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All six schools in Roane County were put on lock-down for nearly two hours after a West Virginia Uni-versity student sent a text message to an elementary school teacher threatening to “shoot up” a school.
Preston Patton, 21, says the whole thing was actu-ally just a misunderstand-ing—he thought he sent the message to one of his best friends.
“For about as long as I can remember, my friends and I have always had re-ally offensive joking styles,” Patton, a second-year graduate student said. “At this point, that’s just part of who I am—really revolt-ing and shocking around my buddies.”
It all happened on Sept. 2, a Wednesday Patton and his friends now remember with awkward laughs and a twinge of uneasiness.
He shot off a quick text message that morning to his friend Dylan Harper, a
17-year-old senior at Roane County High School.
“Please stop texting,” the person responded. They said they weren’t Harper. This didn’t phase Patton, though, since Harper had made a joke like this be-fore. He responded and said he was loading up a gun and was on his way over to shoot up a school.
“I know how that sounds out of context,” Patton said. “But of course I’d have to make that stupid joke out of all the other innocuous ones.”
On the other end of the message was Emily Al-vis, a fifth and sixth grade teacher at Roane Coun-ty’s Reedy Elementary School. Coincidentally, Alvis’ school is only about 25 minutes from where Harper lives in Spencer, West Virginia.
She was in class teach-ing when she received the text. She stopped what she was doing and immedi-ately showed the text to her principal who then called
by john mark shaverstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
Pizza lovers throughout town can now rejoice, as Lotsa Mozza, downtown Morgantown’s newest pizza place, is set to open next month.
The restaurant will be located at 419 High St. across the street from D.P. Dough, in the building that previously housed Dan-iel’s Men’s Clothing be-fore it moved across town last year.
Jim Craig, owner of Blue Sky Realty and Lotsa Moz-za’s building, said the res-
taurant should be open by the end of October.
The arrival of a new pizza place has stirred an-ticipation among students, who are excited to have more options for High Street dining.
“The pizza places on High Street suck,” said Madison Guttenberg, a se-nior marketing student.
Nick Foutrakis, a sopho-more journalism student, believes a new pizza place could pose a threat to the existing establishments on High Street.
“I think that there’s a lot of pizza places right now in the area, and none of them
have really caught my eye so far as one of the better ones,” Foutrakis said. “…If there’s going to be a new pizza place and it’s good, I think it could take over.”
Those like Emmott Blitch, a freshman busi-ness student, may be sat-isfied with the food they get from places like Casa D’Amici, but would love to see an establishment with better prices.
“Everyone loves pizza,” Blitch said. “I really like Casa’s pizza, but depend-ing on how (Lotza Moz-za’s) prices compare, they might be able to even have a little price war between
the two. Maybe we could get a little cheaper pizza somewhere.”
Local, already-estab-lished pizza places like Tortoni’s don’t see the new restaurant as a threat.
Tortoni’s manager Jes-sica Foster said her res-taurant’s cheap prices, in-gredients and unique feel will help them hold their own against the incoming Lotsa Mozza.
“We have so much go-ing on here that we’ve just been worried about our-selves,” Foster said. “Ev-erything that we do here is
by corey mcdonaldstaff writer
@dailyathenaeum
West Virginia University’s Faculty Senate will discuss the implementation of a new general education system, as well as the approval to add new courses to different colleges during its meeting this afternoon.
The General Education Foundations system was ap-proved by the senate in May 2014. It will replace the ex-isting GEC system, but the change is still in transition, and the system will not be implemented until the fall semester of 2016.
“The move to the GEF gives both our students and faculty the opportunity to be engaged in a more stim-ulating and creative educational endeavor worthy of a top- tier public university,” said University President E. Gordon Gee.
The GEF will work to fulfill the University’s goals of creating well-rounded students with broad areas of skills and knowledge, linking courses students take at the University and instilling a permanent connection in learning and education, according to documents ac-companying the senate’s agenda.
The new system will have a concise arrangement of seven broad areas of education, as well as a new eighth fulfillment requiring nine credit hours, totaling between 31 and 37 credits. Courses taken for the GEF can still si-multaneously fulfill major and other requirements for an undergraduate degree. However, unlike the GEC, courses for the GEF have only one assigned area, rather than being designated under multiple focus areas in the curriculum.
The new eighth fulfillment, the Focus, will allow stu-dents—in consultation with their advisers—to select nine credit hours, or a minimum of three courses, from any combination of disciplines to be used as a concen-tration area of their choosing.
The GEF will also replace the writing requirement with a development of writing and communication skills, as determined by the degree-granting college.
New students entering the fall 2016 semester will be governed by the GEF, while continuing students can choose to remain in the GEC or implement the GEF in an updated catalog year.
The seven areas of emphasis will include much of the original GEC requirements: composition and rhet-oric, science and technology, mathematics and quan-titative skills, society and connections, human inquiry and the past, the arts and creativity and global studies & diversity.
Also to be discussed during the meeting, in relation to the GEF system, is Degreeworks’ need to change the coding of the science and technology focus of the sys-tem. Four courses (BIOL 105, GEOG 107, GEOL 101 and GEOL 103) are offered with and without a labora-tory component; therefore, these courses need to be
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‘Lotsa Mozza’ pizza joint to open next month on High Street
Roane County schools put on lockdown after joking text messageThree people were
stabbed on High Street in the early Sunday morning hours, accord-ing to a press release.
M o r g a n t o w n P o -l ice responded to a fight around 12:20 a.m. at the intersection of High Street and Wall Street.
The three stabbing v i c t i m s we re t ra n s -ported to a local hospi-tal by Monongalia EMS.
The victims sustained non-life threatening in-juries, according to the release.
The victims’ names were not released.
M P D e n c o u r a g e s a nyo n e w i t h i n f o r -mation about the in-cident to contact the Morgantown Detective Divis ion at 304-284- 7522.
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added to the “2A” sub-area (non-lab courses) and to the “2B” sub-area (courses with an associated lab). Students will have to com-plete either two lecture courses, resulting in six credits, or a lecture course with an associated labora-tory combination, result-ing in four credits.
Also expected dur-ing the meeting is the ap-proval of a New Courses Report, as well as some comment on the trans-ferability of credits and grades at the University.
Several new courses will potentially be offered, in-cluding a new creative arts course involving produc-
tion planning (THET 524), as well as several new Col-lege of Law courses in-cluding Energy Siting and Permitting (LAW 644), Nu-clear Law and Policy (LAW 647), Energy Business/Law & Strategy (LAW 648) and a new capstone course requiring a research paper or fieldwork project in the area of energy and sustain-able development.
The senate also wants to ensure the transfer of credits between colleges among the University—and from outside institu-tions—is a smooth transi-tion for students who will allow as many credits to be accepted as possible.
“WVU is committed to student success that in-cludes guiding students in the most appropriate de-gree pathway,” said Sue
Day-Perroots, associate provost for Undergrad-uate Academic Affairs. “The legislation is help-ful by requiring WVU to examine ways we can better advance the ca-reer pathways of transfer students.”
The meeting will be held at 3:15 p.m. today in the Ruby Grand Hall of the Erickson Alumni Center.
made with love. [We’re] a lot different from a lot of other restaurants on High Street where it’s very ‘get-it-and-go’. Here, it’s not like that. We don’t care if you sit in for a while.”
Whatever the case may be, most agree that more restaurant variety on High Street is a good thing.
“Each (restaurant) has its own style,” Blitch said. “Pizza is never simply just pizza.”
The owners of Lotsa Mozza could not be reached for comment.
911.From there, everything
happened fast. The coun-ty’s superintendent, Jerry Garner, said the county sent out an all-call message to parents to let them know of the lockdown.
“We had no idea,” Gar-ner said. “We don’t know what or who’s on the other end of that text message. We have no idea who that individual was.”
Melissa Gilbert, direc-tor of Roane County 911, said all of the schools were placed on lockdown since the text message didn’t specify one school.
Back in Morgantown, Patton’s phone didn’t stop ringing for hours. Each time he answered, the per-son on the other line im-mediately hung up.
The Roane County Sher-iff ’s Office was “pinging” his phone—using cell tow-ers to send transmissions to the phone number to lo-cate where it was.
Patton said his father, who happens to be a Roane County assistant prosecu-tor, called him to tell him to answer the phone and an-swer any questions the of-
ficer had for him.His father was at the
courthouse when the lock-down took effect, Patton said, and he didn’t want to appear like he was ham-pering the investigation.
Morgantown Police called Patton and asked him to come down to the station. Detectives ques-tioned him about the text for about four hours. Half-way through the interro-gation, Patton swallowed his pride and agreed to let MPD make a copy of his entire phone to search it.
“I’ve been friends with Dylan for years,” Patton said. “He grew up with my little brother, so I’ve sort of known him forever. Noth-ing like this has ever hap-pened before.”
The detectives in Mor-gantown saw as much, so they released him with only one caveat—be care-ful what you joke about.
But how did the message get sent to Alvis instead of Harper?
The Friday before the incident, the day of the first home football game, Harper said he went to the store to change his cell-phone plan from Verizon to a prepaid service through Straight Talk.
Straight Talk would let him keep his old number,
he said, but it would take a couple of business days to be processed. In the mean-time, Harper got a tempo-rary phone number to use.
Harper only gave the number to a few people in his immediate circle of friends, “the people I knew I was going to talk to that weekend.”
Somehow on the same day, Alvis’ phone stopped working and she couldn’t make any calls. The tempo-rary phone number Harper received was her num-ber that stopped working hours earlier.
Then, the morning of the lockdown, Harper’s tem-porary number was deac-tivated and his old num-ber was restored later that day. So, when Patton went to text him, he had no idea the number switched again.
“Obviously Preston is no sort of threat,” Harper said. “But he has the worst sense of humor.”
Harper and his fam-ily have reached out to Straight Talk to try figure out what happened, but said they haven’t heard anything back yet.
“All I know is Straight Talk ruined my Wednes-day,” Patton said.
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northern california wildfires wipe out more than 180 homes
ApA sign hangs above an entryway to a home destroyed by fire Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015, in Middletown, Calif. Two of California’s fastest-burning wildfires in decades overtook at several Northern California towns, destroying more than a hundred homes and sending residents fleeing Sunday.
M I d d L E T o W n , C a -lif. (aP)—Two of Califor-nia’s fastest-burning wild-fires in decades overtook several Northern Cali-fornia towns, destroy-ing more than 180 homes and sending residents fleeing Sunday on high-ways lined with buildings, guardrails and cars still in flames.
At least 100 homes were destroyed by a wildfire north of San Francisco in Lake County that raced through dry brush and exploded in size within hours, officials said. The devastation comes after a separate wildfire to the southeast destroyed at least 81 homes.
Residents fled from Middletown, dodging smoldering telephone poles, downed power lines and fallen trees as they drove through billowing smoke.
Whole blocks of houses
were burned in parts of the town of more than 1,000 residents that lies about 20 miles north of the famed Napa Valley. On the west side of town, house after house was burned to their founda-tions, with only charred appliances and twisted metal garage doors still recognizable.
Firefighters on Sun-day afternoon could be seen driving around flam-ing utility poles to put out spot fires. Homeowner Justin Galvin, 33, himself a firefighter, stood alone at his house, poking its shin-high, smoking ru-ins with a piece of scrap metal.
“This is my home. Or it was,” said Galvin, who spent all night fighting another fire in Amador County.
Wind gusts that reached up to 30 miles per hour sent embers raining down
on homes and made it hard for firefighters to stop the Lake County blaze from advancing, Califor-nia Department of For-est Protection spokes-man Daniel Berlant said.
Four firefighters who are members of a helicop-ter crew were injured Sat-urday while battling the flames. They remained hospitalized in stable condition Sunday, Ber-lant said.
There’s no official tally of the destruction yet be-cause firefighters are fo-cused on new evacuation orders and on residents’ safety, he said.
People were ordered Sunday to evacuate a stretch along Highway 281, including Clear Lake Riviera, a town with about 3,000 residents, Cal Fire said.
George Escalona told The Associated Press that
in some areas of town “there is nothing but burned houses, burned cars,” adding that all he had left were the clothes he was wearing.
The 78-square-mile fire erupted Saturday af-ternoon and rapidly chewed through brush and trees parched from several years of drought, Cal Fire said. Entire towns as well as residents along a 35-mile stretch of State Route 29 were evacu-ated. Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday declared a state of emergency to free up resources.
Brown had already de-clared a state of emer-gency for the separate 101-square-mile wildfire about 70 miles southeast of Sacramento that has de-stroyed at least 81 homes and 51 outbuildings and turned the grassy, tree-stu d d e d Si e r ra Ne -vada foothills an eerie
white.Fire officials had ear-
lier counted 86 homes de-stroyed, but issued the new figure Sunday morn-ing. Crews increased con-tainment on that blaze to 20 percent.
The fire, which broke out on Wednesday was threatening about 6,400 more buildings.
Mark Ghilarducci, di-rector of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Ser-vices, said this summer’s fires are the most volatile he has seen in 30 years of emergency response work. The main cause behind the fast-spreading fires is dry conditions from the four-year drought, he said.
“The bushes, the trees have absolutely no mois-ture in them, and the hu-midities are so low that we are seeing these `fire starts’ just erupt into con-flagrations,” Ghilarducci said, according to the Sac-
ramento Bee.In Fresno County, the
largest of 13 wildfires in the state continued to march westward as fire-fighters increased the areas of their backfires to try to stop the week-slong advancement, fire spokesman Dave Schmitt said. The fire, sparked by lightning on July 31, has charred 203 square miles and was 31 percent con-tained Sunday, the U.S. Forest Service said.
Firefighters have main-tained a precautionary line around Grant Grove, an ancient grove of Gi-ant Sequoia trees, and set prescribed burns to keep the flames from overrun-ning it. The grove named for the towering General Grant tree that stands 268 feet tall. There are doz-ens of Sequoia groves in the Sierra Nevada, and some trees are 3,000 years old.
Migrant Crisis adjusts Merkel’s image, but style is unchangedBERLIn (aP)—In the space
of two months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone from being por-trayed as the heartless vil-lain in Europe’s debt crisis to the heroine of those flood-ing in to find refuge on the continent.
But while different crises have triggered contrasting perceptions of the German leader, Merkel’s behavior has appeared consistent: a first-unhurried, then decisive ap-proach to the challenge; an
insistence that Europe must abide by international rules; an eye on public opinion at home; and hope that Ger-man leadership will help bring about a European solution.
Merkel hasn’t pleased ev-eryone in Europe with her approach to either crisis. Sev-eral countries that backed her insistence on tough con-ditions for Greece’s new bail-out, such as the Baltic na-tions and Slovakia, are now on the other side of the ar-
gument over whether to wel-come refugees to Europe.
But the 61-year-old is un-daunted, and her enduring domestic popularity is hold-ing up as she approaches her 10th anniversary in of-fice in November. That lon-gevity has been based partly on her knack for convincing Germans that she is on top of complicated crises and tak-ing account of their worries - something that has earned her the nickname “Mutti,” or “Mom.”
Her insistence that Ger-many and its fellow mem-bers in the 28-nation Euro-pean Union all have a duty to shelter people fleeing civil wars has cemented some-thing similar among hope-ful migrants.
Some have held aloft pic-tures of Merkel, and she was greeted with applause and cheers at a Berlin refugee home Thursday. It remains to be seen how far that adu-lation holds up after the gov-ernment announced Sunday
that it was introducing bor-der checks to limit the influx.
A hallmark of Merkel’s policy has always been pragmatism, rather than pa-thos or vision. The change in perceptions doesn’t mean a change in Merkel’s approach, said Manfred Guellner, the head of the Forsa polling agency.
“I think she is acting very pragmatically, as ever - the stream of refugees is there, and she is trying to get a grip on it,” he said.
“She is, as always, flying by sight, taking one step af-ter another,” he added, and believes that those fleeing violence in their homelands must be helped “so that a negative picture of Germany does not arise.”
Asked this week how she feels about the shift in per-ceptions of her abroad, Merkel said she was “glad Germany has become a country that many people outside Germany associate with hope.”
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Protecting American public healthHigh school health
classes consistently preach the dangers of smoking, excessive alcohol use and sedentary lifestyles, but it’s not always easy to take those warnings to heart. Though much of modern emphasis on public health stems from concerns in-volving the environment or infectious diseases, hab-its particular to the Amer-ican lifestyle have been shown to cause diseases leading to shorter lifes-pans since the early 20th century.
America’s problem? Too much sugar and salt and not enough necessary nu-trients in our diets, com-bined with lack of regular exercise.
America is no longer the most obese country in the world, but it still has a sig-nificant obesity problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re-ported nearly 36 percent of American adults were
obese in 2010.There is a definite link
between fast food con-sumption and obesity rates, as the countries with high
numbers of fast food restau-rants consistently report in-creasing numbers of obese individuals. The American lifestyle is fast-paced, and
good-tasting foods able to be eaten on the go often contain an overabundance of ingredients harmful to our health. While these
foods don’t cause prob-lems in moderation, rely-ing on them for nearly ev-ery meal (especially when on a college budget) can lead to unexpected weight gain and cause later health problems down the road.
Heart disease, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabe-tes are all usually prevent-able with diet adjustments and increased exercise. En-vironment-related deaths due to air pollution and dis-eases in unvaccinated ar-eas are massive problems in other parts of the world, but in America, diseases we can almost completely prevent still cause many deaths each year.
According to Har-vard Health Publications from the Harvard Medical School, one in four deaths caused by heart disease are believed to be preventable--equaling 200,000 deaths in 2010. This number doesn’t include the amount of
deaths brought about by tobacco use, which causes one in five people to lose their lives each year.
College students may al-ready feel like they have enough of a challenge bal-ancing schoolwork, part-time jobs and social lives, but adding exercise and healthy foods to the mix will undoubtedly pay off in the future. Taking a short PRT ride to the Rec center or uti-lizing your apartment com-plex’s weight room are easy ways to stay in shape. Cook-ing at home instead of grab-bing Chick-fil-a for every meal saves money as well as calories.
This editorial board be-lieves letting preventable causes of death claim the lives of thousands of Ameri-cans each year is unaccept-able. By making gradual lifestyle changes, students can protect both the length and quality of their years.
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Mixing up mealtimes with Meatless Mondays
“Meatless Monday? I think I’ll pass.”
When thinking of veg-etarian cuisine, one often pictures a strange meat substitute or a plate full of broccoli—both scary thoughts on their own. As someone who used to consider chicken nuggets a food group, I can relate to this point of view. But Meatless Monday is not a day to be afraid of. In fact, Monday could end up be-ing your favorite day of the week, at least when con-cerning mealtime.
The answer to “What’s for dinner?” is usually meat: chicken, steak, pork chops. However, the goal of Meatless Monday is to rethink mealtimes. Com-ing home to a dinner of spaghetti and tofu meat-balls can sound unappeal-ing and even intimidating. However, Meatless Monday does not have to be about replacing meat, but rather about focusing on enjoy-ing meatless items not typ-ically considered entrées. Examples of easy dinners for Meatless Monday are pasta, stir fry, burritos and vegetarian pizza.
Contrary to popular be-
lief, planning vegetarian meals can be easy. Sim-ply typing “vegetarian dishes” into your favorite search engine will yield thousands of results. With many dishes, simply omit-ting the meat will make an easy and familiar-tasting meal. In addition, there are many vegan and vegetar-ian cookbooks with meat-less versions of traditional meals.
Meatless Monday is in no way boring or dull. It can encourage you to be creative and rethink what you’d typically eat for each meal. It’s also a way to get out of your comfort zone and try foods you typi-cally wouldn’t otherwise. One way to be extra ad-venturous is to try meat re-placements such as veg-gie burgers or tofu chicken nuggets. It can also be fun because you can incorpo-rate your friends and fam-ily in the meal planning process.
Perhaps the biggest ben-eficiaries of Meatless Mon-day are the cows, chickens and pigs that would oth-erwise have become your dinner. According to Com-passion Over Killing, a nonprofit animal advocacy organization, eliminating meat from your diet once each week saves 28 land animals and 175 aquatic animals per year. On a
larger scale, if all Ameri-cans participated in Meat-less Monday, 1.4 billion an-imals would be saved from slaughter in a single year.
Participating in Meat-less Monday also reduces greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Cows’ digestive processess create large amounts of methane gas, which is emitted into the atmosphere each year.
Fewer cows being raised for the slaughterhouse means less emissions overall.
If the animals or envi-ronment aren’t of your concern, Meatless Mon-day is also great for your body and your wallet. Meat consumption is one of the leading causes of high cho-lesterol, heart disease, can-cer, diabetes and obesity.
By eliminating meat from your diet once a week and replacing it with whole foods, people can reduce their risk of disease as well as promote weight loss and proper digestion. In terms of monetary savings, plant-based proteins and starches are some of the most inexpensive foods on the market.
If you find yourself in-
terested in Meatless Mon-day, or in becoming veg-etarian or vegan, there are many great resources available both online and in print. Eliminating meat from your diet is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your health, the environment and animal welfare.
When people think of careers in academia, they most immediately think of teachers—but there are many other non-teach-ing jobs available for those who want to go into educa-tion but don’t want to teach forever.
Some jobs may want po-tential employees to have teaching experience, but if you’re looking for a change in career paths, here are some of the jobs you should consider if you’re looking to get a non-teaching job in education.
1. Librarian.As a librarian at an edu-
cational institution, you’ll be responsible for creating and implementing library programs, systems and ma-terials helpful in accessing books and other resources for students and staff.
Librarians also get to pick out new technologies, books and other materi-als the school needs based on the school’s budget and what the curriculum de-mands. They’ll educate and work with students when they visit the library and may also be called upon
by teachers to help de-velop lesson plans or ob-tain certain materials for the classroom.
Most librarians will need to have a master’s degree in library science in addition to certification in educa-tion or a teaching license, which varies by state.
2. Principal.The principal is the man-
ager of a specific school and their daily responsi-bilities consist of mostly management activities as they’re responsible for the school as a whole, in-cluding students, teach-ers, staff, etc. They’re also tasked with hiring teach-ers and other staff, helping develop the curriculum,
monitoring student devel-opment, and more.
Principals usually need to have a master’s degree in education administra-tion or leadership, and many positions also want candidates to have teach-ing experience.
3. Assistant or vice principal.
The assistant or vice principal assists a school’s principal in running and overseeing the school, and may deal more immedi-ately with handling the discipline of students, su-pervising student activi-ties and organizing and as-signing resources to help teachers.
They may also help cre-
ate programs focused on professional development, improving teaching prac-tices, and generally en-hancing the overall school environment.
Many assistant princi-pals start off as educators with master’s degrees and steadily build on their ex-perience until they have the necessary knowledge to progress to administra-tive jobs.
4. School counselor.S cho ol couns elors
can work in elementary through high schools by helping students, staff and teachers. Their role is to provide people with access to individual, educational, and career counseling, as well as aiding in mental health education.
School counselors are also tasked with watching for signs of abuse, provid-ing college advising and career planning to stu-dents and other duties. They work with both stu-dents and teachers to help ensure the school is an en-vironment best promoting the social, emotional and academic success of every-one there.
To become a school counselor, post-graduate courses include achieving a Master of Education in School Counseling in ad-
dition to licensing. Under-graduate courses in psy-chology and education may be beneficial as well.
5. Superintendent.A superintendent acts
as an administrator or di-rector who is in charge of several public schools or an entire school district. They’re basically the CEO of schools and have nu-merous responsibilities, in-cluding overseeing the ap-plication of various policies and processes, handling administrators and school staff, planning budgets, and dealing with any issues and problems that arise such as financial concerns and other complaints.
The road to being a su-perintendent includes lots of schooling, and getting a teaching degree is a good place to start. Next, you’ll want to apply for a Mas-ter of Arts in Teaching or a Master of Science in Ed-ucation program — there are different pros and cons to each so make sure to en-roll in the right program for you and your career path.
6. College dean.Typically in American
universities, every college within a post-secondary educational institution will have a dean. Those deans are responsible for a num-ber of duties, including
working with admissions, the registrar and other of-fices on campus.
Deans may also focus on a single aspect of stu-dent life, such as housing or financial aid. They meet with and advise students, do research, develop and implement academic poli-cies, oversee budgets, help hire faculty and solve vari-ous student problems and issues.
To become a dean, you have to at least have fin-ished a master’s degree or doctorate in higher ed-ucation, and have taken courses focusing on educa-tional management, school finance, leadership, educa-tional law, and student af-fairs. Having experience as a professor or a position as an educational administra-tor will also help boost your resume when it comes to applying for a job as a dean.
So if you don’t want to be a teacher but always dreamed of going into edu-cation, don’t worry—there are plenty of non-teach-ing jobs in academia you can pursue, so long as you have the right background and experiences necessary for the job. Start planning ahead now for the non-teaching career you want and you’ll be school-bound again in no time.
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Students get adventurous at ‘Try-It’Melanie SMith
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The sun beat down onto the Monongahela River, creating silhou-ettes of the students kay-aking and paddle board-ing downstream. People kept their balance on a thin Velcro tightrope tied between two trees. Swing dance lessons were given on the stage of the Hazel Ruby-Mcquian Riverfront Park. WELLWVU: The Stu-dents’ Center of Health provided all these activi-ties to students at last Fri-day’s Try-It event at the Hazel Ruby-McQuain Riv-erfront Park along the Rail Trail.
The event encompasses the idea of stepping out of your comfort zone and trying new things to start the semester with an open mind. Adventure sports and fitness demonstra-tions were provided along with healthy snacks ca-tered by WVU Dining Services.
The Adventure West Virginia organization provied watersports with safety precautions like life jackets and whistles at-tached in case students needed help from afar. The event offered kayaks, paddleboards and canoes at no charge, and students
could spend hours on the Monongahela River.
Colleen Harshbarger, the director of Wellness and Health Promotion for WELLWVU, organized the event with the help of Shannon Foster, a health educator for WELLWVU and the Student Well-ness Ambassador Team. The tents lined the park, with registration and a ki-osk offering health infor-mation and prizes, which
included a chill WELL packet providing tips for a relaxing lifestyle and ap-parel supporting wellness. Students had to complete two activities in order to receive a WELLWVU T-shirt.
“We know that so-cial connectedness is a key ingredient in stu-dents’ success in college. We also know that being in nature is beneficial to wellbeing,” Harshbarger
said. “Mostly, we want students to get out, try something new and have fun.”
Several fitness demon-strations were lined up for the evening, promot-ing physical activity and a relaxing time along the water. The schedule in-cluded yoga, medita-tion, swing dancing and a workout session led by the student organization, CHAARG. Slacklining, a
popular activity of balanc-ing on a strip of webbing that is fixed high above the ground, was set up next to the park.
Freshman speech pa-thology and audiology student Jacob Cahn had never tried slacklining be-fore this
event. “When I tried slack-
lining for the first time, I felt out of my comfort zone. It was the first time
I have ever tried, but even through I wasn’t great at it I was excited to try something new,” Cahn said.
He heard about the event through an Adven-ture WV Instagram post and was attracted to it, through the kayaking.
“It made me feel like I could try anything,” he said.
Students felt this event helped take away the stress of the first week of exams and being away from home.
“This event taught me to just sit back sometimes and relax, said freshman occupational therapy stu-dent Gabrielle Crawford.
This is Crawford’s first time living away from home. She loves the out-doors and felt coming to West Virginia University has helped her grow out of her comfort zone, along with Try-It.
“Life moves so fast and sometimes we forget to stop and take it all in. This event helped me out with that,” Crawford said.
Try-It is an annual pro-gram and one of many p ro g ra m s W E L LW V U provides on campus. For more information about WELLWVU, visit http://www.well.wvu.edu.
Jay Rock and his Black Hippies reach new lyrical heights, Leona Lewis returnsWoody pond
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“90059” by Jay Rock
When you think of Black Hippy, you think of the stars: Kendrick, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy. People of-ten forget about Jay Rock—you may remember him from his verse on Kend-rick’s masterpiece “Money Trees”—but maybe it’s time to pay attention to him now that his sopho-more album has hit the Internet.
The album “90059,” named for Los Angeles’s area code, shows that Jay Rock is a lyrical genius with storytelling roots similar to his labelmate, Lamar. This album is full of hard and chill verses as well as some surprisingly catchy cho-ruses that linger long after the album comes to a close.
The instrumentals are what really drew me in early however—full of keys, bells, bass guitars and both live kits and 808’s. One of the album’s early singles, “Gumbo,” is a poetic mas-terpiece focusing on the many different paths of life.
The whole Black Hippy group comes together on “Vice City” to rap about the many vices that can be-come overwhelming in the infamous rap culture with a very unique chopped up flow that continues over the bumping, dreamy synth beat.
Kendrick comes back and trades bars with Rock on “Easy Bake” before the whole song flips on its head. Female R&B singer SZA comes in singing soulful lyrics about work-ing herself into the dirt in order to achieve her big-gest dreams. If you like the other Black Hippy art-ists’ music, peruse “90059”
and decide for yourself if you can be a Jay Rock fan. I know I made my decision, and it is yes.
“Da’ Nic EP” by T.I.
T.I. has been rather quiet besides the work his label has done with rappers Iggy Azalea and Travi$ Scott, until his newest project un-der his other identity, Tip, “Da’ Nic EP.”
T.I. has been rapping for more than a decade, bouncing from trap rap to more mainstream hip-hop with his 2008 hit album “Paper Trail,” and “Da’ Nic” is his biggest return to that style.
Released as a surprise EP in promotion of his forth-coming 10th album “The Dime Trap,” the Atlanta rapper’s new project has a smooth mix of old school and new school beats that contain a funk groove that
T.I.’s southern dialect rolls over well. Spitting verses about money and gloating over his superior skill and success, T.I. balances lyr-ics about his old ways in the streets of Atlanta with his newfound business-man mentality and ca-reer. In his song “Check, Run It” he raps about the paper chase over a gospel choir sample and some low bass horns, and in my fa-vorite song of the EP, “Pea-nut Butter Jelly,” T.I. and his boys Young Thug and Young Dro use a witty met-aphor to describe their fa-vorable financial situation and extravagant spending habits.
Since the whole EP is fo-cused on the importance of money and your sustain-ability with such, it is not surprising that the album cover is a five dollar bill folded to look as if there is a crown above President Lincoln’s head. Looks as if Tip thinks it is time to re-
mind the growing popula-tion of Atlanta rappers of the reigning king.
“I Am” by Leona Lewis
I am pleasantly sur-prised by how much I love the pop elements present in Leona Lewis’s newest al-bum “I Am.”
Released last Friday, “I Am” is a ten track R&B pop album showcasing the gor-geous voice that Lewis has been praised for since her smash hit “Bleeding Love” in 2007. Full of great in-strumentals composed of a lot of live instrument sounds infused with syn-thetic production effects, Lewis croons over strings, piano, guitars and even a very welcomed addition of timpani.
The concept behind the album is addressed in the title track, in which Lewis sings, “I am somebody
without you.” The opera-tive “you” could be a lover, a parent, a boss, or even society—whoever tries to tell you that you need to be something more than just you.
I am anxiously wait-ing for one of these songs to get some air play, espe-cially what I consider the potential radio hit “Fire Under My Feet.”
The song has a very upbeat, fast tempo pi-ano backtrack which is absolutely nailed by Lewis’ incredibly soul-ful vocals in an Adele-like fashion.
The instrumentals are epic, her voice is beauti-ful and full of life, and the subject matter is relat-able to anybody who un-derstands what it is like to be in love, be heartbroken, or be shoved down again and again. “I Am” is a great comeback for Leona Lewis.
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Trombone Day benefits young budding musiciansWoody pond
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It sounds like it could have been marching band practice or perhaps a parade through Evansdale on Sun-day, but it was the WVU School of Music’s second annual Trombone Day.
High school trombonists from all over the area gathered in Bloch Hall yesterday morning for a day full of performances and master classes re-garding the lovely brass horn. Hosted by WVU professors Brian Plitnik and Keith Jackson, WVU Trombone Day is a hands-on musical experience in which participants do exercises and ask questions in lectures as well as team up with the WVU Trombone Choir to rehearse and later perform for the guests to apply what they learned.
Kicking off the day at 10 A.M., the WVU Trombone Choir performed three selections for the guests. The WVUTC consists of 15 members, a few of whom are professors, who play in all of the trombone pitch ranges of the brass spectrum.
Plitnick conducted the choir after introducing the event, then launched into his one hour master class, “Im-proving Tone Production.” Afterward, the high school participants and Uni-versity choir rehearsed together for the day’s final performance. The groups split around 12:30 for a free lunch and a meet and greet before guest artists from the West Virginia Symphony Trombone Section, and Jackson presented their own classes.
Trombone Day wrapped up with a faculty trombone recital from Jack-son and Plitnik with a final perfor-mance from the Mass Choir of high schoolers and the WVUTC to con-clude the day. Plitnik was very ded-icated to this event and its signifi-cance to high school students.
“We provide this type of experience for high school age students because they may not have access to it other-wise. Many trombonists aren’t able to focus on the trombone at this depth as a part of their public education,” Plitnik said.
Plitnik is the director of Trombone Ensembles while Jackson is the di-rector of the entire School of Music, having taught at WVU for the past 20 years. Plitnik and the rest of the music faculty wanted to emphasize an active learning environment in which peo-ple could freely participate in a fun, informal way.
“Trombone Day is set up as a workshop for the kids. Students will learn specific approaches and con-cepts about playing trombone and then have a chance to apply these skills while rehearsing,” Plitnik said.
More than 30 students tried breath-ing and buzzing exercises with their mouthpiece, discussed ways to de-scribe trombone sounds and blowing and looked back on the importance of
fundamentals in the nine hours spent listening and playing in Bloch Hall. A bit shy at first, the participants eased into the program and eventually be-gan competing amongst each other for a chance to actively work with the lecturers. The entire atmosphere was very positive and eager—it was obvi-ous that each student had an interest in continuing with the trombone out of high school at some capacity. Se-nior Michael Thompson from Stras-burg High School in Virginia was ex-cited to visit WVU for Trombone Day to continue honing his craft.
“I’ve played trombone for four years, but I never really got time to focus on it with homework and high school life going on,” Thompson said. “I really want to see what college level trombone is like because that’s what I want to major in next year.”
The second annual Trombone Day at WVU was a success. To keep up with WVU’s Trombone Studio, visit its Facebook and Instagram.
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This past Sunday, the West Virginia Women’s Extravaganza took over the Hazel and J.W. Ruby Community Center. The community center, lo-cated in Mylan Park, was packed with vendors of all kinds celebrating all the unique women of West Virginia.
The extremely diverse event had something for everyone. From food ven-dors to Mary Kay consul-tants, there were many who came out to support the cause. Started by PR Plus Events, the event was cre-ated to promote local busi-nesses and artisans as well as raise money for great causes.
One of the largest ven-dors at the Women’s Extrav-aganza was the American Cancer Society. Starting in the morning, the Ameri-can Cancer Society had a one mile Warm Up walk. The walk was to encourage people to come out to their annual 5K run in October.
Setting up a large silent auction filled with baskets of gifts donated by other vendors, the American Cancer Society had a very successful turnout. All pro-ceeds from the silent auc-tion were donated directly to the American Cancer Society.
“Last year, we made $1,100 just on the silent auction,” said Laura Tin-ney, an American Cancer Society volunteer. “The si-lent auction grows every year.”
Another popular ven-dor was Bonnie’s Bus. Parked outside the com-munity center, the color-ful bus offered a mobile doctor’s office of sorts for women interested in free mammograms.
Other vendors such as Stonewall Resort, Euro-pean Wax Center, The Cup-cakerie, Avon, Perfectly Polish and Bridgeport Con-ference Center also set up shop. Artisan crafts, home-made gifts, lotions, can-dles, soaps, food and art decorated the large build-ing. Morgantown Beauty College and Laurel Techni-cal Institute offered pam-pering stations for women looking for massages, hair extensions and manicures.
“I’m having a good time,” said Amanda Tate, a Per-fectly Polish employee. “I’ve been here before but this is my first time here with this business. A good bit of people have stopped to check out my products.”
Not only did women en-joy shopping around, but the participating busi-nesses also appreciated the event.
“We’ve been really suc-cessful. We’re really enjoy-ing the event,” said Andrea
Fratto, a Bridgeport Con-ference Center employee. “Especially with the food we’re serving, people re-ally enjoy that.”
Besides all of the ven-dors, West Virginia’s Wom-en’s Extravaganza also offered entertainment. With a large stage set up in the back of the build-ing, many different forms of entertainment were of-fered such as “Let’s Make a Deal” Game Show, a Talent Showcase, Designer Fash-ions on Parade and Zumba. A smaller side stage offered cooking demonstrations and Bingo for Breast Can-cer, as well.
The event was finished off by a Grand Prize Give-away, which was a $1,000 gift basket. The gift bas-ket included a Massanu-tten Resort three day get-away, gift cards to local restaurants, jewelry, beauty products, candles and lotto tickets.
Overall, the West Virginia Women’s Extravaganza was a hit. Local businesses and non-profits made some new connections, and cus-tomers and local women got to spend the day being pampered and celebrated.
For more information about the West Virginia Women’s Extravaganza or the vendors that attended the event, go to http://wv-womensexpo.com.
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Mountaineer Idol’s first elimination round, only 12 contestants remainhannah harless
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The 2015 Mountaineer Idol season has officially begun. On Sept. 11, WVUp All Night and West Vir-ginia University’s Student Government Association hosted the first elimina-tion round for the compe-tition in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.
Hosts Lane Horter and Hilary Kinney wel-comed the audience and contestants. Both hosts have had experience in the regional pageant scene.
Horter, a graduate stu-dent at West Virginia Uni-versity, previously worked as a host for the Miss Mor-gantown pageant. Kin-ney, on the other hand, was a contestant in the 2015 Miss West Virginia pageant.
Both Horter and Kin-ney then announced each contestant in the top 15 by name as people in the audience screamed with excitement.
The hosts explained how contestants were evaluated for their per-formances by the judges’ panel. While contestants were judged on the ba-sis of singing ability, they were also judged on stage presence. By the end of the night, three contes-tants were eliminated and only 12 contestants would advance to the next round.
The judges’ panel was made up of five promi-nent people affiliated with WVU. The judges’ panel consisted of 2009 Faculty/Staff winner Shirley Rob-inson, Professor Daniel Brewster, professional vi-olinist Shiva Shafii, Asso-ciate Director of Develop-
ment for the WVU College of Business and Econom-ics Steve Staffileno and 2 0 1 4 ’s M o u n t a i n -eer Idol winner Alexa Gonzalez.
“I met with Sonja Wil-son, head of WVU Student Life, earlier into summer to find ways for the West Vir-ginia Symphony Orchestra to become involved with WVU and the Morgantown community. It seemed like the perfect fit to have dif-ferent representatives in Mountaineer Idol,” Shafii said.
After the judges intro-duced themselves, the performances began. Each contestant was asked to perform a song from his or her musical inspira-tion. This was the first time contestants were in-troduced to the other competitors.
“It is always interest-ing to see contestants for
the first time. You get to see different styles of mu-sic and talent. Backstage there were some nerves but the competition itself was very light-hearted and fun,” said contestant Jes-sie Ford.
Derrick Ward started off the night by perform-ing Amy Winehouse’s Val-erie with an accompani-ment on piano. The last contestant to perform was Paige Madden, as she sang Sara Bareilles’ “Gravity.”
Some notable per-
formances by contes-tants that night included “Heartache Tonight” per-formed by Isaac Mei, “Bring Me Down” per-formed by Jessie Ford and “If I Ain’t Got You” performed by Rebecca Berhanu.
After contestants per-formed, a special perfor-mance was put together to entertain the audience while the judges discussed who would advance in the competition.
Alexa Gonzalez per-formed the song, “Hit
Me Baby One More Ti m e ” b y B r i t n e y Spears.
Once Gonzalez exited the stage, the hosts were ready to announce who would be in the top 12.
The contestants elimi-nated were Tyler Shaffer, Jessie Ford and Brianna Paul.
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As you walk into Table 9, there is a refreshing open-ness to the restaurant. Tall windows open up and fill the restaurant with natu-ral light. A casualness can also be felt between the staff and customers, making pa-trons feel welcome and comfortable.
Table 9 offers breakfast, lunch and dinner with the food ranging from burgers and chicken wings to soba noodles and ponzu pulled pork.
“It kind of shows when you sit down and you see what comes out and what it looks and tastes like and see how comfortable it is here. You can come in and have a nice date, or you can come in with shorts and a T-shirt, hang out and have a couple drinks on the deck and en-joy it that way,” said John Holding, assistant manager and bartender at Table 9.
Along with excellent food and atmosphere, Table 9 of-ten hosts local musicians to play for guests while they dine. Every other weekend local artists are welcome to play at the club.
“We like to try and use any local musicians that we can. It’s pretty much anyone who comes in, we’ll listen to some music they have, and if we like the sound of it and think it will fit in with a din-ner atmosphere, we’ll have them,” Holding said.
This past weekend, gui-tarists Rus Reppert and Spencer Elliott played for a small but captivated audi-ence at the scenic Table 9 restaurant at the Waterfront.
Reppert first started playing at Table 9 after the owner Mark Tasker lis-tened to Reppert play at
the Bridgeport Farmer’s Market.
“I play down there a bunch for that market,” Rep-pert said. “Mark was doing a chef’s demo, and he and his wife liked what I was doing and invited me up and it’s been a good fit and I love the place, I love the people and I love the food.”
Reppert is a guitarist and vocalist who focuses on modern folk, Appalachian, Celtic and rock music. He plays a mix of both original songs and covers. Reppert played several songs while at Table 9 with a standout he called his “Appalachian Medley,” where he layered several tunes on top of one another, creating an amaz-ing mix of sound.
“I was probably 15, 16 when I started performing. Playing in bands up here, actually in Morgantown, so I got a pretty early start at it,” Reppert said. “I’m origi-nally from Clarksburg area,
but this is always the place to play.”
Spencer Elliott, an equally excellent guitarist, whose set was comprised of original songs also played. Elliott’s unique sound comes from his playing al-most exclusively from the neck of his guitars, mak-ing him both a pleasure to watch as well as listen to.
“I’ve got a lot of history here in Morgantown. 123 Pleasant Street, before that it was the Underground Railroad. I’ve played at ev-ery incarnation of that place as a singer and a band, but this is my first trip as a solo acoustic guitar player,” El-liott said.
The venue’s next guest artist is Scott Alexander, playing from 7-10 p.m. on Oct. 10. To learn more about Rus Reppert or where to hear him next, visit http://rusreppert.com.
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Andrew SpellmAn/THe dAIlY ATHenAeUmRuss Reppert jams out Friday night for patrons of Table 9, a gastrofunk restaurant on the rail trail in the wharf district.
Andrew SpellmAn/THe dAIlY ATHenAeUmLeann Cellurale, a catering associate with the downtown Panera, gives samples at the Women’s Extravaganza Sunday afternoon.
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ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19) HHHH Listen to your intuition, yet remain responsive to a friend’s critique. Your energy could be bol-stered by a humorous moment or by a loved one’s display of affection. Lose the word “impossible” from your vocabulary. Tonight: Spend quality time with a favorite person.
TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH Defer to others. People will be delighted to have their way, and you will appreciate being less aggravated. With your free time, you might decide to do something spe-cial for a friend or family member.
Your efforts will be greatly appreci-ated. Tonight: Happy close to home.
GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH You will feel more upbeat than you have in a while. Someone you look up to could give you important feed-back that makes you feel as if you’re on top of the world. Step away from a situation that involves a lot of ten-sion. Tonight: Make the most out of the moment.
cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH You always seem to make the best of a difficult situation. You might be able to break through emotional walls that previously seemed inde-structible. Tonight: There is no say-ing “no..
lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Though you might be reflecting on a serious matter involving your per-sonal life, news from a distance will put a smile on your face. Don’t force yourself to do anything you don’t want to. Maintain a long-term per-spective. Tonight: Relax at home.
V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH You’ll perk up because you are about to hit your most ener-getic days of the month. You might be delighted by what an imaginative friend or loved one has conjured up. Test out his or her idea on others be-fore instrumenting it. Tonight: Catch up on someone else’s news.
lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HH Your dis-comfort will come through to others no matter what you do. There is no point in trying to hide your mood. Ask questions rather than just jump-ing to a conclusion. A partner is likely to make you feel better once he or she gets involved. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.
S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Don’t make the assump-tion that everyone is on the same page as you. In fact, it could be quite the opposite. Explore other ideas. Someone you respect suddenly might appear with a unique solu-tion. No one will be able to hold you back. Tonight: Catch up with friends.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH You might be daydreaming instead of seeing the big picture. You’ll feel good when you distance yourself from the issue at hand. Your creativity is likely to provide an un-usual yet effective solution. A discus-sion will prove to be most fortunate. Tonight: Where your friends are.
c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH Keep reaching out for more information. You might want to un-derstand more of what an associate or loved one is trying to say. Come from a place of love and caring, and try to remain open to a very differ-ent perspective. Tonight: Together-ness works.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH You might want to understand what is happening within your group of friends. Listen to news with more openness, and as a result, success will flow. You might not realize how deeply a loved one supports you in your endeavors. Remain upbeat. To-night: As you like it.
pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH Your mind is likely to lead you to an interesting idea. You intui-tively might feel as if you finally are heading in the right direction. Stay focused when dealing with a nearly overwhelming amount of requests. Use care with your finances. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.
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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across1 Cabbage side dish5 Costume shop supply9 Croatian-born physicist Nikola14 Spanish appetizer15 In couch-potato mode16 Like a cheering capacity crowd17 Happily __ after18 Tidy19 Destiny20 *Publication featuring Alfred E. Neuman23 Tidal retreat24 The ones right in front of us25 Lt.’s superior27 Engraved with acid30 “The Firm” author John33 Sea, to Cousteau34 Worker in a shaft37 __ Gras38 Coll. hot shot40 Garden bulb42 Tugboat sound43 WF-3640 printer maker45 Traveler’s stop47 “__ you happy now?”48 “Do not” follower, on a closed-door sign50 Ride a seesaw52 Roll call reply53 Channel covering Capitol Hill55 Cute __ button57 *Chinese food staple62 Light brown64 Beech or birch65 Many Keats poems66 Flub by a fielder67 Balkan native68 Cowpoke’s footwear69 “Yum!”70 Knight times71 “Born Free” lioness
down1 Wineglass part2 Volcanic output3 Did an impression of4 Fireside feeling5 Didn’t follow a script, say6 Brainstorms7 Classic Krispy Kreme coating8 “The X-Files” org.9 Get ready to shoot10 Open __: tennis period since 196811 *Cold symptom
12 Rack of __13 Many an Iraqi21 “Excuse me ... “22 Big name in ATMs26 Exam for H.S. jrs.27 Nestle snugly28 Allegro, scherzo, andante, etc.29 *Lines that help you 9-Down30 Sandpaper feature31 Worship32 Bishop’s headdress35 Unfeeling36 Symphonic rock gp.39 Sheep shelter41 Personal source of annoyance ... which might
make one feel the first word of the answers to starred clues
44 Room with a crib46 Starring role49 On a pension: Abbr.51 Dress for the choir53 Monte __: gambling mecca54 Ink mishap55 Aid in wrongdoing
56 Doris Day song word58 Online handicraft market59 Big screen star60 Corp. heads61 “ÀC—mo __ usted?”63 Understood, as a joke
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Alcohol is something that every college student will encounter at one time or another. Depending on your point of view, this could either be a fortunate perk of college life, or an unfortunate circumstance of university culture. Regardless of your position on alcohol consumption, WELLWVU is committed to making sure students have all the facts needed to make their own deci-sion when it comes to partaking.
An important part of staying safe while drinking is keeping track of your blood alcohol content, or BAC. Of course, this is something that every student learns when completing the fresh-man AlcoholEdu® course. But who really remembers to keep track? It’s far easier to just drink until you feel good, right? The problem with this method is that, it’s hard to tell when you’ve crossed the line from the positive effects of alcohol, to the nega-tive effects.
Peak buzz is around 0.06% BAC. This is the point right before the negative effects of alcohol start to kick in. Up until 0.06%, effects may include: increased sociability, confidence, relax-ation, and a sense of outgoing, assertive behavior. After 0.06%, the fun starts to go downhill. This is where you spill your drink on your friend’s new carpet, or trip going up the stairs. Keep drinking to a 0.10% BAC, and you’ll begin to experience memo-ry loss. A little more and you begin to throw up. Once you’ve hit 0.16%, you’ve blacked out; at 0.18%, you are now in danger of alcohol poisoning.
Drinking can be a fun social activity if done safely in the proper
setting. However, a fine line exists separating a responsible and fun evening, from total inebriation. Having a good time with your friends can quickly become a blurred night of regret. Too many students find this out the hard way, and drink far beyond their limit. The best case is that this results in a few regrettable deci-sions, and maybe a terrible hangover. The worst case is serious damage to your body, or even death.
Luckily, it’s rather easy to keep track of how drunk you are, even without a breathalyzer. There are simple formulas for calculating BAC. To simplify it even further, there are apps de-signed to do the calculations for you. WELLWVU recommends R-U-Buzzed? BAC Calculator, DrinkTracker, and Breathalyzer. These easy-to-use tools can be key when it comes to drinking responsibly.
If you choose to drink, doing so responsibly is the duty of the student. WELLWVU isn’t out to condemn students who choose to consume. Instead, the organization aims to provide all of the tools necessary for students to make their own choices. The WELLWVU website contains several games and other materials for students to easily learn how to make the best decisions pos-sible. Go to well.wvu.edu and click on the “drugs and alcohol” tab to access a wealth of information about drinking responsi-bly.
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Following a weekend that featured an upset of No. 5 Penn State and a his-toric win over Villanova, the Mountaineers contin-ued their win streak with statement wins over No. 15 Ohio State and Longwood University.
The No. 5 Mountain-eers (7-1) have now won five straight since drop-ping their second game of the season to then-ranked No. 15 Virginia Tech. Their No. 5 ranking is the second highest in program history, and the highest since the Mountaineers ranked No. 4 in 2002. With only one ranked opponent remain-ing on the schedule, odds are surely in the Mountain-eers’ favor to eclipse that program best.
Friday night, the Moun-taineers traveled to Colum-bus to take on No. 15 Ohio State. While the Buckeyes (4-1-1) were able to limit the Mountaineers’ dom-inant offense, which was
coming off a record-setting 8-0 victory, their offense was nowhere to be found.
Ohio State was rarely able to maintain posses-sion into West Virginia’s half of the field. Despite their limited scoring, a 23-5 edge in shots made evident the level to which the Mountaineers are able to control the ball.
When it seemed the game was about to go into overtime, freshman Bi-anca St. Georges gave the Mountaineers a corner kick opportunity. A per-fectly placed kick found Kadeisha Buchanan, who was able to find the inside of the post to score her first goal of the season in the 77th minute.
Less than two minutes later, Hannah Abraham found Kailey Utley open, and the senior was able to finish for her fourth goal of her senior season. The assist was Abraham’s first of her career with West Virginia.
The end result was a 2-0 win, and a sixth shutout for a defensive unit ranked
16th in the country in goals against.
Sunday, the Mountain-eers returned home to take on Longwood University. It seems to be an expecta-tion for the team to score early at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
They continued to do so, with a Michaela Abam goal in the 13th minute on an assist from Bianca St. Georges.
The game was the first at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium since Abam scored a pro-gram record four goals in last weekend’s blowout of Villanova.
It didn’t take long for the team to find the net again, with Kailey Utley scoring her fifth of the year on an assist from Ashley Law-rence just seven minutes later.
The scoring streak soon
continued, with Carla Por-tillo carrying the ball into the box and demonstrating a beautiful crossing pass to find Michaela Abam. Abam scored again, extending the Mountaineers’ lead to 3-0. The goal was the All-Big 12 selection’s second of the game and seventh of the year, tying her for sec-ond in the country.
“Michaela, she has def-initely transformed her
game and worked really hard over the summer. I’m really proud of her, It’s just made her stronger and quicker,” said head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown.
West Virginia came out of the halftime break and scored almost immedi-ately, with Amanda Hill finding Carla Portillo open on the right side of the box. Portillo was able to finish for her first career goal. The 4-0 margin would re-main the final 40 minutes of the match.
Although the result was not as dominant as the 8-0 final over Villanova, the Mountaineers’ shutout featured a 41-0 shot total, the largest margin so far this season and the most shots by a Mountaineer of-fense since 2012.
The win over Long-wood was the first of a five game home stand at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, where West Virginia holds a 15-game win streak. The Mountaineers take on Buf-falo at 7 p.m. Friday night.
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Following a rough week-end that resulted in a pair of losses, the Mountaineers are back on track.
Led by two goals in the first three minutes from Jad Arslan and Ryan Cain, they never looked back in a 6-2 rout against James Madison on Friday night.
“It was important for the confidence,” said head coach Marlon LeBlanc. “We changed some things up this week in terms of our
approach. It’s good to see it come out, and it took a minute and 10 seconds for us to show it. It was a good performance overall from the guys.”
Arslan’s goal came after a red card on James Madison goalie Kyle Morton after a tackle near the net, giving Arslan a penalty kick that propelled the Mountain-eers to a 1-0 advantage.
“Unfortunately for them, a mistimed challenge, and by the lay of the law he’s got to go off to get the PK,” LeB-lanc said. “Double jeopardy right there. You hate soccer
and you get the PK, and the guy sent off. Whether or not that’s fair or not in soccer, I don’t think it is. Double jeopardy is a tough way to go but I mean, it is the rule, and he has to be sent off for it.”
Ryan Cain followed the penalty kick with a score of his own, extending the WVU lead to 2-0. He also finished with two goals and now has four this season, second best in the Mid-American Conference.
Freshman Rushawn Lar-mond also tallied a pair of scores, adding to his total of
three goals on the season. Larmond is now tied for the third-leading goal scorer in the conference.
WVU finished with 14 shots, holding James Mad-ison to six shots total and four on goal in another im-pressive defensive effort. The scoring spurt from the offense showed its big po-tential as they look for con-sistency going forward in all aspects.
“That’s always the plan, consistency’s huge in this game,” said midfielder Ryan Cain. “Today obviously get-ting a lot of goals gets confi-
dence, and confidence can bring consistency so hope-fully we carry that on.”
Redshirt freshman Alec Boerner recorded two saves, replacing junior Daniel Diaz in the second half.
Felix Angerer and Jack Elliott also added a goal each, their first scores of the season. Angerer’s goal was the first point of his career.
Friday’s six-goal outburst looms large with a contest against a 2-1 Wright State squad on Tuesday, who enters with the No. 4 goal-
scorer in the nation. WVU hopes to build off
the win after the dominant 6-0 victory over San Fran-cisco in August, which re-sulted in a rough two game losing streak against Big Ten foes Michigan and Michigan State.
“We have to just get back to training and do every-thing right,” Cain said. “I guess we’re not going to do anything different, we’ve just got to try to keep to our system and keep going with the wins.”
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On paper, West Virginia’s defense was perfect through the first six quarters of the season, but a Liberty rush-ing touchdown in the third quarter of Saturday’s game put an end to the shutout streak.
After the Mountaineers’ 44-0 victory over Georgia Southern and a 20-0 lead at halftime against the Flames, viewers and fans thought the West Virginia defense was as advertised. However, coaches and players felt their performance was not up to par and that a repeat of it would be disastrous when they entered Big 12 play.
“It wasn’t our best foot-ball today,” said senior line-backer Nick Kwiatkoski. “The intensity, I didn’t feel it there today. We made some mistakes, and we’ll come in (Sunday) and try to fix those.”
Head coach Dana Hol-gorsen talked about luck in his postgame press con-ference and how it can im-prove a team’s momentum. The Mountaineers found themselves on the right side of luck in the first half against Liberty.
Wendell Smallwood fum-bled the ball near the end zone in the second quar-ter but was able to recover it across the goal line and earn WVU six more points.
Liberty kicker John Lun-sford, whom Holgorsen her-alded as one of the nation’s best kickers, FBS or FCS, missed three field goals on his first three tries. He would have missed four, but refs blew the whistle just before the snap, and Lunsford’s kick rang off the post. He con-verted his second attempt.
Those three kicks should have ended WVU’s shutout streak far earlier than it did.
“We were a little disap-pointed in giving up some of those plays and the amount of points that we did in the second half,” Holgorsen said. “Teams are going to score. There’s a lot of good players out there, and we’ve got to learn how to handle that.”
WVU found difficulty de-
fending a strong pass game that featured All-American receiver Darrin Peterson and senior quarterback Josh Woodrum.
After forcing four inter-ceptions against Georgia Southern’s triple option, the Flames exposed some of the holes in WVU’s second-ary that have plagued them for years. WVU allowed 280 yards passing, including a long 60-yard touchdown to junior receiver Zac Parker in the fourth quarter and forced zero turnovers.
“We knew they were going to throw the ball a lot,” said senior KJ Dillon. “I guess we stopped it enough. We didn’t really play (well). We didn’t play to the best of our abilities.”
The run defense looked strong for the Mountaineers, however, as they held Liber-ty’s rushing attack to just 92 yards. Georgia Southern’s triple option is a rare offense in Division I college foot-ball, so WVU found more success in stopping the run game against an offense more similar to that of their Big 12 rivals.
The Mountaineers were also without the services of senior inside linebacker Jared Barber, who was kept out of the game for precau-tionary measures. He was replaced by Al-Rasheed Benton, who had been im-pressing coaches up to this point.
“Thought Benton played really good last week,” Hol-gorsen said. “By having depth and having a guy like (Benton), that’s going to be beneficial over the course of the season.”
Despite concern around the defensive performance, spirits were high after the game because they’ve reached their early season goal of being 2-0.
“That’s the good thing about a mature defense right now. They understand we didn’t play well,” said defen-sive coordinator Tony Gib-son. “We’ve got to get in and get back to basics and make sure we’re doing the right things.”
Defense still not satisfied after winsBACK TO BACK
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West Virginia defeats Liberty Saturday, 41-17BY NICOlE CURtIN
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The West Virginia University foot-ball team moved to 2-0 following a win over the Liberty Flames Satur-day, and the final score was 41-17. WVU played six quarters of football before being scored on; the Flames put their first points on the board in the third quarter.
Quarterback Skyler Howard threw for 263 yards and three touchdowns, and running back Wendell Small-wood had 88 rushing yards and two touchdowns.
“I think our guys played pretty good, offensively I think we made strides,” said head coach Dana Hol-gorsen. “We had zero turnovers for the second straight game, I think ev-erybody is pretty fired up about that. I think Skyler did a good job putting the ball in play, when we play teams like this we have to do a good job at putting the ball in play.”
Howard went 21 of 26 including a 52-yard pass to Shelton Gibson for a touchdown. In the third quar-ter, Howard completed 14 straight
passes, he also ran for 68 yards, second in rushing leaders behind Smallwood.
“A lot of this run game stuff that we are doing increases the likelihood of that ball being on the ground, it takes a lot of work,” Holgorsen said of How-ard taking care of the ball.
Defensively the Mountaineers were strong again; not as dramati-cally as the game against Georgia Southern with four interceptions, but the Flames were not able to score un-til the third quarter.
Sophomore Dravon Askew-Henry, junior Al-Rasheed Benton and senior Nick Kwiatkoski all led the team with seven tackles each. Liberty ended the game with 372 yards of total offense, 92 of those on the ground and 280 in the air.
The Flames were stopped on three occasions in field goal range for kicker John Lunsford, but he missed three of the four attempted. Lun-sford is an All-American kicker. Last season he went 19 of 24, averaging a 79.2 completion percentage. In Lib-erty’s first game of the season, Lun-sford made the only field goal he at-tempted from 52 yards, going into
Saturday’s matchup with those pre-vious stats. It’s safe to say most view-ers expected a better completion rate from him.
“When you go out and have op-portunities to score touchdowns, we had three field goals we missed,” said Liberty head coach Turner Gill. “You hope you’re going to have some touchdowns. If we had one or two touchdowns out of those three drives, then I think the game is going to be a bit different.”
Liberty missed out on nine easy points from those missed field goals, but even if Lunsford made those goals it would not have added up to be enough points to take the lead.
The Mountaineers have a bye this week, and according to Holgorsen, the team will get right to preparing for the Maryland game after a cou-ple of rest days.
“We are 2-0. Our goal is to be 2-0 after this point in the season, and we are,” Holgorsen said.
West Virginia’s game against Mary-land will be Saturday, Sept. 26. The time will be announced today.
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Through two weeks of the college football sea-son, we haven’t seen many surprises among the Big 12 teams. Baylor and TCU haven’t stumbled, Okla-homa looks solid, Texas got crushed by Notre Dame, and Kansas is terrible. It’s still early, however, and there are a lot of questions to be answered. Can Okla-homa challenge TCU and Baylor? Can Texas turn it around? Is West Virginia for real? With those in mind, here are the Big 12 power rankings heading into Week 3.
1. OklahomaWill Oklahoma be ahead
of TCU and Baylor when the season ends? Most likely not, but the Sooners
have the best Big 12 win of the season so far on the board, with their thrilling comeback double-over-time win at Tennessee on Saturday night. Oklahoma had nothing going offen-sively and looked dead in the water, but quarterback Baker Mayfield turned it all completely around in the fourth quarter. Tennes-see is a solid team, and the way the Sooners managed to pull that win out of thin air was amazing. That’s the kind of win that can jump-start a team on a great run.
2. BaylorThey came against SMU
and Lamar, sure, but wide receiver Corey Coleman’s first two games of the sea-son show why he could end up either making Seth Rus-sell a Heisman candidate, or becoming one himself. The junior is Baylor’s Su-
perman, too fast and too skilled for almost every defensive back he comes across, absolutely born to play in Baylor’s light-ning-quick offense. Baylor dropped 56 and 66 points respectively in their first two games, with five of those touchdowns ending up in Coleman’s hands. Seth Russell is still try-ing to settle into the large shoes left by star quarter-back Bryce Petty, and hav-ing a target like Coleman is going to make everything immeasurably easier.
3. TCUFor a team that’s consid-
ered to be a major national championship contender, it was a bit of a surprise to see TCU struggle to gain traction in a tough 6-point win in Minnesota in Week 1. Quarterback Trevone Boykin didn’t look like the
Heisman frontrunner that he’s universally pegged to be, and TCU let a mid-dling Big Ten team that they were expected to beat handily hang around until the final whistle. The good news? Everyone will forget about it when you drop 70 points the next week, as the Horned Frogs did to Ste-phen F. Austin on Saturday. There’s still no better quar-terback in the Big 12 than Boykin, and no better wide receiver pairing than Josh Doctson and Kolby Listen-bee. It’s TCU’s conference to lose.
4. West VirginiaIt wasn’t against the stur-
diest of competition, to be sure – Division I newcom-ers Georgia Southern and FCS program Liberty – but the way the Mountain-eers dispatched of their first two opponents was very impressive. West Vir-ginia didn’t allow a point for their first six quarters of football, while quarter-back Skyler Howard con-tinues to build a rapport with his young, extremely talented group of wide re-ceivers. Safety Karl Joseph looks like an All-American so far – a nonconference matchup with a Maryland squad that just embar-rassed themselves against Bowling Green and the Big 12 slate will show whether or not the Mountaineers are for real.
5. Oklahoma StateLike West Virginia, Okla-
homa State has started the season 2-0, but they haven’t been nearly as convincing as the Moun-taineers in the early goings of the season. Oklahoma State had to come from be-hind in a lethargic perfor-mance at Central Michigan in their season opener, and although they rebounded with a 32-8 win over Cen-tral Arkansas, Oklahoma State hasn’t shown any-thing to suggest they’ll be anything other than a middle-of-the-pack team.
Still, they haven’t lost, they haven’t embarrassed themselves in any way and they haven’t sustained any major injuries. They’re in decent enough shape.
6. TexasThere’s no shame in los-
ing on the road to Notre Dame. There is a little shame, however, in getting blown out 38-3 in one of the worst performances in the history of your storied program. Tyrone Swoopes is already a shaky quarter-back option at best, and his patchwork line was un-able to prevent the Fight-ing Irish from battering him and forcing him into a terrible 7-22, 93 yard day. Texas was able to rebound against Rice, 42-28, with freshman Jerrod Heard un-der center – he’s talented, but Texas is so inexperi-enced across the board that it may be difficult for Heard and the Longhorns to get much going in the Big 12.
7. Kansas StateIt took Kansas State un-
til the very end of the pre-season to name a starting quarterback. It took their selection, Jesse Ertz, only two snaps to suffer what could be a season-ending injury. To his credit, ju-nior Joe Hubener stepped in and performed passably well in comfortable K-State wins over South Dakota and Texas-San Antonio, and the defense only al-lowed three points in those two games combined. Against real opposition, though, it’s likely going to be an incredible challenge for K-State to score consis-tently. Get ready for a lot of boring, low-scoring foot-ball this season.
8. Texas Tech Here’s the good news
for Texas Tech: Quarter-back Patrick Mahomes is one heck of a talent, and the Red Raiders are going to be able to put plenty of points on the board (59 and 69 points respectively in the first two games). The
bad news: The defense is still an absolute clown car. Texas Tech’s 59-45 shoot-out win over FCS opponent Sam Houston State in the first week of the season ex-emplifies the type of team Texas Tech is going to be this year. They’ll be a ton of fun, play high-scoring games, and probably still struggle to beat the worst teams they play. Be sure to tune in.
9. Iowa StateIowa State came into
the season with extremely low expectations, but the Cyclones’ performance against a strong Northern Iowa squad was a pleasant surprise. That buzz was im-mediately killed on Satur-day, as Iowa State folded down the stretch against in-state rival Iowa. The Cy-Hawk Trophy game is often an unwatchable dirge, but at least Iowa State had the decency to sit back and let Iowa quarterback CJ Beath-ard actually entertain the fans. Next week: at Toledo, a team that just shocked Arkansas. That might be a tough task for the Cyclones.
10. KansasThis 2015 Kansas sea-
son is shaping up to be the Mona Lisa of bad. Not only have the Jayhawks dropped back-to-back home non-conference games, it was the way that they did it. First, Kansas needed a fu-rious comeback to even make it a game against FCS opponent South Da-kota State, then losing in the most improbably dumb way imaginable, fumbling the snap on a late spike play and accidentally run-ning out the clock. Then, on Saturday, Kansas got abso-lutely pasted by a medio-cre-at-best Memphis pro-gram, 55-23. Next week, Kansas plays at Rutgers, then at Iowa State. If the Jayhawks can’t steal one of those games, they may go winless.
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BY JOEL NORMANSPORTS CORRESPONDENT
@DAILYATHENAEUM
The West Virginia Univer-sity women’s cross country team’s first road race of 2015 did not go as well as hoped.
The Mountaineers, ranked No. 10 on the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches As-sociation’s national rank-ings, finished in third place at the Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational last Friday at State College, Pennsylvania.
In their first competitive race of the season, the la-dies finished second to last out of four teams with 89 points in the six-kilometer race.
“Today’s meet served its purpose,” said coach Sean Cleary in an interview with WVUsports.com. “We hit the road and got this season started. As with most open-ing meets, we had some strong and some frustrat-ing performances.”
Redshirt senior Savanna
Plombon finished in twelfth place in 22:18 to lead West Virginia. The next Moun-taineer runner to complete the race was sophomore Rachel Faulds, who finished five places later at 17th with a time of 22:41.
Plombon missed all of 2014 with an injury, but was back running on Friday. This was the second time in three years she was the first Mountaineer to finish at the Spiked Shoe Invita-tional. In 2012, Plombon led West Virginia runners with a 12th-place finish in 22:07.
Three more Mountain-eer sophomores finished in consecutive spots with Corinne Kule taking 19th in 23:21, Renee Maisonneuve claiming 20th in 23:22 and Allie Diehl getting 21st in 23:24.
“This meet displays that we still have the potential to be a very good team this fall, but also shows that we have a lot of work to tackle be-fore we are where we want to be,” Cleary said.
Host school Penn State
finished first with 21 points, and five of their runners finishing in the first seven spots. Nittany Lion senior Tori Gerlach was the first runner to cross the finish line with a time of 21:02.
Syracuse finished a place ahead of West Virginia with 34 points, and five top 10 runners. Grove City fin-ished last among the four teams with 100 points and their first runner finishing in 15th place.
“We will now go home and begin to work on some of our weaknesses,” Cleary said. “With weeks to go until we line up again, it’s so im-portant that the group ac-cepts the work and disci-pline that lies ahead.”
West Virginia will have plenty of time to recover, as their next race is Oct. 3. The Mountaineers will have three weeks to prepare for the Greater Louisville Clas-sic. Last season, the com-petitors finished second out of 32 schools with 64 points.
West Virginia takes third at Spiked Shoe InvitationalwOmen’s crOss cOunTry
BY JOhNNA hERBIgSPORTS CORRESPONDENT
@DAILYATHENAEUM
The West Virginia vol-leyball team traveled to Hanover, New Hamp-shire to participate in the Dartmouth Invitational over the weekend. With matches against Dart-mouth and UConn, the Mountaineers came out 0-2 and move to 2-6 on the season.
In the first game against Dartmouth, WVU lost 3-1. The set scores for this game were 25-20, 25-17, 25-20 and 31-29, and WVU ended the match with a .119 hitting percentage.
After coming up short for the first two sets, West Virginia managed to stay ahead in the third set and came up with a win. Al-though for the fourth set, Dartmouth came back and took the win, which resulted in them winning
the match. “Unfortunately, we
came out short,” said head coach Reed Sunahara in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Dartmouth played well and deserve credit for
a hard-fought match.”With 18 kills, sopho-
more Morgan Montgom-ery led the offense, while senior Caleah Wells fol-lowed behind her with seven kills.
Sophomore Gianna Got-terba was the leading de-fender of this match with 18 digs overall, which was the team high.
Saturday, the girls played in their second
game of the tourna-ment against UConn. West Virginia lost to the Huskies in straight sets, 3-0.
Leading the Huskies was sophomore Ke-nya Cason who scored a match-high 14 kills. UConn junior Jade Strawberry was right behind Cason with nine kills and 10 digs to help pace the offense.
For this match, the set scores were 23-25, 21-25 and 21-25, and the overall hitting per-centage for the entire match was .179 for the Mountaineers.
Again, Montgomery and Wells led the team
in kills, both getting into the double digits.
Sophomores Melvina Brown and Gianna Got-terba also were in the dou-ble digits, both leading the team in digs.
This is the third straight
weekend of losses for West Virginia, with the excep-tion of a win against Char-lotte at the Hampton In-vite, the Mountaineers have not been doing well on the road.
“I thought we did a much better job of com-peting throughout the whole match,” Sunahara said.
“We had opportunities that we didn’t capitalize on and that hurt us. Hope-fully, we can build on this as an opportunity to get better.”
The Mountaineers fi-nally take the court at home tomorrow eve-ning against in-state rival the Marshall Thundering Herd. This will be the first home game of the season for the team and Suna-hara’s first home game as head coach. The game tips at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum.
john allen/the daily athenauemCoaches discuss strategy with members of the volleyball team during a scrimmage in August.
Mountaineers drop matches at Dartmouth InvitevOLLeyBALL
nick holstien/the daily athenaeumCoach Sean Cleary talks to members of the cross country team before their season opening race.