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West Virginia Univer-sity may be a pillar for in-clusion in comparison to other campuses across the state, but when compared to universities across the country, WVU could be doing better—a lot better. According to the Campus Pride Index, a national sur-vey that ranks how LGBTQ-friendly a college is based on its services it offers and the policies it has in place, WVU finds itself far below similar institutions. For the past three years, the Uni-versity has remained stag-nant at 1.5 out of 5 stars.

Universities automat-ically receive one star for taking the assessment.

“We are way behind the eight-ball. If we look at peer institutes and institu-tions, and if we look across the nation, most universi-ties already have embraced [inclusivity and its prac-tices] 20 years ago,” said Jennifer Orlikoff, director at WVU’s Center for Wom-en’s and Gender Studies. “We’re just catching up now.”

In previous years, the University chose not to release scores because of how low they were.

“We didn’t release our scores because we didn’t want our campus to come off as a hateful people,” said Benjamin Seebaugh, the University’s first full-time LGBTQ program director. “We wanted to make some more improvements, and once we were at a better place to really display our inclusivity and what we have to offer, then at that point we would more pub-licly embrace [the survey].”

While Seebaugh be-lieves the University still has room for improve-ment, he also believes things on campus could be worse.

“Against campuses like Texas Christian and Baylor,

we are doing a lot of things they aren’t, but there is still stuff to learn from other campuses... Right now, we are a work in progress,” Seebaugh said.

Orlikoff acknowledged that, although there are small groups of people that may oppose gender or race inclusion, the University as a whole wants to be more inclusive.

“In West Virginia, you have people who don’t want to get involved in what others do, and that’s where some of the (oppo-sitional) pockets fall,” Or-likoff said.

If students can ignore the current glaring Cam-pus Pride rating, they might be able to believe Orlikoff when she explains how campus climate is ac-tually on the “up-swing” and is working hard to get there.

The University is in the middle of constructing an LGBTQ center on campus within the coming semes-ters. Administrators are still working to appoint a director and to find a loca-tion for the center.

WVU also recently hired an LGBTQ advocate for suicide prevention in the Carruth Center who is deeply involved in Safe Zone training and gender identity training.

WVU will also offer a new adventure workshop for first-year and transfer LGBTQ students and their allies called The Great OUTdoors.

Students will complete WVU’s challenge course at the outdoor education center in the University’s research forest. The first training will take place on Sept. 13.

In addition, WVU is close to completing its first LGBTQ minor and recently hired its first, full-time LG-BTQ Program Coordinator, Benjamin Seebaugh.

Seebaugh, who was the

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The West Virginia Uni-versity Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Re-sources and Design will provide students the tools to enhance and sustain the rural economy of West Vir-ginia through private and public funds with a new program.

The West Virginia Uni-versity Davis College Young Innovators Fellowship Pro-gram selected 10 students from the college to tap into potential markets in order to further benefit West Vir-ginia’s economy, as well as the local economies of the out-of-state students selected.

While the college aims to enhance the local econo-mies of West Virginia, the

University “found it would be inappropriate to only give fellowships to in-state students,” said Matt Wil-son, an associate professor in the Davis College.

Of the 10 selected stu-dents, five come from West Virginia, three from Penn-sylvania, one from Mary-land and one from Ohio. Each student was selected as a sophomore and will be active in the fellowship

program throughout their junior and senior years.

The college alloted fel-lowships to nearby out-of-state students, “because of the diversity of the student demographics in the Uni-versity,” Wilson, who will serve as the program’s co-ordinator, said.

Each student accepted into the fellowship will re-ceive funding as long as they continually meet the

program requirements and show progress in moving toward their development of entrepreneurial and in-novational skills.

The Davis College cre-ated a Young Innovators Resource team to aid the students selected. The team is comprised of fac-ulty, practitioners, train-ing organizations and net-working groups.

Each student, paired

with a faculty adviser, will also develop a Young Entrepreneur Success Plan as a guide for their participation.

The College plans to give each student their detailed YES Plan on Tuesday.

Many of the students who received the fellow-ship are already undertak-ing their own business en-

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Of all the changes to this year’s FallFest, perhaps the largest change was made to the event’s budget.

This year’s FallFest bud-get was about half of last year’s budget, according to Vice President of Student Life Bill Schafer.

“We wanted to develop the whole Welcome Week-end,” Schafer said. “I be-lieve people would say sev-

eral of those events were a pretty darn good success.”

Klaas couldn’t confirm the exact budget for last year’s event but said it was “about $800,000.” Schafer said FallFest’s budget was actually less than $800,000 last year, though he couldn’t give a specific number. Arts & Entertainment went over that budget and spent about $800,000, he said.

This year, the Office of Student Life budgeted about $425,000 for the event.

Schafer wasn’t sure ex-actly how much the Uni-versity spent on Welcome Week events but said it probably equals about how much was budgeted for FallFest last year.

The events money went to included FallFest, Food-Fest, the Saturday event only open to freshmen and the events outside of the Student Recreation Center.

Schafer and his office plan to meet in the next few days to discuss FallFest and the University’s Welcome

Week. For now, he doesn’t expect there to be any more cuts to the concert’s budget.

“We’ll probably have some more specifics on that as we have our review meeting,” Schafer said.

Of the three acts that performed at the concert, Schoolboy Q was paid the most at $125,000, according to online vendor payment information. Schoolboy Q’s label, Top Dawg Entertain-ment, was paid $300,000

FallFest budget cut nearly in half

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Students question how to achieve culture change during first SGA meetingby laUren caccamo

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Following the riots after West Virginia’s victory over Bay-lor last year, the call for a “culture change” has been the University’s battle cry — and for the newly elected Student Government Association’s Board of Governors, too. But the group’s first meeting of the semester Wednesday proved that not all students are so easily swayed by the cause.

Despite the large turnout of curious freshmen, SGA was confronted by skeptical upperclassmen who wanted to publicly debate the future of West Virginia University and the “culture” that’s largely been attacked since last year.

After several minutes of introductions by the new board members, Kelley Denham, a member of Left Alliance at WVU, wasted no time in opening a serious discussion about campus culture and how the SGA intended to mod-ify it.

“A lot of people elected onto this Board of Governors were elected post-Baylor riots and ran on platforms of how we needed to change,” Denham told the board. “The Morgantown Police Department requested $28,000 more for equipment supplies like gas masks, tear gas and police cars. Is the militarization of our police the culture change

we need?”Feeding off of Denham’s questioning, Hillar Klandorf, a

professor at the College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, interjected with his own perspective as a fac-ulty member.

“I think one of the main problems is what to do in terms of a post-game celebration. There’s a lot of energy and

AskAr sAlIkhoV/thE DAIlY AthENAEuMSGA Vice President Ashley Morgan formally begins the open house SGA meeting between members of Board of Governors, faculty members, and current students.

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student body vice presi-dent during the 2013-14 school year and worked as a suicide prevention program assistant in the Carruth Center last sum-mer, pioneered the posi-tion beginning this past February.

Named by The Daily Athenaeum as one of WVU’s most influential people in 2014, Seebaugh has found during his tran-sition from student to Uni-versity employee that, from his arrival on campus six years ago to now, the stu-

dent body and administra-tion has changed in a posi-tive way.

Seebaugh believes WVU has worked diligently to “educate the community” and “provide resources to those who need help,” es-pecially this year with the completion of many fall activities and other LG-BTQ works currently be-ing developed.

WVU will participate again, with hopes of im-provement, in the 2015 Campus Pride Index sur-vey later this fall. Seebaugh wasn’t sure if the Univer-sity would release those scores.

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last July for Kendrick La-mar’s performance.

Eli Young Band was paid $65,000 to perform, and The Chainsmokers were paid $50,000. Klaas said Arts & Entertainment takes into account several things when selecting acts, includ-ing student demographics, survey results and emails and tweets from students. Then, the office makes a list of artists.

“We take that list, and we match it with a list of available artists for the

fall,” Klaas said. “Then, ba-sically working within the parameters of the budget we’re given, we take the genres we think would be most popular. We marry the two.”

The University was fortu-nate this year to book all of its top choices, Klaas said.

To find these artists, the University employs More Music Group, a national booking agency based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The University paid More Music Group $24,000 this year to book the three acts.

Klaas, who only started working with Arts & En-tertainment this year, said, “We’ve pretty much always

worked with them.”In other years, such as

when Kanye West per-formed at FallFest in 2004, the University paid the booking agency more than this year.

“The rest goes to various costs,” Klaas said. “We also came under that a bit. We were at about $417,000.”

Arts & Entertainment re-ceived the budget in spring of this year after WVU named Bill Schafer of the Georgia Institute of Tech-nology the University’s new vice president of student life, replacing Ken Gray who retired in 2014.

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gagements and can use the funding to further their entrepreneurial skills.

Alexandra Breitsameter, a fashion, dress and mer-chandising student from Frederick, Maryland, al-ready has her own custom T-shirt business under-way. With the additional funding from the fellow-ship — and the construc-tive aid given from the YES plan — she plans to fur-ther her production and improve on her business.

The Program is be-

ing funded by a $157,000 grant from The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and a $100,000 grant from Farm Credit.

Both grants were made in conjunction with A State of Minds: The Campaign for West Virginia’s Uni-versity. The campaign is a $1 billion comprehensive campaign from the WVU Foundation on behalf of the University which will run through December 2017. All grants received through the University are associated with this broad campaign.

The campaign’s goal is to engage students in a challenging academic en-

vironment, advance in-ternational activity and global engagement while also enhancing the well-being and the quality of life for West Virginia people.

The recent tuition in-crease passed by the Uni-versity’s Board of Gover-nors earlier this summer indirectly affects the pub-lic funding capabilities of the college in terms of cer-tain experiential programs and salaried increases for professors involved. But the tuition increase “is not directly affiliated” with the program, Wilson said.

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After more than 40 years of housing The Moun-tain People’s Co-Op, the now vacant building at 1400 University Ave. may be closing its doors for good.

The Co-Op’s old loca-tion currently sits empty and will most likely stay that way. West Virginia University Real Estate Property Manager Dusty Hays said the building is in severe disrepair, and the building’s value may not be worth the cost of renovation.

“It’s a rather small building that needs signif-icant repairs to be opera-tional,” Hays said. “It’s no longer safe or economical to have a business in that building.”

According to Hays, the store’s old location would sooner be torn down than be repaired.

The Co-Op now resides almost directly across the street from Black Bear Bur-ritos’ downtown location, right beside Real Juice Bar. These three locations make the area a great place for those looking for natu-ral, vegan food and drink.

Rather than hiring a moving company for their

relocation, the store’s em-ployees moved all of their goods themselves.

“It was tough,” said Gretchen Miller, an em-ployee at the Co-Op. “We would move the shelves out one day, and all of the products out another day.”

Miller noted that on Sat-urdays, they would start moving as early as 8 a.m. and not finish until late into the evening.

The entire move took about three weeks.

According to Assistant Manager Cher Lindquist, the company wanted to move and expand for quite some time.

“We’ve been research-ing properties for sev-eral years,” Lindquist said. “[We were] just trying to have a bigger location… We’ve gotten a lot of posi-tive feedback [on the new location] from our custom-ers, which is extremely im-portant for us.”

In addition to being larger, the Pleasant Street location also provides cus-tomers with better parking options.

“We had a lot of cus-tomers that thought it was very difficult to get in and out of our parking lot because that intersec-tion is so busy,” Lindquist said.

Lindquist mentioned that while parking near the new location costs money, customers can pay as lit-tle as five cents at those meters.

“We’re trying to expand some of our personal care items that are 100 percent biodegradable, vegan and free of a lot of the com-mon chemicals that our customers don’t want,”

Lindquist said. “The other thing that has been re-ally great is that our vegan baker has expanded his business here as well.”

The shop also plans on designating an area for local artists to sell their work.

The Co-Op sells whole-sale goods to many lo-cations in Morgantown

and the surrounding ar-eas, such as Chico’s Fat, The Morgantown Brewing Company and All Things Herbal in Fairmont.

The Mountain People’s Co-Op encourages anyone who enjoys fresh, organic produce and other all-nat-ural products to stop by.

“We truly care about the products that we carry, and we care about our

members,” Lindquist said. “[There are] a lot of people we know on a first-name basis… You’re not going to get that at a normal store.”

The Mountain People’s Co-Op is now open ev-ery day at 131 Pleasant St. Parking is available across the street above Black Bear Burritos.

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celebratory spirit there, and yet this is an issue that has yet to be resolved. We need to find something that allows that energy to be expressed in a safer, less damaging way,” Klandorf said.

He pointed to concepts growing in popularity — a University-sponsored bon-fire or allowing students to rush onto the field after the game ends.

Student Body Vice Pres-ident Ashley Morgan re-sponded that an impor-tant aspect of the “culture

change” is about offer-ing students an opportu-nity to get involved with events on campus so they don’t feel like they need to go anywhere else. Indeed, a major theme resonating throughout the meeting in-volved community service opportunities and mental health.

Student Body President George Capel added that, since many visitors not from WVU were arrested or cited in connection with vandalism and inciting ri-ots, the riots last year were likely not the students’ fault. He said students’ be-havior should shift into acting like the role-model Mountaineer.

“I think it’s really impor-tant, in regards to culture change, for students to take a role and constantly (en-courage) everybody else to act like a real Mountaineer should act—to respect the area and respect the peo-ple around you. We need to change that culture so-cially,” Capel said. “We’re on the right track, we just need to keep pushing forward.”

For the rest of the year, SGA plans to integrate stu-dents into philanthropic roles and to create more opportunities to serve the Morgantown community in order to fulfill the Mil-lion Hour Match chal-lenge, a proposal made

by the state for WVU to complete 1 million hours of community service by 2018.

Randy Jones, the ad-ministration’s chief-of-staff, said he’s already seen a tremendous amount of involvement from the incoming freshman class.

“In the last week, we’ve already had between 1,200 and 1,500 freshmen doing community service proj-ects,” Jones said. “For me, the idea of culture change is that we involve the stu-dents in the commu-nity like they would be at home.”

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dErry, N.h. (aP)—Republican presiden-tial front-runner Donald Trump dismissed estab-lishment favorite Jeb Bush as unelectable and “low-energy” Wednesday, while the former governor la-beled his rival a tax-hiking Democrat in a war of words played out at dueling town halls.

In Derry, Trump drew a capacity crowd to a high school auditorium of al-

most 1,000, and filled a few overflow rooms. He started his criticism of Bush in a briefing with reporters and continued in the town hall.

“I don’t see how he’s electable,” Trump told re-porters, later describ-ing Bush as a “low-en-ergy person” who has trouble getting things done.

“Right down the road, we have Jeb,” Trump said early

in the town hall, draw-ing boos. Trump mocked Bush for going “down like a rock” in early polls in the state and failing to excite his supporters.

“You know what’s hap-pening to Jeb’s crowd?” he asked. “They’re sleeping.”

In nearby Merrimack, Bush, who had once been reluctant to go after his opponents, portrayed the billionaire business-man as a tax hike-promot-

ing Democrat whom vot-ers would eventually tire of.

“I think what people are eventually going to vote for is a proven conservative leader that’s done it,” Bush said in a video of the event released by his campaign.

He went on to criticize Trump for his past contri-butions to Democrats, as well as his changing po-sitions on tax issues and his previous support for

a single-payer health care system.

“He’s won over a lot of people. People are very angry about how Wash-ington’s not working. He’s tapped into that,” said Bush. “But when peo-ple look at his record, it is not a conservative record.”

Trump, who has moved to the top of summer polls, and Bush, who remains the favorite of establish-

ment donors, have been clashing frequently in re-cent weeks over a num-ber of issues - especially immigration.

Bush’s wife was born in Mexico, and he has said that people entering the country illegally do so as an “act of love” for their families.

Trump, who is call-ing for the mass depor-tation of people who have entered the coun-try illegally and the build-ing of a giant wall on the border, mocked such rhetoric.

Trump also defended the use of the term “anchor babies” and bragged about the wall he plans to build along the Mexican border, saying it would look good as well as keep people out.

Bush on Wednesday criticized Trump’s immi-gration platform, argu-ing that it’s “not a con-servative plan” because it would cost tens of bil-lions of dollars to carry out.

Trump told reporters before the town hall meet-ing that his plan would likely pay for itself in a year because of all the money the government would save.

Trump, who has been criticized for a lack of spe-cific policy plans, skipped an all-day education forum attended by half a dozen of his competitors, including Bush.

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The Monongalia Arts Center has flipped its walls once again, making home for an all new gallery dis-play during the month of August. “Different Voices, Common Experiences” debuted in the Benedum Gallery on Aug. 7, touch-ing on a range of topics and artistic styles.

“DVCE” is a uniquely themed collection of work aiming to encourage pos-itive mental health and community wellness. This was the inspiration for the submitting artists, who all have been affected by mental health issues. The narrow theme didn’t hin-der creativity however, with work ranging from oil on canvas, to wood work-ings and even recyclable materials.

When first entering the gallery, it’s hard not to no-tice the broad use of color throughout the room. Every canvas and dis-play varied in size shape and style. Each piece was drastically different from the one next to it, making the walk around the room exciting and somewhat unpredictable.

One of the first pieces that caught my eye was titled “My Afghan Girl,”

by Ellen Pirlo. This piece didn’t stand out for its size, which was rather small, nor did it stand out for its drastic use of color. It was the contrast between a photograph of a young Af-ghan girl next to a simple sketch of the same photo. Her somber expression and vibrant smears of red sparks serious emotion within the observer.

The piece also features a small magazine clipping that gives the context of the photo. It discusses a group of marines who set out to capture moments of war from an app on their iPhones.

Another work that caught my eye in “DVCE” was “Freedom,” by Darla Ervin. One of the first as-pects that stood out to me was the fact that the paint-ing was done on a newspa-per, creating a depth and texture on the page. “Free-dom” stood true to its title, flaunting an assortment of bright colors and sponta-neous splashes of paint.

Even more striking was the depiction of the Statue of Liberty in a wheel chair. The iconic statue’s un-usual position is high-lighted by quotes about disabilities placed around the page, creating deeper meaning and messaging. Words such as “Employ-ment,” and “Equal Oppor-tunity” are all challenging

elements for those living with disabilities. The sub-tle incorporation of these statements helps highlight the close relationship be-tween the two issues and invokes a sense of empa-thy in the observer.

At the other end of the gallery, “Tinie,” by David Dorsey, created a much different reaction for art enthusiasts. This viva-cious, funky painting de-picted a cartoonish look-ing man smoking a joint. This oddly proportioned piece pops off the page with different uses of pen-cil sketching and paint-ing combined. The fig-ure’s wild hair is abstractly shown as small puzzle-like pieces, making it seem like the audience is looking at the man through a fun-house mirror.

This piece, while it seems, at first, more up-

beat than other in the room, still strongly re-lates to the theme of men-tal health. The character in the painting created a personality that jumped off the page. Though the emotion is not necessar-ily negative, the loud use of color and ostentatious style takes the observer on a roller coaster of height-ened emotion.

As a whole, “DVCE” was a s diverse as mental ill-ness itself. And truly cap-tures pain and joy in equal parts.

“DVCE” will be on dis-play until September 4 at the Monongalia Arts Cen-ter. For more information on the gallery or other events, visit http://mon-artscenter.com.

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WVUp All Night will return for more fun this weekend, follow-ing it’s unofficial kick-o f f dur ing Move-in Weekend.

Up All Night offers a wide range of activities to do, spanning from movies and fun food nights to ath-letic events, and all of it is either free or discounted to West Virginia University students.

For the first weekend students were on cam-pus, Up All Night offered a welcome cookout with DJ Logo, spin art frisbees, bubble soccer, show-ings of “World War Z” at the Gluck Theater and of course, their usual free bil-liards and astro bowling.

Up All Night’s noto-rious food selection in-clude d macaroni & cheese, chicken nug-gets, and a nacho bar for students.

This weekend is ex-pected to be even bigger with an entire new lineup of activities and prize of-fers for Mountaineers in search of a good time.

WVU is offering low key entertainment withbowl-ing and billiards, as well as options for fun in the Gluck Theater. “Furious 7” and “San Andreas” will both be on the reel Fri-day evening with show-ings at 6 and again at 9:30.

For students look-ing for a little late-night snack, WVUp All Night will feature a baked po-tato bar and a nacho bar.

On Friday, the pace picks up a bit. At 9 p.m., students can participate in laser tag in the food court area. A giant inflatable cube, provided by TRON-system, will house a multi-obstacle laser tag field .

The event will also host a study room and tutor-ing beginning at 6 p.m. to help any students strug-gling with a class.

For those looking for concert-style enter-tainment, Mountain-eers can check out Mor-gantown Sound which will be a special addition to the weekly WVUp All Night lineup. The singer-songwriter edition of the event will kick off at 9:30 p.m.

If you’re looking to stay on the Evansdale cam-pus, students can join in on a pick-up bubble soc-cer game that will be at the Rec Center fields at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday will feature a slew of fast-paced fun with a performance by Matt Poling and the Eazy Riderz Band in the food court at 9 p.m. Students will also be able to revisit some of the previous night’s activ-ities including movies in the Gluck Theater, games and a late-night food se-lection.

WVUp All Night is a way for students to connect with classmates and en-rich their college experi-ence. It also provides safe and cost-free options for students looking to stick around campus on the weekend.

WVUp All Night is held every weekend in the Mountainlair (exclud-ing weekends with home games) and is free to all WVU students. For more information on WVUp All Night, visit http://mountainlair.wvu.edu/wvupallnight.

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WVUp All Night returns on campus U92’s Morgantown Sound returns Westley thompson

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Morgantown Sound re-turns this school year with a lineup of local bands to play live shows for it’s ra-dio audience.

For those unfamiliar, Morgantown Sound is a weekly show hosted by West Virginia University’s radio station, U92. Each week, a live performance featuring a local band is played on the radio from the Gluck Theatre in the Mountainlair.

The shows are every Monday at 8 p.m.

This year U92 has worked hard to make Morgantown Sound bet-ter than ever. The show is bringing back regu-lar favorites, but Mor-gantown Sound Producer John Casey is excited to bring in some new acts as well.

“The nice thing about the area is it’s tran-sient population,” Casey said. He went on to say bands are always break-ing apart as new ones form. Each new class also brings in new musical

talent.Although the acts are

usually on Monday eve-nings, certain special shows will be played on Fridays during WVUp All Night. These shows also will be broadcast live on the radio.

This Friday at Up All Night singer-songwriter Marshall Mores will be performing this year’s first Friday night live broad-cast. The performance is slated to begin at 9 p.m.

Fireside Soul is to play the first regularly sched-uled show this year at 8 p.m. The band, hail-ing from West Milford, West Virginia, is de-scribed as a hybrid acous-tic-alternative rock jam band.

Fireside Soul started in 2004 as a simple house-band between a couple of friends. The group began to attend open mic nights at Knuckleheads Bar in Clarksburg, West Virginia. After they began host-ing their own open mic nights. Now they tour the state.

According to Fireside Soul’s Facebook page, their favorite groups are

Josh Folmsbee, Jimi Hen-drix, Dave Matthews and James Taylor.

For more information on Fireside Soul visit their Facebook page.

Morgantown Sound scours the area to find the best local acts to put on the radio and on the stage. Every new school year brings in great new acts as well as old favorites, and this one should be no different.

To listen to the live per-formance tune into U92 on the radio. Seeing the per-formance in person is free, just head to the Gluck The-atre in the Mountainlair Monday nights at 8 p.m. For more information visit U92’s website http://u92.wvu.edu/.

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AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUM“Nebula I”, a painting by Sara Ward, displayed in the Benedum Gallery as part of “Different Voices & Common Experiences” exhibit at te Monongalia Arts Cener.

AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMDarla Ervin’s “Freedom” is presented as one of the mixed media works of art at the “Different Voices & Common Experiences” exhibit, hosted by the Moonga-lia Arts Center.

AskAr sAlikhov/ThE DAilY AThENAEUMA variety of paintings and other works are at display in the Benedum Gallery of the Monongalia Arts Center as part of the “Different Voices & Common Experiences” art exhibit.

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NEW YORK (AP) ‑ It hap-pened - as good ideas of-ten do - over a round of cocktails.

Roberta Pereira and Brisa Trinchero, two rising Broad-way producers, had just met and hit it off, bonding over their mutual love of the stage and books.

Over cosmos one night, Trinchero bemoaned the lack of fun, behind-the-scenes novels about their own industry.

"I was about to head out on a vacation and I was say-ing, `Why isn't there "The Devil Wears Prada" for the-ater?'" she said.

A lightbulb went on over Pereira's head. "I was like, `Why don't we do that?'" she recalled. "As a pro-ducer, I was like, `Oh, it doesn't exist? We can make

it happen.'"And that's how Dress

Circle Publishing was born. One of only a few book lines specifically dedicated to theater, it publishes fiction and nonfiction, often in-triguing stories about what happens backstage and offstage.

"Our whole goal is to pro-vide access behind the cur-tain," said Trinchero. "We're putting things out into the world that we would have wanted to have read from afar so you can feel like an insider even if you're not."

Dress Circle has put out a trilogy of novels about a young female Broadway producer, as well as collec-tions of stories by Broadway insiders Seth Rudetsky and Jennifer Ashley Tepper.

Pereira edits the books

and Trinchero handles the business side. While they won't reveal sale figures, the company is profitable and they say they decline more submissions than they ap-prove. "We can afford to be picky," says Pereira.

Pereira, a Brazilian-born graduate of Yale School of Drama, recently became producing director at the off-Broadway theater com-pany The Playwrights Realm.

She previously produced such work as the Tony-nominated play "Mothers and Sons" by Terrence Mc-Nally and the Olivier award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" on the West End.

Trinchero, who grew up in Oregon and has an MBA from the University

of Portland, has a string of Broadway hits, includ-ing "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," "Pippin," "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and "Peter and the Starcatcher."

They credit their Broad-way connections - as well as strong business back-grounds - for allowing them to create their publishing company.

"We come from the in-side. Broadway can be very insular and closed," Pereira says. "That's why we could crack it in this different way."

For their first book, the pair commissioned Ruby Preston to write "Showbiz," the fictional story of Scar-lett Savoy, a Broadway pro-ducer. Pereira and Trin-chero fed the writer plenty

of their own behind-the-scenes stories.

"We found that the more specific and real and au-thentic we got with these books - really targeting theater fans everywhere - that we could really speak to them in ways that tradi-tional publishers can't," says

Trinchero.Preston went on to write

"Staged" and "Starstruck" - completing the trilogy - and a TV production company in Sweden is developing a series around it, featuring a young Swedish woman who comes to Broadway to produce.

A pair of New York theater producers back a line of theater books

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Progress in lGBT representationThe first transgender

White House staff mem-ber was appointed yester-day by President Barack Obama. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan is a Hispanic transgender woman and worked for the National Center for Transgender Equality before taking the position on Obama’s staff.

Representation for the LGBT and gender-non-conforming community has been steadily growing across the United States in recent years. Transgender politicians have held office in several states, with no-table individuals includ-ing Victoria Kolakowski (a superior court judge in California) and Stu Ras-mussen (a town mayor in Oregon). Stacie Laughton, a trans woman, was elected to New Hampshire’s House of Representatives in 2012 and became the first trans-gender lawmaker in the country.

This editorial board stands with Obama’s de-cision to add Freedman-Gurspan to the White

House staff. With the re-cent Supreme Court ruling now allowing for the rec-ognition of same-sex mar-

riages across the country, ensuring the lawful rights of the LGBT community are upheld will be of ut-

most importance in the near future.

Unfortunately, this representation is sorely needed. Transgender and gender-nonconforming in-dividuals are often the tar-get of extreme violence. According to the Huffing-ton Post, more than 100 vi-olent acts were committed against transgender peo-ple worldwide in just the first four months of 2014. Trans representation in the political sphere will likely result in the creation of laws to combat these tragic events and will hopefully aid in ending violence and discrimination against the trans community for good.

Issues concerning gen-der identity and expression are currently present at West Virginia University as well. For example, all-gen-der bathrooms have been the topic of discussion in student government in previous semesters and, if put in place, will provide

a safe and judgment-free space for both trans stu-dents and those who sim-ply need some extra space or privacy in a restroom.

Though Freedman-Gur-span’s appointment is a beneficial first start for the trans community, diversity of trans representation will likely be an issue of future concern. Though the first transgender male soldier came out earlier this year, there is yet to be a trans-gender male elected to public office.

However, yesterday’s success for the trans com-munity is apparent. As Americans, we would be remiss to forget how Amer-ica’s history is steeped in fighting for representa-tion of all races, religions and sexes, and this edito-rial board believes gender identity should not con-tinue to be excluded from the list.

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Audience entitlement ruins performance experiencekAitlin licAuse

columnist @dailyathenaeum

If there’s one thing get-ting my metaphorical gears screaming into a solid grind, it’s people who have forgot-ten how to behave civilly at a public venue. “Discour-tesy is unspeakably ugly to me,” to quote Hannibal Lecter from “Silence of the Lambs.” While I may not share his mealtime prefer-ences, I certainly find sol-idarity with this statement on proper etiquette, which brings me to my personal complaint of the week: The entitled audience member. Cringe and behold.

Rude audience members used to be an unpleasant yet fairly rare phenomenon. They were a go-to story at a party where everyone com-pared their traumatic failed dates or awkward fam-ily outings at the theatre, a concert or the opera. But the key word is “rare.” There was the occasional rude au-dience member, but more often than not, your night out wasn’t spoiled by their antics. You had a good time, came home with a pleasant memory, and often forgot about Joe-what’s-his-face whose cell phone rang once near the end of the third act.

But now, the entitled audience member can be found everywhere. With the mindset of “I paid for it, I can act however I please dur-ing it” fresh in their heads and their easily distractible eyes on the smartphones in their hands, it is easier than ever to be an inconsiderate member of any audience. So, of course, people do ex-actly that. They are no lon-ger a mere speck on a good memory, but rather a huge

gash. Even worse: There is now often more than one.

They’re the group of young boys playing Min-ion Race on their iPhones halfway through “Phan-tom of the Opera.” They’re the six-foot-five men in the mosh pit who are do-ing less thrashing and more outright punching of their peers. They’re the people literally sleeping through “Der Freischütz” with their snores growing louder than the strings section. All of these are personal exam-

ples, and all of them made me realize this is no mere generational phenomenon. Young people aren’t just not being taught, but older people are forgetting—genuinely forgetting—how it once was a staple to be quiet and attentive during a show.

To make matters worse, there is little to be done about it beyond the occa-sional pre-show message. The sheer volume of disrup-tion is impossible to man-age. You might be able to get

away with shushing a few rowdy teenagers at the mov-ies, but certainly not an en-tire three rows. Courteous audience members are now expected to sit back in their seats, clench their popcorn with a blunt fist and hold their rage back.

Let me tell you: I am not a fan of holding my rage back. Case in point: Three boys had their phones slam-dunked out of their hands during a performance of “Wicked” last summer season.

So let me address you, discourteous audience members. I’m talking to those who paid for a ticket and believe this purchase entitles them to act however they want, with no regard to the performers. I’m talking to those who dare to under-mine all the hard work put into a performance without giving it even a moment of their time, who dare to dis-tract me from the show I paid $40 to see in peace. I’m talking to those who make the decision to consciously

interrupt the attentions of their peers and make them-selves the center of atten-tion, however unobtrusive they believe their actions to be. I’m talking to those whose ability to listen has been lost in waves of self-entitlement, never to re-turn again until some brave stranger has the courage to defy social norms and ask them to please, please stop.

I beg of you: Please, please stop.

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erin irwin/the DailY athenaeUmDisrupting live performances like “Henry IV” can be detrimental to both other audience members and the performers themselves.

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How medical television shows skew perceptions of doctors, hospitalselAnA goodwinohio state university

There are a fair amount of medical TV shows that are either on the air today or were recently, and while some facets of hospital and doctor life may be similar to how we see them on TV, there are also a number of things medical shows por-tray wrong.

Viewers have long been fascinated by medical shows — from the cult fa-vorite “Grey’s Anatomy” and its spinoff “Private Prac-tice” to shows like “General Hospital,” “ER,” “Casualty,” “House,” “Nip/Tuck,” and “Scrubs” and to the forth-coming series “Code Black” and “Chicago Med,” which will premiere during the 2015-2016 TV season.

It’s obvious by the num-ber of medical shows that people love to watch series that seemingly give them a

taste of what being a doc-tor is like.

But with the exception of the half hour comedy “Scrubs,” which aired from 2001-2010, which has sur-prisingly been lauded as the most accurate portrayal of doctors and hospital life on TV, many medical TV shows give viewers a false impression of the medical profession.

In “Scrubs,” the show follows narrator and pro-tagonist J.D. and shows him not only doing medi-cal procedures and learn-ing from an intern to a full-fledged doctor, but also captures the in-between moments in the hospital, such as interactions be-tween doctors and nurses. Additionally, J.D.’s reflec-tive internal monologues have been praised as being similar to what a young be-ginner doctor would think when starting out and fac-

ing difficult medical cases and decisions.

Aside from that show, most other medical TV shows portray doctor life wrong.

Firstly, viewers almost never see the medical school years on TV – usu-ally, medical shows will begin following interns, residents, established doc-tors, or a mix of the three. If you’re wondering why that is, it’s because medi-cal school has been said to be incredibly awful – and if they were to show that on TV, perhaps we’d have less people eager to become doctors.

Between the long hours, hard work, and competi-tive atmosphere, we pretty much already have a TV show that portrays med school: it’s called “Survi-vor” – just subtract the hun-dreds of thousands of dol-lars in loans and the ability

to practice medicine, and voila.

Secondly, even TV shows whose main characters start out as interns or res-idents portray many as-pects of hospital life wrong. For example, if you watch “Grey’s Anatomy,” you’d think that working at a hos-pital basically means you’ll have the most dramatic life, complete with whirl-wind romances and excit-ing surgeries (oh, and of course, everybody will be good-looking).

In actuality, unlike the in-terns on “Grey’s Anatomy,” interns rarely ever see the inside of an operation room when they’re at this status; instead, they’re responsible more for the care of patients on the floor. The same goes for surgical interns – they’ll be doing a lot more scut work than surgical work, and many second-year resi-dents will continue to do so,

along with consults.Thirdly, many of the med-

ical situations and cases featured on medical TV shows are also far-fetched, simply because they make plotlines more interest-ing or create some kind of drama. Sometimes a head-ache is just a headache and not a symptom of lupus or a fever is just a fever and not a sign that you have swine flu.

Lastly, there are a num-ber of things about hospi-tal life that many medical TV shows commonly get wrong. One being that doc-tors will operate outside their specialty and perform pretty much any and every procedure needed, even if it’s a different specialty than the one they were trained in. Another is that doctors are responsible for every step in patient care.

In reality, nurses actu-ally do almost everything in hospitals (and this was

accurately portrayed on “Scrubs”). Third, most res-idents and doctors don’t and aren’t able to leave the hospital at the same time and go to the local pub for a drink. Lastly, while doctors may hook up throughout their years in med school or a hospital, medical TV shows drastically increase the number of romantic relationships occurring at work, as well as the magni-tude on-call room nookie. Also, in most hospitals re-lationships with a supe-rior are a big no-no (sorry, “Grey’s”).

All that being said, even though medical TV shows aren’t entirely accurate and commonly portray aspects of hospital life and being a doctor wrong, they do excel at being entertaining and it’s clear their lack of verac-ity doesn’t affect that. God bless and long live “Grey’s Anatomy.”

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 5Thursday August 20, 2015

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two crucial questions await “Fear the Walking Dead,” the spinoff to AMC’s mon-ster hit “The Walking Dead.”

The first: How many zom-bies does it take to satisfy viewers of the new drama, which begins in the early days of the robust apoca-lypse underway in the orig-inal? The second: How big an audience is big enough when compared to its sibling?

Let executive producer Dave Erickson start with the latter for “Fear,” its short-hand title, which debuts at 9 p.m. EDT Sunday with a six-episode run.

“If I woke up every morn-ing (thinking) `Oh, my God, 20 million viewers per epi-sode,’ I couldn’t get out of bed,” Erickson said, refer-ring to the ballpark num-ber of viewers “The Walking Dead” has approached in its highest-rated airings.

“We’ve written and (the cast) have played a very strong season. I think peo-ple will enjoy it and eventu-ally love it for its own merits and how it complements the other show,” he said.

AMC, in rebuilding mode after the departures of flag-ship series “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men,” already placed a 15-episode order for season two, a vote of confidence that the spinoff will prove a winner.

Devotees of “The Walk-ing Dead,” which is rife with zombie vs human action in its small-town Georgia set-

ting, will find the undead in relatively short supply in the early going of “Fear.” And “Walking Dead” isn’t back until Oct. 11, so zom-bie fans are in the throes of withdrawal.

“We never (create) a story thinking we should add that because we’re missing a zombie moment,” Erick-son said. “We have an epi-sode with no zombies, and we’ll probably have an-other episode in season two with no zombies. And that’s OK.”

But there are other sat-isfactions to be had. Un-like “Walking Dead,” which opened in a post-apocalyp-tic world overrun by zom-bies, not-so-fondly nick-named “walkers,” the new series’ initial focus is on set-ting and characters as they exist before the crisis takes hold.

The original series “is a brilliant construct, the way they elipsed over the actual apocalypse, the way they were able to jump into it,” Erickson said in an inter-view. “Because we don’t do that, we have an opportu-nity to explore a little more deeply and spend more time with it.”

So will the origin of the zombie outbreak be revealed?

“No. Short answer, no,” he said at a recent TV critics’ meeting.

The presence of the “in-fected,” as they’re called here, is definitely spotty early on but still very, very

scary.“Fear” unfolds in the con-

crete jungle of Los Angeles, specifically East LA, and makes the most of its or-dinariness. This isn’t glitzy Hollywood or entitled Mal-ibu getting its comeup-pance; it’s a hard-working, ethnically diverse commu-nity where residents cope with challenges familiar in urban America.

For the blended family of Madison Clark (Kim Dick-ens) and Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis), that includes Madison’s son Nick, a teen with a drug habit. He’s played by British-born ac-tor Frank Dillane (Tom Rid-dle Jr. in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”), here with a decided Johnny

Depp-bad boy look and Cal-ifornia vibe.

Other cast members in-clude Ruben Blades, Mer-cedes Mason, Alycia Deb-nam Carey and Elizabeth Rodriguez.

The premiere’s impres-sively cinematic opening se-quence shows Nick coming to in an abandoned church serving as a shooting gallery for drug users. The waking nightmare he’s destined to encounter is from the men-ace that’s descending on the city, not just his addiction.

He’s got the parental sup-port he needs for both: His school counselor mom and her partner, a teacher, are mature and caring grown-ups with their hearts and minds in the right place.

The characters and the writing are what attracted Dickens and Curtis, al-though her first reaction was reluctance at tackling a hor-ror series, a genre she hadn’t worked in outside the 2000 sci-fi thriller “Hollow Man.”

But, she said, “I loved it. And the more I read it, it seemed like the most fun character to play and excit-ing and challenging.”

For Curtis, a New Zealand native of Maori descent, the chance to portray a man with a similar background was just part of what the se-ries offered. He found the pilot “grounded” with a por-trayal of usually overlooked East LA and with its fresh take on what masculinity can be for such a character.

Men in such genre dra-mas are “usually so messed up and dragging around these demons in their head,” he said. But Travis is a kind man and “a loyal guy who’s trying to make something work, make something good. That’s a lot harder to do than be some messed-up guy caught up in his own angst.”

Being part of a “huge franchise” is a privilege and opportunity, Curtis added.

But, as Erickson noted, it comes with baggage as well - specifically the double-digit millions of “Walking Dead” fans.

“We’re not defining suc-cess by hitting that number and staying at that num-ber. ... We’ll find our place

‘Walking Dead’ spinoff to show viewers early days of the apocalypse

onsecrethunt.comA zombie from ‘The Walking Dead.’ The new series will show the zombie apocalypse in its early days.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The idea of the high-tech, emo-tionless super-soldier is so popular in movies, it’s prac-tically a convention. The “Terminator” and “Bourne” franchises, and even last year’s animated “Big Hero 6,” imagine characters pro-grammed to kill and the would-be world destroyers who want to control them.

The same formula is at work in “Hitman: Agent 47,” a stylized shoot-em-up based on a video game, of which no previous knowl-edge is required. Rupert Friend plays the titular char-acter: an elite assassin ge-netically engineered to be smarter, faster, more fear-less and less remorseful than ordinary human so-ciopaths. Named for the bar code branded on the back of his head, Agent 47 is stoic, expressionless and amaz-ingly efficient at wielding multiple firearms and using everyday objects as murder weapons.

Unfortunately, “Hitman: Agent 47” leans on another familiar Hollywood con-vention, this one painfully outdated: the damsel in distress. It’s always disheart-ening to see this tired trope employed, but especially here, where the female pro-tagonist is clearly as capable as any of her male counter-

parts. Why must she appear constantly on the verge of tears? Why does a bril-liant woman like this need saving?

Some moviegoers may not mind the use of this lazy device - which serves as a catalyst for the action and ostensibly why we should care - but for those who do, it’s as frustrating as having a piece of popcorn stuck be-tween your teeth.

Dogged by fractured memories from her child-hood, Katia (Hannah Ware) is searching for answers. She’s turned the biggest wall in her one-room apartment into “A Beautiful Mind”-style mess of maps and photos and newspaper clip-pings dotted with push-pins and pieces of string. So sin-gularly focused is she on her search that she sleeps on a mattress without sheets.

Two men are after her: Agent 47 and the mysteri-ous John Smith (Zachary Quinto). Because Katia can sense danger before it hap-pens, she escapes through her apartment window and heads straight to a shady, underground guy to secure a fake passport.

“Be careful, little girl,” he tells her. “The world is a dangerous place.”

Never mind that she is a full-grown adult woman

who already knows where to buy a fake passport.

The story, explained in voiceover during the film’s opening moments and later by Quinto’s character, is that Katia’s geneticist father cre-ated - and later abandoned - a top-secret government program to engineer hu-man killing machines. After his 47th attempt at perfect-ing the design, her dad dis-appeared, taking his secrets with him. The evil Le Clerq (Thomas Kretschmann) wants to resurrect the killer-making program, and he sees Katia as the key to find-ing the elusive scientist who can make it happen.

But all you really need to know is that two killers are after Katia, and she doesn’t know who to trust. This sets the stage for a series of heart-pounding chase scenes (brought to you by Audi) and thrilling fight se-quences for the unflappable Agent 47. Like a GQ model with a heart of steel, Friend’s Agent 47 is elegant and mer-ciless. He moves like liquid mercury through fist-fights and gun battles, beautifully choreographed by indus-try leaders 87Eleven Action Design.

Aleksander Bach, a com-mercial director making his feature film debut, deftly commands these shots.

The car-versus-motorcycle chase through a parking ga-rage is especially thrilling, as is a spectacular gunfight on a spiral staircase illumi-nated by strobe lights. The incredible international set-tings add to the eye candy.

But the damsel-in-dis-tress trope dampens the ac-tion. Katia is always afraid, even as she says lines like, “We determine who we are by what we do.” The soundtrack is so cloying at times, it highlights the cheesiest dialogue. Though

Katia eventually learns to fend for herself, she’s for-ever at the mercy of the men around her. And shame on the filmmakers for includ-ing a scene of Katia going for a swim that exists for no other reason than to show Ware’s backside in a bikini.

Her helplessness and emotional sensitivity don’t even make sense accord-ing to the script, but to say more about that would ven-ture into spoiler territory.

“Hitman” is more fun to watch if you don’t think

about that. Friend’s graceful execution of Agent 47’s killer moves is what the movie is really about, and he effort-lessly smokes scores of at-tackers here, just like in a video game.

“Hitman: Agent 47,” a 20th Century Fox release, is rated R by the Motion Pic-ture Association of America “for sequences of strong vi-olence, and some language.” Running time: 96 minutes. Two stars out of four.

‘Hitman: Agent 47’ falls victim to its distressed-damsel reliant plot

foxmovies.comAgent 47 is a remorseless, engineered killer.

A film reveals how Morton Downey Jr. Pioneered Loundmouth Television NEW YORK (AP) — A man

clears his throat and rages at the world. He claims to speak for everyday folks with conservative ideals and he savages anyone who challenges him. He is un-censored and high-decibel, an avatar of theatrics and must-see TV. He changes the terms of public dis-course forever.

A quarter-century after dropping from sight, Mor-ton Downey Jr. can be felt all too vividly these days on talk TV and radio, even re-ality shows - not to men-tion the presidential cam-paign trail.

What a great time to re-call (or discover) this earth-shaking talk-show host. And what a fine portrait of him is “Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie,” which premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT on CNN.

He exploded on the scene in 1987 with a syndi-cated talk show that shat-tered the decorum of Phil Donahue’s program and the genteel give-and-take of “Meet the Press.”

Deploying a cavernous mouth stocked with a huge set of pearlies that inspired his program’s logo, Downey was raucous, raw, bellig-

erent and derisive. From his studio in the work-ing-class locus of Secau-cus, New Jersey, he baited and bad-mouthed one seg-ment of his audience while, for his proto-dittoheads, he reigned as a populist rock star who claimed to identify “with their needs, with their dreams, with their frustra-tions.” But no matter how they took him, no one could turn away from this archi-tect of what was promptly dubbed Trash Talk.

After just two seasons, Downey self-destructed and was off the air. But just that swiftly he had paved the way for the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and, arguably, Don-ald Trump.

Produced and directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy New-berger, “Evocateur” traces this blink-of-an-eye rise and fall with sass yet re-markable balance while drawing on a wealth of ar-chival material.

The film features vin-tage clips with guests in-cluding then-Congress-man Ron Paul (to whom Downey bellows, “If I had a slime like you in the White House, I’d puke on you!”) as

well as attorney Alan Der-showitz, attorney-activist Gloria Allred and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who, a party to an onstage brawl, ends up on the floor.

Current-day interviews include conservative advo-cate Pat Buchanan; veteran broadcaster Larry King; for-mer talk show hosts Rich-ard Bey and Sally Jessy Raphael; Kelli Downey Cornwell, one of Downey’s four children from his four marriages; as well as mem-bers of his production team.

These include Bob Pitt-man, who, fresh from cre-ating MTV network, was looking for a new adventure and thought he’d found one in Downey, a struggling singer-turned-talk-person-ality on local radio and TV.

“Until Mort came along, I think most talk-show hosts were needlessly polite, to the point of never getting the real issues on the table,” Pittman said recently in an interview with The Associ-ated Press.

Until then, Downey had hardly set the world on fire. He was the privi-leged son of pop star Mor-ton Downey, whose lilting tenor won him fame as “The

Irish Nightingale.” Junior tried to make it similarly as a pop singer, and the doc-umentary includes footage of him on a 1950s TV talent show competing for judges who include Dean Martin.

Even more surpris-ingly, the Downey fam-ily was close to the Kenne-dys - literally, as next-door neighbors in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. As a dap-per young liberal, Junior worked in Washington for Sen. Edward Kennedy.

At the other end of Downey’s career, the film tracks his rapid descent as overnight success fueled more and more outrageous antics, both on and off the show.

This peaked in April 1989 with an incident in a San Francisco International Airport men’s room in which he claimed to have been ambushed by neo-Na-zis who painted a swastika on his face and attempted to shave his head. The inci-dent turned out to be a des-perate ploy by Downey to restore public favor, a hoax described in the film by an associate who helped him perpetrate it.

Within a few more months, his show was his-

tory. Repeated attempts at a comeback failed. Then in 2001, the man who once had boasted of smoking four packs of cigarettes a day died of lung can-cer after spending his last years as an anti-smoking advocate.

“He was a very, very complex fellow - extraordi-narily talented, extraordi-narily tortured,” says Pitt-man. “We gave Mort a big platform, and on that plat-form he lost his way. Then it became one of the few shows in TV history where

the producers canceled their own show.”

“Evocateur” closes with a final-credits spoof of the red-lipped title sequence from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

But moments before that, Downey is seen be-ing interviewed by “Today” host Bryant Gumbel, who asks him, “Is this a passing fancy, or is this a front of the wave?”

Before Downey can say, the film cuts to black. But every viewer of “Evocateur” already knows the answer.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Thursday August 20, 20156 | CAMPUS CONNECTION

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You’ll want to take some time to pro-cess your feelings. Try not to act too quickly; otherwise, you could ex-perience a problem. Share some of your thoughts with a trusted friend whose feedback might be signifi-cant. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH Zero in on a friend who might be a creative type. Conversa-tions could be trying. Remain gra-cious, and try asking a clarifying question or two. A meeting is likely to take up much of your time. To-night: Let the party go on.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Someone will make it very clear that he or she wants what he or she wants. Stay centered and direct, especially if you are involved. You might need to re-establish a bound-ary. You have a lot to do, and there is little time for other matters. Tonight: Could go till the wee hours.

C A N C E R ( J U N E 21- J U ly 22) HHHHH Allow your imagination to soar when faced with unavoid-able obstacles. You will find a solu-tion. A conversation with someone you look up to will make a big differ-ence in your perspective. Make calls and plans to take off for a few days. Tonight: Listen to the music.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You could be taken aback by a personal situation and an apparent lack of op-tions. You will remain mellow yet di-rect. Speak your mind to someone you look up to who often gives you sound advice. Be more forthright with this person. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH One-on-one relating will take you down a new path. You could be con-fused by someone who seems to pull back suddenly. Know that this person will calm down in time. En-lightening news will open the door to a potential change. Tonight: In the whirlwind of the moment.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OCT. 22) HH You could be tired and withdrawn. How you handle a partner or associate who feels a stronger need to be in control will be more important than you think. You can’t put off a discus-sion any longer. You might be sur-prised by what is going on. Tonight: Be social.

SCORpIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Dive into a project that can’t be de-layed any longer. You could be ex-hausted by a personal matter that seems to be dominant and perhaps takes up too much of your time. Al-low your creativity to emerge, and head in a new direction. Tonight: Make the most of the moment.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HHH You might be mulling over a situation that you have not yet come to a conclusion about. En-courage a discussion, even though a side of you will want to close down the conversation. Ask yourself, Why is there resistance? Get down to the root cause. Tonight: At home.

C ApRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Speak your mind, and un-derstand what is happening with a close associate. This person might be upset, but can’t seem to discuss why. You have a talent for communi-cating, and it will help him or her to open up. Let your creativity flourish. Tonight: Head home first.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Dealing with funds could be diffi-cult, as a close associate seems to close down no matter what you do. Understand that you can do only so much. Take your cue from a family member or roommate, and give this person some space. Tonight: Join a friend for munchies.

pISCES (FEB. 19-MARCh 20) HHHH You dominate the present scene more than you realize. An is-sue with a changing situation could cause an unexpected problem. Nev-ertheless, you’ll decide to continue as you have been. Speak your mind so that those involved can continue down a specific path. Tonight: Hang out.

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19 She adopted Tigger24 Top of a scepter, perhaps26 Part of MoMA27 Perturbs28 O.K. Corral gunfighter29 Toy (with), as an idea30 Sitter’s challenge31 Quiz answer32 Maori carvings36 Unshakable37 Cut and run39 “Don’t make me laugh!”41 __ Kippur44 stone monument45 uFO fliers, purportedly47 Career officer48 Forensic investigator’s molecule51 Convertible, in slang52 Adviser who was a regular “Oprah” guest55 Enervates56 Feature of some paneling57 In a laid-back manner59 Words of dismay

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will be WVU’s best

chanceSince the dawn of the 21st

century, few college football offenses have been as consis-tently entertaining and for-ward-thinking as that of the West Virginia Mountaineers. Rich Rodriguez set the world on fire with the spread of-fense, and Dana Holgorsen has since made waves with his air raid passing attack.

Being forward-think-ing is a wonderful quality to have. But to survive the al-ways-grueling Big 12 sched-ule, this year Holgorsen might need to think a little more old-school. Lacking in experience at quarterback and receiver, and with strength and depth in the backfield, committing a power-running, pro-style offense will be Holgorsen’s best chance to punch above his weight in what could be a make-or-break year for his Mountaineer career.

A shift in the Mountain-eers’ offensive profile has al-ready been heralded by how West Virginia approached last season.

Despite reaping the bene-fits of the extremely produc-tive aerial services of star wide receivers Kevin White and Ma-rio Alford, and a breakout sea-son from senior quarterback Clint Trickett, West Virginia quietly ran the ball more than they passed in 2014.

It’s really almost a no-brainer. Experience alone is often proportionate to pro-duction in college football, and while the running game has most of their top perform-ers returning, West Virginia will be starting over in the air with junior quarterback Sky-ler Howard and a group of un-tested receivers.

It’s a receiver group with a high ceiling, to be sure. Shel-ton Gibson, Jovon Durante and Ka’Raun White, younger brother of Kevin, all come in with loads of potential – but they have a total of four colle-giate catches combined. Jor-dan Thompson and Daikiel Shorts, previously role-play-ers, are now going to be ele-vated to feature status.

And I haven’t even men-tioned the fact that the quar-terback has two career starts to his name and will be protected by an offensive line with a cou-ple of major question marks. The man penciled in to protect Skyler Howard’s blind side, left tackle Yodny Cajuste, has never played a college game – neither has his backup, red-shirt junior Sylvester Townes.

Dana Holgorsen has gone 18-20 over the last three years, and it’s imperative that he put some wins on the board now.

The best way to do that? Stick with your bread and but-ter. We have no idea whether West Virginia will actually be able to count on their passing game – but we do know that they can count on Rushel Shell and Wendell Smallwood.

Shell and Smallwood are two of the only returning players on the West Virginia offense with any sort of sig-nificant in-game experience, and they just so happened to have more than 1,500 yards combined on the ground last season.

The two of them have al-ready proven that they can carry this team’s offense at times, and their line’s strengths lie on the interior, behind star center Tyler Orlosky.

West Virginia may be able to break down defenses simply by ramming the ball down the other team’s throat. And if they succeed, a thriving run game will only open up the pass for Howard and company, giving a young quarterback and his even younger receivers time, space and confidence.

With their fantastic depth and experience on the defen-sive end, this is a Mountain-eer team that should be shoot-ing for eight or nine wins this season. If they follow the run game, they’ll have the best chance at reaching that goal.

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KYLE MONROE/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski (35) and cornerback Daryl Worley (7) combine for a tackle during last year’s game against Texas Tech.

Seniors lead Mountaineer defense’s rapid improvementBY DJ DESKINS

SPORTS WRITER @daIlyaThEnaEum

Question marks have surrounded the West Vir-ginia University defense since before their inaugu-ral Big 12 season in 2012.

During the 2015 season, the Mountaineers will look to change their image as an air raid offense whose mindset is, “we can win as long as we score more points” and “defense comes second.”

WVU has not been with-out high-level talent on the defensive side of the ball, having produced NFL play-ers such as Bruce Irvin, Will Clarke and Shaq Riddick under the current regime, but have struggled on a na-tional scale in a conference that plays host to some of the nation’s top defenses. Texas, TCU and Kansas State all ranked in the top 40 defenses in terms of

yards per game in 2014. The Mountaine ers

ranked 60th out of 128 teams in yards per game in the FBS last season. Al-though this places them in the middle of the pack, their modest numbers were a vast improvement on their two previous Big 12 seasons.

In 2013, WVU ranked 103rd in yards per game and found themselves even further down the list in 2012, when they finished 112th overall.

In a defensive group overshadowed by the names of seniors Karl Jo-seph and Nick Kwiatkoski, WVU will feature play from other impressive upper-classmen in what defen-sive coordinator Tony Gib-son calls a veteran group.

“We’ve had a lot of guys that have played with expe-rience. You’re going to hear their names a bunch,” Gib-son said. “That’s what expe-

rience and depth does for you. We’re a very senior-oriented team.”

Along with Joseph and Kwiatkoski, seniors Kyle Rose, KJ Dillon, Jared Bar-ber, Shaq Petteway and Terrell Chestnut were all listed as starters on a pre-season depth chart re-leased Wednesday by the program.

Also listed were juniors Christian Brown, Noble Nwachukwu, Daryl Worley and sophomore Dravon Askew-Henry.

West Virginia’s second-ary will likely rank as one of the most talented in the Big 12, returning all their ma-jor players from last season with the exception of Ish-mael Banks.

WVU’s secondary al-lowed 226 yards per games last season, which ranked 65th in the nation. These numbers were also a vast improvement from the first two campaigns in the

Big 12, when they ranked 109th and 122nd in 2013 and 2012, respectively.

“We play a lot of man (coverage), I know that they’re in man coverage back there and they’re all by themselves, and it makes me want to press harder,” Rose said. “Any-time you have lineback-ers that can make plays in space, or have Karl come up and knock the ball out and maybe get some turnovers this year, it definitely gives us an incentive to run to the ball and be around that ball when it may come out.”

Joseph, listed by CBS Sports as a preseason first team All-American, will lead by example on the field, but Gibson said the Mountaineers find their vocal leader from another source.

“Vocal leader is KJ Dil-lon, that’s not even close,” Gibson said. “Jared Barber, the kid just works and does

what he’s supposed to do whether it’s in the weight room or classroom.”

Kwiatkoski, who joins Joseph as part of the pre-season All-Big 12 team, will lead a senior-heavy core of linebackers who have the ability to make game-changing plays each time the ball is snapped.

“(Jared, Shaq and I) came in together. For Shaq, me and him moved from safety to linebacker,” Kwi-atkoski said. “So with those two guys plus the experi-ence from other parts of the defense, it gives us a sense of coming together. Espe-cially because we can finish our career off here together on the field.”

Kwiatkoski and six other projected senior starters will begin their final sea-son Sept. 5 against Georgia Southern.

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Sitting in the West Virginia University women’s soccer practice facility, Dreams-work Field, freshman de-fender Vanessa Flores qui-etly and calmly answered questions. But Flores’ abili-ties on the soccer field are all but quiet, and as a fresh-man she is poised to make a significant impact on this immensely talented Moun-taineers squad.

Flores, originally hailing from Baytown, Texas, fin-ished the 2015 season firmly entrenched in the top 150 players of the 2015 class, ac-cording to topdrawersoccer.com.

Even with all the suit-ors for Flores’ abilities, she found no trouble choosing WVU.

“Everyone knows that [WVU] has a really good soc-cer program,” Flores said. “When I came and visited the environment was just right.”

Just as it was for Flores, the allure of the WVU wom-en’s soccer team is often too much to resist.

The Mountaineers have a record of 267-98-43 during the tenure of Coach Nikki Izzo- Brown, but the success doesn’t end there. No. 12 ranked WVU has appeared in 15 straight NCAA tour-naments and has 13 confer-ence titles under its belt.

The team also fin-ished the 2014 season on a school-record 19-game

winning streak, before fall-ing to Georgetown on PKs in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Looking to continue its winning ways in 2015 and beyond, Flores was a key recruit for the future of the WVU program.

The combination of win-ning and trust in the coach-ing staff were key for the Mountaineers to rein in Flores.

“The coaches are really nice and supportive,” Flores said. “They are really looking out for what’s best for you.”

As for what Flores brings to the table for WVU, there’s a reason that Flores was so sought after coming out of high school.

Her experience with the U-17 Mexican national team, along with the acco-lades that she has stacked up at Ross S. Sterling High School and with her club team, Albion Hurricanes FC, are paralleled by very few.

“Everyone is here for a reason, everyone brings different things,” Flores said. “It’s just about adding variety.”

As a member of the na-tional team, Flores played a huge role in victories over Canada and the United States at the 2013 CONCA-CAF U-17 Championship in Jamaica. She was the only member of the team to be named to the CONCACAF All-Star team.

Flores then captained the Mexican squad at the Four Nations Tournament in Costa Rica. The following

summer, in 2014, Flores was a member of the U-17 Mex-ican National team at the U-17 World Cup in Costa Rica.

“I’ve been able to play against some really high-quality players, so I think jumping into the collegiate game will help me with the transition,” Flores said.

Flores joins a stacked Mountaineers defense, but she has a shot to join re-turning starters Carly Black,

Maggie Bedillion and Kade-isha Buchanan in the start-ing lineup.

Buchanan led the Cana-dian national team along with fellow Mountaineer Ashley Lawrence at last summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Buchanan was named the tournament’s Best Young Player and will lead the Mountaineer defense into their opener on Aug. 21 against Southern Illinois

University. Flores hopes to become

an integral part of what the Mountaineers do this sea-son, but just being a part of such a talented team would be special to her.

“I’m really excited to see how far the team goes,” Flores said. “There are some really good players on this team, and it’s great to be able to play alongside of them.”

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Rifle

International student from Wales joins WVU squad

kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumSophomore Elizabeth Gratz shoots alongside former teammate Maren Prediger at last season’s NCAA Qualifiers.

BY JOSH ADKINSSPORTS CORRESPONDENT

@DAILYATHENAEUM

Traveling overseas can be one of the most fun and strange things you ever do. When you throw in com-ing to another country to play a sport, the challenges can be even more difficult. For Michael Bamsey, a se-nior on the rifle team, this is his life.

Bamsey is from Cardiff, Wales, which is 3,625 miles away from West Virginia. There is no way to go home for a weekend or see his

family on a regular basis. “One of my best friends

I speak to everyday, other than that, once a week un-less I’m contacted,” Bam-sey said.

Talking to your friends and family is nice, but it’s not the same as seeing them. Bamsey also said it can be tough to find time to talk due to the time dif-ference of five hours, al-though Facebook is one of his preferred ways to stay in contact. Bamsey only goes home twice a year, for winter and summer break. For any other break or time

he wants to get away from Morgantown, Bamsey goes home with his teammates.

Morgantown is a very busy city when school is in session, and Bamsey has noticed.

“It’s a small city, for a small city it is very busy which is strange,” Bamsey said.

Bamsey also said it is strange having to learn how to drive on the other side of the road, and it usu-ally takes him a week to get back accustomed to driv-ing here. Even simply go-ing grocery shopping is a

challenge, as Bamsey says that it’s strange going into Kroger and not knowing any of the brand names.

These are the types of things that people who grew up around here take for granted. Going to an-other country is already tough enough, but having to learn a whole new cul-ture can be daunting.

“The language, every-one speaks really different,” Bamsey said.

While Bamsey wasn’t expecting it to be so diffi-cult, he had the most trou-ble with the ‘isms that

Americans use. For him, they are one of the tough-est parts of our language to understand.

When it comes to expe-rience competing, Bamsey has plenty. He took home three silver medals at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in 2013.

Bamsey said that was nerve-wracking wearing the Olympic rings because he was pushed to do better. On top of competing in the Olympic Festival, Bamsey has shot in six World Cups.

“It’s different, you can’t really compare it,” says

Bamsey about competing in the World Cups.

All of the world’s top talent is there so the first few times can be unnerv-ing, Bamsey continued. Al-though the travel can be a little much, it was worth it to Bamsey to compete on that stage.

Despite having to travel overseas and get accus-tomed to the culture, Bam-sey hopes to lead another talented West Virginia rifle team to their fourth straight national championship.

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West Virginia Univer-sity swimming and div-ing team coach Vic Riggs has added a new member to his coaching staff, as he announced the hiring of assistant coach, Richard West on Wednesday.

“Rick brings a high qual-ity of coaching expertise,” Coach Riggs said in a press release. “I look forward to him making our program better in and out the pool.”

A native of West Vir-ginia, assistant coach Richard West hails from Moundsville, West Vir-ginia, and will officially re-

main in Morgantown as an assistant after serving as a volunteer coach for the WVU swimming and div-ing program from 2012-15.

“The opportunity to be-come a part of a program on the rise, which also happens to be my home state is a dream come true,” West said. “Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer.”

West also attended col-lege in the state, earning a bachelor’s degree in ed-ucation from West Liberty University in 1997 and master’s degree in ath-letic coaching education at WVU in 2010.

To begin his coaching career, West developed a

men’s and women’s swim-ming program at Steuben-ville High School that he coached from 1996-2000.

During his four-year tenure with the program he led the newly estab-lished swimming team to a school record 94-16 in dual meet competitions.

“Rick’s enthusiasm for coaching and the sport is what I am excited most about him bring-ing to the program,” Riggs commented.

After his successful stretch in the high school ranks, West moved up to the collegiate level in 2002 and served as an Ohio State assistant swimming coach for a five-month

period, in which he repre-sented the Buckeyes at the United States Summer Na-tionals in August 2002.

Following the sum-mer with Ohio State, West was named head coach for Duquesne’s women’s swimming and diving. While at Duquesne for one year, from 2002-03, the Dukes had their first-ever Atlantic 10 champion swimmer.

The next year he re-mained in Pittsburgh af-ter being named assistant coach for Pitt’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving team. He helped lead the eighth consecu-tive Big East Conference men’s swimming cham-

pion team, which was the Panther’s 19th title in 22 years.

In addition, in 2003-04 he assisted the men’s team to the most dual meet wins in Pitt history (14), while also helping the wom-en’s team finish with an above .500 dual meet re-cord (8-6).

From 2007-12, West served as the swimming and diving head coach and Aquatics Director at Wheeling Jesuit, not far from his hometown of Moundsville.

During his time at Je-suit, he was twice named Appalachian Swimming Conference Men’s Coach of the Year while also be-

ing in charge of the organi-zation, compliance, bud-geting and recruiting for both the West Virginia In-tercollegiate Athletic Con-ference and Appalachian Swimming Conference.

Now in Morgantown, West will continue pur-suing his education while an assistant for the Mountaineers.

He’s currently a coach-ing and teaching stud-ies doctoral student and anticipates graduating at the end of the Spring 2016 semester, just after the conclusion of the 2015-16 swimming and diving season.

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There won’t be another Mo’ne at this year’s Little League World Seriesap

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Mo’ne Davis was the talk of the sports world and be-yond after becoming the first female to win a game in the Little League World Series. Her success has in-spired other girls to pur-sue baseball, though no girls will be playing for the championship at Wil-liamsport when the 16-team tournament starts Thursday.

“Females playing in the world series is a mat-ter of luck,” said Stephen D. Keener, chief execu-tive of Little League. Many teams compete for each of the spots and participation from girls is still relatively low.

Davis and her Taney Dragons won the Mid-At-lantic Regional last year and the teenager capti-vated fans with her per-formance on the mound. She tossed a two-hitter with eight strikeouts to help Philadelphia beat Nashville 4-0 in the series opener for both teams, be-coming the only girl to get a shutout in series history.

That thrust Davis into the national spotlight and she became an overnight celebrity.

Davis appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and was named The Asso-ciated Press Female Ath-lete of the Year. She wrote a book, starred in a Spike Lee-directed car commer-

cial, became the subject of a Disney Channel movie and met President Barack Obama and his family at the White House.

“You want to always fol-low your dreams,” she said.

It’s no coincidence more girls were playing with the boys on base-ball diamonds across the country this summer. El-len Siegel, secretary of the Taney Youth Baseball Association, estimated a 20-25 percent increase in female participation, in-cluding softball where the league expanded to two age divisions.

“ The other differ-ence that I noticed was in coaches,” Siegel said. “They seemed much more eager to draft girls for their teams this season. And that I definitely attribute to Mo’ne.”

Little League won’t have final participation num-bers for the entire program until later this fall.

“She got a lot of atten-tion so there’s probably a lot of parents out there who looked at what she was doing and hoped their daughter would have that opportunity,” Kleener said.

Beyond her perfor-mance - she was the 18th girl to play in the Lit-tle League World Series and the sixth to get a hit - Davis impressed with her poise as her public-ity soared. She threw out

the first pitch in Game 4 of the World Series, played in the celebrity basket-ball game at NBA All-Star weekend and marched with her Taney Dragons teammates in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

“She’s always quick to point out that the attention she’s receiving wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for her teammates and that’s such a mature outlook for a kid her age,” Keener said. “Not a lot of kids show that maturity in the spotlight

and scrutiny and she does it all the time.”

Her advice to others: “Be respectful, be calm and don’t let anything get to you.”

Davis, who turned 14 in June, pitched from reg-ulation distance in a fall

league last year and this summer. That made it tougher to dominate.

“She did well,” coach Steve Bandura said. “It’s a lot different from 60-feet, 6-inches. Nobody’s blow-ing the ball past anyone, but she threw strikes.”

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BOSTON (AP) -- New Red Sox president of base-ball operations Dave Dom-browski thought enough of the team to pick Boston over other suitors.

Now he’s going to spend the next six weeks trying to figure out what’s worth keeping - in the front office, on the field at Fenway Park and in the minor leagues.

“I’m not here to blow up the organization,” Dom-browski said at a Fen-way Park news conference Wednesday, a day after he was hired. “They have a lot of good people here.”

Speaking to reporters a day after a mid-game shake-up that left general manager Ben Cherington on the outs,

Dombrowski said he would be hiring a general man-ager but was in no rush. He did not discuss the future of manager John Farrell, who is on leave from the team after being diagnosed with what he said was a treatable form of cancer.

Dombrowski said he spoke to Farrell on Tuesday night - after he underwent his first chemotherapy ses-sion - but just told him they would meet after the man-ager was healthy again. In Farrell’s absence, bench coach Torey Lovullo is man-aging the team, which en-tered Wednesday night with a 53-66 record, 14 games be-hind the rival New York Yan-kees in the AL East.

Red Sox owner John Henry began the news con-ference with a statement that acknowledged the team’s failures in finish-ing last two of the last three seasons. (In 2013, the club won the World Series for the third time in a decade, but the first in Cherington’s tenure.)

“As owners, we’re all re-sponsible for the poor re-sults we’ve had, and for re-sults going forward,” Henry said. “Dave Dombrowski is an architect of team-build-ing the right way. For almost three decades now, he’s earned the respect of almost everyone in the game.”

The general manager of the Montreal Expos at the

age of 32, Dombrowski won the 1997 World Series with the Florida Marlins and led the Tigers to the Se-ries twice. But he was let go on Aug. 8 with Detroit lan-guishing below .500.

Henry said he decided to pursue Dombrowski when he “became a free agent” less than a week af-ter the Red Sox announced that president and CEO Lucchino would be step-ping down at the end of the season.

Chief Operating Officer Sam Kennedy was named Lucchino’s successor on the business side; he attended Wednesday’s news con-ference along with chair-man Tom Werner, prompt-

ing Henry to explain: “This is really our lineup for 2016 and beyond.”

Although Dombrowski would be installed above Cherington in the baseball decision-making, “Ben did not object” to discussing the job with him, Henry said.

Up until Dombrowski was hired, the top Red Sox brass - including the new president - hoped that Cherington would stay, they said. Cherington declined, and on Tuesday night it was announced that he would be leaving after stick-ing around to help with the transition.

“We think the world of Ben,” Werner said. “We are disappointed but respectful

of his decision.”Cherington said later

that he was surprised when Henry and Werner told him on Saturday that they were pursuing Dombrowski. Al-though he had pledged to do what he could to make the Red Sox better, the GM thought it was time to go.

“I felt strongly that what was best for Dave, what was best for me, what was best for the Red Sox was the same thing, and that was a clean break,” he said. “I have great respect for Dave Dom-browski. His resume speaks for itself. He will be an asset clearly for the Red Sox and I wish him and I wish the Red Sox nothing but the best go-ing forward.”

THEMAJORS.NETDave Dombrowski during his tenure as general manager of the Detroit Tigers.

Dombrowski hired to run Red Sox organization

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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Arizona won last sea-son’s Pac-12 South title by reeling off five wins in six games following a bye week.

If the Wildcats are go-ing to repeat this season, they’ll have to do it with-out the benefit of a mid-season break.

Starting with its opener against UTSA on Sept. 3, Arizona will play 12 straight games before fi-nally getting a break. That would give the Wildcats a week off before the Pac-12 title game, but they’ll have to survive the non-stop grind to get there.

“Twelve straight games is tough - you’d like to have a break in there - but it’s what we have to deal with,” Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said. “I’m not happy about it, but that’s how it goes.”

The Wildcats aren’t the only team faced with a long stretch of games without a break.

Thanks to a later start to the season and an increas-ing need to add revenue-generating games, college football teams across the country will have fewer bye weeks this season - some none at all.

Nearly two dozen teams will play at least 10 straight games, including Colo-rado and Hawaii, which each have 13-game runs without a break. Of the 128 FBS teams, 110 will have one fewer week off this season and overall byes are down to 139 from 261 a year ago, according to fb-schedules.com.

Labor Day is later on the calendar this year, on Sept. 7, shrinking the window to schedule games. Football also is the largest revenue producer in college athlet-ics, so schools try to get in as many home games as possible.

“We picked up another game,” said Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre, whose team opens the sea-son Sept. 3 at Hawaii. “We need to create some more revenue, so we get another home game, so it puts

money in our budget and everything else as we’re building our program.”

Though McIntyre said he doesn’t like bye weeks, the time off has become an essential part of the sea-son for many coaches.

The week off allows players to heal from the inevitable pains that come from on-field collisions and to unwind from the mental grind of prepar-ing for and playing such a demanding, high-energy sport. The younger play-ers on the roster get ex-tra repetitions in practice and more work with the coaches.

Some coaches like to schedule a bye week in the middle of the season to break it up, others will use it as an extra week of preparation for a rivalry game. It also tends to be a big recruiting week, al-lowing coaches a chance to evaluate players in per-son instead of watching them on film.

With no bye or long stretches without a week off, monitoring snaps in practice and games becomes paramount. Coaches are always con-scious of players’ work-loads, but it becomes a bigger issue when there’s no letup in the schedule.

“What I think you have to do is be very, very care-ful of the fact that this is a marathon run and how you practice weekly is a big factor in being fresh for the games,” said Nebraska coach Mike Riley, whose team plays 11 straight weeks without a break. “We will fight hard to make sure that we are as fresh as we can be and as prepared as we can be. It’s going to take good balancing.”

Scheduling has become more complex in recent years as teams have gone to 12 and even 13-game schedules. For years, only a handful of teams played the weekend after Thanks-giving Day, but now al-most every team does it.

Bigger programs like having as many home games as possible to get

the added revenue and smaller programs often accept road games against larger programs for pay-outs of up to $1 million.

The result this season has put several teams in a don’t-get-a-break grind.

Joining Arizona with 12 straight weeks of games will be Massachusetts, Florida International and North Texas.

Nebraska and Texas Tech are among the teams with 11 straight games, while Penn State and Wis-consin are in the 10-in-a-row group.

North Texas has one of the nation’s quirkier schedules.

The Mean Green begin the season with a bye, so they’ll be at home watch-ing while everyone else is playing after a nine-month wait.

Then, after opening the season at Southern Meth-odist on Sept. 12, North Texas will play 12 straight games after adding a non-conference game at Ten-nessee on Nov. 12.

“This is the first time I’ve gone 12 in a row; there’s always been a break,” North Texas coach Don McCarney said. “That won’t happen again, but that’s what we’ve got this season and we’ve got to play it out, hopefully find a way to be successful.”

Rodriguez has a similar outlook.

“We didn’t choose 12 in a row,” he said. “But as I said, I’m not going to complain about it after to-day unless we’re not win-ning, and then I’m going to complain about it quite a bit.”

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NFL players’ methods ofcamp recovery vary

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) -- Luke Kuechly sits on the edge of a six-foot wide, two-foot deep metal tub filled with ice and wa-ter contemplating the shock his body is about to endure.

“Oh, I dread it every time,” Kuechly says with a grin.

But he gets in. He always gets in.

Kuechly knows from past experience if he doesn’t keep with his rit-ual of spending at least 10 minutes soaking in the ice his body simply won’t feel as good the next day at practice.

The cold tub method is one part of the 2012 NFL Defensive Player of the Year’s recovery routine, particularly at training camp when the weather is hotter, the practices more grueling and the recovery time shorter.

Kuechly isn’t alone.Players around the NFL

use all sorts of methods to recover from the rigors of training camp

Some use hot tubs. Some, like Panthers wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin, will change from cold tub to hot tub and then go back to the cold tub.

Some players do yoga, while others stretch and use foam rollers before turning in for the night.

Some wear compression shorts as they attend team meetings. Others use the NormaTec system, a con-traption that looks like a blow-up air brace that runs up the length of a player’s leg. It uses sequential pulse technology to help heal muscles and joints, speed-ing the recovery process.

And then there’s 32-year-old linebacker Thomas Da-vis, who takes recovery to an entirely different level. Davis brings to camp his own hyperbaric chamber; they retail at about $6,500 for a lower-end base model.

Hydration is critical, too.The Panthers are re-

quired to drink 16 ounces for every pound they lose during practice.

Titans wide receiver Ha-keem Nicks and tight end

Anthony Fasano both said getting good sleep is vital.

“When you do get back to the hotel, get to bed as fast as possible,” said the 31-year-old Fasano, enter-ing his 10th season. “And just do some proper stretch-ing. You know you are go-ing to get tight and stuff like that, so injuries can really hurt you this time of year.”

Panthers head athletic trainer Ryan Vermillion tries to impress upon in-coming players the impor-tance of taking care of their bodies.

It’s not like college: The season is longer and more physically draining in the NFL.

Vermillion borrows an analogy from former Pan-thers coach and current Bears coach John Fox, who would tell his players their bodies are like a Lambo-rghini, and they need to be taken care of as such.

“We try to make sure they understand the way they prolong their careers, the way they prolong their ability to make money and provide for themselves and their families, is to take care of their bodies,” Vermillion said. “If you don’t take care of your body, your career in the NFL is going to be short.”

Chiefs strength and con-ditioning coach Barry Rubin likes players to participate in some slow tempo runs after practices, followed by consuming protein shakes or bars, and then to rotate between soaking in a cold tub and hot tub.

NFL teams seem willing to do just about anything to help players recover faster, and protect the invest-ment they’ve made in their employees.

The Panthers provide soft tissue rubs, acupuncture and dry needling. They also have massage therapists and chiropractors to work with the players during the season - all free of charge.

This year at training camp at Wofford College every Carolina player is equipped with a small de-vice from STATSports built into the back of their DriFit

practice shirt to help mon-itor how much energy they exert during practice. Us-ing an advanced GPS sys-tem with an accelerome-ter, the device tracks the movements of players on the field.

It monitors the number of yards players run, their accelerations, and the stress load on the body. It helps teams know when a player is getting fatigued so they back off his workload or hold him out of practice to prevent injury.

“We are starting to be more confident in the things that we are learning from it. It’s another way to help take care of these guys,” said Brett Nenaber, a Panthers athletic performance ana-lyst who monitors and ana-lyzes the information.

Kuechly has tried a vari-ety of methods to speed the recovery process, includ-ing a cryotherapy chamber - something akin to a dry ice bath that freezes mus-cles and is designed to re-duce swelling and inflam-mation. But he’s old school and keeps coming back to the ice tub, something play-ers have used for decades. He’s used one after lifting sessions and practices since his days at Boston College.

“I’ve done it a couple of times where I don’t get in and my body doesn’t feel as good,” Kuechly said. “Maybe it’s a placebo thing to me, but that’s my big thing, the cold tub. I have to have it.”

That, and something to occupy his mind: an iPhone, a hand-held trivia game. Whatever it takes to get his mind off having his body submerged in ice wa-ter for 10 minutes.

“You can’t just sit there,” Kuechly said. “If you do, just thinking about how cold it is and you start to go a little stir crazy.”

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