The DA 10-22-2015

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THE DAILY ATHENAEUM

“Little good is accomplished without controversy, and no civic evil is ever defeated without publicity.”

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Thursday October 22, 2015

Volume 128, Issue 44

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WV-UNIT

50 Cent comes to Morgantown to promote his new Vodka brand, signs bottles for residents jillian clemente A&e Writer @dailyathenauem

EFFEN vodka, 50 Cent’s new vodka brand, is a little more expensive than some sweets in a candy shop, but hundreds of residents lined up to meet the rapper and get a signed bottle of the liquor. “It’s pretty cool I met 50 Cent while buying a bottle on my 21st,” said Tess McCloud, a senior exercise physiology student at West Virginia University. McCloud decided on a whim to get EFFEN as her first bottle of alcohol and meet 50 Cent. The rapper hit up Morgantown, West Virginia because it contains the liquor store with the most sales in this state, Ashebrooke Liquor Outlet on Beechurst and Third. It’s a part of the promotion of his vodka, and he’s visiting the topselling store in the other 49 states as well. “He’s going to every state and their stores along the tour, doing these big signings and promoting his vodka,” said Brent Jones, an assistant manager at ALO and graduate student at WVU. According to Jones at press time, about 200 people filed through the store, and about 350 were expected to show. In order for 50 Cent to make a stop, ALO had to order 200 cases of EFFEN - that’s 1,200 bottles. The first guests started to come in around 11:30 a.m., Jones said. McCloud said that she

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50 Cent poses with Ashebrooke worker Sam Jerome. arrived around 2:45 p.m. and managed to get out by 6 p.m. with her friends Pat McGonigal and Michael Rogers, seniors at WVU. “I called him Mr. Cent and he started laughing,” McGonigal a WVU history student, said. Rogers wore a Grateful Dead tye-dye shirt, which 50 Cent called him out on. “I walked in, and he told

me I had a nice stoner shirt and he laughed,” he said. Rogers is a fan, too, and was appreciative of the experience. “I like 50 (Cent)’s music, too,” he said. “If it had been anyone else, I wouldn’t have cared.” The trio all agreed 50 Cent was nice and friendly and it was exciting to meet a childhood icon in music.

The artist arrived around 4:30 p.m., signed bottles and started meeting fans at 5 p.m. “He’s gonna be here until the line is gone,” Jones said. Each bottle of EFFEN is $25 and was necessary to purchase in order to meet the rapper. Consumers had the option to buy a 6-pack

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Volunteers find use for plastic bags as part of Million Hour Match by amy pratt

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Wednesday afternoon, students and faculty from West Virginia University came together in the Mountainlair’s Vandalia Lounge to make use of excess plastic bags the University can’t recycle by weaving them together and creating sleeping mats for the local homeless population. As part of the Million Hour Match, the event was sponsored by WVU’s Center for Service and Learning and WVU We Can to address a need in the community and focus on sustainability.

SGA appoints Bureau of Finance member

this year’s event, we started to think about what kind of unique activity we wanted to do on campus,” WVU has a single-recycling service, meaning all plastic bags are unable to be recycled and instead are considered waste and sent to a landfill. The Center for Service and Learning and WVU We Can decided to partner with the Coordinating Committee on Homelessness in Monongalia County to find a new use Shelby Thoburn/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM for the plastic. West Virginia University students have fun while volunteering at the Million The event, called “RecyHour Match. cling Plastic for a Purpose,” “We participate in (Sus- terim conservation specialist was also in honor of National tainability Day) every year,” for WVU We Can, “… And so said Stephanie Toothman, in- when we were planning for see bags on PAGE 2

The Student Government Association’s Bureau of Finance appointed one new member at Wednesday’s SGA meeting. Tyler Bugg, a senior finance student, was appointed to the Bureau as a paid, voting member. “(On the Bureau) I will make sure organizations get allocated the right amount of funds they deserve,” Bugg said, “not just because one person thinks they need it, it’s because they need it. And it’s benefitting the organization and benefitting the University as a whole.” In the past, Bugg has had internships with various companies working in marketing and sales enhancement. Bugg participated in a study abroad trip last semester that he said “opened (him) up” and made him want to be more of a student leader. “I’m already involved in Greek life and deep in the business school with finance, but I really wanted to get on to student government,” Bugg said. Bugg said he reached out to friends he had in SGA, like Attorney General Matt Blaire, and was directed to Vice President Ashley Morgan, who suggested the Bureau of Finance. Normally, voting members of the Bureau of Finance have been appointed from within SGA, according to Chief of Staff Erin Heeter. However, Bugg has no previous experience within the organization. Heeter said Bugg came to the Bureau of Finance and showed interest, and they decided to appoint him because he seemed qualified and active. “(Morgan) told me to tell her about myself... and that’s when she saw in me what I could bring to SGA,” Bugg said. “I believe I earned (this) 100 percent.” Heeter was recently appointed as Chief of Staff, leaving the Director of Student Organizations position in the Bureau of Finance open for applicants. She said those interested

in the position should fill out the application available at http://sga.wvu.edu and return it to the SGA office in the Mountainlair by tomorrow. Heeter said SGA hopes to fill the position by next week. Also at this week’s meeting, Governor Mac McIntyre passed around a petition for students to sign in support of setting fixed housing rates for University owned apartments. McIntyre’s goal is to make University apartments, like University Place, keep rent prices the same for students who renew their leases for up to three years, so in their senior year, students will be paying the same for housing they did their sophomore year. “It’s just kind of about security,” Mcintyre said. “My vision is that students come in the dorm freshman year, and then they’re on campus, and then sophomore to senior year, if they go into (a lease) with a certain price range, they know they’re going to not suffer increases from that price range.” Also We d n e s d ay , the Board of Governors approved: - To award, by a unanimous vote, $500 to the Scabbard and Blade Honor Society for 20 members of the organization to attend a land navigation course training. - To award, by a unanimous vote, $550 to the Public Relations Student Society of America to help send eight of their members to the annual national conference in Atlanta. $150 of the grant will go toward fees for a rental car, and the other $400 will cover registration fees for the conference. - To award $1,270.05 to the Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Club to buy new jerseys for their team members, and also to help cover the cost of rental vehicles for their spring tournament. The jerseys bought will stay in the club and be passed down in the future. SGA meets regularly at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Elizabeth Moore Hall. crcoyne@mail.wvu.edu

A look at this year’s Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer candidates West Virginia University has announced the top 10 finalists—five men and five women—who embody the Mountaineer spirit for the 2015 Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer competition. The candidates were chosen based on academic achievements, extracurricular involvement and their individual successes as students at WVU. The Daily Athenaeum will feature biographies on one Mr. Mountaineer candidate and one Ms. Mountaineer candidate in several issues leading up to the annual Mountaineer Week later this month. The Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer competition is an annual tradition during Mountaineer Week, which is dedicated to paying tribute to West Virginia’s heritage and traditions. This year’s Mountaineer Week will be held Oct. 30 – Nov. 8, and the winners of Mr. and Ms. Mountaineer will be announced during halftime of the Nov. 7 WVU football game against Texas Tech.

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PARTLY CLOUDY

News: 1, 2 Opinion: 3 A&E: 4, 5 Sports: 7, 8, 9 Campus Calendar: 6 Puzzles: 6 Classifieds: 5

REED ANDREWS

JOY WANG

BY JORDAN MILLER

by CAITY COYNE

Reed Andrews is a chemical engineering student with a pre-medical emphasis from Morgantown, West Virginia. He has already been accepted into West Virginia University School of Medicine’s class of 2020. A fifth-generation West Virginian, every member of Andrews’ family has been a Mountaineer. “(Being a Mountaineer) means you are willing to serve your state,” he said. “(It means) you are humble, strong, resilient and fair.” Andrews is the treasurer of the Society of Biological Engineers, the community

Joy Wang is a dual major in biochemistry and chemistry from Charleston, West Virginia, and a senior at WVU, according to a press release from WVUToday. She is a part of the Honors College, the Mountaineer Marching Band and served as a governor in the Student Government Association for two terms, the press release reads. Currently, she serves as an executive in SGA’s Bureau of Finance, according to the press release. Wang is also the fund-

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service chair for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the fundraising chair for Omega Chi Epsilon, the national chemical engineering honor

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BACK TO THE FUTURE Predicting the future in sci-fi always misses the mark

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raising chair of the Mortar Board student honorary, a national honor society, and president of WVU Global Medical Brigades, where she will lead

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