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WVU scraps child care assistance program Program provided child care assistance to low-income student parents BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR Over the summer, WVU cut funding for the Student Child Care Assistance Program (SCCAP), a program that provided assistance to low-income students who were also parents and attending the University. The program had been at WVU for more than 17 years before being permanently axed in June, according to the Student Family Resource website. The program helped student parents by paying child care costs for families who qualified. WVU allocated funding to create the department in 2001 as a result of the Nontraditional Student Taskforce Report under former WVU President David Hardesty, Jr., according to the Student Family Resource office. However, the majority of SCCAP’s funding came from a federal grant for low-income student parents who also received a federal Pell Grant. Child Care Access Means Parents In School (CCAMPIS) is a federal grant that colleges can apply for on a four-year cycle. WVU received $106,000 in CCAMPIS funding in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Dean of Students Corey Farris said WVU reapplied for the grant in October of 2017, but the University was not selected to be a recipient. He said WVU had to totally fund the program from November 2017 until June 1 of this year. He said the program was cut because there wasn’t anyway the University could fund the program any longer without federal funds. He estimated there were about 30 students in the program each year. “We lost the grant last year, so this year we don’t have any federal funds to do what we were doing, which was paying for child care,” he said. “If we don’t have the money to pay for those 30 students and their child care, we can’t continue that.” The impact, Farris said, is that student parents will have to figure out more aspects of child care than before. “So, the impact is [inaudi-
Student parents given SCCAP assistance say program kept them in school BY MADISON GREER AND CARLY VANIVER CORRESPONDENTS
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Former WVU running back Justin Crawford, a 2017 graduate, walks with his son on Mountaineer Field. Crawford received SCCAP assistance during his time at the University. ble] they figure out a different way to do it, or they juggled it with family or friends who watch their kids when they were taking classes, or having study sessions or things like that,” he said. The Student Family Resource office said it will still apply for the CCAMPIS grant this year even after the elimination of SCCAP. Student Family Resource Director Leslie Haning wrote in an email that “the CCAMPIS federal grant was written and submitted prior to the July 24, 2018 competition deadline. If awarded, the grant would generate $980,000 over a four year project period to fully fund the continuation of the Student Child Care Assistance Program and WVU Office of Family Resources. The funding could become available as of October 1st and would not require any cost share from the University.” In March, U.S. Congress passed the omnibus spending bill which more than tri-
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Former WVU student Morgan Hunt and her daughter, Hannah. pled CCAMPIS’ total funding from $15 million to $50 million. When the grant only had $15 million to allocate, only about 80 schools, including WVU, were given funds.
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Former WVU students like Morgan Hunt were given assistance under the Student Child Care Assistance Program (SCCAP), and now that the program has seen its funding from the University cut, her and other student parents are praising its effectiveness. Hunt, a 2017 graduate of WVU and mother of two, said she learned about SCCAP from her stepmother, who encouraged her to apply. When her daughter was eight weeks old, classes started up again. “SCCAP would reimburse me up to a certain amount of childcare expenses per month,” she said. “They reimbursed me probably around 90 percent of my childcare costs. As a fulltime student and part-time employee, that was huge.” Hunt said that many daycares have high child care costs that most student parents cannot afford themselves and that these daycares do not accept drop-ins and have waiting lists. She said it makes it even more difficult for student parents to find a safe place for their children while they’re at class or work. She added that having a small child in Morgantown relates to issues with housing. Along with safety concerns, money is a big issue. She said if your child is above 2 years old, you must sign a lease for them, doubling the cost of rent in certain apartment complexes and University-owned properties. Hunt said she was disappointed in WVU’s decision to scrap the program.
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Board of Governors approves lease to WVU Hospitals for additional parking BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR The WVU Board of Governors met Friday morning and discussed a range of topics including new parking for WVU Hospitals and Health Sciences, continuing construction of the WVU Children’s Hospital and changes to BOG policies. Here are some notes from the meeting: •The University will lease multiple parking areas to WVU Hospitals, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Rob Alsop said. The hospital plans to extend the existing Mountaineer Garage, which would add 750 parking spaces. Alsop said WVU will also tear down the old red buildings by the University Police Station and lease more parking for the hospital. The timeline now is between 18-24 months. •WVU authorized a lease for continuing construction of the WVU Children’s Hospital, which Executive Dean of Health Sciences Dr. Clay Marsh said would be coming sometime in 2020. •The College of Business and Economics is receiving $1.8 million in private funding to construct a business start-up development program. •President E. Gordon Gee announced ESPN will be filming WVU Football’s “manwalk” into the stadium
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The WVU Board of Governors met Friday morning at the Erickson Alumni Center. Saturday. The manwalk now includes players and coaches turning around to Ruby Memorial Hospital and waving to the children inside. •Via WVU Athletics’ Matt Wells, Gee told the BOG not one WVU student-athlete
was on academic probation at this time. •Gee said that 20 percent of all WVU students are honors students •BOG approved a $1.18 million plan to move ROTC from Stansbury Hall to
Evansdale. Regarding the new hospital parking, Alsop said WVU wanted to cut down the hospital’s satellite parking, where employees would park at other lots in town and be bused to work.
appointment. Around 25 percent of today’s college students are also parents, Aguilera said. About 16 percent of WVU students are parents, according to a Bright Horizons Child Care and Demand cost study. “Right now, Congress is reinvesting in this program as a result and a reflection of the changing student body in American colleges,” Aguilera
said. When the federal grant was introduced in 1998, the total funding was $25 million but was reduced to $15 million after a few years. Farris said WVU will still fund the Mountaineer KidZone, a daycare facility at the Rec Center. He compared the federal funding not coming through in 2017 to other programs that
PARENTS continued from p. 1 “West Virginia has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies, and to take away a resource that could help young parents earn a degree to better themselves and provide for their family is wrong,” she said. “It hurts expecting students, students who are parents, Morgantown and West Virginia.” Other former student parents who received assistance under SCCAP, including former WVU running back Justin Crawford, said funding from the program helped him stay in school. “If it wasn’t for these resources I would struggle to provide child care to my two young boys while my
wife and I attend school. I would not be able to better my future for both my family and myself if this program is taken away because I would have to dropout of school to watch my children,” Crawford said in a testimonial on the Student Family Resources office website. Crawford famously was caught by his coaches working at Taco Bell the summer he arrived in Morgantown to provide. After summer practices, he would start his shift at the fast-food joint. “You do what you have to do for your family,” Crawford told WV MetroNews in May of 2017. “After football was done that day, I needed to spend my time working.”
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SCCAP continued from p. 1 With $35 million extra in total funding, more schools are expected to receive CCAMPIS funding and schools that received funding in the past could see an increase in their funding, said Allie Aguilera, the policy and government affairs manager at Young Invincibles, an advocacy group aimed to insert younger voices into the political process. “The only stipulations are
that [CCAMPIS grants] must serve low-income student parents and that the money must go directly to promoting and running facilities on campus to support child care,” Aguilera said. “It’s actually the only federal grant that subsidizes on-campus child care.” She said CCAMPIS grants are flexible, and in some cases the grants provided for a child’s first dental
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stopped receiving government assistance. “It’s the same thing if you’re funded for a research project on whatever out of engineering, or ag and forestry or something like that; unfortunately, you have to stop the project,” Farris said. “Federal financial aid – if the aid’s not there, then we’re not able to award Pell Grants or work studies at the
same level if it’s reduced or eliminated.” The Student Family Resource office said it expects to find out if it will receive CCAMPIS funding for this cycle by the end of the month. If federal funding is secured, Farris said child care assistance can continue on in some capacity, but it’s not clear what that would look like.
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The
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Fifteen fraternity houses. Some hold University-recognized fraternities; others do not even hold the fraternity that owns the house. According to the Monongalia County Assessor’s Office, when the appraisal values, of these houses and property are combined, the total price is more than $9 million.
Land and property values: $1,085,200
$979,800
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity building is appraised at $1.1 million and sits on eight lots on Spruce Street valued at $32,000, making it the most expensive fraternity property.
PHOTO BY SAMANTHA KALINOSKI
Phi Sigma Kappa, which disassociated from the University this week, has a land and building value of close to $1 million.
$927,200 $803,900
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PHI KAPPA PSI* • 780 SPRUCE ST. • YEAR BUILT: N/A • SQUARE FEET: 16,464 • BEDROOMS: 16 • BATHROOMS: 6; 1 • LAND VALUE: $71,900 • BUILDING VALUE: $1,013,300
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PHI SIGMA KAPPA* • 672 N. HIGH ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1930 • SQUARE FEET: 9,982; 5,860 • BEDROOMS: 8; 1 • BATHROOMS: 4; 3 • LAND VALUE: $43,400 • BUILDING VALUE: $936,400
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KAPPA ALPHA • 670 N. HIGH ST. • YEAR BUILT: N/A • SQUARE FEET: N/A • BEDROOMS: N/A • BATHROOMS: N/A • LAND VALUE: $228,400 • BUILDING VALUE: $698,800
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MORGAN HOUSE • 660 N. HIGH ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1930 • SQUARE FEET: 10,969 • BEDROOMS: 10 • BATHROOMS: 6 • LAND VALUE: $43,000 • BUILDING VALUE: $760,900
PHOTO BY SAMANTHA KALINOSKI
No longer recognized by the University, the Kappa Alpha house on High Street has a land and building value of more than $900,000.
$775,100
$768,000
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SIGMA ALPHA MU • 709 N. HIGH ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1964 • SQUARE FEET: 18,536 • BEDROOMS: 15 • BATHROOMS: 6 • LAND VALUE: $47,300 • BUILDING VALUE: $727,800 • OWNED BY: SigEp
PI KAPPA ALPHA • 117 BELMAR AVE. • YEAR BUILT: 1965 • SQUARE FEET: 12,893 • BEDROOMS: 6 • BATHROOMS: 3 • LAND VALUE: $63,100 • BUILDING VALUE: $704,900 • OWNED BY: WEST RANGE MORGANTOWN
$653,900
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SIGMA CHI • 700 N. HIGH ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1930 • SQUARE FEET: 10,449 • BEDROOMS: 10 • BATHROOMS: 4 • LAND VALUE: $67,700 • BUILDING VALUE: $586,200
Green = Fraternity Owned | Blue = Owned by another Fraternity | Orange = Privately Owned | Purple = WVU Owned | Fraternities labeled in blue are not recognized by the University
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Phi Sig’s national office says WVU chapter will join independent IFC
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NEWS EDITOR WVU’s chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa will join an independent Interfraternity Council over the University’s decision to suspend the organization, according to a news release from its national office. The national office wrote that it took issue with WVU suspending Phi Sigma Kappa at least through the Fall of 2020, namely the Reaching the Summit workgroup that made the decision to suspend the fraternity. “During the process, [Reaching the Summit] made this decision to suspend the chapter based on alleged incidents, by individual members, that had not yet been
“It is clear that the University singled out Phi Sigma Kappa during their RTS process. That’s not what a co-curricular partner does. We remain committed to recognizing our organization and supporting them locally, in partnership with other organizations.” -Nick Zuniga, executive director of Phi Sigma Kappa adjudicated through the student conduct process,” the press release wrote. “It is clear that the University singled out Phi Sigma Kappa during their RTS process,” said Nick Zuniga, executive director of Phi Sigma Kappa in the release. “That’s not what a co-curricular partner does. We re-
main committed to recognizing our organization and supporting them locally, in partnership with other organizations.” Phi Sigma Kappa is following Kappa Alpha and Sigma Chi in distancing themselves from the University following the Reaching the Summit report.
Fraternities that have disassociated from WVU: Kappa Alpha: Aug. 16, 2018
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Sigma Chi: Aug. 10, 2018
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Phi Sigma Kappa: Sept. 22, 2018
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A map of West Virginia University fraternities.
$648,200
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THETA CHI • 692 N. HIGH ST. • YEAR BUILT: N/A • SQUARE FEET: N/A • BEDROOMS: N/A • BATHROOMS: N/A • LAND VALUE: $108,900 • BUILDING VALUE: $539,300 • OWNED BY: PINION REALTY • SOLD FOR $1.6 MIL IN 2010
$524,300
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SIGMA PHI EPSILON • 225 BELMAR AVE. • YEAR BUILT: 1935 • 9,882 SQUARE FEET • BEDROOMS: 10 • BATHROOMS: 4 •LAND VALUE: $104,600 •BUILDING VALUE: $419,700 • OWNED BY: BETA THETA PI
$490,200
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• 200 BELMAR AVE. • YEAR BUILT: 1930 • 9,451 SQUARE FEET • BEDROOMS: 14 • BATHROOMS: 3 •LAND VALUE: $38,600 •BUILDING VALUE: $451,600 • OWNED BY: KAPPA SIGMA HOUSE
• 650 N. SPRUCE ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1959 • SQUARE FEET: 8,006 • BEDROOMS: 12 • BATHROOMS: 6 • LAND VALUE: $34,100 • BUILDING VALUE: $452,300 • OWNED BY: KAPPA ALPHA
• 617 SPRUCE ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1935 • SQUARE FEET: N/A • BEDROOMS: N/A • BATHROOMS: N/A • LAND VALUE: $155,000 • BUILDING VALUE: $275,000
• 216 BELMAR AVE. • YEAR BUILT: 1948 • 6,821 SQUARE FEET • BEDROOMS: 10 • BATHROOMS: 5 •LAND VALUE: $45,900 •BUILDING VALUE: $357,000 • OWNED BY: MT. FIJI HOUSE CORP.
$248,500
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PHI DELTA THETA • 112 WAVERLY ST. • YEAR BUILT: 1965 • SQUARE FEET: 5,180 • BEDROOMS: 8 • BATHROOMS: 4.5 • LAND VALUE: $30,000 • BUILDING VALUE: $218,500 • OWNED BY: HOKIE INVESTMENTS • SOLD FOR $360,000 IN 2010
ALPHA GAMMA RHO • 201 BELMAR AVE. • YEAR BUILT: 1918 • SQUARE FEET: 3,788 • BEDROOMS: 8 • BATHROOMS: 2 • LAND VALUE: $44,500 • BUILDING VALUE: $200,800
| Fraternities labeled in Green have been suspended by the University | *Asterisks represent fraternities that own multiple buildings | Pages designed by Haleigh Holden
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CULTURE Blast from the past: the 1980s invade WVU for first round of Mountaineer Idol BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR For the development of modern-day pop-culture, the 1980s might be the most important decade in American history. Better technology allowed for bigger and better entertainment and allowed more and more people to experience the same things. The fashion, cars, music, celebrities, movies and television shows were all colorful, loud and full of personality. The roots for so much of what we enjoy today can be traced directly back to the 1980s. With this in mind, it makes sense why, in the search for WVU’s best singer, the theme for the first elimination round of Mountaineer Idol would be music from the ‘80s. Despite being two decades before WVU’s freshmen were even born, the WVU community showed up in force and filled the Mountainlair ballroom Friday night to watch as Mountaineer Idol’s top 13 performers competed for the chance to move on to the next round. Leading off the night was the eventual winner of the round, senior Kayley Morrow. Morrow, a psychology student from McMurray, Pennsylvania, won over the crowd with a ukulele version of the 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by
The Proclaimers. Morrow said that she tried not to put extra pressure on herself going first. “It’s definitely nerve-racking at first,” Morrow said. “I was a little nervous at first but after you start playing you just get acclimated, it’s just fun. I don’t really think of it as added pressure, I think of it as, ‘OK, I can set the tone for how tonight’s going to go.’” Part of the judging for this round was how many supporters each performer had in the audience, and Morrow had the most. She said having friends there cheering her on helped her feel more comfortable. “It makes me feel so happy. I did do a little bit of shameless plugging, but it’s really nice to have a great support group to come,” Morrow said. “Seeing them there was a constant reminder that, like, ‘Don’t worry about it, it’s going to be OK.’” Perhaps the most unique performer from the showcase two weeks ago, freshman Kamala Hill followed up her operatic introduction with a rendition of what may be the most popular 1980s song, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler in 1983. Hill, a voice performance major from Houston, Texas, said her song choice this week was nothing like her
Round one contestants
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Meliah Umstead performs “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman during the first round of Mountaineer Idol. pick from two weeks ago, when she sang “Caro mio ben” by Luciano Pavarotti. “I would say that’s not even close,” Hill said. “I did something that no one really pays attention to, which is why everyone was shocked, versus ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ that everybody knows of. Those are two totally different songs. Two different vocal high notes and low notes.” The most energizing performance of the night belonged to sophomore acting student Jake Slewett. Much to the delight of the crowd, Slewett rapped Run-D.M.C.’s 1986 hit “It’s Tricky.” Slewett captivated the crowd, jumping around the stage clad in an all-black sweatsuit,
adorned with a gold chain around his neck. Slewett said that his background in acting helps him on stage as he tries to always keep the audience involved and engaged with his act. “I think it’s super important to just have that movement around the stage in order for the audience to stay engaged,” Slewett said. “I feel like acting gives me that confidence on stage to make those bolder moves that get the audience engaged, but it’s really just the performer in me.” Eliminated from the competition was Rowan Sessa, while the other 12 participants will be moving on to round two next week to perform their favorite songs from the 2000s.
Kayley Morrow Rhy Wiethe Meliah Umstead Madeline Samsell Rowan Sessa Kamala Hill Georgia Beatty Jamie Devine Laura Karlson Trinity Gray Taylor Hess Jake Slewett Mikalaa Martin
Campus Read author comes to WVU to speak about ‘Station Eleven’ BY STEPHANIE GOLDEN CORRESPONDENT Imagine a world in which countries are nonexistent, where a deathly strain of the flu has wiped out nearly the entirety of humanity and where electricity, running water and airplanes are things that children cannot fathom. This is the post-apocalyptic world that Emily St. John Mandel, the author of “Station Eleven”, West Virginia University’s 2018 Campus Read, created for her readers. Mandel grew up in Southwestern British Columbia. At age 10, she and her family moved to Denman Island, the place for which she based the small island in “Station Eleven” off of. “It’s exactly the way I described it, beautiful, a little claustrophobic because it’s a thousand people and just a gorgeous place to grow up,” Mandel said. “I think sometimes we just want the opposite of what we grew up in, so when I was 18, I was interested in moving to the biggest city I possibly could, which
was Toronto.” “Station Eleven” is not the typical dystopian read. “I wanted to write a post-apocalyptic novel, but I wasn’t really interested in writing about disaster,” Mandel said. “It seems to me that most of the dystopian novels I’ve read are set in this territory of mayhem and chaos and war. It’s all about trying to survive in this incredibly horrific environment, and it’s not that I don’t think that wouldn’t happen, it’s just not plausible to me that it would last forever. With this project, I just found that it was more interesting for me to think about, well, what comes next? What’s the world 20 years on from that?” Mandel said that this was her hardest novel, but then laughed and said, “I’m working on my fifth novel, which is harder than ‘Station Eleven,’” The book was told from several different perspectives. Arthur Leander, an actor and focal point of the novel, his good friend, Clark, his exwife, Miranda and two Georgia Flu survivors named Jeevan and Kirsten. While the
varying points of view made the novel unique and interesting, it also made it more challenging to write. “I really like writing from multiple points of view. I find it to be a really interesting way to tell a story,” Mandel said. “If you have a lot of perspectives, you get to get inside a lot of different peoples’ heads, different worldviews. It’s just a good way for me to get a more three-dimensional look at the story I’m telling.” Mandel does not consider any one character in her novel to be the main character. She thinks that we are conditioned to see stories in a way that there must be one hero and one villain. She described the characters in “Station Eleven” as an “ensemble cast.” The entire book, and all of the characters within it, were connected to Arthur Leander in some way. He was a tortured but talented man. He had been divorced three times and wasn’t able to play a substantial role in his son’s life. He also deeply valued his possessions. For many, it is difficult to decide whether or not they like Arthur’s char-
acter, despite his crucial position in the book. “He’s very vain. His friends noticed that he never really stopped acting, but I have a lot of sympathy for him,” Mandel said. “Something I was thinking about a lot as I was thinking about that character was celebrity culture, which I find to be really kind of a dark, interesting part of our world, you know, the way that we follow these peoples’ lives. We forget they’re real. I find I had sympathy for him. He’s by no means someone I’d want to marry or have a child with or even be friends with, but he kind of got that way through forces beyond his control.” If someone wants to get started with professional writing, Mandel’s advice is simple, “You just have to do it, which I realize sounds simplistic, but I feel like it’s really easy to get caught up in a lot of noise around writing. You just sit down and start writing and that’s how novels happen.” “Survival is insufficient” was a prominent quote that appeared throughout the
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Emily St. John Mandel speaking about her novel ‘Station Eleven.’ novel. It is from “Star Trek.” Mandel smiled when asked if she was “Star Trek” fan, and said, “You know, I feel like ‘Star Trek’ fandom is so intense that I almost hesitate to call myself a fan because I don’t go to conventions or speak Klingon, but I do like ‘Star Trek;’ I am a fan is the short answer. I saw an episode of ‘Voyager’ when I was 19 and Seven of Nine says to the Captain, ‘Survival is Insuf-
ficient’. You just can’t predict what will stay in your head forever. I just love that idea. It struck me as an elegant expression of something I believe to be true.” Mandel described having her book be the campus read as “a huge honor.” She thinks it’s an extraordinary experience to walk into a room full of people who have read her book.
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OPINION Photoshop and the real reality: not all advertisements are what they seem BY SIERRA POWERS STAFF WRITER
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It’s hard to believe something as little as a picture can be so deceiving. With today’s technology and innovation, photos can be manipulated so heavily that what the viewer sees could be completely different from the actual photo. These types of manipulations occur frequently when editing photos of people, especially models, and that is where I think we run into problems. Editors will manipulate photos of people by making them look thinner, removing blemishes or whitening their teeth to make them look more attractive. This deceives the viewer by giving them unattainable standards of beauty. According to Jean Kilbourne, 78 percent of 17-yearold girls are unhappy with the way their bodies look. Kilbourne is a researcher who has dedicated 40 years to studying media ethics and the effects of advertisements on body image. This number is staggering, and I believe the reason it is so high is because brands and media promote retouching
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photos that make the models look “perfect.” In 2014, lingerie brand Aerie released their “Aerie Real” campaign. It has promised that all campaign photos are photoshop-free. According to fastcompany.com, an online news outlet, Dana Seguin, Aerie’s senior director of market-
ing, said this campaign gives customers a “real experience” and is the “evolution of the brand.” Aerie fans reacted positively, because the company’s sale grew by 20 percent after the first year of the campaign. In response, other companies including Dove, Adidas
and Seventeen magazine have vowed to not retouch their ad photos. I believe this is a step in the right direction for society. The “anti-retouch” movement is helping eliminate society’s standards of beauty, which allows people to have higher self-esteem and body image.
With scholarships relying on GPAs, why should students take harder classes? BY JEFFREY MCCULLOUGH
Opinion Staff
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Photoshop is an application that many companies use to manipulate their photos.
College is often touted as the best time of your life to experiment, challenge yourself and reach new heights of intellectualism, all during what can arguably be classified as the worst time in your life to do such things. When a large amount of scholarships rely on keeping a fairly high GPA (3.0, or a B average in most cases) why on Earth would anyone take classes that they didn’t expect to at least get a B in and jeopardize that cash? At WVU, the scholarship most familiar with instate students is the PROM-
ISE scholarship, rewarded to high schoolers who achieve the proper scores on the right tests to the tune of $4,750 every year, or nearly $20,000 if the student earns and maintains it for all four years. The catch is, students have to keep at least a 2.75 GPA their freshman year to renew it as a sophomore and a 3.0 GPA from that point forward. So, if you to take a challening course your freshman year and flunk it, you could be out $14,250, which is the total amount PROMISE would cover for the next three years. I don’t think anyone needs to tell college kids $14,250 is a lot of money. In fact, that’d actually be enough to pay my rent for all four years of col-
lege. So, there are two contrary ideas present : challenge yourself by taking classes in topics you are unfamiliar with or take the easy route and keep the money. The stress that can come with this knowledge is extreme; it’s not impossible or unheard of for one exam to be the make-it-or-break-it point between losing thousands of dollars in scholarship money. College has become so expensive that challenging yourself doesn’t seem like an option. If you don’t know anything about music theory, religious studies, rocket science or really any topic at all, why would you ever risk your
money taking it unless you absolutely had to? If college tuition somehow goes down in price (good luck with that one) then it will start making more sense to try things for the sake of it or to stretch in new unseen directions. But, as long as your very losable scholarships (or your parents ever-dwindling college fund) are fronting the bill, taking the easy route might be the only smart route. If you want to challenge yourself, go to your local music shop and invest in some guitar lessons. You’ll be looking at a couple hundred bucks rather than many thousands.
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
SPORTS
Pros and cons of WVU’s 35-6 win over Kansas State really get going until Kennedy McKoy came into the game and made big plays in WVU’s sixth drive. The passing game is there, it is one of the best in the country. But the ground game needs to get going in order to make this offense more dimensional.
BY MATT GOLD ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL In the Big 12 conference opener, the West Virginia University football team beat the Kansas State Wildcats 35-6 at Milan Puskar Stadium. There were plenty of takeaways from the game, but the good outweighed the bad on Saturday afternoon. Will Grier tied a career high in touchdown passes. Marcus Simms set a career-high in receiving yards. David Sills set a career-high in receptions. The defense did not allow the Wildcats to find the end zone. PRO: Marcus Simms is emerging as a legit threat We all know that Simms is a very good receiver. He has speed to burn, too. But over the last two games, he has been a real focal point for WVU offense. Two weeks ago against Youngstown State, he set a high in receiving yards with 119. On Saturday, he bested that mark, going for 136 yards on five catches and one touchdown. He got most of his yards in the first quarter (108) including an 82-yard touchdown in which he burned his defender and beat him down field. “He gives us another dimension,” said fellow wide re-
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Kwantel Raines running the ball during the Mountaineers’ game against Kansas State on Sept. 23. ceiver David Sills. “His speed is something you can’t coach. When he makes plays like that, it’s something where they can’t double me, Gary [Jennings], TJ [Simmons], or something like that.” “He’s making a lot of plays for us.” This was Simms’ first touchdown catch this season after having five in 2017. CON: The offense got off to a slow start Kansas State won the coin
toss and deferred. The Mountaineers would be on offense to start the game. They went six plays for 34 before Grier threw an interception. Jake Spavital called a play to take a shot deep on the first possession. There was some miscommunication between Grier and Simms that led to that interception. The next drive, another turnover (more on that later). Leddie Brown fumbled the ball on a handoff. This may have been in part
of because WVU did not play last weekend with their game being cancelled. West Virginia could have put up 21 points in the first quarter alone, instead of putting up only seven. On top of that, the run game was virtually nonexistent, especially in the first two drives. The only rushing attempt (outside of the fumble) in those first two drives was a 3-yard carry by Martell Pettaway. The ground game did not
PRO: The defense was making plays all game long WVU’s “DAWGS” stepped up in a big way against Kansas State. The defense did not allow KSU to get into the end zone and David Long forced a fumble that Reese Donahue recovered. Perhaps bigger than that was the defense not allowing Kansas State to get any momentum after two WVU turnovers in the first half. After the interception, Kansas State ran five plays then punted. After the Brown fumble, KSU had a three-and-out. Their other four drives in the first half only totaled 46 yards. The tackles for loss was again a big part of the West Virginia defense, as Tony Gibson’s unit had 10 of them. Dylan Tonkery had 2.5 alone. David Long led the way with nine tackles and Toyous Avery followed with eight. With the way WVU was able to rattle KSU’s Skylar Thompson, who is a dual threat quarterback, it has to be a good feeling and should give them
confidence going forward in a conference with some talented quarterbacks. CON: WVU committed four turnovers Will Grier threw an interception on the first drive of the game. There was some miscommunication between him and Simms. The next drive—five plays later—Leddie Brown fumbled the ball on a handoff. Two turnovers in two drives is not a good start for any offense. “We hurt ourselves in terms of the two interceptions,” Spavital said, “That was miscommunication on the receivers and Will. You haven’t really seen that often with those guys.” Later in the game, Grier tried to force the issue on a throw toward David Sills and the K-State defender jumped the route for an interception. Earlier in the game, Grier almost had another pass that was nearly intercepted. Spavital credited Brown’s fumble to being “a little amped up.” This is the third time in his career, and the first since last year against Kansas State, that Grier threw multiple picks. “We’ve got to minimize those. We can’t play that sloppy and expect to preform that well throughout the Big 12 Conference,” Spavital said.
Big fourth down stop gave WVU everything it needed BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS WRITER
FOOTBALL Kansas State had a chance. West Virginia did have far more talent on the field. West Virginia was a far better team. It was ranked No. 12 in the AP Poll entering Saturday afternoon’s 35-6 demolition of the Wildcats. And Kansas State struggled in its first three games, nearly falling to an FCS opponent in the season opener and then getting destroyed on the ground by the only Power Five team on its non-conference slate – Mississippi State. But because of a few costly WVU turnovers, it was sitting in a position to potentially tie the game in the second quarter. After Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompson hit star receiver Isaiah Zuber for a 9-yard gain on first down to put the Wildcats at their own
43, all they needed was one yard to keep the drive going and get closer to (maybe) tying the game. One yard. They would never get there, though, thanks in large part to a WVU defense that would not let anything get by it for most of the contest. Running back Dalvin Warmack was stuffed for no gain on second down. Thompson was stuffed on a quarterback sneak for no gain on third down. And then, on fourth and one from their own 43, the Wildcats opted to go for it and had Thompson toss the football to the left side to running back Alex Barnes. WVU redshirt sophomore Dylan Tonkery read the play immediately and stopped Barnes in the backfield for a loss of four yards, sending the Milan Puskar Stadium crowd into a frenzy and seizing away any sliver of momentum that Kansas State had. “I’ll tell you what, we actually just talked about momen-
tum,” said Reese Donahue, a defensive end for the Mountaineers. “Turnovers and stops like that create lots of momentum. That’s something that everybody can feed off of. It’s not a defensive thing. It’s just an atmosphere. You feel the whole stadium rocking. The offense gets going. That creates a lot of energy. Things like that make a huge difference in the game.” After that stop, WVU’s offense was handed excellent field position at the Kansas State 39, and they capitalized on the opportunity. Redshirt senior quarterback Will Grier connected with senior receiver David Sills seven plays later for a touchdown, making it 14-0 with 2:31 remaining in the first half. And after another defensive stand, WVU’s offense drove 73 yards in 55 seconds to end the half with another touchdown, putting the score at 21-0 and effectively putting the game out of reach.
“That was a key point,” said WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen. “7-0, we stopped them on fourth down, we scored, then we stopped them, then a two-minute drive down and scored again.” Holgorsen and his staff preach to their team about the importance of key turnovers and big stops. One big defensive play can snatch all of the momentum from an opponent. That was exactly what happened on one fourth down play in the second quarter, giving WVU all it needed in order to take control and stay undefeated with a 3-0 record. “We come in and Holgorsen talks about numbers and you need so many turnovers to be effective, and it ends up working itself out,” Donahue said. “It’s the things you can’t measure on paper that really the makes different, and stops like that change the game.”
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Kansas State running back Alex Barnes set to take the handoff before being tackled by Dylan Tonkery.
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Defense paves the way for Mountaineer win streak BY COLE MCCLANAHAN SPORTS WRITER
MEN’S SOCCER
Improved defense has been key for the West Virginia University men’s soccer team in its recent three-game winning streak. The Mountaineers have allowed only 23 opponent shots to get off in their winning streak, a 7.66 per game average, compared to the 56 total shots, an 11.2 per game average, which were taken against WVU in its first five games. In their first five games, West Virginia’s opponents attempted at least seven shots in each game, with three opponents having double digit shot totals. The Mountaineers, however, have held two of their last three opponents to three shot attempts or less, with only Dayton putting up double digit shot totals. Not only has West Virginia decreased the total number of shots being taken against them, but the number of shots on goal has gone down as well. Four of the first five matches saw at least four shots on goal taken against West Virginia, with one team – UCF – taking 11 shots on goal. That number has shrank in the team’s last three games, where two teams, St. Francis in
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The team celebrating during the game. Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, were only able to record two shots on goal, and Dayton was only able to get off three. WVU has improved its defense without key players in its lineup, too, as four Mountaineers have missed at least one of the last three games. “We talked to the boys about when we’re missing guys, it’s got to be a next man up philosophy,” head coach Marlon LeBlanc said. “Everyone needs to take on the responsibility, it just can’t be the guys coming
in, it’s got to be the guys who are the backbone and the spine of this team.” Included in the list of absent players is senior midfielder Joey Piatczyc, who, entering the last game against Dayton, ranked No. 14 in the country in assists. To counteract this sudden loss of players, LeBlanc was forced to change his team’s formation and the strategies used through the early part of the season. This change, though, proved
successful as the Mountaineers were able to secure three consecutive victories and record the team’s first back-to-back shutouts of the season. “We changed shape, we changed personnel, we did a lot of different things, and the guys responded and got the job done, and now it’s on to the next one,” LeBlanc said. The “next one” is a home matchup on Tuesday with Radford that the Mountaineers should feel especially confident going into.
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The team high-fiving fans after the game. The team is coming off its first three-game win streak of the season and recognize that, despite the injuries, the mountaineers are starting to take shape, and perform as LeBlanc had hoped they would coming into the season. “We’ve started to kind of
find ourselves a little bit,” LeBlanc said. “Now we go home for a nice little homestand. The hopes are is that we can keep this thing going, and we can take it one game at a time.” Kickoff between West Virginia and Radford is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Self-Care workshop promotes balance BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR The Self-Care presentation put on by the Carruth Center encourages students to find balance in their lives. Many people consider selfcare to be bubble baths and face masks, but the Self-Care presentation put on by the Carruth Center as part of its Life Hacks series says self-care is so much more. The workshop, which took place last Thursday in the Blackwater room of the Mountainlair and will be held again on future dates, was led by Alex Kinder, a third-year student in the counseling and psychology Ph.D. program from Montville, Connecticut and Spring Szoka,
Carruth Center
a second-year student in the counseling and psychology Ph.D. program from Columbus, Wisconsin. The presentation began with each student receiving a Wellness Wheel to fill out. The Wellness Wheel is a way for students to assess their health based on the way they spend their time. The Wellness Wheel is divided into six parts: social, occupational, physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. The purpose of the Wellness Wheel is for students to see what activities they are engaging in to fulfill each section of the wheel. After filling out their Wellness Wheel, each student was asked to compare which sections were very engaged and which sections could use more attention. While the Wellness
Wheel is one way for students to look at how they practice self-care, self-care can take many different forms. “Another thing students can do is define self-care for themselves,� Kinder said. She explained how this could range from listening to music to going for a run. Kinder and Szoka said the easiest way for students to practice self-care right now is to simply breathe. Taking deep breaths can improve mood, concentration and overall health. The overall theme from the presentation was balance and practicing self-care to keep things in check and avoid getting overwhelmed. “Self-care is a really important tool to help students and everyone balance their life and
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Student Health building next to the Recreation Center
make it manageable,� Szoka said. Upcoming Life Hacks presentations include Academic Success in the Blackwater Room of the Mountainair on Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, Self-Care in room 116 of the CPASS building on Oct. 9, 15, 16 and 22 and Adjustment to College in room 116 of the CPASS building Oct. 18 and 25. The Carruth Center is available to all students and is located in the Student Health building next to the Rec Center. It is open Monday through Thursday from 8:15 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Friday from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Its website can be found at https://carruth.wvu.edu/
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