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While hundreds of universities around the country are requiring students and employees to get vacci-nated against COVID-19, President E. Gordon Gee said getting people vac-cinated is a matter of common sense, not of force.
“But I hope that we don’t ever come to the point in which we are having to mandate anything other than common sense,” Gee said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Athenaeum. “I always believe in mandating common sense.”
And while the University will not yet be mandating the vaccine for stu-dents and staff , Gee had direct words for the unvaccinated.
“Well, fi rst of all, my message to everyone is get the damn shot,” he said. “I mean, it’s pretty simple to me. I cannot understand why any-one would not get this vaccine.”
Following the Food and Drug Ad-ministration’s (FDA) full approval of the Pfi zer vaccine Monday — a point at which WVU had previously said it
would reevaluate any possible vac-cine requirements — the University chose not to mandate vaccination, saying in a statement that it will con-tinue to ‘strongly encourage’ people to get the shot.
Gee pointed to a recent increase in student and employee vaccination numbers as a reason not to mandate the vaccine.
“I’m not sure the mandates really work,” he said. “I think that the com-munity and human choice is more important. What we do, though, and the reason I say that our numbers are refl ecting that is the fact that our vac-cination numbers are going way up.”
As of Wednesday, just over 70% of students and employees had been fully vaccinated.
Th e end of last week marked the deadline for unvaccinated students and employees returning to campus to get tested. As of Wednesday, just under 1,500 students had not com-pleted COVID-19 testing.
Students who fail to do so by the end of the week will be referred to Student Conduct.
While WVU has not mandated the vaccine, other universities are rush-ing to require students and staff to be
vaccinated against COVID-19.Over 750 college campuses have
required vaccines of at least some students and employees, according
to the Chronicle of Higher Education.Indiana University issued a vac-
cine mandate for students earlier this month, despite the absence of
the FDA’s full approval.
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WVU faculty to vote on vaccine mandate resolutionBY DUNCAN SLADE
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After WVU decided not to man-date the COVID-19 vaccine fol-lowing full approval of the Pfi zer vaccine by the Food and Drug Ad-ministration this week, the Faculty Senate has called a special meet-ing of all faculty to vote on a res-olution in support of mandatory vaccinations.
“Be it resolved, the Faculty As-sembly supports mandatory
COVID-19 vaccinations for all stu-dents and employees with limited legally mandated exceptions,” the proposed resolution reads.
Th e special meeting of the Uni-versity Assembly, a body of almost every faculty member, will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at 3 p.m. over video conference.
Jared Sims, an associate profes-sor in the College of Creative Arts and director of jazz studies, wrote the resolution.
“Th is coming from my students and not from me,” Sims said in an
interview Wednesday. “It’s listed as a faculty thing, but we listen to our students. Th is is part of what our stu-dents are telling us.”
Sims posted a petition around noon Tuesday and within several hours received signatures from at least 5% of University Assembly members, as required by the Faculty Constitution to call a special meet-ing of the body.
Th e Constitution also requires seven-day notice of any non-emer-gency meetings.
“We do not set the policy for the
University, that’s set by the admin-istration,” Sims said. “Th e end goal with the resolution is that we want to have everybody who is an em-ployee or a student to be vaccinated just for health and safety of every-one who is on campus.”
He said many faculty have asked what they can do to help.
“Th ey simply need to attend the meeting at 3 o’clock on Wednes-day,” Sims said. “Th e signatures -- that was just a small phase. We got the signatures that we need to move forward. Now in order to have an ef-
fective plan moving forward it’s just to simply have people show up.”
Th e resolution mentions the fac-ulty’s commitment to in-person in-struction and the mental well being of students.
It also makes note that the WVU Health System has mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for employees and that WVU already requires a number of other vaccinations.
“It would be premature for us to comment at this time,” said April Kaull, university spokesperson.
Read more of the DA’s interview with
Gee on page 3.
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BY DUNCAN SLADEEDITORINCHIEF
Th e staff of the Daily Ath-enaeum sat down with WVU President E. Gordon Gee on Tuesday for an interview. Answers have been edited for clarity and length.
DA: On Monday, the FDA fully approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and you chose not to mandate the vaccine. Why was that? And what went into that decision?
Gee: Well, because of the fact that our numbers look really good. And you know, I would just say this, individ-ually. I’m not speaking on behalf of the University, I’m not sure if the mandate really worked. I think that the com-munity and human choice is more important. What we do do, though — and the reason I say that our numbers are refl ecting that — is the fact that our vaccination num-bers are going way up...And I think that with the variant that is going on, that people need to really take advan-tage of that. Th e second thing is that with the populations we’re dealing with, we know that there are a certain num-ber of breakthroughs. But if you have been vaccinated, the breakthroughs are mini-mal. You may have a little bit of a cough or something, but not much. And so we think that that’s an important piece of data. And then wearing masks in class, we think is another important piece. But I think that a good commu-nity response is not mandat-ing something, but rather en-couraging and incentivizing people to do what they’re do-ing. Again, remember what I said, it’s a dance. So let’s say that we have a huge spike of some kind of this variant, then we may move to a diff er-ent model. But right now, our numbers are very refl ective of the policies that we have.
DA: And when you say
different model, do you mean some sort of vaccine requirement?
Gee: Yeah, I mean, that’s always a possibility. But I hope that we don’t ever come to the point at which we are having to mandate anything other than common sense. I always believe in mandating common sense.
DA: Why was there a deci-sion made to require masks in specifically classrooms and labs and not other in-door areas?
Gee: Well, because we’ve taken a look again — at the data — and I think that what we really have discovered is the fact that masking in class provides a level of protec-tion and comfort. But again, if we mandated it for every area, then number one, it’s a mandate. But number two, there’s not a lot of data that shows that that is going to be as helpful as being [wearing masks when in close quar-ters for an extended period of time]. And you know, very honestly, your age group, our dean of public health will tell you that, probably 60% or 70% of you have the virus. You’ve had it, you just don’t know you’ve had it. So you’re actu-ally immune. And so there is a level of immunity that none of us really understand. But you do have that.
DA: Do you have any mes-sage for those people that still have not either verifi ed their vaccine or submitted a negative COVID test?
Gee: Well, fi rst of all, my message to everyone is get the damn shot. I mean, it’s pretty simple to me. I mean, I cannot understand why any-one would not get this vac-cine. It’s built on a great plat-form. Th e success is verifi ed. And, I’m an example of that. I’ve had Pfi zer and it gives you both comfort but also, I’m around a lot of people a lot of the time and during the really mask wearing era, I wear a mask. But you know, I think the people who believe that you know that they’re
going to grow two heads or something, they just need to understand that it’s not only about them. It’s about every-one with whom they come in contact, and it’s about the future of their own families. I think that we need to say, look, either you need to sub-mit to the tests or you take the vaccine, if not, you’re going to have to follow certain pro-tocols. Th at’s diff erent than mandating. That’s follow-ing certain protocols. And so the way that I just think we need to be pretty, pretty strict about that.
DA: Th e University often prides itself in diversity, in-ternational outreach. But recent numbers show that WVU has seen a decline since 2018 in the interna-tional student numbers. I was wondering what this trend means for the univer-sity, and what eff orts are be-ing made to maybe increase those numbers?
Gee: I mean this has been a decline in all. Our student numbers have not been as, as
dramatic as some of the na-tional numbers, saying that, the international compo-nent of our university is very important. We’ve been par-ticularly very, very well re-ceived and very aggressive in the Middle East, for example. And because of our petro-leum engineering program, because we are affiliated with the Royal University for Women in Bahrain, and a va-riety of other things. Obvi-ously, China has been a very important part of where we are, but as you know, we’ve had these international fl are ups, with our own govern-ment, with some of the other countries plus, we’ve had the virus, which basically stopped people from travel-ing for the last 18 months or so. Our intent is to grow our numbers again. And we’re going to do it through affi l-iations, through recruiting, and then through developing strategies so that students can come and spend some time here, and then be affi liated with their own institution.
Eight students attempted to sue Indiana University, claiming the mandate in-fringed on their constitu-tional rights, but the Su-
preme Court upheld the decision.
Federal judges ruled in fa-vor of IU, saying the Consti-tution permitted the Univer-sity “to pursue reasonable and due process of vaccina-tion in the legitimate inter-est of public health for its stu-dents, faculty and staff.”
Last week, anticipating the Pfizer vaccine’s full approval, a number of universities, in-cluding Louisiana State Uni-versity and the University of Memphis, said a vaccine mandate would be in order following the FDA’s approval.
LSU’s president, William Tate, said he would move
“swiftly” to mandate the vac-cine for his students and em-ployees once the FDA fully approved the Pfizer vaccine.
WVU Health System is re-quiring all of its employees to be vaccinated with either Pfizer or Moderna by Oct. 31, following the FDA approval.
“We’re doing this because
it is the right thing to do,” said Albert L. Wright Jr., president and CEO of the WVU Health System. “I want WVU Medi-cine hospitals and clinics to be as safe as possible for our patients and staff. A fully vac-cinated workforce will help ensure that safety.”
Wright mentioned an in-
creasing number of his staff who are unvaccinated have been out sick due to COVID.
“This places an unfair bur-den on our vaccinated staff, our patients and public, all of whom expect us to be able to provide the services they need, when they need them,” he said.
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VaccinesContinued from page 1
Gee talks vaccines, masks and international students
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Gordon Gee talking with members of the DA staff on Aug. 24, 2021.
BY JULES OGDENCORRESPONDENT
Over the summer, a team of University astrophysicists re-vealed a signifi cant discovery that could suggest more about the universe and its creation.
Since 2018, WVU astro-physicist Emmanuel Fonseca and his team of research-ers have cataloged over 500 fast radio bursts, using one of Green Bank Observatory’s new radio telescopes.
“Th is catalog of fast radio bursts was basically one of the many landmarks of the fi eld so far,” Fonseca said.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are rapid radio emissions that could suggest the scale and matter that is present outside of our galaxy.
Th ough there is not much known about them, Fonseca said it is believed that FRBs could shed light on how the universe formed, as well as reveal more information
about neighboring galaxies.Fonseca and his team of re-
searchers used the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Map-ping Experiment telescope (CHIME) with the intention of taking measurements of
the sky and radio mappings of space.
Prior fi ndings on fast ra-dio bursts have been much less successful than that of CHIME’s.
According to Fonseca, be-
fore this summer, only 50 FRBs had been discovered over the course of 11-12 years. CHIME alone detected over 500 in a year.
WVU professor and phys-icist Duncan Lorimer and a
student were the fi rst to fi nd fast radio burst signals while researching with radio map-ping on telescopes in 2007. This eventually sparked more interest in radio bursts and thus, led to the modern fi ndings.
CHIME sets apart from other telescopes of its kind because it can detect and ex-plore broader areas in space compared to instruments be-fore. Th e discovery itself is at-tributed to the unique CHIME telescope structure.
“Think of CHIME as a bucket that collects lights from a huge chunk of the sky from any instance in time,” Fonseca said.
Fonseca describes these fi ndings as being a basis for further research.
“No one really knows where they come from. Th ere’s tons of ideas,” Fonseca said. “Th ere’s a huge commu-nity of people who are actu-ally invested in trying to un-
derstand what exactly could be causing these fast radio bursts.”
Th e revolutionary discov-ery has been exciting for Fon-seca and his colleagues.
“Th is fi eld of studying fast radio bursts is very young, so to be a part of something that’s constantly evolving is really new for me,” said Fon-seca. “Anytime someone makes a discovery that cre-ates a fi eld or dramatically changes a fi eld, it tends to be very exciting because you’ll likely have strong impacts on the direction of things or you might be moved by some other person’s work to inves-tigate something else.”
Moving forward, Fonseca plans to continue his research and his work with CHIME.
“When you work in a fi eld where any decision can just really lead to something to-tally different, it’s pretty gnarly,” Fonseca said. “It’s an interesting position to be in.”
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WVU pays $925K to settle Mon. Boulevard boulder suitsBY DUNCAN SLADE
EDITORINCHIEF
Th e WVU Board of Gover-nors paid out $925,000 and a two-year scholarship to settle a pair of lawsuits from peo-ple injured in a rockslide last year, according to documents obtained through a public re-cords request.
Last February, a boulder fell on Monongahela Boule-vard and struck a vehicle and a PRT car, hospitalizing three.
Susan Cramer, a resident of Morgantown, and Chloe Bolin, a WVU animal and nu-tritional science student fi led the two suits. Th ey were both represented by Colombo Law.
Cramer was traveling in her car when the large boul-der struck her vehicle, and, according to her complaint, she suff ered 11 serious and permanent injuries with over $400,000 in medical bills.
In the settlement, she re-ceived $700,000, to be paid on behalf of the University through the insurance policy provided by the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management.
Bolin was riding in the PRT car when part of the boul-
der collided with it. She had a number of serious injuries and medical bills upwards of $100,000, according to her complaint.
She received $225,000 in the settlement, also to be paid through the insurance policy, and a scholarship for the last two years of her undergradu-ate studies.
Th is scholarship is depen-dent on Bolin maintaining 30 credits a year and a 2.75 GPA, a similar requirement to other University scholarships.
Terms of both settlements were confi dential, with the caveat of WVU being a public university and subject to pub-lic records requests through the Freedom of Information Act.
Both suits alleged the Board of Governors knew about problems with the hill-side and declined to stabilize the hillside. In a response ear-lier this year, outside coun-sel for the BOG denied these claims and asked the suits be dismissed.
A third lawsuit was fi led in February 2021 by another stu-dent who was inside the PRT car, Maceon Wheeler. Th e en-gineering student made sim-ilar claims to the first two
lawsuits and his case was pending as of last week.
A university spokesperson declined to comment on the settlement amount.
Last year, the Board of Gov-ernors authorized $2.9 mil-
lion for a hillside stabilization project. Th is involved shor-ing up a sandstone ledge and building a protective fence at the bottom of the slope to catch any future boulders.
Paving was completed on
the lane last Monday, accord-ing to Department of Trans-portation spokesperson Jen-nifer Dooley. She added that the subgrade had been washed out by fl ooding in the area and had to be rebuilt by
DOH.As of Tuesday, the lane
was reopened to traffi c and late-summer vegetation growth had sprung up on the hillside where the boulder fell last March.
Radio telescope discovery could unlock mysteries of the universe
PHOTO BY DUNCAN SLADE
A boulder rests on the road from a rock fall on Monongahela Boulevard on Feb. 10, 2020.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WVU
A $1.7 million National Science Foundation grant was used to construct WVU’s CHIME telescope in 2020.
BY LARA BONATESTACULTURE EDITOR
Gallery 304 Shop, a local
vintage clothing store, will
be hosting a vintage cloth-
ing event at Edith Barill River
Front Park in Star City on Aug.
28.
Th e Star City Vintage Fest
will feature about 40 vintage
clothing vendors from West
Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Th e event will
last from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and
admission will be free.
“It’s gonna be cool to see
like what everybody brings
because everybody has their
own style and fl avor,” said Na-
thaniel Hart, owner of Gallery
304 Shop.
Hart explained that there
will be a wide range of vin-
tage options for shoppers to
choose from.
“I think there will be some-
thing for everyone regardless
of interests, style or budget.
Th ere will be band tees, sports
tees, cartoon tees, WVU tees,
outerwear, really anything you
can think of when it comes to
vintage and there will be af-
fordable pieces,” he said. “I
know some vendors have $10
piles and racks but you’ll also
be able to fi nd higher end stuff
if that’s what you’re looking
for.”
After selling vintage cloth-
ing and sneakers over the last
10 years, and selling seriously
for the last four to fi ve years,
Hart was motivated to plan
this event in response to re-
cent growth in the popularity
of vintage clothing.
“Th ere’s a lot of people now
who are like really into vin-
tage and it’s getting real main-
stream,” he said.
Yet while there seems to be
a demand for vintage clothing,
Hart noted a lack of options in
the area.
“I just kind of wanted to
give back to people who sell
and people who are just inter-
ested in it and want to be able
to see it and buy it. And there’s
not really a lot of that around
here,” he said.
In addition to the variety of
vintage clothing vendors, the
Star City Vintage Fest will also
feature several local food ven-
dors including Cheese Louise,
Rolling Hills Rolled Ice Cream,
Stray Cat Chimmi Shack, Two
Spruce Coff ee Bar and Won-
der Bubble Lemonade.
Hart explained that he
has been planning to hold
an event like this for sev-
eral years, yet it was pushed
back due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Hart’s shop which is cur-
rently online only will be
opening a storefront at 327
High Street this September.
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Committee looks for diverse artists to paint new mural
BY CATHERINE COBERCORRESPONDENT
Th e WVU Faculty Senate’s Inclusion and Diversity Com-mittee is inviting Black and In-digenous people of color and LGBTQ+ artists to work together on a new mural in Percival Hall.
According to Kaylyn Zipp, the student representative for the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, the mural’s pur-pose is “to represent the diver-sity here in West Virginia with a large focus on ethnic diver-sity and a panel dedicated to LGBTQIA + students.”
Th e mural will feature mul-tiple panels refl ecting on West Virginia history, both past and future depicted from a diverse perspective.
“Art has long been useful for communicating diffi cult con-cepts/experiences and promot-ing the growth of a community,” Zipp said.
Th e committee chose Per-cival Hall for a signifi cant rea-son. Percival Hall is the location of the Natural Resources pro-gram, a white male dominated area, according to Zipp.
“Th e hope is that this mu-ral will create a space that feels more inclusive and showcases the long history of minority populations in the state,” Zipp said.
Since the mural requires multiple artists, Zipp hopes that “this mural will bring peo-ple together and start produc-tive dialog.”
A QR code will be placed that takes the viewer to a web page acknowledging everyone who worked on the mural. Th e web-site will also provide additional resources about inclusion and diversity in the state of West Virginia.
Artists who sign up will have agency over their panel in the mural.
Rows and rows of vintage clothes: Clothing and food fest comes to Star City this weekend
PHOTOS COURTESY OF GALLERY 304 SHOP
WVU alum opens up new clothing store on High Street
BY JARRET FOXCORRESPONDENT
A brand new clothing store named “Modern Th rowback” held its grand opening this past Sunday in Morgantown, and so far has been met with great reviews as it continues to gather lots of attention on social media.
Th e store is run by WVU graduate Chayt Luevano, who said he’s had dreams of opening up his own clothing store for quite some time and made the decision to do so this summer.
“I just graduated from WVU this past spring, and I just wanted to get my degree be-fore I started the store but a storefront has always been a dream of mine,” Luevano said.
Luevano has sold vintage clothing since 2016 under the Modern Th rowback brand and has been using the business to
put to some more money in his pocket.
“I’ve been selling vintage clothes to pay for rent and such throughout college, so it was a no-brainer to open up here in Morgantown,” Lue-vano said.
Th e store features all types of vintage items ranging from old band tees and records to old sports jerseys and WVU memorabilia that are sure to make game day outfi ts a whole lot cooler.
“In my opinion, it was a real breath of fresh air for down-town because there isn’t a whole lot of clothing shops, if any, that really specialize in streetwear and vintage cloth-ing like their store does; plus I thought the pricing was pretty reasonable too,” said Mod-ern Th rowback customer and WVU student, Justin Van Der Vate.
Th e store’s Instagram page
has already gained over 1,800 followers as Luevano has been putting his marketing skills to the test by off ering giveaways including a $75 store credit.
“I actually learned about the shop from their Instagram, me and a couple friends saw everybody posting on their In-stagram stories the other day about it and thought why not check it out,” said Van Der Vate.
Th e store’s Instagram is also the best place to see what new items will be showing up to the store on any given day, as Lue-vano is always on the lookout for a new piece to add to the collection.
More information about Th e Star City Vintage Fest can be found on the event’s Instagram account:
@starcityvintagefest
Modern Th rowback@modern_throwback_
360 High StreetSunday-Friday: noon to 6 p.m.
Call for Mural Artists
BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists are invited to create a large mural in Percival Hall that depicts the past and
future of West Virginia from a diverse perspec-tive. Th e mural aims to highlight major events and fi gures from those perspectives to provide
multiple lenses from which to view West Vir-
ginian history. Artists will be given agency
over their perspectives’ panel of the mural.
Interested individuals should email kz00001@
mix.wvu.edu with subject line “Call for
Artists.”
THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 20216
OPINIONEditor:Craig Weimer
Don’t blame WVU: Mask mandates are the result of students and their decisions
ALEC PHELPSSUBMITTED TO THE DA
On the evening before the first day of the fall semes-ter, the University informed us that masks would be re-quired again within the class-room for the next 30 days. It felt like a step backwards af-ter so much progress in the fight against COVID-19.
Nevertheless, the class-room mask mandate, while controversial to some, is nec-essary and a result of our own actions.
The Delta variant is at least three times as infectious as previous variants of the virus, which was already an incred-ibly infectious disease.
The CDC has described it as “more transmissible than the common cold and influenza.”
Along with being more in-fectious, some studies have shown the Delta variant to be more virulent to unvacci-nated members of the popu-lation. This means that this
strain is more aggressive and results in a more severe ill-ness, and likely hospitaliza-tion. Currently, our hospi-tals are too overwhelmed and overworked to handle more serious COVID-19 infections.
With the Delta variant be-coming the dominant strain of the virus, along with the significant number of peo-ple still unvaccinated, man-dating masks is essential for the safety of students, faculty and staff.
We were given the oppor-tunity to prevent the mask mandate from happening, most recently through reach-ing 80% vaccination by Sept. 1. However, it is unlikely that we will reach this per-centage by that date, which along with the Delta variant, spurred the decision to man-date masks.
At the time of this writing,
we have only reached 67% faculty/staff and 68% student vaccination rates. Approx-imately 10,000 members of our West Virginia University community have not verified their vaccination status, and only 15% of them have pro-vided a negative COVID-19 test result.
This leaves the commu-nity vulnerable to not only the Delta variant, but it gives the virus the chance to evolve even further into potentially more dangerous variants. Over the summer in West Virginia, we saw a decrease in hospitalization, ICU ad-mission and ventilator use to combat COVID-19. Just in August, we have seen all of these begin to increase to numbers seen in February of this year and they continue to grow daily.
The most viable solution to
quickly combat these trends without canceling classes is mandating masks, and there is more than enough evi-dence to back this decision.
The bottom line is, we need to protect ourselves and other vulnerable populations from the Delta variant and future strains of COVID-19. Studies have shown that communities compliant with mask wearing can re-duce the risk of transmission by roughly 70%.
The best way to protect yourself and reduce the risk of hospitalization is through vaccination. Just this week, the Food and Drug Adminis-tration granted full approval to the Pfizer-Biotech vaccine; further emphasizing that this vaccine more than met the high safety, effectiveness and manufacturing standards of the FDA. But with continued
vaccination refusal, mask mandates will likely con-tinue to be the reality for the school year.
By pulling together with a combination of masks and continued vaccination, a re-turn to a normal college ex-perience is well within the realm of possibility, but that requires us to be uncomfort-able for a short while and to trust the research-backed science that went into the vaccine effort.
Masks, along with vacci-nation, are our best chances at stopping the Delta vari-ant from running wild. It re-quires us to be individually responsible and do our part to slow down the spread.
Alec Phelps is President of the WVU Pre-Medical Club and a Senior Biology Major/Minor in Medical Humanities and Health Studies.
Lorde’s “Solar Power” marks her shim-mery, sun-soaked return to our ears
BY ZACH DELUCASTREAMING CRITIC
It’s been over five years
since Lorde released “Melo-
drama”: a heartbreaking,
lonely album that rings like the
musical equivalent of a gut-
tural cry. She has since then
fl oated under the radar and
out of the public eye.
“You’re gonna watch me
disappear into the sun,” the
New Zealand pop phenome-
non sang on the Melodrama
track “Liability” and that line
feels even more apt with her
newest release, which trades
the thumping electronic beats
for a wave of watery guitars.
“Solar Power” is surpris-
ing for how consistently sub-
dued it is, coasting through its
track list like one long sum-
mer breeze. “Th e Path” is a
standout opener, address-
ing her quick rise to fame and
dismantling the idolization of
celebrities singing, “If you’re
looking for a savior, well, that’s
not me.”
Th e title track stands as the
strongest single as Lorde de-
tails the bliss of nature and
kicking back, sporting guest
vocals from Phoebe Bridgers
and Clairo. Th e track builds to
a beautiful outro of harmonies
and horns, and features one of
Lorde’s funniest lines claim-
ing, “I’m kind of like a prettier
Jesus.”
Lorde’s lyrics have always
impressed, and here is no ex-
ception as the rich imagery
combined with her barebones
honesty still digs deep, even
when the subject matter feels
less urgent. “Got a wishbone
drying on the windowsill of my
kitchen/Just in case I wake up
and realize I’ve chosen wrong,”
she sings to open “Stoned at
the Nail Salon,” a nonchalant,
introspective track of rambling
anxieties that’s rough raw-
ness resembles a journal en-
try more than a doctored pop
tune.
“But every perfect sum-
mer’s gotta take its fl ight/I’ll
still watch you run through the
winter light,” she sings on the
gorgeous “Big Star,” a sweet
musical eulogy to her dog,
Pearl, that capitalizes on the
gentle beauty of Lorde’s tickly
vocals.
Unfortunately, there are
times where the easygoing
mood gets lost in a hazy blur,
becoming too vague to stick.
“Leader of the New Regime”
is an awkward lull of an inter-
lude that doesn’t add much
as a passing thought of es-
cape in the event of the end of
the world. “Mood Ring” also
stumbles as a strange bit of
satire that’s too cutesy to leave
a lasting bite.
Lorde is in a tricky place
with this sound; it’s not easy
to make a happy record, but
her newfound joy isn’t hokey
in execution or blind to the
realities of her surroundings
whether that’s climate change,
grappling with one’s success,
or sleazy guys. “Dominoes” in
a past era would have been a
scathing attack but now com-
fortably glides into a funny
character snapshot. It’s one
example of a record full of
songs that feel like they’ve
grown up, for better or worse.
As a result, “Solar Power”
may not be as profound as
Lorde’s past records, but the
glistening presentation of the
inner peace found from Melo-
drama’s inner turmoil carries
its own infectious hope.
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‘None of you Mfers’: How the 76ers cut Bob HugginsBY CHARLES MONTGOMERY
SPORTS EDITOR
Bob Huggins had a life
lesson for the WVU class of
2025 on Sunday night at Mi-
lan Puskar Stadium.
“Let me tell you how cruel
the world is,” the Mountain-
eers head coach said as he
addressed the crowd.
“I’m trying to play and I
go to Philadelphia,” Hug-
gins continued. “There are
about 30 guys there and guys
get cut, but I get to stay. The
next day, guys get cut and I
get to stay.”
By the end, Huggins said,
there were three people left.
The number one pick in the
draft, the number two pick in
the draft and himself.
“So, they close down the
practice and they tell us
‘We’ll tell you who made it
and didn’t make it.’ So, we
go in the locker room and
we wait and we wait and we
wait. Soon, the trainer comes
in, and he walked in and he
said ‘You guys want to know
who made it and who didn’t
make it?’”
At this point, Huggins
wasn’t hopeful he’d make
the team.
“The trainer says, ‘None of
you Mfers’ and ran out,” he
said. “He never came back
and that’s how we got cut.”
Before his training camp
audition with the 76ers, Hug-
gins played one year at Ohio
University before transfer-
ring to West Virginia and
playing three full seasons for
the Mountaineers.
At WVU, Huggins devel-
oped into a pivotal player
and by his final season, Hug-
gins averaged 13.2 points, 4.1
rebounds and 3.8 assists per
game.
Following his fourth year,
Huggins had an opportunity
to work out for the 76ers, but
before he could make the
trip to Philadelphia, he was
hit by a car while riding his
bike which injured his shoul-
der and knee.
“Let me tell you why the
love for this state and this
university go so deep. I was
born here in Morgantown
in Vince Pallotti Hospital
which is now I think a nurs-
ing home, and I think that’s
probably where I’ll end up.
You guys know where it is be-
cause it’s catty corner from
the Little General that sells
the most beer in the state.”
He continued: “I almost
died there. I was working
out to go tryout for the Phila-
delphia 76ers and I rode the
bike up the hill, I had pushed
it most of the way up, and I
came down and this lady
turned in front of me and I
went through the windshield.
Tore up my knee, my shoul-
der, my elbow and whole
bunch of other things.”WVU ATHLETICS
Huggins during his days playing at WVU
WVU men’s soccer opens fall season against Robert MorrisBY DANNY KUHN
SPORTS WRITER
The 2021 fall season kicks off for the West Virginia men’s soccer team on Thurs-day afternoon as they take on Robert Morris at the North Athletic Complex in Moon County, Pennsylvania.
The West Virginia men’s soccer program will be in its 61st season of competi-tion, as the Mountaineers are coming off a shortened 2021 spring season that saw them finish with a record of 6-3-1. Thursday’s match also marks the second season at the helm for head coach Dan Stratford.
“We have a really exciting group here,” Stratford said. “The continuity is there. The competition is there. Hope-fully, that all continues to help spur on our players.”
WVU will look to focus on its attack against the Colo-nials, who struggled last sea-son in both the offensive and defensive ends of the field. Robert Morris allowed 13 goals from their opponents while they only found the back of the net once. Over-all, the 2021 spring cam-paign saw the Colonials post a 1-1-6 record.
The Colonials are led by first year head coach Jason O’Keefe, who’s first squad at RMU will feature fourteen new players, including Mor-
gantown local Andrew Kem-per, a freshman defender and University High alum.
When the two squads take the pitch for the first time this season, it won’t be the first time the two programs have met. WVU has met RMU nine times before, with the last coming in 2005. The Moun-taineers hold a commanding 7-0-2 record against the Co-lonials all-time.
West Virginia will sport a starting 11 on Thurs-day night that will look ex-tremely familiar to fans. The Mountaineers’ three seniors from last season — goal-keeper Steven Tekesky, mid-fielder Pau Jimenez Albelda and defender Kevin Morris — all used their fifth year of eligibility.
“No one owes us anything; it’s about what we owe our-selves,” Stratford said. “We feel like with our returning group and the foundations they laid last spring, and the reinforcements with the nine new players that are coming in, we feel really good about the strength and depth that we’re going to have within this squad.”
The first matchup against RMU is just the tip of the iceberg as West Virginia will have to navigate a diffi-cult non-conference slate of games to start the season. This stretch includes meet-ings against Pittsburgh, Penn
State, Ohio State and the de-fending NCAA champions, Marshall.
When the opening whis-tle sounds, it will also mark the final season of play in the MAC for the Mountaineers, as the program will move to Conference USA in 2022.
Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. and the game will be streamed live on ESPN+.
PHOTO BY LOGAN ADAMS
WVU midfi elder Ike Swiger tries to control the ball amongst a crowd of Northern Illinois defenders on March 6, 2021 in Morgantown.
“No one owes us anything; it’s about what we owe ourselves.”
-Dan Stratford, Men’s Soccer Head Coach
BY WESLEY SHOEMAKERSPORTS WRITER
Since the beginning of last season, Kayza Massey has been a force in the net for the West Virginia women’s soc-cer team.
Th e junior goalkeeper has had a strong start to the sea-son and has shown her ca-pability to be a leader for the Mountaineers.
On Sunday, when No. 12 West Virginia faced off against No. 4 Virginia, Massey was facing a familiar foe. Last sea-son, the two teams faced off twice and Massey was in goal for both games.
In a game against the Cavaliers that fi nished in a 1-1 tie last season, Massey had a memorable day. Th e then-sophomore goalkeeper registered a career-high fi ve saves. Massey also made
an incredible save, leap-ing across the goal, to save a strike in the 108th minute, that would have given Vir-ginia the win.
Th is past Sunday, Massey had another solid perfor-mance against Virginia. Vir-ginia scored early on in the game off of a header, but Massey came up big again to keep West Virginia in the game.
The hallmark of being a good goalkeeper is the num-ber of shutouts one achieves in a season and despite the loss on Sunday, head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown recognizes that Massey is vital to this team’s success.
“You rate a goalkeeper definitely on shutouts,” Iz-zo-Brown said. “I thought Kayza made two big saves for us. I think she understands that she made the saves
she was supposed to make and then she came up with a couple big ones and that is what you ask for out of a goalkeeper.”
In addition to being exactly what Izzo-Brown wants, she has also seen a more devel-oped athlete on and off the fi eld from Massey.
“I think Kayza has defi-nitely come in and shown us all her maturity from her fi rst year, now to where she is at,” Izzo-Brown said. “She knows she’s hunting consis-tency and just making sure tactically and technically she gets better.”
Consistency is exactly what will help Massey as she goes through her second full sea-son as the Mountaineers goal-keeper. So far this season, Massey has three saves, and going back to last year she has only allowed an opponent to
score more than one goal in a game once.
Massey has shown the abil-ity to be a trusted leader on
this squad, and as she takes a step forward, she and the rest of the West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team, hope that
the rest of the team can fol-low suit as they chase a Big 12 championship and possibly a national championship.
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Massey continues to be a diff erence maker
PHOTO COURTESY OF WVU ATHLETICS
Kayza Massey makes a save during a practice earlier this year.
Gee says playoff expansion is on ‘life support’BY CHARLES MONTGOMERY
SPORTS EDITOR
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee has changed his stance on the proposal to expand the Col-lege Football Playoff to 12 teams.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Athenaeum on Tuesday, Gee explained that he would not vote to expand the playoff after he initially supported the change.
“I am on the College Foot-ball Playoff Board of Direc-tors [Managers] and I was a strong advocate for the 12-team playoff,” Gee said. “I am now no longer because I think with this changing en-vironment, we want to keep it very narrow and keep it so there is a lot of opportunity to reconfi gure what we’re doing in athletics.”
College athletics has seen signifi cant changes over the past few months and no other sport has been the focal point more than college football.
In late June, it was an-nounced that the College Football Playoff board was prepared to make a shift to expand the four-team Col-lege Football Playoff fi eld to 12 teams. When this potential move was announced, there was wide support for expand-ing the playoff .
But now, Gee says it is on “life support.”
“I think it is on life support now,” Gee said. “I have one of the votes and I think it nearly needs to be unanimous and I’m not voting for it. I think the Big Ten will not vote for it and the Pac 12 will probably not vote for it either.”
“It’s one of those ideas that I think was very good when there was stability. When there’s instability, the idea becomes less appropriate.”
Th e instability that Gee is referring to is the momentous announcements that came in July about schools changing conferences. The two big-gest culprits were Oklahoma and Texas in the Big 12. Both schools have made deals with the SEC to join the confer-ence by 2025.
West Virginia has re-mained stout in its support of the Big 12. Gee said he sees this as an important show of unity.
“The world is really up-side down in terms of col-lege sports,” Gee said. “Our choices are pretty clear and one is the fact that we [the re-maining eight Big 12 schools] could potentially affiliate with another conference. We could expand our numbers and because we’re smaller, we have agility.”
On Tuesday, it was an-nounced that the Big Ten,
Pac 12 and ACC have formed an alliance together to rebel against the growing power of the SEC. According to Pac 12 commissioner, George Kliavkoff , the main purpose of this alliance is to support student-athletes.
“Th e historic alliance an-
nounced today between the Pac-12, ACC and Big Ten is grounded in a commitment to our student-athletes,” Kliavkoff said in a statement. “We believe that collaborat-ing together we are stronger in our commitment to ad-dressing the broad issues and
opportunities facing college athletics.”
Gee acknowledged that West Virginia and the rest of the Big 12 was not a part of this alliance due to its ties for the next four years with Okla-homa and Texas.
“Th e Big 12 is not in that
alliance, at the moment and part of the reason is the fact that we still have four years of being a Big 12, because we own all the media rights to Texas and Oklahoma,” Gee said. “Th e others didn’t want to have Texas and Oklahoma in on their parade.”
THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 202110 | SPORTS
WVU volleyball preps for tough Big 12 gauntletBY ZACH ANDERSON
SPORTS WRITER
A new season is beginning for sixth-year head coach Reed Sunahara and the West Virginia volleyball team is looking for their fi rst confer-ence tournament appearance since 1998.
Sunahara has a career re-cord of 71-102 and looks to improve on that with his vet-eran squad this season.
Th e roster is made up of many contributing seniors including outside hitters Ath-ena Ardila, Kristen Lux and Natali Petrova. Setters Adrian Ell, Lacey Zerwas, defensive specialists Alexa Hasting, Al-ison Th omas and star middle blocker Briana Lynch also add to the veteran makeup of the Mountaineers.
Sunahara will look towards his seniors for leadership and especially a good representa-tion of the program wherever they go.
“[I expect them] to always represent this program well,
and as well as representing this program, representing our university and their fami-lies well,” Sunahara said. “And providing good leadership.”
In comparison to last sea-son, the Mountaineers have upgraded their depth among all positions. Sunahara be-lieves that the team’s deep bench is its biggest strong point this year.
“I think the biggest strength that we have this year is the depth,” Sunahara said. “If something happens to the starters, anyone can go in and not lose a beat. So, I think for us, that is one of the biggest things we’ve upgraded from previous years.”
This year they face the usual Big 12 slate along with some tough non-conference matches that could test the team’s performance.
“Every match we play start-ing this weekend, leads up to consistency and how we’re getting better and preparing us for our next opponent and the Big 12,” Sunahara said.
“We’re not just going out there to play, there’s intent with every match we play.”
WVU will begin its sched-ule on Aug. 27 in the Old Do-minion University Invita-
tional against Loyola (Md.) and Old Dominion. West Vir-ginia will also face Hampton on Aug. 28.
Next, the Mountaineers will travel to Annapolis,
Maryland, for the Navy Tour-nament where they will face Michigan and Navy on Sep. 3 and 4, respectively.
The Mountaineers will then take the trip up north to Buff alo, New York, to com-pete in the Buff alo Tourna-ment where they will face off against American and Canis-ius on Sep. 10 and Buff alo on Sep. 11.
After that, the Mountain-eers will return home to host the Mountaineer Invitational, where they will play George Washington and UMBC on Sep. 16 and No. 12 Penn State on Sep. 17.
Like last season, Big 12 matches will be doublehead-ers. Entering into Big 12 play, WVU will host Oklahoma at the WVU Coliseum on Sep. 24 and 25.
Next, WVU will travel to Austin, Texas, and Manhat-tan, Kansas, to play No.1 Texas on Sep. 30 and Oct. 1 and Kansas State on Oct. 14 and 15, respectively.
After this two week trip,
WVU will come back to Mor-gantown to host No. 10 Baylor on Oct. 22 and 23.
For the next two weeks, WVU will travel to Ames, Iowa, to face Iowa State on Oct. 29 and 30 and then back to Morgantown to play Kan-sas on Nov. 4 and 5.
WVU will also travel to our nation’s capital on Nov. 12 to face Howard University.
To wrap up Big 12 play, WVU will play Texas Tech in Morgantown on Nov. 18 and 19, and travel to Fort Worth, Texas, to face TCU on Nov. 26 and 27 in the fi nal games of the regular season.
Sunahara said he wants to improve his squad every day and every time they step foot on the court throughout this season by following his own motto “get one percent better every day.”
“My thing with the players is to keep working hard and keep getting better because the harder they work the more it will pay off ,” Sunahara said.
PHOTO BY RYLAN NEMESH
Lacey Zerwas (#6) sets a ball vs Texas. November 13, 2020.
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U92 the Moose, WWVU 91.7FM, is the pioneer college radio station of WVU. Since 1982, U92 has been rocking the airwaves with new and alternative music, specialty music shows, news, play-by-play sports, and sports talk. We also produce podcasts and other audio content, as well as off er DJ services, recording, and more. Our terrestrial radio station can be also heard online via our website, TuneIn, and Alexa device.
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