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Chinese, Philosophy Among Highest Withdrawal Rates At WVU Day of Giving raises millions to Editoral in Chief: Choose books, Neal Brown’s formula for winning grow and support the University not bigotry works at Kansas State p. 3 p. 5 p. 8 @DailyAthenaeum Th e Daily Athenaeum dailyathenaeum [email protected] WVU’s Independent Student Newspaper MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 www.thedaonline.com Violent threats lead to cancellation of Chinese, philosophy among Morgantown Drag Queen Storytime highest withdrawal rates at WVU BY KAYLA GAGNON BY JARED SERRE University subjects VIDEO EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR with highest withdrawal rates After the Drag Queen Storytime Of the 151 total subjects offered was canceled because of threats of vi- at WVU last school year, six fea- 1. Global Competency: 20.27% olence, members and allies of WVU’s tured drop rates of greater than or LGBTQ+ community gathered in front equal to 10%, according to data ob- 2. Chinese: 17.31% of the Morgantown Library in a gesture tained from the University. of support. Through a Freedom of Informa- 3. Animal Physiology: 14.47% “In order to counteract this hate, tion Act submitted to the Univer- we need to show love,” said Ash Cu- sity, the Daily Athenaeum obtained tright, the president of Morgantown grade distribution reports from ev- 4. Philosophy: 10.78% Pride, which provides resources to ery section of each course offered the LGBTQ+ community and its allies. during the 2018-19 academic year. 5. Astronomy: 10.1% “While the library event was canceled, The DA took the number of W no- [the people who sent threats] thought tations, which indicate class drops, Percentages indicate proportion this was a victory. We don’t want them from each course, as well as the to- of students who dropped a course to think that.” PHOTO BY KAYLA GAGNON tal number of students enrolled in within the subject People who attended wore and car- each course, and calculated a per- ried rainbow and transgender pride Morgantown Pride President Ash Cutright embraces another rally attendee. centage drop rate for each course fl ags. Some carried fl ags with quotes subject on campus. and fit with the professor, that’s reading instead of drag queens. After the event’s cancellation, the from the hit reality show “RuPaul’s The most dropped subject, kind of part of just one of those Local drag performers Robin queens decided to share their message global competency, featured 11 [where] they’ll test out two differ- Drag Race,” like “Reading is funda- Hearts-Love and Dimitria Blackwell of literacy and acceptance through students dropping subject courses mental” and “We’re born naked, the had decided to do the Drag Queen Sto- ent people and go with the person YouTube. Th ere is going to be a You- out of 54 total students, achieving rest is drag.” rytime at the Morgantown Library to they like.” Tube channel created in the near fu- a drop rate of 20.37%. Five other “Th e queer community here is very promote literacy as well as inclusion. The subject with the highest en- ture where Blackwell and Hearts-Love subjects featured drop rates of 10% tight-knit, and I love seeing all the dif- “I wish I had a program like this will be recording their online version or higher. rollment, mathematics, had a drop ferent representations of our queer when I was younger. I was the kid who of Drag Queen Storytime. The median drop rate amongst rate of 8.19% — of 12,730 total stu- community here today,” Cutright said. went to the public library and tried to Blackwell emphasized the impor- all of the University’s subjects was dents, 1,042 students dropped with “I wanted to be here to show that as fi nd books on being gay or trans that I tance of spreading their message out- 3.30%. a trans person who’s received a lot of could. Th e library is our connection to a “W” on their transcript. hate over the last two weeks that I’m side of Monongalia County. Louis Slimak, the University’s as- Among foreign languages, Chi- the outside world and so are books,” “We wanted to be a family-friendly not going to let it get to me.” Hearts-Love said. sistant provost for curriculum, as- nese classes featured the highest option that takes into account the im- Elected offi cials such as city coun- Both drag queen readers dealt with sessment and accreditation, said drop rate with 17.31% of students portance of literacy and the safety of there are a variety of factors in cilors Barry Wendell and Zackery online harassment for weeks leading enrolled in classes dropping with Cruze and Monongalia County state all of the patrons,” Blackwell said. “You place that contribute to a student’s up to the scheduled reading on Satur- a “W”. German was second with a delegates Barbara Evans Fleishauer can watch it from the safety of your decision to drop a course. day. Dimitria Blackwell, one of the vol- rate of 9.55%, followed up by Ar- and Danielle Walker were in atten- unteer drag queen readers, said the de- own home, you don’t have to walk past In addition to the risk of failing dance. Delegate Walker gave a speech cision to cancel was out of concern for protesters to watch our event.” a course and dealing with work re- abic (9.09%), Italian (8.94%) and to the crowd of around 50. the safety of the children that would Hearts-Love said the cancellation quirements, students often make French (8.49%). “When we like to use the motto, be attending because of the violent of the event was not a loss like the peo- decisions to drop in order to find Six subjects did not feature a sin- ‘Mountaineers are always free,’ we threats that were made online. ple who opposed the storytime believe the best fit. gle “W” drop, including pharmacy, “We have a large number of stu- don’t defi ne who those Mountaineers “Th is cancellation has nothing to it was. veterinary science and business “Th ey have empowered us and in- dents who will register for multiple are. Th e time is now that we start living do with our safety. When somebody data analytics. up to our name,” Walker said. threatens gun violence, we can’t guar- spired us to take our message to a big- sections of the same course [think- In total, the University featured A storytime session in the library still antee the safety of the children, the ger stage — to take our message where ing], ‘I’m not sure who I’m gonna occurred during the time it was sched- parents or the volunteers that were at- everyone could access it no matter like, I’m not sure which time frame 10,911 drops resulting in a “W” on uled, only with library staff members tending that event,” Blackwell said. where they are,” Hearts-Love said. I’m gonna like,’ Slimak said. “Style a student’s transcript. NOW RENTING FOR MAY 2020 Minutes from the downtown bus route, WVU football stadium, Health Sciences, Evansdale, Law School, and PRT. 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