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Long lines for top-tier tickets TEDTalk film

BY DEAN SEAL | news editor

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he doors to Squires Student Center opened yesterday to a slew of fans hoping to land the best possible seats to this year’s homecoming concert, featuring hip-hop artists J. Cole and Wale.

But with the disparity between the doors opening at 7 a.m. and the tickets going on sale at 11 a.m., a line formed that stretched around the outdoor patio area of Squires and all the way to the campus-side entrance of the building.

But for some, the wait for tickets stretched much longer than the line.

“I got here around 5 a.m.,” said Steven Brown, a junior sustainable biomaterials major, just before he got his tickets at 11:09 a.m. “But (some) people got here at 3 a.m.”

“There were people that were here last night at like

10 p.m. waiting outside until the doors opened,” said Seth Wymer, a junior political science major who arrived at Squires at 6:45 a.m. “ People camped out all night.”

Indeed, a bivouac of students eager to earn the best seats formed as early as 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday night according to Lauren Heming, a student worker at the Division of Student Affairs ticket office. Some even attempted to set up tents, though building maintenance asked them to take them down, as a permit is required for tents to be erected on campus, according to Virginia Tech policy.

The line grew through the night, and when doors opened, the crowd surged to the ticket office. see TICKETS / page two

panel expresses sustainable ideas JESSICA GROVES lifestyles staff writer

Sustainability Week focuses on the positive impact a local community can make, and this year, Blacksburg is taking notes from several sources, including some from overseas.

Pam Warhurst, English TED Talks speaker and founder of Incredible Edible, will give a presentation on sustainability that will be screened at the Lyric Theatre today at noon.

The video, “How We Can Eat Our Landscapes,” suggests a few ways to encourage curiosity about food, sustainable eating and reducing global impact.

After the talk, there will be a discussion panel with community members who

work to do the same thing.

The first is Ellen Stewart, who has been director of the Blacksburg Farmers Market since 2009.

“Our basic reason for being here (is to) bring local food to the people and to have face to face interaction between people producing the food and people consuming the food,” Stewart said.

In Stewart’s first year at her position, the Market Square Park on Draper Road was completed. Since then, the market has seen a rise in popularity.

“I’ve just seen a whole lot more awareness in the community of the importance of eating local and of all the reasons to support local farmers,” Stewart said. see TALK / page five

League of Women Voters Students take to the mic educates public on FOIA KATRINA SPINNERWILSON lifestyles staff writer Today, for the fi rst time at the local level, the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County will be sponsoring an event for the public on open government and the Freedom of Information Act. It is a topic that affects all citizens, but by being more informed, community members can make an even bigger difference in local government.

Carol Lindstrom, co-chair of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County open government study, proposed this topic to the league after a trip to a legislative session in Richmond, Va. when she saw a vast number of bills affecting FOIA. “To me, it’s always more important not to know if something happened, but why did it happen,” Lindstrom said. “Because if you figure out why, then you have potential for creating positive change.”

It is important, according to Lindstrom, for citizens to look out for bills as soon as they are given a number. Open government laws allow citizens to know which

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Open government allows citizens to meet and discuss issues. bills are being discussed.

“In my opinion, open government is core to everything the league does,” Lindstrom said. “If we do not have, maintain and expand openness in government, we have no way of knowing what’s going on.”

The league provides opportunities for citizen involvement to share ideas and be aware of government actions.

In particular, Lindstrom encourages youth involvement in the league, because she emphasizes the issues relate to all ages of society, especially students in

Blacksburg.

“The time that (students) are living here, they are local citizens,” Lindstrom said. “Not everybody appreciates that, but the fact is they are using services. They have invested interest in this community for however long they’re here.”

Judy Snoke, president of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, said she would like to see as many Tech students as possible getting involved with the league and attending meetings. see FOIA / page five

LIFESTYLES

The Espresso Oasis Library Cafe hosted the first “Open Mic Night” on Tuesday to an intimate crowd.

LAURA RATLIFF news staff writer

As students wrote essays and calculated math problems Tuesday night in Newman Library, another group of students stepped up to the microphone and poured out their souls.

The “Open Mic Night” was the first of its kind and was held in front of the new Espresso Oasis Library Cafe, and will continue on the third Tuesday of every month.

Performers made up most of the audience, and many were from the Virginia Tech Creative Writing Club. At

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intimate crowd.

“I’m really getting into creative non-fiction. I was editor-in-chief of Philologia, but haven’t had my own writing published yet.”

By the end of the performances, the tension dissipated as the audience got more comfortable, telling jokes and sharing stories that inspired the writings.

Organizers hope that the turnout continues to increase as word of the event is spreads through the community.

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first, only three volunteers took to the stage, but slowly more volunteered.

“You can really relax and you can really express yourself without worrying about people criticizing you,” said Josh Vaught, a club member.

The club has 12 members so far, but is continuing to grow.

The club has done readings at the She-Sha and at Bollo’s Downtown, but the club wants to continue doing readings in relaxed, laid-back environments.

Kate Robertson, a performer at the event and creative writing major, read a few pieces, opening up to the small and

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The crowd expanded inside until a cutoff point was enacted, as the fire code could no longer support the amount of students inside. Students were directed through the front entrance of Squires, where it began to elongate around the Squires patio.

Sales progressed through the day, with many students swapping out with friends and roommates to ensure their place in line as they waited for more than two hours to reach the ticket desk. “(I got here) a little bit before 11 a.m. — got out of class and came right over,” said Austin Anthony, a sophomore finance major. “(We) really wanted the tickets, and me and my roommates are switching off, so we’ve got a little system going on. I feel like if we all work together we can fully accomplish this

goal of getting these tickets.”

According to Heming, the crowd persisted through 2 p.m. when tickets began selling online.

“There were some people who were standing in line with their computers just in case they were able to buy them online before they were able to buy them in person,” she said.

While it lulled again at 3 p.m., more rushes continued up until 5 p.m. when the ticket office closed.

“We sold our last ticket in person right before we closed our office at 5, literally at like 4:55 p.m.,” she said.

By the end of office hours, Heming said the office had brought in roughly $56,950 from in-person sales, along with $24,266 of sales online.

Yet despite the urgency with which fans attempted to purchase their tickets, the office hadn’t sold out as of 5 p.m.

yesterday. Approximately 250 tickets remain unsold, though Heming says that number could change if those tickets are purchased online before the ticket office reopens today.

Heming said that the rush might be attributable to the Kevin Hart concert selling out in two and a half hours last year, so students may have been wary of tickets selling out quickly again. This year, however, students were only allowed to purchase a maximum of five tickets, compared to 10 last year.

“We let groups come up together, but each person can buy only five tickets,” she said. “I feel like if we had opened it up for people to buy more, it might have been sold out (earlier).”

Nonetheless, the tickets are distributed on a first-come fi rst-serve basis, so early birds were able to secure

the best seats for the show.

People buying tickets at the office were able to pick which seats they wanted, an option not available to online purchasers.

Heming expects a similar turnout for Friday’s ticket sales for the Aziz Ansari show, though she noted that front row seats have already been accounted for as part of the VTU Lively Arts package, sold each year independent of individual shows. But still, she suggests preparing to get there early to get the best spots.

“Its still worth (camping out) because I was looking at the seating today and they’re still a lot of really good seats available, so you might as well,” she said. “I don’t know if it will be as crazy, but it will definitely be a crazy day.”

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Technology and art collide for OperaCraft show MIKE DEMSKO news staff writer

The worlds of online gaming and opera could not be further apart. Or so was a common notion until OPERAcraft started production here at Virginia Tech last spring.

OPERAcraft brings the popular, online universe of Minecraft together with the classical theater art of opera.

The sets and characters of each scene will be created and displayed using the gaming platform, and will be projected onto the stage during the play.

The virtual actors and environments are the current focus of eight local high school students selected by Tech’s Music and Theater departments.

Amy Luce, a graduate student and assistant professor in the Theater and Cinema program, is the acting project manager for OPERAcraft, and explained the students' involvement.

“They picked the songs, wrote the scenes and built the sets around them, so it has been a very building-block like process,” said Luce.

OPERAcraft is accompanied by a variety of works by Mozart as played and vocalized by students in Tech’s music program. Each piece was individually selected by the high school students to fit the mood and setting of each scene.

“There’s a huge body of work to choose from, and it tends to be performable by young students,” said Ariana Wyatt, an assistant professor in the music department who first conceived the idea for OPERAcraft.

Since Mozart’s work isn’t protected by copyright, the

program can manipulate the music to fit the needs of the production.

“I wanted to have an opportunity for students to create the set virtually,” Wyatt said.

The eight veteran Minecraft players have been the focus of an effort to culture youth in art and theater, in this case, specifically opera.

“They’re walking away with a completely different understanding of music, art and how people can work together and collaborate,” Wyatt said.

“We’re not just exposing them as viewers, but rather they’re actually involved in the creative process, which is almost unheard of, especially in opera.”

Mentors from the English and Cinema department have helped the students with plot development and set-design, and the result has been an exemplary experiment in cross-discipline collaboration.

“With a project like this, you need expertise from many areas, which is why we have professors from English and Writing, and input from our technologically-versed colleagues,” Wyatt said. “No one of us would have been able to do this on our own”.

The project was made possible by a seed grant from ICAT, The Institute for Creativity Arts and Technology. ICAT works to join the artistic and technological fields, and promote K-12 education.

The performance dates for OPERAcraft are set for Dec. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. Ticket information should be available by early November.

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t’s no mystery that college life comes with a complete lifestyle change. These vary from the stressful transition period to the difficulty of figuring out classes to the addition of responsibilities as you try to be a functioning member of society.

Students suffering from psychiatric disorders such as depression or anxiety face even greater stressors from the everyday collegiate lifestyle. While these are difficult obstacles to overcome, the level of stress is even greater for those already struggling.

Many students do not know about possible treatments involving pets as a therapeutic stress relief for emotional disabilities.

Individuals with emotional disabilities now have this avenue for emotional support, which is protected by two federal laws. Accordingly, individuals suffering from diagnosed mental disabilities can register a pet as an “Emotional Support Animal”

or ESA, and permissibly have those animals in dormitories or apartments.

The registration process and requirements are fairly simple. The owner of the pet must be diagnosed with an emotional disability by a mental health professional and the pet must not be a disturbance or danger to others.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent out a notice in April reinforcing the requirement for all public universities to comply with the inclusion of emotional support animals in the Fair Housing Act. This means that you could see a dog walking around Pritchard or pets in apartment complexes that have pet restrictions in the lease, such as Hunters Ridge or Collegiate Suites.

Accepting these policies regarding emotional support animals represents a conscious effort to raise awareness toward mental disabil-

ities and to introduce new ways of helping those already suffering. These types of policies must be praised for at least addressing an issue that was previously ignored and underemphasized.

The usual pathway of treatment you expect from those suffering from depression or anxiety tends to involve medication or therapy.

It’s refreshing to see that our society has deemed mental health an important enough to issue to have established a treatment method based around the age old saying “dog is a man’s best friend.”

Tech already features dogs in the library during exam week to relieve the stress from midterms and finals, so the idea of emotional support animals can even extend to an everyday life.

The most obvious problem that could arise from the accepting emotional support animals would be people falsely claiming mental ill-

ness so they could have a pet.

However, the fact that it must be documented by a mental health professional seems like enough of a deterrent; anyone who would feign depression or anxiety just to have a dog needs to have a moral compass realignment.

Mental health remains a critical issue in our society.

Emotional support animals represent a shift toward proactive policies to help treat emotional disabilities.

It’s not as though emotional support animals are the cure for mental health, but they are nevertheless a step in the right direction. I would hope that our school, which prides itself on “inventing the future,” would adopt this progressive policy of helping those suffering with mental illness.

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JK Rowling goes overboard with new writing endeavor JK Rowling is known for creating one of the largest fictional universes in all of literature, and it is about to get even bigger. Rowling just signed on to write a screenplay for Warner Bros. surrounding the author of “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them,” a textbook frequently mentioned in the original Harry Potter series and one that was turned into an actual book, along with “Quidditch Through The Ages” in 2001 for a British charity.

Newt Scamander, the fictional author of the book and protagonist for the movie, is already near and dear to Rowling’s heart; the idea of fleshing out his character even more is what attracted her to the project.

Set in New York in the 20s, the movie will show not only a wizarding community outside of Europe, but will also take a look into the past and history of the world of Harry Potter that had previously

only existed in the minds of readers.

But is that where they should stay?

The most wonderful thing about the Harry Potter universe is that even with its expansive nature, there is always room for the reader to imagine new settings and characters.

Is introducing a new movie, along with all new characters and information, actually taking something away from the readers instead of giving them more?

On one hand, not only will this movie give readers new canon information, storylines and characters to fall in love with — but it will also hopefully inspire a whole new generation of readers to pick up the series.

It’s not like the series is struggling to stay relevant, however.

Harry Potter is a fi xture in today’s society, and is one of the most detailed and loved books available.

Furthermore, this movie

feels a bit like beating a dead horse — or unicorn, for that matter. Harry Potter is over.

Is it not time for another kind of series, one without witchcraft and wizardry, to come into the limelight?

It is unlikely that another series will achieve the same level of fame as Harry Potter in the foreseeable future, but isn’t it time to let another series try?

I’m just as excited as the next person to brush off my robes, scarf, hat and wand, but there are so many other good books out that that deserve their time in the sun.

Harry Potter is held so close to so many people’s hearts and has changed so many people’s lives that adding more could only be detrimental. Maybe we should just let things stay at “All was well.

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Research and make important financial, physical and spiritual changes. Love is the common thread.

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Sustainable trends challenge fashion industry PRIYA SINGH lifestyles staff writer

In the last few years, sustainability has been a pressing issue for many industries in determining how to incorporate it as a part of their production plan.

Many fashion manufacturers in particular have been scratching their heads, speculating on the best methods to use to go green without reducing the amount of production.

In the globalized economy, fast fashion retailers, such as H&M and Forever 21, are playing with various methods to show consumers that sustainability will become integral to the future of fashion.

Carefully selecting the sources and materials that these retail giants use is only a miniscule factor in efficient production. Realistically, it is difficult to produce clothing out of recyclable textiles because only a few companies are collecting them.

Additionally, the process of converting fibers into textiles is heavily chemically induced with pesticides and insecticides. Additionally, the process uses tons of water to grow fibers to make the mass production of apparel possible.

Also, with the global push for sustainability, the fashion industry has to balance their objective of being concurrent with trends, while meeting sales goals and maintaining resources.

H&M created a program using the “old is new” concept to encourage consumers to recycle their clothing in order to reduce the amount of natural resources used in creating new apparel every season.

According to the Guardian, customers are encouraged to bring in their used or never worn clothing and are offered an incentive of 15 percent off of every $30 purchase.

Although this program only started in participating European stores, project

manager Cecilia Brannsten is pushing to make it a globalized effort throughout all chains. She also acknowledged that there are still several flaws in her plan because the uptake of recycled textiles is rare.

Besides reusing resources and converting textiles back into fibers, the fashion industry has seen cellulosic cotton (non-chemically processed cotton) and other natural fibers prove themselves as the way to go.

But, without the prevention of pesticides and insecticides to protect crops, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain mass production of apparel for huge corporations such as H&M. In the past, consumers have been hesitantly cooperative with the initiative, seeing how designers have failed at making sustainable fashion desirable to wear.

Luckily, sustainability has not been problematic for every designer.

Stella McCartney is well known for her success in the fashion industry and her involvement in environmentalism. The company’s mission statement clearly shows the effort in sponsoring affluent environmental organizations, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Her website states that the company does not use any leather or fur in production of their garments or accessories. The mission statement also provides the percentages of organic cotton used in production of each clothing line in combination with recycling efforts.

However, on a larger scale, huge retailers still would have to rethink their production methods to include sustainability. As for now, each season has increasingly shown designers incorporating reusable resources in their lines, or upcoming designers with an entire green initiative.

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Sustainability has considerable influence in the value of a company’s mission and as it is seemingly challenging.

The fashion industry is slowly but surely reaching a greener future.

Local Blacksburg retailer Clothes Rack offers a range of apparel including eco-friendly clothing that is reminiscent of vintage attire. If you are unsure of how to effortlessly incorporate sustainable fashion in your wardrobe, without the fear of looking too grunge, visit Stella McCartney’s website at http://www.stellamccartney.com/us.

Talk: Blacksburg residents consider food from page one

“It’s good for the economic health of a community and good for the environment.”

During last year’s Sustainability Week, members of Tech’s student body called for change when hundreds of discarded Styrofoam to-go containers drew public attention.

Although environmentally unfriendly, to-go boxes are the standard in most dining halls.

Change is coming, however.

Th is year, Dining Services announced that reusable to-go containers are coming to the West End Market.

Stewart said she believes Tech’s effort to reduce its global impact partially rests in its

status as a land grant university, as well as its diverse student body.

“I think Blacksburg is a really aware community,” Stewart said. “It’s very active and people tend to just get involved in these sorts of issues.”

One of those active people is Carol Davis, sustainability manager for the town of Blacksburg. According to Davis, sustainability comes from the town’s individuals, and this week’s TED Talk hopes to create an ideal meeting place for citizens to discuss ideas.

“I think we’re approaching it with the same spirit of any TED Talk, which is ‘there’s an idea.’” Davis said. “It might be controversial, it might be intriguing, but we’re posing it

as a dialogue and seeing what ideas emerge.”

Even when Sustainability Week ends, those citizens will still be able to put their ideas on a platform for town discussion. Blacksburg recently launched Speak Up Blacksburg, an online public forum for new ideas around town. Once a proposal reaches a certain threshold of public interest, town council begins to investigate.

Speak Up Blacksburg has already given voice to several discussions, including future events on the College Avenue Promenade and programs within Blacksburg Parks and Recreation.

One citizen of Blacksburg found a way to help the town’s sustainability efforts continue

even after she passed away. A partner of Susan Garrison, Davis’ predecessor, set up an annual endowment fund that will help finance projects in Garrison’s memory.

Although Stewart and Davis have yet to hear Warhurst, they still have reason to be excited.

“I’m really interested in anything that helps the community to think outside of the box,” Stewart said. “There’s always something new, creative and innovative we can be doing to make our community more caring and more aware of food issues. I think that’s something this kind of TED Talk really sparks.”

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Lindstrom recognizes the overall high importance of youth involvement, because if the youth do not get involved or bring their concerns up to the public spectrum, they will be forced to succumb to what laws there are, whether they like it or not.

“The biggest control we have over our daily lives is through local government,” Lindstrom said. “Yes, the others are important. But our local government is equally as important.”

One way the league will be gathering ideas about citizens’ needs and interests, is allow-

ing question and answer sessions following each speaker at the forum.

The fi rst speaker, Megan Rhyne, executive director of Virginia Coalition for Open Government, will discuss FOIA in regard to both citizen and government participation to collaboratively provide access to public records.

“We serve as an educational resource for citizens, media and government to let people know what their rights are for FOIA as well as rights to access judicial records and other records of governmental proceedings,” Rhyne said.

Rhyne hopes that with her talk, citizens will gain a better understanding of why access-

ing governmental records and meetings serves a purpose, irrespective of political ideology.

The second half of speakers presenting will be Ruth Richey, information officer of Montgomery County, Beck Wilburn, deputy town manager for the town of Blacksburg and Steve Ross, deputy town manager for Blacksburg.

Richey will discuss how the public information department notifies local residents of upcoming events in the area through several media outlets.

“County government touches resident lives in so many ways, from public education to public safety, parks and recreation to public utilities,”

Richey said. “I hope that residents will gain a better understanding of how they can stay informed about how their tax dollars are spent and how they can be more involved in local government.”

Lindstrom said she believes that citizen questions will play a large role in what positions the league chooses to focus on as well as the next step in advocating for or against a position.

“We want citizens to understand what we currently have an open government and FOIA in our own area,” Lindstrom said.

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Football notebook: Injuries, redshirts hurt progress ALEX KOMA sports editor

Virginia Tech’s football team may be preparing for its fourth game of the season, but there’s still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the program.

Whether it has been injuries or surprise redshirts, this past week of practice has raised more questions than it’s answered about the future of the team.

The upcoming matchup with Marshall doesn’t exactly present a challenge, so the team has some time to resolve some of these issues; however the Hokies are still on slightly rocky footing moving forward.

Marshall to Redshirt Corey Marshall’s future with the Hokies seemed in doubt as recently as a month ago.

Marshall, a junior, fought through a disappointing season last year while playing out of position at defensive tackle, and many assumed the leave marked the beginning of the end for him in Blacksburg.

In the middle of August, Marshall had a private meeting with Frank Beamer to discuss if he’d remain with the team, and ultimately took a threeweek leave from the program.

But he rejoined the team on Sept. 11, and this week coaches announced he’d redshirt to preserve two more years of eligibility with the team.

“It was just a combination of things,” said defensive line coach Charley Wiles. “He was gone awhile and just reps and what was best for him, what was best for our football team, that was kind of what all went into it.”

Marshall played as a freshman, giving him the option to redshirt this year, and coaches hope he’ll be able to provide depth on the line after players like Derrick Hopkins, James

Gayle, J.R. Collins and Tyrel Wilson graduate.

“He missed a lot of work, but if we can not get anybody hurt, we’ll see how it goes,” Wiles said. “We’re losing (Hopkins), four guys, three ends and a defensive tackle, so it’d be nice to have him for two more years.”

While preserving future depth is important, the team would’ve never held Marshall out had other backups like Nigel Williams and Woody Baron not performed well in limited action this season. “(If Williams and Baron hadn’t played as well) we’d have played him,” Wiles said.

“We’re in the business of trying to win games.”

The team will also move him back to his preferred position of defensive end in an effort to make him as comfortable and effective as possible.

“I think with Marshall, get him back out to defensive end, which is a position he likes to play,” Beamer said. “He’s a guy who’s got a lot of talent. I think he’s got a future after Virginia Tech myself. So get him two years there playing the defensive end position.”

Coleman Still Uncertain Runningback J.C. Coleman’s ankles have been a frequent area of speculation so far this season.

Coleman expressed confidence that he’d play in the season opener after spraining both ankles in fall camp, but wasn’t even able to travel to Atlanta.

He made his first appearance against Western Carolina, but a player fell on one of his injured ankles, preventing him from travelling to Greenville to face ECU. Now, though he feels ready to go, he’s still being very cautious to avoid another setback.

“It’ll probably be a game time

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type decision,” Coleman said.

“I don’t want to have another thing like we had against Western Carolina, trying to get out there a little too early and be set back a couple more weeks or anything like that, so I’m definitely being smart about it this time.”

Despite his caution, the running back still feels optimistic that his return is imminent.

“Today’s probably the best I’ve felt since going into the Western Carolina game — the same way I felt going into that game,” Coleman said.

But the tough part about ankle injuries is that they’re easy to re-aggravate. Had a WCU player not fell on him in the home opener, he wouldn’t be in this situation now.

“If I had planted or something and it gave out, that’s too soon (to come back), but somebody fell on it, and that’s something you can’t help,” Coleman said.

With a short week of practice before the team’s conference opener against Georgia Tech next Thursday, Coleman will undoubtedly err on the

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side of cautionary when deciding whether or not he’ll play against the Thundering Herd.

“I’m still taking it day by day, just seeing how I feel,” Coleman said. “I know I’m not where I want to be yet.”

Vandyke Out The Hokies got some more bad injury news this week, this time regarding redshirt freshman linebacker Devin Vandyke.

Vandyke saw time on the field for the first time in his career in the home opener against Western Carolina, but suffered a torn ACL that will put him out for the year in a bad stroke of luck.

“He is currently being evaluated, and when the swelling in his knee goes down and he regains range of motion, he will have surgery locally,” said head athletic trainer Mike Goforth in a statement. “The timetable on a return is 6-8 months so he will be out for the spring, but should be fuller for the first summer session.”

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suffered a season-ending injury in August, so it’s been a rough offseason for the Vandyke brothers.

Overall, it was a tough week of practice for Tech, but a big win against Marshall this weekend should help these injuries and redshirts sting a little less.

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Vincent shoulders men’s golf to second place finish ALI BOWKER sports staff writer

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In the third round of the Golfweek Conference Challenge, the Virginia Tech golf team made 11 birdies and an eagle in the fi nal six holes to earn them second place in Iowa.

Junior Scott Vincent led the action, fi nishing eight-under for the day and earning comedalist honors.

“Each of the players has an obligation to their team,” head coach Jay Hardwick said. “Your teammates see how well you’re doing and they feed off of it. Scott started doing well and everyone saw it.”

Over the fi nal six holes of the round, something clicked in Vincent. He fi nished with an eagle and five birdies.

“Well, it’s not one of those things that you can stick a fi nger on,” Vincent said.

“I think it was a combination of hard work. You hope they happen — sometimes they go well, sometimes they don’t. Th ings started going my way and I fi nished with a good score.”

The Hokies fi nished the fi nal round with a 10-under par 278, giving them a total

tournament score of 861: three-under par. Over the fi rst two rounds, however, things weren’t going as well for the Hokies.

In fourth place after the fi rst two days, they trailed the leader, Oklahoma, by 18.

“We spent a lot of our time after playing at the range,” Hardwick said. “We worked on our game and it got better and better each round.

Eventually it started to click.

For this game you have to realize that you get out of it what you put into it. It may not happen right away, but it will click eventually.”

That extra time spent at the range paid off for the Hokies, as they were able to sneak past LSU, New Mexico and Houston in the fi nal day of play.

“We are a last round team,” Hardwick said. “We were the same way last year and it worked for us.”

Though the team is young with only one senior, two juniors, a sophomore and a freshman, the four returning starters have all played in NCAA regionals.

“The guys knew what to expect,” Hardwick said.

“There were some nerves but we are a seasoned group.

They stepped up to the pres-

sure of the last day. It was big for Scotty and gave him and the rest of the team confidence. They know how to handle the pressure if they get in position to win late in the game.”

Vincent agreed with his coach, as he described the late car ride home Tuesday night. “(The win) defi nitely boosted everyone,” Vincent said.

“The van ride back everyone was smiling and chatty. It made us realize that we are good and we can do great things this year. We have our expectations up there and we’re trying to accomplish as many of those as we can.”

For now though, the team will have to focus on the task ahead: the VCU Shootout.

Last year the Hokies won the championship and they are looking forward to playing a familiar course with familiar faces.

“We’ve had success at this course in the past. We like this course, it’s familiar,” Hardwick said. “It will also be nice to have some Hokie fans. Th is past weekend was the fi rst weekend in a while that we didn’t have at least one set of parents. So it will be nice to have a fan base.”

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