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The Big Event is bigger than ever RICHARD CHUMNEY news reporter

The Big Event, Virginia Tech’s annual one-day local community service project, broke participation records Saturday after more than 8,000 students volunteered.

According to Big Event director Tory Cottle, students completed about 1,200 projects throughout the New River Valley, the highest number of projects completed in the Big Event’s 14-year history.

“It really is an amazing thing that we can have over 8,000 students come out just because they want to,” Cottle said. “It’s a very interesting thing for college students to wake up this early on a Saturday and go out into the community; it’s

a great thing.”

The Big Event was organized by a 23-member executive team and a 115-member committee who were tasked with various responsibilities ranging from managing logistics to securing sponsors.

The immediate preparation began Friday after the tool lines were set up and service vehicles were acquired. Cottle, Moon and their team then began their Saturday at 3 a.m. setting up tents and flags as well as organizing tools.

Volunteers began to arrive soon after 8 a.m. awaiting the 9 a.m. start of the live music and dance performances.

Among this year’s sponsors included Hensel Phelps, True Value

Heavener Hardware & Lumber and Campus Cookies. The funds paid for tools, vehicles and other equipment.

“With fundraising we work with local businesses to try to create win-win initiatives to help their businesses and our organization,” said junior co-director of fundraising Brock Wolf. “That’s what the Big Event is all about, incorporating the community and trying to give back as much as we can.”

Coming into their positions, Cottle and Moon looked to improve the overall experience of the Big Event.

“Every year presents new challenges,” Moon said. “For example, BEN WEIDLICH / COLLEGIATE TIMES

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Homeowner Jane Yakel thanks freshman Jacob Cerami before the Big Event team left her property Saturday.

Air Force cadets complete field training exercise 875 Air Force cadets competed in a training exercise over the weekend. It was the largest training exercise ever executed by the detachment.

LIBBY HOWE news staff writer

Last weekend, Virginia Tech’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 875 participated in a field training exercise arguably larger in scale than any exercise ever planned and executed by the detachment before.

While the detachment conducts some kind of training exercise every spring, this year’s event proved different than any held previously. In part, this event differed from exercises of the past due to a change in the fundamental goal of the annual exercise. The focus this year shifted from conventional combat practices to urban operations in order to prepare cadets for careers in the military.

Tristan Davey, a fifth-year meteorology major, explained the importance of this event and how it applies to real-world operations.

“The kinds of wars that we fight now are removing insurgents from mostly urban areas. So we don’t fight on a conventional frame anymore … we’re finding ourselves uprooting these

kinds of factions that establish themselves in already made areas and are not tied to a nation or country,” Davey said. “This extremism requires a delicate touch to remove surgically if that makes sense.”

Focusing the field training exercise more directly on the combat operations being carried out by military officials now ensures that cadets gain the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful once they star their careers.

Some of the skills tested over the weekend through a series of six exercise stations included Self Aid Buddy Care, how to handle injuries from a broken back to a severed limb, M.O.U.T or militarized operations in urban terrain, combat road crossing, and more. Daniel Katuzienski, senior meteorology major and the operations group commander spoke on the exercise stations conducted to test cadet skills.

“We’re doing a lot of the skills necessary for field training but on a much larger scale. We’re see CORPS / page 3

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Cadets set off from the command post and head toward their first land navigation.

Student band rocks first headliner gig MEGAN VAZQUEZ lifestyles staff writer

Music and cheering could be heard from outside Sycamore Deli as up-and-coming local band Giles McConkey played its first bar headlining show Friday night, but it was a struggle to get to that point.

When the band took the stage for sound check, rhythm guitar player and vocalist Dan Morris

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had trouble with his amp, leaving his guitar mute. However, after making some adjustments on the soundboard, that problem was resolved, only to give the band another problem.

Feedback, the return of a portion of the output of a system to the input, which produces a screeching sound, started pouring out of the speakers, causing all of

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Staff will continue to publish despite obstacles

Regarding the termination of our editor in chief

L et me int roduce myself. I am Ricky LaBlue, the inter im editor-in-chief of the Collegiate Times. I was appointed to this position along with Kevin Dickel after the termination of my editor and friend Erica Corder.

For se cu r it y a nd legal reasons, Kevin, the rest of the staff and I were not notified of the reasons our editor was terminated.

As a staff, we have received con f l icti ng i n for m at ion. Me d ia reports have said that our editor was wrongfully terminated. Members of our parent company, the Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech (EMCVT), have also assured us that all of the bylaws were followed and that the termination was justified.

The Collegiate Times staff and Virginia Tech had nothing to do with the termination of our editor. The decision was recommended by the Management Advisory Te a m ( M AT ) a n d approved by the Board of Directors.

We as a staff were sho cke d a nd f r ustrated. We weren’t sure how to move on. In my opinion, Erica oversaw an increase in quality of the Collegiate Times.

This was reflected in our website analytics and increased responses to content.

Since then, the staff has been through much.

We h ave r e c eive d numerous requests for media interviews and photos. I have tried to protect the staff from the media firestorm the best I could until we figured out what the facts were. The facts remain unclear, and this has put us in a very difficult position.

Despite all of this, the Collegiate Times staff has remained steadfast in pursuing our mission.

Our m ission is to produce a paper we can

be proud of, learn how to be journalists and professionals, serve the Blacksburg and Virginia Tech community and uphold the credibility of the Collegiate Times above all. I believe the staff has done all of these things over the last few weeks. We are focused on working together with other branches of EMCVT to move forward and produce media of the highest quality.

The Collegiate Times will continue to produce a quality publication.

This prestigious newspaper has been around for over 110 years, and we are committed to keep it going. The Collegiate Times is a Virginia Tech tradition, one that we plan on upholding. We owe it to you, the reader, to give the news you want and need.

We are undergoing much turnover now, as we always do in the spring, as editors graduate and pu r sue p r ofessiona l opportunities. We are excited to bring in a young group of dedicated journalists who are ready to pick up where the outgoing staff has left off and continue to improve the quality of the Collegiate Times.

Along with those staff changes, my co-editorin-chief Kevin Dickel has resigned. I personally want to thank Kevin for the effort and dedication he has put in for the five years he has been a part of this staff.

Thank you for reading and relying on the Collegiate Times. We hope to continue to serve you to the best of our ability.

RICKY LABLUE • co-editor in chief • junior/multimedia journalism

Disclaimer: The following opinions are solely mine and based off of my experiences, observations and conversations with others.

As many of our readers are probably aware, as reported by the Roanoke Times, the Student Press Law Center and College Media Matters, Erica Corder, the editor-in-chief of the Collegiate Times, was terminated on March 24, 2015.

Our staff has been presented with many challenges following her termination, including how to address the issue. I’ve had teachers tell me that our silence on the matter looks like we’re being compliant with Erica’s termination and refusing to stand up for journalistic integrity. On the other hand, teachers have told staff members that our silence has been the most professional route we could’ve taken.

On one hand, it’s not my job to do public relations for the Collegiate Times, which raises the debate surrounding what classifies reportable news that the public would want to read and what classifies gossip and airing our dirty laundry. Erica was our friend before she was our leader, so how can we write objectively about her termination? Do we really want to publish a piece that will forever correlate Erica with being fired?

First and foremost, the staff at the Collegiate Times and Virginia Tech had no hand in Erica’s termination. The decision and debate to fire her was initiated by members of the Management Advisory Team, a panel made up of the student leaders of the Collegiate Times, WUVT, VTTV, the Silhouette and the Bugle, and then ratified by the Board of Directors.

During the MAT meeting on March 24, 2015, Erica was asked to leave the room while members of the MAT debated whether or not to terminate her. Following the meeting, Ricky LaBlue and I were asked to fill her position.

When we asked why she was terminated, we received vague answers such as “personnel complaints,” “professionalism” and “a bunch of stuff.”

As of April 13, 2015, we have yet to receive a clear reason for why Erica was terminated.

Here’s what we do know: Erica was working on a story that investigated the financial mismanagement of the Educational Media Company at

Virginia Tech, the conglomerate made up of the Collegiate Times, WUVT, VTTV, The Silhouette and the Bugle. However, no one knows the exact contents of the story as no one has seen it.

At the MAT meeting on March 31, 2015, members of the MAT admitted to discussing the content of said story during her termination debates, a direct violation of EMCVT bylaws.

At that same meeting, it was revealed that the vote to terminate Erica was 6-4, while the EMCVT policies and procedures require a 70 percent majority to terminate a student

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Following the meeting, Ricky LaBlue and I were asked to fill her position. When we asked why she was terminated, we received vague answers such as “personnel complaints,” “professionalism,” and “a bunch of stuff.”

leader.

We know there are six alleged complaints against Erica. Of the 10 people that voted for her termination, only one had read the personnel reports.

According to the most recent available version of the EMCVT policies and procedures, which are public, student leaders are guaranteed a notification when they have complaints filed against them, they receive a two week investigation in which proof of misconduct is compiled, a two week period to improve their performance and a hearing before the EMCVT Board of Directors to defend themselves against allegations. Erica received none of this.

When these concerns were addressed at the March 31, 2015 MAT meeting, some student leaders refused to engage in dialogue debating whether or not to give Erica the fair trial the bylaws guarantee her. They refused to acknowledge documents that highlighted blatant policy violations that occurred during the termination, despite protest from some members around the table.

C o nve r s a t io n s derailed as members interrupted and talked over one another, making sweeping generalizations about one another’s professionalism.

Members shut down valid arguments and concerns and packed up their belongings before the meeting was adjourned. Valid questions were sidestepped and avoided.

A press release from the EMCVT Board of Directors released April 7, 2015 cites, “allegations of unprofessionalism, decreased paper quality, failure to communicate and the inability to function effectively as editorin-chief of the Collegiate Times.”

Meanwhile, our web traffic and user interaction has skyrocketed this semester, and no objective proof of misconduct that would warrant termination has been presented.

MAT members that moved to fire Erica maintain that the Board of Directors changed the termination policies in February 2015; these changes to the bylaws were not relayed to our advisor and the minutes from the meeting have yet to be published.

My answer to the MAT and the Board’s subpar self-management and disregard for transparency and professionalism is to provide you, the reader, with as much of the truth as I know it.

I would like to thank the staff of the Collegiate Times for continuing to push themselves and produce quality material during this time of moral and financial tribulation. While I refuse to contribute to EMCVT with my talents and time, I trust that the staff I am leaving behind will continue to grow as writers and continue to create a product that serves the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg community.

KEVIN DICKEL • resigning co-editor in chief • senior/fine arts

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Gender-neutral restrooms positively impact transgendered people This past week the White House opened its first gender-neutral bathroom in the Eisenhower Executive Office building in Washington D.C. This decision now allows for guests to decide for themselves which bathroom bests suits their gender identity.

While the White House has just recently jumped on the bandwagon of gender-neutral bathrooms, this trend has actually been going on for quite some time.

Colleges across the country like Illinois State and Northwestern University have all began offering gender-neutral bathrooms on campus to better accommodate students of all gender identities.

While for some the idea of offering these types of bathrooms might seem superfluous, it is actually a serious topic that has yet to be addressed in many public spaces like college campuses and major cities.

For many transgendered people, using the restroom in public can be

simultaneously challenging and embarrassing. In many situations, they sometimes face harassment and discrimination from cisgendered people.

According to a D.C. survey by the Williams Institute, almost 70 percent of transgendered people faced discrimination in public restrooms. This discrimination ranged from questioning, mocking and even physical assault. Nine percent of those surveyed reported facing physical assault while trying to use a public restroom in D.C. In addition, an overwhelming 54 percent of those surveyed reported health consequences, such as urinary track infections and kidney infections, due to avoiding public restroom for fear of harassment.

D.C. is a major city and compared to some smaller college campuses, one might argue that this type of behavior and treatment is only found in cities like D.C. However, the mentality exhibited toward

those who are non-gender conforming is the same in all areas, regardless of if they are in a city or small college town.

It is imperative that all college campuses and cities begin offering gender-neutral restrooms where all single gender restrooms are offered. This step,

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Sophomore dies in car accident

HAYDN WOODALL LEWIS MILLHOLLAND news reporter

Virginia Tech sophomore biochemistry major Haydn Woodall, 20, died April 11 in a car accident near Lusters Gate Road and Greenbrier Circle.

According to a press release by the Montgomery County Sherriff’s Office, the police began receiving calls of the crash at approximately 2:10 a.m.

The vehicle was found over an embankment, flipped onto its roof.

Of the four occupants, Woodall was the only victim found dead on the scene. The driver, Brandon S. Robinson, 23, was transported by helicopter to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. The police report stated that the other two “received minor injuries.”

The crash is being investigated by the Montgomery County Sherriff’s Office and the New River Regional Crash Investigation Team. It is unknown whether drugs or alcohol were involved in the accident.

“The investigation is ongoing,” said Captain Brian Wright of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. “Part of it will include toxicology results on the driver.”

At the time of this article’s publication no charges have been filed. Wright stated charges were “pending the outcome of the crash investigation.”

Robyn Goad, president of Virginia Tech’s chapter of Chi Delta Alpha, told the Collegiate Times that a member of the sorority was a passenger in the wreck.

“She’s definitely sustained some pretty serious injuries, but she’s working toward recovery,” Goad said regarding her sorority sister. “It’s going to be a pretty long process.”

Goad declined to comment on the specifics of the injuries.

“She’s bearing as well as she can,” Goad said. “She’s a super strong person; I know she is going to pull through. We’re all just trying to be really supportive of her.”

Madeline Woodall, Haydn’s sister, posted a picture of her brother on her Instagram account at 10 p.m. on April 11, the day of the accident. She described Haydn as “charismatic, handsome, joyful,” and called him “the best brother I could have asked for.”

“This pain is unbearable. You died too young, too soon. I want you to know that I love you with every single being in my body,” Madeline said.

A visitation for Woodall’s family and friends will be held April 15 from 4-8 p.m. at the West Chapel Bennett Funeral Home in Glen Allen, Virginia.

In Woodall’s obituary, his family asks for donations “in lieu of flowers” to be made in Haydn’s name to Bandit’s Adoption & Rescue of K-9s.

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CORPS: Cadets face realistic scenarios

FILE 2013

A cadet tries to stay dry as he listens to the safety briefing for the land navigation test. from page 1

trying to create realistic scenarios for them to adapt and overcome. They’ll be scored and evaluated, racked and stacked, and who comes out on top gets some sort of reward,” Katuzienski said.

While all senior and fifth year Air Force cadets worked together to conduct the exercise, Jordan Schafer, senior aerospace major and AFTX coordinator, oversaw the planning and execution of the event as a whole. Schafer spoke on the efforts that went into planning the event.

“There are a lot of different cadets involved and a lot of things that go into it. This is a brand new operation, nothing has ever been done like it before. There have been things like it but there’s no continuity for me to go off of,” Schafer said.

“Definitely, cadets are not going to expect what happens the last day at all.”

Air Force cadets left campus Friday evening and participated in these rigorous skills-testing exercises Friday night and throughout the day on Saturday. Worn out from the long day of training, cadets loaded onto buses expecting to return to campus only to find out the exercises that were not quite complete.

The first part of AFTX was all stations. Those stations included triage and room clearing and while the cadets were learning it they didn’t know they were actually going to use it.

“They thought they were going home on the bus but they took a detour,” said Kris Tan, senior aerospace major and one of the fifth year cadets who knew something about the end of the weekend that the underclassman cadets did not.

Instead of returning to campus, buses delivered cadets to a two-story building, obtained for training through the Blacksburg Police Department, full of senior and fifth year cadet “opposing forces.” The building-wide paintball shoot out that ensued tested the same skills practiced during the weekend’s station exercises but in a much more immediate, tense environment.

“It was definitely a stressful environment. The opposing forces had time to set up barricades before the buses arrived and there was a hostage situation. Dark building, only half the lights were working, there was a triage station but basically it was just room-to-room fighting. Close quarters … it was pretty relentless,” Tan said.

While many cadets suffered paintball wounds and injuries, the detachment returned to campus Saturday evening without losing anyone in the field. Ray Pereira, senior electrical engineer and one of the station leaders for AFTX spoke on the success of the weekend.

“Logistically it ran very smoothly. We got a lot of good feedback, and it was the best Air Force training exercise we’ve had since I’ve been here and I’d go so far as to say even before I got here. Jordan put so much work into it,” Pereira said.

The detachment would not have been able to conduct such a successful, large-scale exercise without the help of local law enforcement, Blacksburg PD, the Air Force Association, local Army units, Virginia Tech Dining Services, and Venture Out.

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people wanted less performances so we had less performances, and people wanted shorter tool lines so we shortened the tool lines.”

According to Moon, a new initiative has been created for the Big Event known as a “target zone.” Target zones will have multiple projects taking place within one area. The Warm Hearth Village retirement community was chosen as this year’s target zone with 20 individual projects taking place.

Madeline Sault, a sophomore and resident advisor for O’Shaughnessy Hall, organized a group of 15 students made up of hall residents and friends. The group spent the late morning and early afternoon at the residence of Jane Yakel, raking leaves, cleaning gutters and organizing her barn.

“The goal today was to have them understand what Virginia Tech is defined by,” Sault said. “It’s important to get them out of the college bubble that is filled with people aged 18

to 22. Its important to remember that there are more people than that.”

When deciding to organize a group for the Big Event Sault remembered the lessons she learned a year earlier and wanted to help share that opportunity.

“I think the biggest benefit of the Big Event is that it shows there is more than just today,” Sault said. “Doing this allows people to find the joy in service they need to continue for the rest of the year.”

Yakel, the homeowner, has participated in the Big Event for the past four years and has since looked forward to it every spring.

“Every year I have had a fantastic group, they are so willing,” Yakel said. “I am a widow, I’m a single person so the Big Event is a big event for me. We are so appreciative of their time and effort. It’s not even measurable. Spring is a begging for a lot of people and Virginia Tech brings the beginning to the beginning.”

Clare Rigney contributed to this report.

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The O’Shagnasty team rests after cleaning windows, doing yard work and moving an antique fridge to a barn Saturday afternoon during the Big Event.

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BAND: Giles McConkey looks to find new venues from page 1

the volume to be turned down. The problem persisted for another several minutes of what was supposed to be the band’s set before seemingly fixing itself.

With the initial sound problems out of the way, the band showed off its bluz-funk sound, grabbing the audience’s undivided attention and holding it for the remainder of the show.

The audience even sang along to a few of the band’s original songs.

“I love playing an original song and having the crowd sing the chorus back,” Morris said. “It’s the coolest part for me because then you know people are actually listening to your music.”

Giles McConkey is a jam band made up of four Virginia Tech students whose st yle i ncludes elements of classic rock, funk, alternative and blues.

Members of the band started playing together as freshmen living in Slusher Wing, but they didn’t form the band until 2013 as sophomores.

“Our friends own a blueberry farm and were having a party, so we asked if we could play a show for them,” lead guitar player and vocalist DJ Harding said.

“We got everyone together and just practiced.”

When naming the band, Morris said they considered “The Casual Beer Talkers” and “Dan’s Pants,” but ultimately went with Giles McConkey after the original practice location.

“The first place we practiced was in a little house on the corner of Giles Road a nd McCon key Street,” drummer Ryan Cunningham said. “We couldn’t think of anything more clever, but people kind of liked the name.”

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The first place we practiced was in a little house on the corner of Giles Road and McConkey Street.”

Ryan Cunningham drummer, Giles McConkey

With a name picked out, the band was able to spend more time working on original songs, which are typically a group collaboration.

“Usually, I’ll just sit in my room and screw around until I come up with a chord progression that sounds cool,” Morris said. “I’ll bring it to the other guys,

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Giles McConkey, a student band, performed Friday night at Sycamore Deli. and we’ll figure it out from there. It kind of starts as just a template.”

The band will come together in rehearsal to work on different parts of new songs and see how they fit together.

“A lot of times we’ll jam on it,” bass player Todd Ferri said. “Through jamming, we’ll come up with another section.”

Even when the band finishes a song in rehearsal, it is still subject to change in a live show due to the freestyle nature of a jam band.

“We have roped off sections of each song to jam,” Cunningham said.

“Every now and then we’ll play something awesome that comes out of a jam, and that becomes a permanent part of the song.”

Fer ri said Giles McConkey now has about seven original songs in its set, and the goal is to keep pushing that higher.

Harding also said one challenge to that is not having any recorded demos to send to venue when booking, but to get over that,

the band plans to record a few songs toward the end of May. “My friend from high school graduated from JMU with a degree in music recording, so I texted him a couple of weeks ago and booked a couple of days to record,” Morris said.

“Hopefully we can get a five song album out by August.”

Having embraced the bar scene in Blacksburg, Harding said the next step is to get shows in other college towns in Virginia.

“There’s sort of a limit in Blacksburg in terms of venue sizes and exposure,” Harding said. “To get over where we are now, we need to play in other places and get a bigger following.”

Giles McConkey’s next show is opening for The Mad Anthonys on Thursday, April 16 at 622 North.

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As the semester is quickly dwindling away, you might find that your meal plan money is too. Instead of resorting to pre-packaged, sodium filled food to get through the rest of the semester, Pinterest offers hungry and frugal college students tips for how to prepare healthy meals on a budget.

For example, ramen is a staple for most students, but whether you eat it cooked, or snack on it raw, the seasoning packets add at least 43 grams of sodium in each serving. For less than $1 per packet, though, most students are willing to overlook the health concerns of Ramen for its affordability.

One pinner suggests ditching the Ramen seasoning packet and instead adding a few of your favorite vegetables into the pot while you cook the noodles for a healthier, more natural flavor.

If you do happen to still have enough money on your meal plan, you can snag some vegetables off the salad bar at Owens, or pick up some carrots, celery and onion from the grocery store.

Pizza is another classic college meal, but making your own could cut out the cost of delivery and some calories.

One pinner suggests making a pizzadilla, a combination between pizza and quesadillas.

Simply pile cheese and other toppings such as pepperoni, onions or peppers onto half the quesadilla and then fold the other half over that. Then, lightly warm it all up on a skillet until the cheese is melted and your quesadilla is crisp.

One perk to this is that you can use the remaining tortillas to make breakfast burritos or regular quesadillas throughout the week and get a few different meals out of one staple ingredient.

For example, another pinner used leftover tortilla shells she found laying around in her fridge to make a bean and cheese burrito casserole. She admits that all you really need for this meal is cheese and beans, but suggests using other miscellaneous items you might have around your apartment, like onion, jalapeno, salsa and chili powder.

Additionally, a big way to cut costs on some of your favorite foods is to skip out on buying the frozen versions at the grocery store and make your own.

For instance, you can make your own Bagel Bites by buying your favorite bagels, pizza sauce, cheese and toppings. First, slice the bagel in half and toast it, then load on all the ingredients and toast it in the oven for a few minutes before

serving.

The extra ingredients may sound like an extra expense, but you can get all you need for around $5 at the grocery store. Also, since you can personalize this treat, you can make a more hearty and tasty meal out of this traditional snack food.

For m a ny st udent s, t he hardest part about preparing a home cooked meal is finding the time to actually make the food.

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For example, another pinner used leftover tortilla shells she found laying around in her fridge to make a bean and cheese burrito casserole. She admits that all you really need for this meal is cheese and beans...”

If you have a crockpot, then you can easily combat this issue by throwing your meal together before you leave for classes in the morning so that it will be ready by the time you get home after a long day.

For instance, if you have 15 extra minutes in the morning, add some chicken breasts, peppers, tomatoes and onions, along with a few spices if you have them. Put this into your slow cooker so you can enjoy chicken fajitas at the end of a long day.

Similarly, you can make BBQ chicken, sesame chicken, meatballs, soups and chili in a crock pot and the meals are usually big enough to leave you with leftovers for the next few days.

Therefore, instead of resorting to unhealthy alter natives or living off cereal at the end of the semester, follow the Collegiate Time’s Pinterest at www.pinterest. com/ctlifestyles/ to find inspiration for affordable, healthy and delicious meals you can make yourself.

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Baseball swept by No. 11 Hurricanes in ACC matchup JOSH WILETS sports reporter

In a three-game set against the No. 11 Miami Hurricanes, the Hokies could not manage to pull out a win in Coral Gables, Florida.

Game one was Friday night and the Hokies dropped the game to Miami 11-1.

Sean Keselica started for the Hokies and got roughed up in his two innings of work. He was responsible for four runs, three of which were earned. He also plunked two Miami hitters and walked one in those two innings.

Freshman pitcher Packy Naughton entered in the third inning and surrendered two more runs. After the fourth inning, Joey Sullivan was called on in a mop-up role. He pitched the final four innings for the Hokies; however, he too was knocked around a bunch. Five runs came into score on nine Hurricane hits and two walks. Sullivan also hit one Miami batter by a pitch.

The Hokies struck out a 13 times and only managed six hits off the Miami pitching staff. Thomas Woodrey struck out seven, while only allowing four base-hits and one walk. The one run he allowed came in Woodrey’s final inning, the sixth, when shortstop Alex Perez tripled with one out, scoring Rahiem Cooper.

The Miami bullpen pitched the final three innings going unscathed, only allowing one walk and two hits.

Runs for Miami were not hard to come by as they came out of the gates and scored four in the first inning. Catcher Garrett Kennedy for Miami went three for four, driving in two of the 11 Miami runs on a blast in the fourth off Pat Naughton. Brandon Lopez also joined the party, collecting two hits in three official at-bats, and drove in three runs.

Thomas Woodrey got the win in his quality start, and Sean Keselica took the loss.

The second game of the series was Saturday night, and the Hokies were again defeated by Miami by 10 runs, ending in a score of 14-4.

John Woodcock started for Virginia Tech, pitching four innings while giving up four runs. Command was an issue for Woodcock, as he walked three and gave up five Miami hits. He also gave up a

solo-shot to Zack Collins in the second inning.

With two runners in scoring-position for Miami in the fifth, as a result of an error by left fielder Mac Caples, the floodgates were opened as six Miami runs came in to score. Luke Scherzer gave up those runs in just two-thirds of an inning; however, none of the six runs were earned.

Connor Coward and Sean Kennedy combined to pitch the final 3.1 innings, surrendering a total of four earned runs.

Virginia Tech third baseman Erik Payne went two for four with three RBIs. In the rout, Senior shortstop Alex Perez collected a base hit, which was his 200th career hit for the Hokies.

Andrew Suarez started on the bump for Miami, going six innings and surrendering all four Hokie runs, with three runs on six hits and a walk.

Daniel Briggi, Jesse Lepore and Derik Beauprez combined forces to pitch three innings while only allowing two Virginia Tech base-hits.

Suarez got the win for Miami, improving his perfect record.

Woodcock took the loss for Virginia Tech, evening his record at two wins and two losses.

With the series already won by Miami, the Hokies tried to salvage a win against the ‘Canes Sunday afternoon. The Hokies fell by the score of 9-1.

Aaron McGarity started on the hill for Virginia Tech in the third and final game. He lasted five innings, but they didn’t come easily. Seven runs scored in those five innings off of eight hits, one of which was a home run, and two walks.

The Hokies managed only three hits off of Miami starter Enrique Sosa. Sosa lasted seven spectacular innings, only allowing the one Virginia Tech run to score in the seventh inning, which was a run unearned, meaning no RBI was credited to Virginia Tech.

The bullpen for Miami pitched the eighth and ninth innings.

Both Cooper Hammond and Michael Mediavilla lasted one inning each and both pitched perfect innings.

Infielder David Thompson went two for three in the game for Miami. He homered in the fifth inning, driving in all of his three RBI. McGarity took the loss for the Hokies and Sosa took the win

for Miami.

The sweep dropped the Hokies to 17-20, 7-11 in the ACC. Miami improved their already impressive record to 28-9, 14-4 in the ACC. The Hokies will travel to East Tennessee State on Wednesday for one game and then return home for a three-game set against the North Carolina Tar Heels this upcoming weekend.

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Phil Sciretta (15) hits the ball against Georgia Tech.

The Hokies scored just six runs vs. Miami.

Men’s basketball makes final 2015 recruiting push

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FAIZAN HASNANY sports editor

The Virginia Tech men’s basketball team is making a final push to bolster its 2015 recruiting class. The Hokies’ recruiting class is currently ranked 31st in the country by ESPN and has the potential to become even stronger with offers still on the table.

In addition to the three four-star commitments that the Hokies have signed, they still have offers out for four more fourstar recruits, three of which are ranked in the ESPN Top 100.

The most recent offer that Tech made, which may also be the most intriguing, was to Brandon Sampson out of Madison Prep Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard is the No. 1 player from the state of Louisiana, winning Louisiana’s Mr. Basketball award. This award has previously been won by several current NBA players including Greg Monroe and all-star Paul Millsap.

Sampson, who averaged 15.9 points per game, is known to be

a lights-out shooter who can also finish at the rim in transition.

St. John’s, LSU and UCLA are among the other programs who have given Sampson an offer.

Another shooting guard that the Hokies have had their eye on is Kenny Williams out of Chesterfield, Virginia. The Virginia native has been extremely sought after by more than a dozen other schools, including North Carolina, Indiana and Georgetown. Williams was previously signed to VCU but just recently became available again after de-committing last week due to the departure of head coach Shaka Smart.

Nick Noskowiak is ranked as the top point guard in Wisconsin, despite missing most of his senior year. In the six games that Noskowiak did play, he averaged 25 points per game. The score-first point guard plays with a down-hill style, attacking the rim often and shooting off the dribble.

Noskowiak, who de-committed from Marquette in February, also has offers from Xavier, Iowa State and Northern Iowa.

If Sampson, Williams and Noskowiak decide on Virginia Tech, they will join an already exceptionally competitive

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Although he doesn’t rank in the ESPN Top 100, Levi Cook could be the most vital remaining offer that the Hokies have.

Cook is a 6-foot-10, 300 pound center, who would bring depth to the frontcourt, an area in which the Hokies lacked size and strength last year. Out of Huntington Prep in West Virginia, the four-star recruit is ranked second in the state, averaging eight rebounds per game in his senior year while making his presence felt on the defensive end with 1.2 steals and 1.9 blocks per game.

Led by head coach Buzz Williams, who now has a year under his belt at Virginia Tech, the Hokies look to build on the foundation created last year and bring a top recruiting class into next season.

If Tech is able to bring in even just a couple of these recruits the depth for Buzz Williams’ squad next year will be dramatically better than last season.