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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Friday January 24, 2014 Volume 126, Issue 83www.THEdaONLiNE.comda
Why you should apply to be the next Mountaineer. OPINION PAGE 4
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INSIDENews: 1, 2Opinion: 4A&E: 3, 6Sports: 8, 10
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WVU State of Minds exceeds $700 MBy Summer ratcliff
City Editor @SummErratCliff
West Virginia Univer-sity publicly launched A State of Minds: The Cam-paign for West Virginia’s University, the largest private fundraising cam-paign in WVU’s history, in July 2007.
WVU set a goal to raise $750 million by Decem-ber 2015, a goal three times larger than the pre-vious Building Greatness campaign, which ran from 1998-2003.
The WVU Foundation announced Wednesday contributions to the cam-paign have reached $716 million as of Dec. 31, 2013,or 95 percent of its $750 million goal.
“Going over $700 mil-lion in donations with two years remaining in the campaign demonstrates the tremendous loyalty and passion our donors have for WVU,” said Cindi Roth, WVU Foundation president and CEO. “Our alumni and friends, cor-porate and foundation partners are stepping up,
and we’re extremely grate-ful for their generosity.
“It’s important that we continue this momentum because the University’s needs, in order to achieve its long-term strategic plan, far exceed our $750 million goal.”
Campaign donations come in the form of en-dowed scholarships and fellowships for students, professorships and fac-ulty chairs, financial sup-port for new learning fa-cilities, enhancements for academic and athletic programs and more.
“This campaign is crit-ical to our ability to cre-ate opportunities for our students, our state and our world,” said Gordon Gee, University President. “Reaching this milestone demonstrates how opti-mistic and committed our alumni and friends are to the important land-grant mission of West Virginia University, and we are grateful for their trust and their investments in our work. We will be a greater university because of their
Forensic workshop shows students how the business really works
By hannah wigalCorrESpondEnt
@dailyathEnaEum
West Virginia Univer-sity is offering a series of forensics workshops for middle and high school students to give them an accurate idea of what takes place during forensic sci-ence investigations.
Television shows de-picting forensic science such as CSI, NCIS and Dexter are popular but can often be misleading.
Students enrolled in these courses will be ex-posed to a realistic por-trayal of forensics by par-ticipating in a first-hand, laboratory-based experi-ence in a variety of foren-sic science disciplines.
“The way forensic sci-ence is presented on tele-vision is very unrealistic, and the general public has unreasonable expecta-tions about what forensic science can do,” said Chris Bily, forensic and investi-gative science instruc-tional coordinator at WVU.
The WVU Next Genera-tion Forensic Science Ini-tiative is an outreach pro-gram for youth in West Virginia. It will sponsor these courses for students.
The purpose of the WVU NGFSI is to provide foren-sic science learning op-portunities for students and to interest them in STEM education.
Students participating in these workshops will learn the fundamental as-pects of fingerprints, foot-wear impression evidence, firearm identification, bloodstain pattern analy-sis and biometrics.
“The ultimate goal of this program is to provide students with a good in-
troductory educational ex-perience in various foren-sic disciplines and to get them interested in math and science,” Bily said.
Along with providing a more realistic view of fo-rensics, the workshops will give students a bet-ter idea of what orensic science’s capabilities and limitations.
This is the first year the workshops have been of-fered to students. How-ever, the WVU NGFSI plans to expand these pro-grams in the future by in-creasing the frequency of workshops and mate-rial covered during the courses.
“We would also like to offer classes that will cover a specific topic for several days for students wishing to pursue a career in fo-rensic science,” Bily said.
The courses are free of charge to students. Each course will last 90 min-utes. A maximum of 25 students will be per-mitted to enroll in each class.
Workshops will take place at the Vehicle Pro-cessing Center located in WVU’s Crime Scene Com-plex at 383 Oakland St.
The schedule of classes is biometrics, Jan. 25; fin-gerprints, Feb. 22; foot-wear impression evidence, March 22; firearm iden-tification, April 26; and bloodstain pattern analy-sis, May 24.
Workshops for middle school students will begin at 10 a.m. and classes for high school students will follow at 1 p.m.
For more information, contact Bily at [email protected].
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could be mOuntaineer
By laura haightStaff writEr
@dailyathEnaEum
With the current West Virginia University Mountaineer mascot graduating in May, prospective mascots have the opportunity to apply to become the next face of the University.
Steve Staffileno, chairman for the Mascot selection committee, said the Mountaineer selection is different from other schools be-
cause the Mountaineer is repre-sented by an actual person, not someone in costume.
“(The Mountaineer) represents so much more than just the mascot of the University,” Staffileno said. “They’re an advocate for the Uni-versity and they represent West Vir-ginia as a state.”
There is a selection commit-tee made up of students, faculty and staff members who review the applications and interview applicants.
“The committee will be looking for someone who is very passionate about representing the University and someone who will do so very respectfully,” Staffileno said.
Staffileno said he’s looking for-ward to the selection process.
“As we progress, it will get more and more exciting,” he said. “It will be a great opportunity for someone to come in and fill the shoes of Jon-athan (Kimble), who has been an
CookWELL program aims to teach students benefits of fruits, veggiesBy meghan BOnOmO
Staff writEr @dailyathEnaEum
It’s all about being com-fortable with and enjoying eating fruits and vegetables, according to WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health.
That’s why WELLWVU held a cookWELL course Thursday evening at the Agriculture Sciences Annex Test Kitchen – for groups of students to prepare dishes that utilized fresh fruits and vegetables. EatWELL aims to help stu-dents increase their intake of fruits and vegetables to five a day.
Shannon Foster, WELL-WVU health promotion spe-cialist and director of the
cookWELL classes, said only about 4-5 percent of the WVU student population meets the recommended daily di-etary guidelines for fruits and vegetables.
“In addition to educat-ing them on the importance of the nutritional values and how you buy fruits and veg-etables, it’s really to get them comfortable and having fun with working with vegeta-bles,” Foster said. “That way, if they’re comfortable with them, they are less intimi-dated to buy them in the gro-cery store.”
The dishes prepared in-cluded spinach, pear and pomegranate salad, mac ‘n’ cheese-style cauliflower and pumpkin custard for
dessert.“We look for things that do
not require a lot of fancy in-gredients,” Foster said. “We want it to be simple and easy. We want students to see that with a cauliflower mac ‘n’ cheese, most of the work is done in 10 minutes, and then 30 minutes later, you have a fabulous vegetable-based dish that tastes better than a regular macaroni and cheese.”
The class aimed to educate beyond cooking by teaching the significance of seasonal produce and that shopping on the perimeter of the gro-cery store is a good way of fo-cusing on healthy fresh food options.
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support.”Campaign fundrais-
ing is focused on six Uni-versity-wide priority ar-eas that align with the University’s 2020 Stra-tegic Plan for the Fu-ture: enhance the un-d e r g ra d u at e s t u d e nt experience and global education; advance the research initiative of the University; enable WVU to improve West Virgin-ia’s health, economy and quality of life; foster fac-ulty excellence; enhance WVU through profes-sional and graduate ed-ucation; support health-care through research, education and patient care.
For more information and to learn how you can help support A State of Minds: The Campaign for West Virginia’s University, visit http://astateofminds.com.
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outstanding Mountaineer for this University the past few years.”
The application consists of five one-page essays and two letters of recommen-dation, one of which must be from someone affiliated with WVU.
After the applications are narrowed down, the se-lection committee will in-terview the top applicants.
During the final stage of the application process, the top four finalists will com-pete in a Cheer Off during the men’s basketball game against Texas Christian University March 1.
To ensure the commit-tee picks the right per-son, the whole process is cumulative.
Current Mountaineer Jonathan Kimble said he advises those interested in applying to be prepared to juggle schoolwork and ex-tensive traveling.
“The hardest part is be-ing able to balance. I’m in grad school, so I have a lot of projects, group meet-ings, presentations and pa-pers,” Kimble said. “I’m al-ways on the road. I have to wake up early in the morn-ing and go down to some-where in southern West Virginia to visit a couple elementary schools, or I’m on the road for a football
game.”During the summer,
Kimble said he travels 20,000 miles throughout the state.
“I’m just a fan who gets to wear the buckskins for a couple years, and I’ll be back in the student section next year,” Kimble said.
Kimble, who applied two times before being of-fered the position as mas-cot, said the application is a lengthy process and ad-vises applicants to be pre-pared to work hard.
“Just give it your for-ward every single day,” he said. “Give back to the children and look for ways to serve in the commu-nity and throughout the state.”
Kimble said his favorite moments during his time as the Mountaineer have been traveling to each of the Big 12 schools, jump-ing around with the Mani-acs at home games and vis-iting children’s hospitals.
“It’s definitely made me a bigger fan and (made me have) a greater apprecia-tion for the state and the people here,” Kimble said.
The applications will be released Jan. 27 and are due Feb. 5. Interested stu-dents can pick up a hard copy at the Mountainlair, Towers or in E. Moore Hall. The application is also available for download at http://mix.wvu.edu.
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“We’ve had some kids in here that have absolutely no idea what they are do-ing and they end up work-ing with the more expe-rienced students,” Foster said. “It’s just a really great way for peers to work with peers and teach them a lit-tle bit of something. It’s fun.”
Students said they par-ticipated in the cookWELL event for a variety of rea-sons. Some said they came to simply learn how to cook, while others came for a fun experience with friends.
Stephanie Meyer, a freshman animal and nu-tritional sciences major,
said her love for cooking is what brought her to the class.
“I’ve always loved to cook at home, so I thought this would (be) something fun to do,” she said.
Sydney Blankenship, an intern for the Movement for Mental Health program and a senior exercise phys-iology student, said she helps students through prescribing exercise rou-tines to enhance mood as well as through programs such as cookWELL.
“What we want to do is introduce students to healthy ways of cooking, whether that be using or-ganic ingredients or sub-stituting a healthier ingre-dient instead of something else,” Blankenship said. “It’s just really getting stu-dents excited about cook-
ing for themselves and tak-ing an invested interest in their health.”
WELLWVU said it hopes to combine a cookbook with students’ original healthy recipes, and any students wishing to submit a recipe should email them to Clayton Allison at [email protected].
The remaining cook-WELL classes will be held Jan. 27 and Feb, 3, 13 and 17.
Each class is from 6-8 p.m. To sign up for a class, visit http://wellwvu.wufoo.com/forms/cooking-class-signup. Interested students may also contact Shannon Foster at [email protected] about possi-ble openings.
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erIn IrwIn/THe DaIly aTHenaeumKate Perry, a speech pathology student, prepares a pomegranate for the dinner’s salad entree during WELLWVU’s cook-WELL event Thursday night.
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Food and Wine Festival to come to Morgantownby jAke jArvis
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The Lakeview Resort will host the 30th Annual Food and Wine Festival this weekend. For years, this has been a local favor-ite, and this year might just be the best year yet.
The theme for this year’s festival is a “Taste of Coun-try,” which will focus on expanding the horizons of those in attendance to delicacies from around the country. One way this will be accomplished is with a variety of proficient chefs.
Trent Krupica, event organizer at Lakeview Resort, said the chefs will prepare dishes that highlight West Virginia’s cuisine.
“We have chefs from all around the region and all around the country,” Krupica said. “We also have a beer and wine dis-tributor coming in. She’s traveled the country, so she knows a lot about wines from everywhere
from California to West Virginia.”
Not only will this be a weekend of relaxation but a weekend of learning, as well. Thomas McConnell, who works with WV Farm Services and WVU Ex-tension Services, will be a keynote speaker at the event, discussing the cur-rent climate of the farming industry.
McConnell will teach those in attendance how to use different produce types with different reci-pes effectively.
Heston Winery, lo-cated in Fairmont, W.Va., is a quaint, family-owned winery, distillery and res-taurant that is proud to serve a one-of-a-kind experience.
The winery will sell their wine and offer free samples throughout the weekend.Mountain State Brewery will also give a presen-tation on their brewing process and which fla-vors pair with certain meals.
The resort will be host-ing an Iron Chef Competi-
tion Saturday at 4 p.m. Two regional chefs will go head to head to battle for first place by preparing a three-course meal.
Former Cincinnati Ben-gal Rich Braham and for-mer WVU quaterback Ma-jor Harris will join one lucky audience member as judges for the competition.
Be sure to visit the mar-ketplace where more than 20 vendors will set up shop at the resort, which is open all day Saturday. Don’t miss the homemade jam or products from The Tea Shoppe, which is located in the Sen-eca Center on Beechurst Avenue.
Those interested in at-tending should call the re-sort ahead of time to pur-chase a ticket. A single day pass is $79, a week-end pass is $125 and the best deal comes in at $145 for a weekend pass for two people.
For more information, call Lakeview Resort at 304-594-1111.
Classic musical, ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ to feature local students at MET Theatreby niCk wesdoCk
a&e writer @dailyathenaeum
The Metropolitan The-atre on High Street will present the Morgantown Theatre Company’s latest production, “Fiddler on the Roof,” tonight.
“Fiddler on the Roof” is a classic Broadway musi-cal originally written by Jo-seph Stein with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The play, which is set in Russia in 1905, chronicles a father’s attempt to instill a strong sense of Jewish tradition and community in his five daughters.
Jennifer Lindsay, a 22-year-old elementary ed-ucation student at West Vir-ginia University, has been involved with the Morgan-town Theatre Company since she was 6 years old, and is the stage manager for “Fiddler on the Roof.”
“This play is heavier. (It’s) a more emotional play than we usually do,” Lind-say said. “So, it’s been a lit-tle bit more challenging to get the actors to that place, and they have exceeded my expectations.”
The musical features well known songs such as “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were A Rich Man” and “Matchmaker.”
The play, directed by Hillary Phillips with music directed by Ken Godwin, will showcase the talents of students in grades 2-12.
About 40 students are in-volved with the play as cast or crew. Morgantown High School students Jeron Am-oroso, Callie Carroll and Willie Beeson are among the lead roles as well as University High School stu-dent Maggie Mifsud.
“We’ve been working on it probably since the begin-ning of November,” Phillips said. “When we first started out, I was trying to find ev-eryone’s strengths and how that could be evenly dis-tributed to make each as-
pect of the show strong.”Phillips established the
Morgantown Theatre Com-pany in 1998 as a non-profit organization to help intro-duce children to the arts. She is a Morgantown na-tive and has been involved in performing arts since she was a child. Phillips studied theater at West Vir-ginia University. She held leading roles in a number of productions before she began teaching children’s theater.
In 2005, the organization moved into the Metropol-itan Theatre in downtown Morgantown and has since performed approximately 4-6 productions per year.
Morgantown Theatre Com-pany students have also performed shows through-out the state, in cities in-cluding Charleston, Clarks-burg and Wheeling.
There is an overwhelm-ing sense of family among the students, parents and staff at the Morgantown Theatre Company.
“It’s like our home away from home,” said Ster-ling Gibson, 11, who plays Motel.
Fourteen-year-old Pippa McGinley has been with the organization for nine years and said he enjoys acting.
“I enjoy that it gives me freedom to express myself in different ways,” he said.
Students pay tuition, but the company relies on grants and donations, as well. Full and partial schol-arships are available. Do-nations to the Morgantown Theatre Company can be made on their website or by mail.
Tickets for “Fiddler on the Roof” are $12 for adults and $8 for children under the age of 12. They can be purchased online at http://morgantowntheatrecom-pany.org, or at Pinocchio’s on High Street. Show times are tonight at 7, Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
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Simons Promotions’ Caged Power 9 will take place at the Morgantown Event Center at Waterfront Place Saturday night and feature West Vir-ginia University student and well-known local fighter, Eric Watkins.
Watkins, who is currently 10-5-1 with six KOs, will fight Dustin Echard, who is cur-rently 8-0 with five KOs, in the featured 10-round West Vir-ginia Light Heavyweight state title bout in boxing, and For-syth vs. Booher will be the fea-tured MMA bout.
“Every fighter in the state wants to be a state cham-pion, and these guys have a shot at it,” said Steve Simons, promoter for Simons Promo-tions. “The fighters in these bouts are some of the most skilled fighters in the area, and both featured fights are considered a ‘toss-up.’”
Watkins, a full-time stu-dent and the founder of Dub V Safe Ride, said his busy schedule didn’t hinder his ability to train for this match
at all.“I prepared for this match
as hard, if not harder, than I’ve prepared for big fights in the past,” Watkins said.
“Running Dub V Safe Ride and being a full-time student has not affected my train-ing at all. Hard runs at the Rec Center and on the roads, hard cutting-weight diet, even harder sparring sessions with all three Karpency brothers – I’ve just been doing every-thing right for this title fight.”
According to Simons, there is a lot at stake for the fighters in these bouts.
“All professional fighters want to win to increase their ranking in the industry,” Si-mons said. “All of the fighters, including the amateurs, are wanting more and more ring experience, which improves them overall.”
Watkins said he believes there is even more at stake.
“Bragging rights, pride and all the glory that will ac-company this title are at stake,” Watkins said. “I went hard in camp, but I’m going to go harder in the ring on Saturday.”
The venue will also be a
treat for all those in atten-dance, according to both Wat-kins and Simons.
“Attendees can expect to see an evening of great, evenly-matched bouts in both MMA and in boxing from some highly skilled fighters,” Simons said. “Also, there will be great music, great food and legal beverages and a great at-mosphere, as the Event Cen-ter looks like something you would see in Vegas.”
Watkins said he hopes the venue is packed.
“This building is always in-tense and filled with energy,” Watkins said. “Being the hometown favorite, my faith-fuls will be there turned up, ready to yell, scream and go nuts as soon as the bell rings.”
Other fighters at the match include Mark Cherico, A.J. Bosley, David Forsyth, Nick Browne, Nathan Bryant, Sam Beverly and Eric Palmer.
“I just ask that everyone that comes does not drink and drive,” Watkins said. “Ei-ther stay sober, elect a desig-nated driver, walk or call Dub V Safe Ride at 304-777-9996.”
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Cory Dobson/THE DAILy ATHEnAEUMNicole Sangid, left, and Kristen Pennington, right, impromtu perform Thursday afternoon in the Mountainlair to promote the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Canady Symphony Series coming to WVU Tuesday.
Fight night at Waterfront to feature WVU student
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When he debuted five years ago, Justin Bieber was a mop-haired heartthrob, clean cut and charming. But a series of troubling incidents have put his innocent image at risk, and none more so than his ar-rest on DUI charges Thursday.
Police say they arrested a bleary-eyed Bieber – smelling of alcohol – after officers saw him drag-racing before dawn on a palm-lined residen-tial street, his yellow Lambo-rghini traveling at nearly twice the speed limit.
The 19-year-old singer
later admitted smoking mar-ijuana, drinking and taking a prescription medication, po-lice say. Unlike previous epi-sodes, this arrest has him fac-ing potential jail time.
Bieber was charged with DUI, driving with an expired license and resisting arrest without violence.
He was arrested with R&B singer Khalil Amir Sharieff, after police say they raced two luxury vehicles down the street at 4:09 a.m., with two other vehicles apparently be-ing used to block off the area.
Police Chief Ray Martinez
said the singer was initially not cooperative when the of-ficer pulled him over. Marti-nez said the singer also had an expired Georgia driver’s license.
Police said Bieber was driving the Lamborghini and Sharieff was driving a Ferrari.Police say Bieber was clocked at 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone near a high school and a youth center.
According to the arrest re-port, Bieber “had slow delib-erate movements” and ap-peared to be in a stupor when the officer ordered him to exit
his vehicle. Bieber was ar-rested after repeatedly refus-ing to put his hands on his ve-hicle so the officer could pat him down to look for weap-ons, the report said. It says he cursed several times at the of-ficer and demanded to know why he was being arrested. At one point, Bieber said to an officer: “What the f--- did I do, why did you stop me?”
Bieber failed a field so-briety test and was taken to the Miami Beach police sta-tion for a Breathalyzer, police said. Results haven’t been released.
Justin Bieber continues pattern of legal trouble with DUI arrest
ErIn IrwIn/THE DAILy ATHEnAEUM‘Breathless’ by Andrea Polli debuts in the Laura Mesaros Gallery Thursday night at the Creative Arts Center.
by Cory sAnCHeZa&e writer
@dailyathenaeum
The 20th anniversary of the Deem Distinguished Artist Lecture converged art, science and technology to introduce clear insight to the complexities in nature Thursday night.
The event was highlighted by Andrea Polli, an artist whose works incorporate science and technology.
“Art is a field that is so open and flexible that you can kind of do anything,” Polli said.
Polli is considered to be a leader of the ecological art movement. Her work in-volves using her passion to better understand natural phenomena.
“I’m not biology oriented,
so everything interested me,” said Maria Bacho, an art his-tory student. “She used natu-ral materials to form art.”
A mechanical piece used in the presentation was the “Cloud Car,” which is a car fitted with equipment to make air tangible and visible. The picture displayed a car totally enveloped by a cloud.
Polli’s technological skills were also presented in atmo-spherics. She has used her hybrid skills to create a sys-tem that performs sound by using eye movements. Polli said she has also developed equipment while working in collaboration with mete-orological and environmen-tal scientists. The research is providing ways to better understand the impact of climate.
“You can be an artist, a
curator and collaborate with scientists and engineers,” Polli said. “You don’t have to feel like you’re limited.”
The inspiring artist has stretched her way to be a world traveler. Some of her international artwork was presented in her new exhibit “Breathless.”
A plain white room was lit up by a projector, televi-sions and a computer moni-tor. As all screens changed, the one lit from the projec-tion continuously devel-oped. Onlookers watched as an arctic tundra shifted while the video recorder stayed in place.
“It’s a time-lapse,” Polli said. “The film was taken in the North Pole over a course of three years. In the video, you can watch as ice moves, melts and covers the
camera.”Polli said traveling to dif-
ferent places allowed her to generate and open her mind to different ideas.
“I find it to be really inspir-
ing,” Polli said.Polli hopes the viewers of
her exhibit were inspired to open their minds to many interests.
The exhibit can be viewed
in the Laura Mesaros Gallery in the Creative Arts Center and will stay on display un-til Feb. 27.
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Among the defensive superstars in the NFL, only a handful get the kind of atten-tion from the media Richard Sherman does.
Sherman has been a break-out defensive back playing cornerback for the Seattle Se-ahawks over the last three seasons and will be traveling to his first Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos on Feb. 2.
After his game-saving play in the end-zone to send his team to the final champi-onship, Sherman had some words for the camera during his interview with Erin An-drews that sparked nationwide attention.
Many people saw the interview in which he singled out Michael Crabtree, calling him a “mediocre receiver,” or they’ve at least seen it on social media by now.
Sherman claimed he was the best cor-nerback in the game, a claim he has made many times before. Sherman has devel-oped a reputation as one of the biggest trash-talkers of the league.
Anyone who keeps up with football knows who Sherman is and knows he is ar-rogant, loud and obnoxious. But any foot-ball fan who knows Sherman knows he is a talented player and is arguably the best cornerback in the NFL.
In three seasons, Sherman has had 20 interceptions and 57 passes defended. Even though he talks a lot of trash, he backs it up with numbers. People can dislike him for his attitude, but they have to respect his talent.
Sherman, born in Compton, Calif., in
1988, played for Stanford University un-der the same coach his team beat to make it to the Super Bowl – Jim Harbaugh. Since Sherman has become a bigger name in the NFL, it has been discussed that he and Harbaugh have a lot of bad blood.
Sherman wasn’t drafted to the NFL un-til the fifth round as the 154th overall pick.
So as a child growing up in the projects of California and an athlete who has felt underrated for his athletic ability, it isn’t so hard to believe that Sherman has his reasons to prove himself and be emotional about it.
Sherman also has his own charity group, “Blanket Coverage, the Richard Sherman Family Foundation,” which has almost 10,000 “likes” on Facebook. He is active within his community and has always been described as a very outspoken person.
Sherman might have some behavior issues, but he is someone who has been fighting his way to the top for his entire life, and he’s finally made it.
Sherman later apologized for his out-burst in an interview on ESPN Radio’s “SVP and Russillo” a day after the incident.
“Obviously I could have worded things better and could obviously have had a bet-ter reaction and done things differently,” Sherman said.
Even though Sherman may have been out of line Sunday, remember how far he has come, and don’t forget how great of a player we get to witness as football fans.
Sherman apologized for the way he acted on television and taking the focus away from his team’s victory – that’s all you can ask from a player who let his emotions get the best of him.
It has become clear to many peo-ple the weather has become increas-ingly abnormal.
Temperatures in Morgantown have been shifting rapidly back and forth, ranging from minus 1 degree all the way to the mid-50s and 60s.
This is not an isolated phenom-enon. Weather patterns around the globe have turned extreme and er-ratic, leaving a majority of the world scratching their heads.
Just two weeks ago, Canada was colder than Mars, an uninhabitable planet. Egypt experienced its first snowfall in more than 100 years, the Philippines were recently wiped out by the largest typhoon in history and devastating hurricanes have become the latest trend. The human popu-
lation has ruined the delicate bal-ance needed to continue with life as we know it, and Mother Nature has made it loud and clear she is not happy.
Although apocalyptic themes have become ubiquitous among the en-tertainment industry, it seems out-landish to many the end of the world may be near, but who’s to say it’s not a possibility? As the earth has gotten warmer, our environment has begun fighting back with a vengeance. It is a scary thought. Everyone seems to have his or her own opinion about global warming, and many choose to ignore the issue all together. How-ever, these harsh weather conditions prove that action needs to be taken, and now is the time to do it.
Change can only be made through knowledge. For those who have man-aged to remain completely oblivi-ous to the issue at hand, here are the basics.
What is global warming? It is an increase in the world’s average sur-face temperature caused by green-house gasses. Electricity production, motor transportation and industries that burn fossil fuels for energy are the main culprits for emitting green-house gasses in the United States. There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years.
What are the consequences? Po-tential drought, severe hurricanes, massive fires and melting of the po-lar caps – similar to what we are ex-hibiting today.
By developing a few simple habits, you can truly make a difference. Con-serving water, recycling waste, plant-ing trees and conserving electricity are all simple ways to help prevent global warming, and it is everyone’s responsibility to do his or her part.
Talking TrashShould we all cut Richard Sherman a break?
DAVID SCHLAKECOLUMNIST
FOX SPORTSDuring a post-game interview last weekend, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman went on an aggressive rant that has gone on to spark a firestorm of controversy in the media.
Having proudly worn the buckskin suit for more than two years, current mascot Jonathan Kimble is prepar-ing to graduate and it’s time once again for the West Virginia University com-munity to choose a new Mountaineer.
There are more than 30,000 WVU students, but only one face can represent the school in the upcoming year.
Whether the Mountain-eer is pounding out push-ups in the endzone of Milan Puskar Stadium or travel-ing across the state talk-ing to elementary school students, the mascot is the school’s most important symbol, serving as an em-bodiment of its values and traditions.
And besides, we can all agree that a gun-toting frontiersman is a way bet-ter mascot than an over-sized animal or a anthro-pomorphized piece of fruit.
Over the coming months, the Mascot Selection Com-mittee, made up of a cross-section of teachers, stu-dents and administrators, will sift through all the ap-plications and pick out the four best candidates. The chosen quartet will square off in an old-fash-ioned cheering competi-
tion to decide who should rightly fill the Mountain-eer’s moccasins.
In the position’s illustri-ous history, more than 40 individuals have had the privilege of wielding the Mountaineer’s musket.
So far, there have been a lot of legendary beards and colorful nicknames like “Buckwheat” and “Slim,” and the first female Moun-taineer, Natalie Tennant, is now West Virginia’s secre-tary of state.
Will you be the person who helps carry on WVU’s prized tradition? There’s only one way to find out – fill out an application and start practicing your best cheers.
A p p l i c a t i o n s c a n be picked up at the Mountainlair, Towers or in E. Moore Hall or down-loaded from http://mix.wvu.edu.
Submissions are due Feb. 5, so don’t delay. Your spot in history could be waiting for you.
FILE PHOTO/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMCurrent Mountaineer Jonathan Kimble is hanging up his powder horn at the end of this semester and search for the new Mountaineer has officially begun.
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ACROSS1 Start of a word ladder5 Word ladder, part 29 Word ladder, part 313 Muscat native15 Rough words16 “A Death in the Family” author17 Tech giant18 Alienated20 Parts of wedding scenes22 Word ladder, part 423 Buttocks muscle25 Clothing30 Deadly biter31 Bites playfully33 Touch-y service company?34 It might be twisted36 “!” on a road sign37 “West Side Story” song, or a hoped-for re-
sponse after experiencing the transition in this puzzle’s word ladder
39 Positive particle41 Advertising target42 Like some cereals43 Filter44 Political initials since 188447 Tut, e.g.49 Pudding starch52 Word ladder, part 554 Picnic downer55 Get-together request60 Blue dyes61 Word of dismissal62 “__ kidding?”63 Part of an address, maybe64 Word ladder, part 665 Word ladder, part 766 End of the word ladder
DOWN1 Be extremely excited2 Modern messages3 Devours4 Showed reverence, in a way5 “The Gold-Bug” author6 Once, old-style7 Fragrant compounds8 North or South follower9 God of shepherds10 Whisking target11 Broad size
12 “The Simpsons” character who says “Okily-dokily!”
14 “Got it!”19 Bring to life21 Submerged24 Cat’s perch, perhaps26 Diner freebies27 Anxious28 Glaswegian’s negative29 Original Dungeons & Dragons co.32 Brand originally named Brad’s Drink34 “__ you”35 One just born36 Change symbols, in math37 Wee bit38 It may be inflatable39 Father40 Cheerleader’s shout43 “Holy cow!”44 Accompany45 Spots on a peacock train46 Astronomical distance48 Resistance-related
50 Slangy “Superb!”51 Corinthian cousin53 90-year-old soft drink55 Missouri hrs.56 Sound at a spa57 “There’s __ in Ôteam’”58 Prevailed59 Sign of perfection
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BORN TODAY This year you feel con-nected to someone in your day-to-day life. You often offer a new per-spective, which this person enjoys. A good friendship could develop be-tween you. Your image and commit-ments evolve and become more im-portant than before. If you are single, come summertime, you could meet a heartthrob who you will put in your memory books. Needless to say, a lot of excitement surrounds this bond. If you are attached, you often can be seen with your significant other on your arm. You like showing off your sweetie.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) HHHH No one questions your drive or energy right now. A friend might be delighted by your company, es-
pecially as the two of you head off on an adventure of some sort. You also could choose to get involved in a project with a loved one. Tonight: You’re best on a one-on-one basis.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) HHH Others keep piling more on your plate, but only because they want to spend more time with you. Make plans to head off to a flea market, movie, game – you name it! Make yourself more available to some-one. Tonight: Go along with some-one else’s plans.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) HH Make a point to tackle your to-do list, which hopefully involves a little exercise. You seem to be a whirlwind of activ-ity as of late, so be sure to accomplish as much as you can. Invite a child or dear friend to join you and to visit with you at the same time. Tonight:
Tired yet?
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) HHH How you handle a loved one could bring him or her much closer. If you have a criticism, step back and think about where you are coming from before you say anything. If you are single, you easily could meet some-one of significance in the next few days. Tonight: Let the good times in.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You are full of energy, especially in re-gard to a family member. You seem to draw many people to you, so be willing to listen to their perspectives. Stay close to home, and enjoy what is happening around you. Tonight: In the middle of the action.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) HHHH You might want to return some calls and initiate some of your own be-
fore solidifying your plans. You could change your mind at the last minute. Finances also could play a role in your decision. A friendship will prove to be lucky for you once again. Tonight: Hang out with friends.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) HHHH You could become more argumen-tative than you have been. In fact, if you notice others backing away, you will know why. A call from a neighbor or relative could catch you off guard. You might be forced to deal with a difficult situation. Tonight: Treat time.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Your personality is on full display. Resist expressing any negativity for now, as it might stem from you and how you are seeing a situation. Keep it light and nonjudgmental, and oth-ers will be delighted. News from a distance will please you. Tonight: In
the midst of the action.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) HH Remain sensitive to your needs. You are often so busy running around, you let your needs go. Eventually, this lack of attention will catch up with you. Just wait and see. It would be a good idea to take some time just for you. Tonight: Screen calls. Keep it low-key.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You will be pleased that your friends made plans around you; however, it might appear as though you have not been informed of some sort of change. An older relative or friend could become demanding. To-night: Among others. Don’t be alone.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH You won’t be able to escape a previ-ously agreed-upon commitment. This
activity involves a certain amount of responsibility, which could take away from the fun spirit of the weekend. Just clear up this task, and you will free yourself up. Tonight: Leader of the gang.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) HHH Your mind seems to drift to someone at a distance whom you care about. You could be tired and need a break. Why not meet this person halfway? Your sense of humor emerges with a child or loved one. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.
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Famous country art-ist Corey Smith sold out Schmitt’s Saloon and Da-visson Brothers Music Hall Wednesday night.
Smith, who was born and raised in Georgia, has a view on country music that is different from the mainstream music.
Smith has released seven self-produced stu-dio albums. “The Broken Record” was in the Bill-board Country Chart’s Top 20 in 2011.
The event had sold out long before Wednesday, and it was obvious the en-tire venue was packed with true fans.
Opening for Smith was singer-songwriter Mal-lary Hope. Hope cowrote Lauren Alaina’s (“Ameri-can Idol”) single “Georgia Peaches,” which topped radio charts. Hope got the crowd ready for Smith by singing “Country Roads,” and the whole crowd sang along.
“Mallary (Hope) was great with the crowd be-cause she told stories, talked about her experi-ence in Motown (Morgan-town) and she tried to re-late to the crowd,” Smith said. “She reacted to us.”
Smith came onstage wearing his signature sun-glasses and baseball cap, which he kept on for the whole show.
With each song, more
and more people from the crowd started joining in to sing along. The three-hour-long concert was filled with fan favorites like “Twenty-One,” “If I Could Do It Again,” “I Love Everyone” and “Maybe Next Year.”
“I’ve been a Corey fan for about 6 or 7 years. I love that he writes and produces his own music. He does it all,” said Ashley Smith, a physical therapy student at West Virginia Univer-sity. “His music is real and relatable.”
He also played his new-est single, “Ain’t Going Out Tonight,” from his upcom-ing album. This will be Smith’s ninth album, and it will be different because he’s being produced. Keith Stegall, who has worked
with Alan Jackson and the Zac Brown Band, will help Smith produce this album.
Once the show had “fin-ished,” the crowd started chanting Smith’s name un-til he came back on stage for an encore. During this time, he played his famous song, “F--- The Po-Po.”
Smith gave an unforget-table performance the fans aren’t likely to forget.
It was also announced last week he will be com-ing back to Morgantown with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Darius Rucker and the Eli Young Band in April. For more information on this up-coming performance, visit http://events.wvu.edu.
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Jennings sells out Schmitt’s Saloon
by carly smiTha&e writer
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Shooter Jennings will play to a sold-out crowd at Schmitt’s Saloon tonight, following his first sold-out show at the venue Thurs-day night. Shooter is the son of the late country mu-sic legend Waylon Jennings and will play with his fa-ther’s band at the show.
The southern country rock star learned the ropes of the music business at a young age. Shooter lived on the tour bus with his parents.
Waylon Jennings sang hits such as “Good Ol’ Boys” from the “Dukes of Hazzard” and “Mam-mas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.”
Shooter moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and joined a rock band called Star-gunn. Some of their songs appeared on soundtracks and in movies, such as “The Crew” with Burt Reynolds. However, the band was shortlived, and Shooter left in 2003 after his father died. He then signed with Universal South Records in 2005 for his solo career.
In 2005, Shooter also released his first single, “Fourth of July,” featur-ing the late George Jones, and it shot to No. 26 on the Billboard Hot Coun-try charts. He recorded “Busted in Baylor County” for the “Dukes of Hazzard” film, and he also portrayed his father in the 2005 film “Walk the Line.”
Shooter released three other albums before part-ing ways with Universal South Records. He starred on an episode of CMT Crossroads with country star Jamey Johnson in 2009 before changing his sound. Shooter then veered more to rock music and joined Warped Tour in 2009.
In 2012, Shooter re-leased “Family Man” fol-lowed by “The Other Life” in November 2013. He is currently touring small venues across the United States and Europe to pro-mote his newest album, “The Other Life.” He was originally scheduled to only play one show sched-uled for tonight, but after tickets quickly sold out, the venue added a sec-ond show played Thursday night.
The opening acts for Shooter are Frenchie from the Redneck Social Club Band and The Davisson Brothers Band. Frenchie is a former member of Shoot-er’s band Stargunn.
The Davisson Brothers helped establish the music hall and saloon last year with former Mountaineer football star Owen Schmitt.
The Waymore’s Out-laws will also perform by themselves with headman Tommy Townsend before joining Shooter on stage.
Music begins at 5:30 p.m. with Frenchie, and Shooter will perform at 11 p.m.
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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Friday January 24, 20148 | SPORTS
No. 3 WVU travels to Winthrow Invitationalby meghaN carr
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
The No. 3 West Virginia University rifle team will compete in the Winthrow Invitational at Murray State today in Murray, Ky., and Saturday against No. 11 Memphis (5-6, 2-2 GARC).
The Mountaineers want to continue their win streak after a convincing vic-tory over NC State for their spring opener Saturday. WVU defeated the Wolfpack 4707-4604. This was the first time in the 2013 season the Mountaineers crossed the 4700 mark.
For the sixth straight Col-legiate Rifle Coaches As-sociation (CRCA) poll, the Mountaineers are No. 3. They sit behind No. 1 Ken-tucky and No. 2 Alaska-
Fairbanks. The Mountain-eers will face the top-ranked teams in two weeks for their final matches of the regular season.
This is the first road trip the Mountaineers will take since November, and head coach Jon Hammond said he is ready to see how his team holds up to the chal-lenge of competing in back-to-back matches on the road.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how everyone re-sponds to shooting in dif-ferent ranges this weekend,” Hammond said.
WVU will get a peek in-side the range where their postseason will begin and end. Murray State will host both the NCAA Qualifiers Feb. 22 and NCAA Cham-pionships March 14-15. Hammond said he is really
looking forward to the ex-perience of competing there this weekend.
“A lot of the student-ath-letes haven’t shot in either of these ranges, so this will be good experience, espe-cially given that Murray State is hosting the NCAA Championships. This will be a challenge, and that’s a good thing.”
The last time the Moun-taineers competed in the Winthrow Invitational was Jan. 31, 2010. Nicco Campri-ani, who went on to become an Olympia champion, tal-lied 596 in air rifle and 593 in smallbore, winning both events. Campriani also set another Invitational record, finishing with a 1189 overall.
WVU was split into two teams during the Invita-tional: Gold and Blue. The Gold team finished first
with a 4678 score overall, followed by the Blue team, who finished with a 4638 mark.
WVU was to compete against Memphis in the In-vitational in 2010, but in-clement weather prevented the Tigers from attending.
The Mountaineers hold a 7-2 all-time record against the Memphis Tigers. Last season the Mountaineers defeated the Tigers 4717-4634, setting a NCAA and school-best record Oct. 16. The Mountaineers also tal-lied a WVU record-high 2348 smallbore mark. Four out of the five Mountain-eers, who combined for that record, will be shooting in the match this weekend. Senior Daniel Sojka tallied 583, and juniors Garrett Spurgeon, Taylor Ciotola and Thomas Kyanko fin-
ished with 589, 587 and 585, respectively.
The Mountaineers also defeated the Tigers 2369-2343 in air rifle. Spurgeon finished second behind former Mountaineer Petra Zublasing with a 592 mark. Ciotola and junior Meelis Kiisk tied for third with a 591 mark. Kyanko tallied 589 and finished fifth.
Spurgeon and Lucas were selected to attend the 2014 Bavarian Airgun Champi-onships in Munich, Ger-many Jan. 23-26. Spurgeon withdrew from the compe-tition and will compete in the matches this weekend.
WVU will finish the regu-lar season when it faces No. 2 Alaska-Fairbanks and No. 1 Kentucky Feb. 6 and 8 in Morgantown.
by dIlloN dUrstsports writer
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The West Virginia Uni-versity gymnastics team will make its home de-but against NC State at 3 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum Sunday.
The Mountaineers re-turn home after opening their 2014 season with back-to-back road meets, compiling a 1-3 record overall.
“It will be great to be in front of our home crowd fans and back in the en-vironment we are used to competing in,” said head coach Jason Butts. “I think we got a lot of nervousness and nerves out of the way in our first two meets, so that combined with being at home should help us put in a great performance.”
Freshman Alexa Gold-berg enters the meet No. 1 in the Big 12 on the un-even bars and No. 4 na-tionally. She has been proven to be the Moun-
taineers’ most consistent gymnast, anchoring the bars routine.
Fellow freshman Nico-lette Swoboda has also been consistent through three meets at No. 3 in the Big 12 in the all-around.
“Alexa (Goldberg) has handed in two show-stop-ping performances on un-even bars,” Butts said. “Ni-colette (Swoboda) has hit the all-around two meets in a row, which is a very rare thing for a freshman.”
With a relatively young roster, Butts believes the freshmen have been mak-ing a critical impact on the rest of the team.
“In the gym, they are all pushing for lineup spots, which makes the rest of the team work that much harder,” Butts said. “The freshmen have not been intimidated with the lineup process, and they have pursued those lineup spots aggressively, which makes us better.”
Through three meets, NC State has com-
piled a 2-3 record over-all. The Wolfpack bested the Mountaineers a sea-son ago at home by a slim margin of 195.2-195.15.
Butts said in order for his team to come out with a win this weekend, they need to stay focused on the things they can control.
“We need to do the same consistent gymnas-tics that we are practicing everyday in Cary Gym,” Butts said. “We need to bring a lot of energy to the floor and keep up our in-tensity and focus through all four events.
“If we do all those things, the victory and score should take care of itself.”
Sunday is also “Dol-lar Day” at the Coliseum. All tickets, hot dogs, pop-corn and Coca-Colas will be available for $1 each. Admission is free for WVU students with a valid stu-dent ID.
West Virginia hosts NC State Sundayby aNthoNy pecoraro
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The West Virginia Univer-sity women’s tennis team travels to Charleston to take on Liberty University at Charleston’s Tennis Indoor Center Saturday at 3 p.m.
Although WVU lost its spring season opener to the University of Akron, 4-3, head coach Miha Lisac said his team performed well at Rid-geview Racquet Club in Mor-gantown. Lisac said he knows there is a lot to be improved as the season continues.
“It is a starting point for us, and it is important that we keep learning from these matches,” Lisac said.
The Flames are 2-0 this spring with victories com-ing against Morehead State and North Carolina Central. Two early season victories by the Flames may pose a prob-lem for this young Mountain-eer squad that is still looking for its first team win of the season.
Last week, WVU tal-
lied up three singles victo-ries against the University of Akron, coming from fresh-men Oana Manole and Kaja Mrgole and sophomore Viv-ian Tsui. Sophomores Hai-ley Barrett and Irinka Toidze dropped their sets to the Zips. The lone upperclassman on the team, junior Ikttesh Cha-hal, dropped her set in a tiebreaker.
In doubles, the Mountain-eers’ only victory came from the freshman duo of Manole and Mrgole.
WVU looks to bounce back Saturday by not falling off to-ward the end of matches, as they did last week.
“We need to get better at taking advantage of late situ-ations,” Lisac said.
Liberty has only lost two singles matches and one doubles match all season. Eyes will be on the freshman standout for Liberty, Mariely Hassey, who earned the first Big South Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Week award for the 2014 season.
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After a successful stint at the WVU Invitational Jan. 18, the West Virginia track and field team is prepared to travel to Youngstown, Ohio, for the YSU College Invita-tional today.
“This was a quick turn-around for the team. Hav-ing competed at home was advantageous, being that we are already back on the road,” said head coach Sean Cleary. “This will be the first visit to a 300-meter track for the entire group. It is impor-tant for us to start getting the feel of the bigger tracks, as we will be competing in a simi-lar venue for the Big 12 meet.”
Senior pole vaulter Kat-lyn Shelar comes into to-day’s meet riding a historic streak. Shelar recorded the third-best mark in indoor pole vault in program his-
tory at the PSU Relays earlier this season, and then pro-ceeded to break that mark at the WVU Invitational with a vault of 3.90 meters.
Another one of Cleary’s seniors has also been making a mark in the record books. Senior triple jumper Stormy Nesbit recorded the second-longest jump (12.42 meters) in indoor program history.
Today will be another great opportunity for several Mountaineers to continue improving before the Big 12 Championship races at the end of the season. Today’s meet will be Youngstown State’s first full-team meet of the 2013-14 season.
The women’s field events are set to begin at noon, but Shelar will have to wait until 2:00 p.m. to try to break the best vault in program history. A total of 26 runners will be participating in the event.
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confidence running high for WVU after winby joe mItchIN
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West Virginia didn’t have a lot to look forward to Wednesday night other than the opportunity to play at home again.
The Mountaineers had lost three games in a row and had their doors blown off in both of their previ-ous two games. With the immediate future wan-ing, WVU recovered, earn-ing an 87-81 victory over Texas Tech.
The confidence level of this young team has often been questioned on both an individual and collec-tive basis this year.
However, the thought of West Virginia going through a hangover after a tough stretch was quickly wiped away.
“At some points I think we would (lack confi-dence),” said sophomore guard Terr y Hender-son. “Especially when we would get down and we’d be playing from behind. We tried to respond and had a great game.”
Henderson scored a team-high and career-high 28 points in the win. He shot 10-of-13 from the field and said he thought it would be a good night for him during warm-ups.
Henderson and sev-eral of his teammates, in-
cluding guards Eron Har-ris and Juwan Staten, have preached taking one game at a time and always look toward the next name on the schedule.
T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s didn’t just talk that talk, they showed it Wednesday.
“Good shooters like Ray Allen and Reggie Miller al-ways say they don’t look at the last shot they took, they look at the next shot,” Henderson said. “They forget about the past.”
Henderson later ad-mitted that his poor per-formance in WVU’s 78-56 loss to Kansas State will likely be in the back of his mind for the remainder of
the season. He shot just 1-of-8 and scored just two points in 28 minutes.
However, Henderson’s and his teammates’ mind-set may just be to forget the past – good or bad. Considering the num-ber of close games they couldn’t close and several wins West Virginia had to grind out, it might not be a bad thing to think.
If a game in late Janu-ary could be any sort of a “must-win” stipulation, Wednesday was it.
Now sitting at 11-8 and an even 3-3 inside the Big 12, West Virginia will face eight of its next nine games against ranked op-ponents. The stretch be-
gins Saturday against No. 11 Oklahoma State and won’t end until after a Feb. 26 road trip to No. 16 Iowa State.
The Mountaineers still remain even-keeled. The confidence and morale remains high, and the tar-get of winning the league is still within reach.
“We’re a game away from being in second place, and that’s crazy motivation right there,” Henderson said. “This league is wide open. The top teams are losing left and right, every night. If that’s not motivation, I don’t know what is.”
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Tough schedule ahead for
WVU With the halfway point of
the regular season well be-hind the West Virginia men’s basketball team, there sim-ply isn’t a lot of time left for the Mountaineers to leave a meaningful mark on this season.
But even though WVU has just 11 games left before the Big 12 Conference tourna-ment, nine of those 11 games are currently slated against a top 25 team, meaning nearly every single remaining con-test will hold major signif-icance down this critical stretch for the Mountaineers.
Success certainly won’t be easy to attain, either, as West Virginia has yet to de-feat a single ranked team this season. In fact, West Virginia is 0-15 in its last 15 appear-ances against ranked teams. The last time the Mountain-eers took down a ranked op-ponent was more than two years ago when WVU de-feated then-No. 9 George-town 74-62 in a Big East Con-ference game.
It should also be noted that five of those nine games against ranked opponents are also road games for the Mountaineers, and it’s ac-tually been more than three years since West Virginia took down a Top 25 team away from the WVU Coliseum.
But frankly, I think those losing streaks could actu-ally be in jeopardy down this important stretch. Although the Mountaineers obviously haven’t been able to crack the code against ranked op-ponents recently, they’ve also played some of their best basketball the last three sea-sons against teams in the na-tion’s top 25.
Of course, every coach at every level wishes their team would get as pumped up for every game as they do when facing a ranked opponent, but that hasn’t been the case for the Mountaineers, at least this season.
WVU has simply come out firing and played collectively better against all three ranked opponents it has faced this year, although while looking a bit flat at times against the less notorious competition, coming up short by mar-gins of just seven, four and one point against Wiscon-sin, Gonzaga and Oklahoma State, respectively.
These performances have shown when the Mountain-eers are making their perim-eter shots, they really can compete with practically any team in college basket-ball. They simply just haven’t been able to close out those critical games against any ranked opponents.
Although West Virginia has compiled a fairly medi-ocre 11-8 record so far, the Mountaineers are still def-initely within striking dis-tance with their 3-3 confer-ence record. There are five teams currently with better conference records (Kan-sas, Oklahoma, Texas, Kan-sas State, Oklahoma State), but West Virginia still also has at least one game left against all of them, includ-ing two against both Kansas and Oklahoma.
The point is, after a fairly forgettable start to the 2013-14 season for West Virginia, one could argue with the Mountaineers’ remaining slate they could still poten-tially make some serious noise in their second-ever season in the Big 12.
From what I’ve observed this year, the Mountaineers are an admittedly streaky but dangerous perimeter shoot-ing team – and no one wants to face a team like that in a conference tournament.
So by playing well against the best teams in the confer-ence down this ultra-critical stretch, West Virginia will not only potentially set itself up for a deep run in this year’s Big 12 tournament by earn-ing a better seed, but will also build some much needed confidence for the league tournament on the heels of the Mountaineers’ longest losing streak of the season.
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CORY DOBSON/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFreshman forward Nathan Adrian looks to pass the ball Wednesday against Texas Tech.
West Virginia travels to Stillwater for toughest road test to date, faces No. 11 Cowboysby Amit bAtrA
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It was the game that got away. West Virginia was 18 seconds away from upset-ting the No. 11 Oklahoma State Cowboys on their home floor Jan. 11.
Following a Markel Brown 3-point shot that put the Cowboys up by one point and eventually paved the way for the vic-tory, the Mountaineers’ chances of becoming a steady Big 12 Conference team took a hit.
It was the beginning of a three-game losing streak that put West Vir-ginia in a hole looking for a way out. The Moun-taineers get their chance at revenge Saturday against the Cowboys at Gallagher-Iba Arena in
Stillwater, Okla. OSU (15-3, 3-2 Big 12)
comes into Saturday’s game 9-0 at home. Led by sophomore All-Ameri-can guard Marcus Smart’s 17.8 points per game, 5.8 rebounds per game and 4.4 assists per game, Oklahoma State will be looking for revenge after falling to No. 15 Kansas on the road.
West Virginia will face a stiff test with Oklahoma State. The Cowboys are No. 11 in points per game in the nation (84.4) and also shoot better than 48 percent per game – good for No. 26 in the nation.
In that Jan. 11 game in Morgantown, Smart proved to be the dif-ference maker. His 22 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and 53 percent shooting paved the way
for Oklahoma State to es-cape the Coliseum with a victory.
Against Kansas, how-ever, Smart struggled. De-spite going 10-10 from the free throw line and adding 16 points, the sophomore shot just 21.4 percent from the field and missed all six 3-point tries.
Brown, the 6-foot-3 senior guard accompa-nying Smart, is averag-ing 16.6 points per game while shooting 49.2 per-cent from the field and 38.2 percent from beyond the arc. He is also shoot-ing nearly 80 percent from the charity stripe.
West Virginia (11-8, 3-3 Big 12) is coming off a win over Texas Tech Wednes-day night at the Coliseum. In that game, sophomore guard Terry Henderson had 28 points on 10-of-13
shooting. He shot 5-for-6 from beyond the arc and capitalized on many of the shooting opportunities he was given.
Following the Moun-taineers’ victory, head coach Bob Huggins’ squad will now face six ranked teams in a row. The next WVU opponent that is currently unranked in the Associated Press Top 25 is Texas – a team West Virginia will face in mid-February.
“(Winning) feels a lot better,” said freshman forward Nathan Adrian. “Hopefully we can take this win and get on a roll. Most of the teams we play are ranked, so we just have to get used to it and go grind out some wins.”
For junior guard Ju-wan Staten, the game against the Cowboys will
serve as a revenge-type of matchup.
“Revenge definitely plays a factor,” he said. “Ultimately, we just want to win the game, but it does put a little more in-centive on it because we lost to them earlier in the season, especially in a game we felt we could have won. We know it’s going to be tough playing down in Stillwater.
“I’m always look-ing forward to playing against somebody who in everybody’s eyes is a great player. (Smart) is a great player. He’s an NBA player.”
Oklahoma State will look to go 2-0 against West Virginia this season Satur-day in Stillwater, Okla., at 2 p.m.
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The West Virginia wom-en’s basketball team will look to extend its four-game win-ning streak Saturday, taking on the Texas Longhorns in Austin, Texas. Tip off is slated for 4 p.m.
WVU (17-2, 6-1 in Big 12 Conference play) is coming off a 70-51 road win at Texas Tech. Senior center Asya Bus-sie finished the game with 19 points, nine rebounds and five blocks in 36 minutes of action. The Mountaineers shot 48.9 percent from the field, while holding the Red Raider offense to just 30.8 percent shooting.
“I thought (Bussie) was the difference in the game,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey. “I don’t think (Texas Tech) had an answer for (her).”
Senior guard Christal Caldwell made a layup with 6:34 left in the first half to re-cord the 1,000th point of her career. She becomes the 29th Mountaineer in women’s basketball program history to do so, and the 11th player under coach Carey to record at least 1,000 points.
Caldwell scored 10 points, while guard Taylor Palmer scored 17 points in 32 min-utes off the bench.
“Give Texas Tech credit,” Carey said. “I knew they were going to play extremely hard
here at home. They ran a lot of good things, and in my opinion, Amber Battles is as good as any player in the Big 12.”
The win kept the Moun-taineers’ undefeated road record intact, which now stands at 7-0. WVU will look to make it 8-0 Saturday.
“We’ve been pretty fo-cused on the road,” Carey said. “You’d like to be fo-cused on the road because you usually play a lot better at home, but for some rea-son it’s been the other way around. There were a lot of upsets last weekend in the Big 12, so we don’t take any-body for granted.”
Texas (12-6, 3-3 in Big 12 play) is coming off a 54-48
road loss to TCU. The Long-horns shot just 30.4 percent from the field and 29.4 per-cent from 3-point range. Despite their cold shooting numbers, Texas has one of the best offenses in the Big 12, averaging 70 points a game on 44 percent shooting.
The two teams met Jan. 12 in Morgantown. The Mountaineers won the game in overtime 56-49, led by Averee Fields and Caldwell, who scored 12 points each.
Monday, the lady Moun-taineers cracked the Associ-ated Press’ top 25 and earned a No. 18 rank for the first time this season. Despite the rec-ognition, Carey and the Mountaineers aren’t worried
about any added pressure.“(Our players) didn’t even
mention it. And I didn’t ei-ther,” Carey said. “After a while it becomes, in my opinion, not that important. We played some (ranked) teams earlier in the year, and we’re just as good as them. A lot of times it’s just political.”
Oklahoma and West Vir-ginia are currently tied for the Big 12 lead with 6-1 records.
“To win a championship, you have to practice harder,” Carey said. “You have to fo-cus. When you put yourself in a position that we’re in right now, you have to work harder.”
WYTHE WOODS/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMCenter Asya Bussie drives past a Texas defender Jan. 12.