A look into the businesses at the Mountaineer Week returns to WVU Mistakes pile up in close loss to Mountainlair Arts and Craft Fair Baylor Thursday p. 4 p. 5 p. 9 @DailyAthenaeum Th e Daily Athenaeum dailyathenaeum [email protected] WVU’s Independent Student Newspaper MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2019 www.thedaonline.com Mountainlair video arcade removed due to lack of use BY COLE MCCLANAHAN “I think what we’ve seen over time is a lot of CULTURE EDITOR students and people have their own gaming After increased competition in equipment at their disposal, and so the arcade recent years, the video arcade in the is really a tough business to be in right now Mountainlair is no more. The arcade, which was located in because of all the other options you have.” the basement near the Lair’s bowl- ing alley, was removed in mid-Oc- -Mark Wise, Mountainlair assistant tober due to a lack of use from director of operations students, said Mark Wise, assis- tant director of operations for the Mountainlair. options you have.” for the space. “Prior to that, we had noticed not Despite being intended as an area A possible use for the space is a lot of usage — [the removal] had for students to relax and hang out, turning it into a student lounge, PHOTO VIA WVU to do with usage,” Wise said. “Main- the decision to remove the video ar- Wise said. Televisions could be Students line up to play one of the video games in what was the Mountainlair video arcade. tenance was marginal on the equip- cade was made without student in- hung on the walls and couches ment, but the biggest thing was it put. According to Wise, the decision could be brought in for seating, but just wasn’t being used.” was made by the Mountainlair’s ad- there is no timetable for the possi- Wise attributed the lack of usage ministration, who did not seek the ble project. to the rise of handheld devices, such student body’s opinion. For now, the space will be used as iPhones, the Nintendo Switch Now, with the arcade games as is, but the administration is and others that are constantly at gone, the space is occupied by ta- open-minded and willing to listen people’s fingertips. The removal bles and chairs, which are intended to ideas for the future of the Moun- of the arcade also closes a chapter to alleviate the lack of seating often of WVU history, as the arcade had found in the building. tainlair Games Area. been there since the opening of the This, however, is only a tempo- “We’ll take input from people Mountainlair in 1968, Wise said. rary fix. that come down there,” Wise said. “I think what we’ve seen over Wise and the Mountainlair ad- “Maybe there’s things they’d like to time is a lot of students and people ministration are looking into other see — I certainly encourage student have their own gaming equipment uses for the space, which Wise wants input. If there’s something they’d at their disposal, and so the arcade to keep entertainment-themed, and like to see or a different way of us- is really a tough business to be in intend to remove the tables and ing that space, we’re certainly open PHOTO BY COLE MCCLANAHAN right now because of all the other chairs as they were only a “stopgap” to all those suggestions.” The area where the arcade machines used to be. Two Morgantown high schoolers hospitalized after vape pen overdoses BY ALAYNA FULLER report on Friday evening. book page on Friday. “We’re asking and possibly fatal when mixed with opiates. They are extremely dan- Preliminary testing on one of the that anyone who possesses or is us- other chemicals and controlled gerous and again, do not use them.” NEWS EDITOR vape solutions indicated that it con- ing or knows anybody using these substances, according to MPD. tained heroin, other opioids and a devices to either turn them in to “Do not use them, [and] do not WVU shared MPD’s warning in Two high school students were significant number of other chem- school administration, the local law allow anyone to use them. Some of an email to students Friday. hospitalized after overdosing on icals, said MPD Chief Ed Preston. enforcement or throw them away.” them are being marketed as mar- To report suspected criminal heroin-laced vape pens in Morgan- “These devices are extremely At least one of the devices was ijuana oil, [but] they do not have town within 24 hours, according to dangerous,” Preston said in a video sold as liquid marijuana, which is marijuana oil in them, they have activity, contact the MPD Switch- a Morgantown Police Department warning posted to the MPD Face- also dangerous in vaping devices heroin based products and other board at (304) 284-7522. 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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MONDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2019 3 Editor: Assistant Editor: Alayna Fuller NEWS Gabriella Brown [email protected] [email protected] WV suicide rising, resources available on campus BY HANNAH HEBEL training within schools. pensed over 800 gun locks,” ally rough, as we can’t get ser- “There was legislation Faucett said. vices to everyone because of STAFF WRITER passed in 2015 called Jamie’s Tristram Spitsnaugle, a the way the state is laid out.” Law that actually provided for youth intervention specialist Spitsnaugle said fund- You can be the diff erence: With suicide rates on the rise the opportunity to have sui- who has worked with Prevent ing is arguably one of the big- nationally, rural West Virginia cide prevention discussion in Suicide WV and Westbrook gest things the state is lack- youth are more at risk than schools,” Faucett said. “Sec- Health Services since 2018, ing in terms of prevention and warning signs that someone you their urban peers. ondary schools, as well as insti- provided some insight into the intervention.