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Gee speaks to the DA on Greeks, abortion, Sodexo

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STAFF REPORTS WVU President E. Gordon Gee spoke to the Daily Athenaeum Monday evening and discussed a variety of campus and state topics. Below are a few notable excerpts from the meeting.

Displaced Summit students speak out

Greek Disassociation Recent requirement changes in Greek life spurred two fraternities, Kappa Alpha and Sigma Chi, to disassociate from WVU. “They have no access to the resources of the University, Panhellenic rules are that they can’t have any relationship with a sorority, I mean, they’re basically an isolated group,” Gee said. “Parents need to understand that those groups are not sanctioned by the University, and I think they’re unfairly representing themselves as part of the institution.” “I’m a strong believer in their role in the institution,” Gee continued. “But I think they need to be representative of the best quality in the leadership that we have.” Gee said the main disagreement between some fraternities and him was first semester freshmen recruitment, which the University has banned. He said students need to get acclimated to the University and questioned whether first semester freshmen could really know if they wanted to join a fraternity or which one they wanted to join. “When people join too soon, their grades go down, they don’t graduate as fast, they drop out, a variety of other things,” he said. The recent changes in Greek life are about creating a pathway to success, he said.

amendment in the state Constitution that would outlaw abortions for any reason. A yes vote on the proposition would add the sentence “nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion.” Gee said the University will not take a stance on the vote. Personally, Gee said he would vote against the proposition. “I have a daughter who’s the secretary of health for the state of Louisiana and she’s an OB-GYN. She’ll tell you that these kind of amendments are not helpful in increasing the quality of healthcare for a state,” Gee said.

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A photo from the Nov. 17, 1981 edition of the Daily Athenaeum shows President E. Gordon Gee during his first time as WVU’s president. legal sports betting netted the state $320,631.70 in taxable revenue, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Gee said he was against legalizing sports gambling. He said this is an issue that needs to be monitored closely on campus. “They talk about sports betting in the professional sports, NFL, NBA, etc., but the answer is this; if someone offers Lebron James $10,000 to throw a game, he’s going to smack them on the side of the head, he’s going to think that’s very funny,” Gee said. “If, on the other hand, if someone offers $10,000 to a college player, they may think about it seriously, and so I think this is a very serious issue for us.” “I think it presents a whole new pathway for mischief in college athletics,” he continued.

The Press The Daily Athenaeum ran an editorial on the front page of the Aug. 30 issue rebuking one of Gee’s comments about the media during a Aug. 27 meeting. He said “You’ve learned the common truth of public life, which is don’t believe what you read in the newspaper.” During the Monday meeting, he said the statement was taken out of context by a journalist who reported the statement. “If you’re going to be a member of the press, be responsible. The second thing is get a goddamn sense of humor. We’ve got to learn to laugh about stuff. The problem in this country is that we have lost our sense of humor and lost our ability to be able to poke a little fun at each other,” Gee said.

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Play brings 1800s England to WVU “The Moors” will play at the CAC through the end of September page 4

Third down efficiency takes big leap for WVU Improvement on third down could put Mountaineers over the hump in 2018

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WVU Medicine to begin state’s first heart transplant program BY JARED SERRE STAFF WRITER

WVU Medicine announced on Wednesday the creation of a heart transplant program through the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute that is set to begin in 2019. With Gov. Jim Justice and WVU President E. Gordon Gee, WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright announced the plans

for the program during a Morgantown press conference. “We have 22 West Virginians today that are on the heart transplant list,” Wright said. “This organization over the last few months, with the support of our board of directors and our medical staff at the Heart and Vascular Institute, we submitted a certificate of need with the healthcare authority of the state of West Virginia to

begin a heart transplant program in 2019.” According to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, this would be the first such place in the state of West Virginia. Justice praised WVU’s impact on the state as a whole and as a great home for productivity. “To see what is happening right now in West Virginia, nobody, nobody can say we’re not moving,”

Justice said. However, WVU believes the program’s creation would impact more than just West Virginians. “We are on a sacred mission, as the governor had outlined,” said Vinay Badhwar, executive chair of the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute. “We are really here to bring the most advanced cardiovascular care to every citizen of this proud state and beyond.”

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NEWS

Displaced Summit students speak about move to Evansdale BY CIARA LITCHFIELD AND QUEST BABCOCK CORRESPONDENTS

Students displaced from Summit Hall’s ninth and 10th floors by a leaking roof say the evacuation on Sept. 13 was an inconvenience, but it hasn’t stopped the class of 2022 from making WVU their home. Interviewed students, who were moved to Brooke Tower, said they feel the move has brought them closer to their newfound friends and use this as an opportunity to access the food available at the Evansdale Crossing. These students also use this time to better know the Evansdale Campus. “It is an unexpected adjustment, nothing close to a travesty,” said Kathryn Brooks, an international studies freshman from Castaic, California. Many students said they scheduled their first year classes based on dorm location and ease of access and travel. Relocating to Brooke Tower as the University fixes the leaking roof has been described by those involved as a minor setback in the grand scheme of things. “It is somewhat of an inconvenience, since I scheduled my classes thinking I would be downtown,” Brooks said. “For instance, I have an 8:30 a.m.

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A busted pipe at Summit tower. WVU says students will be displaced for at least two weeks.

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Facilities employees work to remove the water leaked through the roof at Summit. class downtown, and I have to get there from Evansdale now, but worse things have happened.” Students said their rugs were the most severely damaged items in their dorm rooms. Emily McNeill, a freshman from Oklahoma City

studying forensic and investigative science at WVU, said her room wasn’t heavily damaged due to her rug soaking up much of the water. Despite the lack of damages, McNeill said her “entire schedule is thrown off,” adding that she now wakes up

an hour earlier to accommodate for the transportation to the downtown campus where nearly all of her classes are located. “It was only an inconvenience because it was right before all of my tests,” Alex Cichello, a forensics student, said. “I actually had to stop in the middle of packing and take an online chem quiz.” Daniel Delanty, a journalism student staying on the ninth floor of Summit, spoke

of an email from the University explaining that the students affected would be offered reimbursement for damages to their belongings that could be proven were due to the incident. University Housing said it has made the necessary efforts to make the move as easy as possible for those moving to Brooke Tower. It said it had Facilities Management help the students pack and then shuttled them from Summit

to Towers and had everyone moved and relocated relatively fast. “All efforts are being made to dry out the affected areas and this will require the removal of portions and replacement of walls and floor treatments, both in hallways and resident rooms,” Chris MacDonald, the executive director of Housing and Residence Life, said in a letter to the students.

City council discusses Sobering Center, party boat and Sabraton road closures BY GABRIELLA BROWN CORRESPONDENT

Morgantown City Council discussed the potential Sobering Center in Morgantown, voted to support the acquisition of a recreational riverboat and voted not to intervene in the Division of Highways’ plans to close off roads in Sabraton at Tuesday’s meeting. Councilor Ryan Wallace told council he received email communications from Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston, County Commission President Tom Bloom and Dan Shook of the WVU Injury Research Control Center. Wallace said Shook would like to soon present to council the developments of the Sobering Center project. Preston said in an email last week there had been no updates on the project. Wallace said Shook would be meeting with WVU’s Dean of Nursing Tara Hulsey Oct. 5 to discuss the nursing

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Morgantown City Council is looking to bring a “party boat” to float up and down the Monongahela River. school’s involvement in the project. Shook told the Daily Athe-

naeum last week “the county stepped up this year and has granted me a $25,000 fund,

which would go toward purchasing equipment or whatever we need to help make

this thing function.” Wallace reiterated this claim at the meeting. Council also voted 6-0 to approve a document of support for a company who wants to purchase a recreational river boat. Michael Hughes, the owner of Access H20, asked for council’s support to look for outside funding for a recreational passenger boat that would float on the Monongahela River. WV MetroNews reported in August that Hughes wanted to use the boat for cruises up and down the river and even possibly hold an event on WVU gamedays, where passengers can watch the game on the vessel. MetroNews also wrote that Hughes said there were around 100 navigable miles of the Monongahela between Fairmont and Pittsburgh with various riverfronts capable of roundtrip services. Hughes initially presented this idea to council in February 2017.

City Manager Paul Brake told council the project was working toward Morgantown’s plan for revitalizing the Monongahela River. Council voted unanimously to not involve itself in the DOH’s plans to close off the unnamed intersection between Woodburn Shanks Pit BBQ and Hardee’s in Sabraton. Multiple residents came forward to speak against the move, saying it would cut off access to the neighborhoods close by. Some residents said the move would affect local businesses in the area, including Classic Furniture and Woodburn Shanks. DOH representatives also spoke at the meeting and explained the negative effects of not adjusting the intersection. The representatives said by 2034, the intersection would fail due to increasingly backed up traffic. Councilor Barry Wendell was the only member absent from Tuesday’s meeting.

CULTURE

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‘The Moors’ brings 1800s England to WVU BY OLIVIA GIANETTINO CORRESPONDENT

The School of Theatre and Dance is putting on a production of “The Moors” at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre through the end of September. The play is set in 1840 on the barren moors of England. “‘The Moors’ is about two spinster sisters,” said Leland Blair, associate professor of acting and theatre and director of the show. “They have hired a governess to come to take care of a child, and there’s some mystery about the child. Over the course of the play, we learn what the family history is.” Blair described the story as “melodramatic and macabre.” Although set in the 1800s, the show gives the era of “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights” a contemporary twist. “It takes that world, but it has sort of an anachronistic aspect to it that really shows most problems are universal,” Blair said. Additionally, the dark tale keeps the familiar vocabulary and dialect of modern times rather than using the foreign language of the era. Blair feels that this, too, enforces the theme of contemporary struggles represented in a different time period. “Most of the problems, the

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Hudson (left) as Mastiﬀ acting with Caroline Dawson as Moor Hen.

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Trenton Hudson playing the character Mastiﬀ. angst, unhappiness or happiness, that we all have are pretty universal, whether its 1840s England isolated out on the cold and dreary moors, or here in Morgantown today,” Blair said. Auditions took place in the previous spring semester in order for the cast to begin working immediately this fall. Since the beginning of this semester, students and staff

have diligently been perfecting their performances. The actors have had five weeks of rehearsal to become comfortable with the unique themes of the play. “There is a bit of a style to it,” Blair said. “There are some moments – some odd moments – that not only stretch the imagination but reality.” Members of the cast include students Kate Fauss as Agatha,

Faith Burman as Huldey, and Brittani Hill as Marjory. Preview shows of “The Moors” will be held Sept. 2122 and Sept. 25-29 at 7:30 p.m. Two afternoon shows will be playing Sept. 23 and Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. Adult tickets are $22. Senior and WVU student tickets are $17. The show is recommended for mature audiences only.

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Kate Fauss (left) playing Agatha alongside Faith Burman (right) as Huldey.

A match made in almost heaven: major fair helps match students with a lifelong interest BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR

The choices one makes when starting college can have a lasting impact on their lives both during their time in school and after graduation. The choice of what to major in is chief among these decisions and has a lasting impact on students’ college and professional experiences. For some, the decision of what to major in is easy; they may have known what they wanted to do with their lives for years, but even then, these people might change their minds after a year or two and want to study something else. For oth-

ers, what to major in can be the hardest decision they have had to make up to this point in their lives. Luckily for everyone, WVU offers students resources and opportunities to explore all the areas of study that the University offers and tries to ensure that all students, regardless of when they decide on a major, graduate on time. One of these resources is the yearly major match fairs put on by the Center of Learning Advising and Student Success (CLASS). The first fair this year was held Wednesday in the MountainLair, with the second scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 27, in Brooke Tower.

The fair features representatives and specialists covering nearly every major and concentration offered at WVU. The program coordinator for CLASS, Eric Godfrey, said the major match fair can help students find areas of study that interest them and majors they may not have been aware of. “[CLASS] is really good at helping [students] know the requirements and the standards to meet to get into a major and to help them sort it out for what major’s best for them,” Godfrey said. “The value of [the fair] is they’re getting to hear from the specialists in the majors sooner rather than later.”

Godfrey estimates that about 500 to 600 students in each year’s incoming class have an undecided major, and WVU’s dean of completion, Joe Seiaman, estimated the number has been as high as 900 in past years. Students with an undecided major are required to declare a major by their sophomore year and most are required to attend the major match fair in hopes to facilitate their decision. According to Seiaman, forcing students to declare a major by their second year is done to ensure they are on track to graduate on time. The main two reasons behind this, said Seiaman, are: 1) after one

year of being undecided a student can take most of their required general education credit hours, and they do not want students to end up taking classes that will not count towards their graduation and 2) that students might go into a STEM field that requires time to take all the prerequisite classes required for the upper-level classes they will take later on. Godfrey said that the main focus of the fair is for these undecided students, but that he encourages any student to come and explore what WVU has to offer. “It is so common that a majority of students change their

major at least once,” Godfrey said. “Some students don’t know that some majors exist until they explore like this.” Godfrey also said the fair helps each department on campus bring in new, quality students who are really interested in their program, and this gives students experience in talking and networking with professionals in a field they may end up working in. Godfrey expects around 1,500 students to attend each of the fairs and said recent efforts to help students decide on a major before they start their first semester has started a downward trend in the number of undecided students.

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OPINION

The imminent flood of battle royale games BY SETH MITCHELL CORRESPONDENT

Everything in modern day media follows and obeys trends. Video games are no exception. In the early 2000s, gamers across the nation pushed for darker narratives in their products: mature games for a matured audience of consumers. While new licenses and titles continued to appear in the market, preexisting franchises, who had long held a cartoonish, child-friendly aesthetic and approach, had to adapt. Some had more success at this than others. The year 2006 saw the release of “Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess,” which was, by and large, a departure from the franchise with an attempt at a realistic art style and a much darker story. Even though the game suffers from the uncanny valley effect, with models appearing grotesque, deformed or simply unintentionally odd, it still received sweeping reviews and it still considered a well-delivered product. By comparison, SEGA’s 2005 release of “Shadow the Hedgehog” attempted to darken the game’s speedy, quirky universe by slapping a gun in the puffy white gloves of its animal protagonist, with an attempt at an alternative rock soundtrack by Crush 40 blaring in the background. It stumbled and tripped at the starting line, and to this day receives widespread mockery across the internet. To this day, the reckless continuation of trends being set and the crowds following them continues. A demand for story-driven games and relatable protagonists turned the faceless protagonist of “Halo,” the superhuman Master Chief, into a broken shell suffering from depression in 343 Industries’ “Reclaimer Trilogy.” For the past couple years, popular Youtube channels sensationalized indie open world, multiplayer survival games such as “Rust,” “DayZ” and the now-dying cultural phenomenon that is “Minecraft,” leading to a surge of poorly put-together copycat games that flooded thirdparty markets such as Steam.

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Fortnite: Battle Royale. If grittiness and open world survival were the champions of the past, then the battle royale is the champion of the present and perhaps the foreseeable future. Gone are the blocky pickaxes and Steve masks wielded by kids a few years prior. The news is now beset by reports of children flossing in their classrooms, stealing their parents’ credit cards to purchase hefty amounts of digital V-Bucks and begging their parents to hire “tutors” to increase their skills in the sensation that has become “Fortnite: Battle Royale.” Often just shortened to “Fortnite,” the free-to-play spinoff game has gone on to cannibalize other products produced by its publisher, Epic Games, such as the now-canceled MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game) “Paragon,” whose assets have been freely distributed to the online community for anyone to use. Also, there is its mainline counterpart, “Fortnite: Save The World,” the now-dead husk of a love project had been in development since 2011 by the studio, bought by players only to farm the aforementioned digital currency, V-Bucks. Similarly, it has been wiping the floor with its competition, outperforming its former biggest rival,

“PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” universally shortened as “PUBG,” following failed lawsuits by the latter who claimed Epic Games had plagiarized its content, on the sheer grounds that “Fortnite” played similarly to “PUBG.” This, combined with greedy developers focused solely on microtransactions, has led to the rapid decline of the game that many claimed inspired the success of “Fortnite.” The fame of “Fortnite” is incontestable, with it having just been announced online early this Tuesday that Tyler Blevins, often known by his online streaming handle Ninja, whose meteoric rise to internet and pop-culture “celebdom” came from obsessively playing the game on platforms such as Twitch, would be the first professional gamer to appear on the cover of ESPN magazine. And this fame is setting the grounds for a new trend to consume the market. Already, mainline franchises are frantically racing to cash in on the domination of the battle royale. It was announced earlier this month that “Call of Duty” would be including a battle royale game mode in their upcoming title, “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4,” which they are calling Blackout. The trailer currently sits at over 4 million views. “Battlefield 5,” the latest entry in a

series appraised for its beautiful graphics, massive battles and sense of scope, took the opportunity at this year’s E3 Gaming Convention to announce that it too would be adopting a battle royale game mode for the entry. Neither of these games is built for the single life, luckbased gameplay that defines the battle royale genre. “Call of Duty” is as far-removed from “Fortnite” as it is a “Madden” football title. Too much of something makes a person sick, and a large, vocal crowd are already taking the time to voice their complaints online, mocking the publishers and their products. These are merely the early warnings of an imminent oversaturation of the genre, with dozens of bootleg knockoffs easily found on game markets and even the Apple IOS stores, advertised by waves of annoying ads on Youtube and similar video sites. If developers were smart, they would stick to their guns and continue to create products they are passionate about- not the ones that will most likely get them the most money at the moment. After all, it’s only a matter of time before something new comes alongside and sweeps the rug out from beneath Fortnite’s feet, leaving those who tried to copy it as a bitter footnote in the history of the creative medium.

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SPORTS

Third down efficiency takes big leap for WVU BY CHRIS JACKSON STAFF WRITER

FOOTBALL One area of West Virginia’s often prolific offense was a major issue last season. WVU had lots of trouble on critical downs. Its third down offense sputtered many times. It could not get the yardage necessary to keep drives going. There was little efficiency in that regard, and it showed in the results. Last year, WVU ranked eighth in the Big 12 and 112th nationally with a 33.5 percent conversion rate on third downs. Only 17 teams at the FBS level were worse. But the numbers are far, far better this season, and there is a reason for that. “I think it’s something that we focused on a lot in the offseason,” said WVU senior receiver David Sills. “I think (offensive coordinator Jake Spavital) coach Spav and (head) coach (Dana) Holgorsen put a huge emphasis on being able to convert critical downs. That’s something that we took a lot of pride in.” That offseason work has been a proven success story. It is a small sample size of course. WVU has only played two games thus far. Things can obviously change, especially in the Big 12 gauntlet. Regardless, WVU is succeeding at a much higher rate

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David Sills celebrating with West Virginia fans after their win against Tennessee on Sept. 1, 2018. on third downs this season. Its 12-of-20 mark (60 percent) is tops in the Big 12 and tied with NC State for a No. 5 ranking nationally. Only UCF (66.7 percent), Mississippi State (61.1 percent), Ohio State (61 percent) and Alabama (60.5 percent) are better. Spavital and the WVU coaching staff spent immense amounts of time following the conclusion of last year’s 7-6 campaign, and they continue

to work on it throughout the week. “It goes back to efficiency talks that we’ve had a ton of conversations about,” Spavital said. “I think a lot of it goes down to the amount of time we’ve spent on third downs. We sit down as a staff. I go through it 3-4 times a week with the staff to make sure that we’re on point with what we want to call in these certain situations.”

But while coaching and the offseason work has paid huge dividends, there are other reasons, too. Maturity is prevalent up and down the roster. So is experience. Grier and Sills are seniors. So is star receiver Gary Jennings. Receiver Marcus Simms is back as a junior. Those are just some of the many experienced players on the offense. When you have that experience at the collegiate level,

it makes things much easier. They have been through a number of situations. They understand the game better as they mature. They understand down and distance better. They understand Spavital’s system better, too, as Spavital is now in year No. 2 as an offensive coordinator at WVU. Simply put, it’s a “mindset” in the words of Grier. “Knowing where the sticks are and getting that extra push

in the pile an extra yard or making a tough catch,” Grier said. “We saw Marcus make a couple of really good catches on critical downs last year. That’s huge. We stress the importance of making these plays on critical downs. It changes games and just staying on the field.” While the results have been a positive up to this point, there is a lot of time remaining in the season. Nine games remain in the regular season. And there could be a Big 12 Championship appearance, along with a likely Bowl berth. Many tough games remain against ranked opponents like No. 5 Oklahoma, No. 15 Oklahoma State and No. 17 TCU. Those are just some of the few that highlight an always difficult Big 12 schedule. And that conference schedule starts at 3:30 p.m. Saturday against Kansas State, a matchup that has been decided by single digits each of the last five seasons. “But now getting into Big 12 play we’re going to go against some pretty stout defenses, so we’ve got to continue to convert on third downs,” Sills said.

Mountaineers open up Big 12 play against K-State BY MATT GOLD

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

FOOTBALL The Mountaineers are back in action after an unscheduled bye week last weekend. Bill Snyder and his Kansas State Wildcats come into Milan Puskar Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Wildcats own a 2-1 record in 2018, with their only loss coming at home against then No. 18 Mississippi State. KSU beat South Dakota State 27-24 in week one and bested UTSA last week 41-17. This will be Kansas State’s first road game of the season. On offense, there was a bit of a quarterback battle in the offseason for the starting spot. Sophomore Skylar Thompson beat out Alex Denton and has started all three games. Thomp-

son is completing 57.1 percent of his passes and only has 360 yards through the air. He has thrown four touchdowns and one interception. He has been sacked five times. Thompson is a dual-threat quarterback that WVU needs to be ready for. In three games, the Independence, Missouri native has ran the ball 37 times for 158 yards with one score. Running back Alex Brown is fourth in the Big 12 in terms of rushing yards, with 288. The junior only has one touchdown to his name this season and he averages 4.5 yards per carry. Thompson is ninth in the conference with his 158 rushing yards. Isaiah Zuber is tied for second in the Big 12 with three receiving touchdowns, and he is KSU’s leading pass catcher with 14 catches and 223 yards. Last week against UTSA, Zuber had a 72-yard catch and run for a TD to go with seven catches

and 144 yards. His previous career high was 79 yards last year against Baylor. Kansas State’s defense is not the strongest unit. They are No. 86 in total defense in the country, allowing 390.7 yards per game and allow nearly five and a half yards per play. WVU could have a big offensive outing on Saturday with the numbers that KSU averages on a weekly defense. The Wildcat defense has allowed their opponent to get into the red zone 11 times in three games. They have allowed five red zone passing touchdowns and three rushing scores. Tony Gibson’s defense has not faced a true dual threat QB yet this season and that could throw off his group early on. WVU’s offense should have a pretty easy time against a porous Kansas State defense. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. in Morgantown.

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Did K-State benefit at all from playing an AP Top 25 team early? “I think so. You could say it hurt them in the win column, but playing a very talented Mississippi State team in non-conference was a beneficial test before Big 12 play to see where K-State needed to improve.”

As West Virginia University sets to open up Big 12 play against Kansas State, we sought out the opinion of our counterparts at the K-State and their student newspaper, the K-State Collegian. Their sports editor Jarrett Whitson was kind enough to talk to us about Saturday’s game in Morgantown and some details on the Wildcats: Who will win and why? “West Virginia wins, 3824. Since West Virginia joined the Big 12, all but the first two meetings (which K-State won 55-14 and 35-12) have been decided by a touchdown or less. The two always seem to play competitive games. This year, the Mountaineers seem to have a high-powered offense that is engineered by a Heisman candidate quarterback. The Wildcats seemed to find a rhythm offensively against UTSA, but the defense won’t be able to stop Will Grier and Co.” What are K-State’s strengths?

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Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompson (10) rushes for a 27-yard touchdown during the third quarter of a college football game against UTSA in Manhattan, Kansas, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. “Offensively, the run game is almost always a strength for K-State. After getting off to a slow start, it seems to be picking up speed. With quarterback Skylar Thompson and running backs Alex Barnes and Dalvin Warmack bringing a balanced attack, the run game should prove to make or break the Wildcats’ chances on Saturday. It seems like the pass-

ing game is steadily improving as well. Despite a rough outing against South Dakota in week one (dropped passes and some off throws), Thompson threw a nice deep touchdown against Mississippi State and two more against UTSA. Also, K-State has been known for its discipline on special teams for virtually the whole Bill Snyder era. A punt return touchdown

Izzo-Brown leaning on veterans to challenge Big 12 BY JARED SERRE CORRESPONDENT

WOMEN’S SOCCER Up to this point, the season has been a roller coaster for Nikki Izzo-Brown’s squad. Despite going without a win in their first four matches for the first time in team history, the WVU women’s soccer team currently sits at 4-2-3 — good for seventh in the Big 12 Conference. While the Mountaineers are only halfway through the regular season, they are far from the success they have seen in previous years. To get around that, the team hopes to rekindle those previous victories by leaning on the veterans of the squad as the team enters Big 12 play. “We understand that we are going to follow the lead of our nine seniors and make sure that we’ve learned our lessons well in non-conference play,” Izzo-Brown said at her weekly press conference. Izzo-Brown also discussed the importance of junior goal-

keeper Rylee Foster to the team. Despite not having to go against many shot attempts, Foster contributes much more than meets the stat sheet. “I think what’s really important, and I can’t stress this enough, is that Rylee is the fourth coach on the field,” Izzo-Brown said. “She’s got to be the one dictating play. She sees the field better than anybody. Even though players aren’t attacking at her, she still needs to keep us organized and ready and focused.” The team will need to be on high alert as the level of their competition starts to increase. Three members of the Big 12 Conference are currently ranked in the United Soccer Coaches poll, including 22nd-ranked Texas Tech— the Mountaineer’s opponent this coming Friday. The strength of the opponent stays high for the following matchup as the Mountaineers follow up with TCU on Sunday. TCU is just behind Texas Tech in the Big 12 with a 7-1-1 record. “We are so excited to start

Big 12 play,” Izzo-Brown said about this weekend’s matchups. “We know that it’s going to be the little things that are going to add up to the big things going into two nationally ranked opponents. Nothing like going on the road against two opponents that are just having an incredible start of their season. We know both games are going to be difficult.” Ultimately, Izzo-Brown preaches one thing above all: getting better each and every day. “I think that if we continue our development and get better every day, we can finish our opportunities, but also get those shutouts that are just as important,” Izzo-Brown said. “I think that us standing behind those seniors, but also recognizing everyone’s got a job to do — if you do your job, we’ll be fine. I never ask Rylee [Foster] to be a striker. If Rylee gets her job done, and Sh’Nia [Gordon] gets her job done, we’re going to get those W’s.”

by Isaiah Zuber changed the game against South Dakota. Limiting big returns by opponents is normally a focus as well.” What are K-State’s weaknesses? “The pass rush. Through the first three games, the Wildcats have sacked the quarterback just twice and surrendered 10.

They’ve hurried the quarterback 15 times and only have eight tackles for loss. Against a team like West Virginia, K-State will need to get to Will Grier often to disrupt the offense. Also, a banged-up defense. Denzel Goolsby, Elijah Sullivan and Kevion McGee all three did not play against UTSA. Goolsby and McGee

What is Bill Snyder saying about WVU? “Snyder said that he sees a lot of improvement in Grier from last season. He commended Grier’s ability to manage the game, and that he can make a lot of different types of throws. Snyder also addressed Grier’s scrambling ability and how he did so against K-State last season. Snyder added on later that getting pressure on Grier- whether it be sacks, hurries and tipped passes at the line will be key.”

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GEE CONTINUED FROM P. 1 “Of course I believe in the press. I read more newspapers than probably anyone in the University,” he continued. Gee said having an unbiased and responsible press is the key to getting the public to trust the media again. “The press is rated right now below that of congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits,” he said. “And you guys have got to worry about that. And I worry about it. Because I think a free press is very important, but I think a free press that is non-biased is really important. Express your opinions on the opinion page, and keep your damn opinions out of the front pages.” WV Forward West Virginia Forward is a partnership between WVU, Marshall University and the state Department of Commerce that introduces legislation to help grow the state’s economy. It works with elected officials in the West Virginia Legislature. For example, last year WV Forward looked at eliminating the business inventory tax, calling it a barrier to economic growth. Gee said he hopes to look at energy issues, horizontal drilling and taxes, as WV Forward has in the past, but he said he has bigger things in mind too. “I’ve personally been very active in helping to bring Amazon [HQ2] to this part of the world,” he said. “If it comes to Washington, our eastern panhandle is going to be enormously benefitted. If it comes to Pittsburgh, [Morgantown] will, it’ll be a great benefit to us.”

Sodexo WVU’s new food provider, Sodexo, was the subject of a student protest earlier this year that claimed problems with the company’s dietary restrictions and lack of allergy-friendly foods. Some students also raised questions about Sodexo’s involvement with private prisons. Gee, however, said he thinks the addition of Sodexo on campus has been beneficial. “Well, I don’t view it as a controversy. It may be a controversy in some people’s minds,” he said. He compared privatizing dining at WVU to when he gave up control of parking during his tenure at Ohio State. “The example I give is that Ohio State, I asked that same question,” he said. “And in that instance, 36,000 parking spaces, I asked the question ‘Why are we in the parking business?’ Well, no one could really even answer us, and I said ‘Why don’t we think about privatizing it and selling as a private parking?’” Urban Meyer During his latest tenure at Ohio State, Gee hired current head football coach Urban Meyer. Meyer was suspended for three games for mishandling reports of domestic violence allegations against one of his assistants. Gee said he wasn’t privy to all of the reports of the issues that took place, but it seemed the University tried to do the right thing. “I hired Urban Meyer. He’s

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