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A representative from the West Virginia Office of the Attorney General vis-ited West Virginia Univer-sity yesterday to educate students and other con-sumers on how to protect themselves from scams, fraud, identity theft and landlord-tenant issues.

The booth, located in the Mountainlair, offered students information re-garding how to stay safe and secure in an era when digital fraud and identity theft are common. In-formation about renter’s rights and student loans was also available.

Dozens of students at WVU have fallen victim to various money-draining scams and have sent com-plaints to the Office of the Attorney General, accord-ing to Pam Krushanksy, the consumer representa-tive and compliance spe-cialist for the Office of the Attorney General.

“We thought it was im-portant to have a pres-ence on campus to help educate the students on the red flags they’ll see when (using their de-vices) and that they don’t fall prey to the scams,” Krushanksy said.

WVU students were targeted through email, Twitter, phone, text and other electronic means. IRS scams, fake lottery or sweepstakes scams, em-ployment scams and false student loans are among some of the many fraud-ulent schemes affecting WVU students.

WVU Student Legal Services regularly collab-orates with the WV Attor-ney General’s Office to assist students who have been victims of financial scams and identity theft.

“A lot of students have some financial issues and (become enticed by) $4,000, or job offers mak-ing so much an hour and think it’s a good deal,” said Carrie Showalter, the managing attorney at WVU’s Student Legal Services. “If it sounds too good to be true, it prob-ably is.”

Showalter, who worked the booth alongside Krushanksy, stressed that students should always consult Student Legal Services before accept-ing any random offers, especially when money is involved.

“When people are aware and educated (on consumer rights), we have less issues,” Showal-ter said. “So, if people are aware this is going on, it hopefully raises more red flags.”

Krushanksy’s visit is part of National Con-sumer Protection Week—a campaign designed to educate consumers na-tionwide about their con-sumer rights and how they prevent getting trapped by fraudulent schemes.

For NCPW, West Vir-ginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is send-ing field representatives to do educational out-reach about consumer protection throughout the state.

To prevent identify theft and fraud, Krushan-sky and Showalter urge students to act responsi-bly and ask questions be-fore engaging in any fi-nancial activity.

“Don’t give any per-sonal, identifiable in-formation to anybody, not even your friends,” Krushansky said. “Go to Legal Services, go any-

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Students from the Uni-versity of Richmond visited West Virginia University to hear a lecture from WVU associate professor Hal Gorby about West Virgin-ia’s Uneven Ground per-taining to education and economics.

The students were from the Students Engaging and Enacting a Dialogue on Service project with a goal to provide support for marginalized commu-nities and engage students in discussion and reflec-tion on social injustice. SEEDS provides alterna-tive spring break trips where students can spend break doing service work. The group stopped at WVU on Wednesday to get more context for their work site in McDowell County later this week.

“It’s the Watts Muse-um’s hope this lecture can familiarize these students with the issues facing West Virginia today and pro-vide everyone else here historical context for as-sessing social and eco-nomic issues in our re-gion,” said Eliza Newland, collections and program manager at the Watts Museum.

Gorby said events in West Virginia’s history have contributed to the current state of educa-tion and the economy. In 1948, post-World War II, there were 126,000 coal mining jobs and 125,000 factory jobs in the state. In 1950, the population was the highest it’s ever been, at about 2 million. However, at that time, there were also improve-ments in technology that could replace human workers.

“The massive changes brought after World War II came from mechanization. It didn’t just affect coal, it affected all major indus-try,” Gorby said. “This re-

ally made it more efficient to mine more amounts of coal, but not with all the vast numbers of hand and pick loaders who had been used in the years prior.”

The mechanization caused large numbers of residents to leave West Virginia and relocate fur-ther north, many of whom found themselves re-located to low income neighborhoods.

During the 1900s, state legislation to help resi-dents keep their land low-ered property taxes, which meant less funding for

schools.Govenor William Cassey

Mar yland, who was elected in 1952, and Sen-ator Robert C. Byrd made attempts to improve the economic and educa-tion situation in West Vir-ginia, but there are still issues.

The SEEDS students were interested by the histor y of West Vir-ginia and how it ex-plained parts of what they saw in their mission work.

“I think it was really cool… I think each year, the trip leaders like to

have different perspec-tives of pro-coal people, but we had never heard a historical perspective. Usually, we go to Charles-ton on this part of the trip, but this year, we decided to go to Morgantown to get more of an academic per-spective on these issues,” said Taylor Marlorana, co-chair of the trip and a se-nior leadership studies student at the University of Richmond. “I think it was really cool to have our participants hear the his-tory of what we were see-ing, rather than just hear-ing it from people who are really deeply involved in it.”

Gorby gave students a history of the issues, so they could better under-stand them.

“I always like to say when I talk about this sub-ject,” he said. “This comes from a place of love be-ing a 31-year resident of the state and somebody who’s really interested in letting people think of sort of the longer term is-sues that have contrib-uted to where we find ourselves.”

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NEW yOrK (aP)—Margo Seibert and Natalie Bras-ington don’t think women should have to pay a “pe-riod tax,” and like a growing number of other women, they are publicly question-ing whether being female in the U.S. carries unfair costs.

The pair are among five New York City women who filed a lawsuit last week ar-guing that it was unconsti-tutional for the state to levy sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkins while of-fering medical product ex-emptions to many other items used by both genders, like lip balm, foot powder and dandruff shampoo.

The case, they say, is about more than the few cents in tax levied on each pack.

Sick of the social taboo, and frustrated by a lack of access for some to a sta-ple, these women and oth-ers are talking very publicly about menstruation and gaining political traction that would have been im-possible a generation ago.

A national push to abol-ish sales tax on tampons is gathering steam, led by so-cial media campaigns like #periodswithoutshame. At least seven states are now considering legislation. Illi-nois lawmakers were hold-ing a hearing on the latest proposal Wednesday. Con-necticut legislators dis-cussed the issue Monday.

Cosmopolitan magazine launched an online peti-tion, and even President Barack Obama has ques-tioned why the items are taxed.

“I tend to talk about my period quite a bit, to any-one who will listen,” said Seibert, a 31-year-old ac-tress and founder of an on-line campaign that pro-motes a “shame-free” period.

Brasington, a 31-year-old photographer, said the tax affects women dispro-portionately and is a gen-uine burden for poorer women.

“Being a woman is so ex-

pensive,” she said.Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, a

vice president at the NYU School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice, said she began writing articles and op-eds on “menstrual eq-uity” when she discovered food pantries were desper-ate for sanitary napkins and tampons because poor women can’t afford them.

The tax campaign reflects a broader debate over “gen-der pricing,” or charging women and men different rates for similar products and services, from haircuts to razors to T-shirts.

New York City’s con-sumer protection agency studied the cost of 800 com-mon household items last year and found that prod-ucts marketed to women cost, on average, 7 percent more than similar products for men.

“Women’s outcry over this issue isn’t just about the tax on tampons. It’s a reflection of the routine un-fairness that seeps into our everyday lives,” said Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women in New York. “At the end of the day, the tam-

pon tax movement is one small way to challenge the broader sexism that still persists. Because that’s the real taboo here.”

While women’s advo-cates have long lamented that many women’s prod-ucts cost more, their pro-viders say there can be le-gitimate reasons - a more decorative product or more complicated haircut, for instance. And some have noted that women some-times pay less: for life and auto insurance, for example.

Nationwide, 40 states

tax feminine hygiene prod-ucts, deeming them non-necessities or even “lux-ury items,” while making exceptions for products as similar as adult inconti-nence pads.

Currently, five U.S. states exempt tampons and other feminine hygiene products from their sales tax, which varies around the country from about 2.9 percent to as high as 7.5 percent. An-other five states have no sales tax.

New York taxes tam-pons and sanitary nap-kins as tools “to control a normal bodily function and to maintain personal cleanliness.”

The 4 percent state sales tax on the products costs New York women millions of dollars a year; estimates range from about $7 mil-lion to twice that, a minute fraction of the state’s $142 billion budget.

Advocates say the cost, however small it may seem, is burdensome for poor women, who also can’t purchase the products with food stamps.

“Having one’s period is not a luxury,” state Assem-blywoman Linda Rosen-thal, a Democrat who has proposed abolishing the tax. “Because of our biol-ogy, we bear this extra cost, and the state should not compound it.”

The state Department of Taxation and Finance de-clined to comment, cit-ing the lawsuit. Two major manufacturers of feminine hygiene products, P&G, the maker of the Tampax brand, and Edgewell Per-sonal Care Co., the maker of the Playtex brand, didn’t respond to inquiries this week about the tax issue.

Zoe Salzman, the at-torney on the New York case, said they’d push to get a judge to rule the tax unlawful.

“If men had to use these products every month, they would already be tax-ex-empt,” she said.

Meanwhile, the legisla-tive proposal has yet to get

a hearing, though support-ers are hopeful about its prospects, especially since Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently said the tax should be abolished.

That wasn’t the sense in Utah, where a legisla-tive committee last month nixed a proposal to tax-exempt the items. While some members of the all-male committee supported the idea, others questioned where the state would draw the line on what to tax in the future.

The Los Angeles Times, in an editorial last week, ex-pressed similar concerns in opposing a tax exemption that California lawmakers are considering.

Overseas, Canada re-moved taxes on the items last year, and British lead-ers, who have set the tax at the lowest possible level, have considered doing away with it altogether.

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where to ask questions before you act on an email, text message or something you saw on Twitter.”

An estimated 17.6 million people in the United States were vic-tims of identity theft in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Jus-tice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. Almost 1.5 million of the victims were 18-24-year-old, college-aged students.

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Who’s best for Hispanics? Clinton, sanders debateMIaMI (aP)—Fighting for

Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate Wednesday night over who’s the true friend of American Hispanics, trading accusa-tions over guest worker pro-grams “akin to slavery” and the embracing of “vigilan-tes” against immigrants.

They had even worse things to say about Repub-lican front-runner Donald Trump.

Facing off just six days before Florida gives its ver-dict on the presidential race, Clinton faulted Sanders for repeatedly voting against a 2007 comprehensive im-migration reform bill; he faulted her for opposing a 2007 effort to let people who were in the country illegally obtain driver’s licenses.

Had the immigration package passed back then, Clinton said, “a lot of the is-sues we are still discussing today would be in the rear-view mirror.”

Sanders retorted that he opposed the legislation be-cause it included a guest worker program “akin to slavery.”

The debate opened with a question that appeared to startle Clinton.

Univision’s Jorge Ra-mos asked her if she would drop out of the race if in-dicted over the handling of her email while secretary of state.

“Oh for goodness, that is not going to happen,” Clin-ton declared. “I’m not even answering that question.”

The FBI is investigating the possibility of mishan-dling of sensitive informa-tion that passed through Clinton’s private email server.

Sanders, as he has in the past, declined to bite on the issue, saying, “The process will take its course.” He said he’d rather talk about the is-sues of wealth and income inequality.

Both candidates were bidding for momentum af-ter Sanders surprised Clin-ton with an upset victory in Michigan on Tuesday.

Clinton stressed that she has a strong lead in the del-egates, declaring, “This is a marathon, and it is a mar-athon that can only be car-

ried by the kind of campaign I am running.”

Sanders said his Mich-igan surprise was evi-dence that his message is resonating.

“We are going to continue to do extremely well,” he said, adding that he expects to convince superdelegates who are backing Clinton to switch to his column.

Immigration com-manded considerable atten-tion for good reason: Flor-ida is home to nearly 1.8 million Hispanics, includ-ing about 15 percent of the state’s Democrats.

Hispanic voters have made up about 10 percent of voters in the Democratic primaries so far this year, and Clinton has been get-ting about two-thirds of

their votes to about one-third for Sanders. The Ver-mont senator stresses that he’s making progress on winning over younger Hispanics.

Clinton at one point ac-cused Sanders of supporting legislation that would have led to indefinite detention of people facing deportation, and for standing with Min-utemen vigilantes. He called that notion “ridiculous” and “absurd,” and accused Clin-ton of picking small pieces out of big legislative pack-ages to distort his voting record.

“No, I do not support vig-ilantes and that is a horrific statement and an unfair statement to make,” he said.

For all the disagreements, the overall tone of the candi-

dates was considerably less tense than their Sunday fa-ceoff. Sanders even paused at one point to make fun of his own pronunciation of “huge” as “yuge.”

Both found agreement in pointing to GOP front-runner Trump as markedly worse on immigration than either of them.

Clinton mocked Trump’s plan for a wall on the Mexi-can border, saying he’d build “the most beautiful tall wall, better than the great wall of China” to be “magically” paid for by Mexico. That, she said, is a fantasy.

Sanders said that in the immigration debate “we do not, as Donald Trump and others have done, resort to racism and xenophobia and bigotry.”

There were any number of areas of agreement, in-cluding the need to reduce student loan debt. Sanders said he’d come up with a plan “many months before she did.”

“Thanks for copying a very good idea,” he said.

The candidates squared off soon after a testy debate in Michigan on Sunday in which they argued about trade and economic issues of particular interest in the industrial Midwest.

With Missouri, Illinois, Ohio among the states that will be voting on Tuesday, the candidates returned to a pointed matter they’d al-ready argued about three days earlier, scuffling over Sanders’ vote against 2009 legislation that bailed out

the auto industry, among others. Sanders said he op-posed the bill because it also bailed out big banks that had fueled the reces-sion to begin with. Clinton stressed she’d made a dif-ferent judgment to side with the automakers.

Overall, 691 delegates are at stake on Tuesday, includ-ing 99 in Florida, which be awarded proportionally by Democrats.

Clinton has won 762 pledged delegates com-pared to 549 for Sanders, with 10 delegates from re-cent primaries still to be al-located. When superdele-gates are included, Clinton leads 1,223 to 574, more than halfway to the 2,383 needed to win the Demo-cratic nomination.

apDemocratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, speaks at the Univision, Washington Post Democratic presidential debate at Miami-Dade College, Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Miami.

Tampon tax: Does being female in the U.S. carry unfair costs

apThis Monday, March 7, 2016 photo shows attorney Zoe Salzman, left, and plaintiff Natalie Brasington, who have brought a class action lawsuit to end New York sales tax on feminine hygiene products, in New York. The lawsuit filed on Thursday, March 3, 2016 argues that it is unconstitutional for the state to levy sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkins while offering medical product exemptions to many other items used by both genders, like lip balm, foot powder and dandruff shampoo.

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Behaviorism and North KoreaNorth Korea is yet again

posturing on the global stage. Over the last few days, the hermit state de-clared it succeeded in min-iaturizing nuclear weapons and is once again threaten-ing the United States and South Korea with an atomic strike.

The country that cannot feed its own people, whose leader is so “biologically efficient” that he does not need to defecate, has amaz-ingly jumped years ahead in nuclear research and went from supposedly detonat-ing its first hydrogen bomb a few months ago to min-iaturizing the destructive weapon enough to fit on a ballistic missile.

Obviously, this claim is most likely false. However, North Korea is getting just what it wants: Global at-tention. No matter what its leaders may claim, North Korea is a backwards, eco-nomically depressed coun-

try. They cannot field a military strong enough to contend with the United States, China and Russia, and they know that. Every time North Korea makes an outrageous claim, all it seeks is media attention, and every time, that is just what it gets.

Behavioral psychol-ogy is grounded in one ba-sic truth. When the behav-ior of an entity is wanted, it is reinforced either by adding a desired outcome (positive reinforcement) or by removing an undesired outcome (negative rein-forcement). The reverse holds true as well. When a behavior is unwanted, it can be corrected by either adding an undesired out-come (positive punish-ment) or by removing a de-sired outcome (negative punishment).

The United Nations has tried positive punishment on North Korea again and

again. Every time the coun-try boisterously declares it possesses the ability to threaten the world due to some great, and often un-proven, military milestone, the U.N. responds by add-ing sanctions on the coun-try. According to the BBC, North Korea has currently been sanctioned in terms of luxury goods, trade and financing. However, this has clearly not worked long-term.

It is time the world tries a different tactic with North Korea. Instead of meeting its illfounded threats with negative punishment, we should simply deny it what its leaders want: attention.

If the global community ignores North Korea’s next few outlandish claims, it will deny the oppressive re-gime exactly what it wants.

Once North Korea re-alizes its threats don’t de-liver what it desires any lon-ger, it will most likely stop.

Maybe once North Korea ends its posturing, it will become open to what will help its people the most: Foreign aid, economic ad-

visory and a peaceful coex-istence with a globalizing world in which, with ev-ery passing day, every per-son - every country - be-

comes increasingly more reliant on each other and peace.

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Recently, former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers joined the growing ranks of academics and economists advocating the placing of limitations on physical cash.

In a Washington Post column from February, Summers called for a ban on the circulation of $100 notes, citing how the note is a major asset in the un-derground world of crimi-nal activity.

Due to the logistical is-sues surrounding having to discretely move five times as many notes in denomi-nations of $20 or twice as many in denominations of $50, Summers suggests banning $100 dollar bills would make it extremely difficult for criminals, in-cluding terrorists, to fi-nance their activities.

Though Summers’ rea-soning for limiting the size of dollar denominations is sound and well-mean-ing, whether it justifies tak-

ing away the ability of good law-abiding people to hold and exchange $100 dol-lar bills is another issue altogether.

That being said, Sum-mers’ proposed limitations on cash are relatively mod-est and nowhere near as ambitious and controver-sial as those of his peers.

Jim Leaviss, a former Bank of England econ-omist, is a proponent of eliminating the use of cash entirely. He argues its utili-zation dampens the ability of governments around the world to stimulate their cur-rently stagnant economies. In a London Telegraph ar-ticle, he proposes people

should essentially be forced to keep all their money in digital accounts.

“Once all money exists only in bank accounts—monitored, or even directly controlled by the govern-ment—the authorities will be able to encourage us to spend more when the econ-omy slows, or spend less

when the when it is over-heating,” Leaviss said.

“Having everyone’s ac-count at a single, central institution allows the au-thorities to either encour-age or discourage people to spend. To boost spending, the bank imposes a neg-ative interest rate on the money in everyone’s ac-count – in effect, a tax on saving,” he continued.

What Leaviss advocates is pregnant with a wide ar-ray of potentially negative implications for the eco-nomic sovereignty and lib-erty of people, particularly as it pertains to property and privacy rights. If a per-son cannot take physical possession of money and use it in commerce, is it re-ally their money? Would one want a digital record of every purchase he or she makes?

There is also the issue of the power this would give governments. Leaviss al-ludes to taxing or subsi-dizing the proposed man-datory digital accounts to manipulate people’s eco-nomic behavior, but what is the guarantee it ends there and does not delve into po-

litical realms?For example, if someone

is deemed politically incor-rect by the government, the inescapable interest rate on their digital account may just find itself 100 ba-sis points deeper in nega-tive territory.

Granted, that degree of speculation is conspirato-rial in nature, but with dis-trust in the United States government as elevated as it is today, those types of con-cerns are reflective of why it will be difficult for a cash-less society to gain traction in the United States.

To be clear, I am not against the general use of digital money, primarily debit cards. It’s a conve-nient way to spend money, and with the size of the global economy and the costs of large-scale goods, it just isn’t feasible for ev-ery commercial transaction to be settled in cash.

However, convenience should never be the only consideration in issues such as these. Personal au-tonomy should be weighed as well.

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Cashing out on cash: Weighing the pros and cons of a cashless societyCOmmeNTAry

boston.comNorth Korea claims to have created technology well beyond its capabilities.

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Webcam capabilities break down communication barriers

In the Internet age, we communicate with more people more frequently than ever before. Mil-lions of family members, friends and acquaintances are able to interact with one another every day between screens. How-ever, with so many people available, is it even possi-ble to have a meaningful relationship with only one person through the use of technology?

As it becomes a more instrumental part of our lives, technology radically alters the way in which we communicate. While argu-ably not as intimate as an in-person relationship, the individuals we meet online certainly have the poten-tial to impact our lives in many of the same ways.

Similar to in-person re-lationships, the level of connection two people have online is correlated with how much they each want to put into that con-nection. The more trust two individuals are willing to invest in each other, the more they will contribute to maintaining a growing relationship.

With the help of one-on-one communication apps like Skype which allow for face-to-face conver-sation, users even oceans apart are able to forge so-cial bonds with one an-other that can hold just as much value as a “real life”

friendship. One adorable example

comes from a recent pro-gram hosted by FCB Bra-sil and the CNA language school network, which consists of Brazilian stu-dents who want to learn American English. The Huffington Post writes of the program, “Brazilian teens are able to practice their English skills through a speaking exchange—with senior citizens liv-ing in Chicago retirement

homes.”The teens practice their

English by having casual conversations about their lives with senior citizens through a video feed, who in turn share their life sto-ries with them. The re-sults for the teens are not only improved fluency in English, but also a mutual bond transcending the dis-tance between the users’ two home countries.

For many in college who may succumb to shyness,

the massive social scene on campus can be daunting and even terrifying. There are thousands of people who each belong to dif-ferent and complex social circles, and trying to find one’s place among these can be difficult. Forming meaningful relationships can therefore be incred-ibly challenging with-out the skill of being able to readily jump into con-versations with strange, new people. For this rea-

son, many introverts feel more comfortable letting their social circles blossom online.

A study at New York University found intro-verts are often more ca-pable of building strong relationships online, rea-soning that, “There are as-pects of the Internet that enable partners to get past the usual obstacles that, in traditional interaction set-tings, often prevent poten-tially rewarding relation-

ships from getting off the ground.”

Being bashful or un-aware others may agree with our likes and dislikes often puts up barriers dif-ficult for introverts to break down. However, the Inter-net allows all people to find common ground be-fore ever becoming phys-ically acquainted, which greatly reduces the stress of reaching out to others.

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creativity-online.comThrough the use of videochat, Brazilian teenagers and American senior citizens are able to connect with one another.

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BEAUTY BEHIND BOWIEVisual collection honoring the late David Bowie debuts at the Monongalia Arts Center

AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMJohn Michael Barone presents his work, “New Wave Holograms.” at the “For the Love of David Bowie” art exhibit at the Monongalia Arts Center.

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The legacy and impact of David Bow-ie’s spectacular career as a performer will ring for years to come. His influ-ence on the arts of music and film has been discussed and shown many times since his passing in January. But his ar-tistic shadow was cast far beyond these mediums of creative

expression. The Monongalia Arts Center has

brought together a collection of artwork, ranging from spontaneous sculptures to oil paintings on canvas, all focusing on and inspired by Bowie. There are more than 25 artists’ work in the gallery, and though they all share something in com-mon, they all depict a different touch of Ziggy Stardust. The exhibit was orga-nized by John Michael Barone and pre-sented by The Artist Collective in col-laboration with The Retro-tique, Alien Gold and MAC.

The entire Davis Gallery, which is on the second floor of the MAC, is filled with this art. At the top of the stairs the lights focus on a large print of Bowie’s face. It is repeatedly imprinted over a sea of stars, surrounded by the words “For the love of David Bowie,” the name of the exhibit. As one would expect, the gallery’s rooms are full of vibrant col-ors and glittering textures. Many of the pieces are portraits of Bowie from dif-ferent stages in his career and in his self-exploration. There are also in-spired pieces showing chaotic ele-ments and figures connecting in imagi-native ways as only a Bowie album could produce.

Some of these items are for sale or have already been sold, while oth-ers are not for sale because of their meaning to the artist. There are mixed media creations, masks, sculptures, paintings varying in size and shape

and more to be seen adorning the walls.

The first piece that really stuck out is “Stardust,” painted by Robert Sum-mers. It was done in a narrow, hori-zontal canvas drawing your eyes to the middle of the image. Bowie’s facial out-line is visible, along with his nose and piercing green eyes, as it slowly fades into pure white as it gets closer to the edge of the frame. On Bowie’s right eye is the trademark red and blue lightning bolt signifying his alter-ego, Ziggy Star-dust. The slow transition into the white could symbolize his ascent to some sort of heavenly being after his death, or from another perspective, it could depict Stardust coming into this world from a pure, unbelievable place.

Barone had some of his art on display in “For the Love of David Bowie” as well. His style is very eclectic and psyche-delic, as if he designed art schemes for Adult Swim programming. But this art-ist’s attention to detail, even the wacki-est ones, is what makes his art so fasci-nating. He had paintings at the exhibit, but he also had a found object sculp-ture hanging up called “The Secular Ethics of Ziggy Stardust.” The dynamic color contrast is what catches the eye with his pieces, but up close the detail is what mystifies the viewer. The sculp-ture contained Jesus poking his head out of a bright pink pot with the light-ning bolt across his eye, seagulls fly-ing overhead, and a black and gold striped cherub using all its might to keep the pot lifted. The randomness of it seems to dissolve the longer you look at it.

There are so many more amazing works of art on display in the Davis Gal-lery commemorating David Bowie. The exhibit is on display through April 2 at the MAC. For more information please visit, http://monartscenter.com/.

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ben contemplates his final rose, ladies tell-allby chelsea walker

A&e writer @dAilyAthenAeum

In its 20 seasons, “The Bachelor” has always been known for its dramatic scenes and emotional love triangles. Looking for love this season, bachelor Ben Higgins has seemingly found him-self intertwined with both lovely and loony ladies.

After missing out on love with former season 11 bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe, Higgins was offered the chance to meet 25 beautiful contestants.

This season, viewers have swooned over the charisma and charm of the soft-ware salesman from Warsaw, Indiana. Season 20 has been one for the books from the start; women greeted Higgins in unconventional fashion and show-cased their love in bizarre ways. From unicorn masks to mini horses, partici-pants such as Jojo Fletcher and Meagan Miller pulled out all stops introducing

themselves to Higgins. As one of the finalists biding for Hig-

gins’ love, Fletcher caught the bache-lor’s attention from the start. With in-stant chemistry, the two have managed to keep a genuinely cohesive relation-ship while on the show. Sharing multi-ple intimate moments and one-on-ones, the two’s relationship seemed untouch-able until heading to their hometowns.

Greeting Higgins were Fletcher’s mother, father and two concerned brothers. In one of the most intense and awkward hometown episodes, Higgins squirmed and shuffled after every tough question tossed. Fletcher’s brothers, clearly worried about the future of their younger sister, accused the young bache-lor of brainwashing the women and lead-ing them on.

Since the awkward encounter, the two have hardly discussed the serious issues surrounding the brother’s concern. With looming family tension and little conver-sation, the two have to tackle a solemn

subject before running to “The Bache-lor” altar.

Fellow finalist, Lauren Bushnell, has appeared to carry the competition from the start. Impressing Higgins from the moment she stepped from the limo, Bushnell has intimidated the other com-petitors. With multiple one-on-ones and standing out on group dates, Bush-nell and Higgins seem like a natural fit. While Bushnell and Higgins both have impressed the in-laws as well, Higgins has made it apparent from the start he feels Bushnell is too good for a bachelor like himself.

Leading up to the finale, Higgins ex-perienced fantasy suite dates with both Bushnell and Fletcher. The overnight dates were more dramatic than ever, with Higgins confessing his love for both Fletcher and Bushnell.

Bushnell, who revealed her feelings for the bachelor first, was showered in “I love yous” from Higgins. Little did Bushnell know, Higgins was admitting

the same feelings for fellow contestant, Fletcher.

Fleeing to a tropical and exotic water-fall in Jamaica, Fletcher confessed her love while Higgins, without a flinch, ex-pressed the same feelings. With a dou-ble “I love you” revelation, speculation has started to circulate around which bachelorette will leave with an en-gagement and who will leave empty- handed.

Showcasing highlights, ABC has shared sneak peeks into “The Bachelor” season finale. Hearing a trembling and confused Fletcher, the sneak peek shows a clip where the two are hidden in a bath-room as Higgins can be heard expressing to Fletcher his already confessed feelings for Bushnell.

Clearly, the finale is set to be one full of emotions, drama and uncertainty. “The Bachelor” finale will air Monday night at 8 p.m. on ABC.


AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMDifferent paintings and sketches inspired by David Bowie are at dislpay in the Davis Gallery of the Monongalia Arts Center.

AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMMalissa Goff Baker’s oil painting, “David Bowie”, hangs in the Davis Gallery of the Monongalia Arts Center as part of the “For the Love of David Bowie” art exhibit.

123 Pleasant St. gears up for funk night, Litz and BIG Something performby rayla claypool

A&e correspondent @A&e writer

Friday is funk night at 123 Pleasant Street this week-end. Two funky, jam bands are paying a visit to Mor-gantown to play the town’s troubles away.

LITZ is a psychedelic funk band on a self-proclaimed mission to transport its listeners to a new world with-out struggles or stress. The six-piece band hails from Gaithersburg, Maryland and writes fast-paced, up-beat jams with a weird blend of guitars, synth, drums and horns.

Its first release was a two-song EP in 2013 called “From the Basement Bar.” Following that, the band dropped a self-titled EP in 2014 along with a live al-bum entitled “LITZ Live at the Hometown Get Down – 10.4.2014.” Since then, LITZ has released four more live albums and another short EP called ‘MysterEP.’

The second act, BIG Something, is another funk machine, producing smooth, rhythmic songs with the help of John Custer, a Grammy-nominated producer.

Their sound blends funk with rock, synth and elec-tronic styles to produce something completely their own.

“I definitely think we have a unique sound,” said Nick MacDaniels, BIG Something’s lead vocalist and guitarist. “We have a sound that’s recognizable as BIG Something. We do a lot of different styles of music.”

The band came together over the span of five years, according to MacDaniels, with some of the members having played together for nearly a decade.

“It just kind of happened,” MacDaniels said.The BIG Something dropped its first album, “Stories

from the Middle of Nowhere,” in 2010. Following “Sto-ries,” BIG Something released a self-titled album in 2013, and almost a year later, the band came out with their most recent album, “Truth Serum.” The band has gone on tour after tour ever since its musical debut, and they have played a ton of festivals along the way.

Originally, BIG Something was supposed to play at 123 Pleasant Street in January, but the band got stuck in Charleston, West Virginia. when winter storm Jonas came through. Jonas dropped 30 inches of snow, pre-

venting them from making the haul to Morgantown. MacDaniels said they rescheduled as soon as they could to make up for the cancelation.

Neither band is a stranger to Morgantown, as they’ve both played in town before. LJ Guliani, the owner of 123 Pleasant Street, thinks the combination of funk is just right.

“Both band’s music compliment each other,” Gi-uliani said. “It’s an opportunity for college kids to come see bands playing real music.”

Guliani added both bands are up-and-coming and he appreciates the chance to watch them grow and de-velop. He said LITZ in particular, is really beginning to leave their mark on the music scene.

MacDaniels is also looking forward to playing at 123.“We put on a super high-energy show,” MacDaniels

said. “We like to make people dance.”The show begins at 10 p.m. this Friday at 123 Pleas-

ant Street. For more information on the upcoming show, please visit http://123pleasantstreet.com/.


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Sally Fields plays woman still coming of age in ‘Hello, My Name is Doris’NEW YORK (AP) ‑ It sounds

like a misprint, but it’s not: Sally Field has headlined just one movie in the last two decades.

The reasons why are many. Hollywood doesn’t exactly churn out good parts for middle-aged or older actresses, even for be-loved two-time Oscar win-ners. Field has also been drawn elsewhere, back to television, where she got her start in the 1960s on “Gidget” and “The Flying Nun.” And then there’s the fact that Field isn’t much in-clined to play, as she says, “the traditional mother thing.”

“I’m certainly at a point in my life where I don’t do anything that I don’t want to do,” Field says. “There are things that come to me,

maybe the script is good but you don’t really need me in this movie to stand at the door and say, ‘Drive carefully.’”

“Hello, My Name Is Do-ris” is a reminder of what the movies have been missing out on. In the film, directed and co-written by Michael Showalter, Field stars as a spinsterish, daydreaming New York accountant who, after her mother dies, cau-tiously begins seeking out new experiences and pur-suing - comically, awk-wardly, sweetly - a much younger man: an art direc-tor at her Manhattan office played by Max Greenfield.

The film, which opens Friday, is a blend of tones - broadly funny, dramat-ically tender - and popu-lated by veteran perform-

ers like Tyne Daly, Stephen Root and Peter Gallagher. Holding it all together is the ever-plucky Field, outfitted with two pairs of eyeglasses around her neck and a nest of hair, Field’s intentionally messy version of a Brigitte Bardot doo.

Made for only about $1 million and shot in three weeks, it’s an unusually in-die project for Field, who jumped at the chance to play Doris. The hunt for such characters in a male-dominated industry, Field says, has been the story of her career.

“It’s always been a strug-gle. It’s not a new struggle to me,” she said in a recent interview. “But certainly as I’ve gotten older, put it this way, it doesn’t get easier.”

Field has followed the

rising outrage over gender equality in the movie indus-try with a mix of optimism and wariness. She’s spent years watching women film-makers fail to land big mov-ies and female-led films be passed over by studios.

“Certainly you can’t say that nothing has happened. There has been a lot of movement,” says Field. “But it has been SO gradual. I’ve been here for going on 53 years. It’s been so incredi-bly, incrementally gradual.”

In person, Field, aside from looking stunning for a woman nearing 70, is disarmingly direct. Those who work with her say that straightforward matter-of-factness is how she ap-proaches making a movie, too.

“As soon as you say any-

thing to her that has to do with her status or stat-ure, she’ll just say ‘Oh shut up!’” says Greenfield. “She doesn’t let you treat her that way for more than half a second.”

“Hello, My Name Is Do-ris” began as an eight-min-ute short by Laura Ter-ruso, then a film student at New York University. Her teacher, Showalter, thought it was worth developing and the two stretched the story into a feature screenplay.

Showalter, an alum of the sketch comedy troupe “The State,” considered Field the “pie-in-the-sky” casting op-tion, and was flabbergasted when she agreed. Her pres-ence and focus, he says, led the cast and crew to “raise their game to meet her.”

“She walked into a sit-

uation - a tiny little in-die movie with a bunch of young people wet behind the ears - and she came in so funny, so crisp and so brilliant,” says Showalter. “She hasn’t lost it one bit.”

Field would seem to have little in common with the timid Doris, but she ac-knowledges having “terri-ble social anxiety.” ‘’I am in-credibly shy and I am sort of a notorious hermit,” she says. “My sons push me, and I have a few friends that say, ‘OK, time’s up. We’re coming to get you.’”

Field, who has three sons, splits her time be-tween Los Angeles and New York, where she’s expected to return to Broadway this fall in a production of Ten-nessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.”

Watson and Whitaker kick off Heforshe Arts Week NEW YORK (AP) ‑ Emma Watson said

Tuesday she wants people to understand the importance of gender equality not only on a rational level but also on a vis-ceral one, and books, movies and other art forms are important vehicles for ac-complishing that.

“It’s also about making them feel it in their bones,” said Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” film series.

Watson, the UN Women Global Good-will Ambassador, and Forest Whitaker, a UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace, joined UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Wom-en’s Day at The Public Theater in Man-hattan. They were there to announce a week of arts events aimed at initiating a dialogue about gender equality.

Arts venues around New York City, in-cluding ballets, Broadway theaters, mu-seums and galleries, are taking part in the first HeForShe Arts Week to spot-light the work of UN Women, especially the idea that men and boys can become agents of change in reaching gender equality goals.

The 45-nation U.N. Commission on the Status of Women adopted a polit-ical declaration calling for accelerated implementation of 12 areas affecting women, ranging from impoverishment to economic and political participation

and the difficulties facing girls.The declaration commits the commis-

sion “to strive for the full realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women by 2030.” Watson, 25, said she wants to build momentum to reach that goal.

UN Women chief Mlambo-Ngcuka, who is South African, said the arts can bring about social change and recalled the influence of the 1984 protest song “Free Nelson Mandela” on the move-ment to release Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned at the time.

“Through art we can challenge norms peacefully,” she said.

Whitaker, who has starred in such films as “Bird,” ‘’Platoon” and “The But-ler,” said there has been some prog-ress among men becoming more open-minded about acceptable gender roles. He recalled his days as a college foot-ball player when he was mocked and badgered by teammates for being fem-inine because he danced in a musical theater production. “I think a lot of that has changed now,” he said.

Chirlane McCray, whose husband is Mayor Bill de Blasio, noted that UN Women is headquartered in New York, where International Women’s Day was first celebrated decades ago. “New York is still a pioneer for women’s rights,” she said.

Review: In ‘Eye in the Sky’ drone warfare gets its close-upOmniscient high-definition

views from above have done nothing to penetrate the fog of war in Gavin Hood’s drone drama “Eye in the Sky.”

It’s a lean, Lumet-like thriller that puts the moral calculus of drone warfare in its crosshairs. Playing out compellingly in real time, a strike against Somali ter-rorists in Nairobi is plotted by the hawkish, U.K.-based Col. Kather-ine Powell (Helen Mirren), whose operation involves pilots, politi-cians and military command in various digitally linked remote lo-cations, from the boardroom to the toilet.

Drones have begun to reshape the war movie, and will doubt-less continue to proliferate on our screens just as they have over Middle Eastern skies. “Eye in the Sky” follows last year’s very solid “Good Kill,” starring Ethan Hawke as a drone pilot based in Las Vegas. Director Andrew Nic-col’s aim was principally about the psychological toll such dis-connected battles take on its far-removed soldiers.

Hood more thoroughly utilizes the new perspectives drones af-ford to filmmakers. While much of the it is composed of faces in front of computer screens, some of the film’s most remarkable images come from the view of a hovering drone or - most impres-sively - a remote-controlled bee-tle that flutters right into the sus-pects’ lair, alighting on the rafters to provide a staggering close-up, whether Mr. DeMille is ready or

not.With such supreme powers of

surveillance, Powell and her col-leagues (including the ever-droll Alan Rickman, in one of his last performances, as a British gen-eral) have become accustomed to a previously unmatched level of certainty - or so they would like to think.

The mission is to apprehend a handful of highly ranked terror-ists, but when the trio - two rad-icalized British nationals and an American - are seen prepar-ing vests for a suicide attack, the plan is ratcheted up from “cap-ture” to “kill.”

The clash of “Eye in the Sky” isn’t on the battlefield but in the chain-of-command debate over the rules of engagement that pingpongs around politicians and lawyers who are pressured by Powell and Rickman’s general to give their OK. The collateral dam-age calculations and emotional stakes are changed significantly when a young girl sits outside the walls of the target to sell bread.

An American pilot (Aaron Paul), tasked to bring “hellfire” on the target, lays off the trigger, and numerous levels of nervous gov-ernment officials “refer up” the decision to their superiors while an agent on the ground (Barkhad Abdi, of “Captain Phillips”) at-tempts to chase the girl away.

The plotting in Guy Hibbert’s screenplay, along with the quick cutting of Hood (the South Afri-can filmmaker of “Tsotsi” and a “X-Men,” who previously dove

into the subject of CIA interro-gation in 2007’s “Rendition”), push the movie’s intensity, mak-ing “Eye in the Sky” more riveting than preachy.

The film might have hit home more if the tick-tock of its plot al-lowed us to better know its char-acters, who sometimes come off as mere mouthpieces of differ-

ent philosophies of modern war-fare. But “Eye in the Sky” is never-theless a compelling case of how moral precision doesn’t neces-sarily match technical accuracy.

The debate that rages in “Eye in the Sky” is perhaps more than is always spent over the fate of a single civilian casualty. But it could hardly seem more topical.

On Monday, more than 150 Sha-bab militants were killed in So-mali in a strike partially carried out by drones.

“Eye in the Sky,” a Bleecker Street release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “some violent images and language.” Running time: 102 minutes. Three stars out of four.

broadwayworld.comEmma Watson and Forrest Whitaker support Heforshe Arts Week in NYC.

slashfilm.comHelen Mirren stars in the new thriller ’Eye in the Sky.’

Kendrick Lamar drops successful, hasty new album by Woody pond

A&E writEr @dAilyAthEnAEum

Lebron James wanted to hear some more of that un-titled Kendrick Lamar, so Top Dawg Entertainment raced to get the project on-line. It was uploaded so fast they didn’t even have time to give it an album cover be-sides a dull green gradient or give the songs titles, but rather numbers and dates. For example, the opening track is listed as “untitled 01| 08.19.2014.” These dates most likely refer to when the song first began recording, or was first conceptualized.

Some of the songs are recognizable from Lamar’s

recent live performances on talk shows and at the Gram-mys, where he choose to perform previously unheard verses and songs as a way to grow creatively. The ex-tended play consists of eight songs running a little over a half an hour, with a cou-ple of unmentioned features and an eerily similar sound structure to the acclaimed “To Pimp a Butterfly.” This is because Kendrick’s new “untitled unmastered.” is a collection of B-sides from the Compton rapper’s soph-omore effort.

The jazzy, funky roots that blossomed into the giv-ing tree that was “To Pimp a Butterfly” are also what grew this new piece of music. The

rhythmic basslines are back, as are the chaotic samplings of piano, guitar and brass. Of course that’s not all, as some of the beats bring us back to a big beat California sound, which Kendrick uses in a way no one else seems to know how to do. In eight songs we hear every facet of Kendrick’s voice—the rough force, the high-pitched con-science musing, the pas-sionate wail and a few other stops along the way.

He returns to the same subjects as before, tending to think forward politically while simultaneously play-ing the ignorant braggado-cios rapper in satirical form. He revisits power, race, modern love and greed. On

“untitled 03|05.28.2013.” Kendrick raps from the points of view of different races. Asian, Indian, Afri-can-American and white, Lamar rhymes about what they want and how that ste-reotype is perpetuated by society. He ends the song repeating the lines “What the black man say? Tell ‘em we don’t die, we multiply.” His stance in the song paral-lels breaking free from slav-ery with breaking free from modern racism.

One of the best songs from “untitled unmastered.” is “untitled 05|09.21.2014.” featuring Punch, Anna Wise and Jay Rock. It kicks off very up-tempo, with a fast-paced bassline and drum

pattern that sounds more like a jam band or Red Hot Chili Peppers than a hip-hop instrumental.

Anna Wise is the first to contribute vocals, sing-ing a jazzy chorus, “Some-body said you bumped your head and bled the floor, jumped into a pit of flames and burned to coal,” after a minute of instrumental. All of the vocalists’ lyrics focus on social inequality and los-ing sight of one’s place in the world. Punch lays a vocab-ulary-rich verse that com-petes with the beat poet Kendrick before TDE label-mate Jay Rock and Lamar trade off every four bars in the third and final verse. The crashing cymbals and

the hints of strange melo-dies weaving in and out of the forefront of the track help the song ride out for the entire five and half min-utes. “untitled 05” con-cludes with Jay Rock asking, “Before I blink do I see me before them pearly gates? Or this is just a mirage or a façade—wait.”

Lebron got what he asked for and more with this record. Kendrick La-mar has proven the album that won him the Grammy for Best Rap Album had a couple other gems that did not make the cut, but still excel in the 2016 hip-hop environment.


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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Thursday March 10, 20166 | CAMPUS CONNECTION

BY NANCY BLACK

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHH Self-discipline makes a difference today. Take charge to realize a per-sonal vision. Slow to avoid accidents. A surprising development charges your team. Research options. Put one toe in the water before you jump in.

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ADVANCING SEASON

By Chris JaCksonAssociAte sports editor

@cJAcksonWVU

Riding a four-game win-ning streak into the post-season, the No. 9 West Vir-ginia Mountaineers are poised to advance past the first round since joining the Big 12 in 2012.

Last year was a quarter-finals defeat to Baylor, who they fell to all three times last year. It was a 17-point loss to Texas in the 2014 opening round, and in 2013 it was a 71-69 loss to No. 9 seed Texas Tech.

“We’re very excited,” said WVU sophomore guard Jevon Carter. “Hopefully this can be the first time since West Virginia’s been in the Big 12 that we could win a game in the Big 12 Tournament.”

WVU is a No. 2 seed in this year’s Big 12 Tour-nament, the program’s highest conference seed-ing since taking the No. 1 seed in the 1989 Atlantic 10 Tournament. It faces ei-ther the winner of Texas Tech and TCU in the Quar-terfinals Thursday evening,

teams it went 4-0 against this season.

Four different Mountain-eers scored in double-fig-ures when they defeated Texas Tech, 90-68, on Se-nior Night a week ago. Jay-sean Paige and Daxter Miles Jr. each had 15 points, with the team also forcing 19 turnovers and holding a 40-23 rebounding advantage.

They also cruised past TCU in 73-42 fashion dur-ing the second meeting, following a 95-87 victory at TCU to begin the con-ference slate. They forced 26 turnovers and finished with a 17-5 advantage on the offensive glass, high-lighting Jonathan Holton’s return from a four-game suspension.

“Every game is different,” Carter said. “You never know what they’re going to come out and do. They could change their whole gameplan so you can’t just look at a game. You can’t go by the last two times you played them. You’ve just got to look at every game differently.”

WVU players believe this is the time to make

their first deep conference run since the 2010 Big East Champion team did, who also advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 1959.

A victory in the first round leads to a semifinals matchup against the winner of Oklahoma/Iowa State. WVU went 2-2 against the duo, getting swept by Okla-homa and completing the season sweep of Iowa State.

Winning the confer-ence tournament would put the Mountaineers into discussion for receiving a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

However, the 2010 Final Four team was also a two-seed despite seizing the program’s first and only Big East title.

“We won the Big East and we were the last 2-seed, so we ended up being really the eighth best team ac-cording to the committee,” Huggins said. “I thought we beat some pretty good teams on the way to win-ning the Big East Tourna-ment too. I thought we were pushing to get a one then and it ends up we weren’t

even close. We were way closer to a three than to it.”

But a Big 12 confer-ence title is a beginning. It’s arguably college bas-ketball’s top conference, facing ranked opponents nearly every night dur-ing the rough and rugged schedule.

One would have to get past top five opponents Kansas and Oklahoma, with Kansas rated as the nation’s top team. There’s Iowa State’s experienced and talented starting five, but a lack of depth cost it against the Mountaineers.

Then there’s Baylor with Rico Gathers, Lester Med-ford and Taurean Prince, who WVU also swept this year. There’s Shaka Smart and Texas, who defeated WVU both times in con-vincing fashion.

“I haven’t had a chance to do it, but I feel like it’s go-ing to be a big key for the (NCAA) tournament,” Paige said. “It means a lot to get a win whether it’s in the regu-lar season. Any win is a big win. But you win the Tour-nament, it gets you a step closer to the goal.”

Except there’s a confi-dence the Mountaineers have exuded since day one. They have shirts that read “Houston,” the site of this year’s Final Four.

“We really feel like this year is our year,” Carter said. “We really feel like we could get it done this year.”

Although the Final Four is weeks away, the Big 12 Tournament awaits this weekend. Anything less than a title in Kansas City would disappoint WVU, who already wasn’t satis-fied despite a second place finish.

WVU was projected to finish sixth in the pre-season polls, defying the odds for a second-straight season. Although it fin-ished two games behind Kansas for the regular sea-son title, it hopes to sit atop the conference come Satur-day evening.

“With this team we have high goals and high expec-tations,” Carter said. “Any-thing less than a Big 12 championship is a down-fall for us.”

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title runIn 2015-16, the West Vir-

ginia University men’s bas-ketball team recorded its best regular season record since 2009-10. That alone means something–that team was one of West Vir-ginia’s greatest ever.

The 2009-10 season was Bob Huggins’ finest hour in Morgantown, as the Moun-taineers conquered the Big East Tournament for the only time, as a preface to the team’s second Final Four run in history.

There’s little doubt that lifting the conference tro-phy can boost a team fur-ther in the NCAA Tourna-ment. It happened back then, and it can happen again this weekend in Kan-sas City, as the Mountain-eers have their best chance ever at capturing the Big 12 Tournament title–even though it will be a much tougher road than Huggins faced in 2010.

Back then, the Big East Tournament was a 16-team bonanza, and as the 3-seed, the 2010 Moun-taineers had a double-bye and the chance to sit back and watch the lesser teams fight it out.

Then, a series of fortu-nate upsets broke WVU’s way. One-seed Syracuse and two-seed Pittsburgh were knocked out early, as was four-seed Villanova–that allowed WVU to go all the way without having to face one of three possible opponents in the national top 10.

West Virginia won the Big East title by beating 11-seed Cincinnati, seven-seed Notre Dame and eight-seed Georgetown, re-quiring two Da’Sean But-ler game-winners along the way.

But in a 10-team Big 12 Tournament, there doesn’t look to be any way through without having to face at least one team currently ranked in the top five. No. 5 Oklahoma–who beat West Virginia twice this season –looms in the semifinals, and No. 1 Kansas is the pick to win the whole thing.

None of those teams have Press Virginia, how-ever, and although the Mountaineers are still looking for their first-ever Big 12 Tournament win, they believe that the press can still overwhelm Big 12 opponents that have seen it before.

“They have a frame of reference but they don’t have time to work on it,” Huggins said. “It’s kind of like you play Syracuse twice and you have one day to get ready. Guys forget.”

The blueprint is there: West Virginia already knocked Kansas off the No. 1 perch once this season behind one of the greatest press performances of the last two years.

But there are any num-ber of teams that can pop up and take West Virginia out, including Texas who beat WVU twice this sea-son, along with danger-ous Iowa State and Baylor teams.

By Huggins’ own admis-sion, this is the toughest league he has ever coached in, including the Big East that he won in 2010. But this West Virginia team is built for tournament play with its depth and tenac-ity, and they have as good a chance as any to take home the trophy.

And if West Virginia can get it done in Kansas City, history has shown that could propel it to bigger and better things.

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Trio of Mountaineers advance to finals in QualifiersBy roger turner

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On the second day of competition at the NCAA Zone A Diving Champion-ships in Annapolis, Mary-land, three West Virginia div-ers placed in the finals as the men’s and women’s teams’ head into the final day of the NCAA qualifying meet.

Sophomore divers for the West Virginia men’s team stole the show for the Moun-taineers, as two underclass-men advanced to the finals in the one-meter event. Alex Obendorf and Michael Proi-etto stepped up their perfor-mances from the first day of competition, which saw only Proietto in the finals for the three-meter. Although both divers placed in the top 20 in the preliminary round, Proietto was the only West Virginia diver to earn a spot in the finals of the 3-meter event on Monday. Tuesday was a different story with three underclassmen mak-ing it to the finals.

“Today was a great day for the men and women,” said WVU diving coach Michael Grapner. “Alex (Obendorf ) and Michael (Proietto) really stepped up and were fight-ing for the top-eight and top-10 spots with many former NCAA qualifiers. The growth and development from last year to this year has been significant.”

Last season, Proietto and Obendorf qualified for a trip to the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships but placed just outside of the top-six

qualifiers eligible to com-pete in the NCAA Diving Championships. The short-comings of last season and the first day of competition for Obendorf and Proietto seemed to fuel their top 15 finishes in the preliminary round of the one-meter on Tuesday.

Proietto highlighted the day for the Mountaineers, compiling a total score of 598.10 in the one-meter event, which earned the sophomore from Aston, Pennsylvania eighth place. Obendorf was not far off from also qualifying for the NCAA Swimming and Div-

ing Championships in At-lanta after placing 10th over-all in the one-meter with a score of 595.30. For the men’s, the top four in the one-meter qualify for the NCAA Swimming and Div-ing Championships, while the women advance the top six on the three-meter and high platform events.

Freshman Julia Calcut made her way to the finals in the three-meter for the WVU women’s team, scor-ing a 253.95 in the prelimi-nary round to finish 16th. Calcut would hold her place at 16 in the finals, complet-ing the three-meter with a

combined score of 505.30. “Julia made it back for fi-

nals on three-meter,” Grap-ner said. “Her prelim was consistent and strong. She was right up there with some of the seniors and kept her cool the whole time.”

Another WVU freshman making an appearance in the women’s three-meter and debuting in the regional championship meet was Madelyn Woods. The fresh-man from Centerville, Ohio recorded an overall score of 217.90, which placed Woods 37th overall, as she did not qualify for the finals of the 3-meter.

“Maddy (Woods) was strong on several dives, but she just didn’t hit the ones she needed, and that kept her out of the finals,” Grap-ner said.

This year’s NCAA Zone-A Diving Championships con-clude beginning at 11 a.m. on Wednesday with both the men and women competing in the high platform event.

“Tomorrow’s tower day is always a dreaded yet a fun day for the divers,” Grapner said. “Since they don’t have a tower for training, we just go out and have fun.”

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When freshmen ath-letes begin their collegiate careers, not much is ex-pected from them initially. Freshmen are typically groomed by their coaches and older teammates to become better competi-tors in the long term. For the West Virginia Univer-sity gymnastics team this season, this could not be any further from the truth.

The No. 25 ranked Mountaineers have heav-ily relied on the perfor-mances of their youngest gymnasts, and their re-sults have been a crucial key to the team’s success thus far. Kirah Koshinski, Tiara Wright, Jaquie Tun and Carly Galpin have all been expected to deliver in pressure situations on a frequent basis this season.

Being a freshman in col-lege is a challenge for ev-eryone at first. Moving away from home and leav-ing everything you know to go to a completely new and strange place is no easy task. The stressful nature of being a freshman and all the responsibilities that come with it is only mag-nified for student-athletes.

“I definitely felt a fish out of water initially, I had gone to the same school since kindergarten and hadn’t really experienced being in a new place.” Tun said.

For these gymnasts, ac-ademics weren’t the only things that were drastically different between high school and college. Every gymnast from high school down competed on a club team, which is much dif-ferent from being on a col-lege gymnastics team in a variety of ways.

“Club was very different in the sense that it was very individualistic,” Wright said. “Yes, you wanted to win for the team, but you wanted to perform well for yourself, and the team of-ten came second. Here, it is all about the team and far less about yourself, which is what I love about it.”

Coming in, many of the freshmen gymnasts were unsure of what their roles on the team would be once the season kicked off. The majority were expecting to have a much more limited impact on the team than they do now.

“I had no idea what to expect when coming here,” Tun said. “I’ve had the chance to regularly com-pete in three events which is two more than I ex-pected. I thought I’d only be doing bars, which is my main event.”

On the other hand, some gymnasts came in with the mindset that they would try their hardest to have an immediate impact on the team’s success.

“Personally, my goal was to help contribute to the team right away, the fact that I could be such a big help to the team this year is awesome,” Koshin-ski said. “I’ve been waiting to compete in college for-ever now. At this point you just gotta give it what you got and go for it. I’m really happy to be competing in three out of four events and will hopefully be in competing in four when I’m fully healthy.”

The Mountaineer team as a whole has been on fire in recent weeks, earn-ing wins against its last six opponents. In its previ-ous two meets, it recorded scores of 196.225 and an incredible 196.8, eighth-

highest team score in pro-gram history. It had not hit above 196.0 in any of its previous meets.

While every member on the team has made im-provements throughout the season, the freshmen have looked more poised and confident each and every week. Many of them credit their coaches and veteran teammates for their continuous growth as gymnasts.

“I noticed recently that hearing the help and sup-port of my teammates while I’m on the beam has really boosted my confi-dence and helped me per-form at a higher level,” Galpin said.

Koshinski sits at No. 20 nationally and No. 4 in the Big 12 on vault with an RQS of 9.875. She owns

six victories this season that include four on vault and two on floor. On floor, she holds a team-best 9.86 RQS and comes in at No. 10 in the conference. She has managed a 9.8 or bet-ter in 18 out of 25 career routines.

Koshinski ranks third on the team with 245.4 points overall from rou-tinely competing in three events. If not for a hand injury, Koshinski would likely be competing on bars and hold a higher rank as a result. She is also the first Mountaineer in program history to win four Big-12 weekly honors in one season (Newcomer of the Week).

Wright, Tun and Ko-shinski have all been Swiss Army Knives for the team this season.

Wright’s main event is the uneven bars and cur-rently has a 9.795 RQS, tied for 2nd highest on the team. She also had com-peted on the beam and floor several times this season. She earned her first win of the season last week when she put up a 9.9 on the bars against Ohio State and Bowling Green.

Tun has also been a fix-ture on the bars this sea-son, ranking just behind Wright for third on the team with an RQS of 9.74. She has made frequent appearances on the floor and three appearances on vault. She owns four scores of 9.8 or better, most com-ing in the past two weeks.

Galpin has been a spe-cialist on the balance beam for the Mountain-

eers. She has won the event once and has placed in the top five on three separate occasions. She currently holds the highest average score on the beam with 9.795, narrowly edging out senior Melissa Idell.

With all the young talent this West Virginia roster holds, many of the fresh-men are optimistic about the future.

“I’m really excited, each year I feel as if this team is getting better,” Koshin-ski said. “Each and ev-ery freshman class that comes in seems like it’s better than the one before it, and if things keep going in that direction then this program has a chance to be special.”

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Golf

WVU excited to receive new and improved practice facilityBy Neel MadhavaN

SportS Writer @dailyathenaeum

Last week, the West Vir-ginia University athletic department announced a major Coliseum Complex renovation project that will begin soon. While the most significant part of the reno-vations involve expanding and modernizing the Col-iseum concourse for bas-ketball games and other athletic events and over-hauling the Shell Build-ing for track and field, the men’s golf team also ex-pects to get some major

facilities upgrades as well.As a small part of this $25

million renovation project, the Mountaineer golf team is going to get a new 1,400 square foot area to house its indoor golf simulator and practice facility. In ad-dition to the new indoor practice area, the team will be able to take full ad-vantage of the soon-to-be-expanded Olympic sport athletic training room, which will expand from 2,000 to 5,000 square feet. The team will finally have a suitable weight training facility to use, rather than having to use the football

team’s weight training fa-cility in the Puskar Center at Mountaineer Field, like they have been.

“It will be exactly the same as the old indoor fa-cility we had, just in a dif-ferent location, with a TrackMan indoor simula-tor and putting/chipping turf,” said WVU head coach Sean Covich.

The team’s indoor prac-tice facility is currently lo-cated inside the Coliseum with a flat indoor putting surface and a swing simu-lator. But according to Co-vich that facility will be re-moved while the Coliseum

undergoes its transforma-tion and the golf team will be without its indoor prac-tice facility until the fall.

“We had an indoor fa-cility that was built inside an old dance studio in the Coliseum back in June,” Covich said. “That has been removed because of the Coliseum renovations. We will be without an in-door facility until next fall, maybe October. Once we get the ‘new’ facility, it will be just like what we had just in a different location.”

One of the biggest ob-stacles a golf program like WVU has to overcome is

the weather and climate. The wintry months are not conducive to playing golf, meaning the Mountain-eers need an alternative so that they can still con-tinue to practice in some way. That’s the advantage of having an indoor prac-tice facility.

“Some sort of indoor fa-cility is vital to a program in our geographic loca-tion,” Covich said.

Like in any college sport, recruiting is a major part of building a successful pro-gram, especially for a WVU golf program that is in the midst of its first competi-

tive season in more than 30 years.

“This will be huge in stu-dent recruiting,” said WVU athletic director Shane Ly-ons in an interview with WVUSports.com. “A lot of people refer to these things as an ‘arms race,’ and I don’t see it that way. Facil-ities don’t win champion-ships, but I do think they are part of the formula to help recruit the type of stu-dent-athletes we need to win championships. It also helps retain high-quality coaches.”

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Mountaineers conclude indoor season, prepare for outdoor slate

By Joel NorMaNSportS Writer

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Just as winter becomes spring, the sports seasons also change.

The West Virginia Univer-sity women’s track and field season runs from December into July. However, there are two types of track and field: indoor and outdoor.

The outdoor season is fin-ished. The Mountaineers competed in five events prior to the Big 12 Indoor Champi-onship on Feb. 26-27. West Virginia finished ninth out of 10 teams and did not qualify for the NCAA Indoor Cham-pionship this weekend.

But that doesn’t mean that the team didn’t have its fair share of success, with multi-ple athletes earning postsea-son honors.

Senior Hannah Stone, ju-nior Amy Cashin, sopho-mores Shamoya McNeil, Re-becca Wendt, Millie Paladino and Jillian Forsey and fresh-man Faith Penny all earned All Big 12 honors for finishing in the top eight of their respec-tive categories.

McNeil moved up to No. 2 on WVU’s records list in the Big 12 Championship, mark-ing a career-best 12.82 meter jump in the triple jump.

“We had some very good moments this weekend,” said WVU head coach Sean Cleary in an interview with WVUs-ports.com. “Our pole vault-ers were competing at their

career-high heights. We had two All-Big 12 performers in the high jump. The triple jump saw another All-Big 12 performance. Meghan (Jean-Baptiste) competed hard in the multi events and will re-turn in a year with the expe-rience required to contend for All-Big 12 honors. Our dis-tance runners did a nice job earning honors in the 1,000 meters, 3,000 meters and the 5,000 meters.”

Despite the abrupt end of the indoor season, the team is not finished. Seventy degree weather means that it’s time to race outside.

The outdoor season has 10 events before the NCAA Out-door Championship begins on May 26.

The Mountaineers begin the outdoor season in Win-ston-Salem, North Carolina, with a two-day meet against Wake Forest on Friday, March 18.

There are more differences between the two seasons than the length of regular sea-son events. The postseason is longer for the outdoor season as well. The NCAA Outdoor Championship lasts seven days, not all consecutive.

A three day preliminary round starts May 26, then the four day championship round begins on June 8.

Similar to the indoor sea-son, West Virginia will not host any home outdoor events. The indoor team was scheduled to host the Marty Pushkin Classic on Jan. 23, but it was

cancelled because of Winter Storm Jonas.

However, West Virginia an-ticipates hosting events in the future. In the fall of 2017, a $25 million aquatic and track and field center in Mylan Park will be ready for recreational use.

The university plans to use it to host swimming and track and field events.

“When our new facilities become a reality, we will be very excited to host a wide va-riety of home contests,” said Cleary said. “This team is a pe-rennial national class team. Our fans will enjoy being able to watch it at home. This facil-ity will be an incredible boost to the entire community.”

So as Daylight Saving Time begins this weekend, the Mountaineers also switch sea-sons. They look to build off of a solid indoor season with an even better outdoor season. The outdoor season is almost upon us, and it should be an-other exciting season for the Mountaineers.

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Spieth looking to dial back the expectations placed upon himPALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP)

— Jordan Spieth feels his game is in about the same spot as last year going into the Valspar Champion-ship, which turned out to be the start of big run that carried him all the way to a green jacket.

The difference is that eight-shot victory to start the year in Hawaii, and the expectations that came along with it.

Spieth knew he was go-ing to be a target this year. He is No. 1 in the world, the Masters and U.S. Open champion who made a bold pursuit of the Grand Slam. And then he blew away the winners-only field at Kapalua in his first start of 2016, and winning felt easy.

Maybe too easy.“You want to set high-

end, borderline unrealistic expectations for yourself because if you get any-where close to it you’re go-ing to be there,” Spieth said Wednesday. “But there’s a

balance that I needed to find. It’s been a learning experience this year.”

A year ago, Spieth had three top 10s, a missed cut at Torrey Pines and a tie for 17th at Doral, a course that doesn’t seem to suit him or anyone else who doesn’t hammer tee shots 300 yards in the air.

Throw out the eight-shot win at Kapalua this year, and Spieth has a pair of top 10s, a missed cut and an-other tie for 17th at Doral.

Spieth is the defend-ing champion at the Val-spar Championship, which gets lost among the Flor-ida Swing on the PGA Tour but still manages to attract a strong field because of the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook. Henrik Sten-son, Patrick Reed, Danny Willett and Branden Grace give the tournament five of the top 12 in the world.

Spieth finished with three tough par saves last year to get into a three-man playoff, and he beat

Reed and Sean O’Hair with a 30-foot birdie on the third extra hole. He fol-lowed with runner-up fin-ishes in San Antonio and Houston, and then he went wire-to-wire at the Masters and tied Tiger Woods’ re-cord score.

Repeating is never easy at any tournament, let alone a stretch of four of them.

“I’ve actually been off to a better start in 2016 than I was in 2015,” Spieth said. “I feel like I’m in a better place. ... Really need to get my putter going. Hasn’t re-ally slicked yet. Feels fine. Haven’t quite gone in yet. But they will.”

Even so, it seems as though his game hasn’t been as sharp. In his last three tournaments, he fin-ished 10 shots behind at Pebble Beach, missed the cut at Riviera after the worst opening round (79) of his young PGA Tour ca-reer, and then finished 11 shots behind at Doral.

It was last week at Doral that Spieth learned to tem-per his expectations, and the Blue Monster at Trump National Doral was the perfect place for that.

“That course is going to make you ... it’s really bad for player-caddie relation-ships, as well as player-golf club relationships,” Spieth said with a laugh.

“You don’t like your cad-die or your clubs after that week. But I set lower ex-pectations given I don’t think the course is a good fit for me.”

Sharapova guilty of “willful negligence” in recently failed drug testLONDON (AP) — Ma-

ria Sharapova was guilty of “willful negligence” for us-ing meldonium, and in-ternational tennis officials were aware that many play-ers were taking the drug be-fore it was banned this year, former World Anti-Dop-ing Agency president Dick Pound said Wednesday.

Pound told The Associ-ated Press that Sharapova could face a ban of up to four years unless she can prove mitigating circum-stances to explain her pos-itive test for meldonium at the Australian Open in January.

Meldonium, a Latvian-manufactured drug de-signed to treat heart con-ditions, was added to the World Anti-Doping Agen-cy’s banned list on Jan. 1 af-ter authorities noticed wide-spread use of the substance among athletes.

In announcing her pos-itive test at a news confer-

ence in Los Angeles on Monday, Sharapova said she had been using the drug for 10 years for various med-ical issues. The five-time Grand Slam champion and world’s highest-earning fe-male athlete said she hadn’t realized meldonium had been prohibited this year, taking full responsibility for her mistake.

“An athlete at that level has to know that there will be tests, has to know that whatever she or he is tak-ing is not on the list, and it was willful negligence to miss that,” Pound said. “She was warned in advance I gather. The WADA publica-tion is out there. She didn’t pay any attention to it. The tennis association issued several warnings, none of which she apparently read.”

“I am sorry, if you are running a $30 million a year sole enterprise you bet-ter make sure the basis for that commercial success, if

nothing else, remains un-assailable,” Pound added in the interview with the AP on the sidelines of the Tackling Doping in Sport conference at Twickenham Stadium.

Current WADA president Craig Reedie questioned why Sharapova was pre-scribed meldonium.

“If the reports are true and this was happening when she was a teenager, then you begin to wonder why a drug that is basically to help heart problems was administered,” he said.

Pound disclosed that in-ternational tennis officials had flagged up the use of meldonium to the WADA committee that monitors the use of various drugs and recommends whether to put them on the banned list.

“Clearly, within the ten-nis circle at least, they were aware that a lot of the play-ers were using it (meldo-nium) and said that there must be something to this,

so they referred it to the WADA list committee,” Pound said.

So far, Sharapova is the only tennis player with a known positive test for meldonium.

Meldonium, which is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was banned by WADA be-cause it aids oxygen uptake and endurance. Several other athletes in various in-ternational sports have al-ready been caught using it since it was banned Jan. 1.

A study published Wednesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that up to 490 ath-letes may have been tak-ing meldonium during last year’s inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. The drug was not banned at that time.

The study found that 13 winners or medalists were taking meldonium, 66 ath-letes tested positive for it,

and the drug was detected in athletes in 15 of the 21 sports on the program. The research contributed to WA-DA’s decision to add meldo-nium to the banned list.

Sharapova is being pro-visionally suspended by the International Tennis Feder-ation, which will hold hear-ings on the case and decide on any long-term ban.

“She faces up to four years sanction for this,” Pound said. “There will have to be a review of whatever miti-gating factors there may be, and not many leap to mind.”

Pound said he did not understand why Sharapova would have been taking the drug for so long.

The player said Monday that she had taken meldo-nium for a decade following various health problems in-cluding regular sicknesses, early signs of diabetes and “irregular” results from echocardiography exams.

“Looking at it from 10,000

feet and from outside, you say, ‘I am sorry but that doesn’t hold together,’” Pound said. “You’re in the United States, this is a prod-uct that is not available in the United States, and so there has got to be more to this than meets the eye.”

Grindeks, the Latvian company that manufac-tures meldonium, said the normal course of treatment with meldonium is four to six weeks.

“One of the issues that will have to be dealt with is that the use of this prod-uct for therapeutic purposes is not a long term,” Pound said. “You use it for a single intervention for weeks or months maybe, but not for 10 years in a row.”

Sharapova’s lawyer, John J. Haggerty, said Tuesday that he wanted “to disabuse the concept that Maria took mildronate every day for 10 years because that’s simply not the case.”

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