September 27, 2022

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FORMER FOOTBALL COACH FRANK BEAMER PARTNERS WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL ON CHILD ID PROGRAM

Victoria Weber | news editor

According to the Office of the Attorney General, there are 400 actively missing children in Virginia.

According to WDBJ, Virginia Tech’s Hall of Fame coach Frank Beamer will collaborate with Attorney General Jason Miyares on a program designed to provide child identification kits to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students in Virginia.

“As Attorney General, my biggest priority is keeping our children safe,” Miyares said in the program’s announcement. “That’s why I’m thrilled to join Virginia Tech legend Frank Beamer and launch the Virginia Child ID program. The National Child ID program is a free, easy, and effective tool to help Virginia parents prepare for the

unimaginable. When a child goes missing, the first twenty-four hours are crucial to law enforcement. These ID kits, kept safe by parents, are designed to assist law enforcement at the onset of the investi gation so that more time can be used locating the missing child.”

According to the National Child Identification Program, the kits include an inkless fingerprinting card, in addition to space for a current photo graph, description, and measurements of the child. According to WSLS, the kit also has sections for DNA, and a doctor’s phone number. The kit is intended to be kept at home and provide

up-to-date information to law enforcement on a child in the event they go missing.

The program also states that in 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pushed for law enforcement agencies across the nation to partake in the program.

“As a father and grandfather, I cannot imagine anything more important than protecting children. Attorney General Miyares and the National Child ID Program have taken significant steps to make Virginia’s children safer with this program,” Beamer said in the program announcement

The American Football Coaches Association

aided in the creation of the National Child Identification Program in 1997. According to the program, upwards of 70 million kits have been given out in North America since, making it the largest ever child safety initiative, according to the National Child Identification program.

The National Child Identification Program has been sponsored by corporations such as General Motors, Ford, American Airlines and Kroger.

VIRGINIA TECH RECEIVES $80 MILLION GRANT TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE

Jane Park | assistant news editor

The grant is the largest in the school’s history.

As reported by the Virginia Business, the United States Department of Agriculture awarded Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences $80 million in grants. The university will use at least $54 million to fund a pilot program for farmers to practice climate-friendly methods in an effort to curb greenhouse gasses.

According to the article, the grant is the largest in Virginia Tech’s history. It will be distributed among nearly 5,200 producers, covering 600,000 acres in Virginia, North Dakota, Arkansas and Minnesota.

The grant will be evenly divided across the four states, totaling $13.5 million for each state, as stated by Tom Thompson, the principal investigator of the project and associate dean of the College of

Agriculture and Life Sciences.

According to VTx, farmers in the pilot program could decrease the country’s agricultural emis sions by 55 percent and total emissions by 8 percent after 10 years. The project will also focus on enhancing agricultural productivity to help feed the world’s increasing population.

The program will implement climate-friendly crop, rice and livestock practices.

Virginia Tech’s lead partner on the project is the Rural Investment to Protect Our Environment (RIPE), which Thompson also said was responsible for creating the pilot concept.

In addition to RIPE, the university partnered with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Virginia Cooperative Extension and

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“We are proud to lead this effort that gives agricultural producers incentives to enact climatesmart practices and the financial means to do so,” Thompson said. “This is a watershed program that helps the agricultural industry be a leader in addressing climate change.”

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OPINIONS

PRINT JOURNALISM CANNOT FADE AWAY

Olivia Nelson | opinions editor

Print media is dying, but standard journalistic principles will prevail.

Close your eyes and think back to the last time you picked up a physical copy of a print publi cation. Maybe it was at the newspaper stand at the airport, grabbing the current issue of your favorite magazine before boarding the plane. Maybe it was at a relative’s house, a hair salon or stopping by a Collegiate Times box on your way to class. While it may be easy for some to think of these moments, others may have to reach farther into the regions of their brain to remember a time spent reading a physical print publication. This may be expected given the prevalence of digital media, but it is disheartening to watch this transition become the new normal.

Although this may seem old-fashioned to some, I have always enjoyed waking up in the morning to read the newspaper. Even as a child, I would sit at the dining room table eating breakfast while simultaneously scouring the back pages of the Style section of the Washington Post to read the daily edition of KidsPost. I loved the Monday edition, where they high lighted local birthdays and those of influential people in society. I have since branched out into reading other sections, but there is something about holding a physical copy of a paper that is comforting and nostalgic. Not only is it a way to stay informed of current events, but allows one to truly appreciate the hard work that goes into publishing a paper. It is, therefore, hard to watch

print journalism slowly fade away as digital plat forms become the more mainstream source of news.

Since the introduction of the internet in the early 1990s, society has found other ways to display news and information. Dr. Dale Jenkins, advanced instructor in the School of Communication at Virginia Tech, describes how the creation of the internet impacted the news paper industry.

“The interesting thing about newspapers is that they made a big mistake,” Jenkins said. “People started putting stuff up on the internet, there’s a larger audience, you could get to (infor mation) quickly and newspapers felt like they were being left behind.”

The internet is everywhere, from phones to tablets and laptops. This makes accessing news much easier, because it is constantly at one’s fingertips. As the internet became more popular, the dissemination of news began to shift from solely print journalism to digital outlets. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the distribution of weekly newspapers in the U.S. dropped from 55.8 million in 2002 to 24.2 million in 2020. The prevalence of the internet was underestimated, thus leaving print jour nalism behind. Because the distribution of print publications has declined, so too did revenues. The revenue of Newspaper Publishers saw a

decrease from $46.2 billion in 2002 to $22.1 billion in 2020. Advertising moved online, forcing publications to find other ways to fund papers.

Although digital media has made news more accessible, it is a double-edged sword in that it has its disadvantages — one of the biggest being that it makes it easier for outlets to spread misinformation.

“The cardinal rule in journalism is accuracy and it’s all centered upon if you can’t verify the information, then you shouldn’t use it” Jenkins said. “I think unfortunately social media has allowed us to become a little shotty in terms of our reporting.”

Anyone can post online. Users can easily edit pages from websites such as Wikipedia or post publicly on social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook. One outlet may portray an event in one way, while another may take a completely different perspective. Given that as a society we are constantly surrounded by some form of media, it can be hard to decipher between accurate and inaccurate information. Digital media may make news more readily available, but it questions the value of journalism.

“Just because information is being distributed digitally, doesn’t mean that it has to be weak and poorly researched,” Jenkins said. “That part of the process can’t go away. The integrity and credibility of the entire media hinges on that.”

On the other hand, many could argue that print journalism has just as many disadvantages in this digital age.

“It oftentimes goes back to money. The whole idea that you’ve got to figure out how can I put together a publication that I’m proud of, that represents strong journalism, and in the end, how can I do that on a budget,” said Jenkins. “The digital aspect just makes that so much easier.”

Unlike digital formats, printing a physical newspaper is costly. According to an article published by the Seattle Times, the price of news printing has increased by 30% over the last two years. Newspapers require more funds to produce while posting something online can happen with the push of a button. This rise in cost, coupled with the transition to online adver tising, has forced outlets to reconsider how to construct a print publication on a budget.

It is also important to recognize the struggles faced by smaller papers. With less funding and resources compared to larger publications, smaller publications have been consequently forced to close their presses at much faster rates. Despite the obstacles facing print publications, the future of journalism does not have to be so bleak.

In order for journalism, and ultimately print journalism, to succeed, the cardinal rule of jour nalism must be preserved: accuracy.

“That’s why I think good journalism will survive because I think ultimately people are concerned about the quality of information they get. They are also concerned about the vast amount of misinformation that is distributed via social media,” Jenkins said.

Dr. Jenkins hypothesizes readers may get tired of the constant spread of misinformation over time, an attitude that works in favor of print journalism. The pendulum must swing back towards more accurate information, and print journalism may consequently experience a boost in popularity as people become over whelmed with digital media. If digital platforms continue to be the number one source of infor mation and print journalism fades away, the cardinal rule of journalism must always remain.

“As far as newspapers go, the print copy may go away, but I don’t think the digital copy will and that’s why I think newspapers will still exist,” Jenkins said. “No, you won’t go and pick up a copy of the newspaper at the box that’s right outside your office, or at the train station or at the airport, but you will still be accessing that infor mation from trained journalists who are working at newspapers.”

Even though we may not be going to purchase physical copies of print publications in the future, people can still have other ways of accessing that information, whether the publication may be online or through different avenues. However, that level of accuracy found within print journalism is not going away.

Print journalism is a labor of love that deserves to be appreciated. Every day, as the public opens the fresh, crisp pages of their favorite daily publication, it is important to stop and think about just how much dedication goes into

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continued from page 3 creating that body of work. Behind the scenes of every publication is a team of journalists working tirelessly to keep the public informed

of current events. While print journalism is currently in this state of flux, the future of its existence lies within the hands of the public. As long as readers continue to value accuracy and

journalists uphold this ideal, print journalism does not have to fade away. The next time you find yourself aimlessly scrolling through social media, consider purchasing a physical copy of a

LIFESTYLES

publication — the future of print journalism will thank you.

HOMEFIELD FARM PROVIDES FARM-TO-CAMPUS FLAVORS

ABIGAIL FIELDING | LIFESTYLES CONTRIBUTOR

Explore the beauty behind Homefield Farm as well as its importance to the Hokie community.

Homefield farm is a six-acre certified organic operation owned by Virginia Tech. It is a part nership between Virginia Tech Dining, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Homefield provides about 50,000 pounds of fresh organic produce to Virginia Tech Dining Services and the Homefield farm stand on campus. According to Virginia Tech Dining Services, Homefield raises thirty vari eties of vegetables, including radish, kohlrabi, lettuce, corn, peppers, tomatoes and more, with the addition of herbs, cut flowers and pumpkins. Homefield chose to raise organic produce after a big push from the community for more organic options. To maintain its organic practices, Homefield uses all organic seeds from producers, organic soils and fertilizer, organic picking processes and follows

specific protocols for washing produce and product transportation. In the past, there has been a farm-to-table dinner at Homefield during Tech’s Fall Family Weekend that genu inely presents the organic farm-to-table aspect that Homefield Farm brings to Virginia Tech Dining Services.

Homefield has been producing for VT Dining Services for seven years now. In addition to Virginia Tech Dining Services, there is a Homefield stand on campus numerous times throughout the semester that allows students to purchase fresh produce. There will be a stand outside of Turner Place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on October 11 and 25.

Lori Robinson, farm manager, has been working at Homefield since May 2022 after working for VT for the past twenty years in crop and soil research.

“My favorite part of working at Homefield is the collaboration between researchers and the production side of Homefield,” Robinson said. Robinson also expressed her appreciation for the students and volunteers that help make Homefield possible to provide organic produce to Virginia Tech Dining Services. Over the summer, individuals from the University of Kentucky used Homefield as a template for implementing a similar practice in their dining halls.

In a 2019 statistic of certified organic farms in the U.S., Virginia ranked 23rd, totalling just 163 organic farms throughout the state, in comparison to California’s 3,012 organic farms. Organic farming is a lower priority for Virginia farmers than in other states across the U.S. This is due to the amount of time and effort it takes to carry out the required organic processes.

“The biggest expense in organic production farming is labor costs,” Robinson said.

Homefield is always welcoming volunteers, including students from all majors, faculty, staff and the entire community of Virginia Tech and Blacksburg. Contact Lori Robertson at losimmon@vt.edu to volunteer at Homefield any time from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Homefield Farm is a unique aspect of Virginia Tech that combines the pillars of research, education, health and most impor tantly: Ut Prosim.

LEARN DEFENSE AND PROTECTION SKILLS WITH THE VIRGINIA TECH POLICE DEPARTMENT

DAVID VU | LIFESTYLES STAFF WRITER

VTPD offers self-defense classes for students to feel safer on campus.

According to the Virginia Tech Monthly Crime Log from September 2022, 11 cases of assault and four cases of harassment were reported over this past month. This shows that regardless of the overall safety of Virginia Tech, students and faculty members can still face some degree of danger when they walk across campus. Thankfully, the Virginia Tech Police Department provides a course called the Rape Aggression Defense System class

to help prepare people to defend and protect themselves whenever a dangerous situation arises.

The RAD System class is a free four-part course that teaches self-defense and protection techniques to both the students and employees at Virginia Tech. The RAD classes start off on the first night with a PowerPoint on how to stay safe on and off campus. The next two nights of the course are focused on the upper body, where

students learn how to punch, kick, strike, block, parry, get out of bear hugs and chokes and many more physical defensive techniques. The final night of the course is called “fight night,” where depending on the class size, students are put through two to three “dynamic simulations” to practice the skills that they learned throughout the course. These simulations are recreated stranger-type situations and scenarios that students would typically face, such as a

nighttime bus stop or ATM scenarios.

The RAD classes are usually taught at the Inn at Virginia Tech, and the course sessions are offered twice per semester for students as well as one session offered to faculty, staff and community members during the summer. The sessions are held over four weeks, either on Mondays or Tuesdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for the

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regular semester sessions and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. for the summer sessions. There are two types of RAD programs that Virginia Tech provides: RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) for Women, taught by Corporal John Tarter, and RAD (Resisting Aggression with Defense) for Men, taught by Sergeant Micah Pasquarell.

John Tarter, corporal for the VTPD and residence life resource officer for the community service unit, is the primary facilitator and instructor for the RAD for Women classes.

“I’ve been an instructor since 2009, and it’s an amazing community-policing program because I will see young ladies around campus and just the interaction we had in the classroom, it carries on when we go back into the community,” Tarter said.

His history with RAD dates back to when it first originated in 1989, when he went to the same police academy with the officer who founded the RAD class program, Lawrence N. Nadeu.

“It is my understanding that when he was a ODU police officer, his police chief at the time asked him to come up with a basic self-defense class for women,” Tarter said. “He had been in the Marine Corp, he had practiced or studied martial arts, he was a police defensive tactics instructor, and so with all of those skills, he came up with this program.”

According to Tarter, the Virginia Tech Police Department has a regular promotion of the RAD classes through their social media (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter) and the main VTPD website. While the program operates under Virginia Tech, Tarter states that the classes are open to anyone who wants to participate.

“(This past summer) we had no one signed up for the faculty-staff (session) and a young lady with the VT News … did an article on RAD and the next thing you know, we had a lot of people signed up for it,” Tarter said. “Some people say ‘why didn’t I know about this program,’ but we do promote it and there have been articles (and) television news articles about it in the past, but it’s available, really to anybody that wants to take it. They don’t have to be affiliated with Virginia Tech.”

However, while the RAD classes can get a usual steady amount of people to sign up for them, only a few dozen of them are able to participate in and complete the class due to scheduling conflicts and students’ own personal workloads. From the current class they had finished up recently, Tarter said they had about

40 women sign up, but only 29 women actually started the class and 23 finished it.

“I guess that’s some of the challenges is with exams and studying and what time of the year it is, sometimes people can make one or two of the classes, but they can’t make all four,” Tarter said.

While Tarter is the main facilitator for the RAD for Women classes, he utilizes the help of many female officers and civilians who’ve done the RAD courses before as volunteer instructors to help break down some of the gender barriers and make students feel more comfortable learning self-defense.

“It’s one thing if I throw somebody, I’m doing a situation where I do a move, and they are like ‘Well yeah, it’s because you are a guy,’ I will say that you can do it regardless of your size, so it’s good some times to have a woman in there that does these moves and punches the bags and does the fighting part so they can see,” Tarter said.

Tarter also utilizes the help of the RAD for Women class’s interns to help break down the barriers even more by bringing them to presentations for sororities to demonstrate the skills and techniques they learn in the class.

“We have three female interns and they are taking the RAD classes, and so some times if a sorority asks for a presentation

on RAD … I would bring the interns with us that have been through the program so they can show they can punch the bag, they can do the moves, they can yell ‘no’ very loudly, so that the other ladies, the women in the class, can see this, so those are some of the ways that we work around it,” Tarter said.

Overall, the main message that Tarter wants students to take from the RAD classes is the feeling of empowerment, as well as for them to continue in their journey of self-defense not only to protect themselves but also to improve their physical and mental health.

“We have an evaluation at the end of the class, and the woman would say that they felt more empowered and more confident,” Tarter said. “I tell them that taking one little basic self-defense class is not the end: there’s so many resources out there, martial arts, boxing, jujitsu, a lot of things in this community that they should reach out and take.”

RAD classes for men and women are a big focus for VTPD, but it isn’t the only safety-raising class that they provide. The VTPD have a plethora of classes and services for the community aimed at raising awareness on dangerous situa tions and how to avoid them, such as the OneLove program, which focuses on the red flags of domestic and dating violence. To find out more about other classes and

Courtesy of the Virginia Tech Police Department

programs that VTPD provides or if inter ested in joining the RAD classes for next semester, visit their website at police. vt.edu.

DIGGING DEEP WITH THE VIRGINIA TECH SOIL JUDGING TEAM

EMELIA DELAPORTE | LIFESTYLES STAFF WRITER

Virginia Tech is known around the country — lo, the world — for many reasons, including engineering, athletics, dining, research and more. What many students wouldn’t expect to hear is that Virginia Tech is also nationally renowned for its Soil Judging Team. Returning members from the 2021-2022 team shared their experiences in soil judging and what makes the team worthwhile for them.

“Soil judging is how we look at the natural world and how we are going to potentially maximize the efforts that the soil gives us,” said Bernie Frantz, president of last year’s team. “We want to look at it in terms of productivity, in terms of conservation or in terms of usage for normal day to day activ ities. When you’re looking at a soil you’re looking at how best to be using it. Soil judging is not how good or bad it is; it’s more where can we put this and where does it best fit.”

Frantz and his teammates came to soil judging for a variety of reasons. For Clare Tallamy, who competed at an interna tional soil judging contest this summer, soil judging is a way to study everything.

“I have a hard time deciding what to research, because I’m interested in so many things,” Tallamy said. “Soil is connected to trees, plants, geology, landscape; I’m not only looking at the soil, I’m looking at what’s around it.”

This variety of interests seems to be shared by many of the team. According to Frantz, the most common two majors are environmental science and crop and soil sciences. Additionally, the club has members in biological systems engineering, horticulture, forestry and more. Common interests include rock climbing, mushrooms and concerts, Tallamy added.

“It’s funny because we all have this one random story each where we’re approached by someone; I was approached in New Jersey; some guy just came up to me and was like, ‘I’ve got my master’s in horticulture from Ireland and I saw your soil judging shirt’ and we have a full thirty minute talk (about) how soil works and whatnot,” Frantz said. “I think we technically are just people who like hands-on learning in an [environment]

outside of the classroom.”

Contests are an opportunity to meet other similarly-interested soil judges from around the region, nation or world, as well as a great place to exercise the skills that the team spends the semester learning and practicing during their Sunday prac tices. This past spring, the national compe tition was held in Ohio. A national soil judging contest consists of both individual and group judging components, with three days of practice and one day of the actual contest. The team worked with four or five soil pits each practice day, spending roughly an hour and a half in or around each one. A pit is an excavated scoop of ground around between four and five feet deep, wide enough for around eight people to stand in. The pits for nationals were located in three different counties in Ohio, enabling the team to see a variety of soils.

“When we describe a pit, we describe the whole front of (a) scorecard, (which) is talking about morphology,” said team member Kate Johnson. “We’ll describe the color, the texture and the hydraulic conduc tivity. We’ll horizonate the soil, classify the soil by order, suborder and great group, and then we get into land use interpretations.”

Following individual qualification at the national contest, Tallamy and fellow team member Ben Atkins proceeded to the inter national contest in Scotland. As an alternate for team USA, Tallamy ended up competing for team Australia. Tallamy described inter nationals as “like enemies to lovers, but soil science” due to the nature of students from different schools working together. The team also participates in competitions put on by NASA. This past season, they tackled the Plant The Moon Challenge, where they attempted to turn regolith, also known as moon dust, into soil that would support plant life. This year, the team is taking on a similar challenge with Mars as the focus. These contests and challenges foster a close-knit team.

“I would say my favorite part (of soil judging) is that team bonding that we expe rience, because after a while when you’re doing eight hour work shifts in soil pits, waking up at 6 a.m., you basically have no

more barriers to put up,” Frantz said. “Once you’re no longer defensive, everyone just melts together and then at that point you’re just one.”

According to Johnson, the best way to get involved in soil judging is simply to see it. Team president Liz Eroshenko says that interested students are welcome to join any meeting, which takes place on Thursdays in Smythe Hall and out in the field on Sundays. Getting started is easy and can be low commitment.

“If you have no experience, if you don’t know anything about it but you are at all interested, just try it and come,” Eroshenko said. “If you’re uncomfortable or scared or feel like you know nothing, just keep going. Everyone is very understanding; it’s like a learning curve. I think that you don’t have to be comfortable to learn something new.”

Johnson, Frantz and Tallamy affirmed this statement, each sharing in their own way about how soil judging is something you just have to try.

“Full send,” Tallamy said.

Soil judging at Virginia Tech is more than a club or a team. From white-water rafting for fun during nationals to the weekly cookies at Sunday practices, soil judging is first and

foremost a community.

“It’s everything we’ve wanted it to be; it’s everything it could be,” Frantz said.

For more information, interested students can email Eroshenko at eme@ vt.edu or the team’s advisor, Dr. John Galbraith, at ttcf@vt.edu.

Courtesy of Virginia Tech Soil Judging Team

SPORTS

VIRGINIA TECH FALLS TO WEST VIRGINIA FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE SEASON

Colby Talley | sports editor

The Mountaineers defeated the Hokies in a decisive fashion, 33-10.

The Black Diamond Trophy has extended its stay in Morgantown indefinitely.

West Virginia (2–2, 0–1 Big 12) walked right into Lane Stadium, one of the most hostile environments in the nation for opposing teams, and came away with a decisive 33-10 victory over rival Virginia Tech (2–2, 1–0 ACC).

“We didn’t play complimentary football,” said Virginia Tech head coach Brent Pry. “Either we weren’t making them earn it or we were shooting ourselves in the foot a little bit.”

Quite possibly the biggest key to this game was the Mountaineers’ performance in the ground game. Despite Virginia Tech coming into the game with the No. 3 ranked rush defense in the country, the Mountaineers ended the first half with 93 rushing yards and finished the game with 230.

The Mountaineers’ leading rusher was freshman running back CJ Donaldson who tallied 106 yards on 23 carries. Sophomore tailback Justin Johnson Jr. put together his own generous contribution to the offense with 83 yards on 11 carries and a fourth quarter touchdown where he rumbled his way through the arms of several Hokie linemen.

Furthermore, while the Hokies’ defense played good coverage on No. 1 Mountaineers receiver Bryce Ford-Wheaton, other recievers

stepped up to fill the gap. Sophomore wideout Kaden Prather led the way with 69 yards on six catches and redshirt junior Sam James caught a well-placed ball from quarterback JT Daniels on a post route for a touchdown near the end of the first half.

Aside from the struggles on defense, the Hokies’ issue with penalties, the same one that all but cost them the game against Old Dominion, reared its ugly head once again in this contest. Overall, the Hokies surrendered 132 total yards on 15 penalties, the worst outcome in this category since 1987.

“We press, feel like we have to do things above and beyond,” Pry said when asked why he feels the team struggles with penalties. “We’ve got to stay in the framework, play with fundamentals, and be mindful of what we’re doing.”

The Hokies’ offensive woes also showed themselves again and they were worse than ever. The team’s only touchdown of the night came on a 27-yard strike from Grant Wells to Kaleb Smith who made a beautiful over-theshoulder catch while diving for the score.

That touchdown came on the first play of the second quarter, all the offense could muster after that was a field goal. Wells had yet another shaky game, finishing 16-for-35 with 193 yards, one touchdown and an

interception returned for a late touchdown that put the game thoroughly out of reach.

The running game for the Hokies also took several steps back as the team only rushed for 45 yards all night.

With a game like this, where bad habits make themselves known and the questions start to mount, it can be hard to see where the team stands in terms of their identity.

However, as the offensive captain Smith would put it, the players are well aware of the identity Coach Pry aspires to despite the loss.

“Old-school Virginia Tech football,” Smith said. “Hardworking, passionate and resilient.”

MEN’S SOCCER FALLS SHORT AT NC STATE

Javier Mico-Crump | sports writer

Men’s soccer failed to get their first conference win, losing 1-0.

The Virginia Tech men’s soccer team (1–6-1, 0–3 ACC) was unable to get their first conference win of the season this past Friday night, falling 0–1 to NC State (3–3–1, 1–2 ACC) in Raleigh.

The Wolfpack came out strong in the first half, converting a free kick to go up 1–0 in the 31st minute of play. A lofted cross into the box was met by striker Luke Hille, who headed the

ball into the back left corner of the net. This would ultimately be the deciding play of the game.

The Hokies were looking to follow up their first win of the season with a strong perfor mance but weren’t able to get going offen sively in the first half. They entered the break with zero shots, while NC State had four.

The second half saw more of the same,

although the Hokies were successful in creating more opportunities. Their best chance came in the 64th minute when a slow cross made its way to Declan Quill, whose shot was saved on the line by NC State keeper Lucas Hatsios.

Despite a more competitive final 45 minutes for the Hokies, NC State held on to secure their first conference win of the season.

The Hokies will look to finish their two-game road trip on a positive note as they head to Davidson (2–5–1) for a matchup with the Wildcats on Tuesday.

ANDREW RODGERS / COLLEGIATE TIMES Jalen Stroman (26) forces a fumble, recovered by Dorian Strong (44), Sept. 22, 2022.

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MEN’S 2022-2023 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED

Margaret Allocca | Sports editor

It’s time to look forward to the upcoming slate of games for men’s basketball.

The countdown has begun to the first tip-off of the men’s 2022-2023 basketball season. After an exciting 2021-2022 season where the team became ACC Champions, Hokie basketball this year will be electric, whether in Cassell or otherwise.

Nov. 7

This home game starts the season off against Delaware State in Cassell Coliseum at an unan nounced time. Our history against the Hornets is that we have won both games, and the last time we played them, we scored 100 points.

Hokie fans will be spoiled this season, as the first three games will be at home.

Nov. 17

We will play Old Dominion University in the Shriner’s Children Charleston Classic to hopefully redeem ourselves in regards to our football loss to them. Our basketball record against them is a close 14–10.

Nov. 25

We will host Charleston Southern for a Friday game. Our record against the Buccaneers is 6–0.

Nov. 28

The final game of the month is in Cassell against Minnesota. We’ve played them once and lost to them in 2011.

Dec. 11

The Hokies will travel to Brooklyn, New York, to compete against Oklahoma State in the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational. We’ve never lost to OSU, so let’s hope we don’t in Brooklyn.

Dec. 17

Once we return home from the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational, we host Grambling State, a team we played only once back in 2015 and won against.

Dec. 21

Right before Christmas, the Hokies will travel to Massachusetts to hopefully make it one game closer to making even the record of 13–21.

Dec. 31

The Hokies will ring in the New Year, hope fully with a win against the Demon Deacons. We are currently 38–32 against Wake Forest.

Jan. 4

We will host Clemson for the first Hokie basketball game of 2023. Our record against the Tigers is 23–17.

Jan. 7

While our overall record against NC State is 19–41, in our most recent game we defeated the Wolfpack at a close 62–59.

Jan. 11

The Hokies will return to New York to play against Syracuse. Our record with them is 6–11.

Jan. 18

Nov. 10

This game against Lehigh will be the second matchup in history against them. The Mountain Hawks lost to us in 2019, and the team is likely looking to extend the streak.

Nov. 13

It’s been roughly 17 years since we have seen William & Mary on the court, but they have a long history of competing. With a record of 76–41, the Hokies look to increase the win count.

Dec. 4

The first game of December is an exciting one against the University of North Carolina at home. While our record is 16–72, our last matchup in March ended in a victory.

Dec. 7

The record is close against Dayton, and the Hokies hope to increase the record from 8–7 to 9–7.

The Hokies and The Hoos will battle it out in Charlottesville, Virginia, for bragging rights. Our overall record is 58–96, but our most recent game against them was a home win at 62–53.

Jan. 21

We will play Clemson again in South Carolina on a Saturday.

Jan. 23

Virginia Tech will host Duke University in hopes of defeating the Blue Devils. The current record is 12–51.

Jan. 28

We will host Syracuse for another matchup.

Feb. 1

The first game of February will be in Miami, Florida against the Hurricanes. We are 20–25 against Miami.

Feb. 4

We will host Virginia for a second matchup of the season.

Feb. 8

We will host Boston College for a second time this season.

Feb. 11

The Hokies will travel to Indiana to play against Notre Dame. We are currently 8–9 against them.

Feb. 15

Georgia Tech will host us for a Wednesday game. We are 22–8 against the Yellow Jackets.

Feb. 18

Pittsburgh will come to Blacksburg after we smoothly defeated them last season 74–47. Our record is 11–8.

Feb. 21

We will play the Hurricanes again, this time in Blacksburg.

Feb. 25

The Hokies will play the Blue Devils for the second time of the season in Durham, North Carolina.

Feb. 28

The final game of February will be against Louisville. We will travel to Kentucky to play the Cardinals. The record is 9–36.

March 4

The Hokies will host the Florida State Seminoles for the final regular season game. We are 23–36 against them.

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Hokies’ sideline gets hyped up, March 1, 2022.