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Local band Th ree Minute Lovin, is on a mission to deliver good ol’ music in a brand new bottle.
Th e band has frequently played at local venues such as the Cellar, Due South and Champs Sports Bar. Th ey have also played in popular festivals such as FloydFest. Rock and country roots fi ll their set list, appealing
to both young and old audiences.“We can be classifi ed as a blend between
honkytonk, rock and rockabilly,” said Lee Worley, band guitarist and art teacher at Blacksburg Middle School. “If you like what we do, I think we do it pretty well. I say that with complete objectivity.”
Th eir name, like their music, functions as a throwback to the days when music came
Local band draws fans with vintage vibes
Virginia Tech employee found dead in Pritchard apartment
Two student-athletes die over week of July 4th
A 24-year-old man, who was to be a residential learn-ing coordinator at Pritchard Hall, died on Monday.
According to a Virginia Tech News release, Virginia Tech Police found Donvontae Walton of Racine, Wisconsin dead in his Pritchard Hall apart-ment. Walton had recently arrived in Blacksburg and was to begin his position this upcoming fall semester.
Th ere is no evidence of foul play in Walton’s death. Investigator’s suspect he died of natural causes, but the autopsy did not indicate a cause of death.
As a residential learning coordinator, Walton would have overseen and managed the Pritchard residence hall community and helped new students make the transi-tion to college life. He had completed the requirements for a master’s degree in
higher education adminis-tration from the University of Kansas in May.
“Donvontae had an impact on his Virginia Tech col-leagues in a short amount of time,” Eleanor Finger, direc-tor of housing and residence life, said in the release. “He was an exceptional person who exuded commitment to student learning, care for staff , and student develop-ment.”
An investigation by the Virginia Tech Police Department is ongoing.
Th e Virginia Tech com-munity is mourning the loss of two student athletes who died in separate water-related incidents the week of July 4.
Darren Hankins, a junior philosophy major and mem-ber of the wrestling team
died on July 2. Alex Hable, a junior management major and men’s club lacrosse player died on July 4.
Hankins drowned in a water-fi lled rock quarry in Blacksburg.
Th e Montgomery County Sherriff ’s Offi ce was noti-fi ed of a possible drowning around 6:30 p.m on July 2.
Hankins began having
diffi culty staying afl oat and bystanders were unable to help him remain above water, according to the sher-iff ’s offi ce.
Members of the Blacksburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, the New River Valley Water Rescue and Recovery Team, Christiansburg
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Discussion can lead to action — and that’s exactly what Darren Maczka is hop-ing for.
Maczka, a graduate teach-ing assistant, posted a link to the Facebook page of Monika Gibson, director of graduate student services, about how napping can dramatically increase learning, memory, and awareness.
According to the article, companies such as Google and Apple allow employ-ees to have a nap time. It also stated that short naps have been found to improve awareness and productivity, something college students need to have.
Maczka posted the article because he thought it was relevant to education, learn-
ing, and graduate life.Gibson posted the link to
the article Maczka found on the Virginia Tech Graduate Life Facebook page, asking people to comment with their thoughts on whether or not adding a napping room in the Graduate Life Center would be a good idea. Th e post garnered over 90 likes and 27 comments, all in favor of adding a nap room.
“I think it would be ben-efi cial to have a room some-where on campus, maybe not just in the Graduate Life Center, for off campus stu-dents to either take a nap or relax,” Maczka said.
He said both undergradu-ate and graduate mostly live off campus and are on a campus all day, oft en from very early in the morning until late at night, which can be very tiring.
“Looking for a place to nap is something very familiar to me, especially around 2 or 3 p.m. when I have been on campus since 8 a.m. Knowing I have meetings around 5 or 6 p.m., I try to fi nd somewhere to nap. Sometimes it’s just a couch,” Maczka said.
While space is always an issue, Maczka believes one of the GLC conference rooms could be converted into a napping room.
“Honestly, I think it is unlikely it will ever happen but I do think it’s a great idea,” Maczka said.
Unlikely or not, the article sparked conversation with the Facebook community, a defi nite step towards action.
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JMU’s response to scandal misses potential to combat sexual assault
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James Madison University’s sex-ual assault scandal, in which JMU expelled three fraternity members aft er graduation for their fi lmed sexual assault of a female student, has focused national outrage about the handling of sexual assault by institutions of higher learning upon the school.
In response, a JMU student post-ing under the name girlfortheworld, wrote a blog post entitled “Shame the Off enders, Not the School,” in which she argues that the outrage is misplaced. It’s unfair, she writes, that “the name (of the university) on our diplomas are at the risk of being deduced (sic) to a to a single dam-aged image, made by three boys who are the opposite of what JMU really stands for and those deciding their punishment[.]”
I understand where she’s coming from here — especially as a student who also attends a school best known for something unpleasant. And I can see how the outrage might seem particularly unwarranted consider-ing that sexual assault — whether reported or not — is a problem on practically every college campus.
But her assertion that “sexual assault cases need to stop becom-ing the defi nition of schools because there is a remaining 90% of the stu-dent body that is left in the aft ermath of those who do wrong,” doesn’t quite sit well with me.
Towards the end of her post, the author clarifi es that she advocates against sexual assault and victim-blaming and her belief that the issue deserves greater attention — but in the context of an entire post about how unfair it is to be saddled with an unpleasant reputation you have nothing to do with, it’s little more than a footnote.
In their haste to defend themselves, girlfortheworld and the entire JMU community apparently failed to real-ize that taking accountability was the best way to correct a great disser-vice perpetrated by three students.
I urge JMU to own what happened on its campus, to turn the dialogue from, “Th is isn’t the sort of thing that happens at the school I love,” to, “Th is is something that happened at the school I love — and it could hap-pen at the school you love too.”
JMU has an opportunity to model
how we should respond to the mis-handling of sexual assault, rather than how we’ve been responding to it — by rushing to defend or distance ourselves from it.
Instead students, faculty and administrators need to come togeth-er. Th ey need to hold the administra-tors responsible for failing the victim so completely with their decision to merely slap the perpetrators on the wrist. Th ey must ensure that a system that lets down 60% of their students is dismantled.
Most importantly, they need to discuss how something so radically opposed to their community values was perpetrated by members of their community.
And the rest of us need to listen, because we’re not so diff erent. Let’s not be naïve enough to assume that sexual assault doesn’t happen here, but wise enough to know that we need to be proactive.
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on vinyl, not on CDs or iTunes. Most vinyl records could only support songs that were three minutes or less.
Th ree Minute Lovin not only honors this tradition of short, powerful songs, but also stays true to the sound and style of the earliest forms of rock and country. According to Worley, listening to the band’s music is sort of like sitting in on a History of Rock 101 course. Th is quality draws a diverse crowd.
“Th is music has wide appeal,” said Worley. “Locals, townies, whatever you want to call it, that range all the way up to their sixties come. A lot of them grew up with this music, it was music at their high school or college experience and so it’s part of the fabric of their life.”
At the same time, the band also sees faces as young as 18 in the crowd. Much of today’s popular music genres, espe-cially alternative, draws on ele-ments like folk, blues and blue grass that have been around for years.
“It’s kind of amazing how many people are 18, 19, 25, and either know this music or appreciate it,” Worley said. “I think it’s because it’s so woven into the structure of the history of most forms of music.”
Th e genre may be making a comeback, but the culture of seeing live music has changed considerably over the years.
Dan Dunlap, guitarist for the band and instructor of computer science at Virginia Tech, said that the nightlife in Blacksburg today diff ers than what he experienced as an undergrad student in the
eighties.Dunlap remembers a time
when watching a live show on Friday night was not only an option, but the only option. Lines would trail out the door, with a head count of hundreds, even thousands, inside the bar, according to Dunlap.
“When I started playing here in the mid-eighties, live music was huge,” Dunlap said. “It used to be that at 18 you could buy beer back then. So, college kids would go to the bars and see live music. But, the internet and the drinking age changed a lot of the interest in live music, with DJing, karaoke, that kind of stuff kind of took over.”
Dunlap’s interest in playing every night has also dimin-ished. When he used to teach at Blacksburg High School, he could play a live show until 2 am and then wake up for work the next morning at 6 am, a feat he no longer attempts.
Like Dunlap, nearly all of the members of the band have families and day jobs. Th ey don’t put the same pressure on themselves that younger musi-cians do. Th ey have no aspira-tions of making it big one day. Instead, they just want to have fun and keep music a part of their lives.
“We show up and know we’re going to have a good time, sup-port each other when we’re playing, and then we kind of walk away from it. It makes for an enjoyable, low drama expe-rience,” said Worley.
Th ree Minute Lovin will play this Saturday at the Cellar res-taurant in Blacksburg.
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Drink of the week: Mojito
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According to lore, the mojito originated with native Cubans, who gave the ingredients to explor-er Sir Fancis Drake’s ship crew as a remedy for scur-vy. Even though scurvy is no longer a medical con-cern, the mojito remains a classic summer treat.
Ingredients:1.5 ounces white rum1 ounce fresh lime juice6 mint leaves2 teaspoons sugarsoda water
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Vegetables are cool and all, but they have nothing on the bready goodness that makes up the bottom of the food pyramid — or so I thought.
This cheese stick recipe uses caulif lower, not bread, as a base. I know what you must be thinking. Pinterest and clean eating blogs have hundreds of “mock” recipes that use vegetables to make pizza or bananas to make ice cream, only to taste exactly like the fruit or vegetable they are made from.
While this dish may still smell like caulif lower, it truly captures the con-sistency and, to a certain extent, the taste of bread.
These are cheese sticks that you can hold in your hand and dip into marinara without them crumbling to bits. They have a low calo-
rie count only 35 per stick and are a good way to get the health benefits of cau-lif lower, such as boosting heart and brain health while fighting cancer.
My advice is to be gen-erous with the cheese and seasoning. And, like pizza, it still tastes great the next day.
You can find more detailed instructions that use pic-tures to take you step-by-step at iFoodReal.com
Ingredients:1 head caulif lower, large (7”
- 8” wide)1/4 cup egg whites1/2 cup and 3/4 cup (for
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1 tsp Italian herb seasoning or any dried herbs like rosemary, basil, parsley
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Pinch of saltMarinara sauce for dippingDirections:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Rinse caulif low-er, remove outer leaves and separate into f lorets with a paring knife. Place cau-lif lower f lorets in a food processor and process until “rice” texture. Some coarse chunks are fine.
Place in an oven-proof
baking dish (I used Pyrex pie dish) and bake for 20 minutes. Remove cooked caulif lower from the oven and transfer to a bowl lined with a tea or linen towel. Let the caulif lower cool down a bit until it is safe to touch, about 15 minutes.
Fold the towel holding by the ends and squeeze the liquid out of the caulif lower “ball” as hard as you can. Be patient and do this a few times until barely any liquid comes out. I squeezed out 1 cup of liquid.
Increase oven temperature to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Transfer caulif lower to a mixing bowl along with egg whites, 1/2 cup cheese, herb seasoning, black pep-per, pinch of salt and mix to combine.
Transfer caulif lower mix-ture onto the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Flatten with your hands into a rectangle, approximately 9” x 7” size and 1/4” thick.
Bake for 18 minutes, remove from the oven and top with remain-ing 3/4 cup cheese. Bake for another 5 minutes and then broil until cheese turns golden brown. Cut into 12 breadsticks and serve hot with warm marinara sauce.
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U.S. colleges and univer-sities are failing to effec-tively investigate sexual misconduct cases on cam-pus, with efforts hobbled by inadequate train-ing and limited reporting channels, according to a national survey released Wednesday.
The survey, which yielded responses from 319 four-year public and private cam-puses, was conducted by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. The former sex crimes prosecutor has helped lead growing federal efforts to crack down on campus sexual assault.
“Unfortunately, the dis-turbing bottom line of this unprecedented, nationwide survey, is that many insti-tutions continually violate the law and fail to follow best practices in how they handle sexual violence,” she said in a statement. “These results should serve as a call to action to our colleges and universities.”
The survey, which did not provide names of partici-pants, included responses from a national sample of 236 four-year institutions that receive federal finan-cial aid, 49 large public four-year campuses and 34 private, nonprofit schools. The samples yielded dif-ferent results. In gener-al, the smaller campuses reported fewer resources to assist victims of sexual assault.
Among the findings:—Only 16 percent of col-
leges in the national sample conduct surveys to assess the campus climate toward sexual misconduct. Such surveys are regarded as one of the best ways to get an accurate picture of cam-pus sexual violence, which law enforcement officials say is widely underreport-ed. The federal govern-ment, however, is pushing all campuses to conduct the surveys beginning this fall.
—Hotlines to report sexu-al assault are operated by 51 percent of institutions in the
national sample, 73 percent of large public campuses and 82 percent of large pri-vate schools. Online report-ing options are available at 44 percent of campuses in the national sample, 88 percent at public colleges and 74 percent at private schools.
—About 20 percent of col-
leges in the national sample fail to provide training for staff and faculty on how to respond to sexual assault allegations. The report noted an improvement since 2002, when 49 percent failed to provide training. About 8 percent of public universi-ties and 15 percent of pri-vate schools did not provide training.
—Nearly a third of cam-puses provide no train-ing for students on sexual assault. The federal govern-ment, however, is asking all campuses that receive fed-eral funds to launch preven-tion programs this fall.
—About 9 percent of campuses in the national sample and 21 percent of private schools conduct-ed fewer investigations of sexual offenses than the number of incidents they reported to the federal gov-ernment. The figures indi-cate that they are failing to aggressively probe sex-ual misconduct, the report said.
The survey also found what McCaskill called f laws
in how sexual miscon-duct cases are investigated and resolved. Students are allowed to participate in the process at 43 percent of large public schools, for instance, despite an “overwhelming majority” view of experts that they could present con-f licts of interest or jeopar-dize the privacy rights of those involved, the report said.
Nearly three-fourths of campuses in the nation-al sample had no system established to work with law enforcement on sexual assault cases. And although the federal government has instructed all campuses to use a “preponderance of evi-dence” standard in deter-mining cases, 15 percent of campuses in the national sample still use a higher standard, the survey found.
In addition, one in five small colleges has failed to designate a Title IX coor-dinator to monitor compli-ance with the law, which bars discrimination at schools that receive federal funds.
“Unfortunately, the disturbing bottom line of this unprecedented, nationwide survey, is that many institutions continually violate the law and fail to follow best practices in how they handle sexual violence.”
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Virginia Tech basketball’s tumultuous off season con-tinued this past week as the team lost yet another player. On the heels of incoming freshman small forward T.J Lang rescinding his com-mitment and heading to Auburn, the Hokies lost sophomore shooting guard Ben Emelogu.
Earlier this week Emelogu requested and was granted departure from the men’s basketball team.
Th e move came as quite a surprise to the Hokie nation. At the moment, the inten-tions behind his departure are unknown.
He has not signed with another team yet nor has he released a statement as to why he decided to leave Virginia Tech.
Emelogu had an impres-sive 2014 year with the Hokies. He averaged 10.4 points per game, includ-ing scoring above twenty in multiple games, along with solid assist and rebound numbers. His outside shoot-ing was a key option for the off ense that will surely be missed.
Although he put up very good numbers when he
played, Emelogu did miss substantial playing time due to a nagging leg injury that plagued him through-out most of last year’s ACC schedule. It is unclear if this injury had any role in his transfer.
Th is off season has seen a hoard of shooting guards heading to Tech. So while it is likely that his production and numbers could be rep-licated by incoming players, Emelogu’s leadership will be hard to replace.
In a team dominated by young talent, Emelogu was given the helm and made captain as a freshman. In a position usually reserved for veteran players, Emelogu led the team through a strug-gling year, keeping the play-ers focused and motivated. As now, no new captain has been named.
With the basketball sea-son only a few months away, the off season will hopefully cool down with the switch ups. Without any more changes, the Hokies will be able to relax and tso-lidify their lineup and have a cohesive unit on and off the court.
Fire Department, Long Shop McCoy Fire/Rescue Department, and Elliston Fire Department responded to the scene. Th ey recovered Hankins’ body around 7:30 p.m.
Hankins was a junior phi-losophy major and a member of the varsity wrestling team for two seasons, but sat out the 2013-2014 season due to injury.
“Darren was very special to our wrestling program and our entire athletic depart-ment,” head coach Kevin Dresser said in a statement. “As a father and as his coach, this is something that we would hope no family would have to go through. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Hankins family at this time. Darren was a wonder-
ful young man. Virginia Tech Wrestling was a better place because of Darren Hankins.”
Hable, the second Tech student athlete killed in less then a week, died on July 4 in an incident involving a rope swing on Lake Gaston outside of Litteton, North Carolina.
Halifax County deputies responded to an emergency call from the Eastern Shore neighborhood where upon arrival they found Hable dead on a rock.
Hable, or as his friends called him, “Habes,” played for the Virginia Tech club lacrosse team for two years and was known for his happy disposition.
He was known not only for for his great attitude towards life but also for being one of the hardest working players on the team, said teammate
Preston Naslonski.His teammates have been
trying to stay strong for the Hable family and the sur-rounding community over the fourth of July weekend
“We are all trying to make it to Richmond for the funeral this weekend to show our respects and to commemo-rate Habes and give our con-dolences to his family, there really wasn’t anyone else like him on our team.” Preston Naslonski said.
Hable was also a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Th e exact cause of death is still under investiga-tion by the Halifax County Sheriff ’s Offi ce and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
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Ben Emelogu (15) looks for an opening around University of Virginia Forward Darion Atkins (32) in a game last season.
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