The DA 11-01-2013

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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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Friday November 1, 2013

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Volume 126, Issue 53

For pregame coverage of WVU’s matchup against TCU, SEE SPORTS PAGE 7

Mountaineer Week kicks off today By Caroline Peters Staff writer @DailyAthenaeum

West Virginia University’s annual Mountaineer Week will be kicking off Friday at noon in the Mountainlair. This year’s theme is Salute to West Virginia. Mountaineer Week is a

tradition of school spirit promoting Appalachian culture, as well as the history of West Virginia. Sonja Wilson, Mountaineer Week adviser, said the entire week was created for students. “This whole event is planned for students. They’re our No. 1 priority,

RAZE event to encourage local youth to be tobacco-free By Summer Ratcliff City Editor @SummerRatcliff

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to browse the tables and crafts set up throughout the Mountainlair. The kickoff will include a quilts and crafts event located in the Mountainlair at 1 p.m. and is open to students and the community. “Just the craft show represents what West Virginia is all about. Before televisions and

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The Sheetz chain is currently planning its fifth Morgantown store at the site of what used to be the Premier Chevrolet Buick GMC dealership on University Avenue. The site of the proposed Sheetz store is located at the corner of Foundry Street and University Avenue across from Hazel Ruby McQuain Park and the Wharf District. Prior to Sheetz’s purchase, The Mountain People’s Co-op also looked into buying the real estate, since the University bought the Co-op’s property. While some in the down-

town area see the changes as positive, coordinators at the Co-op have decided to petition the development. “Sheetz had to ask for all of these zoning ordinances, which was public but not very well-advertised, so we feel like it was done under the radar,” said Joshua Lohnes, development coordinator at Mountain People’s Co-op. The lot was originally zoned for a two-story building and must be 20 feet from the street. Lohnes attended the City Council meeting Tuesday to protest the process by which large corporations can come in and place bids in Morgantown at the expense of smaller businesses.

Attendees will also be permitted to view the marked WVU Police car outside. The event will also continue the tradition of cramming the maximum number of people in a PRT car outside the Mountainlair. “The games, cramming

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HAIRY SITUATION

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Students grow out hair for ‘No Shave November’ BY Alexis Randolph

sider to be the busiest part of the semester, students around the West Virginia University campus are stashing away their razors. Some It’s officially November, which make this decision based on lazimeans it’s time to put the razors ness, while others do it with good away and get hairy. intentions in mind. All of this hairiness is in honor In the middle of what many conStaff Writer @DailyAthenaeum

New downtown Sheetz development stirs up controversy among local businesses by laura haight

technology, people had to hand-make everything,” Wilson said. “We have the craft event to show students from all demographics, whether it be West Virginia, New Jersey or even Africa.” Mountaineer Week activities include making a Mountaineer costume, checkers and a kid’s origami table.

PHOTOS BY SHANNON McKENNA

More than 400 middle and high school students representing West Virginia’s youth-led tobacco prevention movement, RAZE, will gather Saturday at The Waterfront Place Hotel to launch their tobacco control and prevention efforts for the current school year. RAZE is a teen tobacco prevention movement and campaign funded and facilitated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the American Lung Association. Since its formation in 2001, thousands of teens have helped in the fight against big tobacco through their involvement in RAZE. “While the event is open only to teens already enrolled in the RAZE program, students who want to become a member of RAZE can go online to the website and see about connecting with a crew or learn how to start their own crew,” said Dana Plitnick of Fahlgren Mortine on behalf of RAZE. Event attendees will engage in breakout sessions, which will allow them to strengthen their knowledge of tobacco products and will equip them to fight against the tobacco industry. Wes Lyons, former WVU and Pittsburgh Steelers player, will headline the event with a keynote address about how he achieved both athletic and academic success through hard

work, dedication and resisting the temptation of tobacco and other potentially damaging influences. “I’ve adopted West Virginia as my second home,” Lyons said. “I think if there is a major issue such as tobacco in my community, I feel the need to help out. According to RAZE, there are about 46,000 West Virginians under the age of 18 alive today who will die from smoking. This doesn’t even include other forms of tobacco.” Through his involvement with the RAZE movement, Lyons said he wants to see children live out their dreams by leading a healthy lifestyle. “If I can change one person’s path to living a healthy lifestyle, I will be ecstatic,” he said. “They need to be able to perform at their best. Being tobacco-free is a big part of doing your best.” Lyons said he hopes to leave a positive influence on the youth present at Saturday’s event. He said he wants them to realize they should invest in doing whatever it is they are good at or like to do rather than wasting valuable time and money on tobacco. “Since the main focus is on kids, I can influence them because of the platform I’ve earned through hard work, he said. “A lot of these kids are looking for a positive role model, and I plan to be that role model this Saturday.” For more information or to enroll in the RAZE program, visit http://razewv.com.

and we want them to know about the culture and history of our state,” Wilson said. “That’s why we do crazy stuff like the Beard Shaving competition.” The 2012 Mountaineer Idol Winner, Paris Winfrey, will begin the event by singing the National Anthem, and attendees will be able

“It’s a worrying trend in terms of the Panera, Starbucks and CVS coming in on High Street,” Lohnes said. “All of these corporate monies from elsewhere (are) coming into our downtown and sucking up profits from Morgantown residents and exporting those profits to who knows where.” Mountain People’s Coop encourages local businesses to buy in bulk from them. They cannot work with large corporations, but they can work with local businesses. “Local businesses take those profits and reinvest them here (in Morgantown),” Lohnes said. Lauren Brennan, a West Virginia First co-

ordinator, agreed and said adding another Sheetz will take away from Morgantown’s close-knit community and culture. “There’s a lot of struggle with supporting locally owned businesses in this town. We are a Universityrun town, but the University is not going to survive if we don’t have an awesome town to draw in new students and new professors,” Brennan said. “If everything is chain stores, that loses its character to what Morgantown really is.” City Council member Ron Bane said Sheetz has every right to build their business on the property. “They’ve met all the

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of the famous No Shave November tradition. The rules according to most sources are simple: No shaving of the face for males and no shaving of

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