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‘BUCKWILD’ star found dead, community mourns

By KAYLIN SEARLES

TOP: Gandee signs autographs for fans at the grand opening at the Gandee General Store opening in Ohio, Saturday.

RIGHT: Gandee hugs his grandma Betsy at the store opening.

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Marshall students spring clean, voice concerns

By SHANE BIAS

THE PARTHENON Spring is a time when many people partake in cleaning out homes and getting rid of old things. Well, it is spring cleaning time at Marshall University — a time for students to stand up and voice their opinions about what things they want to see tossed out and changed within their University.

Jason Grady, communication major, said he would like to see a change in tuition so that education is more about learning and less about money.

“If I could change one thing about Marshall, it would definitely be lowering the tuition rate,” Grady said. “I believe by lowering the tuition rate, that the attendance rate will therefore increase, and the school will be getting even more money.”

Gabriel Hoverman, computer science major, said he would like to toss out the “A” though “F” grading system and give detailed assessments to students and employers instead.

“If I could change something here at Marshall, it would definitely be the grading system,”

Hoverman said. “We all have been that person who studied for days and only achieved a mediocre grade at best. It’s time we moved on from the memorization system into a real learning environment.”

Devonne Smith, psychology major, said one thing she would get rid of is Holderby Hall.

“I think I would definitely get rid of Holderby Hall,” Smith said. “It is just so old and run down, and I feel like it needs to be replaced.”

Autumn Frazee, education major, said she would like better focused curriculum for every major.

“I think that Marshall should have more focused curriculum for people’s majors,” Frazee said. “For instance, if you’re an elementary school major, you shouldn’t have to be taking classes that are not relevant to your major.”

Daniel Scher, communications major, said he would like to get rid of parking permits.

“If I could throw away something here at Marshall, it would be the whole parking system

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THE PARTHENON Shain Gandee, 21, from MTV’s hit show “BUCKWILD” was found Monday dead in his 1984 Ford Bronco along with his uncle Dale Gandee, 48, and a third unidentified person, authorities said.

Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department Cpl. B.D. Humphreys said the bodies were found in a muddy area off of Wood Pen Drive in Sissonville, W.Va. Investigators had been searching for the men after family members had reported them missing.

Gandee and his uncle were last seen leaving Larry’s Bar in Sissonville around 3 a.m. Authorities said the two told people they were going four-wheeling.

Humphrey’s said state police almost called in an aviation unit when the Kanawha County Sherrif’s Office got a call about a vehicle in a wooded area not far from Gandee’s home.

Gandee’s truck was found in a ditch with all three men inside. The condition

of the bodies was not given. The causes of death are still under investigation.

Humphrey’s said foul play was not suspected.

Sabrina Tharp, senior, has watched “BUCKWILD” through the course of the first season.

“From what I can see, Shain was a really sweet guy — kind of wild — but that’s the show.”

Tharp said she was on buzzfeed.com when she first read about the sudden death of “Gandee Candy.”

“I immediately tried to find every article possible just to find out if it was really true,” Tharp said. “I felt really bad for his family. He was my age, that’s really young and he really hasn’t gotten to live much.”

Lauren Burgess, senior, said Gandee was her favorite character on the show.

“He was just real genuine and down to earth,” Burgess said.

Burgess said her boyfriend had texted her about the news.

“My boyfriend met him at the flea market a couple weeks ago. It’s so sad,”

Burgess said. “I’ve seen some mean things on Twitter, but I would just say to his family not to pay attention to that, keep it a family ordeal and sorry for their loss.”

Jenna Midkiff, junior, said Gandee was sweet, funny and genuinely country.

“I liked when he picked Cara the flower, that was my favorite part,” Midkiff said. “I’m from a place myself where they all like to have fun like that — going mudding and acting crazy.”

A spokesperson for MTV said in a statement, “We are shocked and saddened by the terrible news about Shain Gandee, and those involved in this tragic incident. We are waiting for more information but at this time, our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Shain had a magnetic personality, with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly.”

Kaylin Searles can be contacted at searles1@marshall.edu.

The Hindenburg Experience

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The Final Tango Left to Right: Brianna Williams, Jared Layman, Chris McConaha, Andrew O’Neal and John Bruce perform the Light(saber) Cavalry at Smith Music Hall, Monday.

By REBECCA STEPHENS

THE PARTHENON The Hindenburg Experience, a Marshall University trombone quartet, performed a unique concert Monday night in Smith Recital Hall.

The goal of the concert was to provide the audience with a memorable, laugh-filled evening.

“We’ve always wanted to have a recital of our own,” Jared Layman, senior music education major, said. “It was just a

dream of ours to do something ridiculous.”

Layman said that most of the ideas came from experimenting in rehearsals.

Andrew O’Neal, second-year graduate student, arranged most of the pieces, such as performances of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” He also composed his own piece, “Song for Jared.”

O’Neal said the quartet started working on the pieces for the concert at the beginning

of the semester, and rehearsed every day for the last eight days.

O’Neal, who graduates in May, said he hopes he’s left his mark, and that people will remember this concert and The Hindenburg Experience.

“Everyone I’ve talked to seemed to like it,” O’Neal said.

“I think the laughter spoke for itself. Also good music. I think the good music legitimizes the humor.”

Layman and O’Neal are two of the original members of The

Hindenburg Experience, which started in 2009.

“I wanted to have a trombone quartet,” Layman said.

Layman said he hopes the quartet continues after he and O’Neal have graduated.

“I hope the music continues,” Layman said. “I feel like we have a good group dynamic going, and I would hate to see it end.”

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

NCAAD brings awareness to alcohol abuse

By SHANE BIAS

THE PARTHENON The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence sponsors alcohol Awareness Month every April. The NCADD uses the month to spark conversations regarding alcohol among students.

According to the NCADD, alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States. 17.6 million people, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence.

Sam Ferguson, member of Students Against Drunk Driving, said he sees the negative effect of alcohol frequently in college.

“Being an active member of a college, I always encounter students under the influence of alcohol,” Ferguson said. “Alcohol Awareness Month is important to open up the conversation about the negative affects that alcohol can potentially have on your body and decision making skills.”

According to madd.org there have been 557 DUI fatalities in the past 5 years in West Virginia alone.

Gabriel Hoverman, computer science major, said he knows the negative affects of alcohol consumption.

“I know what an excessive amount of alcohol can do to your

brain,” Hoverman said. “I think that a lot of students though really aren’t aware that their actions can not only harm them but harm others.”

Ferguson said if students are going to drink, keeping track of the amount could help prevent any serious consequences.

“If you can limit the amount you drink, to one drink or so, that would be ideal,” Ferguson said.

“But ultimately, if you are just keeping track of the amount of drinks your consuming and don’t over consume, you will be better off.”

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Hoverman said he has a friend who has personally been affected by too much alcohol.

“I have experienced first hand what bad alcohol decisions can do to you,” Hoverman said. “If you are not aware of how much you’re drinking and making good decisions, it really can take your life in seconds.”

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Ferguson said students should just be careful and watch what they consume.

“Students should just use their brain and not do things like drink and drive,” Ferguson said. “One bad decision is not worth the rest of your life.”

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is dedicated to fighting the Nation’s number one health problem, alcoholism, drug addiction and the devastating consequences of alcohol and other drugs on individuals, families and communities.

Shane Bias can be contacted at bias117@marshall.edu.

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‘Justice is death’ for James Holmes, prosecutors say

By JENNY DEAM and MICHAEL MUSKAL

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) The prosecution in the Colorado theater massacre case will seek the death penalty against accused shooter James E. Holmes, rejecting for the time being an attempt by the defense to have him plead guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison.

At a hearing Monday before Chief Judge William Sylvester, the prosecution announced its decision to seek the death penalty.

“In this case for James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,” a grim Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said. As the announcement was made, several people in the courtroom

audience began to cry quietly.

In the overflow room filled with many victims’ relatives, one man clenched his fist as in a victory gesture.

Holmes showed no emotion at the announcement.

Brauchler said his office had reached out to 800 victims and family members. He said he had personally spoken to 60 victims.

As Holmes walked in he glanced into crowd and seemed to catch the eye of his father, who was seated in the courtroom. As the announcement was made, Holmes’ father put his arm around his wife.

Last week, the defense offered to have Holmes plead guilty in exchange for taking the death

penalty off of the table. Prosecutors angrily called that offer an attempt to build support for a plea deal, and Monday’s announcement was not a surprise.

But prosecutors can change their mind at any point and halt what is otherwise expected to be a long and costly legal process.

Prosecutors have said the defense has repeatedly refused to give them the information they need to evaluate the plea agreement.

Holmes, 25, a former neuroscience student, is accused of opening fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., at a packed premiere showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” on July 20, killing 12 people and injuring about 70

others. The massacre horrified the country and helped launch national discussions on gun control, mental illness and capital punishment.

In a court filing last Wednesday, public defenders Daniel King and Tamara Brady said they had a standing offer weeks ago to let Holmes plead guilty without the possibility of parole if Brauchler dropped the death penalty.

“Mr. Holmes is willing to resolve the case to bring the proceedings to a speedy and definite conclusion for all involved,” the filing said.

The defense also said that it will continue to pursue an insanity defense if the prosecution rejects the offer of a guilty plea. If

Holmes is found to be insane or suffer from a mental defect, he cannot be put to death.

But an insanity defense could add months, if not more, to the proceedings, the defense warned.

The trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 5.

The prosecution cried foul over what it called a defense tactic designed to sway public opinion.

“The filing is extremely unusual and unprecedented in that it attempts to involve this court in plea negotiations, in essence saying to the court: ‘If the prosecution does not accept our offer then this court and those associated with this case will suffer by having to endure months of motions and months of a trial,’ “ the

Federal budget cuts to squeeze some states harder than others

By JIM PUZZANGHERA

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U.S President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha watch participants roll eggs during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House Monday.

Thousands join Obamas for Easter egg roll

By KATHERINE SKIBA

CHICAGO TRIBUNE (MCT) Families that lost loved ones to gun violence were among 30,000 guests who joined the Obamas on Monday at a sunsoaked White House Easter Egg Roll.

One of them, Nathaniel Pendleton Jr., 10, whose sister Hadiya was gunned down in January near the Obamas’ home on Chicago’s South Side, played doubles tennis with President Barack Obama.

“I kind of messed up a lot,” the boy said later. The fifthgrader, a novice player, said he takes a racket in hand only about once a year. The president, however, judged his

attempts to hit the ball as a “good job.”

Another attendee was Neil Heslin, who lost his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, in the Newtown, Conn., school massacre in December.

Celebs who turned out included wunderkind Robbie Novak, the “Kid President” from YouTube; Mr. Potato Head; race car driver Danica Patrick; and, of course, the Easter Bunny.

Addressing Novak in front of the crowd, first lady Michelle Obama had an April Fool’s Day joke: “You’re going to spend a little time in the Oval Office just fixing things up for this president, aren’t you?”

Most guests at the 135th annual egg roll won tickets in a lottery, but some went to military families. A native of McHenry, Ill., Marine Staff Sgt. Brad Castle, 28, brought his wife and son, Anthony, 6. They live in the Washington area.

Anthony Castle got to ask President Obama a homework question: How many teams from his bracket made the Final Four?

The answer was one. And Obama’s performance on the basketball court with his guests was even further off.

He made only 2 of 22 shots, according to a press pool report.

Hadiya Pendleton, 15, was slain Jan. 29 a week after

traveling to Washington to perform in Obama’s inauguration festivities.

Michelle Obama attended her funeral and hosted her parents at the State of the Union speech. Her mother, Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, and Nathaniel Pendleton Jr. were at the White House on Thursday when the president urged Congress to act on gun control measures.

The woman brought two sisters, their children and other relatives to the egg roll at the first lady’s invitation. One high point, she said, was watching nieces and nephews play basketball with the president.

“They all had a blast.”

members are working the plan into draft legislation.

The "gang of eight" senators have worked out the major concepts, including placing the 11 million illegal immigrants now in the country on a path to citizenship, beefing up border security, establishing a nationwide system to verify the legal status of workers, punishing businesses that hire illegal immigrants, and allowing more agricultural and highly skilled immigrant workers to stay in the country.

But they still may hit several stumbling blocks, as broad concepts must be turned into specific details that can sustain legal scrutiny. A key aspect of the proposal, for example, is that the borders must be secure before newly legalized

immigrants are put on a path to citizenship. The members must come up with a system to measure border security, and whether they think the borders already are secure enough depends on what side of the aisle they sit on.

The senators also are planning to rewrite the laws to give preference to future immigrants based on potential job skills, with less emphasis on family connections. The system would award points for an immigrant's various characteristics, and it would place greater emphasis than the system does now on the immigrant's ability to make long-term economic contributions.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chairman of the

Senate Judiciary Committee, has agreed to consider the bill later this month, according to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Schumer; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; and other members of the "gang of eight" took to the airwaves Sunday to herald the historic agreement, announce plans to unveil the legislation next week and call on President Barack Obama to help them make their case to the public.

On Monday, Obama applauded the progress and promised to remain engaged.

But he cautioned that the legislation has yet to be presented, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

Immigration plan down to devilish details

By FRANCO ORDONEZ

MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS (MCT) Politics still might get in the way of a final agreement on a bipartisan immigration bill.

Now that labor and business have agreed on an immigrant temporary-worker program, a bipartisan group of eight senators say they've cleared every major policy hurdle and are ready to introduce the most dramatic overhaul to the U.S. immigration system in decades.

But first they have to write the bill, and that's rarely an easy task.

After weeks of speculation that an agreement was in jeopardy amid stalled talks and public bickering between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, Senate staff

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prosecution said in court papers.

The prosecution, insisting it would not be bullied, further complained that it could not begin to entertain a plea deal without information that has been withheld by the defense.

In a related issue, prosecutors also argued in the filing that the defense should not be allowed to try to force a New York reporter to reveal her source for a story about sealed evidence.

The defense can’t complain about leaked information, prosecutors argue, because defense lawyers violated the gag order when they revealed the plea offer in their court filing. A hearing on that matter is also scheduled Monday.

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) With the Pentagon set to whack its share of $85 billion in automatic federal budget cuts last month, it didn’t take long for Velma Searcy to feel the pain. The owner of a Palmdale maker of military aircraft parts saw two contracts quickly evaporate as defense firms pulled back.

Southern California’s aerospace industry is expected to be hit hard by the so-called sequester. Still, the state generally should be able to weather the cuts without major economic damage, experts said.

That’s because California’s economy has become more diverse over the past quarter-century, making it much less dependent on cash flowing from Washington, said Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto.

“We’re still a $2 trillion economy that’s going to sustain a $9 billion-or-so reduction in spending. That’s very, very small,” he said of the effect of the federal budget cuts in California. “It’s going to slow the recovery, but not turn the recovery into a recession.”

A study by the Pew Center on the States found that California ranked below the national average in various categories of federal dependence. For example, 4 percent of the state’s economic output in 2010 came from federal spending on contracts and salaries, compared with the nationwide average of 5.3 percent.

On the other hand, 19.7 percent of the 2010 economic output of Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. combined because of the large number of commuters came from federal spending, partly reflecting government stimulus efforts during and after the Great Recession.

That percentage was the highest in the nation, followed by Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico and Kentucky.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected the cuts the first of $1.2 trillion in cuts over the

coming decade would lower the nation’s economic output by about 0.5 percentage point this year and cause the loss of about 750,000 jobs.

The effect, however, won’t be uniform across the country.

“It varies regionally,” said Bart Van Ark, chief economist at the Conference Board. “The Northeast is not very dependent on federal employees.

Neither is California.”

California’s economy is much different than it was 25 years ago when it was dotted with more military bases and the defense-dependent aerospace industry was a much more significant driver of the greater Los Angeles-area economy.

The biggest loss of aerospace jobs came in the recession of the early 1990s, which hit the state much harder and longer than it did in the rest of the nation.

In 1990, Levy estimated, California had about 250,000 civilians working on military bases and about 450,000 people in aerospace and private military-related jobs.

Now, there are about 64,000 civilian military base employees in the state and about 162,000 private aerospace and defense workers.

“We’re not the defense monolith we were for many years,” Levy said.

Technology and Asianbased trade and tourism have become much larger components of the state’s economy, helping reduce its dependence on Washington.

About 2.8 percent of the state’s total economic output in 2010 came from federal military spending, below the 3.5 percent national average, according to the Pew study.

A good chunk of that spending is in the Antelope Valley. Large aerospace firms such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. have facilities in Palmdale, as do smaller subcontractors such as Searcy’s Aerowire Technical Services Inc. “Everything revolves around aerospace around here,” Searcy said.

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Herd set for round two vs. Mountaineers

Red Sox rout Yankees 8-2 on Opening Day

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ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Unlike in other sports, the Marshall baseball team gets multiple chances this year to beat in-state rival, WVU. After the Thundering Herd’s demanding shutout of the Mountaineers back in March, the team will travel to Morgantown Tuesday for the second contest of the three game series.

“We know going into this WVU is going to be ready to try and even the series,” senior designated hitter Alfredo Brito said of the matchup. “We need to be focused and not let emotions take over; just play the game the way we know how to play.”

The Herd held WVU to two hits in its 8-0 victory, but outfielder Chase Vogelbach is not letting his guard down for game two.

“That wasn’t the best West Virginia can play, and now that we’ve beaten them they are going to want to beat us even more,” Vogelbach said. “We’re going to have to come out with the same intensity as last time and play a solid game all the way around.”

Freshman southpaw Alex Thackston will get the start tomorrow.

The left hander has made four starts this year with eight total appearances and supports a 3.86 ERA. Marshall is coming off a 1-2 performance in its first conference weekend against 2012 C-USA champion UAB. “Despite losing the series, we learned a lot,” Brito said. “We learned we can be a very good team. We are as talented as any team we have faced, we just have to put complete games together — hitting, pitching, defense, cut out all the mistakes. All of that will translate into us being the great team I know we can be.”

Brito reached a career milestone over the weekend, starting in his 100th game for the Herd, but the start came with bittersweet feelings for the Miami native.

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“It was my last ‘first series’,” Brito said. “But I couldn’t get caught up in that. It’s a sweet and sour feeling — I was excited we finally started conference play but at the same time, knowing that this is my last year wearing a Marshall jersey is tough to grasp. Especially for how long I’ve been playing this game.”

The Mountaineers have won six straight and swept New Orleans over the weekend.

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MU diver shares student athlete experience

By KELCIE COBURN

THE PARTHENON Throughout early morning practices, days full of classes and weekends occupied with swimming and diving meets, senior diver, Lauren Rone, has made her years as a student athlete truly count.

Rone started her diving career nine years ago in her hometown of Aurora, Colo.

Her talent led her to Marshall University where she has been since her freshman year. When she first started her career as a student athlete, Rone had set some remarkable goals for herself.

“I wanted to be able to break the school record in each diving event and final at Conference USA championships in all three events,” Rone said.

Within her career, she did just that. Rone holds the Marshall University school record for the one meter dive, which she broke three times over the course of her time at Marshall.

“I also broke the platform diving record on my last day at conference, which was a wonderful way to end my career,” Rone said.

Rone’s record-breaking accomplishments are something to be proud of but she said her proudest moment was making it through her college years while being a student athlete.

“Making it as a student athlete for four years, it was the most challenging and rewarding thing I have ever done,” Rone said.

Being able to say I’m a senior and graduating as a student athlete is my biggest accomplishment.”

Rone said staying ahead on schoolwork and finding time for friends and one’s self, is really important as a student athlete.

“It is a lot to handle. Balancing time between school and traveling for meets can be very challenging,” Rone said. “Staying organized and on top of schoolwork is really important too. It’s hard to find time to spend with friends, but also just time for yourself.”

Rone recently had surgery to correct a chronic wrist pain she had dealt for years.

Jaimie Holmquist, senior advertising major, has been Rone’s teammate and friend since their freshman year at Marshall.

“Well, she’s been dealing with the pain

really well,” Holmquist said. “I’m just glad she got the opportunity to end her diving career on a positive note. She struggled with the wrist pain all four years, but never quit.”

Despite the challenge of adjusting to coaching changes over the years, Rone was able to overcome obstacles and be the accomplished diver she is today.

Rone said she owes her success to her diving coach. The relationship she had built with him was one of her favorite parts about being on the team.

“I really owe all of my success to him. I could not have done any of it without him,” Rone said.

Aside from her busy routine, Rone is a member of Gamma Beta Phi National Honors Society. She is also an active member of the Rape Aggression Defense system on campus and a student representative of the Sexual Assault Response Team, both of which promote women’s self-defense and safety.

In May, Rone will add to her achievements and graduate with a double major in management and economics.

Kelcie Coburn can be contacted at coburn15@marshall.edu.

Louisville’s Ware feels the love as he recovers from surgery

By SHANNON RYAN

CHICAGO TRIBUNE (MCT) Louisville guard Kevin Ware, who suffered a gruesome leg injury in Sunday's Elite Eight victory, received a phone call from someone who can relate.

"He got some phone calls from Joe Theismann, who went through the same type of injury," Cardinals coach Rick Pitino said. "A lot of really positive calls that are making him feel good."

Ware was recovering in an Indianapolis hospital after undergoing surgery Sunday night after his leg bones snapped when he landed awkwardly in the battle with Duke.

Pitino said Ware is expected to make a full recovery, but it will be a long one. Ware plans to travel with the team to the Final Four in Atlanta, where he will sit on the bench with the team.

The freak injury was caused by the way Ware landed.

"Basically he got up in the air and (when he landed) his leg went one way and his shoe went another and the bone split," Pitino said. "There's no pre-existing thing that makes it do that."

Ware is upbeat, Pitino said.

"He's terrific," he said. "He's in great spirits."

Ware tweeted on Monday: "I'm thankful for all the support I'm receiving right now. Never thought I'd be the talk of the country."

Ware is walking on crutches to help

NEWSDAY (MCT) The cloud that settled over the Yankees before spring training even started only grew darker on Opening Day. Their ace didn't have it and their offense unsurprisingly had even less in an 8-2 loss to the Red Sox on Monday in front of a Stadium crowd of 49,514 that included managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner.

At least at the start. By the end of the afternoon, one featuring plummeting temperatures, a cold mist and Boston piling it on, only Red Sox fans and Yankees die-hards remained.

"If I'm a fan and it started to rain, I'd run away, too," said Francisco Cervelli, who produced the Yankees' only two runs with a two-out, tworun single in the fourth. "It was cold."

Before the game, sun splashed the field, warmed by temperatures in the low 60s, accompanied by optimism appropriate for the time of the year.

"We expect to win, that's the bottom line," Joe Girardi said beforehand, speaking of the dire preseason expectations set for his team. "It starts today."

Instead, the "it" was what fans have feared all offseason: a mostly punchless offense, one that struck out 10 times.

"We've got 161 more to go," said longtime Red Sox infielder Kevin Youkilis, who went 1-for-4 in his Yankees debut, including a double, and heard "Youuukkk" chants most of the day. "There's a lot of games you just throw out the window. Any loss to me is a game I throw out."

Said Girardi: "It's one game, that's the conclusion I draw from it. I don't make too much of it."

Girardi sent out a lineup missing standouts Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez, all of whom are on the disabled list. The latter appeared with his teammates for the first time since Game 4 of last year's ALCS. Girardi had his challenges even before players started landing on the DL - more than 100 home runs departed in the offseason, led by Nick Swisher's 24 - and the production from Monday's lineup didn't inspire.

"We're a different type of lineup, there's no doubt about that," he said. "We're not a club that is just going to hit home runs. We're going to have to score runs other ways."

CC Sabathia, never more important to the Yankees than he is this year, had another Opening Day to forget. He entered the afternoon 1-1 with a 5.66 ERA in nine career Opening Day starts, including 0-1 with a 7.48 ERA in four starts with the Yankees, and pitched to those numbers.

Sabathia, roughed up in a 34-pitch, four-run second inning that put his team in a 4-0 hole, made it through five innings, allowing those four runs, eight hits and four of the eight walks given up by five Yankees pitchers. He struck out five.

Boston starter Jon Lester was better in his five innings, allowing two runs and five hits, striking out seven and walking two.

"You always want to pitch well and try to give your team a chance to win," Sabathia said, "and I didn't do that today."

Cervelli saw it another way.

"Only four runs," he said. "We gotta hit."

The Red Sox did more of that, collecting 13 hits to the Yankees' six. The key inning was the second, when Sabathia walked two and allowed a run-scoring infield hit by Jose Iglesias, a twoout, two-run single by Shane Victorino and an RBI single

by Dustin Pedroia. The Yankees cut the deficit to 4-2 in the fourth when Cervelli delivered a bases-loaded single, making him 7-for-10 in those situations.

With the Yankees trailing 5-2, Cervelli and Brett Gardner walked to begin the seventh but Eduardo Nunez, Robinson Cano and Youkilis struck out.

An erratic Joba Chamberlain walked two as the Red Sox scored three in the ninth on Jacoby Ellsbury's two-out, two-run infield single and Victorino's RBI single.

"We had a few chances," Cano said. "But after one game, you don't want to put your head down. You have to keep fighting and be ready for Wednesday and put this game behind."

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blood flow, and doctors are monitoring him to prevent infection.

"Right before the surgery, when he was able to watch the players at the press conference, the nurses and doctors told me that was the first time he broke down and cried, when the players were talking about him," Pitino said.

Pitino took the Final Four trophy to Ware in the hospital.

"He was real excited about it," he said. "I said to him, 'You want me to bring it back or stay with you?' He said, 'It's staying with me.' I said, 'All right, just make sure you don't lose it.' He's very excited."

Who are these guys? With Wichita starting this season with nine new players after losing its top five scorers, few had

high expectations for the Shockers. When they lost three straight in the Missouri Valley Conference, coach Gregg Marshall had questions of his own.

"This has been quite an enjoyable ride with this group," he said. "We didn't really know what we had. This group all season long has had a great spirit about them.

They developed a toughness. ... When we lost that third game on a controversial call at Southern Illinois, I'm thinking, 'Oh, boy, we may have just shot our chances to get in the NCAA tournament right in the foot.' " Marshall said he doesn't consider the No. 9 Shockers, who will play No. 1 Louisville on Saturday in the Final Four, a Cinderella.

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Supreme Court-induced chaos on gay marriage?

By DOYLE MCMANUS

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) If the Supreme Court decides the two gay marriage cases it heard last week the way most court watchers believe it will, expect legal and political chaos.

The court seems ready to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, while ruling quite narrowly on California’s Proposition 8, allowing a lower-court decision to stand.

Such an outcome would make gay marriage legal in California without deciding whether state bans on same-sex marriage are constitutional.

But there will be one big difference: Gays who live in states that allow gay marriage may have an array of federal privileges unavailable to those living in states that ban such marriages. And that raises complex questions.

What happens to two gay men who marry in New York and then move to Salt Lake City? Will they still be married?

If they have children, will the kids have two parents under Utah law? And will their federal benefits, such as survivors’ Social Security benefits, travel with them, even though they’ve moved to a state where their marriage isn’t valid? Will they file their federal tax returns jointly but state returns separately? And don’t even think about the issue of divorce.

This kind of legal patchwork virtually guarantees that politicians in states that don’t recognize gay marriage will be debating and legislating the issue for years, making for an even more confusing situation. The ensuing chaos could harm more than just gay couples; the Republican Party stands to lose too.

Gay marriage has been embraced by a substantial majority of Democrats and Democratic politicians. In blue states, the trend lines suggest that opinion among Democrats will soon be so one-sided that it will cease to be an issue.

It’s different in the GOP. Most

Republicans still oppose samesex marriage by a wide margin, with only about a quarter in favor in a recent Pew Research Center poll. But the survey also suggests that the issue will grow as a wedge that divides the party, in part because of a big generational divergence: 76 percent of Republicans over 65 oppose gay marriage, while only 54 percent of those under 30 do.

And when the question is changed from marriage to equal rights, the wedge potential is even clearer: Republicans divide right down the middle as to whether homosexual couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples, 49 percent to 48 percent, with young people again more permissive than older voters.

The best course for a presidential candidate, the fundraiser said, is to try to duck the issue.

Paradoxically, this means a bold Supreme Court ruling recognizing a constitutional right to gay marriage might be best for the GOP in practical terms — because it would put the issue beyond the reach of legislation. If the court leaves the issue up to the states, that would give presidential candidates a states’ rights place to hide — but they would still be pressed to take a clear position in caucus and primary states such as Iowa and South Carolina.

“You can believe that homosexuality is a sin and still believe that same-sex marriage can be legal,” Timothy Keller, pastor of the conservative Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, told me at a conference sponsored by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

That segment of the population — culturally conservative but increasingly libertarian on matters of law — may be the one to watch as the debate over gay marriage rolls on unabated even after the court makes up its mind.

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Editorial: Reaching Out to North Korea LOS ANGELES TIMES Appeared in L.A. Times on April 1, 2013 President Obama’s recent Middle East trip showed what good things can result from thoughtful, direct presidential involvement.

The president addressed young Israelis, reassured allies in the region and brokered an Israeli apology to Turkey for a deadly raid on a flotilla attempting to take supplies to Gaza.

The president should employ that same sort of diplomacy toward North Korea.

An increasingly dangerous confrontation is building between the United States and North Korea. The outrageous rhetoric pouring out of Pyongyang makes it difficult to do anything more than dismiss North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un. But abandoning diplomacy would be extremely dangerous. The North Koreans are convinced that nuclear weapons are the only thing keeping them safe from a U.S. attack, and recent flights of nuclear-capable U.S. warplanes over the Korean peninsula only hardened that conviction.

As distasteful as it may seem, we need to talk directly with the North Koreans. They will not give up their nuclear weapons at this juncture, and for the United States to demand that they do so as a precondition for talks will

only lead to greater tension, including the possibility of a military explosion. Would it not be better to negotiate a peace treaty?

The George W. Bush administration took the position that engagement with Pyongyang would reward bad behavior, and that seems to be the approach of the Obama administration too. But though the North Koreans often sound like belligerent lunatics, there are certainly many reasons to engage, particularly on a peace treaty, an idea Kim Jong Un might well embrace.

I have been dealing with Korean issues for 40 years, since I arrived as the CIA’s chief of station in Seoul. Later, from 1989 to 1993, I served as ambassador to South Korea.

And time and again I saw diplomacy work where confrontation would have failed.

In August 1973, U.S. Ambassador Philip Habib learned that opposition leader Kim Dae-jung had been kidnapped in Tokyo and was on a small boat about to be thrown into the sea. It was widely assumed (and later confirmed) that South Korea’s intelligence service, the KCIA, was responsible.

But Habib did not jump into his sedan and confront autocratic President Park Chunghee with an accusation. Habib first wrote Park a letter, giving him time to construct

a response that kept Kim alive and enabled Park to deflect responsibility for the kidnapping.

In December 1980, I witnessed close up a confrontation that failed. Kim Dae-jung had, at that point, been sentenced to death on trumped-up charges of treason. Outgoing President Jimmy Carter sent Defense Secretary Harold Brown and me to Seoul to confront South Korea’s president, Chun Doohwan, on the matter. Our instructions were to tell him, essentially, to release Kim “or else.”

This approach failed utterly, and Kim was on the verge of execution. The incoming Reagan administration, led by Richard V. Allen, was astute enough to offer Chun a visit to the White House to keep Kim alive. In order to see Reagan, Chun released Kim, who went on to become South Korea’s president and receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Granted, these experiences were in South Korea, a place very different from its northern neighbor. But diplomacy works around the world. We can’t simply order Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear ambitions. Dialogue is needed, and Obama should reach out to those who have negotiated successfully with North Korea to help craft an approach.

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Reproductive rights: A pressing issue for women

By JOCELYN GIBSON

COLUMNIST A huge issue facing women today is reproductive rights.

It seems unclear at this point whether women will continue to have the same freedom to make choices regarding their own bodies that they have been granted in the past.

The most worrisome factor in this equation is that more women are not outraged by the possibility of limiting their rights.

In fact, it is appalling the number of women who do not see this as an issue worth fighting for.

Women, as well as men, are afraid of feminism even if it means standing up for themselves, even if feminism means equality and not burning bras.

People do not want to accept it as something positive, and they do not want to acknowledge

that it might be a positive label.

Women need to learn how to embrace feminism as something that can help them. If no one is willing to stand up and say it is not okay to restrict reproductive rights for women, then it will happen and women will suffer.

We are seeing many states take matters more seriously and start restricting reproductive rights for residents. At the start of March, Arkansas adopted the country’s strictest abortion law — banning it after 12 weeks. Federal law allows abortion up to 24 weeks.

Additionally, a bill up for debate in Missouri specifies that medical professionals can deny performing any service that is in conflict with their personal morals or conscious. The bill includes in those services:

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Abortion, abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, sterilization which is not medically necessary, assisted reproduction, human cloning, human embryonic stem-cell research, human somatic cell nuclear transfer, fetal tissue research and non-therapeutic fetal experimentation.

Many reproductive rights activists are concerned what affect the bill will have on the ability of rape victims to obtain emergency contraception.

While those in the business of medical ethics say it is a clear deviation from the job of a medical professional.

As can be seen, reproductive rights are a prominent issue at hand today, and laws restricting them are rapidly increasing. That is precisely the reason that women need

to start considering what that means to them. These new laws, bans and restrictions will not affect the men who are proposing and advocating them. So, women must decide whether they are comfortable with someone else deciding what is right for their bodies.

Should women sit back and let the government decide when and why they need abortions or emergency contraception? Is that part of their job description? Is there aim to protect women or deny them their rights? What will be next?

Forced c-sections and birth control prohibition? These are all questions women must ask themselves as women and as voting citizens of this country.

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“I don’t see myself closing down, but (I do) see myself having to be really slim,” she said. “We were headed in a good direction, and now, unless someone comes through on my commercial side, it’s going to be tough for a while.”

Virginia, Maryland and Washington benefited for years from growth in federal spending and now are poised to be hurt worse than any other region.

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Supreme Court won't hear Spirit Airlines' appeal of ad price policy

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MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS (MCT) Feisty ad tactics from Florida-based Spirit Airlines won't become a First Amendment test for the Supreme Court after all.

In a case closely watched by the airline industry and free-speech advocates alike, the court declined Monday to hear Spirit's challenge to federal mandates on how prices are advertised. The court's decision effectively upholds Department of Transportation rules opposed by several airlines and civil libertarians who are concerned about government controls over commercial speech.

"We are disappointed and disagree with the decision," Misty Pinson, Spirit's director of corporate communications, said in an email Monday. "American consumers are going to pay more for air travel, and have less choice, as the government continues to pile costly new rules onto an already over-regulated and overtaxed industry."

At the same time, Pinson added that the company "will continue to be in compliance with the rules."

Allegiant Air spokeswoman Jessica Wheeler said that "we're certainly disappointed by the court's decision."

Southwest Airlines spokesman Chris Mainz likewise added that the company is "disappointed in the court's decision" but will "remain in full compliance."

Spirit, joined by Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air, opposed the federal rule that spells out how ticket prices are listed in ads.

Among other things, the rule essentially prohibits airlines from overemphasizing the role that taxes play in a ticket's total cost. The airlines argued that the rule violates free-speech rights.

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Indeed, one member of the bipartisan team, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who's frequently mentioned as a 2016 presidential contender, appeared to be distancing himself from his excited colleagues.

"Reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature," he said in a statement Sunday.

Rubio faces a dilemma. He's a favorite of die-hard conservatives, who have a strong say in Republican politics. But if he has national ambitions, he also must show broad appeal, particularly to the center-right, and immigration might be a key part of such a strategy.

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"Such a government effort to micromanage how speakers communicate the burdens of taxation would raise serious First Amendment concerns in any industry, but they are doubly problematic in an industry Congress specifically chose to deregulate," Spirit's attorneys wrote in a legal brief.

Underscoring the high stakes, the attorney who represented Spirit in its thwarted Supreme Court challenge was former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement, who argued before the Supreme Court last week on the Defense of Marriage Act case.

The International Air Transport Association likewise had urged the court to review the rules that it said extended "down to the size of typeface." Libertarian-minded lawyers with the Cato Institute and other free-market groups said the Spirit Airlines case offered the court a chance to clarify broader questions about controls on commercial speech.

Obama administration officials argued, with apparent success, that the court should leave the airline advertising rules alone.

"The regulation was a reasonable exercise of the agency's authority and imposes little or no burden on airlines' ability to communicate truthful information," Justice Department attorneys wrote, adding that airlines can still "provide information to customers about taxes."

Spirit Airlines' website, for instance, is still able to characterize taxes as the "government's cut," in type slightly smaller than the total ticket price.

Four of the court's nine justices must agree for a case to be heard. The Supreme

questioned whether Rubio was trying to lay the groundwork for removing himself from the group, but analysts such as Lance deHaven-Smith said Rubio had too much to lose.

The political science professor at Florida State University described Rubio as acting like a "reluctant bride."

Rubio can't afford to lose Hispanic support by walking away from the agreement, deHaven said.

"But on the other hand, if he rushes to this with open arms and culminates the marriage with glee, he alienates the tea party. He's going to the altar with his head down and shuffling," the professor said.

The gang of eight senators began crafting ideas for an immigration overhaul after the November elections, in which Hispanics

Court hears only about 75 cases annually, out of about 8,000 petitions received.

With headquarters in Miramar, Fla., about 20 miles north of Miami, Spirit has long burnished its reputation as a lowcost carrier with provocative, and at times controversial, advertising. Past ads, for instance, have played off salacious scandals involving golfer Tiger Woods and the Secret Service.

Advertising ticket prices poses a different kind of controversy.

Since 1984, the Department of Transportation has required that advertised airline ticket prices disclose the "entire price," including taxes. Airlines formerly could list the ticket prices and taxes separately, leaving it up to the consumer to add up the total.

In 2010, the department elaborated that while the airlines could list taxes separately, they couldn't list the tax component "prominently" or "in the same or larger size as the total price." Officials said they feared that airlines would manipulate ads so the taxes overshadowed the total cost. Airlines countered that they wanted to draw attention to rising taxes and fees, which now account for about 20 percent of a typical ticket's total cost.

In its decision Monday, issued without explanation, the Supreme Court effectively upheld a lower court's decision that sided with the Department of Transportation.

"This prevents airlines from confusing consumers about the total cost of their travel," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said last year, in a 2-1 decision, adding that "the rule is aimed at providing accurate information, not restricting it."

voted overwhelmingly for Obama over Republican Mitt Romney.

The agreed-on guest worker proposal initially would provide 20,000 visas. The numbers would increase later, based on market demands and unemployment numbers, but wouldn't exceed 200,000 per year.

"With the agreement between business and labor, every major policy issue has been resolved on the gang of eight," Schumer said Sunday on NBC. "Now everyone, we've all agreed that we're not going to come to a final agreement until we see draft legislative language and we agree on that."

The other senators in the group are Democrats Richard Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Arizona Republicans Jeff Flake and John McCain.

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"Cinderella found one glass slipper," he said. "We won four games. I don't think she found four glass slippers. Cinderella usually wins a game or two. Much like Butler a couple seasons ago, when you get to this point, you're good enough to win it all."

Going way back: Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim was an upand-comer establishing the Orange as a top-notch program.

John Beilein was in the NAIA ranks at Le Moyne College in Syracuse in the 1980s and early '90s wondering if he'd ever get a shot at coaching in Division I. Beilein credits Boeheim as being a supporter during his early years.

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Continued from Page 3 Still, Vogelbach is not intimidated.

“We’re a lot better than our record shows,” Vogelbach said. “We’ve lost several one run games and we are just a few small mistakes away from having a much better record.”

WVU is led by junior outfielder Jacob Rice, who is hitting .391 with eleven doubles this season. Rice was held hitless against the Herd in the

instance, Ed Jesson’s information technology services company, OBXtek Inc., may be forced to lay off as many as 15 employees from its 178-member workforce.

Because Jesson is a disabled Army veteran, the company he founded in 2009 qualified for special federal contracts.

The company’s revenue grew to nearly $30 million last year from about $6 million four years ago, and it added 84 employees last year.

Now, as layoffs loom, he said he sees the dependence both he and the state have had on federal contracts as a “vulnerability.”

He won’t know for sure how much business his firm will lose until federal agencies announce their decisions. In the meantime, he’s holding back.

“We’re very judicious on the supplies we buy,” he said, “and we’re basically just not spending money on things we could use that aren’t an inherent need to our operations.”

Final Four as coaches of No. 4 seeds with Beilein now leading Michigan.

"Jim would be in the stands watching a game on occasion," Beilein said. "I had a couple of clinics at Le Moyne, he helped me, brought his team over.

He really helped me get the Canisius job, no question. I was a borderline candidate. He really got me on the board. Ended up getting the job. That was 20 years ago. So I owe him a lot, and admire him a lot as well."

Boeheim said he isn't surprised by Beilein's success.

"I remember him at Erie, Le Moyne, Canisius, Richmond, you name it," he said. "West Virginia. He's won at every place he's been. That's difficult to do.” first meeting earlier this year.

Marshall will face the Moutaineers at Hawley Stadium and first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. The Herd will be back out on the road Wednesday when they travel to Richmond, Ky., to face off against Eastern Kentucky University in a single game matchup.

Freshman Brandyn Sittinger is scheduled to make his first start of the year.

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Scher said he would prefer Marshall open up its parking ports as free parking areas.

“I think that Marshall should just open up the parking lots for its students, free of charge,” Scher said. “They are probably pretty much paid for, expect for possibly the new one, so I don’t see a need to continue to charge the students so much to use them.”

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THE PARTHENON Huntington has gotten a little sweeter over the past couple of years since the opening of gourmet bakery Paula Vega Cakes in 2011.

Located at 308 Ninth St., Paula Vega Cakes offers fresh-baked daily cupcakes, brownies and made to order specialty cakes.

Cupcakes come in a large variety of flavors with new assortments daily and seasonally.

Springtime flavors currently available range anywhere from lemon blueberry to vanilla bean to red velvet. Filling such as strawberry with fresh berries or chocolate ganache makes up the center of each cupcake. This sweet little treat is topped off with whipped, airy frosting.

Paula Vega, owner, gave a little twist to her usual cupcakes buy adding Easter

eggs and pastel colors to show some holiday spirit.

“Business has been really consistent,” Vega said.

Vega has been baking ever since she can remember, but baking hasn’t always been her profession. The former Miss West Virginia traded in her 16 year, parttime job as a registered nurse at Cabell Huntington Hospital to fulfill her passion of baking.

“When I worked in the hospital I would always bring in red velvet cake on midnight shift,” Vega said. “People just started giving me cake orders from work.”

After taking a cake decorating class Vega said her cakes started to look like what they tasted like.

“That’s when the real orders started coming in, bridal showers, weddings, professional birthdays,” Vega said. “I kept reducing my hours at work to bake,

eventually the baking took over my nursing and I started to cook from home.

I loved nursing, but I love baking more.”

Outrageous cake orders are just part of the daily routine at the bakery.

“We make cakes anywhere from wine bottles to pregnant bellies,” Vega said.

“We did a redneck princess cake that was pink and camouflage with a tiara on top.”

If you’re up to the test, staff members will assess you in a “cupcake challenge.” Saying “cupcake” 10 times in five seconds will reward you with a complimentary cupcake.

Bri Huddleson, junior, works at Paula Vega Cakes and has put people to the “cupcake challenge.”

“Surprisingly a lot of people can do it,” Huddleson said. “Kids really like it and people like to film their families members doing it.”

Huddleson likes the family friendly atmosphere being at work provides, and said she believes that’s why customers come back.

“It brings a support of small business to Huntington,” Huddleson said. “When you go in there chances are you’ll see the same faces as the time before.”

Meredith Ferry, junior, enjoys the assortment of cupcakes, but favors the brownie al dulce de leche the most.

“There is a huge variety,” Ferry said.

“They’re made in store instead of being made in some factory. They are delicious and it’s a fun place to go to.”

The month of April brings a new cupcake, lavender honey, sold for “Cupcakes for a Cure.” One dollar of each will be donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Kaylin Searles can be contacted at searles1@marshall.edu.

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April Fools’ Day, fool or be fooled

By JESSICA PATTERSON

THE PARTHENON On April Fools’ Day, people have two options — fool or be fooled. Grant Gilliland, an undecided freshman from Ashville, Ohio, said he decided to get an early start on the holiday fun.

“At midnight last night, I went to my buddy Doug’s room and told him I won $2,000 on a lottery ticket,” Gilliland said.

“After they found out it was a prank, they tackled me.”

Doug Prather, a freshman education major from Charleston, said he got his hopes up with Gilliland’s original news.

“First of all, I was really excited because I was ready to take a trip to the beach this

weekend,” Prather said, “Then he told me it wasn’t true, and I was really upset because I realized I wasn’t going to get to the beach after all.”

Kaitlyn Hartford, a sophomore graphic design and animation major, said she was waiting to be an innocent bystander for a prank.

“I think my friend is about to prank my boyfriend. I don’t know how, but I think it’s going to happen soon,” Hartford said. “Last night he mentioned over a phone call that it was April Fool’s Day, and my boyfriend just looked at me with fear in his eyes.”

Patrick Knake, a freshman physics major from Huntington, said he was

plotting revenge on his pranker.

“Someone I know told me class was cancelled, but then I found out from another friend that it wasn’t. I was very frustrated because I had to go to class, and I made it by a hair,” Knake said. “I’m going to get him back, but it’s going to be something. Maybe something food related, but when you get joked on, you have to joke the joker.”

Cole Johnson, a freshman criminal justice major from Sissonville, W.Va., and member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, said his prank was to tell his girlfriend he was being deployed.

“I told my girlfriend I had to

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go to Korea to guard a U.S. embassy, and she didn’t think it was as funny as I did,” Johnson said.

Kelsey Chaffin, a freshman political science major from Proctorville, Ohio, said she was not happy with Johnson’s idea of a practical joke.

“I was real mad because that’s just not funny. It could be serious,” Chaffin said.

“Payback will be a lot worse, I don’t know what yet, but it will be a lot worse.”

Despite disagreements about April Fool’s Day jokes, students still spent the day laughing about the pranks.

Jessica Patterson can be contacted at patterson73@ marshall.edu.

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