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West Virginia University students in the Reed College of Media who are enrolled in a strategic communications and public relations study abroad capstone course are working with FEMAMA, the Brazilian Federation of Phil-anthropic Breast Health In-stitutions. The course fo-cuses on helping real-world health care clients and to re-duce breast cancer death rates in Brazil.

“The idea for FEMAMA was created because Dr. Caleffi (founder of FEMAMA) saw the need for such an organization in the work she does as a doctor of medicine in Brazil,” said Cody Whisinnand, a stu-dent enrolled in the cap-stone course. “The idea for the class was developed be-cause it is an amazing op-portunity to work with real clients internationally.”

At the beginning of the semester, the course di-vided its students into four agencies. Each agency has

one account manager, one research director and two to three creative directors. Next week, the agencies will travel to FEMAMA’s head-quarters in Porto Alegre during spring break, to meet with the founder and present their campaigns to healthcare professionals.

“This is great because it encourages us to really push to create something as pro-fessional as we can, and it also mimics real life where you would compete with other agencies for the spot to work for a client,” Whisin-

nand said.According to Whisin-

nand, the capstone course aims to bring international breast cancer awareness. The group also plans to help strengthen FEMAMA’s methods of communica-tion with other non-profit organizations.

“We are doing this to help FEMAMA grow in size and work in more cohesion with their smaller affiliate NGO’s (nongovernmental organi-zations),” Whisinnand said.

According to Whisin-nand, being a part of the

capstone course is both re-warding and emotionally fulfilling.

“Brazil is 20 years be-hind the United States in healthcare, so being able to help in anyway is greatly rewarding,” Whisinnand said. “Getting involved not only helps the people you are giving aid to, but it also teaches you lessons about life that you would normally not be exposed to.”

Caleffi founded FEMAMA in 2006. The organization works on increasing infor-

mation pertaining to breast cancer by focusing on mam-mogram accessibly and quality, and creating re-sources for federal diagno-sis and treatment of breast cancer.

F E M A M A re c e nt ly helped pass federal legisla-tion that allowed all women over 40 in Brazil to receive one free mammogram per year. For more information on FEMAMA, visit: http://femama.org.br/ingles/in-dex.php.

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One could easily assume that West Virginia University Police dread this time of year with St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, but Un-viersity Operations Captain Danny Camden insists that is not the case.

“We’re definitely enjoying the warmer weather,” Cam-den said.

Still, Camden acknowl-

edges that the upcoming drinking holiday will call for an increase in UPD and Mor-gantown Police Department patrol officers, across the city and WVU campuses.

“We certainly don’t expect there are going to be prob-lems but there tend to be a lot more people out than normal and so we want to do our part to promulgate this safe envi-ronment so people can have a good time,” Camden said. “We want students and local folks to enjoy the holiday.”

To prepare for the festivi-ties, Camden said UPD will spread extra patrolmen across Sunnyside, North High Street and the area around Arnold Hall between 8 p.m.-4 a.m. tomorrow. They will also be present around the Towers Housing Complex and Evans-dale campus.

The City of Morgantown will also be making accom-modations of its own to pre-pare for the expected swarm of pedestrians. According to a press release, the Mor-

gantown Parking Author-ity will be restricting parking along the 300 block of High Street and 200 block of Wal-nut Street starting at 11 p.m. Tuesday night through 5 a.m. Wednesday morning. Me-ters will be bagged to identify these regulated areas.

MPD will also be plac-ing additional police offi-cers throughout the city and downtown area.

MPD Chief Ed Preston de-clined to comment, stating “comments are limited to the

press release” posted on the website. Preston did, how-ever, confirm that “all avail-able personnel will be work-ing and their schedules will be modified to put the most offi-cers on the street during peak activities.”

In the past, St. Patrick’s Day has caused the Univer-sity a considerable head-ache, particularly after the “I’m Shmacked” documen-tary video surfaced in 2012. But the ruckus historically caused on the holiday doesn’t

have so much to do with stu-dents. Camden said in his 26 years with UPD, most of these rowdy students are actually out-of-town visitors.

“A lot of the people we end up arresting are visitors. They just get drawn in because of the festivities,” Camden said. “It’s sad, but true that when you get people down here who don’t live here for an event like this, they tend to not respect what we have to

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Members of the West Virginia University Pub-lic Relations Student Society of America will walk the catwalk tonight to raise money for the Mountaineer Boys and Girls Club.

Students from various sororities and children from the Boys and Girls Club will act as models for the sixth annual show.

“Not only are you supporting a great cause, (you are) supporting the younger generation and an after school program that provides a safe place, safe environment (and) a fun envi-ronment for kids to grow and learn,” said Rashi-dah McCoy, the public relations director for the PRRSA.

MBGC is a community program that aims to promote and enhance the development of boys and girls. The organization aims to instill per-sonal responsibility, respect for others and one-self and giving back to the community.

MBGC also has programs that help tutor kids in the S.T.E.M. fields, promote leadership in the community and teach kids about financial literacy.

Eight local boutiques will be featured in the fashion show. The models will strut the bou-tique’s clothes down the runway, followed by children of the MBGC, who get to make an ap-pearance on stage.

“I’m just excited to see the kids’ faces and let this night be about them,” McCoy said. “They are the VIP guests because this year the theme is Red Carpet Extravaganza so the kids really are our VIP guests for the event.”

This is the first year the kids are allowed to participate on stage.

The event will go from 6-8 p.m., with doors opening at 5:45 p.m. All proceeds go directly to the Boys and Girls Club.

PRSSA has more than $1,000 in raffle prizes to give away. According to McCoy, the orga-nizations received donations from many local businesses such as Black Bear, The Spa at The Waterfront, Texas Roadhouse, Chico’s Fat and Starbucks, among others.

DJ Dollar will be DJing the event, and Miss West Virginia and Miss Morgantown, who will be sharing Emcee duties, will join him.

President Gordon E. Gee will be making an appearance from 6-7 p.m., but perhaps the most important special guest to the kids will be Col-lege of Media therapy dog Omega.

“It’s an opportunity for the community and the University to come together to schedule a fun night. Often times we don’t have that oppor-tunity on campus for everyone to come together to enjoy different experiences,” McCoy said.

Tickets for the show are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information or to or-der tickets, visit http://prssa.studentorgs.wvu.edu/prssa-fashion-show.

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by john mark shaverstaff writer

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According to both local and national store owners, brick and mortar video game shops foster the fun, adventure and comradery that larger chains and online stores lack.

A recent study by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) noted that in 2010, 67 percent of homes con-tained gamers, a number which has surely risen in years since. It’s no sur-prise, then, that downtown Morgan-town alone boasts two locally owned video game stores, with many more in the surrounding area. However, one must wonder what these stores offer their customers that can’t be obtained by shopping online or at a major chain.

Lee Ann Riggleman, owner of Vintage Videos and Games on Walnut Street in downtown Morgantown, said a major factor is how customers are treated in a locally owned store versus a national chain or online.

“People appreciate coming into a store and being treated like a person,” Riggleman said. “That’s always been our policy. We like to know our customers, and we do know a lot of our customers by name. They’ve come to us for years. I think it fosters community because everything is sort of huge, box stores now. They don’t want to know you. They don’t care. You’re there, you buy your stuff, you leave and you’re done.”

Riggleman also said it’s beneficial to not have to pay shipping or wait mul-tiple weeks for an item like you would when buying online.

Chris Hendershot, owner of the re-cently opened Cartridges Galore on High Street, shared the sentiment, say-ing it’s easier to see exactly what condi-tion the product is in if someone buys it in person. He also shared some more ideas.

“The bottom line is that people like to

see it and hold it in their hand and see what they’re buying, and be in a physi-cal store where they can see the sights and sounds and maybe hear the ‘Ma-rio’ theme,” Hendershot said. “They can see some arcade machines and the displays.”

Joe Negron, host of the Smart Video Game Fan podcast, explained that to him, half of the fun of video game shop-ping is finding things he’d never even thought about, something he can’t get from online shopping.

“I love walking into a game store,” Ne-gron said. “I love seeing different things I never thought I would. If I’m online somewhere searching for a game, it’s because I have a specific game in mind. I have an idea, I know exactly what I want, I find it online and have it shipped to me and I don’t even need to leave my house. But that’s not always what I want. I like just going and shopping and look-ing and talking to the people there.”

Negron, a lifelong video game fan and former shop owner, said one of his favorite activities in the 90s was hunting through shops and flea markets to find rare games and items. The rise of the internet had a disheartening effect on his adventures, as market prices, now available to more people than ever on-line, allowed store owners to follow the prices they saw online. Negron said market prices have made it almost im-possible to find the rare, special deals that he did 20 years ago.

However, above market prices, nos-talgia and easier access aside, Hender-shot, Riggleman and Negron all agreed local shops offer something much more special than shopping online.

Riggleman noted that Vintage Videos and Games, which has now been open for almost two decades, strives on its ability to garner conversation between

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work so hard to build and keep. And that doesn’t just go for the UPD, but also for the students and the college itself. It kind of ruins it for ev-erybody, doesn’t it? It kind of puts a bad taste in every-body’s mouth.”

Camden said students should download the LiveS-

afe app to help UPD officers address problems that arise during tomorrow’s celebra-tion. The app provides stu-dents an easy and convenient way to communicate with of-ficers about suspicious activ-ity or potential violent situa-tions anonymously.

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employees and customers.“When you talk to peo-

ple online, you’ve never seen them,” Riggleman said. “You’ve never tech-nically met them. People appreciate that when they come in here, we like to chat. We’ll chat about any-thing. It can be games, re-cords or what’s going on in town. We’ve been in busi-

ness a long time. We have very loyal customers and I think that’s the reason.”

According to Hendershot, local video game shops are a natural hive for like-minded gamers to congregate, so-cialize and reflect.

“I think that gamers, in general, are just a tightknit group by nature,” Hender-shot said. “Some of these games and systems even have what you could call a cult following. These peo-ple are so passionate and so interested in some of these

franchises, especially the ones that have been around forever… It’s crazy how pas-sionate they are about these game franchises.“

Hendershot lent the idea that almost everyone under the age of 40 has owned a gaming system at some point in their life, and they all can appreciate and find use in the number of retro and local gaming stores they have to choose from.

If one thing seems cer-tain, it’s that the local video

game scene isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

“Let’s say if you have younger children–you’re better off giving them a Su-per Nintendo than a Play-station 4,” Riggleman said. “We’re talking both expense and durability. I think a lot of older folks now are say-ing, ‘Oh, I remember that game from when I was young!’ and they want to re-visit it. I think there’s a lot of nostalgia involved.”

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CLayTon, Mo. (aP) — A 20-year-old charged Sunday with shooting two police of-ficers watching over a dem-onstration outside the Fer-guson Police Department attended a protest there ear-lier that night but told inves-tigators he wasn’t targeting the officers, officials said.

St. Louis County Prosecu-tor Robert McCulloch said Jeffrey Williams told author-ities he was firing at some-one with whom he was in a dispute, not at the police officers.

“We’re not sure we com-pletely buy that part of it,” McCulloch said, adding that there might have been other people in the vehicle with Williams.

Williams is charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed crim-inal action. McCulloch said the investigation is ongoing.

The officers were shot early Thursday as a crowd began to break up after a late-night demonstration that unfolded after Fergu-son Police Chief Tom Jack-son resigned in the wake of the scathing federal Justice Department report.

“He was out there earlier that evening as part of the demonstration,” McCulloch said of Williams.

A 41-year-old St. Louis County officer was shot in the right shoulder, the bul-let exiting through his back. A 32-year-old officer from Webster Groves was wear-ing a riot helmet with the face shield up. He was shot in the right cheek, just be-low the eye, and the bul-let lodged behind his ear.

The officers were re-leased from the hospital later Thursday, and St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Bel-mar said Sunday that “offi-cers were getting better, not getting worse.”

Williams used a handgun that matches the shell cas-ings at the scene, McCulloch said. He also said tips from the public led to arrest.

Williams, who Belmar said is black, is being held on $300,000 bond. County police spokesman Brian Schellman said he didn’t know whether Williams had an attorney or when he’d appear in court. A message left at the St. Louis County Justice Center was not im-mediately returned.

Several activists who’ve been involved in the pro-tests since the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown told The Associated Press they were not familiar with Williams.

Brittany Ferrell, 26, a pro-test leader with the group Millennial Activists United, had just left a meeting with other leaders Sunday when

word of the arrest circu-lated. She said no one in the group knew Williams, and they checked with other fre-quent protesters — who also hadn’t heard of him.

Ferrell suspected Mc-Culloch tried to cast him as a protester to reflect nega-tively on the movement.

“This is a fear tactic,” she said. “We are very tight-knit. We know each other by face if not by name, and we’ve never seen this per-son before.”

John Gaskin, a St. Louis NAACP leader, said of Wil-liams, “I don’t know him. I’ve never seen him.”

Williams, a north St. Louis County resident, was on probation for receiving

stolen property, McCulloch said. “I think there was a warrant out for him on that because he had neglected to report for the last seven months to his probation of-ficer,” he said.

Online state court re-cords show a man by the name of Jeffrey Williams at the address police provided Sunday was charged in 2013 with receiving stolen prop-erty and fraudulent use of a credit/debit device.

There was no answer at the door at the small, ranch-style home at the north St. Louis address listed for Williams. Several neigh-bors, including the people just across the street, said they didn’t know Williams.

But one, 26-year-old Jason White, said “He was cool. I never heard of him doing nothing to nobody.”

Belmar said Thursday that the officers could have easily been killed, and called the attack “an ambush,” cit-ing the two New York City officers who were shot and killed in their police cruiser in December.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement Sunday that the arrest “sends a clear message that acts of violence against our law enforcement personnel will never be tolerated” and praised “significant cooper-ation between federal au-thorities and the St. Louis County Police Department.”

The police department has been a national focal point since Brown, who was black and unarmed, killed by now-former police offi-cer Darren Wilson. Wilson was cleared by the Justice Department’s report and a grand jury led by McCulloch declined to indict Wilson in November.

The federal report found widespread racial bias in the city’s policing and in a mu-nicipal court system driven by profit extracted from mostly black and low-in-come residents.

Six Ferguson officials, in-cluding Jackson, have re-signed or been fired since the federal report was re-leased March 4.

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Jeff robersoN/aPSt. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, left, speaks during a news conference as St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar listens Sunday in Clayton, Mo. McCulloch said 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams has been charged with two counts of first-degree assault in the shooting of two St. Louis-area officers.

BoSTon (aP) — Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade made history Sunday as two gay and lesbian groups marched after decades of opposition that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The gay military veterans service group OutVets and gay rights group Boston Pride joined the annual celebration of military veterans and Irish heritage at the invitation of the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council.

“We march today for the memories of those thousands and thousands of people who went before us, some who went to their graves in the closet,” OutVets founder and leader and Air Force veteran Bryan Bishop told his group before the parade. He called it “the beginning of the mission of this organization to honor the service and sacrifice of ev-ery single LGBT veteran, their family, their allies and every veteran in this country who fought so selflessly to defend the rights that we hold dear.”

Sarah Jo Gomez-Lorraine, a Naval officer and OutVets member taking part in the march, said it’s an honor to represent gay veterans who never got the opportunity to come out.

“I feel today that I stand on the shoulders of giants who’ve gone before me and never got to see this in their lives,” she said. “It’s very hum-bling to be able to stand in places that others never got to.”

Boston Pride member Freddy Murphy said the open inclusion of gay groups was a long time coming.

“I just remember watch-ing the parade and kind of thinking it was hopeless, that my entire world was against me,” said Murphy, a Dorches-ter neighborhood native whose father was a Boston firefighter. “This is why I’m matching today.”

The Allied War Council’s current leaders voted 5-4 in December to welcome Out-Vets as one of about 100 groups in this year’s parade. Boston Pride said it also re-ceived an acceptance letter this week.

“We honor immigrants and veterans, and they served,” council leader Brian Mahoney said this week.

Boston’s mayors had boy-cotted the event since 1995, when the council took its fight to exclude gay groups to the U.S. Supreme Court and won on First Amendment

grounds.This year Mayor Marty

Walsh, Gov. Charlie Baker and other Massachusetts po-litical leaders took part.

First-term U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq as a Marine, marched with OutVets. “I believe gay rights is the civil rights fight of our generation and this is a small, but impor-tant, step in the steady march toward freedom and justice,” he said.

At a St. Patrick’s Day break-fast earlier Sunday, Walsh thanked the sponsors for making sure the parade, was “fully inclusive today.” He and Baker said in parade-side in-terviews with New England Cable News they were glad to see the issue put to rest. “Gay people marched in the pa-rade for years, just under dif-ferent banners,” Walsh said.

In addition to St. Patrick’s Day, the parade also cele-brates Monday’s local Evac-uation Day holiday, honoring a Revolutionary War victory in Boston.

Some Roman Catholic groups declined to march, including the state Knights of Columbus, saying they felt this year’s parade had been politicized.

Gay groups march at last in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade

WaSHInGTon (aP) — Ma-jority Leader Mitch McCon-nell warned Sunday that he won’t hold a confirmation vote for Loretta Lynch as at-torney general before the Senate completes work on a bill designed to curb human trafficking.

The Kentucky Republi-can’s comments prompted immediate protests from Democratic lawmakers who view her confirmation as a top priority.

McConnell had said he would be moving to the Lynch nomination this coming week. But then last week’s debate on a human trafficking bill broke down over a dispute about a pro-vision regarding funding for abortions. Democrats made a late objection to a provi-sion that prohibits money dedicated to a fund for vic-tims from being used to pay for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or if the life of the woman were in jeopardy.

Similar restrictions on the use of federal funds have been in place for three de-cades. But abortion-rights supporters said the legisla-tion takes the restrictions a step further by applying them to the personal money convicted sex traffickers pay into a government fund.

McConnell said Sunday

during an interview on CNN that Democrats had voted for the very same language three months ago. He said the Senate is soon sched-uled to turn to the budget and then to be on recess for two weeks, so there is only a limited window of time for the Lynch vote.

“If they want to have time to turn to the attorney gen-eral bill next week, we need to finish up this human traf-ficking bill,” McConnell said.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said Republicans are using any excuse they can to stall the

nomination. At a time when terrorist groups are threat-ening the U.S., the nominee deserves a vote, he said.

“It’s time for Republicans to stop dragging their feet on Loretta Lynch,” Schumer said.

Lynch would be the first black woman to serve as the nation’s top law enforce-ment officer. She would succeed Eric Holder, who is staying on until a replace-ment is confirmed.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In his final, courageous mo-ments, Officer Robert Wil-son III took on two armed robbers and gave his life to save those around him — an act so noble that Phila-delphia’s police department will rename its valor medal in his honor, police Com-missioner Charles Ramsey said Saturday.

Ramsey recounted Wil-son’s heroism during the slain officer’s funeral, tell-ing thousands of mourners it was the greatest act of brav-ery he has seen in his 46-year law enforcement career.

“Robert redefined what valor means, in my mind,” Ramsey said.

Surveillance video of the March 5 encounter at a GameStop store in north Philadelphia captured the 30-year-old Wilson’s un-flinching response, Ramsey said.

The gunmen burst in as the 8-year department vet-eran waited in line to pur-chase a game for his son, who had excelled in school and was turning 10 in a few days. He instinctively moved from the counter to draw the suspects’ gunfire away from innocent bystanders and returned fire, Ramsey said. More than 50 shots were fired during the fierce gun battle, investigators said.

“He never stopped until that fatal round was fired,” Ramsey told the assem-bled crowd, many of whom were law enforcement offi-cers from across the coun-try whose dress uniforms formed patterns of blues and tans inside the Palestra sports arena.

Mayor Michael Nutter said he is struggling to com-prehend the loss of the city’s 10th police officer killed in the line of duty in the last 9 years.

The city has lost a friend, a brother and an American hero, Nutter said.

“Two cowards came upon him, firing at him,” Nutter said. “He fought them val-iantly until he could fight no more.”

Ramone Williams, 24, and Carlton Hipps, 29, are charged with murder, at-tempted murder, robbery and other offenses.

“I miss my man,” Wilson’s partner, Damien Stevenson, told mourners. He shot one of the suspects in the leg as

they attempted to flee.Stevenson reminisced

about the fun he and Wilson had on patrol in their car, No. 2222, the time they donned red and white striped socks to entertain children at a Ronald McDonald House and the banter they shared.

“That’s all we did, we had fun,” Stevenson said, as a video screen displayed im-ages of the partners in their squad car, the slain officer smiling broadly. “There was no car like 22-22.”

Wilson will receive the newly renamed medal of valor and the department’s medal of honor and a post-humous promotion to ser-geant, Ramsey said.

Wilson, known to friends as Rob and Robbie, leaves behind two sons: Quahmier, 10, and Robert IV, a toddler.

He graduated from the police academy in Decem-ber 2006 after a six-year stint repairing vehicles — including police cars — in the city’s fleet management department.

Nutter recited a list of of-

ficers killed in that span — the last, Moses Walker in August 2012, worked in Wil-son’s 22nd District — and encouraged police officers and residents to bridge the divide that has led to mis-trust and violence.

He called the deaths pain-ful and senseless.

“Thank a law enforcement officer today and every day,” Nutter said. “Thank a caring and supportive citizen today and every day. All of our lives matter in this world.”

Wilson’s death came in an uptick in violence against police officers, amid linger-ing tensions from the deaths last year of unarmed men in Staten Island, New York and

Ferguson, Missouri.Two officers were shot

in Ferguson, an officer on New York’s Long Island was wounded and a U.S. Mar-shal in Louisiana was shot and killed in the past week.

Officers bathed in the blue light of police cars stood in a heavy rain and saluted as a horse-drawn caisson car-ried Wilson’s body through the streets of Philadelphia in a predawn procession.

After the service, honor guards from across the re-gion ringed a roadway be-tween the Palestra — nor-mally the site of athletic triumphs — as drummers and bagpipers played. Spec-tators from a lacrosse game at nearby Franklin Field peered at the procession from the top of the stadium.

“Rest easy my friend,” Ramsey said. “You did all you could do. No one could have done anything more.”

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Matt RouRke/aPThe remains of Philadelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III are transferred to a horse drawn hearse during a winter rainstorm on Saturday in Philadelphia. Wilson was shot and killed after he and his partner exchanged gunfire with two suspects trying to rob a video game store.

Matt RouRke/aPPhiladelphia Police Officer Robert Wilson III funeral procession marches along Market Street during a winter rainstorm on Saturday in Philadelphia.

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The problem with online coursesWith 191 degree pro-

grams available to West Vir-ginia University students, it is easy for each individual to find a major—possibly even a minor or two—they are passionate about. How-ever, many students are un-able to obtain the necessary credits to complete many programs.

Programs requiring on-line courses can be very hard for full-time students to complete due to the re-

strictions on online courses. Most online courses require a student to be taking 12 credit hours or fewer to reg-ister for online courses.

With 12 credit hours be-ing the bare minimum for full-time enrollment, this leaves students with very lit-tle wiggle room in case they need to drop a class due to an emergency. On top of that, there may be other reasons students must take more than 12 credit hours

such as maintaining scholar-ships or graduating on time.

The University should ei-ther not allow full-time stu-dents into programs that require these courses, or they should create sections specifically for full-time students.

The current reasoning be-hind these 12 credit hours or fewer courses is to allow them to stay open and avail-able to non-traditional stu-dents who are not full-time.

This is a great way of reach-ing those who wish to con-tinue their education. But, if this is the purpose of these courses, then the University should have a disclaimer for full-time students who are longing to enroll in pro-grams that require the online course.

By letting students know the only ways they can earn these credits is by either tak-ing no more than 12 credit hours a semester or taking

summer classes, the Univer-sity could help prevent a lot of student stress.

Another alternative, cre-ating a section only for full-time students, would be the most beneficial to the stu-dent body. Students would then be able to take the re-quired course to earn their extra minor before gradua-tion, and do so without hav-ing to spend extra money on summer courses.

This is also a chance for

the University to create more jobs—something that would benefit the community in the long run. With more courses open to students, more in-structors would be needed.

By making sure students are thoroughly informed, or creating more options for them, the University could help to advance the learn-ing experience for full-time students.

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Palcohol laws reinforce a culture of victimization

Many of you may believe there is a typo in the title, but Palcohol is a real powdered alcohol product hitting the shelves this summer—at least in the states that have not yet banned it.

These powdered packets can turn water into a mixed drink just like lemonade fla-voring. Approved this past week by the Alcohol and To-bacco Tax and Trade Bureau, this powdery mix has already been banned by several states who have unfounded and ri-diculous fears about the concoction.

Lipsmark, the company which owns Palcohol, cre-ated the product as a solution for outdoorsy folks who don’t want to lug around heavy containers of alcohol. Camp-ers can easily carry these packets and lighten their load considerably, while also knowing they can kick back with a drink after a long day. Flavor options include rum,

vodka, cosmopolitan, mar-garita and lemon drop.

Of course, the backlash concerning Palcohol isn’t centered on campers who might get too rowdy out in the woods. The concern is about underage drinking and the overall potential for abuse of these powdered packets.

Opponents of the new product have fear the prod-uct will be snuck into ven-ues banning alcohol, from school dances to sporting events. This is an extremely weak reason to ban a prod-uct, one that could be the ba-sis for banning legitimately anything. Flasks of every va-riety exist on the market, and people already take extreme and uncomfortable measures to smuggle their alcohol and drugs.

I highly doubt the appear-ance of these powder packets will suddenly cause a spike of public intoxication cases. Perhaps the high incidence of people brining their own al-cohol into sports events could inspire the price of beer to be lowered from a ridiculous $10.

The possibility for abuse includes the potential of snorting Palcohol. Lipsmark refutes this as a likely possibil-ity because its product has the burn of alcohol, and it would take an hour to snort a shot’s worth of vodka. This com-plaint strikes me as ridiculous when you consider the fact that anything can be snorted, from chalk dust to ashes. Se-riously, anyone who has ever seen “My Strange Addiction” can let you know when there’s a will, there’s a way.

I believe outlawing a prod-uct because of potential for abuse, before it has even hit the shelves no less, is uncalled for. Any product runs the pos-sibility of being used improp-erly. Teenagers thrive on do-ing the very things they are banned from, and underage drinking is extremely com-mon in our society. There’s no reason the government or parents should blame the company for their kids using its product. Their kids could eat Elmer Glue if they want to, but it’s not Elmer Glue’s fault. Teenagers will absolutely get their hands on Palcohol if

they want to, just like they will do with other illegal items.

This is a classic example of the government doing the job of parenting for parents who won’t make the time and ef-fort. Parents can take steps to raise healthy attitudes and behaviors by modeling re-sponsible behavior and hav-ing honest conversations with their children. It’s not the government’s place to de-cide every child will automat-ically rip open these packets and go crazy—it is about be-ing an involved parent.

Laws shouldn’t be written based on the bad behavior of a small segment of society. It’s the same concept of preach-ing about punctuality to the students who are on time. It is unfair we are all punished be-cause of someone else’s lack of judgment. There is already plenty of opportunity for stu-pid decisions when it comes to alcohol.

The victimized culture we live in makes it seem like the supplier of the drug is com-pletely at fault. Personal re-sponsibility is a concept that needs to be reintegrated back

into our society, which al-ready finds enough ways to misuse household products as it is.

This powder is a great product for backpackers, hikers and campers that re-duces the amount of glass left behind on these types of trips, and shouldn’t be eliminated

from the market. States that have already enforced a ban, like South Carolina, Alaska and Vermont, are more or less enforcing the idea that we are dangers to ourselves and need the government to make our decisions for us.

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Pothole problem a result of miscommunication between state, local government

As the blessed deities smile upon us and gift us with the blossoming of spring, stu-dents can ditch their win-ter coats, walk to class safely and day drink on their front porches. Spring is a highly an-ticipated season after such a nasty winter, but as the fro-zen tundra of two weeks ago melts, it leaves behind a nasty surprise: Potholes.

According to an article last week in The Daily Athe-naeum, Morgantown’s pot-hole problems fall entirely on the shoulders of the state. So far, there appears to be little to no interest from the state in fixing up our roads, although the silver lining is that Bee-churst Avenue is due to be re-paved come May.

It would be one thing if the potholes were most evi-dent in the back roads of Mor-gantown, where one wonders how a snowplow, much less a

paving crew, would even be able to make the road suffi-ciently mediocre enough to drive on without risking flat tires and ruined suspensions.

The real problem is pot-holes are evident on ma-jor roads too. Beechurst, al-though due to be fixed this summer, has enough holes to look more like a post-apoca-lyptic Morgantown road than

one of the most frequently driven areas in the city.

Beyond ruining car parts and lining auto mechanics’ pockets with poor college stu-dent money, the potholes are a road hazard.

I’ll be the first to admit I openly swerve to avoid these craters because my car is a ri-diculous little convertible and will pop a tire faster than Mor-

gantown brushes off the re-sponsibility of fixing the damn things. I’ve seen others do the same, because paying up-ward of a couple hundred dol-lars for a new tire to a couple thousand dollars to replace a suspension is just not within a normal person’s budget, much less a student’s.

This isn’t the first time the city and state have played

the “hot potato” game with tricky issues relating to Mor-gantown. Just last semester, the state and local police de-partment played this same “not my problem” card with the WVU Alert System notifi-cations sent to students when the city is under any sort of duress.

Enough public outcry from students led to an increase in notifications, an excellent example of how, if enough people complain, some-thing might actually get done around here.

It’s hard to say if the pot-hole issue will follow in these same footsteps, because fix-ing potholes is a pretty expen-sive job to do as compared to sending out a mass text message.

However, the similarity between the two issues is as-tounding. It would appear the state and local governments, and their derivations, are in a constant battle of who should care about what. While Mor-gantown residents are quick to turn to their local govern-

ment to help with something as seemingly simple as fixing the ditches on major road-ways, there definitely appears to be a startling disconnect between our city and state governments, to the extent that neither appears to have efficient communication be-tween themselves or even to the people they govern.

Frankly, I don’t care whose job it is it fix the potholes or send out WVU Alert notifica-tions. Reading articles about the local government putting their hands up in the air and blaming the state doesn’t ac-tually get the job done (though that isn’t to say it wasn’t an in-formative read – check it out at thedaonline.com).

All I care about is that something gets done so my stupid little convertible – and the rest of Morgantown’s cars – won’t end up in repair shops or on the side of the road.

At this point, even a piece of plywood over these pits would be a godsend.

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Can’t we all just get along: Racial biases in modern America

It’s doleful to say, but lit-tle has changed from Mar-tin Luther King’s triumphant march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, to the Depart-ment of Justice’s Ferguson investigation.

For context’s sake: Black people have had the right to vote since the Civil War ended. The highest percentage of Af-rican Americans in the legisla-ture, in American history, was right after the civil war, dur-ing Reconstruction. Through-out that brief period of history, African Americans were able to actively participate in pol-itics, economic issues and the social lives of their peers (mostly) unencumbered.

Of course, that all ended af-ter the fall of Reconstruction. The soon to be implemented Jim Crow laws - when we got

segregation - had yet to be en-acted, which would serve to disenfranchise black citizens and slowly erode their civil liberties. We still haven’t seen an accurate portrayal of black representation in the legisla-ture since.

States soon began to pass their own voter suppression acts, and a dark century of Af-rican American voting and human rights inhibition fol-lowed, until Dr. King’s fate-ful march on Selma and the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Ferguson is no different than any antebellum south-ern zealots, and neither are many other municipalities across America.

The Ferguson report reads like a George Wallace fantasy, only annotated by the Justice Department. The Ferguson police, by order of city officials and in cohorts with the court system, used a systematic ap-proach to harass and exploit

the mostly black citizens of Ferguson, as a means of gen-erating revenue and to refill the city’s coffers. Officer eval-uations and promotions are based off the number of cita-tions handed out, leading offi-cers to look at Ferguson’s citi-zens less like constituents in need of protection, and more like dollar signs.

The racial bias is obvious as well. Per the report: “Afri-can Americans are more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops even after controlling for non-race based variables such as the reason the vehi-cle stop was initiated, but are found in possession of con-traband 26 percent less often than white drivers, suggest-ing officers are impermissibly considering race as a factor when determining whether to search.”

The FPD is also astronom-ically more likely to give mul-tiple citations to an African

American than to a non-Af-rican American. From 2012-2014, on 73 different occa-sions an African American received four or more cita-tions during traffic stops; non-African Americans re-ceived four or more citations only twice during that same time period.

African Americans ac-counted for 95 percent of Manner of Walking in Road-way charges, or, more bluntly, black people are continuously stopped and cited for “walk-ing while black.”

This isn’t anything new. African Americans used to not be allowed to walk on the same sidewalks as white peo-ple and could be arrested for it. The charge loitering was used in the 1900s to lock up freed slaves for being free. Only then could they be put in chain gangs and sent back to work, free of charge.

Wait. That sounds famil-iar. I remember just reading

about a city in America that was systematically arresting and locking up a proportion of its citizens for monetary gain.

Oh yeah, Ferguson. Unfortunately, this is all

still the status quo in many parts of the country. Accord-ing to a study by Better To-gether, a non-profit group, and reported on by the New York Times: “Ferguson does not even rank among the top 20 municipalities in St. Louis County in the percentage of its budget drawn from court fines and fees. The small city of Edmundson, five miles away, brings in nearly $600 a year in court fines for every resident, more than six times the amount in Ferguson.”

According to a report by USA Today: “At least 1,581 other police departments across the USA arrest black people at rates even more skewed than in Ferguson, a USA TODAY analysis of ar-rest records shows. That in-

cludes departments in cities as large and diverse as Chi-cago and San Francisco and in the suburbs that encircle St. Louis, New York and Detroit.”

The Ferguson report calls for a complete overhaul of both the police and the court system, giving 13 well thought-out steps for each; easier said than done. Truth-fully, there is no simple or even complex solution to the ingrained problem of racial injustice.

The easy answer is, as al-ways, understanding. If the police and municipal courts put in the consorted effort to get to know the people they are supposed to serve and protect, and the people al-lowed the police into their lives on a personal level, without fear, then maybe, just maybe, some love could be shared and the times could finally start changing.

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Mountain Stage brings 4 artists to CAC

Episode 841 of Mountain Stage graced the stages of the West Virginia University Cre-ative Arts Center last night.

Mountain Stage is a live concert recorded by NPR to be on West Virginia radio stations and http://NPR.org/MountainStage/ sometime in May.

It was neat to hear how this meant-for-audio show works and see all the immediate set changes happen rapidly so there would be minimal dead air. The whole audience is re-corded as part of the show, too, and it felt like the audi-ence was up on stage with the artists. The audience was ac-tually invited onstage during Carlos Nunez’s performance.

The set up between sets was fun to watch because the stage was literally built before the audience’s eyes. It was a basic set up with the Moun-tain Stage guitar, bass, piano and drum players for those artists that needed them.

The first artist of the night, Allison Moore, utilized these people and came out in a simple outfit of a black shirt, skinny jeans and boots. She had a coffeehouse vibe but didn’t lack any vocal power. In fact, she’s an Academy Award and Grammy-nom-inated artist, and this is her

fourth time on the Mountain Stage.

The fact that the Moun-tain Stage band could know, play and understand all these types of music is incredible, and they were very in-tune with Moore.

After ascending from soft acoustics into strong, bouncy songs, Moore ended with a more intimate song about learning to love one’s self and that it’s okay to stum-ble. The tune was dedicated to her almost 5-year-old son and was about her struggles with motherhood.

After her half-hour set, there were changes onstage to set up for one of the big-gest names in bagpipe music, Carlos Nunez. He busted out a huge, strong opener with his bagpipes and his fellow fiddler, hand-drummer and guitar player. Even though he’s almost 42, he was a very high-energy performer and bounced all over the stage. He got the whole CAC to stand up and brought peo-ple onstage to jam out to the bagpipes with him. And, yes, it’s possible to jam out to bag-pipes, the flute and even the recorder - Nunez proved it.

Just as promised, he blended Latin American and Celtic music and, for the first time ever, played it with American musicians. Nunez had a little bit of everything. It was easy to tell he loved be-ing on stage, and I couldn’t

help but feel happy just be-cause of how much he loved performing and honoring his bagpipes and his country.

The Barr Brothers actu-ally drove from Canada dur-ing the day and got held up at border patrol. They almost didn’t make it, but luckily, af-ter four hours of being held up, they were able to pro-duce some groovy tracks for the Mountain Stage audience to enjoy.

It’s hard to pinpoint the Brothers’ exact sound; it’s a blend of rockin’ bouncy, smooth and twangy notes, with thick, solid, deep voices. Everything about the band

was unique, from that hard-to-describe sound to the re-laxed clothing choices and the guitarist playing his in-strument with a bow.

They definitely got a stand-ing ovation at the end, and so did the following act, Mary Gauthier. Her first two songs were about hobos and drink-ing. Her attempt at humor here was weak, but her strong female vocals kept me inter-ested. What got me roped in was the fact that Gauthier helps with an organization called “Songwriting with Sol-diers,” a program that gets a group of veterans and a group of songwriters to write songs.

The one she chose to sing was very heartfelt, deep and truly from a soldier’s perspective. Her closer was another home run, with excellent vocals and a personal stage presence.

The last segment of the show drove us home with the Drive-By Truckers. This band consisted of two lead singers that were deep and twangy yet only hinted at country. It was a gritty rock with plenty of guitar and incorporated pi-ano, too.

The Truckers definitely connected to its roots, homes and stories. It was apparent in all of the Truckers’ songs. One singer even paused to tell a

few stories when introduc-ing songs, such as one about his great-grandmother “Gran Gran.”

They were a great closing to an evening packed with four very different acts and funky interludes between performances.

Everyone from the lineup came out at the end to sing the last song, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” and it was so enchanting to see every per-son swaying in time with the groove of each other and the most unique blend of bands to play together all at once.

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He says he's currently in a similar situation: Du-pri claims R&B singer Ci-ara's latest song, "I Bet," is too close to Usher's "U Got It Bad" - the massive 2001 hit that Dupri also co-produced - for comfort.

"Ciara's new single is a complete rip-off of Usher's `U Got It Bad,'" Dupri said. "I'm clear on what I made and I'm clear on how music influences people and I'm clear on chord changes and how people move things. ... It might not be as evident as the ̀ Blurred Lines' situation, but I believe the same thing

happened to me."Dupri said he, Usher and

producer Bryan-Michael Cox all noticed the similar-ities immediately. And he said "I Bet" also sounds like R&B singer Tamia's "Still," another song he produced.

Dupri said he plans to contact Ciara and the pro-ducers of "I Bet," which was released in January and has peaked at No. 27 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart, and ask that he, Cox and Usher be properly credited.

A personal representative for Ciara referred questions to a label spokeswoman. That spokeswoman did not return email and text mes-sages seeking comment.

The Associated Press

reached out to several per-formers, songwriters, pub-lishers and record executives about the effect the "Blurred Lines" case would have on the industry; most declined to comment.

Keith Urban said he had "mixed feelings" about the verdict.

"I was shocked, honestly. Because it seems more like a sound and a feel and style and a genre and an era, none of which can be copy writ-ten," he said.

He added that because "Blurred Lines" was such a ubiquitous song, "you've got a bigger target on your back."

The Gaye family will seek an injunction against "Blurred Lines," giving them

possible control to negotiate for royalties and other con-cessions. Millions more in potential future profits for "Blurred Lines" are also at stake.

Though Pharrell and Thicke are billed as the writ-ers of "Blurred Lines," Thicke told jurors he didn't write the song and Pharrell testi-fied he crafted it in about an hour in 2012. Pharrell also testified that Gaye's music was part of the soundtrack of his youth.

Two years ago, the song marked a breakthrough for Thicke, a successful R&B singer at the time, and helped Pharrell continue to reach new heights as a producer but, more impor-tantly, as a solo act. The suc-

cess came around the time he co-starred on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and launched his single, "Happy," last year's top track.

Dupri, who has overseen the careers for acts includ-ing Kris Kross, Bow Wow, Da Brat and R&B groups Xscape and Jagged Edge, said when-ever he had thoughts of re-leasing a song without prop-erly giving credit to an older tune, his label stepped in.

"It's crazy because I've tried to get away with records like that, where I was influ-enced by something, and the record company wouldn't budge; they wouldn't put the record out until I got whatever they thought they heard in the song cleared. That's the most amazing part

about this whole case to me period," he said.

Dupri said they almost had trouble with sampling before they released Car-ey's latest album, "Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse."

"(Producer) Hit-Boy used a Tupac sample that I couldn't even hear, and somebody at the label, Def Jam, they found the sam-ple and they were like, `This (sample) got to come out,'" he recalled. "That would have put Mariah in a crazy situation and she didn't even know the sample was on the record."

"I'm sure now people are really going to really be pay-ing a lot more attention to it," he said.

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NRABlog.comThe West Virginia rifle team from 2014 following its second straight National Championship

No 1. West Virginia brings home its 17th, third-straight National Championship trophyby Ashley conleysports correspondent

@dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia rifle team went into the NCAA Championship ranked No.1, and that’s exactly where they finished. The Mountain-eers won their third-straight NCAA title with a total score of 4702, which is the second-best aggregate score in NCAA Rifle Championship history.

The Mountaineers began progressing toward another championship run as they only took one loss all season, losing by only one point to Alaska-Fairbanks. The team finished the regular season with a record of (11-1, 8-0 GARC).

No. 2 Alaska-Fairbanks was West Virginia’s toughest competition all weekend. The Nanooks won Friday’s smallbore competition with a 2331 score, leaving West Virginia 12 points behind. On

day two of smallbore compe-tition, UAF slipped into sec-ond place.

Heading into day two, the competition between West Virginia and UAF was only beginning to heat up. It ap-peared as though this one was going to come down to the wire and it most certainly did.

Maren Prediger, West Vi-rignia’s strongest individual shooter, had one of the best performances in WVU’s rifle history at the NCAA Cham-pionships. The senior was near-perfect in her first air rifle relay, finishing one shot short of her career high with a score of 598, which allowed her to enter the final relay in first place.

In the final, Prediger ended with a 205.8 score, earning her the 2015 air rifle individual title. She is the first Mountaineer to win an indi-vidual title since Olympian Petra Zublasing did so in

2013. Prediger’s individual ti-tle is the 23rd in West Virgin-ia’s incredible rifle history.

This championship ti-tle is the fourth won by West Virginia under Head Coach Jon Hammond in his nine seasons with the Mountaineers.

“For Maren to shoot a 598 air rifle in her last match is incredible,” Hammond said in an interview with WVUs-ports.com. “I can’t fault her on anything this weekend. It says a lot about her charac-ter to come back today and win. She’s a world-class air ri-fle shooter. For her to win the final after being so close last year is a huge credit to her. To do it during her final match is even better.”

Prediger plans to remain at West Virginia University for graduate school. After completing all of her school-ing, she plans to return to her home-country of Ger-many to continue her shoot-

ing career. Michael Bamsey, Thomas

Kyanko, Ziva Dvorsak and Garrett Spurgeon all had ex-cellent air rifle relays as well. Bamsey pulled the team to within just three points of UAF with a score of 595 in his relay. Kyanko reduced that deficit to just two points with a 590. Dvosak and Spur-geon pushed the Mountain-eers to the top of air rifle with their scores of 594 and 596, respectively.

A total team effort truly al-lowed the Mountaineers to claim the NCAA Champion-ship. Three of the five count-ing members competed in their final rifle match for West Virginia. Dvorsak, Ky-anko and Prediger all ended their careers this weekend on the best note possible.

Junior Garrett Spurgeon, a continuous success for the Mountaineers, won the NCAA Rifle Championship Top Performer Award, given

for the very first time this weekend. He finished the weekend with a total score of 1179. Spurgeon shot well in both air rifle and small-bore, and had a huge impact on the team’s overall scores. He, along with Dvorsak, paced the team in smallbore competition with 583 relay scores, which was one shot higher than Spurgeon’s sea-son average.

“Our score was not what we would have liked it to be,” Hammond said. “It was de-finetly below our average. I thought our performance was good, however, and all five of the team members shot their match how I would want them to shoot it.”

Rachael Martin (Ne-braska) claimed the small-bore individual title with a score of 453.3. Although the Mountaineers’ strong point of the weekend was not in smallbore, Hammond was still happy with their perfor-

mance in the smallbore final. “Even the three who made

the final (Spurgeon, Dvorsak and Bamsey) probably aren’t satisfied with the results,” he said.

Spurgeon came away with a fourth place finish in the final, the best for West Virginia.

The West Virginia Moun-taineers have now won an NCAA record of 17 cham-pionships, seven more than any other school. Alaksa-Fairbanks has won a total of 10.

West Virginia is the first school to three-peat since AFU’s 2006-08 run. The ri-fle team is the only Moun-taineer team to have won an NCAA title this year. Al-though their success usually goes unrecognized, the ri-fle team continues to be the most dominant sport at West Virginia University.

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White, Alford make the most of opportunity at WVUby connor mUrrAy

sports writer @dailyathenaeum

A little more than two years ago, West Virginia football was in the midst of a transition. The Mountain-eers had just finished a dis-appointing first year in the Big 12 under second-year Head Coach Dana Hol-gorsen and were about to lose perhaps the best trio of offensive talent to take the field together in program history — quarterback Geno Smith and wide receivers Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey.

Heading into spring ball, it was clear that the team would take on a completely new identity, but it was un-clear who would lead the way. As Holgorsen intro-duced his recruiting class of 2013 on National Sign-ing Day in February, a fresh crop of faces officially be-gan their West Virginia ca-reers, looking to be the next in line of offensive weapons in WVU’s “Air Raid” offense.

Among that recruit-ing class was a pair of ju-nior college wide receivers. With two years of eligibil-ity left, they had the raw tal-ent to garner an offer from WVU, but were still relative unknowns.

Fast forward two years, and those mysterious JUCO transfers have turned into household names. Yes, it’s safe to say Kevin White and Mario Alford have made the most of their opportunities as Mountaineers.

After a breakout senior season that included 10

touchdown grabs, 1,447 receiving yards on 109 catches, White shot up draft boards along with fellow Bi-letnikoff Award semifinalist, Alabama’s Amari Cooper.

While Cooper won the award, White may end up winning in the long run by being the first wide receiver taken in the NFL Draft, es-pecially after his head-turning performance at the Combine in Indianapolis, which included a 4.35 sec-ond 40-yard dash, which surprised even his former quarterback, Clint Trickett.

“We always knew he could be something. I don’t want to say I didn’t know he could be that, but we knew he could be something. It’s just, he’s a late bloomer. He keeps getting better. I would’ve never thought he would run that 40 time,” Trickett said.

Trickett has developed a deep understanding with White and Alford over the last two years. After trans-ferring from Florida State in 2013, he won the start-ing job after fall camp and spent the next two seasons as the benefactor of this dy-namic receiving duo. That’s part of the reason Trickett has gotten so much enjoy-ment out of watching his teammates excel as they make the transition to pro-fessional football.

“I was down in Tallahas-see. I was jumping up and down. I started throwing stuff. I was like a little kid,” Trickett said, describing his reaction to White’s 40 time at the Combine.

“You would’ve thought

it was me who ran it. I was with a bunch of my friends too. We were just going nuts like I’m sure everyone was.”

White became known for his ability to manhandle defensive backs, his domi-nance against single cover-age and his ability to high point the ball, but his speed was somewhat underappre-ciated in college.

The same couldn’t be said for Mario Alford. Speed is the name of the game for him, which is why his 4.43 second 40-yard dash time at the Combine led to some head scratching and soul searching.

“I was mad when I ran my 40 at the combine. Up un-til this day, I was mad,” Al-ford said after WVU’s Pro Day Friday.

“I was just overthinking myself, trying to do way too much…I just had to clear my mind and do what I do. I mean, I’ve been running my whole life.”

That he has, and he showed it in front of a crowd of NFL scouts at Pro Day. Donning shining gold cleats, Alford posted an un-official 4.25 second 40 time that looked closer to flying than running.

“There wasn’t any pres-sure at all. I knew today that I was going to come here and burn the 40. I knew it for a fact. All the other stuff, running routes, catching the ball, that just comes second nature to me...I had to prove to myself that I wasn’t a 4.4 guy. I knew I wasn’t,” Alford said.

What was his motiva-tion after his disappoint-

ing Combine performance? Redemption, among other things, and a desire to prove something to his teammate.

“I just had to prove to Kevin that I’m still the man,” Alford said with a wry smile.

While Alford may have reaffirmed himself as “the man” when it comes to pure speed, White has put him-self in position to be a top-five overall pick by being the most well-rounded player there is in this year’s draft.

The notoriety that comes with being a hot prospect has given White the oppor-tunity to learn from some of the game’s greats, including his most common pro com-parison, Larry Fitzgerald.

“I’ve been soaking in knowledge from guys like

Keyshawn Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald and Michael Ir-vin. I just want to per-fect my game, whether it’s route running or off-the-field stuff. I just want to be a great guy, on and off the field,” White said.

The spotlight brings op-portunities to learn, but it also has its drawbacks. Getting caught up in read-ing what everyone is saying about you leading up to the most important day of your life to date can have a debil-itating effect, which White said he is working hard to avoid.

“I don’t want to get caught up in the hype. A mock draft…It’s a fake draft. So you know, on draft day it always changes. You’re not

going off of what the mock drafts say. I don’t watch that stuff as much as possible,” he said.

As draft day approaches, the distractions will only become more intense, but White will have his college coaching staff to lean on for guidance along the way.

“They’ve just been tell-ing me, ‘Don’t listen to the hype.’ They say I’m not that good of a receiver just to play around with me. They let me know that it’s just a game,” White said.

“It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life. I don’t need to freak out over some-thing I’ve been doing my whole life.”

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WVU posts season-high score at Senior Nightby Nicole cUrtiN

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The West Virginia Uni-versity gymnastics team wrapped up its regular sea-son Saturday evening in a Se-nior Night home meet with the University of Pennsyl-vania and Cornell Univer-sity. In a sweep of all events, the Mountaineers posted their highest score of the sea-son, 196.075, and took the win.

West Virginia led the en-tire meet, and the team did not post any event scores below 48.9. Senior Dayah Haley competed in her first all-around of the season, hit-ting the beam in competition for the first time since last season.

Haley took first place for

all-around with a final score of 39.075.

Opening the meet on the vault as usual, the Mountain-eers finished with a 48.9, the highest they have scored on that event since February. Freshman Zaakira Muham-mad and junior Jaida Law-rence tied for first on the event, both hitting a 9.85, and sophomore Nicolette Swoboda took third with her 9.75.

On the vault, senior Lia Salzano saw her first action of the season, and while she stumbled in the end of her landing, posted a 9.475.

“I think she did great, I know she’s probably going to be disappointed with her per-formance on the floor, but she wasn’t expecting to go in on the floor,” said head coach Ja-son Butts on Lia entering the

meet. “We were just really happy

to be able to give her that op-portunity (in) her last regu-lar season meet in the Coli-seum. The past few weeks she has put in the numbers, so we wanted to give her that chance to get out there and perform in front of the home crowd.”

This entire season, the West Virginia lineup on the uneven bars has been con-tinuously putting in effort to finish with high scores, and the girls proved themselves in the last few meets. Com-ing out of the second rotation, the Mountaineers posted a 48.9 on the bars, the second-highest score on the event all season.

Goldberg took the podium for first place with a 9.9 fin-ish after a flawless routine

and perfectly stuck landing. Muhammad finished in sec-ond with 9.825, and a gym-nast from Cornell earned third place. Swoboda hit her career-high 9.775 on the bars, and Haley posted her season-best, 9.7.

The stuck landings have made such an impact on the scores WVU puts up during the uneven bars. This strength is something the team will have to utilize during the up-coming Big 12 meet.

In the third rotation, the Mountaineers hit the beam for another sweep. Finishing with a 49 on the event, Gold-berg, Melissa Idell and Jordan Gillette all tied for first place with scores of 9.825. Haley had her season debut on the beam and hit a 9.75

“I was really excited to go in and show everyone what

I can do on the beam, and it was a really great feeling to do all-around again,” Haley said. “It feels incredible, especially being senior meet — there’s really nothing else I could ask for. It’s just the greatest feeling.”

Following the beam rou-tines, West Virginia faced ar-guably its second-best event with the floor. All season, just like the uneven bars, the floor has been an event for the Mountaineers to score big and solidify their stand-ings in the meet.

Idell, a junior from New-ark, Del., matched her ca-reer-high with a routine she has been perfecting this year with a 9.925 and took first place. Haley hit a 9.9, her third score of a 9.9 or higher this season, taking second place, and Goldberg finished with a

9.875 in third place.Salzano also took part in

the floor rotation and while she fell during her first and last tumbling passes, she gave it her all. The senior scored an 8.15.

Four seniors are moving on from West Virginia following this season: Haley, Beth Deal, Salzano and Brittney Harris. Harris is a transfer from Pitts-burgh University who hasn’t seen any action yet in the Old Gold and Blue. Deal, Haley and Salzano were all hon-ored at the meet in a good-bye video. Alumni gymnasts were also in the Coliseum to celebrate the program.

As the end of the regular season comes to a close, the Mountaineers face Iowa State and Oklahoma this weekend in the Big 12 Championship in Norman, Okla.

shannon mckenna/the daily athenaeumSenior Dayah Haley swings from the high bar during her uneven bars routine at Saturday’s meet.

shannon mckenna/the daily athenaeumSeniors Lia Salzano, Dayah Haley and Beth Deal watch a goodbye video created for them during Senior Night.

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West Virginia awaits its fate in tonight’s selectionby daVid StatmaN

sports writer @dailyathenaeum

The West Virginia Univer-sity women’s basketball team went into this season with the highest of hopes. Now, Mike Carey’s squad is just hoping the NCAA Selection Commit-tee will smile upon them.

With the field for the 2015

NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament set to be unveiled tonight at 7 p.m., tonight, the Mountaineers are poised firmly on the bub-ble. And after an undistin-guished regular season that ended with a quarterfinal exit in the Big 12 Tournament, the Mountaineers are in danger of missing the field of 68 for the first time in five years.

West Virginia could have helped themselves with a strong finish to the season, but they were unable to sus-tain any momentum in the fi-nal weeks. Still, after a come-from-behind overtime win over Texas on Senior Day two weeks ago, head coach Mike Carey said that he was con-fident that his team would make NCAAs with a win in

their regular season finale against Kansas State and prsent a strong showing in the conference tournament.

But things didn’t go ac-cording to plan. West Vir-ginia squandered a 12-point second-half lead to lose in Manhattan, Kansas on March 3, and never led in a Big 12 quarterfinal matchup with Oklahoma.

The Mountaineers ended up with an 18-14 overall re-cord and a 7-11 Big 12 mark, placing them eighth out of 10 teams in one of Division I’s toughest and deepest conferences.

On paper, West Virgin-ia’s NCAA prospects do not look promising. Although West Virginia has nine top-100 wins to its credit, its RPI is a pedestrian 75th, behind mid-major schools like Pa-cific, Fordham and Drexel.

At the crux of the problem was a 2-10 road record for the season — as of Sunday, ESPN bracketologists listed West Virginia as part of their “Next Four Out”, alongside Kansas State, Washington State and Michigan.

The Mountaineers were unable to notch a true sig-nature win. Although Okla-homa State and Texas were both ranked when the Moun-taineers beat them (Okla-homa State on Jan. 17, Texas on March 1), West Virginia only has one victory over a team that finished the sea-son ranked in the top 25: that would be No. 24 Seton Hall, who West Virginia topped in just their second game of the regular season.

Against the other teams in the top 25 that West Vir-ginia did face, its track re-cord is less than impres-

sive. The Mountaineers were blown out by No. 12 Missis-sippi State and No. 23 Ohio State in nonconference play, and went down both times they attempted to challenge No. 5 Baylor during the Big 12 schedule.

Middle of the pack in the Big 12 in both offense and de-fense, the Mountaineers have been more or less unremark-able in just about every re-spect this season, but they’ve had just enough strong per-formances to make things interesting.

The Mountaineers will have to hope that a bottom-half performance in a tough conference is enough. If not, they’re sure to be a high seed in the Women’s NIT, a tour-nament that played host to West Virginia’s deepest post-season run in Carey’s ten-ure, when the Mountaineers reached the 2005 WNIT final but lost to Missouri State.

The NCAA Women’s Di-vision I Selection Show will air tonight at 7 p.m. on ESPN. The first and second rounds of the tournament will be held from March 20-23. If the Mountaineers end up in the WNIT, they will play their first round game on March 18, 19 or 20.

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SCORpiO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH You might be thinking about a re-cent conversation. You could be ana-lyzing it upside-down and inside-out in attempt to find a deeper meaning. Let the other party share his or her thoughts. Respond to what this per-son says, not to what you think he or she feels. Tonight: Head home.

SAGiTTARiUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHHHH Keep reaching out to some-

one whom you care a lot about. This person adds enthusiasm and fun to the moment. You also trust his or her judg-ment. You might feel weighed down by several situations that have made it difficult to be your happy self. Tonight: What you want.

CApRiCORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Your finances come to the forefront. Though you might not want to dis-cuss it, something is bothering you about this situation. You have been concerned for several weeks, unsure of your next step. You might need to make a major change. Research first. Tonight: With friends.

AQUARiUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH You might want to rethink a personal

matter that has been bothering you. Have a conversation with the person involved, and get to the bottom of what is triggering you. It is quite pos-sible that you are misreading the situa-tion. Tonight: Visit and chat over dinner.

piSCES (FEB. 19-MARCh 20) HHHH Others might come forward with seri-ous news. You could be revisiting long-term goals and realizing that some of them no longer apply. Address this is-sue and make an adjustment. Tonight: Go with someone else’s suggestion.

BORN TODAY Comedian Jerry Lewis (1926), former U.S. President James Madison (1751), film director Bernardo Bertolucci (1941).

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No. 13 Iowa State wins Phillips 66 Big 12 Championshipby david schlake

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The Phillips 66 Big 12 Men’s Bas-ketball Championship came to a close Saturday in an ex-pected dramatic fashion, as No. 13 Iowa State took the title as its own for the sec-ond-straight year with a 70-66 win over No. 9 Kansas.

The Cyclones entered the Sprint Center in Kansas City Saturday, after winning a couple of nail-biters against Texas and No. 15 Oklahoma earlier in the week.

Against the Longhorns Thursday, the Cyclones were down by 11 points at halftime, but came back and won on a buzzer-beater by sophomore guard Monte Morris, who totaled 24 points on the day.

Following the close es-cape from the Longhorns,

the Cyclones had to face a team in Oklahoma that had just steamrolled Okla-homa State with ease, de-feating the Cowboys, 64-49. The Sooners controlled the tempo for the majority of the game, but the Cyclones found their way out of trou-ble once again, as Okla-homa forward Ryan Span-gler missed an easy layup at the buzzer, sending the Cy-clones to the championship game.

“It was an unbelievably competitive game,” said Iowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg of the win over Oklahoma. “They jumped out on us early. I thought we missed a couple of good looks at the basket, and I thought we started rushing our shots a little bit, as op-posed to letting the offense come to us.”

Hoiberg stressed that his team’s late success in the

first two games of the tour-nament was a result of the Cyclones always staying in the game.

”They went on a run—which we knew they would—but we held our composure,which was a great sign and that’s what al-lowed us to win that game.”

After the exhilarating pair of games that quali-fied the Cyclones for the Big 12 Championship finale, Iowa State walked into what was sure to be an all-out war against the No. 1 over-all seed in the Tournament, better known as the Kansas Jayhawks.

Iowa State was down by as many as 17 points early in the second half, but the Cyclones would do what they’ve shown they can do best—come back in cine-matic fashion.

“With the guys that we have and the coach that

we have, we have no quit in us,” said First Team All-Big 12 forward Georges Niang. “We were all talk-ing about what we had to do, and we had to stay pos-itive and push through and I think we did that. It led us to a great thing in the Big 12 Championship.”

The Cyclones have man-aged to come back from double-digit deficits in their last five games, proving they are a team to watch out for in the NCAA Tournament.

“If we can get hot and keep the confidence go-ing, that’s, I think, the big-gest thing in a three-day run like this against three great teams—it breeds confi-dence in your players.” Hoi-berg said. “They can battle through anything. No lead is insurmountable.”

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No. 1 Kentucky wins SEC Tournament, remains perfectNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—

The top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats have a 34-game winning streak and yet an-other Southeastern Con-ference Tournament cham-

pionship as they head into the NCAA Tournament.

So they sent student managers to cut down the nets.

“Those aren’t the nets

we’re really looking to cut down,” junior forward Wil-lie Cauley-Stein said. “It’s just a milestone. It’s just part of the process for us winning and everything,

but we’re looking for some-thing bigger. We’re looking to cut down a couple more nets in the tournament.”

And perfection just may be the side product.

Cauley-Stein scored 15 points and grabbed 10 re-bounds, and Kentucky never trailed in beating No. 21 Arkansas 78-63 on Sun-day for the program’s 28th SEC Tournament title.

The Wildcats (34-0) are only the fourth team to go into the NCAA Tournament undefeated since Indiana finished off the last per-fect season with a title in 1976. The last three teams that went into the NCAA Tournament undefeated all lost with Indiana State and Larry Bird the closest, los-ing in the 1979 title game.

Not that Kentucky sees being undefeated as a challenge.

“We’re still only guaran-teed one game, so it’s really the slate is clean whether we’re 34-0 or have got five losses,” Cauley-Stein said. “It’s still from here on out, you’re 0-0.”

Andrew Harrison also scored 15 points for Ken-tucky, and his brother Aaron had 11.

The Razorbacks (26-8) were trying to win their second tournament title and first since 2000. Mi-chael Qualls, coming off the bench for only the second time this season, scored 18 points, while Bobby Portis, the coaches’ pick for SEC player of the year, added 13 with a sea-son-low two rebounds.

Unlike last season when Arkansas swept Kentucky, these Wildcats proved to be just too good. With Coach John Calipari ro-tating Wildcats, they sim-ply ran around the Ra-zorbacks’ usually stifling pressure defense or passed over them.

“Our guys came out and fought and scratched and clawed,” Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. “But at the end, I thought their depth and their size were hard to overcome.”

With Nashville barely an hour’s drive from Ken-tucky, the Wildcat faithful filled Bridgestone Arena with blue from courtside to the rafters for a tourna-ment record attendance of 20,315. The Razorbacks had only a couple patches of family, friends and fans inside the building.

doyle maurer/the daily athenaeumIowa State forward Abdel Nader dunks during the Cyclones’ win agaisnt No. 15 Oklahoma at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.

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VISIT US SHOWROOMS WILL BE OPEN MARCH 16 - 20 FROM 12:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.The first 25 guests will receive a gift bag, and the first 100 guests will be entered to win a $500 gift card.

UNIVERSITY AVE

PATTESON DR

Lincoln Hall

BrookeTower

UNIVERSITYPARK

EricksonAlumniCenter

Law Center

Milan PuskarStadium

RaymondJ. Lane

Park

DON’T HAVE TIME TO SIT IN TRAFFIC?NEITHER DO WE.

ALL ABOARDWalking distance from the PRT station, making trips downtown easy and hassle free.

ROOM FOR ONE MORE

and needs.

NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONEWith four fully-furnished study rooms and desks in each

IN THE LAP OF LUXURYLuxury granite countertops in the kitchen and bathroom along with stainless steel appliances.

@UParkWVU

University Park WVU

That’s why we decided to build our brand-new apartments within walking distance of Evansdale, the Health Sciences Center, the Law Center and the stadium.

universitypark.wvu.edu

YOU AREHERE

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