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Supernova Remnants And Water Inequality This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, News Director Eric Douglas sat down with a West Virginia University professor studying the remnants of supernovas to learn more about our galaxy.

On this West Virginia Morning, News Director Eric Douglas sat down with a West Virginia University professor studying the remnants of supernovas to learn more about our galaxy.

Also, Inside Appalachia’s Mason Adams discussed water inequality with a Virginia Tech professor, recommendations to the Public Service Commission that could affect electricity rates and WVU released its final recommendations for cuts to programs.

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WVU Releases Final Adjustments To Cuts

With the last hearings held this past Friday Sept. 1, West Virginia University has finalized its recommendations for cuts to academic programs.

With the last hearings held this past Friday, Sept. 1, West Virginia University has finalized its recommendations for cuts to academic programs. Tuesday’s announcement was the final of four covering the 19 units that chose to appeal the recommendations.

A proposal to cut the bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture was reconsidered.

In a press release, Provost Maryanne Reed said the School of Design and Community Development “made a strong case for retaining the major by demonstrating it could achieve efficiencies while addressing the needs of landscape architecture students who do not have a similar degree program to pursue here at the University.” 

Efficiencies include reducing the number of faculty in the unit.

The Office of the Provost declined a proposal to develop the Master of Public Administration as an online degree and will maintain its original recommendation to discontinue the degree program and eliminate all faculty positions in the unit.

The first of the announcements Aug. 29 included an amendment to the recommendations for the World Languages Department, including retaining in-person Spanish and Chinese instruction while still closing the department.

On Friday Sept. 1 it was announced that the Department of English had successfully appealed the preliminary recommendation to discontinue the MFA in Creative Writing. The unit presented a plan to merge the MA in English with the MA in Professional Writing. 

A recommendation to discontinue the Masters in Special Education was also overturned. All final recommendations can be viewed on the provost’s website.

The University Assembly meets Wednesday to vote on resolutions of no confidence in President Gordon Gee, as well as one calling for a halt of the academic transformation process.

The WVU Board of Governors will vote on the recommended cuts Sept. 15.

Introducing The West Virginia Week Podcast

On this West Virginia Week, we look at four leading Republican candidates for governor, severe flooding from rains on Monday and Tuesday, and the ongoing battle at West Virginia University over which faculty members to keep — including university president Gordon Gee.

On this West Virginia Week, we look at four leading Republican candidates for governor, severe flooding from rains on Monday and Tuesday and the ongoing battle at West Virginia University over which faculty members to keep — including university president Gordon Gee.

News Director Eric Douglas is our host this week.

West Virginia Week is a web-only podcast that explores the week’s biggest news in the Mountain State. It’s produced with help from Bill Lynch, Briana Heaney, Caroline MacGregor, Chris Schultz, Curtis Tate, Emily Rice, Eric Douglas, Liz McCormick, and Randy Yohe.

Learn more about West Virginia Week.

West Virginia University Draws Back Mask Requirements

West Virginia University is lifting some of its masking requirements put in place to combat COVID-19 as the number of virus cases in the state is decreasing.

University officials announced Wednesday that masks will no longer be required in most indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination status.

The university will still require masks in classrooms, labs and on-campus buses. Students and staff in health science fields and those who work with patients will still be required to wear masks indoors.

“At the start of this semester, given what we knew about the emerging omicron variant, we felt it was crucial to implement several measures to limit the potential spread of COVID-19, including a universal mask requirement,” Dr. Jeffrey Coben, dean of the School of Public Health and associate vice president for Health Affairs, said in a news release. “With numerous key data sources now indicating that cases are significantly declining across the state and within our community, we feel comfortable relaxing the mask requirements.”

August 20, 1946: Football Coach Fielding Yost Dies at 75

Football coach Fielding Yost died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 20, 1946, at age 75. In 1895 and ’96, the Marion County native played tackle for one of West Virginia University’s earliest football teams while earning a law degree.

Yost coached football at Ohio Wesleyan, Nebraska, Kansas, and Stanford in successive years, before landing at the University of Michigan in 1901. In his first season at Michigan, the Wolverines went 11-0, including a 49-0 shutout of Stanford in the first Rose Bowl and the school’s first national championship. His 1901 team went didn’t give up a point the entire season while averaging 55 points a game on offense. That squad became known as the “point a minute” team, and Yost’s fast-paced offense earned him the nickname “Hurry Up.” Yost essentially invented the “no huddle” offense, the fake kick, and the linebacker position. Between 1901 and 1905, his teams went undefeated in 56 consecutive games, including a 130-0 shellacking of WVU in 1904—still the worst defeat in Mountaineer history. “Hurry Up” Yost retired from coaching in 1926 but continued to serve as Michigan’s athletic director until 1941.

November 28 1891: WVU Plays First Football Game

On November 28, 1891, West Virginia University played its first football game ever. The contest didn’t go as hoped. About 250 fans showed up at a field south of Morgantown to watch Washington and Jefferson shut out WVU 72 to 0.

While the outcome was disappointing, it was an accomplishment just getting a team together. To raise funds for uniforms, WVU’s players first had to stage a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III. Then, they needed a coach. The newly formed WVU Athletic Association learned that a mechanical engineering professor had once played at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University. That’s how Professor F. L. Emory became WVU’s first football coach. The team’s quarterback was the colorfully named Gory Hogg, who would go on to become a prominent doctor in the southern coalfields and serve in the West Virginia Legislature.

After that initial loss, WVU didn’t field a team again for two years. Its teams gradually got more competitive. Although, Washington and Jefferson still had their number, shutting them out seven more times. Finally, in 1903, WVU broke through and beat Washington and Jefferson for the first time.

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