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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

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Tuesday September 16, 2014

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Volume 127, Issue 22

Univ. Police warns students of fake employment scam by david schlake staff writer @dailyathenaeum

If you didn’t get the email last week, there is a scam going around campus right now that the University Police Department has been warning students about. The scam attracts students by using employment banks at colleges and universities. Different front companies use names that sound legitimate, and pretend to hire students. But in reality, they’re actually just trying to launder money. Students who apply are sent a cashier’s check and then told to buy “Green Dot Money Pak Cards” and email the PIN numbers to one or more supervisors. Students are told that any leftover funds are theirs to keep, before they find out the check is fraudulent. “These are scams we’ve seen before,” said West Virginia University Police Chief Bob Roberts. “These are just coming from different people.” Roberts has worked for UPD for the last 29 years, and has served as Chief for the last 24. He says this is nothing out of the ordinary and there are red flags that will tell you almost every time whether or not it’s real. “If you’re getting a message that’s asking you to cash a check and keep a certain amount, it’s a scam,” he said. “If it looks too good to be true, it’s a scam. When you get something like that, go online and check it out or call our department and we’ll check it out. But make sure you don’t get sucked into it.” The two front companies that posed a threat were Rolex and Shimmery, which indeed sent out cashier checks and promoted an employment opportunity. With Shimmery, the scammer posted a fake job opportunity as an office assistant on a University web-based career board. “This information on these scams originally came from other institutions,”Roberts said. “Everyone is trying to work together to put a stop to it.” Roberts said that as soon as anything suspicious surfaces in the area, UPD makes an attempt to spread the news to the National White Collar Crime Network as well as other agencies. “As soon as we get the information, we try to share it with these agencies so they can put info out and conduct any investigations that they will do.” he said. “At the federal level, they typically look into these widespread scams, particularly the online ones.” UPD has asked any student who receives a suspicious email to forward it to DefendYourData@mail.wvu.edu for review. danewsroom@mail.wvu.edu

Memorial honors former political science professor by jennifer skinner correspondent @dailyathenaeum

West Virginia University held a memorial service from 3-5 p.m. on Monday in Elizabeth Moore Hall for Hong Nak Kim, a professor of political science, who passed away on July 7. Kim was 80 years old. Born in Taegu, South Korea, Kim graduated from Seoul National University and then received his master’s degree and his Ph.D. with distinction from Georgetown University. Dr. Kim moved to Morgantown in 1967. For 47 years, he taught classes in comparative politics, East Asian governments, comparative public policy and East Asian international relations. Jack Hammersmith, professor for the Department of History, spoke of Kim’s significance as a “scholar, teacher, colleague and friend” at WVU. “His ability to scour sources in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English was a rare talent,” Hammersmith said. “He grounded his work always in evidence, not emotion.” In 1985, Kim received the recognition of Outstanding Researcher in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. An author of one book and co-editor of six, Dr. Kim also edited and contributed over 100 articles to academic journals including Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Current History and Problems of Communism. As a Fulbright visiting professor, Kim traveled to Tokyo’s Keio University in 1979 and 1982 and Seoul National University in 1990. He entered his position as president at the International Council on Korean Studies in Washington, D.C. in 2004. In 2005, Kim also served as a POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and two years later, he returned as a Visiting Scholar. “No life, certainly not one as lengthy, productive, and varied as Hong’s, can be adequately summarized in a few short minutes,” Hammersmith said. As part of the service, Scott Crichlow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, read two letters, one written by a WVU professor and the other by a 1971 WVU alum, that detailed the personal and academic influence Dr. Kim had on his colleagues and students. “To be able to affect generations of students and open up the minds of Mountaineers is an incredible effect in enlightening students for decades,” Crichlow said. “(Kim) had full understanding of international politics in a way no one else could. He was so passionate about what he researched and what he

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Students from the Mountaineer Organization for Relief Efforts and the Muslim Student Association hold candles at a vigil for James Foley, an American journalist who was the first American to be killed by ISIS.

Student organizations host event to support families of ISIS victims by david schlake & Jacob bojesson da staff @dailyathenaeum

The Mountaineer Organization for Relief Efforts and the Muslim Student Association cohosted a two part event to remember American journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff, as well as humanitarian relief worker David Haines. The three men were killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in recent weeks while working in Syria. The first part of the event featured a book signing, in which students wrote letters to the families of the victims. “In my eyes people like Foley, Sotloff, and Haines are the most courageous and selfless that anyone could be,” said Mouhammed Sakkal, director of Philanthropy for SGA, President of Mountaineer Organization for Relief Efforts and spokesperson for the Muslim Student Association. “They have gone to the most dangerous place in the world unarmed with no regard for Andrew Spellman/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM their safety to help other people, to spread truth, to expose tyrants and terrorists, and ultimately Hamza Durrani, a freshman biomedical engineering student, works the SGA booth in the to tell a story of the victims oppressed by the Mountainlair. The booth was set up to remember the fallen journalist James Foley, who was recently executed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). events in Syria.” Sakkal stressed the importance of the differences between the actions that have been taken in the ISIS tion,” he said. events, and the beliefs and moral values that Muslims are At night the two organizations hosted a vigil outside the Mountainlair to shed more light on the issue. expected to uphold. “As a representative of the Muslim Student Association, Sakkal stressed the importance of Muslims making their I want to say what ISIS has done is antithetical to our reli- voices heard despite not getting their fair share of media gion and our faith,” he said. “In our religion, we aren’t al- coverage. lowed to attack anyone unless we’ve been aggressed upon. “A lot of the time people say, ‘why aren’t the Muslims These people have no knowledge of the religion, and they coming out and condemning these terrorist groups,’” he are truly acting for a political gain.” said. “The media isn’t giving Muslims a fair chance. They The event was a success according to Sakkal, who do give minutes to some Muslims that come out and speak said students shared positive feedback and words of but it’s not enough to change view of the majority of the encouragement. American public and I think that’s a major problem. If you “The event was very good. A lot of students had heard think this represents us, you have to think Ku Klux Klan the names and they had heard the news, where others represents Christianity.” know right away. But, we definitely had very good recep-

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Perry G. Fine Pain Lecture Series returns to Morgantown by courtney gatto correspondent @dailyathenaeum

The seventh annual Perry G. Fine, M.D., Pain Lecture Series is coming back to West Virginia University and will take place Sept. 22, at 5 p.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center. Doctors knowledgeable on pain medicine are coming to WVU to educate students, veterans and other medical professionals. This year, the lectures will be given by two doctors; Rollin M. Gallagher and Perry G. Fine. The series will specifically address the challenges the Department of Defense and Veteran’s Administration face when transitioning veterans from the war zone to home and dealing with their pain management. Chronic pain, ranging from back and neck pain, to arthritis, migraines and many other versions, is a disease that affects over 100 million Americans. These numbers are only growing with time as the population ages.

The amount of research and knowledge about this topic is inadequately low, which is why the Hospice Care Corporation and West Virginia University Health Sciences Office of Continuing Education are teaming up to sponsor Perry G. Fine, MD Lecture Series. “This lecture series is one of the first, if not the only, annual lectureship series at a major university dedicated to improving care of patients in pain,” said Cindy Woodyard from the Hospice Care Corporation. The CEO of Capital Caring, founding president of the Hospice Care Corporation and member of WVU Alumni Association Board of Directors, Malene Smith Davis, is very passionate about this type of medicine and is proud of her achievements in helping to create the event. “Malene is a visionary and is in the forefront of the hospice and palliative care movement on a national level advocating for patients’ rights to receive quality end of life care,” Woodyard said. “She would love to ensure

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ON THE INSIDE Outside hitter Jordan Anderson is earning earlyseason awards as the West Virginia volleyball team improved its winning streak to 10 matches. SPORTS PAGE 10

that all West Virginians have access to quality healthcare at end-of-life.” Davis is very excited about this event and is eager to present both doctors that are highly qualified and knowledgeable in this area of study. Gallagher, the national program director for pain management with the V.A. Health Systems will be the first lecturer to speak at 5:30 p.m. He will discuss acute pain after battlefield injuries and a new care model covering the treatment of pain in soldiers in his presentation called “Pain in Wounded Warriors: Safe and Effective Management, Battlefield to Bedside and Back Home.” Fine, the immediate past President of the America Academy of Pain Medicine and current professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, will be the second speaker and will give his presentation titled “Opioid Rotation: Optimizing Therapeutic Outcomes, Minimizing Harms.”

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RAISING HIS GAME West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett is beginning to gain more national attention after his strong start. SPORTS PAGE 7


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