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“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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by evelyn merithewassociate city editor
@dailyathenaeum
Gentle. Always smiling. Loved life. Happy. These four things come to mind when Kimberly Burch de-scribes her son Nolan.
Three months after the sudden passing of beloved friend and Mountaineer Nolan Burch, his parents came forward to share sto-ries celebrating his short but fully lived life, as well as why it was so important for them to decide to donate his organs to help others.
Wednesday evening in an interview with Pittsburgh Channel 11 News, Theron and Kimberly Burch de-scribed what life has been like since Nolan Burch’s death and how although his physical body is not pres-ent, his spirit has inspired so many others to consider becoming a donor.
When the Burch’s re-ceived a phone call in the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 13, Kimberly Burch said it had to ring three times before she answered it.
“That was the worst phone call I ever got in my entire life. We (Kimberly, Theron and their daugh-ter, Alexandra) were out of the house in a half hour. We threw things into a bag and were on the road to West Virginia,” Kimberly Burch said.
When Theron Burch talked to the doctor, he told him that his son had ba-sically gone into cardiac arrest.
“That’s when everything just changed instantly. (Things) looked hopeful at one point, then it didn’t look so hopeful,” Theron Burch said. “By the time we ar-rived, we knew (we) were going to have to make some decisions.”
On the way to West Vir-ginia, the Burchs made pit-stops to get updates from Ruby Memorial doctors about the status of their son, and as they got closer to Morgantown they real-ized things were not good.
“It was the longest four and a half hours of, I think, all of our lives. I don’t know how my husband drove. Thank God we got there safe and were able to spend two days by (Nolan’s) side, which was, you know, most people don’t get that,” Kim-berly Burch said. “We were able to say goodbye. That was a gift.”
Theron Burch said his family arrived at the hos-pital around 6 a.m. and af-ter being further informed, the family was asked how they felt about donating No-lan’s organs through Ruby Memorial Hospital and the Center of Organ Recovery
and Education. “We were asked if it’d be
okay if the folks from CORE talked to us and of course we said that’s fine and that’s how it started. They afforded time for some things to get right within (Nolan’s) sys-tem and allowed him to be able to donate more than what they had expected,” Theron Burch said. “At the end of the day, as tragic as it was, it was still a blessing for other folks.”
Theron Burch said he “ab-solutely” finds comfort in knowing Nolan’s organs are helping other people.
“Knowing that he would have done the same thing when he was alive, to be able to fill out the donor (card), I know for a fact he would have done it and would be proud of what he’s done,” Theron Burch said. “It’s hard. It’s bitter-sweet. We just hope a part of him lives in the folks who received his organs.”
Nolan’s organs saved a multitude of people, includ-ing a 25-year-old college student who can now return to school and a 60-year-old man who is the caretaker of his grandchildren.
“Nolan would be happy. He’d be proud that he did something to save other people,” Kimberly Burch said. “That was Nolan, al-ways thinking of other people.”
Theron Burch agrees No-lan would have wanted to have his organs donated, no questions asked.
“He did a lot on his own to help, whether it was indi-viduals or the community, volunteer work, things like that. It wasn’t just to get it on a college resume, he did it because he knew it was the right thing to do. Just a real good kid,” Theron Burch said.
Both Kimberly and Theron Burch were support-ive of Nolan’s decision to study at West Virginia Uni-versity where he would ex-perience new things on his own and grow to become even more of an individual. It has been extremely diffi-cult, they said, to come to the realization that their son is no longer with them.
by laura haightcity editor
@laurahaightwvu
A West Virginia Univer-sity student has been ar-rested in relation to the Nov. 14, 2014, death of the18-year-old freshman Nolan Burch.
Morgantown Police ar-rested and charged Richard Schwartz, 20, of Williams-ville, N.Y., with one count
of hazing and one count of conspiracy to commit haz-ing, according to a criminal complaint. Schwartz was charged on Wednesday and later released on a $10,000 bond.
Schwartz and Burch were both from Williamsville, a village of around 5,000 peo-ple outside Buffalo, N.Y.
Schwartz, a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, was Burch’s “big brother” and
took part in the “Big/Little” initiation event with Burch.
Schwartz is alleged to have provdied Burch with a bottle of liquor and helped carry him back to the Kappa Sigma Fraternity house where Burch was found un-responsive later that night.
According to Chief of Po-lice Ed Preston, Burch was participating in the “Big-Little” initiation event with the Kappa Sigma Fraternity
on Nov. 12, 2014, where fra-ternity pledges and mem-bers drank large amounts of alcohol.
Medical tests performed on Burch after the incident showed his blood alcohol content was 0.493. Burch was only 18 years old when he died on Nov. 14, 2014.
“We are still grieving over Nolan’s untimely death and for his family, who has faced such sadness and loss,” said
Corey Farris, dean of stu-dents, in a University press release.
According to the release, WVU will continue to work with Greek leaders to en-sure changes will be made to create a safer, more “ser-vice and academic-oriented culture.”
Records obtained from the Monongalia County Magistrate’s Office further identified a different per-
son as the “Grand Master” for the pledges during the “Big/Little” ceremony.
The Grand Master “or-chestrated blindfolding, escorting, and presenting the assigned big brother of NMB (Nolan Burch).”
It is unknown whether MPD is further investi-gating this individual’s involvement.
Nolan Burch’s “Big Brother” arrested, released on $10k bond
Burch’s mom: ‘That was the worst phone call I ever got in my entire life’Burch family speaks out for the first time
3 MONTHS LATER:Putting the events surrounding Burch’s tragedy into perspective, Nov. 12 to now
by jacob bojessoneditor-in-chief
@dailyathenaeum
Today marks the three-month anni-versary of the night West Virginia Uni-versity freshman Nolan Burch, 18, of Williamsville, N.Y., was hospitalized and put on life support.
As family and friends continue to grieve, the picture of what happened that night is slowly coming together.
Nov. 12 – “Big/Little” NightBurch had been enrolled at WVU for
three months, majoring in sports man-agement, and had an easy time fitting in at his new school. He immediately found a circle of friends on the seventh floor of Summit Hall and was pledg-ing to become a brother of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
On the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, Burch tweeted, “It’s about to be a very eventful night to say the least,” referring to Kappa Sigma’s “Big/Little” event as part of the initiation into the fraternity.
Burch and the other pledges were called to the Kappa Sigma house at 200 Belmar Avenue where they were taken into a room and blindfolded before be-ing transported to 305 Glendon Street by fraternity members.
Each pledge was assigned a “big brother” by the “Grand Master” and was given a bottle of liquor from their “big brothers.”
Burch consumed a large quantity of alcohol during the night and had to be taken back to the Kappa Sigma house by members of the fraternity where he laid down on a table.
At approximately 11:52 p.m., Mor-gantown Police Department re-sponded to an unknown medical emergency at the Kappa Sigma house. A member had found Burch unrespon-sive with no pulse a few minutes ear-lier and after being transported to Ruby Memorial Hospital, Burch was put on life support.
Nov. 13 – WVU Community in shock
A rumor that a student had died dur-ing a fraternity event started to spread around social media. The WVU chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity deleted its Twitter account, and later that after-noon it was revealed that Burch was in intensive care at Ruby Memorial.
Burch’s parents and sister drove four hours from Williamsville to Morgan-town during the night to be with him during his final hours.
Burch’s friends honored him with a vigil on the Mountainlair Plaza as they
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by lauren caccamostaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
Challenges to the West Virginia University Student Government Association’s new scholarship, Catalyst of Campus Change, were brought to attention at last night’s weekly meeting.
The scholarship guide-lines were quickly put to
the test when senior WVU students Alex Shy and Jus-tin Stone confronted the SGA Board of Governors.
“We were denied the ability to continue our ap-plication to the scholar-ship because we submit-ted it as a group. We’ve put a lot of planning into this and even had a few meet-ings with the mayor. So, I think for us to withdraw our application and re-
submit it under one name is unfair when there needs to be credit to four people,” Shy said.
After the board listened to the students’ concerns, Vice Chair Stephen Scott pointed out the difficulties that might arise in financ-ing the awarded scholar-ship to multiple individu-als rather than one.
“Something that needs to be addressed is that
when the money goes to an individual, it’s divided by each semester. So, if there are groups and we have, say three people, we will have to divide that money six ways,” Scott said to his fellow board mem-bers. “If you split it, I don’t think that $300 is really go-ing to help any student out with their account or their
Kyle monroe/THe DaIly aTHenaeumFriends and floormates of WVU freshman Nolan Burch link arms and softly sing ‘Country Roads’ Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, on the Mountainlair Green.
Kyle monroe/THe DaIly aTHenaeumThe brothers of Kappa Sigma gather in their WVU chapter house on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.
anDrew spellman/THe DaIly aTHenaeumStudents of WVU, Greek and non-Greek, came out Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, to support the brothers of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. see TIMELINE on PAGE 2
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fees.”Shy said he disagreed.“I think every little bit
toward your student ac-count helps,” Shy said. “We want to see the cam-pus change, and I think it takes more than one per-
son to change a community and all of those people who have the recognition. Un-til I can see that this is spe-cifically against the rules, I think we should be able to continue with our original application.”
Complications were also brought to light when Shy mentioned some of the members in the group will be graduating by this
spring or next fall. The scholarship, however, al-locates half of the money to a student’s account per semester, causing difficul-ties for senior students who expressed interest in ap-plying and may only be at WVU for half of next school year.
Clearly, guidelines for selecting the scholarship winners have yet to be set
in stone, as SGA Attorney General Syed Akhtar points out.
“This is within the power of the board to amend,” Akhtar said.
A motion to amend the scholarship followed by a review of the scholarship committee will decide the fate of the rules.
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were digesting the news.“He was just a great guy
honestly. He was friends with everyone on the floor and he was awesome to hang out with,” said Da-vis Rohrer, a close friend of Burch.
In the evening, West Vir-ginia University released a statement where they placed a moratorium on Greek life, indefinitely sus-pending all fraternities and sororities from chap-ter social and pledging activities.
“Any pledging and new member activity is sus-pended indefinitely. Cer-tainly through the end of the semester and then (at) the beginning of next se-mester we’ll see where we’ll go,” said Corey Farris, dean of students, following the announcement.
Nov. 14 – Burch passes away
Burch passed away due to acute ethanol intoxication in the morning of Nov. 14.
His family had kept him on life support to save his organs for donation, which saved multiple people’s lives.
“The outpouring of love and support from his friends and this community has been what you would ex-pect from Mountaineers, and I would ask that you continue to keep the Burch family and many friends in your thoughts and prayers,” said WVU President E. Gor-don Gee in a press release from the University follow-ing Burch’s passing.
The same night, hun-dreds of students gathered at the Mountainlair Plaza to remember Burch with a can-dlelight vigil where brothers of Kappa Sigma spoke.
Later in the weekend, it was revealed Kappa Sigma had lost its charter two days prior to the incident and that it was not allowed to host the “Big/Little” event, lead-ing to further controversy.
Dec. 5 - University honors Burch
While the investigation continued, the University drew a large crowd for a bell ringing ceremony to honor the life of Burch.
“I didn’t know Nolan di-
rectly, but before every foot-ball game we had tailgates all over the place, and I re-member distinctly seventh floor Summit, and I realized that I did meet him some-where along the way, even though I didn’t know his name or where he came from,” said Mountaineer Mascot Michael Garcia fol-lowing the ceremony.
Burch’s funeral had al-ready taken place on Nov. 20 in Williamsville.
Jan. 27 – Details surrounding Burch’s death released to the public
Over two months had passed since Burch’s death and little information re-garding the circumstances had been released. In a press release from MPD on Tuesday, Jan. 27, it was re-vealed that medical tests on the night of the inci-dent showed Burch’s blood alcohol content to be 0.493.
MPD Chief Ed Preston further said MPD detectives had conducted dozens of in-terviews and reviewed foot-age from multiple security cameras.
The University also re-leased a statement saying they were cooperating with MPD as the investigation continued.
“The safety of our stu-dents always comes first – and will continue to,” the re-lease read.
Feb. 5 – Criminal Complaint
Detective Ryan Stallings signs a criminal complaint with findings from the in-vestigation of what took place the night of Nov. 12.
A record from the Monongalia County Mag-istrate’s Office identified the “big brother” as Rich-ard Schwartz and a differ-ent individual as the “Grand Master.”
The complaint was later approved by the magistrate on Feb. 9.
Feb. 11 – First Arrest Made
MPD arrests Schwartz, 20, of Williamsville, N.Y., with one count of hazing and one count of conspiracy to commit hazing. He was later released on a $10,000 bond.
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“Everything is just kind of a blur. You send your son off to college and three months later he’s not there any-more. Within days you’re taking all of his belong-ings out of his dorm room and leaving and that’s it. It’s just not real,” Kimberly
Burch said. “Sometimes I’ll look out the window and I’ll think, ‘He’s at school, he’ll be home, it’s just a mat-ter of time he’ll be com-ing back,’ and the sad real-ity is that he’s not coming back.”
Although it has been tough for the Burch fam-ily to live their lives without Nolan, they try to be strong because they know Nolan would want them to.
“We still have my beauti-ful daughter (who) we have to make sure we’re strong for, and she’s been strong right along with us and they were the best of friends,” Theron Burch said. “We don’t want to let (Nolan) down by not taking care of her the right way.”
Although Nolan’s time at WVU was cut short, the im-pact he made on others is incredible.
“We are still in commu-nication with a lot of folks he touched in just that short time. We have had many people say, ‘He was my best friend,’ and I say, ‘How do you make that many best friends in two and a half to three months?’” Theron Burch said. “He did though. It was just the kind of person that he was.”
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by john mark shavercorrespondent
@dailyathenaeum
Tonight’s climate change forum will address the im-pact of recent carbon emis-sion capping efforts and their effects on the United States, West Virginia and their coal industry.
The event, titled “China, Climate Change, and the West Virginia Connection,” will take place at 7 p.m. to-night at the West Virginia University College of Law event space.
Another main subject of the forum will be a rising technology known as car-bon capture and seques-tration. CCS is a process in which carbon dioxide gas is transported and stored, usually underground.
Friends of Blackwater’s Allegheny Highlands Cli-
mate Impacts Initiative and the WVU College of Law Center cosponsor the forum for Energy and Sus-tainable Development.
In a press release for the event, Tom Rodd, director of the Climate Impacts Ini-tiative, stressed the impor-tance of the subject, noting that climate change poses a major threat to West Virgin-ia’s economy and ecology.
Rodd said the forum’s speakers, including WVU’s own Dr. Jerald Fletcher, have spent a good deal of time with Chinese energy leaders and are knowledge-able about and understand technologies like CCS.
Brian Bellew, a senior geology student and event organizer for the Climate Impacts Initiative, said cli-mate change affects us all in a multitude of ways and urges people to go to the
event.“It’s a huge problem,”
Bellew said. “It can cause mass migrations of peo-ple, and can destroy econ-omies and physical areas of the world.”
Bellew said while the event won’t teach people how to lower their carbon footprint, it can teach the audience about the recent deal between China and the U.S. to lower national carbon emission over the next decade and what that means.
“There are different kinds of environmental-ism and sustainability in West Virginia, but no one covers climate change,” Bellew said. “If you want to get into environmental-ism but don’t want to pro-test on top of a mountain or dismantle a fracking pad, then (climate change) is for
you.”The event is free to at-
tend and is open to the public. An audience ques-tion period will also take place.
Refreshments will be provided after the forum concludes.
“The situation is serious, and we need lots of pub-lic discussion and under-standing about how na-tions can work together to rein in global warm-ing and protect the things we love,” Rodd said in the press release.
For more information, contact Brian Bellew at bbellew@mix .wvu.edu. More information on the Allegheny Highlands Cli-mate Impacts Initiative can be found at www.alleghe-nyclimate.org.
climate change in us, w.va. discussed tonight at college of law
by taylor jobinstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
The West Virginia Uni-versity Career and Intern-ship Fair will will con-tinue in the Blue and Gold Ballrooms, located on the second floor of the Mountainlair, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. today. This is the second day of the two-day event put on by the WVU Career Services Center.
Students from any ma-jor can meet with potential employers from around the country and distribute their resumes or gather in-formation about the com-panies presented.
“I came today because I’m graduating in May, and I really need to find an op-portunity,” said Justus Pas-tor, a senior communica-tions student. “This is a huge opportunity because there are so many people here. The atmosphere is awesome, everyone is re-ally open to talking (and) there’s a lot of opportunity you can probably get from this place.”
The career fair is set up so all students get a name tag listing their major and year before entering the fair. Once inside, there are rows of tables lining the walls of the ballrooms with
more rows slicing through the center. Each table rep-resents a different poten-tial employer. The dif-ferent industries try and cluster together, but the spots are first come first serve, so students may have to do some laps be-fore finding the table they are looking for.
There are myriad job opportunities at the fair. Representatives for jobs in sectors such as technol-ogy, genetics, engineer-ing and accounting were all stationed at the fair Wednesday, as well as for entry-level sales and mar-keting jobs, management training and food and re-tail jobs. There were local jobs such as WVU Health-care and other WVU ca-
reers, as well as giant in-ternational corporations such as Coca-Cola Re-freshments and PepsiCo.
Students did, however, seem more interested in the larger national and international companies than a lot of the smaller, local ones.
“I would maybe do some more bigger, national companies,” said Lauren Kelly, a senior market-ing student, on what she might change about the event for next year. “Ob-viously WVU is located in Morgantown, but I know a lot of people, especially students, wanted to move away from Morgantown, so maybe look at some more national companies that have job positions all
over the country.”There were also multi-
ple law enforcement op-portunities at the career fair Wednesday, as well as military recruitment tables.
Amidst the many poten-tial job tables at the career fair were also graduate school opportunities. The WVU Integrated Marketing Communications master’s program had a table sta-tioned at the event.
D i f f e r e n t c o m p a -nies will be participat-ing in the event on dif-ferent days, so some that were there Wednesday will not be there today, and vice versa. So if students didn’t see any companies that piqued their interest Wednesday, today might present something more worthwhile.
O v e r a l l , s t u d e n t s seemed to enjoy the back and forth with employers in a casual, yet still busi-ness-like setting.
“It’s a really good expe-rience,” said Allison Mar-shall, a senior marketing student. “It’s really good that the school offers this for us because it’s a good opportunity for us to meet employers and get your re-sume in the right hands.”
nIcK HolsTeIn/THe DaIly aTHenaeumStudents meet with businesses to discuss future employment and internship opportunities Wednesday afternoon in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.
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‘Better Call Saul’ reveals depth, good start to series
AMC’s “Better Call Saul” pulled in 4.4 million view-ers in a key target demo-graphic for its premiere, “Uno,” which brought in 6.9 million total viewers and for good reason.
The episode begins after “Breaking Bad.” Saul Good-man (Bob Odenkirk) is liv-ing out the life he said he would be lucky leading at the end of “Breaking Bad,” working at a Cinnabon in a generic mall. He lives in a generic house and leads a generic life. There is noth-ing spectacular or interest-ing about him at all, which is a huge contrast from the high intensity of the life he used to lead. He seems de-jected and jumpy. He sits down at the end of his day to watch television. Af-ter flipping through chan-nels of irrelevant program-ming, Saul slips in a tape of his old commercials from when he was the sleazy TV lawyer everyone knew.
This beginning has the opposite energy of the first episode of “Breaking Bad,” which was fast-paced and chaotic. That, along with the black and white fil-ter, shows Saul’s success in leaving his old identity behind.
Then, it goes back to a time before “Breaking Bad” to show Saul’s previous and original identity, Jimmy McGill. Jimmy is also a law-yer, but not well-known or even successful. He lives in the back office of a nail salon, a salon which any “Breaking Bad” fan would recognize. Jimmy has few belongings. In the court-room, his defenses are pa-thetic. The show also in-troduces Jimmy’s brother Chuck, who is a partner at a law firm and has a myste-rious illness.
At one point, Jimmy is driving and hits a skate-boarder with his car. Af-ter what seemed like bad acting by the skateboarder and his brother, we realize they are con artists. Jimmy isn’t blind to this fact, and he gives them some advice about their scam. Strapped for cash because of his
brother’s hospital bills and his own failures, he makes a deal with the skateboarders to con a treasurer who stole more than $1.5 million.
The boys pull their con, but instead of stopping to see if the hit skater was okay, the car pulled away. Jimmy tells the boys this is good because they would get much more money for a hit-and-run case. The boys cut Jimmy out of the equa-tion and follow the car. In-stead of a local politician, an old Hispanic woman comes out of the car. If you are a “Breaking Bad” fan, she should look familiar. They follow her into the house to discuss payment. Later, Jimmy gets to the house. As he is knocking, he is pulled in by a certain sociopathic character from “Breaking Bad.”
“Uno” was very well done. While it did have the usual amount of setting up expected from a premiere, it also kept viewers inter-ested and in suspense. It had the same cinemato-graphic quality and pacing as “Breaking Bad.”
Odenkirk’s acting is so believable and real. You
can always see exactly how he is feeling and you sym-pathize with him. This is the key ingredient to any great television show – characters you care about, feel for and relate with in some dimension.
At the end, when I saw who the first “bad guy” was, I was so far off the edge of my seat, I was relieved to find out the next episode was only a day away. I think this series has the poten-tial to be almost as good as “Breaking Bad.”
Without giving too much more away, the second ep-isode “Mijo” gets right into it. The episode was already more intense and eye-catching. The sick hu-mor we fell in love with in “Breaking Bad” is back in“Better Call Saul,” and I can’t get enough of it. Be-sides that, some of the camera perspectives are stunning. For example, I loved the part where the old woman was watch-ing her soap operas, and we could see the reflec-tion of her watching it in the television. Simple, but effective.
The show itself is genius.
All these characters we are already attached to are set-ting things in motion, and some characters who died in “Breaking Bad” have a chance to be resurrected in this prequel spin-off. We get to delve deeper into the characters’ stories and meet new characters along the way. The sheer depth of
Jimmy’s character alone is enough to keep me inter-ested. To find out who the first “bad guy” was, catch “Better Call Saul” at http://amctv.com/full-episodes/better-call-saul/ as well as on AMC every Monday at 10 p.m.
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Unconventional rock stars who make up the suc-cessful musical ensemble Karma to Burn are aim-ing to take the stage at 123 Pleasant Street Friday night.
With a long-established history, Karma to Burn’s Appalachian roots put a spin on conventional rock. Band members Will Me-cum, Eric Clutter and Evan Devine make up the trio of riff-rockers. With influ-ences that stem from old school, classic rock and ‘70s heavy metal, the West Virginia-native band goes against the grain, record-ing only purely instrumen-tal jams.
“We just couldn’t find a
vocalist that fit the songs,” said Devine, the drummer. “We kept trying different people out and nothing was working.”
Karma to Burn’s pref-erence for instrumental sounds set the group up to be one of the first rock bands to test the genre. The group’s first stint with purely instrumental tracks came from a fluke set played at a house party, where the band was set to perform without a lead vocalist.
“The guy who invited us insisted we play anyways, so we did,” Devine said. “Af-ter the show, people told us we didn’t need a vocalist, so we went with it.”
In 1999, Karma to Burn released “Wild Wonderful Purgatory,” which featured songs that were only ti-
tled as numbers. The eight-track-record allowed the band to show its distinctive taste for musical creativity, sans vocals.
“Almost Heathen,” which was released two years later, contained sim-ilar track qualities as the group’s first release, with songs that were again nu-merically titled. Trouble struck the Morgantown power trio when the group lost its way in the indus-try, succumbing to inner tensions and controversy. The group split in 2002, but would join forces seven years later to again pursue the band’s passion.
Moving to Los Angeles, Karma to Burn released two albums. “Appalachian Incantation” was released in May 2010 starring a new
polished riff-rock sound. Nearly a year later, “V” was released in June 2011. Showcasing its newfound unity, Karma to Burn re-released its debut, self-ti-tled album without vocals, as originally intended. In honor of its 20-year anni-versary, Karma to Burn re-leased an eight-track in-strumental album titled “Arch Stanton.” The group’s purely instrumental niche is why Devine said he feels the group connects to the crowd’s energy without words.
“Being instrumental al-lows us to connect with any crowd no matter what lan-guage they speak,” Devine said. “We rely on creat-ing moods and atmo-sphere, sort of like a movie soundtrack.”
Making its last stop on the 36-show tour, Karma to Burn will play alongside Sierra, a rock band from Kitchener, Ontario, whose recent formation in 2011 has set the Canadian group up for success with an EP and debut album release. Along with Sierra, Parkers-
burg, W.Va., band Horse-burner will also share the stage Friday night. Sierra and Horseburner each pro-vide heavy guitar solos and raging drum undertones, which is set to pair well with Karma to Burn’s sim-ilar notes.
123 Pleasant Street will open its doors at 8:30 p.m. with bands taking the stage at 10 p.m. For more in-formation on Karma to Burn, visit http://k2burn. net/.
Happy Birthday, Judy Blume!Without Blume, we would have never
known that Sheila the Great was terrified of the dark, dogs and swimming. Grow-ing up in Elizabeth, N.J., Blume spent her childhood dreaming up imaginative sto-ries of her own. Now, at age 76, more than 85 million copies of Blume’s work has been translated and sold around the globe. Blume’s captivating stories of childhood imagination continue to grace libraries and classrooms around the world. Her newest novel, “In the Unlikely Event,” will be released in June 2015.
Also on Feb. 12, 2004, San Francisco became one of the first U.S. cities to issue same-sex marriage licenses. San Fran-cisco, along with other cities in New Mex-ico, New York and New Jersey, all began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The officials of the City Coun-cil of San Francisco issued licenses to more than 4,000 couples. This action was a huge step forward for crusaders in fa-vor of equal rights. However, the licenses didn’t last long. Through Proposition 8, passed in November 2008, lawmakers
saw fit to ban same-sex marriage in the state of California. Now, almost seven years later, California residents can apply for their marriage licenses without the fear of not being federally recognized. In America today, 37 states allow same-sex couples the right to legally wed, while 13 states remain adamantly against same-sex marriage.
As those in San Francisco filled court-rooms to recognize their love, Feb. 12, 2004 was not a day filled with love for Mattel. As one love story begins, an-other always ends, and on Feb. 12, Bar-bie broke up with iconic boyfriend Ken. Through a news release in 2004, Mattel shook up the Barbie cliche by announc-ing the popular doll would be kicking Ken to the curb. After nearly two years and a steamy rendezvous with Austra-lian surfer Blaine, Barbie opted to rekin-dle the flame with her ex-lover. In 2006, Mattel gave the male doll a serious make-over. The Ken doll was better than ever, and Barbie took notice.
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Karma to Burn to rock at 123 Pleasant Street this Friday night
saltroads.comRock band Karma to Burn is inspired by 70s metal. They forgo lyrics in favor of purely instrumental music.
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Continuing to strive for change
Today marks the three-month anniversary of the tragic incidents that lead to the death of 18-year-old West Virginia University freshman Nolan Burch.
On Wednesday, Burch’s “big brother” from the fra-ternity he was pledging, Kappa Sigma brother Rich-ard Schwartz, was arrested and charged with hazing and conspiracy to commit hazing.
For many, the main question at hand is why did this arrest take so long? Af-
ter nearly three months of investigation, an arrest has been made, and The Daily Athenaeum hopes this time was used wisely.
It is our sincere hope the Burch family receives the answers they are look-ing for as the investigation moves on to the courts and anyone responsible for the events of the evening are held accountable for their actions.
In an interview with WPXI, Burch’s father, Theron Burch, talked
about the family’s choice to donate Nolan Burch’s organs. While he under-stands it is a personal choice, he wants to en-courage everyone to be an organ donor.
In the spirit of Theron Burch’s message, it is im-portant as we move for-ward from this loss to fo-cus on the good which can come from it. As Nolan Burch’s organs continue to help and save the lives of others, as a WVU com-munity we need to make
a change to improve and save the lives of our fellow Mountaineers.
The DA has called for not only a change in the drinking culture on cam-pus, but also for a change in the bystander culture. Several editorials written in the past focused on this need for change, and we believe these issues are so important, they need to be brought up again.
After Greek life was put on moratorium and the University showed it would
no longer accept the par-tying behavior, it was ex-pected things would get better. However, frater-nities are still being sus-pended and puke pud-dles continue to coat the streets.
Things need to change. As a community, we need to change. We need to stop condoning the top party school image, the need to drink until one blacks out and the idea of a “snitch.” The lives of our fellow Mountaineers mat-
ter more than any party school ranking ever will.
The DA would like to en-courage students to learn from past mistakes and move toward a change. Re-gardless of how small you think your one action or your one voice may be, do something and speak up.
Tragedies such as the death of Nolan Burch are avoidable, it just takes a few people willing to speak out.
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Drug testing insensitive, expensive for citizens
In a completely unsur-prising turn of events, the GOP residents of Charles-ton, W.Va., are doing their best to use tax dol-lars to reproduce a pro-gram which has already been proven expensive, unconstitutional and ineffective.
A Senate panel cleared a bill Tuesday to start a one year, three county, drug testing pilot pro-gram, although the bill does not specify which counties.
I get it. I understand we as a society are concerned with where these dollars we pay in taxes are go-ing—we don’t want to sup-port the habits of the local junkie.
Those aren’t the main beneficiaries of the pro-gram—and our asinine drug testing will only pre-vent those who need the benefits from receiving them.
The process of applying for WIC (Women, Infants and Children), Temporary Assistance for Needy Fam-
ilies program and similar programs is already more complex than most people could ever imagine. It often takes many months, sev-eral office visits, proof of in-come for everyone in your household, proof of iden-tity and residence, proof of participation in any other program including Medic-aid, immunization records for your children, proof of any child support pay-ments and unemployment benefits or short-term dis-ability money received.
The bottom line is the process is one most people don’t ever go near—either they’re too lazy to do the legwork required to receive benefits or too ashamed to use the system. Those who do are doing so because they’re in need and have nowhere else to go, specif-ically those utilizing WIC.
Although the current trial is less intrusive than the one that failed epically in Florida in 2011, it is still incredibly ridiculous. Am-biguous things such as “personal demeanor” or “denial of a job applica-tion” could cause the De-partment of Health and Human Resources to drug test a beneficiary of the
TANF program. The American Civil Lib-
erties Union, responsible for the lawsuit declaring Florida’s law unconstitu-tional, said the reasons are vague and do not have a reasonable relationship to a person’s drug use.
The similar failed law in the Sunshine State was only active for four months. In that short amount of time, it cost the state of Florida an estimated $45,780—not including court fees.
Of the people tested, only 2.7 percent were positive.
Tennessee reported in its first six months of test-ing welfare applicants, one out of over 800 tested posi-tive. That’s a lot of wasted money that could be going to other places.
I’ll also play the devil’s advocate for a minute, be-cause there’s another side to this issue. Those who jump through all the hoops to receive benefits have at least one child. When did we begin to live in a soci-ety where the child is pun-ished for the actions of a parent? Should we not feed a little girl because her par-ents smoke weed?
This is a completely ri-
diculous notion.It’s time to stop stigma-
tizing an entire group of people and rubbing salt in the wound of humiliation.
No matter where you’re from, you’ve probably done something silly and had your bank card declined,
miscalculated the amount of money you would need or run out of something and had to ask a friend or neighbor for help. If you know even the tiniest bit of this feeling, then you know a mere fraction of what ap-plicants to these social pro-
grams go through.There’s an adage you
should “never look down on someone unless you’re helping him or her up.” Now would be a great time to start abiding by that.
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A salute to The Daily Show: Jon Stewart’s impact on a generation
My heart sank when I heard Jon Stewart is retiring from The Daily Show.
Maybe it was because I al-ways thought his gig would last forever - a “pope job” as his friend Jerry Seinfeld would say. I thought his unique ability to be both funny and serious while lambasting the establish-ment would endure for many generations to come. But it’s not to be. The world is now a more somber place because of it.
I remember the first time I ever watch The Daily Show. I was in middle school sleep-ing over at a friend’s house. He tuned to Comedy Central a little after 11 p.m. and said the show was like the news but funny. I haven’t stopped watching since.
Stewart never actually
did any real journalism. He never broke news stories and neither did his “Best F---ing News Team Ever” group of correspondents. But that wasn’t the goal. The goal was to fix the news, not tell it.
Stewart taught me to be skeptical of mainstream me-dia outlets, but not stop at skepticism. His simple gag of pulling clips from past years to point out the hypocrisy of someone’s newest take - be it a politician, newscaster or whomever - on an event was refreshing, but it also showed the dedication to truth which always seemed to permeate from behind the J-shaped desk.
His inextinguishable search for truth drew me to The Daily Show. Inextin-guishable until just recently it seems.
While I was a fan, I didn’t really start to appreciate The Daily Show until the global economic collapse.
When the Great Recession struck, Stewart’s unforgetta-ble segment “Clusterf--- To The Poor House” debuted. At the time, it seemed like Stewart’s 22 minutes of air-time was the only place that spoke any sensibility on the matter.
He never shied away from exposing who was really re-sponsible. He never backed down in an interview. It was The Daily S h o w where I first re-t a i n e d the con-cept of a sub-prime mortgage and its role in the collapse.
But Stewart’s interviews were the best. He was phe-nomenal at it. By never try-ing to look like the smartest guy in the room, he often was. I’m called to remember an extended interview Stew-art did with former Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice back in November of 2011.
They discussed her new memoir about her time spent in the White House, and Stewart never let up - but only in the most gra-cious way possible, typical of Stewart. He played cautious defense when Rice went on about unanimous national security bills, then goes on the offensive.
He questions the con-certed effort between Rice, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney in rallying the American people to go to war over a report in the New York Times about aluminum tubes being used for WMDs, the sources from the report
coming solely from Dick Cheney’s office at the White House.
That was one of Stewart’s two comedic gifts: Applying real pressure, in a comedic setting mind you, to people who otherwise would have gotten softball questions pitched anywhere else, and his unfailing eye for talent.
The Daily Show launched so many careers I don’t
have nearly enough space to name all of them. But just think where we would be without: Stephen Colbert, John Ol-iver, Rob Riggle, Ed Helms or Ol-ivia Munn. He gift-
wrapped future comedy stars right before our eyes for 17 years. He’s even supply-ing SNL now with Michael Che.
Stewart wasn’t perfect, though. He sensationalized things, too. He likes to take the moral high ground on
the “1 percent” even though he’s been a member for more than a decade now.
Even his constant bashing of Fox News got old. Seven-teen years of ridicule and they never changed. It was like he lost but couldn’t ad-mit it.
I didn’t get it until he for-mally announced his retire-ment Tuesday. He started the episode pointing out Fox’s latest hypocritical stance on the president with the same vigor he always had. Then it hit me. Stew-art didn’t lose. He couldn’t; not with that much energy pointed to a just cause. The national media might not ever fix itself, but Stew-art inspired a generation to see past the smoke and mir-rors of it. He couldn’t fix the media, so he taught us instead.
For this, I thank you Jon Stewart.
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Will NBC ‘Nightly News’ anchor Brian Williams get a second chance?NEW YORK (AP) — In
handing Brian Williams a six-month suspension for misleading viewers, NBC Universal chief Steve Burke says his chief anchor de-serves a second chance. Whether he actually gets one is an open question.
Time is renowned for its healing powers but in this case, time also offers rea-sons for the split to become permanent. NBC Universal bought time with the sus-pension, hoping to remove an unflattering spotlight on its most prominent per-sonality after he falsely re-ported flying in a helicopter hit by an enemy grenade in the Iraq War.
Veteran Lester Holt will fill in. With “Nightly News” atop the ratings for almost all of Williams’ decade-long tenure as its lead anchor - and back into the 1990s with Tom Brokaw - Holt will be watched closely to see if he can maintain that lead. If he can, that may lessen NBC’s desire to bring back a more costly anchor with doubts cast on his trustworthiness.
ABC in the past year maintained and even im-proved its “World News To-night” ratings after replac-ing well-known anchor Diane Sawyer with David Muir. That indicates viewers care more about the content of the broadcasts than its anchors, said Andrew Tyn-dall, a consultant who mon-itors the evening newscasts.
“Not only is (Williams) dispensable, the business model is wrong,” he said.
Even with the suspen-sion, NBC has kept open its investigation into Williams’ tendency to embellish sto-ries of his work experiences. NBC News President Debo-rah Turness said that NBC Universal’s general counsel has joined investigative ed-itor Richard Esposito in the probe.
Some critics believe Wil-liams is already so ethi-cally compromised that it would be difficult for him to work an election campaign, whether viewers would ac-cept him asking a presiden-tial candidate, for example, to account for conflicting statements on an issue.
“The suspension so wounds him,” said Frank Sesno, a George Washing-ton University professor and former CNN Washing-ton bureau chief. “If the of-fense is sufficiently severe to warrant a six-month suspension, how does one recover stature and credibility?”
Williams has declined to comment on his suspen-sion, and the head-spin-ning aspect of his fall from grace may have precluded him from thinking about his future. He may decide he doesn’t want to continue in his present role, or at NBC, with the six months offer-ing him and NBC Univer-sal a chance to negotiate a
settlement.Williams’ hiring as chief
anchor predates Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal, which would leave some question about the loyalty of its executives toward him. Embarrassing head-lines about NBC News also aren’t welcome at a time Comcast Corp. is still seek-ing federal approval of its purchase of Time Warner Cable.
With all these caveats, and the strong words of Williams’ bosses about his wrongdoing, a clear path-way back was publicly offered.
“I know Brian loves his country, NBC News and his colleagues,” Burke said. “He deserves a second chance and we are rooting for him. Brian has shared his deep remorse with me and he is committed to winning back everyone’s trust.”
Comeback stories are popular, as are stories about the downfall of pow-erful people. Williams’ ex-planation of misremem-bering some facts ignited online ridicule of him. A more humble apology, ad-mitting he fudged a story to make himself look good, may strike viewers as more believable.
NBC’s handling of the apology, and Saturday’s cu-rious announcement from Williams that he was taking himself off the broadcast - as opposed to his bosses or-
dering him to - has also cast negative attention on NBC News management.
Turness has had a rough run as NBC News presi-dent: the “Today” show has shown little progress chasing “Good Morning America,” and was embar-
rassed by the quick hiring and firing of an executive who created backstage tur-moil; medical correspon-dent Nancy Snyderman angered the public by vio-lating a quarantine for Eb-ola exposure proved ; “Meet the Press” has sunk in the
ratings and David Gregory’s exit as moderator played out uncomfortably in pub-lic, and now Williams, who had been the network’s bright spot.
Not all are her fault, yet managers of losing teams get only so many chances.
nbcnews.comPopular anchor Brian Williams has recently been given a six month suspension after it was discovered he fabricated details about events he went through.
‘The Last Five Years’ movie reviewAP — Don’t be sur-
prised if, settling into “The Last Five Years” with your popcorn, you hear a large number of people around you singing rather than crunching.
That’s because the stage play it’s based on, a soul-ful and romantic song cycle by composer Jason Rob-ert Brown, is a cult favor-ite of musical theater afi-cionados, not to mention a preferred source of audi-tion songs. Most recently revived off-Broadway in 2013, it’s the charming and ultimately mournful story of a five-year relationship, from its giddy, heady be-ginnings to its depressing end.
Only here’s the twist: The woman’s journey starts at its somber con-clusion - a Dear Jane letter - and moves backward in time to its sunny early days. The man travels forward in time, and the two meet, chronologically speaking, only in the middle, for a marriage proposal amid the majesty of Manhattan’s Central Park.
Alas, that clever struc-ture doesn’t work nearly as well in this screen version, adapted and directed by Richard LaGravanese and starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan as lov-ers on opposing trajecto-ries. That’s because it’s just too darned confusing. In the stage version, the lov-ers - aspiring actress Cathy and ambitious novelist Ja-mie - sing their alternating songs alone onstage, and it’s fairly clear where we were in each journey.
Here, the other character is present - though mainly silent - during their part-ner’s solos. But wait: Is this “early” Jamie or “late” Ja-mie? After a while the head spins, simply trying to keep track. It’s distracting.
Of course, the main at-traction is the score - there’s hardly any dialogue - and Brown’s melodies are truly infectious, though perhaps lacking the depth of his gorgeously lush, Tony-winning score for “The Bridges of Madison County.” A few of the lyr-ics here have been up-dated from the 2002 origi-nal (now-defunct Borders has become Target) but mostly, they remain in-tact, and they’re frequently laugh-out-loud clever.
And the film does have one asset the stage pro-duction didn’t: a bona fide movie star in the fast-rising Kendrick, who cut her teeth in musical theater and is, not surprisingly, charming and quirky and altogether irresistible as Cathy. As for Jordan, the Tony-nomi-nated star of “Newsies: The Musical” and TV’s “Smash,” he’s drop-dead handsome and has a great singing voice; If he doesn’t match
his co-star in the charisma department, it’s not really a fair fight.
Jordan’s character is also far less sympathetic. A young literary prodigy, Jamie has dropped out of Columbia and is having his debut novel published. Such a thing can go to a guy’s head, and it does. He loves Cathy - “Shiksa God-dess” is an amusing ode to her goy loveliness - but he seems to love himself an awful lot, too.
Cathy, meanwhile, spends her days waiting hours in line to audition alongside younger and thinner women “who’ve already been to the gym.” Kendrick is especially en-tertaining singing “A Sum-mer in Ohio,” a wry look at the indignities of do-ing summer stock in Ohio, “sharing a room with a for-mer stripper and her snake, Wayne.” Or in “Climb-ing Uphill,” where she hi-lariously shares her inner thoughts during an audi-
tion (“Why is the pianist playing so loud? Why is the director staring at his crotch?”)
Marriage comes at the midpoint: “Will you share your life with me for the next 10 minutes?” Jamie asks in a glorious duet. When things fall apart, we should perhaps feel sad-der, but remember, at the end, things are falling apart for only one of the lovers. Cathy is flying high, be-cause she’s just met Jamie, and so her lovely “Good-bye Until Tomorrow” is re-ally just a happy reflection on a great beginning. “I will be waiting,” she sings con-fidently. We will, too - to hear Kendrick sing again. In anything.
“The Last Five Years,” a Weinstein Co. release, is rated PG-13 by the Mo-tion Picture Association of America “for sexual mate-rial, brief strong language and a drug image.” Run-ning time: 94 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
dirtyandthirty.comAnna Kendrick stars in this film adaptation of a musical.
Defense attorney calls Routh ‘nuts’STEPHENVILLE, Texas
(AP) — Shortly before he was shot to death by a trou-bled former Marine at a Texas gun range, legend-ary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle texted a buddy, “This dude is straight-up nuts,” a defense attorney told jurors Wednesday.
A lawyer for Eddie Ray Routh said in opening state-ments of the man’s murder trial that Routh’s insanity was so evident that Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield exchanged texts expressing alarm as the three rode to-gether in February 2013 to a Texas shooting range.
“He’s (sitting) right be-hind me, watch my six,” Littlefield texted back, us-ing a military reference for watching one’s back.
But a prosecutor said Routh still knew right from wrong, even with a history of mental illness.
The first day of the highly anticipated trial also in-cluded sometimes tear-ful testimony from Kyle’s widow, who spoke about her husband’s passion for helping veterans, gun safety and opposition to mixing alcohol with gun use.
The case has drawn in-tense interest, largely be-cause of Kyle’s memoir about being a sniper who served four tours in Iraq. The Oscar-nominated film based on the book has grossed nearly $300 million.
Erath County District At-torney Alan Nash described the 27-year-old Routh as “a troubled young man” who on the morning of the kill-ings numbed himself with marijuana and whiskey. He said a history of mental illness should not absolve Routh of being accountable for the deaths.
“The evidence will show that mental illnesses, even the ones that this defendant may or may not have, don’t deprive people from be-ing good citizens, to know right from wrong,” Nash said.
Tim Moore, an attorney for Routh, said Kyle and Littlefield’s text exchange shows how Routh was spi-raling out of control. He told jurors that Routh was suf-fering from severe mental strain that day and thought he needed to kill the two or they would turn on him.
“He thought he had to take their lives or he was in danger,” Moore said.
Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, choked up and occasion-ally wiped away tears dur-ing her testimony. She said her husband had been approached by Routh’s mother to help her son and that he chose to take Routh to Rough Creek partly be-cause the hour-and-a-half drive could give him time to talk things out.
She said that as her hus-band left to the range, “we just said we loved each other and gave each other a hug and kiss.”
She later called him around the time he arrived at Rough Creek and noticed her husband was unusually terse in their conversation. “It was short, like, `I wish I could say more,’” she said.
The widow testified that Littlefield and her hus-band were close, and en-joyed spending time with veterans as a way to help them ease back into civilian life. She detailed her hus-band’s own struggles after leaving the battlefield, say-ing he had post-traumatic stress disorder, was irrita-ble and slowed by physical
ailments.The defense asked if
her husband could recog-nize when someone had been drinking before firing weapons, suggesting that Chris Kyle and Littlefield should have known as they rode with Routh that he was intoxicated.
Taya Kyle said her hus-band didn’t condone drink-ing while using weapons, and testified that he was upset when he once at-tended an event where peo-ple who had consumed al-cohol were firing weapons.
The intense attention on the case has brought re-newed focus to the mental struggles former military members face.
Routh was a small arms technician who served in Iraq and was deployed to earthquake-ravaged Haiti before leaving the Ma-rines in 2010. Authorities say that after the Febru-ary 2013 shooting, Routh drove to his sister’s house in Kyle’s truck, admitted to the killings and told his sis-ter “people were sucking his soul.”
Routh faces life in prison without parole if convicted.
crimeblog.dallasnews.comRouth is on trial for the murder of Chris Kyle.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Thursday February 12, 20156 | CAMPUS CONNECTION
BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH You’ll have a strong sense of where a partner is coming from. Once you engage in a conversation, you might feel as if this person is too set in his or her ways for you to con-tinue down the same path. On some level, you might feel locked. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHH Others seek you out in the morning, and you might feel over-whelmed. Decide whom you want to spend your time with, and go about making it happen. Know when to establish stronger boundaries. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHHH You’ll seek out others as you attempt to get a better grasp on a situation. You could get a lot of information, but you still might feel as if some-one close to you is not revealing ev-erything he or she knows. Find out why. Tonight: An older person trig-gers many thoughts.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Prepare to do what you want, but expect to get some impromptu de-mands. Stay steady, and figure out where you want to focus your en-ergy. Recognize your limits. You may need to say “no” to someone you can’t help. Tonight: Get some R & R.
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH You might want to give in to your fun
yet spontaneous personality. Per-haps you are not as sure of your-self as you would like to be when dealing with a loved one. You seem to be withdrawn. Relax, and know that you are well cared for. Tonight: A friend inspires you.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHHH You might want to understand what is happening with someone who is instrumental in helping you main-tain your well-being. This person might be depressed or holding back. Make a point of finding out what is going on with him or her. Tonight: Make it easy, and order in.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HHHH You could be somewhat withdrawn as you see what goes on around you.
Someone with whom you need to speak also might seem distant. Don’t push too hard; let this person have some space. Schedule a massage or join a yoga class. Tonight: Catch up on emails.
ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH You might want to straighten out a money issue before it becomes un-manageable. You know what is pos-sible and what you desire from a sit-uation. Convincing someone who is involved in your finances could be a different story. Tonight: Let your imagination speak.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHHH You could be pushing someone away without realizing how you are coming off. Get feed-
back from several people who know you well. Try to eliminate whatever seems to be holding you back. To-night: Respond to an offer that is too good to be true.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Try to maintain better con-tact with friends and loved ones. There could be some confusion or a misunderstanding about plans. You might want to confirm meet-ings, plans and anything of signifi-cance; you will be a lot happier as a result. Tonight: Vanish while you can.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHHH You could be taken aback by a meeting or get-together with a friend. Work on being positive
about a long-term goal. Your endur-ance will count. Understand that you might not get there overnight, but your goal is achievable. Tonight: Be spontaneous.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH You could have a diffi-cult time listening to a boss or par-ent. Your mind seems to be drift-ing from one interest to another. Be aware of your limits when deal-ing with others. Leave any difficult or demanding situation for a differ-ent day. Tonight: Do what you want.
BORN TODAY Former U.S. Presi-dent Abraham Lincoln (1809), natu-ralist Charles Darwin (1809).
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ANDREW SPELLMAN/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMSophomore forward Brandon Watkins delivers a slam dunk during the Mountaineers’ win against Kansas State last night.
No. 21 West Virginia knocks off Kansas State, 76-72, ends two-game losing streakby ryan petrovich
sports writer @dailyathenaeum
No. 21 West Virginia was able to snap its two-game losing skid, as it defeated Kansas State, 76-72, Wednes-day night.
It was a fast start for both squads as Kansas State’s Ni-gel Johnson found a break-away layup, following a turn-over by Juwan Staten. West Virginia answered, though, as Devin Williams com-pleted an old-fashioned 3-point play.
The Mountaineers led 7-6 with 16:59 left in the first half.
Three-pointers from Na-than Adrian and Daxter
Miles Jr. extended the Moun-taineers’ lead with 15:31 re-maining in the first. How-ever, the Wildcats responded quickly as Nino Williams sank two free throws. West Virginia led by just one, 13-12, early in the first half.
“I’m not going to say today was a win, but it was frustrat-ing,” head coach Bob Hug-gins said.
The Wildcats turned the ball over three times in a span of two minutes, mid-way through the first half of play. Kansas State miscues led to easy baskets for the Mountaineers, as West Vir-ginia extended its lead to 23-19.
West Virginia began to
find a groove late in the first half. Brandon Watkins found two consecutive baskets for the Mountaineers as their lead grew to 35-27 with 4:17 to go in the first half. The scoring barrage came with just over a minute to play in the first half—the Mountain-eers went on an 8-0 run last-ing just over a minute.
After an alley-oop from Staten to Jaysean Paige, Staten and Watkins found fast break layups giving West Virginia a 46-35 lead going into halftime.
The second half saw back and forth action amongst the two teams, but the Moun-taineers were able to keep pace after a 3-pointer from
Jevon Carter gave WVU a 52-41 lead early in the second half.
West Virginia went 22-54 (46 percent) from the floor, 6-16 (38 percent) from be-yond the arc and just 20-33 (61 percent) from the foul line.
Watkins led the Moun-taineers in scoring with a ca-reer-high 14 points.
“Brandon played awe-some,” Adrian said in regard to his teammate. “He does it in practice every day, just waiting for a day like this to come. He capitalized on it.”
Kansas State began to nar-row the deficit with 14:08 left in play. The Wildcats went on a 6-0 run, scoring five con-
secutive field goals. The Mountaineers still led, how-ever, 54-47.
Justin Edwards sank a 3-pointer for the Wildcats, minimizing West Virgin-ia’s lead, but Paige was able to retaliate with a 3-pointer of his own. The Mountain-eers kept their lead, 67-57 with 5:17 remaining in the contest.
After solid shooting throughout most of the game, West Virginia hit a late drought, making just one of 10 field goal attempts and turning the ball over on three straight possessions.
The Wildcats took advan-tage and made it a one-point game. West Virginia led 67-
66 with 2:39 remaining in the game.
Down the stretch, Kansas State’s comeback fell short as the Mountaineers man-aged to squeak out a victory, downing the Wildcats 76-72.
“We grinded it out and came out with a win; that’s all that matters,” Carter said. “From the start we had a lot of energy. We came out with the win, that’s really all I can say.”
West Virginia improved to 19-5 overall and 7-4 in con-ference play. The Mountain-eers will now hit the road to face No. 14 Iowa State on Saturday.
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Signing day, letters of intent can create problems
by dillon durStsports writer
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Class of 2015 linebacker and four-star prospect, Roquan Smith, might have forever changed the recruit-ing process this week when he announced he will not sign a National Letter of Intent.
A week ago on National Signing Day, Smith, who is from Montezuma, Ga., pub-licly announced his deci-sion to attend UCLA. Shortly after his decision, Univer-sity of Georgia coaches in-formed Smith’s high school football coach via text mes-sage that UCLA defensive co-ordinator – and Smith’s lead recruiter – Jeff Ulbrich, was mulling a job offer from the
Atlanta Falcons. Surprised by the news,
Smith postponed faxing his letter of intent to UCLA to wait for Ulbrich’s decision.
After Ulbrich announced this week he was leaving UCLA, Smith reopened his recruitment and said he will not sign a National Letter of Intent.
Signing a National Let-ter of Intent is an interesting concept because, as Smith uncovered this week, it’s not necessary.
However, every year pros-pects sign NLI’s on Signing Day, and almost every year there’s some sort of drama surrounding one who got cold feet.
According to the National Letter of Intent website, a re-
cruit is not required to sign “but many prospective stu-dent-athletes sign because they want to create certainty in the recruiting process.”
By signing an NLI, a pros-pect agrees “to attend the in-stitution for one year in ex-change for the institution’s promise, in writing, to pro-vide (the student-athlete) athletics financial aid for the entire academic year.”
After signing an NLI, the prospect is no lon-ger a prospect, and can-not be recruited by any other schools, ending the entire recruiting process.
If a prospect seeks a re-lease from an NLI, he/she must surrender an entire year of eligibility, unless a coach approves a release.
However, if a prospect doesn’t sign an NLI, he/she may still sign a grant-in-aid agreement and enroll at the school if he/she meets aca-demic requirements.
In college football, sign-ing an NLI might be more beneficial for two and three-star prospects looking to se-cure their spot in a recruit-ing class.
Four and five-star pros-pects, like Smith, might have more leverage against the ex-isting system if they choose not to sign, since coaches will rarely turn away a prospect who they really want.
The reoccurring issue as-
sociated with highly-touted prospects signing these bind-ing agreements is coaches leaving, often days or even hours after a recruit has signed.
Prospective student-ath-letes are often advised to
make their decision based on the school, not a coach.
But the underlying theme in the recruiting process is the building of relationships along the way.
Perhaps it’s time for pros-pects to retake control of the
recruiting process. If enough highly-rated
prospects band together and refuse to sign NLIs, beneficial changes to the process might finally be made.
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The West Virginia gym-nastics team is composed of 17 women who each have an event they are strongest in. This year there are four seniors on the team; one of them is Beth Deal who spe-cializes on the beam.
Deal is a native of Park-ersburg, W.Va., and before coming to WVU had a pro-ductive junior career. She was a qualifier in the 2011 Junior Olympics National Championships, won five all-around titles including the level 10 West Virginia all-around champion two times.
“Coming to Morgantown and seeing all the girls, I was around it more than all the other schools so it being my state and I’d always dreamt of going there,” Deal said. “Imagining a college meet I always thought of the Coli-seum, so I just wanted to be the one down there on the floor my whole life.”
As a senior, Deal has def-initely put in the time at Cary Gym and on the Col-
iseum floor. Her freshman season she was the beam champion in the East At-lantic Gymnastics League, was named to the confer-ence All-Academic Team, and earned Rookie of the Week Honors.
The EAGL Conference hosted several different teams from the Big East and the ACC. Compet-ing against seven differ-ent schools that year, Deal posted a career-best 9.9 on the beam at the conference championship which se-cured the title for WVU.
In the beginning of her sophomore season she had a sprained ankle that kept her off the beam for a bit.
“In gymnastics you kind of expect injuries all the time and all the years but one I haven’t sprained my ankle,” Deal said. “My sophomore year it just so happened that it was right at the beginning of the sea-son so I was out for like five weeks. That was hard go-ing from such a high my freshman year but it’s one of those things.”
When Deal finally got a shot to compete in 2013,
she scored a 9.8 or better six times on the beam out of nine routines. With those high marks on the beam she also set the season-best score of 9.875 and finished No. 10 in the Big 12.
Last year was a fresh start with no injury holding her back and she capitalized on that opportunity. Deal competed in 11 meets as a two-event specialist and qualified as a beam special-ist for the NCAA Regional Championships. Keep-ing her routines strong, she earned a 9.8 or better on seven beam events and hit a routine that was altered against N.C. State to take first place with a 9.85 score.
“Beam is one of those hard things in college be-cause it’s so loud and so much is going on, and you have to be in the zone when you’re on the beam,” Deal said. “The event has always come easy to me and it’s al-ways been my favorite.”
Deal is currently ranked No. 6 on the beam and has been posting scores like 9.65, 9.75 and 9.825 in re-cent meets.
Through the last four
years, Deal has been an important member of the team, especially in the beam lineup and holds her own there. Head coach Ja-son Butts said her impact on the team started right from the jump.
“She was kind of a nat-ural born leader when she walked in the door; she’s al-ways been old beyond her years,” Butts said. “She’s kind of commanded the re-spect of the team from day one. We didn’t have the season we wanted last year. Obviously, that was very different from her fresh-man year when we won the conference championship, so she’s been very bound and determined this year to make sure we’re back to where we need to be.”
Gymnastics is an indi-vidual sport, but the team score totaled up is what gives the Mountaineers meet wins. So far this year the team boasts six overall wins but each meet has in-dividual winners, too. WVU has taken a few trips to the podium for a first, second or third spot.
Having all 17 girls on the
floor during the event is something that you can see makes an impact. During the floor routines, the entire team will stand on the side, clapping with the music and mimicking the dance moves each gymnast makes.
“It’s everything. I can’t imagine being back in club and not having that team support like we do now,” Deal said. “Knowing when you’re up there, not only being confident in yourself, but knowing that every sin-gle one of your teammates and coaches believes that you can do that routine.”
This year as one of the se-nior captains, Deal has been trying to lead the team and said she thinks she’s doing a good job. With a large num-ber of girls and people who specialize in all different events, leadership is a role that is important in keep-ing morale high and help-ing the coach along the way.
Deal will be back in ac-tion with the rest of the Mountaineers this Fri-day night at home against Denver.
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Fields filling her potential this season
shannon mckenna/the daily athenauemSenior Averee Fields expresses her frustration in a game against TCU earlier this month.
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When you look at the West Virginia University women’s basketball team, it’s easy to focus on top scorer Bria Holmes, shot-blocker extraordinaire La-nay Montgomery or ex-plosive playmakers Bre McDonald and Jessica
Morton. They’re the atten-
tion-grabbers, the play-ers capable of win-ning the Mountaineers a game anytime.
But while they make the eye-popping plays, Averee Fields continues to quietly and consistently produce at a high level.
The senior forward can do a little bit of every-
thing – she’s the Big 12’s fifth-leading scorer and s e v e n t h - l e a d i n g r e -bounder, but as a 6-foot-1 power forward, she also possesses the ability to affect the game with her passing and ball-handling, as well as her smarts, effort and leadership.
“She can pass, she can score, she can drive it and she can make decisions,”
said WVU head coach Mike Carey.
“You want the ball in people’s hands that can make good decisions, and she usually does.”
A three-year starter, Fields has made a living off a mid-range jump shot that she doesn’t seem to miss.
Operating out of the high post, Fields gives the Mountaineers an ex-perienced and skilled p l a y e r w h o m t h e y can run the offense through.
According to Fields, her all-around skill is a re-sult of years of hard work, dating back to the earli-est days of her basketball career.
“I’ve grown up playing the game, so my mom’s al-ways preached for a long time that I need to be able to handle the ball and shoot,” Fields said.
“She knew I was going to be tall, so she knew that was going to be an asset to my game, and it’s some-thing I’ve worked on be-fore here and while I’ve been here. It’s necessary to be versatile.”
Fields isn’t the best scorer, rebounder or passer on the team, but the Mountaineers have come to rely on her consistent output.
While most defenses are focusing on Bria Holmes, Fields has put up double-digit points in all but three of West Virginia’s 24 games this season.
Not only has Fields proven herself as West Virginia’s under-the-radar star, the senior from Mur-ray, Ky., has also proven herself as a leader – which is the mindset Fields said motivates her to play with maximum effort.
“I just know that my team needs my leader-ship, they need my con-sistency,” Fields said.
“Since I am a leader, I think if I go hard, they’re going to go hard so I just think that I have to lead my team to victory.”
Fields is second on the team in scoring and rebounding with 13.6 points and 7.0 rebounds a game, and she leads the Mountaineers in steals with nearly two per game.
All season long, Fields has been producing at right around that level ev-ery night – she’s rarely go-ing to go off and win them a game single-handedly, but she always does her part.
Currently sitting at 5-7 in Big 12 play, the M o u n t a i n e e r s h a v e been very up-and-down in their effort to sneak back into NCAA Tourna-ment contention in the season’s home stretch.
With the biggest games of the year right ahead of them, West Virginia will be counting on Fields to keep up the good work.
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Little League team stripped of Championship titleCHICAGO (AP) — A Little
League team that captured the attention of the nation and the hearts of its home-town was stripped of its na-tional title Wednesday af-ter an investigation revealed that team officials had falsi-fied boundaries so they could add ineligible players to the roster.
Only last summer, the all-black Jackie Robinson West team was the toast of Chicago and was honored with trips to San Francisco and to the White House.
But the sport’s governing body announced that team officials had engaged in a Little League version of po-litical gerrymandering. In-stead of politicians redraw-ing district maps to pick up votes, it was local league of-ficials who changed the boundaries that determined where players must live. And after learning that their scheme had been exposed, they scrambled to convince surrounding leagues to go along with what they had done.
“This is so heartbreaking,” said Stephen D. Keener, presi-dent and CEO of Little League International. “It is a sad day for a bunch of kids who we have come to really like ... who did nothing wrong.” But “we cannot tolerate the ac-tions of some of the adults involved here.”
The organization sus-pended the manager, Dar-old Butler, and suspended the team from Little League tournament play until the local league’s president and treasurer have been replaced.
A district official who is be-lieved to have helped change
the boundaries was also removed.
All of the team’s victories were thrown out, meaning that the wins will be awarded to other teams. Mountain Ridge Little League, the team from Las Vegas that lost to Jackie Robinson West in the national championship game, will be awarded the title.
Parents were angered by the news, saying their chil-dren were being unfairly punished.
“The boys had no inside dealings ... about any bor-ders, and I as a mother had no idea there were any (ques-tions about) boundaries,” said Venisa Green, who was driving her son, Brandon, to school Wednesday when they were “blindsided” by the news as it came over the radio.
“We weren’t involved in anything that could have caused us to be stripped of our championship,” said Brandon, appearing at a news conference with his mother.
Venisa Green said the move was especially disheart-ening because the team was part of efforts to keep chil-dren safe and prepare them for college in a commu-nity better known for gangs and drugs than any kind of achievement.
“What would you have us do, Little League, for them to be killed on the streets of Chi-cago?” she asked.
She wondered if the fact that the players were black had any role in the ruling, something that the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others ques-tioned as well.
“Is this about boundaries
or race?” Jackson asked.Jackson did not discuss
whether he blamed any league officials for what had happened, but in Washing-ton, White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested that it was the adults who let down the boys.
“The fact is, you know, some dirty dealing by some adults doesn’t take anything away from the accomplish-ments of those young men,” he said.
It was a stunning end to a story that began last summer as the team marched through the Little League tourna-ment. Their odyssey ended with a loss to South Korea in the world championship game in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
For days, Chicago was en-thralled by the story, in large
part because the team was from the city’s South Side, an area that has a reputation in much of the country for be-ing synonymous with crime and gun violence.
They were part of one of the most heartwarming World Series in Little League history, with the country root-ing for Jackie Robinson West and a team from Philadelphia that had Mo’ne Davis, a star pitcher who was the first girl to appear in the series for a U.S. team since 2004.
When the Chicago team returned home, the boys were treated as conquering heroes. Thousands of people lined city streets to catch a glimpse of them as they were paraded by bus from their home field to a downtown park.
The team was treated to a trip to a major league World
Series game in San Francisco and then a visit with Presi-dent Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at the White House.
Behind the scenes, Keener said, the investigation was creating a different story af-ter a coach from a nearby suburb alleged that Jackie Robinson West had violated rules by poaching top subur-ban players.
The investigation, which was first reported by DNAinfo.com, appeared to end in December when the national organization said it had uncovered no vio-lations. Officials said they would reopen the inquiry if new information surfaced. About that time, the organi-zation learned of questions about boundary maps involv-ing multiple leagues. The in-
vestigation resumed.In an interview, Keener said
Jackie Robinson West officials expanded the boundaries of their league at the expense of three neighboring leagues, so that the boundaries in-cluded the homes of sev-eral players on the team who would not otherwise have been eligible.
The investigation found that at least one district of-ficial who had helped re-draw the map went to the other teams to ask that they go along with what the team had done, Keener said.
“They (said) ‘We know we took your territory. We shouldn’t have done it, but will you give it to us’ to essen-tially legitimize it,” Keener said.
The other leagues refused, he said
No. 1 Kentucky survives again, beats LSU 71-69BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)
— Frustrated by the way his undefeated Kentucky Wild-cats were playing, coach John Calipari starting fist-pumping facetiously after LSU baskets and told his players he hoped they’d lose.
They almost did.But Karl-Anthony Towns
redeemed himself after drawing a technical foul — and the ire of his coach — for hanging on the basket. His go-head jump hook with 1:30 left and clutch of-fensive rebound in the final minute helped No. 1 Ken-tucky hold off the Tigers, 71-69 on Tuesday night.
“I’m proud of Karl be-cause he came back and grew up,” Calipari said. “Now I doubt — ever in his life — will he chin-up on a basket, ever again. But that’s why I looked like an idiot on the sideline and why I refused to call time-out. I even said, ‘I hope we lose. Watch this!’”
Calipari explained that he wanted to make sure his team won’t lose elimina-tion games in March over senseless fouls, so even as his assistants pleaded with him to call timeout, he just watched and joined in the ear-ringing frenzy at the sold out Pete Maravich
Assembly Center during a stunning 21-2 LSU run that gave the Tigers a 66-60 lead.
“I’m not worried about losing,” at this point of the season, said Calipari, whose team improved to 24-0, and 11-0 in the Southeastern Conference. “This is about us getting better.”
As the Tigers stormed in front, Towns squirmed un-comfortably on the Ken-tucky bench, momen-tary regretting his lack of discipline.
“It was a momentum changer. I can’t be doing that,” said Towns, who fin-
ished with 12 points and 13 rebounds. “During mo-ments like that you think about your brothers and how much they’ve given you. You give everything back. I was more than happy to repay my broth-ers’ efforts.”
It was only narrowly enough. LSU guard Keith Hornsby had a shot to win it in the final seconds, but his off-balance 3 bounced off the outside of the rim.
Willie Cauley-Stein scored 15 points for the Wildcats, who can tie a school record for the best start to a season by win-ning at home on Saturday
against South Carolina. Devin Booker added 14 and Andrew Harrison had 13 for the Wildcats.
Jarell Martin had 21 points and 11 rebounds for LSU (17-7, 6-5), while Hornsby scored 17 points.
Early in the second half, LSU appeared to be strug-gling with Kentucky’s height, with Cauley-Stein dunking twice within a few possessions as the Wild-cats built a 10-point lead. Harrison then drained a 3 to give the Wildcats their largest lead at 58-45 with 12:46 to go.
LSU called timeout, and responded with its big run,
starting with a 3 by Josh Gray. Hornsby scored eight points during the surge, in-cluding a 3 and a fast-break layup off of Cauley-Stein’s turnover that capped the run and put LSU up 66-60.
“We’ve battled through some tough games this year and put ourselves in position to have a shot to win it late,” LSU coach Johnny Jones said. “If you play that way through-out, some good things can happen for you. We’re con-stantly growing, and I feel like we took some posi-tive steps tonight. Unfor-tunately, we just came up a little short.”
Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian dies at age 84LAS VEGAS (AP) — He
couldn’t stop fighting the NCAA any more than he could give up chew-ing towels courtside. Jerry Tarkanian built a basket-ball dynasty in the desert, but it was his decades-long battle with the NCAA that defined him far more than the wins and losses.
The coach who won a national title at UNLV and made the school synony-mous with basketball died Wednesday after several years of health issues. He was 84.
Tarkanian put the run in the Runnin’ Rebels, taking them to four Final Fours and winning a national championship in 1990 with
one of the most dominant college teams ever. His teams were as flamboyant as the city, with light shows and fireworks for pregame introductions and celebri-ties jockeying for position on the so-called Gucci Row courtside.
He ended up beating the NCAA, too, collecting a $2.5 million settlement af-ter suing the organization for trying to run him out of college basketball. But he was bitter to the end about the way the NCAA treated him while coaching.
“They’ve been my tor-mentors my whole life,” Tarkanian said at his re-tirement news conference in 2002. “It will never stop.”
The night before he died, fans attending UNLV’s game against Fresno State draped towels over the statue of Tarkanian out-side the campus arena that depicts Tarkanian chew-ing on one of his famous towels.
Tarkanian’s wife, Lois, said her husband - hos-pitalized Monday with an infection and breath-ing difficulties - fought health problems for the last six years with the same “courage and tenacity” he showed throughout his life. His death came just days after the death of an-other Hall of Fame coach, North Carolina’s Dean Smith.
“Our hearts are broken but filled with incredible memories,” Lois Tarkanian said in a family statement. “You will be missed Tark.”
Tarkanian was an inno-vator who preached de-fense yet loved to watch his teams run. And run they did, beginning with his first Final Four team in 1976-77, which scored more than 100 points in 23 games in an era before both the shot clock and the 3-point shot.
He was a winner in a city built on losers, putting a small commuter school on the national sporting map and making UNLV sweat-shirts a hot item around the country. His teams helped revolutionize the way the college game was played, with relentless de-fense forcing turnovers that were quickly con-verted into baskets at the other end.
He recruited play-ers other coaches often wouldn’t touch, building teams with junior college transfers and kids from checkered backgrounds. His teams at UNLV were national powerhouses al-most every year, yet Tar-kanian never seemed to get his due when the dis-cussion turned to the all-time coaching greats.
That changed in 2013 when the man popularly referred to as Tark the Shark was elected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, an honor his fellow coaches argued for years was long overdue. Though hospitalized in the sum-mer for heart problems and weakened by a vari-ety of ills, he went on stage with a walker at the induc-tion ceremony.
“I knew right from day one I wanted to be a coach,” Tarkanian said.
“Coaching has been my entire life.”
Tarkanian’s care er spanned 31 years with three Division I schools, beginning at Long Beach State and ending at Fresno State, where Tarkanian himself played in 1954 and 1955. Only twice did his teams fail to win at least 20 games in a season.
But it was at UNLV where his reputation was made, both as a coach of teams that often scored in the triple digits and as an outlaw not afraid to stand up to the powerful NCAA. He went 509-105 in 19 seasons with the Runnin’ Rebels before finally be-ing forced out by the uni-versity after a picture was published in the Las Ve-gas Review-Journal show-ing some of his players in a hot tub with a convicted game fixer.
UNLV was already on probation at the time, just two years after winning the national title and a year af-ter the Runnin’ Rebels - led by Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon and Greg Anthony - went undefeated into the Final Four before being upset in the semifinals by the same Duke team they beat by 30 points for the championship the year be-fore. Even after losing four of his starters off that team and being on probation, Tarkanian went 26-2 in his final year at UNLV.
His overall record is listed several different ways because the NCAA took away wins from some of his teams, but the fam-ily preferred to go with his on court record of 784-202.
The sad-eyed Tarkanian was born to Armenian im-migrants Aug. 8, 1930, in Euclid, Ohio, and attended Pasadena City College be-fore transferring to Fresno
State, where he graduated in 1955. He coached high school basketball in South-ern California before being hired at Riverside City Col-lege, where he spent five years before moving on to Pasadena City College.
He was hired at Long Beach State in 1968 and went 23-3 in his first year, then led the school to four straight NCAA tournament appearances, including the 1971 West Regional fi-nal, where Long Beach led UCLA by 12 points at half-time only to lose by two. While at Long Beach he got into his first dispute with the NCAA, writing a newspaper column that questioned why the or-ganization investigated Western Kentucky and not a powerful university like Kentucky.
Never shy about chal-lenging the NCAA, Tar-kanian once famously said: “The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky, it’s going to give Cleveland State two more years’ probation.”
By the time he moved to Las Vegas in 1973, Tar-kanian was considered one of the rising coaching stars in the country. He quickly built a name for what was then a small school and by his fourth season at UNLV he had the Runnin’ Rebels in the Final Four, where they lost 84-83 to North Carolina. It would be an-other decade before UNLV made the Final Four again, and the Runnin’ Rebels were in three in five years, including the national championship season of 1990.
In the final that year, UNLV used its pressure defense to blow out Duke 103-73 in one of the most dominant performances in championship game history.
APPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle pose with members of the Jackie Robinson West little league team in the Oval Office in November, 2014.
