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TODAY
Midnight is the deadline to drop a course in STAR without withdrawing from all your classes. Make sure to speak with your advisor if you have any questions.
FRIDAY WVU Trunk or Treat will be from 4 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at the WVU Shell Building next to the Coliseum. Volunteer your time and candy for a great cause. For more information, visit http://calendar.wvu.edu/event/trunk-or-treat/
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FRIDAY WVU Women’s Soccer faces Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. at Dick Dlesk Stadium. Admission is free for students with a valid student ID.
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SATURDAY The WVU ACHA Division 1 club hockey team faces Robert Morris University at 4 p.m. at Morgantown Ice Arena, located at 1001 Mississippi Street. Admission is free for students with a valid student ID
Cover by Andrew Spellman. Check out this issue for Halloween bar specials, how not to decorate your dorm and what to do if you choose to stay in this weekend.
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What you need to know when you decorate your dorm ALANNA LONGNECKER CORRESPONDENT
Items like paper decorations hung on your dorm room door, those pumpkin-scented candles you just had to buy or the purple and orange lights strung around your light fixtures? Leave them at home. Before you go out shopping for last-minute Halloween decorations, check and see if those decorations are allowed in University-owned housing. According to WVU’s Housing and Residence Life website, there are certain items prohibited. While the majority of these items are related to drugs, alcohol and weapons, a commonly overlooked
category of non-permitted items include “any combustible, explosive or flammable material.” McKenzi Barnett, resident assistant at Towers, has been dealing with Halloween decorations a lot this year. Her residents are currently competing to win a door decorating contest for Halloween. “One thing I see is girls wanting to hang lights up on their doors,” Barnett said. “The issue with that is that would require an extension cord, and extension cords are prohibited, as they are a fire hazard.” Even though plastic and paper are definitely flammable, decorations such as plastic “Do not enter” tape and paper items are allowed to
be hung on dormitory doors or in dorm rooms as long as they are not coming into contact with lights, according to Barnett. As fun as fog machines may be, they are not allowed in University-owned housing, either. If any of these items, including flammable or combustible decorative material, such as straw or artificial spider webs, are found in a resident’s room, they will be warned to take it down before being written up. “Residents and/or their guests may not devise any unsafe situations in which a member of the residential community could be injured,” said Patricia Cendana, director of Residence Life at WVU. “Residents may not af-
fix or suspend any tapestries in such a way that it creates a health or safety hazard.” Cendana also reminded that any sort of decoration may not be hung outside of windows, wrapped around light fixtures or smoke detectors or touching sprinklers, as this significantly increases the risk of fire—Halloween time is no exception. This Halloween season, you can still have fun with decorations even if you live in a dorm. Just remember, when in doubt, do not purchase the potentially flammable, maybe combustible decoration just because it would really bring the whole look together—there are plenty of other options that accommodate your needs.
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Freshman Andrea Blankenship, Biology student, loves to decorate. “It was simple to put up, and (I) used a lot of stickers,” Blankenship said.
Digital Publishing Institute encourages students to use University resources BY MATTHEW PENNOCK CORRESPONDENT
International Open Access week is in its ninth year globally and its first year at WVU. The Digital Publishing Institute at WVU is teaming up with WVU libraries to celebrate Open Access week and bring awareness to free and valid research students and faculty may not know about. Open Access refers to free research resources and documents the public has direct access to. DPI is an organization
housed at WVU that seeks to help students and faculty publish their work in a way that maximizes public readership within the digital medium. Cheryl Ball, the director of the DPI at the University, described Open Access week as a good way to teach students how to discern between good research and bad research. For example, determining whether or not an open access outlet is legitimate. “(Your) gut reaction should be to think that it (Open Access) is illegitimate,” Ball explained.
Because Open Access research is free, many have criticized it as being prone to illegitimacy. Nonetheless the DPI hopes to teach students and faculty how to assess Open Access research. Wikipedia, a resource commonly criticized by educators because anyone can add or remove information is a good place to start for Open Access materials, Ball said. What is important, she emphasized, is “how to interpret and how to continue” finding more information.
Open Access Week also seeks to teach students how to find legitimate research even after they graduate. As Ball pointed out, research is very limited after graduation, as graduates no longer have access to some of the research tools previously available to them at WVU. Each day this week there will be an event pertaining to Open Access. On Tuesday there was a workshop on how to find free research other than Wikipedia.
Open access events schedule How Can I Make My Research Public? Wednesday 3–4 p.m. WVU Evansdale Library, Room 228/229 Workshop for faculty and advanced graduate students on what it means to access or publish research in OA venues, including peer-reviewed journals and repositories, and some of the myths of OA publishing. Scholars’ Rights When It Comes to Publishing Thursday 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. WVU Downtown Library, Room 2036 A brown bag lunch to discuss what rights scholars have when publishing their research, how to publish in OA formats and what resources are available through WVU Libraries. Using Wikipedia in Your Syllabi Friday 3–4 p.m. Evansdale Crossing, Media Innovation Center Learn about the growing movement toward Wikipedia’s use in higher education classrooms.
4 | NEWS
WEDNESDAY OCT. 26, 2016
As Election Day looms, Democrats favor down-ballot BY DANIEL BLAIR STAFF WRITER
As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton continue to soak up national headlines, national Republicans are beginning to worry about their congressional majorities in both houses of Congress. The historic unpopularity of Trump on the top of the ballot, and an electoral map that is less favorable toward Republicans, have combined to give Democrats a chance to win back a majority of seats in the House for the first time since the GOP takeover in 2010, as well as regain a Senate majority they lost in the 2014 midterms. In the Senate, Republicans are defending seven seats in
states won twice by President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, a stark reversal from 2014, where Democrats were forced to defend seven seats in states won by Mitt Romney. Republicans currently hold a 54-46 (including two independents who caucus with Democrats) advantage in the Senate, meaning Democrats need to only flip five seats to gain an outright majority. The statistical analysis site FiveThirtyEight registered a 74.2 percent chance that Democrats regain the Senate on Oct. 24, the left’s highest percentage-chance published since at least mid-July. In the House, Republicans hold a much stronger 246-188 lead, however there are grow-
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Bill Clinton, in foreground, watches the second presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Washington University, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, in St. Louis. ing fears that low turnout among suburban voters in traditionally Republican districts could greatly erode the
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GOP majority. The Cook Political Report, which analyzes individual House races, finds 22 districts currently held by
Republicans as either “likely Democrat,” “leaning Democrat,” or “tossup,” with a further 12 GOP seats classified only as “leaning Republican,” giving Democrats ample opportunity to pick up seats. As Clinton’s polling lead has widened substantially in the past few weeks, top Democrats have turned their fire toward down-ballot initiatives, seeking to connect congressional Republican candidates with their presidential nominee. Obama, at a rally for Clinton in Miami Gardens, Fla. last Thursday, excoriated former presidential candidate, and current senator, Marco Rubio for his continued support for Trump. “How can he call him a
con-artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he’s said, but then say ‘I’m still going to vote for him’?” Obama said. “C’mon man.” Clinton, for her part, lambasted another Republican senator fighting for re-election on Saturday in Philadelphia, asking a crowd at the University of Pennsylvania how Pat Toomey can still support Trump. “He heard Donald Trump insult African Americans, POWs. He heard him engage in saying terrible things about women. He saw him spreading the lie that President Obama was not born in the United States. How much does he have to hear or to see?”
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Poisoned Halloween candy: debunked myth BY BRANDON RIDGELY OPINION EDITOR
One of the scariest stories that circulates every Halloween is a big, fat unfounded lie. You probably know the one. You might’ve heard it when you were young, just as you headed out the door pillowcase in tow. Someone out there, behind one of the many doors you might knock on, was coating Pixie Stix in cyanide or jamming razor blades into apples. It may have spooked you then, but don’t let it spook you now. It’s not true, and it never has been. According to http:// snopes.com, there has never been a death directly at-
tributed to poison Halloween candy targeted toward the public. Surprised? Here’s the instances you may have heard about, and the real stories behind them. In 1970, Kevin Toston of Detroit died after eating some of his uncle’s heroin stash. In an effort to protect the uncle, his family claimed the heroin was sprinkled throughout his Halloween candy. In 1974, Timothy O’Bryan of Deer Park, Texas, was said to have died from eating a cyanide laced Pixie Stix he collected from trick-ortreating. But police said the 8-year-old was murdered by his father, who even gave out other poisoned candy to
other children to cover the targeted murder of his son. The father was caught and executed 10 years later. In 1990, Ariel Katz of Santa Monica, Calif., died while trick-or-treating. It was initially blamed on poisoned candy, but was actually caused by a previously diagnosed enlarged heart. These are sad stories, but none of them are the result of devious candy purveyors out to get the world. So if you do go door-todoor, or the more conveniently arranged trunkto-trunk of Trunk or Treat events across Morgantown, do so with confidence so the only thing you have to worry about are the calories your candy is packing, and not the arsenic it isn’t.
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This Sept. 30, 2007 file photo shows “Fun Size” and “Mini” candies in New York. The cost of the ingredients in chocolate is rising, and the nation’s biggest candy makers have already warned that shoppers are going to see price hikes in 2015.
University Police Department under the microscope BY ALEX WEIDMAN CORRESPONDENT
This week’s open question courtesy of SGA is “What’s your perception of the University Police Department?” Here’s my take. Just over a year ago, students flooded the Mountainlair green for the now annual phenomenon known as Tent City. Tents were pitched, lights strung up, groups of friends gathered and revelry ensued. All of this was sanctioned by the University and monitored by UPD.
During that week, I witnessed campus police cheerfully making their way through a maze of tents, happily conversing with residents, and in a few unguarded instances, taking a pong shot or two. It seemed to be the perfect ratio of interaction and enforcement. Students were happy and safe, and the campus police ensured the community remained so. At WVU, our interactions tend to consistently unfold in this way. Our University’s force
seems fully aware of the type of campus they are protecting. Officers know WVU’s reputation as a party school and seem to successfully conduct themselves as a facet of a campus with that reputation. The campus police tend to only step in when things get irresponsibly out of hand and when they’re needed. But, this might not always be the case, and has been less evident lately. The recent focus on campus has been to steer away from the party school
image we’ve held, and with it, the attitude of UPD may be changing as well. This year’s Tent City was much less an open celebration. UPD was much more concerned with enforcement compared to last year. Instead of taking the backseat approach, the police actively stalked the tents and forced students to dump any and all alcohol. I w a s l e g i t i mat e l y shocked when, on the first night, our neighbors were told angrily to trash their beer. There was no hint of the cheerfulness I had wit-
nessed before. No pong, no celeb-shots. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised things were different. Tent City is a party and WVU is actively working to get rid of its party school reputation. At Tent City, it seemed the police were the front line of this change. “Crime rates are normally a reflection of the community and the police in partnership,” said UPD Chief Bob Roberts in a press release earlier this month regarding the Clery report.
Students should feel like they’re partners with the campus police, as we did during last year’s Tent City. We shouldn’t feel like the awaiting subjects of their enforcement. You can join in on this discussion at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in Hatfield’s in the Mountainlair. Campus police representatives will be present to answer questions and listen to feedback from students, and students are encouraged to come offer their own perspective.
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8 | CULTURE
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CULTURE
What to do if you stay in for Halloween By Jackson Montgomery, Culture Editor Netflix and Thrill Black Mirror, Season 3—The best horror films leave you lingering in fear for days on end. This is because a key aspect of the genre is playing on cultural fears, worries that are so timely and plausible they speak to everybody living at the time of the film’s release. This near-future, sci-fi series explores the darkest aspects of the next wave of high technology. While the show typically eschews the jump-scares and tension-building of more traditional horror, its ability to pry into your psyche is enough to make you log off social media for a day and go out for some fresh air. American Horror Story: Hotel—For a series that will really elicit some terror, look no further than the fifth season of
this horror anthology. Each season revolves around a different location and characters; this time around the scenery is based on an actual hotel built for the 1893 World’s Fair by the con artist H.H. Holmes. Holmes designed the place specifically so he could murder its guests and dispose of their corpses without being discovered. Extraordinary Tales—If classic horror is more your thing, this compendium of famous Edgar Allen Poe works should do nicely. With narration from drama and horror legends Christopher Lee, Julian Sands, Guillermo Del Toro and the late, great Bela Lugosi himself, these animated renditions of Poe’s works are sure to thrill.
Games The Nightjar—You’re stranded on a space station in a failing orbit around a collapsed star. It’s been boarded by a hoard of man-eating aliens and the crew left on an escape pod, leaving you behind as bait. The lights are completely out, leaving you with only your sense of hearing and the voice talents of Benedict Cumberbatch in an earpiece to help guide you around. The controls are simple: buttons for your left and right feet and a steering wheel dominate the screen. Everything else in this iOS exclusive is relayed to you through an incredible use of binaural audio processing, so as you navigate around the ship the noises of dark matter-fueled generators, softly pulsing door sensors and flesh-gobbling aliens drift around your head in a full 360, leaving you to imagine what sort of horrors lie in the depths of the Nightjar. Sinister Edge—This Android app can be played without a virtual reality headset,
but it’s highly recommended you strap on the Google Cardboard and immerse yourself. It’s a fairly standard adventure-horror game. Players set out to explore an abandoned mansion for their missing companions, gathering useful items and solving puzzles, but get more than they bargain for when the full story of the disappearances becomes evident. Google Cardboard is available to order from the Google store, but if you want it in time for the weekend, check Best Buy here in Morgantown. 11:57—This award-winning, multi-platform VR experience is more of a film than a game. The viewer finds themselves tied to a chair in a dark, dirt-floor basement. As the video progresses all manner of terrifying figures move through the room, sneaking up on the viewer and screaming, lingering ominously in the shadows, whatever it takes to terrify.
WVU Swing Dance Club to host Halloween party Saturday BY MOLLY TITUS CORRESPONDENT
We’ve all seen the meme of the dancing man in a black unitard with a pumpkin on his head, but what is he dancing to this time? Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and a whole lot more. The WVU Swing Dance Club will be hosting its 10th annual Halloween dance this Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. David Loomis, the club’s president, invites the entire Morgantown community to come out and enjoy more than just the free dance lessons. “We will have light refreshments, local vendors
and several door prizes to keep people busy while they’re off the dance floor,” Loomis said. Along with the lesson and live dance, there will be multiple competitions held throughout the night. Attendees are encouraged to come dressed up for the costume contest and also the choreographed dance contest. “It will be a night filled with music, swinging jazz and blues and plenty of fun,” Loomis said. In addition, guests can enjoy a photo booth, a live-action poet-for-hire, Halloween-inspired refreshments, vintage vendors and board and card games.
The club also has special guest dancers coming in from as far as Washington D.C. and local lounge pianist Matt Jordan is scheduled to perform. The dance is located at St. John University Parish, and free parking is available. General admission is $10 and free for children under 12. The dance lessons begin at 7 p.m. followed by the live band dance and competitions which begin at 8 p.m.
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Halloween Weekend Drink Specials BY MOLLY TITUS, CORRESPONDENT
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Amy Hessl compares rings on trees to lines of music. She says each ring is like a note. But in this case, the music doesn’t repeat itself, because climate tends to vary in such a way that it doesn’t repeat. Hessl spoke to Managing Editor Jennifer Gardner about how she uses the rings of trees to understand what past climate was like. Q. How do you measure climate change based on the rings of trees? A. Trees, depending on where they are, grow faster when it’s wetter and slower when it’s dryer. If they are limited by temperatures, like if they grow at very high elevations, then they might grow faster when it’s warmer and slower when it’s colder. So their ring widths tell us something about what past climate was like. They have lots of other properties we can look at as well, including the chemical makeup of the wood and some of the physical properties of the cells. Q. Where do you study the trees? A. I have worked most recently in Mongolia. They have really long-lived trees there and the trees are very responsive to past moisture conditions, so they have really accurate representations of moisture change. That’s the ideal situation. There is deadwood that we can use to extend our records further back in time. Q. What interests you about studying trees in relation to climate change? A. I’ve always had an interest in the past and past societies and how things might have been different or the the same for them. Some of the things I have observed looking at past climate variability and past societies is that it appears there are similar patterns. There’s an empire I’m looking at right now called the Uyghur Empire. They had a massive empire in central Asia during the 8th and 9th century and they experienced a really severe drought that lasted a long time—around 60 years—and they don’t appear to have realized they were in a drought. I think they got used to it, and I think that’s an interesting aspect of human behavior. You make these gradual adaptations to something and the new normal becomes acceptable and eventually you find yourself in a situation you can’t sustain anymore. I think that’s what happened with the Uyghurs, and I kind of wonder if that’s what is happening with us now. Q. How is this affecting us now? A. Climate is changing and we are sort of adapting to this climate change and it’s becoming normal for us to accept these changes in climate. Will
Amy Hessl, Ph. D. Departments of Geology and Geography Professor we just sort of keep making these incremental adaptations until we can’t adapt to it anymore and it becomes too hot? We’ve lived in an altered climate for at least 20 years, possibly 40, so that’s pretty much my lifetime. I think we have sort of just made incremental adaptations to that and change is normal to us now. The fact that it is hotter this year than it was last year is normalized. Q. Has there been any “Aha” moment for you in your research? A. I have a new research project where I am looking at past climate in Tasmania and they have all of these endemic conifers that don’t grow anywhere else in the world and they’re really long-lived. So they can live for a thousand years and they do this thing where the trees die and the wood just hangs out and doesn’t decay. We can create 2,000 years of climate record from these trees. We had kind of a moment of discovery where we were sampling trees that were mostly alive, and we saw these piles of logs at high elevation on top of each other and we thought maybe we should sample those and see how old those are. We were able to connect the growth of the living tree and overlap it with the dead trees. Q. How are you able to connect the growth of different trees? A. So you find periods where the dead trees were alive at the same time as the living trees, and then the pattern of responses that they have to climate overlaps, and that’s the way you can date these pieces of deadwood and figure out when they were alive. We’ve done that and we now have this 2,000 year record for Tasmania and it actually tells us some really interesting things about how temperature, and potentially moisture, has changed in the Southern Hemisphere, which is a super useful tool because we have lots of records for what has happened in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 2,000 years, but we have very few for the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere doesn’t behave in tandem with the Northern Hemisphere, so it’s just a really interesting record and it was kind of accidental.
10 | SPORTS
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Midseason grades of West Virginia Football Throughout the first six weeks of the season, WVU has provided few negatives and many more positives that led to a 6-0 reco ord r and a No. 10 national ranking. Here are the midseason n gr grad ades es for o the defense, offense, special teams and coaching:
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Defense was waas pr proj o eccte ted d to be onee off the team’s weea eaker keer un unit its after it lost four u ur pllay a ers to the NFL L Draftt, an a d Dravon Asske kew Henrry’ kewy s seaso on-eend n ing ing in njury, bu itt’ss been an but bu anyt ytthi h ng n but tha h t. Instead, it’ t s beeen thee str tro ongeest area this season, esp spec eccia i ll llyy ovverr the laas ast tw two weeks. WVU helld Tex Teexas Te Tech h—a teeam that at entered ed aveeragingg 55.22 po poin ints per in game me—to o 17 poi oint oi n s last nt st week. It followe weed up by limiting TCU, a team that en e te tered the game averaging 40.2 pointss, to 10 points and three turnovers (two frro ov om special teams). That’s abo ab out as imp pressive as it gets, considerin i g th thee Horned Frogs totaled just 93 yards in the he second half. What hollds d the defense back— k at least accorrding to multiple pla layy erss wh er who o gr grad ade the defense as a “C” or “B B” at bes est— t—is i its t com ts om mmun muni nica cati tion. Bu ut whil wh ilee th there’ss room m for imp pro r ve vem ment, thee resu th ult ltss this seaso on ar a e pointi ting ngg in WVU’ WV U s faavo vor. r.
Thrro Th ro rough the fi th firs r t fo rs four ur to five ve gaam ames of the h seaso on, speccial tea eams con on nti tinnued to be th ue he Moun nta tain nee eerss’ bi big igg gges ges estt w akkness we ss. The un Th unit struggled to fi find nd d goo od st star artar ting field position in th he BY YU ga game me,, it me currently ranks in the h bot otto tom mh ha alff of college football in field goal a per erce c nt ce ntag agee ag (sitting at the No. 68 ran nki king ngg wit ith h a 71 percent conversion rate) and nd iss 10 1088th 8th in punt retturn ya yards. While those statistics aren’t in WVU’s favor, the h unit ha hass pr proggreessssed over the pastt two weeeks ks. It for orce ced d two fumbles on n kiccko koff koff ffss ag agai ains nst TCU, one of which resu ulted ed d in a Mo Moun untaineer touchdown on the he openiing dri rive v a few plays later. Punt nter Billy Kin nney is quiet uiie ly flying under th he radar on n speeci cial al tea eams ms whi h le replacing fo f rmer All ll-B Bigg 12 ca cand n idate Nick O’Too ole le. Ki Kinn n eyy is aver averag av agin i g 44 yards per pu unt nt, pl placingg hi h m at No. 2 in the conference ce..
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COACHING H ad He d coaach Dana Holg lgorsen lauded lg hiis crop p off as assistants for their efforts th hiss seea eason eas son an and he has every rig i ht ig h to, o e peciiall es allly ly wit ith h defensive coordi dina di n to na or Ton To ny Gib bso son. n. Gibson on’s ’s defense ranks 15th naati tion on-on allly l in teerm rmss of scoring defense, ho old l i g oppone in nents to 17.8 points per gam a e. am Offeens Off n ive coordinator Joe Wickline has “don “d on ne a good job with game planning,” in Holgo ors r en’s words. He also provided a bo b ost on the recru ruitin ing in ng trrai a l byy using his past exp xper erie ienc nces es as a co coaach at a junior college in Mississippi to haull in n commitmentss fo forr th this is sea easo son and the future. Wickline hass helped bring in running ni ng back Justtin Crawford from Northweestt Mississip ppi C.C. during the final week ekss befo ore r Sig igni ning ng Day ay. He was onl nlyy the se seco cond ndar aryy re recr crui uite terr on Cra rawf wfor ord d acco ord rdin ingg to o 247 Sports, but he’ss beeen n the pr prim imar aryy reecr crui uite terr on two currre rent nt WVU co comm mmitts fr from om the sam amee sc scho h ol as Craawf w or ord: d: Jal alen en Har arve veyy an and d Qu Quon onddariu us Qual Qu ua lss.
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