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Amaya Jernigan, right, and Hunter Moore, left, were elected SGA president and vice president for the 2021-22 term.

BY EMILY REXROADCONEWS EDITOR

Amaya Jernigan and Hunter Moore, both current West Virginia University juniors, have been elected to serve as the University’s SGA Presi-dent and Vice President for the 2021-22 academic year.

When she takes offi ce, Jernigan, a junior biology student, will become the fi rst Black female to serve as West Virginia University’s student body president.

Jernigan and Moore, who cam-paigned on the Act!on ticket, aim to advocate for three main platforms, including accessibility, student expe-rience and community engagement.

With their accessibility platform, Jernigan and Moore, a junior me-chanical and aerospace engineering student, will fi ght for expanded ac-cess to mental healthcare on cam-pus, aff ordability and transportation. Th ey want to ensure that all students can access all resources that WVU provides.

One of their goals with aff ordabil-ity is to have a book stipend within the tuition cost so students don’t have to worry about the extra costs.

To help students stay active on campus throughout the pandemic, Jernigan and Moore will advocate for physical networking spaces and a fi rst-year program.

“Th e Mountaineer experience is real, and many of the freshmen aren’t getting that experience right now,” Jernigan told the Daily Athenaeum.

Jernigan and Moore also want to be more involved in the community by beginning K-12 outreach, commu-nity service and working with com-munity groups and businesses. Th ey want to focus on making the college community and city community work together as one.

Th eir goal is also to stay active with the local and state government and ensure that students’ needs are be-

ing met.“We should all be working as

one community on similar prob-lems,” Jernigan said. “We should all be working on projects together and support each other.”

Jernigan and Moore stressed the importance of student involve-ment and connection with SGA and elections.

“Without the students’ input, there’s no reason for SGA to exist,” Jernigan said. ”It’s about all stu-dents… and that everyone’s opinions are being heard.”

Both Jernigan and Moore recog-nize that there is a divide between SGA and the students, but they don’t want that to be the case while they’re in offi ce.

Th ey see that right now, SGA ex-pects students to go to them with is-sues, but they believe it should be the other way around. Because of this, they plan on requiring their execu-tive board to sit in on student organi-zation meetings to stay involved with students in diff erent communities.

“We should meet students exactly where they are,” Jernigan said. “We should be going out to student [or-ganization] events, we should be go-ing out and sitting in these import-ant conversations and programs that they are hosting.”

Jernigan has been involved with SGA for about two years, but as much as she was involved, she still felt like she was on the outside and not included.

“Th at for me was like, if I’m feeling like this, I know other students are feeling like this,” Jernigan said. “It’s one thing to listen and to communi-cate with other people and to share other people’s ideas, but it’s another thing when you’re going through the experience yourself and you feel what it means to be in that position.”

Jernigan discussed how SGA has lost many diverse members because of that feeling and it’s because the structure is broken. She didn’t want

this issue to continue with under-represented groups, so she wanted to step up and run as the fi rst Black female president.

“It feels so lonely, and I don’t want anyone else to have to feel like that,” Jernigan said.

Even though Moore didn’t face this similar experience, he still wants to help those students that do face these problems.

“You can’t speak for really any-one if you can’t speak for everyone, and I can’t speak for everyone, but I can try to help people I know can,” Moore said.

Moore plans on also initiating change from within SGA, since the organization can be exclusionary at times and the same people circulate throughout diff erent roles. Th at was

one of the reasons their Act!on ticket included some students who weren’t previously involved with SGA, so that they could advocate for all parts of campus.

“We can’t bring them in and then ask them to advocate for SGA, when SGA itself should be advocating for them,” Moore said.

Th eir fi rst course of action will be fi xing the culture of SGA, how it pro-ceeds and how to include everyone and make them feel safe.

“SGA has felt a lot more discon-nected this semester than it has usually felt, it’s not the same when you’re not sitting next to someone… and you’re not in person,” Jernigan said. “We really do want to focus on building our family, building our community.”

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Students and instructors have mixed reactions to WVU Medicine’s double mask recommendation

BY CHRISTINA RUFOCONEWS EDITOR

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines suggesting Ameri-cans wear a cloth mask or gai-ter layered on top of a surgical mask to better protect oneself from COVID-19.

According to new research from the West Virginia Uni-versity School of Medicine, the combination of a dispos-able surgical mask as an un-derlayer with a tightly-fi tting fabric outer layer signifi cantly improves fi ltration effi ciency and protection.

Th eir research suggests the combination of a disposable surgical mask as an underlayer with a tight-fi tting fabric outer layer signifi cantly improves fi l-tration effi ciency and protec-tion. Th e overall goal for re-searchers has been to achieve protection comparable to N-95-rated respirators.

“If you put a good-fi tting mask on top of a good fi lter, you get the best of both, and that significantly increases the fi t and protection of the mask,” said Timothy R. Nurk-iewicz, director of WVU’s Cen-ter for Inhalation Toxicology and leader of the new mask re-search experiment, in a press release.

Th ese tests conducted by Nurkiewicz’s team support the CDC’s recommendation that two layers are better than one. Th e researchers found that the cloth mask worn over the sur-gical mask performed the best, with a fi ltration effi ciency of 84%.

Cheyenne Luzynski, a pro-fessor who is teaching Lead-ership 101 in-person this se-mester, thinks students may

use the double mask sugges-tions as an excuse to not par-ticipate in class.

“We already see students blaming the circumstance rather than fi nding ways to ex-ist within or even benefi t from it,” she said.

Although double masks are encouraged by the Univer-sity, they are not required for in-person classes.

“We are not mandating double mask wearing,” Nurk-iewicz said. “We have previ-ously reported that wearing a single mask is an eff ective way to contain exhaled drop-lets and prevent inhalation of droplets. And double masking does not change that observa-tion. It merely strengthens it.”

Without there being a man-date, however, some instruc-tors are unsure how to react to these new recommendations.

“I would feel much bet-ter if the University came out and mandated double mask-ing rather than it being an in-dividual request,” Luzynski said. “I do worry that students will take out their frustration of this semester being ‘diff erent and disappointing’ on their professor.”

A recent survey polling 63 WVU students showed that only 19% of students plan on wearing a double mask on campus. Additionally, 71.4% of students said they would not feel more comfortable in class if double masks were re-quired for students as well as instructors.

Some students are in full support of the CDC recom-mendations, such as fresh-man biology student Sophia Flower, who has two in-per-son classes this semester.

“I absolutely plan on wear-ing a double mask, in fact, I already have been double

masking on campus recently,” Flower said. “Double masking not only makes me feel safer on campus and in classes, but it also makes the classroom safer for my fellow students and professors.”

Based on the survey, though, 44.4% of the students polled claimed a double mask requirement would make them less likely to attend class in person.

Freshman wildlife and fi sh-

ery student Jason Ackerman feels discouraged from going to class with the current sin-gle mask mandate, and he said that being required to wear a double mask would lead him to stop going in person all together.

“A single mask is already distracting for me in class and makes it hard to focus, so a second mask on top of that would make it extremely diffi -

cult to concentrate and actu-ally benefi t from being in per-son,” Ackerman said.

For in-person classes that are discussion-based, there are also some concerns from instructors about how double masks may aff ect in-class con-versation. According to Lu-zynski, being able to hear stu-

dents in class can be diffi cult, and wearing two masks may further the challenge.

With about eight weeks left in the semester, it is unsure whether there will be a pro-gression of the double-mask suggestion, depending on any additional information re-leased by WVU Medicine.

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Tim Nurkiewicz and Karen Woodfork test the effi cacy of wearing double masks at the Health Sciences Center Feb. 19.

“Double masking not only makes me feel safer on campus and in classes, but it also makes the classroom saf-er for my fellow students and pro-fessors.”

-Sophia Flower, freshman biology student

“A single mask is already distracting for me in class and makes it hard to focus, so a second mask on top of that would make it extremely diffi cult to concen-trate and actually benefi t from being in person”

-Jason Ackerman, freshman wildlife and

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Hate group recruitment fl yers distributed on campusBY CHRISTINA RUFO

CONEWS EDITOR

A University email was sent out early Wednesday morning notifying students and staff of an incident in-volving hate group recruiters gath-ering on campus Tuesday, March 8.

It was not stated what group was present, as to avoid giving them more attention, however, the University Police Department is in communi-cation with the FBI to gather addi-tional information about the group.

“If you see something, say some-thing,” Interim Police Chief Phil Scott

said in the email. “Notify the Univer-sity Police Department to report the incident. It takes the actions of all of us to make our campus community safe and inclusive.”

“We all have a responsibility to speak out and reject messages that seek to create division within our community,” Vice President for the Division of Diversity, Equity and In-clusion Meshea Poore said in the email. “It is our responsibility, in-dividually and collectively, to de-nounce messages of hate and racism, interrupt their practitioners, and help heal the victims of their trauma.”

Students can use the LiveSafe App to upload and report information

anonymously. If students are given fl yers affi liated with groups such as these and feel threatened, they are also encouraged to call 911 or con-tact University Police.

Amy LaFollette, a junior art stu-dent, feels the tension on campus and doesn’t always feel safe walking to her nightly art classes.

“I feel like the school could patrol the campus areas more frequently with security staff ,” LaFollette said. “I’ve never really seen security guards anywhere on Evansdale or Down-town campuses, so it would be com-forting to see their presence a lit-tle more, especially in the evenings when people walk from the Evans-

dale campus across the road to where they park at the Coliseum.”

According to the email sent out, students can learn more about the University’s commitment to equity assurance, report abuse or fi le a com-plaint through the Division of Diver-sity, Equity and Inclusion.

“To hear there are groups actively trying to cause upset, it’s a little wor-risome,” LaFollette said. “Although I’m usually in the art department where people are more open minded, I still feel a bit wary being in a public space where harassment can occur.”

In addition, the email suggested students visit safety.wvu.edu to learn how to report discrimination, harass-

ment, non-emergency threats, haz-ing, sexual assaults and other student concerns.

When reporting an incident, stu-dents should be prepared to provide as much detail as possible to help in an investigation.

“We need to disrupt these discrim-inatory behaviors by acknowledging they are present and by sharing in-formation on how to report it and where to get assistance,” Poore said. “We have a vibrant, diverse commu-nity. It is up to us to defend it against actions that threaten to tear it apart.”

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Women’s Resource Center holds discussion to educate on menstrual health, products

BY CHRISTINA RUFOCONEWS EDITOR

On International Women’s Day, March 8, WVU Women’s Resource Center held a period panel discussion to kick off the free menstrual cup drive avail-able to students on campus.

The Zoom event was co-sponsored by the WRC and OrganiCup, and panelists in-cluded Ixya Vega of Planned Parenthood South Atlan-tic, Holly McKinney from the LGBTQ+ Center and Chantelle Friend of WELLWVU.

“Th ese panelists were cho-sen because they are all very passionate about menstrual sustainability and menstrual health,” Jennifer Darme-lio, moderator of the panel, said. “Th ey are familiar with menstrual cups and reusable products. Each of them have their own unique experience that we felt would benefi t our conversation.”

According to Leslie Tower, director of the Women’s Re-source Center, the purpose of the panel was to educate stu-dents about what a period cup

is, how to use it, the pros and cons of period cups and an-swer any questions students had about the product.

Th e panel discussion em-phasized menstrual equity, the concept that menstrual products should be aff ordable, accessible and safe.

“It can often be uncomfort-able to talk about menstrua-tion due to the stigma. Facili-tating discussions about it can begin to break that stigma,” Darmelio said. “In hosting this panel, we hoped to educate individuals on reusable men-strual cups while facilitating an open and honest conver-

sation about menstruation.”The WRC wants students

to know that period cups are a healthier, more sustainable, less costly and more conve-nient option for periods. For the next two weeks, students may sign-up for their own pe-riod cup at wrc.wvu.edu.

“Not everyone grows up in a house that is open and where it’s safe for you to ask questions,” Vega said. “Hav-ing a panel with people who are young and educated on these topics can be so help-ful to other people who may not fully understand what’s happening with their bod-

ies or how to use new period methods.”

To make periods on campus more sustainable and raise awareness about menstrual health, WRC is teaming with OrganiCup to off er students a free menstrual cup, typically a $30 value, during the Cam-pusCup 2021 campaign from March 8 to 22.

Vega stressed the impor-tance of raising awareness on menstruation.

“I don’t think people real-ize how periods impact one’s daily life,” Vega said. “Students have to miss time in class to go change their period prod-

uct, some people can’t af-ford to feed their families and also provide period products, LGBTQ+ folks can be put in danger by not having what they need readily accessible.

“Most importantly, because we federally don’t have the support that we need to pro-tect people with periods, the burden of providing period products to folks often falls on the community.”

Menstrual cups will be available for pickup across the street from the Mountain-lair on April 5 to 8 during se-lect time slots.

Students can visit the WVU WRC Initiatives site for more

information about the bene-fi ts of menstrual cups, how to sign up for an OrganiCup and when to pick up your new cup.

Th e WRC provides a com-prehensive list of on-and-off campus resources for women and families. Th e site includes information on career re-sources, basic needs, health-care, dependent care, healthy living, student organizations as well as services for immi-grants, the LGBTQ+ commu-nity, veterans and women’s rights groups. Visit wrc.wvu.edu for your one-stop-shop to fi nd WVU and community resources.

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Day of Giving sets records for donations to student orgs

BY PETER KRCHCORRESPONDENT

On March 3, West Virginia University received more than 5,000 gifts and donations to-taling $11.9 million during the University’s fourth annual Day of Giving, setting new records for the 24-hour online fund-raising event held across the University system.

Th e fi nal numbers exceeded the $11.3 million raised during the last event held in 2019 and nearly doubled the $6 million raised the year before. The combined total for all four Days of Giving, organized by the WVU Foundation, exceeds $32 million.

All of these donations will allow for many new opportu-nities to arise for the Univer-sity, according to Bill Nevin, associate vice president of communications for the WVU Foundation.

“Mountaineer Nation really stepped up during our fourth WVU Day of Giving,” Nevin said. “Because of the generos-ity of so many on WVU Day of Giving, new scholarships will be created for students, edu-cational programs enhanced and facilities improved.”

Donations like these help

fund student programs, clubs and organizations, allowing students to continue to grow their platforms on campus. Th ese donations also bene-fi t other facets of the Univer-sity system, including WVU Medicine, Potomac State Col-lege and WVU Tech, and will aid in funding projects like the construction of new res-idence halls and educational facilities.

As donations could be made to any area of the Uni-versity system, the Founda-tion created specific chal-lenges such as the “Most First Time Donors Challenge” and the “Most Dollars Raised Challenge.” Extra funding was awarded to the groups with the most successful participation in each challenge.

Some challenges, such as the “Th ank a First-Responder or Frontline Worker Chal-lenge,” did not take monetary donations into account but fo-cused instead on social media involvement.

Participants posted on Ins-tagram and Twitter using the #WVUDayofGiving hashtag and the specific hashtag for the University area they wished to support. Areas that placed fi rst in these challenges received an additional $1,500, second place received $1,000,

and third place $500.Several challenges were

marked a success, including the 2021 Energy Express Lit-eracy Challenge, Fifty Gifts for Our Future, Rockefeller Neu-roscience Institute Leadership Challenge and School of Par-ticipation Challenge.

The top 30 participating groups that raised the most money were awarded addi-tional funding. Th e University Top Priorities, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the WVU Can-cer Institute were among the top three in the leaderboard.

The top 30 participating groups that received the most donations were also awarded additional funding. Th e top three groups on the leader-board included College of Creative Arts, WVU Exten-sion Service and the Cham-bers College of Business and Economics.

In addition to organiz-ing the Day of Giving, the WVU Foundation has also established a special fund-raising initiative called “We Are Stronger Together” that helps provide fi nancial sup-port to students aff ected by the economic challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented.

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‘Historic’ Hotel Morgan returns to operations with new management

BY CRAIG WEIMERASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR

The Hotel Morgan, built in 1925, has hit some rough patches in its history. How-ever, The Hotel had new life breathed into it when Charlestowne Hotels and Th rash Group acquired it.

Robert Mickey, general manager at Hotel Morgan, be-lieves the developments the Hotel has undergone have re-vitalized the Hotel.

“The Hotel Morgan, for many years, was the crown jewel of Morgantown,” Mickey said. “It did fall on a little bit of a hard time. It did close in October of 2019; [then] the Thrash Group bought the property in December of 2019 and did a major renova-tion and revitalization of the property and we opened to the public on February 12th.”

Mickey said the Hotel Mor-gan of before was a changed building, re-imagined un-der the Thrash Group’s supervision.

“It was a multi-million dollar project,” Mickey said. “From top to bottom, the en-tire property was totally, not just renovated, which some-times can mean a new coat of paint and new furniture. We totally reimagined the Ho-tel in keeping with the sto-ried property and the rela-tionship to the Morgantown community and WVU while adding modern touches and amenities.”

Karen Forsythe, director of sales at Hotel Morgan, was also confi dent about the Ho-tel’s potential.

“[The Hotel has] over 10,000 square feet of fl exible meeting and event function space,” Forsythe said. “We have [space for] weddings, corporate meetings... We have a full-service banquet and events team here, so not only can we post group blocks to stay here, they can meet, they can retreat and they can have all their dining in a one-stop-shop, basically.”

As for what might excite students about the new de-velopments, Forsythe men-tioned Anvil + Ax, the Hotel’s very own culinary venue.

“It’s kind of like a deriva-tive of an industrial European coff ee shop, with a coal min-ing feel to it, meets a cocktail bar,” Forsythe said. “So that’s our lobby bar area.”

Mickey added to this state-ment, giving a fleshed-out and offi cial description of the venue.

“Part classic, part retro, part modern, Anvil + Ax brings a unique twist to the drinks and dining scene in Morgantown,” Mickey said.

According to Forsythe, the Hotel may be partnering with WVU to host some student events, including graduation events and other larger events once COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed.

Th e emphasis of Charles-towne’s Hotel Morgan reno-vations is on improving guest experience and expanding the culinary program. To do so, they have added a new restaurant/coff ee shop: An-vil + Ax. Th ey also promise an emphasis on events and en-tertainment moving forward.

“Hotel Morgan features 81 guest rooms and two suites, along with two grand ball-rooms, two boardrooms ideal for meetings, a state-of-the-art fi tness center and a roof-top event space,” said a press release by Charlestowne Ho-tels. “Th e property’s on-site restaurant, Anvil + Ax, is also managed by Charlestowne and serves specialty coff ee and breakfast in the morn-ing with modern cocktails, local craft beers and a menu of shareable plates in the evening.”

Ike Thrash, founder and managing member at Th rash Group, said that Charles-towne was the best company to manage the building.

“Charlestowne’s personal-ized approach to renovation and rebranding is unrivaled,” Th rash said in the press re-lease. “We sought their ex-pertise to strike a balance between honoring the Hotel Morgan’s heritage and intro-ducing contemporary touch points designed with a col-lege-town traveler in mind.”

Thrash emphasized the importance of the Hotel to the town. He stated his con-fidence in Charlestowne’s

ability to make it live up to its name and stature.

“Hotel Morgan has served as a pillar of the Morgantown community for close to a cen-tury, and we’re confi dent in Charlestowne’s ability to skill-fully navigate the property through the shifting land-scape of today’s university market space,” Th rash said.

“Morgantown attracts an intersection of leisure and so-cial segments associated with WVU; two distinct audiences that are expected to come back with renewed strength in the coming year,” Kyle Hughey, executive vice pres-ident and COO at Charles-towne Hotels, said in a press release. “To appeal to both segments, we approached Hotel Morgan with a mix of locally driven F&B, creative and operationally friendly packages for current Moun-taineers and alumni, and a re-newed focus on meeting and events services.”

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A bar in Hotel Morgan.

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A suite inside of Hotel Morgan.

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Renovated ballrooms in Hotel Morgan.PHOTO COURTESY OF HOTEL MORGAN

Hotel Morgan’s new lobby.

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WVU student collects dozens of rare Oliver typewritersBY DUNCAN SLADE

PHOTO EDITOR

Jett Morton is pretty good at installing new shelves for his growing collection.

Between the “Typewriter Room” in his parent’s base-ment and the four large metal shelving units in the liv-ing room of his Morgantown home, his collection of an-tique typewriters take up a lot of space.

“I was at over 300 ma-chines,” Morton said. “I had lost counts between 300 and 350.”

Driven by nostalgia, type-writers have gained a surge of popularity in recent years. Before typewriters were cool (again), there was an existing worldwide community of peo-ple like Morton who collect, repair and use typewriters.

For him, this hobby started at the age of seven when his parents would take him to yard sales and fl ea markets.

Morton already had an in-terest in regular computers. At a yardsale, he saw something that looked like a computer: a typewriter.

“I didn’t know where the monitor was,” Morton said. “I didn’t know what it was. So my dad showed me. He got it for me. I typed on it, thought it was neat.”

After this fi rst typewriter, he went to visit a family friend in Morgantown who owns over 800 typewriters.

“He gave me the fi rst type-writer that he got when he fi rst started collecting,” Morton said. “Th at’s what really fu-eled me to start getting more antique machines.”

Morton’s parents had a spare basement room that

became the typewriter room. It was wall to wall with type-writers pressed up against each other.

“I had several rare Olivers and I liked the design,” Mor-ton said, “I thought ‘Well let’s see how many Olivers I can get.’”

He sold off some of his other machines and the number of Olivers is up to 54. He says it’s likely the largest Oliver collec-tion in the world with some of the rarest machines.

Th omas Oliver, founder of the Oliver Typewriter Co., was Canadian by birth. As a Mid-west pastor in the late 19th century, he wanted an easier way to write his sermons.

He designed one of the fi rst “visible print” typewriters.

“Before the Oliver, when you type on the keys, the tight bars used to swing up from underneath to hit the platen,” Morton said as he showed the Oliver’s mechanism. “You couldn’t see as you type until you were done.”

Th e preacher’s original de-sign was patented in 1891 and became the Oliver One.

Over a million Oliver ma-chines were manufactured in Chicago, up until the Great Depression when the com-pany was sold to investors in England.

British Oliver produced typewriters until the company closed in 1959.

The design was also li-censed around the world un-der names like Courier in Austria and Stolzenburg in Germany.

In Argentina, the Oli-ver name was already trade-marked. So they called it Re-vilo (That’s Oliver spelled backwards).

Morton’s favorite machine is a special edition Woodstock Oliver typewriter. It’s over 130 years old and named for the factory location in Woodstock, Illinois.

This rare version of the Woodstock was made exclu-sively for department store Montgomery Ward.

“They only made 19 of them,” Morton said. “Th ere was an advertisement in the Montgomery Ward catalog of 1898 that had this machine.”

For years, Morton said, col-lectors have seen this adver-tisement but not the actual typewriter.

“They made only 19. I mean, that’s not going to be around. And one day a Wood-stock showed up on eBay.”

Morton bought it.He gets a lot of machines on

Ebay or other online forums these days. His eye looks for rare stuff like the original Ol-iver One model, a German model known as Jacoby, and a few Italian portable models.

“I probably have a list of a couple dozen Olivers with this and that I don’t have,” Morton said. “It really just depends what shows up for sale.”

Morton said over the past few years the worldwide type-writer community has rapidly expanded online.

In 2016, a documentary called “California Typewriter” starring Tom Hanks, an avid typewriter collector himself, attracted new attention for the typewriter community. Mor-ton even had a cameo in the fi lm.

“Th e main thing, I think that is my fascination with them is that they are perfect devices,” Hanks said to the PBS New-sHour in 2017. “Th ey do one

thing and only one thing. You can’t make a phone call on a typewriter and you can’t pull up today’s New York Times.”

Hanks owns hundreds of typewriters, wrote a book about typewriters and types on them a lot. Morton doesn’t type on his machines; it’s all about collecting the Olivers.

Still, they’re both part of the same worldwide community of typewriter collectors.

“The community is what makes typewriter collecting what it is today,” said Mor-ton.” I mean, it’s about the machines, but it’s more about the people and the history of the collecting and meeting the people that you meet.”

This piece was originally published by West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Jett Morton poses for a portrait with his typewriter collection inside his home in Morgantown on Feb. 21.

Morton types on a limited edition Woodstock Oliver typewriter.

Only 19 of these specialty Woodstock typewriter were produced for department store and mail order chain Montgomery Ward.

Morton’s limited edition Woodstock Oliver typewriter in his home in Morgantown.

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BY NICK KREMERASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Throughout the 2020-21 basketball season, junior for-ward Derek Culver has been a leader for the Mountaineers and has led the Big 12 in fi ve statistical categories.

Culver fi nished the regular season as the Big 12 leader in offensive rebounds, de-fensive rebounds, two-point fi eld goals attempted and free throws attempted. On the year, the Youngstown, Ohio, native averaged 9.8 rebounds per game, which is the most in the Big 12. Culver also av-eraged 14.8 points per game, second-highest on the team only behind Miles McBride and 10th in the Big 12.

Culver is the leader in the Big 12 in double-doubles with 11 in 26 games.

This season, Culver has been streaky from the free

throw line. Over his last four games, Culver has shot 77% from the line but just 62% on the season. In home games, Culver shot 67% but only 54% on the road. Although the numbers are up and down, this season has been better than his last two seasons, as he shot 59% his freshman sea-son and 52% last season.

“He has one of the great instructors in all of basket-ball helping him, that’s me,” head coach Bob Huggins said. “He’s worked at it, man. We got his alignment straight-ened out.”

In West Virginia’s fi rst 15 games of the season, Culver shot just 54% from the free throw line, but then on Jan. 30 against Florida, Culver made 14-of-17. In the three games following, Culver made 13-of-18 to combine for a four-game stretch of 77%, boosting his season percentage from 54% to 61%.

“Derek and I spent about

an hour after practice yester-day,” Huggins said following the game against Florida. “All we did for an hour yesterday was the simple things both with his post play and his free throws.”

Culver has been the only true power forward or center for the Mountaineers for the majority of this season. Early in the season, Oscar Tshiebwe entered the transfer por-tal and Isaiah Cottrell went down with a torn Achilles. In the 16 games without Cottrell or Tshiebwe, Culver has put up 15 points per game.

“We lost big pieces, but we kept on moving as if we did not lose a single piece,” Cul-ver said.

When it comes to min-utes played, Culver has seen the third most playing time of any Mountaineer this season, with 687 total minutes over his 26 games played.

On Th ursday, the Moun-taineers will take on Okla-

homa State for the third time. Culver has put up dou-ble-digit points in both meet-ings with the Cowboys during the regular season.

In the fi rst matchup, Culver scored 22 points along with 19 rebounds to help West Vir-ginia pull off a 19-point come-back. In the most recent game on March 6, Culver scored 14 points and grabbed fi ve rebounds.

Culver played just 20 min-utes in the second game due to foul trouble, but in the first game, the junior for-ward played a season-high 36 minutes.

On Monday, the Big 12 an-nounced the All-Big 12 teams, and Culver was named to the First Team as the only forward.

“I was quite surprised; I was not really thinking about it,” Culver said of his selec-tion. “It’s a great honor to be mentioned, I’m very appre-ciative of that.”

BY CHARLES MONTGOMERYSPORTS EDITOR

Th e West Virginia men’s basketball team is on the cusp of playing its fi rst Big 12 Conference Tournament game since 2019 as the 2020 tournament was canceled due to COVID-19.

Th is season, the Mountain-eers have dealt with adversity throughout and have seen the ups and the downs, but they have persevered through it all and are projected as a No. 3 seed in Joe Lunardi’s ESPN Bracketology. West Virginia enters the Big 12 Tourna-ment for the fi rst time ever as a No. 4 seed, which is a vast improvement on its 2019 seed when it was the No. 10 seed in the fi eld.

In March 2020, WVU was preparing to play in the Big 12 Tournament quarterfi nal round on March 12 as the No. 6 seed against Oklahoma be-fore college basketball was canceled with the COVID-19 pandemic. Sophomore guard Miles McBride says the team was shocked when the news broke last year about college basketball, and the Moun-taineers are focusing on “set-ting the tone early” this week.

“Obviously being a kid growing up watching con-ference tournaments and watching Kemba Walker and

Da’Sean (Butler) have those game winners, having it taken away from us so quickly really hurt us last year,” McBride said. “We’re very excited, and we want to set the tone early starting with this game Th urs-day and carry it through the rest of the postseason.”

Since joining the Big 12 prior to the 2012-13 season, West Virginia is a combined 8-7 in conference tourna-

ment games. Th e Mountain-eers have reached the cham-pionship game three times — 2016-2018 — and in 2019 they reached the semifi nals as the No. 10 seed before los-ing to Kansas.

In its time in the Big 12, WVU has never been the No. 4 seed. However, the No. 4 seed has a strong history of making runs in the Big 12 Tournament since 2013, with

Iowa State winning the title twice as the No. 4 seed in 2014 and 2017.

In the fi nal seven games of the regular season, West Virginia went 4-3 with only one of those victories com-ing against an AP Top 25 team — No. 12 Texas on Feb. 20. In the regular season fi -nale, the Mountaineers lost to the Oklahoma State Cowboys — who were without Big 12

Player of the Year Cade Cun-ningham — in Morgantown. Coincidentally, WVU will face the Cowboys on Th ursday in the quarterfi nals.

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins is expecting the very best from his team in postseason play as its now “one-and-done” for the re-mainder of the college bas-ketball season.

“It’s one-and-done,” Hug-

gins said. “You lose, you’re done. You can’t come out and be fl at. You have to bring your best game every time out. Otherwise, you’re back home watching it on TV.”

Following West Virginia’s loss to Oklahoma State on March 6, Huggins was unim-pressed with the energy the Mountaineers had and em-phasized how the lack of en-ergy will hurt WVU in the postseason.

“I think anybody that has played 26 games ought to be able to fi gure it out by now,” Huggins said. “We’re getting ready to go play in the con-ference tournament where you’re not playing a game and then taking a day off, you’re playing a game and then playing a game and then playing a game. We’re in trou-ble if that’s the case. We’ll be home early.”

In March, the little things have a larger impact on games than they did in November. If West Virginia wants to make a run in the Big 12 Tournament and the NCAA Tournament, consistency will be one of the biggest keys.

“It’s going to be a diff er-ent atmosphere, but its still postseason basketball,” Mc-Bride said. “Th ings are going to mean a little bit more. Go-ing into the tournament, ev-erything is just going to mean a lot more.”

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West Virginia guard Miles “Deuce” McBride drives to the basket against Texas Tech on Jan. 25.

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West Virginia forward Derek Culver shoots a hook-shot against the Kansas Jayhawks at the WVU Coliseum on Feb. 6.

BY KATIE WOLFHOPESPORTS WRITER

From her collegiate beam debut back on Feb. 11, fresh-man Chloe Asper has become a major key for West Virginia’s gymnastics team.

In the team’s loss to Den-ver University on Feb. 21, As-per anchored for the team, scoring an impressive 9.8 to-tal and tied for third-place.

“I was very nervous. Most of the time I’m always ner-vous, but I’ve been told that I hide it really well,” Asper said. “Because when I go, it’s like the pressure helps me per-form, so I can nail it more of-ten than not sometimes.”

Following her debut, As-per continued to be placed in the lineup for beam. On Feb. 21 when the team went up against Denver for the sec-ond time, Asper was there to anchor for the Mountain-eers. Earning her personal best mark of 9.9, tying for fi rst-place.

For the next meet, WVU took on Iowa State for the second time on March 1. As-per notched a team-high 9.8, earning third place and scor-ing a 9.8 or better for the third straight meet. Since her beam debut, she has earned a po-dium fi nish in every meet so

far. “I’m pretty happy with

the way the season is going so far, obviously I think Iowa State could have been bet-ter,” Asper said. “But I think we are getting our foothold. I feel like we are really coming together.”

Head coach Jason Butts was thoroughly disappointed in the loss against Iowa State, saying that the team’s perfor-mance was unacceptable, ex-cept for Asper’s performance.

“I’m seeing an athlete that doesn’t seem like she is a freshman,” Butts said. “She is so focused. It doesn’t matter if two people have fallen in

front of her, she just goes up there and performs. Every-thing she does is for the team.

“She doesn’t even realize that she is achieving these amazing individual accom-plishments in the process. She is performing beyond her years of experience.”

Asper doesn’t exactly have as much experience as her teammates. Starting at the age of three, the Hanover, Pennsylvania, native was ac-tually involved in compet-itive cheering, because her mother was a coach. Once that ended, she moved onto gymnastics at the age of 10 and never looked back.

Th e true freshman is com-ing off a recent win against the University of Pittsburgh, where she tied with team-mate Abbie Pierson for fi rst-place in beam with their scores of 9.85, just short of her career-high.

“That was great, obvi-ously the whole team came together for that one,” Asper said. “Everyone was cheer-ing and it was really excit-ing. Especially because by the time we were at the end of the beam competition, I saw that we were so close to hitting 196 for the fi rst time in the season, but we didn’t make it this time, we were in-credibly close.”

West Virginia’s final two meets are against Pittsburgh before the Mountaineers host the Big 12 Championship at the WVU Coliseum on March 20.

“I’m extremely excited for the championship,” Asper said. “I feel that the team is just getting better and better each time we go out. We are really unifi ed right now.”

THURSDAY MARCH 11, 2021

We are proud to announce that Heather Carpenter, daughter of Steven and Robin Carpenter of Masontown, WV has recently become a member of Phi Sigma Theta National Honor Society at WVU. Phi Sigma Theta is a national honor society dedicated to recognizing and rewarding academic

achievement in undergraduates at institutions of higher learning.

In addition, Heather has also recently become a member of the National

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Mountaineers enter postseason play with opportunities for major success

BY ETHAN BOCKSPORTS WRITER

In what has been one of its best seasons as of late, the West Virginia women’s basket-ball team has locked up a No. 2 seed in the Big 12 Confer-ence Tournament while over-coming a substantial amount of adversity throughout the season.

“It feels good,” WVU head coach Mike Carey said. “I give all the credit to the play-ers; we’ve had people leave the program because they weren’t playing, we’ve had in-juries, we’ve had people play out-of-position.”

“We’ve not had a lot of ad-vantages going down the stretch here, but give these players a lot of credit because they’ve hung in there,” Carey added.

West Virginia (19-5, 13-5 Big 12) has a prime opportunity to compete for its fi rst Big 12 ti-tle since 2017, when the No. 6 seeded WVU team made a run to winning the conference ti-tle. Th at West Virginia team — led by Tynice Martin — upset Oklahoma, Texas and Baylor.

Th is season, the Mountain-eers have shown great mo-ments of potential that they can make another run at the conference title, and better yet, a chance to make their fi rst Sweet 16 appearance un-der Carey.

In ESPN’s latest bracketol-ogy, West Virginia is predicted to be a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Th is would be WVU’s highest seed in the NCAA Tournament since 2014, when the Mountaineers were a No. 2 seed.

It’s been a remarkable sea-son for the Mountaineers to respond to not having much help off of the bench. Over the last month, the team has been playing with only a couple of players off the bench, which caused Carey to have to adjust and make people play diff er-ent positions.

“I had point guards never playing the one, I had a four never play the four, a fi ve never play the fi ve. Everybody’s out of position, but you know what, this is what this team is made of,” Carey said following West Virginia’s win against Kansas State on March 3.

WVU put itself in a good po-

sition to be the second-best team in the Big 12 after going on an 11-game winning streak. Th e Mountaineers were un-beaten for several weeks and took care of business against

most of the teams in the conference.

West Virginia — led by Kysre Gondrezick, Kirsten Deans, Esmery Martinez and Kari Ni-black — will have an oppor-

tunity to add achievements to the women’s program that have never been done before. As much as Carey wants to win games and championships, he understands how much this

team has been through this season.

“No matter what happens from here on out, (I’m) very proud of this team,” Carey said.

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West Virginia guard Kysre Gondrezick drives to the basket against the Baylor on March 8.

Asper impressing many in freshman season for WVU gymnastics

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Chloe Asper performs during a recent competition.

“I’m seeing an athlete that doesn’t seem like she is a freshman...She is performing beyond her years of experience.” -Jason Butts, WVU

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Osborne leading rifl e to potential 20th national title

BY WESLEY SHOEMAKERCORRESPONDENT

Coming into this season, the West Virginia Univer-sity rifle team was not sure what would be in store fol-lowing a canceled fall sea-son. However, after all of the challenges, West Virginia will look to bring home its 20th NCAA Rifle Championship this weekend.

Two weeks ago, the rifle team won the Great Ameri-can Rifle Conference Cham-pionship. The Mountaineers beat Kentucky, which they lost to earlier in the season.

“We’re delighted to be go-ing back to the NCAA Cham-pionships, especially in a year like this,” WVU head coach Jon Hammond said. “Ulti-mately, I think we have to take a step back and be grate-ful that we got to this point. We had a season and will now have a chance to com-pete for a National Champi-onship. It will look and feel different in this COVID-19 world, but I’m just happy it’s happening. I am excited for the team members to get this opportunity.”

Hammond also acknowl-edged the leaders of the team, such as Sarah Osborne.

“Leadership is super im-portant for any team, and it can come in all different va-rieties,” Hammond said. “The older ones we lean on to set the example and pass infor-mation and knowledge down to the younger ones.”

Osborne is the lone senior on the team and has picked up a lot of accolades in her career here at West Virginia, including being named to the All-GARC Smallbore First Team in her sophomore year and being named to the All-GARC Air Rifle Second Team three times. The one thing that is missing from her re-sume, however, is a national championship.

The last time West Virginia won a national champion-ship was in 2017. The Moun-taineers finished in second place in 2018 and 2019, and last year’s championships were canceled.

Osborne is embracing the challenge of being one of the leaders on this team. Her goal is to help the younger athletes on the team through

leading by example and us-ing what she has learned over her career and helping pass that down to the younger athletes.

“I think it’s been cool be-cause in the past, I’ve always had someone to look up to, whether it be older team-mates or the coaching staff,” Osborne said. “But this year, because I am the only senior and I don’t necessarily have anyone else to look up to -- I think it’s been cool because it has been able to help me use the leadership skills I’ve seen in the past and help me lead by example.”

This weekend will be no different for Osborne, as she will try and finish off her il-lustrious career with a na-tional championship. After the Mountaineers finished with a 4727 aggregate score at the GARC Championships, they know they will have to continue the high scores in order to win.

The NCAA Rifle Cham-pionships will take place in Columbus, Ohio, at the Lt. Hugh W. Wylie Range on Fri-day and Saturday with start times at 9:30 a.m.

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in addition to some light-hearted fun as we take a look at wellbeing in popular culture.

Don’t miss an episodepodcast available at

thedaonline.com/podcasts

2021

The DA Date Show Episode 2: The First Date

Watch The Daily Athenaeum onFacebook live on Sunday, March 14 at 5 p.m.

in the Morgantown Marriott

Bachelor, Jakob Janoski and Bachelorette, Ashton Hollen will experience their date night at Bourbon Prime located inside the

Morgantown Marriott.

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in the Morgantown Marriott

Bachelor, Jakob JanoskiJakob is a Sophomore Journalism

student from Columbus, OH. Jakob is a part of U92 Th e Moose and runs

his own podcast.

Bachelorette, Ashton HollenAshton is a Freshman Psychology

major with a minor in Fashion Merchandising from Buckhannon,

WV. In her spare time, Ashton loves to be with her friends and do

anything outdoors.

Watch The Daily Athenaeum onFacebook live on Sunday, March 14 at 5 p.m.

The DA Date Show Episode 2: The First Date

Our lucky winners will experience the date night at Bourbon Prime locatedinside the Morgantown Marriott.

WILL THEYFIND LOVE?