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This evening, the West Virginia University Amer-ican Association of Uni-versity Women will be hosting its second an-nual AAUW Women’s Empowerment Night for both male and female WVU students from 6-10 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.

Each February, AAUW organizes a women’s em-powerment night as a way to provide a stress-reliev-ing, fun-filled night in a safe environment around Valentine’s Day and be-fore students take their midterm exams. Organiz-ers of the event take it as an opportunity to educate students on how to deal with issues women face on campus and in their careers, according to Sa-brina Ridenour, founding president for WVU AAUW.

Since 1881, AAUW has worked as a grassroots organization to empower and improve the lives of millions of women and their families, accord-ing to AAUW’s official website.

“This event provides a chance for WVU AAUW to tackle several issues with female students such as equal pay for women, women’s roles in poli-tics and women suffer-ing from abuse and rape,” Ridenour said.

This event will be-gin with an activities fair that offers a number of empowering activities sponsored by partnering WVU student organiza-tions, such as the Moun-taineer Maniacs, Society of Women Engineers and

CHAARG. Informational displays,

which promote self-es-teem, healthy lifestyles and sexual assault and domestic violence pre-vention will be available to all attendees.

According to AAUW’s own research, “women make up about 50 percent of the U.S. workforce, but only 4 percent of chief ex-ecutive officers at Stan-dard & Poor’s 500 index companies, 19 percent of S&P 500 board seats, and only about 26 per-cent of college and uni-versity presidents.” This same study also states that “women in politics repre-sent 19 percent of the U.S. Congress and a smaller fraction of governors.”

An activities fair and Women’s History Trivia will take place from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Prizes for the trivia are sponsored by Amazon Student and AAUW. The prizes will in-clude gift cards to local businesses such as Clutch Wings, Tailpipes, Amazon, Starbucks, Best Buy and Target.

There will also be a business attire fash-ion show presented by the WVU Fashion Busi-ness Association, “Ladies Against Humanity” card game, nail painting and a voter registration drive.

“WVU AAUW wants ev-ery student to leave Wom-en’s Empowerment Night feeling empowered,” Rid-enour said. “This night is the chance for students to just be themselves, take a break from their studies, and most importantly, re-mind themselves of how beautiful they truly are.”

by corey mcdonaldstaff writer @coreymacc

West Virginia Univer-sity has recently joined the likes of institutions like Yale and Johns Hopkins with its new classification as an R1 research-activity school.

Institutions that fall into the R1 category are noted

as having the highest re-search activity, and are sorted every five years by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

“It is a significant valida-tion, and we are proud to join other Big 12 schools, major state flagships and some elite privates as one of 115 R1 universities among the nation’s more

than 4,000 higher educa-tion institutions,” said WVU President E. Gordon Gee.

WVU was among 15 schools that climbed into this new classification, along with Northeastern University and George Ma-son University.

The Carnegie Classifica-tion sorts doctoral univer-sities that award at least 20 doctorates for research, or

scholarly pursuits in an ac-ademic year, not counting law or medical degrees.

This year, there are a to-tal of 335 doctoral univer-sities split into three differ-ent groups. There are 113 R3 universities, including institutions like Adelphi University. There are 107 R2 universities, including Dartmouth and William & Mary. Furthermore, there

are 115 R1 universities, which are considered “na-tional universities,” like the University of Michigan or Duke.

Carnegie analysts sorted these doctoral schools by examining data from 2013-14 year on criteria like re-search and development spending, research staff, and doctoral conferrals.

“It’s a reputational im-

pact,” said Fred L. King, vice president for research at WVU. “When you are in the same category as uni-versities such as Johns Hopkins and Yale, it tends to have a different weight on your degree. It’s also im-portant in terms of attract-ing new students to the University, as well as new

SGA election ballot order releasedby caity coyne

city editor @caitycoyne

The ballot order for the Student Government Asso-ciation election was solidi-fied Thursday afternoon by random drawing in the Of-fice of Student Engagement and Leadership.

Jules Merow and Mac McIntyre will run an unop-posed race for student body president and vice presi-dent respectively.

Last Wednesday, Alex Weidman, a junior Eng-lish student, stood up dur-ing the open student forum of the SGA meeting to an-nounce his bid for presi-

dency. However, after fur-ther consideration during the last week, he decided not to run, according to Emma Harrison, SGA elec-tions chair.

In order to run for SGA, students seeking a position on the Athletic Council or the Board of Governors were required to obtain 500 student signatures, while Merow and McIntyre needed 1,000. Hopeful can-didates also must have at least a 2.0 GPA.

Harrison said everyone who returned the signature packets on Wednesday qualified for the election, leaving 16 students running for the BOG and making an

unopposed race for Athletic Council.

All but one of the stu-dents running for the BOG will belong to the same party, leaving one indepen-dent candidate, Olivia Dud-ley, a junior Slavic and East European studies student.

The BOG is the only com-petitive race this election, and one candidate will not make the governing admin-istration for 2016-17.

“Students should make sure they really listen to what the Governors say, especially,” Harrison said. “There is one person on that ballot who won’t make it.”

While the ballot order

was random, sometimes candidates can use their place on the ballot during their campaigning.

“If you’re first, you can just say ‘Hey, I’m first!’ and it lets people remember (better),” Harrison said.

Additionally, the ballot will contain two SGA con-stitutional amendments for students to vote on.

One will relate to the procedure for appointing and replacing members of the Board of Governors. The other will be a pro-posal to raise the required GPA of SGA position hold-ers from a 2.0 GPA to a 2.5 GPA, which is already the norm for all officers in all student organizations, ex-cept for SGA.

Students are advised to

Only one candidate featured on the ballot will not be a part of SGA’s 2016-17 board of governors President Vice President

Athletic Council

BOGPorter

Knollinger andrew

sutherlandGarrett ross

burgess morgan Goff

shannon smith

emily Chandler

morgan KingHaley

QuigleyTyler J.

brewstererin Heeter

shani Warisolivia Dudley

brandon a. r. WatersJihad D. Dixon

Joey mcGuireamber Kaska

abundance Hunt Douglas ernest Jr.

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WVU AAUW to host annual Women’s Empowerment Night

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended legal voting discrimi-nation in the United States. However, voting suppression in the United States has not completely disappeared.

West Virginia University instructor Daniel Brewster from the department of sociology and anthropology showed and hosted a discussion on the film, “Selma,” Thursday evening. The showing was part of the Cecilia Rollins Brown-Bag Lunch Film and Discussion series.

“We’re seeing a multitude of voter suppression across the country that is making it more and more difficult for many people to get out and vote during elections, both presidential and more local primary elections,” Brewster said.

Selma told the story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s strug-gle to convince President Lyndon B. Johnson to pass voting rights legislation. King and his followers planned a march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital, Montgomery, to protest the suppression of African Americans’ right to vote. The protestors were met with brutal violence from local law enforcement.

The violence drew national attention and soon white and

black people alike were flocking to Selma from around the country to join the protest.

“Why Selma? There was a sheriff there, Jim Clark, they

asKar salIKHoV/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumDaniel Brewster, a sociology instructor at WVU, discusses issues over voter IDs in America today after the showing of the film, ‘Selma,’ at a multicultural event at Ming Hsieh Hall.

Presentation of ‘Selma’ opens conversation about voting rights, civil equality

asKar salIKHoV/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumSociology professors and students watch the film, “Selma”, as part of February’s Black History Month.

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knew would be violent,” Brewster said. “They chose (Selma) very strategically… They knew he would go af-ter them.”

The protests were effective, and Johnson announced he would be putting forth vot-ing rights legislation.

“I think it’s a very powerful story, and sometimes when you hear it in the context of a textbook, you don’t get to see all the many factors at play. I thought I’d come and see what other vision could be shown in a story you don’t usually see, especially being an African-American per-son,” said Niara Campbell, a WVU graduate and a WVU advisor. “I thought it was very

well done. I really liked how they dug deep into the poli-tics of it.”

Brewster described some of the current suppression of voting rights. He explained that his cousin, who lives in North Carolina, recently reg-istered to vote and found that her polling place is 31 miles from her home.

“A lot of people are not go-ing to do that. A lot of people cannot lose an hour of their day to vote. That’s a method of voter suppression,” Brew-ster said. “It’s shown and demonstrated in Selma. (King Jr.) knew that these people would not be willing to work with them and walk and march in order to get their rights. And they were stunned by the march from Selma to Montgomery.”

Brewster also chose to show Selma in honor of Black

History Month. He finds that the march from Selma to Montgomery is not always in the curriculum for students.

“You hear this rhetoric all the time: Why do they need a black history month? It’s be-cause it’s not getting taught any other month,” Brewster said.

Racism today is more subtle than it was in Selma’s time, but not gone, according to Brewster.

“It was a really good movie,” said Byron Hodge, a junior management in-formation systems student. “It really painted a picture of what African Americans had to go through to fight for their freedom, and when you watched it, you could ac-tually feel it. It just paints a picture.”

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read through these pro-posals carefully and seri-ously consider the reper-cussions of voting for or against them.

Many political scientists believe the order of names on a ballot can also effect how citizens vote.

Jon Krosnick, director

of the Political Psychology Research Group at Stand-ford University, has stud-ied the effect of name order in elections for more than ten years. He determined that on average, candidates listed first on a ballot re-ceive 2.5 percent more votes than other candidates.

When reading a list, like on a ballot, people tend to remember the first terms better than the last, and by the time they read the later

options, they can be preoc-cupied processing the ear-lier information, according to Yale Scientific Magazine.

In his studies, Krosnick and his colleagues also found that the effects of bal-lot order were most resil-ient when voters knew less about candidates, making the attention students pay to SGA candidates during their campaigning and the debate potentially crucial to the results of this election.

The SGA debate will be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 29 in the Mountainlair Food Court. Candidates will openly share their plat-forms and plans for the stu-dent body.

Voting for the SGA elec-tion will be held from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. on March 1 and 2 at the Mountainlair, the Evansdale Crossing and University Park.

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The event will also in-clude local guest speak-ers, featuring Spenser Wempe, a recent WVU grad, Miss West Virginia 2011, a survivor of vio-lence and rape and Jessie Barclay, from WVU Ca-reer Services.

All WVU students and faculty are invited to at-tend regardless of gender

and sexual orientation. “We cannot possibly

make a difference without collective support from both men and women,” Ridenour said.

WVU AAUW came to the University during the Fall 2014 academic year.

For more information on the organization or on all events that will be of-fered at the event, visit http://aauw.studentorgs.wvu.edu/.

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faculty.”As a land grant institu-

tion, WVU prides itself on utilizing its research and implementing it for the wellbeing of the state and the University.

“Our researchers are working to reinvent the state’s economy. They are ensuring that 1.8 mil-lion West Virginians have

great health care,” Gee said. “They are creating oppor-tunities for our people (to) thrive, not merely survive. They are tackling the prob-lems facing West Virginia and applying their knowl-edge to solve them.”

WVU’s research is unique because the prog-ress made in certain fields can go straight to the class-rooms, King said.

“I think another impor-tant thing about being an R1 University that is kind of unique to West Virginia

University is the fact that the researchers who are en-gaged in this high level of research are also the fac-ulty who teach undergrad-uates in the classroom,” King said. “That means that the result of research gets retranslated back into the classroom, so undergradu-ate students in various dis-ciplines are learning what is occurring at the forefront of their discipline.”

WVU recently garnered national attention for its part in the Volkswagen

emission scandal, and this research was not part of the data that was used to de-termine the university’s re-search classification, King said.

“The Center for Alter-native Fuels, Engines and Emissions, is a 20 plus year old entity at the institu-tion,” King said. “The VW information came out after the data for that, so it’s an example of the kind of im-pact that our research has.”

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asKar salIKHoV/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumKirsten Song, a visiting assistant professor of Sociology, attends the presentation of “Selma” hosted by the West Virginia Uni-versity Multicultural Programs.

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With Fbi ring tightening, last oregon occupiers give upBUrNS, Ore. (aP)—With

the FBI tightening its ring around them, the last four holdouts in the armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered Thursday, ending a 41-day standoff that left one man dead and exposed simmering an-ger over the government’s control of vast expanses of Western land.

Federal authorities in six states also arrested seven other people accused of being involved in the oc-cupation and brought charges against a leader of the movement who orga-nized a 2014 standoff. Two more suspects remained at large.

The last occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge gave up without in-cident a day after federal agents surrounded the site.

Nearby residents were relieved.

“I just posted hallelujah on my Facebook,” said Ju-lie Weikel, who lives next to the nature preserve. “And I think that says it all. I am so glad this is over.”

At least 25 people have now been indicted on fed-eral charges of conspir-acy to impede employees at the wildlife refuge from performing their duties.

Meanwhile, C l iven Bundy, who was at the center of the 2014 stand-off at his ranch in Nevada, was arrested late Wednes-day in Portland after en-couraging the occupiers not to give up. Bundy is the father of Ammon Bundy, the jailed leader of the Or-egon occupation.

The elder Bundy ap-peared in federal court Thursday in Portland to hear the charges against him, all of which stem from the 2014 confronta-tion with federal authori-ties in Nevada.

He’s accused of leading supporters who pointed military-style weapons at federal agents trying

to enforce a court order to round up Bundy cattle from federal rangeland. The charges include con-spiracy, assault on a fed-eral officer, obstruction of justice and weapons charges.

Federal authorities have not said why they chose to arrest the 69-year-old now. They may have feared Bundy’s presence would draw sympathizers to de-fend the holdouts.

At the court hearing, the elder Bundy asked for a court-appointed at-torney. U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice Stewart said she wanted to see finan-cial documents first. She set a detention hear-ing for next Tuesday, and Bundy will stay in jail until then.

Bomb squads planned to go through the refuge’s buildings to make sure no

explosives were left be-hind, said Greg Bretzing, the agent in charge of the FBI’s Portland division.

The refuge will remain closed for weeks as spe-cialists collect evidence and try to determine whether the occupiers damaged any tribal arti-facts and burial grounds sacred to the Burns Paiute Tribe, he said.

Videos posted on-line showed members of the armed group explor-ing buildings at the site and criticizing the way tribal artifacts were stored there.

The last four occupi-ers had been living in a rough encampment on refuge grounds. The vid-eos sometimes showed group members living in tents or gathered around a campfire, driving vehi-cles and setting up barri-

cades. They erected a can-opy next to a pickup truck and an old car and put camping chairs and cool-ers around it. The area ap-peared strewn with plastic water bottles, cardboard boxes, clothes, pack-ages of bullets and beer cans.

The last four occupi-ers were scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Port-land. They are 27-year-old David Fry of Blanches-ter, Ohio; Jeff Banta, 46, of Elko, Nevada; and married couple Sean Anderson, 48, and Sandy Anderson, 47, of Riggins, Idaho.

The FBI began moving in Wednesday evening, sur-rounding their encamp-ment with armored vehi-cles. Over the next several hours, the occupiers’ panic and their negotiation with FBI agents could be heard live on the Internet, broad-

cast by a sympathizer of the occupiers who estab-lished phone contact with them.

The Andersons and Banta surrendered first on Thursday. Fry ini-tially refused to join them.

“I’m making sure I’m not coming out of here alive,” he said at one point Thursday, threatening to kill himself. “Liberty or death, I take that stance.”

After ranting for a while, he too gave up.

Federal authorities were criticized during the oc-cupation for not acting sooner to end it. But some experts said the FBI’s strat-egy of letting tensions die down before moving in en-sured there would be no bloodshed.

“This was beautifully ex-ecuted,” said Brian Levin, a criminal justice profes-

sor at California State Uni-versity, San Bernardino. “This siege and the way it was handled will go down in law enforcement textbooks.”

The standoff began when Ammon Bundy and his followers took over the refuge south of Burns, demanding that the government turn over the land to locals and release two ranch-ers imprisoned for setting fires.

Federal agents, Oregon state troopers and sher-iff ’s deputies monitored the occupation to avoid a confrontation. As the weeks passed, there were growing calls for the FBI to act, including from Or-egon’s governor.

They did, on Jan. 26. On that day, Ammon Bundy and other occupation leaders were heading for the town of John Day to give a talk on federal over-reach. FBI agents and Ore-gon state troopers stopped the group’s two-vehicle convoy. Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was shot dead in that confrontation. The FBI said he was reaching for a pistol inside his jacket pocket.

A total of 12 people were arrested that week, including Ammon Bundy. Most of the occupiers fled the refuge after hear-ing they would not be ar-rested if they left quickly. Four stayed behind, say-ing they feared they would be arrested if they left.

Oregon elected offi-cials rejoiced at the end of the long occupation but said it will take a while for the rural area to re-cover. Gov. Kate Brown called the episode “very traumatic.”

“The level of harass-ment and intimidation by folks who were staying in the Burns community was horrific,” she said. “And the healing will take a long time.”

aPFBI Special Agent in Charge Greg Bretzing, at podium, talks to reporters at the Chamber of Commerce in Burns, Ore., Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. The end of a nearly six-week-long standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge played out live on the Internet, with tens of thousands of people listening as supporters encouraged the last armed occupiers to surrender. The holdouts surrendered Thursday, having refused to leave Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after the group’s leaders were arrested last month.

Ex-exec sentenced to one month in West Virginia chemical spillCHarLESTON, W.Va.

(aP)—A former Freedom Industries executive was sentenced Thursday to one month in federal prison for a chemical spill that fouled the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians.

Dennis Farrell also was fined $20,000 in U.S. Dis-trict Court.

“I’m truly sorry for what happened,” Farrell said prior to sentencing on pollution violations. “My

hope was, I wish I could go back with the knowledge I now have. I will never forget the lessons I have learned.”

The January 2014 spill of a coal-cleaning agent into the Elk River in Charleston got into a water compa-ny’s intake and prompted a tap-water ban in nine counties for up to 10 days. Residents immediately cleared store shelves of bottled water, and many

restaurants were forced to close or cut back services temporarily.

Judge Thomas Johnston noted after environmental regulators intervened and plans were put in place for spill-prevention con-trols at a facility owned by Freedom in Nitro, about 14 miles west of Charleston, Farrell could have acted to ensure that similar pre-cautions were taken at the Charleston facility.

But Johnston also noted that the misdemean-ors Farrell admitted to were “those of careless omission.”

Before imposing the sentence, the judge heard a lengthy statement read by a former resident, Maya Nye, who said the spill was “not a victimless crime.”

Farrell was a for-mer owner of Freedom and served as its presi-dent from October 2001

through December 2013, after which it was sold and he continued to work for the company in a manage-ment role.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip Wright said there was a “cultural failure” at Freedom, and Farrell “was the one who set that culture.”

“His focus was to make money,” Wright said. “But you have to do it responsibly.”

Four other ex-Free-dom officials have been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay fines. Ex-company President Gary Southern is sched-uled to be sentenced next week.

The company, which filed bankruptcy eight days after the spill, was fined $900,000, although a federal judge said the fine was more symbolic than anything.

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Adapting to Twitter’s new featureTo social media fanat-

ics, Twitter is known as a constantly updating hub of information. To cyn-ics, Twitter is regarded as a dumping ground of mun-dane information and nar-cissistic statements. Re-gardless of which statement you may agree with, devel-opers are introducing a new feature next week that may change the fundamental function of the website for all users.

An algorithm that an-alyzes a tweet’s relevance will soon apply to all tweets on a user’s timeline. Tweets deemed more important and relevant by the algo-rithm will be placed at the top of the timeline and abandon use of chronolog-ical order. This feature will help news spread more quickly and reach a greater number of people.

However, the algorithm incorrectly assumes what people need or want to see can be indicated by previ-

ously retweeted and liked tweets. This may be true for a majority of users, but the algorithms risks only giv-ing users more of what they have already experienced

and filtering out new infor-mation that may interest or concern them.

A TED talk from 2011 demonstrated that Google has already implemented

similar methods with alarming effects. Informa-tion largely considered to be pressing news could re-main mysteriously absent from a search depending

on a user’s previous search terms.

In one example, a user who had used Google to find information on news websites in the past was immediately shown stories of Egypt’s revolution from major news sources upon searching the term “Egypt.” To another, less news-ori-ented user, who searched the same word, links per-taining to the ongoing rev-olution didn’t appear at all.

Twitter introduced a similar feature several years ago that makes a user’s tweets larger if they receive more likes and retweets than others. This makes sorting through a person’s timeline easier but may also work against users. Tweets visually depicted as being more important than oth-ers can unfairly prime users to interpret them in certain ways, which doesn’t allow for impartial consumption of information.

The consequences of

this feature could be di-sastrous. Going so far as to predict what news Twit-ter users want to see cre-ates a breeding ground for confirmation bias and “fil-ter bubbles” that leave us-ers trapped in the realm of only what already interests them.

Eliminating the ability to be easily confronted with new ideas and differing opinions is not beneficial to this generation. Using Twit-ter to only tell us more of what we want to hear and affirm our own beliefs is a gross misuse of technology.

Twitter officials have stated the feature can be disabled, but it’s likely to become the default setting for users new to the site. Twitter may undergo many changes in the upcom-ing months, but hopefully its user base will continue to stay curious despite the new feature.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership is undemocratic, harmful

What if the most impor-tant issues of our genera-tion were being decided in the least democratic ways?

Last week, the Trans-Pacific Partnership was signed by representatives from 12 countries, includ-ing the United States. The TPP is a multi-trillion dol-lar trade agreement, en-compassing more than 40 percent of global GDP. This signing marked the begin-ning of a two-year ratifica-tion period where at least six countries must ap-prove the text for it to go into effect.

Since 2010, the Obama administration has led ne-gotiations for this deal, which it believes will in-crease exports and make American products com-petitive in the Asia-Pacific. According to the White House, the TPP is “the cor-nerstone of the Obama Ad-ministration’s economic policy in the Asia-Pacific.” However, despite their lofty rhetoric, the methods used by the administration in creating the agreement were highly questionable.

Until November 2015, the agreement was dis-cussed in private, with only government officials and selective corporate repre-sentatives able to see the text. Before this point, the public could only receive details through leaks ob-tained by WikiLeaks and various news outlets. This meant that only after the text was more or less final-ized could the public fi-nally figure out what it said.

Governments justified

this secrecy, claiming that popular pressure from cit-izens would disrupt ne-gotiations. In January 2015, Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo, director-general of the World Trade Organi-zation, urged that, in order to move negotiations for-ward, the involved parties must balance transparency and secrecy.

But what balance did they strike? Several inter-national corporations got to see and advise the deci-sion-making for the agree-ment, while everyday citi-zens and most lawmakers could not access the text until negotiations were finished. In this case, bal-ancing transparency and secrecy meant full disclo-

sure to certain corporate executives but not the pub-lic. This is the opposite of democracy, as people are unable to witness or con-trol the actions of their representatives.

Why would the public be kept from these nego-tiations? The picture be-comes clearer when we consider what the TPP says. The agreement is sev-eral thousand pages long, so it is unlikely that any in-dividual has read it in its entirety. However, human rights groups, environmen-tal organizations and oth-ers have expressed deep concerns about its provi-sions, which they claim privilege corporations over people.

The Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth have warned against parts of the agreement that can allow corporations to sue coun-tries for laws they claim hurt profits. According to the Sierra Club, similar provisions in other trade deals have been used to “attack common-sense en-vironmental laws and regu-lations, such as regulations to protect communities and the environment from harmful chemicals or min-ing practices.”

To make matters worse, Doctors Without Borders has claimed that the deal will increase the price of medicine in developing countries and have called the agreement “the most

harmful trade agreement ever for access to med-icines.” Human Rights Watch echoes this worry, saying that the TPP will both reduce access to healthcare and increase its costs by revising inter-national rules dealing with intellectual property.

Furthermore, the Inter-national Labor Organiza-tion also claims the deal will be harmful to labor unions. Under its rules, unions will not be able to file complaints of labor vi-olations directly but must petition their government to file the complaint, which is a process that rarely hap-pens. To give an example, Human Rights Watch al-leges that similar mea-

sures in another agree-ment, the Central America Free Trade Agreement, were used to prevent sanc-tioning Guatemala for la-bor violations, though over 70 union organizers have been killed since its signing.

In the coming months, it is likely that the Obama Administration or its suc-cessor will attempt to get the TPP ratified by Con-gress. As citizens in a free society, it is our duty to critically consider these measures and put them to the test of democracy. We can’t afford to let the cor-nerstones of our policies slip from popular control.

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‘F***, THAT’S DELICIOUS’ Action Bronson returns to his culinary roots, new webseries showcases food and culture

by corey elliot A&E WritEr

@dAilyAthEnAEum

It takes some artistic ingenuity to have success with a television show.

After 16 episodes on YouTube, “F***, That’s Delicious” will debute to television on the new Viceland cable net-work on Feb. 29. “F*** That’s Delicious” is a web series that combines food, culture and the unmistakable Ac-tion Bronson.

Viceland is a product of Vice, a popular culture maga-zine and website based out of Canada that is well-known for its unique and racy documentaries filmed all over the world.

Action Bronson morphed into a rapper by complete accident after breaking his leg in the kitchen where he found himself working for a living. It was that very acci-dent that ultimately changed his life as he is now signed to a major label putting out art in the form of music. Bron-son couldn’t let go of his roots with culinary love, though. Thanks to clever lyrics, a distinct appearance and being well-versed with food, Action now stars in a one-of-a-kind television show.

“I never really went as far as I wanted to culinarily, but now it’s like I’m living out my dreams,” Bronson said in Vice Magazine’s trailer for the show.

Throughout the lone season on Vice’s Munchies chan-nel on YouTube, “F*** That’s Delicious” had a handful of featured guests. One of which was Chef Mario Batali, who happens to be a big fan of Bronson’s craft. Also making ap-pearances were rapper, RiFF RAFF; music producer, The Alchemist and entertainer, Simon Rex.

But even earlier than his silver-lined leg break, Action

Bronson experimented with a self-produced web series called “Action in the Kitchen.” In those short videos, he instructed viewers how to make miscellaneous dishes.

Now, with the status and the musical success he has, it makes the show much easier to market for Vice. It’s not often that you hear of a rapping chef traveling around the world sampling some of the most exotic foods. Guy Fieri isn’t a rapper.

Joining Bronson on his wild ride of taste and touring will be his unpredictable cousin, Big Body Bes and rap-per, Mayhem Lauren.

“To be able to bring two of my best friends in this world on these adventures with me, it makes it all that much more special,” Bronson said to Vice.

The Alchemist will also make appearances along the way. He’s produced multiple tracks for Bronson, includ-ing “Rare Chandeliers,” a mixtape dropped in 2012.

Since the show is filmed on tour, and often times in other countries, bringing guests onto the show isn’t as feasible as it would be stateside. In a trailer released by Vice, Bronson and actor, Henry Winkler have an improvi-sational chat about his unlikely career change.

“While on tour you just need to do other things than f****** rap,” Bronson said. “You have to immerse yourself into the city.”

That’s exactly what Bronson and his boys do. There’s nothing Bronson won’t try, as he’s not much of a picky eater. “F*** That’s Delicious” gives the viewers an uncen-sored perspective at what tour life is like with a rapper-chef. Consider it an R-rated Food Network show.

For more information, visit http://vice.com.

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Perfect, affordable his and her gifts for Valentine’s Dayby chelsea Walker

A&E WritEr @dAilyAthEnAEum

Valentine’s weekend has arrived, but before you go grabbing the traditional box of choco-lates and flowers, try surprising your special someone with a new and unconventional gift.

For Him:Chillsner Available on Amazon for $20, this gift is per-

fect for any sports fan, barbeque guru or out-doorsman. The Corkcicle Chillsner is one of the only in-bottle beer chillers on the mar-ket that allows individuals to drink their brew without the worry of warming it. In 45 min-utes, the Chillsner beer cooler insert can be placed inside any standard size bottle to keep the brew cold for over an hour.

Favorite Magazine SubscriptionWhether print or reading from their phone

or tablet, a subscription to ESPN, GQ or Men’s Health makes a quick, convenient and cheap gift for any guy. At less than $20 and with most magazines expanding into the world of apps, volumes of magazines can appear with the swipe of a finger.

Whiskey WedgeAlso from the makers of Corkcicle, the Whis-

key Wedge is just as appropriate for the sports fan or advent bourbon drinker. This cleverly designed, $18 glass allows the drinker to fill with water and then place a silicone wedge down into the glass. The silicone wedge en-sures the water freezes to one side of the glass so the spirits can remain chilled without the risk of melting ice cubes.

Dollar Shave Club MembershipBeards require some serious upkeep, and

blades are expensive. Nothing says Happy Val-entine’s Day to your special guy like a member-ship to Dollar Shave Club. Starting at $3, Dollar Shave Club will ship stainless steel blades and cartridges straight to your dude’s door. Dollar Shave Club offers a variety of blade bundles at various prices, allowing your guy to change up his shaving package at any time.

Customized Cutting BoardMade for a significant other with kitchen

skills, this gift is affordable, unique and one that can be used over and over again. Start-ing at $15 on Etsy.com, these cutting boards come in a variety of sizes and can be custom-ized with anything from your guy’s last name to images. Let’s face it, gifting a cutting board also means you’ll most likely get a nice din-ner in return.

For Her:Mario Badescu MultimaskerMany women love decent facemasks, and

for $24 this three-piece kit is a steal. With a drying mask, a flower and tonic mask and an enzyme revitalizing mask, this set is made for every skin type. As one of the leading skin care brands on the market, this Mario Badescu treatment trio can impress any lady on V-day.

Muk Luks House Shoes Starting at $10 and offered in a plethora of

different colors and styles, these house slip-pers make a perfect gift for a significant other. Muk Luks house shoes are available at Dick’s Sporting Goods and online at retailers such as Nordstrom, Target and Amazon.

Shari’s BerriesOffered at different prices, depending on

the gift set, Shari’s Berries will deliver fresh de-lectable chocolates straight to your lady’s door.

From dipped pretzel rods, to chocolate cov-ered strawberries, you can never go wrong in gifting chocolates.

Lush Bath BombsMade from essential oils, flower petals and

all-natural products, Lush Bath Bombs com-bine invigorating smells and colors into one fizzy bath experience, all for less than $10. With a large variation of choices, Lush offers bath bombs for any lady, such as Avobath, a lemongrass concoction mixed with avocados that leaves skin soft, or the Tisty Tosty, an ar-omatic bomb with lemon, rosebuds and jas-mine absolute.

Skullcandy Soundmine Bluetooth Speaker

Perfect for any lady with a good taste in tunes, the Skullcandy Soundmine Bluetooth speaker is made for compact traveling and listening. Starting at less than $20, this name brand speaker may be small, but can turn-up any setting. Being Bluetooth, this speaker can be connected to any tablet or phone any-where. Not only is this gift perfect for your sig-nificant other, but you’ll reap the benefits of jamming with this compact speaker as well.

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IMAX film ‘National Parks Adventure’ celebrates the beauty of parksA new IMAX movie debuts

Friday, starring geysers, red rock canyons, mountaintops and redwood forests.

Called “National Parks Adventure,” the film cele-brates the beauty and thrills of America’s parks. It’s part of a year-long celebration mark-ing the centennial of the Na-tional Park Service.

The movie was filmed over nine months in more than 30 national parks, including Yel-lowstone, Glacier National Park, Yosemite, the Grand Tetons and Death Valley.

“Over 100 years ago these treasured places were pro-tected for eternity for every-one and the national parks were born,” intones the nar-rator, Robert Redford. The actor later adds that “Utah has 13 national park loca-tions, which is precisely why I choose to live here.”

But while there’s plenty of

footage of beautiful places and wildlife, the film is much more than a series of scenic wonders. It also showcases some heart-thumping adven-tures undertaken by the trio featured in the film: the real-life world-class mountain-eer Conrad Anker, his step-son, adventure photographer

Max Lowe and a friend, artist Rachel Pohl.

In one scene, they scale a seemingly sheer spire at Arches National Park in Utah; in another, they climb frozen waterfalls at Pictured Rocks National Seashore on Lake Superior in Michigan. There’s also footage of whitewater

rafting through the Colorado River’s raging waters at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. In between, the trio is shown planning their trip, camping out and driving empty roads while a soundtrack plays songs ranging from the Lum-ineers to Bruce Springsteen.

The emphasis on adven-

ture and not just beauty and history is a way of furthering the National Park Service’s ef-forts to attract millennials. In remarks earlier this month, Park Service Director Jon Jar-vis said that bringing more 18- to 35-year-olds to na-tional parks is one of the cen-tennial’s goals, to “connect

with the next generation of park visitors, supporters and advocates.”

One of the film’s most thrilling scenes shows moun-tain bikers in Moab, Utah, on a challenging trail called Slickrock at Bartlett Wash, on Bureau of Land Management property outside Arches Na-tional Park. The bikers zoom along sandstone precipices at breathtaking speeds and fly their bikes through the air. In one shot, a helmeted biker crashes but quickly recovers. The scene has attracted a bit of attention because the Na-tional Park Service only al-lows biking on roads and designated areas in parks. A regional spokesman for the park service, Rick Frost, said the agency was OK with the scene because Redford’s nar-ration “makes it clear that it’s not taking place” inside na-tional park boundaries.

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swipelife.comAction Bronson hosts a new webseries, ‘F*** That’s Delicious.’

pretty52.comLush Bath Bombs are available in a variety of scents and colors.

lasentinel.net‘National Parks Adventure’ is available for viewing in 3-D.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 5Friday February 12, 2016

Loving on a budget, the best Valentine’s Day datesby MeL sMith

A&E WritEr @dAilyAthEnAEum

The overly anticipated weekend of chocolates, flowers and “I love yous” is quickly approaching. Val-entine’s Day on a college campus can be difficult due to expenses and mo-bility. A college student’s budget leads to a taco 12 pack from Taco Bell or an evening of Ramen and chill. In addition, many students do not have cars on campus, limiting date options mostly to places that are within walking distance. It may be diffi-cult, but the time and cre-ativity that goes into col-lege Valentine’s Day makes it that much more memo-rable. The Daily Athenae-um’s Arts and Entertain-ment staff presents five cost effective, original Val-entine’s Day dates that will make your significant other swoon.

Tailpipes and Chill?Take a break from the

bitter cold and snuggle up in a booth at Tailpipes. The signature burger joint is known for hearty food and thick milkshakes that will satisfy your hunger for hours. The restaurant offers an exclusive flavor list including maple ba-con, fruity pebbles and chocolate peanut butter nutella shakes. The walk down High Street is pain-less and worth the enjoy-ment your stomach will experience. Put two straws in the shake for an inti-

mate evening and sit on the same side of the booth to watch the television together. Although it is cheesy, the date only costs merely $6 for one milk-shake or $12 for two. Per-sonal displays of affection are not advised in a public setting.

A Trip to the Animal House

While you’re down High Street, stop in the hole in the wall pet store. Sadly, they are not open on Sun-days, so this would make for the perfect early Val-entine’s Day activity. An-imal House is completely volunteer-based, offering pets of all kinds for adop-tion. The date would in-clude stopping inside the shop and seeing all of the animals. The animals change weekly, adding to the surprise factor of what you may see. Animals held at Animal House include puppies, mini alligators, rabbits, ferrets and even miniature piglets. To ex-tend the date, buy a coffee or hot chocolate from The Grind on Willey Street and reflect on how much fun the puppies were. Some-times, it is fun to act like a child again and sprawl out on the floor with pets. The estimated cost of this date would be the cost of the coffee, which is about four dollars total.

President’s House and Picnic

This date may be weather permitting, but certainly worth the relax-ation and alone time it

will provide. The Blaney House is located on the Engineering campus close to the WV water tower. The house itself is gated from cars, but there are benches and grass areas open to the public. Pack a basket of goodies and adventure up to the house to enjoy one of the most breathtaking views in town. The entire downtown campus can be seen from this perch, along with the Monongahela River and downtown Mor-gantown. The snow may keep you from picnicking, but the town covered in white is striking from this location, especially at sun-set. It is the perfect place to

tell your special someone you love them or that they are as beautiful as the view. The alone time would cost merely nothing, except energy to make it up the hill.

Local Music at Black Bear

Sadly, many local res-taurants are closed on Sun-days. Celebrate Valentine’s Day Saturday evening with dinner at the down-town Black Bear Burritos and enjoy free local mu-sic by the band Meadow Run. Black Bear Burritos is signature to Morgantown, offering unique cuisine and spicy flavors that will warm up your night. Bond

over the live music, bottles clinking and chips crunch-ing as you enjoy the lively atmosphere with your sig-nificant other. The eth-nic menu provides a hy-brid of all different types of foods put in a bur-rito, wrap or salad. En-trée prices vary from $5-10 and queso is only $5, barely burning a hole in your pocket. Plus, a date with queso is bound to be incredible.

Order Up and NetflixSnow is in the forecast

for this weekend, leading to many lovebirds staying indoors. To still make the time spent special, cuddle up and watch your favor-

ite rom-coms on Netflix back-to-back. Put together a marathon including “50 First Dates”, “Silver Linings Playbook,” and “Love Ac-tually”. If the roads are safe to travel, place online de-livery orders on Order Up, a delivery service catering to students all over cam-pus. Chinese food, Netf-lix and a relaxing, snowed in Sunday with your lover is the perfect formula for a Valentine’s Day well spent. The estimated cost of this date may vary but should not cost more than $25 and a little bit of love.

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imgur.comTailpipes’ bacon, gouda mac and cheese is a savory option for your Valentine’s Day date.

Country music returns to Grammys after years awayAP

NEW YORK (AP) ‑ Country music has not had an album or song nominated in the top three categories at the Grammys since 2011 when Lady Antebellum won big, but the genre is back strong, thanks to Chris Staple-ton’s overall success and Little Big Town’s megahit, “Girl Crush.”

Stapleton, a hit songwriter and former leader of The SteelDrivers, is nominated for album of the year for his debut, “Traveller,” while “Girl Crush” earned songwriters Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey and Lori McKenna nominations for song of the year.

The last time a country album was nom-inated for album of the year was Lady An-tebellum’s “Need You Now” at the 2011 Grammys (we don’t count Taylor Swift’s pop-flavored “Red” as country). That year also was the last time a country track earned nominations for song or record of the year, which Lady A took home for their crossover hit, “Need You Now” (Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me” was nominated for song of the year that year too).

Charles Kelley of Lady A says the 2011 Grammys “was probably the greatest night of my musical career. It felt like a big win for the genre that night.”

Kelley, who is nominated for his first Grammy apart from his Lady A bandmates this year, said country music is returning to the top categories because Little Big Town and Stapleton made unique and unpredict-able songs.

“They made the boldest records; they’re not down-the-middle records at all, and I think the Grammys always tend to recog-nize when someone has painted outside the lines a little bit,” he said.

Sam Hunt also is representing country music with a nomination for best new art-ist, a category that typically includes at least one country act.

Part of the reason country music has not earned top Grammy nominations may be because country songs don’t chart high enough on the pop- and rap-dominated Billboard Hot 100 chart. Grammy voters who are not paying attention solely to coun-try music may not be as familiar with the genre’s songs and albums because it’s not in the mainstream as much as rap and rock.

Carrie Underwood’s “Inside Your Heaven” was the last country song to hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2005; before that it was Lonestar in 2000 with “Amazed.” Though

“Need You Now” and Swift’s “You Belong With Me” both peaked at No. 2, country songs often chart in the bottom half of the Top 40 pop charts and Top 10 hits are a rar-ity. “Girl Crush,” as big as it was, peaked at No. 18 on the Hot 100.

“It did not perform in the pop radio world anywhere near what we thought it would,” said Mike Dungan, the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group Nash-ville, the home to Little Big Town, Staple-ton and Hunt.

But country acts have a comfortable home with country radio, and can reach double platinum status without crossing over to pop, which is not the case for rap,

rock and R&B acts.“Back when country was really present

on pop radio - let’s take this as far back as the ‘80s - these records were really worked to all the formats at the same time ,” Dun-gan said.

But today, “country radio ... (doesn’t) like it when artists crossover. They look at those artists as if they are opportunists who are looking at country as a maybe a stepping stone to a bigger, broader world,” he said. “And so those of us who have been on this side of the business, the labels, the artists, their managers, have been very cautious about when you pull that trigger to cross over.”

Because music fans today listen to a wide range of genres, once “Girl Crush” was sent to pop radio, it had already been heard by some of that audience: “It was already kind of burned out,” Dungan said.

At Monday’s Grammys, Little Big Town’s “Pain Killer” is nominated for best coun-try album, while “Girl Crush” is also up for best country song and country duo/group performance.

“For some reason this song spoke to peo-ple ... I don’t know if it was controversial, I don’t know what it was,” said Rose, who co-wrote “Girl Crush” and also co-wrote Swift’s “You Belong With Me,” which was nomi-nated for song and record of the year at the 2010 Grammys. “’You Belong With Me’ crossed over ... so that makes sense to me. This does not make sense. ...It turned into a song, and not just country, and it’s just a universal song that people, even if they don’t know country (music), they know the song.”

Stapleton’s nominations include best country song, solo performance and al-bum for “Traveller.” His album became a No. 1 smash after his show-stopping perfor-mance with Justin Timberlake at the CMA Awards, along with three-for-three wins. His competition for album of the year in-cludes No. 1 efforts from Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Alabama Shakes and The Weeknd.

Though Lady A, Stapleton and Little Big Town have had crossover success, that doesn’t always equate to Grammy love. Florida Georgia Line, who had a Top 5 pop hit with its “Cruise” remix with rapper Nelly in 2013, didn’t earn a single nomination; Luke Bryan, despite selling millions of al-bums and tickets at stadiums, has never earned a Grammy nomination. Both acts fit in the category of the sometimes frowned-upon “bro-country” genre.

“I can make a presumption that the Grammys kind of viewed that music as a bit pedestrian and banal and not art wor-thy,” said John Marks, Spotify’s global head of country music, where the genre is the third most active behind pop and hip-hop.

Marks added that the Grammys tend to lean to songs that are “more lyric and art-driven, and largely commercially-driven.”

“And that hasn’t happened in a little while, and the opportunity has presented itself with Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town.”

magazine.foxnews.comMiranda Lambert is a former country Grammy-nominee.

As ‘Force Awakens’ winds down, ‘Avatar’ remains supremeNEW YORK (AP) ‑ Two months af-

ter opening to unprecedented fan-fare, “Star Wars: The Force Awak-ens” is finally winding down in theaters, leaving behind arsenals of plastic lightsabers and a trail of box-office records.

“The Force Awakens” is still play-ing in more than 2,000 theaters in North America and remains ranked in the top-five at the box office as it enters its ninth week of release. But the lion’s share of its theatrical rev-enue has been pocketed, and one thing is abundantly clear: it’s not go-ing to touch “Avatar.”

Regardless of further receipts, “The Force Awakens” (currently with $2.008 billion worldwide) will slot in at No. 2 all-time on the global box office list, if you don’t account for inflation or rereleases. That’s slightly ahead of James Cameron’s “Titanic” ($1.84 billion before a later 3-D release pushed it to $2.18 bil-

lion) but light years behind “Avatar” ($2.79 billion).

“The Force Awakens” was by any measure a massive hit: a full-blown if prepackaged cultural phe-nomenon that drove moviegoers en masse to theaters in a way that some thought was no longer possible in an increasingly multi-screen media world. It has already made the Walt Disney Co. heaps of cash and it has set the franchise up to reap oodles more in merchandising, theme park attractions and sequels.

But even the most colossal hit of the decade - one with all the fire-power of arguably the movies’ big-gest franchise - was no match for Cameron’s 2009 3-D sensation. Though some forecast “The Force Awakens” to rival “Avatar” and pos-sibly become the first $3 billion movie, that mark has never seemed more out of reach.

“’Avatar’ is sitting on top of that

global mountain, looking down and saying, ‘Just try to catch me,’” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. “That’s a re-cord that’s going to stand for a long time. And we know it now more than ever.”

Though “The Force Awakens” set a record in North America ($906.7 million and counting), it was less of a phenomenon in some overseas territories. Most notably in China, where “Star Wars” doesn’t have the same history with moviegoers. Had “The Force Awakens” performed at the same rate internationally as it did in the U.S., it would have top-pled “Avatar.”

Currency devaluation in some countries between 2009 and 2106 also help account for the distance between “The Force Awakens” and “Avatar,” perhaps as much as hun-dreds of millions.

It’s just one more example of how

box office rankings don’t take into account countless variables (infla-tion, ticket prices, media competi-tion) that affect every release. Adjust for inflation and the record domes-tic haul of “The Force Awakens,” is dwarfed by 1939’s “Gone With the Wind,” which made approximately $1.7 billion in North America in in-flation-adjusted dollars. Each era has its own mega blockbusters.

“We’re taking a little more time just to appreciate the run and the response without paying too much attention to ranking and ratings,” said Dave Hollis, head of distribu-tion for Disney. “There’s still busi-ness to be had in this run and pos-sibly if we decide to do a reissue of this film now or ahead of Episode VIII, or whatever it might be.”

Regardless, the $4 billion invest-ment Disney made when it pur-chased LucasFilm is already looking like a bargain, and the mammoth

success of “The Force Awakens” in movie theaters is only part of it.

Analysts expect merchandizing revenues from “Star Wars” to bring in some $5 billion for Disney in 2015 and 2016. “Star Wars” is also driv-ing more visitors to Disney’s theme parks. Ground will soon be broken on a 14-acre “Star Wars” area in Disneyland.

Most importantly, director J.J. Abrams reinvigorated the franchise with a crowd-pleasing, critically praised reboot that pulled in new fans and put in motion a profit-cre-ating system of galactic proportions.

“It started with a fantastic film that absolutely delivered,” said Hol-lis. “For what it meant not just off of some big opening weekends but for the playability over the last cou-ple of months and really for what it means in setting up the franchise for the future, everyone couldn’t be any happier.”

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GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HH Ne-gotiate and compromise. You’re es-pecially persuasive. New challenges equal new risks. keep things prac-tical. Patiently clarify to dissipate confusion. Support your team. En-courage someone’s creativity. Imag-ine getting what you want. Provide leadership.

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Travel, and study new fields. You’re gaining points with someone you admire. Unexpected benefits arise.

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BORN TODAY community col-laborations especially make a dif-ference this year. New income alters your educational plans and travels. a two-year exploration and research phase begins after. Family fortunes rise, impacting your personal wal-let. Work together for love.

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Undefeated thus far in February, the West Vir-ginia women’s basket-ball team will strive for a fourth-consecutive con-ference win on Saturday when the team travels to take on No. 20 Oklahoma State, in Stillwater.

WVU closed out a two-game home stand defeat-ing Iowa State in the first of two matchups this sea-son. The Mountaineers walked away victorious,

winning 57-47 to make it three-straight double-digit victories against Big 12 op-ponents. West Virginia is 8-4 in conference play and has won five of their last seven games in convinc-ing fashion. The Moun-taineers have a chance to take control of third place in the Big 12 with a win on Saturday as Okla-homa State also boasts an 8-4 conference record and currently ties WVU for third place.

Saturday’s contest in Stillwater will be the first of two meetings between

the two Big 12 programs this season. A year ago, the Cowgirls and Moun-taineers split the series with both teams pulling out a victory on the road. Winning in Stillwater has been a tough task for any opponent making a visit to take on the Cowgirls court in 2015-16. They have only suffered one loss at home this season, to Texas in January. However, Okla-homa State managed to pull out the win against No. 4 Baylor back in De-cember to hand the Lady Bears their first and only

loss of the year. “Oklahoma State will

challenge us and we have to come ready to play,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey.

Following Wednesday’s win over Iowa State, Carey was critical of the below average crowd in atten-dance at the WVU Coli-seum and hinted at Satur-day’s trip to a larger crowd in the Midwest possibly giving his team more of a competitive drive.

“It’s like night and day when you have excitement in the crowd,” Carey said.

“It really makes you want to play harder. If we don’t play hard when we go on the road, the crowd will be in the game the whole time.”

After a shaky 2-3 start to begin conference play, Oklahoma State has only dropped one of its last seven games. The one de-feat came against Texas just this past Wednesday.

Before losing to the Longhorns, Oklahoma State had defeated rival Oklahoma twice and so-lidified its case as a con-tender in the Big 12 stand-

ings this season. With a tiebreaker on the line when West Virginia comes to Stillwater on Saturday, the matchup between the Cowgirls and Mountain-eers is crucial. Both pro-grams that are faced with ranked conference oppo-nents over the next two contests.

The showdown in Still-water tips off at 6 p.m., and a live stream will be avail-able for Mountaineer fans via the IMG Mountaineer Sports Network.

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WVU looking to extend Big 12 winning streak at No. 20 Cowgirls

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By DAVID STATMAnSportS eDitor @DJStatman77

Sitting in a three-way tie for first place in the Big 12 with a critical run of con-ference games looming, the West Virginia Univer-sity men’s basketball team (19-5, 8-3 Big 12) was just searching for numbers.

The Mountaineers’ fre-netic style means head coach Bob Huggins needs to employ a deep bench, but a key suspension and lack of contribution from his reserves was one of the main deciding fac-tors Tuesday night, as West Virginia became the 38th team in a row to fall at Kansas’ Phog Allen Fieldhouse.

“We just didn’t have enough people,” Huggins said after Tuesday night’s loss. “To play the way we

play, we need more peo-ple. Our philosophy is our 10 is better than their 10. Now, we’re down to about eight, so we’ve got to get those other guys playing and doing some things.”

But tomorrow afternoon against TCU (11-13, 2-9), West Virginia will get some major help on that front, as senior forward Jona-than Holton is set to return from a four-game suspen-sion for a violation of team rules.

One of WVU’s most te-nacious rebounders and a vital piece of the Moun-taineer press, Holton started every game this season before his suspen-sion, averaging 9.7 points and 7.5 rebounds, second on the team.

H o l t o n ’s a b s e n c e pushed junior Nathan Adrian into the starting lineup, and the Morgan-

town High School product responded by averaging nine points a game in his four starts – making six of his eight 3-point attempts – and earning praise for his defense.

It was one of the best runs of play in Adrian’s ca-reer, and Holton’s return means that there’s a lineup change to make: Hug-gins must decide whether Adrian should return to the bench or remain in the starting lineup over either the returning Holton or struggling freshman Esa Ahmad.

Either way, Holton’s re-turn means that the WVU bench is much deeper, and it was WVU’s reserves who tipped the balance last time the Mountaineers faced off with TCU.

West Virginia faced the Horned Frogs on the road on Jan. 4, in the Moun-

taineers’ second game of the conference sched-ule. Two days after a wild double-overtime shoot-out win over Kansas State, the Mountaineers got into another dogfight in Fort Worth, ultimately emerg-ing 95-87 winners after big performances from bench guards Jaysean Paige and Tarik Phillip.

Although foul trou-ble limited him to only 15 minutes, Paige ex-ploded with a game-high 20 points on 6-8 shooting; meanwhile, Phillip scored 18, hitting a late 3-pointer that jumpstarted a 14-2 run that surged WVU past the Horned Frogs late.

“Tarik Phillip wills us to win,” Huggins said af-ter WVU’s last matchup with TCU. “He makes plays at both ends of the floor, he gets rebounds. I don’t know where we’d be today

in this game without him.”Since that game, West

Virginia and TCU have gone in opposite direc-tions. TCU rebounded with a one-point win over Texas a few days later, and then went on a seven-game conference los-ing streak, only snapping their skid with a 63-56 win over Oklahoma State on Monday.

Fourth-year head coach Trent Johnson, former head man at Nevada, Stan-ford and LSU, has yet to lead the Horned Frogs to their first NCAA Tourna-ment since 1998 and has never beaten the Moun-taineers in conference play.

This year’s TCU squad is the lowest-scoring team in the Big 12 Conference, averaging only 68 points a game. TCU has only three players shooting bet-

ter than 40 percent from the field, and sophomore guard Malique Trent leads the Horned Frogs with a pedestrian 11 points per game. Guard Chauncey Collins (10.5 points per game) and Slovakian for-ward Vladimir Brodzian-sky (10.4 points per game) are the only other TCU players averaging double-digit scoring.

And most crucial to the Mountaineers, TCU turns the ball over more than any other Big 12 team, with 14.3 giveaways a night. With Holton back in the lineup, Press Virginia could run the Horned Frogs ragged on Saturday.

The West Virginia-TCU game is set for noon to-morrow at the WVU Coli-seum and will be televised live on ESPNU.

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AskAr sAlikhov/The DAily AThenAeumJonathan Holton is slated to return after serving a four game suspension.

Holton scheduled to return as WVU faces Horned Frogs on Saturday

By CHRIS JACKSonaSSoCiate SportS eDitor

@CJaCKSonWVu

Senior Jonathan Holton has been reinstated after serving a four-game sus-pension for a violation of team rules and is sched-uled to return for Satur-day’s game against TCU.

In Holton’s absence, the Mountaineers continued to develop into one of the Big 12’s top teams. They found a way into first place despite missing the crit-ical energizing presence Holton brings every night.

They went 2-2 against some of the toughest com-petition, including winning two of three since suffering an 88-71 defeat at Florida in the first game without Holton.

But, it’s been an uphill climb ever since as WVU has found a rhythm.

“We’ve grown a lot,” said

WVU junior Devin Wil-liams. “When Jonathan comes back, we should just grow some more and keep-ing batting away, getting better and getting ready for the tournament.”

WVU edged its way past Iowa State in Ames last week for its first win with-out Holton. No. 13 Iowa State once held a 21-8 lead in the earlier parts of the evening, but Devin Wil-liams’ efforts on the boards (career-high 18 rebounds) catapulted a WVU come-back en route to an 81-76 victory.

Williams held star Rico Gathers to five points on 1-of-9 shooting in a huge 80-69 victory over No. 15 Baylor, lifting the Moun-taineers to a top-10 rank-ing behind Daxter Miles’ season-high 20 points.

“I just did a good job with the scouting report and di-aling in and focusing in and

watching a lot of film,” Wil-liams said. “I did the best I could with him. Rico, he’s a great player. He’s going to bounce back. You’ve got to give him credit.”

Gathers and Taurean Prince went a combined 6-of-26 from the field, with Prince failing to convert on any of his five attempts from three-point range in large part to junior Nathan Adrian’s tenacious defense.

It’s been Adrian who’s stepped up the most. Re-placing the suspended Holton on both sides of the ball is no easy feat, but Adrian’s uncanny work ethic has impressed every-one around him.

“He’s been stepping up big,” said senior guard Jay-sean Paige about Adrian. “Like last year with Juwan (Staten) and Gary (Browne) hurt, other guys stepped up. It’s a similar situation and Nate’s been coming

in and playing his tail off. He’s been guarding great players and playing good offense.”

Adrian’s scored in dou-ble-figures in three of the last five games, converting 80 percent of his shots from long range. He entered the Holton suspension aver-aging just 3.3 points per game, struggling to find any rhythm offensively.

“I think it has given Nate (Adrian) the opportunity to play and play with some confidence,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “I think he has been really good.”

WVU’s been in similar types of situations under Huggins. They were with-out senior leaders Gary Browne and Juwan State numerous times last sea-son, but freshman guard Jevon Carter matured his way into a future leader for the Mountaineers.

It’s been the same for this year’s team and it’s ar-guably worked out even better. WVU hasn’t been ranked in the top 10 since the 2010 Final Four run, and they haven’t needed to utilize the press as much to be effective.

Different players have stepped up on different oc-casions. One night Daxter Miles comes through, some nights it’s Devin Williams. Many nights it’s Jaysean Paige off the bench.

“We would love to have Jon (Holton) back, he’s one of our leaders,” Miles said. “That just says that with one of our teammates is down, other guys step up and that’s what we try to do.”

The Mountaineers are in a three-way tie for first place with No. 3 Oklahoma and No. 6 Kansas. They’ve become a potential Final Four contender, showcas-

ing how deep and together the team has been since their most heralded de-fender was suspended.

Holton is the head of the press, getting in the in-bound passer’s face and deflecting passes count-less times. He leads the team with 81 offensive re-bounds and opponents struggle stopping him near the rim on second-chance opportunities.

That’s where Holton ex-cels. They were without him for four games, but now he’s back and WVU’s recent growth and matu-rity has players believing the best is yet to come.

“There’s a new identity to our team,” Williams said. “As long as we go out there and play as hard as we’ve been playing the last three or four games, I don’t see anybody beating us.”

cgjackson@mix.wvu.edu

Mountaineers continued to grow during Holton’s absence from team

WOmeN’S BASkeTBALL

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday February 12, 20168 | SPORTS

NO NAME POS HT WT RK0 TEYVON MYERS G 6-2 170 JR. 1 JONATHAN HOLTON F 6-7 220 SR. 2 JEVON CARTER G 6-2 195 SO. 3 JAMES BOLDEN G 6-0 160 FR. 4 DAXTER MILES JR. G 6-3 195 SO. 5 JAYSEAN PAIGE G 6-2 210 SR. 11 NATHAN ADRIAN F 6-9 240 JR. 12 TARIK PHILLIP G 6-3 200 JR.

NO NAME POS HT WT RK13 JAMES LONG G 5-11 190 JR. 15 LAMONT WEST F 6-8 215 FR. 20 BRANDON WATKINS F 6-9 245 JR. 21 LOGAN ROUTT F 6-11 250 FR. 23 ESA AHMAD F 6-8 225 FR. 30 RICHARD ROMEO III G 6-0 185 SR. 41 DEVIN WILLIAMS F 6-9 255 JR. 45 ELIJAH MACON F 6-9 235 SO.

WEST VIRGINIA ®

TCU NO NAME POS HT WT RK 0 LYRIK SHREINER G 6-3 190 FR 1 CHAUNCEY COLLINS G 6-0 180 SO 2 MICHAEL WILLIAMS G 6-2 195 JR 3 MALIQUE TRENT G 6-2 185 SO 10 VLADIMIR BRODZIANSKY F 6-10 215 SO 11 BRANDON PARRISH G 6-6 210 JR

NO NAME POS HT WT RK 15 JD MILLER F 6-8 235 FR 20 DALTON DRY G 6-3 195 SO 23 DEVONTA ABRON F 6-8 260 SR 32 KARVIAR SHEPHERD F 6-10 230 JR 33 CHRIS WASHBURN F 6-8 240 JR 34 KENRICH WILLIAMS G 6-7 205 JR

VS

Game 25 February 13, 2016 12:00PM

After a tough loss on the road at the Phog, the Mountaineers come home for the weekend before traveling to Austin to play at #24 Texas. The Mountaineers have already defeated TCU in Fort Worth earlier this season by a score of 95-87. While TCU is only 11-13, their record is not indicative of the quality of a team they are, so it’s up to you to come out and help the Mountaineers secure another valuable Big 12 win in a sold out Coliseum. So get up early Sat-urday morning, eat some breakfast, drink a Ga-torade and head on down to the Coliseum and support your team!

LET’S GO MOUNTAINEERS!

#3 MALIQUE TRENT Sophomore, G 6-2 185lbs TCU’s leading scorer averaging 11 points per game...transferred to TCU from New Mexico Junior College...from Portsmouth, VA…his Facebook job description is “Shooter at ‘On the Basketball Court’...takes selfies with his tongue out...was a redshirt at Nor-folk State before transferring to NMJC...was the number 1 rated Junior College Guard in last year’s class...had offers from Creighton, Colorado State, and Tennessee among others...was referred to as a “big piece of the foundation” to rebuild TCU bas-ketball.

@MaliqueTrent BOO HIM EVERY TIME HE TOUCHES THE BALL

#33 WASHBURN, CHRIS #11 PARRISH, BRANDON #1 COLLINS, CHAUNCEY #23 ABRON, DEVONTA @ImHereNow33 @bpthatruth @ImHim_1 @d_abron23

Transferred from UTEP after his freshman year...father was NC State standout Chris Washburn...while at UTEP he was accused of assaulting a Mesa St. bar bouncer and breaking his tooth…big fan of I’m Schmacked.

Jr. F 6-8 240 Wildlife enthusi-ast...has a pet snake and a pet bearded dragon...big R. Kelly fan...snapchat is bpthatruth...played AAU with Kaviar Shep-herd, another TCU player...from Arlington Texas...compares his game to NBA’s Danny Granger.

Jr. G 6-6 210 So. G 6-0 180 Sr. F 6-8 260 From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...was homeschooled…only posts pictures on twitter of him playing WVU...tweets like a 13 year old girl...was the nation’s “top home-school play-er”...McDonald’s All American Game nomi-nee.

Transferred to TCU from Arkan-sas...originally from Dallas, Texas...his only tweets are Scorpio updates...transferred because he wanted to be closer to home...it’s been said he “wasn’t athletic enough to play SEC basketball”.

BENCHWARMERS Vladimir Brodziansky #10 F: from Slovakia...played at Pratt community college before transferring. JD Miller #15 F: From Dallas, Texas...was ranked 19th best small forward in the nation by ESPN. Michael Williams #2 G: All-Big 12 academic selection last year...originally from San Antonio, Texas.

HEAD COACH:

TRENT JOHNSON

Left a Sweet 16 Stanford team to coach at LSU where he was fired after 4 years. Has never beaten Bob Huggins...looks like Voldemort with a nose.

VISITOR INTRODUCTIONS: Turn around and read the paper while the opposing lineup is announced, then rip the paper up and throw it up like confetti when WVU makes its first basket

JUMP: Just jump up and down and go nuts after a made 3-pointer or dunk!

SHOT CLOCK: Alternate countdown methods, first when the opponent has the ball and the shot clock reaches thirteen, countdown beginning from 10. For the next countdown begin when the shot clock reaches 7, but countdown beginning from 10. Switching the countdown every time can real-ly screw up timing.

OPPONENT FOULING OUT: As the player steps, chant: “Left, Right, Left, Right” until the player sits down then yell “SIT DOWN!”

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By Neel MadhavaNSportS Writer

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The West Virginia women’s tennis team will make a two-match swing through the state of Virginia as they continue with the non-conference slate of their spring sched-

ule this weekend. To open things up, the Mountaineers (3-1) will travel to Lynchburg, Virginia, where they will face the Liberty Lady Flames (2-3), followed on Sunday by a matchup against No. 48 Vir-ginia Tech (4-3).

“We know we’re doing the right things,” said WVU head

coach Miha Lisac. “We know we’re moving down the right path. Sometimes results will come earlier, sooner, and sometimes results will come later. We have to stay focused and continue to chip away at learning the lessons, doing the right things, getting bet-ter, and staying patient at the

same time.”Liberty comes into the

match with a win over Elon. The Lady Flames are led by sophomore Evangeline Crist and junior Maria Khval, who both boast 3-2 singles records.

Liberty is strong in dou-bles, so the Mountaineers will need to get off to a fast start in order to put away the Lady Flames.

The Hokies are a battle-tested team, having played a number of national tourna-ments during the fall season and a few tough opponents this spring already. Don’t be fooled by their 4-3 record. This is a team that can beat anyone on any day.

Just two weeks ago, Vir-ginia Tech’s No. 1 singles player, junior Francesca

Fusinato, dismantled Clem-son’s Joana Eidukonyte, the No. 1 player in the country ac-cording to the ITA rankings, in straight sets. The Hokies are a veteran team, with upper-classmen making up four of their six starting singles posi-tions, including seniors Kelly Williford and Raluca Mita.

“We definitely are going to have to be ready to go,” Li-sac said. “They have a lineup of players that can play very well on any particular day and we have to be ready and pre-pared to deal with that.”

This isn’t the first time this season the Mountain-eers have faced Virginia Tech in some capacity. At the ITA Regionals in October, senior Hailey Barrett and sopho-more Habiba Shaker each

fell to a Hokie player in the Round of 64 of the main sin-gles draw. Barrett fell to VT’s Williford in a tough three set battle, while Shaker lost to VT’s Fusinato. Both West Vir-ginia players will be looking for revenge against the Hok-ies this weekend.

The Mountaineers are coming off three straight easy wins, but Virginia Tech is likely the toughest non-conference opponent that they will face until Big 12 Conference play begins in mid-March.

West Virginia takes to the court today at 2 p.m. against the Lady Flames in Lynch-burg, Virginia, and then head to Blacksburg to face Virginia Tech at 10 a.m. Sunday.

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After pulling off an upset last weekend, the West Vir-ginia University wrestling team will look to do the same this weekend.

This time, the match won’t be against Pitt or at the WVU Coliseum. Instead, they will have two opportu-nities to pull off upsets, both on the road. The Mountain-eers take on the South Da-

kota State Jackrabbits tomor-row at 8 p.m. then battle the Iowa State Cyclones at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

In this week’s USA Today/National Wrestling Coaches Association poll, the Jack-rabbits are ranked No. 24 and the Cyclones are No.16. The Mountaineers did not appear in this week’s poll,

Last Sunday, West Vir-ginia defeated then-No. 17 Pitt, 18-12. With the loss, the Panthers fell to No. 21 in the new rankings.

The Mountaineers de-feated their top rival in part thanks to a huge win by ju-nior Tony DeAngelo. De-spite being down as much as 6-2, DeAngelo rallied to defeat Pitt’s Nick Zanetta in the 141-pound bout.

“I think (Tony’s win) epit-omizes our team. His whole month has kind of been like our team,” said head coach Sammie Henson in an in-terview with WVUsports.com after the match. “We’ve faced some of the top guys in

the country. I think that set the stage for today. (It was) perseverance and just stay-ing focused and not giving up. He was down by four or five and just kept battling. That’s the sign of a team. That’s the sign of an indi-vidual who wants to do it for himself and the team, and I think that’s a sign of our family.”

On Friday, South Dakota State brings in two wrestlers ranked by InterMat Wres-tling: No. 6 Cody Pack at 157

pounds and No. 12 Nathan Rotert at 197 pounds. West Virginia’s Jacob A. Smith, ranked No. 9 at 197 pounds, will face a tough opponent in Rotert.

The match with Iowa State will be West Virginia’s third Big 12 dual of the season and their first since losing to Oklahoma on Jan. 17. The Cyclones also send two In-terMat ranked wrestlers onto the mat this weekend: No. 11 Tanner Weatherman at 165 pounds and No. 8 Earl Hall

at 133 pounds.The Mountaineers hope

that their win in the Back-yard Brawl can propel them towards their first winning streak since winning all three duals in the Mountain-eer Quad. To do that, West Virginia needs to continue to pull off upsets and hope-fully get back into the top 25 rankings soon. Their chance to start a new streak begins on Friday afternoon.

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