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Bugfest brings together insect friends, phobes
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MAURA MAZUROWSKI news staff writer
The Inn at Virginia Tech will be full of creepy-crawlies this weekend. Luckily, they won’t be calling the exterminators. Oct. 19 marks the third annual Hokie Bugfest, featuring attractions such as bird eating tarantulas, silkworm farms and cockroach races from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hosted by the Virginia Tech Department of Entomology, Bugfest is a student-run event with the goal of attracting young scholars to careers in the study of bugs.
“This event gives adults and children an opportunity to learn about arthropods and the science behind them,” said Mike Weaver, director of Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs and founder of Bugfest. Originated in 2011, Bugfest was held not only to promote the excitement of entomology, but to honor professor William Bradford Alwood, Virginia Tech’s fi rst entomologist who went on to establish the discipline at the university. see BUG / page two
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Libertarian candidate challenges convention BY ALEX KOMA | sports editor
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t’s easy to categorize the two major party candidates in Virginia’s race for governor. Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a reputation as an experienced businessman, while Republican and state Attorney General Ken Cucinelli is known as an experienced lawyer. But Libertarian Robert Sarvis is an entirely different story. The 36-year-old Fairfax County native has worked as a soft ware engineer, teacher, lawyer and mobile app designer — all before attempting a run for state senate two years ago. While it’s safe to call the other two candidates career politicians, Sarvis has clearly positioned himself as an outsider that can provide an alternative for undecided voters. “There’s a lot of conventional wisdom in politics and some of it’s probably correct, and some of it is worth questioning,” Sarvis said. “One of those is the conventional wisdom that you can’t speak to voters like they’re intelligent adults. I’ve always thought it was strange that no one was really trying to do that and this is an opportunity to see what happens when you do.” When Sarvis fi rst ran for office against Democrat Dick Saslaw in 2011, he ran as a Republican. But his experiences with politics and business quickly pushed him toward libertarianism, and he found that this election was the ideal path to express these
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views. “When we saw the way that the candidates were shaping up, that it was going to be Cucinelli and McAuliffe, it just became clear that there was nobody who was going to be talking about actual freedom and the rule of
law,” Sarvis said. “It just became really clear that there was value, regardless of the outcome, in having someone who could articulate a lot of these issues that really matter.” see SARVIS / page two
Roaster adds inventive take on coffee Color Me Rad takes another run through town SARA LEPLEY
lifestyles staff writer
One day in the grassy mountains of Bali, a sip of coffee changed a man’s life. Before working as the specialty coffee roaster at Deet’s Place, Michael Goetz had worked in the Middle East as a chef. He already liked coffee before his travels, but he usually kept to the standard tin can coffee. However, while traveling, he decided to try the coffee at his hotel, and it was like nothing he had ever had before. Immediately, Goetz asked a hotel worker if he could have some coffee to take home. The worker handed him a fistful of green coffee beans. “I didn’t know anything about it, and I said, ‘What are you supposed to do with this?’ and he says ‘Well, you’re a cook, you’ll figure it out,’” Goetz said. With no intention of going back to commodity-grade coffee, Goetz conducted internet research to find out how to roast the green coffee beans given to him in Indonesia. Once he developed a roasting process, he began to order green coffee beans online. Flash forward to 2010, when Goetz began working
NEWS You know we’ve always got you covered on crime. see page 2 Read more about how Robert Sarvis’ economic message applies to college students. see page 2
EMILY HUGHES news staff writer
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Michael Goetz stands in Deets Place, where he has experimented with coffee for many years. at Virginia Tech as a chef in West End. While there, he overheard that Deet’s Place, the dining hall coffee shop on campus, needed a coffee roaster. Goetz wasted no time turning his favorite hobby into his new career. “Mike has been a wonderful asset in this field,” said Leann Cook, the operations manager at Deet’s Place. “His
passion really shines through with the product.” Coffee roasting requires intense focus, and Goetz must monitor the product every 15 seconds as it roasts, looking for cracks and other tiny details. His passion for quality coffee motivates him to pay attention. “Good coffee, it has real body, it has body and a lot of depth and character and dif-
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ferent notes that you can pick out,” Goetz said. Most coffee fanatics are familiar with how the nuances of coffee tasting overlap with wine tasting. For example, wines feature hints of oak, pear and other flavors much like coffee naturally sports hints of chocolate, caramel or fruit. see BEAN / page two
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Clouds of colored cornstarch will permeate the air on Oct. 20 as legions of runners participate in the second Color Me Rad 5K to overtake Blacksburg. Inspired by the Hindu Holi festival of colors, this 3.1-mile race has a twist— participants will be showered with blasts of color throughout the race. “A lot of people think that running is boring,” said Gretchen Willard, director of public relations for Color Me Rad. “We find when we add in the color and music and get people out together, they have a great time.” Color Me Rad is collaborating with Special Olympics Virginia to put on the race, which will begin at 10 a.m., releasing heats of runners every 10 minutes over the subsequent hour. “It’s been a very good partnership for us,” said Roy
Zeidman, senior vice president of marketing and development for Special Olympics Virginia. According to Zeidman, a small percentage of the race fee goes toward Special Olympics Virginia. Runners can register online at colormerad. com individually or with a group. The $45 registration fee includes a Color Me Rad shirt, a color bomb and other items. “The whole purpose of Color Me Rad is that we want it to bring fitness—fun into fitness,” Willard said, describing the race as “a chance to let loose” and “get outside of the things that you do on a day-today basis.” While the Special Olympics predominantly derives their funds from volunteers within the program, money raised during Color Me Rad goes towards training their athletes and entering them into competitions.
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