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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11, 2017

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Morgantown residents gather for Las Vegas vigil PENELOPE DE LA CRUZ STAFF WRITER Morgantown residents united in prayer for those impacted by Las Vegas shooting.

Organized by the Greater Morgantown Interfaith Association and members of Mountaineers for Progress, people gathered on Tuesday for a moment of silence.

Eve Faulkes, member of the Greater Morgantown Interfaith Association and WVU graphic design professor, spoke of the values that unite those in attendance of Tuesday night’s vigil.

“We talk of the intersection, where regardless of our religious background, we all share values, and one of these values is that life is beautiful and precious and should be preserved,” Faulkes said.

Faulkes found the purpose of the vigil was to unite and bring hope to the citizens of Morgantown, regardless of religious affiliation.

“We can have big differences, and small differences, but we all want safe communities,” said Faulkes.

Faulkes said she hopes public officials see mass shootings and acts of violence as non-political issues.

“Life is more important

“We hope to show our officials and those around the community there are people who care, and are taking an active step forward to push back against these things that are so revolting and horrifying.”

-Julia Hamilton, treasurer for Mountaineers for Progress than the second amendment,” Faulkes said.

Danielle Walker, a member of Mountaineers for Progress and the NAACP, said events like this are crucial in making the citizens closer to one another.

“To have so many people of different faiths come together, and be united, it speaks volumes to how big of an issue these tragedies are,” Walker said.

Walker said more needs to be done to address future mass shootings than just vigils.

“Our hope is that lawmakers come together, and feel these stories, and acknowledge that these are people, these are lives and acknowledge that something needs to be done,” Walker said.

Many in attendance said they hope for legislators to

directly approach gun control issues in result of different mass shootings, but that isn’t they’re only motivation.

Julia Hamilton, treasurer for Mountaineers for Progress, says a big part of vigils is just to make citizens aware.

“We can’t normalize this kind of behavior, we can’t become desensitized to this kind of behavior,” Hamilton said.

“We hope to show our officials and those around the community there are people who care, and are taking an active step forward to push back against these things that are so revolting and horrifying.”

Both Mountaineers for Progress and the Greater Morgantown Interfaith Association pledge to continue to spread their message of unity as more tragic events occur throughout the United States.

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Community members gather on Spruce Street to honor the victims of the Las Vegas shooting.

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Some international students feel unwelcome despite university’s attempts to be inclusive

BY GEORGIA BEATTY STAFF WRITER WVU have policies and events set in place to welcome international students, though students disagree about whether they work.

Marlyn Mathew, a sophomore forensic science student, was born in India but was raised in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Mathew said most of her friends, if not all, were non-international students.

“There are a lot of people that are international student[s] that like to stick to their own little group,” Matthew said. “They probably feel more comfortable being able to speak the same language and not having to explain their culture.”

Matthew said despite this, she likes getting to know more people regardless of nationality.

Shahad Algarni, a sophomore biochemistry student from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, said she had friends who were both international students and non-international students.

Algarni said she found WVU

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International students gather in protest of President Trump’s immigration ban last year. welcoming when she arrived.

“The international office made so many events,” she said.

There are 2,307 international students on West Virginia University’s campus.

WVU is certainly doing its best to aid these students in

acclimating to Morgantown life, according to Henry Oliver, advancement coordinator at the WVU Office of Global Affairs.

“We want people to understand that WVU is safe, welcoming, friendly environment to learn,” Oliver said. “We want

them to know that they have a great support system here in Global Affairs, and that we have a really fantastic, welltrained team who’s dedicated to helping meet their needs.”

On the academic front, the university provides its worldly students with an intensive In-

Title IX sheds light on sexual assault

BY EMILY ZEKONIS CULTURE EDITOR WVU’s Diversity Week will shed light on the importance of inclusion and acceptance during tough conversations around sexual assault.

“People with disabilities face higher levels of abuse than the general population,” said Samuel Wilmoth, Title IX Education Specialist. “Understanding how to help these people is important, not only because of moral imperative, but also because addressing needs of people with disabilities who have been through something difficult require different thinking and advanced planning.”

The “How to Be an Ally: Sexual Assault and People With Disabilities” workshop is hosted by WVU Title IX as part of Diversity Week. The workshop aims to educate WVU students on how to have tough conversations and assist victims of sexual assault who have a disability.

“During the session we will spend time discussing the basic ways that a person can be supportive to someone with a disability who has been sexu-

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Garret Burgess, Julia Durbin and Tyler Brewster talk to and consult a crowd of WVU students at a Diversity Week event focused on consent at the Mountainlair last year. ally assaulted,” Wilmoth said.

One of the strategies that will be presented during the session will be “person-first language”, a strategy for how to structure language when speaking to a victim of sexual assault.

“Person-first language allows for the recognition of an individual’s personhood above anything else,” Wilmoth said. “This means you would say someone is a person with a disability, not disabled person, or someone is a person with schizophrenia, not a skitzophrenic.”

Wilmoth stresses that these subtle changes in language

have a huge impact on how secure a person feels when opening up about a tough subject. An individual who confides in someone is looking for any small acknowledgement that someone is there for them and sees them for more than their disability.

“Having a disability is the one social group we will all join if we live long enough,” Wilmoth said. “If a disabled person cannot reach a hospital entrance because of their physical disability, or find a therapist because the only information is in brochure and they cannot see to read the information, these are barriers

that concern us all.”

The panel will also educate students on what a disability is and how they impact the daily life of individuals even outside of an emergency situation like sexual assault.

“It’s important that we think of disability in broad and open minded way,” Wilmoth said.

“A person may see an accessibility symbol of a person in a wheelchair, like in a parking space, and only think of this when they hear disability.”

The panel will discuss having conversation with those who have a variety of disabilities including physical, sensory, cognitive and neurological.

“If we have injustice anywhere in the community it impacts all of us,” Wilmoth said, encouraging students to stand up for their peers and inclusion of all individuals.

The workshop is free and open to the public and will take place at 5 p.m. on Oct. 11 in the Shenandoah Room of the Mountainlair. Fore more information about this event and Diversity Week please visit: http://diversity.wvu. edu/.

ternational Student Orientation. The two-day program focuses on staying compliant in the United States, U.S. rules and regulations, the visa process, and other administrative topics.

“We try to make it as easy as possible because there are

already enough stressors on them anyway,” Oliver said.

“They’re in a different place; [as a] stranger in a strange land, they don’t want to have to take on additional stresses.”

International students are required to complete learning modules on acclimating to American life and customs.

WVU also makes a priority of cultural opportunities within West Virginia borders by facilitating trips to Cass Railroad, Blennerhassett Island and other scenic sites.

“We don’t want them to just be in the Morgantown bubble while they’re here,” Oliver said. “They’re living in the U.S., so we want them to be able to take advantage of all the great things we have all around the state.”

So why WVU? Why America?

Oliver said it’s a matter of safety, interest and tradition.

WVU is safe, Morgantown is friendly and the weather is beautiful.

“We have degrees that interest them,” Oliver said. “It’s not compulsory; it’s part of their culture that they attend university. And if it is, it’s definitely not compulsory that they attend university abroad.”

WVU alumnus pleads not guilty to campaign fraud

BY KAYLA GAGNON STAFF WRITER WVU Class of ‘82 alumnus James Laurita, Jr. has pleaded not guilty to charges of campaign fraud.

The Alumni and Friends website says that Laurita is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.

The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources did not respond by publication date.

Allyson Cannon, the marketing and communications director for the Alumni Center, said, “We do not have any current relationship with him other than he’s an alumnus of our university.”

Laurita is the former executive for the mining company Mepco, LLC. He has been indicted by a federal jury for allegedly having employees and their spouses use company funds to donate to political campaigns for Congress.

No specific candidates or campaigns were men-

tioned in the official press release of Laurita’s indictment, only that those individuals were running for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

The crimes allegedly occurred from March 2010 to July 2013.

“To limit the influence any one person could have on the outcome of a federal election,” the indictment said, “the Election Act established limits on the amounts individuals may contribute to any candidate’s authorized campaign committee.”

The amount of money given to these campaigns came to be more than $25,000. The federal campaign limit set by the Federal Election Commission is $2,700.

According to the indictment, “It was part of the scheme and plan to knowingly conceal from the FEC, the committees, the federal candidates, and the public the true source and amount of the campaign contributions.”

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WVU celebrates campus unity as one Mountaineer family

BY JORDYN JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT A celebration of the culture of WVU will take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday night in the Gold Ballrooms of the Mountainlair at the One Mountaineer Family Cultural Celebration.

The event will include participation of a variety of cultural and international organizations including the Center for Black Culture and Research, WVU German Club, WVU Russian Club, as well as others representing French, Middle Eastern and Chinese cultures.

The celebration runs as part of WVU’s annual Diversity Week, held Oct. 7-14, under the theme “One Mountaineer Family,” established last year. This theme, was chosen by those in university relations because they thought it was important to remind students and faculty that WVU is one family regardless of background during the Presidential Election of 2016, which divided the nation.

Ed Cole, special events coordinator for the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices at West Virginia Univeristy, feels like Morgan-

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Professor Daniel Brewster speaks to a group of students during last year’s Diversity Week.

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Students participate in the WVU Hijab Challenge during 2016 Diversity Week. town is “the melting pot for all cultures”.

“We have so many students who are focused on their studies, but also a part of learning is socializing with those different from them,” Cole said.

Cole mentioned that a number of students on campus don’t know of the various cultural opportunities they

can get involved in. The One Mountaineer Family Cultural Celebration will help cultural clubs gain membership, as well as introduce students to cultures from around the world.

“Come hungry,” Cole said with a chuckle. The celebration will include a large spread of food from all over

the world for attendees to sample.

Along with the cultural celebration, the Center for Black Culture and Research will be hosting their Spoken Word and Poetry Contest.

The contest will take place in the Gluck Theatre inside the Mountainlair.

Coordinator for the poetry

competition, Eric Jordan, said that after brainstorming ideas for a diversity week event, poetry seemed like the perfect option for students to be able to speak their minds about national issues and get things off their chests.

The poems that will be presented at the contest will be focused upon what it means to be “one mountaineer family”, as well as any other poetry students have written that they would like to compete with. The winner of the

competition will be awarded the opportunity to have a paid video recording made starring their poem.

After the poetry competition takes place, a talent show will happen as well.

For more information about One Mountaineer Cultural Celebration or the Spoken Word and Poetry Contest, please contact the offices of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at 304-2935600 or WVUCulturalCelebration@gmail.com.

Mountaineer Talks allows students to influence changes on campus community “We want to provide a safe and welcoming space to share timely ideas and explore solutions to some of the most challenging problems of today.”

-Morgan King, Mountaineer Talks coordinator

BY EMILY ZEKOINS CULTURE EDITOR West Virginia University’s Blue Ballroom will host a “One Mountaineer Family” conversation to share ideas of creating a more inclusive community.

“Students should attend Mountaineer Talks to not just hear new perspectives, but truly listen,” said Morgan King, WVU senior and event coordinator. “This event is important to open the dialogue to some challenging topics, all while promoting an inclusive space to do so.”

The “TED” lecture style panel will consist of both WVU students, professor and influences, including President Gordon Gee and Vice President Fryson. The event acts as part of WVU’s Diversity Week and will focus on topics of new ideas inclusion and how to create a better Morgantown community for those of all backgrounds.

The night will open with presentations from five WVU students who will speak about topics in diversity that are important to them and that they identify with. All student presentations come from campus leaders and their first hand ex-

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During last year’s Mountaineer Talks, Clara Haizlett discussed the growing issues between the war on drugs and its affect in West Virginia. periences with their topics.

The students will then be joined by a panel of profession-

als to dive into the topics of diversity and its current state at WVU and the state as a whole.

“Having a willingness to listen to ideas and narratives different from our own is the

foundation of improving inclusivity and empathy on campus,” King said. “If we can make

room for every person and every idea at the table, we can begin to grow as a university and a state in the 21st century.”

Mountaineer Talks will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 11 in the Laurel Room. The event is free and open to the public.

“We welcome all to attend this event, regardless of beliefs, backgrounds, race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality,” King said. “We want to provide a safe and welcoming space to share timely ideas and explore solutions to some of the most challenging problems of today.”

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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11, 2017

ILL GRIER

father, husband & college football star Will Grier is currently the starting quarterback for West Virginia. Grier played high school football at Davidson Day School in Davidson, North Carolina, under his father, Chad Grier. As a high school prospect, Grier threw for 14,565 yards and a state record 195 touchdown passes on his way to being named the Parade National Player of the Year after his senior season. Grier transferred to West Virginia following a brief stint at the University of Florida. Through five games this season, Grier has thrown for 1,740 yards, 16 touchdowns and just four interceptions. Grier is the husband of Jeanne Grier and the father of Eloise Marie Grier.

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Grier finds balance between family and football

BY PATRICK KOTNIK ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR The past two years have been an up and down rollercoaster ride for West Virginia redshirt junior quarterback Will Grier.

After receiving a one-year suspension for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs while playing at the University of Florida in October of 2015, Grier opted to transfer and landed in West Virginia for a fresh start.

That new start led Will Grier to a unique life and routine where he balances his role as student athlete, as well as the duties of being a husband and father off the field.

“It’s a lot, but it’s something I took on,” Will Grier said. “My wife is awesome and very sup-

portive. It helps me a lot, and I get to do all the fun stuff with the baby” Grier and his wife, Jeanne Grier, a former cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, first met at Florida through mutual friends.

“She’s from Tampa. I had a lot of friends from Tampa,” Will Grier said. “We hit it off and never looked back.”

Will Grier and Jeanne Grier were married in 2016 and welcomed their first child, Eloise Marie Grier, on Nov. 10 of the same year.

Through the eyes of Will Grier’s father, Chad Grier, Will Grier and Jeanne Grier’s relationship is one that he believes is rare to find these days.

“She’s wonderful,” Chad Grier said. “As a parent I think you always wish and hope your children marry their best

friend and that it will last forever because that’s not really the case in this world anymore. I think she’s been that to him.”

According to Chad Grier, Jeanne Grier’s relationship and chemistry with Will Grier played a significant role in helping him through the uncertainty he faced during his suspension at Florida and the transfer process to WVU. “She’s been there through thick and thin,” Chad Grier said. “There’s no stereotype about her that would fit. She is just very strong, smart, independent girl that loves Will, loves being a mom. They have great chemistry in terms of what they talk about, what they enjoy doing.”

Will Grier’s role as a family man isn’t just limited to his family off the field.

As WVU’s starting quarterback and offensive leader, Will Grier’s off the field family time and football knowledge have translated into an ability to build a family-like atmosphere within the program.

“He spends a lot of time with his family, but he’s also a coach’s kid in terms of he understands the importance of the locker room,” said WVU Offensive Coordinator Jake Spavital. “So, he has a really good balance of getting everybody involved not just offensively, but defensively as well and just making sure that it’s just like a family to him as well.”

As Chad Grier watches his son meet the challenges that come with being a student athlete, husband and father, he can’t help but feel proud of the man Will Grier has

become.

“As a dad, I think any dad would be proud to see their son be successful in the classroom, be successful on the field and then still be mature enough and strong enough and just have enough character that he dotes on his wife, he dotes on his baby girl,” Chad Grier said. “That’s just amazing for me to watch.”

From a teammate perspective, junior wide receiver David Sills agrees that Will Grier handles the situation as best as he can.

“When he’s here, he’s ready to work and he’s in full quarterback mode and then when he’s at home, he’s a dad and a husband,” Sills said. I couldn’t picture anyone else doing that role, but he does it great.

There’s a lot of people that are in different scenarios and stuff

like that, but the situation he’s in, he handles it perfectly.”

Will Grier’s lifestyle and duties can be compared to those of a professional football player, which Spavital believes is in his future.

“He’s like a professional,” Spavital said. “I think he can handle it because he does a great job of it now.”

Will Grier will graduate from WVU in December and possibly attend graduate school afterwards, but no matter what the future holds, he’ll always find happiness in being a father and husband.

“It’ll be nice to graduate and I’ll have the opportunity to go (graduate) school maybe and to go from there,” Will Grier said. “Being a father and husband’s the best thing that ever happened to me.”

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CHAD GRIER Chad Grier, the father of Will Grier, played quarterback at Richmond University and East Carolina University from 1986-1991. Grier founded the football program at Davidson Day School in Davidson, North Carolina, and led the team to four state titles in six seasons as head coach at Oceanside Collegiate Academy in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina and has accumulated a 5-2 record so far ths season.

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Father’s Perspective: The Making of Will Grier

BY CHRIS JACKSON MANAGING EDITOR Chad Grier has seen his son go through everything.

West Virginia redshirt junior quarterback Will Grier was once a high school prodigy from the small town of Davidson, North Carolina, which is home to just more than 12,000 people outside of Charlotte. He then went to the University of Florida, where he starred for a year and was among the elite players in college football.

But Will Grier was suspended. He eventually left the program and found WVU, where he now ranks among the top players in college football. Again.

Childhood Will Grier loved sports. He loved being around anything with a ball. That’s just who he was.

But football became his life. When he was growing up, his father, Chad Grier, who coached at Davidson Day High School before moving to Oceanside Collegiate Academy in South Carolina, would work at FCA camps every summer. Chad Grier would take his son to those camps.

“He would literally sit at my feet while I was coaching,” Chad Grier said.

Once Will Grier turned 10 or 11 years old (Chad Grier doesn’t remember the exact age), he started showing his prodigal talents in front of everyone “He was working with three step drops and some routes and one of the guys was like, ‘let him take a route,’” Chad Grier said. “He got up there and threw it in the 7-on-7 deal with a bunch of high school seniors and he laces it in there for a completion and everybody went crazy.”

“He would literally sit at my feet while I was coaching.”

-Chad Grier, Will Grier’s father College coaches took notice. When Will Grier was in eighth grade at Mark Richt’s camp at the University of Georgia, where Richt coached for 15 years before becoming the head coach at Miami in 2016, that’s when the family realized he could be a legitimate college prospect.

“Coach Richt came up to me and said, ‘look, I don’t make a habit of recruiting eighth graders. We don’t do that down here,’ but he said, ‘your son is a major Division I prospect,’” Chad Grier said.

“Coming from Mark Richt, I was like, ‘okay, well maybe he’s pretty good.’”

High School Will Grier turned out to be “pretty good.”

At Davidson Day High School, a program Chad Grier started himself in 2010, Will Grier became a high school sensation. As a sophomore in 2011, he threw for 49 touchdowns and 10 interceptions en route to a state championship.

Then there was the 11-2 record and state title he compiled as a junior in 2012, throwing for 69 touchdowns and 5,785 yards. Will Grier also threw for the best game statistically in high school football history that season.

In a playoff game against Harrells Christian Academy on Nov. 9, 2012 - a team it defeated 46-29 in the season opener - Will Grier’s name floated across the national landscape. He threw for a national record 837 yards and 10 touchdowns, adding two scores on the ground in a 10480 victory. Harrells Christian Academy’s running back, Russell Washington, ran for 429

yards and eight touchdowns out of the Wing-T offense which scored 63, 89, 86 and 70 points in the four games leading up to that matchup.

The teams combined for 59 points and 1,624 yards of offense, with Davidson Day scoring on all but one of its possessions and Harrells Christian Academy scoring on 12 of its 16.

“I was tweeting out scores and updating and people were texting me going, ‘that’s a basketball score, right?’ because it was in November and it was kind of like that overlap time,” said Justin Parker, a reporter for the Lake Norman Citizen in North Carolina that covered Will Grier in high school. “I’m like, ‘no, it’s a football score.”

There were never those kinds of numbers in one game during Will Grier’s senior year, but his overall statistics improved even more for the season. He accounted for 90 total touchdowns (77 passing, 13 rushing), throwing for 4,989 yards and running for another 1,251 as he helped Davidson Day to a 12-1 record and state title.

By the end, Will Grier was rated as the No. 48 overall recruit in the 2013 recruiting class by 247Sports, named the Parade National Player of the Year and was invited to the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, holding offers from the likes of Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee, among others. He ended up picking Florida.

“He’s just got this desire to compete and take shots and gets back up and fires away again,” Parker said. “Man, just a fun guy to watch play and it didn’t take an expert to

know that he was something special.”

University of Florida Will Grier was on top of the world.

Florida started out 6-0 during his redshirt freshman season in 2015, with the team going 5-0 when Will Grier was a starter. Everyone in college football was taking notice, especially during a rivalry game against Tennessee in Gainesville on Sept. 26.

With Florida trailing 27-14, it looked like time for the Gators to suffer their first loss of the season. But Will Grier and company would not go away.

Will Grier threw for 141 yards and two scores on 11of-17 passing during the final two drives, topped off with the game-winning 63-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Callaway on 4th and 14. Florida escaped with the 28-27 victory and improved to 4-0.

But two weeks later, after coming back to Florida after notching a 21-3 win at Missouri to get to 6-0, Will Grier learned some of the toughest news of his life.

On Sunday Oct. 11, Will Grier was in the Florida Head Coach Jim McElwain’s office.

He called his father and told him he would be suspended for taking an NCAA banded performance-enhancing drug.

He received a year-long suspension, which meant he had to miss the next six games that season and the first half of the ensuing season.

“I just knew that the Ohio State quarterback had gotten a DWI and was suspended for a week,” Chad Grier said. “I knew the other quarterback at Florida failed a street drug

test and he missed a week, and I’m thinking, ‘what does that mean - failed a drug test?”

It was difficult news to hear for someone that grew up around the game of football.

Will Grier loved everything about the game. He loved his teammates. He loved Florida. He loved going to that stadium.

“It was a deep, dark place for him,” Chad Grier said. “He spent every day at that stadium and that’s his passion. Besides class, he was there. That was taken away from him.”

Will and Chad Grier met with McElwain. They thought it would be quick. They didn’t ask for any guarantees contrary to reports, according to Chad Grier.

But it didn’t go as they anticipated.

“At the end, the frustration was that coach said all the right things when he called, and then I just didn’t see the right things happen after that,” Chad Grier said. “Will was basically ostracized from the program and legally he could have gone to the quarterback meetings, he could have lifted with the team, he could have gone to practice. He wasn’t invited to any of that.”

So, all parties agreed it was best for Will Grier to get a “fresh start” somewhere else.

It was time to look for a new home.

“I was like, ‘well, let’s move on,’” Chad Grier said. “That was kind of the end of that.”

West Virginia Will Grier found a new home at West Virginia.

Programs like Ohio State and Oregon also recruited him, but neither matched what WVU offered. One thing in particular really sold him and the family on WVU. So in April of 2016, the decision was made: he would be moving to WVU.

“Dana Holgorsen,” Chad Grier said. “Plain and simple.”

The Griers heeded Holgorsen’s message. There wasn’t any fluff. Holgorsen was “very real” in Chad Grier’s words.

WVU applied for a waiver to make Will Grier be eligible for the entire season and not have his suspension from Florida carry over to the first six games of the 2017 campaign.

They won, and there was Will Grier, starting for the Mountaineers in front of a primetime audience against Virginia Tech on Sept. 3.

Now, Will Grier is fitting right in. The family loves the culture Holgorsen built in the program. They love the school.

They love the people.

“Its blue-collar work ethic, genuine sense of community,” Chad Grier said. “It’s a great place. It’s been a great place for him.”

And Will Grier is back on top of the world, or at least really close to it. Although WVU sits at 3-2 and currently isn’t ranked - sitting just outside the AP Top 25 as both losses came by seven points to ranked opponents - he is in the upper-echelon of college football again.

Through five games, Will Grier is 11th in the country in passing yards (1,740), tied for third in passing touchdowns (16) and leading an offense that is averaging the ninthmost points in college football (43.8).

“He’s been through a lot,” Parker said. “He’s made some mistakes, but it looks like he’s grown up. I saw him over the summer and it just looks like he’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing. It’s good to see him get that chance at West Virginia and it looks like he’s making the most of it.”

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OPINION

Medical marijuana opinions changing for the better

BY LOGAN WILSON STAFF WRITER On Sept. 30th, one of the first informational seminars about medical marijuana came to Morgantown.

This highlights the changing public opinion on the controversial drug in the state and around the nation. A CBS poll taken in April showed 80 percent of people favor legalization of marijuana for medical use. More and more individuals are advocating for marijuana to be used medicinally, and students at WVU are part of that trend.

Chad Dye, a first year pre-pharmacy student from Huntington, West Virginia, said medical marijuana is necessary.

“I think it would be a good change in public policy to allow medical marijuana to be prevalent in our drug treatment,” Dye said.

According to Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, West Virginia has the highest rates of opioid overdose in the country, and the United States is responsible for 80 percent of the world’s opioid consumption. Many are start-

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Medical marijuana will be available in West Virginia in 2019. ing to look to marijuana and its pain relieving properties as an alternative.

Patients would be able to use marijuana to alleviate pain and certain afflicting ailments.

This could be especially helpful for individuals who have ex-

plored various kinds of traditional medicine and treatment.

Having grown up in Huntington, Dye is all too familiar with the woes of opioid use.

“I have personally seen people overdosing on the streets and if there’s anything that

could potentially help, they need to try it,” Dye said.

In August of 2016, Huntington saw 26 overdoses in a fourhour span.

On April 12, the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act was signed into law allowing

How can we discuss civility with diversity and inclusivity at WVU? PAYTON OTTERMAN STAFF WRITER On Monday, a West Virginia University professor and five students held a panel for WVU’s Diversity Week to discuss inclusivity and diversity on campus.

Professor Daniel Brewster, who teaches in the sociology and anthropology department, organized the event with Sara Berzingi, Jihad Dixon, Julia Durbin, Aishwarya Vijay and Shanawar Waris. Their goal was to show students that although someone may be different from us, we have more similarities with this person than we may initially think.

The panelists took turns asking questions to the crowd, asking the crowd to stand up if a certain thing that the panelists said applied to them.

Through the questions, those in attendance found that they were not alone in whatever struggles they faced.

“We wanted the audience to understand the full spectrum of diversity because we are so

“We wanted the audience to understand the full spectrum of diversity because we are so unique. It’s not just gender, race, or sexuality.”

-Daniel Brewster unique,” Brewster said. “It’s not just gender, race or sexuality that makes us who we are, it’s our experiences.”

Brewster has participated in Diversity Week since his first year of teaching. However, this was the first year that his panel was interactive. According to Brewster, he and the other students asked themselves what they could do for more participation, and they came across a social experiment video where people stood up if a question applied to them.

Brewster said, “To figure out what questions we wanted to ask you guys, we came up with 15 questions each and narrowed it down to the funniest and the most hard-hitting.”

The questions varied from “How many of you sing in the shower?” to “how many of you

feel unsafe on campus?,” and “how many of you have faced discrimination here at WVU?” Durbin, one of the panelists, was excited with the results of the panel. She is a senior chemistry and women’s/ gender studies student from Chicago, Illinois, and is the president of Spectrum, the main LGBTQ student organization on campus.

“I felt nervous because we haven’t done this before and it was very audience based,” Durbin said. “My expectations were blown out of the water by how many people willingly participated.”

Morgan Greene, a sophomore exercise psychology student from Youngstown, Ohio, was part of the audience, and felt that the event was enlightening.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the panel was very eye-opening to different issues on campus,” Greene said. “As a white woman, I feel that I really haven’t experienced discrimination, so I’ve learned a lot from this panel when people of different ethnicities spoke up about their struggles.”

Cynthia Hroneck, a sophomore general arts and science student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also felt that she had a positive experience.

“I just came to the panel for extra credit, so I didn’t know what to expect,” Hroneck said.

“However, I was enlightened by audience’s responses.”

“I anticipated reluctance in people’s honesty, but I couldn’t be happier with how interactive and honest the audience was,” Brewster said.

The event was important because it helped students to understand their worth; and that diversity should not tear us apart, but bring us together.

marijuana concentrates to be used for severe pain relief and certain other chronic conditions. However, his law would not allow the cultivation or smoking of the plant.

Many believe this to be an ineffective version of a bill. How-

ever, Kanawha County delegate, Mike Pushkin is hopeful the law will be amended.

“It really is a good first step,” Pushkin said. “We can fix it later.”

Pushkin sponsored an amendment that would allow patients to grow their own plants.

Currently the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act will not take full effect until July 1, 2019.

While most consider the law imperfect and would like amendments to be made post haste, the fact that a bill allowing medical cannabis was made into law is astonishing and proves that the public support is growing.

“I think it’s definitely becoming more acceptable to be used medically.” said Mackenzie Steele, a first year Biology student from Bridgeport, West Virginia.

West Virginia is poised to become a frontier for medical cannabis in the country if the state were to adopt laws that allow it. It is imperative that you express your thoughts on these issues with your local representatives. Without your input, they do not know how to properly represent you.

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FFiveoodDollar Fridays at Smoothie King pull students in

BY TIMOTHY MALLOY FOOD COLUMNIST

Smoothie King, located on West Virginia University’s Evansdale Campus, has been a welcomed addition to the community since its opening earlier this year.

Offering fresh, delicious smoothies at reasonable prices, the establishment has become a favorite among students and locals alike.

Their promotion, “Five Dollar Fridays,” offers any medium sized smoothie for five dollars, making Friday their busiest day of the week by far. With prices for a medium smoothie costing up to $8, “Five Dollar Fridays” is a deal that should not be missed.

Smoothie King prides themselves on their focus on health, offering smoothies designed to either help you slim down or bulk up. If that doesn’t interest you, there’s an abundance of options that don’t specifically do anything besides taste great.

If slimming down or bulking up is a priority, then you may be interested in trying one of their smoothies infused with green tea or protein powder.

All of the options are delicious, but some are heavily favored over others. Smoothies like the “pineapple surf” have a protein blend infused but tastes as if one was drinking it on a beach, making it a favorite among customers returning from the Student Recreation Center.

Kyle Palomino, a mechanical engineering student from Trenton, New Jersey, comes to Smoothie King every Friday on his way home from volleyball practice “I come here at least twice a week, but always on Fridays,” Palomino said, in order to take advantage of the

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Smoothie King offers a wide variety of smoothie flavors, from strawberry-banana to pumpkin spice.

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Smoothie King, located on Harding Ave. next to Oakland Hall, also features a drive thru for convenience. promotion.

Recommending the pineapple surf with a little mango thrown in, Palomino is a recurring customer who appre-

ciates the freshness and content of the smoothies.

“I’ve tried at least 10 of the options but I found what I like and I’m sticking to it.”

Palomino said, referring to his original mango-pineapple concoction.

If you treat the smoothies like a meal, the usual prices

at Smoothie King are reasonable; if you’re looking for a snack, a dollar bag of chips may be better for your budget.

Smoothie King makes truly fantastic smoothies that could easily be used as meal-replacement, but some prices climb as high as $8, placing them slightly out of reach of the budgets of many college students.

“Five Dollar Fridays” is a great way to try these more expensive smoothies without breaking the bank. Whether you want to slim down, bulk up or have a refreshing smoothie just to have a refreshing smoothie, Smoothie King will not disappoint; and if you come in on a Friday, you might just save a couple bucks.

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A student plays the popular game Plague Inc. available on the Apple App Store.

The top five games you should be playing on your mobile phone For people stuck in traffic, or more likely on the PRT, mobile games can be a great cure for boredom. And with more than 2 million apps available, there truly is a game out there for everyone. Here are a few to get you started.

KINGDOM RUSH: ORIGINS PRICE: $3 BUY THIS IF: you love complex strategy games The “Kingdom Rush” series has been popular for awhile, but its third entry, “Origins” is it’s strongest. The premise is simple. Lines of goblins, orcs and other monsters are marching to kill you. You have access to three different “towers” that will attack and kill the monsters. How you place those towers is where the skill comes in.

For a simple premise, “Origins” is fiendishly complex.

There are 44 enemy types, 21 levels and endless different ways to combine towers and strategize your defense. At the same time, it’s possible to just jump in and start cracking monster skulls. It’s a great, rewarding game for the experienced and an excellent, user-friendly entry point for beginners.

SUSHI CAT PRICE: 99 cents BUY THIS IF: you’re look-

ing to relax “Sushi Cat” is a more charming, family-friendly version of a popular Japanese gambling game, Pachinko.

Looking something like a vertical pinball table, Pachinko has you drop a ball down a table. The ball bumps into a series of pegs and lands in a hole at the bottom, hopefully the one that wins you a lot of money.

Replace the ball with a sluggish cat, add in seafood, slap in some cutesy art and BANG! You’ve got “Sushi Cat”. A lot of “Sushi Cat’ is just watching the cat bounce around and getting fatter, but it can be surprisingly addictive. And it’s a great, lowstakes way to kill time if you’re feeling stressed.

AGE OF ZOMBIES PRICE: 99 cents BUY THIS IF: you’re looking for frantic action Killing hordes of the undead has never felt better than in “Age of Zombies,” a time traveling zombie t-rex shooting extravaganza. Playing as the sleeveless and bearded Barry Steakfries, players kill hundreds of undead with grenades, flamethrowers and everything in between.

“Age of Zombies” most impressive feat might just be the large amount of craziness it

stuffs on screen at once. Having dozens of enemies swarming the screen of your phone can make for some extremely tense counters. Whatever direction you shoot, they just keep coming.

Released in 2010, “Zombies” does show its own age with some unfortunate control issues. I’ll probably never get used to controlling a character with virtual joysticks. Still, “Zombies” is a classic example of a mobile game pushing your device to its limits, and being better for it.

PLAGUE INC. PRICE: 99 cents BUY THIS IF: You like slow paced strategy With choices ranging from a good, old-fashioned virus to a bio-engineered super bug, whatever disease you pick in “Plague Inc.”, your goal is the same: wipe out those pesky humans once and for all.

What “Inc.” does better than anything else on the market is options.

You can spend points to have your disease gain new symptoms (perhaps the only time ever where tumors can be considered exciting), gain the ability to infect rats or birds, and a hundred other things.

Replay-ability is amazing, with every game feeling different.

Add in a huge amount of user made scenarios and diseases available to download online, and you’ve got a game that can entertain for hours.

SCRIBBLENAUTS: REMIX PRICE: 99 cents BUY THIS IF: you like using your imagination “Scribblenauts” is a breathtaking achievement in imagination, with the ability to summon and play with quite literally anything (so long as it isn’t copyrighted.) The protagonist, Maxwell, has a magic notebook, and anything, quite literally anything, written inside will come to life. You want a gigantic, angry, purple Cthulu? You got it! What about a rotten, living, cannibalistic couch? You can have that, too.

There are some rudimentary puzzles available to solve, but the real fun of “Scribblenauts” is just goofing around. Equipping an Albert Einstein look alike with a laser sword and having him fight a George Washington look alike with a whip brought me endless joy. And you can do this all on a device the size of your hand. Sure beats those old Nokia phones that could just play “Snake,” doesn’t it?

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SPORTS

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11, 2017

Babic develops into critical piece for WVU

BY MATT GOLD SPORTS WRITER Sophomore Milica Babic was named the West Virginia University student athlete of the week.

In the two matches the rifle team competed in (and ultimately won), Babic played a big role.

In the first match against the North Carolina State Wolfpack, she tied for second place in air rifle with a score of 593 and a score of 577 in smallbore, tying for fifth place.

Against Ohio State in the home opener, Babic won both the air rife and the smallbore events. In smallbore, she matched her career best with a score of 589, coming in the form of 192 kneeling, 199 prone and 198 standing. In air rifle, she shot a season best of 598.

WVU Head Coach Jon Hammond is impressed with her mentality.

“I think she improved on a few little things from our first match, mainly on the mental side, and she did a great job

executing today,” Hammond said. “Milica was a great example of showing what you are capable of when your focus is in the right place.

She did a great job working through both matches.”

In both matches, she has been part of the five Mountaineers to make up the winning score.

Babic, junior Ginny Thrasher, sophomore Morgan Phillips, redshirt freshman David Koenders and junior Will Anti are all talented shooters and no doubt make up the bulk of the scoring for West Virginia. With all five of them in the fold throughout the season, the Mountaineers are primed for another successful season and for another chance at winning a national championship. With some talented opponents on the upcoming schedule, it should prove to be a good test for the rest of the season and into the postseason.

The Mountaineers will resume play at 10 a.m. Saturday at the No. 15 Nebraska Cornhuskers.

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Milica Babic peers down the sights of her rifle.

WVU remains optimistic despite Martin’s injury

BY JOHN LOWE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Even with a heavy load of preseason injuries, the future looks pretty bright for the West Virginia women’s basketball team.

The Mountaineers return four of five starters (losing only Lanay Montgomery to graduation) to give the team an experience edge for the Big 12 season.

“If you look at us on paper, we’ve got everybody back but our center,” said WVU Head Coach Mike Carey.

Teana Muldrow, Chania Ray and Katrina Pardee all return from last season’s Big 12 Champion team.

One of the returning starters, Tynice Martin, will be unable to play right away due to a foot injury suffered during a pickup game while participating in tryouts for the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team.

“I feel sorry for her,” Carey said. “Because she was so excited coming into this year and was so excited trying out for USA basketball. For that to happen, I just feel bad for her. But she’ll be back. She’s a strong person. She’ll work hard. She’ll get back.”

Martin is eyeing a Decem-

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Tynice Martin takes a jump shot against the TCU Horned Frogs. ber return, but it could be until conference play because Carey does not want to risk

her health.

“It’s up to the doctors,” Carey said. “We are not going

to put her out on the floor too early. I won’t do that because she’s got a great career ahead

of her, even past college in my opinion. She will be fighting me.”

Being unable to practice with her teammates, Martin has taken up boxing as one of the activities to remain healthy while she can’t practice.

“I let a lot of anger out that way because I can’t do anything else right now,” Martin said. “So it’s going pretty well for me.”

West Virginia’s relatively lesser early schedule should allow the team to remain successful until Martin returns, as the Mountaineers face only one NCAA Tournament team from last season (Texas A&M) and three WNIT teams (Drexel, Virginia Tech and Morehead State) before Big 12 play begins on Dec. 28.

However, depth will still be an issue in November and December. Anja Martin, Nia Staples and Krystaline McCune are all injured and will be unable to play right away due to injury, and Ohio State transfer Theresa Ekhelar won’t be eligible until January.

“I’d like to go one year with the whole team to see what we can do,” Carey said.

The Mountaineers start the season with an exhibition against West Virginia Wesleyan on at 4 p.m. on Oct. 29. in the Coliseum. The Bobcats finished 6-20 in 2017, finishing 10th in the Mountain East Conference.

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WVU finishes in second place at home tournament

BY JOSEPH SEVERINO CORRESPONDENT West Virginia finished runner-up at the Mountaineer Health Plan Invitational on Tuesday after surging all the way up from seventh place, where the team started the day.

Junior Max Sear tied with Rutgers’ Matt Holuta for the low medalist of the final round after shooting a 66. Sear tied for 10th overall individually.

Sophomore Etienne Papineau finished second overall after shooting a 71 in the final round to cap off an impressive tournament performance.

Rounding out the team scores for the final round are junior Tristan Nicholls (68), sophomore Philipp Matlari (72) and freshman Matthew Sharpstene (75).

Nicholls’ last round bumped him up to a 24th place finish, Sharpstene tied for 37th, and Matlari finished tied for 62nd overall.

“I’m really proud of the guys today,” said WVU Head Coach Sean Covich in an interview with WVUSports. com. “To shoot the lowest score of the tournament in the last round when we absolutely had to have it was impressive. I think today, plus our performance at VCU,

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WVU competed in the Mountaineer Health Plan Invitational on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.

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Sophomore Etienne Papineau follows through on a stroke. shows what these guys are capable of.”

As for the individual Mountaineers competing, seniors Avery Schneider (77) and Drew Dewald (72), along with freshmen Logan Perkins

(69) and Mark Goetz (74), all shot well in the final round and placed higher overall than half of all the golfers competing.

Schneider finished the invitational tied for 15th over-

“To shoot the lowest score of the tournament in the last round when we absolutely had to have it was impressive.

I think today, plus our performance at VCU, shows what these guys are capable of.”

-Sean Covich, WVU golf head coach all, Dewald tied for 19th, followed by Perkins (tied 27th) and Goetz (tied 37th).

Bowling Green captured the win, beating the Moun-

taineers by two strokes; 864 to 866. Rutgers followed the Mountaineers with 868.

The Mountaineers are off until Oct. 22-24, when they

travel to Windermere, Florida to compete in the threeday Tavistock Collegiate Invitational. They are co-hosting the match with UCF.

Coombes becomes second international freshman to notch goal for Mountaineers

BY CONNOR HICKS SPORTS WRITER During a 5-1 win over Oklahoma on Sunday afternoon, the No. 7 Mountaineers (11-3, 4-1) finally found the offensive firepower that has been an area of concern all season.

With five different goal scorers, a goal might seem less significant, but a 75th minute goal while already ahead 4-0 may have been the most significant score of the match.

Sophomore Jade Gentile started a scoring opportunity and fired two consecutive shots on net, attempting to pad West Virginia’s already insurmountable lead.

The first was saved by Oklahoma’s McKinley Crone.

Gentile’s rebound shot was recovered and she took another shot that was knocked away by a Sooner defender.

The ball found freshman Issy Coombes, who found the in-

side of the right post to put the Mountaineers ahead by five. The goal was the first career goal for Coombes, who was seeing playing time for just the second time this season.

Although the Hamilton, New Zealand native hasn’t seen the field much this season, she is no newcomer when it comes to scoring. Coombes is a two-year member of the New Zealand U-20 national team, playing for the team in the 2014 and 2016 FIFA Women’s U-20 World Cup. The midfielder tallied a goal against the United States in a 3-1 loss in 2016.

She assisted with Norway’s quarterfinal finish and traveled with the team for tours in Brazil, France and Norway in 2014.

In p r i ma r y s c h o o l , Coombes was a three-time player of the year and twotime captain for the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls in Hamilton. She has already

graduated from Massey University and enrolled early at WVU this spring as an exercise physiology student, receiving President’s List and Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll honors in her first semester.

Prior to Sunday’s match, Coombes only saw action in a 1-0 win over La Salle earlier this season. She saw a career-high 25 minutes against Oklahoma and recorded her first career shot on her goal.

With the goal, she is 10th on the team in scoring despite just 27 minutes played and is the only member of the team with a perfect shooting percentage.

Over the past several years, head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown has been known as one of the most prominent recruiters of Canadian players in the country, with a roster headed by Canadian superstars Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence. Through the recruitment of Issy Coombes

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A headshot of freshman Issy Coombes of the WVU Rifle Team. along with other international freshmen Lois Joel and Grace Smith from England and Stefany Ferrer-Vanginkel from Barcelona, Izzo-Brown has effectively set the foundation for a core of international players to carry the torch for the Mountaineers over the next four years.

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Griers through the years

A collection of photos of the Grier family submitted by Nila Grier.

The Grier family on vacation at the beach.

Will Grier practices in front of scouts at football camp.

A family portrait of the Grier family.

The men of the Grier family dressed up for an event

The Grier boys having fun opening presents on a holiday.

Young Grier boys playing football in the yard.

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Jay Figueroa

Sarah Butler

MEET SARAH BUTLER She was our first place 2017 DA Coloring Book winner.

Sarah is a first year Bio/Chem major and she won up to $500 for her spring books from the WVU Bookstore!

Congratulating her is bookstore manager Jay Figueroa.

Her family advised her to remember the basics - stay in the lines, you never know how much more something can become! Great advice for coloring and for life in general - in this case it became $500!

Right: Sarah with her favorite page in the book - Woodburn.

She loves painting, belonging to various clubs and working on computers.

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