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Tuesday February 26, 2013
Volume 125, Issue 105
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Up All Night coming to Evansdale By Summer Ratcliff Staff writer
West Virginia University’s WVUp All Night has been giving students an on-campus late night alternative since 1998. With activities ranging from movies and snacks to skating and stand-up comedy, each weekend hundreds of students participate in WVUp All Night. This semester, Residence Hall Association is joining
forces with WVUp All Night to bring an expansion event to the Evansdale campus. Beginning March 8-9, RHA will debut and test run WVUp All Night Extended at the Student Recreation Center. Students will have an opportunity to play laser tag, enjoy snacks and socialize with friends. The extension program was an original idea of Walter Hardy, RHA president, as a way to allow students who live on the Evansdale cam-
pus to access the activities more easily. “RHA is excited about this opportunity to take WVUp All Night to Evansdale and the Rec,” Hardy said. “This will give students who may not be able to get downtown the opportunity to participate.” Hardy said RHA has planned these events to be convenient for those students in the dorms, however the extension event is open to all WVU students. “Bringing WVUp All Night
to Evansdale is another way for us to help our students who may live in Pierpont or Towers and the surrounding dorms,” Hardy said. “However, even though RHA is targeting students within these residence halls, all WVU students – as well as their guests – are encouraged to attend.” Sonja Wilson, director of WVUp All Night, said for this semester, the extension will be limited to one weekend. Wilson said the hope is
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that, in the future, the Evansdale program will occur on a regular basis. “We want to work together in this venture and create a more cohesive system that truly reaches the needs of our students,” Wilson said. “If that means expanding to Evansdale on a more regular basis, then we want to work toward that.” “Its something for us to partner together and build a program that will allow everyone to buy into WVUp
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SGA debate lets candidates share ideas, discuss platforms to students by Carlee Lammers & Bryan Bumgardner da staff
Members of THE Party and SGA Revolution faced off Monday for the 2013 Student Government Association debate. Students supporting both parties filled the Mountainlair food court to show support for the candidates. Forest “Jack” Bowman, former West Virginia University law professor and previous student body president, moderated the debate. He posed questions concerning student health, SGA transparency and student inclusivity. The debate began and concluded with presidential debates, and governors of each campaign presented their platforms in between. Sparks flew during the presidential debates, with both parties claiming superior experience. “Ben and I have over seven years of experience together as student executives and governors,” said Revolution presidential candidate Ryan Campione. “That’s more than THE Party’s entire student government experience combined.” THE Party vice-presidential candidate Andrea Mucino fired back.
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Supporters look on during Monday’s SGA debate.
Student to ‘spin’ for cancer research By Evelyn Merithew Staff writer
Summer break is the time when West Virginia University students kick back, relax and soak up the sun at the pool. Rachael Taylorson, a senior from Fallston, Md., is spending her summer a little differently. Taylorson, along with 24 other young adults, will bike 4,000 miles during a 70-day period across the country to raise cancer awareness. The 4K for Cancer is a non-profit program of the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults. The bike ride will take
place June 1-Aug. 10. “My teammates and I will bike across the country, raise awareness and support young adults and families who are affected by cancer or have cancer themselves,” Taylorson said. The ride will begin at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and end at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Although the cyclers will be busy with 4,000 miles to ride across the country, they will stop periodically to raise awareness for the cause along the way. “Every night we will stay at a church, hospital, school or with host families. We will help teach the people
we meet the warning signs of cancer, things they can do to prevent cancer and where they can go if they need help,” Taylorson said. Volunteers from the different lodging locations will provide the cyclers dinner, and fast food restaurants will donate food for breakfasts and lunches during the course of the trip. When signing up for the ride, each cycler had to pledge to raise $4,500 before May 15. Although Taylorson has not yet reached her pledging goal, she has tried to raise money in many different ways. “I’ve knocked on doors,
asked family friends, talked to some local businesses. I would really like to try and get some support from local Morgantown businesses and maybe get some support from the University,” she said. She also plans to host fundraisers and car washes within the next few months to fund her cause. Taylorson said she became interested in the trip when her boyfriend, Chris, told her he participated in a similar trip four years ago. “I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Chris’ mom unfortunately passed away from Parkinson’s and
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This week, West Virginia University will focus on educating students and faculty on how to live a sustainable lifestyle through the 2013 Spring Sustainability Awareness Week. The Office of Sustainability has teamed with the Student Government Association to give an educational and entertaining week full of tips and resources to help promote sustainable living, raise awareness and highlight WVU’s commitment to sustainability. The week kicked off Sunday with “Campus Cleanup” and will continue to provide presentations, demonstrations, games and many other oncampus events to attend. “Taste not Waste” is the focus for Tuesday, and groups of WVU underclassmen committed to educating and engaging fellow students about adopting sustainable practices also called Eco-reps will be stationed outside of each campus dining hall to present information on the recent dining waste. “We’ll see some of the numbers from the audit that was conducted last
year that will give them a sense of how much they are wasting themselves and hopefully alter their behaviors based off those numbers,” said Daniel Bissinger, a graduate agriculture and resource economics student. “Those numbers were pretty dramatic – almost 13,000 pounds of organic waste alone.” Some of the efforts WVU is making in its dining sustainability include trayless dinning, donating excess food to local charities, donating cooking oil to a biodiesel processor, using trans fat-free oils in fryers, switching to compact fluorescent lighting and recycling cardboard and steel cans. While the University is making efforts toward a greener institution, students and faculty are encouraged to participate this week and learn how they, too, can be a sustainable aspect of WVU. “We are doing ‘Sign the Pledge,’ so we are trying to promote more WVU students to participate in more sustainable acts like cleaning up, turning off a light switch, stuff like that,” said Reed Dempsey, a senior
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WVU student publishes children’s book Mel Moraes/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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WVU to host sustainability week By Meghan Bonomo
SGA vice presidential candidate Ben Seebaugh speaks during Monday’s debate.
All Night and get the students more involved as freshmen, and then keep them involved.” The laser tag WVUp All Night Extended debut will be held March 8-9 from 7-11 p.m at the Student Recreation Center. For more information about WVUp All Night, visit the program’s website, www. mountainlair.wvu.edu/ wvupallnight.
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ON THE INSIDE The West Virginia women’s basketball team will host a rematch with Kansas State tonight at the Coliseum. SPORTS PAGE 9
Freshmen Elementary Education major Addie Schneid has recently written and published her own children’s book. The book is entitled “Shelly on the Seashore” and is Schneid’s first book entitled “Shelly on the Seashore.” Schneid says she came up with the idea while at the beach one summer. The story is about a seashell that travels the world on the ocean, visiting many interesting places. On the way the seashell makes several friends but at the same time becomes lonely because she has no family to return home to. After being told by a publisher that she should wait until she had a degree to start thinking about publishing a book, Schneid decided to take matters into her own hands and began searching the internet for alternate methods of publishing. She came across a website called AuthorHouse Publishing, sent an email, and received a phone call the very next day. Schneid paid for the pub-
lishing, and was in full command through the entire process through correspondence with the publishing company. Schneid was able to have a say in all of the illustrations, and was even able to add some of her own personal touches, including a shout out to her alma mater, Central Catholic High School, on one of the pages. Shneid said Karen Culcasi, a World Regions professor, was a major influence in the writing of the book. Schneid turned to her for help in deciding which places the seashell should travel in the book. “It is crucial and amazing to have a student like Addie be an advocate for geographers,” says Culcasi. “She was already very motivated on her own, so I was happy to help her look for unique geographical locations.” Schneid and Culcasi discussed ocean currents and the way a seashell would realistically flow through the ocean, as well as many places with unique topographical features that would make the book
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PROBLEMATIC PLAY The WVU men’s basketball team has had its share of struggles this season, much to the dismay of head coach Bob Huggins. SPORTS PAGE 12