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by kayla asburyassociate city editor
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In addition to the fes-tivities of St. Patrick’s Day, West Virginia doctors, law-yers and policy experts met March 17 to discuss some-thing green.
West Virginia Univer-sity’s College of Law held the first Strategic Cannabis Conference on Industrial and Medical Uses Thurs-day, inviting profession-als to discuss creating the “Gold Standard” of canna-bis in West Virginia.
The event centered on utilizing cannabis agri-culturally and medically to combat the state’s $380 million budget deficit, as well as the opioid epi-demic and unemployment rates in the state.
“We believe (this event) is very appropriate to have at the College of Law and to have at the University,” said Jesse Richardson, an
associate professor of law at WVU.
The event was split into three specific discussions, with multiple speakers for each category. The event gave a legal overview of cannabis, and discussions on medical and industrial cannabis.
Richardson, while giv-ing a brief history of can-nabis laws in the country and West Virginia specifi-cally, stated West Virginia has ideal terrain to grow hemp, and would rede-velop the coalfields.
“If we could come up with a legal crop in agricul-ture that farmers could ac-tually make a little money, that would be huge in West Virginia,” Richardson said.
Richardson sited one of the problems with us-ing marijuana medically in the state is its lack of traceability.
Cody Stiffler, the vice president of government affairs for BioTrakTHC,
offered his company as a solution to the problem of traceability.
BioTrakTHC, a start-up company specializing in tracking every portion of cannabis production and sales, from seeds, to plants, to waste, brags it is “the only seed to sale solution.”
Crystal Good, a West Virginia poet and advo-cate, spoke about how cannabis was a plant that could bring success to the mountain state.
“Now is the time to be creative and tough when it comes to ending the pro-hibition on prosperity,” Good said.
The idea that the canna-bis industry is evil is what prevents it from becoming popular in the state’s cul-ture, according to Good.
“The evolution of West Virginia depends of truth-ful and deliberate canna-bis industry education,” Good said.
The event was organized by J. Morgan Leach, a third year law student at WVU and executive director of the West Virginia Hemp
Farmers Cooperative and speaker at the conference.
“Our species has co-evolved with cannabis at our side,” Leach said.
“We’ve used it for food. We’ve used it for fiber. We’ve used it for medicine
by corey mcdonaldstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
Adell Crowe, an experi-enced reporter and director of student media at Ameri-can University, was named the new Student Media Di-rector at WVU and will work with The Daily Athenaeum along with radio station U-92.
The new position was created by Bill Schafer, vice president of Student Life, to enhance operations at both the award-winning student newspaper and ra-dio station.
“Really, everybody that I’ve told about this oppor-tunity has been very enthu-siastic. (WVU) has a great reputation,” Crowe said. “Almost unanimously, peo-ple have said ‘Oh they’re
doing great things there, it’s a great journalism program and it’s really a wonderful experience there.’”
Crowe has a long resume as a mentor for student journalists. She has served as the assistant director of student media at Ameri-can University in Washing-ton D.C. since 2011. Prior to that, she was the School of Communications part-nership coordinator, where she established student in-ternship opportunities with NBC, USA TODAY and The Washington Post. She also taught at The George Wash-ington University for nine years as an instructor for basic news writing courses.
“I’m looking forward to (Crowe’s) arrival and the implementation of her vi-sion for student media,” said Corey Farris, dean of
Student Life in a WVUToday press release. “Her experi-ences on other campuses and with great newspapers such as USA TODAY, will offer our students work-ing insight into real world journalism.”
In addition to her expe-riences working with stu-dents, Crowe’s foundation in journalism comes from a career as a reporter for mul-tiple media outlets such as the Gannett News Ser-vice and The Tennessean in Nashville and then later at USA TODAY, where she worked as the standards and development editor.
It was at USA TODAY where her teaching ca-reer started, leading the in-house training pro-gram, USA TODAY Uni-versity, as well as teaching classes, including a multi-
session, staff-wide gram-mar program, then mov-ing on to teaching student journalists.
“It’s a hands-off, watch-ing, encouraging and mod-eling approach,” Crowe said of her teaching methods. “(The students) remain ed-itorially independent, but I have the opportunity to cri-tique and encourage, and what we do is build trust so if you need any suggestions or help, we can start to work toward sharing some kind of conversation. But I don’t do hands-on editing; I don’t dictate coverage. I’m there to make it possible for you to do fantastic journalism.”
Crowe plans on main-taining the independence granted to student media outlets like the newspaper and the radio station as she has done in the past.
“When I came into AU, (the student paper) was in-dependent, but it was los-ing tremendous amounts of money so it had been borrowing money from the school for years,” Crowe said. “There was this great fear that because it was now paid for by the school
it would lose its indepen-dent voice. And so we made sure that that never hap-pened, and it remained—and always will be—edito-rially independent.”
Crowe remains adamant on giving students a leg up
by james pleasantcorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
Special Olympics West Virginia is hosting its annual basketball and cheerleading tourna-ment in Morgantown at the West Virginia Univer-sity Student Recreation Center March 19-20.
Thirty-two teams rep-resenting 27 counties in West Virginia have been training for this tourna-ment, which includes events like team basket-ball, individual basketball skills and cheerleading.
“I think an event such as this gives (people with special needs) the op-portunity to play a sport just like any other per-son can,” said John Cor-bet, the chief execu-tive officer at SOWV. “It gives them a chance to demonstrate their abil-ities and courage and find happiness through sports.”
The team tournament will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday at the Stu-dent Rec Center and will resume from 8 a.m.-1 p.m on Sunday.
Cheerleading squads will participate in a judged competition at Morgantown High School on Saturday and will also have the opportunity to cheer for their peers during the basketball tournament.
Individual basketball skills will also be held at Morgantown High
School, where athletes who aren’t participat-ing in the tournament can learn various bas-ketball techniques such as dribbling, passing and shooting.
B e f o r e b e c o m i n g CEO of SOWV, Cor-bet was a volunteer. He has worked with spe-cial needs advocacy for around 30 years and has been involved in serveral organizations.
Special needs athletes of all ages are eligible to compete in the Special Olympics.
Athletes are trained by volunteers, and are required to receive six to eight weeks of train-ing before compet-ing in any state level event.
The volunteers not only teach athletes the fundamentals of basket-ball and how to better grasp the game, but also sportsmanship, team-work and other essential life skills.
“For many of the ath-letes in this state, (the tournament) gives them the opportunity to travel,” said Ann Richards, SOWV’s games direc-tor, and associate profes-sor of special education at West Virginia Univer-sity. “Given the socio-economic status of a lot of these (competitors), it’s a chance for them to interact with other stu-dents in the state for
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for their future endeavors, regardless of whether it is in the field of journalism, or down a different career path.
“I want to make sure that you’re getting the skills you need so you can walk out of here with a great job,” Crowe said. “The only rea-son we are doing this is so
you are learning and pre-paring for a fantastic career, whether or not it’s in jour-nalism. The skills you learn as a reporter I personally think help you no matter what you go in to.”
At American Univer-sity, Crowe oversaw nine different media organiza-tions and was able to facili-tate collaboration between the multiple entities. Stu-dents had the opportunity to collaborate on coverage between radio station and
the newspaper for different events, such as concerts and events and she foresees the same can be achieved at WVU.
“I would love to inte-grate both groups so that we’re a very strong student media organization on campus. I’m big on build-ing community,” Crowe said. “And I’m looking for-ward to being part of your community.”
free.”Richards has a brother
who competed as a Spe-cial Olympian for almost 40 years, and she cites him as her main inspi-ration for becoming in-volved in special educa-tion and special needs advocacy.
The event is open to
the public, and SOWV encourages people to come out and support the athletes.
The tournament is sponsored by Sheetz, Do-minion Resources, the WV Dept. of Education in the Arts and Papa John’s, which will be provid-ing pizza for the event’s participants.
At the end of the tour-nament, there is an awards ceremony where the top three teams will
be given gold, silver or bronze medals, and the rest of the athletes will receive ribbons for their participation.
“This is sporting at its truest form,” Corbet said. “Some of the memories (the athletes) make this weekend will last them a lifetime.”
For more information about SOWV, visit http://sowv.org.
for thousands of years…”Cannabis has been the
most beneficial plant to our species, according to Leach.
“We’ve made it illegal at our own dismay,” Leach said. “Our decisions have been based on fear. If we allow ourselves to con-tinue to base our deci-sions on fear, we will give that fear disproportionate attention and manufacture the very circumstances we
wish to avoid.”Ignorance and common
misconceptions about cannabis are what prevent development of medical marijuana and a thriving industrial cannabis busi-ness in West Virginia, ac-cording to Dr. Clark Milton from the Wheeling Hos-
pital in Wheeling, West Virginia.
“We’re not very knowl-edgeable…. about the le-gality issue and the repres-sion of research….” Milton said. “In 2016, we need ev-idence, not belief.”
West Virginia is one of the 27 states allowing for
production of industrial hemp, and Leach spoke in hope that the confer-ence would inspire those in attendance to continue to make strides toward a prosperous cannabis cul-ture in West Virginia.
“As is our motto here at West Virginia University,
we should all go first in this industry, together…” Leach said. “We need help push our nation forward with cannabis cultivation, both industrial and medical.”
For more information, visit http://law.wvu.edu/
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aPDemocratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix.
WaSHiNGTON (aP)—Ver-mont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday he still main-tains a “path toward victory” in his Democratic presiden-tial bid against Hillary Clin-ton, rejecting suggestions that she has all but sewn up the party’s nomination.
“I don’t believe they have an insurmountable lead,” Sanders said in a phone in-terview with The Associated Press from Arizona, where he was campaigning. “Sec-retary Clinton has done phenomenally well in the Deep South and in Florida. That’s where she has gotten the lion’s share of votes. And I congratulate her for that. But we’re out of the Deep South now.”
Clinton’s campaign pointed to a recent memo by campaign manager Robby Mook, who sug-gested she has an “insur-mountable lead” in the del-egate count. The campaign noted its pledged delegate lead of more than 300 is nearly twice as large as any then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama held over Clinton in the 2008 primary.
“And note Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada and Iowa are generally not con-sidered Deep South,” said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon, referring to states won by the ex-secretary of state.
Sanders said in the inter-view he would not seek a re-
count of results in Tuesday’s primary in Missouri, saying it was “unlikely the results will impact at all the num-ber of delegates the candi-date gets and I would prefer to save the taxpayers of Mis-souri some money.”
Clinton’s win in Missouri means she won all five of Tuesday’s Democratic pri-mary contests. She also beat Sanders in Florida, Ohio, Il-linois and North Carolina.
Clinton now has a lead of more than 300 pledged del-egates over Sanders from the primaries and cau-cuses: 1,147-830. When in-cluding superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has a much bigger lead - 1,614
to 856.Sanders called his loss in
Ohio a “major disappoint-ment,” adding, “I thought we had a chance to win or come close in Ohio and we didn’t.” But he said that while “we know we’ve got a hill to climb,” he was pleased his campaign was able to ac-cumulate more delegates.
He predicted the up-coming calendar of races in several Western states, in-cluding Arizona and Wash-ington, and April contests in Wisconsin, New York and Pennsylvania would offer him the chance to catch up.
“We think from now on out, we are having states that, everything being equal, we stand a chance
to do well in. We think we have a path toward victory,” he said, pointing to Califor-nia’s June primary. “We’ve got some big states coming up and we think if we can do well, if we go into the convention with delegates, we’ve got a shot at taking the nomination.”
Sanders also rejected claims by Clinton’s allies that his message had turned overly negative in recent weeks.
“These are folks who have waged some very, very strong attacks against me almost every day,” he said, pointing to Clinton’s sug-gestion he didn’t support the bailout of U.S. automak-ers or had attacked Planned
Parenthood.“We have never run a
negative ad. But not to dis-cuss Secretary Clinton’s record, well, that’s what a campaign is about. She can disagree with me on the is-sues. We will express our disagreements,” he said.
Sanders said he fully ex-pects the party to unite after the primaries. “I think ev-ery sensible person in this country knows that it would be an incredible disaster for the United States to allow a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz to be president,” he said.
“So I am fully confident that people will come to-gether to defeat whomever the Republicans bring up,” Sanders said.
SeaWorld to stop breeding Orcas, making them perform tricksOrLaNdO, Fla. (aP)—Af-
ter years of pressure, Sea-World made a surprise announcement on Thurs-day: It no longer breeds killer whales in captivity and will soon stop mak-ing them leap from their pools or splash audiences on command.
Surrendering finally to a profound shift in how peo-ple feel about using ani-mals for entertainment, the SeaWorld theme parks have joined a growing list of in-dustries dropping live an-imal tricks. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Cir-cus is retiring all of its tour-ing elephants in May. Once-popular animal shows in Las Vegas have virtually disappeared.
“Society’s attitude to-ward these very, very large, majestic animals under hu-man care has shifted for a variety of reasons, whether it’s a film, legislation, peo-ple’s comments on the In-ternet,” said SeaWorld En-tertainment CEO Joel Manby. “It wasn’t worth fighting that. We needed to move where society was moving.”
SeaWorld’s 29 killer whales will remain in cap-tivity, but in “new, inspiring natural orca encounters,” according to the company.
SeaWorld’s orcas range in age from 1 to 51 years old, so some could remain on display for decades.
Attendance at Sea-World’s parks declined after the 2013 release of “Black-fish,” a highly critical doc-umentary. Some top mu-sical acts dropped out of SeaWorld-sponsored con-certs at the urging of animal rights activists, who kept up a visible presence demon-strating outside the parks’ gates.
Still , the decision shocked advocates who have spent decades cam-paigning against keeping marine mammals captive, and it represents a sharp U-turn from SeaWorld’s previous reaction to the documentary.
In August 2014, SeaWorld announced major new in-vestments in the orca pro-gram, including new, larger tanks, first in San Diego and then at its parks in Orlando and San Antonio, Texas.
But the California Coastal Commision didn’t approve the $100 million expan-sion until last October, and when it did, it banned orca breeding as part of the de-cision. SeaWorld sued, ar-guing that the commission overstepped its authority, but said it would end its San
Diego orca shows by 2017.Meanwhile, SeaWorld
brought in a new leader with more experience in regional theme parks than zoos and aquariums, which have been fending off such protests for de-cades. Manby was hired as SeaWorld CEO last March 19 after running Dolly-wood and other musically-themed parks. He said Thursday that he brought a “fresh perspective” to the killer whale quandary, and soon realized that “society is shifting here.”
Orcas have been a cen-terpiece of the SeaWorld parks since shows at the Shamu stadium in San Di-ego became the main draw in the 1970s. But criticism has steadily increased in the decades since and then became sharper after an orca named Tilikum bat-tered and drowned trainer Dawn Brancheau after a “Dine with Shamu” show in Orlando in 2010.
Her death was high-lighted in “Blackfish,” and it wasn’t the first for Tilikum. The whale also killed an animal trainer and a tres-passer in the 1990s.
“Blackfish” director Ga-briela Cowperthwaite said she applauds SeaWorld’s decision, “but mostly I ap-
plaud the public for re-calibrating how they feel ethically about orcas in captivity.”
The new orca shows will begin next year at the San Diego park, before expand-ing to its San Antonio park and then to Orlando in 2019, Manby said.
What about shows in-volving dolphins and other marine mammals?
“Stay tuned on that,” Manby said. “A lot of peo-ple don’t understand how hard it is internally to make these kinds of decisions. We need to execute this well. We need to make sure we have the organization in the same direction. Then we will apply those learn-ings elsewhere.”
SeaWorld has not only discontinued breeding or-
cas through artificial in-semination; it also feeds the whales birth con-trol medication, Manby said.
One of SeaWorld’s most prolific breeders has been Tilikum. The 35-year-old whale has sired 14 calves during his 23 years in Or-lando, but he’s gravely ill now and not expected to live much longer.
aPIn a March 7, 2011 file photo, Kelly Flaherty Clark, left, director of animal training at SeaWorld Orlando, and trainer Joe San-chez work with killer whales Tilikum, right, and Trua during a training session at the theme park’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla. SeaWorld announced Thursday, March 17, 2016, it will immediately stop breeding killer whales, essentially phasing out the iconic orcas from its theme parks following years of controversy over keeping them in captivity.
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Stepping back from a fast-paced lifeThe fast-paced American
lifestyle appears to finally be taking a toll on its citizens.
In 2015, America was ranked the 11th most obese country in the world, with more than 31 percent of its inhabitants classified as obese. Unsurprisingly, in 2013, Americans ate the most fast food of any other country in the world.
In efforts to counter this, the slow food movement has taken hold in many places across the country. Eating locally, avoiding food chains that serve processed meals and sitting down to eat as opposed to eating while on the go are the main pillars of this movement, which hear-kens back to times before the introduction of fast food assembly lines and drive-thrus. However, participat-ing in all three isn’t always compatible with Americans’ busy schedules.
Going to the store and purchasing ingredients for each day’s meal is out of the question for many American families. However, cook-at-home meal delivery services have attempted to capital-ize on this issue by provid-ing a solution. Companies like HelloFresh and Blue
Apron cater to modern fam-ilies’ lack of time by deliver-ing fresh ingredients straight to their doors so meal prep-aration can begin as quickly as possible.
This may be helpful for families on the surface, but there are several problems with direct-to-door meal de-livery services that outweigh their convenience.
The boxes of food deliv-ered multiple times a week usually contain ingredi-ents separated in the spe-cific amounts each meal re-quires. However, this could mean the unnecessary de-livery of ingredients used in several upcoming recipes. For example, if all meals for the week require the herb rosemary, three separate
sprigs will be sent (each in separate plastic wrappings) instead of all three at once. This needlessly wastes pack-aging and restricts each meal’s ingredients to being used in only the recipes they were intended for.
Enormous amounts of energy and resources are wasted in delivering these meals as well. Most food
boxes contain several plastic cooling packs to keep per-ishable goods from spoiling, and assembling and ship-ping these boxes wastes hu-man labor and gasoline. If the cooling packs happen to not be inserted correctly or are left out by accident, the entire box of food can go to waste.
Instead of meal delivery, local grocery stores should start assembling ingredients and simply preparing them for pick-up each day. If peo-ple are truly too busy to take the time to assemble all the ingredients of a healthy meal themselves, it would be easy for people getting off work to drive by the store and pick up their food instead of ex-pecting it to be delivered to their door. As an added ben-efit, more locally produced food may be able to be in-cluded in the meals.
Meal delivery services like HelloFresh do not truly pro-mote the slow food move-ment; instead, they simply attempt to profit from hu-man laziness and dislike of human interaction.
Only a small amount of people nationwide use cook-at-home meal delivery services, but the trend has
already extended to other areas. For example, Ama-zon utilizes a monthly deliv-ery service where common goods like shampoo and batteries can be delivered on a regular basis so people can avoid trips to the stores altogether.
Is this the image Amer-ica should be sending to other countries, where we simply can’t be bothered with making time out of our schedules for a grocery run? Instead of buying into com-panies catering to Ameri-cans’ busy schedules in con-tinually more extreme or unhealthy ways, attempting to slow down life in order to make time for the most ba-sic activities will be enor-mously beneficial for future generations.
Leading the most efficient lifestyle may have been the dream of past decades, but should not be today--our mental and physical health depends on it. Perhaps the arrival of these kinds of busi-nesses is the warning sign families need to step back from the fast pace of life and simply slow themselves down.
ramblingsofasuburbanmom.comDespite their convenience, HelloFresh and other cook-at-home meal delivery services are unncessary.
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Terrorism and state terror: Life of the Kurds in Turkey
Earlier this week, an ex-plosion rocked the Turk-ish capital of Ankara. This past Sunday, a car bomb was detonated in a densely-populated commercial area, which killed at least 37 in a suicide attack. This is the third high-fatality bomb-ing the city has seen since October.
On Thursday, a resistance group named the Kurdish Freedom Falcons, abbrevi-ated TAK in the local lan-guage, claimed responsibil-ity for the attack. The TAK are a Kurdish nationalist group also behind a Febru-ary Ankara bombing where 28 people lost their lives.
The Kurds are an indig-enous group of between 25 and 30 million people in the Middle East who share a common language and cul-ture. They make up minority populations in several coun-tries, including Turkey, Iraq and Syria. After World War I, the Allies made provisions for a Kurdish state in the re-gion that were widely sup-ported by Kurds. However, these hopes were dashed with the creation of Tur-key’s modern borders three years later.
The quest for Kurdish in-dependence has continued until today, with the largest separatist group in modern Turkey being the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. The conflict between the PKK,
other Kurdish groups and Turkey has a long, bloody history which cannot be eas-ily summarized. However, to the best of current knowl-edge, while the TAK used to be a faction of the PKK, the two separated in the early 2000s when the TAK violated a ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK. The two have since repeatedly declared their independence from one another.
Most would accept as a basic moral principle that it is virtually never accept-able to kill civilians in pur-suit of one’s political aims. In fact, anyone who would deny this principle seems to be outside the moral realm and content with commit-ting atrocities. With this principle in mind, we must condemn the actions of the TAK in Ankara, as they have
knowingly killed civilians. There is no room to com-promise here.
However, in discussions of these attacks, the actions of the Turkish government are too often ignored by the media. With internal repres-sion of freedom of press and the obviously propagan-dized statements made by the Turkish government, the PKK and other groups, it seems almost impossible to get an accurate picture of the conflict raging in the country.
That being said, interna-tional groups such as Hu-man Rights Watch and Am-nesty International have repeatedly condemned the Turkish government for se-vere injustices. For instance, on March 4, the Turkish gov-ernment seized Zaman, the largest circulating newspa-
per in the country. When protesters gathered around the building after the an-nouncement, tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse the crowd, who were chanting “Free press cannot be silenced,” accord-ing to the New York Times.
This incident is one of many recent attacks against the freedom of expression in Turkey. For another ex-ample, according to Human Rights Watch, three academ-ics were arrested on Tuesday and many more were either fired or suspended for sign-ing a petition condemning the country’s actions against the PKK because of their “disastrous impact on the Kurdish civilian population.” The professors are currently jailed on suspicion of “mak-ing terrorist propaganda.”
What is the “disastrous
impact” cited by these aca-demics? Amnesty Interna-tional reports the govern-ment has lied about police killings during “anti-terror-ism” operations, citing a case where video evidence of an officer firing a rifle at children emerged after the government had denied any wrongdoing. Civilian killings during purported security operations have been cited by both human rights organizations, as well as cases where the govern-ment has failed to report ci-vilian deaths.
Around-the-clock cur-fews have also been re-peatedly imposed on en-tire towns in Kurdish areas, with at least one lasting lon-ger than a week. According to Amnesty, during curfews “a total ban on residents leaving their homes was
imposed, water, electricity and communications were cut and outside observers banned from entering.” I think such curfews are how most people would imagine absolute totalitarianism.
With this picture in mind, a tragic truth in the Kurdish struggle becomes appar-ent. According to the best evidence, both separat-ist groups and the Turkish government commit atroc-ities and use the crimes of the other to justify their ac-tions. By the moral principle above, we must condemn the actions of both entities.
However, this does not equalize the actions of both sides. Both Kurdish sepa-ratists and the Turkish gov-ernment have killed com-batants and civilians, but the Turkish government has also used its power to op-press the Kurdish civilian population and repress their demand for independence. No one wants to weigh atrocities, but to the outside observer, this seems like a case where violence is be-ing exacerbated by a country which refuses to reward hu-man rights, such as the right to choose one’s government, to a large group of people.
Thus, the enemies of vi-olence must condemn the killing of innocent people on all sides. However, we must also take care not to sup-port the oppressive regime in Turkey and ignore its own crimes. Only when we apply our principles equally can we truly advocate for peace.
Dating back to 1920 and continuing up to the 2012 election, West Virginia has voted Democrat 14 times and Republican 10 times in the presidential election. In other words, over the past 90 years, West Virginia was predominately a blue state prior to voting Republican in the past four elections. With the WV primary quickly ap-proaching on Tuesday, May 10, West Virginians should consider going blue and casting their vote for the Democratic candidate Sen-ator Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders’ cam-paign ideals and policies resonate with West Virgin-ia’s long-term needs: Eco-nomic growth.
“We have to make our state attractive to potential
businesses. If we don’t have enough workers to staff po-tential businesses, if we don’t have enough healthy and properly educated and trained workers, then we’re unattractive, then that’s go-ing to be a major impedi-
ment to long-run economic growth,” said director John Deskins of West Virginia University’s Bureau of Busi-ness and Economics.
Sanders seeks to address the issue of wealth and in-come inequality in the
United States by enacting progressive tax reform on large corporations and Wall Street. In turn, Sanders plans to put 13 million Americans to work by investing $1 tril-lion over the next five years toward rebuilding our crum-
bling roads, bridges, rail-ways, airports, public tran-sit systems, ports, dams, wastewater plants and other infrastructure needs. Sand-ers also plans to create one million jobs for disadvan-taged young Americans by investing $5.5 billion in youth job programs. Sand-ers will also push to make public colleges and univer-sities tuition free, at no addi-tional cost to working class Americans.
Sanders seeks to reverse trade policies like the North American Fair Trade Agree-ment, Central America Free Trade Agreement and per-manent normal trade rela-tions with China, Vietnam and countries in the greater Central America region. These detrimental policies have driven down wages and caused the loss of mil-lions of jobs in the United States.
While Sanders has always been in opposition to these
trade agreements, neither Hillary Clinton nor Repub-lican frontrunner Donald Trump have voiced sup-port for reversing these det-rimental policies. Clinton supported NAFTA in 1993, 1996 and 2003 despite the resulting loss of 850,000 U.S. jobs. What is more, Clinton supported PNTR in 2000, which led to the loss of 3.2 million jobs.
“(Making West Virginia more attractive to poten-tial businesses) is a chal-lenge that cannot be over-come overnight, and this is connected, in some way or another, to virtually all our economic problems in West Virginia,” Deskins said on the MetroNews radio show Talkline.
Sanders is not only the ideal democratic nominee, but also the best presiden-tial choice for West Virginia’s economic growth.
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SLICE OF HEAVENThe Daily Athenaeum’s top picks for pizza in Morgantown
Mountain State Brewing Company
Pizza Al’s
The Vintage Room
Casa D’Amici
Lotsa Mozza
Located in The Wharf District of Morgantown, Mountain State Brewing Company is commonly visited for its hand-crafted microbrews and a wide-range of other craft beers. In addition to the long list of offered beer, Mountain State Brewing Company makes some flatbread pizzas.
All pizzas are wood-fire cooked in a hand built oven on soapstone hearth. The menu includes over 20 different fla-vorful pizzas or “flatbreads.” And if you don’t like getting one of their signature menu items, there’s the option to create your own by adding as many toppings as you’d like. The flatbreads are made in three sizes and range in cost, depending on amounts of toppings and which specialty pizza you choose.
The wood-fire oven gives the crust a nice crispy finish and a different flavor not available at your everyday chain restaurants. Mountain State offers all types of food, from salads to appetizers to sandwiches. The wood-fire oven is even utilized for a few of its smoked sandwiches.
I went with the Sweet Kickin’ Chicken, which has a sweet chili sauce, roasted chicken, bacon, pineapple, baby spin-ach, onions, mozzarella cheese and fresh cracked pepper to top it off. Though spicy foods aren’t really my cup of tea, this pizza has an ideal amount of sweetness to counter the tang. Any pizza with pineapple is going to be exotic and that’s how I’d describe it.
“I think the most unique part about Mountain State is just the atmosphere we have,” said manager Hannah Jen-nings. “It’s really upbeat and exciting.”
Mountain State Brewing Company’s lengthy menu op-tions and strange pizza topping combinations will keep you coming back time and time again.
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Another restaurant better known for its selection of fine wines and cocktails, Vintage Room is below and next to Bent Willey’s on Chestnut Street.
Similar to Mountain State Brewing Company, the pizza is cooked wood fire-style, leaving a beautifully charred crust with the proper amount of crunch. Parmesan cheese is sprinkled on the charred crust to add some extra flavor to each.
I played it safe by getting the Margarita pizza, which tastes pretty similar no matter where you go. It has shredded mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, basil and fresh mozzarella covering a marinara sauce base with a balsamic dressing drizzled on top. The sauce isn’t too sweet, but the balsamic dressing somewhat makes up for the missing flavor.
Each pizza offered comes in one size and can feed up two people or make for a nice appetizer. You have to take Vintage Room with a grain of salt, given it’s basically bar pizza and doesn’t focus its energy strictly on pizza. How-ever, since it is a late-night hangout, pizza is available after hours. On Fridays and Saturdays, Vintage Room will serve pizza until 1 a.m., making it an ideal stop in between, or af-ter a trip to the bar.
“We get more people to come in for a sit down dinner throughout the evening,” said manager Chris Strakal.
Vintage Room and Bent Willey’s share the same owner but have completely different pizza ingredients. Strakal said Vintage Room’s pizza toppings are gourmet, whereas we all know Bent is plain and sold by the slice.
The vibe of Vintage Room was calming and has a neat setup with plenty of drink options. A slice of their woodfire pizza is the perfect compliment.
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Pizza Al’s has the most Brooklynesque pizza in Mor-gantown, by a long shot. The exact opposite of deep dish and any fancy wood-fire oven cooked pizza, the slices are large and floppy.
Morgantown’s sole location is near Towers on Uni-versity Ave. With a new location “coming soon” to Uni-versity Town Centre, there is also one in Sabraton and one in McMurry, Pennsylvania.
Pizza Al’s is the place to check out if you and your friends or family are seeking a filling meal and not just a late night drunk pizza after hitting downtown’s clubs and bars.
Its pizzas are all decent in size, ranging from a small, 14 inches; medium, 18 inches and a large, 20 inches.
“Pizza Al’s is a social pizza,” said Lena Gaudio, self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur and WVU student. “It’s the perfect pizza to order for March Madness watch parties.
Unlike the first two stops, in Mountain State Brew-ery Company and Vintage Room, there are no specialty pizzas to choose from. Pizza Al’s is fully left up to the customer, however there aren’t a ton of topping op-tions available. White pizza is the additional alterna-tive to your traditional red sauce pizza.
Though Pizza Al’s is obviously a pizza-oriented and focused restaurant, it does offer some sandwiches, calzones and salads to complement your Brooklyn-style pie. Inside, there are a few tables and TV’s, but it’s primarily a carry-out shop that doesn’t have noc-turnal hours.
My pineapple pizza was a bit greasy, but who doesn’t enjoy a greasy pizza? Grease is one of those elements that enhances taste.
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AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMMountain State Brewing Company makes wood-fired flatbreads, one of the pub’s cornerstone meals.
JoEl WhETzEl/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMA worker at Pizza Al’s tosses the dough in the air.
Anyone who has been a student at WVU has likely been at Casa D’Amici at least once, if not more. By no stretch of the imagination is it the finest dining estab-lishment in Morgantown, but its convenient location makes it a popular destination any late night of the week. Even on nights when people don’t typically go out, it’s open until 1:30 a.m. But from Wednesday to Sat-urday, you can count on Casa to appease your late night pizza craving until 3:30 a.m.
Although it’s a staple of Morgantown, Casa probably isn’t the place you want to refer your family to when they come to visit you. It’s the last resort pizza place when you’re looking for a specialty slice of pie. But if you are on the go, it’s one of the few late night restaurants where you can get that heavenly piece of cooked dough with sauce and cheese.
Some customers find it to be satisfying, while others aren’t so fond of what Casa offers.
“Casa is good if every other place is closed and both of your legs are broken and you’re inside Casa so you don’t have any other option,” said Chase Marshall, an avid pizza connoisseur and WVU student.
Location has always been everything when it pertains to the success of a business. If Casa has one thing going for it, it’s undoubtedly its optimal location smack dab in the middle on High Street.
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JoEl WhETzEl/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMThe entrance to Casa D’Amici, a pizza restaurant on High Street
The newest pizza spot near WVU’s campus is Lotsa Mozza, which has been around since October. Lotsa Mozza has just one location, on High Street, in a refinished interior and exterior of what was formerly Daniel’s Men’s Cloth-ing. Across from D.P. Dough and nearby Casa D’Amici, Lotsa Mozza has surely provided some competition to both pizzerias.
The made-to-order design is diverse, yet simple. Cus-tomers walk in, choose a dough, sauce, cheese and top-pings without the hassle of waiting x amount of minutes for pickup or delivery. All pizzas on the menu are personal-sized and usually feed one.
Out of the five pizza places visited, Lotsa Mozza is hands down most convenient for college students, who are always on the go and looking for something in a hurry. And since it’s downtown, it’s a short walk from cam-pus for students and staff to stop by around a usually busy lunch time, knowing the line moves rather quickly and efficiently. The prices are all fairly reasonable for a pizza.
After carefully going through the endless options, it was the classic Margherita I chose. Its version of the Margher-ita had more pop than Vintage Room’s because of the ad-dition of roasted garlic.
“The most popular item on the menu is going to be the build-your-own, just because of all of the options,” said manager Adam Witkowski.
Lotsa Mozza stays open until midnight Sunday - Tues-day; 2 a.m. on Wednesday and 4 a.m. from Thursday - Saturday.
The modern design and fast food-like setup of Lotsa Mozza makes it an appealing option.
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JoEl WhETzEl/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMThe wood-fire stove used to cook pizzas at Lotsa Motza
AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMThe Vintage Room on Chestnut Street serves a variety of delicious pizzas.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 5Friday March 18, 2016
By Brittany OsteenA&E writEr
@dAilyAthEnAEum
The Phil Vassar concert is coming to Morgantown tomorrow.
“We (Mainstage Mor-gantown) have all types of music, so we have a little bit to offer to everybody,” saud Oddy Lombrana, head of promotion for Mainstage working with WVU. “Live music is awesome, it is fun, it is healing. If you are in a not-so-good place, like going through something, just go to a show and it will make you feel better.”
Vassar, a Virginia native, has hit the Top 5 seven times with songs like “Car-lene,” “Last Day of My Life” and “American Child.” “Carlene” is his most pop-ular song to-date.
Playing with Vassar is the Wyatt Turner band. Turner is from Stony Bottom, West Virginia, and he began posting his videos on You-tube in 2007, when he was only a high school senior; by 2008 he joined a band and entered his first re-cording studio. Only a year after, he went to Nashville, where he now resides.
The singer-song-writer has great success with his songs other artists perform. “My Next Thirty Years” by Tim McGraw, “She’s Right On The Money” by Alan Jackson and Jo Dee Mes-sina’s “Bye, Bye” and “I’m Alright” were all num-ber one songs on the charts.
Recently, Vassar worked with award-winning song-writer Tom Douglas on his latest single, “Love Is Alive.” Douglas has written pop-ular songs including “The House that Built Me,” “Lit-tle Rock” and “I Run To You.” “I Run to You” is the groundwork for an upcom-ing album.
After signing his own re-cord deal, Vassar is excited to have freedom of running his own label. The company
has promoted other artists including The Lumineers, Neal McCoy and new art-ists Miss Willie Brown and High Valley. Now the com-pany is creating new televi-sion and film projects.
Vassar prides himself on making every performance just as thrilling as the oth-ers. After years of playing clubs, he now plays about 135 shows a year. Tomor-row he wil perform at Mainstage Morgantown.
“It is a really nice venue,” Lombrana said. “There are
two bars and a very nice sit-ting area, so if you want to chill, you can chill. Then there is a full dance floor and it is very open. There is also seating. The acoustics are nice, the energy is nice, the community that goes is awesome. We have a lot of locals that come and we have a lot of students that come. It’s kind of like a big family.
“We play a lot of rock and jam, more than EDM. Its just that most that peo-ple know about it because
it is usually popular so the word of mouth gets around faster about it,” Lombrana said.
Tickets for the show are being given away on WKKW. Locals can listen for a chance of winning last minute tickets.
Doors open for the show at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Main-stage. Tickets are $30.
To purchase tickets, visit http://mainstagewv.tunes-tub.com.
Phil Vassar coming to Mainstage
nj.comCountry artist Phil Vassar is to perform at Mainstage Morgantown tomorrow.
By WOOdy POndA&E writEr
@dAilyAthEnAEum
Spring break is almost here, and so is the Pitts-burgh area date of G. Love & Special Sauce’s tour. The alternative hip-hop band from Philadelphia has just kicked off the spring leg of its tour, supporting its re-cent record “Love Saves The Day,” is Mr. Smalls Theatre in Pittsburgh. Mr. Smalls is one of the more intimate venues in the area. The rus-tic environment proves for a great time. With a funky band like G. Love & Special Sauce on stage, it’s bound to be a fun show.
Garrett Dutton, or G. Love, is the frontman of the band. Dutton began his career as a solo art-ist in the early ‘90s. Things were going well when he met drummer Jeffrey Cle-mens after a performance in a Boston bar. Dutton and Clemens connected, and began working as a duo before meeting stand-ing bassist Jim Prescott. To stay in line with Dut-ton’s nickname phenom-enon, Clemens accepted the nickname Houseman and Prescott began to go by Jimi Jazz. Together they earned the position of house band at The Plough and Stars in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1994 the band re-leased its self-titled debut album, which ended up going gold thanks to MTV playing the single “Cold Beverage” in their chan-nel’s rotation. Following the lackluster performance of their second album “Coast to Coast Motel,” the group went their separate ways to pursue solo ventures.
But the special sauce called to them once more, and the group reunited in October 1997. The band continued to make albums
over the next decade and a half, which was reinforced by the its extensive tour-ing around the country and the world. G. Love & Spe-cial Sauce also served as the house band on the televi-sion show “Turn Ben Stein On” for the three years it was on Comedy Central.
Prescott left the band in 2009, only to return five years later to help work on the band’s seventh album. G. Love & Special Sauce’s eighth studio album, “Love Saves The Day,” was re-leased on Oct. 30, 2015.
The band is noted for having a very laid-back, sloppy blues sound. Mix in some alternative jazz, clas-sic R&B and hip-hop and it begins to sound like a G. Love & Special Sauce track. Dutton raps, sings and plays guitar during live shows, showcasing the wide array of musical talents that gives the group its foundation. The band’s songs are fun and whacky at times, and it performs them with unre-lenting energy. The unique sound comes from the ef-fect of Prescott’s stand-ing bass and from Dut-ton’s ever-changing vocal dynamics during different song sections.
G. Love & Special Sauce will be on the road until the end of April performing on tour. In June the band takes back to the stage for the Bunbury Music Festival in Cincinnati, and a month later makes an appearance in the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.
The show starts at 8:30 p.m. March 25 in Millvale, Pennsylvania at the Mr. Smalls Theatre. Doors open at 7 p.m., and presale tickets are about $27.
For more information on tickets or the concert, visit http://philadelphonic.com/tour.
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Now playing in Hollywood: A battle over the future of movies NEW YORK (AP) — Now
playing in Hollywood: A battle over the future of the movie business, starring some of its most famous filmmakers.
The Screening Room, a startup backed by Napster co-founder Sean Parker and music executive Prem Akkaraju, has sent tremors through the movie industry since word of its ambitions were first reported Saturday. Parker and company are seeking to upend the theat-rical model and bring first-run films, through a $150 encrypted set-box, directly into the home for $50 a pop.
The service has the sup-port of some major film-makers, including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and J.J. Abrams, but its existence depends on the cooperation of studios and exhibitors - and that appears unlikely.
Yet the Screening Room has thrown Hollywood into something resembling an existential crisis, with round-the-clock debate about its prospects that has pitted some of the movies’ biggest names against each
other. Is this the meteor headed straight for the big screen, or is it - like previous efforts - nothing but a storm of hype that will sail past?
“It frightens me,” Tim League, chief executive of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the Texas-based theater chain, said of the Screening Room. “What I’m afraid of is that chasing short-term additional revenue might open up a situation where piracy really hurts the entire industry.”
And the industry, he says, is thriving. “We’re in the business of getting out of the house,” says League.
Whether the Screening Room succeeds or not, it has added to a growing sense that the traditional theatri-cal model will one day fall, a casualty-in-waiting of an increasingly digital and in-stantaneous media world.
But such prophecy doesn’t account for some economic realities: Box office in North America, alone, was a record $11 billion last year. Despite a growing horde of barbarians at the gate - Netflix among
them - the theatrical release window has held so far. The marketing splash of a the-atrical release continues to drive the industry’s rev-enues - and not just at the box office, but through mer-chandising and subsequent windows of release.
Yet some see a chance to profit more from those who prefer to stay home. Ac-cording to the Motion Pic-ture Association, 11 percent of the U.S. population qual-ifies as regular moviegoers (going 18 times a year), and they make up half of box-office receipts. The Screen-ing Room is aimed at the couches of the other 89 percent.
Jackson said the Screen-ing Room - which is pro-posing to split revenues between studios, theater operators and itself - is “de-signed to capture an audi-ence that does not currently go to the cinema.”
But many of the filmmak-ers speaking out for the ser-vice (including Ron Howard and Brian Grazer) are advis-ers or shareholders. Others without a financial stake,
such as James Cameron and Christopher Nolan, have de-nounced it as a misguided effort that will devalue the big-screen experience.
The six major studios de-clined to comment about the Screening Room. But numerous interviews with studio executives, who re-quested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter, described the pre-sentation by Parker and Ak-karaju (a former SFX En-tertainment executive) as polished and interesting enough to warrant consid-eration, but said the service was doubtful to gain studio participation.
Major theater chains, which split box-office reve-nue with distributors, were also courted by the Screen-ing Room, which proposes to give them a hefty cut of each $50 rental. The two largest chains, AMC The-aters and Regal Cinemas, declined to comment. Mark Zoradi, chief executive of the third largest chain, Cin-emark, said “any day-and-date propositions must be
critically evaluated to avoid the devaluation of the exhi-bition window and all sub-sequent revenue streams of our content providers.”
The National Organi-zation of Theater Owners, a trade organization, ac-knowledged that “more so-phisticated window mod-eling may be needed for the growing success of a modern movie industry.” But NATO added that such changes should be devel-oped by distributors and exhibitors - the traditional twin powers of the movie industry - “not by a third party.”
Nevertheless, the stir caused by the Screening Room promises to be the all-consuming topic at NA-TO’s annual convention, Cinema-Con, in Las Vegas in April.
Some studios and even exhibitors may want to hedge their dependence on theaters, where all but the most prepackaged block-busters often struggle to find audiences. Paramount Pictures has recently exper-imented with a shorter the-
atrical window (usually 90 days) for a pair of low-bud-get horror films: “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apoc-alypse” and the fifth “Para-normal Activity.” Neither performed well, however, nor did the improvised day-and-date release of Sony’s “The Interview.”
But for the first time, the question of theatrical re-lease isn’t just up to studios and exhibitors. Netflix has been aggressively buying up new movies for its stream-ing service, though it’s had difficulty getting them into theaters. Many simply re-fuse to screen day-and-date releases. To play last year’s “Beasts of No Nation” in the-aters, Netflix had to “four-wall” some theaters, buying up the tickets themselves.
The latest upstart, Am-azon Studios, has taken a different tact, however. It has embraced theatrical re-leases for its films, happy to simply add the movies to its streaming offerings after a run in cinemas.
Even disruptors like Am-azon, it turns out, still like a night out at the movies.
Homemade movie ‘Krisha’ finds catharisis in tragedy, exudes empathy NEW YORK (AP) — Aspir-
ing filmmakers take note: Nine days of shooting at his mother’s Montgomery, Texas, home, a minuscule budget of $100,000 and a cast led by his aunt were enough for writer-director Trey Ed-ward Shults to make one of the more devastatingly em-pathetic portraits of addic-tion you’re likely to see.
Shults’ bravura debut film, “Krisha,” has been an un-likely sensation on the fes-tival circuit, where it won the grand prize at last year’s South By Southwest Film Festival. In February, it won the John Cassavetes prize at the Independent Film Spirit Awards, an honor for best film made with less than $500,000.
Yet what makes “Krisha,” which opens Friday, power-ful isn’t its humble, home-spun production, but rather its intensely intimate drama, inspired by the wrenching family history that played out within the same walls as its setting, and was lived
through by many of the very people seen on screen.
Krisha Fairchild, Shults’ aunt, stars as the title char-acter: a wayward, former al-coholic who comes to the suburban home of her sister (played by Shults’ mother, Robyn Fairchild) for Thanks-giving. The scene is festive and teaming, but for Kri-sha the atmosphere is one of dread.
The film, discordantly scored and dizzyingly shot, captures the small slights and deep wounds of the troubled Krisha as she tries to re-enter family life and keep her de-mons at bay. We see the judg-mental glances that greet her and follow her retreats to the upstairs bathroom.
“I’m not the Krisha of the family but I want to try to un-derstand her and have em-pathy for her,” Shults said in a recent interview.
Shults was drawing from a real past. After years of sobri-ety, a cousin of his died of an overdose in 2011, shortly af-ter relapsing during a holiday
family reunion. Krisha and Robyn Fairchild played sig-nificant roles in trying to help their niece and her children.
“I was just terrified of be-ing around someone in that situation,” says Shults, re-membering the holiday meltdown. “It felt like a slow-motion train wreck. I didn’t want to do anything except sit there nervously. Two months later, she overdosed and passed away. I think I started processing that with the script.”
Shults and other family members, distraught, would often replay in their minds the struggles that preceded the death.
“So when he presented us with this script that was so emphatic to the person that we loved, we all came to feel that this might be the way to help other people,” says Fairchild, who acted in her youth. “It was an immediate rush of: ‘Yes, Trey. Yes. You got it.’”
The character of Krisha is a composite. Shults’ father was
also an alcoholic who fell off the wagon, leading Shults to keep him out of his life for years before visiting him on his deathbed.
Behind the turmoil and tragedy of “Krisha” is the hard question: How is it best to love a perpetually out-of-control family member?
“I think about it all the time,” says Shults. “The two big people in our family who inspired this character are passed away now. I think about if I did the right stuff with my dad in cutting him off.”
Making the film, which also stars Shults and his 92-year-old grandmother, was excruciating but cathartic.
“We did the good juju be-cause the bad juju had been in every room of our houses for so long,” says Fairchild, whose blistering, bare per-formance commands the film. “We were all holding each other a lot during this.”
There were many “foot rubs and temple rubs,” Fair-
child adds. “A lot of the most difficult scenes we did after everybody else had been sent home for the day.”
Shults’ next film pulls from his fraught relation-ship with his father; Shults wrote the script a month af-ter he passed. The indie dis-tributor A24, which is releas-ing “Krisha,” is signed on for that film, too.
Shults promises it will be a slightly “more legit” pro-duction, though he’s happy
if “Krisha” inspires introspec-tion in not just families but would-be filmmakers.
“Our limitations helped make this special,” says Shults. “Everyone has a unique life. Everyone has something unique around them. Maybe that doesn’t mean cast your aunt and mom and grandma in the lead roles in your movie, but who knows. Get creative and let the limits spur that creativity.”
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday March 18, 20166 | CAMPUS CONNECTION
BY nancY Black
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By Alec GeArtySportS Writer
@Dailyathenaeum
The small group of se-niors on the West Vir-ginia University basket-ball team is taking a “do or die” approach to its first round matchup against the Princeton Tigers.
“It’s my last (tourna-ment), I’ve got to give it my all,” said WVU senior Bria Holmes. “Nobody wants to go out with a loss. It’s all or nothing.”
Holmes has fared pretty well against non-confer-ence teams. Over the course of five non-confer-ence games, Holmes has averaged 15.6 points. For a player that is positioned among some of the most prolific scorers, a run past the first round could be a stamp on what has been an impressive career.
While WVU’s seniors want to go out on top, so do the four Princeton se-nior starters. The Tigers have five seniors on the team: four start and the fifth is the primary bench player. The group’s expe-rience is a factor that led to the Tigers finishing sec-ond in the Ivy League with a 23-5 overall record and 12-2 in its conference.
“We’re looking for-ward to opening against Princeton,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey.
“They’re a very good and experienced basketball team.”
Princeton is led by leading scorer Michelle Miller, who averages 14.1 points per game. Amidst the Ivy League shooters, Miller stands out as being the most efficient from three-point range (43.7 percent), as well as over-all shooting percentage (48.1). While Miller gives the Tigers an option from anywhere, center Alex Wheatley is the second-ary option.
Wheatley finished right behind Miller in the Ivy League scoring ranks, av-eraging 12.7 points per game. Standing at 6-foot-1, Wheatley doesn’t have the height advantage against WVU’s Lanay Montgomery. Carey be-lieves “she can run as well as any of their guards.”
West Virginia has yet to face Princeton, not just over the past few seasons, but in the team’s existence. However, WVU played an Ivy League school earlier in the season.
WVU beat Yale in its Nov. 29 matchup, 70-60, giving the Mountaineers a look at the approach the Ivy League takes.
Princeton took both games in its season se-ries against Yale, a 15-point win in late-Janu-ary and a 13-point win in
mid-February. If there is anything to
take from this Princeton team it’s that the Tigers’ rebounding is on a whole different level in the Ivey League. The Tigers have 137 more offensive re-bounds than second place and 103 more defensive rebounds.
It would have been 18 days since the Mountain-eers have played a game when they step on the court at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The ex-tended break proved ben-eficial for players like Cha-nia Ray, who was dealing with an MCL sprain.
“It has been really good for me,” Ray said. “This time off has really helped me heal and get some sta-bility back in my knee. I feel good right now.”
Even with the sprain, Ray averaged 14 minutes of playing time at the Big 12 Tournament.
If WVU were to defeat Princeton, its next oppo-nent would be either Buf-falo or Ohio State, who follow the Mountaineers’ noon game. If it happens to be Ohio State, the game would be on the Buck-eyes home court and OSU would play in front of their fans. WVU isn’t looking ahead, but taking it “one game at a time.”
ASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWVU’s Bria Holmes walks to the bench after a big scoring run against TCU.
WVU’s seniors hoping to start a real tourney run against Princeton
GARRETT YURISKO/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWVU’s Jaysean Paige applauds his team earlier this month against Texas Tech.
By DAVID StAtMANSportS eDitor
@DJStatman77
All season long, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team has talked about feeling disrespected, but the NCAA Tournament is finally here, and the Moun-taineers have the chance to seize the respect they feel they deserve.
After all the buildup, the Mountaineers can’t come out of the gate and trip over the first hurdle. It’s win or go home—and No. 9 West Virginia will be faced with a tricky opening-round test against the Southland Con-ference champion Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks on Fri-day in Brooklyn.
Stephen F. Austin is the only team in the country that forces more turnovers than West Virginia does, and they do it with a full-court press reminiscent of “Press Virginia.”
While Stephen F. Austin has wreaked havoc against low-major competition with its pressure, the Mountain-eers are confident the Lum-berjacks have never seen anything like what they can throw at them.
“I think (we can cause them trouble with our press),” said junior forward Nathan Adrian. “I don’t think they’ve seen a press with our intensity. They press every day, but I don’t think they
can do the same things we do.”
The Lumberjacks have gone 53-1 in Southland Con-ference play since they hired Brad Underwood as head coach three years ago, mak-ing NCAA Tournaments all three years and even earning a March Madness win over VCU in 2014.
And it makes sense Un-derwood would find success with a full-court press—he happens to be an old friend of Bob Huggins, and served under the West Virginia coach as an assistant during Huggins’ lone season at Kan-sas State in 2006-07.
“I’ve known Brad since well before K-State,” Huggins said. “I knew Brad when he was at Dodge (City Commu-nity College) and we used to sit together at games when he was at Western Illinois. I’ve known Brad for a long, long time. I have great re-spect for him and his ability to coach basketball.”
Underwood employs a mostly man-to-man press throughout the game, and switches up between man and zone in the halfcourt. His style of defense, along with a patient offense that doesn’t make mistakes of its own, has combined to give Ste-phen F. Austin the best turn-over margin in Division I and a 20-game winning streak.
But Stephen F. Austin went 0-2 in its two shots against major conference opposi-
tion, including a 42-point loss to the Big 12’s Baylor Bears in the season opener – a team West Virginia beat twice, convincingly.
Regardless, West Virginia will need to tighten up its of-fense against the Lumberjack pressure, after turnovers – es-pecially in transition – played a major part in its loss to Kan-sas in the Big 12 Tournament finals.
“It’s concentration and sometimes we’re being a lit-tle too unselfish,” said junior guard Tarik Phillip. “Some-times we should go lay the ball up when we’re passing the ball. I think it’s a focus thing.”
Phillip will be one of sev-eral New York natives on the West Virginia squad get-ting to play on his home turf at Brooklyn’s Barclays Cen-ter. Phillip and junior guard Teyvon Myers are both Brooklyn natives, but Phil-lip isn’t concerned playing at home will have any real emotional effect.
“We’ll have to fight a little bit, but once the game tips off, adrenaline takes over and you stop worrying,” Phil-lip said.
The West Virginia-Ste-phen F. Austin matchup will tip off at 7:10 Friday and will be televised on CBS. The winner will face the winner of Notre Dame-Michigan on Sunday.
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Following a three-of-four showing during the latest home stand, the Mountain-eers (10-4) are eager to take the next step heading into conference play Friday.
They travel to No. 8 TCU, who boasts the Big 12’s top nonconference record at 13-3. TCU outscored its opponents 132-52 through the first 16 games, includ-ing four shutouts.
But the Mountaineers believe they’re ready for conference play, learn-ing after a struggling start when they took one out of three at Texas to begin the Big 12 slate a year ago. Now, they’re off to a 10-4 start, topped off with a 6-2 victory Tuesday over Radford be-hind six innings of one-run ball from freshman Tanner Campbell.
“I think this helped us out today,” said WVU short-stop Jimmy Galusky. “We haven’t really been playing teams that have that bad of a record. I don’t think that’s that bad of a team showing off today so I guess that re-ally helps us going into TCU.”
WVU’s starting rotation holds the conference’s sec-ond best ERA (2.48), eclips-ing TCU’s own 2.74 ERA. Luken Baker takes the mound for TCU, entering with a 2-0 record and the Big 12’s best ERA (0.84).
Baker’s also hitting .321 alongside 17 RBI’s, the team’s second-highest to-tal. He’s one of nine players hitting above .300, a part of a team featuring the con-ference’s top batting aver-age (.317).
“Jumping into the Big 12 every year is tough,” said WVU sophomore Shaun Corso. “We went down to Baylor last year and I think we lost two games because we weren’t ready. We’ve got to go down there and we’ve got to be ready. We know what they’ve got. We know they can pitch, we know they can play ball. They’re one of the best teams in the nation. We’ve just got to be ready for that.”
Six different Horned Frogs have double-digit RBI totals, led by Elliott Barzil-li’s 18. His .435 batting aver-age sits only behind Texas Tech’s Tanner Gardner (.449) in the Big 12, adding three home runs and five doubles thus far.
TCU has advanced to the College World Series each of the past two seasons, re-ceiving the national No. 2 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament. The Horned Frogs won four Big 12 titles since 2010, but the Moun-taineers have witnessed plenty of completion of their own through the first 14 games.
They took two of three from an Old Domin-
ion team that entered the weekend series at 10-2, highlighted by redshirt freshman Jimmy Galusky’s walk-off single in the series finale.
And they feature the Big 12’ No. 2 pitching staff, with two of WVU’s start-ers this weekend entering with ERA’s below 2.00. Ross Vance (3-0, 1.99 ERA) and B.J. Myers (2-1, 1.98 ERA) will close out the series on
Saturday and Sunday, fol-lowing up Chad Donato on Friday.
Despite Donato’s winless record (0-2), he’s recorded the team’s most strikeouts (28) and didn’t allow a walk through his first 13 innings on the mound this season. In last year’s series finale against the Horned Frogs, he surrendered two earned runs and tossed six strike-outs in seven innings.
Add in an offense that showed flashes in a 7-4 exhibition loss to the Ari-zona Diamondbacks, the Mountaineers’ confidence is high heading into an-other highly-anticipated matchup with one of the nation’s top teams.
It’s an offense only trail-ing TCU for the highest av-erage in the Big 12, and it has come from a number of freshmen and sophomores. Six freshmen had at-bats in Tuesday’s victory over Rad-ford, tagging along three freshmen that also saw time on the mound.
“I think they’re relishing in the opportunity to play a team like TCU because we haven’t done it yet,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “When we went out and played the Diamond-backs, I was kind of curious of how this group was going to respond to play a major league team. We come out with three line drives in the first inning and we’re up 1-0 on the Diamondbacks. This team has a way of re-sponding when good pitch-ers are on the mound, and that’s definitely what we’re going to see this weekend.”
West Virginia prepared for Big 12 play, travels to No. 8 TCU
GARRETT YURISKO/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWVU’s Chad Donato throws a pitch last weekend against Old Dominion.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday March 18, 20168 | SPORTS
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No. 27 Mountaineers travel to Texas for Big 12 ChampionshipBy Carter SokolowSki
SportS Writer @Dailyathenaeum
The No. 27 West Vir-ginia gymnastics team look to ride the momentum it gained during its impres-sive eight-match winning streak as it heads into the Big 12 Championship in Frisco, Texas.
The Mountaineers closed their regular season with two impressive wins in a home-and-home series against the University of Pittsburgh, earning scores of 195.925 and 195.825.
The team owns top-20 national rankings, coming in at No. 14 on the floor with a 49.235 regional qualifying score (RQS) and No. 19 on vault with a 49.05 RQS.
Junior Alexa Goldberg, sophomore Zaakira Mu-hammad and freshman Kirah Koshinski also hold national rankings. Koshin-ski has the highest ranking with No. 16 on vault (9.89 RQS), closely followed by Muhammad at No. 27 (9.875 RQS). Goldberg is the only Mountaineer to hold a ranking on the un-even bars at No. 42 (9.865 RQS).
Although the team has
been on fire as of late, it faces a daunting task in trying to take down some of the nation’s gymnastics powerhouses in No. 1 Okla-homa (197.85 RQS), No. 10 Denver (196.65 RQS) and No. 39 Iowa State (195.225 RQS).
For the second year in a row, West Virginia finds it-self staring down the bar-rel of the nation’s top team in the Big 12 Champion-ship. Having finished as a top-5 nationally ranked team since 2010, the Sooners have established themselves as a gymnas-tics dynasty in Norman, Oklahoma.
The team owns three No. 1 rankings in every event but vault, where it ranks No. 3.
Oklahoma won every single meet this year with the exception of its sea-son opener, which was a tightly contested road bat-tle against No. 3 Lousiana State University. The loss also marked the only time the Sooners scored below a 197.0 all year. The Moun-taineers have failed to hit 197.0 yet this season.
The Oklahoma squad is led by junior Chayse Capps and senior Keeley Kmie-
ciak, who are both nation-ally ranked all-around at No. 2 (39.620 RQS) and No. 13 (39.450), respec-tively. Expect this duo to put a show on in Texas this Saturday.
The Sooners also rely heavily on the services of freshman Nicole Leh-rmann, who tied West Vir-ginia’s own Koshinski in Big 12 Newcomer of the Week awards, with five votes apiece.
The Mountaineers were able to take home 2nd place in the Big 12 Cham-pionship last season, edg-ing out Iowa State comfort-ably. It will not be an easy battle for second this time as this year’s meet will fea-ture the addition of an ex-tra competitor in the Uni-versity of Denver.
No. 10 Denver was a new addition to the Big 12 this season, and it has certainly made its mark. It opened up the season with a tight home win against West Virginia, where it put up a comparatively poor score of 195.375. After that, it never looked back, putting up scores of over 196.0 in ev-ery meet for the rest of the season.
While Oklahoma’s Capps
holds the No. 2 all-around ranking in the nation, Den-ver’s senior Nina McGee follow close behind at No. 3 (39.570 RQS). She’s also tied for first in the national rankings on floor (9.965 RQS).
While it appears Okla-homa and Denver will be trading blows for the top spot in this year’s champi-onship, West Virginia still holds a puncher’s chance. They have been improv-
ing by the week, and it only takes one stellar perfor-mance to take home the crown.
One team that does not stand much of a chance at winning is Iowa State. The Cyclones have been a model for inconsistency throughout the season, continuously fluctuating in scores ranging from 193.0 to 195.0. Their highest score of the year was a 196.025 at home against in-state ri-
val University of Iowa. The team may have a shot at beating the Mountaineers, but it’d take a miracle for it to leave as the overall vic-tor against next-level teams like Oklahoma and Denver.
With some of the nation’s premiere talent coming to-gether to compete, Satur-day’s Big 12 Champion-ship in Frisco, Texas should prove to be one for the ages.
WrestlinG
WVU’s three entrants eliminated on first day of NCAA Championships
By Joel NorMaNSportS Writer
@Dailyathenaeum
Entering the NCAA Wres-tling Championships, West Virginia was not expected to advance far.
With three representa-tives, the Mountaineers were not favorites in the tourna-ment. Despite this, West Virginia was still able to do some damage.
Day one of the NCAA Championship began yes-
terday. Dylan Cottrell, Jacob A. Smith and Bubba Schef-fel represented West Virginia University’s wrestling team at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Cottrell opened the day against John Boyle of Ameri-can. After no score in the first period, the two 157-pound-ers exchanged escape points in the second period.
In the final period, Boyle got the takedown and two more points for near falls. Trailing 5-1, Cottrell escaped
two more times, but ran out of time and fell 5-3.
With the loss, Cottrell was out of the Champion-ship bracket. He faced VMI’s Neal Richards in the com-pensatory wrestle-backs. Cottrell picked up a major decision victory by topping Richards 9-1. On Friday, Cot-trell will face Neal Richards of Rutgers.
In his opening round, Scheffel battled No. 11 Lo-renzo Thomas from Penn in a 184-pound bout. Like Cot-
trell’s first match of the day, Scheffel and Thomas were scoreless after one period.
In fact, there was no scor-ing until the third period. Thomas picked up the first score with 1:20 remaining in the final period with an es-cape. Shortly after, Thomas got a takedown to increase his lead to 3-0. Scheffel got two points from a reversal, but Thomas sealed the vic-tory with a point for riding time.
In the evening’s wres-
tler-backs, Scheffel took on Kenny Courts of Ohio State. Shortly after Scheffel’s first round loss, the West Virginia Wrestling Twitter account (@WVUWrestling) noted that Scheffel faced Courts back in 2014 at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. At the time, Courts was No. 6/8.
This time, Scheffel was victorious again. Courts opened the scoring with a takedown, but Scheffel quickly picked up a point with an escape.
The second period got hectic. Scheffel tied it up, 2-2, with another escape. Shortly after, Courts got an-other takedown, but Scheffel responded with a takedown of his own to make it 5-4 af-ter two periods.
In the third period, Schef-fel picked up a point for rid-ing time and picked up a 6-4 victory. Scheffel will take on North Dakota State’s Hayden Zillmer tomorrow in the next round of the wrestler-backs.
Smith was the only Moun-taineer to escape the first round with a victory. Neither No. 13 Smith nor Cornell’s Owen Scott scored in the first period. Smith opened the second period in bottom position, but escaped to earn the only point of the second period.
The final 1:15 of the third
period was hectic. Scott es-caped to tie it up, 1-1, at 1:15. Nearly 25 seconds later, Smith took the lead with a takedown. With 15 seconds remaining in the match, Scott escaped from bottom position to make it 3-2. Facing an opponent desperate for a point, Smith held off Scott’s advances and emerged victorious.
In the second round of the 197-pound bracket, Smith faced No. 4 Nathan Burak from Iowa. Once again, the opening period was score-less. In the second pe-riod, Burak escaped for his first point, then took down Smith to take a 3-0 lead. Burak started the third pe-riod on top, but Smith es-caped to earn his first point of the match. Shortly after, Burak took down Smith with 1:15 remaining in the match. Smith responded by escap-ing again, but Burak got an-other takedown to make it 7-2. Burak escaped one last time to cement his 8-2 victory.
With the loss, Smith heads to the wrestle-backs. He will face Oklahoma State’s Pres-ton Weigel tomorrow.
The other events begin at 11 a.m. on Friday and are viewable on ESPN 3.
By Neel MaDHaVaNSportS Writer
@Dailyathenaeum
With nonconference play wrapped up, the West Vir-ginia University women’s tennis team heads to Still-water, Oklahoma this week-end for the start of Big 12 Conference play against No. 16 Oklahoma State.
“Our goals are no differ-ent than they have been all season,” said head coach Miha Lisac. “The nonconfer-ence part of the season was used to prepare for the Big 12 part of the season. Every
week we’re still working to improve and get better. Ev-ery week we’re continuing to learn about what it takes to be successful. Based on the results of the past two weeks against Maryland and Marshall, we definitely need to refocus our efforts in doubles to the things that we were doing successfully towards the beginning of the season. Big 12 play is start-ing, and everyone is starting off the same at 0-0. Our goal every week is the same, but at the end of the season, we want to look back and say that we’ve gotten better than
we were before.”The Cowgirls (11-3, 0-0
Big 12) are incredibly tal-ented and boast one of the most impressive resumes in the country. Seven of OSU’s victories have come against teams ranked in the ITA polls, including No. 33 Notre Dame, No. 26 Northwestern and two victories over a top-25 Alabama team.
All three of Oklahoma State’s doubles duos are ranked in the top-50 of the ITA rankings. In singles, the Cowgirls boast three players in the top-50, including No. 30 Katarina Adamovic, No.
35 Vladica Babic and No. 65 Viktoriya Lushkova.
For the Mountaineers (6-5, 0-0 Big 12), senior cap-tain Hailey Barrett sus-tained an injury last week in the match against Mar-shall, forcing her to retire. According to Lisac, her sta-tus against the Cowgirls is a match-time decision.
Sophomore Habiba Shaker has been a domi-nant figure this season for the Mountaineers and looks to improve on her 10-1 sea-son record this weekend.
How the middle of WVU’s lineup performs will play a
major role in whether the Mountaineers are able to hang with OSU. The play of sophomores Carolina Lewis and Lyn Yuen Choo, along with freshman Paula Goetz, will be crucial for West Virginia.
“In the last couple weeks we haven’t shown how good we actually are; we haven’t played to our potential,” said assistant coach Emily Har-man. “Moving forward, we want to put the results of the past two matches behind us, but take lessons from those matches as well, so that we can use them to get better.”
The key in this match is the doubles point. With Oklahoma State boast-ing one of the best doubles lineups in the country, the Mountaineers will be hard-pressed to do what Lisac has preached about doubles all season. In fact, the Cowgirls have not dropped a single doubles point this season.
Lisac and the Mountain-eers know how crucial win-ning the doubles point is when it comes to winning the match; it’ll be a battle of talent and sheer will.
WVU begins Big 12 play with difficult test against Oklahoma Statetennis
AskAr sAlikhov/The DAily AThenAeumMembers of the WVU Gymnastics team await the award announcements during a February meet.
AskAr sAlikhov/The DAily AThenAeumWVU’s Bubba Scheffel takes on Oklahoma State’s Nolan Boyd in January.
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Track
Mountaineers prepare for this weekend’s Wake Forest OpenBy Joel NormaN
SportS Writer @Dailyathenaeum
It’s been three weeks since the West Virginia Uni-versity women’s track and field team last competed.
That hiatus ends tomor-row when they travel to Win-ston-Salem, North Carolina to face 31 other schools in the Wake Forest Open, the first outdoor event of the season. The two-day event lasts through Saturday.
On Feb. 27, the indoor season concluded with the
Big 12 Championship. West Virginia finished in ninth place out of 10 teams, and no athletes qualified for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship.
“We had some very good moments this weekend,” said WVU head coach Sean Cleary in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Our pole vaulters were competing at their career-high heights. We had two All-Big 12 per-formers in the high jump. The triple jump saw an-other All-Big 12 perfor-mance. Meghan (Jean-Bap-
tiste) competed hard in the multi events and will re-turn in a year with the ex-perience required to con-tend for All-Big 12 honors. Our distance runners did a nice job earning honors in the 1,000, mile, 3,000 meters and the 5,000 meters.”
After a disappointing in-door season, the Mountain-eers turn their attention to competition outdoors. In last year’s Outdoor Big 12 Championship, West Vir-ginia finished in ninth place out of the 10 Big 12 teams and didn’t qual-
ify for the NCAA Outdoor Championship.
Following the 2015 Big 12 Championship, Cleary stressed the importance of older runners continuing to get better as they age.
“We need our upper-classmen to keep progress-ing and provide more depth for the group,” Cleary said. “I have faith that they will leave this meet with a great deal of desire and make the proper adjustments to be ready to come back stron-ger and ready to excel at this level.”
The Mountaineers have 27 upperclassmen on their roster, and only six are se-niors. West Virginia seeks gradual improvement each season.
With 10 freshmen on the roster, the youth movement is strong. The depth of the team will improve when this season ends with so few players leaving and even more returning.
In the opening 2016 out-door women’s track and field rankings by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches As-
sociation, West Virginia is tied for 109th place with seven points. For com-parison, No. 1 Oregon has 306.71 points.
This is West Virginia’s first appearance at the Wake For-est Open since 2013 when two Mountaineers finished with top-5 performances.
The Mountaineers will compete in nine more reg-ular season events follow-ing the Wake Forest Open before the Big 12 Champi-onship on May 13-15.
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FIFA paid Sepp Blatter $3.76 million in 2015, loses $122 millionZURICH (AP) — FIFA finally
revealed Sepp Blatter’s pay deal on Thursday, which was $3.76 million in 2015 as soc-cer’s embattled governing body reported a loss of $122 million for a year marred by scandal.
After years of secrecy about presidential earnings, FIFA disclosed its disgraced former leader’s pay package three weeks after his em-ployment officially ended.
Blatter, who was sus-pended on full pay last Oc-tober and later banned for unethical conduct, had a base salary of 2,964,379 mil-lion Swiss francs ($3 million) but received no performance bonus in 2015. The total in-cluded a payment of almost $450,000 in “variable com-pensation” - a long-service entitlement for reaching 40 years employment at FIFA.
FIFA’s loss, its first since 2002, was expected after fail-ing to sign any new World Cup sponsors.
Despite the corruption crisis, FIFA’s total income was $1.152 billion in 2015. Expenses of $1.274 billion in-cluded spending $61.5 mil-lion on “legal matters.”
That helped ensure that FIFA’s reserves fund fell by $183 million to $1.34 billion.
FIFA spent $27.9 million last year paying executive committee members and se-nior management, including Blatter. That total was $39.7 million in the 2014 World Cup year.
FIFA’s now-fired secretary general, Jerome Valcke, got 2.125 million Swiss francs ($2.2 million) in 2015.
One hour after FIFA re-vealed Valcke’s pay, Swiss federal prosecutors said they opened a case against him for suspected “criminal mismanagement” during his eight years as Blatter’s right-hand man.
In other pay details, each executive committee mem-ber got $300,000 last year, and senior vice president Issa Hayatou of Cameroon got an additional $500,000 for chairing the finance committee.
FIFA agreed to start pub-lishing executive pay in mod-ernizing reforms approved last month, as a response to American and Swiss federal investigations of corruption implicating dozens of soccer officials, including Blatter.
“With the recently ap-proved reforms, I believe that we have turned a corner and that FIFA is poised to emerge stronger than ever,” Gianni Infantino, Blatter’s succes-sor, said in a statement.
FIFA has acknowledged that potential commercial partners were put off by fall-out from the scandals.
Top-tier sponsors Sony and Emirates Airlines have not been replaced since the 2014 World Cup, and 27 of 34 commercial slots remain unsold for the 2018 tourna-ment in Russia.
New sponsor deals are
likely to be announced soon, with Asian companies expected to step in. FIFA’s prospects improved when member federations passed the anti-corruption reforms last month and elected Swiss lawyer Infantino as president.
FIFA wants to keep Infan-tino’s pay package secret for one more year until the 2016 accounts are published. His salary will be less than Blat-
ter’s, and should also be less than the yet-to-be appointed secretary general who will have wider, CEO-like deci-sion-making powers in the modernized FIFA structure.
Cuts in staff bonuses from the World Cup appear to be reflected in FIFA’s total wage bill. In 2015, FIFA added 108 employees, for a total of 582, yet “personnel expenses” fell by more than $23 million to $92 million.
FIFA’s legal costs soared in 2015, mostly because it re-tained American legal firm Quinn Emanuel. Its priority is to help prevent FIFA from being indicted as a co-con-spirator in bribery by the U.S. Department of Justice.
FIFA’s spending on “legal matters” was almost dou-ble the $31.3 million bill for 2014.
FIFA also paid only $3.85 million in tax, mainly on
profits earned by subsidiary companies. Its tax bill was $36 million in 2014 when the annual profit was $140.7 million.
The accounts were pub-lished minutes after the Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that Blatter filed his appeal against a six-year ban from soccer for finan-cial conflicts of interest. CAS said Blatter seeks to annul the ban.
AFP Photo/Jewl SAmAdSepp Blatter and Jerome Valcke talk during a press conference.
Plumlee ditches mask, Duke gets past UNC Wilmington on Thursday
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — After Marshall Plumlee jetti-soned the mask guarding his broken nose during Duke’s awful opening against up-start UNC Wilmington, he entered the locker room at halftime and gave his team-mates a short message: “I got you.”
Indeed he did.Plumlee finished with
a career-high 23 points to lead the defending national champion Blue Devils to a tough 93-85 victory on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
The Blue Devils’ big man was relegated to just four points in a first half domi-nated by the Seahawks. A lit-tle tirade from coach Mike Krzyzewski helped right the ship.
“There’s no excuses for my play in the first half,” Plumlee said afterward in the quiet Duke locker room, wearing a blue jersey with the words “Be Worthy” em-blazoned on the front.
“I’m grateful to have a coach that can bring out the best in me,” he said. “More than anything, I had team-mates that played harder, teammates that gave me en-ergy, and I fed off of that.”
Plumlee had 10 of his points and two blocks early in the second half as the West’s No. 4 seed stepped up the defensive pressure to overcome a four-point deficit and build a lead that proved too much to overcome.
“I couldn’t be more proud of a group of guys that have laid it out on the line for me for 33 games this year,” second-year UNCW coach Kevin Keatts said. “We talked about it in the locker room, and one of the things I said to those guys is when we leave this locker room, I want you to hold your head up. I know we’re all big-time competitors and we all hate to lose, but the effort that these guys have given me all year long is unbelievable.”
Duke (24-10) will next play Yale or Baylor. UNCW (25-8), seeded 13th, was in it until the closing moments after Plumlee and Matt Jones fouled out.
“Our motto is pretty much we don’t worry about the name on the back of our jerseys, and we don’t care about the name on the front of yours,” said Craig Pon-der, who led UNCW with 23 points. “We just try to go out and compete every game.”
Grayson Allen also scored 23 points for the Blue Dev-ils, but 15 came from the foul line as he shot just 4 of 12 from the field. Freshman Brandon Ingram, likely play-ing in his only NCAA Tour-nament, added 20.
Chris Flemmings had 18 points for UNCW, Denzel Ingram 17, and C.J. Bryce 16.
With Duke trailing 43-40 at halftime, a lay-in and two free throws by Ingram sparked a 14-3 run. Plumlee followed a miss by Ingram then hit two foul shots, and Ingram’s lob to Plumlee gave the Blue Devils a 61-49 lead with about 14 minutes left.
The Seahawks got mired in foul trouble - they picked up their 10th midway through the half - and that was a lot to overcome.
Still, after Plumlee picked up his fourth foul with just over six minutes to go, Pon-
der rallied the Seahawks. He hit a 3-pointer - UNCW’s first made 3 in 10 tries in the half - then had a steal and layup. A three-point play by Bryce narrowed the deficit to 78-73 with 4:42 left, but Plumlee’s offensive rebound and slam put Duke back up by seven.
UNCW shot 51.5 percent in the first half, including 6 of 12 from beyond the arc, while hounding the Blue Devils into mistakes with its press.
TIP-INSDUKE: The Blue Devils
committed only four turn-overs in the first half, but nearly every shot was chal-lenged, and that showed in three missed layups when the ball caromed too hard off the glass because of the defensive pressure. ... Duke shot 43.8 percent and was 3 of 10 from beyond the arc in the first half.
UNCW: The last time the Seahawks faced a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament was in 2002, and they upset Southern California 93-89 in overtime for their only tour-nament victory. ... UNCW is 2-38 all-time against teams in the ACC.
UP NEXTDuke: A second-round
game against Baylor or Yale on Saturday.
UNCW: Season over.
AP Photo/ChArleS KruPAMason Plumlee and Brandon Ingram block a shot on Thursday.