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SGA supports rally for Mizzou by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

At West Virginia University, students gathered on the Mountainlair Green and set up a weeklong tent city to celebrate the annual Homecoming Game.

At the University of Missouri, students recently camped out in tents to support a student during his hunger strike and

to draw the university administration’s attention to the school’s systemic racism.

Two very different colleges with very different reasons to pitch a tent, but campus leaders at the former say WVU students should pay attention to what happened across the country.

Daniel Brewster, a sociology instructor and coadviser to the Student Government Association, said

at SGA’s Wednesday meeting that although Mizzou students might face a campus more ostentatious in its racism, WVU has problems of its own.

WVU’s chapter of the NAACP, along with other diversity groups on campus, will host a “Solidarity with Mizzou” event in front of the Mountainlair today from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.

To ensure WVU never reaches a point where the

Media professionals to discuss 2016 presidential election by caity coyne city editors @caitycoyne

With a national election less than a year away, potential presidential nominees have been in the American media’s spotlight as they appear on talk shows, interact with voters and perform

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“This (election) is going to determine the direction that the country is going in for your formative adult years.”

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in debates.

As the media follows these candidates, the public follows the media, and at 7:30 p.m. tonight in 202 Brooks Hall, an expert panel of journalists will sit down to discuss why the 2016 presidential election

could be one of the most important elections of our lifetime.

“If you are 20 years old now,” said Michael Tomasky, moderator of the panel, “this (election) is going to determine the direction that the country is going in for your formative adult years.”

In “Beyond the Hype and Headlines,” panelists Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox; Jamelle Bouie, chief political correspondent at Slate; Paige Lavender, senior political editor at The Huffington Post and Mercedes Schlapp, former White House spokesperson, will talk about “the Trump phenomenon,” the baggage hanging off some candidates and what this election will mean for the future, among other things, according to Dean Maryanne Reed of the Reed College of Media.

Tomasky believes 2016 could be the turning point for American politics and policy.

“If you think of political

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WVU alumni, state representative discuss plan to help Syrian refugees

By Amy Pratt

Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

Mouhammed Sakkal’s family is scattered.

Originally, they’re from Syria, but turmoil in their home land forced them to flee to different countries—G ermany, Jordan, Lebanon and the Netherlands.

Two of his cousins are stuck, alone in Turkey.

They have tried five times to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, but border patrol has caught them three times. The other two, their raft sank, and they had to swim back to Turkey.

For these reasons, Sakkal, a graduate of West Virginia University, joined the West Virginia Friends of Syria Movement as the head of the group’s University outreach subcommittee,

hoping to do something.

“They’re teenagers.

They were in school before the crisis happened, and now they’re just working very low wage jobs, just making enough money to live,” he said.

“That’s one of my greatest motivations, is having family that’s really negatively affected by this crisis. When I heard that raft sank twice, I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”

The West Virginia Friends of Syria Movement is a group of community members who want to help refugees that are accepted into the country.

Started this year by Abra Sitler, another graduate of WVU, members plan to assist 150 refugees—100 of which are from Syria—settle into life in West Virginia by

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administration doesn’t listen to the concerns of its minority students, SGA unanimously supports the WVU NAACP’s event—but not without controversy.

“We have to stand up and do what is right. (It’s) not going to be easy…” said Blake Humphrey, SGA governor. “I think it’s an issue in our country, and (an) issue across the world and on this campus. And systemic oppression is as

well, and I’ll stand by that.”

The WVU NAACP sent out tweets yesterday afternoon advertising the event. Affixed at the bottom of the poster was SGA’s logo.

During a speech from Humphrey, he warned other executives not to allow groups to use the organization’s logo without permission from the Board of Governors.

In order for the logo to appear on any type

of flyer like this, the organization’s bylaw requires support and approval from the Board of Governors.

“It goes back to the old saying that it’s (a) better thing to ask forgiveness,” Humphrey said. “It’s important enough that I believe we should give forgiveness (in) this case.”

Brewster expressed his worries, as well.

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SHARE-A-SWIPE

Students donate their extra meal swipes at the Summit Grab n’ Go to the “Share A Swipe” campaign.

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Second-consecutive ‘Share-A-Swipe’ campaign allows students to donate to the homeless

By Jamie Mason correspondent @DailyAthenaeum

Students at West Virginia University have found a way to help the people of Morgantown who might not know where their next meal is coming from.

WVU’s Student Government Association kicked off the Share-A-Swipe campaign for the second year in a row on Wednesday afternoon.

At the Summit Grab ‘n Go downtown and the Brew n’ Gold Café on Evansdale, students donated their dining hall swipes to be turned into meals for the local homeless. “(Share-A-Swipe) started last year as an awareness campaign to let freshmen realize that their meal swipes don’t roll over from one semester to the next,” said Julie Merow, vice chair for the SGA

Board of Governors.

Share-A-Swipe is a campaign that allows students with a meal plan the opportunity to “share” a swipe, and in return, Dining Services makes that many meals for the homeless.

Once the meals are prepared, SGA members and other student volunteers deliver the food to the Salvation Army, the Bartlett House and the Rosenbaum Family House, all of which are located in the Morgantown area.

“I think it’s awesome that we’re able to personally donate the food and serve the food,” said SGA Governor Amber Kaska. “Everything is very student driven, and it just makes you feel wonderful after helping out the community.”

The program initially started in 2014 with Merow

trying to transfer leftover meal swipes from one semester to the next. After finding out that was not possible, Merow and Kaska came together to start the initiative.

Merow said WVU students donated about 700 swipes within the program’s first year.

“I’m hoping that we can get a few hundred more (than last year),” Merow said. “It would be cool if we could get one thousand (swipes). As long as it goes well and there are at least a few hundred (swipes) donated, I think it will be successful.”

This year, SGA paired up with the Food Recovery Network, a student movement across the country where leftover food is collected and redistributed to those in need.

The network helped to volunteer and increase the awareness of the campaign, and will also assist delivering the food,

Kaska said.

Hilary Kinney, primary leader of WVU’s chapter of the Food Recovery Network, said when they heard about the event and the Share-A-Swipe mission, they thought it was similar to their own. “… That’s when we decided to come on board with SGA,” Kinney said. “(The students) I have talked to have seemed really enthusiastic about what is happening.”

Wednesday was the first day of the semester that students had the opportunity to donate. There were already 200 swipes donated at Brew n’ Gold by 2 p.m., according to Kaska.

One student who donated a swipe, Alexandria Mazza, was excited to help, and thinks more Share-ASwipe events should be held,

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Muslim Student Association fights hunger with ‘Fast-a-Thon’

By Madeleine Hall Staff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

West Virginia University’s Muslim Student Association, with campus chapters of Oxfam America and UNICEF, invited students to go hungry for the hungry on Wednesday in an inaugural “Fast-a-Thon.”

With each pledge to fast, or abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset, sponsors donated to Scotts Run Settlement House, a local food pantry. At sunset, participants came together for a catered banquet to break their fast and were encouraged to donate one canned food item as a ticket to the dinner.

“Fasting is a way for you

to humble yourself and really see what it’s like for those that are chronically hungry,” said Sara Berzingi, president of the MSA. Justice McCoy, a representative from Scotts Run Settlement House, spoke at the event, thanking all those who participated for their support of the Scotts Run Settlement House food pantry, which serves around 8,000 in need each year.

“Who felt hungry today?” McCoy joked with audience members, who promptly raised their hands. “Can you imagine what it would be like to feel that every day?”

More than 180 people registered for the Fast-aThon, and the turnout for

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Students donate canned foods to participate in the ‘WVU Fast-A-Thon’.

the event itself was high, and said they were fasting. according to Berzingi.

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After the fast was brovery successful,” Berzingi said. “So many peosee FAST on PAGE 2 ple came up to me today

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Thursday November 12, 2015

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Seven of nine in Ohio plane crash were from Florida firm AKRON, Ohio (AP)—Seven associates of a Florida real estate investment company were on the second day of a multicity Midwestern trip to look at property for potential shopping centers when their small jet crashed into an Ohio apartment house, killing all nine people onboard.

The crash Tuesday afternoon in Akron - 2 miles from the small airport where the plane was to land - killed two executives and five employees at Pebb Enterprises, a Boca Raton-based company that specializes in shopping centers. The two pilots also were killed.

Another pilot who had just landed at the airport reported hearing no distress calls despite being on the same communications frequency as the aircraft that went down, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

The NTSB recovered the downed plane’s cockpit voice recorder, which was being sent to a lab in Washington.

Investigators also reviewed surveillance video from a construction company that showed the plane coming in along the tops of trees and banking to the left

before it crashed and exploded into flames and a cloud of black smoke, said Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice chairman of the NTSB. The left wing hit the ground first before the plane crashed into the apartment house, she said.

Officials haven’t released names of the victims, but family members at the crash scene said the dead included 50-year-old Diane Smoot, who was with the group from Pebb Enterprises, her sister told Cleveland.com.

“Our hearts are broken this morning with the news of the tragic accident that took the lives of two principals and five employees of Pebb Enterprises,” said a statement posted Wednesday on the company website. “We are shocked and deeply saddened for the families, colleagues and friends of those who perished.”

The chartered plane left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Monday and stopped in St. Paul, Minnesota; Moline, Illinois; and St. Louis before arriving in Cincinnati, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware.

The plane departed from Cincinnati on Tuesday

morning and stopped in Dayton before crashing on its approach to Akron Fulton International just before 3 p.m.

The 10-seat Hawker H25 business jet clipped utility wires and crashed into the four-unit apartment building, sparking a fire that destroyed the building, Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Bill Haymaker said. Nobody was home at any of the apartments, and there were no other injuries.

A man who lived in the unit that the plane crashed into said he wasn’t home because he’d gone to the store to buy Hot Pockets, a brand of microwavable turnovers.

Jason Bartley told the Akron Beacon Journal that he feels lucky but also in shock over the crash. The 38-yearold factory worker said he was coming home when he saw the flames.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused the crash, which shook furniture in homes several blocks away and left behind fiery debris.

It could take days to recover and identify the victims, Haymaker said.

“It’s going to be extensive,” he said.

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Veterans take part in the Veterans Day Parade on High Street Wednesday night.

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Continued from page 1 hopefully finding SyrianAmerican families already in the state to sponsor the refugees.

Sitler, who was in the Peace Corps for two years in Turkey and has Syrian-American friends, feels the issue is important both nationally and internationally.

“These people are refugees, and they need a

election

Continued from page 1 history in terms of long periods, we’ve lived through the Roosevelt period,” Tomasky said.

The premise of Roosevelt’s New Deal and social welfare programs influenced American policy from around 1932 until 1980.

“And then Reagan changed that to a considerable extent,” he said.

Even today, despite President Barack Obama being in office, America is still very much in a “Rea-

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Continued from page 1 and more people should be informed.

“I think it’s awesome, it’s a really good idea… I wish I could do it every day,” Mazza said.

Even if students don’t have a meal plan but still want to help the program, Merow

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The Summit County coroner on Wednesday sought the expertise of a forensics team from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, to help local officials at the

site of the crash. The team specializes in crime scene and airplane crash recoveries of human remains.

Witnesses, including Carrie Willis, who lives several

blocks away, said they heard explosions when the plane hit.

“I heard a big bang, and my couch shook twice,” Willis said.

SGA

“These kinds of things, it’s more than just putting the logo on the flyer,” Brewster said.

“I’ve seen that happen a few times with this board.”

At first, Humphrey was hesitant about supporting the event, and Governor Mac McIntyre thought back to when a previous member of SGA received backlash after speaking about concealed carry on college campuses.

“This isn’t a political issue,” said Gove r n o r S e a n Fi t z wa ter. “It’s a human rights issue.”

At the end, McIntyre

and Humphrey supported the event, reasoning that systemic racism is an issue facing many college students, and as a member of SGA, they are supposed to represent all students at WVU. The Board also made a handful of executive appointments Wednesday night. By a secret ballot, the Board unanimously appointed Student Body Vice President Ashley Morgan, Stephen Scott, Joy Wang, Roshan Daniel, Justin Click, Press Secretary Liz Barnhart and Attorney General Matt Blair to the elections committee.

The Board also unanimously approved the following grants for student organizations: - A $156 grant to the Physics and Astronomy

Graduate Student Organization, the full amount it requested, so it can host a mixer in the Gluck Theatre.

- A $1,500 grant to the WVU Experimental Rocketry Club, the full amount it requested, so it can pay the fees for an upcoming conference.

- A $1,207.50 grant for the Left Alliance to host a conference for its members. The Bureau of Finance asked the Board not to award the full requested amount of $1,500 since some of that money was going to cover TShirts and miscellaneous expenses.

SGA will meet again at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 18 in Elizabeth Moore Hall.

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place to live,” she said.

Sitler enlisted Delegate Barbara Fleischauer of the West Virginia House of Delegates to join the movement, as well. Sitler previously interned for Fleischauer.

“It turns out one of my colleagues in the legislature is Syrian... I think a lot of us would like to do something constructive,” Fleischauer said. “There’s not always a lot ordinary West Virginians can do to help out in a crisis, but (Syria) has been in a crisis

for many years.”

Volunteers in the movement will help the refugees get into the school system and provide resources for job training. The Literacy Volunteers of Monongalia and Preston Counties will also assist by offering English lessons, and ACT and SAT preparatory classes.

Beyond that, The West Virginia Friends of Syria Movement plans to have a letter writing campaign to state senators. Members hope to speed up the screening process for ob-

taining permission for refugees to come to the United States.

“The screening process takes 18 to 24 months, but by the time we get to the end of that process, some of the refugees could be dead,” said Sue Barazi, head of the interfaith subcommittee.

Barazi came from Syria to the United Stated when she was 17 years old. She has now raised three children, and earned two masters degrees and a PhD. Like Sakkal, Barazi

wants West Virginians to understand the Syrian refugees will not be a burden to the state. Syria is one of the highest educated countries in the Middle East and most Syrians already speak Arabic and English.

“We’re not trying to bring people here just to be on government subsidies or anything of that nature,” Sakkal said. “We want people to come here to work hard and help improve the economy of West Virginia.”

The movement is personal for both of them.

“If the crisis makes your hearts cry, it makes our hearts bleed,” Barazi said.

The next West Virginia Friends of Syria Movement meeting will be at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at Health Right on Spruce Street. WVU students or community members who are interested in learning more can email Sakkal at msakkal@mix.wvu.edu.

gan era”, Tomasky said, and 2016 will either end that with the election of a democratic president, or continue it with a republican taking office.

With so much riding on this election, getting millenials to start thinking about issues—while difficult—is pertinent, Reed said.

“Young voters tend to be fairly apathetic, (and) feel like their voice doesn’t matter,” Reed said. “Hopefully this will get them excited and realize that not only does their voice matter, this election matters.

And if they don’t have a voice, they are not going

to have a say in the future.”

The goal of the panel, according to Reed, is to make current politics relevant to students while getting them excited. “(This is about) really getting students to think— not only about the issues at stake here—but also about how the media characterizes those issues and sort of engages the public in a debate about the future,” she said.

The panelists are all a part of what Reed called “the new media.” Vox, Slate and Huffington Post are all web based and relatively new, formed within the last 20 years.

And as different media emerges, the public is getting its news in different ways, as well. 38 percent of American adults get their news from Twitter and Facebook, according to a study done by the Pew Research Center.

“Everything is about clicks these days,” Tomasky said. “...It’s making (the election) somewhat more personality driven than it once was, but I want to emphasize the somewhat.”

When people talk about a “click-bait dominated” media, Tomasky believes they are implying that there was a “golden age” in journalism when reporters

strictly wrote about policy.

“That was never the case,” he said.

And while there are smaller websites devoted to just policy, only a small percentage of people visit them, according to Tomasky.

Reed hopes this panel and discussion will excite the younger population and determine them enough to start caring about the policy issues.

“This should not be like a talk show format where the journalists are talking insider baseball,” she said. “This should really be about an honest conversation about what issues are

at stake in this election and the possible outcomes.”

Ultimately, Tomasky hopes students take away a sense of citizenship from this discussion, and realize that, as citizens, students have an obligation to critically think about politics sometimes.

“Everybody is busy and everybody needs to think about their lives and their exams and their jobs and the Mountaineers,” he said, “but citizens should set aside some time to think about the kinds of things we’re talking about (tonight).”

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to casually interact with Muslims at WVU, which helped those with negative attitudes toward Islam view Muslim students as an important part of the Mountaineer community, Berzingi said.

“There have been times where we’ve had students report harassment and hate crimes on this campus for being Muslim,” she said. “But those who have the most misconceptions about Islam are those who have never had the chance to meet a Muslim.”

Political discourse often contributes to these misconceptions, Berzingi said, but events such as the Fasta-Thon illustrate that Muslims are integral parts of American communities.

“In politics these days, there’s this notion that being a Muslim and being an American can’t coexist,” she said. “But we are Americans, we are Mountaineers and some of us are even West Virginia natives. Having a different faith doesn’t change that.”

said volunteers can work booths during these events and can deliver the meals.

Any way students participate, they can gain service hours.

For the students who would like to donate swipes, but weren’t able to on Wednesday, Merow said there will be another day in December to give them the chance to donate. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 ken, participants listened to Imam Kip Curnutt explain the significance of fasting in Islamic, Christian and Jewish tradition and the way in which it promotes patience, humility and spirituality.

During Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar that marks the first revelation of the Qur’an to the prophet Muhammad, Muslims throughout the world fast from sunrise until sunset, abstaining from not only food and drink, but also cursing, lying and unkind actions.

Muslims break their fast each day of Ramadan with an elaborate evening meal known as Iftar, where family and friends gather together. Before fasting begins at sunrise and before the recitation of the first prayer of the day, Muslims observe a pre-fasting meal called Suhur.

The Fast-a-Thon gave non-Muslims the chance

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Denying science blocks progress Ben Carson recently made headlines for confirming his belief in a statement he made from 1998, which involved his opinion as to why the pyramids were created and what their purpose was in Egypt.

In the Bible, the pyramids are said to act as grain silos and were constructed

by Joseph (of Technicolor Dreamcoat fame), and a book Carson may have drawn from in forming his belief claimed the human bodies found inside were meant to act as scarecrows in order to keep birds away.

There are two problems with this belief: Pyramids aren’t hollow, and the ancient Egyptians took time to record why they were built through use of their writing system.

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Ben Carson inaccurately claimed the Egyptian pyramids were used to store grain.

Though every presidential candidate is bound to misspeak or have something ridiculous accredited to them before election sea-

son is over, Carson’s statement has opened up discussion on the necessity of promoting scientific fact over personal belief in

cases where clear evidence exists.

Scientists and science deniers have long clashed with one another. From

teaching creationism in school to disregarding theories of global climate change, the question of where teaching religionbased creeds or explanations should and should not be found has been a topic of ongoing controversy.

Last year, the Supreme Court refused to hear a case of a middle school science teacher who kept Bible verses in his classroom and criticized the theory of evolution in front of his students. This emphasized the fact that religion is not being condemned in modern society, but simply has its appropriate place: Outside of science classrooms.

It can be easy to disregard the words of science deniers, but the person who leads this country for the next four years should

leave personal beliefs out of their platforms and policies above all else. They should put what’s best for all citizens into law, not what most agrees with or supports their personal dogma.

Carson said, “Some people believe in the Bible like I do and don’t find that to be silly at all, and believe that God created the Earth and don’t find that to be silly at all... The secular progressives try to ridicule it every time it comes up and they’re welcome to do that.”

However, ridicule isn’t what the secular world is offering; it’s simply advocating for the next president to leave personal religious beliefs out of commentary surrounding foreign cultures. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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All lives are valuable: The case for vegetarianism kayla asbury columnist @kaylaasbury_

Have you ever changed the channel when Sarah McLachlan starts singing “Angel” and tries to convince you to donate to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?

Were you in complete disgust when Yulin, China celebrated its Dog Meat Festival?

Did you protest SeaWorld after watching the documentary “Blackfish?”

Animal rights activists were up in arms about each of these occurrences, but didn’t bat an eye at the 56 billion farm animals, excluding fish, slaughtered each year for their meat worldwide.

We gush over cute pictures of baby sheep, rabbits, cows and pigs, but seem to have no problem eating them when they grow older. Though we still regard our domesticated animals as adorable once they’re grown, the farm animals that reach adulthood are seen as objects to be consumed and not as living, breathing creatures.

We have been raised to classify farm animals as livestock and not as animals with valuable lives worth protecting. However, it may not be widely

From childhood, people are taught some animals are for cuddling and others are for eating. known that the animals we often eat are just as intelligent as—if not more than— domesticated animals.

For example, pigs have been found to be as intelligent as a 3-year-old child and are much smarter than some of the dog breeds we choose to live with. Cows were determined to be able to develop friendships with one another, and research has shown sheep have ad-

vanced learning capabilities. Even chickens were able to outperform 4-yearold children in some cognitive tests.

So where does this mental disconnect between edible and adorable stem from? The answer is simple: from childhood, we are shown there are certain animals we should love and certain animals we should eat. Young chil-

dren don’t often make the connection between the farm animals in their books and television shows and the poultry or beef on their plates. In fact, there are multiple videos online showing young children crying when they realize their meals are composed of animals they’ve grown to love.

It is important to realize that the food on our

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plates once breathed, felt and lived. We aren’t eating pork; we’re eating a pig that, if raised and slaughtered in America, was most likely kept in horrible conditions and died miserably or even painfully. We aren’t eating veal; we’re eating a baby cow, one that has been chained to a post all its life so its muscles don’t develop properly. Unfortunately, the list

goes on.

Crying over ASPCA commercials, protesting Sea World and hating on the Dog Meat Festival are hypocritical if you still eat other animals for dinner at night. These actions stem from a kind place, but far more animals would be saved if we just stopped eating them. Every animal deserves the right to live just as much as any another.

Every time we eat meat, we allow for animal abuse to continue. For those who advocate for animal rights while still eating meat, I ask you to rethink your point of view. Stop being selective about the animals you care about and extend that kindness to all living things. Although humans have not been conditioned to have relationships with undomesticated animals, eating a chicken or a pig is ultimately very similar to eating your own dog.

Surely someone will respond to my request with, “But I love bacon,” or, “But I was just raised this way.”

However, these responses don’t consider the seriousness of the issue. In an age of widely available protein alternatives and dietary supplements, we can’t continue to justify taking a life just for the sake of a meal. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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To infinity and beyond: New meteor mining act paves the way into space kody goff columnist @retrosyk

The United States Senate recently passed a bill which will allow private companies to extract resources from meteors. The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act will inevitably raise concerns about stripping resources away from what are ostensibly alien worlds and what unforeseen effects this may have on the future.

While this bill may appear to border on science fiction, these types of government regulations are becoming increasingly important with how quickly technology is advancing every day. Allowing companies to expand into the stars is a great success not just for capitalism, but for humanity’s forward march into space colonization.

Futuristic, space-age advances have always come with their fair share of concerns. In the 1970s, when genetic testing and engineering technologies were in their infancy, several organizations and government groups were formed or reworked to facilitate and regulate these discoveries and their uses. In 1976, the U.S. National In-

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stitute of Health formed an advisory committee to provide recommendations on the testing of specific types of DNA, which was soon followed by heavy regulations placed on testing and research uses.

This isn’t the first time the government has stepped in to regulate a potential scientific advance, and it’s certainly not the first time they’ve passed laws about claiming ownership on material from space. In the Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967, many countries agreed to not make any “claim(s) of sovereignty” about the objects and places found outside of our atmosphere.

Why is it now suddenly considered allowable to mine space rocks?

The rhetoric of past treaties and deals likely reflects the time period in which they were created. In 1967, it was probably considered outlandish or even impossible to ever reach and reasonably mine a cosmic object. However, something has obviously changed for the U.S. Senate to suddenly make a decision on this matter.

Perhaps it was due to the touchdown of the European Space Agency’s craft Philae on the surface of a comet just last year that inspired this change, but

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Meteor mining may become a real possibility in the near future. whatever may have caused this shift in thinking, it’s now explicitly clear that any agency or corporation that can successfully reach and excavate a meteor has the right to sell those hardearned resources back on Earth. The act even grants commercial groups the right to make use of the International Space Station on their way home.

A decision like this is likely to spawn two camps of people: Those in sup-

port of the free market going cosmic and those who feel it will spread humanity’s negative environmental influence to the stars.

Both are fairly reasonable thoughts, as the expansion is inevitably a good thing for those participating in it, and the “environmental” effects of this mining are entirely unknown.

However, there is one way in which this race for space resources will undoubtedly be beneficial.

Pairing science with capitalism has always yielded better results for science.

Giving companies an economic or political incentive to support the growth of scientific knowledge has historically provided far better outcomes than standard scientific testing. War is the only better motivator, with weapons tech being implemented into everyday use during peacetimes.

Regardless of the original intent for which they

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Grab some neon body paint and get ready to shine bright at the Glowbal Fest tomorrow.

Glowbal Fest is known as the “world’s largest glow show.” The show is filled with neon paint, black lights and glow sticks. For even more fun, don’t forget to wear either bright neon or white clothes to stand out under the black lights. The show is featuring music from Kap Slap, an EDM artist.

As its first year, the festival is traveling to cities and college campuses. The Glowbal Festival states their “main goal is to apply partygoers with the BEST Black Light Neon Glow experience as possible.”

“With magnificent production, Glowbal Fest ensures you that each event will be a heart stopping, spine tingling adventure & an experience on a life,” the company posted on Facebook.

While walking to the Mountainlair or to class, you may have passed the Mainstage Mor-

gantown promotion tent. Every time there is an event, people hand out small flyers about it. As the head of promotion for Mainstage working with WVU, Oddy Lombrana is always at the tent when it is up.

“It’s like house, mash-up, electronic music,” Lombrana said.

“It’s fun, it’s exciting, and it’s great dance music.”

Jared Lucas, otherwise known as Kap Slap, is from Lexington, Massachusetts. He is now a respected EDM artist within the music industry. When he started college, his mother passed away after a four-year fight with cancer just a few days after moving in.

With only his father to take care of his sister who has cerebral palsy, he took his education very seriously. He was part of the Honors Integrated Business and Engineering program. When he heard a mash-up DJ at a party, he was inspired. He began spending his free time making mash-ups for fun.

Over time, he gained so much popularity through his music that he could support himself. In 2011, he met his future manager.

He kept his promise to his family to finish school and graduated in 2013. After finishing school, his music career grew.

Inspired by his family, specifically his mother and sister, he looks for opportunities to give back. He has created the Parents of Infants and Childern with Kernicterus Foundation (P.I.C.K). Lucas hopes to donate to the cancer research fund and work with an old friend in the building of an orphanage in Haiti.

“My friends and I are planning on going and we are so excited to see him live,” said Katie Egstrand, a freshman strategic communications student. “I think it will be interesting to be in the cool environment that his music brings mixed with the glow theme.”

Glowbal Fest is from 8:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. tomorrow at Mainstage Morgantown. The event is open to anyone over 18. General Admission tickets cost $15.

For more information, visit http://mainstagewv.tunestub. com/event.cfm?id=223068. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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MAC takes on adaptation of ‘Stupid F***ing Bird’ Meg Weissend A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

A clever rendition of a play dating back to the late 1800s will premiere in downtown Morgantown, adding humor to the timeless show, and the nontraditional and frequent use of the f-word.

Aaron Posner’s award-winning adaptation, “Stupid F***ing Bird,” premieres at 8:00 p.m. this Friday in the Monongalia Art Center’s Tanner Theatre. Additional performances will take place in the same time and location on Nov. 14, Nov. 20, and Nov. 21, with a matinee on Nov. 15 at 2:00 p.m.

The production contains material recommended for mature audiences only, as both nudity and obscene language occur throughout the production.

“Stupid F***ing Bird,” is a comedic take on Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” a play performed in the late 1800s.

The 19th century production was somewhat challenging to interpret, with the characters often speaking in cryptic riddles throughout the emotional dialogue. “Stupid F***ing Bird” lays all emotions on the table, bring-

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Actors rehearse for the weekend play series, ‘Stupid F***ing Bird.’ ing the original character’s subtextual inner thoughts explicitly to the surface. Unlike the first performances of “The Seagull,” the modernized version is blunt in nature.

“Stupid F***ing Bird” first took the stage in 2013, and has gained popularity since the curtains opened. Posner is a multitalented artist who has built a career as a theater administrator, playwright, and a freelance director of award-winning

productions in the Washington, D.C. area and throughout the country, with an emphasis on Shakespeare and literary classics.

Actor’s Express described the storyline: “A passionate young director fights for the future of his art while competing with a famous novelist for the affections of a beautiful young actress. His mother, an aging Hollywood star, struggles with fading youth and her lover’s wandering eye. And

through it all, everyone discovers the disappointments and joys of life and love.”

Although the rich plot intertwines many relationships, the message is simple, according to two-time WV Theatre Association Outstanding Play winner David Beach, the director of the play.

Beach is also an English professor at West Virginia University.

“In essence, ‘Stupid F***ing Bird’ is a play about how we’re all human, and how we all want the

same things in life,” Beach said.

“It’s about the human condition.”

The title “Stupid F***ing Bird,” refers to the irrelevance of the type of bird in the play, which is a seagull. Beach believes the kind of bird does not matter.

“The seagull plays an essential role in Chekhov’s play,” Beach said. “In this one, the character refers to the f***ing bird he’s killed. The seagull is a metaphor about what art can and cannot be, and what humans can and cannot be; it doesn’t matter what type of bird it is.”

West Virginia University students and the surrounding community are encouraged to visit the Monongalia Art Center to see the performance. “‘Stupid F***ing Bird’ is a well written play based upon a classic play,” Beach said. “It is funny, the acting is superb, and there is a really good cast that works well together and plays off of each other.”

Admission to the show is $10, and tickets are available at (304) 292-3325, the MAC Lobby Desk, and www.monartscenter.com/ shop. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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The United States of America is a melting pot of cultures.

The film, “Two Spirits”, portrays two important cultures of this country, the LGBT community and the Native American community. Last night, West Virginia University celebrated Native American Heritage Month with a showing of the award-winning documentary.

“Two Spirits” is a film about a Native American man named Fred, who identified as a woman at an early age. Growing up, it was common to see Fred in baggy pants, a full face of makeup and a stuffed bra. The film follows the story of Fred going through his transition told by stories from his family members and friends. Fred’s loved ones emotionally shared the ups and downs of his transition and how society treated him.

Unfortunately, the way society treated him ending up taking his spirit away. One night, Fred’s life was suddenly taken in a brutal beating. His

murderer, Sean Murphy, was later found after publicly bragging about “beating a fag”.

The documentary also features other transgender Native Americans. Every story that is told is different but the underlying feelings are the same. Many of these men and women feel that although they have certain sex organs, they relate to the opposite sex.

In a sense, their spirit represents that of another gender.

This phenomenon is quite common in Native American history. In Navajo tradition, there are four genders.

There are straight men and women and then also masculine women and feminine men.

In a contemporary society, being different can be hard.

Many different Native American societies embrace this uniqueness. In fact, “two-spirited” people are celebrated in Native American culture.

This celebration, however, does not always happen in traditional American culture. Many Americans still struggle with wrapping their minds around homosexuality and transgender individuals.

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R. Saya Bobick, a women’s and gender studies lecturer, talks about the movie “Two Spirits” which she presented as part of the Native American Heritage Month. ings that make him want to stop being a man and to become a woman. I do not feel that way so I cannot understand why, so I came here to understand,” said WVU student Mohamed (did not get permission to use last name).

“Does he have a mental problem or is it natural? I don’t know.”

An hour into the documen-

tary, “Two Spirits” was turned off and the events presenter, Saya Bobick, held a discussion about the issues raised in the powerful film. Bobick is not only interested in Native American studies but she also has been trained by Native Americans in “Two Spirits”.

“It is a difficult documentary to watch when you think of his mom and you think of

how they made this to educate people but it is also painful,” Bobick said. “So many continents and cultures have the tradition of two spirit people. If you go to PBS’s website, they have a map of two spirited people around the world.”

Native American Heritage Month has been a part of Mountaineer Week for

several years. The celebration of Native Americans and their history was established

by Dr. Ellesa High, the former Native American Studies coordinator.

For more information on Native American Heritage Month, visit http://nas.wvu. edu/about/programs. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Do you Belieb in magic? Legendary stripper dies at 78 Woody Pond

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He was once the most famous boy on Earth, and then fell very quickly from grace with a series of bad decisions that led to a media massacre. That boy is now a man, and his name is Justin Bieber. Everyone seems to have an opinion on the guy—they hate him, they love him, they like his music or they couldn’t care less about him—and this has kept Bieber relevant even when he tried to bow out of the spotlight.

And now, he is in position to jump headfirst back into that spotlight.

Bieber took a reprieve from music when his name was continutally dragged through the dirt following several legal controversies and a couple of missteps in his public relations. His image was primarily only in discussion when media outlets chose to report his mistakes and talk condescendingly about the Canadian singer. Bieber could not stay out of the news with what seemed like a new story every week that made viewers shake their heads at what had happened to the child pop star as he grew up.

The problem was his demographic, and when the majority of the people you influence with your actions are young, you cannot be breaking the law and acting recklessly like you have nothing to lose. Arrested for driving while under the influence of drugs and alchohol, getting into physical altercations with paparazzi and then opting out of the court hearing— these things make you look like a punk kid when you’re supposed to be setting an example. Bieber had been placed on a pedestal by his adoring fans, and he fell backwards off it into a sea of flashing lights and

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After musical success as a child, Justin Bieber briefly ran into trouble with the law. aggressive interrogatory interviews.

He kept quiet for a year or so, and it seemed like he was happy to be free of music and the world of superstardom. Then, right when you started to forget about him, Bieber embarked on a long-term quest back into the hearts of his fans and the world of music.

First, he was heavily featured as the vocalist on Skrillex and Diplo’s collaboration “Where R U Now” which got the world buzzing about him getting back into making music. Then his master plan began with Comedy Central’s annual roast whose target this year was Justin Bieber. Comedians and other celebrities poked fun at Bieber for things like his hair styles, his effeminate persona and his apparently poor decision making skills.

This humbled the artist to people watching the event, which was the perfect way to frame his career revival.

He concluded the event by getting emotional while apologizing to the world

and to his fans for his unruly behavior and promised that he would make it up to them by proving that he could be a role model.

He then had a successful promotional campaign for the release of his first single from his new album, and the first solo song he had released in almost two years called “What Do You Mean?” He had different celebrities post a picture of the countdown to Bieber’s new single every day during the month building up to its release on Aug. 28.

The song was very wellreceived by fans and critics alike, and the anticipation for his fourth studio album “Purpose” grew exponentially. He performed the song in an emotional television performance, the first since his hiatus, at the 2015 VMAs. He later released a second single, “Sorry,” which was again produced

by Skrillex. With “Purpose” now only a day away, will Justin Bieber’s triumphant return overshadow his troubled youth? daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Carol Doda helped introduce topless entertainment to San Francisco in the ‘60s.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Legendary San Francisco stripper Carol Doda, whose splashy act helped introduce topless entertainment to the city more than 50 years ago, died at age 78.

Doda died Monday in the city from complications of kidney failure, friend Ron Minolla disclosed Wednesday.

Doda first went topless in 1964 at the Condor Club - a move that changed every nightspot on busy Broadway in San Francisco.

During its heyday in the early 1970s, the street in North Beach buzzed with more than two dozen clubs where carnival-like barkers beckoned passersby to watch bare-breasted dancers. The era spanned some 20 years.

Doda later had an acting role in “Head,” a 1968 film featuring the Mon-

kees, and was profiled in Tom Wolfe’s book “The Pump House Gang.”

“When the (beatniks) were handing the torch to the hippies, a girl named Carol Doda changed the world from a pole at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway,” her friend Lee Housekeeper said.

Doda, known for her augmented bust, rode onto stage atop a piano on an elevator platform, debuting her act the same day President Lyndon B. Johnson drew half-a-million people in a visit to San Francisco.

It wasn’t long before the big news in town was “The Girl on the Piano.”

Doda became a legend and the Condor Club had an illuminated sign carrying her likeness.

Doda left the club in 1985 and later owned a lingerie store, performed in

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a rock band, did modeling and comedy, and sang and danced at another club.

Longtime friend Dick Winn told the San Francisco Chronicle that Doda was a “wonderfully caring person” and a good listener always willing to give advice.

“She was much more than just dancing,” Winn said.

“For me and my pals Carol will always be one of the boys,” Housekeeper added.

Doda grew up in San Francisco and dropped out of school in the eighth grade. She became a cocktail waitress at 14 and later went on to dance at the Condor.

She never married or had children.

“In a funny way Carol’s impact on the history of that era was as great at Lenny Bruce,” Housekeeper said.

Bill O’Reilly and George Will escalate their argument in print, on air NEW YORK (AP) — Bill O’Reilly and George Will have escalated their extraordinary feud this week, a dispute that encompasses the leading cable television news outlet, a publishing empire and the legacy of the conservative movement’s most revered politician.

Will’s most recent column in The Washington Post, headlined “Bill O’Reilly makes a mess of history,” followed up their onscreen confrontation last Friday on O’Reilly’s Fox News Channel show.

O’Reilly responded by saying Will is jealous of his success. “ You k n ow w hat, George?” O’Reilly said Tuesday night. “I’m bored with it. I’m bored with it!”

There has been no immediate comment from Fox News Channel executives either taking sides in the dispute or whether there would be any disciplinary action against Will, a network commentator, going on O’Reilly’s show and essentially calling its host a liar.

The argument is centered on the book, “Killing Reagan,” by O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard, about the aftermath of the 1981 assassination attempt on former President Ronald Reagan. It’s one of a series of books, in-

cluding “Killing Kennedy” and “Killing Lincoln,” that have made O’Reilly the country’s best-selling historian by far. The books usually sell 1 million copies or more in hardcover, a rare achievement these days for nonfiction.

Will has joined with several former Reagan administration officials in objecting to the book’s characterization of the former president as occasionally mentally incapable to serve, a decline accelerated by the assassination attempt. Reagan, who served as president from 1981-89, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1994 and died at age 93 in 2004.

“Killing Reagan” relies in part on a memo written in 1987 by former White House aide James M. Cannon to White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, based on interviews with other White House personnel. The memo quotes concerns expressed about the president’s mental capacity and suggests the possibility that relieving the president of his duties might be in order.

But former Reagan aides, including Edwin Meese, have said that Cannon later recanted those concerns when he and Baker became convinced Reagan was fully capable

O’Reilly’s ‘Killing Reagan’ book is at the center of this controversy. of handling the job. Baker and Cannon are now dead.

Meese, a former attorney general, and John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, wrote in a column for Real Clear Politics last month that O’Reilly’s book “does a real disservice to our 40th president and to history itself.”

That cause was taken up by Will, who wrote that O’Reilly had slandered

Reagan, and led to the onair tussle last Friday.

Will said O’Reilly was “something of an expert” on misleading people, and suggested that the book plays into liberal attempts to discredit Reagan. He said he was surprised O’Reilly relied so heavily on a memo and neglected to interview surviving Reagan aides who would have disputed its contents. One would be Wills’ wife, who worked on the communi-

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cations staff in the Reagan White House.

“His is an interesting approach to history: Never talk to anyone with firsthand knowledge of your subject,” Will wrote in this week’s column.

O’Reilly contends that his book is entirely accurate. He said he was reluctant to speak to people with “skin in the game” former Reagan compatriots who have a vested interest in seeing the former

president lionized. Despite the dispute, O’Reilly said his book is generally laudatory of Reagan.

“It is preposterous to assert that there wasn’t an intense concern about the president’s mental state shortly after the Iran Contra scandal broke,” O’Reilly and Dugard wrote in a column posted on O’Reilly’s website on Wednesday.

“That is a fact, and it is disturbing that Reagan loyalists have attacked us for pointing it out.”

O’Reilly, no stranger to televised confrontations, called Will a hack and said that his “elitist tone” has never been welcome on the anchor’s top-rated prime-time show.

“You, George, are jealous,” O’Reilly said on his show this week, after mentioning that he’d gotten some 10,000 emails about the dispute. “You’re jealous of our success on television and in publishing.

Your last book was a huge bomb, a catastrophe.”

Will did not immediately return a call for comment. The first line of the column Will issued on Tuesday makes no secret of his feelings, though.

“Were the lungs the seat of wisdom, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly would be wise,” he wrote. “But they are not and he is not.”

City considers payout for wedding Colbert lands post-Bowl slot SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors are considering a $290,000 payout to settle a lawsuit by the guitarist of rock band Journey over his lavish 2013 wedding to a former reality television star.

A committee of the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to take up the proposed settlement Thursday.

Neal Schon married “Real Housewives of D.C.” star Michaele Salahi in December 2013 at the Palace of Fine Arts with a reception at an adjacent building that once housed the Exploratorium science museum.

Schon said he agreed

to pay the city $58,000 for the use, but was surprised to learn days before the wedding that he would have to pay $240,000 for the opulent event to go on. He reluctantly paid, likening the price hike to “extortion.”

The couple sued in federal court in February, claiming that the city unfairly jacked up the fee after learning the couple planned to broadcast the event on pay-per-view.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera initially defended the higher charge as appropriate for a commercial event. He could not be reached immediately for comment Wednesday, which is a government

holiday.

In a statement this week, Michaele Schon called the city’s conduct “reprehensible” and said “hopefully, this will make the city think twice before doing this to anyone else in the future.”

Journey is a band nearly synonymous with San Francisco in some circles. Its song “Don’t Stop Believing” is the unofficial theme song of the San Francisco Giants.

Before starring in the 2010 season of “Housewives,” Salahi made headlines when she and her then-husband crashed a state dinner at the White House in 2009.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert has landed the coveted post-Super Bowl time slot on CBS this winter.

The network said Wednesday that a special edition of Colbert’s “Late Show” will air directly after the Feb. 7 game, the first time that distinction has gone to a late-night show. Late local news will follow Colbert, and then CBS will show a special edition of James Corden’s “Late Late Show” afterward.

The post-Super Bowl slot annually is the most desired in television, since it follows a telecast watched by more than 100 million viewers. If

Colbert has landed the post-Super Bowl time slot on CBS. just one-fifth of the people watching the game keep the TV on CBS afterward, it will easily be the largest audience Colbert

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West Virginia’s Tarik Phillip guards his man last week against Glenville State.

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West Virginia’s Teana Muldrow attacks the hoop last year against Eastern Kentucky.

Phillip and Macon will be WVU’s Youthful Mountaineer reserves key bench contributors this season will be counted on to come up big

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If Press Virginia was ever going to succeed, head coach Bob Huggins needed a deep bench. He had it last season, as the West Virginia University men’s basketball team ran as many as 13 players out onto the court some nights to offset the effects of foul trouble and fatigue.

Graduations and injuries have cut into the Mountaineers’ depth heading into this season, but West Virginia’s bench will still be absolutely vital to the team’s chances of success.

The same realities that the Mountaineers faced last year will also be there this year, and Huggins knows he will need to put out different units to get his team through 40 minutes a night.

“We’re going to have different combinations just because we’re going to get in foul trouble and we’re going to get tired, and I want them to come out when they’re tired. I don’t want them to hurt us,” Huggins said.

This season, Huggins might not have the luxury of running 13 players out onto the court. Juwan Staten and Gary Browne graduated last season out of the backcourt, and West Virginia lost one of their replacements, freshman guard James “Beetle” Bolden, to a season-ending knee injury in preseason.

In addition, 6-foot-9 junior forward Brandon Watkins’ status this season is still a major question mark, after he suffered a similar injury several months ago.

With that in mind, an even greater focus will be placed on two of West Virginia’s returning role-players: junior guard Tarik Phillip and sophomore big man Elijah Macon.

One of Huggins’ seemingly never-ending supply of bench guards last season, Phillip was a regular presence for the Mountaineers in his first year out of Independence Community College. Now, the Brooklyn native looks to feature heavily as West Virginia’s backup point guard, having apparently lost the race for the starting job to sophomore Jevon Carter.

Although Phillip may not start, Huggins has been complimentary of his improvement as a point guard, and is proud of the sophomore’s hard work and competitive fire.

“He’s worked really hard at shooting the ball,” Huggins said. “He’s been in the gym more than anybody.

I think his understanding of being a point guard is so much better than what it was a year ago. His junior college coach said ‘You can go in the gym and pick any five guys, and I’ll take Tarik and whatever four’s left, and he’ll still win.’ That’s when I said that we need to get this guy. There are guys who just win, and I think

he’s one of those guys.”

And with Watkins out injured, the role of West Virginia’s primary big man behind center Devin Williams belongs to Macon, who averaged 4.3 points per game as a freshman.

Listed at 6-foot-9, 235 pounds, Macon is one of the only big bodies on the team who can go and bang bodies inside, and his work in the offseason could help him stay on the court for greater lengths of time.

“He’s been much, much better,” Huggins said. “Elijah just has to continue to get tougher. I think he’s really capable of scoring down close, and he ought to be able to rebound it better than what he does.

But he’s in better shape, so he’s going to be able to play harder and longer, and he’s moving better. He’s really trying to get better.”

Phillip and Macon played a combined 30 minutes in West Virginia’s exhibition win over Glenville State Friday, two of six bench players to play double-digit minutes. Joining them in the Mountaineer bench mob will be guards Jaysean Paige and Teyvon Myers and forwards Nathan Adrian and Lamont West.

Paige and Adrian are seasoned veterans, while Myers and West are newcomers. All will be counted on to produce – but none moreso than Phillip and Macon. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

BY ROGER TURNER SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University women’s basketball team totes a new cast of players coming off the bench this year, with 11 players overall seeing action for the first time as Mountaineers.

Coming off the bench for the Mountaineers this season will be new faces to the program who have to grow up fast to compensate for those that departed a year ago.

Sophomore Teana Muldrow returns as a seasoned reserve after coming off the bench last year as a freshman.

Muldrow, along with freshman starter Katrina Pardee, led WVU in scoring last week in a season-opening exhibition game versus Shepherd University. Muldrow finished with 17 points in 14 minutes to lead the bench in scoring.

This season may look like a year of transition with all the newcomers, but freshmen Alexis Brewer and Tynice Martin could break out in their first season at WVU. Brewer, a guard hailing from Buffalo, Kentucky, ended last week’s Haunted Hoops exhibition game with a doublefigure scoring performance, recording 14 points in 20 minutes. Brewer and Muldrow were the only bench players to finish the game in double-figures.

Head coach Mike Carey anticipates the two freshman guards will step in immediately and give this year’s team some depth.

“Tynice is a great athlete who can score and defend,” he said. “Alexis can shoot and she’s probably the strongest of all the freshmen. She’s a scoring threat from the perimeter.”

Brewer went 1-3 from 3-point range in the Haunted Hoops exhibition game against Shepherd.

Martin was also a valuable asset coming off the bench for the Mountaineers against Shepherd. Martin ended her Mountaineer debut with four assists, five points, and five rebounds. Although only a freshman, Martin led the Mountaineer bench in minutes played with 21.

Both Brewer and Martin appear to be the first guards in, while Muldrow will be called on to relieve forward Arielle Roberson and center Lanay Montgomery.

Senior Kayla Montgomery saw action during her junior season at center, but suffered a season-ending injury in the preseason that will sideline her for the 2015-16 season. Instead, Carey will turn to another freshman in Anja Martin to step in and provide a spark off the bench at the forward position.

To add to Carey’s bench arsenal, Florida State transfer Chania Ray could be a key component to this year’s bench. Ray was ruled ineligible for competition in the fall semester due to NCAA transfer rules, which require her to sit out one full year. However, WVU has filed a petition with the NCAA to get a waiver for the sophomore from Alexandria, Virginia to play this sea-

son, and possibly fill the starting point guard role on this year’s team.

Opening the season, three seniors will start for the Mountaineer women’s team that is rebuilding from losing several starters. All Big12 First Team selection Bria Holmes returns for her senior season at guard, alongside fellow senior Jessica Morton in the backcourt.

Lanay Montgomery will fill the center position and senior Arielle Roberson will be the starter at power forward. Freshman guard Katrina Pardee from Cedar Park, Texas closes out the starting five as the only freshman in this season’s lineup. Holmes and Montgomery will be the only returning starters from last year’s team.

Coach Carey knows the inexperience of this year’s team, both on the bench and in the starting lineup, and remains optimistic about how this season will play out for the Mountaineers.

“Three players graduated and then we had some players who found better situations for themselves,” Carey said. “I’ve liked what I’ve seen of the new players. They’re working hard from what I’ve seen so far so that certainly is encouraging.”

West Virginia’s women’s team may rely heavily on veterans in the starting lineup, but a strong showing from the WVU bench is just as crucial to the Mountaineers’ success this season. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

VOLLEYBALL

West Virginia drops 3-0 match against Iowa State by nicole curtin sports editor @nicolec_WVU

The West Virginia University volleyball team dropped its 12th straight match to the Iowa State Cyclones last night, in a 3-0 shutout.

Iowa State took the wins 25-

17, 25-16 and 25-15. WVU hasn’t won a game since Sept. 19, and only five games remain on the schedule.

Moving to 5-19 on the season, the position head coach Reed Sunahara and his team are in right now is not exactly what he had in mind.

“My expectations are always high, I think we need to keep pushing and keep grinding and keep getting better every day, that’s what we have to play for,” he said.

“Eventually, hopefully a win will come in the conference.

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vidually and collectively, and making sure that we’re trying to do the right things, and build momentum each day into next year.”

Iowa State posted a total 44 kills, West Virginia only put down 28. Senior Caleah Wells led the offense with seven kills, followed by sophomore Morgan Montgomery who contributed six and junior Hannah Shreve also posted six on an impressive .875 clip.

Attacking errors have completely plagued the team this season, giving easy points to their opponents. Sophomore middle blocker Mia Swanegan scored five kills and contributed a block assist last night; she said even with the scoring struggles her teammates try to keep their heads up.

“We always just try to stay positive and with the positivity just comes an even harder work ethic and we just always try to lift each other up,” Swanegan said.

Setter Haley Roe paced the West Virginia offense with 19 assists. Defensively the Mountaineers struggled on some reads, calling balls out when they were inbounds, giving libero Gianna Gotterba only eight digs on the match.

On the Cyclones’ side of the net, Alexis Conaway and Jess Schaben both hit double digits, scoring 12 and 10 kills respectively. Conaway averaged a .786 attacking

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Mia Swanegan spikes the ball over the net in last night’s game. average, contributing to the team’s .366 percentage.

Overall the Mountaineers were not able to keep up with Iowa State, falling behind early in the second and third sets, after keeping up for the most part in the first set.

“It’s not just one match, it’s a process. We’ve got to continue to keep morale high and keep the confidence up, try to get better,” Sunahara said. “We do some nice things, it’s not like we’re really, really bad, our record doesn’t indicate what kind of team we have. I thought we had two good days of practice, and maybe there’s a bump along the way, but hopefully this can carry over into the weekend.”

With only five games remaining and the record where it is right now, West

Virginia has lost sight of post season opportunities.

With the 12-game losing streak, not only 19 losses on the season but several being straight shutout style, there’s not much else to look to other than gaining experience on the court this year and preparing for next season.

“I hope that we just keep putting in our hardest effort that we can possibly put in,” Swanegan said. “Honestly effort is just everything, and so if we have that there and have the competitive drive and will, wanting to win, then I think we can accomplish a lot.”

The Mountaineers continue play Friday in Lubbock, Texas against Texas Tech. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia’s Jordan Thompson runs out of bounds after a catch this season against Oklahoma State.

West Virginia seniors reaching the final stretch of their college careers

BY DJ DESKINS

SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

With just four games remaining, and the West Virginia University football team sitting at 4-4 on the year, you would think a sense of urgency would surround the program’s efforts to become bowl-eligible.

However, players and coaches have kept a “one game at a time” type of mentality, understanding they haven’t earned anything yet.

Before the season, head coach Dana Holgorsen set a goal for 3-0 in non-conference play, one that West

Virginia achieved. Now the Mountaineers are hoping for a win-out type of scenario to end their year with a very respectable 8-4 record.

“We’re trying to win out now, but we’ve got to take it one game at a time,” said defensive lineman Kyle Rose. “Our main goal is to win the rest of the games this season, but we can’t do that unless we take care of Texas first.”

This weekend’s matchup against Texas represents one of two remaining home games for players like Rose as they wrap up their senior season.

“It probably hasn’t hit

me that I have four or five games left,” Rose said.

“Honestly, I’m just trying to soak up as much as I can knowing that each practice is one step closer to being done.”

Rose is one of many players West Virginia and Holgorsen will have to replace next season on the defensive side of the ball.

On the line, the Mountaineers will need to fill the holes left by Rose, Isaiah Bruce and Eric Kinsey, but the linebackers and secondary will be the most devastated after this year.

WVU will have to replace starters and contributors Jared Barber, KJ Dillon, Nick

Kwiatkoski, Shaq Petteway, Karl Joseph, Ricky Rumph and Terrell Chestnut.

The biggest loss will certainly be Joseph. The senior safety played in all 42 games as a Mountaineer before suffering a season-ending knee injury in practice after the Oklahoma game earlier this year. He finished with 284 total tackles, eight interceptions, eight forced fumbles and six fumble recoveries in his heralded WVU career.

Kwiatkoski emerged last season as the heart of the Mountaineer linebacker corps. His 103 total tackles in 2014 led the team.

This season he’s totaled 46

stops, to go along with one interception.

On offense, the Mountaineers will feel significantly less of an impact because of departing seniors.

Cody Clay, Jordan Thompson and Marquis Lucas will be the only three not returning to the program.

Clay has made an impact on the field since his freshman year, but in ways the stats don’t show. Recruited as a tight end, he’s mostly played out of the backfield as an extra blocker for the West Virginia ball carriers.

Thompson has had the largest presence of any senior on the offense. He’s played in 43 games as a

Mountaineer and reached the career 1,000-yard mark this season, although he’s only found the end zone twice in his career, both scores coming during his junior season. “(I have to) embrace all the opportunities I get because they’re limited,” Thompson said. “I’m down to my last four games, it’s kind of surprising and shocking.”

The senior Mountaineers will likely show a heightened sense of urgency to get one more chance to wear the West Virginia uniform in a bowl game. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

WRESTLING

Moisey looking to take next step as a sophomore

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @dAILYATHENAEUM

Sophomore Zeke Moisey nearly didn’t wrestle last year.

West Virginia University head wrestling coach Sammie Henson was planning to redshirt the 5-foot9, 125-pound Moisey, but a last-second decision to let Moisey compete paid off.

Moisey entered the 201415 season unranked, but went 32-14 and made it all the way to the NCAA Championship match.

While he did not win it all, Moisey is using that loss as motivation to get back.

“I came really close, but in the end I didn’t get it done,” Moisey said. “So now there’s something to work for, there’s more to work at to get it done. There’s still people out there that I haven’t beaten yet.”

In the NCAA Final, Moisey fell to Ohio State’s Nathan Tomasello. In the 2014-15 season, Moisey lost all three of his matches against Tomasello.

Despite the defeat, Moi-

sey became the first unseeded wrestler to make it to the NCAA Championship match since 2003 and was West Virginia University’s first wrestling All-American since 2007.

“I think it’s awesome,” Moisey said. “I credit it to Sammie Henson, our head coach. I think that anything is possible under that guy.”

Moisey and Tomasello met again last week in the National Wrestling Conference of America All-Star Classic. Tomasello won the match, 7-1.

Despite falling to Tomasello again, Moisey remains determined to meet Tomasello again and win.

“That’s a loss that I need to avenge still. I had four career losses to him in the last two seasons, including that All-Star match,” Moisey said. “It was a good season opener to kind of see where I’m at. I wrestled a good match against him, I think I really frustrated him this time, compared to last times I didn’t get my leg attacks going. I think each time I wrestle I get closer and closer and eventu-

West Virginia’s Zeke Moisey takes top position last year against Ohio. ally we’re going to get him back.”

A week after falling to Tomasello, Moisey bounced back by defeating all three of his opponents at the Mountaineer Quad. The No. 4 wrestler in the nation defeated Drexler’s Zachary Fuentes, Campbell’s Tyler Walker and Arizona State’s

Mike Perales.

“The first three matches that I wrestled went how I thought they were going to,” Moisey said. “I thought that people were going to try and slow me down a bit and not be offensive and that’s what happened, but I stuck to my game plan and got at least two takedowns every

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match. I controlled the pace of the match and didn’t give up very many opportunities to score.”

Moisey was most satisfied with his victory over Walker, a 16-4 major decision.

“I had more than two takedowns, I opened it up a little bit,” Moisey said. “I hit a mixer at the end and I

was a little angry I didn’t pin him, because I had him on his back for at least 10 seconds. I could have gotten the fall, but I didn’t slit my arm all the way through, but I twerked on his neck and his head nearly rolled off his body.”

To get past a wrestler like Tomasello, Moisey knows he must continue to improve. Moisey looks to improve his top game, in particular.

“I think this weekend I could have cut the guy at the Arizona State match and took him down once or twice more, but I rode him out for two minutes and felt really confident in doing that, so I’m going to use that coming into next weekend.”

It will be tough for Moisey to get back to the NCAA Championship this season, but he did it last year unranked. Now, he’s fourth in the country. For now, Moisey is focused on beating whoever else steps on the mat against him, whether it be Tomasello or an unranked opponent. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

WVU’s Carey signs four to National Letters of Intent

BY ALEC GEARTY SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

As the West Virginia women’s basketball team looks forward to its season opener against Delaware State Saturday, four future Mountaineers signed their letter of intent for the 201617 season: Kristina King, Krys McCune, Nia Staples and Bailey Thomas.

“We went out and got some quality players,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey in an interview with WVUSports.com. “We needed to get some additional players in the paint.

I think we were able to do that with the two we signed in Kristina King and Krys McCune.”

King is a name that fans of WVU women’s basketball should be familiar

with. She signed her letter of intent with the Mountaineers back in 2013, but suited up and instead headed to Gulf Coast State.

After her two years down in Florida, King is ready to come to Morgantown where, as a junior, she will find her own role.

“We’re excited to get Kristina King back,” Carey said. “She’s a 6-foot-3 player that can run very well up and down the floor.”

Last season, the forward averaged 15.5 points and 12.6 rebounds. She was also named to the 2015 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Junior/Community College Coaches’ All-American team.

Coming out of high school, King was considered the eighth-best player at her position by ESPN HoopGurlz.

ProspectsNation.com identifies King as a power forward who is a threat from the outside and inside. King could more than likely be given an immediate starting spot on the team in 2016 as senior Jessica Morton would leave the role unoccupied.

Unlike King, McCune doesn’t have college basketball experience under her belt, but is still making a name for herself. McCune comes from Louisville, Kentucky, where she is the No. 3-ranked 2016 prospect in Kentucky and rated as the No. 15 best player in her position by ESPN as well.

“Krys McCune was a good get for us,” Carey said.

“We want to continue to work on her skills and get her ready to play at the four or five position.”

McCune was considered a sleeper with the potential to develop into a good replacement for Bria Holmes after this season.

Carey’s other two commits, Staples and Thomas, are players who have racked up the honors so far in high school.

Staples, who is from Cincinnati, Ohio, helped her team capture the 2015 Ohio State Championship. In the same year, Staples averaged 10.4 points and 2.8 rebounds. However, it is her shooting marks of 47 percent from the field and 33 percent from 3-point range that stood out.

This is a player that poses as a pure offensive threat for her teams. Staples has the ability to lead the offense in the direction she wants to go, and served as a catalyst for her past teams.

“Nia Staples had great coaching in high school,” Carey said. “Nia has a background that is going to make her really effective early in her career.”

Staples also won the “Best in Maryland” title, which is a tournament run

by Under Armour, as well being named All-Greater Miami Conference three years in a row.

Bailey Thomas rounds out the class as an upstart guard that can really affect the future of WVU’s transitional play. She easily can fit into Carey’s system; her junior year proved it as she averaged 7.7 points, 3.4 assists and 3.1 steals.

Earlier this season, Carey said all he wants in a guard is to get the team in the offense, play defense and don’t turn the ball over. Thomas fits in that as-

pect perfectly, and she is a player that could blossom under Carey.

“She is a hardnosed player that plays extremely hard,” Carey said. “She is a total team player.”

She was named to the Detroit Free Press’ All-State team for every year in high school thus far, where she led Marian High to consecutive Michigan Class A titles in 2014 and 2015.

Carey and staff went out and addressed the issues that were present. After a year where the Mountaineers received six commitments, they went down to four this season. They already have significant depth, but this year’s class could help solidify the Mountaineers for the next five years. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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