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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Tuesday January 12, 2016 Volume 128, Issue 73www.THedaONLINe.comda
Student employees should be allowed to work more than 20 hours a week
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INSIDENews: 1, 2Opinion: 3A&E: 4Sports: 7, 8, 9
Campus Calendar: 6Puzzles: 6Classifieds: 5
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NIGHT WITH THE STARS
by kayla asburyassociate city editor
@kaylaasbury_
The West Virginia Uni-versity Sierra Student Coalition held its first meeting of the semester Monday night. The club is partnering with US Green Building Council Leadership Students at WVU on a campaign to get buildings on WVU’s campus certified by the USGBC in Energy and Environmental Design program.
The SSC plans to hold a petition drive from 12:30-3 p.m. Wednes-day, Jan. 13 and from 1-4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15 at the Mountainlair.
The requirements for LEED certification in-clude LED lights, natural lights and eco-friendly toilets. Oglebay Hall is currently the only LEED certified building at WVU.
Th e re a re many other buildings on campus close to be-ing LEED certified, though, SSC members said.
According to the US-GBC website, “LEED certified buildings save money and resources and have a positive im-pact on the health of occupants…”
LEED certifications will show WVU has green buildings, as well as provide an effective way to cut costs for the University.
“It makes sense. It makes sense from the energy standpoint, the LEED certification helps an organization to use re-sources more efficiently. It also makes sense for costing,” said Adam Rossi, member of the Si-erra Club. “The initial cost for a building that is LEED certified will be higher, but over the life-time of that building it will be significantly lower in terms of long term savings, and wasted re-sources. Another reason is to keep up with other places...I think it’s time for WVU to take a step and keep up with everyone else.”
Amanda Stoner, presi-dent of the SSC at WVU, believes LEED certifi-cations will benefit the University.
“I think that it’s going to positively benefit WVU in a huge way, because it’s something that you can put on brochures… ‘We are a LEED certified, it is a cleaner and greener building,’” Stoner said.
“LEED certification is good because it prevents Sick Building Syndrome, and people are healthier, they’re happier, there are more windows, there’s better lighting. It’s work-ing in a more sustainable atmosphere.”
The Sierra Club has been at WVU since 1993.
Most students ini-tially show interest in the recreational activ-ities the Sierra Club offers.
“A lot of people are ini-tially attracted by hiking and the outings…They get hooked because it’s re-ally fun to go. We do tree planting twice a year,” Stoner said. “We intro-duce people to the advo-cacy components of the SSC and we get them in-troduced to the commu-nity organizing. Not only are you going to do field work and actual clean ups, but also work for the public, work for the legislature.”
The club also pro-vides students with the opportunity to partici-pate in environmental stewardship.
“It is very important to WVU. We are the pre-miere environmental club. It serves a lot of purposes. There are a lot of people here that like to recreate. If you like to recreate, this club is for you,” Rossi said. “If you’re into political cam-paigning this club is for you. If you’re into ground work in terms of a cam-paign, this is for you. If you’re into on-the-ground stuff, like pick-ing up trash at the ar-boretum this is for you, too. It’s very broad when it comes to a lot of inter-ests. There are a lot of dif-ferent interests this caters to.”
For more information on the Sierra Student Co-alition, visit its Twitter account, @WVUSSC.
by caity coynecity editor
@caitycoyne
As the West Virginia University Mountain-eers take on the Univer-sity of Kansas Jayhawks at the Coliseum tonight, big crowds and limited park-ing are expected for those attending the basketball game.
The WVU Division of Student Life, Student Gov-ernment Association and the Department of Inter-collegiate Athletics offered
1,200 more tickets than usual for WVU students for tonight’s highly antic-ipated matchup.
“In an effort to accom-modate as many WVU stu-dents as possible, some students will be seated in reserved, general public sections. If you arrive af-ter the student section is filled, you will be given a ticket to a reserved seat when you enter the Coli-seum,” read a WVU press release.
For students who re-served tickets, a seat lo-
cation is printed on the ticket that will lead them to their seat for the game.
Parking at the coliseum is expected to be extremely limited.
Students and staff who have class or work at the Coliseum will be able to park for free until 5 p.m.
To make up for the loss in parking, short-term parking lots are available at the Alumni Center and Mountaineer Station. The Evansdale Campus also
has a variety of parking available.
Fans can also park in Downtown lots and take the PRT or Moun-tain Line buses to the game.
Students are reminded to bring both their printed ticket and their student ID to ensure access to the game.
For questions on tick-eting, contact Moun-taineer Ticket Office at 1-800-WVU-GAME
by amy prattstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
Patrons of the Morgan-town Public Library were greeted with soft music as they walked into one of the basement rooms Monday night. However, they were not there to read books, but instead to color in them.
In order to provide a stress relief activity and remind Morgantown res-idents that coloring is not only for children, the library began it’s new monthly Adult Coloring night.
“It brings the adults to-gether to converse with one another,” said Jay Gummer, a library em-ployee. “If someone has
a small social circle, this can make it (larger) and the coloring is also a stress reliever.”
There had already been one adult coloring night in December, but now the event will happen monthly.
Stephanie Tenney, a li-brary patron, introduced the idea after she attended an adults coloring event at Barnes and Noble. Ten-ney enjoyed it and mes-saged the Morgantown Li-brary on Facebook to see if they could start something similar.
“A lot of my friends were raving about color-ing. I was like, ‘I haven’t colored since I was a kid, so I’m going to pick it up,’” Tenney said. “I loved the different coloring books
and pages, it’s really relaxing.”
Tenney, as well as oth-ers who attended the event, have struggled with anxiety and found col-oring to be a great stress reliever.
“It’s really relaxing. It helps a lot with mental state. I deal with anxiety a lot and it really helps mel-low you out,” Tenney said. “It’s a really good thing to try.”
Those attending the event could choose a page, or more, to color from a variety of coloring books for adults. There was any-thing from flower designs to Star Wars or Harry Pot-ter to choose from. The li-brary also provided col-ored pencils, gel pens and markers, as well as
refreshments.Sue Carpenter, who
does coloring in a class for children, came to the library to color for her-self with her own coloring books and supplies in tow.
“I had the stuff at home, but I bought the kit to carry. So I could be a little more organized,” she said. “I do (coloring) for a class for kids. I just thought it’d be fun to do some col-oring just for me. Well, I could color at home, but I never set aside time to sit down and do something like this, so it’s easier to come where there are no distractions and I can just color.”
Other guests came to experience a new type of
by tessa iglesiascorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Univer-sity Student Rec Center will implement a new parking policy this week that will make the Rec parking lot available only to those using the facility.
“There are lots of students, faculty and staff that use the Rec Center, and they’ve not been able to find parking over the years when it is intended for Rec Center users,” said Clement Solomon, director of the Department of Transpor-tation and Parking at WVU.
To gain access to the park-ing lot, students must use Morrill Way in front of Evans-dale Crossing, as the old en-trance on the CPASS side of the Rec will be closed. The lot is controlled by a gate that requires validation from the Rec parking attendants in or-der to exit. An exit fee of $20 will be charged for any park-ing violations.
Those who park at the lot with intent to use the Rec’s facilities will receive free two hour parking, Solomon said. This time limit has been de-termined by the Rec’s lead-ership, as they found a typi-
cal user does not usually stay in the facilities for more than two hours.
Although Rec parking is re-stricted, students have other parking options for class. Short-term lots 9 and 1 are two new parking facilities that have opened across the street from the Student Rec Center.
These lots cost $1.25 an hour, and all pay stations ac-cept credit cards and give the option to extend parking time via text message. There is also an upcoming app that will allow you to pay from your phone, likely to be released this semester.
“We’ve added a lot more parking than what was there historically, an additional 200 spaces,” Solomon said. “There’s also the Alumni Cen-ter parking lot and the Coli-seum where they can park for free.”
Though there are addi-tional lots available for class parking, it is likely the Uni-versity will face scrutiny from students about the limited free parking options.
Taylor Wentzel, a junior at WVU, said he typically doesn’t have trouble finding parking
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Just keep coloring
KrIsTen uppercue/THe DaIly aTHenaeumClockwise starting from the left: The Morgantown Library hosted an Adult Coloring Night for locals to have fun and relax. Top right: Adults choose from a variety of coloring books to use. Middle right: Melanie Braun brings in the new year in a fun and relaxing way by participating in the Adult Coloring Day. Bottom right: Adults from the area gather together in the Morgantown Library to spend the night coloring and enjoying complimentary refreshments.
Morgantown Library hosts its new monthly “Adult Coloring Day” event
WVU Sierra Student Coalition teams up with USGBC in campaign to make WVU buildings more sustainable
““I think it’s time for WVu to take a step and keep up with everyone else.”
Adam RossiWVu student and member of ssc
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WVU prepares for Kansas game by offering alternative parkingsee COLOring on PAGE 2
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when going to the gym be-cause parking spaces are con-stantly becoming available. As someone who used the Rec to park for class three times a
week, he feels it is unfair for the University to charge for parking at a place that was once advertised as free.
“People get towed at this school every day and end up paying hundreds of dollars in parking tickets, or for passes,” Wentzel said. “We already pay so much money to go to school here, so it would be nice if we could get free park-ing for class.”
In order to ensure students have ample notice of the new parking policy, leaflets will be handed out to students, and students will be notified of the parking restrictions for the first two days of the policy change.
For more information on parking on campus, visit http://transportation.wvu.edu.
Morgantown evening entertainment.
“We came down here to do something differ-ent in Morgantown be-cause there’s not a lot of ways to be creative and express yourself,” said Ashleigh Pulley, who also attended the event. “We saw the sign and just decided to stop by. It’s our first time and we love it.”
Adult Coloring will now be from 5:30 to 7:30 on the second Monday of each month at the Morgantown Library.
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AP
powerball prize invites myths, misconceptions about lottery
apPeople play various lottery games at a store in New York, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. Lottery officials say the Powerball jackpot has grown to more than a billion dollars.
des MOINes, Iowa (aP)—With up to $1.4 billion at stake in Wednesday’s Pow-erball, questions about the drawing seem to be as abundant as the conve-nience-store kiosks offering tickets for the record-break-ing jackpot.
The inquiries include many myths and miscon-ceptions about the winners, the prize money and the system that decides them. A look at some of the most common questions:
WHY ARE ALL THE JACKP OT WINNE R S FROM CERTAIN STATES?
Officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, a group of state lotteries that oversee Powerball, said this is one of the most frequent complaints.
It’s “human nature to think the other guy is win-ning,” said Sally Lunsford, public affairs director for the Kansas Lottery.
It’s also wrong, though
there are anomalies.For example, in the past
two years, Missouri and Tennessee have each been home to three Powerball jackpot winners, while New York, the nation’s fourth most populous state, has only had one winner dur-ing that span.
Lottery officials, backed by mathematicians, said probabilities equal out over time, but in shorter periods, oddities can occur, in the same way someone could flip a coin and get heads five times in a row.
THE P OWE RBAL L JACKPOT OVERSTATES THE WINNINGS.
There’s more of a ratio-nale behind this claim. The jackpot is the amount paid out over 30 years and not the amount a winner could receive immediately. So while the current jackpot is listed at $1.4 billion, a sole winner would only get that much if the person received
29 annual payments. Win-ners can also choose the cash prize, which is the to-tal amount currently up for grabs, but that is “only” $868 million.
Gary Grief, executive di-rector of the Texas Lottery, responded that Powerball prominently displays both the annuity and cash prize figures. The bigger number gets more attention, and Grief said lotteries have taken that approach for decades.
“When the prize gets so big, the critics come out as well,” he said.
WINNERS WHO TAKE AN ANNUITY FACE BIG TAX DANGERS.
One of the most persis-tent misconceptions, offi-cials said, is that winners risk tax trouble if they opt for an annuity but die before all 29 payments are made.
Terry Rich, chief exec-utive of the Iowa Lottery, said he’s heard this one fre-
quently and repeatedly ex-plains that if someone dies, that person’s estate will treat the annuity like any other asset. A winner’s heirs may choose to cash in an annu-ity and then pay taxes on the money, but that’s a choice they must make.
Investment planners note, however, that when winners choose how to re-ceive their money, they should consider their age and whether they mind if some of the cash remains out of their reach and goes to their heirs instead.
THE ODDS OF WIN-NING THE JACKPOT ARE WORSE THAN IN THE PAST.
This is true, as the Multi-State Lottery Commission last fall added more num-bers to choose from. The new system changed the odds from 1 in 175 million to 1 in 292.2 million. But far from hiding the change, the organization trumpeted it
as part of an effort to build larger jackpots while also giving away more prizes of $2 million or less. Without the change, it’s unlikely a jackpot would ever come close to the current $1.4 bil-lion, or $868 million cash prize.
THE SMALLER THE JACKPOT, THE BETTER THE ODDS.
This is false. Your odds for each ticket are 1 in 292.2 million regardless of the jackpot size or how many other people play. If you buy more tickets, your odds in-crease, but they’re still woe-fully small.
However, it’s true that as jackpots increase, more people typically play the game. And the more tick-ets that are purchased, the greater the chance that there will be multiple winners.
But this all largely misses the more important fact: The chances of winning
are incredibly remote, so it makes little difference whether you’d have to share the money.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER USES FOR SUCH A VAST SUM OF MONEY?
The Powerball prize has grown so large that Gerald Prante, an economics pro-fessor at Lynchburg Col-lege in Lynchburg, Virginia, has determined that a sin-gle winner would likely be among the top 100 income earners in the nation for 2016.
That has made some peo-ple uneasy about so much money going to one per-son when it might be better spent on public needs. But when weighed against typ-ical government spending, the $1.4 billion looks like a more modest amount. By comparison, California Gov. Jerry Brown last week pro-posed a $122.6 billion gen-eral fund budget for the na-tion’s most populous state.
Trial of Freddie Gray van driver delayedBaLTIMORe (aP)—A
Maryland appeals court postponed the trial of a police van driver charged with second-degree mur-der in the death of Freddie Gray, saying it needs to ad-dress whether another Bal-timore officer should be compelled to testify against Caesar Goodson.
Jury selection for Good-son’s trial was supposed to start Monday. Prosecutors have indicated that testi-mony from Officer William Porter, whose trial ended in a hung jury last month, is crucial to their case against Goodson.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams, who is overseeing the trial, ruled last week that Porter must testify against Goodson despite Porter’s assertion that he has a right not to incriminate himself.
Porter’s trial is post-poned indefinitely, pend-ing further proceedings, including more written fil-ings from both sides, fol-lowed by oral arguments before the Court of Spe-cial Appeals, Maryland courts spokeswoman Terri Charles said.
Gray died in April, a week after his neck was broken during a van ride. Goodson was with Gray for every second of his 45-min-ute trip from the site of his arrest to the Western Dis-trict police station, where Gray arrived critically in-jured and unresponsive.
The trial could provide the public with its first chance to hear Goodson’s side of the story. He has not spoken with investi-gators or made any public comments.
He faces the most seri-ous charge of the six offi-cers charged - second-de-gree murder, which carries
a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. To be con-victed, prosecutors must prove Goodson was so cal-lous in his disregard for Gray’s life that he deliber-ately allowed him to die.
Since Porter’s case ended in a mistrial, the stakes for Goodson’s trial have grown in a city still on edge from the rioting and unrest in April.
Porter’s lawyers say he risks going to jail for con-tempt if he refuses an or-der to testify, but if he does testify, he could be charged with perjury if he makes any statements that differ from what he said or will say in his own defense.
Prosecutors say Porter has immunity at Good-son’s trial and they can’t use his statements against him later. But defense at-torney Gary Proctor wrote in court documents: “The bell cannot be unrung.”
The judge himself ac-knowledged that he was entering “uncharted terri-tory” before issuing his rul-ing last week.
His order is unprec-edented in Maryland and could have tremen-dous implications for fu-ture cases with multiple defendants.
Criminal defense attor-ney Clarke Ahlers, a former Maryland police officer who is not involved in the Gray case, said if the ap-pellate courts decide Por-ter doesn’t have to testify, prosecutors could try to gain Porter’s cooperation by offering him complete immunity. Or they could ask to re-try Porter first, or proceed without Porter’s testimony.
“I think there is some chance that the state may have to choose between prosecuting Porter and
prosecuting Goodson,” he said.
Ahlers said the Court of Special Appeals could rule within 10 days, but either side could seek an opin-ion from the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, further delaying Goodson’s trial.
Gray’s death exposed the deep divide between the public and the po-lice in Baltimore, and be-came a national symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Prosecutors say the of-ficers should be held ac-countable for Gray’s fatal injuries because they left him handcuffed and shack-led at the legs but unbuck-led by a seatbelt, making him vulnerable to injury inside the metal compart-ment. Neither did they call an ambulance when he in-dicated he needed med-ical attention. Goodson, they say, bears the most responsibility because he drove the van, so Gray was technically in his custody.
Prosecutors have re-vealed little about their case against Goodson, but their witness list includes a former police officer who can describe “retaliatory prisoner transport prac-tices,” suggesting they in-tend to raise the possibil-ity that Gray was given a “rough ride” in the van.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors can’t com-ment because they are un-der a gag order.
Some experts say the case is particularly com-plicated given the murky circumstances of Gray’s death: nobody knows ex-actly how or when the man’s neck was broken. And the state could face an uphill battle without Por-ter’s testimony.
BuRNs, Ore. (aP)—The leader of a small, armed group occupying a na-tional wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon said Monday he and his follow-ers are going through gov-ernment documents stored inside refuge buildings.
Ammon Bundy told re-porters the documents will be used to “expose” how the government has dis-criminated local ranchers who use federal land for cattle grazing.
Bundy said the docu-ments would also help se-cure the release of Steven and Dwight Hammond, two area ranchers con-victed of arson who re-turned to prison last week to serve longer sentences. The Hammonds’ case set off the occupation of the Burns-area refuge on Jan. 2.
Bundy said his group is not accessing government computers at the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge, including personnel files.
After the news confer-ence, the group drove in a convoy to a ranch near the refuge and tore down a stretch of government-erected fence. The goal, ac-cording to the armed men, was to give the rancher ac-cess to the range that had been blocked for years. It’s not clear where the fence was located or which rancher sought the group’s help.
The refuge is adminis-tered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Spokes-man Jason Holm said be-cause the documents and files at the refuge may have personally identifiable in-formation, the agency “is taking necessary steps to ensure employee and fam-ily safety.”
The agency strongly condemned the destruc-tion of the fence and said the action undermines
hard-earned conservation impacts achieved in the area.
“Removing fences, dam-aging any Refuge prop-erty, or unauthorized use of equipment would be additional unlawful ac-tions by the illegal occupi-ers,” Fish and Wildlife said in a statement. “Any move-ment of cattle onto the Ref-uge or other activities that are not specifically autho-rized by USFWS consti-tutes trespassing.”
Sixteen full time em-ployees and one part time employee usually work at the refuge, Holm said. Some who can’t work away from the refuge have taken administrative leave, while others are working from home or another office.
In Burns, about 30 miles from the refuge, schools reopened after being can-celed for a week over safety concerns due to the refuge standoff.
Armed group says it has accessed goverment files
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Preventing future health hazardsJan. 9 marked the two-
year anniversary of a mas-sive spill of MCHM, a chemical used in coal pro-cessing, into the Elk River in Charleston, West Vir-ginia. A 1-inch hole in a holding tank at Freedom Industries allowed 7,500 gallons of the chemical to leak into the ground, which shortly reached the river. The chemical contaminated the drinking water of up to 300,000 West Virginia res-idents, and both the state and local governments of Charleston were criticized due to the lack of a swift re-sponse to the issue.
Luckily, West Virginia officials are creating water protection plans and pro-posing legislation in or-der to prevent spills of this magnitude from happen-ing again. The West Virginia Rivers Coalition held the first of four public forums last Saturday in Charles-ton to generate public in-volvement in water pro-
tection. It also served to educate residents on what the state government has done since 2014 to prevent future spills.
For example, the state
legislature has passed Sen-ate Bill 373, which involves placing regulatory stan-dards on large chemical holding tanks. Water pro-tection plans will also be re-
quired for all public water systems in the state by this July, and mandatory up-dates of the plans will oc-cur every three years.
Though these new ef-
forts will prevent future spills, legislation regulat-ing the upkeep of holding tanks unfortunately comes well after the crisis had al-ready occurred. If com-
mon-sense laws regulating how and what toxic chemi-cals are stored were put into action before the spill, the leak could not have hap-pened in the first place. The United Nations General As-sembly named potable wa-ter to be a basic human right in 2010. Ensuring this right by taking all necessary precautions to avoid poten-tial contamination should have been a priority long before the 2014 spill.
Creating laws after the fact does not decrease the impact of any problem on both residents and the en-vironment. Repairing and maintaining all services crucial to West Virginia residents’ quality of life be-fore serious problems occur could save millions of dol-lars in damages and prevent future injuries and deaths. As the old saying goes, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Employers should allow students more working hoursCOmmeNTAry
With David Bowie’s un-fortunate passing, pop cul-ture loses yet another of its most influential scions. Given his death’s public-ity, it’s safe to assume the deaths of celebrities, es-pecially well-loved ones, produce interesting social “events.” These well-publi-cized passings may initially serve as a grim reminder of our own mortality, but they can also uplift the works of a famous person, making them effectively immortal.
Robin Williams is a ce-lebrity whose death is still relatively fresh in the pub-lic consciousness. The sad circumstances of his death, coupled with his fame as a light-hearted comedian, meant his end would be publicized as a tragedy of the highest degree. How-ever, not long after Wil-liams’ passing, his works gained new fans and new recognition.
A cynic might argue this is indicative of a shallow, vacuous consumer cul-ture that only cares about
the works of an individ-ual once they’re gone. The same cynic may even ar-gue it’s hypocritical to idol-ize these people when they pass on, for surely not all of their works were amazing and transformative. They might say we should view them in death just as we did in life, with no special treat-ment necessary.
However, I’d argue the exact opposite. When the
public discusses the ac-complishments of any recently deceased star, whether it’s Robin Wil-liams, Michael Jackson or David Bowie, they choose to focus on the good out of respect and reverence. Everyone has pitfalls, and this applies, unsurpris-ingly, to culture’s most re-vered artists and pop cul-ture icons. A person has to do a lot more than star in
a bad movie or produce a subpar album to be reviled and hated at their funeral.
When it comes down to it, these deaths are a big deal because they take someone whom society had put up on a pedestal and bring them to the low-est common denomina-tor: Death. Everybody dies at some point. It’s a harsh truth, but it’s made harsher when we see it happen to
those who were chosen by popular culture as the best and brightest.
Regardless of which culture they come from, human beings are typi-cally judged on merit. Ev-ery society has individu-als who stand out based on which skills or knowledge they can bring to the soci-etal table. It’s easy to see, then, why these people are mourned on such a large
scale. The spike in interest which inevitably accom-panies these celebrities’ deaths might earn them new post-mortem fans who can spread their works to future generations.
While Bowie may be gone, never to produce music again, someone, somewhere is discovering “Space Oddity.”
Celebrity deaths highlight human accomplishments, celebrate talentCOmmeNTAry
According to a sur-vey administered by You-Gov, a news website, four out of five college students work to support themselves while in school. Though most students work an av-erage of about 19 hours per week, this may not be enough to cover their cost of living.
When applying for jobs both inside and out-side West Virginia Univer-sity, many employers will limit the amount of hours worked by current stu-dents to a mere 20 hours per week. WVU’s website for student employment states that the reason for the cap is that students who take on more hours would likely either drop down to part-time or stop atten-dance altogether.
This statistic isn’t sur-prising; it’s definitely hard to manage being a full-time student and a full-time employee. However, it’s even harder to pay monthly bills with the little money earned from work-ing part-time.
It’s not just University employers capping student workers. I have applied to jobs all over Morgantown, and at each interview, they have given me the label of “student worker.” While I appreciate that they un-
derstand the importance of my education, that doesn’t help in paying my rent every month, as well as affording utilities and groceries.
Let me demonstrate just how tough it is to live solely on minimum wage with a 20-hour work week: I pay $360 for rent, about $100 for utilities and $100 for groceries per month. My paychecks every two weeks are roughly $280 after taxes ($560 per month), but after subtracting all my neces-sary costs, I’m left at exactly $0. Though this is oddly convenient, it doesn’t leave room for any of the what-ifs in life. Should I get sick and have to miss a few days of work, I won’t be able to af-ford my bills.
Although the University claims working 20 hours per week or fewer will ben-efit grades, it won’t bene-fit stress levels. In the same YouGov survey, seven out of 10 students admitted they feel stressed about personal finances, and about half of the total stu-dents surveyed mentioned they worry about paying bills.
To help combat this stress, students often take out loans to cover the cost of housing and books. However, not everyone can or should take out an ex-tra loan. As a journalism major, I know that entry-level salary in my profes-sion won’t be very large, so it is in my best interest to
keep my student loan debt as low as possible and only borrow when absolutely necessary.
We can’t always rely on our parents to bail us out of debt. Parents are also slowly starting to not be as finan-cially helpful as they used to be. Eighty percent of col-lege students have started to be partially responsible
for funding their education. Sallie Mae, a corporation that provides loans to stu-dents, conducted a study which found parents went from paying about 37 per-cent of their child’s educa-tion to 27 percent between 2010 and 2013.
The only way I see to se-cure my finances is to get another job, and this will
invariably add more stress to my life. In doing so, I will have to make time for two different jobs at two dif-ferent locations while also making sure my shifts don’t conflict with each other. If I could simply work more hours at one single job, I would have more time for studying and some sem-blance of a social life, as
well.The simple solution is
to remove the cap on stu-dent workers at jobs both inside and outside the Uni-versity. The option of sup-porting ourselves through school should be a feasi-ble choice in obtaining a higher education.
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PARIS (AP) ‑ Paris Saint-Germain is threatening rap art-ist M.I.A. with legal action if the singer does not stop us-ing the French soccer club’s image in a video clip for her song “Borders.”
In the video describing the ordeal of refugees, the British musician, whose real name is Mathangi Arulpragasam, is seen wearing a PSG shirt emblazoned with the club’s logo and its jersey sponsor, whose slogan has been changed to “Fly Pirates.”
On her Twitter account, M.I.A. published a letter writ-ten in December by PSG deputy CEO Jean-Claude Blanc to her label Universal Music asking “to cease the broadcast-ing” of images showing the PSG jersey and to refrain from using the club’s image.
Blanc wrote that the club “had the unpleasant surprise” to find out that M.I.A appeared twice wearing the PSG shirt “bearing the very easily recognizable logo Paris Saint-Ger-main and our sponsors’ brands (Nike and QNB), and the brand of our sponsor Emirates.”
The PSG communication department told The Associ-ated Press on Monday it wants to protect its image as well
as its sponsors and says no legal action has been taken so far.
Blanc explained in his letter that the club did not un-derstand why it was associated with a denunciation of the migrants’ treatment in their journey across the sea toward Europe.
“This association is all the more hard to understand that nothing in our activities and in our daily initiatives suggests we have anything to do with the problems highlighted by M.I.A. “ Blanc wrote.
Blanc noted that the French champions made a dona-tion of 1 million euros ($1.12 million) to the United Nations’ refugee agency and a French non-profit association to help relieve the migrant crisis last September.
“We consider that the use of our brand and image in a video clip denouncing the treatment of refugees is a source of discredit for our club and distorts its public communi-cation policy,” Blanc added.
In his formal notice to Universal Music, PSG also asked the music company “to compensate us for the harm we have suffered.”
Paris Saint-Germain asks rapper MIA to stop using club image in video
101greatgoals.comRapper M.I.A. flaunts a vresion of the PSG club jersey in her “Borders” music video.
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Every New Year begins with the steady countdown to midnight supporting the steady increase of excitement. For most people, the New Year also holds the hope of a healthier you. One way for this hope to become reality is to look for the health-ier options featured by the Iron Horse Tavern, Taziki’s and Terra Cafe.
Iron Horse has plenty of options for any type of meal. It is best to look for dishes that are heavy on vegetables.
The Wild Mushroom Ramen is a noo-dle-based dish flavored with a mushroom blend. It also contains baby bok choy, car-rots, red bell peppers and a hard-boiled egg. Eggs are high in protein and supply long-lasting energy.
Almost all of the soups and salads on the menu are made of healthy vegetables. The beets and greens salad is filled with nutritional value. The salad has mixed greens, apple slices, goat cheese, walnuts and red and yellow beets. While the wal-nuts may be higher in fat, the beets are very high in vitamin C, potassium and manganese.
Essential minerals like potassium sup-port healthy nerve and muscle functions, while manganese supports healthy bones, liver, kidneys and pancreas.
While the baked three-cheese maca-roni may be delicious, cheese tends to
be high in fats. Trade in the mac and cheese for something healthier like pep-per hummus. Hummus, made from chick-peas, tends to be low in cholesterol and high in dietary fiber, magnesium and phosphorus.
Taziki’s, conveniently located in the Mountainlair and soon in Evansdale Crossing, has plenty of healthy options. While there are many vegetarian options, Taziki’s grills its chicken, which is one of the healthier options for eating meat.
While only some of its items are in-cluded in meal plan, all of them are healthy options. For example, the turkey and egg sandwich is a protein-packed sandwich and cooked to order.
Another meal plan option is the grilled veggie gyro, which comes packed with vegetables such as peppers, onions and tomatoes.
All meal plan items come with a drink and chips. With dining dollars or Mountie Bounty, the chips can be upgraded to
healthier sides such as the roasted red potatoes, fresh pasta salad, tomato-cu-cumber salad or fresh-cut fruit.
Friday through Sunday, Taziki’s of-fers its signature pasta. This penne pasta salad is on a bed of mixed lettuces, grilled chicken, tomatoes, feta and fresh basil all topped with homemade balsamic vinaigrette.
Finally, Terra Cafe presents a menu filled with fresh items from local vendors.
While all of its salads are packed with dark greens and vegetables, the quinoa and lentil chop is packed with nutrients. Quinoa is considered a superfood and is packed with protein, fiber and minerals. It is also gluten-free. The year 2013 be-came “the international year of quinoa” because of its high nutrients and value to food security.
All sandwiches are served with your choice of a soup, side salad, coleslaw, hummus or baby beet salad.
For a healthier burger option, Terra Cafe offers a black bean burger. Similar to a regular burger, it comes with lettuce, to-mato, avocado, hot sauce and a cilantro-lime creme fraiche. However, black beans are high in protein, dietary fiber and po-tassium. They are also a good source of calcium and have little to no cholesterol.
No matter the restaurant, a healthier lifestyle comes through healthier choices that can be found right around the corner.
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In true primetime fashion, this year’s televised Golden Globe Awards wel-comed some of Hollywood’s most glam-orous starlets with jokes, jabs and tears.
Fulfilling his role as the night’s host, Ricky Gervais found the Globes to be the perfect opportunity to offend the tal-ented audience of Hollywood actors and actresses. Slamming many of the elite, from Ben Affleck to Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawerence, Gervais’ foul mouth and harsh comments greeted the night.
In the opening, Gervais began hush-ing the audience while shouting, “Shut up! You disgusting, pill-popping, sexual deviant scum. I’m going to do this mono-logue and then go into hiding, OK? Not even Sean Penn will find me.”
The audience exchanged disapprov-ing side-eyes and glances while flash-ing uncomfortable grins. Although the show featured off-color remarks most of the night, the Globes seemed overly re-hearsed and forced, even with many un-expected wins. With shocking stars tak-ing Globes for various roles throughout the night, outcries of emotion came cou-pled with surprise as actresses such as Lady Gaga and Rachel Bloom took home awards for their roles in TV series such as “American Horror Story: Hotel” and “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”
Winning the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award for his successful leg-acy in the industry, Denzel Washington was recognized and applauded for his life-long work. Taking the stage with his family, Washington attempted to give his speech from a small scrap of paper with-out his glasses. The audience laughed at Washington’s foolish attempts before he quickly gave up and walked off stage.
Movies nominated for Best Motion Picture featured “The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Room,” “Spotlight” and “Carol.” Director and winner of Best Director: Motion Picture Award, Alejan-dro Inarritu scored the award for this year’s Best Motion Picture with “The Revenant.” Not only did “The Revenant” score awards for Best Director and Best Motion Picture, Leonardo DiCaprio took home a Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama). In a true thriller, “The Revenant” features the heroic tale of legendary explorer Hugh Glass in his attempt to survive in a harsh wilderness after his hunting team abandons him. DiCaprio’s perfor-mance shines as he portrays Glass and tells the story of an honest test to the hu-man spirit.
Jennifer Lawrence also took home a Globe for her role in “Joy,” in which the actress portrays a young woman who be-comes a self-made millionaire with the creation of her own business empire. The actress, as usual, expressed gratitude
through humor, especially when she be-gan to thank her director from stage.
“I want us to be buried next to each other. I really do,” Lawrence said.
With unexpected appearances and events, from Taraji P. Henson handing out cookies before accepting her Best TV Drama Actress award for her role in FOX Network’s drama, “Empire,” to Gervais greeting presenter Mel Gibson
in an awkward on-stage exchange, this year’s Golden Globes seemed slightly stale. While, as always, overly emotional “thank yous” spewed from the stage, the 2016 Golden Globes overall just lacked the usual pizazz and excitement.
For more information on this year’s Golden Globes, visit http://golden-globes.com/.
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ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHHH Clean up old messes to-day and tomorrow. Clear clutter and make space for what’s next. Contem-plate your next move, and wait be-fore making it. Surprise someone in private. Make time for romance and playfulness.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HH Schedule meetings and parties for the next two days. Friends help ... the more, the merrier. Together, you can find what you’re looking for. Share expertise. Strengthen the ties that bind. Dress to impress.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HH Ac-cept a challenging assignment and prosper. Your deeds make a lasting impression. You’ll be held account-able over the next few days, so go for reality over fantasy. Provide excel-lent service and earn a nice bonus.
c A N c E R ( J U N E 21- J U ly 22) HHHHH Fall in love with a new subject. Plan a trip over the next few days. Your wanderlust is get-ting worse. Synchronize schedules with those involved. Others provide creative solutions. Beneficial advice comes from afar.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HH Inno-vate or renovate? Figure out your fi-nances today and tomorrow, and get
a better idea of your options. Give new purpose to an old item. Some-one finds your ingenuity intriguing. Continue negotiations in private.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHH Take time out for play with some-one attractive over the next two days. Work out the details and ne-gotiate terms. Stay gracious, even if you don’t agree. Bargain for a win-win situation.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH The pace is picking up. Fulfill prom-ises over the next two days. Profit from meticulous service. The details are important, so get involved. Take care of business, without sacrificing your health. Rest and eat well.
S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Take time for rest and re-laxation over the next few days. In-vite someone interesting out for a bite. Get lost in diversions and en-thusiasms. Share what you enjoy. Love comes knocking on your door.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH Energize your home base. The next two days are excellent for interior decoration. Get fully into a household project. Appraise an-tiques. You can afford an upgrade. Find a sweet deal on a jewel. Fam-ily comes first.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHHH You’re especially creative over the next few days. Try some-
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AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH Make extra money over the next few days. This is perfect, as there are bills to pay. Send invoices, and collect receivables. Gather your resources together. A female dis-tracts you. You get more than you asked for.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHH Take charge of your destiny. You’re ready to make changes for the better over the next few days. You’re get-ting stronger. Assertiveness works well now. Expand your territory with a lucky break. You’re eager to go.
BORN TODAY Reflect on your path and plan your strategy for the coming year. Create inspiring possibilities and pour yourself into them. Schedule big moves for after April. Springtime com-munications wizardry leads to a professional flowering, a new two-year phase. Travels after au-tumn eclipses inspire your cre-ativity. Talk about love.
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Juwan Staten caught the ball in the backcourt, took four dribbles and spun in the lane.
For a moment, the ball hung in the air. So did the West Virginia University men’s basketball team’s big-time ambitions, the legitimacy of Press Vir-ginia and the hopes of the few thousand fans who braved a snowstorm to see their team take a shot at the kings of the Big 12.
Then the shot dropped, Staten pressured Kan-sas’ Perry Ellis into a miss at the other end and the Mountaineer faithfuls stormed the court.
“It took like 20 minutes to get back to the locker room,” said senior guard Jaysean Paige.
West Virginia’s last-gasp, 62-61 win over Kan-sas on Feb. 17, 2015 was more than just another tick in the win column. Before Staten lifted the Mountaineers to victory, there were still many who didn’t take them seriously.
Kansas was not only a top-10 team, it had a ros-ter chock-full of McDon-ald’s All-Americans and future pros, including one-and-done NBA first-round pick Kelly Oubre Jr.
The Mountaineers were derided as a team lacking significant talent, kept afloat only by a full-court
press that, while certainly formidable, wouldn’t get them through against the best teams in the nation.
For a while, it looked like that was the case: West Virginia had lost three of four to the likes of Oklahoma, Baylor and Iowa State in the weeks immediately leading up to the Kansas game, drop-ping its national ranking from No. 15 to No. 23.
But then Staten’s shot went in, and everything changed. It wasn’t just that the Mountaineers won, it was how they won: Having backed out of the full press due to tired legs, West Virginia stood toe-to-toe with one of the nation’s best teams and came out on top. Press Virginia was no longer a gimmick, it was a contender.
While that night’s hero, Staten, has already gradu-ated, West Virginia hopes it can carry that winning spirit over to tonight’s marquee matchup at the WVU Coliseum against the No. 1 team in the land, the Kansas Jayhawks.
“I don’t think we fear anybody,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “I think they’ve got a lot of respect for Kansas, like we all do. I don’t think I’ve ever coached anybody that feared somebody. That’s not what we do.”
This year’s Jayhawks look very much like the squad West Virginia
knocked off last year. Starters Kelly Oubre Jr. and Cliff Alexander have both gone on to the NBA, but the core of the team remains the same.
Senior Perry Ellis has a chance to cap off a cele-brated career with a na-tional championship, while starting guards Wayne Selden Jr. and Frank Mason III have both taken steps torward stardom.
West Virginia and Kan-sas have the same record, 14-1, and remain as the last two undefeated teams in the Big 12 Conference. But once again, the No. 1 Jayhawks are seen as just a little bit more real than the No. 11 Mountaineers.
Make no mistake, though. While Staten is gone, this is a much better Mountaineer team than the one that suited up against Kansas one year ago. The offense is more balanced, the young play-ers are reaching their po-tential and the press is no less suffocating.
This time, the West Vir-ginia Mountaineers won’t be fighting for legitimacy, they’ll be fighting for a place at the top.
“We’re just trying to make history again,” said sophomore forward Eli-jah Macon. “We want to do better, actually. We want to go out and win this conference.”
ASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia fans storm the court after Juwan Staten scored a game-winner last year against No. 8 Kansas.
TO BE THE MAN...
One year ago, Juwan Staten spun and scored a famous game winner
WVU can repeat the feat tonight against the No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks
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Seven straight victories and the program’s first-ever 3-0 start to Big 12 play have the No. 11 West Virginia University men’s basket-ball team ready for more, and the opponent is all too familiar with Morgantown.
Last year, Juwan Staten spun his way around Frank Mason III, lifting the 23rd-ranked Mountaineers to the 62-61 upset of No. 8 Kansas with 3.9 seconds remaining after Perry El-lis missed the last-second layup.
Now, there’s no Juwan Staten to propel another game-winner and another court storming. New lead-ers are eager to emerge from the unknown, look-ing to add to the program’s recent rise through the rankings.
“I’m just trying to soak up all this right now,” said junior Devin Williams. “These next few weeks we have a chance to play against the No. 1 and No. 2 and I don’t think that’s happened in any confer-ence ever. We’re a part of history, so I just want to have fun and enjoy myself and go out there and have no regrets.”
Kansas enters with 13 straight victories since a loss to Michigan State, highlighted by a dramatic three-overtime victory over Buddy Hield and No. 2 Oklahoma. The win show-cased 20-plus point outings from a trio of Jayhawks, led by 27 points from senior Perry Ellis.
Guards Frank Mason III and Wayne Selden Jr. have each displayed their NBA talents as well, serving as major threats for the na-tion’s hottest team. Ellis can do it all on the court, leading the team with 16
points per game and con-verting more than half of his shots from long range.
Mason enters as a pro-jected first-round pick in this year’s NBA Draft, one of the many profes-sional talents currently re-siding on head coach Bill Self ’s team. Selden is also projected to be an NBA draftee. Freshman sensa-tion Cheick Diallo, another potential NBA Draft Lottery selection, is also set to play after he was ruled ineligi-ble for the first four games.
The Jayhawks are among the nation’s top five teams in scoring, field goal per-centage and three-point shooting. They’ve been deemed as a lock for the Final Four, possessing tal-ent and depth across the board, not to mention head coach Bill Self, who has guided Kansas to 11 con-secutive Big 12 regular sea-son crowns.
“They’re shooting the ball as well as any team I’ve seen in a long time,” said WVU head coach Bob Hug-gins. “Their three perime-ter guys are making shots. Perry Ellis is stepping out and making threes. They can spread you, they re-bound the ball so well. They’re doing a great job of guarding. They’ve got shot-blockers inside. I think this is really a good team. This is one of Bill’s better teams.”
But the Mountaineers believe they have what it takes to once again skate past them. Kansas hasn’t won in its last two trips to West Virginia, with the 2014 game also resulting in a 92-86 Mountaineer up-set despite 41 points from eventual No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins.
West Virginia hasn’t lost since they squared off against then-No. 10 Vir-ginia in the Jimmy V. Clas-sic, after a late UVA surge started by a Jevon Carter
miscue on an attempted behind-the-back pass on the fast break.
Since then, the Moun-taineers have defeated op-ponents by an average of nearly 20 points. They’ve been a part of program his-tory, with their best start since joining the Big 12 in 2012.
“I think we’re a very con-fident team and we keep winning, it just keeps mak-ing us even tougher,” said sophomore guard Jevon Carter.
Adding to it all is last year’s second half collapse in Kansas, with WVU melt-ing away a 14-point half-time lead that eventually turned into a seven-point overtime defeat. Senior leaders Juwan Staten and Gary Browne were out with injury, with current star Devin Williams registering just nine points.
Daxter Miles led the way with 23 points in the last matchup against Kansas, but is currently harboring a sprained ankle that side-lined him for Saturday’s 77-60 rout of Oklahoma State. Huggins stated he’s back in action after practicing on Sunday, adding to what is arguably one of the confer-ence’s deepest teams.
Now onto Kansas, the country’s top ranked team. It’s what the Mountaineers have been waiting for all season long, and they’re ready to step up to the challenge and jump to sole possession of first place in the Big 12. They’re ready to make another statement on national television.
“We’ve got a chance to make another upset,” said Williams. “Nobody expects us to do anything, so the pressure is off of us and it’s just a fun moment. It’s go-ing to be fun, be something that we can remember.”
FILE PHOTOJuwan Staten shoots the layup that beat Kansas last season.
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Following a nearly two-month hiatus, the West Vir-ginia University rifle team faces its toughest oppo-nent of the season today. The matchup, featuring a rematch of last year’s na-tional championship, will decide who will be the na-tion’s top team as the sec-ond half of the season gets into full swing.
The No. 1 Mountain-eers (7-0, 4-0 GARC) will play host to No. 5 Alaska-Fairbanks (3-1) this morn-ing in Morgantown. While the Nanooks have not per-
formed the way they were expected to perform thus far, the matchup will be among West Virginia’s most difficult tests this season.
“Ultimately, we don’t ex-pect to be at our peak to-morrow,” said WVU head coach Jon Hammond in an interview with WVUSports.com. “We have more than two months to get ready for the end of the season. However, this is going to be a tough match for us to get back into the swing of things. Alaska is always a tough team.”
When the two teams met in the national champion-ship last year, the result was one of the most thrill-
ing finishes in NCAA rifle history. The 4,702-4,700 final in favor of West Vir-ginia was the closest mar-gin in the 35 years of the NCAA rifle national cham-pionship, which was the third consecutive and 17th overall national title for the Mountaineers.
While West Virginia has dominated in recent his-tory, Alaska-Fairbanks has seen a large share of suc-cess: The team holds 10 national titles, including a stretch of six in a row from 1999-2004, which matches the Mountaineers’ best streak from 1988-93.
While the two teams are again among the nation’s
best this year, they have done so in completely dif-ferent manners. The Moun-taineers, while not yet fully functioning as a single unit, have seen standout perfor-mances from Michael Bam-sey, Garrett Spurgeon and Ginny Thrasher to consis-tently outscore opponents.
However, Hammond has made it clear the entire team will have to perform its best as the second half of the season leads into a push for a fourth consecu-tive national title.
Alaska-Fairbanks, on the other hand, has not performed well overall this season. While the Na-nooks are ranked No. 5 in
the country with their only loss coming at the hands of then-ranked No. 1 Ken-tucky, they have not scored effectively this season.
The team that led the nation in scoring last sea-son has only broken the 4,700 mark once this year, a mark that West Virginia has broken in five of seven matches this season.
In fact, the Nanooks, who spent the majority of the second half of the 2014-15 slate as the top team in the country, are only av-eraging 4,688 points per match compared to WVU’s nation-best 4,706 per match.
While results through
the season thus far would indicate WVU will be heavily favored, the team is using last year’s regu-lar season loss to Alaska-Fairbanks as evidence that they must remain focused. The teams met on back-to-back days last season, with West Virginia winning the first match by three points and falling the second day by one point, the narrowest loss in NCAA history.
The match will surely produce an exciting result, and a win could provide the motivation for the na-tion’s top team to finish out the season strong.
WVU faces Alaska-Fairbanks in rematch of last year’s classic NCAA final
WRESTLING
BY JOEL NORMANSPORTS WRITER
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Although the second semester at West Virginia
University officially began Jan. 11, the Mountaineer wrestling team has already gotten back into the swing of things.
Head coach Sammie
Henson and his wrestlers rang in the New Year at the two-day Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tennes-see, where the Mountain-eers finished sixth on the
first day and seventh on the second day out of 29 participating schools.
Zeke Moisey led the way for the Mountaineers. The 125-pound sopho-
more finished third in his weight class by going 7-1 at the Scuffle.
“I’m so proud of how the men fought today,” Hen-son said. “We had a really good morning round and finished strong with four guys placing. We need to believe in our train-ing, and this team (will) do some damage come March.”
The damage Henson refers to is two champi-onship events: The Big 12 Championships on March 5 and the NCAA Champi-onships on March 18.
Entering the Winter Break, West Virginia was ranked No. 24 in the Na-tional Wrestling Coaches Association Poll. After the Scuffle, the Mountaineers find themselves ranked No. 25.
In order to climb the rankings, West Virginia needs other wrestlers to unexpectedly pop up as Keegan Moore has. The 133-pound sophomore did not expect to wres-tle this season, but Hen-son removed Moore’s red-shirt before the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on Dec. 6.
Moore responded by up-setting the fourth-ranked 133-pound wrestler and capturing two more victo-
ries. Since the Invitational, Moore has picked up two more victories to prove he belongs at every match.
Moore’s rise is simi-lar to that of Moisey’s last season.
As a freshman, Moisey became the first unseeded wrestler to make it to the NC AA Championship match since 2003. Whether or not Moore makes it that far is yet to be seen, but he has made his presence known so far.
Perhaps another Moun-taineer who could be step-ping up is Tony DeAngelo. The 141-pound junior transfer from Missouri went 6-2 at the Scuffle. DeAngelo’s best win from the tournament came against Penn State’s Kade Moss. Ranked No. 9 among 141-pound wrestlers, Moss fell to DeAngelo 9-6 in a match featuring four lead changes.
The Mountaineers get their next chance to do some damage this Friday against Oklahoma State at the WVU Coliseum.
The match is West Vir-ginia’s first Big 12 match this season. Ten matches and two months are all the Mountaineers have left be-fore the postseason begins.
Moore, DeAngelo could be major breakout candidates this spring
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The 14-3 West Virginia University women’s bas-ketball team heads to Waco, Texas on Tuesday to face the No. 6 Baylor Bears as Mountaineer head coach Mike Carey will be aiming for his 600th career win in 28 seasons.
Tuesday’s Big 12 clash in Waco will be the 10th meeting between Baylor and West Virginia as Baylor looks to extend its 32-game home winning streak. That will be no easy task, since the Mountaineers are the last team to defeat Baylor
in Waco. The Mountain-eers knocked off the Lady Bears 71-69 in 2014 at the Ferrell Center, but WVU has still only won two of the last nine meetings.
The Mountaineers will need a big night from Big 12 Player of the Year can-didate Bria Holmes, who is just 28 points shy of passing Kate Bulger on WVU’s all-time scoring list. Holmes comes off an 18-point scor-ing performance against Texas Tech on Saturday, the Mountaineers’ third con-secutive victory to start Big 12 play.
Mike Carey has the chance to reach career win 600 on Tuesday, but finding
a way to win in Waco is the primary focus.
“We’ve got to attack and not be intimidated,” Carey said. “We’re going to have to hit some shots over top. We’ve got to go right at them and try to draw some fouls.”
West Virginia comes into Tuesday’s contest averaging 73 points per game, hold-ing opponents to an aver-age of 56 points. Opposite the Mountaineers, Baylor is averaging almost 80 points a game and is third nation-ally in field-goal percent-age (50.5). The Mountain-eers and Lady Bears appear transparent on paper, but maintaining a defensive
presence will be key to a Mountaineer victory.
“On the defensive side, we have to block out,” Carey said. “We’re going to have to get some loose balls and offensive rebounds. For us it will come down to the hustle plays, and we’ve got to attack them.”
Nina Davis leads the scoring attack for Baylor, averaging 17.2 points per contest, and Alexis Jones right behind her with 14.2 per game. Beatrice Mom-premier leads the Lady Bears with 6.4 rebounds per contest, and will present a good matchup for WVU center Lanay Montgomery on the boards.
Montgomery comes in leading the Mountain-eers with 8.5 rebounds per game while also shooting 61.8 percent from the field. Montgomery currently av-erages the second-best field goal percentage in the Big 12.
Both West Virginia and Baylor came away with wins in their previous con-test. WVU defeated Texas Tech convincingly on Sat-urday, winning by a score of 79-57 at the WVU Coli-seum. Baylor also won its third-straight game on Sat-urday, topping TCU 72-55 in Waco.
The Lady Bears’ only loss of the season came on Dec.
30 against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma. A win for the Mountaineers will be the first win over a top 10 team since beat-ing Baylor in the 2013-14 season.
Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. and will be available live on radio, while a delayed broadcast will be shown at 11 p.m. on ROOT Sports Pittsburgh. Mountaineer fans can tune in locally on 94.3 FM WRLF as play-by-play announcers Jeff Cul-hane and Liz Repella will give the call, or listen to the action online at WVUs-ports.com.
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ZURICH (AP) — Now score it Lionel Messi 5, Cristiano Ronaldo 3.
Messi won the Ballon d’Or trophy on Monday as the world’s best player in 2015, ending Cristiano Ron-aldo’s two-year hold on soc-cer’s top individual honor.
“It’s incredible that it’s my fifth,” said the 28-year-old Barcelona and Argen-tina forward, who won four straight FIFA awards from 2009-12.
Messi earned his record-extending fifth after being runner-up to his great rival for the past two years.
“It’s a very special mo-ment for me to be back here on the stage,” Messi said in Spanish in his acceptance speech, “after being there in the audience watching Cris-tiano win.”
Five major titles for Bar-celona last year - leaving none for Ronaldo’s Real Ma-drid - brought the golden ball back into Messi’s hands. It was not even close.
Messi got 41.33 percent of total voting points in a 23-candidate ballot. Ron-aldo received 27.76 percent and third-place Neymar, Messi’s Barcelona team-mate from Brazil, got 7.86 percent. Voting was by na-tional team captains and coaches, plus invited jour-nalists, from FIFA member countries.
As usual, Argentina cap-tain Messi and Portugal cap-
tain Ronaldo ignored each other on their own bal-lot papers. Messi voted for three Barcelona teammates and Ronaldo listed three Madrid colleagues. How-ever, Portugal coach Fer-nando Santos did put Messi second to Ronaldo.
It was a stellar night for Barcelona and the World Cup-winning United States women’s team.
Luis Enrique was named best coach after guiding Bar-celona to win the Champi-ons League, Spain’s La Liga and cup, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup.
The women’s awards were won by U.S. captain Carli Lloyd and coach Jill Ellis.
Lloyd stood out by scor-ing six World Cup goals, in-cluding a stunning hat trick in the opening 16 minutes of a 5-2 rout of Japan in the final.
At first unable to speak with emotion, Lloyd was loudly applauded as she prepared to begin her ac-ceptance speech.
“I honestly wouldn’t be sitting up here, standing up here, without my incredi-ble teammates,” said Lloyd, who made the three-player shortlist for the first time at age 33.
Lloyd got 35.28% of the voting points, ahead of Ger-many’s Celia Sasic with 12.6 percent. Third-place Aya Mi-yama of Japan got 9.88 per-
cent. Sasic also scored six goals in Canada to win the tournament Golden Boot, then retired aged just 27.
Ellis won the coaching award in women’s foot-ball ahead of two men: Ja-pan coach Norio Sasaki and Mark Sampson, who led England to third place at the World Cup.
English-born Ellis got the most dominating win. She scored 42.98 percent, ahead of Sasaki on 17.79 per-cent and Sampson’s 10.68 percent.
The Americans last swept the women’s awards af-ter its 2012 Olympic title, when forward Abby Wam-
bach and Swedish coach Pia Sundhage were rewarded.
Barcelona also swept the 2011 men’s awards when Messi and then-coach Pep Guardiola won following the club’s previous Cham-pions League title.
Guardiola, now coaching Bayern Munich, placed sec-ond to his former teammate Monday, getting 22.97 per-cent against for 31.08 per-cent for Luis Enrique. Nei-ther could attend due to team commitments.
Chile coach Jorge Sam-paoli placed third, on 9.47 percent, for guiding the host to a first Copa America title.
Messi lost out in the Pus-
kas Award for most beauti-ful goal to Wendell Lira of Brazil. Lira’s bicycle kick for Goianesia against Atletico-GO in a league game topped an online poll that logged more than 1.6 million votes.
The gala night allowed FIFA to forget its corruption crisis and many legal prob-lems in 2015 to focus on soc-cer highlights.
Still, FIFA withheld the Presidential Award that Sepp Blatter would tradi-tionally pick and present. The outgoing Blatter was absent Monday due to this eight-year ban imposed by the FIFA ethics committee last month.
Four of the five candi-dates competing to suc-ceed Blatter in the Feb. 26 election attended on Mon-day: Prince Ali bin al-Hus-sein, Jerome Champagne, Gianni Infantino and To-kyo Sexwale. Only Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khal-ifa skipped the event.
In Blatter’s absence, act-ing FIFA President Issa Hay-atou of Cameroon made the formal opening speech. He noted the election meeting in Zurich where 209 mem-ber federations will also vote on restructuring and modernizing the embattled soccer body.
“After these last few dif-ficult months we can now focus fully on the main mission that is FIFA’s,” Hay-atou said in French, refer-ring to developing the game worldwide.
A players’ vote organized by international union FIF-Pro gave a World XI of: Man-uel Neuer (Germany, Bay-ern Munich); Dani Alves (Brazil, Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Spain, Real Ma-drid), Thiago Silva (Brazil, Paris Saint-Germain), Mar-celo (Brazil, Real Madrid); Andres Iniesta (Spain, Bar-celona), Luka Modric (Cro-atia, Real Madrid), Paul Pogba (France, Juven-tus); Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo.
FIFA dedicated its Fair Play Award to “clubs and as-sociations helping refugees.”
Messi wins fifth FIFA World Player of the Year Award
MANU FERNANDEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESSFC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi knocks home a goal against Granada last weekend.
Prokhorov: Easy decision to hit reset button nowNEW YORK (AP) —
Mikhail Prokhorov wanted a championship, and the Nets never got close.
Now he wants a reset, and said it was an easy de-cision to start it now.
“If we look at the team for the time being, it’s clear we’re doing not the best way,” Prokhorov said Monday.
A day after firing coach Lionel Hollins and re-assigning general man-ager Billy King, Prokhorov blamed himself for a win-quick strategy that’s left the Nets in one of the NBA’s worst situations - then said he hopes to contend for a title next season.
He’ll try to do that with new leadership that
he hopes will help clar-ify what kind of team the Nets want to be and what kind of personnel they will need. The Russian billion-aire had determined more than a month ago that King and Hollins weren’t among them.
“I have to look at the re-ality and make a change if things are not going in the right direction,” Prokhorov said. “That’s what we have done. It was just very easy.”
The Nets made the play-offs the last three years but are 10-27 entering Monday night’s game against San Antonio. Their likely lottery spot will go to Boston as payment from one of King’s big trades, and they don’t fully control their own first-
round pick until 2019.“Our approach helped
us to reach three playoffs in a row but we have failed to go further. And for us it’s important to go further,” Prokhorov said. “That’s why we need a small re-set for this year and I hope we’ll be back not as a play-off team, as a champion-ship contender. This is my only goal.”
He wanted a title within five years of buying the team in 2010, and King was aggressive in trying to build a contender quickly. He ac-quired Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett in moves that resulted in just one series victory and consistently came at a future cost the
Nets are paying now.“I take full responsibil-
ity for the state of the team and I think Billy King did his best,” Prokhorov said. “Just, we need a fresh look.”
King released a state-ment Monday night thank-ing Prokhorov and Nets executives, coaches and players.
“My family and I thor-oughly loved our experi-ence in New Jersey and here in Brooklyn, and hope fans experience the success they deserve,” he said.
Tony Brown is the in-terim coach and Prokhorov said assistant general man-ager Frank Zanin will over-see the front office until King’s replacement is hired. He offered no timetable for
either job - he ideally wants it to be two people - and ex-pects to have a long list of candidates.
Kentucky coach John Calipari, who formerly coached the Nets in New Jersey, could be on it.
“Coach Cal is a great coach but we won’t be dis-cussing today on any name because it’s the first day of our, like, new approach,” Prokhorov said.
Prokhorov has largely been an absentee owner, spending most of his time in Russia focused on his business and political in-terests. But he vowed to be around Brooklyn more for the time being to lead the search for new leadership, adding he will personally
meet all candidates.He was swayed by the
Nets’ strengths - the New York market, a state-of-the-art arena and new training facility soon to follow, sal-ary cap space - in think-ing a quick turnaround is possible.
“I hope next season, championship contender,” he said.
Starting the search now, he said, will allow them to work deliberately in finding the person or people who share his vision.
“I think it’s very fair to the fans, to the team,” Prokhorov said. “As soon as we have our decision it’s better to start earlier than later. So now we have a very good position.”
Burfict suspended first three games of next seasonCINCINNATI (AP) — Ben-
gals linebacker Vontaze Burfict was suspended for the first three games of next season as the NFL began handing down pun-ishments on Monday for an ugly wild-card playoff game.
The league also is re-viewing the conduct of other players and coaches during Pittsburgh’s 18-16 victory at Paul Brown Sta-dium on Saturday night that turned on penalties against Burfict and Ben-gals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones in the fi-nal minute.
Burfict was penalized for lowering his shoulder and hitting defenseless re-ceiver Antonio Brown in the head after an incom-pletion with 22 seconds left and the Bengals hold-ing a 16-15 lead. Brown
got a concussion from the play.
Burfict had already been fined four times for dan-gerous plays during the season. He got a $50,000 fine for an illegal hit on a Ravens player a week ear-lier. Burfict also was fined $69,454 for three penal-ties against the Steelers on Dec. 13: roughing the passer, grabbing the face-mask and unnecessary roughness.
Merton Hanks, the league’s vice president of football operations, said the hit on Brown during the playoff game “placed his opponent at unnec-essary risk of injury and should have been avoided.”
While players and coaches from both teams were on the field as Brown was getting examined, Jones went after Steelers
coach Joey Porter and got a penalty for unsportsman-like conduct. The two pen-alties moved the ball from the Cincinnati 47-yard line to the 17, and Chris Bo-swell made a 35-yard kick for the win.
More punishments are expected from the game, which was marred by nu-merous altercations be-tween players.
Steelers offensive line coach Mike Munchak got a 15-yard penalty for un-sportsmanlike conduct af-ter he grabbed safety Reg-gie Nelson’s hair on the sideline following a play.
Before the suspension was announced on Mon-day night, Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said that Burfict didn’t “go over the edge” with his hit against Brown.
Although the linebacker
has been penalized and fined repeatedly, Lewis said he’s been depicted unfairly for his play.
“It didn’t go over the edge,” Lewis said. “But un-fortunately, he can’t have
that kind of blow with the guy that’s receiving the pass. But it didn’t go over the edge for the course of the season.
“Let’s not take things out of context, and understand
it. Let’s judge the body of work.”
The NFL decided his penalties over the course of a season merited the suspension, which can be appealed.
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