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George Capel and Ashley Morgan will serve as the student body president and vice president for the 2015-16 aca-demic year, after sweeping the election Thursday.
The tension was palpable as the West Virginia University Student Govern-ment Association candidates waited to hear the results in the Mountainlair food court Thursday afternoon. After weeks of hard work and preparation, thou-sands of dollars spent and three parties running for the first time in more than a decade, the SGA election ended in a clean sweep.
Of the 58 potential SGA candidates that went up for election, all 19 win-ners came from the Make a Difference (MAD) Movement.
“It honestly feels surreal. It definitely hasn’t really sunk in yet,” said Capel, the student body president-elect. “I just re-member whenever we started out this whole thing trying to get the best people on our ticket and it’s just the best feeling in the world, that every single person on our ticket got elected and we’re all going to stick together in SGA next year.”
Capel and Morgan are excited to start working on their campaign promises and already have plans in place once they get into office.
“We’re going to restructure our by-laws. We’re going to make sure there’s a student on City Council and we’re really going to focus on getting this student summit together, and reaching out to all parts of the University so that there is a representative for every demographic across the University,” Capel said.
The losing candidates did not agonize over their defeat. They kept their heads high and graciously congratulated their counterparts.
Five of the six presidential candi-dates were once all on the same ballot two years ago, the Revolution ticket – also the last time there was an election sweep - leaving a bittersweet taste of de-feat in their mouths.
“I feel good. I’m very proud of what our ticket did and it’s a really great group of students that came together and all the adversity we faced, they never gave up,” Wempe said.
Stephen Scott, the presidential can-didate for The Experience Party, sec-onded how proud he was of his party
and vowed to continue working on his campaign promises after the fact.
“Even though this might not have been the result we were looking for, that
doesn’t mean that we’re not going to do what we said we were going to do for the student body,” Scott said.
A clean sweep is a rarity in SGA elec-
tions, especially with 58 candidates in the running. The point of contention in this election was the straight-ticket vot-ing, as it seemingly played a crucial role in the outcome.
The elections committee decided on the application of straight ticket voting. Richard Larson, SGA Elections Chair, said the committee implemented the procedure to avoid low voting numbers because of so many candidates.
“I’m not sure if it did have an effect, but I think it was to make sure that we got people to vote, and that people didn’t want to avoid voting because there were so many people and so many pages to go through,” Larson said.
According to Chris Nyden, the cur-rent student body president, the heads of both the Experience Party and MAD Movement advocated for a straight-ticket option, while Spenser Wempe, the Youth Party presidential candidate, only inquired about straight-ticket voting.
“It was proposed by Stephen Scott and Anthony Braxton, and then George Capel and Ashley Morgan. But we didn’t ultimately approve it until it was pushed
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West Virginia University students woke up Thurs-day morning to several inches of snow and the ex-citing news that the Uni-versity was closed. To the surprise of many, win-ter storm Thor dumped enough snow on Morgan-town to close the Univer-sity that never closes.
While some students used the day to watch Net-flix and catch up on sleep, others took full advantage of the snow day. In fact, there was a full-fledged snowball fight between dozens of students in front of Woodburn Hall, Thurs-day afternoon. Ariel San-chez, an international stu-dent from Mexico studying engineering, was one of the students playing in the snowball fight.
“We came here to build a snowman, but then we started to (have a snowball fight) and it was fun. We’ve been out here for like two hours,” Sanchez said. “It doesn’t snow where I live in Mexico and I really like the snow. Winter is almost
over, so let’s enjoy this!”Sanchez also com-
mented on how grateful he was the University had cancelled classes for the day.
“I had a really hard exam today, so I was like, ‘Thank God!’ I just gave up studying late last night. I was like, ‘No, this is too hard – I’ll just go to sleep.’ So when I found out there are no classes, I was so happy,” he said.
These students were not the only ones getting active in the snow. Nate Hickman, a senior geol-ogy student, and two of his friends used their free day to eat at the UPlace Sheetz and snowboard in an empty parking lot in front of Beverly Street that goes down Fourth Street.
“It’s just like two empty lots and a guy always comes and plows it with a four-wheeler and there’s a guardrail, so that snow just gets packed right up against that guardrail. Last year, we spent like four days snowboarding and hitting jumps there. It’s a lot of fun,” Hickman
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YOU MAD BRO?MAD Movement’s entire ticket wins Student Government Association’s election
Kyle Monroe/The DaIly aThenaeuMAfter the entire ticket was elected to SGA, the MAD Movement erupts into cheers Thursday afternoon in the Mountainlair.
Kyle Monroe/The DaIly aThenaeuMMembers of the MAD Movement come together in a huddle after their ticket swept the SGA elections Thursday eve-ning in the Mountainlair.
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asKar salIKhoV/The DaIly aThenaeuMAbove, Kristen Knotts tumbles off of her sled while sliding down the steep hill be-hind Woodburn Hall. Below, members of the Kappa Alpha fraternity help shovel-ing snow from the sidewalks on Prospect Street.
students celebrate no classes, snow
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Being in charge of stu-dent life at an institu-tion such as West Virginia University, you’re bound to face unexpected chal-lenges. But the new Vice President for Student Life, Bill Schafer, has seen more opportunities than chal-lenges during his first week on campus.
“I’m learning more and more what a great institu-tion this is, which I already knew when I decided to come here,” Schafer said. “There is a lot of new en-ergy on the campus, so that’s very exciting to me to be a part of that.”
Schafer has served a wide variety of institutions of different sizes and ac-ademic reputations over the past 30 years and has learned the importance of getting to know the com-munity you work in first, to tailor the decisions you make around it later.
“Students are a little bit different on each campus and some of the challenges
are the same but some are different,” Schafer said. “It kind of depends on the time on the timeline when certain things become big-ger. That’s what I’ve got to learn here, where are we on that timeline on some of these different programs and services.”
During his first week in Morgantown he met with University and City offi-cials, and more impor-tantly, the students.
He will continue to get out and explore the Univer-sity community as much as he can over the next three months before he can for-mulate a plan of priorities moving forward.
“I am obviously seeing more and learning more about all the wonderful things going on on cam-pus, and as I go along I’m sure I’ll know more about the challenges that are here too,” Schafer said. “You have a sense as to how an institution operates but you still want to get there on the ground and start listening to people, so I’ll
Schafer excited for new challenge at WVU
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said. “One of my bud-dies sent me a snapchat of them building a jump, so we figured we would stop and get some breakfast and then head over there to snowboard.”
While most students were relieved to have a day off and enjoy the snow, others were not so glad. Amanda Hutchi-
son, a sports and exercise psychology senior who was reelected to the Stu-dent Government Associ-ation Board of Governors with the Make a Difference Movement, commented on how the snow day took a toll on the SGA campaign.
“It definitely negatively affected the campaign, we lost a whole day of cam-paigning for this. Espe-cially with the University being closed, there (were) no students out and there
(were) no buses running, so people (couldn’t) come downtown and vote,” Hutchison said. “The only voting location is at the Lair and we’re closing it early. But other than that, I’m sure everyone is really enjoying the snow day. We don’t see these very frequently here at WVU. This election has gone down in the record books, and now it’s ended with a snowstorm.”
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by the county clerks,” Nyden said.
The County Clerk pushed for straight-ticket voting be-cause it would mirror City Council elections.
Based exclusively off of straight-ticket voting, the MAD movement came away with 1,265 votes, out of a possible 3,293–52.64 percent of the total ballots.
The two losing parties had mixed feelings about the straight-ticket voting. While the results spoke for themselves, the losing pres-idential nominees had dif-fering opinions.
“I think that was a poor decision on the backs of the elections committee. I think it encouraged uninformed voting, and I hope in the fu-ture they don’t continue to do straight-ticket voting,” Wempe said.
However Scott was skep-tical of the role straight-ticket voting played in the election.
“Even though there was a straight-ticket button, I don’t think that students just came out and voted be-cause they saw Experience, Youth or MAD, but they really went through and kind of picked the best to serve the student body,” he said.
One question that wasn’t answered during the elec-tion announcement was the fate of Medical Amnesty for students. Out of the voters, 83.84 percent voted in favor of the policy that would al-low students to go or take someone to the hospital without having to worry about legal or academic repercussions.
The ambiguity of the situ-ation raises the question of why it was even put on the ballot if they were never go-ing to certify the results.
“There is never going to
be an official count on am-nesty, the J Board (SGA Ju-dicial Board) is not certify-ing that. They might hear a case about certifying it, but it’s not official. In their words, ‘It never happened,’” Larson said.
The issue is “hyper-tech-nical,” as Medical Amnesty isn’t something SGA or the University can actually vote on, change or implement. It would require legisla-tion on the state level to get passed.
According to Nyden, the state has already requested Medical Amnesty to be tried in schools before they take it up in the state legislature. But with students clearly in favor of it, Nyden said he would be taking up the issue with the University Board of Governors before their next meeting in May.
“It’s something that is long past due at WVU,” Nyden said.
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Packback Books, a text-book company most nota-bly recognized for appearing on the television show Shark Tank, is attempting to market itself to the students of West Virginia University.
Packback Books is a startup company created by four college students with the goal of making textbooks af-fordable for their fellow stu-dents. The company was backed by Mark Cuban after appearing on Shark Tank.
Packback incorporates the buying and selling of text-books by laying out several price offers from different companies selling the book,
which gives students the ad-vantage of finding the cheap-est price.
Students can then sell their textbook back through the company’s sell tool, which compares online buy-back prices from major online text-book retailers.
The company based out of Chicago is getting its word out to different campuses through interns at different schools. Three brand ambas-sadors currently represent Packback at WVU and are making strides at promoting their company.
The company is repre-sented by students Lauren Petitt, Gabrielle Marquis, and Kalie Slattery.
“I was mainly interested in it because having textbooks
provided to me at such a cheap cost, I just thought it was a genuinely good idea,” said Petitt, a senior strategic communications student.
Packback is in the midst of partnering with the WVU Student Government Associ-ation to market the company and to gain more ground on campus.
Blake Humphrey a newly elected Board of Governor member approached the three representatives to pres-ent a partnership with SGA. Humphrey ran on the plat-form of textbook affordability and advocates for Packback’s price convenience.
“One of the reasons why I’m running is I believe that we need to have someone at the table to talk about the is-
sue when it comes to Barnes and Nobles contract with WVU, because I don’t think it’s fair for professors or for students,” Humphrey said during the election. “I think it’s healthy that we have that competition on campus, es-pecially with the book ex-change, bookholders, and other companies like that.”
What distinguishes Pack-back from similar compa-nies however is its exclu-sive $5 one-day rental option available for certain books. This allows students to rent their books when necessary, whether it be studying for an exam, or completing assign-ments specific to the book.
“If you only use the book a few times out of the year — maybe you only use it to
study for tests and you proba-bly only have four tests — $20 right there, that’s it,” said Mar-quis, a sophomore forensics student.
The convenience of the one-day rental option is if a student decides to purchase the book after several rent-als, the full price of the book will be reduced according to how many days you rented the textbook.
“You pay for the textbook on a day-to-day basis, and then after a certain point in time once you’ve reached the amount that the textbook is worth, all of a sudden it be-comes yours,” Humphrey said. “I make the compari-son to Redbox.”
“We can’t get a booth in the Lair because we’re not cur-
rently associated with WVU right now, so a partnership with SGA would allow us to get our voice heard,” Marquis said. “We end up doing what we can by passing out flyers. We’ll do campaigns where if you give us your email, we’ll send you a free one-day rental. We’ll also try to go in and do classroom speeches, just to brief students about what it is that we do.”
Petitt said getting teach-ers involved in Packback is a priority.
“Our biggest focus right now is to try and get teach-ers on board so they can put Packback in their syllabus. That would really help us to get their backing,” Petitt said.
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learn a great deal over these next couple weeks, couple months. My first priority is to listen to people – both student leaders but also kind of the average students on campus.”
Schafer had served as a student life administrator for 10 years at Georgia Tech when an old friend, and former boss at the Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder, called him with a job offer he couldn’t refuse.
Schafer said working with WVU President E. Gordon Gee again was one of the primary reasons for his de-cision to come to Morgan-town, and he believes the entire University needs to get on the same page in or-der to be successful moving forward.
“I think we have the top president in the United States and that’s one of the reasons I came here. His ex-perience, his energy. That energy and excitement to re-ally lift up WVU to that next higher level, that’s a pretty big motivating factor for me, and I believe students will see the results of that as we go over these next sev-eral months and couple of years.”
One of the ongoing tasks Schafer is faced with is the culture change on campus.
Schafer said the culture he wishes to achieve on cam-pus is one where students get the best educational ex-
perience possible, both on and off campus, where they gain the self-confidence to move in directions that they want to with their lives.
“The culture that I think we want to develop here is that any student can come to school here from anywhere, any part of West Virginia, any other state, any other country. They can have all those basic needs taken care of for themselves, (and) we
provide those other ba-sic services they need to be successful during those years that they are working on their education.”
In the end, Schafer wants every student to graduate with the same feeling.
“Wow, WVU really put something together that made a difference for me,” he said.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM NEWS | 3Monday March 9, 2015
Sleep. It isn’t just about being in bed; it’s about get-ting quality rest.
Why is a good night’s sleep so im-portant, especially for college students with busy days that seem to leave little room for evening rest?
We schedule time for eating, class, work, e x t r a c u r r i c u l a r s , studying, athletics and friends because integrating them into our lives is part of our college experi-ence and wellbeing. They become habit.
Sleep falls under that same category.
Quality of sleep is equally vital to our wellbeing as it can help us recover from today, providing the energy we need to thrive to-morrow. In fact, both academic success and physical health are linked to quality rest.
Memory consoli-dation occurs while you sleep, meaning that lack of qual-ity rest can nega-tively impact your academic success.
Research even shows that those who have a solid 8 hours of sleep per-form better on tests, even if not study-ing, than those who pull an all-nighter.
Think daytime naps or a few cups of cof-fee can fix sleep debt?
Actually, overdoing it on caffeine causes fluctuations in en-ergy and alertness.
And frequently tak-ing naps later in the day will only per-petuate any sleep problems at night.
As your immune system recharges during sleep, getting quality sleep is an im-portant part of main-taining your physi-cal wellbeing too.
Ready to incorpo-rate healthy sleep-ing habits into your life? Remember, de-veloping a habit is based on repetition.
The WELLGO cal-endar, available at wellgo.wvu.edu, ana-lyzes how you cur-rently manage your schedule and helps you allocate time to sleeping, eating, so-cializing, studying and other areas. Use WELLGO to man-age time and stress.
Speaking of stress, stress accumulation can make it hard to sleep at night.
Practice a breathing and meditation rou-tine before bed; even 5 minutes can make a big difference! You can find our breath-ing exercise video at-well.wvu.edu/stress.
Practice sleeping at the same time, same place, for 8 hours.
Using your bed only for sleeping—no homework, eat-ing, computers or TV watching—rein-forces the idea that beds are for sleeping.
On days where you use higher brain func-tions for longer peri-ods of time (i.e., study days), plan to get more sleep in the evenings.
Check the qual-ity of your sleep at sleepwell.wvu.edu.
Follow us on Face-book, Instagram and Twitter @WELLWVU for more healthy tips.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A community group plans to gather Sunday to discuss the fatal shooting of an unarmed, black 19-year-old by a white police officer, who authori-ties say fired his weapon af-ter he was assaulted.
The police chief in the col-lege town acknowledged the anger people may be feeling, and assured demonstrators Saturday that his department would defend their rights as he implored the community to act with restraint.
Tony Robinson died Fri-day night after being shot in his apartment following a confrontation with Officer Matt Kenny, who had forced his way inside after hearing a disturbance while respond-ing to a call, authorities and neighbors said.
Police Chief Mike Koval said Kenny was injured, but didn’t provide details. It wasn’t clear whether Robin-son, who died at a hospital, was alone.
“He was unarmed. That’s going to make this all the more complicated for the in-vestigators, for the public to accept,” Koval said of Rob-inson. The department said Kenny would not have been wearing a body camera.
A balloon memorial had been placed near the site of the shooting on Williamson Street on Sunday morning, and organizers planned a gathering Sunday afternoon, encouraging the community to bring children and cray-ons for a discussion about the events of the weekend. Organizers of the protest didn’t immediately return a message.
On Saturday, several dozen protesters holding signs and chanting “Black Lives Mat-ter” — a slogan adopted by activists and protesters na-tionwide after recent offi-cer-involved deaths of un-armed blacks — marched from the police department to the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
The shooting came days after the U.S. Justice Depart-ment said it would not issue civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white for-mer Ferguson, Missouri, offi-cer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, af-
ter a struggle in the street last August.
Federal officials did how-ever find patterns of racial profiling, bigotry and profit-driven law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb, which saw spates of sometimes-vi-olent protests in the wake of the shooting and a grand ju-ry’s decision not to charge Wilson.
Other high-profile deaths of black suspects at the hands of police officers have prompted nationwide pro-tests, including that of Eric Garner, who died in July af-ter New York City officers put him in a chokehold and a video showed him repeat-edly saying, “I can’t breathe.” A Cleveland police officer in November fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who
had been pointing a pellet gun at a playground. A Mil-waukee police officer who fatally shot Dontre Hamilton last April was found to have acted in self-defense, but was fired for ignoring depart-ment policy regarding men-tal illness.
Koval said Saturday that his department would “de-fend, facilitate, foster those First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of speech” — echoing as a stark contrast to Ferguson, where an aggressive police response to protesters after Brown’s death drew world-wide attention.
No one answered the door Sunday morning at Robinson’s mother’s house, where Koval said he’d vis-ited the night of the shooting
and spoken with Robinson’s grandparents. Family mem-bers at community meeting Saturday read a statement prepared by the mother, An-drea Irwin, that said, “I can’t even compute what has happened.
Kenny, who had more than 12 years with the Mad-ison department, also shot and killed a suspect in 2007, but was cleared of wrongdo-ing because it was a “suicide by cop-type” situation, Koval said. Kenny has been placed on administrative leave pending results of an investi-gation by the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation.
A 2014 Wisconsin law re-quires police departments to have outside agencies in-vestigate officer-involved deaths after three high-pro-
file incidents within a de-cade — including one in Madison — didn’t result in criminal charges, raising questions from the victims’ families about the integrity of investigations.
Madison, about 80 miles west of Milwaukee, is the state capital and home to the University of Wiscon-sin’s flagship campus. About 7 percent of the city’s 243,000 residents are black.
Koval said police re-sponded to a call about 6:30 p.m. Friday of a person jump-ing into traffic. A second call to police said the man was “responsible for a battery,” Koval said. Kenny went to an apartment and forced his way inside after hearing a dis-turbance. Koval said the offi-cer fired after being assaulted
by Robinson; Koval said he couldn’t say how many shots were fired because it is part of the investigation.
Wisconsin’s online courts database shows that Robin-son, a 2014 graduate of Sun Prairie High School, pleaded guilty to felony armed rob-bery in October and was sen-tenced in December to three years’ probation. A police re-port said he was among four teenagers arrested in a home invasion in which the sus-pects were seen entering an apartment building with a long gun and ran with elec-tronics and other property. A shotgun and a “facsimile” handgun were recovered, ac-cording to the report.
Koval declined to discuss Robinson’s background on Saturday.
Another community gathering planned after fatal shooting
John hart/aPKyrisha Isom, left, weeps with Derrick McCann during a rally protesting the shooting death of Tony Robinson, Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Madison, Wis. Robinson, an unarmed black 19-year-old, was fatally shot Friday by Matt Kenny, a white police officer, the Madison police chief said Saturday, March 7, 2015. Isom said she had been friends with Robinson for about 12 years.
W.Va. 911 center looks to improve interpreter services
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Berkeley County Central Dispatch is work-ing to improve its longtime service of providing an in-terpreter for non-English speaking callers to offer a better experience for the organization and residents.
For about 15 years, Cen-tral Dispatch has provided an interpreter for non-English speaking callers. The organization receives about 10 calls a month that require translation, said Mary Kackley, 911 director.
“You would think Span-ish dialects would be the No. 1, but we also get a lot of French-speaking people traveling the interstate from Quebec to Florida. Then, we’ve had, not with any fre-quency, an African dialect caller,” she said, adding that Central Dispatch does not currently have any bilingual dispatchers.
As a means to save money and connect an in-terpreter to a caller faster, Central Dispatch is chang-ing its service provider from AT&T’s LanguageLine Ser-vices to Voiance. With Lan-guageLine Services, Cen-tral Dispatch was paying $1.70 per minute for a call whereas it will pay 75 cents with Voiance.
Light described the pro-cess as a three-way call when, after selecting the correct language, the dis-patcher asks any question to the interpreter who asks the caller and then trans-lates. Due to the process and number of people in-volved, he said calls usu-ally take longer than a tra-ditional 911 call, around 10 minutes.
Light estimates Cen-tral Dispatch is billed for no more than 1,200 min-utes per year, so by switch-ing providers the organiza-
tion could save more than $1,100.
Additionally, the new service will connect the non-English speaking caller to a translator faster, said Deputy Director An-drew Light.
“With Voiance, every-thing is hooked into the phone. When we connect, it automatically detects we’re Berkeley County and has a prompt of what language. We can even have a speed dial for different languages, like programming the No. 1 for Spanish,” Light said.
“While we’re connect-ing, we have a 911 caller that does not speak English on the line, usually in some kind of panic. It’s important to connect quickly,” he said.
Central Dispatch will be entering into a 16-month contract, once it is reviewed by Berkeley County’s Le-gal Counsel Norwood Bentley.
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Serving as a voice for students The University of Red-
lands cut funding to their student newspaper, The Bulldog Weekly on Dec. 11, 2014. The paper was finan-cially supported through the University, and Red-lands’ student government provided the paper with its budget.
While the University and the student government at Redlands put the paper on hiatus due to “poor qual-ity,” the editors of the pa-per believe it has more to do with their choice to run an article which repre-sented Redlands in a poor light. The article contained a quote which said a re-cently created scholarship was targeted for “rich, white males.” These editors claim this shutdown has more to do with censorship.
The editors have now taken the publication on-line, as The Bulldog, inde-pendent of Redlands.
The Editorial Board of The Daily Athenaeum looks at incidents like what hap-pened at Redlands as a great example to all jour-nalists in the face of censor-ship. The editors’ move to
make their own, indepen-dent online publication can serve as a lesson in the face of adversity.
In an editorial co-writ-ten by co-editors-in-chief of the The Bulldog, they ex-plain their decision to move to continue in their journal-istic pursuit.
“What all of these people have in common is a de-sire to be connected to the world and the people that surround them. We believe that external, institutional forces should not be able to diminish that connec-tion,” the editorial stated in reference to students and faculty rallying behind the publication.
It is for the same reasons we, The Editorial Board, do what we do. As student jour-nalists we feel the joys and pains you do and we wish to share those in our publica-tion, as well as inform stu-dents of things which may directly affect them.
The DA is an indepen-dent student newspaper. This means we are student run (with several oversee-ing fulltime staff members) and we mostly fund our-
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Tapping into your spirituality during awareness month
It makes perfect sense that March is Spiritual Awareness Month. March marks the official arrival of spring when leafless trees come to life, green grass grows and flowers bloom (though maybe not in Mor-gantown quite yet).
Spring is a season of re-newal, growth and reju-venation, so it is fitting March is the time for this focus on spirituality.
However, it’s less clear how we are supposed to honor this month, with the word “spirituality” it-self ambiguous for many. It may also be Colon Cancer Month and Women’s His-tory Month, among others,
but I think as college stu-dents we have a real need for getting in touch with our inner Zen.
All of your life you may have been forced to go to church or simply told what to believe. A stronger spiri-tuality may ease your mind in a way religion can’t if you have trouble accept-ing certain areas of reli-gion. Tapping into your spiritual side is a way to find meaning in your life at a time when it can feel like your major, GPA or fra-ternity defines you.
Spirituality is a broad concept and is not the same as religion, although there are some overlap-ping elements. Prayer, for example, is something that can be thought of in both contexts.
According to the Cen-
ter of Spirituality and Healing, spirituality in-cludes a “sense of connec-tion to something bigger than ourselves, and it typ-ically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human ex-perience—something that touches us all. People may describe a spiritual expe-rience as sacred or tran-scendent or simply a deep sense of aliveness and interconnectedness.”
Everyone can relate to this journey of seeking truth and meaning. So, how does one go about connecting to their spiri-tuality to increase compas-sion, focus and empathy, as well as induce feelings of calm so many of us crave in this fast-paced world?
There are numerous spiritual practices that can
benefit your wellbeing—you don’t have to go med-itate on a Tibetan moun-tain for these changes to take place.
That said, meditation is one well-known prac-tice that has been scien-tifically proven to relieve stress, improve concen-tration and attention, and even increase your brain’s gray matter density. We have 1,440 minutes in a day, and setting aside just five to meditate can greatly impact your mindset and emotions.
Yoga is another practice which comes to the mind of many when they think of spirituality. Those who have never attempted yoga may think of it as an exer-cise to stay slim, without realizing the amazing ef-fects that come from the
union of mind and body. Yoga decreases depres-sion, anxiety and even blood pressure while also strengthening your body and increasing your flex-ibility. A little yoga goes a long way in creating har-mony in both your mind and body.
Journaling is an activ-ity many overlook and may not be seen as spir-itual. However, writing down your feelings, expe-riences and observations is a way to become more aware of your inner life. It can be an incredibly help-ful resource to look back on when making difficult decisions or facing obsta-cles. Journaling your feel-ings can connect you to the world around you and help try to make sense of it all.
You may agree with
some of what I’m saying but know you could never sit still, break out a yoga mat or write down your feelings. You can still cel-ebrate Spiritual Awareness Month—and yourself—through simple actions like taking a walk, lying in the grass or taking some time to swing on a ham-mock and be still. Discon-necting from your phone and societal obligations for an hour can be extremely exhilarating. Sometimes something as small as the act of lighting a candle or taking a relaxing bath can feel spiritual; it’s entirely up to you. No matter what, your body, mind and soul will thank you for attempt-ing to harness your spiri-tual energy.
Why one day is not enough to celebrate the women of the world
Sunday, March 8 marked the annual International Women’s Day.
While its actual celebra-tions vary around the world, ranging anywhere from a Valentine’s Day-esque sig-nificance to a political state-ment, the day is meant to promote women around the world in economic, so-cial and political spheres.
On paper, this seems like a great idea. Women should
absolutely be respected for their accomplishments worldwide. I’m all about empowering and celebrat-ing women.
But empowering and cel-ebrating women should be an everyday thing.
My gut response is to feel a little angry on behalf of the men of the world. While maybe history doesn’t paint their sufferings nearly as much as it has women’s, there is no International Men’s Day. Nor am I advo-cating there should be, be-cause I can’t even imagine the uprisings that would
cause.But, the feminist move-
ment is currently buried in complaints of being “man-hating,” and many have taken to explaining gender equality is synonymous with the feminist movement – a crucial point seems to have been lost somewhere along the line.
If gender equality is the ultimate goal, how is having a specific day for women the way to go about it? Wouldn’t it be far more equal to have an International Men’s Day, or just eradicate the idea women are considered “spe-
cial” enough to warrant their own day?
I can see how this could easily be misconstrued as anti-feminist or even anti-women. But as a woman who is lucky enough to live in a nation that respects and honors women, I feel this is unnecessary. Cer-tainly there have been dark times for women in the past, when inequality was even greater than the topics fem-inists talk about now. I am not discounting these efforts and struggles, because they have been incredibly suc-cessful over the years. There
are still terrible corners of the world where women are grossly underrepresented or punished by their country for being female. I also feel for these women, but frankly an International Women’s Day just won’t cut it.
The truth is women are not rare and beautiful snow-flakes. Being a female is not a cultural significance around the world. We are not in the minority. We are an entirely diverse population that can’t be attributed to any one be-lief, interest or set of ideas with which to celebrate an International Women’s Day.
Women are roughly 50 percent of the population. They are not a specialized group or movement that re-quires a special day to bring awareness.
Women’s plights, suc-cesses and general respect is something the feminist and gender equality move-ments have been advocating and bringing awareness to for over a century now.
So, to have a singular day set aside to celebrate the en-tire female population only cheapens this movement.
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#mUSiCmONdAyMadonna – Rebel HeartAfter her recent tumble at the
Brit Awards, Madonna is hoping for a little pick me up with the re-lease of her 13th studio album, “Rebel Heart.” Unfortunately, “Rebel Heart” takes a tumble of its own. The ultra-synthesized al-bum no doubt flaunts Madonna’s signature club culture style, but it seems the queen of pop is in the midst of a career crisis. “Rebel Heart” lacks clear focus and cre-ativity. Songs like “Holy Water” and “Messiah” reflect an under-lying religious theme, while songs like “Devil Pray” and “Bitch I’m Madonna” are about dancing and ecstasy. The album fails to wow lyrically, with most songs being rather repetitive. “Rebel Heart”
does take on a slight 80’s vibe, making the album more similar to her earlier works. It’s possible Madonna intended to give fans a taste of her retro side. Nevertheless, “Rebel Heart” was a step in the wrong direction for the talented veteran.
Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves
After an unexpected album leak on Saturday, Modest Mouse is hoping to recover momentum ahead of the album’s true re-lease date tomorrow. “Strangers to Ourselves” is the sixth studio album for the indie rock band. Coming off an almost eight year hiatus, Modest Mouse took the time to explore its creative free-dom, not rushing to make an al-bum. With so much time to per-fect the record, fans have high expectations for the new collec-tion of alternative sounds. The album’s leading single, “Lamp-shades on Fire,” is an upbeat hit, paring group harmonies with a thrashing drumbeat. The sec-
ond single released from the album, “Coyotes,” follows a calmer pace, allowing the group to show off vocally. Overall, “Strangers to Ourselves” shows listeners the more evolved and delicate side to the notorious rock band.
Marina and the Diamonds – Froot
Though relatively new to the scene, Marina Diamandis has no trouble standing out. More commonly known by her stage persona, Marina and the Dia-monds, this ultra artistic Welsh gal is counting on her unique quirks to separate her from the crowd. Her psychedelic pop trances pack catchy beats and sultry lyrics for a truly trippy musical experience. Futuristic and robotic-like sound effects are the sprinkles on top of this pop sundae, giving us a sweet taste of her “Froot” flair. The al-bum’s popular single “Forget” gives an emotional, rock in-spired performance, while still
keeping with the album’s future-pop theme. Staying loyal to her artistic roots, Marina recorded all of the tracks with a live band to give listeners a deeper sound experience.
Will Butler – PolicyThough this may be the first
time you’re hearing the name Will Butler, it’s certainly not the first time you’ve heard his mu-sic. “Policy” is the first solo proj-ect for the Arcade Fire member, giving listeners a personal dose of the notoriously spontane-ous rocker. Receiving an Acad-emy Award nomination for best score, Butler’s understanding of music in all forms allows him to channel a multitude of cre-ative styles. “Policy” takes on a retro theme, incorporating the sharpness of rock and roll with the smooth jazz tones. “Take My Side,” the record’s leading sin-gle, shows of Butler’s keen gui-tar skill while taking listeners
back to the 70’s with his folky twang. Judging by the stellar pre-release hype, “Pol-icy” is just the beginning for this multi-instrumental genius.
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Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “House of Cards.”
There’s a moment in “House of Cards” where Freddy, now a landscaper for the White House, tells Remy to calm down and give Frank a break. Freddy says something along the lines of, “Brother, just relax.”
Earlier in the season, Remy was stopped by a po-lice officer. Normally, Remy is in the one in power, but in this case, the police offi-cer takes some of that power away. Just like with Freddy, the person with no power, Remy, tries to appeal to a common bond the men have – the color of their skin.
Remy calls the officer “brother.” The officer scolds him saying, “I’m not your
brother.” He puts him in cuffs when Remy threatens to take a picture of him with his cellphone
When the tables turned in these vignettes, I real-ized what the third season of “House of Cards” is all about.
The Netflix original se-ries is not about politics. It’s not about the book Tom is writing, the election Frank is campaigning or the rela-tionship Claire is leaving.
It’s about power.Frank, now the president
of the United States, has to grapple with disguising his power. He’s called a ty-rant and perhaps that title is right.
But Frank is driven not by power but by what that power can accomplish. He’s been in office for thirty years now and he’s been in the Democratic party lead-ership and he’s helped pass
meaningful legislation. So why does he keep pushing so hard?
He has to be remembered.So what if the education
system is better because of him? So what if Claire loves him? So what if Heather Dunbar could make the U.S. a better place? It’s all for naught if Frank isn’t remembered.
Like the pharaohs of yes-terday, Frank will build his pyramid, his house of cards, taller and taller.
This season, we see Frank grapple with keeping up the political charade poli-ticians have in order to get re-elected.
But where do we go from here?
I expect there only to be four seasons. If each season has 13 episodes, the last sea-son will conclude with the series’ 52nd episode, the same number of cards in a deck.
Following this card sym-bolism, Frank would be the ace. Doug the king and Claire the queen.
When Claire leaves Frank in the season finale, she said it’s because she isn’t equal to Frank and she can’t stand it any longer. But it’s clear she isn’t even equal to Doug. His betrayal to the Underwood family and self-ish search for power should have warranted being cut from the deck and thrown away, but a king is too pow-erful a card to lose.
Since the begin-ning of the se-ries, Frank’s been quick to throw away a lower card, some-times even a higher card. The deck is running thin now.
Frank is like a child,
stacking his cards higher and higher, trying to see how tall he c a n get it. H e i s n ’ t a i m -i n g f o r t h e ceiling, e v e n that
wouldn’t be enough.“House of Cards” gets at
the root of human nature. The creators of this series
have made it seem like the world was going to end so many times, only to have it all be made okay at the last second.
If Frank was a train, these would only be pen-
nies on the track.Frank is picking up
speed now, and it’s only a matter of time before he runs off the tracks.
Latest season of ‘House of Cards’ focuses on power between players
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — For decades, the sound of Jamaica has been reggae, the infectious, uniquely syncopated music that transformed the small Ca-ribbean island into a cul-tural powerhouse.
But the genre’s success has taken it far beyond its roots, and now many in Ja-maica worry that reggae-lovers abroad are forget-ting the motherland where it was born.
“Reggae was given to the world by Jamaica so nobody can or ever should discour-age anyone overseas from making this music. But we think there should be ac-knowledgment that reggae was created in Jamaica,” said Michael “Ibo” Cooper, a musician who is chair-man of the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association.
Around the world, mu-sic festivals celebrat-ing the sounds made fa-mous by reggae patron saint Bob Marley and fol-lowers who developed the faster, brasher derivative of dancehall are more likely to be headlined by bands from places like California or France than by native-born Jamaicans. Aside from albums by the late Marley or his progeny, few of the top-selling reggae CDs or downloads come from Ja-maican artists.
To get a stronger foot-hold in the information age, Jamaican officials and reggae industry insiders are brainstorming ways to better capitalize on Jamai-ca’s exuberant music cul-ture and help protect what some claim is local intellec-tual property. After years
of only piecemeal support, the government increas-ingly is viewing reggae and other cultural enterprises as a hoped-for economic engine on the island.
Officials are hashing over the creation of a cer-tification mark to desig-nate “authentic reggae” - a sort of “Good Housekeep-ing Seal” - to encourage the use of Jamaican musi-cians, producers and mer-chandise. They also hope to defend Jamaican reggae by having the U.N.’s culture or-ganization add it to a global list of “ intangible cultural heritage “ such as Argen-tina’s tango and China’s Peking opera. The Paris-based agency says the is-land’s government has yet to apply for inclusion on the list of more than 280 cultural traditions.
Rob Bowman, a music professor from Canada’s York University who has re-searched intellectual prop-erty and Jamaican music, said that while population numbers mean reggae’s biggest markets always will be overseas there’s no reason why more revenue streams from foreign com-merce shouldn’t flow back to Jamaica.
“With few exceptions, these styles of music can-not be authentically rep-licated by non-Jamaicans. As such, these styles of mu-sic represent intellectual property that is, for all in-tents and purposes, already a part of Jamaica’s brand-ing,” Bowman asserts in a World Intellectual Property Organization consultancy report for Jamaica.
A country of fewer than 3 million people, Jamaica has had remarkable suc-cess originating influential musical forms such as ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub and dancehall. Musicolo-gists say production inno-vations and the discovery of “toasting,” reggae dee-jays chanting over a beat, directly inspired hip-hop.
A cross-pollination of Afro-Caribbean folk music and American R&B, reg-gae first was introduced to Europe by Jamaican mi-grants settling in Britain in the late 1960s. Its popular-ity exploded in the 1970s
with the rise of Marley and other Jamaican Rastafar-ian stars, whose music in-fluenced British groups like The Clash, UB40 and The English Beat. Jamaican mu-sic later shaped U.S. bands like No Doubt and Sublime.
Eric Smith, CEO of the New York-based reggae la-bel Easy Star Records, said American bands are suc-ceeding now due to their strong “do-it-yourself ” ethos and online market-ing, a key to making it in in-dependent music. Unlike some earlier non-Jamaican reggae artists who adopted island patois and themes, they use the genres to high-light their own U.S. culture, not Jamaica’s.
“While we certainly need to respect, understand and celebrate the unique and rich history of Jamaican music and do whatever we can to support it, there is no practical way to stop anyone else from tapping in and drawing something from the culture,” he said.
Few Jamaicans argue there is any troubling cul-tural appropriation going on with foreign artists who embrace their music. Still, local musicians want bet-ter opportunities to make money and reach audi-ences abroad playing the island’s top cultural export.
Just like everywhere else, Jamaican performers have scrambled to offset losses from plunging CD sales when consumers simply download music for free. And while dancehall reg-gae stars like Sean Paul and Beenie Man have notched international hits over the years, other current Jamai-can acts have had difficulty building fan bases overseas due to difficulty securing visas, among other issues.
Jamaican artists say sus-tained support from the government could give the local music industry a much-needed boost and help prepare musicians to get a greater slice of the in-ternational market. There’s high hope for emerging art-ists like Chronnix, the most prominent member of a burgeoning scene dubbed “reggae revival” whose young artists are building their careers with a savvy understanding of social media.
Jamaica celebrates “reg-gae month” each February. This year, events included workshops on intellectual property for up-and-com-ing musicians. The island’s biggest university also re-cently hosted an interna-tional reggae conference, where the global business of reggae was a featured topic.
While non-Jamaican reggae artists are having the most success with the niche genre, Smith and others believe it’s only a matter of time before Ja-maicans dominate reggae again.
“Over the years, the pop-ularity of Jamaican music has fallen at times only to give way to a new explosion of creativity and popularity as Jamaica reinvents itself and shows the world once again what a musical pow-erhouse it is,” Smith said from New York.
APJamaican singer Jah Bouks, whose given name is Warin Smith, entertains the crowd at a show organized by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association during the island’s “reggae month,” in Kingston, Jamaica.
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West Virginia knocked out of Big 12 Tournament with loss to Oklahoma Saturday nightby david statman
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Needing a good confer-ence tournament run to vault themselves into the NCAA Tournament field, the West Virginia Univer-sity women’s basketball team went two-and-done over the weekend in the Big 12 Tournament in Dal-las, Texas.
After a runaway win in their first round contest against Texas Tech on Fri-day, the seventh-seeded Mountaineers started slow on a quick turnaround the next night, never leading in a 67-55 quarterfinal loss to the second-seed Okla-homa Sooners.
“They could have ran
anything the first half,” Mountaineer head coach Mike Carey said after Sat-urday night’s game. “We just didn’t defend the first half, and when we don’t defend, we don’t get turn-overs and get our running game going. Our defense leads to offense and we weren’t creating any.”
T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s pulled even at 11 early in the first half, but the Sooners responded with a 12-2 run to give them a lead they would never re-linquish. West Virginia trailed by 14 at the half. One of the poorest shoot-ing teams in the confer-ence all season, they shot just 28 percent in the first stanza.
West Virginia finally be-
gan to find a groove from beyond the arc in the sec-ond half, but it ended up being too little, too late. A Bria Holmes 3-pointer cut the Oklahoma lead to seven with just under five minutes to play, but the Sooners responded with a 6-0 run and West Virginia didn’t come that close again.
While Oklahoma only shot 37.7 percent from the field for the game, they made up for it with a huge output from the line, where they made 23 of 30 free throws. Five Moun-taineers ended up with four fouls, including ju-nior center Kayla Mont-gomery who reached that total in just four minutes of playing time.
Junior guard Br ia Holmes led West Vir-ginia with 17 points on 6-13 shooting, combin-ing with senior forward Averee Fields and soph-omore Bre McDonald to score 42 of the team’s 55 total points. For Holmes, recently named a mem-ber of the All-Big 12 First Team, it was the end to a nice showing in the con-ference tournament, after she led all scorers with 21 points the previous night against Texas Tech.
On Friday, the Moun-taineers avenged two reg-ular season losses to the Lady Raiders, limiting their opponent to just 16 second half points as they ran away with a 59-40 win.
West Virginia was able
to dominate inside against the last-place Lady Raid-ers, winning the re-bounding battle 42-30—while the Mountaineers turned to ball over 21 times, Texas Tech was un-able to capitalize, scoring just eight points off WVU miscues.
“I thought our effort was tremendous,” Carey said. “I thought our first two times against them, they played harder than we did. Tonight I thought we played hard.”
In addition to Holmes’ 21, Averee Fields, playing in her last Big 12 Tourna-ment, dropped 13 points. Fields was named an All-Big 12 Honorable Men-tion this week, after finish-ing ninth in scoring and
sixth in rebounding in the conference.
The Mountaineers will return from Dallas to an uncertain future. With the NCAA Tournament bracket set to be released on March 16, West Virginia will have to hope that their 18-14 record, with an 8-12 mark against conference opposition, will be enough to net themselves an at-large bid.
If it turns out they’re on the wrong side of the bubble, an NIT bid is as-sured, but that would end a run of five straight NCAA Tournament berths for the Mountaineers. It will un-doubtedly be an anxious week of waiting.
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WvU offense explodes in road sweep of EtsUby connor mUrray
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
After a letdown in Myr-tle Beach last weekend, where the Mountaineers lost three of four games in the Chanticleer Clas-sic, West Virginia’s offense broke out in a major way in a three-game sweep of Eastern Tennessee State in Johnson City.
In their 2-1 loss to No. 25 Illinois last Sunday, the Mountaineers were able to rack up seven hits, but could only push one run across. Not being able to come up with timely hits cost them a chance at a top-25 upset, and judging from their performance this weekend, it didn’t sit too well with them.
Over the course of the series, West Virginia scored 38 runs, slugged eight home runs and col-lected 49 hits.
Despite their over-whelming offensive out-burst, the Mountaineers had a fight on their hands in the series opener, on Friday night.
The Buccaneers built a 5-2 lead after an unearned run in the bottom of the fourth inning, but West Virginia was just about to wake up.
The Mountaineers tied the game at five after scor-ing in the fifth and sixth innings, and were three outs away from a win af-ter Brad Johnson’s RBI single in the top of the ninth.
But a game-tying single
by infielder Robby Mc-Cabe drew the Bucs back even and sent the game into extra innings.
West Virginia found a hero of its own when freshman designated hit-ter Kyle Davis clubbed his first career home run to give the Mountaineers an eventually decisive 7-6 edge.
“They’ve been messing with me because I’ve hit a few off the wall,” Davis said in an interview with WVUsports.com.
“I thought that was off the wall because it hit something and came back in. Anything I can do to help the team. It feels great.”
While Friday’s game re-sembled a high wire, Sat-urday’s was more like a
cakewalk. Junior pitcher Ross Vance tossed five scoreless innings and struck out seven, but the West Virginia offense made sure anything short of a complete implosion by the bullpen, would lead to a win.
Led by a pair of home runs by short stop Tay-lor Munden and a grand slam by Garrett Hope, who moonlights as a fullback, tight and special teamer for Dana Holgorsen and the football team in the Fall, West Virginia cruised to an 18-2 win.
“It’s a lot easier to pitch when you know that you have that cushion be-hind you,” Vance said in an interview with WVUs-ports.com. “You just have to worry about throwing
strikes. You don’t have to worry about much else be-cause you have a cushion to work with.”
The offensive outbreak continued yesterday after-noon in the series finale, as West Virginia moved to 7-6 on the season with a 13-4 win.
S o p h o m o r e r i g h t-hander Chad Donato cruised through seven in-nings of one-run base-ball, striking out five hit-ters and walking none.
Taylor Munden saw his 12-game hitting streak come to a close with a
0-for-6 afternoon, but his teammates picked up the slack to say the least, coming up with 13 hits and a pair of home runs.
With the sweep, West Virginia pulled itself above the .500 mark at 7-6 overall. The Mountain-eers will stay on the road for a Tuesday afternoon tilt, with Liberty before the conference season begins with a trip to Austin, Texas to take on the Longhorns next weekend.
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WVU posts season high score in loss to No. 11 Penn Stateby Nicole cUrtiN
associate sports editor @nicolec_wvu
The West Virginia Uni-versity gymnastics team hosted No. 11 Penn State in a dual meet Sunday af-ternoon and posted a sea-son-high score of 195.9. It still wasn’t enough to defeat the Lions, who took home the meet af-ter posting 196.75 over the Mountaineers.
Four different gymnasts posted career-high scores on the uneven bars alone, scores that contributed to West Virginia closing the gap against Penn State.
In the first event the Mountaineers took on the vault. Combining for a score of 48.675, they came out of the rotation behind the Lions who posted 49.3 on the bars. West Virgin-ia’s junior Jaida Lawrence finished with a 9.775, lead-ing the team. Following the performance on the vault, the uneven bars presented an opportunity for WVU to post higher scores and bridge the gap in the meet score.
On the bars, senior Dayah Haley finished with a rough landing, posting a 9.65. Sophomore Nicolette Swoboda followed Haley and took full advantage of the chance to score, hit-ting a 9.75 which matches her season-high in the event. Following Swo-boda, freshman Brooklyn Doggette hit a career-high 9.8; junior Lindsey Litten posted a 9.85; her career-best, freshman Zaakira Muhammad tied for third place with a career-high 9.9; and sophomore Alexa Goldberg took first place with her career-best 9.95.
“I know they’re capable of doing that every week-end and I feel like we kind of stepped up and got the job done today,” said head coach Jason Butts. “It’s something that we’ve got to make sure we do going into the Big 12. It’s a very talented bar lineup, proba-bly the most talented since I’ve been at West Virginia.”
The deductions on the bars event came from handstands within the gymnasts’ routines them-selves and also sticking some of the landings. Ac-cording to Butts, these de-ductions were about three tenths of a point and are things that they will con-tinue to work on this week.
Following the un-even bars, the Mountain-eers were still below the Lions with the score at 98.326-97.9.
On the beam, senior
Beth Deal and Doggette both hit a 9.825 on their routines. Deal had some wobbles in the landing of a skill and in the passes of her movement on the beam.
Muhammad entered the lineup for the first time on beam following a fall from Swoboda and finished with a 9.65. She had a few wob-bles here and there but never lost contact with the beam.
“It’s always great when someone comes in and gets the job done,” said Haley about Muhammad stepping up and going in. “It’s nerve wracking, that’s probably the most nerve wracking spot you can be in, going after a fall. She handled it extremely well and she’s been doing that all season which is incred-ible for her.”
The Mountaineers were still down going into the fourth rotation, 147.600-146.750. This season the entire team has been showing up on their floor routines and posting some serious numbers.
Haley posted her sec-ond-highest career score, leading the team with a 9.925 and taking second place for her performance.
“I feel like this season, floor has been really strong for me, which is what we’ve been striving for the last three years,” Haley said. “All the hard work in the gym is finally paying off so I think when I go out there on the floor, it’s just bring-ing the audience in and allows them to have fun because that’s what I do when I’m out there.”
Junior Melissa Idell hit a 9.85 on the floor, taking fourth place and Goldberg hit a 9.825.
In all-around competi-tion, Swoboda was the only Mountaineer to compete and she came out in third place in the meet.
West Virginia is now 11-8-1 on the season, with the only tie coming against Iowa State. Up next, Senior Night will be celebrated at the Coliseum on Satur-day at 4 p.m., in a tri-meet against Pennsylvania and Cornell.
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Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa State top final power rankingsby davId SchlaKe
sports editor @dschlake_wvu
With the regular season concluding in the Big 12 Conference, few spectators can say they weren’t pleased with what they saw. It was a year of exhilarating com-petition that transpired in a constant war among every team in the league and cap-tured the nation’s attention. While many conferences were able to boast a handful of elite teams, none showed the depth that was displayed in the Big 12. Now heading into the Big 12 Tournament, here are my final conference power rankings.
1. Kansas Jayhawks (24-7, 13-5 Big 12)
Despite losing their fi-nal game at the buzzer, the Jayhawks are still the stron-gest team in the conference. They have the best record, the conference title and the most quality wins. But even with the impressive resume the Jayhawks have built for themselves, they aren’t far ahead of their competition. While it seems Perry Ellis could be back in the mix by the time Wednesday rolls around, without him they’ll really have their work cut out for them. Given how the tournament bracket turned out, they could end up facing Kansas State and West Vir-ginia, both of which handed Kansas a loss. Additionally, if Baylor beats West Virginia, Rico Gathers is going to be an issue if Ellis isn’t on the
court.2. Oklahoma Sooners
(21-9, 12-6 Big 12)The Sooners started off
the season looking like the team that wouldn’t meet ex-pectations, but have come to life throughout the fi-nal stretch of the season. They’ve won four of their last five games, including a win against Kansas. The only loss during that stretch was one in which the Sooners gave up a 19-point halftime lead to Iowa State by allow-ing 59 points in the second half. Losing a game in that fashion suggested the Soon-ers would struggle to fin-ish—top-tier games and the season—but they bounced back with a win against the No. 1 team in the con-ference by making the play that counted in the final seconds. Such a dramatic win over such a reputable opponent gives the Soon-ers the most momentum heading into tournament play.
3. Iowa State Cyclones (22-8, 12-6 Big 12)
The Cyclones have con-sistently been tailgating Kansas all year long, and would’ve had a shot at taking the conference as their own had it not been for their two consecutive losses in the fi-nal week of February. How-ever, as far as momentum is concerned, the 59-point second half performance against the Sooners that led to a win, brings a lot to the table. But the losses to Bay-lor and Kansas State when
the wins mattered most could leave a scar on the Cyclones going into tourna-ment play. As the No. 2 seed in the Big 12 Tournament, they’ll play the winner of the Texas-Texas Tech game, which could bring memory to an older scar acquired in their loss to Texas Tech in January.
4. Baylor Bears (23-8, 11-7 Big 12)
Aside from their over-time loss to the Longhorns in Austin, Texas, the Bears have turned on the jets in the final run. Winning five of their last six games, in-cluding season-sweeping wins against West Virginia and Iowa State, the Bears have shown they can play as tough as anyone in the league. Lucky for the Bears, they play West Virginia Thursday, a team currently without its two starting se-nior guards. They have the size underneath with Gath-ers; they have the threat from beyond the arc with Taurean Prince, Royce O’Neale and Kenny Chery; and they have a 2-3 zone that has given many teams fits. An argu-ment can be made that Bay-lor has the most complete team out of anyone in the conference, it just has to re-main consistent.
5. West Virginia Moun-taineers (23-8, 11-7 Big 12)
West Virginia lost its two senior guards to injury at the worst possible time, but managed to fill the holes with its young depth at the position. Gary Browne
and Juwan Staten still have question marks surround-ing them, as not much has been said about the sever-ity of their injuries or the timetable of their returns. The Mountaineers man-aged to give Kansas a run for their money and swept Oklahoma State on the sea-son without them, but Bay-lor (their first matchup of the tournament) has been their kryptonite all season long.
6. Kansas State Wildcats (15-16, 8-10 Big 12)
The Wildcats have expe-rienced a roller coaster of a season, beating Oklahoma and Baylor early in confer-ence play, but losing five in a row and then beating Kan-sas and Iowa State. If there’s anything we’ve learned from Kansas State this year, it’s that they are as good as anyone in the country when they play at home, going 12-4 and beating every con-ference opponent but Texas and West Virginia, but abso-lutely atrocious on the road, going 1-10. Being that the tournament takes place in Kansas City, Mo., perhaps they can feel somewhat of a home-court advantage. If they manage to beat TCU Wednesday, spectators will get their money’s worth when they see Kansas and Kansas State play in Kansas City.
7. Texas Longhorns (19-12, 8-10 Big 12)
Disappointment has been the story for the Long-horns since conference play
kicked off, but this last week should give them some hope. Not only has Texas won its last two games af-ter losing four in a row, but they stole an overtime win from Baylor in Waco, Texas. For the Longhorns, it’s never been an issue of lacking tal-ent or size—the personnel is all there—it’s just been a matter of clicking as a team. Going into Kansas City this weekend with some mo-mentum, there’s a possi-bility spectators could see the team that everyone ex-pected prior to the Long-horns’ discouraging sea-son. Matching up against Texas Tech first is a good start.
8. Oklahoma State Cow-boys (18-12, 8-10 Big 12)
The Cowboys had an im-pressive three-game win-ning streak about a month ago when they beat Texas, Kansas and Baylor, but have since struggled, losing five of its last six games. They’ve shown they can match up with any team when the proficient perimeter shoot-ing from Phil Forte III and Anthony Hickey Jr. comes to life, but they’ve had strug-gles in the paint due to a lack of size. If they can cre-ate shooting opportunities for their guards they could make a splash in the tour-nament, but playing a red-hot Oklahoma in the first round should demand ev-erything the Cowboys have.
9. TCU Horned Frogs (17-14, 4-14 Big 12)
The Horned Frogs have shown their potential to be contenders all year, but just haven’t been able to ever find any traction in what has been the toughest con-ference in the country. If they get past Kansas State Wednesday, they can take an extra swing at the Jay-hawks, who they’ve held tight twice this season. Kyan Anderson and Trey Zeigler have managed to carry the Frogs to a couple of victo-ries, but the Frogs will need more. Kansas State has Mar-cus Foster back, as well as momentum obtained by knocking off two of the conference’s best teams, and the Frogs are com-ing off their third loss in a row.
10. Texas Tech Red Raid-ers (13-18, 3-15 Big 12)
Similar to the Horned Frogs, the Red Raiders have had moments of glory and have shown potential, but have yet to find anything that resembles a rhythm. They’ve lost seven of their last eight games, and the only win be-ing against an ice-cold team in Oklahoma State. They’ll have to face Texas in the first round Wednesday, a team that swept the Red Raiders in the regular season. Texas is coming off an impressive week and the Red Raiders are coming off a heartbreak-ing loss to Baylor. A lot has to happen in Texas Tech’s fa-vor for its year to extend past Wednesday.
tulsaworld.comBuddy Hield flashes threes after draining a 3-pointer during a game earlier this season.
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West virginia finishes fourth at big 12 championships
by dIllOn durStsports writer
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Uni-versity wrestling team fin-ished fourth overall at the
2015 Big 12 Champion-ships Saturday in Ames, Iowa, while No. 6 Okla-homa State continued its run of dominance, claim-ing its fifth conference ti-tle in as many years.
Four Mountaineers wrestled for Big 12 titles Saturday evening and five earned podium fin-ishes: freshman Zeke Moi-sey, senior Roman Per-ryman, sophomore Jake A. Smith and junior A.J. Vizcarrondo each fin-ished second at 125, 149, 197 and heavyweight, re-spectively. Junior Bubba Scheffel finished third at 184.
“I’m incredibly proud of our guys and the fight they showed this weekend,” said head coach Sam-mie Henson. “In the Big 12, there is no easy route to success. They left it on the mat and that’s some-thing we can build upon.We look forward to prepar-
ing (for) NCAA qualifiers as a family.”
Moisey, the tourna-ment’s No. 2 seed at 125, defeated No. 3-seed Ryan Millhof of Oklahoma, 5-0, in the semifinals before facing No. 1-seed Eddie Klimara of Oklahoma State, the nation’s No. 9-ranked wrestler at 125, in the finals.
Moisey led 3-2 early in the second period, but Klimara used a take-down and an escape to earn a 5-3 decision and the 125-pound Big 12 title.
No. 4-seed Perryman won by injury default over No. 1-seed Josh Kin-dig of Oklahoma State at 149. In the finals, Perry-
man battled No. 3-seed Shayne Tucker of Okla-homa, but dropped an 8-6 decision.
No. 2-seed Smith grinded out a 2-1 de-cision over No. 3-seed Austin Schafer of Okla-homa at 197 before drop-ping a 10-2 major deci-sion to Iowa State’s Kyven Gadson, the nation’s No. 2-ranked wrestler at 197 and the reigning Big 12 champ.
Vizcarrondo, the No. 3 seed at heavyweight, pinned No. 2-seed Ross Larson of Oklahoma, the nation’s No. 13-ranked heavyweight, in the semifi-nals in 4:13, becoming the first two-time Big 12 final-ist in program history.
For the second straight year, Vizcarrondo was de-feated by Oklahoma State’s Austin Marsden, the na-tion’s No. 5-ranked heavy-weight and the defending conference champ, in the finals.
Since the NCAA doesn’t consider the Big 12 Cham-pionships a qualify-ing event, the Mountain-eers will have to rely on the Coaches’ Panel and RPI rankings to earn at-large bids to the NCAA Championships.
The 2015 NCAA Cham-pionships are sched-uled to begin Thursday, March 19 in St. Louis, Mo.
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WVU snaps win streak, falls to Cornell and Marshallby ben carter
correspondent @dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia wom-en’s tennis team was de-feated in both of their week-end matches, as it snapped its nine-match winning streak.
In the first match that took place Saturday against Cornell, the Moun-taineers jumped out to an early lead as they won the doubles point after the duo of Ikttesh Chahal and Habiba Shaker topped Cornell’s Dena Tanen-baum and Priyanka Shah with a score of 6-4. Then, to secure the point, the doubles team of Carolina Lewis and Yvon Martinez defeated Cornell’s Lizzie
Stewart and Jane Stewart, 6-4.
The rest of the day didn’t go the Mountain-eers’ way, however. In sin-gles play, Cornell notched victories at the No. 1, 2 and 3 spots, as Kaja Mrgole, Hailey Barrett and Ikttesh Chahal all lost in straight sets.
F r e s h m a n Ha b i b a Shaker put the Moun-taineers on the board with a win at the No. 4 spot, and Carolina Lewis also snagged a victory, as she came back to get a win at the No. 5 spot with a score of 1-6, 6-4, 7-5.
However in the last match of the day, Cor-nell’s Jan Stewart defeated Yvon Martinez, 6-2, 6-3
to secure the win for Big Red.
In the second match of the weekend, in-state ri-val Marshall handed yet another loss to the Moun-taineers by a score of 5-2.
Marshall jumped out to an early lead after win-ning the doubles point, and they never let it go.
In singles play, the Mountaineers secured 2 points as Kaja Mrgole de-feated Marshall’s Derya Turhan, 6-4, 6-4, in the No. 1 spot. The second point came after Carolina Lewis won yet another match, defeating Marija Bogicevic in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2.
The other matches
didn’t fair as well, as the Mountaineers fell in the No. 2, 3, 4, and 6 spots, which sealed the victory for Marshall.
“Overall, it was a good weekend. We had a good start against Cornell. We were doing the right things early, but we need to be consistent,” Lisac told WVUSports.com. “It will continue to be a learning experience. We are focus-ing on getting better head-ing into the Iowa State match.”
The Mountaineers (9-3) will travel to take on Iowa State at 1 p.m. Fri-day Friday, to open up Big 12 conference play.
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