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An Appalachian weekend:

Appalachian Studies Conference draws scholars to Huntington PHOTOS BY JESSICA ROSS | THE PARTHENON

(LEFT) Silas House gives the keynote address.

(RIGHT) Berea College students play traditional Appalachian instruments during the lecture Friday in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse.

“Too often we as a region sit by and allow discrimination to happen and we have to stop that. It happens blatantly, and perhaps more troubling, most often it happens suddenly. We can change this.”

-Silas House

Diversity in Appalachia addressed in keynote lecture

By JESSICA ROSS

THE PARTHENON Silas House delivered the keynote presentation Friday at the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse as part of the opening day of the 37th annual Appalachian Studies Conference.

House is the National Endowment for the Humanities chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College in Berea, Ky. and his play, “This is My Heart for You,” was the inspiration for this year’s conference theme, New Appalachia.

House’s play is based on hate crimes that occurred in eastern Kentucky a few years ago against gay, interracial and lesbian couples, and a piece of the play was performed during the keynote presentation by students of Berea College.

House was also the keynote speaker of the ASA conference the last time it was at Marshall University in 2008.

“It is a daunting task to speak in front of your peers, and this is my second time being the

keynote for the ASA conference,” House said. “Both times I really wanted to make sure I was talking about an issue that really had an impact on the audience.”

House opened his speech with an explanation of the New Appalachia.

House spoke about diversity. He said that although people want to believe they accept diversity, there is still work to be done and one thing that can change is being more welcoming.

“If my speech tonight has one main statement I hope you will leave with, it is this,” House said.

“Too often we as a region sit by and allow discrimination to happen and we have to stop that. It happens blatantly, and perhaps more troubling, most often it happens suddenly. We can change this.”

Many students in Appalachia feel different or separated from the communities where they were raised, he said. Time and time again it is due to race and sexuality.

One way House said he believes the change can happen is though education in the classroom.

It is often not discussed in classrooms because of the religiosity aspects that surround the discussion, and it is for that reason it should be raised in classrooms, House said. It is a structured way to discuss something that may not be discussed otherwise.

During the keynote, House described the stories of the

Scholars reaching out to community for collaborative ethnography project

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Johnny Staats, left, Ron Sowell, John Ingrahm and Butch Osborne perform in front of the Appalachian Children’s Choir Saturday at the Joan C Edwards Playhouse.

‘Mountain Stage’ musicians perform with children’s choir

By JESSICA ROSS

THE PARTHENON Ron Sowell and special guests performed Saturday evening at the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse during the Appalachian Studies Conference.

The concert, entitled, “New Appalachian Voices: An Evening with NPR and Mountain Stage’s Ron Sowell and Special Guests.”

Sowell has played with Mountain Stage 30 of the 31 years it has existed. He opened the concert with, “Sixteen Tons,” with guitarist Ryan Kennedy and bassist John Inghram.

“It’s always fun to play and when somebody offers the opportunity,” Sowell said. “You can’t just gather these guys together for just anything.

They’re all busy and you want to make it special if it’s a special opportunity or a special gig.”

The Sea The Sea performed during the concert. The Sea The Sea is the singer-songwriter duo of Chuck Costa and Mira Stanley. They came together to form The Sea The Sea

about two and a half years ago.

Stanley is Sowell’s daughter.

“We met at a music festival that Ron was a part of and I was a contestant in a songwriting contest, and Mira was a volunteer and was the stage manager,” Costa said. “We met there and sang together the first time, and then it took a few years for us to reconnect.”

Costa and Stanley performed music from their debut CD, “Love We Are We Love.”

“Our set is usually like a third of the songs I’ve written, a third of the songs Mira’s written and then a third we’ve co-written together,” Costa said.

“We do all the arrangements and things together so even if one of us starts a song, they sort of still feel like songs we’ve written,” Stanley said.

After The Sea The Sea performed, Sowell returned to the stage with special guests, Johnny Staats and Butch Osborne. They played three songs with the Appalachian Children’s Choir, which included “Country Roads” and “Shenandoah.”

Johnny Staats, who plays

mandolin, and Butch Osborne, who plays banjo, are from the group Johnny Staats and the Delivery Boys.

“We play anywhere we can,” Staats said. “We’ve played quite a few places. Butch and myself, we’ve played overseas, we’ve played the Grand Ole Opry four or five times and with several symphonies.”

Selina Midkiff is the founding director of the Appalachian Children’s Choir.

“I’m not sure the children understand now the opportunities they get to perform with folks like this who are extraordinary and amazing musicians,” Midkiff said. “They will one day.”

The Appalachian Children’s Choir is 23 years old and

includes five choirs located in Charleston. Two additional satellite programs are located in Mason County and Logan County. The children are from grades K-12. The group that performed for the conference was part of one of the groups from Charleston.

The final set was performed

by Sowell, Staats, Osborne, Kennedy, Inghram, and Chris Stockwell on dobro. They performed several songs and closed the concert with, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken.” They received a standing ovation, and played an additional song as an encore for the crowd.

Jessica Ross can be contacted at jessica.ross@ marshall.edu.

hate crimes his plays were based on, and referred to them as the year of hate.

Readings from several poems related to this issue were read, some of which inspired parts of his play.

The keynote closed with House inviting the audience to sing along or dance while the performers from Berea College performed.

Jessica Ross can be contacted at jessica.ross@ marshall.edu.

THE PARTHENON Eric Lassiter and Elizabeth Campbell presented the third plenary of the three plenaries offered during the Appalachian Studies Conference this weekend at Marshall University.

Lassiter is the director of the graduate humanities program for Marshall at the South Charleston campus, and has a joint appointment in the College of Liberal Arts and in the College of Education and Professional Development.

Campbell is assistant professor of elementary and secondary education in the COEPD at Marshall’s South Charleston campus.

The three plenaries of the conference were each devoted to a different aspect of work in the Appalachian Studies Association: the arts, community/activism and research/ scholarship.

Lassiter and Campbell’s plenary, Collaborative Ethnography, Collaborative Research: Co-imagining New Possibilities for Appalachian Studies, represented scholarship. The plenary dealt with cross-disciplinary trends in community-based research.

Campbell said being selected to do a plenary was an honor. It was also a chance to have a discussion with others interested in the topic.

The presentation began by defining collaborative ethnography.

“The collaborative research we are talking about is a kind of research which scholars and community members or community experts work together to research and write scholarship,” Lassiter said.

One area of the U.S. where a tremendous amount of research has been conducted is Muncy, Ind. The area is often referred to as Middletown, because it is thought to represent mid-America or the Midwest.

Lassiter and Campbell found a hole in the research that had already been conducted. A lot of research had been done on or about the community, but nothing had been done that involved the researchers and community working together.

Lassiter and Campbell spoke about their experience working with the community while conducting the research, and then asked everyone in the room to break into groups and discuss using collaborative ethnography for research.

After a discussion in the individual groups, everyone was brought back together, and the plenary closed with a room discussion on the topic so everyone had the chance to share their ideas and learn from one another.

Jessica Ross can be contacted at jessica.ross@ marshall.edu.

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Poverty simulation helps Marshall students reach a new level of empathy

By MALAK KHADER

THE PARTHENON Marshall University medicine, pharmacy and undergraduate students learned what it is like to be completely disadvantaged when trying to make ends meet Friday at a poverty simulation at the Marshall University Foundation Hall.

The event was first opened to medicine and pharmacy students but was later opened to the rest of Marshall’s students.

Dr. Shelvy Campbell, assistant dean for diversity for the School of Medicine and School of

Pharmacy, said she wanted the students to get a good feel for the people who are struggling so they can be conscientious when attending to patients who face similar obstacles.

“My goal is for them to understand the plight of someone else,” Campbell said. “I wanted the students to be put in a situation they have never been in.

As future physicians and future pharmacists, they’re going to be dealing with individuals that are going to have a hard time paying for their medicine and probably may not show up for

their doctor’s appointments because they can’t get to the office.

I wanted them to get a feel for that, so as they move out with their humanism in medicine they can be more empathetic to their future patients.”

Dr. Kevin Yingling, dean of the School of Pharmacy, played an active role as a health care provider in the poverty simulation.

“My role was to gauge how many would actually come to the health care clinic,” Yingling said. “Because of the prioritization of really essential needs,

as important as healthcare is, it becomes very minor and unfortunately that would force everyone to have emergency care when they would least expect it.”

Reggie Jones, executive director of Pride Community Services based in Logan County, played another active role in the simulation. Jones’s role was to facilitate the simulation and to bring discussions forth during the debriefing session at the end of the simulation.

“We simulated one month of families living in poverty,”

Jones said. “It was broken down into four 15 minute weeks and throughout that month, families had to deal with the day-to-day issues that real life families faced with poverty have to deal with.

Some examples of that would be securing child care, trying to make ends meet, and looking for jobs.”

After going through the simulation, students said they had a greater appreciation for the people who at or below poverty level. First year medical student Frank Fofie from Maryland said throughout the experience, he

had trouble finding the assistance he needed.

“I felt like wherever I went, I constantly wanted and needed someone to help me,” Fofie said.

“The main problem was finding help, sometimes I found it and sometimes I didn’t.”

Fofie also said that with his future career, he hopes to be able to do whatever he can to help someone who is struggling because you never know what someone could be going through.

Malak Khader can be contacted at khader4@marshall.edu.

2nd trial pits Earthquakes leave properties damaged, residents shaken in Southern California Apple vs.

Samsung in patent dispute

By LOUIS SAHAGUN, PALOMA ESQUIVEL and CATHERINE SAILLANT

By HOWARD MINTZ

SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (MCT) The two warring titans of the smartphone and tablet industry will be back in federal court on Monday, squaring off in another trial involving Apple’s claims that Samsung’s smartphones and tablets continue to trample on the patented features of the iPhone and iPad. The case will begin with jury selection, and the legal teams for the two companies —ware expected to make their opening statements on Tuesday.

With billions of dollars at stake, as well as bragging rights to technology that has transformed everyday life, legal experts and market watchers expect close attention on the trial, albeit perhaps with less zeal than the first showdown between them in 2012. That first round went to Apple, which secured a jury verdict finding that Samsung violated its patents on older lines of devices and owed nearly $1 billion in damages.

“I guess they feel like they have to finish what they started,” said William Stofega, an analyst with the International Data Corp.

The second trial centers on Apple’s claims that more recent lines of Samsung products, such as the Galaxy S3 and the Galaxy Tab 2, violate five of Apple’s patents, including the Siri voice and slide-to-unlock features.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has already sided with Apple on

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LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) When the first jolt hit, Fullerton Mayor Pro Tem Greg Sebourn was on the couch getting his 4- and 8-year-old daughters ready for bed.

As Sebourn rushed his screaming girls toward the door, another violent lurch knocked the mayor and one of his daughters to the floor.

Sebourn skinned his knee and his daughter bumped her head on a door jamb.

On Saturday, the mayor was thankful their injuries weren’t worse. “It’s the strongest jolt I’ve ever felt, and I’ve been in the same town for 41 years,” he said.

A series of temblors, punctuated by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake Friday night near La Habra, did more than rattle nerves. Residents in some areas of the hardest-hit communities of La Habra, Brea and Fullerton spent Saturday dealing with no water service, spotty power, crumbled brick walls and other damage.

They were the lucky ones.

Authorities estimated more than 100 people were displaced by the quake at least for a night and some may not be able to return home for days.

In Fullerton, 83 people were displaced after firefighters deemed six residences and 20 apartment units too damaged to occupy. City building officials must survey the structures one by one and clear them before residents can return, said Tom Schultz, deputy chief of operations for the Fullerton Fire Department.

All of those displaced in Fullerton chose to stay with family and friends instead of going to

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ABOVE: Transportation crew members and Brea, Calif., police officers Saturday inspect a BMW that was overturned by a rock slide in Carbon Canyon after a 5.1 earthquake Friday.

LEFT: Andrew Lashbrook fills a jerry can at a ruptured water main in Fullerton, Calif., Saturday. A 5.1 earthquake Friday caused the break, leaving the neighborhood without water.

an emergency shelter, Shultz said. In La Habra, authorities said 38 people, including seven children, spent the night at a Red Cross shelter.

“We were told many of them were living in a building that was uninhabitable,” Red Cross spokeswoman Meredith Mills said.

In Buena Park, a 60-year-old

man was transported to an area hospital with minor injuries after a TV toppled on him, Schultz said.

For most, the biggest headache was clearing away the aftermath of the quake, which was preceded and followed by a series of smaller nerve-rattling temblors that continued into Saturday. About 2:30 p.m.,

a shallow magnitude 4.1 earthquake hit the nearby Rowland Heights area but no damage or major injuries were reported.

Friday night’s shaking left scattered damage across the La Habra area, near the quake’s epicenter, hitting houses, apartments and businesses as well as street lights that were left dangling precariously.

“From 20 to 30 businesses suffered broken plate-glass windows, many of them along

Whittier Boulevard,” La Habra Police Sgt. David Crivelli said.

“There were also some apartments with stucco damage and leaking water.”

By 10:30 p.m. Friday, residents had been evacuated from apartment units in the 2500 block of West Whittier Boulevard, the 400 block of North Idaho Street and the 700 block of West 1st Avenue. An L.A. Fitness center near Imperial

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MU Chamber Choir finishes concert tour in Huntington

By AMY MCCALLISTER-ETHEL

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Josh Stewart performs a horn solo during the Marshall University Chamber Choir concert Sunday at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

THE PARTHENON After a successful concert tour, The Marshall University Chamber Choir gave a one–time performance Sunday at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

The free concert featured the same compositions from the recent tour.

The MU Chamber Choir is a select ensemble whose participants come from various backgrounds. Many of the group’s members are preparing for a future in music performance or music education, although membership is open to any student from Marshall by audition.

This ensemble is directed by David Castleberry, Marshall University College of Arts and Media associate dean and director of choral activities. Castleberry said that the choir recently gave seven concerts in five days for high schools and churches in West Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia.

“We’re just back from a successful

concert tour,” Castleberry said. “This a chance to share that program with the home folks.”

The program’s centerpiece was “Hymn to St. Cecilia” by Benjamin Britten, a central figure of 20th century British classical music. After the choir performed this piece Sunday, Castleberry publicly praised the ensemble and stated this piece required a great deal of concentration.

Christa Navy, freshman music education major from Huntington, said she wanted to join the chamber choir because it had such a good reputation.

“I wanted to get as much music experience as I could,” Navy said. “This experience will teach me what a real choir should sound like. When I get to teach my own choir someday I’ll know exactly what to do.”

Josh Stewart, sophomore music education major from Lucasville, Ohio, said he has always enjoyed singing from a young age and his voice teacher, a graduate of

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Marshall, strongly encouraged him to audition for chamber choir.

“I talked to Dr. Castleberry and got to sit in on a rehearsal,” Stewart said. “I instantly fell in love with the music and I just wanted to be a part of it.”

Stewart was a featured horn soloist at Sunday’s concert and also expressed excitement about directing his own choir one day.

“I still get kind of nervous when I think about actually teaching and being the one in charge,” Stewart said. “But it just gets me really excited to work with a bunch of individuals and put together some beautiful music.”

The MU Chamber Choir has been featured on both West Virginia Public Radio and West Virginia Public Television. Its performances feature a variety of music, from classical pieces over the past five centuries, to more recently composed pieces.

Amy McCallister-Ethel can be contacted at mccallister9@marshall.edu.

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Herd baseball splits shortened series with Tulane

By DEREK MAY

THE PARTHENON On a dreary Saturday morning, the Marshall University baseball team was able to pull out a 2-1 victory in the second game of the three game series. The game was suspended once the seventh inning concluded due to inclement weather.

The game was originally scheduled for a noon start time, but due to forecast predictions throughout the day, the game was moved to 10 a.m.

Junior pitcher Matt Margaritonda gave the Herd a strong outing going six and two-third innings, striking out eight Tulane batters and only giving up one earned run on three hits.

“I was able to utilize my off speed stuff very well today,” Margaritonda said. “At times the ball would get wet because of the rain, but my defense definitely stepped up and helped me out of a few jams.”

The Herd was able to get on the board first in the bottom of the third inning when freshman Corey Bird reached base on a fielder’s choice. He then reached second base on a passed ball. Junior infielder Sergio Leon was able to score Bird on an RBI single to give the herd a 1-0 lead.

Margaritonda went 1-2-3 in the fourth inning, but the Green Wave was able to get on the board in the top of the fifth. Leadoff batter of the inning Richard Carthon reached base on a single back up the middle. Carthon later scored on a base hit by Stephan Alemais that was able to get by a diving Escobedo allowing Williams to reach third base.

The Herd threatened again in the bottom of the sixth as Bird started off the inning with a base hit to shallow center field dropping right in front of Tulane’s John Gandolfo. He then moved to second off a Leon sacrifice bunt down the first base line. After a Dundon groundout, Chase Vogelbach moved Bird to third on an infield single, but left the runners stranded, Escobedo ended the inning with a groundout.

In the top of the seventh, Margaritonda exited the game after getting the first two batters out. Sophomore pitcher Caleb Ross came in to end the inning getting the final batter to fly out to second baseman Andrew Dundon.

Marshall took the lead again in the bottom of the seventh when outfielder Robert Fajardo scores Aaron Bossi from second base on a RBI double to left field. Bossi reached base after leading off the inning with a double down the third base line.

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Transfers Williams, Manning find home with Herd

By WILL VANCE

SPORTS EDITOR Members of the Marshall University football team take many paths to become a part of the Thundering Herd. Some follow family ties, others form a bond with a particular coach while others simply find in their hearts the kelly green and white is for them.

For two of the newest members of the Herd, their route included stops at other universities before transferring to Marshall.

Redshirt cornerback Donaldven Manning joins the Herd after spending his freshman season at Virginia Tech, while redshirt sophomore defensive end Ricardo Williams transferred to Marshall from Miami (Fla.). Both sat out last season due to the transfer, but are practicing this spring in preparation for becoming eligible to play in the fall.

Williams said part of his decision to come to Marshall came from being comfortable with the defensive schemes run by Marshall defensive coordinator Chuck Heater.

“When I left Miami I looked for somewhere I would be comfortable playing as far as defensive scheme and how they would use me because there’s a certain way I like to play,” Williams said. “I looked at [Marshall’s] defense and I liked it.”

Marshall’s wealth of players from Florida also factored into William’s decision.

“I know a lot of guys from back in Miami that came up here,” Williams said. “I felt more comfortable here than somewhere I didn’t really know anybody.”

Williams was also recruited by the Herd when he came out of high school in 2011.

Marshall head coach Doc Holliday said the addition of Williams to the Herd’s pass rush is crucial to the success of the unit.

“One of the issues we had coming in was that we had to develop some pass rush,” Holliday said. “Having Ricardo out there in addition to Ra’Shawde [Myers] and Gary [Thompson] and some of those other guys, I think we have some guys that

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can rush the passer, and we need that.”

Manning joined the Herd after getting extensive playing time with the Hokies in 2012, recording four tackles and an interception. Manning said that along with the connection to his native Miami, the Herd’s coaching staff was a major factor in his decision.

“Doc is very good at recruiting, he’s someone you can relate to,” Manning said, “and coach Heater is a great coach.

When I came here on my visit I just felt at home and I knew this was where I wanted to be.”

Manning said Heater’s defensive style, which emphasizes simplicity, instinct and quick reaction, is a change from what he played at Virginia Tech.

“It’s very different,” Manning said. “At Virginia Tech we played a very complex defense

CHUCK HEATER Herd defensive coordinator

that took a lot of thought.”

Heater said though transfers can be a mixed bag, Williams and Manning have proven to be good pick-ups.

“Sometimes you don’t know the full story about why guys transfer,” Heater said, “but in this case both of these guys are good guys and good citizens and we like adding those guys to our team.”

Excitement around the Thundering Herd is running high after a 10-4 season and a 2013 Military Bowl win, but for Manning, everything is about taking advantage of his opportunity with the Herd.

“Right now I’m not really focused on the expectations,” Manning said. “This is my second chance and not too many people are allowed a second chance, so I just see it as a blessing.”

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“Marshall is a great place to be. It’s surrounded by a great community and everyone here is family,” Manning said. “I love it here.”

Will Vance can be contacted at vance162@marshall.edu.

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Redshirt sophomore transfer cornerback Donaldven Manning (29) watches a demonstration by wide receivers coach Mike Furrey during practice March 29, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.

Herd softball struggles against SEC opponent HERDZONE.COM Marshall University softball (10-23) was defeated by Mississippi State (28-10) in a five-inning contest that ended via run rule on Sunday in the MSU Softball Stadium.

The Thundering Herd’s junior Emileigh Cooper recorded the first Marshall hit of the day and run of the weekend in the top of the second with an off-the-wall single – her first RBI of the season.

The Bulldogs were the first to score in the last game between the two new opponents. After a strikeout, freshman Jordan Dixon surrendered a walk, single and hit by pitch to load the bases.

A two-RBI single dropped into right field to give the Bulldogs an early 2-0 lead.

Freshman Lindsey Fadnek inherited a bases-loaded,

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one-out situation in the bottom of the first, but two more runs would score before the Herd gets out of the inning, 4-0.

Marshall recorded its first run of the weekend with an RBI single from Cooper, to score pinch running freshman Jessica Watts, 4-1.

After a scoreless third inning, the Bulldogs struck again in the bottom of the fourth.

With five hits, a sacrifice fly, a drawn walk, a hit by pitch, an intentional walk and a Marshall error, Mississippi State was able to load the bases four times and score five runs in the fourth inning, 9-1.

The game came to a close in the top of the fifth via mercy rule, after Marshall left its fifth runner stranded on base.

Dixon (7-15) suffered the loss. The Herd was outhit 7-to-2 and committed one

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error to the Bulldogs none.

The Herd will head back to Huntington to face Radford in a midweek contest April 2, before returning to Conference USA action against Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro, Tenn. April 5-6.

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UConn roars back, beats Michigan State to reach Final Four

By DOM AMORE

THE HARTFORD COURANT (MCT) Conference realignment rocked the landscape, the man who built the program into a national power retired on the eve of a season and the NCAA forced them to spend last March in postseason purgatory.

But the UConn brand in men’s basketball has endured, just as coach Kevin Ollie has always promised it would.

Their former rivals are going to the ACC or Big Ten, but the Huskies are going back to the Final Four.

UConn secured the trip to Texas with a 60-54 win over Michigan State in the East Regional final at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. The second No. 7 seed ever to reach a Final Four (Virginia, 1984), the Huskies came from behind and rode the huge crowd of UConn fans that found their

way into the Garden to outhustle the favored Spartans, to win despite shooting just 34 percent from the floor.

“For us to win here, at Madison Square Garden, is something special,” Ollie said.

“We going back to Texas (for the Final Four). How ’bout them Huskies.”

Trailing by nine early in the second half, all the important statistical trends going against them, the Huskies reached down and found one more surge. They did it with defense, holding Michigan State scoreless for nearly six minutes and regained control of the game with an 11-0 run.

Shabazz Napier began that run with a three-point goal and shook off slow shooting stretch to score 25 points with six assists. DeAndre Daniels had 12 points and eight

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Huntington has a chance for Wu-Tang art The Huntington renaissance is real, and anyone living in the city for more than five years can see that. As city officials and Mayor Steve Williams continue the push to mold Huntington into a full-fledged arts community, fixtures like the Huntington Museum of Art and Marshall University must begin making moves to secure more elite projects while grassroots art continues to sprout.

If established institutions like the above will act as the cutting edge for the Huntington arts movement, it may be time to consider “bringing da ruckus.”

That’s right, if Huntington wants a quick way to bring in droves of modern music lovers from a national crowd, it should look no further than the Wu-Tang Clan’s newest, most bizarre marketing project.

According to Forbes magazine, the

legendary hip-hop supergroup will be writing its next chapter in museums across the country by releasing a “piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of music,” according to member Robert Diggs, better known by his stage name, RZA. The concept: The Wu will produce only one single copy of its new album, “The Wu: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” and send the one-of-a-kind album on a tour of museums across the country. Patrons would pay $30-$50 (after thoroughly screening for recording devices) to experience the exhibit as if they were viewing a rare piece of high art.

Ever since its debut album “36 Chambers: Enter the Wu-Tang,” the group has infused its music with themes of mythology and Eastern themes, regularly

sampling audio from Hong Kong cinema in tracks. The goal of creating only one album, according to RZA, was to allow the value of an entire release to be boiled down into a single artifact, likening it to “the scepter of an Egyptian king.”

The hype this stunt has generated already promises fans will come, and because it’s been less than a week since the announcement was made, Huntington still has time to jockey for a shot at it. With the Huntington Museum of Art less than five minutes from Interstate 64 and Huntington being the largest metro between Pittsburgh, Columbus and Lexington, it’s worth a shot. If we can get on the list of cities this soon-to-be rap relic is to visit, it would help the Huntington arts and music community grow into nothing to be messed with.

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NATIONAL EDITORIAL

Another ill-advised legal challenge to Obamacare LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Opponents of the Affordable Care Act have mounted the most far-reaching legal challenge to the law since the (unsuccessful) attempt to have its insurance mandate declared unconstitutional. At issue is whether the subsidies the law provides to help lowerincome adults buy policies will be available in the 34 states with federally launched insurance exchanges, rather than just the state-operated ones. The Internal Revenue Service ruled that any American who meets the income limits can qualify for a subsidy; the plaintiffs say subsidies should be available only in the 16 states that set up their own exchanges. The latter interpretation, frankly, is ridiculous.

The law requires every state to have an insurance-buying exchange for individuals and small businesses, but it gave state officials a choice: They could set up the exchange themselves, or they could leave that work to the federal government. The law also requires virtually all adult Americans to obtain

coverage, starting this year, but provides subsidies on a sliding scale to lower-income earners who buy policies through a state exchange. Those who could afford a policy but don’t buy one are subject to financial penalties, as will be many businesses if they don’t provide affordable insurance to their fulltime workers after this year.

On Tuesday, a federal appeals panel in Washington will hear Halbig v. Sebelius, a challenge to the IRS’ ruling brought by four individuals and two businesses from states with federally run exchanges. The IRS’ ruling hurts them, the individuals argue, because the subsidies enable them to afford insurance, thus making them subject to penalties if they refuse to sign up. Just pause for a moment and ponder the irony of that complaint. The businesses, meanwhile, argue that the ruling subjects them to penalties if they don’t offer coverage to their workers.

The plaintiffs seized on a provision in the law that says subsidies should be calculated

based on the cost of insurance purchased at “an exchange established by the state,” asserting that this limits subsidies to those 16 states running their own exchanges. But as a lower court ruled in January, they ignore substantial evidence in the law that Congress intended all state exchanges to be treated the same way, regardless of how they came into being. The law is inartfully worded, but it’s clear from the eligibility requirements and other provisions that Congress intended the subsidies to be available across the country, not denied to millions of lower-income households simply because their states didn’t support Obamacare.

Critics of the president assert that the IRS’ ruling is just one example of how the administration has abused its rule-making authority to unilaterally rewrite laws and defy the will of Congress. This case, however, is more an example of how the Affordable Care Act’s opponents will go to absurd lengths to undermine a law they cannot abide.

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A philanthropic revolution

By JACK SHAKELY

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) You’ve probably never heard of donor-advised funds, but they are taking over the philanthropic world.

It all started as a matter of economics. A million dollars to most of us is a lot of money. But as start-up cash for a philanthropic foundation it’s chump change. A million-dollar foundation can easily cost more to run than it gives away.

So an alternative was created by the IRS to give modest philanthropic efforts a cheaper, easier path to existence, bundling them together under an umbrella nonprofit for investment and management. A donor-advised fund offered the wannabe philanthropist the same tax deductions as a foundation but without the red tape and with maximum donor control. No annual disbursement was required; no annual report either. The money can come in and go out whenever, however and to whomever the donor likes.

Call it foundation lite. It’s swiftly becoming the philanthropic delivery system of choice for the wealthy.

In February, the Chronicle of Philanthropy unveiled its 2013 list of America’s top givers to charity. For the first time in history, the top living donors, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave their money ($996 million) to a donor-advised fund set up with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

They were followed by donor couple No. 2, John and Laura Arnold ($296 million). The Arnolds, who have a traditional foundation, nonetheless put some of their largesse into a “giving account” with the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, a collection of donor-advised funds run by Fidelity Investments. Just a few clicks down the list was Alfred Mann’s $70 million gift to his donor-advised fund in the Nevada Community Foundation.

These figures, impressive as they are, could be seen as an anomaly and not an indicator of a philanthropic revolution. But there’s more. Fidelity Charitable, for example, is now the secondlargest nonprofit organization

in the United States — bigger than the Boy Scouts, bigger than the Red Cross, bigger than the Salvation Army. Another similar donor-advised fund manager, the Schwab Charitable Fund, raised more money last year than Harvard.

It was Fidelity, in fact, that kickstarted the revolution. When the IRS first established donoradvised funds, they were the philanthropic stepchildren of community foundations, whose boards and staffs considered them something of a nuisance.

Ned Johnson, the canny founder of Fidelity, saw them as an opportunity to invest billions of charity dollars. He trained his staff to tout the advantages for donors and ran full-page ads in Time, New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines. Money poured into Fidelity, to copycat efforts at other investment houses, and to community foundations too.

Not that there hasn’t been a backlash. The most common complaint, leveled by Boston College Law School’s Ray Madoff and others, is that without minimum-disbursement rules and reporting requirements, donoradvised funds have the potential to become shadowy charity warehouses, allowing a Mark Zuckerberg to get a tax deduction immediately, and then take years or even decades to distribute the funds to charity.

In fact, those fears appear to be unfounded. According to a recent study conducted by the National Philanthropic Trust, a provider of donor-advised funds, around 11 percent of the assets in such funds are disbursed every year, more than double the 5 percent payout requirement of private foundations. By law, once a donor gives money to a donor-advised fund, it may never be retrieved and must be spent only for philanthropic purposes. Besides, why someone would give away a dollar just to get a tax deduction of, at most, 39 cents defies logic. Zuckerberg isn’t putting aside a billion dollars to a donor-advised fund just to sit on it.

Love it or hate it, the philanthropic revolution is on and donor-advised funds are winning.

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Number believed missing in Wash. mudslide drops dramatically to 30

By SUSAN KELLEHER

THE SEATTLE TIMES (MCT) The number of people believed missing in last weekend’s deadly mudslide in Oso, Wash., has dropped dramatically, from 90 to 30.

Jason Biermann, program manager for the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management, said the number could drop even lower in the coming days as investigators continue to verify the exact total of people who were in the mudslide’s path.

A few days ago, officials feared the number of missing could be as high as 176.

Biermann also announced that the number of confirmed dead increased by one to 18.

He indicated an additional body was found Saturday, but is not yet included in the official number.

Biermann also revealed for the first time that in some cases only partial remains are being recovered, a stark indication of the force of the March 22 mudslide that buried a community along the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. The condition of some of the bodies has added to the difficulty of making identifications, he said.

“The slide hit with such force that often the rescuers are not recovering full, intact victims,” Biermann said.

Along with the confirmed victims, there are additional remains that have not been identified and are not considered part of the official total.

That number could be as high as 10.

A death is considered confirmed only after a victim has been identified by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office, the family notified by a chaplain and the body released to a mortuary.

The dramatically reduced

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Continued from Page 3 rebounds. Ryan Boatright had 11 points. UConn made 21 of 22 from the line, extending the trend that produced wins over St. Joseph, Villanova and Iowa State in this tournament. Napier, fouled attempting a three-point shot, made all three at the line with 30 seconds left to seal it.

The Huskes were 41-for-44 from the line at the Garden this weekend.

“Our university has the best fans in the country,” Napier said.

“Students came down, families came down. Without them we never would have won this game.”

Now they will play Florida, the top-ranked team in the country and top-seeded team in this tournament. The Gators have not lost since Napier beat them at the buzzer at Gampel Pavilion on Dec. 2. The Huskies are 30-8, going to the Final Four for the fifth time since 1999, the third time since 2009. They go representing a strange, new conference, the American Athletic Conference, and go with Jim Calhoun cheering instead of coaching. But to the Final Four, they go.

Gary Harris scored 22 for the Spartans (29-9) The Huskies came out with a

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Continued from Page 2 Highway and Beach Boulevard had water running off the roof.

In Brea, officials were working to repair a broken water main.

Wayne Sass of Fullerton said a large picture covered with glass flew nine feet off the wall and shattered within inches of his terrified 9-year-old son. There was broken glass in every room and some cracks in the home’s

number of missing brought some relief in a week of grim updates from emergency-management officials, who at times struggled to provide consistent figures of the toll.

Pastor Michael De Luca of the First Baptist Church in Darrington, Wash., said he was not surprised to hear the lowered figure.

“I suspected all along that 90 was too many,” he said.

He said firefighters and rescuers initially wanted to know about every person who might have been in the area of the mudslide, but many of the names submitted at the beginning have since been accounted for or crossed off the list.

“We found one guy living right next to the post office,” De Luca said. “He was quite surprised to find he’d been listed as missing or dead.”

The difficult work of sifting through the mud by machine, shovel and hand came to a brief halt at precisely 10:37 a.m. to honor the mudslide’s victims.

Gov. Jay Inslee had urged people across the state to pause in a moment of silence at the exact time the mudslide hit on March 22 to pay tribute to the dead.

“One week ago today our city changed forever,” Darrington Mayor Dan Rankin told reporters shortly before the observance in his town.

At the Oso Fire Station, not far from the devastated community, firefighters, volunteers and community members doffed their baseball caps and bowed their heads as traffic was stopped on Highway 530.

After about a minute, the caps went back on, the traffic was waved through and the station again became a hive of activity.

“We’ve got to get back to normal,” said Tara Wallen, 38, surge, the crowd at the Garden sounding as if it were a packed Gampel Pavilion, only twice its size. UConn’s defense forced a handful of turnovers, and UConn started out, as it did Friday night, with its shooting touch.

Napier hit a fall-away three to give UConn an 11-2 lead and Daniels, who had scored two early field goals, added a free throw to make it a 10-point lead with 15:12 left in the half.

The Spartans took the punch, then began fighting back, their defense asserting itself and cooling off the Huskies’ shooters. Adreian Payne, the 6-10 forward, stepped out and hit a couple of wide-open three-point goals to help Michigan State trim the lead down to two points.

As the game settled into the grinding defensive affair that was expected, Harris hit threes on successive trips down the floor to give the Spartans their first lead, 22-21, with 3:27 to go.

Harris was 5-for-7 in the first half, the most effective shooter on the floor, scoring 12.

Denzel Valentine’s three just before the half gave Michigan State a 25-21 lead as UConn made only 8 of its last 22. The going got rougher in the second half, Payne hit another open three to extend the Spartans lead to nine points with 16:33 to play. stucco, he said.

“We spent most of the night just trying to clean it up so the kids wouldn’t wake up in the morning and be reminded of it,” he said.

Their home on Canyon Drive had been without water since early Saturday, when a city crew shut off a broken water main.

For most of the night, a geyser 75 feet tall spilled into a giant birdbath-like depression formed when the asphalt dipped, he said.

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Search and rescue personnel at the Darrington Fire District 24 station prepare to rejoin the search effort in Darrington, Wash., Wednesday. a bar manager who stopped by to drop off $2,086 in cash and checks contributed by members of a Stanwood Eagles club.

“Yes, it’s going to be painful and it will take time, but we’ve got to get people back in homes.”

Biermann, the county emergency-management official, said the search for victims Saturday was slowed by a steady rainfall that added to the muddy misery of the small army of people combing the slide area.

Master Sgt. Thomas Siegel, who serves in a Washington Air National Guard unit based out of Spokane that specializes in search-and-rescue missions, led a recovery team working with crowbars, shovels, probes and tools. Whenever they find human remains, they

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Continued from Page 2 one of the patents, the autocomplete text feature, so that claim will just boil down to damages.

As with the first trial, Apple’s pursuit of Samsung and claims of patent infringement are well behind the South Korean company’s release of even newer product lines. Samsung is expected to release its Galaxy S5 smartphone sometime in April, just as the jury continues to hear evidence of copying in older Galaxy smartphones that will soon be near-obsolete on the U.S. market.

Legal experts say that continues to diminish the impact of Apple’s legal assault on Samsung, particularly because the company was unable to obtain a permanent injunction after the first trial to remove dozens of older Samsung smartphones and tablets from the American market.

To Apple, however, the case against Samsung continues to be about trying to punish what it considers unrepentant copying

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Continued from Page 3 to grab the lead,” Bossi said. “I was able to get a pitch I could hit and get on base and Fajardo did a great job of getting me around the bases and able to score.”

Senior Ryan Hopkins came into pitch in the top of the eighth inning, but was only able to throw a few warm up pitches before the umpires came together and decided to tarp the field and call both teams to their dugouts. After about an hour rain delay, the game was finally called with a final score of 2-1.

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stop, mark the spot and call for assistance “It plays out day-to-day, hour-by-hour. There is no real hard count on it. If we locate (remains), the specialists move in, and we move on,” said Siegel, whose civil-engineering squadron is attached to the 141st Air Refueling Squadron.

Siegel said his team works off grid coordinates, and sometimes members get down on their knees to redistribute their weight on boggy areas. When human remains are found, the locations are marked with GPS, and the remains are eventually removed using helicopters.

“In a nutshell, it’s a giant pile of goo,” Siegel said of the slide area. “You just keep working your way slowly through it and keep going forward.” of technology, this time in signature favorites such as the iPhone 5, iPad mini and the MacBook Pro. Apple officials declined comment on the trial, as did Samsung’s lawyers.

For Samsung, meanwhile, the trial will be another opportunity to cast Apple as a company trying to stifle competition in the supercharged smartphone and tablet markets. Apple and Samsung have solidified their positions at the top of the heap in those products worldwide, and market watchers say that has only stabilized as the legal battle has unfolded.

In this trial, Apple’s parallel feud with Google and its Android operating system will perhaps play more of a central role than the first trial. To many in the industry, Apple’s patent fight with Samsung has always been as much about the late Steve Jobs’ grievance with what he considered Android’s duplication of Apple technology (he once promised “thermonuclear war” with Google); Samsung until recently has relied heavily on Android in its smartphones and tablets.

The final game of the series was scheduled for 10 a.m. and to be nationally televised on FOX Sports South, but due to more bad weather, was cancelled as well.

The Herd is now 5-6 in CUSA and took its second of four series so far this season.

Marshall’s next game will be Tuesday as it hosts Akron at the Kennedy Center Field on Route 2 with a start time of 3 p.m. Friday, the Herd hosts Florida Atlantic for a threegame series in Beckley, W.Va. Derek May can be contacted at may125@marshall.edu.

Siegel said the teams work closely with civilian volunteers on scene. “The community folks, they keep us moving.

They are our motivation.”

Volunteers include 18-yearold Forrest Thompson, a young logger who started working in the rescue effort a week ago.

He grew up in Darrington and knows many of the missing. He helped convince emergencyresponse officials that local volunteers should be a part of the response.

“We pretty much just buck the root wads and trees off the top,” Thompson said Saturday.

“If we do find somebody underneath a pile of logs, we just buck everything out of the way, and dig it out by hand rather than by machine.”

Also at the scene are two

teams of materials specialists who are working to find and contain contaminants at the mudslide site to protect searchers. Dick Walker, senior spill responder with the state Department of Ecology’s spill-response program, said the entire mudslide site is believed to be contaminated with household chemicals, diesel and propane from heating tanks, mineral oil from transformers, and flammable gas tanks.

Most of the material found so far has been crushed from the force of the slide, he said, but searchers are also looking in pockets and voids.

“We don’t want people reaching into spaces where they may get a chemical burn,” Walker said.

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MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Neil Patrick Harris as Barney in CBS Television Network's "How I Met our Mother" RON P. JAFFE | COURTESY CBS ENTERTAINMENT | MCT

‘How I Met Your Mother’ braces for ‘ambitious’ finale

By CHUCK BARNEY

CONTRA COSTA TIMES (MCT) While shooting the pilot for “How I Met Your Mother” back in 2005, Alyson Hannigan genuinely believed the show was destined to fail — not because everything was going wrong, but because everything was working out just right.

“It was so wonderful,” recalls the actress who plays Lily. “Everybody got along so well and it was such a great experience. It was just too perfect. You were like, well, ‘That’s doomsville.’”

In this case, good vibes weren’t bad omens. The show about Ted Mosby’s (Josh Radnor) rocky journey to find the woman of his dreams became a CBS mainstay, delighting its passionate fans with nine full seasons of barroom laughs, musical numbers, Bro Code shenanigans, silly catchphrases, romantic angst and “legendary” slap bets.

When “How I Met our Mother” airs its hourlong series finale on Monday, it will depart as prime time’s third most popular comedy, behind heavyweights “The Big Bang Theory” and “Modern Family.”

“It’s just the best gift ever that it stuck around for so long,” says Jason Segal, who

plays Lily’s husband Marshall. “We lucked out.”

Luck may have been a factor, but “HIMYM”‘s longevity also was a product of smart writing that managed to deftly blend whimsical hilarity with emotional depth.

And then there was its sparkling five-headed cast — including Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders — that, from the start, oozed youthful energy and quirky chemistry.

The show had another key strength going for it: A streak of creative defiance. Over its run, starting with its offbeat “Who’s the Mother?” framing device, creators and executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas refused to be slaves to sitcom convention.

They shot their show on a soundstage, but without a studio audience. They made liberal use of flashbacks and flash-forwards and lightning-fast scenes. They had their characters break into song. They delved into weighty issues that other comedies wouldn’t touch, including the death of Marshall’s father.

And for this, their final season, they revamped the entire narrative structure by lathering all 24 episodes over a single weekend leading up to the wedding of reformed playboy Barney Stinson (Harris)

and former commitment-phobe Robin Sherbatsky (Smulders). In the process, they, at last, brought the titular “Mother” (Cristin Milioti) into the story with a touching episode told entirely from her point of view.

“There have been pitfalls in the structure,” says Bays, during a round of interviews conducted amid the cozy MacLaren’s bar set on Fox’s Stage 22. “But you give yourself challenges. That’s why you get up in the morning.”

With its long-running mythology — and all those red herrings — “HIMYM” kept its fans guessing. Of course, not everyone was always pleased. Some viewers simply craved a quicker resolution.

“Around Season 4 people started to think our show was a big puzzle, like a game they were supposed to solve,” Harris recalls. “ ... But the show was never intended to be something to solve.”

Adds Thomas, “It was our hope that this would become a show about the audience wanting to spend time with the cast and hearing a life story be told. ... Of course there were voices that were impatient along the way. But we always felt like we had the right timing up our sleeve. We always hoped we would have a long run, and we always knew how we wanted to end it.”

Alyson Hannigan, left, as Lily and Cobie Smulders as Robin in a scene from the CBS TV series "How I Met Your Mother."

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Cristin Milioti as "The Mother"

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