Lot of memories linger
still over Stansbury Hall
Goodbye, Stansbury Hall. The Beechurst Avenue building, now removed to make way for progress, had a basketball history that included the efforts of Leland Byrd, Mark Workman, “Moo” Moore and standouts Rod Hundley, Jerry West and many others.
Besides many victories, it hosted the end of a home-winning streak of over 50 games when the Pitt team of Coach Doc Carlson held the ball most of the game for a narrow win. The only sound heard was the shuffling of feet leaving.
Many wins at the court — so close to fan seating — followed. There was also the night a Penn State player chased the ball out of bounds, making a successful leap over an occupied bench.
And the gentle rain of dirt on fans at the lower level when fans at the higher level stomped their feet in approval.
As everyone knows by now, the Coliseum with its fluttery roof was a major improvement.
William Mason
Morgantown
Brown already checked
off what’s important
Hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.”
Neal Brown equals hope. Hope for a return to Mountaineer values. Hope for young men exposed to a leader who treats them with respect and leads by example. Hope for Mountaineer Nation to be proud of our team in all aspects.
I have never written a letter to the editor but I’m so very touched and moved by the example our new football coach is setting for us all.
Football players are students first. The coach checks in on them, their grades and class attendance. Check.
Football players are representatives of the Mountain State. The coach takes football players to a coal mine to introduce them to the real heroes of our state —our miners. Check.
Football players are college students who like to play and have fun. The coach plays musical chairs with football players. Check.
Neal Brown has already checked off the really important roles of any person put in charge of a group of students. He is down to earth, respectable, and who doesn’t love the way he tells it like it is. “It’s just bad football” was his quote at the first half of our first game.
Even without Saturday’s season opening win to James Madison University, we’ve found ourselves a winner! Our hope is that given time, the wonderful things we’ve seen from him already will also translate to a winning era for Mountaineer football! Thanks Coach Brown.
Debbie Tampoya
Morgantown
Canadian court finds
against climatolgist
Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore’s 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth.
The graph’s methodology and accuracy have been and continue to be hotly contested, but Mann has taken the tack of suing two of his most prominent critics for defamation or libel. One case, against Mark Steyn, is likely to end up in the Supreme Court. But in another case, against Dr. Tim Ball, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, granted Ball’s application for dismissal of the nine-year, multi-million dollar lawsuit, it also took the additional step of awarding full legal costs to Ball.
Real science, not the phony “consensus” version, requires open access to data, so that skeptics (who play a key role in science) can see if results are reproducible.
Mann lost his case because he refused to show in open court his R2 regression numbers behind the world-famous “‘hockey stick” graph.
Under Canada’s unique “truth defense,” Mann was proven to have willfully hidden his data. Ball is now asking his attorney to look into whether Mann acted with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud.
Jim Hinebaugh
Maysville
