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West Virginia announces home-and-home with Alabama BY JOHN LOWE AND JARED SERRE SPORTS EDITOR AND ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL On Friday, West Virginia University athletic director Shane Lyons announced that the Mountaineers had agreed to a home-and-home football series with the University of Alabama. “With its great tradition and history, it will be exciting to host the Crimson Tide in Morgantown, and it will provide our fans with a great trip to visit Tuscaloosa the following season,” Lyons
said. “Our non-conference football scheduling and the quality of opponents we are playing continue to be second to none.” The series will start on Sept. 5, 2026, when the Mountaineers will host the Crimson Tide for the first time in program history. The game will mark the fifth SEC team that has come to Milan Puskar Stadium, joining Mississippi State (2007), Auburn (2008), LSU (2011) and Missouri (2016). The Mountaineers went 3-1 in those games. The back half of the two-game series will take place on Sept. 4, 2027, when WVU heads to Tuscaloosa. It will be the Mountain-
eers’ first trip to Bryant-Denny Stadium, but not their first visit to the state of Alabama. WVU beat Kentucky 20-16 in frigid conditions at the 1983 Hall of Fame Bowl in Birmingham and lost a rainy game at Auburn, 41-30, in the 2009 season. The Mountaineers and Crimson Tide have clashed once previously as Alabama emerged victorious, 33-23, in the 2014 Chick-fil-A Kickoff in Atlanta. The game is remembered as one of the most positive losses in WVU history, as the Mountaineers had just come off a 4-8 record the previous season and the Crimson Tide was ranked second in the country.
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New exemptions added to WV campus carry bill BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR There are new exemptions to the campus carry bill, which now bans weapons from most parts of a residence hall, areas where patient-care is taking place and in sci-
ence laboratories. The new exemptions are marked with an asterisk. Updated list of campus carry exceptions: • Stadium or arena with a capacity of more than 1,000 spectators • A daycare facility located on campus • The secure area of a building used by a law-enforcement agency
on campus • In an area on campus that has “adequate security measures” in place (these areas will be determined by the WVU Board of Governors at a future date; these areas must also be equipped with metal detectors or other security) • At the location where a formal disciplinary or grievance hearing
for a student or employee is taking place • In a sole occupancy, or single-person office • Where a primary or secondary education school-sponsored event is taking place on campus • In an area where possession of a firearm is banned by state or federal law
• *In designated areas where patient-care or mental health counseling is being provided • *In high hazardous and animal laboratories • *In on-campus residence halls, except common areas such as lounges, dining areas and study areas
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LGBTQ+ Center relocates to College Avenue BY ALAYNA FULLER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR The LGBTQ+ Center has relocated from Hodges Hall to Maple House, which is located on College Avenue, due to maintenance and size problems. “We got a space that’s actually nice to be in, and it’s a little less accessible, but it’s a much nicer, bigger space overall that can be used better by the community than the space in Hodges that we had,” said Erica Kushner, an English student from outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The LGBTQ+ Center, across from Ming Hsieh Hall, held an
open house on Friday at the new location. “This is my first time being here, but I’d imagine like most other places like this, it’s a nice place for people to feel like they belong and [that] they have a voice in an area that isn’t typically supportive of orientations and identities like this,” said Kathleen Korstanje, a sculpture student from Huntington, West Virginia. The LGBTQ+ Center was created to provide inclusive programming and outreach initiatives for WVU students, faculty, staff and community members. “We ran a rally for a transgender student in a couple counties over who was facing
“We’re just a safe space for all. We don’t discriminate.”
-Michelle Le, Women and Gender Studies student “We’re just a safe space for all,” Le said. “We don’t discriminate.” “It’s a safe place for queer members of the WVU community to come together and have a safe space to talk and to meet people in the community and to just connect with the community here at WVU,” said Ethan Cade, an international studies and geography student from Huntington, West Virginia.
Bill advances to House floor “The Campus Self Defense Act” passed the House Finance Committee last Thursday and is now headed to the House floor for a full vote. A fiscal note, or cost estimate, was added to the bill last week that projected if the campus carry bill were go into law, it would cost around $11.6 million to implement, with $10.3 million being needed within the first year. Lawmakers debated the cost, asking whether sending the bill to the finance committee was even necessary. House Judiciary Chairman John Shott, R-Mercer, who was the only Republi-
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More than 100 faculty, students and community members attended a rally in Woodburn Circle organized in opposition to the current campus carry bill in the state Legislature. can in the judiciary committee to vote against the campus carry bill, said it would be a “terrible idea to ignore this type of fiscal note,” WV MetroNews reported. However, when the bill was eventually sent through the finance committee on Thursday, it was successfully advanced later in the afternoon. Faculty walkout More than 100 members of the WVU and Morgantown community gathered in Woodburn Circle on Thursday to protest against a campus carry bill gaining ground in the state Legislature. “I do not believe that guns have a place on an institutional ground that is meant for learning,” said protester Olivia Young, a junior physics and astronomy student from Short Gap, West Vir-
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discrimination in his school, so we do things like that — organizing rallies for people within the community or even a little bit outside the community as long as they’re within West Virginia,” Kushner said. Michelle Le, a women and gender studies student from Springfield, Virginia, said that the LGBTQ+ Center has created a community by supporting a variety of different people.
campus carry cont. from p. 1 However, the bill states that employees whose responsibilities require them to be in an on-campus residence hall (RAs, janitors, dining hall staff, etc.) are permitted to carry a firearm in a dorm. The bill requires that at least one dorm on campus provide a secure location for the storage of a weapon, or an institution can install safes in a resident’s room. But the bill specifically names WVU, and it requires that if the University chooses to use a secure location instead of safes, it must make two dorms available. WVU Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Rob Alsop has said that WVU will use the two residence halls option. The bill also allows colleges to “charge a reasonable fee for the use of secure storage or a safe.”
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ginia. “I do proctor exams for large classes sometimes, and we have had people get very upset in the past, and if you put a gun into that situation, it becomes much worse.” Alsop has previously said that he thinks the legislation will pass. Young said she is also concerned that, if police are responding to an active shooter situation, they might take down someone who conceal carries instead of the shooter. Nicolas Zegre, a WVU associate professor of forest hydrology who was once an enlisted member of the U.S. Army, spoke out against the bill during the gathering. “I think it’s absolutely absurd to think about introducing legal right to carry firearms in a location of public discourse,” Zegre said. “Campuses should be safe places for us to discuss contentious
and complicated aspects of our society, and by introducing weapons on campus legally, it makes a higher likelihood of violence to occur.” Some present at Woodburn Circle talked about further protests, including at the state Capitol. While the crowd overwhelmingly came out in protest of the bill, there were a handful present who supported campus carry. “There are many people in West Virginia that carry, all over the country, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem with people just going crazy with legal guns and legal carry,” said Jackson Wolfe, who carried a sign that said, “MY BODY MY SAFETY MY CHOICE!”
In 2016, a campus carry bill was passed in Texas that required all state colleges in Texas to allow concealed carry of firearms on campus. A similar bill is likely to pass in West Virginia, which would allow concealed carry by students on WVU’s campus. Now that campus carry has been in effect for more than a year, University of Texas English professor Coleman Hutchison described what the changes have been like at the school. “The truth is, I don’t think there have been a ton of changes on campus since the policy actually went into effect. The biggest changes happened in the deliberative process,” Hutchison said. “It’s an incredibly complicated process for a community. That’s the most unfortunate thing about the legislation and the implementation of the policies, is that it led to a lot of bad feelings, anger and protests.” Protests for this bill have already started at WVU. On Thursday, students and faculty members stood outside of Woodburn to take to stand against campus carry. Hutchison said that at Texas you could ban concealed firearms from certain buildings. WVU and the state legislature are currently deciding what buildings on campus will receive this status. “In order to do that, we had
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Prof. Coleman Hutchison to put up signage that is massive. It was mandated in the law that if you’re going to exclude guns you could do so, but you had to have clear signage,” Hutchison said. He said the implementation of the bill on campus had ramifications when it came to faculty and attendance on campus. “Faculty members have quit over this, and students have not come to the University as a result,” Hutchison said. Since the bill was passed in 2016, there have not been any incidents on campus and Hutchison stated that on a “day to day basis, I don’t feel any safer or less safe.” “It was such an unpleasant and destructive process to get the law implemented that I can’t see anything positive that would overwhelm or make up for the fact that this was a very terrible chapter at our University,” Hutchison said.
WVU’s new majors and certificates STAFF REPORTS Earlier this month at a WVU Board of Governors meeting, multiple new majors and training certificates were approved. New majors: • Linguistics • Spanish • Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) New Graduate Certificates: • Business Data Analytics • Business Data Science • Business Data Technology Management •Business Operations Research
Terminated Graduate Certificates: • Information Assurance and Biometrics Transitioning Programs: The Athletic Training program will leave the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences and will now reside in the Department of Human Performance in the WVU School of Medicine Potomac State College will also receive a new degree in Health Sciences. WV News reported Sunday that there will be a new undergraduate program in neuroscience, which is essentially a combination of biology and psychology. The major is expected to launch in 2019.
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Pirouettes and passion: WVU dance team keeps students moving BY OLIVIA GIANETTINO STAFF WRITER The WVU dance team is giving students the opportunity to continue their passion for dance, even after high school. Taylor Frame, a freshman member of the dance team, said it has benefited her by giving her “a way to still dance and compete in college.” But that is not the only perk. “It has ultimately brought me some of my best friends now,” Frame said. “We have a very strong team bond.” The team plays a big role in boosting school spirit at sporting events. Along with raising spirits and entertaining WVU fans, the team practices all year for the National Collegiate Dance Competition in April, Frame said. Things get interesting when it comes time to decide who gets to compete, Frame said. “All dancers tend to get slightly competitive, so it gets a little competitive when it comes to national spots,”
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Taylor Frame performing with the WVU dance team at a home football game this fall. Frame said. “But ultimately, we are all incredibly supportive of one another no matter what happens.” To attend the national competition, the dancers have to work hard to fundraise. The team consistently puts on events throughout
the year to be able to meet the expenses. “We have had events like drag queen bingo, clinics for kids and high school students and raffles,” Frame said. “We put on a lot of fundraisers.” Joining the dance team is competitive in itself.
In order to join, students must prove their talent in an audition. The team even holds clinics for those interested in auditioning. “If you aren’t a member, you can help out by coming to our fundraisers or simply donating,” Frame said.
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Taking a plunge for a good cause BY HANNAH MORGAN CORRESPONDENT More than 100 thrill seekers took a leap into the icy Cheat Lake for the annual Polar Plunge Saturday for a good cause. The event is held every year as a fundraiser for the Special Olympics of West Virginia. Cheat Lake was just one of the three locations the Polar Plunge was held around the state. To participate, each team or individual had to raise a minimum of $50. Together, the community raised more than $30,000. Around noon, the air was chilly and water cold. Still yet, 124 plungers were lined up in front of the lake, waiting for their turn to jump into Cheat Lake. Most of the participants were dressed in costumes ranging from ducks to crabs, in hopes of winning a prize. Meanwhile, other divers decided to go shirtless, despite it being winter. While prizes were given to participants who raised the most money and dressed in the best costume, some teams took it upon themselves to create their own challenges.
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Some plungers dressed as chickens for the costume contest at the Polar Plunge.
The Crab Shack in Cheat Lake played host to the Polar Plunge.
For Kara Piechowski, an employee of the WVU Medicine Department of Pharmacy, the Polar Plunge is a good way to have a little fun with coworkers. “We kind of do a different spin on it,” Piechowski said.
total of $810. Unfortunately for the victim, the cold water was waiting. Piechowski has participated in the Polar Plunge for four years and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. But sometimes, taking
“We try to choose a victim. So we say if we raise $500, they have to jump and do the plunge. If we don’t raise that much, then she gets to stay safe.” Luckily for the Special Olympics, the team raised a
the plunge into the water in the middle of winter is more personal than dressing up in elaborate costumes, having competitions or diving into freezing water. “My parents were special education teachers,” Piech-
owski said. “So my whole life I’ve volunteered for the Special Olympics. It’s an organization that’s always been close to my heart. I just heard about it a couple years ago, so we had to try it.”
WVU students get the opportunity to try log rolling BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR Log-rolling may seem like a sport reserved for mountain men, yet on Saturday, WVU students had the opportunity to give it a try. The WVU student rec center offered drop-in log-rolling hours as part of a series that is trying to encourage more people to visit the pool. Students who wanted to try it simply climbed on the fake log, stood up and attempted to stay standing for as long as they could. The event was not only fun for participants but intriguing for spectators, as well. Kaitlyn Searls, the aquatics graduate assistant for the WVU Student Rec Center, said previously the aquatics center had only used the log for birthday parties. “I think it’s so important to know what resources are available to you for fun,” Searls said. This was the first event in the aquatics center’s attempt
to encourage more people to utilize the pool. Searls said she wanted people to see there is more to the pool than just fitness swimming, but that it could also be fun. “We wanted to do something that’s not typical,” Searls said. “Log rolling just happened to be something that was approved for us to have here. My boss had watched several videos of it and it just happened to be something we thought would work really well with our students. Our staff loves it.” Searls said their main goal for the drop-in log rolling hours was to get people to the pool and that she was pleased with the outcome. “In the first 20 minutes we had people coming in to try it out, we had people watching upstairs, spectators who were here for other events but just kind of seeing what’s going on in our facility, and I think even that is a success that they are even checking it out,” Searls said. Other events that will be of-
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Students attempting log rolling in the pool at the rec center on Saturday. fered at the pool include threeon-three basketball from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m on March 22 and
Battleship from 4 to 6 p.m. on April 12. Anyone interested in learn-
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Embers Restaurant & Lounge, glowing hot on Chestnut. BY RYAN MAIDEN FOOD CRITIC Seeking Morgantown’s hidden treasures has been a difficult job, but every once in a while, I discover exactly what I’m looking for. At the intersection of Reid Street and Chestnut Street, across from Mainstage and next to the nightclub Code, Embers Restaurant & Lounge has been welcomed into downtown Morgantown with open arms. In the short time that Embers has been here, it has made it its goal to change the way we view dining in the downtown area. Taking a complete left turn from your average high street or downtown establishment, Embers presents itself with padded walls and a newage, fine-dining atmosphere. A bar that doesn’t disappoint in variety, matched with the fine-tuned skills of its bartenders, completes the look of the
place with panels of hardwood and lit displays of their best liquors and wines. As I interviewed the mastermind behind Embers, WVU alumni and award-winning restaurateur Brian Beverley, I quickly discovered the passion that couldn’t be seen in one quick glance of the restaurant. Apart from the aesthetic he put into its creation, Beverley describes his utmost pride in the Bar & Lounge as its flavor. “It’s my flavor that keeps people coming back, and whether it’s my five-onion bacon marmalade or cowabunga barbecue sauce, you can’t lose that flavor, no matter what,” Beverley said. Beverley has devoted most of his time to the growth and success of this restaurant, as well as serving great food in a place that he believes really deserves it. His ideals are grand, but from my own firsthand account, I can say that they really met my own standards. Through Embers’ daily
specials, like their now wellknown Taco Tuesday, I discovered some great dishes like their Maui Wauwi tacos and Titanic Nachos. The prior is some nicely-cooked grilled chicken, pineapple, bacon, jalapeños, drizzled with tangy barbecue sauce to complete the Hawaiian mix of sweet, savory and spicy. The food served at Embers Restaurant & Lounge is an ever-changing result of Beverley’s ingenious mind, and while the menu never remains the same, the quality persists in every iteration. Embers stands out because of its food, its staff and its willingness and ability to give the crowds what they want. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. from Thursday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. all other days, still serving that great taste to the people who probably need it the most. I’m excited to see this place grow in success and popularity, and I know I’ll be back there a lot.
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Embers restaurant, located next to the club Code.
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Steak and eggs, a breakfast classic menu item.
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Opening of the LGBTQ+ Center The LGBTQ+ Center recently relocated from Hodges Hall to Maple House, which is located on College Avenue, due to maintenance and size problems. On Feb. 22, the group held an open house event welcoming students to explore the new space. Photos by Kierstin Lindkvist.
The new LGBTQ+ Center house moved to the Maple House on 724 College Ave. It was previous located in Hodges Hall.
Diversity and inclusivity pins are set out to celebrate the opening of the new center.
Cris Mayo discusses how the opening of the new center will impact LGBTQ+ students.
Erica Kushner writes their preferred pronoun on a name tag. They are a student ambassador for the LGBTQ+ Center.
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An open letter from students regarding campus carry at West Virginia University LETTER SIGNED OFF BY MORE THAN 150 WVU STUDENTS AND FACULTY As students of the WVU community, we strongly oppose HB 2519, legislation that would require us to attend a school where anyone could conceal a handgun so long as that person obtained a permit. Many of us have signed an open letter written earlier today entitled, “Open Letter on Campus Carry at West Virginia University,” but after discussing with one another, we decided we needed our own letter as students at this institution. To say that this legislation goes against everything we want in our academic institution is an understatement. We chose to seek higher education because we want to solve the world’s problems with our words and our ideas, not with guns and violence. Inviting guns into our classrooms will fundamentally change how our education system works. We are such a diverse group of students at WVU, and we’ve excelled at welcoming the views and perspectives of people from a wide array of backgrounds. How are we supposed to continue to voice our controversial ideas, to challenge one another in thought and practice if we know that the per-
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Students gathered in Woodburn Circle to protest the Campus Carry bill on Thursday. son we are engaging with may be wearing a weapon? Furthermore, how can we ask the most vulnerable of us — our peers of color, our peers with intellectual and physical differences, our peers from other cultures and countries, our peers who have experienced trauma at the hands of guns yet have sought academia as a place to challenge their minds in safety — to continue to engage with us in sometimes passion-filled discourse if they cannot be certain weapons will not be in the room? To say we have nothing to fear because only lawful gun
owners will be present on campus is to ignore the researched fact that people “are nine times more likely to die from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns, relative to states with fewer guns.”1 The mere presence of more guns on our campus makes us statistically more likely to be injured by them, or even killed. Most accidental gun injuries and deaths are on people under the age of 25: that’s us. People in our age range are most susceptible to accidental shootings because of “specific behavioral characteristics”
that we physically cannot mature out of until we’re older. That is if we make it to 25, of course. To say this legislation will allow students to be more protected against people who want to do us harm is inaccurate and insulting. We have seen time and time again how the “good guy with a gun” theory proves false. We are at an institution that believes in innovative problem-solving and bettering our world. We chose to come here for that reason, and we want the chance to take part in that kind of innovative, intellectual environment. To offer that only solution to the problem of college safety is to arm every person who wants it is to end the conversation before we’ve had a chance to enter it. In what other scenarios would we ever consider adding more of the problem to fix the problem? Guns in our classrooms and in our dorms are not the answer. Almost 40,000 people are killed by guns each year in the U.S. Nearly two-thirds of those deaths are suicides and the rate of suicide amongst Americans between the ages of 14 and 25 has been steadily climbing since 2014.3 It is a known fact that students in college are juggling a lot of stressful events. Many are away from home for the first time; they are taking heavy course loads and are often under much economic
stress. These circumstances, accompanied by the normal woes of figuring out who we are, has led many of us into periods of depression. How different would many of our stories be if, at our lowest point, we had a gun available in our dorm room? More guns will not make us safer, not from others and not from ourselves. At anywhere from $10 million to $11.5 million, the cost of this legislation could fund a full year’s worth of WVU tuition for nearly 1,300 West Virginia high school seniors. Or with that money, we could fund more than 300 West Virginia first-generation students for the entirety of their undergraduate degrees. In a state that has been hurting for young entrepreneurs and economic investment, it seems nonsensical that we would spend this much money to please ALEC and the NRA but not to invest in our own futures. Lastly, if nothing else, passing HB 2519 will hurt the University on the national stage. Already, graduate students offered positions in some of our most prestigious programs are withholding their decisions in order to see how this legislation will play out. They often have many options of schools where they can research, publish and add to the prestige of the institutions, yet for many, the possibility of guns in their
More than 150 WVU students and faculty signed the letter, including... • Anna Davis-Abel Graduate MFA Student in English Monongalia County • Taylor Miller Undergraduate Student in English and Public Relations • Madison Helman Graduate PhD student in English • Tabitha Lowery Graduate PhD student in English • Luke Jordan Lyman Barner Graduate MA student in English • Sarah Lullo Graduate MFA Student in English • Paige Zalman Graduate MA student in Musicology • Mike Mathews Graduate PhD student in
Psychology • Joshua Lohnes Graduate PhD student in Geography • Lillian Wright Undergraduate student in English and Poli • Elana Justine Zambori Graduate Student in Literary and Cultural Studies Certificate in University Teaching • Anna Marie Sherfi nski Graduate Student/ Intern in 5-Year Teacher Education Program • Anthony Oliver Ph.D. Candidate, Psychology • Mikaela England Undergraduate student in English • Holly Bowyer Graduate Student/
Intern in 5-Year Teacher Education Program • Jessica Frye Undergraduate student in History • Aerianna McClanahan Undergraduate student in English • Allie Cline Undergraduate student in Biology • Victoria Raeanne Terrio Graduate Student/ Intern in 5-Year Teacher Education Program • Grace Krisher Undergraduate student in Speech Pathology • Ethan Cade Undergraduate student in International Studies & Geography
• Alexandra Persad Undergraduate student in English and Journalism
• Miranda Signorelli Undergraduate student in Exercise Physiology • Christl Caspar MFA graduate student in Creative Writing • Miles Payne Graduate Teaching Assistant in Educational Psychology Child Development & Family Studies • William Fiore STEM Fellow Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Ashley Brash Undergraduate student in Sociology
• Emily Rovira Undergraduate student in Exercise Physiology
Respectfully and firmly signed, 155 WVU Students (and growing)
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• Hollee Nelson Undergraduate student in English
• Lillian Fraley Undergraduate student in Biochemistry
classroom is enough for them to remove WVU from their list of considerations. Many of the graduate students signed on this letter have reconsidered pursuing their next higher-level degree at WVU if this legislation passes. In order to recruit the top minds, we need to be a place that top minds want to go. Because this legislation defies all logic as we see it, passing HB 2519 will make WVU a place where logical minds will not want to attend. Our enrollment will suffer, the quality of our educations will suffer, and perhaps most direly, there will be some students who gravely suffer if you allow this legislation to pass. We urge the WVU administration to support students, faculty, staff and the entire WVU community by opposing HB 2519 in its totality. For any of our legislators looking on in Charleston, we also ask for you to reject this legislation and we humbly remind you that the vast majority of us are voting constituents from across the state, too. Your vote will signal the value you place on our futures and our education, and we will remember.
• Amber Lenon W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy • Belinda Cheeseboro WVU Planetarium Assistant Coordinator PhD candidate, Department of Physics and Astronomy • Brianna Moore Undergraduate Student in
Secondary English Education
Student in Marketing
•Thomas Ian Lyall Undergraduate student in English
• Vincent Frontero Graduate MFA Student in Creative Writing
• Dylan Linville Ruby Fellow Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy • Gabriella Pishotti Graduate PhD Student in English • Mikaela Argyrakis Undergraduate Student in SpeechPathology & Audiology •Emil Asanov Undergraduate Student in English • Eliza Simmons Undergraduate Student in Nursing • Logan Kilcrease Undergraduate
• Heather Myers Graduate MFA Student in Creative Writing • Jodie Rose MSN Student • Alexandrea Burchett Undergraduate in Pre-Law • Dillon Logan Adkins Undergraduate in History and Political Science • David Laub Newman Civic Fellow Undergraduate in Biology & English
To see more student signatures added in real time, visit: https://goo.gl/Y5SGj9
¹Mathew Miller, MD, MPH, ScD, Deborah Azrael, PhD, and David Hemenway, PhD. “Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, Suicide, and Homicide among 5–14 Year Olds.” The Journal of TRAUMA Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 52 (2002): 267-275. ² “Firearm-Related Fatalities Among Children and Teenagers.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (1992) ³American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. “Suicide Statistics.” afsp.org. https:// afsp.org/about-suicide/ suicide-statistics/.
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The truth about campus carry SUBMITTED BY TAYLOR GILES WVU NRA CAMPUS COORDINATOR , JUNIOR POLITICAL SCIENCE AND STRATEGIC COMMU NICATION STUDENT FROM CHARLESTON, WV West Virginia House of Delegates Bill 2519, also known as the Campus Self Defense Act, is a chance for the West Virginia Legislature to right a wrong caused by a discriminatory policy by Board of Governors of every four-year institution in the state of West Virginia. It is not expressly illegal to carry on campus. Students and employees of the University could face punishment by the University if caught carrying on campus. However, people not associated with the University would only face criminal charges if they were asked to leave campus and do not comply. They would then be charged with misdemeanor trespassing. This is the policy for all private organizations in the state as well. The Board of Governors of every four-year institution in the state of West Virginia are directly violating the West Virginia and United States constitutions and Supreme Court precedent. The Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines held that students and employees of schools do not lose their rights when they enter on school property. This has been upheld in court cases for 60 years and has been used to incorporate every other right in schools — except for the Second Amendment. So, the question becomes, what provision allows for the Board of Governors, an unelected body not responsive to any constituency, to restrict the rights of the many? There has never been an incident at any university that specifically allows students and faculty to carry concealed on campus. In fact, according to the Washington Examiner, assaults on the University of Kansas went down 50 percent and overall violent crime fell by 16 percent the year after campus carry was passed. Ironically enough, House Bill 2519 would actually restrict gun laws on campus. Currently, there are no legal repercussions for carrying on campus, with or
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Taylor Giles without a permit. However, the bill would only allow valid permit holders to carry concealed on campus. The claim that this would be far too expensive for the University and other four-year higher learning institutions in the state is unsubstantiated. The current Board of Governors rule restricting firearms on campus is not enforced now. So why would the University suddenly decide to enforce a new rule? The opposition also cites that many students suffer from mental illnesses that would compound the problem. However, those who suffer from mental illnesses are still afforded the same rights as everyone else. Drug and alcohol abuse is another issue outlined by the opposition. However, only around 15 percent of students live on the West Virginia University campus. This issue is not isolated to campus. There are many more students who abuse drugs and alcohol off campus where firearms are already legal. Much of the opposition to the bill has been based around irrational arguments and statistics from a seriously flawed report by Johns Hopkins regarding campus carry. Campus carry is not a call to arms. Every student is not going to be carrying a concealed firearm on campus if this bill were to pass. The law and statistics are on the side of campus carry. Our own mascot carries a gun. Why should that right be taken away from everyone else?
Editorial-in-Chief: An invitation to talk BY DOUGLAS SOULE EDITORINCHIEF A 17-y e a r- old h i g h schooler interested in journalism wanted to tour the Daily Athenaeum building. So, on Friday, I gave her a tour, not knowing that she would soon be exposed to some of the poisonous anti-press sentiments that have become all too common in our society. After the tour, we walked out of the building’s back entrance and into the sight of partiers across Spruce Street. Profanities aimed at the DA came from the beer can-littered porch across the street before the door slammed behind us. Lies followed, like their accusations of us being fake news. I initially shrugged off their insults and kept walking, thanking them each time one contributed to the tirade. Baseless comments such as theirs are certainly nothing new to any news publication. Then, I paused. Journalists shouldn’t have to be harassed walking out of the newsroom. It shouldn’t be accepted as normal and shrugged off. This behavior should not go unexposed. I turned toward them, told them I was filming and lifted up my phone. “You’re fake news.” “Fake news.” “The DA is fake news.” “You’re f*****g liberals.” “Build the wall.” “I support campus carry.” “Build the wall.” As I walked away, I thanked them again and told them to enjoy the party. Recounting this event is not an attempt to portray DA employees as victims. It’s to show how society has shifted to allow a group to feel empowered to casually demean other students — even high school students — for being journalists. These people were only parroting statements made by others, and those others come from places as high as the United States presidency. This anti-press rheto-
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Screenshot of the video taken of the group yelling at those leaving the DA building. ric has consequences far more severe than obscenities shouted off a porch. Over the past year, journalists have been attacked and killed. And institutions that work endlessly to uncover the truth and hold higher aut hor it ies accountable continue to be labeled as “fake news” and “enemies of the people.” I invite any of the people seen in the video to talk with me. I invite you to sit across from a table instead of a street and talk. Conversation instead of curses. Amiability instead of alcohol and animosity. Despite the accusations of “fake news,” facts are facts, and no one should leave this University parroting misconceptions. Anything we get wrong is put in the “correction” section on our second page. Hopefully, what this group PHOTO VIA TWITTER got wrong can be put in the past, cleared up by our Tweet by WVU SGA President Isaac Obioma about his thoughts on the video capturing a group yelling at journalists leaving the DA building. conversation.
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Huggins not ready for season to be over quite yet BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
MEN’S BASKETBALL Bob Huggins hasn’t given up on this season. On pace to record the fewest wins in a season of his career and with his team on its second five-game losing streak of the season, the Mountaineers’ head coach isn’t ready for this season to be over just yet. “We competed,” Huggins said after WVU’s loss to Baylor on Saturday. “I’m excited to go get in there, get back with them tomorrow and get ready for [TCU].” Huggins was forced to use an eight-man rotation against Baylor, something unlike the Mountaineers recently, and will likely have to do it again on Tuesday night when WVU faces the Horned Frogs. The limited rotation forced certain Mountaineers (10-17, 2-12 Big 12) to play heavy minutes against Baylor as three players registered more than 37 minutes, but TCU has been forced to play that way this season as well. The Horned Frogs (18-9, 6-8) used only seven players in their Saturday win over No. 19 Iowa State, which snapped a three-game losing streak for TCU. Kouat Noi led TCU with 20
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Forward Emmitt Matthews Jr. looking up at the fans after making his way down the court
Freshman Forward Derek Culver going up for a layup.
points in the game and is the team’s second leading scorer on the season at 15 points per game. Leading the Horned Frogs in scoring is Desmond Bane, who narrowly outscores Noi with 15.1 points per game. Bane is also second on the team in assists with 2.6 per game and is
one of four Horned Frogs who have started every game this season. Three of the TCU players who have started all 27 games are upperclassmen and will look to improve their Big 12 Tournament seeding with a win over WVU. TCU currently sits seventh
WVU finished third in Seminole Intercollegiate BY CHARLES MONTGOMERY STAFF WRITER
GOLF The West Virginia golf team finished tied for third Sunday in the Seminole Intercollegiate. Junior Etienne Papineau led the Mountaineers for the second tournament in a row. As an individual, Papineau finished tied for sixth place by firing a three under par score of 213 for the three-day total. Papineau had a rough first two rounds but cleaned it up in the final round with four birdies to finish at two-over par at 218. Sophomore Matthew Sharpstene finished the first two rounds three over par, but carded an impressive five-under score of 67 for the final round and tied up 12th place. Senior Max Sear was one over for the tournament and tied for 27th place with WVU Sophomore Logan Perkins. Freshman
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Kurtis Grant was five-over par and finished tied for 42nd place. No. 5 Wake Forest finished first in the Seminole Intercollegiate with a team total of 13-under par while the host No. 12 Florida State finished second just one shot off of Wake. The Mountaineers tied for third place with Jacksonville with a team total of 10-under par, just three shot back from the tournament winner. “This was a big finish for us,” said WVU head coach Sean Covich, “Last time we played Wake Forest and Louisville they beat us by nearly 30 shots. To hang in there and be competitive with teams like Florida State, Louisville and Wake shows just how far we’ve come. I’m proud of all five of our guys this week.” WVU will wait almost three weeks for the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate tournament in Awendaw, South Carolina. Tee off for that match is on Mar. 23, 2019.
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Guard Brandon Knapper making his way to the court.
in the league and is just one seed away from receiving a first round bye in the tournament, and with the current standings, the Horned Frogs and Mountaineers would actually meet in the first round. West Virginia is last in the Big 12 standings, and although WVU has made progress in re-
cent games, it would mark the Mountaineers’ worst finish in Big 12 play since entering the conference. “I think they feel better about themselves, but they’re still disappointed.” Huggins said of his team. “They’ve been through a lot.” Despite their last-place
standing, the Mountaineers still have hope that wins will come this season. “I’m excited about going in and getting a win [against TCU].” Huggins said. West Virginia and TCU are set to tip off at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at WVU Coliseum.
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West Virginia falls to No. 1 Oklahoma BY SHYLA PARSONS STAFF WRITER
GYMNASTICS West Virginia fell to topranked Oklahoma on Sunday. Coming home from a double meet weekend, the Mountaineers faced the Sooners. West Virginia scored a team total of 195.35, falling short behind OU’s 197.15. “It’s tough to compete twice in 48 hours, but we are going to have to do it in the postseason,” said head coach Jason Butts. “So this was good practice for that. We could’ve had a better performance today, but overall I was happy with their fight and their spirit.” West Virginia (15-6, 0-4 Big 12) opened the meet on vault. Rachel Hornung started the afternoon for the Mountaineers scoring a 9.7. Following Hornung was Michelle Waldron, with another 9.7. A solid 9.75 on vault came from seniors Jaquie Tun and Kirah Koshinski. Abby Kaufman only scored a 9.675. A score of 9.5 from Esperanza Abarca ended the first rotation for the Mountaineers with a team score of
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Senior Jaquie Tun very happy after a great performance on the uneven bars. 48.575. West Virginia move to bars for the second rotation, with Abarca in the No. 1 spot. Abarca started the rotation
strong for the Mountaineers with a career-high of 9.825. Following Abraca was Kendra Combs with a score of 9.775. Kaufman landed with a 9.65.
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Freshman Kendra Combs celebrating after a wonderful performance. Tun scored her second 9.85, a team best, followed by a career-high of 9.825 from Sydney Marler. This was Marler’s second career-high of the
weekend. Chloe Cluchey had some trouble during her routine, ending the rotation with a 8.65. After the first two rotations,
Oklahoma (13-0, 3-0) led with a 98.775. West Virginia fell behind with a 97.5. McKenna Linnen opens up the third rotation for the Mountaineers on beam. Linnen’s first score was 9.55, but after revisions it bumped up to a 9.625. Kaufman earned a season best with a 9.75. Hornung earned her best score since Feb. 10 — 9.8. Following with a 9.75 was Koshinski. Taylor Sell earned a 9.575, and closing on beam was Abarca with a 9.825. WVU earned a 48.75 on beam. Three rotations kept Oklahoma ahead, 148.125-146.2. West Virginia’s No. 9 ranked floor lineup earned a 49.1 for the final rotation. Linnen opened floor with a 9.85, followed by a 9.8 from Kaufman. Erica Fontaine stumbled on her second pass, giving her a 9.625. Hornung earned a 9.65. Tun followed up with a powerful routine, earning a 9.875. Koshinksi closed the evening, with the event-winning score of 9.925. The Mountaineers will travel to Columbus to take on No. 22 Ohio State. The meet is set to place at 4 p.m.
West Virginia University Upcoming Football Schedules A look into the future years of Mountaineer football
2019 8/31 James Madison 9/7 at Missouri 9/14 NC State 9/21 at Kansas 10/5 Texas 10/12 Iowa State 10/19 at Oklahoma 10/31 at Baylor 11/9 Texas Tech 11/16 at Kansas State 11/23 Oklahoma State 11/29 at TCU
2020 9/5 vs. Florida State (Atlanta, Ga.) 9/12 Eastern Kentucky 9/19 Maryland TBD Baylor TBD Kansas TBD Kansas State TBD Oklahoma TBD TCU TBD at Iowa State TBD at Oklahoma State TBD at Texas TBD at Texas Tech
2021 9/4 at Maryland 9/11 Indiana State 9/18 Virginia Tech TBD Iowa State TBD Oklahoma State TBD Texas TBD Texas Tech TBD at Baylor TBD at Kansas TBD at Kansas State TBD at Oklahoma TBD at TCU
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Students ball out at the WVU Diversity Futsal Tournament BY SETH MITCHELL STAFF WRITER The gymnasiums of the WVU Rec Center were alive with the sounds of competition and energy Saturday afternoon. “Run, run,” one player in a neon-green jersey shouts to his teammates. “C’mon, lemme see some feet, lemme see some feet, yeah,” another wearing a plain white shirt cries to his own team amidst the sounds of squeaking sneakers against basketball court. This environment was the creation of Farhan Shaikh, who made WVU’s Futsal Club just a year ago. A senior from Mumbai, India, majoring in sport and exercise psychology, Shaikh grew up playing the sport of futsal. Upon arriving to WVU as a freshman, Shaikh noticed a distinct lack of the sport on the campus. “There’s a lot of diversity of sports here in America,” Shaikh said. “But you don’t often see futsal.” Shaikh and a few of his friends put together WVU’s first futsal tournament last year, during the fall of 2018.
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Mohammed Al Sinan (center) defends against Abdulrahman Alabbas (right). Afterward, Shaikh decided to make the futsal club. “We wanted to be the first to introduce people to this beautiful sport,” Shaikh said. Futsal is a variation of soccer, with roots in South American communities in and
around Brazil. Futsal differs from soccer in that it requires a hard surface, such as concrete or basketball court, to play on, and each team is only comprised of five members. “There’s a lot more footwork involved with it,” said
Lexi Douglas, vice president for the club. On Saturday’s event, both Douglas and Shaikh were hopeful and proud. “The outcome was amazing today,” Douglas said. “The energy here is spectacular. Peo-
ple are involved and are going crazy while playing. It’s great.” “We had 20 teams register last year, and 26 teams register this year. People are definitely interested,” Shaikh said. When it comes to the future, both Shaikh and Douglas are
hopeful and confident. “We’d like to increase the amount of people who can play in our tournaments,” Douglas said. “Generally, it’s been the first 16 teams who register that get to play. So for this year, 10 sadly had to sit it out, but there’s quite a few of them here today just watching and cheering their friends on.” “We’re hoping to start a traveling futsal team next year,” Shaikh said, “Many universities are starting to have them and are competing against one another. We’d like to be able to do the same.” “It’s a sport that brings everybody together. We have a huge mix of ethnicities, majors and passions that are all meshing together without an issue because of their mutual connection to this sport,” Douglas said. “It’s a great way to discover something new that you can love and make some friends along the way.” “We want to educate everybody here at WVU about this sport,” Shaikh said. “And invite anybody to come and play with us.”
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