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Tuesday March 10, 2015

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Snow causes SGA voting problems by emily leslie correspondent @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University was closed due to inclement weather Thursday, March 5, the last day of the 2015 Student Government Association elections. Rather than cancelling elections for the day as well, voting was held in the Mountainlair for a limited amount of time, between 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cancelling voting on the

last scheduled day of elections would have been problematic, given how some students may have depended on Thursday as their time to vote. However, many students were unable to come downtown to vote given the weather conditions.

It was also problematic that elections were held on a day when the University was closed. In fact, it is against the WVU SGA Elections Code to have an election on any nonacademic day. The code spe-

SEP hosts annual Basketball Shoot-out by courtney gatto staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University Sports and Exercise Psychology Club is hosting an event that might be difficult for students to pass up.

The SEP Club will have its annual Basketball Shoot-Out from 7-9 p.m.

Wednesday in the upstairs Rec Center Basketball courts. With games and prizes available, students will be able to show off their MVP-worthy skills and donate money to help fund some of the club’s events and community service opportunities.

SEP Club is located in the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences. It is an organization that allows students in the SEP major to interact with one another while participating in local and charitable events.

“We are a student-run club which focuses on community service and social events. We try to at least have two to three community service events a month,” said Kristen Siers, president of SEP Club. “It’s just a great op-

portunity to get to meet students in your major and have some fun outside of the classroom.”

The club does much of its work with local charities, such as the Grief Center and the Rosenbaum House.

The proceeds from the shoot-out help pay for some supplies and costs of the club’s community service events, as well as help fund yearly trips to regional conferences.

“Every year we have the shoot-out,” Siers said, “we try to have it around March Madness because people are kind of pumped up about basketball.”

This year, there will be three contests students can participate in: the Free Throw Contest, the 3-Point Contest and the Dunk Contest. All students are welcome to play.

The Free Throw Contest will cost $2 to play and each contestant will be allowed 20 shots from the free throw line. The top three scorers will be named the winners.

The 3-Point Contest will

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Professors open Mon Hills record label for students by kendall snee staff writer @dailyathenaeum

From the start of his teaching career, Darko Velichkovski has dreamed of creating a student organized record label at West Virginia University. After hard work and extensive planning, Velichkovski’s dream is now a reality.

Mon Hills Records, WVU’s own student organized record label, proudly showcased three signed artists with preview performances at the Creative Arts Center.

With a variety of genres and artists, Mon Hills Records aims to demonstrate the music West Virginia inspires, from the big band jams of the High Street Jazz band, to the folk allure of the WVU Bluegrass Band.

The record label is considered an extension of the WVU School of Music and partnered with the new online master’s program dealing with the music industry. In Velichkovski’s year as director of the Music Industry program, he managed to collect students from different edu-

cational backgrounds to preform the varying skills needed within a record label.

“As I entered the music program it became increasingly obvious that the practical component that was missing from the school was the ability to have a hands on experience in the business,” Velichkovski said.

With Velichkovski eager to teach both the science and ethics of the music industry, he knew he needed help from the students themselves.

Cody Kerns is the student general manager of Mon Hills Records and was inspired by Velichkovski to join in on the project.

Kerns explained he had started out as “a plain old regular marketing agent” and never imagined doing something this big.

“I heard about this program two years ago when it was still just all talk,” Kerns said. “The biggest thing for me is just getting to mix with all these people that I get to work with, they are the basis for everything.

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cifically states “[v]oting shall be no fewer than two and no more than three congruent academic days during the last week of campaigning.”

It is important to note there is no emergency weather policy in the election code.

Molly Callaghan, a member of the elections committee, commented on the decision to hold elections despite the unexpected snow day.

“The current election code does not specify an emergency weather policy, so on

Wednesday, March 4, a meeting with the county clerk was held and possible scenarios were discussed regarding the upcoming weather and voting polls. The decision to have only one location and limited voting times were based on the safety of all students and poll workers. This also gave the students who had not voted a chance to do so. The decision was approved by faculty, the elections committee and SGA judicial board,” Callaghan said.

Chris Nyden, the current student body president, made the following statement regarding the decision to hold elections, noting it was not possible for elections to be held on another day.

“The Elections Chair was notified of a potential loss of a day of voting due to weather last Tuesday. Unfortunately, the county clerk was unwilling to reschedule Thursday’s voting for another day,” Nyden said. “She offered to still work our central polling

location at the Mountainlair on Thursday for a shortened period of time. This decision was made, as these circumstances are not covered in the Elections Code, and Student Government had already met the mandated obligation for voting on two academic days.”

Nyden added this was an opportunity for the students who had not yet voted to get their last chance to do

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Climbing Club welcomes all types of students to experience outdoors by taylor jobin staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University Climbing Club is one of the more aberrant club sports at the University. With an aim to be fun and inclusive, the club pushes its members’ limits above just being a better climber, it pushes them to be better people.

“Everybody’s just trying to provide an environment where everyone can have fun and learn stuff and just better themselves,” said Cassidy Brown, the WVU Climbing Club president. “Everyone is just trying to share new information and try to have fun and meet new people.”

The Climbing Club is part of the club sports federation, but it doesn’t operate with normalcy. The club members do not have set practice times or regularly scheduled competitions, but instead do most of their event planning and communication through an interactive Facebook page.

“We have this big active Facebook group and that’s where everyone posts if they go out and climb, or if they have room in their car, how many people they can take,” Brown said. “So people can just meet new people through the club and then go out with new people.”

It’s easy to become a member, just join the Facebook group and you’re in.

If a student wants to compete and be an active climber, they must become a paying member.

Dues are $25 a year and include admission to all competitions, a free T-shirt, 10 percent off at the Pathfinder store on High St., and a spot for Thanksgiving and spring break trips.

The club actively participates in competitions throughout the year, more typically in the colder months when it’s tougher for people to get outside.

The competitions are predominately bouldering, when no harnesses and ropes are used, but at least once in November WVU hosts an annual top rope competition.

The top rope competition has open registration, so anyone can compete.

It has many different routes marked by color coordinating tape and is broken down into three levels, according to Brown.

Participants get multiple route attempts and at the end of the competition, awards are given to the top three male and female competitors, who get their choice of the top raffle prizes. The rest of the prizes are raffled off to the remaining participants.

End-of-competition raffles are common in climbing competitions. Organizers know experience and skill levels range from decades

of work to pure novice, so they try and reward everyone for pushing themselves that day because the most important aspect of climbing is having fun.

“If you just go out there with the mindset of, ‘I’m going to have fun,’ you’re just going to grow so much because anything that you do that you’re having fun with, or pushing yourself a little harder to have fun, will be a really positive mindset to be around all the time, which just pushes you in both your physical and mental game,” Brown said.

Brown said she joined the Climbing Club with no experience but eventually became club president through hard work

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and determination.

According to Brown, there is no one type of person the club is looking for, but instead anyone who wants to have fun without the added pressure of having to be the best.

“Anyone who’s really interested in bettering themselves physically and mentally, it really works on your mental (game),” Brown said. “You get this idea that you always have to be the best or you always have to beat someone, and that’s really what climbing takes out of it, that having to beat someone.

Obviously (during) the competition you have to beat someone, but even then it’s still just for fun - so it just gives you an opportunity for personal gain.”

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Tuesday March 10, 2015

Missouri appeals judge appointed to take over Ferguson JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court judge was appointed Monday to take over Ferguson’s municipal court and make “needed reforms” after a highly critical U.S. Department of Justice report that was prompted by the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.

The Missouri Supreme Court said it is assigning state appeals Judge Roy L. Richter to hear all of Ferguson’s pending and future municipal court cases. The high court said Richter also will have the authority to overhaul court policies to ensure defendants’ rights are respected and to “restore the integrity of the system.”

Ferguson Municipal Judge Ronald J. Brockmeyer resigned Monday, saying through a spokesman that he was stepping down to promote public confidence in the

court and help Ferguson “begin its healing process.”

The Ferguson City Council met in closed session Monday evening, but members left without taking questions and a city spokesman didn’t disclose the purpose of the meeting.

Richter will take charge of the court on March 16. The Supreme Court said it also is assigning staff from the state court administrator’s office to aid Richter in reviewing Ferguson’s municipal court practices.

“Judge Richter will bring a fresh, disinterested perspective to this court’s practices, and he is able and willing to implement needed reforms,” Chief Justice Mary Russell said in a written statement.

“Extraordinary action is warranted in Ferguson, but the Court also is examining reforms that are needed

on a statewide basis,” Russell added.

The change comes after the Justice Department released a report last week that cited cases of racial profiling and bigotry by police and chided what it described as a profit-driven municipal court system in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb where Brown, 18, was shot by a white Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9. The shooting prompted protests in the St. Louis area and across the nation.

A St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department both declined to bring charges against Officer Darren Wilson, who resigned from the department. The Justice Department report said Wilson acted in self-defense when he shot Brown.

But the Justice Department said Ferguson’s police and

court systems functioned as a money-making enterprise that heightened tensions among residents.

“It is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg,” Holder said while releasing the report.

The federal report noted that Ferguson was counting on revenues from fines and fees to generate $3.1 million, or nearly one-quarter of its total $13.3 million budget for the 2015 fiscal year.

Although it was rare for the court to sentence people to jail as a penalty for city code violations, the Justice Department report said the city’s court almost always imposes monetary penalties and then issues arrest warrants when people fail to pay on time or miss a court date. As a result, relatively minor violations

can — and frequently do — lead to arrests and jail time, the report said.

The federal report also cited several instances in which Ferguson’s municipal judge, court clerk or city prosecutor helped “fix” tickets for colleagues and friends.

In one example, the report cited an October 2013 email from Brockmeyer to Ferguson’s prosecuting attorney referencing a ticket Brockmeyer had received for allegedly running a red light in the nearby suburb of Hazelwood. In the email, Brockmeyer asked the Ferguson prosecutor, who also served as the Hazelwood prosecutor, to “see to it that this ticket is dismissed.” The prosecutor responded that the ticket was dismissed.

The report cited the forgiven tickets for Ferguson officials as evidence of “a double

standard grounded in racial stereotyping.” It said Ferguson officials displayed “a striking lack of personal responsibility among themselves” while some nonetheless asserted to federal investigators that the city’s African-American residents lacked “personal responsibility.”

Attorney Bert Fulk said in a statement announcing Brockmeyer’s resignation that Brockmeyer had been “fair and impartial” as a part-time judge and that the court clerk bore the primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the court.

The city fired court clerk Mary Ann Twitty last week.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon released a written statement Monday praising the “strong and appropriate actions by the Missouri Supreme Court” to overhaul the Ferguson municipal court.

‘Michelangelo of buttocks injections’ convicted of murder PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former madam who bragged of doing blackmarket “body sculpting” on thousands of women was convicted on Monday of murder in the death of a dancer whose heart stopped after nearly half a gallon of silicone was injected into her buttocks.

Padge-Victoria Windslowe’s colorful testimony during her Philadelphia trial included claims that she was “the Michelangelo of buttocks injections” and that model Amber Rose was “a walking billboard” for her work. Yet Windslowe had no medical training, other than tips she said she picked up from overseas doctors who performed her sex change operation and a physicianclient of her escort service who became her lover.

“I think it was a hoax, like her whole life has been a hoax,” Assistant District Attorney Carlos Vega said Monday of the supposed training.

The evidence showed that Windslowe traveled to hotel rooms and “pumping parties” with tools of her trade stuffed into a shiny pink purse: a water bottle filled with liquid silicone, a red plastic cup, needles and syringes, and Krazy Glue to close the wound.

Windslowe, 45, namedropped the likes of rappers Nicki Minaj and Kanye West and tennis star Serena Williams during her

testimony and claimed to have been baptized “Genevieve” after her sex change by the late Roman Catholic Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. Rose’s representatives have not responded to messages seeking comment about the claim that she was a client.

Windslowe described herself as a serial entrepreneur who once ran a transgender escort service and a Gothic hip-hop performer who called herself the Black Madam.

“I was the best, and I don’t mean that to be cocky,” Windslowe testified, explaining why celebrities would have sought her out over a licensed plastic surgeon.

Authorities argued that she fled in 2011 after a botched injection killed Claudia Aderotimi, a 20-year-old London break-dancer and college student.

The trial was halted for several days last week while Windslowe was hospitalized for chest pains.

She has been in prison since 2012, when the confounding 18-month investigation led to a coroner’s homicide ruling.

“As we moved forward with this bizarre case from house to house (as Windslowe was on the move), from search warrant to search warrant, from year to year, we just stayed on top of it,” police Lt. John Walker said.

Windslowe conceded that she had injected Aderotimi, but her lawyer argued that she never wished clients any harm. Prosecutors called her reckless, especially in her choice to use industrial-grade silicone and cut it with saline in a home blender.

Windslowe, who’s about 5-foot-10 and 250 pounds, said she had injected herself with the same product many times — in her forehead, cheeks, chin, thighs and buttocks.

The jury took less than four hours to reject a lesser manslaughter charge and convict her of third-degree murder, which involves malice but not premeditation.

Windslowe also was convicted of aggravated assault for injuries to a Philadelphia woman hospitalized after the injections and two weapons counts — for using of lowquality silicone.

She faces 20 to 40 years in prison on the murder conviction alone at her June 11 sentencing.

There have been several similar deaths around the country involving underground buttocks injections. A mother of three who died in Texas after having work done at a tile store was left by the roadside after her death in April 2011. A Colombian couple is serving up to eight years in prison for manslaughter in that case.

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who agreed to work with the label along side of Velichkovski and the students.

“Brad Paisley, he’s just one example of many West Virginia artists that came to national success on the Wheeling Jamboree,” Heath said. “We are so happy to be connected to the real incubator that these students and artists represent.”

The event featured the High Street Jazz Band with their rousing old timey New Orleans jam, which was followed by the WVU Blue Grass band with “How

Mountain Girls Can Love.”

Steve Smith completed the act with a round of dueling banjos, which the crowd went wild for with yee-hawing and rhythmic clapping.

And to top the evening off, all three bands came together to sing a heartwarming rendition of John Denver’s “Country Roads.”

With trumpets tooting along side banjos, Mon Hills Records promises diversity along with their talented stars.

Continued from page 1 We have everything from a recording production team, accounting, the distribution and sales, live events and everything else. These guys really bring everything to the table and I’m so proud of them.”

The WVU Music school also has the help of Dave Heath, president and executive music producer of the Wheeling Jamboree,

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Facility workers removed the letters from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house at the University of Oklahoma on Monday, March.

9, 2015 in Norman, Okla. University President David Boren severed the school’s ties with a national fraternity on Monday and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered after several members took part in a racist chant caught in an online video. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Univ. of Oklahoma severs ties with frat after racist chant NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The president of the University of Oklahoma severed the school’s ties with a national fraternity on Monday and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered after several members took part in a racist chant caught on video.

President David Boren said he was sickened and couldn’t eat or sleep after learning about the video Sunday afternoon. The video, which was posted online, shows several people on a bus participating in a chant that included a racial slur, referenced lynching and indicated black students would never be admitted to OU’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

The Oklahoma football team decided to protest rather than practice on Monday. At the team’s indoor practice facility, coach Bob Stoops led the way as players, joined by athletic director Joe Castiglione, walked arm-in-arm, wearing black.

Meanwhile, a top high school recruit withdrew his commitment the university after seeing the video.

Boren attended a predawn rally organized by students and lambasted the fraternity members as “disgraceful” and called their behavior “reprehensible.” He

said the university was looking into a range of punishment, including expulsion.

“This is not who we are,” Boren said at a midday news conference. “I’d be glad if they left. I might even pay the bus fare for them.”

National leaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon said late Sunday that its investigation confirmed members took part in the chant and announced it would close the local chapter. The national group said it was “embarrassed” by the “unacceptable and racist” behavior.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the efforts by the university and the national fraternity to repudiate the racist comments were “an appropriate step.”

Boren said fraternity members have until midnight Tuesday to remove their belongings from the fraternity house. He said the fraternity was “not totally forthcoming,” and he was still trying to find out who was on the bus so the school could consider disciplinary actions.

He said the university’s legal staff was exploring whether the students who initiated and encouraged the chant may have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial

discrimination.

“We are also going to look at any individual perpetrators, particularly those that we think took a lead in this kind of activity,” Boren said.

It’s unclear who recorded the video, when it was recorded and who initially posted it online. Boren suggested it was likely taken by another student who didn’t agree with what was being chanted.

OU Unheard, a black student group on campus, posted a link to the video after someone anonymously called it to the group’s attention Sunday afternoon, communications director Alexis Hall said Monday.

“We immediately needed to share that with the OU student body,” said Hall, a junior. “For students to say they’re going to lynch an entire group of people. ... It’s disgusting.”

The video appears to have been taken on a charter bus, with at least one of the chanting young men wearing a tuxedo.

Telephone and email messages left Monday with several members of the fraternity seeking comment on the video were not returned.

Other members declined to comment.

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businesses, we’ve got two signed men’s basketballs by the basketball team and a couple Visa gift cards for up to $150.”

The club expects a good turnout as well as a fun time. Sommers Taylor, a member of SEP Club, says it will definitely be a great time for all who attend.

“I’m so excited for it. It was so much fun last year that I can’t wait for it again this year,” Taylor said.

Siers agrees the event will be enjoyable but says it will also be beneficial for the club and the community.

“I’m just looking forward to continuing spreading the word about SEP and SEP club and just reaching out to students of the University and providing this event and hopefully being able to raise money so we can continue doing what we do with community services and our conferences,” Siers said.

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so. Since rescheduling was not an option, having limited voting time on Thursday was a better option than having no voting at all.

“We wanted to allow any students who did not vote the first two days to vote, instead of scrapping the day entirely. The code does not specify anything about voting on nonacademic days,” Nyden said. “This was a very unfortunate event, especially because our Elections Committee had pushed for more students to vote this year than in years past. But our elections budget had already been nearly exhausted, and we were not able to work with the County to reschedule voting.”

Richard Larson, the chair of the Elections Committee, declined to speak with The Daily Athenaeum.

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A talk by Miriam Katin, author of “We Are on Our Own” and “Letting It Go.” Ms. Katin will discuss both works, as well as her artistic and literary representations of Holocaust survival and recovery.

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give each student 25 balls and one minute to score as many 3-point shots as they can. This activity will also cost $2.

The Dunk Contest will be $3 and will be judged slightly differently than the other two.

“For the Dunk Contest, we bring in an 8 1/2 foot rim, so we aren’t expecting people to dunk on 10 foot rims or anything,” Siers said. “You can have the opportunity to practice for 20 minutes. Then, you have two dunks and we have guest judges. So, whoever gets judged the highest wins.”

The top scorers from each contest will have the chance to win something from a variety of prizes.

“We are actually offering a lot of cool prizes this year,” Siers said. “We have gift cards to local

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Learning from the actions of others On the same day as the 50th anniversary of the historical civil rights march at Selma, a fraternity at the University of Oklahoma made national headlines after a video of the group making extremely racist comments surfaced Sunday.

The chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at OU is being shut down after the video—entitled “OU SAE Racist Chant”—went viral.

The video portrays members of OU’s chapter of SAE chanting along, dressed for a formal event. You can see several people holding up their phones as if they were recording the incident. In an Instagram video released later, one member is shown waving a camera

away.

Students at OU were outraged and marched through their student union, covering the office of student affairs’ door with sticky notes containing complaints. At 11 a.m.

Monday, OU president David Boren held a press conference condemning members of the fraternity.

Members of OU’s chapter of SAE have been kicked out of their house and were required to be gone by midnight last night, and OU will not assist them in finding alternative housing, Boren explained.

“We don’t provide student services for bigots,” Boren said as reported by The Oklahoma Daily.

The incident has reached

far beyond just the college community, getting a mention in the White House press secretary’s briefing, a cancelation of a Waka Flocka concert on campus as well as four-star recruit Jean Delance de-committing from the football program (Delance sites personal reasons for leaving).

So, what does all of this mean for us students at West Virginia University?

In Nov., 2009, members of the WVU women’s soccer team painted themselves in black face and padded their rear ends. A representative of the University stated the incident was not meant to be offensive, and that the women involved had asked the black women on the team if the costumes were

OK. It was reported by the University official the black women on the team took no offense (as reported by The Daily Athenaeum).

While this incident does not come close to the offensive video created by the members of OU’s chapter of SAE, there was still room for offense. In a world where everything we do has the chance of being photographed or recorded at the push of a button, we all need to spend time considering our actions.

It was more than likely those in the chapter of SAE never intended for the video to be released. However, that no longer matters. What happens behind closed doors will not remain there if the red re-

cording light is flashing.

As members of the digital age, we must remain ever mindful of what can happen when the things we consider private are made public.

It should also be noted that these incidents are not just minority issues. As demonstrated by the wide spread outrage and media coverage of this event, issues such as these reach into every part of life. When the press sectary for the highest office in the land feels the need to address this behavior, then this is a big deal for all of us.

Members of this fraternity should—undoubtedly—be expelled. This kind of behavior is completely unacceptable in

a place for higher education. Additionally, further steps in the education of diversity and inclusion should be taken across the entire higher education community.

No matter where you go, you will find individuals who have radical views on either end on the spectrum.

We must acknowledge no two students on any campus share the same exact views and that we have no way of controlling the actions of every extremist.

This may have happened in Oklahoma, but the possibility extends to every campus—making the need for further education a national issue. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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The importance of serving as a patient advocate elise cowgill columnist @cecowgill

Perhaps Glee’s Kurt Hummel said it best : “Why do perfectly intelligent parents become completely unreliable when they have to go to the doctor?”

Think about it. Now that you’re in college and your parents are older, and, unfortunately, probably a little less healthy, chances are you’ve sat in on a doctor’s appointment with them. I’m willing to bet they sit there and answer the yes or no questions with a head bob or shake, and agree with most of what the physician has to say.

They might ask a couple questions, but they’re probably along the lines of, “What time should I take this medication?” and “Where do I go for that bloodwork?”

It’s kind of crazy, right?

Think back to your youth (some of you will have to work a little harder for this one) to the days of your overprotective but wellmeaning mom or dad accompanying you into your appointments. You could barely get a word in edgewise.

No matter what the question or what your answer was, it was never elaborate enough. Mom wasn’t afraid to insert

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those details that were just embarrassing enough you had intentionally left them out—thanks, Mom. But you got the answers.

You knew—because your parents knew—what was happening. You knew why you had to get that shot, the reason the phlebotomist took 3 full tubes of blood and exactly what scary side effects your new acne medication could have.

Those of us who have been fortunate enough to keep our parents and other older relatives will have

the truly amazing luck of having them attend graduations, weddings and the birth of their grandchildren. In return, however, we will inevitably have the heart-wrenching experience of watching them age (gracefully) and unfortunately, become ill and eventually die.

It’s an unavoidable fact of life we can only ignore for so long.

However, when those things begin to happen, your role will shift. While your parents and loved ones are more than likely

perfectly capable of asking the hard questions, we as young adults have learned the hard way that taking care of oneself is often infinitely more difficult than taking care of another person.

Your parents (or whatever parental figure you had) surely did a lot of that for you when you were younger. They asked the hard questions and irritated the living hell out of every nurse in your ward when you were hospitalized with tonsillitis because you needed an ex-

tra pillow and some ice cream.

And you know what?

That’s okay. As difficult as it can be to ask questions of doctors or favors of nurses, that is their job.

Believe it or not, most of them are more than happy to do it.

I’m not saying to go off the deep end, scream and shout and demand things as though your loved one is the only patient in the place; at any time, there’s someone somewhere in the facility whose need is more urgent than yours.

The hospital is going to charge you a couple of limbs for your stay—the drug companies are going to make a pretty penny— and the patient may as well get their money’s worth as well.

Your new role is to be a patient advocate. It’s the same role you will play for your children, if you have them, for your long-term partner or spouse and for yourself for the rest of your life. This is just your first chance to get it right.

Ask about the risks for a procedure. Find out the side effects of medications.

Make sure those tests are necessary and not just a way to get more money out of your insurance plan. Be inquisitive until you and your loved one fully understand what’s going on.

If the physician talks quickly or uses medical jargon that goes over your

head, that’s okay. You won’t be the first or last person to ask them to slow it down and declassify those terms. They might get annoyed with you for not just trusting their judgment—two words: too bad.

It is a reasonable expectation that a healthcare provider will ensure the patient’s comfort level, and that means more than just 15 prescriptions and a wave out the door. You have every right to ask questions and be sure all available treatment options are being evaluated.

If you remain dissatisfied, get a second opinion.

The beautiful thing about healthcare in this country is that there are thousands of doctors. West Virginia has renowned hospitals in its hills, and you can and should take advantage of them.

Your parents spent a long time taking care of you—it’s your turn to return the favor. In this instance, it’s okay to be a little pushy. That new treatment you want to know more about could be the difference in six months or six years—use your voice.

Medical professionals want to provide the best care possible—even if it means they have to play 20 questions to do so. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Diversity in comics: It’s already here, know when to tap into it kody goff guest columnist

Both Marvel and DC Comics are poised to reboot their entire lineup of comics later in the year, and movies based on comics are at an all-time popularity high.

You might recall over the summer Marvel announced it was giving the title of Thor to a woman.

A few years before that, in 2011, DC made a lesserknown, yet prominent hero, Green Lantern aka Alan Scott, gay. There are some obvious good intentions in promoting this kind of diversity in the comics industry, but while many people may appreciate this sentiment, I do not think it’s necessary to acquire new audiences or display diversity.

As I’m sure you may have heard, or perhaps simply guessed, these changes create rifts in the fickle comic book fan community. Please understand, this community contains the kind of people who wanted to boycott Superman when DC chose to do away with his red ‘underwear’, so changes this massive were bound to be questioned by quite a few people.

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sonable guy who respects things that are different from what I’m used to. I’m a die-hard Superman fan, and I thought the underwear were due for a makeover. However, these massive changes in character identity, race, sexuality and gender, are a bit too much.

I am not against diversity in comic books. I just think it’s already there. A lot of writers either fail to tap into it or simply choose not to. An example of the hidden, sometimes subtle diversity in comics is John Stewart. That’s not the talk show host, he’s a Green Lantern.

In the comics, Earth has five Green Lanterns, and by far the most loved by dedicated fans is John Stewart. Stewart had a starring role in the early 2000s Justice League cartoon, where I and millions of other were introduced to him as the Green Lantern.

Hal Jordan, the Lantern played by Ryan Reynolds in the 2011 film, was never shown nor mentioned in this “animated universe”, and many people thought Stewart was the one and only Green Lantern for the longest time.

Stewart was introduced in 1972 to add social commentary to the “Green Lantern/Green Arrow” ongoing series of the time. He

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was an accomplished architect who served several tours in the US Marines.

John Stewart also happens to be African American.

If John Stewart’s Green Lantern is not a well-established, respectful and beloved character, then I have no idea who is. This character, and many more characters of depth, who just so happen to be of one minority or another, exist all over the hundreds of comic book universes.

Just to demonstrate how truly diverse this

medium can be, I’ll just throw out some quick examples of Superheroes who most would consider non-traditional.

The Hispanic hero Vibe was a central part of the critically acclaimed “Justice League International” throughout a good chunk of its original run. Carol Danvers’ Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel gained popularity and sold books more than her male predecessor, Mar-Vell. The original team of the Uncanny X-Men featured Storm,

originally from Africa; The Native American Thunderbird; Eastern-European gypsy-raised Nightcrawler; Colossus from the then Soviet Union; and still famous Canadian Wolverine. Flash villain Pied Piper came out as gay when he reformed in 1985. Marvel’s Alpha Flight hero Northstar came out around the same time, and married his partner in 2012.

Suffice it to say, this is barely scratching the surface. It seems changing existing characters to fit

a new “diverse” mold has been the trend for a few years now. Why change these characters when you could expand upon the ones already here?

I know that personally, if I like a character enough, I want to see them get their own series. Why not do that instead of making some heavy-handed, typically unwanted change?

The diversity is there, the creators just have to tap into it. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Ronnie Moss, Marvin Taylor and Jessie Robert Peck, members of the R&B band The Spinners, perform live at the Creative Arts Center on Friday night.

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Sleepy Eyes Nelson, Slate Dump and Evan Johns will pick, strum and sing at 123 Pleasant Street tonight.

Sleepy Eyes Nelson consists of a one-man, country-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist from Ayrshire, Scotland. JD Nelson, creator of Sleepy Eyes Nelson, was first discovered by an American record label, Devil’s Ruin Records. Nelson is known as the King of the Clyde Delta Blues and performs with an unmistakable style of playing, performing with the sound effects of vocals, percussion, bass and lead guitar simultaneously.

“I like to be creative,” Nelson said. “I do a lot of musical projects, not just this one. I just really enjoy playing and singing.”

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his third American tour and will perform in a variety of cities across the nation including Memphis, Tenn., Springfield, Ill., Little Rock, Ark., Austin, Tx. and Clarksdale, Miss. On this tour, Nelson will perform music from his newly released album, “Dewdropper.”

“Performing around my home country, Scotland, is probably one of my best achievements as a musician so far,” Nelson said. “I just want to keep playing, traveling and playing my songs for everyone.”

Slate Dump, similarly to Sleepy Eyes Nelson, is a one-man band, made up of Jason McQuillen. McQuillen integrates a variety of instruments into his music including acoustic guitar, harmonica, kazoo, percussion, sampler, vocals and a coal-bucket foot drum. Slate Dump was formed in 2005 and has its roots in Raleigh County, W.Va. The band

performs Americana music, with influences of folk, blues, roots and punk.

“I grew up in a family of coal miners, and the road to my grandfather’s house parallel to Piney Creek on one side, and the other side was just a string of slate dumps. During my childhood, we used to play on the slate dumps,” McQuillen said. “It’s just an intrical (sic) part of my youth and where I come from. It’s given me a platform to talk about the good things in the past of southern West Virginia culture, and where we need to go as a people.”

Evan Johns is the lead guitarist and vocalist for Morgantown’s local bluegrass band, Dog & Gun. The band consists of all string instruments, guitar, fiddles, bass, banjo and mandolin. Johns will be performing as a solo act at the concert and will feature both old and new original songs. Primarily,

his songs sound much like captivating West Virginia folk tales.

“Evan Johns is just a sweet guy,” McQuillen said. “He’s got a high lonesome voice that I like to tell people is somewhere in between Hank Williams and Daniel Johnston.

You’d have to see him in person to really get it.”

Sleepy Eyes Nelson, Slate Dump and Evan Johns will all be returning performers at 123 Pleasant Street.

“I played there a couple of years ago with Captain Catfeesh,” Nelson said.

“I really enjoyed playing there. It was a great time.”

The show will take place 10 p.m. tonight at 123 Pleasant Street.

“The audience should expect good quality songs and a good quality time all around,” McQuillen said.

“There’s a little something for everybody.” daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

WVU student Derek Brown newcomer to comedy By ally Litten

Dancers and drummers perform the Sorsornet dance in front of the audience at the African Music and Dance Ensemble Event at the Creative Arts Center.

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With a dry sense of humor, 23-year-old Derek Andrew Brown is becoming well-known in the local Morgantown entertainment scene.

Coming from Ravenswood, W.Va., Brown has always been surrounded by humorous people. After graduating from West Virginia University with an undergraduate degree in physics, Brown is now starting his first semester as a graduate student in the Instruction Design and Technology program.

“I came to WVU because I’ve always loved Morgantown, and it gave me the best program locally for my undergrad program,” Brown said.

Besides comedy, Brown has recently started a local branch of Represent.Us. in Morgantown.

Brown focuses on increasing government transparency and limiting the amount of money politicians get from businesses and corporations.

Focusing on his master’s program and Represent.Us., Brown enjoys making people laugh on the side. Inspired by comedians Bill Hicks, Eric Andre, Tim Heidecker and Hannibal Buress, Brown pokes fun, but not at the expense of others.

“They all have advanced the craft of comedy intelligently and in a way that doesn’t trivialize social issues or make jokes purely at the expense of others,”

Brown said.

H o w e v e r, B r o w n ’s favorite entertainer Andy Kaufman is who he admires most.

“Andy changed the game of comedy and made it more than just a series of one-liners performed by a person with a mic,” Brown said. “He uprooted what comedy and entertaining was. He was the last person to do this and have high levels of mainstream success.”

Although he has always loved and appreciated comedy, Brown is a new player in the Morgantown entertainment community.

“I have always been a comedy fan, but I have only just recently started getting into writing my own material and performing,” Brown said.

With a very dry and dark sense of humor, Brown is not a fan of cheesy one-liners.

“I could never go on stage and perform an entire set of just jokes,” Brown said. “I would cringe myself into another universe.”

Brown tested the waters at Last Comic Standing last month. His intelligent, dry sense of humor won over the audience.

“Last Comic Standing was an absolute blast. I had a lot of friends there cheering me on and seeing them and the rest of the audience react to my set was a great experience,” Brown said. “My set was a little bit out

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Bill Cosby releases brief video touting comedy concert NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Cosby has a new video message out.

In the video released Monday, he doesn't address assault allegations made against him, but instead promotes his upcoming Saturday show in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Cosby is seated in an easy chair, dressed in fuchsia-colored pajamas, as he speaks into a phone in the 10-second spot.

"You know I'll be hilarious," he says. "Can't wait."

A note released along with the video reads, "Dear fans, I hope you en-

joy my wonderful video message that's filled with laughter... Hey, hey, hey, I'm far from finished."

His reference to "far from finished" invokes the title of his ongoing comedy tour that's seen more than a dozen shows canceled.

Since November, more than 20 women have leveled various assault accusations against Cosby. He has not been charged with a crime and he has denied some of the allegations through his attorneys.

Two of Bill Cosby's upcoming shows have been

canceled, but his promoter says three other dates this month remain on the comedian's schedule.

Cosby's shows in Warren, Ohio, and Lexington, Kentucky, will not be held.

Promoter Carlos Larraz said in an email Maonday that he, Cosby and the venues mutually agreed to the cancellations. Four of Cosby's shows last month also were canceled.

Larraz said upcoming shows in Wheeling and Charleston, West Virginia, and Baltimore remain on Cosby's schedule.

Cosby has become a tar-

get of criticism and canceled shows as the number of women who have accused the 77-year-old comedian of drugging and sexually assaulting them has grown. He's also being sued for defamation by three women and another woman has filed a civil suit against him, alleging he molested her when she was 15 years old.

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The American jam band ‘moe.’ performs at the Morgantown Metropolitan Theatre on Sunday night.

moe. brings groovy jams to Morgantown CHELSEA WALKER A&E WRITER @dailyathenaeum

Twenty-five never looked so good. Jam-band scene veterans moe. stopped in at Morgantown’s Metropolitan Theatre Sunday night to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary.

With a rowdy crowd eagerly filling the intimate theatre, the group stepped to its mics harnessing guitars over their shoulders. Donning shiny metallic jackets, the quintet received a warm welcome from the audience, who commented on the eyecatching garbs. Moe.’s homecoming marks the band’s first return to Morgantown in years.

Consisting of vocalists and guitarist Al Schnier and Chuck Garvey, vocalist and bassist Rob Derhak, drummer and vibist Jim Loughlin and drummer Vinnie Amico, moe. continues to sink its funky teeth into the flesh of the jam band music scene. With tunes that feature clever lyrics, twangy guitar riffs and groovy beats, the quintet is easily one of

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the most prominent psychedelic-progressive rock bands in today’s modern music world.

The group shows its maturity within the industry on stage. Headlining with some of the most prominent bands in the festival scene, moe. has played alongside Dave Matthews Band, Government Mule and Blues Traveler, keeping its stage presence energetic and electrifying. The groovy

band’s sound encompasses 25 years of jamming, allowing the group to reflect on its journey since its low-key start at a local bar in Buffalo, N.Y. Moe.’s enticing on-stage presence combined with its jazzy sets allow the group to provide any crowd with a need to get up on their toes.

Sticking to its aesthetic, moe. showcased its impeccable knack for instrumental intuitiveness. Sunday’s show consisted of a full-on guitar

showdown between guitarist Garvey and bassist Schnier.

Funky guitar rifts comwpeting with bellowing bass undertones had the entire crowd grooving. Derhak’s guitar served as a mediator between the two, balancing out the two challenging members. Moe.’s popular “Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes” was one of the more lyrically immersed tunes played, highlighting the band’s capability to hit the high notes.

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Mary Gauthier to bring personal touch, folk

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Country singer Mary Gauthier is coming to Morgantown.

Inspired by her rough childhood and alcohol addiction, Gauthier is known for her folk songs.

Born to a woman she never knew, she was given up to an orphanage in New Orleans. She was adopted when she was 1 year old. As she got older, she was troubled by her adopted father’s alcohol addiction. Gauthier also worried about her own alcohol addiction. Stealing her adoptive mother’s car at age 15, she drove herself to the Adolescent Chemical Dependency Unit, a rehabilitation center located in Baton Rouge, La.

After the program, she was in and out of halfway houses, her home and rehab until she was arrested on her 18th birthday. After her arrest, she turned to her friends, who happened to be drag queens.

After teaching her many life lessons, Gauthier honored them by writing her popular song “Drag Queens in Limousines.”

Moving to Boston, Gauthier became a chef and a partner in a new Cajun restaurant. On the opening night, she was arrested for drinking and driving which inspired her to finally kick her habit and become sober. Halfway through her thirties, Gauthier began writing songs. After being rejected by her birth mother, she decided to devote an entire album to adoptees and

adoptive parents.

Eight albums later, Gauthier has become a respected singer-songwriter in today’s music industry.

Recently nominated for Outstanding Music Artist by the GLAAD Media Awards, Gauthier is up against artists Sam Smith, Against Me!, Mary Lambert and Angel Haze.

Although Gauthier has experienced some rough times, she has turned her pain into straight-forward songs that inspire listeners to really think.

Original songs such as “Mercy Now”, “I Drink”, “The Foundling ” and many others reflect the darkness Gauthier has experienced and how she got through those troubling times.

Although her songwriting requires thought and

reflection, Gauthier has a characteristic that many other folk songwriters have: The heart of a wandering soul. The stories of her travels are reflected in her music, making her a modern day troubadour.

Gauthier will perform at Mountain Stage, which is a live radio production recorded in front of a live audience. It airs on 150 radio stations across America. It will be held from 7 9 p.m March 15 at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center. Advance tickets are $18. Tickets at the door will be $25. WVU students will receive a $5 discount with a valid ID. For more information about Mountain Stage, go to http://mountainstage. org/Pages/default.aspx/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Long-time moe. fan Chuck Steadman traveled from the Pittsburgh area to catch his second show.

Steadman said he was happy to find out he was catching a show on the group’s 25th anniversary tour so close to home.

“I like the jam sessions,” Steadman said. “It showcases their musical abilities.

Their musical talents are a lot greater than what a lot of bands are out there, they would rather do this than be mainstream.”

Moe. undoubtedly performed with onstage hype and musical creativity. Percussionist Loughlin showed off his impressive skills with stellar solo performances on the vibraphone, which often frequents the jazz genre. With band members Schnier, Derhak and Garvey all jiving, the crowd quickly caught on.

“I know that by listening to them, they have the talent; the way they play their instruments is what really gets me into them,” Steadman said. “Their ability to improvise - if you listen to two songs they’re never the same as the other.”

West Virginia University students and moe. fans Alex Ekvall, Jake Dronzek and Eddie Finlaw have been checking out moe. shows since they were kids. Dronzek said his dad introduced the trio to the group in his early childhood. Although he prefers fellow jam band group Umphrey’s Mcgee, Dronzek, who has seen the group more than 30 times, was delighted to catch moe. Sunday night.

“The show is great,” Ekvall said. “They haven’t been back in a while, and my friends and I just got back from a concert in Columbus. We follow these guys around the country occasionally. We make long-distance trips together.”

It’s easy to see why moe.’s devoted fans continue to cross the country to catch a glimpse of the group’s insanely talented musical abilities. Moe.’s legacy carries on through its impeccable live shows, captivating lyrics and spectacular instrumental diversity. To check out more of the group’s funky tracks, visit http:/moe.org/. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You’ll respond well to someone’s offer.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Pace yourself. You will get a lot accomplished if you can restrain your social desires. A friend could jolt you with his or her unexpected behavior. As you reflect on this, consider the fact that you might have put this person on a pedestal. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You could feel unusually awkward when trying to initiate a conversation with someone who is either disinterested or too distracted. Your best bet would be to let this person come to you. Be more enthusiastic about an incoming call from a friend. Tonight: Roll

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Note the role that inspiration plays in your thinking. Be more aware of what could happen if a special someone was not in your life. Let him or her know how much you appreciate his or her feedback. Compliments will bond the relationship.

Tonight: Express your feelings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Stay on top of your to-do list. Answer to a loved one, and get past the immediate issue. You have the unique ability to create what appears to others to be impossible. Your ingenuity often helps you find a different approach. Tonight: Head home early.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You will appreciate having the support of one specific person. Be careful, though, as this person is capable of causing a lot of problems. Be aware of what could happen if you decide not to follow his or her suggestions. Tonight: Get together with a favorite loved one.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be more in touch with your

needs than you might realize. Try not to go overboard with your spending. If you become triggered by a partner or loved one, root out the deeper cause before reacting. Tonight: Run some errands on the way home.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Be willing to take a big step forward.

You might be concerned that you don’t have enough energy to incorporate more of what you want. Focus on your priorities, and your effectiveness will increase. You’ll enjoy being free to do what you want. Tonight: Don’t go overboard.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Funnel your energy into something that completely intrigues you. Let go

of a tendency to overthink or multitask in your mind. Plan on having a calm, quiet day, where you can accomplish a lot. Think rather than act. Tonight: Make yourself unavailable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Zero in on your objectives when in a meeting with others. Don’t be surprised if you are met with some disagreement. A close associate will be able to help others see where you are coming from. You might need to be more flexible. Tonight: Where you want to be.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You seem to be more in tune with an emotional situation involving someone at a distance. You could be surprised by a sudden need to pick up the pace.

Make a point of stopping and breathing. Don’t forget to schedule a doctor’s appointment. Tonight: Follow the music.

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Senior forward Averee Fields spins away from Oklahoma’s Sharane Campbell-Olds in a game against the Sooners earlier this season.

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Last week the West Virginia women’s basketball team finished its regular season and entered the Big 12 Tournament. On Wednesday, announcements were made from the conference about season awards.

Two Mountaineers were given All-Big 12 honors. Junior guard Bria Holmes was unanimously named to the All-Big 12 First Team for the second year in a row. Senior forward Averee Fields earned an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.

Holmes is the third player in program history to earn consecutive all-conference

first team honors. She joins Liz Repella, who earned the honor in 2010 and 2011, and Rosemary Kosiorek, who was named to the first teams in 1991-92.

After being named Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year, Holmes fought to keep her No. 1 spot in the conference for scoring. She never dropped below third in the league, and finished in second place along with Kansas’ Chelsea Gardner, averaging 17.1 points per game in conference in play. Altogether Holmes averaged 19.2 per game, coming in 38th nationally.

The impact Holmes has made on this team in the three seasons she has played is undeniable. In 2013 she

was named to the Big 12 AllFreshman team, she averaged 5.8 points a game coming off the bench, more than any other freshman on the team. Following a hugely successful sophomore season, Holmes came into this year as a team captain and with several preseason honors.

Holmes led the team in scoring almost every game this season. On three separate occasions, she got into early foul trouble and head coach Mike Carey pulled her out a few minutes into the game. Without her presence on the court, the team was hugely disorganized and unable to score. While that was an issue that they needed to solve themselves and try to

survive without their leading scorer, those moments alone showed the influence she has on her teammates.

This season Holmes finished with a career-high of 36 points, which she scored against Seton Hall in November. She became the 31st player at West Virginia to have scored 1,000 points, which she reached following her 22 points against thenNo. 3 Texas in early January.

With 1,273 career points before the Big 12 tourney, she reached the No. 20 spot in WVU record books for scoring and the 577 she scored in regular season is seventh in history for single season scoring.

Fields, as another captain, was also a huge leader this

season. Over the past four years she has shown leadership over the team and also shown a great example of what a student-athlete should be. As a social work student, she has been named to the President’s List, earned a 4.0 throughout her time at WVU and earned All-Big 12 Academic First Team honors for the last three seasons.

On the court Fields proved to be an extremely valuable member for the Mountaineers. This season she came in sixth in the Big 12 for rebounding, averaging 6.7 per game and had some great scoring highlights.

Averaging 13.1 points per game, she tied for 17th place in the league in scor-

ing. Fields posted her career-high 23 points this year against Mississippi State and later matched it against Indiana University-Purdue University. She also earned two consecutive double-doubles in her performances against then-No. 24 Oklahoma and three days later, TCU in the first week of February.

The Mountaineers are awaiting their postseason destiny of either entering the NCAA or NIT Tournaments.

Either gives an opportunity for both of these leaders to show their strength and solidify a strong legacy left here

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Mountaineers travel to Lynchburg for game today by david statman sports writer @dailyathenaeum

After an offensive outburst for the ages over the weekend, the West Virginia University baseball team will look to continue a good run tonight when they travel down to Lynchburg, Va., to face the Liberty Flames.

The Mountaineers have bounced back from a 3-5 start to take four out of their last five games, averaging over 11 runs a game in wins over that stretch. While their young starting rotation has shown some prom-

ise, the bats have started to come alive in a big way for head coach Randy Mazey’s squad.

After a dominant sweep over the weekend at East Tennessee State, in which the Mountaineers scored 38 total runs on 45 hits, Mazey is hoping his team will be able to carry over their momentum to the midweek matchup with Liberty and this weekend’s series with Texas.

“Confidence is everything,” Mazey said. “I think we’re going to take the field on Tuesday with confidence and next weekend with con-

fidence, because we’re going to need it. We’re getting ready to get into the meat of our schedule.”

West Virginia’s recent offensive explosion has come from an unlikely source: Senior shortstop Taylor Munden, who hit .203 and .261 in his first two seasons in Morgantown. Munden started the season with hits in 12 straight games before going 0-6 on Sunday against ETSU – Munden is hitting .356 with five home runs and five doubles, pacing the team with a 1.089 OPS. Meanwhile, freshman Kyle Davis has started his

collegiate career with a bang. The Cincinnati native has played in the infield, the outfield and at the designated hitter position to start the season, hitting .365 along the way – he hit his first career home run Friday night, a 10th inning shot that gave West Virginia a 7-6 win.

At Liberty, the Mountaineers will take on one of the fastest rising mid-major programs in Division I baseball.

Under eighth-year head coach Jim Toman, Liberty has made consecutive NCAA Regionals, claiming a 2013 Big South title along the way.

Last year’s Flames squad rolled to a 41-18 record, earning a place in the NCAA Charlottesville Regional, where they dropped consecutive games to Arkansas and Bucknell and exited the tournament early.

The previous season, Toman’s squad won its conference tournament before narrowly missing out on a trip to NCAA Super Regionals.

This season, Liberty has started 8-6, with series wins over Georgia State, Bryant and Kent State under its belt.

The Flames’ offense is led by a trio all hitting over .300: Se-

nior catcher Becker Sankey has mashed opposing pitching to the tune of a .341 average and a .976 OPS, while sophomore Andrew Yacyk and junior infielder Dalton Britt are each hitting .327.

West Virginia’s game with Liberty is set for 3 p.m. today at the Liberty Baseball Stadium in Lynchburg. Afterward, the Mountaineers will be in action for a big three-game series at traditional Big 12 powerhouse Texas this weekend, Friday through Sunday. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU struggles to practice with poor weather by dj deskins

sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University men’s golf team will compete for the first time in over three decades, starting during the 2015-16 season.

WVU will compete in arguably the best conference in men’s golf in the Big 12.

The Mountaineers will compete against teams like No. 6 Baylor, No. 7 Texas, No. 19 Texas Tech, No. 22 Oklahoma State and No. 24 Oklahoma. The conference has also produced 14 national championship teams.

The pressure of starting a team from scratch as well as starting in such a prestigious conference can be a heavy weight on someone’s shoulders, but head coach Sean Covich and the five athletes currently on his team are staying focused on their game.

“I really don’t want our

guys to place expectations on their shoulders,” Covich said. “I’d rather they focus on working hard every day, trying to become better golfers, students and members of the WVU community every day. Then the results will take care of themselves.”

His players have come from several schools including Florida, Toledo, two from Coastal Carolina and Mason Short, president of the WVU Club team. Covich calls each of their stories unique, but all have the same end result in mind: To compete and excel at a high level.

“They all came here their own unique way,” Covich said. “Some contacted me because they liked the idea of starting something new in a Power 5 Conference, others I contacted to see if they would consider us and then someone like Mason was already on campus, so they all have their own story of making it to this point.”

Since every player is redshirted this season, the team can only practice and work on their skills. However, the poor weather has hindered their ability to get a lot of work on the course.

During the fall, Covich and the team played at local courses here in Morgantown as well as the Pete Dye Golf Club in Bridgeport, Stonewall Resort and even The Greenbrier, a course used by the PGA Tour.

“Typically I like our guys to focus on playing the game, not getting too technical and always competing,” Covich said. “A lot of skilled golfers get lost in the mechanics of the swing and forget that the game is simple. So I always try and incorporate competition in our practices, from putting drills to chipping contests to games on the driving range to old fashion golf. Competition brings out the best in our guys.”

Covich has stressed hard work to his team and believes his current players have set a precedent on how his team will be run.

“We have been practicing indoors as much as we can, utilizing football’s indoor facility,” Covich said. “It would have been easy for these guys to take a laid back approach considering we aren’t com-

peting, but they have hit the ground running and I am encouraged by their efforts every day. They have set the standard for how we work around here and I can’t wait until the freshmen and additional transfers join them in August.”

The season will begin in September for the Mountaineers. They will play in

six tournaments in both the fall and spring of the 201516 season including ones hosted by Penn State, Marshall, Florida State, Vanderbilt and Covich’s alma mater Mississippi State. WVU will also host their own tournament at the Pete Dye Golf Club in October. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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WVU senior Ziva Dvorsak sets her aim to shoot during the rifle NCAA Qualifiers earlier this month.

Dvorsak transitions well from Slovenia to WVU by ashley conley sports correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Ziva Dvorsak is one of No. 1 West Virginia’s sharpest shooters, particularly in air rifle. She’s also a consistent counter with solid personal best scores of 598 in air rifle and 589 in smallbore. Not only is she one of the best female shooters in the NCAA, she’s also one of the best, at her age, in the world.

Originally from Ljublijana, Slovenia, Dvorsak shot as part of the Slovenian National Team competing in shooting competitions including the ISSF

Munich Cup, the Mediterranean Games and the ISSF Granda Cup. She was also a member of Ljublijana’s Club Olimpija and attended the University of Ljublijana from 2010 to 2013.

Perhaps one of her best accomplishments is being an Olympic athlete. Dvorsak competed in the 2012 London Olympics where she finished 11th in the women’s 10m air rifle competition with a score of 396.

She also placed 36th overall in the women’s 50m 3-position segment.

West Virginia has produced a total of 30 Olympian rifle shooters in school history.

She transferred to West Virginia University in search of an NCAA Championship. She brought an incredible amount of experience along with her that propelled her toward success as soon as she stepped foot onto campus.

Dvorsak, along with teammates Michael Bamsey from Wales, Maren Prediger from Germany, and Meelis Kiisk from Estonia bring international experience from a variety of competitions around the world.

Head coach Jon Hammond is somewhat known for recruiting international experience to West Virginia.

He himself came to WVU in

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2003 from Scotland to earn his master’s degree. He then took the reins as head coach of the rifle team where he has remained for the past nine seasons.

Hammond and Dvorsak both shot at the International Shooting Sport Federation Maribor Cup in 2014. Dvorsak placed fifth in the women’s 50m 3-position with a score of 395.4.

Hammond finished 11th in the men’s 50m rifle prone competition.

Hammond kept a close eye on Dvorsak after her accolades caught his eye in international competition.

He assumed she would be a successful asset to his

highly competitive team.

“I certainly had confidence that she would be able to adjust quickly,” Hammond said in an interview with WVUsports.com after Dvorsak’s first few matches as a Mountaineer.

“She’s a world-class air rifle shooter and I’m pleasantly surprised with her smallbore scores as well.”

Since then, Dvorsak helped West Virginia win their 16th national championship in 2014. She took first place at last seasons GARC Championship with a total two-day score of 1180. At the NCAA Championship, Dvorsak placed third in air rifle and seventh

in smallbore.

Although the senior has a lengthy accomplishment resume, she remains humble in her triumph.

“Winning is not the main aim. I am trying to live zen.

I am not focusing on the results. I want to enjoy every minute,” Dvorsak said.

Dvorsak will help pace the Mountaineers in the NCAA Championships on March 13-14 in Fairbanks, Alaska. While she pursues a second career championship, the Mountaineers seek a third-straight title to add to their current 16, which is an NCAA record. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Big week for the fate of teams on the bubble Change the batteries in the remote. Fluff the recliner. It’s conference tournament week and that means seven days — and nights — of games that will decide the fate of bubble teams and the seeding of those who don’t have to worry.

The first category of games are the championships of the one-bid conferences. These have the capability of making a neutral viewer feel elation and despair over the same game. Most of the title tilts this weekend lived up to that with Belmont’s win over Murray State in the Ohio Valley Conference the best example.

Then comes the games of the bubble teams of the bigger conferences. So many times you hear the talk of a team that may be in seventh or eighth place needing to win at least a certain number of games.

Usually the first game such a team plays is against an opponent from the same part of the standings and that means the RPI computer yawns at the result.

Those teams need to beat a team with a better RPI to improve their chances of securing a spot on the atlarge list.

An example is Connecticut in this week’s American Athletic Conference tournament. The sixth-seeded Huskies, the defending national champions who need a lot to happen to get even a chance to repeat, open play Thursday against 11th-seeded South Florida. UConn, which had an RPI around 70, wouldn’t get much help from beating a team whose RPI is in triple digits.

But Friday’s quarterfinals would mean a matchup with thirdseeded Cincinnati, a team with an RPI in the high 40s, and that would be a boost to the Huskies’ resume.

One advantage they have going in is that the tour-

nament is being played in Hartford, a quick ride away from campus.

Anther number that has seen plenty of change in recent years is wins. The days of 20 wins — even in a power conference — almost guaranteeing an atlarge bid are long over. If Kentucky were to become the first team since Indiana in 1976 to go undefeated, the Wildcats would be 400. That’s eight more wins than the Hoosiers had in their perfect season.

ROOTING HARD: Those connected with bubble teams were glued to the television for Sunday’s Missouri Valley Conference championship game.

No. 11 Northern Iowa was down 18 points in the first half against Illinois State. The Panthers had a berth sewn up win or lose. The Redbirds, however, were playing for their only possible NCAA route — the conference championship. And if they did that one of the spots coveted by the bubble teams would be gone.

Northern Iowa rallied for the 69-60 win and a lot of teams with resume work to do exhaled.

MURRAY HILL: As the players from Murray State walked around in a daze following their loss to Belmont in the Ohio Valley championship game, many were too quick to point out that the Racers would be a long shot for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The loss ended Murray State’s 25-game winning streak and it was the 25thranked Racers’ first to a conference opponent this season. Even before the loss their RPI was in the 60s. They started the season 2-4 and there wasn’t a quality win during the streak. Those factors seem to indicate there probably won’t be good news for the Racers on Selection Sunday.

“This is an NCAA Tour-

nament team,” coach Steve Prohm said. “I know you don’t go off past seasons, but look at everything this league has done since 2010. Look at the guys in the NBA. ... Look at what we’ve done in the postseason. OVC teams have won multiple NCAA Tournament games.

“We’re very deserving,” Prohm said. “If you’ve watched us play, then you would agree. I hope we get a chance. These guys deserve it. But if not, we’ll be gracious about it and play as I hope we get an opportunity. If not, we’ll be gracious about it and go play in the NIT.” SECURE MUSTANGS: SMU was the team last year that had the biggest gripe about being left out of the field of 68. The Mustangs made sure there won’t be any discussion about them being left out this year.

Their 67-62 victory over Tulsa gave them the AAC regular season championship — SMU’s first in 22 years. The Mustangs (246) are looking for their first NCAA berth since winning the old Southwest Conference in 1993.

“We better get in the NCAA,” said Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown, whose team was the only one of the top five in the AAC that didn’t get in last year after finishing in a three-way tie for third. “I didn’t politick last year. But if we don’t get in, there’s something wrong.”

The loss left Tulsa in the same situation SMU was in last year. The Golden Hurricane (21-9) started the conference season 10-0 then finished second with a 14-4 mark under firstyear coach Frank Haith.

“I do think there’s a little bit of an eye test and hopefully the committee is watching the game,” Haith said. “And I think there’s two teams that deserve to play in the NCAA Tournament.”

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tuesday March 10, 2015

swimming & diving

West Virginia misses chance at NCAA Championships by david statman sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University divers missed out on NCAA Championship qualification on the first day of the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships Monday in Piscataway, N.J. Yesterday’s competition determined the NCAA qualifiers in the women’s 3-meter and men’s 1-meter diving events. The women needed a top-seven finish and men needed a top-six finish to claim a spot in the NCAA

Championships, set to be held from March 19-21 in Greensboro, N.C. While the Mountaineers were able to place a diver in the finals of each event yesterday, both junior Lindsay Schmidt and freshman Alex Obendorf came up just short on punching their tickets to Greensboro.

Schmidt set the school record in the 3-meter board last month at the Big 12 Championships, on her way to All-Big 12 First Team honors. Schmidt put together a ninth-place finish in that event on Monday with a

combined score of 584.90 – an improvement from last season, where she finished 21st in the 3-meter at Zone As. “Lindsay had one of the best meets of her life,” said Mountaineer head coach Michael Grapner. “She was positive, consistent and focused. She was very close to qualifying for the NCAAs but she knows she has another year.”

While senior Haily VandePoel was West Virginia’s top performer on the 3-meter last season with an eighthplace finish, she finished

just 21st on Monday and missed out on the finals.

Meanwhile, senior Jennifer Rey, who placed 29th in the 3-meter last year, finished 32nd.

Freshman Alex Obendorf, who was an All-Big 12 First Team selection in the 3-meter and platform diving events this season, stepped up on the 1-meter to qualify for the finals and lead the way with a 13th place finish.

“Alex had a very good meet,” Grapner said. “As a freshman, the meet is very tough for new divers to compete for the first time. His

attention to his diving was evident today. He made improvements from prelims to finals.”

Obendorf finished Monday’s competition with a combined score of 557.45.

Obendorf will be able to look forward to the fact that his best events are still to be contested in Zone As, with the 3-meter being contested on Tuesday and the platform on Wednesday. Fellow freshman Michael Proietto finished 45th in the 1-meter on Monday.

Day two of competition at the NCAA Zone A Div-

ing Championships will see NCAA qualifiers determined in the men’s 3-meter and women’s 1-meter events.

Obendorf and Proietto are additionally set to compete in the men’s platform diving event on Wednesday.

The action in Piscataway is scheduled to begin today at noon. For the Mountaineer divers, who missed out on NCAA qualification last year as well, today might be their best chance to get over that hump. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Depth of Big 12 Tournament presents challenges KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Perhaps the best indication of just how wide open the Big 12 tournament is this year is the fact that Texas, sitting squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble, will play Wednesday night in a game generally reserved for teams that have had poor campaigns.

After a season full of intrigue, the league that boasts the nation’s top cumulative RPI and five teams ranked in the top 20 of the latest AP poll heads to the Sprint Center for its marquee event. And helping to kick things off will be the seventh-seeded Longhorns, a team once ranked in the top five that will instead be facing Texas Tech on the opening night.

“Every team in our league right now has a chance to play their way in with an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, so in reality, this is part of the NCAA tournament,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said.

“The parity in the league is that close.”

The tournament officially begins with eighthseeded Kansas State taking on No. 9 seed TCU, with the winner advancing to face top-seeded Kansas on Thursday. The winner of the second game between Texas and Texas Tech earns a date with second-seeded Iowa State.

The quarterfinal matchups already set include fourth-seeded Baylor against No. 5 seed West Virginia and third-seeded Oklahoma against No. 6 seed Oklahoma State.

“You could make a case that there are seven or eight teams that could win the tournament if they get hot,” said Kansas coach Bill Self, whose team won at least a share of the regularseason championship for the 11th consecutive season. “I don’t think there are any other tournaments in America with that type of competitive balance.”

While the Jayhawks have dominated the regular season for more than a decade, history has proven that the Big 12 tournament levels the playing field. Three different schools have captured the crown each of the past three years, including Iowa State’s title run last season.

“That’s just life in the Big 12,” Cyclones forward Jameel McKay said. “There’s no such thing as an easy out. You can’t hide from these guys. If you want to be the best, you’ll have to beat some of the best teams in the country.”

While just about every game figures to be a tossup — in other words, mustsee TV — here are some things to watch for as the Big 12 tournament prepares

Kansas’ Perry Ellis struggles to keep the ball from Baylor’s Royce O’Neale. to tip off: how you could be at your SHORT-HANDED JAY- best unless you have your HAWKS: Leading scorer full complement of guys.”

BOOMER SOONER : Perry Ellis has a bangedup knee, point guard Frank Oklahoma won three Mason III has a bum ankle, straight Big 12 tournaments forward Cliff Alexander is when Kelvin Sampson was out while the NCAA inves- in charge, the last in 2003. tigates allegations of im- Since then? The Sooners proper benefits and swing- haven’t even reached the man Brannen Greene is final night. But after a win coming off a one-game over the Jayhawks, coach suspension. That’s hardly Lon Kruger’s troops are a recipe for March success. headed to the Sprint Cen“I’m concerned,” Self ac- ter on a high.

BEWARE THE FROG: knowledged. “I don’t see After going winless in the Big 12 last season, TCU has won three league games since mid-February. The Horned Frogs have also put

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a scare into Iowa State and Oklahoma in recent weeks, making them a dangerous No. 9 seed.

STAR POWER: The Big 12 may not have an uberelite prospect this season, but there are plenty of players to watch. Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield was Big 12 player of the year, and players from four other schools joined him in making up the AP’s all-conference first team: Ellis, Georges Niang of Iowa State and Juwan Staten of West Virginia and Rico Gathers of Baylor.

STYLES MAKE FIGHTS: It’s an old adage in boxing, but it’s just as appli-

cable to the Big 12, where just about everybody does something different. Want to see a unique approach to the zone defense? Check out Baylor. Want to see someone chuck up 3s? Iowa State is your team. Want to see some frenzied, in-yourshorts pressing? West Virginia has you covered.

“I’ve said it many times the coaching in this league is terrific. Everybody is so well scouted,” Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said. “You know, everybody knows what the other team is going to do. It comes down to a matter of can you stop them?”

Maryland enters Big 10 Tournament on a roll by eric olson

college basketball writer

With seven straight wins, Big Ten runner-up Maryland is the hottest team heading into this week’s conference tournament in Chicago. Not bad considering the Terrapins endured a tumultuous offseason and were picked to finish 10th in their first year in the league.

On Monday they found themselves No. 8 in the Top 25 — their highest ranking in 12 years — and fresh off a victory at Nebraska that gave them a school-record 26 regularseason wins.

Coach Mark Turgeon initially demurred when asked if this, so far, has been the most enjoyable of his 17 seasons as a head coach.

“I try not to rank them,” he said. But “considering what we’ve gone through here, this has been pretty satisfying.”

Last spring five players transferred, including starting point guard Seth Allen, and it left Turgeon to reassess the culture in his program.

T h e p l ay e r s w h o stayed and the newcomers have formed a strong bond, and the Terps are assured of making the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five years.

Freshman point guard Melo Trimble has been one of the Big Ten’s big surprises, averaging a team-leading 16.1 points.

Senior guard-forward Dez Wells has averaged 18.7 points and 6.7 rebounds the last seven games.

“Dez Wells just brings a toughness to that team that is uncanny, and Trimble — I don’t know if anybody knew how good he was. Most of us didn’t.

But he’s had an extraor-

dinary year,” said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, whose team lost twice to the Terps and could face them again in the Big Ten semifinals. “Good coaching, good players on that team, but the way those two have risen has really made a difference.”

Some things to watch in the Big Ten tournament, which opens Wednesday and has sixth-ranked Wisconsin as the No. 1 seed: INJURY UPDATE: Branden Dawson (concussion) is expected to play in Michigan State’s first game Friday, Izzo said, but Javon Bess (broken foot) is done for the season. Indiana coach Tom Crean said 3-point shooting specialist Collin Hartman (leg bruise) will play Thursday against Northwestern. Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, who had hoped Traevon Jackson (broken foot) would be ready by tournament time, said he had no idea whether the point guard would play this week.

FAIR FORMAT: Coaches agreed the tournament format, which gives double-byes to the top four seeds, is fair. The new format is the result of the conference’s expansion to 14 teams.

“The teams that got it done all year should be rewarded. The teams that didn’t, well, unfortunately, you’re going to have to win five,” said coach Patrick Chambers of No. 13 seed Penn State.

BRO O D I N G BU C KEYES? Ohio State heads to Chicago off a 72-48 defeat to Wisconsin that was its worst at home since losing by 28 to West Virginia in December 2008.

The fifth-seeded Buckeyes play Rutgers or Minnesota on Thursday. Coach Thad Matta plans to rebuild his players’ psyche between

now and then.

“After the game, I did all the talking,” Matta said. “I said, ‘Hey, we had a bad day. Give them credit.’ As we move forward, we’re going into situations now where it’s lose and you go home. From that perspective, we’ll get them back up, get a couple good practices and get them ready to go again.”

WATCH THOSE WILDC ATS: Nor thw estern, which lost 10 of its first 11 Big Ten games, won five of its last seven and would contend for an NIT bid with a strong showing this week. Northwestern earned the No. 10 seed and beat its first opponent, Indiana, two weeks ago at home.

“Tenth isn’t our end-all,” said coach Chris Collins, whose team upset Iowa as the No. 11 seed last year.

“We want to keep climbing that ladder as we continue and improve, but it’s a step forward from where we were last year.”

KINGS OF MOUNT NITTANY? Penn State’s 79-76 win over Minnesota on D.J. Newbill’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer on Sunday ended the Nittany Lions’ six-game losing streak and was their first Big Ten road win in a year. The No. 13 Lions on Wednesday face No. 12 Nebraska, a loser of eight straight.

“We’ve got a red-hot Penn State team that feels like they’re 10 feet tall and bullet-proof, and rightfully so,” Cornhuskers coach Tim Miles said.

Penn State’s Chambers was less dramatic.

“It was a good thing,” he said of Sunday’s win, “because you get a road win and you break a losing streak. Two positives. And we haven’t seen many positives in the last few weeks.

We definitely feel we have some momentum.”