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Dan Carder was sitting in the hospital with his wife when he got an email.

Many may have been overcome with emotion, but Carder took the news with reserve.

He had just been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influ-ential People of the Year.

“Obviously, it’s a huge honor,” Carder said, a West Virginia University engineer. “It’s a big award, but I’ve al-ways maintained that we were just doing our job.”

Carder, the director of WVU’s Center for Alterna-tive Fuels Engines and Emis-sions, got his name on the list for his work in exposing the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

Late last summer, CAFEE had been testing several die-sel-run Volkswagen vehi-cles’ emissions rates when they came across something shocking: VW had installed “defeat devices” in their vehi-cles, which controlled emis-sion rates depending on whether or not the car was being tested.

It later came out that the tested vehicles’ emission rate

was more than 35 times what Volkswagen had originally reported.

This scandal resulted in VW’s CEO stepping down, millions of dollars in fines from the EPA and a huge streak on the company’s reputation.

Surprisingly, Carder and CAFEE didn’t take the news quite like everyone else had.

“We kind of walked away after our deliverables were provided to our sponsor,” Carder said. “It just wasn’t high on our list, and there were other jobs to be done.”

Carder said he expected a voluntary recall from Volk-

swagen after the results came out, but couldn’t have antici-pated the blowback the com-pany actually received.

Now, Carder is recognized among the likes of Barack Obama and Leonardo Di-Caprio, although, he admit-ted he would’ve rather not have been singled out.

“It’s gratifying that we’ve worked this hard and this long for so many years, and now the group is getting rec-ognized,” Carder said. “The only negative thing I have about is that it makes it seem like it’s a single person. It’s just Dan Carder that they named, but it really was a

group effort.”Still, Carder is honored

and hopes that the recogni-tion will mean great things for WVU.

“It is tremendous to see West Virginia University make an impact on the world stage,” WVU President Gor-don Gee told WVUToday, “Dan Carder and the rest of the team at the Center for Al-ternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions are recognized in-ternationally for leading the way in emissions research, and their work will bring sweeping changes in the global automotive industry. They are the embodiment of

the Mountaineer spirit – un-afraid to challenge the status quo, bold enough to face the unknown and determined enough to change the world.”

Going forward, Carder said that CAFEE is looking to develop an advanced com-bustion lab and refine their heavy duty engine lab, and is also commissioning a vehicle testing lab off campus.

“Hopefully, with this ex-posure we’ve gotten, it’ll make our jobs a little easier,” Carder said.

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Normal, everyday Mountaineer fans will have the opportunity to receive V.I.P. treatment Saturday afternoon at the West Virginia Univer-sity baseball game against Baylor.

The fan appreciation day was created by a group of WVU students in their Leadership in Action capstone class.

“As WVU students and fans, we saw this as an opportunity to create an event unlike any other be-fore,” said Caitlin Forsyth, a member of the student organizational team.

For its project, the team was instructed to orga-nize an innovative, goal-oriented event involving both the community and academics.

“It was brought to our attention that there are very few, if any, events that celebrate and thank aver-age fans,” Forsyth said.

The fan appreciation day will begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30 at the Monongalia County Ball-park. There will be free entry as well as free food, drinks, games and give-aways. There will also be music by Core DJ Dollar.

Those attending the tailgate will receive a $2 off voucher for the ticket to the baseball game, and students can attend the game free of charge. The WVU men’s basketball

team will also be in atten-dance for a fan meet-and-greet and photo feature.

While alumni fans, sea-son ticket holders and do-nors to WVU get honored regularly with invitations to special events centered on Mountaineer athlet-ics, the normal, average fan does not get these opportunities, Forsyth said.

“We hope this gives the community a unique ex-perience and interaction,” Forsyth said.

Forsyth and her team-mates have been planning the Fan Appreciation Day since January. While the students were expected to plan a successful commu-nity event, they were also able to maximize on the community connections they made while plan-ning, Forsyth said.

“We’re excited,” Forsyth said, “this event is the first of its kind.”

This event, Forsyth said, is targeted at anyone who holds pride in WVU’s ath-letics and considers them a fan of the school.

“This is important be-cause it gives fans a chance to meet the play-ers they’ve watched and supported all season long,” said Tyler Mathews, a team member for the organizing team. “It also shows the players they have loving fans that truly care about them,” said Ty-ler Matthews, member of the organizing team.

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Bombardment tragedy in Syria’s largest cityBEirUT (aP) — Airstrikes

and artillery killed more than 60 people in the past 24 hours in Aleppo, including dozens at a hospital in a rebel-held neighborhood, as Syria’s larg-est city was turned once again into a major battleground in the civil war, officials said Thursday.

Aid agencies warn that Aleppo is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster with the collapse of a two-month cease-fire and stalled peace talks.

The intensified violence - by far the worst since the partial cease-fire began - co-incides with reports of a mil-itary buildup outside Aleppo that many fear is a prelude for a government attempt to force a complete siege of the city’s neighborhoods.

Battle-hardened residents were shocked by the blood-shed. Opposition activists ac-cused the government of car-pet-bombing rebel-controlled areas, while Syrian state me-dia said more than 1,000 mor-tar rounds and rockets were fired at government-held dis-tricts, killing 22 people.

Video posted online by opposition activists showed rescuers pulling bodies from shattered buildings in the rebel neighborhoods of Suk-kari, Kallasa and Bustan al-Qasr.

In one scene, a building’s

staircase hung sideways and old men were sobbing.

“The walls, cupboards, ev-erything fell on top of them,” cried one man. In another, a clearly terrified small girl with pigtails wept silently while held by a man.

A blond girl walked from the rubble behind her mother, questioning why they were bombed. “What have we done?” she cried.

In the rebel-held Sukkari neighborhood, 27 people died as a well-known field hospital supported by Doc-tors Without Borders and the International Commit-tee for the Red Cross was hit overnight, along with nearby buildings, according to op-

position activists and rescue workers.

U.N. envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura appealed to the U.S. and Russia to help revive the peace talks and cease-fire, which he said “hangs by a thread.”

However, the violence only escalated.

Chief opposition nego-tiator Mohammed Alloush blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for the violence, saying it shows “the environment is not con-ducive to any political action.”

“What is happening is a crime of ethnic and sectar-ian cleansing by all means,” Alloush told The Associated Press, adding it was an at-

tempt by Assad’s govern-ment to drive residents from Aleppo.

But a citizen journalist said there was little sign of people fleeing the city.

“Where can they go?” said Bahaa al-Halaby.

A Damascus-based Syrian military official denied the government had hit the hos-pital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Russian Defense Minis-try spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov also de-nied bombing any hospitals in Aleppo, saying its aircraft have not flown any missions in the region for several days.

independenT.co.UkAleppo, Syria’s largest city, has suffered severe bombardment.

9,333 dead in Ukrainesince invasion

UNiTEd NaTiONS (aP) — Nearly 10,000 peo-ple have been killed and more than 20,000 injured since the Ukraine con-flict began in April 2014, a top U.N. official said Thursday.

Assistant Secretary General for Political Af-fairs Taye-Brook Zeri-houn told the Security Council that the total number of casualties now stands at 30,729 including 9,333 peo-ple killed and 21,396 injured.

He said the latest in-cident occurred on April 27 when shelling killed at least four civilians and injured at least eight people in Olenivka near the city of Donetsk.

Zerihoun said that fighting has escalated in recent weeks to lev-els not seen since Au-gust 2014, when it was at

its most intense and he called on all parties to cease hostilities.

He criticized both sides for hindering ac-cess to an international monitoring mission put in place under the Minsk ceasefire agree-ment ironed out by the Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on Feb. 14, 2015, but said that ac-cording to statistics pro-vided by the monitors restrictions were more common in rebel-held areas.

Thursday’s Security Council meeting was the first to address the situa-tion in Ukraine since De-cember 2015.

During the meeting representatives from Russia and Ukraine traded bitter accusa-tions over who was to blame for the flare-up in hostilities.

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North Korean midrange missiles fail

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea attempted unsuccessfully to launch two suspected powerful in-termediate-range missiles on Thursday, South Ko-rean defense officials said, bringing the number of ap-parent failures in recent weeks to three.

The reported failures come ahead of a major North Korean ruling party meeting next week at which leader Kim Jong Un is be-lieved to want to place his stamp more forcefully on a government he inherited after his dictator father’s death in late 2011.

The launches were be-lieved to be the second and third attempted tests of a Musudan, a new interme-diate-range missile that could one day be capable of reaching far-off U.S. mil-itary bases in Asia and the Pacific.

On Thursday morning, a projectile fired from a North Korean northeastern coastal town crashed a few seconds after liftoff, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said, requesting an-onymity because of office rules. It wasn’t immediately known whether it crashed on land or into the sea.

Then, in the evening, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the North fired another Musu-dan missile near Wonsan but that launch also pre-sumably failed. There were no other details.

The North American Aerospace Defense Com-mand (NORAD) confirmed that North Korea attempted two missile launches that did not pose a threat to North America. It did not provide details in a brief statement.

The Pentagon said in a statement later Thursday that both launch attempts failed.

South Korea’s For-eign Ministry called the launches a provocation and said it will try to increase international pressure on North Korea.

Japan’s U.N. Ambassa-dor Motohide Yoshikawa condemned what he called a “series of grave and very clear violations of Security Council resolutions.”

“This is a threat to Japan’s national security,” he said.

Yoshikawa said the U.N. Security Council is prepar-ing a statement in response to the launches.

The launch attempts

come amid North Korean anger over annual South Korean-U.S. military drills that it calls a rehearsal for an invasion. The North has fired many missiles and ar-tillery shells into the sea in recent months in an apparent protest against the drills, which end Saturday.

Earlier this week, South Korean media reported that North Korea had placed a Musudan missile on standby for an impending launch. The reports said the missile was one of two Mu-sudan missiles North Korea had earlier deployed in the northeast.

South Korean and U.S. officials said there was a North Korean missile launch on April 15, the birthday of the North’s late founder, but they have not officially confirmed it was a Musudan. U.S. officials said that launch ended in failure.

Musudan missiles have a potential range of about 3,500 kilometers (2,180 miles), which would put U.S. military bases in Guam within their striking dis-tance. North Korea is also pushing to develop a nu-clear-armed long-range

missile capable of reach-ing the U.S. mainland, but South Korea believes it does not yet possess such a missile.

Before this month’s sus-pected launches, North Ko-rea had never flight-tested a Musudan missile, though one was displayed during a military parade in 2010 in Pyongyang.

There is speculation in South Korea that North Ko-rea will soon conduct a fifth nuclear test. The North car-ried out a fourth atomic test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February, earning worldwide con-demnation and tougher U.N. sanctions.

In New York, U.N. spokes-man Stephane Dujarric said “these types of actions by the DPRK are extremely troubling and we would yet again encourage the DPRK to cease any further provo-cations and return to com-pliance with its full interna-tional obligations.”

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Thurs-day there were unspecified signs that a fifth test was “imminent.” She warned another nuclear test would result in North Korea suf-fering harsher sanctions.

borgenmagazine.comDespite its technological claims, North Korea’s missile systems have failed according to South Korea.

China tightens on nonprofits

BEIJING (AP) — China passed a law Thursday tight-ening controls over foreign non-governmental organi-zations by subjecting them to close police supervision, a move officials say will help the groups but critics charge is the latest attempt by au-thorities to clamp down on perceived threats to the rul-ing Communist Party’s control.

The law, adopted by the national legislature, states that foreign NGOs must not endanger China’s national security and ethnic unity. It grants police the power to question NGO administra-tors, search residences and facilities and seize files and equipment.

The move to pass such a law has drawn criticism from U.S. and European officials and business and academic organizations. They are con-cerned it will severely re-strict the operations of a wide range of groups, further lim-iting the growth of civil soci-ety in China and hindering exchanges between China and the rest of the world.

The law includes a clause that allows police to black-list “unwelcome” groups and prevent them from operating in the country. Groups can be blacklisted if they com-mit violations ranging from illegally obtaining unspeci-fied state secrets to “spread-ing rumors, slandering or otherwise expressing or dis-seminating harmful infor-mation that endangers state security.”

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders denounced the law as “dra-conian,” saying it allows po-lice to exercise “daily super-vision and monitoring” of foreign NGOs. The law will have “a profoundly detri-mental impact on civil soci-ety in China,” it said.

The group said the most alarming aspects include the ability of police to end for-eign NGO-organized activ-ities that they deem to “en-danger national security,” a term that is not clearly de-fined. Police will also be able to more closely monitor for-eign organizations’ fund-ing sources and expenses, “which has the chilling ef-

fect of intimidation,” the group said.

The law appears to be an effort to utilize of the re-sources and expertise of for-eign NGOs as China strug-gles with problems including environmental pollution and mental health, while pre-venting them from com-peting with the Communist Party for hearts and minds.

Still, the final version of the law eased many of the re-strictions included in an ear-lier draft, including exempt-ing foreign schools, medical facilities, and academic and research groups in natural sciences and engineering technology.

It also allows foreign NGOs to set up multiple rep-resentative offices in China, removes restrictions on hir-ing volunteers and staff, and eliminates a requirement that they reapply for permis-sion to operate in China ev-ery five years.

However, in an apparent attempt to limit their influ-ence, the law bans foreign groups from setting up re-gional chapters, recruit-ing members from among the public at large or rais-ing funds within China. It also subjects them to closer financial scrutiny, requir-ing that they submit an-nual reports detailing their sources of financing, spend-ing activities and changes in personnel.

“You are here to do deeds, not to build up your troops,” Guo Linmao, a legal inspec-tor for the legislature, said at a news conference following the law’s passage.

Guo sought to offer words of assurance, saying the law aims primarily to welcome foreign non-governmental groups, help promote their activities and protect their lawful interests while filter-ing out those few organiza-tions that may hurt China’s national security and in-terests in the name of NGO work.

And, despite a relentless crackdown on domestic legal aid and civic society groups, Guo said international orga-nizations working on human rights issues are welcome in China, as long as they com-ply with Chinese laws.

Biden presses Iraq to hold onto gainsBAGHDAD (AP) — Vice

President Joe Biden pressed Iraq on Thursday not to let its crippling political crisis upend hard-fought gains against the Islamic State group as he returned to the country that’s come to sym-bolize America’s relentless struggles in the Middle East.

Biden slipped into Bagh-dad on an unannounced trip, his first to Iraq in nearly five years. Officials said the stop was planned before Iraq’s political system de-scended into turmoil, hin-dering U.S.-led efforts to de-feat extremists who control parts of both Iraq and Syria. Sitting down with Iraq’s be-leaguered leaders, he praised them for working “very, very hard” to construct a new Cabinet and touted prog-ress wresting back territory from IS.

“It’s real, it’s serious, and it’s committed,” Biden said as he met with Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri, a Sunni politician facing calls from his colleagues to resign.

Still, the anxious under-tones of Biden’s brief visit were clear from the mo-ment he stepped off a mil-itary transport plane into

blistering heat after an over-night flight from Washington. White House staffers donned body armor and helmets as Biden was whisked by heli-copter to the relative safety of the heavily fortified Green Zone, reminders of the dire security situation even in Iraq’s capital.

Biden’s roughly eight-hour visit came amid a wave of tense protests and de-mands for sweeping politi-cal reforms that have para-lyzed a government already struggling to tackle a dire economic crisis and bat-tle IS. The United States has deployed more troops and equipment in hopes of put-ting Iraq on a better path as President Barack Obama prepares to leave office in January.

Though there’s been prog-ress in wresting back terri-tory from IS and weakening its leadership, senior U.S. of-ficials traveling with Biden said any lost momentum would likely be due to polit-ical unrest rather than mil-itary shortcomings. Chaotic politics are nothing new in Iraq, but the present infight-ing risks becoming a distrac-tion, with politicians more focused on keeping their jobs than fighting IS, said the officials, who weren’t autho-rized to speak on the record.

While Obama and Biden came into office pledging to end the war - and did so in 2011 - U.S. troops returned here in 2014 amid the rise of IS violence.

Obama now acknowl-edges that his goal of defeat-ing the militants won’t be re-alized during his presidency.

Still, this month Obama agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq, bringing the authorized total to just over 4,000, and to send Apache helicopters into the fight. Biden thanked some of those troops and American diplomats during a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he alluded to the deep sectarian divides still plagu-ing Iraq long after U.S.-led forces toppled the late dicta-tor Saddam Hussein in 2003.

“Think of all the places we are today trying to keep the peace, all the places we’ve sent you guys and women,” Biden said. “They’re places where because of history, we’ve drawn artificial lines, creating artificial states, made up of totally distinct ethnic, religious cultural groups and said, ‘Have at it. Live together.’”

Biden, as a U.S. senator in 2006, proposed dividing Iraq into semi-autonomous re-gions for Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis. Though that plan wasn’t adopted, the per-sistent strains among the groups that have flared re-cently in Iraq’s government illustrate the difficulty in holding the country together.

The current round of tur-moil grew out of weeks of ral-lies by followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanding an end to perva-sive corruption and misman-agement. Thousands have protested just outside Bagh-dad’s Green Zone, calling for politicians to be replaced by independent technocrats and for Iraq’s powerful Shi-ite militias to be brought into key ministries.

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Protecting innocents during wartimeEveryone knows war

comes with great costs to humanity, but do they ever become too high to be justified?

NBC News reported a hospital in Syria was caught in an airstrike yesterday, killing 14 people. The hos-pital lost two doctors of an eight-person staff in the strike, and several patients were killed. The hospital primarily served children, and which side of the ongo-ing Syrian civil war attacked the hospital is still unclear.

Military rules have long stipulated that field med-ics and hospitals should never be targets of vio-lence; however, using more impersonal forms of at-tack drones creates room for error. In October 2015, NBC News reported a hos-pital was bombed by the United States in an air-strike because the U.S. mil-itary mistook it for a com-pound housing Islamic militants. President Barack

Obama formally apologized for the “tragic mistake” that killed 42 people. Unfortu-nately, apologies don’t re-store lives.

Attacking from the air and using drones in U.S. military strikes risk fewer

casualties on our side, but these methods have been known to devastate com-munities of innocent civil-ians. The exact number of civilian deaths from drone strikes are unclear, but a New York Times article

from 2009 entitled “Death from Above, Outrage Down Below” indicated Pakistani sources in 2009 calculated a hit rate of only 2 percent in the country, meaning only one Islamic militant was killed for every 50 civilians.

The question of using drones and airstrikes boils down to whose lives are considered more valuable: Ours or theirs? Should the U.S. continue to protect American lives with new technology at the cost of endangering foreign inno-cents caught in the middle of the conflict?

Though some may ar-gue putting an end to fight-ing is the most crucial goal during wartime, what will be left behind in its wake is too dangerous to be chanced. Aside from the sheer inhumanity of the collateral damage itself, citizens’ opinions and atti-tudes of foreign countries, where intervening military aid may have cost the lives of thousands of innocents, can last longer and create more damage over time than even the conflict itself.

In an article from The Johns Hopkins News-Let-ter from 2013, Joel Andreas, a professor of sociology, ad-

vocated for remaining cau-tious in implementing new technology during times of war.

“Drone technology en-ables war everywhere, all the time,” Andreas said. “It is far easier, logistically and politically, to have drones rain missiles down on for-eign countries than to send in soldiers… So the technol-ogy is by its nature helping create a far more dangerous world...no matter how tech-nologically sophisticated it might be…”

Andreas believes the ends will never justify the means where drones and similar technology are con-cerned. His as well as other similar perspectives are important to consider as we advance blindly into a more technological age. In-nocent lives should be pro-tected at all costs, no mat-ter what measures must be taken to do so.

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Sanders supporters should look to state, local politics

The escalating finan-cial burden health care has placed on the finances of the United States and its people has evolved into a persistently crucial issue for Americans. It is an issue not only impacting their pres-ent lives, but also their fu-ture and their children’s future.

Medical bankruptcies are a common occurrence in this country. According to a 2009 Harvard study ex-ploring the scope of med-ical bankruptcy in 2007, more than half of all bank-ruptcies in the country are attributed to health care ex-penses. However, to attri-bute this solely to a lack of universal health care seems too simplistic and intellec-tually lazy.

Firstly, this childish no-tion that universal health care is “free” must be ruth-lessly dispelled. Citizens pay for it one way or an-other, whether it be through excessive insurance pre-miums or increased tax-

ation. With this being the case, Americans will con-tinue to get financially squeezed, with or without universal health care, un-til the underlying sources of rising health care costs in the United States are addressed.

Before delving into those sources, it is important to emphasize the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has not only failed to act as a panacea to the problems, but has com-pounded them. It has es-sentially forced young peo-ple, under the threat of a tax penalty, to engage with a fraudulently corrupt health insurance system: One in which premiums continue to steadily rise, according to a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of pre-mium changes and insurer participation in Obamacare from 2015.

Though it could be ar-gued the Affordable Care Act has slowed the rate of increases, it did next to nothing to address the core issue, which lies in the pric-ing of medical goods and services.

Health care firms in the United States are both pro-

tected and subsidized by a wide array of government regulation. These regula-tions largely function as deterrents to cheaper com-petition, as well as access to cheaper alternatives for consumers. As it relates to the former, if one wishes to open a private physician clinic, he or she must ad-here to certain pricing pa-rameters for their services in order to receive and maintain a license to prac-tice medicine from his or her state’s medical board.

These types of pricing re-strictions prevent smaller firms from gaining a com-petitive edge over the larger established medical clinics and firms. This is primarily a product of state medical boards around the country largely comprising well-es-tablished doctors and ex-ecutives of large drug and medical device compa-nies: individuals who have a vested interest in prevent-ing free market pricing of medical services and goods.

Severing the ties between direct financial interests in the medical industry and its commercial regulation would be an essential step toward addressing health

care costs. Pertaining to the costs of prescription drugs, the federal government is all about free trade and cheap imports, until it involves the world of pharmaceuticals.

Under the threat of im-prisonment, the Food and Drug Administration places significant restrictions on the personal purchasing and importing of U.S.-pro-duced drugs from foreign

countries such as Canada. This is to the detriment of Americans. Based on an analysis located on Phar-macy Checker’s website from 2013, Americans can save as much as 76 percent by purchasing such drugs abroad. It is a blatant re-striction on trade aimed at preserving the pricing mo-nopoly the major pharma-ceutical firms possess.

Universal health care is ultimately the best path for the country, but it must be preceded by a major reduc-tion in the pricing power of big medicine. If it’s not, universal health care in the United States would run synonymous with crippling public tax and borrowing burdens.

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As Bernie Sanders’ pres-idential bid begins to wind down, his supporters face a crisis of identity. While the excitement generated by the candidate has or-ganized thousands across the country, it is yet to be seen whether the “politi-cal revolution” will survive the candidate’s likely de-feat. However, if West Vir-ginia’s Sanders camp wants to keep pushing for progres-sive politics, they would do well to look toward state and local issues.

After Sanders lost four of the five state primaries held Tuesday, the New York Times reported on Wednes-day that his campaign is lay-ing off hundreds of staffers and consolidating its re-maining resources in Cal-ifornia. The article implies this is likely because his opponent Hillary Clinton is “all but certain to win.” While it is still not impos-sible for Sanders to get the nomination, realistically his time is just about up.

However, his campaign has not been for nothing. This year’s primary has un-deniably shown that mil-lions of Americans will sup-port a progressive agenda and vote for a self-described democratic socialist. Large swaths of the country now openly support campaign finance reform, increased

workers’ rights and power for labor unions, a higher minimum wage and a num-ber of generally left-of-cen-ter goals. This seemed all but unthinkable even a few years ago.

With his impending loss to Clinton, the question “Now what?” is likely to come up among support-ers. Since announcing his candidacy, one of the loud-est criticisms of Sanders has been the impossibility of instituting many of his

policies on a national level. Unfortunately for his sup-porters, there is a lot of truth to this concern. Especially without him in the White House, the more progres-sive aspects of his agenda will likely be very difficult, if not impossible, to get through Congress.

If progressive sections of the population focus exclu-sively on national politics for the foreseeable future, many of their goals may re-main out of reach. How-

ever, this is not their only option. There are a number of state and local issues af-fecting thousands of people in our state and community which could be tackled by WV progressives.

For one example, in their last session, West Virginia’s Republican-majority state legislature passed a highly controversial right-to-work law which garnered na-tional attention. According to the Huffington Post arti-cle “West Virginia Republi-

cans Just Delivered A Huge Blow To Unions” published earlier this year, West Vir-ginia became the 26th state to pass a law which forbids unions from requiring all workers to pay a fee in orga-nized shops as a condition of employment. Such a fee is meant to offset a union’s legal obligation to repre-sent all workers in a firm, whether they are members or not.

These laws are widely op-posed by West Virginia’s la-

bor unions, and in a January Charleston Gazette arti-cle, hundreds of protestors gathered at the Capitol on the first day of the session to oppose the legislation. The article, “Unions rally at Capitol before State of the State speech,” claimed law-makers “made it a priority to repeal the state’s prevail-ing wages and to pass right-to-work legislation.”

This is only one example, but surely there are a num-ber of current West Virginia policies with which Sanders supporters disagree with. There must be local issues, such as the treatment of the homeless or rising tu-ition costs, which progres-sive West Virginia residents wish to change.

Organizing around these and similar issues may pro-vide an avenue for piece-wise progress and move-ment-building unavailable to national campaigns. Since these smaller issues involve fewer people, it is possible for activists to speak directly to affected people and give them a chance to be heard. Es-pecially at the local level, face-to-face organizing can have an empowering ef-fect and help bring people into a budding progressive movement.

If Sanders supporters wish to continue their “rev-olution” after a national defeat, maybe they should look in their own backyard to begin organizing.

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CELEBRATE DANCE Two concerts at Schmitt’s this weekend

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Two Mountain State na-tives are hitting the stage this weekend at Schmitt’s Saloon.

The Joz Noz Kids, Little General Stores and Coca-Cola Celebrity Gold Classic will be in full swing Satur-day evening at the official home of Owen Schmitt and The Davisson Brothers Band. The Marshall Lowry Band will take the stage this weekend with special guest Kyle Thomas.

The Marshall Lowry Band members are no strangers to West Virginia. The lead front man, Charles Marshall Lowry, was born and raised in Fairview, West Virginia. His home-town introduced him to country and gospel music in his early years. Lowry started to play guitar at age seven, and by age eleven, his mother had him read-ing music and participating in his school’s band.

After experiencing a tough childhood, Lowry’s music always held true to him. The musician was rarely seen without an in-strument in hand. As he grew older, Lowry set-tled down as a lead gui-tarist and co-front man of The New Relics. The band landed a 54 spot on Bill-board’s Hot Country Chart with their single, “Beauti-ful.” Lowry’s experience in The New Relics led to the formation of his signature whisky-soothing voice and country guitar slinging.

Lowry moved on to form The Marshall Lowry Band, which is composed of mu-sicians Lowry has played with for years. The band gained a speedy follow-ing and a loyal fan base in North Central West Vir-ginia. Influences of the band include the Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Cash and Brad Paisley.

Lowry released his first self-titled EP single, “Still Standing” in Jan. 2012. The band recorded and produced their first track, “Miles to Go,” in the fall of 2013. A full-length album

soon followed in 2015.The special guest, Kyle

Thomas Majnaric is a coun-try performer originally from Akron, Ohio. Thomas graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia University in May 2015 with a bachelors of science in exercise physiology. Thomas was a member of the WVU football team for two years before realizing his true passion for music.

Since finding his true de-sire, Thomas has played at the House of Blues Cleve-land and was selected as the winner of the Live Mu-sic Showcase by Universal’s Island Def Jam Label rep-resentative. In addition to many distinguished hon-ors, Thomas has co-writ-ten a song currently be-ing pitched by his label to Dustin Lynch. Thomas just released a follow up EP that is now available on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify and Reverb Nation.

Thomas previously per-formed in Morgantown acoustically in college, where he frequented the songwriters showcase at Schmitt’s Saloon. Thomas is eager to come back to his old stomping grounds for another performance.

“I am most looking for-ward to coming back to my alma mater to ply for old teammates, friends and coaches,” Thomas said.

Thomas believes peo-ple should attend because the experience presents a great chance to get a taste of what the full shows are like and to hear orig-inal and top 40 country music.

“What makes my music unique is the emotion I put into it. Not just the originals which I wrote from life ex-perience, but also the cov-ers,” Thomas said. “I love engaging the crowd, mak-ing them ‘feel’ the song and making sure they are hav-ing a good time.”

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Summer in Morgantown

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Jumpstart summer with bluegrass jams at Cheat Fest.

Finish finals and head to Bruceton Mills for this an-nual celebration on the riv-erbanks of the Cheat River. Taking place Saturday, May 7, Cheat Fest hosts an ar-ray of events and activities from a river race and 5K for athletes and adventurers, as well as music, art and food vendors. Tucked away in the forest surrounding the Cheat River, this festival has something for everyone.

Take a trip to Wonderfalls.

Is it really summertime in Morgantown without a trip to Wonderfalls? Just 45 minutes outside of town, the scenic falls and swim-ming holes on Big Sandy Creek is known as nature’s retreat for students from Morgantown.

Be sure to set your trip

earlier in the summer months, to ensure water levels are high enough for cannon balling into the cool, refreshing water. For specific directions to Won-derfalls, visit http://diyout-doors.wvu.edu/hiking/big-sandy-creek-wonder-falls.

Rent ORC kayaks & take to Cheat Lake.

The Outdoor Recreation Center here at West Virginia University gives students the chance to rent nearly any type of outdoor equip-ment. From bikes to tents and canoes, students with a valid WVU student ID can rent equipment for free or a small charge. Cheat Lake’s calm, rolling wakes make for a great place to grab a kayak and catch some sunrays on a Morgantown afternoon.

Go for a swim at Blue Hole.

A staple piece of every Mountaineer’s summer in-cludes a trip with friends to Blue Hole. Located in Jen-kinsburg, West Virginia, just 45 minutes outside

of Morgantown, this area may be difficult to get to but worth the work. With a large bridge and boulders that line the riverbanks, Blue Hole is a hotspot for college students on a hu-mid day. For directions to Blue Hole, visit http://diy-outdoors.wvu.edu/hiking/blue-hole-jenkinsburg.

Enjoy a coffee and sweet treats at Terra Café’s out-door seating area.

Terra Café, located in Star City, offers delectable sweet treats, fresh coffee and entrees. Grab brunch on Terra Café’s outdoor pa-tio and enjoy the summer breeze.

Check out the down-town Morgantown Farm-er’s Market for fresh veg-gies and fruits.

Open every Saturday, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., the Morgantown Farmer’s Mar-ket hosts local vendors sell-ing fresh, homegrown pro-duce, art and more. Taking place beneath the pavilion on Spruce Street, the Mor-gantown Farmer’s Mar-

ket allows students to pur-chase fresh ingredients for all their grilling ventures over the summer.

Celebrate the last few moments of sum-mer by checking out MountainFest.

Morgantown’s motorcy-cle rally incorporates all the essentials of good summer fun, from music to brews and food. Taking place at Mylan Park, the week-end of July 27, Mountain-Fest will host artists such as Montgomery Gentry, Aaron Lewis and Buckcherry. MountainFest is enjoyable for those who are both ad-vent bikers and those who are not. Plus, all proceeds from this event go toward funding local Morgantown non-profits.

Grab a Morgantown craft brew by the Monon-gahela River at Morgan-town Brewing Co.

Morgantown Brewing Company has great food and brews, along with an outdoor seating area host-ing great views. Be sure to

sit beneath umbrellas while sipping a local craft beer at Morgantown Brewing Co., and catch the sunset on the Monongahela River before summer is a wrap.

Spend a day hiking and picnicking at Coopers Rock!

Most Moutaineers are no stranger to the great views and outdoor activities that taking place at Cooper’s Rock, but there’s something

extra special about the state park in the summer months. Hiking trails offer amazing views, bumpins with innocent wildlife and a chance to get some exer-cise. Grab some friends, a few sandwiches and snag a picnic table under the trees to fuel up after your hike. Be sure to stick around for the awesome sunset.

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mon, the “ B o u r n e ”

films have been like a

lifeblood.“I was kind

of inoculated for that five or six

year period when I made the first three. I could make deci-sions with absolutely no thought to what

the potential box office was,” says Damon. “It was

liberating in that sense. I knew that if I had another Jason Bourne off in the middle distance, it would kind of rescue me and keep my career afloat for a few more years.”

In “Jason Bourne” (out July 29), Damon returns to the spy franchise that made him a full-blown movie star with all the freedom such status af-fords. Given how much 45-year-old actor credits the series with, it’s a wel-come homecoming.

“It’s obviously the most significant thing that’s happened in my career,” Damon said in a recent interview from the set of Alexander Payne’s “Down-sizing.” ‘’I definitely knew I wanted to do it again but I was always kind of teth-ered to Paul (Greengrass). I knew I didn’t want to do it without him.”

It’s been nine years since “The Bourne Ulti-matum,” but the franchise based on Robert Ludlum’s novels has kept spinning. “The Bourne Legacy,” in 2012, starred Jeremy

Renner as another secret agent. That film grossed less than the three pre-vious “Bourne” movies, thus proving the value of both Damon and Green-grass to the franchise. The “Captain Phillips” director helmed Damon’s last two “Bourne” movies.

Damon says the delay was partially caused by a struggle to find a worthy next chapter for the char-acter. The time helped: “Ja-son Bourne” was inspired by Edward Snowden and more recent debate over civil liberties.

But Damon’s and Greengrass’ motivation in returning, they say, ulti-mately grew out of satis-fying fans of the kinetic, mysterious “Bourne” films.

“All those people who have come up to me over the years, hopefully they’re representative of a whole group of people who will go buy tickets,” says Da-mon. “We’re counting on it. You never know. It’s the movie business, so it could be a total disaster.”

Jodie Foster on ‘Money Monster’

NEW YORK (AP) — Jodie Foster is as surprised as anyone that the fourth film she’s directed, “Money Monster,” is coming out in the summer among the likes of Avengers and Angry Birds.

“I don’t spend a lot of time going to movies in the summer because there’s not a lot I want to see,” says Fos-ter. “I think people are sick of entertainment that really is just about grabbing their ticket sales. Maybe this is an alternative.”

“Money Monster,” out May 13, stands as one of this summer’s most strik-ing exceptions. It’s one of few wholly original wide-re-lease films targeting adults, and one of only two major studio movies directed by a woman. (The other is Thea Sharrock’s romance “Me Before You.”)

The film stars George Clooney as a Jim Cramer-esque finance guru named Lee Gates, who’s taken hos-tage on live television by a distraught, bankrupted viewer (Jack O’Connell). Gates’ producer (Julia Rob-erts), in the control booth, remains in his earpiece throughout the ordeal. The thriller unfolds in real time, gradually revealing the deeper roots of media ma-nipulation and economic inequality.

“The movie’s very mean-ingful to me,” Foster said in a recent interview. “It has a lot of resonance about the modern world and my feel-ings about it, about failure and how wrapped up we all are in our ideas of value. All that stuff is meaningful to me, and then you wake up and go, ‘Wow, I made a pop-corn movie.’”

Foster, 53, has previously directed “Little Man Tate,” ‘’Home for the Holidays” and “The Beaver,” but this is her first studio film (for Sony Pictures). She grants that there were “a lot of opinions to navigate” but hopes her film - a kind of combination of “Network” and “Dog Day Afternoon”

- has something of Sidney Lumet’s spirit in it.

A two-time Oscar win-ner and 2013 lifetime hon-oree at the Golden Globes (where she made that fa-mously passionate and vague speech), Foster has followed the increased at-tention to gender equality in Hollywood with a mix of cynicism and pride. She be-lieves a complicated issue has been reduced to buzz words, but also that change is long overdue.

“There have always been, although not in the greatest numbers, independent fe-male filmmakers. There’s always been international filmmakers that were women,” she says. “It really was America that was has been the last in the main-stream arena.”

One thing Foster ques-tions is if women should even want some of the blockbuster directing jobs that nearly always go to men, but might rather pur-sue different types of films. “It took us this long to get here and I think women are very sensitive to not throw-ing away their dreams when they finally get a taste of their dreams,” she says.

“Money Monster” was shaped in important ways by its director. Roberts’ character, Foster says, “orig-inally was just a woman who said ‘Go to one,’ ‘Go to two.’” It’s an example of the many qualities Foster - un-commonly direct, fiercely honest, uncompromising - brings to the table.

Speaking about her de-termination as a director, she’s typically frank.

“It’s shocking how little I’ve been able to figure out how to get movies off the ground and to find oppor-tunities for personal films,” Foster says. “I do really want to focus on this. But you ac-tually have to carve out the time. The acting, it will suck everything else out. You can’t squeeze in a direc-tor’s career. You have to go out on a ledge and say, ‘OK, this is what I’m doing now.’”

Rylance takes on more Spielberg roles NEW YORK (AP) — The first

time Steven Spielberg offered a role to Mark Rylance, the actor said no. That was 30 years ago for “Empire of the Sun.” Now, Rylance can’t stop saying yes.

Fresh off their Oscar-winning collaboration on “Bridge of Spies,” Spielberg and Rylance have booked not just another film together, but a trio of them. Along with joining the cast of Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” a sci-ence-fiction thriller due out next year, Rylance has signed up to star as Pope Pius IX in the Tony Kushner-scripted “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.”

But first, Rylance stars in “The BFG” (out July 1), Spiel-berg’s adaption of the Roald Dahl classic. Rylance plays the titular Big Friendly Giant in a motion capture perfor-mance that the actor prom-

ises will impress in its tech-nological wizardry.

“That’s the big leap for-ward in this film,” says Ry-lance, whose character be-friends an orphan girl, played in live action by Ruby Barn-hill. “The trickery of it will be hidden. But make no mistake, the trickery was incredible.”

Before “Bridge of Spies” and PBS’s “Wolf Hall,” Ry-lance was known primarily as arguably the greatest stage actor and Shakespeare inter-preter of his generation. His commitment to theater re-mains (he recently finished a run of “Nice Fish,” a play based on Louis Jenkins po-etry, in Brooklyn) but his newest role is as Spielberg regular.

“It comes from him be-cause obviously I’m not in a place to offer him work,” Rylance says, chuckling. “It

makes me a little nervous that I’ll fail him at some point! But at the moment it’s quite enjoyable.”

Rylance says he relishes becoming a member of Spiel-berg’s community, which in-cludes other mainstays like composer John Williams, cinematographer Janusz Ka-minski and the late Melissa Mathison, who penned the screenplay to “The BFG.” Ry-lance believes Spielberg may be eager for a company of ac-tors, too.

“Because I was doing ‘Nice Fish’ and busy in New York, at first I contemplated not going to the Academy Awards be-cause I’d have to miss some performances,” he says. “But I thought, well, I’ll ask Steven what he feels about it. He said it would mean a lot to him if I went. He’s only ever had one other actor win an award in one of his films: Daniel Day-

Lewis in the Lincoln film. I think he feels there is a slight opinion that he’s not an ac-tor’s director. I don’t have that opinion, quite the con-trary. But I think he feels he’s known more for other as-pects of filmmaking.”

Essential to the mak-ing of “The BFG” was hav-ing the two stars together in the same room, despite their characters being separated by scale in the motion cap-ture process.

“There was no camera. There was no lighting apart from the general state. There were no marks to hit,” Ry-lance says. “It was like do-ing a play in a small theater studio where the audience is all around you. Steven, who wasn’t (electronically) suited up, could stand right next to us on the set, which he of-ten did, laughing and look-ing at us.”

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Jayhawks attempting reformation NEW YORK (AP) — To a

certain extent, singer-song-writer Gary Louris is fight-ing against history by re-forming the Jayhawks.

“The precedent isn’t very good as far as bands putting out their best work late in their careers - in rock, it’s very rare,” said Louris, 61. “That doesn’t mean it has to be that way.”

The Jayhawks try to prove that point with Friday’s re-lease of “Paging Mr. Proust,” a concise collection of me-lodic pop-rock with a few twists. The lovely “Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces” stands with the best work ever by the Minneapolis-based group that made an initial impression with early-1990s songs “Blue” and “Waiting for the Sun.”

No one can accuse the Jayhawks of living off past glory. In fact, their failure to achieve the greatness many had predicted became a de-fining characteristic and in-ternal motivator. The band and Louris lived through their share of tumult.

“I really had to come to peace with the idea of the Jayhawks,” Louris said. “For a long time I tried to do ev-erything but.”

The band’s 2011 reunion with former member Mark Olson ended badly, and Louris landed in rehab fighting an addiction to painkillers. Louris blamed music for everything wrong in his life and was ready to quit altogether. A deter-mined therapist talked him out of it.

He returned to writ-ing songs, performed solo and with friends, realiz-ing at some point he loved the Jayhawks and nobody could do his songs bet-ter. He brought together keyboard player Karen

Grotberg, drummer Tim O’Reagan and bassist Marc Perlman for another go.

History teaches us that the Jayhawks have really been two different bands. With Olson, another singer-songwriter, they were lead-ers of the alt-country move-ment. Louris took over as leader when Olson left in 1995, leading it deeper into rock and experimen-tation. The “Sound of Lies” and “Smile” discs were landmarks.

“The existing band, with-out Mark, we’re all willing to try different stuff and allow other influences to come in,” O’Reagan said. “The alt-country thing is only just a small part of it. When Mark was in, that was more central to it, the front-porch kind of vibe, which I like and kind of miss some-times ... I like them both.”

The 2011 album with Ol-son, “Mockingbird Time,” and ensuing tour failed because Olson had grown

used to being control while his former band had moved on, O’Reagan said.

You can’t go home again.The new song “Lies in

Black & White” is sure to be noticed in that context. Louris sings of being dis-gusted by a newspaper ar-ticle filled with lies “about the situation we had al-legedly been through.” He sings: “Your words are twisted, bitter, you duplici-tous quitter.”

Louris denies that he’s addressing Olson, saying “my songs tend to be about multiple people.”

Still, the first thing that pops up in an online search of “Jayhawks,” ‘’Olson” and “Louris” is a 2014 article from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune based largely on an interview with Olson, who said, “I don’t ever want to see Gary Louris again, nor do I want him singing my songs.”

Olson claimed, and his former manager confirmed

this week, that Louris had promised to retire the Jay-hawks’ name. Louris said the two have different in-terpretations of a conversa-tion, that it was a “heat-of-the-moment kind of thing (said) without any thought.”

He doesn’t like talking about the subject. Post-rehab, he’s interested in making amends with peo-ple although with Olson, he admitted, “I could probably do some more.”

Happier for Louris, the initial response to the Jay-hawks’ ninth album dis-pels some of his fears about how a veteran band’s work is perceived. All seven re-views compiled by the Metacritic website were positive, critics impressed by the mixture of adventur-ousness and familiar.

Perhaps many agree with the view Louris came around to: “With all of this new-found clarity, I think I’ve finally realized how great this band is,” he said.

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‘NCIS’ and others fly under awards radar

NEW YORK (AP) — “There are shows,” says Chris O’Donnell, “that never garner awards, that aren’t considered high-brow in any way - but that lots of fans really enjoy and keep coming back to watch.”

These days, viewers (es-pecially media critics) hail a new Golden Age of Tele-vision. But O’Donnell’s formidable “NCIS: Los Angeles” is systemati-cally absent from any such honor roll, as are the oth-ers in this franchise-troika: the original “NCIS” (in its 13th-and-counting hit sea-son, with Mark Harmon as star) and “NCIS: New Or-leans” (which premiered two seasons ago). The trio routinely occupies the Nielsen Top 20.

“We fly under the ra-dar in some respects,” says O’Donnell, who will wrap this season Monday at 10 p.m. EDT on CBS. “We’ve had our heads down, work-ing hard for seven years.”

Even as he salutes a se-ries like AMC’s “Breaking Bad” (“one of the great-est things I’ve ever seen - television or film”), he notes how the splintering of audiences, with bou-tique shows that cater to each niche, is the current TV trend.

“I don’t know how many big network procedurals like ours there are gonna be in the future, and it’s ex-citing to be part of it,” he says over lunch at his Man-hattan hotel during a re-cent visit.

“NCIS: Los Angeles,” as anyone who cares already knows or can easily imag-ine, is an LA-based unit of the Naval Criminal Inves-tigative Service charged with undercover assign-ments to apprehend dan-gerous and elusive crimi-nals who pose a threat to the nation’s security.

As with its “NCIS” sib-lings, ingredients include plenty of action, ample in-trigue, a dash of flag wav-ing, a pinch of humor, and a healthy blend of likable, attractive characters (in-cluding O’Donnell as Spe-cial Agent in Charge “G’’ Callen, along with LL Cool J, Barrett Foa, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Linda Hunt, Miguel Ferrer and Renee Felice Smith).

For its audience, av-eraging some 12 million viewers (including DVR playback), “NCIS: Los An-geles” boasts a goes-down-easy formula that seems to spring naturally.

“If only it was that easy,” laughs O’Donnell. “But our production is a well-oiled

machine. We don’t screw around. I hear all these horror stories from other shows about ‘Fraturdays’” - a dreaded catch-up condi-tion where filming, having fallen behind for the week, stretches all day Friday into Saturday’s wee hours. “We don’t ever do that. For us, 7-to-7 is a pretty nor-mal schedule.

“And shooting in LA the past seven years - that’s a real luxury for an actor,” adds O’Donnell, 45, who considers himself a family man even more than an ac-tor, and, with his wife, Car-oline Fentress, has five kids ages 8 to 17.His series pre-miered in September 2009 as a spinoff of “NCIS.”

“But it wasn’t like I did this one series and it was a hit,” he hastens to add.

He cites “Head Cases,” a Fox comedy-drama where he starred as a hotshot law-yer whose career derails after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Premiering in September 2005, “Head Cases” became the sea-son’s first new series to be axed, after just two airings.

“On the other hand, I had so much success when I was a young guy,” says O’Donnell. “It came very quickly.”

Growing up the young-est of seven kids in a sub-

urb of Chicago, he mod-eled as a teen and landed jobs in commercials.

Then, after numerous auditions for films, “the impossible happened: I was cast in ‘Men Don’t Leave’ (1990). My first time in New York, in this very hotel, 17 years old, I auditioned with Joan Cu-sack. That was it. Then my dad took me to P.J. Clarke’s for dinner.”

After that, he won the plum supporting role to Oscar-winning Al Pacino in 1992’s “Scent of a Woman.” He played Robin in “Bat-man Forever” (1995) and “Batman & Robin” (1997).

“But deep down, I knew it wasn’t going to last like that forever.”

He was right. “I’ve been both hot and cold, and I know I’ve got it pretty good now. So, as long as we can keep turning out stories we feel good about, I would like to keep doing this show for a long time.

“On other shows, I see younger actors who are thinking about leaving and who want to have a movie career. They think the grass is always greener. But it’s hard out there!”

On “NCIS: Los Angeles,” he says gratefully, “We’re working some pretty green pastures.”

vice.comDespite lack of critical acknowledgement, ‘NCIS’ commands a formitable audience.

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BY NANCY BLACK

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH Gather new income for the next several weeks, with Venus in Taurus. Others give you a boost. To-day and tomorrow are good party days. Confess your worries. Love finds a way to work things out.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH Consider career advance-ment today and tomorrow. Your luck in love improves immensely over the next several weeks, with Venus in your sign. Get a new style, haircut or beauty treatment.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHHH Investigate possibilities over the next two days. Travel appeals. Nav-igate to avoid traffic. Favor private over public for the next few weeks, with Venus in Taurus. Enjoy quiet time and sweeter dreams.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHH Deal with financial obligations today and tomorrow. Changes necessitate budget revisions. You’re especially popular over the next three weeks, with Venus in Taurus. Group activi-ties go well. Get out in public. Social activities benefit your career.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHHH Spend time with your partner over the next few days. Assume more re-

sponsibility over the next month, with Venus in Taurus. Watch for ca-reer advances. Put love into your work and it flowers.

V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH Work is getting busy over the next two days. The next month is good for travel, with Venus in Tau-rus. It’s easier to set goals and ven-ture forth. Class convenes and stud-ies get interesting.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHHH Get into a relaxation phase for the next two days. Hang with people you love and admire. Find clever ways to save and earn more money this next three weeks, with Venus in Taurus.

S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Home and family de-mand more attention today and tomorrow. Partnerships flow with greater ease over the next several weeks, with Venus in Taurus. Com-promise comes easier. Create some-thing beautiful together.

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cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHH There’s money coming in over the next few days. Your morale gets a

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AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH Take charge today and tomorrow. Your home can become your love nest. Household chores and im-provement projects are more enjoy-able over the next month, with Ve-nus in Taurus. Go for domestic bliss.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HH Take two days for private produc-tivity. Meditate on your next moves. Trust your heart. Savor what you’re learning over the next month, with Venus in Taurus. Your research gets fascinating. Explore a passion.

BORN TODAY Prioritize fun and games this year. Enjoy family gath-erings after 5/9. Make long-term in-vestments after 8/13. Love invigo-rates after 9/1. The next two years (after 9/9) energize you, creatively and physically. Community efforts take a new course after 9/16. Prac-tice love.

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Coming off a 9-8 home win over in-state rival Mar-shall, the West Virginia Uni-versity baseball team is on an upswing of confidence.

The Mountaineers (21-18, 6-8 Big 12) have won two straight, scoring 21 runs in those two games – and head coach Randy Mazey said Wednesday’s win was one of the finest all-around performances he’s seen this season from his lineup.

Heading into another important conference se-ries against Baylor (19-22, 5-10) at home this weekend, the Mountain-eers need to prove they can bring that type of play consistently.

“I just went down the lineup with our guys off the box score, and every guy in the lineup played well to-night,” Mazey said. “Every single guy. Offensively, de-fensively, base running, en-ergy. That’s what you have to do to win games. If we can do that every day, we have a chance to finish pretty strong.”

Looking over the results on the WVU schedule, the main theme of this season has been maddening in-consistency. West Virginia started April by winning four of five but then lost five of its next six – then won two, lost two and won two again.

All those peaks and val-leys have resulted in the Mountaineers stabiliz-ing around the middle of the Big 12 standings, with an overall season record hovering just over the .500 mark.

West Virginia currently

sits right in the middle at fifth place in the nine-team Big 12 standings, having missed chances to move up and operating in danger of slipping behind the likes of Oklahoma, Baylor and Kan-sas State if they can’t sus-tain this momentum.

With that in mind, this weekend’s matchup with the Baylor Bears is given extra importance. West Virginia started a 12-game homestand with a one-run win over Marshall on Wednesday, needing a five-out save from senior closer

Blake Smith to avert a ma-jor Thundering Herd rally.

Baylor represents the Mountaineers’ third-to-last conference opponent, as they face Texas next week-end and first-place Texas Tech on the road to close out the season. The Bears are an opponent WVU should be able to overcome as they don’t pose a note-worthy threat on offense or on the mound.

Baylor hasn’t reached the NCAA Tournament since 2012, and the three-year slump cost head coach

Steve Smith, who became the program’s all-time win-ningest coach in his 21 years in Waco, his job after the 2015 season. Former Pepperdine coach Steve Rodriguez took over with the task of returning Bay-lor to prominence, but it’s been an uphill battle in his first season.

The Bears come in hav-ing lost five of their last six conference games, includ-ing losing two of three at Kansas State last weekend. The Baylor offense, which ranks sixth in the Big 12 in

total runs scored, is led by junior outfielder Darryn Sheppard, who leads the Bears in batting average (.335), home runs (six) and RBIs (36).

Baylor also boasts five other regulars hitting over .300 this season: Junior catcher Matt Menard (.330), freshman first baseman T.J. Raguse (.319), sophomore outfielder Kameron Est-hay (.313), senior infielder Justin Arrington (.311) and sophomore infielder Steven McLean (.304).

The probable pitching

matchups for this week-end’s West Virginia-Bay-lor series are West Virginia righthander Chad Donato (1-3, 3.39 ERA) against Bay-lor’s Drew Tolson (4-2, 4.90 ERA) at 6:30 p.m. Friday, a battle of lefties at 4 p.m. Sat-urday as WVU’s Ross Vance (4-3, 5.57 ERA) faces Bay-lor’s Daniel Castano (2-4, 4.48 ERA) and Moun-taineer freshman Michael Grove (1-2, 2.88 ERA) ver-sus Andrew McInvale (2-2, 4.85 ERA) at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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ASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWVU’s Karl Joseph during a game last season.

Months after knee injury, Joseph goes 14th overall to Oakland RaidersBY ALEC GEARTY

SPORTS WRITER @GEARTY83

Five months after walk-ing out on Senior Day with a brace on his knee, Karl Jo-seph is officially an Oakland Raider.

The Raiders selected Jo-seph with the 14th pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, Thurs-day night in Chicago. Jo-seph joins former WVU star Bruce Irvin to further solid-ify its defense.

“Picking at 14 is hard to decide,” said Raiders Gen-eral Manager Reggie McK-enzie at his press confer-ence on Raiders.com. “But

we loved Karl Joseph since day one. We were really happy to get him.”

Joseph joins a Raider de-fense led by Khalil Mack, and with the departure of Raider legend Charles Woodson, the pickup makes reasonable sense. His style of play fits what the Raiders wanted in a young talent.

“He’s very versatile,” said Raiders head coach Jack del Rio. “He comes off the edges as a blitzer, he goes down in the box, he takes off the angles and he’s a physical hitter.”

As a senior, Joseph found his season shortened by a freak accident in a non-con-

tact practice drill, which re-sulted in a torn ACL.

However, while playing a mere four games, Joseph was on pace for his most impressive season in Mor-gantown. At the time of in-jury, he led the FBS with six interceptions.

Joseph gives the Raiders a dynamic and physical as-set in its secondary. Disre-garding his injury last sea-son, Joseph had missed one game in his college career.

The ACL injury scared off many teams, and rightfully so; Joseph found his draft stock lowering. But after two hours of waiting, Joseph received the call from the

Raiders. Oakland was not afraid to invest in Joseph.

“Medical is checking out fine,” McKenzie said. “He’s going to be ready to roll, doctors gave us the thumbs up.”

Prior to the draft, an ESPN draft expert had Joseph be-ing drafted by the Houston Texans but, ultimately, the Texans went with wide re-ceiver Will Fuller.

Coming out of high school, Joseph was offered a scholarship by eight dif-ferent schools, and wasn’t even rated the top safety in his home state of Flor-ida he was ranked 64. How-ever, four years later, Joseph

was the first safety selected in Thursday’s draft.

In 2015, the Raiders’ de-fense was statistically aver-age, ranking 22nd amongst teams in yards allowed. While the Raiders front is the anchor of its defense, its secondary was a weak spot. Hence the multiple moves being made.

Along with Joseph, Oak-land brought in cornerback Sean Smith, its main pri-ority in NFL free agency. Both moves, made over the last few months, show the progress made in the Raider front office.

“We’re looking to be re-ally good on defense,” Del

Rio said. “We talked about our secondary play, and how it can perform better. He’s a playmaker. He’s more than just a hitter, I think he’s a really good football player.”

With Joseph’s selection, WVU became the only team in the nation to have a player selected in the top-15 in four out of five years. While this is the next chap-ter in Joseph’s road to recov-ery, five other Mountaineer hopefuls await their fate this weekend, as the NFL draft resumes tonight at 7 p.m.

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Men’s BasketBall

Early outlook for West Virginia basketball for 2016-17 seasonBy Chris JaCksonAssociAte sports editor

@cJAcksonWVU

Following an early first round exit in the NCAA Tour-nament hopes still remain high for the Mountaineers.

But they’ll be without double-double machine Devin Williams, who de-clared a year early for the NBA Draft. Without Wil-liams, there is a huge void in the frontcourt as he paved his way to a Big 12 best 16 double-doubles.

Here is how the team stacks up heading into next season:

Frontcourt (Forwards)As stated with Williams

going professional a year early, the Mountaineers lose one of the Big 12’s top play-ers at forward. He averaged 13.3 points and a team-high 9.5 rebounds per game, bul-lying his way inside through-out the season.

Now it’s time for life with-out Williams. Only Elijah Macon found enough time at Williams’ spot off the bench, and he will have to be the heir to one of the pro-gram’s best under the Hug-gins era.

Macon will need to im-prove as he struggled offen-sively for much of his sopho-more season, converting less than half his free throws and scoring 4.5 points per game.

They’ll also need to re-place offensive rebounding sensation Jonathan Holton down low. Holton’s 3.6 of-fensive boards per game were a team-high, lead-ing WVU to a No. 2 national ranking in that category.

Behind Macon, there isn’t much returning depth to fill the void. Brandon Watkins is the only other big-man returning, but a knee injury hindered his production last year.

Watkins didn’t make his first appearance until De-cember 5 and only found his way onto the court an average of 5.4 minutes per game. They will expect new-comers from this year’s re-cruiting class to immediately contribute.

But the possibility of grad-uate transfers entering the program remains a possi-bility. Two of them have re-cently announced they have WVU on their lists, accord-ing to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports, featuring forwards Merrill Holden (Louisiana Tech) and Anthony Livings-ton (Arkansas State).

Livingston was the focal point of Arkansas State’s at-

tack, averaging more than 15 points and nine rebounds in each of the last two seasons. He was a Second Team All-Sun Belt Conference hon-oree both years.

Holden’s contributions weren’t as significant, but they would be greatly bene-fited to a position in need of more depth. Holden posted 8.1 points and five rebounds in 23 minutes, a contest for Louisiana Tech this past season.

However, getting both or just one of the two remains a difficult task as WVU is al-ready at the limit with 13 scholarship players on its roster. That means one cur-rent Mountaineer would need to transfer/leave the program in order for either Holden or Livingston to be on scholarship.

Sophomore Esa Ahmad and senior Nathan Adrian are also returning forwards and will receive more play-ing time. Adrian dialed it up a notch as the season pro-gressed, and Ahmad showed more flashes of his previous top 100 recruiting ranking

later in the year.Backcourt (Guards)The guard position ap-

pears to have the least ques-tion marks for WVU. Al-though Jaysean Paige is gone after earning his way to an All-Big 12 selection, plenty of experience returns.

Tarik Phillip returns for his senior season and is ex-pected to garner a leader-ship role for the Mountain-eers. He often became a key piece in many of WVU’s 13 conference victories off the bench, scoring in double-figures 11 times during that span.

Phillip was one of two players to shoot above 40 percent from the three-point line, and his offen-sive prowess didn’t go un-noticed. With the depth in the backcourt, Phillip might find his way into the starting five most games as Huggins could implement a three-guard lineup.

Juniors Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles will also see more playing time after start-ing in nearly every game last season. Both are among the

team’s top defenders, with Carter’s 1.7 steals per game ranking first on the team.

Miles always improved his play against top-tier com-petition, holding Wooden Award honoree Buddy Hield to six points on one-of-eight shooting in the 69-67 victory over Oklahoma in the Big 12 semifinals.

Former junior college star Teyvon Myers also looks to provide more scoring af-ter struggling on the offen-sive end last year, averaging 2.4 points and shooting 35.6 percent from the field.

Plus, Beetle Bolden is healthy after tearing his ACL during practice prior to last season, garnering a redshirt season during his first year on campus. Bold-en’s often recognized for his scoring abilities, regis-tering 10.7 points per game during a summer trip to the Bahamas.

Incoming Recruits:It’s not a highly-touted

class featuring any of the na-tion’s top 100 players, but it’s one that could find playing time right away.

Wheeling native Chase Harler was named the Gato-rade West Virginia Player of the Year in 2016, averaging 25 points and six rebounds as he guided Central Cath-olic to a 23-3 record as a senior.

Alongside Harler in the class is fellow West Virginia native and guard Brandon Knapper, a 6-foot-1 talent from South Charleston High School. Knapper was a First Team All-State selection for a third straight year, scoring 28.7 points per game.

However, Knapper is at-tending prep school for one year and won’t be on cam-pus until 2017. It’s likely he would have redshirted re-gardless, and WVU is already at the limit for scholarship players on the team.

Big men Maciej Bender and Sagaba Konate also stood out during their high school careers, rounding out the class. Both are expected to receive early playing time in search of adding more bodies near the rim.

Early and Don’t Trust Prediction:

Losing Devin Williams is a serious blow to a team once considered a possible top 10 team heading into next season.

Except you can’t count out a team coached by Bob Huggins. It’ll be difficult to replicate last year’s regular season success, but if every-thing comes together and players step up in the front-court, a deeper NCAA Tour-nament run is likely.

Huggins will find a way, just watch.

The guards will pave the way, at least for the most part, leading another suc-cessful campaign of tena-cious defense. Beetle Bolden will emerge as the scoring threat fans hope to see, Eli-jah Macon will make enough improvements to not make you miss Williams so much.

And offensive production will improve, an aspect the Mountaineers struggled to find last year. Mark a third place finish and the pro-gram’s second Sweet Sixteen run in the last three years.

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AskAr sAlikhov/The DAily AThenAeumDevin Williams, Elijah Macon and Brandon Watkins walk off the court after a win over Stetson in December.

WoMen’s soccer

Multiple questions surround Mountaineers heading into next yearBy Connor hiCks

sports Writer @WhUtthehicks

Following a 2-4 record through a spring slate fea-turing three top-25 op-ponents and two profes-sional squads, there are many questions awaiting the West Virginia women’s soccer team.

While the majority of the team in the fall will be the same that sat near the top of the national rank-ings last season, there are two holes in the Moun-taineer lineup proving to be extremely difficult to fill. In addition to the gaps left by Kadeisha Bu-chanan and Ashley Law-rence’s absence through-out the spring to prepare for the summer Olympics,

two seniors that played big roles on the team will be gone next year, creating a tough situation for coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.

Goalkeeper Hannah Steadman and forward Kailey Utley will both graduate next month, leaving the Mountaineers with big shoes to fill. While Steadman will remain on the sidelines as the team’s new goalie coach, her presence on the field will no longer be felt. Stead-man left the program as the program leader in sev-eral categories, including the all-time Goals Allowed Average leader. Steadman allowed just more than one goal per every other game throughout her West Virginia career.

Forward Kailey Utley

led the team in goals and points last year, with 12 goals and six assists for 30 points. Filling the holes left by the departure of the senior duo could be what makes or breaks the team that made it to the elite eight last season, falling to the eventual-champion Nittany Lions.

Sophomore Michelle Newhouse played every minute in net this spring, allowing 8 goals through the six game schedule. Newhouse saw just more than 6% of the team’s minutes last year behind Steadman. She did not al-low a goal, appearing in 3 games but facing just one shot. Along with Ne-whouse, two freshmen will be competing for the starting spot. Regardless,

whoever gets the position come August will have one of the best defenders in the world, Kadeisha Bu-chanan, returning to the team.

On the other end of the field, it appears as if Izzo-Brown might have found a replacement for the scoring production lost by Utley’s departure. Sophomore Heather Ka-leiohi had just 2 goals in her college career com-ing in to this spring, but had three of the team’s four goals in the spring schedule, including both in a 2-0 win over George-town. Kaleiohi primarily came off the bench last season, seeing the field in 20 of 23 games and had just six points. How-ever, she posted one of the

higher shot percentages on the team, with eight of 23 shots being placed on net.

For now, the team will look at what they have to work on moving forward and build on that prog-ress in the absence of two of the team’s top players. Buchanan and Lawrence will return before the bulk of the schedule, but could miss the opening game against No. 1 Penn State if Canada were to ad-vance to the gold medal match.

The Mountaineers will play two more exhibi-tion matches, one against Michigan and one at Vir-ginia, before opening the season with No. 1 Penn State on Aug. 19 in Uni-versity Park, Pa..

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“It’s like a major championship.”

That’s what West Virginia University men’s golf coach Sean Covich compared this weekend’s Big 12 Champi-onships to.

The Mountaineers are at Whispering Pines Country Club in Trinity, Texas, this weekend competing in the Big 12 Championships for the first time in program history.

“We finally put together three good rounds (at Penn State),” Covich said. “We played a lot better than we did earlier in the spring. One of the best moments I’ve had all year was just get-ting in the van and seeing all these guys happy with their efforts. So that was good to see and hopefully gives us a little bit of confidence and belief we can play up to our abilities this weekend. We’re going to one of the biggest tournaments in college golf so we’re excited about that.”

This will be the first time this season the Mountain-eers will be seeing most of their Big 12 brethren. Other than Kansas State at the Old Waverly Collegiate Cham-pionship, West Virginia has not been in a field with any Big 12 teams, as they’ve competed mostly on the East Coast and southern United States.

Whispering Pines is a dif-ferent monster than any-thing the Mountaineers have seen this year; 72 holes over the course of three days against some of the best teams and players in the country. The par-72 course measures out long at 7,473 yards.

“It’s a great track, really challenging,” Covich said. “It tests all facets of your game: driving accuracy, driving distance, short irons, long irons, short game. You know, greens are very chal-lenging. I know the Hous-ton area’s been hit with a lot of rain, but I’m not sure ex-actly how much rain they have gotten and how wet it’s going to be. It’s a major championship venue even though it hasn’t hosted a major championship. It might be the best one we’ve played all year, the most challenging.”

Of the ten Big 12 teams in the tournament field, six are in the top-50 of Golf-week’s rankings, including No. 1 Texas, No. 7 Oklahoma State, No. 20 Oklahoma, No. 29 Baylor, No. 40 Texas Tech and No. 41 Kansas.

“My message to the guys is just believe we belong in the Big 12 and see what hap-pens,” Covich said. “What I’m requiring of them is go out there and represent us well because it’s our first ap-pearance there; you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. So

we want to go out there in a professional manner.”

West Virginia comes into the Big 12 Championships brimming with confidence and playing well at the right time.

The Mountaineers had their best performance of the season two weeks ago at Penn State, finishing in sec-ond place at the Rutherford Intercollegiate. Junior Alan Cooke finished as the tour-nament’s runner-up, while freshman Max Sear tied for fourth.

“I think you come into this weekend, you’re going into some of the great teams, some of the great golfers in college golf,” said senior captain Easton Renwick. “You can’t control what they do. They can’t control what you do. It’s about you play-ing your game and not wor-rying about anybody else.”

“Our goal is to win,” Cooke said. “I can vouch for everybody saying that. We’re not having the best year so far. But, I don’t think there is anything we can’t do. I don’t think it’s out of the question. It’s just a mat-ter of all of us showing up at the same time and play-ing well.”

The Big 12 Champion-ships open with 36 holes of play today, 18 tomorrow and wrap up with the last 18 during the final round on Sunday.

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Oakland Raiders to Vegas: If you build it, we will come

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mark Davis was beaming as he posed with fans behind a black and silver “Las Vegas Raiders” banner. He made a few jokes before delivering a $500 million commitment to a new stadium in the city for his team.

Then the owner of the Raiders got serious about the prospects of getting fel-low NFL owners to allow him to move from Oakland to a city the league has long shunned because it has legal sports betting.

“Let’s give them an offer they can’t refuse,” Davis said. “They’re going to approve it based on that.”

Little more than an idea a few months ago, the pos-sibility of the Raiders mov-ing to Las Vegas inched a bit closer to reality Thursday when Davis appeared before a stadium commission to not only pledge to move the Raiders to the city, but put $500 million into the $1.4 bil-lion facility that would house the team.

He talked about building on the legacy of his father, the late Al Davis, and finally giving the team a new sta-dium to match those of the richer teams in the league. He insisted he wasn’t trying to use Las Vegas as a bar-gaining chip, and spoke of a “lifetime” commitment to the city.

And at the end of a care-fully staged presentation that featured soccer star David Beckham sitting next to him, he said the future is bright for both the city and his team.

“We need a home. We need a stadium,” Davis said. “That’s what Las Vegas is go-ing to provide us and it’s go-ing to be a great marriage.”

At times during the meet-ing of the Southern Ne-vada Tourism Infrastructure Committee, it looked like the marriage had already be-gun. There were few pointed questions from committee members, and at one point Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was gushing in her love and support for the team.

It all made for good the-ater, and created even more momentum for billion-aire casino operator Shel-don Adelson’s plan to land the team. NFL owners in the past have expressed interest and made commitments to move to other cities, but Da-vis was attaching a $500 mil-lion investment along with his plan.

“We’re not using Las Ve-gas as a bargaining chip,” Da-vis said. “This is real.”

Despite the commit-ments, there are hurdles to overcome if the dozen or so Raiders fans who showed up to support the move will be

watching their team in Las Vegas in 2020. The two big-gest are figuring out a way to siphon room taxes to pay for a big chunk of the project, and gaining approval of 23 other NFL owners to move.

With Davis committed to putting in $500 million - $200 million of that a loan from the NFL fund used for sta-dium projects - and the Las Vegas Sands offering some money, there is still a gap of $750 million needed to build the 65,000-seat stadium.

Stadium backers are pro-posing the money come from increased taxes on tourists, though rival casino operators say they need to be assured first that there is enough in the pot to fund a big expansion of the city’s convention center at the same time.

It would also need to be approved by the state Leg-islature, which they will ask the governor to call into spe-cial session in August for a vote.

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