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The May 25 edition of the Freshmen Survival Guide presented by The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University's official student newspaper.TRANSCRIPT
the daily athenaeum - west virginia university’s student newspaper wednesday, may 25 2011
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FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDEA GUIDE FOR NEW
MOUNTAINEERS
a guide on how to request football tickets for this sea-son. ON PAGE 42
TIPS TO HELP MAKE YOUR TRANSITION TO WEST VIRGINIA
UNIVERSITY EASIER
alternative modes of trans-portation for the morgan-town and campus commu-nity. ON PAGE 9
university 101 class being revamped for incoming freshmen and transfer stu-dents. ON PAGE 4
suggestions for how to stay entertained in mor-gantown during the week. ON PAGE 31
letters from president James p. Clements & new sga president Jason Bailey. ON PAGES 17, 19
Fall season schedules for men’s and women’s soccer and Football. ON PAGES 44, 45, 46
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Welcome incoming studentsThe Daily Athenaeum is West
Virginia University’s official campus newspaper. Commonly referred to as The DA, this publi-cation is one of the largest news-papers in the state of West Vir-ginia. It is also routinely ranked as one of the nation’s top college newspapers.
Our main goals are to keep WVU’s students, faculty and broader community informed, and to provide a medium through which members of the WVU family can debate impor-tant issues and contribute to the public discourse.
This Freshman Survival Guide is a special edition of The Daily Athenaeum, designed to help prepare incoming freshman for their transition to college. The following pages include infor-mation we wish we had known as freshman, as well as some ad-vice from current students, the
president of the SGA and Univer-sity President James P. Clements.
The articles and columns fea-tured in this Survival Guide are a sample of what we strive to de-liver for students on a daily basis.
During the fall and spring se-mesters, the Daily Athenaeum is produced Monday through Friday. During the summer, we publish one paper per week, each Wednesday.
We were recently named the third best all-around daily col-lege newspaper in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists, and we are regularly ranked near to top of the Princ-eton Review’s annual college newspaper rankings.
Our News section covers groups such as the Student Government Association, Mor-gantown City Council and the Board of Governors, as well as clubs, events and anything of in-
terest to WVU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.
Our Opinion section con-tains columns written by a di-verse group of columnists who offer input on various issues that affect students both on a local and a national level. This section also provides all members of the WVU community with the op-portunity to voice their opinions by contributing guest columns and letters to the editor.
The Arts & Entertainment section covers everything you’ll need to unwind, refuel and re-lax during the school semester. Check out profiles of local eat-eries, coffee shops or find out about the local music scene and where to go see the latest movies.
The Sports section includes anything related to WVU sports. This section is always one of the most popular, and it includes
schedules of games, player pro-files and game recaps.
Additionally, there is a cam-pus calendar page which lists WVU and community events, daily. This page also includes Sudoku and crossword puzzles, as well as comic strips for your enjoyment.
Our website, www.thedaon-line.com, includes all the daily articles and the PDFs of the day’s newspaper. We post breaking news during the day and include extra content not published in the print edition.
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If you have any additional questions, you can reach us by phone at 304-293-5092 or e-mail us at [email protected].
We look forward to serving you on campus this fall.
By Joel Moralesstaff writer
The West Virginia University Faculty Senate approved the ad-dition of a new first-year expe-rience course to replace Uni-versity 101 beginning in the Fall semester.
WVUe 191 is a revamped ver-sion of University 101, which will be more major-specific. The course will incorporate infor-mation such as resume writing, job placement and conducting a job search.
One version of the course will be available to the WVU College of Business & Economics, some schools in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism and the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
“These schools decided to in-corporate the learning goals of the first-year experience course into the actual first course of the major,” said Joe Seiaman, assis-tant dean of Undergraduate
Programs in the B&E.A more generic version will
be offered to students who are not in these schools or enter the University as undeclared, said Elizabeth Dooley, associ-ate provost for Undergraduate Academics Affairs.
Resident faculty leaders and their teams, which consist of resident hall coordinators and graduate resident assistants, will teach this course.
“When you experience West Virginia University, we want you to know we are an academically rigorous institution and we’re going to help you acquire the necessary skills you need to be successful,” Dooley said.
A coalition of faculty mem-bers, resident faculty leaders and assistant associate deans reviewed the University 101 cur-riculum and decided to alter the course.
“Students change, universi-ties change and faculty mem-bers at times change,” Dooley said. “We have new ideas and
new thoughts. It’s healthy for the University.”
Dooley and Seiaman agreed this new course will be more beneficial to students.
“We’re helping students find their sense of purpose and help-ing to support them while mak-ing the transition from high school to a new environment,” Dooley said.
WVUe 191 will be building a sense of community from the moment students arrive on campus, she said.
“That Mountaineer brand is exciting. That branding makes you feel like you’re part of that Mountaineer community,” Dooley said.
The reinvention of the course has been a long time coming, Seiaman said.
“Those of us who have taught the old University 101 course have recognized for some time that we really did need to rein-vent this course so we can help students become more success-ful,” Seiaman said.
Seiaman and Dooley both said they are very excited by the steps WVU has taken to move in the right direction and agree this course will improve the students’ experience dur-ing their freshman year.
“The collaboration across campus and the creation of this new course speaks vol-umes of where we’re headed,” Dooley said.
University 101 course being revamped for fall semester
WVU proposes tuition increase
By eMily spicklerstaff writer
The proposed budget for West Virginia Universi-ty’s 2012 fiscal year includes an increase in tuition for all students.
Narvel Weese, vice presi-dent of Administration and Fi-nance, presented the proposal during the last Board of Gov-ernors meeting.
The pending budget plans an increase of student tuition by approximately 4.9 percent. Tuition for West Virginia res-idents will increase by $268 and $844 for nonresidents.
“We wanted it out there so students would have an idea and so they would know about the possible tuition in-crease,” said Carolyn Long, BOG chair.
WVU is trying to increase next year’s tuition in order to fund the new School of Public Health and support increases in salaries considered to be “critical to retention and re-cruitment of high quality fac-ulty and staff,” Weese said.
The proposed budget in-cludes $4.2 million in new state funds with $3 million designated to fund salary in-creases and $1 million to the new school.
“Faculty and non-classified staff increases are needed to compete for talent and ex-pertise on the national level and to reward employees
who continue to demonstrate outstanding performance,” Weese said. “Staff increases will be focused on fully fund-ing the classified staff sched-ule and providing increases for those employees whose salaries are currently capped because of their placement on that schedule.”
The proposed budget in-cludes an increase in salaries for faculty and staff by approx-imately 3 percent.
Pennsylvania State Univer-sity’s undergraduate in-state tuition is $15,250, and Univer-sity of Pittsburgh’s is $14,936. WVU’s current undergraduate in-state tuition is $5,406.
“Compared to our peers, we’re a good value,” said Becky Lofstead, assistant vice president of University Communications.
WVU wants to make sure everyone has access to the University, said Lofstead.
“Last year, we did not raise tuition for in-state tuition,” she said. “The university has stayed fairly modest in their increases.”
According to Lofstead, scholarship support for stu-dents will also be increased to balance the weight of the increase.
“The University is always trying to keep costs down for students and parents,” she said.
The budget will be finalized and formally presented to the BOG in June.
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Clements agrees to 5-year contractBy Joel Morales
staff writer
West Virginia University Pres-ident James P. Clements has agreed to a new five-year con-tract which will increase his sal-ary $200,000 by next summer.The new contract, which was approved by the Higher Educa-tion Policy Commission last Fri-day, gives Clements a pay raise from $450,000 to $550,000 start-ing in June 30, 2011. Starting in June 30, 2012, Clements will make $650,000 per year through the remaining four years of his contract.
He will also be eligible for a percentage increase received by non-classified employees and additional increases based on a yearly review, the contract states.
“I’m very honored and thank-ful to the board for their belief in me and the direction of the
University,” Clements said. “I didn’t negotiate. I took what they offered.”
Clements could also make additional incentives if parts of the University’s 2020 strategic plan are completed. Those spe-cific incentives will be in the fi-nalized contract within the next 180 days and that money will come from private funds.
“His performance over the last two years has been exem-plary,” said WVU Board of Gov-ernors Chairwoman Carolyn Long. “Stability is very impor-tant to the University, especially when he has that kind of lead-ership, so it was important to us to get him a contract that we thought was fair.”
In addition, Clements’ new agreement states that he can serve as a paid member of a board of directors or consultant to a public or private corporate
or associational body. His con-tract in 2009 stated that he could not do so.
Clements can also become a professor at the University dur-ing or after the contract is up.
If Clements is fired with-out cause by the WVU Board of Governors, he would be enti-tled to reassignment within the University.
Long said an effort was made to increase Clements’ salary to compete with WVU’s peer insti-tutions, most land-grant univer-sities with similarly sized health facilities, athletic departments and research components.
One of those peers, the Uni-versity of Kentucky pays Pres-ident Lee Todd $587,703 per year for total cost of employ-ment. Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee, a for-mer WVU President, earns more than $1.8 million for total cost of
employment. “People that I’ve talked with
are absolutely thrilled that he was staying and that he would be here another five years at least,” Long said. “It felt like it was re-ally the right thing to do for the University.”
In the last two years, the Uni-versity has made a lot of prog-ress, Clements said. Those changes include a $23 million investment in recreational field construction and the plans for a new student health and well-ness center.
“Enrollment rate is at an all-time high, research is at an all-time high, fund-raising budgets jumped last year. We hired a couple of new leaders at the Uni-versity and launched the strate-gic plan,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of good things.”
The University has been able to accomplish these changes
while keeping tuition low, Cle-ments said. He said the Univer-sity’s peer institutions pay more than $3,100 per student in aver-age tuition.
Clements said the University plans to increase faculty and staff salaries this year, as well.
“(Clements) has found that money within the University by doing some adjustments and being very proactive and watch-ing how we spend our money,” Long said.
Clements said he looks for-ward to the upcoming years and watching WVU reach its full potential.
“We are going to continue to focus on high quality education. We are really trying to drive the research enterprise and con-tinue to serve the wonderful cit-izens of West Virginia,” Clem-
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ents said.Clements was hired in June
2009 after serving as the provost at Towson University. His origi-nal two-year contract was set to end on June 30.
At the BOG’s Feb. 4 meeting, the new contract was finalized and sent to HEPC for approval.
Davis College interim dean named, search continues
By Gina DaBalDoCorrespondent
The West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design has relaunched its search for a new dean.
The college previously held interviews for three finalists, who had an opportunity to speak to faculty, students and staff at WVU, but none of the candidates were selected.
Dr. Rudolph P. Almasy has been appointed as the interim dean of the college, effective July 1.
“I am excited to accept this appointment and help the Da-vis College get through this in-terim year”, Almasy said. “I do hope to begin some efforts at strategic planning, which pre-pare a new dean to begin act-ing on the University’s Strate-gic Planning Document 2020.”
Almasy will serve while the newly re-formed search com-mittee, lead by Dean of the Eb-erly College of Arts & Sciences Robert Jones, relaunches a search for the new dean.
“There was a strong senti-
ment to look outside the (Da-vis) College,” said Provost Mi-chelle Wheatly, who appointed Almasy.
Wheatly said Almasy was ca-pable to serve as interim dean of the Davis College because of his previous experience as an interim dean of the Eberly college.
“As an interim dean and someone not affiliated with the Davis College until now, I need to gather information and talk to many individuals to deter-mine the College’s next direc-tions, especially in continuing its successes in funded re-search,” Almasy said.
“The Davis College, cen-tral to WVU’s land-grant mis-sion, is one of the University’s most important colleges, doing great things with the resources and staff it has,” Almasy said. “It appears to be a college very student-centered, and that is something to celebrate”.
Almasy will be taking over for Cameron Hackney, who served as dean for the past 11 years.
WVU B&e college ranked in Businessweek’s top 100
By lyDia nUzUMstaff writer
West Virginia University’s School of Business & Econom-ics has been recognized as an outstanding school of busi-ness by Bloomberg Business-week, ranking 90th in the pub-lication’s “Top 100 Business Schools.”
Each year Bloomberg Busi-nessweek compiles a list of the best undergraduate business schools in the country based on surveys and academic components.
“I think with a reputable magazine like Businessweek, when you get that recognition, it’s important,” said Jose Sar-tarelli, dean of the WVU Col-lege of Business & Economics. “It’s very much in line with what we want to accomplish.”
The B&E is hosting a celebra-tion at 1:30 p.m. today in the en-trance of the building.
Businessweek considered factors such as composite standardized test scores and the starting salary of gradu-ates when making their eval-uation, Sartarelli said. He said WVU’s school of business grad-uates usually go on to be very successful.
WVU currently implements a two-year program, admitting students to the business school during their junior year, Sar-tarelli said, and he wants to im-plement a four year program at WVU to further enhance the job
placement opportunities for its graduates.
“The best way to measure whether a school is good or not is by the quality of students we graduate and what they accom-plish in the workplace,” Sar-tarelli said.
Geoff Gloeckler, staff editor for Businessweek, said the list initially started with 139 schools in their evaluation, but 26 were eliminated due to a lack of par-ticipation from their students.
Gloeckler said Business-week asked seniors from each school to complete an evalua-tion, which included questions concerning classroom facilities, career services and internships.
Recruiters from participating schools were also asked to com-plete a survey evaluating the quality of students each school graduates, he said.
Businessweek ranked each school based on a variety of cri-teria, including median start-ing salary, student surveys, re-cruiter surveys, ACT and SAT composite scores, academic quality and student-to-faculty ratio.
“I feel comfortable saying all the schools who partici-pated meet a certain standard,” Gloeckler said. “They all meet a specific standard in terms of the quality of education they provide.”
Gloeckler said WVU had been considered for the list pre-viously but had been left out of the top 100 because of a lack of student participation.
He said WVU has a good chance of continuing to rise in the ranking in coming years.
“WVU is moving in the right direction,” Goeckler said.
Printed versions of the list are available, and an online version of the list can be viewed by go-ing to www.businessweek.com.
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CleMentsContinued from PAGE 5
by erin fitzwilliamseditor-in-chief
Morgantown offers West Virginia University stu-dents a variety of on-or-off campus dining oppor-tunities beyond dorm food. The off-campus dining plan offers students who live off- campus the opportunity to have prepaid meals on or off-campus.
On-campus locations like Burger King, Quiznos or Chick-fil-A in the Mountainlair all of-fer the plan for some of their breakfast and dinner meals.
WVU Currently offers five meal plans ranging from 10 to 19 meals per week.
The Mountaineer Plan, which costs $1,829 per se-mester, offers 19 meals per week and about 300 meals per semester.
The Select 15 Plan, which costs $1,708 per semester, of-fers up to 15 meals per week.
The Select 10 Plan, the cheapest plan, offers 10 meals per week for $1,540 per semester.
Meals Plus money is in-cluded with each plan and is redeemable at many on-cam-pus locations which include Burger King or the Lyon’s Den, located in Towers.
Lyon’s Den is a convenience store-type location, which is open on nights during the week, offers made-to-order food and other necessities for dorm-living students.
For those looking for near unlimited dining options, two other plans are available.
The Blue Plan allows for 209 visits and it also comes with $100 in Meals Plus, for $2,043 for the semester.
The Gold Plan provides up to 229 meals per semester and comes with $100 in Meals Plus money, available for $2,116 per semester.
All meal plans are re-deemable at the many cam-pus dormitory cafeterias, and many of the restaurants in the Mountainlair.
The Healthy U option is a campus-wide dining initiative that offers a menu based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Signs noting Healthy U meal
options are posted in the din-ing hall locations.
If a student has a dietary concern, such as a gluten-free diet or diabetic-friendly meal, they can call ahead for a spe-cial menu.
For weekly dining hall menus visit http://diningser-vices.wvu.edu/ to view options and Healthy U alternatives.
Downtown Morgantown offers many different restau-rants such as D.P. Dough, Casa D’Amici, Chico’s Fat, Jimmy John’s, Tailpipes, Subway or Pita Pit, which cater to students and offer late hours to accom-modate nocturnal student hab-its. Visit dubvmenus.com to see many of Morgantown’s restau-rants, some of which offer on-line ordering, delivery and take-out.
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z Arnold’s American Diner (Arnold Hall)
z B i t s & B y t e s (Engineering)
z Boreman Bistro (Bore-man South)
z Brew ‘n Gold Cafe (Towers)
z Burger King (Mountainlair)
z Cafe Evansdale (Towers)
z Cavanaugh’s (Health Sciences Center)
z Chick-fil-A (Mountainlair)
z Eliza’s (Downtown Library)
z Fieldcrest (Fieldcrest) z Freshens
(Mountainlair) z Grab ‘n Go (Summit
Hall) z Hatfields
(Mountainlair) z JAC’s (Mountainlair) z Lyon’s Den (Towers) z Quizno’s
(Mountainlair) z Sbarro (Mountainlair) z Sports Cafe (Student
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Mountainline offers students a ride homeBy AMy RogeRs
Correspondent
Students without cars at West Virginia University might con-sider getting home during holi-day breaks to be a problem.
However, WVU has already taken steps to accommodate this need by providing transport to areas such as upstate New Jersey and New York, Philadel-phia, Hagerstown, Md, Pitts-burgh, and Allentown, Pa. as well as to other locations along the Eastern Seaboard.
Provided by the WVU Trans-portation Department, work-ing alongside the WVU Parents Club, round-trip tickets can save compared to buying one-way tickets.
Out-of-town charter bus ser-vices are offered during Thanks-giving break, Christmas break and spring break.
Students are shuttled to the most popular destination’s by
charter bus where they can ei-ther get picked up there by a parent, relative, or friend or take another bus to reach the final destination.
For those students needing to travel to Pittsburgh or the Pittsburgh Airport, twice-daily shuttle services are offered through Transportation ser-vices. Students are dropped off to the Greyhound bus station in Pittsburgh or at the Pittsburgh Airport.
During holiday times, an ex-tra bus service is offered to ac-commodate the increased demand for transport to Pittsburgh.
“The charter bus system is the most stable student rout-ing solution because the routes travel from Morgantown di-rectly to the highest demanded areas,” said Hugh Kierig, Direc-tor of the Department of Trans-portation and Parking.
The shuttle bus leaves Mor-
gantown and takes students di-rectly to the most popular trans-port hubs.
The Pittsburgh Grey Line route also transports students to destinations such as Clarks-burg, W.Va., Fairmont, W.Va., and Waynesburg, W.Va.
“On average, the Thanksgiv-ing shuttle is the largest vol-ume in demand from students wanting to use this service,” said Dave Barnett, Charter and Shut-tle Bus Services. Students may want to reserve shuttle services for Thanksgiving break well in advance, he said.
Use the AMTRK Connection to connect from the drop-off lo-cation to reach more cities by train.
The Greyhound Connection will also take students to Phil-adelphia, New York City , Chi-cago, Atlanta, DC, and more.
Megabus Connections take students to New York City, Phil-adelphia, New Jersey, DC, State
College, Pa., Harrisburgh, Pa., Erie, Pa., Buffalo, NY., Ohio, and Michigan.
Pittsburgh Port Authority System takes students to Heinz Field and PNC Park, but can also take students to other lo-cations within Pittsburgh.
For a small fee, students can choose to upgrade to a busi-ness class seat on the charter bus services. Added amenities for the upgrade include a se-cured assigned seat, reclining seat backs, drop-down trays, and free power ports for elec-tronics and free Internet service.
Other services that can be purchased for charter bus rides include ordering lunch or a newspaper. Meals must be purchased 24-hours in advance and will be waiting for the stu-dent when they get on the bus.
One small bag under 25lbs. can be taken on the bus for each rider. Oversized or extra lug-gage can be transported as well
for an extra fee.For sports teams or larger
groups, individual private char-ter buses can be scheduled for one-stop transportation needs. Charter bus services can be re-served for special needs or long distance travel covering 48 US States.
“Since the University pro-vides more than adequate shut-tle services for getting around Morgantown as well as a means of going to out of state regions, there shouldn’t be any need for students of any year to have a vehicle at WVU,” said Barnett. “The bus routes are a very reli-able means of transportation.”
For more information on which bus routes to use, visit http://www.busride.org/.
To find out more informa-tion about bus trips, please visit http://parentsclub.wvu.edu/schedules.
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Alternate transportation options for studentsBy Amy RogeRs
Correspondent
Morgantown is known for limited parking and high park-ing fees. To help ease traffic congestion, West Virginia Uni-versity prefers incoming fresh-man students to leave their cars at home.
Various forms of alternate transport are readily available for all students including the PRT, the Mountain Line Tran-sit bus system, Zipcar, Zim-ride, free shuttle services be-tween the WVU Coliseum and Engineering PRT as well as nu-merous bicycle racks located around campus.
“Freshmen don’t need a car on campus. They can use the PRT, bus system, rent a car, car-pool or bike,” said Hugh Kierig, AICP and director of the De-partment of Transportation and Parking in Morgantown.
PRTPersonal Rapid Transit, or
The PRT, is an 8.2 mile monorail system that transports individ-ual train cars carrying students between the Downtown cam-pus, Evansdale campus, and the Health Sciences campus.
Students ride the PRT for free with a simple swipe of the Stu-dent ID card. Forgot your card at home? Not to worry, the PRT also allows the option of paying $0.50 per ride as well.
The PRT system has been in operation for over 35 years now. Over this time, some renova-tions are needed. A $92.8 mil-lion Master plan has been de-veloped in the recent years to make the necessary changes.
“There is some major preven-tative maintenance construc-tion happening this summer,” Kierig said. “One thing to note is that the PRT will be getting a new onboard computer systems for the fleet of train cars.”
Kierig said all of these changes would be installed over a period of a year. Another pos-itive change for the PRT will be it’s new propulsion system. The downtime during PRT break-downs can’t be completely eliminated but they should be noticeably less and shorter when they do occur, Kierig said.
Mountain Line TransitWVU Students ride for free
on the Mountain Line bus sys-tem. All that is needed is a swipe from the Student ID card when boarding the bus. There is
the option of paying $0.50 cents if a student forgets their ID.
The Blue and Gold connector is the most popular route con-necting the Towers dormitories to the Life Sciences building on Grant Street every 20 minutes.
There is also a late night bus system that runs Thursday – Saturday from 8 p.m.-3:30 a.m. connecting the Mountainlair to Towers and the Valley View area.
Also offered from the Moun-tain Line Transit are routes to the Morgantown Mall and Granville Shopping center to provide students without cars to access to getting groceries or leisurely mall shopping.
ZipcarFor students that need to use
a car for a short period of time can rent one by the hour with the new Zipcar Program.
This rental service is new to WVU this fall. Students pay a small hourly fee to rent a car, usually between $7-9/hr.
To obtain a car, students must first be pre-approved by applying for membership on the WeGo section of the WVU Transportation website. Once approved, students will receive a Zipcar membership card.
Students can then retrieve the rental car from Towers. Stu-dents then simply wave their personal membership card in front of the ID on the car, the car recognizes the time frame in which the student is authorized to use the car, and the doors au-tomatically unlock.
ZimrideZimride is a new Carpool
matching program that has been in effect at WVU for the past two years. Program man-agers match students with sim-ilar travel needs. Students gain mutual advantages from regis-tering with Zimride.
This online carpool matching tool allows students with cars and students without cars that are heading in the same direc-tion over holidays or weeks to get matched up to save on the cost of commuting home.
Zimride software matches up students with similar com-mutes. There is also a Facebook page to allow users of this pro-gram to collaborate with others. Students who wish to use this program must also register on the WeGo section of the Trans-portation website.
Coliseum ShuttlesFor those students living in
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To eliminate this frustration, students can park for free at the WVU Coliseum and take a shut-tle directly to the Engineering PRT station.
“I strongly push towards stu-dents not bringing cars to the University, but if they choose to bring a car, using the Coliseum shuttle system is a great idea,” said Dave Barnett, Charter and Shuttle Bus services.
“Beechurst is heavily traveled and we just want to provide a safe, free parking solution with a safe route from the parking lot to the PRT station,” said Barnett.
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academic progressby erin fitzwilliams
editor-in-chief
West Virginia University un-veiled a new program in Janu-ary which will make it easier for students to check on progress toward a major.
DegreeWorks, an online sys-tem accessible from the MIX homepage, will enable under-graduate students to monitor progress toward their degree(s).
A student can consider other majors, view the differ-ent classes required and what classes can or cannot be used for a different major, said Steve Robinson, WVU registrar.
The program will help advis-ers because they will be able to see all of the classes students have taken and what they need to take.
“It’s not meant to replace ad-visers,” he said. “But it’s a tool for students.”
Kurt Morton, associate reg-istrar for technology, said stu-dents can use the system to check their GPA and calculate how anticipated grades for their classes will effect their overall GPA.
Morton said majors and mi-nors will also be part of the sys-tem in a “block” type schedule.
He said any issues with the system can be overridden by an advisor only.
“Viewing DegreeWorks will allow students to see if every-thing is correct, and go to their adviser if there are any issues,” Morton said.
A green check mark will dis-play for an objective or class that has been completed, while an empty red box means it has not been completed. A tilde means the objective is in progress.
Robinson said the database of classes included begins with the 2008 WVU course catalog and will be added to as needed.
Although current four-year seniors’ classes for freshmen will be different, Robinson said if an issue with a class is shown with the program, advisers are able to manually apply the classes to the right objectives.
Only undergraduate pro-
grams will be offered at first, Robinson said.
“Graduate programs are so broad and often fitted for the individual,” he said. “We’re go-ing to focus on the undergrad-uates and see if any issues arise with them.”
Robinson said he does not foresee any potential problems that could be created by the system.
WHen the system opens it will not be the finalized ver-sion, Robinson said. More fea-tures will be online in the com-ing weeks.
WVU bought DegreeWorks two years ago and a team has been creating the system with WVU curriculum and specific requirements for each under-graduate major on campus, he said.
Robinson said DegreeWorks has been piloted for advisers in the College of Business & Eco-nomics and the College of Engi-neering and Mineral Resources. Feedback has been positive, he said.
Campus info stations scroll foursquare, twitter updates
by erin fitzwilliamseditor-in-chief
Students can now view West Virginia University Twitter and Foursquare up-dates on Mountainlair infor-mation stations due to an up-grade in new software for the stations.
The new software has gone live in the Mountainlair and on channel seven in resi-dence and dining halls. The upgraded system will have more videos played and a rolling ticker.
“Students are able to en-gage with the screens,” said Spencer Graham, interactive video manager. “In the future (Info stations) will have WVU trivia in a game format, where students can participate.”
The new technology, called the X20 Media software, will give students a more inter-active role for the stations by running live check-ins on Foursquare and “WVU”
hashtags on Twitter.The system will have 12
different “playlists” that loop information for the various schools, he said.
All screens across campus will eventually be upgraded with the software by the end of February, Graham said.
He said, for example, the College of Business and Eco-nomics school has 40 per-cent generic WVU trivia and information, and 60 percent is the school’s own design materials.
Jennifer Gillum, who is with information station da-tabase and networking, said the upgrade has given de-velopers more capability of adding different visual effects.
The types of video that can be played has been ex-panded for file types such as .avi or .mp4.
“I think students will like it,” Gillum said. “The screens will have live Foursquare up-dates, so students can be the mayor of the Mountainlair and play games.”
A team has been formed made up of Graham, Gillum and George Cicci, profes-sional technologist at WVU, to monitor the system.
“We have experienced zero issues with rolling out the new software,” Graham said.
Graham said the software was purchased four years ago during former-President David C. Hardesty’s term.
WVU was among the first to use the upgraded soft-ware, he said.
The budget for the new software will end up being cost-efficient in the long run, Graham said.
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Mountie Bounty, PRT entry among WVU ID usesBy GIna DaBalDo
Correspondent
The West Virginia Univer-sity Student ID could be con-sidered one of the most impor-tant tools a student can have.
The WVU ID, known as the Mountaineer Card, is used for meal plans and transportation, such as the PRT or the Moun-tain Line Transit Authority.
“I use my ID multiple times a day. I don’t know what I would do without it,” said Ki-ana Hayes, a sophomore pre-psychology major.
Alexis Morrell, a sophomore pre-biology major, said she finds it helpful using her WVU ID as a bus pass.
“I use it mostly for transpor-tation, specifically the bus. I use my ID pretty much every weekday during the school year”, Morrell said.
The card is given to students at orientation. It remains active
while students are registered at the University.
“What I like about the ID is that it is all you need to get into most places around the Uni-versity”, said Ian Grimley, a ju-nior journalism major.
Since its inception, the Mountaineer Card has ac-quired many other functions. It is also used as a library card,
to gain access to WVUp All Night sporting events, laundry services, Student Health, com-puter labs and vending ma-chines throughout campus.
Mountaineer Cards are also commonly used as recording attendance and accessing en-try into the dorms after-hours.
Another valuable feature of the ID is a debit system, known
as Mountie Bounty. This ser-vice allows students to place funds on their cards online or at stations located at the Moun-tainlair or any dorm. Mountie Bounty is accepted several places throughout campus, but is primarily used for laundry and additional meal options.
“I can put money on it and use it places. I mostly use that
for laundry in the dorms in-stead of worrying about find-ing quarters’,” Hayes said.
Another great perk to the student ID is the many busi-nesses in Morgantown that give discounts to students. A few businesses that accept student ID’s as a discount in-clude Qdoba, Eat ‘n Park, Hol-lywood Theaters and Carmike Cinemas.
If the Mountaineer Card is lost, broken or stolen, it can be replaced by contacting Card Services at 304-293-CARD or by visiting their offices at the Mountainlair or Bennett Tower. The fee to replace a card is $20.
It is also never a good idea to loan out this card due to per-sonal information stored on it.
They are non-transferable and should be carried by the student at all times.
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Career services help WVU students find jobsBy SteVen yoUng
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The Career Services Center at West Virginia University is located in the Mountainlair, above the WVU Book Store, and offers many different pro-grams for all students, not just graduating seniors.
With programs covering everything from helping you choose your major to teach-ing you how to write a resume and look for a job, the Career Services Center has some-thing for every student.
“I don’t think as many stu-dents use it as they should. I think the seniors and juniors should get over there more often to take advantage of it,“ said Omar Wazir, former Stu-dent Government Association Governor.
The Career Services Cen-ter offers programs to all
WVU students, like individ-ual career planning sessions with a Career Services Coun-selor, who can help you ex-plore the options or helping you find resources to change your major.
Career Services also has a wide array of services for students nearing graduation seeking jobs or grad school.
Working on your resume is something that is an ongoing process in college, and Career Services is here to help. They offer help with corrections and classes in resume writing.
“I took them my resume and had them do all the corrections,” Wazir said. “I thought it was a pretty big help.”
Career Services will also help with putting together job applications and resumes.
“They were very helpful with getting my resume to
the right place on time” said Lara Smith, a junior engineer-ing major.
Another part of Careers Services is Mountaineer-TRAK, an Internet program students can use to manage multiple resumes, look up and view jobs, sign up for an on-campus interview, and register for career fairs.
MountaineerTRAK is an ex-tremely useful program and is there to be taken advan-tage of. There is also a series of seminars available though MountaineerTRAK running all year long, covering every-thing from the “Job Search Process (when, where, how)” to seminars on “Job Offer/Benefits Review.” The sched-ule for these events can be found on the Career Services web page.
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Study abroad offers travel opportunitiesBy ReBeccah GRiffith
Staff Writer
West Virginia University of-fers a variety of opportunities for incoming students, and one of the best options is the Study Abroad program.
The Office of International Programs at WVU provides stu-dents with the opportunity to travel abroad while enrolled in the university as usual. OIP’s mission is to establish WVU as a global university and expose students to the life-changing cultural experience of study-ing abroad.
Many students find them-selves interested in studying abroad, but the prospect of making a travel decision and encountering a new culture can seem daunting.
OIP provides a wealth of guidance and options regard-ing traveling abroad. While many students choose to take part in WVU’s exchange pro-gram or Mountaineer Pro-grams Abroad, others may be interested in a shorter stay and become involved in a faculty-led program.
With all of these options, the study abroad programs at WVU have a destination and a chance for everyone.
The Office of International Programs houses several dif-
ferent programs that involve studying abroad, including the Exchange Program and Faculty-Led Programs. The Exchange Program is the best known of the study abroad opportunities and involves “swapping” places with a stu-dent at a partner university.
“The WVU Exchange Pro-gram is a great way to experi-ence a new country. Not only do you experience new oppor-tunities to explore a foreign language, but you also get the chance to immerse yourself into a culture that can’t be ac-complished through a vaca-tion,” said Ethan Kirk, junior computer science major.
Students continue to pay tu-ition at WVU while their hous-ing and meals fees are paid either to WVU or the partner university.
These programs generally persist for a semester or an entire school year, and the va-riety of possible locations is changing every year. Current exchange partners range from the countries of Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Hong Kong and doz-ens more.
The university also spon-sors Mountaineer Programs Abroad, WVU programs that take place overseas—an option that frequently involves classes taught in English and is super-
vised by WVU. Many students may want to
study abroad, but don’t have the desire to stay away from home for an entire semester or year—for these students, the OIP offers other options such as Faculty-Led Programs.
Faculty-Led Programs are study abroad opportunities that operate for a briefer pe-riod of time, such as a few weeks or just over a break. These are often subject-spe-cific courses that are taught in conjunction with a class at the university or by WVU profes-sors overseas.
Faculty-Led programs avail-able this fall include Ceram-ics in China and The WVU Se-mester in Strasbourg program, an interdisciplinary study in France, and the options will only continue to expand.
The opportunity to study abroad is one that is un-matched and that every capa-ble student should consider taking advantage of.
“These programs are benefi-cial because they give students a chance to expand their ho-rizons , to acquire real-world experience that’s unparalleled to classroom teachings,” said international studies graduate Megan Ciarolla.
SGa to focus on retention rates, election codesBy joel moRaleS
Staff Writer
West Virginia Universi-ty’s Student Government As-sociation president and vice president-elect have the task of restoring the image of the organization.
Jason Bailey, president-elect and Megan Callaghan, vice president-elect, led the Fusion Party to the first full ticket sweep since April 2005.
They will focus on the SGA Constitution, Elections Code, student retention, and the new health and wellness facility for their new term.
“We saw throughout this whole entire process that stu-dents lost a lot of trust in SGA, so one of our first immediate goals is to restore the integrity of SGA and what we stand for and can do for students,” Bai-ley said.
Bailey and Callaghan plan to reform the Elections Code, changing how elections are held and asking students their opinions about how the elec-tions should be run.
“I think we should hold the elections the way the revote was, in secure locations,” Cal-laghan said. “I don’t think we should annoy the student body like we did this year ever again.”
Following this, Bailey will fo-cus his efforts on improving stu-dent retention rates.
“Right now, the retention rate is about 58 percent from fresh-man year up until graduation,” Bailey said. “That’s pretty far be-hind our peer institutions.”
Ohio State University, Penn State University, Rutgers Uni-versity-New Brunswick and University of Pittsburgh’s re-tention rates are all more than 88 percent.
Bailey said SGA will try to
increase these rates by imple-menting target programs into first year experience courses, which target freshmen and have both academic and social programs.
Bailey and Callaghan will also try to boost student in-volvement in the University in-cluding dorm life, club and in-tramural sports and student organizations.
“When students get involved, that’s when they’re going to feel the connection with their fellow peers, and that’s when they’re going to stay at the University,” he said.
They are also pushing stu-dents to go through exit inter-views, which used to be con-ducted, to find why students decide to leave WVU.
Callaghan said they will be focusing her efforts on gath-ering more student input on the new health and wellness
facility.“I want to make sure stu-
dents are getting everything they need,” she said.
Callaghan wants the facility to be a “one-stop shop” where students are not forced to go to different places. She is also ad-vocating for a student-centered urgent care unit.
She said most universities spend around $30 to $50 million to build a facility like this. WVU has allotted itself $18.8 mil-lion so far. Callaghan said WVU needs closer to $30 million.
“One thing President Cle-ments said many times during his speech at the club sports fa-cility ground-breaking was that he told everybody they were go-ing to do this once, so let’s do it right. I think that’s the way we feel about this facility,” Bailey said.
With the entire adminis-tration elected from the Fu-
sion Party, Bailey said SGA will be able to accomplish many things.
“They will use their relation-ships with each other to further not only their goals and objec-tives, but those of each other also,” Bailey said.
Normally, having no oppo-sition on the board would be a problem, Bailey said. Fusion’s ticket is organized in a way that has a variety of student opinions.
“There are disagreements within our ticket. There are peo-ple who have different views of different people in our ticket,” Bailey said.
“That’s why we did it the way we did. We didn’t want to put a ticket together with 17 people who think the same way we do, because that’s not representa-tive of the student body.”
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Contact your roommate before moving in together
Coming into my freshman year, I was one of only three peo-ple from my high school who went to West Virginia University.
The other two were my friends, but they were both fe-male, so obviously rooming with them in the dorms was out of the question.
For that reason, I was placed with a roommate.
I was lucky to get someone I got along with and who was re-spectful in my first year at school.
The next year, I made the de-cision to live in the dorms once again, but instead of the Evans-dale Residential Complex, I moved downtown to Boreman South.
My roommate my sophomore year was the opposite of the one
from freshman year. He was lazy, drank a little too
much and wore too little clothes to the point that it was awkward to be in the same room with him.
After a semester, that room-mate left, and I was left with two rooms all to myself. It was all too comfortable, until another guy knocked on my door about a month later that ruined the last two months of my semester.
This roommate was appar-ently kicked out of Towers for verbal abuse and moved into my room. He thought he would only stay a few days until he ex-plained the situation, but that never happened.
With him staying, I had to deal with the ultimate bad roommate situation.
One Friday afternoon, I went to grab a bite to eat and came back to my room to find 20 guys prepping for their late-night festivities.
Not only that, but he smoked
pot – a smell I can’t stand. After pleading with the Resident As-sistant to check the situation out, he told me it was a situation I had to work out with my roommate – remember, the same guy who was kicked out of his previous room for verbal abuse.
Looking back, it was a situa-tion I would love to forget, but am kind of glad I went through. It was terrible at the time, but I learned so much from it. I learned to fend for myself, deal with and avoid less-than-perfect situations.
If you’re starting to worry about your roommate for this year, though, don’t. It’s not worth your worries this early in the process.
The best thing to do is find out who your roommate really is. All of you should have the con-tact information of the person you will be sharing a room with next year in your STAR account at http://star.wvu.edu (use your
MIX email username and pass-word to login).
Do some preemptive stalk-ing – not the creepy kind but the good, informational type.
Check for your roommate on Facebook and Google. Find out a little bit about them before you talk to them.
Most companies hiring are going to do the same thing to gauge the person before inter-viewing them. This situation should be no different.
Email your roommate, get his or her contact information, and make sure you call them. Don’t just talk through e-mail.
It might be uncomfortable for you, but you don’t really get to know someone that way.
Talk to them about your inter-ests, your pet peeves and what you will bring to the room.
If it’s not too much of a has-sle and you live within an hour’s drive, make that drive and have lunch with your roommate.
Getting the awkward per-sonal meeting over with before you move in will be a good thing.
But really, just get to know the person before you make an ulti-mate judgment.
If the situation doesn’t look like it’s going to be perfect, set up a plan for yourself to deal with it.
When you move in, you will be given a paper that you and your roommate will fill out called a roommate contract. Take that seriously. Be open because this is the only chance you’ll get at setting boundaries.
If you and your roommate don’t get along right off the bat, don’t let it be the end all. It’s al-ways awkward for everyone in the first few days.
If the situation doesn’t change, don’t live with it like I did. Tell your RA, and make a change to where you’re comfortable.
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Tony DobiesSportS writer
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Welcome to WVU, from President ClementsWelcome to all of our new
WVU students! We are so excited to wel-
come you to the Mountaineer family. When you arrive on campus this fall, take a look around at the great things your fellow students are do-ing. We have thousands of stu-dents who, each day, nurture new ideas, master new chal-lenges, identify new strengths and start making their mark on the world.
We have students like:
•Scott Cushing, who con-ducts physics research with a faculty mentor, won the Gold-water Scholarship – the na-tion’s highest undergraduate honor for students in STEM fields – and most recently earned a grant from the Na-tional Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellow-ship Program.
•Hayley Leight, a biology student who will spend a year teaching English in Indonesia as a winner of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship.
•Nick Rubenstein, who is majoring in chemistry, biol-ogy and biochemistry, and who finds time away from the lab to lead WVU’s Inter-fraternity Council and per-form a variety of community service activities, including a program designed to interest young children in college.
•Amy Burt, a mining en-gineering and agribusiness management and rural de-velopment student who is in-terning this summer at Patriot Coal, and who recently won a scholarship from a national engineering honor society.
•John Elias and Stephen Redmond from WVU’s Da-vis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and De-sign, who won first place in the 2011 West Virginia State-wide Collegiate Business Plan Competition for their pro-posal to create a fresh fruits and vegetables direct market-ing company.
A university is often known by the quality of its students.
We have so much to be proud of, and I look forward to see-ing what you accomplish dur-ing your first year at WVU.
Make the most of this year – it will go by all too fast.
Study hard. Make academ-ics your number one priority.
Get involved in clubs and organizations. They will leave memories you cherish for a lifetime.
Get to know your profes-sors. They are some of the greatest minds in the world, and they can be lifelong men-tors and role models.
Be a good friend to your fel-low students. Take good care of each other.
Dream big. Home runs aren’t hit by aiming for the infield – I want you to aim for the fence.
You made a good choice to attend West Virginia Uni-versity – and we made a good choice by picking you. I wish you all the best!
Let’s Go Mountaineers!!
James P. Clements, Ph.D.President, WVU
Adapting to college life can be a challenge for anyone. But a transition from teenage high school graduate to adult college student can be made with minimal stress. The key is being able to balance par-tying with schoolwork.
The politically correct ad-vice to give is to warn of the dangers of wild parties and to just stay in your dorm and study.
While it is recommended to study hard, college is also the time in everyone’s life when they must get out and have fun.
I know, President James Clements knows and you can bet the Morgantown po-lice department knows the majority of college students are going to have wild par-ties, where underage drink-ing takes place.
Not that the West Vir-ginia University and Morgan-town city authorities encour-age wild behavior; they just want the students to moder-ate themselves and be safe. When things get out of hand, students usually get hurt and/or arrested.
It’s best to party only on the weekends, or at least on the days when there is no class until noon. Missing class be-cause of late night parties can
be any college student’s de-mise. Use partying as a re-ward for the hard work done throughout the week. Never overindulge in the party life.
Stay on task throughout the week, which means go-ing to every class and keep-ing up with all assignments given to you. Then, let loose on Fridays and Saturdays. The occasional Thursday night is a good time as well, just re-member to put schoolwork
first. There are multiple attrac-
tions throughout Morgan-town, enough to satisfy all partygoers. Every weekend the streets are packed full until the early morning. Res-taurants stay open till around 4 a.m. in order to carry out the high demand of late night munchies.
Although Morgantown fes-tivities are a lot of fun, they are easily the number one reason for many students’ failure.
Several friends of mine have attended WVU and never made it past two se-
mesters. Their tale of partying and skipping class is all too familiar here in Morgantown.
They focused solely on hav-ing a good time and not get-ting an education, which is the only reason to attend col-lege. Trust me, you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to go out every night of the week partying, but that sort of lifestyle returns no rewards in later life.
Most of my friends who have dropped out of col-lege have since seen the er-ror of their ways, but are now not able to return to school, many of them blew multiple chances.
Always keep in mind the reason for college – to obtain an education.
If schoolwork is kept in or-der and priorities are in place, then weekends can be spent having fun.
A good way to approach re-sponsibilities is to write all of them down in a daily planner. It may sound simple and obvi-ous, but many students refuse to use them.
If all responsibilities are managed properly, school can be a breeze.
Most students who drop-out or fail do so because they were unorganized and uncommitted.
Take charge of your educa-tion early on and the rest will be cake. If not, it will seem like a stressful game of catch-up for the entire semester.
Adapting to college life can be challenging for anyonejeremiah yatescolumnist
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DobiesContinued from PAGE 16
feeling not at home in your home away from home.
In addition, don’t just get to know your roommate once your at school, meet the people in the rooms next to you and the people on your floor.
If the situation does go sour with your roommate, you need to have somewhere to go to catch your breath.
But don’t panic if you have a nasty roommate. Take the cor-rect steps to remove yourself from the situation.
Don’t fret if I’ve scared you with my stories though, I haven’t heard many others as bad as mine.
Tips to survive your first days at WVU
After spending six years at West Virginia University as an undergraduate and grad-uate student, I can still re-member back to both fresh-man move-in day and my first day of classes.
As a bashful freshman from good ol’ Youngwood, Pa., I knew two people on campus and had to learn things the hard way.
My first day was confus-ing, hectic and intimidating
– I had no idea what to do or where to go.
So, to help you get through your first day of classes with-out a hitch in your youthful giddy up, here is your survival guide.
Find your classes before the first day of school
After I moved in my freshman year, my parents wouldn’t leave without mak-ing sure I was truly prepared for classes on Monday.
We rode the PRT Down-town for the first time, walked around campus and found the location of each of my classes.
When it came time for me
to actually go to class, I wasn’t stuck with a map in my face, tripping over my shoes on Monday.
If you don’t have time to find your classes, print off a campus map, and have fun with that.
Get to class 15 minutes early
Don’t be the last person in the class.
There are no bells or whis-tles if you walk in late, but there are first impressions – and you don’t want to make a bad one.
If you’re early, you can pick a seat you feel comfortable in
(for me that’s always near the back row, so I don’t have to actively participate as much) and sit through the normal first-day routine of awkward introductions and syllabus rundowns without worry.
Remember to eat lunchThis is one thing I failed
to do on my first day. It was so hectic, and I was so ner-vous that I forgot to eat. Then, it came to my late afternoon class and my stomach was ba-sically screaming.
There are spots all over campus to grab a bite,
Tony DobiesSportS writer
see survive on PAGE 20
My fellow Mountaineers,
As you begin your time at WVU, you will soon find that being a Mountaineer is truly a lifestyle and culture unlike any other. You will begin to identify yourself not only with one of the greatest Universi-ties in the country, but also with the great state of West Virginia.
You are bound to face ob-stacles throughout your time here, especially during your freshman year and transition to college life, but, nonethe-less, you will have the best ex-periences and opportunities of your life.
As someone who is getting ready to start my fifth year at WVU, I have some criti-cal pieces of advice that may aid in your ability to succeed while having the best time possible:
Make new friends. Many students are going
through exactly what you are experiencing. Whether you are a long way from home, want a fresh start or simply want a new group of friends, your freshman year is the per-fect start.
Don’t just stick with the friends you may have come to WVU with but make new ones as well, whether they are in your dorm, in your classes or sitting next to you while you’re reading this. Having friends where you live, where you learn and where you relax will enhance your time that much more.
Go to class and study. Every person came to WVU
for different reasons, but you all chose to go to college for the same reason: to get a higher education and finish with a degree in hand.
If you don’t go to class and put your academics as your top priority, you won’t see that day. Having to leave the University early due to aca-demic troubles will cause you to miss out on the other op-portunities WVU has to offer.
Get involved. WVU has more opportuni-
ties than you could ever imag-ine, but it is your responsibil-ity to seek them out and take
advantage of them. You have the chance to join
clubs and organizations, vol-unteer in the community of Morgantown, study abroad, receive prominent intern-ships and network with some of the greatest alumni in the world.
WVU has hundreds of stu-dent organizations centered around virtually every possi-ble interest, and these can be the highlight of your experi-ence at WVU.
Taking advantage of ev-ery opportunity possible will not only improve your time on campus, but it will aid in your ability to succeed post-graduation.
Have fun. Although I firmly believe
academics must be your num-ber-one priority to succeed, I also believe you must take time for yourself, enjoy your free time and experience all WVU has to offer.
Whether it is going to sport-ing events, taking advantage of the world class arts and entertainment that comes to WVU, attending WVUp All-Night in the Mountainlair during weekends or checking out the Morgantown nightlife scene, you need time to relax and temporarily relieve your brain from the tons of infor-mation it will be absorbing during your years of learning.
I guarantee that your time at WVU will be the best time of your life. It certainly has been the best of mine. If you manage your time correctly, you will become part of the newest class of graduates from West Virginia University in 2015.
We want to see you walk-ing across that stage on grad-uation day, but ultimately it is up to you to make it happen.
The Student Government Association is here for you.
We believe in you and you can always come to us with any problems, questions or suggestions about any aspect of your life here at WVU.
Welcome to campus, good luck, and Let’s Go Mountaineers!!
Jason BaileyStudent Body PresidentWest Virginia University
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whether you want to sit down or run. My personal favorites are Chick-fil-A or Taziki’s in the Mountainlair.
Use your meal plan, too. Basically free food is good food to me.
Give yourself extra time if riding the PRT to class
On the first day of classes, the PRT stations will be overflowing.
Considering the PRT is not the most consistent form of transportation, I would leave yourself a good hour in be-tween leaving your dorm room and getting to class if you live in Towers.
Make sure if you’re head-ing to a class Downtown, you are going to the Beechurst Station, as well.
Both the Beechurst and Walnut Stations are Down-town stops, but the Bee-churst Station is the right one if you’re heading to class.
Remember your student ID, room keys
The worst thing that could happen on your first day is
losing your WVU ID card and not being able to ride the PRT to class, use your meal plan for lunch or sign into classes that use a fancy ID card swiper.
Losing my room key was always a fear of mine.
In true freshman style, try out one of those fashionable lanyard key rings.
If you’ve ever wanted to be noticed as a freshman, that’s the route to take – but at least you won’t lose your keys.
Print out your class schedule before Sunday
On Sundays, the STAR system, where you can find your semester schedules, is usually down for a certain amount of time.
Make sure you print off your schedule before then, because it could cause a major panic before classes begin.
Don’t buy your books early
If you were caught in the craze of early book buying, I’m sorry.
You’ll probably spend most of your first weekend on campus standing in a line waiting to get a back-break-
ingly heavy cardboard box filled with books.
From my experience, some of the books that are re-quired in classes aren’t actu-ally needed, so wait and see what your professors say and buy from there.
Leave your laptop, books in your dorm
I wasn’t quite sure what to bring to class with me the first day.
I didn’t know if college was truly like it is in the movies where everyone sits with their fancy Macs in a row.
So to be safe, I brought my laptop and all of my books on my first day of classes.
My recommendation: Bring a notebook and a pen-cil, and you should be fine. The books and laptops can be used later, but the first day will be more of an introduc-tion in most cases.
sUrViVeContinued from PAGE 18 Advising center is
useful aid to studentsby rebeCCah GriffiTh
Staff writer
Coming to campus from a high school setting can be a confusing situation, espe-cially when it comes to figur-ing out classes.
The Advising Center can help sort out any problems students may have with their classes as well as being the go-to department for plan-ning your career at WVU.
This office of the university assists students in schedul-ing, deciding on majors, class conflicts and any general ad-vice a student may need.
The university employs a system using General Edu-cation Curriculum credits, or GECs.
Students must take appro-priate classes to fill these, specific to their major. This process can be a major ordeal without the help of an advi-sor, but their assistance can make this a swift exchange, and the same goes for any
other problems one may have with classes.
Taking advantage of the Ad-vising Center’s services and careful planning can prevent scheduling conflicts and keep students on a structured time-line for graduation.
In addition to scheduling assistance, the Advising Cen-ter can also help students plan broader parts of their educa-tional careers by sending them to department advisors at the appropriate time.
“I think it’s beneficial for students to take advantage of the fact that the Advising Cen-ter is specific to different de-partments,” said sophomore chemistry major Yousef Issa.
What he means by this is the advising center branches off into separate divisions based on department, such as the English or Engineering departments.
This allows for students to be advised by major-specific advisors rather than general education advisors, which helps by providing students with more knowledgeable guidance.
Without using the matric-ulation plans provided at the Advising Center, students will find it difficult to enter their department and plan for their progress through their major.
“The Advising Center is a very helpful place to go if you are confused about anything involving classes. Everyone is there to help. When I was a freshman, the people at the Advising office put me on the right track,” said junior English major Michael Secret.
If you ever find yourself overwhelmed by a class or having major conflict with a professor, the Advising Cen-ter can help you find solutions and assist you in working to-ward them.
Freshman are required to attend an advising workshop as well as completing an on-line tutorial in order to stream-line the advising process and ensure that students know what to expect and what is ex-pected of them at the Advis-ing Center.
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see advising on PAGE 21
aDVisinGContinued from PAGE 20
These brief exercises teach students the details of advis-ing at WVU, and prevent mix-ups like missed advising ap-pointments or scheduling in
the wrong department. It may seem like a simple
task to schedule classes and choose your path through college, but these are big de-cisions that affect the rest of your life and can become con-fusing quickly.
Taking advantage of all
the resources at the Advising Center is key to a successful path through the halls of WVU and will be endlessly helpful in making important choices that may define your time at the university.
Don’t add stress to your semester: Follow these tips
While a new year already con-tains the promise of a fresh start for everyone, it is especially true of college freshmen.
Unfortunately for many, the fall semester is one of making mistakes, and the spring semes-ter carries with it the burden of learning from them.
With that in mind, here are several ways for college fresh-men (and other college stu-dents) to make the most of their Spring semester.
The biggest sword over most students' heads is academics. This is doubly true for those freshmen on academic proba-tion who need to straighten up and fly right or face the prospect of going home.
When guidance counselors and professors give estimates for the amount of time you should study per credit hour to stay on top of material, they aren't kid-
ding. The rule of thumb is usu-ally two hours of study per credit hour, every week.
So, someone taking 16 credit hours would need to study for 32 hours a week to give themselves a fighting chance in their classes.
To most, that sounds intimi-dating and conjures up images of a life in the deep quiet read-ing rooms in the downtown li-brary, poring over textbooks, but it doesn't necessarily have to be that way.
Hopefully, you have chosen a major that you have a natural interest in, so even if you are a freshman slogging through your GECs, you do have an end goal in sight. If you are in a major you do not enjoy but continue in the hope of a bigger paycheck after graduation, stop now.
Even though this may seem like a good decision now, you will regret it in the end. In order to get the bigger paycheck, you need to be in the top percentage of your field.
Those who are up there know their field like the back of their hand because they enjoy learn-
ing every facet of it. To them, learning is enjoyable, and you will always be at a disadvan-tage to them, so go to the major where learning comes to you in the most natural way.
Despite the possible image of low pay in that field, you will now be one of those in the top percentage. And the best part will be that work will not feel like work.
So, you have a major you en-joy, but two hours of study per credit hour every week still seems daunting. Unlike the web ads that promise "one easy step to getting a flat stomach," there really are some surprisingly sim-ple ways to achieve those two hours of study per credit hour, and thankfully, none involve getting malware or phishing vi-ruses in return.
One of the most important study habits is simply doing the homework. Just think of it as studying you get graded on. Not only do you know what the tests and quizzes will contain, but you can boost your grade at the same time.
Even in the worst-case sce-nario of doing poorly on all your homework, you still have all the correct answers now on the graded homework to do well on the tests and quizzes.
This leads us to the next, most important, tip: As soon as you don't understand something, find a way to understand it. Most of the time, professors are more than happy to help you un-derstand a concept and will be impressed that you are taking the extra time to actually learn something instead of cramming.
The trick is to do this as soon as questions arise. Don't wait until right before finals. They will not be pleased or impressed with your timing.
In the off-chance that your teacher is not helpful or you still have trouble understanding the concept, go onto (YouTube) and look up "Khan Academy" or go to www.khanacademy.org.
It is a free service started by Salman Khan, who in 2004 wanted to help a younger rela-tive with her math and tutored her via Yahoo. From there, re-
quests from other family mem-bers and friends of theirs poured in enough that he quit his job in finance in 2009 to commit to Khan Academy on a full-time basis.
So, while Khan's three degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology give Khan Acad-emy a heavy dose of math and finance, there are also tutorials on biology, chemistry and even dissections of current financial events to help those outside the industry understand them bet-ter as they unfold.
Fittingly enough, Khan is a perfect example of going into the field of study you love most.
He loves math, science and finance so much he wants to reach out to others and help them understand for free, which is way bigger than any paycheck.
The most important thing to remember is that you are in con-trol of your own destiny. Even though life is unpredictable and sometimes brings circum-stances that we can not control, whether you succeed or fail de-pends on the choices you make.
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First off, welcome freshman class.
You waded through high school drama, senioritis, standardized tests and the systematic dismantling of your adolescence to become one of approximately 28,000 faces in the crowd. Congrats, you’re in bureaucratic hell!
Cynicism aside, it’s easy to get offtrack while in your pursuit of higher education. The most important thing you can do to get good grades and stay on track is to attend class. It’s a pretty common-sense approach.
Attending classes gives you a chance to learn the material in a much more effective way than going at it on your own ,and it allows you to form rela-tionships with professors and meet new people.
Statistically speaking, bet-ter attendance correlates with higher grades, and the daily grind of getting five hours of sleep a night is usually going to manifest itself in your at-
tendance of those dastardly early morning classes.
I know everything I just said is obvious, but you likely have not yet faced the monotony of going to 8:30 a.m. classes ev-ery day while staying up until 3 a.m. every night. Forming bad sleep habits is one of the biggest temptations a college student will face. That, and partying. This is West Virginia University, after all.
The truth is, it’s not the class’ s early time that keeps you from going; it’s the lack of sleep. Going to bed early and getting between eight and nine hours of sleep a night is going to have to be a mainstay habit during your collegiate experience.
Even if you manage to stay up all night and attend all your morning classes every day, you’ll feel like utter crap in doing so. Being sleep de-prived will leave you devoid of energy, affect your work ethic and leave you with a general feeling of apathy towards your academics.
Who wants to spend $16,000 on a year of college just to flunk out because you decided that going to morn-ing classes wasn’t worth your time?
To further drive the point home, many classes have at-tendance policies that de-duct entire letter grades for missing a certain amount of classes. This is especially true in English 101 and 102. It’s ex-tremely frustrating to lose a letter grade because of an at-tendance policy.
In addition to missing the daily material in the class you skipped, you also put your-self at risk of developing the habit of not going to class. The more you miss class, the harder it becomes to make yourself attend. Before you know it, you forgot about an exam and you’re emailing your professor some excuse you both know is a total lie.
As someone who tried the “stay up all night” method, I can tell you that your GPA will assuredly suffer. Maybe just marginally, maybe greatly, but it will undoubtedly be af-fected by sleep deprivation. Since adopting more healthy sleeping patterns and habits, my GPA has gone up substan-tially. I have more energy and care much more about doing the things necessary to get good grades.
It sounds simple enough to implement, but maintaining
a healthy sleep schedule re-quires discipline. If sleep de-privation wasn’t a problem, I wouldn’t be writing an article about it. Going to sleep at 10 p.m. so you will be prepared for your 8:30 a.m. algebra class can be tough when the alternative is staying up for the Daily Show with Jon Stew-art and the Colbert Report.
Ultimately, the path to a
successful freshman year and subsequent years is build-ing good habits early on and sticking to them. One of the top priorities should be estab-lishing a firm, healthy sleep schedule. Doing so will go a long way in keeping your class attendance high and by ex-tension, your GPA.
Good luck and enjoy college.
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Shocking, isn’t it? Since grade school guidance coun-selors, teachers and parents have closely observed their students and carefully, even systematically, led their sheep into their potential flocks. Ap-titude tests examined logi-cal and emotional skills sets, thereby determining a range of career options for students.
I remember being asked my freshman year of high school what I wanted to do or be when I grew up. If I had known then, perhaps I would not have switched my major after two years of college to not only save my education, but study what I want to study.
As freshman, you are stand-
ing on the threshold of your house – your future. Your past experiences, family and high school friends are behind you now. These are the outside in-fluences that walked you to the door of your future. College is the hallway you stand in and it leads to many rooms – your po-tential futures.
But how does one choose a room, especially if one already has plans on living there with-out further examination.
Excessive focus on one’s ma-jor or school work is detrimen-tal to all freshman and students alike. I am neither advocating going out and partying every night nor never doing your homework.
I simply believe that taking advantage of the opportunity to find one’s self and embrace a liberal arts education are keys to a successful freshman year, and college career overall.
It is fantastic to have some
idea of what one wants to do with one’s life. I wish congrat-ulations to those who have fig-ured it out. But for those who have “made the decision,” you may find yourself becoming burnt out and overworked by the end of your freshman year. By the end of your sophomore year, you might possibly ques-tion whether or not the major is right for you.
West Virginia University has the privilege to offer courses from beginning to advanced studies in all course work, from elementary math and piano to advanced physics and how to make wine. So why not try it all?
GECs are required classes possibly unrelated to one’s ma-jor, which must be completed prior to graduation. Typically, GECs seem to be one’s least important classes – until your life is changed by them.
By taking a wide variety of
courses outside of one’s ma-jor, the overall focus on one’s school work and career devel-opment is greatly improved. Not only are GECs advanta-geous breaks from one’s in-tense studies, thus allowing the brain to think different or po-tentially access the “other side,” but a single class can change the course of one’s school work forever.
Having studied music ed-ucation for two years, I found myself appreciating the profes-sion of being a music teacher but knowing this job was pos-sibly not my best fit. Knowing that I wanted to stay in mu-sic, I released myself from the major restrictions imposed on me since my freshman year and discovered that I wanted to learn about, teach and re-search the voice. By taking an introduction to linguistics class (LING#101) I was em-powered and inspired to con-
tinue my course study in a mi-nor in speech pathology and audiology.
I knew I loved music, and I wanted to continue studying it, but with outside focus in medi-cal studies of the voice through the ears, nose and throat. This combination, a BA degree in music and a minor in speech pathology and audiology, could lead me to further study subjects such as voice science, vocal pedagogy or speech pa-thology at a master’s degree level.
But I am not the only stu-dent who knew that solely fo-cusing on one’s major with-out an open mind would affect the course of their studies and health. Judy Grahack, a former psychology major, found her-self overwhelmed as a psychol-ogy student. After taking two art history courses, Judy found inspiration in mental rehabili-tation through art. Art therapy, much like music or physical therapy, aids in the rehabilita-tion of people who have expe-rienced trauma.
Coursework outside of one’s major is an inspirational tool that can rekindle or re-inspire the mind to focus on one’s fu-ture. So relax. You should not be overwhelmed with the re-quired course work of your freshman year. Take the time to explore possible career op-tions and have fun. The pos-sibility of being inspired by a GEC or outside course could cause someone to reevalu-ate their lives. It takes an open mind and flexible schedule to evaluate the best next steps to one’s education.
Taking courses in a variety of disciplines can be rewardingSam Viggianocolumnist
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Don’t forget your friends or familyJamie CarboneA&E Editor
When coming to college, freshmen are going to be ex-posed to a lot of new and in-teresting things, from living on their own for the first time to being able to eat ice cream for breakfast without stern looks from mom.
One of the great things freshmen are sure to encounter is going to be new friends. They might meet because they have a class together, they might room together or maybe they both re-ally enjoy the film “Space Jam.” Regardless, new friends will be made during your first year and, while these new friends are sure to be great additions to your life, you shouldn’t forget about your friends and family who supported you before you left home.
The occasional phone call, text message or video chat can go a long way to keeping your relationship strong. Even something as simple as post-ing a link to their Facebook wall lets them know that, in some way, you were thinking of them.
Time and time again, high school friendships have crum-bled to simply being the occa-sional birthday wish without the proper care. It is your duty to make sure your friend knows how important they are to you.
The same goes for parents. Call your mom or dad when you have good news, such as a high test score or you think you’ve met the person of your dreams. Let them feel like they are still part of your life like they were before you moved out.
Plus, it helps to call your par-ents about something other than asking to borrow money, which can get old fast.
Remember, though, it takes two to have a relationship. If you feel like you are the one doing all the work to keep things going, maybe take a step back and decide if continuing the friendship is the right thing to do. You don’t want to waste your time on caring about
someone who may not feel the same way about you.
Of course, students shouldn’t go in the complete opposite direction either. Stay-ing in your dorm all night on Skype with your best friend is no way to live your life if you do it every day of the week.
What students really need to do is find a comfortable bal-ance between both their old friends and their new ones.
If your roommate invites you out to eat with some friends, take the offer and tell your friend that you’ll text them when you’re free.
Don’t ignore your mother’s phone call just because you have a lot of studying to do, ex-plain the situation to her. Odds are, she will understand.
If you do respond to a pal from home while you’re out with your new chums, make sure that you don’t spend your whole time texting. Being out with friends without paying at-tention to them is just as bad, if not worse, than not coming out at all.
Remember, we live in an age of technology. We are able to talk to people across the world face-to-face, thanks to the power of computers.
Something as simple as an email can go a long way to keep the friendships you cher-ish alive.
Most important of all is that you go out and be social. Turn of ESPN and log off of “World of Warcraft” and meet your fellow students. Your future spouse may be in your Psychology 101 class and your next best friend may be that big guy sitting one table over.
For many, this will be your first time without the folks watching your every move. That doesn’t mean live reck-lessly, but that does mean it is time to live your life.
In twenty years when you have a house and kids, you don’t want to wonder what your life could’ve been if you’d done things differently. Do them the way you want now.
You probably still shouldn’t friend your parents on Face-book, though.
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When it comes to hanging out with friends in Morgan-town, it can get expensive.
Going to see a movie can cost a lot of money if you do it ev-ery weekend, and even a res-taurant like Applebee’s can be expensive when you’re a full-time student without a source of income.
Thankfully, in our modern age of technology, there are plenty of ways to work around that.
When it comes to films, it will
almost always be cheaper to stay in with a rental than head out to either theatre located in Morgantown.
Thanks to services like Red-box and Blockbuster’s rental kiosks, students will only have to spend a dollar a day to rent new releases on DVD. A Block-buster store is also within walk-ing distance for students on the Evansdale campus, allowing them a greater selection for the same price they would pay at a theatre.
Still, the best source of cheap entertainment is Netflix. It has a variety of plans for students to access, be it the digital-only ser-vice for $7.99 a month or spend-ing $19.99 a month, which gives
users access to their digital ser-vices as well as having access to three DVDs that may not be of-fered digitally at that time.
The digital service is one of the great things to happen to home movie rental. It allows students to watch their favorite movies and TV shows not only on their computer, but also on many phones and gaming sys-tems that are out right now.
Netflix can be used not only when hanging out with your friends, but also when you’re bored during that wait between classes.
Hulu Plus also allows televi-sion fans to access whole sea-sons of programs such as “The Office” or “Modern Family,” for
a similar price, although this comes without the benefit of DVDs.
The standard Hulu is also a great way to catch up on that episode of “Parks and Rec-reation” that you missed this week.
For those who would rather go out and have a lavish meal with their friends instead of stare at a screen for two hours, there is a cheaper equivalent to that as well – meal plan.
While it may not sound very interesting, a meal plan will al-low students to enjoy the com-pany of one another without having to spend any money at that moment. Granted, you do have to spend money when
you purchase a meal plan but, considering most dorms don’t have a proper kitchen and how expensive it will be to dine out night after night, it is a wise investment.
The various dining halls lo-cated around campus will easily allow friends to come together, especially if they happen to live in the same dormitory.
The Mountainlair’s dining options may be more open when it comes to seating, but it gives students plenty of op-portunity to meet others in a non-threatening environment. Plenty of friendships can start over a shared interest in Burger King.
Some out there may prefer to have a mutual love of video games be their foundation, there is a cheaper answer than buying a brand new $60 game for your Playstation 3.
Services such as Gamefly act similar to Netflix and, while it is more expensive, it works just as well for getting your video-game fix.
Redbox will also soon be of-fering video games as well for $2 a night, a much cheaper in-vestment, especially for those games that could be either amazing or awful.
Finally, Blockbuster is still an option. While it does offer typ-ical rental prices, it also has a special deal allowing custom-ers can sign up for where they can keep a game out for how-ever long they want and ex-change it for another when they are finished, all for a monthly fee.
Finally, there will always be the outdoors to take advan-tage of. Regardless of the sea-son, there is something for ev-eryone to go out and do.
During the fall, the leaves become a lovely color, during the winter there will always be a hill that can be sled down and spring and summer allows for students to take advantage of all the parks located across town.
Even better, bring a bike with you. Not only will you get to see parts of Morgantown many stu-dents don’t know about, but you will get a work out while doing it.
So, for those who want to have a good time but don’t have the cash for it, don’t forget there is always a more frugal Plan B to take advantage of.
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Morgantown nightlife is noth-ing short of that – alive. It is no secret that on any given night the downtown streets will be flooded with thrill-seeking and, eventually, hungry students.
Of all the incredible services offered to West Virginia Univer-sity students, WVUp All Night is one of the best events available.
While some students choose to stop for pizza on High Street or have some sandwiches deliv-ered to their dorms. The more knowledgeable and money-con-science ones take advantage of the free food in the Mountainlair.
The cuisine is provided by WVU Dining Services on the three nights of the weekend. On Thursday, Friday and Sat-urday messy, munchie, snack food is out in the main din-ing room from 10 p.m. to mid-night. After midnight on Friday and Saturday, breakfast food is
what attracts a huge line in the Mountainlair
“Not only is it free, but it al-ways hits the spot after a night of partying,” said senior Kellie McDonald.
McDonald admits that the free food has been a highlight to many of her weekends in the past three years. It is one of the things that will stick with her.
Former WVU student Mike Stahurski speaks fondly of those crazy nights and free food during his time at WVU.
“I think I went at least twice a week, every week, for my entire time there,” he said about how he spent many of his weekend nights at school.
Although the food provided to students seems to be the most popular choice, there’s more than just food at WVUp All Night.
Besides food, each week dif-ferent forms of entertainment are offered. There are usually different types of interactive challenges where students will compete over trivia or feats of strength which offer prizes to students who participate, with
winners earning even more. On special weekends, such
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It has also been customary for the last nights of WVUp All Night in the semester to have more than just the usual nachos and eggs. For many years, the last night has been seen as a sort of celebration of another success-ful year.
On those nights, foods such as cheeseburgers and fajitas have been added, as well as a sundae bar.
So whether it’s the free junk food and soda that attracts you or interactive activities, WVUp All Night is another perk for WVU students to take advantage of, especially those who are look-ing to save a buck.
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College is all about making new friends.
From life in the dorms to acquaintances made in class-rooms, there is no way to ex-plain how many people you will truly meet during your time spent at West Virginia University.
Personally, I came to col-lege with one group but left with an new bunch. Some of the best friends I made over the year were people I chose to sit by in classes or people who shared the same Bore-
man South tower as myself. There are many ways to
keep in touch with the peo-ple you come across, such as Facebook or Twitter, but the most important way to keep in touch with them outside of the dorms or classroom is with your cell phone.
Having good service dur-ing your college experience is one of the major keys to a suc-cessful social life. If you have solid reception throughout the Morgantown area, you’ll never be behind on the hottest par-ties or social events, which can bring you closer to the people you’ll meet.
Also, everyone knows a call or two a day to mom is very much appreciated.
There are a few major cell phone companies that have a great success rate in the Mor-gantown area and some that don’t quite keep up with the pack.
My roommate, Dillon, and I argued constantly on which cell phone service was more successful, but as painful as it was, I always knew his argu-ment was better and his choice in carrier was wiser than my own.
You see, Dillon was an AT&T fanatic and carried the iPhone 4. Solid choice, Dillon. Solid choice.
AT&T’s service throughout the areas around Morgantown
Satisfaction is an important part of college
When it comes to motiva-tion, personal satisfaction is the key, trick and toughest thing to come across. Why? Because the “personal” ele-ment drives our expectations
higher. We only want the very best
when it comes to our narra-tives. Thoughts of mansions, fame, love and money may do it for some, but even those who strive for job security and friendship set a high standard. How? It is still comfort, only different by the details.
Satisfaction is the key. When achieved, we are finally happy
Alec BerryWeb editor
with our existence. It can come in different sets – sometimes overall, other times a day-by-day case. But, it always matters.
Even when not ours, satis-faction matters. Maybe even more than when we actu-ally possess it. The need of it pushes us forward.
For the incoming freshmen, college is something entirely new. While it may sound cli-che, that doesn’t stop it from being the truth.
High school, not to totally belittle the institution, really requires little of us. You show up, sleep in math class, eat a bad lunch and then leave to think nothing of what you “learned.” It is a formula to fol-low, and the only aesthetic it carries is a mixture of social ex-periences and stereotypes.
College shares the social aesthetic, but the work re-quired is much more than what is expected in high school.
Ok, not entirely different. If you wanted, you could just at-tend class and do nothing else and be fine.
On the freshman level, at least. But, that personal sat-isfaction idea is what really matters.
College is the chance to fi-nally shape your own life. Par-ents kept you on a leash early
on, and the later years of teen-age sanctum still fell under some sense of home rule. You could not really be yourself as you were held to outside ex-pectations, but, in college, you are away and the master of your domain. With this comes fear, though.
When you goof up, you can be saved in college. You are still protected as your parents sit just one phone call away.
Trouble, as long as it is not murder or something outland-ish, will not derail your life at this stage of development.
And really, college is when you should mess up so that you can study your mess ups. Get them out of the way now, and never repeat them again.
You do want to consider the future, though. Where high school makes time feel slow, college does the opposite. Four years may seem like a lot, but really it is little when you con-sider your real life is just on the horizon.
The real life is something you want to make sure you don’t mess up.
Again, if you wanted, you could just scrape by at WVU for that first year. Most will do that, and respect towards them. They live how they wish.
But others start to look at
themselves, though, harder than ever, and they will come to ask something. “How satis-fied am I?”
Then, the gears click, and they realize this is it. Life can be as you have always wanted it. Starting right here, right now. Then you begin to work harder, and just going to class seems like lazy behavior.
It is important to find that source of motivation, that goal, and to apply it to your every-day. That is the trick to sur-viving college, or more spe-cifically, your freshmen year; focusing on what will satisfy you and bring happiness and then working to make it so.
As typed, there remains lit-tle time, but college is all about what you make it.
Let your motivations be-come you. Let it be your heart-beat. You are not living in a manufactured world anymore. You are living in your world. Push it. Do things on your own. Do not rely on the professor or your class schedule. Teach yourself. Read, question, build, write, explore and something else corny.
Yeah, corny. Maybe this en-tire piece reads that way, or maybe it isn’t far off.
When choosing a cell phone, some are better than others
JAKe POTTSA&e Writer
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Morgantown music scene has a lot to offer
Morgantown has a thriving, cutting-edge music scene and offers plenty of venues and opportunities for students to check out local talent.
123 Pleasant Street is at the center of local and visiting acts, hosting big names like The Davisson Brothers and Gang Gang Dance, while at the
same time acting as the go-to spot for local favorites.
123 Pleasant Street has set the standard for other local venues with its balanced set-ting of upbeat dance club and laid-back venue.
The venue sometimes al-lows ages 18 and older, though it can also be exclusively for ages 21 and older, depending on the night.
Other areas like The Blue Moose Cafe and Black Bear Burritos act as restaurants during the day and venues through the night, offering
a unique atmosphere that is only found in college towns like Morgantown.
Art gallery-inspired coffee house The Blue Moose Cafe attracts easy listening genres of all musicians and acts. The cafe also serves as many col-lege students’ home away from home, providing a re-laxed alternative to the typical club scene.
The Blue Moose Cafe and so.zo cereal bar often host open mic nights, allowing the community to explore and dis-cover what underground tal-
ent the town has to offer.Morgantown has something
to offer mainstream music lov-ers also, attracting big names and headliners to the WVU Coliseum.
National acts like The Fray, Drake and The All American Rejects have performed here.
WVU students receive dis-counted prices, and some-times free admission, to all concerts with a valid WVU ID.
FallFest, a free concert held at the start of each school year, always provides an impressive lineup, with recent perfor-
mances by Kanye West, Lud-acris, Dashboard Confessional and Maroon 5.
The surrounding area is also perfect for music lovers, with DC and Pittsburgh always at-tracting big shows.
For those who appreciate music further than the DJ’s house music played at the lo-cal nightclubs, Morgantown has something to offer every-one – locals performing their originals on the street or your favorite big-time band.
MAcKenzie MAyS A&e Writer
MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMRapper Drake as he performs at WVU. Drake has visited WVU twice in the past year. MATT SUNDAY/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
Maroon 5 performing at 2010’s FallFest. Previous guests include Third Eye Blind and the Black Eyed Peas.
is remarkable, reaching ev-erynook and cranny with ease and 3G.
Granted, AT&T drops a call every now and again, but for the most part the choice of ser-vice is the best available.
I had been a Verizon sup-porter since my high school days, so the choice to stay with the company was more or less due to the ease of not having to cancel and start new contracts.
Although Verizon doesn’t
have a tower in the Morgan-town region, the phones run off the U.S. Cellular towers throughout the area, and calls and texts are a breeze. Unfor-tunately, the towers don’t offer 3G coverage for Verizon users so internet use, unless you’re running off a WiFi connection, is significantly awful.
However, I didn’t experi-ence any dropped calls or any other troubles of that sort. Not that I can recall, anyway.
Another major carrier that I have seen be quite successful throughout the area is Sprint. Although I don’t have any di-rect experience with the com-
pany, a handful of my friends chose that carrier and I’ve heard no complaints. And, with a dealer located on High Street, you can’t beat it the convenience.
Cell phones are a major part of the college experience. From staying connected with friends and family at home, to keeping in touch with friends you make on the way, those lit-tle lifesavers are an important choice to make for your up-coming freshman year.
Make sure you make the right one.
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Outdoor activities can fight off Freshmen 15Mackenzie Mays a&e Writer
West Virginia University stu-dents should have no trouble avoiding the “freshman 15.”
Morgantown has a lot of out-door activities and free exercise opportunities to help keep the calories in check.
A favorite student summer-time attraction is “Blue Hole,” a simple swimming area with a 70-foot bridge along the Big Sandy River.
The quick 30-minute drive between a dirt road and a 50-foot cliff is a great getaway for adventurous students with a need for one last small vacation before the school year.
The spot is always packed with picnics and tailgates and serves as the college communi-ty’s unofficial mini-beach spot. It is surrounded by beautiful scenery, and students at WVU make the most of it.
While Downtown Morgan-town is constantly busy and a little hectic, it’s easy to find some peace and quiet if you look hard enough.
Morgantown is equipped with newly developed pedes-trian walking and recreational trails system.
Together, The Caperton and Deckers Creek trails span 33 paved miles for locals to enjoy.
However, the best view is from another local favorite get-away: Coopers Rock.
Located 13 miles east of Mor-gantown, Coopers Rock State
Forest is the best way to appre-ciate state beauty, with vast sce-nic overlooks of the Cheat River and Cheat Canyon.
While most go to Coopers Rock to enjoy the overlook, the state forest offers several hiking trails, climbing activities and campgrounds.
For those who aren’t out-doorsy and don’t have the time to venture off campus, it’s easy to stay in shape with the Stu-dent Recreation Center – one of the best student facilities in the country.
Students have free access to the Rec any time with their WVU ID. Their ID also allows them to ride the bus and PRT to the rec for free.
The 17,000-square-foot cen-ter offers a variety of exercise equipment, along with several
basketball and tennis courts, a swimming pool, a running/walking track and a 50-foot climbing wall.
The Rec Center also offers free personal training and exer-cise classes like Zumba.
Despite the many obstacles going to college puts in the way
of staying healthy, Morgantown offers both indoor and outdoor ways to stay active for those who want to and enjoy the features they have at their disposal.
It is up to the students to use them.
WEBBike riding is a great way to fight off weight and see beautiful parts of West Virginia.
Vintage Video & Games offers cheap entertainment for studentsJaMie carbOnea&e editor
Located on Morgantown’s High Street, past Dollar Tree but before Pleasant Street, is Vintage Videos & Games, a used video game and movie store.
It is a place where students can shop for inexpensive forms of entertainment.
Vintage Videos & Games has been buying, selling and trad-ing used games and movies for over 14 years.
The front window display is recognizable by its showcase of both retro and recent games and systems.
The inside is full of rows and rows of movie cases, and post-ers cover the back wall.
The front counter is devoted to older video games, from the Nintendo Entertainment Sys-tem to the more recent Nin-tendo DS.
Behind the counter sits the video game consoles them-selves as well as a TV that shows old movies to entertain both employees and custom-ers as they go about the store.
Newer, more popular mov-ies, such as “Tron: Legacy” will be several dollars cheaper than you would find at Wal-Mart or
Target.Older, lesser known movies,
including VHS tapes, go for much less.
While movies are the store’s biggest seller, video games are a close second.
Vintage Video sells all kinds of entertainment systems, from newer ones like the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 to the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision.
“People collect a lot of retro systems,” said Kevin Riggle-man, owner of the store, which opened in 1997.
They also have plenty of con-trollers for sale, from Dream-cast to Guitar Hero guitars on display for customers to browse.
Regardless of how obscure or unique a product may be, Vintage Video will buy it off your hands and put it on the shelves.
While the store offers every-thing from original Gameboy to the Sega Gensis, the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo sell the most cartridges.
“When the Wii puts some-thing out for download, we get calls asking for the original,” Riggleman said.
Vintage Video refurbishes anything that they buy, from cleaning and testing cartridges to checking discs for scratches and resurfacing them if needed.
The store allows customers
to try out a game in-store be-fore they buy it to make sure it works.
“We guarantee every-thing we sell here for 30 days,” said Andrew Mayer, who has worked at the store for years.
Another service the store of-fers is repairs, replacing parts in broken PS2’s and resurfac-ing scratched discs for a fee, depending on how bad the problem.
When a customer brings in a movie or game, they can ei-ther sell it or trade it in for store credit.
The store will buy anything if it is in decent condition, from old anime tapes to just released video games and put them back on the racks for other custom-ers to enjoy.
Casey Nassif, a sophomore biology major at West Virginia Universtiy, frequents Vintage Videos & Games once a month to check out what is available.
“All the DVDs and video games I’ve bought there have been in good working condi-tion,” Nassif, who describes himself as a “casual gamer,” said.
If Nassif can’t find a game he is looking for online, he said he will go to Vintage Videos to see if they have it instead of going to other used game stores in the area.
Vintage Videos and Games
is open Monday through Fri-day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed on the weekends, so video game fans should
do their shopping during the week.
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First off, I would like to wel-come all of you to West Virginia University. In your next four years here, you will witness the continued outstanding athletic tradition that this school has to offer.
The 2011-12 school year will represent the beginning of a new era of Mountaineer sports for many reasons.
Obviously, things will be changing significantly with the football team starting this season.
With a revamped offense led by junior quarterback Geno Smith and new offensive co-ordinator and head-coach-in-waiting Dana Holgorsen, the Mountaineer football team is preparing for a 2011 season sur-rounded by more hype than al-most any other season in recent memory.
Since Holgorsen and his of-fensive staff were hired, there has been an unbelievable amount of talk and excitement surrounding next season, and for many seasons to come for Mountaineer football.
WVU has already been in-cluded as a team that is not only a front-runner to win the Big East Conference, but has been mentioned by some people as a darkhorse to make it to the Na-tional Championship Game.
But, it’s not just the foot-ball team that has new, young coaches helping bring their respective programs to new heights next year.
In her first season as the head volleyball coach, Jill Kramer saw her team improve rapidly. De-spite coming up just short of an appearance in the Big East tour-nament, the volleyball team got off to its best start in nearly 20 years.
The Mountaineers also picked up two huge victories in Kramer’s first year at the helm, beating Marshall for the first time in 10 years and beat Pitt for just the second time in pro-gram history.
The WVU tennis team and first-year head coach Tina Sa-mara also made big strides last year in setting up a good foun-dation for future success over the next couple seasons.
Although they finished with a record of 8-14, Samara’s team will be returning a lot of key players for next year, as well as a very good recruiting class.
There will be one new head coach leading a team when next season starts.
Jason Butts spent five sea-sons as a WVU assistant gym-nastics coach and was named the Southeast Regional Assis-tant Coach of the Year twice be-fore being promoted at the end of April, after former head coach Linda Burdette-Good retired.
But Butts will have some big shoes to fill, as Burdette-Good left the WVU gymnastics pro-gram after spending 37 years as the head coach and ending her career with 644 wins, the most of any West Virginia head coach in any sport.
All of these new coaches have brought and will continue to bring new success to their pro-grams, and could help take the teams they coach to a level yet to be seen at this University.
While those sports will have young leaders on the sideline, a lot of other teams will have young leaders on the field next season.
It will truly be a new era for both the men’s and women’s basketball teams when the be-ginning of the 2011-12 season rolls around.
The men’s team lost six play-ers, including leaders like Joe Mazzulla, John Flowers and Casey Mitchell – as well as Dal-ton Pepper, who had a chance to start for the Mountaineers next season before deciding to trans-fer to Temple.
With all of those players gone and just four scholarship play-ers returning, head coach Bob Huggins will have to turn to his young and talented recruiting class to find players who will be expected to make big contribu-tions next year.
The Mountaineers’ eight-player class is currently ranked No. 25, according to ESPN, and includes players like point guard Jabarie Hinds.
With such a young team, Hinds and players like Aaron Brown and Keaton Miles could not only see a lot of playing time as freshmen, but might even get the chance to start for WVU
Much like the men’s team, the West Virginia women’s basket-ball team and head coach Mike Carey will also have to rely on
a lot of younger, inexperienced players to replace a big and very successful senior class.
The women’s team’s class of five seniors left WVU as the win-ningest class in program history.
To replace them, the Moun-taineers will look to junior cen-ter Aysa Bussie and sophomore point guard Brooke Hampton to take over as the leaders of the team.
But, also like the men’s team, Carey’s team will have a very good, nationally-ranked re-cruiting class. The Mountain-eers class, which is ranked No. 28 by ESPN, currently has five players committed to come to Morgantown, including point guard Linda Stepney and for-ward Averee Fields.
Both Stepney and Fields are ranked in ESPN’s top 100 high school players in the country.
Fresh off of winning the Big East championship, the West Virginia women’s soccer team is ready to defend its crown in the fall.
But if head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown wants to see her team repeat that success this sea-son and take home a third con-ference championship when the Mountaineers host the Big East tournament at the end of the season, it will have to hap-pen without players like Me-gan Mischler and Ashtin Lar-kin, who were big contributors last season.
Luckily for the Mountaineers, they have players like Bri Rodri-guez, Blake Miller and a lot of other players who were a huge part of the team’s success last year.
The men’s soccer team, led by head coach Marlon LeBlanc, made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament last year with a team that was led mostly by sophomores and graduated just three seniors.
With a talented recruiting class, as well as all of its goal-scorers back, the Mountaineers are looking for another great season in 2011.
While those teams have jobs to do on the field, you, as stu-dents, have a job to do as well.
Go out and support all of these teams.
Being a Mountaineer fan isn’t just about going to the games, it’s about this one-of-a-kind, unique experience, and there are a few things you should know before you make your
way to your first football game this fall ...
z Firstly, as a student, you are going to be a part of one of the loudest, rowdiest and most feared student sections in the country.
And you better be ready to pull your weight.
That means you can’t just sit there and watch the games – get up and be as loud as you pos-sibly can. Help show people across the nation why the Moun-taineer Maniacs help make Mi-lan Puskar Stadium and the Col-iseum two of the toughest places to play in the Big East.
z Stay for the whole game.As a student, I can honestly
say it’s an amazing feeling to hear an entire crowd of people sing along to “Country Roads” at the end of a game, and know-ing that you’re taking part in a pretty big tradition at this school makes it even better.
z Lastly, don’t just sup-port the football and basketball teams.
Of course, those are the two biggest teams that everybody cares about the most, but going to soccer games and baseball games and some of the other great sports WVU has to offer is an experience that is great as well, especially for a freshman.
It’s another good opportu-nity to get out there and meet new people and get accus-tomed to what goes on here in Morgantown.
Once again, welcome to West Virginia University, and be ready for what should be an outstanding year for Mountain-eer athletics.
So get out there and watch it. Have fun, be loud, but above all else, be responsible and enjoy your first year.
michael carVellisports editor
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FILE PHOTOWest Virginia University students cheer during a football game.
by Michael carvellisports editor
The Mountaineer Maniacs are the largest, and probably the most recognizable, student organization at West Virginia University.
The Mountaineer Maniacs are the official student cheering section at WVU, and they have been officially identified as such for 12 years now.
“What’s great is that it does so much more than it sounds like it does,” Staffileno said. “It’s more than just a fan club.”
One of those things the Ma-niacs have been known to do is allow students to go on trips to watch WVU play away games, and most importantly, they can do it without paying a ton of money.
“I went to Cincinnati the year before last and my ticket – at face value – would have been 60 dollars, but the trip was only 25 dollars, and we got a bus ride there and back,” Staffileno said.
The Mountaineer Maniacs have three payment options to choose from.
The lowest is “Basic,” which costs $20, and give students a t-shirt, 20 percent off on apparel at The Book Exchange, invites to watch parties and second prior-ity on trips.
“Gold Gridiron” members pay $30, and get everything a basic membership offers plus guaranteed football tickets.
But Staffileno said the best
deal was the “True Blue” mem-bership, which costs $35 and gives you everything the first to give, and also allows you to sign up for trips a day before anyone else.
Last year, the Mountaineer Maniacs’ biggest road trip for a football game was when they made the trip down to Baton Rouge, La.
This year, Staffileno said the Maniacs could be taking stu-dents on up to four trips for foot-ball season.
He said the Maniacs will def-initely be making the trip to the Maryland and Cincinnati games and, depending on ticket avail-ability and when the games are, they could also go to Syracuse and Rutgers to watch the Moun-taineers play.
“When the Syracuse game got moved to a Friday, it kind of pulled that away a little bit, it’s just tougher to do,” Staffileno said. “Hopefully we can do the trip to Rutgers. That’s the only one we’re really not sure about.
“That will probably be an overnight trip with maybe a lit-tle visit to New York City. I feel like that would get a lot of popu-larity, and a lot of people would want to go on that.”
While a lot of things are done give students the chance to watch the football and basket-ball teams play, Staffileno said this year, the organization will be putting more emphasis on
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Just a small percentage of the incoming freshmen at West Virginia University will be on a varsity athletic team, but that doesn’t mean the ones who aren’t can’t be athletes.
That’s where club sports come into play.
With 38 different club sport teams at WVU, Club Sports Federation President Jared Fa-bian said there is something for everyone. And the number of club sports teams continues to grow, too.
Fabian said the number of teams has increased ev-ery year since the Club Sports Federation was founded.
“By the end of the school year in 2013, our goal is to have more than 50 teams,” he said.
There will be something different about club sports at West Virginia University this upcoming year, as the Univer-sity will have completed some of the $8.4 million state-of-the-art recreational fields project in three different ar-eas around Morgantown.
Construction of the arti-ficial turf field, tennis courts and walking track across from the Evansdale Residential Complex, as well as the new turf rugby field and lighted baseball and softball fields at Mylan Park, will be done by the fall, according to Fabian.
The fields at the Medical Center location will both need
to be resurfaced, and lights must be moved from the cen-ter of the field. He said the lo-cation should be ready by Fall 2011.
“The new facilities are go-ing to help us get kids involved because there will be more at-tention on club sports,” Fabian said. “I expect participation to increase more than it has in the past years. Students are going to be able to see all the activities go on, and they will want to become a part of it.”
The new recreational fields will provide West Virginia club sport teams the ability to host tournaments and games in Morgantown, something Fa-bian said a lot of the teams haven’t been able to do in the past.
In fact, Fabian said the rugby teams are the only teams that have hosted tour-naments before.
“I want to have five to seven tournaments,” Fabian said. “These new facilities will help us put on tournaments. Host-
ing tournaments will help us raise more money.”
The Club Sports Feder-ation is responsible for di-viding funds between the 38 teams. The federation will re-ceive $100,000 from the Uni-versity this year, after receiv-ing $75,000 last year.
The money is allocated based on the number of mem-bers and estimated budget. In past years, a team’s commu-nity service was taken into consideration, but that is now mandatory for all club sports teams.
Fabian said it still isn’t enough, and most teams must charge dues.
The amount varies based on the team’s budget.
Fabian, who is also involved with the baseball team, said it charged its members $250 last year.
“Fund-raising is also a huge source,” Fabian said. “All our teams fund-raise.”
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getting students out in larger numbers to some of the other Olympic sports, like soccer, baseball and volleyball.
SGA Athletic Councilman Steve Orlowski is the Director of Olympic Sports for the Moun-taineer Maniacs, and Staffileno said he has a lot of good ideas to help raise awareness for the “smaller sports.”
“I’m really going to let him
take the torch on Olympic sports,” Staffileno said. “I trust him a lot and I’m just going to sit back and let him do what he wants to do.”
Those Olympic sports, where there aren’t as many people there, are a great opportunity for students – especially freshmen – to get acquainted with other people and do one of the things that make the Mountaineer Ma-niacs such a great organization for students, build new relation-ships and make new friends.
“If you’re not at the games,
you’re missing out on being with the majority of the stu-dent body at WVU,” Staffileno said. “It’s a great opportunity to meet people who could become your best friend while you’re in school.”
Incoming freshmen can sign up to join the Mountaineer Ma-niacs at their New Student Ori-entation Day, and Staffileno encourages all students to fol-low the group on Twitter, at twitter.com/WVUMANIACS.
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Student Rec Center a great way stay fit
by miChael CaRvellisports editor
Located in the center of the Evansdale Campus, the West Virginia University Student Recreation Center has been a huge success since it opened in 2001.
The state-of-the-ar t , 177,000-square-foot facility is located just a short walk away from Towers.
Rec Center Director Dave Taylor says much of that suc-cess is thanks to the variety of activities students can do while there.
“The Rec Center is a facil-ity that has a lot of choices un-der one roof,” Taylor said. “A lot of our students will come out to play basketball or go out on the track, and there are a lot of students who are dedicated to the weight and fitness at the Rec Center.”
The Rec Center has six bas-ketball courts – which are also used for badminton and vol-leyball – a 50-foot rock climb-ing wall, a three-lane, elevated track and an aquatic center, which includes a six-lane, 25-yard lap and fitness pool, a hot tub and a whirlpool.
Overlooking the aquatic
center is the cardio and weight training areas. This is a 17,000-square-foot area that offers a variety of equipment, including treadmills, ellipti-cals, weight machines and free weights.
The Rec Center also has a squash court and three rac-quetball courts.
With the large variety of things for students to do, an-other thing that has been able to keep the Rec Center pop-ular across campus is the classes offered there, includ-ing Zumba, yoga, spinning and karate.
There are more than 50 classes offered at the Rec Cen-ter at all times of the day, mak-ing it perfect for students who have to balance their time to exercise with class and work.
“The group exercise classes are usually taught in the eve-nings when students aren’t in class,” Taylor said. “It’s a posi-tive that we open at six in the morning and close at midnight on Monday through Thursday.
“That makes it so that we can fit just anybody’s sched-ule as far as classes go.”
Even with all of these great things the WVU Rec Center has to offer, Taylor says there is one
thing that really makes this stand out compared to a lot of the other gyms in the area.
Everything is free for students.
To gain entry into the Rec Center, all students need to do is swipe their Student ID card.
Taylor said at one time they did charge for classes, but that changed five years ago when they decided it would be best for the students.
“We realized the attendance in those classes was not what we were expecting,” he said. “We are concerned about the health and wellness of our stu-dents, and once we opened up those classes, our attendance skyrocketed.”
And, when it comes down to it, it’s all about being able to do what you like to be able to stay in shape.
“For a lot of students, this is an opportunity to continue on a wellness path,” Taylor said. “The earlier in our lives that we get on a wellness path, the better off it’s going to be later in life.
“Hopefully we can help get students establish these excel-lent health habits.”
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A quick guide to requesting football tickets
FILE PHOTOPictured above is the entrance of Milan Puskar Stadium, where fans in the Touchdown Terrace part of the stadium enter to get to their seats. The stadium is commonly called the loudest and rowdiest stadium in the Big East Conference.
by tony dobiessports writer
West Virginia University stu-dents have the opportunity to sit in one of the largest student sections in the country for foot-ball games.
There are 11,000 seats re-served for students at Milan Puskar Stadium, which are mainly in the upper deck.
That will not change this year, according to WVU’s Di-rector of Sports Marketing Matt Wells.
Wells said the University makes 12,500 student tickets available to deal with no-shows and will continue to divvy out tickets in the same way as in previous years, through a merit and seniority-based process.
“For the most part, the stu-dents understand it and the system works,” Wells said. “Things have gone well.”
This is The Daily Athenaeum Sports section’s helpful guide to requesting tickets for foot-ball games and other Moun-taineer sporting events.
Student tickets to a WVU football game are requested online at www.WVUgame.com. Click on the tab labeled
“Student Tickets” and follow the link to the student ticket-ing website.
To enter the site, students will use their MIX username. The password is the last six dig-its of the student’s ID number.
“The best thing to do is fa-miliarize themselves with the system and understand how it works,” Wells said.
To be safe, log in at least once before the season nears to be sure there are no prob-lems with the username or password.
Click on “Request Ticket.” If the tickets for the game are highlighted in yellow, they are available to be requested.
The first home football game is Sunday, Sept. 4 against Mar-shall at 3:30 p.m.
Student ticket requests be-gin Monday, Aug. 29, at 12:01 a.m.
Students will have two days to sign up for a ticket.
When requesting a ticket for the first time, only one ticket can be requested. Students do have a choice between “lower level,” “upper level” or “Maniacs.”
All Mountaineer Maniacs sit in the upper section of Milan
Puskar Stadium. This is where the bulk of the student seats are available, but there are a lim-ited number of tickets for the lower level. There is also a “Se-nior Spirit” section for those students.
Once a ticket is requested, an email will be sent to the stu-dent’s MIX account verifying the ticket reservation.
If the tickets requested ex-ceeds the tickets available, the tickets will be awarded on a loyalty-based lottery.
For each football game a stu-dent goes to, he or she receives points by validating his or her ticket.
Only 20 percent of the se-niority loyalty points are car-ried over from the 2009-10 school year, though. This is to allow a fair chance for fresh-men to receive tickets in a lottery.
“It’s important for freshmen to know the more games they attend, the better their chances are of receiving a ticket that go into lottery,” Wells said. “It doesn’t guarantee you any-thing, but the more points you have by attending some of the
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early season games that aren’t in as high demand, the better chances there are to get a ticket to some of the more highly thought-of games.”
In an NBA Draft-type lottery, the more games a student has gone to, the more entries that student will have in the lot-tery. Wells said a lottery situ-ation happens several times in a season.
“You’re in a system where there is more demand than there is supply,” Wells said. “Any time you have more peo-ple who want tickets than the number of tickets available, the people who don’t receive a ticket are going to be upset.”
When tickets are handed out, an email will be sent to the student’s MIX email account telling him or her to print out the ticket.
Go back to www.WVU-GAME.com, and sign in us-ing the username described earlier, but this time click on “Claim Ticket.” You have two days to claim and print your ticket, and all unclaimed tick-ets will be taken away.
The ticket is used to enter the
game, along with a valid WVU ID card. The student entrance is along the east side of the Mi-lan Puskar Stadium. No other photo ID is accepted, so a stu-dent must bring his or her WVU ID card to enter the stadium.
Gates open 90 minutes prior to games. The student gates will be labeled “Maniacs/up-per deck” and “lower deck/se-nior spirit.”
Lines usually begin to form two hours before the start time, but that varies based on the relevance and the time of the game.
Because all student seating is general admission, there are no assigned seats.
Once a student chooses a seat, game festivities, including the band’s pre-game perfor-mance and the football team’s entrance, begin 15 minutes be-fore the start time.
If a student decides not to go to the game and does not can-cel the ticket, he or she will lose loyalty points.
Tickets for other sports are less complicated.
For those athletic events, students just need to swipe their WVU ID card at the gate to enter.
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FILE PHOTOOne of the entrances at Milan Puskar Stadium students go through to get into West Vir-ginia University football games.
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