Lynch to attend West Virginia University

AP ^ | 8/1/5

[SmithL]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Jessica Lynch will begin on-campus classes this fall at West Virginia University, the school said Monday.

The former prisoner of war announced in March that she was beginning online courses at WVU and that she hoped to become an elementary school teacher.

"WVU is very pleased to be able to assist her in that pursuit," school spokeswoman Becky Lofstead said Monday, "and proud to call Jessica Lynch a Mountaineer."

Lynch, a native of Palestine, W.Va., is enrolled in the College of Human Resources and Education.

Former Gov. Bob Wise promised Lynch that the state would pay for her education at any West Virginia public college or university after her April 1, 2003, rescue from an Iraqi hospital.

Lynch's convoy took a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah in March 2003 and was attacked. Eleven American soldiers were killed and six, including Lynch, were captured.

The former Army supply clerk suffered numerous injuries when her Humvee crashed during the firefight. She still walks with the help of crutches or a cane.

[SmithL]

FYI

[goarmy]

Someone please reassure me that the campus in Morgantown isn't like that of Berkeley.

[upchuck]

God bless you Jessica.

[Americanexpat]

God bless this young lady. Hope the anti war types on campus don't screw with her.

[GoBucks2002]

Someone please reassure me that the campus in Morgantown isn't like that of Berkeley.

It's got its share of libs, but nothing like Berkeley. It has received pretty high ratings as a party school.

[SoftballMominVA]

A friend of mine that went to WVU said the entrance exam is to be able to use a beer bong. The exit exam is to be able to construct and use your own beer bong.

Yeah, it's a party school.

[11th_VA]

It has received pretty high ratings as a party school.

In fact, it's more party than school ...

[CWOJackson]

"Hope the anti war types on campus don't screw with her."

I think she could handle it. I'm not much of a TV watcher but my wife asked me to watch one of those home makeover shows with her...she said I was going to be surprised.

Turned out that Jessica Lynch had contacted the producers of this show and asked them to do something for the parents of her best friend who died next to her, Lori Peistewa.

It was an unbelievable show, very emotional...there wasn't a dry eye on the crew of the show or in our home.

You look at people like her and know America still has a future.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Good deal.
But I'll still never watch one of those home makeover shows.

[nonliberal]

Sounds like Iowa State. Well, our former baskeball coach anyway.

[CWOJackson]

I don't know if this is the typical home makerover kind of show. Lori's parents were elderly Hopi Indians, raising her children in a pretty run down home and with a limited income.

This show (I don't know the name of it) got people to businesses to donate land, materials and labor to build them a beautiful home; one that was also tailored to the needs of her parents and children. It also contained a special room setup to honor Specialist Peistewa and her service. The whole thing kind of snow balled as the crew/producers got to know the Hopi and Navajo, who performed ceremonies blessing the home.

By the time it was over they had also built a very nice veterans center for the Indians and placed a monument on a peak renamed in honor of Specialist Peistewa. There was a lot of love and respect being built in the area.

Jessica was there working alongside everyone else building the home, but you could tell that it was very tasking for her (she still needs assistance to walk) but she never quit.

One of the few times I have to say I was actually uplifted by TV.

[Hildy]

I went to Morgantown about 25 years ago. All I remember is that it was an incredibly big party school.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Proof that virtue can be found almost anywhere.

[OldFriend]

Thanks so much for the rundown on the story. Needless to say there was no publicity at all about this wonderful act of kindness towards the Piestewa family.

[Segovia]

Yeah, WVU is just down the road from where I live, though I don't live in WV. Morgantown is almost on the Pennsylvania line. My kids went to Penn State; and I kind of wish they had chosen WVU instead. It's an excellent school. Not as big a Penn State, but in many respects, better. Their school of medicine is very good. They do like to party hardy. After just about every football or basketball game; the students set half the city on fire, (to hear the newscasters). Actually, they just build bonfires in the middle of the streets----but hey, it's West Virginia, ya know. I'd say Jessica will meet a lot of other young folks there just like herself. The liberals are a lot more toned down in places like Morgantown, WV.

[GOP_Proud]

No way. Every college has it's leftists but it's not too bad.
Afterall, it was number one on the party school list a few years ago.

[Diddle E. Squat]

LOL

[GOP_Proud]

Besides being a well-known party school, a little-known secret is that it really is a great school. We just don't like "ferners" to know that.

[Rodney King]

The exit exam is to be able to construct and use your own beer bong.

I made my own the summer after 10th grade while working in the hardware store. In fact, it had two funnels, with two seperate on/off switches. One person could funnel one or two funnels worth of beer, or, both could be filled up and two different people could race when the switches were flicked. I should have gone to WVU. Would have been like Arnold Jackson in "The Kid with the 200 IQ".