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West Virginia Universi-ty’s Department of History, along with the College of Law shed light on the complexi-ties of the European refugee crisis through a panel called “Movement of Peoples: Past, Present and Future,” pre-sented on Monday night.

The multidisciplinary panel was one event in a year-long series of celebrations, marking the 50th anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Human-ities. The Department of His-tory’s theme for the celebra-tion is “History in Motion.”

“We wanted to emphasize the fact that history is con-stantly being made and re-made,” said Dr. Joseph M. Hodge, chair of WVU’s De-partment of History, in his opening remarks. “It is dy-namic. It is in motion.”

An associate professor of history at Rice University, Dr. Daniel Cohen was the pan-el’s keynote speaker and em-phasized the connections and dissimilarities between the refugee crisis unfolding today and the refugee crisis that took place more than 50 years ago after World War II.

Cohen specifically drew

upon the United Nations, finding that world wide hu-man displacement, which reached 59.2 million in 2014, is at its largest since the Sec-ond World War.

“Does history provide some sort of a guide or arse-nal of solutions that can be used to think about solving the current crisis?” Cohen said.

Gabor Demzky, former mayor of Budapest, Hun-gary, was also a member of the panel.

Demzky spoke about Hun-gary’s internationally con-demned xenophobia, or fear of what is foreign, especially strangers from different coun-tries, and recent violence in rejecting an influx of refugees

by deploying of tear gas and armed forces at the border.

“The fear that Muslim ref-ugees with their different cul-ture will overrun the local population and its Christian culture is totally unfounded,” Demzky said.

Other panelists included two professors of law, profes-sors from the geography and political science departments and a professor from WVU’s Center for Women’s and Gen-der Studies.

Professors of Law Michael Blumenthal and Jim Fried-berg focused on issues of asy-lum, the legal definition of refugees versus migrants and how legal procedure has im-pacted European policy dur-ing the crisis.

Dr. Cynthia Gorman of the Department of Geography and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies discussed the use of threatening language, such as “flood” and “swell,” in describing refugee move-ments and the need to hu-manize refugees.

Also attempting to put a human face on the refugee crisis was Dr. Karen Culcasi, who discussed her work with Syrian refugees in the Zaatari Refugee Camp of Jordan.

Erik Herron, Professor of political science at WVU, fo-cused on issues of internally displaced persons and their ability to freely and securely participate in elections.

“I was impressed by the multidisplinary nature of the panel,” Hodge said. “We were able to mix the historical con-text with the legal context and (incorporate) the social and geographic issues, as well. It was a great event.”

A lively question and an-swer session followed the panel’s presentation.

“The refugee crisis is such a complex issue,” Gorman said. “The panel was impor-tant in bringing about all the aspects of the conflict and un-derstanding why European states are responding the way they are.”

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A new aquatic and track center is set to be built at Mylan Park, opening doors for West Virginia Univer-sity athletic teams, as well as creating a new recre-ational hub for Morgan-town residents.

Construction begins this spring, and officials hope for completion by late fall 2017, according to Greg Morris, president and CEO of PACE Enterprises, one of the companies involved in the project.

“It’s very much been a community endeavor,” Morris said. “It’s been contemplated for quite a while.”

A recent community

survey found that a new aquatic center is high on the list of Morgantown community needs, Morris said.

Some of the center’s at-tractions will include a c ommu -nity pool, w a l k -ing pad, w a t e r park, sun d e c k s , f i t n e s s r o o m s wet class-rooms for the community to use, according to the fa-cility’s press release.

While the total cost is es-timated between $25 and $30 million, most of that will be privately funded by Mylan Park, as well as other entities, including

WVU and cities within the county like Morgantown, Westover and Star City, ac-cording to Morris.

“The use of the facility is going to be going toward paying back the investment

to build it,” Mor-ris said.

The fa-cility will mark big c h a n g e s for WVU’s a t h l e t i c t e a m s ,

too.“It just takes the whole

program to a new level, for recruiting purposes as well as competition purposes,” said Shane Lyons, WVU di-rector of athletics and asso-ciate vice president.

For the WVU swim team,

this comes in the form of a regulation-sized 50-me-ter pool, whereas currently, the swim team only has a 25-meter pool. This up-grade in size makes the fa-cility eligible to host Big 12 and NCAA Championships for swimming.

WVU’s diving team will also use a new diving tower that’s planned to be in the facility.

“It’s going to help us out a lot,” said Austin Smith, a freshman computer sci-ence student. “Right now, we’re kind of cramped in our facility… (The new fa-cility) is going to extend us to a 5, a 7 and a 10-meter platform, which is unavail-able to us right now.”

Smith said despite not

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The adventures of London-street orphan Oliver Twist have stolen the spotlight, becoming one of the most popular musicals in the world.

Victorian England will take over Downtown Mor-gantown starting Thursday at the Metropolitan Theatre.

The showtimes for “Oliver!” are 7 p.m. on Nov. 12, Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 and 3 p.m. Nov. 15.

Bringing Charles Dickens’ beloved novel, “Oliver Twist,” to life, Lionel Bart’s award-winning musical ad-aptation first hit the stage in 1960 and has been a staple in Broadway box offices.

The musical follows Oliver, a young orphan caught in the rapid industrialization of the 19th century. Tired of his life of deprivation and heartache, the workhouse boy escapes to London’s underworld.

Oliver is picked up on the street by a boy named the Artful Dodger and is welcomed into a gang of child pick-pockets led by the conniving yet charismatic Fagin. The life of a thief is bestowed upon Oliver quickly after meet-ing the gang, who are all encouraged to commit crime.

This particular musical is unique, presenting a youth-ful cast consisting of only children and teens.

The role of Oliver is played by two elementary stu-dents, Vivek Yang and Annie Hickman.

Hickman, a 9-year-old from Morgantown, was cast to

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manoski, 48, was shot and killed by a Monon-galia County Sheriff De-partment deputy on Thursday, Nov. 5, ac-cording to a press release from MPD.

Deputies arrived at 1043 Charles Ave. to serve a search and arrest warrant for Justin Knisell, who was wanted for first-degree armed robbery in connection with an armed robbery at West Run apartments earlier in the day.

Occupants of the home immediately opened the door for dep-uties and tried to keep the police from entering the residence.

“Deputies confronted (Romanoski) armed with a shotgun who was sub-sequently shot,” an ear-lier press release read.

Upon further investi-gation, deputies found Romanoski had a hand-gun on him, as well.

Emergency medical

personnel were already in the surrounding area due to the “serious na-ture of the crimes in-volved,” and immediately began treatment for the gunshot wound.

Romanoski died due to his injuries after being transported to Ruby Me-morial Hospital, accord-ing to the press release.

Following the incident, Knissell turned himself over to authorities, how-ever Isaac Barker, who is also wanted for the armed robbery, is cur-rently wanted.

Barker is consid-ered armed and danger-ous, and anyone with any information about him is urged to call 911 immediately.

Due to the “complex-ity of this investigation,” no new details or updates are expected until after the investigation is com-pleted and reviewed by the Monongalia County Prosecutor’s Office.

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“It just takes the whole program to a new level, for recruiting purposes as well as competition purposes”

-Shane lyonsWvu Athletic Director

Aquatic and track center construction to begin this spring at Mylan Park

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‘MoveMenT oF PeoPleS’

AsKAr sAlIKHov/THe DAIlY ATHeNAeumG. Daniel Cohen, an associate professor of History and the keynote speaker, describes the refugee crisis during the Second World War as it relates to the current world issues today.

Panel discusses different aspects of the European refugee crisis

AsKAr sAlIKHov/THe DAIlY ATHeNAeumWest Virginia University faculty mmbers and students listen to a speaker at the “Movement of Peoples: Past, Present and Future” panel discussion on Monday evening.

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having a tower of their own, the team must still use them in competition during the season, forcing the team to practice dives

right before their meets. The new tower will allow them to train throughout the year.

The outside portion of the facility will further fea-ture a nine-lane, 4,000-me-ter track that will be used by the WVU track team.

WVU’s Athletics De-

partment has not yet de-termined a transportation method to the facility for student athletes, but Lyons said they will certainly find a way for students to get to practices and meets.

Lyons also said the idea for the project came from a similar facility built by Vir-

ginia Tech and Christians-burg, Virginia.

“Before I got here, (WVU) had visited that facility and looked at how it was built,” Lyons said. “It’s kind of the same thing (that) you have a competition side, but you also have the community side.”

Lyons said though it’s still too early to determine what will be done with the school’s old aquatic and track centers, their fates will be discussed at a later date.

The facility is at least two years away from comple-tion, but Morris is excited

for the coming changes.“We think it’s going to be

a terrific community asset,” Morris said. “One that vis-itors and residents of the area are going to be able to enjoy for many years to come.”

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play the male character af-ter her successful audition.

“I like playing Oliver be-cause it’s really fun, and I get to experience what it’s like to be a boy,” Hickman said. “I get to hang out and

have fun with all of the cast members. It’s an amazing experience.”

Playing the role of Oliver requires a lot of rehears-ing and singing; however, Hickman was up for the challenge.

“I have to speak in a Brit-ish accent the whole time,” Hickman said. “I took all the ‘h’s’ out of my lines to

sound British, and it was re-ally hard. I love acting.”

Hickman hopes to be-come a singer when she grows up.

“Oliver!” is not an easy show to direct. Many roles are often double cast or switched out throughout the musical, and everything from the set to the charac-ter’s costumes must be his-

torically accurate.Dozens of children busily

ran through the Metropoli-tan Theatre during a dress rehearsal last night, as vol-unteers rushed to fix their makeup and wigs.

Some of the costumes in-clude canes and top hats, while others require fake dirt smudged over the ac-tor’s tattered clothing and

faces.The show is expected to

draw in a big audience.“The kids put on a great

show every time,” said Christian DeLeon a mar-keting director for Mor-gantown Theatre Com-pany. “They perform in the highest quality, with professional lighting and sounds. The kids really feel

like they’re on Broadway, putting their all into the production.”

Tickets for “Oliver!” are $9 for children ages 12 and under and $11 for adults. Visit morgantown-theatrecompany.org to purchase tickets for the show.

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U. of Missouri president, chancellor leave over race tensionCOLuMBIa, Mo. (aP)—

The president of the Uni-versity of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial ten-sions at the school.

President Tim Wolfe, a former business execu-tive with no previous ex-perience in academic leadership, took “full re-sponsibility for the frustra-tion” students expressed and said their complaints were “clear” and “real.”

For months, black stu-dent groups had com-plained that Wolfe was un-responsive to racial slurs and other slights on the overwhelmingly white main campus of the state’s four-college system. The complaints came to a head two days ago, when at least 30 black football players announced they would not play until the president left. A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike.

Wolfe’s announcement came at the start of what had been expected to be a lengthy closed-door meet-ing of the school’s govern-ing board.

“This is not the way change comes about,” he said, alluding to recent pro-tests, in a halting statement that was simultaneously

apologetic, clumsy and de-fiant. “We stopped listening to each other.”

He urged students, fac-ulty and staff to use the res-ignation “to heal and start talking again to make the changes necessary.”

Hours later, the top ad-ministrator of the Colum-bia campus, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, announced he would step down at the end of the year and shift to leading research efforts.

The school’s undergrad-uate population is 79 per-cent white and 8 percent black. The state is about 83 percent white and nearly 12 percent black. The Co-lumbia campus is about 120 miles west of Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed last year in a shooting that helped spawn the national “Black Lives Matter” movement rebuking police treatment of minorities.

In response to the race complaints, Wolfe had taken little public action and made few statements. As students leveled more grievances this fall, he was increasingly seen as aloof, out of touch and insensi-tive to their concerns. He soon became the protest-ers’ main target.

In a statement issued Sunday, Wolfe acknowl-edged that “change is needed” and said the uni-

versity was working to draw up a plan by April to pro-mote diversity and toler-ance. But by the end of that day, a campus sit-in had grown in size, graduate stu-dent groups planned walk-outs and politicians began to weigh in.

Sophomore Katelyn Brown said she wasn’t nec-essarily aware of chronic racism at the school, but she applauded the efforts of black student groups.

“I personally don’t see it a lot, but I’m a middle-class white girl,” she said. “I stand with the people experienc-ing this.” She credited social media with propelling the protests, saying it offered “a platform to unite.”

At a news conference Monday, head football coach Gary Pinkel said his players were concerned with the health of Jonathan Butler, who had not eaten for a week as part of pro-tests against Wolfe.

“During those discus-sions,” athletic director Mack Rhoades said, “there was never any talk about anybody losing their job. It was simply and primarily about a young man’s life.”

After Wolfe’s announce-ment, Butler ended his strike. He appeared weak and unsteady as two people helped him into a sea of cel-ebrants on campus. Many broke into dance upon see-

ing him.Football practice was to

resume Tuesday ahead of Saturday’s game against Brigham Young Univer-sity at Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Kan-sas City Chiefs. Canceling the game could have cost the school more than $1 million.

Shaun Harper, execu-tive director for the Study of Race and Equity in Ed-ucation at the University of Pennsylvania, said the black football players “un-derstood that they have the power.”

“That is so rare,” said Harper, who authored a 2013 study on black male student-athletes and ra-cial inequities in NCAA Di-vision I sports. “Not in our modern history have we seen black students collec-tively flex their muscle in this way.”

The protests began af-ter Payton Head, the pres-ident of the student gov-ernment at the Columbia campus, said in Septem-ber that people in a passing pickup truck shouted racial slurs at him. Head is black. In early October, members of a black student organiza-tion said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student.

Frustrations flared again during a homecoming pa-rade, when black protesters

blocked Wolfe’s car, and he did not get out and talk to them. They were removed by police. Also, a swastika drawn in feces was found recently in a dormitory bathroom.

The university did take some steps to ease ten-sions. At Loftin’s request, the school announced plans to offer diversity training to all new students starting in January, as well as faculty and staff. On Fri-day, the chancellor issued an open letter decrying rac-ism after the swastika was found.

The governing board said an interim system presi-dent would be named soon, and board members vowed Monday to work toward a “culture of respect.”

The board planned to appoint an officer to over-see diversity and equal-ity at all four campuses. It also promised a full review of other policies, more sup-port for victims of discrim-ination and a more diverse faculty.

Head, the Missouri Stu-dents Association presi-dent, called those changes a step “in the right direction.”

“It’s great to see that from the UM system. It’s some-thing that I honestly I didn’t expect but had been hoping for, for a long time,” he said.

Many of the protests have been led by an organization

called Concerned Student 1950, which gets its name from the year the university accepted its first black stu-dent. Group members be-sieged Wolfe’s car at the pa-rade, and they conducted a weeklong sit-in on a cam-pus plaza.

On Monday night, a group of about 100 people gathered at that plaza to pray and sing.

The group demanded that Wolfe resign and “ac-knowledge his white male privilege.” It also sought a 10-year plan to retain more marginalized students and the hiring of more minori-ties at the university’s coun-seling center.

On Sunday, the Missouri Students Association said in a letter to the board that there had been “an increase in tension and inequality with no systemic support” since Brown’s death.

Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was fa-tally shot by a white po-lice officer during a strug-gle. The Justice Department later cleared officer Dar-ren Wilson, concluding ev-idence backed his claim that he shot Brown in self-defense after Brown tried to grab the officer’s gun.

Wolfe, 57, a former soft-ware executive and Mis-souri business school grad-uate, was hired as president in 2011.

ApJonathan Butler addresses a crowd following the announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at the university in Columbia, Mo. Butler has ended his hunger strike as a result of the resignation.

Lawyer: Body cam showed no threats as police killed boyMaRKsVILLe, La. (aP)—

A police body camera re-corded the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy with his hands up and posing no threat as police fired into his car, severely wounding the motorist and killing his son, the man’s lawyer said Monday.

“This was not a threat-ening situation for the po-lice,” said Mark Jeansonne, an attorney for Chris Few, who remained hospitalized and could not attend Mon-day’s funeral of his son, Jer-emy Mardis.

Derrick Stafford, 32, of Mansura, and Norris Green-house Jr., 23, of Marksville, were ordered held on $1

million bonds Monday on second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder charges, Jeansonne said.

The lawyer said he hasn’t seen the video himself, but its contents were described during the hearing. Louisi-ana’s state police chief, Col. Mike Edmonson, said Fri-day that “it’s the most dis-turbing thing I’ve seen - and I will leave it at that.”

Few’s condition was im-proving Monday, but he had not been told as of midday that his son is dead, Jeansonne said. His stepfa-ther, Morris German, said last week that Few had bul-let fragments in his brain

and lung.Greenhouse is the son of

a top assistant prosecutor for District Attorney Charles A. Riddle, who recused him-self from the case on Mon-day, calling it “not good for any of us.”

Judge William Bennett set the officers’ bond dur-ing a hearing he held in-side the jail after refusing media requests to open the proceedings. No tran-scripts were made available, and the judge later issued a sweeping gag order prohib-iting anyone involved in the case, including potential witnesses and victims, from providing any information to the media.

Investigators have been reviewing forensics evi-dence, 911 calls and body camera recordings, but said little about them even be-fore the gag order.

The official silence leaves many questions unan-swered, including what prompted the fatal confron-tation, and whether anyone else is being investigated for any crimes. At least two other officers were involved, authorities said, but their roles remain unclear.

Investigators have not suggested that race is a fac-tor in the shooting, which may not fit neatly into a na-tional debate about race and policing. Booking records

describe the officers as Afri-can-American; no available records describe the race of the father and son.

Few, a boat pilot on the Red River, was on probation at the time of the shooting after pleading guilty to driv-ing while intoxicated in Feb-ruary, according to court records.

Stafford is a Marksville Police lieutenant; Green-house is a city marshal. Both were on marshal duty Tues-day night. Initial reports suggested they were trying to serve Few with a warrant when he fled onto a dead-end road and then reversed his car in their direction at about 9:30 p.m.

But Edmonson said there was no evidence of a war-rant, nor any gun at the scene.

The officers were moved from the jail in Marksville to a lockup in the central Loui-siana city of Alexandria after Monday’s bond hearing, for reasons no one would ex-plain, citing the gag order.

The possibility that they could post bond and re-main free during the in-vestigation didn’t sit well with some townspeople who gathered outside the jail.

“The same day the boy is being buried,” said Bar-bara Scott. “Shame, shame, shame.”

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looking at systemic racism on campusesRacism still exists. Society

has evolved, but equality ide-ology across the U.S., specif-ically on college campuses, has not.

Yesterday, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned as a result of ongo-ing student protests on the Columbia campus.

Since the beginning of the fall semester, MU has seen a significant amount of racism, and Wolfe did not take strides large enough to satisfy com-plaints from students. In the last few months, MU students have endured myriad racial slurs and instances of hate vandalism, and despite stu-dent protests and cries to be heard, university administra-tion made mild attempts to re-solve a widespread problem.

On Nov. 2, MU student Jon-athan Butler went on a hun-ger strike, and the movement snowballed from there, ac-cording to the Missourian, MU’s student newspaper. But-

ler’s strike was met with over-whelming support from stu-dents as some set up camp on the campus and boycotted university services until Wolfe was removed.

While Wolfe acknowledged that there was, in fact, an is-sue of racism on campus and openly vocal-ized he was ready for a di-alogue to fix the problem, according to the Missou-rian, his sentiments did not appear genuine to students. Wolfe failed to act on the is-sue with the urgency students demanded.

What perhaps drew the most attention to MU’s outcry of racism on campus was Sun-day’s announcement that the football team would boycott all football related activities until Wolfe resigned or was removed.

Wolfe resigned the follow-

ing morning, citing his love for the university and for the state as his motivation for the de-cision. Chancellor of the MU Columbia campus R. Bowen Loftin also stepped down from his position Monday.

MU is not the only campus experiencing rising tension

with racism. Shortly af-ter Wolfe an-nounced his resignation, Yale Univer-sity students

held a protest on their cam-pus, known as the “March of Resilience,” to protest racial insensitivity at the school.

Yale has had its share of ra-cial campus issues, including a fraternity “white girls only” party the night before Hallow-een, which merited national media attention.

But on what other cam-puses does systemic racism exist? Does it exist on West Virginia University’s campus?

In the midst of the much-discussed culture change at WVU, University administra-tion has pushed for a cam-pus-wide shift from the nega-tive “party school” image to a more positive academic im-

age. The focus on this culture change has had a seemingly positive effect on campus and has increased diversity and tolerance.

Is there racism on WVU’s campus? What are

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Exercising alleviates stress, promotes mental health

Stress is something all too common among college students, my-self included. Between course costs, deciding where to live and keep-ing grades up, some situ-ations can easily become very overwhelming to deal with.

During the summer I spent a lot of time obsess-ing over how I was go-ing to pay for college. Just thinking about it today still makes my blood pressure spike. I could not compre-hend how people pay for college because I didn’t have enough money at the time to cover the cost men-tioned in my MIX account. This would sometimes send me spiraling into a vortex of stress with a feel-ing of no way out. However, I learned an easy coping technique that made this time in my life easier to handle.

Exercise. Yes, physical stress helps combat men-tal stress. For me, running was my stress-reliever. I usually hate working out and can think of 100 other things I would rather do than hit the gym, but, for me, running is “easy” ex-ercise that can be done whenever: Inside or out-side, morning or night. I went running at least three times eacj week, some-times more depending on how stressed I was.

According to research from professors at Har-vard University, exercis-ing helps with stress in two ways: It releases endor-phins and increases self-esteem. Endorphins are the body’s natural painkill-ers and can improve your mood, which leads to feel-

ing better about oneself. Exercise also expels adren-aline and cortisol from the body, which are the hor-mones that cause physical feelings of stress.

If starting the exercis-ing process seems diffi-cult, there are thousands of phone applications able to provide motivation. I found the app Running for Weight Loss early on that helped me push myself. It works by designating times for running and times for walking so working up to-ward continuously run-ning becomes easier over time.

The intensity of the workout increased as I pro-gressed, but I never found myself falling behind. The app also gives the option to share your workout on

Facebook, where I was able to receive encourage-ment from my friends and family. Support can really help when trying some-thing new.

After a while, run-ning became something I looked forward to and truly enjoyed. However, fight-ing stress with exercise doesn’t have to involve just running; it can involve any type of exercise you may enjoy.

Aerobic exercise is rec-ommended most by ex-perts when trying to clear your head, but if you are more into lifting, it will work as well. The point of using exercise in this way is to clear your head and fo-cus on yourself, not what’s going on in your life. Run-ning was “me time,” where

I only focused on push-ing myself and not on my other problems.

After making a habit of running regularly, I started to feel much better about myself. My stress level was at an all-time low, and I began to see positive changes in my physical ap-pearance as well.

I also noticed running helped me organize my days better. I made sure to plan out time to run, which in turn forced me to plan out the rest of my responsibilities for the day.

When people become stressed, it’s possible their sleep schedule can get disrupted. Stress, anxiety and depression all have the ability to create nega-tive changes in our sleep-

ing habits. I have always been aware of the struggle to get up in the mornings, but I always assumed it was simply due to waking up at different times. I love sleeping in, but the longer I sleep, the less motivated I am to start my day. Exer-cise is a great way to start the day and makes you feel tired by bedtime, which can help regulate sleep cycles.

Given all of the hills in Morgantown, I have struggled to get back into running. To continue ex-ercising, I have started supplementing with yoga instead. I find it helps just as much, and I’m able to practice in my room with videos I find online in-stead of attempting to run up and down incred-

ibly steep hills. When I finish, I always feel very relaxed.

If you’re new to exercis-ing or to a specific exercise in general, it’s best to start small and slowly advance from there. Many health professionals will say the best way to burn yourself out and begin to hate ex-ercising is to start off at an advanced level before be-ing physically ready. Ex-ercise should be strenu-ous but still relaxing, and going beyond your physi-cal limits at the time can lead to negative results. In the end, all that mat-ters is that you took time to exercise your body and improve your mental health.

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The human body is a beautiful thing. The gift of life is shown in every wrin-kle and crevice of the body, no matter what age you are. However, these are not imperfections but rather an intimate glimpse into the life of whoever you’re looking at. This month, the Monongalia Arts Center is celebrating all forms of the body with its Bare Form exhibit.

The exhibit opened Fri-day and Artists from the local community submit-ted pieces that captured not only the naked body but also the emotion that comes with such an in-timate subject. All of the submitted artwork was judged, and the top three pieces were marked with ribbons.

There are so many col-orful and unique works of art on display in the Ben-

edum Gallery that it takes a minute to digest each one. “Naiad” by Sara Ward and Vern Thompson im-mediately caught my eye. A series of multiple pho-tographs, the work of art portrays a naked woman by a stream. The nature in the background and the realness of the woman’s body create a very organic theme. The photographs truly capture the body as a natural work of art, just like a beautiful stream that runs naturally through a forest.

My favorite piece was “Repose,” the painting that won first place. Painted on canvas by Jamie Les-ter, the painting portrays a beautiful woman lying na-ked with her eyes closed in the midst of suburbia. The neighborhood she was lying in looked like the grand, historic streets of South Park lined with trees and Victorian-era houses. The painting immediately reminded me of the tele-

vision show Desperate Housewives. Not only did the neighborhood look a lot like Wisteria Lane, but the woman reminded me of a mother who proba-bly lived in one of these houses.

Another painting I en-joyed was “Tattoo Girl” by Amber Ryan. The picture portrays a real woman’s body complete with curves and imperfections. The most unique thing about this picture is the tattoo on the woman’s arm and her lip piercing.

It represents what the human body really looks like. A lot of times the me-dia portrays an average body as someone who is stick thin and “perfect.” However, that body type isn’t perfect. The body Ryan painted, however, seems real and perfect in every way. It was enlight-ening that someone could portray a different body type than what is usually seen.

“Touch Them, Own Them, Love Them” by Mi-chelle Furlong was another favorite of mine. The mixed media piece portrays a woman’s nude torso which was covered in lace or tat-toos of some kind. Across the woman’s body was the

saying, “Touch them. Own them. Love them. Don’t compare them.” As soon as I read it, I fell in love with the piece. In a room filled with naked bodies, it is re-ally hard not to compare them. Furlong not only did a great job, but she also

left a powerful message for anyone viewing the gallery.

The MAC did an incred-ible job putting a collec-tion of artwork together that truly captured the hu-man body and spirit.


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Garrett Yurisko/tHe DaiLY atHeNaeuMA look at the installation pieces in the Bare Form exhibit featuring the middle piece by Ben Kolb.

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Students in the WVU Dance Program will shimmy, shake and sway their way across the stage this week as the school hosts “A Celebra-tion of Dance” in the Creative Arts Center.

Taking place each semes-ter, students in the WVU Dance Program devote weeks of choreography and practice to craft the pieces that are showcased in the an-nual event.

WVU’s Director of the Dance Program, Dr. Yoav Kaddar, worked with dance students since he first came to WVU about six years ago. Making its debut five years ago in E. Moore Hall, “A Cele-bration of Dance” first began as an informal, low-produc-tion concert where students were able to showcase their works.

“Like all of our produc-tions, this is an extension of the work we do in the studio,” Kaddar said. “It’s part of the dance education curriculum, to perform, choreograph and create and to put on a dance concert. That’s why we dance and work hard and put time in the studio to design. These concerts are important and very much a part of what we do here and what we train our students for.”

Dance students spend eight weeks perfecting the moves of 12 original works to be debuted at the event. These pieces feature an ar-ray of different dance styles from hip-hop and ballet, to jazz and contemporary pieces. Kaddar and other faculty members of the WVU Dance Program mentor stu-

dents over the eight-week pe-riod to share their skills and knowledge. This semester, 11 students were selected to choreograph the pieces that will be performed. While only 11 students craft the moves through choreography, up to 40 students will be dancing their way across the stage to showcase their skills.

Kaddar said it’s important that the students learn how to choreograph their own pieces because design is one of the most basic fundamen-tals of dance.

“Without choreographers, we don’t have dance,” Kad-dar said. “For some students, creating a dance is like writ-ing a story, putting a play on. It’s a way of expressing and getting a message across. It takes good communication to choreograph a dance, and it’s important for us to teach that and have that as an out-let for our students.”

As well as performing works from popular Ameri-can dance styles, exchange students visiting WVU from the Universidad Nacional de Asuncion in San Lorenzo, Paraguay will also showcase a folk piece from Paraguay, featuring traditional dress and music. Kaddar said this is the first year “A Celebra-

tion of Dance” will feature this exchange agreement. Kaddar hopes this agree-ment will continue in the fu-ture and will possibly allow not only for exchange stu-dents to share staples of their culture with us, but for WVU students to swap their tradi-tions, as well.

The student work being performed will go through a selection and feedback pro-cess, where the top pieces will then be selected for the an-nual “Dance Now!” concert in February.

“Diversity is the headline of any dance concert,” Kad-dar said.

“Anytime you see dance it’s a celebration, a celebra-tion of the human body. Peo-ple love to move to music. I truly believe our motto that everyone is a dancer. Even when you sit in your chair and watch the dancers move, everyone secretly wants to get up and dance to them.”

The WVU Dance Program’s “A Celebration of Dance” will take place at 7 p.m. on Nov. 12 and 13 in the Antoinette Falbo Theatre in the Creative Arts Center. For more infor-mation, visit http://theatre.wvu.edu/.


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Dungeons & Dragons might be making a come-back thanks to WVU Lab Theatre’s upcoming pro-duction of “She Kills Mon-sters” in the Vivian Da-vis Michael Theatre at the Creative Arts Center.

The first production of the Lab season, “She Kills Monsters” is a quirky fan-tasy play written by Qui Nguyen in 2011. The play takes place in the ‘90s, as the pop culture, clothing styles and attitudes were much different than that of today. The ideas of geeky role-playing games and ‘90s subculture are pretty humorous to contempo-rary audiences, so the Lab Committee agreed that the show was the ideal exper-imental expression to kick off its season.

The play centers around Agnes Evans, a school-teacher who is mourning the loss of her younger sis-ter, Tilly. Agnes stumbles across a D&D quest that was written and designed by Tilly, so she decides to jump headfirst into a world of treasure, swordfight-ing and elves to get to re-ally know how her sister’s brain worked. Once inside the game, Agnes meets Tillius the Paladin the al-ter-ego of her sister when she would take part in the role-playing game and sev-eral other heroic represen-tations of her friends at school. The play is full of action, with lots of slaying and dance battles to keep audiences either laugh-ing or on the edge of their seats. More than that, it

pushes a strong message: People may seem differ-ent on the outside but are still just as human on the inside.

Monica Hanigan, one of the show’s leading la-dies, plays the role of Tilly. She feels this message is the whole reason this play exists.

“On the outside, yes it’s nerdy, but you get into it…it’s more than that. It’s not about it being nerdy, it’s about the people and get-ting past that outer shell,” Hanigan said.

The play is directed by Max Gould, who was most recently seen desensitizing Morgantown with his out-rageous performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show.” When he directs, Gould loves to push boundaries and ap-proach issues of human-ity while also having fun with very clever texts. So it was no surprise that he chose a play with the scope

of an entire medieval quest for his next big project. He has changed the size and shape of the room’s stage to accommodate com-bat sequences and multi-ple people being on stage simultaneously.

With Lab Theatre, stu-dents have the ability to create a production from the ground up by collabo-rating with other student designers, actors and stage managers. This challenge and need for camaraderie is what makes Lab Theatre so appealing to growing artists as well as audience members.

“She Kills Monsters” opens at 7:30 p.m. on Fri-day Nov. 13 in the Vivian Davis Michael Theatre at WVU. The show contin-ues its run with a perfor-mance Saturday night at the same time and a mati-nee show at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon.


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work’s Maria Bartiromo, one of the mod-erators for Tuesday’s Republican presi-dential debate, says that while she wants to help viewers understand the differ-ences between candidates, she’s not looking to start brawls.

The fourth GOP debate - and first since a CNBC session left candidates grumbling about the journalists asking questions - takes place Tuesday night in Milwaukee. Bartiromo, FBN’s Neil Ca-vuto and Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker will guide the two-hour discussion starting at 9 p.m. EDT.

It’s also an opportunity for the rela-tively little-noticed business network, which will try to push its coverage in front of as many viewers as possible.

“You want to draw out the differences, but I don’t think you need to draw (them) out taking somebody’s head off and hav-ing a fight,” Bartiromo said on Monday. “That does make good television but it’s not really helping the viewer.”

A tone was set from the beginning of the CNBC debate, when candidates were asked to reveal their greatest weakness and moderator John Harwood asked Donald Trump if he was running “a comic-book version of a presidential campaign.”

The Republican National Commit-tee reacted by pulling its sponsorship for an upcoming NBC News debate and some campaigns tried to wrest control of the debate process from the commit-tee. There was a backlash, with President Obama wondering how the candidates

would be able to face the nation’s adver-saries if they thought debate moderators were too tough.

Bartiromo said she believed that her former employers at CNBC exhibited a hostility toward and disdain for the can-didates. She said it was a useful reminder

that the purpose of debates is to edu-cate voters.

She said she wants to talk about the economy and believes the biggest issue for voters on this topic is how to create new jobs.

The debate is designed to focus on

economic issues, but Bartiromo said potential presidents must prove them-selves adept at addressing a wide range of issues. Questions surrounding Ben Carson’s claims of past incidents in his life have been front and center the past few days - leading Carson to strike back at the media - and Bartiromo said Fox won’t be reluctant to bring the topic up. She talked to Carson about it on her daily show Monday.

She helped moderate a GOP candi-dates’ debate in 2012, when she was one of CNBC’s biggest stars. She expects it will be valuable experience for Tuesday night.

“It helps you to remember that any-thing can happen,” she said. “You have to be able to think on your feet. You have to be able to react to unforeseen comments, unforeseen events.”

The previous GOP debates set view-ership records for Fox News Channel, CNN and CNBC. That’s a virtual certainty Tuesday for FBN, although it would be a surprise if it reached the 14 million who tuned in to CNBC last month.

FBN is available in some 82 million homes in the United States, or a lit-tle more than three-quarters of the TV households. FBN will stream the debate online, and is trying to put the debate before a few million more TV viewers by “unbundling” the network. Some service providers, most notably DirecTV, place Fox Business Network on a more expen-sive programming tier, and FBN is urging those companies to let everyone with ba-sic service see it.

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Caitlyn Jenner, Reese Witherspoon honored at Glamour AwardsNEW YORK (AP) ‑ Caitlyn

Jenner, undoubtedly one of the most talked-about women in the world, is being honored as one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year on Monday in a glittery cer-emony along with fellow honorees like actress Re-ese Witherspoon, dancer Misty Copeland and de-signer Victoria Beckham.

The annual ceremony at Carnegie Hall in Man-hattan mixes high-watt-age celebrities with lesser known names, and this year, the award win-ners include five women touched by the South Car-olina church massacre - Alana Simmons, Nadine Collier, Bethane Middle-ton-Brown, Felicia Sand-ers and Polly Sheppard - and lauded in the after-math as “The Peacemak-ers of Charleston.” Also to be honored: Entrepre-neur Elizabeth Holmes, Planned Parenthoood’s Cecile Richards and the victorious U.S. women’s soccer team.

This year is the 25th an-

niversary of the awards, and former honorees Madeleine Albright, Ser-ena Williams and Billie Jean King were among those scheduled to be on hand for the festivities. Amy Schumer was sched-uled to open the cere-mony, and Jennifer Hud-son and Ellie Goulding to perform.

Jenner is not the first transgender woman to be a Glamour Woman of the Year; last year, actress La-verne Cox was honored. Still, Jenner’s inclusion sparked some backlash on social media. “We pre-fer to focus on the posi-tive,” Jenner said through a spokesman ahead of the announcement.

Cindi Leive, Glamour’s editor-in-chief, told The Associated Press that crit-icism of Jenner’s inclusion “certainly gives you an ap-preciation for the hostil-ity to the trans community that still exists out there.”

Among the achieve-ments of some of this year’s honorees:

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founded a production company, Pacific Stan-dard, which aims to make films featuring strong fe-male lead roles as way to fight the gender gap in Hollywood. The compa-ny’s “Wild” and “Gone Girl” earned Oscar nom-inations for Witherspoon, Laura Dern and Rosa-mund Pike.

Copeland became the first female African-Amer-ican principal at American Ballet Theatre in June.

Jenner, a former Olym-pic hero and Kardashian-Jenner family reality star, came out as a trans woman earlier this year. Her docuseries, “I Am Cait,” was just picked up by E! for a second season.

Beckham gained fame as a Spice Girl, but has since become a highly re-spected fashion designer.

The U.S. women’s soc-cer team handily defeated Japan to win the 2015 World Cup in July, and was recently welcomed at the White House by President Barack Obama.

glamour.comCaitlyn Jenner was honored as one of Glamour’s ‘Women of the Year.’

Teen Fashionistas on ‘Project Runway Junior’ make it workNEW YORK (AP) ‑ Tim

Gunn said he was appre-hensive about participat-ing in a bite-size version of “Project Runway” fea-turing teen designers as young as 13.

“I thought,” he recalled in a recent interview, “will I have to soft-pedal my cri-tiques? Is it all going to be watered down? Are they going to be emotional wrecks and very fragile?”

Gunn was pleasantly surprised by the freshman class on “Project Runway Junior,” which premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Lifetime. And yes, he DOES employ his signa-ture catchphrase: “Make it work!”

The mentor, former ed-ucator at the Parsons de-sign school and adult wrangler on the long-run-ning “Project Runway” called the new show’s young contestants lovable, sweet to each other and respectful of the process swirling around them.

That’s saying a lot, con-sidering the age range - 13 to 17 - among the 12 con-testants from around the country.

Gunn saw bits of his younger self in them all, as did his co-host, model Hannah Davis, and two of the three judges, Chris-tian Siriano and Kelly Os-bourne. Aya Kanai, the executive fashion editor at Cosmopolitan and Sev-enteen magazines, rounds out the judges’ crew.

“These young people ... are all loners. There’s no one like them who comes home from school and plays with a sewing ma-chine,” Osbourne said. “They’ve been put in a room of their peers, with kids just like them, for the first time in their life.”

Gunn agreed.

“For the boys on the show, you know they were the picked upon, bullied, odd people out in their schools, and yeah, I was that kid,” he said.

The 62-year-old Gunn recalled his own miserable childhood. Growing up in Washington, D.C., he had a debilitating stutter that went untreated until he was 19. It was a time in his life when he was “coming to terms with the impor-tance of being a respon-sible citizen of the world and not fleeing it, which is what I spent almost the first 20 years of my life doing.”

He saw none of that in the kids on the show.

“Compared to the de-signers on a regular sea-son of ‘Runway,’ these teens ... accept respon-sibility for their actions,” Gunn said. “There’s never any factor that comes into their interaction with the judges or with me about why this isn’t going as well as they had wanted it to go, versus regular ‘Run-way’ when there’s nothing but excuses.”

The entire cast got a high-level treat. The Dec. 10 episode will feature a video appearance by first lady Michelle Obama to announce a challenge supporting education for girls.

Bella Thorne is a guest judge for the final challenge.

Siriano, Osbourne and Davis didn’t put in the work room time with the kids like Gunn did and were shocked to learn they, like adult ‘Run-way’ contestants, had no help, did the work them-selves and produced de-signs quickly, over a tight span of 10 hours for some challenges.

“It ’s almost cooler working with kids than adults because they were figuring it all out along the way,” Davis said.

Siriano added: “We were told to give them real criticism like they would get if they were present-ing to an editor or to any-one else in the industry.”

Food TV and other net-works have spun off adult competitions into kid ver-sions with mixed results.

“I think kids could just be a big flop,” Gunn said. “There has to be some substance.”

They saw an abundance of that in the youngest contestant, 13-year-old Maya from Maumee, Ohio.

“She’s amazing,” Si-riano said. “Everything she makes on the show is unreal.”

Cast through open au-ditions, the contestants competed for a full schol-arship to one of the coun-try’s top design schools, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandis-ing in Los Angeles, and other prizes.

Getting to a winner was gut-wrenching for the judges, considering chil-dren are involved. When they got down to the fi-nal six, emotions ran ex-tra high, Gunn said.

“The judges and I didn’t want to eliminate anyone at that point and said, ‘Can we just send all six of them forward to the fi-nale? Please? Please!’”

Producers nixed that idea, as they did Gunn’s Plan B of trimming the fi-nal six to four by letting the two kids cut leave to-gether, hand in hand.

“With the grown-ups on ‘Runway,’” Gunn said, “it’s like, ‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!’”

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BY NANCY BLACK

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HH News travels fast today. Long dis-tance communications flow, with Mercury sextile Pluto. Group efforts bear fruit. Get your networks in-volved. Wheeling and dealing may be required. Put away provisions for the future. Others follow your lead.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH Work with a partner. Conversation leads to powerful pos-sibilities. Accept a generous offer. Investigate new sources of income. Inviting works better than demand-ing. Spend money to make money. Invest in your dream.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH Good news comes from far away. Profit from meticulous service. Con-sider an option that seems beyond reach. The workload could get in-tense. A crazy idea works. More plan-ning is a good idea.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Love is the prize today. Stick with what worked before. A small invest-ment now produces high returns. Invest in your business, in a labor-saving tool. Practice your skills and talents. Sports, arts and games with friends and family delight.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Get into a domestic phase. Upgrade practical infrastructure. Plan well

before spending. Make sure water systems are in good repair. Listen to someone you love. You may not agree on everything, but you can find common ground. Compromise.

V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH Imaginative work pays well. Study the situation before tak-ing action. Look from a different per-spective for an enlightening view. Communicate with team members and allies. Once you see what’s un-derneath, you can build it stronger.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH Bring in the money. Be persua-sive, not aggressive. Learn quickly. Discuss developments, and plan details. Consider all possibili-

ties. The more projects you fin-ish, the more new projects arrive. Spend time on or near the water.

S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Dreams reveal your true feelings. Meditation and prayer are useful, especially when pessimism seeps in. The divinity of forgiveness lies in the freedom it provides. Let go of a position that’s been keep-ing you stuck. Open your heart.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH Slow down and contemplate. Envision the future. Your interest is stimulated. Learning is tons of fun and cheap. Write or give a speech or

presentation. You’re quickly becom-ing the expert. A group extends you an invitation.

c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Be careful what you say publicly. Leave nothing to chance. Reveal your ideas in private, and get feedback from your inner circle. They can see your blind spots. Take impor-tant news into consideration. Work together on messaging.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Keep a dream alive by sharing it. Don’t let anyone take the wind out of your sails. Imagine your vision re-alized. Take one step and then an-other. Invite participation, and make good use of the talent that shows up.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Your experience leads to opportunities. Set long-range goals (including vacations). Finish an old job, and clean up afterwards. Con-sider a power play carefully before choosing your moves. Public recog-nition is possible. Seek answers in your dreams.

BORN TODAY Unite for common good this year. Sharp money-man-agement practices fatten accounts. Collaborate to amplify individ-ual power. New passion leads to a change in plans after springtime eclipses. A group discovery next au-tumn leads to a shift in a romance. It’s all for love.

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Underclassmen tend to be criticized for a lack of ex-perience, but West Virginia’s Millie Paladino does not fall into that category.

As a freshman last fall, Paladino and the West Vir-ginia University women’s cross country team com-peted at the NCAA Cross Country Championship. The Mountaineers finished in eighth place, and Paladino gained valuable experience.

Despite a minor injury, Paladino decided to run and placed 210th with a time of 22:01.3.

“I think (running despite being injured) was great be-cause I have the experience now,” Paladino said. “When

you walk away from the course, you’re like, ‘I’d like to be back here and be bet-ter next year.’”

West Virginia is not a lock to return to the NCAA Championship this season. After starting the season ranked No. 10 in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches As-sociation Poll, the Moun-taineers ended the regular season looking up at the 30 ranked teams.

Paladino has done her part to try to return to the NCAA Championship. In both of her races this sea-son, she’s had better times (21:13.5 and 21:34.3) than what she earned at last year’s NCAA Championship.

“I’m really excited that I’m going be back a second time, hopefully. It definitely

is a motivator to get back there because you know what it’s going be like and you know, hopefully, what you can do there.”

While the Morgantown native is anxious to return to the NCAA Championship, she would prefer to travel to Louisville, Kentucky, with her entire team.

“I think our whole team at this point is hoping for a big jump. We have so much po-tential, and we just want to see that on the course,” Pal-adino said. “I obviously am an intrinsic runner, so I al-ways look at how I do, but our goal is to make it to na-tionals. You can obviously do that as an individual, but we want to get there as a team.”

While still attending Uni-versity High School in Mor-

gantown, Paladino couldn’t have foreseen what she’s ac-complished in so little time as a Mountaineer runner. In fact, she didn’t even plan on attending West Virginia Uni-versity for some time.

“I wasn’t keen on the idea of coming here for a really long time because every-one from here comes here. My sister left, my brother left because there wasn’t really anything here for them,” Pal-adino said.

With a GPA over 4.0 in high school, Paladino wanted a college with an impressive engineering program, but also where she could continue running cross country.

“I met some of the pro-fessors (at West Virginia) and I liked what I saw, but I came mainly for the team

and the coach,” Paladino said. “I wanted to run with them, and I wanted this to be the place where I became the best runner I could be. I visited a lot of schools, and it came down to feeling.”

That feeling convinced her to stay in her home-town. It’s a decision she is proud of.

“My heart was here. I’ve never once looked back and regretted my decision and I think that’s how you know you’re in the right place,” Paladino said.

While she doesn’t know if running is a part of her post-college life, Paladino is soak-ing up every moment of it while she’s still competing. That love of running moti-vates her every race.

“My major is civil en-gineering; I’d love to get a

job with a sustainable con-struction company,” Pala-dino said. “I like what I do like in terms of school, but I want to see what I can do with running, too. I’d like to run professionally one day, but that’s a big dream.”

Paladino nearly didn’t at-tend West Virginia Univer-sity, but so far, so good, and she doesn’t want her days of running to end any time soon.

“I take it day-to-day. You have to be on your game to-day if you want to be some-thing big in the future. You just don’t know what’s going to happen,” Paladino said. “I have big dreams, but I never thought I’d be here a couple years ago. You have to be open and hope for the best.”

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Big 12 Conference sports big matchups as November rolls alongKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —

Oklahoma State knocked TCU from the ranks of the unbeaten over the weekend and almost certainly knocked the Horned Frogs out of the College Football Playoff pic-ture, too.

Now, it is Oklahoma’s turn to try to do the same thing to Baylor.

The No. 12 Sooners, who have been rolling since a stunning loss to Texas a month ago, visit fourth-ranked Baylor on Satur-day in the Big 12’s marquee matchup. Oklahoma still has conference title aspirations, even if its loss in the Red River Rivalry crippled its own na-tional championship hopes, while the Bears are trying to

ensure they don’t miss out like they did a year ago.

“Every game you play is a big game, and the biggest game you always have after you finish this one is the next one,” Baylor coach Art Briles said on Monday’s coaches teleconference.

“We’ve got to be good ev-ery week,” Briles said. “We’ve got to be mentally sound, physically ready to go. If you’re not, you’re not going to like the outcome.”

The Bears (8-0, 5-0, No. 6 CFP) may have learned that lesson last Thursday night.

In their first game with freshman Jarrett Stidham un-der center, the Bears got ev-erything they could handle from Kansas State in a 31-24

victory. In fact, the Wildcats - winless in league play - had the ball with 44 seconds left needing a touchdown to force overtime.

The Bears came up with an interception to seal the win.

“You can say what you want, but when you look up in November, we are still around,” Briles said. “When you play us, it is going to be a tough out regardless of the location and nature of the game. We are going to stave, we are going to fight and we are going to find a way to win.”

The Sooners (8-1, 5-1, No. 15) always figured to give the Bears a tough test in their road to perfection, but it was the Horned Frogs - Big 12 co-

champs a year ago - that ev-eryone pointed to as the big late-season matchup. The two Texas schools meet on Nov. 27.

That story line changed when fifth-ranked Okla-homa State (9-0, 6-0, No. 14) rolled to a 49-29 win over No. 13 TCU (8-1, 5-1, No. 8) last weekend, vaulting the Cow-boys into the national title conversation and sending the Horned Frogs searching for answers.

In some ways, the month of November is shaping up to be an elimination game in the Big 12 title race. But all of those tough matchups could ultimately be a bad thing for the Big 12, leaving the league once again with-

out one national champion-ship contender.

In other Big 12 news Monday:

— The Cowboys swept the league’s weekly awards with quarterback Mason Rudolph the top player on offense, linebacker Chad Whitener on defense and punter Zach Sinor on special teams.

Rudolph threw for 352 yards and five touchdowns without an interception against the Horned Frogs, while Whitener had 12 tack-les and two interceptions, one he returned for a score. Sinor had nine punts, six of which were downed inside the 20-yard line.

— There was more good news for Oklahoma State:

Wide receiver James Wash-ington was added to the Bi-letnikoff Award watch list, giving the Big 12 seven play-ers on the list. Already on the list are Baylor teammates Co-rey Coleman and KD Can-non, Oklahoma star Sterling Shepard, Texas Tech’s Jakeem Grant, West Virginia’s Shelton Gibson and Josh Doctson of TCU.

— Speaking of Doctson, coach Gary Patterson said “no update” when asked about the status of his star wide receiver. Doctson ap-peared to have his wrist rolled over late in the first half and did not return against Okla-homa State. Doctson has 78 catches for 1,315 yards and 14 touchdowns.

Skill or chance? New Jersey could have influence on fantasy sportsTRENTON, N.J. (AP) —

Making a case they hope will resonate with states across the nation, represen-tatives of the fantasy sports industry told New Jersey lawmakers Monday that regulators should not treat them the same way as casi-nos because success in their industry relies more on skill than on chance.

Their testimony to an Assembly committee was clearly aimed beyond the confines of the state: New Jersey’s gambling regula-tions are considered the strictest in the nation, and a favorable determina-tion could clear the way for daily fantasy sports in much of the rest of the country as regulators look to New Jer-sey for guidance.

Last month, Nevada re-quired fantasy sports com-panies to obtain a gambling license, and states including Pennsylvania, Massachu-setts, New York and Geor-gia have considered enact-ing their own rules.

New Jersey officials, backed by a Monmouth

University legal expert, said at the hearing they may have to change the state’s Con-stitution if the state deems daily fantasy sports to be gambling, legally defined as games of chance. Such a de-termination would expand gambling beyond Atlantic City, requiring a Constitu-tional amendment.

For the fantasy compa-nies, the crucial issue is get-ting states to agree that their operations are games of skill, and therefore not sub-ject to costly gambling regu-lations that apply to casinos.

“It’s a form of entertain-ment, not gambling,” said Jeremy Kudon, who repre-sents DraftKings, FanDuel and the Fantasy Sports Trade Association. “Fan-tasy sports is a game of skill, not a game of chance. You need to understand the skills of different players. It depends almost entirely on the amount of time, re-search and talent — other-wise known as skill. Chance is not a material effect in the contest.”

Several lawmakers were

clearly skeptical of such claims.

“It is clear that chance is a material factor into the out-come,” said Assemblyman Troy Singleton. “I know a ton of people who are skilled in drafting. But at the end of the day, if Tom Brady breaks his leg, it doesn’t matter how skillful you were in drafting Tom Brady.

“I’ve lost to my wife a number of times in daily fantasy sports, and I know she doesn’t have as much skill.”

Daily fantasy sports al-lows people to deposit money in accounts, cre-ate fantasy rosters of sports teams by selecting real players and then compete against other contestants based on their players’ sta-tistical performances to win money.

Representatives of the companies said they wel-come consumer protection legislation that unequiv-ocally establishes the le-gality of such contests and ensures fairness and trans-parency. But several said

they object to the costs asso-ciated with casino licensure.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, said during the last GOP debate that regulating daily fantasy sports is a frivolous pursuit while terrorists are on the march overseas and while

the country suffers from fi-nancial concerns.

“They shouldn’t regulate fantasy football,” Christie said. “It’s a stupid idea.”

But a state senator and former Atlantic City mayor said after the debate he would introduce a bill to regulate them after confer-

ring with the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. Sen. James Whelan’s bill would classify daily fantasy sports as games of skill.

Assemblyman Ralph Caputo said no decisions on whether or how to reg-ulate them will be made immediately.

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GENEVA (AP) — Russia’s status as a sports super-power and its participation in track and field events at next year’s Olympics came under threat Monday after a report accused the Rus-sians of widespread, state-supported doping reminis-cent of the darkest days of cheating by the former East Germany.

The findings by a com-mission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency were far more damaging than ex-pected. It means that two of the world’s most popu-lar sports - soccer and track and field - are now mired in scandals that could destroy their reputations.

The WADA investiga-tion’s findings that Russian government officials must have known about doping and cover-ups, with even its intelligence service, the FSB, allegedly involved, threatened to severely tar-nish President Vladimir Pu-tin’s use of sports to improve his country’s global stand-ing. Russia hosted the last Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 and will hold the next World Cup in 2018.

“It’s worse than we thought,” said Dick Pound, an International Olympic Committee veteran who chaired the WADA probe. “It may be a residue of the old Soviet Union system.”

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- Moscow testing labora-tory director Grigory Rod-chenkov ordered the “in-tentional and malicious destruction” of 1,417 doping control samples to deny evi-dence for the investigation.

- FSB agents regularly vis-ited the lab, routinely ques-tioned its staff and told some of them not to cooperate with WADA as part of “di-rect intimidation and inter-ference by the Russian state” with the lab’s work. Staff at the lab believed their offices were bugged by the FSB.

- FSB agents even infil-trated Russia’s anti-doping work at the Sochi Olympics. One witness told the inquiry that “in Sochi, we had some guys pretending to be engi-neers in the lab, but actually they were from the Federal Security Service.”

- “Widespread inaction” by track and field’s govern-ing body, the International Association of Athletics Fed-erations, and Russian au-thorities allowed athletes suspected of doping to con-tinue competing.

“The Olympic Games in London were, in a sense, sabotaged by the admission of athletes who should have not been competing,” the re-port said.

The WADA commission, set up after a German TV documentary last year al-leged widespread Russian doping and cover-ups, rec-ommended that WADA de-clare the Russian athletics federation “noncompliant” with the global anti-dop-ing code, and that the IAAF suspend the federation from competition.

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He said Russia’s doping could be called state-spon-sored. The commission said its months-long probe found no written evidence of gov-ernment involvement, but it added: “It would be naive in the extreme to conclude that activities on the scale discovered could have oc-curred without the explicit or tacit approval of Russian governmental authorities.”

“They would certainly have known,” Pound said.

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BY CHRIS JACKSONSPORTS WRITER

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Following an inconsis-tent 2015 campaign for the West Virginia University men’s basketball team’s forwards, they’re prepared to take the next step on the court.

Jonathan Holton returns for his final season in Mor-gantown. Highly-touted freshman Esa Ahmad be-gins his days as a Moun-taineer. Nathan Adrian re-turns from injury.

Now, it’s time to replen-ish and add to a team bud-ding with talent.

Holton’s junior season was marred by foul trouble and an inability to convert from long range, one of the most prominent features of his game. He converted just 20 percent of his three pointers and averaged 7.5 points per game.

But Holton made his mark near the rim, lead-ing the team in offen-sive rebounds (105) and blocked shots (29). His 5.9 rebounds per game were second-best on the team, only behind center Devin Williams.

On Friday’s exhibition tilt with Glenville State, Holton’s four steals and 10 rebounds were team-highs, adding to an im-pressive 14-point display during his 17 minutes of action.

Now he’s primed to be-come a bigger name, a big-ger piece to help guide a team that’s ready to take the next step come March.

“I’m just hungry to tell

you the truth,” Holton said. “I was waiting to play. We’ve been prac-ticing against each other. Going against new play-ers and the season begin-ning again, I’m just happy to play. I’m busting my tail to get 10 rebounds every game.”

Holton is set to split time with Morgantown native Adrian, another returner poised for a breakout sea-son. The junior’s injury-plagued sophomore sea-son a year ago dramatically affected his scoring.

Battling a wrist injury, Adrian managed to make just 11 of his 62 attempts from long range. His 2.8 points per game and 30 percent field goal percent-age were the lowest totals of the 10 usual contributors on the roster.

However, his 13 points and perfect night from the field was one of the top ef-forts from Friday’s 114-76 rout of Glenville State.

“I thought (Nathan Adrian) was great today,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “Those two guys (Holton and Adrian) are probably going to share time. Whichever guy plays best is the one that’s going to play more.”

Despite the competitive nature, the duo has built a bond on and off the court that continues to speak volumes about the team’s chemistry, which was an-other key part of last year’s Sweet 16 run.

“That’s my guy,” Holton said. “Me and Nate make each other better every day. When he does good

and I’m doing bad, I’m still happy for him.”

Freshman Ahmad en-ters as the program’s high-est-rated recruit since Devin Ebanks in 2008. He was rated the 46th overall player in the ESPN 100 and the sixth-highest incoming freshman in the Big 12.

Before becoming a Mountaineer, Ahmad was named the Ohio Player of the Year as a senior af-ter guiding Shaker Heights High School to the quar-terfinals of the state play-offs. He’s already begub to make a name for himself through his first two games in a WVU uniform.

Ahmad’s 21 points against Temple and 11 against Glenville State in the preseason showcased his do-it-all ability on the court, living up to the bill-ing that’s been placed upon him.

In the rout of Glenville State, he also contributed six assists and four re-bounds and went 3-4 from the free throw line, quickly becoming one of Huggins’ top athletes.

Versatility has become the central trademark for Ahmad, adding another dimension to WVU’s pres-sure defense. His ability to shoot from long-range, re-bound, pass and defend has earned him an early starting spot.

“(Ahmad) is going to get better and better because he wants to,” said Hug-gins. “He has got an apti-tude to learn the game of basketball.”

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Nick GOLDEN/THE DAiLY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia’s Esa Ahmad fights for a rebound Friday against Glenville State.

ASkAR SALikHOV/THE DAiLY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia’s Bria Holmes on the attack last season against Texas.

WVU needs Holmes to lead an offensive turnaround in 2015-16

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The West Virginia Uni-versity women’s basketball team is gearing up for its sea-son-opener Saturday in the Coliseum, with athletes at the forward position eager to showcase their talents.

WVU women’s basket-ball coach Mike Carey re-turns only four players to begin the season, three of whom saw action at the for-ward position for the Moun-taineers last season. Coming off a 23-15 record last sea-son, the inexperience of this year’s team will rely heavily on Carey’s tutelage and lead-ership returning at forward.

“People know we’ll play hard,” Carey said. “We’re young, and people don’t know what to expect.”

High expectations may be a bit of a stretch for the West Virginia women’s team dressing 11 new players on the 15-person roster, but they certainly exist for unan-imous All-Big 12 First Team selection Bria Holmes.

As a junior, Holmes scored a WVU junior record of 716 points, averaging 18.8 points per game. Holmes also earned invitations to the USA Basketball World University Games and Pan-American Team trials at the end of last season.

“She’s really taken over a leadership position,” said Carey. “In the offseason she worked on her mid-range shot, and I think this year she’ll make people around her better.”

A team captain a year ago, Holmes will resume that role

again in 2015-16. Holmes’ biggest asset for this year’s Mountaineer team, other than her experience, is the versatility the senior brings to the table. Opponents had trouble defending the 6-foot-1 Holmes when she played the guard and for-ward positions, especially in last season’s Women’s National Invitation Tourna-ment. Holmes was named to the Postseason WNIT All-Tournament team, lead-ing WVU to the tournament final.

With all the inexperience on this year’s roster, Holmes may have to contribute more than she did a season ago. Although Holmes carried the team her junior season, scoring nearly 30 percent of the team’s points, lead-ing the Big 12 conference in scoring may come easier than expected in Holmes’ se-nior campaign with the de-parture of do-it-all forward Averee Fields.

However, even with Holmes returning to pro-vide production on the of-fensive side of the ball, WVU will still need to improve on the offensive inefficiency that plagued the Mountain-eers a season ago. WVU fin-ished eighth in the Big 12 in field goal percentage (.395) and last in 3-point percent-age (.294).

With that in mind, senior forward Arielle Roberson holds a vital role for the de-pleted Mountaineer wom-en’s team.

Roberson transferred to WVU from Colorado after earning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year honors in 2011-12. The San Antonio, native

has cruised under the na-tional radar since, after suf-fering injuries that plagued her even in Morgantown. Roberson missed all of last year’s regular season with a torn ACL suffered in the preseason.

Even though Roberson has endured her share of in-juries during her collegiate career, Carey knows her skill-set and leadership will be crucial on the floor for this year’s team.

“She can score inside and out, and she knows the game, which will help us, es-pecially early on,” Carey said.

In her final season play-ing at Colorado, Roberson led the Buffaloes in scoring with 12 points per game and in rebounding with 8.3 re-bounds per game.

Alongside Roberson at the forward position is sopho-more Teana Muldrow, who led the Mountaineers in scoring last week with 17 points in the team’s debut exhibition matchup against Shepherd University. Muld-row provided a spark for the Mountaineers off the bench last season, and the sopho-more from East Orange, New Jersey will be counted on this season to relieve Roberson and Holmes.

WVU is receiving votes from major preseason polls even with the roster’s inex-perience, but the hype will be short-lived if West Vir-ginia cannot improve its shooting percentages from a year ago, and contributors fail to emerge from the slew of newcomers featured on this year’s roster.

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West Virginia earns No. 2 seed in NCAA TournamentBY CONNOR HICKS

SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The 2015 NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament bracket was announced Monday af-ternoon. West Virginia was ranked No. 2 at the end of the season and projected to be a regional host before an early exit from the Big 12 tourna-ment. The Mountaineers will take on Duquesne in the first round.

The Mountaineers (16-2-1) had their 16-game un-beaten streak, dating back to an early 2-1 loss to Vir-ginia, end in a loss to No. 18 Texas Tech in the semifinal round of the conference tour-nament. Following the loss, West Virginia dropped four spots in the latest national poll to No. 6.

While the Mountaineers lost their hopes for a top seed, they still received a No. 2 re-gional seed. Penn State, who the Mountaineers upset 1-0 earlier in the season, holds the top seed in the region. The Nittany Lions claimed WVU’s No. 2 spot and sit just behind Florida State for the top position in the coun-

try. The draw is favorable for West Virginia, who had no problem putting down the Dukes (12-9-1) in a 5-0 win at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium early this season.

The Mountaineers, who currently possess an 18-game unbeaten streak at home, will again play host to Duquesne on Friday. The last time WVU lost in Morgantown was in August 2014 against Duke. Assuming they aren’t upset, the Mountaineers will play host through the Sweet 1, and would before traveling to No. 2 Penn State for a rematch in State College.

Along with Penn State, the top regional seeds went to No. 1 Florida State, No. 4 Stanford and No. 5 Virginia. No. 3 Rutgers, which ranks above Stanford and Virginia in the latest poll, did not re-ceive a No. 1 seed because of its weak schedule. The Scar-let Knights are, however, the only team in the country to rank above the Mountaineers in defensive categories.

The second-best defense in the country will surely be the base of a title run for the Mountaineers. While the team has depth and tal-

ent at offense, its early sea-son success came to a halt when West Virginia reached Big 12 play. The offense, led by senior Kailey Utley, has been extremely unlucky with a multitude of chances throughout games, but cross-bars and lucky saves lead to

narrow wins. A pair of shots that deflected off posts ul-timately led to the team’s downfall in the conference tournament last week.

If West Virginia is to ad-vance out of the first round, something the team hasn’t done since 2013, it will take

on the winner of Washing-ton State (13-5-2) and North-western (14-5-0). Both teams have played a strong year and could easily have the abil-ity to force WVU to make an early exit from the tourna-ment for a fifth straight year.

If West Virginia wins the

region, the 2015 Final Four will take place Dec. 4-6 in Cary, North Carolina.

The Mountaineers will face the Dukes at 6 p.m. on Friday at the Dick Dlesk Soc-cer Stadium.

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ASkAR SALikHOV/THE DAiLY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia women’s soccer players high-five fans after a win over Villanova earlier this season.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Tuesday November 10, 201510 | SPORTS

BY ALEC GEARTYSPORTS WRITER

@DAILYATHENAEUM

In August 2006, the West Virginia men’s soccer team needed to fill its head coach vacancy left by the depar-ture of Mike Seabolt. It found its man in Marlon LeBlanc, who was hired a few weeks from the start of the season.

Ten seasons later, LeB-lanc is the second-win-ningest head coach in WVU program history, behind John McGrath and is one of the longest-tenured active coaches at WVU.

LeBlanc earned his 100th career win on Oct. 13 against Penn State, his alma mater, and is three wins away from 100 victo-ries with West Virginia.

“I think it’s ironic that it (came) against my alma mater and the place where I got started,” LeBlanc said. “I hope 100 wins isn’t the pinnacle of my career. I am pleased I got to do it with this group of guys.”

While LeBlanc has had success on the field, it is his coaching ability that has al-lowed him to build a special relationship with his play-ers. In his tenure, the New Jersey native developed six All-Americans, including current Major League Soc-cer star Ray Gaddis.

LeBlanc and Gaddis, who broke out and became one of the program’s most dy-namic players, have a spe-cial relationship even after Gaddis was drafted by the Philadelphia Union in 2012.

“I consider Coach LeB-lanc (part of my) family,” Gaddis said. “Coach LeB-lanc and I have a good rela-tionship, even after I grad-uated from West Virginia. Anytime there is a close game, I make sure to get out and see the team.”

In Gaddis’ time with WVU, LeBlanc led the team to a 34-30-14 record, in-cluding LeBlanc’s third and fourth trips to the NCAA Tournament.

However, those postsea-son runs weren’t Gaddis’ fa-

vorite memory at WVU with LeBlanc.

“My favorite memory here was beating number one UConn my senior year,” Gaddis said. “Knowing that we stepped up to play big (against) UConn at Dick Dlesk Stadium.”

While Gaddis recently wrapped up his fourth sea-son in professional soccer, where he led all MLS out-field players in minutes played with 3,060 in 2014, he is appreciative of the role LeBlanc played in his still-developing soccer career.

“As a coach, for me, he was on me very tough. He pushed me to get ready for the next level,” Gaddis said. “Everything that he is doing on the field will prepare you for the next level. He was always tough on me, and I will always appreciate that because he motivated me and got me prepared for the next level.”

Senior Zak Leedom had similar praise for his coach as he approaches the final stretch of his WVU career.

“I think he has made me a better player and a bet-ter man,” Leedom said. “At times, I think I’ve chal-lenged him to make him a better coach.”

Leedom came to WVU in 2012, where he slowly de-veloped into a vital piece of WVU’s two-way game.

“It’s been a rollercoaster ride. I was definitely an in-teresting player to have and coach; I made it tough on him at times, and I think we had a lot of laughs at the same time,” Leedom said. “I came here to grow and be-come a better man, and I think (LeBlanc) helped me do that.”

It can be argued that LeBlanc was the man best suited to take the reins of this program. LeBlanc was named to The Dominion Post’s top 100 influential people in 2007, only his sec-ond year in Morgantown.

Throughout his tenure at WVU, one of LeBlanc’s main focuses at the Uni-versity was to help create an academic culture, espe-

cially around his team.The men’s soccer team

had never received the NSCAA Academic Award until LeBlanc was hired; from then, the team has earned the honor for eight- straight seasons dating back to 2008. He strives for his athletes to reach their potential in the classroom, and that led senior Jamie Merriam and junior Jack El-liott to earn academic hon-ors this season.

While LeBlanc focuses on his team, he also focuses on promoting racial diver-sity at WVU. He was a pio-neer in the creation of the “oneWVU” campaign.

However, questions rose as to who would re-place Penn State’s legend-ary coach, Barry Gorman, after he resigned in 2010. One of the immediate thoughts was that LeBlanc would go back to where he got his start. He had other intentions.

“I am committed to the West Virginia University men’s soccer program, and

there are things we need to accomplish here in Mor-gantown,” LeBlanc told the Times-West Virginian in 2010. “ I look forward to continuing the tradition that we are building here in Morgantown. “

While LeBlanc has been building his tradition, he has been implement-ing a special message that his past players take with them even after their days at WVU.

Gaddis said that WVU is special in his heart, even after traveling with the Union, mainly because the way that the people have treated him.

Even as he continues to strive at the professional level, he considers every-one involved in his devel-opment, especially LeB-lanc, family.

LeBlanc looks to lead his team to victory this Friday, as it takes on Akron to open up Mid-American Confer-ence tournament play.

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WVU’s LeBlanc forges special bond with players past and presentASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

West Virginia’s Zak Leedom pushes the ball up the wing earlier this season against San Francisco.

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