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Students awarded highest honor by emily leslie staff writer @Dailyathenaeum

Eight seniors have been awarded the Order of Augusta, West Virginia University’s most distinguished student honor.

They are among the 45 top seniors being honored with the WVU Foundation’s Outstanding Senior Award.

For these students, being a Mountaineer means more than achieving success inside the classroom, it also means taking advantage of the opportu-

nities the University offers and giving back to the community. The Order of Augusta recognizes students who have demonstrated superior academic success, leadership and public service.

“These students truly are outstanding. They are in difficult majors but still manage to hold important leadership positions on campus. They have done a significant amount of community service, they have participated in study abroad, they have held internships and some of them have done research

projects with faculty,” said David Stewart, chair of the outstanding senior selection Committee. “We are very proud to have them.”

The 2015 recipients of the Order of Augusta are Shelby Chapman, Colin Frosch, Elizabeth Gulick, Divine Nwafor, Nina Orteza, Lucas Price, Victoria Reiser and Ogaga Urhie.

Chapman of Buckhannon, W.Va., will graduate with a degree in petroleum and natural gas engineering. Outside of the classroom, she is a member of the WVU Marching Band

and a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, the honorary band fraternity.

“Being a Mountaineer means performing to a standard of excellence and rising to new heights,” Chapman said.

Frosch from Fairmont, W.Va., will graduate with a degree in civil engineering and a minor in German. He is president of the WVU student chapter of Engineers Without Borders and a mentor with the Office of International Students.

“I know my experience at WVU was unique. I be-

lieve that I wouldn’t have had these same opportunities for growth, insight and learning if I would have chosen to study anywhere else,” Frosch said.

Gulick from Wheaton, Ill., will graduate with a degree in elementary education. She is a member of the WVU volleyball team and is a representative on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

“If I had never come to this beautiful place, I would have never done what I have done or be who I am today. I owe my success to this state and

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Fraternities, sororities face off in annual week of competition by taylor jobin staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia University Greek community is coming together this week for some friendly competition during Greek Week.

Greek Week features a variety of activities that pit the different fraternities and sororities against one another, all for a good cause.

“The goal is to bring the Greek students together and have a little friendly competition, and then also do some good service in the Morgantown community,” said Jessica Li, student program adviser in the Office of Student Activities.

“They are split up into teams of three to four chapters per team, and the overall Greek Week is given a theme.

This year the theme is: With All Forces Combined Greek Life Can Fly High. And then each team is given a theme within that theme to go along with it.”

This year’s theme is a superhero theme. Each team will be representing a different superhero.

There are three main events during Greek Week: a banner competition, Greek

and then displayed them either at their sorority house or fraternity house, or in the Mountainlair; different faculty and staff from within the University will judge the banners.

The next competition is the Greek games, which is taking place 4:00 p.m. Wednesday on the Mountainlair Green.

There will be a tug of war, a relay race and a balloon popping game, according to Li. Friday will be air bands, a cheer and dance competition featuring choreographed moves by the competing teams.

“It’s a really fun week. It’s a great way to meet different people throughout Greek life because, on a regular basis, some of us wouldn’t probably put ourselves out there to meet other people in other sororities or fraternities,” said Taylor Connors, Greek Week chair for Kappa Kappa Gamma. “So it’s a really good way to kind of like make everyone in the same area and it’s an easy way for people who wouldn’t normally go Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM out and meet new people to meet new people.”

Alpha Omicron Pi hangs a banner in celebration of Greek Week.

This will be Connors’ third games and air bands. There The banner competi- Greek Week. She said her faare also service opportunities tion was yesterday. Each of see GREEK on PAGE 1 throughout the week. the teams painted a banner

SGA organizes service for Habitat for Humanity by taylor jobin staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Mouhammed Sakkal, Student Government Association director of philanthropy, hosted a community service event Saturday to represent the passing of the torch from the old administration to the new.

The service event was sponsored by Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization that builds simple, affordable houses to low-income families around the world.

“Habitat for Humanity is a very, very, very good group because, number one: they don’t just give handouts, they have the people that are going to live in these houses come work on these houses, and they have them pay a very reasonable price,” Sakkal said. “It gets you involved with community members in need, and you’re literally helping them handin-hand to build their future. And I think that is a very beautiful thing. I

mean you’re getting down and dirty and very physical labor type stuff and I think that’s awesome.”

Also volunteering was Jared Scott Moore, a Morgantown resident with a wife and young son. He was there for more than just helping his community, he was working to put a roof over his family’s head.

“Me and my wife moved to Morgantown a few years ago to get closer to work.

Where we are living at now is not the best place to raise a kid because it’s a little iffy leaving our house,” Moore said.

Deciding it was time for a new place, Moore and his wife got in touch with her uncle who had previously done work with Habitat, and visited his house to see what it was like.

“We went out and visited him and loved the house,” Moore said. “When we first heard about it we thought it was for poor people, and I was like, ‘Well that’s not for us.’ We both make decent money,

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just it’s a little rough right now. He actually told us it’s not for poor people because you still have to pay for the house, it’s just taxfree pretty much.”

Moore and his wife immediately signed up.

About two months later they received a phone call saying they had been accepted into the program and could start volunteering. Moore began to volunteer last month.

“My wife got online, found a couple numbers and called some people.

Since it’s all volunteerbased, we set up a time with one of the volunteers and we got to talk to her and she put in our application. They called us back a couple of weeks later and said that we got approved and that we could start building our house. Everyone 18 or older in the house must do 300 hours every Saturday for a year.

Can’t move in until all hours are done.”

Besides living in a more family-friendly environment that is safe for his son, what is Moore look-

ing forward to the most?

“Having a yard,” he said with a chuckle, “and not have to listen to my neighbor’s music. We live in a small apartment so we pay 880 dollars a month to live in a little two bedroom.

I’ve got a 3 year old and he loves to run but I don’t like him outside because, (where I live) there are a lot of drug problems and stuff down there.”

Other than Moore and the Habitat for Humanity worksite professionals, only four representatives showed up to the event which was open to both old and new SGA administrations. Sakkal, Paige Kearns, his intern, Andrew Sutherland, former SGA athletic council, and Shani Waris, governor for the next administration, were the four who attended the service event.

Sutherland said he wasn’t surprised by the low turnout, saying students are more likely to sleep in on a Saturday than come out and dedi-

its people. I have been inspired, I have been changed and I have become a West Virginian,” Gulick said.

Nwafor from Lagos, Nigeria, will graduate with a degree in biochemistry and a minor in biology. He is a member of the WVU Neuroscience Club and the WVU Mortar Board.

“Being an international student and coming into an entirely different culture, WVU gives you that sense of diversity. WVU pushes you beyond your

University celebrates graduate students by john mark shaver staff writer @dailyathenaeum

In honor of Graduate Student Appreciation Week, West Virginia University is holding a variety of special events to honor and reward its graduate students.

Constinia Charbonnette, program director for Graduate Fellowship and Life, explained this week is a celebration of the University’s graduate students.

“It’s really to show the graduate education community not only how much we value them, but also to really recognize what they do for the campus communities across the country, particularly WVU’s,” Charbonnette said.

The week’s activities include the following: College of Creative Arts Graduate Student Art Exhibit Each day starting at 10:00 a.m., art made exclusively by graduate students will be on display in the Mountainlair’s Blackwater Room. This exhibit is open to the public.

“It’s a way for those folks who aren’t able to go over to the College of Creative Arts to see all of the amazing work that’s going on there,” Charbonnette said. “This is a way that we can bring the community at large to the hub of WVU in the campus center.”

Professional Headshots Each day, graduate students can get free, professional headshots taken in the Tygart Room of the Mountainlair. These headshots can be used for a variety of personal and professional causes, and would make a great LinkedIn profile picture.

“When an employer is looking at those types of photos, they make splice judgements, very quick snapshots of what that tells them about you,” Charbonnette said. “We want to make sure that our students show their personality but also what’s polished.”

Relax, Relate, Release (RRR) Day Spa On Wednesday, from 11 a.m.-6 p.m., graduate students can participate in a variety of free relaxing activities and treats in the Mountainlair Ballrooms, including massages, manicures, pedicures and gourmet cupcakes. There will also be a lounge where graduate students can kick back and connect with each other.

“We never know how we can connect and amalgamate our experiences to make something brand new and highly productive,” Charbonnette said. “So we want to make sure that we’re fostering that type of environment for the graduate education community. This is just a way to do it over nothing, just organically. Sit down, introduce yourself, eat, relax and play games.”

Graduate Comedy Show – Adam Ruben Ruben, who the event describes as a “writer, comedian, storyteller and molecular biologist,” will perform an academic comedy show titled “Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School,” at 7 p.m Wednesday in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. Charbonnette described him as a less graphic mix of Dennis Miller and Bill Maher. More information on Ruben can be found on his website, adamruben.net.

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Finalists of this year’s Three Minute Thesis will contend in the competition’s grand finale at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Mountainlair’s Shenandoah Room for a cash prize of $2,000. The competition entails that graduate students compress their theses to three-minute-long presentations, which will help graduate students build their “elevator speeches.”

“Part of the major aim is prepping those students as they go out,” Charbonnette said. “They may have to speak with someone who is in a completely different field. However, they are willing to invest hundreds of thousands in your research. You have to make it relevant to me. We need students to relay that very clearly and very distinctly.”

For a full list of this week’s activities and to register for the events, visit graduate.wvu.edu. For more information, contact graded@mail.wvu.edu. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Man charged with killing 3 Muslims can face death penalty DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The man charged with killing three Muslim college students will face a death penalty trial after prosecutors told a judge they had strong and incriminating evidence that includes the blood from one of the victims found on the accused shooter’s pants.

After a brief hearing Monday, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr. ruled that Craig Stephen Hicks is “death penalty qualified.”

Hicks, who remained handcuffed throughout the court proceedings, showed no visible emotion as the judge announced his decision. He is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the Feb. 10 killings of 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat; his wife, 21-year-old Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha; and her sister, 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

Durham County Assistant District Attorney Jim Dornfried said at the preliminary hearing that Hicks was taken into custody while in possession of a .357-caliber handgun that ballistics testing had matched to the eight shell casings recovered at the victims’ apartment. There was also gunshot residue on Hicks’ hands.

Police have said Hicks, 46, appeared to have been motivated by a long-running dispute over parking spaces at the condominium complex near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he lived in the same building as dental student Barakat and his wife. Dornfried said Monday that Hicks had revealed details about the killings while under questioning by investigators.

“There were certain issues he described involving parking,” Dornfried told the judge.

“He went and retrieved a firearm from his residence, then proceeded over to the residence of the victims. ... The door was answered by Deah Barakat. There was a brief interaction, at which time the defendant pulled out his concealed firearm.”

Dornfried said Hicks shot Barakat multiple times, then entered the apartment and shot each of the screaming women in the head. He then pumped another slug into Barakat as he left the apartment, the prosecutor said.

After prosecutors asked the judge to approve the death

penalty, defense lawyer Terry Alford declined to speak.

The victims’ families are adamant that they were targeted because they were Muslims and have pushed for hate-crime charges. They sat in the second row of the courtroom and declined the comment after the hearing.

A lawyer representing the family members said they aren’t focused on retribution.

“The family is just enormously sad and confused,” said Joe Cheshire, the lawyer representing the victims’ families. “They are overwhelmed with grief. ... You can’t find a person who would say something bad about those three young people.”

The FBI is conducting what it has called a “parallel preliminary inquiry” to the homicide investigation to determine whether any federal laws were violated, including hate crime statutes.

Durham District Attorney Roger Echols said after the hearing that he does not anticipate filing additional state charges against Hicks, but that his office is cooperating with the federal inquiry.

“If it is appropriate for the U.S. government to bring (additional) charges, we support that,” Echols said.

To support the death penalty under North Carolina law, prosecutors must show Hicks’ alleged crimes had aggravating factors — in this case that one of the murders was committed during a second murder, and that there was an act of violence committed with a second act of violence.

Search warrants listed a dozen firearms recovered from the condo unit Hicks shared with his wife, in addition to the handgun he had with him when he turned himself in after the shootings.

Hicks, who was unemployed and taking community college classes to become a paralegal, posted online that he was an atheist and a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Neighbors described him as an angry man who had frequent confrontations over parking or loud music, sometimes with a gun holstered at his hip. His social media posts often discussed firearms, including a photo posted of a .38-caliber revolver. He had a state permit allowing him to legally carry a concealed firearm.

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Tuesday April 7, 2015

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In this March 23 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Washington. Clinton is expected to launch her campaign for president sometime in the next two weeks and will initially focus on intimate events, rather than soaring speeches to big rallies, as her team looks to put her in direct contact with early state voters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of anticipation, Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to launch her presidential campaign sometime in the next two weeks with an initial focus on intimate events putting her in close contact with voters.

Clinton wants to avoid soaring speeches delivered to big rallies, and the risk they’ll convey the same cloak of inevitability that contributed to her loss in the 2008 Democratic primaries to Barack Obama.

The goal, according to people close to the Clinton organization, is to make her second run for the White House more about voters and less about herself, regardless of her place atop a field of candidates that currently looks far weaker this time around.

“For Secretary Clinton, it’s about being at the level with the people,” said Robert Gibbs, a longtime political adviser to President Obama. “You’re demonstrating to people that you’re on the ground ready to work each and every day for that vote.”

Clinton’s initial events are expected to be held in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first states to vote in the presidential primary contest. Robby Mook, who is reside at the Morgantown community manor. There was also a blood drive sponsored by the American Red Cross at St. John’s church on University Avenue.

On Thursday, the teams will conduct an arts supply drive in the Mountainlair commons. It will benefit the elementary students who attend The Shack Neighborhood House, a non-profit organization that provides local families and kids and environment “to learn, have fun and be healthy,” according to their website. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

slated to serve as Clinton’s campaign manager, and Marlon Marshall, a top incoming campaign aide, traveled to both states last week to meet party activists and longtime Clinton allies.

“There was a significant lack of ego and a great deal of humility,” said Jerry Crawford, a Des Moines attorney who served as Clinton’s Midwest chairman in 2008 and attended the Iowa meeting.

Clinton aides have long said her second White House run will look different from the first, and a focus on smaller, more unscripted events will be how she tries to make good on that pledge. In 2008, Clinton tried to compete with Obama’s large rallies, but she couldn’t match his rhetorical skills at the podium or the massive crowds that gathered to see him speak.

Some Clinton aides say they regretted trying to match Obama rather than play to her strengths.

Friends and advisers have long said she is more at ease in small group settings and one-on-one conversations where she can display both policy expertise and a personal warmth that she sometimes struggles to convey in front of larger crowds.

When Clinton ran successfully for the Senate in

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Sakkal was also disapp ointe d w ith the poor attendance but he wasn’t dissatisfied because of the hard work those who showed up put in.

“That was kind of sad. I expected many more people to come, especially since this was announced to both the old and new administration. It is what

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2000, she kicked off her campaign with a listening tour across New York state.

But in her 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton’s expected approach also comes with risks. More loosely scripted appearances increase the chance she could be drawn off message or make a misstep. The former secretary of state has been off the campaign trail for years, and she seemed rusty in fielding questions during interviews on a book tour last year.

The exact date of Clinton’s launch is a closely guarded secret, but the announcement is expected by mid-April. Her aides have been checking in with longtime supporters on their whereabouts this month and Democratic operatives in Iowa and New Hampshire have essentially been put on standby.

Clinton’s decision to sign a lease last week for two floors of office space in Brooklyn likely set off a 15day period in which presidential candidates are required to make their intentions known.

The secrecy surrounding the date has set off a guessing game among both Democrats and potential Republican candidates trying to carve out space for their own announcements. Polit-

ical operatives are speculating about everything from whether Clinton would avoid launching on tax day — April 15 — or whether she might want to peg her launch to Equal Pay Day on April 14.

Clinton may make the official announcement with an online video or social media post, though those plans are still being finalized, according to those familiar with the campaign plans. They insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the details on the record.

Clinton’s early campaign stops will take her to the sites of both great victories and crushing defeats. New Hampshire was a winning state for her in 2008, as well as for husband Bill Clinton in his two presidential runs.

Iowa has been less kind to the family’s White House ambitions.

It’s unclear whether Bill Clinton will hold solo events in the campaign’s early stages. While the former president and daughter Chelsea are expected to have a hand in campaign strategy, people close to the organization say there have been discussions about the need for Clinton to build out her own biography separate from that of her famous husband.

it is,” Sakkal said. “I’m not upset, I just wish more people would have came out, but we did good work and I’m happy about that.”

Sakkal organized the event to pass on the core values of student government: To serve. “(SGA) is about serving first the student body, the University, and then the community at large, as well,” he said.

The volunteers moved trash, cut and drilled support beams into the foundation, hauled gravel, sledge-hammered stakes and performed other mis-

cellaneous tasks to set the foundation of a house.

“It’s a great feeling for me, because I love being involved, and at the same time I enjoy that feeling of giving back, and the feeling of dirt in between your toes,” Sutherland said.

“And the emotional appeal is that at the end of the day, you’re tired (and) you just want to lie down, but at the same time you felt accomplished at doing something that not many people do on a normal day.”

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rardstown, W.Va., will graduate with a degree in nursing and minors in leadership studies and Spanish. She is the president of the WVU Student Nurses Association and has done a clinical rotation in the oncology unit of Ruby Memorial Hospital.

“WVU has helped me to not only rely on myself, but to also learn how to contribute what I can do in a team atmosphere. Collaboration is a really important tool,” Reiser said.

Urhie from Lagos, Nigeria, will graduate with a degree in biology and a minor in economics. He is active in the Neuroscience Club and volunteers as a Gold and Blue Student Ambassador.

“While at WVU, one of the virtues I came to hold dear is the enhancement of one’s productivity, which I believe happens best as others enhance their productivity in concert. From my time here, I will attest that it is to WVU’s credit that my new world view is a result of its dedication to its students,” Urhie said.

A ceremony honoring these students will be held on May 14 at the Erickson Alumni Center.

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Orteza of Morgantown will graduate with degrees in economics, world languages, literature and linguistics with a concentration in Russian Studies and Slavic and Eastern European Studies. She is captain of the WVU Debate Team and a member of the WVU Russian Club.

“WVU offers countless opportunities for those who are willing to put in the effort, and I am grateful that I was availed these opportunities,” Orteza said.

Lucas Price of Morgantown will graduate with a degree in wildlife and fisheries resources and a minor in conservation ecology. He is a member of the WVU Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society and performs research in the laboratory.

“WVU is what you make of it. There are many different opportunities – it’s a huge school with a ton of different students, so you can really find what you’re interested in and do it,” Price said.

Victoria Reiser of Ger-

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Furor over Rolling Stone rape article may leave mixed legacy NEW YORK (AP) — The furor over a retracted Rolling Stone article may deter some rape victims from coming forward, but the national campaign to curb sexual assaults on college campuses will keep gaining strength, according to advocates who have been following the high-profile case.

The November 2014 article, purporting to describe a vicious gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, was retracted by Rolling Stone on Sunday after the Columbia Journalism School issued a scathing critique of how the story was reported and edited.

The critical report followed an announcement by police officials last month that investigators had found no evidence to back the claims of the alleged victim.

Advocates for victims of sexual assault, in interviews Monday, had mixed views on the legacy of the Rolling Stone article.

“I’m afraid this will perpetuate the myth that sexual assault on campus is this made-up phenomenon,” said Alison Kiss, executive director of the Clery Center for Security On Campus. “It puts a lot more on the plate of those who are working to combat it.”

Kiss described on-campus sexual assault as an epidemic that needs to be addressed aggressively. The rate of false reports, she said, is between 2 percent and 10 percent.

At the University of California-Los Angeles, antiviolence activist Savannah Badalich also worried that the Rolling Stone retraction might dissuade some assault victims from coming forward. Badalich, a senior who is UCLA’s student wellness commissioner, has written about being sexually assaulted during her sophomore year and deciding not to report the incident.

She subsequently founded a group called 7,000 in Solidarity that campaigns against sexual violence on campus.

Rolling Stone, she said, did a disservice to the woman featured in its article by not fact-checking her

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Columbia Journalism School Academic Dean Sheila Coronel, left, and Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll give a news conference to discuss findings of a report conducted at the school surrounding Rolling Stone magazine’s expose of what it called a culture of sex assaults at the University of Virginia, Monday in New York. Rolling Stone has officially retracted the story. account more rigorously.

“Survivors often jumble their stories — they remember bits and pieces,” she said. “Now this becomes this evidence for people who are trying to oppose violenceprevention efforts on campus. They say, ‘Hey, this is an example of someone lying about their case just to get reported.’”

However, Badalich said there could be a positive legacy to the case if journalists improve the overall coverage of sexual assault.

“If we take this as a teachable moment on how to report on incidents of violence like this, it could be positive,” she said.

Scott Berkowitz, president of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network in Washington, D.C., said he was hopeful that the case would have only a limited deterrent effect on victims.

“This was such an unusual case in every respect,” he said. “I think most victims would see that it’s easily distinguishable from their own cases.”

Berkowitz noted that the University of Virginia and the local police department responded vigorously when the allegations surfaced last year.

“There was a tremendous amount of attention and effort put into investigating them and taking them seriously,” he said. “Hopefully that would be comforting to victims.”

Nationally, Berkowitz predicts that efforts to curb oncampus sexual assault will gain further momentum, with active engagement by the White House, the NCAA and many other parties.

“We’ve seen a tremendous amount of effort from college administrators in the

Prosecutor: Boston Marathon bomber wanted to terrorize US BOSTON (AP) — As he planted a backpack containing a bomb near a group of children, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made a coldblooded decision aimed at punishing America for its wars in Muslim countries, a federal prosecutor told the jury during closing arguments Monday at Tsarnaev’s death penalty trial.

“This was a cold, calculated terrorist act. This was intentional. It was bloodthirsty. It was to make a point,” Aloke Chakravarty said. “It was to tell America that ‘We will not be terrorized by you anymore.

We will terrorize you.’”

Defense attorney Judy Clarke countered by arguing, as she did at the trial’s outset, that Tsarnaev took part in the attack but did so under the malevolent influence of his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan. Clarke repeatedly referred to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — then 19 — as a “kid” and a “teenager.”

“If not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened,” Clarke said.

The jury is expected to begin deliberating Tuesday morning in the case against Tsarnaev, 21, almost two years after the twin bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 260. It was the nation’s deadliest terror attack since 9/11.

If Tsarnaev is convicted — and that is considered a near certainty, given his lawyer’s admission — the jury will then begin hearing evidence on whether he should get life in prison or a death sentence.

Prosecutors used their closing argument to remind the jury of the horror of that day, showing photographs and video of the carnage and chaos after the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs exploded. In one video, jurors could hear the agonizing screams of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager who bled to death on the sidewalk. Another woman and an 8-yearold boy were also killed.

Taking aim at the argument that Tsarnaev was led astray by his older brother, Chakravarty repeatedly referred to the Tsarnaevs as “a team” and “partners” in the attack.

“That day, they felt they were soldiers. They were the mujahedeen, and they were bringing their battle to Boston,” the prosecutor said.

As for the youngsters killed or maimed by the bomb that was in Dzhokhar’s backpack, Chakravarty said: “These children weren’t innocent to him.

They were American. Of all the places that he could have placed the bomb, he placed it right there.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died four days after the bombings after he was shot by police and run over by Dzhokhar during a getaway attempt. Dzhokhar was captured hiding in a dry-docked boat.

At the end of his closing argument, Chakravarty displayed photos of those killed

in the bombings and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who was shot to death during the getaway attempt.

“They are no longer with us,” Chakravarty said. “This is the result of the defendant’s choice to be a terrorist, his choice to make a statement. These were choices that he was proud of.”

Clarke struck a conciliatory tone in her closing argument, admitting the attack brought “tragedy, suffering and grief in dimensions that none of us could imagine were possible.”

But in a strategy clearly aimed at saving Tsarnaev from the death penalty, Clarke said Tamerlan played a much more prominent role, buying bomb components, including pressure cookers, BBs and remote control parts.

WVU Center for Women’s & Gender Studies 14th Women’s & Gender Studies Scholar in Residence

Only Not Here...Only Not Now Heteronational Panic in Post-socialist Eastern Europe

A lecture by Dr. Hadley Z. Renkin Department of Gender Studies Central European University—Budapest

Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 7 p.m.

G09 White Hall, WVU Downtown Campus Free and Open to the Public

Dr. Renkin’s work centers on post-socialist East European sexual politics and sexuality’s implications for changing conceptions of citizenship. His lecture will focus on the regional rise of public homophobia.

Website: womensgenderstudies.wvu.edu Phone: (304) 293-2339 209 Knapp Hall, West Virginia University

past year,” he said. “I wish everything about this Rolling Stone case had never happened, but the country is going to continue to pay more attention to sexual violence on campus.”

At the University of Virginia, a group of students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and board members has formed to explore how to improve the safety and well-being of sexual assault survivors and other students. The effort is focusing on prevention, institutional response and campus culture, holding town meetings and preparing recommendations for changes.

Some students have called for disciplinary action against the purported victim in the Rolling Stone article, identified only as Jackie.

Her lawyer, Palma Pustilnik, told The Associated Press on Monday that “we are not

making any comment at all at this time.”

At the University of New Hampshire’s Prevention Innovations center, co-director Jane Stapleton and her colleagues have been working to develop and evaluate programs to help end violence against women.

As soon as she read the Rolling Stone article, Stapleton became concerned about its sensational aspects.

“It seemed to me so splashy and flashy — it set the bar so high for what campus sexual assault looks like,” Stapleton said. “I worried that some survivors might have thought, “My assault wasn’t so bad. Somehow I am less of a victim.’”

“Then, with the retraction, you have some people saying, ‘Well, she was lying.

She had ulterior motives,’” Stapleton added. “The effect

on some survivors would be, ‘Well, I’m never going to tell my story because nobody’s going to believe me.’”

H o w e v e r, Stapleton expressed long-term optimism.

“There’s more and more attention to sexual assaults on campus, and what campuses need to do to prevent them,” she said. “It’s not inevitable. We can stop it.”

Lisa Maatz, the top policy adviser for the American Association of University Women, said it likely would be a boon for advocates to be able to move past the Rolling Stone case.

“We’ve seen that it’s only a very sensational, scandalous story that gets the attention,” she said. “Truthfully, the daily amount of sexual assault on campus is scandalous enough. We don’t need to sensationalize it to report the story.”

President Gee and SWAT talk wellbeing WELLWVU’s Student Wellness Ambassador Team (SWAT) was excited to accept a dinner invite to President Gee’s residence last Tuesday.

In addition to discussing what the team has accomplished in terms of sharing wellbeing messages across campus within just one year, conversation expanded to how we can encourage more groups across campus to embrace living well.

Together, how can Mountaineers foster campus wellbeing?

Consider how your individual behaviors influence your personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of peers.

Your choices related to moving, eating, sleeping, drinking, relationships and stress can holistically affect your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health.

When choices related to one or some of those components aren’t fueling your wellbeing in a positive direction, everything suffers.

Just as these components comprise personal wellbeing, every community pocket across campus has a role in how well our culture supports living well.

A campus community caring for people’s entire wellbeing optimizes their ability to thrive within and beyond the university, serving as a model to the statewide community.

Fostering wellbeing on campus requires more than a classroom lesson; it involves being intentional about choices we make.

It entails integrating health-related conversations into campus culture. Think about your own communities on campus. As a student, athlete, leader, club member or friend, what are your individual academic groups, teams, organizations and friends doing on a smaller scale to contribute to a campus where choices that support wellbeing are the ones most students embrace?

leadWELL, a peer mentor program teaching students to promote healthy behaviors through effective conversations with fellow students, is one example of this already at work.

By being empowered to participate in building such a culture, your networks can influence change.

This is the perfect time to begin as April is moveWELL month.

Whether you form a walking group with friends or start a #moveWELL challenge within one of your student groups, think about how moving together and creating a healthier campus is empowering, one step at a time.

Follow us on social media @WELLWVU for more healthy tips.

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Stopping assault, violence in April April is nationally recognized as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).

While major movements —— April 9: Women’s and Gender Studies Fair, have been happening since the 1970s to recognize the Mountainlair Ballrooms 11 a.m.-2p.m. issues of sexual assault and —— April 10: Stand Against Sexual Violence violence, President Obama was the first U.S. presiWalk, In front of Courthouse, 8-10 p.m. dent to recognize SAAM in —— April 13: Rape and Domestic Violence 2009.

Activism is usually Information Center information booth, heightened on college Mountainlair campuses during April, and West Virginia University is —— April 19: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, no exception. ThroughMountainlair Green, 2 p.m. out this month, organizations such as WVU Coun—— April 24, 25, 26: Volunteer WVU campus cil for Women’s Concerns, Peer Advocates Training the WVU chapter of the American Association of It is important as a comWe have all seen the a lot different than being University Women and the WVU Women’s and munity we recognize these posters throwing statis- a victim or a loved one of Gender Studies depart- efforts and the impor- tics at us. However, seeing a victim. These programs ment will host awareness tance of awareness on our these numbers on a poster seek to humanize these staevents. campus. in an academic building is tistics and bring awareness

upcoming events

to an individual’s ability to prevent assaults and violence from happening.

WELLWVU’s website offers information regarding receiving help on campus, where to report assault and how to help a victim.

It sponsors the WELLaware and Green Dot programs, informing students about consent and preventing violence on campus.

The Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center in Monongalia County also offers counseling, emergency shelter, advocacy and community education in the area. It is a free and confidential service who will also be sponsoring events for awareness this month.

WVU has also recently launched the “It’s On Us”

campaign, bringing awareness to violence on campus and the role we as students play in preventing these acts.

As all of these organizations or campaigns will tell you, standing up and speaking out is one of the best ways to call out dangerous, violent behavior both on and off campus. We must have the courage to call out a friend or, even harder, a stranger.

So, this April be sure to don some teal (the color for SAAM) and attend or support some of the events WVU has to offer. It is our job as peers and citizens to work to help stop sexual assault and violence today. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Army makes right decision, revises tattoo policy

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hannah chenoweth columnist @hannahchen2

The U.S. Army recently announced big changes to be implemented to its extremely controversial, restrictive tattoo policy. In a society that has grown increasingly acceptive of tattoos, this policy revision is respectable and reflects well on the Army.

Army Regulation 6701, the rule governing soldiers’ appearances, was tightened last March when the Army expressed a wish to maintain a more professional look. The strict restrictions regarding tattoos were extremely difficult for many tattooed soldiers to follow. Hairstyles common

among African-American women were also banned.

Public outcry ensued, and many soldiers took to social media to express the injustice of the restriction. A USA Today article describes the anger of soldiers for being judged on their appearance, especially when their tattoos honored fellow soldiers killed in combat.

The strict rules enacted last March were: “No tattoos on the head, face, neck and hands. No extremist, indecent, sexist or racist ink. No more than four visible tattoos below the elbows and knees. In addition, those tattoos must be smaller than the size of the wearer’s hand.

Visible band tattoos cannot be more than 2-inches

wide. Sleeve tattoos are not allowed.”

Soldiers were unable to request commissioning without a waiver if their tattoos fell into one of the categories listed above.

Now, the only tattoos that will remain banned will be face and neck tattoos or ones with “racist, sexist or extremist imagery.”

According to the Army Times’ Kathleen Curthoy, the changes are a result of complaints from soldiers.

I commend the Army for listening to these men and women; they risk their lives for the freedom of this country and deserve the freedom to ink their bodies as they wish. Tattoos have absolutely no consequence on anyone’s ability to serve our coun-

try and act in a leadership role.

Just like the original restriction received backlash, the new loosening of these rules has stirred controversy as well. Opponents believe there are consequences to getting tattooed and the Army (and other employers as well) shouldn’t change rules and regulations to suit these people. Others hold the belief the Army is somehow “lowering” its standards, when in reality superficial appearances aren’t the “standards” which determine a great soldier or a heart of gold.

One comment on USA Today reads: “A tattoo, unfortunately, calls into question your sensibility and judgement. There-

fore your professional integrity will be challenged.

Deal with it.”

I believe the comment following this sentence is a perfect response to those who believe their noninked skin somehow puts them on a pedestal above those with tattoos.

“Society is changing its view of tattoos and we have to change along with that,” said Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno on Wednesday. “It makes sense. Soldiers have grown up in an era when tattoos are much more acceptable and we have to change along with that.”

Odierno certainly has a point, one that hopefully begins to dawn on many businesses which still hold restrictive policies

of their own. Tattoos are not a symbol of unprofessionalism; they are a symbol personal to the wearer.

We live in a country where work has taken over many people’s lives, one where emails are expected to be answered immediately, even on weekends and many children are raised in daycares from the time of birth because their parents haven’t taken a vacation day in three years.

We need to remember the distinction from work and a person’s liberty to have a life outside of their profession. Tattoos have no bearing or indicator on a person’s professionalism, personality or abilities. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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New Uber service’s move to Morgantown good for students molly robinson columnist @darthmolly22

Last week a very promising and official email was sent to all West Virginia University students, detailing the implementation of Uber services in the Morgantown area.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Uber is essentially a cheaper version of a taxi cab service.

You download the Uber app, request a ride from point A to point B, it spits out a total (an amount ridiculously cheaper than a taxi ride) and lets you know when your ride has arrived. You can order an Uber and split it among friends, bringing the total down even lower, or if you’re going solo look up the ratings different drivers have based on other users’ reviews.

You can also become an Uber driver yourself, meaning the people carting you around aren’t scary adults but other col-

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lege students.

Essentially, Uber will be your best friend for the remainder of your college years.

The service has been particularly popular in other, more urban areas, and has recently started to trickle into different college towns. Considering WVU is typically woefully behind the times, implementing an Uber is perhaps one of the most forward-thinking ideas the University has taken on.

On a campus whose main priority lies more in the football team than ensuring students have a reliable source of transportation to get to the classes they pay an arm and a leg to attend, an Uber not only offers this reliability but combats the pressing issue of parking, as well.

Essentially, Uber has the ability to meet the needs of a variety of different but equally broke college students.

Suddenly, the Morgantown world is your oys-

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ter. Students who had reservations about living in fancy housing complexes like The Lofts or The Domain suddenly have a second option to get to class.

Kids who drove to the bars or house parties and got a little more out of control than they originally intended now have a desig-

nated driver at their fingertips. Students who are nervous about walking home from the library after dark have the option to invest a few bucks to assure a safe ride home.

While the actual ins and outs of the Morgantown Uber will probably take a year or two to iron out—

that is, getting respectable drivers and generally waiting for the inevitable hype to catch on—all in all Uber is the taxi cab of the future.

Granted, there is the small caveat that Uber only addresses the symptoms of a larger problem: Lack of reliable transpor-

tation or, barring that, affordable and available parking. While the University has yet to get its crap together, implementing an Uber is the next best step to getting students safely and efficiently to wherever they need to go. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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U92’s Morgantown Sound

Nathan Howard, a sophomore social services worker student, and James Turner, a sophomore biochem student, perform their rendition of an MGMT song on Morgantown Sound.

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Straight On Til Morning plays for weekly live broadcast

By Westley ThompsoN Associate A&E Editor @dailyathenaeum

Many people like music.

Some have a passion for it.

Few turn their passion into something more. James Turner and Nathan Howard are a singer/songwriter duo who have done exactly that; they’ve taken their passion for music and turned it into something greater than a hobby.

Turner and Howard founded their band during their sophomore year of high school.

“We met in an English class,” Howard said. “There was a summer project that (Turner) decided to write a song for...I said ‘hey we should hang out.’”

Howard admits to not being much of a guitar player at the time, but soon picked up the instrument. The two immediately hit it off and shortly after their first jam session formed their band, Straight On Til Morning.

“Our first time playing music together we ended up writing our first song together called ‘Cursive,’” Turner said. “From there, we did a little bit of gigging in Jefferson County.”

The band began to feel more serious once the duo reached college due to having a larger audience in Morgantown. The transition to college wasn’t completely smooth for the band, however. For a brief period of time during their freshman year, Turner and How-

ard didn’t play together.

Both felt incomplete without Straight On Til Morning in their lives and soon rectified the situation.

“I feel like our voices and our guitar playing and our song writing have just come together so much that it’s just a part of who we are now,” Howard said.

Morgantown has brought Straight On Til Morning some success. Recently, the band returned from Michigan where it has been recording its first album.

“Daybreak,” the band’s debut album, has been a five-year process beginning back in 2010. The album, like much of Straight On Til Morning’s work, has been a gradual and organic process, starting out as fun and

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slowly transitioning into a bigger project.

“It started off really as just a cathartic experiment,” Turner said. “As we got more and more songs we decided that maybe we should perhaps record an EP. As we started recording our EP, we thought ‘Oh, well we’ve got more material so why don’t we just make this an album?’”

“Daybreak” is set to release sometime this year - at its earliest, this summer. Released before the full-length album will be Straight On Til Morning’s EP, a collection of songs that didn’t make the cut for the big release.

Turner and Howard are clearly in sync with each other when it comes to music. Their writing process re-

flects this. Both contribute to all parts of a song, with Turner taking lead on the lyrics and Howard leading instrumental production. According to Turner, a song’s words often start off with a single phrase in his head.

From there, it grows into a whole song. When either have an idea, they use their phones to bounce it back and forth, developing these seeds of inspiration into actual music.

Straight On Til Morning doesn’t draw from one particular influence. Instead, every style of music acts as an inspiration.

“There is so much different music, it would be unfair to only take one style,” Howard said.

Monday night, Straight

On Til Morning played a live show on air for U92’s Morgantown Sound. The set least featured songs from their upcoming album, as wel as covers and other songs.

Turner and Howard were joined onstage by friend Dr. Pasha, whose Peruvian Cajon added a percussion sound that complimented the acoustic show’s style.

Morgantown Sound is at 9 p.m. Monday nights in the Gluck Theatre. Each week features a live performance by local Morgantown bands and musicians. For more information on Straight On Til Morning, check them out online at http://facebook. com/StraightOnTilMorningJamesAndNathan/. wethompson@mail.wvu.edu

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«««« «« I’ve never been a fan of blood and gore. I don’t dislike it, but when a villain is gruesomely dismembering people for the sole reason of “hehe, I’m evil,” I find it a bit boring and contrived.

It makes me feel if as he was picked last for kickball at Lil’ Villain school or he’s compensating for the lack of attention he got from cheerleaders at Evil University.

I’ve always preferred a different sort of horror movie, the ones concerned with the creeping inevitable death of the hero. The opening scene of “Scream” was an utter shot of terror-fueled joy to 13-year-old me. Later in life, “The Strangers” stole my horror-loving heart with its masterful use of slow, but ever-rising tension. It’s this preference for unsettling over outright scary that makes most horror movies rather dull to me, so you can

imagine my excitement when I first saw the trailer for “It Follows.”

It seemed to be everything I’d ever wanted in a horror film, at least judging by the previews. A Slenderman-esque killer who eschews charging people with an axe in favor of ceaselessly stalking them, driving the protagonist mad before moving in for a calculated kill.

Unfortunately, it was this impression that led me to create lofty expectations in my head. Expectations so high that no movie could ever hope to live up to them.

Don’t get me wrong, “It Follows” is an excellent movie. It just couldn’t live up to my personal over-inflated hype.

The very first scene treats us to a panicked teenage girl running about in heels. She desperately tells her neighbors and father that she’s fine before running off to the shore of a lake. She sits alone in the dark evening air and calls her parents, saying she loves them and apologizes for being a typical teenage brat. The next morning she is found dead, brutally twisted and broken.

Threat established.

The movie then picks up with our protagonist Jay, a pretty blonde with a nice group of friends and a ton of excitement over her date with Hugh, a goodlooking boy who’s new in town. Hugh is charming, but extremely paranoid.

However, their attraction to each other is too strong and the two lovebirds eventually have sex in Hugh’s car. It’s at this point Jay’s life goes downhill. During their after-sex pillow talk, Hugh uses a rag soaked in chloroform to render Jay unconscious.

She awakens sometime later bound to a wheelchair with Hugh nervously pacing around her. He explains that he’s genuinely sorry, but had to get rid of it. “It” being a relentless monster.

Like all supernatural movie monsters, this one has rules. The invulnerable monster’s attention is passed on through sex, like a demonic form of herpes. Once you become the monster’s target, it will never stop following you. If it reaches you, it kills you. The only way to get the monster to stop following you is to pass it

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to someone else by having sex with them. However, this respite is not guaranteed to last, because if the monster kills its victim, it moves up the chain to the previous person. The monster always walks in a straight line toward you, never running, never stopping, and it can take on the appearance of any human, including those closest to you. Another thing: It’s only visible to people it has come after.

Now the targets of the beast, Jay and her friends must struggle to survive, remaining constantly on the run lest they meet a gruesome end.

“It Follows” actually manages to be a little bit different, adding a twist to the slasher staple of “teenagers have sex then die.”

If there is one thing we can be certain of, it’s that movie baddies hate teenage sex, so much so that the thought of two nubile bodies getting it on makes them just want to hit people with a machete then go drown in a lake. This monster is motivated by similar reasoning, but goes about the murder much differently. It’s slow and implacable. Its victims

are never safe because no matter how far they run, it’s always coming. This element gives the movie a sense of pressure and restlessness that is hard to find in other films. It makes the whole world seem claustrophobia-inducing.

The movie’s main problem was how it handled the tension. It peaked way too early before plateauing, then fading off in the last few minutes. The first 20 minutes are great, but after a particularly harrowing scene the whole thing sort of stagnates.

It remains scary, but you quickly realize the monster has only one trick and that the rest of the movie will be a girl driving around crying while something follows her.

Character motivation gets a little iffy too, especially toward the end. A few dudes actually sleep with Jay, fully aware of the situation she’s in and how she got there. The writers probably did this to increase the movie’s body count. After all, what kind of horror movie would have its only death at the very beginning? However, it’s unrealistic. I don’t care how badly my hot child-

hood crush wants it, I refuse to sleep with anyone who I know has an STD - sexually transmitted demon. Nobody is that desperate.

These points are nitpicky though. “It Follows” does a lot of things well. For the most part, the actors do a good job.

The movie also carries an ever-present sense of dread with it, due to well-done cinematography making the background just always seem a bit too big for comfort.

Plus, it manages to be different than the rest, which in a genre full of remakes and double-digit sequels is no small feat. The monster is scary and you do get invested in the characters. I often found myself at the edge of my seat during particularly tense moments.

Overall, “It Follows” is a good horror movie.

It does everything a horror movie should do well and adds in its own flavor.

As with all horror films, go to the theatre, don’t think about the plot holes and enjoy the terrifying ride. wethompson@mail.wvu.edu

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Miami police spokeswoman Frederica Burden said Monday officers found Brandt's body at his home in the Coconut Grove section of Miami about 9:15

a.m. Sunday after a friend contacted them. Burden said Brandt apparently hanged himself and that foul play is not suspected.

An autopsy is planned, however Brandt had offices in Coral Gables and New York and famous patients including singer Madonna.

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Brandt's longtime publicist, Jacquie Tractenberg, said he had been suffering from depression. Recently, she said, he had been upset by a thinly veiled portrayal of him by actor Martin Short on the Netflix show, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

"It definitely bothered him. It was a very mean portrayal," she said, but she added: "He didn't kill himself because of that one particular show."

Fredric Brandt was born in 1949 in Newark, New Jersey, graduating from Rutgers University and earning his medical degree from Drexel University Medical School, according to an official biography. During residencies at New York University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he looked into several specialties including oncology and cardiology but eventually decided to focus on dermatology. He opened his Miami dermatology practice in 1982 and developed an expertise in injectable substances, including Botox.

Much of his work involved running clinical trials for many other dermatology treatments. Brandt opened his New York practice in 1998 and divided time between the two cities.

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WVU splits wins in second week of outdoors by dj deskins

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The West Virginia University women’s track and field team returned from a successful weekend where it split between California and Ohio.

The Mountaineers found themselves competing at the Stanford Invitational and Ohio Cherry Blossom Invitational this past weekend in their second week of outdoor events.

In Palo Alto, Calif., all of WVU’s athletes who made the trip competed in the 5,000-meter run.

In section four of the women’s 5,000-meter run, Sydney Scott finished in 12th with a personal-best time of 16:58.63. She was closely followed by Savanna Plombon who finished in 13th, just one-hundredth of a second behind Scott.

Br ynn Harshbarger also raced in section four and crossed the line in 18th place with a time of 17:08.12, a personal-best time for her.

Maggie Drazba was the only Mountaineer to race in section three of the 5,000-meter run and posted a career-best time of 16:21.43.

Katie Gillespie led all WVU runners with a career-best time of 16:00.27 in section two. Her run was a bright spot for the team as she saw her first action since the 2012-13 season.

In Athens, Ohio, West Virginia competed with the same group that was featured in Jacksonville, Fla., for the University of North Florida Spring Break Invitational.

In the 800-meter run, Millie Paladino took first overall with a time of 2:13.83. Christa D’Egidio finished just shortly behind her in second place.

In the 1,500-meter run,

Renee Maisonneuve finished in second with a personal-best of 4:45.35. She was followed by Rachel Faulds, who finished in third place with a personalbest time of 4:48.74.

Shamoya McNeil competed in two events for the Mountaineers during the day. In the 100-meter dash, she took fourth with a time of 13.25 seconds. In the triple jump, she beat the rest of the field with an 11.93-meter jump to take first place.

Marsielle McBeam came up just short of her indoor season-best with a 1.67-meter jump in the high

jump. However, her leap was still good enough for a first place finish. Hannah Stone finished third with a 1.57-meter jump.

Both Stone and McBeam ran in the 400-meter dash the weekend before, but only competed in high jump this past weekend.

Both Tori Bertrand and Sara Finfrock were unable to match their numbers in the pole vault from the UNF Spring Break Invitational, but still tied for second place with a 3.35-meter vault.

In the 5,000-meter run, Allie Diehl finished in fifth place with a time of

18:30.84. Despite being only three seconds off her personal-best time, she was nearly two minutes off of her teammates’ marks at the Stanford Invitational.

Meghan Jean-Baptiste also competed in two separate events for the Mountaineers. In the 200-meter dash, she placed seventh with a time of 26.92 seconds. In the 100-meter hurdles, she took fourth with a time of 14.85 seconds.

WVU will resume competition on April 11 at George Mason University in the Mason Spring Invitational. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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A-Rod cheered, walked, singled, in return from drug ban NEW YORK (AP)—Alex Rodriguez received a loud ovation and a rare shoutout from the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium before walking and singling in the first plate appearances of his return to the major leagues after a season-long drug suspension.

Rodriguez was New York’s designated hitter and batted seventh against Toronto on Monday, his first time that low in the order at the start of a regular-season game since May 7, 1996. He went 1 for 2 in the Yankees’ 6-1 loss.

New York trailed 5-0 when he came to the plate leading off the third inning. Rodriguez worked the count full against Drew Hutchison, who was 3 when A-Rod made his big league debut in 1994. On the eighth

pitch of the plate appearance, Rodriguez took a 91 mph fastball and became New York’s first baserunner.

He singled to right-center on another full-count fastball leading off the fifth and flied out in the seventh against reliever Aaron Loup.

Rodriguez was greeted with mostly cheers and some boos when introduced before the game as players lined up on the field.

The Bleacher Creatures loudly chanted “A-Rod!” several times from their right-field seats during their first-inning roll call, even though they don’t normally include the DH. ”It’s not typical,” Creatures leader “Bald Vinny” Milano wrote in an email.

“Just figured he could use a bit of support. It’s always

good to know someone is in your corner.”

Watching from the dugout, Rodriguez waved his cap twice and nodded his head.

The 39-year-old Rodriguez had not come to the plate since he struck out against Tampa Bay’s David Price on Sept. 25, 2013.

He missed 2014 while serving a suspension for violations of baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract. He sued Major League Baseball, the players’ union and the Yankees’ team physician, heightening acrimony between himself and the team, then dropped the litigation and served the penalty.

Rodriguez hit .286 in spring training with three home runs. He has 654 career homers.

What to watch besides big guys in NCAA title game INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Perhaps no two college basketball players singularly define their teams this season quite like Duke’s Jahlil Okafor and Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky.

The freshman phenom against the savvy senior.

The ACC player of the year against the AP player of the year.

Just remember there will be eight other players on the court on Monday night when the Blue Devils and Badgers square off in the NCAA Tournament championship game.

“It won’t be one guy against another,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I know how you like to do it in the papers ... it’s like a boxing match each time. It hardly ever works out that way, but it’s cool to put it down that way.”

Fair enough. With that in mind, here are a few other players and story lines to watch Monday night that don’t have to do with the dominant big men.

Not entirely anyway.

CLUTCH DEKKER: Wisconsin junior Sam Dekker

has turned into a bona fide star these last three weeks.

The 6-foot-9 forward is averaging 20.6 points per game in the tourney. He’s turned into a force in the clutch, like his 3-pointer with 1:42

left to put the Badgers up for good in the 71-64 win over unbeaten Kentucky.

He then went down to the other end and drew a charging call on Wildcats freshman Trey Lyles.

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West Virginia heads to Maryland, seeks 10th win in 11 games by connor murray sports writer @dailyathenaeum

Though their win streak may have come to an end, the Mountaineers kept the bats hot in Manhattan last weekend, winning their first conference series of the year on the road against Kansas State and keeping the wave of momentum going heading into another mid-week non-conference matchup tomorrow in College Park against the Maryland Terrapins.

After dropping the series opener Thursday night, West Virginia won consecutive games against the Wildcats on Friday and Saturday, pushing its overall record to 18-11 and its conference mark to 4-5.

Sophomore pitcher Chad Donato continued

his strong start to the season with another solid outing in the series finale. The Cypress, Texas native gave up two runs in 7.1 innings pitched, struck out three batters and limited the damage from three walks and four hits surrendered.

Donato worked deep enough into the game to allow West Virginia’s offense to finally wake up after it fell into a 2-0 hole in the bottom of the first, as the Mountaineers tied the game in the top of the sixth and took an eventually decisive lead on an RBI double by Kyle Davis in the top of the ninth.

“His first inning was very unlike him,” said head coach Randy Mazey in a press release. “He had walked one guy all year and walked two in the first inning and they both scored.

Other than that, that’s Chad

Donato. He pitched really well and retired almost everyone in the middle of the game.”

Although they weren’t able to break through until late in the game, West Virginia’s offense racked up eight hits in five innings against Kansas State’s starting pitcher, Nate Griep, and forced the Wildcats to delve into their bullpen early in the game, which is always a positive in the last of a three game set.

“We came out today and swung the bats pretty well against a really, really good pitcher,” Mazey said. “I hate to say it, but we deserved to win that game because we out-hit them and Donato was really good and Blake Smith was really good. I thought we competed and composed ourselves really well (Saturday).”

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With its first conference series win under its belt, West Virginia’s focus shifts to putting more distance between itself and the .500 mark, which could prove a tall task against a talented Maryland team that came within a game of reaching Omaha and the College

World Series before falling to the Virginia Cavaliers in last year’s NCAA Super Regional.

The Terrapins haven’t exhibited any signs of a hangover from that disappointment this season and have climbed up to No. 17 in the nation after a 22-7 start.

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WVU loses in WNIT Championship by david Statman sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The trophy case is still empty for the West Virginia University women’s basketball team. The Mountaineers’ season is over after losing in heartbreaking fashion in the finals of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament Saturday, falling 62-60 to the UCLA Bruins at the Charleston Civic Center.

The Mountaineers saw their season-long shooting woes rear their ugly head again, hitting just 32.8 percent of their attempts from the field. Meanwhile, West Virginia found itself completely unable to stop UCLA freshman guard Jordin Canada, who nearly won the game singlehandedly with her game-high 31 points. “We knew she was going to drive, but we didn’t think she was going to go to the foul line 15 times,� said Mountaineer head coach Mike Carey. “We didn’t do a good job. Give her credit, she attacked. On the other

end, we didn’t attack. We stood up and passed the ball around and around and took bad shots.�

The Mountaineers struggled to score from the outset, especially as starting point guard Linda Stepney and starting center Lanay Montgomery saw their first half minutes limited due to foul trouble. Although UCLA struggled just as much from the field in an ugly first half, the Bruins went into halftime with a 30-28 lead after a steal and a buzzer-beating layup from Canada.

Although Canada was in a rhythm for all 40 minutes, the Mountaineers were able to surge ahead in the second half, eventually building their largest lead of six with just over seven minutes to play. UCLA quickly negated that advantage, with the last of the game’s 10 lead changes coming on a Canada layup with just under four minutes left.

The Mountaineers committed three critical turnovers in the game’s final minutes. After a Linda

Stepney three made it a two-point game with just seconds to play, West Virginia failed to foul and allowed UCLA to dribble out the clock. “When we came down and hit the three we had an opportunity to foul,�

Carey said. “That’s by our bench and I’m screaming ‘Foul! Foul! Foul! Foul!’ and I don’t know why we didn’t foul right there. When the game was on the line we just didn’t execute, which we had been doing down the stretch.�

Although West Virginia pulled off late comebacks in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the WNIT, it lacked the offensive spark to bring themselves level with UCLA. Leading scorer Bria Holmes ended with 14 points on just 3-15 shooting, making just one of her seven attempts from beyond the arc.

Senior forward Averee Fields led the way with 17 points, but combined, the rest of the team shot just 28 percent from the field.

Meanwhile, Jordin Canada

attacked the rim and continually got to the free throw line, scoring exactly half of UCLA’s points for the game.

For Fields, Stepney and forward Crystal Leary, one of the most successful senior classes in Mountaineer history, Saturday’s game represented the end of their collegiate careers. “They’ve won a lot of basketball games,� Carey said. “I’m so proud of them. They don’t need to hold their heads down. They’ve done a lot for this University and for this basketball program.

They need to keep their heads up. They played hard down to the last second. I have nothing but praise for our three seniors.�

After five straight early exits in the NCAA Tournament, this year’s WNIT was West Virginia’s deepest postseason run in a decade.

But the Mountaineers return to Morgantown emptyhanded, having missed out on their chance at the first postseason title in program history. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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The West Virginia University gymnastics team hosted an NCAA Regional meet Saturday night and finished in fifth place with a score of 195.65.

Six teams gathered at the Coliseum to compete in regionals and the top two teams held a chance

to move on to the NCAA Championships as well as the top two individual competitors who are not from one of the teams moving on.

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From the Mountaineers, senior Dayah Haley competed as an all-around competitor. This was the third time this season doing so. She previously did all-around in a regular meet late in the season and also at the Big 12 Championships meet.

Haley matched her career high on the vault with a 9.825, matched her season high on the bars with a 9.7, hit a career high 9.85 on the beam and scored a 9.85 on the floor. Overall she finished with a careerhigh 39.225 all-around score, tying for sixth place.

Throughout the entire meet her energy was so strong, it was obvious she wanted a chance at the national stage.

With all the action going on, head coach Jason Butts said he didn’t even watch the other teams at the meet — he was only focused on the Mountaineers. “I’m a bit speechless over the whole day,� Butts said in an interview with WVUsports.com. “This was my favorite regional championships I’ve ever been a part of. There was something magical about today – I can’t describe it. This team bought into everything I’ve said over the last two weeks – I’m so proud of today’s performance.�

The 195.65 score is the second-best score the Mountaineers have scored at a regional meet in program history, and the third-best score of this

season. Throughout the meet West Virginia scored 49.075 on the vault, the second best vault score of 2015, 48.025 on the floor, 48.375 on the uneven bars and 49.225 on the beam.

The beam score beat the season high for WVU, and several gymnasts came out with career or season-high scores bested. Freshman Jordan Gillette hit a career high 9.85 on the beam, along with Haley’s stellar performance.

No. 2 Florida ended in first place, with a 197.475.

No. 11 Stanford took second place with a 197.

Both teams will move on to the NCAA National Championships.

Third place was given to No. 14 Illinois, who finished with a score of 196.675. No. 19 Arkansas’ 196.5 took fourth place and No. 25 New Hampshire came in sixth place with its score of 194.825.

The two individual competitors who advance to nationals are Giana O’Connor, Mary Jane Horth and Sunny Kato, all from Illinois.

Regionals concluded the season for gymnastics, as no members of the West Virginia team will move on to nationals.

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AFFORDABLE 2BR/1BTH. $325 per person plus elec & water. 452 Stewart Street, downtown campus. AC, W&D, **No Pets**, off street parking. Rice Rentals.

304-598-7368. ricerentals.com

1 & 2 Bedroom 2 Bath Apts

TERA PROPERTIES, NEW 1 & 2 BR/ 2 Bath Apts. $635-950+ electric. Locations include: Lewis, Stewart, Irwin Streets & Idlewood Dr. New 1BR available in May on Glenn St. Walking distance to Downtown/Hospital. Hardwood floors, W/D, wifi, fitness room, tanning beds, free parking. No Pets. 304-290-7766 or 304-288-0387. www.rentalswv.com

ALL UTILITIES. NEWLY RENOVATED 1, 2, 3 & 4BR APARTMENTS and HOUSES. Downtown/Evansdale. UTILITIES INCLUDED. Prime downtown location.

304-288-8955.

BARNETTE RENTALS 2BR Modern, Private Deck, A/C, DW, W/D, Parking, Easy walk to campus $325/each 304-545-5587

2BR APARTMENTS on Prospect and Spruce St. Also 5BR house across Walnut Street Bridge. Call Nick at 304-292-1792.

Now Leasing 2015 Prices starting at $540 Security Deposit $200 Walk in Closets, Jacuzzi Balcony, Elevators W/D, DW Garages, Storage Units Sparkling Heated Pool Minutes to Hospitals, Downtown and Shopping Center

NO PETS

24 Hr Maintenance / Security

304-599-1880

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LARGE, MODERN, 2BR. University Ave/Star City. W/D, Off-street parking. No pets. $650/plus utilities. 304-692-1821

WILKINS RENTALS 304-292-5714 ____________________ UNIQUE APARTMENTS Varying sizes and styles.

Many extras and reasonable rent, with lots included!

Near Campus CALL NOW!!!

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3 BR. Great location. Walk to lair. Sunnyside. Business school PRT. $390/ includes utilities. Parking included. 304-594-3817

2-3BRS. Walk to Campus. Parking.

Lease/Deposit. NO PETS. Avail. 6-1-15.

Max Rentals. 304-291-8423

1 BEDROOM APT. Located behind Mountainlair on Spruce Street. W/D. Parking included. $550 + electric. 304-685-7835.

UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS

3 BEDROOM APT. On Willey Street. 5-min walk to campus/downtown.W/D. Includes 2 parking spots $385 each. Utilities included.

Call 304-685-7835

2,3 & 6 BR, SOUTH PARK. W/D, Pet Friendly. Includes utilities. Plenty of parking. Starting June 1st. 12-month lease/deposit. 304-292-5714

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9 & 12 Month Leases August to May OR August to August Individual Leases 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

304.413.0900

Downtown Off Spruce Street!

FREE PARKING www.metropropertymgmt.net BEL-CROSS PROPERTIES, LLC

Prices are for the total unit Sunnyside South Park Downtown South Park

$500 $525 $550 $650

Downtown Sunnyside Evansdale Med Center

3BD

$650 $700 $700 $800

Wiles Hill Med Center Evansdale Sunnyside

4BD

$800 $855 $1200 $1500

Star City

1BD

2BD

$1200 + util Now Leasing for Spring 2015 and Now

(304) 296 - 7930

1,2,3,4,5, and 6 Bedrooms Sunnyside, South Park, Suncrest, Wiles Hill Woodburn, Evansdale and Downtown Complete rental list on

belcross.com Arthur G. Trusler III - Broker

3/BR, 2 BATH OFF PRICE STREET. AC, W/D, Pets Discussed. $475 includes utilities and parking. Call 304-284-9634

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

3BR SOUTH HIGH STREET. Large rooms. $350/per person. Utili included. No Pets 304-692-1821

LARGE 3BR APTS. TOP OF HIGH ST. All utilities included. 304-292-7233.

Barrington North NOW LEASING FOR 2015 Prices Starting at $640 Security Deposit $200 2 Bedroom 1 Bath 24 Hour Maintenance/Security Laundry Facilities Minutes to Hospitals & Evansdale Public Transportation

NO PETS

Quiet Peaceful Neighborhood

304-599-6376 www.morgantownapartments.com NICE LARGE 2BR/1BTH. 448 Stewart. $400 per person including, heat, gas & water. Downtown campus. Easy walk to Life Science. Off street parking, **No Pets**.

Rice Rentals: 304-598-7368. ricerentals.com

SMITH RENTALS, LLC

304-322-1112

● Houses ● 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments

Check out:

www.smithrentalsllc.com

Now Leasing May 2015

STADIUM VIEW APARTMENTS Affordable Rent, Great Location Rent starting at $350 Eff, 1 &2/BR Leasing for May 2015 304-598-7368 stadiumviewwv.com

NOW LEASING FOR MAY 2015

ROOMMATES ROOMMATES WANTED- Looking for one roommate for nice house. Private bathroom, fully furnished. A couple blocks from the Mountainlair. $500/month. Utilities included.740-381-0361

AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE CASH PAID!! WE BUY CARS and trucks.

Any make! Any model! Any condition!

304-282-2560

HELP WANTED Taking Applications for DA DELIVERY POSITION The Daily Athenaeum’s Distribution Department is looking for responsible & reliable student employees to fill the position of:

Delivery Driver Position requirements are: • report to work at 4:45 am • Valid Driver’s License • Graduation date after August 2015 Applications are available at the Daily Athenaeum, 284 Prospect St. Please include a class schedule. eoe

UNFURNISHED / FURNISHED OFF-STREET PARKING EVANSDALE / STAR CITY LOCALLY OWNED ON-SITE MAINTENANCE MOST UNITS INCLUDE: HEAT, WATER & GARBAGE SECURITY DEPOSIT REQUIRED MOUNTAIN LINE BUS SERVICE EVERY 10 MINUTES MINUTES FROM PRT

304-599-4407 ABSOLUTELY NO PETS WWW.PRETERENTAL.COM

FURNISHED HOUSES 783 WILEY ST. FOR RENT. Furnished house with 4BR, 5 min. walk to campus and downtown. Call 304-685-5709 for more info.

UNFURNISHED HOUSES 3 BR. 129 Springbrook. 5-6 blocks from downtown or stadium. Cathedral ceiling/open to below/skylights. 2BTH. Great deck. $495/each includes utilities. Available May. 304-685-3537 5 BEDROOM HOUSE in South Park across from Walnut Street Bridge. W/D. Call Nicole at 304-290-8972 2BR TOWNHOUSE. South High Street.

Large rooms, Hardwood floors, full basement with w/d hookup. $750/plus utili. No Pets. 304-692-1821.

4BR HOUSE $1500 all utilities included except cable. Free street parking. 15min walk to Mt. Lair. Please call: 304-692-0990 4/5 BEDROOM HOUSE. 9 month lease.

Free parking, W/D, 1 minute walk to lair, $425+utilities/person. Pets discussed.

304-284-9634 4/BR BETWEEN CAMPUSES. New appliances, W/D, Off-street Parking, Pet friendly. 12-month lease / deposit. Starts June 1. 304-292-5714 4/BR Glendon St. Above Arnold Hall.

New Appliances, W/D, Full Basement, Off-Street Parking, Pet-Friendly.

12-month lease/deposit. Starts June 1st.

304-292-5714 AVAILABLE 5/8/15. 3 BR house. Recently remodeled. Partially furnished. Close to campus. Off-street parking. 296-8801.

MUST SEE just across from Arnold Hall 1-6BR and 2 & 3BATH houses with W/D, DW, Microwave, A/C, parking, all in excellent condition. All utilities included. For appointment call 304-288-1572, 288-9662, 282-7572 website JEWELMANLLC.COM

NOW LEASING! 3, 4 & 5BR Units @ Jones Place. Starting @ $625. 1, 2 & 3BR Units High St., Spruce St., & First St. Starting @ $350. scottpropertiesllc.com 304-296-7400

VERY NICE, MODERN, SPACIOUS, NEWLY RENOVATED, EFFICIENT 2BR apt and 3BR House. Private, quiet, adult neighborhood near University Avenue and North Street. $600/each/month+utilities. No pets. No parties. 304-288-0919

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.

WESTOVER. Available 5/1. 1BR House.

BTH, kitchen/w stove&refrig. W/D. No pets. $550/mth plus utilities. Lease and deposit.

304-288-3010.

EXPRESSWAY CAR-WASH now hiring. $9/hr, plus tips. Apply in person next to Sheets by University Town Center or text 304-282-4321.

HIRING STAFF at Sunset Beach Marina.

Boat experience a plus. E-mail resume to ftssos@aol.com or call 724-557-6660 for information LIFEGUARDS NEEDED: The Pines Country Club in Morgantown is hiring lifeguards.

Lifeguards should be a minimum of 16 years old, and must have current certification in Lifeguard/first aid/CPR/AED. Applications online at www.thepinescc.com or in the club business office.

MARIO’S FISHBOWL NOW HIRING Full or part-time cooks, servers and bartenders: Also hiring for Summer Full & Part-time. Apply in person at 704 Richwood Ave./3117 University Ave. or e-mail resume to fishbowl@mountain.net OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE NOW HIRING Dish and Line Cooks. Apply at www.bloominbrandscareers.com/outback, Store #14962

The

Daily Athenaeum is NOW accepting applications for Publication Distributors Graduation Weekend May 15th - 17th 20 - 25 hours $9.00/hr Apply in person at: 284 Prospect Street Morgantown, WV SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. The Health Sciences & Technology Academy (HSTA) is looking for WVU Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students to serve as Mentors for WV High School Students during our Summer Program.

Dates-July 12th-July 17th, 2015. Training sessions will take place July 9th & 10th. Full job description & application can be found: HSTA web site at www.wv-hsta.org, or contact Nelda Watson 304-293-1651, nwatson@hsc.wvu.edu SUMMER MOWING/LANDSCAPING Commercial Locations. starting at $10/hour.

Valid Driver’s License. Contact Glenmark Holding, LLC. 304-599-3369 ext. 109 THE HILTON GARDEN INN will be taking applications for the following positions: Line Cook, part-time & full-time, open availability preferred. Part-time AM server, 5a-1p & PM server/bartender, 4p-11p, open availability preferred. Housekeeping: Room attendants & part-time lobby attendant. Full time maintenance (must have valid driver’s license).

Full time & part time morning front desk 7a-3p (weekends included). Please apply in person at the hotel’s front desk.

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