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Keeping the Faith WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 2017
WVU is home to thousands of students who hail from dozens of different religious backgrounds. We took a look at how some have integrated faith into their day-to-day lives as Mountaineers. see p.4
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Experts discuss the impacts of violence against women BY ADRIANNE UPHOLD ASSOCIATE CITY EDITOR Four out of five victims of intimate partner violence in the United States are women. “Violence against women has been associated with a number of chronic health conditions, including substance abuse and PTSD” said Sally Hodder, WV Clinical and Translational Science Institute director. “Previous studies have shown high rates of intimate partner violence among Appalachian women, particularly in areas where there are high rates of poverty.” Experts across the country spoke about how domestic abuse and violence on women can impact mental health. Four researchers focused on violence in the Appalachian region, specifically
in areas of low income, high poverty, shortages of healthcare providers and economic distress. Dr. Danielle Davidov, a researcher at WVU School of Medicine, said there are some cultural norms in the Appalachian region that associate with violence. “Traditional gender norms and limited health resources can prevent victims who experience intimate partner violence from getting help or accepting the abuse that is happening in their lives,” Davidov said. “It makes me wonder, is there something happening that is unique with violence in Appalachia?” In rural areas, violence occurs as often as an urban area, if not more. Rural violence is more severe because victims face worse physical and mental outcomes compared to an urban environment where th
“Previous studies have shown high rates of intimate partner violence among Appalachian women, particularly in areas where there are high rates of poverty.” — Sally Hodder, WVCTSI director
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Panelist Mandy Hall (far right) discusses intimate partner violence Tuesday morning at Health Sciences. ere may be more resources, Davidov said. WVU sociology professor Mandy Hall said 67 percent of women who report intimate partner violence say their partners are involved in hunting and frequent drinking with other male peers. “Male peer support is a theory that has been tested and verified over the last 25
years at a variety of different places,” Hall said. “What it (says) is attachment to male peers encourages violence. We have seen this in many diverse populations. What we have found is male peer support is one of the most powerful determinants of violence against women.” Hall was the research assistant of the Rural Ohio Sex-
ual Assault Study that interviewed 45 women about their experiences with violence in their relationship. “They talked about their male abusers as being ones who went out drinking with male friends a lot, they were very connected with them,” Hall said. “What we found was that they encouraged each other to ‘put their women in her place’ and ‘make her know who wears the pants.’” The next step in Hall’s research on the male peer support theory is to focus more on research in rural areas and interviewing men who have committed violence.
Hall said the best way to help women who are in abusive partnerships and say they don’t want help is to have service providers who will be there when the woman is ready to leave the abusive relationship. “In some situations, denial means survival for the woman,” Hall said. “They have been told time and time again that they can’t leave because they don’t have an education or that they aren’t worth anything. When I ask how the woman finally left, some say that having someone believing them that they can leave eventually is what got them to stand up and go.”
WVU Economics Doctorate Program celebrates 50th anniversary BY PATRICK ORSAGOS STAFF WRITER WVU’s College of Business and Economics will host a weekend celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Economics Doctorate program. The weekend’s celebration “will show the work we’ve been doing and the progress we’ve made,” said Clifford Hawley, professor and chair of the Economics Department.
The celebration begins Friday, April 21, at 5 p.m. with a Poster Exhibit Session in the Barnett Board Room in the Erickson Alumni Center. The poster session will then be followed by an Alumni Reception ending at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Club Room in the Erickson Alumni Center. “Our current PhD students will be sitting at tables with posters describing their current research,” Hawley said.
The current PhD students will be available to discuss their research and answer any possible questions on the focus of their research. Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. - noon. Alumni of the doctorate program will be available in the B&E Building for the Alumni Poster Exhibit. “All PhD graduates from around the world were invited to come to show off their research,” Hawley said. The graduates will be able to answer any questions
based on their research as well. The exhibit will also include a breakfast. Saturday will continue with a Regional Research Institute Open House from 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. The Regional Research Institute is located on the 5th floor of Chestnut Ridge Research Building, 886 Chestnut Ridge Rd. The research institute is the home of researchers, graduate students and professors who seek to understand socioeconomics processes and to ex-
plain regional differences in rates of growth and levels of development. Following the Open House will be a cocktail hour from 5:30p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Courtyard of the Alumni Center. The night will conclude with a dinner in the Ruby Grand Hall of the Alumni Center from 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Hawley reflected on the transformation the doctorate program has gone through calling it “the Virtuous Effect.”
“As our reputation has grown, we’ve been able to hire top-notch faculty,” he said. “This has led to better instruction to undergrads, and then better graduate students.” The improvement and ongoing success of the program has been recognized by those outside of the WVU community, as well. The doctorate program was listed as one of the nation’s best in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools.
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Students find support, community in religious orgs Religious organizations at WVU
David Westfall, Young Life David Westfall came to WVU worried he wasn’t going to be happy. That changed when Westfall started to attend Young Life. “I came to WVU with a bitter heart, because it was my last choice and I didn’t feel like I could be happy here,” Westfall said. “Young Life gave me a community of people that showed me how much I love being a Mountaineer. And for the past two years it has given me opportunities that I could not imagine getting at any other place.” While the sophomore pre-pharmacy major has received a community he feels welcomed in, being a part of a religious group on campus can be difficult. “People don’t always understand the choice to uphold certain values that religious groups tend to uphold,” Westfall said. “People don’t always respect religion. Being a part of a religious group presents the challenge of isolation sometimes.” Westfall said sometimes
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people don’t invite him to go somewhere because he is religious, but with his faith in God he has been able to overcome insecurities, develop patience, and strength in times of distress. “A day in the life of Young Life is living joyfully and mak-
ing relationships with others,” Westfall said. “Our goal is to form relationships with people and be a part of their life. To show them that we care and to invest in their life. We want people to feel loved.” Westfall said Young Life has been stereotyped as kids who
wear Chaco sandals and drink from Nalgene water bottles. “Young Life is more than a stereotype, though—it’s about forming relationships and sharing a joyful life with others and maybe even introducing them to the Lord along the way,” Westfall said.
Eusebio Maningding, Mountaineer Catholics Having a community of people to go to has helped Eusebio Maningding become an extrovert. “Mountaineer Catholic has helped me become more open with people,” Maningding said. “Open about my faith, challenging me to go out there into the world, and being more expressive to a lot of people. It has changed me into letting my feelings out more often.” As president of the Mountaineer Catholic Newman
Club, Maningding has had many challenges with his faith. “Believing in something that others don’t necessarily believe in, political views that my religious views are against, or even conversations that come up in classes can be difficult,” Maningding said. “Voicing my opinion in a loving way is so important.” Maningding said voicing his opinion when it differs from other people has changed since he joined
Mountaineer Catholics. “Instead of having a debate, I try to listen to the other person’s reasoning and try to understand where they are coming from,” Maningding said. “Trying to share your views but respecting others is crucial, especially when you are in college. Instead of fighting between who is right and who is wrong will get you nowhere.” With other Christian organizations on campus,
Maningding wants to make sure there isn’t debates on whose religion is better. “Having the Newman Center downtown is really convenient,” Maningding said. “I can go to class, then take a break and go into the Chapel. I pray, hang out with other members, and just enjoy my day with other people who believe in my faith. If I’m too stressed out, I go there because my faith is something that carries me throughout the day.”
Baptist Campus Ministry C2 College and Career Campus Light Ministries Canterbury Christian Fellowship Chi Alpha Christian Student Fellowship CRC Campus Ministry Crossroads Campus Cru Fellowship of Christian Athletes Global Christian Fellowship Global Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Harless Center Student Association Ignite U at West Virginia University Imam Hussain Association Infused Campus Ministry International Christian Evangelism International Fellowship of Believers InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Latter-Day Saint Student Association (LDSSA) Lutheran Student Movement Mountaineer Catholics Newman Club Mountaineers for Christ Muslim Student Association Presbyterian Student Fellowship Reformation University Outreach Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center WVU Hillel WVU Orthodox Christian Fellowship Young Life Visit http://studentorgs.wvu.edu for more information!
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Dalia Elsaid, Muslim Students Assocation When Dalia Elsaid came to the Mountain State last August, she found in WVU “a multi-colored, rich fabric.” Hailing from Cairo, Egypt, Elsaid considers herself a strong proponent of diversity and inclusion. As a Muslim, she attended French Catholic school while growing up, and later worked at the Canadian Embassy in Cairo before moving to Morgantown with her husband to pursue their graduate degrees. “These experiences have instilled in me a passion for discovering cultures or ideas that are different than mine,” she said. And WVU provided the perfect environment for this, as she found diversity to be “a staple on campus.” “Students from different nationalities are welcomed, different races and ethnicities are represented,” Elsaid said. “I remember seeing the WVU library brochure featuring a young Muslim veiled woman on its cover. That was one example—out of plenty—that spoke volume to the fact that WVU regards personal differences—gender, nationality,
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Sara Berzingi talks to students about the hijab, a piece of head gear worn by Muslim women. age, sexual orientation and religion—as facets of people’s individuality.” When she came to WVU, Elsaid got involved with the Muslim Student Association after Sara Berzingi, MSA president, asked her to participate in a panel event. Now, Elsaid participates in MSA events whenever possible, her favorite being this year’s Hijabi Monologues, where people were invited to hear Muslim women speak and shed light on their experiences. “As Islam becomes more and more wrapped up in public debates about foreign policy, integration and immigration,
the hijab has quickly become shorthand for a set of stereotypes that neither represent nor capture the experience of being a Muslim woman today,” Elsaid said. “The MSA has invested a lot of effort in that event, the turnout was huge. It pushed me to grow and to speak up about my personal experiences, and I met really exceptional women from different descents who shared their stories.” Following the Hijabi Monologues, Elsaid said there seemed to be a “ripple effect,” as people openly approached her and others who participated with questions about their religion and culture. This
type of rhetoric, Elsaid believes, is crucial to breaking down unfounded stereotypes and generalizations about Muslims and Islam that can sometimes dominate news headlines in today’s political atmosphere. She said she’s confident that generally, most Muslim students would be happy to answer questions about their culture. “We would rather have even the most uncomfortable conversations, than having a stereotypical idea about us,” Elsaid said. “I think (people) need to understand first that (students in) MSA and all Muslims are just people like them. They have the same dreams, the same needs and the same values.” And these conversations, she said, are integral to accomplishing any sort of change. “Never underestimate the power of a word, an action, a gesture or a step,” Elsaid said. “Coming from a country whose revolution—which toppled a president who stayed in power for 30 years—started with a Facebook page, I can say that big changes start unexpectedly small.”
Religion in the Mountain State: By the numbers Did you know that while West Virginia sits on the edge of the Bible Belt, it has a higher number of Christians than the national average?
Christians account for 78 percent of the religious composition in West Virginia, which is 7.4 percent higher than the national average.
Of the Christians in West Virginia, 39 percent identify as evangelical protestants.
Mollie Fisher, WVU Hillel For Mollie Fisher, WVU Hillel is a home away from home and a place to make friends. “There are students like myself who look for a Jewish outlet. It’s nice to have and not practice by yourself,” Fisher, president of WVU Hillel and a junior forensic science student, said. “I didn’t expect to have Jewish friends (at WVU). I made friends in Hillel.” WVU Hillel is a Jewish organization that “seeks to provide facilities, guidance and
organization for religious, cultural, educational, social and interfaith activities for Jewish students at WVU,” according to the student organization’s web page. The WVU chapter of Hillel has a building located on University Avenue, and according to information posted on Hillel International, it hosts a Shabbat dinner every week, as well as bagel brunches on Sundays, and other weekly and monthly activities.
Each year Hillel hosts a Holocaust Memorial event, where members reside in the Vandalia Lounge of the Mountainlair for 24 hours straight, taking turns reading the names of those lost in the Holocaust. The organization can also play an impact in recruiting for WVU, as it lends a space for Jewish students to connect with others like them. According to Hillel International, WVU is home to 800 Jewish undergrads and about
100 Jewish graduate students. While not all Jewish students are active in Hillel, the organization serves as a “home away from home,” according to Fisher, for anyone looking for one. “A lot of people don’t know there are Jews on campus, and that’s surprising,” Fisher said. “As a Jewish student, I wanted a place to go within the Jewish community. Having a Hillel on campus gives Jewish students more of an option.”
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OPINION
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other side of the marijuana debate: West Virginia needs a better budget plan, and that’s no bull The why legalization in a state already
riddled with drug addiction is a bad idea
BY BRANDON RIDGELY OPINION EDITOR “…what we have is nothing more than a bunch of political bull-you know what.” Just six days ago Governor Jim Justice said the above as he revealed a copy of the final budget bill for the regular session, House Bill 2018, with an actual pile of bull feces resting on it. Justice then vetoed the bill that had passed both the House and Senate. The gesture from Justice was very clear: he felt the bill was more a result of partisan politics than finding any reasonable middle ground, and didn’t have the prosperity of West Virginians in mind. The budget lacked many key elements of Justice’s own budget plan, and was far from what many expected out of any level of compromise. The legislation seems more like a last minute paper submission on deadline than any reasonable, calculated or well-built effort. A flurry of ideas to check off the “we submitted a budget” box. The proposed budget in fact goes against something Justice has warned about from the very beginning, “kicking the can further down the road” by taking $90 million from the rainy day fund. Justice also critiqued the plan for not creating even one job, let alone the thousands that would be necessary for the proposed roadwork plans, something the budget didn’t include. In comparing where Justice
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thought the budget issue was just before the bill appeared to what we saw in House Bill 2018, it’s absolutely clear the governor and the state legislature still hold very different ideas for how to progress. West Virginia now faces yet another special session in order to figure it out—something we’ve had more than enough time to do already. Early this year Justice pushed to cap legislator’s payment during special sessions to just five days, in an effort to cut down on any incentive for these periods to occur. Now, his signature sends them into one. Politics is the ability to find compromises in ideas to move forward. In our state government’s failure to accomplish this, we pay the price. A special session on the budget in 2016 lasted 17 days, costing $600,000. We could very well see the same once again.
While some legislators donate this extra income to local groups, reaching this stage is absolutely unacceptable after months of back and forth. And the blame is not just on Justice, or on the state legislature alone. It’s on everyone. As Justice said last week, “we all should take ownership for this.” These special sessions cost West Virginia, but perhaps less than the proposed budget would’ve, considering it fell $32 million short of even plugging the hole on the sinking ship. Whether or not you think Justice should’ve chosen to do what he did or how he did it, the fact that we got here at all is an injustice. But what’s going to happen next is the real issue at hand. The budget showdown of whether the veto will be overridden or whether it can come to a compromise remains to
be scheduled. It will have to come before June 20 in order to avoid a shutdown. And if state government’s treatment of deadlines so far is any indication, this is perhaps more in the realm of possibility than we might think. Fool me once, and so on. It would be easy to say that battle lines have been drawn for this clash, but those lines have already been mischaracterized before. It’s simply hard to predict what will come next, and who will be most affected considering how little previous predictions have matched up. If West Virginians receive a budget bill so shockingly off expectation as House Bill 2018, or worse have to keep it, state government will have fallen short in doing its duty for the citizens of West Virginia—Much shorter than the $32 million House Bill 2018 already was.
Charleston has finally eased the medical marijuana restrictions, a move The DA has heartily, and frequently endorsed. We have said on these pages that the law, which allows doctors to prescribe marijuana in pill form to relieve pain, is a great first step for our state. It can provide relief from suffering and, if expanded to include recreational use, could be an economic boon for the state. And we’ve argued that easing some federal regulations surrounding marijuana would allow for more medical research of the plant. But we would also like to say, on these same pages, that we applaud the thoughtful restraint West Virginia lawmakers are using on this issue. West Virginians have reason to be leery of making any drugs more accessible. More West Virginians overdose from opioids than residents of any other state. And one of the main reasons for that, as we saw in the Pulitzer-winning reporting by the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Eric Eyre, is that drug wholesalers have made millions by dumping them here. In a state with a labor force that includes a lot of physically demanding jobs,
doctors prescribed the highly-addictive drugs to ease pain. A high jobless rate of 6.5 percent helped fuel the recreational use of the drugs. An epidemic was ignited. “When there is work (West Virginians) can bear down. They put up a house in no time,” Dr. Matt Cupp, a primary-care physician in Elkins, told Business Insider last year. “But when times get slow, a lot of them will turn to alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs and get high for recreation until the next job comes along.” But can you compare marijuana and opioids? Yes and no. One can’t overdose on marijuana. But both are addictive drugs. The Lancet of the American Medical Association found that 9 percent of people who use marijuana regularly will develop a dependence. For people who start using before the age of 18 that number rises to 17 percent. Usage has been tied to an increase in car accidents, lung disease, low birth rates and in heavy usage, schizophrenia. Why would we make it any easier for West Virginians to become addicted to anything? We can all agree that is a bad idea.
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8 | CULTURE
CULTURE
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Pet Helpers hosts 3rd annual “Bark in the Park” 5k run, walk and festival fundraiser BY ERIN DRUMMOND CULTURE EDITOR Pet lovers are invited to have a howl of a time over the weekend with a ruff 5k run and a pawsome festival. This Saturday, April 22, the third annual Bark in the Park 5k run, walk and festival will be hosted by Pet Helpers, Inc. at Morgantown’s Hazel Ruby McQuain Riverfront Park. The timed race is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., while the Bark in the Park Festival along with the timed 5k run or walk with canine companions starts at 10 a.m. Pet Helpers is a non-profit
located in Fairmont, WV. As it is without a facility, all animals taken in by the organization reside in foster homes. Many of the pets come from kill shelters or are taken from the public in an effort to prevent them from being taken to a kill shelter. The organization offers educational programs with area schools and local public spay and neuter assistance with grant funding. All funding for these programs comes from donations, adoption fees and fundraisers, including the annual Bark in the Park. Diana Critchfield, an em-
ployee at Pet Helpers, said in 2016 the organization had 643 adoptions. However, its expenses included $178,000 in vet bills, $12,000 for food and miscellaneous supplies with total expenses at $211,000. “We currently have extraordinary expense dogs, one requiring ongoing physical therapy and one requiring a very expensive food and liver supplement,” Critchfield said. Other expenses include vans, vehicle and liability insurance, maintenance, gas and phones for the organization.
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Bark in the Park particpants run the trail alongside their dogs during 2016’s event. Registration for the Bark in the Park 5K opens at 7 a.m. on Saturday. Attendees can reg-
ister online at https://www. raceentry.com/races/barkin-the-park/2017/register or
on site for $25. All proceeds from the walk go toward funding Pet Helpers.
PRSSA hosts “Let’s Eat” to benefit Mountaineer Boys & Girls Club BY ERIN DRUMMOND CULTURE EDITOR Morgantown community members are invited to take their tastebuds on a trip around the world at “Let’s Eat.” WVU’s chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America will host Let’s Eat, a multicultureal food tasting event tonight, April 19 at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Mountaineer Boys & Girls Club. The Mountaineer Boys & Girls Club is a nonprofit organization in Morgantown focused on enriching the
lives of adolescents through educational services and by providing a safe space for youth to go after school. A dozen other student organizations plan to participate in the event, including the Caribbean Student Association, Aid for India, German Club and Culturas, among others. These organizations will provide a few dishes that represent their respective cultures. Attendees can sample foods from all over the globe and learn about the diversity on the University’s campus. “We believe that this event is a great way to cele-
brate the diversity that can be found on our campus by allowing students to share a piece or ‘taste’ of their cultures with us,” said Annamarie Robinson, public relations director of WVU’s PRSSA chapter. “This can be a great learning opportunity for all of us. This is the best time to ask questions and mingle with people who come from cultures other than your own.” Each year, WVU’s chapter of PRSSA holds an event to benefit the Mountaineer Boys & Girls Club. “In the past, we held a fashion show where clothes from local boutiques were
modeled by members of different sororities on campus,” Robinson, a senior strategic communications student, said. “This year, we wanted to change things up and create an event that was a little more inclusive and centered on something that everyone could relate to: food.” Families involved in the Mountaineer Boys & Girls club are invited to attend, and others are encouraged to sponsor a family of four for $20, ensuring a family’s participation in the event. Let’s Eat will be held on the fourth floor of Evansdale Crossing in the Media Inno-
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WVU’s PRSSA chapter hosted a fashion show to support the Mountaineer Boys & Girls Club in 2016. This year’s event will be “Let’s Eat.” vation Center. Atendees will receive seven tasting tickets to be redeemed at the cul-
tural booths of their choosing. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door.
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Seafood Nutrition combats health issues in West Virginia BY BRITTANY OSTEEN GUEST COLUMNIST When I was younger, I never ate seafood, anything red and very few types of meat. My fear of seafood came from watching ‘Finding Nemo’ when I was six. Now that I am older, I have been more open to trying seafood (and things that are red), but my flavor for fish still had a very small scope until recently. As fate would have it, I was asked to help organize the West Virginia Seafood Nutrition Partnership earlier this year. The West Virginia Seafood Nutrition Partnership works to promote a heart healthy diet—something I recognized as an extremely worthy cause in W.Va. In case you don’t know who they are (I didn’t either), the Seafood Nutrition Partnership is a national non-profit whose mission is to help people lead longer, healthier lives by eating more seafood. Its mission is direct: encourage people to eat seafood twice a week for optimum health, as recommended by the USDA/HHS Dietary Guidelines for Americans. When the Seafood Nutrition Partnership was first created, only 1 in 10 Americans followed this guideline. Since then, the ratio has improved with 1 in 3 Americans including seafood in their diets in the last year. Many Americans know about the protein benefits from eating seafood, but few know about the other health benefits—and there are
a ton. Adding seafood into a normal diet can help prevent chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Seafood not only reduces risk of diseases, but it also shown to improve mood and decrease the instances of some cancers. Eating seafood twice a week can also help improve the ability to think, learn and remember now, while also decreasing the risk of dementia later in life. As we approach finals, eating fish can even help us prepare as the omega-3s play an important role in our eye’s sensory functions and our brain’s key functional units. Pretty impressive, right? I was one of the 1 in 3 Americans to add seafood into their diet this year. Before joining the seafood movement, I thought there were only a couple ways to eat seafood. In the first month that I joined, I tried oyster and clam chowder, flounder, tuna salad, salmon, a sushi burrito, and many other combinations. YUM! My favorite recipe, which is shared on the side, is cilantro-lime shrimp tacos from health.com! Ifyou’re interesting in pledging to eat seafood at least twice a week visit http://seafoodnutrition.org for more information, recipes or to take the heart healthy pledge.
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Cilantro-lime shrimp tacos What you need: ¾ pound medium shrimp, peeled, deviend, and cooked 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained ¼ cup scallions 1 medium diced peeled avocado ¼ tsp pepper ½ cup bottles salsa verde ¼ chopped fresh cilantro 2 tbsp lime juice 8 6-inch tortillas 1 ¼ cup red pepper strips Directions: 1. Combine shrimp, beans, scallions, avocado, and pepper. 2. In a separate bowl, stir together salsa, cilantro, and lime juice. 3. Toss shrimp mixture with ¼ cup salsa mix 4. Warm tortillas 5. Serve all with red peppers
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WVU running game will be a strength in 2017 BY NEEL MADHAVAN SPORTS WRITER
FOOTBALL Despite losing Rushel Shell to graduation, the West Virginia backfield looks primed for another breakout season in 2017. Justin Crawford, Kennedy McKoy and Martell Pettaway, along with freshman Tevin Bush, will all share carries for WVU in the fall. A strong running game will go a long way toward helping relieve pressure from presumptive starting quarterback Will Grier. Rising senior Crawford looks to be the number one option in the backfield for the Mountaineers this fall. Crawford is the Big 12 Conference’s leading returning rusher, after finishing with 1,184 yards a season ago. He said he spent the spring working to improve his pass protection, but after watching him on the first few drives of the spring game, it’s easy to see the other areas has improved in as well. One of the concerns with Crawford in 2016 was his ability to finish off long runs in the open field and turn them into touchdowns. On one of the early drives of the spring game, he took a handoff from Grier, put his foot into the turf and cut upfield for a 51-yard touchdown, leaving a trail of WVU
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Kennedy McKoy reaches the endzone during the Mountaineers’ 24-20 victory over Texas on Nov. 12, 2016. defenders in his wake. “That was something good to see,” said offensive coordinator Jake Spavital. “We have so many controlled practices, so you don’t really get to see the home run shots with guys. But, for the first drive of the game, I thought we moved it down pretty good and topped it off with an explosive run play, which makes play calling a lot easier when you’ve got the guys who have that ability to hit a home run shot.” Crawford finished the spring game with 66 yards on six carries to go with his long touchdown run. “I was very pleased with what we were doing,” Spavital said. “Early in the scrimmage, we were trying to get Crawford his touches and then get him out of the game, which after you saw
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Martell Pettaway takes the handoff from Will Grier for a first down run in the Spring Game last weekend.
“ We have so many controlled practices, so you don’t really get to see the home run shots with guys. ” -Jake Spavital, WVU Offensive Coordinator that first drive and he had that long touchdown run, it was time to get him out of the game.” As a freshman last season, McKoy had 472 rushing yards and four touchdowns. McKoy didn’t play in the spring game due to what head coach Dana Holgorsen called “an upper body procedure,” but he’s expected to be back in the summer. Pettaway was supposed to redshirt last season, but ended up being pulled up nine games into the season after the team struggled with injuries in the backfield. His 181-yard perfor-
mance against Iowa State was his breakout game, and provided a glimpse as to what he’s capable of. “I learned a lot,” Pettaway said. “That was the game (the coaches) threw me in the game and I gained a lot of experience. I learned how to read the defense well.” In the spring game, Pettaway had 34 yards on seven carries, and this upcoming season he hopes to see an increased role in the backfield. Crawford is confident that his Pettaway, his backfield teammate, is destined for great things in the future. “That kid has got a bright
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WVU’s Justin Crawford tries to stay inbounds during the Mountaineers’ victory over BYU at FedEx Field on Sept. 24, 2016. future ahead of him,” Crawford said. “Sometimes he just runs people over without even trying. It’s just that nature. He’s got that big, solid body, you know? He’s low to the ground. Center of
gravity. He’s got all of that. What impresses me the most is just really his physicality. I’m physical, but he’s more physical. I’ll put a move on you, but he’ll run through you. I like that.”
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‘Expensive experience’ becoming effective for WVU bullpen BY PATRICK KOTNIK SPORTS WRITER
“ The thing we haven’t done well here
BASEBALL It’s the type of experience that can prove costly to a team, as it has for WVU. This “expensive experience,” a term coined by WVU head coach Randy Mazey, is described as a learning experience for a young player who has a rough outing, costing their team a win and potentially more depending on what’s at stake. For WVU, the stakes were a series sweep of TCU and a chance to stand alone on top of the Big 12. “It’s the kind of experience you don’t want, but sometimes the experience you need,” said Jackson Sigman, WVU senior right-handed pitcher. Last week WVU’s bullpen, made up of mostly freshmen, earned some of this expensive experience, as it gave up a three-run lead or larger in three of the team’s four games. WVU lost two of those games in last Tuesday’s matchup against Maryland and Saturday’s game against TCU. The Mountaineers surrendered a 4-1 lead against the Horned Frogs in the series opener on Friday, but were bailed out by a walk-off sacrifice fly from sophomore catcher Ivan Gonzalez, giving WVU a 5-4 win. WVU’s bullpen struggles reached its climax in Saturday’s matchup against TCU when the Horned Frogs overcame a 6-2 deficit, scoring five runs in the eighth inning on their way to an 8-6 comeback win.
in my previous years was getting over tough losses, but I think we took a big step today. - Jackson Sigman, WVU Senior Pitcher
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The main concern became the bullpen’s depth and its ability to close out games in a competitive atmosphere, in relief of starting pitchers such as junior BJ Myers and sophomore Michael Grove, who have continued to perform at a high level. WVU used a total of six pitchers during the eighth inning disaster, including four freshmen, some of whom were seeing their first action in an atmosphere like Saturday’s, which saw the program’s largest crowd with 3,415 fans in attendance. “Bullpen depth is an issue and we’re just looking for that guy that can come out and finish games,” Mazey said after the loss. “If you want to perform at this level and if we want this program to go where it’s going to go, this is the type of stage you need to perform in.” Sigman was also among those struggling out of the bullpen. The Austin, Texas native lasted only a third of an inning against Maryland, allowing five earned runs. “As a bullpen pitcher, you have to have short memory,” Sigman said. “I have to pitch the very next day after a bad outing and you know the team’s going to need you because the bullpen is always a necessity.” However, a week’s worth of “expensive experience,” including Saturday’s collapse, seemed to pay off as
the bullpen aimed to prove itself in Sunday’s series finale. Led by sophomore Braden Zarbnisky, freshman Sam Kessler and Sigman, the bullpen shut down TCU’s offensive attack, allowing no runs in the final five innings on route to the team’s firstever series win against TCU and top-25 ranking since 1982. “We wanted to move on from the disaster of yesterday,” Sigman said after Sunday’s win. “The thing we haven’t done well here in my previous years was getting over tough losses, but I think we took a big step today.” The bullpen’s bounce back performance on Sunday serves as the epitome of the Mountaineers as a whole. A team and unit out trying to prove themselves down the regular season stretch and show they belong in the NCAA Tournament after coming up short last season. With the benefit of “expensive experience,” the Mountaineers could be on their way to achieving that for the first time since 1996. “We went into this season saying ‘Hey, we’re out to prove something’, ” Mazey said. “They keep telling us we’re not good enough to play in the postseason, so that’s what we’ve been using for motivation. The best way to motivate this team is to tell them they can’t do something.”
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Parkersburg native accomplishes dream of playing for WVU BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL Morgantown is where Tyler Lawrentz always wanted to be. Lawrentz, a Parkersburg, WV native who starred for the Big Red as a linebacker at Parkersburg High School, grew up always hoping to attend West Virginia University someday. Little did he know he would be attending the school for football. Even when other football programs began reaching out to him—namely Marietta College and Fairmont State—the answer was simple: it was always WVU. “I never really put myself out there and went to camps and made profiles on recruiting websites to get looked at,” Lawrentz said. “I was pretty focused on after high school just going to WVU because I wanted to major in pharmacy and they had a great pharmacy program.” From when Lawrentz was 6 years old, he’s been stepping
foot on the gridiron and competing at a high level, which allowed him to get to this point. He won’t be on an athletic scholarship, though. Instead, he was offered a preferred walk-on spot, which was still an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. Once former offensive line coach Ron Crook contacted him—who is now at Cincinnati—everything fell into place. “Coach Crook messaged me on Facebook and asked if I was interested in walking on for the football team,” Lawrentz said. “Since I was already planning on going to WVU anyways, I thought this was a once in a lifetime opportunity.” From there, Lawrentz talked with his parents about playing football in college. Of course, everyone obliged and he accepted the position offered by WVU’s staff. Once that was finalized, Lawrentz played high school basketball in the winter. Then he attended WVU’s walk-on day in March, which featured a presentation by a former Mountaineer defensive leader. That presentation was from
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Justin Arndt, a fellow walk-on linebacker from Martinsburg, WV, who eventually earned a scholarship and anchored another successful defense under Tony Gibson. Arndt would go on to lead the team in tackles (84), helping the Mountaineers finish the season at 10-3 and rank as the Big 12’s No. 2 scoring defense. What Lawrentz really took away from the speech was the motivation of Arndt being told he was given a scholarship, a moment walk-ons should strive for. “He talked about how it was
one of the best days of his life and that definitely motivated me to work hard so I can one day experience that feeling,” Lawrentz said. But when did Lawrentz— who was never offered a scholarship from a Division 1 program—know that playing college football could become reality? “Junior year is when I started to come out of my shell a little and play more aggressively and more freely,” Lawrentz said. “That offseason leading up to my senior year I really worked on my game and improved my footwork and
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strength. So throughout my senior year I knew I had the ability and work ethic to compete at the next level.” Lawrentz starred at Parkersburg his senior year, recording eight tackles and eight tackles for loss. Despite just a 4-6 record that season, it’s a program filled with history. Parkersburg is the 10th winningest high school football program in the country, according to MaxPreps, surpassing the 800-win mark. “There’s been so many players that have come through that high school, and to be a part of something like that only motivated me to work harder so I could represent past, current and future players in a positive way,” Lawrentz said. He grew up watching Mountaineer football. His favorite players are bruising fullback Owen Schmitt and defensive star Bruce Irvin, who is now a member of the Oak-
land Raiders and a former Super Bowl champion with the Seattle Seahawks. Blue and gold always ran in his blood, with his father, Tyler Lawrentz—who worked in the Pentagon and did three tours overseas as a member of the United States Army and Marines before recently retiring—taught Military Science 101 and helped with the ROTC program at WVU. Now the Parkersburg native is counting down the days until June 25, when he moves to Morgantown to begin summer conditioning and represent his home. “Growing up my family and I were die hard Mountaineer fans,” Lawrentz said. “I have played football since I was 6 years old and to now being given the opportunity to play for the Mountaineers and represent my state, my family and my community is something that I couldn’t pass up.”
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