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This weekend, West Vir-ginia University’s Greek organizations Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon hosted a chili cook-off to benefit the Morgantown Bartlett House, a local homeless shelter. The cook-off was in honor of homelessness awareness week.
“Homelessness is something that affects all of us,” said Rachel Elkins, vice president of philan-throphy for Pi Beta Phi.
The cook-off is a compe-tition that consists of team participants from both so-rority and fraternity orga-nizations. In order to com-pete in the competition, the teams form their own chili recipes for the cook-off. Samples are provided to each of the attendees as well as the judges for the competition.
Multiple alumni from the organizations served as judges for the cook-off to determine the overall winner.
The competition is one of the events that Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Pi Beta Phi will engage in throughout the year. Events are prepared in ad-vance, and are designed to benefit different charities and organizations. Phi-lanthropy is an important part of Greek life for both organizations.
“It’s good to know that we are doing this for a good cause,” said Kyle Ke-ane, philanthropy chair of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Both Keane and El-kins expressed a desire to collectively co-engage in philanthropic events with other sororities and fraternities in the future. The idea is to make each event a group and team ef-fort for local charities and organizations.
“We are trying to work with the community and impact people locally,” El-kins said.
Due to last year’s suc-cess of the chili cook-off, desire to continue the cook-off each year is a cur-rent goal for both Elkins
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West Virginia University Healthcare continues to prepare for a possible Ebola outbreak as the threat of the disease still looms around the nation.
In a matter of three weeks time, a construction team renovated a section of the Emergency Department at Ruby Memorial Hospi-tal and turned it into a self-contained Infection Pre-vention and Containment Unit that houses five isola-tion rooms. The renovations cost $500,000.
WVU Healthcare has closely followed the Cen-ter for Disease Control and Prevention protocols re-garding Ebola prevention and testing, prepared the IPCU in accordance with these guidelines, and is now in the process of train-ing staff to handle a poten-tial patient.
Owen Lander, medi-cal director for the WVU Healthcare Emergency De-partment, said he is confi-dent about the unit’s abil-ity to handle potential Ebola patients.
“All of what we are try-ing to do here, with the structure of this unit and the plan for the care team, is es-sentially fol-lowing the CDC guide-lines and (it) is closely modeled with public in-stitutions that have suc-cessfully treated patients,” Lander said. “We basically said: who’s gotten it right,
how did they do it? That’s what we’ve tried to do.”
The unit is self-contained, meaning every lab service that needs completed can be done within the unit. No
blood samples need taken out, and it houses X-Ray machines and Ultrasounds. No circulating air goes be-yond the unit, and all ceiling
tiles can be washed.Roger Osbourn, the di-
rector of safety for WVU Healthcare, said other as-pects of the IPCU have been modeled based on hospi-
tals around the country that are deal-ing with the same issue, s p e c i f i c a l l y Emory Univer-sity Hospital and the Uni-versity of Ne-braska Medi-cal Center.
“During the last several weeks, we have been work-ing very diligently with a multidisciplinary staff to develop personal protective
equipment to protect our employees that might en-counter an Ebola patient,” Osbourn said.
Part of the personal pro-tective equipment Osbourn discussed involves inpatient and outpatient kits.
“We’ve created two dis-tinctive types of kits – one for an inpatient setting, which we anticipate being a higher risk setting, and also an outpatient kit. The key difference between the inpatient kit and the outpa-tient kit is the level of respi-ratory protection,” Osbourn said.
The items in the inpatient kit are an aspect of patient care that follows models of other hospitals around the
country. “Inside the kit we have
the paper hood itself which comes down over the chest,” Osburn said. “We also have impervious coveralls that we have been able to acquire.”
The kit also contains shoe covers, two pairs of gloves – one is a nitrile glove and the other is a chemo-type glove health care workers wear for an extra level of precaution.
Health care workers have been training over the last several weeks on a program geared toward learning how to use the protective equip-ment and how to keep the disease contained.
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On Saturday, U.S. Sena-tor Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) visited West Virginia Uni-versity for his final time as a Senator to make several of-ficial announcements, de-claring his future partner-ship with the University.
In the Downtown Wise Library’s Milano Reading Room, Rockefeller ded-icated his senatorial pa-pers to the library’s new John D. Rockefeller IV Gal-lery and revealed a new school within the Univer-sity—the John D. Rocke-feller IV School of Policy and Politics.
WVU President E. Gor-don Gee, libraries dean Jon E. Cawthorne, director of the School of Policy and Pol-
itics Scott Crichlow and po-litical science graduate stu-dent Gillian Beach spoke of the significance of Rocke-feller’s contribution.
“Senator Rockefell-er’s one of the most distin-
guished public servants in West Virginia’s history, and it is fitting that the senator’s legacy will be forever pre-served within the borders of the state he has served so well and so faithfully for so
long,” Gee said.Rockefeller’s 2,000 linear
feet of donated archives in-clude an array of political papers, artifacts and online data from his 30 years in the Senate and is now housed
in the library. The entirety of the “priceless resources,” as Gee called them, is one of the largest collections the University has ever received.
“The archives of Sena-tor Rockefeller’s five terms in the Capitol will provide a book-end, if you will, to the papers of our senate, state’s founding fathers,” Caw-thorne said. “As West Virgin-ia’s flagship University and the seed of research in our state, there could be no bet-ter home for this outstand-ing research archive than WVU libraries.”
The declaration of the School of Policy and Poli-tics stirred loud excitement from the receptive audience that packed the room.
“Our goal is for the school to reflect Senator Rockefell-
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Hospital prepares for EbolaEmergency Department in Ruby Memorial opens Infection Prevention and Containment Unit
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Doyle maurer/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumEmergency protective equipment is kept in the donning room of the IPCU.
The main thing for us is that we want our people to feel absolutely confident when they put that equipment on that they feel protected to the highest level.
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Osbourn said the train-ing program will last the duration of 40 hours. They have brought in different experts to help facilitate the training.
“The main thing for us is that we want our people to feel absolutely confident when they put that equip-ment on that they feel pro-tected to the highest level,” Osbourn said.
If a patient were to arrive at Ruby Memorial looking for treatment for Ebola or any other contagious dis-ease, such as tuberculosis, health care workers enter a room in the IPCU desig-nated the “donning room.”
In this room, the health care worker puts on the equipment gear. Once treatment has been ad-ministered, the health care worker enters another room called the “doffing room,” where another worker helps to take the gear off.
Osbourn said it requires a
minimum of 20 minutes to put on the protective equip-ment and then another 20 minutes to take it off.
However, Lander ex-presses his doubt about the likelihood that Eb-ola will make its way to Morgantown.
“I think it’s important to emphasize that the risks are very low, but the stakes are very high, so with any high risk but low likelihood risk event, our risk manage-ment procedure is to err on the side of caution,” Lander said.
He said WVU Health-care is fortunate to have received the equipment it needs to protect from con-tagious diseases, should a case arise.
“A lot of hospitals have struggled with that be-cause supply chains have dried up a little bit. We got on it early and think we got enough equipment to push us through a scenario where we might receive a patient,” Osbourn said.
Rashida Khakoo, the chief of infectious diseases at the WVU School of Medi-
cine, and head of the WVU Healthcare Ebola Task Force, urges everyone to do all they can to stay healthy.
“I want to emphasize the importance of getting flu shots to prevent influ-enza for everyone, and also handwashing to prevent many infections,” Khakoo said.
Despite preventing the disease in other ways, WVU Healthcare officials insist they will do all they can to help treat a patient with Eb-ola or any other disease.
Scott Bierer, director of WVU Healthcare Facilities Engineering and Manage-ment, claims they can use test results to develop treat-ment protocol.
“We can stop the trans-mission. It has been dem-onstrated by the events that have happened in this country,” Lander said. “It is my mission, and the mis-sion of everyone involved, to do what we know is the right thing to do to prevent the spread of any potential disease should it appear.”
er’s career, priorities and ideas,” Gee said. “So consis-tent with Senator Rockefell-er’s career in public service, this school will help our University fulfill its land-grant mission.”
The school will combine teachings in political sci-ence, public administration, international studies and leadership studies in order to prepare its approximately 1,000 students to serve the public.
“I’m very excited to be the first director of the school. I can’t wait to work with Pres-
ident Gee and Dean Caw-thorne,” Crichlow said.
Beach discussed her achievements so far in WVU’s political science de-partment and her enthusi-asm to be a graduate stu-dent in the new school.
“The creation of this new School of Policy and Poli-tics is an exciting develop-ment in the evolution of the program at WVU, and to me, it conveys a sense of cohe-sion, clarity and purpose in our academic work,” Beach said. “To have the support of Senator Rockefeller in this endeavor is truly an honor.”
In addition to saying an abundance of “thank you’s”, Rockefeller humorously re-called getting booed at a
WVU football game more than 30 years ago because he was in favor of tearing down Old Mountaineer Field and building a new complex that would become Milan Puskar Stadium. He emphasized his passion for the state and his immense respect and support for the University.
“My life’s journey led me to West Virginia, and it is in West Virginia that I hope my legacy will be remembered, and my journey as a public servant understood,” Rock-efeller said.
Two years later, he was elected to the office of West Virginia Secretary of State, and in 1976, after serving as president of West Virginia
Wesleyan College for two years, he was elected Gov-ernor of West Virginia.
Since he became a U.S. Senator in 1984, Rocke-feller served on several con-gressional committees, in-cluding the Committee on Finance, the Select Com-mittee on Intelligence, the Committee on Veterans’ Af-fairs, the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Com-mittee on Commerce, Sci-ence and Transportation where he was the chairman.
Rockefeller will retire in January 2015, but his con-tributions to society will forevermore be kept alive at WVU.
Doyle maurer/THe DaIly aTHeNaeumOwen Lander, MD, says it’s a good idea to be prepared even though an occurrence of Ebola may be unlikely.
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and Keane. “We just want to make it
an annual thing, get more involved in the commu-nity,” Keane said.
Many attendees at the competition expressed positive notions about be-ing involved in an issue so prevalent in Morgan-town. The aspects of team-work and giving back were common themes within the competition.
“It’s fun being here for a community event, some-thing local,” Kimberly Wet-zel, a member of Pi Beta Phi said.
Attendees from both WVU and the local Mor-
gantown community en-gaged in the event.
“It was a good crowd of people from the com-munity and the Univer-sity,” said Ed Cole, chapter advisor for Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
The competition con-cluded with an official counting of the proceeds raised for the homeless shelter, as well as an an-nounced winner of a raf-fle drawing and the chili cook-off competition. Ed Cole was the winner of the raffle drawing, and Delta Gamma was the champion of the cook-off competition.
The total amount raised for the Bartlett House was $1,867.62.
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Three men maliciously attacked a person near the Shell Station on University Av-enue at 2:14 a.m. Sunday morning, according to a Morgantown Police Department press release.
Witnesses told MPD that one of the suspects fled the scene on foot. The other two suspects were arrested, one charged with malicious as-sault and the other for public intoxication. Later, MPD obtained a warrant to charge the second suspect with battering.
MPD reports the victim sustained minor in-juries but witnesses told the police the victim was kicked in the head and was on the ground.
MPD is continuing its investigation to find the third suspect. If anyone of the public has infor-mation, they are advised to call 304-284-7522.
After the GOP took control of the U.S. Senate and maintained control of the House of Representatives, many are speculating as to why.
Two West Virginia University political science professors, Patrick Hickey and Scott Crichlow, will lead a discussion and offer insight 6:30-7:30 p.m. tonight.
The Monongalia County Volunteer Fire Department Companies’ Association dis-cussed its budget with the county commission Wednesday.
Representing the VFCA was Joe Statler, soon to take office in the West Virginia House of Del-egates in January, 2015.
The VFCA told the Dominion Post that rais-ing the county’s tax levy from 9.5 percent would raise an additional $80,000 for each department in the association.
SGA is seeking input from students con-cerning information technology and software needs.
The survey can be found online on the MIX Personal Announcements page.
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SEaTTLE (aP) — Ken-neth Bae arrived home af-ter years of imprisonment in North Korea, expressing his gratitude to the U.S. government for securing his release and revealing that his time there offered lessons.
And his sister said he had one stipulation for his first meal back home: No Korean food.
“He said, ‘I don’t want Korean food, that’s all I’ve been eating for the last two years,’” Terri Chung said Sunday outside her Seat-tle church. “We had a late night eating pizza.”
Bae and Matthew Miller, another American who had been held captive in North Korea, landed Sat-urday night at a Washing-ton state military base after a top U.S. intelligence offi-cial secured their release.
“It’s been an amaz-ing two years, I learned a lot, I grew a lot, I lost a lot of weight,” Bae, a Ko-rean-American mission-ary with health problems, said at Joint Base-Lewis-McChord Saturday night. Asked how he was feeling, he said, “I’m recovering at this time.”
Bae, surrounded by family members, spoke briefly to the media after the plane carrying him and Miller landed. He thanked President Barack Obama and the people who sup-ported him and his family. He also thanked the North Korean government for re-leasing him.
“I just want to say thank
you all for supporting me and standing by me,” Bae said. His family has said he suffers from diabetes, an enlarged heart, liver prob-lems and back pain.
Chung said Bae was in better shape when he ar-rived than his family ex-pected. She said he had spent about six weeks in a North Korean hospital be-fore he returned.
“That helped. As you know, he had gone back and forth between the la-bor camp and hospital,” she said.
She said he was checked out by a doctor on the flight back to the United States.
His plans for the near fu-ture include rest and food and reconnecting with friends and family. Neither his wife nor his children could make it back to Seat-tle in time for Bae’s home-coming, his sister said.
They plan to gather the whole family together for Thanksgiving,” she said.
Members of Bae’s fam-ily, who live near the sprawling military base south of Seattle, had met him when he landed. His mother hugged him after he got off the plane. Miller stepped off the U.S. gov-ernment aircraft a short time later and also was greeted with hugs.
U.S. officials said Miller of Bakersfield, Califor-nia, and Bae of Lynnwood, Washington, flew back with James Clapper, the director of national intel-ligence. Clapper was the highest-ranking American
to visit Pyongyang in more than a decade.
Their release was the latest twist in the fitful re-lationship between the Obama administration and the young North Ko-rean leader, Kim Jong Un, whose approach to the U.S. has shifted back and forth from defiance to oc-casional conciliation.
Bae was serving a 15-year sentence for alleged anti-government activities. He was detained in 2012 while leading a tour group to a North Korea economic zone.
Miller was serving a six-year jail term on charges of espionage after he alleg-edly ripped up his tourist visa at Pyongyang’s airport in April and demanded asylum. North Korea said Miller had wanted to ex-perience prison life so he could secretly investigate the country’s human rights situation.
Bae and Miller were the last two Americans held captive by the reclusive Communist country.
Last month, North Ko-rea released Jeffrey Fowle of Miamisburg, Ohio, who was held for nearly six months. He had left a Bible in a nightclub in the hope that it would reach North Korea’s underground Christian community.
Speaking Sunday, Chung said her brother was stay-ing with family members, and enjoyed visiting with his loved ones upon his return.
“He was cut off from
all of that for two years,” she said. “His only con-tacts were his guard, and maybe doctors and a hand-ful of times the Swedish embassy.”
Chung said she was thrilled to have her brother home, and that “he bears no ill will” over his ordeal.
Although he still has warm feelings for the North Korean people, Chung doubted her brother would want to return to that coun-try any time soon.
He hasn’t told them many details about his or-deal and Chung said she remains worried about her brother.
The State Department called the family at about 2 a.m. Saturday to give them the news that Bae was coming home. They also received a call a few days earlier saying some-thing might be happening, but Chung was reluctant to believe that message.
“There’s been a lot of heartbreak and disap-pointment,” she said of the years of waiting for her brother’s release.
She thanked people around the world for their prayers and government officials and others for ad-vocating for Bae’s release. She also said former de-tainees and their families have been a source of com-fort and support for her family.
“First and foremost we thank God,” Chung said, adding soon afterward, “I have to thank President Obama.”
NbcNews.comMatthew Todd Miller, center, reunites with his family members after he and Kenneth Bae landed aboard a U.S. Air Force jet at McChord Field at Joint Base Lewis-Mc-Chord, Washington on Nov. 8.
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Hollywood honors actors, actresses, greats of the pastLOS ANGELES (AP) — A
constellation of stars gath-ered in Hollywood for an off-camera celebration of four stalwart film talents.
Reese Witherspoon, Jen-nifer Aniston, Steve Carell, Kevin Costner, Mark Wahl-berg, Sidney Poitier, Ed Norton, Benedict Cum-berbatch, Chris Rock, Ed-die Redmayne, Ron How-ard and Hilary Swank were among the celebrities toast-ing the first Oscar winners of the season at the film acade-my’s Governors Awards Sat-urday night.
Actress Maureen O’Hara, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere and actor and ac-tivist Harry Belafonte ac-cepted honorary Oscars at the private dinner ceremony at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom.
Jessica Chastain, War-ren Beatty, Octavia Spencer,
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruf-falo, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr. and Tilda Swin-ton, sporting a platinum faux-hawk, also attended the three-hour celebration.
Pixar chief John Lasse-ter presented Miyazaki with an Oscar statuette, calling the Japanese animator “the most original filmmaker to ever work in our medium.”
Accepting the trophy, Mi-yazaki said through a trans-lator that he considered himself lucky, adding, “My greatest luck is that I got to meet Maureen O’Hara today.”
The 94-year-old O’Hara was introduced by Liam Neeson and Clint Eastwood, each of whom confessed to having a crush on the Irish-born beauty. Neeson de-scribed her as “one of the true legends of cinema” and “one of the most adventur-ous women who ever lived,”
explaining the actress was a pioneer in doing her own stunts on screen.
O’Hara came to the stage in a wheelchair and read a brief statement of thanks in which she acknowledged filmmakers Charles Laugh-ton and John Ford, along with her co-star in several films, John Wayne.
When Neeson handed her the Oscar, she asked in dis-belief, “What’s this?!”
“I only hope it’s silver or gold and not like a spoon out of the kitchen,” she said.
Carriere accepted his Os-car from “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” direc-tor, Philip Kaufman. The French screenwriter lauded the many directors he’s col-laborated with over his five decades in film, saying, “They’re always present, even today. When I’m work-ing, I hear their voices.”
Chris Rock and Susan Sa-
randon introduced Bela-fonte, who received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his decades of ac-tivism for social justice.
“I’m not here to honor you,” Rock said. “I’m here to thank you.”
Sarandon called the 87-year-old entertainer “a real-life, flesh and blood hero.”
Belafonte said he was moved by the recognition.
“To be rewarded by my peers for my work for hu-man rights, civil rights and for peace... It powerfully mutes the enemy’s thunder,” he said.
He shared the honor with Poitier, whom he referred to as “my elderly friend.”
“He redirected the ship of racial hatred in American culture,” Belafonte said.
He spoke of Hollywood’s progress toward telling sto-ries that offer “deeper in-
sights into human existence,” such as “Schindler’s List,” “Brokeback Mountain,” and “12 Years a Slave,” and film’s far-reaching ability to influ-ence popular opinion.
“Maybe, just maybe, it could be civilization’s game-changer,” he said.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established the Governors Awards in 2009 to celebrate the annual winners of its honorary awards. Highlights from the ceremony will be included in the 2015 Oscar telecast.
meredy.comMaureen O’Hara was one of the actresses honored at the awards.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ev-erybody knows Bill Cosby’s humor, but the comedian has kept his artistic tastes close at home. Now the extensive art collection of Bill and Camille Cosby is opening to the public for the first time Sunday at the Smithsonian Institution, revealing some works by African-American artists that until now have been seen only by family and friends.
The exhibition not only celebrates African-Amer-ican heritage, it also pro-vides a glimpse at works the Cosbys have enjoyed intimately, with pieces ranging from a master-work that had remained hidden for a half-century before Camille Cosby rec-ognized its value, to a quilt made from their slain son’s clothes. More than 60 art-works from the Cosby col-lection are being displayed through early 2016 along-side 100 pieces of Afri-can works at the National Museum of African Art in Washington.
Surrounded by these artworks in a Smithson-ian gallery, the Cosbys sat down to discuss their pas-sion for collecting, and for once, Bill Cosby let his wife take the floor, describing how they came to love art together and their hopes that the exhibit will fos-ter a new appreciation for works by black artists long silenced or ignored.
“I hope that people will become emotionally at-tached to these paintings,” she told The Associated Press. “I really want peo-ple to feel something.”
A centerpiece is “The Thankful Poor,” painted in 1894 by Henry Ossawa Tanner, a son of slaves who went to Paris and painted scenes that dignified black people at a time when they mostly suffered degrading images in popular culture.
The work depicts an el-derly man and young boy in prayer at a humble din-ner table. It had been left in basement storage at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf for 50 years. Camille Cosby found the painting up for auction in 1981, and bought it for $250,000 as a Christmas gift for her husband. The bidding had started at $50,000.
“We didn’t collect to in-crease our assets because there weren’t any real val-ues placed on art by Afri-can-Americans, no mon-etary value nor artistic
value,” Camille Cosby said. “We collected because we really loved the pieces. We wanted to live with them.”
The greatest gift from amassing some 300 pieces of African-American art kept in their homes was that their children and grandchildren’s self-per-ceptions have been rein-forced by positive images of black people, she said.
The Cosbys began col-lecting art in 1967, three years after they were mar-ried. Bill Cosby said he grew up in a housing proj-ect where a clock, a picture of Jesus, and cutouts from Ebony magazine passed as art.
When he had a house of his own, a taste of suc-cess in entertainment and rich friends, he noticed “these people have art, and it’s all white people.” The Cosbys started purchas-ing works by artist Charles White and almost imme-diately got hooked on collecting.
Bill Cosby featured paintings by black art-ists on the set of his early TV sitcom “The Bill Cosby Show” where he played Chet Kincaid. Later, he included African-Ameri-can art on the walls of the Huxtables’ living room in “The Cosby Show” series.
“It pulls in the human-itarianism of this African-American family,” he said.
Some of the oldest works in the Cosby collection in-clude rare portraits from the late 1700s and early 1800s by Joshua Johnston, a Baltimore-based African-American artist who was at one time a slave. The fam-ily also collected works by emerging artists and noted artists, including works by Romare Bearden, Eliza-beth Catlett, Jacob Law-rence and Faith Ringgold.
“These artists, it’s amaz-ing to me that they did this work despite everything else that was around them politically, sociologically. It was difficult,” she said.
Now they’re getting their due in “Conversations: Af-
rican and African Ameri-can Artworks in Dialogue.”
But Bill Cosby joked that he had no idea his wife agreed to lend the works for an exhibit until curators began taking paintings off the walls.
“My paintings, these things happen to be my life,” he said. “When I come home, I talk to them.”
The Cosbys also col-lected and commissioned family quilts as a way to tell stories. Two of them on display include a creation by Ringgold as a tribute to Bill Cosby and a large quilt by the Mississippi Cross-roads Quilters entitled “The Ennis Quilt,” made of scraps of son Ennis Cosby’s clothing after he was killed in 1997.
Many times, that quilt still covers their bed at home, Bill Cosby said.
Curators said they looked for the best works from the Cosbys and pow-erful pieces from the Smithsonian’s African art collection to pair works by black artists from two continents. Themes range from spirituality and hu-manity to political power, family life and music to drive the exhibition.
Some works are infused with a comedic touch, as well. Margo Humphrey’s lithograph “The Last Bar-B-Que” is a play on Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” where instead all types and colors of people, men and women, are at the table with Jesus, ready to eat wa-termelon and fried chicken wings.
“What you are going to see here is art by the de-scendants of people from various parts of that vast continent who even un-der tyranny in this nation were able to create beauti-ful works of art beyond the status of where they were in life, beyond slavery, be-yond segregation, beyond Jim Crow, beyond racism,” said art historian David Driskell, who helped cu-rate the show.
Cosby has been in the
news lately as he prepares for a new sitcom on net-work television 30 years af-ter his groundbreaking role as Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” and because reviewers have criticized
his otherwise comprehen-sive authorized biogra-phy published last month for making no mention of past accusations of sexual assault. Cosby declined to comment when asked
for his response during the interview. The allega-tion stems from an inves-tigation and lawsuit settled in 2006. Cosby has never been charged with sexual assault.
Smithsonian displays Bill Cosby’s art in African American exhibit
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After nearly five months of rehearsal and perfor-mances, Shenendoah Thompson and David Beach thought they might perform “Red” for the last time.
The cast and crew, orig-inally performing at the Monongalia Arts Center, were invited to compete at the West Virginia The-atre Association’s Commu-nity Theatre Conference at Bridgeport High School Saturday.
The cast and crew left Bridgeport with two awards:
Best Play and Thompson won Best Actor.
“I say the same thing about any production which is successful,” Beach said. “Start with a good script, form a good team and set the bar high.”
Beach said he was immensely proud of Thompson.
The cast will move on to the South Eastern The-atre Conference in Chatta-nooga, Ten., in March 2015.
Jefferson High School’s production of “Frost-bite” and Musselman High School’s “Wait Wait Bo Bait” will join “Red” at the na-tional conference.
“Though we were
brought together through the theatre, Shenendoah and I have developed a re-lationship outside the the-atre which, I think, helps the creative process,” Beach said. “When we have vested interests in each other as friends, it helps us (and grounds us) as we approach creative endeavors.”
Beach plays Mark Rothko, the famous abstract ex-pressionist who is commis-sioned to paint a collection of pieces for the Four Sea-sons restaurant. Thompson plays his apprentice, Ken, who challenges Rothko to avoid becoming superflu-ous in his quest for a new masterpiece.
After working together on a few shows at M.T. Pockets Theatre, the two theatre vet-erans were itching to per-form together. Beach has di-rected several plays in the area, but he said this was the first time he has played a historical figure.
“(Beach) brought me ‘Red’ and said, “Here, read this,’” Thompson said. “Within 45 minutes of hav-ing read it – or I think I hadn’t even finished it yet – I said, ‘I’m in. Let’s do it.’”
In the 2013 festival, Beach directed the winning play, “Art.” After raising more than $3,000, the cast of three men and Beach trav-eled to Mobile, Ala. There,
lead actor Ben Adducchio won an acting award.
Amanda Barton, an assis-tant professor of theatre at Berea College in Kentucky, Lydia Mond, from Act II Theatre Company in Park-ersburg, W.Va. and Marsha Mueller from the Actor’s Guild of Parkersburg, W.Va., adjudicated the event.
This conference pre-sented two major challenges for Beach and Thompson: Time and space. The cast was permitted to use Mor-gantown High School’s au-ditorium to practice in prior to the event and Beach said that was beneficial.
The original performance ran about 95 minutes but
had to be cut down to un-der 60 minutes.
Beach said the play has two arcs that come together in the middle.
“But they were wavy arcs,” Beach said. “So we took out the waves.”
To accomplish this, each actor took home the script separately to mark what they wanted to cut. Beach expelled a deep, throaty laugh when he noted he and Thompson marked the same things.
Though Beach and Thompson are separated by several decades, they seem more like old friends.
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I love body confidence, but admittedly, I’m just about sick of it.
Recently, a new cam-paign launched by Victo-ria’s Secret is the subject of debate among those pro-moting a healthy body im-age. The campaign is for a new type of bra called “Body by Victoria,” but the real issue comes from the signage used to promote the new merchandise.
Several beautiful Victo-ria’s Secret models, in their tanned, tall and killer-curves way, stand in a line behind the damning words “The Perfect ‘Body’.”
Naturally, women of all shapes and sizes took up their torches and pitch-forks – or mostly just ran to their social media sites – to rail against the body shaming Victoria’s Secret so willfully engaged in with this new body-hating propaganda.
Since then, the company has changed their adver-tisement to read “A Body for Everybody,” a decidedly much safer slogan, given the immense backlash the first quip caused.
But body image issues seem to be more of a topic now than ever before. Peo-ple post pictures of lithe mannequins at H&M, cry-ing against a patriarchy or whoever is in charge of making a stick-thin f igure the new black (though curi-ously this always seems to be attributed to the new an-tichrist, a cis-white male). And people have been ha-rassing models about their weight since modeling re-ally became a thing.
Try as I might, I can’t get on board with these radical claims, because that’s exactly what they are – radical.
Was Victoria’s Secret
willfully body shaming its customers? Of course not.
Victoria’s Secret is one of the most successful linge-rie companies in the world, hosting a variety of bra, un-derwear and clothing sizes targeted to women ages 15 and up.
They’re already walk-ing a thin line dealing
with a demographic this diverse and with a prod-uct that could be consid-ered racy in the first place. Does it make sense that such a company would go on to further shame their customers about their bodies, when their en-tire livelihood is selling items meant to enhance a woman’s God-given features?
No, dear reader, it does not. The Perfect Body Campaign was not meant to make a size 8 feel bad about her awesome curves. The pictures of the models who thus far have been in-credibly successful in get-ting women to buy the lin-gerie they sport, were not meant to make any sensi-
tive souls feel badly about themselves, and that is the real issue here.
T h o u g h it is unclear exactly how many peo-ple were of-
fended by this campaign – though the amount of women posting pictures on Instagram of themselves holding cheesy signs saying “I am perfect,” in front of the perfect body campaigns speak for themselves – the fact remains this was a big enough issue for Victoria’s Secret to change the entire ad campaign.
But the issue starts be-
fore a woman even steps into a Victoria’s Secret store. The real problem starts inside all of us who feel a little embarrassed about our bodies, who poke at the little layer of fat on their tummies and rail against inanimate manne-quins for promoting a body type that is not the one we see in the mirror.
I’m all for fair represen-tation of the body types, and I’ve written before about the war against the so-called “skinny bitches.”
But, before we get into the nitty-gritty of mak-ing average-sized mod-els a real thing, we have to get over ourselves a little bit.
So you don’t look like Candice Swanepoel – who gives a damn? The only per-son who looks like Candice Swanepoel is the woman gracing the very ad so many women are in a tizzy about, and that’s perfectly okay.
I guarantee you Can-dice Swanepoel doesn’t care what you look like, because her entire liveli-
hood is based on her rock-ing bod. Perhaps your en-tire livelihood is based on how you use your brain or, in my case, how success-fully you can write an opin-ion column.
Just because you may think your body isn’t up to par – which, hello, it totally is – doesn’t mean raging against the corporation is the way to feel better about yourself.
Sure, the campaign was changed and stores are starting to introduce more “normal” sized mannequins.
Will all of this make a girl already insecure about her body love herself more than she did before?
No. The real change starts within everyone who is in-secure about themselves.
Once we can get over ourselves, we can finally get down to business, and hopefully see why innoc-uous campaigns such as this one have no interest in body shaming anyone.
The words “life saver” have signified many differ-ent things to me in the 21 years I have been alive.
Apart from being a ring shaped candy, “life saver” has meant anything from somebody who gives you a scantron before a test, to somebody who pretends not to have seen you trip when you are stumbling on the sidewalk.
The business of saving lives sounds like it should be restricted to valiant po-lice officers and seasoned neurosurgeons. When it
comes down to it though, anybody can save a life. All it takes is courage.
There are over 100,000 people in America alone waiting for an organ at this moment. The Mayo Clinic finds that an addi-tional 4,000 people will be added to the list by tomor-row. Unfortunately, 18 peo-ple in this country a day, or 6,500 people a year, will be unable to receive a kidney, liver, heart or other organ and perish.
A surplus of organs does not exist. Not enough of these invaluable assets are available to meet the ever growing needs of this na-tional malady. Second chances at life are few and
far between. If it were up to me, ev-
ery American would be re-quired to register as an or-gan donor. I am not saying people should be forced to donate a kidney while they are still alive. I am talking about the moment when you pass away.
Death is the greatest un-known. Various concep-tions of heaven and hell may exist, yet direct com-munion with this incom-prehensible spectre of ex-istence (or lack of ) is simply impossible.
Nobody knows what awaits after life. For the rest of us, however, the fact the recently deceased have the capability to preserve
the living is inescapable. I know from personal expe-rience that just one individ-ual can help upwards of 50 others have one more shot at living a real life.
To deny those 50 people this shot is to waste one’s last opportunity at a truly indispensable charitable act.
Death is a difficult sub-ject to discuss. But in the light of organ donation, the spotlight is focused on the gain rather than the loss.
There is more to organ donations than kidneys and livers. An organ donation offers people the ability to procure a new heart or even corneas to see again. The deceased can donate their
blood, bones, marrow, car-tilage, connective tissues, heart valves, blood ves-sels, skin, lungs, pancreas as well as small intestine. Almost everything can be used to help those 50 other human beings.
Just because some-body leaves us does not mean they cannot live on through us. Organ donors live by the legacy of their bodies. Their legacy is the son who now has a father who can pick him up over his head and run around the front yard without fear-ing he will collapse. It is the 16-year-old girl who is as-sured she will be able to live past her junior prom. It is the woman who can see the
colors in the paintings she once loved. The stories are endless.
You should not be scared of donating your organs when you die, regardless of how macabre the subject appears to be. It is impor-tant to know this is not the conclusion of your story.
Maybe friends and fam-ily who have passed away are waiting for you on the other side. Maybe the screen simply cuts to black. Regardless of what you be-lieve in, one thing is quite certain. Death is not the end. Death is a continua-tion of life, just in a differ-ent direction.
Great leadership de-serves great recognition.
As students, we should look to the role models we have in our own backyard. U.S. Senator John D. Rock-efeller IV is one of them.
Senator Rockefeller cel-ebrated nearly 50 years of public service in a big way Saturday with the creation and naming of the John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics and the dedication of a gallery and archives in the Down-town Library.
This is not only a great announcement for the University, but also for the state as a whole.
Rockefeller has served the state of West Virginia in a number of public of-fices, including being a House of Delegates mem-ber, Secretary of State, Governor and U.S. Sena-tor. During his tenure as a senator, Rockefeller served
as the chairman of several notable committees such as the Committee on Intel-ligence and the Commit-tee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
He has consistently shown support for many different groups of West Virginians including those at West Virginia Univer-sity. He has continually supported and pushed for loan forgiveness in the hopes of keeping stu-dents in the Mountain State.
The new school, which includes fields of study where Rockefeller has shone, will enable stu-dents to have a curric-ulum with input from a true West Virginia politician.
This new gallery will al-low students at WVU ac-cess to all of the work Rockefeller has done while in the senate. Who knows
how many countless fu-ture politicians and lead-ers will be influenced by this opportunity to study a true example?
We are not just West Virginia University, but West Virginia’s Univer-sity. As we impact the state, it also impacts us. Sen. Rockefeller has ded-icated his political career to positively impacting the state, and by connection, the University as a whole.
The Daily Athenaeum would like to thank and commend Sen. Rocke-feller for his service to West Virginia and to the University.
We hope to see Sena-tor Capito continue in the great and influential foot-steps of Senator Rocke-feller, and we cannot wait to see the impact she will have on West Virginia.
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Just because you may think your body isn’t up to par – which, hello, it totally is – doesn’t mean raging against the corporation is the way to feel better about yourself.
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
Born today This year you de-velop a propensity for clarity. Know that others might react strongly to your questions, as they won’t be ac-customed to revealing so much. Be as diplomatic as possible. If you are single, a relationship could be the re-sult of a heated argument between you and someone else. The chemistry will be overwhelming. If you are at-tached, understand that your signif-icant other might choose to distance him- or herself rather than becoming involved in a negative conversation. CANCER feels like you do, but he or she can express his or her feelings.
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH You’ll ease into a seem-ingly carefree Monday morning. By
midday, you could notice a change in a key person’s demeanor. You know how to handle this person, but he or she also knows how to handle you. The trick will be how to avoid a power play. Tonight: Try to relax.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHH Your finances continue to be a main priority. How you see a personal matter could change quickly be-cause of an unexpected choice and discussion. This new perspective will lead to more empathy between you and someone else. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH You might want to be more circum-spect with your budget, as you never really know when there could be a problem. You have a habit of overin-
dulging if you are not careful. Under-stand what is happening within your social circle. Tonight: Pay the bills.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Defer to others. You might want to assume control, but allowing oth-ers to try out their ideas will ben-efit everyone. It is likely that you’ll need to keep some distance from someone who is quite controlling. Tonight: Take center stage.
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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH Know when to turn your back on a situation that no longer appeals to you. Understand what could happen if you become too involved. Stay as neutral as possible, and strive for a positive outcome. Tonight: Not ev-erything has to be public knowledge.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH Be aware of your options when deal-ing with others who aren’t always as easygoing as you are. Honor a change within a relationship. The other party could be quite differ-ent from you and might have differ-ent interests. Be smart. Give this per-son some space. Tonight: On a roll.
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Allow yourself to see someone in his/her element. As a result, you might realize how unclear you have been
about this individual. He or she could demonstrate a romantic quality, which will add excitement to your interactions. Tonight: With a favor-ite person.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHHH You would be wise to encourage others to express their feelings. You will get a better idea of what you are working with. Keep an eye on a situation to which other parties seem to be adding more significance. Tonight: Beware.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH You might seem strange to many people. Perhaps the rea-son has to do with them witness-ing you transform in a distinct way. In a sense, they might feel insecure dealing with such a powerhouse. Tonight: Clear out some paperwork.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You can be nurturing, but it is more by choice than an automatic response. You might feel frustrated by everything you need to accom-plish. You could be more on edge than you realize. Do not suppress your instincts – deal with them. To-night: Know when to call it a night.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Your creativity seems to be emerging to an unprecedented level. Be aware that even after you come up with a practical path, others might not agree. Be gracious. It is not always easy to eat crow. Tonight: Let your imagination design the night.
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World cultures collided for a spectacular student music showcase Friday at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center.
This semester’s concert featured a wide range of musical genres presented by the WVU chamber en-sembles. Friday’s perfor-mance featured work from the WVU African Music and Dance Ensemble, the WVU Steel Band, the WVU Brazil-ian Ensemble and the new WVU Bluegrass Band.
The show opened with a jam session from the Bra-zilian Ensemble. Sounds slowly began to build as small hand drums and ma-racas set a beat. More of the ensemble started to join in with an eclectic variety of tambourines, bells and per-cussion instruments. With a constantly changing beat and an enthusiastic group of musicians, the audience re-mained engaged and tapped its toes along to every song.
During the second song from the Brazilian Ensem-ble, guest artists Frank Did-iano and John Posey from the WVU Jazz Department joined in for a more soulful piece than the show’s open-ing performance. The in-corporation of jazz instru-ments created soft melodies and peaceful percussions. Gently plucked guitars, jazz flutes and clarinets added flair to the overall peaceful tune.
The Brazilian genre is no doubt a stretch from tradi-tional music genres offered at WVU, making this unique style of music more intrigu-ing for audience members.
“I definitely really like the Brazilian music,” said Chey-enne LaClair, a mathemat-ics student. “It was really high energy and fast-paced and happy. I was just sitting there moving my head to the beat, because I just couldn’t help it. I had never listened to it before, but I thought it was really cool.”
After experiencing a bit of South American culture, the audience changed gears as the new WVU Bluegrass Band took the stage. The bluegrass ensemble is the University’s exclusive Appa-lachian music group, play-ing both traditional and con-temporary bluegrass styles.
The group started its set with a classic love tune re-flecting a traditional blue-grass sound. The song was performed as a duet along-side a quartet of bluegrass instrumentalists. The fast-paced strumming of a banjo and the plunging hum of a bass created a complexity of sound incomparable to other genres. The whistling of a quick fiddle made audi-ence members feel as if they were at an old-fashioned honky tonk.
The group’s set alter-nated between high energy jams and softer ballads, al-lowing the audience to get a varied look into the local genre. The lead female vo-calist led most of the songs performed, showcasing her
wide soulful range and sassy southern twang.
Another standout group performance was the Afri-can Music and Dance group.
The musical aspect of this performance was different in the sense that very small variety instruments were used. The tune was guided by an elaborate collection of drums and percussion in-struments. The music was very chant-like and high-en-ergy, which created a tribal feel. The greatest aspect of this performance wasn’t the music, though. The African dance group undoubtedly stole the show with its au-
thentic costumes and tradi-tional African dance styles. Students stomped, jumped, spun and waved, prompting the crowd to clap along to the beat as they performed along to the music.
Overall, the show was an incredible display of culture and continued proof of the progress made in creating diversity on campus. This multi-cultural performance not only allowed students to showcase their hard work, but also gave the commu-nity a chance to gain a more open, worldly perspective.
Kenneth Redillas/the dailY athenaeUMThe WVU Brazilian Ensemble performs at the World Music Concert.
Kenneth Redillas/the dailY athenaeUMThe WVU African Music and Dance Ensemble performs at the CAC Friday.
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Kenneth Redillas/the dailY athenaeUMWVU Bluegrass Jam Group performs at the Creative Arts Center Friday.
WVU ensembles come together for World Music Concert
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Blue Man Group comes to Morgantown
KYle MonRoe/the dailY athenaeUMBlue Man Group performs using shoulder-mounted instruments made of PVC pipe.
KYle MonRoe/the dailY athenaeUMDrums covered in glow-in-the-dark paint create impressive displays for both sound and sight.
KYle MonRoe/the dailY athenaeUMThe crowd plays with giant luminescent balls at the climax of the show.
In a packed auditorium, three blue men stood before an ecstatic crowd and deliv-ered a performance unlike any other. Blue Man Group brought a high-energy show to West Virginia Universi-ty’s Creative Arts Center last night.
Blue Man Group puts on a show different than any-thing you’ve seen before. It is a blend of music, comedy, technology and visual arts impossible to describe.
The performance is put on by three blue men who are completely uniform. Their unusual appearance is only surpassed by their behavior. The three men react with awe and bewilderment at social
norms humans have. During the first act the men would pause and stare, confused by the crowd’s cheers and claps. This naive fascination with the crowd and human cus-toms was a theme through-out the show.
Music and art are com-bined in interesting ways in the group’s shows. One part had one of the blue men playing two drums. As he pounded away at the instru-ments, the other two poured glowing paint onto his drum heads. This resulted in an im-pressive display as the color-ful liquid jumped into the air with the rhythm of the drum.
Interaction with the crowd was another big part of the show. Throughout the per-
formance, the blue men would throw marshmal-lows, cereal and other items into the seats. One skit had the men take a girl from the audience and sit her down onstage to eat a dinner of twinkies with them. The crowd laughed as the girl had to endure an awkward meal. Another audience member was used to create a paint-ing. The blue men had the impromptu human paint-brush strung up by his feet and slathered in paint before being thrown onto a canvas. The bit left the dazed audi-ence member with a life-sized imprint of himself.
Blue Man Group’s music is highly experimental. The men almost entirely forego conventional instruments in favor of PVC pipes and other unusual objects. With these items they create a spec-
trum of different sounds and songs. Everything from clas-sical music to modern rock was recreated by the Blue Man Group.
Science was also very prevalent in the show. Videos explaining the biology be-hind vision, the wonders of modern plumbing and frac-tal theories were all played during the performance. The videos were interesting to watch and cleverly tied in to the rest of the show.
Blue Man Group put on an incredible show that was entirely unconventional. It combined various aspects of art, music, comedy and more, to deliver a perfor-mance that was visually, au-rally and mentally stimulat-ing. It is definitely a must-see show.
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November is not WVU’s
monthAfter remaining un-
beaten throughout Octo-ber, the state of Texas was not kind to No. 23 West Virginia during the past two weeks.
The Mountaineers (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) cruised past Big 12 foes Kansas, Texas Tech, Baylor and Okla-homa State in consecutive weeks last month before falling to Texas Chris-tian University and Texas in the first two weeks of November.
“(I) wanted it to be easy and it was hard,” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen after his team’s 33-16 loss to the Long-horns Saturday in Austin, Texas.
After West Virginia capped off its October slate with a convincing vic-tory over Oklahoma State, the Mountaineers almost seemed like the team to beat in the Big 12. The of-fense was moving the ball and scoring almost at will, and first-year defensive coordinator Tony Gibson seemed like a defensive mastermind after holding Baylor’s No. 1 offense to just 318 total yards.
However, West Virginia was unable to secure a pivotal home victory over TCU, and the hangover from the loss appeared to still be with the Mountain-eers in their match against Texas.
“I didn’t do a very good job of getting our guys ready,” Holgorsen said. “I thought we had a very good week of practice. Was it a TCU hangover? I’m sure that probably had something to do with it.”
D espite outgaining Texas 448-351 in total of-fensive yards, West Vir-ginia was unable to put the ball in the end zone when it counted. The Mountain-eers lone score of the first half came on a 22-yard field goal by Josh Lambert in the first quarter, as West Virginia entered halftime down 24-3.
“(I) challenged them at halftime. At least we went out and competed in the second half,” Holgorsen said.
After both teams failed to score during the third quarter, the Mountain-eers outscored Texas 13-9 in the fourth quarter, but Texas running back Jon-athan Gray made sure West Virginia’s comeback bid would fall short after scoring his third rushing touchdown of the game with 3:06 remaining.
Gray and fellow run-ning back Malcolm Brown provided the bulk of the L onghorns’ of fensive production, combining for 191 yards and three touchdowns.
“I thought (the) de-fense came back and really played good in the second half,” Holgorsen said. “It’s Football 101. Those guys blocked us. We couldn’t block in the first half. We couldn’t tackle. They did.”
At this point, it’s got to be back to the drawing board for Holgorsen and his staff to get the wrin-kles ironed out during the upcoming bye week. What worked so well for the Mountaineers dur-ing October has failed to produce the same results in November, and WVU fans have to be growing agitated.
“We need a break. It’s been six long weeks in a row,” Holgorsen said. “That didn’t have anything to do with the performance out there I can assure you, but we will use this as a way of regrouping.”
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West Virginia took care of business in an exhibi-tion game against Shep-herd Sunday evening. The Mountaineers downed the Rams 109-60.
Shepherd got shots up right from the start, as guard Steffen Davis hit two three-pointers to give the visitors a 6-2 lead early in the first half.
T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s quickly responded as both Gary Brown and Daxter Miles Jr. knocked down a pair of threes. West Vir-ginia gained the lead with 16:58 remaining in the first half of play.
A three ball from Jay-sean Paige, a basket un-derneath by Jonathan Holton and a free throw from Juan Staten saw West Virginia claim an 18-13 lead with 12 minutes left in the first half.
Sophomore for ward Devin Williams strug-gled early to put the ball through the net. Williams, with a good presence in-side, kept reeling in his own rebounds, but kept coming up empty handed.
“We need to rebound the ball better than we did today,” said head coach Bob Huggins. “None of our big (players) played good today. By and large I think they’re (the for-
wards) playing at their own pace. I don’t think you saw the best of any of our big (players).”
Williams finished the game with a double-dou-ble, scoring 11 points and hauling in 14 rebounds.
“He needs to score for us,” Huggins said in regard to Williams. “A lot of it was he didn’t do the things we worked at. It’s hard for big guys to play against smaller guys like that.”
“I think I was over anx-ious, over excited,” Wil-liams said. “I think (I) played okay. I didn’t re-ally have to do too much.”
West Virginia and Shep-herd traded buckets mid-way through the first half. Paige found two break- away layups for the Moun-taineers but the Rams continued to press the is-sue, racing back down the floor for a couple quick la-yups of their own.
Momentum shifted to West Virginia late in the first quarter as a 10-0 run that lasted more than four minutes, allowed WVU to head to the locker room at the half with a 40-29 lead.
The momentum car-ried over into the second half for the Mountaineers. West Virginia scored five quick points off a three from Nathan Adrian and a quick layup from Miles Jr.
WVU shot 39-77 (50.6 percent) from the floor, 8 -25 (32 percent) from be-
yond the arc and 23-35 (65.7 percent) from the free throw line.
“I was little nervous, (but) Kobe Bryant gets nervous,” Miles Jr. said. “When I took the first and even though it hit the rim a little, that’s when I knew I was alright.”
Miles Jr. managed to
score 9 points, but Paige led the Mountaineers, re-cording 13 points.
“Jaysean Paige made some good plays for us,” Huggins said. “He shot the ball better from three better than I thought he would.”
Shepherd couldn’t keep up with the Mountain-
eers. West Virginia never looked back after leading at the half. Huggins’ team rolled to a 109-60 win.
West Virginia wil l open regular season play against Monmouth at 7 p.m. Friday at the Coliseum.
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Austin, Texas – A week af-ter its most devastating loss of the season, a last-second 31-30 defeat against TCU, No. 23 West Virginia came out flat against the Texas Longhorns, falling 33-16 in Austin.
Following the loss to TCU, head coach Dana Holgorsen stressed how the Mountaineers would not dwell on that game, and would have to clear it from their minds in or-der to get ready for another tough conference road test.
That did not happen, especially early on. The Mountaineers were bul-lied up and down the field in the first half and were in a 24-3 hole heading into the break.
“The first half was a good old-fashioned butt kicking. It was on all three sides of the ball. We got out-coached. We got out-played,” Holgorsen said.
“We weren’t ready to
play. That’s on me. Whether it was just a little bit of a hangover so to speak from last week I don’t know, but we weren’t ready to play. I’ll take responsibility for that.”
The first two drives set the tone for the game. West Virginia moved the ball well but was forced to punt after getting into Texas territory.
The Longhorns started deep in their own end, but drove 90 yards for a touch-down with an effective mix of run and pass that seemed to make the West Virginia defense’s head spin.
“You motivate and coach during the week. On game day, you go out and call a game. If we had to moti-vate them to come and play in this venue…that’s not a good thing,” said defensive coordinator Tony Gibson.
“In the first half, we would have been better off sitting on the bus.”
Coming into this game, West Virginia’s coach-ing staff felt it had a feel
for how the Longhorns would attack them on of-fense. Quarterback Tyrone Swoopes would be charged with managing the game, while the Longhorns’ tal-ented stable of running backs wore the Mountain-eers down.
That is exactly how it played out, and despite their best preparations, West Virginia wasn’t able to stop it.
“It wasn’t a big secret what they were going to do. They were going to get double tight end sets, they’ve got big backs, and they were going to pound us. They did,” Gibson said.
Johnathan Gray and Malcolm Brown ran wild against the Mountaineers, combining for 190 yards. Gray found the end zone three times.
“They controlled us up front. They ran through our linebackers, ran through our DBs and again, that’s not on the kids. That’s on me,” Gibson said.
Now riding a two-game losing streak, West Vir-
ginia has a bye week to lick its wounds and come back re-focused for the final two games of the season.
“The biggest thing we’ve got to do is rest. We’ve got to heal up and rest,” said of-fensive coordinator Shan-
non Dawson.“The maturity of a team
(is measured by) not letting what happened in the past dictate what happens in the future.”
Texas Longhorns take down No. 23 West Virginia in Austin Saturday, 33-16
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Coming off an agoniz-ing loss to then-No. 7 TCU, No. 23 West Virginia knew it had its work cut out en-tering Week 11.
However, when the Mountaineers (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) invaded Austin, Texas Saturday, to take on the Longhorns (5-5, 4-3 Big 12), things only got worse.
The Mountaineers suf-fered their first back-to-back losses of the season, but it was the way they went about their fourth loss
of the season that has done nothing but hurt the Moun-taineers moving forward.
With all the momentum in the world, and many say-ing the Big 12 showdown would be coming straight throughout Morgantown just a couple of weeks ago, those thoughts have now been negated.
Compared to a week ago against TCU, when the Mountaineer offense crum-bled apart as the game went on, this time around it was the entire Mountaineer squad that showed no life in many parts of the game.
WVU defensive coordi-
nator Tony Gibson said the first half of Saturday’s game for the Mountaineers’ de-fense was atrocious, but put most of the blame on himself.
“(We) came out slug-gish, couldn’t stop the run,” Gibson said. “They (Texas) controlled the line of scrimmage and did what they wanted to do.”
Though the defensive ef-fort in the second half – af-ter giving up 24 points in the first half – would not be enough to have the Moun-taineers be victorious, Gib-son said the overall play-ing of WVU’s defense was
highly improved after halftime.
“In the first half, we would have been better off sitting on the bus,” he said. “We decided to play in the second half – that’s the bot-tom line.”
On the offense side, for the first time this season, West Virginia did not have a single passing touchdown – even with redshirt senior quarterback Clint Trickett throwing for 248 yards – as he connected with eight different receivers.
One of those receivers was senior Kevin White, who after being viewed as
a Heisman contender a few weeks ago, suffered his sec-ond game without a touch-down, after scoring at least one in West Virginia’s first eight games of the season.
Following the game, White put it simply when he said the Mountaineers were clearly outplayed on all sides of the ball.
“We’re very frustrated because that’s not who we are, that’s not how we practice, that’s not how we play,” White said. “They started out really (well) and we didn’t start out fast at all and they just took advan-tage of their opportunities.”
Although the Mountain-eers had more first downs, total yards, more comple-tions and a slight advan-tage for time of possession against Texas, none of that mattered when the score-board struck all zeros at the end of the fourth quar-ter from Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium.
West Virginia now enters its second off week of the season, with No. 7 Kansas State coming to Morgan-town next Thursday for the final home game of the year for the Mountaineers.
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Mountaineers lose 3-0 to cyclones for eighth big 12 lossby nicole cUrTin
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Univer-sity volleyball team dropped its fourth straight match Sat-urday to Iowa State, 3-0.
This is the eighth loss for the Mountaineers in the Big 12, and they now sit at 13-12 overall, 3-8 in the con-ference. Iowa State is 13-9, 5-6 Big 12. Ending the game with set scores of 24-26, 20-25 and 20-25, WVU came close to closing the gap, but was unsuccessful.
Throughout the season, head coach Jill Kramer has been moving players around in different positions on the court and in the lineup, at-tempting to get a steady group that will be able to fin-ish with a win.
“We were working on a 6-2 today, trying to really take the strengths from all of our players and make some things happen offensively,” Kramer said.
“I think there were some times when we were good at that, and it just wasn’t con-sistent enough yet. I think with time, its going to get better.”
Iowa State was fresh off its sweep of No. 22 Kansas State Wednesday and hit for .255 on the match with 44 kills. Leading the Cyclones, Vic-toria Hurtt had 11 kills hit-ting for a .429 clip, followed by Morgan Kuhrt and Alexis Conaway with eight each.
On the West Virginia side of the net, Jordan Anderson and Nikki Attea both had nine kills each, and Attea hit a .333 clip. With 35 to-
tal team kills on a .130 hit-ting percentage, 22 attack-ing errors hurt the chances the Mountaineers had to score with several balls go-ing back into the net or out of bounds.
“We had some great per-formances out of some peo-ple. It didn’t matter where we put Nikki (Attea), she’s done a great job for us, we’ve just got to get everybody else in that same place.”
Hannah Sackett con-tributed eight kills, Caleah Wells hit four, and lone se-nior Evyn McCoy put down three, while hitting for a .333 clip as well.
Freshman Lamprini Kon-stantinidou and junior Brit-tany Sample split time set-ting for WVU, while they combined for 32 assists and Konstantinidou had a team-
best six digs. Defending the net was
not a problem for the Moun-taineers, as Hannah Shreve put up seven block assists, and Sackett put up four con-tributing to the nine team blocks.
WVU was down in the first set, 14-8, and slowly made a comeback, tying the score at 16-16 after a 4-0 run and an attacking error on the Cyclone’s side of the net. The teams continued to rally until attacks from Anderson and Shreve put West Virginia up 22-20. The Mountaineers were given the ball to serve at set point, the score at 24-23, and Iowa State sunk a kill and two more points to get the set 26-24.
Set two was a bigger strug-gle for West Virginia. ISU came out with an early 8-1
lead and held it throughout the set. Finally, the Moun-taineers caught up, cutting the score 17-15, but Iowa State took a 3-0 run, pushing the score to 20-15. Sackett and Attea both scored in an effort to win the set, but the Cyclones took one last swing and kill winning 25-20.
Going into halftime, WVU was down 2-0 in the set and needed to come out with a win in the third set. Attea said there was not any nega-tivity in their mid-game talk.
“We went into the locker room trying to figure out what was working well for us,” Attea said. “We real-ized at times we had a lot of hitters going, and some-times we let our foot off the gas pedal a little bit, so we went into the third set with a little more fire and more
togetherness.”Attea was right as the
Mountaineers came out in set three and took a 3-1 lead, eventually a 13-7 lead, but Iowa State came back on a 7-1 run and tied the set. After each team scored a handful of points, ISU was up 20-19 before it used two errors on the WVU side and two kills to get the set point, 24-19.
West Virginia had a chance to score once again after Iowa State served into the net, but the Cyclones put down a kill and took the set, 25-20, and the match 3-0.
The Mountaineers will be back in action in Aus-tin, Texas at 8 p.m. Wednes-day to face the No. 3 Texas Longhorns.
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West Viginia on to Mac championship following 2-1 winby ryan MinnGih
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
It’s on to the MAC Championship for the West Virginia men’s soc-cer team.
The Mountaineers won a thrilling game Saturday against Western Michigan, coming through in the late minutes to win, 2-1.
This caps off a five-game winning streak to end the season for the Mountaineers, and they will be the No. 2 seed en-tering the MAC Champi-onship tournament.
Freshman Jad Arslan
capped off the victory with the game-winning goal at 86 minutes to seal the Mountaineers’ 11th vic-tory this season.
Arslan and Jamie Mer-riam both scored goals in the victory. Zak Leedom, Joey Piatczyc and Mike Desiderio all registered assists as well.
Neither team held the upper edge in the first 25 minutes of play, only reg-istering one shot each.
Western Michigan then had two corner kick op-portunities and had a shot off one of the attempts, but did not change the score.
The Broncos did not let
off the pedal in the first half. Continuing to take shots, the Broncos kept the pressure high, but could not find the back of the net through the first half. The halftime score remained at 0-0.
West Virginia needed to start the second half and get momentum. They did just that.
Piatczyc took a shot at 46 minutes that missed, but Merriam followed that shot with a big goal.
Merriam went on a streak off two passes from Piatczyc and Leedom and beat the Broncos’ keeper to the left to put the Moun-
taineers up 1-0 early in the second half.
After giving the oppor-tunities to the Broncos in the first half, the Moun-taineers flipped the script in the second half, taking a majority of the shots.
Despite the high-shot total from the Mountain-eers in the second half, it was not enough to keep the Broncos off the board.
Nick Wysong took a free kick for the Broncos that hit off the crossbar. Edu Jimenez shot off the re-bound, but Johnston was able to save the first shot. However, the second re-bound shot from Hunter
VandenBoom found the back of the net to knot the score at 1-1.
Western Michigan had more chances to take the lead, but a save from John-ston kept the score tied. However, the Mountain-eers kept their energy high as well.
Francio Henry and Mer-riam both nearly scored for the Mountaineers, but both chances fell just short.
It wasn’t much longer though before West Vir-ginia put home the dagger. At 86 minutes, Desiderio took a long shot that came off the crossbar, but Arslan
headed home the rebound to give the Mountaineers the victory, 2-1, over West-ern Michigan.
The win puts the Moun-taineers in a position where they could po-tentially host the MAC Championship, but Akron defeated Buffalo 4-0 Satur-day evening to claim home field for the tournament.
The Mountaineers will enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed and will travel to Akron, Ohio for the games. The tourna-ment will be held Nov. 14-16.
by ryan peTroVichsports writer
@dailyathenaeum
West Virginia won its second straight Big 12 Tournament on Sunday. The Mountaineers beat the Oklahoma Sooners 1-0 in Kansas City, Mo.
This is the Mountaineers’ fourth conference champi-onship in five years.
An early goal from se-nior forward Kate Schwin-del put the Mountain-eers on the board first and proved to be the difference
in the contest. An assist from Amanda Hill helped Schwindel put the ball in the back of the net.
“I barely got my foot on the ball. I just prayed that I put enough on it to get it past the keeper,” Schwin-del said in a press release. “Tonight’s win shows how much heart we have. We knew OU was going to come at us and send the long ball in. We just had to stay focused and play our game.”
Before traveling to Kan-sas City for the Big 12
tournament, Schwindel stressed how important it was to not go “one and done” in her final year in a Mountaineer jersey.
Schwindel and her fellow seniors Jess Crowder, Ali Connelly and Katie Oster-man will leave WVU boast-ing seven conference titles.
“It is an unbelievable feeling to be a part of this team and to experience this win with everyone,” said West Virginia head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown in a press release. “I’m espe-cially happy that Kate got
that game-winner. I’m so proud of this team.”
This was the first time Schwindel scored in a Big 12 championship game.
Shutting opponents out is something the Moun-taineers have done quite a bit this season. This was the team’s eleventh shutout of the year and the junior goalkeeper Hannah Stead-man’s tenth of the season.
Steadman tied her ca-reer-high six saves in the contest.
“To get this shutout as a team (is) unbelievable,”
Izzo-Brown said. “Han-nah has gotten better ev-ery game, and this was one of her best performances. She got that clean sheet and did what she needs to do—make the easy saves, but come up with the big ones.”
With the victory, the Mountaineers have earned a spot in the NCAA Tourna-ment as the Big 12 title en-tails an automatic bid.
“This is an awesome feeling,” Schwindel said. “I wouldn’t want to be any-where else but at WVU.”
“Two years in a row – this is an unbelievable feeling,” said sophomore midfielder Ashley Lawrence in a press release. “I’m so proud of this team and the coaching staff. We put in the work leading up to this tourna-ment and it paid off.”
West Virginia will watch tomorrow night to see where they will fall in terms of seeding for the big dance. This will be WVU’s 15th straight NCCA Tour-nament appearance.
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Watson wins his 1st World Golf ChampionshipSHANGHAI (AP) – Even in
the midst of a meltdown, Bubba Watson never lost hope Sunday in the HSBC Champions.
He stood on the 16th tee with a two-shot lead. He trudged off the 17th green facing a one-shot deficit be-hind five players suddenly tied for the lead. And right when it looked as though Watson had blown it, he de-livered a finish that not even the creator of “Bubba golf” could have imagined.
From some 60 yards away in a bunker left of the green on the par-5 18th hole, Wat-son blasted out of the sand and watched his ball roll 25 feet before it dropped for ea-gle. Watson was so stunned
that his eyes widened and he screamed. He didn’t know what else to do.
Moments later, he rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th in a playoff to beat Tim Clark and capture his first World Golf Championship.
“You never know what he’s going to do,” said Rickie Fowler, who watched it all un-fold at Sheshan International.
Watson closed with a 2-un-der 70, a score that doesn’t even begin to describe his wild ride – an eagle, birdie, par, bogey and double bogey filled his scorecard over the last five holes.
The two-time Masters champion looked like a lost cause when he stood in the bunker on the 18th in reg-
ulation, waiting his turn to play. That’s when he turned to his caddie and told him, “It’s been a miserable cou-ple holes here, but this will change everything if it goes in.”
Talk about a Shanghai surprise.
“You always joke about holing it,” Watson said.” “And then it actually went in. I didn’t know how to react and so I just kind of screamed, and I lost my voice a little bit. It was one of those shots, a one-in-a-lifetime kind of shot. And so it was pretty neat.”
The 10th edition of the HSBC Champions was the most memorable one yet.
Clark made a 5-foot birdie
on the final hole for a 69 to join Watson at 11-under 277. Fowler’s hopes of joining them ended when he tried to hit a 5-wood from 228 yards over the water to a back pin position. The ball didn’t make it over the front bank and rolled back into the wa-ter. He scrambled for a par and a 70.
All three players in the fi-nal group had a chance at birdie to join the playoff.
Graeme McDowell, who led after each of the three rounds, missed a 12-foot putt and shot 73. Hiroshi Iwata of Japan, the mystery guest on a world-class leaderboard, narrowly missed from 8 feet. U.S. Open champion Mar-tin Kaymer hit a wedge that
bounded off the green and into the water, leading to double bogey and a 73.
In the playoff, Clark had a 25-foot birdie putt that stopped a few inches short.
“I knew I needed to birdie that playoff, especially with him being able to reach,” Clark said. “I’m pleased over-all. Obviously, disappointed to be that close.”
Watson wound up in the same bunker in the playoff, and while he blasted out 20 feet short, the birdie putt was on the same line as the bun-ker shot he holed in regula-tion. He knew the speed and the break. The only differ-ence was when he holed the winning putt, he didn’t have a voice to scream. He bent
his knees and repeatedly pumped both arms.
Watson became the 14th player to win a major and a World Golf Championship. Watson moved to No. 3 in the world, making him the high-est-ranked American, and it was his seventh career win. Sweeter yet, he picked up a trophy far away from home.
“Being able to win out-side the U.S., I just want to be able to travel and get through the jet lag, get through all the things and still perform at a high level,” Watson said. “So for me to win out here, this is very big. This is very spe-cial for me.”
That the other five play-ers even had a chance was a bonus.
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Committee could decide between Big 12 or Big Ten
College Football (AP) – The race for the first Col-lege Football Playoff could be headed toward the se-lection committee choos-ing between a Big 12 team and Big Ten team for the final spot in the final four, two conferences that go about determining their champions in very differ-ent ways.
Baylor of the Big 12 and Ohio State of the Big Ten took big steps forward in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday after winning crucial road games.
Baylor climbed four places to No. 6 after rout-ing Oklahoma, 48-14, and Ohio State moved five spots to No. 13 after beat-ing Michigan State 49-37 on Saturday night.
The Bears slipped in right behind Big 12 ri-val and fifth-ranked TCU. Ohio State is now best po-sitioned to represent the Big Ten in the playoff, though No. 11 Nebraska (8-1) can’t be discounted.
For the fifth straight week, the top teams in the
media poll are Mississippi State (9-0) and Florida State (9-0). The No. 1 Bull-dogs received 49 first-place votes. The second-ranked Seminoles have 12.
Oregon jumped to No. 3 past Alabama, which re-mained No. 4.
Mississippi State is at Al-abama on Saturday. If ei-ther team wins out, you can safely slot them into the playoff.
Oregon and No. 7 Ari-zona State are on a similar path. The Ducks and Sun Devils could meet in the Pac-12 title game. If either wins the rest of its games, a playoff spot should await.
Same goes for Florida State of the Atlantic Coast Conference if it can stay unbeaten. The Seminoles play at Miami on Saturday.
That scenario would leave the Big 12 and Big Ten vying for a spot and the selection committee weighing the merits of how conferences determine a champion, and how much the randomness of in-league scheduling should
be held against a team.The 10-team Big 12
doesn’t play a conference title game, but is the only Big Five league with a full round-robin schedule. One true champion is the Big 12’s slogan.
“You don’t have to guess how teams would play against each other,” Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Sunday. “In other conferences, maybe you have missed the top teams in the other division. This year, the SEC West is carving each other up, but we go through that every year.”
Ohio State’s problem is, in part, a bad draw.
The Buckeyes played Illi-nois from the Big Ten West, missing Nebraska and No. 22 Wisconsin. Ohio State does play at Minnesota (7-2) from the West on Satur-day. Conference schedules are made a few years in ad-vance and the Big Ten is going to nine league games like the Big 12 and Pac-12 in 2016. The 2017 schedule is already set.
There is no way to make short-term adjustments - maybe a season in ad-vance instead of three or four – that could lead to more cross-divisional games between conference contenders.
With Penn State medi-ocre and Michigan about the same in the Big Ten East, the conference is not doing the Buckeyes any fa-vors this year. They’ll need that Big Ten title game on Dec. 6 in Indianapolis to boost their resume. On that same day, TCU will host Iowa State and Baylor faces No. 13 Kansas State in Waco, Texas.
Of course that extra game can also be a stum-bling block.
“The right team doesn’t always win and they could end up being viewed as damaged goods,” Bowlsby said.
The Big 12 and ACC have asked the NCAA to waive its rules regarding playing a conference title game. Currently, confer-ences must have at least
12 teams, broken into two divisions.
Bowlsby said the request was made not so the Big 12 can bring back its champi-onship game, but as part of a general movement to-ward deregulation.
For now, the Big 12 is happy with its structure.
“Time will tell what will be the right way to get a team into the playoff,” Bowlsby said.
UP AND DOWNAuburn dropped six
spots to No. 9 after being upset at home by Texas A&M, another hit to the SEC’s chances of getting two playoff teams.
The other losers of Sat-urday’s big showdown games all took similar tumbles:
- Michigan State fell from No. 7 to No. 12.
- Kansas State dropped from No. 9 to No. 13 after losing 41-20 to TCU.
- Notre Dame fell from No. 8 to No. 15 after losing 55-31 to Arizona State.
- LSU fell from No. 14 to No. 20 after losing 20-13 in
overtime to Alabama.- Utah dropped from No.
20 to No. 25 after losing 51-27 to Oregon.
OUT AND INOklahoma is out of the
rankings this week for the first time since the final poll of the 2009 season, snapping a streak of 76 poll appearances. Another Big 12 team, West Virginia, dropped out.
No. 24 Georgia Tech is back in the rankings and No. 23 Colorado State (9-1) is ranked for the first time since in 11 years, dat-ing back the preseason poll in 2003.
STREAKSAlabama (110) and Or-
egon (89) have the longest current streaks of consecu-tive poll appearances.
Oklahoma became the fourth teams this season to have a streak of at least 69 weeks stopped.
LSU’s streak ended at 87 before the Tigers moved back into the rankings. Stanford’s was snapped at 72 and South Carolina’s ended at 69.
apOSU’s Jeff Heuerman (No. 5) celebrates with his teammates following a win against Michigan State Saturday.
No. 1 Mississippi St set for matchup at No. 4 BamaSTARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) –
No. 1 Mississippi State has been an afterthought on col-lege football’s landscape dur-ing the past few weeks, se-curing ho-hum wins over inferior opponents with reg-ular monotony.
That all changes on Saturday.
The Bulldogs (9-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference, No. 1 CFP) travel to face No. 4 Alabama (8-1, 5-1, No. 5 CFP) in Tuscaloosa in what will be a showdown for West-ern Division supremacy. The game begins a pivotal three-game stretch, which also in-cludes Vanderbilt and rival Mississippi.
Just minutes after Missis-sippi State beat Tennessee-Martin 45-16 on Saturday night, the Bulldogs had al-ready switched their focus to the Tide.
“This is what you play for,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said. “We’re in the middle of November, com-peting for first place in the SEC West, which is what it’s all about. That’s what you come here for. That’s what we want our program to be like.”
Mississippi State goes into the Alabama game on a 12-game winning streak that’s second in the nation behind Florida State. That’s one of many reasons the Bulldogs
have plenty of confidence de-spite losing six straight games in the series dating to 2007.
The Tide is riding high af-ter a come-from-behind, 20-13 overtime win over LSU in Death Valley.
“Playing in big time games in November means you’re playing for championships,” quarterback Dak Prescott said. “To go to Tuscaloosa be-ing the hunted is a challenge we are willing to take.”
Prescott had a good game against Tennessee-Mar-tin, throwing for two touch-downs and running for a 48-yard touchdown before being pulled from the game in the third quarter after the Bull-dogs had built a big lead.
The 6-foot-2, 230-pound ju-nior has been dealing with an injured left ankle, but looked healthy against the Skyhawks, scrambling for the long touch-down score and moving in the pocket with ease.
Mississippi State also cleaned up some of its mis-cues from previous weeks. After eight turnovers over a three-game stretch against Auburn, Kentucky and Ar-kansas, the first-team of-fense didn’t have any against Tennessee-Martin.
The Bulldogs’ offense con-tinues to be nearly unstoppa-ble - they’re on pace for sin-gle-season program records
in both points and total yards. But Mullen is still frustrated with his defense’s inability to force three-and-outs and turnovers.
“I give our guys credit, we’re finding ways to make plays, we’re finding ways to win the game, even though we’re doing a lot of things that you can’t do to win games,” Mullen said.
Mississippi State showed its depth in the win against Tennessee-Martin, which might prove useful in what will likely be a physically tax-ing game against Alabama. Ashton Shumpert ran for 82 yards and a touchdown while Brandon Holloway had 70 yards rushing and a touchdown.
Freshman Gabe Myles caught a team-high five passes for 54 yards. Junior Joe Morrow – the team’s ninth-leading receiver coming into the game – caught a 55-yard touchdown pass.
While the Bulldogs will lean on stars like Prescott, running back Josh Robin-son and receiver De’Runnya Wilson against the Tide, the hope is Alabama will have to be mindful of everyone on the field.
“We don’t want teams to fear one of us,” Morrow said. “We want them to fear all of us.” ap
Mississippi State quarterback Dak Precott (No. 15) congratulated after a win Saturday against Tennessee-Martin.