The Parthenon - March 15, 2016

NEWS, 2

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OPINION, 4

LIFE, 6

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TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2016 | VOL. 119 NO. 83 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE

Student body president, vice president hopefuls face off in final debate

By NANCY PEYTON

THE PARTHENON Marshall University student body presidential and vice presidential hopefuls debated a wide range of issues Monday, from student involvement on campus to the university’s financial troubles.

Candidates Matt Jarvis, Nate Miklas and Leif Olson are vying for the president position, while Emily Kinner, Amos Parlock and Collin Stipetich are competing as their potential vice presidents.

The debate was sponsored by The Parthenon and WMUL-FM. The first half was devoted to questions from the moderators, while the second half consisted of questions from students.

The candidates were given one minute for opening statements about their campaign platforms and then questions were directed at either every candidate or a specific presidential hopeful.

Jarvis said his campaign is focused on giving power back to the students.

“I think somewhere along the line something got lost where we weren’t allowed to express our opinions as students,” Jarvis said.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I find it hard to believe that a bunch of 60 and 70 year old men understand what we deal with on a daily basis.”

Miklas said his campaign is focused on community outreach to make Huntington and Marshall both more appealing.

“With our platform, we want to get the community more

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Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates Matt Jarvis, Emily Kinner, Nate Miklas, Amos Parlock, Leif Olson and Collin Stipetich participate in the SGA student body debate Monday in the Memorial Student Center lobby. involved,” Miklas said. “We think that is appealing to people that want to come here, like if we get more people involved in the community, it’s going to make Huntington look nicer. It’s going to make Marshall look like a more helpful place.”

Olson said his campaign is focused on improving student life and providing funding to student organizations.

“Over there we can see there are people having a bake sale to

raise funding for their organization,” Olson said. “We can give it to them. We can give it to them from our collective tuition so we can make our lives more interesting and vibrant here at Marshall.

Student life is important and it matters.”

In concern with budget cuts effecting the funding of student organizations, Jarvis said he wants to take this burden off of See DEBATE | page 5

Power outage VAGINA, PENIS affects campus BAKED GOODS second time in PROMOTE two weeks

By DARIUS BOOKER

THE PARTHENON Marshall University students, faculty and staff were affected Monday morning for the second time in two weeks by power outages.

Nearly 4,000 Appalachian Power customers were without power in Cabell county, spanning from campus to east Huntington, towards Proctorville, Ohio.

Appalachian Power spokesperson Phil Moye said the company has been undergoing equipment improvements.

“We are doing a fair amount of work in our substations where we are replacing equipment and upgrading lines,” Moye said.

Moye said this was the reason for the first outage a few weeks ago, leaving nearly

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REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE “We weren’t too worried about offending people with the dick stuff because you’re either going to get offended by it or you’re not. There’s not a way to change that.”

By CHEYENNE DEBOLT

THE PARTHENON The Students for Reproductive Justice sponsored a bake sale Monday to raise money for Sex Week.

Members of the organization set up a table selling baked good in the shape of sex organs to raise funds for an event they are planning for late April.

Students for Reproductive Justice is a group of advocates for reproductive justice and reproductive

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Students for Reproductive Justice sell genital-themed baked goods Monday in the Memorial Student Center. rights, but are also involved with phone banking nationally for Planned Parenthood as well as lobbying at the West Virginia Legislature.

President of Students for Reproductive Justice Hallie Andrews said the organization wants to clear up common misconceptions about sex education, contraceptives and just sex in general, as well as help the organization become known.

“We’ve raised a lot of money but I think the most rewarding part for me is having people laugh and ask about our organization, because that’s how we get people who remember us,” Andrews said.

Organization vice president AJ Murphy organized the bake sale. Murphy said they baked for six hours on Sunday. While planning the event, they had to figure out what to bake. Murphy said they wanted snacks that would be funny and attract people, but something that would also sell.

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Murphy said a Planned Parenthood representative suggested the organization sell goods but charge more for men than women, but they decided against it. Murphy said the group didn’t want to alienate any group of people from buying their goods so they went a different route and made sex organ-shaped baked goods.

“We were trying to be really conscience of hitting all the bases and covering everything,” Murphy said. “All the penis cookies are different shapes and sizes: we were like size doesn’t matter. So we were trying to be as inclusive as possible.”

Murphy said they decided to just go for it and see how the bake sale went.

“We weren’t too worried about offending people with the dick stuff because you’re either going to get offended by it or you’re not,” Murphy said. “There’s not a way See SEX WEEK | page 5

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MU professors get pi’ed for Pi Day

By DARIUS BOOKER

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Department of Mathematics celebrated National Pi Day Monday on Buskirk Field.

Pi Day is a nationwide mathematical holiday celebrated by many different people, especially those who find themselves in “love” with mathematics.

President of the Thundering Nerds math club and treasurer of Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honor Society Sara Brumbaugh said Pi is definitely important to her.

“I want everyone to know about Pi, It’s the one day where math is highly recognized, so everyone can know about Pi Day,” Brumbaugh said.

Brumbaugh, who also has clinical hours at Huntington High School, said she went around during the day telling younger students all about the significance of Pi. The Department of Mathematics sponsored a Pi Day festivities including, The Thundering Nerds fundraiser, where students had the opportunity to pie one of their favorite or least favorite professors in the face.

Assistant professor of the math department Dr. Michael Schroeder won the most votes

among the professors who were committed to the fundraiser to receive the pie in the face.

Schroder said Pi Day was an extremely significant day in his life.

“It’s a day we can celebrate mathematics and it’s special to me because I was married on Pi Day,” Schroeder said. “This is my seventh year anniversary.”

Marshall students stopped by the festivities to watch professors get pied in the face, play games and enjoy pizza “pie.”

Marshall University student Ashley Dunham said she loves math and thinks it’s important and should be celebrated.

“I’m sort of a math nerd and I plan to be a math teacher one day,” Dunham said. “I think that it would be a fun thing to do, to celebrate in my future classroom.”

The organizations raised about $170. Proceeds will be split between The Thundering Nerds and Pi Mu Epsilon.

The Thundering Nerds is a student-run club that offers both logic based conversations as well as technical conversations on mathematics as well as many other activities.

Pi Mu Epsilon is the math honor society. Membership into the society is by invite.

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Kiersten Looney, treasurer of the Thundering Nerds, puts a pie in assistant professor of mathmatics Michael Schroeder’s face during Pi Day celebration Monday at Buskirk Field.

Both organizations will be using the proceeds to fund future math conferences, meetings

and induction ceremonies.

The Thundering Nerds is open to any student and has

no membership fee. The only requirement is a love for mathematics.

Darius Booker can be contacted at booker25@ marshall.edu.

Board of Governors changes university investment strategies

By REBECCA TURNBULL

THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s Board of Governors will make changes to investment practices for the university.

Chief Financial Officer Mary Ellen Heuton said university investments are shifting from three pools of investment: long-, mid- and short-term, to two pools of investment to create lower risk.

Heuton said this shift will allow the University Investment Committee to efficiently tie into budget projections, choose target allocations for endowments and operations and protect financial reserves.

To better determine the management of these changing university investments, the board met Friday to hear a presentation by the Perella Weinberg financial services firm and discuss whether to invest university funds in utilizing the firm.

Partner asset manager Trey Thompson delivered the presentation on behalf of the Perella Weinberg firm, which is headquartered in New

York and has been in business for about 10 years.

Thompson said the firm’s managers will provide necessary resources to help Marshall University better manage current investment issues.

“The investment landscape has become much more complex in just the last 10 or 15 years,” Thompson said.

“And I think the bar for diligence on these managers and complexity of those investment strategies has made it difficult for even fairly large institutions to manage that with an in-house staff, or even with a very talented investment committee.”

Perella Weinberg has served the Marshall University Foundation as the outsourced chief investment officer since 2012.

Thompson said Perella Weinberg’s ongoing connection with the Foundation makes the opportunities presented to the board more personal.

“This is a relationship that’s one of my favorites,” Thompson said.

“The Foundation of the university

supported us four years ago when we were a much younger business and we have a lot of loyalty and appreciation for that.”

Marshall University Foundation CEO Ronald Area said he has been pleased with how Perella Weinberg explained investment issues that went “way over [their] heads” until they understood.

“What impressed me was that they knew more about our investments we did,” Area said. “I mean, they really did their homework on it. They have been so good to work with in terms of communicating; not a monthly basis, but on a weekly basis.”

Area said the firm has been able to consistently keep the Marshall Foundation in the “sweet spot” for returns every year, rather than at the top or bottom of the return range.

Area also said the Investment Committee will continue to review the firm to determine when they might need to move to a different firm in changing financial climates.

Some meeting participants and

board members expressed concerns about whether or not to invest in Perella Weinberg, particularly whether or not investing in index funds would be more beneficial to the board than investing in an outside firm.

Board member Dale Lowther said investing in the outside firm would greatly decrease liability for the university.

Heuton said changing university investments to a different manager would help to further safeguard financial reserves, ensure long-term capital protection against investments and draw return for some expenses.

Thompson said because the Board does not have an explicit payout per year, unlike the Marshall Foundation’s yearly 8 percent expected return, they have more flexibility in choosing investment options that will meet the needs of the university even during challenging financial situations.

“We try to preserve capital,” Thompson said. “We think of our portfolios

as being ‘all weather.’ So when times are tough, your portfolio is going to lose money, but it won’t lose money as the global stock markets will. The opposite is true as well.”Perella Weinberg currently services 26 clients.

Thompson said the firm would like to increase to no more than 35 to 40 clients total, because fewer clients allows the firm to be more “selective” and allows investment managers to be more “hands-on” with each client.

Board member Christie Kinsey said she believes the firm’s small clientele is indicative of its potential ability to give Marshall University the financial attention it needs.

Thompson said managers from Perella Weinberg would be working closely with the board’s University Investment Committee to determine investment strategies.

Marshall University Foundation CFO Scott Anderson said the Investment Committee needs to continue defining the $6 million of assets, the See Board of Governors | page 5

Students learn LinkedIn techniques Freshmen students become leaders at local schools in professionalism workshop

By LYDIA WAYBRIGHT

By CHEYENNE DEBOLT

THE PARTHENON Career Services’ program manager for internships and experiential learning Jennifer Brown spoke with a group of students Monday about LinkedIn as part of the Lewis College of Business’ professionalism month.

Brown gave tips to making a LinkedIn profile she said will stand out to potential employers.

First, Brown said the photo is important. Brown said it is important not to use selfies or photos that have been cropped to exclude other people.

Career Services is offering to take a professional looking profile pictures at the April 5 Career Expo for students to use.

Next, Brown said the headline needs to be algorithmically strong and compelling. Brown said the headline is the second thing employers will be attracted to. “It’s important they are interested in you from reading it,” Brown said.

Brown said students need to fill out every section of their profiles as possible. Many areas are the same as a typical resume.

“They make it very easy for you to fill out,” Brown said. “They ask you prompt questions and they give you advice for what you should

put in each section and how to word it.”

Brown said students need to be sure they update statuses regularly to let employers know they are active. Students need to be sure to avoid going on rants in their statuses though.

“There are three things you need to avoid talking about: politics, religion and money,” Brown said.

Brown said connecting is important on LinkedIn. People who have something on their profile will connect automatically, but others will have to be contacted by message to connect.

Director in stakeholder engagement at the COB Glen Midkiff said he was pleased with Brown’s presentation and hoped students understood how relevant it is to have a LinkedIn account.

“I hope they come away with how important it is to have a positive online image,” Midkiff said, “Employers are looking for that. They are looking for the candidate that stands above everyone else.”

The COB will continue professionalism month with events this week and after spring break.

Cheyenne DeBolt can be contacted at debolt2@marshall.edu.

THE PARTHENON Ten Marshall University freshman were placed as volunteer Young Life leaders at different area schools Sunday in the Young Life building downtown.

The new leaders, current leaders, parents and friends celebrated as area director Brad Bucklad revealed where each freshman would be assigned.

Huntington natives Lilly Dyer and Megan McCallister were placed at Huntington East Middle School. Bucklad said there has never been a team there, so the two girls will pioneer that team.

Claire Blackwood and Dom Difilippo, each from Charleston, will be leaders at Huntington High School. Franklin Norton and Macie McCallister, also from Huntington, were placed at Cabell Midland High School along with Josh Hastings from Bridgeport, West Virginia.

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Marshall University’s Young Life College team gained Casey Mosrie from Charleston, Brooke Stratton from Barboursville and Claire Joswick from Cincinnati.

Young Life staff member since 2014 and volunteer since 2011 Alli Childers said the new leaders start their roles immediately.

“It starts right now,” Childers said. “They are leaders.”

Childers said the freshman were placed based on interviews and ongoing conversations. Childers said she and Bucklad took what each new leader wanted in consideration, paired with the need at each school.

“They’ve been going through new leader training all semester,” Childers said.

Childers said she thinks the new leaders will be great at forming relationships with students in their assigned schools.

Mosrie said he is excited to be on the Marshall team.

“I think college is a perfect opportunity to share my testimony with people,” Mosrie said.

Mosrie said his job as a volunteer leader at Marshall is to get people to come to Young Life events and share the Gospel with them.

Mosrie said he went to Young Life a few times in high school, but started coming consistently at Marshall.

“I’ve pretty much been every single week except for my birthday because I went home,” Mosrie said. “I love every single person that I’ve met this year.”

Childers said Young Life leaders’ role is to form relationships with students with hopes they will have relationships with Jesus.

“We believe that every kid deserves the right to hear about Jesus,” Childers said.

Lydia Waybright can be contacted at waybright19@ marshall.edu.

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Women’s team selected to WNIT

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Marshall University junior Kiana Evans drives past a Middle Tennessee State University defender Friday in Birmingham, Alabama in the Herd’s 69-41 conference semifinals loss.

THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s women’s basketball team was selected to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament Monday, the selection committee announced.

Marshall faces Ohio University Thursday in the first round of the WNIT in Athens, Ohio.

Game time will be announced Tuesday.

Marshall head coach Matt Daniel said he envisioned a postseason berth considering his team’s strong finish to the season.

“The ride that we’ve been on so far, hitting blackjack is all I could call it,

winning 21 games for the first time in 30 years,” Daniel said. “I think we are going to have a shot to go win number 22. I think that our body of work speaks for itself when you talk about postseason play.”

The 64-team field for the 2016 Postseason WNIT includes 36 teams with 20 or more victories, including the Herd (21-11).

First-round action of the tournament tips off Wednesday and concludes Friday.

Aside from Marshall, three other schools from Conference USA were selected to the tournament: the University of North Carolina at Charlotte,

the University of Texas at El Paso and Western Kentucky University.

Eventual C-USA champion Middle Tennessee State University defeated Marshall, 69-41, Friday in the semifinals of the C-USA Tournament.

Throughout Friday’s contest, the Herd’s offense struggled to create quality looks offensively, as its guards seemed to struggle with Middle Tennessee State’s defense sticking to its hip on every ill-fated drive attempt.

“We didn’t have it,” Daniel said.

“We just didn’t have the magic. You could tell in the free shooting; it was just tough. You got to go to work on the bad days too.”

The Herd hung tough in the short term as it trailed 20-15 after the opening quarter, but the effectiveness of Middle Tennessee State’s defense and the Herd’s overall fatigue began to neuter its offensive performance thereafter.

Marshall scored just 26 points combined in the remaining three quarters of action.

The Herd battled to within 12 midway through the third quarter, but Middle Tennessee State proceeded to go on a 13-4 to close out the quarter and essentially, end the game as it entered the fourth quarter with a 55-34 lead.

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Sam Finfer, a catcher from Bellevue, Washington, got things going for the Herd in the bottom of the seventh with a single to the right center gap. It was not until Tommy Lane, a first basemen from Pendleton, Oregon, dropped a two-run bomb over the left center field for Marshall.

A pitching duel broke out between both teams as each continued to shutdown each other’s lineups.

Fourteen consecutive innings went by as both teams went three up, three down.

However, in the 17th inning, Marshall clenched the win over Brown with a hit by Huntington, West Virginia-native Andrew Zban.

The 17th inning started with Finfer getting on base by a walk. Lane came up right behind him and singled to

center field, which advanced Finfer to scoring position.

Then, Zban came to the plate and singled down the left field line to hit in the game-winning run.

Chase Boster, Caleb Ross, Heston Van Fleet, Sam Hunter, Burris Warner and Fernando Guerrero, who managed to throw a total of 17 innings with no walks, held up Marshall’s pitching.

The Herd defeated the Bears, 7-2, in its first matchup Saturday and 2-0 in the doubleheader. Marshall completed its sweep Sunday after a 14-0 victory over Brown.

Head coach Jeff Waggoner said he thought his pitchers performed well against the Bears.

“We’ve been working hard and these guys have been preparing,”

Waggoner said. “It was good to see because I know they can do it, and it’s a good confidence builder.”

Waggoner said it was great to see a freshmen step up and have his first career hit to win the game.

“Andrew [Zban] is a hard worker,” Waggoner said. “He’s a local kid, which makes it even better. He’s up against some upperclassmen in the outfield, but I told him a couple days ago just to hang in there and keep getting better. He deserves this. He works really hard, and it’s starting to pay off for him.”

Marshall faces Morehead State University 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Kennedy Center.

Brittanie Fowler can be contacted at fowler85@marshall. edu.

Marshall baseball sweeps Brown in four-game series during weekend

THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s baseball team swept Brown University this past weekend in a four-game series at the Kennedy Center in Huntington.

In the first match, the Herd took the Bears into the 17th inning Friday until Marshall came out on top, winning the game 3-2.

Both teams were held scoreless until the top of the third inning when Brown scored a run off a wild pitch.

Marshall held the Bears to a single run up until the seventh inning when Brown extended the lead to two over the Herd.

However, Marshall responded and picked up two quick runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the score up at two.

Softball team hosts Toledo

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Marshall University sophomore Madi Marshall throws out a player during the team’s match Saturday against the University of Texas at El Paso.

THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s softball team continues its six-game home stand Tuesday when it faces the University of Toledo at Dot Hicks Field.

The Herd will play the Rockets in a doubleheader beginning 1 p.m.

Marshall has not played Toledo (4-17) since March 2011 when the Herd fell to the Rockets 13-0 in Oxford, Ohio at the Miami Ohio Invitational.

Marshall (12-8) is coming off of its home and Conference USA opener against the University of Texas at El Paso.

The Herd swept the series against the Miners, winning 101, 5-1 and 8-3.

Sunday’s victory was the 500th win for head coach Shonda Stanton at Marshall.

Stanton has 527 career victories

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after spending one season at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (1999) before coming to Marshall.

Junior pitcher Jordan Dixon earned all three wins and struck out 17 batters.

Dixon is now third all-time in program history with 62 career wins and needs four more to become Marshall’s all-time leader.

The Marshall offense registered 36 hits, 23 runs and 13 stolen bases through the weekend.

Both freshman Briana Daiss and senior Raquel Escareno hit home runs and Daiss had her third game with five RBI this season.

Senior Kaelynn Greene, junior Morgan Zerkle and sophomore Elicia D’Orazio combined for 10 of the Herd’s stolen bases.

Stanton said she was proud

Dixon named C-USA Co-Pitcher of the Week THE PARTHENON Marshall junior Jordan Dixon was named Conference USA Softball Co-Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Monday.

Dixon earned three victories on the mound over the weekend in the team’s series against the University of Texas at El Paso Miners. Dixon posted a 1.37 ERA and recorded 17 strikeouts in her three starts.

“She really grinded it out and is deserving of this recognition after recording all three wins,” head coach Shonda Stanton said.

In the opening game of the three-game series, Dixon pitched the full five innings before the game was ended via the run-rule. She allowed just four hits and struck out 10 batters, including the side in the fourth inning.

In the second game of the weekend slate, Dixon came on in relief in the fourth inning with the bases loaded and Marshall already in a 1-0 hole.

Dixon immediately got out of the jam, an act she duplicated an inning later with the bases loaded in the fifth.

Dixon started the third and final game of the weekend as she pitched the full seven innings, allowing just earned while collecting five strikeouts.

In addition to her performance on the mound, Stanton said Dixon had a message for her teammates with the team trying to close out the sweep Sunday.

“Her one word that she shared with the team Sunday morning was ‘dependable’,” Stanton said. “Dixon talked how ability does not matter without dependability, and it was great to see her live that throughout the weekend against a very aggressive and solid hitting team.”

Pitching coach Chanda Bell said Dixon set the tone for the start to conference play with her solid weekend showing.

“This past weekend was a great way to start conference play,” Bell said. “We are proud of the way Jordan came out this weekend and was able to take three wins from an aggressive hitting team in UTEP. She showed once again, that she us strong enough to be a dominating pitcher in our conference.”

Marshall softball will be back in action 1 p.m. Tuesday when it hosts University of Toledo in a double header at Dot Hicks Softball Field in Huntington. of her pitcher’s performance against the Miners, as well as the rest of her team.

“I was pleased to see Dixon continue to grind and to be so dependable,” Stanton said in a news release. “UTEP is very aggressive at the plate, and I felt we made some great plays defensively. Elicia (D’Orazio) made some great plays for us up the 5-6 hole and Lucas has been really sharp for us at the hot corner.”

Stanton said she has been impressed with her team’s ability to thrive under pressure this season.

“We saw a lot of positive things from these kids,” Stanton said. “Whether they are a freshman or a senior, every day starter or not, we are seeing a lot of kids step up and be ready when their number is called.”

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The problem with fake news People are being deceived through the news and do not see a problem with it The Web has made it increasingly easy for sites built overnight to find massive audiences with little or no effort.

This is true for not only classic viral sites like Upworthy and BuzzFeed, but also for sites trafficking in completely fake news.

There was a time fake news stories could only be found on the shelves of supermarket entertainment sections. The fake news that had been confined to a small space now spreads like wildfire across Facebook and Twitter. The line that was drawn between what’s real and what’s not has been blurred.

It is important people understand what happens when they share fake content. You are insinuating that you believe in the story being shared, and it also ensures other people are going to see the article as well.

Facebook released a statement regarding this issue hoping to keep people worried about misleading information at ease.

“We are not reviewing content and making a determination on its accuracy,” says Facebook engineer Erich Owens and research scientist Udi Weinsberg. However, users will

be given the option to flag things as a “false news story” via a drop-down menu on each post.

Unlike items flagged by Facebook’s sensitive content filters, fake news stories will not be entirely deleted from the platform — a warning label will be attached to the story and it will be downgraded within users’ news feeds.

And the readers are certainly to blame as well. On the audience level, it’s a given today readers don’t read stories nearly as often as they click on them. Publishers frequently exploit this tendency by writing stories with sensational headlines that they undermine within the articles.

It’s easy for false stories to confuse users and quickly gain traction on Facebook, largely because the information or “story” is so decoupled from the publisher. A user may post one story from The New York Times and one from the fake news site National Report, and both will look nearly identical in a user’s feed.

It is important for social media users to understand exactly what they are sharing and the impact they have.

Sharing fake stories even when knowing of their falsity doesn’t mean the ignorance of others can be surpassed.

Hit series Grey’s Anatomy Infestation of cancels after 12 seasons skunks remains THE PARTHENON After 12 seasons, patients have apparently died as ABC president Paul Lee announced “Grey’s Anatomy” will not be renewed for a 13th season.

Despite the success of the long-running television series, which remains a fan favorite in its 12th season, show producer Shonda Rhimes said the entire staff was “burnt out.” Rhimes said she is profoundly apologetic to the show’s “rabidly enraptured” audience, but said the show’s production staff as well as head actors Ellen

Pompeo (Dr. Meredith Grey) and Patrick Dempsey (Dr. Derek Sheppard) had given all they could to the critically-acclaimed program.

“It is with our deepest sympathy to our fans that the Grey’s Anatomy television series has been cancelled,” Rhimes said. “We just felt it was time to end it. We felt collectively, as a group, we just couldn’t attain the standard we’ve set with this show if we did another season.”

Grey’s Anatomy is currently in its 12th season, with episode 14 set to air Thursday.

campus issue THE PARTHENON A critter problem surfaced Monday after students and faculty spotted several skunks seeking shelter across campus during a heavy rainstorm.

Reports of nearly 30 skunks sneaking into buildings were filed to the Marshall University Police Department by 7 p.m. Monday evening.

MUPD would not comment, but a source close to the situation was adamant “the skunks have been a problem for way longer than you think.”

Sophomore culinary student Norville Rogers said he was traumatized by his experience in Smith Hall.

“I was like walking on the second floor of Smith and smelled something dank,” Rogers said. “I thought someone was smoking something illegal and potent, but when I looked down a skunk was spraying my chucks.

Appalachian Pest Control is currently investigating the situation, but “it could be days” before the infestation is contained.

THE PARTHENON Rapper Kanye West visited Marshall University Monday and proclaimed March 14 to be “Kanye West Appreciation Day.” Despite March 14 already being widely known as “Pi Day”, West said he could care less about some numbers.

“The only pi that matters is my grandma’s apple pie,” West said as he set up various booths on the Memorial Student Center plaza including “Kiss Kanye,” “Coffee with Kanye” and the ever popular “Rent-a-Kanye.”

Marshall University student Patty Pastry said she was outraged by the Grammy winner’s series of rash decisions.

“Who is this guy?” Pastry said. “I mean, who does he think he is?”

Kanye continued to replace well-known university facets in his likeness.

“I feel like bison are outdated animals,” West said.

“You even see bison in the wilderness? No. The answer is no.”

West then replaced the bison above the Marshall University Bookstore with a collage featuring his various album covers and notes from his various interruptions throughout the years.

University officials would not offer an official statement, but offered praise to “Graduation” and the Yeezy Boost 750s.

Kanye West Appreciation Day proclaimed at Marshall

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Kanye West performs during the closing ceremony of the Pan Am Games, in Toronto.

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individual investment pools and the financial expectations of the university if they are to decide to work with Perella Weinberg.

“The only way we can be successful in this endeavor is to start out with the kinds of expectations and knowing what the risks are, what the return expectations are and then Trey and his team can have a clear set of marching orders to know what they’re being measured against,” Anderson said.

Heuton is a member of the Investment Committee and said the committee has been passive about investment practices

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in the past, but they are looking to become more active.

Heuton went before the board to advocate for a resolution allowing thecCommittee to finalize and approve the “Investment Management Agency Agreement” as well as authorize the initial asset allocation for the university and medical school investment pools.

The board passed the resolution to delegate these responsibilities to the Investment Committee.

Marshall University president Jerry Gilbert said Perella Weinberg’s presentation and the Board’s analysis of investment

strategies fostered a very necessary and “fruitful” discussion.

“I think it’s going to be a great synergistic effect to have the Foundation funds along with the university funds and the medical school funds in the Perella Weinberg investment firm, which I think is going to do a fabulous job for us,” Gilbert said.

The board also went into executive session to discuss personnel and legislative issues.

The next meeting of the Board of Governors will be April 27.

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already been addressed by “insiders.”

Olson raised an issue with the fact not enough people run for SGA positions and said he would like to require senators to actively campaign for their positions. Jarvis said he encourages senators to speak to their constituents, but they cannot be required to go out and campaign.

In regard to their goals if elected as vice president, Stipetich said he wants to try to return the old library hours and “foster a better relationship between Greeks and the rest of the student body.” Parlock said he would like to contact “average students” more and work to get a seasonal ice cream stand and Kinner said she would like to turn the top floor of Smith into a café.

Jarvis addressed LGBT rights, saying he wants to extend unisex bathrooms across campus rather than having them only be found in the library. Jarvis said he wants to bring LGBT students “out of the closet and the basement,” to which Olson agreed.

Parlock said he would help the LGBT Office by not shutting it down.

Candidates were each given one minute for closing remarks.

“We [Olson and Stipetich] are not here to attack SGA,” Stipetich said. Some have been concerned about their stance because of Olson’s remarks to SGA after the failed RFRA resolution.

“Don’t just vote for who you know,” Miklas said in concern to comments about the presidency being a “popularity contest.”

“Vote for the change you want to see at this university,” Jarvis said. Students have voiced concerns over what exactly is within the student body president’s power to obtain.

Voting for student body president and vice president will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in the Memorial Student Center.

Nancy Peyton can be contacted at peyton22@marshall.edu.

Continued from page 1 so their clubs can make changes on campus. Parlock said there’s not much the president or vice president can do about programs being cut and Olson said he plans to visit different organizations every day to educate them on how to get funding.

Jarvis and Stipetich agreed there are “unfortunate” divisions between SGA and the rest of the student body, but Miklas said he does not know where this idea stems from.

Kinner said her SGA experience has made her equipped to deal with vice presidential duties, but Miklas and Olson agreed an outsider can still bring in other leadership experience to handle the tasks of the presidency and vice presidency.

Jarvis said he wants to do more to help senators understand they are representing their constituents and not their own interests. Olson said that he would have this talk with senators as well if elected, but Parlock said these issues could’ve

Facing backlash, Clinton says coal still has a future

By ADAM BEAM and JONATHAN MATTISE

ASSOCIATED PRESS Facing a backlash from Appalachian Democrats, Hillary Clinton's campaign on Monday tried to reaffirm her commitment to coal communities one day after declaring on national television she was going to "to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."

Clinton's comments came during a Sunday night appearance on CNN, where she was asked a question about how her policies would benefit poor white people in southern states who generally vote Republican.

"I'm the only candidate, which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity, using clean renewable energy as the key, into coal country.

Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," Clinton said. "We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people."

Clinton was touting a plan she released last year that would set aside $30 billion to protect the health benefits for coal miners and their families. But her quip about putting coal miners out of business gave Republicans a perfect soundbite to use against her in states like Kentucky and West Virginia, where the party has made historic gains in coal communities in recent years by running against President Barack Obama's energy policies.

"I think every voter in the state of Kentucky needs to hear what she said," said Jonathan Shell, a Kentucky state representative who is leading Republican efforts to take control of the state House of Representatives in November, the last legislative chamber in the South still controlled by Democrats.

West Virginia state Senate President Bill Cole, the lone Republican running for governor, said of Clinton's comments that "it's maybe the best gift that anybody could have given a Republican running for office in West Virginia, no matter where,

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at Chicago Journeymen Local Plumbers Union in Chicago, Monday. for statewide, for House race or Senate."

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, from Kentucky, denounced Clinton's comments on the Senate floor as "callous" and "wrong."

The top three coal producing states of Wyoming, West Virginia and Kentucky all saw production declines of between 5 percent and 20 percent in 2015. In Ohio, site of Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary, coal production is down 22 percent. Democrats in those states tried to distance themselves from Clinton's comments.

"I was very disappointed to hear the comments that came out of the debate," said Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky's secretary of state and a close friend of the Clinton family who received their endorsement during her unsuccessful challenge to McConnell in 2014.

"My hope is she'll have a chance to clarify those comments, comments that as I said were completely out of line with personal conversations that I have had with her."

In West Virginia, where Democrats are trying to hang to the governor's mansion after losing the state legislature following

the 2014 elections, two of the three Democratic candidates criticized Clinton's comments.

Booth Goodwin, the former U.S. Attorney who prosecuted former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, said he "absolutely disagreed" with Clinton.

And Democrat Jim Justice, an Appalachian coal magnate, declared: "I will not support anyone who does not support coal."

Jeff Kessler, a progressive candidate supporting Bernie Sanders, echoed Clinton's message about providing new coalfield opportunities, but said he would've worded it differently.

Brian Fallon, Clinton's national press secretary, said Republicans were trying to twist Clinton's words. But later in the day, the Clinton campaign released a statement that appeared to walk back her comments that she would put coal miners and coal companies out of business.

"Coal will remain a part of the energy mix for years to come, and we have a shared responsibility to ensure that coal communities receive the benefits they have earned_and can build the future they deserve," she said.

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Clinton has been dogged by a series of slip-ups in recent days.

On Friday, she outraged LGBT and HIV/AIDS activists when she attributed early efforts to combat the disease to former First Lady Nancy Reagan. A day later, she prompted swift blowback from Sanders' team when she said she didn't know "where he was" when she was trying to get a health care overhaul through Congress in 1993.

His team produced a photo of Sanders standing right behind her at an event promoting the plan and a hand-written note from Clinton thanking him for his work on the issue.

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Continued from page 1 sex in West Virginia is unfortunate and that too often schools only teach abstinence to avoid teaching students how to deal with sex. The group is raising money for Sex Week, a week dedicated to combating the fallacies associated with sex and to provide information on the types of contraceptives. Sex Week will be held in late April.

Cheyenne DeBolt can be contacted at debolt2@marshall.edu.

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Chi Alpha partners with Fairmont State students for week of events

By NANCY PEYTON

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship will host events every evening the week of March 14.

These events have been organized in partnership with the Chi Alpha students from Fairmont State University, who will be on Marshall’s campus this week.

Director of Chi Alpha at Marshall University Jeremy Dalton said this will be a fun week for students in Chi Alpha.

“This week will be a big week for Chi Alpha,” Dalton said. “We have a team of students from Fairmont State Chi Alpha that will be giving up their spring break to serve at Marshall.”

Tuesday’s event is called “The Hot Seat.” Couples of friends can compete in pairs to see who knows their partner best. The top three pairs will receive a prize.

This event will be held at 7

p.m. in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center.

Wednesday’s event will be dodge ball at 4 p.m. in the Rec Center.

Thursday’s event is called “The Escape Room.” Students will compete in teams to solve puzzles and challenges to escape. The team with the fastest time will receive a prize.

This event will take place at 7 p.m. in the Shawkey Room.

Dalton said all students on campus are welcome to attend the events.

“We welcome all students to be a part of our organization,” Dalton said.

Chi Alpha hosts weekly meetings at 7 p.m. every Monday in the Marco Room in the Memorial Student Center basement. Chi Alpha hosts individual groups for guys and girls throughout the week in the MSC. Nancy Peyton can be contacted at peyton22@ marshall.edu.

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However, the reason for Monday morning’s outage is currently unknown.

On March 2, Marshall University was affected by a power outage where university officials cancelled classes.

Class cancellations were left at the discretions of professors during the most recent power outage.

Marshall University senior vice president of communications Ginny Painter said because they did not have an estimated time of restoration opposed to the March 2 outage, where they knew that power would be restored within one to two hours, they decided professors should have discretion over their classes.

Painter said the outages did not affect the majority of the campus academic buildings.

“Power was out on less of the campus today than it was two weeks ago, it was almost every building two weeks ago,” Painter said. “We had fewer classes that would have been affected.”

Marshall University president Jerome Gilbert and the rest of the senior cabinet made the call to leave the class cancellations up to the faculty.

The university does not have a set procedure or policy for power outage cancellations.

Power was fully restored around 11:20 a.m. and students were notified via University Communications.

Darius Booker can be contacted at booker25@ marshall.edu.

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Boston College students spend break volunteering in Huntington

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Kim Bretta, left, and Troy Vagianelis of Boston College volunteer during their spring break with the Huntington Area Habitat for Humanity to assist with constructing a home Friday.

By CLARA MAYNARD

THE PARTHENON As Marshall University students gear up to take their spring break, a group of students from Boston College waved goodbye to the Jewel City.

The students were working with the Huntington Area Habitat for Humanity to help build

a house on Bruce Street. The organization builds homes for the less fortunate and in turn the new homeowner pays a 25-year interest free monthly mortgage.

That payment helps the organization build more houses for families in need in Cabell County, West Virginia and Lawrence County, Ohio.

Senior biology major Troy Vagianelis said Huntington’s environment provided a needed break.

“It’s very refreshing to kind of take a break and step back [and] kind of just relax,” Vagianelis said. “Boston is obviously like a city and even though we are a bit outside, it’s still hustle and

Guinness: Israel Holocaust survivor, 112, world's oldest man

bustle and everyone is rushing everywhere.”

Vagianelis said he enjoyed the hospitality Huntingtonians displayed during the trip.

“Also, I think that you’re walking anywhere and people are saying ‘hi,’” Vagianelis said.

“People are asking how you’re doing and in Boston, even at our school, people are kind of just narrow and focused on where their destination is.”

Vagianelis said the experience allowed him to learn more about West Virginia and the struggles its communities face.

“We can also see while some of the houses are a little run down, they hold a family who has a great heart, awesome stories and just boundless love,” Vagianelis said. “And I think it’s taking those stories back and just holding them with us in whatever we do in day-to-day life.”

Junior nursing major Kim Bretta said the 8:15 a.m. wakeup calls and long days were worth it.

“We’ve been working on a couple of the veteran’s homes and we’ve been setting up floors, then we put up the walls and build those.” Bretta said. “We’re trying to finish all of these properties before the grant money

runs out in August.”

Bretta said she hopes the trip encouraged participants to become passionate about helping others.

“A lot of them are just being introduced to social justice issues and learning about those, so they’re able to kind of find that fire within them,” Bretta said. “Hopefully that will motivate them to work with our local community back home as well.”

Sophomore finance major John Treimen said he enjoyed exploring Huntington in his spare time.

“We went out to Hillbilly Hotdogs and it was really cool,” Treimen said. “With that experience we got to kind of drive through and see the change in where we were staying to out in the more rural areas and along the Ohio River.”

Treimen said he believes the work the group completed over spring break will leave an impact on the long-term goals of the Huntington Area Habitat for Humanity.

“Something I think we can definitely take away from this is with our immediate impact that we’re making with this house that we’re building right now, it’s just one step in a long

process, a long walk of working to actually make a difference,” Treimen said.

Treimen echoed Vagianeli’s sentiments about Huntington being much different than Boston.

“Something that I think is unique about Huntington is—we’re staying in the First Presbyterian Church—it seems like we are in high demand for people who want to come and spend time with us and either cook for us or just be with us,” Treimen said.

Treimen said he believes the group of students had a “two-way relationship” with Huntington.

“They’re helping us grow both individually and as a group and we’re also giving back to the community, so I think that’s unique to Huntington,” Treimen said.

A group of Marshall students are also participating in the Collegiate Challenge through the university’s Habitat for Humanity chapter.

Those students will head to Eustis, Florida during spring break to build houses in Lake and Sumter counties.

Clara Maynard can be contacted at maynard294@ marshall.edu.

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Marco Frigatti, Head of Records for Guinness World Records, left, presents Israel Kristal a certificate for being the oldest living man, in Haifa, Israel, Friday.

ASSOCIATED PRESS A 112-year-old Israeli who lived through both World Wars and survived the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz is the world's oldest man, Guinness World Records announced on Friday.

Guinness said in a statement that Israel Kristal is 112 years and 178 days old as of March 11.

Marco Frigatti, Head of Records for Guinness awarded Kristal a certificate at his home in Haifa on Friday.

"I don't know the secret for long life," Guinness quoted Kristal as saying. "I believe that

everything is determined from above and we shall never know the reasons why."

"There have been smarter, stronger and better looking men then me who are no longer alive.

All that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is lost," he added.

Guinness said Kristal was born in 1903 to an Orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow in Poland. He moved to Lodz to work in the family confectionary business in 1920, it said. During the Nazi occupation of Poland he was confined to the ghetto there

and later sent to the Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

His first wife and two children were killed in the Holocaust.

Kristal survived World War II weighing only 37 kilograms (about 81 pounds) — the only survivor of his large family. He moved to Israel in 1950 with his second wife and their son, Guinness said.

In Israel, Kristal "continued to grow both his family and his successful confectionary business," Guinness said.

Yasutaro Koide of Japan was the previous oldest man. He died in January at the age of 112 years, 312 days.

Susannah Mushatt Jones, 115, an American born in 1899, is both the world's oldest living person and the oldest living woman, Guinness said.

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Actor Okieriete Onaodowan, left, actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actor Christopher Jackson perform the song "Alexander Hamilton" from the Broadway play "Hamilton" in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Monday

Cast of 'Hamilton' gets scrappy with White House performance JOSH LEDERMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS Eying the multiethnic troupe of 20-somethings rocking out in the East Room to tales of the American Revolution, President Barack Obama wagered a safe guess: The Founding Fathers never dreamed of this.

The cast of the Broadway sensation "Hamilton" stormed the White House on Monday for a one-of-a-kind performance rich with symbolism and a touch of irony.

With portraits of George and Martha Washington staring down, the singers waxed lyrical about Alexander Hamilton's unlikely transformation from impoverished immigrant to American historical luminary.

Before the soulful singing started, Obama told an audience of invited schoolchildren he hoped the story of the country's founding would teach them that in America, what's past is only the beginning.

"That's what makes America so great. You finish the

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story," Obama said. "We're not yet finished. This is a constant work in progress, America. We're boisterous and we're diverse. We're full of energy and perpetually young in spirit. We are the project that never ends."

With its fast-paced score that mixes pop ballads, hiphop and R&B, "Hamilton" has hit a nerve on Broadway with the true story of the nation's "young, scrappy and hungry" first Treasury secretary. Obama and the first lady have been major boosters of the show, in which an African-American and Latino cast play historical figures who were, of course, white.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show's creator and star, has forged an unusual alliance with the Obamas, who first hosted him at the White House in 2009 for a poetry-and-music event where Miranda performed what would later become the show's opening number. Obama joked that he deserved a bit of credit for the theatrical sensation, now

one of the hottest tickets on Broadway. "'Hamilton,' I'm pretty sure, is the only thing that Dick Cheney and I agree on," Obama quipped, referring to the former vice president and avowed fan of the show.

Miranda and his cast, ditching their costumes for crisp suits and dresses, performed a handful of musical numbers before an audience that included Vice President Joe Biden. Earlier in the day, first lady Michelle Obama hosted the company for a workshop with students, telling them that of all the events at the White House, "this for me personally is the coolest."

Himself the product of an unlikely rise to power, Obama praised the show's ability to bring "unlikely folks together." He told the show's creator that he could "use the help" in Washington.

"Lin-Manuel, if you have any ideas about a show about Congress, for example," Obama said to laughter, "now is your chance."