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Graffi ti artists leave mark on campusBY TYLER WOLFETHE PARTHENON
A rise in gra� ti over the last month makes for
some new scenery for students, and that’s creating more work for the physical plant.
“Within the last month, my sta� has spent prob-ably around 20 man hours cleaning gra� ti around campus,” said Dale Osburn, associate director of physical plant. “Probably because it’s been warmer at night.”
Osburn also said even though the physical plant only spends about $250 per year on the removal of gra� ti, it’s very labor-intensive.
Director of Campus Safety James Terry said that in cooperation with the physical plant, he likes to operate by the “broken window” policy. According to Terry, this means the broken window — or in this case, gra� ti — gets taken care of as quickly as possible.
Osburn said the majority of the gra� ti he has seen on campus is around the Student Center and the Memorial Fountain. However, one local gra� ti artist, EPIK VSK, disagrees.
“I’ve noticed more gra� ti around Smith Hall
and Old Main,” EPIK said. “� e � yer and message board on Old Main gets hit a lot, as well as the trash cans all over campus. � e only work I’ve seen at the Student Center is maybe a stencil or two and a bunch of those ‘Hello, my name is’ stickers. � is isn’t really a lot compared to other areas.”
EPIK has been creating gra� ti for the past � ve years, mainly in the South Charleston, Cross Lanes and St. Albans areas. EPIK said they have been in Huntington for roughly eight months now, and he plans to stay.
“Huntington is a bit of a breeding ground for gra� ti artists,” EPIK said. “It’s kinda small, there isn’t a lot of heat on writers and it’s relatively safe to go out and write. It’s a great environment for an artist to go out and put their name up and become known. But if you ever want to become big, you need to move up and hit freights or move to a big-ger city.”
EPIK, a somewhat new gra� ti artist in the West Virginia gra� ti scene, said that young writers are popping up and tagging all over the place. Rime VSK is another member of EPIK’s crew who is rela-tively new. Other new writers include Nark, Man and Shape who have painted on campus and the
surrounding area in the recent weeks, proof that Huntington is becoming a playground for gra� ti.
Gra� ti is a misdemeanor crime and, depending on the number of tags an artist has or the severity of the crime, an artist could see a he� y � ne or time in jail if caught. Last April, two men were sentenced to 30 days in jail and � ve months probation a� er be-ing caught spraying the word “Zombi” on the 400 block of 11th Street. � e word is still visible all over
TYLER WOLFE | THE PARTHENON
Graffi ti artists have tagged several spots around campus, including this dumpster. The physical plant has logged about 20 hours cleaning graffi ti around campus.
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BY CHERIE DAVISTHE PARTHENON
� e conversation part-
ners program at Marshall is a program designed to help L.E.A.P. students practice their English with American students.
� e L.E.A.P. program, or the Learning English for Academic Purposes, is an English-intensive program for international students. � is semester has hosted more international students than past years.
“We could always use more American students to part-ner with the international students,” said Elizabeth Goodrich, director of the con-versation partners program.
� e conversation part-ner program is pairing an American student with an international student. It is suggested the students meet four or � ve times a month for an hour. � is hour is for the students to converse and help international students use their English with a native English speaker.
“It’s up to you two to decide when you want to meet. It’s a very � exible program. Some students go to the movies or attend Marshall events,” said Goodrich.
� is year, the L.E.A.P. program has experienced some overcrowding — leav-ing many international students without a conversa-tion partner to practice their English with. � ere are about 50 international students in the middle-level L.E.A.P. program. � ese middle-level program students need con-versation partners. Goodrich said she needs at least 20 more
LEAP needs partners
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Marshall University celebrates 50 years
Administration, faculty gather at state capitol for Marshall University Day
BY TREVAN J. HANNAHSTHE PARTHENON
Marshall celebrated its 50th anniver-
sary Wednesday from the transition of college to a university while par-ticipating in its annual day at the West Virginia State Capitol Complex. Mem-bers of faculty, administration and student government got to spend the day conversing and educating state legislators about the university and their futures.
SGA Finance Chairman Luke Brum-� eld said he enjoys SGA’s participation
in Marshall Day at the Capitol be-cause it gives him the opportunity to talk with people other than Marshall students.
“When you really think about it, I may be a member of the student body senate, but I’m really just some goof to these people,” Brum� eld said.
He said when he is at the Capitol speaking with representatives, he tries learning how politics operate at the state level.
Dustin Murphy, College of Edu-cation senator, said he believes spending the day at the Capitol gives
him a chance to tell state o� cials what he and the SGA is accomplishing on campus.
“A lot of the times, young people are leaving the state, so to have a col-lege come down here and voice their opinions may help keep young people here,” Murphy said. “It’s important to keep the state younger and we could grow together to make the state a bet-ter place.”
Steve Hensley, dean of student af-fairs, said he has seen di� erent groups
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Marshall University alumna Mary Hanna Dooley looks at a photo of herself taken in 1961 during a celebration on campus when the college was granted university status.
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WASHINGTON — � e Supreme Court on Wednesday up-held the right of Westboro Baptist Church to protest at military funerals with its virulent anti-gay message, which has provoked outrage across the country and along the political spectrum.
In a free-speech ruling that challenges popular opinion and could reopen debate, the court ruled that the First Amendment protects even deliberately obnoxious funeral protests such as the church’s infamous “God hates fags” message.
“Given that Westboro’s speech was at a public place on a matter of public concern, that speech is entitled to special protection under the First Amendment,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority.
� e court’s 8-1 decision in Snyder v. Phelps shields the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro church from being sued for in-tentional in� iction of emotional distress despite speech that Roberts called “hurtful.” � e ruling didn’t reverse the myriad funeral-protest restrictions that states have imposed, and it still permits governments to reasonably regulate the time, place and manner of public speech.
Still, Westboro attorney and church member Margie J. Phelps said Wednesday that the ruling would embolden challenges to funeral protest restrictions. Incited by the church’s picketing, more than 40 states — including Kansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas and Washington — have enacted such laws.
Kansas, for instance, prohibits any “public demonstration” within 150 feet of the entrance to a funeral service, while Flor-ida prohibits disturbing military funerals speci� cally.
“All of those are ill-designed and completely unconstitutional,” Phelps said in a telephone interview. “� ere’s going to be all sorts of appealing.”
A� er � rst taking time to “thank God and praise his reign,” Phelps said she wasn’t sur-prised by the court’s decision, although she voiced particular satisfaction in the strength of Roberts’ majority opinion.
Few elected officials would have been likely to reach the same opinion.
Forty-two senators, including the re-spective leaders of the Democrats and Republicans, as well as the attorneys general in 48 states, had urged the court to oppose the church. � e politically potent American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War likewise had sought to crimp the protests, with VFW National Commander Richard L. Eubank saying Wednesday that he was “greatly disap-pointed” with the ruling.
“Westboro’s funeral picketing is cer-tainly hurtful and its contribution to public discourse may be negligible,” Rob-erts acknowledged in his 15-page majority
opinion. “But ... speech cannot be restricted simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt.”
Justice Samuel Alito dissented, saying free speech shouldn’t be “a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case.”
Supreme Court upholds Westboro Baptist Church’s military funeral protests
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A member of the Westboro Baptist Church protests with signs in the free speech area outside the stadium before the start of Super Bowl XLV where the Green Bay Packers faced the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, February 6, 2011.
BY ASHLEY GROHOSKITHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s online courses are becoming more popular for students to obtain their degree.
According to the Sloan Consortium Survey, which o� ers statistics and reports annually on the progress of online education, the number of stu-dents taking online courses is increasing more than any other year. � e report claims that 5.6 million stu-dents in the U.S were enrolled in at least one online course during the fall 2009 term. � is number has increased by one million compared to 2008. � irty percent of students in the U.S are involved in some type of online course.
During the fall 2010 semester, 4,476 students en-rolled in an MUOnline class, which increased from 4,095 students during the 2009-2010 semester, ac-cording to Marshall’s E-course enrollment data. During fall 2010, Marshall o� ered 104 online under-graduate sections. � e enrollment totaled to 3,514 students. � e graduate level had � lled 65 sections with an overall of 885 for the online enrollment.
With both undergraduate and graduate com-bined, this semester 5,184 students have enrolled in an online course, compared to the 4,544 students in the 2009-2010 semester.
According to the Professor of Elementary and Secondary Education Lisa Heaton, online students from 35 di� erent states and the District of Columbia enrolled this semester. Heaton assists the graduate college on the South Charleston campus, and helps with students’ professional development.
Currently, Marshall o� ers two fully online Master’s degrees — Elementary Education and Secondary Education. Within the two degrees, Heaton says
nearly 40 graduates obtained their degrees online during 2009-2010.
“Convenience plays a large factor for students who receive their education online,” Heaton said. “Most of our graduate students in the M.A. program work full-time and need a program that o� ers � exibility of completing course work on their own schedule.”
Heaton says accessibility is another important aspect.
“Some students have told us that, without online courses, they would not be able to pursue a degree because of their work or family responsibilities.”
“� is could also be because they are or are be-ing bound by geographic barriers — like living in a rural area too far from a college or university,” Heaton said.
� ere are four di� erent types of levels of tech-nology usage when taking available courses at Marshall: Traditional, web-facilitated, hybrid, and online.
Traditional classes do not involve any use of online discussions or lectures. Web-facilitated classes o� er a possible syllabus and assignment online during the course. Hybrid classes are more intensely focused online, reducing the amount of face-to-face class discussions. Online classes are fully web-based and content is only delivered electronically.
“Students gain more of a responsibility when taking an online class,” said Sean Webb, senior religious studies major from South Point, Oh.
“I think that online classes are � ne if you’re self-disciplined, because you can make your own schedule. But it’s tough for someone like me who always forgets because there’s not a professor reminding me about exams and
BY MARIBETH SMITHTHE PARTHENON
� e book, “Academically Adri� ,” written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, is geared to-wards the promotion of student learning and has caught the attention of a large portion of the Marshall University faculty.
“� at book has become rather popular re-cently, and it has been written about in the chronicle of higher education,” said Gayle Ormiston, provost and senior vice president for academic a� airs.
Ormiston said the book has also been talked about on National Public Radio. He said the book takes a look at learning on college cam-puses and how students are learning.
“When people read something, they take it and process it based on the context of their own experiences,” said Frances Hensley, senior associate vice president for Academic Affairs. “So we need lots of people to read it because they will filter it through their experiences.”
“� is book has high visibility right now,” Hensley said. “� ere is a lot of national expo-sure, and it has the potential to have an impact so we should pay attention.”
“I think, since faculty are engaged in think-ing about what they are doing in the classroom, it will be the basis for some public conversa-tions about the book,” Ormiston said.
“It is not about what is in the book, it is about the conversation a� er the book,” Hensley said.
“A group of faculty teaching � rst year semi-nar has become very interested in a matter
of weeks, so we have decided is to have three campus conversations about the book,” Orm-iston said. “Our main goal is to have public discourse about learning.”
Hensley said the conversations are a ne-cessity about higher education in the 21st century and how it has changed. � e faculty and students coming to institutions now are much di� erent from older faculty members. Administrators at Marshall are taking time to re� ect on what is di� erent and why things have changed.
Ormiston said administrators are seeking out information about how prepared students are when they arrive at Marshall and how stu-dents learn in general.
“Learning is really de� ned by how you have changed because of it,” Ormiston said. “Edu-cation is a change process. Getting through that change is the fundamental key. When you learn something new, you integrate it into your understanding of things.”
Maribeth Smith can be contacted at [email protected].
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Marshall’s College of Fine Arts hosted a fundraiser Wednesday to collect items for a local domestic violence shelter.
Baskets for Branches began last spring when three COFA students organized the event as part of their symposium. � e event collected 115 baskets full of essential items for victims of domestic violence. � ese baskets included personal items such as pillows, toothpaste and shampoo.
� is year, the three students took it upon themselves to continue Baskets for Branches outside of the classroom. Alli Forlines, junior visual arts major from Blue� eld, W.Va., is one of the three students who have organized the event both years. She said the goal this year is to collect at least 150 baskets for Branches.
“Just the fact that people show up with any-thing at all is a success,” Forlines said. “I think the event is a big success.”
Branches Domestic Violence Shelter is a nonpro� t organization that serves clients as a safe haven from both physical and emotional
abuse for them and their children. In addition to housing, Branches o� ers legal assistance, counseling and case management to prepare its clients to become independent.
A� er helping organize the event and de-livering the baskets last year, COFA special projects coordinator Jay Ikes said the response the event has received both years has been overwhelming. She said her experience last year was probably one of the most amazing moments of her life and that is why she is happy to participate again.
“When you’re making one of these baskets for an anonymous person, you know you’re doing something good, but when you see the face of the person who came to Branches with nothing, who � ed a bad situation in the mid-dle of the night with just the clothes on her back and you hand her a basket with a pillow, maybe a towel and some makeup, well that’s life-changing for her,” Ike said. “And it was amazing to see that � rst hand.”
Branches fund developer Amanda McCo-mas said last year’s baskets were a huge hit with the victims at the shelter.
“To receive even just a basket � lled with
home items or personal care items, it makes them feel like someone still cares about them, that people are out there thinking about them and are concerned,” McComas said. “It’s a huge self-esteem booster.”
Ike said she is happy with the turnout of this
year’s event and gives all the credit to Forlines, along with COFA students Lindsay DiFatta and Nikki Gilliam for creating and organizing Baskets for Branches.
Local domestic violence shelter benefi ts from baskets
Book on student learning gains Marshall faculty’s attention
More students taking advantage of online courses and degrees
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Supporters of Baskets for Branches brought an assortment of goods to the Memorial Student Center Wednesday to be donated to victims of domestic violence.
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HERDZONE
Jumping nine spots in the ITA rankings this week, the No. 40 Marshall University ten-nis team puts its 11-2 record on the line as the � undering Herd travels to battle Miami (Ohio) on Friday a� ernoon for a dual with the Redhawks.
� e Herd is riding a four-match winning streak and is coming o� two consecutive 7-0 sweeps; at Old Dominion and home against Eastern Kentucky. � e Redhawks are 7-4 on the season and have put together back-to-back 6-1 victories over Austin Peay and North Texas.
No. 1 doubles will feature a pair of nation-ally-ranked teams as No. 32 Michaela Kissell and Dominika Zaprazna will take on No. 80 Megan Martzolf and Stephanie Danesis. Kis-sell and Zaprazna have yet to lose as they are 13-0, while Miami’s duo is 9-2 thus far.
� e front end of MU’s singles has been tough to beat as Kissell and Catherine Kellner have played to a combined record of 21-4. Kis-sell is 10-2 on the season, and Kellner has a team best 11-2 mark. As a team, Marshall has a combined singles record of 54-20.
Weather pending, the Herd may play its � rst match of the season outside. � e site of the contest is still to be determined.
Tennis to play Miami of Ohio Friday, ranking jumps nine spots to No. 40
BY DIANE PUCIN AND ERYN BROWNLOS ANGELES TIMESMCT
LOS ANGELES — Serena Williams, who hasn’t played a tennis tournament since win-ning her fourth Wimbledon title last year, underwent emergency medical treatment in Los Angeles this week, days a� er doctors dis-covered a blood clot in her lungs.
It was not immediately known what precipi-tated her condition.
People magazine, the � rst to report the news Wednesday morning, quoted a Williams spokeswoman, Nicole Chabot, as saying the tennis star was found last week to be su� ering from a pulmonary embolism.
Chabot said Williams was treated at Cedars Sinai Hospital Monday a� ernoon for “a he-matoma su� ered as a result of treatment for a more critical situation.”
Tuesday night, Williams posted a cryp-tic message on her Twitter account saying, “Tough day.” Her tennis publicist Jill Smoller responded later, “� is, too, shall pass.” Smoller did not immediately respond to messages Wednesday morning seeking comment.
“Doctors are continuing to monitor her situation closely to avoid additional complica-tions,” Chabot told the magazine.
It was not clear by midday Wednesday, how-ever, whether Williams had been released. A representative for Cedars Sinai declined to comment, saying the hospital was not autho-rized to release any information.
Williams, who had been mostly seen wear-ing a walking boot since su� ering a foot injury last summer a� er stepping on glass at a restau-rant, was wearing high heels in photographs she posted on her Twitter page a� er attending Oscar parties on Sunday.
A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot, usu-ally originating in a vein in the upper thigh, that breaks loose and travels to the lung. Classically, a person develops a pulmonary embolism when he or she has risk factors for the problem, including pregnancy, use of oral contraceptives, clotting problems and obesity,
and remain sedentary for a period of time, al-lowing blood to stagnate in the leg and form a clot.
People who take long airplane trips and car rides are at risk for pulmonary embolism, as are people who su� er an injury that keeps their leg immobilized. Williams cut tendons in her right foot when she stepped on some broken glass in July. It is possible that clotting around the injury site contributed to the pul-monary embolism, said cardiologist Dr. Ralph Brindis, president of the American College of Cardiologists.
Another possibility is that Williams’ clot originated in her subclavian vein, which in muscular athletes can get compressed below the collarbone and � rst rib. But Brindis said he would be “very surprised” if that were an issue in this case.
Typically, doctors treat pulmonary embo-lism by administering anticoagulant drugs such as Warfarin or Coumadin to prevent additional clotting. Williams may be on the medications for several months, doctors said.
In some cases, large emboli are also initially treated with clot-dissolving agents. Brindis said that such agents can cause bleeding in other parts of the body, which may be the explanation for treatment of a hematoma, an area of bleeding, mentioned in the statement by Williams’ representative.
Dr. Mark Adelman, chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at New York University Langone Medical Center, said Williams’ lungs should heal completely. � e length of time to heal the original clot, whether it was in her leg or in her arm, could vary depending on its size and other factors. Adelman estimated that for anywhere from six to 12 weeks her doctors would not want her to play tennis at all. A� er that, Williams might be able to play at a high level, but because the anticoagulants will put her at additional risk of bruises and bleeding, she’ll want to avoid getting hit hard during play.
Last week, Williams had told the New York Post that she was aiming her comeback for the French Open, which begins May 17.
Serena Williams has emergency treatment after pulmonary embolism
HERDZONE
Women’s basketball will wrap up its 2010-11 regular season on � ursday as the Herd cel-ebrates Tynikki Crook’s senior night in a battle with Southern Miss. Tipo� is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Cam Henderson Center.
� e Herd dropped its latest contest to East Carolina on Sunday to fall to 8-20 on the sea-son and 4-11 in the conference. Alaya Mitchell led with 13 points, nine rebounds and four as-sists on the a� ernoon.
� ursday marks senior night for the lone se-nior Crook. � e Detroit, Mich. native wraps up a successful four-year career with the Herd. Crook will depart from Huntington in the
top-� ve scoring, rebounds, blocks, free throws made, and free throws attempted.
Southern Miss (10-18, 5-10 C-USA) has dropped four of its last � ve, including a 72-65 defeat at the hands of UCF on Sunday. Tane-sha Washington continues to head the charge, totaling 19 points and 12 rebounds against the Knights. Jamierra Faulkner and Geneshia Dunbar also tallied double-digits on the night.
� ursday night also marks camper reunion night and Daddy Daughter night at the Cam Henderson Center. All campers wearing their camper t-shirts will get in for free and parents purchasing an adult ticket will receive free ad-mission for one child.
Women’s Basketball celebrates Senior Night Versus Southern Miss
ROBERT CORRAL I THE PROSPECTOR
Men’s basketball head coach Tom Herrion, gets frustrated on the sideline during the game against UTEP. The Herd lost to UTEP 82-74 on Wednesday.
Miners snap Herd’s fi ve game winning streakEL PASO, Texas. - UTEP
senior Randy Culpepper scored a game-high 24 points as the Miners took down the � undering Herd men’s basketball team, 82-74, at the Don Haskins Center on Wednesday evening.
� e Miners (22-8, 10-5 C-USA) shot 59.6% for the game, including a 16 of 21 (76.2%) performance in the second half.
Tirrell Baines went for 22 points and 11 rebounds en route to his tenth career dou-ble-double to lead Marshall (20-10, 8-7 C-USA). DeAn-dre Kane notched 20 points and seven assists.
“� is was our poorest de-fensive performance of the season and we picked the
wrong night to do it,” head coach Tom Herrion said. “� ey scored in every way possible, we did not guard anybody.”
“� e kids played hard, 24 o� ensive rebounds is out-standing, but obviously we did not make shots.”
In a � rst half that featured � ve lead changes, the � un-dering Herd jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead on a DeAndre Kane three-pointer. A� er MU took a 5-2 lead, the Miners re-corded � ve-straight points of their own to take a 7-5 lead, their � rst advantage of the contest.
With Marshall up 11-10 � ve minutes into the game, the Miners scored four-straight before stretching that lead to
19-13 on a lay-up by Gabriel McCulley. Marshall rallied to come within just two points, 24-22, with 8:34 le� in the period, but a 13-6 Miner run gave them a nine-point lead in the � nal two minutes be-fore a late free throw saw the Herd go into the locker room trailing by a score of 37-29.
Marshall dominated the boards, 47-31, but shooting was the glaring di� erence. UTEP shot 59.6% for the game while Marshall hit 38.9% of their shots.
� e Herd will end the regu-lar season against UCF 7 p.m. Saturday at the Cam Hender-son Center. Prior to the game, seniors Tirrell Baines and Or-lando Allen will be honored.
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Like many West Virginians, I grew up living off of home-cooked soul food and things we grew on our prop-erty. I think I got maybe five Happy Meals in my en-tire childhood. In retrospect, I’m glad I did; our
bodies are not made to handle the chemicals in most of what we eat. Eating healthy begins by eating what Mother Nature intended us to eat, not what we, as humans, can create to make things artifi-cially tasty.
I hate using clichés in my col-umns, but we truly are what we eat. Our collective diet is absolutely horrendous. Whether you believe in the Creation or evolution of man, you know our bodies are not set up to handle the majority of crap we pour into ourselves. If you personally can’t grow it or round it up naturally, it’s probably not the best for your body.
I’m not a vegetarian, and I don’t claim it to be the healthiest life-style. I’ll tear a chicken up, but eating meat as the main course for every meal probably isn’t the best idea either. You have to remember, we’re omnivores. We eat both plants and animals. So if you don’t eat your veggies, you’re going to feel it in the pit of your stomach after a while. It’s fine if you don’t eat meat, but don’t tell me I suck for ripping up some beef and broccoli. It’s the circle of life.
Speaking of the circle of life, I don’t know where medication fits into it. If you use an inhaler or take prescription for a chronic illness, I believe you have every right to take advantage of science to help live you life to the full-est. However, when you get an obese man shoving Hydroxycut or Xenadrine down his throat to burn the fat acquired from years of toxic fast food garbage, that’s where I have a problem. Fitting into an anorexic standard of beauty by swallowing pill-sized pseudoscience goes against every fitting of a natural human life.
Health is not formulated in a lab.
Point being: Mother Na-ture knows what’s best for her children. Now listen to your mommy and let your food be your medicine.
Contact Bishop Nash at [email protected]
EDITORIAL
Forbes.com compiled a list of America’s most toxic cities in 2011 and ranked Philadelphia, Pa., as their No.1 most toxic city.
Philadelphia is considered the nation’s capital of toxicity because of poor water and air quality, and has a reported of 11.3 million onsite toxic released in 2009. The city has a large metropolitan with parts of four states — Penn-sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
and Maryland — that commutes to the city. This also causes that area to no longer participate in use of activities that can increase the amounts of hazardous waste generated.
Other cities mentioned on Forbes’ list are Bakersfi eld, Ca., St. Louis, Mo., and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Although Huntington is not as polluted as bigger cities such as
Philadelphia, the air is still pollut-ed enough to make the American Lung’s Association 17th most air-polluted city in the United States.
Outdoor air pollution threatens the health of millions of people. According to the American Lung Association, air pollution harms lung tissue directly and bypasses or weakens those important de-fenses. Air pollution can make your eyes water, irritate your nose,
mouth and throat, but most impor-tantly it can worsen lung diseases like asthma and bronchitis.
Some people who face the most serious threats are people who most at risk are adults 65 years and older, children and teenagers and people who work or exercise outdoors.
Some of us may be affected by poor air quality. The main cause could potentially be the power
plants we have in the region. The closer you get to them, the more you put yourself at risk.
We should try to not pollute the air so much. It may not be affecting our bodies right now, but eventu-ally we may be affected.
For the sake of our community, please take the time to be aware of how you are polluting the environ-ment and fi nd out what you can do to help alleviate this issue.
Fast food not what nature intended
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Huntington not most toxic city, but still polluted
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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICACongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble; and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The First Amendment Should we pay higher taxes for nicer roads?
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Think twice before using tanning beds
“GTL,” the famous line from real-ity show “Jersey Shore” that stands for “Gym, Tan and Laundry,” has plagued the nation. � e pressure of looking beautiful only when tan, rather than � aunting “pasty, white skin,” as the show’s cast members describe, has consumed the minds of young adults.
Even apartments o er free tan-ning beds to residents and student discounts are o ered at various tan-ning parlors. Overall, the culture of tanning has increased exponen-tially for the worse.
� e American Academy of Pedi-atrics announced Monday that laws should be enacted to ban minors from going to tanning parlors. Ac-cording to CNN, the World Health Organization, American Medi-cal Association and the American Academy of Dermatology hold the same opinion. Last year, a 10 per-cent tax on tanning services was included in the health care reform law.
However, for some, this has not reduced the craze of seeking sun-kissed, glowing skin. But, as teenager Samantha Hessel learned, tanning comes with consequences.
According to CNN, Hessel had frequently used tanning beds for four years before she was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Even though no data exists to prove that teenagers are more prone to developing cancer from tanning beds than adults, it’s quite natural to assume that they may be more likely to make irre-sponsible choices when choosing tanning beds without doing re-search regarding their harm.
Sunlamps and tanning beds emit UVA rays, which may give patrons a glow without burns, but also cause wrinkles and DNA damage that causes skin darkening.
Tanning salons have even issued statements assuring customers that UV rays are healthy because they provide Vitamin D, which many doctors consider irresponsible and misleading advice. Tanning beds’ vitamin D content doesn’t outweigh its UV damage, which causes 8,000 deaths due to metastatic melanoma and 1.5 million cases of skin cancer annually in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health.
Even though it’s unwise to let the government intervene in citizens’ personal business, teens and young adults should be more proactive about their decisions. One should always research the pros and cons of any activity before pursuing it.
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Huntington, especially downtown.“It’s very illegal,” EPIK said. “We are
defacing public property. � at’s one of the reasons why people join crews.”
Crews, according to EPIK, are groups of writers who go out and write together to watch each other’s backs. Most crews stay focused only on gra ti, but are still considered a gang.
“� e de nition of a gang,” EPIK said, “is three or more individuals working and committing crimes together. My crew, VSK (Violent Style Kids), is strictly focused to gra ti; we don’t sell drugs or anything like that. In bigger cities, some of the crews and artists originate from
actual gangs, so the crews there may be more violent or wild.”
According to Lisa Martin, director of ju-dicial a� airs, the Marshall student code of conduct section 5.a. regards the defacement and destruction of university and private property.
Martin said most of the time you have to see the person in the act of writing to apply the code. She also said if anyone reports the gra ti and knows who wrote it, they should immediately contact her o ce.
“I urge anyone who sees somebody writ-ing on buildings and campus property to call my o ce so we can investigate and help stop gra ti on campus,” Martin said.
“I think there is an easy solution to the problem,” EPIK said. “Gra ti is illegal because it defaces public property and
costs the government money to clean.” EPIK suggests that one way to curb
the destruction of property all over campus,would be to designate a wall or surface for writers or even all students to express themselves, whether as a “tag-ger” or as a concerned student. � e wall would act as a public forum for students to voice opinions and even advertise for Greek life and student government.
“� e whole point of gra ti isn’t neces-sarily to destroy property, but to become famous for your designs and work,” EPIK said. “Everyone thinks the street murals and huge or elaborate pieces are beauti-ful, but before an artist can reach that level, they have to have practice. � e problem is that practicing is illegal.”
Tyler Wolfe can be contacted at [email protected].
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students to sign up.“We have a lot of students
from di� erent countries, a lot from Asia and the Mid-dle East. Anyone who has a remote interest in learning about di� erent cultures would bene t,” Goodrich said.
“It is extremely impor-tant for L.E.A.P. students to practice English outside class,” said Irina Presnyakova, teacher for L.E.A.P. “Unfortu-nately, many of them live with or hang out with other stu-dents from their countries. Of course they speak their rst language in this situation.”
Goodrich said some in-ternational students are not comfortable enough with their English to talk to American stu-dents, so it is a way for them to
meet some American students. “Every day they spend three
to four hours in class, a couple hours doing homework, and the rest of the time they spend speaking their rst language,” Presnyakova said.
� e conversation partners program is a good way to help a fellow student at Marshall and make a friend. Goodrich, who was a conversation partner when she attended Marshall, went to visit her partner abroad.
“Unfortunately, here at Marshall, international stu-dents are not really included into any activities. So, the con-versational partners program is a great chance for them to practice English outside of a classroom,” Presnyakova said.
Cherie Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
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Gov. Tomblin declares March 2 as Marshall University Day
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March 2 marked the 50th anniversary of Marshall University gaining university status. Gov. W.W. Barron signed legislation giving Marshall university status in 1961. Members of Marshall’s administration, faculty and Student Government Association visited the West Virginia State Capitol Complex on Wednesday to celebrate the anniversary. Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared March 2 as Marshall University Day.
and organizations at the Capitol and feels it is just as appropriate for Marshall.
“Every year, I go back home and I wonder what we accomplish,” Hensley said. “� en I have to look and think, what if we weren’t here at all? Sometimes, it is a little frustrating to think ‘well I’m not sure what we accomplished, but I think we simply accomplish things by be-ing here.”’
President Stephen Kopp said anytime you market a university and make it visible to the state, it bene ts anyone a liated with Marshall.
“Networking is so very important for our students as they think about what they want to do a� er they nish their college degree and this is a great place to make those kinds of connections,” Kopp said.
He said Marshall is known for its ability to work with di� erent universities and colleges in West Virginia. Kopp said it’s not just about the Huntington area.
“Marshall is a large footprint in the state,” Kopp said. “It gets legislative attention when you see that kind of economic return when you look at a university that returns more than 20 dollars of economic impact back to the state for every public dollar invested in the university.”
Mr. and Ms. Marshall also had the oppor-tunity to attend the event and live up to their names as they represented the university.
Josh Sime, criminal justice major and Mr. Mar-shall from Rochester, N.Y., said it was his rst trip to the Capitol as a Marshall representative. He said he wanted to gain knowledge of the correla-tion between Marshall and the state.
“I want to gain a respect for the university,” Sime said.
Ms. Marshall Katie Fowler, senior public
relations major from Logan, W.Va., said she wasn’t just representing her school but also celebrating Marshall University with people who were on campus 50 years ago.
“It’s exciting because we’re celebrating the 50 years Marshall has been a university and I’m honored to be a part of it,” Fowler said.
Mary Hannah Dooley is a 1961 graduate of Marshall University and was a student during the change from college to university. Mary re¤ ected on her time at Marshall yesterday at the Capitol while looking at a photograph taken during the announcement. She said she vividly remembers celebrating with her fellow students.
“Marshall was my heart,” Dooley said. “I was in student council and a sorority. I did things a liated with the campus.”
She said she ran for Ms. Marshall but did not win. Dooley said her love for Marshall has grown as she has watched the university evolve.
Acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said during his time in the Master’s program at Marshall he was fortunate to be a member of the House of Delegates and serve as a representative in graduate school.
“I was able to serve in the Legislature back in those days, as well as attend classes at Mar-shall,” Tomblin said.
He said Marshall has had a tremendous im-pact for southern West Virginia.
“Most of my classmates got their education at Marshall,” Tomlin said. “For those southern coal counties, it’s been very important to not only to become a teacher or a business major, but we have trained a lot of doctors who pro-vide health care to our citizens.”
Tomblin proclaimed March 2 as Marshall University Day in West Virginia and encour-aged citizens to honor education o� ered at Marshall.
Trevan J. Hannahs can be contacted at [email protected] .
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assignments,” Webb said.For some students, online
classes are more bene cial. “Online classes make it
easier to take more hours and manage because you don’t have to dedicate the time to going to the actual lecture,” says Tommy Legg, senior ac-counting major from Elkins, W.Va. “It allows you to work at your own pace.”
“� ey are also great for the mom or dad who has to work but still want to get that degree to improve their lives. With-out online classes to make it easier, these people could not get the chance that they are looking for,” Legg said.
Ashley Grohoski can be contacted at [email protected].
“� at’s really impressive to me, that we have students of that caliber,” Ike said. “Students who will take the time to or-ganize something like this on top of courses, without getting credit for it, are impressive.”
A� er Wednesday’s basket collection, the students accom-plished their goal. A 17-foot U-Haul full of more than 150 bas-kets was delivered to the Branches shelter Wednesday evening.
COFA will continue to collect items for the shelter all year long and will not turn down any items that will help those in need.
Items can be dropped o� to Jaye Ike at her o ce located next to the Birke Art Gallery in Smith Hall room 160.
Crystal Myers can be contacted at [email protected].
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Adventurous students interested in spe-lunking can take a road trip and explore local caverns. Carter Caves State Resort Park in Olive Hill, Ky., Smoke Hole Resort in Seneca Rocks, W.Va. and Lost World Caverns in Lewisburg, W.Va., o� er daily tours for travelers.
“Expect to see something you’ve never seen before,” said Sam Plummer, park nat-uralist at Carter Caves.
� ere are two caves currently available for daily guided tours at Carter Caves State Park, Cascade Cave and the X-Cave. Cas-cade Cave is one of the largest caves at the park, measuring three quarters of a mile long, which takes an hour and 15 minutes to hike.
“� e unique thing about Cascade is that it has a naturally formed stream running through it and a beautiful waterfall deep
inside,” Plummer said.� e X-Cave is a quarter of a mile long
and takes hikers around 45 minutes to complete.
“� e cave, as you can imagine from its name, has formed with intersecting rooms that resemble the letter X,” Plummer said.
� e Smoke Hole Cavern is two-thirds of a mile long, which takes visitors about an hour to explore. � e cavern has several dis-tinctive natural features.
“It has the world’s longest stalactite and the room of a million stalactites which is a very unique feature,” said Terry Bennett, resort manager.
� e history of the formation of Smoke Hole Cavern is explained during the tour.
“One of the interesting things about Smoke Hole is that it is still an active cave, which means it is still growing and form-ing,” Bennett said.
Lost World Caverns is four miles long and o� ers tours for casual cave explorers and for spelunkers who are more advanced.
“� e sheer number and variety of big formations is something to see in itself,” said Steve Silverberg, owner and operator.
� e self-guided tour is about an hour long, but visitors are encouraged to take their time and pictures. � e guided tour fully explores the cave and takes four hours to complete.
“� e guided tour is great for groups. We rock climb, hike and explore, and you get a CD full of photographs we take as you’re having fun,” Silverberg said.
Silverberg also has some advice for visi-tors who are new to cave exploring.
“Wear good shoes, a light jacket and have fun,” Silverberg said.
“Caves in this area typically stay at a con-stant 52 to 56 degrees,” Silverberg said.
As the weather warms up, students can strap on their hiking boots and make na-ture’s underground their playground. Elizabeth Stewart can be contacted at [email protected].
Cave tours available to studentsRadiohead – “The King of Limbs”By Chris Miller
A� er lead singer � om Yorke stated “None of us want to go into that cre-ative hoo-ha of a long-play record again” and that the process of recording al-bums had “just become a real drag” in a late 2009 interview, along with the one-o� release of songs “� ese Are My Twisted Words” and “Harry Patch (In Memory of)” and the discussion of other ways to distribute their music, it seemed unlikely that Radiohead would pursue the record approach again soon.
But evidently, the year and a half since that inter-view was enough of a break for the band. “� e King of Limbs,” Radiohead’s eighth studio album announced last month and released online just four days later, is a return to the album for-mat, though it may be their way of rede� ning the way it is approached. � e record features unconventional pacing and a truncated length, and just when it starts to make sense, it closes at a brief eight tracks and 37 minutes.
� e album seems to be split into two distinct halves, with the tight organic grooves and im-mediate like-ability of “In Rainbows” traded in for darker and more unstable territory on the � rst sec-tion. “Bloom” is a highlight of this bunch, carried by staggering piano and key-board loops and two verses
of � om Yorke’s soaring yet understated vocals in-terspersed between lush swelling textures. � e next three songs – “Morning Mr. Magpie,” “Little by Lit-tle” and “Feral” add to the denseness of this side of the record, through some great discordant drum and bass work from Phil Selway and Colin Greenwood.
� e album’s single, “Lo-tus Flower,” along with “Codex,” “Give up the Ghost” and “Separator” round out the dark, scat-tered grooves of the � rst half on a more relaxed note. � om Yorke’s signa-ture falsetto soars here and helps create the painfully beautiful ambiance only Radiohead pull o� so well. “Give up the Ghost” and “Separator” shine, the � rst slowly churning to a soar-ing but re� ned climax, and “Separator,” the album’s closer, swells to a cathartic hugeness by way of a beau-tifully subtle guitar line and hazy, layered vocals.
� ough the abbreviated runtime leaves fans aching for more, the brevity ulti-mately works to the band’s advantage, leaving listeners plenty to unpack but not feel weary a� er the experi-ence. While “� e King of Limbs” is a bit more unset-tling than their last album, the record is characteristi-cally great Radiohead, and shows the group continu-ing to develop their sound, even a� er twenty-plus years. Contact the columnist at [email protected]
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JOHN YEINGST | THE PARTHENONAlpha xi Delta, raised money for their philanthropy, Autism Speaks, by sponsoring a talent show in which members of various fraternities competed. More of the story will be available in Friday’s edition of the Parthenon.
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