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Wednesday October 7, 2015
Volume 128, Issue 36
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City debates weekly $3 city-user fee By Jake Jarvis Staff Writer @NewsroomJake
Mo rga ntow n ’s C i t y Council is surging forward with plans to extend to fire marshals and deputy fire marshals the power to arrest anyone breaking the city’s fire code. As the nation celebrates the 88th annual Fire Pre-
vention Week, present councilors unanimously approved an ordinance at last night’s meeting. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Councilwoman Jenny Selin, Fourth Ward, “and we’re glad it’s here.” Council discussed extending arrest powers to fire marshals at several previous meetings, par-
ticularly around the time Morgantown applied for Home Rule status. In February, the Kappa Alpha fraternity and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities were temporarily suspended after breaking the city’s fire code with over crowded parties, according to a previous Daily Athenaeum report. One member from each
fraternity was cited with an overcrowding charge, and one member of Kappa Alpha was cited for obstructing and threatening a fire official, according to a University press release. Had fire marshals had the ability to make arrests during those and other incidents, councilors previously suggested fire code violations would dwindle.
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Although no one spoke in opposition of that ordinance, tension struck the room as the council discussed implementing a weekly $3 city-user fee for all part- and full-time employees who work within city limits. Officials estimate the fee would bring in nearly $4.7 million to the city. “We were conservative
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WVU officially opens Advanced Engineering Research Building on Evansdale Campus By Hollie Greene Staff Writer @dailyAthenaeum
West Virginia University took a step toward the future of engineering this month when it officially opened a new facility for the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. The Advanced Engineering Research Building will serve as an interdisciplinary facility for WVU students to gather and solve the technical problems of today’s society, according to a WVU Today press release from earlier this month. The building officially opened Oct. 1. “This (facility) really builds upon our current research infrastructure,” said Mary Dillon, coordinator of marketing and communications for Statler College. “It basically Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM augments the quality of our other research labs.” Students study inside the learning center room of the Advanced Engineering ReCosting $43 million, Burt Hill/Stantec designed the search Building. building, and the Massaro Corporation constructed it. The new AERB includes 63,000 square feet of research and laboratory space, as well as 8,000 square feet for a clean room to meet the “high-technology” needs for learning and discovery in the “new millennium,” the press release reads. Of the building’s space, 29,000 square feet houses classrooms, offices, graduate student spaces and a learning center. “Students and faculty from across all disciplines will unite under this one roof to solve the problems of our day,” said President E. Gordon Gee in the press release. “… This facility fits perfectly into our land-grant mission, because the research conducted within these walls will benefit a greater good.” Construction for the facility began in January 2013. The finished building will stand with several of the Askar Salikhov/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM The new Advanced Engineering Research Building accommodates students with see AERB on PAGE 2 an open lounge area.
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WVU professor, author to discuss new book, ‘Getting Screwed’ By Amy Pratt
Southern facade of the new Advanced Engineering Research Building.
on the numbers of people we included who worked in the city,” said Jeff Mikorski, city manager. City officials used census data to estimate the number of people working in Morgantown. “I just don’t believe in a $3 user fee on students,” Mayor Marti Shamberger,
Reed College of Media Professor Alison Bass first came across the world of sex work while teaching at a community college, Mount Holyoke, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She was helping a student who was having trouble with a profile assignment when the student blurted out the subject in question - an activist in the community was a female sex worker. Intrigued, Bass discovered the woman, “Jillian,” was a middle-class community member. Jillian had not been forced into the sex business, though. Instead, she decided on sex work to have more time to pursue her passion of volunteering at an alternative treatment mental health center. Her story became the inspiration for Bass’ book, “Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law.” “(Jillian) really opened up a window to me to the world of sex work in the 21st century,” Bass said. “She introduced me to other sex workers, and I realized that what they were talking about totally clashed with the popular narrative of prostitutes all being drug-addicted women who are forced into the trade by pimps or traffickers.” In the United States, a majority of sex workers over 18 years of age are choosing to be a part of the business. It is not a result of human trafficking, Bass said. Bass’ research found t hat c r i m i na l l aw s against prostitution actually make sex work more dangerous for sex workers because it’s harder for them to practice safe sex, avoid HIV and protect themselves against violent predators on the
streets. “In countries where it’s decriminalized - New Zealand and the Netherlands, most of Europe actually - they have lower HIV rates because it’s easier to negotiate with clients for safe sex, sex with condoms, (and then) sex workers and clients don’t have to worry about getting arrested,” she said. At 7 p.m. tongiht, Bass will discuss “Getting Screwed” and facilitate a question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. in room 130 of Colson Hall. She will discuss the history of prostitution, as well as talk about policy issues involved with sex work. After the Q & A session, Bass will read an excerpt from her book, which explores true stories of modern sex workers in the U.S., assesses the latest prostitution research and argues for the legalization of prostitution. “There’s a lot of discrimination and marginalization of sex workers… To me, the mission of journalism is, as Joseph Pulitzer once said, ‘to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted,’” Bass said. “I often like to write about things for people who are marginalized…” Bass came to WVU in 2012. She now teaches multimedia bureau reporting for capstone classes, an investigative journalism class and health and science journalism. Before coming to WVU, she worked on contract at Mount Holyoke College, an all-girls college that, at the time, was having issues recruiting and retaining students. Bass left Mount Holyoke to avoid worries over renewing her contract. “I didn’t want to depend on renewing my
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WVU to sign contract with single food service supplier next week By Corey McDonald Staff Writer @dailyathenaeum
West Virginia University is expected to sign a contract with a single food service supplier for student dining facilities on Oct. 16, to replace the several providers currently used. Several broadline suppliers, like Reinhart Foodservice, Gordon Food Service and Sysco are the main busi-
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nesses now supplying food to student dining facilities on campus such as dormitories and Grab-N-Go vendors. The WVU Procurement, Contracting and Payment Services’ priority is to find one supplier for all the campus dining needs so the University can save money on overall delivery and purchasing costs. “We would have more efficiency dealing with one vendor and get lower costs for the items we’re purchasing,” said
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David Beaver, assistant vice president of PCPS and chief procurement officer. The request for proposal (RFP) for a vendor was sent in early August and was open to any companies holding a potential interest in the contract. So far, the RFP has received five responses from interested companies, according to Beaver. “Three of those we are taking serious looks at,” he said. The proposal’s main in-
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Beaver said using a single provider will increase efficiency for WVU’s Office of Finances. “Instead of processing 10,000 invoices a year, we’ll only process 100 (with one provider),” he said. The search is also focused on finding a more successful delivery system that will cut not only money, but time as well, Beaver said. “(This would be a) big-time improvement on efficiency
and time of delivery,” he said. “We’re going to make sure we deliver earlier rather than later so (deliveries) aren’t clogging up traffic. We want to control when they come in and give them specific delivery windows.” After selecting the top companies for the contract, the next phase for PCPS is to examinine the healthiest option from the applicant pool
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tent is to save the University money, Beaver said. “(Right now), it’s just making sure we get the food at the most competitive price,” Beaver said. “But there are other factors involved in the decision-making process. “It’s not just the lowest cost,” he said. “It’s cost, quality, past performance — all those things will allow us to pick the right vendor to provide this service to the University.”
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