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by cameron gleasonstaff writer

@dailyathenaeum

As the clock on Woodburn Hall struck 12 p.m., three rings from the tower filled the air, to which the bell in front of Oglebay Hall replied with three rings of its own in Paul Salisbury’s honor.

On Friday afternoon, friends, family and frater-nity brothers gathered to commemorate the life of Salisbury.

Members of the Salisbury family took the podium, reminiscing on the good times they got to spend with Salisbury, offering advice to students and applauding the brothers of Theta Chi Frater-nity for their continued sup-port of Salisbury and his en-tire family.

Stephen Salisbury, Paul’s brother, spoke of Paul’s in-credibly large network of friends, saying the church hosting the memorial was completely full, with 700 people there to celebrate his life.

“Pretty much everyone he met just immediately fell in love with him,” Stephen said. “I talked to so many people that weekend (of the memo-rial) that just met him, even briefly, and they talked about how much he impacted their lives even if it was just for a little bit.”

Tom Beebe, Paul’s stepfa-ther, urged students and all attendees of the service to re-spect the fragility of life and to always use good judgment so to avoid any other fami-lies having to feel the pain they’ve experienced.

“Life is precious, truly God’s gift to us. Life is fragile, to be cherished, zealously but gently. Life can be lost in an instant; there may not al-ways be a tomorrow. It only takes one lapse in judgment in what we do, one careless moment in what we con-sume or activity we engage in just one brief instant...just one,” Beebe said. “I know most of you think you are bulletproof, ‘It won’t happen to me,’ or ‘I’m too smart to let it happen to me.’ I know I did at your age. Well the truth is, you aren’t bulletproof, you are smart, but not too smart for it to happen to you in an instant. Your happiness and fulfillment are not going to be found in alcohol or a bot-tle of pills.”

Paul Salisbury passed away one month after grad-

uating from West Virginia University.

“He went here for four years, graduated about a month before he passed away. I was able to be up here for his graduation. The last time I saw him was the morning after his gradua-tion. It’s good that I’m able to remember the last time I saw him in person,” Stephen said.

Paul thrived at WVU; he excelled academically as well as socially. His social reach was wide, spreading throughout the entire cam-pus. Paul’s legacy won’t be forgotten at WVU. Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer.

Rest in peace, Paul Salisbury.

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by john mark shaverstaff writer

@dailyathenaeum

Ryan Lavery loves Stick Tattoo so much, he got a tattoo on his arm Saturday to prove it.

Until the end of the year, Lavery, a 19-year-old student at Laurel Busi-ness Institute, had two ap-pointments each week booked with one of the artists from the tattoo parlor.

“Before I started the year off, I had six tattoos,” he said with a smile on his face and a needle pricking his arm. “Now I’m at num-ber 17.”

Lavery was in a crowd of people who flooded the Suncrest Towne Cen-tre on Saturday with good vibes and inked skin to cel-ebrate Stick Tattoo’s one-year anniversary.

Damian Ferek owns the business and said it brings a certain uniqueness to the table that other shops do not.

“Our goal with year one was just to do awesome tattoos,” Ferek said. “[The artists] are absolutely mak-ing a name for themselves,

and we’re trying to make sure that we’re putting out the best work that we can each and every day… No matter who comes in, we can offer something to them.”

The Stick Company, Fe-rek said, started as an ad-vertising agency eight years ago, and is now the parent company for the shop.

“We were looking for something that re-ally made us distinct and unique and that built off the branding that Stick had initially, but then captured the characteristics of each artist,” Ferek said. “Getting a shop that gives us a little bit of room and individual artist rooms and so forth has really helped with that.”

Brandon Moats, a tat-too artist for the past seven years and one of Stick’s owners, has actu-ally tattooed himself mul-tiple times. He displays his inked arms and legs proudly and said, on aver-age, he tattoos 20 people weekly.

“I really don’t like

by jake jarviscity editor

@newsroomjake

A former West Virginia University assistant ten-nis coach allegedly stole more than $10,000 worth of equipment from the Uni-versity, according to a crim-inal complaint in Monon-galia Magistrate Court.

Lauren Fawn Holzberg, 27, of Morgantown, alleg-edly kept six Muvi cameras and other various equip-ment and didn’t return it to the University after be-ing asked to do so several

times.“I can confirm that she

was the assistant tennis coach last year, but is no longer employed by the athletic department,” said Michael Fragale, associ-ate athletic director. “With the case ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to make any further com-ments at this time.”

The current head tennis coach Miha Lisac allegedly told Holzberg on April 30 that the University would not be renewing its contract with her. Fragale wouldn’t comment on why her con-

tract wasn’t renewed.Holzberg came to

WVU in October 2013 af-ter spending a season as a head tennis coach at Mount Saint Mary College in New York.

After informing her the contract would not be re-newed, Lisac told Holzberg she would need to return any WVU equipment she still had. Despite multiple text messages and emails requesting her to return the equipment, she never did, the complaint alleges.

Holzberg stole six Muvi cameras with accompa-

nying stands and various other tennis equipment, the complaint alleges. All of this totaled $10,498.25, according to an assessment by Bubba Schmidt, WVU varsity sports equipment manager.

After Holzberg broke promises to return the equipment when she re-turned to Morgantown, Li-sac reported the alleged stolen property to UPD on Aug. 17. Three days later, patrolman William B. Arm-strong and Lt. St. Clair went to her Stewartstown Road apartment to try and re-

cover the Muvi cameras and their stands.

The officers allegedly spotted the cameras and their stands in her apart-ment after Holzberg invited them in; they also saw WVU tennis apparel and Nike shoes of all different sizes.

Lt. St. Clair then left the apartment to obtain a search warrant, the com-plaint alleges, while Arm-strong waited outside.

“Before Lt. St. Clair ar-rived back on scene with a signed search warrant for the apartment,” the com-plaint reads, “Ms. Holzberg

opened the door and stated that WVU Athletics could have it all back.”

With the door opened, officers allegedly saw the cameras, their stands and other tennis apparel in her apartment.

The complaint was signed by UPD patrolman Armstong on Monday. Hol-zberg was later arrested for grand larceny and ar-raigned before Monon-galia Magistrate Court on Thursday.Her bail was set at $5,000.

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nEW yoRK (aP) — When Pope Francis sets foot on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base near Washing-ton on Sept. 22, it won’t just be his first time in the United States as pontiff. It will be his first time in the country - ever in his life.

The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, never followed the foot-steps of so many fellow Roman Catholic leaders of his rank, who sought to raise their profiles, along with funds for missions back home, by networking within the deeply influen-tial and well-resourced U.S. church.

This gap in his resume can be explained in part by Francis’ personality. He was a homebody who loathed being away and felt a profound obliga-tion to stay near the peo-ple of his archdiocese. He also famously opposed lad-der-climbing, condemn-ing what he called “airport bishops” who spend more time traveling for their own prestige or pleasure than serving their flock.

Still, Francis’ lack of first-hand experience of the U.S. stands out for many, espe-cially those struggling to absorb his unsparing cri-tique of the excesses of global capitalism and won-dering whether this first Latin American pope har-bors resentment over the history of U.S. policies in his native region.

“This trip to the United States will be the most dif-

ficult, the most challeng-ing, and the most interest-ing because he’s exploring a world that for him is more foreign than Asia, than the Philippines,” where Fran-cis traveled last January, said Massimo Faggioli, an expert in church history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. “It’s not just a language barrier. It’s a cul-tural barrier.”

Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, an Argentine and one of Francis’ key advisers at the Vatican, said he was aware of but disputed the perception that the pope disliked the United States. Francis’ view that a global economic system focused on maximizing profits was destroying the poor and the environment has landed hard in a country consid-ered the world headquar-ters for capitalism.

Sanchez Sorondo in-sisted Francis is not anti-capitalist and said the pope admires America for the principles of the Founding Fathers, who influenced the independence move-ment in his native Argen-tina. But Francis’ outlook is also shaped by another history, including U.S. ties with Latin American dic-tators, America’s treat-ment of Mexican and Cen-tral American immigrants, and longstanding U.S. pol-icy toward Cuba, Sanchez Sorondo said. Francis re-cently helped negotiate a historic thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations that has led to re-stored diplomatic ties be-tween the countries.

“I don’t think the pope has anything against Amer-ica,” Sanchez Sorondo said in an interview in Rome. “What the pope might have is that he felt the repercus-sions of America in Latin America.”

This is utterly new ground as well for Ameri-can Catholics, accustomed to Francis’ immediate pre-decessors, Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who both lived through World War II, when Americans were considered liberators and generous benefactors who rebuilt the war-rav-aged continent.

When John Paul was Car-dinal Karol Wojtyla, arch-bishop of Krakow, Poland, he traveled extensively in the U.S., especially among American Polish commu-nities. As pope, he found broad common ground with Americans in the fight against communism.

Benedict, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratz-inger from Germany, had been John Paul’s guard-ian of doctrine for more than two decades, and not only visited the U.S., but also met with Ameri-can church leaders regu-larly in Rome. In 2008, on Benedict’s sole visit to the U.S. as pontiff, he greeted President George W. Bush at the White House, where the pope ended his remarks with the phrase, “God Bless America.” That sign-off was taken by many Europeans and others as a stunning nod to the idea of Ameri-can exceptionalism, Faggi-

oli said.“Pope Francis - his cul-

tural roots, his formation - is completely different,” Faggioli said.

Among those experi-ences was the 2001 Argen-tine economic crisis, which sparked riots, soaring un-employment and a quick succession of presidents as the government struggled to handle its massive debts. Bergoglio was intimately involved in trying to help Argentines and their lead-ers emerge from the tur-moil, which many blamed on free-market policies promoted by the U.S.

Yet, that collapse could have easily compelled Ber-goglio to finally visit Amer-ica. It is common for over-seas leaders to send a local cardinal as an informal emissary to “make sure that people in Washing-ton, and the U.S. bishops, understood the impact,” of America’s policies abroad, said the Rev. Thomas Re-ese, a senior analyst with the National Catholic Re-porter newspaper and au-thor of “Inside the Vatican.”

But that role would have been unthinkable for Ber-goglio. He had very tense relations with much of the Argentine ruling class, of-ten challenging them bluntly in national fo-rums to abandon partisan self-interest and do more for the vulnerable and disadvantaged.

“It wasn’t like he could get together with them, and say, `OK, this is our strat-egy. Let’s go lobby Wash-

ington on these things.’ They often weren’t on speaking terms with one another,” Reese said.

However, Francis’ belief about what it meant to be a faithful churchman was likely the biggest factor keeping him from the U.S., church experts say.

Like all Jesuits, Bergoglio vowed he would not seek higher ecclesial office. He is the first Jesuit in the 481-year history of the religious order to become pope. His 1992 appointment as a Bue-nos Aires auxiliary bishop came as a shock - for him and for Argentine Cath-olics, most of whom had never heard of him, ac-cording to Austen Ivereigh, author of “The Greater Re-former: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope.”

Dubbed the “slum pope” for his dedication to the poor, he spent much of his time as archbishop in the shantytowns of Buenos Ai-res. Vacations generally meant staying in his church apartment and reading - just like he did on his Rome vacation this summer.

He didn’t much like to be abroad. In the 1980s, when Bergoglio was sent to Germany for a few months for doctoral studies, he grew so homesick that he spent some nights watch-ing planes take off from the airport for Argentina, Iver-eigh wrote.

“It’s not at all surprising to me that he hasn’t been here,” said the Rev. Matt Malone, editor-in-chief of the Jesuit magazine Amer-

ica, based in New York. “His whole life has been devoted to the people of Argentina and South America.”

In a July question-and-answer session with report-ers, Francis said he would spend the weeks ahead of his U.S. visit “studying” for the trip. In the past, he had expressed some un-ease with the English lan-guage, but he has given well-delivered - and well-received - speeches in Eng-lish on two different trips, in South Korea and during his Sri Lanka-Philippines pilgrimage earlier this year. In America, he will be mak-ing remarks both in English and Spanish.

His introduction to the U.S. will begin in Washing-ton, where he will address a joint meeting of Congress on Sept. 24, followed by an address to the U.N. Gen-eral Assembly in New York, and outdoor Mass at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.

But he will start the jour-ney earlier and somewhere much more familiar, in Cuba, where from Sept. 19 to 22 he will mark the coun-try’s new era with the U.S., then travel directly here.

“Francis’ heart is in the Third World and the Global South, but he has a way of proclaiming the Gospel that’s very attractive to peo-ple in the United States,” Reese said. “I think there will be an overwhelming response from the Ameri-can people to him. I think they will be charmed by him.”

Pope Francis a stranger to the U.s. in many ways

ApIn this Sunday, July 12, 2015 file photo, Pope Francis waves goodbye before boarding a plane in Asuncion, Paraguay that will take him back to Rome, after a week long tour in South America. When Pope Francis sets foot on the tarmac Sept. 22, 2015 at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, it won’t just be his first time in the United States as pontiff. It will be his first time in the country - ever in his life.

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to put my tattooing in a box,” Moats said. “As long as I get my own han-dle on it, and as long as I get to draw it, it’s usually fun.”

But the secret to Stick’s success, Ferek said, stems from all five artists’ indi-vidual style and chemistry with customers.

“All five have such unique styles,” Ferek said. “All of the artists have that chemistry to where if you come in with an idea, the artists are going to tell you who they feel would do the best job.”

Both Ferek and Moats believe their customer base is mostly college stu-dents, although repeat customers are usually in their 30s or 40s. Lavery keeps coming back week after week—and he enjoys the pain.

“Tattoos, for me, are kind of therapeutic,” he said. “If there’s some-thing on your mind, the tattoos just help you re-lax… No tattoos are a re-gret to me. All tattoos are a story.”

The Stick Tattoo Com-pany is located at 408 Suncrest Towne Centre Dr.

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TaTTooContinued from PAGE 1When the wells run dry: California families cope in drought

TULaRE, Calif. (aP) — Looking for water to flush his toilet, Tino Lozano pointed a garden hose at some buckets in the bare dirt of his yard. It’s his daily ritual now in a community built by refugees from Okla-homa’s Dust Bowl. But only a trickle came out; then a drip, then nothing more.

“There it goes,” said Loz-ano, a 40-year-old disabled vet, masking his despera-tion with a smile. “That’s how we do it in Okieville now.”

Millions of Californians are being inconvenienced in this fourth year of drought, urged to flush toi-lets less often, take shorter showers and let lawns turn brown. But it’s dra-matically worse in places like Okieville, where wells have gone dry for many of the 100 modest homes that share cracked streets with-out sidewalks or street-lights in California’s Cen-tral Valley.

Farming in Tulare County brought in $8.1 billion in 2014, more than any other county in the na-tion, according to its agri-cultural commissioner. Yet 1,252 of its household wells today are dry, more than all other California counties combined.

Lozano, a 40-year-old disabled vet and family man, has worked with his neighbors to rig lines from house to house, sharing wa-ter from a well deep enough to hit the emptying aqui-fer below. County trucks, funded with state drought relief money, fill 2,500-gal-lon tanks in many yards. Residents also get contain-ers of drinking water, stack-ing them in bedrooms and living rooms.

These “Third-World-type conditions” are hidden from plain sight, says Andrew Lockman, of Tulare Coun-ty’s Office of Emergency Services. “It’s not an earth-quake or flood where you can drive down the street and see the devastation.”

Okieville is quiet, dry and hot. Close your eyes and you’re likely to hear a rooster crow or a dog bark. Agriculture is the main employer, and for miles around, dense fields of deep green cornstalks grow as feed for dairy cows. Al-falfa, almond, oranges and grapes abound. Residents express pride in their town, and support the need for irrigation.

“They need water for the cows,” said Okieville resi-dent and tire salesman Gil-bert Arredondo. “Without

dairies we wouldn’t have jobs. They produce cheese.”

For 150 years, surface canals and underground aquifers turned semi-arid regions of California green, and even in drought, the state produces most of America’s fruit, vegetables and nuts.

But the meager Sierra Nevada snowpack doesn’t replenish the rivers like it used to, and farmers are drilling ever-deeper wells to compensate for the plunge in surface water. One farm bought its own $1 million drilling rig just to ensure its supply.

So far, 15 shallower wells used by 23 homes in Oki-eville are depleted.

Maria Marquez, a 50-year-old widow, pan-icked when her shower abruptly ended in June 2014. They couldn’t afford to move, and who would buy a house without run-ning water? Drilling her own new well would cost more than years of earnings from the food truck where she works.

Unlike Lozano, who rents his home, Marquez was eli-gible as a homeowner to get a tank installed for washing and flushing, to be filled each Monday by a county truck, as well as bottled wa-

ter for drinking and cook-ing through California’s $3.7 billion drought relief pro-gram, which includes $38 million for drinking water and tanks.

“It’s our home,” said her daughter Judy Munoz, 26. “She doesn’t want to leave it behind.”

Her neighbor Chris-tine Dunlap, 72, is among the few left with Dust Bowl roots. As with other “Oki-eville” communities in Cal-ifornia, the hundreds of thousands of Midwestern-ers who migrated west in the 1930s were mostly re-placed by migrants from Mexico after the camps evolved into permanent communities.

“We’ve got used to it,” said Dunlap, whose 170 foot-deep well ran dry in February. She’s still got family, she said, so “we con-sider ourselves lucky.”

California became the last state in the West to reg-ulate groundwater when Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation ending a Gold Rush-era policy that gener-ally let property owners take as much as they wanted. A $7.5 billion water bond measure also approved in 2014 includes $2.7 billion to boost water storage.

But sustainable alterna-

tives remain years away, and the groundwater sup-plying nearly 60 percent of the state’s needs in dry years is being used up like never before.

Seeking a solution for problems in Okieville, 5 miles outside of Tulare, Maria Marquez welcomed Maria Herrera, an organizer for the nonprofit Self-Help Enterprises, who brought a team of engineers and a lawyer to address about 50 people gathered in her dirt yard. “We have a lot of important items to talk about tonight,” began Herrera.

As the night wore on, consensus seemed to grow around forming their own water district, and applying for state and federal grants to pay for two 500-foot deep wells costing about $2 mil-lion. Monthly water bills would be about $50, and everyone would get reliable water - at least until the sur-rounding farms dig deeper.

It would take at least two years to design and build it before water flows, engi-neer Owen Kubit explained.

“I don’t think we can last this summer without no water,” Arredondo said.

Others nod in frustration.“We can pray for rain,”

Kubit said.

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Slide the City slips through W. Va.Mel SMith

A&e correspondent @dAilyAthenAeum

Summer is coming to an end with a long-anticipated splash. Slide the City made a visit to Morgantown this weekend, bringing along 1,000 feet of vinyl, covering Mylan Park. Roughly 2,000 people attended, selling out the event entirely.

The event travels across the nation, bringing a water slide more than three foot-ball fields long. Slide the City advertises as a family friendly slip-and-slide wa-ter party event.

Music filled the air along with the scent of local ven-dors and the mist of water. Participants stood in three different lines while wait-ing for their turn to plunge down the hill. Each slider was required to slide with an inner tube to ensure safety. Coming to a college town, the event drew a number of West Virginia University students along with fami-lies of the local Morgantown community.

Sophomore occupa-tional therapy student, An-dria Ormsby, came to Mylan Park with residents of Dadis-man Hall and Stalnaker Hall. Students of select residence halls could attend Slide the City by signing up to go with their residence hall coordi-nator as a program.

“This was a great way to jump start my semester,” Ormsby said.

Ormsby is a residential

assistant in Dadisman Hall so she signed up for the program to get to know her freshman residents.

“I got to be with new friends and old friends and enjoy the community at-mosphere while also doing something invigorating.” Ormsby said.

The goal of Slide the City is to create an out-of-the-ordinary event in a family friendly environment. The Slide the City organization partners with local charities for every city it visits. The Rosenbaum Family House of Morgantown, West Vir-ginia partnered with Slide the City in efforts to spread the word of their charitable work and raise money for the organization.

The Rosenbaum Family House is an extended med-ical care facility offered by WVU Healthcare. The Fam-ily House provides hous-ing and comfort for adult patients and their fami-lies while receiving medi-cal care. Slide the City part-ners with a local charity of every city the event vis-its, providing a portion of the registration fees to the charity.

Director of the Rosen-baum Family House Jena Prokopchuk said if sliders entered the code “family-house” when registering, a portion of the registration fee was donated to the or-ganization, and attendees received a discount. Volun-teers are recruited for the event, donating money to

the Family House for ev-ery volunteer hour worked. Local radio stations made announcements through-out the event about local vendors donating money to the organization as well.

The charity partnered with Color Me Rad 5k in pre-vious years, which was cre-ated by the same company that runs Slide the City.

“We have a great work-ing relationship, and they contacted our organization when they were exploring the possibility of bringing Slide the City to Morgan-town,” Prokopchuk said.

To register for later dates of Slide the City in other cit-ies, visit http://www.slide-thecity.com/.

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Nick GoldeN/THe dAilY ATHeNAeUMMorgantown residents enjoy themselves as they make their way down

Nick GoldeN/THe dAilY ATHeNAeUMSlide the City workers help riders gather their inner tubes at the event.

W. Va. Fiber Festival stringing on new industry WeStley thoMpSon

AssociAte A&e editor @westleyt93

For five years, the West Virginia Fiber Festival has celebrated the beauty and utility of natural fibers.

The fiber festival is a state-sponsored initia-tive to encourage the de-velopment of the natu-ral fiber industry in West Virginia.

The festival aims to provide an educational exp er ience for peo-ple of all ages. Educa-tional outreach is one of the festival’s main pri-orities. Co-organizer-David Moram hopes children will leave the festival with an increased interest in natural fiber arts.

Animals are a big as-pect of the festival. Nat-ural fibers include those taken from sheep, lla-mas, alpacas and angora rabbits. Stalls displaying these animals were sta-tioned throughout the showroom floor.

Each animal’s wool has unique properties that make them better suited for certain applications

over others.Sheep wool is the thick-

est and roughest of the common animal wools. Its thickness makes it ideal for heavy-duty clothing items as well as rugs. Sheep wool is often blended with softer wool from other animals to add strength and durability to products.

On the opposite end of the wool spectrum is an-gora rabbit wool. These fluffy, bizarre-looking rabbits weigh 10 pounds on average, and produce some of the softest and thinnest wool.

Despite their smaller size, angora rabbits have some advantages over other wool-producing animals. The rabbits’ hair can be collected through shearing, like other ani-mals, or simply by brush-ing them. Additionally, their wool does not need to be cleaned and pro-cessed as extensively as sheep and llama wool before being turned into yarn.

Alpaca wool lies some-where between rough sheep wool and soft rab-bit wool. Alpaca wool is soft yet strong. By occu-

pying this midground, alpaca wool has myriad uses.

Rob and Lynn Blake from Mayhem Farm in Winchester, Va. raise al-pacas and do significant analysis on the attributes and uses of alpaca wool. Beyond the common uses such as sweaters, scarves and other articles of clothing, alpaca wool can be used as a substitute for dryer sheets. Tossing a ball of bound-together wool in the dryer can re-move static and lint from clothes. Alpaca wool is beginning to be used a substitute for fiberglass insulation in houses.

Research for new and creative uses of alpaca wool is ongoing, and new discoveries are being made frequently.

“In the next few years you’re going to see alpaca in a lot more places,” Lynn said.

Stalls around the show-room floor were filled with people displaying their wares. Vendors and craftsmen displayed a variety of items ranging from raw wool and yarn to completed products like clothing, art and other

creative items. Vendors could sell whatever they wanted as long as it was made from natural fibers.

One booth offered free drop spindle lessons. This method of handspinning wool uses a dowel with a small disk-shaped weight on one end. The spin-

ner feeds raw wool into the device as they ro-tate the weighted stick, which helps them twist the wool, turning it into yarn which can be used to craft a variety of things.

The West Virginia Fiber Festival is an educational

and eye-opening experi-ence. The general pub-lic often does not put a lot of thought into wool. However, it is a complex and far-reaching industry with a lot of information to share.

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JoHN AlleN/THe dAilY ATHeNAeUMLynn Blake showcases her natural fiber creations at the Fiber Festival.

Music Monday: The Weeknd flaunts sexy wordplay, TDWP’s hardcore returnWoody pond

A&e writer @dAilyAthenAeum

“Beauty Behind the Madness” by The Weeknd

When Abel Tesfaye, known as The Weeknd, first appeared mysteri-ously on the Internet with his free mixtape, “House of Balloons,” the world was curious and hungry for more. The mystery continued, and until now, nobody had any idea what legacy, if any, The Weeknd would leave around for music.

With “Beauty Be-hind the Madness,” Tes-faye has essentially bro-ken out of his proverbial shell and launched his career into pop star-dom. With a unique and powerful voice, Tes-faye croons in beauti-ful and haunting tones across an array of R&B instrumentals.

The Weeknd was al-ways known for his com-plex songs that moved at their own pace—breaking the routine use of verse, chorus, verse by float-ing around the beat lyri-

cally and melodically. On BBTM, he is not afraid to approach a dynamic cho-rus that gives the song the ability to live on in peo-ple’s memories.

Proof of this is in the radio hit “Can’t Feel My Face” which is one of the most sung songs of the month, and it can be found on many more of The Weeknd’s new songs. I was most impressed by the Kanye West co-produced jam “Tell Your Friends” which had a catchy pi-ano lead along with a live drum kit backbeat accom-panied by Tesfaye’s soft voice.

The album progresses well, and you can tell The Weeknd took his time perfecting this record be-fore releasing it to the public. Now all we can do is sit back and watch Abel Tesfaye take over the world with his iconic hair, voice and sexual perversity.

“Space” by The Devil Wears Prada

This band has been si-lent lately, and now we all know it was because they were in space. The Ohio Christian post-hard-

core band recently re-leased a new EP entitled “Space” on Aug. 21 which is the follow up to an EP they released around this time five years ago called “Zombie”—another con-ceptual record.

“Space” is thematically based around space and its mysteries, as well as the preparation and mentality required to travel through space.

The EP is a breath of fresh air for the band—

their last two albums were very underwhelm-ing—and each song mixes the heaviness and the pop rock sound expertly. The band created a lot of cool effects with the produc-tion on this album, us-ing different sounds to indicate space and com-plex technology through-out the record to keep that thematic similarity.

Instrumentally the al-bum is beautifully intri-cate, with a strong bal-

ance of chugging and riffing that gives every song a delightful founda-tion that can go anywhere and everywhere as the song progresses.

An example of this is in the song “Moongod,” where we hear fast break-downs as well as melodic chord progressions during the chorus and bridge—the combination of these is what draws you into the music.

“Space” does a fantastic job of keeping you inter-ested and listening until it draws to a close.

“Rodeo” by Travi$ Scott

You either love Travi$ Scott or you couldn’t care less about him—but now that his debut has come out setting the music scene on fire, people are going to have to pay atten-tion to the talented rapper and producer.

“Rodeo” has been highly anticipated since the first information about it leaked, and especially once the first single “3500” with 2 Chainz and Future was released.

Scott is a trap rap-per and singer who has a

knack for finding himself on the best instrumen-tals of the genre, com-monly produced by Metro Boomin, Mike Dean and the rapper himself. Scott is a member of Kanye West’s label G.O.O.D. Mu-sic, and West makes an appearance on a crazy grunge rock styled banger called “P*ss On Your Grave.”

Using a unique auto-tune selectively for catch-ier verses or choruses works wonders for Scott’s hit songs and puts him at the top of the new trap music movement. There are some other qual-ity features from Juicy J, The Weeknd, Young Thug and even Justin Bieber contributes a verse to “Rodeo.”

I think this album is going to blow up—it has been Travi$ Scott’s time to shine since his mixtape “Days Before Rodeo” put him in the forefront of rap music thanks to his cre-ativity and individuality in a genre consisting of copies and posers. “Ro-deo” is the beginning to a very prosperous career for Scott.

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When you have a tiny apartment, especially a stu-dio, it can be hard to keep the space from closing in on you, especially if there is no distinction between where your living room starts and your kitchen ends.

Something that might be able to help you feel more at home in your space would be to add a little feng shui.

According to Rodika Tchi, a feng shui expert, feng shui is “a complex body of knowledge that re-veals how to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune to the people in-habiting it.”

Health and good for-tune sound pretty good, right? If your place has a good energy, you will have

good come to you in turn. So how exactly should you go about adding some feng shui to your small space?

1. Declutter.If you have a small space,

clutter will only make it look smaller. On top of that, clutter can drain your en-ergy, if you are looking at it from the feng shui point of view. Of course, no one likes to declutter, especially if the mess is found all over the house, and cleaning up one area can’t be done be-fore another is organized so you have places to put everything.

It will really help to start with one room at a time and do it when you feel mo-tivated. Put on some tunes, light your favorite candle, and imagine the place cleaned up. What can also help is going to Target or Bed, Bath and Beyond, and just looking at wall décor or

whatever else you’d want to add to your clean place.

This will help motivate you to get the clutter out of the way so you’ll be able to put new things in your place.

2. Cleansing ceremony.Since feng shui deals

with energy, you may ben-efit from getting rid of bad energies so your good en-ergies will be able to thrive. In order to do this, Christan Hummel, author of Do It Yourself Space Clearing Kit suggests to “go around the house to places where there have been past trau-mas or difficulties. Do a cleansing ceremony (sage, or candles work well) and intend for the blockage to be cleared from that space.”

This might seem a bit dif-ferent from what you are used to, but what’s the harm in trying? The energies also thrive off your mindset, so

go in it with an open mind and see if it helps you out. Once you cleanse, you can bring in items that will represent flowing energy, which according to Hum-mel can consist of “feng shui fountains, chimes or living plants, to attract life energy back into that area.”

My mom got really into feng shui when we lived in Malaysia for a year, and at first I thought it was rather odd. But the more items she brought in and what she taught me about en-ergy really ended up help-ing me with homesickness and feeling more at home in our place away from home.

3. Divide your open areas.

Since you don’t have a lot of space and they are all flowing into one another, your feng shui will ben-efit from you dividing the spaces as much as you can,

paying special attention to giving your bedroom as much privacy as possible.

This of course may make your space look smaller, so you’ll have to play around with the dividers and see what works best for you. Rodika Tchi says you can use things like “various screens, tall plants, a book-shelf, or a row of curtains” to divide your rooms and make your energy pockets flow nicer.

Urban Outfitters al-ways has awesome tapes-tries that you could take a look at. It will be a fun way to decorate your place and help you feel better in your apartment.

4. Keep the entryway clean.

You want to have a clear and open entryway espe-cially if you have a small place. It will open every-thing up and set up good energy for the rest of your

place. What can help with this is to give your entryway good lighting to brighten up the place and make it more inviting, adding vi-brant colors from paint-ings or tapestries or what have you, and also make an extra effort to keep shoes and other clutter away from your main door.

These are just a few ways to add some feng shui into your life. If you would like to learn more about good and bad energies and more of the specifics, definitely check out Rodika Tchi’s articles.

Hopefully these feng shui additions will help you feel more comfort-able in your small space and will improve your en-ergy and your health for the better. You can even have people come out and help you with the specifics if you want to make sure you are doing it correctly.

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Increasing vaccine accessibilityA company in Califor-

nia is working on a flu vac-cine that will prevent illness even as the flu strain mu-tates over time. If successful, the need for a yearly vaccine to account for the disease’s mutation would disappear, and the vaccine could come in pill form or be delivered in a single shot at checkups.

The public’s attitude to-ward vaccines has shifted dramatically in the past few decades, stemming from a study published in 1998 by a researcher named Andrew Wakefield, who claimed there was a link between au-tism and the administration of several vaccines prevent-ing serious illnesses. How-ever, the study’s findings could not be reproduced on multiple occasions, and many studies conducted since then have completely disproven the existence of a link between autism and vaccines.

Though science says oth-erwise, parents today are still choosing to not vacci-

nate their children for a va-riety of reasons. This has led to an unfortunate rise in se-rious diseases like measles, which had tens of thousands

of cases each year before the vaccination was created in 1963. There were fewer than 200 cases per year across the country from 1977 to 2013,

but after the flawed study gained ground among “anti-vaxxers,” the number of cases in 2014 leapt to more than 600. For those who

have compromised immune systems due to diseases like cancer or HIV and can’t re-ceive vaccines, the spread of easily preventable diseases

could have disastrous ef-fects and even lead to death.

This editorial board be-lieves the creation of the vaccine pill will not only make the vaccine more ac-cessible, but may also help foster greater public accep-tance of vaccines and make potential anti-vaxxers more likely to change their stance and vaccinate their chil-dren. Receiving a single pill in the mail would likely be much cheaper than making a trip to the doctor’s office to receive a shot, and deal-ing with needle phobias in both children and adults wouldn’t be an issue.

Science has proven vac-cines have the power to eliminate diseases causing lifelong disability and death. Starting with the flu vaccine in the United States, mak-ing this medical advance-ment more accessible and easy to administer will no doubt benefit the entire hu-man race.

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Michael Vick has been making headlines for most of the past week. Fortu-nately, it has not been for the same reasons as in 2007. The infamous Na-tional Football League quarterback was signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers for one year as the backup for Ben Roethlisberger. The organization’s decision to sign Vick has drawn much criticism, even to the level where lifelong fans are re-nouncing their support for the team altogether.

Once again, Michael Vick’s bizarre and sadden-ing story has led to contro-versy among sports fans and animal lovers alike. Years after the events for-ever attaching themselves to his once-famous name, many still feel personally and deeply affected by his actions.

Michael Vick first rose to prominence in the NFL af-ter being selected first by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2001 draft. By 2004, the talented quarterback had earned a 10-year, $130 mil-lion contract with the NFL. By 2006, he was the league’s highest-paid player.

On the field, Vick was a hero. He was an icon syn-onymous with hard work, drive, ambition and suc-cess. However, his life was much darker behind closed doors. Privately, he was not only heavily involved in the seedy and violent world of underground dogfighting, but he owned and operated one of the most infamous and lucrative rings in the business, Bad Newz Ken-

nels, on his own property.Michael Vick’s double

life began to unfold in 2007, when his cousin was ar-rested on drug charges and claimed Vick’s property as his address to police. When authorities performed a routine search related to the arrest on the property, they were shocked to dis-cover “approximately 54 dogs, mostly pit bulls, some with scars and injuries; most were underfed,” and a “bloodstained fighting area,” according to descrip-tions provided by the Ani-mal Legal Defense Fund’s website.

The following investiga-tions were not only enough to suspend Vick indefinitely from the NFL without pay and destroy his career, but also put him behind bars on a barrage of charges for 21 months. Within a year, he had fallen from athletic heroism to one of the most hated men in America.

The investigations into Vick’s dogfighting ring and the subsequent public-ity surrounding the case reveled deplorable lev-els of cruelty to innocent animals. They served as a harsh reminder that even in this day and age, dog fight-ing continues to thrive. For this reason, we must never forget Michael Vick’s actions.

However, there are countless reasons why we should forgive as well. On his first day with the Steel-ers, Vick stood in front of a swarm of media and openly faced tough ques-tions about his past. “You still have people who feel a certain type of way about what happened,” Vick said.

“But I think you have to look at the right I’m try-ing to do. You can’t take back what happened in the past. Everybody is differ-ent when they’re 20 than when they’re 35. You can’t fault people for some of those mistakes. If that was the case, you would have a lot of people who wouldn’t get a second chance and wouldn’t be successful. It is what it is. You move on, stay positive and keep building what I’ve built the last five or six years.”

Since his release from prison in 2009, Vick has at-tempted to rebuild the life he shattered. He knows his

name will never hold its former worth, but he hasn’t given up on trying to return to the game that served as his life and career. He holds just a small fraction of his former wealth. He donates his time to charitable orga-nizations, like the Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia.

If Michael Vick were em-ployed in any other field, he would be a success story of the system. He served his time. He completed every requirement asked of him. He has returned to work and spends his time giv-ing back to his community. However, because he is a professional athlete mak-

ing millions a year, we wish for his failure more than his success.

Certainly, much of this is because of the unique relationship we have with dogs. If he had been in-volved in rooster fighting, the general public would probably be much more forgiving.

I won’t deny Michael Vick has committed de-plorable crimes. I will deny, however, that there can’t be anything good in someone who has done bad things. Michael Vick will never again be the high-est paid player in the NFL. You won’t see anyone buy-

ing Vick jerseys. He won’t have lucrative endorse-ment deals with the biggest brands in sports. This is all rightfully so. We must never forget his actions, and we must spotlight the issue of dogfighting in order for it to finally come to an end.

However, to renounce his team altogether or to paint Michael Vick as a villain forever serves no positive purpose. To forgive Vick is to give him the chance to continue to change for the better and show even the worst of us can become good again.

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Fletcher’s Grove and Grand Ole’ Ditch filled 123 Pleasant Street with funky Appalachian tunes on Fri-day. The dim and smoky bar was packed with people en-joying a cold brew, jamming out and enjoying the laid back vibes.

Grand Ole’ Ditch kicked the night off with their peppy, folksy sound. From their hometown of Cumber-land, Maryland, Grand Ole’ Ditch has an authentic Ap-palachian style. With their multiple string instruments,

such as the banjo, mando-lin, dobro and fiddle, it was a new twist on the bluegrass music your grandparents played. Grand Ole’ Ditch took old school bluegrass and made it fun and mod-ern. Not only did they have a great sound but the crowd loved them. Everyone was up dancing and jamming to their tunes with absolutely no worries in the world.

Fletcher’s Grove lead singer, Ryan Krofcheck, had nothing but nice words about the up and coming band.

“Grand Ole’ Ditch was really great. We have been on a lot of shows and festi-

vals together this summer,” Krofcheck said. “It’s good to see a bluegrass band from the region making head-way on bigger festivals and shows.”

Fletcher’s Grove came on stage next. The Friday show marked their first ap-pearance of the semester. Fletcher’s Grove was ex-cited to jump back into the music after a light summer of shows.

“Last night’s show went really good,” Krofcheck said. “I’m always nervous for the first show of the se-mester but a lot of people showed up and we had a packed house.”

Combining a jam band style with rock and a tra-ditional bluegrass sound, Fletcher’s Grove had a very unique sound. Jody Mosser from Grand Ole’ Ditch sat in on dobro for a few of Fletch-er’s Grove’s songs, including a new original song about a Morgantown moonshiner.

Fletcher’s Grove also performed a few covers in-cluding a Yonder Moun-tain String Band tune and a Bob Dylan song. As the night came to an end, they finished off the set with a crowd favorite, Lynyrd Sky-nyrd’s song “Free Bird”. Not only did the band capture a unique take on the classic

song but they also left ev-eryone with mellow vibes.

As one of the most pop-ular local bands from Mor-gantown, Fletcher’s Grove loves coming home to play a fun set for their friends and family.

“Our favorite thing about playing 123 has got to be the energy packed into that small hall. The crowd is very responsive and alive the whole night,” Krof-check said. “We have a lot of friends that come out for the show and in recent years a lot of new people have been coming to check out what they have been hearing about us.”

Fletcher’s Grove will move forward in coming months. Not only are they playing at MainStage Mor-gantown on Oct. 23, but they are also in the process of putting out a new album.

“Over the fall and winter we will be working on put-ting out a live album and a full length concept album,” Krofcheck said.

New albums mean up-coming concerts. For more information about upcoming shows at 123 Pleasant Street, visit http://123pleasantstreet.com.

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BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine (AP) — When Jack-son Spencer set out to tackle the Appalachian Trail, he anticipated the solitude that only wilder-ness can bring - not a roll-ing, monthslong frat party.

Shelters where he thought he could catch a good night’s sleep while listening to the sounds of nature were instead filled with trash, graffiti and peo-ple who seemed more in-terested in partying all night, said Spencer, who finished the entire trail last month in just 99 days.

“I wanted the solitude. I wanted to experience na-ture,” he said. “I like to drink and to have a good time, but I didn’t want that to follow me there.”

Spencer, or “Mission” as he is known to fellow thru-hikers, confronted what of-ficials say is an ugly side ef-fect of the increasing traffic on the Georgia-to-Maine footpath every year: More people than ever causing problems.

At Maine’s Baxter State Park, home to the trail’s fi-nal summit on Mount Ka-tahdin, officials say thru-hikers are flouting park rules by openly using drugs and drinking alco-hol, camping where they aren’t supposed to, and trying to pass their pets off as service dogs. Hundreds of miles away, misbehav-ing hikers contributed to a

small Pennsylvania com-munity’s recent decision to shutter the sleeping quar-ters it had offered for de-cades in the basement of its municipal building.

With last year’s release of the movie “Wild,” about a woman’s journey on the Pacific Crest Trail, and what experts call a grow-ing interest in outdoor ac-tivities, the number of peo-ple on the Appalachian Trail has exploded. And the numbers are only ex-pected to climb further af-ter “A Walk in the Woods” - a movie based on the 1998 Bill Bryson book about the Appalachian Trail- hits theaters this week.

More than 830 people completed the 2,189-mile hike last year, up from just 182 in 1990, according to the Appalachian Trail Con-servancy, based in Harp-ers Ferry, West Virginia. At Baxter, the number of reg-istered long-distance hik-ers grew from 359 in 1991 to more than 2,000 in 2014.

The growing number of hikers is becoming a man-agement nightmare at Bax-ter, where officials say they also believe the culture and attitude of the people using the footpath is changing.

Jensen Bissell, director of the park, said in a letter to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy late last year that AT hikers are “open and deliberate in their de-sire for freedom from all

rules and regulations.” He warns that the trail may need to end somewhere besides Katahdin if some-thing doesn’t change soon.

“If we have 2,000 hikers now, how will it be when we have 3,500 or 4,000 hik-ers?” Bissell said.

Some say there appears to be a growing sense of entitlement among thru-hikers, many of whom are just out of college or have enough money to leave work for months at a time.

“We had to take off half a year of working, and not a lot of people can do that,” Karl Berger, a 24-year-old Maine resident known on the trail as GQ, said from a camp site in Baxter, where he was resting with his fa-ther behind finishing the hike up Katahdin. “I don’t think a lot of hikers ac-knowledge that it’s a priv-ilege to be out here.”

Many hikers said they believe the concerns are being overblown.

“There is always a bad apple or two, but these are people that spend four to six months for a year on the trail, on their feet, ex-periencing the wilderness. I can’t imagine them want-ing to do things that would violate the wilderness,” said Scott Jurek, an ultra-marathoner from Colorado who last month completed the trail in a record time of 46 days, eight hours.

After celebrating with a

bottle of champagne at Ka-tahdin’s summit, Jurek re-ceived citations for con-suming alcohol, hiking with a large group and lit-tering. He argued that the citations were unfair and that Baxter officials were using him to send a mes-sage to problem hikers.

Policies regarding alco-hol vary by state and park. Dogs are allowed along most of the trail except for a few places, including Baxter.

Ron Tipton, executive director of the Conser-

vancy, said the vast ma-jority of thru-hikers are re-spectful and on the trail for the right reasons. He said he believes that the sharp increase in hikers has sim-ply made it more challeng-ing to deal with the behav-ior of a few.

His group has imple-mented several initiatives to deal with the surge in trail use, such as encourag-ing people to start the path at different spots to better distribute hikers. It also re-cently held a meeting with Baxter officials to address

the concerns about hiker behavior and is dedicated to resolving the issues, Tip-ton said.

With the end of the trail in jeopardy, there’s much at stake, officials and hik-ers say.

“Katahdin is such an icon; it’s such a prize that it motivates all kinds of peo-ple,” said Lester Kenway, president of the Maine Ap-palachian Trail Club. “Hav-ing the trail end some-where short of that would be a disappointment for many of us.”

Hikers behaving badly: Appalachian Trail partying causes anger

wikipedia.orgThe Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine, and is an increasingly popular hiking challange.

NEW YORK (AP) — There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The sur-geon who developed a sud-den passion for music after being struck by lightning. And most famously, the man who mistook his wife for a hat.

Those stories and many more, taking the reader to the distant ranges of human ex-perience, came from the pen of Dr. Oliver Sacks.

Sacks, 82, died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said. In February, he had announced that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver.

As a practicing neurolo-gist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold.

In his best-selling 1985 book, “The Man Who Mis-took His Wife for a Hat,” he described a man who really did mistake his wife’s face for his hat while visiting Sacks’ office, because his brain had difficulty interpreting what he saw. Another story in the book featured twins with au-tism who had trouble with or-dinary math but who could perform other amazing calculations.

Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest sci-ence books of all time in 2006, declaring, “Legions of neu-roscientists now probing the mysteries of the human brain cite this book as their greatest inspiration.”

Sacks’ 1973 book, “Awak-enings,” about hospital pa-tients who’d spent decades in a kind of frozen state until Sacks tried a new treatment, led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was portrayed by Robin Williams. It was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Still another book, “An An-thropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales,” published in 1995, described cases like a painter who lost color vision in a car accident but found new creative power in black-and-white, and a 50-year-old man who suddenly regained sight after nearly a lifetime of

blindness. The experience was a disaster; the man’s brain could not make sense of the visual world. It perceived the human face as a shifting mass of meaningless colors and textures.

After a full and rich life as a blind person, he became “a very disabled and miserable partially sighted man,” Sacks recalled later. “When he went blind again, he was rather glad of it.”

Despite the drama and un-usual stories, his books were not literary freak shows.

“Oliver Sacks humanizes illness ... he writes of body and mind, and from every one of his case studies there radiates a feeling of respect for the patient and for the illness,” Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, said in 2001. “What others con-sider unmitigated tragedy or dysfunction, Sacks sees, and makes us see, as a human be-ing coping with dignity with a biological problem.”

When Sacks received the prestigious Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing in 2002, the citation declared, “Sacks presses us to follow him into uncharted regions of human experience - and com-pels us to realize, once there, that we are confronting only ourselves.”

In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Sacks said he tries to make “visits to other people, to other interi-ors, seeing the world through their eyes.”

His 2007 book, “Musico-philia,” examines the rela-tionship between music and the brain, including its heal-ing effect on people with such conditions as Tourette’s syn-drome, Parkinson’s, autism and Alzheimer’s.

“Even with advanced de-mentia, when powers of memory and language are lost, people will respond to music,” he told The Associ-ated Press in 2008.

Oliver Wolf Sacks was born in 1933 in London, son of husband-and-wife physi-cians. Both were skilled at re-counting medical stories, and

Sack’s own writing impulse “seems to have come directly from them,” he said in his 2015 memoir, “On the Move.”

In childhood he was drawn to chemistry (his 2001 mem-oir is titled “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boy-hood”) and biology. Around age 11, fascinated by how ferns slowly unfurl, he set up a camera to take pictures ev-ery hour or so of a fern and then assembled a flip book to compress the process into a few seconds.

“I became a doctor a lit-tle belatedly and a little re-luctantly,” he told one inter-viewer. “In a sense, I was a naturalist first and I only came to individuals relatively late.”

After earning a medical de-gree at Oxford, Sacks moved to the United States in 1960 and completed a medical in-ternship in San Francisco and a neurology residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. He moved to New York in 1965 and began de-cades of neurology practice. At a Bronx hospital he met the profoundly disabled patients he described in “Awakenings.”

Among his other books were “The Island of the Col-orblind” (1997) about a so-

ciety where congenital col-orblindness was common, “Seeing Voices” (1989) about the world of deaf culture, and “Hallucinations” (2012), in which Sacks discussed his own hallucinations as well as those of some patients.

Even apart from his books, he wrote prolifically. He be-gan keeping journals at age 14, and in his 2015 memoir he said he’d filled more than a thousand at last count. He kept a notebook nearby when he went to bed or swam, never knowing when thoughts would strike. They often ar-rived in complete sentences or paragraphs.

As his hearing worsened, he even devoted a notebook to instances in which he mis-heard something, like “cuttle-fish” for “publicist.”

Yet, he rarely looked at his journals after filling them. “The act of writing is itself enough ... ideas emerge and are shaped, in the act of writ-ing,” he said in his 2015 book.

Writing gave him “a joy, unlike any other,” he said. “It takes me to another place. ... In those rare, heavenly states of mind, I may write non-stop until I can no longer see the paper. Only then do I re-

alize that evening has come and that I have been writing all day.”

In the AP interview, Sacks was asked what he’d learned from peering into lives much different from the norm.

“People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or au-tistic or whatever,” he replied. “And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.”

Sacks reflected on his own life this year when he wrote in the New York Times that he was terminally ill. “I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and ex-treme immoderation in all my passions,” he wrote.

In the time he had remain-

ing, he said, he would no lon-ger pay attention to matters like politics and global warm-ing because they “are no lon-ger my business; they belong to the future. I rejoice when I meet gifted young people. ... I feel the future is in good hands.”

“I cannot pretend I am without fear,” he wrote. “But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. ... Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beau-tiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privi-lege and adventure.”

Lauded author & neurologist Oliver Sacks dies of cancer at 82

theguardian.comOliver Sacks wrote many acclaimed books dring his career as a neurologist.

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ARIES (MARch 21-ApRIl 19)HHHH You will have a difficult time being subtle, but this kind of reticent be-havior might be appropriate at the moment. You could have an impor-tant conversation about a potential trip with a friend. Listen carefully to what he or she wants to share. To-night: Let off some steam.

TAURUS (ApRIl 20-MAy 20) HHHHH Zero in on what you de-sire. Verbalizing what you want is far more important than you realize, es-pecially as you are starting to deal with someone who tends to be less communicative. A comment could

force you back to the drawing board. Tonight: Don’t swallow your anger.

GEMINI (MAy 21-JUNE 20) HHH Take charge if you want to have a project come out exactly as you would like. Run with the ball, yet still listen to others’ suggestions. Rather than saying “no,” keep their ideas in mind. You never know when one might work. Tonight: Work off some extra energy.

cANcER (JUNE 21-JUly 22) HHHH Keep reaching out to someone at a distance or to someone who seems to have a different view from you. A lack of energy will be a valid rea-son to hold off on making a deci-sion. Be aware of the role that mak-

ing a change has in energizing you. Tonight: A sudden burst of energy.

lEO (JUly 23-AUG. 22) HHHH Fortunately, you deal well with oth-ers; however, a spacey individual could stop you in your tracks. You might need to listen more closely to what this person is saying. Note what he or she doesn’t say, as that could have unusual significance. To-night: Try something different.

V I R G O ( AU G. 23- S E p T. 22) HHHHH Others will seek you out, though you might not be up for a prolonged one-way conversation. You could try to add more fun to the exchanges. Ultimately, you will find that sharing your feelings is likely to

add some fuel to your interactions. Tonight: Stay centered.

lIBRA (SEpT. 23-OcT. 22) HH Your focus will be on getting your work done. How you see a personal mat-ter could change once you attempt to initiate a conversation. Clearly, the other party seems more vested in control than in expressing his or her feelings. Tonight: Back away from a volatile situation.

S cO R p I O ( O c T. 23- N O V. 21) HHHHH Your creativity and cu-riosity can be powerful tools when mixed together. Your ability to move past a situation and find a much bet-ter path is likely to emerge. Others often seek you out for advice; they

want some of this magic! Tonight: Go to the gym first.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEc. 21) HHH You might have a difficult time feeling energized right now. Don’t push yourself so hard. You could hear some news that encour-ages a lively conversation. People could fly off the handle, but by then, you will be a big ball of energy. To-night: Do what you want.

c ApRIcORN (DEc. 22-JAN. 19) HHHH You might be hard-pressed to understand where a friend is re-ally coming from. Just when you seem to be able to focus on the con-versation, this person is likely to close down. Try not to let yourself

be so irritated by this experience. To-night: Work off steam.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) HHH While others seem locked in conver-sation, you will want to take a closer look at your budget. You might want to reassess a personal situa-tion, which is likely to involve extra funds. Tonight: Start pricing out your options.

pIScES (FEB. 19-MARch 20) HHHH You will be able to read be-tween the lines. Getting confirma-tion of what you see could be virtu-ally impossible. A power play might affect a friendship. Be careful in han-dling this situation. Tonight: Do your best not to go overboard.

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john allen/the daily athenaeumAmandine Pierre-Louis dribbles the ball around a Duquesne defender in Sunday’s game.

BY CONNOR HICKSSPORTS CORRESPONDENT

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After a long offseason, the West Virginia women’s soc-cer team began their home slate for the 2015 season on Sunday afternoon against Duquesne. The game was the second of a doubleheader at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium that featured both the wom-en’s and men’s teams in action.

The end result was a 5-0 WVU victory, to record their third win and second shutout of the young 2015 campaign. The Mountaineers held the Dukes without a shot on goal, outshooting Duquesne 17-0.

The No. 15 ranked Moun-taineers came into the game following a 1-0 victory over Maryland Friday night. The Mountaineers had never lost to Duquesne, tallying a 4-0-2 all-time record that includes a 4-1 win in Morgantown last season.

Duquesne also started the season strong with wins over St. Francis and Robert Morris.

The Mountaineer attack began early, with a Kadei-sha Buchanan steal at mid-field generating two shots within the first minute. When Duquesne regained the ball, the Mountaineer defense was relentless and gained the ball back.

An impressive series of passes and a lead pass from Ashley Lawrence led to a wide-open net for Kailey Ut-

ley in just the third minute for a 1-0 lead.

Before the cheering from the faithful home crowd had settled, Carla Portillo found an uncovered Nia Gordon to the left of the net. Gor-don was able to finish for the second goal of her fresh-man year, extending the lead to 2-0.

“I don’t think of her as a freshman,” Utley said. “She has great speed, she’s tech-nical, and she’s growing ev-ery day, learning every day. I think she’s going to be a great forward for years to come.”

When the first Dukes at-tack of the game came in the 11th minute, Duquesne for-ward Abby Losco was able to get by defender Bianca St. Georges, but Kadeisha Bu-chanan was there, prevent-ing a shot from even being attempted.

Possession went back and forth for the next few min-utes until a quick play by Kailey Utley led to an assist on a third West Virginia goal by Michaela Abam just be-fore the halfway point of the first half.

Coach Nikki Izzo-Brown then substituted nearly ev-ery starter to get bench play-ers game experience. They were just as effective, with Yulie Lopez coming on for Ashley Lawrence and nearly immediately finding Aman-dine Pierre-Louis for another Mountaineer goal to extend the lead to 4-0.

“It’s awesome,” Utley said. “They get to get some expe-

rience, and that way if they have to come in any other time, they’re ready.”

By the 41st minute, goalie Hannah Steadman was the only starter remaining for the Mountaineers. Steadman didn’t see much action, with the Dukes unable to register a shot on goal in the first half.

As players lined up for the second half, fans were quickly acquainted with Morgantown weather.

A sunny afternoon turned into a downpour in a matter of minutes.

The nearly full bleach-ers of Dick Dlesk Stadium were quickly emptied, with the exception of the most loyal of fans, but play went on.

“It was terrible. It was kind of hailing. The ball was wet, the grass was slick, but I think it ended up playing to our ad-vantage,” said forward Nia Gordon.

Despite the weather, the Mountaineers picked up right where they left off. Gor-don’s shot in the 49th minute was blocked by Dukes’ goalie Vanessa Perdomo, but Ash-ley Lawrence was the recip-ient of a lucky bounce and an empty net. Lawrence net-ted the rebound to put the Mountaineers up by five.

The Dukes’ first legiti-mate scoring chance came six minutes later when WVU goalie Hannah Stead-man lost her footing, lead-ing to a wide-open net. As Duquesne’s Katie O’Connor wound up for the sure goal,

freshman Easther Mayi Kith slid in front of the ball and knocked it out of play to pre-vent the score.

A pass by Gordon found senior Leah Emaus in front of the net in the 64th minute, but Duquesne defender Ve-ronique Dagenais was there to block the shot from reach-ing net.

The Mountaineers saw several more scoring oppor-tunities, but the lack of expe-rience in the backup offense combined with the weather conditions resulted in a fail-ure to capitalize.

What the team lacks in ex-perience, they make up for with chemistry and raw tal-ent. That chemistry was ex-tremely evident in the lop-sided win, and Izzo-Brown is confident it will be the key to success this season.

“The team chemistry right now is real good,” Izzo-Brown said. “The more they get to play together, the more understanding they have, the better.”

The Mountaineers face No. 6 Penn State in Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium this Friday night. The Nittany Li-ons were one of WVU’s two regular season losses last year, before WVU went on a program-record 20-game win streak.

The No. 15 Mountaineers (3-1) will enter the game with a 13-game winning streak at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

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West Virginia drops matches against George Washington, Michigan at Invitational

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Saturday evening, the West Virginia volleyball team finished its first tour-nament of the season, tak-ing a 3-0 loss to the Uni-versity of Michigan. The Wolverines hosted the Michigan Invitational over the weekend, which also included games against George Washington and Oakland Universities.

West Virginia took its first win of the season against Oakland on Fri-day evening, 3-2. Mor-gan Montgomery led the team with 16 kills and put in the game-win-ning serve. Senior Brit-tany Sample contributed a huge help with 48 assists and 15 digs to set the pace of the match. Sophomore Mia Swanegan spent her Mountaineer debut lead-ing the team with four blocks and scoring 13 points on kills.

Bridget Talia played her first freshman minutes against Oakland and fin-ished with 12 kills.

Saturday morning, the Mountaineers contin-ued their invitational play against George Washing-ton and took a 3-0 loss. Montgomery paced the offense once again, hit-ting eight kills on a .211 average.

Caleah Wells and Swanegan both saw time and put down six kills each, and Dzeni Hadzise-hovic played her first court time during which she scored three kills and put up a block assist.

George Washington out-hit West Virginia .321 to .112 on attacking per-cent, with 38 kills for the Colonials and only 27 kills.

The final loss to Mich-

igan came Saturday eve-ning. Attacking was not a strong point for the Moun-taineers, hitting only .180 on their average with 38 kills while the Wolverines finished with a match av-erage of .278 on 45 kills.

Montgomery put the team on her back once again, scoring 11 kills. Ju-nior Hannah Shreve also performed well, following with 10 kills and putting up a team-high four blocks. Wells put down nine kills, followed by four kills each from Swanegan and Talia.

Setting for the Moun-taineers again was Sample who put up 31 assists and sophomore Gianna Got-terba led the team with 13 digs while playing libero. Even with decent num-bers from all involved, it wasn’t enough to over-come the Wolverines.

West Virginia fell in the first set 25-20, then in the second 25-23 and the third 25-17. The final scores alone show the ef-fort put in by the Moun-taineers, but the last set was stumped by five at-tacking errors from the Gold and Blue side.

Those five errors gave Michigan a 19-14 lead, which West Virginia tried to come back from but only gained three more points, letting the Wol-verines take the match in a shut out.

This week, the Moun-taineers will continue their early season play before diving into the Big 12 matchups in weeks to come. Friday afternoon, West Virginia takes on Eastern Michigan in the beginning of the IUPUI Hampton Inn Invitational in Indianapolis.

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transfers are critical to West Virginia’s rosterBY DJ DeSKINS

SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

Four-star junior college recruit Rasul Douglas was cleared by the NCAA to join the West Virginia Uni-versity football team just two weeks before the sea-son opener against Geor-gia Southern.

The transfer from Nas-sau Community College in Garden City, New York, who was a JUCO All-Amer-ican, chose WVU in Feb-ruary over schools like Louisville, Florida and Tennessee.

Douglas was ranked as the third best cornerback out of junior college and a top 50 JUCO recruit on ESPN.

“There’s nothing he can’t do,” Nassau C.C. coach Jo-seph Osovet said in an in-terview with WVUSports.com. “He’s the type of kid that if he does the right things at West Virginia, he can get a paycheck for playing the game.”

Douglas joins an im-pressive group of trans-fer players for head coach Dana Holgorsen, a hand-ful of whom are expected to make an immediate im-pact for the Mountaineers.

Wide receiver Ka’Raun White from Lackawanna College in Scranton, Penn-sylvania, joined the pro-gram this season after tal-lying 552 yards receiving

and three touchdowns. Ka’Raun is the little

brother of standout Moun-taineer receiver Kevin White, who was selected seventh overall by the Chi-cago Bears in this year’s NFL Draft.

Ka’Raun White is ex-pected to be one of quar-terback Skyler Howard’s top targets on the outside this season. Veteran re-ceiver Jordan Thompson said White has the ability to make some big catches and has better hands than his older brother.

Howard, another JUCO transfer, joined WVU be-fore the 2014 season and started a couple of games at the end of the sea-son while Clint Trickett was sidelined with a head injury.

“Going into this year, I feel like Skyler has worked on (his throwing),” Thomp-son said. “He knew what he did wrong. As soon as we got done with the (Texas A&M) game, he figured out what he was doing wrong and focused on that going into the offseason.”

Howard will be joined in the backfield by Rushel Shell, who transferred in from the Mountaineers’ bitterest rival, Pittsburgh.

Shell was a highly touted recruit out of Hopewell High School in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He finished his high school career as the state’s all-time leading

rusher with 9,078 yards.ESPN gave him a four-

star rating and ranked him as the 26th best player in the nation, third best at his position.

Shell stayed close to home and signed with Pitt over programs like Ala-bama, Auburn, Florida, Ohio State, Oregon and West Virginia. He chose to transfer to the Moun-taineers after his fresh-man season despite rank-ing second on the team in yards.

Shell initially was going to attend UCLA but de-cided against that because he wanted to keep his two daughters close to home.

“Things went really well down at WVU,” Shell said in an interview with ESPN. “I enjoyed every moment of it. We toured the cam-pus and facilities, and I got a chance to hang out with other recruits and players on the team. They made my visit terrific and made me feel like family.”

Other transfers filling out WVU’s roster are Mich-igan transfers Kyle Bosch and Michael Ferns, Miami products Antonio Craw-ford and Vernon Davis Jr., JUCO transfers Larry Jef-ferson, Edward Muldrow III, Xavier Pegues, Khairi Sharif, Sylvester Townes, Stone Underwood and Dayron Wilson.

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kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumGianna Gotterba sets to her teammate in a game last season.

kyle monroe/the daily athenaeumRushel Shell runs the ball in last season’s game against Texas.

THE DAILY ATHENAEUM Monday August 31, 201510 | SPORTS

BY DAVID STATMANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

@DJSTATMAN77

Another season of col-lege football is almost un-derway in one of the na-tion’s deepest and toughest conferences. This year’s Big 12 features national ti-tle contenders like Baylor and TCU, sleeping giants like Oklahoma and Texas and absolute wild cards like Oklahoma State, West Vir-ginia and Texas Tech. All this makes for what should be an extremely intriguing ride. While games haven’t started yet, here’s a look at how the Big 12 might shake out this season.

1. TCUOne has to consider TCU

as a major national cham-pionship contender after they were one of two Big 12 teams to narrowly miss out on the playoff last sea-son. Quarterback Trevone Boykin is one of the front-runners for the Heisman Trophy this year and has the privilege of throwing to one of the most dangerous receiving corps in college football, featuring produc-tive seniors Josh Doctson and Kolby Listenbee. They also have a cupcake non-conference schedule, and they’re home against Bay-lor – it’s a perfectly reason-able proposition that the Horned Frogs could end up with a perfect regular sea-son record.

2. BaylorBaylor also has the ben-

efit of a weak nonconfer-

ence schedule, but they’re left twisting in the void cre-ated by the graduation of several key players, includ-ing star quarterback Bryce Petty and defensive leader Bryce Hager.

Junior quarterback Seth Russell has major potential and could fit in well among Baylor’s lightning-fast of-fense, and he’ll have help – leading rusher Shock Lin-wood returns, along with star receiver Corey Cole-man, big play machine KD Cannon and the spectac-ular 400-pound tight end LaQuan McGowan. Still, that Nov. 27 date at TCU looms large, and I don’t see Baylor winning that one in Fort Worth. That’s the game that will decide your confer-ence champion. Mark it on your calendar.

3. OklahomaLast year, Trevor Knight

was a major sleeper Heis-man pick, but injuries and overall ineffectiveness from Oklahoma’s starting quar-terback led the Sooners to a disappointing 8-5 season. This year, Knight will be on the bench as Texas Tech transfer Baker Mayfield has stepped up to steal the start-ing job from right out un-der his nose. Oklahoma is in the unfamiliar position of running a distant third in the Big 12, as Baylor and TCU have surged right past Oklahoma and Texas to be the new dominant pairing in the conference. The Soon-ers can’t match their offen-sive talent, although run-ning back Samaje Perine is

up there with the very best players in college football.

4. Oklahoma StateNonconference dates

with Central Michigan, Cen-tral Arkansas and Texas-San Antonio should ensure the Cowboys start with a 3-0 re-cord, and it’s after that when the real intrigue begins. Sophomore quarterback Mason Rudolph took over and led Oklahoma State to some big wins at the end of last year, and all three of Oklahoma State’s leading receivers return, including seniors Brandon Sheperd and David Glidden. On the other side of the ball, the Cowboys have a number of productive returning con-tributors, including the con-ference’s best pass rusher, junior defensive end Em-manuel Ogbah. Head coach Mike Gundy has a track re-cord of productive aerial at-tacks, and if Rudolph takes the next step, this could be a very, very fun team.

5. TexasCan someone please

find Texas a quarterback? Ever since Colt McCoy graduated five years ago, the Longhorns have strug-gled to find an answer. This year, they’re going back to the well with junior Tyrone Swoopes, who didn’t ex-actly set the world on fire in 2014. Texas will be looking for running back Johnathan Gray to finally break out and achieve his potential. If not, the offense could be toothless, and the defense has lost many of their big-gest contributors. Not only

that, they have to play both TCU and Baylor on the road. They’re still Texas, though - they find more four-star re-cruits in their couch cush-ions than most teams do in months on the recruiting trail. It’s time for head coach Charlie Strong to show what he’s made of.

6. West VirginiaWest Virginia has one

thing that no one else in the Big 12 can match – a defen-sive backfield laden with players with starting experi-ence and NFL potential. The major questions about the offense aside, the safety duo of Karl Joseph and Dravon Henry should be enough to cause major problems for the Big 12’s passing of-fenses, and if they can fig-ure out how to get a pass rush, the Mountaineers might field one of the better defenses in Division I. But about that offense – will the offensive line settle down? Will Skyler Howard find chemistry with his young receivers? Until those ques-tions are answered, this is a middle-of-the-pack team.

7. Kansas StateQuick flashback: remem-

ber when the human wreck-ing ball that was Collin Klein had Kansas State on the very brink of a national cham-pionship shot? Klein was the kind of powerful, run-first quarterback that could only exist in college football, and it hasn’t been the same since he graduated. Still, the Wildcats were 9-4 last sea-son, beat Oklahoma in Nor-man, shut out Texas, and

might have been Big 12 title contenders if they were able to get past TCU or Baylor. Alas, they weren’t, and the loss of starting quarterback Jake Waters and scintillat-ing big-play machine Ty-ler Lockett leaves the Wild-cats in rebuilding mode. A week before the season, and they don’t have a start-ing quarterback yet (it looks probable that it’ll be soph-omore Jesse Ertz), and the best defense in the Big 12 was gutted by the loss of some of their best players. That should let you know where the Wildcats stand right now.

8. Texas TechAfter Baker Mayfield’s

transfer left the Red Raid-ers high and dry, it was a rough 2014 for Texas Tech. The defense was atrocious, the twinkle in head coach Kliff Kingsbury’s dreamy eyes faded, and Texas Tech finished 4-8. And let’s be real here: the defense is still probably going to be really bad – but sopho-more quarterback Patrick Mahomes could be the Red Raiders’ next big star. Mahomes exploded onto the scene with nearly 600 yards and six touch-downs in an epic shoot-out loss to Baylor at the end of last year, and most of his top receivers return. They probably won’t win more than five or six games, but Texas Tech will be fun to watch as usual, and they’ll give more than one conference favorite a big scare.

9. Iowa StateJack Trice Stadium in

Ames, Iowa has become an absolute football tomb in recent years. The Cyclones were winless in the Big 12 last season and haven’t posted a winning confer-ence record since 2000. They played in the Insight.com Bowl that year, which no longer exists. Senior dual-threat quarterback Sam Richardson is pretty decent, but he’s really all that Iowa State has to its name. The defense was ter-rible, the offense lost some of the best players from an offense that was also ter-rible, and none of this has ever been enough to cost head coach Paul Rhoads his job. The Cyclones are hur-tling toward yet another los-ing season.

10. KansasFunny how this works

out: the two best basketball programs in the Big 12 are Kansas and Iowa State, and the two worst football pro-grams in the Big 12 are Kan-sas and Iowa State. At least Iowa State has an alright quarterback – Kansas really has nothing to boast about. Junior Montell Cozart is the starting quarterback for the Jayhawks this year, after he lost his job mid-way through 2014, and new head coach David Beaty will have to rebuild from scratch an offense that was already dreadful last season. The de-fense? It’s not much to write home about either. They’ll get rolled.

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MEN’S SOCCER

BY CHRIS JACKSONSPORTS CORRESPONDENT

@DAILYATHENAEUM

Following a disappoint-ing 1-0 defeat to Navy in the season opener, the Mountaineers delivered on Sunday afternoon.

Behind a pair of goals from senior midfielder Ja-mie Merriam, WVU cap-tured an impressive 6-0 victory over the San Fran-cisco Dons to cap off the weekend home stand in style, marking the first time since 1998 they’ve scored six-plus goals.

“Navy came out here, and they were intense, that was just their na-ture and we didn’t match

that,” Merriam said. “We brought a lot of intensity today right off the bat and put a lot of pressure (on San Francisco). That’s the way we like to defend, and it worked.”

Both of Merriam’s goals were assisted from Joey Pi-atczyc, giving WVU quick scores in the sixth and eighth minutes to make it 2-0.

“Jamie’s got it all,” said sophomore Joey Piatczyc. “He’s a bulldog. He’s the guy you really don’t want to mess with. He’s the guy that’s going to win it in the air every time, but he’s also smart.”

The lights-out display from Merriam and the rest

of the offense, totaling 19 shots (eight on goal), gave WVU hope after they failed to convert multiple op-portunities in their loss on Friday.

The chemistry between Merriam and Piatczyc on the field propelled the of-fense to enormous heights early on.

“We were really close on the field,” Piatczyc said. “We were both here work-ing in the summer and we’re on the same page and I think that helps out a lot.”

WVU’s final goal came at the 88:41 mark, as fresh-man Rushawn Larmond’s first career score made it 6-0 and showed he’s

among the many freshmen who have a major chance to contribute throughout the season.

Sophomore Jack Driscoll also tallied his first career goal, and Ryan Cain added a score on a header. Mike Desiderio’s score in the 36th minute extended the advantage to 3-0 and put the game well out of San Francisco’s reach.

The assertive style of play from the Mountaineer offense paid dividends all afternoon, holding USF to three shots and keeping the ball out of their possession.

Shutting out a Dons squad that defeated three ranked teams a year ago and finished atop the West

Coast Conference in shots (284) and second in goals (30) was another impres-sive feat for the WVU de-fense and goalie Daniel Diaz.

“That’s a San Francisco team that’s picked to win the West Coast Confer-ence,” head coach Marlon LeBlanc said. “They played Penn State 1-0. Hopefully we build off this.”

Diaz, a junior college transfer from Yavapai Col-lege, is performing like a seasoned veteran at the Division I level despite this being his second ca-reer start. He’s tallied six saves thus far and has al-lowed one goal.

Despite not facing a

shot on goal Sunday, Diaz did receive the coach’s approval.

“He didn’t have much to do today, but he moved the ball around and did a great job with it,” LeBlanc said.

Heading into a road trip that features matchups against Michigan and No. 9 ranked Michigan State, a dominating performance helps immensely with con-tests with big-name Big Ten Conference foes on the horizon.

“It’s a lot of confidence,” Piatczyc said. “You never want to go into (Michigan) 0-2. Now we’re 1-1 and we’re back on track.”

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ASKAR SALIKHOV/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia forward Rushawn Larmond celebrates after scoring his first career goal against San Francisco.

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