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Students need to register by today to participate in the an- nual Cavs Have Talent Contest, scheduled for Nov. 8. Registration for the spring semester be- gins on Nov. 12. Classes available next semester are listed on the student portal. By Karrye Ormaner Staff Writer [email protected] Returning students can begin registering for spring semester classes starting next week. Pre-registration for se- niors begins on Nov. 12, ju- niors begin on Nov. 15, soph- omores begin on Nov. 17 and freshmen begin on Nov. 19. The portal will remain open for adding and dropping classes until January. Registrar Narda Porter said students should map out their desired courses online and then request a meeting with their advisor. “I work with students all the time who either self-advise or who just take courses with- out thinking of the long-term impact on how these courses will meet the requirements for their major or the gen- eral education requirements,” Porter said. “Take the time to call and make an appointment with them (advisors) and sit By Jordan Begley Staff Writer [email protected] The Healthy Appalachia Institute is accepting applica- tions from students interested in conducting local and global health-based research for 10 weeks during the summer. Selected students will receive a $3,000 stipend for the 10-week period and must spend 40 hours a week gath- ering research to present dur- ing the Healthy Appalachia research symposium in the spring. The Healthy Appalachia Institute is an organization fo- cused on improving the health and lives of residents in central Appalachia by generating and implementing new ideas to solve issues facing the region. “We’re looking for self- starters and clear thinkers … people who look at every- thing around them and go, ‘I wonder,’” said Wendy Welch, community health organizer for the Healthy Appalachia In- By Jordan Fifer News Editor [email protected] UVa-Wise has reached a $50 million capital campaign goal more than a year ahead of schedule, officials said. The “Fulfilling the Dream” campaign, started in 2004 but officially launched in 2006, is part of a larger University of Virginia effort aimed at raising $3 billion by December 2011. College officials announced the milestone at an Oct. 16 benefactors dinner. “We’re so pleased,” said Tami Ely, UVa-Wise’s vice chancellor for development. “Given the economy, it is a re- lief to have met our goal and be able to move forward.” UVa-Wise’s campaign seeks to raise mon- ey in nine key areas — scholar- ships, en- dowed pro- fessorships, academic programs, athletics, renovation of the Fred Greear Gymnasium into a health and wellness center, “new ini- tiatives and great ideas,” and the construction of a new din- ing commons, arts building and residence hall. Three individual goals re- main unmet, Ely said. Though college officials have reached their overall $50 million goal for the campaign, much of the C A VALIER Volume 62, Issue 10 November 5, 2010 The Official Student Newspaper of UVa-Wise The Highland Inside news et cetera opinion sports Index Upcoming page 2 page 4 page 6 page 8 Weather Friday 38°F / 31°F Saturday 44°F / 27°F Weather courtesy of www.weather.com Sunday 49°F / 31°F Spring Registration uvawise.edu/highlandcavalier see Campaign, page 4 Jeffrey Allison pres- ents a lecture on Mori- sot’s impressionist image of women next week. Find out when it is on page 2. Three UVa-Wise stu- dents might get to study in Germany in May. Find out how you might go on page 5. Photos by Jordan Fifer see Registration, page 3 Above right, senior communication major Mackenzie Martinez, as Drac- ula, hypnotizes Wendy Adrian, administrative and office specialist in the math and computer science department. Above left, junior theater major Elizabeth Blankenship and senior history major Joel Earnest rehearse earlier this week. The performances are free to students with CAVS cards. The Cavs take on Campbellsville tomor- row afternoon. So far, they are 3-1 in the conference. Read the story on page 8. The Department of Visual and Performing Arts will present “He Who Gets Slapped” on Nov. 18 to Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. and on Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. “He Who Gets Slapped” see Healthy, page 4 Cavs Have Talent Contest Capital campaign goal reached Ely Out for blood Classic vampire tale opens tonight in arts center From Staff Reports The college’s Department of Visual and Per- forming Arts will debut “Dracula” tonight. “Preparations have been going well,” said senior communication major Mackenzie Marti- nez, who plays Dracula. “We have really added a lot of great scenes and it’s going to be an amaz- ing show.” The audience can expect to be “royally en- tertained,” said Joe Necessary, a junior theater and English major who plays Renfield, an men- tally ill asylum inmate. Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. to- night, tomorrow night and Nov. 11-13. A perfor- mance is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Nov. 7. Map courtesy of nationalatlas.gov; graphic by Allie Robinson Republican party takes 9th District Heaton 4,389 Boucher 86,653 Griffith 95,526 0 50,000 100,000 From Staff Reports After nearly 30 years in office, Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher was defeated by Republican State Del. Morgan Grif- fith in Tuesday’s election. The Republican takeover of the 9th District was echoed throughout the state, as Republican House candidates defeat- ed their Democrat opponents in all but three districts. According to Washington Post results, Republicans now hold a 239-185 seat advantage in the House of Representa- tives. Democrats hold a 52-46 advantage in the Senate. Spring registration begins next week Healthy Appalachia seeks student fellows

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Students need to register by today to participate in the an-nual Cavs Have Talent Contest, scheduled for Nov. 8.

Registration for the spring semester be-gins on Nov. 12. Classes available next semester are listed on the student portal.

By Karrye OrmanerStaff [email protected]

Returning students can begin registering for spring semester classes starting next week.

Pre-registration for se-niors begins on Nov. 12, ju-niors begin on Nov. 15, soph-omores begin on Nov. 17 and freshmen begin on Nov. 19.

The portal will remain open for adding and dropping classes until January.

Registrar Narda Porter

said students should map out their desired courses online and then request a meeting with their advisor.

“I work with students all the time who either self-advise or who just take courses with-out thinking of the long-term impact on how these courses will meet the requirements for their major or the gen-eral education requirements,” Porter said. “Take the time to call and make an appointment with them (advisors) and sit

By Jordan BegleyStaff [email protected]

The Healthy Appalachia Institute is accepting applica-tions from students interested in conducting local and global health-based research for 10 weeks during the summer.

Selected students will receive a $3,000 stipend for the 10-week period and must spend 40 hours a week gath-ering research to present dur-ing the Healthy Appalachia research symposium in the

spring.The Healthy Appalachia

Institute is an organization fo-cused on improving the health and lives of residents in central Appalachia by generating and implementing new ideas to solve issues facing the region.

“We’re looking for self-starters and clear thinkers … people who look at every-thing around them and go, ‘I wonder,’” said Wendy Welch, community health organizer for the Healthy Appalachia In-

By Jordan FiferNews [email protected]

UVa-Wise has reached a $50 million capital campaign goal more than a year ahead of schedule, officials said.

The “Fulfilling the Dream” campaign, started in 2004 but officially launched in 2006, is part of a larger University of

Virginia effort aimed at raising $3 billion by December 2011.

College officials announced the milestone at an Oct. 16 benefactors dinner.

“We’re so pleased,” said Tami Ely, UVa-Wise’s vice chancellor for development. “Given the economy, it is a re-lief to have met our goal and be able to move forward.”

UVa-Wise’s campaign

seeks to raise mon-ey in nine key areas — scholar-ships, en-dowed pro-fessorships, a c a d e m i c programs,

athletics, renovation of the Fred Greear Gymnasium into a health

and wellness center, “new ini-tiatives and great ideas,” and the construction of a new din-ing commons, arts building and residence hall.

Three individual goals re-main unmet, Ely said. Though college officials have reached their overall $50 million goal for the campaign, much of the

CAvAlier Volume 62, Issue 10November 5, 2010

The Official Student Newspaper of UVa-Wise

The Highland

Inside

news

et cetera

opinion

sports

Index

Upcoming

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WeatherFriday

38°F / 31°FSaturday

44°F / 27°F

Weather courtesy of www.weather.com

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49°F / 31°F

Spring Registration

uvawise.edu/highlandcavalier

see Campaign, page 4

Jeffrey Allison pres-ents a lecture on Mori-sot’s impressionist image of women next week. Find out when it is on page 2.

Three UVa-Wise stu-dents might get to study in Germany in May. Find out how you might go on page 5.

Photos by Jordan Fifer

see Registration, page 3

Above right, senior communication major Mackenzie Martinez, as Drac-ula, hypnotizes Wendy Adrian, administrative and office specialist in the math and computer science department. Above left, junior theater major Elizabeth Blankenship and senior history major Joel Earnest rehearse earlier this week. The performances are free to students with CAVS cards.

The Cavs take on Campbellsville tomor-row afternoon. So far, they are 3-1 in the conference. Read the story on page 8.

The Department of Visual and Performing Arts will present “He Who Gets Slapped” on Nov. 18 to Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. and on Nov. 21 at 2 p.m.

“He Who Gets Slapped”

see Healthy, page 4

Cavs Have Talent Contest

Capital campaign goal reached

Ely

Out for bloodClassic vampire tale opens tonight in arts center

From Staff Reports

The college’s Department of Visual and Per-forming Arts will debut “Dracula” tonight.

“Preparations have been going well,” said senior communication major Mackenzie Marti-nez, who plays Dracula. “We have really added a lot of great scenes and it’s going to be an amaz-ing show.”

The audience can expect to be “royally en-tertained,” said Joe Necessary, a junior theater and English major who plays Renfield, an men-tally ill asylum inmate.

Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. to-night, tomorrow night and Nov. 11-13. A perfor-mance is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Nov. 7.

Map courtesy of nationalatlas.gov; graphic by Allie Robinson

Republican party takes 9th District

Heaton4,389

Boucher86,653

Griffith95,526

0 50,000 100,000

From Staff Reports

After nearly 30 years in office, Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher was defeated by Republican State Del. Morgan Grif-fith in Tuesday’s election.

The Republican takeover of the 9th District was echoed throughout the state, as Republican House candidates defeat-ed their Democrat opponents in all but three districts.

According to Washington Post results, Republicans now hold a 239-185 seat advantage in the House of Representa-tives. Democrats hold a 52-46 advantage in the Senate.

Spring registration begins next week

Healthy Appalachia seeks student fellows

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news Page 2The Highland Cavalier November 5, 2010

News BriefsStudents invited to participate in

“Cavs Got Talent”

Registration for this semester’s Cavs Got Talent show ends today.

The show, scheduled for Nov. 8 in Cantrell Hall at 8 p.m., will showcase student abilities.

“In the past, we have had people sing, dance, play instruments and do stand-up comedy,” said Josh Justice, assistant director of student activities

and Greek Life.Prizes include $500, $250 and

$100 credits toward textbook purchas-es next semester.

Registration forms are available on the third floor of the Slemp Student Center.

Students reduce food waste by more than 100 pounds

Students cut daily food waste in

the Smith Dining Commons from an average of 362 pounds per day to 215 pounds per day during Chartwells’ Project Clean Plate program last week, in which students were encouraged to reduce food waste to raise awareness about hunger.

As a result of meeting the 100-pound waste reduction goal, Chartwells will donate $250 worth of food to the Wise County food bank, said Brett Lawson, director of dining services.

In addition, Lawson will donate 47 industrial size cans of food to the food bank, because he promised students that for every pound over 100 pounds reduced in waste, he would donate a can of food.

“I plan to plan to display the food that we will be donating next week so that the students can see how much difference their efforts will make in fighting hunger in our community,” he said.

NASA program seeks students

Zombies in art

Photo by Lauren Miller

The Zombie Art Show opened on Oct. 29 in Gallery 121 in the Gilliam Center for the Arts. The exhibit, which features both student and faculty zombie-themed artwork, closes to-day.

By Nicolette CoxStaff [email protected]

The Pro-Art Association will sponsor an art lecture next week by a local photographer and art enthusiast.

Professional photographer Jeffrey Allison will present “Berthe Morisot and the Impression-ist Image of Women” on Nov. 9 in the Slemp Stu-dent Center at 7 p.m.

Morisot made a career for herself in a male-dominated art world in 19th century Paris with her influential and inventive impressionism.

“Over the past few years, Pro-Art has been able to bring Jeffrey to UVa-Wise for many in-teresting and informative presentations on various arts-related topics,” said Kelly Harechmak, busi-

ness manager for Pro-Art Association.Allison’s ability to connect history to present

time has made him a repeat lecturer for Pro-Art, she said.

“Jeffrey’s incredible knowledge of art his-tory and his warm personality have made him a favorite of our patrons, and we always jump at the chance to bring him back to the area,” Harechmak said. “His lectures are a shining example of how exciting and thought-provoking art history can be.”

Allison currently teaches Advanced and In-termediate Photography at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and has taught for more than 25 years across Virginia, Harechmak said. He has been on the faculty of East Tennessee State Uni-versity, Virginia Highlands Community College and William King Museum.

Pro-Art lecture to focus on Impressionist image of women

Veterans Day activities planned

Coffee Night slated for next weekFrom Staff Reports

Professor Emerita Catherine Mahoney will be the featured speaker at this semester’s Coffee Night.

Coffee Night, scheduled for Nov. 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths is an event which debuts the new edition of the Jimson Weed, the college’s literary journal.

Mahoney is a former professor of English at UVa-Wise, was a resident of Norton for more than 30 years and taught at the college from 1969 until her retirement in 2003.

She has completed two works of fiction, more than dozen short stories and is working on a col-lection of poems.

Mahoney will also speak on “The Poet’s Muse: How Poems Happen” on Nov. 10 at 1 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths.

Student and faculty writers will also present their works published in the journal.

For more information, contact the journal’s managing editor, Ashley Ryan, at [email protected]

From Staff Reports

Banner-making and candle-lighting are scheduled to mark Veterans Day Nov. 11 to honor troops.

Josh Justice, assistant director for stu-dent activities and Greek life, said students will have the opportunity to sign their name or write a message of encouragement to a troop on a banner in the Jefferson Lounge.

After the event, the banner will be shipped to a troop who is currently serving in Afghanistan.

Students will also be able to light a can-dle in honor of a soldier.

“It’s is a good community service op-portunity, and it’s a morale booster for the troops,” Justice said. “It’s important for stu-dents to hold Veterans Day like any other holiday so they can understand the impor-tance of honoring our troops.

“It’s also a good time to reflect on our military’s sacrifices for our freedom.”

By Nick DiDonatoStaff [email protected]

Students and NASA officials are set to talk about their work with NASA at a presentation in the Science Center lecture hall today.

The students will speak on “Rocketry in Mo-tion” today at 1 p.m., detailing their work and what they have learned from participat-ing in NASA’s Group on Earth O p e r a t i o n s (GEO) program. The presentation is an effort by the group to recruit new students into the program.

The GEO project provides training to national and interna-tional students in satellite-based research for the benefit of local and state governments, as well as for environmental problems.

“This work is very important because the proj-ect looks to demonstrate applications of Earth ob-serving science and capabilities to international lo-cal communities,” Yanina Colon, NASA DEVELOP GEO project manager, wrote in an e-mail.

NASA advisors, mentors and a few other part-nering organizations are trying to assist students by showing them how to use measurements and hypotheses while addressing local government and environmental concerns, she said.

The projects address government priorities in a particular area. Data is collected and results are given to local governments to provide supportive or unsupported evidence in decision-making by using NASA’s and other space agencies’ Earth-observing capabilities, Colon said.

Wise provides a perfect setting for NASA to have such a program, she said. Students here are from many different backgrounds and provide mul-ticultural perspective.

“Wise County’s close proximity to other south-ern states makes it the perfect place to start a pro-gram because of the opportunity to branch out to other locations easily,” Colon said.

The first term of the program began last sum-mer in Wise with 14 students.

Students were and will be given the opportunity to work with federal agencies while learning about different cultures and gain valuable knowledge and experience, she said.

“Students are involved in leadership and pro-fessional development activities and workshops and are given the opportunity for enrichment tours,” Co-lon said.

GEO project administrators are looking for stu-dents majoring or interested in environmental sci-ence, chemistry, biology, earth science, atmospheric science, physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, chemical engineering, public policy, GIS or remote sensing, and drafting, she said.

The next term will begin Jan. 24, 2011.UVa-Wise students accepted into the program

would work with students in Monterrey, Mexico on three different projects, Colon said.

Interested students should submit an applica-tion to http://develop.larc.nasa.gov/web/assets/new_application-2010.4.0.pdf.

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Eastman vice president speaks on business and social responsibilityBy Stas JonesStaff [email protected]

An executive from Eastman Chemical Company gave a lecture Monday responding to a challenge issued by the college’s chancellor — explain how an environmental scientist can have an environmental conscience.

Robert Clemens, vice president of corpo-rate technology at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tenn., spoke to a packed audience of UVa-Wise students and faculty in the Science Center lecture hall.

Chancellor David Prior introduced the lec-ture, describing Clemens as not only a reputa-ble member of the chemical industry but also a “thoughtful citizen who reflects on the role of the industry.”

Clemens began by addressing Prior’s chal-lenge, claiming that individual members of the industry are responsible for maintaining an en-vironmental conscience.

“A company as a whole does not have a conscience,” Clemens said. “Companies oper-ate the way they do because the employees have social responsibility.”

Clemens credited the socially responsible employees of Eastman for the company’s rising environmental conscientiousness.

“We have to balance staying in business

with social responsibility and doing the right thing,” he said.

Clemens also addressed the controversy re-garding Eastman’s impact on the Holston River near the company’s Kingsport plant.

“We didn’t know any better at the time, but at least we’re cleaning it up,” he said in response to accusations that Eastman was largely respon-sible for polluting the river. “It’s not so much about how you get to that point, but where you move from there.”

Clemens said that in the midst of rising environmental concerns, the chemical industry plays a vital role in modern society.

“We need chemicals because there are too many of us to go back to living the old-fash-ioned way,” Clemens said. “If every chair we sit on today was made of wood, there would be no more forests.”

In order to fulfill this need and promote en-vironmental conscientiousness, all of Eastman’s products since 2009 have been made with a bias toward sustainability, he said.

Eastman Chemical Company has reduced 18 percent of its greenhouse gas intensity, 33 percent of its energy intensity and 41 percent of its solvents intensity, Clemens said.

Clemens closed by saying that each person is responsible for maintaining an environmental conscience, and the employees of Eastman will continue to maintain theirs.

Photo by Jordan Fifer

Robert Clemens, a vice president at Eastman Chemi-cal Company, spoke Monday on the social and envi-ronmental responsibilities of companies.

By Allie [email protected]

Six former and current UVa-Wise students are featured on the new flier for the Student Virginia Education As-sociation.

Senior education major Chandra Mullins, the president of UVa-Wise’s chapter of SVEA, said she didn’t know the chapter would be featured on the pamphlet.

“We opened it up, and we were kind of plastered all over it,” she said.

Mullins said the SVEA official in charge of the brochure had asked chap-ters for photos, and she knew UVa-Wise alumnus Jarrett Bolling sent in a photo of the group at last year’s SVEA conference.

But she didn’t know the picture would be in the organization’s infor-mational brochure.

The photo — of junior Krystal Crockett, senior Leah Arthur, Bolling, Mullins and SVEA Coordinator San-dra Richardson, professor of education — is featured in the brochure along with a photo of Crockett and Mullins

together and one of UVa-Wise alumni Alicia Jones and Sally Lyall working at a school in Haysi.

“We’re tickled to death,” Mullins said.

She said she is not sure when the brochures were printed, but Richardson received copies sometime last month.

In addition to being featured in the SVEA brochure, representatives of the Wise chapter — Mullins and Crockett — have been invited to attend the NEA Student Programs Connections Confer-ence in Orlando, Fla., this weekend.

The Wise chapter has won the SVEA “Ultimate Award” for the past several years, which prompted the in-vitation, Richardson said.

Mullins and Crockett will speak during a seminar session over the weekend and said they are hoping to bring back information and ideas from other groups. They said they are able to go thanks to funds from the Virginia Education Association, the education department and the provost.

“If it wasn’t for them I don’t know we’d be able to afford it,” Mullins said. “We’re just very excited about everything.”

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down and discuss their courses.”Porter said students should use

their course catalog as a guideline for making sure they’re meeting all the requirements as they move toward graduation.

“It’s very tempting to lean toward taking courses that students may per-ceive to be ‘easier’ or more interest-ing; it’s also easy to give up too early and drop a course,” Porter said. “This really causes problems for students down the line as they plan future schedules.”

Porter said many students don’t realize that all of their class informa-tion stays on their college record and if a student drops too late, it’s on their final college transcript forever.

Many students do not think to take general educations courses first because they think they know what major to pursue, Porter said. She said she advises students to take general education courses first to help them understand what major to declare.

“Gen eds are a pathway to having

a fuller and more meaningful knowl-edge and understanding of what it means to be an educated citizen — on campus and in the world,” Porter said.

Junior history major Alexander Head said the spring semester sign-up schedule is helpful.

“I personally think that (the schedule is) more convenient,” Head said. “It allows for upperclassmen to have a much better chance of get-ting into the classes that they need to graduate, rather than being knocked out by classes being full.”

Head said Jenzabar has helped in scheduling his classes in advance, but said he has heard rumors of students suddenly being dropped from courses they previously enrolled in.

“I think that signing up for the classes via Jenzabar will be more streamlined and make the process faster,” he said. “However, we all know the horror stories of the system randomly dropping students from their classes...This makes me worry.”

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Poodlz in college

Cartoonist Joanna Lewis is a senior computer science major.

Beatles’ legacy focus of forumBy Jimmy J. SealsStaff [email protected]

The legacy of The Beatles and the group’s impact on American popular culture was the focus of an Oct. 28 fo-rum held in the Chapel of All Faiths.

The event featured footage of The Beatles’ first U.S. television ap-pearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, a lecture on the influence of The Beatles and a performance of Beatles hits by a local group, The Virginians.

The event’s main attraction was the local band, who played various songs from the band like “Hey Jude,” “Let it Be” and “Norwegian Wood.”

After the performance, members of the group discussed the band they were honoring.

“To me in 1964, the American mu-sic scene was stale,” said Ron Flanary, the group’s vocalist. “But when they came on the scene, it was a breath of fresh air.”

Mark Wooten, the band’s bassist, agreed, saying The Beatles made mu-sic what it is today.

Earlier in the evening, Carroll Mullins, an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and David Volk, an associate pro-fessor of music, offered insights into the Fab Four from Liverpool and how their music changed the world and the American rock ‘n’ roll scene forever.

Mullins said The Beatles’ transi-tion into the American music scene came at a time when Americans were still grieving, following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

“It was almost like they were giv-en to us by a higher power to help us try to get over JFK’s assassination,”

Mullins said.He said he wondered if The Beat-

les who changed American rock ‘n’ roll in the 1960s could still impact it today.

“It’s hard to say how music to-day would be if The Beatles were still around, with all the electronic mu-sic machines of today,” Mullins said. “But John Lennon would probably be experimenting with the new electronic music scene.”

The event was an extension of the class Mullins had been teaching this summer on campus focusing on the cultural impact of the band’s music.

Mullins said he was interested in continuing The Beatles forum as an annual event, and even hosting the event in the new auditorium sometime in the future.

Photo obtained from blogcritics.com

Toilet erupts in Commonwealth HallBy Allie [email protected]

Junior Emily Baxter was shopping at Wal-mart around 11 a.m. Tuesday when she received the Facebook message.

“toilet overflowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it’s out in the hallway,” the message read.

The note was from freshman Lexie Dallas, one of Baxter’s residents on the third floor of Commonwealth Hall, where Baxter is a resident advisor.

Around the same time, one of Baxter’s resi-dents, freshman Megan Herndon, called to tell her the news — that she had caused the toilet to “explode.”

Herndon said she woke up around 11 a.m. and headed to the bathroom. As she was washing her hands after flushing the toilet, she said she heard “the loudest sound” she’d ever heard.

“I hear this whoosh sound behind me and there was water behind me gushing like a foun-tain,” she said. “It was like how a fire hydrant would bust open.”

She went to Dallas’s room to call Baxter, and Dallas sent the Facebook message.

“By the time I [got] her on the phone [the water was] like gushing down the hall,” Hern-don said.

Baxter said she checked out of the store and got back to Commonwealth as quickly as she could.

There, she found “a really big mess” being mopped up in the hallway.

“There was a half-inch of water all over the floor,” Baxter said.

Dallas and Herndon had found another RA in Commonwealth, sophomore Evan Nunery, and he tracked down maintenance and house-keeping staff.

“They kind of just showed up like angels,” Herndon said.

The water “made it significantly down the hall,” Baxter said, and began to leak onto the second floor of the building.

“One of my residents put on her rain boots to go to the bathroom,” she said.

Herndon said no water got in her room be-cause she lives at the other end of the hall, but it got into other residents’ rooms, including Bax-ter’s.

“I had my bookbag sitting in my floor and it got wet and disgusting,” Baxter said.

Herndon said that maintenance workers fixed the toilet Wednesday morning.

John Reeves, director of the physical plant, said there was no significant damage to the building.

“Maintenance staff ... managed to unclog the unit and mop up the water before any major problems arose,” he said.

Herndon said she was told that there was higher water pressure than normal in Common-wealth since the water had been cut off in other buildings to work on pipes.

Let’s talk about sex

Photo by Jordan Fifer

Michael O’Donnell, assistant professor of French, discussed his take on sex to a full house in Cant-rell Hall Wednesday night. He told students to be honest with themselves and to not judge other people’s decisions.

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Healthystitute and instructor in geography at the college.

There are three student fellow-ship positions open — two local slots and one in South Africa that will be overseen by the Center for Global Health through UVa.

“We’re looking for people in-terested in finding ways to combat diabetes, cancer and to some extent, the use of prescription drugs,” Welch said.

Student fellows can gain experi-ence in modern research techniques while searching for answers to con-temporary and relevant questions.

“We do not need people to tell us there is a problem, but what to do about it,” Welch said. “We need to know more about why and how to solve the problem.”

Spencer Adams, a second-year student fellow and senior biochem-istry major, said becoming a fellow is a good way for students to explore their interests in medicine.

“It pushes you to be self-moti-vated and teaches you to think criti-cally,” Adams wrote in an e-mail. “You are given a question and must work to find answers, none of which are already known.”

“You are literally performing original research and must innovate to find solutions,” he said.

To apply, students should con-tact Welch or go to healthyappala-chia.org. Application materials must be submitted by Nov. 20 and select-ed students will be announced at the spring Healthy Appalachia research symposium on March 18.

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Campaignmoney is designated and must be used for specific areas. That means funds have not yet been fully raised for renovating Greear Gym, naming the building currently called Com-monwealth Hall, and creating an op-erating endowment for the new con-vocation center.

Ely said the campaign will con-tinue through the end of 2011 as scheduled.

More than 7,600 donors support-

ed the campaign, Ely said, creating 87 new scholarship funds, 15 new ac-ademic enhancement funds, 13 new athletics funds, seven new funds for construction and renovation and four new endowed professorships.

“The support of our donors and friends is helping UVa-Wise real-ize the vast potential of our college and the people and region it serves,” Chancellor David Prior wrote in an e-mail.

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Campus BulletinUpcoming:

Inception: Catch Christopher Nolan’s thriller “Inception” on the fifth floor of the Slemp Stu-dent Center on Nov. 16 and 19 at 8 p.m. Spon-sored by SAB.

Intramural UNO: Hold the last card in an in-tramural UNO tournament Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in Papa Joe’s Cafe.

OREC NHL game: Sign up by Nov. 8 for a trip to Nashville to watch the Nashville Preda-tors take on the Chicago Blackhawks. Cost is $50; see Nick Marshall for more information.

Take my place meal: Wesley Fellowship students will give up their regular Tuesday night dinner on Nov. 16 to prepare and serve a Thanksgiving meal to people who may not get the chance to have Thanksgiving dinner. Con-tact a member of Wesley Fellowship or Beth Tipton ([email protected]) to find out how to help.

Weekly:

The Wise Environmental Club: The environ-mental club meets on Mondays at 6 p.m. in the Henson classroom. Contact Jennifer Fulton at [email protected] or Spencer Adams at [email protected] for more information.

Wesley Fellowship: Wesley Fellowship serves free homestyle dinners on Tuesday nights at 6 p.m. at the Wesley Foundation by Alumni Hall.

SAB: Student Activities Board meetings are held Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Honor Court room on the third floor of the Slemp Student Center. Contact Josh Justice for more informa-tion.

BCM: Baptist Collegiate Ministries serves free meals on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. at the BCM.

Tupos: Tupos services are held Wednesdays at 9 p.m. in the Chapel of All Faiths.

The Highland Cavalier: The student news-paper holds weekly meetings on Fridays at 1 p.m. in the third floor Honor Court Room in the Slemp Student Center.

SGA: The Student Government Association meets weekly on Fridays at 1 p.m. in the fifth floor Rhododendron Room in the Slemp Stu-dent Center.

By Brittanie JonesStaff [email protected]

Cucumbers and corn may soon dot the campus landscape if the UVa-Wise envi-ronmental club gets approval for a new campus garden.

The club’s members would like to plant fruits and vegetables in a community garden with the hopes of using some of the harvest in the cafeteria.

Group members are drafting a propos-al to submit to college officials which will show the location of the garden, possible items to be planted and a system for main-taining the cleanliness of the garden.

Spencer Adams, a senior bio-chem-istry major and the club’s secretary, said he hopes to see the community garden up before he graduates in May.

“Our number one priority is the com-munity garden,” he said. “I want to see it take off and people involved with it before I graduate.”

Jennifer Fulton, a sophomore environ-mental science major and president of the

group, wants to see “green” items sold in the bookstore.

“We don’t have any items (made from recycled material) in the school book-store,” she said. “I think that some of the recycled items are the best things to have and it would also cut back cost for the school.”

Adams said that once the community garden is created he wants to have an area set aside for students to “get away” and en-joy the scenery.

The club also plans to host Earth Week activities in April, Fulton said.

The environmental club has weekly meetings Mondays at 6 p.m. in the Henson Hall classroom.

Check it out online:Respond to the poll about environmental endeavors at the college on our Website: uvawise.edu/highlandcavalier.

Environmental club seeks community garden and “green” bookstore items

Making music

A native of Scotland, Professor David Constable has always had a passion for art. An interview with The Highland Cavalier reveals what brought him to Wise and what he’s passionate about.

Who or what prompted you to study art and become an art professor?

In primary school, a large part of the curriculum was making art in different ways. If you were compelled to make art, the teacher allowed you a long leash and would let you go back to a project you were working on.

In my family, we only had one art book and it was on Leonardo Da Vinci, and it had all of his drawings in it.

What brought you to UVa-Wise?

My wife, Jessica Williams, associate professor of Spanish, graduated from Southern Illinois University just as I did, and she wanted a career after our daughter had gotten a little older, so she did a job search and came across a college called UVa-Wise. I immediately thought of Thomas Jefferson because in art history they teach you about the exemplary campus of UVa.

How has your appreciation for art im-proved?

From 1989 to 1998 I worked for my father’s construc-tion company. During those years, I wasn’t being formally educated. I was self-educated. I read extensively; a lot of books that really I had no business reading.

For those nine years, my mind was freed because I

worked in construction. It is a very laborious job, but your mind is pretty much free; it doesn’t afford you a lot of mental space. I am extremely proud at how I self-taught myself. Some-times it may appear that I have been advantaged in ... my education. That is not the case; my educa-tion has been a hard one.

Do you have any concrete plans for continuing your professional growth?

This Friday, I’m traveling to the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. I will show art to undergraduates and tell them how I created it. I will visit with graduate students and spend 30 minutes with each student discussing the development of their art projects.

The reason I like to speak to undergraduates is be-cause I had a tremendous time as one. I was a profoundly inadequate undergrad. It is a deeply emotional calling for me to be a teacher.

What piece of advice do you have for the students of UVa-Wise?

Find time to enjoy the seasons around this part of the U.S. Get to a place where you can be at one with nature. Enjoy walking and interacting with nature and each other. Try as much as you can to connect with one another.

Meet the Prof David ConstableBy Lauren Miller, Copy Editor

Christian Dimick (left) and Brett Ketron, both freshman music majors, perform Monday at Open Mic Night in Papa Joe’s Cafe.

Photo by Jordan Fifer

By Clifton DiazOnline [email protected]

Students interested in par-ticipating in a trip to Germany must turn in their applications by Dec. 1.

The trip is scheduled for May 15 to 27 and is open to just three students. The cost, which includes lodging, air-fare, ground transportation, programs, some meals and the cost of one credit hour of study, is $1,200.

“We will visit representa-tives of [those] fields that are ties to Southwest Virginia or to Virginia,” said Academic Dean Amelia Harris, associate pro-fessor of German. “We want to show these linkages between the U.S., Virginia, Southwest Virginia and Germany so that students in business and/or sci-ence will understand that we live in a global economy and how we’re linked to the rest of

the world.”The two-week trip is open

to students in other fields but is primarily planned for students in the science, technology, pre-engineering and math fields, Harris said. An optional post-excursion trip to Salzburg will be available for an extra cost.

A U.S. Department of Education Business and Inter-national Education grant pays for about two-thirds of the cost of the trip. A few meals will be paid for in Dortmund and Stut-tgart, but students will need to bring spending money for their lunches and some dinners, Har-ris said.

Harris said the trip will consist of classes in the morn-ing and visits to museums, in-dustries and businesses in the afternoon.

Students interested in the trip should e-mail [email protected] for a copy of the application form.

Trip to Germany planned for May

Check us out online.

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The Highland Cavalier is the official student newspaper of The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. The newspaper is published weekly on Fridays. It func-tions to inform, educate and entertain readers accurately and responsibly. It does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the college’s administration, faculty or staff. Also, the opinions expressed on the Opinion Page are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of newspaper editors and staff members. The Highland Cavalier welcomes all contributions, which can be delivered to the Editor-in-Chief Allie Robinson in person (317 Slemp Student Center); by standard mail (Campus Box 4682, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, 1 College Avenue, Wise, VA 24293); by phone (328-0170); or via e-mail ([email protected]). Letters to the editor can also be e-mailed to Opinion Editor Matthew Barnette ([email protected]). All letters to the editor must be signed—including the writer’s department or major, address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for length, grammar, clarity and libel.

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The Highland Cavalier asked:What do you think of the

election results?Christian Dimickfreshman, music“Griffith only used negative ads.”

By Matthew BarnetteOpinion [email protected]

I have always thought that our political sys-tem was contradictory. We elect candidates every year to office, help decide about certain legislation and sometimes even impeach incumbents because they aren’t in line with what the people want. And it’s good that we can do this.

The contradiction isn’t in those liberties, it’s that we tend to switch around what party the elect-ed official is from.

Whether you are outspoken about your politi-cal affiliation or tend to just vote for the “lesser of the evils,” you eventually see someone of the op-posing party elected and watch the work of the last office holder gets torn down. By the next election, there is a good chance that a candidate of the party you support is elected and the process repeats itself all over again.

So why has nothing changed since the time of our founding fathers?

We have had the same basic two parties in some capacity for hundreds of years, and only re-cently have I noticed anyone outside of those par-ties get elected to any political position. It surprises me that we haven’t changed in so long. Sure, small movements spring up now and then, but eventually they are assimilated by one of the major parties or crushed by them.

For all of the freedoms we have, we really restrict ourselves when it comes to our choices in politics.

This Tuesday was Election Day and I saw the same thing happen all over the country: Some-

one who wasn’t of the incumbent party was elected to office. For example in the 9th District election Morgan Griffith, a Republican, was elected to of-fice over Rick Boucher, the Democratic incumbent of 28 years. That wasn’t an amazing result to me since it follows a pattern I’ve seen in politics in the last 10 years.

I put forth the idea that instead of any par-ties, everyone should be required to run with only their own personal views and merits, not a political party’s. The system should work equally for every candidate.

They should all receive a set amount of money that they can use for their campaign and it should be illegal to use their own money for anything in-volved with said campaign.

I am aware that candidates are given a certain amount for their campaigns already, but they are not restricted on how much of their own money they can use.

Why should someone with 400 acres of land and millions in the bank have a better chance to be elected than someone who lives in an apartment and can barely pay their rent each month?

With the two major parties as well-rooted as they are, nothing but a massive overhaul of gov-ernment would alter the established political tradi-tions of this country.

By Robert HatchStaff [email protected]

This election, one of the hot button issues was the Cap-and-trade bill, otherwise known as The American Clean Energy and Security Act. Over the course of the political campaign season, I heard a great deal of emotional and rhetorical information about Cap-and-trade but nothing concrete on the subject.

I decided to do some of my own research and discover what this bill will do to my community.

What the bill says is a bit different from what I had heard during the campaign.

First, the bill requires 20 percent of an energy company’s output to be renewable energy resourc-es. I suppose this is the part that people feel threat-ens coal. However, coal is a finite resource that will eventually run out.

While there is heavy debate on when coal will no longer be a viable resource, the 2009 U.S. Geo-logical Survey predicted that all of the minable coal could be gone as soon as 2020. In other words, in as little as 10 years there may not be a coal indus-try. The coal industry refutes this time line claim-ing there are hundreds of years of coal left.

The act also subsidies “clean energy technolo-gy” and efficiency. With so many concerns related to the environment, I find it hard not to get behind this part of the bill. Even the most conservative es-

timate on the lifetime of coal production still pre-dicts that coal will run out. Such alternatives need to be found before coal runs out: better to start now rather than later.

The part of the bill that surprised me was the protection against energy price hikes. Last year, Appalachia was hit by a devastating ice storm that caused power outages over vast areas of the region. Some companies like AEP (American Electric Power) asked for rate increases as high as 12 per-cent even though many of their customers felt poor care of the lines was a major cause of the power outages. The increases went through despite pro-tests. Yet many who are against such rate hikes do not support this legislation, even though it protects them.

Lastly, an amendment added in the House calls for modernization of the electrical grid, increased production of electrical cars, and increases in ef-ficiency in electrical appliances.

I have to say this bill sounds reasonable to me.

The message that this bill can cost jobs is a powerful one that has apparently hit strongly in this area. However, there are no sections address-ing coal industry jobs directly, only alternative forms of energy that one way or another we have to look into.

The failure of Cap-and-trade is a lack of com-munication to the public about what this bill is re-ally all about.

This is a response to “Organization members re-spond to criticism, say traditions are new and misun-derstood” by members of the 7Cs in the Oct. 29 issue of The Highland Cavalier.

By Lloyd [email protected]

First of all, I would like to clarify that this is not a dissertation on what the 7Cs may or may not stand for, nor is it an attack on their choice to oper-ate in complete anonymity. They have stated them-selves, via their own submission to this paper, that they stand for the betterment of this campus and the community and I respect them for having such noble goals. However, the issue at hand is not the organiza-tion itself, but the acts that it has committed.

I argue that leaving their mark on public spaces using spray paint is a form of vandalism and defac-ing of public property, not unlike common graffiti. Though they have made their broad goals clear, I am not convinced that spraying their mark upon a public sidewalk helps them achieve those goals in any way. Certainly, it does make them known to the wider campus community, but there are other means by which to achieve that same end that do not involve taking a couple of cans of Krylon to a patch of con-crete. As for carving out their place in the history of this campus and establishing their legacy, I propose that they should let their work serve as that legacy.

I also call into question their accountability. If I were to spray paint the letters of my fraternity onto an area of sidewalk on campus, I would imagine that our organization would face a fine and possibly some sort of judicial charge. (Disclaimer: I am writing this of my own free will and do not express the views of my fraternity as a whole.) The public knows all of our members, whereas the members of the 7Cs are not public knowledge. This anonymity could be con-strued as giving them unlimited freedom with zero accountability. I do not believe that this is the case; I merely use this example to impress that the 7Cs are a student organization and should be treated by the same standards that other organizations and Greek societies are held to on this campus.

If the 7Cs wish to make themselves known, they should do so in such a way that does not permanently deface our campus.

Tomlinson is a junior history major.

Todd Galyeanfreshman, history“Boucher has done too much for the area to have lost.”

Austin McGradysenior, English“I’m neutral to the outcomes of this election.”

Luis Puentesfreshman, psychology“Focus wasn’t on platforms, only the campaign ads.”

Cap-and-trade bill not evil, only misunderstood

Society isn’t living up to own claims

Two party system broken

Boucher didn’t betray 9th DistrictThis is a response to “Boucher disloyal to 9th

District coal concerns” by Ashley Ryan in the Oct. 29 issue of The Highland Cavalier.

By James [email protected]

Ashley Ryan’s opinion piece about how for-mer Congressman Rick Boucher betrayed the 9th District is absurd. Boucher not only helped write a new cap and trade bill, but added sections that would limit the damage to Southwest Virginia’s coal economy. Boucher also supports many of the beliefs that Southwest Virginians stand for, such as anti-gun laws and the Wall Street Reform bill.

In his 28 years in office, Boucher brought more money into Southwest Virginia. He funneled it into specific areas that needed it. He has brought $47 million to this area in his two years with Obama as president. He also has brought more than 7,500 jobs to his district. He secured $24 million to bring

broadband services to his district that severely lacked Internet connections and still does. Morgan Griffith does not understand Southwest Virginia.

Griffith is from Salem, which is an urbanized city. He will enter Congress without the same po-litical clout that Boucher had. All of the money Boucher secured through pork barrel funding will dry up quickly.

This school and other schools will lack fund-ing. Public projects will take forever to complete. All of this resulting from Griffith stating, “We need to cut down on pork barrel spending.”

Boucher brought jobs to the areas that really needed it. Griffith will funnel those jobs into Sa-lem and Roanoke. He will also funnel all of the money Boucher secured into Northern Virginia or the Tidewater area, and Southwest Virginia will be held back from advancing in the 21st century even more.

Cooper is a senior history major.

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Basketball teams begin season

By Cameron ParsonsSports [email protected]

The men’s and women’s basketball teams have both begun the regular season.

The men’s team opened with a 97-81 win against local rival Milligan College on Wednesday.

The Cavs took an early lead in the game and never looked back, outscoring Milligan by eight

points in each half.The Cavs were led by junior guard Travis Berry’s

24 points, while junior forward Norris Gaskins and senior forward Kevin Perry both scored 14 points and freshman guard Darius Smith added eight points and 11 assists. Overall, the team shot 57.4 percent from the floor.

The women’s team came up short on Monday against Virginia Intermont, falling 62-55.

Junior guard Amber Carter led the team with

15 points and four steals, junior point guard Kristin Mullins added 14 rebounds and junior guard Hannah Powers added seven points and four assists.

The women’s team will play Emmanuel College today in the Bluefield College Tournament at 5:30 p.m. in Bluefield, Va.

The next game for the men’s team is the Cavalier Invitational. The Cavs will face Cincinnati-Christian today at 8 p.m. and Bethel tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Greear Gymnasium.

Game of the WeekTampa Bay Buccaneers @ Atlanta Falcons

By Cameron ParsonsSports [email protected]

Not many analysts would have planned for this week’s Bucs-Falcons match-up to be the NFL game of the week.

Although some picked Atlanta to return to the top of the division this season, Tampa Bay has been a complete surprise.

Tampa Bay, which currently sits at 5-2, finished last season a disappointing 3-13, missing the playoffs for the second consecu-tive season.

This season’s team shares absolutely no resemblance to last season’s.

Quarterback Josh Freeman has taken over the offense and is 135-of-224 passing for 1,533 yards and eight touchdowns.

Rookie running back LeGarrette Blount leads the Bucs in rushing with 43 carries for 222 yards and three touchdowns.

Wide receiver Mike Williams leads the team with 32 receptions for 470 yards and four touchdowns.

Like Tampa Bay, Atlanta is also recovering from a disappointing finish.

Last season’s 9-7 Falcons were unable to recover from a tough 2-6 stretch and were un-able to make the playoffs.

This year, the Falcons are 5-2 and appear to be headed to the playoffs.

The offense has played much more con-sistently, thanks to the balance of the running and passing games.

Quarterback Matt Ryan has gone 156-of-252 for 1,714 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Running back Michael Tuner leads the team in rushing with 131 carries for 587 yards and three touchdowns.

Wide receiver Roddy White is on pace to return to the Pro Bowl this season. He leads the team with 54 receptions for 747 yards and five touchdowns.

Tampa Bay’s defense is ranked 30 of 32 against the run, while the Falcon’s rushing at-tack is ranked fifth.

Atlanta’s defense is also orientated around the rushing game, and is the sixth-best rushing defense.

Although defense seems to favor the Fal-cons, the game is a toss up

The teams are currently tied for the top position in the NFC South and the winner of this game will emerge as the divisions top team.

The game kicks off Sunday at 1 p.m. on FOX.

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Mid-South East Division Standings (As of Nov. 4)

1.) Georgetown (6-2, 5-0)2.) UVa-Wise (3-6, 3-1)3.) Campbellsville (5-4, 3-1)4.) Lindsey Wilson (4-5, 3-1)5.) WV Tech (2-7, 1-3)6.) Pikeville (0-8, 0-4)7.) KY Christian (0-9, 0-5)

Mid-South Conference Standings (As of Nov. 4)

1.) Georgetown (23-11, 12-1)2.) Shawnee State (28-8,11-1)3.) Campbell (24-9, 11-2)4.) Rio Grande (20-13, 9-4)5.) Cumberlands (12-22, 7-7)6.) Lindsey Wilson(11-22,6-7)7.) UVa-Wise (11-20, 5-7)8.) Pikeville (6-25, 2-11)9.) WVa Tech (3-24, 1-12)10.) St. Catharine (5-32, 1-12)

Nov. 1Va. Int def. UVa-Wise 55-62

UVa-Wise (0-1) — Amber Carter 18 points, 5 assists; Kristin Mul-lins 11 points, 14 rebounds; Han-nah Powers 9 points, 7 rebounds.

Oct. 23UVa-Wise 33, Pikeville 10

UVa-Wise 7 6 10 10 —33Pikeville 0 3 7 0 —10

Pikeville WiseTotal offense 230 277Rushing yards 78 155Passing yards 152 122First downs 15 17Penalties (yards) 11 (95) 7 (72)Punts (yards) 2 (84) 2 (82)Turnovers 2 0

By Adam HoodStaff [email protected]

The women’s volleyball team won two of their three games this week and is ready to make a push in the Mid-South Confer-ence tournament.

The team picked up back-to-back wins on Oct. 30 against Virginia Intermont Col-lege and Tennessee Wesleyan College.

The team picked up its first win in the evening against Virginia Intermont with match scores of 21-25, 21-25, 25-22 and 23-25.

The team won the second match against Tennessee Wesleyan — 14-25, 17-25 and 13-25 — and lost its last game of the week on Tuesday against conference opponent Rio Grande — 23-25, 25-22, 19-25 and 14-25.

Head coach Kendall Rainey said the team had an overall good week.

“It was nice to get a couple of solid wins,” she said. “I hope we can take this momentum into the conference tourna-ment.”

Junior middle hitter Mikaela Anders led the team in the first game on Oct. 30 against Virginia Intermont.

In the second game of the day against Tennessee Wesleyan, Anders was able to guide the team to another victory.

Anders posted 10 kills, while Smith handed out 23 assists and 10 digs. Sopho-more Courtney Coe also had 10 digs.

The team lost in their last game of the regular season against Rio Grande College on Tuesday.

The team will enter next week’s Mid-South Conference tournament as the No. 3 seed from the Mid-South East division and will open up competition against Camp-bellsville University on Nov. 9 in Frank-furt, Ky.

By Adam HoodStaff [email protected]

The men and women’s cross country teams turned in a solid performance at the Southeast Invitational in Rome, Ga. on Oct. 23.

In the event, the men’s team finished 17 out of 28, and the women’s team fin-ished 24 out of 27.

Head coach Donald Leech said he was pleased with the team’s achieve-ments at the invitational.

The men’s team had its best performance of the year, Leech said.

He said that the South-

east Invitational is a very tough meet. “The Southeast Invitational features

some of the top teams in the southeast area,” he said. “It was great for the teams to see that level of competition.”

The men’s team saw all runners improv-ing their personal best time in the meet.

Junior Collin Skeen led the team by finished 74 of 240 runners with a time of 27:05.

Senior Spencer Adams also had a good performance, finishing 88th with a time of 27:27.

Leech said the men’s team has worked really hard to get to this point.

“The whole team was able to improve on their personal best times,” Leech said. “We are very pleased with the improve-ments that we have been able to make this

season.”Leech said it was nice to see all of the

women’s team have all of their runners par-ticipating.

“They were a little out of shape in the meet due to the injuries,” Leech said. “It was nice to see all of them being able to participate.”

Junior Kayla Balthis led the team with a time of 22:41 and a 157th place finish.

The team’s last meet of the season will be the Mid-South Conference tournament held tomorrow in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Leech said he would like to see the men’s team have a solid performance at the conference tournament.

“We want to continue to improve our times,” he said. “If we do, we will compete well in the conference tournament.”

Cross country season coming to an end

Volleyball entering conference play

Oct. 30UVa-Wise 29, Georgetown 58 UVa-Wise 9 13 0 7 — 29George 23 14 21 0 —58

George WiseTotal offense 395 252Rushing yards 193 74Passing yards 202 178First downs 23 16Penalties (yards) 2 (20) 5 (32)Punts (yards) 7 (205) 7 (205)Turnovers 2 2

Oct. 30UVa-Wise def. Va. Intermont

25-21, 25-21, 22-25, 25-23

UVa-Wise (10-19) — Mikaela Anders 28 kills, 9 digs; Brittany Craft, 14 digs; Allie Smith, 49 as-sists; Chabrae Roark, 20 digs.

Oct. 30UVa-Wise def. Tenn Wesleyan

25-14, 25-17, 25-13

UVa-Wise (11-19) — Mikaela Anders 19 kills; Courtney Coe, 10 digs; Megan Funk, 6 kills, 4 digs; Kaitlyn Collins, 5 kills.

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Nov. 3UVa-Wise def. Milligan 97-81

UVa-Wise (1-0) — Travis Bar-ry 24 points, 5 assists; Norris Gaskins 14 points, 6 rebounds; Josh Jordan 14 points, 7 re-bounds.

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Junior guard Amber Carter (20) puts up a shot in the Cavs season opener against Virginia In-termont on Monday. The Cavs fell 55-62 in the game.

Photos by Jordan Fifer

Senior forward Mark Phillips (25) dished out the assist and junior guard Jermaine Wright (24) slammed it home during the Cavs’ 97-81 victory against Milligan College on Wednesday. Phillips shot five-of-five from the floor for 10 points and finished the game with six rebounds. Wright scored seven points, pulled down four rebounds and grabbed two steals.

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CavsBox Scores

Oct. 2UVa-Wise 56, W.Va. Tech 21UVa-Wise 7 14 21 14—56W.Va. Tech 7 0 0 14—21

W.Va. WiseTotal offense 300 452Rushing yards 31 422Passing yards 269 30First downs 13 26Penalties (yards) 8 (75) 6 (55)Punts (yards) 8 (187) 3 (107)Turnovers 3 2

Oct. 9UVa-Wise 34,KCU 31 (OT)UVa-Wise 0 14 7 10 3 — 34WVa Tech 3 14 7 7 0 — 31

KCU WiseTotal offense 385 366Rushing yards 189 196Passing yards 196 170First downs 24 19Penalties (yards) 4 (39) 3 (36)Punts (yards) 3 (122) 2 (97)Turnovers 1 3

Oct. 23UVa-Wise 33, Pikeville 10

UVa-Wise 7 6 10 10—33Pikeville 0 3 7 0 —10 Pikeville WiseTotal offense 230 277Rushing yards 78 155Passing yards 152 122First downs 15 17Penalties (yards) 11 (95) 7 (72)Punts (yards) 2 (84) 2 (82)Turnovers 2 0

Oct. 30UVa-Wise 29, Georgetown 58 UVa-Wise 9 13 0 7 — 29George 23 14 21 0 —58

George WiseTotal offense 395 252Rushing yards 193 74Passing yards 202 178First downs 23 16Penalties (yards) 2 (20) 5 (32)Punts (yards) 7 (205) 7 (205)Turnovers 2 2

The Cavs’ season started in on a sunny day in Florida. However, the team could not overcome a terrific perfor-mance by Webber.

Dennis Bennetttackles 42Danny Hinkletackles 41sacks 2.5Neal Smithtackles 37Shane Wickstackles 36Skylar DeJesustackles 34Jahmal Pottertackles 34Derek Cromertackles 27sacks 2

Rushing

Stewart Robinsonattempts 90yards 505touchdowns 6Vance Gibbsattempts 81yards 312touchdowns 2Andre Dickersonattempts 43yards 256touchdowns 3

Defensive LeadersOffensive Leaders

Week 1 - Aug. 28 UVa-Wise 10, Webber 30

Week 2 - Sept. 4 UVa-Wise 16, Campbell 20

Week 3 - Sept. 11 UVa-Wise 10, Cumberlands 55

Week 4 - Sept. 18 UVa-Wise 10, Emory & Henry 20

Week 5 - Sept. 25 UVa-Wise 26, Union 62

Cavs game summaries

The Cavs played the best game of the season in the home-opener. The Cavs captured the led late in the game only to see Campbell drive the length of the field and score on a last-second touchdown.

Foul weather contributed to four Cavs’ turnovers and a poor performance, as Cumberlands dominated every phase of the game in the pouring rain to hand the teams its worse defeat of the season.

The team renewed its regional rivalry with Emory & Henry this season. The trip to Emory did not go as planned and the Cavs fell in a hard fought game.

Against Union, the Cavs’ offense finally started clicking. Unfortunately, Union’s offense had its biggest day of the season, dropping 62 points on the Cavs.

Week 6 - Oct. 2 UVa-Wise 56, West Va. Tech. 21

Week 7 - Oct. 9 UVa-Wise 34, KY Christian 31 (OT)

Week 9 - Oct. 23 UVa-Wise 33, Pikeville 10

Week 10 - Oct. 30 UVa-Wise 29, Georgetown 58

The team put on its best offensive performance of the season, scoring 56 points on homecoming to capture the first win of the season.

The Cavs held on to win in overtime on the road against KY Christian. Paul Melshen’s 42-yard field goal in overtime sealed the game for the Cavs.

The defense completely shut down the Pikeville offense and the offense continued click all game. The win put the Cavs in first place in the division and set up a huge show down with Georgetown.

The Cavs three game winning streak finally came to an end against Georgetown. Turnovers and special teams miscues put the defense in poor position all game, and the Cavs couldn’t recover.

Oct. 2Pikeville 17, Camp 62

Pikeville 7 10 0 0—17Camp 12 17 26 7—62

Pike CampTotal offense 270 480Rushing yards 101 318Passing yards 169 168First downs 20 24Penalties(yards) 11(115) 12(116)Punts (yards) 8 (299) 5 (171)Turnovers 4 0

Oct. 16Cumberlands 34, Camp 28 Cumb 6 13 15 0—34Camp 0 0 14 14—28

Cumb CampTotal offense 451 472Rushing yards 334 205Passing yards 117 224First downs 16 23Penalties (yards) 9 (62) 5 (35)Punts (yards) 8 (320) 7 (240)Turnovers 2 1

Oct. 23Faulkner 21, Camp 22

Faulkner 0 0 0 21—21Camp 6 6 0 10—22

Faulk CampTotal offense 354 480Rushing yards 106 318Passing yards 248 168First downs 23 24Penalties(yards) 2(10) 12(99)Punts (yards) 4 (172) 4 (114)Turnovers 3 2

TigersBox Scores

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Cavs look to rebound from division loss against Campbellsville tomorrow

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Nick Leftwichatt/comp 25/61 (.410)yards 335touchdowns 2

Hunter Hokeatt/comp 65/146 (.445)yards 771touchdowns 7

Oct. 30UVa-Wise 29, Georgetown 58 UVa-Wise 9 13 0 7 — 29George 23 14 21 0 —58

George WiseTotal offense 395 252Rushing yards 193 74Passing yards 202 178First downs 23 16Penalties (yards) 2 (20) 5 (32)Punts (yards) 7 (205) 7 (205)Turnovers 2 2

By Cameron ParsonsSports [email protected]

The Cavs’ division championship hopes took a hit as the team fell to Georgetown 56-29 on Oct. 30.

After a couple of quick scores by both teams early in the first quarter, senior defensive end Nick DiDonato scored on a five yard rush to take a 9-7 lead. However, the Tigers blocked the extra point attempt and raced more than 90-yards for the two-point conversion, tying the game at 9-9.

The Tigers then outscored the Cavs 49-20 in the rest of the game, but the Cavs were down just 35-22 at halftime.

The Tigers exploded for 21 quick points in the third quarter to put the game out of reach.

Sophomore quarterback Hunter Hoke went 13-of-29 for 172 yards and three touchdowns in the loss.

The Cavs’ rushing offense was held to 74 yards on 40 attempts and one touchdown.

Sophomore running back Vance Gibbs had 14 carries for 43 yards.

The Cavs’ defense surrendered only 202 passing yards and 193 rushing yards, but could not keep the Tigers out of the end zone.

Special teams were pivotal in the game, as the Ti-gers blocked a punt and an extra point in the game.

The Cavs also missed another extra point and snapped the ball over freshman kicker Paul Melsh-en’s head on a punt.

The loss ended the Cavs’ three-game winning streak and puts Georgetown in the driver seat to win the Mid-South Conference East Division champion-ship.

Football team stumbles against Georgetown

By Cameron ParsonsSports [email protected]

Although this is a non-conference match-up, to-morrow’s game against the Campbellsville Universi-ty Tigers has the feel of a must-win for both teams.

The Cavs are coming off a tough loss to George-town, while the Tigers are riding high after a narrow comeback win over Faulkner College.

Campbellsville is currently 5-4, and with an ex-plosive backfield, the Tiger’s offense is averaging nearly 400 yards per game.

Sophomore running back Mark Terry has 147 rushing attempts for 746 yards and eight touch-downs, while sophomore quarterback back Robert Hill has 72 rushes for 229 yards and four scores.

Hill has also gone 91-of-175 passing for 1,161 yards for 10 touchdowns.

The defense has played well at times, but still sur-renders more than 350 yards of offense per game.

The Tiger defense is led by junior defensive back Jeffery DeMary, who has 69 tackles, two inter-ceptions and two fumble recoveries.

The Cavs and Tigers have both defeated Ken-tucky Christian and lost to Cumberlands and George-town this season.

A win would improve the Cavs’ record to 4-6 on the season.

Photo courtesy of Darrell Ely

Freshman defensive end Russell Hull sacks Pikeville College quarterback Trevor Hoskins during the Cavs’ 33-10 victory on Oct. 23. The defense held the Bears to 230 yards of total offense. The Cavs will face the Campbellsville Tigers tomorrow in a key non-conference match-up in Wise. The game kicks off at 1:30 p.m. at Carl Smith Stadium.

Oct. 7Georgetown 52, Camp 21

Georgetown 14 24 0 14 —52Camp 7 7 7 0 — 21

George CampTotal offense 587 326Rushing yards 288 75Passing yards 299 251First downs 30 17Penalties (yards) 3(20) 5(152)Punts (yards) 3 (150) 5 152)Turnovers 1 2