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Snow delays ballpark construction by john mark SHAVER staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

The Monongalia County Ballpark has been delayed in light of the recent severe weather and low temperatures, according to the West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.

The ballpark’s construction began in fall of 2013 and has seen major setbacks, in the form of major snowfall and low temperatures.

Andrew Spellman/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM “We just got hit by a bruDespite the rain all day Tuesday, workers pressed forward with the construction of tal stretch of weather in Febthe new Mountaineer Baseball Field. Due to last week’s inclement weather, openruary into early March,” said ing day has been pushed back.

Matt Wells, WVU associate

Legislature overrules Tomblin’s veto on abortion bill by caitlin coyne CORRESPONDENT @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia legislature overruled Governor Tomblin’s veto on a 20 week abortion ban bill last Friday, marking the first legislative override by West Virginia in 28 years.

The bill, known as House Bill 2568, prohibits West Virginia women from undergoing an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, on the grounds that unborn fetuses at this time are capable of feeling pain, the science of which is highly disputed.

Some exceptions are made for health care emergencies that seriously threaten the life of the mother or baby at birth, but none for cases of rape or incest.

Tomblin, who repeatedly runs on a platform against abortion, vetoed the bill last Tuesday on the grounds of it being unconstitutional.

The legislature required only a simple majority to overrule the Governor’s veto, and now HB 2568 is scheduled to take effect in May. Margaret Chapman Pomponio, the executive director of WV Free, a pro-choice organization in West Virginia, said she believes this bill impedes on a doctor’s right to make the best possible decision for the patient.

“The women’s health community is opposed to legislative interference into a women’s health care, and this legislation

athletic director for external affairs and sports administrator for baseball. “There have been frigid conditions including single digit temperatures, sometimes even below zero that have kept the snow from melting, and has hindered important work like the installation of the turf and some important concourse work.”

Last week’s hard-hitting winter storm, which put West Virginia into a state of emergency, further ensured that the park wouldn’t be ready by its anticipated date.

The park was slated to open next Tuesday, March 17, when WVU’s baseball team was scheduled to play

its first home game against Waynesburg.

Wells said an announcement will soon be made on WVU’s scheduled home games over the next few weeks, and it is currently too early to know anything for sure.

Luckily, the setbacks in construction have not carried over into the team’s ability to practice.

“The weather has kept us from going outside anyway,” Wells said. “We’ve been utilizing our indoor practice facility over at the football stadium, which is normal for this time of year.”

Officials are now hoping

for the park to open on Friday, April 10, in which WVU’s baseball team will begin its three-game weekend against Baylor.

In addition to WVU’s baseball team, the Monongalia County Ballpark will soon be the home to the state’s newest Minor League team, the West Virginia Black Bears.

In spite of obstacles, WVU athletic officials are excited for the park to finally open.

They said the facility will be great for the region in terms of both athletic and entertainment value. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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is a severe encroachment into the provider patient relationship,” Chapman Pomponio said.

Mary Anne Buchanan, treasurer for West Virginians for Life, a pro-life organization, believes the current state of women’s health care disregards the fetus.

“The baby is the person that is being forgotten here, this law will be the protection that’s going to help these innocent helpless human beings,” Buchanan said.

West Virginians for Life have been trying to push this bill, and ones very similar, for three years now, Buchannan said.

According to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, there were only eight cases reported of abortions after the 20 week mark in West Virginia last year. Despite being one of nine states to not have abortion regulations, West Virginia already has one of the lowest rates of abortions nationwide, with a rate less than one third of the national rate.

The bill is also strikingly similar to several other bills proposed in different states across the nation in recent years.

According to Chapman Pomponio, the bill is model legislation created by out of state interests.

“This is out of a playbook that national antichoice organizations use,” she said.

In many states that have adopted the 20 week abortion ban, notably Arizona and Idaho, the bills

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From left to right, Andrew Sutherland, Shani Waris and Paris Winfrey have their heads shaved to raise money during a fundraising event organized by the Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity Tuesday inside the Mountainlair.

Students shave heads to raise money for cancer research by kendall snee staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University’s Alpha Phi Omega co-ed fraternity has continued its newly established tradition of shaving students’ heads in the name of cancer research. For the second year in a row, the one-day event took place in front of the J.A.C.S in the Mountainlair yesterday from 2-6 p.m. and helped raise hundreds of dollars in proceeds toward the St. Baldrick’s organization.

Last year’s event, which raised $4,000, caused quite a spark when two female team members, Abby Davis and Lindsay Gallegly, agreed to shave their heads once the amount raised hit $2,000. But this year’s ‘WVU Goes Bald’ event inspired even more than expected.

Molly Bragg, a freshman business student, stunned students

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Members of Alpha Phi Omega stand at the fundraising event for St. Baldrick’s Foundation Tuesday inside the Mountainlair.

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Holocaust survivor to share stories of survival, faith, family at WVU by courtney gatto staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

Nearly 82 years after the start of the Holocaust, the memories of the fear and anguish are still being shared in a variety of ways.

Miriam Katin, born in 1942, grew up in Eastern Europe during World War II and later emerged as a Holocaust survivor.

Throughout her life, her mother shared stories about their triumph that she used to create her own

books and her presentation, “Childhood in Black and White: A talk by Miriam Katin” that she will give at 7:30 p.m. tonight in room G21 of Ming Hsieh Hall.

Unlike other popular mediums used to recall events from that period, Katin takes a more unique approach in her books to truly illustrate her memories.

“The stories that my mother told me about our survival and the faith of our families were always

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on my mind as something I didn’t really like to think about but always present.

I just didn’t want to write, I am not a writer. Then, I discovered comics,” Katin said. “I realized I could draw stories.”

Katin has created two graphic novel memoirs, both made by a unique creative process.

“If you know comics, a lot of people do, they draw them very clearly but mine are more artistic. I draw with pencil most of the time,” Katin said. “The first

book was very much like ordinary comics- frames and panels- the second book is really actually very freely drawn.”

During her presentation, Katin will share pieces of her graphic novel, “We Are On Our Own.” This novel tells a story based on her personal experiences. It portrays the struggles faced by a mother and daughter as they flee Nazi takeover in Budapest, Hungary and how they remain free from the German Army.

Lisa DiBartolomeo, a teaching assistant professor in the Department of World Languages, teaches Katin’s work in her class, “The Holocaust in East European Literature and Film,” and says it has a strong effect in the class and on her students.

“One of the ways it adds to the curriculum is it’s a new kind of medium for the students to see. In the class we do films, we do poetry, we do journals, we do novels and short stories and we do Miriam’s

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graphic novel,” DiBartolomeo said. “It gives everybody something to identify with.”

DiBartolomeo said this presentation will get the audience to think about the Holocaust in a new perspective and even teach them facts that they may have never known before.

“So many people, what they know is ‘Schindler’s List’ or Anne Frank, and they don’t realize Eastern

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Video of racist chant threatens Oklahoma’s progress NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Almost a generation ago, the University of Oklahoma set out to raise its profile, seeking to build a regional school that served mostly students from the Southwest into a leading institution that attracted top scholars.

President David Boren made striking progress, achieving a reputation that now extends well beyond the Sooners football team that once defined the campus. But those improvements seem in peril after members of a fraternity were caught on video chanting a racial slur. The chant referenced lynching and indicated black students would never be admitted to OU’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Boren, a former Oklahoma governor and U.S. senator, acted swiftly. He immediately severed ties with the fraternity and ordered members to vacate their house. On Tuesday, he expelled the two students who appeared to be leading the chant for creating a hostile educational environment and promised others involved would face discipline.

“I have emphasized that there is zero tolerance for this kind of threatening racist behavior at the University of Oklahoma,” Boren said in a statement.

Since taking the helm of the state’s flagship university more than 20 years ago, Boren has made ambitious efforts to recruit top students and faculty.

The school offers generous scholarships to all National Merit scholars and currently enrolls more of them than any other public university in the nation. It has produced 29 Rhodes scholars.

Boren also expanded the honors program and raised large amounts of money for endowed chairs — so much, in fact, that the state had to scale back an offer to match the donations.

The video was taken on a bus going to a Founder’s Day event at a country club. The person who recorded it has

cooperated with the investigation, Boren said Tuesday ahead of a Board of Regents meeting.

Also on Tuesday, Beauton Gilbow, the fraternity’s house mother, issued a statement that addressed a second online video from 2013 that had surfaced, showing her repeating a racial slur against blacks as music plays in the background. Gilbow said she was singing along to a song. She said she was “heartbroken” by the portrayal that she was racist but understood how the video must appear in the context of the week’s events.

Some students at OU, particularly African-Americans who make up about 5 percent of the campus population, said racism is alive and well and that a mostly segregated fraternity and sorority system is at least partially to blame for creating an environment where racism can thrive.

“It’s too segregated,” said Markeshia Lyon, a junior from Oklahoma City who is black. “That’s something that’s passed down, and that’s something that needs to change.”

Lyon recalled trying to attend a fraternity party her freshman year with several friends, all of whom were African-American, and being told they were not welcome.

“It was very hurtful,” she said. “I would never set foot on that street again.”

But fraternity members say chapters at Oklahoma have taken steps to diversify, recruiting more African-American, Asian and Hispanic students.

“We’ve always fostered a community where anyone who is qualified can enter.

We don’t look at your race,” said Jordan Bell, an AfricanAmerican senior from Washington, D.C., who joined a mostly white fraternity. He said more than 10 percent of the roughly 100 members of his Phi Kappa Psi fraternity now are African-American.

Bell said some fraternities and sororities are more di-

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People walk on the Oval at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Two students have been expelled from the university following an incident in which members of a fraternity were caught on video chanting a racial slur.

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Two men load a couch from the now closed University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house into a moving truck, in Norman, Okla., Tuesday, March 10, 2015. University President David Boren expelled two students Tuesday after he said they were identified as leaders of a racist chant captured on video during a fraternity event. verse than others, and Boren acknowledged at a news conference Monday that more needs to be done to attract minority students to the university and the fraternity-sorority system.

“Some are doing quite well. They’re making progress,” Boren said. “Others are still locked in the past, and

they need to realize that it enriches the experience and the friendships that are involved if they become more diverse as organizations.

“I don’t think we can paint the whole Greek system with a broad brush.”

The university has succeeded in breaking down some racial barriers, mainly

through its athletics programs, which is why the video reopens old wounds.

Running back Prentice Gautt, for example, became the first black football player at the school in the late 1950s, long before many universities had integrated collegiate athletics. Yet today, members of the school’s predominantly

black football and basketball programs play before overwhelmingly white crowds.

While the school made strides on the playing field, it seemed to be losing ground elsewhere. The enrollment of black students declined. Ten years ago, roughly 6 percent of students at the Norman campus were black, according to university statistics.

Last year, the figure hovered just above 5 percent.

The video also revived painful memories of the state’s history of racial violence.

In 1921, a race riot in Tulsa left some 300 blacks dead and an entire section of town in economic turmoil — scars that remain today in the state’s second-largest city.

Only two years ago, the Tulsa City Council voted to rename the city’s glitzy arts district, which had been named after Wyatt Tate Brady, the son of a Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan member. But the change was vehemently opposed by some locals.

An entire swath of southeastern Oklahoma is still called Little Dixie today.

JeffriAnne Wilder, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville — where a school board decided in 2013 to rename a high school named after an honorary Ku Klux Klan leader — said the incident at OU is a quick reminder of how far the state, and the U.S., has to go in dealing with racial issues.

“It’s saddening and unfortunate that just a few days ago, we were commemorating Selma,” Wilder said, referring to the 1965 civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. “We have to pause and on one hand, we can look back and see how far we’ve gone and on the other hand, how far we have to go.”

“The millennial generation,” she added, “is supposed to be both colorblind and post-racial, but that’s not true.”

Clinton on emails: I should have used government account UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Confronting a growing political furor, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded Tuesday it was a mistake to exclusively use private email as secretary of state, but she defiantly rejected accusations that she created a security risk or violated the law. She also defended getting rid of tens of thousands of personal emails.

“I fully complied with every rule I was governed by,” Clinton said in a 20-minute news conference that marked her first comments on the controversy.

Clinton’s acknowledgement that she deleted emails she described as personal in nature is likely to fuel further criticism from Republicans who see the matter as harm-

ful to the former secretary of state’s all-but-certain presidential campaign. Because Clinton’s emails were run off a personal server that she does not intend to turn over to the government, there is no way to independently verify the content of the discarded emails.

Clinton said she had exchanged about 60,000 emails

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“I had an English teacher back home who was a good family friend that had breast cancer. So naturally I had my head shaved for her,” St. Pierre said.

St. Pierre said he was used to having his hair cut short, but it’s for a good cause and he considers himself the kind of person who would be willing to do this kind of thing for anyone. St. Pierre also commented on the ratio of girls to guys participating.

“Girls are, for the most part, very attached to their hair but I think either way for a girl to get up here is more symbolic; it might mean a little bit more to the girl. I think either way it’s making a really positive statement,” St. Pierre said.

Emaad Shirazie, a sophomore advertising student, watched as ongoing students sat before the various barbers.

“At the beginning people were getting their heads shaved pretty consistently,” Shirazie said. “It was cool to see. There was a girl with green hair who went, so for that everyone was watching.”

Shirazie said he would not be getting his head shaved because he had recently received a new haircut but he think it’s great people are donating and is glad Alpha Phi Omega is raising awareness for a great cause.

Despite rescheduling issues due to last Thursday’s snow day, Alpha Phi Omega chapter president Lindsay Gallegly said the event went off without a hitch and the team had more than enough volunteers and local barbers working and enjoying themselves at the event.

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“It’s for such a good cause,” Bragg said. “Guys shave their heads all the time, girls are made to care about their appearances but this smashes the patriarchy.”

Bragg went on to say hair is just hair and should be treated as such. Bragg did admit she was terrified and shaking but really wanted to help.

Bragg was only one of many to go through the experience of an extremely public haircut. Charles St. Pierre, a freshman history student, explained this was not his first time cutting his hair for a good cause.

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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in her four years as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state. Half were work-related and none contained classified information, she said.

The controversy has presented a major test for Clinton and upended her careful blueprint for the rollout of her campaign. The clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Clinton had planned to spend March touting her work on women’s issues and giving a handful of paid speeches before announcing her candidacy in early April.

Instead, she found herself standing before dozens of reporters at the United Nations addressing a matter that has revived questions of ethics and secrecy that have long trailed Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Her appearance came after her previously scheduled speech on women’s rights at the UN. Before Tuesday’s news conference, Clinton’s only comment on the email disclosures had been a late-night tweet last week saying she wanted the State Department to make her emails public.

Her decision to weigh in further came as Democratic allies began publicly pushing

her to do so.

Asked whether the email disclosures would affect her presidential ambitions, Clinton said, “I trust the American people to make their decisions about political and public matters.”

The Republican Party’s leading presidential prospects had no immediate response to Clinton’s explanations. But in a signal that the issue was unlikely to fade soon, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus blasted Clinton’s comments as “completely disingenuous.”

“No one but Hillary Clinton knows if she handed over every relevant email,” Priebus said.

Clinton’s comments also appeared unlikely to quell efforts by GOP lawmakers to use the matter to bolster their investigation into the deaths of four Americans at a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. Following the news conference, Rep. Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican leading the committee, said he planned to call her to testify at least twice.

A central question for Clinton over the past week has been why she chose not to use government email if

she wasn’t trying to skirt federal rules that require officials’ communications to be archived.

She described her use of personal email as a matter of “convenience” and a way to avoid carrying two devices.

She said that didn’t appear to be an issue at the time, but that in hindsight, it would have been “smarter” to use a government account as well as her personal one.

Last month, Clinton told an audience in Silicon Valley that she uses multiple electronic devices.

“I have an iPad, a miniiPad, an iPhone and a BlackBerry,” Clinton said.

The email controversy stems from reports last week that Clinton had exclusively used both a private email address and a private server while at the State Department.

Clinton said repeatedly Tuesday that she had taken “unprecedented steps” to provide the State Department her work-related communications. She described the missing personal emails as ones she wrote about her daughter’s wedding, her mother’s funeral, her yoga routine and other similar matters.

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The overruling of the Governor’s veto was a prominent setback for the WV Free group and their advocates.

“We don’t want this to be the opening of floodgates against women’s health in West Virginia,” Chapman Pomponio said.

“We’re ready to continue to fight and we think the focus should be on how we can improve access to health care education in West Virginia rather than taking it away.”

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Europe was ground zero.

The countries in Eastern Europe are where the most lives were lost, where cultures were obliterated, villages, people, families, just lost,” DiBartolomeo said.

“So, to me, it’s very important to try and preserve that and try and continue that.”

Katin said she originally wrote the books for herself, and didn’t expect to see such an interest in the subject of World War II and the Holocaust.

She said she hopes her graphic novels will teach people what times were really like and that they learn from the events that occurred to stop them from happening again.

“I’m hoping that people will wake up to it,” Katin said. “Don’t forget, this can come back.”

have been found unconstitutional by the courts, leading to millions of dollars in state litigation fees.

John Carey, the legislative coordinator for West Virginians for Life, said he is not worried about a challenge on the constitutionality of the bill. He said he believes that despite the ruling on the bill in Arizona, that bill isn’t theirs.

“We feel the Governor had every reason in the world constitutionally to sign [the bill],” Carey said.

After the Governor’s veto, the West Virginia for Life advocates were utterly disappointed, according to Buchanan.

“It was pretty clear that they were looking for any reason to enable a baby to be aborted any time,” Carey said, explaining his perspective on the viewpoint of the pro-choice advocated last week.

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Gee Mail works, connects students On Tuesday, West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee released the latest edition of his video series, Gee Mail.

This latest video features Gee roaming the Capitol Building in Charleston on WVU and WVU Extensions Day. Gee speaks with WVU students, W.Va. legislators and even Governor Tomblin. With each interview, Gee manages to gain a few chuckles as well as share some wisdom or insight into WVU’s future.

And that is why Gee Mail works.

More often than not, it is common for students to feel a disconnection between the time they spend on campus or in the classroom and the actions taken by the University. They believe no one is listening when they say they want a downtown student Rec Center, the buses to run later or healthier dining options in the Mountainlair or dining halls. However, this tune was changed when Gee

took to the screen to answer questions parents and students had in August.

Gee is someone so relatable and obtainable that students, faculty, staff and even legislators have no issue embracing and warming up to the bow tie-wearing gentleman.

Back in one of the very first Gee Mail videos made, we see Gee offering to be a stand in grandfather, and that is the role many look to him as. He is the wise, helpful and mildly famous man who roams the campus day and night reassuring students the University is listening to them and their issues.

Gee Mail works because it further contributes to making a man, in a position which so often feels unapproachable, seem like every WVU student’s best friend and mentor. It also serves as a much more entertaining (and humorous) news source than simply clicking on a University press release to read about WVU in

President Gee takes pictures with students at the WVU coliseum. the capitol or the new cam- cause he might be there and paign they are going to start. wait at the fringe of the gathGee puts a face to admin- ering of people around him istration at WVU. He makes just to take our turn getting us all show up to events be- our Gee selfie on.

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Administration and the University public relations team should keep the Gee Mail coming. Most WVU students are more than will-

ing to tune in and watch as Gee tells us more about the happenings around campus and the state.

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WVU rips off students with meal plan prices emilt torbett columnist @emilytorbsda

I can remember all too well my first day of college.

I remember the uncertainty I felt making the move from my parent’s home in Wheeling to my new home in Arnold Hall. As I worried about making friends, preparing for classes and combating inevitable homesickness, one challenge I didn’t anticipate was feeding myself.

I’d purchased a small meal plan, assuming it would be enough to accommodate my life on campus, as well as allow for the occasional weekend at home without being too wasteful. However, I soon found myself facing difficulty. There were often weeks when I’d run out of available meals, but a larger plan would mean an unaffordable cost increase.

West Virginia University requires most freshmen to live in an on-campus dorm, and requires every dorm resident to purchase a University meal plan. WVU’s dining services offer four basic meal plans to on-campus students: The Mountaineer Plan, The Select 15 Plan, The Gold Plan and The Blue Plan.

Each plan offers a different amount of dining hall entries as well as flexible “dining dollars” which can be used in dining services’ retail outlets.

With different limitations on swipes per day and week, it can be difficult to choose a plan that is both cost-effective as well as sufficient to dietary needs. Finding the right meal plan requires a complicated analysis of your habits and budget and even then, you’re still going to get it wrong sometimes.

When you’re presented with small week-by-week options at a broad cost-persemester price tag, it becomes even more difficult to understand. Regardless of how you break down the math, the answer is always the same. Meal plans simply aren’t economically smart.

The cost to feed yourself per week on a WVU meal plan averages $134.75. That might not seem like a lot, but the USDA calculates the weekly cost to feed a family of four ranges between $131.80-$257.80.

Essentially, when you sign up for a WVU meal plan, you are paying enough money to feed a family of four just to feed yourself.

Even after you’ve written a

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Lucas Buschemi, a junior business management student, hands his student ID to Katie Nowak, a Sbarra employee, to pay for his dinner with his meal plan Tuesday evening in the Mountainlair. check for those inflated costs, one semester to the next. which even the hungriest of don’t expect to get what Simply put, if you don’t students cannot reasonably you’ve paid for. Although use it you lose it, regardless expect to do.

Perhaps the only redeemyou’ve paid for your meal of the fact you’ve already swipes and dining dollars paid up front. Maximizing ing quality of a meal plan is with your tuition and fees at the value of your meal plan the convenience, but even the beginning of the semes- would mean using every that is arguable. There are ter, they do not carry over single meal swipe and din- typically restrictions on the from week to week or from ing dollar you’ve paid for, amount of dining hall en-

tries allowed on your plan, as well as limited and varied hours each dining hall is open. During weekends and evenings, students will find their dining options greatly reduced.

The only convenient thing about meal plans is the luxury of having your food prepared for you, and even that cost has a limit. If you compare the cost of a WVU meal plan with the cost to buy food from a grocery store and cook it for yourself (the USDA calculates that it costs $65.60 weekly to feed the average 21-year-old on a moderate cost plan), you’ll find the average WVU meal plan costs you $1,106.40 more per semester.

Certainly the hefty price tag outweighs the convenience of not having to make a weekly trip to the grocery store and spend a few hours cooking. Even the laziest student can see that WVU’s meal plans aren’t worth the money.

If WVU wants to continue to require meal plans be purchased by resident students, it must lower the cost to make them more economically sensible. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Youth Party voices concerns about the recent SGA elections, calls for reforms The youth party former WVU SGA Candidates

As the latest WVU Student Government Association election has come to a close, the Youth Party would like to make a few comments regarding the process of this year’s election. We would like to begin by commending both of the other parties for running a tough fought race. We would also like to congratulate George Capel, Ashley Morgan and the rest of the MAD Party on being elected as the 2015-2016 Student Government Association administration. We look forward to accomplishing our platforms alongside yours in the coming year.

As most of you know, SGA always seems to be shrouded in controversy; however, we believe that this year’s elections reached a point of absurdity. While we recognize some of the efforts put forth this year to make the elections process more balanced, we feel there are still great strides that need to be made. This year, we witnessed a great deal of injustices that impacted the candidates within the Youth Party and others that we feel need to be brought to the public’s attention.

First, as was seen on the front page of this newspa-

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Members of the Youth Party descend to the Mountainlair food court to congratulate the MAD movement on their win last Thursday. per, Attorney General Syed ber were uncalled for. We We feel that his endorse- months ago that, like in the Akhtar’s actions put us at wholeheartedly agree with ment of candidates after past, this would not be an a great disadvantage and the Judicial Board’s decision playing such an integral option, only to be told othdealt a heavy blow to our to suspend Attorney General role in the elections process erwise two days before votcampaign. His and Elec- Akhtar and urge the current was both unprofessional ing began. We feel this not tions Chair Richard Larson’s SGA Board of Governors to and unjust and we feel as only undermines the purslanderous comments and call for his resignation. though this could have pose of democracy, but also Attorney General Akhtar’s We would also like to been handled in a better takes away from the legitimacy of informed voting obvious biases during the voice our displeasure with manner.

Our other displeasure and encouraging students entire elections process President Chris Nyden’s dewere out of line and inexcus- cision to step down from the was the decision to add a to educate themselves on able. The attempts at wear- Elections Committee citing straight ticket voting op- candidates’ platforms. There ing down choice candidates his own biases, only after he tion to the ballot mere days is a point to be made when with petty and frivolous ob- had served on the commit- prior to the election. The some winning candidates structions since Novem- tee for half of the process. Youth Party was informed received fewer than ten non-

straight ticket votes.

This coupled with the failure to make organized arrangements with the County Clerk’s office which resulted in polling locations being changed three times in a matter of days lent to further discouragement of student involvement and informed voting. In the future, we hope the Elections Committee remedies these obvious errors in the system used this year. We are confident that every candidate that ran this year, having won or not, would agree that this process should hold fairness in the highest regard.

In conclusion, we see there were multiple injustices committed during this elections process that were in favor of the winning party.

While this should in no way discredit their hard work or imply that the result would have undoubtedly been different, it should be made known that the current administration made obvious attempts to besmirch a fair process and bring harm to candidates for no purpose other than the love of power and the ability to do so. In the meantime, we look forward to working with the future Board of Governors to accomplish what we as a party set out to do: make West Virginia University a better place as leaders, not politicians.

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Carlos Nunez is among the 2015 Mountain Stage lineup. He said his performance will be one big party.

Carlos Nunez shares Celtic music, cultural mix

By Jillian Clemente A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

As it turns out, yesterday was International Bagpipe Day, and it was the perfect day to talk to highenergy, Spanish bagpiper Carlos Nunez about his upcoming performance at the Mountain Stage show Sunday at the Creative Arts Center.

He said to get ready to party onstage with him and his bagpipes and recorder.

“We really like to interact with the audience,” Nunez said. “The best

way to interact is to talk to them, look in their eyes and dance. We want interaction. That’s why, at the end of the concert, everyone comes on stage, and we have a big party.”

The big party includes Nunez jamming out on the recorder, flute, bagpipes or guitar.

And yes, he actually loves playing the bagpipes, or “gaita.” It’s the traditional instrument of his home in Galicia, which is a part of Europe. In fact, about 20,000 young people play the bagpipes from his home.

“To play pop or rock

is fantastic,” Nunez said, “but if you play music that connects you with your roots and history, it’s powerful.”

This music has over 1,000 years of tradition, according to Nunez.

“It’s very powerful,” he said. “Everyone loves the pipes. What we do is make all the possible connections. Any kind of music is possible.”

And he’s not kidding, either. Like any good artist, Nunez puts his own unique spin to the bagpipes - and then some. He incorporates a plethora of different music types, in-

cluding Celtic, flamenco, Galicia, Latin American, pop, rock and classical.

“It’s more of a performing art,” he said.

Since Nunez pulls from so many different cultures, he likes to travel to play for them, too. In the past year, he’s played all over Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Japan.

“People like to come out to our concerts because it’s what we call the Celtic music of the future. It’s fast and a non-typical mix of Latin American music with rock,” he said. “This is the way we like to make music. It’s beautiful to

bring and share this message with your university.”

Nunez said some of his favorite places to play are universities, and he’s especially pumped to come to West Virginia University.

“I love to play at universities because universities have students and I make contact with future history and may not know it,” Nunez said. “It’s (my) first time ever to your university, and I’m looking forward to it.”

He’s also looking forward to showing students how to have a high-energy concert with bagpipes, in-

cluding pulling them on stage.

“Our concert is a big party, a big fiesta,” Nunez said. “We love to play and make the connections. We make so many friends.”

He said he truly just loves the audiences.

“You’re sharing your passion, your energy with the audience,” he said.

“You know immediately what people think. This is what we love.”

Nunez is playing at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the CAC as part of the Mountain Stage lineup. Tickets are $18 in advance or $25 on the day of the show. WVU

RECAP: ‘The Bachelor’ finds love in Monday night’s finale Hannah Harless A&E WRITER @dailyathenaeum

“The Bachelor” season finale premiered Monday night and ended with a heartfelt engagement.

The 19th season of “The Bachelor” premiered at the start of the new year, Jan. 5. Since the start of the show, 30 diverse women from various parts of the U.S. joined the show in order to win the heart of bachelor Chris Soules.

Throughout filming, contestants were eliminated each week after going on various extravagant dates in some of the world’s most beautiful destinations.

Chris is a 33-year-old Midwestern farmer from Arlington, Iowa. Chris first appeared on “The Bachelorette” with Andi Dorfman. Chris confessed his love for Dorfman and was sent home after making it to the final three. Chris attended Iowa State University, where he studied agronomy and agriculture.

Soon after returning from

college, Chris helped his family business expand into a multi-million dollar enterprise.

Fertility Nurse Whitney and Chiropractic Assistant Becca entered into the finale as the last-standing contestants to win over Chris.

The finale began as Whitney came to Arlington to meet Chris’ parents for the first time. When contestants get to this position, two things happen.

The contestants attempt to win over the bachelor’s family’s love, while the bachelor’s family thoroughly analyzes the contestant to see if they appear fit for their family and if they are competing in the show for the right reasons.

Automatically, Chris’s family felt a strong adoration toward Whitney and her relationship with their son. Whitney was extremely outgoing and bubbly, the epitome of a parent-approved girlfriend.

Whitney confessed her love to Chris and explained where she felt they were at in their relationship. Whit-

ney was extremely confident in her love for Chris and Chris’ family felt confident in her.

Unlike Whitney’s visit to Arlington, Becca’s visit wasn’t as successful. Chris’s family was not convinced she was the right pick for their son.

While Whitney was rather bold about her feelings for Chris, Becca was unsure. Becca felt that something important as love shouldn’t be rushed and that it was more of a gradual process. Becca said she wasn’t in love with Chris at the time being and wasn’t ready for kids and marriage. This raised many concerns for the family, after recalling how hurt Chris was after his heart was broken by Dorfman.

After both Whitney and Becca visited Chris’s home, Chris visited them both individually for one last date.

During Becca’s last individual date, Chris pressured Becca with serious questions as to where she stood in their relationship, and why she felt she wasn’t in love with Chris yet. While Chris was hop-

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Chris Soules holds a single rose, which he gave to one lucky contestant Monday night. ing to find answers that in their relationship and Chris her love for him was would help him make wasn’t able to answer any true and she was more his final decision, Chris’s of the questions he pushed than ready to start a famhopes fell short. Becca her to answer. ily and a life in Arlington.

Whitney’s individual Upon proposal day, wasn’t ready to pick up her life and move, was un- date took place at Chris’s Chris visited the jeweler sure as to where they were farm. Whitney assured to select a ring for the celebration. After deciding on a ring, Chris prepared himself to make his final decision and give out his final rose. In the meantime, Whitney and Becca Mumford and Sons have taken on a ford spilled about the group’s voyprepare to meet Chris and age away from their usual unplugged find out whether or not new sound. they will receive the final The London folk-rock group is forg- sound to “Rolling Stone,” saying they ing a new aesthetic, where banjos have collectively decided to swap their rose and a lifetime with been traded in for synthesized guitars acoustic instruments for electric guiChris or be left to start a and heavy percussion thrashes with tars after the end of their tour cycle in new journey with a broken glitzy piano undertones. The group’s October 2013. Mumford also said the heart. newest single “Believe,” taken from group had no trouble letting go of its The engagement scene their upcoming album “Wilder Mind,” original folk sound. took place in a barn on offers a different side of the once blueChris’s farm and was dec“It didn’t feel like a huge departure grass-folk clique. orated with chandeliers, in some way, you know? It felt kind of Premiering Monday on Vevo, the natural to us,” Mumford said. “It sounds candles and mason jars. music video for “Believe” featured a kind of like a jolt or something, but for Becca was the first person to exit the limo, which first-person glimpse out the driver- us it was just where we were headed.” side windshield of a car. Perhaps the almost always means the Admitting he mainly wrote the mainspiration for this cryptic video was jority of the tracks on previous albums, contestant will be elimito show fans that the group is travel- Mumford said this record will feature nated. Chris felt Becca was ing in a new direction. Regardless, “Be- more songwriting from fellow band not ready to start a life with lieve” sounds more like a track stripped members. him, and they said their from an Imagine Dragons album.

“Wilder Mind” is expected to drop goodbyes. Unlike many In this age, where overplayed pop- May 4. For more information on the heartbroken contestants, alternative songs dominate the radio, band, visit http://mumfordandsons.

Becca didn’t leave Chris Mumford and Sons really lost its art- com/. with harsh words and left istry with this track. Mumford and Sons’ in silence.

— cmw vocalist and front man Marcus MumOnce Whitney arrived, Chris confessed his love to her, proposed and delivered the final rose to his Find us on fiance.

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Modernizing Cinderella while keeping a light tone BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Everyone knows the tale of Cinderella.

The story of the beautiful girl who is forced into servitude by a wicked stepfamily, transformed for a night by magic, and saved by a nameless prince has been around for centuries.

But while “Cinderella” is ingrained in the world’s consciousness, it’s also as outdated as a fairy tale can be.

So why are audiences now getting an expensive retelling of the passé bedtime story, 65 years after Disney released its animated classic and just months after the screen version of “Into the Woods” poked fun at the idea of insincere princes and delusional princesses?

For one, Disney’s live-

action adaptations of its animated properties have become big business for the studio. Between “Alice in Wonderland” (2010) and “Maleficent” (2014), Disney has grossed nearly $2 billion worldwide from mining their archives for material to update. The studio already has a live-action “Beauty and the Beast” and an “Alice” sequel in development.

And yet, despite the tooobvious business objectives, there is nothing cynical about the latest “Cinderella,” which hits theaters on Friday.

“I wanted Cinderella, without being entirely a dreamer, to see life not as it is but what it could be,” says director Kenneth Branagh, who was excited to get the heroine out of a “time warp.”

To cast his leads, Branagh applied the same theory as he did when helping to pick Chris Hemsworth for “Thor”: Choose relative un-

knowns. He landed on Lily James of the British show “Downton Abbey” which airs on PBS, and Richard Madden, a vet of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Instead of making “Cinderella” dark and gritty or dystopian, which Branagh believes have become clichéd, he and screenwriter Chris Weitz (“About a Boy”) imagined a world where she’s guided by a steadfast belief in kindness. It’s a message that Ella learns as a child and holds dear as things worsen under the rule of her spiteful stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and vain, doltish stepsisters (Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera).

The film succeeds because of its sincerity.

“We couldn’t ever jump out of the movie and say, `You know, this is a bit silly and we’re much cooler than this, by the way.’ We’re daring to take this seriously,” Branagh said in a joint interview.

Branagh encouraged James to read Mohandas Gandhi’s works and other writings on spiritual journeys to prepare for her role, hoping that she could incorporate the idea of nonviolent resistance into the character.

“We present this world where we see the grownup Cinderella for the first time reading a book.

There’s a curious mind in the house. It’s legit for her to have a sophisticated response to her position,” Branagh said.

“The old fashioned view of a damsel in distress who needs a man to come and

save her from her life is irrelevant and not a message we should be telling children these days,” added Madden.

But Cinderella isn’t the only one given depth. All the characters are crafted with complexities, including the prince.

“I just wanted to make a man who was worthy of Cinderella’s affections and love. She is this amazing, strong, brave woman. She doesn’t need the prince,” Madden said.

The leads are lively and excitable together, even after weeks of international travel and hotel-bound press sessions and the knowledge that their promotional tour is not even close to finished.

“Well Disney gives us these shots every morning,” Madden joked of his boundless energy.

On the screen, their PG-rated chemistry is undeniable. Branagh orchestrated things so that they didn’t interact much before filming. He even planned out the shoot to begin with their first encounter.

“Ken wanted to capture the energy of two young people meeting for the first time,” said James.

To make things even more uncertain, Branagh put both on horseback and had them circling one another throughout the scene, allowing them the freedom to improvise.

“It added a tension which was good for the scene,” said Branagh. “The audience intuits that it seems to be happening before our very

eyes.”

While Madden and James do seem enormously comfortable with one another, their off-screen relationship is a professional one. During a photo shoot, James was asked to pose with one hand on Madden’s chest. “But doesn’t this make us look like a couple?” she asked. “Like, Lily and Richard, not the Prince and Cinderella.”

In addition to his leads’ onscreen relationship, Branagh was especially consumed with doing justice to the ball.

Production designer Dante Ferretti (“The Aviator”) transformed the 007 soundstage

dles and 17 custom-made chandeliers for Cinderella’s big moment. And costume designer Sandy Powell (“Shakespeare in Love”) labored to build a dress for the occasion.

In the end, Powell created nine different versions of the airy blue confection, each boasting over 10,000 Swarovski crystals, 270 yards of fabric and three miles of hems.

While the visuals were designed for ultimate impact, the logistics of actually dancing with the delicate garment proved unwieldy at best.

“There are three of us in this relationship: Cinderella, the prince and the dress,” Madden said. “The dress tried to keep us apart.”

“Basically Richard would only have to look at it and it would rip,” added James.

“I have that effect on w o m e n ,” Madden responded with a wink.

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Derek Zoolander and Hansel crash Valentino’s Paris fashion show PARIS (AP) — To deafening cheers and a stunned celebrity front row, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller closed Valentino’s Tuesday show by storming the catwalk in a headline-grabbing stunt to announce “Zoolander 2.”

Meanwhile, Karl Lagerfeld spent the earth to recreate a giant fully-functioning French brasserie inside the Grand Palais - replete with silver platter waiter service - to showcase Chanel’s latest looks.

H e r e are the highlights o f the

fallw i n ter 2015 Paris

ready to wear collections: ZOOLANDER 2 ANNOUNCED IN FITTING STYLE To great bravado, the two Hollywood stars reprised their roles as male models Derek Zoolander and Hansel, immortalized in the hugely popular 2001 movie, on the catwalk for Valentino’s show.

It stunned celebrity guests that included Nicky Hilton and actress Kate Mara.

The sequel will hit U.S. movie theaters on Feb. 12, 2016, Paramount Pictures said in a statement. It said Stiller and Wilson will again star in the movie, which will be written by Justin Theroux and directed by Stiller.

Stiller appeared in a dark electric blue suit-and-tie ensemble with a navy trenchcoat. Wilson, sporting shaggy long blond locks, strutted in a shiny light blue pajama print outfit with blindingly white sneakers,

topped off with an eggshell blue trench coat.

It was such a surprise that the audience immediately whipped out their phones to catch the moment.

VALENTINO’S BLACK MOOD Black was the touchstone for designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli who produced a beautiful fashion ode to women for their Valentino collection.

It was a bold start - a series of cinched-waist silhouettes in black and white geometric stripes and checks merged into some beautiful trompe l’oeil bibs that flattened the chest with loose pants.

Later, there were references to two women celebrated in the program notes: artist Gustave Klimt’s companion Emilie Louise Floge, and David Hockey’s Sixties muse Celia Birtwell. Birtwell provided inspiration for the decorative Swinging Sixties embellished lace A-line mini dresses, and Floge’s influence was seen in fastidiously embellished long-line and column dresses that featured b o l d Klimt-like

patterns in bright blues, reds and oranges.

The inclusion of the Zoolander troop was a nice touch, and shows that this age-old house doesn’t take itself too seriously.

WORKAHOLIC LAGERFELD TAKES A JOB BEHIND A BAR Karl Lagerfeld was caught moonlighting as a barman at “Brasserie Gabrielle” in Paris on Tuesday - but never fear, Chanel’s couturier hasn’t given up his day job.

The 81-year-old workaholic designer was merely posing for the press at the giant French brasserie he recreated inside the Grand Palais for Chanel’s latest ready-to-wear display.

And what a fall-winter show it was.

French waiters walked with silver platters past brass champagne bars, bistro tables, newspaper stands and huge revolving doors.

The models, led by Cara Delevigne, soon followed in long, colored textured jackets, on-trend pencil skirts, `60s check dresses, embroidered parkas and revamped vintage Chanel block heels.

It was a relaxed affair, with some models even taking the time to chill at tables

marked “reserved.” The realism of the set was astounding with its coffee machines and “no mobile phones” signs - and even, said the designer, down to the fact that the models just had coffee.

Lagerfeld’s designs showed off outstanding details. The black-and-white `50s block shoe - a black toe on a thick square heel - defined the show, a look that Lagerfeld resurrected from the Coco Chanel archive for the first time ever.

There were several fantastic plays on the “penguin”like French waiter and French maid uniforms ubiquitous among Paris’ posher restaurants.

A black menswear jacket came with a bowtie and a voluminous white silk ruffled skirt. Elsewhere, white waiters’ bows were abstract and embroidered on a loose, diaphanous skirt. And some must-have clutch bags were in the shape of stacked plates.

IRIS VAN HERPEN’S LIQUID SILVER Dutch wunderkind Iris Van Herpen produced her strongest ready-to-wear collection to date, in a poetical show which merged organic shapes and geolog-

ical micro-formations with unnatural-looking metallic textures.

It produced a play of subtle, but powerful, contradictions and confirms that Van Herpen, who won 2014’s prestigious ANDAM fashion award, is now becoming an important player on the Paris ready-to-wear calendar.

The key to her success is where science meets art: the twinning of new technologies with a roaming creative mind.

Here, Van Herpen developed a translucent stainless steel weave that was seen in several incredible looks, including one where the skirt seemed to grow out of the model’s back and curve round the front like a basket.

A trompe l’oeil transparent midriff section used material that contorted and shrunk the models’ midriff, like great instant liposuction.

And then there were the “killer heels.” They jagged shard of crystals, tied with leather bands, with no heel - produced using 3-D printing.

It was one of the most creative displays seen all season.

Pharrell, Thicke found guilty for copying Marvin Gaye in ‘Blurred Lines’ LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s children nearly $7.4 million Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father’s music to create “Blurred Lines,” the biggest hit song of 2013.

Gaye’s daughter Nona Gaye wept as the verdict was read and was hugged by her attorney.

“Right now, I feel free,” she said outside court.

“Free from ... Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.”

The verdict could tarnish the legacy of Williams, a reliable hit-maker who has won Grammy Awards and appears on NBC’s music competition show “The Voice.”

He and Thicke are “undoubtedly disappointed,” said their lead attorney, Howard King.

“They’re unwavering in their absolute conviction that they wrote this song independently,” he said.

King has said a decision in favor of Gaye’s heirs could have a chilling effect

on musicians who try to emulate an era or another artist’s sound.

Larry Iser, an intellectual property attorney who has represented numerous musicians in copyright cases, was critical of the outcome.

“Unfortunately, today’s jury verdict has blurred the lines between protectable elements of a musical composition and the unprotectable musical style or groove exemplified by Marvin Gaye,” Iser said. “Although Gaye was the Prince of Soul, he didn’t own a copyright to the genre, and Thicke and Williams’ homage to the feel of Marvin Gaye is not infringing.”

Gaye’s children - Nona, Frankie and Marvin Gaye III - sued the two singers in 2013.

Their lawyer, Richard Busch, branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit “Got to Give It Up” outright.

The family “fought this fight despite every odd being against them,” Busch

said after the verdict, which could face years of appeals.

Thicke told jurors he didn’t write “Blurred Lines,” which Williams testified he crafted in about an hour in mid-2012.

Williams testified that Gaye’s music was part of the soundtrack of his youth. But the seven-time Grammy winner said he didn’t use any of it to create “Blurred Lines.”

“Blurred Lines” has sold more than 7.3 million copies in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. It earned a Grammy Awards nomination and netted Williams and Thicke millions of dollars.

The case was a struggle between two of music’s biggest names: Williams has sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his career as a singer-producer, and Gaye performed hits such as “Sexual Healing” and “How Sweet It Is (To be Loved by You)” remain popular.

During closing arguments, Busch accused Thicke and Williams of lying about how the song was

created. He told jurors they could award Gaye’s children millions of dollars if they determined the copyright of “Got to Give It Up” was infringed.

King denied there were any substantial similarities between “Blurred Lines” and the sheet music Gaye submitted to obtain copyright protection.

Williams has become a household name - known simply as Pharrell - thanks to his hit song “Happy” and his work as a judge on the “The Voice.” He wrote the majority of “Blurred Lines” and recorded it in one night with Thicke. A segment by rapper T.I. was added later.

Williams, 41, also signed a document stating he didn’t use any other artists’ work in the music and would be responsible if a successful copyright claim was raised.

Thicke testified he wasn’t present when the song was written, despite receiving credit.

The trial focused on detailed analyses of chords and notes in both “Blurred Lines” and “Got to Give It Up.”

Jurors repeatedly heard the upbeat song “Blurred Lines” and saw snippets of its music video, but Gaye’s music was represented during the trial in a less polished form. Jurors did not hear “Got to Give It Up” as Gaye recorded it, but rather a version created based solely on sheet music submitted to gain copyright protection.

That version lacked many of the elements - including Gaye’s voice - that helped make the song a

hit in 1977. Busch called the version used in court a “Frankenstein-like monster” that didn’t accurately represent Gaye’s work.

An expert for the Gaye family said there were eight distinct elements from “Got to Give It Up” that were used in “Blurred Lines,” but an expert for Williams and Thicke denied those similarities existed.

Gaye died in April 1984, leaving his children the copyrights to his music.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could be blindsided by a sudden change. Be willing to adjust. Stay receptive to someone who tries very hard to express his or her caring and support. Be a little cynical if you encounter a situation that’s too good to be true.

Tonight: Spend time with your favorite person.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You will put in long hours to complete what you feel is necessary. You often defer to others, but right now, it is important to be more in touch with your needs.

A conversation with a partner could be touchy. Be careful. Tonight: Out and about.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Continue deferring to others. You’ll have other matters on your mind that you would prefer and need to consider.

Give yourself the time and permission to explore different options. An offer that arises could irritate you on some

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You might want to take off for part of the day to do something just for you. You could be entering a very busy period where you need to be 100 percent engaged. Get errands done and complete anything that could interfere with your workflow.

Tonight: Early in, early out.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Stay centered when dealing with a touchy friend or family member. You could hear some surprising news. Stay close to a loved one who means a lot to you.

Tension seems to build in an emotional conversation. Tonight: Roll with the punches.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might be in a position where you have to help others relax. A partner could be unpredictable. You can back away, but not for long. Walk in this person’s shoes and figure out what is motivating him or her. Tonight: Home is where the heart is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Work with your finances, and try to trim

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Nathan Adrian, Devin Williams and Jaysean Paige make their way back to the bench during West Virginia’s win against Oklahoma State Saturday.

No. 18 West Virginia enters Big 12 Tournament this week, faces No. 16 Baylor first by ryan petrovich sports writer @dailyathenaeum

No. 18 West Virginia will face No. 16 Baylor in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament Thursday afternoon – a matchup that hasn’t favored the Mountaineers this season.

Baylor knocked off the Mountaineers both times the two teams played during the regular season. The first loss came at home in Morgantown. West Virginia never really got into the groove of things as Baylor took a wide lead in the first

half and never looked back.

West Virginia fell 87-69 in the first contest.

On the road, the story wasn’t much different. The Mountaineers were without senior guard Juwan Staten who sat out due to a knee injury and lost their other senior guard Gary Browne three minutes into the game. Staten has led the Mountaineers in scoring all season long. He’s averaging 14.5 points per game. Without Staten, Baylor dominated once more, beating the Mountaineers 78-66. Even though West Virginia hasn’t chalked up

a win over the Bears, head coach Bob Huggins doesn’t believe his team is intimidated going into tomorrow’s game.

“We’re not going to be scared,” Huggins said.

“That’s not in their DNA. That’s not going to happen.”

With Staten and Browne still listed as day-to-day, it may be up to young guards, Daxter Miles Jr., Jevon Carter and Tarik Phillip, to step up and play at a high level once more.

Miles Jr. has given Huggins and company good playing time. He’s been hitting more shots and is confident

that this time around, the results versus the Bears will be reversed.

“Next game it’s going to be a different outcome,” Miles said. “We’re going to turn the pressure up and hit shots. We’re a lot more confident than we were.”

Miles aside, West Virginia is shooting 41 percent from the floor, 31 percent from beyond the arc and just 65 percent from the foul line.

Baylor is coming off a close win against Texas Tech in its season finale.

The Bears managed to escape with a 77-74 win over the Red Raiders. The Bears

have been shooting the ball well. On the season, they’re shooting 43 percent from the field and 38 percent from 3-point range. Taurean Prince is leading the way, averaging 14 points per game, while Rico Gathers follows him, averaging 11.6 points per contest. Baylor’s length and athletic ability allowed them to minimize West Virginia’s pressure in both meetings, and Huggins acknowledges this factor.

“Their length really causes problems,” Huggins said. “I think Scott (Drew) has done a great job in recruiting long guys who fit

his defensive scheme that also really shoot the ball well and pass the ball well.”

The Big 12 Tournament seems poised to feature close, tough games throughout the week.

Should West Virginia want to earn a higher seed in the NCAA Tournament, it begins with Baylor tomorrow afternoon.

The Mountaineers and Bears will tip-off at 12:30 p.m. from Kansas City, Mo. The game will broadcast live on ESPN2. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia finishes tied for 18th nationally by dj deskins

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West Virginia University men’s club hockey team finished the season with a 21-15-1 record and 43 points overall, good

enough to tie for 18th in the nation.

After a disappointing finish to the regular season where the Mountaineers lost four-straight games against conference rivals Mercyhurst and Robert Morris, and two games to

Liberty, WVU was able to fight its way to the CHMA Conference championship where it would again face Robert Morris.

“Winning the playoffs was our expectation,” said head coach Kyle Richards. “We didn’t ex-

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WVU wasn’t able to complete its run howe v e r, d ro p p i n g t h e game with a score of 5-1.

The Mountaineers entered the season with high expectations and Richards believes they undoubtedly exceeded them.

They had lost several of their top players to graduation and some thought it would be a down year.

But, WVU responded by winning four more games than its predecessors and beating several teams for the first time in program history.

WVU also faced a coaching change at the beginning of the season when Richards took over. His main focus was to keep things simple and take it game-by-game so the team wouldn’t face any major changes that could make it lose its rhythm.

“It was an amazing experience for me to be able to take a head coaching job at a Division 1 level at 24-years-old,” Richards

said. “I’m fully expecting next year to win our league and get that bid to Nationals.”

The Mountaineers will lose team leaders like Zachary LaDuke, Trey Bracy and Eric Schaetzle to graduation. Bracy and LaDuke led the team in points this season with 40 and 36, respectively, while Schaetzle helped WVU to 15 of its 21 wins collectively.

“You can’t really replace them,” Richards said. “They all brought something unique to the program. We’re not really looking for anybody to fill their role in terms of exactly what they did. We aren’t looking to rebuild, just retool and build on the success we had this year.”

WVU will face a major youth movement next season as they only return five seniors and one junior. Richards will look to players like senior defensemen Tyler Conaway and Nicholas Burt to be his anchors on the blue line.

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The Mountaineers will also return their leading goal scorer Gerard Clayton, who netted the puck 16 times during his freshman season. He will be joined by goaltender Ian Donnan who played in 12 games this past year. He saw a good amount of experience during Schaetzle’s suspension at the end of the year.

“You never really know with freshmen, whether they take time to adjust, or can impact right away,” Richards said. “I’d like to see the returning guys take a stranglehold and let the incoming freshmen see how we operate and how the returning guys operate day-to-day.”

Richards and the Mountaineers will work in the offseason to build on their strengths and tighten up some weak spots. Both he and the team fully expect to compete at a high level and challenge for the Division 1 Club title. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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No. 18 West Virginia has had its ups and downs all season long, from claiming a trophy in Puerto Rico, beating conference-winner Kansas and scorching Oklahoma to losing three games by as much as 18 points.

The Mountaineers’ largest obstacle since the season tipped off Nov. 14, 2014, has been the Baylor Bears.

Of any conference opponent the No. 18 team in the country could face first in the Big 12 Tournament, Baylor is probably the last one it wanted.

The Bears were one of only two teams to sweep the Mountaineers this season, beating them in Morgantown by 18 points and again in Waco, Texas by 12.

During their 18-point loss in Morgantown, the Mountaineers could never get it going, as they were down by as much as 26 points after halftime. The Bears were hitting their shots and the Mountaineers weren’t, as Baylor shot 54.9 percent from the field and 40 percent from beyond the arc, while West Virginia shot 36.4 and 26.1.

When the Mountaineers traveled to Waco, they came out a little hotter with the help of their freshman guards. It was announced

prior to tip-off that senior Juwan Staten wouldn’t play due to injury, and Gary Browne would ultimately leave with an injury as well after less than three minutes of playing time.

Losing the two starting seniors spelled disaster for the Mountaineers, but freshmen Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles Jr. picked up the slack, keeping West Virginia in the game.

Carter drained seven of 13 3-point attempts and ended with 25 points, and Miles Jr. finished with 11.

That wouldn’t be enough, however, as Baylor’s perimeter shooting was too much for the Mountaineers to handle. Taurean Prince and Royce O’Neale both

went 4-6 from beyond the arc and collectively finished with 38 of the Bears’ 78 points.

Thursday’s matchup against Baylor will be the biggest test of the tournament for West Virginia. Despite being a four-seed in the tournament, the Bears have shown they are the Mountaineers’ kryptonite, and what will likely be their toughest matchup in Kansas City, Mo. If the Mountaineers can overcome their green and gold demons Thursday, the rest of the journey is a downhill one. Kansas State will likely beat TCU, given the tournament’s location and the Wildcats’ recent success, and follow by play-

ing Kansas.

The Mountaineers swept Kansas State and took one from Kansas this year, when they had Staten and Browne. And, even though they lost to the Jayhawks in Lawrence, Kan., without their two seniors, they held a 14-point lead at halftime and took the game into overtime.

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Although two divers reached the finals of their respective events, West Virginia University divers again missed out on a NCAA Championship qualification, during the second day of the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships in Buffalo, New York on Tuesday.

Tuesday saw the end of senior divers Haily VandePoel and Jennifer Rey’s WVU careers, as both competed in the women’s 1-meter diving event. Although VandePoel and junior Lindsay Schmidt qualified for Tuesday’s final, they fell short of the topseven placement required to send them to the NCAA Championship.

“It was a good day for the divers,” said Diving Coach Michael Grapner. “Lindsay and Haily both had consistent meets and made the finals. It’s a bittersweet day today as both Jen and Haily finished their collegiate season and completed their final dives. They were my first official recruits to WVU, and I’m thankful that they set the standard for the

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34th place showing. formance, with a top-six Meanwhile, two fresh- finish needed to send them A seventh place finisher in the 1-meter last season, man divers from the Moun- through to NCAAs. VandePoel topped Moun- taineer men’s team were “On the men’s side, they taineer divers with a 499.85 in action on the 3-meter had some good dives,” score and a 13th place fin- board. Alex Obendorf and Grapner said. “Unfortuish. Schmidt, who also Michael Proietto pleased nately, neither Mike nor reached the final in the Grapner with some strong Alex made it back for the fi3-meter event Monday, fin- dives on Tuesday, but nei- nals. However, they gained ished 16th, while Rey went ther were able to put to- valuable experience being out in the prelims with a gether a finals-worthy per- here, and it will help for

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Tuesday marked the end of the season for the Mountaineer women’s divers. The final day of competition, today’s meet will consist of the men’s and women’s platform diving events — a discipline that provides a unique challenge for West Virginia, as it lacks a tower with which to train in. Nevertheless, Obendorf and Proietto are both set to compete on the platform today, in what will be Grapner’s last chance to send a diver through to NCAA Championships this month in Greensboro, N.C. Despite the team’s relative lack of experience in the event, Obendorf took to it immediately during the Big 12 Championships in February, finishing second in the event and claiming AllBig 12 First Team honors. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

10 | SPORTS

Wednesday March 11, 2015

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Eagles trade Nick Foles to Rams for Sam Bradford NFL(AP)—Nick Foles wasn’t Chip Kelly’s franchise quarterback after all.

The Philadelphia Eagles have agreed to send Foles to the St. Louis Rams for Sam Bradford in a stunning quarterback swap. The Eagles will also get a fifth round pick this season, while sending the Rams a fourth round pick this year and a second round pick in 2016.

And Kelly’s probably not done dealing yet.

His admiration for Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota is no secret, and Kelly may want to move up from the 20th pick in the draft to pick his former Oregon quarterback.

Bradford hasn’t played since his 2013 season ended after he tore his left ACL. The former No. 1 overall pick and 2008 Heisman winner tore it again in preseason last

year.

Foles lacked the speed and mobility for Kelly’s offense, but he was 14-5 as a starter, including a playoff loss. After a breakout season in 2013, Foles missed the last eight games in 2014 with a broken collarbone.

The Eagles already agreed to a two-year contract with Mark Sanchez, who went 4-4 after Foles was injured last season.

Foles is the latest star player to depart Philadelphia in the past week.

He joins two-time AllPro running back LeSean McCoy and Pro Bowl wide receiver Jeremy Maclin.

The Eagles officially announced Tuesday that McCoy was traded to the Buffalo Bills for linebacker Kiko Alonso.

In St. Louis, Foles gets

a chance to be the undisputed starter. A thirdround pick in 2012, Foles set an NFL record for best TD/INT ratio of 27/2 his second season while helping the Eagles win the division a year after going 4-12. His passer rating of 119.2 was the third-highest in league history.

Foles threw 13 TD passes and 10 interceptions in 2014. He will earn $660,000 in 2015 in the final year of his rookie contract.

Bradford missed the last nine games of the 2013 season after injuring his knee and hurt it again in his second preseason game last August. The 27-yearold 18-30-1 as a starter.

He has 59 TD passes, 38 interceptions and a 79.3 passer rating in a five-year career. Bradford is slated to earn $12.9 million this year.

“He’s been extremely strong-willed and he’s given it everything,” Rams defensive end Chris Long said on Twitter. “We will miss him. This team is primed to win NOW and I look forward to winning with Nick. You just never get used to seeing friends move on in this business.”

The Eagles went 10-6 for the second straight season under Kelly, but missed the playoffs after going 1-3 in December. Kelly took full control of personnel decisions after the season and has overhauled the roster.

While he’s losing his best players on offense, Kelly is focused on improving a defense that has been Philadelphia’s biggest problem. Adding Alonso and re-signing linebacker Brandon Graham helps.

The Eagles agreed Sun-

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Quarterback Jake Locker retires NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)— Quarterback Jake Locker has retired from football rather than hit free agency after four NFL seasons with the Tennessee Titans, saying he no longer has the “burning desire” needed to keep playing the game for a living.

Locker wrote Tuesday in a statement released through his agent, Camron Hahn, that he decided to retire after talking with his family.

Locker officially became a free agent when his contract expired Tuesday.

“Football has always played a pivotal role in my life and I love the game, but I no longer have the burning desire necessary to play the game for a living”” Locker, 26, said in the statement. “To continue to do so would be unfair to the next organization with whom I would eventually sign. I realize this decision is surprising to many, but I know in my heart that it is the right decision and I look forward to spending more time with my family and pursuing other interests.”

The Titans drafted Locker with the eighth pick overall out of Washington in 2011, but he was benched last October. He played behind Matt Hasselbeck in his first season, then was named the starter for 2012.

But Locker missed 14 of his first 32 potential starts because of injuries, and the Titans declined to pick up his 2015 option with a new coach in Ken Whisenhunt.

Locker played only seven games with five starts in

2014 because of separate injuries before Whisenhunt benched him for rookie Zach Mettenberger.

Locker played in 30 games in his career, starting 23, and he threw for 4,967 yards with 27 touchdowns and 22 interceptions and a career 57.5 completion percentage. The mobile quarterback also averaged 6.8 yards per carry and ran for 644 yards with five touchdowns.

There were questions about his future going into last season with the second head coach of his career and a third different offensive coordinator. The Titans had drafted Mettenberger in the sixth round and signed veteran Charlie Whitehurst.

Locker said last year at the start of training camp that winning drove him, not money. During his time in Tennessee, the Titans had only one winning record at 9-7 in his rookie season.

“I’ve been fortunate,” Locker said last July. “My wife and I have been smart with our money, and we have. We’re fine. We don’t have to worry about it. So I get the freedom and the ability to go out and play for this football team and have fun.”

Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan, Tennessee’s top draft pick last season, wrote on Twitter that Locker was one of the most genuine people he had ever met.

“He will be successful no matter!” Lewan wrote.

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Saints send Graham to Seattle for Unger and 1st-round pick RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks’ search for a tight end has landed the two-time NFC champions Jimmy Graham.

The Seahawks and New Orleans Saints agreed to a trade Tuesday sending Graham to Seattle in exchange for veteran center Max Unger, pending a physical. The trade is also expected to include Seattle sending its first-round pick this year to the Saints and the Seahawks receiving New Orleans’ fourth-round selection.

Adding pass-catching options for Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson appeared to be an offseason priority. But rather than going into free agency, the Seahawks went after one of the top pass catchers in the league regardless of position, and a perennial Pro Bowl tight end.

Fox Sports first reported the trade discussions.

Graham is a former college basketball player who played one year of college football at Miami before the Saints drafted him in the third round in 2010. He became the favorite target of Drew Brees in only his second season. Graham had 99 catches for 1,310 yards and 11 touchdowns, which led the Saints in all

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He has yet to match his 2011 numbers since, but still led New Orleans last season with 85 receptions and 10 touchdown catches despite playing through an injured shoulder. His 889 yards receiving were third on the club last season.

Since the start of the 2011 season, Graham leads all tight ends in receptions, yards receiving and touchdowns. Graham held out before the start of last season before signing a $40 million, four-year extension rather than playing under the franchise tag. Seattle will inherit the remaining three years on that contract.

But there may be some bridges to mend in the Seattle locker room when Graham arrives. The Seahawks’ defense was not very complimentary of Graham prior to their meeting in the 2013 playoffs, including a pregame altercation with linebacker Bruce Irvin, and defensive end Michael Bennett calling Graham after the game overrated.

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