The 22nd Annual Scholar-ship Luncheon will take place this Saturday. The luncheon will be held in the David J. Prior Convocation Center.

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Senior Salute will be on Wednesday March 26, 2014 on the fifth floor of the Slemp Student Center from 1 p.m- 5 p.m.

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Professor retired after break

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Parking fees too small for change

By Megan GrayEditor-In-Chiefmeg6hy@uvawise.edu

Associate Professor of Biology Kevin Jones closed his 17 year teaching career at UVa-Wise with fond memories of his time here, and hopes that his legacy of student research will continue. “I became a professor by design, not by default,” Jones said. “You have the greatest influence and effect and there’s enormous ap-peal in that you literally have the ability to change people’s lives.” Jones, a botanist, officially stopped teaching classes after spring break, but had already set up a replacement from earlier in the semester. Jones suffers from worsening multiple scle-

By Darrian PickettSenior News Writerdnp6a@uvawise.edu

Parking is one of the major topics that stu-dents, commuters and on-campus residents complain about.

Many changes will be made years down the line, such as the student center lot being converted to an all handicap lot in the next five years, according to Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, Sim Ewing. The changes that are possible are an increase in the parking pass fee and the parking fines.

Some complaints that students have voiced are that there isn’t enough parking for every-one, and that everyone uses spots for specific students and faculty so there is limited space.

Freshman physical education major Jessi Whaley said that the most annoying thing about parking is that there isn’t enough of it.

Whaley said a way to improve the current parking situation is to “add parking spots in places people are usually parking and getting tickets in.”

Sophomore, computer science major Ka-tie Sutherland said that the most annoying thing about parking is, “there are three lots for commuters.” One is half taken up by fresh-men who can’t park and don’t care because they won’t be going back to their cars for a week, the other is completely gravel with rocks sticking up at odd angles, and the last

rosis, but hopes to continue his research and work in the campus greenhouse. “If I can continue, I would like to,” Jones said. “It’s hard to know the future, and the M.S. has become serious.” According to Jones, one of Jones’ favorite achievements from his career is that he helped bring the FINS undergraduate research pro-gram to UVa-Wise and has worked for over twelve years to help students in their research. “It’s part of the excitement of being here,” Jones said. Rabern Simmons, a former student of UVa-

Wise, also went on to name a type of fungus after Professor Kevin Jones, a type that grows on dung that he called Fimicolochytrium jo-nesii. “I’m a botanist, I get excited about plants and fungi,” Jones said. “That’s such a huge thing. I am still getting used to that.” The Department of Natural Sciences is start-ing to look for a replacement for the long-time professor to teach his classes for next year. “I want them to be a real botanist,” Jones said. “It is hugely important even today. I want students to continue to be exposed to

these things.” Jones said he regrets that he has to leave, but is proud of the ideas that he has instilled in students. “This is the hardest thing that I have ever had to do,” Jones said. “After a successful 17 years, I’m going to miss this terribly. I want students to know that they can dare to dream and decide what they have to do to make their dreams become real.” David Nauss, a senior biochemistry major, has never had a class with Jones, but knows the man well.

one that is actually nice is far away from all of the academic buildings.”

“[I] would be happy if they leveled out the upper lot and paved the gravel lot behind McCrary, or just made new lots,” Sutherland said. “They can afford to improve buildings on campus and build new ones, but from what I understand, parking has always sucked since the college was started.”

These are just a few of the complaints that students have about parking on campus with another one being the price of the parking pass fee and parking ticket fines.

“For the longest time Uva-Wise did not have a parking fee, and about six or seven years ago UVA implemented a parking fee which is the parking fee that we have now, and it hasn’t been changed since then,” Ewing said. Ewing said, “most of the institutions charge more for their students [to park] than they do for their faculty and staff.”

The reason commuters pay the same amount for a parking pass as on campus resi-dents is because during the school week they both occupy campus for equal amounts of

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Student activities board talks moneyBy Megan GrayEditor-In-Chief meg6hy@uvawise.edu

Student activity fees, which were a little more than $1,800 this year are used for sev-eral events each year. With the recent push to increase fees for a homecoming concert, students wonder where the rest of the money goes and if they are get-ting their money’s worth. The fees also usually increase normally every year with tuition. Assistant Director of Student Activities and Recreation Sarah Smith is the advisor to the Student Activities Board. She said it is inac-curate to blame the student organization for the high price. “SAB receives only $40 from each student out of that fee,” Smith said. “The rest goes to all of the other student activities including in-tramurals, outdoor rec trips and other activi-ties for students.” According to Smith, this year’s budget for SAB was $55,000. Much of this is used on co-medians and other acts, the APCA trip costs for the organization, Free Friday, licensing fees that usually are around $600 in order to show movies, and more. The costliest event, at $2,000, is the fall Student Activities Fair with the petting zoo, according to Smith. APCA, or the Association for the Promo-tion of Campus Activities, advertises “qual-ity, affordable campus event programming

event programming services” on its website. The group host national conferences where schools send their SABs and share their ideas for campus activities, and low-budget acts perform to come to colleges. “Free Friday and the Pinterest activities are ideas from APCA,” Smith said. “And we found this comedian Adam Grabowski who will be here on April 16; he was here two years ago, and he is probably the best [come-dian] we have had.” Smith said that the SAB is trying to do more activities involving food in the future. “Madison Savarese, she’s our president, helps out a lot with the planning,” Smith said.

“And we know, college students like food. Later on we are making ‘dirt’ which is basi-cally Oreo pudding.” The Student Activities Board is a long-standing tradition at UVa-Wise, which ac-cording to Smith, has existed since at least the late 1980s. Currently, 15 students are active in the organization. “At the beginning we usually start out with around 30 or so,” Smith said. “Then they real-ize what hard work it is and they stop com-ing.” Smith said that she welcomes any ideas to improve campus activities that students can offer.

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The campus housing lottery begins today, and this year there are a few changes.

The changes include the “live here another year” opportunity, and Thompson Hall’s chang-es to a themed “health and wellness” hall.

Today is “live here another year” priority registration day and events will be held in the student center atrium from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“Upperclassmen do have the opportunity to ‘live here another year’ and keep their current space if they want,” said Josh Justice, director of housing and residence life. “In order to do so, they need to follow the instructions given out to the them at their floor meetings for keeping their current spot, and they still have to apply for housing.”

According to the Spring 2014 Housing Re-application Process and Timeline document, residents of Culbertson Hall’s single rooms will not be given the option to keep their current liv-ing space.

In the document, it is said that priority stu-dents are first year students and students that choose not to retain their current living space for the next year. These students will go through the priority registration process and the order in

which they will pick their 2014-2015 living as-signment.

Students who are a part of this process must bring a receipt indicating that they paid the $150 dollar fee, their Cavs Card or a photo ID and a completed 2014-15 housing application.

“Thompson Hall will be themed a health and

wellness community for the 2014 – 15 school year,” Justice said. “Programming in this facil-ity will focus on healthy living and lifestyles, and we plan to connect it with the opening of the Ely Health and Wellness center.”

Justice said there are currently no plans to theme all halls, but he’s open to suggestions.

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While admission rates remain consistent every year, the enrollment targets increase. Many factors, including new strategies, rela-tionships with prospective students and the atmosphere on campus play a big role in the recruitment of students.

Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Manage-ment Rusty Necessary said, “The new student enrollment target for fall 2014 is 375 fresh-men and 140 transfer students. These targets are approved by the UVa-Wise Board and re-ported to the State Council of Higher Educa-tion in Virginia.”

Here at UVa-Wise all students are valued and students with different backgrounds and talents are welcomed, he said. Most of the stu-dents that enroll each year are not student ath-letes, Necessary said.

Over time the strategies used to recruit students have been altered.

“We have been aggressive in terms of how we market the college,” Necessary said. “We have invested some resources in completely redoing our recruitment material, and to help us better tell our story to prospective students. We are being very strategic in how were going about student search, and identifying students across the state and other states that we would like to target based on a number of factors.”

“I think that some of it is that the college is very young, so there is a lot of opportuni-ty across the state to go into areas that don’t know much about us at all,” said Necessary.

In terms of recruitment the admissions department went and participated in Virginia college application week.

“One of the things this past year that has

helped in terms of our admission rate is that we fully participated and supported the Vir-ginia college application week,” Necessary said. “Admissions counselors traveled to 21 different high schools across the state to al-low students to apply, to review applications, and to offer admissions decisions on the spot. We also do that in our local area as well, as a service to the region.”

Necessary said that one of the strengths of the admissions department is the ability to develop personal relationships with prospec-tive students that help them get through the process, establish connections with the help of other people on campus such as coaches and faculty.

The campus itself is a contributing factor to the increase in admission rates.

“People come to visit and they perceive that we are a college on the move; they see the quality of our classrooms, the quality of our residence halls, obviously from our athletic facilities. If we can get kids to come visit it creates an extra level of excitement about at-tending Wise,” said Necessary, “It’s a variety of factors, but also we have a good story to tell as far as faculty and the work that they do, our students, the financial aid that we are able to provide students.”

The transition to NCAA Division II is an extra piece to the increase in interest in the college, he said.

“It has made an impact, but the real impact of that change will happen in the recruiting class of 2015,” Necessary said.

Necessary added, “I think it’s important for all students to get a sense that there are things to do, and things that they recognize. The press that we got from The B.o.B concert was a positive, and we exploited that in terms of getting the word out through social media.”

Admission rates could increase

Chancellor to be formallyinaugurated

On April 22, the ceremony to formally inau-gurate the 8 chancellor of UVa-Wise, Donna Henry, will be held. Classes for the day be-tween 12:30 p.m. and 4:40 p.m. will be can-celled to allow all students to participate.

The theme for the inauguration is “Minds on Opportunity. Hearts on Service.”

To start off, Founder’s Day for the college is being revamped on April 14, and the Stu-dent Government Association and the Alumni Association are filling the day with activities and food. Several other events, including a day of spirituality on April 16, a lecture by Stephen Greenblatt on April 17 and the annual Day of Service on April 19 are credited as pre-inauguration celebrations by the college.

UVa President Teresa Sullivan and sev-eral other dignitaries and speakers will speak at the inauguration. A procession of student presidents and leaders will occur at the inau-guration as well.

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On June 5, UVa-Wise’s Wise Guys and Bluegrass Band will perform outdoors in Neumunster Abbey in Luxemburg as part of the Third Annual Transatlantic Dialogue Con-ference. Director of bands Richard Galyean said that the conference focus is to examine the critical role of culture and broad education for devel-oping students who think broadly, recognize and respect cultural diversity and heritage, and whose engagement in the arts serves as a conduit to personal authenticity and innova-tion. Students will be staying in a hostel with other participants, and several other universi-ties including the University of Luxembourg, Miami University, University of Ohio, Bowl-ing Green State University, Northern Arizona University and the University Network of Eu-ropean Capitals of Culture are participating in the conference. The European Cultural Parliament, Euro-pean Council of Student Affairs, CrossBor-der Network of History and Arts, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, International Yehudi Ne-nuhin Foundation, American College Person-nel Association, U.S. Embassy and the city of Luxembourg are all also involved in the con-ference.

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“It makes me sad. He was always a cheerful fellow, and I think his accent would always make people have a good day,” Nauss said. “Not many people can boast that they have their own fungus, and the reason is because he inspired one of his students so much which shows really good quality in him, you know?” Also a senior biochem major, Scott Ar-rington is currently in Jones’ plant morphol-ogy class, in which Jones was replaced after the break.“I think it’s terrible what happened. I wish his health was better,” Arrington said. “He’s an eccentric person and he has great style and is passionate about his subject, with an encyclo-pedic knowledge of his subject.”

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UVa-Wise gets surprise visit from local leprechaun

Junior psychology major Glenn Eary dressed as a leprechaun on Saint Pat-ricks Day. Students were encouraged to pose for a photo with this lepre-chaun for a small dona-tion to NRHH. Pictured on the left is Glenn Eary and Chan-cellor Donna Henry showing some festive spirit despite the dreary weather.

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Kmart closing impacts studentsBy William YearoutSenior Features Writerwmy2m@uvawise.edu

In January, Kmart corp announced that the Wise Kmart would not seek a renewal on its lease and would be going out of business after a large liquidation sale.

While some people are scrambling onto the fantastic deals that have cropped up, in-cluding discounts up to 50 percent, others have been put into the unfortunate position of looking for new employment or worse, won-dering how they will afford some of their ex-penses.

Destiny Sansbury, a senior music major, is one of the almost 60 people who will be let go after the liquidation sale.

Sansbury said that while certain parts of the store fared well, particularly the pharma-

cy, he believes that the progress of the store overall was not sufficient enough for the lease on the building to continue.

"It seemed that corporate Kmart did not have interest in keeping this one open," Sans-bury said. "The lease is for three years, which means statistical projection needs to be done given off of previous year's numbers to calcu-late if it is worth keeping a place open for that amount of time ...

I think it will mostly impact the students that worked there, but not as much as the people that shopped, as most of them seemed to be older than the average age range of stu-dents. I only shopped there when I worked ... apart from that, I tend to shop at Walmart as it is cheaper."

The sentiment of Walmart being cheaper was also shared by sophomore computer sci-ence major Katie Sutherland, who only found

herself in Kmart on the occassion that Walmart either didn't carry something or sold it for a higher price.

"It's not really affecting me right now, but I fully believe that it will affect people. Now that some of Walmart's competition in the area has been eliminated, they will surely raise their prices ... it will definitely affect students who shop there. I mean, even if things only go up by 10 or 20 cents, that eventually adds up," Sutherland said.

Sansbury said that the news of Kmart's closing came very suddenly, with little warn-ing or explanation.

Attempts to contact management at the Wise Kmart for comment were not success-ful. All requests were redirected to corporate media relations, which did not respond.

Cyber-blogger to visit campusBy Jason FergusonStaff Writercjf2b@uvawise.edu

If you value your security and peace of mind in cyberspace, you will not want to pass up a series of lectures beginning on March 20 as part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science’s Digital Rebels Speaker Series.

Brian Krebs, a well-known journalist, investigative reporter and author of a blog

time.“Parking is based on Monday – Friday

from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and commuters are here at the same time as residents, so it’s an equal time split. Anybody can come and park after 5:00 p.m. at an event or on the weekends, so it’s equal,” said Ewing.

With such a low fee of $60 for a full year’s parking pass, not much in regards to park-ing can be accomplished. In order to improve parking the parking fee and parking fines would have to be raised.

Ewing said, “The parking permit and parking fines go towards two things; part of it is for parking enforcements, and part of it is for maintenance and upkeep of the lots. By the time you patch and do some paving on the lots each year it eats up what little money is there. The cost to maintain has gone up, yet the cost of the fee has not as of this tome so less has been able to be done.”

Students that don’t care about the $20 fine for improper parking are the main reason for the potential increase in fine for parking ille-gally.

“People are willing to pay the fine, which is an obvious sign that the $20 fee is not much of a deterrent. It doesn’t impact anybody. If I raise it to $50 maybe people won’t park ille-gally,” said Ewing.

An increase can possibly be expected for next year and most definitely in years to come, as the state of Virginia does not supply funds for parking.

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called KrebsOnSecurity.com, will be the first lecturer in this series, which will be held at the Leonard W. Sandridge Science Center on March 20. From 1995 to 2009, Krebs covered cybersecurity and computer privacy stories for The Washington Post. Krebs has been the recipient of many awards, including Cisco Systems’ First Annual “Cyber Crime Hero” Award in 2009, the SANS Institute Top Cy-bersecurity Journal Award in 2010 and an award he received last month: the M3AAWG Mary Litynski Award for Protecting Online Community.

Daniel Ray, a computer science professor at UVa-Wise, was brimming with optimism about this new project.

“The idea…is that we can get a lot of speakers in who are both interesting to the hu-manities side and to the tech side,” he said. “Everybody deals with technological and se-curity issues on a daily basis and we all depend on it. It’s one of those things that we’re really not cognizant of all the time. Brian Krebs is a journalist by trade, and he’s a researcher who has really made himself aware of how tech-nology and security really work.”

Dr. Ray said Krebs, an independent jour-nalist, broke the recent story about the Target credit card breaches, a cyber attack that ex-posed credit card and personal information on more than 110 million consumers.

“He is a person who has insider knowl-edge about hackers and hacker activities on-line,” Ray said. “[Krebs] has infiltrated the ‘darknet,’” which Ray explained as parts of the internet that are not accessible to the aver-age Internet user.

He said Krebs, by infiltrating this secret, subterranean area of the Internet, was in a unique and remarkable position to learn of the tactics of credit card hackers.

Businesses and companies that have been hacked, Ray pointed out, are usually the first to know that they’ve been hacked. However, to admit that to the general public causes a certain amount of embarrassment, along with the fear of having such revelations impact them financially.

“In our corporate culture, the last thing you want to do is let it be known that you’ve been hacked because it makes people wonder about your security, Krebs said. “It lowers consumer confidence, but the people who are hung out to dry on that sort of thing are the consumers themselves.”

Exposing these types of fraud and hack-ing does, however, sometimes place Krebs in a difficult position. “He is kind of the en-emy of the corporations—they don’t like him, because they want to keep those [security] breaches secret, and he is the enemy of the hackers—they don’t like him because they want to keep the breaches secret for complete-ly different reasons,” Ray said.

“The earlier that they [the consumers] know that there’s a problem,” said Ray, “the more proactive they can be about the steps they need to take to address that, so [Krebs] fills in the gap.”

Brian Krebs is a 1994 graduate of George Mason University, where he earned a Bach-elor of Arts in International Relations. His speech will be on March 20 at 7 p.m.

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Ask A Political ScientistMy name is Eric Drummond Smith and I am a political scientist and philosopher at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. While I specialize in international relations and comparative politics, I am fas-cinated by virtually all subjects political. So, what can I help you to understand?

The history of Ukraine is complicated to say the very least. It is a principally Slavic na-tion which has been dominated in part or in whole for most of its history by outside pow-ers - Russia (sometimes in the guise of the So-viet Union), Prussia, Austro-Hungary, Turkic tribes, the Mongol, and Poland-Lithuania. It is religiously somewhat diverse, but it is Ukraine's ethno-linguistic divisions which are driving the competition for control of the state and two fundamentally different visions of that nation's political-economic future.

Rural Ukrainians and urban western Ukraini-ans (those who principally speak the Ukrainian language) want a liberal political-economy al-lied and linked to the West. Urban eastern and Crimean Ukrainians want a Russo-centric pol-ity, one that follows the bureaucratic-authori-

tarian principles of [Russian President] Putin's everything-old-is-new-again state. Finally, there are other regional minorities - notably Crime-an Tatars (returned from Stalin's deportation), Bulgars, Romanians, and Hungarians - who are generally in accord with Ukrainian-speakers.

Put simply - this looks messy from the get-go. Make it messier from the fact that Russia's

meddling has made this a face-contest - if Putin lets Ukraine out of its sphere of influence then Russia looks like it can't keep its house in or-der and its domination of other parts of Eurasia, perhaps even within its own border, becomes far more problematic.

Make it messier still by adding some realpo-litik. Take a second and look at a map of the world.

Russia is big with lots of coastlines, but not all

coastlines are made equal. Little of that vast coast is pointing in the right

direction to efficiently reach markets or strategic locations either in-region or inter-regionally and much of it requires passing through minority-dominated areas, areas that, were they to rebel, could be cut off from Moscow.

Not only that, but most of those ports are ice-locked for large periods of time during the win-ter months.

Russia therefore sees domination of Ukraine, and its portages, as essential to its interests - economic at the least, since the strategic value of the Black Sea ports is radically lower given NATO's post-Cold War domination of the Straits of Dardanelles and Bosporus (though I dare say that Russian policy-makers emphasize the mili-tary at least as much).

The Ukrainian Crisis

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The Miss UVa-Wise pageant was held March 8 in the Convocation Center. Pictured above is second runner-up Kelsey King, first runner-up Ruchelle Thornsbury, and first place win-ner Sharmae Stringfield.

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By Kandee WallaceOpinion Editorknw2a@uvawise.edu

It’s closing in on graduation time, which means all the last minute checking to see if you are in the clear to walk in May is pretty much past due.

I have come to realize in recent months that if you want anything done when it comes to graduation, you had better do it yourself. No one is go-ing to tell you if you’ve completed your class and program requirements, if you need to do anything extra, or even when the date is for graduation (which is moved up a week from usual to May 10.)

The best thing to do is to take charge yourself (like you already should be) and get everything together the first or second semester you come into school. Get your catalog and plan your schedules around it to ensure that it doesn’t come to three months before graduation and you didn’t take that one class you should have that is only offered every other semester.

The registrar is great. Your advisors are great. However, it is not their responsibility to keep up with everything you do and send you some sort of notification that you need to do this, that, or the other. You have to go to them to get the proper counseling and resources you need, but you also have to do a little for yourself, which should be obvious.

One thing that could be improved upon is communication of the most important tasks, details and deadlines, though. I feel as if every graduating senior should be notified of the changes of date and details of graduation, a change in the awarding of diplomas (one being that this May, diplomas will be mailed instead of given at commencement to the promptness of the ceremony after finals week) and even things like application for grad-uation and senior salute (perhaps a bit more in advance than 2 weeks).

I, and many others, had no idea about the change in date for com-mencement, nor the change in the awarding of diplomas until someone else in the graduating class or a professor told us. I feel like that is a pretty big deal to be told about, especially since many are trying to move away and get jobs upon graduation.

Going back to what I said earlier about being responsible and looking out for yourself on requirements, that still holds true, but I feel that staff should notify the students when it comes to things of that nature.

We cannot possibly be expected to just know when the university de-cides to switch things up from what has been previously said. Knowing your required courses and everything else in order to graduate is one thing and is completely within our control. Changes to the schedule are not.

While college staff could improve on those little areas, one can’t pos-sibly blame the registrar or advisors for not graduating. As a senior, it is your responsibility to keep up with everything that you need to do before you leave. If you don’t take a course or two you need in your program, don’t blame others for not graduating. That is completely on you and ad-equate planning and counseling resources are available if you need help. It is entirely upon you to take hold of your future, do what you need to do, and get out of school. If you cannot do so, another semester or so in school may be in your best benefit.

By Brett HallStaff Writermbh9t@uvawise.edu

Hello, again, commuters! After a long and much needed spring break,

we’re up for a busy week. While I hope you all had plenty of fun, it’s time to get back to business. Well, kind of. SGA is going to make it a little easier on you.

This next week is commuter week and is completely dedicated to you, compliments of the Student Government Association.

Upcoming commuter related events of interest include:Monday, March 24: Activities fair in the sculpture garden 12p.m.-

2p.m.Tuesday, March 25: Commuter Egg hunt. Find the eggs on campus

and bring them to the SGA office. (Whoever has brought the most eggs by 5p.m. will receive the first bookstore package.)

Wednesday, March 26: Free breakfast in the Caf for commuters 7a.m.-9a.m. Tickets are limited so please come by the SGA office to get yours!

12-3 pm free Popsicle giveaway at the bottom of Commuter Hill.Thursday, March 27: The second bookstore package will be raffled

off at 12 in the SGA office.Friday, March 28: An honorary Red parking permit will be raffled

off. One lucky commuter will be able to park in staff parking for a week.*Commuter students who participate in the week’s events will receive

5 more chances at the bookstore package, as well as the red parking per-mit for each event attended.*

Good luck to all in the drawings and we cannot wait to see you at the events.

Thanks for reading,Brett HallHall is a senior political science major

Commuter Corner Annual graduation blame game occurs

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You debate with yourself on whether or not to go to class. Every. Single. Morning.

Your morale and drive is in the toilet.

Your grades are probably also in the toilet.

You have a ton of things you have to do. So many, in fact, that you decide to take a nap and watch Netflix.

You’re suffering from the hangover that is known as reality again.

What do stu-dents think of on-campus parking?

“I think it’s terrible. We don’t have enough, so people are stuck parking in the grass in the gravel lot. I think we need much more and the McCraray gravel lot should be paved. It is a muddy mess after snow or rain.”

“We need more parking spots on campus. Half of what we have, students can’t even use.”

“It would be nice to have more parking or more accessible parking for underclassmen. We only have two places to park and it is very inconvenient. I don’t have much of a problem with campus parking, but I feel it would be better if there were more spots on campus that are for students only.”

“Campus police are willing to drive ladies who are uncomfortable walking back to campus from the commuter lot at night, which is a great service, but if we had a lot closer to campus or a parking garage, that service would not be necessary.”

-Heather Huntington, junior psychology major

-Greg Kiser, senior management information systems major

-Ryan Huntington, freshman music major

-Joshua Worrell, senior theater major

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The UVa-Wise men’s tennis team will travel to the Univer-sity of Charleston Saturday to take on the Golden Eagles in a 1 p.m. match. The Cavs will travel to Concord University for a 1 p.m. match on Sunday.

Upcoming gamesBaseball

The UVa-Wise baseball team will to South Euclid, Ohio this weekend to take on the Notre Dame College Falcons. The Cavs will play two doublehead-ers on Saturday and Sunday starting at 1 p.m.

Men’s Tennis The UVa-Wise softball team will host the Shepherd Univer-sity Rams Saturday for their first home game of the season with first pitch set for 1 p.m. The Cavs will host Fairmont State Univer-sity on Sunday for a 1 p.m. start.

SoftballThe UVa-Wise men’s golf team will play in the Southeast Kentucky Intercollegiate Tour-nament in London, Ky., start-ing on Sunday and ending on Tuesday.

Christmas technically only happens one time a year and some dub July 25 as “Christmas in July.”

But I believe that Christ-mas can happen in March.

If you don’t understand what I am talking about, ask Joe Callero, head coach of the

Cal Poly Mustangs, who will be dancing for the first time in school history.

The Mustangs defeated Cal State North-ridge 61-59 Saturday to win the 2014 Big West Conference Tournament Championship. The Mustangs will enter the NCAA Division I Tour-nament with a 13-19 record, the only team with a losing record in the tournament.

If you ask Callero, he will probably agree that the win felt like Christmas morning. I bet Callero had trouble sleeping the night before and was excited to wake up to see what his team was going to do. After the game was over, Calle-ro opened up the locker room door and couldn’t wait to see what was going to be inside. Inside was the greatest gift he could have received: A conference tournament trophy and the smiling faces of 17 players.

It feels like Christmas morning to the fan and bracketologist as well. There is paper all

over the floor - brackets that have been filled out or torn up. There is excitement as the upsets start to unfold.

This is called “March Madness.” I’ve said it time in and time out, March is

a special month simply because a nobody can become a somebody with one single shot. Ask Chris McNaughton, Ali Farokhmanesh, T.J. Sorrentine and C.J. McCollum.

McNaughton hit an awkward hook shot for Bucknell University with 10.5 seconds left in the game to defeat Kansas University in the open-ing round in 2005. Farokhmanesh hit several key shots to guide his No. 9 seed Northern Iowa Panthers to an upset over the number one seeded Kansas in 2010. Sorrentine hit a three-pointer from the parking lot to lead his number fourteen seeded Vermont University Catamounts to a stunning upset of the number three seeded Syra-cuse Orange. McCollum single handily defeated the Duke University Blue Devils in 2012 as No. 15 Lehigh University defeated the number two seeded Blue Devils.

I witnessed Mr. McCollum’s performance against Duke in 2012 as I sat in Section 234 Row C with thousands of other stunned Blue Devil fans around me.

I will say something was definitely magical in the air that night, I was just hoping it was for the Notre Dame/Xavier game that was going to follow the Duke/Lehigh game.

As the brackets were released Sunday eve-ning, I was shocked to see the seeding. Louis-ville, the defending national champions, are a four seed. Kentucky, despite the record and mid-season hiccups, could knock out mid-ma-jor favorite and No. 1 seed Wichita State in the second round. Michigan State is a four seed in the East bracket and very well could win the na-tional championship on that side of the bracket.

It’s really hard to see or predict any major upsets this season as the bracket is evenly dis-tributed. I like the No. 12 seed North Carolina State Wolfpack to win their play-in matchup and make a run. I really like Oklahoma State to cause trouble in the West bracket. My Cinderella pick would be Tulsa. Head coach Danny Manning is going to take what he learned playing/coaching at Kansas and make a run.

I’ll give you one of my many final four pre-dictions and national champion, then we all will change our brackets 50 more times before the first game.

South: FloridaEast: Michigan StateWest: ArizonaMidwest: LouisvilleNational Championship: Michigan State vs.

Louisville National Champion: Michigan StateIt’s finally here, the madness of March. Let’s

enjoy it; it only happens once a year.

It’s the Madness, the Madness of March

Jordan ChildressSports EditorCommentary

By Jordan ChildressSports Editorjsc6x@uvawise.edu

Mother nature was both kind and cruel to Hank Banner’s UVa-Wise baseball team this week.

Last Tuesday, March 11, the Cavaliers host-ed border rival the King University Tornado on Tuesday March 11 with temperatures topping the mid 70s. The warm weather was a surprise to the Cavs and it showed on the field as they dropped a 14-9 decision to their rivals.

The Tornado started out swinging the hot bats as they jumped out to an early 10-0 lead after the top of the third. The offensive burst was powered by a three-RBI double by Stephen Mullins in the second inning.

In the bottom of the third the Cavs posted three RBI on the bats of sophomores Ty Ligh-ton, Steven Klaiber and senior Andrew Jessee. The Cavs also posted three runs in the bottom of the sixth on a RBI single by Lighton and two RBI double by Klaiber.

The offensive day for Lighton and Klaiber proved not enough as the Cavs fell victim to the Tornado.

Mitch Stophel picked up the win for the Tor-nado and sophomore Kenny Ball picked up the hard luck loss his first appearance this season. On a day in which the Cavs used six different

pitchers, sophomore Caleb Daniels proved to be most efficient. Daniels allowed one run on three hits while striking out four in four innings of re-lief work.

The Cavs traveled to Fairmont, W.Va., on March 15 and 16 to take on the Fairmont State University Fighting Falcons.

The series was set to play four seven inning games and due to rain the Cavs only got to play one seven inning game.

The Cavs made good work of their one game as they posted a 1-0 win over the Fighting Falcons.

Sophomores Ball and Jared Finch combined for a one-hitter. Ball went five innings without allowing a hit and only walking two.

Finch came on to pitch two innings of relief and gave up the only hit of the ballgame for the Fighting Falcons to Drew Hetzel.

Ball picked up his first win on the season to move to 1-1. Finch picked up his first save on the season.

Leading the way for the Cavs was sopho-more Tye Marshall with two hits. The Cavs scored the only run on a throwing error than al-lowed freshman J.T. Belotti to score.

With the win the Cavs improve to 4-10 on the season and 3-6 in Mountain East play. The Cavs return to action this weekend as they travel to South Euclid, Ohio, to take on Notre Dame College.

Mother Nature plagues baseball team

By Jordan ChildressSports Editorjsc6x@uvawise.edu

Head coach Karen Bitter and her UVa-Wise women’s softball team have been busy. The Cavaliers played eight games last week, going 5-3 in that stretch. They have also covered several miles during that span as well playing from Charlotte, N.C., to Salem, Va. Below is a recap of the Cavs games over spring break:

March 11: Queens University W 8-3March 11: Queens University L 8-5March 13: Johnson C. Smith W 15-5March 13: Johnson C. Smith W 14-0March 15: California (Pa.) W 7-2March 15: Gannon University W 12-1March 15: Lemoyne College: L 2-1March 16: Mercyhurst University L 1-0

The Cavs’ offensive outburst against Johnson C. Smith came with the bat of freshman Sarah Beamer. Beamer went 5-8 in the doubleheader with three home runs, eight RBI and two runs scored. Senior Megan Dillion also went 5-8 with four RBI. Freshmen Taylor Brandts threw a complete game two-hitter in game two of the doubleheader while striking out 11 batters.

During the three games on Saturday March 15, the Cavs went 2-1 on the day. In game one versus California (Pa.) Seniors Kristina Romualdo and Charity Lawson collected a home run each while combining for five RBI in the 7-2 win.

The Cavs scored more than 10 runs for the third game of the road trip in a 12-1 win over Gannon University. Lawson knocked in three runs on two hits for the Cavs while Beamer collected two RBI.

Senior Rachel Hawks collected three wins on the roadtrip to improve to 6-1 on the season while helping improve the Cavs overall record to 13-6. The Cavs will open up Mountain East Conference play Saturday as they host Shepherd University with the doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.

Bitter’s Cavs have successful road trip

Men’s Golf

Photo courtesy of Richard Meade

Sophomore Kenny Ball (32) picked up his first win in a Cavalier uniform as he teamed up with fellow sophomore Jared Finch as they one hit Fairmont State University on March 16.

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By Jordan ChildressSports Editorjsc6x@uvawise.edu

The UVa-Wise men’s basket-ball team controlled its own des-tiny at the end of the season. The Cavaliers finished 10th in the final Mountain East Conference stand-ings.

The Cavs were set to face the No. 7 seed in Wheeling Jesuit Uni-versity as the Cardinals hosted the Cavs to their home court.

During the regular season both teams split the series by winning on the road.

The Cavs traveled to Wheeling, W.Va., on March 4 to take on the Cards.

The hot shooting Cards hit 12 three-pointers and shot over 60 percent from the field en route to a 105-82 victory over the Cavs.

Senior Deon Boyce led the Cavs with a 29-point performance.

Boyce also grabbed eight re-bounds to give him 399 on the sea-son which is a school record for rebounds in a season.

Boyce’s 29 points were not enough for the Cavs, as the Cards had three players score more than 25 points.

The Cards were led by Justin Fritts who poured in a game-high 32 points.

Sophomore Charles George finished with 18 points while ju-nior Javon Moore finished with 13 points.

Senior James Turner finished his last collegiate game with two points.

Head coach Blake Mellinger finished his first season 11-16 at the helm of the Cavs.

The UVa-Wise women’s bas-ketball team fared better than the men in their first round matchup.

Head coach Kristin Kunzman’s Cavalier women’s basketball team picked up the first ever Mountain East Conference Tournament win with a March 4 81-67 blowout win over the home standing Notre Dame College Falcons.

The Cavs opened up the game on a 5-0 run and led 41-32 at half-time.

With the start of the second half, the Falcons came out fighting but it proved too little as the Cavs cruised to an upset first round vic-tory.

Sophomore Makenzie Clues-man led the Cavs with 21 points while senior Reynesha Archer, ju-niors Kenzie Poindexter and Katie Jo Lester finished with 12 points each.

With the win, the Cavs moved on to face the number two seeded West Liberty Hilltoppers March 6.

The hot shooting Hilltoppers topped the Cavs 82-57 to put an end the Cavs season.

The Hilltoppers connected on 10 three-pointers in the first half to take a 43-30 lead to the half.

The Cavs were unable to mount a comeback in the second half as they dropped an 82-57 decision to the Hilltoppers.

Archer finished her collegiate career with a game-high 22 points.

Kunzman’s Cavs finished the season with 10-18 record in their inaugural season of MEC play.

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Senior Reynesha Archer (32) battles for a loose ball against the West Liberty Hilltoppers in the March 6 Mountain East Conference Tournament matchup. The Cavs dropped a 82-57 decision to the Hilltoppers.

Cavs wrap up 13-14 basketball season

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