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Exit loan session required for grads by caroline peters staff writer @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University student loan borrowers who will not be returning in the fall are now required to take exit loan counseling. This includes students from WVU’s regional campuses, Potomac State College and WVU Tech. Students graduating, transferring or dropping below half-time status must complete the counseling before leaving. “We’re following federal government regulations. However, it truly is a bene-

fit for the students to complete exit loan counseling. This will give students a better understanding of the amounts they have to pay back and who they’re paying to,” said Candi Frazier, the associate director of the WVU Financial Aid in the Health Sciences Center office. “This is also a great time for students to establish a long-term relationship with the people that they’ll be associating with throughout the payment process, because it will take a significant amount of time for them to pay off their loans.”

This month, Educational Computer Systems, Inc. will send an email to the MIX account of every exiting student. Students will be able to complete the online counseling in a matter of minutes. “The overall counseling is a 10-15 minute process. The first part of the counseling is letting students know how much they owe and who they owe the money to,” Frazier said. “The second part is simply getting the names and addresses of all the people who will know where the student will be at all times, in case

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Three West Virginia University students have been chosen as recipients of the Critical Language Scholarship through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. This program targets rare and critical languages in which the government is interested. Nicholas Amos, Holly McCleery and Emily Morgan will travel this summer to different countries to live and learn about the cultures and to advance their skills in their chosen language. Amos, McCleery and Morgan were selected out of more than 5,500 applications from more than 650 colleges and universities. WVU has had nine Critical Language Scholars

since 2010, and this is the second time the University has had three in a single year. Each student worked closely with the ASPIRE office at WVU to ensure their applications and essays met the application requirements. All scholarship winners will leave for Washington, D.C., in June and will return from their countries in early August. Amos will focus on Arabic and travel to Oman, a country south of Saudi Arabia in the Arabian Gulf. McCleery will travel to Guangzhou, China, and Morgan will travel to Suzhou, China. The CLS covers all expenses for the students’ travel, which includes the flight to D.C. for training, the flight to the country

Diane Glancy , an award-winning novelist and poet, read her short story ‘The Reason for Crow’ Wednesday.

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The West Virginia University Student Government Association held its first official meeting under the leadership of Presidentelect Christopher Nyden Wednesday evening. The meeting was short, with little to discuss aside from a proclamation in support of the WVU women’s basketball team. The proclamation, which passed unanimously, was presented by Athletic Councilor Ashley Morgan, who congratulated the team on its many accomplishments during the 2013-14 season. “We’re very proud of everything they accomplished, like being able to earn the top-five ranking in the country and earning a No. 2-seed in the NCAA tournament,” Morgan said. According to Morgan, an SGA proclamation shows the student body supports the hard work put in by the team. She said the women’s team does not always receive the attention it should and issuing the proclamation is a good way to show

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support. “We want to show that we do recognize them at the University, and just because they’re not a mainstream sport doesn’t mean we haven’t seen all the work they’ve done,” Morgan said. “It’s about showing students support them, even if they don’t feel that support sometimes.” The meeting was presided by Board of Governors Vice Chair Stephen Scott in Vice President Jacob Evans’s absence. Vice Chair Scott was selected for his position by a vote of his peers on the BOG and said he hopes to use it to ensure SGA runs smoothly. “The vice chair is really supposed to be the role model of the board, and I hope to be that by showing I care and showing I can take on all the required work,” Scott said. “I will be having monthly meetings with each board member to ensure the progress of they’re platforms and to see how their doing in general.” Scott said the board has a lot of potential to help students and sees his

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UP IN THE TREES

The WVU canopy tour opens this weekend for the summer season. A&E PAGE 7

West Virginia University’s Native American Studies Program in cooperation with the Department of English hosted a reading by Native American writer Diane Glancy Wednesday evening. Glancy has published more than 50 nonfiction books, novels, short stories and poetry. She is completing a professorship at Azusa Pacific University and about to complete her second full-length independent film. She was named the WVU 2014 Elder-in-Residence and has spent time this week with members

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of the University. Ellesa High, associate professor of English and NAS faculty, said she attended one of Glancy’s past lectures and was thrilled when she found out she was visiting WVU. “As someone who teaches literature, I would say it is great work, but that is only one part of who this person is,” High said. “I also feel she has a tremendous heart, and I thought it would be lucky if she was able to come to WVU at some point.” Glancy read several pieces from her works, including “The Dream of a Broken Field,” “Stories of the Driven World” and “Basket Maker.”

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Community to recognize Autism Awareness by taylor mcsorley staff writer @dailyathenaeum

To celebrate Autism Awareness Month, various groups in Morgantown have put together campaigns aimed toward spreading local awareness. There will be an Autism Awareness walk April 13 to raise money to benefit the Autism Society of Pittsburgh. There will also be a run from Pittsburgh to Morgantown in the fall. “Autism Awareness Month is a time dedicated to educating the public about autism spectrum disorders, treatments for the disorder and problems within the autism community,” said Lindsay Gallegly, a junior multidisciplinary studies student and president of Alpha Phi Omega. “One in 68 kids are affected by autism, yet it is used as a joke on a daily basis.

“Having this time period to spread awareness about the seriousness of the problem and the impact it has on families can change peoples’ lives.” Panera Bread will partner with the local Intensive Autism Service Delivery Clinic to raise funds by selling puzzle piece-shaped cookies, the emblem for autism awareness. “The money raised by Alpha Phi Omega is donated to The Autism Society of Pittsburgh annually after the Run from Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh location benefits the tri-state area and is the closest office to Morgantown,” Gallegly said. Samantha Haines, Alpha Phi Omega membership vice president, said she has been volunteering in special education classrooms since high school and has seen the disorder firsthand. “In high school, I volunteered in the special education classes

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ON THE INSIDE After 36 years, WVU and wrestling head coach Craig Turnbull are parting ways. SPORTS PAGE 14

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can contact the WVU Office of Student Accounts at http://studentaccounts. wvu.edu or contact Heather Forquer at Heather. Forquer@mail.wvu.edu to complete their exit loan counseling. Anyone interested in getting further financial planning can stop into the WVU Financial Aid Office or schedule an appointment by calling 304-293-5242. Students can also see how much money they have borrowed by logging onto http://nslds.ed.gov.

Native American writer talks heritage, writing

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SGA appoints Scott to 2014-15 Vice Chair by sam bosserman

We know that for many students entering college, academics is their first concern. However, we do advise that some borrowers consider loan counseling every year.” Borrowers who fail to complete the counseling will receive a hold on their WVU records. The hold will prevent students from receiving their transcripts or registering for classes at any of the University’s campuses. Students who are permanently transferring from WVU, WVU Tech or Potomac State College

CULTURE TALK

Three WVU students awarded Critical Language Scholarship By Meagan Carpenter

the borrower moved and still needed to make loan payments.” The counseling can be done online and is open 24/7 once students receive the email. Frazier said some students might not be aware of how much money they’ll owe the federal government after leaving the University. “Believe it or not, some students are unaware they they’ve even taken out loans. For many students, freshman year is the year they sign a master promissory note,” Frazier said. “It’s a simplified process.

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and had a lot of hands-on experience with children with autism, but it wasn’t until my younger cousin was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder that I really started being involved in raising awareness,” she said. Haines currently volunteers at the Intensive Autism Service Delivery Clinic in Morgantown. “I tell everyone about my work at the clinic,” she said. “I tell them about how much my life has changed from working with kids on the autism spectrum.” People who cannot participate in any of the Autism Awareness events can still help the cause. Haines said learning about the disorder is something anyone can do. The walk will be April 13from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. at the Ruby Community Center at Mylan Park.

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RUNNING THE COMPETITION Leading into the GoldBlue Spring Game, the battle for the top running back is heating up. SPORTS PAGE 11

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Thursday April 3, 2014

Officials: 4 dead at Fort Hood, including gunman

Lucy Hamlin and her husband, Spc. Timothy Hamlin, wait for permission to re-enter the Fort Hood military base, where they live, following a shooting on the base, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas. FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A gunman opened fire Wednesday at the Fort Hood military base in an attack that left four people dead, including the shooter, at the same post where more than a dozen people were killed in a 2009 mass shooting, law enforcement officials said. One of the officials, citing internal U.S. Justice Department updates, said 14 others were hurt. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information by name. A U.S. law enforcement official said the shooter died of what appeared to be a self-inflicted wound. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. The injured were taken to Darnall Army Community Hospital at Fort Hood and other local hospitals. Dr. Glen Couchman, chief medical officer at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, said the first four people admitted there had gunshots to chest, abdomen, neck and extremities

and that their conditions range from stable to “quite critical.” Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in the 2009 assault, which was the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in U.S. history. The military offered few details. After the shooting began, the Army’s official Twitter feed said the post had been locked down. Hours later, all-clear sirens sounded. On Wednesday evening, a fatigue-clad soldier and a military police officer stood about a quarter-mile from the main gate waving away traffic. Other lanes were blocked by a police car and van. Meanwhile, relatives of soldiers waited for news about their loved ones. Tayra DeHart, 33, said she had last heard from her husband, a soldier at the post, that he was safe, but that was hours earlier. “The last two hours have been the most nerve-racking I’ve ever felt. I know God is here protecting me and all the soldiers, but I have my phone in my hand

just hoping it will ring and it will be my husband,” DeHart said. Brooke Conover, whose husband was on base at the time of the shooting, said she found out about it while checking Facebook. She said she called her husband, Staff Sgt. Sean Conover, immediately to make sure he was OK, but he could not even tell her exactly what was going on, only that the base was locked down. “I’m still hearing conflicting stories about what happened and where the shooting was exactly,” Conover said in a telephone interview, explaining that she still did not know how close the incident was to her husband. “I just want him to come home,” said Conover, who moved to Fort Hood with her husband and three daughters two years ago. President Barack Obama vowed that investigators would get to the bottom of the shooting. In a hastily arranged statement in Chicago, Obama said he was following the situation closely but that details about what

“When I write, I try to slow down my voice until I hear the inner voice until it comes through all of the noise in the world,” Glancy said. “I am very much a loner, and I sit in my room, and I begin writing. I think to the past and my ancestors who I should be carrying.” Glancy focuses on Native American issues and telling the stories of the people. She said she thinks about her native heritage and the native women she writes about

who came before her. “I think of my grandmother, who didn’t have a chance to do what I am doing and to express herself and know her voice,” Glancy said. “I think about all of the native women who I write about.” She read pieces of first-person narrative, poetry and nonfiction works. Glancy said she finds picking only a few things to read to be difficult. “I think these chapters are like my own grandchildren, each of them wanting to speak,” she said. “It is interesting to see

people write about the things we are studying now,” said Connor Gallagher, a senior criminology student. “I like that she related everything to modern time and related it back to traditional lifestyles of Native Americans.” Gallagher said he attended the event as a part of a class but enjoyed the different elements Glancy tied into her writing and the reading. For more information about Glancy and her works, visit http://dianeglancy.com.

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ing as the top executive, President-elect Nyden said he was happy with what he has seen so far. “We’re really starting to think about how we are going to work toward common goals,” Nyden said. “It’s similar to what President Gee has brought to the University administration in saying that we’re one University and we all need to work toward a sim-

ilar cause in supporting students.” Nyden said he thought BOG members were not holding on to election grudges. “I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far, and I think people do understand that now is the time to put aside any differences and work together,” he said. Nyden said his administration is currently in the

process of finding executives and encourages all those interested in being student leaders to apply. He said SGA has already received about 20 applications and will continue to interview candidates until April 15. Nyden said one of the biggest tasks currently in front of him is formulating next fiscal year’s budget. “Right now, I’m work-

ing with the prior CFO and treasurer on a framework, as well as looking at the prior administration’s budget,” he said. “Obviously we have a lot of work to do, and a lot of it will get done over the next few weeks.” SGA holds regular meetings in Hatfields B Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday-Thursday, because their weekends are Friday and Saturday,” he said. “We will be going on weekend excursions to learn more about the culture.” Amos said he has a lot of Arab friends, which is why he became interested in language and is most looking forward to experiencing the culture. “I’m really sensitive to the environment when I travel, and I’m really interested in what I’m going to experience in the atmosphere of that region,”

he said. “I can’t wait to be immersed in the reality of what the Arab culture looks like.” McCleery, a senior international studies and Chinese studies student, lived in China for three years with her family, and when she moved back to the United States, she said she regretted not learning more of the language and made a promise to return to China. “This is my last opportunity to be completely immersed in the Chinese culture 24/7 and not have

to worry about my classes or other school work,” McCleery said. Morgan, a junior biology and Chinese studies student, has traveled to China twice before and said she wants to take every opportunity given while she is in China this summer and explore. “In the past when I have been in China, I never went on the excursions that were planned to leave the city,” Morgan said. “This year, I want to get out and eat all the food and see all the

sights.” Morgan, like the other scholarship winners, said she encourages every student who is interested to apply for the program. “It takes a lot of time to contact people for the application, so start early,” she said. “I encourage students to make sure to draw on personal experience and make your application as unique as possible.” To learn more information about CLS, visit http://clscholarship.org.

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Participants can register on the day of the event. For more information on the Autism Awareness month, email wvuaporun@gmail.com or president.lambdaomicron@ gmail.com. Donations are also being accepted all year for Alpha Phi Omega’s fundraising efforts.

role as a way to facilitate opportunities. Scott said the fact that although board is split between tickets, this does not mean there will be any issues in working toward a common goal of supporting students. Attending his first meet-

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they will be studying in for two months, all room and board costs, and weekend excursions that the host country will plan. Amos, a second-year graduate student teaching English as a second language, said he is excited about being able to travel around the country. “For the two months, I will be in language training for six hours a day

happened at the sprawling Army post were still fluid. He said the shooting brought back painful memories of the 2009 attack. Obama reflected on the sacrifices that troops stationed at Fort Hood have made – including enduring multiple tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. “They serve with valor. They serve with distinction, and when they’re at their home base, they need to feel safe,” Obama said. “We don’t yet know what happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again.” The president spoke without notes or prepared remarks in the same room of a steakhouse where he had just met with about 25 donors at a previously scheduled fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. White House officials quickly pushed tables to the side of the room to make room for Obama to speak to the nation. The November 2009 attack happened inside a crowded building where soldiers were waiting to get

vaccines and routine paperwork after recently returning from deployments or preparing to go to Afghanistan and Iraq. Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death last year in that mass shooting. He said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggression. According to testimony during Hasan’s trial last August, Hasan walked inside carrying two weapons and several loaded magazines, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” – Arabic for “God is great!” – and opened fire with a handgun. Witnesses said he targeted soldiers as he walked through the building, leaving pools of blood, spent casings and dying soldiers on the floor. Photos of the scene were shown to the 13 officers on the military jury. The rampage ended when Hasan was shot in the back by Fort Hood police officers outside the building. He was paralyzed from the waist down and is now on death row at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

After that shooting, the military tightened security at bases nationwide. Those measures included issuing security personnel longbarreled weapons, adding an insider-attack scenario to their training and strengthening ties to local law enforcement, according to Peter Daly, a vice admiral who retired from the Navy in 2011. The military also joined an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying terror threats. In September, a former Navy man opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard, leaving 13 people dead, including the gunman. After that shooting, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the Pentagon to review security at all U.S. defense installations worldwide and examine the granting of security clearances that allow access to them. Asked Wednesday about security improvements in the wake of other shootings at U.S. military bases, Hagel said, “Obviously when we have these kinds of tragedies on our bases, something’s not working.”

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Members of the ONAI (Organization for Native American Interests) singers perform a welcoming song Wednesday evening.

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Texas appeals halt of executions over drug secrecy HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday halted two executions in Texas, declaring that the state’s prison system must disclose to defense attorneys more information about the supplier of a new batch of lethal-injection drugs. U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore issued a temporary injunction halting the executions of Tommy Lynn Sells, a convicted serial killer who was set to die Thursday, and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, another inmate scheduled to be put to death next week. Texas officials have insisted the identity of the drug supplier must be kept secret to protect the company from threats of violence and that the stock of the sedative pentobarbital falls within the acceptable ranges of potency. Defense attorneys say they must have the name of the supplier so they can verify the quality of the drug and spare condemned

inmates from unconstitutional pain and suffering. Gilmore ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide defense attorneys with details about the supplier and how the drug was tested. Lawyers for the state appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, saying the arguments from the inmates’ attorneys “are nothing more than a calculated attempt to postpone their executions.” Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected similar arguments about execution secrecy in a Missouri case, and the condemned prisoner was put to death. Gilmore’s ruling “honors the importance of transparency in the execution process,” said Maurie Levin, an attorney for the inmates. “And the order makes it clear this last-minute litigation and stays of execution would not be necessary if (the prison agency) had not ignored the rule of law and

tried to shield this information from the public and the light of day.” Texas prisons spokesman Robert Hurst said the agency had no comment because the matter was still in court. Since obtaining a new supply of pentobarbital two weeks ago, the Department of Criminal Justice had cited unspecified security concerns in refusing to disclose the source and other details about the drug. “As a result, the state’s secrecy regarding the product to be used for lethal injection has precluded (the inmates and their attorneys) from evaluating or challenging the constitutionality of the method of execution,” Gilmore wrote in a five-page opinion. Questions about the source of drugs have arisen in several states in recent months as numerous drugmakers – particularly in Europe, where opposition to capital punishment is strongest – have refused

to sell their products if they will be used in executions. That has led several state prison systems to compounding pharmacies, which are not as heavily regulated by the Food and Drug Administration as more conventional pharmacies. A batch of pentobarbital Texas purchased from a compounding pharmacy in suburban Houston expired at the end of March. The pharmacy refused to sell the state any more drugs, citing threats it received after its name was made public. That led Texas to its new, undisclosed suppler. The inmates “are entitled to discover how the state plans to put them to death,” said Levin and Jonathan Ross, another attorney in the case. Levin filed an open-records request on March 11 seeking the name of the supplier from the Department of Criminal Justice. Last week, defense at-

torneys won an order from a state court that directed prison officials to identify the new provider of pentobarbital, but only to them. The Texas Supreme Court put that order on hold on Friday and set a deadline for briefs to arrive after Sells and Hernandez-Llanas’ scheduled execution dates. The defense turned next to the federal courts, which resulted in Wednesday’s ruling. Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor, said Gilmore’s decision showed courts “are skeptical of explanations” offered by prison agencies. “I think Texas always draws attention,” Denno said, explaining that the state accounts for a third of all executions and has typically resisted oversight of its execution methods. Texas appeared to be attempting to match efforts of other states to keep execution details secret, she said. “They don’t seem to be

operating in a vacuum,” she said. In three previous opinions, the attorney general’s office has directed the Texas prison agency to release records about its lethal injection drugs. Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Greg Abbott, said the office had 45 business days to reply. Sells, 49, was convicted of killing a 13-year-old South Texas girl asleep at her home in 1999. Kaylene Harris was stabbed nearly two dozen times and had her throat slashed. A 10-year-old friend also was attacked but survived. Sells confessed to the slaying and has been tied to more than 20 others around the nation. He has claimed responsibility for as many as 70 murders. Hernandez-Llanas, 44, a Mexican national, was convicted of killing a Kerrvillearea rancher, Glen Lich, 48, who had employed him.

DC mayoral nominee can’t breeze to victory WASHINGTON (AP) — Muriel Bowser’s decisive victory in the District of Columbia’s Democratic mayoral primary makes her the presumptive favorite to become the city’s eighth mayor, but she can’t expect to breeze through the general election like Democratic nominees have in four decades of mayoral elections. Bowser, a D.C. councilmember, defeated incumbent Mayor Vincent Gray in Tuesday’s primary, appealing to voters weary of the scandals surrounding Gray’s 2010 campaign, which is under federal investigation. Bowser, who is black, now looks ahead to the general election in November and faces independent Councilmember David Catania. He is white, openly gay and a former Republican – all of which would be firsts for a mayor of Washington. Still, it could be the city’s closest general election race since 1994, when Marion Barry won a fourth term following a stint in federal prison after he was caught smoking crack cocaine. Bowser lined up support Wednesday from local and national Democrats. Vice President Joe Biden called to congratulate her, and

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama was hopeful she would prevail. “We take no voters for granted. We have an election in November. We’re going to be ready for it,” Bowser said. Bowser, 41, is a protege of former mayor Adrian Fenty, who lost to Gray in 2010 after a single, hardcharging term during which he overhauled the school system but alienated many African-American residents. Five people involved with Gray’s campaign have pleaded guilty to felonies, and while the mayor has not been charged, prosecutors said he knew about an illegal slush fund that helped him get elected. Before her election to Fenty’s old council seat in 2007, Bowser worked for the local government in suburban Montgomery County, Md., and as an elected neighborhood commissioner. Her most significant legislative accomplishment is the creation of an ethics board with the power to punish elected officials. The board has since found wrongdoing by three members of the 13-person council. Critics say Bowser’s legislative record is thin, and

she has a reputation as a cautious lawmaker who doesn’t take positions on contentious bills until it’s clear they have majority support. One recent example was a bill decriminalizing marijuana, which she ultimately voted for. “For a lot of people, they don’t really know that, if she were the mayor and had to make hard choices, what those choices would be,” said David Alpert, editor-in-chief of Greater Greater Washington, a liberal blog. Catania, 46, says his record stacks up favorably against hers. He has championed progressive causes since leaving the GOP in 2004, including gay marriage, medical marijuana and universal health coverage. But veteran political watchers say Bowser will be tough to beat. “Catania would have to show his ability to attract Democrats and African-American voters in significant numbers to be competitive,” said Ron Faucheux of Clarus Research Group, a longtime Washington-based pollster. “I haven’t seen evidence of that.” The district is 50 percent black, down from 66 percent in 1990, but longtime black residents maintain

Washington Democratic Mayoral nominee Muriel Bowser smiles as she discusses her primary victory during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. Councilmember Bowser defeated Mayor Vincent Gray in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, leaving Gray to serve nine months as a lame duck with potential criminal charges hanging over his head. significant political power. White residents tend to be younger and less rooted in the city. Turnout for the mayoral primary was among the lowest in the city’s history. With absentee and provisional ballots yet to be counted, Bowser received 35,899 votes, which translates to support from 11 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of registered voters.

As Catania sees it, that leaves more than enough votes for him. “I don’t think the political establishment in this city has ever really offered the residents a chance for a substantive dialogue,” he said. “Whoever wins in the primary, everybody jumps on the bandwagon.” The city has 337,000 registered Democrats – three out of four registered vot-

ers. Independents are the second-largest voting bloc at 76,000. Tara Wang, a stay-athome mother and a registered independent, said she felt alienated because she couldn’t vote in the decisive 2010 primary. She plans to vote this year and is undecided. “I’m much more interested in this than usual,” she said. “It’s kind of exciting.”

Big donors may give even more under court’s ruling WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling Wednesday erasing a longstanding limit on campaign donations will allow a small number of very wealthy donors to give even more than is currently the case, according to students of the complex campaign finance system, and could strengthen the establishment in both parties. While Republicans cheered the ruling on philosophical grounds and Democrats criticized it, there was a general agreement that the decision itself was unlikely to benefit one party over another. “This is not a decision that advantages one party over the other. It advantages wealthy people over everybody else,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. On a 5-4 ruling, the court struck down a limitation on the amount any donor may give to candidates, committees and political action committees combined. Only 646 out of millions of donors in the election cycle of 2011-2012 gave the nowdefunct legal maximum, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. For the current election cycle, the

limit is $123,200, broken down as $48,600 to all candidates combined and $74,600 to all party committees and political action committees in total. The ruling will “mean there will be much greater emphasis by the campaigns and the parties on those donors with the biggest checkbooks who can make those very large contributions,” said Bob Biersack, who works for the CRP and is a 30-year veteran of the Federal Election Commission. “Whether that’s good or bad depends on your perspective on how this whole system should work, but it absolutely means that the small number of people who can give at those levels” will be asked to give more, he added. The ruling leaves unchanged a parallel system in which individuals donate unlimited amounts, sometimes undisclosed, to certain outside groups. Biersack said the same small group of 646 donors gave a total of about $93.4 million in the last campaign. Their largesse will still be avidly sought, as Republican presidential hopefuls recently demonstrated by trav-

elling to Las Vegas to meet with casino magnate and conservative donor Sheldon Adelson. In the realm of limited donations, Cleta Mitchell, an election lawyer for Republicans, said the court’s ruling means that various party committees and candidates no longer will have to vie for money from the same contributors. The law permits a donor to contribute $5,200 for the primary and general election combined to any candidate, and if they did so, could donate only to nine office-seekers before reaching the $48,600 limit to all federal office-seekers. Similarly, while Republicans and Democrats in Washington each maintain a national party committee, a Senate campaign committee and a House campaign committee, a donor could give the maximum allowable amount to only two of the three without violating the overall limitation the court discarded. Now, Mitchell said, “the donors get to choose obviously, but the committees don’t have to feel like they’re pinching another party’s donors.” In all, she described the

ruling as “a positive for the parties.” The court’s ruling also means that donors will be able to give $10,000 a year to as many state party committees as they want, so-called joint committees, in which a lawmaker can now solicit funds simultaneously for their own campaign, their own political action committee, their party and for an unlimited number of other candidates without donors exceeding the old limits. Biersack cited House Speaker John Boehner’s fundraising efforts as an example, said he would now be able to use a joint fundraising committee for hundreds of Republican House candidates simultaneously, greatly expanding their ability to receive funds. In theory, this ability could once more allow parties and their leaders to assert more discipline over rank-and-file lawmakers, who have become increasingly beholden to outside groups in recent years. Ryan Call, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and a campaign finance attorney, said the court’s ruling will be a boon to state parties,

which he said have been neglected previously because donors hit the overall spending limit before they could distribute funds lower on the political food chain. “We have lots of optimism that this new decision would enable people who want to support us to do so,” he said. Under the court’s ruling, a donor could donate the maximum $10,000 a year to each of their party’s 50 state committees, or a total of $1 million – and still donate to candidates as well as national party committees and political action committees. Matt Canter, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, called the ruling a “win for national party committees” and said it will “greatly enhance our ability to raise resources to support our voter contact and field program ... in states across the country.” He referred to a new field project to boost turnout in certain states with key Senate races this year. While there was general agreement about the shortterm impact of the ruling, there was a strong divergence of opinion on the wisdom of the court’s conservative ma-

jority. The case was the latest in which the justices found that many limits on contributions violate the givers’ constitutional free-speech rights. Republicans who backed the suit challenging the overall limits cheered the ruling. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who filed a brief in support of the challenge, said the court “has once again reminded Congress that Americans have a constitutional First Amendment right to speak and associate with political candidates and parties of their choice.” He added that court’s ruling makes it clear that it is the “right of the individual, and not the prerogative of Congress, to determine how many candidates and parties to support.” Democrats said the ruling must be viewed in the context of earlier ones that they said strengthened the power of the wealthy. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a former state attorney general, criticized the court’s majority in unusually sharp terms, saying the majority seems interested in “aligning political power in this country with political wealthy.”

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The Supreme Court handed down its most significant ruling on campaign finance Wednesday since it first ruled on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010. In the 5-4 ruling on McCutcheon v. FEC, the court effectively eliminated restrictions on overall limits on campaign contributions. The limit of $5,200 from an individual to any one candidate is still in place, but the ruling removes the limit of $123,200 which any one person is permitted to give in total.

Although the majority of Americans aren’t wealthy enough to be personally affected by the Court’s decision, it contains grave implications for every citizen. This latest development in campaign finance “regulation” is yet another way for the wealthiest people in the country to influence elections, choose our leaders and disenfranchise voters. The court’s ruling in Citizens United established an elaborate series of loopholes through which the wealthy individuals who

control corporations could funnel unlimited money into elections. Wednesday’s ruling goes even further – essentially cutting out the middleman and creating a more direct way for the wealthiest American’s to exert influence over the political process. Our political system – and subsequently our democracy – is being eroded one ruling at a time by a Court which clearly values the rights of the few over the needs of the many. Justice Stephen Breyer, in his dissenting opinion, said

the ruling will cause “huge loopholes in the law; and that undermines, perhaps devastates, what remains of campaign finance reform.” Originally, the United States was a republic. Each person, on the merit of his or her citizenship, was ensured an equal vote, an equal voice. Sadly, this is no longer the case. With its most recent ruling, the Supreme Court effectively hammered the last nail in the coffin of American democracy. daperprectives@mail.wvu.edu

Growing up in the steroid era: testimonies from youth athletes on PEDs Gregory John Vitale TUFFS UNIVERSITY

Eight years ago at my high school, I saw performance-enhancing drugs for the first time. I saw the vial fall to the locker room floor before baseball practice one day. It landed on its owner’s backpack which sat at his feet. I didn’t see the name of the substance and I will not reveal the owner’s name, but if you told me that I was the only one to see it, I wouldn’t be surprised. However, there is no way I was the only one who knew he was a user. He picked up the vial and nonchalantly placed it back in his locker and that was that. As far as I know, he was never approached about his sudden improvement on the field or his physical transformation from a chubby freshman to a gargantuan senior. Today, the picture of what it was to grow up as an athlete in the steroid era is becoming clear. The “steroid era” is the name given to the period from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s when steroids and other PEDs were widely used in Major League Baseball (MLB). PEDs include steroids as well as any other substance that increases performance, including but not limited to human-growth hormone and creatine. Although baseball led the way in usage, other sports were far from innocent bystanders. Younger and younger athletes began taking these substances to gain an advantage on the field and to keep up with others that were doing the same. “PEDs have been popping up in almost every sport, even ones you wouldn’t expect: golf, tennis, you name it,” said Tufts University Director of Sports Medicine Nick Mitropolous. Although Mitropolous recalled that Tufts hasn’t had an illegal substance case in quite a while, he insists it’s because users are getting smarter about which, when, and how much they use, not because they have stopped. Even though college and high school athletes are not currently making “a lot of money,” taking illegal substances is “a risk they’re willing to take” because it gives them an edge over their competitors, makes them better players, and gains the attention of scouts at the next level. This “risk,” however, may not be all that risky. According to many prior and current sports administration personnel (including Mitropolous himself ), testing for illegal substances is not a serious threat to users. “Have you ever heard of someone getting caught using steroids in high school sports?” said Kevin*, a 25-year-old former high school and college baseball pitcher who used PEDs in college. “College sports even? Neither had I. It’s an easy and naive rationalization but apparently a good enough one for some kids.” Most colleges are required to test their players only if they qualify for NCAA

tournaments and when collegiate athletes are tested, they are often told well in advance the date it will happen. This gives them ample time to “flush” their body by drinking large amounts of water or by using other methods of cleansing. “As soon as I started practices and workouts [at college] the older guys on the team were asking us new guys if they needed steroids,” recalled Chris*, a 22-year-old former college infielder. “I was pretty shocked at how easily they could be acquired. I knew seven guys on my team who used for sure, but being an NAIA [National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics] school, the drug testing consisted of two not-so-random drugs tests per year. The date of the test was always announced and not once was a known user tested.” At his college, 21-year-old offensive lineman Patrick* learned that budget cuts would prevent his school from running any more drug tests for that semester, so he said “Why not?” Patrick is no longer a user, however. “I stopped during the summer between my sophomore and junior year because I started to feel intense pain in my abdomen and it was obviously from the stuff I was taking,” Patrick said. “If it weren’t for the pain, I would probably still be doing them.” At Tufts, Mitropolous made it clear that tests are only run if there is ample suspicion of use. Unless there is a telling injury or a witness comes forward, testing on the athletes is not done regularly. It seems, then, that the only real deterrent is the negative side-effects on health and the unfair advantage over non-users. And let’s face it: if you are considering PEDs, the latter is not going to stop you. As a matter of fact, that is the main reason to do them in the first place. But for a young athlete, the former should give pause. Shouldn’t it? “Perhaps the only area where there is no doubt or controversy is when it comes to young people: these drugs, especially anabolic steroids, are unanimously considered harmful to the young,” wrote Caroline K. Hatton, Ph. D, the former Associate Director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, in her 2008 book Night Team. Sadly, statements such as Dr. Hatton’s fall on the deaf ears of thousands of young athletes who have seen their heroes ascend to legends with PEDs as their catalyst. 2012 MLB All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Melky Cabrera was suspended for the remainder of the San Francisco Giants’ World Series-winning year when he tested positive halfway through the season. Cyclist Lance Armstrong was implicated in leading a PED ring and was consequently stripped of his seven Tour de France wins. And it was no surprise to haters and fans alike when New York Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez’s name came up on a known supplier’s clientele list. There is

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no hiding that stardom has a profound effect on the decisions of young people, especially when those decisions have to be made in the environment of anticipated success. “I was considering PEDs because I could’ve easily gotten away with it,” Kevin said. “It would’ve helped my lifelong dream of playing professionally.” For all of us growing up in the height of the “steroid era,” it was a decision we had to make: to dabble or not to dabble. The choice was always within arm’s reach, but the hand it was reaching for comes in many shapes and sizes. While Kevin approached one of his high school coaches during his senior year of high school about PEDs, Rogers was being approached by upperclassmen at his college. Patrick, however, told me he got all the information he needed to start, as well as the drugs themselves, online. “I literally just went on the internet and Googled ‘legal steroids’ and sure enough there was a website called legalsteroids.com run by a company out of Lake Worth, Florida called SDILabs,” Patrick said. “They had discrete shipping so I just told my mom I was ordering some protein powder. They’re not hard to come by.” The PED phenomenon is not new by any means, but the movement toward synthetic performance-enhancers is a generational concern. Because there is such immense pressure on these young athletes and the substances are easily attainable, their widespread use should not come as a surprise. Just a couple years ago, a Wisconsin high school reported that ten players on its football team had ingested a banned substance and were

subsequently suspended for the first three games of the 2012 season. The substance, called Synephrine, was contained in an over-the-counter Creatine Nitrate product called C4 Extreme. The athletes claimed ignorance, but Eric Holden, a contributor for Yahoo! Sports, hit the nail on the head: “Any athlete who grew up in the 1990s and early2000s knows the word “creatine” is synonymous with former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGuire, who used a combo of creatine and andro to bulk up into a home run slugger. That may be the first tipoff that C4 Extreme was a performance-enhancer.” Granted, a certain amount of hard work still has to go into day-to-day activities and getting big in the weight room does not guarantee success on the playing field, but as Patrick pointed out, “If nothing else, I certainly felt like I had an advantage over the other guys out there.” The problem of PEDs is a many-faceted issue. Some talk of legalizing PEDs in sports and such a proposal raises many controversial questions about competition, health, and even morals. Such a world leaves the door open to change sport from a competitive event between athletes into a pharmaceutical rat race. Who can produce the cheapest drug with the most potent effect? The health consequences alone would shorten the lives of any athlete who submerged themselves wholeheartedly. It would spell the end of sport as we know it. If the “steroid era” has taught us anything, it is that penalties must be enforced and potential consumers need as much incentive as possible not to partake in the craze. I call it a craze because we live in a world ob-

sessed with immediate gratification and excess. If there is a quicker way to elevate your performance, you’ll take that opportunity head on. “If you take anyone who has a talent and you tell them you can enhance that talent to make a lot of money, more often than not, that’s a risk they’re willing to take,” Mitropolous said. “It’s never going away.” This is not to say every athlete, and especially those who are successful, have taken PEDs. There are a number of players from the “steroid era” who managed to stay clean and perform well. There is even more hope in our youth than statistics or writers like myself may have you believe. I never took steroids. That’s not to say I was never around it ... as early as that moment my freshman year in the locker room and as late as when I conducted interviews for this piece. Patrick gave me the rest of his pills after we talked. The two bottles were still about half-full when he handed them to me. According to their website, the 60-capsule bottle of Dbol is the “most powerful mass building oral on the market!” and the Winni-V pills will “add quality muscle mass and increase stamina!” Together they will set you back $159.90 plus shipping. I wasn’t expecting to ever hold steroids. Yes, they are perfectly legal for the common man, but for those of us who saw nothing but their tainted image on SportsCenter and the sports pages of newspapers, they might as well have been heroin capsules. I took them home and curiously opened the bottle. I made a joke to my dad that we should take them, and, within the same breath, threw them in the garbage

can. My generation was on the cusp, just when the shit was hitting the fan in Major League Baseball. We saw McGuire and Sammy Sosa go at it, Roger Clemens pitch into his 40s and acts of sheer strength. We also witnessed the downfall of these moments: when it came out that our favorite players, those we looked up to, were cheaters. Our sources have shown that it was common for PEDs to be introduced at the high school level, but our sources are now graduating college. There is a new wave of youth athletes who are faced with this question. This generation plays in the wake of it all. My cousin Anthony is part of this generation. He is in high school. He tells me there are really no talks circling around his baseball team’s locker room regarding steroids. Maybe we are seeing a change in the winds. After all, at this point we are beyond the period where athletes can take them innocently. They know the history and know they cannot live outside of it. I feel confident the youth of today understand not only the moral implications of using, but also the very real health concerns at stake. Where we have taken sports is not a good direction. The pressure is unrelenting on the youth athletes. The multimillion dollar salaries we throw at players only furthers to keep this problem alive. Steroids were a shortcut for players to improve faster and perform better, but it was also a way to ensure they were not kicked to the curb. It’s the fear of failure. This is why Mitropolous believes they will never go away. Because we have seen they are so easy to get, it is truly up to the individual which road to take .

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Mustafa Ahmad, left, a 19-year-old who lost his leg in his hometown of Deir Hafer in Aleppo province in November 2011 when government warplanes bombed his neighborhood, is fitted with a prosthetic leg by a Lebanese prosthetic limb maker, right, at the Syrian refugee camp in Jib Janine, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon. Syria’s civil war, which entered its fourth year last month, has killed more than 150,000 people. An often overlooked figure is the number of wounded more than 500,000, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. An untold number of those, there’s no reliable estimate even, have suffered traumatic injuries that have left them physically handicapped. JIB JANINE, Lebanon (AP) — Grimacing, Mustafa Ahmad slid the scarred stump just below his right knee into his new prosthetic leg. Extending his arms for balance, he slowly rose and hobbled across the packed dirt floor toward the door of his ramshackle tent. Wild-haired children peered through a gap in the plastic sheet that serves as the wall of his tent, trying to catch a glimpse of the procedure that finally fitted Ahmad with a prosthesis, more than

two years after losing his leg during a bombing raid on his hometown in northern Syria. “I feel like I want to take a long walk, to go see my friends and neighbors,” he said later, his forehead glistening with perspiration. “I feel like my leg is back. I feel normal, like I’m back the way I was.” Syria’s civil war, which entered its fourth year last month, has killed more than 150,000 people, but an often overlooked figure is the number of wounded: more than

500,000, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. An untold number of those – there’s no reliable estimate – suffered traumatic injuries that have left them physically handicapped. Syria’s conflict is not unique in this regard. All wars maim and kill. What varies is the weapon associated with the carnage. In Cambodia, it was land mines. In Iraq, roadside bombs and suicide bombings. In Syria’s case, the culprit is largely artillery and airstrikes.

It was shrapnel from a government airstrike in November 2011 on the town of Deif Hafer in Aleppo province that tore off part of Ahmad’s leg. “When I first woke up in the hospital, I felt pain and I knew my leg was gone,” said the shy 19-year-old with a mop of dark hair. “I felt that I was done. I could no longer walk or work or go out. It was me and my bed. I lost all hope.” With few options in Syria, Ahmad initially relied on crutches to get around. He and his father later cobbled together a homemade prosthesis out of plastic and socks. He used it for six months before tossing it aside. “It wasn’t very comfortable,” he said. “It hurt my leg, and it was short so I limped when I walked.” As violence ravaged northern Syria in early 2013, Ahmad, his parents and 11 siblings left Deir Hafer for Lebanon. They now live at the edge of a plowed field in a cluster of flimsy shelters hammered together out of wood, nails and plastic sheeting outside the town of Jib Janine in the Bekaa Valley. He received his new prosthetic leg from Handicap International, a non-governmental organization that, among other things, helps Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan who have lost limbs in the war. “The hardest thing in the past two years was feeling that I didn’t have anyone. It was over for me, I felt that I was done. I was thinking I’d

never get a leg and would never be able to walk again,” he said. “Now that I got the leg, I can get a job, go and come as I please, see my friends.” Once outside the tent, Ahmad slowly limped down a dirt path running along a small ditch. Old men and women observed quietly from their tents. Children scampered across the dusty earth to catch his every move. The amount of time needed to adjust to a new limb varies, said Henri Bonnin, a field director for Handicap International. Older adults generally struggle more than young people, as do amputees who lose their leg above the knee. Another determining factor is the quality of the original surgery, which varies widely in a conflict like Syria’s where many amputations take place in a field hospital or makeshift clinic. “These are emergency amputations, so it’s not an orthopedic surgeon, it’s a general surgeon or a dentist who is performing this,” Bonnin said. “It’s done in a severe emergency to save a patient’s life.” Under such conditions, many doctors cut the bone straight across, not at an angle as they should to create a better stump, he said. If the stump is flat instead of cylindrical, patients need a second or third surgery – a painful procedure – to correct the problem and allow for a prosthesis. The physical toll is gruel-

ing and apparent to all. But just as difficult for many Syrians is the psychological side of losing a limb. That has been the case for 34-year-old Reem Diab. On Oct. 25, 2012, a shell slammed into her house in the town of Khan Sheikoun in central Syria, killing her husband, Mustafa, and her 15-year-old daughter, Batoul. For months afterward, Diab was an emotional wreck. Her hair was falling out. Simple tasks proved overwhelming. But what also haunted her, she said, was the fear that her surviving daughter and two sons would be terrified of their mother and the stump that ended just below her right hip. She refused to see them, and sent them to live with their uncle and grandmother instead. “Psychologically, I was not welcoming of anyone, not even my children,” Diab said. “I did not want them to see me in this situation and not be able to cope with it.” She came to Lebanon two months after her amputation, and was fitted with a prosthetic leg in April 2013. A physiotherapist and psychosocial worker from Handicap International visited her for more than a dozen sessions to help with her physical and mental rehabilitation. She slowly adjusted to the prosthesis, although it’s been difficult. “It’s not like your actual leg,” she said. “It feels like a strange object. There’s no balance.”

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The West Virginia University Outdoor Education Center is opening its zip canopy tour this weekend. Tours are conducted throughout the Coopers Rock State Forest and are open to WVU and the Morgantown community. Coy Belknap, the program’s coordinator, said they have had great success since the opening of the zip canopy tour last year. “Since our opening last April, we’ve had over 1,100 people participate in our zip canopy tour,” Belknap said. “Whether it’s going across our sky bridge, zip-

ping at over 25 miles per hour, rappelling down a 40-foot tree or simply receiving information about the area, participants really seem receptive to the experience.” The canopy tours are operated through the Adventure West Virginia Outdoor Education Center and were built in collaboration with the WVU Division of Forestry and Natural Resources. Adventure WV operates the zip tours as an educational tool for the area, as they are used to train practitioners, host researchers and provide fun for the WVU community. Belknap said this canopy tour is one of many in the state, and the numbers are

growing. “Zip canopy tours are becoming a very popular activity within the region,” Belknap said. “In addition to our operation, zip canopy tours can be found in southern West Virginia, the Eastern and Northern panhandles and the surrounding states. There are probably 15 or more operations within a 3-5 hour drive from Morgantown.” Belknap also said each canopy tour has a different theme, and the one in Coopers Rock State Forest is geared towards fun and education as the tour goes through the WVU Research Forest. The tours are set up to accommodate groups, and Belknap said participants

can expect a good time soaring through the forest. “People can anticipate a fun, safe and accessible activity this weekend,” Belknap said. “Everyone is encouraged to bring a friend. We provide something different and exciting for the WVU community – something that can’t be found downtown. “It’s not everyday people are given the opportunity to zip between trees at over 25 miles per hour with their friends.” Adding on to the education, Belknap said a physics aspect has been added to the tours. Ryan Stocking, the instructional coordinator for the WVU Research Corporation, developed “Science Behind the Sport,”

which is a way for zip-liners to get their knowledge on while zipping. “Stocking has helped develop a physics curriculum that allows participants to calculate their maximum speed before they zip,” Belknap said. “This initiative allows participants to learn the physics behind zip-lining and what factors (into) their speed.” Zip-liners will be given a GPS to see how close they are to their pre-zip calculations. “The mission of Adventure West Virginia is to provide recreational activities for students that help facilitate community and learning,” Belknap said. “We’re dedicated to our student-centered learning

approach and want people to have fun. “The zip canopy tour allows our program to provide another resource for students that promotes a healthy sense of community and fun.” To learn more about the tour or reserve a time slot, visit http://adventurechallenge.wvu.edu/canopytour. Private and individual tours can be booked in advance. Multiple tour times are available each weekend, and students receive a 40 percent discount when they register. Students are $30, faculty and staff are $40, and the general public is $50 per person.

Roseland Ballroom in NYC closes doors, plans final shows

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The historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City is finally closing its doors after 95 years of serving the local music scene. Founded in 1917 in Philadelphia, Roseland ultimately found its home in NYC in 1919. The move was to avoid blue laws active at the time that prevented the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Louis Brecker, thefounder and operator of Roseland, took a simple carriage factory on Broadway and 51st Street and turned it into a world-renowned music venue. Roseland remained at that address for 37 years, but the building was demolished and moved to West 52nd Street in 1956. Becker continued to manage Roseland until 1977 when his daughter, Nancy Brecker Leeds, took over after his passing. The modern Roseland we all know and love really came about in 1981 when Brecker Leeds sold it to Albert Ginsberg. It was during this era the nightclub scene breathed a new life into the 3,200-person capacity club. In the early days, the likes of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald found their home here. In most recent years, the venue has been used for a wide host of events, not just for musicians. Hillary Clinton celebrated her 53rd birthday at Roseland. The venue was rented out for gay circuit parties, charity events and of course, the best and brightest of today’s pop stars. Roseland was also the home of many controversies. Madonna, known for her outrageous concerts and tours, invited fans for a one-time-only, non-ticketed concert at Roseland.

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The Roseland Ballroom, pictured above, has been a popular venue in New York City since 1919. Fans were reportedly in line for days outside of the venue. They were enraged to know they wasted so much time for a show that only lasted 30 minutes. For many, Roseland is the heart and lifeblood of the NYC music scene. “It’s going to be a sad day, that’s for sure,” said Lisa Pinney-Keusch, Roseland’s special events director from 1995-2004 to the Columbia Spectator. “The venue is one of the last of a dying breed. It’s too bad. It’s just an incredible place with so much history.” But have no fear, music lovers. Roseland is going out with style. Lady Gaga was invited in October to be the closing act for a residency of seven performances. Lady Gaga, just having released her third official single “G.U.Y.” from “ARTPOP,” definitely made a smart move in accepting the invitation to perform. Tickets for her Roseland show are $326.15, according to Forbes. Lorde, who just recently performed at Roseland, had an average ticket price of $222.59. For many little monsters, Lady Gaga’s Roseland residency is a chance to

hopefully get a sneak peek at the singer’s upcoming tour, “Lady Gaga’s artRave: The ARTPOP Ball.” The tour, kicking off May 4 in Sunrise, Fla., is sure to be a good time. Unfortunately, some celebrity bloggers have been trying to declare Lady Gaga as being on the decline on her career – and for many diehard fans, this is a real fear. “Seeing her perform, all those fears are laid to rest,” said Jordan Runtagh in a review of her performance for VH1.com. “The energy that radiates out of her has not diminished in the least.” On Monday, we say goodbye to Roseland Ballroom. The love of music from the audience and a musician come together to make a sacred space. Though this space is coming to an end, the memories and relationships built upon this foundation will never be lost. And there is hope. As of now, there are no definite plans for what the location will be used for – possibly a Roseland Ballroom 2.0? We’ll see. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Gabriel Brother’s to open renovated store in Morgantown BY STEPHANIE MESSINGER A&E WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

What college students aren’t looking for the latest trends in fashion with affordable prices? With Gabriel Brothers’ newly renovated store in Morgantown, you’ll find exactly what you need after cleaning out those dorm room closets and get ready to step into some new clothes for the summer. Gabe’s, will be welcoming customers with their bright new color scheme, restrooms and much bigger layout to hold an even wider selection. The faster checkout will also be ideal for those who are in need of a quick shopping spree and don’t have time to be waiting in line at the checkout counter. The store will hold its grand opening Saturday at 8 a.m. The event will begin with a ribbon cutting ceremony and free breakfast while supplies last. The first 200 customers will also receive a free Gabe’s T-shirt, and there will be a live DJ for the celebration. Gabriel Brothers is a privately owned company

and is headquartered in Morgantown. Their renovations aren’t the only thing new about the store, though. Loyal shoppers have personally renamed the store Gabe’s, which both honors and respects the history of the chain. “The customers have called us Gabe’s for a long time,” said Shari Rudolph, vice president and chief marketing director of Gabe’s. “Loyal customers have paid respect with this new name by honoring history and heritage but also indicating an exciting future in progress.” “We have a wide variety of shoppers, including anyone who is looking for excellent value and a comprehensive assortment of products,” Rudolph said. “We have a unique relationship with our vendors that showcases what shoppers will discover with great brands from day to day.” Their products are also perfect for Morgantown’s college students, who are waiting to discover a treasure chest of affordable yet fashionable clothing.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Booze may be an oft-mentioned topic when Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are hosting the fourth hour of the “Today” show, but one alcoholic beverage they won’t be talking about is Gifford’s new wine line. In an interview Tuesday, Gifford said NBC has asked her not to plug her new Gifft chardonnay and red blend on the show.

“They let me announce it and then they’ve asked us to please not discuss it right now,” Gifford said. “We’re in the middle of the big takeover of a major corporation. I think they just want to be - and rightfully so - very careful. Everybody wants to dot i’s and cross t’s and you notice the wine is still sitting there but they’ve just asked me to be a little careful while they’re under great scrutiny and I’m happy to do

that.” A representative for “Today” said, “We love and support Kathie Lee and as always, we let her comments speak for themselves.” NBC’s owner, Comcast Corp., says it wants to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. If the deal is approved it would combine the nation’s two top cable companies and create a dominant force in both creating and delivering entertainment.

Gifford and Kotb talked about the wines on “Today” last month, but on Monday’s show, Gifford mentioned she would be making a number of personal appearances but said she couldn’t say what they were for. Gifford says her deal with the Scheid Family Wines of Monterey, Calif., to produce the wines “seems like a natural” fit given her love for wine and the presence of alcohol on the show -

Senator Ted Cruz begins work on new book regarding his personal life, ‘truth’ in Washington NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, is working on a project considered standard for national contenders: a book. Cruz’s literary agent, Keith Urbahn, said Wednesday that the tea party favorite had agreed to terms with HarperCollins. Urbahn declined to confirm a report in the Washington Examiner that the deal was worth $1.5 million. But he says the number is “close.” Cruz, 43, is expected to officially sign with HarperCollins over the next few weeks. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to share my story and to tell the truth about what’s happening in Washington,” Cruz told The Associated Press after giving a speech Wednesday at Liberty University in

Lynchburg, Va. “We’re having a national debate right now about the direction our country should go, and I am eager to participate in that debate through any medium possible. And a book can serve as an effective vehicle for conveying the positive hopeful optimistic vision for America that I believe together can turn this nation around.” Elected in 2012, Cruz quickly established himself as one of the most polarizing and talked-about senators, and several publishers bid for his book. Some other possible 2016 candidates have books scheduled for this year, including former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Paul Ryan, while Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rand Paul are among those who already have books out.

even though she says nobody really drinks that much. “That’s been outrageously satirized - the amount,” she says. “It sits there.” Gifford also says she was “stunned along with everybody else” about the news that Josh Elliott was leaving ABC’s “Good Morning America” for a job at NBC Sports, the second “GMA” personnel defection in four months.

Restoring “Today” to its former top spot in the mornings has been an NBC priority since “GMA” bested “Today” in the ratings two years ago. While Gifford and Kotb’s fourth hour continues to have strong ratings, Gifford acknowledged the ratings slide in the earlier “Today” hours, noting the show has been “making inroads” and adding: “Maybe we can reverse the trend now.”

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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson has been returned after being kidnapped from a Las Vegas-area show. Officials at the Westin Lake Las Vegas resort in Henderson say the critter, named Ol’ Dillo, vanished while audience members were greeting Nelson after a Monday night concert. Westin marketing direc-

tor Matt Boland says Nelson’s crew called in the middle of the night from the road, asking the resort to scour surveillance footage after the mascot went missing. Boland says he was outside the hotel Tuesday morning when an apologetic man drove up and handed him a shoebox and instructions to return it to Nelson. Boland says the armadillo was inside and has been sent to the singer in California.

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‘Frozen’ becomes highest-grossing animated film Noelle Harris A&E WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Disney’s “Frozen” recently became the highestgrossing animated film of all time and one of the top 10 highest-grossing films ever, beating out “Toy Story 3” and “The Lion King” after earning over $1 billion. The film is just unstoppable in the box office and popular among nearly all ages, but why? What about a Disney movie about two sisters has made it the topgrossing animated film of all time? In an industry that generates so much product not suitable for younger eyes, “Frozen” excelled because of its purity. It was a throwback to the classic Disney movies and captured the true Disney spirit. It tells an old-fashioned story, and although it bears little resemblance to the Hans Christian Andersen story it was originally based on, it appeals to the feelings that everyone has: love, loss and friendship. With the No.1 album on the Billboard chart, “Frozen” has captivated audience members even outside the theater. The songs are witty and catchy, and they have the star power vocalists to back them up. With an Oscar to her name, Idina Menzel provided the song that the movie is most known for. “Let It Go” has become one of the most popular Disney songs of all time. The whole soundtrack is full of Broadway-ready songs, giving a good head start to the stage musical that is in the works. What also makes “Fro-

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zen” so popular is its use of unconventional characters. It does not have the typical villain or sidekick. Structurally, the person that should be the villain is not the villain at all, but turns out to be a heroine. Elsa, who in the original fairy tale is an evil witch, is portrayed initially as closed off, but she overcomes her own setbacks with the help of her sister. Another important character in the film is Olaf. Witty, wise cracking sidekicks are basically a re-

quirement for kids’ movies nowadays. Instead of being the typical embarrassing sidekick to halt the storyline at some point, Olaf, voiced by Josh Gad, ultimately makes the movie heartwarming and charming. “Frozen” is both familiar and distant today. It speaks great lengths to the real life relationships people have with each other, but what helps set it apart from other Disney movies are its heroines. It is the first Disney

movie to have two princesses, and other than “Tangled” and “Brave,” is one of the only animated movies to address the complicated issues women have to face. Ultimately, “Frozen” is a tale of growing up and taking responsibility. It is at the top because it is real and approachable to fans of all ages. It is both innovative and old, and it will likely stay in its place for a long time. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Audiences loved Disney’s latest animated movie “Frozen,” but more than the movie, hundreds of amateur artists have covered the movie’s popular song “Let It Go.” Idina Menzel, known for her work on Broadway as Elphaba in “Wicked” and Maureen Johnson in “RENT,” was the voice behind lead character Elsa. Tired of hiding her magical ice-creating powers, Elsa sings of the high she feels from letting loose her true self. Like many other songs, people around the world have covered it, adding their own flavor to the original work composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. I’ve searched high and low on YouTube for the five best covers, and here they are: Coming in at No. 5 is a surprisingly great mashup between Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” and “Let It Go.” Known for their powerful acoustic versions of modern pop songs, ThePianoGuys give a breathtaking performance. Personally, I love finding a good karaoke version of songs to sing along with. With “Let It Go,” however, it’s sometimes hard to find a good version like this. They’re often poorly produced and include less than satisfying back-up vocals. If you’re looking for a version of the song to belt out, this is your version. The Piano Guys Next at No. 4 is a cover by Derek Govin, covering Demi Lovato’s version of the song. This song, though great for women, can be difficult to pull off for many men with lower voices. Govin does an exceptional job of blending together his lower register with a falsetto that pops in at the perfect times. The video, posted in mid-December, was the first for Govin’s YouTube channel. Derek Govin For lovers of close-knit harmonies like those in FOX’s “Glee,” No. 3 might be more your style. David Choi David Choi delivers a one-man, eight-part harmony performance. His video splices together

shots of his singing and playing the guitar. Choi has gathered a considerable following – so much so that he has released his own app in the iOS and Android App store. The “David Choi App” consists of mp3 copies of all the songs he has covered after the day you download, which for some users is more than 194 songs, and original voice messages he doesn’t post anywhere else. No. 2 is just as visually stunning as it is beautiful to our ears. Alex Boye This cover is set in an ice castle of sorts complete with one-of-a-kind costumes for the children’s choir. Does anyone else want to have that girl’s hair, or is it just me? Alex Boye teamed up with One Voice Children’s Choir to give audiences an “Africanized” version of the song. Lexi Walker stars as the lead vocalist with Boye. Though she is 11 years old in the video, she belted stronger and commanded the spotlight better than some veteran performers I’ve seen. If you liked Boye’s remix of this song, look for his upcoming album “AFRICANIZED” in the iTunes store. Included on the album is a stellar “Africanized” remix of Lorde’s “Royals.” Rising to the No. 1 spot as the best cover of “Let It Go” is performed by The Nightingales Choir. Daryl Christian Reynes The 15-person choir, made up of men and women, sound more like 150 performers. Dressed in all black with splashes of red, The Nightingales Choir shows us a professional version of the song. My only complaint for The Nightingales Choir is the quality of their video. The acoustics of their concert hall sound great, and yet the quality of the recording equipment does not match the quality of their voices. I chose this version for the maturity of their voices. They blend together perfectly. The soloist also has a strong voice that reminds me a lot of Menzel herself. No matter what version you love the most, “Let It Go” is here to stay. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Amazon unveils Fire TV streaming device, offers low price NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is making a bid to enter living rooms with Amazon Fire TV, a new streaming device that delivers online video, music and other content to televisions. The company says the $99 device has better speed, performance and search functions than other streaming boxes such as Apple TV and Google Chromecast. But Amazon is coming late to the streaming device game, and it remains to be seen whether the company is offering enough new and better services to lure customers away from their current streaming methods. Amazon created buzz about the device last week when it sent an invitation to the media hinting about an update to its video service. It debuted the box at Milk Studios in New York to about 200 media members, offering movie snacks like popcorn and Milk Duds. The device, about the size of a CD case, runs Google’s Android operating system and offers Netflix, Hulu and other streaming channels in addition to Amazon Prime instant video. It comes with a Bluetooth remote,

which lets users search for video by talking to the remote. Customers will get a free 30-day trial subscription to Netflix and Amazon Prime when they buy a Fire TV. Amazon vice president Peter Larsen said the retailer sells millions of streaming media devices each year, and its own box is an effort to address three complaints it commonly hears from customers: search is too clunky, there is not an open ecosystem that allows people to use several different streaming systems and performance isn’t good enough. Fire TV also offers a range of other services, including channels like YouTube and Pandora and “Free Time,” a customizable interface for children. The box, which starts shipping today, will also feature thousands of free and paid games like Minecraft and Disney Pixar’s Monsters University starting next month. Games can be played using the remote. An optional Fire game controller will be available for $39.99. One analyst called the

offering “underwhelming,” however. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said the device is too expensive, considering that it doesn’t offer notably more than similarly priced devices. Apple TV is $99 and the top tier Roku is also $99, although it makes cheaper versions. Google’s Chromecast is $35. He also said Amazon missed a chance to lure more Prime customers by offering six-months free of the service to Fire TV owners. “I don’t really get it,” he said. “There’s no real meaningful advantage to buying the box.” CRT Inc. analyst Neil Doshi was more positive. “While we believe that Amazon may be overstating consumer frustration with competing products, Fire TV appears to offer a significant step forward in terms of content search, hardware performance and openness,” he wrote in a note to investors. “We expect that FireTV should sell well and further bolster Amazon Prime’s ecosystem.” Amazon’s announce-

An Amazon representative reveals the new Fire TV. ment comes as the online retailer faces increasing pressure to boost its bottom line after years of furious growth. As more Americans shop online, Amazon has spent heavily to expand its business into new areas – from movie streaming to e-readers and groceries – often at the expense of its profit. Meanwhile, Amazon. com Inc. has invested heav-

ily on making TV shows and movies available to customers who pay $99 a year for Amazon Prime. It currently offers 200,000 TV shows and movies for rent or purchase. Amazon recently boosted the annual fee to $99 from $79 annually. Members benefit from two-day shipping of certain items and access to videos including original series like “Betas” and “Al-

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Award-winning country singer-songwriter Darius Rucker and multi-platinum recording artist Chris Daughtry will perform the national anthem at the NCAA Final Four. Rucker will sing the anthem before Monday’s championship game, when he will be accompanied by the Jazz Singers vocal ensemble from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performance and Visual Arts in Dallas. Daughtry will perform

before Saturday’s games. He will be backed by the Fort McHenry drum and fife corps in celebration of the 200th anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Rucker first broke into the mainstream music scene in the mid-1990s as the frontman of the band Hootie & The Blowfish. He released his third country album last year. Daughtry and his band have had four No. 1 hits, selling over 8 million albums worldwide.

‘Today’ show’s Willard scott, 80, weds girlfriend NEW YORK (AP) — NBC says 80-year-old Willard Scott has tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend. The veteran “Today” show personality and Paris Keena were wed Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. They have been together for about 11 years, “Today” host Matt Lauer said in sharing the news on Wednesday morning’s telecast. The jovial Scott has been

a part of “Today” since 1980. Lauer framed the announcement as “another surprise wedding” in the “Today” family. Last month, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie made an on-the-air announcement of her marriage to communications strategist Mike Feldman two days earlier. She also told viewers she was four months pregnant.

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— For Anthony Mackie, landing the role of the Falcon in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” meant more than inking his dream deal with Marvel. “When I heard I got the role I broke down in tears,” said Mackie in a recent interview. “I realized two years from that date some little brown boy was going to be at my door in a Falcon costume on Halloween. When I was a kid I didn’t have that. It wasn’t like I could get asked, ‘Who do you want to be for Halloween?’ and say Shaft. Being the Falcon is monumental.” Working with Marvel has been a longtime goal for Mackie, though he imagined playing a villain, not a superhero. “I wanted to be like the Joker and get my Heath Ledger on,” he said. “I would send Marvel an email, like every four to five months. I was calling saying, ‘I’ll work for free.’ About two years ago they sent me a letter saying, ‘Don’t call us, we’ll call you.’ I was like ‘Damn – Marvel mad at me.’” Roughly six months before filming began on “The Winter Soldier” in April 2013, directors Anthony and Joe Russo offered Mackie a role in the comic-book adaptation. “It was epic,” recalls Mackie, who admits he didn’t know much about the character Sam Wilson, who becomes the Falcon, one of the first African-American superheroes in a mainstream comic. “I read up on him and immediately got into the gym,” he added with a laugh. “I thought if I am wearing that much spandex I have to be in shape.” When “The Winter Soldier” hits theaters Friday, it will likely become the role for which the 35-yearold Mackie is most known. But it was his portrayal of a bomb disposal team ser-

Oscar-winning war thriller “The Hurt Locker” that paved the way for mainstream success. “Both his roles in ‘Half Nelson’ and ‘The Hurt Locker’ showed him to be an actor of real weight,” said “Winter Soldier” executive producer Nate Moore. “When we were looking to cast the role of Sam Wilson, we knew we wanted an actor who would feel like an equal to Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). We’d kicked some names back and forth, but none of the names ever rose above the first we discussed - Anthony Mackie. Once we met Anthony in person, we were sold. He charmed us.” Growing up in New Orleans, acting was the last thing on Mackie’s mind. The self-professed troublemaker said he probably would have been on Ritalin in today’s world. “But I had this great teacher who introduced me to Shakespeare, which opened my eyes to a different idea of who I could be.” He suffered a blow at 15, when his mother died. Mackie’s inheritance after his mother’s estate was split among him and his five siblings was $550. He used $542 to travel to New York to audition for Juilliard – and got in. “It confirmed to me that I had the ability to do this and make a living at it,” he recalled. It also offered him the chance to turn his anger into positive energy after her death. “The greatest blessing that she could have given me was letting me become my own man,” he said. “Once I got into school everything took off.” While at Juilliard, he was cast in Eminem hit biopic “8 Mile.” Since then, he’s appeared in over 30 movies, from indie flicks to big budget, all-star films. He’s one of a select group

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that has to do with the actors who came before him and busted their heads against the wall over and over again.” Mackie hopes to tell the story of another pioneer who helped break down barriers for African-Americans, though not in acting – that of Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. It’s a passion project that he hopes to complete in the near future. “The great thing about the Falcon is, it’s put me in a position to where people are willing to have those conversations about Jesse Owens,” he said. “I feel like it’s a story that has to be told.” Like his perseverance with Marvel, Mackie attests that if given an opportunity, he’ll flourish. “That has been my motto in life,” he added. “If you let me in the door, then I’m there to stay.”

‘Two and a Half Men’s’ Jon Cryer begins work on ‘candid’ memoir NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Cryer, an actor who knows a thing or two about Charlie Sheen and Demi Moore among others, is working on a “candid” memoir. The Emmy-winning star of “Two and a Half Men” has a deal with New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

The publisher announced Wednesday that the book, currently untitled, is scheduled to be released next spring. According to the New American Library, Cryer will share “candid” and “fascinating” stories about his 30-year career. He debuted on film opposite Moore in “No

Small Affair” and became known to millions as “Duckie,” Molly Ringwald’s pal in “Pretty in Pink.” In a statement released Wednesday, Cryer joked that he would write about stamp collecting, monetary policy and maybe even Sheen, his former “Two and a Half Men” co-star.

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WVU basketball in a state of instability Following the news that sophomore guard Eron Harris will transfer, I strongly questioned the stability of the West Virginia men’s basketball program. I understand these things happen, but the amount of transfers in recent years has to be alarming for head coach Bob Huggins and staff. Think about it for a second. The 2014-15 season was supposed to be the year back to relevance for West Virginia. After failing to make the NCAA tournament two years in a row, everyone was expected to be back for next year’s campaign. Without Harris, the journey back to being a competitive program once again is in question. West Virginia losing its second-leading scorer is troubling for the program. Yes, the team may be losing a player who didn’t have the best defensive skills, but the spark in offense was a completely different story. Harris had the ability to get hot and fast, and his production will surely be missed. There’s also the chance Harris would improve his defensive ways. WVU continues to lose players on its roster, and there needs to be a clear answer as to why this is happening. Should some of the blame fall on Huggins? It’s hard to say what the actual problem is, but a clear solution as to what is happening to this program is needed. The stability is just not there. It seems like everyone isn’t on the same page. It wasn’t too long ago West Virginia made that Final Four run and won the Big East Conference. Now, it is struggling to win an NIT game to a Georgetown team that hasn’t produced the best basketball this season after a promising start. It’s really hard to imagine where this program is going. Since the 201213 season ended, multiple players who started their collegiate careers in Morgantown will finish it elsewhere. I’m not saying WVU can’t turn things around and still have a promising 2014-15 campaign. But as the team tries to get back to relevance, there is always something making this team take a step or two back. We don’t know what the future will hold in terms of how committed other guys are to this program and competing with the best teams of the Big 12 Conference. I feel like guys are tired of excuses and simply want to win and make NCAA tournaments. With Staten staying for one more season, it’s clear he sees something brewing within the program. I’m going by what I’ve seen on the court, however. Ultimately, results are what matter. That’s the nature of any business. If you want to keep your job, you need to perform and do it consistently. It is becoming a common theme to accept average results for certain programs over the last few years. Something needs to give. It’s unclear what is happening to the West Virginia men’s basketball program, but at this time, I just don’t see a stable program. I guess it took the loss of the team’s second-leading scorer to finally figure that out.

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Running back Dreamius Smith celebrates scoring a touchdown against Oklahoma in the 2013 season.

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With just a few days remaining before West Virginia’s annual Gold-Blue Spring Game, most of the battles over positions are still in full-swing, including the particularly heated competition in the Mountaineers’ crowded but talented backfield. “It’s a huge competition,” said senior running back Dreamius Smith at WVU’s open practice in Morgantown. “I knew coming in this year that everyone is fighting for a spot. You just have to be the person to work the hardest. “We’re just going to keep working hard every practice, executing plays and doing everything we can.” Smith rushed 103 times for 494 yards and five touchdowns in 2013, second in all team categories to only the likely NFLbound Charles Sims. But despite Smith’s notable production last season, coupled with the departure of Sims, it’s still a bit premature to make any assumptions about how the depth chart for the Mountaineers’ backfield is going to shake out in 2014. That’s because although Sims may be gone, the additions of sophomore Pitttransfer Rushel Shell and redshirt junior Andrew Buie bring new dynamics to this season’s tailback competition. Not only are both Shell and Buie fairly proven

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rushers at the collegiate level, but they’re also both likely coming into 2014 with chips on their respective shoulders after dealing with their own separate sets of personal issues throughout the past season. Shell redshirted last season at WVU to fulfill NCAA transfer requirements after transferring from the Panthers in the summer following a true freshman campaign, during which he rushed for 641 yards and four touchdowns. He is reportedly taking a little bit longer to learn the system compared to his counterparts, who for the most part have all played at least one complete year in head coach Dana Holgorsen and offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson’s overall offensive scheme. “All in all (Shell) has shown signs of being a really good player,” Dawson said. “He just needs to learn the system. He’s a little bit hesitant at times, because he’s not understanding everything. “The communication is not there, which is frustrating, but the only way to curb that is for him to grow and get those reps.” Buie, meanwhile, also took a redshirt in 2013 and even withdrew from classes at WVU in fall 2013 after leading all West Virginia rushers with 851 yards and seven touchdowns in 2012. Buie maintains that the leave of absence was mainly for personal reasons and self-improvement, but WVU running

backs coach JaJuan Seider has made comments since insinuating that at least part of the reason Buie returned home to Florida last August was because the junior tailback hadn’t even made the depth chart coming out of fall camp. In addition to Smith, Shell and Buie, true sophomore back Wendell Smallwood, who rushed 39 times for 221 yards and one score last season, also appears to be an increasingly growing factor in this tailback competition. In fact, according to his offensive coordinator, Smallwood may actually be having the best spring of any of the Mountaineers’ running backs, FILE PHOTO to the point where WVU’s Wendell Smallwood dives for the end zone against Iowa State last season. coaches are exploring even more potential ways and sets just in order to get Smallwood’s hands on the football more often. “He’s versatile,” Dawson said. “We’re finding a lot of ways to get him the ball. That kid’s skilled. “Through nine practices he’s got the mental capacity to handle a lot of different things, so we’re really trying to push the limits with what we can do with that kid. And right now, we’re just seeing what he can do.” Ultimately, the sophomore’s versatility could even end up clearing some space in the crowded yet talented Mountaineers’ backfield, if Smallwood does indeed end up seeing more snaps from say an inside receiver position. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Kinsler’s hit lifts Tigers over Royals in extra innings DETROIT (AP) — Ian Kinsler homered and drove in the winning run with a single in the 10th inning to lift the Detroit Tigers over the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Wednesday. Max Scherzer pitched eight scoreless innings for the Tigers, but Joe Nathan blew his first save chance since signing with Detroit in the offseason. Acquired from Texas for Prince Fielder in a November blockbuster trade, Kinsler homered in the fourth and won the game with a line drive to left-center field off Tim Collins (0-1). Detroit benefited from two replay overturns at first base. The second enabled Al Alburquerque (1-0) to get out of the top of the 10th. The Tigers also beat Kansas City in their last at-bat in Monday’s opener, winning 4-3 on Alex Gonzalez’s RBI single in the ninth. Scherzer allowed four hits and a walk with eight

strikeouts, but Nathan blew a save at Comerica Park for the first time. He was 19 for 19 at the ballpark as a visiting player before signing with Detroit before this season. Alex Gordon’s basesloaded sacrifice fly in the ninth tied it, and Nathan then balked the runners ahead when he pulled up in the middle of his motion. Manager Brad Ausmus and trainer Kevin Rand came scurrying out to the mound to see if something was wrong, but Nathan kept pitching. In the 10th, Kansas City’s Norichika Aoki was called safe at first, and it looked like the Royals would have first and third with two outs and the game tied. But upon further review, the throw barely beat Aoki. He was called out to end the threat. There was another replay overturn in the sixth when Detroit’s Tyler Collins was

initially called out at first, giving Kansas City a 4-6-3 double play. The play was reviewed and Collins was ruled safe, although Detroit didn’t score that inning. In the Detroit 10th, Austin Jackson and Nick Castellanos both walked before Kinsler’s two-out hit won it. Scherzer can become a free agent after this season, and if he keeps pitching like this he’ll be in line for quite a payday. With men on first and third and one out in the first, Billy Butler grounded into a double play on a 3-0 pitch. That turned out to be the best chance Kansas City would have against Scherzer. He wasn’t in trouble again until the eighth, when Salvador Perez doubled leading off. Scherzer rebounded to strike out Mike Moustakas and Lorenzo Cain. Ausmus then visited the mound, but he left Scherzer in. Alcides

Escobar followed with a flyout on Scherzer’s 110th and final pitch. Jason Vargas, who signed a $32 million, four-year contract in the offseason, was sharp in his first start for Kansas City. He allowed a run and five hits in seven innings, walking one and striking out six. Kinsler’s homer in the fourth was Detroit’s first hit. NOTES: The Royals announced OF Carlos Peguero was sent outright to Triple-A Omaha after clearing waivers. He was designated for assignment March 25. ... Collins made his first major league start in LF. His debut came in Monday’s opener, when he scored the winning run as a pinch-runner. On Wednesday, he made a nice catch in the second while sliding on his stomach. ... Kansas City rookie Yordano Ventura takes the mound Thursday against Detroit’s Ian Kinsler, right, celebrates with teammate Nick Castellanos Wednesday. Anibal Sanchez.

Harang, Braves win pitchers’ duel over Brewers MILWAUKEE (AP) — Atlanta pitcher Aaron Harang and the Milwaukee Brewers’ Matt Garza had no-hit bids until Chris Johnson homered with two outs in the seventh inning, sending the Braves to a 1-0 victory Wednesday. Harang (1-0) didn’t allow a hit until Logan Schafer grounded a single leading off the bottom of the seventh. Making his Braves’ debut, Harang gave up two hits in 6 2-3 innings, struck out three and walked one, throwing 63 of 97 pitches for strikes. He had spent most of spring training with Cleveland on a minor league contract, then signed with the Braves on March 24 after a series of injuries to Atlanta pitchers. Relievers Luis Avilan, David Carpenter and Craig Kimbrel were hitless, with Kimbrel getting three outs

for his second save. Garza (0-1) made his Milwaukee debut after signing a $50 million, four-year contract as a free agent. He allowed one run and two hits in eight innings, struck out seven and walked none, throwing 65 of 90 pitches for strikes. Garza had struggled during spring training, going 1-3 with an 8.80 ERA in five outings. But he was sharp against the Brewers, retiring 11 in a row before walking Freddie Freeman. This marked the first time both starting pitchers in a big league game had not allowed a hit through six innings since June 13, 2010, when Ted Lilly of the Cubs and Gavin Floyd of the White Sox accomplished the feat, according to STATS. Alfonso Soriano doubled with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and scored on Chad Tra-

cy’s single, and Lilly didn’t allow a hit until pinchhitter Juan Pierre’s leadoff single in the ninth. The Cubs won 1-0. Harang retired his first seven batters before walking Lyle Overbay, then retired 10 in a row before Schafer’s single. Garza hit a dribbler in front of the plate in the sixth that Harang fielded cleanly and threw to first for the out. Gomez followed with a drive down the left-field line that hooked foul, then struck out. Jason Heyward’s diving catch of a Ryan Braun liner to right in the fourth kept Harang’s no-hit bid intact. NOTES: The Brewers start a six-game trip Friday to Boston and Philadelphia. ... The Braves have Thursday off, then are at Washington on Friday in Matt Garza delivers a pitch Wednesday. the Nationals’ opener.

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wrestling

After 36 years, WVU and Turnbull part ways by jon fehrens sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Craig Turnbull, the former West Virginia University wrestling coach, was fired Friday after 36 years of service. The four-time Eastern Wrestling League Coach of the Year was informed by WVU Athletic Director Oliver Luck that his contract would not be renewed. Turnbull guided the Mountaineers to a 287-214-9 career record. After a two-win season in 2013 and sending only one wrestler to compete in the NCAA Championships, Luck met with Turnbull in the offseason to discuss the future of West Virginia wrestling. In that meeting, Turnbull said Luck asked to defend his involvement in the program. During that same discussion, Turnbull said Luck brought up his age, 61, and questioned whether he has been involved in the program for too long. Turnbull defended himself. “That was like saying a sports writer couldn’t do his job at 22 because he was too young and didn’t know anything and couldn’t do it at 60 because he was too old,” Turnbull said to Bob Hertzel of the Times West Virginian.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Turnbull said expectations have always been high for West Virginia wrestling and will continue to stay that way. He also informed Luck that he was leaning toward retirement at the end of the 2015 season. In January, Turnbull was elected to the Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame and several coaches were there to congratulate him. After the ceremony, a few of the coaches inquired if he was retiring. Not knowing how to respond, he asked why and the coaches informed Turnbull that Luck already contacted three coaches and interviewed two candidates for his position. This prompted a second meeting between the two. In the second meeting, Luck did not deny he contacted people but said he had not conducted any interviews. During that meeting, Turnbull discussed the potential of this season’s wrestling team and said they could become a Top15 or Top-20 program. The 2014 campaign has been far better than the 2013 one. The wrestling team currently holds an 11-7 record but is 0-3 in the Big 12 Conference. The winless conference record may have spurred the

third and final interview between the former wrestling coach and the athletic director. When Turnbull was summoned to Luck’s office, he was greeted by Associate Athletic Director Terrie Howes and a representative from the legal department at WVU along with Luck. This is when Turnbull was informed his contract would not be renewed and he would not be allowed back to the wrestling facilities. Luck released this statement after the meeting. “Craig (Turnbull) has spent the last 36 years as the head of the Mountaineer wrestling program, and we appreciate his many years of service to West Virginia University. He took over at the helm of the WVU wrestling program in 1979 after serving as an assistant coach here under Fred Liechti, coaching hundreds of Mountaineer wrestlers along the way. We wish him the best.” A nationwide search for a new wrestling coach has already begun, but no favorites for the position have emerged. Meanwhile, Turnbull is still deciding whether or not take legal action against the University with his attorney Paul E. Lewis. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Bussie, Holmes earn honors after strong seasons by kevin hooker sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Senior Asya Bussie and sophomore Bria Holmes were each named to the Associated Press All-American Honorable Mention list Tuesday. The award is the first for each player and the fourth and fifth time a Mountaineer has been named to the Honorable Mention list. Guards Yolanda Paige and Meg Bulger earned the honor in 2005 and 2006, respectively, and center Olayinka Sanni received recognition in 2008. The Holmes/Bussie duo led the West Virginia women’s basketball team to one of its most successful seasons in program history with the most wins in a season (30), a share of the

Big 12 Conference regular season title, and a fifth straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament. As the leading and second-leading scorers, respectively, Holmes and Bussie helped WVU score a total of 2,581 points this season, the most by a team in single season program history. The Mountaineers had the No. 3 scoring offense (73.7 points per game) in the Big 12 this season and had a scoring margin of +14.8. As a freshman, Holmes saw action in 30 games, shooting 32.7 percent from the floor with 6.0 points per game in 13.2 minutes. But she saw a bigger role as a sophomore, as her minutes per game (26.9) doubled from the previous season. Holmes, a consensus All-Big 12 First Team se-

lection, scored 516 points this season while averaging 15.2 points and 3.5 rebounds. She became just the sixth sophomore in Mountaineer women’s basketball history to score at least 500 points in a season and 14th overall. The 6-foot-1 guard had a teamleading 25 games of at least 10 points, including nine 20-point outings. A team co-captain, Bussie joined Holmes on the All-Big 12 First Team and earned additional recognition on the Big 12 All-Defensive Team and Big 12 All-Tournament Team. She closed out her five-year career with 1,497 points, 11th-most for a WVU women’s basketball player. The Randallstown, Md., native is also No. 2 in WVU’s career record books with 270 blocked shots and 382 of-

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fense rebounds and had a program-best and nationleading 138 consecutive career games played and started. After eliminating TCU and Texas in the Big 12 championship, the WVU women earned their highest AP ranking in program history (No. 5) and were rewarded with a No. 2 seed in the Louisville bracket. Tournament expectations fell short, as WVU shot just 30 percent from the floor en route to a second round exit by No. 7-seed LSU. Mike Carey is now 274146 since joining WVU in 2001 but has never made it past the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament. “We definitely didn’t want to lose like this. We were planning on going a lot further (in the tournament),” Bussie said fol-

lowing her last game in a Mountaineer uniform. “Regardless, I’m really proud of this team and everything we’ve accomplished this year.” After sitting out in the 2013 season, the 6-foot-4 center returned with vengeance in her final season, averaging 12.9 points and 7.8 rebounds. Her 2.03 blocks per game (71 total) put her at No. 3 in conference. Baylor’s Odyssey Sims earned AP All-America First Team for the second straight season and was the lone Big 12 player to represent any of the three teams. She averaged 28.5 points per game and scored a career-high 48 points (6-10 from 3-point range) in a win over WVU in January. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Holgorsen will implement new defensive scheme by dillon durst sports writer @dailyathenaeum

With up-tempo, nohuddle offenses becoming more and more prevalent in the college football world, coaching staffs across the nation are scrambling to invent new ways to stop – or at least slow down – the attack. In implementing a multischeme defense, WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen believes the Mountaineers have finally found a solution to the offensive onslaught the defense has been subject to for the last two seasons.

“It’s what I’ve wanted to do since I’ve been here,” Holgorsen said in an interview with WVUsports. com. “I have to look at what gives us problems, because a lot of teams in the Big 12 (Conference) have similar defenses. The thing that gives us the most trouble is an odd defense, so that’s what we’re going to do.” In 2014, the Mountaineers will show an odd three-man front as they have in previous years but will shift around the linebackers and defensive backs to produce different looks. “Being multiple on de-

fense is very important,” said junior linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski. “Everyone can run a certain defense, but if you can come out with different things and different formations, you will be fine. It’s a very big thing in the Big 12 because you see so many different offenses. You have teams with fast quarterbacks, run games and fast games.” With most offenses in the Big 12 attempting to rattle off as many plays as possible in a game, it’s always an uphill battle for defenses to properly line up before the snap. Holgorsen said the defense is making major strides this

spring in lining up quickly before the snap. “I’ve been really impressed with how quickly they line up,” he said. “We face so many high-tempo offenses that we need to be able to do that. I think they’re doing an excellent job with that right now.” Tony Gibson, West Virginia’s first-year defensive coordinator, has been keeping the defense simple up to this point. Gibson said he wants his players to have a firm understanding of the fundamentals of his defense before moving onto anything else. “Right now, we’ve got a couple blitzes and base

coverage plays,” he said. “I want them to master that first to see what they can do. When you do a lot of things but you can’t master them, that’s when you see problems.” The WVU coaching staff hopes to have all the kinks ironed out by the spring game set for April 12 at Milan Puskar Stadium. “As long as we’re playing hard, seeing the right stuff and playing the right guys, it’s going to be hard for them to get past us,” Gibson said. “We just want to get really good at what we’re doing.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

baseball

Confidence riding high for WVU after Pitt win by joe mitchin sports writer @dailyathenaeum

There’s a good feeling going around the West Virginia dugout right now. It’s a team that is sweating, bleeding and oozing confidence. The current aura around the program is well deserved as the Mountaineers ride high on a current fourgame winning streak. “I like where we’re at right now,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “We can’t just start drinking the Kool-Aid just yet. There’s a lot of work yet to do. It can go away as fast as it came.” T h e Mo u nt a i n e e r s completed a season sweep of Pitt Tuesday in a 6-4 victory over the Panthers. Defeating a rival

is always a good feeling, but the addition of Pitt coming off back-to-back sweeps inside the ultratough ACC is an added bonus. WVU, 16-8 on the 2014 season, has crawled up to No. 13 in the nation’s RPI rankings. For a team that has set a goal to earn the school’s first postseason berth since 1996, the Mountaineers have no plans on stopping there. Many thought the dominant pitching staff would be the money-maker for the club this season. To its credit, starters Harrison Musgrave, Sean Carley and John Means all have ERAs under 2.50 entering into April. However, the explosion of the team’s offense has proven to be a real difference maker. Junior out-

fielder Bobby Boyd hits a talented group of hitters with a .375 average, including a team-high 39 hits. Second baseman Billy Fleming, first baseman Ryan McBroom and shortstop Taylor Munden all join Boyd with a .300 average or better. “Confidence is everything to a hitter,” Mazey said. “It doesn’t matter what part of the lineup we’re in, I have confidence in our guys that we can extend innings. Things can happen ... if you’ve got a good offensive team.” The Mountaineers are exactly where they want to be as conference play in the Big 12 comes in full force. Mazey, second-year head coach of the Mountaineers, said the team’s first 20 games

of the season are important in dictating how the year would go. Despite the early success of the team, Mazey and the rest of the team have remained evenkeeled and now chalked up and covered up the team’s newly found swagger to things outside the lines. “Our guys are used to adversity and not being comfortable,” Mazey said. “When you do throw a little comfort our way, our guys respond pretty well.” While the momentum has built for the Mountaineers, the road that lies ahead remains difficult. WVU will travel for its first conference road series this weekend when the team heads to TCU before returning to Morgantown the following

weekend to host Oklahoma State. Throw in a sprinkling of Big 10 play April 8 and April 15 dates against Penn State and Ohio State, respectively, and the daunting schedule becomes a reality. If anything has shown in the first month and a half of the season, though, it’s how these Mountaineers are ready for anything that stands in their way. The confidence is up, so is their win total. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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JUST LISTED FOREST AVENUE. Just off Spruce Street. 2, 3 or 4BR apartments. W/D and parking. $445-$495 all utilities included. 304-288-1572 or 304-288-9662 or jewelmanllc.com

1-2BR DOWNTOWN/FIRST ST./SOUTH PARK. Starting at $400/p. 1BR Jones Place, $750/p. No Pets. 304-296-7400. scottpropertiesllc.com 1BR AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY or May. Large 3BR available in May. 5/minute walk to downtown-campus. 261 East Prospect. Large porch. Parking Available. W/D, DW. 304-288-2499 or sjikic@yahoo.com 2/BR SOUTH PARK. W/D. No Pets, $650/mo. 304-288-6374 2BDRM 5 min walk to downtown/campus on Willey St, W/D, deck , $385/each, utilities, trash, 1 parking space included. 304-685-7835 2BR 1/2BTH TOWNHOUSE NEAR HOSPITAL. No pets. $900/mth plus utilities. Garage, W/D. Available May. 304-216-2000 2BR APARTMENT; $720/mo + electric & gas utility. No Pets. Available May 15th. Near Campus. 304-290-7368. NO TEXT MESSAGES 2BR APT. AVAILABLE MAY. $600 Per Month ($300 Per Person) + Utilities. NO Pets. 304-692-7587 3BR. Marion St. No pets (304) 296-5931

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EFFICIENCY APARTMENT behind Mountainlair. $350/per month + elect. 304-685-7835

CLOSE TO CAMPUS. 4BR, 2BTH with WD. $1100/mth plus utilities and deposit. 304-594-3705

LAST 4BR AVAILABLE. South Park. 2BATHS, W/D, Parking, Large Bedrooms & Utilities included. $475/each 304-292-5714

JUST LISTED ACROSS FROM ARNOLD HALL on Richwood Ave. 3 or 4BR, 2 BTH house, excellent condition W/D, dishwasher, parking. $455-$495/each. Utilities included. 304-288-1572, 304-288-9662 or 304-282-8131

NOW RENTING TOP OF FALLING RUN ROAD Morgan Point 1+2/BR $625-$825+ utilities. Semester lease. WD. DW. Parking. NO PETS. Call: 304-290-4834. NOW SHOWING 1-5BR apartments for May/June. Downtown & South Park locations available. No pets. 304-296-5931 PERFECT FOR MED. STUDENTS. LARGE 2BR 1BTH. With W/D, AC, free parking. Close to hospitals. Starting May & August. $700/mth. Stadium View Apartments 304-598-7368

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227 JONES AVE. 3 OR 4 BDRM APT. Excellent condition. $395-$425/each + utilities. Free off-street parking. NO PETS 304-685-3457 1/BR, 1 BATH CONDOS. Near Hospital. Water & sewage paid. $600/month. W/D in unit 304-282-1184

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STARTING AS LOW AS $320.00 PER PERSON PLUS ALL UTILITIES

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Ashley Oaks 2BR

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Valley View 1BR $610 Valley View 2BR $320/Person Valley View 2BR 2BA $410/Person Skyline Skyline

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Copperfield 1BR $625 Copperfield 2BR $370/Person Copperfield 2BR 2BA $397.50/Person

Glenlock N. 1BR $555-595 Glenlock N. 2BR $490/Person Courtyard E. 1BR $545-$585 Courtyard E. 2BR $480/Person Glenlock S. 2BR $540/Perosn Metro Towers 2BR 2BA $580/Person FURNISHED & INCLUDES ALL UTILITIES Metro Towers 1BR $745 Metro Towers 2BR 2BA $630/Person PLUS ALL UTILITIES Glenlock 2BR 2BA $520/Person Courtyard W. 2BR $500/Person

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JUST LISTED! GREAT HOUSE! 250 Richwood Ave. Close to Arnold Hall 4-5BR, 2BTH. W/D, dishwasher, parking, big yard. $495-$525/each utilities included. 304-288-1572, 304-288-9662 or 304-282-8131

UNFURNISHED HOUSES 3 & 4 BEDROOMS. W/D, Some Parking. Walk to class. Lease/Deposit. No Pets. Available 6-1-14. Max Rentals. 304-291-8423 3 BEDROOM/2 BATH HOUSE. Wiles Hill area. Extra rooms. Yards. Pets discussed. 304-594-1200. bckrentals.com 5 BEDROOM HOUSE in South Park across from Walnut Street Bridge. W/D. Call Nicole at 304-290-8972 3BR 2BTH HOUSE on Sylvan. $1,100/per month, plus utilities. Available in May. Call: 304-692-7587 3BR 1BTH HOUSE on Stewartstown Road. $1000/per month, plus utilities. Avail. in June. call: 304-692-7587 3BR 1Bath 307 EAST BROCKWAY AVENUE. $800 Month. Lease/ Deposit required. W/D, No Pets, Off Street parking (304) 290-1332 3/BR. 2/BA. Available 5/16/14. WD. DW. Yard. Parking. Walk to stadium/downtown. $1250/mo plus utilities. Lease/dep. NO PETS. Call 502-370-5182 or 304-288-7525 4/BR HOUSE FOR RENT on Charles Ave. $1500/mo ($375 per person) + utilities. No pets. Available May 30th. Call 304-692-7587. AVAILABLE AUGUST 1ST. 4BR house, close to downtown/campus. W/D, large front porch. $1500/month. 304-685-7835 WHY PAY SUMMER RENT? 9 month lease available. 3BR/1.5BA. $1,425/month includes utilities. W/D, offstreet parking, near Mountainlair, 604 Cayton St. Call 304-319-1243

ROOMMATES NICE 4/BR HOUSE. Private bathroom. 2 min. from College. $500/month, includes all utilities. 740-381-0361

AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks. Any make! Any model! Any condition! 304-282-2560

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3 BEDROOM HOUSES. ALL Utilities Paid! Snider, North Willey, South Park Starting at $425 PETS ALLOWED 304-292-9600 kingdomrentals.com 3BR HOUSE, BATTELLE AVE, quiet street, 5/minute walk to Mountainlair. Off-street-parking, kitchen appliances, W/D. Available May 15th. $435/person/utils. included. 304-685-8170. 3BR HOUSE. College Ave. 5min. walk to Lair, 2BTH, deck, WD, DW, $400 plus utilities, free off-street parking. 304-216-4845 A MUST SEE 4 BEDROOM FURNISHED HOUSE. 8 min. walk to main campus. Quiet residential area. 2 Full baths. Quality Furnishings, D/W, W/D, Microwave, Off Street Lighted Parking, A/C, All Amenities, Year Lease. No Pets. 304-296-7476 or www.perilliapartments.com ATTRACTIVE 4BR HOUSE on Beverly Ave. Downtown Campus. Fully furnished. 4 off-street parking spots. WD, DW, central AC, modern furnishings, no pets. Lease and Deposit required. Available May 15, 2014. 304-599-6001

HELP OUR SON who is facing uncommon challenges, including mobility, intellectual, vision and hearing impairment. This is an employment opportunity for students interested in teaching or providing care for individuals with disabilities on holidays and in summer. Employment is through REM. Additional information from his family: 304-598-3839. RELIABLE YARD HELPER. Mid April thru Oct. Need vehicle. 5 mins from UHS. $8/hr. Apply at: osage@mail.wvnet.edu

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

16 | SPORTS

THURSDAY APRIL 3, 2014

Bagered: Wisconsin tightens D in NCAA run, ready for Kentucky

Wisconsin’s Josh Gasser, center, answers questions from members of the media during a news conference at the NCAA tournament March 28. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has been badgering opponents during its run to the Final Four. The talk at the start of the season was all about the new emphasis on rules to prevent college basketball from turning into virtual hand-to-hand combat. The goals: Limit the pushing, grabbing and arm-barring. Improve scoring, shooting percentages and the overall flow of the game. One team, at least, didn’t have to adjust much, if at all. Advantage, Wisconsin.

Changing defense was one less thing the Badgers (30-7) had to worry about during an already memorable season that has Wisconsin facing Kentucky (28-10) in the Final Four on Saturday. “The thing about valuing the basketball, playing good position defense, trying not to give up easy baskets, doing all the things that we’re trying to do ... I just think that our guys have shown that they’ve been pretty consistent with the basics,” coach Bo Ryan said.

There are more offensive options on the floor than the typical Badgers team, which has helped compensate for a defense that at times didn’t measure up to the program’s high standards. This year, Wisconsin is 37th in the NCAA in allowing 63.7 points per game - pretty good, but still out of the top 10 for the first time since 2005-6. But the Badgers have tightened up in the tournament, allowing 56.8 points per game, eight less than in games played before March Madness began. The spread

is similar in field-goal defense with foes shooting 37 percent in the tourney compared to 43 percent before the NCAAs. Opponents’ 3-point shooting in the tourney is 31 percent, down from 34 percent. It helps to have 7-foot center Frank Kaminsky protecting the rim. Against Baylor in the regional semifinals, Kaminsky had six blocks. Wisconsin’s style of play under Ryan “is so unique,” said Patrick Chambers, coach at Big Ten rival Penn State. “He does such a good

job of playing hard without fouling, funnel you into Kaminsky.” Like any good coach still in the hunt, Ryan will just as easily point to things to improve. The new rules emphasis, though, probably wasn’t on high on the list. “We haven’t been a ‘handsy’ team in the past, so we just need to keep working on our positioning and our footwork,” Ryan said in December. Back then, defense was a work in progress, but more for those reasons outlined by

Ryan than for the rules. “You’ve just got to learn from it. You’ve got to kind of figure out how things are being called throughout the game,” said Josh Gasser, one of the Big Ten’s top defensive players. “As the season’s gone on, you don’t really think about it at all. It’s just kind of part of the game.” But opponents were adjusting their games, too, on top of dealing with the rules emphasis. Chambers said that high mid-major teams, especially, had to adjust.

VANDALIA HALL APARTMENTS LEASING SPECIALS WELCOME BACK! CK K! W We eh hope ope you h had ad d an awesome spring break! We’re kicking off some spring deals at College Park next week that you won’t want to miss. Starting Monday, March 24th you can Skip the Security Deposit (a $400 value) when you sign your lease to live at College Park 2014 – 2015! You heard us right. Sign your lease for 2014 – 2015 between Monday, March 24 - Friday, April 4 and your security deposit fee will be waived! So what’s stopping you? Live at the Top - Live at College Park!

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LEASING SPECIALS WELCOME BACK! We hope you had an awesome spring break! We’re kicking off some spring deals at Vandalia Hall next week that you won’t want to miss. Starting Monday, March 24th you can Skip the Security Deposit (a $400 value) when you sign your lease to live at Vandalia Hall 2014 – 2015! You heard us right. Sign your lease for 2014 – 2015 between Monday, March 24 - Friday, April 4 and your security deposit fee will be waived!

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