Beyond the buckskins: an inside Popeyes chicken sandwich proves NCAA tournament hopes high as WVU look at WVU’s newest Mountaineer popular despite hiatus women’s basketball season begin p. 3 p. 5 p. 10 @DailyAthenaeum Th e Daily Athenaeum dailyathenaeum [email protected] WVU’s Independent Student Newspaper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 www.thedaonline.com WVU tears down German Club’s Berlin Wall Mountaineers ‘excited to get back BY ALAYNA FULLER home’ and face Texas Tech Saturday NEWS EDITOR BY CODY NESPOR year, Duff ey has thrown for 1,420 Th e University Police Department ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR yards and nine touchdowns. on Tuesday night tore down the WVU On defense, the Red Raiders are German Club’s Berlin Wall that it had One team’s losing streak will come led by a senior at each level, Broder- put up that day to commemorate the to an end Saturday when the Texas ick Washington Jr. on the defensive 30th anniversary of the fall of the Ber- Tech Red Raiders come to Morgan- line, Jordyn Brooks at linebacker and lin Wall, said Deborah Janson, WVU town to face the West Virginia Moun- Douglas Coleman III in the second- German Club advisor and associate taineers at Milan Puskar Stadium. ary. Coleman leads the country in in- professor of German. WVU (3-5, 1-4 Big 12) has lost four terceptions with seven and Brooks The club had permission from straight games while Texas Tech (3-5, leads the team in tackles (87) and the University to put up their spray- 1-5) has lost three in a row. Th is will tackles for loss (15.5). painted wall, Janson said. Th e wall was be the Mountaineers’ fi rst game at Brown said it is important for the put back up later that night. home since Oct. 12. team to start off right in November to Janson said it was her understand- “We’re excited to get back home,” fi nish the season strong. ing that it was taken down after several head coach Neal Brown said. “We ha- “All teams are judged and remem- people complained to campus police. ven’t played at home, I think it’s go- bered for how they fi nish, and this “People complained because it had ing to be fi ve weeks almost, and so is our opportunity, coming back profanity on it, but it’s an approved we’re excited to get back in front of home,” he said. project about the commemoration of the home crowd. It’s game between STAFF PHOTO Kickoff at Milan Puskar Stadium the 30th anniversary of the fall of the two teams that are really hungry for Berlin Wall,” she said. “It’s not some- The German Club’s recreation of the Berlin Wall stands between LSB and the John Chambers will be at noon on Saturday, and the a win.” game will be broadcast on ESPN2. thing that you should crumple up and Business and Economics building. When these teams met last season, take down.” both were ranked, with West Vir- Th e club didn’t know the wall was ginia at No. 12 and TTU at No. 25. being torn down until members no- Th e Mountaineers prevailed in ticed its absence. Lubbock, 42-34, but there has Th e wooden replica of the wall is been a lot of change on both set up at the Life Sciences Building, teams since then. Brooks Hall and the Business and Eco- One constant will nomics green from Sunday to Satur- be that West Virginia day. Th e club encourages passersby will see the same to write or draw on the wall as a way back-up quarter- to make their mark before the wall is back they did a year torn down. ago, Jett Duff ey. In Janson said they wouldn’t have put last year’s meet- it up without permission to do so. ing, starting quar- John Bolt, senior executive director terback Alan Bow- of communications at WVU, said in a man left the game statement that it was taken down in er- SUBMITTED BY RILEY BOWERS in the second quar- ror by individuals who were not aware ter, replaced by Duf- the students had obtained appropriate Slight damages to the wall. fey. Again this season, permissions. structed in August 1961 as a way to mitted to leave unless they had a visa Bowman is injured, and Th e damaged and ripped Berlin separate communist East Germany with a valid reason, such as a wedding Duff ey has been playing. Duff ey threw for 172 Wall will be purposefully torn down from democratic West Germany. It or funeral in the family. again by the club on Friday, a day be- was built not only to keep westerners yards and a touchdown fore the 30th anniversary date the Ber- out, but to keep easterners in, as more Th e wall was heavily guarded, mak- and ran for 86 and an- lin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989. than 2 million of them had escaped to ing it nearly impossible to leave the other score in the contest Th e Berlin Wall was originally con- the west. East Germans were not per- country otherwise. last year. In six games this NOVEMBER 13 SUPPORT THE FUTURE OF STUDENT MEDIA WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY DAY OF GIVING 2 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 WEEKEND WEATHER FORECAST SOCIAL MEDIA MOMENTS dailyathenaeum THURSDAY 11/7 Staff Cloudy with periods of rain. WVU’s INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER HIGH 47° LOW 26° NEWS Douglas Soule Editor-in-Chief FRIDAY 11/8 Hannah Williams The Morgantown Popeyes really has Managing Editor Some sun in the morning with Jordyn Johnson increasing clouds during the afternoon. 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