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BY JOHN GIBBTHE PARTHENON
With graduation quickly approaching, seniors could find it easier to land a job with the help of Marshall University Career Services.
Career Services assist students with professional development, career direc-tion and job searching both during and after postsecond-ary education.
In addition, Career Ser-vices helps students with resume building and review-ing, prepares students for mock interviewing, provides job search strategies and hosts on-campus career fairs and recruiting events.
Denise Hogsett, direc-tor of Career Services, said preparing for graduation is “major-specific.” For
example, a student in the College of Education needs to gather credential files, test scores and complete the Praxis – all in order to acquire a license to teach. Students who plan to further their education at gradu-ate school, however, need to complete grad school ap-plications, collect letters of recommendation and pre-pare personal statements.
Mirek Bialk, senior career adviser, said planning early is the key for success.
“Some seniors began plan-ning for graduation during their freshman year, other seniors, however, begin plan-ning a few weeks before graduation,” Bialk said.
By planning early, Bialk said students are able to perfect their resumes, gain valuable career experience
and prepare for interviews with potential employers.
Bialk said with the current state of the economy, the job market is quite challenging.
“What’s happening in the economy right now is un-precedented,” Bialk said. “Jobs are becoming ex-tremely competitive, and none of us assisting the stu-dents grew up in a situation like that.”
Debby Stoler, assistant di-rector for development and outreach at Career Services, said she is telling students to prepare for six to nine months of job searching ac-tivities, especially if they have not yet started.
Stoler said an excellent resume allows students to stand apart from other job applicants.
“A resume is a professional
document,” Stoler said. “It must look great and be focused toward the posi-tion a student is applying for, rather than a generic resume.”
Stoler said the first little bit of information on a re-sume must stand out to an employer. In addition, the way in which the resume is conveyed and format-ted is also important to the employer.
Hogsett said relevant skills and career experience are items of concern for em-ployers, making them take a second look.
“If employers have 75 re-sumes sitting on a desk, they are not going to spend five minutes looking at every sin-gle resume,” Hogsett said.
Bialk said relevant
> are career focused.
> are specific
> highlight relevant professional experience.
> list your highest level of education first, spells out the school name and is honest.> list skills tailored to the job to which you apply.
> include professional contact information.
> are generic.> generalize information.> give irrelevant details.> include high school in addition to college.
> do not highlight your most relevant talents.
> include unprofessional e-mail addresses.
> look messy and don’t feature good layout and design.
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BY CORY RINERTHE PARTHENON
Protesters gathered in front of Huntington City Hall Thursday evening to march in solidarity with the Occupy Movement to mark its two month anniversary.
The national Occupy movement began Sept. 17, and Occupy groups around the nation are marching in unity. Protesters organized in front of City Hall and marched to the Occupy site in front of Chase Bank, lo-cated on Fifth Avenue.
“Today is the two month mark, the 60-day mark, for Occupy Wall Street in New York, and with the recent eviction from Zuccotti Park, that’s why I’m out here.,” said Barry Dillon, 28, orga-nizer and member of Occupy Huntington. “This march was called for on an interna-tional level in solidarity with that, along with presenting our grievances that we have locally. But largely, this is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.”
The march also represents an increase in the activity of Occupy Huntington, and the effort to have their voices heard.
“The goal is just to let ev-erybody know there’s a lot of people that support us out here,” said John “Chicago” Hough, 45, member of Oc-cupy Huntington. “To the real 99 percent, the people honking their horns, we’re just trying to show that we’re out here and we’ll stay out here as long as it takes to sit out here and tell people that we are tired of the corporate greed.”
Police have cleared many
Occupy sites and arrested protesters across the nation last week. Occupy Hun-tington is staying put. The Occupy Huntington move-ment has maintained a camp in front of Chase Bank since Oct. 7.
The protesters have avoided much of the prob-lems faced by other Occupy groups by maintaining a peaceful camp. The protest-ers said they have not had any problems with the Hun-tington Police Department,
and they seem to have a greater interest in keeping them safe than getting them to move their camp.
The Occupy movement be-gan with frustration in the way working class people were being treated by those
in power. “All of the sudden, when
100,000 people stand up, they realize that we’ve all been feeling this way for the last 5 or 10 years. We’ve all been feeling pinched. Nothing is getting easier anymore,”
The Occupy protesters are attempting to voice their con-cerns over the injustices they feel are unfairly pushed onto the working class,” said Mi-chael McAteer, 36, volunteer
Occupy Huntington marches in solidarity with national movement
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Members of the Occupy Huntington movement march in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Members of the occupation have camped out in front of Chase Bank located on Fifth Avenue in Huntington since Oct. 7.
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BY BRITTINI BROOKSTHE PARTHENON
A new exhibit will open Saturday at the Huntington Museum of Art.
The exhibit entitled “Lenny Lyons Bruno: Coal Camp Series 2000-2010” features paintings and sculptures from artist Lenny Lyons Bruno.
“This collection tells a story,” Bruno said. “This exhibit is about growing up in West Virginia in a coal mine.”
The artwork in this exhibit reflects Bruno’s and her mother’s memories in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Bruno’s artwork shows how hard it was growing up
in coal mining family. “There was always a
possibility of a disaster ev-eryday,” Bruno said. “You never knew what was going to happen.”
Bruno grew up in Beckley, W. Va., near the Cranberry coalmines.
Bruno said she is a self-taught artist and started painting in 1987.
Some of the paintings in this exhibit highlight memo-ries from a journal Bruno’s mother left behind.
People can find Bruno’s paintings interpreted with a wide range of materials in-cluding quilts, photographs and ledgers. Her sculptures are made from everyday objects.
BY MEAGAN EARLSTHE PARTHENON
The College of Health Professions is preparing a 120-credit hour bachelor of art’s degree in health sciences.
“One of the goals of the program is to offer students an option, particularly when they start getting into their junior year and they still haven’t settled on a program,” said Charles Hossler, associate dean of the COHP. “This would be another option of getting a degree.”
Hossler said the de-gree gives students the foundation to move on to graduate-level programs
within the health fields. “A degree in health sci-
ences will allow a student to get all the coursework they need in order to move on to graduate-level work in almost any health field, and the degree also works very well for pre-med stu-dents,” Hossler said.
“I think the health sci-ences degree provides another viable option for Marshall students inter-ested in health-related careers because it gives them an area of study that is flexible and broad,” said Frances Hensley, senior as-sociate vice president for academic affairs and dean of undergraduate studies.
The majority of classes
within the health sciences curriculum are already of-fered at the university.
“It’s a unique program in that, except for three courses, it’s almost made up entirely of courses that already exist at the univer-sity,” Hossler said.
Hossler said students who receive a bachelor’s degree in health sciences could potentially have jobs as lab assistants, pharmacy technicians, records clerks or insurance coders.
“So far, we have had good reactions from the students,” Hossler said. “We have some students waiting to be admitted to the program, and we are projecting the program
to grow to almost 200 students in a four-year period.”
The health science de-gree is waiting approval from the Faculty Senate, Board of Governors and the university president.
Hossler said pending ap-proval, the degree should be released for the spring 2012 semester.
“We are here to help stu-dents get through their college career, and I think that is the most important part so I am really hop-ing this degree will help students be successful,” Hossler said.
Meagan Earls can be contacted at [email protected].
BY AMANDA FASTUCATHE PARTHENON
An annual downtown parade is bringing the com-munity together Dec. 1 to celebrate the holidays.
Huntington’s well-known Christmas parade is pre-sented by the Moses Auto Mall of Huntington and or-ganized by the Downtown Live Committee of the Hun-tington Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Renee Maass, downtown live coordinator of the Hun-tington Regional Chamber of Commerce, said it’s tradi-tion for the parade to begin at the same place each year.
“The parade will begin on Fourth Avenue and 13th Street, and it will proceed
down to Eighth Street,” Maass said. “They will then take a right at Eighth Street and go down Third Avenue — ending at Pullman Square.”
The lineup for the units begins at 6 p.m. with the pa-rade beginning at 7 p.m.
The parade will consist of approximately 90 units, including local businesses and organizations that are encouraged to dress and dec-orate floats accordingly.
Among the organizations will be churches, boy scouts, girl scouts, fraternities, so-rorities, dance teams and troops.
“Every year, we have a theme for the parade,” Maass said. “This year is the 12 Days of Christmas so a lot of people are decorat-ing their floats around that
theme. However, floats are not necessarily required. Participants may ride in a vehicle or even walk if they choose to do so. All we ask is that individuals please make some attempt to decorate it for Christmas if they are in a vehicle. And if you are walk-ing, wear some seasonally appropriate attire. The main thing is that we want people to come out and participate in it and have fun.”
Every year, the parade is led by a chosen Grand Marshal who has made an impact on the community in some way. This year’s Grand Marshal is Ronald McDonald.
“Ronald McDonald was chosen to lead the parade this year because of the McDonald’s Corporation’s
strong commitment to children’s charities and es-pecially to our local Ronald McDonald House at the Ca-bell Huntington Hospital,” Maass said. “The work that the Ronald McDonald House does is so important to health care and the Tri-State area.”
Other characters who will be involved in the pa-rade include Santa Claus as well as his crew of elves and reindeer.
Maass said the Moses AutoMall of Huntington has allowed the Downtown Live Committee to provide transportation costs for the five high school bands that will be performing in the parade, as well as cash prizes for the band contest and float contest.
The high school bands are Cabell Midland High School, Ironton High School, Hun-tington High School, Green High School and Spring Val-ley High School.
There will also be per-formances to entertain participants and those watching the parade that will occur prior to the parade.
“At Pullman Square be-fore the parade, The River Magic Chorus will be sing-ing Christmas carols,” Maass said. “The True Im-pact Dance and Performing Arts will also be putting on a show at Pullman about 30 minutes prior to the parade. And lastly, the Thunder-tones, male barbershop chorus, will be singing up and down Fourth Avenue be-fore the parade begins.”
Maass said she is taking applications to participate in the parade until Nov. 22. Those who are interested can email her at [email protected].
“If anyone wants to get involved, it’s not too late,” Maass said. “This is a com-munity parade, and it’s meant to be enjoyed. We en-courage students to come out and watch the parade if they are not already par-ticipating in it. It really is a great way to kick off the holiday season. It’s a source of community pride and also an opportunity to show faith downtown and show what downtown has to offer to people.”
Amanda Fastuca can be contacted at [email protected].
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BY MIKE LINBLOM AND LYNN THOMPSON THE SEATTLE TIMES(MCT)
SEATTLE – Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said he’s sorry police pepper-sprayed peaceful Occupy Seattle demonstrators, after a photo of 84-year-old demonstrator Dorli Rainey’s dripping face went viral. But the apology didn’t satisfy protesters who say the police response has been “excessive.”
“To those engaged in
peaceful protest, I am sorry that you were pepper-sprayed,” McGinn said in a statement Wednesday. The mayor said he has spoken with Rainey.
The confrontations be-gan Tuesday afternoon after demonstrators blocked downtown intersections, de-laying commuters. As far back as Oct. 8, police have followed a policy of keep-ing streets clear, by arrest if necessary.
McGinn said he and Po-lice Chief John Diaz are
reviewing two pepper-spray incidents from Tuesday and developing procedures to ensure “appropriate com-manders” are on hand at future protests.
Diaz couldn’t be reached Wednesday, and police spokesman Sgt. Sean Whit-comb declined to comment, saying, “We’ll defer to the mayor.” Sgt. Rich O’Neill, head of the police union, did not return calls for comment.
Police said they used pep-per spray to disperse a crowd in Belltown, while arresting
a 17-year-old girl who swung a stick at officers. Protesters regrouped on Fifth Avenue at Pine Street. “Pepper spray was deployed only against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in as-saultive behavior toward officers,” said the depart-ment’s online statement.
In an interview Wednesday night, McGinn said the city is “walking a fine line between protecting public safety without allowing the actions of the police themselves
to become a flash point for others.”
He said he understood that some protesters in the crowd Tuesday, as well as during previous clashes with police, used the cover of the crowd to provoke violence.
“We’re well aware that there are individuals who have been extraordinarily provocative to police over the last six weeks. That was my point in apologizing to peaceful protesters.”
But he added it was im-portant he and the police
command “critically review what’s gone on in order to do the best job we can. We need to have the appropriate po-lice presence, and they need to have the support they need.”
Occupy Seattle activists is-sued a statement Wednesday night saying McGinn’s apol-ogy did not go far enough. The statement described the group’s actions as “non-violent civil disobedience” and was critical of police
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BY SHAINA CARTER THE PARTHENON
Jasmine Shaw transferred
to Marshall this season to make her debut with the Herd. She transferred from Chipola Junior Col-lege where in 2011 she was All-American and first team All-Panhandle Conference.
During her first year with the program, she was named Florida Panhandle Confer-ence freshman of the year after averaging 15.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.7 steals and shooting 42.6 per-cent behind the arc.
“I’m still trying to adjust and get used to the new sys-tem,” Shaw said.
Before coming to Marshall Shaw hurt her knee and had to go through operations, but that did not stop her from playing the game. “She hurt her knee in junior col-lege and only played one year of college basketball before transferring here where she has three years left,” Head Coach Royce Chadwick said.
Shaw has adjusted well to the team, which has shown in the recent games.
“She’s a very good de-fensive basketball player,” Chadwick said. “She can pass a ball, she sees the floor well, she can shoot the three, a greta mid-range game and she can take it all the way to the rim.”
In the team’s two exhibi-tion games, she scored a total of 13 points helping her team to two victories. In the teams first regular season game against Kent State,
she totaled 16 points along side Shynisha Johnson, mak-ing them the teams highest scorers.
“It was the first game and the game just came to me,” Shaw said.
She gives most the credit to her team for helping her get the open opportunities to make a basket.
“My teammates got me some good looks and I took the opportunities,” Shaw said.
Shaw hopes if they work hard enough, she can help lead the team to a champi-onship this year.
“I hope I can help the team win a championship because I know it’s been a while since they’ve won,” Shaw said.
They plan on improving every game they play.
“ We want to improve ev-ery game we play and every time you go out you want to learn something new about yourself,” Chadwick said.
After their loss against Miami of Ohio, the Herd said they hope to take what they did wrong and use it to defeat Ohio in their next game.
“You want to become a more cohesive unit, de-velop your chemistry as you go through November and December, and once conference begins that’s when it counts,” Chadwick said.
The team continues their season away at 2 p.m. Satur-day against Ohio University.
Shaina Carter can be contacted at [email protected].
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SophomoreJasmineShawmakesherwaytothebasketduringtheHerd’s65-49losstoMiamionTuesday.Shawhadateam-high16pointsinMarshall’sseasonopeneragainstKentState.
JUCO transfer adds depth to women’s basketball
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Marshall kick returner Andre Booker looks for space during areturn against Louisville. Booker returned two kicks for 81 yardsandfivepuntsfor34yardsagainstMemphisThursdaynight.TheHerdwonthecontestafterscoringtwolatetouchdowns.FreshmanquarterbackRakeemCatocompleted13of23passesfor150yardsandatouchdown.RunningbackTronMartinezrushedfor87yardsandatouchdown.TravonVanscoredthegame-winningtouchdownwhenhescamperedintotheendzonefora19-yardscore.
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Marshall University’s men’s golf program has an-nounced the signing of high school senior Logan La-godich this past weekend, penning him down in agree-ment to compete for the Thundering Herd next fall season.
Currently a senior at Canton Central Catho-lic High School in Canton,
Ohio, Lagodich is a First Team All-Ohio and First Team All-Northeast Ohio member, an honor he has received in 2010 and 2011. His Central Catholic squad earned runner-up honors at the 2011 Ohio High School State Tournament, of which Lagodich himself was an in-dividual runner-up as well as the Sectional Champion in 2011.
Lagodich’s scoring
average is 74.4, a consistent performance that the Herd will be looking for more of in the seasons to come.
Lagodich has supported and participated with the American Junior Golf As-sociation, and has found success in AJGA events, placing third at the Colum-bus Junior Open and 13th at the Stonehenge Junior Open.
Lagodich will be a new face on a Marshall squad that
will have a number of re-turners. With Bosten Miller and Carson Schambach as the only two seniors on the roster – Coach Feaganes will have plenty of experience on his side, something he feels Lagodich will be able to use to his advantage.
“Logan is an outstanding prospect,” Head Coach Joe Feaganes said. “He should have an immediate impact on our golf team.”
Marshall golf lands top prospect
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BY MINNESOTA DAILY EDITORIAL BOARDMINNESOTA DAILY, U. MINNESOTA VIA UWIRE
Less than two weeks ago, the NCAA approved a package that gives universities the option to give a $2,000 stipend to student-athletes with full scholar-ships. The money would pay for what the NCAA calls the “full cost of attendance,” outside of tu-ition, room and board, books and fees for college athletes.
Even though NCAA President Mark Emmert says that university leaders are “adamant” about not al-lowing students to be paid to play, the new reform certainly sends mixed signals. It is no secret that universities make money from athletic programs and draw in prospective students as well.
The question is whether the University of Min-nesota’s focus is on these student-athletes and their education or on reaping benefits from collusion with professional leagues.
Among the approved package was an increase in the academic eligibility requirements for student-athletes. Formerly, a C grade average was required of incoming freshman and junior transfers. Now it is a C+ grade. This not only shows a lack of em-phasis placed on academic performance for athletes, it mixes the NCAA’s message — does the NCAA want student athletes to be students or athletes, amateurs or professionals?
Sweetening the package for prospective students to choose athletics over an academic focus in their education — in programs where few will enter pro-fessional leagues — is questionable promotion by the NCAA.
Young men and women must seriously question the values and motives of the NCAA when they make declarations such as these. Are they helping young individuals succeed in forming part of our society or are they exploiting a class of revenue gen-erators for universities?
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The financial collapse of late-2008 has left many in the United States scratching their heads. How did something like this happen? What are the origins of this mess? What exactly can we do to fix it?
The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve appeared to have the answers, claim-ing it was a failure of the market that caused the crisis. Sweeping into action, they bailed out the banks, piled on the regulations, and began pumping new money into the market in order to jump-start the dying economy. However, when utilizing the lens of the Austrian business cycle the-ory as developed by Ludwig von Mises, it is easy see that the collapse was not a failure of the market: It was a failure of monetary policy.
A recession occurs when large sectors of the economy see drastically falling prices more or less at the same time.
The Fed has the ability to raise and lower interest-rates, which it does by decreasing or increasing the money sup-ply, respectively. By doing so, the Fed sends signals to inves-tors about the ratio between consumption and savings within the economy. By rais-ing interest-rates, the Fed tells investors that consumers are interested in purchasing goods in the present, thus
sending the signal to invest in consumer goods. By lower-ing interest-rates, the Fed is saying that consumers are more interested in investing in the future; thus signaling that saving is up and to go ahead and invest in higher-order goods, things like houses. This is risky, however, because the Fed can change interest-rates in ways that come into conflict with the economy’s actual consump-tion to savings ratio. Trying to calculate what market interest-rates really are is frankly impossible due to the complexity of the market-place. This is where problems begin to arise.
Austrian business cycle theory explains that if the Fed artificially lowers interest-rates below that of the actual market level, new money pours into the banks and is then used to make loans. Investors see all of the new money as increased savings on the part of the consumer, signaling them to invest in higher order goods. The in-vestments are made and the money begins to trickle down to the consumer. When con-sumers receive all this new money, they go out and spend it at the actual consumption-to-savings ratio that is higher than the one the Fed signaled. Thus, the investments made in higher-order goods are unprofitable due to a lack of demand, making huge portions of the economy go under all at once. We now
have a recession.This same process is the
cause of the recent recession and the reason more expan-sionary monetary policy will not be a cure. In response to the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s, the Federal Reserve, under the direction of Chairman Alan Greenspan, slashed interest-rates to as low as 1 percent between June 2003 to June 2004 . This put into motion the malinvestment that led to the housing bubble that burst in 2007. Investors believed that the time was right to invest in higher-order goods, in this case, housing. However, when it came time to pay for all of the new hous-ing, there just wasn’t enough real consumer demand and prices began to fall drasti-cally. The rest of the economy soon followed with the stock market crash in 2008. The crash in stocks was due to the fact that stocks are units of title to masses of capital or higher-order goods and the artificially low interest-rates fooled investors into thinking there would be adequate de-mand for such goods.
In response to the crisis, the Federal Reserve has called for two rounds of monetary ex-pansion, labeled QE I and QE II, and has kept interest rates near 0 percent in an attempt to jump-start the economy. With real, U6, unemployment figures stagnate around 16 percent and few signs of eco-nomic improvement in the
near future, this is clearly not working.
If the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government really want to end the recession and begin the recovery pro-cess, they must allow for the necessary liquidation of mal-investment and debt to occur. This was once the policy of the U.S. government toward recessions, and it worked. From 1920 to 1921, for exam-ple, the country was hit with recession. The government, with Warren G. Harding as president, stood aside, cut spending, and slashed taxes while the Federal Reserve did nothing as far as monetary stimulation was concerned. Recovery was painful, but quick, as the market re-covered and found growth again in only one year. Un-fortunately, shortly after this, the Federal Reserve began tinkering with the monetary base in 1923, setting up the bubble of the Roaring 20s that would later burst into the Great Depression. Instead of following its predeces-sor, however, the Hoover administration encouraged and adopted inflationary mon-etary policies very similar to those currently in practice by the Bernanke Fed and the Obama White House.
This must be changed, as these policies will only re-in-flate the bubble, drag out the pain of recession, and set up the economy and the Ameri-can people for even bigger trouble down the road.
BY CAROLINA NACHAZELARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT, U. ARIZONA VIA UWIRE
The AOL Instant Mes-senger was the direct form of communication back in the days of dial-up Internet. It was the only way to talk to our friends and elementary crushes without be-ing heard on the house phone.
As we matured and went on to middle school and high school, social networking evolved with us. The handheld, mirror shot was born and the world of Myspace was the only place to be seen. If you didn’t have the right pic-tures, the best quotes, the coolest celebrity’s photo under the “role models” section, you were a loser.
Myspace was a gate-way drug into the world of social media. Toward the end of high school, when we became wiser and “too mature” for Myspace, the Facebook era began. It is not news that Facebook has taken over the world. With over 800 million users today, Facebook has become a tool for both social and professional networking. Despite that, Facebook is past its prime.
Twitter, although it has been around since 2006, will soon be the tool to use. The CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, reported in September that more than 100 mil-lion users are now active on Twitter. Still 75 per-cent less than Facebook, Twitter will soon be-come the new Facebook and Facebook will be-come the new Myspace. According to Mashable Social Media, there are 230 million tweets a day, 8,900 per second.
Unlike Facebook, Twit-ter gives people direct access to celebrities.
While not everyone is obsessed with follow-ing a certain famous person’s every move, millions of people are. The top five followed people (Lady Gaga, Jus-tin Bieber, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, and Barack Obama) tweet daily on their where-abouts and appearances. This gives more than 11 million fans desperately desired communication in 140 characters or less.
If you own the iPhone, a Twitter account is coming your way shortly. The 200 mil-lion plus people who own iPhones, according to CNN, will be forced to share via Twitter if they have a habit of commonly posting pho-tos, videos, and links. The iOS 5 software, released early October, includes Twitter inte-gration. After taking a picture, listening to a song, or using any of the iPhone features, a Twitter button is ready to be tapped for instant upload. Facebook, avail-able for download on any iPhone, will not be able to survive the fierce competition Twitter is bringing. With Apple endorsing it, there is no doubt that Twitter’s popularity will dramati-cally increase.
We have been through a lot with Facebook, but sadly its time has ended. Soon liking comments and stalking profiles will be a thing of the past. Becoming obsessed with Twitter will not be as dangerous as Face-book. Although there are still ways to waste hours, scrolling through the site. Twitter is a more condensed, savvy way to social network.
If you aren’t quite ready to say goodbye to Facebook, treat it like a Band-Aid. Deactivate it quickly then post your first tweet.
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Huckaby was born in
Louisiana and raised in West Virginia. Huckaby is the namesake son of the legendary former NCAA basketball coach, Richard David “Rick” Huckabay, who led Marshall University
to four titles in the Southern Conference from 1983-89.
His sound has been de-scribed as “a flawless bridge between the soulful Memphis R&B and country music.”
His single, “Ain’t Enough Blacktop,” was the country winner of the 2008 Bill-board Word Song Contest.
Caitlin Conley can be contacted at [email protected].
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“My sculptures are made to look like they jump off the paintings and come to life,” Bruno said.
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History, West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment sponsor Bruno’s “Coal Camp Series” exhibit.
The public can meet the artist on Dec. 4 at the muse-ums’s Holiday Open House from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission to the Holiday Open House is free.
The exhibit ends Feb. 19.The museum is open 10
a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and Sun-day noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is free on Tues-days and $5 per person or $18 for a family of four or more on other days.
The museum is located in Huntington at 2033 McCoy Rd.
Brittini Brooks can be contacted at [email protected].
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BY CAROLINA NACHAZELARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT, U. ARIZONA VIA UWIRE
The AOL Instant Messen-ger was the direct form of communication back in the days of dial-up Internet. It was the only way to talk to our friends and elemen-tary crushes without being heard on the house phone.
As we matured and went on to middle school and high school, social net-working evolved with us. The handheld, mirror shot was born and the world of Myspace was the only place
to be seen. If you didn’t have the right pictures, the best quotes, the coolest ce-lebrity’s photo under the “role models” section, you were a loser.
Myspace was a gateway drug into the world of so-cial media. Toward the end of high school, when we became wiser and “too mature” for Myspace, the Facebook era began. It is not news that Facebook has taken over the world. With over 800 million users to-day, Facebook has become a tool for both social and professional networking.
Despite that, Facebook is past its prime.
Twitter, although it has been around since 2006, will soon be the tool to use. The CEO of Twitter, Dick Cos-tolo, reported in September that more than 100 million users are now active on Twit-ter. Still 75 percent less than Facebook, Twitter will soon become the new Facebook and Facebook will become the new Myspace. According to Mashable Social Media, there are 230 million tweets a day, 8,900 per second.
Unlike Facebook, Twitter gives people direct access to
celebrities. While not everyone is obsessed with following a certain famous person’s every move, millions of people are. The top five followed people (Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, and Barack Obama) tweet daily on their whereabouts and appearances. This gives more than 11 million fans desperately desired commu-nication in 140 characters or less.
If you own the iPhone, a Twitter account is coming your way shortly. The 200 million plus people who own iPhones, according
to CNN, will be forced to share via Twitter if they have a habit of commonly post-ing photos, videos, and links. The iOS 5 software, released early October, includes Twit-ter integration. After taking a picture, listening to a song, or using any of the iPhone features, a Twitter button is ready to be tapped for instant upload. Facebook, available for download on any iPhone, will not be able to survive the fierce competition Twitter is bringing. With Apple en-dorsing it, there is no doubt that Twitter’s popularity will dramatically increase.
We have been through a lot with Facebook, but sadly its time has ended. Soon liking comments and stalking profiles will be a thing of the past. Becoming obsessed with Twitter will not be as dangerous as Face-book. Although there are still ways to waste hours, scrolling through the site. Twitter is a more condensed, savvy way to social network.
If you aren’t quite ready to say goodbye to Facebook, treat it like a Band-Aid. Deactivate it quickly then post your first tweet.
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for the media team for Oc-cupy Huntington.
Occupy Huntington said they not only put a local rep-resentation of the national movement forward but also stand for local issues.
Students have also become frustrated and have become a larger part of Occupy Huntington.
“We as students take on massive amounts of debt to gain degrees that do not promise us well paying jobs,” said Ethan Young, 21, Mar-shall student and member of Occupy Huntington. “The vast majority of people that go to Marshall are from Ap-palachia and coal mining areas where mountaintop removal and fracking and other dangerous and bad environmental practices ac-tually endanger our health and the health of our families.”
Included in their demands are, “the full funding for city employee pensions, the right for city workers to collectively bargain, the halting of firing of all city workers and for politi-cians to quit supporting and funding mountaintop removal
and fracking, Young said. The protesters believe it’s
important to maintain a local site to support the national movement.
“I think what the thing Oc-cupy Huntington is doing well is it’s giving the Occupy move-ment at large a local face,” McAteer said. “It localizes the fact that even if Huntington isn’t Wall Street and it isn’t New York and we don’t have that many people here. The fact that we have a presence at all shows that it matters, the move-ment matters, the issues we’re talking about matter, people’s lives are being affected.”
Occupy Huntington said it is in for the long haul.
“The actual physical occupa-tion, the fate of that has not been decided, but we all as individuals through networking and things like that, we’ve committed ourselves to organizing politically in Hunting-ton and the Tri-state area and, it will continue whether there are tents in front of Chase Bank or not,” Young said.
The protesters said they plan to organize more events like the march, but do not have details at this time.
Cory Riner can be con-tacted at [email protected].
experience is the key to at-taining a job in the field a student wants to get into.
Stoler said if students have no career experience when graduating, they should consider doing an internship that could pos-sibly lead to a full-time position. Some places only accept interns while the student is enrolled in school. Other places, how-ever, accept students as full-time interns following graduation.
Career Services offers a service titled JobTrax. JobTrax allows students to upload resumes to the system to be reviewed by Career Services staff. Job-Trax also links students to a professional network, lists upcoming events and workshops, as well as any available jobs and intern-ship opportunities.
Hogsett said, on aver-age, 10 to 15 resumes are uploaded to JobTrax daily. Career Services has, on average, five walk-in ap-pointments each day. However, this changes de-pending on the time of the year, especially around graduation when greater surges of students seek the help of Career Services.
In addition to a resume, students must also prepare for an interview.
“Students only have one shot at applying for a job — one shot at an interview,” Bialk said. “Students must possess the total package because a good interview does not override a bad resume and vice versa – stu-dents must be proactive and competitive in searching for that job.”
Stoler said professional dress and etiquette also is
important.“If you are networking
or meeting anyone, it is ex-tremely important that a student be clean, neat and professionally dressed,” Stoler said.
Stoler said confidence is crucial. She said students need to be assertive in their interviews and giving their “30-second elevator speech,” a speech in which students essentially sell themselves, skills and abilities.
Hogsett said students who utilize Career Services have a better chance at career op-portunities and being more competitive in today’s job market.
“Students don’t know how much better they could be with the services we provide,” Hogsett said. “Stu-dents have a much better chance of having a polished package to present to em-ployer, which, in return, increases students’ chances so much more.”
Hogsett said any stu-dent, especially seniors, could schedule an appoint-ment with Career Services in order to review their re-sume. Hogsett said meeting one-on-one leads to better quality in regard to resumes and allows the student and adviser to specifically focus on the individual student’s needs.
“We are here to provide the professional develop-ment students may need,” Hogsett said. “Seniors need to realize we are here and are willing to assist them in finding that job.”
Career Services is located between Harless Dining Hall and the Joan C. Edwards Per-forming Arts Center on Fifth Avenue.
John Gibb can be con-tacted at [email protected].
BY NIKKI DOTSONTHE PARTHENON
John Friedl, professor at The University of Tennes-see at Chattanooga, gave the final lecture of the year for the Amicus Curiae lecture series, Thursday, in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Stu-dent Center.
Friedl’s lecture, titled “Through the Looking Glass: The Constitution Means What Five Justices Choose It to Mean,” focused on the idea that the framers of the con-stitution’s initial intent cannot be known by the Supreme Court today.
Friedl began by quoting a passage from Lewis Carroll’s book, “Through the Looking
Glass.”“When I use a word it
means what I chose it to mean, neither more nor less,” Friedl quoted. “The ques-tion is whether you can make words mean so many differ-ent things. The question is, which is to be mastered.”
This quote was used to demonstrate how the words in the constitution were writ-ten with intent that cannot be known hundreds of years later.
“I believe that constitution of the United States means what five justices of The United States Supreme Court choose it to mean. Neither more nor less,” Friedl said. “I believe this is true no matter what the political make up of
the court may be. It is as true of conservatives as it is of lib-erals. I do not believe this is a bad thing, or that it is anything different from what the fram-ers envisioned.”
Friedl reinforced his idea of judicial activism by draw-ing the audience’s attention to three amendments: the sec-ond, ninth and fourteenth.
The second amendment to the constitution states that “A well regulated militia, be-ing necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Friedl argued that in cases of bearing arms that the right to keep weapons has been made from a political and time era standpoint, not by
the original intent of the fram-ers, because the framers tie weapon ownership to the need for a militia, and today we do not.
“I agree with the rulings made, I just do not believe that the rulings should be titled as original intent,” Friedl said. “The original intent cannot be determined. However, logi-cally the intent seems to be different than the rulings that have been claimed to show-case original intent.”
Friedl approached cases from the ninth and fourteenth amendment with a similar standpoint, that the rulings are made by the justices in Su-preme Court at the time, and have a political influence.
Topics such as segregation,
civil rights and same-sex mar-riage were used as examples of modern political issues that have been ruled upon due to modern principles, and by the justices in office.
“It’s a pretty good system, it works,” Friedl said. “In fact, I’ll go out on whim and say it is not only a great system, but it’s the best one anywhere on the planet, and it in a very reasonable percent of the cases, does work.”
Kayla Marcum, junior broadcast journalism major, agrees with Friedl’s theo-ries that the original intent cannot be used as a reason behind ruling in most cases.
“I think like anything, it has to evolve with time. I think that the framers wrote
the constitution out, and didn’t have any idea what would come in the future,” Marcum said. “I think that they set it to adapt with change.”
The Amicus Curiae lecture series is sponsored by the West Virginia Humanities Council, and will continue in spring, 2012.
“One of the hallmarks of its [the lecture series] mission is to provide an open and honest discussion of matters related to the constitution and its inter-pretation,” David Pittenger, Dean of the College of Lib-eral Arts said.
Nikki Dotson can be contacted at [email protected].
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Five-time Grammy Award winner Michael McDonald performed at Huntington’s historical Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center Thursday night.
McDonald’s performance is part of the Marshall Art-ist Series’ 75th anniversary
line-up.David Wilcox, senior fi-
nance major from Teays Valley, W.Va., attended the show.
“The Doobie Brothers are actually my favorite band,” said Wilcox.” And I saw the Doobie Brothers when they came to campus last year without Michael McDonald. Now that he’s here, I’ll just finish off the set I guess. Especially since it’s free.” McDonald has been thrill-ing listeners for over four decades. His work has been referred to as being “both timeless and ever-evolving.”
He gained fame playing
with the American rock band, Steely Dan, popular for such songs as “Reelin’ In the Years,” “Haitian Di-vorce,” “Bad Sneakers” and “Doctor Wu.”
After spending time playing with Steely Dan, McDonald became a part of the American rock band, the Doobie Brothers, becoming a staple of their signature sound. The Doobie Brothers are famous for such hits as “Takin’ It To the Streets,” “It Keeps You Runnin’,”Little Darling (I Need You),” and “What a Fool Believes.”
McDonald’s distinct vocal style also made him one of
the world’s most sought-af-ter session singers. Over the years, he has guest stared on records by many artists, in-cluding Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Logins, Bon-nie Raitt, the rock band Toto and Elton John.
Jessica Machmer, from Teays Valley, W.Va., was joined by her mother for the show. She said that she and her mother attend all the art-ist series events and that she used to listen to McDonald back in the eighties.
West Virginia’s own Rick Huckaby opened for
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The stage at Joan C. Ed-wards Performing Arts Center has been taken back through time to arrive in 1930s Atlanta. “Gone With the Wind” has just pre-miered, the Southern Jewish Holiday Festival, Ballyhoo, is just about to begin and one family is going to learn more about love as well as their own heritage.
The Marshall University Department of Theatre premiered its latest pro-duction, Alfred Uhry’s “The Last Night of Bal-lyhoo,” Wednesday for students and Thursday for the general public.
“The Last Night of Ballyhoo” won the 1998 Tony Award for best play. Uhry is also popular for
his other works, “Driv-ing Miss Daisy” and “Parade.”
The Thursday perfor-mance opened with a pre-show discussion from guest speaker, Rabbi Jean E. Eglinton of Huntington’s B’nai Sholom Congrega-tion, located on 10th Street and 10th Avenue.
Eglinton worked with “The Last Night of Bal-lyhoo” cast to help them better understand their roles portraying charac-ters of Jewish faith.
Nicole Perrone, assis-tant professor of acting, voice and movement and musical theater, di-rected “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.”
“The subject matter deals with a Jewish fam-ily in the south in the 1930,” Perrone said. “I am
neither Jewish, nor from the south, nor was alive in the 1930s. So, quite a bit of research was required for me to fully understand the different levels of this story.”
Perrone and the cast were invited to Shabbat services at the temple of B’Nai Sholom Congrega-tion whilst in preparation for the play.
“That additional kind of research has been in-valuable to me,” Perrone said.
Shelby Brewster, senior theater performance and history major from Colo-rado Springs, Co., played Reba in the show.
“As an actor, I think the element of the show I like the most is working with a small cast,” Brewster said. “We really have an amazing
ensemble feeling in this piece, that you don’t get working with a huge cast.”
There will be two more performances of “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
There will be another spe-cial event before the final showing on Saturday. The community organization, the Musical Arts Guild, will be performing songs of the 1930s. The pre-show event will begin at 7 p.m.
“I think students should see this piece because it will open their eyes to something they may not experience every day,” Brewster said. Also, it’s an interesting show with intriguing characters, and overall a good time to be had by all.”
Caitlin Conley can be contacted at [email protected].
BY ALIANNA TELLESTHE PARTHENON
Students wanting to share their creativity with the campus now have the opportunity to do so in a unique way.
WMUL, the Marshall Uni-versities student run radio station, is hosting a t-shirt design contest.
The designer that wins the
contest will receive several prizes including the design on the t-shirt, a t-shirt and the WMUL “Swag Pack.”
“The idea behind the contest was to generate student involvement, but it is also open to the gen-eral public, and promoting the station in a way differ-ent from what we normally do,” Adam Rogers, sports director WMUL said.
There are several entry re-quirements in order to enter into a design into the contest.
The submissions must have the frequency, slogan and call letters (88.1, WMUL, and “The Cutting Edge”).
Those who want to enter in the contest have two ways to enter: By posting the de-sign on the WMUL Facebook page, or by placing a hard copy of the design in the box
outside of the station, la-beled “Contest Entry.”
“I think this is the per-fect way for people to find out who we are and what we do,” Rogers said, “By them simply looking us up and looking at our website, they might decide to come back later to listen to our music, our news and sports coverage.”
During winter break, five
semi-finalists will be chosen.The five semi-finalist’s
submissions will be posted on WMUL’s Facebook wall and voted on by the number of ‘likes’ each submission gets.
The semi-finalist with the most number of ‘likes’ by Janu. 31, will be announced the winner and then be no-tified via Facebook.
“The t-shirts are going to
be used as a promotional item for WMUL-FM,” Rog-ers said. “I don’t believe that enough people on Marshall’s campus and in the Huntington community know of who WMUL-FM is and what we do.”
All entries must be sub-mitted by 4 p.m. Dec. 4.
Alianna Telles can be contacted at [email protected].
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Ethan Treutle from Stephens City, Va. performs the role of a character named Adolf in “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.” Treutle has previously been seen in Marshall’s productions of “Our Country’s Good,” “Saturday, Sunday, Monday” and “The Good Doctor.”
BY KAT THORNTONBROWN DAILY HERALD, BROWN U. VIA UWIRE
A crowd of star-crazed fans filled an auditorium at Brown U. last night to see 2001 Brown alum John Krasinski crack jokes and tell personal stories in an informal hour-long ques-tion-and-answer session.
“This is insane,” Krasin-ski, who plays Jim Halpert on “The Office” and has starred in several films, said upon en-tering the packed auditorium. “I’m having an existential meltdown.”
Students gathered outside as early as 3 p.m. to get seat-ing at the event, which started four hours later.
“It was so worth it,” said Deesha Misra, sophomore at the Rhode Island School of Design.
The crowd was brimming with anticipation before the event began. Two false entrances provoked ap-plause and cheering before Kra-sinski made his entrance, cracking jokes as he appeared.
“I took way too many classes in here,” he said, look-ing around Salomon. “And a couple naps.”
After a few opening re-marks, Krasinski opened the event to questions from the audience. Students lined up to ask about the actor’s deci-sion to attend Brown, which dorms he stayed in, his fa-vorite classes (“Management of Industrial and Nonprofit Organizations” and an intro-ductory biology course) and his time on The Office.
“I think we all have a little bit of our characters,” he said, referring to the show’s cast. Krasinski said Steve Carell is “pretty shy” but is also one of the funniest peo-ple he knows. He said the two actors had an emotional time getting through their last
filmed scene together.“I think I just rehydrated last
week from that,” he said.Krasinski said he did not
plan to go into acting as an undergraduate. He entered Brown as an English concen-trator after spending the first semester of freshman year in Costa Rica teaching English. The best thing about Brown was “everyone doing whatever the hell they wanted — in a good way,” he said.
Krasinski recalled the first play he acted in at Brown, in which he played a “6-foot-3 transvestite.”
“I wore high heels,” Krasinki said. “So that was another phenomenal moment.”
Some students asked more personal questions, like how Krasinski met his wife, actress Emily Blunt, who was sitting in the front row.
Krasinski said the pair met at a res-taurant, through a mutual friend. “There’s more to it, yes, but you’re
not going to get it,” he added.Several students asked
about how Krasinski be-came a successful actor. He responded that though he was working in New York as a waiter when he decided to pursue acting, he had a lot of fun just living in the city and being with friends.
“I think that’s pretty much the world’s job — to dissuade you from acting,” Krasinski said. “Don’t lis-ten to anybody.
“You have to be coura-geous enough to give it a shot — and keep giving it a shot.”
When the event ended, the majority of the crowd rushed the stage to get au-tographs and pictures with the actor, who complied with several requests but quickly left the stage.
‘Office’ star Krasinski shares jokes, anecdotes
“you have to be courageous enough to give it a shot.”
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Michael Mcdonald serenades Huntington
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Michael McDonald performs Thursday at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center. McDonald has previously performed with Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers.
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