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by corey mcdonaldstaff writer

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West Virginia Univer-sity continues to remain among the top 100 public universities in the coun-try, while WVU Tech’s en-gineering program has risen to No. 58 on the Best Undergraduate Engineer-ing Programs list, accord-ing to a college rank-ing published by the U.S. News & World Report.

“I don’t believe in rank-ings generally,” said Uni-versity President E. Gor-don Gee. “I believe the quality of the institution is measured on how well it is doing with the students.”

The College of Engi-neering and Sciences’ rank has jumped more than 25 spots from last year’s ranking to No. 58, while WVU is now tied for No. 98 among public universities and for No. 175 among all national universities.

However, the Univer-sity’s ranking has fallen slightly in both the pub-lic and national university categories. Last year, WVU was ranked No. 94 among public universities and No. 168 among national universities.

“There are 4,500 univer-sities and colleges in this country, and to be ranked among the 100 best is something that is really quite an achievement,” Gee said.

The ranking of pub-lic and national universi-ties utilizes the Carnegie Classification. In this sys-tem, WVU is designated as a doctorate-granting uni-versity with a high level of research.

The classification sys-tem for institutions in this category primarily focuses

on the research activity and research expenditure within the institution, while also reviewing the amount of masters or re-search degrees awarded by the institution.

The undergraduate rank given to the engineering program uses a different method of classification.

“These rankings on the undergraduate engineer-ing program were based on peer evaluations from deans and administra-tors,” said Paul Steranka, professor and associate dean of the College of Engineering.

While this increase in ranking demonstrates a favorable accolade for the College, it is not necessar-ily a top priority the Col-lege is striving for.

“We’re very happy that it reflects the reputation of the program. In terms of striding toward it, it’s not that there’s a strategy we have to somehow op-timize our rankings,” Ster-anka said. “We just try to make sure that people are aware of what we are do-ing so that when it comes time to do these ratings and so on, they can at least consider what we have to offer.”

Similarly, the public and national ranking WVU earned doesn’t necessar-ily reflect the overall am-bitions of the University.

“We look at (the rat-ings). Some institutions work very hard to play the ratings game. I never have,” Gee said. “I dislike that. I think it distorts the quality and experience for the students.”

Gee said in an interview with The Daily Athenaeum that the achievements made at each college and

by hollie greenestaff writer

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Like a modern-day “Monuments Men,” Corine Wegener, a cultural heri-tage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Insti-tute, has dedicated her life to the protection of cultural heritage in times of war and disaster.

Joyce Ice, director of the Art Museum of West Vir-ginia University, wrote in a recent blog post that cen-turies-old heritage all over the world is at risk of de-struction every day.

“The destruction of cul-tural heritage, like the Bud-dha statues dynamited ear-lier in Afghanistan by the Taliban,” Ice wrote, “be-comes a blunt weapon of oppression, used to deny a people’s past achieve-ments and to undermine a sense of pride and histori-cal continuity.”

Wegener will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Creative Arts Center’s Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre as a part of the Dan and Betsy Brown Lecture series and in honor of the Art Museum’s opening.

The lecture will focus pri-

marily on the history and destruction of cultural heri-tage, as well as disaster pre-paredness. Ice said these conflicts threaten not only countries with extremists groups such as the Taliban, but also our own country.

While a threat, Wegener believes there are measures that can be taken to protect these pieces and preserve our culture.

“The loss of cultural her-itage that we’re experienc-ing, whether it’s from nat-ural disasters or conflicts, is our shared cultural iden-tity,” Wegener said. “This generation, that’s com-

ing of age now, should ask the questions, ‘What’s be-ing done to preserve our future and our patrimony?’ and ‘What will be left for our kids in the future if we don’t do something to stop this now?’”

During her Thursday lec-ture, Wegener plans to dis-cuss several ways that ev-eryday people can play an important role in preserv-ing heritage.

“Everyone can think about things like, ‘Where’s the best place to store my family photographs that I can’t replace? On the base-ment floor where flood wa-

ters can get to them? Not really,’” Wegener said.

Wegener will also speak about “Monuments Men,” a 2014 film depicting the teams of men and women who were tasked with sav-ing, preserving and return-ing art and other cultural pieces to their countries of origin after its capture by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime.

“The Monuments Men are a particular interest of mine,” Wegner said. “I was in the U.S. Military in that function, but in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.”

Wegener played an im-portant role in recovering

and preserving many im-portant collections from the Iraq National Museum after the 2003 U.S. inva-sion during her time in the military.

“It’s an important sub-ject that deserves our at-tention,” Ice said.

Wegener’s lecture, “From Berlin to Baghdad: Saving Heritage in Armed Con-flict,” is free and open to the public.

For more information on the lecture, contact the Art Museum of WVU at 304-293-4359.

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There’s something soothing in the sound of an acous-tic guitar. Science mingles with sound each time a string catches vibration, sending air molecules into motion, pro-ducing the notes that lay the tracks to some of our favor-ite songs.

Andrew White knows and appreciates that science. Growing up in Annapolis, Maryland, White was the

product of two creative and innovative parents. With a graphic designer for a mother and an engineer for a father, White’s upbringing allowed him to mesh the hands-on me-chanics of art and the imaginative details needed to create.

“There was always somewhat of a mechanical nature about my brain,” White said.

Leaving his hometown of Annapolis, White packed his belongings and moved to Morgantown to start his career at West Virginia University. It was in his second year at WVU that he went to Madrid, Spain, to study abroad. Little did White know, his time in Spain would forever impact his life.

While there, he decided the perfect souvenir from his trip would be an authentic, acoustic Spanish guitar. As a sophomore in college, White said he had only taken one guitar class in his life as a senior in high school. Hoping

to learn more about the culture and language, White met guitar maker Ignacio Rozas, who offered to not only teach him the local dialect, but how to assemble the guitars in his shop as well.

“I was thinking, ‘Hey, you know they tell you when you travel abroad to immerse yourself in the culture,’ so I’ll learn some vocabulary words, right,” White said.

“I go to his shop, and it was that lightbulb moment you hear about. That’s when I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to build a guitar.’”

Leaving Spain, White was anxious to delve into the world Rozas unveiled for him. Gifted the wood to make one guitar, White eagerly began assembling his first gui-tar in the basement of his one-bedroom, apartment. With a how-to-assemble-guitars book, White began the tedious process of learning and building an acoustic guitar.

“I lived in the basement apartment, which had ceilings you could touch,” White said.

The small, cramped space lacked doors separating the rooms, making the dust from his constant cutting, sanding and building a pesky problem. Moving to a different apart-ment, White continued to create guitars for years before moving to his shop at the bottom of High Street.

Today, White now has his own space. Located on

City Council calls foul on fowl law

ASkAr SAlIkhoV/the DAIlY AtheNAeumAndrew White Guitars, an acoustic guitar manufacturing shop, located on Foundry Street.

a brand of his oWn WVU remains on list of top 100 public universities

by jake jarviscity editor

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A flock of Morgantown residents descended upon City Council Tuesday night, desperate to know whether or not the council would impose stricter laws on keeping chickens in city limits.

“I’m here to give a voice to all my pro-chicken friends too afraid to come to the meeting tonight and

speak,” said Matthew Held, 35. “I’m an out-of-the-closet, six-chicken owner and proud of that.”

Held and others will have to wait until the coun-cil’s October meeting to get an answer, after Council-woman Jenny Selin, 4th Ward, motioned for city staff to re-examine the or-dinance. The ordinance was sent back to staff to undergo a series of amend-ments so that the next time it is presented, it could be

presented in conjunction with other ordinances.

Before the ordinance was sent back for revi-sions, it ruffled more than a few feathers. If accepted, the ordinance would allow people to keep a maximum of six chickens on a prop-erty within city limits.

Previous ordinances that were in effect since the 1950s allowed property owners in city limits to keep two chickens, without per-mission from their neigh-

bors. Owners had to receive permission from neigh-bors to keep more than two chickens.

“I think it’s very, very im-portant that the people in the neighborhood get to decide what the neighbor-hood looks like, rather than just one person deciding,” said Steve Farmer.

In late 2014, neighbors in the Hopecrest commu-nity were shocked to see a neighbor house between 10 to 13 chickens in her

fenced-in yard.Farmer, 58, grew up

in Morgantown and his mother still lives in the Hopecrest community. Farmer and others who live in the community filed a nuisance complaint with the city, spurring the heated debate.

“This is simple,” Farmer said. “Chickens are not pets. They are farm animals for farm purposes.”

Barbara Olson fears that the council will open Pan-

dora’s Box on her neighbor-hood if people are allowed to house six chickens. Be-cause of how her property sits in her neighborhood, Olson’s backyard is sur-rounded by the backyards of six of her neighbors.

She imagines a world where she’s surrounded by 36 chickens—along with the possible 18 rabbits per-mitted by the proposed or-dinance. That’s not a world

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Olson wants to live in.Farmer said in an in-

terview after the meet-ing that the chicken laws were roped into other laws the council hoped to pass to promote urban agriculture.

Though Selin agreed with a majority of the or-dinance, she said she was unable to vote in favor of it because it touched on land-use issues. When the Committee of the Whole met last month, it discussed a “compre-hensive, urban agricul-ture plan.”

Selin took issue with how the proposed law touched on land-use is-sues. She and other members wanted to see a handful of specific clauses move to the sep-arate land-use ordinance.

Councilors went back and forth on how to fix the problem.

“I am absolutely not an attorney,” said Coun-cilwoman Nancy Ganz, 7th Ward. “But I am abso-lutely an excellent reader, and I am confused.”

City Council will meet again at 7 p.m. on Oct. 6 in City Hall. The coun-cil requested that city staff address three sepa-rate ordinances to pres-ent at either that meeting or the later meeting in October.

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by each student should ac-curately depict the Univer-sity’s capabilities, rather than looking at a ranking system.

But why pay attention to the rankings at all then? Gee said the ranking as-

sures people the University plays “in the big leagues,” and that administrators are making the right kind of de-cisions to move the institu-tion forward.

“I have been president of a couple institutions that are not nearly as good as they think they are, and I am now president of a uni-versity that is better than it thinks it is,” Gee said. “We

are obviously a nationally and internationally com-petitive institution, but also I think what (the rankings) do show is that the quality of our undergraduate expe-rience is increasing to one of the better in the coun-try, and you can tell by the rankings in our engineering program and other places.”

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Foundry Street, Andrew White Guitars stands as a testament to the long and unique journey White has endured.

The fine, handmade gui-tars that fill his shop each tell their own story; one of hard work, dedication and crucial attention to detail. Many guitars are shipped out on their own journeys to be sold to musicians and aspiring artists. White ships guitars to dealers in loca-tions all over the East Coast, from local music shops in Morgantown to vendors in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. His guitars have also been sold in multiple countries, giving his brand and name an international flare.

“It has been a neat op-portunity. We’ve sold about maybe 5,000 guitars over-seas at this point,” White said.

While the local craftsman resides in Morgantown, his name and guitars are eas-ily recognized around the

globe. Many of his produc-tion guitars in the factory setting sell for anywhere from $600-$1,500, while his handmade guitars can sell for a starting price of $7,000.

While most of White’s day causes him to deal with the details of production for the many companies he works with, he still contin-ues to work on his hand-made products. White said the most important aspect in crafting an individual’s guitar begins at the design, which he said starts with a conversation with the cli-ent. White said that because he knows how to play very little on the guitar, his abil-ity to create unique and un-biased guitars for the client comes with ease.

“I’m trying to build what they want, and I’m trying to understand what they want,” White said.

“It’s not at all about my perspective of what they want or, even worse, what I want.”

White said his clients use words such as “feel-ing warm and fuzzy,” to de-scribe the type of feel and

sound they want their gui-tar to have. His knowledge and understanding of how to interpret these wants is how he enables himself to creatively design the guitar of any musician’s dreams. It can take years to complete a guitar for any given client, and even multiple attempts through trial and error, to create that perfect sound.

“I really enjoy building custom instruments,” White said.

“There’s a lot of satisfac-tion that comes from pro-viding someone with an instrument and them say-ing, ‘Wow, I never thought I could play this good,’ or, ‘I never knew I could play this style of music on my gui-tar, but I’ve always wanted to.’”

White said the design and work put into his guitars is what makes them so spe-cial. His guitars have been played by Craig Morgan and even by band members of Maroon 5.

To check out some of White’s custom guitars, visit http://andrewwhiteguitars.com/index.html.

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hungary declares emergency, seals border, detains migrants

ApMigrants look through the border fence between Serbia and Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two of its southern counties bordering Serbia because of the migration crisis, giv-ing special powers to police and other authorities.

HORGOs, serbia (aP)—Hungary sealed off its bor-der with Serbia with mas-sive coils of barbed wire Tuesday and began detain-ing migrants trying to use the country as a gateway to Western Europe, harsh new measures that left thousands of frustrated asylum-seekers piled up on the Serbian side of the border.

Human rights activists condemned the move, with Amnesty International say-ing Hungary’s “intimidating show of militarized force is shocking.” But Prime Minis-ter Viktor Orban defended the measures, saying he was acting to preserve Chris-tian Europe, which he said had become threatened by the large numbers of Mus-lims streaming into the continent.

“The supply is nearly end-less - we can see how many of them are coming,” Orban said in a televised address just before the new laws took effect at midnight. “And if we look at the demographics, we can see that these peo-ple have more children than our communities who lead a traditional, Christian way of life.”

“Mathematics tells you that this will lead to a Eu-rope where our way of life will end up in a minority, or at least face a very serious challenge.”

By nightfall Tuesday, thousands of migrants, in-cluding many babies and children, prepared to spend a night in the open or in flimsy tents erected in the bushes or on the main high-way near the Serbian border with Hungary.

Men collected wood in a nearby forest for fires in preparation for a chilly night.

“I had hope until now, but it’s all gone,” lamented Mohammad Mahayni, a 32-year-old Syrian from Da-mascus, who became sepa-rated from his wife as they tried to enter Hungary a day earlier.

“I lifted the razor wire for her, she got in before a Hun-garian border patrol came by,” he said. “Now I don’t know where she is.”

The new laws make it a crime to breach or damage the 13-foot (4-meter) high razor-wire fence erected along 110 miles of Hunga-ry’s border with Serbia and include longer prison terms

for convicted human traf-fickers. Authorities said they detained 174 people who tried to cross the border Tuesday. Hungary has said it will turn most of the mi-grants back to Serbia, which it considers a safe country where they could also re-quest asylum.

The developments mark a dramatic reversal for Hun-gary, an East European na-tion that played a key role in cracking open the Iron Cur-tain in 1989 when it removed a border fence to Austria, prompting large numbers of East Germans to flee to the West.

At the European Parlia-ment in Brussels, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker paid tribute Tuesday to Gyula Horn, the late Hungarian prime min-ister who dismantled that fence. He appeared at the unveiling of a bust of Horn, praising him as “a great Hun-garian, a great person, a great European” - a clear gesture of reproach of Orban.

Hungary also declared a state of emergency in two southern regions Tuesday, giving authorities greater powers to deal with the crisis and allowing them to shut down roads and speed up asylum court cases.

That also allows the mil-itary to be deployed to de-fend the border, pending

approval by parliament next week, though heavily armed military personnel with ve-hicles and dogs have been seen patrolling the border for days.

“For refugees fleeing from terrifying conflict zones to be met by such an intimi-dating show of militarized force is shocking, and a woe-fully irresponsible response to people already trauma-tized by war and brutality,” said Gauri van Gulik, Am-nesty International’s deputy director for Europe.

The Hungarian govern-ment said it plans to extend the steel razor-wire fence - which it calls a “temporary border closure” - several miles (kilometers) along the border with Romania as well, something the Bucha-rest government said vio-lated the “European spirit” of cooperation.

“I am horrified to think of one thing that is possible: What do we do if Hungarian troops begin to shoot or kill children and women?” Ro-manian Prime Minister Vic-tor Ponta said late Tuesday on Antena 3 television.

Though Orban’s steps are extreme, the migrant cri-sis has forced other Euro-pean governments to rein-state border checks, possibly heralding a threat to the free movement across EU fron-tiers - one of the most cher-

ished benefits brought by their union.

This week, Germany and the Netherlands were among countries that re-introduced border checks to manage the huge flow of people, while the Czech Re-public said Tuesday it is pre-pared to deploy its armed forces to protect its borders if police alone cannot man-age the crisis.

Meanwhile, Austria’s In-terior Ministry announced it would impose border con-trols with Hungary starting at midnight Tuesday and said the measures could be extended to the country’s borders with Slovenia, Italy and Slovakia if necessary. The move was in response to fears that migrants now streaming into Austria from Hungary could try to cross into the country over those borders in large numbers.

Abolfazl Ebrahimi, a 17-year-old Afghan who was in Athens on Tuesday, said his group now plans to get to Western Europe through Croatia.

“I thought that European people are kind and they will give us rights. But I don’t think so (anymore) because the borders between Ger-many and Austria are closed, and Serbia and Hungary are closed too,” he said.

In the last few months, Hungary has become a main

entry point and bottleneck into the European Union for migrants, many of them war refugees from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. More than 200,000 mi-grants have entered Hun-gary so far in 2015, nearly all by walking across the south-ern border with Serbia, as they make their way to Ger-many or other wealthy West-ern European nations.

Serbia’s foreign minister declared it was unaccept-able that migrants were be-ing sent back from Hungary while more and more were arriving from Macedonia and Greece.

Serbia “wants to be part of the solution, not collateral damage. There will have to be talks in the coming days with Brussels and other countries,” Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in Prague.

The turmoil at the Hun-garian-Serbian border came a day after the 28-nation EU failed to come up with a united immigration policy at a contentious meeting in Brussels. The ministers did agree to share responsibil-ity for 40,000 people seeking refuge in overwhelmed Italy and Greece and spoke hope-fully of reaching an eventual deal on which EU nations would take 120,000 more ref-ugees, including some from Hungary.

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Fall Fashion: Retro-inspired lookshannah haRless

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While it may seem like a bummer that summer is over, there are many excit-ing things to look forward to in the coming weeks, like holidays, pump-kin carving and football games. There will be many opportunities to take pic-tures at these events, so it’s important to look camera ready with this year’s fall fashion trends.

Fashion of the 1950s is back again this year, with a new, modern spin on the classical look. Lon-ger, barely above the knee skirts have made a come-back in stores everywhere. It’s no surprise these skirts are back again, since they are so flattering on a va-riety of different body shapes and come in some of fall’s most beautiful col-ors and patterns.

In my 1950s-inspired outfit, I paired a knee-length, burgundy skirt from Kohl’s with a thin, black, dressy blouse from Ann Taylor’s The Loft.The blouse, though plain in color, has short ruffled sleeves and buttons up in the middle. While the shirt is simple, it complements the skirt well and doesn’t take away from the outfit. You can’t go wrong with black.

I tucked the blouse into the skirt to show some waistline since the skirt is a bit high-waisted, a trend that returned a few years ago and never really left. I paired the skirt and blouse with a bright belt and a pair of intricately designed tights from Aerie to add a little edge to this classic look.

Patterned hosiery is one of the hottest trends of 2015. Hosiery of all differ-ent patterns and colors are available at many stores this year. Why not put some exciting patterns and colors into your fall outfit? The shoes I wore for this outfit were mushroom-colored, suede high-heel ankle boots. The head-band I wore in the pic-ture can be switched out with a floppy hat or worn plain.

Paige Klingensmith is sporting a few of 2015’s favorite trends. Klingen-smith wore a white tur-tleneck from Free People with simple designs on the sleeves, which showcases two of fall’s biggest trends: The color white and tur-tlenecks. Turtlenecks are not only flattering, but sensible for the cold, fall weather. This year, wear-ing white after Labor Day is a must according to fashion forward maga-zines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan.

Klingensmith paired the turtleneck with a pale pink, short-sleeve jacket from Bebe that cinches at the waist, Buckle jeans,

suede ankle boots and Sabika jewelry.

Chantel Shuman is don-ning the grunge look, one of fall’s more laid-back looks. Shuman is wearing a burgundy, cream and taupe flannel from Ga-rage with a neutral tank from Nordstrom. Shu-man is styling the popular three-layer necklace look from Rue 21, paired with dark jeans and tall brown boots.

Ivory Drewery is show-casing some of the men’s fall fashion trends for 2015. Drewery is wear-ing a white and grey dis-tressed button up with a jean jacket sweatshirt. These jean jacket sweat-shirts with a hood are su-per in right now for men. The look is comfortable and trendy all at the same time. Drewery paired the shirt and jacket with khaki pants. All of these items were purchased from American Eagle. Drewery wore white Nike high tops to complete the outfit.

Danny Hoke is wearing a more traditional men’s look: A blue and cream button-up shirt with dark brown khaki pants. Hoke paired the outfit with a pair of trendy, two-tone dress shoes. This is a clas-sic look for men and is ver-satile enough to work for any occasion.


Beat Poetry Festival celebrates writersbRittany osteen

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As fall approaches, it may be instinctual to pull out some blankets, grab a book and curl up for a nice read. Before the cold weather hits town, locals have a chance to head to the National Beat Poetry Festival in Morgantown from Sept. 17-19. The fes-tival includes four differ-ent events.

“Poetry is about three things,” said William DeVault, poet and West Virginia poetry coordi-nator. “You have to have craft, then it is voice and the final thing is reso-nance. You should have resonance with craft and voice. You want peo-ple to feel something. Once you make someone feel something, then it is art.”

The beat poetry com-munity arose in the 1940s. Writers such as Allen Gins-berg and Jack Kerouac spearheaded the move-ment against social con-

formity and tradition. They expressed their

feelings and experiences of being beaten down through their written works. The National Beat Poetry Festival goals are to encourage literacy and bond cultures through new ideas and expres-sions while merging the Beat history and art as their basis.

An open reading will kick off the festival Thurs-day and will include po-etry reading, Skype calls with guest speakers and an open mic for anyone who wants to share their po-etry. This will be held from 7-10 p.m. at the Mononga-lia Arts Center and will in-clude snacks.

On Friday, the day will begin with a Poetry Mar-athon. Since the average marathon is completed in approximately four hours and 19 minutes, the read-ers will present for four and a half hours. This will begin at 11 a.m. and end around 3:30 p.m. at the Arts Monongahela.

Later that night, The-odore Webb is directing

a reading of Allen Gins-berg’s “Howl.” “Howl” was written in 1955 and was the forefront for the Beat movement. The poem is considered by some as inappropriate and ob-scene; however, it has been classified as having literary merit. It will be-gin at 7 p.m. and will be followed by another open mic.

The festival wraps up on Saturday with a book sing-ing with William F. DeVault from 1-4 p.m. He will pro-mote his newly released book, “Grace: poetry of affection and seduc-tion,” and his most popu-lar seller, “101 Great Love Poems: from the works of The Romantic Poet of the Internet.” This will take place at the University Towne Centre Barnes and Noble.

“If it is said to you that in 500 years from now your poems will still be read and be moving, then you are a success. A critic once told me, ‘I have no doubt that in hundreds of years from now, a young man will be reading your po-

ems to a lady.’”The other readers in-

clude Rayna Momen, Daniel McTaggart, The-odore Webb, and Mark Husk. Momen works as an academic success ad-viser at West Virginia University.

McTaggart recently re-leased his book, “Diner Stories: Off the Menu.” This book includes works from both Webb and DeVault.

“In the long run, it is the poets who win because we write the stories, we

write the culture. Poetry is immortality.”

For more information on the National Beat Po-etry Festival, visit http://www.nationalbeatpoetry-festival.org.


COrrECTiONDue to a reporting error in the 9/15/15 edition of The

Daily Athenaeum, it was noted that U92 was nominated for Best Student-Run Internet-Only Station; in fact, U92 was not nominated for this award. The station’s general manager, Matthew Fouty, is a WVU alum from the P.I. Reed School of Journalism. In the original story it was falsely reported he is a current student. In the “Specialty Music Director of the Year” category, Cody Roane is nominated for his show “Ur-ban Diner.” Additionally, the logo posted alongside the story was incorrect. U92’s correct logo is below.

Garrett Yurisko/tHe DaiLY atHeNaeuMIvory Drewery showcases his fall look featuring Nike Air Maxs.

Garrett Yurisko/tHe DaiLY atHeNaeuMHannah Harless walks fown the steps of Woodburn sporting a grey floppy hat.

rawDoGscreaMiNG.coMDaniel McTaggart, along with other writers, will share his work at the National Beat Poetry Festival.

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Access codes scam students, should be banned

Let’s talk about access codes.

This semester, I’m taking a foreign language course required for my major. On the first day of class, my pro-fessor went through what could be considered a nor-mal summary of the sylla-bus by describing the grad-ing system, noting where the textbook could be pur-chased and outlining when our major exams and assign-ments are due. However, be-cause I had already perused this information on our class eCampus page, I had all but completely zoned out when she reached the part about our required homework.

“We will be using (insert online textbook supplement software here), and you will need an access code to view the online lessons. You can either buy it along with a new textbook or purchase the code separately from the bookstore.”

When I heard this, my stomach dropped.

If you aren’t aware of what an access code is or what they’re used for, they are simply codes used to ac-cess online course content hosted by textbook compa-nies for a limited period of time, usually only a semes-ter or two. They are usu-ally included inside new textbooks but will have al-ready expired or been regis-tered in used versions of the same text. They can also be purchased directly from the publisher for costs ranging in the hundreds.

In my four years at West Virginia University, I’ve mastered the fine art of sav-ing money on textbooks. I know how to obtain the best deals on materials I need by renting or buying tattered and overly-highlighted used books, or even by swapping the physical copies for their much cheaper e-book coun-terparts. I know there are several ways to get around paying the University book-store’s sticker price for text-books, but there is abso-lutely no way to bypass buying costly access codes at full price.

Upon further research, I

discovered that in addition to what I paid in tuition to take my class, I would need to spend $200 more on this course’s access code just to see homework assignments worth 15 percent of my fi-nal grade.

My choices were pretty limited in this situation. I could either buy a new text-book with the access code included for about $250, or I could rent the $40 e-book copy from Amazon and lose 15 percent of my final grade before the first attendance was even taken.

It seems I find myself in this predicament at least

once a year. Too many times I’ve found myself stuck be-tween saving money and ac-cepting a lesser grade in the course or spending exorbi-tant amounts to access the online content and sacrific-ing a month’s worth of gro-ceries and gas.

Sometimes, I have no choice but the former. Even after my schedule is set and my tuition is paid, there have been times where I could not afford to do my homework.

Maybe I’m just frustrated because putting up with this for four years has finally worn me down, or maybe

it’s because the decision to splurge on only 15 percent of my final grade has left me especially broke this se-mester. Either way, I’m fed up with it.

I’m fed up with there be-ing absolutely no Univer-sity-wide system in place to regulate the use of online homework costing money to access. I’m fed up with there being not even a single note in the online registrar de-noting particular classes as requiring these programs and thereby costing stu-dents extra. I’m fed up with the fact that these access codes are little more than a

scam by textbook publishers to suck more money out of the pockets of a generation of college students who are already struggling with re-cord numbers of homeless-ness and food insecurity.

Similar to textbook pub-lishers releasing a new, sub-tly-changed “must-have” edition every year, requiring students to purchase “one time use only” access codes is simply another technique designed to kill off the used book market. You can al-ways buy a used book and purchase the access code separately, but it’s going to cost more in the long run than getting the “brand new book with access code” bun-dle, which I believe is what textbook publishers really want from students.

I understand tuition doesn’t cover books and materials, but requiring these materials to be pur-chased as a part of the grade is what I believe is an unfair policy.

I know homework is of-ten necessary to the mas-tery of certain subjects, and online tools supplement-ing in-class learning can be helpful. However, it appears access codes are deliberately designed to financially bur-den students and force them out of being able to find cheaper and better alterna-tives. Leaving their inclusion in courses up to the profes-sor only leads to unfair costs incurred by only some stu-dents and not others. This is why I believe requiring them as a part of a course’s final grade should be banned across all departments of the University.

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This past May, I was a student at a Japanese high school for a day. I was a se-nior in high school at the time and visited classes just like the ones I took at home. I spent the day fol-lowing around my guide and her friends, who prac-ticed their English on me while I attempted to learn a bit of Japanese from them.

The experience was amazing. However, I no-tice many troubling things about the school system. I asked kids what they liked to do in their free time, but the concept of “free time” was essentially nonexis-tent to them. They spent the majority of their time doing homework, but managed to make time for just one school club

as well. I pressed them for anything not relating to school, but no one had time for activities outside of their school club and homework.

Even though some of the kids I met were quite young—just fourteen years old—they were al-ready panicking about get-ting into a university. In Ja-pan, students have to take tests just to be admitted into high school. After-ward, many start worry-ing about the tests they’ll have to take to get into a university.

Many universities in Ja-pan make their own tests instead of offering a stan-dardized one, so students will often have to take mul-tiple challenging tests. The majority of kids I be-friended had private tu-tors or went to afterschool programs designed to prep kids for entrance exams

Sept. 1 is the most pop-ular day for suicide in Ja-

pan because it’s the day schools start across the country. Japan has the ninth highest suicide rate in the world, only beaten by countries like Lithuania and Kazakhstan.

It’s easy for people to speculate about why the Japanese suicide rate is so high. What’s tougher is just asking kids what they think of it themselves. My guide, two years younger than me, knew of three kids who had killed themselves.

I questioned her and her friends about why they thought the suicide rate was so high. At first, they were reluctant to answer, for fear they’d shame their school. Once the first girl started talking, though, the rest jumped in.

They suspected the rate is so high not just because of the immense stress put on students, but also because of Japan’s severe bullying problem. The unending workload is enough to drive

any teenager crazy, but combining that with bully-ing yields a deadly cocktail of stress for students.

In Japanese high schools, conformity is imperative. Kids can be assaulted or mocked for nearly any-thing, from dyed hair to body weight to where they were born. Bullying is a problem many Amer-ican students are unfor-tunately familiar with, but it’s hard to compre-hend it on the Japanese scale.

In the United States, dif-ferences are celebrated. An American child will grow up surrounded with mes-sages promoting how to embrace their uniqueness, that they’re special, and how differences are good things.

In Japanese schools, however, kids learn the op-posite. They learn it’s best to be like everyone else be-cause it’s the safest option. Of course, Japanese school-

chidlren are unique: They all choose different overly cute notebooks and back-packs, for example. This is not to say they conform in every way possible, but when it comes to things like hair color, most kids just want to be the same. Dif-ference is punished.

My host recalled a fresh-man girl who’d dyed her hair a darker black so she’d look “more Japanese,” but despite this, she was bullied mercilessly as soon as her roots grew in. The bullying wasn’t just verbal; it often became physical.

Stories of kids being bullied in Japan are end-less. A quick Google search will turn up numerous in-stances of Japanese kids being tormented by their peers.

My host and her friends hadn’t been targets of this bullying, but they’d seen it firsthand and it wasn’t pretty. Once they’d shared their thoughts, they

quickly changed the sub-ject; talking about horrif-ically high suicide rates isn’t exactly a comfortable lunchtime conversation. I didn’t want to make them uncomfortable by bring-ing up the topic again, but I was left with a lingering question: How does one fix this?

I’m an American. I didn’t grow up in Japan, and one day at a Japanese school isn’t going to teach me all there is to know about the country. As someone who didn’t grow up in that cul-ture, I feel powerless that I can’t understand it enough to propose a solution. Even methods able to work in America may very well fail once implemented in Japan.

All I know for sure is this: Japan’s education sys-tem is a disaster, and if they don’t act soon, they’re go-ing to lose a generation of kids to crippling stress or suicide.

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Efficient transportation is something that has become necessary in modern, ur-ban life, especially for col-lege students without a car. Transportation in Morgan-town in particular has been in need of improvement as it is unreliable and scarce, but those improvements may be far from being seen.

Uber, an online app us-ing location to conveniently match those in need of a ride with drivers, is cur-rently available in more than 40 states. West Virginia is not one of those states be-cause some state legislators felt non-discriminatory lan-guage should be removed from the bill.

At a forum held in Charleston Monday eve-ning as part of Urban Living Week, attendees demanded reasoning for West Virginia’s lack of Uber.

Delegate Andrew Byrd, D-Kanawha, referred to a committee meeting from March 8 of this year, accord-ing to a Charleston Gazette-Mail article. At the meeting,

Delegate Tom Fast, R-Fay-ette, wanted to remove lan-guage within the bill that protected people based on race, gender and sexual orientation.

Although this was not a majority view in the com-mittee meeting, Byrd eluded that the committee debate was the reason the bill did not make it to the House.

“They didn’t want to have the debate about discrimi-nation in West Virginia on the floor of the house,” Sen. Chris Walters, R-Putnam, said in an article with the Gazette-Mail.

However, the discrimina-tory language was not the only reason the bill did not pass. Insurance issues and the transfer of taxi cab reg-ulations were also factors.

It is the view of this edi-torial staff that new, mod-ern transportation meth-ods need to be a priority in West Virginia’s 2016 legisla-tive session. Apps like Uber provide more affordable, convenient options to us-ers, and a business such as

Uber would thrive in Mor-gantown with the college population and the amount of students without means of transportation.

Aside from the state need-ing to improve its current transportation standards, it is appalling that lawmak-ers in the state would al-low such discrimination in a bill. By avoiding the sub-ject on the House Floor, law-makers have made it clear that the issue of discrimina-tion in West Virginia is not a priority; in fact, they don’t want it on their minds at all.

“I can honestly say I was disappointed not only as a delegate but as a West Vir-ginian to see other West Virginians beside me try to allow for such discrimina-tion in West Virginia,” Byrd said in the Gazette-Mail article.

Ignoring an issue does not silence it, and some lawmakers in West Virginia should face these serious is-sues, not dismiss them.

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pbs.orgAccess codes are usually included with purchases of new textbooks, but can cost hundreds of dollars on their own.

techgoondu.comUber is not available in West Virginia as lawmakers continue to ignore discriminatory statutes.

brining Uber to w.Va. raises discrimination issues

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Barry Green shares expertise in lecture, performancemeG weissend

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Internationally known bassist Barry Green visited West Virginia University’s School of Music on Mon-day, Sept. 14 to provide the community with musical insight. Green then held a recital at Bloch Hall in the Creative Arts Center Tues-day night.

An accomplished musi-cian, Green was a princi-pal bassist in the Cincin-nati Symphony Orchestra for 28 years. Also an author and teacher, Green travels the world offering work-shops on “turning up the music.” This concept advo-cates encouraging people to make their music louder so their fear, anxiety and doubt do not overwhelm their lives.

Green was first in-trigued by musical instru-ments when he overheard his neighbor playing an ac-cordion at a young age. He continued to love music and played both the tuba and string bass through-out his childhood. Green’s musical career kicked off within three years of trans-ferring to Indiana Uni-versity, when he began playing in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Published in 1986, Green’s “The Inner Game of Music” has been an in-

ternational success for many years. Selling almost 300,000 copies world-wide, the reaction from readers is one of Green’s favorite parts of his career.

“Seeing the people that have been touched by the work before I actually meet them is a great feel-ing,” Green said. “I love visiting new places and working alongside other musicians doing these programs. It’s a great high-light of my career, and I enjoy being a part of the community during my stays.”

Green has written three books, all working to-gether to support his the-ory in the connection be-tween mind, body, spirit and music. He currently resides in San Diego and teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Green is welcomed to conduct workshops and give lectures in many dif-ferent countries. He will travel to Turkey in October, speaking about the impact music can have on peo-ple when played from the heart.

“An audience always wants to feel something,” Green said. “They want to be inspired, and they want to be entertained. They want chills.”

Green believes musi-cians have an important

responsibility in the mu-sic industry.

“We have a social re-sponsibility and a sacred position of giving plea-sure,” Green said. “Spread-ing joy and inspiration through music changes lives and brings awareness to world culture. We often get carried away and for-get about that. Being a mu-sician isn’t about the fame, money or superiority.”

For more information on Barry Green and his work, visit http://www.barrygreene.com/.


Designer Coach marks 75 years with punk cowgirls and mixed printsNEW YORK (AP)‑ The lux-

ury brand Coach cele-brated 75 years in business Tuesday, not just with bags and shoes, but with bright cowgirl leather and prairie flower frocks for women.

Yes, actual clothing to go along with all those drool-worthy accessories you, your mom and your daugh-ter may have at home, or wish you did.

The company has shown smallish clothing collec-tions before at New York Fashion Week, but this was the first full runway specta-cle, staged on the elevated High Line among old rail tracks once used by meat-packers but now a favorite park spot filled with wild-flowers and high grasses.

In his fourth collection for Coach, British creative director Stuart Vevers ac-knowledged this season’s mixed-print dresses and leather jackets were aimed at broadening interest in the brand’s clothing among young women.

These cowgirls were in-tended to be of the surf,

skate and punk variety.“Of course it’s a chal-

lenge, but it’s what I should be doing as creative direc-tor. I need to look into the future and use our heritage as a touchstone for every-thing that we do,” Vevers said backstage. “What I think American luxury means to the younger gen-eration is a certain sense of ease, something that feels relaxed. They need an inher-ent authenticity. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It’s not precious. That for me feels very relevant today, and for Coach.”

This collection, harken-ing back to the `70s in style, turned iconic Coach touch-stones on end. The sad-dle-colored leather and the horse and coach were there, Vevers said, “They’re just presented in a new way.”

Victor Luis, the compa-ny’s chief executive, said leather craftsman still labor away for Coach’s in its sam-ple production facility in New York City as they have since the beginning, mak-ing handbags one at a time.

“But at the same time we have to continue to evolve,” he said.

Why bother with clothes at all when you’re an estab-lished accessories brand?

“Our main business has been and always will be, of course, leather goods and accessories, but the ready-to-wear provides a context for the handbags. It helps to bring to life the Coach girl and the Coach woman, and who she is and what her life is like,” Luis said.

What Coach thinks those customers need in garments includes a calico coat in the color of chalk paired with a butterscotch patchwork low boot. And they might also need a loose tank dress in orange evoking a meadow, or a biker jacket adorned with pink mountain buds.

So when did Deb-bie Harry first encoun-ter Coach? She was joined among the company’s guests by Christina Ricci, Ciara, Mariel Hemingway, Zoe Kravitz, Chloe Grace Moretz and a range of other celebrities.

“I can’t even remember, it was so long ago,” Harry responded. “I think it’s bril-liant that it has evolved.”

Does she buy a lot of Coach?

“I would say that I buy a lot of clothes,” she laughed without committing.

Does Ciara recall her first encounter with Coach?

“Oh my gosh. It was more than 10 years back. It was a classic Coach in a boot. It was super cool with Coach all over. They were knee length. They had shearling kind of like fur and they were wedge,” she said. “They were a gift from one of my godmothers. She was a very stylish woman and they were everything. I couldn’t afford them myself at the time.”

Ricci appreciates the modern, fresh turn for Coach.

“I remember one of the first expensive bags I bought was a Coach shoulder bag,” she said. “I was a teenager. It was my first foray into de-signer bags, one of those first pieces of luxury.” fashionmagazine.com

Models don plaid coats with fur accents at New York Fashion Week.

Activist Maya Angelou’s art collection sells for nearly $1.3 millionNEW YORK (AP) ‑ The art

collection of celebrated writer and civil rights ac-tivist Maya Angelou sold for nearly $1.3 million on Tuesday.

A painted story quilt that hung in Angelou's Harlem home and was commis-sioned by Oprah Winfrey for Angelou's 61st birth-day brought $461,000 at the Swann Galleries sale.

"Maya's Quilt of Life" by African-American artist Faith Ringgold depicts An-gelou surrounded by flow-ers along with excerpts from some of her writings. The acrylic on canvas with a pieced fabric border had a pre-sale estimate of $150,000 to $250,000.

The nearly 50 artworks were consigned to the auc-tion house's African-Amer-ican Fine Art Department by Angelou's estate.

Angelou died last year at age 86.

Her son, Guy Johnson,

said in an introduction to the auction catalog that "her family hopes that the art which added color and character to her daily life does the same for others."

Her collection also re-

flected her interest in fe-male artists like Elizabeth Catlett and Phoebe Beasley and African culture.

"Kumasi Market," an oil-and-acrylic painting of a crowded Ghanaian market

scene by African-American muralist John Biggers, sold for $389,000, an auction re-cord for Biggers, and above the $100,000 to $150,000 estimate.

"The Obeah's Choice,"

a watercolor by Romare Bearden of two African-Caribbean women, was purchased for $87,500. It has been estimated to bring $20,000 to $30,000.

A painting by Jona-

than Green, "Wading in the Surf," sold for $13,750. Its pre-sale estimate was $8,000 to $12,000.

The quilt is the only Ringgold quilt to ever come to auction. It mea-sures 6 square feet and in-cludes passages from An-gelou's works "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water `fore I Diiie," `'Gather To-gether in My Name," `'The Heart of a Woman" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

"Just as Dr. Angelou con-tinues to serve as a source of inspiration for countless artists, writers and per-formers, she also found inspiration in the works of others," her son wrote in the catalog.

Her personal papers, in-cluding letters to Malcolm X and James Baldwin, are housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of the New York Pub-lic Library.

With guest-filled tour, Taylor Swift’s star power shines even brighter

swanngalleries.comMaya Angelou’s “Kumasi Market” was one of the highly valued pieces at Tuesday’s auction.

NEW YORK (AP) ‑ You could call Taylor Swift baby Oprah, and the stage is her version of Winfrey’s couch.

Easily the most important pop star of today, now Swift’s star power has reachewd even greater heights and stretched outside of music, thanks to her uber success-ful, star-studded 1989 World Tour.

In typical Swift fashion, she has invited fellow radio-friendly singers to join her onstage, including Nick Jo-nas, Jason Derulo, John Leg-

end and close gal pals Selena Gomez and Lorde. But Swift, 25, has also shared her stage with iconic folk singer Joan Baez and breakthrough acts like The Weeknd and Fetty Wap, who sang his hit “Trap Queen,” a contemporary love song about cooking co-caine - among other things - with your lover.

And then there were the tour’s unorthodox moments: Ellen DeGeneres appeared onstage, Lisa Kudrow sang the memorable “Smelly Cat” from “Friends” at one show,

and Kudrow’s former co-star, Matt LeBlanc, hit the stage at a show with Chris Rock. Julia Roberts even walked the stage like a runway as Swift performed her hit “Style.”

The pop star also invited athletes to join in on the fun, from Kobe Bryant to Serena Williams to the U.S. women’s soccer team, just days after they won the World Cup. And the models she calls her friends, from Gigi Hadid and Karlie Kloss.

“Interviewers always ask

me how we `get’ these peo-ple to come to the shows to walk, and the truth is that everyone who has walked the catwalk at one of the shows was already there just to see the show. Usually I ask them in my pre-show meet and greet if they want to come out onstage, then I’ll explain to them how the stage/elevator lift works and we just wing it,” Swift said in an email to The Associated Press.

Many of her surprise guests have children who

are die-hard Swifties.“Joan Baez and Julia Rob-

erts were both at my show in Santa Clara, and they were in my meet-and-greet room together. Julia is such a huge Joan fan and they were re-ally hitting it off. I asked them if they wanted to walk out onstage together and Julia’s kids exploded into `PLEASE!!’ So that’s how that happened.”

Other guests on the 1989 World Tour, which kicked off in Tokyo in May, have in-cluded Justin Timberlake,

Alanis Morissette, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, Sam Hunt, Wiz Khalifa and Beck.

“A lot of stars you can see maybe not wanting to kind of share the spotlight and not wanting to necessarily have other people up there with her, but Taylor’s thrilled to do that,” said Josh Duboff, who interviewed Swift for the cover of Vanity Fair’s September issue.

“She’s kind of excited to share the stage, which I think is kind of unique right now.”

andrew spellman/The dailY aThenaeUmBarry Green performs “Oblivion” a piece by Astor Piazzallo Tuesday night at the Creative Arts Center.

andrew spellman/The dailY aThenaeUmBarry Green and Andrew Kohn grab hands and bow at the end of “Oblivion”, a beautiful double bass duet arranged by Andres Martin.

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andrew spellman/the daily athenaeumSenior Caleah Wells spikes a ball past a Marshall defender’s hands in last night’s win over the Thundering Herd.

West Virginia defeats Marshall in home openerby johnna herbigsports correspondent

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Last night, the West Vir-ginia University volleyball team defeated its in-state rival Marshall in its home opener with a score of 3-2.

T h e Mo u nt a i n e e r s played five sets against the Herd but ended up win-ning, with the set scores of 20-25, 25-23, 22-25, 26-24 and 15-9. This was a big win for the Mountaineers. West Virginia had lost 11 of the last 12 matches against Marshall, so not only was this a big opening win, it was a solid comeback in the series.

The Mountaineers were led by sophomore out-side hitter Morgan Mont-gomery, who had 31 kills and 12 digs. Senior Ca-leah Wells had 17 kills and sophomore Mia Swanegan followed behind with 11

digs. Sophomore Gianna Gotterba had the high-est amount of digs on the team, having 21. Last year, Montgomery finished the season with 38 kills total, and having 31 alone last night and the kills she has accumulated so far, she has definitely passed her record from last year.

The Herd was led by ju-nior Cassie Weaver who had 18 kills and 12 digs. Ju-nior Ally Kiekover has 12 digs and sophomore Taylor Pelton had 10 kills, while junior Allie Kellerman led the team in digs having 14, and junior Taylor Riedel had 12 digs herself.

This marks the first win West Virginia has had over Marshall since 2010, which returns the Golden Ball Trophy to the Mountain-eer’s posession.

West Virginia’s Morgan Montgomery had her ca-reer-high number of kills,

having 31 of the teams combined 68 kills.

“She has been good for us from day one,” said head coach Reed Sunahara. “She worked her rear-end off during the spring and over the summer, and it is paying off. I am happy to see the results and she can continue to get better.”

The win was defi-nitely big for the team, and maybe will propel the team mindset going into tougher play in the com-ing weeks.

“I feel like I’m in a po-sition that I need to, and I have to (be),” Montgom-ery said in reference to her leading the team offen-sively and as a team leader. “Being the only returning outside from last year’s team, I want to bring ev-eryone on board, the new girls, the girls we had last year, just getting everyone on board. This is our new

era, and this is where we want to go.

Blocking continued to lack on the Mountaineer defense last night. Middle blocker Hannah Shreve led the team with four blocks, Wells and setter Brittany Sample also posted three each.

“We have been working on it all week, and from the start,” Sunahara said about the blocking effort. “We’ve got to continue to get bet-ter, but at the end it paid off.”

The Mountaineers have a few days off before they head to Rock Hill, South Carolina for the Winthrop Invitational this weekend. Friday WVU faces the Win-throp Eagles at 6 p.m. and take the court again Satur-day against Davidson at 10 a.m. and Murray State at 4:30 p.m.

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Mountaineers finish 13th in Joe Feaganes Invitational

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Coming off a 10th place finish in the Tiger Turn-ing Stone Invitational last week, the West Virginia University men’s golf team returned to its home state this week to compete in the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invi-tational. The Mountaineers had a very up-and-down performance this week, as they finished 13th out of 16 teams, with a score of seven-over 859 for the tournament.

Belmont University looked like it was going to run away with the trophy with an impressive team score of 18-under 834, but a miraculous 15-under 269 by Bowling Green in the fi-nal round pushed Belmont, until a couple birdies on the home stretch gave the Bru-ins the title.

The Mountaineers teed off at the Guyan Golf and Country Club in Hunting-ton, West Virginia along with Belmont, Bowling Green, Cleveland State, Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, Longwood, Morehead State, Northern Kentucky, Ohio, Richmond, Samford, Wichita State, Wright State, Youngstown State and tour-nament host Marshall.

Guyan Golf Course is a short, old, 6,523 yard, par-71 golf course. It is a tra-ditional style course, with fairways lined with trees and bluegrass rough, built on rolling terrain.

In order to prepare for the style of course they’d be seeing in Huntington, head coach Sean Covich held the majority of the team’s qual-ifying practice rounds at the Pines Country Club in Morgantown.

“It helped that a few of our West Virginia-native players had played Mar-shall’s course before,” Co-vich said. “The experience and knowledge that those

guys had from playing that course helped us prepare as a team.”

Senior captain Easton Renwick had his first com-petitive start of the season and a strong tournament. He led the team with a five-under 208 that was good enough for a top-10 fin-ish. After an average one-under 141 during the first two rounds, Renwick re-bounded in the third round with a team best four-un-der 67.

After starting in the num-ber-one position again this week, freshman Max Sear struggled to find a rhythm, shooting an eight-over 150 during the first day. But he improved and closed out the tournament with a one-under 70 that left him in a tie for 63rd at seven-over 220.

West Virginia native Alan Cooke started well, shooting a four-under 67 that put him in the top-5 after round one. But, he struggled in the second and third rounds to finish with a three-over 216 that put him in a tie for 41st place.

“I was really nervous last week for the first tourna-ment, that’s something I’m not used to,” Cooke said. “Now that I got over that initial pressure, I was able to settle in and play a little better this week.”

Jon Ransone finished tied for 54th with a five-over 218. Sophomore Tae Wan Lee shot a 12-over 225 that left him in tie for 85th place. After a solid perfor-mance, individualist Ma-son Short finished with a four-over 217 that put him in a tie for 49th.

The Mountaineers now have a week off to pre-pare for their next tourna-ment on Sept. 28-29 at the Graeme McDowell Shoal Creek Invitational at Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham.

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After a 6-2 demolition of James Madison on Friday, inconsistency once again plagued the Mountaineers.

Senior Ryan Cain’s goal in the 21st minute wasn’t enough as Wright State (5-1) surged in the second half, tallying three goals and handing West Virginia (2-4) a 3-1 defeat Tuesday night.

“In the second half, we allowed the physical play to disrupt us,” WVU head coach Marlon LeBlanc said in an interview with WVUsports.com. “Unfor-tunately, we buckled under the pressure.”

Cain’s team-high, fifth goal of the season came off assists from Jamie Merrian and Joey Piatczyc, and ap-peared to do the trick early on. It propelled WVU out to a quick 1-0 lead and a shot at repeating Friday’s efforts.

Instead, the consistency problems Coach LeBlanc and his squad were looking to fix came crashing down once again.

Wright State knotted it up at one in the 58th minute and 15 minutes later put the game-winning goal through the net. Eric Lynch’s pass re-

sulted in another goal and set WVU’s hopes at possi-bly creating its first winning streak of the season to rest.

Brett Elder placed the dagger in the final minute, extending Wright State’s advantage to 3-1 and un-deniably ending any hopes of a WVU equalizer.

WVU’s two victories both resulted in six goal out-

bursts, but both were pro-ceeded by disappointing 3-1 losses. The 6-0 rout of San Francisco in August was followed by a two game skid in the state of Michi-gan and Tuesday’s was fol-lowed by a defeat to one of the country’s hottest teams.

Neither win was followed by the consistency factor that LeBlanc and his play-

ers stressed all week lead-ing up to Friday’s victory over James Madison. How-ever, all four losses this sea-son have been to teams with a combined 12-6-2 record.

Daniel Diaz recorded a pair of saves and was fight-ing shots from every spot, going up against nine Wright State shot attempts after halftime.

Cain’s five goals are cur-rently fourth best in the nation and second in the Mid-American Confer-ence, behind only Bowling Green’s Pat Flynn (eight).

WVU has now dropped three of its last four contests heading into a matchup with a Georgetown on Sun-day. Georgetown enters with a 2-2-1 record and was

a preseason top 10 team be-fore dropping two of its first three matches.

“We have to go back to the drawing board and fig-ure out if we’re going to be able to be blue collar when the time calls for us to be blue collar so we can grind out results,” LeBlanc said.

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This week, the West Vir-ginia football team is on a bye, and according to head coach Dana Holgorsen that’s just what the team needs heading into next weekend’s matchup against Maryland.

“I know what this game means to our team, our school and our fan base, it’s the same thing for them,” Holgorsen said in yester-day’s press conference. “Fortunately for us, we get

two weeks to deal with it, opposed to where they only get one week to deal with it.”

Preparations for the game against Maryland started Monday and will continue this week until the team gets a break over the weekend. While the play-ers are in the weight room, coaches are using the week to get out and recruit.

Ten coaches from the staff will be out and about; according to Holgorsen they will be trying to meet with as many coaches and visiting as many games as

they can on Thursday and Friday.

Even with those plans set, the team is still prepar-ing for Maryland and will keep its focus on that and staying healthy.

“I think you constantly keep figuring things out about your team. Its not just week one to week two,” Holgorsen said about what he knows after the first two games. “Defensively, we know we are going to be pretty good, we have to live up to the expectations that we put upon ourselves de-fensively. Offensively, we

need to keep getting better. I do think that we made im-provements this past week, I think we did in both the run game and pass game.”

On the aspect of the run-ning game, Holgorsen dis-cussed redshirt junior run-ning back Rushel Shell and his performance so far this season. Shell has averaged 34.5 rushing yards through two games and coach said he needs more.

“He needs the ball more, because the more he gets the ball the more rhythm he gets and the stronger he gets,” Holgorsen said. “We

are talking about a guy that was close to 1,000 yards last year, he’s second guessing himself a little bit, and you can’t do that at running back. You have to hit it.”

At this point last season, Shell had rushed for 109 yards, whereas now he has 70 under his belt. Giving him the ball more and the opportunity to make bet-ter reads is something Hol-gorsen plans to do.

Leaving responsibilities up to junior quarterback Skyler Howard has impact on the offensive production as well.

“There were a couple of times last week where he should’ve kept it and he should’ve handed it off, but when you have 0.5 sec-onds to make a decision, you are not going to make the right one all the time,” Holgorsen said in reference to play calls and Howard’s decision making. “We are going to keep putting him in the best position we can play call wise, I can assure you that it is impossible to call perfect plays all the time too.”

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askar salikhov/the daily athenaeumSenior Ryan Cain races to the ball in a home game against JMU this season.

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The West Virginia Uni-versity men’s Division 1 club hockey team suffered two disappointing losses to Alabama on Friday and Sat-urday in the team’s opening weekend.

Head coach Kyle Rich-ards was hoping for his team to get off to a hot start against the Crimson Tide, especially since both games were on the Moun-taineers’ home ice.

“There was just shock and disappointment,” Rich-ards said.

Richards is now in his second year as head coach and is looking to bring a new brand of hockey to WVU.

His goal to model the team after teams like the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning, who play a fast, in-your-face style of hockey, stalled in the first weekend, but he remains optimistic his young core of athletes will turn things around.

“We had moments where we looked good and looked like the team we wanted to be,” Richards said. “Starting off with two losses at home doesn’t really sit well with anybody. Hopefully from here on out we can be more consistent and play our kind of game. ”

Leading up to the first game, Richards remained unsure of who would get the start in net for the Mountaineers because he felt he had four very capa-ble starters to choose from. He eventually elected to play Ian Donnan.

Donnan, who was the primary backup for WVU last season, allowed five goals on 33 shots in the opening loss.

In the team’s second game on the following day, Richards gave Ryan Wick-iser an opportunity be-tween the pipes, but he,

too, allowed five goals on Alabama’s 35 shots.

“I think both goalies played solid. We didn’t give them too much help,” Rich-ards said. “Nobody really stole the show, and we’ll keep evaluating the goalie situation moving forward.”

Richards is unsure of who will play in WVU’s two home games this weekend against Lehigh but imag-ines it will be his two other goaltenders, Luke Thurston and Benjamin Zienty.

The thought is that one of the four net-minders will separate themselves from the group and take the reigns in the crease, but if no one is able to, Rich-ards will be forced to make a tough call in order to give his team a consistent pres-ence from that position.

Richards was disap-pointed with his team’s weekend because he knows they are capable of a much better all-around game.

He felt a bright spot on the team was Nicholas Olds, who made his debut with the Division 1 team after playing in Division 2 last season.

Olds tallied a goal dur-ing the first period of WVU’s game on Saturday, but besides Jimmy Murray, he was the only one to find the back of the net.

The Mountaineers as a whole had trouble find-ing the net, particularly on the power play, where they were 1-17 on their man ad-vantage chances.

WVU will host Lehigh for two home games this weekend and will look to turn things around to get back to a .500 record.

Richards said he’s op-timistic that his team will improve because they are younger and still learning the system but that they’ll take each game one at a time and try to string some wins together.

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As the West Virginia men’s swimming and div-ing team prepares for the upcoming season start-ing next month, junior Nate Carr has high aspi-rations for the 2015-16 Mountaineers.

Carr is a West Virginia native from Charleston and plans to build upon productive freshman and sophomore seasons. As a freshman, Carr made an immediate impact for the Mountaineers as a mem-ber of the 400 and 800 free relays, as well as in the 200 and 400 individual medleys.

To conclude the 2013-14 season, Carr earned first team All-Big 12 hon-ors for his team-best per-formance in the 200-yard breast stroke during the

Big 12 Championships. Carr was also an All-Big 12 second team selection for the 200 and 400 indi-vidual medleys.

The following year, Carr jumped into the pool as a sophomore for WVU and continued the produc-tion. He capped off an eye-opening sophomore season with standout per-formances at the Big 12 Championships, finishing fourth in the 400 individ-ual medley. As an Olym-pic Trials qualifier coming out of high school, mak-ing an impact in the pool for WVU is nothing new for Carr.

Heading into this sea-son, Carr and his fellow teammates expect West Virginia to be a quality competitor in the Big 12. The men’s team will re-turn two of the four mem-bers who were part of last year’s 400-yard freestyle

relay team, Carr and se-nior Ross Glegg.

This year’s competition slate for the Mountaineers features meets against some of the nation’s top swimmers, which is no surprise to Carr. In his freshman season, Carr won the 200 individual medley versus Ohio State, as well as against com-petition during the West Virginia State Games and WVU Invite.

As a freshman, Carr was an NCAA Championships qualifier as a member of the 400 and 800 freestyle relay teams. The teams placed 29th and 27th, respectively.

Carr’s chances of reach-ing the NCAA Division I Championships a sec-ond time is a challenge embraced by the junior athlete.

“I’m excited for this sea-son and the opportunity

to swim with this group of guys,” he said. “We’re ex-perienced and can’t wait to get the season started.”

West Virginia men’s and women’s swimming and diving team placed third overall in last year’s Big 12 Championships.

Only two Mountain-eers qualified for the NCAA Division I Champi-onships last season, both of which were lost due to graduation.

This year, the West Vir-ginia men’s team will look to Carr to be a prime per-former and give WVU a chance at another NCAA qualifier.

Nate Carr and the Mountaineers will dive in for the 2015-16 season in two weeks for the Gold-Blue Intrasquad meet at noon on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the WVU Natatorium.

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FiLe PhoToMembers of the WVU swimming team cheer on their teammates last season.

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Big 12: Texas athletic director Patterson firedAUSTIN, Texas (AP) —

The awkward dismissal of Texas football coach Mack Brown came first, then the departure of athletic director DeLoss Dodds. That was followed by the firings of school President Bill Powers and basketball coach Rick Barnes.

Now athletic director Steve Patterson is gone, too, after less than two years - an abrupt end to his rocky tenure atop the nation’s wealthiest ath-letic program that remains in turmoil.

Patterson, whose ag-gressive approach to rais-ing money, rankled fans and some major donors, was dismissed Tuesday by university President Greg Fenves, according to two people with direct knowl-edge of the decision who spoke on condition of anonymity because the school hadn’t announced the move.

The decision came three days after a plane carry-ing a “Patterson Must Go” banner circled the football stadium before the Long-horns’ first home game of

the season.Pat t e r s o n ’s t e nu re

lasted only 22 months. While he was responsi-ble for two popular hires - football coach Char-lie Strong and basketball coach Shaka Smart - Pat-terson raised ticket prices after a losing football sea-son, pushed coaches to raise money for endowed scholarships and cre-ated a fan “loyalty” pro-gram to prioritize ticket purchases.

And while Strong still enjoys the support of fans, he is 7-8 overall in his sec-ond season.

S m a r t h a s n ’ t y e t coached a Texas game.

Firing Patterson creates a major void at Texas at a time when some Big 12 presidents are pushing to expand from the league’s current 10 members, and trying to solidify its po-sition in the new College Football Playoff. And it comes as Texas is seeking a lucrative new apparel contract once its current deal with Nike expires in 2016. Nike recently part-nered with Michigan in a

deal worth a reported $169 million.

Fenves previously met several times with Patter-son after complaints from fans and donors, which had reached as high as Board of Regents Chair-man Paul Foster.

Fenves and Patter-son met briefly Tues-day morning and Patter-son was told he was fired, the people told AP. He has a guaranteed contract through 2014 that pays him at least $1.4 million per year. Fenves declined comment to a group of re-porters outside his office

Tuesday afternoon.Patterson was supposed

to be a hire that would calm turbulent waters at Texas.

The university had put together a star-studded committee to find a re-placement for Dodds, a powerful figure across the Big 12 and nationally. An impressive interview won him the job over former West Virginia athletic di-rector Oliver Luck, who many had considered the favorite for the job.

Pressure to fire Brown was already building to fe-ver pitch before Patterson

arrived in November 2013. Brown was fired barely six weeks later in the first of several major departures.

Powers, a key player in the Big 12, was forced to resign in 2014 after years of clashes with regents. By March 2015, Patterson had also fired Barnes even after the coach led the Longhorns to the NCAA tournament for the 16th time in 17 seasons.

Patterson broke barri-ers by hiring Strong away from Louisville, making him the first black head football coach at Texas, which had a long history of segregation and rac-ism. He also pushed to get alcohol sales at athletic events, scheduled a men’s basketball game in China next season and talked of someday scheduling an international game for the Longhorns football team.

Most of Patterson’s ca-reer was spent as an ex-ecutive in professional sports, notably the NBA, and he struggled to con-nect with university offi-cials and supporters in the same way as Dodds.

One of his first missteps was an awkward public push to have the city of Austin help finance a new basketball arena after hav-ing not “invested a nickel” in the current Erwin Cen-ter over the previous 30 years.

Those comments caught city officials off guard and forced the school to backtrack.

And several actions rais e d quest ions of whether he connected with his coaches.

At his exit news confer-ence, Barnes accused Pat-terson of leaking private conversations and de-mands that Barnes shake up his staff before he was ultimately fired.

Patterson also refused to engage in a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by Oklahoma State against Texas offensive line coach Joe Wickline. Texas was not named as a party in the case, which is still on-going, but led to Strong and his staff being sub-jected to embarrassing de-positions to describe who calls plays.

Deborah cannon/austin american-statesmanSteve Patterson at his introduction as Texas AD in 2013.

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