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An 8 Pin No-Tap Team Bowling Tournament will be held March 3-7 at 6 p.m. at the Mountainlair. Your team will bowl three games one night (you choose the night). Trophies will be awarded to the Top 10 Teams and Top Women’s and Men’s Series.

Valerie Wright portrait.  

Valerie Wright, an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Anthropology and Sociology at Cleveland State University, will discuss legal and extralegal factors that contribute to newspaper coverage of juvenile homicides, the extent to which victims’ race contribute to divergent amounts of coverage and depictions of victims and how blame is contextualized in print news. The event will take place Wednesday (Feb. 27) at 10 a.m. in the Mountainlair Student Union's Rhododendron Room.

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Contributors to Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy will discuss J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir through a panel discussion cosponsored with the Humanities Center, the Appalachian Justice Initiative and WVU Press. The event is Feb. 25 from 7 - 8:30 p.m. at the College of Law.