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West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins is taking part in this year’s national In-finiti Coaches Charity Challenge. Huggins is en-couraging Mountaineer fans to join him in support of cancer research.
“The challenge is a na-tional initiative to give fans the chance to sup-port their coach and raise awareness and raise funds, raise money for the charity of their choice,” said Matt Wells, WVU associate ath-letic director.
Forty-seven other col-lege basketball coaches are participating in the chal-lenge, and each coach se-lected a charity. The win-ner of the challenge will receive $100,000 to donate to their charity.
Huggins selected the Norma Mae Huggins Can-cer Research Endowment Fund, which was estab-lished at the WVU Can-cer Institute to honor his mother who died after a battle with colon cancer in 2003.
“(The challenge) is something that’s gone on the last several years, and we’ve been fortunate enough that Coach Hug-gins has been involved each year,” Wells said. “The fans have really responded and supported Coach well. He makes an effort to raise money for the cancer fund in his mother’s honor.”
Infiniti, the luxury au-tomobile manufacturer, is a sponsor of the chal-lenge, along with ESPN, the NCAA and National Association of Basket-ball Coaches, according to Wells.
If Huggins wins, the money will help cancer re-search at WVU.
“The dollars that are be-ing raised by Coach Hug-gins, they go toward pro-viding the infrastructure necessary to support the physicians in the clinic who put patients on clini-cal trials,” said John Naim, director of WVU clinical trials research unit.
Naim explained that his research unit has nurses, physicians and data col-lectors. The money raised from the challenge will help support their efforts in cancer research.
“All cancer societies are inundated with fundrais-ing efforts to help try new
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In Wednesday’s regular meeting, the West Virginia University Student Gov-ernment Association voted to have three polling days, five roaming locations and two permanent locations and use of paper ballots in the upcoming election.
Election Chair Emma Harrison originally pro-posed having voting pre-cincts at the Mountainlair
and the Student Rec Cen-ter. She proposed the Lair have 12 machines and the Rec have 4. She then pro-posed having two days for voting and one emergency day in case of snow. SGA has a budget of $20,000 to spend on elections.
SGA Attorney General, Matt Blair, felt the Board had not received adequate information to make a de-cision on an important proposal.
“The things we are vot-ing on affect thousands
and thousands of stu-dents,” Blair said. “It sets a precedence for years to come. We need to break away from the norm, but to do that, we have to un-derstand what we’re voting on, we have to have appro-private information.”
After discussion, the Board voted to opt for pa-per ballots, upon approval. The Board also voted to have five roaming polling locations, along with two permanent locations. The Board also voted to have
three days of voting, in the case of a snow day for the University, a day of voting will be cancelled.
Funds leftover from the election will be re-turned to WVU Student Life.
Governor Blake Hum-phrey felt the outcome of the votes will be optimal for students.
“My top priority with the election is making sure that students have access to the polls. At the loca-tions around campus—the
five roaming locations and the two permanent loca-tions—I want the students to have access,” Humphrey said. “I think as student government, we should do everything we can when we hold elections to make sure that students have access to the polls, with a reasonable time frame, given enough opportunity to vote during that time.”
For Humphrey, the use of funds contributed to his proposal for paper ballots.
“In regards to the pa-per ballots and why I pro-posed that, I saw that we were in between a rock and a hard place when it came to the county clerk’s office. Obviously, $20,000 is a lot of money in terms of what we’re dealing with, and as elected rep-resentatives of the stu-dents, I think we need to be good stewards of their money,” Humphrey said. “I think we are going to save
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West Virginia’s congres-sional representatives crit-icized President Barack Obama, stating that he’s responsible for the state’s economic woes and that his foreign policy is a failure.
Those claims followed Obama’s final State of the Union Address Tuesday night where many felt his speech was an attempt to solidify his legacy as the president who led the world with green technol-ogy and environmental protection.
“The American people deserve better than a vic-tory lap,” said Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., who represents the state’s first congressional district.
Late Tuesday evening, Sen. Shelley Moore Cap-ito, R-W.Va., scolded the president and urged him to find common ground with the Republican-controlled congress this year.
“I had hoped the presi-dent would lay out a plan to improve the bleak eco-nomic outlook in West Virginia and other states,” Capito said. “Instead, he vowed to move forward with catastrophic regu-lations that threaten jobs and impede energy devel-opment while doing lit-tle to actually improve the environment.”
Ma n y R e p u b l i c a n s blame the sharp decline in coal production in the southern part of West Virginia on those “cata-strophic regulations.”
But now, West Virginia University’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research expects coal production to level off at around 100 million tons, the lowest it has been since the early 1980s.
Since coal’s early days, job losses have been com-monplace because of new technologies that can work faster and more efficiently than miners.
The Bureau predicted in its 2015 Economic Outlook that 1,900 people had fled from the state since 2013, due in part to weakening economic conditions in the state’s coal industry. From 2012-15 alone, the state lost 9,000 jobs, ac-cording to John Deskins, director of the Bureau.
In a video message McKinley released late Tuesday night, he said that
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n Governor Earl Ray Tom-blin’s last State of the State address Wednesday, his fo-
cus was one thing: increasing the state’s revenue.
After expected revenue of more than $800 million in this and next year’s budget fell short, state agen-cies have felt harsh blows of finan-cial cuts while lawmakers scram-ble for answers.
“Tonight,” the Democratic gov-ernor said, “I challenge each of you to find the courage to make these decisions for the sake of the next generation – not the next election.”
The state’s budget shortfalls are large in part due to decreases in revenue because of a decrease in coal production.
“West Virginia remains the fourth largest producer of electric-ity in the country,” Tomblin said, “and I believe our coal industry will continue to support our fam-ilies well into the future.”
In the meantime, Tomblin will introduce legislation to raise the tax on cigarettes by 45 cents, bringing it to $1.00; Democrats this week proposed a $1.00 raise. Tomblin’s in-crease would bring in about $71 million in new revenue, he said.
Prior to the governor’s address in the House Chamber, the Capi-tol was filled with people protest-ing “Right-to-Work” legislation and some demanding funding for PEIA, the state-managed health plan.
PEIA’s finance board recently proposed $120 million in bene-fits cuts.
Tomblin stayed silent on “Right-to-Work,” but he announced a plan to fund PEIA so its members
don’t see a dramatic decrease in benefits.
But with Tomblin’s budget, state employees and public teach-ers won’t see any raises this year.
Even though the state’s budget took a hard hit recently, lawmak-
ers and the governor look to the people in southern West Virginia as the hardest hit.
“This nation owes these West Virginians a debt of gratitude, and we are ready to cash in on that substantial IOU,” Tomblin said to thunderous applause.
While President Obama spoke during his State of the Union ad-dress Tuesday about inspiring growth of clean energy technol-ogy in coal communities, Tomb-lin has looked to federal funding to ease their wounds.
More than $40 million in fed-eral funding will help coal min-ers and their families who’ve ex-hausted unemployment benefits with up to $5,000 going toward tu-ition or job training.
Tomblin said he applied in fall for a $140 mil-
lion grant from United States Housing and Ur-ban Development. What received some of the loudest applause was his proposal to build the largest industrial site in the state’s history.
“With 12,000 acres located just off Corridor G, this site is large enough to fit virtually every major economic development project in recent history – including Toy-ota, Procter & Gamble, Gestamp, Macy’s, Amazon and more – with thousands of acres left over.”
Tomblin also touched on the state’s substance abuse problem which captured national media attention when President Barack Obama visited Charleston in
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west VIrgInIa press assocIatIonPrior to the 2016 State of the State address in the House Chamber at the State Capitol Complex, the halls and rotunda of the Capitol filled with people opposed to “Right-to-Work” legislation and commenting on other labor issues that might be presented during the 2016 session.
west VIrgInIa press assocIatIonGov. Earl Ray Tomblin delivers the 2016 State of the State address in the House Chamber at the State Capitol Complex Wednesday. Gov. Tomblin’s remarks included an overview of new programs and ini-tiatives related to his top priorities as governor, as well as a number of new pieces of legislation he plans to introduce during the 2016 Legislative Session.
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STATE OF THE STATEGov. Earl Ray Tomblin discusses plans to increase revenue in W.Va.
WVU coach Bob Huggins to participate in Coaches Charity Challenge
Obama’s State of the Union address catches flack from conservatives
“But we have proved time and again, for generations, what has been true all along,” he said. “the people who call our state home are among the best and brightest in the world.”
—earl ray tomblin governor of west Va.
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money, and the money we save is going to go back to student life, which will then be beneficial to the students because that’s is increased money that student life can use…My main intent with the pa-per ballots is to lower the cost of the election since there is only one party running.”
Governor Tori Mon-eyhun, voted to in-crease the number of vot-ing days, emphasizing the importance of SGA elections.
“It seems like with the lessening of the days and polling locations that SGA is kind of being swept un-der the rug,” Moneyhun said. “We should have more people running, and by decreasing even more the size of the election, we’re kind of discourag-ing that.”
O nly Jul ie Merow a n d Ma c Mc In t y re have announced bids for president and vice president.
Advisor Hillar Kland-orf said the Board should encourage more students to run for SGA.
“It is something of con-cern that a university of
this size, that there re-ally is only one party. You should be thinking of ways of encouraging peo-ple to run,” Kladorf said. “You should have a real election.”
There will be no straight ticket voting in the election.
SGA meets regularly at 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday in Elizabeth Moore Hall.
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when Obama was elected in 2008, West Virginia had one of the lowest un-employment rates in the
country.“Look, if anybody still
wants to dispute the sci-ence around climate change, have at it,” Obama said in his address. “You’ll be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of Ameri-ca’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the en-tire scientific community and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it.”
Obama instead said the country should look to in-vesting in cleaner forms of energy, like solar and wind
power, to reinvigorate coal communities. Solar en-ergy, he said, is cheaper for Americans than coal and now employs more people than the coal in-dustry does.
“But even if the planet wasn’t at stake…,” Obama said, “why would we want to pass up the chance for American businesses to produce and sell the en-ergy of the future?”
On the homeland se-curity front, Obama at-tempted to rebuke claims that the U.S.’ role as a world leader and that ISIS poses a threat to the Amer-ican way of life.
“If you doubt Amer-ica’s commitment — or mine — to see that jus-t i c e i s d o n e, a s k Osama bin Laden,” he said.
I n r e s p o n s e t o this, McKinley har-kened back to Ronald Reagan.
“At their kitchen tables, families across America are asking fundamental questions,” he said. “Are they better off than they were seven years ago? Is the world safer today?”
Like others in the Re-publican party, Cap-ito said she was disap-pointed Obama didn’t
provide any clear plan for “how he plans to destroy ISIS.” Obama, instead, turned the responsibility to Congress.
“If this Congress is seri-ous about winning this war and wants to send a mes-sage to our troops and the world, you should finally authorize the use of mil-itary force against ISIL,” Obama said. “Take a vote.”
There was one thing Obama said that West Virginia’s two senators could support : combat-ing the nation’s drug addiction.
The president has re-cently taken a greater in-
terest in this cause, visiting Charleston in October to meet with local leaders. In fact, one of the First Lady’s guests at the address was Cary Dixon, a Huntington resident.
Dixon sat on a panel when Obama came to the Mountain State and shared her story of caring for an adult child battling addiction.
As tensions mount be-tween the two parties, all political eyes are fo-cused on the Iowa Cau-cus which looms only days away.
therapeutics and diagnos-tics and preventative mea-sures for this disease be-cause it touches everyone basically at some point in their lives,” Naim said.
Cancer is also a higher risk and burden in West Virginia than in other states, according to Naim. He explained the coal mining industry and prevalence of smok-ing increase risks of lung and other types of cancer for West Virginians. Ad-ditionally, West Virgin-
ia’s poverty levels make fighting cancer more of a challenge.
“In general, any state, not just West Virginia, that’s economically chal-lenged or poor, the pop-ulace is not going to have access to care,” Naim said. “They’re not going to be going to see their primary
care physician all the time to be taught about preven-tative measures, such as not smoking.”
The challenge began Jan. 4 and will end March 13. There will be four rounds to the challenge. Winning coaches will win $1,000, $7,500, $10,000 and $15,000 in each respective
round. The winner will re-ceive $100,000 for their charity.
T h e w i n n e r w i l l b e a n n o u n c e d o n March 13 after voting ends.
“Mountaineer fans are the greatest,” Huggins said. “But I want them to realize that this event isn’t a pop-
ularity contest. When they vote for me, they’ll be vot-ing to find new and better treatments for cancer and bringing hope to those af-flicted with the disease.”
Fans can go to http://ESPN.com/infiniti to vote for Huggins.
October.His office created a
24/7 hotline for substance abuse last fall—the first of its kind in the state—which Tomblin said has already connected more than 700 people with substance abuse professionals.
Tomblin hopes to es-tablish licensing require-ments for suboxone and methadone clinics, which would require medica-tion-assisted facilities to provide comprehension therapies to combat sub-stances abuse instead of
relying on medication.After a new law went
into effect last year, more first responders in West Virginia are able to admin-ister narcan, sometimes know as naloxone, when encountering someone who might be experienc-ing an overdose of heroin. Already in 2015, 3,321 first responders—1,150 more than the year prior—ad-ministered naloxone.
Morgantown authori-ties, including West Vir-ginia University’s Police Department, the Mor-gantown Police and the Monongalia County Sher-riff ’s office, launched a county-wide naloxone program in December.
“Tonight, I once again urge this Legislature to expand access to Narcan by supporting my proposal to make it available to any West Virginian – without a prescription,” Tomblin said.
The governor closed his speech looking forward to myriad challenges fac-ing the state in the com-ing years.
“But we have proved time and again, for gen-erations, what has been true all along,” he said. “The people who call our state home are among the best and brightest in the world.”
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apA clerk hands a ticket with five computer quick picks to a customer for Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot at the Mobil Mart in Methuen, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016.
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The latest on Wednesday’s Powerball drawing (all times local):
10:45 p.m.A spokesman for the Cal-
ifornia Lottery says a win-ning Powerball ticket was sold at a store in suburban Los Angeles.
Spokesman Alex Trav-esta tells The Associated Press the jackpot-win-ning ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, about 25 miles northeast of Anaheim.
The identity of the winner is not yet known. It could take several hours before officials know whether any
other winning tickets were sold elsewhere.
The odds to win were 1 in 292.2 million.
Officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Power-ball game, had said they expected more than 85 percent of all the possi-ble number combinations would have been bought for the drawing.
Had no one matched all of the numbers drawn - 4-8-19-27-34 and Pow-erball 10- lottery officials said the next jackpot would have reached $2 billion.
10 p.m.Lottery officials have
announced the numbers drawn for Wednesday night’s record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot.
It could take several hours before officials know if any tickets sold since last Saturday’s draw-ing matched all six winning numbers drawn, which were 4-8-19-27-34 and Powerball 10.
The odds of winning are 1 in 292.2 million.
Officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game, said they expected more than 85 percent of the possible number com-binations would have been
bought for the drawing.If no tickets match all of
the numbers drawn, lottery officials say the next jack-pot could reach $2 billion.
Powerball is played in 44 states as well as the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Is-lands and Puerto Rico.
10:20 a.m.A lottery official says the
estimated Powerball jack-pot remains at $1.5 billion, still the largest lottery jack-pot in the world.
Kelly Cripe of the Texas Lottery says 85.8 percent of possible number com-binations have been se-lected ahead of the drawing scheduled for Wednesday
evening.The odds of match-
ing all six numbers to win the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
The $1.5 billion prize would be paid in annual payments over 29 years or the winner could opt for a lump-sum payment of $930 million.
Cripe says if no one wins the jackpot Wednesday, the estimated jackpot for Sat-urday’s drawing will in-crease to $2 billion, with a cash value of $1.24 billion.
1 a.m.The largest lottery jack-
pot in the world is up for grabs in the latest Power-
ball drawing.The prize has climbed to
an estimated $1.5 billion, easily surpassing all other lotteries. The jackpot esti-mate is reviewed daily, so it could increase before Wednesday night’s draw-ing if ticket sales continue to exceed expectations.
The jackpot for the twice-weekly game started at $40 million on Nov. 4. No one has matched all six Power-ball numbers since then, so the prize kept growing.
Lottery officials expect at least 80 percent of the 292.2 million number combina-tions will be purchased be-fore the drawing.
U.S. Navy sailors released unharmed by Iran in less than a dayduBaI, united arab Emir-
ates (aP)—It turned out to be the international crisis that wasn’t.
Less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were de-tained in Iran when their boats drifted into Ira-nian waters, they and their vessels were back safely Wednesday with the Amer-ican fleet.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tapped the per-sonal relationship he has formed with Iranian For-eign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the three years of negotiations over Iran’s
nuclear program, speaking with him at least five times by telephone. Kerry cred-ited the quick resolution to the “critical role diplomacy plays in keeping our coun-try secure and strong.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter thanked Kerry after the sailors’ release and couched the incident in humanitarian terms, not-ing that “the U.S. Navy rou-tinely provides assistance to foreign sailors in distress.”
For Tehran, the Amer-icans’ swift release was a way to neutralize a poten-tial new flashpoint days
before it was expected to meet the terms of last sum-mer’s nuclear deal, which will give Iran significant re-lief from painful economic sanctions.
It is likely that Su-preme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all mat-ters of state, would have had to approve the release, given the immense political sensitivities.
But the rapid resolu-tion also was a victory for moderate President Has-san Rouhani, who has pro-moted greater openness
with the outside world de-spite strident opposition from deeply entrenched hard-liners at home.
“Rouhani’s policy of in-teraction is working,” said Iranian political analyst Saeed Leilaz. “Iran and the U.S. have gone a long way in reducing tensions but still have a long way to go in improving their contacts. It was a big step forward.”
The nine men and one woman were detained Tuesday after at least one of their boats suffered me-chanical problems off of Farsi Island, an outpost in
the middle of the Persian Gulf that has been used as a base for Revolutionary Guard speedboats since the 1980s.
The Americans’ small Riverine boats were sailing between Kuwait and Bah-rain on a training mission when the U.S. lost contact.
The sailors left the island at 0843 GMT (3:43 a.m. EST) Wednesday aboard their boats, the Navy said. They were picked up by Navy air-craft, and other sailors took control of the vessels for the return voyage to Bahrain, where the U.S. 5th Fleet is
based.Cmdr. Kevin Stephens, a
5th Fleet spokesman, said the priority now would be determining “how exactly these sailors found them-selves in Iran.”
He declined to say where they were going or give de-tails on their identities, but a senior defense official said they were heading to a U.S. military facility in Qatar. The official, who was not autho-rized to discuss the matter publicly, said they are be-ing debriefed and getting medical exams but were not harmed.
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Addressing the opioid epidemic
The 2016 State of the Union address on Tues-day was highly anticipated. Global terrorism, Ameri-ca’s tense relationship with Islam and allowing Syrian refugees into the country were all recent issues Presi-dent Barack Obama was ex-pected to cover. Other top-ics deemed important by the president were also in-cluded, which were first re-vealed by the diverse list of invitees intended to sit with him during the speech.
In previous years, Obama has invited several spe-cial guests from across the country to attend the event. He typically takes the op-portunity to mention each guest’s unique circum-stances and how they re-late to the rest of the nation in the speech.
Though most media out-lets focused on the pres-ence of Refaai Hamo, a Syr-ian scientist who relocated to Detroit, Michigan after escaping his home coun-
try’s civil war, Obama also chose to invite Cary Dixon, a woman from Huntington, West Virginia to sit with the first lady during the address.
Dixon spoke at the event Obama attended in Charleston, West Virginia in October 2015 in order to highlight the severity of the opioid crisis in Appa-lachia. West Virginia cur-rently has the highest num-ber of deaths from heroin in the country, and babies
being born addicted to opi-oids is a new crisis that both hospitals and legislation are currently attempting to remedy.
Obama made a nod to the opioid epidemic in the first few minutes of his speech by including “people who are battling prescription drug abuse” as just one group he hopes to help in 2016 through passing leg-islation. He also included “criminal justice reform” as an area of focus before he
leaves office, as many peo-ple arrested for distributing and abusing prescription drugs leave prison without receiving proper rehabilita-tion, often re-offending just months after their release.
Though Obama noted that 2016’s status as an election year meant “ex-pectations for what (the Obama administration) will achieve this year are low,” he went on to say that hav-ing bipartisan support on issues like overdoses and
addiction will “surprise the cynics again.”
The prescription drug abuse and opioid problem may not have an easy solu-tion and could take years to fully get under control, but the next leader of America must continue the fight for prison reform and against addiction. If not, needless lives will be lost and more West Virginia families will suffer as a result.
The Tuesday after-noon, Jan. 12, disaster on West Virginia University’s Evansdale Campus could have been anticipated, ex-pected and ameliorated. The concept of a pedes-trian campus sounds “up-per class,” “Ivy League” and very inviting. However, a single ingress and egress from a section of campus serving thousands of peo-ple each day is nonsense. With the gates closed at Towers, the intersection between the Evansdale PRT Station and the Cre-ative Arts Center is the only entrance for several Evans-dale buildings. For those of us in our vehicles or of-fices until well after 6:00 p.m., it was an inexcusable example of poor and in-adequate planning. It has
been sheer folly to ignore that a huge proportion of students, staff and faculty will be commuters because of the high cost of living in Morgantown.
Imagine the frustration of a staff member who was told that campus police had no ability to open the gates at Towers because that was a function of “park-ing”. Or of another, who said, “If I had my old truck, the gates would be open,” while waiting more than an hour in a line that was not moving. What if a building were on fire, or there were a life-threatening event? How do students, staff and faculty escape? Is anyone even authorized to call in a helicopter?
The light system at Pat-teson Drive has been help-ful to entry and exit on days of normal traffic, but is flawed by being concur-rent for “walk” and “turn.” However, on Tuesday there was an apparent decision
to limit the green light for exit. People not going to the game were allowed only a 5-second green light and those going to the game were allowed to block the intersection.
A contributing exam-ple of poor planning is the continuous left turn to the Rec Center as traffic en-ters campus from Patte-son Drive. Anyone exiting from Fine Arts Drive on the west side of the entry corridor, especially if turn-ing left towards Patteson, is in imminent jeopardy because of that very short area in which a left turning incoming car that will not stop can be identified. It is only a matter of time until a major accident or fatality occurs there.
The “perfect storm” on Tuesday afternoon dem-onstrated what folks with common sense have known all along: WVU and Morgantown can be brought to a total standstill
by having just six intersec-tions blocked. This is the case because Morgantown didn’t build roads before developers were allowed to block all possible sites
for them with apartment buildings.
Destroying the arbore-tum will not solve this prob-lem, but common-sense planning for the future can
help. We must demand real planning that involves our collective input for a change.
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Kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumThe arrival of snow caused several traffic accidents in the past few days.
Much like the line of cars heading for early spring se-mester classes, the won-ders of winter are never-ending in Morgantown. No matter what your liv-ing condition or class sta-tus may be, a little foresight goes a long way toward get-ting through winter with as few holdups or frustrations as possible.
As many first-time West Virginia University stu-dents will soon learn, classes are rarely canceled for inclement weather. If Mother Nature is feeling particularly generous with snow, this can be a prob-lem, as students can only miss so many days without a penalty. Getting out of the house is a tough trade for deep hibernation, but it’s one we have to make in order to keep our grades intact.
Weather apps are es-pecially handy for get-ting an hourly look at the day’s forecast. If using the PRT is in your itinerary, it’s best not to depend solely on its functionality dur-ing the heart of a blizzard. Planning ahead for stops if snow begins to fall is a good rule of thumb in order to prevent unexpectedly be-ing snowed in on the rails.
Having weathered a few winters here myself, I can say with confidence that nothing beats a good pair of boots. In certain cir-
cumstances—and depend-ing on how bold one feels on a Monday morning—a good pair of snow boots can carry a person to their destination faster and in a more predictable time-frame than a car. Traffic ac-cidents and road mainte-nance are all too common thanks to our lovely abun-
dance of icy conditions, potholes and slick hills. Much like with the PRT, a little perception can save a driver much-needed time.
The cold months of the New Year aren’t just frigid physically. Gray, gloomy clouds can mean days without sunshine or bright skies. Coupled with
cold and college stress, it’s quite common for seasonal depression to emerge.
As officially defined by the Mayo Clinic, sea-sonal depression’s “symp-toms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your en-ergy and making you feel
moody.” It’s nearly impos-sible to convince yourself to walk out into a snowstorm, let alone attending and participating in classes, if you’re already feeling un-happy or depressed that day.
Without a doubt, the ab-solute hardest part of win-ter is leaving the warmth
of a cozy bed early in the morning. Those first steps are freezing, demotivat-ing and enough to ques-tion if class is really worth the trek. However, there are ways of making cold mornings in the mountains much more bearable.
For instance, after com-pleting your morning rou-tine, try taking a moment to exercise a bit. Waking those muscles up under-neath a coat helps them combat the cold with a nice layer of heat. Exercise en-courages positive thinking too, becoming a nice boost of enthusiasm to ward off negativity. Just a couple push-ups or sit-ups can be enough to get your prover-bial fire going.
Staying happy is impor-tant for fighting off those lingering self-doubts and keeping those hard-earned grades healthy. To do so, don’t be too hard on your-self with loads of tasks that were tough enough even in nicer weather. Being con-fined to your home un-der a mountain of snow is the perfect time to fi-nally read that book or watch that movie people won’t stop talking about. It’s also a great time for self-reflection or making new friends over some hot chocolate.
As long as you stay ac-tive and enjoy what you’re doing, there won’t be time to worry about cabin fever. Making the best of winter’s offerings is the key to start-ing the spring semester off right.
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Kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumWinter may not be everyone’s favorite season, but making the best of the cold weather is important in all aspects of one’s life.
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usnews.comPresident Obama gave his last State of the Union address on Jan. 12.
BURRITOS, BEER AND MUSIC‘One woman band,’ Laura Thurston performs Black Bear show for fans willing to brave the cold
Chase Bryant to bring Texas charm to Schmitt’smelanie SmiTh
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A small town man with big dreams and a kick of Texas twang will be taking the stage at Schmitt’s Saloon Friday evening, as Chase Bryant makes his first appearance in Morgantown.
Chase Bryant, a 22-year-old Texas native, will headline his first solo tour this winter. The young songwriter co-wrote and co-pro-duced his debut EP that was re-leased in September 2014 on Red Bow Records. Bryant is known for his singles “Take It On Back” and “Little Bit of You,” making appear-ances on the Country Airplay chart published by Billboard Magazine. Audiences should expect Bryant to perform his hit singles along with a mixture of his originals and favor-ite covers.
The entertainment director of Schmitt’s Saloon, Troy Koon, be-lieves Bryant will bring a unique joy to the stage as he marks the mile-stone of performing for the first time in the Morgantown area.
“Chase has very strong family ties to country music, and it shows in his performances,” Koon said. “He brings a fun and entertaining twist to classic country.”
Although Bryant’s name is rela-
tively new to the music business, music is not new to him. Chase Bryant grew up in Orange Grove, Texas, a town with a total popula-tion of only 1,200 people.
His grandfather played piano in the famous musician Roy Orbison’s first two bands as well as for Way-lon Jennings. Bryant’s uncles co-founded the ‘90s band Ricochet and released several hits through-out the decade. After growing up
with various family ties to music, Bryant always knew he would per-form under the lights.
On his official website, Bryant explains, “In school, I was the odd kid. There were 20 guitars in town, and I owned all of them… I knew I wanted to play mainstream coun-try- I always knew.”
Bryant graduated high school early and moved west to write mu-sic for a starter company. He men-
tions on his website he wrote 400 lousy songs before he wrote his first good one, gaining the attention of Nashville managers and publish-ers and the start of his dreams. Due to his connection with Roy Orbi-son, Bryant contacted Roy’s widow, the late Barbara Orbison, and she signed him to her record label on the spot. He produced and cut all of his own music along his road to fame, leading to his monumental
success from one album release.Bryant humbly looks toward the
future after achieving such an im-mense amount in such a short span of time. On his website, Bryant ex-plains his purpose for following his dreams.
“We are all fans,” Bryant said. “We are all friends. And the mu-sic is our connection. To me, it is a lifelong relationship, and we will all get where we are going together. That is the beauty of music.”
Koon looks forward to spending time with Bryant, his band and his crew. He wants audiences to know that anytime they stop into the Sa-loon, they can always expect a good time.
“The artists, bands and crews spend a lot of time on the road,” Koon said. “We (Schmitt’s Saloon) pride ourselves on making them feel at home and welcoming them into the Saloon family.”
The show will kick off at 8:30 p.m. on Friday with Matt Poling performing an acoustic set, fol-lowed by Moonlight Drive at 9 p.m. and finally, Chase Bryant perform-ing at 10:30 p.m.
Tickets are available on https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chase-bryant-tickets-19765250396/. For more information, visit http://www.schmittssaloon.com/.
Workaholics returns for epic sixth season, DeVine spills on guest starsCorey ellioTT
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The wait is over for Workahol-ics fans. Season six returns to Comedy Central tomorrow at 10 p.m. after a nine-month hiatus. This high-expectation season will feature 10 brand spankin’ new episodes airing each Thurs-day night.
A show about three dudes living and working together in California at a telemarketing company seems to have a tar-get demographic of young peo-ple who can relate to this type of lifestyle. College students overwhelmingly seem to be the show’s biggest fans. However, Workaholics has diversified its brand with each season with try-ing to cater to a wider audience.
For the past five seasons, the ever so popular theme of Worka-holics was “let’s get weird.” “Let’s get weird” definitely caught on
as a great slogan and helped market the show via social me-dia. In season six though, the gang upped the ante by going with the new and improved “get weirder” theme. Far from dull, you can expect myriad trips, no pun intended, with the typical off-the-wall ideas being inte-grated into the show’s colorful storylines.
As we prepare ourselves for whatever weirdness lies ahead, it’s certain that the trio of Adam DeVine, Blake Anderson and Anders Holm will find them-selves in their usual pickles. Unique plot twists have always kept viewers and fans anxious for what they can expect next from the boys. With their boss, Alice and her crony Jillian, it’s never a disappointing day at the office. Also returning this season are longtime co-worker Mon-tez Walker and Karl, the trio’s sketchy drug dealer. Something most fans may not know is that,
played by Kyle Newacheck, also writes and directs for the show.
Over the past couple of years, Workaholics has made it a point to have some notable named guest stars. Some of the se-ries’ more recent guest appear-ances include Marc Summers, Chris D’Elia, Ben Stiller and Jack Black. If you follow Adam DeVine on Instagram, you know that he revealed appearances will be made from Liam Hem-sworth, Pauly Shore and Dane Cook in season six. Combined with the wit and peculiarity of Adam, Blake and Ders, it’s safe to say fans are in for a wildly funny experience.
The show’s production has been tight-lipped about the up-coming season, but fans can be sure the guys will be back on their 9-5 calling grinds at good old TelAmeriCorp. Episode one, titled “Wolves of Rancho,” kicks off the newest season as Adam, Blake and Ders trans-
fer TelAmeriCorp branches. Switching branches gives us new scenery and different charac-ters to explore, which is always refreshing.
A premiere clip from the first episode shows Blake and Ders getting into a beatbox battle like only they can. This teaser was a hype video of sorts for the fans, encouraging them to get weird,
but more importantly ready for tomorrow night’s premiere.
It’s hard to believe Workahol-ics is embarking on its sixth sea-son already. The good news for Workaholics lovers is it’s been rumored that Comedy Central has already approved its seventh season for the popular comedy.
cmaworld.comChase Bryant is a native of Orange Grove, Texas.
tv.comWorkaholics returns 8 p.m. tonight on Comedy Central.
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askar salikhov/thE dailY athENaEUmLaura Thurston performs in front of a live audience inside Black Bear Burritos as part of her East Coast country tour.
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Patrons of Black Bear Burritos escaped the cold to be welcomed into the restaurant by music and food.
Last night, Laura Thur-ston, a regular performer, shared her music with the crowd.
Thurston is known for her one woman band be-cause of her reputation of playing four instruments at one time without any other back up. She manages to strum her guitar, play her harmonica, tap her tam-bourine and play her suit-case kick drum.
For this particular show, Thurston was only playing her guitar, tambourine, and kick drum. She was accom-panied by Andy Pintus on harmonica.
“I bring my instruments every time, and when there are artists who are more ac-commodating or more will-ing to take a risk with the old guy, I get to play along,” Pintus said.
While doing her sound check, Thurston had to pull off her socks so she could tap the tambourine perfectly with her feet. Her feet weren’t the only ones moving though. Mother Trish Polce brought her young daughter Chelsea Polce of only 18 months up to dance.
“I just came to meet with some friends,” Polce said. “It is always a good oppor-tunity to listen to music and have some good food. Plus, I don’t have to cook.”
Thurston started the night off with her song “Colorado.” Followed by a few more songs, one of which includes her song
“Reflection.” She also played her cover of “Brand New Key” by Melanie Safka from 1971.
“I don’t create a set list because I have too many ideas and never stick to it,” Thurston said as she began to play another song.
As Thurston played more and more, the crowd grew and so did the chatter. The quiet, almost empty ta-bles, quickly became a bus-tling restaurant as the rush of the dinner hour came along.
After a short break, Au-gee Kim also joined her on flute. The two met in Charleston, South Carolina where Kim spent most of his 20s. He is now in Mor-gantown working on his PhD in English at WVU.
The folk singer-song-writer is no stranger to stage as she has played all along
the east coast and is revisit-ing Black Bear Burritos.
She brings CDs with her as well as stickers and hand made necklaces, which were sitting on the edge of the stage.
Since her start in 2011, Thurston also found a new
love—Old Time Music. In 2012, she was invited to teach with The Chatham Junior Appalachian Mu-sicians where she was ex-posed to Old Time Music.
After playing in West Vir-ginia, she will hit the road and head to her home state
of South Carolina. She will then travel around the Car-olinas where she will play for a little while.
For more information on Laura Thurston visit, lau-rathurston.com.
askar salikhov/thE dailY athENaEUmLaura Thurston, an Americana Folk Grass performer, visits The Black Bear Burritos restaurant in Morgantown while travel-ing on a tour through the East Coast.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 5Thursday January 14, 2016
Slope-side getaways near campus, cheap rentalsally litten
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Cars are stuck in snow-drifts, the snow plows are plowing away and students are slipping on sidewalks; it is officially win-ter in Morgantown. With the winter season upon us, one of the only perks of living in the Appalachian Mountains are the beauti-ful ski resorts just a short drive away. Here are a few close options for any snowbirds looking to sport in a breath-taking setting.
Wisp ResortLess than an hour’s drive is the Wisp Re-
sort, located in Garrett County, Maryland. the Wisp is a scenic resort overlooking Deep Creek Lake. The resort offers skiing, snow-boarding, snow tubing, cross-country ski-ing, snowshoeing, ice skating, nastar racing, snowmobiling and their infamous Moun-tain Coaster. If you have a pretty light sched-ule on Modays, you can use the lift from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., rent a snowboard or sport skis and a one hour clinic for $49. Wisp Resort also offers day passes and season passes. One of the biggest perks of the Wisp’s sea-son passes is they offer season passes to col-lege students for $299.
Seven Springs Mountain ResortSeven Springs is located in Western
Pennsylvania and is about an hour’s drive. The resort offers 33 slopes and trails, 10 lifts, a nastar course, snow tubing, skiing and snowboarding, sleigh and horseback rides, snowmobile tours, snowcat rides and snowshoe tours. Seven Springs offers day passes as well as season passes for college students for $399. On Tuesday nights, the resort throws Tube-A-Palooza, an event for
all ages. Starting at 6 p.m., you can tube as much as your heart desires, relax by a cozy bonfire and enjoy all-you-can-eat pizza, hotdogs and hot chocolate until 10 p.m.
Timberline Four Seasons ResortLocated in Davis, West Virginia, Tim-
berline is a two hour drive from Morgan-town. Davis might be a small town but it of-fers many attractions such as the resort and Blackwater Falls. Timberline resort offers 41 slopes, glade skiing, cross-country ski-ing, down-hill skiing, snowboarding, horse-back riding and, on certain weekends, car-riage rides. One of the biggest perks of this resort is the Salamander trail, which is the longest trail with the highest vertical in this part of the country. Timberline also offers great discounts for college students. A sea-son pass for a college student is $280 and on “College Days”, lift tickets are discounted to $25.
WVU Outdoor Recreational CenterAlthough most ski resorts rent equip-
ment, WVU’s Outdoor Rec Center rents ev-erything you need for an incredibly cheap price. The equipment can be rented and taken to a ski resort or used here in Mor-gantown. The Outdoor Rec offers four dif-ferent packages to students to be rented for various amounts of time. They of-fer downhill ski packages for $12.50 a day, cross country ski packages for $6.25 a day, snowboards for $12 per day and snowshoe packages for $5 a day. Not only does the Outdoor Rec rent these items but they can also lend valuable advice for anyone trying winter sports for the first time.
baltimoresun.comWisp Resort is located in Garrett County, Md.
lakeview Resort to host Food and Wine Festivalmeg WeiSSend
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For those who appreciate the adventure of traveling and fine dining, The Lakeview Golf Re-sort & Spa may be a destination worth seeking this weekend.
Lakeview will host the 32nd Annual Festival of Food and Wine from Jan. 15-17, located here in Morgantown.
One of the Mid-Atlantic’s pre-mier golf resort destinations, Lakeview is a relaxing getaway nestled in the rolling hills of West Virginia.
Offering guests a “Fusion Cu-linary Tour of North America,” the weekend will be highlighted by culinary seminars featuring cuisine from Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City and much more. There will also be wine tastings and classes along with whiskey tastings.
The wide variety of dishes prepared by chefs from local restaurants, hotels and coun-try clubs specialize in regional cuisine.
Presentations include “Ashe-ville, North Carolina Cuisine” by Terry Sellers, chef at Bar-rington Country Club in Aurora, Ohio, “Southern Texas Cuisine” by Donald Orr, executive chef at the soon-to-open Bourbon Prime Steakhouse in Morgan-
town, and “New England Cui-sine” by Joshua Brickey, chef at Morgantown’s Iron Horse Tavern.
Executive chef at Lakev-iew, Jessie Teasdale, will host a Chef ’s Welcome with hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 15 in the golf resort library. Guests will have an opportunity to meet the chefs who will be creating dishes throughout the day of Jan. 16.
From 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. on
Saturday, chefs will host cooking demonstrations, giving the audi-ence a close-up view of the food preparation when creating their signature recipes. Participants will receive a packet filled with recipes of the dishes made dur-ing the weekend to try at home.
The festival “is an amazing event to bring together chefs from all different regions - in-cluding locally - to share their love of cuisine,” Teasdale said in an interview with Tribune-Re-
view. “I hope they get the ex-perience of showing people how they can take their recipes and bring them into their own kitchens.”
Guests are encouraged to shop at the Artisan Marketplace open on Saturday, featuring homemade jams, sauces, wines, jewelry and antiques.
Also on Saturday, the 6th An-nual Iron Chef Competition will take place at 4 p.m. Two chefs will compete in a cook-off con-
sisting of three rounds. The se-lected chefs will be judged on taste, creativity and the ability to integrate a secret ingredient into their dish. The panel of judges will include an audience mem-ber, a local restaurant owner and celebrity guest Robin Cole, a former linebacker for the Pitts-burgh Steelers.
The remaining portion of the evening will be focused on cock-tails and hors d’oeuvres in the Library, and dinner in the Re-flections Ballroom.
A “Chef ’s Brunch” will be served at 9 a.m. on Sunday, to end the weekend festival.
Lakeview offers three pack-ages for the event. The “Day Package” is $49, including breakfast, lunch, classes and ac-cess to the Artisan Marketplace. With this package, West Virginia University students can receive a discount with a valid student ID.
The “Three Day Package” is $125, and includes access to all events on each festival day.
The “Weekend Stay Pack-age” is $415, and includes ac-cess to all events on each fes-tival day, as well as overnight accommodations.
For more information about the event visit lakeviewresort.com.
examiner.comGuests can taste and take wine classes at the Food and Wine Festival.
Drug lord flirted with Mexican actress, cared less about making filmMEXICO CITY (AP) ‑ Transcripts of over
a month of text messages between drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo showed the capo was less interested in making a movie about his life than he was in flirt-ing with the actress.
The transcripts published Wednes-day by the newspaper Milenio - and con-firmed as authentic by a federal official - showed that Guzman’s main concern was getting face-to-face get-togethers with Del Castillo, and that he didn’t even re-ally know who Sean Penn was.
Penn has acknowledged he tagged along for the Oct. 2 meeting at a mountain hideout originally set up by Del Castillo.
“What’s that actor’s name?” the ac-count identified as Guzman’s writes in one message. He later asks his lawyers to tell him what movies Penn has appeared in. Even when Guzman dedicated a video statement as an “exclusive for” Del Cas-tillo and Penn, the drug lord stumbles over Penn’s first name, pronouncing it
“SAY-ahn.”The federal official, who spoke on con-
dition of anonymity because he or she was not authorized to be quoted by name, said the dozens of texts were authentic. Many expressed admiration, and longing for the next meeting, more than concern about the purported movie project.
“I’ll tell you, I am more excited about you than the (movie) script,” Guzman wrote to Del Castillo, to whom he had identified in his chat or text account as “ermoza,” a misspelling of the Spanish word for “beautiful.” ‘’I’ll take care of you,” he adds.
Another text from the drug lord reads: “How is the best and most intelligent woman in the world, who I admire a lot?” At one point, Guzman - who is reportedly married to former beauty queen Emma Coronel, and has had children with her and several other women - writes “My mother wants to meet you. I told her about you.”
“I want you with all my heart,” he wrote.
Del Castillo responds in kind. “Apart from our (movie) project, I am very excited about seeing you eye to eye, in person,” she wrote, add-ing later “we will embrace each other soon!”
Asked about the text messages at a pub-lic event on Wednesday, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong declined to say anything about them and said the At-torney General’s Office would comment on the matter soon.
Del Castillo’s representatives did not respond to email requests to comment on the texts. But on Wednesday evening via her Twitter account she thanked people for their support in recent days.
“Not surprisingly, many have chosen to make up items they think will make good stories and that aren’t truthful. I look for-ward to sharing my story with you,” she wrote.
In the messages, even Guzman recog-nizes that Mexican or U.S. intelligence of-ficials were probably following or moni-
toring many of the people who knew him. The drug lord tells one of his lawyers in another chat, “the DEA has all her de-vices tapped, and at her house the DEA has cameras to see who visits her,” appar-ently referring a women who was to meet with the actress.
In light of that, it is surprising that Guz-man, who spent years evading capture, would have continued in such constant contact with the actress. While authorities narrowly missed capturing Guzman when they raided the hideout where the meet-ing took place in October, they finally got him on Friday.
Mexican federal officials have con-firmed that the drug lord appears to have been infatuated with the actress. And when Mexican marines raided the house where had been hiding Friday, they found injectable testosterone, a treat-ment sometimes used to boost the male libido; though it was unclear if the medi-cation belonged to Guzman or one of his associates.
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After seeing “Real Girls Can’t Win” debut in Mor-gantown last year, West Virginia University stu-dio-acting student Ash-ley Koon sat in her car, speechless.
“No one will leave this play without feeling some-thing in it was relevant to their life,” Koon said.
Real Girls Can’t Win, written by Merrie Bleicher, follows insecure college freshman and “real girl” Ka-tie Rogers as she competes
with the band of beautiful and ruthless “copy girls” to win “Miss Freshman B Dorm.”
The battle that ensues finds “real girls” and “copy girls” pitted against one an-other and forced to confront issues of societal pressure on women, harassment, the power of female sexual-ity and the draw of drinking and drugs.
During this year’s perfor-mance, directed by assis-tant professor and program director of musical theater Bryce Britton, Koon will play the role of Katie Two, Katie Rogers’ driven and beauti-ful best friend who is more
interested in her dreams of becoming a doctor than she is in achieving the social sta-tus of the “copy girls.”
“Katie Two focuses so much on her career and ed-ucation because she is un-comfortable with herself,” Koon said.
Katie Rogers, who recog-nizes she will never be ac-cepted in the clique, feels jealousy toward her best friend Katie Two, who, de-spite her insecurities, could easily become a “copy girl”, according to Allison Ches-ter, a senior studio-acting student who will play Katie Rogers in Real Girls Can’t Win.
“Katie Rogers wants to conform, but will never be able to, so she decides to change the world in small increments, starting with challenging the copy girls for the competition,” Ches-ter said. “In the world today, it is the copy girls who win because of societal pres-sures on women to con-form to certain physical ideals.”
According to Chester, women who are subjected to body shaming and who feel burdened by their in-ability to meet societal standards often don’t pos-sess the self-confidence to succeed.
Consistently in the play, the “copy girls” take their clothes off, using their sex-uality to get attention from men and the student body, Koon said.
The climax of the play follows the “real girls” as they decide whether or not to succumb to the pres-sure the “copy girls” have created and utilize sex as a tool to gain approval and popularity.
After seeing the play last year and witnessing such re-alistic portrayals of female bullying inflicted upon the “real girls” by the “copy girls,” Koon said she won-dered if she was part of the
problem. “The message of ‘Real
Girls Can’t Win’ is so im-portant, and it’s really heart-breaking,” Chester said. “We need to take care of each other.”
The WVU School of The-atre and Dance will present “Real Girls Can’t Win” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14-16, 2 p.m. on Jan. 17 and at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21-23 in the Gladys Da-vis Theatre located in the Creative Arts Center.
All showings of “Real Girls Can’t Win” are free and open to the public.
‘Real Girls Can’t Win’ to deal with female harassment, sexual power
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Thursday January 14, 20166 | CAMPUS CONNECTION
BY nAnCY BLACK
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HH Accept assistance when it’s offered. A woman you love and admire gives you some great advice. You’re get-ting stronger today and tomorrow. Go for what you want. Use your per-suasive charms. Gather in what’s needed, and more.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHH Finish tasks today and tomorrow. It’s emotion versus reason. Lay low in peace and quiet. Sort, file and orga-nize. Review old memories. You’re getting more interested in stability. Consider family obligations before agreeing to a new opportunity.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH Share what you’re learning over the next two days. Participate with your community. Your friends are really there for you. Make sure what you build is solid. Keep your promises and exceed expectations.
c A N c E R ( J U N E 21- J U ly 22) HHHHH Take on more responsi-bility over the next few days. Make decisions. Angels guide your actions. Revise your routine. Hold your tem-per, even when others don’t. Push your agenda, and plan your moves in advance.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHH Aca-demic pursuits go well over the next few days. Explore a subject that fas-
cinates you. Travel entices. Venture farther out. Have courage, and push your boundaries. Make bold discov-eries. Play in your field.
V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH Study ways to make money. negotiate terms and strike a fair bargain. Today and tomorrow favor financial management. Profit by knowing the facts. Stand up for your best interests.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHHH Partners are a big help over the next two days. Take steps to correct an er-ror. Work together to surpass an ob-stacle. This challenge is almost fun. Find an inventive way to say “thank you.”
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHHH Focus on your work for the next cou-ple of days. Let people know what you need. Defend your position. You’re brilliant now. Persuade with actions as well as words. Listen care-fully, and learn new tricks.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HH The next two days are lucky for love. Join forces with someone charis-matic. The more you learn, the more your self-confidence grows. Choose privacy over publicity. Make a secret rendezvous, and enjoy each other’s company.
cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Family comes first today and tomor-row. Go farther than expected on
household projects. Prepare for an upcoming gathering. Discuss devel-opments. Research different options before making a larger purchase. Confer with your crew first.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHHH Studies and travels keep you on your toes today and tomor-row. Take the lead. Consider alterna-tive perspectives. Discover mistakes that could change the outcome. Your courage makes the difference. Check out distant options.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Tap another source of reve-nue today and tomorrow. Business is good. Pay expenses before splurging on luxuries. Don’t deplete resources.
Do a good job and increase your sta-tus. Your ideas are attracting atten-tion. Make a shrewd move.
BORN TODAY Begin your next year with peaceful reflection. Med-itate on what you most want. Make plans, and put them into motion af-ter April. Springtime messaging and networking lays the groundwork for a blossoming two-year professional phase after summer. Autumn jour-neys fill your notebooks. Speak your heart.
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actresses were well-cast?40 Familiar saint?41 Gets ready to fire42 “Zounds!”43 Cable service extras44 “Spoon River Anthology” poet47 Well-cast “Duplicity” actress?51 Fissionable particle52 “Sorry, __ go!”53 Whale watcher’s dream56 Software issue57 Well-cast “Birds of America” actress?60 Bud61 “Is that __?”: challenging words62 Quad Cities resident, maybe63 Rule of crime writing64 Actresses Diane and Cheryl65 Address to a boy
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13 Former senator known as “Amtrak Joe”18 Totals22 LBJ and nixon, e.g.23 Einstein’s second wife24 Hawaiian food fish25 Lawn problem26 Blender button27 Bit28 Brooding spot31 Iron-__32 Extreme road response33 “Rub‡iy‡t” poet34 Brings together36 California’s __ Beds national Monument37 Way to get to n.Y.’s Citi Field38 Response to happy news39 Brings home43 Lacking luster44 Scotland yards?45 Pretentious46 Balanced state47 “Star Wars” villain
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WHAT IS YOUR WATCH STYLE?
Timepieces are key to broadcasting your individual style. We have 6 watch brands in store, but these four were chosen based on popularity, price point, and versatility. Shinola, in the upper left hand corner, is our American made watch out of Detroit. Th ey specialize in leather goods and leather bands. Th ese beautiful watches host a Swiss quartz movement. Th e options are truly endless with this company. Th ey make pieces with Turquoise, Cat’s Eye, Malachite, Moon Phase dials, and much more. Th e upper right hand corner, is Michele. Th is ladies watch is known for the ease of changing bands and for their gor-geous diamond faces. Th ey also host a Swiss quartz movement. Th is watch is for the woman who loves to shine. In the lower left hand corner, we have our Oris watch. Th is independent, family owned company makes all Swiss automatic movements. Th ey special-ize in some of the most cutting edge diving pieces, and host a fi rst class movement. Th is watch truly is your small machine; so dependable and fashionable. And fi nally, the bottom right hand corner, we have Tissot. Th e newest to our store, this is the number one worn watch in Switzerland. Because of the many options available and vast price range, this watch is for everyone. Tissot makes pieces for both genders and they make quartz and automatic watches. Th e featured watch is one of their skeleton pieces, made to display all the working parts of the watch. We hope this editorial helps you fi nd your next wrist-watch that represents your one-of-a-kind style.
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Layers are the number one way to keep warm with the frigid wind howling on your way to class or work. The change of season doesn’t necessarily mean throwing your current wardrobe in a box and placing it in the a� c. It’s more about adding to it. Taking a favorite blouse and adding a blazer, coat, pants and a cute pair of boots can make all the diff erence when trying to be more comfortable for the chilly season.
Winter coats are a must for both men and women. Whether going to support the West Virginia Mountain-eers in sporty a� re for the Coliseum or dressing up for a winter date, coats can perfect an ou� it. Finding the perfect coat in 2016 is quite easy with the variety stores locally and na� onally provide. Other winter accessories, like scarves, hats, gloves and leggings are also clothing items people can have fun with as well when sprucing up a wardrobe.
Faux-fur vests are a major trend in winter fashion for 2016. Since the trend hasn’t been as mainstream in the past few years, it gives a fresh look to the fashion world. Neutral vests especially can be paired with just about anything. A great go-to look for class is faux-fur vest, long sleeve thermal, jeans, leg warmers and a pair of boots.
Since many will be headed to the court to watch both the Women’s and Men’s WVU with the exit of the 2015 WVU football season, it’s great to plan ahead when it comes to WVU inspired styles. While it’s im-portant to intertwine school colors in your ou� its to show support for the University, it can be fun to play around with styles every now and then rather than simply just wearing a t-shirt and jeans. Wearing a thick gold and blue cardigan, neutral color undershirt, and a pa� erned scarf is an idea when pu� ng together ou� its for the games. With the amount of people and energizing atmosphere of the Coliseum, it’s easy for the temperature to rise quickly. This is why layers are extremely important.
Going out on the weekend can be a memorable � me with friends. Having great ou� its can make for great pictures you can look at later on, so have fun with fashion, it’s the � me to try new things. Dresses are fun to wear if you want to stand-out from the crowd. Although it’s winter, there are easy ways to sport your favorite look and s� ll stay warm. Wearing a dress, pa� erned � ghts, and a pair of wedges, a coat and a hat is a great ou� it to wear for the chillier weekends this winter.
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This could be the year
for West Virginia
The West Virginia Uni-versity men’s basketball team has never been the top dog. Not even Jerry West could make the Mountaineers champi-ons — he was one point away in 1959, when West Virginia fell to California 71-70 in the national ti-tle game.
They’ve had their mo-ments over the years, to be sure, but they’ve al-ways resided in the sec-ond tier of college bas-ketball programs, with only a few chances to re-ally make their big-time hopes realistic.
But on Tuesday night, we saw what might be the best West Virginia basket-ball team since the days of Jerry West announce its presence to the nation, and this talented, deep squad may be Mountain-eer fans’ best hope of see-ing the Gold and Blue on top of the world.
Tuesday night’s 74-63 win over No. 1 Kansas was the first time West Virginia has knocked off the nation’s top-ranked team since 1983, and it was how they did it that should draw the most attention.
West Virginia was able to completely assert their style of ball against one of the most talented teams in the country, making Kansas wilt. There’s no freakish Kentucky sci-ence experiment lurking in the shadows to over-whelm with unheard-of size and athleticism. If West Virginia can do this to Kansas, they might be able to do this to anyone.
Just as they did last season, West Virginia suffocates teams with sheer effort and a never-ending rotation of fresh legs. Teams can’t simu-late what the Mountain-eers do in practice, and quickly find themselves in over their heads.
West Virginia beat a No. 1 team on Tuesday night despite shooting just 33 percent from the field, because they took the game directly to Kan-sas. They won the way they usually win: through their aggression, energy and hard-nosed play.
But here’s the big dif-ference: last year, that was more or less the only way they could win. The press was the reason they made it so far. In terms of tal-ent and skill, the Moun-taineers often weren’t a match for top opponents.
That’s not the case this year, as West Virginia has developed one of the deepest backcourts in the nation.
Jaysean Paige matched Kansas star Perry El-lis shot-for-shot Tues-day night, but that was no fluke – Paige has been scoring like that for quite a while now.
Jevon Carter has im-proved by leaps and bounds in adjusting to a full-time point guard role, and his 3-point shooting has also im-proved. Daxter Miles Jr. and Tarik Phillip are both highly capable of making their mark on a game.
Big man Devin Wil-liams is no 7-footer, but there are few in the country that can match his strength and physi-cality. Then there’s Jon-athan Holton, the living, breathing embodiment of Press Virginia, who’s even flashed signs of be-ing a real secondary scor-ing option.
West Virginia will beat you by running you ragged. But this year, they also beat you by simply having better players. That’s why, come March, the Mountaineers have a chance to do something they’ve never done be-fore: lift the NCAA title trophy.
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FILE PHOTOJaysean Paige drives to the hoop at the Gold-Blue Debut earlier this season.
Despite long road, Jaysean Paige becomes one of WVU’s bestBY CHRIS JACKSON
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @CJACKSONWVU
What a long, strange trip it’s been for WVU senior Jay-sean Paige.
He meandered his way through the collegiate ranks. He backed out of his signing to play for Southern Missis-sippi. Then he went to the College of Southern Idaho, but that wasn’t where he wanted to stay.
Paige made his way to Moberly Area Community College, where he averaged 21 points per game and was the No. 13 scorer in the ju-nior college ranks. Then he found his way to a place where he could once again make his name known.
“I didn’t have many of-fers,” said Paige. “I was signed to Southern Miss; I backed out of my letter. I got a chance to come here and I
took the opportunity.”Now he’s one of the West
Virginia University men’s basketball team’s hot-test players. He’s drawn rave reviews from oppos-ing coaches, including Kansas’ own Bill Self after Paige helped hand the No. 1 Jayhawks a 74-63 defeat on Tuesday.
“He’s probably their lead-ing scorer per minute for the season,” Self said. “But he scored at a pretty good pace per minute and we talked a lot about him as far as play-ing as well as any of their players thus far this year. There was nothing that he did that we didn’t talk about quite a bit.”
Over the last seven games, Paige has reached double-figure scoring six times. He’s surpassed 20 points on four occasions, including a daz-zling array of drives down the lane en route to a career-
high 26-point effort against Kansas.
Tuesday night’s game in-cluded one of his worst per-formances from long range, failing to convert on both his 3-point tries. Although he’s gone 0-for-6 from dis-tance over the past two con-tests, every other aspect of his game has risen to the occasion.
Paige’s abilities to attack the rim and squeeze his way through the stingy in-side defense from Kansas showcased one of his many talents, forcing his way to the line nearly every time he touched the ball. Paige’s driving skill resulted in a 14-of-17 effort at the free throw line, helping guide the Mountaineers to sole possession of first place in the Big 12.
“I just try to be aggres-sive,” Paige said. “My jump-shot hasn’t really been fall-
ing. I’ve been working on it, but it hasn’t really been falling so I’ve tried to be ag-gressive and add different elements to my game so more people can’t call me one-dimensional.”
The imposing presence Paige has created off the bench has led to him be-coming the top candidate for 2016’s Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year Award. His 12.6 points per game are 17th best in the conference and tops among all reserves, putting him into All-Big 12 consideration.
“He’s got great athleti-cism,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “He’s got great strength. He can absorb contact at the rim. We kept pounding on him to get it at the rim. He’s as good a fin-isher as I think he is proba-bly in our league or he’s cer-tainly one of the best.”
But the accolades have
kept coming. After com-bining for 42 points and 12 rebounds in wins over Vir-ginia Tech and Kansas State, he earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors on Janu-ary 4.
Paige has guided the Mountaineers to a 4-0 start in Big 12 play, placing them in sole possession of first place. Although he wasn’t a highly touted recruit like many of the conference’s top players, he’s found a way to make his name known across the college basket-ball landscape.
“My teammates and coaches give me the confi-dence,” said Paige. “I work on my game a lot. I’m in the gym so they give me the confidence to do those kinds of things and when I get the opportunity, I just take it.”
WOMEN’S BASKETBAll
BY ROGER TURNERSPORTS WRITER
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WVU freshman Tynice Martin earned Big 12 Fresh-man Player of the Week honors after playing a big role in the Mountaineer’s three-game win streak dur-ing the first week of 2016.
Last season, WVU fell to Texas Tech twice and split the series against Kansas and Kansas State. How-ever, all the WVU women’s basketball team topped all three Big 12 opponents this season, despite appearing to have an inexperienced roster of freshmen and transfers at the start of the season.
Tynice Martin proved just how valuable an asset a
boost off the bench can be, after averaging 15.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 3 assists in the three-game stretch.
“I like our freshmen,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey. “Last year we didn’t have a lot of people to put in. This year we have some pieces we didn’t have last year, so we can bring in someone like Tynice off the bench when she’s playing well.”
Against Kansas State and Texas Tech last week, Mar-tin played over 25 minutes, posting 15 points against K-State and 16 versus Texas Tech.
“I just came out and played defense. Everything else fell into place,” Mar-tin said. “Everyone starts looking for me after I make
two or three shots. I just try and be smart and take good shots.”
Last Wednesday, Mar-tin shot 50 percent from the field against Kansas State, connecting on four of six shots from behind the three-point line. Mar-tin made just below 50 per-cent of her shots Saturday against Texas Tech, shoot-ing 46 percent from the field while collecting five rebounds and dishing out five assists.
“There’s a lot of differ-ent combinations that we can go with this year that we haven’t had before,” Carey said. “Our inexperi-ence may cost us some, but we’re going to win some games. I like our team and the way our young players
are playing.”An Atlanta native, Tynice
Martin came to WVU with the opportunity to have an immediate impact on an inexperienced team. The 5-foot-10 freshman has been a key addition to this year’s squad coming off the bench, as she recorded her sixth and seventh double-digit scoring games of the season against K-State and Texas Tech.
Martin’s 16 points against Kansas State was a season-high, while her 15-point performance against Texas Tech matched her scoring performances against Texas and Marshall earlier in the season.
Martin was rated the 41st best player in the 2015 re-cruiting class, earning Class
5A Georgia All-State hon-ors after leading South-west DeKalb High School to a state championship as a junior.
Martin transferred to Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy for her senior sea-son, where she was named the 2015 Class A Player of the Year and was again a first team all-state selection.
Martin is the first WVU player to earn Big 12 Fresh-man of the Week accolades since Bria Holmes received the same honor in Decem-ber 2012. Going forward, don’t be surprised to see Martin, or another WVU freshman, to step into the spotlight again before sea-son’s end.
Tynice Martin proving to be valuable asset for futureKRISTEN UPPERCUE/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Tynice Martin faces up against a defender this season against Coppin State.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Thursday January 14, 201610 | SPORTS
RIFLE
BY CONNOR HICKSSportS Writer
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Following Tuesday’s his-toric 4,724-4,697 win over No. 5 Alaska-Fairbanks, hopes are high for the No. 1 West Virginia University rifle team. The Mountain-eers (8-0, 4-0 GARC) have a tough schedule ahead, but nothing the team can’t handle.
Mountaineer head coach Jon Hammond made it clear prior to the matchup on Tuesday that he didn’t expect the team to be in top form following two months off for winter break. He was wrong.
The team came out in rare form, shattering the program record for points in a match, and in turn set-ting the new highest score in the 38-year history of NCAA rifle.
Although a Nanook shooter placed first in both disciplines, the over-all strong performance of West Virginia’s shooters was enough to pick up a decisive win against a strong oppo-nent. The Mountaineers are now 11-7 all-time against Alaska-Fairbanks, including a two-point win in last year’s national championship.
With four games remain-
ing before conference and national tournaments, the team is in prime condition for a run at a fourth consec-utive national title. Much of the team’s success can be attributed to the consistent success of freshman Ginny
Thrasher and senior Garrett Spurgeon.
In addition, regular standout performances from Meelis Kiisk, Michael Bamsey and Elizabeth Gratz have led to an undefeated season to this point.
Gratz and Kiisk both posted perfect scores in the prone category of smallbore on Tuesday, tying the pro-gram record set by Gratz and Bamsey on Nov. 21 against Ohio State. Thrash-er’s 598 in the air rifle cat-
egory was a career-high and tied Alaska-Fairbanks’s Sagen Maddalena for the highest score of the match.
Hammond couldn’t praise the team enough for their historic performance, but stated that he thinks
they are capable of besting the record day.
“There were a lot of re-ally good performances across the board, and the great thing is that there is still room for improvement,” said Hammond in an inter-view with WVUsports.com. “They were able to just go in and work on their perfor-mances, and it was an all-around team effort to pro-duce that kind of result.”
Similar performances will be necessary to fin-ish off the team’s first un-defeated season since the 2013-14 season. While hopes are high, the Moun-taineers’ remaining sched-ule features four top-15 teams, including No. 3 Ken-tucky. The team will then have to make it through the Great American Rifle Con-ference tournament, where they will likely meet Ken-tucky again.
The team will face No. 15 Akron on Sunday morn-ing at the WVU Rifle Range. WVU will then take to the road for their final away match of the season at No. 14 Navy and will return home to conclude the sea-son hosting No. 12 North Carolina State and No. 3 Kentucky.
Mountaineers continue record performances with national title in mind
Kyle Monroe/The Daily aThenaeuMGarrett Spurgeon fires his rifle last year against Nebraska.
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NCAA votes to allow Big 12 to have title gameSAN ANTONIO (AP) --
The Big 12 Conference got what it wanted and showed the smallest power confer-ence in major college foot-ball still has some muscle.
A rule change approved Wednesday at the NCAA annual convention will allow the Big 12 to hold a championship game as early as next season if it wants to.
The change scraps the requirement that leagues have 12 members and play in two divisions in order to hold a title game. The new rule lets a smaller league - one with 12 teams in its
name but only 10 on the playing field, for example - to play a title game pitting its top two teams, provided it plays a round-robin reg-ular season schedule as the Big 12 does now.
The vote by the NCAA Division I Council passed 7-2. The Atlantic Coast Conference and the Amer-ican Athletic Conference voted against it and the Pac-12 didn’t vote.
The Big 12 is the only major conference that doesn’t play a football ti-tle game. League Com-missioner Bob Bowlsby said he doesn’t know if
the change will guarantee the league plays one, but it was determined to have the right to do so.
The decision to play a championship game rests with Big 12 member schools, whose next meet-ings are in early February, Bowlsby said. If approved this year, a title game could be played as early as next season, but 2017 would be more likely.
“I could not forecast how the school athletic directors, presidents and chancellors will vote,” Bowlsby said. “(But) we accommodated for it in
our schedule as early as next (season).”
Although the Big Ten initially wanted to keep di-visions as a requirement, it ultimately accepted the Big 12’s position.
“Instead of complete deregulation there was a consensus we should have some parameters ... without the need to go ex-pand conferences and go through some of the past experiences we’ve seen,” Northwestern athletic di-rector Jim Phillips said.
How the Big 12 would decide who plays the game would still have to be de-
termined. Bowlsby said the new rule only requires the “top two” teams.
Selling the idea to each Big 12 school may not be a slam dunk. Football coaches may not like the guaranteed rematch of a regular-season game.
For example, this past season, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, the top two teams at the end of the regular season, could have played in a title game just a week or two after the Sooners beat the Cow-boys in the Bedlam rivalry showdown.
“That’s hard to swal-
low to say now you gotta go beat them again to be the conference cham-pion. What if they split?” Bowlsby said. “There will be some years we’d be glad to not have a champion-ship game, and some years when we wish we had a 13th game.”
At Texas, one of the league’s traditional pow-ers hasn’t won a title since 2009, President Greg Fenves and new athletic director Mike Perrin is-sued a joint statement say-ing the change “opens up a lot of possibilities that we need to look at closely.”