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WVU names Student Media Director by corey mcdonald staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Adell Crowe, an experienced reporter and director of student media at American University, was named the new Student Media Director at WVU and will work with The Daily Athenaeum along with radio station U-92.

The new position was created by Bill Schafer, vice president of Student Life, to enhance operations at both the award-winning student newspaper and radio station.

“Really, everybody that I’ve told about this opportunity has been very enthusiastic. (WVU) has a great reputation,” Crowe said.

“Almost unanimously, people have said ‘Oh they’re

doing great things there, it’s a great journalism program and it’s really a wonderful experience there.’”

Crowe has a long resume as a mentor for student journalists. She has served as the assistant director of student media at American University in Washington D.C. since 2011. Prior to that, she was the School of Communications partnership coordinator, where she established student internship opportunities with NBC, USA TODAY and The Washington Post. She also taught at The George Washington University for nine years as an instructor for basic news writing courses.

“I’m looking forward to (Crowe’s) arrival and the implementation of her vision for student media,” said Corey Farris, dean of

Student Life in a WVUToday press release. “Her experiences on other campuses and with great newspapers such as USA TODAY, will offer our students working insight into real world journalism.”

In addition to her experiences working with students, Crowe’s foundation in journalism comes from a career as a reporter for multiple media outlets such as the Gannett News Service and The Tennessean in Nashville and then later at USA TODAY, where she worked as the standards and development editor.

It was at USA TODAY where her teaching career started, leading the in-house training program, USA TODAY University, as well as teaching classes, including a multi-

session, staff-wide grammar program, then moving on to teaching student journalists.

“It’s a hands-off, watching, encouraging and modeling approach,” Crowe said of her teaching methods. “(The students) remain editorially independent, but I have the opportunity to critique and encourage, and what we do is build trust so if you need any suggestions or help, we can start to work toward sharing some kind of conversation. But I don’t do hands-on editing; I don’t dictate coverage. I’m there to make it possible for you to do fantastic journalism.”

Crowe plans on maintaining the independence granted to student media outlets like the newspaper and the radio station as she has done in the past.

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“When I came into AU, (the student paper) was independent, but it was losing tremendous amounts of money so it had been borrowing money from the school for years,” Crowe said. “There was this great fear that because it was now paid for by the school

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West Virginia Special Olympics hosts basketball, cheerleading tournament by james pleasant correspondent @dailyathenaeum

Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM TOP: West Virginia University students don the St. Patty’s Day colors at a wild party on Spruce Street. BOTTOM LEFT: Students disperse from the Sigma Alpha Mu house after the police deemed the place overcrowded. BOTTOM RIGHT: Puthiwadh Huot, also known as DJ nOwenknows, entertains the crowd at the Mountainlair Green with great music.

it would lose its independent voice. And so we made sure that that never happened, and it remained— and always will be—editorially independent.”

Crowe remains adamant on giving students a leg up

Special Olympics West Virginia is hosting its annual basketball and cheerleading tournament in Morgantown at the West Virginia University Student Recreation Center March 19-20.

Thirty-two teams representing 27 counties in West Virginia have been training for this tournament, which includes events like team basketball, individual basketball skills and cheerleading.

“I think an event such as this gives (people with special needs) the opportunity to play a sport just like any other person can,” said John Corbet, the chief executive officer at SOWV. “It gives them a chance to demonstrate their abilities and courage and find happiness through sports.”

The team tournament will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday at the Student Rec Center and will resume from 8 a.m.-1 p.m on Sunday.

Cheerleading squads will participate in a judged competition at Morgantown High School on Saturday and will also have the opportunity to cheer for their peers during the basketball tournament.

Individual basketball skills will also be held at Morgantown High

School, where athletes who aren’t participating in the tournament can learn various basketball techniques such as dribbling, passing and shooting.

Before becoming CEO of SOWV, Corbet was a volunteer. He has worked with special needs advocacy for around 30 years and has been involved in serveral organizations.

Special needs athletes of all ages are eligible to compete in the Special Olympics.

Athletes are trained by volunteers, and are required to receive six to eight weeks of training before competing in any state level event.

The volunteers not only teach athletes the fundamentals of basketball and how to better grasp the game, but also sportsmanship, teamwork and other essential life skills.

“For many of the athletes in this state, (the tournament) gives them the opportunity to travel,” said Ann Richards, SOWV’s games director, and associate professor of special education at West Virginia University. “Given the socioeconomic status of a lot of these (competitors), it’s a chance for them to interact with other students in the state for

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WVU College of Law hosts first Strategic Cannabis Conference by kayla asbury associate city editor @kaylaasbury_

In addition to the festivities of St. Patrick’s Day, West Virginia doctors, lawyers and policy experts met March 17 to discuss something green.

West Virginia University’s College of Law held the first Strategic Cannabis Conference on Industrial and Medical Uses Thursday, inviting professionals to discuss creating the “Gold Standard” of cannabis in West Virginia.

The event centered on utilizing cannabis agriculturally and medically to combat the state’s $380 million budget deficit, as well as the opioid epidemic and unemployment rates in the state.

“We believe (this event) is very appropriate to have at the College of Law and to have at the University,” said Jesse Richardson, an

associate professor of law at WVU. The event was split into three specific discussions, with multiple speakers for each category. The event gave a legal overview of cannabis, and discussions on medical and industrial cannabis.

Richardson, while giving a brief history of cannabis laws in the country and West Virginia specifically, stated West Virginia has ideal terrain to grow hemp, and would redevelop the coalfields.

“If we could come up with a legal crop in agriculture that farmers could actually make a little money, that would be huge in West Virginia,” Richardson said.

Richardson sited one of the problems with using marijuana medically in the state is its lack of traceability.

Cody Stiffler, the vice president of government affairs for BioTrakTHC,

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offered his company as a solution to the problem of traceability.

BioTrakTHC, a startup company specializing in tracking every portion of cannabis production and sales, from seeds, to plants, to waste, brags it is “the only seed to sale solution.”

Crystal Good, a West Virginia poet and advocate, spoke about how cannabis was a plant that could bring success to the mountain state.

“Now is the time to be creative and tough when it comes to ending the prohibition on prosperity,” Good said.

The idea that the cannabis industry is evil is what prevents it from becoming popular in the state’s culture, according to Good.

“The evolution of West Virginia depends of truthful and deliberate cannabis industry education,” Good said.

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West Virginia University hosted the Strategic Cannabis Conference on Industrial and Medical Uses on Thursday. People attending the event learned about all the possible uses of cannabis and its related products that could be in West Virginia.

The event was organized Farmers Cooperative and “We’ve used it for food.

by J. Morgan Leach, a third speaker at the conference. We’ve used it for fiber. year law student at WVU “Our species has co- We’ve used it for medicine and executive director of evolved with cannabis see CANNABIS on PAGE 2 the West Virginia Hemp at our side,” Leach said.

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix.

Sanders says he has a ‘path toward victory’ against Clinton WASHINGTON (AP)—Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday he still maintains a “path toward victory” in his Democratic presidential bid against Hillary Clinton, rejecting suggestions that she has all but sewn up the party’s nomination.

“I don’t believe they have an insurmountable lead,” Sanders said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Arizona, where he was campaigning. “Secretary Clinton has done phenomenally well in the Deep South and in Florida.

That’s where she has gotten the lion’s share of votes. And I congratulate her for that.

But we’re out of the Deep South now.”

Clinton’s campaign pointed to a recent memo by campaign manager Robby Mook, who suggested she has an “insurmountable lead” in the delegate count. The campaign noted its pledged delegate lead of more than 300 is nearly twice as large as any then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama held over Clinton in the 2008 primary.

“And note Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada and Iowa are generally not considered Deep South,” said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon, referring to states won by the ex-secretary of state.

Sanders said in the interview he would not seek a re-

count of results in Tuesday’s primary in Missouri, saying it was “unlikely the results will impact at all the number of delegates the candidate gets and I would prefer to save the taxpayers of Missouri some money.”

Clinton’s win in Missouri means she won all five of Tuesday’s Democratic primary contests. She also beat Sanders in Florida, Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina.

Clinton now has a lead of more than 300 pledged delegates over Sanders from the primaries and caucuses: 1,147-830. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has a much bigger lead - 1,614

to 856.

Sanders called his loss in Ohio a “major disappointment,” adding, “I thought we had a chance to win or come close in Ohio and we didn’t.” But he said that while “we know we’ve got a hill to climb,” he was pleased his campaign was able to accumulate more delegates.

He predicted the upcoming calendar of races in several Western states, including Arizona and Washington, and April contests in Wisconsin, New York and Pennsylvania would offer him the chance to catch up.

“We think from now on out, we are having states that, everything being equal, we stand a chance

to do well in. We think we have a path toward victory,” he said, pointing to California’s June primary. “We’ve got some big states coming up and we think if we can do well, if we go into the convention with delegates, we’ve got a shot at taking the nomination.”

Sanders also rejected claims by Clinton’s allies that his message had turned overly negative in recent weeks.

“These are folks who have waged some very, very strong attacks against me almost every day,” he said, pointing to Clinton’s suggestion he didn’t support the bailout of U.S. automakers or had attacked Planned

Parenthood.

“We have never run a negative ad. But not to discuss Secretary Clinton’s record, well, that’s what a campaign is about. She can disagree with me on the issues. We will express our disagreements,” he said.

Sanders said he fully expects the party to unite after the primaries. “I think every sensible person in this country knows that it would be an incredible disaster for the United States to allow a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz to be president,” he said.

“So I am fully confident that people will come together to defeat whomever the Republicans bring up,” Sanders said.

SeaWorld to stop breeding Orcas, making them perform tricks ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—After years of pressure, SeaWorld made a surprise announcement on Thursday: It no longer breeds killer whales in captivity and will soon stop making them leap from their pools or splash audiences on command.

Surrendering finally to a profound shift in how people feel about using animals for entertainment, the SeaWorld theme parks have joined a growing list of industries dropping live animal tricks. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is retiring all of its touring elephants in May. Oncepopular animal shows in Las Vegas have virtually disappeared.

“Society’s attitude toward these very, very large, majestic animals under human care has shifted for a variety of reasons, whether it’s a film, legislation, people’s comments on the Internet,” said SeaWorld Entertainment CEO Joel Manby. “It wasn’t worth fighting that. We needed to move where society was moving.”

SeaWorld’s 29 killer whales will remain in captivity, but in “new, inspiring natural orca encounters,” according to the company.

SeaWorld’s orcas range in age from 1 to 51 years old, so some could remain on display for decades.

Attendance at SeaWorld’s parks declined after the 2013 release of “Blackfish,” a highly critical documentary. Some top musical acts dropped out of SeaWorld-sponsored concerts at the urging of animal rights activists, who kept up a visible presence demonstrating outside the parks’ gates.

Still, the decision shocked advocates who have spent decades campaigning against keeping marine mammals captive, and it represents a sharp U-turn from SeaWorld’s previous reaction to the documentary.

In August 2014, SeaWorld announced major new investments in the orca program, including new, larger tanks, first in San Diego and then at its parks in Orlando and San Antonio, Texas.

But the California Coastal Commision didn’t approve the $100 million expansion until last October, and when it did, it banned orca breeding as part of the decision. SeaWorld sued, arguing that the commission overstepped its authority, but said it would end its San

Diego orca shows by 2017.

Meanwhile, SeaWorld brought in a new leader with more experience in regional theme parks than zoos and aquariums, which have been fending off such protests for decades. Manby was hired as SeaWorld CEO last March 19 after running Dollywood and other musicallythemed parks. He said Thursday that he brought a “fresh perspective” to the killer whale quandary, and soon realized that “society is shifting here.”

Orcas have been a centerpiece of the SeaWorld parks since shows at the Shamu stadium in San Diego became the main draw in the 1970s. But criticism has steadily increased in the decades since and then became sharper after an orca named Tilikum battered and drowned trainer Dawn Brancheau after a “Dine with Shamu” show in Orlando in 2010.

Her death was highlighted in “Blackfish,” and it wasn’t the first for Tilikum.

The whale also killed an animal trainer and a trespasser in the 1990s.

“Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite said she applauds SeaWorld’s decision, “but mostly I ap-

In a March 7, 2011 file photo, Kelly Flaherty Clark, left, director of animal training at SeaWorld Orlando, and trainer Joe Sanchez work with killer whales Tilikum, right, and Trua during a training session at the theme park’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Fla. SeaWorld announced Thursday, March 17, 2016, it will immediately stop breeding killer whales, essentially phasing out the iconic orcas from its theme parks following years of controversy over keeping them in captivity. plaud the public for re“Stay tuned on that,” cas through artificial incalibrating how they feel Manby said. “A lot of peo- semination; it also feeds ethically about orcas in ple don’t understand how the whales birth concaptivity.” hard it is internally to make trol medication, Manby The new orca shows will these kinds of decisions. We said. begin next year at the San need to execute this well.

One of SeaWorld’s most Diego park, before expand- We need to make sure we prolific breeders has been ing to its San Antonio park have the organization in Tilikum. The 35-year-old and then to Orlando in the same direction. Then whale has sired 14 calves 2019, Manby said. we will apply those learn- during his 23 years in OrWhat about shows in- ings elsewhere.” lando, but he’s gravely ill volving dolphins and other SeaWorld has not only now and not expected to discontinued breeding or- live much longer. marine mammals?

“We’ve made it illegal at our own dismay,” Leach said. “Our decisions have Continued from page 1 been based on fear. If we allow ourselves to confor thousands of years…” tinue to base our deciCannabis has been the sions on fear, we will give most beneficial plant to that fear disproportionate our species, according to attention and manufacture Leach. the very circumstances we

wish to avoid.”

Ignorance and common misconceptions about cannabis are what prevent development of medical marijuana and a thriving industrial cannabis business in West Virginia, according to Dr. Clark Milton from the Wheeling Hos-

pital in Wheeling, West Virginia.

“We’re not very knowledgeable…. about the legality issue and the repression of research….” Milton said. “In 2016, we need evidence, not belief.”

West Virginia is one of the 27 states allowing for

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Continued from page 1 for their future endeavors, regardless of whether it is in the field of journalism, or down a different career path.

“I want to make sure that you’re getting the skills you need so you can walk out of here with a great job,” Crowe said. “The only reason we are doing this is so

you are learning and preparing for a fantastic career, whether or not it’s in journalism. The skills you learn as a reporter I personally think help you no matter what you go in to.”

At American University, Crowe oversaw nine different media organizations and was able to facilitate collaboration between the multiple entities. Students had the opportunity to collaborate on coverage between radio station and

the newspaper for different events, such as concerts and events and she foresees the same can be achieved at WVU. “I would love to integrate both groups so that we’re a very strong student media organization on campus. I’m big on building community,” Crowe said. “And I’m looking forward to being part of your community.” danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Richards has a brother who competed as a Special Olympian for almost 40 years, and she cites him as her main inspiration for becoming involved in special education and special needs advocacy.

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production of industrial hemp, and Leach spoke in hope that the conference would inspire those in attendance to continue to make strides toward a prosperous cannabis culture in West Virginia.

“As is our motto here at West Virginia University, the public, and SOWV encourages people to come out and support the athletes.

The tournament is sponsored by Sheetz, Dominion Resources, the WV Dept. of Education in the Arts and Papa John’s, which will be providing pizza for the event’s participants.

At the end of the tournament, there is an awards ceremony where the top three teams will

we should all go first in this industry, together…” Leach said. “We need help push our nation forward with cannabis cultivation, both industrial and medical.”

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be given gold, silver or bronze medals, and the rest of the athletes will receive ribbons for their participation.

“This is sporting at its truest form,” Corbet said.

“Some of the memories (the athletes) make this weekend will last them a lifetime.”

For more information about SOWV, visit http:// sowv.org. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

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Stepping back from a fast-paced life The fast-paced American lifestyle appears to finally be taking a toll on its citizens.

In 2015, America was ranked the 11th most obese country in the world, with more than 31 percent of its inhabitants classified as obese. Unsurprisingly, in 2013, Americans ate the most fast food of any other country in the world.

In efforts to counter this, the slow food movement has taken hold in many places across the country. Eating locally, avoiding food chains that serve processed meals and sitting down to eat as opposed to eating while on the go are the main pillars of this movement, which hearkens back to times before the introduction of fast food assembly lines and drivethrus. However, participating in all three isn’t always compatible with Americans’ busy schedules.

Going to the store and purchasing ingredients for each day’s meal is out of the question for many American families. However, cook-athome meal delivery services have attempted to capitalize on this issue by providing a solution. Companies like HelloFresh and Blue

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Despite their convenience, HelloFresh and other cook-at-home meal delivery services are unncessary.

Apron cater to modern families’ lack of time by delivering fresh ingredients straight to their doors so meal preparation can begin as quickly as possible.

This may be helpful for families on the surface, but there are several problems with direct-to-door meal delivery services that outweigh their convenience.

The boxes of food delivered multiple times a week usually contain ingredients separated in the specific amounts each meal requires. However, this could mean the unnecessary delivery of ingredients used in several upcoming recipes.

For example, if all meals for the week require the herb rosemary, three separate

sprigs will be sent (each in separate plastic wrappings) instead of all three at once.

This needlessly wastes packaging and restricts each meal’s ingredients to being used in only the recipes they were intended for.

Enormous amounts of energy and resources are wasted in delivering these meals as well. Most food

boxes contain several plastic cooling packs to keep perishable goods from spoiling, and assembling and shipping these boxes wastes human labor and gasoline. If the cooling packs happen to not be inserted correctly or are left out by accident, the entire box of food can go to waste.

Instead of meal delivery, local grocery stores should start assembling ingredients and simply preparing them for pick-up each day. If people are truly too busy to take the time to assemble all the ingredients of a healthy meal themselves, it would be easy for people getting off work to drive by the store and pick up their food instead of expecting it to be delivered to their door. As an added benefit, more locally produced food may be able to be included in the meals.

Meal delivery services like HelloFresh do not truly promote the slow food movement; instead, they simply attempt to profit from human laziness and dislike of human interaction.

Only a small amount of people nationwide use cook-at-home meal delivery services, but the trend has

already extended to other areas. For example, Amazon utilizes a monthly delivery service where common goods like shampoo and batteries can be delivered on a regular basis so people can avoid trips to the stores altogether.

Is this the image America should be sending to other countries, where we simply can’t be bothered with making time out of our schedules for a grocery run?

Instead of buying into companies catering to Americans’ busy schedules in continually more extreme or unhealthy ways, attempting to slow down life in order to make time for the most basic activities will be enormously beneficial for future generations.

Leading the most efficient lifestyle may have been the dream of past decades, but should not be today--our mental and physical health depends on it. Perhaps the arrival of these kinds of businesses is the warning sign families need to step back from the fast pace of life and simply slow themselves down. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Terrorism and state terror: Life of the Kurds in Turkey robby ralston columnist @robbyralstonda

Earlier this week, an explosion rocked the Turkish capital of Ankara. This past Sunday, a car bomb was detonated in a denselypopulated commercial area, which killed at least 37 in a suicide attack. This is the third high-fatality bombing the city has seen since October.

On Thursday, a resistance group named the Kurdish Freedom Falcons, abbreviated TAK in the local language, claimed responsibility for the attack. The TAK are a Kurdish nationalist group also behind a February Ankara bombing where 28 people lost their lives.

The Kurds are an indigenous group of between 25 and 30 million people in the Middle East who share a common language and culture. They make up minority populations in several countries, including Turkey, Iraq and Syria. After World War I, the Allies made provisions for a Kurdish state in the region that were widely supported by Kurds. However, these hopes were dashed with the creation of Turkey’s modern borders three years later.

The quest for Kurdish independence has continued until today, with the largest separatist group in modern Turkey being the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. The conflict between the PKK,

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The Kurdish Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility for the bombing in Ankara. other Kurdish groups and Turkey has a long, bloody history which cannot be easily summarized. However, to the best of current knowledge, while the TAK used to be a faction of the PKK, the two separated in the early 2000s when the TAK violated a ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK. The two have since repeatedly declared their independence from one another.

Most would accept as a basic moral principle that it is virtually never acceptable to kill civilians in pursuit of one’s political aims.

In fact, anyone who would deny this principle seems to be outside the moral realm and content with committing atrocities. With this principle in mind, we must condemn the actions of the TAK in Ankara, as they have

knowingly killed civilians.

There is no room to compromise here.

However, in discussions of these attacks, the actions of the Turkish government are too often ignored by the media. With internal repression of freedom of press and the obviously propagandized statements made by the Turkish government, the PKK and other groups, it seems almost impossible to get an accurate picture of the conflict raging in the country.

That being said, international groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have repeatedly condemned the Turkish government for severe injustices. For instance, on March 4, the Turkish government seized Zaman, the largest circulating newspa-

per in the country. When protesters gathered around the building after the announcement, tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse the crowd, who were chanting “Free press cannot be silenced,” according to the New York Times.

This incident is one of many recent attacks against the freedom of expression in Turkey. For another example, according to Human Rights Watch, three academics were arrested on Tuesday and many more were either fired or suspended for signing a petition condemning the country’s actions against the PKK because of their “disastrous impact on the Kurdish civilian population.”

The professors are currently jailed on suspicion of “making terrorist propaganda.”

What is the “disastrous

impact” cited by these academics? Amnesty International reports the government has lied about police killings during “anti-terrorism” operations, citing a case where video evidence of an officer firing a rifle at children emerged after the government had denied any wrongdoing. Civilian killings during purported security operations have been cited by both human rights organizations, as well as cases where the government has failed to report civilian deaths.

Around-the-clock curfews have also been repeatedly imposed on entire towns in Kurdish areas, with at least one lasting longer than a week. According to Amnesty, during curfews “a total ban on residents leaving their homes was

imposed, water, electricity and communications were cut and outside observers banned from entering.” I think such curfews are how most people would imagine absolute totalitarianism.

With this picture in mind, a tragic truth in the Kurdish struggle becomes apparent. According to the best evidence, both separatist groups and the Turkish government commit atrocities and use the crimes of the other to justify their actions. By the moral principle above, we must condemn the actions of both entities.

However, this does not equalize the actions of both sides. Both Kurdish separatists and the Turkish government have killed combatants and civilians, but the Turkish government has also used its power to oppress the Kurdish civilian population and repress their demand for independence.

No one wants to weigh atrocities, but to the outside observer, this seems like a case where violence is being exacerbated by a country which refuses to reward human rights, such as the right to choose one’s government, to a large group of people.

Thus, the enemies of violence must condemn the killing of innocent people on all sides. However, we must also take care not to support the oppressive regime in Turkey and ignore its own crimes. Only when we apply our principles equally can we truly advocate for peace. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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Blue: A better color for W. Va. after years of economic hardship zack parsons guest columnist @dailyathenaeum

Dating back to 1920 and continuing up to the 2012 election, West Virginia has voted Democrat 14 times and Republican 10 times in the presidential election. In other words, over the past 90 years, West Virginia was predominately a blue state prior to voting Republican in the past four elections. With the WV primary quickly approaching on Tuesday, May 10, West Virginians should consider going blue and casting their vote for the Democratic candidate Senator Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders’ campaign ideals and policies resonate with West Virginia’s long-term needs: Economic growth.

“We have to make our state attractive to potential

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Bernie Sanders may lead West Virginia in a better direction. businesses. If we don’t have enough workers to staff potential businesses, if we don’t have enough healthy and properly educated and trained workers, then we’re unattractive, then that’s going to be a major impedi-

ment to long-run economic growth,” said director John Deskins of West Virginia University’s Bureau of Business and Economics.

Sanders seeks to address the issue of wealth and income inequality in the

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United States by enacting progressive tax reform on large corporations and Wall Street. In turn, Sanders plans to put 13 million Americans to work by investing $1 trillion over the next five years toward rebuilding our crum-

bling roads, bridges, railways, airports, public transit systems, ports, dams, wastewater plants and other infrastructure needs. Sanders also plans to create one million jobs for disadvantaged young Americans by investing $5.5 billion in youth job programs. Sanders will also push to make public colleges and universities tuition free, at no additional cost to working class Americans.

Sanders seeks to reverse trade policies like the North American Fair Trade Agreement, Central America Free Trade Agreement and permanent normal trade relations with China, Vietnam and countries in the greater Central America region.

These detrimental policies have driven down wages and caused the loss of millions of jobs in the United States.

While Sanders has always been in opposition to these

trade agreements, neither Hillary Clinton nor Republican frontrunner Donald Trump have voiced support for reversing these detrimental policies. Clinton supported NAFTA in 1993, 1996 and 2003 despite the resulting loss of 850,000 U.S. jobs. What is more, Clinton supported PNTR in 2000, which led to the loss of 3.2 million jobs. “(Making West Virginia more attractive to potential businesses) is a challenge that cannot be overcome overnight, and this is connected, in some way or another, to virtually all our economic problems in West Virginia,” Deskins said on the MetroNews radio show Talkline.

Sanders is not only the ideal democratic nominee, but also the best presidential choice for West Virginia’s economic growth. daperspectives@mail.wvu.edu

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SLICE OF HEAVEN The Daily Athenaeum’s top picks for pizza in Morgantown Pizza Al’s

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The entrance to Casa D’Amici, a pizza restaurant on High Street

Pizza Al’s has the most Brooklynesque pizza in Morgantown, by a long shot. The exact opposite of deep dish and any fancy wood-fire oven cooked pizza, the slices are large and floppy.

Morgantown’s sole location is near Towers on University Ave. With a new location “coming soon” to University Town Centre, there is also one in Sabraton and one in McMurry, Pennsylvania.

Pizza Al’s is the place to check out if you and your friends or family are seeking a filling meal and not just a late night drunk pizza after hitting downtown’s clubs and bars.

Its pizzas are all decent in size, ranging from a small, 14 inches; medium, 18 inches and a large, 20 inches.

“Pizza Al’s is a social pizza,” said Lena Gaudio, selfproclaimed pizza connoisseur and WVU student. “It’s the perfect pizza to order for March Madness watch parties.

Unlike the first two stops, in Mountain State Brewery Company and Vintage Room, there are no specialty pizzas to choose from. Pizza Al’s is fully left up to the customer, however there aren’t a ton of topping options available. White pizza is the additional alternative to your traditional red sauce pizza.

Though Pizza Al’s is obviously a pizza-oriented and focused restaurant, it does offer some sandwiches, calzones and salads to complement your Brooklynstyle pie. Inside, there are a few tables and TV’s, but it’s primarily a carry-out shop that doesn’t have nocturnal hours.

My pineapple pizza was a bit greasy, but who doesn’t enjoy a greasy pizza? Grease is one of those elements that enhances taste.

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Anyone who has been a student at WVU has likely been at Casa D’Amici at least once, if not more. By no stretch of the imagination is it the finest dining establishment in Morgantown, but its convenient location makes it a popular destination any late night of the week. Even on nights when people don’t typically go out, it’s open until 1:30 a.m. But from Wednesday to Saturday, you can count on Casa to appease your late night pizza craving until 3:30 a.m.

Although it’s a staple of Morgantown, Casa probably isn’t the place you want to refer your family to when they come to visit you. It’s the last resort pizza place when you’re looking for a specialty slice of pie. But if you are on the go, it’s one of the few late night restaurants where you can get that heavenly piece of cooked dough with sauce and cheese.

Some customers find it to be satisfying, while others aren’t so fond of what Casa offers.

“Casa is good if every other place is closed and both of your legs are broken and you’re inside Casa so you don’t have any other option,” said Chase Marshall, an avid pizza connoisseur and WVU student.

Location has always been everything when it pertains to the success of a business. If Casa has one thing going for it, it’s undoubtedly its optimal location smack dab in the middle on High Street.

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Mountain State Brewing Company

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Mountain State Brewing Company makes wood-fired flatbreads, one of the pub’s cornerstone meals.

Located in The Wharf District of Morgantown, Mountain State Brewing Company is commonly visited for its handcrafted microbrews and a wide-range of other craft beers.

In addition to the long list of offered beer, Mountain State Brewing Company makes some flatbread pizzas.

All pizzas are wood-fire cooked in a hand built oven on soapstone hearth. The menu includes over 20 different flavorful pizzas or “flatbreads.” And if you don’t like getting one of their signature menu items, there’s the option to create your own by adding as many toppings as you’d like.

The flatbreads are made in three sizes and range in cost, depending on amounts of toppings and which specialty pizza you choose.

The wood-fire oven gives the crust a nice crispy finish and a different flavor not available at your everyday chain restaurants. Mountain State offers all types of food, from salads to appetizers to sandwiches. The wood-fire oven is even utilized for a few of its smoked sandwiches.

I went with the Sweet Kickin’ Chicken, which has a sweet chili sauce, roasted chicken, bacon, pineapple, baby spinach, onions, mozzarella cheese and fresh cracked pepper to top it off. Though spicy foods aren’t really my cup of tea, this pizza has an ideal amount of sweetness to counter the tang. Any pizza with pineapple is going to be exotic and that’s how I’d describe it.

“I think the most unique part about Mountain State is just the atmosphere we have,” said manager Hannah Jennings. “It’s really upbeat and exciting.”

Mountain State Brewing Company’s lengthy menu options and strange pizza topping combinations will keep you coming back time and time again.

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The Vintage Room

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Lotsa Mozza

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The wood-fire stove used to cook pizzas at Lotsa Motza

The Vintage Room on Chestnut Street serves a variety of delicious pizzas.

The newest pizza spot near WVU’s campus is Lotsa Mozza, which has been around since October. Lotsa Mozza has just one location, on High Street, in a refinished interior and exterior of what was formerly Daniel’s Men’s Clothing. Across from D.P. Dough and nearby Casa D’Amici, Lotsa Mozza has surely provided some competition to both pizzerias.

The made-to-order design is diverse, yet simple. Customers walk in, choose a dough, sauce, cheese and toppings without the hassle of waiting x amount of minutes for pickup or delivery. All pizzas on the menu are personalsized and usually feed one.

Out of the five pizza places visited, Lotsa Mozza is hands down most convenient for college students, who are always on the go and looking for something in a hurry.

And since it’s downtown, it’s a short walk from campus for students and staff to stop by around a usually busy lunch time, knowing the line moves rather quickly and efficiently. The prices are all fairly reasonable for a pizza.

After carefully going through the endless options, it was the classic Margherita I chose. Its version of the Margherita had more pop than Vintage Room’s because of the addition of roasted garlic.

“The most popular item on the menu is going to be the build-your-own, just because of all of the options,” said manager Adam Witkowski.

Lotsa Mozza stays open until midnight Sunday - Tuesday; 2 a.m. on Wednesday and 4 a.m. from Thursday - Saturday.

The modern design and fast food-like setup of Lotsa Mozza makes it an appealing option.

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Another restaurant better known for its selection of fine wines and cocktails, Vintage Room is below and next to Bent Willey’s on Chestnut Street.

Similar to Mountain State Brewing Company, the pizza is cooked wood fire-style, leaving a beautifully charred crust with the proper amount of crunch. Parmesan cheese is sprinkled on the charred crust to add some extra flavor to each.

I played it safe by getting the Margarita pizza, which tastes pretty similar no matter where you go. It has shredded mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, basil and fresh mozzarella covering a marinara sauce base with a balsamic dressing drizzled on top. The sauce isn’t too sweet, but the balsamic dressing somewhat makes up for the missing flavor.

Each pizza offered comes in one size and can feed up two people or make for a nice appetizer. You have to take Vintage Room with a grain of salt, given it’s basically bar pizza and doesn’t focus its energy strictly on pizza. However, since it is a late-night hangout, pizza is available after hours. On Fridays and Saturdays, Vintage Room will serve pizza until 1 a.m., making it an ideal stop in between, or after a trip to the bar.

“We get more people to come in for a sit down dinner throughout the evening,” said manager Chris Strakal.

Vintage Room and Bent Willey’s share the same owner but have completely different pizza ingredients. Strakal said Vintage Room’s pizza toppings are gourmet, whereas we all know Bent is plain and sold by the slice.

The vibe of Vintage Room was calming and has a neat setup with plenty of drink options. A slice of their woodfire pizza is the perfect compliment.

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Phil Vassar coming to Mainstage G. Love and Special Sauce’s tour

By Brittany Osteen A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

The Phil Vassar concert is coming to Morgantown tomorrow.

“We (Mainstage Morgantown) have all types of music, so we have a little bit to offer to everybody,” saud Oddy Lombrana, head of promotion for Mainstage working with WVU. “Live music is awesome, it is fun, it is healing. If you are in a not-so-good place, like going through something, just go to a show and it will make you feel better.”

Vassar, a Virginia native, has hit the Top 5 seven times with songs like “Carlene,” “Last Day of My Life” and “American Child.”

“Carlene” is his most popular song to-date.

Playing with Vassar is the Wyatt Turner band. Turner is from Stony Bottom, West Virginia, and he began posting his videos on Youtube in 2007, when he was only a high school senior; by 2008 he joined a band and entered his first recording studio. Only a year after, he went to Nashville, where he now resides.

The singer-song-writer has great success with his songs other artists perform.

“My Next Thirty Years” by Tim McGraw, “She’s Right On The Money” by Alan Jackson and Jo Dee Messina’s “Bye, Bye” and “I’m Alright” were all number one songs on the charts.

Recently, Vassar worked with award-winning songwriter Tom Douglas on his latest single, “Love Is Alive.”

Douglas has written popular songs including “The House that Built Me,” “Little Rock” and “I Run To You.” “I Run to You” is the groundwork for an upcoming album.

After signing his own record deal, Vassar is excited to have freedom of running his own label. The company

By Woody Pond A&E Writer @dailyathenaeum

Country artist Phil Vassar is to perform at Mainstage Morgantown tomorrow. has promoted other artists including The Lumineers, Neal McCoy and new artists Miss Willie Brown and High Valley. Now the company is creating new television and film projects.

Vassar prides himself on making every performance just as thrilling as the others. After years of playing clubs, he now plays about 135 shows a year. Tomorrow he wil perform at Mainstage Morgantown.

“It is a really nice venue,” Lombrana said. “There are

two bars and a very nice sitting area, so if you want to chill, you can chill. Then there is a full dance floor and it is very open. There is also seating. The acoustics are nice, the energy is nice, the community that goes is awesome. We have a lot of locals that come and we have a lot of students that come. It’s kind of like a big family.

“We play a lot of rock and jam, more than EDM. Its just that most that people know about it because

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it is usually popular so the word of mouth gets around faster about it,” Lombrana said.

Tickets for the show are being given away on WKKW. Locals can listen for a chance of winning last minute tickets.

Doors open for the show at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Mainstage. Tickets are $30.

To purchase tickets, visit http://mainstagewv.tunestub.com. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

Spring break is almost here, and so is the Pittsburgh area date of G. Love & Special Sauce’s tour. The alternative hip-hop band from Philadelphia has just kicked off the spring leg of its tour, supporting its recent record “Love Saves The Day,” is Mr. Smalls Theatre in Pittsburgh. Mr. Smalls is one of the more intimate venues in the area. The rustic environment proves for a great time. With a funky band like G. Love & Special Sauce on stage, it’s bound to be a fun show.

Garrett Dutton, or G. Love, is the frontman of the band. Dutton began his career as a solo artist in the early ‘90s. Things were going well when he met drummer Jeffrey Clemens after a performance in a Boston bar. Dutton and Clemens connected, and began working as a duo before meeting standing bassist Jim Prescott.

To stay in line with Dutton’s nickname phenomenon, Clemens accepted the nickname Houseman and Prescott began to go

by Jimi Jazz. Together they earned the position of house band at The Plough and Stars in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1994 the band released its self-titled debut album, which ended up going gold thanks to MTV playing the single “Cold Beverage” in their channel’s rotation. Following the lackluster performance of their second album “Coast to Coast Motel,” the group went their separate ways to pursue solo ventures.

But the special sauce called to them once more, and the group reunited in October 1997. The band continued to make albums

over the next decade and a half, which was reinforced by the its extensive touring around the country and the world. G. Love & Special Sauce also served as the house band on the television show “Turn Ben Stein On” for the three years it was on Comedy Central.

Prescott left the band in 2009, only to return five years later to help work on the band’s seventh album.

G. Love & Special Sauce’s eighth studio album, “Love Saves The Day,” was released on Oct. 30, 2015.

The band is noted for having a very laid-back, sloppy blues sound. Mix in some alternative jazz, classic R&B and hip-hop and it begins to sound like a G. Love & Special Sauce track.

Dutton raps, sings and plays guitar during live shows, showcasing the wide array of musical talents that gives the group its foundation.

The band’s songs are fun and whacky at times, and it performs them with unrelenting energy. The unique sound comes from the effect of Prescott’s standing bass and from Dutton’s ever-changing vocal dynamics during different song sections.

G. Love & Special Sauce will be on the road until the end of April performing on tour. In June the band takes back to the stage for the Bunbury Music Festival in Cincinnati, and a month later makes an appearance in the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.

The show starts at 8:30 p.m. March 25 in Millvale, Pennsylvania at the Mr. Smalls Theatre. Doors open at 7 p.m., and presale tickets are about $27.

For more information on tickets or the concert, visit http://philadelphonic. com/tour. daa&e@mail.wvu.edu

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Now playing in Hollywood: A battle over the future of movies NEW YORK (AP) — Now playing in Hollywood: A battle over the future of the movie business, starring some of its most famous filmmakers.

The Screening Room, a startup backed by Napster co-founder Sean Parker and music executive Prem Akkaraju, has sent tremors through the movie industry since word of its ambitions were first reported Saturday.

Parker and company are seeking to upend the theatrical model and bring firstrun films, through a $150 encrypted set-box, directly into the home for $50 a pop.

The service has the support of some major filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and J.J. Abrams, but its existence depends on the cooperation of studios and exhibitors and that appears unlikely.

Yet the Screening Room has thrown Hollywood into something resembling an existential crisis, with round-the-clock debate about its prospects that has pitted some of the movies’ biggest names against each

other. Is this the meteor headed straight for the big screen, or is it - like previous efforts - nothing but a storm of hype that will sail past?

“It frightens me,” Tim League, chief executive of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the Texas-based theater chain, said of the Screening Room. “What I’m afraid of is that chasing short-term additional revenue might open up a situation where piracy really hurts the entire industry.”

And the industry, he says, is thriving. “We’re in the business of getting out of the house,” says League.

Whether the Screening Room succeeds or not, it has added to a growing sense that the traditional theatrical model will one day fall, a casualty-in-waiting of an increasingly digital and instantaneous media world.

But such prophecy doesn’t account for some economic realities: Box office in North America, alone, was a record $11 billion last year. Despite a growing horde of barbarians at the gate - Netflix among

them - the theatrical release window has held so far. The marketing splash of a theatrical release continues to drive the industry’s revenues - and not just at the box office, but through merchandising and subsequent windows of release.

Yet some see a chance to profit more from those who prefer to stay home. According to the Motion Picture Association, 11 percent of the U.S. population qualifies as regular moviegoers (going 18 times a year), and they make up half of boxoffice receipts. The Screening Room is aimed at the couches of the other 89 percent.

Jackson said the Screening Room - which is proposing to split revenues between studios, theater operators and itself - is “designed to capture an audience that does not currently go to the cinema.”

But many of the filmmakers speaking out for the service (including Ron Howard and Brian Grazer) are advisers or shareholders. Others without a financial stake,

such as James Cameron and Christopher Nolan, have denounced it as a misguided effort that will devalue the big-screen experience.

The six major studios declined to comment about the Screening Room. But numerous interviews with studio executives, who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter, described the presentation by Parker and Akkaraju (a former SFX Entertainment executive) as polished and interesting enough to warrant consideration, but said the service was doubtful to gain studio participation.

Major theater chains, which split box-office revenue with distributors, were also courted by the Screening Room, which proposes to give them a hefty cut of each $50 rental. The two largest chains, AMC Theaters and Regal Cinemas, declined to comment. Mark Zoradi, chief executive of the third largest chain, Cinemark, said “any day-anddate propositions must be

critically evaluated to avoid the devaluation of the exhibition window and all subsequent revenue streams of our content providers.”

The National Organization of Theater Owners, a trade organization, acknowledged that “more sophisticated window modeling may be needed for the growing success of a modern movie industry.”

But NATO added that such changes should be developed by distributors and exhibitors - the traditional twin powers of the movie industry - “not by a third party.”

Nevertheless, the stir caused by the Screening Room promises to be the all-consuming topic at NATO’s annual convention, Cinema-Con, in Las Vegas in April.

Some studios and even exhibitors may want to hedge their dependence on theaters, where all but the most prepackaged blockbusters often struggle to find audiences. Paramount Pictures has recently experimented with a shorter the-

atrical window (usually 90 days) for a pair of low-budget horror films: “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” and the fifth “Paranormal Activity.” Neither performed well, however, nor did the improvised dayand-date release of Sony’s “The Interview.”

But for the first time, the question of theatrical release isn’t just up to studios and exhibitors. Netflix has been aggressively buying up new movies for its streaming service, though it’s had difficulty getting them into theaters. Many simply refuse to screen day-and-date releases. To play last year’s “Beasts of No Nation” in theaters, Netflix had to “fourwall” some theaters, buying up the tickets themselves.

The latest upstart, Amazon Studios, has taken a different tact, however. It has embraced theatrical releases for its films, happy to simply add the movies to its streaming offerings after a run in cinemas.

Even disruptors like Amazon, it turns out, still like a night out at the movies.

Homemade movie ‘Krisha’ finds catharisis in tragedy, exudes empathy NEW YORK (AP) — Aspiring filmmakers take note: Nine days of shooting at his mother’s Montgomery, Texas, home, a minuscule budget of $100,000 and a cast led by his aunt were enough for writer-director Trey Edward Shults to make one of the more devastatingly empathetic portraits of addiction you’re likely to see.

Shults’ bravura debut film, “Krisha,” has been an unlikely sensation on the festival circuit, where it won the grand prize at last year’s South By Southwest Film Festival. In February, it won the John Cassavetes prize at the Independent Film Spirit Awards, an honor for best film made with less than $500,000.

Yet what makes “Krisha,” which opens Friday, powerful isn’t its humble, homespun production, but rather its intensely intimate drama, inspired by the wrenching family history that played out within the same walls as its setting, and was lived

through by many of the very people seen on screen.

Krisha Fairchild, Shults’ aunt, stars as the title character: a wayward, former alcoholic who comes to the suburban home of her sister (played by Shults’ mother, Robyn Fairchild) for Thanksgiving. The scene is festive and teaming, but for Krisha the atmosphere is one of dread.

The film, discordantly scored and dizzyingly shot, captures the small slights and deep wounds of the troubled Krisha as she tries to re-enter family life and keep her demons at bay. We see the judgmental glances that greet her and follow her retreats to the upstairs bathroom.

“I’m not the Krisha of the family but I want to try to understand her and have empathy for her,” Shults said in a recent interview.

Shults was drawing from a real past. After years of sobriety, a cousin of his died of an overdose in 2011, shortly after relapsing during a holiday

family reunion. Krisha and Robyn Fairchild played significant roles in trying to help their niece and her children.

“I was just terrified of being around someone in that situation,” says Shults, remembering the holiday meltdown. “It felt like a slowmotion train wreck. I didn’t want to do anything except sit there nervously. Two months later, she overdosed and passed away. I think I started processing that with the script.”

Shults and other family members, distraught, would often replay in their minds the struggles that preceded the death.

“So when he presented us with this script that was so emphatic to the person that we loved, we all came to feel that this might be the way to help other people,” says Fairchild, who acted in her youth. “It was an immediate rush of: ‘Yes, Trey. Yes. You got it.’”

The character of Krisha is a composite. Shults’ father was

also an alcoholic who fell off the wagon, leading Shults to keep him out of his life for years before visiting him on his deathbed.

Behind the turmoil and tragedy of “Krisha” is the hard question: How is it best to love a perpetually out-ofcontrol family member?

“I think about it all the time,” says Shults. “The two big people in our family who inspired this character are passed away now. I think about if I did the right stuff with my dad in cutting him off.”

Making the film, which also stars Shults and his 92-year-old grandmother, was excruciating but cathartic.

“We did the good juju because the bad juju had been in every room of our houses for so long,” says Fairchild, whose blistering, bare performance commands the film. “We were all holding each other a lot during this.”

There were many “foot rubs and temple rubs,” Fair-

‘Krisha’ finds catharisis in tragedy. child adds. “A lot of the most difficult scenes we did after everybody else had been sent home for the day.”

Shults’ next film pulls from his fraught relationship with his father; Shults wrote the script a month after he passed. The indie distributor A24, which is releasing “Krisha,” is signed on for that film, too.

Shults promises it will be a slightly “more legit” production, though he’s happy

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if “Krisha” inspires introspection in not just families but would-be filmmakers.

“Our limitations helped make this special,” says Shults. “Everyone has a unique life. Everyone has something unique around them. Maybe that doesn’t mean cast your aunt and mom and grandma in the lead roles in your movie, but who knows. Get creative and let the limits spur that creativity.”

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All season long, the West Virginia University men’s basketball team has talked about feeling disrespected, but the NCAA Tournament is finally here, and the Mountaineers have the chance to seize the respect they feel they deserve.

After all the buildup, the Mountaineers can’t come out of the gate and trip over the first hurdle. It’s win or go home—and No. 9 West Virginia will be faced with a tricky opening-round test against the Southland Conference champion Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks on Friday in Brooklyn.

Stephen F. Austin is the only team in the country that forces more turnovers than West Virginia does, and they do it with a full-court press reminiscent of “Press Virginia.”

While Stephen F. Austin has wreaked havoc against low-major competition with its pressure, the Mountaineers are confident the Lumberjacks have never seen anything like what they can throw at them.

“I think (we can cause them trouble with our press),” said junior forward Nathan Adrian. “I don’t think they’ve seen a press with our intensity. They press every day, but I don’t think they

can do the same things we do.”

The Lumberjacks have gone 53-1 in Southland Conference play since they hired Brad Underwood as head coach three years ago, making NCAA Tournaments all three years and even earning a March Madness win over VCU in 2014.

And it makes sense Underwood would find success with a full-court press—he happens to be an old friend of Bob Huggins, and served under the West Virginia coach as an assistant during Huggins’ lone season at Kansas State in 2006-07.

“I’ve known Brad since well before K-State,” Huggins said. “I knew Brad when he was at Dodge (City Community College) and we used to sit together at games when he was at Western Illinois.

I’ve known Brad for a long, long time. I have great respect for him and his ability to coach basketball.”

Underwood employs a mostly man-to-man press throughout the game, and switches up between man and zone in the halfcourt. His style of defense, along with a patient offense that doesn’t make mistakes of its own, has combined to give Stephen F. Austin the best turnover margin in Division I and a 20-game winning streak.

But Stephen F. Austin went 0-2 in its two shots against major conference opposi-

tion, including a 42-point loss to the Big 12’s Baylor Bears in the season opener – a team West Virginia beat twice, convincingly.

Regardless, West Virginia will need to tighten up its offense against the Lumberjack pressure, after turnovers – especially in transition – played a major part in its loss to Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament finals.

“It’s concentration and sometimes we’re being a little too unselfish,” said junior guard Tarik Phillip. “Sometimes we should go lay the ball up when we’re passing the ball. I think it’s a focus thing.”

Phillip will be one of several New York natives on the West Virginia squad getting to play on his home turf at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Phillip and junior guard Teyvon Myers are both Brooklyn natives, but Phillip isn’t concerned playing at home will have any real emotional effect.

“We’ll have to fight a little bit, but once the game tips off, adrenaline takes over and you stop worrying,” Phillip said.

The West Virginia-Stephen F. Austin matchup will tip off at 7:10 Friday and will be televised on CBS. The winner will face the winner of Notre Dame-Michigan on Sunday. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

By Alec Gearty Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The small group of seniors on the West Virginia University basketball team is taking a “do or die” approach to its first round matchup against the Princeton Tigers.

“It’s my last (tournament), I’ve got to give it my all,” said WVU senior Bria Holmes. “Nobody wants to go out with a loss.

It’s all or nothing.”

Holmes has fared pretty well against non-conference teams. Over the course of five non-conference games, Holmes has averaged 15.6 points. For a player that is positioned among some of the most prolific scorers, a run past the first round could be a stamp on what has been an impressive career.

While WVU’s seniors want to go out on top, so do the four Princeton senior starters. The Tigers have five seniors on the team: four start and the fifth is the primary bench player. The group’s experience is a factor that led to the Tigers finishing second in the Ivy League with a 23-5 overall record and 12-2 in its conference.

“We’re looking forward to opening against Princeton,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey.

“They’re a very good and experienced basketball team.”

Princeton is led by leading scorer Michelle Miller, who averages 14.1 points per game. Amidst the Ivy League shooters, Miller stands out as being the most efficient from three-point range (43.7 percent), as well as overall shooting percentage (48.1). While Miller gives the Tigers an option from anywhere, center Alex Wheatley is the secondary option.

Wheatley finished right behind Miller in the Ivy League scoring ranks, averaging 12.7 points per game. Standing at 6-foot1, Wheatley doesn’t have the height advantage against WVU’s Lanay Montgomery. Carey believes “she can run as well as any of their guards.”

West Virginia has yet to face Princeton, not just over the past few seasons, but in the team’s existence.

However, WVU played an Ivy League school earlier in the season.

WVU beat Yale in its Nov. 29 matchup, 70-60, giving the Mountaineers a look at the approach the Ivy League takes.

Princeton took both games in its season series against Yale, a 15-point win in late-January and a 13-point win in

mid-February.

If there is anything to take from this Princeton team it’s that the Tigers’ rebounding is on a whole different level in the Ivey League. The Tigers have 137 more offensive rebounds than second place and 103 more defensive rebounds.

It would have been 18 days since the Mountaineers have played a game when they step on the court at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The extended break proved beneficial for players like Chania Ray, who was dealing with an MCL sprain.

“It has been really good for me,” Ray said. “This time off has really helped me heal and get some stability back in my knee. I feel good right now.”

Even with the sprain, Ray averaged 14 minutes of playing time at the Big 12 Tournament.

If WVU were to defeat Princeton, its next opponent would be either Buffalo or Ohio State, who follow the Mountaineers’ noon game. If it happens to be Ohio State, the game would be on the Buckeyes home court and OSU would play in front of their fans. WVU isn’t looking ahead, but taking it “one game at a time.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

baseball

West Virginia prepared for Big 12 play, travels to No. 8 TCU

By Chris Jackson

Associate Sports Editor @CJacksonWVU

Following a three-of-four showing during the latest home stand, the Mountaineers (10-4) are eager to take the next step heading into conference play Friday.

They travel to No. 8 TCU, who boasts the Big 12’s top nonconference record at 13-3. TCU outscored its opponents 132-52 through the first 16 games, including four shutouts.

But the Mountaineers believe they’re ready for conference play, learning after a struggling start when they took one out of three at Texas to begin the Big 12 slate a year ago. Now, they’re off to a 10-4 start, topped off with a 6-2 victory Tuesday over Radford behind six innings of one-run ball from freshman Tanner Campbell.

“I think this helped us out today,” said WVU shortstop Jimmy Galusky. “We haven’t really been playing teams that have that bad of a record. I don’t think that’s that bad of a team showing off today so I guess that really helps us going into TCU.”

WVU’s starting rotation holds the conference’s second best ERA (2.48), eclipsing TCU’s own 2.74 ERA. Luken Baker takes the mound for TCU, entering with a 2-0 record and the Big 12’s best ERA (0.84).

Baker’s also hitting .321 alongside 17 RBI’s, the team’s second-highest total. He’s one of nine players hitting above .300, a part of a team featuring the conference’s top batting average (.317).

“Jumping into the Big 12 every year is tough,” said WVU sophomore Shaun Corso. “We went down to Baylor last year and I think we lost two games because we weren’t ready. We’ve got to go down there and we’ve got to be ready. We know what they’ve got. We know they can pitch, we know they can play ball. They’re one of the best teams in the nation. We’ve just got to be ready for that.”

Six different Horned Frogs have double-digit RBI totals, led by Elliott Barzilli’s 18. His .435 batting average sits only behind Texas Tech’s Tanner Gardner (.449) in the Big 12, adding three home runs and five doubles thus far.

WVU’s Chad Donato throws a pitch last weekend against Old Dominion.

TCU has advanced to the ion team that entered the College World Series each weekend series at 10-2, of the past two seasons, re- highlighted by redshirt ceiving the national No. 2 freshman Jimmy Galusky’s seed in last year’s NCAA walk-off single in the series Tournament. The Horned finale.

Frogs won four Big 12 titles And they feature the Big since 2010, but the Moun- 12’ No. 2 pitching staff, taineers have witnessed with two of WVU’s startplenty of completion of ers this weekend entering their own through the first with ERA’s below 2.00. Ross Vance (3-0, 1.99 ERA) and 14 games.

They took two of three B.J. Myers (2-1, 1.98 ERA) from an Old Domin- will close out the series on

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Saturday and Sunday, following up Chad Donato on Friday.

Despite Donato’s winless record (0-2), he’s recorded the team’s most strikeouts (28) and didn’t allow a walk through his first 13 innings on the mound this season.

In last year’s series finale against the Horned Frogs, he surrendered two earned runs and tossed six strikeouts in seven innings.

Add in an offense that showed flashes in a 7-4 exhibition loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Mountaineers’ confidence is high heading into another highly-anticipated matchup with one of the nation’s top teams.

It’s an offense only trailing TCU for the highest average in the Big 12, and it has come from a number of freshmen and sophomores.

Six freshmen had at-bats in Tuesday’s victory over Radford, tagging along three freshmen that also saw time on the mound.

“I think they’re relishing in the opportunity to play a team like TCU because we haven’t done it yet,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “When we went out and played the Diamondbacks, I was kind of curious of how this group was going to respond to play a major league team. We come out with three line drives in the first inning and we’re up 1-0 on the Diamondbacks.

This team has a way of responding when good pitchers are on the mound, and that’s definitely what we’re going to see this weekend.” cgjackson@mail.wvu.edu

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Friday March 18, 2016

Wrestling

WVU’s three entrants eliminated on first day of NCAA Championships

WVU’s Bubba Scheffel takes on Oklahoma State’s Nolan Boyd in January.

BY JOEL NORMAN terday. Dylan Cottrell, Jacob SPORTS WRITER A. Smith and Bubba Schef@DAILYATHENAEUM fel represented West Virginia University’s wrestling team Entering the NCAA Wres- at Madison Square Garden tling Championships, West in New York City.

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With three representa- can. After no score in the first tives, the Mountaineers were period, the two 157-poundnot favorites in the tourna- ers exchanged escape points ment. Despite this, West in the second period.

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two more times, but ran out of time and fell 5-3.

With the loss, Cottrell was out of the Championship bracket. He faced VMI’s Neal Richards in the compensatory wrestle-backs.

Cottrell picked up a major decision victory by topping Richards 9-1. On Friday, Cottrell will face Neal Richards of Rutgers.

In his opening round, Scheffel battled No. 11 Lorenzo Thomas from Penn in a 184-pound bout. Like Cot-

trell’s first match of the day, Scheffel and Thomas were scoreless after one period.

In fact, there was no scoring until the third period.

Thomas picked up the first score with 1:20 remaining in the final period with an escape. Shortly after, Thomas got a takedown to increase his lead to 3-0. Scheffel got two points from a reversal, but Thomas sealed the victory with a point for riding time.

In the evening’s wres-

tler-backs, Scheffel took on Kenny Courts of Ohio State.

Shortly after Scheffel’s first round loss, the West Virginia Wrestling Twitter account (@WVUWrestling) noted that Scheffel faced Courts back in 2014 at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. At the time, Courts was No. 6/8.

This time, Scheffel was victorious again. Courts opened the scoring with a takedown, but Scheffel quickly picked up a point with an escape.

The second period got hectic. Scheffel tied it up, 2-2, with another escape.

Shortly after, Courts got another takedown, but Scheffel responded with a takedown of his own to make it 5-4 after two periods.

In the third period, Scheffel picked up a point for riding time and picked up a 6-4 victory. Scheffel will take on North Dakota State’s Hayden Zillmer tomorrow in the next round of the wrestler-backs.

Smith was the only Mountaineer to escape the first round with a victory. Neither No. 13 Smith nor Cornell’s Owen Scott scored in the first period. Smith opened the second period in bottom position, but escaped to earn the only point of the second period.

The final 1:15 of the third

period was hectic. Scott escaped to tie it up, 1-1, at 1:15. Nearly 25 seconds later, Smith took the lead with a takedown. With 15 seconds remaining in the match, Scott escaped from bottom position to make it 3-2. Facing an opponent desperate for a point, Smith held off Scott’s advances and emerged victorious.

In the second round of the 197-pound bracket, Smith faced No. 4 Nathan Burak from Iowa. Once again, the opening period was scoreless. In the second period, Burak escaped for his first point, then took down Smith to take a 3-0 lead.

Burak started the third period on top, but Smith escaped to earn his first point of the match. Shortly after, Burak took down Smith with 1:15 remaining in the match.

Smith responded by escaping again, but Burak got another takedown to make it 7-2. Burak escaped one last time to cement his 8-2 victory.

With the loss, Smith heads to the wrestle-backs. He will face Oklahoma State’s Preston Weigel tomorrow.

The other events begin at 11 a.m. on Friday and are viewable on ESPN 3. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Gymnastics

No. 27 Mountaineers travel to Texas for Big 12 Championship

By Carter Sokolowski Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

The No. 27 West Virginia gymnastics team look to ride the momentum it gained during its impressive eight-match winning streak as it heads into the Big 12 Championship in Frisco, Texas.

The Mountaineers closed their regular season with two impressive wins in a home-and-home series against the University of Pittsburgh, earning scores of 195.925 and 195.825.

The team owns top-20 national rankings, coming in at No. 14 on the floor with a 49.235 regional qualifying score (RQS) and No. 19 on vault with a 49.05 RQS. Junior Alexa Goldberg, sophomore Zaakira Muhammad and freshman Kirah Koshinski also hold national rankings. Koshinski has the highest ranking with No. 16 on vault (9.89 RQS), closely followed

by Muhammad at No. 27 (9.875 RQS). Goldberg is the only Mountaineer to hold a ranking on the uneven bars at No. 42 (9.865 RQS).

Although the team has

been on fire as of late, it faces a daunting task in trying to take down some of the nation’s gymnastics powerhouses in No. 1 Oklahoma (197.85 RQS), No. 10 Denver (196.65 RQS) and No. 39 Iowa State (195.225 RQS).

For the second year in a row, West Virginia finds itself staring down the barrel of the nation’s top team in the Big 12 Championship. Having finished as a top-5 nationally ranked team since 2010, the Sooners have established themselves as a gymnastics dynasty in Norman, Oklahoma.

The team owns three No. 1 rankings in every event but vault, where it ranks No. 3.

Oklahoma won every single meet this year with the exception of its season opener, which was a tightly contested road battle against No. 3 Lousiana State University. The loss also marked the only time the Sooners scored below a 197.0 all year. The Mountaineers have failed to hit 197.0 yet this season.

The Oklahoma squad is led by junior Chayse Capps and senior Keeley Kmie-

ciak, who are both nationally ranked all-around at No. 2 (39.620 RQS) and No. 13 (39.450), respectively. Expect this duo to put a show on in Texas this Saturday.

The Sooners also rely heavily on the services of freshman Nicole Lehrmann, who tied West Virginia’s own Koshinski in Big 12 Newcomer of the Week awards, with five votes apiece.

The Mountaineers were able to take home 2nd place in the Big 12 Championship last season, edging out Iowa State comfortably. It will not be an easy battle for second this time as this year’s meet will feature the addition of an extra competitor in the University of Denver.

No. 10 Denver was a new addition to the Big 12 this season, and it has certainly made its mark. It opened up the season with a tight home win against West Virginia, where it put up a comparatively poor score of 195.375. After that, it never looked back, putting up scores of over 196.0 in every meet for the rest of the season.

While Oklahoma’s Capps

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Members of the WVU Gymnastics team await the award announcements during a February meet. holds the No. 2 all-around ranking in the nation, Denver’s senior Nina McGee follow close behind at No. 3 (39.570 RQS). She’s also tied for first in the national rankings on floor (9.965 RQS).

While it appears Oklahoma and Denver will be trading blows for the top spot in this year’s championship, West Virginia still holds a puncher’s chance.

They have been improv-

ing by the week, and it only takes one stellar performance to take home the crown.

One team that does not stand much of a chance at winning is Iowa State.

The Cyclones have been a model for inconsistency throughout the season, continuously fluctuating in scores ranging from 193.0 to 195.0. Their highest score of the year was a 196.025 at home against in-state ri-

val University of Iowa. The team may have a shot at beating the Mountaineers, but it’d take a miracle for it to leave as the overall victor against next-level teams like Oklahoma and Denver.

With some of the nation’s premiere talent coming together to compete, Saturday’s Big 12 Championship in Frisco, Texas should prove to be one for the ages. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

Tennis

WVU begins Big 12 play with difficult test against Oklahoma State

BY NEEL MADHAVAN SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

With nonconference play wrapped up, the West Virginia University women’s tennis team heads to Stillwater, Oklahoma this weekend for the start of Big 12 Conference play against No. 16 Oklahoma State.

“Our goals are no different than they have been all season,” said head coach Miha Lisac. “The nonconference part of the season was used to prepare for the Big 12 part of the season. Every

week we’re still working to improve and get better. Every week we’re continuing to learn about what it takes to be successful. Based on the results of the past two weeks against Maryland and Marshall, we definitely need to refocus our efforts in doubles to the things that we were doing successfully towards the beginning of the season. Big 12 play is starting, and everyone is starting off the same at 0-0. Our goal every week is the same, but at the end of the season, we want to look back and say that we’ve gotten better than

we were before.”

The Cowgirls (11-3, 0-0 Big 12) are incredibly talented and boast one of the most impressive resumes in the country. Seven of OSU’s victories have come against teams ranked in the ITA polls, including No. 33 Notre Dame, No. 26 Northwestern and two victories over a top25 Alabama team.

All three of Oklahoma State’s doubles duos are ranked in the top-50 of the ITA rankings. In singles, the Cowgirls boast three players in the top-50, including No. 30 Katarina Adamovic, No.

35 Vladica Babic and No. 65 Viktoriya Lushkova.

For the Mountaineers (65, 0-0 Big 12), senior captain Hailey Barrett sustained an injury last week in the match against Marshall, forcing her to retire.

According to Lisac, her status against the Cowgirls is a match-time decision.

Sophomore Habiba Shaker has been a dominant figure this season for the Mountaineers and looks to improve on her 10-1 season record this weekend.

How the middle of WVU’s lineup performs will play a

major role in whether the Mountaineers are able to hang with OSU. The play of sophomores Carolina Lewis and Lyn Yuen Choo, along with freshman Paula Goetz, will be crucial for West Virginia.

“In the last couple weeks we haven’t shown how good we actually are; we haven’t played to our potential,” said assistant coach Emily Harman. “Moving forward, we want to put the results of the past two matches behind us, but take lessons from those matches as well, so that we can use them to get better.”

The key in this match is the doubles point. With Oklahoma State boasting one of the best doubles lineups in the country, the Mountaineers will be hardpressed to do what Lisac has preached about doubles all season. In fact, the Cowgirls have not dropped a single doubles point this season.

Lisac and the Mountaineers know how crucial winning the doubles point is when it comes to winning the match; it’ll be a battle of talent and sheer will. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

10 | SPORTS

Friday March 18, 2016

Track

Mountaineers prepare for this weekend’s Wake Forest Open

By Joel Norman Sports Writer @DailyAthenaeum

It’s been three weeks since the West Virginia University women’s track and field team last competed.

That hiatus ends tomorrow when they travel to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to face 31 other schools in the Wake Forest Open, the first outdoor event of the season. The two-day event lasts through Saturday.

On Feb. 27, the indoor season concluded with the

Big 12 Championship. West Virginia finished in ninth place out of 10 teams, and no athletes qualified for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship.

“We had some very good moments this weekend,” said WVU head coach Sean Cleary in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Our pole vaulters were competing at their career-high heights.

We had two All-Big 12 performers in the high jump.

The triple jump saw another All-Big 12 performance. Meghan (Jean-Bap-

tiste) competed hard in the multi events and will return in a year with the experience required to contend for All-Big 12 honors.

Our distance runners did a nice job earning honors in the 1,000, mile, 3,000 meters and the 5,000 meters.”

After a disappointing indoor season, the Mountaineers turn their attention to competition outdoors. In last year’s Outdoor Big 12 Championship, West Virginia finished in ninth place out of the 10 Big 12 teams and didn’t qual-

ify for the NCAA Outdoor Championship.

Following the 2015 Big 12 Championship, Cleary stressed the importance of older runners continuing to get better as they age.

“We need our upperclassmen to keep progressing and provide more depth for the group,” Cleary said.

“I have faith that they will leave this meet with a great deal of desire and make the proper adjustments to be ready to come back stronger and ready to excel at this level.”

The Mountaineers have 27 upperclassmen on their roster, and only six are seniors. West Virginia seeks gradual improvement each season.

With 10 freshmen on the roster, the youth movement is strong. The depth of the team will improve when this season ends with so few players leaving and even more returning.

In the opening 2016 outdoor women’s track and field rankings by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches As-

sociation, West Virginia is tied for 109th place with seven points. For comparison, No. 1 Oregon has 306.71 points.

This is West Virginia’s first appearance at the Wake Forest Open since 2013 when two Mountaineers finished with top-5 performances.

The Mountaineers will compete in nine more regular season events following the Wake Forest Open before the Big 12 Championship on May 13-15. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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FIFA paid Sepp Blatter $3.76 million in 2015, loses $122 million ZURICH (AP) — FIFA finally revealed Sepp Blatter’s pay deal on Thursday, which was $3.76 million in 2015 as soccer’s embattled governing body reported a loss of $122 million for a year marred by scandal.

After years of secrecy about presidential earnings, FIFA disclosed its disgraced former leader’s pay package three weeks after his employment officially ended.

Blatter, who was suspended on full pay last October and later banned for unethical conduct, had a base salary of 2,964,379 million Swiss francs ($3 million) but received no performance bonus in 2015. The total included a payment of almost $450,000 in “variable compensation” - a long-service entitlement for reaching 40 years employment at FIFA. FIFA’s loss, its first since 2002, was expected after failing to sign any new World Cup sponsors.

Despite the corruption crisis, FIFA’s total income was $1.152 billion in 2015.

Expenses of $1.274 billion included spending $61.5 million on “legal matters.”

That helped ensure that FIFA’s reserves fund fell by $183 million to $1.34 billion.

FIFA spent $27.9 million last year paying executive committee members and senior management, including Blatter. That total was $39.7 million in the 2014 World Cup year.

FIFA’s now-fired secretary general, Jerome Valcke, got 2.125 million Swiss francs ($2.2 million) in 2015.

One hour after FIFA revealed Valcke’s pay, Swiss federal prosecutors said they opened a case against him for suspected “criminal mismanagement” during his eight years as Blatter’s righthand man.

In other pay details, each executive committee member got $300,000 last year, and senior vice president Issa Hayatou of Cameroon got an additional $500,000 for chairing the finance committee.

FIFA agreed to start publishing executive pay in modernizing reforms approved last month, as a response to American and Swiss federal investigations of corruption implicating dozens of soccer officials, including Blatter.

“With the recently approved reforms, I believe that we have turned a corner and that FIFA is poised to emerge stronger than ever,” Gianni Infantino, Blatter’s successor, said in a statement.

FIFA has acknowledged that potential commercial partners were put off by fallout from the scandals.

Top-tier sponsors Sony and Emirates Airlines have not been replaced since the 2014 World Cup, and 27 of 34 commercial slots remain unsold for the 2018 tournament in Russia.

New sponsor deals are

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Sepp Blatter and Jerome Valcke talk during a press conference. likely to be announced soon, with Asian companies expected to step in. FIFA’s prospects improved when member federations passed the anti-corruption reforms last month and elected Swiss lawyer Infantino as president.

FIFA wants to keep Infantino’s pay package secret for one more year until the 2016 accounts are published. His salary will be less than Blat-

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Cuts in staff bonuses from the World Cup appear to be reflected in FIFA’s total wage bill. In 2015, FIFA added 108 employees, for a total of 582, yet “personnel expenses” fell by more than $23 million to $92 million.

FIFA’s legal costs soared in 2015, mostly because it retained American legal firm Quinn Emanuel. Its priority is to help prevent FIFA from being indicted as a co-conspirator in bribery by the U.S. Department of Justice.

FIFA’s spending on “legal matters” was almost double the $31.3 million bill for 2014.

FIFA also paid only $3.85 million in tax, mainly on

profits earned by subsidiary companies. Its tax bill was $36 million in 2014 when the annual profit was $140.7 million.

The accounts were published minutes after the Court of Arbitration for Sport confirmed that Blatter filed his appeal against a six-year ban from soccer for financial conflicts of interest. CAS said Blatter seeks to annul the ban.

Plumlee ditches mask, Duke gets past UNC Wilmington on Thursday PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — After Marshall Plumlee jettisoned the mask guarding his broken nose during Duke’s awful opening against upstart UNC Wilmington, he entered the locker room at halftime and gave his teammates a short message: “I got you.”

Indeed he did.

Plumlee finished with a career-high 23 points to lead the defending national champion Blue Devils to a tough 93-85 victory on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The Blue Devils’ big man was relegated to just four points in a first half dominated by the Seahawks. A little tirade from coach Mike Krzyzewski helped right the ship.

“There’s no excuses for my play in the first half,” Plumlee said afterward in the quiet Duke locker room, wearing a blue jersey with the words “Be Worthy” emblazoned on the front.

“I’m grateful to have a coach that can bring out the best in me,” he said. “More than anything, I had teammates that played harder, teammates that gave me energy, and I fed off of that.”

Plumlee had 10 of his points and two blocks early in the second half as the West’s No. 4 seed stepped up the defensive pressure to overcome a four-point deficit and build a lead that proved too much to overcome.

“I couldn’t be more proud of a group of guys that have laid it out on the line for me for 33 games this year,” second-year UNCW coach Kevin Keatts said. “We talked about it in the locker room, and one of the things I said to those guys is when we leave this locker room, I want you to hold your head up. I know we’re all big-time competitors and we all hate to lose, but the effort that these guys have given me all year long is unbelievable.”

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Mason Plumlee and Brandon Ingram block a shot on Thursday.

Duke (24-10) will next play Yale or Baylor. UNCW (25-8), seeded 13th, was in it until the closing moments after Plumlee and Matt Jones fouled out.

“Our motto is pretty much we don’t worry about the name on the back of our jerseys, and we don’t care about the name on the front of yours,” said Craig Ponder, who led UNCW with 23 points. “We just try to go out and compete every game.”

Grayson Allen also scored 23 points for the Blue Devils, but 15 came from the foul line as he shot just 4 of 12 from the field. Freshman Brandon Ingram, likely playing in his only NCAA Tournament, added 20.

Chris Flemmings had 18 points for UNCW, Denzel Ingram 17, and C.J. Bryce 16.

With Duke trailing 4340 at halftime, a lay-in and two free throws by Ingram sparked a 14-3 run. Plumlee followed a miss by Ingram then hit two foul shots, and Ingram’s lob to Plumlee gave the Blue Devils a 61-49 lead with about 14 minutes left.

The Seahawks got mired in foul trouble - they picked up their 10th midway through the half - and that was a lot to overcome.

Still, after Plumlee picked up his fourth foul with just over six minutes to go, Pon-

der rallied the Seahawks.

He hit a 3-pointer - UNCW’s first made 3 in 10 tries in the half - then had a steal and layup. A three-point play by Bryce narrowed the deficit to 78-73 with 4:42 left, but Plumlee’s offensive rebound and slam put Duke back up by seven.

UNCW shot 51.5 percent in the first half, including 6 of 12 from beyond the arc, while hounding the Blue Devils into mistakes with its press.

TIP-INS DUKE: The Blue Devils committed only four turnovers in the first half, but nearly every shot was challenged, and that showed in three missed layups when the ball caromed too hard off the glass because of the defensive pressure. ... Duke shot 43.8 percent and was 3 of 10 from beyond the arc in the first half.

UNCW: The last time the Seahawks faced a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament was in 2002, and they upset Southern California 93-89 in overtime for their only tournament victory. ... UNCW is 2-38 all-time against teams in the ACC. UP NEXT Duke: A second-round game against Baylor or Yale on Saturday.

UNCW: Season over.