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The Blacksburg Police Department has obtained a search warrant for posts by a graduate student who has said he made white supremacist statements.

MATT JONES editor in chief

The Blacksburg Police Department is investigating social media posts by a Virginia Tech technical writing graduate student, Mark Daniel Neuhoff.

The posts, containing white supremacist content and identifying students engaging in public protest, have sparked a debate on the limits of free speech on campus.

According to the Roanoke Times, Blacksburg police filed a search warrant on Oct. 18 looking for posts and other data from Facebook accounts linked to Neuhoff between Aug. 20 and Oct. 13. The affidavit for the warrant suggested the possibility of a felony charge of threatening death or bodily injury.

Widely circulated screenshots of posts by Facebook accounts under the name Mark Daniel and Daniel Mark include alternative theories about the Holocaust and white supremacist philosophy. Also included are posts with identifying personal information for senior economics major Tori Coan, who has participated in protests regarding Neuhoff. Neuhoff told the Roanoke Times after being approached on campus Oct. 11 that the posts were not meant for the general public.

Tracy Vosburgh, assistant vice president for university relations, told the Collegiate Times that the university would not discuss allegations regarding specific students for privacy reasons.

On Aug. 21, an email was sent to accounts affiliated with the Collegiate Times,

Hillel at Virginia Tech and the Black Graduate Student Organization at Virginia Tech with the subject “White Suprema cist Vi rg i n ia Tech Grad Student.” The email, signed “Concerned Students Citizens Standing Against Hate,” included a PDF of screenshots from a Vanguard News Network (VNN) forum and the Mark Daniel Facebook account.

The posts included phrases such as, “I am a white supremacist.”

The note alleged Neuhoff had made these posts and demanded his removal as a technical writing graduate teaching assistant.

According to Neuhoff’s public LinkedIn profile, he started at Tech in fall 2016 and plans to graduate in May 2018. When contacted by email by the Collegiate Times shortly afterward,

Neuhoff denied “being ‘openly’ anything” and sent his “ideology,” a rephrasing of the Virginia Tech Principles of Community.

On Sept. 26, a post appeared on a WordPress website titled “New River Against Fascism” incorporating a number of screenshots from the VNN forum and Mark Daniel account.

The screenshots included ones visually similar to those in the Aug. 21 email.

T he sa me website published screenshots on Oct. 2 of an email from WordPress notifying of a copyright claim made

by Mark Neuhoff. The original complaint, partially redacted by WordPress to remove Neuhoff’s address and phone number, was included in the email and see NEUHOFF / page 4

Tech picks up its sixth win over UNC Unlike last year, the rain didn’t play a factor in Saturday’s game as Virginia Tech dismantled the Tar Heels, 59–7.

MADDIE THOMPSON sports staff writer

No one can say the Hokies weren’t ready for Saturday.

The game that many Tar Heel fans considered to be the “real” matchup between the two teams, following last year’s game during a hurricane, instead just showed how dominant this Tech team could be.

During the first half alone, Tech punched in five touchdowns against a struggling North Carolina team.

A fumble recovery, pick-six, punt return and two passing TDs later, every part of the Hokies’ team had seen the end zone for the first time since September of 2015.

Head coach Justin Fuente talked about the benefit of the defense stepping up early.

“Any time you’re up 14–0 and haven’t scored an offensive touchdown, it eases things a lot, so it certainly made us feel better,” Fuente said.

Scoring on two separate occasions, Tech’s defense was having a day. It all started with defensive tackle Ricky Walker. With five minutes left in the first quarter, Tremaine Edmunds

brought down UNC quarterback Chazz Surratt who dropped the ball on his own 12-yard line. Walker recovered and ran it in for his first career touchdown.

The Hokies went on to sack the two Tar Heels’ quarterbacks a total of six times, the most they’ve suffered this season. UNC was unable to even pass midfield until late in the first half, and totaled seven false starts on the game.

“Coach Foster and coach Wiles said we need to hit the quarterback and get him on the ground; pressure is not enough,” Walker said. “We talked about it at the meeting yesterday.

As a defensive lineman it’s very exciting to see the quarterback on the ground, a hurry-up is not good enough, and it showed today.”

Walker wasn’t the only one who was making big plays. Not but three minutes later, Greg Stroman took off on a punt return, tearing down the field to the end zone for a 91-yard touchdown, the third longest in program history. All this, and the offense hadn’t even scored yet. see RECAP / page 6

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We must ban bikes from sidewalks

With their reckless disobedience of traffic laws, cyclists are hazardous to pedestrians and commuters alike and should therefore be held accountable.

JACK MEEKS opinions contributor

A silent war rages on campus, and it has raged for years, even before my time here as a student.

The war I speak of is cyclists versus drivers and pedestrians.

Between rampant traffic violations by cyclists and the university permitting bike

riding on sidewalks, there is a safety issue that needs to be addressed.

To start, bikes should not be ridden on any sidewalks, period.

When someone is on a bike, they take up much more space and travel at much higher speeds compared to someone walking. There’s no way to know that a bike is speeding right behind you

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as you’re walking unless you look back before you adjust to the left or the right on the sidewalk.

The town of Blacksburg prohibits riding bikes on sidewalks, as do many other municipalities and counties in the United States. To think that this practice is permitted at Tech is ridiculous, especially considering the density of the

campus and how crowded the sidewalks can be — as it is, there is barely enough room to walk in between classes.

Yet some cyclists feel that it is acceptable for them to try to cut through crowds of people at higher speeds.

On the road, this situation would be the equivalent of allowing a large truck to weave in and out of rush

RESEARCH TEAM AIMS FOR DRONE SAFETY New research improves drones on campus. page 3

JAMES FUNE / COLLEGIATE TIMES Bikes are chained to racks in between Burruss Hall and Pamplin Hall, Oct. 25, 2016.

hour traffic, all while going at a high speed.

Some cyclists may claim that they feel safer riding on

the sidewalks versus riding on the road. see BIKES / page 2

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Boy Scouts of America ought to embrace gender differences, not accept girls

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n Oct. 11, 2017, the Boy Scouts of Amer ica announced that it will now allow girls to join the organization. The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910 and sought to teach young boys responsibility and self-reliance. In recent decades, the United States has seen many efforts by various groups to abridge the differences between boys and girls in an effort to promote equality. However, this goal of total gender equality is impractical considering men and women have biological differences.

The idea of equality is different from the idea of human worth. Men and women have the same worth as humans: Neither is superior to the other; however, that is not to say that they do not each have their own special qualities.

For example, men tend to have more muscle mass than women, and women’s brains tend to be more focused on studying behavior, while male brains tend to be more focused on mechanics.

Boys are typically in Boy Scouts all the way

through grade school, and the same goes for girls in Girl Scouts. During these years, boys and girls are developing in different ways. Allowing boys and girls to have separate outlets where projects and activities can be geared to their developmental stages is healthy. I like to think of this like sports. When I was a kid I was able to choose to play coed soccer or all-girls soccer. Each division presented its own challenges and benefits.

The same can be applied to scouting organizations. It’s not wrong to have a coed option; however, that option should not override an all boy/girl option as it is ultimately personal preference as to what a child will gain more from.

But why stop at just allowing children? The Boy Scouts recently released a statement explaining its decision to expand its demographics: “Families today are busier and more diverse than ever. Most are dualearners and there are more single-parent households than ever before, making convenient programs that

serve the whole family more appealing.” If Boy Scouts truly wants to be a diverse and accommodating association, it might as well do away with age limits and other barriers that one does not have control over.

Growing up, my brother was in the Boy Scouts and recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout, but I never once felt left out or discriminated against by the all-male nature of the organization. If the demand for a structure and prestigious benefits similar to that of the Boy Scouts but for girls is high enough, then the Girl Scouts could either restructure its institution to meet this demand or a new organization could form to fill the market. It is important for society to realize that gender equality does not mean the same skill sets.

The differences between men and women should not be demonized but rather embraced.

AMANDA FIELDS • opinions columnist • sophomore/business

ABACA PRESS / TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Gina McCarthy, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, delivers remarks on the Clean Power Plan at an event in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 3, 2015, in Washington, D.C.

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Paving a pathway toward a more sustainable future

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he recent devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey and others should make it clear to everyone that climate change is here and cannot be ignored. While no hurricane is entirely caused by a warming climate, they are made worse by a number of factors for which climate change is responsible — most importantly, warming oceans. If we wish to prevent future calamities, we need to move toward a 100 percent renewable economy as soon as possible.

Sadly, it seems we are moving in the wrong direction. President Trump is repealing the Clean Power Plan, a strategy that was already too meager to really stop climate change.

Closer to home, Virginia Tech continues to use coal to power the campus steam plant. The Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline projects are

being fought vigorously by many groups including the Greens, but are still alive and kicking. The stress of watching humanity push itself to the brink of extinction is overwhelming.

What can we do to turn the tide?

Before we can move forward in the right direction, we need to reverse course. That means fighting to protect our environment at the federal, state and local level. Luckily, the Greens at Virginia Tech are putting on a panel to discuss exactly how we can do that. The panel will feature pipeline fighters from all over who have been in this fight for years now. It will be held Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in the GLC auditorium. Come out and learn how we can stop moving in the wrong direction.

It is not sufficient to just be against pipelines, though.

We must create a vision for

a positive future. To help us do that, Nick Mullins — the Thoughtful Coal Miner — will be visiting Virginia Tech Oct. 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Haymarket Theater in Squires. He will talk about how we can build a just transition into a renewable economy — one that stops climate change while still respecting the needs of coal miners and their families.

We cannot despair. No matter how dark things may seem, there is always a way to make them better.

Starting along that path means not just reversing course, but plotting a better one into a renewable future.

Together, that just might be possible.

RYAN WESDOCK • chairman, Greens at Virginia Tech • graduate student/history and education

DREAMSTIME / TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE The Boy Scouts of America has announced it will admit girls into the Cub Scouts starting next year.

BIKES: Stopping the cyclists from page 1

Un for t u nat ely, t h is feeling of safety comes at the risk of everyone else using the sidewalk.

Furthermore, speed limits on campus never exceed 25 miles per hour, and there is always sufficient room given for bike lanes.

As someone who likes to ride my bike, not once have I ever felt in danger while biking on a campus road; I actually prefer to use the roads on campus over the sidewalks because I can travel at a faster speed, and I don’t have the stress of trying to avoid pedestrians.

Allowing cycling on sidewalks is necessary to make a trip on my bike quick enough to warrant using a bike. If bikers were forced to walk with their bikes on

campus, more people would be discouraged from using them as an alternative mode of transportation.

However, most buildings are within walking distance of a road, so that cyclists wouldn’t have to walk too far to begin biking.

In addition to prohibiting bikes from riding on sidewalks, the university police ought to crack down on bikes that violate traffic laws. Too often, I am using a crosswalk with cars yielding to traffic — as they are required to do — when a cyclist comes speeding past the stopped cars and cuts through the pedestrians crossing.

Some older students may tell newer students that if you look both ways before crossing Drillfield Drive — a one-way road — then people will think of you as a

rookie freshman. I still look both ways before I cross, because a cyclist going the wrong way almost hit me when I was a freshman.

As a junior, I don’t care if someone yells “Freshman!” at me; it beats getting hit.

I know that there are many people on bikes who follow the rules, but the ones who violate traffic laws and cut aggressively through crowds give the rest of us a bad name.

I don’t like more rules, and I hate to see people getting citations. On the other hand, my sympathy diminishes when someone is doing something that threatens other people’s safety.

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Impact study creates new frontier Virginia Tech researchers are conducting a drone study aimed at assessing and eventually improving the safety of new unmanned aircraft technology.

SANSKRITI NUEPANE news staff writer

With the creation of a new drone lab, Virginia Tech has begun to create groundbreaking research spaces for unmanned aircraft. A recent study, done in partnership with the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences and the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, has discovered a wide range of risk which can occur with the use of drones.

“We did a range of experiments with three different drones … (and) what we found is that the injury risk can be very low for the smaller, lighter drones, but it can also be very high for the larger, bigger drones,” said Stefan Duma, interim director for the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science.

This groundbreaking study was the result of years of research which the university has been conducting with unmanned aircraft.

“Well I think it was sort of a natural progression from where we were with our engineering and biomechanics work and head injury,” Duma said.

The study ensures that the new technology also keeps up with federal regulations designed to protect safety.

“So, the crash test study

is intended to help us and the (Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA) and the industry understand which types of aircraft are safe for operating in, around and over people,” said John Coggin, chief engineer of the Mid-atlantic Aviation Partnership. “Our work is about developing the test methods and standards to evaluate whether a specific aircraft is indeed dangerous or presents an unnecessary risk to people that might be in the flight path of that aircraft.”

This is especially relevant due to the number of companies, such as Amazon, that have suggested that they would like to begin using drones.

“Well, you know the test has been fortunate enough to work with those folks. Last fall we were working with Google Project Wing here to do a number of, I think over 1,000, deliveries over at the Virginia Tech Smart Roads facility,” Coggin said.

Many of these companies have been working with research groups, such as the one at Virginia Tech, to ensure that if they choose to begin the process of implementing drones, everything goes smoothly.

“We’re very aware of what’s going on over at that piece of the industry in terms of drone delivery, and these companies are very

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focused on ensuring that their products are safe for operations in and around people and that they meet the emerging requirements for that safety case,” Coggin said. “We’re all working on this problem together and converging on solutions that should be safe for people in and around the aircraft.”

H o w e v e r, despite the company’s and the researchers’ concerns for safety, it was difficult for the team to ensure the safety of workers during the study. “(A problem) was just you know ensuring that the test methods were safe for the operators of the tests and that we had appropriate barriers and litigations in place and that flying debris or other things didn’t possess a risk to our people,” Coggin said. “I think we would all understand that it would be a pretty embarrassing if not sad story if we were injured by a drone while we were doing this research on drone injury.”

The end of this study

and the beginning of other studies relating to drones has opened up a variety of opportunities for Virginia Tech.

“Well, I think the possibilities really are tremendous in many, many areas of our lives; I like to kind of draw attention to that statement by saying there’s not a single department at the university here that doesn’t have some use for drones in one way or the other,” Coggin said.

Even students who are just starting out at Virginia Tech and don’t have a lot of experience with unmanned aircraft can get involved in a variety of ways.

“I think there’s classes they can take, they should really get involved and this is really across campus ... get involved with your faculty and then ask to find research projects and then ask to help them,” Duma said.

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he Blacksburg community has seen some warm temperatures over the past few days with some showers in the vicinity on Saturday. Over the next few days and into the weekend, we will continue to see some rain showers.

Tuesday’s forecast calls for a 40 percent chance of rain throughout the day and night with the highs in the upper 70s and a low in the lower 60s.

This rainy trend will continue into Wednesday, with a 50 percent chance of rain. The high for the day is forecasted in the low 70s and low in the mid-50s.

Continuing into the week we can expect to see more rain with highs in the low 70s and lows in upper 50s. Moving into the weekend the weather will clear up to give us some mostly sunny skies.

Follow @HOKIEwxWatch on Twitter for any updates!

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CAUS holds ‘Donuts with the Dean’ student event Richard Blythe, dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, discussed future plans for the college.

MIKE LIU SGA beat reporter

The College of Architecture and Urban Studies (CAUS) at Virginia Tech hosted the event “Donuts with the Dean” for students to meet the new dean of CAUS on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

The event took place on the first floor of Cowgill Hall from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

A total of 540 donuts were provided to the participants of the event, and all of the donuts were gone in under three hours.

Richard Bly t he, professor and dean of RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia, officially became the new dean of CAUS on Oct. 10.

According to a press release from CAUS, Jack Davis, the college’s sixth dean, stepped down to teach after 11 years of leadership. “ We’r e here in Blacksburg, and to me, it’s a very exciting condition,” Blythe said. “It’s a university in the world that I feel has a very good sense of what’s important about universities of the future, and about mapping out where it thinks the university needs to move. I’m very excited to be a part of this.”

Key student-led projects from four schools under CAUS were presented at the event. According to Marya Barlow, director of communications for CAUS, the college is looking to bring all disciplines of CAUS

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Blythe said he and his family are happy to become part of the university and discussed his future plan for the CAUS with the students and faculty members who participated at the event.

“We are gonna go through a massive transition project where we rethink where courses are heading, what they’re doing, how they’re gonna operate,” Blythe said.

“That’s not really disruptive change about the project.

I don’t imagine that we’re gonna be radically changing to the point where things that we learned are gonna disappear.”

According to Blythe, college graduates require more skill sets in order to succeed in today’s world, and his plan for the CAUS is to help students acquire those additional skill sets so that they can be successful in the future.

“What’s likely to happen now for graduates of universities today, they are likely to have five different careers, so that’s not five jobs, that’s

five completely different careers.

Moving from being an architect to being a policy maker to being a project manager to being something else,” Blythe said.

“We should be able to get people degrees by updating a small number of skill sets, and universities need to be in this kind of adaptive, reflexive mindset or they are going to become irrelevant.”

According to Barlow, the purpose of the event was to give students a forum to meet and greet the new dean.

“The event is really a preview of the vision and collaborative leadership style of our new dean, who wants students — and everyone who cares about CAUS — to participate in the conversation about our college’s future,” Barlow said in a written statement.

“He wants their voices to be heard and this is the first of many venues where that’s going to happen.” @CollegiateTimes

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NEUHOFF: Protester inundated by calls after post met with university administrators to discuss her concerns.

“While there was no direct threat at that point, it really just made me feel unsafe on campus,” Coan later said.

Coan and other students, worried that their concerns were not being addressed, organized a protest during President Sands’ State of the University address on Sept.

29. A small group of students interrupted the speech about eight minutes in, chanting, “No Nazis, No KKK, No Fascist USA.” Coan was visible in a photo taken by Dominick Mastrangelo, a reporter for the Roanoke Times, and was interviewed by him for a story on the protest.

A second protest took place on Oct. 6 outside a classroom Neuhoff teaches a section of English 1105 in. Students silently stood outside the room holding papers with some of the

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alleged the screenshots on the website were from Neuhoff’s Facebook and thus his intellectual property.

In late August, Tori Coan made a post to a private Facebook group regarding Neuhoff and the alleged link to the Mark Daniel posts.

Afterward, screenshots provided to the Collegiate Times by Coan showed the Mark Daniel account linking to Coan’s personal Facebook, saying, “This girl is harassing me and trying to get me fired.”

Coan later tried to file formal complaints with the Tech Office for Equity and Accessibility, wh ich en forces civil rights compliance among university employees, and Office of Student Conduct, which monitors student compliance with university rules. Coan says she also

social media posts linked to him and other messages.

Photo and video from the demonstration show Virginia Tech police officers walking with Neuhoff as he passed protesters and entered the classroom.

Briefly on Oct. 2 a post appeared on the Virginia Tech subreddit titled “WANTED: Tori Coward AKA the fat ugly turd clown.” The thread was deleted, but in a screenshot provided by Coan, a Reddit user writes, “Let’s clean up our campus today by first ridding it of such scum!”

On Oct. 2, Coan began receiving a large volume of phone calls and text messages to her phone.

Screenshots provided by Coan show the Mark Daniel Facebook account — then renamed Daniel Mark — posted Mastrangelo’s article with a description that read, “My wife found the phone number of the bitch behind this.”

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supremacist,” Neuhoff told the Roanoke Times. “When you hear that term, you think of a violent, hateful evil person who wants to kill others. I think that’s incredibly harmful. When people call each other fascist, Nazi and white supremacist, it’s the same thing as calling them witch.

That’s how it feels.”

Neu hof f a lso told the paper that he is still committed to the Principles of Community.

“When people write on Facebook, you’re not writing something thinking it’s going to be made public or that millions of people are going to see it,” Neuhoff told the paper. “All of the posts are private for a specific audience who knows and understands who I am.”

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Student Conduct and says that the office told her proceedings involving her and Neuhoff would move forward.

“I just still feel like at any point, Mark or any of the people that Mark has asked to destroy me — they could come and find me if they wanted to,” Coan said.

In an email to the Roanoke Times on Oct. 3, Neuhoff denied making the Oct. 2 post, saying that a family member had posted it. The family member declined to comment to the paper. The Roanoke Times later approached Neuhoff on campus on Oct. 11 about the posts. Neuhoff said that he had discussed “basic conservative principles” with other people online and said that the posts shared by local anti-fascist groups were his.

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The post included Coan’s phone number and name with instructions to “fuck her up” and “destroy her.”

The post also picked her out of Mastrangelo’s photo of the protesters. In the following hours, Coan received over 70 phone calls from various numbers. Coan also received texts, screenshots of which were shared with the Collegiate Times.

“You are making me feel helpless to the point where I have to resort to find you to defend myself,” read one text in part. “You put your stupid self out there. I also have a right to defend myself and my fsmily (sic) and if there is anyone who should have concern it should be me and my family, not you, for what you have put us through.”

Coan then went to the Vi rginia Tech Police Department, where she was told to go to the Blacksburg Police Department because she lives off-campus. She also followed up with

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John Green returns with ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ The acclaimed author’s follow-up to “The Fault in Our Stars” is deficient in turtles, proficient in everything else.

KATIE RICE lifestyles staff writer

John Green is back in the young adult fiction game, with the highly anticipated “Turtles All the Way Down” which came out Oct. 10, 2017.

When I say highly anticipated, I mean long awaited by me. In high school, my English teacher showed my class a Mental Floss video with Green as the host, and from that day forward, I declared myself a Nerdfighter (a member of the Vlogbrothers fandom).

Six years after “The Fault in Our Stars” ripped open the hearts of teenagers (and adults) around the world, Green’s quest to publish another book is finally a reality, much to the joy of fans such as myself.

Just 10 pages in and I wanted to tweet every other sentence, a mark of a truly great modern young adult novel. Green’s mastery of crafting sentences frequently left me in awe.

For instance, “Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see” (9).

The outer jacket of the book leads the inquiring reader to expect the plot to be largely focused on two teenage girls investigating the disappearance of a wealthy, conniving, substandard father in hopes of attaining the $100,000 reward.

If you want a thrilling mystery novel that compels you to read furiously while picking up clues in the minute details along the

way, this is not that book.

The premise driving the storyline forward has the makings of a detective story.

However, the meaning and themes are located not in the physical conflict, but in the protagonist’s internal one. The mystery of what became of the fugitive is placed on the backburner for much of the novel.

My attention is often piqued by literary works that question what it means to exist as a human among other sentient beings in the universe. That is why I fell deeply in love with the novel long before the mystery was resolved.

Aza, the main character, is incredibly self-aware of the irrationality of how her brain functions. She suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which cripples her in situations where other people are generally OK. For instance, her fear of contracting an improbable, fatal illness overrides the logical side of her brain in a jarring scene where she battles her mental illness over whether she should ingest hand sanitizer. In this case, as in many other instances, the illness wins and Aza’s body suffers the consequences.

“Turtles All the Way Down” seeks to explore the complexities of existing.

The perspective here is fascinating, especially when the thoughts the reader digests are those of a teenager trapped in a mind that is perpetually falling down a rabbit hole leading to a place much worse than Wonderland.

From what I understand in his videos and podcasts, “Turtles All the Way Down” is a deeply personal outpouring of Green’s own struggle with obsessive thoughts and being trapped in debilitating thought spirals. Green’s willingness to be raw about his thought experiences allows Aza to come to life for the reader.

Whether you know it or not, you have encountered someone struggling with mental illness or are the one with a mental illness — or both. In my opinion, Green’s words generate a great deal of clarity on a vastly foggy topic.

“A n d we’r e such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn’t real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimize,” writes Green. “The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with” (89).

For people not feeling forever trapped in their own heads and only capable of thinking about themselves, Daisy, Aza’s best friend, may be the more relatable character. Though we spend the entire novel inside Aza’s head, Daisy has no shortage of words to express how frustrating it is to be so close to someone so fragile, which allows the reader to empathize with both sides of their conflict.

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COURTESY OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE I absolutely intend to read this book over and over again. The thoughts are timeless and the relationships are compelling.

Green addresses the difficulties of love from many angles: friend love, family love and romantic love.

He shows how each love is

complicated by, and sometimes destroyed by, the inescapable thought spirals Aza experiences.

Turtles are mentioned one time. This is not a book about turtles. Then again, in some ways it is a book entirely about the turtles.

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Down” gets 4.5 out of 5 stars because nothing is perfect, even though this book comes close in my mind.

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Our writer sees Blacksburg’s newest exercise experience in action as it offers locals short, daily, full-body workouts.

GRETCHEN KERNBACH lifestyles staff writer

Newly a r r ive d t o Blacksburg and located right on South Main Street is Fit Body Boot Camp.

Owned by Trevor and Mary Katherine Stahl, the indoor training facility offers daily 30-minute workout sessions.

Each session has 20 available spots to allow for personal help and routine modifications. Currently, there are nine classes offered Monday–Thursday, with eight on Friday and two offered Saturday mornings.

Class times range from 5:10 a.m. to 6:40 p.m. so everyone has the chance to come regarding their schedules.

“Most days, it is a full body workout. Some weeks we try to do three days arms and three days legs,” said owner and trainer Mary Katherine Stahl. “It’s never the same so it’s never boring or repetitive.”

Mary Katherine explained that the workouts are determined by a system

called “workoutology” that headquarters provides to them. In addition, she and her husband do their own research in order to put together the workout routines.

Membership discounts are offered to students and faculty, costing $97 per month for unlimited boot camp. Regular membership is $127 a month.

The workout space is colored in a vibrant blue and red, visually providing an upbeat environment.

Contributing to the positive vibes of Fit Body Boot Camp is a series of motivational hashtags covering the wall. For example, a few say “Community,” “Results” and “Unstoppable.”

According to the Fit Body website, “Whether you’re new to working out or you’re an experienced fitness buff our professional trainers and coaches will help to modify every workout so that you’ll achieve your goals.”

I sat in on a Wednesday afternoon class and watched

Mary Katherine work with six women. The workout started with a five-minute warmup, which consisted of jumping jacks, squats, punch-across and butt kicks. Consequently, the six broke up into two groups and rotated through five different stations over the course of 20 minutes.

Station No. 1 was a seated rope twist, which focused on abs. Station two was an inchworm walk out into a pushup. The third station was for burpees with an overhead press. The last two stations consisted of squats with an anchor point strap and then weighted jumping jacks.

Mary Katherine had upbeat music playing during the entire session in addition to her encouraging words throughout the rotations.

She went around assisting different women with modifications to the routine to help shape the workout according to their personal needs.

“When we plan the

GRETCHEN KERNBACH / COLLEGIATE TIMES Fit Body Boot Camp offers classes throughout the day, six days a week.

workout, we are also thinking about what can you do that’s easier or more difficult,” she said.

On the wall was a clock counting every 45 seconds of exercise and 15 seconds of rest.

Also going on at Fit Body Boot Camp are challenges available to members and nonmembers. The challenge that is currently being offered is called “Girls Night Out.” The fee is $197 for a six-week pass to unlimited boot camp and the opportunity to participate in events outside the facility such as hot yoga, movie night, paint parties and hiking the Cascades. In addition, each participating woman is given a cookbook

to follow. Recipes include tuna fried rice, roasted asparagus pasta salad and a grilled salmon noodle bowl. $500 is being awarded to the woman who loses the most weight over the six-week period.

These sorts of challenges are held four to six times over the course of a year, the next one set to start after New Year’s.

“Nutrition is 80 percent; with that being said, working out and making sure that your nutrition is on track is the best way to lose weight,” Mary Katherine said. “You can sit down with us and we can create a custom nutrition plan for you, we can talk about what you’re currently eating, what

are some substitutions that you can make for some of the foods you really like.”

Offer ing help with nutrition is something that Fit Body offers that not a lot of other gyms do. It wants its focus to be on community relationships and strives to defy the typical gym stereotype.

Earlier in August, for its grand-opening event, it held a fundraiser for Micah’s Backpack. $350 was donated.

Visit its site to sign up for three free classes and give Fit Body Boot Camp a try.

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WR Cam Phillips shines in Tech’s win over Tar Heels The senior wide receiver broke the all-time school receptions record on Saturday with his 211th catch.

NATHAN LOPRETE assistant sports editor

On a weekend in which Virginia Tech dedicated the No. 25 jersey to punter Oscar Bradburn, the Hokies wound back the clock to the good old days of “Beamer Ball.” Behind two defensive touchdowns, three forced fumbles, a blocked punt and Bradburn doing what he does best, the Hokies poured it on in a decisive 59–7 win.

The Hokies’ offense got off to somewhat of a slow start but the defense picked them up. With 4:53 remaining in the first quarter, North Carolina quarterback Chazz Surratt fumbled inside his own 20 and Virginia Tech defensive tack le R icky Wal ker scooped it up and raced into the end zone.

The redshir t junior reflected on the play that set the tone for the entire afternoon.

“That’s actually my first touchdown ever,” he said.

“I was lucky enough to get the Sunday hop. I just ran to the end zone and next thing I know my teammates are celebrating with me.”

T he Vi rginia Tech defense didn’t slow down there. After being challenged by defensive coordinator Bud Foster, the Hokies racked up six sacks for 56 yards. Virginia Tech linebacker Andrew Motuapuaka talked about

Foster challenging the defensive line to record six to eight sacks.

“It’s fun, especially when your number is called to blitz,” Motuapuaka said.

“I love coach Foster’s mentality of getting to the quarterback. He challenged the d-line to have a great day and get a certain amount of sacks. They defiantly showed up and rose to the challenge.”

Motuapuaka finished with nine tackles and an interception. The redshirt senior talked about his first interception of the season.

“It was about time for me to get a pick,” he said. “I don’t know if he (Brandon Harris) saw me. I’m a little short so I couldn’t see over the line. I just saw the ball coming.”

Just before the end of the quarter, Greg Stroman returned a punt 91 yards for his fourth career punt-return touchdown.

In the second quarter the Hokies defense added to its highlight reel with a pick-six off a deflection. Reggie Floyd was the beneficiary of the play as he took it back 69 yards.

Foster spoke postgame about the defense and how it responded coming off of the bye week.

“We were ready to play on Tuesday, but we came out on Thursday and had a great practice, and it showed in our performance today,” he

said.

The special teams also came to play on Saturday as Deon Newsome blocked a punt in the third quarter.

Bradburn also dropped four punts inside of the 20 including one that pinned UNC at its own one yard line.

There was even a record set on Saturday that had been a long time coming.

In the second quarter, Cam Phillips recorded his 211th career reception to break the tie with former Hokies receiver Isaiah Ford.

“It seem like it took forever to come,” Phillips said. “It’s an honor to have the record and I’m just grateful for it.”

Phillips has been a huge part of the Hokies offense since he came in as a freshman in 2014. In his first year, Phillips had 40 receptions. In 2015, he had 49 before breaking out big time last year when he caught 76 passes. This season he already has 47.

Freshman receiver Sean Savoy talked about looking up to Phillips and what he hopes to accomplish in the coming years.

“It motivates me a lot,” he said. “Cam is out there making plays so I’m just trying to be the next man in the rotation making plays.”

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AHMED MUSTAFA / COLLEGIATE TIMES Virginia Tech Hokies wide receiver Cam Phillips (5) catches a screen from quarterback Josh Jackson (17). Phillips became the school’s all-time leading receiver following a 59–7 win over the Tar Heels, Oct. 21, 2017.

BEN WEIDLICH / COLLEGIATE TIMES Michael Brewer (12) throws while under pressure from Carlos Wray (98).

Looking forward to the Blue Devils next Saturday Tech welcomes Duke to Lane Stadium next Saturday night.

The Hokies will look for their seventh win of the year.

SARAH SEDWICK sports staff reporter

After a near shutout performance against the University of North Carolina 59–7, the Virginia Tech football team prepares for its next matchup against Duke on Saturday.

Virginia Tech has only lost one game, that being to Clemson, and has managed to hold a No. 14 ranking. The Hokies are 6–1 overall and 2–1 in ACC play. Head coach Justin Fuente has managed to avoid the dreaded “sophomore slump” during his second season at Virginia Tech.

“I was really proud of our effort in all three phases of the game, but that does not mean we don’t have things to work on,” Fuente said. “I have several things that we’re going to continue to work to get better at.”

Perhaps, what has made the Hokies so successful this season could be pointed to Bud Foster’s defense, which consists of man coverage on the outside, the front seven’s ability to stop the run and an array of blitzes. Against North Carolina, Tech’s defense had a strong showing, scoring two touchdowns off a fumble and interception.

Overall, the defense looked fast and well-rested coming off the bye week, giving up only one notable play for the touchdown after the game was

forever,” Phillips said. “It’s an honor to have a record and it was a lot of hard work to get that. I’m just grateful for it.”

The Blue Devils have not had much luck during the season, as their defense has struggled and is susceptible to long passes. These vulnerabilities could be seen during the game against Pittsburgh last Saturday, in which the Panthers took down the Blue Devils with a score of 24–17, marking Duke’s fourth straight ACC loss, and fifth straight loss of the season.

Duke’s infamous bowl streak ended last year, but was blamed on the string of injuries that affected the team during that time. The Blue Devils are not starting off on the right foot this year to earn a bowl game. However, the Blue Devils will have a slight advantage over Tech, as they possess Shaun Wilson, a dynamic running back, who has earned 506 yards and five touchdowns this season and an enthusiastic head coach in David Cutcliffe. The Hokies have lost their last two games against Duke at Lane Stadium.

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ZOE SCOPA / COLLEGIATE TIMES Homecoming King Anthony Fisher (RIGHT) and Queen Jordan Selep (LEFT) accept their crowns at halftime during the UNC game, Oct. 21, 2017.

well in hand. This bodes well going into next week’s game against the Blue Devils.

“We need to continue to find a way to be more consistent and be a little more tough-minded with more of our younger players,” Fuente said. “That’s an important part of our progress, where we’ve got to be. I think there’s some definite room for growth.”

Virginia Tech’s offense also showed some improvement against the Tar Heels. Many of Tech’s offensive plays create opportunities for the quarterback to make plays and utilize screens and run-pass options. The only downside to these plays are the need for a quarterback who can make good decisions while running them.

However, the Hokies should feel better, as Josh Jackson threw three touchdown passes against North Carolina and showed he can make those decisions with certainty and poise. Jackson can also read a defense well, which is another benefit to the Hokies as they take on Duke.

As if the Hokies didn’t have enough confidence going into next Saturday’s game, Virginia Tech senior and wide receiver, Cam Phillips, bypassed Isaiah Ford and became the Hokies’ all-time leader in receptions during the game against UNC. “It seemed like it took

The offense came alive in the second quarter. Josh Jackson finally found the end zone at the start of the quarter, connecting with Travon McMillian on a 4-yard toss.

The Hokies, now nursing a nice-sized lead, would not let up. On the ensuing North Carolina drive, Andrew Motuapuaka broke up a pass from QB Brandon Harris, which was then snatched out of the air by Reggie Floyd, who ran it back 69 yards for his first career interception and touchdown.

“I just flashed back to high school when I was a running back,” Floyd said with a grin.

“I just grabbed the ball and took it back to the crib.”

One scoreless UNC drive

later, the Hokies stuck one more in before the end of the half. Eric Kumah caught an 8-yard reception from Jackson with five seconds left in the half.

Now leading 35–0, Tech kept its foot on the gas. The third quarter saw even more scoring as Cam Phillips caught an 8-yard pass from Jackson for the sixth touchdown of the game. Joey Slye followed with a 37-yard field goal just minutes later.

Entering the game late in the third, quarterback A.J. Bush was also able to get in on the scoring, throwing to Samuel Denmark for yet another touchdown.

The drought eventually ended for the Tar Heels as Anthony Ratliff-Williams caught a 43-yard touchdown

pass from Surratt to make the score a nice 52–7. The Hokies added one more touchdown with Jalen Holston scoring from the 1-yard line to make this the widest margin of victory Tech has ever had in an ACC game.

“It was gratifying, just to go out there and win like we did, and to play a complete game, was just really fun to see and fun to be a part of,” Phillips said.

With the win, the Hokies improve to 6–1 (2–1 ACC).

Virginia Tech now prepares for Duke, who it will face at home next week. Kickoff is slated for 7:20 p.m.

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