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Equal Pay Day is a na-tional public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and wom-en’s wages.

Tuesday, locations on the Downtown and Evans-dale campuses were home to a Gender Equality Bake Sale, where the inequal-ity of women’s and men’s wages was demonstrated by sugar cookies being sold for $1 to men but only 70 cents to women.

The bake sale was hosted by the Council for Women’s Concerns, the American Association of University Women and the Center for Service and Learning.

“I hope to open a few eyes to the issues that are going on around us, not only for women but for men as well…,” said Chelsey Franklin, a De-cember WVU graduate and organizer of the Equal Pay Day bake sale. “Because (as a male), your mom’s affected by this, your sis-ters are affected by it; it’s

not just for women, it’s for all of us. I want everyone to kind of see the bigger picture.”

Franklin also works for AmeriCorps Vista, a na-tional service program designed to fight poverty, staffed by the federal gov-ernment. Franklin’s main role is to connect all of the local nonprofits and all the campus organiza-tions to try and bring them together for a collective impact.

“You may have one or-ganization that’s working on one thing and then an-

other organization that’s working on a similar thing, so my role is just to bring those two together, that we can be more impactful in the population that we’re trying to attend to,” Frank-lin said.

Franklin acted as a li-aison between AAUW, the Counsel for Women’s Concerns and the Center for Service and Learning to plan and implement the bake sale.

Inside the Mountainlair, there were also tables for

by rachel mcbridestaff writer

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The West Virginia Univer-sity NAACP has hosted an Image Awards show since 2011 to recognize students, faculty, staff and organiza-tions on campus who have worked to help improve the WVU community.

Since 1967, the national branch of the NAACP has hosted the Image Awards, a presentation honoring out-standing people of color in

various fields such as film and sports.

The fifth Annual WVU NAACP Image Awards Show will be held at 7 p.m. April 16.

People and organizations who receive an NAACP Im-age Awards have embodied the goals and mission of the NAACP.

“(This is a) time where we can gather on campus and recognize people who have done a lot for student engagement and social justice,” said Miguel Hen-

riquez, vice president elect for WVU NAACP.

An open nomination pro-cess was held in January and from there, the organiza-tion developed a list to al-low those on campus to be-gin the voting process for the awards. Voting ended March 8.

Ten awards will be pre-sented at the event includ-ing the newly added awards, Graduate Student on the Move and Administration/Staff member of the Year.

Other awards include

Outstanding Achievement, Administrator of the Year, Student Leader of the Year, Student Organization of the Year, Female Athlete of the Year and Male Athlete of the Year.

“This award show brings diverse groups of people to-gether,” said Jihad Dixon, President of WVU NAACP.

Henriquez said when people of many different cultures come together on campus, it makes the Uni-versity stronger.

“We have a stronger voice

on campus when we are to-gether,” Henriquez said.

The NAACP is a nation-ally recognized organization that has fought for, main-tained and protected the civil rights of all people.

Founded in 1909, the NAACP was established to combat lynching, segrega-tion and injustices happen-ing to people of color dur-ing the time. Today, NAACP fights to maintain civil rights having to do with voting rights, equal pay, police brutality, education, health-

care and advocacy.“People of color are being

lynched with words,” Dixon said. “Now more than ever is a time to be aware of and celebrate cultural diversity.”

Membership to the orga-nization is open to all indi-viduals no matter their race, sexual orientation or reli-gion. Dixon and Henriquez said the organization sup-ports everyone and strives to ensure social justice for all WVU students, faculty

Students work to bridge wage gap

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This April, the Africana Studies Program is cele-brating more than 50 years of Head Start, a War on Poverty program, by host-ing Penn State University historian Crystal Sanders, who recently published “A Chance for Change: Head Start and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.”

Tuesday evening in Ming Hsieh Hall, Sand-ers presented “Cookies, Crayons, and Black Power: Head Start in the Magnolia State,” a lecture chronicling the struggles and triumphs of former sharecroppers and domestic workers who forged a program to pro-vide early childhood ed-ucation for their children whilst expanding their po-

litical reach and power.When discussing the im-

portance of Sanders’ work, Krystal D. Frazier, coordi-nator of Africana Stud-ies at WVU, said every-one can find inspiration from Sanders’ most recent publication.

“I hope people can think about how they can relate to the people in her narra-tives, to feel empowered to make change, the way these people did,” Frazier said.

Sanders’ lecture and book explores how work-ing-class black women in Mississippi transformed the Child Development Group of Mississippi, a federal Head Start pro-gram, into an opportunity to secure political and eco-nomic self-determination.

CDGM was one of the largest inaugural Head

Start programs in the coun-try and proved to be the next wave of activism in the Magnolia State after the 1964 Freedom Summer.

Sanders’ study of the Head Start program com-plicates the pervasive view that the War on Poverty

during this time period was a failure.

According to Sanders’ lecture, problems occur-ring during the time of the Civil Rights Act caused Af-rican Americans to try and

AskAr sAlikhoV/The DAilY ATheNAeumDr. Krystal Frazier, a history professor at West Virginia University, introduces the speaker, Dr. Crystal Sanders, at a public lecture event on Tuesday evening at Ming Hsieh Hall.

AskAr sAlikhoV/The DAilY ATheNAeumStudents attend a public lecture given by a Penn State University historian, Dr. Crystal Sanders, on Tuesday evening at Ming Hsieh Hall.

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GArreTT Yurisko/The DAilY ATheNAeumChelsey Franklin getting interviewed by Channel 12 for playing her role in the Gender Equality Bake Sale.

Historian Crystal Sanders discusses the advantages of Head Start programs

National Teacher of the Year visits WVU

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Shanna Peeples, the 2015 National Teacher of the Year, inspired an audience full of current, aspiring and retired teachers when she delivered a speech at West Virginia University during a historic visit yesterday.

The lecture, held at the Erickson Alumni Center, was part of the WVU College of Education & Human Service’s Go First Speaker Series, illuminated the im-portance of equality in public education and the role of teachers as integral parts of society.

Peeples, who teaches AP English in a poverty-stricken high school in Amarillo, Texas, urged cur-rent teachers to remain motivated and passionate even in the lowest points of their careers.

“I think students appreciate it when they don’t waste their (time) and when they know that what we’re doing is relevant and connected,” Peeples said.

Peeples attributed students’ inattentiveness and disinterest in school to a public school system that shows equal apathy toward them. She believes it’s a teacher’s duty to invigorate their students’ interests in school through time, trust and coaching.

“What we do is foundational to our civilization,” Peeples said. “What is a public school but a mes-sage and a symbol of a community that believes in its own future, and believes that its young people will continue?”

During her speech, Peeples told an anecdote about her recent trip to Palestine—a war-torn region where public education is impoverished and scarce. Peeples was taken aback and inspired by the few teachers who still come to school every day to educate their stu-dents, despite living in ruins.

“Education is about relationships with a capital ‘R’,” said Ohio County school teacher Mary Lou Hutchins. “As (Peeples) said tonight, when you take a child and you hold their face and you tell them ‘I expect more from you because I am giving you everything I have,’ a child will believe in themselves and believe in you. Children need the power to become who they want to be through education.”

Yesterday’s event was the first time in history a Na-tional Teacher of the Year visited West Virginia.

“This position will never become an easy job,” Hutchins said. “It’s something that we do because we teach from the heart, and we love going to work every day, but you can become tired. Speeches like these re-energize and inspire us so that we can in-spire the dreams of our students.”

Peeples also teaches English to adult second-lan-guage learners, and coaches other teachers to better instruct their students.

“We are so proud to be a part of bringing the Na-tional Teacher of the Year,” said Gypsy Denzine, dean of WVU’s College of Education & Human Services. “I think as much as we learn from her tonight it makes us think about our own teaching, and how we can be better teachers every day.”

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AAUW and the Council for Women’s Concerns featur-ing materials about Equal Pay Day and each respec-tive organization, as well as promotional items for women’s inequality issues, such as a booklet titled “The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap.”

“Even as awareness about the gender pay gap grows, women across the United States are still be-ing paid less than men in the aggregate. This wage gap is especially large for the women of West Vir-ginia as well as for women of color,” said Jessica Ice,

chair of the WVU Council for Women’s Concerns in a WVUToday press realease. “The Council for Women’s Concerns wants to use Equal Pay Day to join a na-tionwide movement bring-ing awareness to the wage disparity. We advocate for women to gain access to education as well as the tools to negotiate their sal-aries and for the passage of legislation combatting this crisis for women and their families.”

Franklin said the bake sale stressed the impor-tance of all college women being aware of the pay gap.

“We’re getting ready to go out into the real world right after graduation,so it’s important to be aware of these things because when you go into a job you wanna be aware of the differences such as negotiating your own pay salary, stuff like that,” Franklin said. “There’s just little minute things that we don’t really think about that really affect us.”

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change the situation on their own.

Sanders said the African Americans were still fac-ing discrimination from lo-cal businesses, educators and politicians even af-ter legislation was passed deeming such behavior as unconstitutional.

“Black power was simply about black people want-ing to control their polit-ical and economic des-tiny,” Sanders said. “They knew that legislation alone was not going to solve their plight.”

Due to influential Afri-can Americans during this time, Sanders said a suc-cessful attempt to receive funds for a Head Start pro-gram in Mississippi was made. Head Start is a pro-

gram designed to give chil-dren a “head start” at a bet-ter education. After many attempts, eventually it made its way to the Afri-can American community in Mississippi.

Sanders said Head Start allowed African Americans in Mississippi to have jobs within the school system and more freedom to work within political scenes, but most importantly, it gave their children a new edu-

cational advantage.“It allowed people to de-

mand more than they had been getting in the past,” Sanders said.

Sanders is a historian of the 20th Century United States, with specializations in civil rights history, the history of black education and black women’s history. She received her bachelors degree in history and pub-lic policy from Duke Uni-versity and her Ph.D. in history from Northwest-

ern University.Her articles have ap-

peared in the Journal of Southern History and the North Carolina Historical Review. She is the recipi-ent of several honors in-cluding a Ford Founda-tion Doctoral Fellowship, Spencer Foundation Doc-toral and Postdoctoral Fel-lowships, the Southern Historical Association’s C. Vann Woodward Prize and the Organization of Amer-ican Historian’s Huggins-

Quarles Award.A brief questionnaire

took place at the end of Sanders’ presentation, and light refreshments were served to those who attended.

The event was spon-sored by The Office of Graduate Education and Life, The Center for Black Culture and Research, and The Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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and staff.The majority of NAACP

events are open to the WVU community, non-members and members of the WVU NAACP.

The black-tie award show will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. The show will be followed by a VIP din-ner reception for $5.

The event is open to the public.

For more informa-tion on WVU’s chapter of NAACP, visit http://naacp.orgs.wvu.edu/.

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Trump amassing delegates who might not be loyal to himdes MOInes, Iowa (aP)—

Already behind the curve in organizing for the Repub-lican convention, Donald Trump has missed crucial deadlines in a number of states to lock up delegates who would stay loyal be-yond the first ballot.

Trump’s shortcomings in this behind-the-scenes campaign, which hasn’t played much of a role in se-lecting the GOP nominee in decades, could doom his presidential candidacy if he is unable to win the nomi-nation in the initial voting at this summer’s national con-vention in Cleveland.

After that first ballot, most delegates are no longer bound to support the win-ner of their state’s party pri-mary or caucuses - they’re free agents who can sup-port the candidate of their choosing.

Most of the actual dele-gates are elected at state and congressional district con-ventions run by party in-siders, members of the Re-publican establishment that Trump has run against from the outset of his campaign.

And while Trump’s team has had little contact with these loyal party activists, his chief rival for the Re-publican nomination, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, has been ac-tively courting them for months.

Trump has spent the past three days hammering at his party’s delegate selection process as “unfair.”

At a rally in Rome, New York, Tuesday evening, Trump angrily denounced Saturday’s final allocation of all of Colorado’s delegates to Cruz, blasting the par-

ty’s system as “rigged” and “corrupt.”

Trump’s team is only now starting to engage in the del-egate selection process, the choosing of the actual peo-ple who will attend and vote at the convention. Republi-cans have already selected delegates in at least nine states. And in others, such as Virginia and Arizona, the deadline to apply to be a delegate has passed.

Indiana’s primary, for example, won’t take place until next month. But the deadline to become a na-tional convention delegate was in mid-March.

“Are we concerned? Yes, definitely,” said Tony Samuel, vice chairman of Trump’s Indiana campaign.

The Cruz team feels the opposite.

“Even if (Trump) jumped into high gear, he can’t do it,” said Shak Hill, a Cruz campaign leader in Virginia. “That’s where he’s been shut out of the game.”

Trump’s delegates must vote for him on the first bal-lot at the convention. But if no one gets a majority, most of the delegates can then bolt if they choose.

Trump is the only candi-date with a realistic path to the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. But the path is narrow, and Cruz is working to block him.

Cruz has built an orga-nization of volunteers who are working in state after state to get his supporters selected as delegates, even those who must vote for Trump at first.

Trump is just ramping up his operation, but in some

states he’s too late.In Virginia - a state where

Trump won the primary - he has missed the deadlines to assemble lists of potential delegates. Cruz, however, has delegate candidates in 10 of Virginia’s 11 congres-sional districts.

The application deadline was last month.

Indiana’s primary is May 3, but 27 of the state’s 57 delegates - the actual peo-ple - have already been se-lected at congressional dis-trict caucuses. The deadline to register as a candidate for delegate was March 15.

In all, at least nine states have picked some or all of their delegates: Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, North Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Trump has won a total of 100 delegates in prima-ries and caucuses in these states. In most, however, the candidates had no formal role in selecting the people who will fill those slots.

To help manage the pro-cess, Trump’s campaign hired a convention man-ager, Paul Manafort, last week. Manafort helped

lead the fight against Ron-ald Reagan’s challenge of then-President Gerald Ford at the 1976 Republican con-vention in Kansas City.

Manafort has accused Cruz’s campaign of strong-arming would-be delegates and said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity airing Tues-day night that he shared concerns with his boss.

“The point that Donald Trump was making is that the process in Colorado was being abused and it’s not that the rules themselves were unknown, it’s the way

the rules were applied,” Manafort said, according to a transcript provided by the network. “We’re seeing the same mistakes in Col-orado, Missouri and Loui-siana. And so the mistakes are not really mistakes - it’s a pattern.”

However, he said Trump was successful in select-ing delegates in Michigan, and predicted the same in Nevada.

“In fact, we wiped him out,” Manafort said in an NBC interview Sunday. “And we’re going to see Ted Cruz get skunked in Nevada.”

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Implementing rehab in prisonsThe West Virginia prison

system is finally imple-menting a solution to its rampant prescription drug and opiate abuse problem. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported yesterday that the Southwestern Re-gional Jail in Logan County recently opened its first substance abuse treatment unit.

West Virginia made headlines last year after its number of heroin over-doses became the highest in the country, and Presi-dent Barack Obama has spoken on the issue several times during the past year. Arrests from drug busts are high, and the West Virginia Annual Police Report from 2012 stated that 62 pounds of marijuana, 1,343 dose units of prescription pills and 107 dose units of her-oin were seized from drug users in that year alone.

However, ending drug trafficking and addiction

doesn’t necessarily stem from seizure of the drugs themselves. Addicts enter-ing jails and prisons may not be receiving the treat-ment they need to reenter society sober.

Many criticisms of the modern prison system sur-round a lack of proper care for addicts. The 2010 report “Behind Bars II, Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population” from the Cen-ter on Addiction indicated 1.5 million out of the 2.3 million inmates in America suffered from some form of substance abuse or ad-diction at that time. A pas-sage from a more recently published book titled “The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Ex-ploring Causes and Con-sequences” states 300,000 of America’s prison popu-lation—13 percent—has a history with heroin addic-tion specifically.

Criticisms of modern re-

habilitation clinics are nu-merous. Not only are they expensive, but the typical length of a patient’s stay is only 28 days. Though this may be enough time for a user to “get clean,” addic-tion requires months or even years of monitoring and behavior training to combat. It’s highly likely that a patient can leave a re-hab clinic and immediately fall back into the same type of illegal activity as before.

Addiction used to be considered a character flaw and something the ad-dict had complete control over, but it is now classi-fied as a mental illness for which a person can be ge-netically predisposed. If a person with bipolar disor-der or depression is able to be treated medically by specialists while in prison, why should addiction be re-garded any differently?

In a rehabilitation facil-ity operated by a prison, ad-

dicts who are serving longer sentences can reap the full benefits of the program over longer amounts of time and obtain a greater number of skills necessary to living a sober life outside of jail. The Gazette-Mail also re-ports that treatment at this

facility could potentially re-duce the time until prison-ers are eligible for parole, which will end the pressing problem of overcrowding in American prisons.

Drug abuse takes the lives of hundreds of West Virginians each year. Giv-

ing addicted prisoners the resources they need while in prison will no doubt be beneficial for their lives upon release and allow them to be more than just a statistic.

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beforeitsnews.comPrisoners have the opportunity to develop many skills while in prison that can benefit their lives after release.

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Arrests, suspension, death: Greek life dying at WVU

Once again, Greek Life at West Virginia University has found itself in hot water af-ter a slew of incidents led to disciplinary actions against multiple chapters last week. Facing hefty penalties such as suspension from their national organizations and social suspension that will keep some from hosting any of their usual end-of-the-year functions, many are criticizing the Univer-sity as a whole for unneces-sarily and unfairly “gutting” Greek life at WVU. Whether it will carry on a while longer or end by sweeping action taken by the University, it is true that Greek life at WVU as we’ve known it is dead.

On April 5, WVU’s Delta Tau Delta chapter was sus-pended after a video created by one of its members sur-faced online. The student behind the video, Stephen Budkey, reportedly filmed it and put it on YouTube as an audition tape for MTV’s “The Real World.” Accord-ing to an article from the Charleston Gazette-Mail last week that detailed the event, “…the video showed the student touring the fra-ternity house while making inappropriate comments about women, describing

social functions that violate the council’s conduct code and referencing activities that violated Delta Tau Del-ta’s values.”

Later that same day, a former president of WVU’s Panhellenic council was ar-rested and charged in con-nection with a burglary that took place at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house. Brigette Lajoie reportedly covered her face and en-

tered the house through a window with “an un-identified man” and stole property from the house. She was later arrested and charged after her car be-came stuck as she was driv-ing away, reportedly under the influence.

On April 6, WVU’s Sigma Chi chapter was indefi-nitely suspended after an event that took place over the weekend reportedly vi-

olated campus-wide Greek policies. Similarly, WVU’s Sigma Nu chapter was placed on social suspension for the remainder of the se-mester after they allegedly planned an event that vio-lated fraternity policies.

While these incidents are admittedly unrelated to one another, they are reflective of the current nature of Greek life at WVU. After a chapter event involving alcohol led

to the tragic death of fresh-man Kappa Sigma pledge Nolan Burch last year, Greek life was placed under a mi-croscope by University of-ficials. While many are at-tempting to carry on their party legacies under the ra-dar, they are doing so in vi-olation to many of the mea-sures put in place for their own safety and protection.

Other articles and com-mentary on the topic have

already gone viral on Face-book and websites like Total Frat Move, with many say-ing that University sanctions and regulation of Greek life is extremely harsh. Some point to the fact that the “Real World” audition video was intended to be a joke or that the focus on the nega-tive stories has overshad-owed the positive ones, such as Greek participation in a day of service where hun-dreds of members partici-pated in community service projects around Morgan-town. Others argue that they have found their best friends in Greek life, and to see it die out is a detriment to the campus community.

As a senior, I’ve seen a complete change in Greek life from the day I first stepped on to this campus to now as I prepare to leave it. Unfortunately for some, the actions leading to these changes are absolutely not “harsh” or “over the top.” I don’t doubt membership in these chapters fosters friendships or promotes community service and leadership experience; how-ever, if allowing fraternities and sororities to run ram-pant has led to the death of one student, that is one stu-dent too many. Whether the best parts of Greek culture will die alongside the worst remains to be seen.

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The world’s second larg-est economy belongs to China, yet many Ameri-cans seem oblivious to the importance of its economy to the world. The Chinese economy has experienced a degree of turbulence in recent years that has peri-odically induced havoc on financial markets and has weighed heavily on global economic activity, which has induced change even in America.

The U.S. relies on Chinese labor for the production of many important goods like computers and med-ical equipment, as the ba-sic materials can be shipped to China and built or con-structed lower costs. In this way, the sake of China’s economy is intricately tied to American quality of life.

To put the significance of the deceleration in China’s economy into perspective, it is important to illustrate just how large China’s influence is on the global economy.

According to data from the National Bureau of Sta-tistics of China, Chinese economic growth, as mea-sured by gross domestic

product, increased an av-erage of 9.9 percent from 1989-2015. During that time, China’s global con-sumption share of key commodities, such as oil and copper, and industrial equipment, such as utility and earth-moving machin-ery, rapidly expanded.

More recently, as wealth has increased in certain seg-ments of the Chinese econ-omy, China has become a rapidly growing consump-tion market for consumer electronics, higher scale ap-

parel and international fast food chains. Based on most recent data from the World Trade Organization, China now trails only the United States and the European Union in terms of annual volume of imports.

As it relates to exports, China has long been the beneficiary of foreign in-vestment from U.S.- and Eu-ropean-based corporations. These firms have looked to exploit the extremely low la-bor and environmental reg-ulation costs in China to en-

hance their profits.In addition, the Chinese

economy has greatly ben-efitted from having its cur-rency, the yuan, pegged to the U.S. dollar at a fixed rate set by the Chinese govern-ment. This has largely insu-lated the Chinese economy from the extreme foreign ex-change fluctuations that im-pact major trade competi-tors like Germany, Japan and South Korea.

These advantages helped China become the world’s top exporter, with Chinese

exports exceeding $2.3 tril-lion in value in 2014. How-ever, its economy has been coming under pressure from a multitude of direc-tions since the 2012-13 period.

Amid the 2008 global fi-nancial crisis, the Chinese government, via the Peo-ple’s Bank of China, em-barked on an aggressive fi-nancial stimulus program, which resulted in credit growth in China expanding by 34 percent in 2009 from the prior year.

The credit expansion in-duced a frenzy of commer-cial and residential con-struction projects in China, helping to support eco-nomic growth not only in China, but around the globe.

However, in recent years, as many of the newly con-structed building and hous-ing projects remain vacant, many of China’s largest companies are not receiv-ing sufficient income to pay off the debt they accumu-lated following the finan-cial crisis.

These credit issues have made it increasingly dif-ficult for the Chinese gov-ernment to further stimu-late its economy—an issue compounded by the recent collapse in Chinese exports. According to China’s Gen-

eral Administration of Cus-toms, the country’s exports collapsed by 25.4 percent in February compared to a year earlier.

To combat these debt and trade issues, the Chi-nese government has be-gun to loosen the yuan’s peg to the dollar in an attempt to both make their exports cheaper and to ease the debt burdens of their major companies.

Early in the year, global markets were rattled as in-dicated in a January Re-uters report titled “Pressure on China central bank for bigger Yuan depreciation,” which claimed that Chinese policy makers are under considerable pressure to al-low the yuan to depreciate by as much as 15 percent.

Such a move would have resounding implications not only for the purchas-ing power of Chinese busi-nesses and households, who would see their money suddenly become worth 15 percent less, but for all the countries, including the U.S., that frequently trade with China.

How changes in China’s economy will specifically af-fect the U.S. remains to be seen, but it’s certainly worth keeping an eye on in 2016.

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file photo/the daily athenaeumWVU’s Greek life has suffered a number of unfortunate events over the past few years.

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West Virginia Univer-sity’s School of Theatre and Dance is bringing the glamour of “Arabian Nights” to the Creative Arts Center starting this week.

“The Arabian Nights” is an amalgamation of sto-ries told by Scheherazade, the newest wife of the Sa-sanian king Shahryar. The king is convinced all women are unfaithful and marries them just to exe-cute them. Scheherazade, determined to end the vi-olent pattern, marries the king and tells him part of a new story each night to keep him preoccupied with hearing the end. Each night she does not end the story, and thus Shahryar refrains from executing her. The arrangement con-tinues for 1,001 nights.

Wilhelmina McWhorter, a senior in the BFA Acting

Studio Program and cast member, described the show as a fantastical jour-ney with many themes.

“It is a physical repre-sentation of story telling and fairy tales,” she said. “A magical and mystical journey of moral, humor, life and imagination.”

Mary Zimmerman, the author of the play, adapted the play from “One Thou-sand and One Nights,” the original collection of sto-ries that Scheherazade tells Shahryar. The stories come from centuries of folklore and legends from the Middle East and South Asia collected during the Islamic Golden Age. The anthology is made up of a variety of story types in-cluding tragedies, come-dies and historical stories. Zimmerman picked the stories that suited her vi-sion the best.

“It is going to be a wild ride from start to finish,” McWhorter said. “It is a fun show full of spectacle, tal-

ent and the unexpected.”The play itself is pro-

duced by a mixed bag of students and professors. A professor oversees every-thing as the director, but it is acted out by students in the School of Theatre and Dance. Some elements of the show are designed or produced by professors, while the students create other aspects of the show. McWhorter said acting in plays for the School of Theatre and Dance is a great way to both hone her acting abilities and get ex-perience working with an entire cast and crew in a professional setting.

Putting on a theater per-formance requires a di-verse set of skills. In ad-dition to the director and the actors, there are pro-ducers and managers who make sure all the technical aspects of the show work properly in the right order. For “The Arabian Nights” specifically, there is a set designer, a costume de-

signer and a master elec-trician, just to name a few.

McWhorter said the whole production is a team effort that re-quires much collabora-tion between everyone involved.

“This is such a free and fun show, and the cast has been a joy to work with on this wild journey,” she said.

The first shows are Fri-day and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Gladys G. Da-vis Theatre in the Cre-ative Arts Center. “The Arabian Nights” will con-tinue with many shows at different times until Sun-day, April 24. For informa-tion on show times and to purchase tickets, call the WVU Box Office at 304-293-SHOW or visit in per-son in the Mountainlair or the Creative Arts Center. Tickets can also be pur-chased at www.ticketmas-ter.com.

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The new-to-cable televi-sion channel, Viceland, has announced another culinary related show coming soon: “Huang’s World.”

“Balls Deep,” “F*ck That’s Delicious,” “Flophouse,” “Gaycation,” “Noisey,” “States of Undress,” “Beyond the Frame,” “Vice Guide to Film” and “Weediquette” are Vice-land’s already-released shows. Just by reading the ti-tles of the aforementioned list proves how they can rep-resent the nonconformists of television. In addition to the nine shows that are cur-rently airing, the upcom-ing slate includes “Woman,” “Vice World of Sports,” “King of the World” and of course the show that this article high-lights: “Huang’s World.”

Eddie Huang has had an in-teresting life, as I’m sure any-one who has their own show has. He grew up as somewhat of a troublemaker in China-town of Washington, D.C. His Taiwanese-born parents hauled the Huangs to Orlando during Eddie’s youth to im-merse themselves in the res-taurant industry. The Orlando steakhouse known as Cattle-man’s that the family opened some time ago was sold to Hooter’s in 2013. Neverthe-less, it’s clear where Huang’s visions are derived from.

Prior to delving into the culinary scene, Huang jour-neyed through life with many professional experiences be-ginning with earning his law degree from a college in New York City. After a short-lived career as an attorney, Huang tested the waters as a sneaker sales associate, drug dealer and even started his own clothing brand.

Amidst experiencing both extremes of the career spec-trum, Huang hit the jack-pot when he and his brother opened BaoHaus in 2009. BaoHouse is located in New York City in a 400 square foot area. The Chinese food shop maintains a minimal menu

that features steamed buns and various other Chinese dishes and sodas. BaoHaus is hip-hop friendly, and cus-tomers can expect to hear an assortment of rappers, both new and old. Huang even has a Spotify playlist of the 1,149 songs presumably played at BaoHaus.

Huang also wrote a mem-oir and started a blog, both of which drew success. His cre-ative writing plus BaoHaus propelled him into the lime-light of the media. In 2015, Huang’s memoir was con-verted into a sitcom, titled “Fresh off the Boat,” courtesy of ABC. Huang was the host of Cooking Channel’s “Cheap Bites” in 2011 prior to depart-ing to the more lenient Vice.

Huang and Vice teamed up to start a web series a few years ago titled “Fresh off the Boat,” but since he sold his memoir along with the naming rights, Huang was forced to brain-storm a new title. This leads us into what is now “Huang’s World.” The web series, simi-lar to Action Bronson’s “F*ck That’s Delicious,” grew very popular throughout the In-ternet. It has a similar prem-ise, except Huang isn’t travel-ling on tour like Bronson. He travels for the culture aspect and obviously the fine dining.

Like most hosts, Huang is an unfiltered entertainer with a presence. In one deleted scene Vice dropped on You-Tube, Huang indulges in Si-cilian seafood - tuna sperm to get specific. Reminiscent of Andrew Zimmern of the Travel Channel, Huang gives the world a glimpse of what to expect come late April. The first two seasons take us to the Bay Area, parts of China, Los Angeles, Detroit, Miami, Mon-golia and London. The antic-ipated season three includes adventures to Jamaica, Sicily, Turkey and a homecoming in Taiwan. “Huang’s World” will hit the ground running with its season three premier on April 28 exclusively on Viceland.

For more information on “Huang’s World,” visit https://viceland.com/en_us.

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piled by Nielsen for April 4-10. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

1. “NCIS,” CBS, 15.67 million.

2. NCAA Basketball Championship: Villanova vs. North Carolina, TBS, 13.85 million.

3. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 13.5 million.

4. “American Idol” (Thursday), Fox, 13.31 million.

5. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 12.28 million.

6. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 12.27 million.

7. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.99 million.

8. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 11.72 million.

9. “Empire,” Fox, 11.34 million.

10. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.43 million.

11. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.35 million.

12. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 9.86 million.

13. “American Idol” (Wednesday), Fox, 9.7 million.

14. “NCAA Basketball Championship Pregame,” TBS, 9.67 million.

15. “Survivor,” CBS, 8.99 million.

16. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 8.63 million.

17. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.68 million.

18. “The Odd Couple,” CBS, 7.63 million.

19. “Modern Family,” ABC, 7.51 million.

20. “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders,” CBS, 7.44 million.

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In ‘Green Room’ a punk band faces the truly hardcore

“Play your early stuff,” is the advice given to the punk band The Ain’t Rights when their dirt-broke, gas-siphon-ing tour lands a last-minute gig at an Oregon backwoods roadhouse in Jeremy Saul-nier’s brisk and brutal genre exercise “Green Room.”

The tip from the spikey-haired ‘zine reporter who’s set up the show (an excellent David W. Thompson, from “Win Win”) isn’t because the crowd will be expect-ing the band’s nonexistent “hits,” but because he knows the angriest, heaviest tunes will go down best. They’ll be playing for skinheads.

The band, a grimy group of punks (Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner) from Vir-ginia limping across the country, shrug. They’ve had Neo-Nazis at their shows be-fore. When they drive along a remote dirt road in their beat-up van, they’re still not intimidated by the swasti-kas and Confederate flags around them. They provoc-atively open with the Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks F--- Off.”

The trouble doesn’t come then, but after the show backstage, where the band

returns to the green room to find a girl on the ground with a knife in her head. Things go south quickly, and the band is confronted with something far more hard-core than anything in their record collection.

The road movie that “Green Room” started out to be veers abruptly into a siege film as the head Neo-Nazi (Patrick Stewart, us-ing his refined cordiality for menace) sends waves of “true believers” into the roadhouse to dispatch the witnesses.

“Green Room” is Saulni-er’s follow-up to his self-fi-nanced breakthrough “Blue Ruin,” a lean and riveting re-venge tale also acted out by a novice in violence (Macon Blair, who pops here, too). The writer-director’s lat-est confirms him as a rising filmmaker who can crisply craft John Carpenter-style atmosphere, mete out un-nervingly merciless pain for his characters, and assemble robust, earthy thrillers with relatively meager means.

I like the early scenes of “Green Room” best. In brief glimpses, Saulnier fully cap-tures the experience of a struggling band on the road:

waking up somewhere dif-ferent each night, debating favorite music, making fart jokes in the van. It’s not very hardcore of me to say this, but I wish it continued on this plane, rather than set-tle into a gruesome and pro-tracted battle - as well-exe-cuted as the carnage is. Once it enters the grindhouse, it stays there.

But you can’t have a siege thriller without a siege, and “Green Room” is certainly among the genre’s finest ex-amples. Guns are employed, but the most chilling vio-lence comes from teeth and blades on split-open flesh. It’s not pleasant, nor is it meant to be.

In such moments, the earlier boasts of the band about their lack of social me-dia presence - “When you take it all virtual, you lose the texture” - have come back to haunt them. You want tex-ture? “Green Room” has it.

“Green Room,” an A24 re-lease, is rated R by the Mo-tion Picture Association of America for “strong brutal graphic violence, gory im-ages, language and some drug content.” Running time: 117 minutes. Three stars out of four.

Reece weighs in on equal pay WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Ca-

lif. (AP) — Gabrielle Reece could be as intimidating in person as she is on paper.

The 6-foot-3 former beach volleyball champion is a health and fitness ex-pert, TV personality, best-selling author, model and a mother of three whose spouse is another daunting example of physical prow-ess and Greek-god appear-ance, famed surfer Laird Hamilton.

But in an interview to discuss “Strong,” the new NBC fitness competition show she hosts, Reece is as casually chatty as any gal pal. Ask about her delicate gold necklace engraved with Hamilton’s first name, for example, and she offers a wry answer.

“My daughters’ initials are on the other side. I al-ways say when he’s naughty I can flip it over. I haven’t flipped it in months,” she says, then smiles and adds, “Just kidding. We’ve been together more than 20 years.”

As for “Strong,” Reece touts it as “wildly” enter-taining. “It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s big,” she said, with chal-lenges that test each fe-male competitor and the male trainer they’re paired with. She discussed the show (debuting 9 p.m. EDT Wednesday), her support-ive husband and equal pay during a recent interview.

AP: What makes “Strong” different from other TV fit-ness contests?

Reece: This show has so many layers, and that’s why I’m not only proud of it but attracted to it. You’ve got these women (contestants), some have been working, they’re moms, maybe single moms, and a couple young

ones who say, “I’m looking for my voice.” They’ve all made the decision that it’s time to be their best selves. It’s competition, but to be your best self.

AP: The winner gets $500,000. What’s in it for the audience?

Reece: I think it will be incredibly powerful for viewers, because there’s going to be somebody in the cast that they’re able to relate to, and there’s going to be somebody in the cast that inspires them. Then seeing the women take all of this home with them and be able to sustain it. They lost a bunch of weight and look great, but we’ve rein-serted them back into their lives. How are doing? It’s considering people where they realistically live, how much time do they have, how much extra resources do they have?

AP: What’s your best fit-ness advice for the average person?

Reece: This is what I say, first and foremost: Who are you? A one-size-fits-all doesn’t exist in health and fitness. If you say, “I hate the gym,” I’m not go-ing to say the best fitness tip I can give you is go to the gym. What I can say to peo-ple is discover who you are and what you can handle. Having said that, I don’t fly out of bed and say, “We’re gonna go bang iron today. I’m so excited!” That’s why they call it working out. But part of being human is be-ing in positions of being un-comfortable, and that pres-sure makes us stronger.

AP: Did your husband help you prepare to host “Strong”?

Reece: He’s my biggest ally. He understood more

than anybody how much it meant for me to get this show. He’s been with me so long, and he understands professionally what I really feel passionately about, and this is it: How do we take better care of our-selves. And in a time when we’re busy and when we’re disconnected, how do we connect and get it done. You have to connect (with others).

AP: What’s your reaction to the equal-pay fight by U.S. female soccer players?

Reece: If the industry of women’s soccer is as high functioning as the men’s, then why are they not get-ting paid the same? If their TV ratings are the same, if their sponsorship dollars are the same, then abso-lutely. ... My goal has always been to help participate in figuring out the business of women’s sports. The important thing is not to compare them to men, be-cause they do it differently. Why not celebrate and en-joy the way we do it, and then ask how do we create a real significant business around these sports. Golf has figured it out, tennis has figured it out, and re-ally they’re the only ones. For me it’s the idea of sepa-rate but equal.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Wednesday April 13, 20166 | CAMPUS CONNECTION

BY NANCY BLACK

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHH Work from home for extra produc-tivity. Improve structural supports. Organize and clear space for what’s next. Choose what’s best. Pamper yourself with domestic comforts.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHH Discuss emotional issues and pas-sions. Work with someone who sees your blind spots. Make powerful re-quests. Ask for what you want and need for the change you envision.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH Hold out for the best deal. Nego-tiate favorable terms. Don’t pick a

fight. Talk about financial matters without provoking a confrontation. You can finagle a win-win. Disagree respectfully.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Focus on personal priorities. Get facts to back up a hunch. Determine what skills you lack for the dream you’re imagining, and list what it would take to get them. Take charge.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH En-joy backstage planning and prepara-tion. Dispel illusions with solid data. Separation or delays could disrupt. Have a backup. Soothe sensitive feel-ings with tea and empathy. Rest and recharge.

V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH Changes at the top re-veal new opportunities in a group project. Being faithful pays off. Find ways to simplify matters. Talk to fam-ily before accepting new responsibil-ities that could affect them.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH A professional challenge has your fo-cus. Don’t get stopped by the past. Use what you’ve learned. Step slowly and carefully. Don’t take things per-sonally. Avoid emotional outbursts. Fact and fantasy clash. Go for clarity.

S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Enjoy a class or group participation without exceeding your budget. Get help to realize a

dream. Distractions and diversions tempt you away from your research. Stick to your plan. Travel without frills.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HH Collaborate on shared finances. Your partner can get through where you can’t. Unravel a mess. Anticipate changes with calm support. Prac-tice frugality. Step back if sparks fly. You’re gaining, slowly.

cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Collaboration goes further than solo efforts today. Let go of assumptions. Challenge the generally held opin-ion for new insight. Listen to what others have to offer. Make quiet in-roads. Get terms in writing.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HH Increased demand at work has you hopping. Don’t rely on mem-ory alone, schedule and track tasks. Make no snap decisions. Consider long-term consequences. Avoid risky business or over-extending.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHH Stay out of someone else’s upset. Have patience with communication breakdowns. Take care around sharp objects. Lay low and wait for confu-sion to pass. Consider backup plans.

BORN TODAY The sky’s the limit this year, and preparation key. Make professional moves after 5/9, with

travel and studies after 8/13. Begin a two-year partnership phase on 9/9. Discoveries in your work after 9/1 lead to a turning point in your think-ing after 9/16. Prioritize love.

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spring practice, the headlines about the West Virginia Univer-sity football team have been dominated by the offensive side of the ball. Will Skyler Howard and Rushel Shell make the leap in their senior sea-sons? How will William Crest be used? Will fresh-man Kennedy McKoy be WVU’s breakout star?

Those are all impor-tant topics to discuss, but the best story about the WVU football team is on defense, and it’s one nobody’s talking about. It’s about a pair of West Virginia lifers each go-ing into their fifth years as Mountaineers who are finally getting their chance.

Redshirt seniors Justin Arndt and Sean Walters have played in a com-bined 65 games over the past three seasons for West Virginia, but many fans don’t know their names. They’ve never been high on the defen-sive depth chart, never been close to starting a game.

But after three years of sitting on the bench and working hard on special teams, Arndt and Wal-ters are finally on the first team, and it’s a spot they’ve earned.

“Any time you can re-ward a kid with playing more football is great,” said defensive coordina-tor Tony Gibson. “Both of these guys have the abil-ity to do that, and they’re prepared every day and work really hard. They’re not making the same mistakes over and over.”

When West Virginia released its last two-deep depth chart of the 2015 season in November, Arndt and Walters were nowhere to be found. For years, the superlative se-nior class of Nick Kwi-atkoski, Shaq Petteway and Jared Barber ate up most of the snaps at line-backer, and other veter-ans such as Isaiah Bruce and Edward Muldrow served as the primary backups.

Arndt and Walters re-sponded by throwing themselves into special teams, becoming two of the primary aces on West Virginia’s kick and punt coverage units. Their performances on special teams helped get their feet in the door and first got coaches to look their way.

“I feel as though that you have to do your part on the team in order to make it better,” Walters said. “Still, to this day, it doesn’t matter to me. Special teams will always be a part of my game be-cause it’s what elevated me to this level. You have to make the best of every rep, whether that’s spe-cial teams, defense or anything.”

Walters, who came to Morgantown in 2012 as a tweener with no clear future at either safety or receiver, now sits ahead of the pack at the weak-side linebacker posi-tion. Meanwhile, Arndt, a Martinsburg, West Vir-ginia native who was seen as too small at 5-foot-11, 215 pounds, leapfrogged presump-tive starter Xavier Pres-ton to get the inside track at strong-side linebacker.

Make no mistake, Arndt and Walters are still a long way from ac-tually going into the sea-son as starting lineback-ers. But for the first time, they’ll be major contrib-utors on defense – and after their long roads to this point, no one can say they don’t deserve it.

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Before WVU freshman in-fielder Andrew Zitel made two straight starts this week, he was nearly cut from the program.

Zitel didn’t seem to fit the Mountaineer mold when he arrived on campus. The Hill-sborough, New Jersey native wasn’t ready to contribute to an offense behind a crop of talented freshmen and sophomores.

And his game wasn’t translating to the Division I level. WVU head coach Randy Mazey believed the youngster needed a change of scenery, a fresh start somewhere else.

“He was on the verge of being cut in the fall and in the spring,” Mazey said. “I basically told him at Christ-mas time that it would be in his best interest probably to go to a junior college or find another place to go to school.”

But Zitel’s persevering at-titude remained intact. Al-though he considered leav-ing WVU after a few months, he decided to stay and work his way to becoming a Mountaineer.

“When the odds are against you, you always have to have a backup plan,” Zitel said. “But I love West Virginia. I didn’t want to leave. I just gave it my all in the beginning of the spring. Whatever happens, hap-pens. Thankfully I made the team and turned out for the best.”

Coaches still needed to see more if he would be-come a member of the Blue and Gold. They needed to see improvements and they wanted him to play like a college baseball athlete is supposed to.

So they worked him as

hard as they could, even if there wasn’t much be-lief he’d make the team regardless.

“I said if you come back, we’re going to work you as hard as we can to make you the best player you can,” Mazey said. “We really didn’t have any aspirations of him making the team in the spring.”

Instead, the freshman’s attitude changed. Once springtime hit, his mind-set took a complete turn around the diamond.

The pressure eluded his brain. That’s when he looked like the player Mazey recruited all along.

“He came out in spring practice and just said ‘I’ve got nothing to lose,’ and just started playing with that

mentality and started doing really well,” Mazey said.

Sunday proved all of it. It was only the second start of his career, coming unex-pectedly and telling family members to go back home to New Jersey before getting the call.

“I actually told my dad to go home because he lives in New Jersey,” Zitel said. “I didn’t want the trip to be that bad for him so I told him to go home. I’m prob-ably not playing. Turns out I’m playing so Shaun Wood went into the locker room and he came back. It was kind of a funny story. I was surprised I got to start.”

He finished with a team-high of three hits —two of those doubles—alongside three RBI’s and a diving play

at second base. It was a cru-cial element in WVU’s 8-5 victory over Furman, avoid-ing the weekend sweep in front of his father.

Zitel followed up Sun-day’s effort with a one-hit game Tuesday, one of five hits the Mountaineers squandered all evening. He added a walk and improved his batting average to .375 this season.

It was only two games, but nevertheless, it was two everyone longed for. It was a testament to a different mindset, one that not only eliminated the pressures in his head, but one that de-veloped him into a Big 12 athlete.

“It’s a great story of a kid with perseverance and never gets to start, but al-

ways keeps working hard and trying hard and fun to be around,” Mazey said. “It’s really satisfying as a coach to watch a guy like that have success.”

That’s what never giving up led to. That’s what decid-ing to stick it out and work for everything earned him, a spot with ample opportuni-ties just to be a Mountaineer.

All Zitel had to do was fol-low his heart.

“It’s always a kid’s dream to come onto a big, Divi-sion I, Big 12 baseball team and play,” Zitel said. “I never thought it would happen, but for me it happened. I’m just blessed. I thank God every night. It’s a great opportunity.”

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By ALEC GEArTySPORTS WRITER

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Even though the West Virginia Mountaineers put in a late scare into the Pitts-burgh Panthers, the Moun-taineers failed to convert with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and fell to the Panthers 4-1 in the latest installment of the Backyard Brawl. The loss drops West Virginia’s re-cord to 17-14 on the season.

Wheeling, West Virginia native Michael Grove got the start for the Moun-taineers and matched his career-high in innings pitched with five, along with four strikeouts.

Grove found himself with runners in scoring po-sition in four of his five in-

nings but consistently got himself out of the jams he created.

“He made some really good pitches when guys got on base,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey. “I think he grew up a lot to-night. He’s going to be a re-ally good pitcher for us.”

Much like his start last week against Marshall, Grove failed to get run sup-port through his five in-nings due to the Pitt pitch-ing combination of Sam Mersing and Isaac Mattson. Mersing barreled through the Mountaineer lineup, al-lowing three hits and strik-ing out seven in six innings of work.

“When (Mersing) caught his groove on the mound, he got really good,” Mazey said. “He could really sink

his fastball. You can win anywhere with a really good fastball and that’s what they did tonight; one guy sunk it, one guy commanded it.”

Conner Dotson made a relief appearance for WVU and Pitt thrived after the pitching change. In the seventh inning, Dotson hit consecutive batters, fol-lowed by an error and an intentional walk. Once Pitt had the bases loaded, it went downhill from there for Dotson.

As a result of the mis-cues, Pittsburgh strung to-gether three runs against Dotson before being re-placed by Jeff Hardy. The Mountaineers “escaped” the inning only allowing four runs.

Until the eighth inning, the Mountaineers gener-

ated three hits, and the middle of the lineup was a combined 0-11. West Vir-ginia didn’t have an answer for the Panthers, until the point where its backs were pushed against the wall in the bottom of the ninth.

Mazey switched his lineup in the ninth, calling upon his upperclassmen to attempt the comeback. Kyle Davis led off the inning with a fly out, dimming the Mountaineers chance of a comeback, but pinch hitter Shaun Wood was walked and it was up to Caleb Pot-ter, whose long fly ball fell just short of making it a two-run game.

Ray Guerrini was the last hope, and as he popped up an infield fly, Pittsburgh misplayed the ball, giving hope to the Mountaineers.

After a Braden Zarbnisky walk, freshman Ivan Vera finally converted, putting the Mountaineers on the scoreboard.

After a pitching change in the inning with Darius Hill, who leads the Moun-taineers in on-base per-centage (.336), coming to the plate, Hill flew out to deep right field to seal WVU’s fate.

Up next for the Moun-taineers, who have lost three of its last four, are the Kansas State Wildcats. The Wildcats are in the midst of an unfortunate season as well, as the team sits at the bottom of the Big 12 Con-ference with an overall re-cord of 14-19 and 1-8 in the conference.

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Men’s soccer

Mountaineers recognized for academicsBy RogeR TuRneR

SportS Writer @Dailyathenaeum

Seven West Virginia men’s soccer student-ath-letes have been named to the 2016 Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Team, as se-lected by the Big 12 Con-ference this spring.

The WVU men’s soccer team has begun its five-game spring schedule, while also reaching mile-stones off the field this month. Of the 16 players on this year’s men’s spring roster, seven have been se-lected to represent WVU as Academic All-Big 12 At-Large Team honorees.

The conference’s Ac-ademic At-Large Team recognizes the academic accomplishments of stu-dent-athletes at Big 12 Conference institutions who participate in sports outside of Big 12 competi-tion. A conference-best 13 West Virginia student-ath-letes were recognized for their academic and ath-letic performances. Along with men’s soccer, six stu-dent-athletes of the WVU

rifle team also received ac-ademic honors this spring. Combined, the two West Virginia programs pro-duced eight first team nominations for this year’s At-Large Team.

To be eligible for recog-nition, Big 12 student-ath-letes must maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher, either cu-mulative or over the past two semesters. Conference student-athletes must also have participated in 60 percent of their team’s scheduled contests that season. The Big 12 Confer-ence stipulates that fresh-men and transfers are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. However, senior student-athletes who have partic-ipated for a minimum of two years and meet all cri-teria except percent of par-ticipation qualify for aca-demic recognition.

On top of breaking into the nation’s Top 25 men’s rankings over the past nine years, West Virginia men’s soccer coach Marlon LeB-lanc boasts another crop of student-athletes who have gained academic honors.

“Our players are to once again be commended for continuing to achieve at the highest level academ-ically,” LeBlanc said. “Our program continues to honor the true meaning of ‘student-athlete’ by the commitment of all those that support them daily in their academic endeav-ors. “

In 2014, LeBlanc’s Mountaineer men’s team had eight players nomi-nated and 11 student-ath-letes in the spring of 2015. This year’s seven players is a decrease from a year ago, but the second-con-secutive year four of the seven have been named to the team.

Student-athletes who have maintained a 3.2 or better GPA qualify for first-team honors. The five members of the WVU men’s soccer team named first-team selections are Jad Arslan, Ivo Cabral, Mike Desiderio, Jack El-liott and Zak Leedom. Se-nior Jamie Merriam and junior Felix Angerer were named second-team hon-orees this season. Desid-

erio, Elliott, Leedom and Merriam represent the Mountaineers as two-time selections for the 2016 Big 12 Conference’s Academic At-Large Team.

Elliott set the standard for academic accolades among the WVU men’s soccer team. The London, England native has been recognized by the College Sports Information Direc-tors of America twice as an Academic All-American. Along with Academic All-America accolades, Elliott has earned Mid-American Conference Distinguished Scholar-Athlete honors and also has been named to the President’s List in his career as a Mountaineer.

“Having players earn Academic All-America honors speaks volumes to WVU’s culture of ‘aca-demics first’ and soccer at the highest level,” LeBlanc said. “Our program takes great pride in succeed-ing on the field and even more importantly achiev-ing that same excellence in the classroom.”

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Wednesday April 13, 201610 | SPORTS

Wrestling

Pair of Mountaineer coaches competed at U.S. Olympic TrialsBy Joel NormaN

SportS Writer @Dailyathenaeum

The wrestling season may be over, but not everyone is finished wrestling this spring.

No, none of the student-athletes are in action this off-season. Rather, two mem-bers of the coaching staff competed at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Iowa City, Iowa, on Sunday. West Virginia wrestling assistant coach Nick Marable and op-erations assistant Clarissa Chun hit the road to battle for Olympic qualifications.

Because neither had re-ceived a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, Marable and Chun needed to win their re-spective categories in order to travel to Rio for the 2016 Sum-mer Olympics and represent Team USA. Marable finished in fourth place, and Chun fin-ished third.

Marable, wrestling at 74 kilograms, finished in fourth place after falling in the third-place bout. He began action with a 3-1 triumph over Dan Vallimont in the quarterfi-nals. Chris Perry was next in the semifinals, and Marable defeated him as well, 10-6.

With the victory over Perry, Marable was in the finals, staring down Andrew Howe and an Olympic berth, should Marable emerge victorious. It was not to be; Marable lost, 2-1.

In the third-place match, Marable suffered a second consecutive defeat when he fell to Alex Dieringer, 2-1.

Chun started lower than Marable in her bracket. Chun, wrestling at 48 kilograms, picked up back-to-back vic-tories by defeating Alesha Zappitella, 12-0, and Nicole Woody, 14-4. Chun fell in the semifinal against Victory An-thony, 9-2.

Now in the consolation bracket, Chun battled Zap-pitella again and won once again, 10-0. Like Marable, Chun’s final match was a third-place bout. For the sec-ond time in the consolation bracket,

Chun faced an oppo-nent who she defeated in the championship bracket. Chun defeated Woody again, this time by a score of 10-0. All four of Chun’s victories were via technical falls.

West Virginia wrestling head coach Sammie Henson accompanied the two to Iowa

and coached them this past weekend.

“This is their life, and it’s time to lay it on the line,” Hen-son said in an interview with WVUsports.com. “I couldn’t (be) prouder of the work they have put in.”

Though Marable and Chun

did not qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games, they have much to be proud of. Both battled hard and came close to victory.

Now the two will have to wait to see if they earn a qual-ification for Rio. Should wres-tlers that finished ahead of

them need to drop out due to injury, Marable and Chun will be ready. They both finished high enough that they could be chosen to travel to Rio and represent the United States.

For Chun, traveling to Rio would give her the chance to continue improving her

Olympic record. She won bronze in London in 2012 and placed fifth in Beijing in 2008.

Unlike Chun, Marable has never made an Olympic team. He awaits his first chance to represent his country.

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AskAr sAlikhov/The DAily AThenAeumWVU head coach Sammie Henson celebrates after Jake A. Smith beats an Arizona State opponent in November.

AP

Kobe Bryant says farewell after 20 years with the Los Angeles LakersLOS ANGELES (AP) —

Kobe Bryant is down to one last shot, and every-body knows he’s going to take it.

After two decades spent dazzling the world, Bry-ant will end his basket-ball career at home with the Los Angeles Lak-ers on Wednesday night. He’ll walk off the court in front of his devoted fans in the building where he hung five championship banners.

He retires this week as the third-leading scorer in league history. Nobody ever got to spend 20 sea-sons with one NBA team before the 37-year-old Bryant, and he intends to thank Los Angeles with

one last display of his tran-scendent talent.

“It means everything” to finish at home, Bryant said.

“I grew up a die-hard Laker fan, so it’s like a dream come true for a kid to grow up and play for his favorite team, and play here for 20 years, his en-tire career,” he added. “I’ve seen the city grow. I’ve seen the city develop, and vice versa. There’s no place I’d rather end my career.”

Tickets are reselling for hefty sums, and merchan-dise commemorating the day is moving briskly. Fans without seats will gather downtown to show love for Bryant, a globally admired athlete who both fearlessly

represented and strongly resembled LA.

Fla s hy . Co n f i d e nt. Clever. Combative. Burst-ing with ambition.

And always entertaining.“I’ve grown up in front

of this crowd from the age of 17,” Bryant said. “A lot of faces that I saw in the crowd in my very first game are still here. That’s very special. Kids that are sitting there now, that were kids when I first came in, now come to the game with their kids. You know, that’s pretty cool to see.”

While Bryant’s fellow Nike athletes around the globe wear shoes honoring the event they’ve dubbed “Mamba Day,” the Lakers will attempt to send Bry-

ant out in style against the Utah Jazz, who could be eliminated from the play-off race shortly before tipoff.

Coach Byron Scott ex-pects Bryant to play more than 37 minutes, and Ko-be’s teammates will be feeding the ball to him on practically every posses-sion - admittedly not much of a change from most games during this other-wise horrific season.

With two 30-point per-formances this month, Bryant has proven he’s still capable. He’ll have every opportunity to run up the score one last time.

“I think it’s going to be crazy,” Scott said. “We got a chance to celebrate one

of the greatest to ever play the game this season, and I think we did it the right way.”

Although some things went very wrong, they turned out all right for Kobe.

Bryant said last week that every season is a fail-ure unless it ends with a ti-tle. The 15th such failure of his career has been com-ically bad, yet the inepti-tude of the worst team in Lakers history (16-65) ac-tually has made it easier to enjoy his farewell tour.

“We’re not playing for a championship, and I’m pretty black-and-white on where I stand with that sort of stuff,” Bryant said. “I’ve allowed myself to take

the blinders off and enjoy the fans, enjoy the crowd. Laugh a little bit more. En-gage a little bit more.”

Indeed, the Lakers’ re-cent games effectively have been tribute evenings for Bryant, with opponents shaking his hand and lin-ing up for turns to guard a player who profoundly in-spired most of the current NBA.

“It is hard to be great for that long,” said Miami’s Dwyane Wade, his U.S. Olympic teammate. “He has been great for maybe 19 out of 20 years. To do it at that level for so many years, with guys coming af-ter you, I have a tremen-dous amount of respect for that.

The DA 04-13-2016

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