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WVU Republicans make trip to US Capitol to honor Bush BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR A group of WVU College Republicans took a midnight ride to the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday morning to see the nation’s 41st president lie in state. The casket containing the remains of former President George H.W. Bush was on display in the Capitol Rotunda beginning on Monday afternoon, and the former president continued to lie in state until 7 a.m. Wednesday. After WVU canceled classes Wednesday in honor of Bush, some organization members decided to leave Morgantown a little before 1 a.m. to pay their respects to the former president. Riley Keaton, president of the WVU College Republicans, said the group made the trip to honor Bush’s public service. “From a very, very, very young age, George H.W. Bush was a patriot,” Keaton said. In addition to Bush’s presidency, Keaton highlighted Bush’s service as the 11th director of the CIA, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 to 1973, his stint as chairman of the Republican National Committee and his service in the Navy during World War II. Bush enlisted on his 18th birthday, and a year later he became one of the youngest pilots in the Navy. In September 1944, Bush’s plane was hit while on a mission, and he was forced to parachute out of the burning plane and into the Pacific Ocean. He was rescued afterward by a U.S. submarine. Keaton said since a lot of current students are probably unfamiliar with Bush’s presidency, memorable events from his life can be forgotten. “People our age don’t really know that he was shot down over the Pacific in World War II,” he said. At the Capitol, Keaton said the scene was memorable. Even at about 4 a.m., when the group arrived at the casket, the Rotunda was filled with hundreds of people.
“When he looked at America, he saw 1,000 points of light, of families and churches and communities and businesses, the kind of civil society conservatism that got the United States where it is today,” -Riley Keaton, president of WVU College Republicans
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WVU College Republicans, from left to right, Joey Georgy, Taylor Giles, Nathan Burdette, Riley Keaton, Jessica Dobrinsky, Kennedy Roberts and Derek Rader, in Washington D.C. Keaton said just walking in and out of the Rotunda was an amazing experience. “You enter the room next to the statue of Ronald Reagan, and you exit the room next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln, and in between is where you pay respect to the kind of giant person that [Bush was],” he said. “Seeing someone like that lie in state reminds you what makes a person significant more than the body we live in,” he added. “It makes you think a little bit more deeply about the soul and about what makes someone who they are.” One of Bush’s most memorable speeches, where he likened America’s volunteerism and charitable
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spirit to 1,000 points of light, still resonates with the organization. “When he looked at America, he saw 1,000 points of light, of families and churches and communities and businesses, the kind of civil society conservatism that got the United States where it is today,” Keaton said. The group returned to Morgantown around 10 a.m. Wednesday, Keaton said. On Wednesday, a national day of mourning for the 41st president, Keaton wanted to recognize how Bush carried himself throughout his life and the legacy he leaves behind. “All of it while being not braggadocious, not too much of a personality,” he said.
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Charles Hayes The man who inspires through dance BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR Anyone who has been to a WVU football game this season has seen Charles Hayes, better known as ‘the dancing guy’. It never fails. Every game the dance cam pans to his section. He always manages to hype up the stadium, no matter the score. Hayes’ first WVU game was the Texas Tech game last year. He had friends who were season ticket holders. They invited him and his wife to the game. WVU was down in the third quarter when the Geico dance cam panned to section 128 where Hayes was sitting. Hayes knew what it took to get on the dance cam, and with the encouragement of his wife and others in the section, he began to dance. “If I can support the Mountaineers with a little boost of dance I will gladly do it every single time,” Hayes said. Hayes went to every home game this year, as well as the WVU vs. Tennessee game in Charlotte. Hayes said camera time is not his main goal. “My main goal is to support the Mountaineers,” he said. Next season, he wants the student section to be sold out every game to back up the team. Hayes was born in Florida and lived in Maryland. He graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, where he received a degree in education. Hayes teaches special education at a middle school in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He grew up with a learning disability and wanted to help others reach their full potential. It was in seventh grade that he was encouraged to become a teacher. He said he tries to incorporate music and dancing in his classroom. “Dancing is one of those things where I feel the beat and
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Charles Hayes with his wife, Haley at a football game. I get going,” Hayes said. “I love it that way.” Hayes’ fame reaches outside of Milan Puskar Stadium. He has gained many followers on his social media accounts. Hayes said it’s cool that he has more followers, and he tries to promote positivity. His Instagram and Twitter handles are _oneone6_ after his favorite Bible verse, Romans 1:16. Hayes also tries to use his platform to promote MountaineerThon, a dance marathon that raises money for the children’s hospital at WVU. After learning about the MountaineerThon, Hayes decided to go a step further and started a dance marathon at the middle school he works at. In their first year, they raised more than $2,000. It is clear that through his positive spirit and fun dance moves Hayes has been influential to WVU.
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The Berhanu Family Honoring the late Leah Berhanu, her family continues to live out her legacy. BY HANNAH WILLIAMS OPINION AND OUTREACH EDITOR After suffering a great loss less than a year ago, Leah Berhanu’s family honors her life by giving back to students who share the same passions as she did. The Berhanu family created an endowment fund known as The Leah Berhanu Financial Rescue Scholarship, an endowment of $25,000 to assist undergraduate engineering students in need. The Thrasher Group, an engineering firm in Bridgeport where Leah had interned, contributed to the fund as well. “Even for a young 21 year old, [Leah] had talked about giving back, primarily to female students who were interested in engineering, but students that maybe didn’t have parents that could afford to send them to college which is definitely a big problem,” said Rebecca Berhanu, Leah’s sister and a pharmacy student at WVU. On Feb. 1, 2018, Leah Berhanu was struck and killed by a car while walking across the intersection of Morrill Way and Patteson Drive. Berhanu said the scholarship hadn’t always been in the family’s plans, but after extended family and a GoFundMe account generated more than enough money to cover funeral costs, the Ber-
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The Berhanu family presenting the Leah Berhanu Financial Rescue Scholarship.
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The Berhanu family attending Leah’s high school graduation. hanu’s, Leah’s parents and two sisters, had extra money that they wanted to use in Leah’s honor. “Leah was very forthcoming about that kind of stuff, and while she probably didn’t understand that was something that could be done so soon, it was something that she was passionate about,” Berhanu said. “So, once we kind of put the pieces together, from there it was really easy to decide to do it.”
The Berhanu family’s efforts did not stop there. Berhanu said the family has become very active in the Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board, as well. “We put our two cents in,” she said. “Not just about what happened to Leah on that road, but any road that is congested or that is really unsafe for pedestrians to travel on. We’re really trying to target those areas and figure out ways on how we can make
them safer.” The family is passionate about keeping pedestrian safety a topic of discussion. “Classes will come and they’ll go and they’ll graduate and they won’t know my sister, but it’s important that it’s still a topic of discussion, whether its student orientations or in newsletters,” Berhanu said. “Whatever it is, we want to keep the message alive.” She said her family is ac-
tively looking towards legislative change relating to the tragic incident. “It’s really early in the stages, but we’re hoping over the next several years of us advocating and making it a topic of discussion, we’d like to see legislative change in West Virginia because this will still continue to be a college town and WVU will continue to grow, and that means that more people will walk on the street, which means kids are at risk,” she said. Outside of the family’s efforts to help the WVU community, they cherish the memories they had with Leah and strive to honor the wonderful person that she was. “We still talk about her. We
Ken Ward Jr. The MacArthur Fellowship was awarded to Ward for “revealing the human and environmental toll of natural resource extraction in West Virginia and spurring greater accountability among public and private stakeholders.” BY JARED SERRE STAFF WRITER Ken Ward Jr., an investigative journalist at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, a WVU alumnus and former managing editor at the Daily Athenaeum, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship earlier this year for his reporting efforts relating to the environment. Ward’s reporting focuses mainly on the coal in-
dustry, worker safety, natural gas production and chemical manufacturing. The MacArthur Fellowship, which consists of a six-figure stipend paid over five years, was awarded to Ward for “revealing the human and environmental toll of natural resource extraction in West Virginia and spurring greater accountability among public and private stakeholders,” according to the MacArthur Foundation website. “I was told I could only
tell one person, and that was my wife, so I couldn’t tell my 13-year-old son. I couldn’t tell my boss or my coworkers or my mom. It’s kind of hard to keep secret,” Ward said. “I called [my wife] and said ‘can you close the door?’ and she immediately thought something was wrong — somebody had died or someone was sick — something bad. I know as I was talking to her, I kind of teared up and broke down a little bit. I was so amazed by the whole thing.”
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The Charleston Gazette-Mail’s Ken Ward Jr. chatting with environment reporter Kate Mishkin. The MacArthur Foundation, which awards the fellowship, prioritizes the concept of creativity when selecting recipients for the award. The award essentially allows funding for recipients to have the ability to pursue their own “creative, intellectual and professional inclinations.”
While this isn’t the kind of award to send somebody into an early retirement, Ward is glad that it allows him flexibility while also having a bit of a buffer zone. “I have a son who’s 13. He’s got the rest of eighth grade and four years of high school and then he’s going to want to go to
still go to her room. We laugh about things that she laughed about, and we do things that she liked to do. We surround ourselves with people that do the same,” Berhanu said. “We don’t give up,” she said. “She wasn’t a quitter. It definitely would’ve been very easy to give up, especially after the trial, but that’s not who she was, so we’re not giving up either.” The Berhanu family extends thanks to the Statler College of Engineering for giving Leah an extra family as well as to WVU and the Morgantown community for supporting them during this time.
college. MacArthur is certainly going to help foot his college bill,” Ward said. “Also, you don’t know what’s happening in the newspaper business. It’s a very tough economy right now, and this is a great sort of cushion or safety net for me that allows me to focus on doing my work and doing good stories if I don’t have to worry so much about the other part of it,” he said. Ultimately, Ward believes the best way for him to utilize the award is to continue the investigative work that he has been doing. “Right now, my plan is to continue working here at the newspaper — at least that’s what I hope I’m going to do — and hopefully continue to do more of the work that I’ve been doing, that others here have been doing — the legacy of sustained outrage and investigative reporting,” Ward said.
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John Chambers Chambers, who grew up in Kanawha County, said he sees potential in WVU’s students. BY GABRIELLA BROWN STAFF WRITER John Chambers, former executive chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, returned to his alma mater to show West Virginia University students that with a will to succeed, they can do great things. After making a substantial donation to the University’s business school, the college has been renamed the John Chambers College of Business and Economics. Chambers, who grew up in Kanawha County, said he sees potential in WVU’s students, and he shared the ways students can hone that potential to find their place in the world. Chambers puts a lot of emphasis on the idea of start-ups. He said the United States is one of the only major developed countries that do not have a form of digital strategy. He said this generation of students will be the ones to change that. “I think you have the potential to be the next generation of start-up leaders,” Chambers said at the event renaming the business school after him. “There are many of us in Silicon Valley that came straight out of this great university.” For Chambers, it’s not just about where you come from, it’s about your desire to succeed and bring change to the world. “It is not about the name of a school, it is about a declaration that we have a chance to dream big and to be a model not for how West Virginia succeeds, but for how other states throughout the heartland of this great nation can succeed,” Chambers said. Although he sees the possibility for students to do great things in the world of start-up companies, he recognizes it is not a short-term process. Rather, it will take years of perseverance. “This will be a five, 10 and 20-year journey,” Chambers said. “It will have to be about how we have done things differently than others have done or we will get the same results as we move forward.” Through his own experiences, Chambers said that despite setbacks, persistence and eagerness to succeed is what allows people to thrive. In an interview after the recognition event, Chambers discussed his experi-
“It is not about the name of a school, it is about a declaration that we have a chance to dream big and to be a model not for how West Virginia succeeds, but for how other states throughout the heartland of this great nation can succeed.” -John Chambers
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John Chambers, a former Silicon Valley CEO, speaks to a crowd at the Erickson Alumni Center after the business school was named after him. ences with dyslexia. Originally deterred by the fear of people seeing it as a weakness, Chambers made it into a strength. “Nobody knew I was dyslexic,” Chambers said. “I realized that in life, you’re more a product of how you handle your setbacks than your successes.” He also shared his own deeper connection to the University and the state of West Virginia. “What I am excited about is how much I love this state and how much it has meant to five generations of my family,” Chambers said. “Anytime I talk about West Virginia around the world, there is a soft spot for it that I cannot explain.”
Sonja Wilson Thirty years worth of programming later, Wilson is still working her dream job. BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR Life does not always work out the way people plan it. Mountainlair Senior Programming Administrator Sonja Wilson thought she would leave her job at Fairmont State College to be a stay-at-home mom raising her son while her husband worked in a coal mine. Her husband got laid off, the coal mine shut down and suddenly Wilson needed to be the breadwinner for her family. However, her job at Fairmont State was no longer available so she decided to “come to the city” and work at WVU. Little did she know at the time, this series of events had landed her at a job she would still have more than 30 years later. “I ended up getting a job here [in 1984]. It was in human resources. I worked in training and development and I thought I’d work there forever,” Wilson
“The hardest part for me is seeing a student graduate. I just get so attached to them; they’re like my children. I guess it’s a part of life.” -Sonja Wilson said. “Then an opportunity came up for me to go to the Mountainlair.” Now, Wilson is in charge of coordinating WVU traditions such as WVUp All Night, the Mountaineer Mascot, Mountaineer Week and the Student Life Hall of Fame. She also helped start long-running programs like Mountaineer Idol and Dancing with the Mountaineer Stars. Wilson moved to the Mountainlair in 1988 and started doing programming. In 1989 Wilson worked on a project that made her love programming. In 1988, the Mountainlair underwent a multi-million dollar renovation. Wilson was the chair of a 14-person committee that planned a week of celebration. “We planned a week-long
Mardi Gras celebration,” Wilson said. “It was just such a gigantic event that I got to lead, and I just knew at that point it was what I wanted to do.” Wilson said that she just feels thankful that somePHOTO VIA SONJA WILSON. body all those years ago was willing to give her a chance Wilson began her career with WVU in to do something that she 1984. ended up loving. “I feel so fortunate to be various programs. “The hardest part for me able to be in this role. I do have a fun job, it is a lot of is seeing a student graduwork. I just am very, very ate,” Wilson said. “I just get thankful for the people who so attached to them, they’re gave me a chance along the like my children. I guess it’s way,” Wilson said. “I just a part of life.” think that if you’re a hard Wilson has left an undeworker, things will pay off for niable mark on the univeryou. It’s because somebody gave me a chance along sity, and her work in upholding, promoting and the way.” Wilson often works celebrating some of WVU’s alongside students who greatest traditions will never help her put on these go unnoticed.
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Will Grier BY JARED SERRE STAFF WRITER Whether it’s seen through the stat sheets, the bootleg customized football jerseys rampant on gamedays or the mantra of “Horns Down,” Will Grier has left his mark on the Mountaineer football program in his two seasons as starting quarterback. Coming out of high school, Grier committed to play quarterback at the University of Florida. After transferring to WVU in 2016, Grier was forced to sit out that season. It wasn’t until the 2017 season opener against Virginia Tech that Grier stepped in to replace the graduated Skyler Howard as starting quarterback. From that day forward, all eyes were fixated on Morgantown. Grier, who was named Mr. Football USA in 2013 in high school, finished the 2017 campaign throwing for 3,490 yards while also contributing 36 total touchdowns to the Mountaineers — en route to being named the 2017 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Grier received a season-ending injury in November of that season. WVU later fell to Utah in the 2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl. Still, college football fans, analysts and per-
From “Horns Down” to his family life, Grier’s star power has been the heartbeat of WVU.
sonalities around the country knew that the Mountaineers were on pace to ruffle some feathers the following year. “I am completely focused and looking forward to building off the success we had this year and want to do even greater things next year,” Grier said following the conclusion of the 2017 season. “West Virginia is my home, and I couldn’t be more excited about the future here.” As the 2018 season approached, WVU quickly found themselves as the home of a genuine Heisman Trophy candidate for the first time since the days of Pat White, Steve Slaton and Noel Devine. Grier was named the Big 12 Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, while also being named on watchlists for an abundance of other awards. Thanks to the efforts of Grier and company, the Mountaineers started off the season with an 8-1 record. Because of that, WVU reached their highest poll ranking since the 2012 season — sixth. The team’s success had them nearing national championship contention and, at the very least, Big 12 Championship discussion. Unfortunately for the Mountaineers, after consecutive losses to Oklahoma State and Oklahoma, both were out of the question. The team
Roger Brent Scott BY HANNAH WILLIAMS OPINION AND OUTREACH EDITOR After the tragic and untimely death of a childhood friend, former WVU SGA Representative Roger Brent Scott is committed to advocating for pedestrian safety to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again. “Because of who Leah was and because of how she lived makes what we’ve been doing not necessarily something that we can do, but something that we have to do,” Scott said. On Feb. 1, 2018, Leah Berhanu, a civil engineering student from Morgantown was struck and killed while crossing the intersection of Patteson Drive and Morrill Way after a driver failed to stop at a red light. Berhanu was 21 years old at the time. The incident has inspired both students and community members to be active in the fight toward safer conditions for pedestrians, including SGA and the Morgantown Pedestrian Safety Board. “The most important thing is to watch out for your fellow
Mountaineers,” Scott said. “We have to be accountable for ourselves. And second, absolutely never, ever be satisfied. We have to constantly be pushing for stronger pedestrian safety — stronger measures that allow for us to have zero pedestrian fatalities.” Scott, a former middle and high school classmate of Berhanu, is at the forefront of these efforts. Scott is a political science student at WVU and a member of the Gamma Pi chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity. As a way to honor his friend, Scott has tackled the issue of pedestrian safety at full force, playing an active role in the community. He works closely with the Morgantown Pedestrian Safety board as well as the Pedestrian Safety Working Group, which collaborated to develop an action plan filled with goals to work toward eliminating pedestrian deaths. “It’s really about keeping the conversation alive and making sure that our commands are heard and that eventually we can have a Morgantown where there are zero pedestrian fa-
Conor Wischmann BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR
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WVU quarterback Will Grier walks onto the field. will now play in the Camping World Bowl on Dec. 28. Due to the end of his eligibility, Grier will no longer be donning the old gold and blue on Saturdays next year. Instead, Grier is setting his sights on the NFL, where he is expected by many pundits to follow in
the steps of many Mountaineer greats before him, such as Tavon Austin and Geno Smith. “He knows how to handle this,” head coach Dana Holgorsen said about Grier after the 2018 Kansas State matchup. “He’s a professional that’s in college.”
Keeping the legacy of his childhood friend alive, Scott fights for stronger pedestrian safety.
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Roger Brent Scott is a former WVU SGA Representative. talities, because that’s how it should be,” he said. A quote that inspires Scott comes from the poem, Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Tennyson and reads “Come my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world.” “Our future may exist beyond our vision, but it is far from out of our control, and I
think it’s important that we recognize that,” Scott said. Scott will be moving to Washington, D.C. to work on Capitol Hill upon graduating in December, but he is confident that SGA will continue to to advocate for pedestrian safety on his behalf.
A movement as significant as what five fraternities started this semester needed a leader strong enough to keep the ship sailing straight, even when the pressure was on. Conor Wischmann, president of the Independent Interfraternity Council (IIFC), is a junior from Palos Verdes Estates, California. At just 20 years old, Wischmann took leadership of an organization so in the spotlight, so under scrutiny and so unlike anything that’s happened at WVU before. No fraternities had successfully disassociated from the University before and formed their own council; there was really no direction except for following what other fraternities across the country have tried. Now living three time zones away from California, Wischmann said he came to Morgantown with really no idea what it would be like. “I committed without ever even visiting, had never been to this state before, never really had been to the East Coast,” he said. “I came to school here not knowing a single guy. I had no friends here. I didn’t know anyone within a 300mile radius.” His unfamiliarity with WVU led him to rush Sigma Chi, where he said he met his lifelong friends. Fast forward a few semesters later, frustrations with the University and its oversight of fraternities heightened. Wischmann said Sigma Chi thought the Reaching the Summit initiative, which created a working group that recommended changes to Greek organizations and suspended others, had good intentions, but punished the fraternity for incidents that happened in the past and had already been held accountable for. Sigma Chi and Kappa Alpha were the first fraternities to disassociate from WVU in August. What followed were three other fraternities, Phi Sigma Kappa, Theta Chi and Alpha Sigma Phi, joining the two and establishing the IIFC. WVU then served the five a 10-year ban from campus in late September. Wischmann said he pushed heavily to leave the University, even before the school year started. In retrospect, he said he wished he waited a little while longer so the five could break off as a group, but he doesn’t regret the decision. “Just basically, we took a stand for our rights as an organization and did what we felt was best for the longevity
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IIFC President Conor Wischmann. of our fraternity, and I think without a doubt we made the right move,” he said. Wischmann was elected president during the first IIFC meeting by the organizations. He said while the job is stressful, especially during the first months of it, his youth gives him the time and energy to lead the IIFC his way. “I have the time afforded to me to build it and push it in the direction I want and not have to rush it,” he said. After the creation of the IIFC, the next part was getting freshmen to rush its fraternities. WVU President E. Gordon Gee penned multiple letters to parents this semester warning of dissident fraternities and that these five were unsafe. But Wischmann said Sigma Chi had a strong fall rush class, and the students do not seem to mind joining an organization not under University oversight. “The freshmen weren’t too concerned about being independent from the school,” he said. “They just came up and really liked the brotherhood we have, the members we have.” Wischmann credited the circle around him for helping him lead the council. He said he doesn’t really want to be seen as the head guy when it comes to the IIFC, but says he doesn’t take his top leadership role lightly. “You have to carry yourself and live up to the really high standard that’s expected of you,” he said. “You’ve got to be a transformational leader and lead by example.”
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Emma Harrison The future is bright for senior Emma Harrison BY OLIVIA GIANETTINO CULTURE WRITER Student Emma Harrison began taking interest in prison reform, and since then she has used her interest to impact her home state. Harrison is a senior political science and multidisciplinary studies student at West Virginia University. Since her sophomore year, Harrison has been working with the West Virginia Innocence Project, run through the WVU College of Law. “What we do is we get innocent people out of prison,” Harrison said. She began as an intern and has been working there since then. “They hand write letters to our office, and I determine if they fit our criteria or not,” Harrison said. The job can get “really hard,” Harrison said. She frequently has to reject people from receiving help from the project. Answering phone calls is another part of her duties. “That’s hard because I’m
“I’ve learned a lot about the people and the actual reality of their lives.” -Emma Harrison talking to people’s family members,” Harrison said. During her time at WVU, Harrison has studied abroad all around the world. She has studied the court system in Europe, participated in various Model United Nations events in parts of South America, the Netherlands and Japan, and she has traveled with the Honors College to Bahrain and Jordan. Harrison is the recipient of multiple scholarships, which have helped her make these trips possible. “Through the Milan Puskar scholarship, all of my study abroad experiences have been fully paid for, which is huge,” Harrison said. She went on to explain how these experiences have helped shape her under-
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Morgantown native Emma Harrison plans to continue working to improve prison reform and policy. standing of the world. “I’ve learned a lot about the people and the actual reality of their lives,” Harrison said. Harrison is also a recipient of the Truman Scholarship. She was accepted into the master of criminology program at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. “Maybe I’ll do that,” Harrison said. She said that no matter where she ends up, she wants to stay working around prison reform and policy.
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Old Big East rivals meet in Camping World Bowl BY MATTHEW GOLD ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL West Virginia finished with an 8-3 record, good enough to earn a trip to Orlando, Florida for the Camping World Bowl. WVU has gone to a bowl game the past four seasons but only won one of them (the 2015 Cactus Bowl against Arizona State). The Mountaineers opponent on Dec. 28 will be the Syracuse Orange. Syracuse is coming off of a 9-3 (5-2 ACC) record, which saw them sit in second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Coastal, one spot behind conference champion Clemson. Head coach Dino Babers is in his third season, with an overall record of 17-19. This was the most successful season of the Babers era, as the Orange went 4-8 in his first two years in charge. Syracuse finished No. 20 in the College Football Playoff rankings and No. 17 in the AP Poll. It ranked as high as No. 12 in both polls. Those rankings came in Week 12. The Orange played three ranked opponents this fall. It fell 27-23 to No. 2 Clemson in a game in which the Tiger’s starting quarterback left injured. A month later, at home, Syracuse beat No. 22 NC State 51-41. And
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Running Back Leddie Brown breaking off Oklahoma defender for a big run. in the second to last game of the season, at Yankee Stadium, No. 3 Notre Dame beat Clemson easily, 36-3. Senior quarterback Eric Dungey leads the Orange on offense. He completes his passes at a 60 percent clip and has completed 205 of them. Dungey threw 17 touchdowns and only seven interceptions. He has taken 20 sacks, which is something that the WVU could be able to take advantage of due to the number of tackles for loss and pressure in the
backfield that West Virginia gets and puts on opponents. Dungey threw for a season-high 411 yards in the win over NC State. He threw five scores in Syracuse’s Week 2 win over Wagner. On the ground, Dungey is just as much of a threat. He rushed for 732 yards and ran in for 15 touchdowns. Dungey has two wide receivers that make plenty of catches and are capable of big plays. Senior WR Jamal Custis bust on to the scene this year.
He recorded 46 catches for 826 yards, which was good enough to lead the team. His six receiving touchdowns was a team best, too. He had two games with over 160 receiving yards. The Philadelphia native had 168 yards against Western Michigan and 162 yards against North Carolina. Opposite Custis is junior Sean Riley. Riley led the Orange in catches with 63 and trailed just Custis in receiving yards with 733. Riley has just
three touchdown catches in the season. Riley has three games in which he eclipsed the 100-yard mark. He had 120 yards versus UCONN, 164 against NC State and 115 in the last game of the season against Boston College. Syracuse seems to have a recipe for success with these two: Get them more than 100 receiving yards. The Orange is undefeated when Custis and Riley are both in triple-digit receiving yards. Syracuse’s rushing attack is
pretty balanced as well. Dungey has 15 rushing touchdowns and carries to lead the team. But three others have more than 300 yards on the ground in 2018. Moe Neal has 827 ground yards and five scores. Dontae Strickland has 560 yards and Jarveon Howard has recorded 311 yards. Both Strickland and Howard have found the end zone six times. Neither of the three backs is used to catch passes. Combined, they have just 28 catches. In 69 trips into the red zone, the Orange scored on 88.4 percent of its trips, good enough to be No. 31 in the country in that stat. Syracuse is No. 22 in terms of total offense. Syracuse’s defense is No. 87 when it comes to total defense, allowing 5,122 yards and 27.8 points per game. Senior linebacker Ryan Guthrie is the team leader in tackles with 101. He recorded 14.5 tackles for loss and two sacks. Kielan Whitner was not far behind Guthrie’s total, as Whitner made 96 stops. Andre Cisco picked off opposing QBs seven times and broke up 11 passes. Alton Robinson sacked the opposing QB 10 times and also led the defense in tackles for loss, with 17. Kick off for the Camping World Bowl is set for 5:15 p.m. on Dec. 28 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando.
Teammates, Huggins laud Routt’s growth from walk-on to one of top rebounders BY CHRIS JACKSON SPIRTS WRITER
MEN’S BASKETBALL There’s a reason why West Virginia redshirt junior forward Logan Routt is where he is today. The story has been told before. He was the walk-on from Cameron, West Virginia, who earned a scholarship before last season. He is not on scholarship anymore (head coach Bob Huggins gave the 13th and final scholarship to freshman forward Emmitt Matthews Jr., a former UConn commit that pledged to WVU late during the process in May), but there is a reason his story has been told on countless occasions. He is the epitome of what a walk-on player stands for. He is a grinder, a scrapper. He has had to work for everything, a big reason why he is where he is today. “He works,” Huggins said. “Logan’s been terrific.”
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Forward Logan Routt. Everyone in the program loves him. They have seen him grow from a walk-on with no Division I offers to a regular contributor in a deep rotation, getting minutes for a program that has advanced to the Sweet 16 in three of the first four years.
Fellow redshirt junior James “Beetle” Bolden came in with Routt. They both arrived in 2015 and redshirted — Bolden suffered a season-ending injury before the year began and was redshirted as a result. Bolden laughs and smiles looking back at what the 6-foot-11 Routt once was. “Not to throw any shade, but he couldn’t do too much,” Bolden said, “He definitely improved.” That improvement has been noticed by everybody. Routt scraps and claws his way for everything. He fights for every loose ball, every single loose rebound. It’s that walk-on mentality. Bolden points to one former walk-on: James Long. Long, who is now a video coordinator for the team, played at WVU without a scholarship from 2014 to 2017 after transferring from Wofford. Long, like Routt, embodied everything about a walk-on player. Maybe he was not as much of a rotation player like
Routt (Long played 113 career minutes compared to Routt’s 338 thus far), but everyone loved him and still loves him. And when he hit a three and earned his firstever start on Senior Night against Iowa State in 2017, everyone went into a state of euphoria, ranging from the players all the way to the fans. They saw an in-state player in Long, a Charleston native, playing and making a shot for the flagship university of his home state. “I’ve been here with James Long, and he’s probably one of the hardest workers I’ve ever seen as a walk-on, honestly,” Bolden said. “He got so much for coach Huggs, and those guys get so much love from everybody around here because they know they’re not on scholarship, and they really don’t have to be doing it. But they’re really here doing it and giving it their all.” As Bolden said, Routt is “really here doing it.” He is crashing the boards whenever he gets the chance, hauling in 22 rebounds in 71 min-
utes of action this season. His 12 total offensive boards are tied for the fourth-most on the roster. In a recent win over Rider on Nov. 28, Routt showed why he is such an effective rebounder whenever he gets the chance, finishing with a career-high eight rebounds. “Just getting opposite and really wanting the ball,” said WVU senior forward Esa Ahmad after the 92-78 victory versus Rider. “Logan is a big body, and he knows how to use his body well. I wasn’t surprised.” Routt could have chosen to be upset, frustrated about going back to walk-on status after being on scholarship for one year and seeing that scholarship go to Matthews. He could have sulked. That’s not how he handled it, though. He had absolutely zero problems with it. He just wants to help his team in any way that he possibly he can. “He’s a great person, honestly,” Bolden said. “Logan, he’s one of my closest
friends. Everybody is here, but me and him and [redshirt junior forward] Lamont [West], we came in together, Esa, and we’ve just always been together. And I know what type of person he is. He always kept his head high. He’s handled everything extremely well.” In Bolden’s mind, “he’s the most improved player” on WVU’s roster. How could anyone argue with him after just how much Routt has grown as a player during his career? At the end of the NCAA Tournament last season, Routt made the infamous One Shining Moment video following a dunk as he raised the roof. Those few seconds during the conclusion of the national championship seem like the perfect depiction to describe just how much the Cameron native has emerged at West Virginia. “He’s come so far,” Huggins said. “It’s crazy how far he’s come.”
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Backyard Brawl returns to Morgantown BY COLE MCCLANAHAN SPORTS WRITER
MEN’S BASKETBALL The Backyard Brawl returns for its 186th edition on Saturday as the Pittsburgh Panthers will travel to face the West Virginia Mountaineers. It will be the first Backyard Brawl game held in Morgantown since 2012, when the Panthers escaped WVU Coliseum with a 72-66 win. The Backyard Brawl first began in 1906 but was not played annually until 1918. Beginning in 1918, though, the game was played every year until 2012. When played continuously, it was one of the most fierce, and most played, college basketball rivalries in the entire country, battling UNC vs. Duke, Kentucky vs. Louisville and Georgetown vs. Villanova for the right to be named the best rivalry in college basketball. Conference realignment in 2012 put a hold on the series as both schools made moves out of the Big East Conference, with West Virginia going to the Big 12 and Pitt changing to the
Atlantic Coast Conference. The hiatus, though, was lifted in 2017 when a four-game series renewed the rivalry. Last season, WVU won the first of four meetings with the Panthers, 69-60, and took a 9788 all-time lead in the series. On Saturday, the Mountaineers (5-3) will look for their third consecutive victory over the Panthers. Pitt (7-2) is coming off a 71-70 loss to Niagara, where they were outshot from the field and from three, 48 percent to 42 percent and 42 percent to 40 percent, and out-rebounded, 38 to 31. The Panthers’ leading scorer, freshman guard Xavier Johnson, had 19 points in the losing effort on 7-16 shooting, including 3-5 from behind the three-point line. Johnson averages 16.3 points per game and is one of four players on the team to average double-digit scoring per game. Senior guard and forward Jared Wilson-Frame is second in the scoring column for Pitt, averaging 13.4 points per game. With Johnson at the helm,
the Panthers have been led by their youth this season as they have three freshmen in the starting lineup, with all three in the top five on the team in scoring. The freshmen leaders are Johnson, guard Au’Diese Toney and guard Trey McGowens. Toney is the leading rebounder on the team at 6.9 rebounds per game, while Johnson is also the team leader in assists with 5.2 per game. Behind the freshmen’s efforts, the Panthers average 78 points per game, while allowing only 65.1 points per game from their opponents so far this season. Pitt shoots an impressive 47.5 percent from the field as a team, with 35.6 percent coming from three, but has connected on only 72.1 percent of attempts from the free throw line. Despite the strong shooting totals, the Panthers average only one assist more per game than they do turnovers, at 14 assists and 13 turnovers per game. This lack of ball security can largely be attributed to the youth of the team as the
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Forward Sagaba Konate trying to block an opposing team defender. Panthers not only start three freshmen but have nine underclassmen on the roster. The Mountaineers will look to exploit this inexperience as they field a starting lineup full of juniors and seniors. WVU is led in scoring by senior forward Esa Ahmad’s 15.4 points per game with junior
forward Sagaba Konate coming in second on the team with 13.3 points per game. Konate is also the leading rebounder on the team, pulling down 7.9 boards per game, while freshman guard Brandon Knapper paces the team in assists with 2.6 per game. The Mountaineers will rely
on their upperclassmen to get past Pitt, and to win their 98th game of the Backyard Brawl, as it will be one of their toughest tests to date. West Virginia and Pitt are set to tip off at noon on Saturday.
WVU heads to Pittsburgh on Saturday to renew rivalry BY ANDREA WARNER SPORTS WRITER
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL West Virginia is traveling to Pittsburgh to face off against the Panthers on Saturday. The Mountaineers are coming off a disappointing 68-51 home loss to Missouri. Leading up to the contest against Mizzou, the Mountaineers had a 4-1 record under their belt. Sunday’s loss to the Tigers was a discouraging one and will require the team to dig deep to regain confidence.
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Guard Madisen Smith making her way down the court. Injuries, short-handedness and a six-point quarter
plagued WVU. Redshirt Junior Tynice
Martin led the Mountaineers with 18 points, seven rebounds and 4-4 from the foul line. Freshman Kari Niblack had 10 points and five rebounds. The team scored 16 second-chance points, earned 12 points off turnovers and had 14 points in the paint. The largest lead they held in the game was by four points in the first period. Due to injury, Michigan transfer and leading scorer Kysre Gondrezick was not on her usual game Sunday. Gondrezick left the game early in the third period and went 0-4 for the night. She was on crutches following the loss. Going into its game
against Fordham on Wednesday, the Panthers were riding a three-game win streak, and they held a 5-4 record for the season. Pitt’s leading scorer, senior Danielle Garven, didn’t play well in their last game against Northwestern, only putting up five points. Garven racked up a season-high 17 points in the match-up against Tennessee State. For the season, Garven is averaging 9.4 points per game and 4.4 rebounds. She also has a total of 14 assists on the season. Guard Kauai Bradley grabbed a season-high 13 rebounds with three offensive rebounds and 10 defen-
sives. Bradley leads the team defensively against Northwestern. Another top player, Jasmine Whitney, collected seven assists during their meeting with Tennessee State, a season-high for her. Pitt has some tough games on their schedule, including a trip to No. 2 Notre Dame, who is the reigning national champs. Also later in the season, the Panthers will face home and away games against No. 15 Syracuse. As always, the matchup between these two rivals will be an exciting one. Tip off is set for 3 p.m. in the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh.
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Quick tips on how to survive and thrive during finals week BY STEPHANIE GOLDEN STAFF WRITER December is an exciting time of year, from baking cookies and caroling to picking out gifts for your loved ones, but for some the season is neither holly nor jolly. For college students, it’s time to prepare for final exams. According to the American College Health Association, 34 percent of students say that stress negatively
impacts their academic performance. Stress does three things to students: decreases their sleep quality, makes them angrier and worsens their grades, according to the Mayo Clinic. To assist you in your best final prep experience, here are a few tips on how to optimize your time. Prioritize and plan: Be sure to pay close attention to when each exam is taking place. If you use a planner, write it down. Giving yourself enough time to prepare for each final
is crucial. Ask for help: There are plenty of resources on campus if you need help. Utilize your professor’s office hours or go to tutoring. These options are here for a reason. Talk to a counselor: If you’re feeling panicked or overwhelmed, talk to someone. The Carruth Center is open Monday through Friday and has drop-in hours for students from 8:15 a.m to 3 p.m.
Select a good study place: Choose a place to study where you know you will be the most productive. Whether that be a coffee shop, the library or at your desk at home, pick what’s best for you. Eat healthy foods and stay hydrated: Students tend to eat more unhealthy than usual during finals week because they are sitting somewhere with their face buried in a book. Too much sugar can lead you to crashing.
Staying hydrated is also important. Dehydration can lead to fatigue and headaches. Sleep: As much as you think it will be beneficial, pulling an allnighter probably isn’t the best idea. Getting enough sleep assists in studying and retention of information. Be sure to try and get enough rest the night before your final exam. Take breaks: Reward yourself for studying. Set a time limit and once it’s up, take a break. Watch an episode
of your favorite show, go to the rec, or take a power nap. Giving your brain that break will help you focus better once you start studying again. Be positive: Positive self-talk can be very beneficial. Stay positive and have confidence in yourself. If you say you’re going to do poorly, then chances are, you probably will. Believe in yourself and go in with the mindset that you’re ready.
The five best Christmas movies you need to watch this year BY SEAN TANSKI STAFF WRITER It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is the time for traditions; decorating the
tree, making gingerbread houses, decorating the house, watching the Christmas special of “Saturday Night Live” and countless others. One of the best traditions you can do each Christmas season is watch all the great Christmas movies out
there. Every year I watch as many movies as I can. Some of them are great and some are not so great. After heavy consideration, I have found five Christmas movies you should watch with the family this year.
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