the trial, but their mother, Liz, plans to be there every day.

The trial is expected to last three to four months.

“It’s important to me.

I take it personally, what happened to my family,” she said.

In addition to the video,

prosecutors also plan to show jurors what they call a confession Tsarnaev scrawled inside the boat he was hiding in.

“The US Government is killing our innocent civilians but most of you already know that. ... I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished. We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all,” the note allegedly says.

“Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop.”

Tsarnaev’s lawyers have made it clear that they plan to depict Tamerlan Tsarnaev as the mastermind of the attack and a powerful force in his brother’s life.

Legal analysts say portraying Tamerlan as a coercive influence will likely not be enough to win Dzhokhar an acquittal but could be a significant piece of the defense argument against the death penalty. After the guilt phase of the trial, the same jury will decide whether he should be sentenced to life in prison without parole or the death penalty.

The jury was chosen Tuesday after nearly two months of jury selection.

The all-white panel consists of 10 women and eight men, including a self-employed house painter, an air traffic controller, a former emergency room nurse and an executive assistant at a law firm.

Tsarnaev may also get some help from his family. One of his sisters, Ailina Tsarnaeva, plans to attend at least part of the trial.

Liz Norden said she can’t quite put her finger on why she feels such a strong need to be there.

“It’s not about going and looking evil in the eye and seeing him. I realize I will never get the answers, but it’s just very important to me that I go and see.”

SHEETZ

the Superette’s business.

“I feel like this is definitely going to hurt (the Superette) a lot. Honestly, I can see everyone coming here (to Sheetz),” said freshman Jordan Rodriguez.

Freshman Nayion Perkins said at first he thought he would continue to shop at the Superette, but he now feels Sheetz provides a nicer shopping experience.

“At first when I heard this was coming here (Sheetz)

you obviously think it’s going to take away business from the Superette.

I was like, ‘Well, I’m going to keep going there because that’s where I’ve been going.’ Then, I came (to Sheetz) and this is nice.

If I’m just passing by Superette maybe I’ll go, but if I had a choice I would come (to Sheetz),” Perkins said.

are some warning signs students can look for if they believe they could be getting involved with a scam.

Roberts says hearing things like ‘You’ve been specially selected’ or ‘You’ll get a free bonus if you buy now’ should all be red flags to the listener.

“One of the things that I think people should get used to doing is just when they get a call like that, that is not a telephone number you recognize, you should ask yourself ‘Who’s calling and why are they calling?’”

Roberts said. “If they’re pushy and they’re wanting information like your credit card number or your bank account, I think the question is, is what’s their hurry. Ask

them for their phone number and name and call back.”

In the end, Smith says it is best to just always look out for yourself and use your best judgment.

“Just be skeptical. Don’t ever give your personal information out to somebody who’s asking for it when you’ve had no prior contact with them,” Smith said.

“If it’s an unsolicited phone call or email asking for personal information, just say no. If a stranger on the street approached you and asked for your social security number, what would you do? You’d walk away. Same thing on the phone and by email.”

Continued from page 1 the simple fact that WVU has a stake in this Sheetz.

They get 69 percent of the leasing revenue and they also receive incentive bonuses due to sales.”

Some WVU students feel that Sheetz’s on-campus presence will certainly hurt

SCAM

Continued from page 1 investigate.”

If the scammers obtain information, the student’s personal identity could be in jeopardy.

“If you give up personally identifiable information like your social security number, your birth date, your username and password for your My ID account, your MIX account, you could become a victim of identity theft or fraud,” Smith said.

“So you don’t want to do that.”

Chief of Police Bob Roberts from the University Police Department says there

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Medical amnesty good step for WVU Voting for the West Virginia University Student Government Association election began Tuesday, with polling places open in the Mountainlair, the Student Rec Center and Towers. Those who voted for SGA were also given the option to vote on a medical amnesty policy.

This policy would protect students in need of medical attention due to abuse of controlled substances or alcohol from legal ramifications. The Daily Athenaeum’s Editorial Board supports this policy and what it could potentially do for culture change

as well as student safety.

In January of 2014, SGA’s Board of Governors unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a policy that would protect not only those in medical need, but also those who are with them attempting to help. The BOG supported this policy at both a University and state level. According to an article published by The DA, a governor at the time contended the only remaining hurdle at the time was the approval of University attorneys.

More than a year later, the student body is voting

edies and the loss of more young lives. One of the main reasons why individuals are The following statement is up for student afraid to seek medical help for themselves or vote on the 2015 SGA eletions ballot: friends is fear of getting trouble or being a “Do you support a medical amnesty policy in snitch. If the University was to implement polto prevent legal repercussions for students icy such as these, this in need of medical attention, stemming barrier could be lifted.

This is also a matfrom use of a controlled substance and/or ter of improving student safety. With the alcohol?” previously mentioned barrier lifted, safety in support of or against a should be considered a and preservation would version of this policy. This good sign. be at the forefront of the continued discussion by A policy like this could mind. By allowing the first SGA and the University help prevent further trag- thought to be a matter of

medical amnesty policy

safety of students, the University would be fostering a safer environment.

However, as students, we need to be responsible for our actions. This policy should not be treated as a get out of jail free card, but as a chance to make the right decision when otherwise impaired. Behaving in a responsible way is key for this policy to be feasible.

This policy could be a great move for the University and a great move for the safety and wellbeing of the students at WVU. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

commentary

The problem with Facebook’s online suicide prevention abby humphreys columnist @obiwan_baloni

Millions of pictures, tweets and statuses are uploaded to popular social media sites across the web each day.

Though some posts may be as innocent as updating followers on a delicious meal or sharing photos of a fun vacation with family, others may be a person’s only outlet in expressing difficult feelings they otherwise might not reveal so readily.

Facebook has implemented a new suicide prevention feature which will allow users to anonymously flag certain posts from friends that may indicate suicidal behavior. A team of Facebook employees will review the post, and if a person truly seems to be in danger of taking his or her life, the user will be given the option of contacting a Facebook friend or the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

While this new feature has the potential to be misused like anything else online, a single life saved will make its implementation worth it.

Posts that appear to reveal a bit too much may at first seem like simple cries for attention, but should be interpreted as serious indicators of distress.

It’s understandable why

letter to the editor

WVU student addresses federal spending concerns tyler henry wvu student

I recently saw where State Senator Ryan Ferns(R-Ohio County) was joined by Ohio Governor John Kasich to promote passing a federal Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.

When I first started high school, the federal deficit $13.5 trillion dollars – today it’s over $18 trillion dollars.

If we continue our rapid pace of deficit spending our national debt will be over $20 trillion dollars by 2018.

Virtually all states, local governments, West Virginia businesses and West Virginia families all have a budget that they base life on, it is time those in Washington DC got a wake up call.

Senator Ferns at age 32 knows that we cannot continue to kick the can of federal debt down the road.

The proverbial chickens will come home to roost eventually and it will be our generation, not that of our parents or grandparents, that will foot this bill.

Please call your local elected legislator and ask that they support Senator Ryan Ferns’ legislation that will add West Virginia to growing list of states calling for a federal Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution!

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the Internet is such a common outlet for emotion.

There’s a feeling of anonymity when posting on the Internet, as the pressures of facing immediate ridicule are lifted when words are typed instead of spoken out loud. What might be too embarrassing or personal to say in person can be shared online without fear of physical rejection.

Unlike personal conversations, where signs of depression can be overlooked or even invalidated in an instant, social media is unique in that the words of others have the potential to be seen and commented on by hundreds of people. Thoughts or feelings that may have been left unsaid or unacknowledged in person have equal weight and permanence when shared online, which can make a user feel like his or her voice is being heard.

However, I hope Facebook keeps in mind how its content might be influencing the very suicidal behavior it’s trying to prevent. It’s not hard to see how the Internet could contribute to needlessly feeling inadequate or out of place in the world, and I don’t believe this suicide prevention service is addressing the bigger issue.

Think about it: A website that constantly bombards users with pictures and status

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updates of all the good things happening to other people can be viewed as a special kind of torture in the right light. Combined with depressing news stories and angry political statuses, feeling envious, infuriated or even disgusted with the world is probably a common occurrence after logging on.

While many claim to use Facebook and other forms of social media just to stay in contact with friends, view-

ing status updates is not the same as truly keeping in touch through conversation.

It could even be said this website has completely redefined the definition of “friend” for the worse in the last decade, where a person can now conceivably have hundreds of “friends” and still feel isolated from others.

The remedies to this have already been in use for decades. For example, I enjoy writing letters to high school

friends in other states, and texting or even calling out of the blue isn’t as strange as it may first appear. I know from personal experience how conversations can be perceived very differently when coming from the mouths of others, not thumbs or keyboards.

Online, a person might feel alone even when surrounded by a sea of “friends.” Offline, it takes the company of just one or two people to immediately

improve one’s outlook on life.

This new service may save lives and bring much-needed awareness to issues in mental health, but it would be wise for Facebook to consider how its overall influence can negatively affect important aspects of daily life. I urge other social media sites and apps to do the same, as it may be the literal difference between life and death. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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The ugly side of hiring: How your looks factor into job interviews melody chi UC davis

Let’s be honest from the get-go here: when an interview candidate walks into the room, what’s the first thing you base your opinion on? Their looks, of course!

From their clothes to their makeup to their facial features, you analyze everything in a few quick seconds and form a first opinion based entirely on appearance.

And this isn’t entirely bad, when you think about it. After all, the way one dresses (such as formally or casually) can help employers weed out candidates that perhaps aren’t taking things seriously enough or maybe aren’t an apparent match for the company culture.

However, on the whole, judging based on looks is a poor (not to mention presumptuous) way to decide who to hire, and it happens much more than we want to admit.

In fact, I interviewed a recruiter from Robert Half, a lead staffing company, and she bluntly reiterated this statement. She declared that she doesn’t even glance at cover letters, but she can easily see how a person looks, and their attractiveness definitely influences her decision to hire them.

Now, that may be an exaggerated example, but there’s plenty of evidence that demonstrates many hiring managers probably agree with this sentiment at least a little. This same recruiter gave the case of her

office manager: her office manager holds the highest position within her department, and it just so happens she is also the prettiest among them. Is this mere chance, or is there something more at work?

A Forbes.com article would argue that there is an undeniable connection between appearance and success in getting promoted or a decent wage. The article cites a study from Cornell University that drew a correlation between weight gain and decreased pay.

Specifically, the study concluded that Caucasian females who gained an average of 64 pounds experienced a 9 percent drop in wages. Along that same trend, Caucasian women classified as “obese” underwent a 12 percent drop in wages.

While this research applies to people’s looks affecting the jobs they already have, it’s not a far step to assume that those perceived as overweight or obese would face similar prejudice in an interview when applying for a position.

In addition to a worker’s weight affecting a hiring manager’s perceptions, facial construction does as well, and not in a good way. In fact, according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, those with facial blemishes or birthmarks can not only forget entirely about getting a leg up on the competition, they can also forget about even being given a fair shake.

A BusinessNewsDaily. com article cites this study, summarizing that inter-

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viewers “recalled less information” about job applicants with facial marks or some kind of facial disfigurement because they were predictably focused on the blemish. This lack of recall resulted in lower interview evaluation scores for the candidate.

However, as I said before, many people agree that looks– specifically, good looks– can actually help a person reach their job ambitions.

In fact, an article on Salary.com, “7 Ways Your Looks Affect Your Pay,” suggests that attractive people earn more money. The article touches on a Yale University study that asserts “employers pay a beauty premium” to good-looking employees. Attractive employees rake in 5 percent more than the average, while their counterparts

possessing poorer appearances can take a pay hit of up to 9 percent.

And if bosses are willing to pay attractive people more once they get the job, it’s a safe bet that hiring managers are likewise inclined to like good-looking people better in interviews, and thus perhaps hire them in the first place.

On the other hand, there are plenty of articles that claim beauty can be a burden, as well.

For example, the same Salary.com article cites a study in The Journal of Social Psychology when it states that women categorized as “very attractive” experienced difficulty being selected for “masculine” jobs.

The article also refers to a Newsweek survey of “more than 200 hiring managers.”

This survey apparently in-

structed people to look at 55 pictures of attractive men and the same number of good-looking women, and then to grant them hypothetical jobs.

The male candidates were consistently given high-level, high-paying positions such as manager or supervisor, while the women were given the inferior, low-paying jobs such as receptionist.

Like the Journal of Social Psychology’s study, these results do appear to imply that any relatively good looks in women can actually be detrimental. What does all of this mean? Apparently, that good-looking men get every possible advantage in interviews/jobs, while attractive women only sometimes do, and unattractive women can completely kiss their luck goodbye.

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Documents: Georgia officials indecisive about execution ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia officials were indecisive about whether to proceed with a cloudy lethal injection drug, at one point saying they weren’t sure whether they checked “this week’s or last week’s” batch, according to a court filing.

Ultimately, they postponed the execution of Kelly Renee Gissendaner late Monday night. A day later, they decided to temporarily halt executions until they could more carefully analyze the pentobarbital, which is supposed to be clear.

The cloudy drug bolstered death penalty opponents, who have been vocal in their opposition after three botched executions in other parts of the country.

Gissendaner, who was convicted of murder in the February 1997 slaying of her husband, had originally been set for execution last week on Feb. 25, but it was postponed because of a threat of bad weather.

Attorneys for Gissendaner said in a filing with the U.S. Supreme Court that a lawyer for the state called them around 10:25 p.m. Monday to say the execution would be postponed several days because the state’s pharmacist had looked at the drug an hour earlier and determined it was cloudy.

The state’s lawyer called back about five minutes later to say the prison wasn’t sure which drugs they had checked, “this week’s or last week’s,” and that they were considering going forward, the filing says.

The lawyer called a third time, saying “this particular batch (of drugs) just didn’t come out like it was supposed to” and they weren’t going to proceed, according to the court filing.

About 11 p.m., the state told reporters an independent lab checked its potency and it was acceptable, but it later appeared cloudy and the execution was postponed “out of an abundance of caution.”

The back and forth was

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Michael Patter, senior minister at Central Congregational United Church of Christ, prays silently during a vigil for Kelly Gissendaner and protest against the death penalty Monday, March 2, 2015, on the steps of the State Capitol. Patter said he is scheduled to preside over Gissendaner’s memorial service after she is executed. detailed in Gissendaner’s University of North Caro- execution drugs from com- surrounding Georgia’s pro- a U.S. Supreme Court rulemergency motion for a lina’s Eshelman School of pounding pharmacies in re- cedures, it is impossible to ing in an Oklahoma case stay.

Pharmacy. cent years after pharmaceu- say if this is indicative of a sparked by a botched exeCorrections spokesIf the particles were big tical companies stopped larger problem,” she said. cution there. woman Gwendolyn Hogan enough, they could clog selling to U.S. prisons. And Richard Dieter, execuProsecutors said Gissensaid “there was never any blood vessels when injected many of them have adopted tive director of the Death daner repeatedly pushed confusion within the de- or could lodge in the lungs, laws to hide the identity of Penalty Information Cen- her on-again, off-again partment about the drugs Jay said. It could also make their drug providers, say- ter, which tracks data on lover Gregory Owen to kill which were to be used,” the drug less potent, mak- ing those laws are neces- executions, said he’s never her husband, Douglas Gisbut also indicated the de- ing an inmate very sleepy sary to protect their suppli- heard of an execution being sendaner. Owen ambushed partment was not part of but not kill them, he said. ers and maintain a source halted at the last minute be- her husband while she went the conversations between “If it’s a solution that’s of the drugs. Critics say ex- cause of a problem with the out with friends, forced him the attorney general’s office supposed to be clear and ecutions should be as trans- drug itself. to drive to a remote area and defense attorneys. it’s not clear, it should never parent as possible.

Missouri and Texas are and stabbed him multiple Georgia Attorney Gen- be injected,” Jay said. “So The cloudy drug “raises also actively using com- times.

Owen and Gissendaner eral Sam Olens said in a they did the right thing by significant concerns about pounded pentobarbital in Georgia’s ability to carry a one-drug formula for ex- then met up and set fire to statement it is “essential not injecting it.” that executions are carried Compounded drugs have out executions in compli- ecutions, and South Dakota the dead man’s car. Both out in a constitutional man- a shelf life of 30 days, Jay ance with the Constitution, has also used this method, initially denied involvener” and that he approved said. Corrections officials but we don’t know what re- McCracken said. ment, but Owen eventuof the decision to temporar- declined to say when the ally happened,” said Megan Other states have been ally confessed and testified ily suspend executions. department obtained the McCracken of the Univer- using a three-drug com- against his former girlThe cloudiness could be drug or when it was set to sity of California, Berkeley, bination starting with the friend. Owen is serving a contamination by bacteria expire.

School of Law’s Death Pen- sedative midazolam. But life prison sentence and is or some impurity, said MiGeorgia and other death alty Clinic. executions in those states eligible for parole in eight “Because of the secrecy are mostly on hold pending years. chael Jay, a professor at the penalty states have bought

72 passengers reach settlements in Asiana crash SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 70 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed in San Francisco two years ago have reached a settlement in their lawsuits against the airline, attorneys for the passengers and airline said in a court filing Tuesday.

The settlement with 72 passengers who filed personal injury claims also includes Boeing Co., which made the airplane, and Air Cruisers Co., the New Jersey company that made its evacuation slides.

The filing did not include the settlement’s financial terms, and plaintiffs’ attorney Frank Pitre said those details are confidential.

This is the first set of lawsuits stemming from the crash to be resolved, he said. Dozens of additional cases involving more than 70 plaintiffs are still pending in federal court in

Northern California.

“This is the first positive step for these passengers to be able to get closure on a tragic, catastrophic crash and hopefully try to get their lives back together,” Pitre said. “We’re pleased we’ve been able to get this first phase resolved.”

Calls to attorneys for Asiana, Boeing and Air Cruisers Co. were not immediately returned.

The July 6, 2013, crash of Asiana Flight 214 killed three Chinese teens and left nearly 200 people injured. The Boeing 777 traveling from South Korea slammed into a seawall at the end of a runway during final approach to San Francisco International Airport. The impact ripped off the back of the plane, tossed out three flight attendants and their seats, and scattered pieces of the jet across the runway as it spun and skidded to a stop.

U.S. safety investigators

blamed the pilots, saying they bungled the landing approach by inadvertently deactivating the plane’s key control for airspeed, among other errors.

But the National Transportation Safety Board also said the complexity of the Boeing 777’s auto-throttle and auto flight director — two of the plane’s key systems for controlling flight — contributed to the accident. The NTSB also faulted materials provided to airlines by Chicagobased Boeing, saying they fail to make clear the conditions in which the autothrottle doesn’t automatically maintain speed.

Pitre said the passengers who settled had injuries that were less serious and have stabilized. At least 14 of the people with whom settlements were reached are minors, requiring the court to approve the agreements, according to Tuesday’s filing.

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Suzette Shaw, left, a homeless woman, joins others protesting a police shooting of a homeless man on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in downtown Los Angeles. There was a moment of silence at the site of the shooting where several dozen people rallied Tuesday in protest. The group then marched toward the downtown police administration building, the site of a meeting of the city Police Commission, a panel of civilians who oversee the Police Department.

Man killed by Los Angeles police was wanted by US marshals LOS ANGELES (AP) — A homeless man who was killed by Los Angeles police on Skid Row was living under an assumed name and was wanted for violating probation terms for a bank robbery conviction, French and U.S. officials said Tuesday.

A law enforcement official identified Charley Saturmin Robinet, 39, as the man police shot Sunday. The official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and talked to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

But Axel Cruau, the consul general for France in Los Angeles, said the man stole the identity of a French citizen and was living in the United States under an assumed name. He had applied for a French passport in the late 1990s to come to the United States to “pursue a career in acting.”

Using the name Robinet, the man was identified as a French national in 2000 when he was convicted of robbing a Wells Fargo branch and pistolwhipping an employee in an effort to pay for acting

classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

That arrest spurred the consulate to provide the man with support, but as he was nearing his release from prison in 2013, officials found another Robinet in France with the same birthdate and discovered the one in the U.S. was an imposter, Cruau said.

“The real Charley Robinet is in France apparently living a totally normal life and totally unaware his identity had been stolen years and years ago,” Cruau said.

While in federal prison in Rochester, Minnesota, the bank robber known as Robinet was assigned to the mental health unit, and federal officials said medical staff determined he was suffering from “a mental disease or defect” that required treatment in a psychiatric hospital, documents show.

He served roughly 13 years in prison and then spent six months in a halfway house before being released in May 2014, said Ed Ross, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons.

Foreign nationals are typically deported after serv-

ing criminal sentences. But in this case, France would not take the man, since he wasn’t really a French citizen. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that immigration authorities could not detain people indefinitely because no country is willing to take them. So once his sentence was served, the man known as Robinet was let free. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said she couldn’t immediately comment on his immigration history.

Under the terms of the man’s release, he was required to provide reports to his probation officer at the beginning of each month, Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Cordova said. When he failed to do so in November, December and January, a federal warrant was issued Jan. 9.

The confrontation that ended in the man’s death Sunday was recorded on a bystander’s cellphone and viewed millions of times online. Authorities said Robinet tried to grab a rookie officer’s gun before three other officers shot him.

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Inexperience proves costly in waning moments against Kansas by connor murray sports writer @dailyathenaeum

It looked like ignorance would be bliss for West Virginia last night, but as its lead narrowed and Kansas tightened the noose, the Mountaineers’ inexperience played a big role in costing them a chance at a season-defining upset at Phog Allen Fieldhouse.

Taking the floor without senior guards Juwan Staten and Gary Browne, few gave No. 20 West Virginia a chance to pull off an upset, let alone give the Jayhawks a run for their money.

In the beginning, West Virginia was playing like it didn’t know any better– I mean that in a good way.

Led by career nights from freshman Daxter Miles and sophomore Tarik Phillip, the Mountaineers jumped out of the gate hitting everything in sight.

West Virginia built a lead as large as 18, but Kansas didn’t come into the game having won 10-straight reg-

ular season Big 12 championships by accident.

Head coach Bill Self ’s team knows how to bide its time, chip away at a lead and strike while the iron is hot, especially in their own building. That’s exactly it did against West Virginia.

With 2:30 to play in regulation, the Mountaineers held a 57-49 lead. Barring a collapse, they were on their way to a third-straight win against Kansas, but when the spotlight was brightest and the moment was the biggest, the Jayhawks stepped up while West Virginia’s young, rag-tag group of upstarts stepped back.

The Jayhawks went on a 6-0 run in the course of 90 seconds, cutting West Virginia’s lead to 57-55 before Jevon Carter collected what appeared to be a critical offensive rebound on a missed free throw with 41 seconds to play.

Missed free throws were a theme for the Mountaineers all game, they shot 16-for-28 as a team, and it

haunted them in its closing stages as well. Williams’ and Carter’s misses left the door open ever so slightly for Kansas, but all the Jayhawks needed was a chance.

Frank Mason made a press-breaking drive to the basket for a layup that brought the score to 58-57 on Kansas’ ensuing possession, forcing West Virginia to earn a win at the foul line yet again.

Carter drew the responsibility for the secondstraight time, and for the second-straight time he could only deliver on one of two.

After Tarik Phillip picked up a foul on an aggressive defensive play during the next possession, Devonte’ Graham was headed to the line with a chance to tie the game with 12 seconds left.

Where West Virginia’s freshmen failed, Kansas’ succeeded. Graham coolly knocked down a pair, and after trailing nearly the entire game, the Jayhawks were back even.

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Freshman guard Jevon Carter plays defense during a game earlier this season.

Carter missed a three from the top of the key that led to a chance for Nate Adrian to get a putback before the horn, but Landen Lucas, another freshman, made the defensive play of the night and cleanly blocked Adrian’s attempt at a buzzer beater and sent the game

to overtime.

With an already shortened bench because of Staten and Browne’s injuries, Bob Huggins was asking a lot of his players for them to put forth the kind of effort they did for 40 minutes against one of the better teams in the country. Another five minutes

proved to be too much to ask.

In the end, Kansas was celebrating an 11thstraight regular season conference title, while West Virginia was left with a long flight home to think about a lost opportunity. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Pitt’s Phillips-Nwankwo eyeing different path

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Pittsburgh’s Phillips-Nwankwo goes up for a layup against Boston College in a game earlier this season.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — It would have been easy to bail.

Nobody would have blamed him. Way too much work.

Way too little reward. Way too much else going on in Aron Phillips-Nwankwo’s life.

Only he couldn’t. What would his mother have said?

When the rest of his family asked if he was crazy, Stephanie Phillips told her son to trust his gut. So he turned down a full academic scholarship to Johns Hopkins in exchange for five years at the end of Jamie Dixon’s bench in Pittsburgh, a chiseled if limited 6-foot-7 walk-on forward who spends most games as a towel-waving cheerleader.

Sitting with Dixon at a restaurant near his childhood home in Baltimore shortly after Phillips lost her battle with breast cancer in December 2013, Phillips-Nwankwo wondered when the fire that drives him would return or if he would even care if it did.

He didn’t wonder about what his mother would want.

Phillips didn’t raise a quitter.

“She’s the reason I just didn’t give up,” PhillipsNwankwo said. “I wanted to give up but I just couldn’t.”

That future had to include basketball, despite his grief and considerable academic load. Even if he rarely played when it mattered. Even if it forced him to sacrifice anything resembling a normal college life.

Phillips-Nwankwo spent the months after her passing “sleepwalking.” He buried himself in books and the open arms of his teammates.

Slowly, things returned to normal. Slowly, the fire re-

turned - both in the classroom and on the court.

He added his mother’s name to the back of his No. 15 jersey before his senior season, a tribute to her faith in him.

When he walks onto the floor Wednesday night in his last regular season game at the Petersen Events Center as the Panthers (19-11, 8-8 ACC) host Miami (18-11, 8-8), Phillips-Nwankwo will hug Dixon and point to the student section that has awarded him cult status because of the jolt he sends through the arena every time he reaches the scorer’s table.

If he gets some more run alongside fellow seniors Cam Wright and Derrick Randall, great. If not, that’s fine. The journey was always more important than the destination for a guy who has played less than 100 minutes in five years.

Phillips-Nwankwo laughingly admits the smarter decision when he graduated from Baltimore City College High in 2010 would have been to fo to Johns Hopkins and concentrate solely on becoming a doctor, the plan since he started watching cable documentaries as a kid and mimicked impromptu procedures on whoever happened to be around.

That path would have been simpler. Sorry, he doesn’t do simple.

He switched majors from biology to neuroscience because there was something about the way the brain works that intrigued him. He voluntarily took out a student loan for his fifth year rather than ask Dixon for a scholarship.

He typically is up until at least 2 a.m. with a book in his face before grabbing a handful of hours of sleep so he can start the same weary cycle: class, practice, class, collapse.

Last he checked, a report card with Bs isn’t the best way to get into medical school.

His relentless effort means he can fall asleep instantly, whether traveling by plane or bus or in a film session. And his teammates notice, using his perennial spot on the dean’s list and his post-graduation goals as a way to affectionately bust his chops.

“I get the doctor jokes a lot,” he said. “If something is wrong with somebody, I get `Hey doc, what’s wrong with me?’ I’m like `Umm, I haven’t been to medical school yet.’”

Emphasis on the yet. But it’s coming. Quickly.

Phillips-Nwankwo spent the last three summers shadowing physicians at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. During one evaluation, Dr. Luke Henry turned the tables on his protege.

The clinical neuropsychologist handed the clipboard to Phillips-Nwankwo and asked him to handle the next case, a routine clearance of an 8-year-old patient whose eyes bulged when he saw the large, dreadlocked pre-med student walk in.

“Aron manned up,” Henry said. “He was a little shy at first ... but he caught his groove. He came out of there a little charged up.”

It’s a familiar sight to Dixon, who has watched PhillipsNwankwo treat every practice as if it’s his last in an effort to make the Panthers better

and demand his coaches to take notice. Dixon responded by giving the team’s most respected player the first extended playing time of his career this season.

Phillips-Nwankwo provided an emotional boost in a victory over Florida State on Jan. 14, scoring seven points off the bench in a 73-64 win.

His momentum screeched to a halt when he dislocated a shoulder against Virginia Tech two weeks later.

Though he’s healthy now,

minutes are again scarce on team desperately chasing an NCAA tournament berth.

With the next phase of his life - the one without basketball - rapidly approaching, Phillips-Nwankwo is trying to embrace the now.

By the time he turns 23 on April 21st, his playing days will be over. There will be a year or two of volunteering and research then it’s off to med school, where he’ll focus on concussion research in part because it will allow

him to stay close to the game.

The one he feel in love with as a kid, the one he promised his mother he’d see through until the end.

Don’t bet against him.

“People think you just have to be real smart,” Henry said.

“You have to have some depth to your person and some ability in what you are and bring to the table. He’s an awesome, awesome guy. I wish him the best but he doesn’t need my wishes, he just needs the opportunity.”

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Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars Williams & Taylor, Garcia & Barnhart

Williams & Taylor

By Hannah Harless A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Dancing with our Mountaineer Stars competitors John Williams and Sarah Taylor are a couple both on and off the dance floor.

The two were chosen to dance in the competition alongside a diverse cast of distinguished students, staff and faculty at West Virginia University, who are taking part in the event to raise funds and coalesce awareness for the American Red Cross in a fun way.

Williams is a senior political science student at WVU and ran for the WV House of Delegates last fall. Williams held a position as the vice-chair of the WVU Student Government Association’s Board of Governors and will run for the West Virginia Legislature again in the 2016 election.

“Getting the steps right has definitely been the most difficult aspect of competing so far,” Williams said.

“Footwork I learned from baseball has helped, but this is all still pretty foreign to me.”

Taylor is a senior industrial e n g i neer ing student at the U n i v e rsity and plans to work for Eaton Cor-

poration in its Technical Sales Leadership Development Program. She is extremely involved around campus. She is vice president of the Industrial Engineering Honor Society, Alpha Pi Mu; executive vice president of the Professional Business Fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi; a member of the Gold and Blue Student Ambassadors; a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers; and is currently the lead intern for WVUp All Night.

Taylor is also a member of the Women’s Varsity Rowing team.

“I was nervous at first about dancing in the competition, but I think it will be a lot of fun,” Williams said.

Taylor said she was excited about being selected for the competition.

“I’ve been watching the s h o w f o r the past

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few years, and it looked like a lot of fun. So far, it’s been a great time just learning the dance and practicing it,” Taylor said.

Williams has no previous dance experience, but he’s beginning to pick up the steps quickly with a girlfriend who has extensive experience. Taylor has been dancing since she was 3 years old. She has performed a variety of dance genres including ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop and Irish step. Taylor also spent five years in her high school’s show choir.

“The most difficult aspect of the competition for me so far is cleaning the dance. John did such a great job learning it, but as we practice more and get the tricks down, we find we have to fill some more time,” Taylor said.

The couple will be dancing to the song, “Uptown Funk,” by Bruno Mars in the style of jazz. The two will be donning outfits in a purple theme, but want to keep specific details about their attire on the hush-hush.

“I’m wearing whatever she tells me to wear,” Williams said. daa&e@mail. wvu.edu

By Hannah Harless A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Dancing with Our Mountaineer Stars competitors Patrick Garcia and Liz Barnhart are bringing upbeat dances to the Mountainlair Ballrooms on March 6.

Garcia and Barnhart said they are enthusiastic about the competition, raising money and garnering awareness for the American Red Cross.

In past years, the competition has raised thousands of dollars for significant causes, and people involved with the event hope to continue the growing movement.

Garcia is a senior biology student at West Virginia University and plans to attend medical school upon graduation. After he completes his degree in medical school, Garcia hopes to join the Navy and eventually become a flight surgeon. He competed in Mountaineer Idol for three years, placing in the top 3 twice and once in the top 5. He worked as a resident assistant in Braxton Tower and a councilman on the Student G o v ernment

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Midterms are here, which means you’re obviously crunched for time. The mounting combination of exams, deadlines and very little sleep can do a number on your body. Changing your workout to coincide with your chaotic routine is the perfect way to better serve your body’s immediate needs and keep your brain sharp.

Yoga is a great way to stay active and blow off some of that studying steam. This practice incorporates stretching, deep breathing and mental focus to train your muscles and relax your body. With countless poses and exercises for beginners, yoga is a healthy way to promote recovery from your hectic schedule. Below are a few beginner-friendly steps for the Warrior Pose sequence.

Association. Garcia is currently a member of the WVU Boxing Team.

“I feel really good about being a part of the competition again this year,” Garcia said. “I’m happy to dance. It’s always fun.”

Barnhart is currently a junior mining engineering student at the University. Upon graduation, she plans on working at a surface mine, and eventually go into lobbying. Barnhart is a governor for the 20142015 Student Government Association and is an active member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority chapter at WVU. “I was so excited to be selected for this competition,” Barnhart said.

“Should be a really good experience.”

Both Garcia and Barnhart have had little experience danci n g , b u t said they a r e excited to jump in on the

activity for the good cause it benefits.

“I dance in my room and in the shower. Other than competing in Dancing with Our Mountaineer Stars competition for the past few years, I haven’t really had much experience,” Garcia said.

Barnhart said she hasn’t danced since middle school.

“I am nervous that I am going to fall or trip during my performance,” she said.

The couple will be dancing with a variety of styles to the songs “Play That Funky Music, White Boy,” “GDFR,” “Jump on it” and “Uptown Funk” in an upbeat manner with attire to go with the theme.

“Let’s just say our hair will be big and clothes will be bright,” Garcia said.

The two have been consistently practicing individually due to difficulty working with busy schedules, but have been putting everything together this week.

“I videotaped myself dancing to the songs, and Liz learned it from there,” Garcia said. “We plan to be working together in the dance studio every day this week.” daa&e@mail.wvu. edu

Warrior 1 From Mountain Pose, step back with your left leg into a standing lunge position. Begin bending the right knee over your right ankle, deepening the lunge. Reach your arms directly above your head, stretching the spine as you hold the position. Hold for 15-20 seconds before switching sides.

Mountain Pose Begin standing in the center of your mat with your arms extended long at your sides. Opening your palms, take a few deep breaths in this pose. Focus on keeping your core tight and your shoulders relaxed.

Warrior 2-3 In your split Warrior stance, extend your right arm forward and your left arm behind you. Begin bending the knee to lower into a lunging stretch. This exercise engages your quads, while still lightly stretching your chest and back. Hold the pose for 15-20 seconds and repeat on the opposite side.

Step 4: Reverse Warrior From Warrior II, raise your right arm above your head and allow the left arm to slide down the left leg. Do not place too much weight on your left leg. Instead, use core muscle to support the weight of your upper body. As you stretch back, focus on maintaining deep, slow breaths.

Hold the pose for 15-20 seconds. Ease out of the stretch and repeat on the other side.

Step 5: Warrior III Return to a mountain pose to begin the last pose of the warrior sequence. Keeping the leg straight, lift your left leg off the floor behind you. Begin bending the torso forward to create a tabletop position. Remember to keep your back parallel to your lifted leg by engaging your jkljcore muscle. Hold the pose for 15-20 seconds. Slowly lower the leg back down to mountain pose and repeat on the other side.

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Matt Mason will perform Thursday at Schmitt’s Saloon. He was the winner of CMT’s ‘Next Superstar’ in 2011.

‘Outlaw’ Matt Mason comes to Morgantown

By Chelsea Walker A&E WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Country music troubadour and star of the CMT show “Next Superstar,” Matt Mason “The Outlaw” will perform at Schmitt’s Saloon Thursday night.

Mason’s devotion to music started as a dream in Indianapolis after visiting the Grand Ole Opry with his family as a young boy. Growing up in a Midwest town, Mason’s upbringing within the Pentecostal Church sparked his love for singing and playing the guitar. Always capitalizing on an opportunity to sing, 16-year-old Mason was first convinced to show off his skills outside of church in South Flor-

ida, after his father convinced him to compete in a local talent show. It was on that stage in South Florida where Mason played some of his most adored country music songs and eventually was given the opportunity to open for country music legend Charlie Daniels on his fall tour.

“I had just turned 16,” Mason said. “I just walked out on stage and looked up and there was probably 7,500-8,000 people.”

Taking his experience from that stage, Mason leaped on an opportunity to try out for USA Network’s “Nashville Star” in 2006. Competing alongside “Nashville Star” winner and modern country musician Chris Young, Mason finished among 10 finalists. Al-

though the outcome wasn’t as expected, Mason left the competition determined to still follow his calling.

“Nashville Star was a good experience as far as learning to be in front of cameras, learning how to play live and learning not to let your nerves get the best of you,” Mason said.

Following his run on the popular series, Mason’s life was shaken upside down when the artist lost his way in the dark world of the industry. With the support of friends and family, the musician left his cloudy past behind. In 2011, Mason was given another TV opportunity to showcase his artistry when Mason landed a competing spot on CMT’s “Next Superstar.” In June of the same year, Mason won

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Game developers conference offers creators a sporting chance

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On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, attendees walk the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With tens of millions of gamers now regularly spectating video games online and in real-world arenas, game developers looking to create the next “StarCraft” or “League of Legends” might learn a few lessons at this year’s Game Developers Conference.

For the first time, the annual gathering of game creators that’s usually centered on polygons and artificial intelligence, was hosting a special summit Tuesday dedicated to competitive gaming - or esports (e-sports), as it’s known. Influential esports figures were scheduled to give talks with such titles as “Legal Issues in Competitive Gaming” and “Building a Sport: The Design Philosophy of `League of Legends.’”

“We’ve had a few individual esports talks in the past but nothing standalone,” said Simon Carless, executive vice president at UBM Tech Game Network, which hosts GDC and other technology conferences.

“This is an entire day dedicated to esports that covers an entire breadth of topics, from producing live esports events to including more women in esports.”

Over the past 10 years, esports has evolved from a niche genre of gaming to

a lucrative spectator sport capable of packing arenas like Los Angeles’ Staples Center and Seoul’s World Cup Stadium to capacity for championship bouts of “League of Legends,” the arena battle game developed by Riot Games that’s easy for most folks to play but difficult to master.

Carless said a survey by GDC organizers of more than 200,000 developers found 79 percent believe competitive gaming is a sustainable business model and 12 percent were currently working on an esports-style competitive multiplayer game.

The rise of spectating games is already reshaping how many designers are approaching their latest creations from the outset.

“There are a lot of people watching games and not playing them, so that’s definitely a consideration for future projects,” said Chris Ashton, design director at “Evolve” developer Turtle Rock Studios.

“I don’t know what that means for the industry.

I never thought I would watch someone play through a game, but I have done that on YouTube and enjoyed it.”

Despite dedicating a day to esports, most attention at this year’s GDC, which

runs through Friday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, will likely be focused on virtual reality, as it was last year. VR technology utilizes a head-mounted display in concert with head-tracking capabilities to transport wearers’ to virtual worlds. Oculus VR, which Facebook bought for $2 billion last year, is returning to GDC with several talks about how developers can craft games for its VR platform.

Sony, which unveiled a prototype VR headset at the 2014 conference called Project Morpheus, is expected to provide an update at an off-site, inviteonly event Tuesday on its rendition of VR that works in tandem with the PlayStation 4 console. Thus far, both Oculus and Sony have only shown off prototypes at GDC and not revealed a price or release date.

After announcing their own VR headset on Sunday, HTC and Valve are expected to be on hand at GDC to demonstrate the device called Vive, which works with exterior base stations to track users’ movements in spaces up to 15 feet by 15 feet. HTC said it plans to release a Vive prototype for developers this spring and a consumer edition sometime later this year.

the series and a spot touring on the 2011 CMT Tour, which featured headliners Luke Bryan, Josh Thompson and Lee Brice.

In 2012, Mason released his first debut EP, “America’s Favorite Pastime.” In seven tracks, Mason’s authentic, southern sound stays true to the country genre. Mason’s twangy lyrics, combined with simple guitar strums, tell stories of the young star’s life struggles, heartbreak and how he manages the two. Almost a year later, Mason released his second EP, “Chasing Stardust.” With storyline lyrics, Mason finds inspiration for his songs through personal experiences as well as those of bandmates and fans. Mason said even a simple conversation with a

fan can prove as inspiration for his songs.

“For me, it’s the story songs, whether ballads or upbeat it doesn’t matter, but when there’s a story to them, those are always the songs I’ve been drawn to,” Mason said.

In February, Mason released his third EP, “When It All Goes South” that features eight tracks which were all recorded with his band in live sessions. Mason said the album’s sound quality is different than his previous EPs because he wanted to release a bareboned record, giving his fans the real version of himself.

Visiting the Mountain State for the first time in six months, Mason is eager for the opportunity to

play at Schmitt’s again. On stage, Mason anticipates playing a mix of cover and personal songs. The country musician says he strives to go against the grain, and his show Thursday night will be no different. By covering timeless country music icons, but not necessarily only their popular tunes, Mason says he really unveils what is “the meat and potatoes” of classic albums.

“I’ve always been more geared toward their b-side,” Mason said. “The stuff that nobody has heard because that’s usually the best stuff.”

Schmitt’s Saloon will host Matt Mason “The Outlaw,” 8 p.m. Thursday. For more information, visit http:// schmittssaloon.com/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Man charged in Minaj tour stabbing PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man already facing an attempted murder charge in the stabbings of two members of Nicki Minaj's tour has been charged with murder.

Homicide Capt. James Clark says 31-yearold Pierce Boykin was charged Tuesday with

murder in the stabbing death of 29-year-old Devon Pickett. The double stabbing outside a bar last month left Pickett dead and a second member of Minaj's tour severely wounded. Minaj says the crew members had arrived in Philadelphia to rehearse for a tour.

Boykin was originally

charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of the man who was wounded. Clark says the murder charge was tacked on after additional evidence pointed to Boykin for both stabbings.

Boykin is in custody, and an attorney for him could not be reached to comment on the charges.

WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN?

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Tonight: Be a little naughty.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Avoid a controlling person at all costs – you will be a lot happier if you do. Trust your inner voice. You might surprise your friends with a sudden change.

Try to see past the obvious, and allow your innate creativity to emerge.

Tonight: Celebrate the moment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Use the morning for any heartfelt matters. The rest of the day, you might want to do some thinking about a situation that is not always comfortable.

A friend could surprise you with an unexpected revelation. Check out an offer, but be realistic. Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Set aside some personal time for yourself by signing up for a yoga class or participating in a different type of relaxing activity. You are only human, and you need downtime. Someone seems to tighten the valve where

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might not be sure about an associate or loved one who seems to demand total control. You know that cannot happen. Your imagination will carry you past a problem to the right solution. Avoid power plays involving

money. Tonight: Follow the music.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You might need to be more observant of a situation that you view as being changeable. Perhaps one of the reasons you are drawn to this matter is that you like the constant chaos – it keeps your life exciting. Learn to let go of your need for control. Tonight: Make it your treat.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might notice a change in your selfconfidence. You seem to have difficulty letting someone else assume that he or she is right. You will defy this person and perhaps create a difficult situation for others, unintentionally.

Tonight: The world is your oyster.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH You might want to step back and observe others’ behavior. Express your caring in a way that someone else can receive before you make your exit. Try not to get involved in a conflict. You could feel as if someone is pushing you.

Tonight: Not to be found.

which way to go with a difficult but necessary person in your life. You might be able to come up with a better solution than this person, but don’t count on him or her agreeing with you.

Tonight: Do not try to control another person.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Defer to a friend, especially if you see a difficult situation emerging. Whether you completely agree with this person is not important right now; you will be able to discuss your feelings at a later point. Be careful with your funds.

Tonight: Where people are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Tap into your creativity, and walk away from a need to control situations. You will be happier if others agree on a solution because they want to and not because they felt coerced by you. Know that this could result in some insecurity.

Tonight: Choose a favorite stressbuster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You could be questioning

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH You might decide that it is a

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Others will be determined to take the lead. Let them, and you will be able to go off and indulge in some fun activities with a friend. Remember that you don’t always need to be at the center of everything that occurs.

Tonight: Let others make the first move.

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Freshman Guard Daxter Miles Jr. drives toward the basket during a game earlier this season.

No. 20 West Virginia falls to No. 9 Kansas, 76-69, in overtime thriller by ryan petrovich sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Another game without Juwan Staten led to another loss for No. 20 West Virginia.

The Mountaineers fell to No. 9 Kansas in overtime, 76-69, on the road Tuesday night.

West Virginia amassed an 18-point lead, but a strong second half helped the Jayhawks make a comeback win in overtime.

Strong play inside the lane from Jonathan Holton and Devin Williams and a 3-pointer from Jaysean Paige allowed West Virginia

to go on a 13-0 run, lasting over six minutes.

The Mountaineers led, 17-8, with 10:18 to play in the first half.

Defense and rebounding were very effective for West Virginia in the first half.

Kansas committed 11 turnovers while the Mountaineers outrebounded the Jayhawks 26-11 in the first half.

A 3-pointer from Daxter Miles extended the Mountaineers’ lead, but a technical foul was called on Brandon Watkins, putting Frank Mason III at the line. He connected on one of two, but West Virginia still led,

29-16 late in the first half.

A put-back from Tarik Phillip helped West Virginia’s lead grow. The Mountaineers went on an 8-0 run lasting over two minutes with just over a minute remaining in the first half.

The Mountaineers went into halftime leading the Jayhawks 40-26.

Kansas opened up the second half of play with a 9-0 run lasting more than two minutes. The run was capped off by a dunk from Wayne Selden Jr., who stole the ball from Holton.

West Virginia saw sloppy play in the early goings of

the second half. Within a seven-minute span, the Mountaineers turned the ball over four times. However, two 3-pointers from Holton kept the Mountaineers in front.

West Virginia led 47-39 with 10:53 remaining in the contest.

Miles scored a careerhigh 23 points while West Virginia went 22-63 (35 percent) from the floor and 9-25 (36 percent) from beyond the arc as a team.

Midway through the second half, both teams traded blows. Kansas narrowed the deficit following an old-

fashioned 3-point play from Kelly Oubre Jr. The Jayhawks trailed 55-49 with less than five minutes to go.

Two turnovers during a crucial time in the game saw Kansas bring the game within just two points. A travel call against Holton allowed the Jayhawks’ Mason to convert at the other end.

West Virginia clung to a 5755 lead with less than a minute remaining.

With 11 seconds to go, Devonte Graham tied the game by making two free throws. West Virginia couldn’t make a basket on the final possession of the

game, resulting in overtime.

During overtime, Miles hit a 3-pointer for the Mountaineers, but Jamari Traylor completed a 3-point play on the other end. Kansas led 64-63 with 3:23 left in overtime.

Down the stretch, Kansas knocked down free throws, while West Virginia struggled from the line.

West Virginia went 16-28 (57 percent) from the foul line. Kansas escaped with a 76-69 win over the Mountaineers, claiming its 11th Big 12 Championship. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

WVU finishes regular season with 59-55 loss to K-State by nicole curtin

associate sports editor @nicolec_wvu

The regular season came to a close last night for the West Virginia University women’s basketball team in a 59-55 loss to Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan. Before last night’s matchup, the Mountaineers led the all-time series, 5-0, and previously beat the Wildcats at home, 63-51. Now West Virginia finishes the season with an overall record of 17-13, 7-11 in the Big 12.

In the first several minutes of the game, K-State and WVU traded the lead back and forth. About five and a half minutes in, the Wildcats had a 7-6 lead. A minute and half later, the Mountaineers went on a 5-0 run and lead,11-7.

Following that run, an effort from junior guard Bria Holmes, sophomore guard Bre McDonald and senior forward Averee Fields combined to put West Virginia way ahead.

A 3-pointer, a jumper and a pair of free throws pushed the score to 18-7, and the shooting only continued.

In the first half, West Virginia shot 50 percent from the field, which is the highest for the team in Big 12 play this season.

Going into the second half, the Mountaineers had a 36-29 lead following their

early 5-0 run, and an additional 12-0 run closer to the end of the half.

Holmes led the offense for West Virginia with 14 points at the half.

West Virginia held onto their lead, and senior guard Linda Stepney hit a three to stretch it to 4129. Then, WVU would not score again for the next three minutes.

Kansas State took that opportunity to score a few more times, but the Mountaineers appeared to figure themselves out and kept their distance from the Wildcats. With 9:31 left, the Wildcats took their fourth timeout and came back with a vengeance.

K-State scored twice, cutting the lead to 49-43.

West Virginia returned with a three, setting the score at 52-43. Then, Kansas State turned around and went on an 11-0 run.

Two minutes remained in the game, and the Wildcats held a two-point advantage. WVU scored twice more and the game ended with K-State taking the final lead with 12.5 seconds remaining.

“We had our opportunities and didn’t finish down the stretch,” said head coach Mike Carey in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Turnovers and missed shots hurt us in the final few minutes.”

On the night, Holmes

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Senior forward Crystal Leary directs the offense during a game earlier this year.

led the Mountaineers with 17 points, McDonald followed with 14 and Fields posted 10, finishing a double-double performance with 10 rebounds as well.

West Virginia was able to hold Kansas State to a

28.1 shooting percentage from the field, and shot 37 percent. Free throws were not an issue for the Mountaineers either, as all eight attempts were made, and Kansas State finished 91.7 percent from the foul line.

Kansas State senior guard Haley Texada led the Wildcats with 22 points; she also scored several of the points in the late second half to secure the lead they needed to win.

West Virginia now faces

the Big 12 Championship Tournament late this week.

Coming in as a No. 7-seed, the Mountaineers take on No. 10-seed Texas Friday in Dallas. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

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Hard work, dedication: The Miha Lisac way by ben carter

sports correspondent @dailyathenaeum

This season is unlike any other the West Virginia women’s tennis team has experienced. It’s more than just winning a few games in a row; it’s about all of the hard work and dedication that is finally paying off.

The hard work and dedication that second-year head coach, and former CAA Coach of the Year, Miha Lisac has implemented onto his team.

In his first full year as coach at West Virginia, the Mountaineers continued to struggle; finishing with a disappointing 3-18 record, and still zero wins coming within

the Big 12 Conference.

However, after a year and a half of the players dedicating their time trying to better themselves and feel comfortable in Lisac’s system, it’s starting to pay dividends.

“The players have dedicated themselves to getting better. We have been working daily to get better for a year and a half now,” Lisac said.

“It comes down to hard work, focus and dedication.”

Focus is another big factor as to why the team has turned the proverbial ship around in his second year.

All this teaching would be for not if Lisac didn’t have players who are not only buying into his coaching philosophy, but

who believe in it as well.

And that is exactly what he has found here at West Virginia.

The players have shown great improvements and strides for the future that cannot go unnoticed. And it’s not just one or two players; Lisac understands that in order to win, everyone needs to be doing their part to contribute to the overall success of the program.

“We look to everyone to contribute and help us build the program...It is not necessarily about individuals, but rather by collectively working well together to take steps forward as a team,” he said.

Now that the players are showing improvement, the team is off to its best start

in years. However, there is still work to be done.

Lisac is the type of coach that doesn’t want to take the foot off the gas.

He said the team will continue to stay focused on getting better and there is still work to do.

The Mountaineers begin their dreaded Big 12 Conference schedule on March 13, and they will look to win their first conference match in over two years. Before that, however, the Mountaineers will face Cornell this Saturday and on Sunday, they face in-state rival Marshall.

Both matches will be held at the Ridgeview Racquet Club.

“We have to stay focused on being prepared for the matches and on compet-

ing well,” Lisac said about the upcoming schedule.

“It doesn’t matter as much what logo the opponents wear on their shirts, what matters is that we compete well, continue to get better and hold ourselves accountable for giving it our all.”

As long as the Mountaineers can continue to stay focused on the task at hand and work hard, the team should continue to see the same winning results.

“It is nice for everyone to see the fruits of our labor and it’s definitely a motivating factor for the weeks to come,” Lisac said. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia sees promise in young pitching staff by david statman sports writer @dailyathenaeum

In baseball, it’s tough to win without good pitching. Fortunately for West Virginia University baseball coach Randy Mazey, pitching has never been a problem. In his two years in charge of the program, he’s presided over one of the best staffs in Mountaineer history.

Behind top arms like Harrison Musgrave, John Means and Sean Carley, the Mountaineers have posted a team ERA under 4.00 for two straight years, the first time the program has achieved that feat in consecutive seasons since the early 1970s.

But this season, Mazey faces the challenge of the unknown. With the departure of 18 players after the 2014 season, a rebuilding project is underway in Morgantown – and it’s centered around a brand new pitching staff, a group of young arms that will make or break West Virginia’s chance of on-field success this year.

With Musgrave, Means, Carley and right-hander Corey Walter all matriculating to the pro ranks, the Mountaineers were left with a pitching staff with just 61.1 innings combined at the major college level under their collective belts – and 12 new hurlers who had never before worn blue and gold.

In West Virginia’s 10 games so far this season, four different starters have taken the ball, only one of whom had ever started a game for the Mountaineers. The aforementioned elder statesman would be senior lefty Ross Vance, easily West Virginia’s top returning pitcher – an All-Big 12 honorable mention in 2014, Vance’s

seven starts accounted for the sum total of the entire staff coming into the year.

Vance will be relied upon to be the rock of this young staff, but so far a previously little-used sophomore has shone the brightest. Chad Donato made just four appearances in relief last season, but he’s taken a star turn in his first three starts of the season.

Donato has given up only three runs in 18 innings of work, backed by a stunning 12-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Donato was at his best on Sunday against a strong Illinois team, tossing eight innings with four hits, no walks, five strikeouts and two unearned runs.

“He was really good,” Mazey said. “He gave up a run in the first on a throwing error. If we throw that guy out, he likely could have thrown a complete game shutout. He was really good, that will help us down the road.”

On opening day at Clemson on February 13, Mazey handed the ball to freshman BJ Myers instead. A promising right-hander from Flower Mound, Texas, Myers threw five scoreless innings that evening, but has since suffered through rough patches in the next couple games, giving up seven runs in 10 innings total.

Despite a couple of tough nights for Myers, and a fiverun outing from freshman Adam Keller in his first start, Mountaineer starters have put together a collective ERA of just 3.37. It’s been an encouraging beginning for the rotation despite the team’s 4-6 record overall – and Randy Mazey will have to hope that they continue to improve as the competition does. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Baseball tries to speed up the game this spring GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — With large, glowing red numbers, the timer on the center-field wall at Goodyear Ballpark ticked down Tuesday, counting off seconds and ushering in change.

Baseball, the timeless game of endless summers, went on the clock.

Major League Baseball introduced its new pace of play initiatives during five exhibition games in Arizona and Florida. As expected, there were a few minor glitches as players, managers, umpires and fans adjusted to the “rules” designed to make games shorter, more appealing to TV viewers and perhaps lure the next generation of fans to a sport fighting for attention.

On this opening day, baseball had a slightly different look.

“I’ve never worked a

game in the history of baseball that has a countdown clock,” said umpire Dan Iassogna, who kept an eye on second base as the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays played in Dunedin, Florida. “That was a little different.”

Under the pace of play provisions, hitters are required to keep one foot in the batter’s box after taking a pitch. Not everyone seemed to get the memo.

New York Yankees leadoff hitter Jacoby Ellsbury took the first pitch of the game - and this spring, in fact - from Philadelphia’s David Buchanan and immediately stepped outside the white-chalked line, maintaining his routine.

These days, that’s a nono - not a no-hitter. But Vic Carapazza, the plate umpire for the exhibition in Clearwater, Florida, gave no signal to Ellsbury that

he was guilty of breaking one of the new rules.

MLB is using the spring training schedule and regular-season games in April to break everyone in. But starting May 1, offenders will face discipline - most likely fines.

Along with keeping batters close to the plate, pitchers are required to have their warmup tosses completed before the clock - set at 2:25 for regionally televised games and 2:45 for national broadcasts is down to 30 seconds and the batter must be ready by the time the clock reaches 5 seconds.

Two clocks were installed at all ballparks throughout the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues, and for the most part the time pieces went unnoticed.

Players hustled on and off the field between innings, most of them seemingly

unaware that they were being timed.

“I tried not to pay attention to it,” said San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner, last year’s World Series MVP. “It’s going to be that way during the season. I didn’t pay attention. I can usually be ready.”

In a few instances, hitters caught themselves about to drift outside the dirt near home plate and made sure they kept at least a cleat on the edge of the box.

“I reminded a lot of guys today, `Oh, you can’t do that. You do that and we’re going to write you up for that. You can’t do that’,” said umpire James Hoye, who called balls and strikes for the Pirates and Blue Jays. “They’d laugh and say, `Oh, sorry.’”

By the way, it took 3 hours, 17 minutes for Pitts-

burgh to beat Toronto 8-7.

The average MLB gametime in the regular season last year was 3:02.

Ellsbury was given the benefit of the doubt for his misstep. He won’t be as lucky in the months ahead. On Day One, crew chief Tom Hallion and his colleagues weren’t enforcing anything.

“He’s already got enough on his mind, the first pitch of spring training, and now he’s got to remember to stay in the box,” said Hallion, who was at first for the opener.

“It’s a work in progress. It’s the first game and we’ll go from here. It’s going to take some work. It’s a change for everybody. It’s not going to get fixed on the first day.”

Fans, too, had to adjust.

As he took his seat a few rows behind Cleveland’s dugout, Glen Pawlak of

Concord, Ohio, immediately noticed the clock situated in center field, just to the right of one of the giant palm trees standing guard in Goodyear at the spring home of the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians.

Pawlak, happy to be away from the Ohio winter and visiting Arizona with his wife, Jan, and son, Brenden, was eager to see how baseball might change.

“It’s interesting,” he said.

“It’s a new adaptation to the game. TV viewers these days have a very short attention span. I think football and some of the other sports with replay and so forth have a distinct advantage to be able to fill in some of that space in between. The changes are subtle, and it’s new so it’s definitely something for everyone to talk about.”

Texas keeps NCAA hopes alive, beats No. 14 Baylor AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Isaiah Taylor didn’t play a lot for Texas on Monday night. He was on the court when it mattered most.

The sophomore guard made a tear-drop shot in the lane with 4.8 seconds remaining in overtime to give Texas a 61-59 victory over No. 14 Baylor, snapping the Bears’ fourgame winning streak and the Longhorns’ four-game losing streak.

Texas (18-12) improved to 7-10 in the Big 12 with one game remaining, keeping its hopes for an NCAA tournament bid alive. Last season, Oklahoma State became the

first Big 12 team to get an atlarge bid with a losing conference record (8-10).

Baylor (22-8, 10-7) had a chance to tie, but Kenny Chery’s shot was blocked by Myles Turner with 1 second left.

“Coach (Rick Barnes) said this gives us another breath,” Texas guard Javan Felix said.

Taylor, the Longhorns’ point guard, played only 6 minutes in the first half because of foul trouble. He was on the bench for all but 5 minutes in the second half and that was Barnes’ choice.

“He wasn’t doing what we needed him to do defen-

sively,” said Barnes, who won his 400th game at Texas.

But Taylor was back for overtime, making another tear-drop shot early in the extra period before the game-winner.

Seven players from both teams were ejected in the overtime for leaving the bench during a brief skirmish between Taylor and Baylor’s Royce O’Neale. Taylor said he was hit in the mouth by O’Neale’s elbow.

Demarcus Holland led Texas with 12 points. Kendal Yancy scored 11, one more than Felix, who began the overtime with a 3-pointer.

Taurean Prince led Baylor with 17 points. Rico Gathers had 12 points and 11 rebounds.

After an exchange of turnovers in the overtime, Taylor and O’Neale fell to the court, prompting the brief skirmish.

Four Longhorns, including starters Yancy and Cam Ridley, were ejected along with key reserves Prince Ibeh and Connor Lammert. Three Baylor players, starter Johnathan Motley and subs Ishmail Wainright and John Heard, were tossed.

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Texas’ Jon Holmes hit a long 3-pointer with 1:04 left in regulation to tie the game at 54 and erase a deficit that was 10 points with a little more than 6 minutes left.

Ibeh blocked a driving shot

by Chery, giving the Longhorns a chance to win. Texas made 11 blocks in the game, six by Turner.

“I thought I had a clear lane,” Chery said. “They’re a good defensive team. They are going to contest every shot.”

After calling a timeout, the Longhorns could not find a good shot, and regulation ended with a forced 3-point attempt by Holmes. Then came Felix with his 3, and Taylor with his tear-drops, and the Longhorns are still breathing.

“We got a chance,” Barnes said.

TIP-INS Texas: The Longhorns, who have five players between 6-foot-8 and 6-11, lead the nation in blocked shots with nearly eight a game.

They set a school record with 14 during a loss at Kansas on

Saturday. But they have not used their length and athleticism to induce turnovers by opponents. They rank last in the Big 12 with nine a game.

Barnes says his guards are not aggressive enough in that area.

Baylor: The Bears have been fast starters this season, getting outscored in the first half only three times. In those games, they beat Memphis in Las Vegas but lost at Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

Baylor has outscored opponents in the first half in its last 10 games.

TEXAS FARES BETER THAN MOST The Longhorns hit 8 of 23 3-point attempts against Baylor (34.8 percent). This season the Bears have supplied evidence refuting an old college basketball axiom that teams which use zone defense are vulnerable to 3-point shooting. Baylor, using mostly zone, has limited opponents to less than 29 percent accuracy, lowest in the Big 12 and ninth nationally. The Bears also rebound well, another area of concern for teams that play zone.

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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Oklahoma was up by 20 when Isaiah Cousins hollered at the Iowa State bench.

Cousins got a technical foul — and the Cyclones got all the motivation they needed to spark one of the best comebacks in school history.

Georges Niang had 20 of his 23 points in the second half and No. 17 Iowa State rallied from a 21-point deficit to stun No. 15 Oklahoma 77-70 on Monday night and snap a two-game losing streak.

Monte Morris had 19 points for the Cyclones (21-8, 11-6 Big 12), who maintained their slim shot at a share of the conference title following one of the wilder league games in years.

Oklahoma raced to a 19-point halftime lead. But Iowa State scored 22 straight points in just over 5 minutes — all immediately following Cousins’ technical — and outscored the Sooners 59-33 in the second half.

“When someone gets up in your face and (is) telling you how they’re kicking your butt, you’re going to retaliate in some way. Luckily, we retaliated the right way,” Niang said. “That was just the push that we needed.”

Buddy Hield had 26 points for the Sooners (20-9, 11-6), who lost for just the second time in 10 games.

Oklahoma had survived scares in its last three games, needing overtime to beat Texas Tech and rallying past Texas and TCU for narrow wins.

The Sooners looked as though they had the Cyclones buried by halftime.

Oklahoma dominated the offensive glass, forced Iowa State to turn it over 10 times in 15 minutes and jumped ahead 37-18. It was a stunning score considering that the Cyclones had won 21 straight home games before last week’s loss to Baylor.

But Cousins was whistled following a block by team-

mate Ryan Spangler with Oklahoma ahead 48-28 — and the Cyclones finally got going.

Their furious run was capped by a 3-pointer from Dustin Hogue that put Iowa State ahead 50-48 with 9:33 left.

The Cyclones kept pushing, and Niang’s 3 gave them a 59-52 lead with 6:43 left.

“What they did in the first half wasn’t likely to happen in the second half. They responded well,” Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said. “We contributed to it, for sure.”

Jameel McKay had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Iowa State, including 10 in the first half to keep the Cyclones within relative striking distance.

Morris, like Niang, took over in the second half scoring all but two of his points.

“I thought it was really a great mental half. We needed that. We needed that in a bad way. Obviously, it was a team that was struggling,” Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg said. “Hopefully this is what we need to get our confidence back to the point where we can get some momentum going into the tournament.”

TIP-INS: Iowa State: The Cyclones have won at least 11 Big 12 games in each of the past four seasons. ... Long and McKay staged an impromptu 3-point shooting contest from behind the courtside seats. Long ended it with a swish.

Oklahoma: Cousins had 12 points ...The Sooners more than doubled up Iowa State by halftime despite shooting just 38 percent. That’s because Oklahoma, helped by a 6-1 edge on the offensive glass, had 10 more shots than the Cyclones.

STAT LINES The rally matched the largest second-half comeback in school history (Western Illinois, 1999) and was, according to Iowa State, the largest by a major conference team in 2014-15.