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BY AllYson WARneRthe parthenon
The Marshall University swimming and diving coach re-signed from his position March 1, amid reports that he was caught smoking marijuana on campus.
Russell Hunt (LEFT) had been coach for a total of two
complete sea-sons for the Thundering Herd.
A Marshall University Police Depart-ment report
states Hunt was caught smok-ing marijuana in Gullickson Hall on March 1 in the lower stairwell of the building.
The report states Hunt was smoking the substance from a small plastic pipe. In addition, Hunt had a
homemade filtered device made from cardboard and dryer sheets and a bag of marijuana weighing less than 15 grams. He was transported to the Cabell County Courthouse where he was released.
“We wish him the best of luck moving forward and will start the search for his successor in the near fu-ture,” said Mike Hamrick, director of athletics, in a statement. “I would like to thank Russell for his contri-butions to our program.”
Jason Corriher, assistant athletic director for media relations, said the depart-ment is dealing with this as a personnel matter and will have no further comments at this time.
Allyson Warner can be contacted at [email protected].
BY ReBeCCA sTePHensthe parthenon
Marshall University has its own institutional re-pository, Marshall Digital Scholar, which allows for Marshall research and pub-lications to be available in a single, digital location.
“Institutional reposi-tories are really part of academic library futures,” said Thomas Walker, music and digital services librar-ian. “It’s a way to collect all of the scholarly output of a university, specifically faculty and graduate stu-dents. You want to be able to have it all accessible in one place.”
Jingping Zhang, univer-sity librarian and director of library operations, began re-searching other universities in the nation a few years ago
and discovered that having an institutional repository was common, she said.
“We need this to support and to promote faculty re-search,” Zhang said. “That is our unique, intellectual collection for Marshall University.”
In March 2011 Zhang formed a committee made up of other Marshall librar-ians, including Walker and Gretchen Beach, catalog and digital services librarian, in order to continue research and to determine what was needed for the institutional repository, she said.
The committee submit-ted a report to Information Technology in May 2011 and presented the idea for MDS to them in June 2011. They received a three-year grant for the project, Zhang said.
MDS can be accessed at
mds.marshall.edu, as well as through Marshall’s li-brary page.
Faculty publications will largely make up MDS, but electronic theses and disser-tations, as well as capstone projects, will also be avail-able, Walker said.
MDS can be accessed by anyone, not just Marshall stu-dents and faculty. However, there will be some restricted sections, such as faculty pub-lications only permitted to be shown to the university campus, which will require Marshall IDs, Walker said.
Berkeley Electronic Press, or BePress, provides the virtual space needed for MDS. The BePress commu-nity consists of more than 170 academic institutions that Marshall has access to search, and they have access to search Marshall, Walker
said. Zhang said MDS has been
presented to several de-partments on campus and has received very positive responses.
Beach said the Graduate College is very excited about MDS and that she has already received several CVs to be en-tered into the repository.
MDS also offers access to music recordings and pro-grams, along with faculty research from the music de-partment, Walker said.
“We’re proudly one of the first schools to use it for a department of music,” Walker said. “We’re the only university that BePress has to use it in this capacity.”
In April, MDS will offer selected works from fac-ulty members, Beach said.
BY BRITTAnee BARTonthe parthenon
The DegreeWorks pro-gram at Marshall University is in its final developmental stages. The degree audit pro-gram, which will be visible online, is to be released in the fall semester.
Registrar representive Ro-berta Ferguson said she is
very optimistic about the in-formation DegreeWorks will provide to both students and academic advisers.
“DegreeWorks is very user-friendly,” Ferguson said. “It’s very intuitive. We really think people will be able to use it instantly without a great deal of training.”
Sunguard, manufacturer
of DegreeWorks, began programming the course catalog during Fall 2010, which means current sopho-mores will be the first class to have access to the service. Ferguson said the Fall 2010 semester was an ideal start-ing place because the new curriculum was introduced at that point.
Registrar representitive
William Biggs said the De-greeWorks profile will monitor the student’s prog-ress. With DegreeWorks, students will always know where they stand as far as what courses are required for graduation.
“It’s somewhat color coded,” Biggs said. “It will be a shade of red if you still have to do that course,
a shade of green means you’ve met that require-ment and a shade of blue means you’re in progress. It’ll help students have a better understanding.”
The implementation of De-greeWorks is a response to the Higher Education Policy Commission’s rec-ommendation to state schools.
Ferguson said Degree-Works will initially only cater to undergraduate students and will later be expanded to the Graduate College. The benefits lie in long-range plan-ning, as students will be able to access all prerequisite re-quirements, use a grade point average calculator and check
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BY JARRoD ClAYthe parthenon
Three overtimes and five Con-ference USA Tournament records later, the Marshall University men’s basketball team defeated the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on Thursday.
The Herd defeated the Golden Hurricane 105-100 in three overtimes during a game that saw 71 personal fouls with a combined 101 free throws and nine players foul out.
“I’ve been fortunate to be a part of some great games historically throughout my career at a lot of different stops, and this was obviously one of the top clas-sic games I’ve been a part of,” said Tom Herrion Marshall head coach.
After the first half, the Herd trailed Tulsa by just two points, 32-30. In the second half The Herd pulled out to a six-point lead with as little as 2:59 left in the second half.
Marshall closed the second half on a 6-0 run, with Shaquille Johnson ty-ing the game at 64, with one minute remaining.
“We give them (Tulsa) a lot of credit,” Herrion said. “I reference boxing quite a bit, and that’s as good as it gets –– that game was the old days. That’s Ali and Frazier and
those cats when they used to go at it.”
In the first over-time, the Herd trailed Tulsa by two — with less than a minute remaining — before Johnson once again tied the game with 34 seconds remaining.
“I couldn’t be more proud of a bunch of kids than I am with that group in the locker room,” Herrion said. “I talked about it all season. We’re going to need every guy on
our team at some point and tonight was the night we needed everybody. We
had guys come in who hadn’t played a lot lately make some big plays, and our older guys carried us.”
In the third overtime, Marshall trailed 95-94 when senior Dago Pena knocked down a three point shot and got fouled making it a four-point lead and giving the Herd a 98-95 lead it would not relinquish.
“You can go back to a lot of plays in a triple overtime game like that, but that may have been the biggest play in any of the overtimes,” Her-rion said.
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Senior guard Damier Pitts and junior forward Dennis Tinnon celebrate following the final buzzer in triple overtime.
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Several campus out-reaches will be gathering to worship in unity Friday.
MU Cru, Baptist Cam-pus Ministries, Marshall Community Fellowship and Revolution will be gathering for a worship service at 7 p.m. in the Campus Christian Center.
Jeff Johnson, 2010 Marshall alumnus from Charleston, said the cam-pus outreaches are having the service to worship God as a whole.
“It’s not about what groups are there, how many people from BCM are there or how many people from Cru,” John-son said. “It’s about people coming to
experience and worship God. We want people to take away from that night that God is huge. He doesn’t just work among these individual campus groups, but he’s working among all of them and all around campus.”
Adam Goodwin, direc-tor of BCM from Crown Hill, W.Va., said the wor-ship service can be a good
experience for the campus outreaches to demon-strate unity.
“My desire is that all of the students would real-ize that Jesus is far bigger than any one ministry,” Goodwin said.
The worship service is open to the public.
Shaun French can be contacted at [email protected].
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The Student Environ-mental Action Coalition continues the moun-taintop removal theme Monday with a panel discussion featuring Marshall University English professor Chris Green, Occupy the Machine representa-tives and community members from Blair Mountain.
The discussion will meet at 7 p.m. on March 12 in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center to discuss both the academic concepts and activist maneuvers
related to the mountain.“(Green) will focus on
Blair Mountain’s role in Appalachian history, specifically the class struggle of unioniza-tion,” Kemp said.
Green will explain the history of Blair Mountain includ-ing the origins of the terms “red necks” and “rebels.”
Occupy the Machine, a radical resistance group, will explain re-sistance tactics, such as tree sits and road-blocks, and why those protest tactics succeed in stopping or delaying work.
MTR discussion set for Monday BY ALLYSON WARNER
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The following information was provided by the Marshall University Police Department.
iSTOLENFour individuals reported to campus police
that their money and an iPod was stolen from the Shewey locker room March 2. A total of $219 was taken from the room along with a $200 iPod. There are no suspects at this time.
BUZZ KILLTwo male students were issued a citation for un-
derage drinking March 3 in First-Year Residence Hall South. Police received a complaint around 10 p.m. that they were drinking in their room. When police arrived, they found the individuals with the possession of liquor inside the room.
HAL GREER HOOLIGANSPolice witnessed three males walking from Hal
Greer across university property around 3:55 a.m. on March 4. The men were seen kicking light poles, parked cars and turning over cigarette ashtrays. Suspects were arrested for destruction of property, underage consumption and public intoxication.
Allyson Warner can be contacted at [email protected].
BY KAYLA MARCUM ThE pARThENON
Professor Mary Todd’s Honors 200 Leaders in Ethic and Civic Engage-ment class will be waiting today in the Memorial Stu-dent Center to help anyone interested in registering to vote.
A student will fill out a short form with his or her information. The class mails them in and the stu-dent will receive his or her voter registration card three weeks later in the
mail and is then eligible to vote in the upcoming election.
“I suggested to my class that we do voter regis-tration because it’s an election year and it’s on people’s minds, and col-lege students should be registered to vote,” Todd said.
Although Todd sug-gested the idea, she told the class she would not be the one to organize it. So the students came to-gether and organized the project in a short amount
of time.Todd said after an
in-class meeting, the stu-dents decided they would meet with their peers in the student center, in front of Smith Hall and in front of the Rec Center.
“They’re all taking shifts with clipboards and voter registration forms to see if they can regis-ter Marshall students who haven’t already reg-istered, whether they’re from West Virginia or other states,” Todd said.
Sophomore Larissa
Newsome said the class chose this project be-cause it’s something all college students can get involved in.
“We really wanted something that would ap-ply to everyone across the board and would have a big effect on the com-munity,” Newsome said. “This is something really important for kids our age to get into. It’s really important to have our voice heard now for deci-sions that will affect us for the rest of our lives.”
Freshman biomedical sciences major, Adam Daniels, said he regis-tered to vote Wednesday in the student center. He said the procedure was easy, and he is ex-cited about the upcoming election.
“I’m very eager to vote,” Daniels said.
Todd’s class will be registering students to vote for the last time this month today. The students will be prepared with clip-boards and registration forms again the first week
of April. Todd said she encour-
ages all those who have not yet registered to do so soon because it is an honor to be able to vote for political leaders.
“It’s the highest privilege of a citizen of this country to be able to vote,” Todd said.
Students can register to vote in the student center, in front of Smith Hall and in front of the Rec Center.
Kayla Marcum can be contacted at [email protected].
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The Marshall Univer-sity sexuality studies program will play host to a meet-and-greet Friday at the John Deaver Drinko Library atrium.
Students and faculty in the program wil l meet at 12 p.m. to discuss the program’s progress since last semester. Chair of sexuality studies, Eric Chrol said the gathering would establish a space for all the students and faculty to share what they have experienced in the mult idiscipl inar y minor.
“We have a lot of
interesting, diverse peo-ple who are taking lots of dif ferent classes under the umbrella of the sex-uality studies minor but don’t ever get a chance to see each other,” Chrol said.
Chrol said the meet-and-g reet is open to people interested in the minor.
“It’s a chance for people who have never taken a sexuality studies course, or are curious as to what we’re all about or want to hear what the future of the program is, to come and get exposed to that infor mation,” Chrol said.
Honors class to help students register to vote
POLICE BLOTTERSexual studies students, faculties to meet and greet
BY HENRY CULVYHOUSEThE pARThENON
More than 100 students and faculty braved the rain and an overtime basketball game to attend a reading by a West Virginia author Thursday night.
Author Jayne Anne Phil-lips read selections out of her latest book “Lark and Termite” at the Fran-cis-Booth Experimental Theatre. Her reading is the second installment of the Marshall University Visit-ing Writers Series.
Phillips, from Buckhan-non, W.Va., centered her book on the lives of a sol-dier in the Korean War, a mentally disabled child, his 17-year-old sister and their aunt.
Phillips said her inspira-tion to write comes from her childhood in the Moun-tain State.
“I think people forget that their lives are part of the narrative of not only history, but literature,” Phillips said. “A lot of my
work is connected to West Virginia and is set here in some way.”
Phillips said she hoped the reading resonated with aspiring authors at Marshall.
“Seeing writers and hear-ing them read can really save lives both physically and spiritually,” Phillips said. “I hope that comes clear.”
Sophomore creative writ-ing major Kaitlin Sturgill, of Hurricane, W.Va., said Phillips’ reading impressed her.
“She’s a fantastic writer and she has a very poetic way with words,” Sturgill said. “Her characters were particularly fascinating, and I thought they were very convincing.”
English professor John Young is using “Lark and Termite” in his literary crit-icism course. Young said he thinks Thursday night’s reading will be a valuable teaching tool.
“I hope they mention which parts of the novel she
chose to read and her parts about the back story be-hind the composition of the novel,” Young said. “We can talk about that in class and see how that changes the in-terpretation of the novel.”
Series coordinator, Art Stringer, said the reading was a success.
“We had quite a bit of competition, especially from a presentation going on in the student center for women’s studies,” Stringer said. “We’re very pleased a lot of students, community people, Marshall profes-sionals and staff came out.”
The next Marshall Univer-sity Visiting Writers Series reading will feature poet Kathryn Kirkpatrick. Kirk-patrick is the author of four collections and teaches at Appalachian State Univer-sity. She will read at 8 p.m. on April 5 in the Shawkey Room at the Memorial Stu-dent Center.
Henry Culvyhouse can be contacted at [email protected].
West Virginia author reads at Visiting Writers Series
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TOP: More than 100 students and faculty attend the Visiting
Writers Series.BOTTOM: Jayne Anne Phillips
reads selections from her latest book, “Lark and Termite.”
BY ADAM ROGERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Thursday afternoon turned into evening, as Marshall men’s basketball and Tulsa (17-14) went to triple overtime inside Fe-dExForum in Memphis, Tenn.
The Thundering Herd (20-12) advanced to the
semifinals of the 2012 Confer-ence USA Tournament with the 105-100 win in three over-times to face the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (25-7).
Friday’s semifinal action will be the second time the Herd and Golden Eagles have played one another in under a week’s time and the third time this season.
Friday will mark just the
first time Marshall has played both Southern Miss in the C-USA Tournament and reached the semifinal round.
Southern Miss knocked off Marshall on Jan. 21 to hand the Herd its first con-ference loss of the season, 67-63, and Marshall handed Southern Miss its most re-cent loss, in the final game of the regular season, on March 3, 79-75.
“Southern Miss is a good team,” said redshirt-sopho-more guard DeAndre Kane after his 40-point perfor-mance against Tulsa. “We played them tough down there, and it probably came down to the last shot that we didn’t execute on the defensive end. We beat them in our house on senior night, and they know what we run, and we know what they run so it should be a battle tomorrow.”
“Things didn’t go our way down the stretch down there,” said senior guard Shaquille Johnson. “We came out, fought and guarded them (well). We just know that it’s going to be a dogfight tomorrow.”
“We’ve got preparation in the morning,” junior
forward Dennis Tinnon said in the locker room follow-ing his tenth double-double performance of the sea-son with 14 points and 12 rebounds. “And if we take preparation serious, focus and stay hungry, we’ll get this done.”
Fatigue could come into ef-fect during the game against Southern Miss, as the two teams played a combined to-tal of four overtimes.
The Marshall players are shaking off thoughts of fa-tigue, however.
“We should be good to-morrow,” Kane said. “We’re going to ice up and do what-ever we need to do to be ready tomorrow. We won’t be tired, and we’ll be ready to go tomorrow at 3 p.m.”
“No (I’m not tired), I can go out there and play again,” Tinnon said. “If I had to, I’d go out there and play Southern Miss.”
Tinnon and the rest of the Herd will just have to wait until 4 p.m. for their rematch with the Golden Eagles, as series in which Marshall holds a slim 7-6 lead.
Adam Rogers can be reached at [email protected].
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Team: MarshallRecord: 20-12 (9-7)Coach: Tom HerrionKey Players: DeAndre Kane, G, All-C-USA Second Team; Dennis Tinnon, F, C-USA All-Defensive TeamBottom Line: The Herd will no doubt be exhausted after playing 55 minutes Thursday. It will be imperative for Marshall to find the energy to continue to survive and advance. This one is on the seniors to step up and lead.
4 p.m. (CBSSN)
Parthenon prediction: Marshall- 64 Southern Miss- 63
vs.
vs.6:30 p.m. (CBSSN)
Parthenon prediction: Memphis- 71 UCF- 61
Team: Southern MissRecord: 25-7 (11-5)
Coach: Larry EustachyKey Players: Neil Watson, G, All-C-USA
Second Team; Jonathan Mills, F, All-C-USA Third Team
Bottom Line: The Golden Eagles will aslo be tired — following an overtime contest, as well. Southern Miss must find a way to stop DeAndre Kane and control the glass if they
want to end the Herd’s tournament run.
Team: UCFRecord: 22-9 (10-6)Coach: Donnie Jones
Key Players: Keith Clanton, F, All-C-USA First Team, C-USA All Defensive Team; Marcus
Jordan, G, JuniorBottom Line: The Knights struggled to find
the basket in the second half of their win over UAB. A letdown like that will be devastating to even the thought of an upset over Memphis.
Clanton must find a way to score often.
Team: MemphisRecord: 23-8 (13-3)Coach: Josh PastnerKey Players: Will Barton, G, All-C-USA First Team; Tarik Black, F, All-C-USA Second TeamBottom Line: Memphis ran away from UTEP in the second half Tuesday. The Tigers have a clear shot to the finals if they can continue to use home-court advantage to their — well, advantage.
MEN’S MATCHUPS: SEMIFINALS
WORK TO DOThursday’s victory leaves the Herd one win away from finals
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Teamwork. The Thundering Herd exits the floor after the conclusion of the second overtime — greeting teammate Yous Mbao on the sidelines. Mbao fouled out late in the second half.
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Jubilation. Junior forward Dennis Tinnon
jumps in celebration
following the final buzzer of the
Thundering Herd’s triple overtime
victory over Tulsa. Tinnon finished
the contest with a double-double
— tallying 14 points and 12
rebounds, including six points
in the final overtime. The junior
played 50 minutes,
taking a seat
for just five throughout
the game. Tinnon was
named to the C-USA All-
Defensive Team prior
to the start of the C-USA
Tournament.
BY SYDNEY RANSONTHE PARTHENON
As a sophomore here at Marshall University, I am still living in the dorms –– not because I want to –– but because it is required of non-commuting students to live on campus for their first two years. Don’t get me wrong, not every-thing about dorm life is awful, but it would be nice to already have my own place with my own bathroom and kitchen. I know there are certain dorms on campus that give residents their own bathroom and access to a kitchen –– but it’s one or the other, never both.
I wouldn’t necessarily call walking across the hall to the community re-strooms to take a shower every day a task, but it would be much more con-venient if I could do that in the comfort of my own home, while still living close to campus. While I also appreciate all of the hard work that the cooks at the dining halls put into preparing meals for students every day, sometimes I’d like to be able to make something
other than microwave-able meals for myself.
Now, I don’t mean to sound like I’m taking the entirety of my column to complain, so I will men-tion a few things I find positive about living in the dorms.
For instance, the pro-grams that the resident advisers around the buildings hold each month make it easy to get involved on campus and with the other members of your floor and build-ing. Also, since I live in a building that has commu-nity restrooms on each floor, I don’t have a bath-room to clean (thanks to the wonderful housing staff) like I will in the fall at my new apartment.
My point here is that I am an almost 20 years old, and I see myself as an adult that should be able to live in her own apartment. Although dorm life has its up-sides, I strongly believe mandatory living in the dorms should only be enforced for one year. It would allow first-year freshmen to become acquainted with the cam-pus and other students, but would also allow stu-dents like myself, who have already adjusted, to have more freedom and fly the coop.
Sydney Ranson can be contacted at [email protected].
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BY BISHOP NASHTHE PARTHENON
I’m willing to bet a great deal that the vast majority of young American adults had no idea who Joseph Kony, or the Lord’s Resistance, Army was until roughly a week ago. Unless you’ve got a background understand-ing of the internal struggles of central Africa, it’s just not something people discussed with any discernable amount of voracity.
Call me a realist, a pes-simist or whatever, but something here does not seem as it should.
I’ve seen tons upon tons of videos and call-to-arms over every issue under the sun, and most as virtuous and noble as the proposed disposal of Joseph Kony and the LRA. So when I finally watched the now famous “Kony 2012” video af-ter it was relentlessly tossed around Facebook and Twit-ter, I began to wonder what in particular got the masses so excited about this movement when similar causes have fell by the wayside.
For one, Kony is literally the manifestation of the Boogeyman right down to
kidnapping children. That’s what I feel is the keyword to this movement’s popularity: Children. Whenever kids are involved in human tragedy, people tend to run to help with warmer hearts. The use of child soldiers is among the greatest of sins. War is the greatest perversion of hu-manity; literal Hell on Earth. To rape away the innocence of a child through the hor-rors of warfare is disgusting to the point of making me want to physically puke my guts out.
For years, been a hall-mark of idealistic American youths to want to reach out and help African nations in need; the epitome of tar-gets for aid being Uganda. Just say it: yew-GAHN-duh. The name itself sounds like it fits its own stereotype the tumultuously exotic central African nation that middle-class American kids would love to reach out and rescue.
This whole situation fits the bill of what young, en-ergetic Americans want to step into for a humani-tarian cause. Liberals, conservatives, Christians, Muslims, non-religious folk everyone can agree that this issue needs to be dutifully resolved. It’s a power-hun-gry and all-around evil African warlord and his rov-ing band of thugs scooping up helpless children by the thousands in a distant and
exotic land. You couldn’t have handcrafted a situa-tion that would better light the fire inside thousands of American teens and young adults looking to change the world for good.
But here’s where I start to think.
As mentioned in the famous “Kony 2012” video which ig-nited most of the momentum, the anti-LRA movement’s the great victory thus far was Presi-dent Barack Obama’s signing of the LRA’s Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recov-ery Act of 2009. This piece of legislature “crystallizes the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and the hallmark of the LRA,” according to President Obama. As a result, the U.S. has sent 100 special forces members to act in ad-visory and technical roles in central Africa as the Ugandan Army pursues Kony and the LRA.
A hundred troops without a permission to fire is noth-ing. It’s literally not even a crumb falling off the table of the U.S. annual foreign aid budget. If I was an ac-tivist seeking U.S. support against Kony and saw this as the final response given, I’d be furious. A hundred troops training Ugandans isn’t U.S. intervention, it’s a public relations move. This is nothing. I’d want a team of SEALS tracking Kony down
and kicking in his door bin Laden-style.
And now skepticism is starting to fly around in my head.
A part of me doesn’t believe the U.S. government would send troops into a country be-cause it’s the will of a grass roots organization full of col-lege students. As far as U.S. involvement in central Africa goes, there is no precedent for this type of operation. We’ve never seen the government behave like this, and they’re seemingly letting grassroots operations dictate foreign policy. What I’m wondering is whether or not U.S. officials have any ulterior motives for establishing a presence in central Africa. Uganda has a copious amount of resources, including literally underground lakes of oil. That untamed area of the world also has the po-tential to become a bastion for terrorist organizations that would seek to harm the U.S., as we’ve seen with Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Shaabab in Somalia.
Whatever the case, I re-ally, really hope killing Kony and dismantling the LRA is all we want in Uganda, or else the fer-vency of thousands of young Americans could be hijacked for not-so-noble causes.
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Is it really a surprise to see conservatives derailing public discourse for the sake of discussing social issues that have been discussed for hundreds of years? In the current race for the Republican nomination, it seems not to be about issues that are pertinent to the United States at this point in time, but rather it seems to be about issues that shouldn’t even be a matter of discussion. These include, but are not limited to contraception, same-sex marriage, health care and separation of church and state. The public is being distracted by these conservatives who would choose to talk about social issues that are more topical in their nature and thus, easier to comprehend.
Rush Limbaugh called a woman a “slut” because she defended women’s right to birth control. Rick Santorum said he will outlaw abortion because it is an abomination of his religious beliefs. Mitt Romney has an infatuation with the ability to hire and fire workers. He also would choose to bomb first, talk later when dealing with Iran. The rhetoric of the right is extreme and bellicose. Why are
these candidates not addressing the economy? Has anyone proposed an actual solution other than a smaller government and lower taxes? The social issues these candidates, notably Santorum, discuss should not even be an issue. The real issues such as the national debt, war with Iran, a still ongoing war with Afghanistan and the outsourcing of jobs by American corporations are, if discussed, only with concise brevity.
The social issues being talked about are older than all the candidates. They are trite at this point. Women have a right to contraception; this is not 1845. Gay couples have a right to be married. There is a separation of church and state. Thank you Thomas Jefferson. Women have the right to have an abortion. These are all issues that concern in-dividual rights. Let us talk about issues that have a direct political and economic effect on all of us rather than mor-al codes certain people abide by. Conservatives should spend more time looking at hard numbers rather than trying to enforce their morality on a country that has a provision against such measures.
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In preparation for the up-coming wedding season, Huntington Mall is prepar-ing for its annual Spring Bridal Fair.
The 2012 Spring Bridal Fair will take place Sunday at center court in the Hunting-ton Mall.
Vendors will be set up
by 12:30, and a fashion show by Lara’s Bridal and Formal will began at 1 p.m., followed by The Ro-setree Boutique Wedding Day fashion show at 2 p.m..
The first 100 brides to register for the bridal fair will receive a gift from the Huntington Mall. Ad-ditional prizes will be given away during the Rosetree
Boutique Wedding Day fash-ion show.
Nancy Conrad, market-ing administrator for the Huntington Mall, said there will be 10–14 vendors at the event.
“The bridal fair has been done each spring for years,” Conrad said. “We usually have at least 200–300 people attend the fair.”
Conrad said there will be a vendor for grooms where they can choose their tuxedoes.
In addition to tuxedos, the grooms-to-be will have a chance to meet Ju-lian Miller, 2012 Orange Bowl champion and West Virginia University player in front of Collectible, etc., from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Students were given the opportunity to attend a presentation based on their finances, budgeting and their expenses on and of f campus.
The Memorial Student Center played host to a presentation in the Stu-dent Resource Center to talk with students inter-ested in managing their
college expenses.Brian Rice, criminal
justice sophomore from Huntington, W.Va., at-tended the event after he received an email re-garding the information.
“The main reason why I came today is because I be-lieve I need a budget plan,” Rice said. “Paying bills and car payments sometimes have to be late because of my lack of budgeting money.”
The event had faculty members who teach in the college of business to an-swer any questions students might have had.
Matthew Lawless, a ju-nior in the College of Business from Bluefield, W.Va., attended this event to help students with a budgeting plan.
Lawless said any stu-dent who attends can get all of the information they need to know in
order to get control of their f inances.
“Students, mainly freshman students can be ver y reckless with their money,” Lawless said. “College is a big transition for students to conquer, and their money can fal l short quickly.”
Lawless said a big reason why he was there, was to help students stay out of a hole they
couldn’t get out of. Rich Klieger, exercise
science sophomore from Trenton, N.J., said he has a problem with the con-stant spending he does.
“I always feel the need to go out to eat when my parents pay for a meal plan for me,” Klieger said. “I go to the bar too often, too.”
Klieger said he has many dif ferent excuses as to why he has such
bad spending habits. After attending this pre-sentation and learning all that he did, he said he must change his habits very soon.
The faculty members in attendance said the best way to watch the spend-ing and to save money is to have a budget you can work with.
Andrew Frobel can be con-tacted at [email protected].
These selected works will function as individual web-pages where the faculty members will be able to post their pictures, offices hours and links to articles they’ve written available on MDS.
MDS offers off campus
students the opportunity to get to know professors through their work without ever meeting them face-to-face, Walker said.
“This way, they can find out about them,” Walker said. “They can read what their interests are they can read their scholarship they can get to know that profes-sor just like a face-to-face
student would.”MDS provides an exciting
new service that makes the library service better and stronger, and because it is available to anyone in the world, it greatly increases Marshall’s visibility, Zhang said.
Rebecca Stephens can be contacted at [email protected].
requirements when consider-ing a possible change of major.
Students will be able to check where they stand on their own at all times, which allows advisers to spend advising appointment
discussing other student is-sues, such as internships and job placements.
Ferguson said the end goal is to move students through college scheduling more efficiently.
“It just has tremendous advantages for students and advisers,” Ferguson said. “It’ll be much easier
to determine eligibility for graduation. It’ll eliminate a lot of issues in terms of mis-information for graduation.”
Sunguard will train faculty in April. Students will be able to view DegreeWorks from their MyMU pages.
Brittanee Barton can be contacted at [email protected].
clothing and drinking water. Distribution ef-forts for this week will occur Friday and Mon-day. These items will be distributed through the Disaster and Emer-gency Management agencies in the counties that have the greatest need.
For a full list of items needed or more infor-mation, contact Scott Frasure with Hunting-ton Area Food Bank at 304-523-6029 or visit www.hafb.org.
Ashley Foster can be contacted at [email protected].
Marshall has recorded a to-tal 95 minutes of game time the past two days, and that total will continue to climb when the Herd takes on South-ern Miss on Friday.
“Fatigue wasn’t a factor,” said Marshall sophomore guard DeAndre Kane “We should be good tomorrow. We just got to ice up and drink up and do whatever we’ve got to do to be ready. We won’t be tired.”
Tulsa finished the game with five players in double fig-ures, led by Eric McClellan’s
25. The freshman guard said he’s proud of his team and the Herd deserved the victory.
“Credit Marshall – they’re a great program, a hard-fighting team,” McClellan said. “The better team won today.”
The quarterfinal game broke four C-USA tournament records, including the highest scoring game – with 205 com-bined points.
Tulsa set an all-time C-USA Tournament high with 58 free throws attempted and with 40 free throws made.
Individually, DeAndre Kane was a one-man record breaker, posting all-time C-USA Tour-nament highs in points (40), field goals attempted (32) and
field goals made (15). “I just kept going to the bas-
ket and got some calls,” Kane said. “But it wasn’t just me. Our bench stepped up. Every-body was great. It was a team effort today,” Kane said.
Not only did Kane break three tournament records, he also became Marshall’s 49th 1000-point scorer, tying Mar-shall with UCLA for eighth most in school history.
“He had the ball in his hands, we ran some clock, he drove that thing (to the bas-ket) and he obviously played with great purpose down the stretch,” Herrion said. “He had great command of the game late.”
Fourteen of Kane’s 40 points came in the overtime periods, including five in the third overtime.
“That was an unbelievable basketball game and give Marshall credit, particularly DeAndre Kane,” said Doug Wojcik Tulane head coach.
With five players disquali-fied from five fouls each, the Herd used all but one player on its bench and got solid production from everyone who saw playing time.
After missing a pair of free throws, freshman Jamir Hanner chased down his own rebound, drove the baseline and threw down a two handed slam that put
Marshall up 76-74 in the sec-ond overtime.
When senior guard Damier Pitts fouled out, freshman Chris Martin entered the game and quickly stroked a three-pointer that gave the Herd a 94-93 lead in the third overtime period.
We had some guys step up and make great plays. We had to. We had some guys carry us down the stretch. I thought DeAndre was great, tremendous with the ball in his hands late in the game,” Herrion said.
With the victory, Marshall advances to its first C-USA semifinal game in school history. The Herd will be
taking on Southern Miss for the second time in less than a week, but for the first time ever in the Conference USA Tournament.
“Southern Miss is a good team,” Kane said. “We played them tough down there. We beat them at our house on senior night, but like I said they’re a good team. It should be a battle tomorrow.”
The Thundering Herd and Southern Miss are scheduled to tip off at 4 p.m. Friday in the semifinals of the C-USA Tournament.
Jarrod Clay can be con-tacted at [email protected].
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LEFT: Thundering Herd mascot Marco does a victory dance after Thursday’s win against Tulsa. RIGHT: Junior forward Nigel Spikes, freshman center JP Kambola and junior forward Robert Goff cheer on teammates from the sideline. Marshall won the second round matchup with the Golden Hurricane, 105-100 in triple overtime. The Herd will take on Southern Miss at 3:30 p.m. Friday.
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The Huntington Area Food Bank will partner with Huntington businesses to conduct a massive food col-lection to help the victims in surrounding areas affected by the tornadoes last Friday.
The tornadoes affected many families in the sur-rounding areas. Ohio and Kentucky reported a total of 30 tornadoes, causing 15 fatal-ities and many communities destroyed.
This collection effort is focused on non-perishable foods, water and supplies to help those whose homes were affected by the torna-does in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia.
Scott Frasure, director of development for Huntington Area Food Bank, will head the collection and distribu-tion of items.
“This storm was very un-expected,” Frasure said. “These supplies will be a huge help to families whose homes and lives were ad-versely affected.”
Businesses assisting with the collection efforts include: Wal-Mart, Kroger, Clear Channel Radio, Kellogg’s, Abbott, Feeding America, 7-UP, PepsiCo, Kroger and River Cities Harvest.
“All donations dropped off at Big Sandy Superstore will be doubled,” Frasure
said. “We are very thankful for the businesses helping us on this.”
Donation drop-off sites can be found at all Big Sandy Superstores and Community
Trust Bank locations. Other donation sites include Wal-Mart on U.S. Route 60 and the Huntington Area Food Bank at 1327 Seventh Ave.
Monetary donations will
also be collected from those who wish to give. Donations can be made by visiting the Huntington Area Food Bank website and clicking the do-nation tab.
This week, the Hun-tington Area Food Bank has distributed more than 50,000 pounds to people in Lawrence and Morgan Counties in Kentucky and
Wayne County in West Vir-ginia. Items that are still needed include non-perish-able foods, sanitary items,
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Taking watercraft out onto rivers might be a favorite pastime in the Ap-palachians, but it’s not often small water sailors brave the murky waterways with canoes made of concrete.
That’s what a group of Marshall University engi-neering students plan on doing.
Part of the 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers Virginias Conference at Virginia Tech taking place March 29-31, the Concrete Canoe Competition show-cases student-built concrete canoes from 10 teams in col-leges and universities across Virginia and West Virginia.
The fi rst leg of the com-petition takes place on March 30, with the second and fi nal leg happening March 31.
The competition will take place approximately 30 minutes from Virginia Tech’s campus at Claytor
Lake State Park.According to the ASCE
offi cial website, this competition is a qualify-ing round for the ASCE National Concrete Ca-noe Competition, which takes place each year in mid-June.
“Teams qualify for the NCC by placing fi rst in one of the 18 conference com-petitions held throughout the United States during the spring,” according to the ASCE. “Teams plac-ing second in a conference competition behind a uni-versity that fi nished in the top fi ve at the previous year’s national competi-tion are also invited.
To be eligible to com-pete, the entrant school must be a recognized ASCE Student Chapter or ASCE International Stu-dent Group.”
The conference com-petitions follow all rules and guidelines set by the ASCE.
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Heather Bailey and her 12-year-old daughter Emily, carry out toys as they clean up tornado damage from their home in Chapman, Ky., last Thursday. Ohio and Kentucky reported a total of 30 tornadoes causing 15 fatalities last week.
