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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Tuesday March 18, 2014 VoluMe 126, Issue 111www.THedaONLINe.comda
Rec Center traffic to be detoured By Sam BoSSerman
Staff Writer @Dailyathenaeum
West Virginia University is once again facing a changing landscape.
Construction projects ranging from the building of a new Agri-cultural Sciences Building to the addition of an art museum will make the Evansdale Campus a hub of activity.
Before these improvements can be enjoyed, there will be a period during which construction fences and detours are a common sight.
One such detour was added
during spring break, and traffic to the Student Recreation Center will be redirected.
The detour is the result of shut-ting down the connection be-tween Fine Arts Drive and the Rec Center to construct the new Evansdale Crossing building.
John Sommers, a project man-ager with WVU Facilities Manage-ment, said the detour is not diffi-cult to find and should not result in too much inconvenience once students learn where to go.
“What has historically been ac-cess to permit parking is now also access to the general Rec Cen-
ter parking,” Sommers said. “The temporary road is on the east end of the Rec Center (the field side), and it shouldn’t create any prob-lems in terms of parking and ac-cess to the Rec Center.”
This new path leads to the same parking areas students were pre-viously able to access from Fine Arts Drive.
Sommers said several parking spots may be taken for construc-tion purposes. However, Sommers said the contractor will develop additional parking in the grassy area adjacent to the Rec Center.
Sommers said he believes the
completed Evansdale Cross-ing will be well worth any incon-venience experienced during construction.
Some of the features of the new building will include several food venues, journalism classrooms and a Barnes & Noble Bookstore.
“There will also be a student services area that some people are calling a ‘one-stop shop’ for stu-dents to enroll, register, etc., all in one place,” Sommers said.
According to Sommers, the new building will help make Evansdale more accessible, as a bridge will connect it to the Engineering PRT
station. Student will then be able to take elevators down and come out on the same level as the Rec Center.
Sommers said another aspect of the construction is to relieve con-gestion on Fine Arts Drive by ex-tending the road up from Patter-son Drive.
“Instead of turning right or left, it will continue straight up the hill so it will be more of a straight line to the Rec Center (from Patterson Drive),” he said.
The Evansdale Crossing
Garcia named 2014-15 Mountaineer mascot
Kyle Monroe/The DaIly aThenaeuMMichael Garcia, a junior political science student, was named the Mountaineer mascot at the WVU vs. Kansas home game March 8.
By Laura haightStaff Writer
@Dailyathenaeum
Michael Garcia will don the buckskins and shoot the iconic musket for the 2014-15 school year.
Garcia, a junior politi-cal science student from Fairmont, W.Va., was an-nounced as the 63rd Moun-taineer mascot of West Vir-ginia University during the men’s basketball game against Kansas March 8.
“I think right before they announced it, I was pre-pared to handle either out-come,” Garcia said. “As soon as I got it, it was an adren-aline rush and excitement like no other.”
He said his family at-tended the game to support him and were shocked by the outcome.
“My mom was going crazy,” Garcia said. “They couldn’t believe it.”
When Garcia applied for the position in 2013, he made it to the final four, which he said helped pre-pare him for this year. He said the interview with the selection committee was the hardest part, but this time he was ready.
“They’re drilling you question after question,” Garcia said. “Last year, I didn’t really know what to expect. This time I felt re-ally confident and felt like I knew what they wanted out of the Mountaineer, and I prepared myself for that.”
Garcia said he is happy to have been selected out of all those who applied, but he said he wished more stu-dents tried out.
“If it were up to me I’d have every student apply,”
he said. “I knew if I could be a bigger part of the Uni-versity and embody all the parts of WVU, then I wanted to do it.”
The current Mountaineer mascot Jonathan Kimble and Garcia will take part in the passing of the rifle cer-emony April 11, and Garcia will officially be installed as the next mascot. He will run onto the field with the foot-ball team the next day dur-ing the Gold and Blue spring game.
“Running out on the field is going to be pretty awe-some,” he said. “I’ve imag-ined it in my head a few times.”
Garcia said he’s mostly excited about the position, but he is battling with his nerves.
“I think I’m nervous, be-cause it’s such a big respon-sibility,” he said. “I’m going to do my best with it and know that’s all that matters.”
Garcia said he under-stands the responsibility of the Mountaineer to repre-sent the state in addition to WVU.
“Being the Mountain-eer isn’t about me,” he said. “I’m the Mountaineer, but I’m only a small part of this University. This position is about showcasing the peo-ple and the University.”
Garcia said he will meet with his advisers and Kim-ble in the coming weeks for advice on how to be the mascot.
“It’s truly an honor and it’s going to be an amazing year,” he said. “I have the op-portunity to do some really great things, and I hope I can live up to the expectations.”
ChiPS, aPPLe, Baguette?
Kyle Monroe/The DaIly aThenaeuMPanera Bread opens its new North High Street location today. Those who come to the cafe this week are eligible for multiple giveaways.
By CarLee LammerSmanaging eDitor @CarleelammerS
The wait is over.Panera Bread’s North High
Street location officially opens its doors today. The grand opening has been delayed a few times, but according to staff members, the cafe is well-prepared for the opening.
The two-story cafe will seat more than 100 patrons and offer a full menu and bakery items.
Emily Lutz, Panera Bread regional marketing coordina-tor, said the downtown loca-tion, which will be one-of-a-kind for the state, is worth the wait.
“This is the first two-story cafe in West Virginia,” she said. “We are just so excited to have such a unique opportunity to open right on campus in the heart of downtown.”
Morgantown’s first cafe, lo-cated off Patterson Drive, has been one of the company’s most successful locations, ac-cording to Lutz.
Lutz said the company is hopeful the second location will be more convenient for some residents in the local area and just as successful.
“We really wanted to be able to expand and offer a second cafe location. That way peo-ple can still get in, have a quick lunch and get right back on the road,” she said. “Now peo-ple can walk right here if they work or live downtown.”
Lutz said the new cafe was designed with college towns
New downtown Panera cafe opens today
LET THE MADNESS BEGINthe WVu women’s basketball team will be a no. 2
seed in the nCaa tournament. the mountaineers will take on albany Sunday at 3 p.m. in the first round.
Photo by Shannon mcKenna
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Kyle Monroe/The DaIly aThenaeuMThe new Panera is the first two-story cafe in the state of West Virginia. The upper level features views of High Street.
opENING wEEk GIvEAwAyS •Today, 500 customers will receive free travel coffee mugs with the pur-chase of any menu item, which will give them two weeks of unlimited coffee refills.• Today and Wednesday those who purchase a You Pick Two will receive a $5 gift card for future use.•Thursday morning customers who purchase a breakfast sandwich or an egg souffles will get the item at half-price.•Friday from 3-7 p.m. customers can buy $3 soup in bread bowls.
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BaCK to BaCKThe West Virginia Univer-sity rifle team won its 16th national title Saturday. The Mountaineers have won two consecutive championships with the most rifle national titles of any school in the country.
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in mind.“A lot of our cafes are lo-
cated (near) universities and different campuses. We want Panera to be a welcoming environment where you can come in and sit down for a few hours and study, enjoy a meal or catch up and stay with friends,” she said. “That’s really what we’re all about.”
Some residents are con-cerned the new downtown Panera will detract from local businesses in Mor-gantown. Lutz said Panera champions community in-volvement and hopes to interact with the WVU and Morgantown community as much as possible.
“We are very grassroots -oriented. Even though we are a chain, our franchise is based out of Ohio. In ev-erything we do we try to be community involved. This cafe will be heavily in-volved at activities at WVU.
We already have an athletic sponsorship. We go out door-to-door to local busi-nesses ... We really just try to keep things local,” she said.
One way Panera aims to give back to the com-munity is through an un-sold bakery item donation program.
Because the company does not use preservatives in its baked goods, Lutz said stores are not allowed to keep items for longer than one day. Rather than trashing the unsold items, each store donates the baked goods to local hun-ger relief organizations.
“Every single night at this new location we will be donating all of our left-over baked goods back to local hunger relief organi-zations right here in the lo-cal community,” she said.
The Panera Bread loca-tion on North High Street will be open Monday-Sat-urday 6 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday from 6 a.m.-9 p.m.
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Students raise more than $3k in pool marathon By hannah WigaL
Staff Writer @Dailyathenaeum
Two West Virginia Uni-versity students attempted to break the world record for the longest marathon playing billiards while sup-porting the Morgantown community.
The longest singles bil-liard marathon world re-cord is 74 hours and 50 minutes.
Skyler Banfill, a recre-ation, parks and tourism student, and Ian Lake, a pre-business and econom-
ics student, decided they wanted to break the current record by playing pool for 80 consecutive hours.
The pair planned to play pool from March 9 at 10 a.m. to March 12 at 6 p.m. at Anytime Billiards in Union-town, Pa.
The two students paired up with the greater Penn-sylvania and West Virginia Make-A-Wish Foundation to use their record break-ing attempt to receive do-nations for the charitable organization.
The pair was able to make it a total of 46 hours
before Lake had to quit due to exhaustion and a back injury.
A witness and friend of the team took Lake’s place and played with Banfill un-til he was unable to con-tinue playing after 65 hours.
“This was a success-ful fundraiser, not a failed world record attempt,” Banfill said. “We used the world record attempt as a medium to attract atten-tion to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.”
Even though the team was unable to break the world record, they were
still able to donate almost $4,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Lake said he was proud the team passed their fun-draising goal, even though they were unable to play as long as they originally planned.
Banfill said he spent a year planning the mara-thon and researching non-profit organizations to raise money for.
“I knew that when others saw that two people were putting so many efforts to-ward a cause, it would have tremendous potential for
monetary good,” Banfill said.
When he met Lake while traveling with the WVU pool club, Banfill said he knew they would work well together.
“I previously confronted six or seven people, and I was disappointed to find there wasn’t anyone with the same enthusiasm to-ward this cause,” Banfill said. “Ian (Lake) was the first person to come to me about the fundraiser. That’s how I knew his head was in the right place.”
The team spent two days
preparing for the event by sleeping and expending as little energy as possible.
The team was required to have at least two witnesses present throughout the du-ration of the event, and vol-unteers signed witness con-tracts for four-hour shifts.
Donations for the local Make-A-Wish Foundation are still being accepted on the event’s website.
“We had a more than successful fundraiser, and I couldn’t be happier with the results,” Banfill said.
building is expected to be open to students by fall 2015.
Sommers said he is happy to see WVU looking forward to the future with the infra-structure investments they have made.
“It’s good to see WVU continue to grow and ex-pand by taking steps to make the campus more ac-cessible and appealing,” he said. “Over the next cou-ple of years, the Evansdale Campus is really going to begin to be a more active part of the campus.”
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Kyle Monroe/The DaIly aThenaeuMThe upper level of the cafe offers more than 100 seats around a fireplace.
Putin recognizes Crimean independence tuesdayKIeV, ukraine (aP) — Ig-
noring the toughest sanc-tions against Moscow since the end of the Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula as an “independent and sover-eign country” on Monday, a bold challenge to Wash-ington that escalates one of Europe’s worst security cri-ses in years.
The brief decree posted on the Kremlin’s web-site came just hours af-ter the United States and the European Union an-nounced asset freezes and other sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian officials involved in the Crimean crisis. President Barack Obama warned that more would come if Russia didn’t stop interfering in Ukraine, and Putin’s move clearly forces his hand.
The West has struggled to find leverage to force Moscow to back off in the Ukraine turmoil, of which Crimea is only a part, and analysts saw Mon-day’s sanctions as mostly ineffectual.
Moscow showed no signs of flinching in the dispute that has roiled Ukraine since Russian troops took effective con-trol of the strategic Black Sea peninsula last month and supported the Sun-day referendum that over-whelmingly called for annexation by Russia. Rec-ognizing Crimea as inde-
pendent would be an in-terim step in absorbing the region.
Crimea had been part of Russia since the 18th cen-tury, until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev trans-ferred it to Ukraine in 1954 and both Russians and Crimea’s majority ethnic Russian population see annexation as correcting a historic insult.
Ukraine’s turmoil – which began in Novem-ber with a wave of protests against President Viktor Yanukovych and acceler-ated after he fled to Rus-sia in late February – has become Europe’s most se-vere security crisis in years.
Russia, like Yanukovych himself, characterizes his ouster as a coup, and al-leges the new authorities are fascist-minded and likely to crack down on Ukraine’s ethnic Russian population. Pro-Russia demonstrations have bro-ken out in several cities in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, where the Kremlin has been massing troops.
Fearing that Russia is prepared to risk violence to make a land-grab, the West has consistently spo-ken out against Russia’s actions but has run into a wall of resistance from Moscow.
Reacting to Monday’s sanctions, Russian Dep-uty Foreign Minister Ser-gei Ryabkov declared that
they were “a reflection of a pathological unwillingness to acknowledge reality and a desire to impose on ev-eryone one-sided and un-balanced approaches that absolutely ignore reality.”
“I think the decree of the president of the United States was writ-ten by some joker,” Rus-sian Deputy Prime Minis-ter Dmitry Rogozin, one of the individuals hit by the sanctions, said on his Twit-ter account.
The White House im-posed asset freezes on seven Russian officials, including Putin’s close ally Valentina Matvienko, who is speaker of the up-per house of parliament, and Vladislav Surkov, one of Putin’s top ideological aides. The Treasury De-partment also targeted Ya-nukovych, Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov and two other top figures.
The EU’s foreign min-isters slapped travel bans and asset freezes against 21 officials from Russia and Ukraine.
“We need to show sol-idarity with Ukraine, and therefore Russia leaves us no choice,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters in Brussels.
Despite Obama’s vow of tougher measures, stock markets in Russia and Eu-rope rose sharply, reflect-ing relief that trade and business ties were spared.
“I guess the market view
is that Russia forced their case in Crimea, pushed through the referendum, and the Western reac-tion was muted, so that this opens the way for fu-ture Russian intervention in Ukraine,” said Tim Ash, an analyst who follows Ukraine at Standard Bank PLC.
On Monday evening Vice President Joe Biden was heading to Europe to meet with NATO allies. He was headed for War-saw, where he was slated to meet Tuesday with Pol-ish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Broni-slaw Komorowski. He was to meet separately with Estonian President Too-mas Hendrik Ilves. In Lith-uania, Biden planned to meet with President Dalia Grybauskaite and Latvia’s President Andris Berzins.
In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Rus-sians applauded Sunday’s referendum that over-whelmingly called for se-cession and for joining Russia. Masked men in body armor blocked ac-cess for most journalists to the parliament session that declared independence, but the city otherwise ap-peared to go about its busi-ness normally.
“We came back home to Mother Russia. We came back home, Russia is our home,” said Nikolay Dro-zdenko, a resident of Sev-astopol, the key Crimean
port where Russia leases a naval base from Ukraine.
A delegation of Crimean officials was to fly to Mos-cow on Monday and Putin was to address both houses of parliament Tuesday on the Crimean situation, both indications that Rus-sia could move quickly to annex.
In Kiev, acting Presi-dent Oleksandr Turchynov vowed that Ukraine will not give up Crimea.
“We are ready for nego-tiations, but we will never resign ourselves to the an-nexation of our land,” a somber Turchynov said in a televised address to the nation. “We will do ev-erything in order to avoid war and the loss of human lives. We will be doing ev-erything to solve the con-flict through diplomatic means. But the military threat to our state is real.”
The Crimean parliament declared that all Ukrainian state property on the pen-insula will be nationalized and become the property of the Crimean Republic. It gave no further details. Lawmakers also asked the United Nations and other nations to recognize it and began work on setting up a central bank with $30 million in support from Russia.
Moscow, meanwhile, called on Ukraine to be-come a federal state as a way of resolving the polar-ization between Ukraine’s
western regions – which favor closer ties with the 28-nation EU – and its east-ern areas, which have long ties to Russia.
In a statement Monday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry urged Ukraine’s parliament to call a constitutional as-sembly that could draft a new constitution to make the country federal, hand-ing more power to its re-gions. It also said the coun-try should adopt a “neutral political and military sta-tus,” a demand reflecting Moscow’s concern that Ukraine might join NATO and establish closer politi-cal and economic ties with the EU.
Russia is also push-ing for Russian to become one of Ukraine’s state lan-guages, in addition to Ukrainian.
In Kiev, Ukraine’s new government dismissed Russia’s proposal as unac-ceptable, saying it “looks like an ultimatum.”
Ukrainian Foreign Min-ister Andriy Deshchytsya visited NATO headquar-ters in Brussels to request technical equipment to deal with the secession of Crimea and the Russian in-cursion there.
NATO said in a state-ment that the alliance was determined to boost its cooperation with Ukraine, including “in-creased ties with Ukraine’s political and military leadership.”
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‘The Glass Menagerie’ brings drama
Wvutoday.Wvu.eduWVU acting students Aubrey Rice and Beau Harris star in the WVU production of ‘The Glass Menagerie.’
BY CORY SANCHEZA&E WRITER
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In a small city apart-ment, a family challenges personal disagreements to find a fragile bond and a broken reality within “The Glass Menagerie.”
“I loved when the two girls were hugging and cry-ing,” said Daniel Gibson, a Morgantown resident. “It really touched me.”
Written by Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Me-nagerie” is a memory play. The memories are drawn from the narrator and main character Tom Wing-field as he attempts to ful-fill his dream of becoming a writer.
However, he is pressured to stay at home to tend to his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura. The pattern of internal conflict, both mental and emotional, rests in each character.
For example, Tom is forced to work in a shoe factory to provide for his family, rather than pursue his dream of becoming a
writer. Amanda clings to a past that is far from her poverty-stricken reality, while Laura attempts to overcome her shy, intro-verted personality and ob-session with small glass figurines.
“I could see the real gen-uine pain and the emotion of Laura,” said Joy Caver, a New York resident.
The son and daughter both feel inadequate un-der Amanda’s scrutiny and criticism. Rather than pur-sue their dreams and in-terests, Laura and Tom are forced to play roles set by their controlling mother.
Kathleen Amshoff, WVU’s guest director from New York, said the play is a powerful story about the drama of young people adventuring into independence.
“Tom’s plight is that he’s attached to his family yet wants to strike out on his own,” Amshoff said. “If that’s not a dilemma a col-lege student can relate to, I don’t know what is!”
“The Glass Menagerie” features Bachelor of Fine
Arts acting students Au-brey Rice as Laura and Bryan Staggers as Jim, the friend Tom invites home from work. Second-year Master of Fine Art students, Beau Harris and Stephanie Freeman play the other two main characters, Tom and Amanda.
“I was very impressed,” Caver said. “I go to a lot of professional theater, so I was really impressed
by the set design, light-ing, sound and the caliber performance.”
Set in the Gladys G. Da-vis Theatre, attendees will find a stage that takes on the realistic appearance of a 1937 apartment. From the record player to the flowery dresses, more than 30 pro-duction staffers helped to reflect the time period.
“I’m extremely proud of the excellent work by the
actors and designers,” Am-shoff said. “Most are gradu-ate and undergraduate stu-dents, and watching their growth throughout the pro-cess totally inspired me.”
The emotions, conflict and despair of the charac-ters also aroused the audi-ence by bringing them to the edges of their seat.
“It’s so beautiful and tender,” Caver said. “I love when Jim gets Laura to
drop her guard. She dances with him, kisses him and makes her believe that there’s a chance at a new life.”
The play will continue to be performed today through Sunday at the Cre-ative Arts Center. Tickets are available at http://tick-etmaster.com or by calling 304-293-SHOW.
‘300: Rise of an Empire’ lacks storyline, development
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“300: Rise of an Empire” is the sequel to 2007’s styl-ized action hit “300.” “Rise of an Empire” takes place before, during and af-ter the events of the first movie.
The movie follows The-mistocles, an Athenian general who must unite the Greek city-states un-der one banner in order to defeat the massive army of the Persian Empire. Al-though Themistocles is a revered general famous for repelling the Persians dur-ing the Battle of Marathon, he carries with him a bur-den. During that battle he killed the Persian Emperor Darius I, setting off a chain of events that led Darius’s son, Xerxes, to take the throne as a crazed, self-styled “God-Emperor.”
The plotline of the movie is decent. The ma-jority of the movie focuses on naval battles between the Athenians and the Per-
sians. A general story arc exists, mostly told through narration by the Spartan Queen Gorgo, played by Lena Headey. The story isn’t really important in depth, though. To en-joy the movie, all one re-ally needs to know is the Greeks and Persians are at war. The rest is fluff and sadly is written as such.
The cinematography, especially during the bat-tle scenes, is amazing. The whole movie series is based on a graphic novel series, and the importance placed on visualization is apparent. Beautiful sunlit fields surround the city of Sparta, and the tall grass moves peacefully in the breeze as Queen Gorgo and Themistocles discuss a political alliance.
The beauty of these scenes is juxtaposed with the dark, violent and in-tense battle scenes. Dur-ing combat the skies turn angry and gray as soldiers from both sides slaughter each other in highly styl-ized and incredibly excit-ing slow motion.
“Rise of an Empire”
leans heavily on the well-done fights, which is to be expected, as that is what made “300” such a popu-lar movie. Unfortunately, it does so too much. While both are just action mov-ies that are meant to look cool, “Rise of an Em-pire” seems to lack the cohesion and simplic-ity that made “300” so good.
The plot is jumbled, uninteresting and hard to follow. This negatively impacts the whole movie – although the battles are cool, it doesn’t feel like they are leading up to anything big. Eventually the final fight comes, but it doesn’t seem like it. Au-dience members are left thinking more will take place because the lead-up was so bad. If I didn’t see the credits roll, I would have assumed there would be at least one more ma-jor fight.
The whole movie just seems to lack urgency and direction. Things are sort of moving forward, but developments in the story are not well-defined.
The characters also aren’t as likable as in the first movie. In “300,” I cared a lot about what happened to Leonidas and his gang of 300 Spar-tan soldiers. In “Rise of an Empire,” though, I just didn’t bother. I was root-ing for the Greeks to win, but I honestly thought lit-tle about the individuals in the Athenian army.
However, the movie is still a lot of fun to watch.
The action and fighting is amazing, and the direc-tor has managed to make naval battles on the big screen exciting, a feat that is almost unheard of in Hollywood. If you go into this movie with the mind-set that you’re just going to watch some cool battle scenes, then you will be satisfied.
“300: Rise of an Empire” is a beautiful movie but lacks in terms of storyline
and character develop-ment. The visual aspects of the film are amazing, but they can’t carry the movie on their own, no matter how good they are. Over-all, it feels like a lacklus-ter rehash of the original – something that is fun to watch but not worth pay-ing money to see.
Wait for it to appear on Netflix.
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Larry Keel plays at 123TAT-TUESDAY
erin irWin/tHe daiLy atHenaeumMichael Lisk, a business administration student, said his tattoo has many meanings. The USS Constitution symbolizes his patriotism and the rose reminds him of his grandfather. “It’s a reminder to myself to stay afloat,” Lisk said.
“Morgantown is such a fun town,” Keel said. “Always a great bunch of energy and enthusiasm up in 123 Pleasant Street. We’ve played there lots of times and al-ways look forward to a wild and wonderful WV-style night of pickin’ and getting together with everyone.”– Larry Keel, Musician
mick Posey/tHe daiLy atHenaeumLarry Keel performs to a packed house Friday at 123 Pleasant Street.
L’Wren Scott found deadNEW YORK (AP) — L'Wren
Scott's designs were worn by celebrities ranging from Nicole Kidman to Naomi Campbell.
She was known for de-signs that were beautiful, close-fitting and stylish, sometimes prim without baring a lot of skin, in luxu-rious fabrics like velvet and satin.
Angelina Jolie, Amy Adams, Marion Cotillard,
Jennifer Lawrence, Chris-tina Hendricks, Sarah Jes-sica Parker and Tina Fey were also among the fa-mous women who wore her designs.
Scott, who was Mick Ja g g e r ' s g i r l f r i e n d , had also worked as a model and celebrity stylist.
She was found dead Monday in her Manhattan apartment.
‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ takes weekend box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The animated, time-traveling adventures of a dog and his son beat out action heavy tales at the weekend box office.
After opening in sec-ond place last weekend, DreamWorks’ “Mr. Pea-body & Sherman” came out on top over the St. Patrick’s Day holiday with $21.8 million.
The ranking marked an upset, as Disney’s street racing thriller “Need for Speed,” starring Aaron Paul, had been pre-dicted to take the No. 1 position.
Instead, it only man-aged third place with
$17.8 million, while “300: Rise of an Em-pire” dropped to the No. 2 slot after opening in first place the previous weekend.
Warner Bros.’ 3-D se-quel to the 2007 warrior jaunt “300,” gained $19.2 million, bringing its to-tal to $78 million. It took the first film only one weekend to reach $70.9 million.
The Universal Pic-tures airliner thriller “Non-Stop” continued to drop after opening at No. 1 three weeks ago. Last weekend it landed in the No. 3 slot and this week it dropped again to No. 4.
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Sometimes it seems like life is a never-ending cycle of transitions.
Once you get used to one thing, a curve ball is thrown and you have to readjust.
This is especially true of the first few years you leave the nest. We take for granted having breakfast ready, lunch packed and dinner on the table. Then we get to col-lege and think we’ve hit the jackpot when we realize the dining halls are buffet-style with all-you-can-eat dessert.
I wasn’t able to wrap my head around the fact ice cream cones were accessible to me 24/7. But this is where the Freshman 15 comes into play.
Some students have a meal plan for their entire college career, but most stu-dents are on their own once living off-campus. It’s then that you might realize you have no idea how to grocery shop, or you’re spending en-tirely too much money but are still unsatisfied.
There are more creative ideas on how to obtain food then one might realize. There are bulletin boards all over campus covered with fliers for club meetings with free pizza, snacks or free samples from all sorts of or-ganizations. Once you start keeping an eye out, they seem to pop up everywhere.
Bulletin boards are also where the Faculty Dinner Series is advertised, as well
as on MIX. Each month, a speaker gives a presentation while a meal including salad and dessert is served. The presentations are typically open to 25 students, and all you have to do is RSVP through email. It doesn’t hurt that the speakers are also usually extremely inter-esting. It’s definitely a valu-able experience I would recommend.
It may have been a while since you’ve been to church, but you probably remember the awesome potlucks that came with it. Potlucks might come once a month, but re-freshments are almost al-ways served. Who knows, going to church on Sundays could even become part of your weekly routine.
The No. 1 way to save money is to grocery shop wisely instead of eating
out constantly. You can feed yourself for days with the money that you would spend on food and drinks at a restaurant. A good way to stick to your budget is to make a grocery list ahead of time, and stick with it. I think it goes without say-ing you should never gro-cery shop while hungry – we’ve all made that mistake before. With your stomach growling, every item seems like a must-have. If you have roommates, it’s smart to buy items in bulk. You can easily find coupons just by brows-ing for a few minutes on the Internet for items that you know you need.
The most affordable gro-ceries can be found at Aldi, where prices are less expen-sive than any store around. The catch is there is a lot less variety, but it’s definitely the
place to go if you don’t care about brands. I’ve cut my grocery costs in half just by switching to shopping at this store.
The most startling thing to me when I first shopped on my own was how all the junk food seemed to be cheaper than the healthy items. Fresh fruits and veggies, especially, can be pricey, which is why frozen food items and canned fruit is a good option.
Feeding yourself is some-thing that might seem sim-ple but can be surprisingly stressful. You might have to be a little thrifty and cre-ative, but it makes the meal all the more satisfying when you know you made the ef-fort to get the best deal possible.
HANNAH CHENOWETHCOLUMNIST
How to eat on a budget in college
I really hate to be that person that starts their article with a definition, but I just need to put this out there: accord-ing to dictionary.com, the definition of ‘news’ is “a report of a recent event, intelligence, or information.”
Okay, so i t seems pretty straightforward – news is anything that has happened recently. But we don’t report on ev-erything that happens, ever, and not every news outlet reports on every-thing other news outlets pick up. Star reports ce-lebrity gossip, Wired re-ports on science and technology, Entertain-ment Weekly reports on television and movies. All of these publications have very specific goals and agendas – they make it clear what they’re go-ing to report, and then that’s what they discuss. However, the lines be-come blurred when you move onto larger and more general publica-tions, such as The As-sociated Press, with less specific agendas. What should they be reporting?
Recent AP headlines have ranged from “Bar-bie doll featured in Sports illustrated Swim-suit’s 50th anniversary issue,” to “Long, merci-less winter takes heavy toll on nation’s pipes, pavement, and road-re-pair budgets,” to “Con-gress votes to restore full cost of living pension in-creases for younger mil-itary retirees” – a wide variety of topics, none of which received any ques-tions about their validity as news.
However, I have never seen quite so much vit-riol directed at a news organization as when the AP decided to tweet the news about Justin Bieber’s recent arrest. The offending tweet, “BREAKING: Police offi-
cial says Justin Bieber is expected to turn himself in on assault charge in Toronto,” received such hateful responses as “This deserves BREAK-ING?” from Scott Fal-don, “They need a new alert : Biebing,” from Alex Heard, and a straight up “this is not newss!!!” from Lando- L2P.
Responses like this are common when a more se-rious news outlet tweets something about enter-tainment. Any mention of a celebrity is often re-garded as a superficial topic, and people are ready to jump on news organizations for talking about something they deem so shallow. Why is this? And is the outrage justified?
I say no. If we’re going by the dictionary defi-nition of what news is, which is what I think we should go by, then big things that happen to ce-lebrities is news. If Jus-tin Bieber gets arrested or if Shia LaBeouf opens a weird art exhibit where he wears a bag over his head, then that’s some-thing that happened, and it’s something that should be reported.
However, there is a flip side to that coin. If a regular person who you would walk by on the street were to get ar-rested on something like a suspicion of a DUI, the AP would not report on it, because it would be con-sidered too small scale. One could argue that what happens to Justin Bieber is just as inconse-quential to the rest of the world as the things that happen to you or me on a day to day basis.
This is where we really have to consider the na-ture of society, and, es-pecially, the nature of celebrity. Many peo-ple blame our celebrity obsession on new me-dia, but fame has been around for centuries. News about the comings and goings of Alexander the Great was written in paint on stones because people wanted to hear
about it. We as a society need someone to idolize, and celebrities give us someone easy to look up to. We want to hear about what they do because it gives us an easy escape from our day to day lives.
Fame is fickle, and it is often hard to trace how specific celebrities got famous and when it got to the point that their every move was the talk of the hour. However, there are clearly certain people who society has taken a fascination with for whatever reason, and they have become an in-tegral part of our culture and our identity as Amer-icans. Treat that as what you will, but it’s hard to deny that it is a fact, how-
ever much some people may not like it. We are a culture obsessed with fame, and it is reflected in what we see, what we read, and what we do.
Clearly, there are just as many people, if not more, who want to hear about Justin Bieber’s ar-rest as a Congressio-nal decision or a recent weather trend. That’s not something that can be called into ques-tion – again, you can say that this is a fundamen-tal flaw in our society, but it’s hard to say that it’s not true. What this is-sue really comes down to, though, is the ques-tion of whether a news outlet that prides itself for reporting only the
best information should be stooping to the level of our fame-obsessed culture.
Objectively, the an-swer to this question should be yes. If people want to read about it, for whatever reason, it is news. There is no going around that. News can be more specifically defined as what has happened to people or places or things that people want to hear about.
The Associated Press is an organization that states its purpose as “the essential global news network, delivering ac-curate, insightful news from every corner of the world, 24 hours a day.” Hollywood is, for better
or for worse, a corner of the world, and it would be almost unethical for the AP to ignore it com-pletely just because it’s considered “lowbrow” news.
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West Virginia University is growing. In an effort to offer more to the students, construction has begun on the Downtown and Evans-dale Campuses.
University Place, a new apartment complex on Uni-versity Avenue that will ca-ter to college students, will open in fall 2014. The con-struction has closed down a few roads in Sunnyside and shifted University Avenue, but it seems as though it will all be worth it in the end.
Traffic to the Rec Center will be rerouted until im-provements are made to the Evansdale Campus and the so-called Evansdale Cross-ing. This new building will feature places to eat, jour-nalism classrooms and a Barnes & Noble bookstore. An additional student ser-vices area will allow stu-dents to enroll and register for classes.
Panera Bread opens its doors today to the masses craving broccoli cheddar soup, everything bagels and
sugary lattes. While not af-filiated with the University, Panera will still improve the quality of life for students who need their mid-day sandwich fix and a place to study with complimentary Wi-Fi and a view.
These projects have all inconvenienced students and Morgantown residents alike, but the benefit will outweigh the temporary cons. Expansion is always proof the city and the Uni-versity are growing, which will draw in more students and faculty,and in turn, the local economy.
The one problem is Mor-gantown wasn’t originally built to house such an ex-pansive population, and the infrastructure is reflect-ing that. We can only hope Morgantown and WVU will take all the necessary steps to protect the city’s integ-rity and keep its residents – temporary and permanent – safe.
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WEST VIRGINIA STUDENTS HIKE UP THE DOLLY SODS TRAIL DURING THE BREAK| PHOTO BY WYTHE WOODS
BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
BORN TODAY This year your mind evolves to a new way of thinking, as a result of what is going on around you. You might see some situations as unchangeable, but by next year at this time, you could see these key matters in a totally different way. If you are single, you are likely to fall head over heels for someone this year. Late spring and summer could be significant. Give yourself a year before you make any commitments. If you are attached, you often might be at odds with your sweetie, espe-cially with a critical matter or with your different approaches to spend-ing.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH Others count on you add-
ing an eccentric or exciting element to their day. You won’t disappoint them, and they, in turn, are likely to add some fun to your day. One of your close associates or a loved one might be unusually combative. To-night: Let the good times roll.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HH You could feel as if you are about to get very angry. Resist the urge. The uni-verse is just sending you feedback. You are quite adept at what you do, but you might not understand the implication of some of your insights. Take time to explore your potential. Tonight: Make nice.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HHH The unexpected will occur. How you handle this moment could prevent a fight. Additionally, you’ll gain insight into a friend. Awkwardness might ensue. Perhaps you should reveal
more of your concerns. Tonight: Act as though it is the weekend.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HH Pressure builds, and you might not be sure what to do next. You will need to take a direct approach, but realize that you can’t push someone too hard. Realize your limits with a domestic matter. Anger seems to keep bubbling up. Tonight: Stay close to home.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHH You’ll want to move in a different direction, but because of a surprising happen-ing, you might not have any choice but to stay where you are. Listen to the feedback you are receiving from a contemporary who might be a little angry. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHH
Your ability to get past a limitation emerges. You could feel as if you have to spend too much time meet-ing certain demands. At this point, you might want to get expert ad-vice. Be imaginative with how you handle this problem. Tonight: Make it your treat.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You can beam in more of what you want. Understand what is happen-ing behind the scenes of a situation. All the anger that might be bubbling to the surface needs to be handled in a way that others will receive it. No tirades, please. Tonight: All smiles.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Know when to pull back and do something differently. Others might be unusually irritating to you at this moment. Honor what needs to hap-pen, and consider having a talk with
someone you trust in the next few days. Tonight: Not to be found.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HH You might wonder what would be best to do with someone who can’t see any other perspective except the one he or she is rooted in. You could be dismayed by what is happening around you. Recognize your choices. Tonight: Find your friends.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You might want to stay ahead of a difficult, argumentative situation. Make strong choices, yet know when you need to get ad-vice from someone else. You have purpose and direction. Speak your mind in a way as to not offend some-one too deeply. Tonight: A must appearance.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH
You might reach out to someone at a distance, only to discover that this person is in a determined mood. You’ll want to back off as quickly as you came in. Do your best to walk in someone else’s shoes. Tonight: Go for the moment.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Someone who is instrumental to your well-being could be in a bad mood. You might want to consider backing off a bit in order to avoid getting caught in a predicament. Know that this person could get even more upset; the timing just might be off. Tonight: Let off some steam.
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West Virginia wins NCAA-best 16th rifle national championship
by amit batrasports editor
@batra01
Following a disappoint-ing performance in the Big 12 Conference tournament, the West Virginia men’s bas-ketball team learned their postseason fate Sunday evening.
The Mountaineers (17-15, 9-9 Big 12) will travel to Washington, D.C., to face Georgetown in the first round of the NIT tonight at 7. The game will be played at McDonough Arena and televised nationally on ESPN.
West Virginia will be
making its 16th appear-ance in the NIT, holding a 21-15 record in NIT play and winning the tournament in 2007, its last appearance in the NIT. WVU beat Clemson to claim the title. The Moun-taineers also won the tour-nament in 1942.
In this year’s NIT, West Virginia holds a 4-seed, while Georgetown comes in a 5-seed. The winner will face the winner of 1-seed Florida State and 16-seed Florida Gulf Coast.
“We’re happy to be able to continue play in the post-season,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins in an interview with WVUS-
ports.com. “Obviously, we are playing a team that we are familiar with and a team that is familiar with us from our Big East (Con-ference) battles. We’ve had great games recently with Georgetown and in Wash-ington, D.C., at the NCAA tournament.”
West Virginia and Georgetown have battled each other plenty in the past. In the all-time series, the Hoyas hold a 26-25 se-ries advantage. The last meeting took place in Mor-gantown in January 2012. WVU won the game over the then-No. 9 Hoyas, 74-62.
Georgetown (17-14, 8-10
Big East) finished No. 7 in the conference this sea-son. Following a 1-2 start to the season, the Hoyas saw a six-game winning streak, including a win over then-No. 10 VCU. The Hoyas were up-and-down the rest of the season after an 11-4 start but did see victories over then-No. 7 Michigan State and then-No. 13 Creighton.
Georgetown is coming off a first-round Big East tourna-ment upset loss to DePaul. First team All-Big East guard Markel Starks will be the biggest threat to West Vir-ginia, averaging 17.1 points per game. He ranked No. 4 in the league in scoring, No.
5 in free throw percentage (85.9 percent), No. 7 in as-sists and No. 13 in 3-point field goals made. The senior guard plays nearly 37 min-utes per contest.
Sophomore guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera is averaging 17 points per game this season and leads the team with 58 3-point shots. Against DePaul, Smith-Rivera led the way for the Hoyas with 21 points.
In a win over Creighton earlier this season, Smith-Rivera converted eight of his 14 shot attempts, good for 57 percent.
West Virginia is coming off one of its worst perfor-
mances of the season. The Mountaineers fell to the Texas Longhorns Thurs-day night in the quar-terfinals of the Big 12 tournament. The Mountain-eers’ leading scorers in Ju-wan Staten and Eron Har-ris were held below double figures. Freshman for-ward Brandon Watkins’ 10 points and seven rebounds led WVU in the 66-49 Texas victory.
West Virginia will look to get back on track against Georgetown tonight in the 2,500-seat McDonough Arena.
by meghan carrsports writer
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Uni-versity rifle team earned a nation-best 16th NCAA National Championship Saturday in Murray, Ky., af-ter winning both smallbore and air rifle disciplines.
The Mountaineers fin-ished with a 4,705 total after two days of competition, the highest total in the history of the national championships and won their second con-
secutive title. Friday, the Mountaineers
took the smallbore title for the first time under head coach Jon Hammond after scoring their second highest smallbore total of the sea-son. WVU finished with a total of 2,338 for the victory.
Junior Ziva Dvorsak fin-ished first in the smallbore relay with 588, followed by eventual top shooter for the Mountaineers sopho-more Garrett Spurgeon, who earned a 585 mark. Juniors Thomas Kyanko, Meelis Ki-
isk and Maren Prediger fin-ished with 584, 581 and 571, respectively.
“I don’t know if we ex-pected this result, but I knew we were capable of this. They are all really good, experi-enced shooters. We prepared carefully for this champion-ship. We wanted them to be comfortable shooting this match, and they were,” Ham-mond said. “They were con-fident, and they were able to shoot scores in and around their season averages. You can’t ask for a whole lot more
than that.”Spurgeon finished second
in overall competition with a 451.6 mark. Kyanko went on to finish sixth overall with a score of 412.6 and Dvorsak placed seventh in the disci-pline with 401.
Alaska-Fairbanks sopho-more Tim Sherry placed first after a close battle with Spur-geon. Sherry jumped ahead of Spurgeon in the final shot, outshooting him 7.7-7.6.
After a strong perfor-mance in smallbore the pre-vious day, the Mountaineers
dominated in air rifle Satur-day, earning 2,367 marks and the second consecutive air rifle title for the team.
Prediger and Dvorsak shot a 596 and 594 in the discipline. Spurgeon earned a 591 mark, followed by Kyanko’s 586 mark. Kiisk rounded out the counting squad in air rifle relay with a 582 score.
Prediger, Dvorsak and Spurgeon advanced be-yond to the air rifle final. This was the second final in a row for Dvorsak and Spur-
geon – both advancing in the smallbore to the finals. Prediger entered the finals in first place for air rifle and finished with a 205 mark but was edged out by Kentucky’s Connor Davis, who earned a 205.4 mark.
WVU finished the 2013-14 campaign with a 10-0 over-all record and a 7-0 confer-ence mark, earning its fifth Great American Conference championship and a 16th national title.
Cory Dobson/THE DAILy ATHEnAEUMJunior Ziva Dvorsak finished first in the smallbore and helped lead West Virginia to a national title Saturday.
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Mountaineers finish fourth in Big 12 championshipsBy NICOLE CURTIN
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During spring break, the West Virginia University wrestling team competed in the Big 12 Conference Cham-pionships in Norman, Okla. The Mountaineers finished in fourth place with a team score of 26 points, and six wrestlers placed individually.
Leading the team was sophomore A.J. Vizcarrando, who earned second place. Following him were seniors Nathan Pennesi, Mac Man-cuso, junior Mike Morales, sophomore Tim Wheeling and freshman Cory Stain-brook – all of whom finished in third place.
In an interview with WVUSports.com, WVU head coach Craig Turnbull said he was pleased with the team’s performance at the
championship. “The primary goal of today
was to get as many people to the national tournament as we could,” Turnbull said.
“It appears we will get five, maybe six through. The gold standards are likely to go, but it was a great performance tonight from Stainbrook and Vizcarrando, wrestling them-selves to the national tourna-ment. The real bubble person is Pennesi.”
In the heavyweight weight class, Vizcarrando earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships with his sec-ond-place finish. He was the only Mountaineer to reach the finals, where he was up against the tournament’s top seed, Austin Marsden of Oklahoma State. Marsden brought Vizcarrando down with less than a minute left, beating him in a 5-2 decision.
Stainbrook (125 lbs.) needed one win during the
conference championships to advance to the national tournament. In the opening round, Stainbrook took on top seed Jarrod Patterson of Oklahoma. Patterson took down Stainbrook three times to win the match 9-4. In the third-place bout, Stainbrook won a 5-4 decision over Earl Hall of Iowa State, earning his way to nationals.
In the 133-lb. weight class, Pennesi faced Iowa State’s Shayden Terukina for third place. Pennesi beat Ter-ukina with a fall late in the third period to secure third-place honors, after losing to Cody Brewer of Oklahoma 16-1 in the beginning of the tournament.
At 149 lbs., Morales also earned his third-place honor and a trip to the national tour-nament. He started the tour-nament against No. 1 seed Kendrick Maple of Okla-homa, which Morales lost
in an 8-3 decision. For third place he faced the Cyclones’ Luke Goettl, who he beat with a 9-6 decision.
Wheeling faced John Nicholson of Iowa State for the third-place bout in the 157-lb. weight class. Taking the lead in the first period, Wheeling took down Nich-olson, putting him in a 2-0 lead. A second takedown in the first put him up 4-1. Nich-olson caught up with a take-down of his own in the sec-ond, but Wheeling held on for a 6-4 decision after an escape early in the third period.
At 174 lbs., sophomore Bubba Scheffel entered the tournament as a fourth seed and earned his first career bid to the national tournament. The Big 12 had four automatic qualifiers including Scheffel, as he led the conference in wins with 29 on the season, 15 by fall.
Mancuso was the final
Mountaineer to finish with third-place honors, beating Danny Chaid of Oklahoma, 8-2.
Senior Colin Johnston en-tered the tournament as a No. 1 seed in the 141-lb weight class but dropped both of his matches. He entered with a gold-star rating and will have to be awarded an at-large bid to go to the NCAA Championships.
Oklahoma State took home the team crown as they finished with 98.5 points. Behind them was Okla-homa taking second with 68.5 points, and Iowa State came in third with 45.5 points.
The NCAA Champion-ships will be held Thurs-day-Saturday in Oklahoma City at the Chesapeake En-ergy Arena. Tickets can be purchased online at http://NCAA.com.
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WVU drops meet to Maryland Sunday in College ParkBy dILLON dURST
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
Despite a season-best road score, the West Vir-ginia University gymnas-tics team dropped a close meet to Maryland Sun-day by a score of 195.525-194.975 in College Park, Md.
The Mountaineers (6-9, 0-2 Big 12) fell short of avenging an earlier loss to the Terrapins Jan. 17.
“The two most impor-tant road meets of the season are coming up,” said WVU head coach Ja-son Butts in an interview with WVUsports.com. “We need to make sure that the
mistakes we made today are ironed out this week. Having said that, I’m re-ally proud of the gymnasts (who) stepped up today and made sure our mis-takes didn’t add up.”
Senior Hope Sloanhoffer turned in another fantastic performance on her way to winning both the vault and all-around events.
“I’m pumped for Hope (Sloanhoffer) – she’s peak-ing at the exact right time,” Butts said. “She really did exceptional today.”
The Mountaineers opened the meet on the bars event, tallying a sea-son-best score of 49.05. Sloanhoffer tied for first with a season-best score
of 9.875, while sophomore Lindsey Litten finished fifth with a score of 9.825.
Senior Erica Smith and freshman Alexa Goldberg tied for sixth with a score of 9.8.
“What an awesome way to start the meet,” Butts said. “We feel like we fixed some of our mistakes on that event, which will be good for next week’s Big 12 Championship.”
On the vault event, the Mountaineers claimed three of the top four spots. Sloanhoffer won the event with a score of 9.875, while freshman Nicolette Swoboda tied for second with a score of 9.85 and junior Dayah Haley fin-
ished fourth with a score of 9.825.
Junior Beth Deal con-tinued her stellar work on the beam event, tying with Sloanhoffer for second with a score of 9.85.
WVU also claimed three of the top five spots on the floor event. Sloanhoffer tied for first with a score of 9.9. Freshman Mackenzie Myers tied for third with a score of 9.875, while soph-omore Melissa Idell fin-ished fifth with a score of 9.825.
The Mountaineers re-turn to action Saturday to host the Big 12 Champion-ship at the WVU Coliseum.
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When one goes to col-lege, tries something differ-ent or even gets a new job, the adviser, supervisor or manager will say “this op-portunity is what you make of it.”
People then either take advantage of that oppor-tunity or let it go by the wayside.
In college, maybe a stu-dent thrives by finding a student organization that interests them. In a new job, maybe the employee starts at entry-level posi-tion, but works hard and eventually moves up into
management. Similar logic can be ap-
plied for West Virginia bas-ketball as the Mountaineers enter the postseason. They will not be part of the NCAA tournament’s field of the 68 best teams, but instead will be part of the NIT’s field of the next best 32 teams.
The NIT serves as that different challenge or new job for head coach Bob Huggins and his team. It is an opportunity, and like the college student or new em-ployee, WVU can either take advantage of it or let it slip through its hands.
In the past, teams with similar resumes and sto-ries participated in the NIT. West Virginia finished the regular season 17-15 and
9-9 in the Big 12. A fellow Big 12 school,
Baylor finished the regular season 18-14 overall and 9-9 in the conference in 2013. The Bears missed out on the NCAA tournament, but made use of an NIT bid. Baylor won the NIT and played five extra games to-gether. They took advantage of the opportunity. Baylor proved they could compete at a high level.
Entering the 2013-14 sea-son the Bears were in the preseason Top 25. Further-more, the Bears started this season 12-1, finished it 24-11 and even played in the Big 12 Championship.
Now, Baylor is an NCAA tournament team.
Even looking back at re-
cent program history. The 2006-07 version of the Mountaineers finished the regular season 22-9 and 9-7 in the Big East Conference, but weren’t selected for the NCAA tournament. Those Mountaineers made of the most of their opportunity by winning the NIT. In the NIT title game, a young Da’Sean Butler scored 20 points.
The following season, West Virginia reached the Sweet Sixteen, and a few years later, Butler was the centerpiece of a Final Four team.
The current West Vir-ginia team has the same opportunity.
The entire team returns in 2015. Guard Juwan Staten will at least submit papers
to the NBA, but the gen-eral consensus is he will return to WVU similarly to how Kevin Jones stayed in school for his senior year after having interest in the NBA following the 2010-11 season.
Staten and company can use the NIT to get better. They also can earn expe-rience to play in a tourna-ment setting after a disap-pointing Big 12 tournament appearance, getting blown out by Texas in the first round.
The NIT is just like any-thing else – what you make of it, and it’s what West Vir-ginia will do with the op-portunity that matters.
WVU should take advantage of opportunity in NITgREg MadIamultimedia editor
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Mountaineers win series at Cal State Northridgeby joe MitChiN
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Univer-sity baseball team closed out its week-long spring break trip in style Saturday afternoon in Northridge, Calif. The Mountain-eers took down Cal State North-ridge, 14-11, to take the three-game series.
West Virginia sits at 10-6 on the season after beating CSNU, 5-4, Thursday night before drop-ping the middle of the series Fri-day evening, 4-2.
WVU banged out 18 hits in the high-scoring thriller Saturday af-ternoon at Matador Field. The 14 runs are a season-high for the Mountaineers, who saw senior first baseman Ryan McBroom go 4-for-6 and driving in five runs on the day. McBroom’s day was highlighted by an eighth inning home run that started a four-run inning for West Virginia.
“It’s nice to win a game when you don’t get starting pitching,” said head coach Randy Mazey. “We’ve been getting great start-ing pitching, and you always wonder if the starter can’t go seven innings are you going to be able to win. It’s nice to know we can get into an offensive fight and still win the game.”
Saturday wasn’t a day starting pitcher Sean Carley will want to remember. The junior right-
hander went 5.1 innings while giving up eight runs on 10 hits on top of his three walks. Carley was the game’s winner while Cal State Northridge starter Jordan Johnson took the loss after last-ing just 3.1 innings. Senior Co-rey Walter earned his third save of the season.
The Mountaineer offense, however, saved the day and won the series for the team. Six hit-ters in the WVU lineup Saturday had multi-hit performances in the victory.
The Matadors defeated West Virginia Friday night, 4-2, as ju-nior pitcher Harrison Musgrave labored for much of the eve-ning. The Mountaineer ace gave up nine hits and four runs in 6.2 innings pitched. He took the loss, his first of the season.
Thursday night’s series opener was taken by West Virginia, who received some unlikely pitch-ing help from the arm of right-hander Zach Bargeron. The se-nior made his first start of the season and went 4.1 innings, al-lowing just two runs on five hits while earning a no-decision.
“The guys that we pitched (to-day) don’t get to pitch much,” Mazey said. “We’ve got three re-ally good starting pitchers, so our relievers haven’t really seen the mound all that much. We had to flip a lot of guys out there to see what they are capable of.”
Catcher Cam O’Brien started
the scoring for WVU when he drove in a run in the fourth in-ning. The Mountaineers scored three runs in the frame. O’Brien finished 2-for-4 on the evening.
“We’ve got a good team, but good teams don’t pick and choose when they show up and play,” Mazey said. “When there’s not a ton of people in the stands we still need to find a way to play well.”
The Mountaineers’ West Coast spring trip is now in the books and will go down as a success-ful experience. WVU swept away Sacramento State and UC-Riv-erside March 8 and 9 in a three-game weekend in Riverside, Calif.
The Mountaineers made a pit stop in Las Vegas for a one-gamer with UNLV Tuesday, with the Rebels taking down West Vir-ginia, 4-3. Overall, the Mountain-eers went 5-2 on the trip.
“It’s been a long trip for these kids,” Mazey said. “It seems like we’ve been out here for a month, so it’ll be good to get back home and sleep in our own beds and get back to familiar surroundings.”
West Virginia will play its first game of the season in the Moun-tain State today in Charleston when the Mountaineers take on in-state rival Marshall. First pitch is set for 4 p.m.
Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMFirst baseman Ryan McBroom went 4-for-6 with a home run and five RBI in WVU’s win against Cal State Northridge Sunday.
Kyle Monroe/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMWVU lost to Texas in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 championship in Kansas City last week.
wyTHe wooDs/THe DAIly ATHenAeUMSophomore guard Eron Harris was an honorable mention All-Big 12 selection this season.
men’s BasketBall
West Virginia falls to texas in big 12 quarterfinals
by CoNNor Murrayassociate sports editor
@connorkmurray
Whatever slim chance West Virginia had left of making the NCAA Tour-nament quickly faded into the Kansas City night, as the Mountaineers were outscored 35-14 in the first half and fell to the Long-horns 66-49 Thursday.
Texas opened the game on a 12-0 run and never looked back. The Long-horns shot 49 percent from the floor for the game and held West Virginia to 30 percent shooting.
“They came out, and it seemed like they weren’t missing. They got going
early,” said junior guard Juwan Staten.
Staten landed awk-wardly after driving to the basket and limped to the locker room mid-way through the second half.
Left without their team leader and nothing but a potential NIT berth to play for, the Mountaineers hob-bled to the finish line and made their second straight opening game exit from the Big 12 Tournament.
Less than a week af-ter being named a first team All-Big 12 selection, Staten was forced to watch his team struggle from the sideline.
“It was really tough see-ing my teammates out
there playing and trying to fight back. Watching from the sideline is a bad feel-ing,” Staten said.
“It felt like I was kind of letting my teammates down. I wanted to be out there with them.”
West Virginia came into this tournament riding high after an upset of then-No. 8 Kansas Saturday. Any momentum the Mountain-eers picked up from that upset didn’t make its way to Kansas City.
Staten said the team knew what a victory against Texas and a deep run in the tournament would mean, but when it came time to execute, the Mountaineers fell short.
“We talked about the possibilities of what could happen if we won and how important the game was. When the game started things didn’t go as planned,” Staten said.
“We got off to a bad start, and we trailed from that point on. It’s definitely frustrating when you know how bad you want it, how much you stress it and things don’t go your way.”
When Texas was making its move early in the game, West Virginia was unable to hit jump shots to put a halt to the run.
The Mountaineers made just 18 percent of their shots in the first half.
“When they’ve got dou-
ble digit points and you’ve got zero points that’s hard to come back from, but it’s not impossible,” said soph-omore guard Eron Harris.
“They did a good job of holding us off for the whole game, and I give them credit for that.”
Throughout most of the game, West Virginia ap-peared to be completely lost on the offensive side of the ball. As the point guard of the team, Staten said it was his job to keep the team focused an in po-sition, despite what was going on around them.
“My job is to be the ex-tension of the coach on the floor, so if I see somebody in the right spot then I have
to tell them … It seemed like we were deer in head-lights tonight,” Staten said.
With the possibility of playing in a postseason tournament, albeit not the Big Dance, still in the air, Staten said his team will have to find a way to learn from this game and move on.
“This game was tough, and we’re going to think about it today. It’s going to sit with us a little while,” Staten said.
“Once we start prepar-ing for the next team, then we’ve got to let this game go and use it as motivation for the next one.”
2010 must seem like a dis-tant memory for the West Virginia men’s basketball team.
On Sunday, the NCAA Selection Committee con-firmed the Mountaineers wouldn’t qualify for the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row after a first round exit in the Big 12 Tournament.
WVU hasn’t won a game in the conference tourna-ment since the 2010 season when the Mountaineers won the Big East Tourna-ment and lost to Duke in the Final Four.
WVU finished 17-15 on the year with a 9-9 record in conference play, a four-game improvement from the 2012-13 season. WVU woefully made the tourna-ment in 2011 but lost con-
vincingly to Gonzaga in the first round.
Although times have been tough for the Mountaineer faithful in recent seasons, the tides should be turning soon.
Yes, WVU only won 17 games this year, but it did so with almost an entirely new roster. Jabarie Hinds, Aaron Brown, Keaton Miles, Aaric Murray and Deniz Kilicli all left the team in the offsea-son. Coach Bob Huggins admitted last year’s team was one of the most diffi-cult teams he had to coach, because they were unwill-ing to change their defen-sive ways and often seemed disinterested.
And it showed in their play. Huggins’ 13 wins last season marks his lowest win total in a season since he be-gan coaching in 1980.
With the Mountaineers needing to fill a void in their front court, Huggins signed four-star recruit Devin Wil-liams. Although inconsistent at times, Williams showed
great potential near the end of his freshman year, posting three straight double-dou-bles. He averaged 8.6 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.
In his second season in Morgantown, point guard Juwan Staten showed the Big 12 he’s not only the top point guard in the conference, but perhaps the nation. Staten earned First Team All-Big 12 honors this season and lead the conference in both scoring and assists. He went from averaging 7.6 points and 3.3 assist his sopho-more year to 18.0 points, 5.8 assists and 5.8 rebounds per game his junior year.
Eron Harris followed up his promising freshman year with a solid sophomore sea-son, scoring 17.4 points per contest on 42 percent shoot-ing from 3-point range.
And assuming Staten doesn’t dart for the NBA Draft, this same unit will stay in tact next season be-cause the current roster has no seniors. With another offseason under their belts,
coupled with the fact that the rest of the Big 12 won’t have the same experience WVU has, a run in the NCAA Tournament next season is a strong possibility.
WVU is also welcom-ing four-star recruit Dax-ter Miles and Jevon Carter (three-star recruit) to the program next season. Four-star recruit Elijah Macon was unable to play this sea-son due to ineligibility rules but should be expected in the lineup in 2014-15.
So be patient, Mountain-eer fans. College basketball is a very cyclic sport, and it often takes programs a few years to rebuild off the suc-cess it once had. Although Huggins hasn’t recruited the big time, five-star players that some schools are lucky to sign, he finds guys who will stay with the program for multiple seasons. With a solid core already in tact, there’s plenty of reason for excitement at the Coliseum.
Better times on the horizon for Mountaineer men’s basketball teamkeViN hookersports writer
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women’s basketball
No. 7 West Virginia falls to Baylor in Big 12 tournament finalBy joN fehreNs
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The Big 12 regular season champions and No. 7 West Virginia women’s basket-ball team fell in the Phillip’s 66 Big 12 Women’s Basket-ball championship game to Baylor March 10. Before the Mountaineers lost a tough battle to the team with whom they shared the Big 12 regular season title, WVU head coach Mike Carey had to guide his team through two opponents who gave him headaches in the reg-ular season.
The Mountaineers’ regu-lar-season success earned them a first-round bye, and they faced TCU in a quar-terfinal matchup. TCU, another strong defensive team, played two close games against West Vir-ginia, both of which the
Mountaineers won. Trailing by one late in the
game, senior guard Taylor Palmer stroked back-to-back 3-pointers to give her team a five-point advan-tage. Senior center Asya Bussie gave her team the biggest lead of the night by completing a 3-point play to finish a 12-2 run for the Mountaineers.
“They played us ex-tremely hard all three times this season,” Carey said. “I knew this (game) was go-ing to be like this, and I told the team we knew we were playing them last night, and they’re a great team.”
TCU’s Zahna Medley was having her way with the West Virginia defense until Carey put senior Jess Harlee to defend her. Be-fore Harlee, Medley had 19 points on 5-of-6 shooting. She only made three of her next 11 shots to finish her
night with 32 points. Har-lee’s teammates recognized her defensive effort after the game.
“We just tried to make sure we were all on the same page and trying to slow down,” Palmer said. “We knew we had to get stops like coach said. (Har-lee) came in, and she played tremendous on Medley. And it got her to slow down a little bit, and that’s when we started to make our run.”
West Virginia swept the Horned Frogs on the season with a 67-59 victory.
The No. 3-seeded Long-horns waited for the Moun-taineers in their semifi-nal matchup. West Virginia only lost three games in the regular season – one of them belonging to UT. Carey saw his team play two physical games against Texas and expected another tough battle in the confer-
ence tournament. Sophomore Bria Holmes’
23 points helped send the Longhorns home early with a 67-60 loss and earned her team the conference cham-pionship. Holmes was able to spring several times due to the amount of defensive pressure Texas gave inside.
“It didn’t surprise me this wasn’t a very pretty game,” Carey said. “Both teams play pretty good defense, both teams go inside a lot and there’s a lot of banging.”
Senior guard Christal Caldwell added 15 points, while Palmer came off the bench and chipped in 10 points.
Entering the league championship, West Vir-ginia earned its highest ranking in program history when the AP Poll had the Mountaineers at No. 5. The previous record was held by Carey’s 2009-10 squad,
when they remained at No. 6 for four consecutive weeks.
For a team that executed so well down the stretch all season, WVU could not hold onto a lead and fell in the conference champi-onship, 74-71. The Moun-taineers held onto a one-point lead with 54 seconds left, but the nation’s leading scorer, Odyssey Sims, hit a jumper with 53 seconds left to give her team a lead. The win in Oklahoma City gave the Lady Bears their fourth consecutive Big 12 title.
“Our girls played ex-tremely hard. We had a one-point lead with a min-ute to go and just didn’t ex-ecute, and then we went down to the other side and then didn’t score, and then we didn’t execute on the other side again,” Carey said. “There were runs both ways.”
Holmes led the Moun-taineers in scoring again with 24 points, while Linda Stepney added 10 points. Stepney had a chance in the final seconds to tie the game but failed to finish a drive in the lane.
After the game, both Bussie and Holmes were named to the Big 12 All-Tournament team for their play in the tournament.
“Overall, I told the play-ers (to) remember how this feels, because the next time going down the stretch we’ve got to execute,” Carey said. “We normally exe-cute well going down the stretch.”
West Virginia earned a 2-seed in the NCAA Tour-nament Monday evening and will take on 15-seed Al-bany in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday at 3 p.m.
women’s tennIs
WVU falls to Kansas, Kansas state in first conference matchesBy aNthoNy pecoraro
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Uni-versity women’s tennis team fell to No. 52 Kansas State, 4-3, in the Moun-taineers’ Big 12 Confer-ence opener Friday. In the second conference match Sunday, No. 35 Kansas defeated WVU, 7-0. Both matches were held at the Ridgeview Racquet Club in Morgantown.
In an interview with WVUsports.com, WVU head coach Miha Lisac said he thought Friday’s match went well, even though the Mountaineers couldn’t come away with a victory.
“I thought we did a very good job in doubles today and came out with good focus and energy,” he said. “It was a great situation to play from ahead. We had a couple of players (who) handled the match very well.”
The Mountaineers (3-
10, 0-2 Big 12) started Fri-day’s match with the dou-bles point, winning the No. 2 match of duo soph-omore Hailey Barrett and junior Ikttesh Chahal over the Wildcats’ Palma Juhasz and Iva Bago, 8-1.
In the No. 3 spot, soph-omores Vivian Tsui and Ir-inka Toidze teamed up for their third consecutive win in doubles, downing Riley Nizzi and Livia Cirnu, 8-1.
In singles play, the Mountaineers dropped their first two matches, but freshman Oana Manole, who is 7-4 on the season in singles, tied the team score at two with a two-set victory over Cirnu, 7-6 (4), 6-1.
To i d z e f o l l o w e d Manole’s lead to give West Virginia its second lead of the day, defeating Nizzi in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2.
The Mountaineers could not get ahead of the Jayhawks Sunday as WVU dropped its first two dou-bles matches. The fresh-man tandem of Manole
and Kaja Mrgole was de-feated by Dylan Windom and Paulina Los, 8-4.
Tsui and Toidze snapped their three-match win streak, losing to Claire Dreyer and Mor-gan Barnhill, 8-3.
In singles, no luck was to be had by the Moun-taineers as Barrett fell to Windom, 6-3, 6-2, to ex-tend KU’s lead to 2-0. At the No. 2 singles position, Mrgole, who is tied for the team lead with seven sin-gles victories with Manole, claimed the first set over Maria Jose Cardona, 6-4, but stumbled in the sec-ond and third, 6-1, 6-1.
Manole, who took the first set 6-4 against Maria Belen Luduena, gave up the next two, 6-4, 6-3.
The Mountaineers will be in Waco, Texas, Friday to take on the Baylor Bears at 5 p.m., before travel-ing to Austin to face the Texas Longhorns Sunday at noon.
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Sophomore Irinka Toidze follows through on a stroke in a home match against Buffalo earlier this season.