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Monday November 3, 2014
Volume 127, Issue 54
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THEY CAUGHT US
WVU 30 | TCU 31
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Ranthony Texada reaches for Mario Alfordas he scores the first touchdown of the game. Texas Christian University went on to beat West Virginia.
College GameDay visits Morgantown by jacob bojesson & summer ratcliff da staff @dailyathenaeum
Since ESPN made the announcement last Sunday that West Virginia University would host College GameDay, a lot has happened. The iconic College GameDay bus swept into Morgantown Wednesday with a large crew operating the spectacle that millions of people wake up to every Saturday. The analysts on the show were happy to be back after three years and felt an excitement in the air above what they usually see. “The people you can tell are jacked up excited,” said College GameDay Analyst David Pollack. “The commitment to the day before, two
days before. The music and the atmosphere was pretty sweet.” Pollack’s only complaint was the November weather in Morgantown, which differs a lot from the usual southern SEC locations of GameDay. “I don’t do cold. I’m from Georgia,” Pollack said. The Tent City hysteria that started with a group of students’ idea to camp out for front row spots in the GameDay pit area didn’t go unnoticed by the analysts. Although they said many schools they visit have students camping out days in advance, what they saw on the Mountainlair Plaza was beyond their usual first impression of a college campus. “It was interesting to come out here yesterday and see all the tents set up,”
said College GameDay Analyst Desmond Howard. “Obviously, I’m on Twitter so I read and saw the tweets so it wasn’t a big surprise but when you see it it’s pretty
“ I don’t do
cold. I’m from Georgia. ” . –David Pollack
College GameDay analyst
impressive and I think the way that they put everything together is pretty impressive, so it’s fun to see college kids get excited about their football program and come out
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ESPN College GameDay’s Samantha Ponder and David Pollack prepare to broadcast across the nation.
School spirit inspired Tent City by jennifer skinner staff writer @dailyathenaeum
by rachel mcbride
Tent City, the new West Virginia University phenomenon sparked by ESPN’s College GameDay coming to Morgantown last week, inspired campus-wide school spirit and football team loyalty despite the team’s loss Saturday evening to Texas Christian University. “Even though we lost, we still showed the nation that we have the best students in the country,” @WVU_TentCity tweeted yesterday morning about the unique abundance of school spirit at WVU. All day long Friday at the Mountainlair Plaza, students kept up an unmatched level of excitement for the following day’s football festivities by attracting attention to their sportsmanship. WVU football head coach Dana Holgorsen made a special guest appearance Friday afternoon as he walked through Tent City and handed out free pizzas. Players hung out in Tent City all week to prepare for the big game. “It’s awesome. This is good stuff,” Holgorsen said. In addition to stirring excitement by being in Tent
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IDOL WINNER
INSIDE
Alexa Gonzalez named the 2014 Mountaineer Idol A&E PAGE 6
News: 1, 2 Opinion: 4 A&E: 3, 6 Sports: 7, 8, 9 Campus Connection: 5 Puzzles: 5 Classifieds: 9
“I personally would like to see Tent City every Mountaineer Week. These are all the fans who are die hard for our sport and our school,” said Andy Thomas, a junior mechanical engineering student who was one of the four founders of Tent City. “We love the outstanding support from the administrators, local businesses and the media.” The University was not the
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City, Holgorsen also gave students the opportunity to take selfies with him. “I like that he’s getting involved with the students who have been camping out all week for the football team,” said Calvin Parmiter, a freshman biochemistry student who had a spot in Tent City for the whole week and snapped a selfie with Holgorsen. Billie Murray, a freshman psychology student, also took her picture with the respected
coach. “I appreciate that a lot because I feel like his first couple years here, he wasn’t seen a lot in the Mountaineer community, but him coming here and goofing off with the students incorporates him more with us,” she said. Many students thought the hype produced by Tent City worked effectively with the school spirit of Mountaineer Week to create seven days of exhilaration across campus.
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Model UN AT A GLANCE
This past weekend, West Spring interviews Virginia University’s Model United Nations attended held Monday & Tuesday a competition in WashingNext conference ton, where the organization represented the coun– WVU MUN High School tries of Ghana, Nigeria, Cote Conference, Nov. 15-17. D’lvoire and Iceland. The members of MUN are reTo become sponsible for becoming acinvolved – http:// quainted with the foreign munclub.studentorgs.wvu. policies associated with the countries they represent. edu/ The group exemplified success at the competition and received several awards. The team representing Ghana received Outstanding, which is the highest honor. This is the fourth consecutive year WVU has had a delegation receive such high recognition. The team representing Nigeria received Distinguished Delegation. The team representing Cote d’Ivoire received honorable mention. MUN won seven position paper awards. The organization also had several team members who were awarded the Peer Blast Delegation award within the Security Council. MUN is a mock imitation of the official United Nations General Assembly. Each school is assigned a certain amount of countries, depending on an organization’s member size, where the group then becomes aware of the foreign policies pertaining to the committee’s agenda. Becoming a member of MUN allows students of all majors to gain three credit hours, as well as an important life experience. “We think critically about real-life problems happening
A WVU student outside of GameDay holds a sign honoring West Virginia Quarterback Clint Trickett’s hair.
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WVU Model UN team fairs well in Washington
BE AN INFORMED VOTED Editorial: Voting is important, voting informed is more important OPINION PAGE 6
SENIORS WIN LAST GAME West Virginia’s Men’s Soccer win against Buffalo SPORTS PAGE 8