by jake jarvisstaff writer

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ity council nar-rowly approved its 2016-17 fiscal bud-

get last night (4-2), with-out the help of Mayor Marti Shamberger. Councilmen Ron Bane and Wes Nugent voted in the minority.

Shamberger, after re-ceiving mixed advice from the city’s attorney that the state’s Ethics Commission has issued somewhat con-flicting opinions, recused herself from voting on the budget.

“Has this been a for-mal thing, or did this just come up?” asked Council-man Ron Bane, who usu-ally votes in opposition to Shamberger. “Did someone give you some sort of docu-ment? Or are we just going on some sort of allegation? I don’t understand.”

Shamberger’s husband, Thomas Shamberger, is the director of the central busi-ness office in the Division of Finance, according to West Virginia University’s online directory. The city allocated $25,000 to WVU for a Safe Communities partnership.

City Manager Jeff Mikor-ski said the mayor was con-tacted and told she might have a conflict of interest because of her husband’s job.

A f t e r S h a m b e r g e r stepped out of the room and Bill Kawecki assumed

temporary chair of the meeting, other council members worried they, too, had a conflict of interest.

Wes Nugent is employed by WVU in the Extension Services Office, which wouldn’t receive direct funding from the budget, as a professional technol-ogist. Jenny Selin said she also used to be employed by WVU.

The city’s attorney, Ryan Simonton, pointed to sev-eral somewhat-differing opinions the Ethics Com-mission issued in the past. The opinions, Simonton said, attempt to prevent someone from using a pub-lic office for private gain.

“In general,” he said, “there’s no private gain when there’s no money directed to the council member.”

One, issued in 2014, opines that County Com-mission members may vote on appropriating funds to local Boards of Education when the board employs their spouses. In another opinion, issued in 2013, the Commission advised that city councilors could vote on giving property to Boards of Education when the board employs their spouses.

But in a 2006 opinion, the Commission found that a mayor, as an em-ployee of a state univer-sity, should have recused themself when voting on awarding the University

funds.“I don’t believe this type

of thing is a conflict be-cause we make partner-ships with WVU and we share a number of issues,” Selin said.” No other coun-cil members recused them-selves from voting on the budget.

“She’s not going to walk away with a check in her hand or anything like that,” Ron Bane said of Shamberger.

At one point, it appeared there would be a stalemate between three council-ors who previously voted for the budget (Kawecki, Ganz and Selin) and three council members who hadn’t (Bane, Nugent and Redmond).

Redmond ultimately flipped his decision and voted in favor of the budget.

Also Tuesday evening, city council approved 6-1

the list of 72 streets the city will pave in the com-ing year. Money for paving those streets will cost about $2.5 million, all of which comes from the user fee im-plemented at the beginning of the year.

Nancy Ganz voted against the list. She felt that some streets were more in need than streets higher up on the list.

The list of streets was ranked based on the most in need of paving, traffic con-ditions and visibility to the city. That information came from 2010, the year that city interns walked each street “at least three times,” ac-cording to Damien Davis, city engineer.

City Council will meet again at 7 p.m. on March 29 for its monthly commit-tee meeting.

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This May marks 125 years since Harriet Lyon became the first woman to graduate from West Vir-ginia University. In her honor and legacy, a sym-posium hosted by WVU Libraries March 15-17 will explore Lyon’s jour-ney through earning a higher education and the progression for women since her revolutionary accomplishment.

Carroll Wilkinson, di-rector of strategic library initiatives for WVU Li-braries, said Lyon and her peers faced discrimination from their classmates and other individuals on cam-pus who did not agree with allowing a woman to re-ceive a college degree.

“Most people treated (female students) like out-siders,” Wilkinson said. “It was an exclusively male environment, and they felt strange.”

The three-day program, which is free and open to the public, builds upon the work of the celebration of the Centenary of wom-en’s graduation in 1991. The event is also meant to bring awareness to the challenges and discrimi-nation that some women still face on and off college campuses.

“This whole idea where women enter fields where they make up 5 percent or less are areas that we need to look at,” Wilkinson said.

Wilkinson collaborated with librarians and library staff to create a lineup of a lecture, a forum, a panel discussion, a work-shop, exhibits and a stu-dent poster session for the symposium.

Activities began at 4 p.m. yesterday with an open-ing program in the Robin-son Reading Room of the Charles C. Wise Library.

Today there will be multiple presentations, a panel discussion, a poster session and a hands-on workshop.

The keynote address from Regina Barreca, pro-fessor of English and fem-inist theory at University of Connecticut, is sched-uled for 7:30 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room in the Charles C. Wise Li-brary. The presentation is titled “Courage, Curiosity, and Conviction: Celebrat-ing 125 Years of Educating

Women at WVU.”Additional programs on

for today include “Break-ing through a Glass Ceiling in Mathematics,” where Dr. Marjorie Darrah, asso-ciate professor of mathe-matics at WVU and the first woman to receive a PhD. in mathematics at WVU, will reflect on her experi-ences and changes at the University over the last 25 years.

“A Discussion of the Triumphs & Tribulations of WVU Sisterhood dur-ing the Last Twenty-five Years” brings together panelists from throughout campus including Ethel Smith, associate profes-sor of English; Martha Yancey, interim director of the Evansdale Library; Marjorie Fuller, director of the Center for Black Cul-ture and Research; and Cathy Jasper, program coordinator.

Among these programs, there will also be a Wikipe-dia Edit-a-thon, which will provide training on writing for Wikipedia. Kelly Doyle, WVU Libraries’ Wikipe-dian-in-Residence for Gender Equity, will lead participants through cre-ating an account to editing an existing article about a West Virginia woman or posting an original re-searched article with ref-erences on the online en-cyclopedia. Interested participants should bring their own laptops and mo-bile devices to the event.

Wilkinson said she hopes students and faculty attending events will no-tice the change that has al-lowed women to advance educationally in the pres-ent as well as the possible change that could allow women to progress aca-demically even more in the future.

“We need women to know that they are stand-ing on the shoulders of the women who have gone before them,” Wilkinson said. “We are celebrating change, but we still have some work to do.”

Kaila Ilyes, junior busi-ness management student at WVU gave her opinion on what it is like to be a woman attending college in a predominately male-oriented STEM field.

“I feel like men are still more pressured in society to be the main provider, and that makes the distri-

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Senate Bill 420—which would raise taxes on all tobacco products—was stalled in the House Finance Committee this past legisla-tive session. However, there is still a chance for a recov-ery in a special legislative session this spring, and its implications would be tre-mendous for the state but devastating for one specific business.

The bill passing in its cur-rent form would mean a $1 excise tax rate increase on cigarette packs, raising it from 0.55 cents to $1.55,

and a 7 percent increase on smokeless tobacco on top of the current 7 percent rate. This increase would be in addition to the 6 percent sales tax for the state.

The passing of this bill would be critical in a time of financial desperation for the state, according to multiple analysts and economists.

“We estimate that the $1 increase will generate more than $100 million (in tax revenue),” said John De-skins, director of the West Virginia University Bu-reau of Business and Eco-nomic Research. “We think maybe $130 million or so is the best-case scenario; right around $100 million is the

worst-case scenario, de-pending on how much peo-ple respond to the overall change.”

Deskins and a team of economic researchers re-cently published a study that considered this pro-posed tax rate increase and its effect on the state bud-get, which is currently suf-fering from a $380 million shortfall.

The 7 percent increase on smokeless tobacco would also generate revenue on its own: an additional $10 mil-lion, according to a report by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy.

Along with potentially increasing state revenues,

the imposed tax would also incentivize people to try to quit smoking, which in turn would ease the bur-den of taxpayer-funded pro-grams such as Medicare and Medicaid.

West Virginia has one of the highest rates of adults who smoke in the country, at 26.7 percent, according to the Center for Disease Con-trol and Prevention. It’s well known that tobacco prod-ucts cause a number of dif-ferent ailments—emphy-sema, higher rates of cancer and higher mortality rates—but the fiscal damage is not usually taken into account. There is $1.3 billion in addi-tional health care costs im-

posed on taxpayers through social healthcare programs, according to a report by the West Virginia Depart-ment of Health and Human Resources.

“At that point, you actu-ally start seeing some public health benefits,” said Sean O’Leary, analyst for the WV Center on Budget and Pol-icy. “A reduction in smoking translates into savings in the long term.”

Even if the population is prompted to quit smoking, the decline in tobacco use would have a minimal effect on the revenue: the estimate reflects an anticipated 14 percent decline in cigarette purchases attributable to

the higher tax rate, accord-ing to the study conducted by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research.

The proposed legislation has some negative effects as well. The regressive tax would have a larger burden on low income families or individuals. Even so, the tax would not have a significant effect on individuals’ finan-cial livelihoods.

“For the bottom 20 per-cent of West Virginia, so those earning less then $19,000 a year—now not all of them smoke—but on av-erage the tax increase would be about $100 per year,”

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CLeVeLand (aP)—Hill-ary Clinton triumphed Tuesday in the Florida, Ohio and North Carolina presidential primaries, putting her in a command-ing position to become the first woman in U.S. history to win a major party nom-ination. Donald Trump strengthened his hand in the Republican race with a big win in Florida but fell in Ohio to that state’s gov-ernor, John Kasich.

Florida Sen. Marco Ru-bio ended his once-prom-ising campaign after his devastating home-state loss, so the GOP primary is now down to three candidates: Trump, Ka-sich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Trump also picked up wins in North Caro-lina and Illinois, and was locked in a close race with Cruz in Missouri.

The billionaire busi-nessman told a victory rally, “This was an amaz-ing night.”

Trump is the only Re-publican candidate with a realistic path to the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the July conven-tion. But his loss in Ohio kept hope alive for main-stream Republicans dis-mayed by his candidacy and suggesting the real estate mogul can still be stopped in a convention fight.

“The campaign goes on,” Kasich declared at a vic-tory rally. Now thrust into the center of a campaign that has been bitingly per-sonal, Kasich vowed to “not take the low road to the highest office in the land.”

A confident Clinton piv-oted quickly to November during her victory rally, assailing Trump’s hardline immigration positions and support for torture. “Our commander-in-chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it,” she declared.

Underscoring Repub-lican concerns about Trump, Rubio focused heavily on an implicit cri-tique of Trump in a speech announcing he was drop-ping out of the race. The senator urged Ameri-cans to “not give in to the

fear, do not give in to the frustration.”

A favorite of Republican leaders, Rubio is the lat-est candidate to fall victim to an unpredictable elec-tion cycle and Trump’s unmatched ability to tap into the public’s anger with Washington and frus-tration with sweeping eco-nomic changes.

Clinton’s victories in Ohio and Florida were a blow to rival Bernie Sand-ers and bolstered her ar-gument that she’s the best Democratic candidate to take on the eventual Re-publican nominee in the general election. Her win in Ohio was a particular relief for her campaign, which grew anxious af-ter Sanders pulled off a surprising win last week in Michigan, another important Midwestern state.

Clinton kept up her

large margins with black voters, a crucial group for Democrats in the general election. Democratic vot-ers were more likely to describe Sanders as hon-est, but more likely to de-scribe Clinton’s policies as realistic, according to exit polls.

Campaigning Tuesday in North Carolina, Clin-ton said “the numbers are adding up in my favor.” She signaled an eagerness to move on to a possible general election show-down with Trump, say-ing he’s laid out a “really dangerous path” for the country.

Votes were also be-ing counted Tuesday in Missouri, though races in both parties were too close to call. Sanders and Clinton were locked in a close contest in Illinois.

Trump entered Tues-

day’s primaries embroiled in one of the biggest con-troversies of his conten-tious campaign. The GOP front-runner has encour-aged supporters to con-front protesters at his events and is now facing accusations of encour-aging violence after skir-mishes at a rally last week in Chicago.

The atmosphere at his events has deepened the concern over his candi-dacy in some Republi-can circles. Rubio and Ka-sich have suggested they might not be able to sup-port Trump if he’s the nominee, an extraordi-nary stance for intraparty rivals.

His closest competi-tion so far has come from Cruz, who has kept rela-tively close to the busi-nessman in the dele-gate count and has been urging other candidates

to drop out so he can take Trump on one-on- one.

Even before Tuesday’s results, a group of con-servatives was planning a meeting to discuss op-tions for stopping Trump, including at a contested convention or by rallying around a third-party can-didate. While such no can-didate has been identified, the participants in Tues-day’s meeting planned to discuss ballot access is-sues, including using an existing third party as a vehicle or securing signa-tures for an independent bid.

A person familiar with the planning confirmed the meeting on the condi-tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the gathering by name.

Despite concerns from party leaders, Republican

voters continue to back Trump’s most controver-sial proposals, with two-thirds of those who partic-ipated in GOP primaries Tuesday saying they sup-port temporarily banning Muslims from the United States.

The exit polls were con-ducted by Edison Re-search for The Associ-ated Press and television networks.

Trump’s Florida vic-tory brought his dele-gate total to 619. Cruz has 394 and Kasich 136. Ru-bio left the race with 167 delegates.

Clinton has at least 1,488 delegates, includ-ing the superdelegates who are elected officials and party leaders free to support the candidate of their choice. Sanders has at least 704. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

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O’Leary said. “That would be just under a 1 percent in-crease in their overall taxes.”

The main concern, and potentially one of the main hesitancies for the state leg-islature, is the possibility of

cross-border shopping. Our current excise tax rate for cigarettes is on par with that of Kentucky’s rate of 0.60 percent, and is higher than Virginia’s rate of 0.30 cents. The $1 dollar raise would put us at the national av-erage, and would put West Virginia at the same rate as Ohio.

“People who own con-

venience stores or gro-cery stores in Parkersburg or Huntington don’t want to see business go across the border,” Deskins said. “They’re worried about peo-ple shopping in Virginia and Kentucky instead.”

This would reduce in-state purchases, while also stalling any effect on reduc-ing overall consumption of

tobacco products. Cross-border shopping is

a possible negative external-ity for this tax, but it is not guaranteed that it will oc-cur and decrease in-state purchases. One thing that is guaranteed, however, is the devastating effect the legis-lation will have on e-ciga-rette businesses in the state.

Currently, the bill pro-

poses creating an excise tax rate on e-cigarette liq-uid—7.5 cents per milli-liter—a drastic increase from a zero percent rate on a product that contains no form of tobacco. The prod-uct only contains nicotine and is available in varying levels of nicotine content, with certain liquids contain-ing no nicotine whatsoever.

Shawn Dunn, owner of Evapor on High St. in Mor-gantown says that a good portion of his customers use e-cigarettes to wean them-selves off cigarettes.

“The vast majority of our customers start with a high level of nicotine and a high percentage of them end up going down to a very low level of nicotine,” Dunn said. “A lot of people go to zero percent.”

The most popular sized liquid goes at 30 mL and is priced at $10-$20 depend-ing on the brand and type of liquid. The excise tax would add $2.20 on to the price, and would add $13 on to a 180 mL bottle.

The fact that these prod-ucts can be bought online would cause a slow collapse of similar e-cigarette busi-nesses across the state. The nail in the coffin for Dunn is the written implications im-posed on his business if the bill were to take effect come April 1, 2016.

“The way the bill is writ-ten, we would have to pay the tax for all of our existing

inventory upfront,” Dunn said. “Just the tax on the e-liquid in my store right now, it would have been about $30,000 that I would have had to write a check for on April 1. I can not do that and I would have to close my doors.”

The written law of SB 420, along with the economic in-centive to purchase these products online rather than in stores, “would put ev-ery vape shop in the state out of business,” Dunn said.

“The state doesn’t see the big picture,” Dunn said. “They’re getting revenue in sales tax from (our busi-ness). We’re contributing taxes to the state and that would all vanish.”

Nonetheless, economists and analysts agree that the big picture for West Virgin-ia’s financial situation is daunting, and something has to be done to try and fill the budget gap.

“The tax does discourage the purchase of the use of (e-cigarette products) so we would lose some business. But I think when you look at the economic projection, it’s a fairly minimal effect on sales,” O’Leary said. “(The State is) not going to be able to get away with no new rev-enue. We’re just to the point where we don’t want to start eliminating programs and services.”

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bution of men and women in most classes unequal,” Ilyes said. “The majority of women still don’t make as much money as men be-cause of the glass ceiling and because they aren’t encouraged to go into as advanced majors as most men are.”

The symposium con-cludes at 10 a.m. tomor-row in the Robinson Read-ing Room with “Excellence through Equity: Are We There Yet?” a conversa-tion with Wilkinson and Judith Gold Stitzel, profes-

sor emerita and founding director of the WVU Cen-ter for Women and Gender Studies. Barreca will mod-erate the discussion.

Immediately follow-ing the conversation, the closing session will pro-vide a preview of upcom-ing events in the Universi-ty’s celebration of the 125th anniversary of the gradua-tion of women. Wilkin-son said WVU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Stud-ies will continue this signif-icant celebration on cam-pus throughout 2016.

For more information, visit http://symposium.lib.wvu.edu.

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The downsides of group work in classGroup work is a com-

mon practice in many col-lege classrooms. It seems working in groups would be a winning situation for all parties, as professors would have fewer papers to grade and students would have less work to do. However, working within a group can sometimes cause more in-dividual stress than if stu-dents worked alone.

Interdependence is meant to create a better learning experience for students, which is most likely why many capstone courses at West Virginia University rely heavily on group work. However, as capstone courses are vital to students’ graduation, be-ing dependent on a stranger for your final grade can be nerve-wracking.

Several classes offered at WVU are based entirely on group work as opposed to lecture material, in which every student could have an equal opportunity to learn information pre-sented by a professor. In

these situations, assign-ing large amounts of group work could actually deter students from learning the subject or make the course material tedious.

In addition, professors often step back from facil-itating a class when group work is assigned, and as a result, students are unable to fully engage with them in learning.

Many students lament that group work is often distributed unequally be-tween members, and ap-athetic individuals who don’t do their share of an assignment can drag the entire group’s grade down. Students could be part-nered at random with peo-ple who are often absent or even someone who drops the class altogether, which is unfair to diligent stu-dents who are present for each class.

In groups, one member typically assumes the role of the leader out of neces-sity, which leaves them to deal with the majority of the

work and stress. Pairing stu-dents who lack motivation with those who are willing to do anything for a great grade is an unfair combina-tion and doesn’t benefit ei-ther group member.

Given the number of fac-tors in which group work would either deter students from completing work on their own or make some group members unfairly take on the assignments of others, students should be able to opt out of group work for a more personal-ized timetable and learning experience.

Research shows that group work has the abil-ity to foster improved and deeper learning, as well as improve test scores. How-ever, educational insti-tutions often ignore the downfalls of group work, which include disguised inactivity, unequal loading, inappropriate socialization and unfair assessment, ac-cording to an article in the American Federation for Teachers periodical “Amer-

ican Educator.”In many classes, group

members have the ability to grade each other on each person’s contribution to the assignment or project, and many professors would be willing to work with stu-dents who have a slacking group member. These mea-sures are meant to prevent

individual group members from falling behind, but more often than not, stu-dents don’t approach their professor or give a fellow member a bad grade.

Although group work is meant to simulate real-life work situations, class-rooms simply lack the trust and pay that make teams

in businesses or offices successful. Students who thrive on working with oth-ers should have the op-tion to do so, but students should be able to opt out of group work in order to get the most out of their education.

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There has recently been a growing demand for more organic or “natural” goods across the country. When concerning food, this usu-ally means foods that have either been minimally pro-cessed, not genetically al-tered or cultivated locally.

While electing to pur-chase these types of materi-als is just as much of a per-sonal choice as choosing to eat a vegetarian diet, there are many issues one should take into account as peo-ple continue the search for healthier dietary options. For example, consuming unpasteurized milk has been debated as a more nu-tritious and natural choice than drinking what is cur-rently sold in grocery stores.

What many people do not realize, however, is that the consumption of raw milk carries multiple health risks and almost no additional health benefits to consum-ers. With West Virginia’s raw milk bill now signed into law, citizens can enter “herd-shares” with local farmers to obtain unpasteurized milk to drink. The individuals pur-chase shares of a farmer’s cow, and when it produces milk, they receive a portion of the product without ever having to travel to a store.

I am highly opposed to the raw milk bill, as the potential harm of distributing unpas-teurized milk has been sig-nificantly overlooked by leg-islation and is putting West Virginians’ health at risk. Be-tween 1998 and 2011, there were more than 2,000 ill-nesses that required hospi-talization and two deaths in

the United States due to the consumption of raw milk and cheese products. In fact, the same legislators who signed the raw milk bill into law drank some to celebrate and became sick shortly after consumption.

I do not believe one re-quired yearly health exami-nation, as stated in the bill, is sufficient enough to confirm that an animal’s byproducts are safe for distribution. I also do not feel as though most people are made aware enough as to how easily milk can be contaminated or how severe the infections caused by raw milk can be. It’s as though this bit of legislation was pushed by people who were undereducated and overzealous about pasteur-

ized milk without actually understanding the risks and overall lack of health benefits which raw milk poses.

Pasteurization, which be-came common practice in the early 20th century, in-volves heating and rapidly cooling milk to kill any mi-croorganisms that may be present. Cattle and poultry are frequent carriers of E. coli, salmonella and other infectious species, and these strains cannot be de-tected in their byproducts without testing. As a result, things like milk and eggs are often infected with these or-ganisms and can cause se-vere infections of the stom-ach and intestines that can lead to diarrhea and vomit-ing when consumed.

In young children, elderly people or people with weak immune systems, side ef-fects of an infection caused by raw milk can include kid-ney failure and even death. These microorganisms can also infect fetuses in the womb, which can cause fetal abnormalities, miscarriages and stillbirths. While certain individuals are more suscep-tible than others, any person could potentially experience chronic infection from the bacteria in raw milk.

There has been a lot of debate as to whether or not pasteurization, while re-moving many harmful or-ganisms, also takes away the health benefits of the milk. Since pasteurization is not a selective process, all bacte-

ria and microbes are killed, which includes those con-sidered to be probiotic and helpful to the stomach. Some people believe drink-ing unpasteurized milk will allow them to regain these helpful bacteria. However, this also puts them at risk for ingesting pathogenic bacte-ria as well. A much safer al-ternative to supplement the beneficial bacteria in milk would be to eat more yogurt or simply include a probiotic in one’s diet.

I am not opposed to per-sonal and small-scale us-age of raw milk. If you are a dairy farmer who elects to drink your cow’s milk, that is your choice. However, shar-ing a quart of this milk with a family member or even

close neighbor does not pose nearly the same widespread health risks as opening the doors to the general public to buy potentially contami-nated milk.

No one would eat raw beef or chicken just to obtain ad-ditional nutrients that may be lost in the cooking pro-cess. This practice is almost unheard of because nearly everyone is aware that un-cooked meat carries harm-ful pathogens. Milk is ex-actly the same and should be treated as such. Pasteuriza-tion protects public health, and there will likely be se-vere consequences with this new health trend in West Virginia.

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Popular hip-hop record-ing artist Hoodie Allen is hitting Stage AE in Pitts-burgh this St. Patrick’s Day.

Known for his hits “Champagne and Pools,” “All About It,” “No Inter-ruption” and “No Faith in Brooklyn,” the rap sensa-tion has made his way to the top with the help of loyal fans.

Allen released his soph-omore album, “Happy Camper,” as a free down-load in January. However, enough fans flocked to sites like iTunes and Am-azon to propel the release to No.1 on the Billboard rap charts.

A deep connection with fans has been a focal point for Allen since he launched his career in 2010.

Known only profession-ally as “Hoodie Allen,” the 27-year-old from Long Is-land, New York was born Steven Adam Markowitz. Allen was once a success-ful accountant executive at Google, but a few months into his career at the tech giant, he decided to leave San Francisco and move to Manhattan to pursue his dreams as a rapper.

“After about six or seven months, it just seemed like I was stretching myself too thin, and I asked myself, ‘Are you going to fully in-vest yourself in this thing that you’ve wanted to do since you were 13? Or are you going to take a more traditional route?’” Allen said during an interview with Billboard. “It was re-ally an incredible oppor-tunity to work at Google in the first place. It was a tough decision, but I knew within myself what I wanted to do. I moved back home and pursued music full time.”

Allen has been “DIY” since the very beginning.

Similar to other emerging hip-hop acts like Chance the Rapper, Macklemore and Nipsey Hussle, Allen has thrived as an indepen-dent artist.

Building a strong so-cial media presence with the release of mixtapes like “Pep Rally” and “Leap Year” before releasing his breakthrough “All Ameri-can” EP in 2012 propelled him into his current fame. Allen’s debut album, “Peo-ple Keep Talking,” debuted in the top-10 on the Bill-board 200 chart in 2014.

“Happy Camper” rep-resents Allen’s most in-trospective release yet. While it still contains the

fun-loving “hipster hop” he’s known for, the album also touches on insecuri-ties (“So Close to Happi-ness”) and Allen’s connec-tion with his father (“King to Me”).

It’s that mix of vulnera-bility and joy that causes fans to flock to shows early for meet-and-greets and reach out to Allen on so-cial media, something he encourages.

“I wanted to make some-thing that was truly reflec-tive of what was going on in my mind,” Allen said. “The title is partially sar-castic because I’m not al-ways a happy camper. We put on a smiling face to the

world at all times, espe-cially on social media. But the truth is, everyone goes through a variety of emo-tions. We just decide what we want to show. I wanted to make songs that were re-flective of a variety of emo-tions, whether it’s being super excited about some-thing - dream chasing, but also about the anxiety that comes with not knowing if your next step is the right one or if certain situations haven’t worked out in your life.”

Allen is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Stage AE in Pittsburgh.

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by Ally litten A&E WRitER

@dAilyAthEnAEum

With St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday and Spring Break starting on Friday, Mor-gantown is preparing it-self for parties. All the cra-ziness starts tonight, as the psychedelic funk band, Pi-geons Playing Ping Pong, kicks off the weekend.

Held at Mainstage Mor-gantown, Pigeons Play-ing Ping Pong will rock the house and get everyone in the groove for Spring Break. The concert is just the start for the funky electric band, however - their new album “Pleasure” will be released April 1. With this upcoming release, local fans are get-ting pumped for the show.

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong consists of four mem-bers: Greg Ormont, vocals and guitar; Jeremy Schon, vocals and guitar; Ben Car-rey, bass and vocals and Alex Petropulos with the electro-swag.

Starting in Baltimore in 2009, the psychedelic band has developed a reputa-tion for a good time. Since then, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong have released an EP titled “Funk” in 2010 and an album, “Psychology,” in 2014.

The eccentric band is known for its wild antics and even crazier beats. Pi-geons Playing Ping Pong is one of those bands that puts its heart and soul into its music. The group has the ability to capture an au-dience and completely ab-sorb them into the music. This makes Pigeons Play-ing Ping Pong a great band to see live.

This is not the band’s first rodeo in Morgantown. It has frequented 123 Pleas-ant Street for many years. Last year at this time, they stopped by on their winter

tour with guest Aqueous to blow the minds of local jam-banders.

Although the band has history in Morgantown, this is the first time Pigeons Playing Ping Pong has vis-ited Mainstage Morgan-town. With the new venue and laid-back atmosphere, it should be a perfect fit.

With the show only hours away, almost ev-ery ticket has been sold. However, a select amount of tickets are on sale on-line for $15 at Mainstage Morgantown’s website. The concert venue will also save 75 tickets to sell at the door for $20. How-ever, those are first come, first serve.

Similar to the recent Lo-tus concert, people are flocking to Mainstage Mor-gantown from all over to see the band.

“We have a lot of people coming in for this,” said Mainstage employee Tim Crockett. “The Lotus con-cert a few weeks ago was like this - it drew people in from seven different states. It’s a good thing. It’s good for the community, good for the economy with peo-ple coming and staying in hotel rooms.”

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is just the start of sold-out concerts at Main-stage Morgantown this weekend. Phil Vassar has a sold-out show on Saturday, and Deer Tick has a sold-out show on Sunday.

The Pigeons Playing Ping Pong concert will begin at 8 p.m. tonight at Mainstage Morgantown. For more information on the band, visit http://pi-geonsplayingpingpong.com. To purchase tickets, visit http://mainstagewv.t u n e s t u b . c o m / e v e n t .cfm?id=230395&cart.

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Hoodie Allen to play in Pittsburgh

genius.comGoogle employee turned hip-hop artist, Hoodie Allen, will play in Pittsburgh tomorrow night.

The Daily Athenaeum’s ultimate Spring Break playlistby CHelseA WAlker

A&E WRitER @dAilyAthEnAEum

Once again, it’s reached the point in the semester where classes will pause for a brief moment of relaxation and recuperation. Whether you’re packing your swim trunks and sunscreen or planning for a week full of “Netflix and chill,” a spring break playlist is essential for getting through a week of vacation.

DJ and producer Sam Feldt has been known to remix some pretty potent house music, such as his single, “Show Me Love.” But it’s his track “Been Awhile” that is a must have on any spring break track list. As a feel good dance hymn, “Been Awhile” features touches of tropical house sounds such as light guitar plucks, whistles and trum-pets. The music video it-self is just as eclectic as the song, telling a love story be-tween a girl and young man wearing a bear onesie. With catchy vocals and blissful beats, “Been Awhile” is a track meant for sunny days and endless nights on the dance floor.

Swedish indie-pop group Miike Snow is known for its bizarre melodies and un-conventional aesthetic.

Members Christian Karls-son, Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt make up the Grammy award-winning group. The group’s recent single, “Genghis Khan,” fea-tures all the eccentric styles of their artistry in a spring break anthem. With a min-imal drum and piano beat, “Genghis Khan” hosts very little transition from mini-mal beat, only enhancing the track and adding catchy ballads. With a catchy hip-hop twist, Miike Snow’s “Genghis Khan” is a must add track to any spring break playlist.

Fronted by Diplo, Jil-lionaire and Jamaican DJ Walshy Fire, American electronic music group Major Lazer remixes beats filled with reggae, house and electronic genres. Their track “Light It Up,” released from their June 2015 album “Peace Is The Mission,” wasn’t a tune that stunned listeners. It wasn’t until the release of their “Light It Up” remix that Major Lazer of-ficially blew out the charts, staying within the top 10 on the charts in nearly 10 dif-ferent countries. As one of the artist’s highest charting songs, “Light It Up Remix” opens with chopped trum-pets and Caribbean-infused sounds. Featuring Nyla and Fuse ODG, “Light It Up Re-

mix” is a perfect track for celebrating island vibes and good times.

Born in Boca Raton, Flor-ida, Ariana Grande knows a thing or two about warm cli-mates, sandy bathing suits and sea-filled days. Her newest track “Dangerous Woman” is a must-add to any playlist. As the title track of her upcoming record set to drop in May 2016, “Dan-gerous Woman” is a sultry ballad that speaks on deal-ing with tunnel-vision de-sire and temptation. From an artist who is so outspo-ken about issues surround-ing sexism, Grande’s “Dan-gerous Woman” is a great sing-along tune for long car

rides.Nicki Minaj regularly

produces smash hits with catchy choruses and hip-hop infused bass beats. Her recent remix of Yo Gotti’s “Down In The DM” is just one more pop anthem re-leased just in time for spring break. With witty punch lines and typical Minaj at-titude, “Down In The DM Remix” talks of Minaj’s public issues with pop star Miley Cyrus and Kylie Jenner.

Be sure to check out Spotify for The DA’s en-tire 20-track spring break playlist.

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“Been Awhile” – Sam Feldt “The Sound” – The 1975“Work” – 5th Harmony“Get It” – Matt & Kim

“Genghis Khan” – Miike Snow “Tangerine Girl” – Asher Roth

“Be Right There” – Diplo“Ain’t No Time” – Future

“Cheap Sunglasses” – RAC“Never Leave” – DVBBS

“Light It Up” – Major Lazer “Pass Dat” – Jeremiah“Cheap Thrills” – Sia

“Saved” – Ty Dolla $ign, E40“I Got Two Phones” – DJ Slim D“Dangerous Woman” – Ariana

Grande “Touchin’ Lovin’” – Trey Songz

“Down In The DM (REMIX)” – Yo Gotti ft. Nicki Minaj

“Best Friend” – Young Thug

musickraze.comReggae-house hybrid group Major Lazer produces the perfect songs to listen to while enjoying Spring Break.

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When is the appropriate time to start drinking on St. Patrick’s Day?

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Thursday is Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday celebrating a religious figure who sup-posedly banished snakes from an already snakeless island. However, across col-lege campuses, the holi-day has taken on a different meaning and has become a reason for students to cel-ebrate and drink through-out the day.

Yesterday, 100 students in the Mountainlair were polled on when, in their opinion, was the appropri-ate time to start drinking on Saint Patrick’s Day.

The most popular answer, with 29 percent of the re-sponses, was it would be o.k.

to start drinking after class. These responsible students rationalized that debauch-ery was better when it was used as a reward for hard work well-done.

One quarter of the stu-dents polled replied that it was appropriate to start drinking as soon as they woke up. Members of this group said either they were skipping their classes, their classes were cancelled or they were simply attend-ing class intoxicated. One student said anytime was a good time to drink on Thursday.

The rest of the students polled responded with a

specific time they believed it was okay to begin drinking. For convenience these times have been lumped together into morning (between 6-11 a.m.), noon, afternoon (be-tween 1-5 p.m.) and evening (6 p.m. onward).

Noon was the most pop-ular time with 14 percent of the replies. Afternoon re-cieved 14 percent of the re-plies and evening recieved 5 percent.

Three percent of students polled said they believed it was appropriate to begin drinking at midnight, not wanting to miss a second of the holiday.

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Jagger jokes about Penn-Chapo interview MEXICO CITY (AP) —

The Rolling Stones made a tr iumphant return to Mexico a decade af-ter they last performed in the country, delight-ing a crowd of about 60,000 fans who packed a sports stadium in the capital.

Mick Jagger celebrated Monday night’s concert by poking fun at actor Sean Penn, whose secret interview with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman while the convicted drug lord was a fugitive from justice has provoked controversy in Mexico.

“Sean Penn came to in-terview me at the hotel, but I escaped,” the Brit-ish band’s frontman said to cheers and roars of laughter.

Penn’s article was pub-lished by Rolling Stone magazine in January a day after Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was recaptured by Mexican authorities fol-lowing his second brazen prison escape months earlier.

Speaking in a heav-ily accented but charm-ing Spanish, Jagger said

the Stones were “having a great time in Mexico” and expressed fondness for the city’s iconic Zocalo, or main square, for “lucha li-bre” wrestling and for the ancient pyramid ruins of Teotihuacan outside the capital.

“It has been 10 years since we last came to

Mexico,” Jagger said. “It’s cool to be back.”

He also joked that the band enjoyed drink-ing tequila but now they prefer mezcal, another agave-based spirit which is known for its smoky flavor.

Performing beneath three huge video screens

at the Foro Sol arena, the band kicked off the show with the classic “Start Me Up.”

“Hola Mexico! Hola guey!” Jagger exclaimed, employing a uniquely Mexican slang word that roughly translates as “dude,” before launch-i n g i nt o “ Tu m b l i n g

Dice.”Jagger, Keith Richards,

Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts powered through other hits including “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It),” ‘’Out of Con-trol,” ‘’Wild Horses” and “Paint It Black,” before sending the crowd home with a rousing rendi-

tion of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”

The Rolling Stones are wildly popular in Mexico, and many local fans refer to the band as “Their Sa-tanic Majesties” in a nod to the title of their 1967 album.

The Stones will play a second show Thursday in Mexico, the penultimate stop on their “Ole” tour of Latin America.

Then they’re off to Ha-vana for a historic free concert on March 25, three days after U.S. Presi-dent Barack Obama wraps up his own landmark visit to communist-run Cuba.

Like on other stops on the tour, it fell to a star-struck local band to warm up the crowd in Mexico City.

“It took us a whole day before we told our par-ents that we would open for the Stones’ concerts in Mexico. Even we didn’t believe it!” said Santiago Casillas, singer and gui-tarist for the group Little Jesus.

“My mom almost cried,” Casillas added, “and my dad was paralyzed by the news.”

net-biographies.comRolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger poked fun at the meeting between Sean Penn and ‘El Chapo’ while touring in Mexico.

‘Miracles from Heaven’ tones down religious themesLOS ANGELES (AP) ‑ For some filmgoers,

hearing a movie described as “faith-based” makes it a must-see. But just as many others find the term a turn-off.

To reach audiences beyond the Chris-tian churchgoers that generally propel the genre, some producers of faith-based films are ramping up the star power and tamping down the evangelical messages.

The latest example is “Miracles From Heaven,” starring Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah, which tells the true story of a 9-year-old Texas girl who inexplicably recovers from an incurable condition after surviving a 30-foot fall.

Among the film’s producers are pastors T.D. Jakes and DeVon Franklin - the team behind 2014’s $100 million hit “Heaven is for Real” - who say they aim to make mov-ies for all audiences, not just religious ones.

“I think sometimes when people hear ‘faith-based,’ to them that is code for preachy, that is code for more medicine, and it’s also sometimes code for lower qual-ity, lower budgeted,” Franklin said in a re-cent interview.

“It’s the way people think when you use labels that is the barrier,” Jakes said. “It’s not necessarily the film, but the image that comes up in people’s minds ... It suggests a discrimination that was not intended. We didn’t do this film just for people of faith. We did this film for everybody.”

Other entertainment aimed at Christian audiences, including new films “The Young Messiah” and “God’s Not Dead 2,” and the live TV special “The Passion” (airing Sun-day), take a more religious approach.

“Miracles From Heaven” is based on Christy Beam’s 2015 memoir, which de-scribes her family’s struggles and her own crisis of faith when daughter Anna is diag-nosed with an incurable digestive disorder, then has a potentially deadly fall. But fol-lowing the mishap, Anna has no serious in-juries and ultimately shows no signs of the disorder. She later tells her mom she went to heaven and talked to Jesus during the ordeal.

The film is being released Wednesday by Sony’s Affirm Films, the studio’s specialty faith division established in 2007.

Affirm also released “Heaven is for Real,”

starring Greg Kinnear, which is similarly based on a parent’s account of a child’s di-vine experience. The film had a reported $12 million budget and made more than $100 million at the box office.

Paramount’s “Captive,” released last fall, was a modest faith-based success. Also a true story, it stars David Oyelowo as Brian Nichols, an escaped murderer who takes a single mother (Kate Mara) hostage, then lets her go after she reads a Christian book to him. Despite mixed reviews, it more than doubled its small budget at the box office.

Marketing a film as faith-based means nothing if the content doesn’t speak to re-ligious audiences, said Maria Elena de Las Carreras, a professor of international cin-ema at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

“It’s a label, but it’s not magical. It doesn’t guarantee box-office turnout,” she said, cit-ing Paramount’s 2014 big-budget Biblical flop, “Noah.”

“Audiences flock to well-made films that deal with stories of optimism and renewal, even if there is suffering and there is loss,” she said. “That was true in classic Hollywood cinema and it’s true today.”

Hollywood has a long history of Biblical blockbusters, from Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” to Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” to the currently play-ing “Risen,” also released by Affirm and star-ring Joseph Fiennes. But such big names haven’t traditionally been drawn to the qui-eter God-related fare.

Garner, who plays Christy Beam in “Mir-acles From Heaven,” celebrated the film’s Christian themes.

“I wasn’t scared of doing a movie that had faith at its center, as long as it wasn’t preachy,” Garner told The Associated Press. “And doing this movie, part of that is talk-ing about something that I’ve always held dear and close to my heart... I’m proud of growing up a little good churchgoing United Methodist girl and I’m so, so proud of the film.”

Director Patricia Riggen (“The 33”) said she didn’t approach the film from a religious perspective.

“I wanted to make the movie have a wide

appeal and be able to be seen and enjoyed by people of any faith or no faith at all,” she said. “It was, for me, important to keep it open in that sense.”

Even films not branded as faith-based can be “promoted from the pulpit,” said de Las Carreras, who says she is Catholic.

“When the priest in the sermon mentions a film, I pay attention, because of the author-ity,” she said.

Churches are powerful marketing agents, said Alex Ben Block, founder of entertain-ment industry website BlockandTackle.biz, noting some congregations organize car-

pools or hire buses to take members to the latest faith-based releases.

“That’s really fed some of the movies that have done well,” he said, adding that faith-based films also have long lives after their theatrical releases as they become regu-lar viewing in Sunday school classes and daycare.

But echoing UCLA’s de Las Carreras, Block said producers aiming at broader audiences for their faith-based fare can’t obscure reli-gious themes too much “because as soon as you try to make it more viable, you alienate the core audience.”

Review: Latest ‘Divergent’ film ‘Allegiant’ is dull, storyline lacks life Call me Indifferent.In “Allegiant,” the latest installment of “The

Divergent Series” (three out of four), dysto-pian Chicago might be in disarray, but it’s also become as dull as our heroine Tris’ shapeless, grey Abnegation frocks from the first pic. Un-less the filmmakers really try to shake things up for the next and final film, this series might just end up being as forgettable as those duds, too.

And really, this is where things should start getting interesting and urgent. The faction system fell in the last one, “Insurgent,” also directed by Robert Schwentke, and with it all of those senseless names - Abnegation, Can-dor, Dauntless, etc. Now they’re trying to start a new society, but, it turns out Evelyn (Naomi Watts) and her band of punk rock factionless revolutionaries didn’t exactly have a theory of governance in place when they decided to storm Chicago.

So, she begins with probably the worst pos-sible decision - killing off many of those who were loyal to the fallen leader Jeanine (who was played by Kate Winslet). This leads to a rift with Octavia Spencer’s Johanna, and they go to war.

But that’s all a side show to the exploits of Shailene Woodley’s Tris and Theo James’ Four who decide to escape the city along with a few others (Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, and Ansel Elgort). In the last movie, Tris learned that there was life outside of the walls and they resolve to find out what that means with all the casualness of a couple of urban-ites deciding to try out that new brunch spot two neighborhoods over.

What is out there, located at the remains of Chicago’s O’Hare airport (which is only about 15 miles away from the city, by the way), is a headquarters run by a man named David (Jeff Daniels). He likes Tris because she’s geneti-

cally “pure,” while everyone else in the Chi-cago experiment is “damaged” and he wants to show her off to some other committee in Providence to prove that the system can work.

And it’s here where things might start to feel a little jumbled for anyone who has en-gaged with the modern sci-fi dystopias of the past few years. The O’Hare outpost looks like “Oblivion,” their genetic perfection goals sound like “The Giver” meets “Gattaca,” the Russian doll world feels like “The Maze Run-ner” and the heroine like a less lively version of “The Hunger Games’” Katniss.

But unlike Katniss, who wore her trauma and moral confusion and apprehension on her face, Woodley’s Tris just plays it cool and affectless. She’s never ruffled by anything and

we’re never riled up on her behalf. Four, too, just pouts and broods his way through the film, which has become the de facto mode for YA heartthrobs ever since Edward skulked his way into that “Twilight” cafeteria.

It’s not completely the fault of the actors - the story takes itself so, so seriously that even Miles Teller’s minimally amusing snarky asides feel like treasures in this leaden dud just because he gives some life to them. And while Spencer and Watts seem to have the more interesting plot, you’re almost grate-ful that their time on screen is kept to a minimum.

If you can learn anything about storytelling from “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent,” it’s that part one of a two-part finale is gen-

erally pretty disposable - a first act stretched out to feature length. As long as these series continue to break up single stories into un-necessary two-part finales, they might benefit from taking a cue from television and making the penultimate installment the one you can’t miss, the one where everything goes haywire.

Instead, it’s something to be tolerated and endured while we wait for an actual story to close out the series.

Next, please.“The Divergent Series: Allegiant,” a Sum-

mit Entertainment release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “intense violence and action, thematic el-ements, and some partial nudity.” Running time: 121 minutes. One star out of four.

people.comJennifer Garner stars in ‘Miracles from Heaven.’

denofgeek.usShailene Woodley and Theo James star in ‘Allegiant.’

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Wednesday March 16, 20166 | CAMPUS CONNECTION

BY NANCY BLACK

ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHH Stick close to home for the next two days. Plan and implement changes you’ve been wanting. Consider the direction in which you’d like to take your creative work. Update bud-gets to reflect and include these possibilities.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHH Get out of the house today and to-morrow. Study and practice. Explore a passion. Take big ground on your long game (with Jupiter trine Pluto). Long-term love sparks. Update strat-egies for the future.

G E M I N I ( M Ay 21- J U N E 20) HHHHH More income is possible today and tomorrow. Push for prof-its. Stick to your budget. Long-term assets (like real estate) get an un-expected bump in value (with Jupi-ter trine Pluto). Invest in your home.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH You’re getting stronger over the next two days. Your credit rating is go-ing up. Ask for what you want. Good news comes from far away (with Ju-piter trine Pluto). Keep detailed re-cords. Imagine perfect outcomes.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Settle into a peaceful chair and get productive. It’s easier to finish old projects today and tomorrow. Long-

term assets get an unexpected bump in value (with Jupiter trine Pluto). Update financial strategies for the future.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEpT. 22) HHH Relax with friends. An unexpected personal surprise with long-term benefit flowers (with Jupiter trine Pluto). Enjoy beauty, goodness, hap-piness and health, wherever you find it. Play with loved ones.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HH Fo-cus on your career for the next two days. You’re attracting the attention of an important person. The impos-sible seems accessible. A long-term windfall (with Jupiter trine Pluto) lands on your path.

ScORpIO (OcT. 23-NOV. 21) HHH Explore a subject of fascination to-day and tomorrow. Distill to basic elements. Get to what’s most au-thentic. A community effort gets an unexpected win (with Jupiter trine Pluto). Get help building your dream.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HH Contribute to shared accounts today and tomorrow. Do the bookkeeping. A sibling’s crazy idea could work. Get farther down the road than expected (with Jupiter trine Pluto). Travels and transport flow with greater ease.

cApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHH Collaboration could grow unexpect-edly profitable over the next two

days. A promise made now is good. Leave nothing to chance. Compas-sion is a huge factor. Express your gratitude and appreciation.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HH Focus on work today and tomor-row. Others demand your attention. Imagine perfection, and delegate what you can. A stroke of good for-tune rises in value over the long term (with Jupiter trine Pluto).

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHH Take on a challenge. Some of your best thinking happens while playing with dear people in nature or with a favorite game. Take advantage of a sudden surge in your favor (with Ju-piter trine Pluto).

BORN TODAY Your professional influence rises with reliable work this year. Strengthen and build sup-port for an upcoming two-year profit boom. Realize personal dreams. Generate a new level in partner-ship. Eclipses illuminate shifting di-rections for joint accounts and inti-mate projects. Prioritize love.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

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in 200527 Tropical cocktail whose color comes from cura

ao liqueur30 First name in game shows31 Work-wk. start32 Basic Latin conjugation word36 “Got it, man?”37 This puzzle’s theme, as suggested by the ends

of 16-, 27-, 47- and 61-Across41 Big heart?42 Ladies of Sp.44 Chicago’s __ Center45 Elena of the Supreme Court47 Chaste priestess of ancient Rome51 Record covers54 “__ a stinker?”: Bugs Bunny55 Upright, e.g.56 Bow (out)57 Disaster relief org.60 Longtime football commentator Cross61 Biblical wise man65 Actress Charlotte66 Where to learn une le on67 Practical joke68 CIA forerunner69 “Man, you are not serious!”70 Rocker Patty married to John McEnroe

doWn1 24 Hours of Le __: auto race2 Hurler Hershiser3 Ninja Turtle’s “Awesome!”4 Faded star5 Curved part6 Went under7 Alley target8 Load from a lode9 “Shoulda listened to me!”10 Silent Marx

11 Assumed truth12 “Fiddler on the Roof” matchmaker14 Hall of Fame infielder Rod17 Words before homer or brick wall22 Novelist Ferber24 Takeout option25 “The Da Vinci Code” priory26 Warm-hearted27 Some undies28 Lion’s den29 Range maker33 Rod Stewart classic with the line “You stole my

heart but I love you anyway”34 Trendy berry35 Ky. neighbor38 Postage-paid enc.39 Gobs40 Banana peel43 Kristoff’s reindeer in “Frozen”46 Sculpture or ballet48 Brought forth49 Run out50 Corleone patriarch

51 Veep between Hubert and Gerald52 Turkish coins53 Some nest sites56 Give the eye58 __ Blanc: tallest Alp59 Egyptian cross62 Post-ER area63 Sign of approval64 Old DJ’s records

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WVU VS. THE WORLDBy Chris JaCkson

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Fresh off a loss to No. 1 Kansas in their first-ever Big 12 championship ap-pearance, the No. 3 seed Mountaineers are ready to prove their worth once again.

There’s a matchup with Stephen F. Austin in the first round, a team that’s found success in the NCAA Tournament since Brad Underwood took over the program three years ago. WVU is just 7.5-point fa-vorites entering the con-test, the lowest advantage for any of the No. 3 seeds.

They were in the same spot last year. As the No. 5 seed in the Tournament, the Mountaineers were slated to fall to Bobby Hur-ley’s 12-seeded Buffalo team in the first round. But a late 3-pointer in the corner from Tarik Phillip saved the day.

Stephen F. Austin re-ceived 12 votes in the lat-est AP Poll, the fifth-high-est total among unranked teams. The Lumberjacks defeated No. 5 seed VCU in the opening round two years ago, and it has quali-fied for the NCAA Tourna-ment every year since Un-derwood took over.

“Last year was every-body’s first experience of being in the tournament so we did have to psych ourselves out, but being the second time around we know how important it is to put a team away,” said WVU junior Devin Wil-liams. “The quicker we put the team away, the quicker some of the important kids on the team can get their rest and get ready for the second game.”

WVU went on to beat Maryland in the second round and onto the Sweet Sixteen before a 78-39 col-lapse against the Tourna-ment’s goliath, Kentucky.

Although Kentucky fell to runner-up Frank Kamin-sky and Wisconsin in the Final Four, it was 36-0 be-fore the highly-regarded bout with border-foe West Virginia.

Most of last year’s team is back, except for guards Gary Browne and Juwan Staten. Senior Jaysean Paige has taken the con-ference by storm en route to becoming the team’s leading scorer, also earn-ing the Big 12’s Sixth Man of the Year award.

Players have sported “Houston” T-shirts since the beginning of the year, the site of this year’s Final Four. There’s even a “2016 National Champs” banner that hangs on the door in the team’s practice facil-ity, centralizing a goal that began since the defeat to Kentucky.

With Daxter Miles’ de-fense against some of college basketball’s top guards, it only adds to the team’s beaming confi-dence heading into March Madness. Miles held Big 12 Player of the Year Buddy Hield to six points on one-of-eight shooting in the Big 12 semifinals Friday.

He also contained Melo Trimble to 10 points and five turnovers in last year’s victory over Maryland in the round of 32, one of the many defensive men-aces that’s brought “Press Virginia” to the national landscape.

Devin Williams is com-ing off a career-high 31-point outburst in Satur-day’s loss to Kansas, haul-ing in 10 rebounds for his 15th double-double of the season. It’s what he’s been working on all year, prov-ing his worth against Kan-sas’ tough inside pres-ences of Cheick Diallo, Perry Ellis and Landen Lucas.

That was Williams’ best game since arriv-

ing in Morgantown two years ago as a freshman from heralded Montverde Academy, and all Williams could do was agree.

“I think it was obvious,” Williams said. “Seven-for-seven in the first half, and I did that against Kansas my freshman year, but it was all jumpers my fresh-man year. To actually go down there and bang against some of the pre-mier bigs, that was a very special game to me. I think it opens a lot of people’s eyes, giving me the con-fidence to get in the gym and continuing to work on my craft.”

Although WVU earned its highest seed since re-ceiving the final No. 2 af-ter winning the Big East in 2010 and advancing to its first Final Four since 1959, this year’s team knows it has more to prove. Coming in second place in col-lege basketball’s top conference usually garners higher than a No. 3 seed, es-pecially when all your losses - except for one - came to ranked opponents.

“ We a l way s get on the short stick so it’s kind of captain ob-vious now on how we’re treated,” Williams said. “At the same time, it’s better than last year. It’s a step forward.”

Jonathan Holton’s re-turn since a four-game suspension sparked the full-court pressure de-fense once again, and he’s been dominant on the of-fensive glass ever since, averaging eight rebounds (3.1 offensive) per game during those 10 contests.

Junior guard Tarik Phil-lip’s also back for another postseason, scoring in double-figures in six of

the last 10 games. He hit a big go-ahead 3 to beat Buffalo last year, includ-ing the game’s final eight points earlier this year to beat Texas Tech.

Phillip steps up in big-time situations, adding to one of the country’s deep-est teams.

Jevon Carter scored 26 points to beat Okla-homa in the Big 12 semifinals Fri-day, and he’s been one of the team’s top defenders.

It ’s al l been key to the team’s No. 8

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highest f inish since joining the Big 12 in 2012. Last year’s demoralizing defeat to Kentucky left a sour taste in the Mountain-eers’ mouths, and they’ve been on a mission to play further into March and possibly April.

“We had a good run last year, but it was kind of short,” Paige said. “We made it to the Sweet Six-teen, but it went by so fast. We want to make a little bit of a longer this year. Just do everything we can to be ready to play.”

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Mountaineers hungry for deep NCAA Tournament run this time around

By DaViD sTaTMansports editor

@dJstAtMAn77

After a weekend series that saw a doubleheader and two extra-inning games, WVU head coach Randy Mazey came into Tuesday’s game with Rad-ford a bit apprehensive de-spite his opponent’s 2-14 record.

But West Virginia (10-4) dispelled any fears of a hangover at Monongalia County Ballpark, follow-ing a strong outing from freshman starting pitcher Tanner Campbell and four RBIs from second baseman Shaun Corso to a 6-1 win.

“This was a game as a coach that you worry about

because of all the emotion Saturday night,” Mazey said. “This was a trap game in every sense of the word. You might not think there was drama, but inside my chest there was plenty of drama going on.”

In his second start of the season, Campbell had a shaky beginning in the first inning, allowing the first run of the game on a two-out RBI single from Radford second baseman Danny Hrbek.

But Campbell settled down afterward, cruising to the first win of his career, al-lowing only that one run on four hits in six innings and notching six strikeouts.

“Things were sped up on him a little bit in the first

inning, and he was rush-ing himself,” Mazey said. “It’s being a freshman. But once he settled in I thought he was really good, and he made some good pitches with men on base when he needed to.”

With Campbell hold-ing the Highlanders down throughout the middle in-nings, all the Mountaineers needed was one big inning to break the game open. They got it in the third, scratching out the only runs they’d score off Rad-ford starter Tyler Swarmer.

West Virginia started the inning with three straight singles off Swarmer to load the bases, getting its first run of the day on a Dar-ius Hill sacrifice fly. With

two outs, Corso broke the game open with a two-RBI base hit up the middle, and freshman Marques Inman followed with a single to right to make it 4-1.

Corso came back again with another two-RBI sin-gle to help put the game away in the seventh inning, finishing with four RBIs to break a 10-game RBI streak to start the season.

“I was just sitting on pitches,” Corso said. “First at-bat I got to see all his pitches, and next at-bat I got up and started sit-ting on curveballs because there were runners on scor-ing position. I got a curve-ball, drove in two runs. My fourth at-bat I was sitting on a submarine fastball, and

I got it. I guess I got lucky those two times sitting on the right pitches. About time I got some RBIs.”

Freshman Braden Zarb-nisky relieved Campbell in the seventh inning and threw two scoreless in-nings, and righthander Endy Morales made his WVU debut in the ninth inning.

Including those two and the starter Campbell, nine freshmen saw the field for West Virginia on Saturday, adding another notch in the belt for a freshman class that’s deep and talented.

“We’re not playing fresh-men just to get them on the field, we’re playing freshmen because they’re good players,” Mazey said.

“Three of them had two hits apiece, three of them pitched and one of them got the win. These guys are all good players and they’re helping us win games, and that’s why they’re in there.”

And with Campbell’s strong outing in his first game at Monongalia County Ballpark, both he and Mazey are hoping he can seize the role of mid-week starter for good this season.

“That’s what I came in wanting to do,” Campbell said. “It’s a good feeling knowing that you’ve earned it, but you can’t rely on that. One thing happens and it’s gone.”

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With the NCAA Cham-pionship this weekend, the West Virginia Univer-sity men’s wrestling team is not focused on next season.

However, once this sea-son ends, the team will have some holes to fill.

West Virginia will lose a combined 34 wins when Chris Nelson, Bubba Scheffel, Ross Renzi and A.J. Vizcarrondo all grad-uate. Scheffel, Renzi and Vizcarrondo were regular

starters this season at 184 pounds, 174 pounds and heavyweight, respectively.

T h e 1 2 5 - p o u n d , 157-pound and 197-pound categories are all cer-tain because of NCAA Championship qualifiers Zeke Moisey, Dylan Cot-trell and Jacob A. Smith, respectively.

A d d i t i o n a l l y , t h e 133-pound category seems to be Keegan Moore’s to lose after the freshman went 16-10 in a year that he was originally red-shirted. Freshman Connor Flynn also appears to be the 165-pound candidate

after picking up 14 victo-ries despite making his de-but in December.

However, 141 pounds, 149 pounds, 174 pounds, 184 pounds and heavy-weight are all up for grabs.

At 141 pounds, junior Tony DeAngelo received the bulk of the action, go-ing 13-19. But freshman Christian Monserrat had a better record, 9-6, before being redshirted.

Six different Moun-taineers wrestled at 149 pounds in the 2015-16 season and seven are listed on the depth chart. Freshman Zachary Moore

got the most action, going 13-12.

However, junior James Dekrone, who went 7-6, could challenge Moore for this spot.

Besides Renzi at 174 pounds, only sophomore Parker VonEgidy received action. He went 8-4 in a short sample size, so per-haps freshmen Landon Mumford and Kyle Rogers will get an opportunity.

Scheffel was the only 184-pound wrestler for West Virginia in the 2015-16 season. No other wres-tlers are listed at that weight class on the team’s

roster. Perhaps Mum-ford and/or Rogers at 174 pounds will be asked to gain several pounds and move up to this weight class.

Similar to the 184-pound class, no non-seniors re-main at the heavyweight position on the roster. Viz-carrondo and Nelson were the only two options here.

However, earlier in his career, Vizcarrondo competed at 184 and 197 pounds. With Smith locked in at 197 pounds, sophomore Bryson Begley, the only other 197-pound Mountaineer wrestler,

may be asked to step up to heavyweight.

West Virginia faces di-lemmas at multiple po-sitions, but head coach Sammie Henson still has plenty of options on his roster.

All of the wrestlers listed above are current Moun-taineers. This fall, Hen-son will gain a new batch of Mountaineers with the freshman class.

Like Moore and Flynn did this season, new wres-tlers will arise at each po-sition over time.

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Mountaineers losing some key pieces heading into next seasonWrestling

WVU overcomes odds to achieve high amounts of successBy roger TurNer

SportS Writer @Dailyathenaeum

Claiming a bid in the 2016 NCAA Women’s Bas-ketball Tournament was not the only accolade the WVU women’s basketball team achieved on Selec-tion Monday. After climb-ing into the AP Top 25 twice more during the reg-ular season, Coach Mike Carey’s group closed out the year ranked in both the AP and Coaches Polls.

Entering the 2015-16 season, the West Virginia women’s basketball team featured a roster of inex-perienced freshmen and a fair share of transfers new to the program. However, that didn’t stop the Moun-taineers from finishing with 20-plus wins and a trip to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament.

Breaking into the top 25 polls was the least of Car-ey’s concerns to begin the season but became in-creasingly likely as the

Mountaineers made it to 15-4 during the third week of January. On Monday, Jan. 18, the Associated Press ranked West Virginia No. 25 in the country.

West Virginia’s return to the AP Poll was the first time the team was ranked since Dec. 22, 2014, when the Mountaineers eclipsed No. 21 in the poll. Not many people predicted the Mountaineers surpass-ing more than the 18 wins tallied a season ago, es-pecially with 11 of the 14 players on this year’s ros-ter being newcomers.

Experts had WVU picked to finish sixth in the Big 12 and possibly make another run for the Women’s NIT. Contrary to public opin-ion, Carey’s squad proved doubters wrong and even earned an at-large bid to play in this year’s NCAA Tournament.

To close out the sea-son, WVU finished No. 23 in the final Associated Press Poll and tied with St. John’s at No. 25 in the

USA TODAY Coaches’ Top 25 poll. Although West Vir-ginia finished with a re-cord of 24-9, the team’s third place finish in the Big 12 was a significant factor in the rankings and tournament seeding of the Mountaineers.

After losing in the first round a season ago, the Mountaineers advanced to the semifinal round of the Big 12 Tournament in Kan-sas City last week. WVU finished ahead of No. 24 Oklahoma in the confer-ence standings with a 12-6 record in a conference that had six programs punch tickets to this year’s wom-en’s tournament.

This week’s final coaches poll published by USA TO-DAY features West Virginia at No. 25 with St. John’s. WVU had previously been hovering in the AP top 25 to end the regular season, but the Mountaineers re-mained unranked in the Coaches Poll.

West Virginia’s appear-ance in the Coaches Poll

is the first of the season and the first time WVU has entered the Coaches Poll since Jan. 6, 2015, when the team was ranked No. 25. Joining the Mountain-eers in both polls are No.

4 Baylor, No. 7 Texas and No. 23/24 Oklahoma, who also received at-large bids in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.

The No. 23/25 West Vir-ginia Mountaineers are a

6-seed in the Sioux Falls region of this year’s tour-nament, facing the No. 11-seed Princeton Tigers in the first round.

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NFL links football, CTE: Could it affect latest $1 billion deal?

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL is standing be-hind a top executive’s ac-knowledgement that the brain disease CTE can be linked to football.

The comments by Jeff Miller, the senior vice president for health and safety, “accurately re-flect the view of the NFL,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tuesday. Miller spoke Monday at a congressional commit-tee’s roundtable discus-sion about concussions.

League officials have long denied proof of a con-nection between playing in the NFL and the condi-tion called chronic trau-matic encephalopathy.

Miller told the congres-sional panel that brain research on former NFL players “certainly” shows a link between football and CTE. Responding to questions, Miller refer-enced the work of Bos-ton University neuropa-thologist Dr. Ann McKee, who has found CTE in the brains of 90 former pro football players.

“Well, certainly, Dr. McKee’s research shows that a number of retired NFL players were diag-nosed with CTE, so the answer to that question is certainly yes, but there are also a number of ques-tions that come with that,” Miller said.

CTE is tied to repeated brain trauma and associ-ated with symptoms such as memory loss, depres-sion and progressive de-mentia. Players diag-nosed after their deaths include Hall of Famers Ju-nior Seau, Ken Stabler and Mike Webster.

Four Democratic mem-bers of the House Energy and Commerce Commit-tee sent a letter Tuesday to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, saying Miller’s comments are encour-aging in that the league is willing accept the sci-ence linking repetitive hits with CTE. The con-

gressmen want answers from Goodell by March 29 on the NFL’s plans to pro-tect both current players in the league and in youth programs.

Critics of the NFL’s pro-posed $1 billion plan to settle concussion claims call Miller’s sudden ac-knowledgement of a foot-ball-CTE connection a game changer.

The settlement is being appealed by players con-cerned that it excludes fu-ture cases of CTE - what they consider “the signa-ture disease of football.”

The deal announced by lead plaintiffs’ lawyers and the NFL in August 2013 would instead pay up to $4 million for prior deaths in-volving CTE.

“Given that, the set-tlement’s failure to com-pensate present and fu-ture CTE is inexcusable,” lawyer Steven Molo wrote Tuesday in a letter to the federal appeals court in Philadelphia that is hear-ing his appeal.

The court heard argu-ments in November on the fairness of the settlement and was expected to issue an opinion in the high-stakes case soon. The NFL and lead plaintiffs’ lawyers have said they do not want to incentivize suicide by offering future payments. CTE cannot yet be diag-nosed in the living.

The settlement would resolve thousands of law-suits and cover more than 20,000 NFL retirees for the next 65 years. The league estimates that 6,000 for-mer players - nearly three in 10 - could develop Al-zheimer’s disease or mod-erate dementia.

They would receive an average of $190,000, though the awards could reach several million dollars in the most seri-ous cases, which include young men with Parkin-son’s disease or Lou Geh-rig’s disease.

“We welcome the NFL’s a ck n ow l e dg e m e nt o f

what was alleged in our complaint : that reports have associated foot-ball with findings of CTE in deceased former play-ers,” lead plaintiffs’ law-yer Christopher Seeger said in a statement. “The settlement achieves that, providing immediate care to the sickest retired play-ers and long-term security over the next 65 years for those who are healthy now but develop a qualifying condition in the future.”

Chris Nowinski, a for-mer professional wres-tler who runs the Concus-sion Legacy Foundation, noted that millions of chil-dren still play tackle foot-ball despite the suspected risks. The foundation seeks to study and prevent head trauma in athletes.

“If we actually believe that football is linked to CTE now, then how is the NFL underwriting (youth) tackle football when kids could just as easily play flag and not be exposed to the risk of CTE at such a young age?” he asked.

How much impact this has on college football remains to be seen, but a lead attorney in a law-suit against the NCAA also thinks this marks a milestone.

“It is amazing to think back to 2011, when we filed the first-ever class ac-tion against the NCAA for concussions, and compare the national conversation at that time to what we have now,” Chicago-based lawyer Joseph Siprut said.

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