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WVU students took the initiative to make yester-day’s holiday a day to serve the community, offering WVU students a chance to have a “day on, not a day off” right on campus.

SGA representatives and WVU students spent the afternoon cleaning up both Price and Spruce Street, picking up discarded trash and sweeping broken glass from the roads and sidewalks.

George Capel, SGA director of alumni relations, said he reached out to the City of Morgantown’s Pe-destrian Safety Board and was able to set the clean-up with relative ease, adding that he plans to turn the cleanup event into a more frequent activity amongst WVU students.

“It’s important for us to take care of this town,” Ca-pel said. “We live here, we should care about it look-ing nice and looking clean.”

Students volunteering in the clean-up made their way up and down the two streets with an additional objective: to improve the relationship between the student body and the city.

“On a day like this with nothing to do, it’s a chance to just get really involved and show everybody that we’re not just focused on partying like everybody seems to think we are,” said Katie Padden, a junior at WVU who volunteered at the cleanup.

“This is just an important thing to do. The City of Morgantown offers us so much, you know. The least we could do is try to clean our mess up. It’s time to start taking pride in our campus,” said senior Ashley Mor-gan, SGA’s athletic councilor.

Both Morgan and Capel plan to run on the ticket for the upcoming SGA elections later this spring se-mester for the vice president and president candi-dacy, respectively. The two said they want to expand the idea of service past Martin Luther King Day and

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Yesterday, West Virginia University students, faculty and staff gathered in the wee hours of the morning to kick off Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a “day on, not a day off”, as the project’s slogan was advertised.

Organized by the Divi-sion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Cen-ter for Service and Learn-ing, a group of volunteers were bussed to Fairmont to conduct a variety of ser-vice projects alongside Fair-mont State students in order to honor Dr. King’s legacy in serving and strengthening communities.

Fairmont native Elizabeth Dooley, associate provost for undergraduate academic af-fairs at WVU, greeted stu-dents in her hometown and called for a day of action.

“Today is a call for action; a day of service and reflec-tion. This is a day when we can reinvigorate our inter-est in our communities and a day when we can embrace the content of each of our characters so that we can form a greater understand-ing of where we are and where we are going,” Dooley said to WVU and Fairmont State students.

Volunteers were split into groups in order to spread community outreach and service throughout the downtown area.

Mary Polling, children’s case manager at Hope, Inc., a domestic shelter visited by

volunteers yesterday, said she feels the work to be done in local communities is cru-cial to their survival.

“You know, there’s a lot of work here that needs to be done and we depend on each other for that help,” Polling said. “The work that’s been done here is crucial to the victims that stay here—the women and the children. We’re just so grateful for ev-eryone coming by.”

In the weeks immedi-ately following the holidays, Hope, Inc. was overwhelmed by donations that went un-attended due to a small staff faced with a growing cli-entele. Volunteers helped ease the situation by sorting through clothing, linens and toys for the organization.

Freshman WVU student Amber Kaska said she chose to volunteer not only to help those in need, but also to im-prove the overall relation-ship with WVU’s student body.

“The University is just as much affected by the com-munity that surrounds it and vice versa. So, students should care that they have a great relationship with these people and I think, overall, that will ultimately strengthen the University,” Kaska said.

Being an active member in Kappa Kappa Gamma and an intern in the Student Gov-ernment Association, Kaska also said she saw the “day on, not a day off” slogan as an inspiring way to begin recon-structing WVU’s reputation.

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The Monongahela River has recently been removed from the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of “impaired” rivers.

The river was originally included in the list of “im-paired” rivers in 2010 due to high concentrations of sul-fate. Although high concen-trations of sulfate are not life-threatening, they could negatively influence public water supply, recreation and fishery within the area.

The West Virginia Water Institute, led by Paul Ziem-kiewicz, began studying the river in 2009. Samples taken from the river helped the re-

searchers determine exactly which type of sulfate was “impairing” the Mononga-hela River.

“The river looked good, but it was nonetheless im-paired with high concentra-tions of sulfate,” Ziemkie-wicz said.

Calcium sulfate is com-monly present in under-ground mining water. This problem can occur when mining companies release pumped and treated wa-ter, which still contains cal-cium sulfate, into nearby rivers and streams with low water levels. Lower levels of water allow high concentra-tions of calcium sulfate to be present.

After this discovery, the research team was soon in

contact with the local min-ing companies with hopes of finding an affordable, quick solution. The research team suggested to the mining companies that they hold off on pumping until the river’s water levels had increased. This would allow a decrease in the concentration of cal-cium sulfate to occur. All parties involved agreed this solution would help lower the high concentrations of calcium sulfate.

“We gave a clever solution to the companies. As soon as we took this model, the industry voluntarily imple-mented the solution,” Ziem-kiewicz said.

Andrew Poszich, a senior

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Bill Shafer of Georgia In-stitute of Technology has been named the new vice president of student life at West Virginia University, replacing Ken Gray who re-tired in 2014.

Shafer served 11 years as vice president for stu-dent affairs at Georgia Tech and brings 35 years of ex-perience from institutions around the country to his new position.

“I really didn’t have any plans to leave at this point

until I started hearing more about this position so this came on my radar in No-vember,” Shafer said. “I was sold on the amazing op-portunity that I think this school has in student life.”

It is not the first time Shafer has been presented with an “amazing opportu-nity.” He credits the expe-riences he’s had at univer-sities across the country to the knowledge he can now bring to Morgantown.

“Since I’ve been at this and have done a lot of the different responsibilities in student services, that and working at different institu-

tions with different kinds of students (is what I bring to WVU),” Shafer said. “From students that are first in their families to go to col-lege at UT El Paso to where I am now (where) there are some of the brightest stu-dents in the nation that go to Georgia Tech – I think those different experiences allow you both in the ser-vices and the kinds of stu-dents you work with to give you a much fuller pic-ture of what higher educa-tion is. I’m hoping that will add value to West Virginia University.”

Shafer said the chance

to work at WVU presents a new challenge full of op-portunities for him.

He believes students’ col-lege education goes beyond the classroom and that stu-dent life is equally as im-portant as the academics for a person’s growth.

“Professionally, the re-sponsibilities, the programs and services are the kinds of things that I think we need to focus on to create a great student life program for students and of course from my background, I think this is at least equally as important to students as what happens in the class-

room,” Shafer said. “What we try to do now more is connect with the academic side of the institution to create programs, actually both in and outside the classroom, so I’m looking forward to that.”

Shafer informed his staff at Georgia Tech about his new position on Friday and admitted he has not yet had time to set up goals and a plan of action.

When he takes over on March 1, he will get to know his new playground by go-ing out and meeting with the students.

“When you hear about

an institution, when you talk about it at interviews (and) read about it – you really have to come and work there, though, to un-derstand the culture and who the students are, so that part I’m really excited about,” Shafer said. “I’ll be out on campus a lot meet-ing people at functions, I enjoy that part and that’s how we hear about impor-tant things we need to fo-cus on.”

Shafer, a Colorado na-tive, met WVU President E. Gordon Gee while they

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were both working at Sha-fer’s alma mater, Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder, in the 1980s.

The two have since stayed in contact and Gee believes Shafer is a perfect fit for WVU.

“We have been on this hunt to find precisely the right person for this Uni-versity and doctor Scha-fer is that,” Gee said. “He is recognized nation-ally as one of the lead-ers in student life so we are very fortunate to have him.”

Gee wanted an expe-rienced person external to the University to take over for Gray to bring in new and fresh ideas, while keeping the good parts

intact.“We wanted to have

someone who has ideas, someone who’s had expe-rience, and with that ex-perience creates as a de-veloper. My view about student life is that it’s cen-tral to what we’re trying to accomplish at this institu-tion, without students we don’t have a university,” Gee said. “More impor-tantly we want students to be here and be very satis-fied with their experience and it’s that experiential side we’re going to really be working on.”

Shafer is not completely new to West Virginia as his parents are from Shinn-ston in Harrison County. He said his West Virginia roots dating back to 1843 were an attraction about coming to WVU.

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extend their focus to other parts of the state as part of the “Million Hour Match” initia-tive that began last November.

“This city and this univer-sity sort of represent the en-tire state, so we should lead by example and try to make a change,” Capel said.

Capel also added that he plans to continue these clean-ups on consecutive Mondays starting next month, calling the cleanups “M.A.D. Mon-days” a nod to a previous cleanup effort on “Make a Difference Day”, or “M.A.D. Day”, last October.

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“Today was a great op-portunity for anybody to do anything. There’s noth-ing going on and classes have only just begun, so what better time to get out of your house and actually do something, you know? I think even just showing a little initiative will really change the way people look at our school,” Kaska said.

Eva Hajian, a contract specialist for WVU’s pro-curement department, said she also saw the opportu-nity in having a day off to get back into volunteering and community service, a hobby she’s had to put aside in the past due to the chaos of last semester’s workload and holiday cram.

“To quote Gandhi, ‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the ser-vice of others’,” Hajian said.

Volunteers who spent their day in Fairmont re-turned to campus by noon. A separate group, also or-ganized by the Division of

Diversity, Equity and Inclu-sion and the Center for Ser-vice and Learning, traveled to the capital city of Charles-ton, W.Va. to help with the West Side Revitalization ef-fort. Volunteers who spent the day in Charleston did not return to campus until 5 p.m.

Though the project was meant to promote service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dooley reminded volunteers that events like these are crucial to the bet-terment of society.

“We should all take the time to reflect on individ-ual and collective accom-plishments,” Dooley said. “Now that the ‘60s are over and we’re in 2015, what part have you played in your life? What will your legacy be? Colleges and universi-ties should reflect on their successes, and community leaders should be encour-aged to engage in this criti-cal dialogue, not just today on Martin Luther King’s birthday, but always dis-cussing how we got here and where we are going.”

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student, expressed hope concerning the Mononga-hela River’s reputation but questioned the river’s cur-rent status.

“Removing the Monon-gahela River from the list would help with the stigma associated with the river be-ing a ‘dirty’ river. However, it is difficult to believe that the river has reached this status due to its history and reputa-tion,” Poszich said.

Justin Combs, a graduate student, said although he is enthusiastic about the river’s removal from the list of “im-paired” rivers, he believes fu-ture monitoring is needed.

“I feel that the removal of the Mon. River from the EPA’s list is good, and shows improvements. However, I believe the river must con-tinue to be monitored for fu-ture issues,” Combs said.

Ziemkiewicz said the lower concentrations of cal-cium sulfate will be primarily noticed by users of the pub-lic water supply. According to Ziemkiewicz, this solu-tion was “efficient” and “el-egant.” The EPA agreed with the data provided by the in-stitute, and the river was re-moved from the “impaired” list in December 2014.

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PaRIs (aP) — One was a young policewoman, un-armed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an as-sault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop the gunman. Another was a first responder with a side arm, rushing to the Char-lie Hebdo offices where a pair of masked men with high-powered weapons had opened fire on an edi-torial meeting. Among their primary targets: the armed police bodyguard inside the room.

With the deaths of the three French officers dur-ing three days of terror in the Paris region and the suggestion of a plot in Bel-gium to kill police, Eu-ropean law enforcement agencies are rethinking how — and how many — police should be armed.

Scotland Yard said Sun-day it was increasing the deployment of officers al-lowed to carry firearms in

Britain, where many cling to the image of the un-armed “bobby.” In Bel-gium, where officials say a terror network was plot-ting to attack police, offi-cers are again permitted to take their service weapons home.

On Monday, French law enforcement officials de-manding heavier weapons, protective gear and a bol-stered intelligence appa-ratus met with top officials from the Interior Ministry. An official with the minis-try, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss on-going talks, said automatic weapons and heavier bul-letproof vests were on the table.

Among the most horrific images from the Paris at-tacks was the death of po-lice officer Ahmed Merabet, who can be seen on eyewit-ness video lying wounded on the pavement as a gun-man approaches and fires a final bullet into his head.

Merabet, who is seen alone on the street, had a service gun and a bullet proof vest, said Michel Thooris, of the France Police labor union.

“But he did not come with the backup he needed, and the psychology to face a paramilitary assault,” Thooris said. “We were not prepared in terms of equip-ment or mind-set for this kind of operation.”

One of the attackers, Amedy Coulibaly, said in a posthumous video that his plan all along was to attack police.

“We don’t want neces-sarily the arms that Amer-ican police have. We need weapons that can respond,” said Philippe Capon of French police union UNSA.

Among those weapons, he added, are modern-ized criminal databases, because the current data-bases are out of date, and firewalled between dif-ferent law enforcement branches. “The databases

are not interactive. They are not accessible to all. They are not up to date,” he said.

Unlike their British counterparts, French na-tional police are armed al-though their municipal counterparts tend to be weaponless. But Thooris said they are not permitted to have their service weap-ons while off duty, raising the possibility that they could be targeted when vulnerable or unable to help if they stumble across crime afterhours.

Because of increasing unease and last week’s anti-terror raids, police in Belgium are again allowed to carry weapons home rather than put their hand-guns and munition in spe-cialized lockers.

“The conditions we have now are clearly excep-tional,” said Fons Basti-aenssens, a police spokes-man in Antwerp, where there are many potential targets, especially in the

Jewish quarter.In addition, firearms

suddenly became far more visible, with some police carrying heavier weap-onry as they guard sensi-tive buildings and police offices, and paratroopers in the streets of the major cities.

In Britain, the overall threat level is “severe” — meaning intelligence and police officials have evi-dence that a terrorist attack is highly likely. The threat to police officers themselves is judged to be very high af-ter the Paris attacks as well as the recent disruption of a reported Islamist extrem-ist plot to attack individ-ual police officers in west London.

In response, the Metro-politan Police said Sunday it is bolstering the deploy-ment of specialist firearms officers who are autho-rized to carry weapons. The force, also known as Scot-land Yard, declined to pro-

vide details, and senior po-lice officials say there is no need for a wholesale pol-icy shift that would arm all police.

But Mark Rowley, chief of the counter-terror opera-tion, said the “overall secu-rity posture” of the police is being reviewed in light of the Paris attacks.

In Norway, where far-right fanatic Anders Beh-ring Breivik killed 69 peo-ple in a shooting spree at a political youth camp and eight others by bombing a government office, police are increasingly agitating for weapons.

“We have seen from the declarations of Coulibaly and also from what hap-pened in Belgium that po-lice can be primary targets for terrorist groups,” said Nicolas Comte, of the SGP police union in France. “We have to give the means to police services, and nota-bly intelligence, to fight this new form of terrorism.”

FrancoIs morI/aPIn this Monday Jan. 12, 2015 file photo,elite police officers take position outside the kosher market where four hostages were killed and shortly before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the site, in Paris. With the deaths of the three French officers during three days of terror in the Paris region and the suggestion of a plot in Belgium to kill police, European law enforcement agencies are rethinking how _ and how many _ police should be armed (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

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aBOaRd THe PaPaL PLaNe (aP) — Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contra-ception, but said Monday that Catholics don’t have

to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practice “responsible parenting.”

Speaking to reporters en route home from the Phil-ippines, Francis said there are plenty of church-ap-proved ways to regulate births. But he said most importantly, no outside institution should impose its views on regulating family size, blasting what he called the “ideological colonization” of the devel-oping world.

African bishops, in par-ticular, have long com-plained about how pro-gressive, Western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed on the de-veloping world by groups, institutions or individual

nations, often as a condi-tion for development aid.

“Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized,” Francis said.

The pope’s comments, taken together with his defense of the Catho-lic Church’s ban on artifi-cial contraception during the trip, signal that he is increasingly showing his more conservative bent, which has largely been ig-nored by public opinion or obscured by a media narrative that has tended to highlight his populist persona.

On the trip, Francis gave his strongest defense yet of the 1968 encyclical Huma-nae Vitae, which enshrined the church’s opposition to

artificial birth control. He warned against “insidious attacks” against the family — a reference to gay mar-riage proposals — echo-ing language often used by overwhelmingly conserva-tive U.S. bishops. And he insisted that “openness to life is a condition of the sacrament of matrimony.”

At the same time, how-ever, he said it’s not true that to be a good Catholic “you have to be like rab-bits.” On the contrary, he said “responsible parent-hood” requires that cou-ples regulate the births of their children, as church teaching allows. He cited the case of a woman he met who was pregnant with her eighth child after seven Ce-sarean sections.

Pope: Catholics don’t have to breed ‘like rabbits’

Wanda Sykes performed to a sold-out audience Fri-day night at the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre. This performance was the first of the year for the four-time Emmy award win-ner, but for Sykes, stand-up comedy is old hat.

The real treat of the eve-ning was the pickle.

Sykes’ opener, Keith Robinson, came out on stage to a crowd of mostly old white people. He let us know from the begin-ning that “you’re gonna see some shit tonight.” He told us we might hear stuff about Ferguson, Mo., or

Bill Cosby.Sometimes, an opener

for the main comedian feels awkward. The au-dience doesn’t know the performer and isn’t famil-iar with their work. With a

comedienne like Sykes, the audience comes into the performance hall already loving her.

Robinson acknowledged this inherent awkward-ness by equating himself

to a pickle that comes with a sandwich — not some-thing you order, but you get it anyway. Sykes, of course, is the sandwich.

The sandwich was al-right, in need of a little salt, but not bad.

There were awkward pauses where it felt like Sykes had forgot what she was going to say next. To an untrained eye, this seemed only like she was allowing for time to move between jokes.

I can tolerate a few pauses if the stuff between the pauses is good.

Both Sykes and Robin-son made poignant obser-vations about race. The predominantly white au-dience laughed at both comedians, but tended to

laugh more at Robinson’s observations. In fact, the audience (including my-self ) just laughed more at Robinson.

Perhaps it isn’t Sykes’ style to elicit uproarious laughter. Her jokes tended to lean more toward obser-vations about growing old, raising a family and the struggles that come with having a new wife.

I couldn’t help but crack up when Sykes told us about the times she’s peed herself in public. Even though I’m young with a strong, hearty bladder, we’ve all been there.

I also thought Sykes had strong control over the audience. It was clear she knew where to expect laughs and this helped lead

the audience to the punch line, increasing the antici-pation of the next joke with each step she took across the stage.

Sykes also talked in a re-ally nice conversational tone. It felt easy to listen to her jokes. Even if you hadn’t seen her perform before, you felt familiar with her.

Robinson was a high-energy ball of contagious laughter. Sykes was an old friend who came over for dinner to reminisce about good times.

I’m a picky eater, and I usually don’t go for pick-les, but in this case, the pickle was better than the sandwich.

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‘American Sniper’ good portrayal of heroism, effect of war in Iraq

Already a box office suc-cess with $90 million in the bank after its open-ing weekend, “American Sniper” has wowed audi-ences everywhere and for good reason.

“American Sniper” is a biographical look at U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the deadliest marksman in American military his-tory, with 160 confirmed kills. By focusing on such a deadly individual, the movie could have become just a simple action flick. Instead, “American Sniper” explores the personal and familial struggles Kyle went through during his four tours of duty.

From the time he was very young, Kyle had a strong protective instinct. As a boy, his father raised him with the philosophy that the world consists of three types of people: sheep, wolves and sheep-

dogs. It was the sheepdog’s duty to protect the sheep. This lesson resonated with Kyle the rest of his life.

As adults, Kyle and his brother are living out their dream of being cowboys in Texas. Each weekend, they travel to a different part of the state and compete in rodeos. However, one eve-ning after watching a news segment on an attack on a U.S. embassy, Kyle de-cides to give up the cow-boy lifestyle and join the Navy SEALS so he can pro-tect Americans.

After SEAL training is finished, Kyle meets his future wife in a bar. Af-ter 9/11, Kyle is deployed to Iraq for the first time. The movie jumps back and forth between Iraq and Kyle’s life at home. Al-though his first kill weighs heavy on his mind, Kyle quickly adapts to life in a warzone. His exceptional skill with a sniper rifle earns him the nickname “Legend” from his fellow soldiers. They adulate him and value his presence in the field because he keeps everyone else safe.

At home things are less

than stellar. War has made Kyle distant from his wife, he becomes quiet and un-approachable. His desire to protect other soldiers grows into an obsession that drives him to sign up for three more tours of duty.

Tensions and problems amass both overseas and at home. After a particu-larly harrowing fourth tour of duty, Kyle decides to re-tire from active service. At first Kyle is worse than ever at home. However, he soon finds solace in help-ing fellow veterans read-just. This in turn helps him adjust, and life finally be-gins looking up for him and his family.

“American Sniper” does an excellent job at por-traying both the posi-tive and negative aspects of war. On one side of the coin, combat is exhilarat-ing. Throughout the movie, the SEALs and Marines are quite gung-ho about find-ing and killing enemies. One describes war like holding onto an electric fence: It’s tingling and in-vigorating and makes you feel alive, even as it hurts

you.War also comes at a

horrific cost. Many sol-diers, some of Kyle’s clos-est friends, are maimed and killed while serving in Iraq, some due to deci-sions he made as a leader. For those lucky enough to escape physical harm, war also carries with it a heavy mental and emotional toll.

The acting is wonder-fully done. Cooper’s per-formance is particularly amazing. He convinc-ingly brings the audience into Kyle’s battle-scarred psyche. Sienna Miller’s portrayal of Kyle’s wife, Taya, is an excellent per-formance as well. Virtually left alone to raise a family, Taya struggles to keep her-self together in the face of her husband’s troubles. She is a constant reminder of the importance of fam-ily without ever coming close to the “nagging wife” stereotype. It is also worth noting Ben Reed, WVU alumni, as the actor who plays Kyle’s dad in child-hood flashbacks.

Overall , “American Sniper” is an excellent movie. It realistically por-

trays war without getting heavy-handed with politics in either direction. Instead it looks to give an accurate portrayal of one legendary

individual’s tragically short life, and it accomplishes this goal.

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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — A fitness model and ac-tor who previously shot workout videos on rail-road tracks was struck and killed by a train during filming near Los Angeles.

Two men were video-taping George Plitt Jr., 37, on the tracks north of the Burbank train station when Plitt was hit by a Metrolink passenger train, according to Burbank po-lice Sgt. Scott Meadows.

Invest igators have ruled out a suicide, and were trying to determine who directed the men to film in a restricted area of the tracks Saturday af-ternoon. They have in-terviewed witnesses who saw Plitt standing on the track even as the train’s horn was blaring, Mead-ows said.

Plitt also went by the name Greg and was a well-known fitness model. The actor and West Point graduate has appeared on more than 200 magazine covers, Bravo’s reality tele-vision shows “Work Out” and “Friends to Lovers” and NBC’s daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” according to a website in Plitt’s name.

A motivational video on the website shows Plitt working out on the tracks as a Metrolink train passes by.

Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson said Mon-day that the Los Angeles-region commuter train system tries to warn peo-ple when it sees they have posted images or vid-eos of themselves on its tracks, but he didn’t know

whether Plitt had been contacted in the past.

Walking on tracks is trespassing, Johnson said.

“The tracks are for one thing - trains,” he said.

It appears Plitt may have believed the train was on a nearby, par-allel track, Meadows said.

“It’s like a blind turn,” he said. “When the train came, you might not be able to tell which set the train is on.”

It was not immediately clear what the men were filming.

Police had no further updates on their investi-gation Monday.

Plitt was born in Balti-more. He served five years in the Army after graduat-ing from West Point, the website said.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Beastie Boys want to force the maker of Monster En-ergy drink to pay nearly $2.4 million in legal fees and costs so the rappers’ $1.7 million jury award is not dwarfed by expenses in a copyright violation case, lawyers say.

A Manhattan federal court jury awarded the group most of the $2 mil-lion it requested at a June trial, but that was not enough to cover costs that lawyers said were wors-ened by the actions of the Corona, California-based Monster Energy Co., the musicians’ lawyers said in papers filed in Manhattan federal court.

They said more than two years of litigation punc-tuated by Monster’s fail-ure to engage in good-faith negotiations, an eight-day trial and Mon-ster’s effort to overturn the verdict ran up the legal bill.

“Monster’s tactics sig-nificantly increased the costs for Beastie Boys to vindicate their intellectual property rights, such that, absent an award of attor-ney’s fees and costs, plain-tiff’s success at trial would become a Pyrrhic vic-tory,” they wrote in a filing Saturday.

Monster had admitted wrongly using the group’s songs in a video that was online for five weeks. But the beverage maker said at trial it should owe no more than $125,000. The com-pany’s lawyers did not im-mediately respond to mes-sages seeking comment Monday.

The Beastie Boys, in-ducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, have turned out four No. 1 albums and sold more than 40 million records as they helped bring hip-hop to the mainstream over the last three decades. In 1986, they topped the charts with their debut, “Licensed to Ill,” which in-clude the anthem “(You

Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)”

Beastie Boys’ band members Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Mi-chael “Mike D” Diamond both testified at trial, with Horovitz waiting through-out several hours of jury deliberations to be in court for the outcome. Another member of the band, the gravelly-voiced rapper Adam “MCA” Yauch, died of cancer in May 2012 at age 47.

Horovitz had testified the legendary hip-hop group would never license songs to endorse commer-cial products.

In a December rul-ing upholding the verdict and award, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said that five Beastie Boys songs used by Monster in a video made it easy to conclude that the Beastie Boys were endors-

ing Monster products. He also said the jury’s finding that Monster acted in bad faith would be relevant to an award of attorney’s fees.

The group’s lawyers said Monster had offered as much as $250,000 to set-tle before trial but had de-manded the Beastie Boys drop their demands to be-low $1 million. The lawyers said the group had agreed to reduce its demands to $1.65 million.

They said the Beastie Boys even offered to ne-gotiate a deal post-trial to curb additional litigation costs, but Monster did not respond to the offer. As a result, they added, they should be awarded attor-ney’s fees of $2.38 million, including $895,926 spent prior to trial, $1.28 mil-lion during trial and the $200,438 post-trial cost through December.

thatericalper.comThe Beastie Boys have been embroiled in a legal dispute with Monster En-ergy drinks.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ama-zon is getting into the movie business.

Amazon Studios an-nounced Monday that it will significantly expand into movie production by acquiring films for theatri-cal release and early-win-dow streaming through its subscription service, Ama-zon Prime Instant Video. A key part of the new venture is to shrink what’s histori-cally been a three-month window reserved for the-aters, instead getting mov-ies to its website four to eight weeks after theatrical release.

Roy Price, vice president of Amazon Studios, said the company’s goal is to pro-duce 12 movies a year, with production beginning later this year.

“Not only will we bring Prime Instant Video cus-tomers exciting, unique and exclusive films soon af-ter a movie’s theatrical run, but we hope this program will also benefit filmmak-

ers, who too often struggle to mount fresh and daring stories that deserve an au-dience,” said Price.

The announcement marks a new foray into the movie business for the on-line retail giant, which has in recent years developed a slate of TV series since Am-azon Studios launched in 2010. Most recently, its ac-claimed “Transparent” won two Golden Globe awards, including best comedy or musical series.

Independent film pro-ducer Ted Hope, who co-founded the production company Good Machine, will oversee creative devel-opment for the new unit, Amazon Original Movies.

The move marks the lat-est major digital player pushing into Hollywood’s movie business. Netflix last year inked deals with Adam Sandler and the Weinstein Co.

Amazon’s entry into movies also comes on the heels of Sony Pictures’ un-

precedented digital distri-bution of the Seth Rogen comedy “The Interview,” the first major studio film to be released simultane-ously in theaters, online and on video-on-demand platforms.

Top North American the-ater chains have vigorously protested such moves. On Friday, Patrick Corcoran, vice president of the Na-tional Association of The-ater Owners, fired back at those who saw Sony Pic-tures’ digital release of “The Interview” as a sign of things to come. Corco-ran said the movie’s release “doesn’t change anything,” and noted that its two-week $31.5 million digital gross was far less the film would have made at multiplexes.

But new entrants such as Amazon and Netflix don’t have to worry about the-ater chains the way Holly-wood studios do. Any Am-azon Studios movie release will likely only play in inde-pendent theaters.

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Though returning to school after the holidays may be refreshing for some, the start of a new semester can leave oth-ers feeling rushed and out of place from the first day onward.

I can’t be the only one who has resorted to a zombie-like state of liv-ing in the first weeks after the New Year. In between lectures, homework and dreary walks to class, the days may begin to blur to-gether and cultivate doubt or despair in even the most positive of people.

The issue lies not in life’s current circumstances, but in the way our minds per-ceive them. Daily achieve-ments and small victo-ries are often overlooked if stressors like exams or presentations are always on our minds, as worry is a more mentally demanding

emotion than satisfaction.However, there is an

easy fix to feeling down, and all it takes is an empty jar and an ounce or two of creativity.

The happiness jar was born from the mixing of Buddhist principles with do-it-yourself websites like Pinterest. Though there are many variations of the craft online, the most basic instructions are to decorate a jar of your choosing and drop small notes contain-ing things you are thank-ful for inside throughout the year.

When this practice be-comes a daily habit, it pro-motes being present and aware of every moment, and it can bring a certain amount of uniqueness to each day which might oth-erwise be lost in monotony.

I made my first happi-ness jar at the beginning of 2014, and after just a few days, I noticed both my memory and mood im-proving. Instead of un-consciously ruminating on

having a bad meal or pro-crastinating on a paper, I felt more aware of the small good moments of each day by making a mental note to record them in my happi-ness jar.

Today, I’m happy to say being grateful is some-thing I now do automati-cally. I’ve found even on the worst days, finding time to record something as small as watching a good

TV show or indulging in a few Oreos makes a differ-ence in how I remember each day in the future.

Simply because I made a conscious effort to remem-ber the good over the bad,

I noticed my outlook on life changed dramatically over the course of just a few months.

At the end of the year, busting my happiness jar open and seeing just how many good moments I might have otherwise for-gotten about brought new hope for 2015. The typi-cal dread at starting a new school year was replaced with excitement and en-thusiasm for the first time since elementary school.

Keeping a happiness jar is a fun and meaningful way to inspire the healthy habit of being thankful for life’s daily successes. Most importantly, it teaches we are in charge of how we re-member the way our life unfolds.

Numerous philosophers and religious figures have spoken on the subject for centuries, but I believe a certain Jedi said it best: “Al-ways remember, your focus determines your reality.”

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Tobacco free. What does it mean? To me, it means quitting for myself and no one else. It means stop-ping because I want to, not because the school wants me to.

I’m sure if you’ve ever taken a stroll through cam-pus, you’ve noticed a “to-bacco free campus” sign. I’m also sure on this same stroll, you’ve seen people smoking anyway.

Tobacco is a substance we, as legal adults, are en-

titled to buy and destroy ourselves with. It is sold right off the perimeters of campus, and though it is frowned upon, a full restriction is not going to stop anyone. If any-thing it will make them go out of their way to do it. They want it more now they’re told they can’t have it.

If there is anything I have learned, it’s that when you tell someone they can’t do something, it makes them want to do it more. It’s purely psycho-logical. No one wants to be controlled by others, so by saying someone cannot

do something, you are not helping in the slightest. The heightened attention to the substance doesn’t do anything for the ad-dicts’ subconscious either.

I understand people not wanting to walk through smoke within a few feet of building entrances. That’s okay, but just outside anywhere?

Smoking shouldn’t be off limits. Outside is where people have traditionally smoked and is where they will continue to smoke un-til it dies out altogether.

I am not advocating the use of cigarettes in the slightest. I think it is a ter-

rible drug which causes more harm than good. But people can do what they want with their bod-ies and if they choose to put harmful substances in them, then who are we to say they cannot, especially when it is legal already.

If we really want peo-ple to stop smoking, we should put up signs listing why they should stop.

Here are some real rea-sons to stop smoking.

Here’s the obvious one; you will be healthier. You will be less likely to get cancer, have a heart attack, heart disease, a stroke, etc. You will even be less prone

to getting sick in general. Healthier skin, teeth, fin-gernails, lower blood pres-sure and easier breathing.

You will save those loved ones around you from the secondhand smoke slowly destroying them. Yes, smoking is just as danger-ous for people around you as you yourself. It is one thing to cause yourself damage, but to take other people who you suppos-edly care about with you is another matter entirely.

You’ll have more money. All the money you used to spend on cigarettes will go toward something more productive or healthy or

fun, whatever it may be. If you even just bought one pack a week for five dol-lars, that would be more than twenty dollars a month. With 52 weeks in a year, you would save $260 and many people spend more. That’s a brand new phone. That’s a Boun-cePro trampoline. That’s hundreds of candy bars (which, though also un-healthy, are not nearly as unhealthy as cigarettes.)

It’s not too late for a New Year’s Resolution. The year is still young and so are you.

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Making a PrOMISe for W.Va.West Virginia is in danger.People are leaving, jobs aren’t

coming and Governor Earl Ray Tomblin proposed a budget which cuts nearly $12 million in higher education funding, most of which comes from West Virginia Univer-sity – $4,579,357 to be exact.

This time of year, thousands of high school seniors across the state anxiously await college acceptance letters. Many ultimately attend in-state institutions only after exhaust-ing other options.

There’s a sentiment among many students: We’d like to get out of here if we can afford it, but if we can’t af-ford it right now, we’ll wait until af-ter college.

But why are we so anxious to get the heck out of dodge?

Well, a better question is this: Why should we stay?

We could stay because of family, many of us do. We could stay be-cause we can’t afford to leave, even more of us do. We could stay for the mountains.

But the mountains don’t feed a family.

The Mountain State is full of in-telligent young people. Despite the popular portrayal of our state, we are ingenious, courageous and resilient.

For these reasons, The Daily Ath-

enaeum’s Editorial Board supports house bill 2020, a proposal by Del. Patrick Lane, R-Kanawha, to expand the PROMISE scholarship for stu-dents enrolled in STEM majors to receive free room and board in ad-dition to tuition.

This bill might be strengthened by adding a requirement that recipi-ents of this scholarship work in West Virginia for a minimum of 2-4 years after graduation.

We should encourage the future recipients of this aid to invest their energy in programs of study relat-ing to renewable resources to help our state leave the crippling malig-nancy of the coal industry.

If the state wants to give us this money, let’s put it to good use.

What our state needs now more than ever is an investment in edu-cation. We’re proud to see this po-tential for PROMISE to expand, but we’re just as saddened by the prob-able cuts to our University’s budget.

Remember: We vote. And when we do, we’ll remember what you voted for.

Just as we accept the challenge each day to work toward a brighter future for West Virginia, we chal-lenge the state legislature to increase spending on higher education.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM SPORTS | 5Tuesday January 20, 2015

West Virginia swimmers celebrate Senior Night

by daVid StatmaNsports writer

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The West Virginia Uni-versity swimming and div-ing team sent their seniors out with a bang on Fri-day night, splitting a dual meet with TCU on a Senior Night that saw WVU ath-letes set two pool records and one school record.

In a tune-up against Big 12 competition about a month before confer-ence championships, the Mountaineer men’s team claimed a 192-108 win,

while the women lost by a razor-thin 155-145 mar-gin. West Virginia jumped to an early lead with some critical relay wins, and head coach Vic Riggs said he was proud of his team’s performance.

“I think both teams came out and really set the tone in relays,” Riggs said. “We had a lot of re-ally good, up-front swims in that first session. Over-all, our attitude, our rac-ing and our energy was the best I’ve seen all season.”

On the diving board, se-nior Jenn Rey stepped up

to break a school record on the 1-meter board with a mark of 292.27, breaking the mark set in 2013 by fel-low senior Haily Vande-Poel. Not to be outdone, VandePoel finished first on the 3-meter board, with Mountaineer divers finish-ing 1-2-3 in that event. On the men’s side, freshman Alex Obendorf placed first in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events.

Tw o Mou nt a i n e e r swimmers also set pool records Friday. Junior An-drew Marsh, who has con-sistently been one of his

team’s top performers, broke Bryce Bohman’s 2-year-old record in the 100-yard backstroke with a first-place time of 48:27.

Shortly afterward, soph-omore Nate Carr shaved nearly a full second off the previous WVU Nata-torium record in the 200-yard individual medley, surpassing Tim Phillips’ 2008 mark with a time of 1:50:42.

“The men felt they could put the meet away in the middle session,” Riggs said. “We continued to have really strong perfor-

mances from Andrew, but overall we had some men who stepped up who we needed to step up.”

With a large crowd in attendance and the WVU marching band playing before the meet, senior swimmer Tim Squires claimed wins in both the 50-yard and 100-yard free-style events, along with a victory as part of a 200-yard medley relay team. Although he was unable to reach the 50-yard pool record he’s had in his sights all season, Squires said performing on Se-

nior Night was still a great experience.

“It was pretty sick,” Squires said. “You have that every Senior Night, but it’s just different when you’re finally a senior. It was just a different feel-ing, so it was nice.”

The Mountaineer wom-en’s team will return to action next weekend in a dual meet at Iowa State on Saturday, Jan. 24. The men will have that weekend off, before facing Ohio State on the road Jan. 30.

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WVU takes third place in tri-meet at Ohio State

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The West Virginia Uni-versity gymnastics team traveled to a tri-meet over the weekend where they faced No. 15 Ohio State and No. 5 Michigan.

Through the meet, seven Mountaineers finished with career-high scores to help the team put up a sea-son best score of 194.175. Michigan scored 196.975 taking first place and Ohio State finished with 195.025 in second.

“I was very happy through the first three ro-tations today,” said coach Jason Butts in an interview with WVUSports.com. “We improved so much on those events. Vault was fantastic and beam was good, if not a little shaky. We gave away some tenths there, but we can get them back. We also had huge improvements on the floor.”

Starting on the beam, West Virginia opened the meet by going six-for-six tallying a 48.725 score. Se-nior Beth Deal anchored the lineup, winning with 9.875, a season high and her fifth career beam win. Junior Melissa Idell fin-ished with a career high 9.8 and took sixth place. Saturday was the first time sophomore Nicolette Swo-boda took the beam this season and she finished in eighth place with 9.775.

In the second rotation the Mountaineers came out with 48.55 from their floor routines. Idell started floor for WVU and hit a season best 9.8 taking sixth place. Senior Dayah Haley anchored and came out with 9.775 for the second week in a row, giving her a spot in ninth place. Sopho-more Alexa Goldberg also scored 9.7 on the floor for West Virginia.

The third rotation on the vault was where West Vir-ginia scored their first 49.0

or higher mark of the year. Three gymnasts hit or set career highs on vault to-taling 49.2, which was the team’s highest vault score since they earned 49.25 in a home meet in February of 2013.

Junior Jaida Law-rence led the team earn-ing second place with a 9.9 score, the team’s first 9.9 or higher of the year. Swoboda finished sec-ond on the team but third in the meet with a 9.85 mark, Haley and fresh-man Zaarika Muhammad both put up a career-best 9.825 on the vault tying for seventh place. Freshman Robyn Bernard had her first career vault in which she scored 9.8, finishing in 10th place.

West Virginia went into the fourth rotation with a score of 146.475, sit-ting in second place of the meet. Three falls on the uneven bars quickly took them down to third. The three routines that hit all

scored 9.8 or above, help-ing to hold onto the season high score, but were not enough to save the points lost from falls.

“Unfortunately, our bars performance was to-tally unacceptable,” Butts said. “We cannot expect to advance in postseason if that’s how we’re going to compete on the road. We need to get back into Cary Gym this week and cor-rect these uncharacteris-tic mistakes.”

Goldberg led the Moun-taineers on the bars, scor-ing 9.875 for the second week in a row and tied for second place. Tying for sixth place, junior Lind-sey Litten matched her career-high score of 9.825 and Muhammad put up a career-high of 9.8 taking ninth place.

West Virginia did not have an all-around com-petitor at this meet. Mich-igan’s Sachi Sugiyama won the all-around competi-tion with a score of 39.45.

The Mountaineers open their season and Big 12 play this weekend at the Coliseum against Iowa

State and No. 19 George Washington.

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Tuesday January 20, 20156 | CAMPUS CONNECTION

BY JACQUELINE BIGAR

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH Once you wake up, an idea you have been mulling over for a while will emerge! Test it out. The time has come to make it a re-ality. The feedback you get might cause some adjustments, but they will point you down the right path. Tonight: Where your friends are.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHH All eyes are likely to turn to you. A new beginning be-comes possible, especially with a higher-up, parent or boss. You might not be ready to assume all the responsibility that you want or

need to, but you will do it anyway. Tonight: Have a serious talk.

G E M I N I ( M Ay 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH You’ll be encouraged to get an overview and detach from the here and now. You could gain a new perspective that will force you to rethink a decision. Someone you view as an authority figure might be overly serious. Tonight: Feed your mind with a good book or movie.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Defer to someone for whom you have a great deal of respect. Do not be surprised if you suddenly begin to pick up on different vibes and need to rethink your relationship with this person. You could feel less than highly energized. Tonight: Be a duo.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH If you have felt as though you have been on unsteady ground with a key person in your life, you’ll want to stabilize the situation at this point. You have a potential new be-ginning with a relationship. Stay open to relating, even if someone is difficult. Tonight: All smiles.

V I R G O ( A U G . 2 3 - S E p T. 2 2 ) HHH You might be overly con-cerned about a situation and unsure what would be the best way to calm it down. Tr y not to trigger someone. You have the possibility of a new begin-ning. Allow your creativity to flow, and find the appropriate path. Tonight: Play it low-key.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH Your creativity flourishes, whether you’re dealing with a loved one or seeking a solution for a problem that plagues your life. A resolution made today is likely to stick. Decide to use the New Moon energy of the day properly. Tonight: Let the fun begin!

S c O R p I O ( O c T. 23 - N O V. 21 ) HHHH You will want to under-stand what is going on with a loved one. Focus on the quality of your daily life. Loosen up and remain confident. A close neigh-bor or friend could need time with you to talk. You might not want to hear what he or she has to say. Tonight: Mosey on home.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHH A new beginning be-comes possible with a key relation-ship or in your immediate surround-ings. You could be out of sorts, as if someone is raining on your pa-rade. Might you be misreading the other party? Give this person his/her space. Tonight: With a pal.

c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Reach out to a loved one whom you care a lot about. Weigh the pros and cons of a money matter. You might need to pull back some with regard to your budget. Follow your sixth sense, should you get con-fused. Tonight: Make it your treat.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHHH You might feel ready to make a move on an important sit-uation. Remember to think before you leap! You will follow a path close to what you initially visualized. You could be confused by a friend who might be less than optimistic. Tonight: Where the fun is.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHH You’ll have information that you must keep hush-hush. You could be overly concerned about what you need to do. Trust that you will make a good choice if you follow your in-tuition. Tonight: A must appearance.

BORN TODAY Comic George Burns (1896), astronaut Buzz Aldrin (1930).

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what each first word of 17-, 24-, 47- and 55-Across is

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ANDREW SPELLMAN/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMCoach Bob Huggins yells at his players during the Mountaineers’ win against Oklahoma last week.

No. 20 Longhorns knock down high-riding No. 16 West Virginia, 77-50connor murray

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A little more than half-way through its third sea-son in the Big 12, West Vir-ginia’s men’s basketball team is starting to look like it really belongs, restoring its reputation as a tough out and a contender.

For the most part, even during their first two strug-gling seasons in the con-ference, West Virginia has held its own against the Big 12’s traditional pow-ers. Even mighty Kansas suffered a loss in Morgan-town last season.

There is still one team

that has given the Moun-taineers fits over the course of the last cal-endar year: The Texas Longhorns.

Hea d c oa ch R i ck Barnes’ team made hay against West Virginia last season, besting the Mountaineers on three separate occasions. All three games were relative blowouts, with the Long-horns using their supe-rior size to dominate post play and the contest as a whole.

After starting 3-1 in conference play and com-ing off a 21-point victory against No. 18 Oklahoma, West Virginia was riding

high heading into Austin for their first attempt at exorcising its demons this season.

Any momentum the Mountaineers gained in that win was erased in a hurry, as the Long-horns imposed their will once again, pound-ing West Virginia 77-50 Saturday.

Coming into the game, West Virginia exuded con-fidence in the fact that its full court press would give Texas problems and prevent the Horns from exploiting their size advantage.

T h e Mo u nt a i n e e r s brought the pressure as

usual, but Texas was able to withstand it, to say the least. In fact, the Long-horns may have beaten the Mountaineers at their own game, racking up a 21-8 advantage in points off turnovers.

West Virginia’s big men, Devin Williams, Jona-than Holton, Elijah Ma-con and Brandon Watkins felt the brunt of Texas’ de-fensive attack, shooting a combined 4-for-16 for the game. Shooting has been a weakness for the Moun-taineers this season, but it was a major problem Sat-urday as the team shot 13-for-54 from the floor.

Longhorn center Cam

Ridley dominated the game, scoring 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting, register-ing four blocks and pulling down six rebounds.

Sw ingman for ward Jonathan Holmes used his rare combination of size and athleticism to pace his team, regis-tering a double-double with 16 points and 11 re-bounds in 31 minutes of action.

For the second-straight game, West Virginia’s floor general, senior point guard Juwan Staten was held to single digits in scoring. He managed just three points and went 1-for-7 from the field.

The Mountaineer bench was able to pick up the slack against Oklahoma, but the task proved too tall against Texas.

The Longhorn reserves outscored West Virginia’s 28-19 and was paced by 6-foot-11 freshman for-ward Myles Turner, who chipped in 16 points and seven rebounds. Turner made a living at the free throw line Saturday, going 9-for-9 from the stripe.

West Virginia has a full week off to work out what went wrong before TCU comes to the Coliseum Saturday.

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WVu gets first conference win against oSu, 61-49by daVid Statman

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With his team stumbling through a 0-4 start to Big 12 play, West Virginia Uni-versity women’s basket-ball coach Mike Carey de-cided it was time to make a change.

For the first time this season, he switched up the starting lineup – and soph-omore guard Bre McDon-ald responded, scoring a career-high 16 points in her first-ever start to lead the Mountaineers to an

elusive conference win, 61-49 at No. 21 Oklahoma State Saturday.

“This is her first game to start,” Carey said af-ter the game. “She came into the game focused and ready to play. That was great.”

The Mountaineers have struggled all season when leading scorer Bria Holmes hasn’t been at her best, but McDonald’s contributions helped the visitors over-come a 4-18 shooting night from Holmes. McDonald, a Georgia Tech transfer who had not previously scored

double figures in any game this season, hit three of her five 3-point attempts.

For her part, Holmes managed to scratch out 10 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for her first ever double-double. Senior point guard Linda Stepney added 15 points, six rebounds and five as-sists, while sophomore center Lanay Montgom-ery continued her strong interior play with 12 re-bounds and six blocked shots.

Behind eight points from McDonald and seven

points from junior guard Jessica Morton, the Moun-taineers carried a 27-23 lead into halftime. Al-though Oklahoma State jumped out of the gate to take a quick second half lead, the 3-point shoot-ing of McDonald and Stepney put West Virginia ahead – and the WVU de-fense did the rest of the work, locking the Cow-girls down on a late 21-4 run that put the game away.

“I thought overall our players played hard,” Carey said. “We got some scoring off the bench, which we haven’t been doing. It was good to get a win.”

Although the Moun-

taineers shot just 33.3 percent from the field and turned the ball over 20 times, they made the ones that counted: 8-21 from 3-point range and 17-21 from the line, strong per-formances in areas they have struggled with all season.

It was the Mountain-eer defense that carried the day, holding the Cow-girls to 28.8 percent shoot-ing. Oklahoma State’s three leading scorers – Liz Donohoe, Brittney Mar-tin and Roshunda John-son – combined to shoot 10-46 from the field. Cen-ter LaShawn Jones led the team with 12 points, and was the only Cowgirl

starter to shoot over 50 percent.

Led by Montgomery and Holmes, the Mountain-eers were able to domi-nate the boards, 52-36. After a rough start to the season, Montgomery has been a revelation in recent weeks, with the Oklahoma State game being her third straight with double-digit rebounds.

Now 11-6 and 1-4 in Big 12 play, the Moun-taineers will next be in action Wednesday, when they take on the 11-5 Kansas State Wild-cats at 7 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.

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Week after week, the Big 12 continues to show its depth as each of its teams has demonstrated potential to emerge as a serious conference con-tender. As week 11 comes to a close, we’ve seen most of the conference’s top teams beat up on each other, proving the race for the Big 12 title is truly up for grabs.

1. Kansas Jayhawks (14-3, 3-1 Big 12)

Although the Jayhawks let one slip away in Ames Saturday, they have won four of their other five games against ranked op-ponents, with their only loss being to No.1 Ken-tucky. The loss to Iowa State definitely shows the strength of the rest of the conference, but doesn’t take much away from what Kansas has been able to do so far this season. Expect to see the ten Big 12 teams upset each other, as seven of them are ranked in the Top 25, but don’t take your eyes off Frank Ma-son III and the boys from Lawrence.

2. Iowa State Cyclones (13-3, 3-1 Big 12)

While the conference boasts many teams that have made an argument to be contenders, the Cy-clones have shown their presence as a frontrun-ner on every side of the ball. They’ve been tough on defense and have shown they can move the ball to dissect a defense, as they lead the league in assists, averaging 18.6 per game. They barely escaped Mor-gantown with a win more than a week ago, thanks to their superior shoot-ing and their collec-tive size at the post has kept them in other close games. Although they lost by a point to a tough Bay-lor team on Wednesday, they bounced back by beating then-No. 9 Kan-sas by five to prove they are here to take care of business.

3. Texas Longhorns (13-4, 2-2 Big 12)

The middle of the con-ference is the most diffi-cult to separate when it comes to the Big 12, as the scores have been so incon-sistent. Texas lost to Okla-homa by about 20, Okla-homa lost to West Virginia by about 20, and West Vir-ginia lost to Texas by about 20. How do you rank teams with those kinds of scores? It’s easy to look at the re-sults from each team’s per-spective and make an argu-ment. But the Longhorns made a statement Saturday against the Mountaineers, showing they are the team everyone hyped them up to be before the start of the season. Junior center Cam-eron Ridley completely dominated West Virginia’s forwards underneath, and the Longhorns collectively showed they could match the pressure of one of the strongest defenses in the country. Perhaps now they will bounce back from their two disappointing losses to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and find their rhythm again.

4. West Virginia Moun-taineers (15-3, 3-2 Big 12)

Th e Mou nt a i n e e r s didn’t just look bad in Aus-tin Saturday, they looked awful. While their pres-sure on defense was still present, they shot them-selves in the feet time and time again with turnovers, missed layups, poor shot selection and hardly any physicality in the paint. But one game shouldn’t take away from what West Virginia has been able to do all season with a team that has earned the nick-name “Press Virginia.” The Mountaineers took a top tier Iowa State team down to the wire, and completely dominated an Oklahoma team that couldn’t keep up with the tempo and the pressure that head coach Bob Huggins’ squad brings to the court ev-ery game. If West Virginia can show improvement in its perimeter shoot-ing and find a way pene-trate defenses with more

size, they’ll continue to win.

5. Oklahoma Sooners (12-5, 3-2 Big 12)

Despite the fact that the Sooners suffered two back-to-back losses to Kansas State and West Vir-ginia, they bounced back by stomping Oklahoma State at home to earn back some respect from the rest of the conference. While they looked miserable try-ing to keep up with West Virginia’s defense in Mor-gantown, they’ve still won four games on the season against Top 25 teams. The Sooners have perimeter shooting and enough size to compete with any team in the conference, but they face a schedule with teams that possess the same traits.

6. Oklahoma State Cow-boys (12-5, 2-3 Big 12)

The Cowboys have kind of been the sleeper in the conference thus far. While they’ve lost five games, three of which were in the conference, they managed to find success in non-conference play, in addi-tion to knocking off Texas and a hot Kansas State team in previous weeks. They’ve lost two in a row, one to Iowa State and an-other to Oklahoma, but the Cowboys have built a resume that says they can compete with top-tier teams.

7. Kansas State Wild-cats (11-7, 4-1 Big 12)

The Wildcats are going to have to win some more games if they plan to make their way into the Top 25, but they’re doing just that as they currently lead the conference in standings. A team that seemed to have no chance of keeping up with such a strong confer-ence several weeks ago has somehow found its iden-tity, winning four in a row. The Wildcats have a lot in front of them with such a brutal schedule, but knock-ing off Oklahoma and Bay-lor in their four-game win-ning streak says a lot about what this team is capable of.

8. Baylor Bears (13-4,

2-3 Big 12)Their record is impres-

sive, but I’m just not sold. The Bears have managed to find themselves in the rankings, but their non-conference schedule was pathetic and they only have one noteworthy win. Granted they beat a very strong Iowa State team, but they blew a huge lead in the first half and barely snuck out with the win. Besides that, they beat a fairly weak TCU team in overtime, and lost the rest of their confer-ence games. Not to say the Bears haven’t shown some potential to be a real player, I just don’t see much room for them in a heavyweight group of teams.

9. TCU Horned Frogs (14-3, 1-3 Big 12)

There was a lot of con-troversy when the Horned Frogs found a spot in the Top 25 after their 13-0 start, due to their very weak schedule. I’m a firm be-liever that wins are wins, and 13 straight is impres-sive. The Frogs have had a tough time in conference play, winning only one of four, the only win being against a weak Texas Tech team. Transfer guard Trey Zeigler has definitely given them some help, but TCU needs a lot more than one player to make a name for itself in Big 12 basketball.

10. Texas Tech Red Raiders (10-8, 0-5 Big 12)

The Red Raiders just can’t catch a break in con-ference play. They’ve gone 0-5 since the start of con-ference play, and they played a lousy noncon-ference schedule. They’ve shown some hope at times for fans in Lubbock, but af-ter a 62-42 trouncing from TCU, it’s hard to say much is looking up for the Red Raiders. One thing fans could take out of this sea-son, however, is a young talent that could reshape the program in freshman guard Devaugntah Wil-liams. He could be the dif-ference in years to come, but this year the Red Raid-ers just can’t keep up.

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kansas and iowa state at the top of Big 12

kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumKansas head coach Bill Self yells across the court during a game last year.

kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumIowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg argues with an official during a game last year.

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NFl investigating Patriots for deflated footballsNFL (AP) – The NFL is

investigating whether the New England Patriots de-flated footballs that were used in their AFC cham-pionship game victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

“We are looking into it,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote in an email to The As-sociated Press on Mon-day. “We do not have any-thing further to add at this point.”

The inquiry was first reported by the website for WTHR-TV in Indi-ana, citing an unnamed source.

“ We ’ l l c o o p e r a t e fully with whatever the league wants us to, what-ever questions they ask,” Belichick said Mon-day during his regu-lar conference call with reporters.

He said he was unaware there was an issue until Monday morning.

The Patriots have come under scrutiny with re-gards to NFL rules in the

past, most infamously when they were pun-ished for videotaping sideline signals used by the New York Jets dur-ing a 2007 game. Belich-ick was fined $500,000, and the team was docked $250,000 and stripped of its 2008 first-round draft pick.

According to the NFL rule book, home teams are responsible for fur-nishing playable balls at all times. Each team brings 12 primary balls, while home teams are required to also bring 12 backup balls.

Once the referee makes sure the footballs are prop-erly inflated, they’re de-livered to ball attendants provided by the home team.

The league’s game op-erations manual notes: “If any individual alters the footballs, or if a non-ap-proved ball is used in the game, the person responsi-ble and, if appropriate, the head coach or other club personnel will be subject

to discipline, including but not limited to, a fine of $25,000.”

D e f l at i ng a f o o t-ball could change the way it would be gripped by a player or the way it travels through the air.

The Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 to reach the Super Bowl. New Eng-land will play the defend-ing champion Seattle Se-ahawks for the NFL title at Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 1.

Colts coach Chuck Pa-gano said he did not notice issues with the football. He did not specify when asked whether the Colts had reported the issue to officials.

“We talk just like they talk to officials (before the game), we have an oppor-tunity to talk to the offi-cials about a lot of things, things that you’ve seen on tape like the forma-tions we talked about last week,” Pagano said. “Every coach in the league gets an opportunity to visit with

the officials about that kind of stuff before the game.”

In Sunday night’s lop-sided AFC finale, quar-terback Tom Brady threw for three touchdowns and running back LeGarrette Blount gained 148 yards while scoring three touch-downs to send New Eng-land to its sixth Super Bowl in the past 14 years.

Colts quarterback An-drew Luck had his worst game as a pro, completing only 12 of 33 passes for 126 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions.

On his regular weekly morning-after-game ap-pearance Monday on WEEI radio, Brady said he wasn’t aware of the report about the league’s investigation into whether footballs were properly inflated against Indianapolis.

“I think I’ve heard it all at this point,” Brady said with a laugh.

“That’s the last of my worries,” he said. “I don’t even respond to stuff like this.”

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Country legend Brad Paisley, Parmalee and “The Voice” contestants The Swon Brothers, kick-started their Country Na-tion World Tour at West Virginia University’s Col-iseum. The artists per-formed back-to-back con-certs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The venue was packed with nearly every seat filled on both nights.

Brad Paisley entered the stage with his famous guitar licks during a song performed by both family bands, The Swon Broth-ers and Parmalee. Fans weren’t expecting his non-chalant entrance and went wild with excitement as he walked in.

Following the collabora-tive performance, the stage lit up in blue and white with “Brad Paisley” written in lights on the backdrop. The band chimed in simul-taneously, and everything on the stage united.

“I told my booking agent that it would be fun in the winter to play in college towns,” Paisley said. “Ob-viously, the first college town I think about is Mor-gantown. To me, it really is the ultimate place for that because it’s where I spent

many a Saturday grow-ing up, going to football games. When you want to set the tone for a tour, there is nothing quite like Morgantown, W. Va. We’ll know we did a good show if there are couches on fire tonight.”

Throughout the show, Paisley performed many hits from a various num-ber of his albums. This in-cluded songs from his ear-lier albums like “Mud On the Tires” and “Time Well Wasted,” as well as songs from his more recent al-bums, “Moonshine in the Trunk” and “This is Coun-try Music.”

Paisley paid homage to the state of West Virginia, with lyrical references as well as performing with a personalized WVU guitar and photos of many iconic landmarks from around the state spanned across the backdrop.

“I think every writer is influenced by where they grew up, and I’m lucky to have come from a place that is very much exactly what you would expect for as kind of training for country music,” Paisley said. “I think if I was born somewhere else, I don’t necessarily know where I’d be.”

Not only was Paisley en-gaged with the audience musically, but his inter-action with the audience also showcased his boy-ish charm and unforgetta-ble sense of humor. Paisley took many selfies during his two nights of perfor-mances and also gave away signed guitars, which had fans jumping with elation.

On the Saturday perfor-mance, Paisley made the night even more memo-rable for one lucky couple who shared their marriage proposal on stage with a filled Coliseum. The crowd erupted with cheers.

The Swon Brothers, composed of Zach and Colton Swon, began per-f o r m i n g p ro f e s s i o n -ally when they were chil-

dren in Muskogee, Okla., in their family’s gospel group. When their south-ern gospel group, Exo-dus, stopped touring, the family created a family-style variety show entitled Westwood Music Show in Wagoner, Okla.

“We never really had a backup plan,” Colton Swon said. “When we were young we aspired to be the it-version of Brooks and Dunn. We just started writing and played every gig in between. We were passionate about it and knew that this is what we wanted to do for the rest of our lives.”

The Swon Brothers gar-nered national attention after auditioning for “The Voice” in 2013, where both Zach and Colton were se-lected to be on Team Blake by Blake Shelton. They were the first duo to make it from the Top 12 live shows to the season finale.

Soon after the show, the musically inclined broth-ers signed a deal with Arista Nashville, which was the same record la-bel of their old Muskogee neighbor, country super-star Carrie Underwood.

Since signing with Arista Nashville, The Swon Brothers have released a new album, been nom-inated as the 2014 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year and featured in People Coun-try’s Sexiest Man issue.

“Our life has been ninety to nothing since being on The Voice,” Colton Swon said. “It’s just been go, go, go for the past two years. We had a much-needed break around Christmas, but now we’re ready to get back on the road again and get this tour started with Brad Paisley.”

The duo performed many songs from its self-titled album, “The Swon Brothers,” which was re-leased in October 2014. The brothers performed their celebrated singles “Later On” and “Pray for You,” as well as other tracks that got the crowd

on their feet.Parmalee took the stage

directly after The Swon Brothers and got the crowd excited with its enticing guitar riffs and powerful party anthems. The band conversed with the crowd often throughout the per-formance and shared a few laughs as well.

The country rock group performed many songs off its debut album, “Feels Like Carolina,” including fan favorites “Carolina” and “Close Your Eyes.”

While the band performed most of its own songs, the group added its own twist to them by mixing in well-known hip-hop and rap songs such as “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”

Overall, the first stop on the Country Nation World Tour was a success. The seats in the Coliseum were filled on both nights with a crowd that beamed with state pride. The tour will continue through May.

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Brad Paisley is backlit by a spotlight as he performs in the WVU Coliseum Saturday evening. Parmalee, a country group originating from Parmale, N.C., performs Saturday.

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A couple dances during Parmalee’s set.

Students and Morgantown residents alike pack the Coliseum Saturday night.

Brad Paisley flashes a smile to the audience as he is surrounded thousands of fans.

The Monongalia arts Center will host its first MaComedy night for the new year. The show will feature the four win-ners from last year’s MaComedy Standup Showdowns. Christian Cox, Kasey Kesner, Wayne Dorsey and Jordan Bailey were all selected to compete in the Showdowns by a comedy panel along with each show’s headlining act. Each winner com-

peted for the title of “Morgantown’s Fun-niest Comedian.” This Friday’s funniest co-median showcase costs $10. Tickets can be purchased by calling 304-292-3325 or visiting http://monartscenter.com/shop. Tickets are also available in person at the MaC lobby. The show starts 8 p.m. Friday in the Tanner Theatre.

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Zach Swon, lead singer of The Swon Brothers, performs.

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