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BY JOANIE BORDERS THE PARTHENON

The Student Resource Center is helping students get involved on campus with a workshop highlighting the importance of extracurricular activities.

The workshop, “Making Your Mark on Campus,” is hosted by the Student Resource Center and is targeted to help students get involved at Marshall University and create a personal network of people that will help them succeed.

“College is a lifestyle,” said Jessica Jordan, resource specialist for the SRC. “You grow into being an adult, have new experiences, grow up and come out a totally different person than when you started. Being involved in extracurricular activities are what help form you into being the best possible person you can be.”

The workshop will include information of who is important, as a student, to have as a part of your network of contacts, resume tips, internships and how to get involved. Lists of all the campus clubs, organizations and groups will be made available so that students can become aware of the various different opportunities that are available on Marshall’s campus. Each student will have a chance to meet with a resource specialist to create their own of list of important contacts and organizations that are suited for their major and interests.

Jordan said networking is important because it is vital to a successful career.

“When students apply for jobs, future employers are looking for people who have experience, references and been involved in work in their field,” Jordan said.

“Networking now, while in college, can help you achieve all these things.”

Michelle Barbour, Career Services counselor, said students should always find something that relates to their major.

“It’s a great way to get in touch with future employers and meet students with the same career path,” Barbour said. “You never know who you might meet that has a connection that could be helpful in the future.”

Barbour said many students look for paid internships, but volunteer opportunities are important, too.

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TOP: Will Garrison, senior marketing major from Point Pleasant, W.Va. and Mariah Priest, senior biology major from Summersville, W.Va. take advantage of Mondays warm weather by walking their dogs.

LEFT: Sunny skies and warm temperatures in Huntington on Monday. Mid-January temperatures have reached upwards of 60 degrees.

The Huntington Museum of Art is hosting free tours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday.

The event is open to the public, and admission is free. The focus of the evening is the exhibit titled “Macy’s Presents Haiti to Huntington: A Journey of Color,” which includes Haitian Art and Blenko Glass.

Cindy Dearborn, Education Director of Huntington Museum of Art, said she expects the exhibit to be a huge hit with the public because of the intricate designs and history of the pieces.

“This is a great collection,” Dearborn said. “The Haitian art just amazes you with the amazing pops of color.”

The exhibit will feature works from the Huntington Museum of Art’s Winslow Anderson Collection. The late Winslow Anderson was the first designer for Blenko Glass in 1948. His designs include bright, bold colors to reflect Haitian Art. There will be a reception following the tour. Visitors will be able to enjoy complimentary cookies and punch.

The Huntington Museum of Art will also be collecting donations to the Huntington Area Food Bank upon entry to the Tuesday Tours.

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Study suggests improvements to Huntington Fire Department THE PARTHENON An independent study of the Huntington Fire Department has made more than 150 reccomendations to improve a department that is straining for money and people.

In early fa l l of 2011, H u n t i n g t o n Mayor Kim Wo l f e h i r e d The McG r a t h G r o u p, a fir m t h a t s p e c i a l i zes in cons u l t i n g f o r emergency s e r v i c e s, t o c onduct the audit.

During Januar y, the city hired a interim chief and receievd the results of the McGrath study.

“I’m impressed with the adeptness, in reading recommendations of the study,” Wolfe said. Wolfe said he’s “Cautious not to focus on one or two, but the body of the whole study.”

One of the recommendations of the study is to increase the staffing levels of the department. Huntington Fire Captain Brett Gaeger said he is in full support.

“I’m in full agreement with having more people,” Gaeger said. “Absolutely, it will increase the safety of our fire men and women.”

The big issue the department faces is money. With a city facing a deficit around $4 million, Mayor Wolfe said the recommendations will be taken with the money shortfall in mind.

“We want to keep the city and firefighters safe, while working with in the financial constraint,” Wolfe said.

As the city faces cash flow problems, the McGrath study has some financial recommendations of its own. Gaeger said points

of the study push reductions in pay, something he doesn’t agree with.

“It’s not just a job, it’s a career,” Gaeger said. “If they reduce the rates of the future firefighters, they’re not going to get quality firefighters.”

Another recommendation the study made was to reduce the number of false alarm calls. Mayor Wolfe said the study indicated most of the fire department calls were to assist with emergency medical calls.

Wolfe said the study found that only 11 percent of the calls were for actual fires.

Wolfe said the study indicated the number of false alarm calls needed to be reduced.

“30 percent are false alarms, and that surprised me,” Wolfe said.

Gaeger doesn’t understand how the station can

reduce the number of false alarms. “People have alarm systems for a reason,” Gaeger said. “How can we dictate reducing false alarms?”

As the city and fire

department move forward in a new year, the fire officials and city council will be pouring over the results of the study in a city council meeting Thursday.

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The McGrath study suggest more than 150 recommendations to improve the Huntington Fire Department. According to a press release, these include the need for accurate data, reducing the number of fire alarms and tracking simultaneous calls.

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Business fraternities Graduate College to host workshop begin recruiting efforts regarding theses, dissertations

BY FRANCES LAZELL The Parthenon

Spring 2012 recruitment begins this week with interest meetings on Jan. 24 and 25 for the Zeta Rho chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed business fraternity on Marshall University’s campus.

The interest meetings will be at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 24 and at noon Jan. 25 in Corbly Hall.

The fraternity is one of the two co-ed business fraternities on campus that offers students the oppor tunity to become involved on campus and has the core values of brotherhood, knowledge, integ rity, ser vice and unity.

R aymond Cousins, senior vice president of recr uitment for Alpha K appa Psi, said the frater nity is looking to increase the number of new member s.

“We are g raduating a lot of member s so we are tr ying to get

younger member s just to keep our traditions alive,” Cousins said.

“Older students are able to still join, but we are definitely looking for younger member s as well.”

“The students who join business fraternities have the same mindset of what they want to do in life,” Cousins said. “We kind of look for students who are like us or have to the same skills, maybe not academically, but socially or something of that nature.”

Joining a business frater nity is a great way to network and to gain the experience that is needed when in the work place or when one is looking for a career, Cousins said.

Being par t of a business frater nity has its advantages, especially because a large majority of the cur rent work force was par t one in college, Cousins said.

“We do go around and inter view with dif ferent businesses, we go and tour dif ferent businesses,” Cousins said.

Cousins said the frater nity looks for students who are motivated, have leadership qualities and bring positive assets to the group.

“They can gain a sense of leadership,” Cousins said. “This is my first active semester, and I’ve already taken a leadership role.”

The frater nity will also host a bowling event Feb. 9 and a game night Feb. 16.

The frater nity accepts all students studying accounting, business, economics, finance, graphic design, management, management infor mation systems, marketing, public relations, sports management and other business-related fields.

Frances Lazell can be contacted at lazell2@ marshall.edu.

BY REBECCA STEPHENS THE PARTHENON

Donna Spindel, dean of Marshall University’s Graduate College, will host a workshop for graduate students about the process of submitting their theses and dissertations at 4 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Student Resource Center.

Graduate students are required to submit their theses and dissertations electronically, and the process is relatively new, Spindel said.

The workshop is designed so that graduate students are able to watch Spindel go step-by-step through the submission process.

While not difficult, some students have anxiety about how to submit their theses and dissertations,” Spindel said. “We’re just there to show them how easy it is and to be available to answer questions.

Most institutions in the country, not all, but most institutions, do require their students to submit

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Because the thesis is the end product of your hard effort, you need to know how to deal with it properly.”

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this way.”

Graduate students must register for an account with UMI ProQuest, an international organization used for electronic publishing and provide information about themselves, about the program and about the thesis, Spindel said.

Students can then chose if they would like to put in an order for a bound copy of their theses or dissertations for an extra cost. Otherwise, there is no charge for graduate students.

College and university libraries used to prepare bound copies for students, but for a significant cost, Spindel said. More libraries are no longer doing this and are instead using electronic publications.

“All of our theses and dissertations are available going back many, many years,” Spindel said. “We basically have an open library catalog. This catalog is available to anyone, anywhere in the world.”

Students should attend because they need to understand the preparation process, and they will get a lot of information that they would not otherwise get, said Vicki Stroeher, associate professor of music history.

“Because the thesis is the end product of your hard effort, then you need to know how to deal with it properly,” Stroeher said.

Rebecca Stephens can be contacted at stephens107@marshall. edu.

Amnesty International to EU approves embargo on Iranian oil host LGBT discussion forum

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BY JUSTON DONADIEU The Parthenon

Amnesty International will host “LGBTQ Around the World: A Discussion” at 7 p.m. Friday in the John Deaver Drinko Library.

LGBTQ is a worldwide resource network and stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning. The event is a forum in which students are encouraged to discuss human rights issues and violations around the globe – specifically those related to gender equality.

Ashley Clark, senior political science major and president and founder of Marshall’s chapter of Amnesty International, said the forum is a chance to be an activist for a good cause and make some good friends.

The discussion will be led by a panel of three speakers, including

Marshall University political science professors Shawn Schulenberg and Shawn King, as well as Zachary Morris, senior computer and info technologies major.

“We hope to make the struggle for equality and against discrimination something that our audience can identify with,” said Arynn Cooper, senior international affairs major and vice president of the Marshall chapter of Amnesty International.

Amnesty International is a student organization to raise awareness about global human rights issues. According to the event’s Facebook page, students and faculty involved in Amnesty Inter national are from a variety of backg rounds.

Juston Donadieu can be contacted at donadieu@marshall.edu.

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LONDON–Europe slapped a boycott on Iranian oil Monday, signaling that the Islamic Republic’s second-largest market is likely to dry up as part of a U.S.-led campaign of sanctions that has already inflicted serious damage on Iran’s economy and sharply increased tensions.

The value of Iran’s currency is falling dramatically, prices are rising and Iranians are stocking up on supplies in fear of worse to come. Iran, which earns an estimated 70 percent of its revenue from oil sales, has threatened to retaliate by choking off the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz at the southern end of the Persian Gulf.

The U.S. says it will not permit the strait to be closed, and over the weekend sent the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln through

the strait and into the gulf.

There were no incidents.

European officials hope the new measures, in conjunction with tougher sanctions being imposed

by Washington, will force Tehran back to the bargaining table over its nuclear enrichment program. Iran says the program is for peaceful purposes; the U.S. and its European allies suspect it of trying to build nuclear weapons.

The new measure imposed by the 27-nation EU, which had been in the works for weeks, puts all new or proposed oil deals with Iran on ice. In a concession to countries in southern Europe, many of which depend more heavily on Iranian imports and are struggling economically, existing contracts can run through the end of June, giving them time to find new suppliers.

Iran reacted defiantly.

“The embargo will not affect Iran, and considering the economic turmoil in Europe, it will de facto hurt

the EU members more than Iran,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of parliament’s foreign policy committee, told the ISNA news agency.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said it would not stop Iran’s nuclear program.

“Imposing economic sanctions is illogical and unfair, but will not stop our nation from obtaining its rights,” he said.

In addition, the EU froze assets held in Europe by Iran’s central bank. It also proscribed trade in gold, precious metals and diamonds between the EU and Iranian public bodies.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the package “an unprecedented set of sanctions” that ought to encourage similar action by other nations.

European officials emphasized their desire to see Tehran re-enter talks over its nuclear program. “The pressure of sanctions is designed to try and make sure that Iran takes seriously

our request to come to the table and meet,” Catherine Ashton, the EU’s top diplomat, said.

In the past, Europe often has resisted U.S. efforts to build pressure on Iran.

“If you had told me a year or two ago that the Europeans would do something like this, I would have said you were crazy,” said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a research group in Washington that favors strong sanctions.

European governments have embraced tougher measures now partly out of frustration over Iran’s unwillingness to negotiate, but also because they fear that that Israel, the United States or others could turn to military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program if economic pressure fails.

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Perry Institute enters second semester

BY HENRY CULVYHOUSE THE PARTHENON

Even though political science professor Simon Perry retired from Marshall University in 2010, the courses he founded in constitutional education continue to thrive.

Last August, the College of Liberal Arts launched the Simon Per r y Center for Constitutional Democracy, a program supporting the education of the United States Constitution through courses

developed by Per r y, a prelaw advising program and a lecture series. The center of fers courses on constitutional law, the founding of the constitution and constitutional histor y by collaborating with the histor y, political science, sociology and English departments.

Patricia Proctor, director of the program, said the main goal of the center is to teach how the Constitution applies to today’s political climate.

“One of the key things

this center wants to do is teach students that the Constitution is relevant right now, politics is relevant right now,” Proctor said.

David Pittenger, dean of the College of Liberal Ar ts, said the program’s multidisciplinar y approach is cr ucial for its success.

“Anthropology, English, philosophy and business are interested in studying law,” Pittenger said.

“It’s a big tent that can hold lots of folks.”

Proctor said the program’s prelaw advising program has been a huge success for the program.

She said from her experience as a practicing lawyer in Huntington, it is an asset for advising students interested in law.

“I think it’s helpful for people to have a prelaw adviser who’s been through the process of law school and actually practiced law,” Proctor said.

Last semester, the

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program sponsored the Marshall’s Amicus Curiae Lecture Series on Constitutional Democracy. The lecture series featured talks about the relationship between the judicial system and the Constitution by professors from around the countr y. Proctor said the lecture series was a huge success.

Pittenger said the five-month-old program might expand beyond the College of Liberal Arts.

“We’re beginning to

explore how other colleges and departments can participate in teaching courses that are ger mane in the study of the law,” Pittenger said.

“There are many dif ferent areas, many programs that can contribute to it.”

The Marshall’s Amicus Curiae Lecture Series is set to kick of f in Februar y. Details on the series will be announced at a later date.

Henry Culvyhouse can be contacted at culvyhouse@marshall.edu.

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Former UNC player brings basketball knowledge to Herd women

Women’s basketball assistant coach Ed Geth working to improve Herd post game

BY LAWREN HIGHTOWER THE PARTHENON

The Marshall University women’s basketball ball team has put together a strong start to the 20112012 basketball season. The team is 12-6 overall and 3-2 in Conference USA. One reason for the Herd’s success is assistant coach Ed Geth.

Geth, in his first season as an assistant for the Herd, spent the previous seven seasons working as an assistant coach for the Wofford Terriors woman’s basketball team.

Geth attended college at the University of North Carolina where he played on two final four teams in 1993 and 1995.

With all his experience in the post, Geth has helped lead the Herd to a No. 24 national ranking in rebounding margin, out rebounding opponents by an average of 7.6 boards per game.

“Those numbers are good, and I’m proud of those numbers,” Geth said.

“But my focus has always been on the final product.

The goal is to be playing in a post season tournament in March.”

Geth brings a winning attitude to Marshall. The main focus of the team is to continue this great start to the season and participate in March Madness.

“He has instant credibility,” said Royce Chadwick, head coach of the Marshall woman’s basketball team.

“He has been successful

before, and the players relate. They understand that he has been in the same position that they are in. They listen to him. They love him.”

Geth said, when he coaches, he loves to give players incentives and goals to work toward. He said he believes his coaching style is more directed toward having an appreciation for the game, rather than being a hard-nosed, tough coach.

“I always tell my players that our ultimate goal is to win games,” Geth said. “We have a saying in the locker room: ‘It may not be your night tonight, it might be your night tonight, but it’s always the team’s night.’

Everyone has a role, and everyone plays their role well.

They work great together as a group.”

Replacing all conference performer Tynikki Crook has been a challenge, but Coach Chadwick said he is proud of what his group and players have done.

“We had to replace Tynikki (Crook), and our team has done a great job of doing it by committee,” Chadwick said. “We have had players step up each and every night, and Coach Geth, as well as the rest of our coaching staff, has done an amazing job preparing the team.”

The next game for the woman’s basketball team is Thursday at 8 p.m. at Memphis.

Lawren Hightower can be contacted at hightower5@ marshall.edu.

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Assistant coach Ed Geth takes time to converse with an official during the Aces Winter Classic in Evansville, Ind. Geth played basketball at the University of North Carolina in the early 90s. Geth said while he enjoys the improved numbers the Herd post players are putting up, earning a post-season tournament spot is his ultimate goal.

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Back in time: A look at the 2012 Capital Classic

BY ADAM ROGERS THE PARTHENON

One week after the 2012 Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic, I thought it was time

to look back at the splitting of the women’s and men’s games.

The Capital Classic used to take place in one evening, with the West Virginia and

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Marshall womenʼs basketball head coach Royce Chadwick looks on at his team during the 2012 Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic.

Marshall women’s basketball teams playing around 5:30 p.m. and the men’s teams playing at approximately 8 p.m.

This season, the universities decided to move the women’s game to Tuesday night in hopes of better attendance.

When the initial decision became known to the public, I thought it was a risky move and wondered what would happen if people still did not come out to support the Thundering Herd or Mountaineer women’s teams.

Especially after last year’s 78-21 win by WVU. Marshall women’s basketball head coach Royce Chadwick was skeptical of the change of dates for his team because the Thundering Herd had a game Sunday afternoon, which did not leave his staff much time to prepare for the Mountaineers.

During the game, Marshall saw junior forward Alyse Poindexter go down with an injury.

This is the second year in a row a Marshall women’s basketball player suffered an injury during the Capital Classic.

After this year’s game, Coach Chadwick said he would like to see the game moved to November.

“If we’re going to be in the situation where we always lose somebody, I’d rather lose them for a week in November,” Chadwick said. “I’d rather go home and home.

Go to West Virginia one year, and then come to Marshall the next. We don’t draw well in November because everybody is jacked up on football, and rightfully so.

“But if we could get West Virginia in there, we maybe could get a good crowd. I don’t think West Virginia draws well in November, and I think if we got Marshall in there that people would come see it.”

West Virginia head coach Mike Carey said it does not matter to him when the two teams meet up.

“We’ve tried playing at 5:30 and 6:30 and now we’ve tried playing on Tuesday,” Carey said. “Let’s just do whatever.”

As I sat on the floor inside the Charleston Civic Center, I looked around and thought that if fewer than 2,000 people came out to support the teams, then it would be a wasted effort.

In last season’s game, only 2,023 fans came to watch the women’s edition of the Capital Classic, and most of them arrived with approximately five minutes left in the game.

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Marshall fans cheer on the Thundering Herd menʼs basketball team at the Charleston Civic Center during the Capital Classic.

When the PA announcer addressed the crowd having an attendance of 3,264, I almost fell back in shock.

I’m not usually one to take being proven wrong well, but I was glad in this instance.

Nothing noticeable changed for the men’s game.

As more than 12,000 fans, clad in green and white and blue and gold, came out to watch the other team lose and no bad blood had been lost since the two met up in early September for the Friends of Coal Bowl.

One Marshall fan was even spotted with a sign that read “Almost Heaven” next to a Marshall logo inside the state of West Virginia and

“Almost Jersey” next to a West Virginia logo.

If I were to give the 2012 Capital Classic a grade, then it would be an A. Two media rooms were set up and used during both games and postgame coach interviews actually took place in one of them, instead of in the hallway.

Fan turnout was larger than I anticipated for both games, especially the women’s game, and I hope that both fans continue to come out and support their teams as the Capital Classic event goes on.

Adam Rogers can be contacted at rogers112@ marshall.edu.

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Mental health, an issue in W.Va.

BY MICHAEL McATEER the parthenon

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that we, as a county, are in categorical denial about our lack of mental hygiene and that it is costing us not only in monetary value, but also in quality of life. The CDC estimates that mental illness cost us $300 billion in 2002. That’s not what we paid in counseling and prescription anti-depressant. No, that is what it cost us to not take care of our mental illnesses. The CDC also reports that it is estimated that “about 25 percent of U.S. adults have a mental illness.”

The CDC conducts the “The Youth Risk Behavior Survey” to assess “health-risk behaviors among 9th–12th grade students in the United States including behaviors that contribute to injuries and violence; alcohol or other drug use; tobacco use; sexual risk behaviors; unhealthy dietary behaviors and physical inactivity.”

It should be no surprise, given what I said above about the overall health of West Virginians that our teens are at high risk for mental health issues. Of the 21 categories of the survey reserved for “Unintentional Injury or Violence,” West Virginian self-reporting teens were above the national average in 13 areas. West Virginian teens were twice the national average for a“suicide attempt resulted in an injury, poisoning or overdose that had to be treated by a doctor or nurse.” Also, teens were

well above the national average for “seriously considered attempting suicide.” West Virginian teens were also well above the national average in other key high-risk areas, such as tobacco and alcohol abuse and sexual and dietar y behaviors.

And remember, these are 14-18 year olds self-repor ting!

I k n ow f r o m fir st h a n d ex p e r i e n ce about high risk behavior s and mental illness, g rowing up in West Virginia myself. I have been dealing with periodic bouts of suicidal depression all of my life, and even went through a period of alcohol and drug abuse which was partially re l a t e d t o my u n treat e d depression. I was in my thir ties before I sought help and considered suicide hundreds of times in t h e i n t e r i m , s u f fering s i l e n t ly. T h i s does not have to be the plight of the young people of our community and families.

For tunately, there are man y c o m m u n i t y r e sources in the state which specialize in the treatment of mental illness. For many, it is still a stigma which must be overcome, but can be beat. I only wish that I hadn’t waited so long to seek treatment.

If only I had reached out for mental health counseling at age 14 or 15 instea d o f 3 1 o r 3 2 , h ow m u c h n e e d l e s s s u f f e r i n g I c o u l d h ave missed.

Michael McAteer can be contacted at mcateer@marshall. edu.

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W.A.’s proposed vote for gay marriage should be one of many The state of Washington received enough votes to legalize gay marriage on Monday. It is likely that the state will now work toward enacting the bill and making gay marriage officially legal. Washington will now, theoretically, become the seventh state in the United States to legalize gay marriage. Officially, Washington has not legalized gay marriage yet but with the decision by many officials to endorse gay marriage and the final vote in the near future, they are well on their way.

The decision in Washington comes at a point in time where many states are facing the same question: Do same sex couples have the right to be married by the state? Yes, they do. Washington, will hopefully act as the catalyst that will force other states to consider revising their current statutory laws that state same-sex couples are not legally entitled to be married.

Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen served as the 25th vote that would enable the bill to be passed. Haugen, a self-proclaimed Christian, stated her beliefs were “very strong.” And yet, she was able to put aside her convictions and be the vote which will get the bill passed.

“I have always believed in traditional marriage between a man and a woman,” Sen. Haugen said Monday. “That is what I believe, to this day. But this issue

isn’t about just what I believe. It’s about respecting others, including people who may believe differently than I. It’s about whether everyone has the same opportunities for love and companionship and family and security that I have enjoyed.”

Sen. Haugen’s example should not be overlooked by those who oppose same-sex marriage. She makes a point that should have been made many years ago. People are entitled to their religion, but that religion should not govern the rest of society. This is why there is a separation of church and state. To truly call ourselves a “free country,” there are many more steps we need to take, one of those steps being that all couples, gay or straight, have the right to be married. Unfortunately, it seems that there is no epiphany sweeping through all 50 states in favor of legalizing gay marriage. However, each state that legalizes gay marriage is one more state that has stripped itself of holding oppressive laws to its people.

Sen. Haugen sets an example for all that disagree with gay marriage on a religious premise. She has looked beyond her beliefs and acted upon her instinct to allow others what she has had in her life.

Love. Companionship. Comfort. No one should be deprived of these, and they should be able to consummate them with marriage. Gay marriage should be legal in all states.

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Fight against SOPA, PIPA

BY JORDAN BEAN

THE PARTHENON

I’ve been thinking a lot about this SOPA and PIPA business lately. It is appropriate to say that most people have. I go back and forth on whether or not I think that the bill is totally worthy of the uproar it has produced (call me old school, but largely, our generation doesn’t get royally peeved until someone threatens to take away our luxuries), but I’m glad to see that the masses are paying attention.

The thing about it that most frightened me was that Megaupload.com, a hugely popular file sharing website started in 2005, was shut down on Jan. 19. before any decision had been made in regards to SOPA or

PIPA. In writing this column ,I typed the site name into my browser just to see what would show up, and I got a page displaying only the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and IPR Center logos along with a message that read: “This domain name associated with the website Megaupload.com has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court.”

What. The. Hell. Seized?

That’s terrifying. It’s not so much that I can no longer use Megaupload.com to satisfy my “American Horror Story” addiction, it’s that our government took action on a bill that hadn’t yet passed.

Of course, the website’s history hasn’t been totally clean. It has taken some hits in the past few years,

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being blocked in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in May 2010, Malaysia in June 2011 and India in July 2011. So, you could argue that they had it coming, that it would happen eventually. But aren’t we supposed to be the progressive, forward-thinking Internet community? Isn’t the Internet in this country supposed to be available for everyone to access whatever information they want?

Granted, I don’t think that pirating is morally right. I do believe very strongly that artists who’ve made it far enough to get their albums produced or their shows on TV or their movies in theaters deserve all of the benefits they’ve worked so hard for. But I also believe in free access of information and it’s a difficult argument to make, whether or

not file-sharing websites should be wiped off the face of the Internet.

I guess the point is that it scares me to think that the day may be rapidly approaching when it’s not just file sharing sites that are eliminated, it’s also Wikipedia, Google, Firefox, news websites, gaming websites... how can we continue to develop, to innovate, to push forward as a society without free use of the internet?

So much of what we as a society are capable of at this point in our existence revolves around what we can access online and without it we would be taking enormous leaps backwards.

So let’s keep fighting this thing, alright?

Jordan Bean can be contacted at bean19@ marshall.edu.

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Santorum tempers language on Florida campaign trail

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Los Angeles Times (MCT) LADY LAKE, Fla. –With Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich engaging in a dogfight, Rick Santorum on Monday tried to persuade some of Florida’s Republicans that the top two finishers in South Carolina’s upending primary are convenient conservatives, while he is the real deal.

As the campaign wound down in South Carolina, the former Pennsylvania senator’s rhetoric became increasingly sharp. In one speech, he even dismissed Romney and Gingrich as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. But in Florida, he has tempered his language, becoming almost mild.

“Take a step back. Don’t listen to the hype. Listen to what all of the candidates bring to the table,” he told “tea party” members packed into an American Legion hall, suggesting the other leading contenders in the Republican presidential primary are handicapped by “inconsistencies” and “problems” that would prevent them from making President Barack Obama the issue.

Santorum later told reporters that Gingrich was hampered by high negative ratings. “It doesn’t put you

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum jokes with supporters during a town hall meeting Monday in Lady Lake, Fla. in a particularly strong position to be able to go out and win this race,” he said.

And he dismissed what he called Romney’s main strength: that he has been the most effective at raising money. “Money’s not going to be a problem in this race,” he said. “Whoever the Republican nominee is is going to have plenty of money to be able to run an effective campaign.”

Santorum skipped over the key points in his South

Carolina speech, saying very little about his faith or his family, and instead dwelling on what he said was Obama’s desire to expand government programs and make Americans dependent on Washington.

“I didn’t decide to run for the president of the United States to accumulate power and be (the) most powerful person in America. I came so I could return the power to the people of America,”

he said, sparking a standing ovation from members of the Tri-County Tea Party, which has about 2,000 members in three central Florida counties with a large number of retirees.

Santorum dodged a few awkward questions. One woman claimed Obama’s presidency was illegal, which led Santorum to smile tightly. When she claimed the president was a Muslim, he looked down

at the podium and concentrated on writing on a small piece of paper. When she had finished, he said, “Well, yeah, I’m doing my best to get him out of the government.”

He reacted angrily when reporters asked afterward why he did not challenge her contention. Calling the question “a media gotcha thing,” he said, “It’s not my responsibility as a candidate to correct everybody who makes a statement that I disagree with.”

Santorum’s speech was disrupted by five protesters who shouted, “Stop the hate” and “No hate,” and threw glitter at the stage.

They were quickly and aggressively tackled and hustled out of the building where they were warned they would be cited for trespassing if they returned.

Gay-rights activists have interrupted several of Santorum’s recent events.

Tailoring his remarks to his audience, mostly retirees in an array of pastel shirts, Santorum said that Obama’s top-down approach to controlling Medicare spending would lead to increasingly rationed care and that Obama had made sure Congress could do little about it.

“Does this sound like America to anybody?” he said.

“No!” the audience shouted.

Santorum called health care the touchstone issue, using it to set himself apart from Romney, who signed a health care plan (labeled by critics as “Romneycare”) into law as governor of Massachusetts, and Gingrich, who he said supported a mandate to require individuals to have health insurance for 20 years.

He pointed out that he is the only candidate who has held consistently conservative views on the Wall Street bailout, cap-and-trade plans to cut greenhouse gases and immigration. “All the candidates in this race have the positions I have, but they didn’t always have them,” he said.

One questioner praised Santorum for a recent interview, leading him to try to figure out which of two recent ones it was. Finally, he quipped, “Both of them are great.”

Throughout his speech, Santorum’s hand-held microphone cut out. Eventually, he realized it worked best if he held it in his left hand and, when it went dead, shifted it to his right and back to his left. It worked every time, and the audience laughed every time. When a microphone failed after being handed to an audience member, he said, “You don’t have the magic I have in your hands.”

Former CIA officer accused of leaking secrets to journalists

BY KEN DILANIAN

Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT) A former CIA officer was charged Monday with disclosing classified information to journalists, the latest prosecution in an Obama administration crackdown on national security leaks.

If convicted, John Kiriakou could face decades in prison.

He is accused of providing secrets, including the name and activities of one of his

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Russia slammed the EU’s move as a serious error.

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Carson Terwilliger, senior pre-pharmacy student from Ellicott City, Md., said he knows the importance of being involved, but also standing out to future employers.

“It seems like almost everybody has the required GPA or internship, but extra clubs and activities

undercover colleagues, to unidentified reporters, according to a federal criminal complaint. One of the journalists is alleged to have turned over the name of the covert CIA officer to attorneys representing a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.

Separately, Kiriakou allegedly gave another reporter _ whom the complaint makes clear is Scott Shane of the New York Times _ information used in a 2008 story that identified CIA analyst Deuce Martinez as a key figure in the interrogation of Abu

Zubaydah, an al-Qaida logistics chief who was subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding. Martinez was not working undercover, but his role was classified. The New York Times had no comment, spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said.

At a hearing in Alexandria, Va., on Monday, a federal judge ordered Kiriakou released on a $250,000 unsecured bond. Kiriakou’s attorney, Plato Cacheris, said afterward that the defense may argue that the charges

criminalize conduct that has been common between reporters and government sources for decades.

The lawyers and their investigators, including attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union, did not break the law, the Justice Department said. No reporters were charged either.

ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero called the investigation “incredibly troubling” and said it would have a chilling effect on reporters,

“This is j u s t our way of giving back to the c o m m u n i t y, ” D e a r b o r n s a i d . “Any do n a t i o n s w i l l b e g reatly appreciated.”

T h i s f r e e t o ur will be t h e f i r s t o f t h e Tuesday

Tour s taking place at the Huntington Museum of Ar t. Each four th Tues day of each month will feature a free tour. Each tour w i l l h a v e a u n i q u e theme and exhibit.

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Among the strongest champions of an oil embargo were EU powerhouses Britain, France and Germany, none of them major buyers of Iranian crude.

But Greece, already teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, has been especially wor ried about replacing Iranian oil with new, more expensive

supplies. A Spanish official earlier this month said a boycott would cause “huge damage” to his countr y’s economy. In a nod to such concerns, the EU agreed that it would review the ef fects of the embargo by May 1.

The ef fect of the embargo has been amplified by a new round of U.S. sanctions, which,

if fully implemented, would prevent companies that do business with Iran’s central bank from doing business with U.S. companies.

The embargo is par t of a Wester n ef for t to convince countries that consume Iranian oil to find other sources, shar ply reducing Iran’s oil income.

are what really make you stand out and allow you to have a little fun,” Terwilliger said.

Terwilliger, vice president of the lacrosse team, recruitment chair of Delta Chi and a resident assistant in Willis Hall, said he knows it is not all about having a nice resume.

Making the most of his college years is important to him.

“Everybody grows up and says ‘remember back in college,” Terwilliger

said. “Well, this is that time. Do you want to grow up and have nothing to say or no stories to tell? I know I’ll be hanging with the guys I met here for a very long time.”

Terwilliger took advisees on his floor in Willis Hall to Jordan’s workshop last year.

“This program is a great idea because there are so many organizations and clubs that people are unaware of,” Terwilliger said. “After seeing the list given out by the SRC, I

became aware of at least 20 new organizations.”

The workshop is at 10 a.m. and 1 p. m . We d n e s day in Fir s t Ye a r S o u t h Residence H a l l i n r o o m 1150 and a t 1 1 a . m . i n the Stude n t Re s o u rc e Center. Th e S RC i s l o cated on t h e s econd f loor of the Mem o r i a l Student Ce n t e r 8 a . m . t o 5 p.m. Mo n d ay t h r o u g h Friday.

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whistle-blowers and defense lawyers. Romero criticized “the fact that the government continues to investigate those who research and report on the individuals who committed torture and yet don’t prosecute those who undertook that torture.”

The complaint refers to emails from Kiriakou to journalists in which he discloses classified information, including the name of a CIA employee identified as “Covert Officer A.” When interviewed

on Jan. 12 by FBI agents who recorded the session, Kiriakou denied doing so, the document says.

Kiriakou is also accused of trying to include classified infor mation in his memoir by lying to the CIA’s Publication Review Board, which reviews a n d a p p r o v e s all written material by f o r m e r C I A o f f i c e r s.

The book, published in 2010, was titled, “Relu c t a n t S py : M y S e c r e t L i f e i n t h e C I A’ s Wa r o n Te r r o r. ”

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A semester of stars:

Artist Series lines up acts for semester

100 Years of Broadway 1 0 0 Ye ars of Bro adway re cre ates t he bigge st moments f rom t he big gest shows of t he c e ntu r y, fe atur ing t he ac tu a l st ars of shows su ch as “ The Phantom of t he O p era,” “L es Mis e r ables,” “C hic ago,” “C ats,” “Jesus C hr ist Sup e rst ar” and “Jeky l l & Hyde.” Thes e amazi ng p e r for mers lig ht up t he st age w it h s ongs f rom t he hit shows in w hich t he y st ar re d, as wel l as ot her not able Bro adway shows.

Ne i l B erg pres ents br i l li ant ly re v ive d arrangements of Broadway classics, as well as fant ast i c numb ers f rom Bro adway’s newest hit shows.

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In the Heights This 2008 Tony® Award-winning Best Musical is a moving, funny and uplifting new show about a community of hard-working immigrants seeking a better life and trying to find their place – their home – in their new county. With a remarkable young cast and award-winning dancing, “In the Heights” is an exhilarating journey into a vibrant Manhattan community – a place where the coffee is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. Experience the next chapter of the classic American story at the most joyous and exciting musical on Broadway.

3/1/12 Keith Albee 7:30 p.m.

Oh! What a Piano Can Do Spend an intimate evening under the stars on the Keith Albee Stage for “Oh! What a Piano Can Do” – Starring Master Pianist Duke Thompson. Your on-stage table awaits for a musical journey of piano mastery. Duke will entertain and educate as he gives an up close and personal musical display of the power the newly restored Steinway possesses. His total mastery of the piano combined with his stage presence captivates his audience.

From Bach to Billy Joel and The Who to the blues, Duke Thompson is unique. He offers a contemporary twist to a genre rooted in legendary pianists such as Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin.

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Spring Film Festival This ye ar’s Spr ing Fi lm Fest iva l fe atures f i lms f rom C olombi a, C anad a, France, t he UK, Iran and t he Unite d St ates.

Tit les include “Incendies,” “Sara h’s Ke y,” The C olors of t he Mount ain,” Submar ine,” “Sma l l Ac t” and “Circ umst ance.” Fi lms w i l l b e show n e ach e vening Feb. 3-8. C he ck w w w.marsha l l.e du/ mu ar ts er/ for a complete s c he du l e.

2/21/12 Keith Albee 7:30 p.m.

Larry King: Standing Up For 50 years in broadcasting, Larry King was the one asking the questions. Now, he turns the tables on himself in Larry King: Standing Up. The Emmy®, Peabody and CableACE Award-winning broadcast icon will be giving fans a hilarious and insightful look inside the legend. Starting with his life growing up as a street-smart kid in Brooklyn, to tales from his storied career as the greatest interviewer of all time, Larry King’s style and wit will give audiences an evening to remember. This USA Tour, his first, will mark King’s first stage appearances since completing his triumphant 25-year run on the award-winning CNN program “Larry King Live.”

4/13/12 Keith Albee 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Moutain Stage Larry Groce, host and artistic director of the W. Va radio program Mountain Stage, will put together a special show saluting the 75 year legacy of the Marshall Artists Series. Artists appearing will be announced at a later date.

Mountain Stage is a two-hour music radio show produced by WV Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide by National Public Radio (NPR) and the Voice of America’s satellite radio service. Hosted

by Larry Groce, the program showcases diverse music, from the traditional to modern. It is recorded before a live audience, usually at the Culture Center Theater.

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