Fall Family Weekend 2013

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Fall Family Weekend reunites students,

familiesBy Carlee lammers

Managing Editor @CarLEELaMMErS

This weekend, families of West Virginia University students will be able to get a taste of life on campus.

The Mountaineer Par-ents Club will host its an-nual Fall Family Weekend event Friday-Sunday.

“Families can stay, eat in restaurants, not get caught in gameday traffic and truly enjoy time with their stu-dents,” said Sabrina Cave, vice president for Student Affairs Communications. “The Mountaineer Parents Club works with a variety of units on campus to cre-ate a unique experience for families.”

Parents have the chance to eat in dining hall, use the Student Recreation Cen-ter and experience all the Morgantown community has to offer.

While the event serves as an opportunity to show-case life on campus, Cave said it’s also a great way to reconnect as a family.

As midterm exams draw near, Cave said the stress of college is at its peak for many students, and she believes the chance to visit with family can ease some of those anxieties for WVU students.

“It’s important for par-ents to ‘check-in’ with their students. Students want to see their families,” she said. “It is a great op-portunity for parents to lis-ten to their children (and) reassure and encourage them.

“College can be stressful, and often, mom’s and dad’s make it better.”

Cave said Fall Family Weekend has a deep his-tory at WVU.

Previously the event was held during a home football game so families could experience the ex-citement of gameday in Morgantown.

However, Cave said ho-tel space became an issue and they made a switch to hosting the event during bye or away weeks.

Cave said the switch

also provides more time for families to bond and enjoy spending time with one another.

Cave said as a mother herself, she understands the toll being away from family can take on stu-dents. She said she is ex-cited for the chance to re-unite families – some for the first time since move-in day.

“Many families have not seen their students since they dropped them off on campus in August,” she said. “I love seeing fami-lies reunite and reconnect.

“Students are so ex-cited to ‘show off ’ their new home. (Upperclass-men) are anxious for ‘mom’s and dad’s’ to be here to talk to them about their classes, their ma-jor (and) where to eat out.”

For a complete sched-ule of events and more in-formation on Fall Family Weekend, visit http://fall-familyweekend.wvu.edu/.

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Cheer on the WVU football team at the Mountaineer Maniacs watch party.

Parents are welcome to use the facili-ties and planned activities at the Student Recreation Center.

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Take advantage of time with family

Hurry! You only have a few more hours to clean your room before your parents ar-rive on campus.

This weekend many fam-ilies will travel to Morgan-town to reconnect with stu-dents for the Mountaineer Parents Club’s annual Fall Family Weekend.

Students have the oppor-tunity to show off their “home away from home” and spend time with their loved ones.

If your parents are making the trip to campus, take some time to show off your favorite things about WVU to them.

Show them your favorite spot on campus, bring them along to the Maniacs’ football watch party and grab a bite to eat at your favorite restaurant downtown.

Show them what life at WVU is all about.

Reconnecting with your parents is important. They want to see what you’ve been up to since August, and more importantly, it can be good

for your sanity. Right now you’ve proba-

bly spent some time looking at your planner and the com-ing days. If you’re anything like me, you’re panicking.

Midterms are here, and it’s that point in the semester when you run around cam-pus like a madman with no sleep and coffee in hand.

Parents make it better. I don’t know how they do it, but they always have a way to magically ease the stress of college life.

Fall Family Weekend is your perfect chance to show off your awesome life at WVU and share a bit of that with them; trust me, they can’t wait to see.

Your parents have in-vested a lot into your future. They care a great deal about what you’re doing, and they only want the best for you.

So, take sometime to en-joy a great fall weekend in Morgantown with your family; who knows, maybe they’ll be nice enough to slip you some extra grocery money.

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maniacs to host game watch party for students, parents

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Mountaineer Parents Club and the Mountaineer Mani-acs are teaming up for the sec-ond annual Fall Family Week-end Watch Party.

The event will be held in the Mountainlair Ballrooms Saturday when the Mountain-eers take on the Baylor Bears.

Chris Northrup, Mountain-eer Maniacs executive direc-tor, said the event will be an opportunity for Maniac mem-bers to collaborate with the entire student body as well as family members in town for Fall Family Weekend.

“Coming off (Saturday’s)

thrilling win over the No. 11 team in the nation, this week-end’s watch party offers stu-dents and parents the chance to come together and cheer on the Mountaineers in an-other game against a top-20 team,” Northrup said.

Doors will open at 7:30 p.m., and game is sched-uled to kickoff at 8 p.m. Free food and drinks will be provided.

Northrup said Maniacs are encouraged to wear their membership shirts, and all students are asked to bring canned food items to the event to support West Vir-ginia University’s food pan-try, The Rack.

“For every can of food do-

nated, students will receive a raffle ticket good for draw-ings throughout the game,” he said. “We have a ton of great WVU merchandise to raf-fle off, courtesy of the Book Exchange.”

Sabrina Cave, assistant vice president for Student Affairs Communications said the Mountaineer Parents Club is looking forward to cheer-ing on the WVU football team with the Mountaineer Maniacs.

“This will be the second year that we have partnered with the Maniacs for a game-watch during Fall Family Weekend,” Cave said. “It is a great event to get WVU fami-lies and students together.

“Fall Family Weekend is a special time on campus for families to spend time (recon-necting) with their students, and there is no better way of doing that than by cheering on the Mountaineers.”

Cave said she encourages all parents in town visiting their students to attend this event and enjoy the camara-derie of watching the game with fellow Mountaineer fans.

For more information about Saturday’s watch party, visit the Mountaineer Mani-ac’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/list/wvumaniacs.

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WYTHE WOODS/ THE DAILY ATHENAEUMMembers of the Mountaineer Maniacs watch the WVU vs Oklahoma game at a watch party.

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Students, parents and Mountaineer Maniac members

Watch Party for the WVU vs Baylor football game

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms


School of Theatre to present first show of the season

BY LACEY PALMERA&E EDITOR

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The West Virginia Uni-versity School of Theatre & Dance will begin their 2013-14 Mainstage Theatre Season Friday night with Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage,” translated by Christopher Hampton.

Directed by professor Jerry McGonigle, program director for Graduate Acting, the pro-duction has a simple yet hilar-ious story line.

“There are two married couples in a living room, and they’ve come together to work out and discuss the fact that one couple’s son hit the other couple’s son in the

mouth with a stick and broke two of his teeth,” McGonigle said. “They start off very polit-ically correct and polite.

“But as the evening con-tinues, it sort of breaks apart and by the end, the parents are behaving worse than the children were to begin with.”

Reza’s “God of Carnage,” or “Le Dieu du carnage,” re-ceived acclaim in the realm of French productions, but af-ter being translated by Brit-ish playwright Christopher Hampton, the success it has received on Broadway has been remarkable.

The 2009 Broadway pre-miere featured an esteemed cast, including the late James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis and Marcia-Gay

Harden. “It had a great run on

Broadway and was one of the longer running plays,” McGo-nigle said. “So, it had a great track record, and we had the people to do it.”

He also said there is a committee that selects the school’s season. The deci-sion process is based on the educational mission of the school, a casting pool, the school’s strengths and in-corporation of genres and styles.

“We wanted to do some-thing contemporary, and we’ve talked about this play for the past three years, but it never quite made the final list,” McGonigle said. “(Reza) is an exceptional writer, and

it’s a real challenge (to put on) for the actors as well as the production team.”

According to McGonigle, this play has a unique style.

“It’s a different style than anything else we’ve done; that’s for sure,” he said. “It’s very contemporary and very real. It’s a continuous action, and it’s shorter – about 90 minutes long.

“I think it’s a chance to see something that’s really alive right now about things that are going on in the world. It’s about living right now.”

The amount of work to put on “God of Carnage” is in-credible, and preparations began early in the year.

“We started talking about the design of the play in April,

and we continued the con-versations over the summer. I also cast the actors in April, and they worked all summer,” McGonigle said. “They came into rehearsals with the play almost totally memorized, and we’ve been in rehearsal for five weeks.”

During the past five weeks, the group has practiced nearly every night for four hours. They’ve had countless design meetings, built all the scenery and rehearsed the entire production. Approx-imately 50 or 60 people will have worked on this produc-tion by the time it opens.

The production features MFA acting students Mya Brown and Nick Ryan as well as senior BFA acting students Samantha Voit and Ben Rob-erts. Scenic design is by se-nior BFA design/tech stu-dent Nick Sines, costume design is by senior BFA de-sign/tech student Marga-ret Lazenby, and sound/lighting design is by clini-cal assistant professor Alan McEwen.

McGonigle said the play is quite humorous, and he is looking forward to the open-ing of the production.

“I think it’s just great enter-

tainment, and live theater is like nothing else,” McGonigle said. “We’re so used to video screens and TVs, and there’s just something completely different about seeing a live performance.

“I just encourage people to come and experience theater. We do it as well as anybody.”

“God of Carnage” will run Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. All shows will be held in the Gladys G. Davis Theatre in the Creative Arts Center.

The show contains strong language and adult situations and is not recommended for those younger than 18 years old.

Tickets are $15-20 for senior citizens and students. There is also a group rate for groups of 10 or more for $10 per ticket.

Tickets can be purchased at the CAC or Mountainlair box offices, online at www.ticketmaster.com or by call-ing 304-293-SHOW.

For more information on “God of Carnage”, visit http://theatre.wvu.edu or the re-hearsal blog at http://ccarts.wvu.edu.

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KRISTEN BASHAM/ DAILY ATHENAEUM‘God of Carnage’ will hit the stage at the CAC this weekend.


by caroline petersstaff writer

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In honor of Fall Family Weekend, the West Virginia University Student Recre-ation Center will be open to all family members. The Rec is working in conjunction with the President’s Office to welcome families to “The Mountaineer Experience.”

From Friday to Sun-day, families will be able to use the Rec facility, free of charge.

Ben Orendorff, WVU rec-reation event planner, said the facility has a variety of options for families.

“We encourage all fami-lies to come to the Rec Cen-ter and work out together,” Orendorff said. “There are a lot of opportunities at the

Rec. Everyone can swim to-gether and enjoy our other activities. We encourage a happy, healthy family be-cause there is a lot of stuff to do for the family.”

Orendorff said the Rec Center is happy to give back to the students at WVU.

“The rec was funded by students,” Orendorff said. “It is also run by a number of students. Contributing to Family Fall Weekend is a way in which we like to give back, because without these students who pay for it, we wouldn’t have this wonder-ful facility.”

WVU student and Rec Center employee Josh Feeser said he is happy to be a part of a place that gives back to the families of students.

“I think it is going to be

kind of nice to be around families,” Feeser said. “Not only are these families going to get good experience be-cause the Rec has a lot to of-fer, it feels nice being able to welcome them to West Vir-ginia University and show them that there are great fit-ness opportunities for their children.”

Feeser also said having the chance to speak with families is a great way to show the spirit WVU has to offer.

“As a personal trainer and employee of the Rec Center, I spend a lot of time there,” Feeser said. “For me, it’s always nice to know the Rec will be experiencing a change of faces and for a few days, won’t be lim-ited to mainly students. It’s pretty cool that families can

experience just one of the privileges that we have as Mountaineers.”

The Rec Center will have free chair massages during Fall Family Weekend. The Rec is offering the massage chair on a first-come, first-served, basis.

Aside from the massage chair, the Rec offers a num-ber of fitness activities in-cluding a ping-pong table, an indoor track, a racket ball area, a rock-climbing wall and a swimming pool.

The fitness center will also be offering a body-pump class Friday night and Saturday morning.

Anyone interested the Rec’s available activities can visit http://studentreccen-ter.wvu.edu.

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student rec center open to families this weekend

WYTHE WOODS/ THE DailY aTHEnaEumThe Rec Center features a state-of-the-art rock wall for students to use.

WHYTHE WOODS/THE DailY aTHEnaEumThe Student Recreation Center will be open to students and families this weekend.

WYTHE WOODS/THE DailY aTHEnaEumThe SRC has both 4-court and 3-court for basketball, volleyball and badminton.


DOWN ON THE FARM

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BY EvElYN MERiTHEWStaff Writer

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As part of West Virginia University’s Fall Family Weekend, the Davis Col-lege of Agriculture, Nat-ural Resources and De-sign is hosting its annual WVU Family Day at the Farm.

Students can bring their families to the Animal Sci-ences Farm on Stewart-stown Road Saturday 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

“This event is great, be-cause it lets the commu-nity know the types of re-search and other activities

that happen around the Davis College,” said Lind-say Willey, public rela-tions specialist for Da-vis College. “It gives them a hands-on interaction with the kinds of things that our students and fac-ulty members do on a daily basis.”

The event is interdisci-plinary and has multiple activities for both students and their families.

A WVU Extension Ser-vice member will be pres-ent to teach people the science behind popcorn; faculty members and stu-dents will teach attendees about sheep shearing, and

some of the plant and soil sciences faculty members will do a cider press demo.

“One of the biggest draws is our therapy dog program that we have here in the college,” Willey said. “Faculty members will be doing demonstrations on how they work with the dogs and showing how they train them.”

There will be a variety of snacks offered through-out the day, including ice cream and pumpkin bars.

Approximately 45 stu-dents are volunteering for the Family Day.

“We would not be able to do this without

the students who volun-teered their time,” Wil-ley said. “They are an im-portant part of making sure this runs smoothly.

“In the past, the event has had a highly suc-cessful turnout ; any-where from 1,000 -1,300 people have come out for the fun-filled day.”

Although registration is now closed, anyone is wel-comed to come out and en-joy the day.

The event is free and open to the public. At-tendees are encouraged to use the shuttle service from Mountaineer Station across from Applebee’s on

Van Voorhis Road. “Since the Davis College

is the founding college for WVU, I think it is a very im-portant event to make sure community members and West Virginian’s in general know what goes on here,” Willey said.

“It’s a great event that happens during the fall where you get to walk around the farms, see the animals, and explore the displays.”

For more information about WVU Family Day at the Farm, visit http://fam-ilydayatthefarm.wvu.edu/.

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Morgantown offers variety of unique dining options

FILE PHOTOMartin’s BBQ Joint, Morgantown’s first barbecue joint, opened in February.

by Madison fleckassociate city editor

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Morgantown is full of tasty treats and craving satisfiers, but when late-night munch-ies subside, there are many local restaurants where stu-dents and their families can get a taste of fresh Morgan-town cuisine.

Places like Pies & Pints, Martin’s BBQ Joint and Mor-gantown Brewing Company are just a few of the eateries Morgantown has to offer.

“We make everything from scratch every single day,” said Sam Houck, the prep cook at Martin’s BBQ Joint.

During weekends, Martin’s BBQ Joint smokes a whole hog that normally weighs around 200 pounds.

“We smoke the entire thing for about 28 hours and serve it all,” Houck said.

The traditional Southern barbecue joint is located at the Suncrest Towne Centre and is open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. every day.

“You can’t get fresher than this,” he said. “We definitely do barbecue right.”

Right next door at the Sun-crest Towne Centre is Pies & Pints, a one-of-a-kind pizze-ria where customers can ei-ther choose from one of the menu options or create their own pizza.

“You can create your own pizza, and there are a lot (of pies) that are premade,” said Nick Vandall, the restaurant’s kitchen manager. “We have 12-13 specialty pizzas on the menu.”

Vandall said the home-made dough is hand-stretched at the time an order is placed, making the pizza fresher than anywhere else.

The restaurant is expected to open a patio soon and will start including happy hours throughout the week, during which select pizzas will be half price.

For students living on the Downtown Campus, trans-portation to Suncrest may be a bit of a hassle, but Morgan-town Brewing Company is conveniently located on Uni-versity Avenue, a short walk from downtown.

This pub-like place brews its own beer and even uses house brews in some of their

specialty dishes.“Everything we serve on

draft is made in the house,” said Brian Crowe, executive chef and restaurant manager.

The pub has 10 taps from which house-brewed beers, which are mostly ales, are served.

“Ales are simply more practical to keep up with since they don’t have to age as long,” Crowe said. “They have more flavor, too.”

There are many other at-tractions that make this lo-cal restaurant unique, aside from the pub menu and homemade brew.

The restaurant offers a tour of the brewery every Mon-day at 6 p.m. It also hosts live bluegrass music Wednesdays and jazz music Thursdays.

“You don’t have to be 21 to get in the place at any point,” Crowe said. “Even when we have bands, everyone is wel-come all the time.”

For more information about any of these restau-rants, visit their pages on Facebook.

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KYLE MONROE/ DAILY ATHENAEUMThe popular West Virginia-based restaurant Pies & Pints opened its doors in Morgantown this summer.


Men’s soccer invites families to Saturday home game

MICK POSEY/ THE DAILY ATHENAEUMJunior forward Andy Bevin shoots the ball in the WVU vs Michigan match earlier this season.

by joe mitchinsports writer

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The West Virginia men’s soccer team hopes to snap their four-match losing streak Saturday night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Sta-dium when the team meets their second-straight Mid-American Conference opponent in Northern Illinois.

The Mountaineers come into the matchup at 3-5-1 and 0-1 inside the league after losing the conference opener to Akron Sunday. The Huskies are just 3-6 in

2013 and have yet to play a conference match.

Saturday’s game will be WVU’s fourth match of a five-match homestand. The team is coming off a brutal month in Septem-ber, playing four nationally ranked opponents. Despite the many early tests, WVU head coach Marlon LeB-lanc believes it will only make his team stronger.

“It would do us no good to just go out and just play teams where we can go out and win every single game,” LeBlanc said. “It’s not going to get to where we need to go.

“We need to play teams that we can aspire to be.”

Northern Illinois qual-ified for the NCAA Tour-nament after winning the MAC title in 2011. The Huskies made an appear-ance in the MAC Tourna-ment final again last sea-son but lost to Akron.

This season the team is led by James Stevenson and Isaac Kannah, who are tied for the team lead with three goals. In nine matches, NIU is currently being outscored 13-10.

NIU will be yet another challenge for the young

Mountaineers. Despite be-ing held without a victory since mid-September, the team will enter their final nine matches of the season as the favorite. Still, LeB-lanc said he believes the team needs to be ready for every opportunity.

“We’re 3-5-1 right now, so if we can’t get up for any game, we’re going to have major issues moving for-ward,” he said.

West Virginia and Northern Illinois will meet Saturday night at 6 p.m. in Morgantown.

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Ring Day commemorates WVU traditionBY JACOB BOJESSON

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The West Virginia Univer-sity Alumni Association and the Mountaineer Parents Club will host a Ring Day Ceremony at 1 p.m. Sunday, during which students who have achieved junior status will be presented with their official class ring.

The ceremony has been a WVU tradition since 1998, and it is held twice a year at

the Erickson Alumni Center.The ring is meant to be

a symbol of WVU’s “shared values that are passed on to each graduating class – like a ring that comes full circle,” according to the WVU class ring website

“I think the ring repre-sents their accomplish-ments thus far academically here at WVU,” said Sabrina Cave, assistant vice presi-dent of Student Affairs Com-munications. “It has some of the recognizable symbols

on the ring that students look back on and finally remembers.”

The ring is designed by WVU students and features the Flying WV, the Moun-taineer mascot and the Mountaineer Field, with the graduating class and degree engraved on it.

Students are supposed to wear the ring with the logo facing the heart to inspire and motivate for success.

“All students that have purchased the WVU class

ring are invited to this event,” Cave said. “It’s held in the Erickson Alumni Cen-ter, because juniors and se-niors are almost at that sta-tus, so it’s a nice tie-in there.”

The rings will be pre-sented to each student in-dividually by Vice President of Student Affairs, Ken Gray.

Alumni who have re-cently graduated from WVU will also share their experi-ences from the real world, and Kevin Berry, associate director of the Alumni As-

sociation, will give an in-troduction about how stu-dents can stay involved with the University beyond graduation.

“What we want to talk about is that an individual’s time at WVU doesn’t end af-ter the four years on cam-pus, and that there is a way for them to remain involved in the life of WVU as gradu-ates – and that’s through the Alumni Association,” Berry said. “We congratulate them for what they have accom-

plished on campus and that we look forward to having them a part of our Moun-taineer family as WVU alumni.”

Reservations for par-ticipants and guests are required.

Students who purchased the ring can RSVP to the event by Sunday by re-sponding to the email in-vitation or by phone at 304-293-2506.

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City to host Arts Walk Downtown this weekendBY JAkE JARViS

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This weekend marks the 10th annual Arts Walk, cel-ebrating the diverse and vibrant economy of Mor-gantown’s downtown and Wharf District. Friday from 6-9 p.m. artists from over the state will set up an im-promptu gallery in local businesses.

Photography, pottery, live performances and arts and crafts are included in the exhibits.

Artists, including West Virginia University stu-dents, are invited to be a part of this ever-growing event.

Main Street Morgan-town, the group putting together this event, has worked out a simple or-ganization technique that takes minimal effort. The Monongalia Arts Center (MAC) and Arts Monon-gahela are also large sup-porters of the event. Bar-bara Watkins, assistant director of Main Street Morgantown, handles most of the organization.

“It actually runs very smoothly; it just takes a lot of coordination,” she

said. “Over 40 businesses are participating this year.

“With more than 75 re-tailers being a part of Main Street (Morgantown), we see over a 50 percent par-ticipation rate.”

Plenty of people make it out to explore what each venue has to offer. This high participation rate is likely a result of WVU’s Fall Family Weekend fall-ing during the same few days, but Arts Walk has es-tablished its own identity over the years.

“Last year we had around 4,000 people come out to the walk,” said Jeanne Kuhn of Arts Monongahela.

Arts Monongahela, lo-cated on corner of High Street and Pleasant Street, is the first stop on the walk. This is the place to go to get a brochure and map to identify the locations of the exhibits.

“This year we will fea-ture an exhibit called ‘SHADY: Our Neighbors the Tree,’” Kuhn said. “It’s put on in conjunction with Morgantown’s Year of the Tree.”

This year is the second year that the addition of Art is Food will be tak-

ing place. Tickets to Art is Food, which will take place from 5-7 p.m., can be pur-chased for $15 online at Main Street Morgantown’s website.

This ticket allows you access to a buffet-style sampling of downtown and Wharf District restau-rants. This will be hosted at the Morgantown Market Place located at the cor-ner of Fayette and Spruce Streets.

Art is Food is made possible by the partner-ship of the Downtown Morgantown Restaurant Association.

Main Street Morgan-town created more than 1,300 jobs, aiding in the opening of 200 new busi-nesses and garnering $126 million dollars in invest-ment since the organiza-tion’s inception.

Events like this boost Morgantown’s already strong economy. Accord-ing to CNN Money, Mor-gantown is the 7th best small metropolitan area to open a new business.

People come to see the art, but in the pro-cess, they will see parts of downtown they never have before. Later, cus-

tomers will come back to see more of the retailer after the crowd has died down.

Be sure to check out the Arts Walk this weekend, but come with an open

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WVU offers Canopy Tours on new zipline

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This weekend, along with other Fall Family Weekend festivities, stu-dents and their families can enjoy the great out-doors by visiting West Vir-

ginia University’s Canopy Tour.

The outdoor adventure program of WVU is home to the only University-owned Canopy Tour in the nation.

The tour, which is com-posed of four zip lines, an aerial bridge and a tan-

dem rappel, offers differ-ent qualities compared to other WVU adventure challenges.

“Instead of the focus be-ing on the team experience, it’s a little more on the in-dividual experience,” said Nathan Harlan, Challenge Course program coordina-

tor. “The focus is more on environmental education – learning about the re-search forest and just ex-periencing the forest itself.”

During the 2-and-a-half hour tour, guides interact with the groups and tell them facts about the forest.

WVU partnered with the Summit Bechtel Reserve, a Boy Scouts of America re-serve and zip-line indus-try leader Bonsai Designs to create the course.

According to Gerald Lang, a WVU biology pro-fessor, more than 30 WVU students have trained for 60 hours to make the tour a great experience.

“It’s not hooking them up to the line; that’s the easy part,” he said. “It’s res-cuing them if, in fact, they get stuck in the middle of

the line.”The guides also help

tour groups predict their speeds on the zip line, and at the end of the course, the groups will be able to compare their individual speeds.

“They wanted to take fun activities like outdoor adventures and turn them into a science curricu-lum,” said Ryan Stocking of West Virginia Research Corporation.

The canopy tour will be used not only for the bene-fit of WVU students but for students in grades K-12.

Stocking said the con-cepts demonstrated in the tour include Newton’s sec-ond law of motion, the Py-thagorean Theorem and the five-step mathemati-cal procedure that calcu-

lates the maximum speed on the final zip of the can-opy tour.

Greg Corio, director of Adventure WV and liaison between WVU and SBR, said this creates an oppor-tunity for students that was not present before.

“Kids who may not ever have the opportunity to get up on a canopy tour or on a challenge course can start working on science and math and get excited about those fields,” he said.

The course is open to WVU students, faculty and the general public. Rates for the Canopy Tour and other WVU challenge courses can be found on-line at http://adventu-rechallenge.wvu.edu.

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Students and their fam-ilies will be able to enjoy University Dining Ser-vices Saturday as break-fast is served in the resi-dence halls.

Each hall is having an event between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., but the times vary depending on the res-idence hall.

“They’re having a break-fast and brunch with the students, resident fac-ulty leaders, resident hall coordinators and stu-dents, and parents are in-

vited to attend,” said Trish Cendana, director of the Office of Residential Education.

Dadisman and Stalnaker Halls will have a continen-tal breakfast, Lincoln Hall will have a breakfast buf-fet, and Arnold Hall will serve refreshments.

Fall Family Weekend and the residential break-fasts, in particular, are an opportunity for staff to meet with students and parents and check in.

“Because it’s Fall Fam-ily Weekend, it’s really a good opportunity to so-cialize with students and their parents and see how

things are going,” Cendana said.

If students are having is-sues, the residential staff wants to do anything to support them, according to Cendana.

“This is the time where, of course, we’re getting into midterm, and there’s the question, ‘Am I going to succeed through the rest of the year?’” Cendana said. “Midterm anxiety comes up, and certainly we see homesickness throughout the semester.

“This is a great oppor-tunity for the parents to come in and talk with our staff in regard to things we

can do to support their student.”

Cendana said she feels the presence of students’ parents can alleviate anxi-ety, especially since some students have not seen their parents since move-in day.

“It’s extremely support-ive,” she said. “We’re here to help them, and we’re here supporting their students.”

Most halls will not be charging families for the breakfast. However, some of the halls, such as Hon-ors and Lincoln Halls, may charge to raise money for their hall council,

which provides program-ming to students in the hall.

All residence halls are doing something differ-ent; some meals will be made in the resident fac-ulty leader’s home.

“All four towers are combining their efforts and having one big brunch in the courtyard for all of the Towers residents and their families,” Cendana said.

Other dining options throughout the Fall Fam-ily Weekend include the Mountaineer Parents Club watch party Saturday eve-ning in the Mountainlair

Ballrooms for the football game against Baylor, a Col-lege of Business & Eco-nomics reception Saturday at 1 p.m. and WVU Family Day at the Farm.

“We do this every year,” said Brad Messenger, assis-tant director of Dining Ser-vices. “Families are invited to bring their kids to the farm.

“We’ll have tents set up all over the farm, and there will be snacks.”

For more information on Fall Family Weekend, visit http://fallfamily-weekend.wvu.edu.

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