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Th is year’s Welcome Week crime rate declined by 45 percent from last year, according to the West Virginia University Police Department.

From Aug. 15-25, the main crimes committed were alcohol off enses and traffi c non-DUI off enses.

Th ere were 32 alcohol off enses this year, which was a reduction of 30 from last year and 40 traffi c non-DUI of-fenses, which was a reduction of 63 from last year.

“Last year we had 198 incidents, which ranged from alcohol, to larceny, to noise complaints,” said W.P. Ched-ester, WVU chief of police. “Th is year we only had 108.”

2019 Welcome Week crime rate lower than last year

BY GABRIELLA BROWNASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

College is all about making life-changing decisions. For some students, adopting a furry friend may be one of those big choices.

While a pet offers warm cud-dles, an exercise buddy and un-conditional love, it is also a finan-cial burden that requires time and patience.

Dana Johnson, director of the Monongalia County Animal Shel-ter in Morgantown, said it is not uncommon to see college students coming in and out of the shelter weekly.

While the shelter does not have a rigorous adoption process, Johnson said the shelter does its best to sit down with any potential pet own-

ers and discuss whether or not that pet is right for them.

“The students that bring the pets

back do so very quickly,” Johnson said. “In most cases, they will real-ize within a week that they are ei-

ther not prepared for a pet, they do not have time for that pet or they don’t have enough income for the pet.”

Other pets are not so lucky. While those brought back to the shelter have the chance to find the perfect forever home, Margaret Minch, vet-erinarian and WVU professor of vet-erinary medicine, said it is not un-common to have pets left behind at the University farm.

“Come end of the spring semes-ter, what we see are a bunch of an-imals that are just dumped when students leave town for the sum-mer,” Minch said. “A lot of times people will just bring their cats to the University’s farm and drop them off.”

Minch said it is impossible for the farm to care for all of the cats left, and many are left to roam free

on the farm or become feral cats.“They go from the stability of

having shelter and food and wa-ter provided to having to fend for themselves,” Minch said. “It is not a nice life at all.”

Beyond those that take on a pet and are ultimately unable to care for it, Johnson said there are also many students that come into the shelter who are well-prepared to help an animal in need.

“We have less brought back than we do adopted,” she said. “Hon-estly, a lot of our students are great pet owners. They have done their research, and we try to sit down and talk with them about it.”

‘Pawsitives’ and negatives of owning a pet in college

NONVIOLENT CRIMES:

ALCOHOL OFFENSES:

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DUI OFFENSES:

NUISSANCE CRIMES:

PROPERTY CRIMES:

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VIOLENT CRIMES:

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT:

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FORCIBLE RAPE:

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Nicholas Ashton and his dog, Tito, enjoy the autumn weather together.

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Other crimes committed during this year’s Welcome Week included one drug off ense, a reduction of seven from last year, one DUI off ense, 19 nuissance crimes, which was up by 14 from last year, four larceny crimes, one aggravated assault crime and two vio-lent crimes of non-aggravated assault.

Morgantown also experienced a decline of crime during Welcome Week, with 150 citations made, which was a reduction of 29 from 2018, ac-cording to the Morgantown Police Department.

Twenty-six individuals were ar-rested for diff erent criminal off enses including DUI charges, disorderly conduct, obstructing offi cers, dam-age to property, public intoxication and underage possession.

About 100 criminal citations were made for underage possession of al-cohol, 27 citations for open container and three citations for disorderly con-duct, according to a Morgantown news release.

Chedester said he believed the lower crime rate during this year’s Welcome Week could be attributed to a few diff erent factors.

“I think a lot of it has to do with [the] presence of the police depart-ment, [and] interaction with the com-munity,” he said. “We were out pretty heavy with the presence of us and the Morgantown City Police, so I think that combination of a few things had made a diff erence.”

He said students were more re-sponsible during this year’s Welcome

Week, which also contributed to the decrease in incidents.

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Destiny Shall, a recent West Virginia University graduate, is no stranger to caring for pets while balancing work and school.

During her junior year, she adopted two cats, Tommy and Alphy, and during her senior year she said she decided to take on the responsibility of owning a German shepherd named Northman.

While having pets in college has been a huge time com-mitment, Shall said there are plenty of perks that come with being a pet owner during such a stressful period of someone’s life.

“If I was ever stressed or sad, they were always there,” she said. “Having that com-panionship is always nice. If I am in a bad mood or if I am not feeling great, I just take him on a walk.”

Shall said along with the pros that come with building a life-long bond with a pet, there

are also plenty of downfalls to doing while still in school.

“It is definitely stressful sometimes,” Shall said. “Hav-ing to fi nd time to get good walks in for the day and also the expenses, so it is import-ant to make sure you have enough money to pay for all of his vet bills, food and toys. Th e fi rst couple months it is very expensive.”

Nicholas Ashton, a senior at West Virginia University, ad-opted his dog, Tito, during his junior year. He said becoming a fi rst-time pet owner can be overwhelming, but those who set time aside for their pets won’t regret taking on the challenge.

“Make sure you have enough time in your sched-ule for your dog,” Ashton said. “Honestly it depends on the person, but I defi nitely don’t regret it.”

Minch said adopting a pet can be an extraordinarily re-warding experience for those who put the proper time and eff ort into it.

“I wouldn’t discourage

them from doing it entirely,

because there are so many

positives to owning a pet,”

Minch said. “Th ey just need to

be aware of that commitment

they are making.”

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Destiny Shall’s dog, Northman, enjoys playing with one of his many toys.

BY ALAYNA FULLERNEWS EDITOR

WVU has created a new safety website — safety.wvu.edu — for all students, fac-ulty, staff and visitors that will serve as a resource for campus safety and wellness information.

“We just started this year, a new safety website,” said W.P. Chedester, WVU police chief. “It brings together all the safety and security in-formation and resource in-formation the university has into one website.”

The website offers:• Emergency information• Safety resources for an

active shooter, discrimina-tion or harassment, pedes-trian and driver safety, haz-ing, sexual assault and more

• Preparedness and train-ing for certain situations

The safety website also

provides wellness tips and information about resources like WellWVU and the Car-ruth Center.

“If they go to the website it can point them in any direc-tion for anything from how to contact the police or the Car-

ruth Center, to what kind of training is offered by various departments, so it’s a good resource,” Chedester said.

Website users can also re-port a concern and request assistance.

“Students, faculty, staff,

parents and visitors can go to that site if they have a ques-tion. It’ll send them in the right direction,” Chedester said.

For more information, visit the safety website at https://safety.wvu.edu/.

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Destiny Shall said all of her pets have made a positive impact on her life.

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During the WVU Student Government Association’s first meeting of the year, SGA President Kate Dye discussed focal points for this school year, including safety, sexual assault pre-vention and mental health.

“We have a theme for ev-ery month that we’re going to focus on,” Dye said. “We know that all of our boxes are checked and that there’s no student issue that we are not taking action on.”

Vice President Madi Matheny also talked about her focuses for the year.

“All of our members have issues that they are wanting to take action on and are hoping to help all student is-sues on campus,” Matheny said. “Our biggest focus this year is working on account-

ability and restructuring

SGA. We’ve implemented

committees, encouraged

legislation and are doing

other things to help restruc-

ture SGA and make it more

productive and efficient.”

SGA representatives dis-

cussed establishing a new

committee to help govern

the WVU student conduct

policy, with the goal of pre-

venting the use of smok-

ing electronic-cigarettes on

campus, and introducing

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rules during meetings.

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regular meeting on Wednes-

day at 7:30 p.m. located in

the Vandalia Lounge at the

Mountainlair.

SGA plans for upcoming year during fi rst meeting

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 20194 Staff Contributionsdanewsroom@mail.wvu.eduOPINION

With the WVU football game this weekend, it’s time to remind fans of something that really shouldn’t be an is-sue, especially considering the price of stadium drinks.

Don’t throw drinks at foot-ball games.

Whether you’re excited, an-gry or just a real jerk, the only ones who should be throwing spirals in Milan Puskar Sta-dium this Saturday are the quarterbacks. At the very least, you’re annoying someone; at the very most, you’re creating a safety hazard that could lead to injury.

I mean, why do you have to throw a drink? If throwing a drink is the only method you have of getting someone wet, then there are a whole bunch of problems you need to address.

Don’t throw cans at football games

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“In theory it sounds great, but traffi c in Morgantown is enough of a nightmare as it is, WITHOUT closing a major thorofare. It would be a great gathering spot for WVU students, kinda like Sunnyside used to be way back in the day. City offi cials will never go for it.”

“Why do you all always hate on the students for! Yes the students party and they are trashy some of them, but the students spend the most money in the downtown area they bring in a lot of money for this area and for the college and the college does give back to the city so you will need to take your complaints about the student some-where else they are what drive business in this area without them it would be a ghost town do you not remember what it’s like in the summer it’s dead in Morgantown!”

“Awesome Part of the plan needs to be NEW parking garages around the area.”

“This is not a great idea. Cumberland, Maryland did this to their down-town, it killed it. It made it much less accessible and drove out a lot of businesses. After years of this, they are now planning on reopening it to traffi c because of the negative impacts.”

“Not only would it jack up traffi c but where the heck would you park? Parking is already a nightmare downtown.”

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BY CHARLES MONTGOMERYSPORTS WRITER

Th is weekend, the No. 12 West Virginia (1-1-0) wom-en’s soccer team returns to Dick Dlesk Stadium, hoping to avenge its recent loss to No. 3 Stanford.

On Friday, the Mountain-eers will be hosting the Pan-thers of High Point University (0-2-0). WVU is hoping to get back above .500 after winning last Friday against Duquesne in the season-opener, but then falling to Stanford in Pennsyl-vania on Sunday.

After 21 total shots in the match against Duquesne, West Virginia only had four shots in the loss against Stan-ford. Out of those four, only two were on goal. WVU head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown be-lieves her team needs to be more bold on the pitch.

“I felt that we played a lit-tle timid for the fi rst 45 min-utes of the game,” Izzo-Brown said after the matchup against Stanford. “I thought they capi-talized on a lot of the mistakes that we made, and a team like that will defi nitely take advan-tage of those mistakes.”

High Point has not had a

fun start to the season. Th e Panthers have yet to win a match as they have lost to Vir-ginia Commonwealth and Elon, losing in those games 1-0 both times.

Despite that, Izzo-Brown doesn’t want the Mountain-eers to let their guard down.

“We have to get better. We understand it’s a game of inches, it’s the little things that make the big things happen,” Izzo-Brown said. “So we’ve

made sure that we’ve been fo-cused in practice on those lit-tle things.”

This will hopefully be a tune-up game for the Moun-taineers as they will have an-other quick turnaround with a match against No. 6 Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Sunday.

Friday’s match begins at 7 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Stadium. A stream will be available for viewing on wvusports.com.

Women’s soccer looking to rebound after loss to Stanford

PHOTO BY SETH SEEBAUGH

WVU defender Jordan Brewster fi ghts for the ball with a Duquesne soccer player.

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BY QUINN BURKITTSPORTS WRITER

With a new West Virginia football season on the way, a new era of Mountaineer foot-ball comes with it as new WVU head coach Neal Brown is looking to rally his troops past James Madison on Saturday afternoon.

Brown comes off the heels of three straight 10-win sea-sons at Troy University, where he compiled an overall 35-16 record with three straight bowl game appearances in the past three years.

West Virginia and James Madison will square off for the third time ever. Th e Mountain-eers have taken both previous matchups, including a 2004 tilt in Morgantown where the Mountaineers came out on top 45-10.

“JMU has a proud football tradition, I know the program well from my time with the old Atlantic 10, preseason poll… they’re either fi rst or second in the FCS,” Brown said on JMU’s

rich tradition.With the announcement

of the fi rst depth chart of the year coming earlier this week, positions on both sides of the ball are much clearer heading into West Virginia’s opening weekend.

One of the biggest question marks over the off season fol-lowing the loss of Will Grier to the NFL was the quarterback position. Graduate transfer Austin Kendall received the nod from Brown with red-shirt junior Jack Allison and redshirt freshman Trey Lowe rounding out the quarterback position.

Another offensive key player that will look to shine as a part of a young Mountain-eer off ense includes running back Kennedy McKoy, who

will likely handle the bulk of snaps. Wide receivers Te-vin Bush and Sam James are also supposed to catch most of Kendall’s passes as mem-bers of the starting wide re-ceiver unit.

“You want them to play fast,” Brown said. “You’re go-ing to fi nd some things that don’t go the way they want them to be.”

Th e defense will be high-lighted by senior Reese Do-nahue and sophomore Dante Stills on the defensive line with redshirt junior Sean Mahone and seniors Josh Norwood and Keith Washington Jr. manning West Virginia’s secondary.

On the fl ip side, JMU re-turns many members of its 2018 team that look to play an impact.

“They’re probably more experienced than any team I’ve lined up against,” Brown said about JMU. “It all starts at quarterback with the Pitt transfer (Ben DiNucci), I like him a lot on fi lm.”

DiNucci looks to add an-

other stellar season under his belt after throwing for 2,275 yards and 16 touchdowns last season. Th e Dukes will also come into this season with a few running backs who are all capable of making explosive plays on the ground.

Th e Dukes were also picked to win the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) football ti-tle this season after receiving 20 of 24 fi rst place votes. Th ey fi nished 9-4 last season with a record fourth straight appear-ance in the FCS playoff s.

Brown’s fi rst game as WVU coach comes Saturday against James Madison

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“They’re probably more experienced than any team I’ve lined up against.”

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NO NAME POS HT WT RK 58 NICK MALONE OL 6-6 280 FR.59 LUKE WILLIAMS ILB 6-0 228 R-JR.61 TYLER CONNOLLY OL 6-4 341 FR.62 ZACH DAVIS OL 6-2 308 R-JR.64 REX SUNAHARA LS 6-6 242 R-SR.65 DONAVAN BEAVER OL 6-6 313 FR.66 ADAM STILLEY OL 6-0 291 R-SO.68 BRIASON MAYS OL 6-3 300 R-FR.69 BLAINE SCOTT OL 6-3 321 R-FR.70 TYLER THURMOND OL 6-4 298 R-SO.71 JUNIOR UZEBU OL 6-5 302 R-FR.72 KELBY WICKLINE OL 6-4 308 R-SR.73 JOSH SILLS OL 6-6 326 R-JR.74 JAMES GMITER OL 6-3 300 R-FR.76 CHASE BEHRNDT OL 6-4 305 R-JR.78 DANIEL BUCHANAN OL 6-4 310 R-SO.79 JOHN HUGHES OL 6-5 298 SO.83 BRYCE WHEATON WR 6-3 215 R-FR.84 JOVANI HASKINS TE 6-4 245 R-JR.85 T.J. BANKS TE 6-5 253 R-FR.86 RANDY FIELDS JR. WR 6-1 196 R-FR.87 MIKE O’LAUGHLIN TE 6-5 250 R-FR.88 ISAIAH ESDALE WR 6-0 201 R-SO.88 TAVIS LEE DL 6-2 252 R-FR.89 G. MALASHEVICH WR 5-9 169 FR.90 BRENON THRIFT DL 6-1 290 R-SR.91 REUBEN JONES DL 6-4 250 R-SR.92 WRHETT HESTON DL 6-3 220 FR.95 J. JEFFERSON DL 6-2 295 FR.96 JOSH GROWDEN P 6-2 199 R-SR.97 STONE WOLFLEY DL 6-4 255 R-SR.98 LEIGHTON BECHDEL P 5-11 180 FR.99 SAM COOKMAN DL 6-2 248 R-SO.

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BY CODY NESPORASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Saturday will be a day of fi rsts for the WVU and James Madison football teams.

It will be the first game coaching the Mountaineers for WVU head coach Neal Brown, it will be the fi rst start in the career of redshirt ju-nior quarterback Austin Ken-dall and it will also be the fi rst time James Madison head coach Curt Cignetti will be at Milan Puskar Stadium since 1999, when he was coach with the Pitt Panthers.

Cignetti has a long his-tory with the Mountaineers and West Virginia. His father, Frank Cignetti Sr., was the head coach at WVU from 1976 until 1979. In four years at the helm of the team, Cignetti Sr. amassed a 17-27 record. Af-ter his tenure at WVU, the el-der Cignetti became the head coach at Division-II Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), where he coached for 20 years and compiled a 181-50-1 record.

Cignetti Sr. was also the head coach at WVU when new Mountaineer Field was fi rst constructed and used.

Th e younger Cignetti also played at WVU from 1979 un-til 1982 as a quarterback.

Th is is Cignetti’s fi rst year as the head coach of the Dukes and, during a conference call Monday morning, he said that playing WVU as his fi rst game was bit ironic.

“It’s very ironic that you take a new job and then look at the schedule and there’s West Virginia, a place where you

grew up third grade through college,” Cignetti said. “I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me, obviously a lot of great memories, but once we arrive at the stadium it’s all business whether it’s Morgantown or anywhere else. I’ve got a job

to do, everybody’s got a job to do, and that will be the focus.”

Cignetti also said he’s en-joyed seeing the success that WVU football has had in re-cent years and believes that his father was able to help, in part, with that.

“I think [my father] left the program with a really good foundation for success and the stadium obviously was key long-term in helping to get that done,” Cignetti said. “[WVU has] really done a great job there with that program.”

Game at Mountaineer Field a homecoming for JMU head coach

PHOTO VIA JMU ATHLETICS

James Madison head coach Curt Cignetti during a practice earlier this season. Saturday’s game against WVU will be Cignetti’s fi rst as JMU’s head coach.

PHOTO VIA WVU ATHLETICS

Curt Cignetti as a WVU quarterback at the old Mountaineer Field. Cignetti was a Mountaineer from 1979 until graduating in 1982.

BY SHYLA PARSONS SPORTS WRITER

The No. 23 West Virginia men’s soccer team hits the road to West Long Branch, New Jersey, for its season opener against Monmouth on Friday, followed by a match against Delaware on Monday.

The Mountaineers hold a 1-1-1 all-time series record against Monmouth. The Hawks were selected to finish eighth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) preseason poll.

Monmouth’s head coach Robert McCourt enters his 16th season with the Hawks, holding a 159-84-52 overall record. McCourt welcomes nine new players to the ros-

ter, with six being freshmen. The Hawks finished the

2018 season with a 2-14-1 (0-10 MAAC) record.

Delaware returns 14 play-ers, with five being starters from its 2018 season. The Blue Hens went 5-11-1 last season while advancing to the Colonial Athletic Asso-ciation (CAA) Tournament quarterfinals.

While finishing fourth last year in the CAA, Delaware was picked fifth in this year’s preseason poll.

West Virginia was voted to finish third in the MAC Pre-season Coaches’ Poll for their second consecutive year. Finishing with a perfect 5-0 mark in MAC play last sea-son, the team also advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The Mountaineers return nine players, along with 10 different goal scorers. Junior goalkeeper Steven Tekesky earned All-MAC First Team Honors in 2018 and returns with the Mountaineers this season.

West Virginia is led by 14th-year coach Marlon LeB-lanc who was picked as the 2018 MAC Coach of the Year.

The Mountaineers will be-gin it home opener against Wright State on Saturday, Sep. 7. Nine matches are scheduled at the Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium for the 2019 season.

The match on Friday against Monmouth is set to begin at 4 p.m. Ending the road trip, the Mountaineers are set to take on Delaware at 7 p.m. on Monday.

Men’s soccer team opens 2019 season on the road at Monmouth

PHOTO BY JARED SERRE

Midfi elder Luke McCormick drives with the ball during a preseason scrimmage.

“I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me, obviously a lot of great memories, but once we arrive at the stadium it’s all business whether it’s Morgantown or anywhere else. I’ve got a job to do, everybody’s got a job to do, and that will be the focus.”

-Curt Cignetti, James Madison Universiry Head Football Coach

PHOTO VIA WVU ATHLETICS

Frank Cignetti (back) coaching the Mountaineers during his tenure in the late 1970s.

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