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By KIMBERLY SMITHTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall Univer-sity Student Government elections are officially un-derway. Wednesday, all students planning to run for student body president and student senate filed for candidacy at the Memorial Student Center.
Every spring, elections are held and students vote for a president and vice president. According to the SGA website, the require-ments to become student body president include serving a full term, which is two semesters. Students file for office, elections are two weeks after that and then the elected officials take of-fice in April.
Ray Harrell Jr., who is grad-uating in May, has been a part of the SGA for the past four years and served as president for the past two.
Harrell said it will be bitter sweet for him to leave office, but he is hopeful for the fu-ture SGA leaders.
“Overall, I’m very satis-fied with the progress that we made over the past two years,” Harrell said. “At inau-guration last year, Dr. Kopp said himself that he’s never had such a strong relation-ship between his office and student government before,
and I think that really speaks to how effective we’ve been and how effective the organi-zation can continue to be in the future.”
Ray Cousins, election com-missioner, said the candidates can expect a hectic two weeks of campaigning. He said they are planning to have two de-bates and a meet and greet for the candidates.
Harrell said the most im-portant thing for future SGA staff to remember is keeping constant communication with the student body.
“I’m hopeful that the next administration really adheres to the principle of connecting to the students,” Harrell said. “Regardless of who wins, I know all three of the tickets personally and I feel like the student body will be in good hands.”
Harrell said being part of student government has helped to define his college career and has become his identity over the past four years.
“I think that’s definitely something the future student body president can look for-ward to,” Harrell said.
Students can stay up to date with the election by visiting the SGA website.
Kimberly Smith can be reached at [email protected].
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By MARLA NOWLINTHE PARTHENON
The prospect of higher tu-ition caused by the proposed state budget cuts has raised concerns among Marshall Uni-versity students.
For the second time in two years, Marshall tuition could rise if Gov. Earl Ray Tomb-lin’s proposed state budget is implemented.
Marshall President Ste-phen Kopp told the Board of Governors Monday that the university is facing a possible 8.94 percent cut in state fund-ing, which would amount to $6.5 million for all Marshall operations. As a result, tuition
might have to increase $700 to offset the cuts.
During the 2011-2012 school year the cost of tuition went from $2,824 to $2,965 for in-state students.
The thought of paying more is not something current students are accepting with welcoming arms.
Bria Armstrong, a sopho-more pre-pharmacy major from Beckley, W.Va., said she does not feel students are being thought of in the proposals.
“It’s unfair to current stu-dents at Marshall because they, their means of finances and ed-ucation are being disregarded,” Armstrong said. “Students
already work and earn schol-arships to meet the minimum costs of tuition.”
Other students are already feeling the pressure of possibly paying more out of pocket for their education.
Khiry Starghill, sophomore performance theater major from Logan, W.Va., said stu-dents are already under stress with education costs in general.
“I’m supporting myself and this is going to put me in a bind,” Stargill said. “We are al-ready struggling the way it is.”
Starghill said he feels Mar-shall students deserve an explanation of where the extra tuition money is going.
Cheryl Vanscoy, forensic chemistry junior from Chesa-peake, Va., said she is going to have to search for more schol-arships to cover tuition if the proposal passes.
“I’m going to be in debt the rest of my life. I’m serious,” Vanscoy said.
Kopp told the Board of Gover-nors, Monday, that he thought there were other ways for the state to save money than to cut funding for higher education.
The state Legislature is ex-pected to approve the state budget by April.
Marla Nowlin can be con-tacted at [email protected].
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THE PARTHENON The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity hosted
its third annual Pedals for Push fund-raising event for Push America.
The event is a 24-hour bike-a-thon at the Memorial Student Center. Pedals for Push is an event to raise money and awareness for people with disabilities.
Push America is a nonprofit organi-zation that helps support people with disabilities, and developing members of Pi Kappa Phi into leaders.
Push America displays four core values: abilities, teamwork, empathy and integrity. Push America strives on portraying these core values through their mission and programs that they provide.
Push America’s mission is, “Build-ing Leaders of tomorrow by serving people with disabilities today.” Push
America’s vision is to change the way society views people with disabilities and fraternities.
“This is my favorite time of the year,” Zach Morris, fraternity mem-ber, said. “Push America is what our fraternity is all about, and Pedals is our main outlet to show that to ex-pose Marshall students to that.”
The event started Thursday and will end Friday with a special after party at 12:30 p.m.
Participants signed up for a one of the four Pedals For Push bikes for one of the 24-hour time slots. Partici-pants were asked to talk to family and friends to help sponsor their riding time.
Organizations on campus were also asked to participate in the bike-a-thon. Each organization that participated had a donation jar, and
people donated to Push America as a member of the organization rode a bike.
During the 24-hour event, Pi Kappa Phi had a Pedals for Push movie mar-athon. Some movies included “The Notebook,” “We Are Marshall” and “The Breakfast Club.”
Drinks, popcorn and other refresh-ments were available to purchase during the movies.
Starting at 10:30 a.m. Friday, there will be a live performance by “Moun-tain Station.” “Mountain Station” is a local bluegrass band that brings a new sound to bluegrass music.
“After spending my summer trav-eling across the country with Push America, it makes me so excited to share my passion and the mission of the organization with the community of Marshall University,” Morris said.
ANA WILKER | THE PARTHENON
Despite the rainy weather, Huntington Mayor Steve Williams participates in the “Pedal for Push event Thursday.
By HAYLEE ROBERTSTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall University Career Services will host an Educator Expo for students in the College of Education and others who plan to have a ca-reer in the education field.
Education professionals from around the state and out of state will attend the Educator Expo and search for current students who are looking for jobs after college.
Debby Stoler, assistant direc-tor of development and outreach in Career Services, said the expo is different than a regular expo.
“School systems, who have signed up to attend, will be conducting informational interviews to students for ideas on jobs that are out there after their graduation,” Stoler said. “Students are expected to bring resumes and will actually talk to school system faculty about being hired for a job after graduation.”
Students will sign up for 20-minute interviews with different school system professionals.
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Informing students, staff and faculty at Marshall University about fire safety procedures to observe in a time of an emer-gency is an important aspect of keeping the campus safe.
The office of Environmental Health and Safety is respon-sible for ensuring the campus abides by state and federal regulations dealing with dif-ferent aspects of fire safety including prevention, detec-tion and suppression.
Safety and Health Direc-tor Brian Carrico works with the Office of Environmental
Health and Safety on spread-ing awareness about fire safety and building evacuation pro-cedures on campus.
“We just like to put out awareness every semester to people about what to do if a fire alarm goes off in your building,” Carrico said. “We think everyone knows to evac-uate but do you know if you use the elevators? Or if you are handicapped and in the build-ing where do you go? How do you get out?”
When a fire alarms sounds, it is a standard procedure for everyone not on a ground level to evacuate a building in an organized manner using the
closest stairwell. Elevators are never to be used during emergencies.
On campus, assistance is pro-vided for people with disabilities to help them get to the closest exit not blocked by smoke or fire.
Individuals in a wheelchair and not on the ground level of the building are provided assistance to the nearest stairwell, where emergency of-ficials will help the people out of the building.
Remaining a safe distance from the building after exiting is important, and emergency officials will advise when it is safe for reentry.
Tracy Eggleston, assistant
director of Housing and Resi-dence Life, helps make sure students in the residence halls are aware of fire safety.
“The fire alarm goes off and then the students are good about coming out, but they are slow,” Eggleston said. “They don’t treat it as an emergency.”
A fire alarm should never be assumed false. Fire alarms are used to evacuate a building for any type of emergency.
“Students say they go off too much, but I don’t think they go off now as much as they used too. I think people figured out how to cook,” Eggleston said.
By ANA WILKERTHE PARTHENON
Huntington mayor Steve Wil-liams appointed Carl Eastham as the new Huntington Fire Chief Thursday.
Eastham retired from the Fire Department in 2011 as Captain of the no. 5 station in Guyan-dotte, W.Va. He went to work for the West Virginia Attorney General’s office before accept-ing the Fire Chief position.
“My biggest goal is to get back to the traditions of the fire de-partment,” Eastham said. ”The
biggest challenge is the city’s economic time. The department is strapped for cash and staying on budget is a challenge.”
City Coucilman at large, Dave Ball, is a retired fire fighter.
“Eastham is the man for the job. He is honorable, just like the 100 men he has behind him,” Ball said.
Eastham and Williams have known one another since 1985.
Eastham took the place of for-mer Fire Chief Randy Ellis, who is now a captain.
Ana Wilker can be con-tacted at [email protected].
Marshall dept. offers fire safety tips Mayor Williams names Eastham new Huntington fire chief
By ANA WILKERTHE PARTHENON
Goodwill Industries is host-ing Spring Bling, a jewelry and beauty show, at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena Conference Center. The event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday.
More than 30 vendors will be in attendance, and there will raffles and a DJ.
All proceeds from admis-sion will benefit the Goodwill GoodGuides Mentoring pro-gram in Huntington.
Birds of a Feather Boutique is one of the participating ven-dors. It is owned and operated by Marshall alumnae and sis-ters, Lindsey Ellis and Whitney Epling.
Ellis received her bachelor’s degree in counseling in 2006, and her master’s degree in 2008.
Epling received her bach-elor’s degree in marketing and
was also Student of the Year in 2009.
Epling and Ellis said they have always been interested in fashion, accessories and beauty products and services.
They started their business when they attended a whole-sale jewelry show and saw the same earrings Epling bought for her wedding at a lower price than she had paid.
After attending the show, they received their business license and began selling unique and trendy accessories in November 2012.
“We have met different ven-dors at wholesale shows, but there are three main vendors we order from, all located in the United States,” Epling said. “We order accessories for every age group, for every occasion. As our population ages, women still love to acces-sorize with trendy jewelry and
scarves, so we want to accom-modate not only high school and college girls but also the very trendy aging population.”
“We literally have something for everyone with every taste. One thing is for certain, every-one will love our prices,” Ellis said.
Birds of a Feather Boutique is unique because they do not have a storefront. Instead, Epling and Ellis use Facebook, in-home par-ties and community events to sell their products.
When merchandise is or-dered through the Birds of a Feather Boutique Facebook page, they will either ship it to the customer, or Ellis and Epling will drive and meet the customer.
When women host in-home parties, they receive 20 per-cent off their purchase and receive free products depend-ing on their party sales total.
“We would love to have parties like this with some of Marshall’s sororities, espe-cially with formals coming up,” Epling said.
Epling and Ellis both have other careers and Birds of a Feather Boutique is not their main source of income. They hope to change that someday. Ellis is a guidance counselor at Ceredo-Kenova Middle School and Epling is a specialty pharmaceutical sales representative for West Virginia.
“Our ultimate goal would be to have our own shop and expand to formal gowns,” Epling said. “For now, we will stick with the low overhead of selling through Facebook and parties while we work our other real jobs.”
Ana Wilker can be con-tacted at [email protected].
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Birds of a Feather Boutigue owners Lindsey Ellis and Whitney Epling display their jewelery on sale at the Paramount Fashion and Jewlery Show.
By SARAH DYKETHE PARTHENON
Young Americans for Lib-erty, a political activist club that promotes involvement and information about poli-tics at Marshall University and nationally, joined the list of clubs at Marshall last week.
Caitlin Grimes, founder of the club, said she had been thinking about it for a while and decided it was worth trying to start.
The national organiza-tion was formed in 2008 at the end of Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential campaign.
The group focuses on ed-ucating their peers about various topics including libertarian values and em-phasizes the role of the Constitution in American government.
Right group, the club at Marshall is trying to be rec-ognized nationally, but has not had the chance to plan any events yet.
They will set tables up in the Memorial Student Center soon, and will be planning events.
Common majors for members of the club in-clude political science, international affairs, history,
business and finance.Grimes said the group
has really opened her eyes to how much people ignore politics every day.
“What our politicians are doing, affect us,” Grimes said. “Know what decisions they are making and if they agree with what you believe. One day, our generation will run this country and we need to have politically savvy individuals to help keep our country great and true to the Declaration of Independence.”
As of right now, there are no local fees.
The club has a cost to join
nationally, which includes subscriptions and a free T-shirt.
Anyone who wants to be politically active is welcome to join the group.
Young Americans for Liberty have their own Face-book page nationally, but Marshall’s club is working on making on its individual one.
Since its creation, Young Americans for Liberty has over 300 active groups on col-lege and high school campuses across the United States.
Sarah Dyke can be con-tacted at [email protected].
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By JESSICA PATTERSONTHE PARTHENON
One group on campus is tak-ing the initiative to help their fellow students.
The Marshall University’s Honors College Student Asso-ciation will host an Interview Tips and Resume Building session for Honors College stu-dents, Tuesday.
Adam Shaver, president of the HCSA’s steering commit-tee, said the group planned the event so honors students can get advice on interviews, letters of recommendation and resumes from Career Services.
“I feel this is a good way to introduce honors students to Career Services and share with them the resources that are available,” Shaver said.
The steering committee is a group of 13 students from the HCSA who plan events designed to engage Honors College students in communi-cation with one another and the community.
Leah Midkiff, secretary of the HCSA’s steering commit-tee, said the group must plan one academic, one social and one community service event for the honors students each semester. This semester, they chose Interview Tips and Re-sume Building as the academic requirement.
“For the past couple semes-ters we have done a study abroad oriented academic event,” Midkiff said. “This se-mester we wanted to think outside the box and do some-thing a little different that would useful to more honors students because not that many students are interested in study abroad.”
The event will feature Mi-chelle Barbour from Marshall Career Services.
Midkiff said Barbour will speak about how to be pre-pared and presentable at an interview and what to include in a good resume.
Students who bring their resumes to the event can then meet one-on-one with Barbour to look over their resumes.
“It’s not going to be she looks over the resumes and tell the students what they need to add on and take off,” Midkiff said. “She also wants them to think of that themselves. She wants it to be a very reflective, self-critiquing process.”
Shaver said the steering com-mittee hopes they could also benefit from Barbour’s advice.
“Several of us on the com-mittee are currently working towards applying for graduate programs,” Shaver said. “We know there are a lot of other people in the same situation.”
Midkiff said the event is im-portant because it will help students prepare for life after college.
“The resume is so univer-sal and is considered a crucial facet of the professional world,” Midkiff said. “If someone is in-terviewing several applicants for a job and one person comes in with a professional resume and another person comes in with a less professional re-sume, the second person will not be taken as seriously.”
The Interview Tips and Re-sume Building event will take place in Marco’s Room in the Memorial Student Center from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Jessica Patterson can be contacted at [email protected].
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By KYLE GIBSONTHE PARTHENON
With three games left in the season, the Thundering Herd men’s basketball team will head to Houston, Saturday, to face the University of Houston Cougars in a Conference USA matchup.
Marshall, which stands at 12-16 overall, will try to get back on the winning track against a Houston team that is 15-11 overall, but 4-7 in conference play.
The Cougars have an 11-4 re-cord at home this season, while
Marshall has only one road win this season.
Marshall Head Coach Tom Herrion said playing a team that is good at home will pres-ent a challenge.
“It’s a big challenge against a really good team,” Herrion said. “They obviously play big and want to be strong in their own building, and they have a lot of weapons on their side.”
Senior forward Dennis Tin-non said he hopes the team will come out strong early.
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Junior forward Elijah Pittman puts up a contested shot against UAB in the Cam Henderson Center.
By COURTNEY SEALEYTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall University women’s lacrosse team will resume its season this week-end when they travel to West Virginia University for two matches Sunday.
The girls will play WVU at 10 A.M. and Camegie-Mellon Uni-versity at noon.
The two games follow the tournament at the University of Kentucky last weekend, where the team finished 0-4.
The WVU rivalry does not stop at football and basketball games. The girls agreed that they were most excited to play WVU, quoting the state rivalry.
Marianna Taylor, secondary Spanish education major, plays attack and said what the team learns would help them win in the upcoming games.
“I feel like the new girls learned about how fast paced the game is and how to work as a team,” Taylor said. “We improve so much from game to game. I’m truly proud of all the new girls and what they brought to the field last
weekend. I hope this weekend will show the same.”
Casey Baker, a medical im-aging major, is a new team member and said she had never even seen a lacrosse field be-fore this past weekend.
“I learned, this past weekend, that we need to practice more,” Baker said. “We can only get better. I’m hoping the girls have realized what they can and cannot do and apply it to their skills.”
Baker said she believes the entire season will be a learn-ing experience for the girls. She said hopes it will help improve everyone’s skills for their re-maining years on the team.
This being the first real sea-son for the team has been hard for the girls, but they said that would not hold them back.
Taylor said the team learned so much in the past few weeks, but there is still a lot more. She said she was happy the team learned how they worked on defense this past weekend be-cause it is something that will help them in the upcoming season.
“I would like to see us im-prove on our offense and goal shooting. If we can improve on that, we can give these teams a run for their money,” Tay-lor said. “I would like to see my goal shooting to improve. I would also like to see games closer in score. Last weekend were our first games and I feel we are more prepared for what could happen.”
The girls have been doing a lot to prepare. They have had extra practices to help with offense, ground balls, catch-ing, throwing and cradling the balls. These were things that really affected their ability to keep possession this past weekend and ultimately led to their losses at the University of Kentucky.
Some of the girls will travel to Morgantown, Saturday and stay with friends who attend school at WVU. Others will travel to Morgantown Sunday before the game. The girls travel to all their events by carpooling.
Courtney Sealey can be contacted at [email protected].
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Despite good shooting, the Thunder-ing Herd women’s basketball team was unable to continue its success at home, falling 68-61 to the Southern Miss Golden Eagles Thursday.
“We just didn’t have it,” Marshall Head
Coach Matt Daniel said. “Some nights you don’t have it and we didn’t have it.”
The game was well contested for most of the contest, but the Southern Miss guard duo of freshman Jerontay Clemons and junior Jamierra Faulkner were too much for the Herd. The pair accounted for 44 points, including Clemons’ 10 of 16
performance from the field. “Clemon’s did it early, Faulkner kind of
did it from beginning to end,” Marshall Associate Head Coach Tony Kemper said. “They’ve got jets and we’ve struggled against that kind of guard all year. We’ve got to be able to guard people like that to do the things we want to do.”
The Herd struggled against the half-court press the Golden Eagles put on them, especially when the Golden Eagles trapped Herd ball handlers in the corners.
The loss snapped a three game winning streak for the Herd at the Cam Henderson Center.
“We’ve been playing better, but tonight was not one of our best efforts,” Kemper said. “I think our girls would admit that.”
Turnovers continued to be an issue for the Herd, as the team committed 19 dur-ing the game that the Golden Eagles were able to convert into 26 points.
The Golden Eagles played the game with just eight players, with several missing the game due to various reasons.
Early in the game, the Herd tried to push the pace of the game to take advantage of the short-handed Golden Eagles, but the pace slowed as the game progressed.
“We were no more tired than they were,” Daniel said. “They brought eight, they’ve got suspensions, injuries, one player had 24 points on one leg.”
Junior forward Suporia Dickens paced the Herd with 19 points, including a four of five performance from beyond the three-point line.
“I feel like I’ve gotten more confidence,” Dickens said, who set her career high with 21 points in the Herd’s game against SMU.
Sophomore guard Shay Weaver was the only other Marshall player in double digits. Freshman guard Norrisha Victrum contributed five points, five assists and five rebounds, but also gave up five turn-overs. The team finished the game with a
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By HENRY CULVYHOUSE COLUMNIST
Previously, I discussed how Lenin’s perspective on politi-cal issues amounted to taking Russian society, shaped like a circle and fitting it into Marxist theory, shaped like a square. Today, I want show how he attempted to do this, what we can learn from his attempt.
If you want to fit a circle into a square, the best thing to do is cut the circle into the shape of a square. Lenin’s policy in the Soviet Union from 1917-1923 did just that. When Lenin took power, he had three ma-jor issues: fighting a civil war, ending Russia’s involvement in WWI and restructuring the economy along socialist lines. Lenin’s method is most evident in his approach to the economy.
First, the Communist Party implemented war commu-nism, which banned money and set up a rationing sys-tem. War communism quickly
failed, because the peasants were screwed by the system and refused to give away their crops. The industrial workers did not produce enough to sat-isfy peasant demand either.
So, the Communist Party went to the drawing board and came up with the New Eco-nomic Policy, which instituted a highly regulated economy, with free trade amongst peas-ants and small businesses. The idea was simple; since Russia was not a highly devel-oped capitalist nation, then the Communist Party would have to develop it along quasi-capi-talist lines first, then make the transition into pure socialism. The NEP was moderately suc-cessful, but criticized heavily by hardline communists, who called it a step backwards.
What I am trying to illustrate is simple. Lenin and his buddies were engaged in social engi-neering (I use this loosely), by tweaking a society to develop according to Marxist theory. Social engineering cannot be
successful if there is any po-litical discourse, because social engineering presupposes the principles it is founded on to be true and proper. If some-thing is true, then there is no dispute to its validity and therefore, all discussion ham-pers the realization of this truth. If discussion, which sup-poses a dialogue and hence a diversity of opinion (the oppo-site of discussion is agreement, which supposes homogeneity of opinion) hampers the real-ization of truth, then it must be wrong and therefore harm-ful to those implementing the “truth.”
One can see why it did not phase Lenin much to sign off on eradicating opposing politi-cal parties.
I’m using Lenin and his pursuit of ideological “truth” as an illustration to a serious problem I see in our society. The reason why Capitol Hill is so highly divided is like Lenin, our Congressmen (right or left) think they hold the truth.
If a liberal senator thinks his way is “true,” then not only is his conservative counter-part wrong, but the advocacy of his counterpart’s position is an existential threat to his truth. Therefore his opponent must be demonized. The same thing applies conservative’s thoughts on liberals.
The problem is our rep-resentatives are ideologues. Their pursuit of “solutions” to social issues isn’t rooted in the study of economics, sociology or political sci-ence. Sure, they use these disciplines to support their ideologies when it is to their benefit, but they root their solutions in their belief, just like Lenin did in the Soviet Union. Political dogma, at this point, takes precedence over practical solutions.
Next week, I will be shift-ing gears into Stalin’s rise to power.
Henry Culvyhouse can be contacted at [email protected].
Vladimir Lenin: Truth and Oppression
By TRISTAN SMITHCOLUMNIST
The recycling movement took off in the late ‘80s when experts in the federal gov-ernment made statements explaining that the United States had a landfill space cri-sis. This launched a nationwide movement that today is prob-ably at its strongest ever.
Recycling is of course, using the materials from one item, to create or assist in the creation of another item.
Recycling makes people feel good because they feel like they are conserving materials, and doing a good deed for the en-vironment and society. There is, however, evidence that in al-most all cases, these “feel good” reasons turn out of be false promises.
Sometimes when you throw away a piece of paper, some-one will say something to the effect of “stop killing the trees.”
This seems to be a valid point and concern, because after all, no one really wants to be wasteful. This issue becomes less of a concern when you ex-amine where the paper came from.
A vast percentage of paper in the United States is made from trees grown in paper farms. In other words, we grow trees specifically for the production of paper. So, when you use paper, you are basi-cally ordering more trees to be planted to make more pa-per. We do it this way because milling trees at paper farms is far cheaper, quicker, easier, and requires less resources than milling trees in a jungle or a forest.
Recycling plastic also has its misconceptions. When a plas-tic water bottle is recycled, you cannot simply create that same bottle over again through recycling. The first step of re-cycling plastic leaves you with small plastic pellets that can be used to create secondary plas-tic items. These items include things such as fleece jackets and composite clothing, shoe-laces, reusable shopping bags,
and many other things. Not only does it require
more energy to recycle a plas-tic bottle than to make a new one, but the items that do result from recycling plastic cannot be recycled again. The only thing that can be done with secondary plastic items after use is to throw them away and have them taken to a landfill. And, in case you haven’t guessed it yet, you can make better quality, less expensive versions of these same items that require less energy to be created if you just start from scratch.
Perhaps the biggest prob-lem with recycling is that it is a huge waste of money for everyone. Recycling centers are subsidized by the federal government, the same way that large farms are subsidized for crops that do not sell well out of season. Money is taken from every paycheck of every American, and through taxes is used to pay for the recycling industry.
The fact that recycling can only stay afloat through subsi-dies automatically shows that it is not an economically sustain-able industry. The only items that are actually profitable to recycle are aluminum cans. Everything else produces a net loss for taxpayers.
Remember the “landfill cri-sis” that I mentioned before that the ‘80s environmental experts were raving about? Well, it turns out there was no crisis at all. We do have plenty of landfill space, and we will for a long time.
Landfills are not harmful to the environment because of rubber linings separating the trash form the ground. In some landfills the pipe de-composition gasses off of the waste and convert it into en-ergy to power houses.
The decision to recycle lies with the individual, but that decision should be based on information rather than assumption.
Tristan Smith can be contacted at [email protected].
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It is March and that means another election is upon us. No, it is not a national or state elec-tion that is politically invasive. It is a civil and campus-friendly one.
The Marshall University Student Government Associa-tion election has begun and with filing day completed and the candidates prepared to campaign, the battle to take Ray Harrell Jr.’s two-term presidential seat has commenced.
As students go on about their busy lives, it is important they take the time to research
the candidates and vote. Vote not only because it is a civic duty but vote to elect the leader that will efficiently lead the student body for the next year.
The SGA plays a crucial role on Marshall’s campus. For instance, the SGA president meets with President Stephen Kopp on a consistent basis to discuss initiatives and pro-grams that are in response to student concerns.
The SGA president has served as a Board of Gover-nors representative, therefore sharing student concerns and
ideas with the body that over-sees all actions at Marshall. The SGA president is required to serve on many committees that make decisions crucial to students — the president has a voice when it comes to student activities, tuition, student fees, enrollment, among others. In addition, the SGA president oversees the SGA Senate meetings and plays an active role in student engagement.
Considering the role of the SGA president is an important one, it is imperative that all stu-dents vote, especially since the
decisions made could have an impact on the entire student population.
The three candidates seek-ing the presidential office are E.J. Hassan, Wittlee Retton and Derek Ramsey.
All three have been involved in student organizations and all three are deserving candi-dates. However, it is up to the student body to make the final call.
From March 12-13, students can cast their votes and elect the next student leader. The fu-ture of Marshall’s student body rests in your hands.
Every vote counts during SGA election season
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professionals. COE majors will be given
an interview block sched-ule for the day that tells them which school system and what time they will be seeing each.
“These students will ac-tually be sitting down one on one with each inter-viewer they are scheduled with and have an infor-mational interview about what that particular school system is looking for and when they need new fac-ulty members,” Stoler said.
There are 23 school sys-tems from 4 states, W.Va., Tenn., N.C. and Md., sched-uled to be attending the Educator Expo who are all looking for teachers to hire.
Career Services plans to conduct an open house for this Educator Expo on Mon-day so students can come in and sign up for their in-terview times before hand.
“During the open house, students will sign up for their interview times and they will also have the
opportunity to get help on their resumes and we can answer any questions they have pertaining to the expo,” Stoler said.
Denise Hogsett, Direc-tor of Career Services said that the department works very hard to help students in their areas of study.
“Career Services works very hard at helping students succeed after graduation. We want to help them in every way possible to find the best job for their futures,” Hog-sett said.
The Educator Expo Open House will be held on Monday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Career Ser-vices building.
The Educator Expo will be an all-day event on Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center, room BE5.
Students can also go to Career Services website to see positions that each school system is looking for, prior to the expo on Tuesday.
Haylee Roberts can be contacted at [email protected].
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“Most of the time it just goes off in their individual rooms and we have to reset it.”
Spreading awareness about electrical safety, including how to use power strips and extension cords, is also an im-portant aspect of fire safety
Unplugging electrical de-vices is always to be done by grabbing the plug and not by
pulling by the cord. Power strips are only to be
plugged directly into wall out-lets and never linked together to act as an extension cord.
Extension cords are only advised for temporary use for no longer than eight hours, and power strips and exten-sion cords that are damaged should never be used.
Shannon Grener can be contacted at [email protected].
a respectable 45.1 shooting percentage.
The Golden Eagles were led by Faulkner’s 24 points, fol-lowed closely by Clemons’ 20. Senior guard Tanecka Carey rounded out the double-digit
scorers for Southern Miss with 13 while tying the team high in rebounds with six.
The Herd will try to finish the season strong with its last
home game of the season Sun-day at 2 p.m.
Will Vance can be con-tacted at [email protected].
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“We’re looking to come out really aggressive and start on top for once,” Tinnon said. “We need to try to not bury ourselves in a hole early and try to dig ourselves back out. We have a tendency to do that, so we want to come out and throw the first punch.”
The Herd had a respite this week, having the typical Wednesday game off.
Sophomore guard Chris Martin said having a game off
helped to recharge the team’s batteries.
“It’s getting towards the end of the season and our bodies are breaking down a little bit,” Martin said. “When-ever we have time off, that definitely helps us out.”
Martin said practice time over game time is helping the group to settle down together as a unit.
“We are spending more time in the gym as a team, and at this point that helps with our team chemistry,” Martin said. “At this point of
the season, I don’t think it’s about X’s and O’s as much as it is about mental toughness for the rest of the year.”
Marshall is led in scoring by Elijah Pittman, who averages 15.7 points per game, includ-ing 18 in last Saturday’s loss to UAB in Huntington. Soph-omore Joseph Young, who puts up 17.8 points per game, leads the Cougars.
Houston’s 4-7 confer-ence record includes three straight losses. The Cougars have also lost four of their last five games. Marshall
has fared only slightly bet-ter over that stretch, losing three out of its last five.
After the Houston contest, Marshall will have two games to play, with one home game and one road game remaining. The home game will be against Southern Miss. next Tuesday, and the Herd will finish out the season on the road at East Car-olina next Saturday.Saturday’s tip off is set for 2 p.m. at the Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston.
Kyle Gibson can be con-tacted at [email protected].
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“Doubt: A Parable” continues with second set of performancesBy EBONY ROBINSON THE PARTHENON
The Marshall University Theatre Alliance presented the second set of perfor-mances of “Doubt: A Parable” Thursday. The play will run until Saturday, and starts at 8 p.m. each night.
The play is performed at The Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre inside the Joan C. Ed-wards Performing Arts Center on Marshall’s campus.
Tickets are still on sale, and a valid Marshall I.D. is
required for admission for Marshall students.
“Doubt: A Parable” was written in 2004 by playwright John Patrick Shanley. The play opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre. In 2005 the drama won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for best play. In 2008 there was a film adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoff-man, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.
Set in a 1964 Bronx Catholic school, the play focuses on the
suspicion that a priest named Father Flynn has made ad-vances towards a student and a nun named Sister Aloysius sets out to find the truth.
The play features guest Di-rector Cathey Crowell Sawyer. Sawyer is the artistic director of the Greenbrier Valley The-atre. She has directed over 250 plays and is a member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers.
The cast of Marshall’s ren-dition of the play are senior theatre major Patrick Taylor
as Father Flynn, senior per-formance and public relations major Jordan Bean as Sister Aloysius, sophomore theatre major Jordan Marx as Sis-ter James and senior theatre major Ashley Monet as Mrs. Muller.
Megan Fry, senior education major said she thought the play was well done.
“The principal had a harsh and demeaning tone, which I think she was supposed to be. This made her character very believable,” Fry said.
Barry Westmoreland, fresh-man health profession major, was a first time attendee of a play presented by Marshall. He attended the play because it was an assignment for his theater appreciation class.
“I thought it was a great play with the emotion,” Westmore-land said. “The actors did a great job and I will come back again to see another play.”
Westmoreland said his favorite character in the play was Sister Aloysius be-cause the actress brought
the character to life. He said the intensity of the character within the play was matched with the performance of the actress.
“Theater is important be-cause it allows people to express themselves,” West-moreland said. “Theater gives light to issues and moments in history that should be illus-trated for the audience to be drawn into.”
Ebony Robinson can be contacted at [email protected].
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House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, speaking Thursday at the cottage where Abraham Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, celebrated its 150th anniver-sary but warned that one of the most important products of the slain president's vision-ary leadership is under threat at the Supreme Court.
Clyburn, the only African-American to hold a leadership post in Congress, also noted the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the now-famous "I Have a Dream" speech delivered to hundreds of thousands by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial.
The South Carolina Demo-crat told a racially mixed audience of church ministers, historians and guests from the Washington region that he had attended Tuesday's Supreme Court hearing of a case in which the govern-ment of Shelby County, Ala., is challenging portions of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Clyburn expressed dissat-isfaction with Justice Anton Scalia's challenge of the law's
continuation, during oral ar-guments, as "a perpetuation of racial entitlement."
He criticized Scalia's com-ment as "an attack on what many people believe is the most effective civil rights law ever enacted."
"We're all entitled to the effectiveness of the Consti-tution of the United States," Clyburn said to murmurs of encouragement from his listeners. "We all have a per-petual entitlement."
Asked after the Lincoln Cot-tage ceremony whether he fears the Supreme Court will overturn the Voting Rights Act, which ended Jim Crow laws that had prevented blacks from casting ballots in the South, Clyburn responded: "I am deeply concerned."
Democratic Rep. John Lewis, a former civil rights leader from Georgia, earlier called Scalia's remark "ap-palling" and "an affront to all of what the civil rights move-ment stood for."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and black lawmakers held a rally Wednesday to pro-tect the Voting Rights Act on the steps outside the Supreme Court after its hearing.
At what is now called the Lincoln Cottage, three miles north of the White House on Washington's northern edge, the nation's 16th president worked on the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 before issuing it Jan. 1, 1863.
While Lincoln used his authority as commander in chief as the proclamation's legal basis, it freed slaves only in the 10 Confederate states that had seceded. Tens of thousands of freed slaves joined Union troops as they advanced through the South.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution banned slavery with its adoption on Dec. 6, 1865, after Lincoln's assassination.
Long considered among the greatest American presi-dents, Lincoln has enjoyed a resurgence of interest since last year's release of Steven Spielberg's epic "Lincoln," in which Daniel Day-Lewis received a best actor Oscar on Sunday for his portrayal of the man known in his time as Honest Abe.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who in January became the only black Re-publican in Congress, said this week that Lincoln, a
founder of the Republican Party, has been a guiding light for him.
"President Lincoln taught us the value of persistence, and his struggles showed that a man who wrestles with himself and asks hard questions will come to better conclusions," Scott said.
"I had an opportunity to view the (original) Eman-cipation Proclamation in person last month, and the power of Lincoln's vision re-mains as clear today as it did 150 years ago," Scott said. "Those words, and the action and belief behind them, for-ever changed our nation, and we are eternally grateful."
At the ceremony, four peo-ple wearing renditions of Lincoln's trademark black stovepipe hat read the Eman-cipation Proclamation aloud.
Erin Carlson Mast, direc-tor of President Lincoln's Cottage, which is now a na-tional monument, said when he journeyed to it from the White House, the president "would ride in carriage or on horseback past caravans of wounded soldiers and camps of men, women and children who had fled the fighting" during the Civil War.
Rep. Clyburn celebrates Lincoln, MLK, but says Voting Rights Act under threat
House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the only African-American in Congress to hold a leadership rank, delivers the keynote address during an homage to Abraham Lincoln on Thursday at the former Soldiers' Home in Washington, D.C.
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