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BY WILLIAM LINEBERRYTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall Uni-
versity Board of Governors met yester-day to discuss a $25 million dollar bond for an engineering com-plex and approved an official Marshall University Day to be celebrated next month.
The board discussed funding for an engi-neering complex and the financial resources that would aid in its construction. A total of $50 million dollars is needed, currently only $25 million is held for the construction.
“Provost Gayle Ormiston will form a committee to further handle the issue,” said Stephen Kopp, president of Marshall University.
The original scope for the complex was $50 million. Marshall is currently seeking ways to gather the addi-tional $25 million. The committee will come back with a proposal to the Board of Gover-nors on April 28. Kopp said that students will not see an increase in their fees for the build-ing and that there has been talk about poten-tial donors.
The board voted to designate March 2 as “Marshall University Day.” The day signi-fies when Marshall obtained university status after being Mar-shall College since its opening. The day will be celebrated both on Marshall’s campus and at West Virginia’s Cap-itol in Charleston. The board voted on the mo-tion unanimously. No objections were voiced. The board will seek an
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BY JORDAN BEANTHE PARTHENON
New computer technology has arrived at Drinko Library: A collaboration tool that allows students to share information from their individual computers on one central screen.
The “media:scape” computer tool enables students to attach up to six separate com-puters to one “switcher” that is built into a table in the center of the Collaboration Room. Students can work on their own computers, and by pressing a button on the “switcher” device a shared screen on the wall will display what is happening on the computer that the “switcher” is set to.
“This unit makes working in groups much easier,” said Jody Perry, director of informa-tion resources in Drinko Library, “if you’re working on a group project it’s a good way to collaborate.”
Different members of a group can be work-ing on various tasks on their computers and easily display their progress or discoveries to the other group members by “switching” over to their computer. This makes corre-spondence and organization much simpler for people working in groups.
“It’s a really good tool for students to use for collaboration,” said Johnny Bradley, su-pervisor of the Drinko Library circulation desk. “They’re supposed to be getting a few more and they are going to bring in a vendor to showcase similar equipment.”
Less than two weeks old, this tool is cur-rently set up on Drinko Library’s second floor behind the Writing Center and stu-dents do not need a reservation to use the device. The tool can be used with a Mac or a PC, but attaching a Mac to the “switcher” requires a converter.
“When it arrived it was installed at nine in the morning and by two they caught
students using it,” Bradley said, “they fig-ured out how to use it on their own. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to turn it on.”
This new technology comes to Marshall with the benefit of students in mind, accord-ing to Perry, every year on Assessment Day when students are asked what they want from the library, their response is almost al-ways a request for new technology.
“Over the last few years we’ve been trying to find more innovative ways for students to use technology,” Perry said. “Any time we do have something new we advertise it on the digital signage, which are the TVs in the library.”
For more information on this device, visit www.steelcase.com, or contact the Drinko Library Circulation Desk or the Writing Center.
Jordan can be contacted at [email protected].
New technology makes collaboration easier for students
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Joan C. Browning was one of nine “Freedom Riders” who rode public tranportation throughout Georgia in 1961 to challenge the Supreme Court’s 1960 ruling that segregation on public transportation is illegal.
BY KELLEY BUGLERTHE PARTHENON
A civil rights activist visited Marshall University on Thursday to talk about her experiences as a Freedom Rider in Georgia.
Joan C. Browning rode public transportation in 1961 to ensure the 1960 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public facilities was being enforced. Her last trip was on Nov. 1 aboard a train headed for Albany, Ga.
“Nine of us got on a train in Atlanta heading for Albany,” Browning said. “I was the last per-son chosen for that ride, so I call myself the last Freedom Rider.”
Browning said she was the only white female imprisoned for 10 days following the last ride and had a cell all to herself while all of the African-American females were packed into one cell.
“We had agreed to all stay in jail until freedom came,” Brown-ing said. “But we decided I should be bailed out because some of the white men in the community had made some threatening remarks.”
Browning said the group was first
charged with conspiracy to over-throw Georgia’s state government, but it was reduced to disturbing the peace six months later.
“You have to find something to stand up for in order to put joy in your life,” Browning said.
Brown-ing said her
first awareness of civil rights issues was in 1955 when Georgia changed its state flag to include the Confed-erate flag in the design.
Sandra Clements, Hunting-ton councilwoman representing District Five, said this is a good chance for students to find out who the Freedom Riders were and what they did.
“It’s fascinating to learn why they chose to leave their home-town to help other people fight for their right to vote,” Clements said. “It had to be very scary but also exciting as well. It would have been very satisfying to finally get
people to the polls.”Clements said many students
today do not know about what happened during the civil rights era.
“If we don’t talk about history then history will repeat itself,” Clements said.
Christina Harris, freshman secondary English education ma-jor from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., did not know who the Freedom Riders were and said it was interesting that whites were involved.
“It wasn’t just a group of blacks who tore down signs that induced segregation and racial inequality,” Harris said.
Browning said if she presently had the opportunity to stand up for something, then it would be protecting children and the elderly from violence as well as protecting wives from domestic violence.
Browning said a new documen-tary has been made about the Freedom Riders and contains actual footage from some of the original rides.
Kelley Bugler can be contacted at [email protected].
CHECK OUT MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM FOR VIDEOS OF BROWNING’S PRESENTATION
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All information was provided by Mar-shall University Police Department.
Bag burglaryAt 2 p.m. on Feb. 15, a backpack
was taken from a computer station on the third floor of Drinko library. The complainant said she had left the bag unattended for approximately 30 min-utes and, upon returning, she realized it was gone. There was an anatomy text-book and a lab manual inside the bag. MUPD estimated the value of the be-longings at $400 and have no suspects at this time.
Missing filesOn Feb. 15, a Hewlett-Packard laptop
was reported stolen from a resident’s room in Twin Towers East between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. The resident said he did not lock his door. Marshall University
Police Department estimated the value of the laptop at $800 and have no sus-pects at this time.
Body damageOn Feb. 15, a silver Volvo S60 was
reported damaged to the Marshall Uni-versity Police Department. The owner said she had parked the car at 11 p.m. on Feb. 14, and she saw that it was dam-aged when she returned around 12:40 a.m. the next day. According to the po-lice report, the vehicle looked like it had taken “damage from a body or person.” MUPD reported having no suspects at this time.
Disturbing the peaceAt 12:03 a.m. on Feb. 14, the Mar-
shall University Police Department responded to a complaint at Drinko Library regarding an unknown white male harassing people in and around the building. Officers identified Terry Wetzel Phillips, 22, as the suspect and
realized Phillips had an active warrant for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Phillips was transported to Western Regional Jail.
Taking a power napMUPD officers responded to a call
at 9:50 p.m. on Feb. 11 regarding an intoxicated person outside Holderby Residence Hall. When officers arrived, they found Devin L. Hill, 19, lying in the grassy area behind the building. Hill was issued an arrest citation for unlaw-ful drinking under 21.
Fly like a G6At 12:17 p.m. on Feb. 11, a red Pon-
tiac G6 in space parking space 353 was reported struck while it was parked in the Stadium parking lot. The owner said she had parked the car that morning around 9 a.m. and, when she returned at noon, she noticed some damage to the rear bumper. Marshall University director of public safety
James Terry said that the incident is still under investigation.
Super badThe Marshall University Police De-
partment responded to a call at 3:11 a.m. on Feb. 11 in the North First Year Residence Hall saying that a seemingly intoxicated male was walking around the outside of the building andinside the lobby. The responding officer found Thomas Samuel Buxton, 18, of Round Hill, Va. in the lobby when he arrived at the residence hall. The officer reported Buxton having red glassy eyes, slurred speech and an odor of alcoholic beverage on his breath. When the officer asked Buxton for his driver’s license, the resi-dent handed the officer his brother’s license instead. According to the police report, Buxton was issued a citation for unlawful drinking under 21 and posses-sion of a fake I.D.
Tyler Wolfe can be contacted at [email protected].
Police blotter...
BY ANDY BITTERMCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS(MCT)
AUBURN, Ala. - In front of Samford Hall , just down the block from the dy-ing Toomer ’s Corner oaks, Auburn police chief Tommy Dawson gave a candid opin-ion about Harvey Almorn Updyke Jr. , the 62-year-old man accused of poison-ing the university’s iconic trees.
“This is a per-son who obviously has problems to do something like this,” Dawson said.
Only hours after Auburn University announced its historic downtown oak trees had been poisoned by a herbicide called Spike 80DF and would likely perish, Updyke, from Dadeville, Ala., was arrested early Thursday morning on charges of criminal mischief, a Class C felony that is punish-able with one to 10 years in prison.
Updyke, who was held on $50,000 bail, made an initial ap-pearance in Lee County District Court to hear the charges. As of Thursday evening, he was still incarcer-ated at the Lee County Detention Center.
Dawson said Updyke could face additional federal charges.
“We are consulting with the Federal Bu-reau of Investigation
and the EPA folks and that is certainly a possibility,” Dawson said. “We’re looking at all our options right now. We’re talking with several federal agencies to determine what charges are ap-propriate here and the direction we need to go with it.”
Auburn horticultural experts expressed little hope that the trees, which are esti-mated to be 130 years old, could be saved.
“It’s an emotional question,” said Ste-phen Enloe, an assistant professor of Agronomy and Soils, who got choked up. “I always want to hold out hope.
Based upon the tech-nical experts I have consulted with around the country, the con-centration of Spike found within the soil would suggest there’s a very low probability of survival.”
Updyke was arrested at 1:26 a.m. Thursday morning at the Auburn police office, although Dawson would not say if he turned him-self in. Dawson said police are stil l inves-tigating but do not anticipate making any other arrests.
“I do believe he acted alone,” Dawson said.
An investigation into who poisoned the trees, which are tra-ditionally rolled with toilet paper following Auburn football victo-ries, had been ongoing
for several weeks. A court affidavit filed Thursday indicated an investigation into the possible poisoning of the trees began late last month based on two phone calls.
The first was a Jan. 27 call on Paul Finebaum’s syndi-cated radio show by someone named “Al from Dadeville,” who claimed to have poi-soned the Toomer ’s oaks with Spike 80DF a few weeks after the Tigers’ 28-27 Iron Bowl victory on Nov. 26. The caller said it was in retaliation for Auburn fans putting a jersey of quarter-back Cam Newton on a statue of famed Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant after the game.
So i l tests con-f i rmed the presence o f Spike 80DF, an herb ic ide used to e l iminate vegeta-t ion , most commonly a long fence roads .
Around Feb. 7, a professor at Auburn’s Turfgrass Manage-ment and Weed Science received a suspicious telephone message from someone who claimed to have knowledge about the tree poisonings. The message was recorded and was consistent with the voice on the radio show, according to the affidavit.
Auburn police ob-tained telephone records from Auburn University and made
a covert call to the number from the sus-picious message. The voice that answered was similar to that on the two phone calls. An investigation aided by the FBI, U.S. Marshals, State of Alabama Department of Agricultural Indus-tries and Tallapoosa County Sheriff ’s of-f ice led police to Updyke. Updyke ad-mitted to police about making the phone calls to the Finebaum Radio Show and the Auburn professor, the affidavit said. He later denied actually poisoning the trees.
New Lee County District Attorney Robbie Treese asked the court to put ad-ditional conditions on Updyke’s $50,000 bond: prohibit him from entering the Au-burn campus, prohibit him from possessing any firearms, weap-ons, or any toxic or dangerous chemicals, substances, or herbi-cides and mandating he enter an anger man-agement program.
Treese and Dawson declined to get into specifics of the case to avoid jeopardizing the investigation.
The court ap-po inted Phi l ip Tyler as Updyke ’s at tor-ney, but Tyler later f i l ed a mot ion to be removed f rom the case , c i t ing a “ c lear conf l i c t ” o f interest .
The motion said Tyler ’s law firm
currently represents Auburn University, the victim in the case. Tyler was a former part-time professor at Auburn University and, as a resident in the city since 1988, has “numerous per-sonal and family ties” to the school.
Auburn University President Jay Gogue praised the investi-gative work of the Auburn police.
“This is good news for the campus and community, es-pecially since we delayed announcing the bad news about the trees for a few days to protect the in-vestigation that was in progress,” Gougue said. “We’re proud of the city of Auburn’s police department and hope this arrest brings a sense of res-olution to our fans.”
The poisoning of the trees was a direct attack on Auburn’s tra-dition, Auburn Mayor Bill Ham Jr. said.
“Over the years, these beautiful old trees have come to represent the Auburn tradition and spirit,” Ham said. “While this unfortunate act affects our entire community, I encour-age my fellow citizens to move forward in the Auburn spirit.”
The question that remains is if the likely death of the trees will stop future cel-ebrations at Toomer ’s Corner, a distinct, long-time tradition of
Auburn fans.“We heard some-
one say, well, did the Grinch steal Christ-mas? No,” said Deedie Dowdell, Auburn’s ex-ecutive director in the office of communica-tions and marketing. “The celebrations at Toomer ’s Corner existed before the rolling of the trees. ... There will be a lot of things we can do to make those celebra-tions continue and of course, if the advice is that we not roll the trees to save them, I imagine members of the Auburn family would honor that.”
On Feb. 11, an article ran in The Parthenon con-cerning upgrades made to Jenkins Hall through the help of the donors, the Maiers. The room was wrongly identified as Su-san Runnon Maier Distance Learning Classroom. It is ac-tually called the Susan Runyan Maier Distance Learning Classroom.
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BY CHRYSTAL PHILLIPSTHE PARTHENON
An associate professor for the department of biochemistry and mi-crobiology was honored yesterday at a luncheon hosted by the Women in Medicine and Science program.
Professor Elaine Hardman was recognized for her achievements throughout her career and was asked to speak about her success as a woman in the medical and sci-ence field.
The program is hosted about four times a year and features guests who speak to a collective group of women about their achievements.
“She is a very accomplished re-searcher not only in the area, but nationally,” said Professor
Darshana Shah, the associated dean for professional development in medical education. “So I think that it would be a great opportu-nity for young people to look up to her and to see how she has gone the path she did.”
Professor Shah is in charge of the program and said that its pur-pose was for students to learn by hearing her success story.
P r o f e s s o r H a r d m a n h a s b e e n w o r k i n g i n t h e a r e a o f n u t r i -t i o n a n d c a n c e r r e s e a r c h f o r a b o u t 2 0 y e a r s . C u r r e n t l y, h e r r e s e a r c h a b o u t t h e e f f e c t o f o m e g a - 3 f a t t y a c i d s o n b r e a s t c a n c e r h a s r e c e i v e d s i x e x t e r -n a l l y f u n d e d g r a n t s , i n c l u d i n g l a r g e g r a n t s f o r m t h e N a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e s o f H e a l t h a n d t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f D e f e n s e .
“She has a love of knowledge and she imparts that onto her students,” said Anne Silvis, a graduate student and Ph.D candidate for cancer biol-ogy. “She gets them excited about research and excited about the world of science.”
As she spoke to the collective group of women, who were not only graduate students but also pro-fessors, she said that she always knew what she wanted to do with her life and that was science.
Professor Hardman completed three years of her undergraduate degree by the time she turned 18 and then married. She raised her family and went back to school to finish her degree and later earned her master ’s.
While she was a graduate stu-dent, she received her first funding
grant and has received funding ever since.
“There is always a overriding im-portance for what she does and that is always apparent when you are talking to her about anything in her research,” Silvis said.
One of the graduate students in attendance said she found her story to be not only interesting, but also inspiring.
“I have three young children my-self and had also married young and returned to school,” said Ta-mara Trout, graduate student for the medical science program. “I always thought ‘how am I going to do it? ’ but then you meet some-one like Professor Hardman and it shows that you can do it .”
Chrystal Phillips can be contacted at [email protected].
Medical researcher honored at luncheon
Arrest made in poisoning of Auburn’s oaks
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Dominika Zapranza, Conference USAplayer of the week after defeating two nationally-ranked opponents. This marks the third week in a row the recognition has gone to a member of the Thundering Herd.
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Women’s basketball squeezes past UAB
BY ASHLEY MANNONTHE PARTHENON
The season has not started yet, but the Huntington Hammer has already been making itself at home in the community.
The team, a member of the Ultimate Indoor Football League, just finalized its roster and finished training camp this week. But they have already been preparing for their place in the Hun-tington community.
Head Coach Josh Resignalo said the team had a couple events throughout the community during training camp. They had a “Pennies From Heaven” drive at the Huntington Mall among other activities. Resignalo said players have been at different events helping out and signing autographs.
“We’ve been trying to get out in the community as much as possible,” Res-ignalo said. “My goal is to be part of the community and when someone thinks about Huntington, that they will asso-ciate the Huntington Hammer as well.”
Resignalo said the response from the community so far has been mixed, but there has been more positive feedback than negative. He also said the team and those who work with it have been sure to treat it like a business. By doing
this, Resignalo said he hopes to form a relationship with the community in the sense of businesses helping one another.
“We help drive their business. We’re looking to have a good turnout this weekend and hopefully every home game, and that’s just going to drive peo-ple to downtown,” Resignalo said.
Three Marshall University alumni, Andre Portis, Terick Thomas and Erik Vint, are on the Hammer’s roster for their inaugural season. All three are for-mer Thundering Herd football players. To the coach, having players already known throughout the community is beneficial.
“Most of those players are known. With those guys having a following and the people in the community knowing who they are, they’re going to want to see them,” Resignalo said. “They’re go-ing to keep following their players. If there are players having success be-yond college, they’re going to want to see them.”
General Manager Steve Fickert also acknowledged the importance of com-munity involvement with a new team in the community.
“We’re really involved in the
Indoor football team fi nding its place in Huntington community
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Football players from the Huntington Hammer scrimmage each other.
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Senior forward Tynikki Crook rebounds a shot Thursday night against UAB. Crook scored the game winning shot with 4.3 seconds left in the game.
BY AARON PAYNETHE PARTHENON
Starting senior forward Tynikki Crook hit the eventual game-winning shot with 4.3 seconds left in the contest and took a 58-57 victory Thursday night.
This was the third game out of the last four between Marshall (7-18, 3-9 C-USA) and UAB (13-12, 5-7 C-USA) that came down to the fi-nal seconds before a winner was determined. The Blazers made one last offensive try in the last four seconds but starting sophomore guard Amber Jones’ shot did not fall.
Head coach Royce Chadwick was well aware of the past games with UAB and chalked Thursday’s home contest up as the norm.
“It was another wild UAB game,” Chadwick said. “Both teams deserved to win be-cause I think both teams played their hearts out.”
While both teams did play hard, one team had to win. Crook made sure the victorious team was the Herd.
Trailing 57-56 with 28 sec-onds remaining, Marshall worked the ball to its star forward. Crook went up for a shot but had it deflected by the Blazers’ senior guard Amanda Peterson. Crook then had the
presence of mind while the ball bounced around in the air to grab the ball and go up and make the game winning shot.
Crook has had the ball bounce the other way many times in her career and was happy to have it bounce her way for a change.
“It felt really good,” Crook said. “It’s been too many times that it’s gone the other way. I didn’t hear a whistle blow so I kept going.”
The contest, as a whole, seemed like two different games. The first half was an offensive affair as both teams combined to score 73 points. The second half was an “about face” as both teams would lock down defensively and combine for only 42 points.
In the first half, it seemed that Marshall did not have an answer for UAB’s Peter-son who had a game-high 17 points in the first half, hit-ting five out of six shots from three-point range.
The second half, the Herd began to defend Peterson better as they only allowed her to only connect on two of her six shot from three-point range. Peterson finished with a team-leading 23 points.
“Believe it or not, we slowed Amanda Peterson down some in the second half,” Chadwick said. “She was big-time for
them in the first half and re-ally hurt us a lot.”
Chadwick said he appreci-ated the way his team played defensively as a whole in the second half and for the way they battled back when trail-ing in the back-and-forth affair.
“I’m very proud of our kids for the defensive effort,” Chadwick said. “They had op-portunity after opportunity that they were behind, that they could have gotten down, but we kept together and kept fighting.”
Offensively, Crook again led Marshall as she finished with 17 points. Starting sophomore forward Veronica Ruiz con-tributed 13 points, including a three-point buzzer beater to cut the Blazers’ lead down to three at the half.
“I just looked at coach White,” Ruiz said about the buzzer beater. “She said shoot the ball. We’ve been working on the long shot all week and that was it.”
The Herd will hit the road and attempt to win back-to-back games for the first time this season in Tulsa, Okla., on Sunday. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m. CT, inside the Reynolds Center.
Aaron Payne can be contacted at [email protected].
This past Tuesday ended with a two-hour Student Senate meeting. De-bate at the meeting surrounded three
separate resolutions that were proposed to solidify and promote representation within student government. All of the resolutions had the same goal in mind: To increase participation and rep-resentation. However, the means to reach that goal varied only
slightly between the resolutions. The meeting was tense and personalities, rather than structure, were controlling the debate.
The most dramatic part of the meeting occurred when the Senate was moved into executive session. All other senators were asked to leave the room while the Judiciary Committee was pressured to ratify, amend or reject all three of the res-olutions. This had to occur before the full Senate could reconvene and conduct the rest of the business on the day’s agenda. The Judiciary Committee then had to hurry through a panicked compromise between the three resolutions.
The motion to move into executive session was ill-advised and improper. Instead of having a week to deliberate and amend the resolutions, as is cus-tomary for the Judiciary Committee, its members were rushed to finish its busi-ness. The proper time to investigate the resolutions was dismissed and healthy debate restrained. The executive session should not be used as a resource to tear resolutions through the Senate.
On the other hand, given the circum-stances, the Judiciary Committee needs to be commended for their ability to compromise. Under pressure from the varying personalities advocating for their respective resolutions, the committee was able to amend and ratify all three resolutions with a majority of Senatorial support. The three resolutions include a voting freshmen council seat in the Student Senate, allow second semester freshmen to apply for the Senate after one semester at Marshall and reappor-tion the seats to coincide with Marshall’s current demographics.
Leaving the Senate meeting, some could hear the supporter of one of the resolutions remark that he “doesn’t compromise” and that amending his resolution was careless. While advo-cating for one’s opinion, the goal of the debate must never be lost. Whether it is increasing student participation or decreasing the federal deficit, politi-cal debate requires compromise. The means to an end are not the complete final solution for any issue. The mark of a truly humble and intelligent person is evident in his/her ability to compromise on the means to an end, even if the compromise might affect the effort that that person has spent in proposing their idea.
Contact PATRICK MURPHY at [email protected].
EDITORIAL
As the month of February winds down, we have celebrat-ed separate occasions such as Valentine’s Day and Ground-hog Day, but Black History has been celebrated throughout the entire month.
Although it is celebrated nationwide, it’s something that West Virginians especially celebrate especially. Black his-tory month would not have been possible without Carter G. Woodson, the father of black History who lived in Huntington
at one point in his life. Woodson created the “Journal of Negro History” which led to the cre-ation of Negro History Week in 1926. Woodson wanted to promote knowledge of African Americans in American history and pay tribute to African Amer-icans who fought for their rights.
Americans are not required to celebrate this month, and may not desire to do so. People claim that the celebration is becoming more commercialized and it only provides opportunities to sell
more goods. Students should keep in
mind at one point in his-tory African Americans were considered nothing more than property, but some African Americans are now regarded as world leaders is significant. Students should be excited that a segment in America’s society was innovative and fought for their rights that are now cel-ebrated for an entire month. The Civil Rights movement
inspired to advance women and gay rights. Black history month isn’t just about Af-rican-Americans, but about everyone in society. From the contributions of African Americans, people who feel oppressed should be inspired to know they achieve what they want.
The Parthenon strives to be diverse and continue to rep-resenting every individual on campus. The Parthenon has published articles about famous
African Americans from West Virginia and those who have greatly impacted history.
It’s important to realize the importance of African Americans in U.S. history. De-scendants of slaves have are now being regarded as world innova-tors and leaders. We would not be where we are now in society without their actions, and that’s what makes the dedication of an entire month to them justified and necessary.
Political compromise
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“Ella Baker said if you are as strongas a group of individuals you don’t need leaders.”Joan C. Browning, quoting Ella Baker about her discussion of Freedom Riders
Black History is a month to be celebrated by everyone
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“Welcome to Facebook.”It’s the most memorable
line of David Fincher’s 2010 film “The Social Network” because it has come to define our generation as a whole, most notably those enrolled in college.
In fact, Facebook has be-come such a crucial aspect of our lives as college students that it’s hard to imagine what life would be like without it.
But for any technology to be harnessed effectively, we have to realize how to use it in moderation. With Face-book, that’s something we don’t really understand how to do yet.
That’s why I think college life would be better without Facebook — or at least with a smaller dose of it.
500 million active users, 50 percent of which log on every single day.
Facebook claims to have 200 million active mobile us-ers, all of whom use Facebook at least twice as much as the other 300 million.
More than 2.5 million web-sites have integrated it, so it’s everywhere, with 10,000 sign-ing up daily.
And yet, even with all these statistics, I think the most mouth-dropping one is this: “People spend over 700 bil-lion minutes per month on Facebook,” according to Face-book’s statistics page.
It’s safe to assume something very productive and benefi-cial could have been done with those 700 billion minutes.
If every Facebook user ac-counted for a similar share of that time, then it would come out to 23.3 hours per month, per person.
We know that’s not the case, so that means more active users are spending more than a full day per month using Facebook.
There’s a big difference be-tween social networking and being social. Although the two can reflect each other, it’s still not quite the same thing.
We haven’t replaced real social activity with an online version of it, though — we’re just doing both now. So the time has to have come from somewhere else.
Facebook is a social hub for many students. But it is just that, and it needs to be kept in its place before we allow it to interfere with other crucial aspects of our lives.
Life can still be social without networking
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official approval from the governor’s office.
Also discussed dur-ing the session was Marshall’s increase in enrollment in this aca-demic year. According to Kopp, enrollment from non-residential fresh-men has increased 1.2 percent in this academic year. Kopp said that the target goal for enroll-ment for the Fall 2011 freshmen class is 2,100.
Edward Pride, SGA representative, said Marshall has been of higher interest with re-cent updates.
“With the addition if new facilities and updates to previous de-partments,” Pride said. “Marshall has been able to aid in enrollment in recent years.”
Kopp said that by ex-tending the reach of recruitment at Marshall the entire experience of higher education would be more valuable for res-idential students.
“By making the deci-sion to increase in our recruiting efforts we hope to bring a broader range of backgrounds to Marshall,” Kopp said.
“The financial decision to send recruiters to places not heavily tar-geted in previous years will add to the experi-ence of a more diverse experience at college.”
Within the academic re-port for student athletes, Marshall had 122 student athletes on the Fall 2010 dean’s list. Forty seven percent of student ath-letes also retained a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
The Marshall Uni-versity School of Medicine will also see its largest graduating class in the history of the program. Class size in previous years has been around fifty, Kopp said. The gradu-ating class this year has 67 graduates.
The board also ap-proved a new program to be offered at Marshall. A master’s of science in athletic training will be offered in the upcom-ing fall semester. The motion was approved unanimously. The pro-gram will require 36 credit hours and will seek accreditation from the National Athletic Trainer’s Association.
William Lineberry can be contacted at [email protected].
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community. We really feel that we need to be involved with the chari-ties, the youth programs, anything where we can give back and be a part of Huntington and the tri-state area,” Fickert said.
Involvement in community orga-nizations will be a continuing theme throughout all of the Hammer’s home games. Each game has a major theme, such as Boy Scouts or Autism Awareness, along with sub-groups who may also be trying to raise money or awareness by selling some-thing or doing something at a home game.
Another aspect of the team Fick-ert spoke of was the family-friendly
atmosphere and the affordability of the games.
“We’re high-energy and fan-friendly. If the ball goes into the stands, the spectator gets to keep the ball,” Fickert said.
Both the head coach and the general manager made a point to reference all that goes on during a game. Fickert compared the games to those of a minor league baseball game, which tends to have games and other events throughout that get the crowd involved. He said that Mary Cerullo, director of team operations, likes to say it’s like “halftime at the Super Bowl and a football game breaks out.”
Resignalo also mentioned the af-fordability of attending a game.
“You can take a family of four to
our game and have a good seat and get a hot dog and a drink and you spend less money than you would at the movie theaters,” Resignalo said. “At the same time, we bring more action than a movie theater, sitting there in a dark room.
Single game tickets range from $7 to $25. College students who bring their school ID can receive a $7 for $5. Prices for season tickets, which include the seven regular season home games, start at $35.
The Huntington Hammer will host their first home game of the inau-gural season Sun., Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. against the Canton Cougars. Tickets are still available.
Ashley Mannon can be contacted at [email protected].
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BY KATHERINE SKIBACHICAGO TRIBUNE(MCT)
WASHINGTON—Education Sec-retary Arne Duncan said Thursday that his department takes “very se-riously” concerns from two families’ that the University of Notre Dame failed to swiftly and fully investi-gate their daughters’ accusations of being sexually attacked on campus.
Duncan noted that his depart-ment’s Office for Civil Rights has an ongoing review of how Notre Dame handles allegations of sexual misconduct.
“I can’t go through the details of it. It is an open complaint that we are investigating very seri-ously,” Duncan said. “I don’t know the timeframe of that being done, but we take those concerns very
seriously.”The Education Department’s re-
view was prompted by a Tribune story in November detailing the case of Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg, who killed herself nine days after accusing a student of sexual bat-tery. Seeberg’s family questioned the campus police’s reluctance to gather evidence in the case, the lack of transparency in the inves-tigation and the 15-day wait to interview the accused.
On Thursday, the Tribune re-ported that a second family has accused the university of fail-ing to properly investigate their daughter’s report of being sexually attacked in a residence hall, and did not interview the accused until 11 days after the incident.
Seeberg and the second woman were both 19-year-old sophomores
from neighboring St. Mary’s Col-lege. No charges were filed in either case.
Seeberg’s parents, Tom and Mary Seeberg, issued a statement in re-sponse to the latest story and called on Notre Dame to make immediate changes.
“We are saddened to hear that Notre Dame’s investigatory pro-cess has failed another young woman, another family who be-lieved that Notre Dame would live its values,” the parents said. “It is time for change. It is time for leadership. Our family re-mains focused on the next woman who brings such allegations for-ward. And we remain committed to seeking justice for Lizzy, so that justice will be served for oth-ers. Our prayers are with this young woman and her family.”
Notre Dame sexual-assault complaints taken seriously, education secretary says
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WOODBURY, N.Y. — In a poised and lively appearance before busi-ness executives in Woodbury on Thursday, Sarah Palin remained coy about whether she will run for president next year.
Asked directly if she would be a candidate, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said, “I am still thinking about it. Cer-tainly haven’t made up my mind, couldn’t make a decision yet.”
Minutes later, however, Palin said voters were seeking “uncon-ventional” candidates who will “shake up” government. Her ideal candidate, she said, is a mother with experience in both politics and business, such as herself.
Palin, accompanied by her daughter Bristol, answered ques-tions from Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association, for 70 minutes before a crowd of about 1,000 at the Crest Hollow Coun-try Club. Palin was paid for her
appearance, but the LIA declined to say how much.
The former Alaska governor was animated and at times made fun of herself, referring to her love of moose hunting and the time she wrote notes on her hand for a speech.
The LIA is a far cry from the conservative and tea party groups Palin usually addresses. Her rhet-oric Thursday was less strident, though she made her positions clear on the federal budget, gun control, foreign policy and other issues.
Responding to a question about the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre that killed six, Palin de-nounced new efforts at gun control. “The bad guys aren’t going to follow laws that are on the books today. They aren’t going to follow any new laws, either,” Palin said to some applause.
Still, she saved her strongest criticism for President Barack Obama’s $3.73 trillion budget pro-posal unveiled Monday. She said it does little to reduce the estimated
$14 trillion national debt and un-dermines job growth by increasing taxes.
Palin: ‘Haven’t made up my mind’ on 2012 run
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks Thursday at the annual meeting of the Long Island Association at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York.
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Beatle-mania strikes Marshall’s campus in 1964BY ERIN MILLERTHE PARTHENON
This week in Marshall history: It’s 1964 and a group of iconic musicians affect Marshall stu-dents without ever stepping foot on campus, Marshall’s first doc-toral program is proposed by the science department and students begin think about grades.
Where were you Sunday night?
This was a question proposed by the 1964 Parthenon, knowing most students on campus were positioned in front of their televi-sions cheering on the Beatles.
Margaret Warth, the hall mother at Laidley Hall, described the scene in the television room.
“There were easily 40 girls packed into that little room,” Warth said. Warth went on to explain how little she liked the Beatles but they had certainly become “a sign of our times.”
Prichard Hall reported even higher numbers of ladies gather-ing to watch, a crowd of around 75 gathered downstairs to view the performance. Student reactions were taken from all over campus on the band and everyone was ea-ger to weigh in on “Beatle-mania.”
“They’re original,” Patricia Mo-rell said. “After all, have you ever seen anything like them?” But not everyone was so taken with
English natives. “The Beatles are a passing fad,”
Jerry Phelps said. “The only reason they are popular is their unconven-tional rhythm.”
Marshall’s first doctoral program
A proposal was made to estab-lish a Ph.D. program in chemistry, the first that would be attempted at Marshall.
This proposal outlined the costs and steps that must be taken for such a program to begin on campus.
“Marshall University is the heart of the chemical industry,” Harold Waker said in explanation to the benefits of such a program.
Waker went on to outline the steps still needed before a Ph.D. program could be established.
The article explained before they could move forward, they would first have to seek ap-proval by a committee of the W.Va. Board of Education to hire a consultant to help Mar-shall map out such a program. Then a proposal prepared for submission to the state board of education. Lastly, North Central Association of Col-leges and Secondary Schools would have to accept it.
The consultant would work out issues such as cost and program schedules after they were hired.
While the chemistry depart-ment still cannot offer its students a Ph.D. program, Marshall still offers five Bachelor of Science degrees in chemistry and a Master of Science Degree in chemistry.
Harold Elmore, assistant dean of the College of Science, ex-plained through email that the Science Department’s statistics look good and enrollment has continued to rise over the last few years, going from 1,109 stu-dents in 2005 to 1,327 student
in 2010. Equaling a rise of about 17.5 percent.
It’s all in the letterStudents throughout time
have worked on ways to im-prove their grades and better their education. And in 1964 they were thinking about this very thing.
So early into the year only a few grades were actually on the books, but students still stressed over the inevitable grades to come.
This refers to the low-grade
letters that were sent out warning students of the need to improve. While this practice has changed greatly in the last few years, the practice does still exist.
“Now those letters are only sent to freshmen,” said Tammy Johnson, director of admissions at Marshall. “Around 1,300 of letters go out each year, but some stu-dents will get more than one. The date they start going out will be on March 9.” Erin Miller can be reached at [email protected].
BY CRYSTAL MYERSTHE PARTHENON
The first African American author to win the Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks, made her way into history with a unique style of poetry.
At Marshall University, Brooks has also made an impression on the Eng-lish department where many professors have added her work to their course curriculum, whether it’s teaching or reading her work. “We Real Cool” is a poem a handful of English professors on campus said was a favorite.
English professor Arthur Stringer said the poem is set in the voice of young street punks and tells the truth about self-de-struction using abrupt phrasing and pure rhymes to highlight the tragedy. Stringer, and English professor Caroline Harris, said the poem is one they have both loved.
“Though I have never taught her work, her poem ‘We Real Cool’ was an early favorite of mine, and perhaps what sub-consciously got me interested in poetry, the concentration for my degrees,” Har-ris said.
English professor Eric Smith said he will be teaching Brooks’ poetry this se-mester and knows students are excited about Brook’s works. Fellow English professor John Young also said in his experience with students Brooks’ work has been well liked.
“Probably the most popular of her po-ems among students is ‘We Real Cool’, as it’s fairly accessible and seems to speak to a younger generation,” Young said.
It was not until her second book of poetry, “Annie Al-len” that Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize. From then on, she was the recipient of a mul-tiple of awards.
In the mid-1960s, Brooks stopped publishing her work with major New York firms as she became more involved with the Black Arts movement, the artistic side of the Civil Rights movement. Brooks only published her work with presses owned by African American publishers. This decision caused many of Brooks’ later poems to be read less. Young said Brooks’ choice was fascinating.
“In my estimation, the later work is just as interesting and important, if not more so,” Young said. “Brooks was al-ready established as a poet at the time, part of the cost was effectively disap-pearing from anthologies as far as the second half of her career is concerned.”
Brooks made an impact as one of the most well known poets in the U.S. dur-ing the 1950s. Young said he would definitely recommend Brooks to college students today.
“Many of the themes she addresses, though local to the particular environ-ments of he community in Chicago in the 1950s and forward, still speak to the kinds of situations many college students find themselves in currently,” Young said. Crystal Myers can be contacted at [email protected].
English department studies Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks
COURTESY OF MCTPulitizer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks made history with her teaching and poetry. She died in 2000.
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KURT STRAZDINS | MCT The Beatles were a big hit on Marshall’s campus in 1964.
