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An independent study of the Huntington Fire De-partment has made more than 150 reccomendations to improve a department that is straining for money and people.

In early fall of 2011, Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe hired The Mc-Grath Group, a f ir m that specializes in con-sulting for emergency ser vices, to conduct the audit.

During January, the city hired a interim chief and receievd the results of the McGrath study.

“I’m impressed with the adeptness, in reading recommendations of the study,” Wolfe said. Wolfe said he’s “Cautious not to focus on one or two, but the body of the whole study.”

One of the recommen-dations of the study is to increase the staffing levels of the department. Hun-tington Fire Captain Brett Gaeger said he is in full support.

“I’m in full agreement with having more people,” Gaeger said. “Absolutely, it will increase the safety of our fi re men and women.”

The big issue the depart-ment faces is money. With a city facing a deficit around $4 million, Mayor Wolfe said the recommenda-tions will be taken with the money shortfall in mind.

“We want to keep the city and firefighters safe, while working with in the finan-cial constraint,” Wolfe said.

As the city faces cash flow problems, the McGrath study has some financial recommendations of its own. Gaeger said points

of the study push reductions in pay, something he doesn’t agree with.

“It’s not just a job, it’s a career,” Gaeger said. “If they reduce the rates of the future firefighters, they’re not going to get quality firefighters.”

Another recommenda-tion the study made was to reduce the number of false alarm calls. Mayor Wolfe said the study indicated most of the fi re department calls were to assist with emergency medical calls. Wolfe said the study found that only 11 percent of the calls were for actual fi res. Wolfe said the study indi-cated the number of false alarm calls needed to be reduced.

“30 percent are false alarms, and that surprised me,” Wolfe said.

Gaeger doesn’t under-stand how the station can

reduce the number of false alarms. “People have alarm systems for a reason,” Gaeger said. “How can we dictate re-ducing false alarms?”

As the city and fi re

department move forward in a new year, the fi re offi -cials and city council will be pouring over the results of the study in a city council meeting Thursday.

Study suggests improvements to Huntington Fire Department

BY JOANIE BORDERSTHE PARTHENON

The Student Resource Center is helping students get involved on campus with a workshop highlighting the importance of extracurric-ular activities.

The workshop, “Making Your Mark on Campus,” is hosted by the Student Resource Center and is targeted to help students get involved at Marshall University and create a per-sonal network of people that will help them succeed.

“College is a lifestyle,” said Jessica Jordan, re-source specialist for the SRC. “You grow into being an adult, have new experi-ences, grow up and come out a totally different person than when you started. Being involved in extracurricular activities are what help form you into being the best pos-sible person you can be.”

The workshop will include information of who is im-portant, as a student, to have as a part of your network of contacts, resume tips, internships and how to get involved. Lists of all the cam-pus clubs, organizations and groups will be made available so that students can become aware of the various different opportu-nities that are available on Marshall’s campus. Each student will have a chance to meet with a resource specialist to create their own of list of important contacts and organizations that are suited for their ma-jor and interests.

Jordan said networking is important because it is vital to a successful career.

“When students apply for jobs, future employers are looking for people who have experience, references and been involved in work in their fi eld,” Jordan said. “Networking now, while in college, can help you achieve all these things.”

Michelle Barbour, Career Services counselor, said students should always fi nd something that relates to their major.

“It’s a great way to get in touch with future employ-ers and meet students with the same career path,” Bar-bour said. “You never know who you might meet that has a connection that could be helpful in the future.”

Barbour said many students look for paid in-ternships, but volunteer opportunities are impor-tant, too.

“Volunteering and after school programs are a great way to earn experience

BY ASHLEY FOSTERTHE PARTHENON

The Huntington Mu-seum of Art is hosting free tours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

The event is open to the public, and admission is free. The focus of the eve-ning is the exhibit titled “Macy’s Presents Haiti to Huntington: A Journey of Color,” which includes Haitian Art and Blenko Glass.

Cindy Dearborn, Ed-ucation Director of Huntington Museum of Art, said she expects the ex-hibit to be a huge hit with the public because of the intri-cate designs and history of the pieces.

“This is a great collection,” Dearborn said. “The Haitian art just amazes you with the amazing pops of color.”

The exhibit will feature works from the Huntington Museum of Art’s Winslow Anderson Collection. The late Winslow Anderson was the fi rst designer for Blenko Glass in 1948. His designs include bright, bold colors to refl ect Haitian Art.

There will be a reception following the tour. Visitors will be able to enjoy compli-mentary cookies and punch.

The Huntington Museum of Art will also be collecting donations to the Hunting-ton Area Food Bank upon entry to the Tuesday Tours.

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The McGrath study suggest more than 150 recommendations to improve the Huntington Fire Department. According to a press release, these include the need for accurate data, reducing the number of fi re alarms and tracking simultaneous calls.

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BY REBECCA STEPHENSTHE PARTHENON

Donna Spindel, dean of Marshall Universi-ty’s Graduate College, will host a workshop for graduate students about the process of submitting their theses and disserta-tions at 4 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Student Resource Center.

Graduate students are required to submit their theses and dissertations electronically, and the process is relatively new, Spindel said.

The workshop is designed so that graduate students are able to watch Spindel go step-by-step through the submission process.

While not difficult, some students have anxiety about how to submit their theses and dissertations,” Spindel said. “We’re just there to show them how easy it is and to be avail-able to answer questions. Most institutions in the country, not all, but most institutions, do require their students to submit

this way.”Graduate students must

register for an account with UMI ProQuest, an interna-tional organization used for electronic publishing and provide information about themselves, about the program and about the thesis, Spindel said.

Students can then chose if they would like to put in an order for a bound copy of their theses or dissertations for an ex-tra cost. Otherwise, there is no charge for graduate students.

College and university libraries used to prepare bound copies for students, but for a significant cost, Spindel said. More librar-ies are no longer doing this and are instead using elec-tronic publications.

“All of our theses and dissertations are available going back many, many years,” Spindel said. “We basically have an open li-brary catalog. This catalog is available to anyone, any-where in the world.”

Students should attend because they need to un-derstand the preparation process, and they will get a lot of information that they would not otherwise get, said Vicki Stroeher, associate professor of mu-sic history.

“Because the thesis is the end product of your hard effort, then you need to know how to deal with it properly,” Stroeher said.

Rebecca Stephens can be contacted at ste-phens107@marshall.edu.

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BY FRANCES LAZELLTHE PARTHENON

Spring 2012 recruitment begins this week with in-terest meetings on Jan. 24 and 25 for the Zeta Rho chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed business fraternity on Marshall University’s campus.

The interest meetings will be at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 24 and at noon Jan. 25 in Corbly Hall.

The fraternity is one of the two co-ed business fraternities on campus that offers students the opportunity to become involved on campus and has the core values of brotherhood, knowl-edge, integrity, service and unity.

Raymond Cousins, senior vice president of recruitment for Al-pha Kappa Psi, said the fraternity is looking to increase the number of new members.

“We are graduat-ing a lot of members so we are tr ying to get

younger members just to keep our traditions alive,” Cousins said. “Older students are able to still join, but we are definitely looking for younger members as well.”

“The students who join business frater-nities have the same mindset of what they want to do in life,” Cousins said. “We kind of look for students who are like us or have to the same skills, maybe not academically, but socially or something of that nature.”

Joining a business fra-ternity is a great way to network and to gain the experience that is needed when in the work place or when one is looking for a career, Cousins said.

Being part of a busi-ness fraternity has its advantages, especially because a large major-ity of the cur rent work force was part one in college, Cousins said.

“We do go around and interview with dif fer-ent businesses, we go and tour dif ferent busi-nesses,” Cousins said.

Cousins said the fraternity looks for students who are moti-vated, have leadership qualities and bring posi-tive assets to the group.

“They can gain a sense of leadership,” Cousins said. “This is my first active semester, and I’ve already taken a leader-ship role.”

The fraternity will also host a bowling event Feb. 9 and a game night Feb. 16.

The fraternity ac-cepts all students studying accounting, business, economics, fi-nance, graphic design, management, man-agement information systems, marketing, public relations, sports management and other business-related fields.

Frances Lazell can be contacted at lazell2@marshall.edu.

BY JUSTON DONADIEUTHE PARTHENON

Amnesty International will host “LGBTQ Around the World: A Discussion” at 7 p.m. Friday in the John Deaver Drinko Library.

LGBTQ is a worldwide resource network and stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning. The event is a forum in which students are encouraged to dis-cuss human rights issues and violations around the globe – specifically those related to gender equality.

Ashley Clark, senior political science ma-jor and president and founder of Marshall’s chapter of Amnesty Inter-national, said the forum is a chance to be an activ-ist for a good cause and make some good friends.

The discussion will be led by a panel of three speakers, including

Marshall University po-litical science professors Shawn Schulenberg and Shawn King, as well as Zachary Morris, senior computer and info tech-nologies major.

“We hope to make the struggle for equality and against discrimination something that our audi-ence can identify with,” said Arynn Cooper, se-nior international affairs major and vice president of the Marshall chapter of Amnesty International.

Amnesty International is a student organiza-tion to raise awareness about global human rights issues. According to the event’s Face-book page, students and faculty involved in Amnesty Inter national are from a variety of backgrounds.

Juston Donadieu can be contacted at dona-dieu@marshall.edu.

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LONDON–Europe slapped a boycott on Ira-nian oil Monday, signaling that the Islamic Republic’s second-largest market is likely to dry up as part of a U.S.-led campaign of sanctions that has already inflicted serious damage on Iran’s economy and sharply increased tensions.

The value of Iran’s currency is falling dramati-cally, prices are rising and Iranians are stocking up on supplies in fear of worse to come. Iran, which earns an estimated 70 percent of its revenue from oil sales, has threatened to retaliate by choking off the flow of oil through the Strait of Hor-muz at the southern end of the Persian Gulf.

The U.S. says it will not permit the strait to be closed, and over the week-end sent the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln through

the strait and into the gulf. There were no incidents.

European officials hope the new measures, in con-junction with tougher sanctions being imposed by Washington, will force Tehran back to the bargain-ing table over its nuclear enrichment program. Iran says the program is for peaceful purposes; the U.S. and its European allies suspect it of trying to build nuclear weapons.

The new measure im-posed by the 27-nation EU, which had been in the works for weeks, puts all new or proposed oil deals with Iran on ice. In a con-cession to countries in southern Europe, many of which depend more heavily on Iranian imports and are struggling economically, existing contracts can run through the end of June, giving them time to find new suppliers.

Iran reacted defiantly. “The embargo will not af-fect Iran, and considering the economic turmoil in Europe, it will de facto hurt

the EU members more than Iran,” Alaeddin Borou-jerdi, head of parliament’s foreign policy committee, told the ISNA news agency.

Foreign Ministry spokes-man Ramin Mehmanparast said it would not stop Iran’s nuclear program. “Imposing economic sanc-tions is illogical and unfair, but will not stop our nation from obtaining its rights,” he said.

In addition, the EU froze assets held in Europe by Iran’s central bank. It also proscribed trade in gold, precious metals and dia-monds between the EU and Iranian public bodies.

British Foreign Secre-tary William Hague called the package “an unprec-edented set of sanctions” that ought to encourage similar action by other nations.

European officials em-phasized their desire to see Tehran re-enter talks over its nuclear program. “The pressure of sanctions is de-signed to try and make sure that Iran takes seriously

our request to come to the table and meet,” Catherine Ashton, the EU’s top diplo-mat, said.

In the past, Europe often has resisted U.S. efforts to build pressure on Iran.

“If you had told me a year or two ago that the Europe-ans would do something like this, I would have said you were crazy,” said Mark Dubowitz, executive direc-tor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a research group in Wash-ington that favors strong sanctions.

European governments have embraced tougher measures now partly out of frustration over Iran’s unwillingness to negotiate, but also because they fear that that Israel, the United States or others could turn to military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program if economic pressure fails.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the EU embargo a step in the right direction. “Very

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BY HENRY CULVYHOUSETHE PARTHENON

Even though political sci-ence professor Simon Perry retired from Marshall Uni-versity in 2010, the courses he founded in constitu-tional education continue to thrive.

Last August, the Col-lege of Liberal Arts launched the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy, a program supporting the education of the United States Con-stitution through courses

developed by Perry, a prelaw advising program and a lecture series. The center offers courses on constitutional law, the founding of the constitu-tion and constitutional history by collaborating with the history, politi-cal science, sociology and English departments.

Patricia Proctor, direc-tor of the program, said the main goal of the cen-ter is to teach how the Constitution applies to today’s political climate.

“One of the key things

this center wants to do is teach students that the Constitution is relevant right now, politics is rel-evant right now,” Proctor said.

David Pittenger, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said the program’s multidisciplinary ap-proach is crucial for its success.

“Anthropology, English, philosophy and business are interested in study-ing law,” Pittenger said. “It’s a big tent that can hold lots of folks.”

Proctor said the pro-gram’s prelaw advising program has been a huge success for the program. She said from her expe-rience as a practicing lawyer in Huntington, it is an asset for advising students interested in law.

“I think it’s helpful for people to have a pre-law adviser who’s been through the process of law school and actually practiced law,” Proctor said.

Last semester, the

program sponsored the Marshall’s Amicus Cur-iae Lecture Series on Constitutional Democ-racy. The lecture series featured talks about the relationship between the judicial system and the Constitution by profes-sors from around the country. Proctor said the lecture series was a huge success.

Pittenger said the five-month-old program might expand beyond the College of Liberal Arts.

“We’re beginning to

explore how other col-leges and departments can participate in teach-ing courses that are germane in the study of the law,” Pittenger said. “There are many differ-ent areas, many programs that can contribute to it.”

The Marshall’s Amicus Curiae Lecture Series is set to kick off in Febru-ary. Details on the series will be announced at a later date.

Henry Culvyhouse can be contacted at culvy-house@marshall.edu.

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BY LAWREN HIGHTOWERTHE PARTHENON

The Marshall Univer-sity women’s basketball ball team has put together a strong start to the 2011-2012 basketball season. The team is 12-6 overall and 3-2 in Conference USA.

One reason for the Herd’s success is assistant coach Ed Geth.

Geth, in his fi rst sea-son as an assistant for the Herd, spent the previous seven seasons working as an assistant coach for the Wofford Terriors woman’s basketball team.

Geth attended college at the University of North Car-olina where he played on two fi nal four teams in 1993 and 1995.

With all his experience in the post, Geth has helped lead the Herd to a No. 24 na-tional ranking in rebounding margin, out rebounding op-ponents by an average of 7.6 boards per game.

“Those numbers are good, and I’m proud of those numbers,” Geth said. “But my focus has always been on the fi nal product. The goal is to be playing in a post season tournament in March.”

Geth brings a winning attitude to Marshall. The main focus of the team is to continue this great start to the season and participate in March Madness.

“He has instant credibil-ity,” said Royce Chadwick, head coach of the Marshall woman’s basketball team. “He has been successful

before, and the players re-late. They understand that he has been in the same po-sition that they are in. They listen to him. They love him.”

Geth said, when he coaches, he loves to give players incentives and goals to work toward. He said he believes his coaching style is more directed toward having an appreciation for the game, rather than being a hard-nosed, tough coach.

“I always tell my players that our ultimate goal is to win games,” Geth said. “We have a saying in the locker room: ‘It may not be your night tonight, it might be your night tonight, but it’s always the team’s night.’ Everyone has a role, and ev-eryone plays their role well. They work great together as a group.”

Replacing all conference performer Tynikki Crook has been a challenge, but Coach Chadwick said he is proud of what his group and players have done.

“We had to replace Tynikki (Crook), and our team has done a great job of doing it by committee,” Chadwick said. “We have had players step up each and every night, and Coach Geth, as well as the rest of our coaching staff, has done an amazing job preparing the team.”

The next game for the woman’s basketball team is Thursday at 8 p.m. at Memphis.

Lawren Hightower can be contacted at hightower5@marshall.edu.

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Assistant coach Ed Geth takes time to converse with an offi cial during the Aces Winter Classic in Evansville, Ind. Geth played basketball at the University of North Carolina in the early 90s. Geth said while he enjoys the improved numbers the Herd post players are putting up, earning a post-season tournament spot is his ultimate goal.

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BY ADAM ROGERSTHE PARTHENON

One week after the 2012 Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic, I thought it was time

to look back at the splitting of the women’s and men’s games.

The Capital Classic used to take place in one evening, with the West Virginia and

Marshall women’s basket-ball teams playing around 5:30 p.m. and the men’s teams playing at approxi-mately 8 p.m.

This season, the univer-sities decided to move the women’s game to Tuesday night in hopes of better attendance.

When the initial decision became known to the public, I thought it was a risky move and wondered what would happen if people still did not come out to support the Thundering Herd or Moun-taineer women’s teams.

Especially after last year’s 78-21 win by WVU.

Marshall women’s bas-ketball head coach Royce Chadwick was skeptical of the change of dates for his team because the Thundering Herd had a game Sunday af-ternoon, which did not leave his staff much time to pre-pare for the Mountaineers.

During the game, Marshall saw junior forward Alyse Poindexter go down with an injury.

This is the second year in a row a Marshall women’s basketball player suffered an injury during the Capital Classic.

After this year’s game, Coach Chadwick said he would like to see the game moved to November.

“If we’re going to be in the situation where we always lose somebody, I’d rather lose them for a week in No-vember,” Chadwick said. “I’d rather go home and home. Go to West Virginia one year, and then come to Marshall the next. We don’t draw well in November because every-body is jacked up on football, and rightfully so.

“But if we could get West Virginia in there, we maybe could get a good crowd. I don’t think West Virginia draws well in November, and I think if we got Marshall in there that people would come see it.”

West Virginia head coach Mike Carey said it does not matter to him when the two teams meet up.

“We’ve tried playing at 5:30 and 6:30 and now we’ve tried playing on Tuesday,” Carey said. “Let’s just do whatever.”

As I sat on the fl oor inside the Charleston Civic Center, I looked around and thought that if fewer than 2,000 peo-ple came out to support the teams, then it would be a wasted effort.

In last season’s game, only 2,023 fans came to watch the women’s edition of the Capi-tal Classic, and most of them arrived with approximately fi ve minutes left in the game.

When the PA announcer addressed the crowd having an attendance of 3,264, I al-most fell back in shock.

I’m not usually one to take being proven wrong well, but I was glad in this instance.

Nothing noticeable changed for the men’s game.

As more than 12,000 fans, clad in green and white and blue and gold, came out to watch the other team lose and no bad blood had been lost since the two met up in early September for the Friends of Coal Bowl.

One Marshall fan was even spotted with a sign that read “Almost Heaven” next to a Marshall logo inside the state of West Virginia and

“Almost Jersey” next to a West Virginia logo.

If I were to give the 2012 Capital Classic a grade, then it would be an A.

Two media rooms were set up and used during both games and postgame coach interviews actually took place in one of them, instead of in the hallway.

Fan turnout was larger than I anticipated for both games, especially the wom-en’s game, and I hope that both fans continue to come out and support their teams as the Capital Classic event goes on.

Adam Rogers can be contacted at rogers112@marshall.edu.

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Marshall womenʼs basketball head coach Royce Chadwick looks on at his team during the 2012 Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic.

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Marshall fans cheer on the Thundering Herd menʼs basketball team at the Charleston Civic Center during the Capital Classic.

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BY JORDAN BEANTHE PARTHENON

I’ve been thinking a lot about this SOPA and PIPA business lately. It is ap-propriate to say that most people have. I go back and forth on whether or not I think that the bill is to-tally worthy of the uproar it has produced (call me old school, but largely, our generation doesn’t get roy-ally peeved until someone threatens to take away our luxuries), but I’m glad to see that the masses are paying attention.

The thing about it that most frightened me was that Megaupload.com, a hugely popular file shar-ing website started in 2005, was shut down on Jan. 19. before any decision had been made in regards to SOPA or

PIPA. In writing this column ,I typed the site name into my browser just to see what would show up, and I got a page displaying only the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and IPR Center logos along with a message that read: “This domain name associated with the website Megaupload.com has been seized pursuant to an or-der issued by a U.S. District Court.”

What. The. Hell. Seized? That’s terrifying. It’s not so much that I can no longer use Megaupload.com to satisfy my “American Hor-ror Story” addiction, it’s that our government took action on a bill that hadn’t yet passed.

Of course, the website’s history hasn’t been totally clean. It has taken some hits in the past few years,

being blocked in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in May 2010, Malaysia in June 2011 and India in July 2011. So, you could argue that they had it coming, that it would hap-pen eventually. But aren’t we supposed to be the pro-gressive, forward-thinking Internet community? Isn’t the Internet in this country supposed to be available for everyone to access whatever information they want?

Granted, I don’t think that pirating is morally right. I do believe very strongly that art-ists who’ve made it far enough to get their albums produced or their shows on TV or their movies in theaters deserve all of the benefits they’ve worked so hard for. But I also believe in free access of information and it’s a difficult argument to make, whether or

not file-sharing websites should be wiped off the face of the Internet.

I guess the point is that it scares me to think that the day may be rapidly approaching when it’s not just file shar-ing sites that are eliminated, it’s also Wikipedia, Google, Firefox, news websites, gam-ing websites... how can we continue to develop, to innovate, to push for-ward as a society without free use of the internet? So much of what we as a society are capable of at this point in our existence revolves around what we can access online and without it we would be taking enor-mous leaps backwards.

So let’s keep fighting this thing, alright?

Jordan bean can be contacted at bean19@marshal l .edu.

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BY MICHAEL McATEERThE paRThENoN

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention re-cently reported that we, as a county, are in categorical denial about our lack of mental hygiene and that it is costing us not only in monetary value, but also in quality of life. The CDC estimates that mental illness cost us $300 bil-lion in 2002. That’s not what we paid in coun-seling and prescription anti-depressant. No, that is what it cost us to not take care of our men-tal illnesses. The CDC also reports that it is estimated that “about 25 percent of U.S. adults have a mental illness.”

The CDC conducts the “The Youth Risk Behav-ior Survey” to assess “health-risk behaviors among 9th–12th grade students in the United States including behaviors that contribute to injuries and violence; alcohol or other drug use; tobacco use; sexual risk behav-iors; unhealthy dietary behaviors and physical inactivity.”

It should be no sur-prise, given what I said above about the overall health of West Virginians that our teens are at high risk for mental health is-sues. Of the 21 categories of the survey reserved for “Unintentional Injury or Violence,” West Virgin-ian self-reporting teens were above the national average in 13 areas. West Virginian teens were twice the national aver-age for a“suicide attempt resulted in an injury, poi-soning or overdose that had to be treated by a doctor or nurse.” Also, teens were

well above the national average for “seriously considered attempting suicide.” West Virgin-ian teens were also well above the national average in other key high-risk areas, such as tobacco and alco-hol abuse and sexual and dietary behaviors. And remember, these are 14-18 year olds self-reporting!

I know from first-hand experience about high risk behaviors and mental illness, grow-ing up in West Virginia myself. I have been deal-ing with periodic bouts of suicidal depression all of my life, and even went through a period of alcohol and drug abuse which was partially re-lated to my untreat e d d ep r e s s i o n . I wa s i n my t h i r t i e s b e f o r e I s o u g h t h e l p a n d c o n s idered suic ide hundreds of t imes in the interim, suf fering silently. This does not have to be the plight of the young people of our community and families.

Fortunately, there are many c o m mu n i t y r e -s o u rces in the state which specialize in the treatment of mental illness. For many, it is still a stigma which must be overcome, but can be beat. I only wish that I hadn’t waited so long to seek treatment. If only I had reached out for mental health counseling at age 14 or 15 instead of 31 or 32, how much needless suf fering I could have missed.

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W.a.’s proposed vote for gay marriage should be one of many

The state of Washington received enough votes to legalize gay marriage on Monday. It is likely that the state will now work toward enacting the bill and mak-ing gay marriage officially legal. Washington will now, theoretically, become the seventh state in the United States to legalize gay marriage. Officially, Washing-ton has not legalized gay marriage yet but with the decision by many officials to endorse gay marriage and the final vote in the near future, they are well on their way.

The decision in Washington comes at a point in time where many states are facing the same question: Do same sex couples have the right to be married by the state? Yes, they do. Washington, will hopefully act as the catalyst that will force other states to consider revising their current statutory laws that state same-sex couples are not legally entitled to be married.

Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen served as the 25th vote that would enable the bill to be passed. Haugen, a self-proclaimed Christian, stated her beliefs were “very strong.” And yet, she was able to put aside her convictions and be the vote which will get the bill passed.

“I have always believed in traditional marriage between a man and a woman,” Sen. Haugen said Monday. “That is what I believe, to this day. But this issue

isn’t about just what I believe. It’s about respecting others, including people who may believe differently than I. It’s about whether everyone has the same opportunities for love and compan-ionship and family and security that I have enjoyed.”

Sen. Haugen’s example should not be overlooked by those who oppose same-sex marriage. She makes a point that should have been made many years ago. People are entitled to their religion, but that religion should not govern the rest of society. This is why there is a separation of church and state. To truly call ourselves a “free coun-try,” there are many more steps we need to take, one of those steps being that all couples, gay or straight, have the right to be married. Unfortunately, it seems that there is no epiphany sweeping through all 50 states in favor of legalizing gay marriage. However, each state that legalizes gay marriage is one more state that has stripped itself of holding oppressive laws to its people.

Sen. Haugen sets an example for all that disagree with gay marriage on a religious premise. She has looked beyond her beliefs and acted upon her in-stinct to allow others what she has had in her life. Love. Companionship. Comfort. No one should be deprived of these, and they should be able to con-summate them with marriage. Gay marriage should be legal in all states.

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strong and quick pressure on Iran is necessary,” he said.

Russia slammed the EU’s move as a serious error. “Under such pressure, Iran will make no concessions and no correction of its policy,” the Foreign Minis-try said.

Among the strongest champions of an oil embargo were EU power-houses Britain, France and Germany, none of them major buyers of Iranian crude.

But Greece, already teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, has been es-pecially worried about replacing Iranian oil with new, more expensive

supplies. A Spanish of-ficial earlier this month said a boycott would cause “huge damage” to his country’s economy. In a nod to such concerns, the EU agreed that it would review the effects of the embargo by May 1.

The ef fect of the embargo has been am-plified by a new round of U.S. sanctions, which,

if fully implemented, would prevent compa-nies that do business with Iran’s central bank from doing business with U.S. companies.

The embargo is part of a Western ef fort to convince countries that consume Iranian oil to find other sources, shar ply reducing Iran’s oil income.

Donations are voluntar y and can be given to any Huntington Museum of Art Staf f Member on the day of the event.

“This is jus t our way o f g iv ing back to the community,” Dearbor n said. “Any do-nations will be greatly appreciated.”

This free tour will be the f irst of the Tuesday

Tours taking place at the Huntington Museum of Ar t. Each four th Tues-day of each month will feature a free tour. Each tour wi l l have a unique theme and exhib i t .

For more infor mation,

about the Tuesday Tour s, contact Cindy Dearbor n wi th the Hunt ington Museum of Ar t .

Ashley Foster can be c o n t a c t e d a t f o s -t e r 1 0 8 @ m a r s h a l l .

and a better knowledge as to what professionals do,” Barbour said.

Carson Terwilliger, senior pre-pharmacy stu-dent from Ellicott City, Md., said he knows the importance of being in-volved, but also standing out to future employers.

“It seems like almost ev-erybody has the required GPA or internship, but extra clubs and activities

are what really make you stand out and allow you to have a little fun,” Terwil-liger said.

Terwilliger, vice presi-dent of the lacrosse team, recruitment chair of Delta Chi and a resident assis-tant in Willis Hall, said he knows it is not all about having a nice resume. Making the most of his college years is important to him.

“Everybody grows up and says ‘remember back in college,” Terwilliger

said. “Well, this is that time. Do you want to grow up and have nothing to say or no stories to tell? I know I’ll be hanging with the guys I met here for a very long time.”

Terwilliger took advisees on his floor in Willis Hall to Jordan’s workshop last year.

“This program is a great idea because there are so many organizations and clubs that people are un-aware of,” Terwilliger said. “After seeing the list given out by the SRC, I

became aware of at least 20 new organizations.”

The workshop is at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednes-day in First Year South Residence Hall in room 1150 and at 11 a.m. in the Student Resource Center. The SRC is lo-cated on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Joanie Borders can be contacted a t b o r-d e rs 9 @ m a rs h a l l . e d u .

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A former CIA officer was charged Monday with disclosing classified in-formation to journalists, the latest prosecution in an Obama administration crackdown on national secu-rity leaks.

If convicted, John Kiriakou could face decades in prison. He is accused of providing secrets, including the name and activities of one of his

undercover colleagues, to unidentified reporters, ac-cording to a federal criminal complaint. One of the jour-nalists is alleged to have turned over the name of the covert CIA officer to attorneys representing a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.

Separately, Kiriakou alleg-edly gave another reporter _ whom the complaint makes clear is Scott Shane of the New York Times _ informa-tion used in a 2008 story that identified CIA analyst Deuce Martinez as a key figure in the interrogation of Abu

Zubaydah, an al-Qaida logis-tics chief who was subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as water-boarding. Martinez was not working undercover, but his role was classified. The New York Times had no com-ment, spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said.

At a hearing in Alexandria, Va., on Monday, a federal judge ordered Kiriakou released on a $250,000 un-secured bond. Kiriakou’s attorney, Plato Cacheris, said afterward that the defense may argue that the charges

criminalize conduct that has been common between reporters and government sources for decades.

The lawyers and their investigators, including at-torneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, did not break the law, the Jus-tice Department said. No reporters were charged either.

ACLU Executive Direc-tor Anthony D. Romero called the investigation “incredibly troubling” and said it would have a chill-ing effect on reporters,

whistle-blowers and de-fense lawyers. Romero criticized “the fact that the government continues to investigate those who research and report on the individuals who commit-ted torture and yet don’t prosecute those who un-dertook that torture.”

The complaint refers to emails from Kiriakou to journalists in which he discloses classified in-formation, including the name of a CIA employee identified as “Covert Offi-cer A.” When interviewed

on Jan. 12 by FBI agents who recorded the session, Kiriakou denied doing so, the document says.

Kiriakou is also accused of trying to include clas-sified infor mation in his memoir by lying to the CIA’s Publication Review Board, which reviews a n d a p p r ove s a l l w r i t t e n m a t e r i a l by f o r m e r C I A o f f i c e r s. The book, published in 2010, was titled, “Relu c -t a n t S py : M y S e c r e t L i f e i n t h e C I A’s Wa r o n Te r r o r. ”

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LADY LAKE, Fla. –With Mitt Romney and Newt Gin-grich engaging in a dogfight, Rick Santorum on Mon-day tried to persuade some of Florida’s Republicans that the top two finishers in South Carolina’s upend-ing primary are convenient conservatives, while he is the real deal.

As the campaign wound down in South Carolina, the former Pennsylvania senator’s rhetoric became increasingly sharp. In one speech, he even dismissed Romney and Gingrich as Tweedledum and Twee-dledee. But in Florida, he has tempered his language, becoming almost mild.

“Take a step back. Don’t listen to the hype. Listen to what all of the candidates bring to the table,” he told “tea party” members packed into an American Legion hall, suggesting the other leading contenders in the Republican presidential primary are handicapped by “inconsistencies” and “problems” that would prevent them from making President Barack Obama the issue.

Santorum later told re-porters that Gingrich was hampered by high negative ratings. “It doesn’t put you

in a particularly strong po-sition to be able to go out and win this race,” he said. And he dismissed what he called Romney’s main strength: that he has been the most effective at raising money. “Money’s not go-ing to be a problem in this race,” he said. “Whoever the Republican nominee is is going to have plenty of money to be able to run an effective campaign.”

Santorum skipped over the key points in his South

Carolina speech, say-ing very little about his faith or his family, and in-stead dwelling on what he said was Obama’s desire to expand govern-ment programs and make Americans dependent on Washington.

“I didn’t decide to run for the president of the United States to accumulate power and be (the) most powerful person in America. I came so I could return the power to the people of America,”

he said, sparking a stand-ing ovation from members of the Tri-County Tea Party, which has about 2,000 members in three central Florida counties with a large number of retirees.

Santorum dodged a few awkward questions. One woman claimed Obama’s presidency was illegal, which led Santorum to smile tightly. When she claimed the president was a Muslim, he looked down

at the podium and con-centrated on writing on a small piece of paper. When she had finished, he said, “Well, yeah, I’m doing my best to get him out of the government.”

He reacted angrily when reporters asked afterward why he did not challenge her contention. Calling the question “a media gotcha thing,” he said, “It’s not my responsibility as a candi-date to correct everybody who makes a statement that I disagree with.”

Santorum’s speech was disrupted by five protest-ers who shouted, “Stop the hate” and “No hate,” and threw glitter at the stage. They were quickly and ag-gressively tackled and hustled out of the building where they were warned they would be cited for tres-passing if they returned. Gay-rights activists have interrupted several of San-torum’s recent events.

Tailoring his remarks to his audience, mostly retirees in an array of pas-tel shirts, Santorum said that Obama’s top-down approach to controlling Medicare spending would lead to increasingly ra-tioned care and that Obama had made sure Con-gress could do little about it. “Does this sound like Amer-ica to anybody?” he said. “No!” the audience shouted.

Santorum called health care the touchstone issue, using it to set himself apart from Romney, who signed a health care plan (labeled by critics as “Romneycare”) into law as governor of Mas-sachusetts, and Gingrich, who he said supported a mandate to require individu-als to have health insurance for 20 years.

He pointed out that he is the only candidate who has held consistently conserva-tive views on the Wall Street bailout, cap-and-trade plans to cut greenhouse gases and immigration. “All the can-didates in this race have the positions I have, but they didn’t always have them,” he said.

One questioner praised Santorum for a recent inter-view, leading him to try to figure out which of two re-cent ones it was. Finally, he quipped, “Both of them are great.”

Throughout his speech, Santorum’s hand-held mi-crophone cut out. Eventually, he realized it worked best if he held it in his left hand and, when it went dead, shifted it to his right and back to his left. It worked every time, and the audience laughed every time. When a microphone failed after be-ing handed to an audience member, he said, “You don’t have the magic I have in your hands.”

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This year’s Spr ing Fi lm Fest iva l features f i lms f rom C olombia , Canada, France, the UK, Iran and the United States . Tit les include “Incendies ,” “Sarah’s Key,” The C olors of the Moun-tain,” Submarine,” “Smal l Act” and “Circumstance.”Fi lms wi l l be shown each evening Feb. 3-8 . Check www.marshal l .edu/muartser/ for a complete schedule.

� is 2008 Tony® Award-winning Best Musical is a moving, funny and upli� ing new show about a community of hard-working immigrants seeking a better life and trying to � nd their place – their home – in their new county. With a remarkable young cast and award-winning dancing, “In the Heights” is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan com-munity – a place where the co� ee is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. Experi-ence the next chapter of the classic American story at the most joyous and exciting musical on Broadway.

For 50 years in broadcasting, Larry King was the one asking the questions. Now, he turns the tables on him-self in Larry King: Standing Up. � e Emmy®, Peabody and CableACE Award-winning broadcast icon will be giving fans a hilarious and insightful look inside the leg-end. Starting with his life growing up as a street-smart kid in Brooklyn, to tales from his storied career as the greatest interviewer of all time, Larry King’s style and wit will give audiences an evening to remember. � is USA Tour, his � rst, will mark King’s � rst stage appear-ances since completing his triumphant 25-year run on the award-winning CNN program “Larry King Live.”

Spend an intimate evening under the stars on the Keith Albee Stage for “Oh! What a Piano Can Do” – Starring Master Pianist Duke � ompson. Your on-stage table awaits for a musical journey of piano mastery. Duke will entertain and educate as he gives an up close and per-sonal musical display of the power the newly restored Steinway possesses. His total mastery of the piano com-bined with his stage presence captivates his audience.

From Bach to Billy Joel and � e Who to the blues, Duke � ompson is unique. He o� ers a contempo-rary twist to a genre rooted in legendary pianists such as Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin.

Larry Groce, host and artistic director of the W. Va radio program Mountain Stage, will put together a special show saluting the 75 year legacy of the Marshall Artists Series. Art-ists appearing will be announced at a later date.

Mountain Stage is a two-hour music radio show produced by WV Public Broadcasting and distrib-uted worldwide by National Public Radio (NPR) and the Voice of America’s satellite radio service. Hosted by Larry Groce, the program showcases diverse music, from the traditional to modern. It is recorded before a live audience, usually at the Culture Center Theater.

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100 Years of Broadway recreates the big-gest moments f rom the biggest shows of the centur y, featur ing the ac tua l s tars of shows such as “ The Phantom of the Opera ,” “Les Miserables ,” “Chicago,” “Cats ,” “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Jeky l l & Hyde.” These amaz-ing per formers l ight up the stage with songs f rom the hit shows in which they starred, as wel l as other notable Broadway shows.

Nei l B erg presents br i l l iant ly revived arrangements of Broadway classics , as wel l as fan-tast ic numbers f rom Broadway’s newest hit shows.

100 Years of Broadway

Keith Albee

Spring Film Festival

In the Heights

Larry King: Standing Up

Oh! What a Piano Can Do

Moutain Stage

Keith Albee

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