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FALL FAMILY WEEKEND
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What’s inside:
Guess what : If you dropped off your child here about a month ago, you should know they’ve been having a blast.
If you are the child that has been dropped off, you know exactly what I’m talk-ing about.
The media would have you believe that West Vir-ginia University is a 24/7 party. Ask any student and they’ll confirm that we all like to have a good time.
Who doesn’t?However, we Mountain-
eers don’t like to limit our-selves. We climb higher than the mountains set before us. We run into the face of ad-versity with a smile. We ac-cept changes with a skip in our step.
And we do it all together. We inheritted Morgantown from the Mountaineers be-fore us, but we are making it our own.
Each day, students across the campus carve their im-pact into this city. So, look around. You may not see the handy work of your child, but you’ll see the Moun-taineer Spirit around every corner.
I’m proud to call Mor-gantown my home. To be honest, I was nervous when I came here. I thought I would not fit in or wouldn’t find my niche.
Luckily, I have found just that. And more than this, I have found a pride for my new home. There’s nothing I enjoy more than showing it off.
I wish I could spend a day with each new Mountain-eer and show them all the wonderful things that this city has to offer.
Sure, you can find a small coffee shop or cafe on your own, but what you can’t find is the feeling of being at home.
WVU feels like my bed-room and all of downtown is my backyard. Why roam the world when I’ve got the
greatest place on earth at my fingertips?
OK, maybe I’m being a bit dramatic. Perhaps the love I feel for Morgantown is noth-ing more than infatuation. No matter what it is, I know I have been blessed.
Many parents return-ing for Fall Family Week-end went to WVU some years ago. If you haven’t
noticed, Sunnyside as you know it is gone. Buildings are sprouting up each day like tiny flowers excited to see Spring.
Our city, like the students of WVU, is growing. We are proud of our home and ex-tremely excited to show you what we have to offer.
Parents: Welcome to MorgantownJake Jarvismanaging editor @JakeJarviswvu
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American culture has many great things to of-fer, but the one you should be proudest of is the role of family in society. You might not think much about it or even take it for granted, but as a Swede that has been around the world once or twice, I can tell you it’s truly unique. Few cultures I have vis-ited share the strong fam-ily connection that is pres-ent in the United States.
When I moved to the U.S. four years ago, I knew there were several things I had to give up.
The biggest one was seeing my family and friends on a regular ba-sis. Even though I try to go home twice a year, the physical distance and time difference make it hard to stay in close contact. It’s gotten to the point where I have to get to know sev-
eral of them all over again as we all change with time, particularly with my Swed-ish personality fading and my American personality growing each day. Some-thing I don’t like, by the way.
I’m sure many of you from states far away ex-perience the same thing. But then again, you prob-ably have a different view of family than I do. It’s not that we don’t care about family, because we do,.It’s that our culture teaches us to be more independent and rely less on our family. This mentality is great in many ways, but it also has its downsides as I’ve real-ized in recent years.
To put things in perspec-tive for you, I have seen my brother and my sister less than 10 times over the past four years, often with a year or two in between each encounter. And we’re not talking long encoun-ters. It is usually for a day or two around Christmas.
This summer, I took
time out of my schedule to go visit both of them. Whenever people ask me if we are close, I say we are, even though we go years without seeing each other in person, and months without any com-munication. Whenever we do meet, I savor the moment and appreciate it.
I think that is the big-gest upside to not being around your family: You appreciate them more when you are around them.
With that said, I hope you enjoy your time with your family this weekend. Take it from me - it’s a lux-ury to be able to see them, even if just for a weekend.
Take the opportu-nity to show them all the great things Morgantown and West Virginia Uni-versity have to offer, be-cause it’s something I really wish I could do myself.
From the editor’s desk
Family from far away: Grappling with distance“It means emotional support and being
there for each other and always loving each other, regardless of what the situation is.”
—Courtney BishopUndecided student
“It’s knowing someone’s always going to be there for you. It’s your whole support system. They’re the people I love most. They’re my everything.”
—Josie FoxElementary education student
“Family means everything. They’re always there.”
—Brandon SeesEngineering student
“Everything. There’s always someone who has your back no matter what.”
—Nigel BowlandSports management
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From the breathtaking views from the peaks of Dorsey’s Knob and Coo-per’s Rock to the rushing water of Blackwater Falls State Park, “Scenic Rides” offers routes to explore the true country roads of West Virginia.
“Scenic Rides” is a GPS file available for anyone to download.
“It gives you a play-by-play description and where it will take you,” said Cookie Coombs, the Morgantown Visitor Cen-ter coordinator.
Each of the many points of interest come with di-rections and a short de-scription of scenic views. The route allows for mo-torcyclists and cars to drive and explore all of the parks and scenic hotspots in the greater Morgantown area.
Cooper’s Rock Overlook is a very popular hangout for a variety of people, in-cluding students who are looking to get some fresh air as well as families visit-ing from out of town.
“Cooper’s Rock sums up the beauty of our state in one stop,” said Brady Smith, a junior political science student.
“I think these are good places to visit because it’s a great way to escape from the busy life in Morgan-town,” said Molly Knox, a freshman strategic com-munications student.
These scenic rides are designed specifically for motorcyclists, however, anyone can take a car or van around and explore the many views West Vir-ginia has to offer.
Tyler Hamilton, a senior criminology student, owns a motorcycle and said he thinks he’ll take advantage of this route.
“It sounds interesting,”
Hamilton said. “I think that’d be cool. We’re al-ways looking for differ-ent routes to take in-stead of just riding around Morgantown.”
There are five different routes “Scenic Rides” of-fers. “Scenic Beauty” takes drivers past beautiful sites; “Nothing But Curves” is for those motorcyclists that like to be daredevils; “Covered Bridges” takes drivers through five cov-ered countryside bridges; “Historic Veteran’s Ride” is for those who would like to visit West Virginia Civil War sites and the “Out and Back” tour takes drivers out into the country.
“West Virginia is very pretty and peaceful, and the overlooks have beau-tiful scenery,” Knox said. “These are great places to just be one with nature.”
The tour includes wa-terfalls, caves, dams, windmills and overlooks and showcases plenty of
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Friday evening, the peo-ple of Morgantown can ven-ture downtown for a burst of beauty and culture at this year’s Arts Walk.
Spectators can stroll through the streets down-town and admire the works of local artists.
The event, hosted by Main Street Morgantown, will showcase a wide range of talents including painting, sculpture, photography, mu-sic, jewelry-making and glass and woodwork.
High Street will be trans-formed as the participants line the sidewalks and fill downtown businesses.
Spectators can also enjoy an eclectic range of live mu-sic from the area’s popular musicians, including Daniel
Musick, the folk rock trio Buf-falo Run, Dog & Gun, Alexan-der Merandi, Christina Baran, Apple Pappy, Ben Kiehl, John Lozier and DJ Cortez Strizy Hairston.
The event is not only a way for artists to showcase their talent, but also chance for Morgantown businesses to branch out and become in-volved in the community.
Participating restaurants and businesses, marked with tiki torches, are spots where attendees can view and pur-chase artwork and crafts. Some popular spots to check out will be Black Bear Burri-tos and 123 Pleasant Street, hosting a multitude of mu-sical and visual talent. Lo-cal eateries such as the Cup-cakerie, REAL Juice Bar, Iron Horse Tavern and Morgan’s High Street Diner will feature both visual art and handmade novelties.
Guests can take part in the Arts Walk’s annual Art is Food event. From 5-7 p.m., Mor-gantown chefs will be serv-ing up some of the town’s most popular dishes. Located in the Morgantown Market Place, people can enjoy sam-pling from numerous down-town and Wharf District res-taurants. Art is Food will be $15 for admission, which in-cludes all-you-can-eat access to the event.
Annually dominating the heart of Morgantown, the Arts Walk hopes to spark in-terest far beyond Friday’s fes-tivities. The involvement of local businesses may help make a lasting impact and enirch the art culture in the area.
The Monongalia Art Cen-ter, a sponsor of the Arts Walk since its inception, will host a number of local artists in ad-dition to its already open gal-
leries. With a large turnout ex-pected, the MAC hopes to be a guiding force in promoting local work and advancing the area’s growing art scene.
“(Arts Walk) builds a face for the community, and it makes the art scene more open and available to the public,” said Marsha Goss, chairwoman and book-keeper at the Monongalia Arts Center.
She said they are expect-
ing up to 5,000 people for Fri-day’s event.
“We are just excited to have that much foot traffic walk through our building and for people to be exposed to the local artists here,” Goss said.
Goss said David Rossi, the MAC’s resident artist photog-rapher, and Scott Harper, a wood carver, will both be on the lawn at the MAC for the Arts Walk.
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The Arts Walk will take place 6-9 p.m. Friday through-out downtown Morgantown.
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For many parents, it is important to meet the pro-fessors and classmates at their child’s college.
The Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Vir-ginia University under-stands this concern and is inviting students and their families to the “Statler Col-lege Fall Family Weekend Picnic” tomorrow.
Ryan Sigler, a coordina-tor for the Statler Picnic, said there will be many activities in which fami-lies can participate. They will also have the oppor-tunity to mingle with fam-ilies of other engineering students.
“We’ll have some raf-fles, a cake walk and food that will be catered from
Mario’s Fish Bowl,” Sigler said.
Located in the atrium of the Engineering and Min-eral Resources building, on the West Virginia Uni-versity Evansdale Cam-pus, students and their parents will have a chance to visit the College of En-gineering and Mineral Re-sources during this year’s Fall Family Weekend.
In addition to socializing with other families, there will also be faculty, staff and administration pres-ent to answer any ques-tions parents might have about their child’s curric-ulum. Sigler said the event will provide a comfortable enviroment for both fami-lies and students.
“This picnic is just a chance for students and parents to come have a nice social event where they can meet each other
and also meet some of our faculty and staff within the college,” Sigler said. “It’s just something for every-body to relax at in the mid-dle of the semester.”
Lisa Hanselman, the associate director of the Mountaineer Parents Club, said she would love to see families out this weekend at the Statler pic-nic and all other Fall Fam-ily Weekend events.
“By attending the Statler College of Engineering picnic, parents will get the opportunity to meet the classmates, the fac-ulty and everyone else at the Statler College that is working so hard to make their student successful,” Hanselman said.
She said both parents and students would bene-fit from going to the picnic.
“I would hope that as many parents as possi-
ble would attend and en-joy the day, learn as much as they can, get any ques-tions they have answered and just kick back and
have fun with their stu-dent while they’re here in town,” she said.
The event will be from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. tomorrow
in the atrium of the Engi-neering and Mineral Re-sources building.
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While there are hun-dreds of clubs for stu-dents on the West Vir-ginia University campus to join, one club connects parents and family mem-bers to the Mountaineer experience.
The Mountaineer Par-ents Club works to keep parents informed and con-
nected to student life on campus. The club has sub-divisions in 38 counties of West Virginia, as well as 16 states.
Lisa Hanselman, the associate director of the Mountaineer Parents Club, said keeping par-ents and students con-nected is the club’s main goal.
“We do our best to help families stay connected to their WVU student while
they are at school here in Morgantown,” she said. “All we want is for parents to feel like they are a part of this experience and this part of their student’s life.”
Established in 1995, the club now boasts more than 20,000 members who are parents of current, fu-ture and past students at WVU. The club is free to join.
Membership is open, according to Hanselman, because they know par-ents and family members want to be a part of their child’s college experience.
“What parents want is to feel like they are still a part of what is going on both here on campus and in the lives of their chil-dren,” Hanselman said. “By keeping them con-nected, they can give bet-ter advice to students and remind them of big events at the Mountainlair or with Career Services. It keeps the conversation going between student and parent.”
Members of the club are offered opportunities
to support and participate in local branches as well as several other services. One of the services of-fered is a toll-free hotline, which parents can call
and receive help with un-usual questions that may not fall under any specific department.
On the club’s website, parents are able to find quick links to informa-tion concerning their stu-dent, the University and the City of Morgantown. Also on the site are tabs for news about the University, phone numbers, directo-ries and information about the club’s scholarships.
Hanselman said using parents to get more in-formation to students is a productive option.
“Students are very con-nected to their parents in this day and age. They are most likely texting, calling and even emailing them five to seven times a day,” she said.
The club currently spon-sors the Leisure Reading Collection at the Down-town and Evansdale librar-ies. This collection is com-prised of books donated by club members and cur-rently houses more than 2,000.
The Mountaineer Par-
ents Club puts together and sponsors Fall Family weekend, an event which, according to Hanselman, many universities have, but the club has made unique for WVU.
“It used to be based around football tickets, but we took that and ran with it, creating many choices for students and their whole family to en-joy,” she said. “We plan a weekend where families can choose among many events or even just shop-ping and enjoying Mor-gantown. We are looking forward to just having as many families as possible on campus this weekend.”
Hanselman said each year the weekend has grown and built on itself. This year, a new event, Mo u nt a i n e e r Vo g u e, will allow families to check out tons of WVU apparel.
To find out more about the Mountaineer Parents Club, visit parentsclub.wvu.edu.
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Nano and Space Weather are two new exhibits that will open at the Children’s Discovery Museum of Mor-gantown this weekend.
Julie Bryan, director of the museum, said these ex-hibits will teach children more about weather and Nano science.
“The space weather ex-hibit uses text and hands-on activities to explore space weather and how it affects us on Earth,” Bryan said. “They are very engaging. We have a 15-inch plasma ball, magnets, an induction ac-tivity where you make elec-tricity with a magnet, astro-naut costumes for dress up and an astronaut challenge activity.”
There are also hands-on components included in the Nano science exhibit where visitors can manip-ulate Ferrofluid, which is a liquid that becomes mag-netized through a surface. Having these activities that everyone can do make both the exhibits kid and parent friendly.
Both exhibits are going to be permanent additions to the museum. They were made possible from outside help in the science world.
“The Nano exhibit was awarded to us through a grant by the Nanoscale In-formal Science Education Network,” Bryan said. “It was developed by the NISE Net-work and built by the Min-nesota Science Museum. Copies of it are in museums such as the Boston Museum of Science and the Minne-sota Science Museum, so it is really great to have one here in Morgantown.”
West Virginia Univer-sity gave the museum a grant to help with the Space Weather exhibit. There
was additional support from the National Science Foundation
Space Weather was built by Bryan and Dr. Paul Cas-sak, an associate professor at the Department of Phys-ics and Astronomy at WVU. Jeffrey Carver, an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc-tion and Literacy Studies at WVU also helped with the exhibit.
Cassak will be at the event opening to answer ques-tions about space weather, and a group of WVU stu-dents will be leading the hands-on activities.
“One of the activities is making your own stereo-scope, which is really cool,” Bryan said.
Bryan also said the addi-tion of these different sci-ences to the museum is important to the area and visitors who come to ex-plore there.
“There have been a number of solar storms in the news, and the Space Weather exhibit gives peo-ple the chance to have a bet-ter understanding of what it is and why we need to care about it,” Bryan said. “It’s important for everyone to understand the science that is being done today and to understand the need for this type of research.”
The grand opening of these two exhibits will be held 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sat-urday at the Children’s Discovery Museum of West Virginia located at the Mountaineer Mall on Greenbag Road.
Admission for adults and children younger than 12 months is free, while it is $4 for children older than 12 months.
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Mario’s Fishbowl will hold its inaugural Authen-tic German Beer Festival, or Oktoberfest as it’s more commonly known.
This will be an outdoor event, rain or shine.
Although beer will be served, it is still consid-ered a family-friendly event.
“We are really look-ing forward to giving the people of Morgantown a chance to experience the fun and activities of our Oktoberfest celebration,” said Alan Costlow, the gen-eral manager of Mario’s Fishbowl. “We invite ev-eryone to come and join us in making this event a suc-cess in our community.”
There will be live bands performing, authentic German food and bever-ages, dancing, games and contests.
The live music and dancing will begin at 2 p.m. with the Pittsburgh-based Augsburg German Band. This band has been playing traditional Bavar-ian-style music together for more than 20 years.
The festivities will con-tinue at 7 p.m. with Pitts-burgh’s classic rock band, Smokin’ Section.
In traditional Munich Oktoberfest fashion, the menu will include brat-wurst and knockwurst with sauerkraut, soft pret-zels with cheese, lemon garlic and thyme roasted chicken, German braised beef, tomato cucum-ber salads and potato
pancakes.There will also be a se-
lection of domestic and Bavarian beers and soft drinks.
Megan Graves, a grad-uate student at West Vir-ginia University, said she’s excited to check out Oktoberfest this year at Mario’s with her friends.
“I actually come from German descent, and I love German beer, so this should be something new and exciting,” Graves said. “I’m hoping it will be a fun experience to drink some beer and eat new types of German food with my
friends to start off fall.”The cost of cover is $10,
and it includes Mario’s Beer Stein.
Some may not find the time to make it out this weekend, but Mario’s Fishbowl welcomes peo-ple to come in anytime and check out what it has to offer.
The owners and staff are excited to see both new and familiar faces.
Oktoberfest at Mario’s Fishbowl will take place from 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sat-urday at Suncrest Towne Centre.
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The fourth annual Fam-ily Day at the Farm will take place Saturday at the Ani-mal Science Farm on Stew-artstown Road.
The Farm is always look-ing for ways to share what it does with the community.
“This is a great oppor-tunity to introduce people of all ages to the things we teach and the research we do,” said David Welsh, the Communication Official of the Division of Animal & Nutritional Sciences.
Welsh has been coordi-nating the event in a way that is fun and different for visitors during West Vir-ginia University’s Fall Fam-ily Weekend.
“This event wouldn’t be possible without the hard work of the crew at the An-
imal Science Farm,” Welsh said.
Vistors will be able to en-joy a cider press, meet ser-vice dogs and their trainers and visit an insect zoo. The farm is grateful to everyone who participates.
Jennifer Robertson-Ho-necker, WVU Extension’s STEM Education Special-ist, will bring “stromp rock-ets” as a special feature this year.
The “stromp rockets” ex-periment is a part of the 4-H National Youth Science Day. This year, it’s “Rockets to the Rescue.” Children will learn about rocket sci-ence and aerospace engi-neering. They will be able to build a rocket out of paper and launch it by “stomp-ing” a two-liter bottle at-tached to PVC piping.
“I’d like kids to see that learning about and doing activities related to science,
in this case aerospace, is fun,” Robertson-Honecker said.
Robertson-Honecker said she would like children and families to see that 4-H clubs and camps offer a wide variety of STEM activ-ities from rocketry to robot-ics. She said one of the best parts about being able to at-tend family day is seeing re-actions on childrens’ faces.
“Maybe they’re seeing an animal up close that they’ve only seen in pic-ture books before or they’re amazed by the wide open spaces or the equipment,” Welsh said.
The workers will answer any questions and help the people take advantage of everything they have to of-fer, just like Kiddie Days.
Kiddie Days gives thou-sands of young children and adults the chance to explore a working farm.
This program has helped the Farm get used to man-aging crowds of visitors out at the farm.
A lot of preparation has been made, from lining up exhibits to organizing stu-dent volunteers.
“We also work with ca-tering to provide light snacks and transportation to help with shuttle ser-vice,” Welsh said.
The event will take place between 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Parking is limited, but there will be shuttle trans-portation to the Farm from Area 81 on Van Voorhis Road across from Apple-bee’s starting at 10:45 a.m. with the last return shut-tle leaving the Farm at 4:45 p.m.
For more information, visit http://familydayatthe-farm.wvu.edu.
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