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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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Panel to talk diversity past, presentBy JacoB BoJesson
correspondent
The West Virginia Uni-versity Center for Black Culture & Research and the Black Graduate Stu-dent Association will host a panel discussion in the series “Same Color, Differ-ent Cultures” tonight.
The discussion will fea-ture faculty members and focus on the experience of being a minority in Amer-ica compared it to in the past, and discuss what needs to be done for the future.
Chief Diversity Offi-cer David Fryson and his-tory professor Krystal Fra-zier will share their insight about how being black in America has changed and compare it to the apartheid movement in South Africa during the second half of the 20th century.
“The event will begin with two brief presenta-tions on the challenges faced by blacks in Amer-ica and in South Africa from the times of Civil Rights and apartheid to present day,” said Amy Hunter, public health stu-
dent and treasurer for the Black Graduate Students Association. “It will culmi-nate with discussions com-paring the similarities and differences in experience among the minorities in those nations.”
The National Party en-forced racial segrega-tion in South Africa from 1948-1994.
Today, South Africa is country with equal rights regardless of ethnicity, but apartheid still has a major influence.
Black History Month usually focuses on the his-
tory of African-Americans in America, but Hunter believes it’s important to highlight the impact of other countries’ histories.
“Black History Month is important because we are honoring those who have helped to shape our nation as well as set precedents for change around the world,” she said. “Many of these in-dividuals have been over-looked and forgotten, and during this time we are able to highlight their ac-complishments and recog-nize how their journey has affected each of us on an
individual level.”WVU will host a a series
of events during February to celebrate Black History Month.
Hunter said it’s impor-tant to recognize Black History Month, especially at a diverse university like WVU.
“There are a vast num-ber of nations and cul-tures represented at this university. ‘Same Color, Different Culture’ aims to bring members of the WVU community together by highlighting and em-bracing the diversity that
is present on campus,” she said. “Through discussion we discover how much we have in common with those who appear to be dif-ferent from ourselves, but in order for these connec-tions to be discovered, a conversation must be ini-tiated,” she said. “(The) ‘Same Color, Different Cul-ture’ event introduces that conversation.”
The panel will take place tonight at 7 p.m. in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair.
Fair Trade 2.0 seeks aid from coffee farmersBy meghan Bonomo
staff writer
The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Morgan-town has a consistent need for volunteers and hopes to build a stronger relationship with West Virginia University and its students.
WVU students have shown a strong passion for volunteering and giv-ing back to the community over the years, and many stu-dents have volunteering re-quirements for classes. With graduation right around the corner, volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an op-portunity to fulfill your re-quirements, enhance your resume and give back to the community.
The RMHC is committed to providing a home away
from home to families with critically ill children in med-ical care at area hospitals. Providing families a place of comfort, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Morgan-town has 16 bedrooms each equipped with two twin beds and their own private bath and shower.
The Family Room, located on the sixth floor of Ruby Memorial Hospital, is a new extension currently under construction.
Samantha Esposito, a marketing associate for Ron-ald McDonald House Chari-ties, said the Family Room of-fers a variety of benefits to the community.
“Family Room is just like the house but a smaller ver-sion,” Esposito said.
“You can only stay here in the house if you live 50 miles or further away. In the Fam-
ily room, you will actually be able to go there no matter where you live,” she said.
The RMHC is full 99.7 percent of the time, and volunteers are critical to the daily operations of the organization.
“This is a great place to come and get hours, be-cause we are very flexible with schedules,” Esposito said. “Volunteers can come in for an hour at a time, (or) two hours at a time.
Esposito said the RMHC has lots of events, which pro-vide even more volunteer op-portunities to students that go beyond housework.
“We have a lot of events,” she said. “From October-De-cember we have our Mas-querade Ball, Murder Mys-tery and New Years event,
Ronald McDonald House offers volunteer opportunities
By Bryan Bumgardnerassociate city editor
Millions of people drink coffee every day, but how many think about where it came from?
As it turns out, the farm-ers growing the coffee face a world of difficulties.
Fair Trade 2.0, a student-led organization, is hosting a coffee hour at the FirstHand Café in Brooks Hall every Friday at 10 a.m. to benefit a coffee-farming cooperative in Nicaragua.
“The coffee hours are dif-ferent than a regular fund-raiser, because 100 percent of the profits that we receive are not raised to benefit us,” said Fair Trade 2.0 president Tyler Hulding. “They go to help support farming coop-
eratives in Central America, specifically La Hermandad, the cooperative we work in solidarity with.”
This isn’t a charity; this is a way for farmers to di-versify their income. So far, the organization has earned enough money to sponsor a community garden in La Hermandad and an addition to their building to expand agro-tourism on site.
For farmers, diversity of income is paramount. Any insect, drought or disease can drastically affect a farm-er’s yield. When farmers are dependent on one crop and that crop fails, the family suf-fers. This one income pays for their home, education and food.
Currently, a fun-gus known as Hemileia
vastatrix, known for causing coffee rust, has spread throughout much of Central America, includ-ing Nicaragua. Many coffee farmers, especially organic farmers, have suffered an extreme loss in the amount of coffee available. La Hermandad has suffered a 30 percent loss.
Any donation is greatly appreciated. Fair Trade 2.0 meets every Wednesday in room 352 of Brooks Hall at 7 p.m., and the FirstHand Cafe is held every Friday at 10 a.m. on the third floor of Brooks Hall.
The suggested donation is $1 per cup.
Fair Trade 2.0 can be found on Facebook.
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and moving on from January until the summer we have two purse bingos, a consignment sale, a golf event and a 5k run.”
Students are always wel-come to volunteer.
“I come every Thursday for two hours, because my ma-
jor requires a hundred hours for community service,” said Stephanie Bartlett, a soph-omore exercise physiology student.
“If you really need hours, it’s really not that bad. It’s worth it, and they are very or-ganized with keeping track of your hours.”
Steve De Jesus, execu-tive director of Morgantown RMHC, said students’ diverse
schedules are not formulaic, and thus, time can’t easily be scheduled.
“The reason we need stu-dents is that students have such a variety of schedules, classes, activities, dating – those kinds of things – that they can’t always fulfill the hours that we need,” he said.
“We always try to be very flexible and understanding that school comes first. Vol-unteering would be a second-ary thing for them.”
De Jesus said gaining ex-perience from volunteering at the RMHC could help one stand out to future employers.
“We have an international name, we’re in over 60 coun-tries, we have about 320 Ron-ald McDonald Houses; so we’re very well known.”
For more information on how to volunteer, visit http://www.rmhcmorgantown.org.
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meet the candidates: The PartyBy carlee lammers
city editor
Members of THE (Trusted, Hardworking, Experienced) Party, led by presidential candidate Christian Guy and vice presidential candidate Andrea Mucino, have begun campaigning efforts with the hopes of securing a Board of Governors or Athletic Coun-cil role in the Student Gov-ernment Association.
The Daily Athenaeum had the opportunity to meet with members of THE Party to further discuss their interest in Student Government and their platforms.
Mohammad Amin
AfshariAfshari is a junior me-
chanical engineering stu-dent from Morgantown.
The son of two former in-ternational students, Afshari has a platform to, if elected, work toward allowing a smoother transition for all international students to life at WVU.
He hopes to do so by in-creasing funding for inter-national student organiza-tions and encourage student organizations to host social events with international students in order to famil-
iarize them with American and West Virginia University culture.
“Due to the fact that many organizations do not charge international students with membership fee, it often is very difficult to throw tra-ditional events like holi-days along with fun, non-traditional social events due to the lack of money. Usu-ally we need to save up the money we have for throw-ing large holiday events,” he said. “I plan on inform-ing international students on how they could possi-bly become more involved in their University and so-cial life so they feel a greater connection to WVU and the wonderful people they meet here. ”
Johnny BarringerBarringer is a senior min-
ing engineering student from Youngstown, Ohio.
Barringer said his desire to make a real difference on campus is what sparked his interest in running. His plat-form is campus comfort.
“I discovered this was a need from personal experi-ences of my own and oth-ers,” he said. “People need to feel comfortable in or-der to get the most of their education.”
Barringer plans to work hand-in-hand with the WVU Department of Transporta-tion to make changes to the WVU PRT stations, includ-ing the addition of Evive ma-chines at each station.
“I have already begun contacting an Evive rep to see if they could place sta-tions at the PRT, so that stu-dents could quench their thirst while waiting for a ride,” he said. “I will make sure to hear from students all across campus to see what their needs are and not stop working until they feel comfortable.”
Molly Callaghan Callaghan is a sophomore
chemical engineering stu-dent from Charleston, W.Va.
After attending a bully-ing town hall meeting last spring, Callaghan said she knew she wanted to further on-campus efforts and run on a platform of eliminating bullying.
“I watched as a classmate from my high school stood up and shared his story. I was so moved by this be-cause I never knew he was facing these problems,” she said. “This led me to ques-tion how much of ourselves we hide from the world just so we don’t have to face tor-
ment from others for being different. I believe everyone should feel comfortable and feel like our campus is a safe environment.”
If elected, Callaghan said she will push to make the plans to create a LGBTQ center a reality.
Jason CohenCohen is a senior politi-
cal science and business ad-ministration student from Raleigh, N.C.
Cohen is running in the hopes of serving a second term as a member of the Board of Governors.
Cohen said his platform will focus on efforts with the Center for Civic Engagement to improve the opportunity and usability of the system.
“The biggest complaint I have received about iServe is that students say it is too difficult to find opportuni-ties to complete their hours. I will first work with com-munity organizations to cre-ate more community ser-vice options for students,” he said. “The next step will be to improve the iServe sys-tem to make it easier to log the hours, as many students have expressed their dissat-isfaction with the system it-self, commonly referring to it as ‘confusing.’ This is where
I will work directly with CCE to increase the usability of the system.”
Matt ElderElder is a freshman mar-
keting student from Boca Raton, Fla.
Elder said he hopes to im-prove freshman student liv-ing on campus.
His experiences this year, he said, have driven him to specifically work to bring Redbox to all on-campus dorms and to make WVUp All Night a top option for students.
“As a freshman living in a dorm here and not having a car, there are times where I wish there was something to do. Netflix only has a certain amount of movies, and I’ve seen most of them. Redbox would provide more movie options for students at an af-fordable price,” he said.
“With Up All Night, I’ve gone in there to get food or see what’s going on, and it just seems dead. The food is not very good, and the activities aren’t very excit-ing. I think WVUp All Night is an amazing initiative for all students, however, af-ter experiencing it this year and hearing stories about previous years (it could be improved.)”
Justin FanokFanok is a sophomore
civil engineering student from Morgantown.
Fanok is running on the platform of transparency and said he hopes to work to eliminate corruption within the SGA.
“I want to make sure that the government is run by each and every Mountain-eer, but after talking to peo-ple on campus, it’s clear that the student population in general is out of the loop when it comes to the work-ings of SGA,” he said. Fanok said he hopes to draw from his personal experiences to eliminate corruption in the election process.
“Getting elected is the corrupt part. Did you know that every candidate run-ning right now is spending anywhere from $150 up to $750 on their campaigns? Part of this goes to tick fees, but the rest goes to buy-ing all of the annoying para-phernalia stamped with the candidate’s names. I want to drastically cap the amount the candidates can spend on their campaigns (The cur-rent limit is $750). It’s elit-ist (and) exclusionary, and it really limits who can partici-pate in our school’s demo-cratic process,” he said.
Paul GartonGarton is a junior philoso-
phy and international studies student from Jane Lew, W.Va.
Garton said WVU has made a large impact on his life since he was young.
Now, if elected, Garton wishes to give back not only the University but his fellow students as well.
Garton’s platform focuses on improving the quality of student academic advising based on his own experi-ences and ones he has gath-ered from his peers.
“I know this is an issue that people are concerned about due to the overwhelm-ing support and enthusiasm people have shown me after telling them my plans. This is something the students both want and need addressed,” he said.
If elected, Garton hopes to partner closely with the Un-dergraduate Advising Ser-vices Center to achieve his goals.
“I will work with the Un-dergraduate Advising Ser-
vices Center to require that all academic advisers and any-one that touches a student schedule is required to take an online course or train-ing to provide a standard ap-proach to advising,” he said.
Daniel HarrisHarris is a junior political
science student from Dover, N.J.
Harris said he hopes to create a system where stu-dents would be able to use their WVU Student ID cards as a debit card at various lo-cal businesses.
“I noticed that most uni-versities already had the sys-tem in place,” he said. “I al-ways thought that the system worked well there, and it could work well here. All peo-ple in Morgantown can ben-efit from this system.”
Harris said he plans to work closely with local businesses and Card ser-vices at WVU to achieve his objectives.
“The card already is able to be scanned in the busi-
nesses at the Mountainlair like Chik-fil-A, Burger King, Sbarro, Tazikis and Quiz-nos. Instead of replacing the card, we give the local busi-nesses scanners so they can use the card much like at the Mountainlair.”
Rob GillGill is a senior sport man-
agement and exercise physi-ology student from Oreland, P.A.
Gill’s platform involves in-creasing sustainability efforts on campus.
“As students we need to make our presence known in the community we spend the majority of our college years in. Therefore, as students, we have a huge responsibil-ity of doing our part whether that be by recycling, partici-pating in community events and clean ups or taking the WECAN pledge and follow-ing up on it,” Gill said.
Gill plans to partner with the Inter-Fraternity Coun-cil and Panhellenic Council to instill a required recycling
initiative for all on-campus Greek organizations. Gill said ultimately his goal is to im-plement a campus-wide re-cycling initiative.
Gill said he also plans to ex-pand the OZZIE system cur-rently installed in the Terrace Room for to-go containers.
“My goal is to not only make sure the University is utilizing the OZZIE systems on campus but that the stu-dents are, too, making sure they are bringing back the re-cyclable to-go containers and using the OZZIE system.”
Holden HudsonHudson is a junior multi-
disciplinary studies student from Annapolis, Md.
Hudson plans to focus on making equipment and train-ing improvements to the Stu-dent Recreation Center.
“I’ve spoken with the as-sociate director of the stu-dent Rec Center, Jeff Berry-man, in regards to working on the efficiency and up-dating the equipment. It is a very foreseeable goal that
can be achieved by remov-ing old outdated equipment and putting in more updated equipment (and) developing work out regiments for stu-dents who are not sure what to do,” he said.
In the long-term, Hudson said he hopes to team with WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health to estab-lish a rehabilitation center on campus for students suf-fering from drug and alcohol addiction.
“ I spoke with Cathy Yura, the director of WELLWVU, and had a conversation with her on this matter. This is an important issue for the both of us. The town is working on buying ‘Sober Houses’ that can be used for students who need to a place to go to stay clean. My idea is once these houses get set up, merge the Carruth Center and these houses together to create a program so students can be treated on campus and stay in school and graduate with a degree from West Virginia.”
Liz McCormickMcCormick is a junior
public relations and vocal performance student from Parkersburg, W.Va.
McCormick’s platform will aim to increase attendance involvement and fundraising at the Creative Arts Center.
McCormick said she plans to initiate “CAC Mobile.”
“In order to achieve broader, more diverse inter-est in CAC events, I will spon-sor, organize and promote ‘CAC Mobile’. With CAC Mobile, short, mini perfor-mances would be conducted at various sites and events on campus. This would encour-age greater interest and atten-dance at CAC events.”
McCormick said, if elected and successful in achieving her objectives, she hopes to continue to expand upon her efforts.
“My goals with the CAC are achieved, they will be main-tained through the efforts of an advisory board or volun-teer organization comprised of instructors and students.”
Joe ReidyReidy is an English student
from Hedgesville, W.Va.Reidy is a current member
of the BOG and plans to con-tinue his current efforts with the Office of the University Registrar.
“For my next term, I have what I call my ‘E.T.C. Plan’. This is most of the extra stuff I couldn’t get to this year,” he said. “First, ‘Expand.’ I want to be proactively looking at new technology and pro-grams for our students. Next, ‘Teach.’ Now that we are us-ing Google, I want to get pro-fessors onboard with Google apps like Google Docs and Google Calendar. I think this can simplify many students’ daily lives. And finally, we have ‘Continue.’ When (I) started working with the Reg-istrar’s office about this time last year we were really be-hind in a lot of areas. By the end of my term next year, I hope to leave a plan for the future in place.”
Victoria ViniVini is a freshman foren-
sic science student from Ger-mantown, Md.
Vini plans to work on im-proving issues of safety on campus.
Vini said she is particularly interested in improving the quality and presence of side-walks on campus and around the city.
“Unfortunately, I have had a lot of bad experiences with walking downtown on the sidewalks, especially in heels,” she said. “I find it re-ally concerning that there have been so many inju-ries because of the numer-ous cracks in the sidewalks, sometimes even no sidewalk, and that no one has done anything to change it.”
Vini said through the sup-port of the WVU community, she believes SGA will be able to improve issues of safety prevalent on campus.
“I plan on working with the school and the city to raise money through grants to fix the sidewalks. SGA has done this in the past with Falling Run Road, and we can do it again.
Haven WilliamsWilliams is a sophomore
petroleum and natural gas engineering student from Hagerstown, Md.
She plans to work toward a health-conscious campus.
“I want to add calorie counts to foods offered in dining halls so students can make an educated decision on what they are about to eat,” she said. “As for chain restaurants offered on cam-pus, I want to make their nu-trition facts easier to access so it’s not such a hassle for students.”
Williams said she also plans to build upon the healthy options available at on-campus eateries such as J.A.C.S. and Bits & Bytes.
Sara ZuccariZuccari is a sophmore
multidisiplinary studies stu-dent from McLean, Va.
Zuccari’s platform is to further the SGA mobile site and student involvement on campus.
“I will expand the tour,
making it more effective and more clear to where the meetings will be held. I be-lieve taking the meeting to other locations opens SGA up for students in hopes more students will get involved.”
Zuccari said she hopes to increase student involve-ment in organizations by making it mandatory to visit the Student organizations fair at New Student Orientation.
“With almost 400 student organizations on campus, I want to work with them to let them know SGA gives out grants. As of (Wednesday), the grant budget was lifted, so if an organization needs more than the $500, they can request more. To also get more students involved in these different organizations on campus, during freshman orientation it should be man-datory to attend an organiza-tions fair.”
Clark DouglasDouglas is a junior mar-
keting student from Morgan-town seeking a position on
the Athletic Council. Douglas hopes to improve the Moun-taineer game day experience for all students and fans.
“In a recent poll, Stadi-umJourney.com ranked Mi-lan Puskar Stadium as the 96th out of 124 stadiums. They called our atmosphere ‘hit or miss,’ depending on our team’s success. Whether or not it is a relevant list, it’s negative publicity we do not want.”
Douglas hopes to increase signage around athletic facil-ities, better-incorporate so-cial media in the athletic department, update music played at all events and re-format the seating layout.
Douglas said he hopes to instill traditions similar to those held by universities nearby while still generating new traditions for Mountain-eer fans.
Hillary WolfordWolford is a junior multi-
disciplinary studies student from Capon Bridge, W.Va.
Wolford, a former WVU student-athlete, is seek-
ing a position on the Ath-letic Council and plans to increase attendance at wom-en’s athletic events.
“I am a former WVU stu-dent-athlete, and I have faced many of the same tri-als and tribulations as the athletes today. This is why I want to be their voice to help them overcome the struggles they face.”
Wolford plans to create an attendance reward system to encourage WVU students to attend women’s athletic events.
“My main focus is to pro-mote attendance at women’s athletic events. The women athletes put just as much hard work and dedication into the sports that they play, and I feel that they deserve the same amount of support as male athletes,” she said.
Wolford said she will also work toward provid-ing Mountain Line trans-portation to and from ath-letic events for students and athletes.
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meet the candidates: The revolution PartyBy Bryan Bumgardner
associate city editor
Members of The Revolu-tion Party, led by presidential candidate Ryan Campione and vice presidential candi-date Ben Seebaugh, have be-gun campaigning efforts with the hopes of securing a Board of Governors or Athletic Council role in the Student Government Association.
The Daily Athenaeum had the opportunity to meet with members of The Revolution Party to further discuss their interest in Student Govern-ment and their platforms.
Joy WangJobs, networking and sta-
bility – these are the three platforms of The Revolution governor candidate Joy Wang.
“My goal is to help stu-dents find job and career sta-bility and opportunities af-ter they graduate,” she said. “I feel that’s the whole point of coming here and getting an education.”
Wang is a freshman bio-chemistry student from Charleston, W.Va., and is the president of the community service club at Honors Hall.
She wants to open doors for graduating students by improving career services on campus.
“We are going to plan monthly seminars at the Mountainlair where we can bring in professionals. People who are already experienced and successful and who know what it takes to get ahead in a particular field,” she said.
Evan McIntyre McIntyre is a freshman in-
dustrial engineering student from Cumberland, Md., a stu-dent researcher and a Sigma Nu brother.
As one of The Revolution’s governor candidates, Mc-Intyre’s platform is based on health-related issues. Mc-Intyre’s background as an EMT has made him respect the value of medical training.
“Every student at WVU should be offered the chance to get basic first aid and CPR training,” he said. “If you can get the training now, it will stay with you for the rest of your life.”
McIntyre also plans to have AEDs installed in each resi-dence hall.
Spenser WempeA desire to get involved on
campus led governor candi-date Spenser Wempe to The Revolution.
“I decided I wanted to get behind this movement – The Revolution,” she said. “Their whole philosophy goes right
along with everything I be-lieve in; this was right up my alley.”
Wempe is focused on mili-tary and veterans services on campus and improving their accessibility to courses.
“If they are unable to com-plete their degree program in 4 years, they aren’t funded by the G.I. bill anymore,” she said. “Creating a veteran-friendly campus is beneficial for both the veterans and the University because they rep-resent the University, not to mention they’ve served our country.”
Wempe plans to work with the Office of the University Registrar to reevaluate prior-ity class registration and en-sure military service person-nel are included.
John WilliamsThe Revolution governor
candidate John Williams is the current SGA Director of Student Outreach and has been working with Campi-one in SGA.
As a political science stu-dent and Morgantown na-tive, Williams is troubled by the uptick of violent crime in town.
“That’s something that’s been close to my heart, Mor-gantown being my home-town,” he said. “I think safety should be the priority of any
administration at any univer-sity, and that’s something I’d like to push.”
Williams plans to reform the Campus Cadet program, a group of WVU students who help University Police on campus.
He has already been work-ing to increase the number of Cadets from 22 to 40 and wants to turn the program into a 3-credit-hour course for criminology students.
“That way we make the campus safer, as well as en-rich the curriculum at our university,” he said.
Blaine BlankenshipA best friend’s struggle
with mental illness inspired governor candidate Blaine Blankenship to pursue her platform: mental illness awareness and treatment.
“The main focus is erasing the stigma around mental ill-ness, the ‘You are crazy if you think you need help.’ If you are struggling with something, you are human,” she said. “I want to raise awareness about mental illness, that it’s okay if you’re struggling and it’s okay to get the help that you need.”
Blankenship is a sopho-more math education stu-dent from Beckley, W.Va. She plans to achieve her goals by integrating information about the WELLWVU Carruth Cen-
ter for Psychological and Psy-chiatric services into fresh-man orientation because the number one cause of death in college-aged students is suicide.
“We check out our bod-ies and our physical health every few months,” she said. “Why can’t we got to a thera-pist and get our mental health checked? What we think is who we are.”
Anthony BraxtonAnthony Braxton got in-
volved with SGA in high school and saw no reason to stop when he came to WVU. He was inspired to join The Revolution after being Ryan Campione’s SGA intern.
“This guy’s charismatic, he knows what he’s talking about and he’s well informed,” he said. “I thought, ‘I want to be a part of that’.”
Braxton is a freshman phi-losophy student from South Charleston, W.Va. His plat-form focuses on improving the quality of food in the din-ing halls.
“Why can’t we have a level of say in what’s being served to us?” he said. “We’re pay-ing for this food, we’re eating this food and we don’t have a say? To me, that doesn’t make sense.”
Braxton is working to im-prove food quality, offer hy-
poallergenic food options and give students a say in food choices.
“If I can make the food bet-ter for you, so that when you go to class you won’t have to be hungry, that’s enough for me,” he said.
Renzo DiazGovernor candidate Renzo
Diaz got his start with SGA as an intern. Now he’s looking to give back to the organization.
“Student organizations have always given me some-where I can develop myself,” he said. “I wanted to give back; that’s why I joined The Revolution.”
Diaz, a freshman engi-neering student from Charles Town, W.Va., is focused on improving student diversity and intercultural interaction on campus.
“We’re in college, so we’ve probably been exposed to the same type of people growing up,” he said. “When we get older, we won’t be exposed to the same kind of people. It’s important to be open to peo-ple of different cultures.”
Diaz believes exposure to people of different back-grounds can enrich students.
He hopes to improve mi-nority recruitment and reten-tion and help the University reach the diversity goals set in the 2020 strategic plan.
Adam CarteJunior biochemistry stu-
dent Adam Carte is running with a clear goal – getting results.
“I’m not particularly inter-ested in entering politics,” he said. “But I think we need mo-tivated individuals to step into SGA who will do their job year around. I know that if I get in, I’m going to work on getting things done.”
Carte’s platform focuses on expanding research at WVU through formal network-ing mediums, revitalizing re-search programs and serving as a liaison between research-ers and the administration.
Carte believes students can learn more during re-
search than in the classroom, if only students can find the opportunity.
“We are a tier-one research institution,” he said. “Despite all of that, there isn’t a whole lot being done to get the word out about research opportu-nities available to students. I want to change that.”
Afsheen Misaghi Pure inspiration moved
freshman Afsheen Misaghi to join The Revolution after lis-tening to a recording of Cam-pione’s campaign announce-ment last semester.
“I heard the gasps in the room, the applause and the passion in his voice,” Misa-ghi said. “After that, I knew
I wanted to be a part of his campaign.”
Misaghi is an avid sup-porter of personal fitness, which was the motivation for his platform: the revitaliza-tion of a fitness centers on the Downtown campus and the inclusion of healthier drink options in the dining halls.
“I know plenty of people who are paying tons of their own personal debt to come here,” he said. “Why can’t we offer them more drink options and more exercise locations so that they can be comfortable?”
George CapelAlthough only a sopho-
more political science stu-dent, George Capel has be-
come familiar with the city of Morgantown and WVU, and he sees opportunity.
“My main goal is to fix the relationship between the Uni-versity and the residents in the city of Morgantown,” he said. “We share the city, so it’s es-sential we maintain a positive relationship year round, both to make this town better.”
To achieve this goal, he plans to expand community-service learning, reforming iServe and improving com-munication between SGA and the student body.
He also hopes to imple-ment livestream feed at SGA meetings and a “State of the University” address mid-year.
“The biggest thing is to get
students out in the commu-nity and talk to the Morgan-town residents so they can see what we’re really about,” he said. “That’s going be huge in upcoming years.”
Katie HellerFor junior public relations
student Katie Heller, being a part of a student organiza-tion is more than just a way to meet friends; it’s an impor-tant way to grow.
Because of her experi-ences in Young Democrats, Student Advocates for Legis-lative Action and Public Re-lations Student Society of America, Heller feels all stu-dents can benefit from stu-dent organizations.
“I just went out there and got involved,” she said. “It builds leadership, and you’re able to share ideas and grow personally. I want to promote that with other students.”
Heller hopes to improve access to student organiza-tions on campus through a central, unified calendar of meeting times and locations.
She believes a vote for The Revolution is a vote for progress.
“Change happens for those who show up,” she said. “I think people should show up and vote. A lot of people in student organizations are cast off to the wayside, and I know we can represent them.”
Stephen ScottGovernor candidate and
freshman political science student Stephen Scott hasn’t missed a single SGA meet-ing, but one sticks out in his memory.
“I’ll never forget that meet-ing where Ryan stood up and announced his candidacy,” he said. “The fact that I could make a change ... I wanted to be a part of his campaign and see SGA changed for the better.”
Scott joined The Revolu-tion with a platform he’s call-ing “AAA Strategy for Student Success”: academics, advis-ing and awareness.
He plans to unite students with tutors through cen-tralized meeting locations, improve adviser-student relationships to increase re-tention and raise awareness of extracurricular learning opportunities.
“I want to make sure stu-dents know about the op-portunities available to them on and off campus. And that they can come to student government and voice their concerns. We are here to serve them,” he said.
Dillon TuckerJunior finance student Dil-
lon Tucker is else a Moun-taineer fan above all else. Now he hopes to serve as one of SGA’s next Athletic Council members.
Tucker prides himself on attending every Mountaineer sporting event but is disap-pointed by the small amount of students attending sport-ing events such as volleyball and women’s soccer.
“We have some really good teams. Our women’s soccer team won the Big 12 cham-pionship,” he said. “Atten-dance is important because it’s a huge part; you’ve seen
crowded basketball game. It’s a lot louder, and our team plays better. They need our support.”
He plans to improve at-tendance by using his par-ticipation on the Mountain-eer Maniac board to link SGA and the Maniacs to improve transportion for late games.
“At West Virginia Univer-sity, we’re big about our fan base,” he said. “I’ve been a WVU fan since the day I was born. I really want to get in-volved because I really love WVU athletics.”
Ashley MorganBeing a part of SGA
seemed like an unlikely path for sophomore Ashley Mor-gan. But that was before The Revolution brought her in for a Athletic Council candidate interview.
“It felt good. I knew this was going to lead to some-thing great for the future,” she said. “This has been the greatest opportunity I’ve had to make change at WVU.”
Morgan is a sport and ex-ercise physiology student and has based her platform on improving student health
through recognizing healthy lifestyles.
“I really want to help peo-ple be healthy across their lifetime,” she said. “With the obesity epidemic being so bad, I want to make sure any-one who wants to be active has the opportunity.”
She plans to do this by im-proving awareness and ac-cessibility of club sports. She also hopes to increase at-tendance to sporting events on campus by allowing stu-dents use to Mountie Boun-tie at University concessions stands.
“I want to stand up and be the voice for student-ath-letes across campus, because they aren’t always heard,” she said. “I want to be their ad-vocate, and I want to repre-sent them.”
Jacob Evans“Since I’ve been here at
WVU, I’ve seen a huge spike in the amount of violent crime that’s been going on,” said governor candidate Ja-cob Evans. Evans, a junior political science student, has dedicated his platform to-ward improving security for
students.“My main goal is to im-
prove the amount of light-ing around town,” he said. “I think a lot of violence can be prevented by having better lighting systems.”
Evans is a proponent of im-proving security, but he isn’t interested if the solutions aren’t feasible. This is why he is pushing improved personal emergency alert systems, im-proving campus lighting and collaborating with the Uni-versity Police Department, Morgantown Police Depart-ment and City Council to cre-ate solutions.
Morgan Riddle Sophomore international
studies student Morgan Rid-dle knew she wanted to be a part of The Revolution from the start.
“I just thought, “Wow, I want to be a part of that’,” she said. “I also have a lot of proj-ects I’ve been working on for the students that I want to see through.”
Riddle is running for re-election but plans to make next year more productive than ever.
“Reaching out to people, getting involved, finding need ... I’ve finally figured that out,” she said. “This semester I’ve really gotten things moving, and I’m excited to take it into another year.”
Riddle’s platform focuses on studying abroad. She plans to improve student par-ticipation, awareness and un-derstanding of study abroad programs by collaborating with students and professors to compile a free travel guide for students.
“There are so many things that anyone who travels or studies abroad can learn that are specific to a certain place,” she said. “You can only read so much in a guidebook; you can’t know unless you go there.”
Chris Nyden Junior economics student
Chris Nyden has dedicated his platform as a governor candidate toward the unify-ing goal of improving college affordability.
“I always hear people com-plain about having to buy books and then hardly using
them,” he said. “I would like to work with faculty to recog-nize textbooks that are hardly used during class and make them recommended, not required.”
Nyden serves as the Col-lege Affordability Chair in SGA. He has participated in Student Advocates for Leg-islative Advancement and is a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
“I think that everyone in our party really believes in our central message: that we really want to change how students are represented,” he said. “We want the students to know they’re well-repre-sented with us.”
For full bios of all the can-didates, visit The Revolution website at sgarevolution.com/governors.
The Revolution will be having a “meet-the-can-didates” event in the Blue and Gold room of Tow-ers Friday from 7-9 p.m. All students are invited to attend and get to know the candidates.
After another coal miner died on the job earlier this week, Gover-nor Earl Ray Tomblin is-sued an executive order Tuesday ordering all of the state’s coal mining oper-ations to halt production for one hour.
Forty-four-year-old John Myles, who died after he was hit by a scoop while working at a Raleigh County mine, is the sixth
miner to die in a West Vir-ginia coal mining accident since November. Last year, West Virginia led the na-tion in fatalities caused by accidents at coal mines.
According to Tomblin’s office, the executive order is intended to direct coal mine operators to “thor-oughly review applica-ble health and safety laws and regulations, commu-nication protocols and
any particularized safety issues apparent in their operations.”
Critics, including in-dependent mining safety experts, have dismissed Tomblin’s executive order as an ineffective publicity stunt. Considering the fact similar actions have been taken in the past and the coal mining deaths con-tinue to occur, it’s hard to dispute this allegation.
Of course, it is impor-tant to note that, as with many of our leaders who call themselves “friends of coal,” Tomblin has ac-cepted millions of dollars from the coal industry.
Tomblin and West Vir-ginia’s other blindly pro-coal industry politicians should probably more honestly refer to them-selves as “friends of mil-lionaire coal executives.”
From Upper Big Branch and Sago to the recent death of John Myles, West Virginia’s leadership has consistently failed to pressure the coal indus-try to protect its workers.
The rising death count is yet another reminder that while there is no “war on coal,” there is certainly a war on coal miners.
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Since President Obama’s State of the Union address, there has been a lot of backlash in response to his proposal to raise the min-imum wage to $9 an hour from $7.25 and link addi-tional increase in the min-imum wage to cost of liv-ing indices.
Obama made the point that there should be a liv-able wage for all work-ers. In response, Senator Marco Rubio claimed the minimum wage should not exist at all, a view common among economists.
Minimum wage is often used as a political foot-ball. The policy itself af-
fects relatively few Amer-icans. For all 2011, around 3.8 million hourly-wage workers either made min-imum wage or below. This accounts for just over five percent of hourly-paid workers. As a result, it is unlikely to have a major effect on employment, as many people from the right fear.
More importantly, min-imum wage will not serve as a great equalizer, as some democrats may claim. It will certainly ben-efit the lives of some peo-ple at the margin and give them more money they are likely to spend. It will ben-efit many young people, with half of the Americans making minimum wage or less being 25 or younger. But on average, it is not go-
ing to change the quality of life in the U.S. by much. The increased happiness of these workers may be nullified by the jobs it does eliminate.
When it comes to equal-ity of opportunity, the big-gest prescription Obama pushed in his speech was universal pre-kindergar-ten. This is where Obama should have laid his em-phasis because it has the ability to show itself in more productive school systems and less spending on crime prevention in the future.
For many, this seems like a strange prescrip-tion. Early childhood edu-cation is not going to teach children critical thinking. However, even as early as 18 months, disparities in
vocabulary are already apparent. By age three, children with college-ed-ucated parents have vo-cabularies two to three times larger than those whose parents did not complete high school. This makes it much more diffi-cult for children with fewer resources to compete on a level playing field.
Many think our school systems are broken. Sim-ply expanding our school system will not make it any less broken, so goes the ar-gument. This point ignores that it is often the school system’s task to repair al-ready damaged develop-ment at home. Many chil-dren do not have strong father figures at home or parents who even pay them much attention at
all. Blaming the overall
school system for these problems is a classic ex-ample of barking up the wrong tree. The school system has its problems, but providing instruction for students at a young age will help alleviate some of these problems, not am-plify them.
Perhaps what is most significant about increas-ing funding of pre-K ed-ucation is what does not meet the eye. Three long-term studies (Abecede-rian Project, Nurse Fam-ily Partnership and Perry Preschool) showed that for every one dollar spent on early childhood education, there was a return any-where from $4-$9. These returns came in the form
of reduced special edu-cation, welfare and crime costs. In addition, there was increased tax revenue from these people who be-came productive workers. This is an enormous return on investment.
Universal early child-hood instruction is not going to revolutionize schools. There will still be problems in many homes, and children will have risk factors stunting their growth.
Some students will al-ways have less motiva-tion than others. But it will help give more kids a chance at succeeding in America. In our strides to-ward creating “a more per-fect Union,” we must en-sure that every single child has that chance.
Universal pre-kindergarten is a worthy aspirationchristopher nydencolumnist
apPresident Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gestures as he gives his State of the Union address, Feb. 12.
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America’s veins are filled with the carbonated, sugary sweetness of Coca-Cola.
These soft drinks – the more than 650 products made by Coca-Cola – have become a part of the fabric of America. They are the drinks of our childhood, birth-day parties, school lunches and sports games. However, these drinks and those who sell them are also slowly kill-ing us.
American U. is a “Coke university.” Any beverage you purchase at AU is produced by, owned by and is a subsid-iary of Coca-Cola. From the
Eagle’s Nest to the vending machines to the Terrace Din-ing Room, AU supports the company behind the largest health crisis in the U.S.
Yet Coca-Cola is now urg-ing Americans to come to-gether to fight obesity. In a latest ad campaign entitled “Coming Together,” a soft fe-male voice extols the efforts of Coca-Cola to be a part of the obesity solution over a slowly building piano sonata and images of school children, families, scientists and flashy graphics.
Don’t buy the deceptive concoction.
It is easy to get lulled by Coke’s coercive advertising. The commercial begins by talking about more than 125 years of Coca-Cola bringing
people together and their voluntary efforts to offer low-calorie choices, smaller sizes and healthier options in schools. The narrator proudly states that “All calories count, no matter where they come from, including Coca-Cola and everything else with cal-ories. And if you eat and drink more calories than you burn off, you’ll gain weight.”
Thank you, Coca-Cola, for that pearl of wisdom.
Behind the smoke and mirrors, there is a company that has created a global brand that is directly linked to higher obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and malnutri-tion. All calories are not cre-ated equal, and the mixture of high-fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric
acid, natural flavors and caf-feine that make up many of Coca-Cola’s products are a toxic combination.
I decided to call Coca-Cola to learn more about their campaign against obesity and was reassured that Coca-Cola is 80 to 90 percent water and is part of your daily fluid intake (but not a replacement for water). They forgot to men-tion the 39 grams of sugar in a 12-ounce Coke, which far ex-ceeds the daily requirements.
Coca-Cola’s duplicity goes beyond a marketing cam-paign designed to confuse and disorient Americans. Coca-Cola, along with other members of “Big Soda,” have virulently fought efforts to limit the size of soft drinks.
Christine Quinn, a New
York City mayoral candi-date, has received $10,000 from Coca-Cola, as have many other New York legis-lators and candidates (Coca-Cola spends millions each year on lobbying as well). Coca-Cola has also brought in the NAACP to fight New York City’s soda ban, despite the fact that obesity dispro-portionately affects minority communities.
Big Soda was also inti-mately involved in defeating the proposed D.C. soda tax in 2010, spending over $300,000 for grassroots campaigns, tes-timony before the city coun-cil and likely much more on anti-tax advertisements (that do not need to be reported).
Soft drinks are in many respects the contemporary
Big Tobacco. Their coffers are deep, and they are sup-ported by misinformation, denial and millions of dollars in lobbying.
The impact is just as severe. America’s addiction to soft drinks is a public health and food crisis, and blame can be placed squarely on the largest drug-dealer, Coca-Cola.
While Coca-Cola may proclaim that a can of Coke is “140 happy calories,” those 140 calories (all from sugar) are very different from the 140 calories in a banana. The de-liberate distortions of Coca-Cola are deplorable but not all that surprising. Coca-Co-la’s rebranding effort is a pa-thetic attempt to extend an addiction of its own creation, an addiction that must end.
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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH You switch gears with ease. You also put a lot of emphasis on your priorities, and you tend to break down self-imposed barriers. By dusk, others clearly receive your message: It is time for a change of pace. Even workaholics would ben-efit from this advice. Tonight: Life becomes fun.
TAU R U S ( A P R I L 20- M AY 20) HHHH You are able to say what you want, but it might appear as if your message isn’t well-received. Don’t be surprised if you have to repeat this discussion at least two more times; there might be some-thing that the other party isn’t get-ting. Tonight: Head on home.
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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH Un-derstand what is happening behind the scenes. Ask questions if you feel that you are missing some details. Re-alize that you need more information, and refrain from taking action for a while. You could develop a different opinion as a result. Tonight: Not to be found.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHHH You have taken on more responsi-bility than you would have liked to with a project. Complete it, if possi-ble, and you will feel much better. Also, work on saying “no” more often. An afternoon meeting could develop into a get-together. Tonight: A must appearance.
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CONFIDENTIAL COUNSEL-ING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatrich Services. A walk-in clinic is of-fered weekdays from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services include educa-tional, career, individual, cou-ples and group counseling.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides education, supplemen-tal foods and immunizations for pregnant women and children under five years of age. This is an opportunity to earn volunteer hours for class requirements. For more information, call 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
NEW SPRING SEMESTER GROUP THERAPY OPPOR-TUNITIES are available for free at the Carruth Center. The groups include Understand-ing Self and Others, Sexual As-sault Survivors Group, Moun-taineer Men: An Interpersonal Process Group, and Know Thy-self: An Interpersonal Process Group. For more information call 293-4431 or contact [email protected].
FEATURE OF THE DAY
THE WEST VIRGINIA PLAN-ETARIUM, now located on the PL floor of White Hall, will present “STARS” at 7 p.m. and “Stars of the Pharaohs” at 8 p.m. Friday. Please be 5-10 minutes early for seat-ing, as it starts promptly on the hour. Although admis-sion is free, reservations are required and can be made at 304-293-4961 or [email protected].
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Big Gigantic to come to MET Theatre
wordpress.comBig Gigantic gets the crowd moving at a previous stop in the 2013 tour.
BY HUNTER HOMISTEKA&E EDITOR
Electronic dance music (EDM) phenomenon Big Gigantic is set to play Mor-gantown’s Metropolitan Theatre Sunday at 8 p.m.
Fueled by a world-class light show, ferocious, catchy rhythms and bass beats, Big Gigantic is sure to be a hit among partygo-ers Sunday evening.
“Our expertise is college towns,” said group drum-mer Jeremy Salken. “We focus on that, because a lot of folks are super sup-portive of live music, and they want to come out and get down.”
Big Gigantic’s live per-formance is scarcely matched on any level, let alone within Morgan-town’s local music circuit. As the band’s name im-plies, every note and ev-ery melody is pushed to the extreme, and the group looks forward to show-casing their style for the Mountain State crowd.
“We’ve been trying to make it over (to West Vir-
ginia) for a while, and it’s finally going to happen,” Salken said. “Live music is what we do best, and that’s what started it all for us.”
To accommodate the always-rowdy Morgan-town crowd, Big Gigantic will unleash an enormous, state-of-the-art light show to complement their tight grooves.
“We have a new light show we’re bringing out, so that’s going to add something,” Salken said. “Dom (group saxophon-ist and producer) and I are playing really well to-gether right now; we’ve been on tour for a couple weeks, and everything is good right now.”
One aspect of Big Gi-gantic’s delivery that sets them apart from other EDM groups of today is the use of a live drummer. Many electronic acts today rely solely on programmed drums and rhythms, but Salken said live drums are an integral part of Big Gi-gantic’s sound.
“I energize the mu-sic that’s already there
(and) add little things to it to make it sound or-ganic,” Salken said. “With a live drummer playing, I have the liberty of mess-ing with things a little bit; I never play the same song the same way twice. It’s all about the energy; it brings a special energy.”
With one of the na-tion’s most rapidly rising groups in Big Gigantic, concertgoers can expect a thumping and electrify-ing evening of EDM per-fection set to the backdrop of one of the most incredi-ble light shows in the mu-sic industry.
“We’re here to party,” Salken said. “Come see for yourself. We like to have fun, and we like to get down.”
Sunday’s show is an all-ages event. Tickets can be purchased at Fawley’s Music store in Sabraton, W.Va., or online at www.ticketfly.com.
Tickets are $18 in ad-vance and $20 on the day of the show.
jambase.comBig Gigantic saxophonist Dominic Lalli performs at a previous stop in the 2013 tour.
‘Snitch’, starring Dwayne Johnson, conveys drama related to the drug worldLOS ANGELES (AP) — Al-
though it sometimes ac-companies fine films such as “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Argo,” the phrase “inspired by a true story” tacked onto the front of a movie too often warns you that you’re about to see something “inspiring” in the most hackneyed, triumph-of-the-human-spirit sort of way.
What’s surprising about “Snitch” is that, rather than taking the reductive path of offering innocuous emo-tional uplift or one-man-
army action, it generates a feeling of real desperation and fear as it shows a man getting in way over his head when he takes on some very bad guys. In other words, this is a pretty good film star-ring an actor named Dwayne Johnson, not a commod-ity with The Rock as a hood ornament.
Summit’s main commer-cial hopes still rest with the mainstream action crowd - which likely will be satis-fied despite the film’s refusal
to dish out doses of bodily harm like clockwork - but for Johnson, this could broaden the perception of the sorts of roles he can play as he pushes into his 40s.
Directed with intensity by longtime stuntman Ric Roman Waugh (“Felon”), “Snitch” takes its dramatic opportunities seriously and not just as an excuse for brutal confrontations between drug dealers and assorted thugs. The “inspiring” part lies in the fact that a father, John Mat-
thews (Johnson), is willing to go to the absolute limit to prevent his teenage son Jason (Rafi Gavron) from serving 10 years in prison under manda-tory-sentencing laws for hav-ing made one stupid mistake. The involving part is how he goes about it: getting entan-gled with some very unsavory characters while trying to pre-serve a vestige of his morality and remain alive.
Inspired by a “Frontline” report about an aspect of the law that allows for reduced time in exchange for in-forming on drug dealers, the script by Justin Haythe (“Rev-olutionary Road,” “The Clear-ing”) and Waugh follows a fa-miliar-feeling template but goes deep enough with char-acter detail and legal issues to set it apart from standard-is-sue drug- and crime-related films. Jason gets sent away for ill-advisedly accepting deliv-ery of a box full of Ecstasy as a sort-of favor for a friend and also in order to try it with his girlfriend.
Unwilling to rat his buddy out, the terrified, physi-cally unprepossessing Ja-son is tossed into the pen, where he’ll be as defense-less as a rabbit in a foxhole. His resentful mother (Me-lina Kanakaredes) lashes out at John, her ex, while the only solution offered by politically hungry U.S. Attorney Joanne Keeghan (Susan Sarandon) is for Jason to offer evidence against some other drug dealer, but he truly doesn’t have any.
The biggest dramatic leap the film imposes is that John, a straight-arrow guy who runs a shipping company but
suffers guilt over having been a deficient dad post-divorce, would conceive of and then persuade the attorney to ac-cept a plan under which he himself would deliver drug dealers to her in exchange for his son’s freedom. Keeghan expresses the same dubious-ness the audience might feel, but once John gets the green light, you can feel the sweat and inner turmoil begin to simmer, as he’s no better-suited than Homer Simpson to figure out how to go about this. John’s formidable phy-sique and straight-shooter personality might serve him well in most situations, but they have little bearing given his new challenges.
Reluctantly, John leans on one of his employees who has done time, Daniel Cruz (Jon Bernthal), to point him in the right direction - a wrenching decision in that the man, who has a son of his own, is trying to stay straight. But John fi-nally gets entree to dealer Ma-lik (a terrific Michael Kenneth Williams), a two-time loser who, after some tense test-ing, agrees to use him on an out-of-state drug run.
The first big action scene doesn’t arrive until an hour in, at which point the stakes grow much higher with the in-volvement of a U.S. branch of a Mexican drug cartel run by the cool Juan Carlos (Benja-min Bratt). With her congres-sional race heating up, the idea of bringing down such a big dog excites Keeghan to no end but puts John and Daniel in untenable positions, lead-ing to some tough choices for both men. The danger they face feels real, as does their
angst over moral compro-mises, and the film climaxes in a well-staged chase involv-ing John’s 18-wheel big rig that presumably draws upon the director’s stunt experi-ence in achieving such old-school, real-deal power.
Unusual for this sort of thing, “Snitch” is a film af-ter which you remember the characters and actors more than the big action mo-ments. Never removing his shirt, Johnson behaves within a narrow range but is engag-ingly distressed and stalwart in equal measure, conveying sufficient feeling and subtext to suggest the actor could be entrusted with greater dra-matic challenges in the fu-ture. Bernthal (“The Walking Dead”) strongly puts over a conflicted man pushed into a terribly precarious posi-tion, and Barry Pepper keeps you guessing as a hipster-looking undercover cop. Sa-randon’s ambitious crime-buster remains unfortunately one-dimensional.
Waugh and sharp-eyed cinematographer Dana Gon-zales keep their framing quite tight, which amplifies the ac-tors’ work but, more ambig-uously, keeps you worried about what might be going on outside the field of view. A very large contribution is made by Brazilian composer Antonio Pinto (“City of God,” “Senna,” “Get the Gringo”), whose eerie, ever-hovering electronic score gathers cu-mulative force to greatly am-plify the story’s power.
“Snitch,” a Lionsgate/Sum-mit release, is rated PG-13 for drug content and sequences of violence.
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Freeway returns to 123 with Ground Up and Ponce De’LeiounBY LACEY PALMERASSOCIATE A&E EDITOR
Music in Your Ears Pro-ductions will sponsor a hip-hop show this Saturday at 123 Pleasant Street featur-ing some of the genres big-gest local names.
Freeway, a rapper from Philadelphia who worked previously under Roc-A-Fella records, will perform alongside Ground Up.
“Freeway, in my opinion, is the most underrated rap-per of all time,” event pro-moter Adam Payne said. “He has proven his worth by signing deals with al-most every major label in the industry.”
He released his debut al-bum “Philadelphia Free-way” in 2012, which was produced primarily by Roc-A-Fella-affiliated beat smiths, Just Blaze, Bink! and Kanye West, Freeway, alongside Beanie Sigel; all of whom compiled the group State Property.
The State Property al-bum featured the two big-gest singles from Freeway’s career thus far, “What We Do” featuring Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel and “Flipside” featuring Peedi Crakk. Both records were produced by Just Blaze and reached gold sales of more than 500,000 units.
Freeway, a devout Mus-lim, went on a hiatus to journey to the holy city of Mecca. Upon his return in 2007, Freeway recorded his second album, “Free At Last,” which was set to be co-produced by Jay-Z and 50 Cent. Although both art-ists were featured in Free-way’s 2007 album, 50 Cent gave up his co-executive producer’s role, leaving it a solely Roc-A-Fella release. The album sold more than 100,000 units.
In 2009, amid Jay-Z’s
stepping down as Def Jam label’s president, Free-way announced he would be working on his third al-bum entitled “The Stim-ulus Package,” which was produced by Jake One and released by Rhymesayers Entertainment.
The rapper’s latest album is entitled “Diamond in the Ruff.”
“This former Roc-A-Fella, Cash Money, G-Unit, Def Jam and now Rhymesayer has definitely shown he’s still a major force in rap mu-sic,” Payne said.
Payne is also an avid Ground Up fan, and he mentioned them as one of his favorite new artists of any genre.
“This is my fourth show working with Ground Up,” Payne said. “I’ve booked them at shows like my Birth-day Bash and Glowfest.”
Twenty-three-year-old rapper Ponce De’Leioun will also perform Saturday night.
De’Leioun recently won a
“Who is Ponce De’Leioun” nationwide tour from Bad Boy Records in April. Also, De’Leioun’s newest music video, “Oh God,” was re-cently released on mtv.com.
Although De’Leioun has never done a show with Freeway, he said he’s been a huge fan since he was young.
“Freeway is a Philly leg-end,” De’Leioun said. “He opened doors for a lot of other Philly artists.”
Originally from Califor-nia, De’Leioun grew up in Wheeling, W.Va., which is only about an hour from Morgantown.
“Where I’m from, there’s only three things to do for a black male: become an athlete, sell drugs or make music; those are pretty much the only ways out,” De’Leioun said about the small set of projects he grew up in.
De’Leioun wanted to play basketball in college, but that dream was short-lived.
“I made a few mistakes
and got myself put out of school my senior year, so I lost any chances of play-ing college basketball,” De’Leioun said. “I decided to start making music.”
De’Leioun remembers making music throughout his childhood, but it wasn’t until the trouble with school that De’Leioun de-cided to take his music ca-reer a little more seriously.
“I started out doing it for fun until I began gain-ing acknowledgement from lots of people in the val-ley,” De’Leioun said. “So, I started taking it seriously by releasing mix-tapes and promoting my music.”
De’Leioun decided to go to Fairmont State Uni-versity for business so he could learn to market his own music and push his ca-reer to the next level.
“At the time, my mom was ill and could not work, and my dad was working every day, but it wasn’t enough for the family,” De’Leioun said. “I figure turning over a new leaf and becoming a successful musician would give me a chance to help out with the funds.”
De’Leioun has shared the stage with Dorrough, Taylor Gang, V.I.C., Tra-vis Porter and MGM and is excited to stand alongside Freeway and Ground Up this weekend.
“I enjoy the shows in this area because I have a good amount of friends and fans that come and support at each show,” De’Leioun said.
De’Leioun will be per-forming with the rest of the Poncemusic team, which consists of himself, artists Marvelous and CJisHim, DJ Hurricane and DJ Cyn-cere and new videographer, Nicholas Jandora.
“I think it’s important to support local talent and
good music,” De’Leioun said. “Myself and the team plan on putting on an epic performance.”
The team has more than 50 cities booked for per-formances on the “Who is Ponce De’Leioun” tour, and according to De’Leioun, he plans to represent West Vir-ginia to the fullest extent.
To see De’Leioun’s recent MTV-release, visit www.mtv.com/artists/ponce-de-leioun, or visit www.pon-cemusic.net to learn more about the rapper.
For more information including booking, tweet @poncemusic or e-mail at [email protected].
The show will open with Deejay Arthur King and will also feature Dyno, the 123 Best 16 Bars Contest winner
of 2012, NextonDeck featur-ing Thack, Thrilla, Hazy and Mizzle and Voyce Atlas with Magz Staggs. Thack is cur-rently at number five on U92’s Urban Diner requests for “It Is What It Is.”
The show will begin at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $10, and the show is 18 and up.
To purchase tickets, visit http://www.showclix.com/event/3742144.
“This show is great for Morgantown’s hip-hop scene,” Payne said. “I feel it’s the one genre that doesn’t get tapped into, for whatever reason. Every hip-hop show I have done has gone off without a hitch, so I’m always eager to work on shows of this nature.”
Freeway, who formerly worked with Roc-A-Fella records, will perform at 123.
partymonstas.comPonce De’Leioun, an area rapper, will perform at 123 Saturday.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. signs and sings praises of new Showtime dealDETROIT (AP) — It’s
Showtime in more ways than one for Floyd May-weather Jr., who said Thursday he is excited about both a weekend fight he’s promoting as well as his lucrative new deal with the CBS-owned network.
Mayweather, who was in Detroit for a news confer-ence ahead of Saturday’s junior middleweight title bout between Cornelius “K9” Bundrage and Ishe Smith, likened his Show-time agreement to a mat-rimonial modification.
“I got a divorce,” a smil-ing Mayweather said of leaving HBO, his long-time television home. “I’m married again.”
“I couldn’t have asked for a better deal,” he said.
The sport’s biggest star and moneymaker an-nounced Tuesday that he’ll fight Robert Guerrero on May 4 on Showtime, a move that shook up the boxing universe. May-weather’s move is a coup for Showtime, which long has trailed HBO in boxing prominence.
Mayweather (43-0, 26 KOs) said his new reve-nue-sharing deal could include up to six pay-per-view bouts over 30 months, a much faster pace than to which he’s become accustomed.
The 147-pound cham-pion, who hasn’t fought since beating Miguel Cotto on May 5, has fought just four times since De-cember 2007.
“The fans want to see a lot more of me,” May-weather told reporters at the MGM Grand Detroit. “I will give you excitement.”
Mayweather, who turns 36 on Sunday, was there to support Saturday’s card at the nearby Ma-sonic Temple Theatre as well as Smith, his friend and sparring partner from Las Vegas, who is vying for his first-ever professional title.
The news event was testy with supporters of Bundrage and Smith screaming at each other and scuffling at one point inside one of the casino-hotel’s conference rooms.
Mayweather was all smiles, putting his arm around Smith and chat-ting amiably with Ste-phen Espinoza, executive vice president and gen-eral manager of Show-time Sports, who called the deal one “which we’re very, very proud of.”
M a y w e a t h e r, w h o grew up in Grand Rap-ids, Mich., said he began training for the Guerrero fight Wednesday by run-ning in the gym of Ottawa Hills High School in his
hometown.“This is a guy I know
I can’t overlook,” May-weather said of Guer-rero (31-1-1, 18 KOs), the WBC’s interim welter-weight champion.
Manny Pacquiao had been Mayweather’s only rival in recent years, though he had a pair of losses in 2012. Asked Thursday about a possible future fight with the Fili-pino, Mayweather pointed to the “crucial knockout” he suffered at the hands of Juan Manuel Marquez in December.
“If people don’t know,
Floyd Mayweather’s not scared of (any) oppo-nent,” Mayweather said. “You just don’t wake up overnight and just be-come (the best) pound-for-pound (fighter). And sometimes people talk about my legacy. If my legacy was based upon just one fight, then I didn’t need to fight 43 fights.”
Shifting to his upcom-ing fight, Mayweather promised an entertaining bout with Guerrero.
“Call your local cable company, because it’s Showtime, baby,” he said.
palmbeachpost.comMayweather Jr. trades punches with Ortiz.
Gregory to continue hosting ‘Meet the Press’
NEW YORK (AP) — David Gregory has re-upped as host of “Meet the Press.”
NBC News shared no details, but described the new deal as “a long-term commitment.”
“What a great vote of confi-dence from NBC,” a pleased-looking Gregory said Thurs-day. He said his first four years in the moderator’s chair have passed quickly.
“In some ways, it feels like we’re just getting started,” he said.
The 42-year-old Gregory began as host of the Sunday morning public-affairs pro-gram in December 2008, suc-ceeding the late Tim Russert.
Before that, he was Chief White House correspondent during the presidency of George W. Bush. He joined NBC News in 1995.
Gregory is only the 10th permanent host of “Meet the Press,” which premiered in 1947 and continues as the longest-running program on network television.
Looking beyond the new contract, Gregory said he planned to be hosting the program “for as long as they’ll let me.”
“I can’t think of a better platform to have for doing what I love to do – the inter-views – and as an outlet for my curiosity,” he said. “I think this is an impactful, influen-tial program, and I love being associated with it.”
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Locally renown metal group Byzantine to perform Sunday at 123 BY JOSH EWERS
A&E WRITER
The unrivaled standard-bearers of extreme music for West Virginia, Byzan-tine, are set to release their new self-titled album with a celebratory show at 123 Pleasant Street.
The boys of the Byz, fresh off completing their Kick-starter funded reunion project, have graced the stage at 123 several times before; however, with an arsenal of new and excit-ing material, this show will be a must-see event for all Morgantown’s dedicated metalheads.
Whether you’ve seen them before or not and if their newest singles “Sig-nal Path” and “Soul Eraser” are any indication of the band’s continued artistic vigor and vitality, then fans are in for quite a treat. Both showcase the classic ultra-technical, groove-laden Byzantine sound with a few new nuances added in with their trademark swirl-ing, yet focused leads, in-censed growls and star-tlingly well-executed clean vocal harmonies.
All these facets are what attract people to the band, but it becomes a love affair when they see how profi-ciently they are performed in a high-energy moshing environment. Proponents of similarly minded bands like Gojira, Lamb of God
and Meshuggah will be do-ing themselves a great dis-service if they miss this one for sure — especially con-sidering what’s lined up even before Byzantine.
Perhaps the most nota-ble group is Let the Guilty Hang. They’re a stand-out southern-style met-alcore group from Logan, W.Va., who, like Byzantine, have some years of tenure. While they haven’t played a full set in more than a year, I saw them back in the day in Nitro, W.Va. They abso-lutely brought the place down, and I left with a shirt. Most other nights, this band would be worthy of its own headlining slot.
Also in on the festivities are metal bands Disillu-sion Effect and Givethem-rope from Morgantown and Coatesvile, Pa., respec-tively. Both pack a punch in their own right.
Disillusion Effect brings a dose of metal drawing heav-ily from the school of As the Palaces Burn era Lamb of God while Givethemrope play a NYC hardcore fueled brand of groove metal rife with meaty chords.
The action starts at 7 p.m. Sunday at 123 Pleas-ant Street in downtown Morgantown. Tickets for all ages can be purchased on-line for $10 or for $12 at the door, if they are still avail-able for the day of the show.
metalsucks.netByzantine is set to release their new, self-titled album during their concert at 123 Sunday.
Ben Foster replaces Shia LaBeouf on Broadway
NEW YORK (AP)— Shia LaBeouf is out. Ben Fos-ter is in.
A day after LaBeouf stepped away from the play that would have marked his Broadway de-but, he was replaced by Foster.
LaBeouf responded to the backstage turmoil by posting private messages from the show’s actors and creative team sent to him that expressed sad-ness for any creative dis-agreements and high ad-miration for LaBeouf ’s skills.
Foster, whose film roles include “3:10 to Yuma” and “The Mes-senger” and who was on TV in “The Laramie Proj-ect” and “Six Feet Under,” had auditioned for the re-vival of Lyle Kessler’s play “Orphans” but had lost the role to the star of the “Transformers” franchise.
After LaBeouf left the production on Wednes-day due to what were de-scribed as “creative dif-ferences,” Foster was picked. After the change was announced, LaBeouf tweeted: “Ben Foster is a beast. He will kill it,” in all capital letters. Foster will be making his Broadway debut.
The play, which pre-miered in 1983, tells the story of two orphaned brothers living in a de-crepit Philadelphia row house who decide to kidnap a wealthy man. LaBeouf was to play one brother and and Tom Sturridge the other; For-mer “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin will be the target.
The switch in actors hasn’t delayed the show. Producers said “Orphans” will still open on March 19 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. Rehearsals restart Friday.
LaBeouf apparently stepped away from the play without burning too many bridges — at least according to the messages he’s posted on Twitter. The actor published email messages between him, Baldwin, Sturridge and di-rector Daniel Sullivan that indicated a somewhat am-icable, if anguished, split.
“Sorry for my part of a dis-agreeable situation,”
he wrote to Baldwin in an email posted on LaBeouf ’s Twitter feed. LaBeouf also posted his raw audi-tion video, allowing the world to weigh in on his approach.
Baldwin apparently wrote to the younger ac-tor: “I don’t have an un-kind word to say about you. You have my word.”
LaBeouf also posted an image of an email he got from former co-star Sturridge, who seemed shocked by the split and called it an honor to work with LaBeouf. “I was stunned by the work you were doing,” he wrote. “I think you lifted the play to a place higher than maybe it even deserved to be.”
As for Sullivan, the di-rector apparently wrote to LaBeouf after the decision was made that the actor leave the show: “This one will haunt me. You tried to warn me. You said you were a different breed. I didn’t get it.”
A press representative for the show said the mes-sages were legitimate.
LaBeouf seemed still somewhat shaken by the whole experience Thurs-day, writing on Twitter a series of slogans with opaque meanings.
“The theater belongs not to the great but to the brash. acting is not for gen-tlemen, or bureaucratic-academics. what they do is antiart,” he wrote in one tweet.
He also posted an image of a commiserative email apparently from Rick Sor-delet, a veteran fight di-rector, who said, “It was obvious you were going to turn in a fantastic per-formance.” In the same message, Sordelet wrote: “It must have been diffi-cult for others in the room to be schooled by some-one who’s raw talent and enthusiasm out matched theirs.” It was likely a note not intended for the rest of the company to see.
LaBeouf, whose other films include “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” was also recently seen in John Hillcoat’s crime drama “Lawless.”
hollywoodreporter.comBen Foster will replace Shia LaBeouf in ‘Orphans.’
SPORTS9CONTACT US 304-293-5092 ext. 2 | [email protected] February 22, 2013
Cowboys’ backcourt will
give WVU problems
Slowing down talented guards who have the ability to score the basketball in a lot of different ways hasn’t been the easiest thing for the West Virginia men’s basketball team to do this season.
A team’s opposing guard has scored at least 15 points on the Moun-taineers 23 times this sea-son, and of those 23, nine have eclipsed the 20-point plateau.
Playing against WVU has seemed to bring the best out of some players this season, and as the Moun-taineers prepare for a cru-cial final stretch of the reg-ular season that might not be a good thing.
Especially with a team like Oklahoma State com-ing into Morgantown this weekend.
Of all the teams the Mountaineers have faced this year – with the excep-tion of Michigan and Kan-sas – the Cowboys have possibly the most talented backcourts.
The combo of junior guard Markel Brown, soph-omore forward LeBryan Nash and freshman guard Marcus Smart has com-bined to average 44 points per game.
For a comparison of how impressive that is, West Virginia as a team is scor-ing just 66 points per game.
The Cowboys have also gotten a big boost off the bench from Phil Forte, a freshman who played with Smart in high school, who is scoring 11 points per game off the bench.
While it’s been Kansas freshman Ben McLemore who has gotten a lot of at-tention as one of the best first-year players in the country, Smart has been able to use his versatil-ity to emerge as one of the best players – regardless of class – in the country, and Brown has become one of the Big 12 Conference’s best scorers.
It’s likely the Mountain-eers will come out with a similar game plan to de-fend the talented Okla-homa State backcourt that they used when they fell to the Cowboys in Stillwater, Okla., earlier in the season.
Brown led the way for the Cowboys scoring 24 points while being guarded primarily by sophomore guard Gary Browne. Point guards Jabarie Hinds and Juwan Staten switched off guarding Smart, and fresh-men Eron Harris and Terry Henderson were on Nash.
And even though Nash was mostly a non-factor in the scoring column, fin-ishing with just two points in 25 minutes, Forte was a vital part in the Cowboys winning the game. He scored 26 points, shoot-ing 6-of-11 from beyond the arc.
The Mountaineers will have to be able to contain the damage done by the Oklahoma State guards in order to have a chance to win this game Saturday.
They’re beginning to run out of time to pick up wins because the 13-13 Moun-taineers aren’t only in a position where they are desperate to pick up good resume wins to try to make a run at stealing an at-large bid in the NCAA tourna-ment, they’re in a do or die situation to just earn a spot in the NIT.
Since the NIT changed its rule to allow teams with losing records in its field of 32, no team has finished the regular season below .500 and made it into the field.
Getting a win Satur-day could be the first step in ending a disappointing season on a strong note.
If not, West Virginia could be in jeopardy of not making a postseason tour-nament since the 2002-03 season.
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wythe woods/the daily athenaeumWest Virginia head coach Mike Carey looks on during a game against Iowa State.
Carey, Mountaineers looking to ride momentum into matchup with TCUby aMit batra
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Despite the TCU wom-en’s basketball team’s re-cord and 1-13 Big 12 Con-ference mark, it has been competing against some solid opponents this season.
In their game against West Virginia Jan. 15, the Horned Frogs were able to keep it close and only fell to the Mountaineers by eight points, 58-50. Now, as WVU hopes to earn the season sweep following a win against No. 24/23 Iowa State, it will need to main-tain its solid road play in Fort Worth.
West Virginia will again face TCU Saturday night at 8 p.m. At home, TCU has won all of its eight games,
but the Horned Frogs are still searching for their first road win of the year.
WVU will be coming off an impressive victory against Iowa State Sunday afternoon. The Cyclones narrowly escaped West Vir-ginia in Morgantown 53-49, but the Mountaineers got their revenge with a two-point victory.
Freshman guard Bria Holmes contributed 18 points, and senior center Ayana Dunning chipped in 13. West Virginia had a bal-anced attack with 41 points coming off the bench. De-spite trailing by 11 points, the Mountaineers never quit and rallied for the victory.
“I thought we did a good job,” said head coach Mike Carey. “We had to make it
ugly because we weren’t scoring, so we had to have more quickness and try to get some traps and turn-overs. They (Iowa State) do a great job. They’re a great team and very physical.”
West Virginia has seemed to find its identity on the road. Whether that means the Mountaineers feel too relaxed and comfortable at the Coliseum or not, the results have been coming away from Morgantown.
“It’s like when we go on the road, we know we want to prove a point to people,” said junior guard Christal Caldwell following a home loss to Oklahoma State ear-lier this season. “When we get here, we get relaxed be-cause we’re at home, but it does seem we play a lot
harder on the road.”In the first meeting this
season between the Horned Frogs and the Mountain-eers, WVU started the game on a good note, but its 24 turnovers allowed TCU to stick around. Still, through the Mountaineers’ solid shooting and out-rebound-ing the Horned Frogs 48-38, West Virginia was able to win after making its first seven shots and shooting 71.4 percent from beyond the arc in the first half.
“I was real proud of our group for kind of with-standing that (the start for West Virginia),” said TCU head coach Jeff Mittle after the game. “West Virginia is more known for driving the basketball, taking it inside. They were on fire early.
“We had to keep our discipline at that point. I thought our group did a pretty solid job. That’s not easy to do – especially for a young group. We kept tell-ing them in timeouts to stay the course. We got it back to a basketball game; they’re (West Virginia) tough to score on.”
The Horned Frogs will be coming off a win against No. 23 Oklahoma State Wednes-day night. TCU won its first conference game after fall-ing in 13-straight games with the 64-63 win over the Cowgirls.
West Virginia will hope to have better luck against TCU than OSU in Fort Worth, Texas. Tip off is set for 8 p.m.
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The West Virginia base-ball team will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C., this weekend to take on Youngstown State Uni-versity and Wake Forest University.
The first pitch will be thrown 12 p.m. Friday. Both teams will play twice, with the last game starting 4 p.m. Sunday against Wake Forest.
The Mountaineers’ base-ball season officially started last weekend, as the team lost two of three games at North Florida University. Last Sunday, new head coach Randy Mazey earned his first victory in a WVU uniform, winning 4-3.
“I thought we really com-peted well at home plate,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “I liked the way we got after it. We threw up some hits on Sat-urday and Sunday against some really quality arms, so that’s definitely encourag-ing, too.”
“I thought we played re-ally well as a team over the weekend,” said sophomore center fielder Bobby Boyd. “It was big to come home with a win.”
Boyd had three hits, two stolen bases and one run in the victory.
This past weekend saw Mazey make several line-up changes, as he contin-ues to get a feel for his team.
“We’ve got enough depth where we feel like we can sit a real good player ev-ery game,” Mazey said. “On Saturday we sat the guy who (batted) third on Fri-day, and on Sunday we sat the guy who (batted) third on Saturday. We have many variables in the lineup.”
Although the season is still very young, the team enjoys playing under Coach Mazey.
“Coach Mazey plays at a much faster pace,” Boyd said. “We do a lot more hit and runs, (and) we steal a lot more. I think it’s a bet-ter atmosphere.”
“He definitely gets the most out of us,” said ju-nior pitcher Pascal Paul. “I think we’ll catch some teams off guard with some of our (strategies).”
For this weekend, Mazey and the Moun-taineers see similarities between Wake Forest and some fellow Big 12 Con-ference teams.
“(They’ve) got good pitching (and an) ag-gressive offense,” Mazey said. “They play on a turf field, so you know it’s go-ing to be a good defensive game. This will be a good barometer for us getting into the conference.”
Although the team isn’t too familiar with Youngstown State’s style of play, the Mountaineers will be ready for whatever comes their way.
“We haven’t re-ally talked about (Youngstown State),” Paul said. “I know they’ve got some good hitters
Patrick Gorrell/the daily athenaeumJunior Matt Frazer and the West Virginia baseball team celebrate a run last season.
see BaseBall on PAGE 10
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“I know (Youngstown) has a new coach,” Mazey said. “Anytime you’ve got a new coach the entire pro-gram gets a lot of new en-ergy. (Morgantown) isn’t too far away, so some of the kids that are on their team probably aren’t too happy that the Mountain-eers didn’t recruit them ... They’re gonna be fired up to play us.”
Despite earning a vic-tory last weekend, the Mountaineers have already moved forward.
“It’s a new day, new game, new chapter,” Paul said. “We’re gooing to try and win.”
baSeballContinued from PAGE 9
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For the third match in a row, the West Virginia wom-en’s tennis team will face a top 50 opponent this week-end when it faces Penn State Saturday.
“I just keep trying to ex-plain to them that this is all opportunity. It’s nothing to be afraid of,” said West Vir-ginia head coach Tina Sa-mara. “There’s no pres-sure. There shouldn’t be. They should just look at is as an opportunity to learn and walk away with a little bit more understanding of what they need to do better.”
Last week the Mountain-eers lost both matches to William & Mary and VCU, both by a score of 6-1. De-spite the large margin of defeat, Samara saw a turn-around during the VCU match, particularly in soph-omore Ikttesh Cahal.
“With Ikttesh, her issue has been that she’s so up and down, within matches,” Sa-mara said. “I think for what-ever reason it happened that match changed her whole outlook on how she wants to be going forward.”
With Cahal – who plays No. 3 singles – in the right mind frame, Samara has a new found confidence in her top four.
“Hailey (Barrett) gen-erally does compete every time she’s out there, same with Emily (Mathis),” Sa-mara said. “Audrey (Wool-and), as well, (but) with Au-drey it’s a little tougher at the number one spot. There’s no real margin for error.”
Samara believes Cahal
and the rest of the Moun-taineers have been putting too much of an emphasis on winning, but with an unbe-lievably demanding sched-ule, Samara wants to see West Virginia embrace the underdog role.
“Technically, people should compete better as underdogs,” Samara said. “It’s a different kind of pres-sure, I guess, but I never looked at it as pressure. Any wins we get are going to be good wins.
“The big thing that you don’t hope for is that they lose these matches and think they’re not good. They’re playing an ex-
tremely high level of ten-nis where if they don’t get the wins that they want, that doesn’t mean they’re no good. The level of our com-petition is very high.”
Samara’s reasons for cre-ating such a difficult sched-ule are long-term factors.
“The only way we’re going to have success long term is if we get through this,” Sa-mara said. “If we have a win-ning record every year, and we’re still not ranked, that’s not success in my book.
“We have to go through these growing pains sometime.”
Samara also had the in-augural Big 12 schedule on
her mind when finding non-conference foes, and it will be the rigorous matches the Mountaineers are cur-rently playing that will pre-pare them for the Texas’ and Baylor’s of the Big 12.
“If you’re playing top 50 teams prior to the Big 12, then when we have our Big 12 matches, there’s not go-ing to be this shock of (com-petition) level,” Samara said. “If we played mid-ma-jor schools up until Big 12, I don’t think we would be nearly prepared, and I think we’d spend half the time in shock of the level.”
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— Baseball union head Mi-chael Weiner says reporters should refrain from jump-ing to conclusions about media reports linking play-ers to a Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distribut-ing banned performance-enhancing drugs.
Starting his annual tour of the 30 spring training camps, Weiner cautioned that Major League Baseball is still investigating Bio-genesis of America, a de-funct anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla.
“The players understand that what’s happening in Miami at this point remains to be seen in terms of fair-ness and judging things on the evidence,” Weiner said Thursday. “But there is a lot of talk in the clubhouse about where we should be
on the joint drug program, and that’s a good thing.”
After his one-hour ses-sion with the Mets, Weiner also discussed the agree-ment with management last month to extend blood testing for human growth hormone into the regular season. HGH testing began last year but was limited to spring training.
As part of the changes to the joint drug agreement, the World Anti-Doping Agency laboratory in Laval, Quebec, will keep records of each player, including his baseline ratio of testos-terone to epitestosterone.
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there’s a health-related or a weather/heat related reason why they can’t give blood,” Weiner said. “Play-ers understand it’s impor-tant to have the strongest program possible, and given both the testoster-one changes and the HGH changes, they’re very much for it.”
Weiner succeeded Don-ald Fehr as union head in 2009, and this tour is his first of spring training since announcing in August he is being treated for a brain tumor. The 51-year-old appeared thin and never specifically addressed his health or how he was feel-ing. He spent time in the Mets clubhouse before the meeting chatting and laughing with players, in-cluding third baseman Da-vid Wright and pitcher Jo-
han Santana.Part of Weiner’s talk
with media was a discus-sion of changes to draft-pick compensation for free agents under the new la-bor contract. Teams made $13.3 million qualifying of-fers last November to nine free agents – teams signing those players would lose a top selection in this June’s amateur draft.
The Mets were hesitant to negotiate with outfielder Michael Bourn because they didn’t want to lose the 11th overall pick. While the teams among the top 10 se-lections cannot lose their first-round pick, the Mets were vulnerable because they dropped from 10th to 11th in the selection order when Pittsburgh failed to sign No. 8 pick Mark Ap-pel last summer – meaning the Pirates gained an extra selection after this year’s eighth pick.
New York had main-tained its first-round pick should have been pro-tected because it origi-nally was among the top 10. Bourn agreed to a $48 million, four-year deal with Cleveland, and the is-sue never went before an arbitrator.
Pitcher Kyle Lohse is the only one of the nine free agents carrying com-pensation who remains unsigned.
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daThe Daily Athenaeum & Maniacs Basketball Student Tradition1. Make sure you have a copy of the basketball edition of The Daily Athenaeum It will include the game’s Maniacs Musings and a preview of the game
2. Use the paper to act disinterested when the opposing team’s starters are announced Grab your copy of the DA, open it up like you’re reading it. Boo after each player’s name is announced. 3. Prepare your DA for WVU’s entrance Tear the newspaper into confetti while the scoreboard plays the Mountaineers’ entrance video. When the Mountaineer Mascot shoots off his musket, throw your pieces of confetti into the air and cheer as loud as you can for the Mountaineers!
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rifle
No. 1 WVU has sights set on GARC title
by RobeRt kReissports writer
Three days after find-ing out they will be the No. 1 overall one seed in the NCAA championships, the West Virginia rifle team will first have to concentrate on the Great American Rifle Conference championships this weekend.
“Of course we’re going to be using it for prepara-tion for NCAA’s,” said head coach Jon Hammond. “At the same time, we want to go there and have as good a performance as we can.
“It’s still our conference championships, so we want to go out there and do our best.”
Hammond and the Mountaineers will take whatever they can from this weekend if it helps them when NCAA’s roll around in two weeks.
“We’ll be very conscious of continuing our prepara-tion for NCAA’s and using the experience and adren-aline as much as possible from this weekend that we can use in two weeks,” he said.
West Virginia will travel
to Oxford, Miss., and the campus of Ole Miss for the GARC championship. There they will once again face the Kentucky Wildcats, who currently rank No. 3 nationally and are the only team to beat the Mountain-eers this season.
“Our focus is on our-selves, and our own perfor-mance,” Hammond said. “It doesn’t matter what teams are going to be there. We’re going to see good teams this weekend and good teams in two weeks, but for us to be successful, we have to keep the focus on ourselves.
“We’ll keep our focus on ourselves, and we want to go down there and put in the best match that we can.”
Obviously, that philoso-phy has worked all season considering the Mountain-eers sit atop the college ri-fle world, but it has also proven to work in the past. Hammond and West Vir-ginia are pursuing their fourth consecutive GARC championship.
“It’s definitely a great po-sition to be in,” Hammond said. “We’ve had some good success at the conference championships, and to
have won it three years in a row is great.
“We obviously want to continue and do our best, and to win something four times in a row, what-ever that is, it’s a great accomplishment. If we keep our focus on ourselves and what we do, hopefully that will be the result of it all.”
Despite the Mountain-eers winning a three-peat of conference champion-ships, that hasn’t guaran-teed success in the NCAA championship that fol-lows. West Virginia has not
won the NCAA Champi-onship since 2009, some-thing Hammond is hoping to change this season.
“Really what we’ve been trying to do all year is keep the focus very internal,” Hammond said. “It’s very easy at championships – especially NCAA’s – to start doing things differently, worrying about the other teams, thinking about the scores we have to do.
“It’s just another match, and we have to be very fo-cused and prepared.”
by meGhAN CARRsports correspondent
The West Virginia Uni-versity Gymnastics team will host the first Wendy M. Roach Invitational when they compete against No. 3 Michigan, Towson and New Hampshire Sunday.
This meet is dedicated to the mother of former WVU gymnast and current stu-dent assistant Nicole Roach. Wendy M. Roach, a Mich-igan native, passed away Jan. 1 after a long battle with breast cancer.
“Wendy fought for al-most two years to beat this disease, and it’s such an in-spiring story to know some-one who fought that hard for something, and what a tragedy it is that she lost that fight,” said head coach Ja-son Butts.
Nicole finished her gym-nastic tenure with the Mountaineers in 2012 so many of the upperclassmen
gymnasts knew Wendy very well. So, this meet is more than a way to garner atten-tion for breast cancer re-search; it’s a personal trib-ute to a woman who was considered a part of the Mountaineer family.
“Nicole is a very special person and very near and dear to my heart, and so is her family. This meet is sup-porting all affected by breast cancer, but this meet for us is about supporting Nicole and the entire Roach fam-ily,” said junior Makenzie Bristol.
Bristol was Nicole’s roommate along with senior Alaska Richardson.
Although this meet will hold sentimental value for the Mountaineers, Butts knows they have to put it aside and be ready to com-pete against three deter-mined teams.
“Michigan is having an outstanding season and will be in the hunt for a na-
tional title. New Hampshire is fighting for a spot in re-gionals, and (Towson head coach) Vicki has done a great job boosting that pro-gram up over the past two years.”
WVU alumna and cur-rent head coach Bev Plocki is bringing the No. 3 Wolver-ines to Morgantown.
“Bev wouldn’t mind me saying this, but I would love to beat Michigan in front of the home crowd,” Butts said.
It will be the second time the Mountaineers have faced a top-5 ranked team this season. The Mountain-eers previously hosted No. 2 Oklahoma.
“Within the past three weeks to have two top-5 teams come into the Col-iseum - not only is it an amazing experience for our team, but it’s great for our fans to see such awesome gymnastics,” Butts said.
Michigan will be a tough test for the Mountaineers
but necessary if they want to receive a high seed for the NCAA Regionals. Michigan is ranked in top 10 nation-ally for every event.
Towson is currently ranked No. 52, and New Hampshire is No. 35 in the top 36 Regional Qualifying score rankings, and UNH will definitely be compet-ing to stay in the rankings.
High-ranked teams have brought out the competi-tive spirit in this team, but the Mountaineers still find themselves a step lower on the podium from where they want to be. Former No. 20 Southern Utah is the only ranked team WVU got the best of so far this season. Butts is well aware of the statistic that the Mountain-eers are 1-5 against ranked teams but considers it just that – a statistic.
The Mountaineers are currently ranked No. 25 in the RQS and are eyeing a top 18 finish. With only four
regular season games left on the schedule andone being a road game, every score matters.
“We’re just focusing on the little things to increase our score and get in to the top 18, so when regionals come around we can have one of the top seeds,” said junior Hope Sloanhoffer.
WVU has competed against each team sev-eral times in the last cou-ple of years. Towson and New Hampshire are both members of the Mountain-eers former conference, the EAGL. The Wolverines and WVU last competed in 2010 with the Wolverines pulling away after the second rota-tion to win 196.4 to 194.475.
Fans are encouraged to wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness.
The West Virginia Univer-sity women’s soccer team will be located at the Blue Gate to collect sundry do-nations to benefit Morgan-
town’s Betty Puskar Breast Care Center. For more infor-mation regarding the types of donation items, visit the WVU Gymnastics homep-age at wvusports.com.
“I love the fact that this is a family program, and to honor someone who not only fought that hard but was such a strong supporter of this program. I really hope this is an inspiration to this team and really the fans in general,” Butts said.
Nicole’s family will be in town to support her and the WVU gymnastics team.
A shuttle will be running from the Mountainlair and Braxton Tower to the Col-iseum for one hour lead-ing up to the meet. At the conclusion of the meet, the shuttle will return once back to both locations. Tickets are on sale for $5 for adults and $3 for children and seniors.
mountaineers to take on No. 3 michigan, New hampshire, towsongymnastics
file photoPetra Zublasing and the No. 1 West Virginia rifle team will compete in the Great American Rifle Conference championships in Oxford, Miss., this weekend.
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Tyler herrinTon/The daily aThenaeumSophomore Jabarie Hinds and the WVU men’s basketball team will take on Oklahoma State this weekend.
by doug walpsports writer
Tomorrow afternoon the West Virginia men’s bas-ketball team will look to avoid its fifth-separate los-ing streak of the season as it hosts No. 14 Oklahoma State in the second of two regular season contests this year.
The Cowboys (19-6, 9-4 Big 12 Conference) dis-patched the Mountaineers (13-13, 6-7) fairly easily in the first meeting, which was a 88-60 win for OK State in Stillwater, Okla., at the end of January.
That was just the first of seven consecutive conference victories for Oklahoma State, who fi-nally had its win streak snapped at the hands of No. 9 Kansas in a thrill-
ing double-over t ime game Wednesday night in Stillwater.
The Mountaineers, meanwhile, are fresh off a loss of their own after fall-ing to No. 13 Kansas State for the second time this season Monday night in Manhattan, Kan.
“We’ve had chances,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins. “Let’s be honest; we could have beaten Kansas State at home. We didn’t, but we could have. We had the Oklahoma game, if we don’t have all those breakdowns – we’ve got a chance.
“(The) problem is we have chances, but we don’t finish them. We don’t take advantage of them – that’s the problem.”
Saturday will be the third
all-time meeting between the newly aligned confer-ence adversaries and the first ever trip to the WVU Coliseum for the Cowboys.
Oklahoma State features four different players aver-aging double figures, in-cluding two who are aver-aging at least 15 points a game: junior guard Markel Brown (15.9) and freshman guard Marcus Smart (15.0).
West Virginia, on the other hand, who has yet to defeat a Big 12 team above it in the standings, doesn’t possess a single player that’s averaging double fig-ures on the season.
In addition, the Moun-taineers are No. 283 out of 347 Division I teams in re-gards to field goal percent-age this year.
“We are limited offen-sively. We don’t make
shots,” said senior forward Deniz Kilicli. “We don’t have the luxury to give peo-ple easy layups and dunks and wide-open threes, be-cause we can’t make plays on the offensive end.”
Huggins, while admit-ting the lack of offense has certainly hampered West Virginia’s overall success this season, also remains adamant that it simply comes down to the fact that this year’s team just hasn’t executed the basic facets of the game the way past Mountaineer squads have.
“We’ve missed shots, but everybody misses shots; you’ve got to find ways to win,” Huggins said. “We don’t rebound the ball, and that’s very uncharacteris-tic of my teams over the years. But then again we
don’t guard either, which is very uncharacteristic of my teams over the years.”
The defense, or lack thereof to which Huggins was alluding to, is def-initely another critical point of emphasis for the Mountaineers, who are al-lowing an average of just 56 points in its six confer-ence wins, versus an aver-age of more than 70 points allowed in its seven losses during Big 12 play.
“Defense is a mental-ity,” said sophomore point guard Juwan Staten. “I feel like we have great ath-letes. We have people that should be great on-ball de-fenders. But you don’t al-ways have to be the best athlete to defend, you just have to have the will to de-fend, and I don’t think re-ally think as a team we
have the will to stop any-body from scoring.”
Still, among the lit-any of problems that have consistently plagued the Mountaineers this season, Huggins still refuses to completely abandon hope when contemplating a po-tential postseason bid.
In fact, he still hasn’t even completely ruled out the possibility of playing in the NCAA tournament in March, although it ap-pears he has finally come to terms with the fact that a conventional tournament selection may be out of reach at this point.
“I don’t know that it’s ever over,” Huggins said. “I mean, who knows; we may make a run and win the Big 12 tournament. “
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The WVU Men's basketball team is in need of a big time home win against the Cowboys of Oklahoma State. During the week the Mountaineers lost a tough game on the road at No. 13 Kansas State 71-61 and their record now stands at 13-13. The Cowboys are on a seven-game winning streak and have an overall record of 19-5, pending their game Wednesday night against Kansas. Let's send the Cowboys back to Stillwater with a loss!!! LET’S GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!
Here are the projected starters for Oklahoma State:
Made Three Pointer and Tipoff: JUMP UP AND DOWN AND SCREAM!!!
Free Throws: HANDS UP!!!
Walk of Shame: When one of the players fouls out simply chant their foot movements. Continue with “LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT” until they sit down. Then go crazy!
Hold up the DA: When the opposing team is being announced!
BUM OF THE GAME BOO THIS MAN!!!! #2 Le'Bryan Nash
# NAME POSITION INFORMATION 33 Marcus Smart-FR
6-4 225 G Hometown: Flower Mound, Texas
Marcus enjoys quilting in his free time, especially scarfs for Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy. Marcus is projected to be a lottery pick in the 2013 NBA Draft.
22 Markel Brown-JR 6-3 190
G Hometown: Alexandria, La. Markel is a criminal justice major who aspires to become a security guard at a White Castle back in Louisiana. He was named "Dunker of the Year" by CollegeBasketballTalk on NBCSports.com for the 2011-12 season.
2 Le'Bryan Nash-SO 6-7 230
G/F Hometown: Dallas, Texas Le'Bryan was once a National Youth Champion at Pokemon Red on Gameboy, his favorite Pokemon is Squirtle. Le'Bryan loves Twitter so tweet him at "@KingNash02".
20 Michael Cobbins-SO 6-8 220
F Hometown: Amarillo, Texas Michael looks like he's about 35, and he's a business management major who hopes to one day manage a Burger King. Michael eats two full racks of ribs before each game, extra barbecue!
44 Philip Jurick-SR 6-11 260
C Hometown: Chattanooga, Tenn. Originally a Tennessee recruit, Philip spent two seasons at Chattanooga State before becoming a Cowboy. Philip's celebrity look-alike is Kevin Federline also known as K-Fed, they both have a socially unacceptable amount of horrible-looking tattoos.
WVU students: A change to your game-day experienceIf you’re headed to the Coliseum for the game, follow these instructions ...
1. Make sure to look at the Maniac Musings (above) while you wait for the game to start.2. Hold up the da like you’re reading the newspaper to ignore Oklahoma State as the Cowboys are introduced prior to
tipoff. Stay completely quiet while Oklahoma State is being introduced.
3. While the intro video is played on the video board, crumple or rip up your da.4. as the Mountaineer mascot shoots his rifle following the intro video, throw your crumpled or ripped da up into
the air (but NOT onto the court) and cheer as loud as you can to welcome the Mountaineers.