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Dam proposal scares city residents by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

Councilors took another step toward approving four bonds worth $180 million to upgrade the Star City wastewater treatment plant and to create a new water reservoir by damming Cobun Creek.

Despite the Morgantown Utility Board’s attempts to provide information about the size and scope of the potential dam, a handful of residents from the area peppered the council

with questions to delay the project.

“If I remember correctly, Nancy (Ganz) had been one of the people who asked if there was a plan available. Has this plan been presented to you Nancy?” asked Susan Elkins, a longtime resident of Cobun Creek Road. “To me, voting on this amount of money without having any kind of plan is irresponsible.”

MUB officials presented more detailed plans, but said with a project still so far away, it’s difficult to

have an exact timeline for completion.

Timothy Ball, MUB’s general manager, estimates the dam will take about 40 months to complete.

Residents said they want to see a three-dimensional model of the project, to know exactly how high the dam will be and how the road through their community will change.

“I understand their concerns,” said Councilwoman Ganz, Seventh Ward.

“They’ve lived there a long time, and they want to be able to visualize what’s go-

ing to happen.”

Elkins’ woes fell on deaf ears. The council approved the second of three required readings to establish the bonds.

Elkins and others in the area fear losing their land.

Ball identified several parcels of land MUB would need to purchase before constructing the dam.

Several at the meeting mentioned how grateful people living adjacent to the creek should be. “Congratulations to all the new millionaires,” said Randy Jones, a West Virginia Uni-

versity student.

“I have no interest in being a millionaire. I have no interest in making money off my land like this,” Elkins said later in the meeting. “We just want to stay on our land. Please don’t tell us to be thankful for this. We get nothing for this.”

The promise of a larger water reser voir outweighed her concerns. After the Elk River chemical spill in 2014, when the people of Charleston went without safe drinking water for days, city council-

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ors have tried to secure the city’s water supply.

Tom Richards lives in the area and worries about what would happen if the dam broke and damaged the surrounding area and I-68. Richards said he wants the state’s Department of Highways to sign off on the project.

“There’s no reason for us to consult with them about the potential failure of a dam…” Ball said. “Our preliminary engineering report and breach analy-

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University Police take charge of patrolling Greek houses, events by jake jarvis staff writer @newsroomjake

cer. Spencer was an influential Harlem Renaissance poet who was born in West Virginia.

Plein enjoys gardening, and much of Spencer’s poetry was based on her garden.

“I learned about this book that was published in 1977, two years after her death,” Plein said. “(The author) interviewed her the last year she was living. And, after reading that book, I learned she was from WV, which I thought was really interesting.”

Plein remained interested in Spencer for around 20 years. Once she became a librarian, Plein began scholarly research on Spencer to

After months of planning, West Virginia University Police recently took over responsibility for patrolling and responding to calls in the area adjacent to campus on North High Street.

Morgantown Police and the University agreed on Jan. 6 to start a pilot program which would place the responsibility of patrolling fraternity and sorority houses on UPD, freeing up MPD officers for other work.

“By working with the University in an area in which the majority of the population are students, it allows our officers to be utilized more effectively in other areas of the city,” said Morgantown City Manager Jeff Mikorski. “It’s another way we’re able to allocate our existing resources to improve public safety.”

So far, UPD has had a fairly quiet time patrolling the area. Officers only responded to two calls, both of which went without incident, this past weekend.

Last year, on the other hand, members of WVU’s Greek Life had more than one encounter with authorities.

In fall of 2014, emergency responders rushed a then-freshman Nolan Burch, 18 of New York, to the hospital. Police said Burch participated in Kappa Sigma’s “Big-Little” initiation event where pledges allegedly consumed large amounts of alcohol.

Burch died shortly after the event, and an autopsy showed his blood alcohol content was 0.493—more than six times the legal limit.

A f t e r wa rd , a l l o f Greek Life was placed on moratorium.

Then, only a few months later, fraternities Kappa Alpha and Pi Kappa Alpha were temporarily suspended after violating the city’s fire code by overcrowding their houses.

WVU is two years deep into a “culture change,” which officials say will require cooperation from everyone in the community.

UPD Chief Bob Roberts said more involvement from UPD allows more WVU services—like Student Affairs, WELLWVU: The Students’ Center for Health and Wellness and Environmental Health and Safety—to get involved with incidents.

In addition to freeing up officers to patrol other areas, the city will hire and train more officers using funds already available in the Municipal Service Fee. Since the agreement

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Hudson Taylor talks to West Virginia University employees and students about LGBTQ in college athletics.

Athlete Ally founder discusses LGBT inclusion and equality in collegiate athletics by madeleine hall staff writer @dailyathenaeum

When Jason Collins, NBA player for the Brooklyn Mets, came out as gay in 2013, he was heralded as the first openly LGBT professional athlete.

In actuality, the first professional athlete to open up about LGBT life in the athletic community was baseball player Glenn Burke in 1976, but at the time being openly gay was too taboo to be covered by national media.

Today, 40 years after the Los Angeles Dodgers desperately offered Glenn Burke $75,000 to agree to participate in a fictitious heterosexual marriage to cover his gay iden-

tity, 39 percent of college athletes still report harassment because of their sexual orientation, according to the 2012 Campus Pride LGBTQ National College Athlete Report.

“My sport is my identity,” said Hudson Taylor, former Columbia wrestling coach and founder of Athlete Ally. “This idea that there is an entire population of people being systematically excluded from having a similar experience because of a culture I am a part of and perpetuate— it really got to me.”

On Tuesday night, Taylor representing Athlete Ally, gave a talk to West Virginia University students focusing on LGBT equality in college sports and seeking to promote respect for individuals in sports, regardless of their sexual orien-

tation, gender identity or gender expression.

Taylor was not always an outspoken ally of the LGBT community.

Being raised in a Christian household and becoming heavily involved in the athletic community and culture were obstacles to openly speaking about LGBT issues, Taylor said.

“Sport is one of the few institutions that is segregated by gender,” Taylor said. “I was taught that what is good is masculine and what is bad is feminine. The way that is expressed (is through) slurs.”

Expectations involving gender roles and the prevalence of hypermasculinity in locker rooms can lead to destructive homophobia and transphobia in the sports community, explained Taylor.

Pointing to a pivotal moment in his college life that lead him to pursue LGBT advocacy, Taylor described when his friend Matt came out in class and was met with applause and support from peers.

“In my locker room, would we have clapped for Matt?” Taylor had wondered. “I thought-maybe I can be better. Maybe I can be more vocal.”

During his senior year at the University of Maryland, Taylor began wearing a sticker for equality on his wrestling helmet.

That same year, his wrestling coach asked him if he would do an interview about his advocacy as an LGBT ally. Only later would Tay-

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Wikipedia edit-a-thon promotes gender equality by amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Worldwide, there are about 44,000 volunteers writing for Wikipedia. Only about 10 percent of those writers are female, according to Carroll Wilkinson, the director of strategic library initiatives at West Virginia University. This is a contributing factor to why there are fewer Wikipedia articles about women than men.

But, WVU’s libraries are trying to bridge the gap.

Tuesday, at the downtown library the first WVU Wikipedia edit-a-thon was held.

It focused on creating or editing articles about women of color, from or connected to West Virginia.

“So 90 percent of the writers (on Wikipedia) are men, and around 30 years of age.

Naturally, they’re going to have certain interests of their own,” Wilkinson said.

“With such a tiny percentage of women, the number of articles on Wikipedia about women is not balanced, and it’s true for people of color as well. We’re taking baby steps about what’s available for West Virginia women.”

And since the content is written about women by men, it could have a male bias or a male point of view.

In charge of the event was Kelly Doyle, the Wikipedianin-residence for gender equity at WVU. Her position was created as part of a grant from the Wikipedia Foundation in order to help WVU

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increase the availability of information about West Virginia women through Wikipedia.

“Our goal here is really to just, and my position really, is about adding content about women to Wikipedia and making that information as accurate as it can be,” Doyle said.

“My position is the Wikipedia-in-residence for gender equity, so that’s what all of my events focus around, adding content about women from West Virginia and hopefully expanding that out to Appalachia.”

One of the women for which they were creating an article was Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, the first African American woman elected to the West Virginia State Leg-

islature. Those participating also wanted to create an article for Fannie Smith, the first wife of Booker T. Washington.

“The problem is, Fannie Smith or Elizabeth Simpson Drewry, these are important people. Whereas a man of equal importance does have an article on Wikipedia,” Doyle said. “That’s what we’re working on here. Everything we do here.... Every little thing that we add or revise is helping to make the world wide access to knowledge a little bit better. And if we’re making it more equitable we’re definitely making it better.”

Stewart Plein, rare books curator at WVU libraries, came prepared to edit the article on Annie Spen-

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Wednesday January 20, 2016

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In this Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, Ingrid Vaca, originally of Bolivia speaks during rally for immigration reform in front of the White House in Washington. The Supreme Court has agreed to an election-year review of President Barack Obama’s executive orders to allow up to 5 million immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and work legally in the U.S.

Election-year clash on immigration heads to Supreme Court WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court stepped into a boiling political dispute over immigration Tuesday, setting up a likely decision in the middle of a presidential campaign marked by harsh rhetoric about immigrants.

The justices agreed to review whether President Barack Obama, acting without congressional approval, has the power to shield from deportation up to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and make them eligible to work without fear of being rounded up.

Underscoring the political dimension, the case will be argued in April and decided by late June, about a month before both political parties gather for their nominating conventions.

If Obama prevails against opponents led by Republi-

can governors, there would be roughly seven months left in his presidency to implement plans that would affect the parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, as well as some people who arrived in the United States before they turned 16.

“We are confident that the policies will be upheld as lawful,” White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine said after the court’s announcement Tuesday.

At issue is the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program, which Obama said in late 2014 would allow people who have been in the United States more than five years and who have children who are in the country legally to “come out of the shadows and get right with the law.”

He also announced the ex-

pansion of a program that affects people who came here illegally as children.

That earlier program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is not being challenged and has resulted in more than 720,000 young immigrants being granted permission to live and work in the United States.

When he announced the measures 14 months ago, Obama said he was acting under his own authority because Congress had failed to overhaul the immigration system. The Senate did pass legislation on a bipartisan vote, but House Republicans refused to put the matter to a vote.

Texas quickly led a legal challenge to Obama’s program on behalf of 26 states and has won every round in court so far. Most recently, in November, the 5th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the states, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.

Texas actually asked the Supreme Court not to hear the case challenging those rulings, but state Attorney General Ken Paxton said he was pleased the justices will examine the president’s constitutional power to intercede without congressional approval. “In deciding to hear this case, the Supreme Court recognizes the importance of the separation of powers,” Paxton said.

The U.S. solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., said in his Supreme Court filing that allowing the lower court rulings to stand would force millions of people “to continue to work off the books, without the option of lawful employment to provide for their families.”

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munication skills, they will enhance their teamwork and problem-solving skills and the first and second place teams will win sizable prize monies and have a great accomplishment to include on their resume.”

Glenn is the primary organizer of the Target Case Study Competition, along with a team of representatives from the academic colleges.

D u r i n g t h e k i c ko f f e v e nt, s t u d e nt s will be presented with this year ’s business problem.

Then, on Feb. 9, each team will present its business proposal in prescheduled 30-minute time blocks. The case presentations will be reviewed by a panel of judges comprised of managers from the Target Corporation.

Teams must be made up of two to four students, and students from

all majors are welcome to participate.

Last year, seven teams made up of students exclusively from the Reed College of Media and the College of Business & Economics competed. This year, 19 teams from a variety of majors have registered to participate.

Last year’s winners were advertising and strategic communication students Megan Woods and Amber Ravenscroft.

They were tasked with promoting Threshold, Target’s home decor line, and their solution was to use augmented reality software by Qualcomm to create a digital marketing campaign.

“You would have a registry of all the Threshold projects, and you could take a picture of your bedroom or living room and use the app on your phone to arrange the furniture

in your registry,” Woods said.

The team won $1,250 by applying classroom knowledge about virtual reality software to a realworld situation.

Woods noticed that a lot of business majors had more strategic approaches, but her creative approach to the case study demonstrated why it is important to keep the competition open to more than just business majors in order to achieve the goal of interdisciplinary thinking within teams.

Although the last day to register for the competition was Jan. 19, any student who is interested in participating is welcome to attend the Target Case Study competition kick-off event at 6 p.m., Jan. 20 in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair.

continue to post a log of criminal activity at http:// police.wvu.edu/clery-act/ crime-report/.

“It is our goal to create a partnership with those residing in the zone, and we hope to build relationships where we can solve problems together,” Roberts said in an email. “It is our hope that those residing in the area will show us respect as we will show them respect. It is our task

to keep the area safe, and we strive to achieve this by working together.”

To cope with the agreement, UPD brought on a new officer and reassigned another to the zone “specifically for community policing.”

Although UPD will take primary responsibility over the area, MPD will assist when needed.

paring to face a panel of three judges in Monongalia County Circuit Court on Friday that could potentially shake up the council.

Mayor Marti Shamberger, Nancy Ganz, Jenny Selin and Bill Kawecki could all be removed from office if the panel finds in favor of the plaintiff George Papandreas.

Papandreas, a man who unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the council in the

most recent election, alleged in a lawsuit that, among other things, the four are guilty of misconduct, malfeasance in office, incompetence and neglect of duty.

The petition focuses on the 2015 election, during which Papandreas claims Kawecki violated the state’s election laws by asking city employees to donate their money and time to his political action committee

The administration said Texas and the other states don’t even have the right to challenge the plan in federal court. The lower courts decided that Texas does have the right, or standing, to sue because at least 500,000 people living in Texas would qualify for work permits and thus become eligible for driver’s licenses, the costs of which are subsidized by the state. “Texas would incur millions of dollars in costs,” the state said in its brief.

The justices also said they would consider whether, if the states can pursue their lawsuit, Obama exceeded his authority under federal laws and the Constitution.

Some court observers saw in the court’s decision

to look at Obama’s power under the Constitution a potentially ominous sign.

“It suggests that the court is willing to engage President Obama’s entire use of executive orders,” said Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the nonpartisan National Constitution Center.

Still, Democratic officials and immigrants’ advocates praised the court’s action.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said that “law-abiding men and women continue to live in constant fear of being separated from their children.

These families must be allowed to step out of the shadows and fully contribute to the country that they love and call home.”

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Starting this week, West Virginia University will host the second annual Target Case Study competition.

The competition is a team-based activity where students will be given a real-world business problem provided by the Target Corporation and the chance to put their management, marketing, human resources and social media skills to the test in order to find a solution and win up to $800.

“The benefits of participating in this competition are three-fold,” said Sarah Glenn, the associate director of employer relations for the Career Services Center. “All students will receive valuable feedback regarding their written and oral com-

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Like all other calls UPD officers respond to, Roberts said the department will

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Continued from page 1 sis considered the effect of I-68. We’ve taken that into account.”

City Council will host its third and final reading of ordinances that establish the bonds at 7 p.m. on Feb. 2 in City Hall.

In the meantime, four city councilors are pre-

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As the West Virginia University Mountaineers take on the Texas Longhorns at the Coliseum tonight, large crowds and limited parking are expected for those attending the basketball game.

The WVU Division of Student Life, Student Government Association and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics offered 1,200 more tickets than usual for WVU students for tonight’s highly anticipated matchup.

“In an effort to accommodate as many WVU students as possible, some students will be seated in reserved, general public sections. If you arrive after the student section is filled, you will be given a ticket to a reserved seat when you enter the Coliseum,” read a WVU press release.

For students who reserved tickets, a seat location is printed on the ticket

which will lead them to their seat for the game.

Parking at the Coliseum is expected to be extremely limited.

Students and staff who have class or work at the Coliseum will be able to park for free until 5 p.m.

To make up for the loss in parking, short-term parking lots are available at the Alumni Center and Mountaineer Station, among other short-term lots on the Evansdale campus.

Fans can also park in Downtown lots and take the PRT or Mountain Line buses to the game.

Students are reminded to bring both their printed ticket and their student ID to ensure access to the game.

For questions on ticketing, contact the Mountaineer Ticket Office at 1-800-WVU-GAME — crc

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Continued from page 1 lor come to know that his coach was closeted.

After the interview, Taylor received 2,000 emails from closeted athletes around the country communicating that because of Taylor’s support for LGBT rights, they were now less fearful to join sports.

Morgantown Together.

A group of citizens came out to show their support for the four councilors facing charges. They called the lawsuit frivolous and a waste of time.

“It’s no wonder people don’t want to run for public office,” one man said.

“All it takes is one person to collect 24 other signatures… and we’re in court.” jajarvis@mail.wvu.edu

Omar Barghouthi, a senior at WVU and president of the pre-law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta, said he initially only came to Taylor’s lecture to receive extra credit.

By the end of the presentation, his mind had significantly changed.

“After (I realized) this is all about a civil rights movement. We’re all brothers and sisters,” Barghouthi said. “I would absolutely consider myself a vocal ally.”

As a first step, Barghouthi said he was going to push other fraternities and student organizations to become affiliated with the LGBT community at WVU. “It cannot just be the sole responsibility of the oppressed group to end the discrimination,” Taylor said.

“This is about wanting to own our history and make it better.”

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here, but I hate how West Virginia is perceived,” Plein said. “Most of my research is based on West Virginia or Appalachian topics. I hate the common portal, and I want to defeat that at every turn I can.”

Doyle has another Wikipedia-edit-a-thon scheduled for Feb. 12, focusing on female relationships in West Virginia.

Continued from page 1 learn more, and discovered her early life in West Virginia was the foundation for the poet and civil rights leader Stewart became.

“I really feel strongly about what goes out in the world. I’m not a West Virginian, but I’ve been here 23 years, I wasn’t born

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Wednesday January 20, 2016

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Editorial

Ensuring human rights protection Though treatment of Syrian refugees has been a hotly debated topic among government officials these past few months, other natives of Middle Eastern countries have been seeking refuge to escape violence in their home countries as well.

In the past two and a half years, a report from NBC News stated that nearly 19,000 civilians from Iraq have been killed, more than twice that number have been injured and three million have left the country to escape the ongoing conflict between ISIS and the Iraqi government.

United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad alHussein noted that aside from suffering at the hands of violence, many people have died simply from

lacking access to the most basic human needs that may have been destroyed by bombs or artillery, such as clean water and food.

What’s more, around 3,500 Iraqi women and children of the country’s minority ethnic group Yazidi have also become slaves to the members of ISIS, with many women forced to become sex slaves.

ISIS’ actions have stripped Iraqis uninvolved in the conflict of their most basic human rights.

Though warfare is usually talked about only in terms of military actions, it’s impossible to forget the lives of residents who have been impacted by internal governmental or military conflict in countries around the world.

This editorial board be-

lieves civilians should not have to suffer at the hands of their government’s own military affairs.

More steps should be taken to ensure minimal civilian deaths and greater access to basic necessities during times of war for all countries in the future. According to the United States Agency for International Development, not ensuring human rights leads to cycles of violence, discriminatory practices and the continuation of poverty both in and out of peacetime.

In times of war, stepping back from the conflict at hand to abide by international humanitarian law will save more lives and promote higher quality of life for citizens everywhere. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Commentary

University loses money by keeping restaurants open shelby bradford columnist @shelbybradfordda

Finding something to eat without breaking the bank as a college student can be a challenge, especially at odd hours of the day. Thursday through Saturday is not as much of an issue for most since WVUp All Night provides free food, but the rest of the week can pose some problems.

Since fall 2015, three of the five food outlets in the Mountainlair have been required to stay open one extra hour after meal plan ends at 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in order to provide more late-night eating options, but this change in the schedule does not appear to be benefitting either employees or students.

The explanation for the extended store hours was to provide a late-night meal plan option for students on weekdays when there is no free food offered at WVUp All Night. While it’s a great thought to alleviate some of the nutrition woes of nocturnal students, the simple truth is that this extra hour is not benefitting stores, employees or even students and is only causing financial loss and workplace dissatisfaction.

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The Mountainlair food court is packed with students during lunchtime but is usually empty from 9-10 p.m.

Mountainlair restaurants, and I know for a fact that the extra hour we are open Monday through Wednesday costs our store unnecessary dollars, senselessly wastes food and inconveniences employees.

For example, none of the restaurants have anywhere near the same amount of business as earlier in the evening, and I’ve observed several days when not a single customer visits during the extra hour. This simply does not make staying open until 10 p.m. financially worthwhile for the University, as almost no food is sold during this time.

Because the hours

when meal plan is honored ends at 9 p.m. in the Mountainlair, students also cannot purchase food using their meal plan during the extra hour these restaurants stay open. Though Dining Dollars and Mountie Bounty are still accepted, few students choose to use these payment options during this time of night.

With the extra cost of keeping all the lights and machines functioning combined with the additional wages employers now have to pay their employees, the extra hour quickly depletes net sales. In fact, Burger King, Sbarro and Chickfil-A on average only make

$20-40 each in the extra hour, which is significantly less than what the restaurants are expected to make in the same timeframe during other times of the day.

Aside from the negative impact on finances, this extra hour is detrimental to employees as well. Many restaurant workers are students who have classes the following day and need the extra hour to complete homework assignments or work on essays before going to bed.

Many also commute to work, so by staying open until 10 p.m. and helping to close down the store, they are unable to catch buses

or the PRT. This limits many students living on other campuses from being able to work later in the evening.

While some students may pay the price of parking in the Mountainlair parking lot or at another paid parking location, this puts more drivers on the icy roads late at night during the winter months. Given all of these factors, fewer students are capable of working these late shifts, which limits the number of staff on nights the restaurants must stay open later.

I am not against the University expanding its latenight dining options for students, as I remember

the struggles of finding a place to eat past 9 p.m. as a freshman. However, the expansion of Mountie Bounty to off-campus locations is already a great step in the right direction to give students more dining options.

This combined with the opening of Evansdale Crossing proves that WVU students now have many late-night options when it comes to eating. Keeping the restaurants in the Mountainlair open an hour after meal plan ends is no longer a feasible nor costefficient decision for the University. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

Commentary

Good deeds gone viral: Helping others no longer out of kindness Emily torbett columnist @emilytorbsda

When Facebook user Paige Yore uploaded a three-minute video of herself describing a heartbreaking experience with a WalMart cashier just before the holidays, she claimed she “wasn’t doing it for the fame or for the money.” She was simply trying to “touch people’s lives in a world where we all forget what the meaning of Christmas is.” Certainly, at least some of the audience of Facebook users who viewed her video more than 26 million times was touched in some way or another.

In the viral video, Yore spoke to the camera from the inside of her car, detailing an experience inside a Pueblo, Colorado WalMart store. According to Yore, she’d been waiting in line to check out when she’d noticed the cashier, whom she claimed appeared to be a teenage boy, struggling to ring up purchases.

When a cantankerous customer lashed out at the young man for his incompetence, Yore said she’d stepped in. She described pulling the woman aside and instructing her to calm down, saying, “This young man is obviously having a bad day.” This act of kind-

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Paige Yore fabricated a story about helping a young cashier at her local WalMart. ness was so touching to the cashier, Yore claimed, that he came around the counter and gave her a hug. She stated he had told her that his mother had committed suicide that very morning, but he had been required to come in to work regardless.

Yore’s story included everything that makes for a great viral video, from the sob story of an innocent 16-year-old boy and a harsh-mouthed bystander to Yore’s own kindness and heroism that ultimately made for a heart-wrenching ending. There was only

one problem: Not a word of it seemed to be true.

When the video’s popularity attracted attention from major news outlets, as well as countless Facebook users who attempted to reach out to the WalMart and help the unfortunate cashier, Yore’s web of lies began to quickly unravel.

According to security camera footage, Yore’s shopping trip to WalMart had been just that: A shopping trip. There had been no angry or insensitive customer.

She’d simply checked out and made her way out of

the store without talking to or hugging anyone. The cashier in question, who was not a teenage boy but rather an adult man, also confirmed his mother was alive and well.

In a media-saturated world where touching content can be shared at the click of a button, it’s easy to see why a video or story like Yore’s seems to pop up on our newsfeeds every day. Amid stories of conflict, death and devastation around the globe, these viral good deeds make us feel a little better about the

world we live in. The fact that they most often feature ordinary citizens in ordinary places make them all the better.

If you’re in the right place at the right time and happen to have your iPhone on you, you, too, can be a hero.

Good deeds go viral like cute cat videos and subsequently make their subjects into micro-celebrities who are worthy of praise and admiration and serve as reminders of how we should all strive to live our lives.

Yore’s false claims are certainly an extreme ex-

ample of the effect of the Internet fame that can be tied to supposed “random” acts of kindness. However, even the truest of viral good deeds, ones able to be verified and backed by both witnesses and surveillance footage, tend to be problematic in much the same way. We’re unfortunately becoming a culture of people who do the right things for the wrong reason.

There is something inherently wrong in shifting the value of good deeds from the goodness itself to the “shareability” they might have.

Of course, there is still something positive in touching the viewers of these videos. But when we quantify “goodness” of something and measure it by the amount of lives it touches in the form of video views, the need to be kind on an individual level to our fellow man for the sake of being kind diminishes.

While I’m certainly not advocating for an end to good deeds, I am in favor of making them an everyday part of life rather than Internet phenomena. As perhaps every teacher we ever had in school has told us, the true character of a person is in how they act when no one is watching. Let’s perform good deeds from now on with this lesson in mind. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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WVUp All Night holding open auditions for Spring play Woody Pond

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They say that theater as an art form has been dying in American pop culture, but the success of WVUp All Night’s live show program does not seem to fall under the umbrella of that argument. Two shows have been performed in the Mountainlair’s Gluck Theatre - Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” and the infamous rock musical “The Rocky Horror Show” - both exceeded expectations, having to turn people away at the door for all three nights of performances.

The program will hold auditions for a spring semester production from 7-9:30 p.m. tonight and Thursday night in the Rhododendron room of the Mountainlair. No preparation is needed for the audition, as director Afsheen Misaghi and his assistant Nick Tabidze will lead the participants through improvisational games and have them perform cold reads of scenes in the show. Misaghi has directed or co-directed all of the shows for Up All Night Live, and the program itself was his brainchild.

This semester, Misaghi has chosen the Pulitzer Prize winning play “How I Learned to Drive”

by Paula Vogel to be the Gluck Theatre’s production. A very interesting and beautiful play about extremely meaningful and dramatic family circumstances, this show is far different from the zany comedies and raunchy musicals the program has delivered in the past. Misaghi chose this play because of its intimacy and his desire to try to bring something

impactful to the stage in Morgantown.

WVUp All Night Live focuses on non-theatre majors having the opportunity to get involved with local art within their school, as Misaghi has made it very clear that he likes to primarily cast students outside of the School of Theatre and Dance. This is the main foundation of the program, and it has even inspired several students to pick up a theatre minor after having such a good experience.

Katelynn Burns, a junior theatre student, has worked with Misaghi on both Up All Night Live productions, as well as onstage alongside actors and general students in her time at WVU. “Having worked with Afsheen so frequently, I have a familiarity with this method. It’s always awesome to walk in and have a general sense of what he wants and how he works”, Burns said. “His program gives a lot of exposure to people that have never really seen or been a part of theatre. I’m always amazed at how much talent we have at this University regardless of the background.”

This is an amazing program for WVU to offer, giving community theater a place within its walls which separates itself from the School of Theatre and Dance’s mainstage season. Although Misaghi is set to graduate in May, he will pass on the torch and hopefully watch as Up All Night Live continues to grow thanks to his creativity and leadership. Until then, WVUp All Night Live will perform “How I Learned to Drive”

by Paula Vogel Feb. 25-27 in the Gluck Theatre. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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MOVIE THROWBACKS

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‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ came out almost 10 years ago. More recently, fans have mourned the beloved, late Alan Rickman, the actor who embodied one of the series’ main antagonists: Severus Snape.

‘Star Wars,’ ‘Harry Potter’ celebrate decade-old milestones brittany Osteen A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

With the start of 2016, there have already been some new movie releases and expected release dates for others. For two of the new movies being released, their worlds have been in our hearts for 10 years. Just about a month ago, “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” has broken box office records. This year, in late November, the world of magic will find another addition with the movie “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”

Approximately 10 years ago, “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” made their way to the big screen.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is the first liveaction film since “Revenge of the Sith.” Luckily, it only took 10 years for the next three movies compared to the almost 17 year difference between Episode VI “Return of the Jedi” and Episode I, “The Phantom Menace.”

Rey, a girl left on her own, comes across a Rebel Alliance droid with important information. As the Empire, now known as the First Order, tries to get the

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‘Revenge of the Sith,’ the final installment in the ‘Star Wars’ prequel trilogy, followed Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side and eventual transformation into Darth Vader. information, Fin becomes a defector stormtrooper and joins forces with Rey. While they try to find the Alliance, they steal the beloved Millennium Falcon and soon find Han Solo and Chewbacca.

They make it around many obstacles, and Solo takes them to Princess Leia. She is still the leader of the Alliance, which is also known as the Resistance, and is now Solo’s wife. They find that Kylo Ren has fallen to the dark side and is following in the steps of Darth Vader and that Luke Skywalker has gone into hiding after a disaster occurred while training new Jedi. The adventure continues as they try to put together information and find Skywalker.

“Star Wars: The Force

Awakens” has received five Oscar nominations. Episodes VIII and IX are expected in May of 2017 and 2019, respectively.

While “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” came out almost 10 years ago, it was nowhere near the end of the battle against “He-Who-Must-Not-beNamed.” The final movie, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2,” was released in 2011. Now that five years have passed, the world of magic has grown with more books based on the students’ textbooks, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Studios and the launch of the Pottermore website in 2012.

The new movie is based on J.K. Rowling’s book “Fantastic Beasts and

Where to Find Them.” The movie is a spin-off and prequel to the Harry Potter series and is expected to have two more additions.

The movie takes place in early 1900s New York City.

Newt Scamander arrived at the Magical Congress of the United States of America for an official meeting. He brought along an expanding briefcase filled with magical and dangerous beasts along with their habitats. By mistake, the monsters get out, which sets the wizarding community after Scamander. The movie follows the adventure of Scamander and the mission to capture all of the beasts.

The movie is expected to be released on Nov. 18 of this year. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

‘Once a Mountaineer Always a Mountaineer’ event to encourage youth exercise Meg Weissend A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Many West Virginia University students agree that when one becomes a Mountaineer, they are a Mountaineer, singing along to John Denver’s “Country Roads” and finding ways to give back to college-centered Morgantown.

The “Once A Mountaineer, Always A Mountaineer” campaign is a program designed

by WVU alumni NFL players to inspire healthy lifestyle choices amongst children across the Mountain State.

A miniature “Day of Play”

event will be held from 4:305:30 p.m. Thursday at the Shack Neighborhood House located a few miles from Morgantown.

The main Day of Play event occurs in March, and Thursday’s event will promote this year’s campaign.

The WVU Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Oppe, has partnered with the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties to create a three-stage campaign including a Day of Play, a visit to the WVU Children’s Hospital and a dinner at the Erickson Alumni Center for the players and invited guests

which will act as a fundraiser for WVU Children’s Hospital.

Kids who are part of the Shack Neighborhood House After School program will be attending the Day of Play event tomorrow and will be joined by the WVU dance team, a few of the WVU cheerleaders, Alex Brooks and Brandan Rivers of the WVU football team and the Mountaineer.

The main event has previously welcomed WVU alumni football players such as Quincy Wilson, Keith Tandy, Major Harris, Bruce Irvin, Will Clarke, J.D. Woods, Brandon Hogan, Noel Devine and Kevin White.

In today’s society, be-

ing active is not always easy.

The Day of Play will encourage kids to exercise and play games by having fun with some of WVU’s biggest fans.

West Virginia is a state with one of the highest childhood obesity rates in the country.

“To me this event is so important because of how much a difference this can make for the kids,” said Evan Green, an account executive for Once A Mountaineer, Always A Mountaineer. “West Virginia ranks second in the nation in adulthood obesity, and one of the ways to stop that trend from continuing into future generations is with the state’s youth. These children look

up to these athletes, and using them as opinion leaders on the subject can have longterm benefits for the children, their families and hopefully their local communities as well” While childhood obesity has been steadily improving over the past few years, West Virginia has one of the slowest improvement rates.

In a recent study, the state obesity rate exceeded 35 percent of the population. Recognizing that statistic, Once A Mountaineer, Always A Mountaineer has decided to make a difference in the lives of local kids and promote physical activity and wellness.

This opportunity will not

only benefit the cause, but strengthen the bond between WVU and the surrounding community.

“The most rewarding thing about this event is how much this means for the kids to be able to meet the football players and the Mountaineer,” Green said. “It really feels like we have made an impact in their lives in a positive way.

This campaign was started because of how much they enjoy it, and we hope more than anything else that they have a good time.”

To learn more about the campaign, visit http:// umountaineers.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Chicago brings Dick Wolf back to fore at NBC PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — With all the changes in television over the past few decades, Dick Wolf has remained resilient and is now resurgent.

A few years ago, the producer behind the “Law & Order” empire at NBC saw his three prime-time shows cut back to one, and was stung when the original series was canceled just shy of setting a record for the longest-running scripted prime-time show. He settled for a tie.

Now, Wolf makes the “Chicago” trilogy of dramas for NBC and is talking about a fourth. “Chicago Fire” started four years ago and averages 10 million viewers a week. “Chicago P.D.” is in its third season and was joined in November by “Chicago Med.” ‘’Law & Order: SVU” is still breathing, too.

“In this day and age, we’re just trying to build something bigger than one show in the middle of hundreds of other shows, and I think now we have sort of a ‘Chicago’ zeitgeist,” said Bob Greenblatt, NBC En-

tertainment president. “I think it’s innovative and fresh, and we’re just seeing more build as the weeks go on with these shows.”

Besides, he quipped, “we’re getting good kickbacks from (Chicago Mayor) Rahm Emanuel.”

“Chicago Med” was the only new fall program to get higher ratings for subsequent episodes than it did for its premiere, Greenblatt said.

The ripped-from-theheadlines dramas are more dependable than sexy, and they provide plenty of cross-pollination opportunities for NBC. “Med” and “Fire” run back-to-back on NBC’s Tuesday schedule, with “P.D.” airing on Wednesdays.

“We don’t build Ferraris, we build Mercedes S-Class sedans,” Wolf said.

“What we do is Thanksgiving dinner every week: it’s turkey, it’s mashed potatoes, green beans with really good gravy.”

February will have a crossover story that involves all of the series,

with characters from each show appearing within the others.

Those special promotions are a delicate balance for producers and NBC executives. Obviously, the crossover drives attention and compels viewers to watch the different series. But, noted NBC entertainment executive Jennifer Salke, there are risks in overdoing it. Not all “Chicago Fire” viewers, for example, watch the others not even a majority. One reason procedurals are attractive is because each episode tells a complete story, and that’s not a formula to be messed with too much.

Small integrations, like when an officer from “Chicago P.D.” appears in “Fire” just to illustrate the programs are operating in the same fictional world, are something to be watched for as well, Wolf said.

Given the success of the three series, it would be silly for Wolf and NBC not to be “sort of mutually kicking the tires” on a potential fourth series, the

producer said. Can you say “Chicago Law”?

“Would I like to do it?”

Wolf said. “Of course. I mean, you talk about your dreams being fulfilled.

This is literally a dream come true. To have these three shows operating this synergistically is beyond my expectations. My instinct is always to double down, but there are many masters to serve and a lot of people have to agree, as always.”

Not all of Wolf ’s dreams come true. He said he’s been trying to sell a series called “School” that would start on the first day of kindergarten and follow the same group of children through the end of high school. Over 25 years, something like nine networks have turned him down, he said.

Still, he’s not in a position to complain.

He’s even in a position to gloat, or say “I told you so” to the network that almost put him out to pasture, but he resists.

“You have to tiptoe past the graveyard,” he said.

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Calls for diversity at Oscars NEW YORK (AP) — Growing calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over the lack of diversity among this year’s Oscar nominees are forcing stars to choose sides and threatening to throw the movie industry’s biggest night of the year into turmoil.

The backlash over the second straight year of allwhite acting nominees is also putting heavy pressure on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to diversify its overwhelmingly white male membership.

The furor grew on Tuesday when the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would lead a campaign encouraging people not to watch the Feb. 28 telecast. On Monday, Spike Lee, this year’s Oscar honoree for lifetime achievement, and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they will boycott the ceremony in protest.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who has led efforts to diversify the academy, responded late Monday evening with a forceful statement saying that those previous measures weren’t enough.

Isaacs, the academy’s first African American president, said that “it’s time for big changes” and that she will review membership recruiting to bring about “much-need diversity” in the academy’s ranks.

At a Los Angeles gala honoring Boone Isaacs on Monday night, actor David Oyelowo - who was famously snubbed last year for his performance as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma” - expressed frustration with the academy.

“This institution doesn’t reflect its president and it doesn’t reflect this room,” Oyelowo said. “I am an academy member and it doesn’t reflect me and it doesn’t reflect this nation.”

Reverend Al Sharpton has called for a boycott of the Oscars over lack of racial diversity.

Other stars began weighing in. George Clooney, in comments to Variety, said that after earlier progress by the industry, “you feel like we’re moving in the wrong direction.” He noted that movies like “Creed,” ‘’Straight Outta Compton,” ‘’Beasts of No Nation” and “Concussion” may have deserved more attention from the academy.

“But honestly, there should be more opportunity than that,” Clooney said. “There should be 20 or 30 or 40 films of the quality that people would consider for the Oscars. By the way, we’re talking about African Americans. For Hispanics, it’s even worse. We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.”

A 2012 Los Angeles Times study found that the academy was 94 percent white and 77 percent male.

UCLA’s latest annual Hollywood Diversity Report concluded that women and

minorities are substantially underrepresented in front of and behind the camera, even while audiences show a strong desire for films with diverse casts. Hispanics and African Americans go to the movies more often than whites do.

UCLA surveyed film and TV executives and found that 96 percent are white.

In his comments Monday, Lee said the Oscars’ problems ultimately reside with “the gate keepers” who have the power to greenlight projects.

Isaacs enlisted Chris Rock, who famously called Hollywood “a white industry” a year ago, as host of this year’s ceremony. The backlash all but ensures Rock’s opening monologue will, for many, be the most anticipated event of the show.

Last year’s broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, was also boycotted by some viewers because of

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the all-white slate of acting nominees. Ratings dipped to a six-year low for ABC. Some on Tuesday put pressure on Rock to join the boycott. The rapper 50 Cent urged on Instagram: “Chris, please do not do the Oscars awards. You mean a lot man, don’t do it.” A representative for Rock didn’t immediately respond to an email.

Just how much more Boone Isaacs can do to promote diversity at the academy, where membership is for life, remains to be seen.

In November, she launched a five-year initiative to encourage more diversity in Hollywood, called A2020.

But Boone Isaacs noted there is some precedent for more drastic steps. In the late ‘60s, for example, academy president Gregory Peck tried to inject more youth by stripping many older members no longer working in the industry of the right to vote.

Ariz. city celebrates Glenn Frey FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Winslow, Arizona, was all but forgotten when Interstate 40 displaced Route 66 and began whisking travelers around its downtown in the late 1970s.

But it still had one thing going for it: Everybody wanted to stand on a corner in the small city after hearing Glenn Frey and the Eagles make it sound so cool in “Take It Easy.”

Locals capitalized on the lyrics with an annual festival and park featuring a statue and mural commemorating the 1972 song.

Frey died Monday at 67.

Winslow residents were planning a memorial service Tuesday night that will feature Eagles songs and likely dancing in the street.

“All are on the same page of being grateful for the music,” said Tom McCauley, part of a foundation that organizes the annual Standin’ on the Corner Festival. “The Eagles is one of the greatest rock and roll bands, and Glenn Frey is certainly one of the most iconic performers ever.”

Fans have been leaving flowers and notes at the park to celebrate the life of Frey, who co-wrote and sang “Take It Easy.”

The nearby bronze statue of a man with boots, jeans and a guitar has stood downtown since the late 1990s.

In front of it is a Route 66 shield painted on the road and behind him is a mural with a woman looking in his direction - a visual reference to the lines in the song: “Well, I’m standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, such a fine sight to see. It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin’ down to take a look at me.”

Tyler Blom of Duluth, Minnesota, was on his way to Las Vegas with a friend

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Winslow, Arizona celebrates Glenn Frey who helped make the town popular in the Eagles song ‘Take it Easy.’ when they decided to detour to Winslow to pay their respects.

“If you don’t know that song, you gotta get your pulse checked,” said Blom, 27. “If you don’t like that song, it’s an ‘I don’t know if I can be friends with you,’ kind of thing.”

Locals say the Eagles were hugely supportive of their efforts to capitalize on the lyrics.

The Old Trails Museum in Winslow has a letter from Eagles band member Don Henley that came with a $1,000 donation for Standin’ on the Corner Park, volunteer Pat Raygor said.

Shops display Eagles tour posters and sell T-shirts, magnets and mugs depicting the song and its lyrics.

“We’re so appreciative here in Winslow, not just for Glenn Frey but for the Eagles,” said Bob Hall, chief executive of the Winslow Chamber of Commerce.

“Everybody knows that song, and it’s helped us get Winslow back on the map.”

McCauley said this year’s festival will be dedicated to Frey, and the foundation eventually will put up a plaque to honor him near the statue affectionately dubbed “Easy.”

Review: Under Armour’s fitness gadgets need to shape up BAY LAKE, Fla. (AP) — You may know Under Armour mostly for its heavily marketed line of athletic sportswear. But the company has bigger ambitions: It’s jumping into the crowded market for wearable gadgets that aim to help both athletes and couch potatoes track their fitness.

Its $400 package, called the UA HealthBox, comes out this Friday. Made in partnership with gadget maker HTC, the HealthBox has a wrist tracker, a heart-rate chest strap and a wireless bathroom scale.

Other components - including shoes embedded with tracking sensors - are on the way.

That’s a lot of goodies, even for an avid runner like me, who’s accustomed to wearing multiple watches to track workouts. But does it make sense to get all these gadgets from one company?

Under Armour isn’t first with any of these, and rival products do many things as well or better.

To find out, I tested Under Armour’s products and apps over more than 300 miles of running, including seven races over the past two weeks at Florida’s Disney World and California’s Disneyland.

--FOR EXERCISE On its face, the UA Band is just another wristworn fitness tracker for measuring steps, sleep and heart rate.

And there’s an asterisk, too: The device disables heartrate tracking during runs and spin class. Under Armour wants you to use its UA Heart Rate chest strap instead, as wrist sensors aren’t as reliable.

Although the chest strap is a pain to wear, there’s an advantage to having those devices working together.

A small light on the Band changes color as your pulse increases with workout intensity.

I aimed for the highest intensity - red - during shorter races, but for full and half marathons, red meant I wasn’t conserving enough energy for the final miles. The colored lights help make up for the fact that the Band’s display is hard to read during runs.

Although the Band doesn’t have GPS, it does an adequate job at measuring distance during workouts. It does borrow your phone’s GPS to track route information.

--FOR SLEEP The Band’s battery lasts a few days under normal use, which is comparable to Fitbits, but longer than smartwatches and Microsoft’s Band 2 fitness tracker. You can recharge halfway in just 15 minutes, which is important if you’re wearing the gadget all night.

As is typical with fitness trackers, the Band automatically detects how long and how well you sleep. It goes further in singling out your last pulse reading before you wake up. That’s your resting heart rate; a high rate could suggest overtraining - or simply that you’re out of shape.

--FOR WEIGHT CONTROL The UA Scale syncs weight and body-fat percentage with the company’s UA Record app, so you can track your weight. Because it’s a pain to log every single meal, Record lets you simply rate the day’s meals as light, medium or heavy - though it doesn’t distinguish between calories from vegetables or junk food.

Though charts help you monitor trends, there’s none that clearly connects calorie intake and exercise to weight. Under Armour says it’s working on that, but there’s no firm date.

--THE ADD-ONS The three HealthBox devices are sold separately, but because they are designed to work together, Under Armour is pushing the $400 package. It’s a reasonable price, even though it might present a hurdle to digital-fitness newcomers.

The company has also partnered with audio maker Harman to make $250 wireless earphones with heartrate tracking through the ear. It’s not coming until this spring, and Under Armour is still testing whether measurements are good enough to offer similar color tracking on the Band. I would

Under Armour’s HealthBox is the athletic company’s attempt to break into the wearable-tech market. prefer that over a chest strap. (For now, Under Armour has earphones without the heart rate for $70 less.)

Also coming down the pike are shoes with built-in sensors for tracking runs.

Ideally, these might let you ditch your phone and other GPS devices - at least so long as you hit a pace of 10 minutes per mile or faster.

That’s a high threshold for many recreational runners.

As a slowpoke, I got credit for only 14.3 of the 26.2 miles in a marathon.

And it broke the marathon into two, possibly because I stopped midway to ride a roller coaster. (Hey, it’s Disney!) That’s one flaw with automated tracking.

Normally, you can just hit pause and resume.

If you have the phone with you, the shoes work with the company’s MapMyRun app to give steadier pace readings, as those based on GPS can be erratic. Under Armour is still working to get that data displayed on the Band.

--THE APPS The dashboard of the UA Record app is divided into four quadrants for sleep, calories, workouts and daily steps. A circle in the middle is for your weight - normally hidden so you can take screenshots to boast to your friends. While other fitness apps tend to make you fish around for information, the Record’s quad-

rant design gives you a nice summary, and you can tap on any to dig deeper.

Even if you don’t own any Under Armour gadgets, the free app will pull in data from Fitbit, Garmin, Jawbone and other accounts.

You still need your device’s app to sync data, though.

And this could lead to double and triple counting your exercise totals.

The app is also supposed to tap IBM’s Watson artificial-intelligence system to analyze your wellness patterns and make recommendations. Here, the “insights” I’ve gotten so far seem more like broad observations applicable to men in my age group than anything personalized. The company says personalization will come later.

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For Under Armour to compete with more established gadget companies, including Fitbit, Garmin and Apple, its devices and apps need to do much more together than products that work individually. In my weeks of testing, I see the beginnings of how all this syncing can help.

But it’s just that for now - a beginning.

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READY FOR HAVOC

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Brandon Watkins flashes the horns down after last year’s win over Texas.

No. 6 West Virginia looks to bounce back tonight against Smart, Texas

BY DAVID STATMAN SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

For the first time this season, the West Virginia men’s basketball team has been handed a difficult task: Trying to bounce back from a loss in the crowded Big 12 Conference.

Holding their highest national ranking since the 2009-10 season, the No. 6 Mountaineers (15-2, 4-1 Big 12) face off against the Texas Longhorns (11-6, 3-2 Big 12) at 7 p.m. tonight at the WVU Coliseum, in a bid to regain momentum after a tough loss Saturday to thenNo. 2 Oklahoma.

A squad with a new head coach and some veteran talent, Texas peaked with an upset win over then-No. 3 North Carolina in December, but an injury to star center Cameron Ridley started

a brief funk that bumped them down the standings.

“They’re very talented,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “It’s a change of philosophy and the way they play. It’s going to take a little bit of time. The injuries have hurt them, but they’re playing pretty well right now.”

The way forward is clear for West Virginia. Monday’s new AP Poll placed the Mountaineers as one of three Big 12 teams in the top six – behind only No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 3 Kansas.

West Virginia already holds a home win over Kansas that knocked the Jayhawks out of the top spot, and Oklahoma is set to drop after losing at Iowa State Monday night.

With a successful week, West Virginia could smash its way into the top five for the first time in more than

five years.

To do that, the Mountaineers will have to fight their way past Texas, a talented squad in a state of transition.

Longtime head coach Rick Barnes was fired last season after a first-round exit in the NCAA Tournament, to be replaced by one of the most heralded coaches on the market: Shaka Smart, formerly of Virginia Commonwealth.

Before Bob Huggins deployed “Press Virginia” in Morgantown, Smart employed his frenetic, fullcourt press-heavy Havoc defense in Richmond, Virginia, turning the VCU Rams into consistent contenders – in his six years at the helm, Smart never won fewer than 26 games, and shocked the world by taking the Rams to the 2011 Final Four.

But while the Havoc style

– less of a defensive system than it was an all-encompassing basketball philosophy – helped make Smart into a household name, he has held back from truly implementing it at Texas. The Longhorns rank middle-ofthe-pack among Division I teams in turnovers forced this season.

Smart has only fully deployed the press at certain stretches this season.

While he hasn’t had the opportunity to build a roster around his philosophy in Austin, Smart doesn’t yet believe that his team has the mindset to play such an energetic style, unlike the Mountaineers. “(Huggins has) a group of guys that are aggressive and tough,” Smart said. “They’re relentless. I’d love to adopt some of that mindset.”

Instead, Texas has employed a slower style of

ball in Smart’s first season in Austin, focused around center Cameron Ridley, a 6-foot-9, 285-pound Rock of Gibraltar averaging a double-double in his senior season.

Things were going relatively well until Ridley broke his foot in late December.

Texas has gone 3-3 since Ridley’s injury, but pulled out back-to-back wins over Iowa State and Oklahoma State heading into tonight’s game, relying on junior guard Isaiah Taylor (17.2 points, 4.8 assists per game) and a heavily increased reliance on the 3-pointer.

“I like everything about (Taylor),” Huggins said. “He understands when people are coming open and he’s the best guy in our league at pushing the ball. He’s got the best mid-range game in our league, he’s good defensively. He hasn’t shot a

bunch of threes, but he’s capable.”

Last season, the monster frontcourt of Ridley, Jonathan Holmes and NBA lottery pick Myles Turner smothered West Virginia in Austin, 77-50, before the Mountaineers got revenge with a 71-64 win in the return leg in Morgantown.

Since joining the Big 12, West Virginia is 3-4 against Texas.

West Virginia’s use of the full-court press has turned the matchup on its head, and if Smart can make Havoc work in Austin, the West Virginia-Texas basketball series could become one of the most frenetic in the country.

For now, the Mountaineers will just take a win to help continue their march toward the top of the Big 12. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

wOMEN’S bASKETBALL

WVU’s Bria Holmes named candidate for Senior CLASS Award

BY ROGER TURNER SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Standout senior guard Bria Holmes has the chance to close out her Mountaineer career with a bang after being selected as one of 30 candidates for this year’s Senior CLASS Award.

Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, Holmes landed in Morgantown with high expectations after already making headlines to credit her illustrious high school career.

Since her freshman season, Holmes has lived up to the hype, earning Big 12 AllFreshman team honors and being named a unanimous All-Big 12 First Team selection two years in a row. Her senior season has not disappointed, as she’s played a pivotal leadership role on this year’s team.

Earlier in the season, Holmes was named to the John R. Wooden Award Top 30 list and passed Liz Repella on the WVU all-time scoring ledger. Repella also happens to be the only other WVU nominee to the Senior CLASS Award, having earned a spot on the Senior CLASS All-America second team in 2011. Holmes currently sits fourth on West Virginia’s all-time scoring ledger with 1,734 career points.

CLASS is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School and is awarded specifically to senior studentathletes who have commit-

Bria Holmes drives to the hoop against Delaware State. ted to four years of collegiate the Senior CLASS Award,” athletics.

Holmes said in a press reThe Senior CLASS Award lease. “I would not have is presented annually to a been able to achieve the student-athlete who shows success I’ve had today withnotable achievements in out the support system at four areas of excellence: WVU.” In addition to her accoCommunity, character, classroom and competi- lades on the court, Holmes tion. The award focuses on is also a three-time Big 12 the total student-athlete Commissioner’s Honor and encourages students Roll and Garrett Ford Acto use their platform in ath- ademic Honor Roll recipiletics to make a positive ent. Holmes is currently maimpact as leaders in their joring in criminology and communities. maintains above a 2.5 GPA. “It is an honor to be rec- She was recognized this seaognized as a candidate for son for her off-the-court ef-

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forts, being named the WVU Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of Nov. 30.

Outside of the Coliseum, Holmes has also been actively involved in numerous community service programs as a Mountaineer.

Holmes has visited the WVU Children’s Hospital on several occasions and helped with the Shopping for Angels program in an effort to aid kids with essential clothing items.

Additionally, Holmes and her teammates have actively reached out to coach Step-

ping Stones participants, an organization for disabled individuals. Throughout her four years at WVU, Holmes has regularly participated in helping raise breast cancer awareness, even participating in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at WVU. Among the candidates, 20 returned to the hardwood for their senior season after earning All-America honors a year ago. Each nominee also voluntarily works with charitable organizations and causes while sus-

taining a positive reputation of character on campus and in the community.

The current 30 candidates will be narrowed down to a list of 10 finalists in February. Coaches and fans will choose the male and female candidates who best represent excellence in the form of the award’s four Cs. Winners of the 2016 Senior CLASS Award will be announced during the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Four in March. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Game 18 January 20, 2016 7:00PM VS

#3 ISAIAH TAYLOR Senior, PG 6-3 185lbs

From Hayward, CA...Said to be one of the fastest point guards in the NCAA...Lacks a go-to jump shot; prefers to shoot flip shots...said to lack the defensive ability to play in the NBA...scouts suggest he should look to become a more vocal leader...leads the Longhorns in scoring at 17.1 ppg and is averaging 30.4 minutes per game...former Texas coach Rick Barnes said Taylor’s haircut makes him look like a rooster...as a freshman ESPN rated him as the 13th best player from Texas after he moved there during his junior year of high school.

@Zay_Ctmd11

BOO HIM EVERY TIME HE TOUCHES THE BALL

#44 IBEH, PRINCE

#21 LAMMERT, CONNOR

#3 FELIX, JAVAN

#5 YANCY, KENDAL

Sr. C 6-11 265 Full name is Prince Chinenye Ibeh...means “god’s gift” in Nigerian ...born in London, England...moved to Amarillo, TX when he was five years old...majoring in Applied Learning and Deveopment...once started a game of freeze tag in practice...Averaging 2 points and 13.9 minutes per game. Starting in place of Cameron Ridley.

Sr. F 6-10 235 Middle name is Austin...wears 21 because he’s a big fan of Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett...wannabe rapper...spends free time in the studio...talked trash about Holton after last year’s game...Spurs fan...dates a Texas cheerleader named Morgan Willett...Majoring in Corporate Communications.

Sr. G 5-11 205 Middle name is Rodd...favorite film is Chucky...from New Orleans...moved to Atlanta in 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina...majoring in Physical Culture and Sports...Saints fan...has arguably the ugliest beard in the Big XII...averaging 10.8 points per game and 25.9 minutes per game.

Jr. G 6-3 210

*Not on twitter*

@ANDtwenty1

@JavanFelix

@KYancy5

Nickname is “house”...from Dallas, Texas...brother Terrel played at Oklahoma State from 20062009...was no. 85 in the ESPN100 out of high school...majoring in Applied Learning and Development...won team’s ‘Most Improved Player’ last season...kind of looks like a meerkat...averages 8.5 minutes per game.

HEAD COACH:

BENCHWARMERS

Cameron Ridley #55 C: out indefinitely with a broken foot...was the starting center before his injury.

Kerwin Roach, Jr #12 G: from Houston...was #34 overall prospect according to Rivals last year.

Shaquille Cleare #32 F: from Nassau, Bahamas...transferred to Texas from Maryland (we don’t blame him).

Eric Davis Jr #10 G: from Michigan...highly touted recruit with offers from Michigan St. and UCLA.

SHAKA SMART Former coach of the VCU rams...wife’s name is Mya Smart...said he moved to Austin because it was a great place to raise his children...made many deep tournament runs at VCU running a press styled attack

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Despite loss, WVU at top of Big 12 power rankings CHRIS JACKSON ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @CJACKSONWVU

1. West Virginia (15-2, 4-1) They aren’t first in the official Big 12 standings, but that’s bound to change soon. The Mountaineers suffered a 70-68 loss at Oklahoma in the game’s final seconds Saturday, due in large part to a 59 percent mark at the free-throw line and Devin Williams playing all of 15 minutes. Coach Bob Huggins’ squad just defeated No. 1 Kansas by 11 points last Tuesday, led by Jaysean Paige’s 26 points off the bench.

2. Kansas (15-2, 4-1) Sure, the Jayhawks have beaten the conference’s top dog. But since they outlasted Oklahoma in a three-overtime thriller, they suffered a 74-63 loss at the hands of the Mountaineers in Morgantown for the third straight year.

The bench mustered all of 10 points in the loss but put up 29 points in a sevenpoint victory over lastplace TCU on Saturday.

3. Oklahoma (15-2, 4-2) The Sooners’ No. 1 ranking didn’t even last a day.

They suffered an 82-77 defeat at Iowa State on Monday, getting outrebounded 43-32. However, they beat now-No. 6 West Virginia on Saturday in the game’s final moments on a Khadeem Lattin tip-in.

What keeps this team at

No. 3 is the dramatic threepoint loss in triple overtime when they traveled to Kansas on Jan. 5.

4. Baylor (14-3, 4-1) Lester Medford’s buzzerbeating three lifted Baylor to a share of first place, squeaking past last place Texas Tech in 63-60 fashion. In its four conference victories, Baylor has defeated opponents by an average margin of 13.25 points. Baylor holds a 9489 victory over then-No. 13 Iowa State, rallying back from an 11-point deficit earlier this month.

5. Iowa State (14-4, 3-3) It’s called “Hilton Magic” for a reason. Point guard Monte Morris continued to hit big shot after big shot down the stretch as the Cyclones stunned No. 1 Oklahoma in Ames, 82-77. Georges Niang added 22 points while Abdel Nader finished with 20 points in the win. However, Iowa State still holds losses to Texas and Baylor, along with a defeat at Oklahoma to start the Big 12 schedule.

6. Texas (11-6, 3-2) Shaka Smart’s team is beginning to put its name on the map. The Longhorns have reeled off two straight victories, including a 94-91 thriller over No. 17 Iowa State. But Texas’ two losses to TCU and Texas Tech earlier in conference play have hurt this team’s chances of being a legitimate contender. Isaiah Taylor scored 28 points in the win against Iowa State.

7. Kansas State (11-6, 1-4) The Wildcats are within

a few points of a .500 record in the conference.

They’ve suffered a double-overtime loss to WVU and a three-point loss to Texas. An 83-70 win over Texas Tech keeps them just ahead of the Red Raiders for now.

8. Texas Tech (12-5, 2-4) If it wasn’t for a buzzerbeating loss to Baylor, the Red Raiders would find themselves at 3-3 in the conference. A combined 30 points from Justin Gray and Aaron Ross off the bench carried them to a 76-69 victory over TCU on Monday, ending their recent four-game skid. They also have a win over Texas but suffered a 13-point defeat to Kansas State earlier this month.

9. Oklahoma State (98, 1-4) Oklahoma State’s only victory has come at the hands of an injury-riddled and struggling TCU squad. However, the Cowboys nearly reeled off a 7472 upset of rival Oklahoma behind 42 points from freshman Jawun Evans.

10. TCU (9-9, 1-5) It’s been nothing but trouble for TCU since the beginning of January, losing five of six to begin the conference slate. This bad run includes a three-game losing streak and a loss to Texas Tech. However, two of its recent losses have come to ranked opponents (Kansas and Baylor). TCU’s only Big 12 win was a 58-57 upset against Texas. cgjackson@mix.wvu.edu

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

10 | SPORTS

Wednesday January 20, 2016

WRESTLING

Hard road ahead for Mountaineers after early losses

BY JOEL NORMAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

After a rough weekend, the West Virginia University wrestling team’s schedule does not get any easier.

In West Virginia’s first Big 12 matches of the season, the Mountaineers lost to the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners. The two home losses dropped the Mountaineers’ record to 5-4.

Following the loss to Oklahoma State, head coach Sammie Henson saidbthe Mountaineers need “to go back to the drawing board.”

After facing Oklahoma, Henson felt West Virginia had performed better than their outing against Oklahoma State two days before but still had some work to do.

“We definitely wrestled hard. Everybody wrestled

Tony DeAngelo faces down his opponent last weekend against Oklahoma State. hard, I felt, and competed pull off some upsets but inthe whole time. It’s hard to stead will likely fall out of the make up ground in a day,” USA Today/National WresHenson said. tling Coaches Association Ranked No. 24 entering Poll. The rankings, which the weekend, the Moun- come out every Tuesday aftaineers were looking to ternoon, had the Cowboys

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and Sooners ranked No. 5 and No. 9, respectively.

Despite falling out of the rankings, West Virginia may have an opportunity to get back into them as soon as next week. The Mountain-

eers face the Arizona State Sun Devils and Stanford Cardinal on Saturday. While neither opponent is ranked, they both pose legitimate threats to the Mountaineers.

Way back on Nov. 8, West Virginia defeated Arizona State 22-14 in the first event of the season, the Mountaineer Quad. Since then, the Sun Devils have gone 5-6 but are fresh off of an upset of No. 14 Iowa State on Jan. 15.

Arizona State could prove problematic for West Virginia at multiple weights.

Blake Stauffer and Tanner Hall are both ranked No. 9

by InterMat at 184 pounds and heavyweight, respectively. Sun Devil senior Matt Kraus is ranked No. 15 by InterMat wrestling at 149 pounds. Mountaineer wrestlers in that weight class are 26-34 overall and 0-6 against ranked wrestlers weighing 149 pounds.

Meanwhile, Stanford has won five matches in a row and also boasts several ranked wrestlers. Freshman Joe McKenna is No. 2 at 141 pounds, junior Jim Wilson is ranked No. 12 at 165 pounds and Keaton Subjeck is No. 19 at 174 pounds. West Virginia does not have any wrestlers ranked at those weights.

The match of the day will come at the lightest weight class. Stanford sophomore Conor Schram, ranked No. 20 at 125 pounds, will look to upset West Virginia sophomore Zeke Moisey, ranked No. 12.

As Henson said, the Mountaineers will need to reassess themselves and prepare for the challenges ahead. Ranked or unranked, they need to have a better weekend than how they opened Big 12 play. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

RIFLE

WVU continues to dominate despite lack of attention

BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

In a year where West Virginia sports have excelled, one Mountaineer team has continued to prove they are the most dominant program at West Virginia University.

While the football team concluded the season with a Cactus Bowl win and the women’s soccer team had a historic season that came to an abrupt end in the Elite Eight, the WVU men’s basketball team is on the verge of its first top five ranking in six years.

Because of all these accolades, the West Virginia University rifle team has remained under the radar in the Mountaineer sports scene, but that doesn’t make the team’s accomplishments this season any less impressive.

The three-time reigning national champions boast the only undefeated season

in the country, sitting atop the national polls with a 9-0 record.

While “Press Virginia” leads the country in nearly every defensive category, the offensive production doesn’t come close to matching the dominant West Virginia rifle team’s scoring.

The No. 1 Mountaineers (90, 5-0 GARC) lead the country in scoring, averaging an unprecedented 4,712 points per match.

Most impressively, the team has broken the NCAA scoring record two matches in a row. The Mountaineers broke the barrier on Tuesday by shooting a 4,724 against No. 5 Alaska-Fairbanks. West Virginia then broke that record just five days later, shooting a 4,740 in a rout of No. 14 Akron. The result was a 119-point loss for the Zips, a margin that could be comparable to a 40-point win for “Press Virginia”.

The rifle team is still the only West Virginia athletics

program to win a national title, with the exception of a 1938 boxing title and 1942 and 2007 NIT men’s basketball championships. But the team hasn’t won just one title.

A title this year would be its fourth consecutive and 18th overall, not including four titles before rifle became an official NCAA sport in 1980.

The team has won titles in 17 of the 34 years rifle has been an NCAA-recognized sport, including four championships in the nine years under coach Jon Hammond.

While rifle doesn’t receive nearly as much exposure as the major West Virginia athletic programs, spectators are able to attend home matches at the WVU Rifle Range.

The team concludes its road schedule for the 201516 slate this weekend in Annapolis against No. 9 Navy.

The team will then return to Morgantown to attempt to cap off an undefeated sea-

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A WVU shooter fires a round at a meet last season. son against No. 11 NC State as the Wildcats were the na- two matches, they should tion’s top team for two weeks have no difficulty completand No. 3 Kentucky.

Kentucky will likely pres- earlier this season. Regard- ing an undefeated season. ent the team with its most dif- less, if the Mountaineers perficult matchup of the season, form similarly to their past dasports@mail.wvu,edu