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Marshall University departments have collaborated to celebrate and dis-play the importance of Black History Month. February is dedicated to allow students to become more educated with historical African American figures, timelines and culture. Drinko Library is currently displaying four panels on the third floor of African Ameri-can history that took place within the Appalachian state. Each window has different content for all interests offering information on historical mu-sicians, athletes and educators.
In the first display, Carter G. Wood-son, an African American historian, is the centerpiece. Students can observe photos of the “father of black history” along with old, faded newspaper clip-pings from the Herald-Dispatch. They were published throughout the 1960s. He had written numerous books, which are also available inside the display. “The Negro Professional Man and the Community” and “Mis-education of the Negro Tradition” are two examples of the many displayed in the first panel. Below the books, another Herald-Dis-patch clipping discusses his time inside the coal mines of West Virginia, his education at Douglass High School in Huntington and more of his contribu-tions as he grew older.
In the second panel, a map is dis-played signifying the Underground Railroad. The path begins as it enters from Virginia and branches off in the center of the West Virginia. The trail is numbered for students to see the infor-mation on the side of the map of events and people who have impacted that specific area. Below the map, a time-line is displayed of the historic events in the state beginning with the Civil War.
Historical African American musi-cians are on display in the following
BY JAKE SNYDERTHE PARTHENON
Conference USA and Fox Sports Media Group have reached a new five-year television agreement beginning at the start of the 2011 football season.
The deal will encom-pass all C-USA sports including regular-season football games, men and women’s basketball and a variety of Olympic sports.
“It’s a very positive thing for the conference, in terms of additional revenue and additional exposure in terms of broadcast,” said Associ-ate Director of Athletics for Administration and Business David Steele. “Not only for football and men’s basketball, but all of our other sports.”
The new deal couples with a current deal with
newly rebranded CBS sports network. Accord-ing to a press release from C-USA, the agree-ment nearly triples current television expo-sure and doubles current revenue from television.
“You have to be pleased when your TV partner significantly increases the exposure and rev-enue of your program,” said Marshall Athletic Director Mike Hamrick in the release. “We have an outstanding overall multimedia agreement when you look at the Fox and CBS college sports components as a whole.”
The terms of the agree-ment with Fox Sports Network provide for 20 regular-season football games, 10 regular-season men’s basketball games, 5 women’s basketball games and several other
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Several Marshall University departments have collaborated to display the importance of black history at Drinko Library. The display is located on the library’s third fl oor and will be on display until the end of the month.See DISPLAY I 5
BY ANNA SWIFTTHE PARTHENON
The West Virginia House of Dele-gates and Senate are considering bills that would increase the state tax on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Don Perdue, D-Wayne, and a spon-sor of House Bill 2973, said the bills would raise the cigarette tax from 55 cents to $1.55, raise the sale of tobacco products from seven to 50 percent of their wholesale price, put half of the generated revenue to health-related programs and devote the other half to the state’s general revenue fund.
According to the website for the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free West Virginia, West Virginia has the high-est smoking rate in the country and spends around $2 billion a year on tobacco-related expenses.
“As an excise tax, the tax increase proposed by the House and Senate would bring in extra revenue, as well as possibly deter smoking,” Perdue said.
“The coalition in their research has found that if you do this you’ll de-crease new smoking in West Virginia by over 15% and keep 19,000 children from becoming addicted adult smok-ers,” Perdue said. “It would reduce the number of adult smokers by about 13,000 and would save many millions of dollars in healthcare costs. In the first five years, it would save nearly
10,000 lives.”Also beneficial, Perdue said, would
be that the tax money could be used for something that hasn’t been addressed in this year’s “expanding budget:” sub-stance abuse and tobacco cessation programs.
“The governor did not put any ex-tra money in the budget for substance abuse or tobacco cessation or anything else but he managed to, throughout the budget, consume almost all of that excess,” he said. “And at the same time, we have to recognize that if you have an expanding budget and you don’t incorporate something into it that is so critical as this, it just pushes the problem to the next year; and the year after that it becomes even more expensive.”
A tobacco tax increase has been dis-cussed in the Legislature for the past three years but was only last passed in 2003, he said.
Dan Foster, D-Kanawha, and a sponsor of Senate bill 362, said a tax increase on tobacco products is, how-ever, receiving public support now.
“We’re now one of the states with the lowest tax on tobacco products,” Fos-ter said. “We’re lower I think than all our surrounding states now, and the national average is $1.45. This would put us essentially in line with that if this would pass at a dollar increase, so
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MIAMI - Pressure to review six Mi-ami police-involved shooting deaths of black men dating back to the last summer intensified this week when the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asked a civilian panel wielding subpoena power to weigh in on the controversy.
Local NAACP President Victor Curry, following the police-involved shooting death of Travis McNeil last Friday, called on the Florida Attorney General to in-tervene and asked U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson. D-Fla., to write a letter to the Jus-tice Department. Curry has also contacted the Rev. Al Sharpton, the well-known civil rights activist, to urge him to visit Miami and lead a community rally. No date has been set for the visit and rally.
Meanwhile, the ACLU presented a letter Tuesday to the city’s Civilian Investigative Panel, listing dates and names of the men killed by police be-tween July 2010 and February 2011, and one killed by a Miami-Dade offi-cer. They said the number of shootings is disproportionate when compared to larger cities like New York. That city, whose population is 20 times larger than Miami, had just eight police-in-volved shootings in 2010.
“The people in our community deserve to know that every unit of government that has a role with regard to these is-sues is fulfilling its responsibility to address these urgent matters,” said the letter signed by ACLU Executive Director Howard Simon, Curry, ACLU Attorney John DeLeon, and past ACLU President Brad Brown. The letter goes on to say, “There is now a crisis in the Miami police department and it is re-sulting in the death of black men.”
The city’s CIP was given almost unprecedented powers a decade ago following a series of question-able police shootings and cover-ups. The public overwhelmingly voted to create the semi-independent author-ity to look into police misconduct
allegations. Its 13-member board is comprised of nine members appointed by city commissioners - three by the mayor, and one by the police chief. At the time, Miami was one of only five cities nationwide in which the civilian panel had subpoena powers.
Over the years the authority has recommended actions ranging from policy changes to changes in findings to the re-interviewing of witnesses for dozens of cases. In recent years, however, the CIP has been plagued by budgetary problems and an in-ability to seat all 13 members as commissioners haggled over the make-up of the panel.
Currently there are 11 members on the panel that meets at City Hall. The panel does not recommend discipline, and its findings are forwarded to the chief of police, the city manager, and the city’s five commissioners.
Generally, the committee tries to stay out of active investigations.
“We can do simultaneous investiga-tions,” said interim director Carol A. Abia. “But it depends on many issues the state attorney may be looking at. We certainly don’t want to jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations.”
Miami police, city administrators, and some members of the city’s commission, have struggled with how to deal with eight shootings in the past 10 months. The mayor and at least one commis-sioner have called for the dismissal of Police Chief Miguel Exposito. The city manager - who ultimately could decide the chief ’s fate, but has promised to study the circumstances before taking action - has brought in a retired FBI chief to review the department.
Although the State Attorney’s Office has not completed its investigations of the six shootings - in some cases those investigations could take up to a year - at least two of the deadly shootings involved unarmed men, Travis McNeil and DeCarlos Moore. McNeil died last week in Little Haiti; Moore died in an Overtown shooting in July after al-legedly disobeying a police order and returning to his car.
The six others shot and killed by Miami
police are Emmanuel Fluker, Ulysses Hathaway Bodie, Joell Lee Johnson, Gibson Junior Belizaire, Brandon Fos-ter, and Tarnorris Tyrell Gaye. All were killed in Overtown, Little Haiti, or Liberty City. The ACLU complaint is asking the panel to look into the Janu-ary shooting of Johnny Simms, who was shot and killed by Miami-Dade police officer Oscar Plasencia, after Simms gunned down two county police officers.
Miami Commissioner Richard P. Dunn II, who has been battling Ex-posito in a push to finish the shooting investigations, welcomed the ACLU move Wednesday, saying he was a member of the committee for two
years after its inception.“I’m going to do everything I can to
help them,” said Dunn. “I believe in the mission of it.”
CIP Attorney Charles Mays said Wednesday he found the ACLU com-plaint “well founded,” and said he plans to send a letter to the state at-torney to make sure they don’t step on each other’s feet if there are simul-taneous investigations. “It’s a very important matter, and we’re treating it that way,” said Mays.
Exposito, a 36-year vet still in a fight to retain his job, has refused comment on the specifics of any of the shootings.
BY KELSEY WAYBRIGHTTHE PARTHENON
A physical education professor is trying to put the “physical” back into physical education by inspiring his stu-dents in the classroom and through the resurrection of Marshall University’s PE club.
Bane McCracken, Marshall gradu-ate and 1997 National Association for Sports and Physical Education Sec-ondary PE teacher of the year, was asked by the College of Education and Human Services to teach this year to a fill an open position left in the phys-ical education program. Once at the university, the former Cabell Midland High School PE teacher re-energized the PE club, which had been inactive for the past few years.
“I hadn’t taught for a while but I have really been impressed with the enthusiasm the students have shown,” McCracken said. “I know we will turn out some good teachers.”
Jake Gilliam, senior physical edu-cation major from Wayne, W.Va., said
before McCracken came to teach at Marshall he did not feel as con-nected to his major or prepared to start his profession.
“He’s not just another teacher, he reignited my passion for my profes-sion,” Gilliam said. “I feel I have gotten to learn so much from him and his past experiences.”
McCracken has shared many con-tacts as well as past experiences to show examples of what PE majors will be capable of doing once they are in the classroom to excite their futures stu-dents about physical activities and how important it is.
“We just finished having a representa-tive from the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources in, and they helped my kids learn about archery and how they can use it in the classroom,” Mc-Cracken said. “They will be working the West Virginia Archery in the Schools Program State Tournament, which is a wonderful activity for my students to work with quality educators and get them excited about PE.”
The archery event, which has grown
since 2004 to include 800 West Virginian middle school and high school students, allows club members to not only pro-vide help as a service activity, but also learn how to apply more of what they’re learning in the classroom.
The students continued their learn-ing experience outside the classroom at the West Virginia Association of Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance convention. McCracken and members of the PE Club attended the convention, held in Davis, W.Va., to continue to remind the members of the importance of staying active and mak-ing connection within their profession.
“The mission of the convention is to provide the best members in the field and explain their practices and share their experiences over three days,” McCracken said. “The convention has a lot of workshops but also fun ac-tivities too such as a dance on of the nights, but the main focus is having a lot of physical activities.”
Gilliam said he really enjoyed being able to talk to other professionals in his field and the one-on-one time he got
to discuss with them and learn from their experiences.
“Bane is so respected and really opened doors for us to be able to talk to many people, including this year’s Na-tional PE Teacher of the Year,” Gilliam said. “We were able to pick their brains for ideas for our classes, but it also show us how great an asset Bane is to us be-cause you can tell how much everyone there respects him.”
Gilliam said he already feels more comfortable and ready for when he takes the step into student teaching because of all the new ideas he has for physical education programs and how to get kids active in the schools.
“He’s laying the foundation at Mar-shall University for the PE program, and showing us how to be involved with our majors as well as how to make new connections,” Gilliam said. “Before I didn’t feel connected to what I was do-ing and now I have a whole new respect for what he does as well as what I’m go-ing to be doing in the future.”
Kelsey Waybright can be contacted at [email protected].
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AUBURN, Ala.—Two NCAA investigators inter-viewed several people in Thibodaux, La., on Monday about Auburn’s recruitment of Greg Robinson and Trovon Reed, according to a report by FoxSports.com Wednesday.
Robinson, an offensive lineman, signed with Auburn in February. Reed, a wide receiver, signed with the Ti-gers in 2010 and redshirted last season. Both played at Thibodaux High.
The FoxSports.com article said the investigators were looking into the players’ involvement with Sean Nelson, who is Reed’s legal guardian and, according to the report, took both players on visits to Auburn.
Former Thibodaux coach Dennis Lorio, who resigned after last year, said he spoke for 45 minutes to two NCAA investigators who asked him if he thought Au-burn committed NCAA violations in its recruitment of Robinson.
“I can’t say what Auburn did because I don’t know and I wasn’t involved very much,” Lorio told FoxS-ports Wednesday. “I really don’t know truthfully.”
“My answer is what went on with Greg’s recruit-ment, you’re going to have ask Trooper Taylor, Greg, his parents and, I believe, Sean Nelson. I don’t have any more answers because I don’t know.”
Lorio told FoxSports in January that several coaches and students saw Robinson show off cash and a new iPhone at school after making an unofficial visit to Auburn last year. Efforts to contact Lorio Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Prior to the BCS title game, Taylor, who was the pri-mary recruiter for both Reed and Robinson, said he did not give money or items to the players at any point.
The NCAA investigators also spoke to Robinson for “a couple of hours” on Monday, Lorio said, in addition to Robinson’s mother.
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Herd women prepare for Thursday’s game
Herd men win over Rice
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HUNTINGTON—Marshall University women’s basketball concludes its two-game home stand as UAB travels to Huntington for Thursday night’s Conference USA battle during the annual Pink Zone awareness game sponsored by Mattress Warehouse. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m., at the Cam Henderson Center.
The Thundering Herd (6-18, 2-9 C-USA) is coming off a two game slump since its first-ever victory at Reed Green Coliseum against Southern Miss. In its lat-est contest, UCF took the season sweep Sunday with a 71-59 win at the Cam Henderson Center on Sunday. Three Marshall play-ers scored double-figures on the night, including Tynikki Crook’s 11th double-double of the season, 19 points and 10 rebounds, to go along with four assists and four blocks. Rashedah Henriques and Alaya Mitchell chipped in 13 and 12 points, respectively.
UAB (13-11, 5-6 C-USA) earned a 74-45 victory Sunday against South-ern Miss to win its fourth straight game. Amanda Peterson has posted two 20-point games in the last three contests, including a 27-point effort against UTEP. Amber Jones is com-ing off the bench to lead all UAB scorers with 11.2 points per game.
Marshall looks to avenge its Jan. 30 loss, 74-46, to the Blazers on Jan. 30. Tynikki Crook hit double-digits for the 19th time in 20 games with 13 points, but Jones exploded off the bench with a season-high 22
points in Bartow Arena. Lateidra Elliott made her return to the lineup but its wasn’t enough to help the turnover-plagued Herd. Tessa Johnson added 10 points on four-of-six shooting from the floor.
“It is a much different scenario for us because we have a full allot-ment of players.
“We didn’t have Lateidra Elliott full speed, we didn’t have Rashe-dah Henriques yet, we weren’t in a situation where we had our depth,” said head coach Royce Chadwick. “Hopefully now both of those girls are a little bit more acclimatized and a bit more back into the flow of things for us.”
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Senior forward Tynikki Crook fi ghts to keep the ball in Sunday’s game against UCF. The Knights won 71-59. The Herd women will take on UAB on Thursday at the Cam Henderson Center.
BY PATRICK MILLERTHE PARTHENON
Rice (11-14, 3-8 C-USA) stayed with Marshall (17-9, 5-6 C-USA) the entire game, but could not overcome Dago Pena’s timely three pointer that sparked a 7-0 run and put the Owls away for a good min-ute to go on route to a 72-61 win.
Pena scored only 11 points in the con-test but his baskets came at times when the Herd really needed them. Pena also made a spectacular dunk off of a missed dunk by Arsalan Kazemi who traveled to the other end of the court before being recovered by Damier Pitts and dished to Pena, putting the Herd ahead for good at 47-45.
“That was a momentum play, there is no doubt about it, when you play re-ally hard there is sometimes a bounce in your favor, and it turned into a great possession,” said Marshall head coach Tom Herrion.
Kazemi, who averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds a game coming into the con-test, was harassed by the Herd’s defense, which gave him several different looks and defenses to throw him off his game. Kazemi finished with 16 points and nine rebounds but was largely not a factor in the last eight minutes of the game.
“They played really hard and we just out played them, we had to come ready to play and grab every rebound we could,” said Nigel Spikes, center.
At halftime, the Owls out-rebounded the Herd 18-16, but a strong second half on the glass gave the Herd a 36-24 ad-vantage on the boards.
“Defense has to carry you in stretches, but this win was a grinder and we pulled it out,” Herrion said.
Marshall was nearly perfect from the free throw line, shooting 23 of 24 in their best free throw shooting performance of the season.
Marshall struggled to find its groove early in the first half, trading leads with Rice left and right as well as and trad-ing both brilliant and awful plays. With the teams tied at 12, center Nigel Spikes threw down a strong dunk only to be an-swered by another sensational inside play by Rice’s David Chadwick.
Later in the half, Kane stumbled on a play to the basket ending up on the court only for Rice to execute a pass that flew out of bounds undeterred. Kane threw a cross-court pass to Pena that resulted in a three pointer that put the Herd ahead 29-24 and helped Marshall walk into the half with a 30-24 lead.
The game was both military appre-ciation and name-your-own-price night, with tickets going as little as $2 to the general public and all service members getting in at no cost.
President Kopp and Marshall head football coach Donnie Jones honored Major General Allen Tacket for his years of distinguished service by receiving a
glass buffalo.The Herd is 5-2 against Rice since
joining Conference USA.
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Junior guard Damier Pitts goes for the basket in Wednesday’s game against Rice. The Herd won 72-61.
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The 2008 film Gran Torino brought us a grizzled, gun-wielding Clint Eastwood snarling for intruders to “get off my lawn.” It’s a prime example of the Castle Doctrine, a legislation en-forced in 24 states,
including West Virginia, allowing a law-abiding citizen to use deadly force against persons posing immi-nent danger while in their homes and anywhere they have the legal right to be.
As a full-blooded West Virginian, I know how much we treasure the ability to protect our homes, fami-lies, and ourselves from harm. It’s a natural human right, and I believe this includes the right to own and operate a firearm.
However, yesterday morning in Elkins, a man shot three US mar-shals with a shotgun while the officers breached his home carry-ing out a warrant for his arrest. This brings me to the defining line of this week’s column: There is a profound and distinguishable difference between a good man’s castle and a criminal’s hideout.
Make no mistakes about it; I am 100 percent pro-gun rights, but we make gun safes and trigger locks for a reason.
Not just to keep thieves, fires, and the kids away from it, but so we have a series of decisions to make before we start throwing lead.
This shooting in Elkins wasn’t a series of checkpoints in which a condemned man saw it fit to shoot three marshals as they entered his “castle”. This was an action comparable to a dying animal pinned in it’s own hideout. This man had nowhere else to go with-out submitting to justice. He was shot by the assisting state troop-ers while, in his mind, defending his castle from invasion.
I’m totally for privacy. I don’t even believe a cop should be able to search your car unless you’re clearly drunk or there is weed smoke is rolling out of the win-dows. But if US Marshals and state troopers come knocking af-ter you miss a court date (which he did), then you better open the door with your hands up because you’ve had it.
There’s better ways to stick it to the government without pop-ping officers, but don’t write this off as a rallying point for gun con-trol advocates. There would have been more marshals hit if that state trooper wasn’t packing heat of his own.
Contact columnist BISHOP NASH at [email protected]@marshall.edu.
EDITORIAL
Spring is around the corner, and we may desire to shop to update our spring wardrobe or buy a new item for graduation. But the desire to buy some-thing new might have to wait.
The world economy is slowly recovering, but within the next month rising prices will hit most consumer goods, including food companies and manufactur-ers, according to economists.
Retailers have to increase their prices because of a surge in raw material and labor costs.
Economists say cotton prices are near their highest level in more than a decade. For exam-ple, the price of synthetic fabrics has jumped about 50 percent in the past decade.
Economists say that these signs are warnings to the Federal Reserve, and there is
a possibility to raise interest rates. Higher costs also affects how clothes are made, shop-pers will have fewer options as far as colored clothing and design and this inflation will put slow the recovery of the world’s economy.
While some economists are worried about the increase in prices, others are not. Econo-mists say that rising prices can
indicate improvement in the economy and greater demand from growing countries has helped push up the costs of raw materials.
Economists fail to realize how the economy affects so many college students; anything that happens to the economy greatly affects a college student’s life. When items become more expensive, we feel the pinch.
When items are cheaper, it goes unnoticed and we continue pur-chasing as we normally do.
It might be unclear where the economy is heading. But in the mean time, we can con-tinue to buy what is necessary and avoid the unnecessary commodities while we wait to see what happens next.
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College students are used to getting ripped off. It does not matter where you go to school, if you identify yourself as a col-lege student, you are getting ripped off in some way.
Whether it is paying the overpriced tuition, which increases inexplicably, or paying for a less-than-desir-able meal plan, it is all one big rip-off after the other.
One of the biggest offend-ers of this is the textbook prices. This is one of the main reasons I have always kept my mouth shut, because everyone and their mother (literally) complains about this each semester.
It certainly is not ground-breaking news here. It is just a fact that purchasing textbooks from a college book-store is going to be expensive. Why do you think websites like half.com are on the rise?
College bookstores, have a new remedy for this par-ticular grievance with their implementation of the option to rent textbooks. Through renting textbooks, one only has to pay a much smaller renting fee, and you have to pay the full price if you lose or damage the book.
There are websites that have always offered this op-tion. However, sometimes the convenience of the book-store comes in handy. When you need a textbook last min-ute and cannot wait the 7-10 business days through online websites, the bookstore is the safest choice.
Then, when going in there and seeing that an 80 page book costs $90, you cannot help but feel both ripped off and like you just sold a little bit of your soul to the devil.
What really does not help after you spend that $90 on a textbook, is when you go into your class and the professor admits that you will only be using said book once or twice that semester, but you still need it – insert an explica-tive or two you know you are thinking in your head right now. Two things are wrong with this picture.
One being the simple senti-ment: Seriously? The second being is that if renting this particular book was an option, then this whole situ-ation would not be such an annoyance.
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Tri-State residents with an annual gross household income less than $50,000 are eligible for free tax prepa-ration courtesy of V.I.T.A, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, and the United Way of the River Cities.
Ed Davis, financial stability partner-ship coordinator, said the program is an attempt to help families save money on tax preparation and make sure they re-ceive their maximum return.
“It’s a cooperative effort between the United Way and the IRS to bring free tax preparation to hardworking indi-viduals and families in the Tri-State area,” Davis said. “The normal cost of tax preparation by professional prepar-ers is usually a minimum of $150 and that’s money that is taken out of our communities and out of the pockets of hardworking families.”
Tax returns prepared at the ses-sions are e-filed and prepared by I.R.S. trained and certified volunteers. E-fil-ing speeds up the process and recipients receive their returns within about nine
to 10 business days. Davis said this service is beneficial to
individuals and families.“We are able to identify tax credits
for working families such as the Child Tax Credit and the big one, which is the Earned Income Tax Credit,” Davis said. “This brings a nice chunk of money not only back into the family’s pockets, but also back into the community.”
V.I.T.A. tax preparation sites are lo-cated in Cabell, Lincoln, Mason and Wayne Counties in West Virginia and Lawrence County in Ohio. Days and times vary among the locations. Some are walk-in friendly while others re-quire an appointment.
Those planning to attend a free tax preparation session must bring with them: photo identification, a social security card, their spouse and all de-pendents, all W2s, 1099 forms and any other tax information that has been received.
For more information on the program, visit www.unitedwayrivercities.org. For more details on V.I.T.A. site locations, call 304-781-1033.
Free tax preparation offered to Tri-State residents, students
it’s a fairly popular measure as far as taxes go.”
Also in support of the bill are the West Virginia Behavioral Health Care Providers Association and the Coali-tion for a Tobacco-Free West Virginia.
“What we’re going to be saying is that substance abuse is a major prob-lem in West Virginia and that as the state Legislature develops revenues, one thing that needs to be dealt with is treatment for substance abuse,” said Tom Susman, lobbyist for the Health Care Providers Association.
Susman said they would need around $25 million. The $1 tax increase would generate up to $60 million, with $27 million being distributed annually to the Department of Health and Human Resources for tobacco prevention and
cessation programs, according to the Senate and House bills.
One Marshall student said a tax in-crease on cigarettes could affect her.
“I obviously don’t like that, and I’m trying to quit anyway, so that would probably just push me over the edge,” said Cassandra Jones, freshman, pre-science major from Leivasy, W.Va.
However, Perdue said that he could see stores at the borders of the state being opposed to a tobacco tax increase because consumers may then travel to surrounding states in order to avoid the higher price.
John Hodges, director of the West Virginia Wholesalers Associations, was contacted but unavailable for comment.
The bills are sitting in the House and Senate committees on health and hu-man resources.
Anna Swift can be contacted at [email protected].
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Olympic sports to be televised.“It’s a great deal,” said Randy Burn-
side, assistant athletic director for media relations. “It will be very beneficial to our fans, because they will get to see more games on TV. It will be beneficial to the schools because of the exposure increase. Overall, it’s a win-win.”
According to Burnside, one of the big-gest differences fans will notice from the previous contract with ESPN, which has been in effect since Marshall joined C-USA in 2005, is the exposure of the basketball team.
“Our men’s basketball team never ap-peared on ESPN under that contract,” Burnside said. “I guarantee we are go-ing to have games on Fox in the next few years.”
“We are very excited to partner with Fox,” said men’s basketball coach Tom Herrion in the C-USA news release.
“This is a great opportunity for our league to increase our brand recogni-tion and this is also very exciting for our fans and alumni.”
According to Fox Sports Networks President Randy Freer, the new deal is advantageous for both parties.
“Not only can Fox provide extensive national TV exposure for the conference through a variety of outlets, but we can also serve the conference’s member schools and local fans through our strong regional presence,” Freer said in the C-USA press release. “We’ll have tremendous program-ming opportunities to explore, especially with crossover match-ups with our other conference rights.”
Fox Sports Network currently part-ners with several major collegiate conferences including the Big Ten, Pac-10, Big 12, ACC and SEC.
Jake Snyder can be contacted at [email protected].
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panel. American singer and songwriter Bill Withers, has his hit album “Still Bill” propped up on the right-hand side, owning an aged appearance. Stu-dents may recognize well-known songs of his including, “Lean on Me” and “Just the Two of Us.” Below the album lies a story of the African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia — a book that studies folk traditions by Cecelia Conway.
In the last panel, prominent and distinguished Marshall University alumni are on display. Troy Brown is photographed in 1993 running on the field with the football. He was a Mar-shall University’s wide receiver, punt returner and kickoff returner before being drafted by the New England Pa-triots. Byron Leftwich is also featured in the athletic section with a photo from 2002. Leftwich was quarterback and now plays for the Pittsburgh Steel-ers. On the bottom of the display is Hal Greer. He played basketball as the university as No. 15 and then became an American professional basketball
player for the Syracuse Nationals be-fore retiring.
Many departments at Marshall have helped to contribute to this display in-side the library, including Director of African American Programs Maurice Cooley.
“This year has been the strongest year that various departments are working with one another to create something like this,” Cooley said. He said the history department, libraries and his department are not making this a solo effort, and the idea of the display and campus events for this month have equally originated.
Students are encouraged to take advantage of a few history lessons by taking a moment to review what their university has provided for Black His-tory month.
“If we don’t appreciate the past hard-ships of our fellow studies, we can’t appreciate what the future can hold for us as one university,” said Alex Sturgill, senior French major from Culloden, W.Va.
Ashley Grohoski can be contacted at [email protected].
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“A Chorus Line”, the famous Tony
Award and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical, is coming soon to the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center.
The show tells the story of a group auditioning for a Broadway musical.
“‘A Chorus Line’ is one of the longest running Broadway musicals in history, it’s been made into a movie, it’s won nine Tony awards, it’s been very honored so it’s something that has longevity,” said Angela Jones, marketing director of the Marshall Artists Series.
“It’s about trying to make it to the big show, so it’s something that everybody can relate to.”
Along with the musical numbers, the show also offers a glimpse into the lives and personalities of the dancers and the choreographer as they discuss their experiences and dreams of becoming Broadway dancers.
“For people who love Broadway mu-sicals it’s going to be one of those shows that, if they haven’t seen it, it should be on their must-see list,” Jones said.
“It’s a very toned-down show, there’s no big spectacle. It’s all about the people on stage telling their stories, so you get their perspective,” said Hardy Weaver, a performer in the show.
Weaver plays the character Bobby, a character that he says he was drawn to when he was trying out for the show.
“When I was auditioning for the show they had me audition for about three or four different roles and Bobby definitely
was the one that was the most inter-esting,” Weaver said. “You can’t really tell when he’s really telling the truth or when he’s exaggerating or when he’s just flat out lying.”
Weaver has performed the show over 100 times since October and said he still enjoys doing it night after night.
“I love it and I’m really thankful that I get to be doing this kind of show, espe-cially because I’ve lived in New York and I’ve sort of been how these people are in the show,” Weaver said. “I’ve been un-employed and really wanting to be part of another show. Going back on stage, it just makes me appreciate it.”
Weaver also emphasized for those who’ve already seen the show, there’s a uniqueness to each performance.
“That’s the great thing about being able to do it over and over again, you can always try new things,” Weaver said.
Weaver also offered some advice for Marshall’s theater students who want to perform one day.
“The biggest thing that I can say is to keep training,” Weaver said. “You’re in school and you’re never really finished training but really soak up everything you possibly can at school because it’s just so important. And I think you’ll re-alize there in your training how driven you can be and how much you can push yourself. I would definitely say take everything your school and your train-ing have to offer you, because it’s so important.”
The show will start Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Jared Roach can be contacted at [email protected].
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Marshall University is again the backdrop of a feature length film. It’s not Hollywood that has come to town, but an independent film director and screenwriter from Parkersburg,W.Va.
“It would make sense for me to film up here, but because of the film culture that has been created with the univer-sity and the students at Marshall, to me that was a world I wanted to be a part of,” said Jeff Richards, director and screenwriter.
Richards’ film titled ‘Christ Complex’ follows the story of Zoey, a girl in her 20s as she attempts to save her new boyfriend. Her boyfriend, however, is trying to save the world from his best friend who is threatening to begin the Apocalypse.
“Between Indie GoGo and self-financ-ing, I could fund a film, and with my partner Travis, it just really made sense for us to take this venture together,” Richards said.
IndieGoGo.com is a website for in-dependent filmmakers to feature their projects and raise money to finance the film.
“‘Christ Complex’ is your not-so-typ-ical romantic comedy and it’s exciting to get to do this on campus with other Marshall students,” said Travis Ste-phens, senior advertising major from
Huntington. Senior biochemistry major Emma
Gardner, from Richmond, Va., was cast as Zoey.
“Jeff saw me in another independent film and asked me to audition based on that part,” Gardner said.
Gardner has been involved in Hun-tington’s film culture since her freshman year..
“I wanted to do actng stuff, but it’s hard to do when you’re a chemistry ma-jor so I joined the film club on campus, and because of that I’ve been able to be in a couple of short films,” Gardner said.
Christ Complex will be filmed in and around campus over the next couple of months.
“We’d like to have it ready by July or August so we can enter it in all the film festivals in the area, but we’d like to start at Marshall with the screenings,” Richards said.
Students who are interested in be-coming involved in independent filming have options.
“Anybody who wants to become in-volved in independent films just has to pick up a camera,” Gardner said.
Besides striking out alone, students have the option to become involved in the film club on campus or find simi-lar-minded film buffs on the indiegogo website or Facebook. Elizabeth Stewart can be contacted at [email protected]. PHOTO COURTESY OF CARLOS ALEDO
Emma Gardner holds both a role in Escribitionist, and will play Zoey in Christ Complex.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CARLOS ALEDO
Kyle Quinn will play the part of Quinn the “seemingly awkward but attractive guy” in the independent fi lm, “Christ Complex.”
Independent fi lm featured on campus‘Christ Complex’ features Marshall students
