The Parthenon - March 17, 2016

NEWS, 2

SPORTS, 3

OPINION, 4

LIFE, 6

> SCHOOLHOUSE

> SOFTBALL LOSS

> RAPE CULTURE

> ST. PATRICK’S DAY

> JOBAPALOOZA

> WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

> STATE EDITORIAL

> APPALACHIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONFERENCE

> SOFTBALL COACH

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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2016 | VOL. 119 NO. 85 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE

RIGHT: Matt Jarvis and Emily Kinner participate in a Student Body Election debate Monday. Jarvis and Kinner will serve as Student Body President and Vice President during the 20162017 school year.

JARVIS/KINNER WIN ELECTION, BUS SYSTEM REFERENDUM PASSES RYAN FISCHER | THE PARTHENON

By JARED CASTO

THE PARTHENON Matt Jarvis and Emily Kinner have won the election for student body president and vice president and the bus shuttle referendum has passed.

Kinner and Jarvis were revealed as the victors, with 672 of 1018 votes cast, during a 7 p.m. meeting in the Student Government Association office. Results for the senate election and bus shuttle referendum were also made public.

Jarvis said he was thankful for the support he received from the student body and was prepared to put into place the ideas he and Kinner campaigned upon.

“Its a little surreal right now,” Jarvis said. “I’m just really thankful for everyone who was able to come out and support us, who thought our ideas were worth having and thought the changes that

we wanted to make were worth voting upon. It just really means a lot.”

Kinner shared Jarvis’ attitude and said she was thrilled with the results.

“I don’t have words,” Kinner said. “We’re just super excited to make a positive difference on campus. We have so many good ideas and we’re just ready to implement those.”

According to Jarvis, he and Kinner didn’t have any major plans for after the meeting but said celebration was in order for the future.

“Nothing too crazy, but I’m sure there will be other cool festivities later on,” Jarvis said.

Student body presidential candidate Leif Olson, who received second place in the election with 287 votes, was brief.

“I’m getting drunk,” Olson said.

Student body presidential candidate Nate Miklas, in third place with 59 votes, refused to

comment.

The bus shuttle referendum was also victorious, with 891 “yes” votes versus 150 “no” votes.

Kinner said the bus system will be an immediate priority at the beginning of the upcoming senate session.

“Day one, we definitely want to finish this bus system,” Kinner said. “Now that we have the ‘yes’ votes, we can actually go forward with that and hopefully we’ll have that running by fall.”

SGA advisors Matt James and Michelle Barbour read the results of the senate race. According to James and Barbour, some senators tied in their respective races and will have to speak with SGA executives to determine who will be the official senator for their college and who will be the “at large” senator.

Current Student Body president Duncan Waugaman revealed the results of the bus system

referendum and the presidential and vice presidential candidates. Additionally, Waugaman commended those who ran for office for representing student government in a positive manner.

“I love that we’ve represented student government very well and I appreciate that as someone who has been in student government and is now exiting,” Waugaman said.

Waugaman also congratulated the three student body presidential candidates for the campaigns that they conducted.

“I took a hands-off approach through all of this,” Waugaman said. “I was not on it at all. And I really want to say that all of you represented each other. You represented your voice and your opinion and I appreciate that very much so for all three of you.”

Jared Casto can be contacted at casto178@ marshall.edu.

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Social enterprise to revitalize Appalachian region

By REBECCA TURNBULL

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Entrepreneurship program and the Lewis College of Business are hosting the first Appalachian Conference on Social Enterprise Thursday and Friday.

Assistant professor of entrepreneurship Jonathan Butler said those who attend the conference will be shown how social enterprise can work to reverse the negative impact coal, steel and other industries have had on West Virginia’s economy.

“These jobs aren’t coming back,” Butler said. “Social entrepreneurs are the future, because they are uniquely positioned to not only create jobs, but solve pressing social issues like the heroin epidemic, child abuse and extreme poverty affecting so much of West Virginia. West Virginia cannot wait for large companies to come in and save the day by moving hundreds of jobs into the state. Real change must come from within the state.”

Leaders from about 30 organizations are expected to present ideas on creating successful, pro-social businesses to benefit the Appalachian region at the conference.

Butler said it is important for students to take advantage of the opportunity to meet these influential leaders to build their networks and become leaders in social enterprise themselves. “[Students] are the ones who are most likely to bring about change,” Butler said. “They have not been jaded by traditions and ritualistic norms that prevent older individuals from seeing problems in a new light.”

Butler said he hopes the ACOSE will become an annual event in the state to continue promoting the revitalization of West Virginia communities.

Those interested in the conference may learn more and register online at acose.org.

The ACOSE is sponsored by the Marshall University Lewis College of Business, One Foundation, Rural Action, Generation West Virginia, the West Virginia University Department of Geology and Geography, Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), the West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition and the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development.

Rebecca Turnbull can be contacted at turnbull4@ marshall.edu.

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The forgotten classroom

By REBECCA TURNBULL

THE PARTHENON For the first time in nearly five decades, a piece of chalk was once again drawn against the black slate chalkboard of Union School. This time, instead of the alphabet and equations, the chalk was used to write, “Welcome to the OneRoom School Museum.”

West Virginia history professor Paul Lutz had just put the finishing touches on the former Union School building for its grand reopening as the Marshall University One-Room School Museum October 21, 1995.

It had taken Lutz five years to find the century-old Union School, but only a matter of months to physically move the school 24 miles from its original location on Guyan Creek Road in Cabell County to the former Fifth Avenue green space of Marshall’s campus where it still stands today.

What had started out as a student’s idea to interview a one-room schoolteacher for a final research paper had become an important historical contribution to Marshall’s campus, with the help of Lutz, former Marshall president Wade Gilley and local donor Bill Cline.

Lutz recalls the pride he felt for Marshall at the moment the school finally arrived across from the college of education.

“It was my project,” Lutz said. “It was my baby.”

Union School, formerly referred to as “Punkin Center School” by the locals, had housed students grades one through eight from 1889 to the 1950s. When Lutz found the school, it was being used for storage by its owners Tina and James “Bill” Bryan. The Bryans readily donated the school to serve a greater purpose for the Marshall community.

Storage was moved out and a school was moved back in.

Desks and books that had been used in one-room schoolhouses were donated by many people in the community.

Lutz said the museum offers a poignant mosaic of valuable history and community collaboration.

“I don’t think people realize what a unique museum it is,” Lutz said. “I mean, the school is an actual school building. It is not a replica. It is like stepping back into time to walk into the school. It’s the real thing.

It’s really an expression of the whole community and just the respect for the historical aspect of education in general.”

One group on campus continues to keep these efforts toward the preservation of history appreciated and seen by the Marshall community.

The John Marshall Emerging Leaders Institute will reopen the One-Room School Museum for the spring March 28. JMELI members will be available in

the schoolhouse almost every weekday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.

When Lutz retired from Marshall in 2006, he said he began a search for help from an organization to take over and care for the schoolhouse.

Lutz caught wind of Marshall’s then new JMELI group in 2014 and asked coordinator Andy Hermansdorfer if they would be willing to oversee the conservation of the project. To Lutz’s joy, Hermansdorfer accepted the opportunity.

“That’s really been a lifesaver to have the school open by these students and I really appreciate everything they’ve done,” Lutz said.

JMELI graduate advisor Kelsea Ring currently recruits greeters for the schoolhouse.

Ring said the organization continues to provide volunteers to the schoolhouse to give members the opportunity to reach out and connect with Marshall’s campus.

“It’s a good leadership opportunity for them, getting in contact with the community, getting in contact with Marshall’s campus,” Ring said. “It gives them a place to go and helps them to get to know part of West Virginia’s history.”

Freshman biology pre-med student and JMELI member Jack Victory serves as a greeter for the schoolhouse and said he looks forward to volunteering in the schoolhouse this spring.

“A lot of people would think maybe that the opportunity is just boring to sit in there, but you get to meet some really cool people and observe the historical side of that and see how the county was represented a few decades ago,” Victory said. “It’s a great opportunity for the public to kind of see like how school was in the past, to see the difference between school back then and

Above: One room school house facts are displayed on a chalkboard in the Marshall University One-Room Schoolhouse Museum.

Right: Graduate Adviser for the John Marshall Emerging Leaders Institute Kelsea Ring flips through the dictionary on the teacher's desk in the OneRoom Schoolhouse Museum on Marshall's campus where she recruits greeters to volunteer. how it is now, because it’s such a big change. It’s a living piece of history.”

Freshman athletic training major and JMELI member Rachel Gwilliams also serves as a greeter for the schoolhouse and said she was initially surprised by the inviting atmosphere of the schoolhouse.

“I didn’t know what it was,” Gwilliams said. “It was a little white building and I wasn’t sure what was going to be in there, but when you open the doors it’s almost breathtaking.

You don’t expect it to be set up like that and look exactly how it did when they were in school. It’s kind of like a comfort zone.”

Gwilliams said the schoolhouse seems to serve as a memorial to Marshall’s humble beginnings as a one-room school in a little Methodist Church that formerly stood on the site of Old Main, a part of history she learned while volunteering.

“It shows us where we’ve come from, how Marshall started out as one school and how it’s grown into this entire university, with students all over the world coming to it,” Gwilliams said. “If we don’t realize what we’ve come from,

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then we’re not going see what we’re going to be able to get into in the future. We need people that’ll care about it and keep it going for everyone to see it in the future.”

Lutz said the schoolhouse, while not originally a part of the university, serves as a testament to Marshall’s pre-Civil War history and the history of education in West Virginia overall.

“It’s a reminder of the importance of teachers and community and the heritage of a bygone day when grades one through eight were included in that one school,” Lutz said.

“Every hill and holler had a one-room school.”

Lutz said the schoolhouse is

in need of more attention from the campus community for it to serve its purpose.

“It’s a shame we don’t get enough publicity about how unique it is,” Lutz said. “Anything and everything to make it more visible to not just the campus but the community is beneficial.”

Students interested in serving as a greeter at the schoolhouse may contact Ring or Hermansdorfer on weekdays in the office of Student Affairs room 2W38 on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center.

Rebecca Turnbull can be contacted at turnbull4@ marshall.edu.

Job-A-Palooza connects students with potential employers

By BAILY TURNER

THE PARTHENON Marshall University Career Services Center hosted Job-a-Palooza Wednesday.

The Memorial Student Center was filled with 26 representatives from various businesses and organizations in the community.

Rychelle Moses represented Huntington’s Branches Domestic Violence Shelter and said college students make great employees.

“College students are generally a

really good demographic because they’re younger and typically very social,” Moses said. “College aged students are usually easy to talk to and get along with because they’re trying to get through schooling and start their careers.”

Each business had a table with information packets and job applications ready for students to fill out.

Senior Lisa Fry said students should not miss out on opportunities like Job-A-Palooza.

“It is an excellent opportunity to

market yourself,” Fry said. “Anytime Marshall offers an opportunity such as this, it’s important for college students to take that opportunity.”

Fry said job fairs are meant to make the hunt for a job easier for students.

“There’s no other place you’re going to go that’s going to have several numbers of employers available for you at one time,” Fry said. “You don’t have to drive to every business, they’re all right here. You can find what you like and what you’re

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interested in immediately.”

Representative from the Autism Services Center Lisa Boster said the businesses that participated in Job-A-Palooza provided great opportunities to students and understood the struggles of going to school and keeping a job.

“Most of our employees start out as Marshall students and we work around students’ schedules,” Boster said.

Positions offered range from permanent part-time, seasonal

part-time and internship opportunities, but no on-campus employers participated.

“I would encourage everyone to go and take advantage of these opportunities,” Fry said. “Even if you have a job you love, go because you never know who’s going to be there or if you’ll find something you like even better.”

Job-A-Palooza was open to students, alumni and faculty.

Baily Turner can be contacted at turner206@marshall.edu.

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Marshall softball edged by nationallyMarshall ranked Kentucky in defensive showdown softball

upcoming games 3/19 @ North Texas- 2 p.m.

3/19 @ North Texas- 4 p.m.

3/20 @ North Texas- 1 p.m.

3/22 vs. Ohio- 2 p.m.

3/22 vs. Ohio- 4 p.m.

3/23 vs. Radford- 2 p.m.

3/23 vs. Radford- 4 p.m.

3/29 vs. St. Francis- 2 p.m.

3/29 vs. St. Francis- 4 p.m.

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Marshall softball players give out high-fives after a run scores in a game against UTEP last weekend.

By DANIELLE WRIGHT

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University softball team lost to the University of Kentucky Wildcats 1-0 Thursday in the final inning of action.

With two outs and two strikes in the top of the seventh inning, Kentucky shortstop Christian Jones lined a home run off Marshall pitcher Jordan Dixon for the lone run of the game to move the No. 15-ranked Wildcats to a 23-3 overall record for the season.

The Herd went three up, three down in the bottom half of the inning as it grounded out twice and struck out looking for the game’s final out.

Despite allowing go-ahead home run in her final inning, Dixon had a seasoned game allowing only four hits and recording four strikeouts over the course of 24 batters faced. However, Dixon said the lost was gut wrenching and she can improve her play going forward.

“It feels very very bad to lose like this,” Dixon said.

“I feel like I can always play better.”

Getting base runners was a struggle throughout the contest for both teams as sturdy fielding on each side backed up strong pitching.

Marshall sophomore left fielder Jordan Colliflower managed to get a hit in despite the challenging defense along with catcher Taylor McCord.

MU softball head coach achieves milestone wins mark with 500th victory

By CHRISTIAN HISMAN

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University softball team has had a lot of success over the past few years and head coach Shonda Stanton is one of the primary reasons.

Now in her 17th season as Marshall softball’s coach, Stanton picked up her 500th career win with the program in last weekend’s series against the University of Texas at El Paso.

“I think the fun thing about reaching a millstone is you all stay in touch and you hear from people you haven’t heard from in a while,” Stanton said.

Stanton’s impact has extended beyond the program itself, as her influence has resonated with her players as individuals.

“She has taught me a lot from the day I came in as a freshman to now as a senior,” senior infielder Katalin Lucas said. “You can tell she knows the game very well.”

Stanton said she has a steadfast commitment to the game and said it’s that mindset that has brought consistent success to the program.

“I’ve never walked in any limitations,” Stanton said. “I have always felt like ‘let’s stick to the process and enjoy the journey and commit to winning each day.’”

Stanton said it’s difficult sometimes, however, as a coach

to stop and appreciate how well the team is playing because of the focus that is put on the next game.

“The most challenging part is taking time to enjoy the journey,” Stanton said. “I think early on in my career I focused on winning and losing too much.”

Stanton has abided by her words according to Lucas, who said one her coach’s best qualities is the encouragement she provides to the players.

“She motivates us by talking scouting reports,” Lucas said.

“She is just trying to be positive for us and that helps the players out a lot.”

Stanton said she expects her players in return to be dedicated and have a passion for the game.

“We want the players to have self-discipline,” Stanton said.

“We want them to love to play, and we ask them to bring their best every game.”

Coach Stanton and the team will be back on the diamond 2 p.m. Saturday when it takes on the University of North Texas on the road.

Christian Hisman can be contacted at hisman@marshall.edu.

Colliflower said although things were difficult at the plate, she felt the Herd gave the Wildcats all it could handle.

“I feel like we came out very strong and kept up with them,” Colliflower said. “It was a battle of pitchers. We knew it was going to come down to that one hit. Them being a top 25 team, this is good for us; we’re going back to C-USA play against teams that aren’t top 25.”

The Herd will begin a three-game series with conference foe University of North Texas 2 p.m. Saturday in Denton Texas.

Danielle Wright can be contacted at wright317@marshall.edu.

4/2 @ UAB- 2 p.m.

4/2 @ UAB- 4 p.m.

4/3 @ UAB- 1 p.m.

4/6 @ Wright State- 4 p.m.

4/6 @ Wright State- 6 p.m.

4/9 vs. Charlotte- 1 p.m.

Herd women’s hoops takes on rival Ohio in NIT THE PARTHENON Marshall University women’s basketball will look to keep its season alive 7 p.m.

Thursday when in heads to Athens, Ohio to face off against rival Ohio University in the NIT Tournament.

Marshall earned its NIT bid after winning a pair of games in the Conference USA Tournament against Florida International University and Western Kentucky University before bowing out in the tournaLEXI BROWNING|THE PARTHENON ment semifinals Senior forward Leah Scott drives past Middle Tennessee State’s Alex Johnson Friday in Marshall’s against eventual conference USA Tournament semifinals loss to the Blue Raiders. champion Middle program history to be named to two all- Black ranks second on the team in steals Tennessee State University.

The NIT berth is just the third post- conference teams for the Herd. and third in assists as well. season birth all time for the women’s Victrum led the team in minutes, Lampkins, who ranks second on the program. However, it’s the second steals and assists this season, while also team with 14.5 points per game, takes straight under head coach Matt Dan- ranking third on the team in scoring at more favorably to aggressively attackiel with the team participating in the 9.1 PPG. Victrum may be a bit hobbled ing the rim and getting to the foul line as Women’s Basketball Invitational last as she sprained her ankle in the team’s opposed to launching from 3. Lampkins season where it defeated Northern Ken- loss to Middle Tennessee State not more leads the team with 149 free throw attucky University before falling to Mercer than a week ago. Victrum returned to tempts on the season, 62 more than the University. the game after initially heading to the second-place Black.

In the matchup with Ohio, seniors locker room.

Ohio’s matchup with the Herd won’t Norrisha Victrum and Leah Scott will be While the Herd is led by its senior duo, be the first time its tangled with an opattempting to prolong their respective Ohio played its way to a 16-2 conference ponent from Conference USA this season careers donning the Kelly green. mark and a Mid-American Conference as the Bobcats defeated Middle TennesScott has posted career-high averages regular season title on the strength of see State 72-49 Dec. 29 in Athens.

By comparison, the Herd went 0-3 in points at 16.3 per game and re- senior guard Kiyanna Black and junior bounds at 6.6 per game. Her season-long wing Quiera Lampkins. against Middle Tennessee State this performance earned her a first-team Black led the Bobcats in scoring with season, losing 65-54 Jan. 28 in MurAll-Conference USA selection, adding to 18.1 PPG and was potent from beyond freesboro, Tennessee, 79-73 Feb. 27 in the second team selection she received the arc, where she’s connected on 115 Huntington and the aforementioned loss last season. Scott is the first player in 3-pointers over the course of the season. Friday in the conference tournament. page designed and edited by BRADLEY HELTZEL| heltzel1@marshall.edu

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The Constitution of the United States of America

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EDITORIAL

Idaho sheriff proves law enforcement still does not understand rape culture An Idaho sheriff said the rape kit system is unnecessary because most rape claims are false in response to a state legislative proposal to require rape kits to be collected after a sexual assault is reported, according to the Associated Press.

Bingham County Oregon sheriff Craig Rowland said the decision to test a rape kit should be left to law enforcement. Rowland also said most of the rapes reported to his unit are “actually consensual sex.”

Attitudes like this are prevalent in law enforcement and simply should not be. This, on top of the social stigma attached with sexual cases, is one of a plethora of reasons women are afraid to report sexual assault.

If women can’t trust law enforcement to take their sexual assault cases seriously, law enforcement are directly choosing the attackers’ side and allowing them to continue to get away with these crimes. According to a 2002 study, a serial offender commits nine out of 10 campus rapes.

If women were not afraid to report rapes, there would be fewer serial rapists, meaning

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Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland said most women make up rape accusations. fewer sexual assault cases.

Rape culture continues to prevail in the United States, as this Idaho sheriff so unabashedly displays. We as the most powerful first world nation, need to take a good look at the way our society views rape, because we’re not doing a good job if one out of every five women experiences sexual assault of some sort and less than half of those cases ever get reported. Only a smidgen of

those rapists ever see jail time.

Across the country, thousands of rape kits sit in storage untested, containing information that could send hundreds of rapists to jail, potentially saving more women from having to go through sexual assault.

The piece of legislation Rowland is against is to eliminate the bias in testing rape kits. Police forces are predominantly male. Men do not have the same

experiences with rape culture as women and thus occasionally cannot comprehend or react to sexual assault cases with proper sensitivity.

Law enforcement should be trained to be more sensitive to sexual assault victims and should be willing to investigate every case until it is proven to be a false claim, which cannot happen until a rape kit goes through testing.

STATE EDITORIAL

The Exponent Telegram on the legislative session For the second year in a row, the annual legislative session has ended with most of the pressing issues facing West Virginia left unresolved.

First and foremost, the state faces a massive budget shortfall that has only gotten worse in the past year.

In addition, key issues such as the State Road Fund, job creation, opioid drug abuse, the state’s stagnant economy and deteriorating infrastructure were chiefly ignored.

Unfortunately, the House Finance Committee waited until the last second to spring the second largest proposed tax increase in state history on the governor, the Senate and many committee members themselves.

The proposal relied heavily on taxing professional services for the first time, which is considered by most as anti-small business and a cost that ultimately is passed on to the consumer. The proposal died a quick death.

After nearly three hours of debate Friday, the House of Delegates finally passed, 61-38, its version of the state budget, setting the stage for a House-Senate budget conference that is expected to be contentious at best.

With no tax increases — House Finance Chairman Eric Nelson, R-Kanawha, told the Gazette-Mail there was no “bipartisan support” for any of the four tax proposals presented to the delegates — the House plan would close the massive budget shortfall by sweeping $72 million out of a variety of state agency accounts, raiding the state rainy-day reserve fund for a total of $31 million and imposing $17 million in additional state agency spending cuts on top of the 4.5

percent reductions in Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s budget.

But Tomblin was particularly critical of the House plan earlier last week, saying it is not wise to build the state’s budget on one-time sources of revenue, which he said would only put off the fiscal crisis for one year.

On Thursday, the Senate passed a budget document that includes funding mechanisms that have been soundly rejected by the House.

Both the House and Senate versions of the 2016-17 budget bill provide $43.5 million in general revenue and $24 million in special revenue to cover employees’ and retirees’ share of PEIA premium increases — increases necessary to avoid $120 million in benefit cuts in the form of higher co-pays, deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums for more than 230,000 people covered by the Public Employees Insurance Agency.

Legislative pundits are predicting that the Senate will refuse to concur with the House budget plan, now amended into Senate Bill 269, increasing the likelihood that Tomblin will call legislators into special session later this spring to come up with a 2016-17 budget.

Sadly, at a time when our state most needed our governor and legislative leadership to come together to address the most important issues facing our state, we continue to kick the budget can down the road.

Besides failing to address the state’s fiscal woes, Tomblin and the Legislature took no significant action to address the top five issues facing our state, according to a recent

Congressional Quarterly poll: No. 1 Transportation: Deteriorating highways, lack of sufficient road funds. A governor’s blue ribbon panel recently concluded that the state needs to double its current $1 billion-a-year outlay for highways to keep up with construction and maintenance needs.

No. 2 Jobs: Economy and loss of jobs. A downturn in the coal industry and an ongoing loss of manufacturing jobs have the state struggling with job creation issues.

The sharp downturn in coal is of particular concern.

No. 3 Crime: An epidemic of drug abuse.

State resources are overwhelmed by people abusing prescription drugs, opioids and heroin.

No. 4 Economy: Low workforce participation and educational attainment. West Virginia has among the lowest workforce participation and college graduation rates in the U.S., making it difficult to attract new business.

No. 5 Infrastructure: Water, sewer and power systems and antiquated aging utility infrastructure. In many parts of the state, poor infrastructure has resulted in increases in service disruptions and higher utility rates as companies attempt to upgrade their systems.

With a failed budget process and lack of action on these critical issues, it appears that Gov. Tomblin and the House and Senate leadership laid an egg this legislative session. At a critical time in our state’s history, that’s a major disappointment.

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Founding facts of St. Patrick's Day > St. Patrick's Day was founded in memorium of St. Patrick himself, a Roman citizen turned Irish holy figure.

> St. Patrick is credited with converting members of the Irish Druid population to christianity.

> The name Patricius is derived, meaning "father figure" in Latin.

> The inaugural St. Patrick's Day celebration took place in 1631 when the church started a feast in his honor.

*All information collected from TIME.

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French historians unveil WWII secret services' archives

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The files of a Nazi German officer, stored for years in the archives rooms of the medieval castle of Vincennes, are displayed in Vincennes, east of Paris, Wednesday.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS French historians on Wednesday unveiled secret services' archives from World War II that offer a unique insight into underground operations led by both the Nazis and the French resistance — along with the individual paths taken by thousands of agents,

including celebrities like French designer Coco Chanel.

Most of the letters, reports, cables and photos from the rival intelligence agencies of the French Resistance, the collaborationist Vichy regime and the German authorities remain unpublished. The documents, stored for years in the archives at the medieval castle of

Vincennes, east of Paris, have not been explored by historians until recently.

They include details of operations led by German spies hunting members of the French resistance, the secret activities of London-based Gen. Charles De Gaulle's government and efforts to track war criminals.

The French secret services also had files on celebrities they deemed suspicious.

Designer Coco Chanel's file includes a note written in Paris in November 1944.

"A source in Madrid informed us that Madam Chanel was in 1942-43 the mistress and agent of Baron Guenter von Dinklage. Dinklage used to be an attache at the German embassy in 1935. He worked as a propagandist and we suspect him of being a (German) agent," the document says.

According to Frederic Queguineur, in charge of the secret services' archives, the file shows that Coco Chanel was documented as an agent by the Nazi intelligence

organization, the Abwehr.

"From the German point of view, they registered her, so it means she potentially could be a source of information, fulfill a mission, work for them. But from her point of view, we don't know if she was really aware of that," he told the AP. Following a government decision in 1999, hundreds of boxes were given to the defense ministry's archives with no classification system — an intelligence technique so no foreign country would get easy access to secret documents.

Only half of the archives have now been inventoried.

"We have been captivated by the importance ... and the richness of these archives, the feeling, in some way, to find documents that had never been seen for 70 years," Queguineur said.

Once the archives have been identified, the public can get access to them but as they are not digitized, people need to go to the Chateau de Vincennes.

The secret services' archives include German documents seized by the French at the end of the war and thousands of individual files of members of the French resistance and investigation files of suspected collaborators.

Historian Thomas Fontaine stressed that history is more complex than a complete division between the ones who resisted and the ones who betrayed, giving the example of a regional Resistance group leader who later served the Germans.

"It's very clear in the files of the Gestapo that they detain his wife and daughter in order to make him talk," he said.

Lots of notes provide personal details on people involved in French or German operations. De Gaulle's intelligence services in 1943 wrote a note on American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker, who helped his Free French effort.

"She demonstrates a tremendous devotion, she is totally

unselfish. Keen and vibrant spirit, she is able to render us great services," it said.

Many Resistance members told their stories to the French intelligence services at the end of the war. Historian Sebastien Albertelli is starting research on some 600 women who served in uniform in De Gaulle's army.

"I can hear their voices, I can let them talk (with these documents)," he said.

The archives also include private documents, such as a moving handwritten letter from De Gaulle's niece Genevieve to her "dear uncle Charles" in which she seeks advice on the better way to serve in May 1943.

Yet historians noted that some files are incomplete, with some documents having probably been purged to keep some details secret. Those appear to include the file of former French President Francois Mitterrand, who served under the Vichy regime before joining the Resistance.

Body Shots confronts shaming

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TOP LEFT: Ariel Bárcenas takes a marker to his skin during "Cake" at Body Shots IX: Body Shaming in the Francis Booth Experimental Theatre Wednesday.

BOTTOM LEFT: Regan Martinez leads a squad of rollers in performing "Full Contact" during Body Shots XI: Body Shaming in the Francis Booth Experimental Theatre Wednesday.

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TOP RIGHT: Ariel Bárcenas strips down to perform "Cake" as he second act of Body Shots IX: Body Shaming in the Francis Booth Experimental Theatre Wednesday.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Sara "Rat Race" Lane relays her experience with body consciousness and her return to roller derby during Body Shots IX: Body Shaming in the Francis Booth Experimental Theatre, Wednesday.