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Article: Veterans adjust to campus life at WVU
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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MORGANTOWN - A certain cluster of incoming freshmen at West
Virginia University might be expected to have a heightened sense of
awareness about ordinary classroom surroundings in, say, Woodburn
Hall.
These brand-new students would turn their gaze to possible exit
routes and carefully assess who else occupies the room.
They are men and women just back from stressful and dangerous
service in the cities of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan.
It's Terry's Miller's job to help them adjust to campus life in
Morgantown.
Miller, 47, holds the relatively new position of Veterans
Advocate at WVU. He works in an office on the second floor of the
Mountainlair.
"I am a one-stop shop for our veterans," ...