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‘I Deeply Apologize’

President Kopp speaks out in an interview with The Parthenon

Kopp apologizes for sudden account sweeps, says he was ‘ill-advised’

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-An email from President Kopp was released to university employees stating that all revenue accounts had been swept, leaving only $5,000 in those accounts. In total, 122 accounts were impacted and $5,985,168.86 was put into a holding account. In addition, Kopp initiated a hiring freeze.

By MARCUS CONSTANTINO

THE PARTHENON Marshall University president Stephen J. Kopp took a step back today on budget conservation measures he implemented without warning Tuesday, April 9, including a sweep of all departmental revenue accounts and a freeze on non-essential hiring.

“It was not the right way to do it,” Kopp said. He apologized for not consulting deans, faculty or the Board of Governors before moving nearly $6 million from individual departments to a centralized fund.

“Quite honestly, it was a mistake, and it was something I regret that we did. We should not have done things that way,” Kopp said. “We should have consulted with the departments and so on. Obviously, retrospectively, it was the wrong move and I deeply apologize for it.”

The apology comes after students took to social media last week condemning the lack of transparency in Kopp’s decision. Deans also took opposition to the move during a deans’ meeting Thursday, April 11. Charles Sumerville, dean of the College of Science, said he felt a “complete lack of trust” following Kopp’s decision.

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President Kopp sits down with The Parthenon, Wednesday, to speak out about the recent account sweeps and the financial state of the university.

Kopp insists the decision was not made out of a lack of trust, but instead out of the need to better manage the university’s finances going into the future.

“This was not an expression of distrust,” Kopp said. “I have absolute confidence in our deans and our chairs. They have done a great job.”

Kopp said Marshall’s state appropriations for the next fiscal year have yet to be determined in the state legislature, but he expects a $5 million reduction in state appropriations for Fiscal Years

2013 and 2014 and does not expect the reductions to end there.

The Marshall University Board of Governors is introducing new proposed budget parameters today that would direct institutional revenue into central institutional funds rather than departmental funds.

The proposal will be read at the Board of Governors meeting Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center.

Faculty will then have the opportunity to ask questions, motions or statements limited to five minutes. Faculty members must sign-up to speak on a first-come basis before the meeting.

Motions may be made and seconded during this time, but will be voted upon by the general faculty through an e-vote following the meeting.

Larsen said the meeting will be broadcast live through Livestream for those who cannot attend the meeting.

Due to a large conference on campus, the meeting will be at the Newman Center, which has a limited seating capacity.

“The meeting is mainly a faculty meeting,” Larsen said. “The seating is very limited—the capacity is just over 100. We are not even going to be able to get faculty members in there. It would probably be best for students not to come, not that they aren’t interested.”

A Facebook event is encouraging students to meet outside the Newman Center at 11:45 a.m. to support the faculty during “the financial battle.”

Pamela Mulder, psychology professor, said she would like to see students support their faculty if they feel they are in agreement.

“All of us are in the same big boat,” Mulder said. “I think students should learn more about what they are planning to do and ask to have some input.”

Mulder said she hopes faculty will have a chance to support or dismiss a vote of no confidence.

“I think the biggest thing for us right now is we came in on Tuesday morning and all of a sudden the whole world had been turned upside-down,” Mulder said. “The revenue sweep got thrown at us at the last minute. That is when the trust issue and confidence issue came.”

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Emergency faculty meeting called in wake of account sweeps

By TAYLOR STUCK

THE PARTHENON An emergency general faculty meeting has been called for Friday. The meeting begins at noon and lasts until 2 p.m. in the Catholic Newman Center, located across the street from Corbly Hall on Fifth Avenue.

The meeting is in response to “budget conservation measures” announced by Marshall University President Stephen J. Kopp, Tuesday, April 9. The two measures include a sweep of all revenue funds and a hiring freeze of all non-critical personnel.

According the Faculty Senate Chair Eldon Larsen, an emergency meeting is highly unusual.

“I don’t remember this ever happening before in the 14 years I’ve been here,” Larsen said.

The meeting will begin with presentations by Kopp, Provost Gayle Ormiston and Chief Financial Officer Mary Ellen Heuton.

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Important information regarding emergency faculty senate meeting > The meeting will be at the Catholic Newman Center beginning at 12 p.m. Friday. > Seating is limited and priority will be given to faculty. Once the room fills, no one else will be allowed to enter. > Faculty, staff and students can view the meeting on Livestream at the following address: - www.marshall.edu/it/livestream > WMUL—FM 88.1 will broadcast the meeting live. > All attendees will have to sign in to ask questions, make a statement or a motion.

-Following the sweep of all revenue accounts, students took to social media in protest. Some faculty and staff displayed their dissatisfaction of the administration by sharing their thoughts with their classes and other university employees.

APRIL 12

-Eldon Larsen, chair of the Marshall University Faculty Senate, sent an email to faculty stating that the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate had voted to have an emergency meeting, April 19.

APRIL 17

-In an interview with The Parthenon, President Kopp apologizes, stating that the appropriate course of action was not taken.

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-The Marshall University Board of Governors will meet as regularly scheduled in the Shawkey Dining Room in the Memorial Student Center. The meeting begins at 11 a.m. and Kopp’s handling of the account sweeps will be addressed.

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Stephen Kopp President

Gayle Ormiston Provost

Mary Ellen Heuton Chief Financial Officer

> Kopp, Ormiston and Heuton plan to speak at the meeting.

> All comments are to be focused or brief because of limited time. > If viewing Livestream, there will be a chat window in which to ask questions. Some of those questions will be addressed at the meeting.

> Any motions presented will have to be voted upon through an e-vote available to the general faculty, soon after the Emergency General Faculty meeting.

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Marshall’s 10-year master plan unveiled

By KIMBERLY SMITH

THE PARTHENON Marshall University revealed its 10-year master plan, Wednesday, during a presentation in the Memorial Student Center. The presentation was given by Smithgroup JJR, which is the company Marshall hired to do preparation work for the plan.

“This is happening because the state of West Virginia requires all public universities to do a 10-year master

plan,” Mary Jukuri, principal with Smithgroup JJR, said.

“It helps delegate which projects should be priorities that the university should pursue.”

The company visited Marshall’s campus in December to kick off the first phase of the process.

“When a company is hired to start this process for a master plan, we visit and do open houses to gather ideas and information on where to start,” Jukuri said.

She said the process is divided into phases that add up to around 11 months.

“The presentation that was given tonight was a summary of what we’ve been doing over the last four months, which was the second phase, or analysis phase,” Jukuri said. “This is a data driven process that begins with analyzing what we collect.”

Topics of concern discussed in the presentation were the future of Marshall’s classrooms, technology, the Memorial Student Center,

outdoor facilities and residence halls.

Nancy Stadler, traffic and planning department manager, addressed parking around Marshall’s campus.

“What we’ve found, so far, is that the existing parking garage and lots are not being fully utilized,” Stadler said.

She said the current student to parking space ratio is 2.5:1, which is under the average national ratio of 2.8:1.

“That is actually an ideal ratio,” Stadler said. “That means

that two to three people can use the same spot in one day, because the average student doesn’t come to campus and stay all day long.”

Stadler and Jukuri both said this fits into the master plan because the goal is to get students, faculty and visitors to take advantage of parking that is currently available, instead of including new parking options into the plan.

Other topics discussed in the presentation were building conditions, campus

‘Empty Bowls’ filled for Tri-State hunger

By CODI MOHR

Senate rejects series of tougher gun-control measures DREW ANGERER | SIPA PRESS VIA ABACA PRESS | MCT

President Barack Obama delivers a statement after the Senate defeated the compromise strengthening background checks for gun buyers on Wednesday, in Washington, D.C.

By DAVID LIGHTMAN and CURTIS TATE

MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS (MCT) Gun control advocates led

by President Barack Obama suffered a huge setback Wednesday as the Senate defeated a delicately crafted compromise aimed at strengthening background checks for gun buyers — and then proceeded to reject a ban on assault weapons and limits on ammunition clips.

The votes were a bitter reminder that winning even the most gentle of gun control measures faces a near-impossible path to winning congressional approval.

"All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington," a clearly irritated Obama said after the background check vote.

Gun control backers thought

this time might be different, that they could reverse the years of frustration getting meaningful gun control legislation approved. The horror of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, where a gunman killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults in Newtown, Conn., was never far from the minds of senators.

Victims of gun violence from Newtown, Tucson, Colorado and other sites of recent horrors watched the votes from the galleries. "Shame on you!"

Patricia Maisch, a survivor of the January 2011 Tucson shopping center shootings, shouted as the Senate vote to reject the background check compromise was announced.

At the White House after the vote, Mark Barden, the father of a child killed at Sandy Hook, recalled how "we met

with dozens of Democrats and Republicans, and shared with them pictures of our children, our spouses, our parents who lost their lives on December 14th. Expanded background checks wouldn't have saved our loved ones, but still we came to support a bipartisan proposal from two senators."

The disappointment and anger were clear. Obama had a personal lobbying effort unlike any seen by a president since the Clinton administration.

After the background check defeat, he went to the Rose Garden, flanked by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Vice President Joe Biden, and put the blame for the defeat squarely on the gun lobby. Giffords was severely wounded in the Tucson incident.

"All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole

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Letter sent to Obama tested positive for ricin, official says

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A staffer is seen working in the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss) Wednesday, in the Dirksen Building on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. The FBI said the letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker are related and are both postmarked out of Memphis, Tenn., dated April 8.

that lets dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check," Obama said.

"Instead of supporting this compromise," he said, "the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. They claimed that it would create some sort of 'big brother' gun registry, even though the bill did the opposite."

The strategy worked, Obama lamented. "Unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose, because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners, and that in turn intimidated a lot of senators."

To change Washington, he said, "You, the American people, are going to have to sustain some passion about this. And when necessary, you've got to send the right people to Washington."

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) An envelope addressed to President Barack Obama and intercepted at a mail processing facility has tested positive for the poison ricin, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.

Officials are conducting additional tests to confirm the result, said the official, who was not authorized to speak to the press because the tests are part of an ongoing investigation. Investigators believe the letter to the White House may have been sent by the same person who mailed a suspicious envelope to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.

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The Secret Service confirmed that a "suspicious substance" was found on a letter addressed to the president and intercepted Tuesday. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan did not comment on the nature of the substance.

"The Secret Service is working closely with the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI in this investigation," Donovan said in a statement.

FBI field offices in Baltimore and Jackson, Miss., are also assisting in the investigation.

All White House mail is processed at a remote facility not located at the White House complex. It is common for letters to be flagged and tested for suspicious substances, officials said.

infrastructure, renovations, additions and demolition.

“Some of the projects in the plan are already underway,” Jukuri said. “In fact, Hodges Hall is scheduled for demolition during the summer when students are off for summer break.”

The 10-year plan will continue to develop and will be presented to the Board of Governors before going to the Higher Education Policy Commission.

Kimberly Smith can be contacted at smith48@marshall. edu.

THE PARTHENON Through the combined efforts of the Huntington Area Food Bank, Marshall University’s College of Fine Arts and several local organizations, Huntington area residents have the opportunity to fill the empty bowls of those suffering from hunger in the Tri-state. The 10th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser will take place Friday at First Presbyterian Church in Huntington from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Ceramic bowls created by Marshall students, Ironton Middle School students and donations from individuals and groups including the Huntington Museum of Art will be sold for a $12 donation. With each purchase, Huntington residents will have the opportunity to experience a modest soup lunch as a reminder of the struggles of those suffering from hunger. All proceeds will be donated to the Huntington Area Food Bank.

According to Erin Highlander, director of development for the Huntington Area Food Bank, each dollar raised will go toward purchasing food for families and children at risk of hunger.

“The food bank is able to purchase ten pounds of food for every dollar,” Highlander said.

Jaye Ike, special projects coordinator for the COFA, explained the relevance of increasing awareness of hunger, and said one out of four children and one out of six adults are at risk of hunger across the nation.

“I love everything about Empty Bowls,” Ike said. “I love the spirit of the community, the generosity of the people who make successful with both the donations of lunch and auction items, but also the people who come out and support the event by purchasing lunch and auction items.”

The Huntington Area Food Bank serves nearly 100,000 people each month in 17 counties in the Tri-state area, nearly 20,000 of which are in Cabell County.

Through the efforts of Marshall pottery classes and donations from outside organizations as well as the unique contributions of visiting artists from across the country, nearly 1,200 bowls have been produced for this year’s event, according to Frederick Bartolovic, ceramics professor at Marshall.

“People love this event,” Ike said. “The bowls are gorgeous, and the work that goes into making them is tremendous.”

Codi Mohr can be contacted at mohr13@marshall.edu.

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By THOMAS GREEN

THE PARTHENON Marshall University softball is back on the map and on their way to the 2013 Conference USA softball tournament thanks to the efforts of one of the nation’s hottest pitchers.

Andi Williamson, a senior from Herts, W.Va., is in a dead tie for third place for most victories through the entire season.

She has a 2.30 ERA and over 300 strikeouts, leading both the team and most of the country.

“It’s just a great honor. I just want to continue to work and make the team win,” Williamson said. “I always want to play my best and help the team while glorifying God.” Although this is just her third year playing for the Thundering Herd, Williamson has been making a major impact since she walked onto Dot Hicks Field. Her first major accomplishment came last year when she had a record 268 strikeouts, which is just shy of the school record.

She started this season with the intent of crushing that record and putting her own name in the record books.

“[The record was] definitely one of my goals from the beginning of the year,” Williamson said. “I’m going to continue to play great.”

Williamson began to take off when she helped the Herd to a three game sweep of division rival Southern Miss. From the start of the series, she was ready to go.

“The first game I went out and blew them away,” Williamson said.

She continued to pitch at a high level through all three games, threw a shutout in game two and let in nine runs overall. The next division rival, the Memphis Tigers, received the same treatment.

Williamson let in just four runs over three games while her teammates scored a combined 13 runs.

“Those were great. We played well as a

team, and it was just great to win. Hopefully, we will do the same against UAB and UTEP,” Williamson said.

The Herd’s next big challenge lies in the post-season. With just ten games left in the season, the Herd is two games behind division leader UAB, who they will play during a two week road trip.

Williamson said the road trip is an opportunity for the entire team.

“We are just eager to win, just want to play well and just want to show everybody what were made of,” Williamson said.

The Herd returns from its road trip on May 4 to play the UTEP Miners at the Dot for the last series of the 2013 season. Afterwards, the Herd will advance to division playoffs.

“We just want to go out there and win, do our best. Hopefully, we will do our best,” Williamson said. “Hopefully, we can keep playing great together through the rest of the season and through the conference tournament.”

Thomas Green can be contacted at green173@marshall.edu.

Herd looks to get back into C-USA tournament race

By CAITIE SMITH

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR There are nine teams in Conference USA baseball. Eight make it into the C-USA Tournament. Marshall baseball wants to make sure that this year, they’re not the lone team left watching.

“It would mean a lot to us as a team,” senior catcher Matt Kirkwood said of the opportunity. “We feel like we have something to prove, and we need to get into that tournament to do so.”

Senior Nathan Gomez was in agreement with Kirkwood’s statement.

“It means everything to the seniors to get back in the tournament,” Gomez said. “It’s what we’ve been working towards all year.”

The Herd sits at the bottom of the standings right now, tied with UAB at 3-6.

“With a lot of the players on this team have never been there before, it would be an accomplishment because we’ve been working all year for that,” Kirkwood said.

“But it doesn’t stop at just making the tournament.”

The Herd travels to Orlando, Fla., this weekend to face UCF in a three game series. The Knights are fourth in C-USA with an even 6-6 record in conference play. UCF was a 2012 NCAA Regional team and won 45 games in the 2012 campaign.

The big offensive threat for the Knights is senior Chris Taladay, who sits in the top three in nearly every hitting category in

C-USA. The catcher/ third baseman is hitting .362 this season with 33 RBI. “We know they are a solid team,” Kirkwood said. “They play good defense and they put three solid starters on the mound.”

The most solid of the Knight’s pitching staff appears to be junior right-hander Ben Lively. Lively has a record of 5-3 and leads both UCF and C-USA with a 1.09 earned run average.

Kirkwood said there are two words he would use to describe his team this year, and records and statistics are not them.

“Competitors; confident-those are the best words to describe our team,”

Kirkwood said. “We’ve been in almost every single game this year and proven that we can play with anybody. This leads to the confidence, and after seeing that, we can play with anyone- we don’t care who the opponent is.”

Kirkwood said the Herd knows what must be done to earn a victory.

“We know that if we do what we have to do, as a team and individuals, we can get the job done.”

The Pennsylvania native is hitting .230 on the season and said he steps in the

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Senior infielder Alfredo Brito waits for a pitch. Brito has nine RBI so far this season.

Boston bombings will not destroy healing power of sports

By GEORGE DIAZ

ORLANDO SENTINEL (MCT) Memo to the Pond Scum Terrorists, or whatever you are calling yourselves these days: You don’t win. Prepare for payback.

Baseball bats. Hockey pucks.

Bouncing basketballs. Footballs flying in the air. Boxing gloves going tap-tap-tap.

Pick any sport in America, and it will be there, right in your face, waving flags in the air, singing our National Anthem, kicking you in the gut.

America is bruised and battered, but not broken.

“I think you’re going to see this tragedy make us stronger,” said Patrick Lyons, a noted restaurateur from Boston. “People are not going to lay down, certainly not Bostonians. These are fighting words for Bostonians.”

The Boston Marathon bombings are highly personal for Lyons. It happened in his city. The city where he is friends with a number of sports celebrities. The city of victim Krystle Campbell, 29, one of his employees. She was general manager and catering manager for the Jasper White Summer Shack restaurants, a partnership White shares with Lyons.

Lyons knows good food. Witness the lavish spread of sushi, crab legs and oysters at a fundraiser Tuesday night at his new establishment, Kings Bowl in Orlando, featuring an eclectic mix of dining, bowling and entertainment.

But like many Bostonians, he’s a sports guy trying to get past the initial heartbreak of so much bloodshed and carnage on Monday afternoon. Sports

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has always been a soothing salve in times of tragedy.

Witness the rally cries of patriotism in NFL stadiums and other venues after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Witness American athletes carrying a tattered flag from 9/11 during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

At first blush, I was overwhelmed by all those graphic images from Boston and

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Senior pitcher Andi Williamson leads her team out onto Dot Hicks Field.

Williamson is 24-13 on the season with a 2.30 ERA.

Hartley brings versatility to Herd coaching staff

By BRAXTON CRISP

THE PARTHENON It is not very often that a coach in Division I college football moves from one side of the ball to the other, but an exception to that is Marshall tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator, Todd Hartley.

Last season, he tutored the Herd safeties. This isn’t Hartley’s first experience with tight ends though.

“When I was at University of Georgia as an undergraduate, I worked with the tight ends for two years,” Hartley said. “Then I ended up going to West Virginia and working slot receivers, running backs, and tight end-hybrid guys. So I have prior experience with the position, plus I know all the guys already from working with them on special teams, so they’re familiar with me, and I’m familiar with the system, so it’s been an easy transition.”

Tight end Joe Woodrum feels that having a position coach who was worked with the defense before gives the tight ends an edge on their opponent, in terms of what defenses will throw at them.

Since he was a defensive coach, he really knows a lot about what coverages we’ll be seeing in game situations,” Woodrum said. “It really helps out in that aspect that he is so

HARTLEY knowledgeable about that.”

Officially on Marshall’s roster, there are six tight ends.

Stefone Grace, Eric Frohnapfel, Gator Hoskins, Devon Johnson, and Ryan Riedel join Woodrum.

However, only Woodrum, Grace and Frohnapfel are healthy and participating in practices this spring. Due to the limited number of tight ends available, Woodrum, Frohnapfel and Grace have been seeing increased reps.

“I’ve been taking some more reps along with Eric and Stefone Grace rotating in and out. I’m just trying to take advantage of it,” Woodrum said.

Hartley believes the increased reps can only stand to help the trio of healthy tight ends.

“They’ve all done a good job and the thing I keep telling them is I’m pushing them hard because they all need the reps,” Hartley said. “I would

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Sex education needs more than just abstinence Last week a West Virginia high school senior started to make headlines for standing up against an abstinence-only speaker at her school.

Katelyn Campbell, a senior at George Washington High School in Charleston, spoke up against the speaker, Pam Stenzel, before, during and after her April 9 assembly at the school.

The nature of the assembly was not revealed to students prior to the morning of the incident, but one of Campbell’s teachers informed her of the subject matter the night before.

Campbell then took it upon herself to inform fellow students

of what was to happen, encouraging them not to attend the assembly. She was one of several who chose to not attend.

Stenzel was very harsh during the assembly, which Campbell referred to as “slut-shaming.”

Stenzel reportedly said during the assembly that if teenage girls are on birth control, their mothers probably hate them. She then accused ninth grade girls of being willing to date anything that walks.

Stenzel was brought to the school by a local religious group, and approved by Principal George Aulenbacher to speak to students.

After attention started to be lit on the subject, Campbell

submitted an injunction to Kanawha County Circuit Court to have Aulenbacher fired from his position in the school. After that was filed on Monday, Aulenbacher threatened to call Wellesley College, a Massachusetts college Campbell plans to attend, and tell them she is a backstabber.

Fortunately, the school has seen the media attention of the subject, and stated on Facebook, Wednesday, that they are looking forward to her attending the school in the fall.

Campbell was very brave in standing up for her fellow classmates and making everyone know she thought this

assembly crossed a line.

Stenzel’s presentation misinforms students, and Campbell was the first of thousands to be exposed to this speech to speak up about how wrong it is.

Yes, sex education is important, but abstinence-only education is not as effective as many wish it to be. Teaching high school students safe sex along with no sex, showing them they have options, is better than insulting them for their life choices.

This case is far from over, but Campbell should be proud of the progress she is making for high school sex education around the country.

The curse of our era strikes in Boston THE KANSAS CITY STAR (MCT) The deadly and despicable bombing attacks near the Boston Marathon’s finish line turned the crowd’s cries of joy into cries of terror in mere seconds.

Again, Americans now will place their trust in authorities to resolutely piece together who did it, why they did it and what can be done to try to prevent similar incidents.

Again, Americans’ fears will be ratcheted up about safety at large public events and spaces — fears that must be met with realistic deterrents so the events can go on.

And again, Americans will pay tribute to the bravery of dedicated emergency personnel who ran toward the coordinated explosions on Monday, quickly moving the wounded to ambulances and care.

A free society leaves us open to harm. It’s up to Homeland Security, police and other security personnel to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Americans will grieve with Boston, for the dead, and for the dozens wounded.

President Barack Obama spoke for all Americans Monday, stating, “We will find out who did this and we will hold them accountable.”

Chaos after the bombing created a firestorm of speculation about suspects who targeted innocent people in a high profile event on Patriots’ Day. The aftermath brought

out the best in many people.

Boston residents opened their homes to runners from around the nation and the world.

Some of the 27,000 athletes had checked out of their hotels or couldn’t get to the airport to catch flights in time.

“There is love in this world,” tweeted a Kansas City woman who had finished the 117th Boston Marathon before the explosions. “A sweet woman ... gave us food, shelter and beer!”

The attack on an American sporting institution will undoubtedly lead to changes at next year’s Boston Marathon, a sad reality that follows every major tragedy as society attempts to lessen risks based on past experiences.

However, runners from across the country who train all year to get to Boston likely will not be deterred. The men and women who operate the charities that raise $10 million a year through the marathon will not be deterred.

The elected officials and law enforcement officials in Boston will not be deterred from protecting the tradition of the marathon.

All will do their best to make sure the sowers of evil and destruction don’t succeed, and the 118th Boston Marathon goes off as scheduled on April 21, 2014.

Americans will be watching and pulling for that outcome as one of the best ways to stand united against cowardly attacks.

Correction: A story in Monday’s edition of The Parthenon incorrectly identified the winner of the Microfilm Category at the Tenth Annual Appalachian Film Festival. The name printed as Nicole Azarian.

The correct spelling of her name is Tara-Nicole Azarian.

Azarian wrote and directed “ROTFL.”

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By HENRY CULVYHOUSE

COLUMNIST While the faculty conducts its first emergency meeting in more than 30 years 12 p.m.

Friday, some Marshall University students will protest last week’s sweeps outside.

Whether this demonstration will be successful depends on how much Marshall’s 10,000 undergraduates actually care about the controversy.

I do not see why they would not.

In the 2012-2013 proposed budget, student fees accounted for 44 percent of the university’s revenue. This equals out to roughly $46 million. With state funding cuts and rising tuition, the university will rely

more on student’s money and as a result, the students are quickly becoming the school’s primary financial resource.

As 44 percent of the budget, the student body needs to be more engaged with what happens to their money. The sweeps, for better or worse, has reawakened this concern.

Culturally speaking, our student body is the inheritors of a rich history of rebellion and questioning. A hundred years ago, our great-grandfathers put down their pick axes and asked, “Why do I have to buy my milk at the company store?”

I think we are having that same moment today, when we ask, “Why did the

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administration sweep the accounts?”

It was after questioning their conditions our greatgrandfathers formed miner’s unions and elected socialists to the House of Delegates. Things got so out of hand, the National Guard was called in to put down the insurrection on Blair Mountain. While I do not condone all these actions, I do appreciate it for what it was; some average Joes who got tired of the status quo and decided to change things.

I think the student body of Marshall University is in the same mood. We are fed up with the administration, the legislature and the governor making decisions about our

lives. We are tired of seeing our tuition go up as wages stay the same. We are sick of walking out of college thousands of dollars in debt, only to find a bleak job market.

Friday’s protest has more potential then calling for Kopp’s resignation. While the administration’s lack of transparency should be called to issue, the sweep itself was a reaction to state-level funding cuts. If we the student body are going to rag on Kopp, we need to keep in mind Tomblin and the legislature are just as guilty, if not more so. After all, they are ones cutting the funding.

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

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FBI arrests Mississippi man in inquiry on poison mail

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and BRIAN BENNETT

TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) Just two days after the Boston bombings, reports of letters possibly laced with poison and suspicious packages in government buildings set the nation's capital on edge Wednesday and resurrected memories of the

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Continued from Page 3 questions ringing in my head ‑ like what does an 8-yearold-child have to do with your agenda? Evil had triumphed.

The healing power of sports was now stained with the blood of three victims and at least 180 injured.

Terrorism has forever changed the dynamics of sports in this country, but it only alters the landscape. Lyons and good men like his friend, Celtics coach Doc Rivers, convinced me that we aren’t going to cower any time soon.

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Continued from Page 3 batter’s box each time with a different mindset.

“Every time I step in the batter’s box, I have a plan,” Kirkwood said. “It all depends on the situation, but my main focus is to have a quality at bat and to help my team win in anyway I can during that at bat.”

Marshall is 13-22 this season, after Tuesday night’s contest

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Continued from Page 1 Kopp explained that the proposed changes would make it easier for students to find their exact cost of tuition by eliminating individual course fees and implementing a simplified fee for all students. He said program and college fees will still be assessed.

“What we’re proposing to do is strengthen the budgeting processes for the university, to be able to plan over multiple years, not rely on individual fees for major capital equipment purchases, but centralize those in a planful way where we know the life cycle, replacement aspects, the costs and we budget it five years out, and we drop the life cycles into each of the budget

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Continued from Page 2 In vote after vote Wednesday afternoon, gun control backers came up short of the 60 needed for passage.

The background check compromise got 54 votes. The assault weapons ban got 40, even after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pleaded with colleagues to "show some guts."

The effort to put curbs on ammunition clips got 46 votes.

The votes largely reflected geography. Senators from more rural, more conservative states sided with gun rights advocates. Senators with more urban constituencies backed gun control.

Gun rights supporters tried to get some changes to the bill, and those too failed. A bid to expand concealed-carry laws got 57 votes. An alternative to the background check compromise got 52.

Many had thought the tortured memory of Newtown would finally help win at least the background check effort.

"If tragedy strikes again, if innocents are gunned down in a classroom or a theater or a restaurant, I could not live with myself as a father, as a husband, as a grandfather or as a friend

jittery weeks after the Sept.

11 attacks.

Law enforcement officials confirmed they were investigating two suspicious letters, one addressed to President Barack Obama and the other to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. Both tested positive in preliminary tests for ricin, a granular powder that can be deadly when

“They won’t take our spirit away,” Rivers said. “We’ll all be more cautious, but at the end of the day and I’m sure of it, you will see it in the spirit of people.

They are going to get their lives back. They are not going to tell us how to live.

“Sports is one of the vehicles you need in times like these.

Sports, family, religion. All of those allow you to get through and be who you are.”

It’s not just the good folks in Boston. More than 15,000 runners and walkers will gather at Lake Eola on Thursday for the IOA Corporate 5K. It’s a quick

against Ohio was canceled in the third inning. The Herd was winning 2-1 at the time of the call.

Kirkwood said the biggest problem for the team is the later innings.

“If we are behind going into the 7th, 8th, 9th- that will be our hurdle we need to get over.”

Kirkwood said he has a way to solve that problem.

“We just need to keep the energy up the whole game. As a team we need to pick one

years so we have the funds reserved for those purchases,” Kopp said.

Since the revenue funds were centralized, departments must ask the administration for funds from the centralized account and explain what the funds are needed for. The administration then has discretion over whether or not to approve the requests.

“We want to track how the fees are being used so we can better build a more accurate budget if we are going to go to a more centralized approach,” Kopp said.

According to the proposal, the changes would enhance senior administration’s ability to direct resources to address the highest institutional priorities.

Kopp said although the revenue fees have been centralized,

knowing that I didn't do everything in my power to prevent it," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. But conscience meant different things to different senators.

Reid's Nevada colleague, Republican Sen. Dean Heller, was seen as a potential swing vote for the background check compromise. He voted no.

"The onerous paperwork and expansion of federal power mandated in this legislation are too great of a concern," he explained in a statement.

"I believe that this legislation could lead to the creation of a national gun registry and puts additional burdens on lawabiding citizens."

That was the opponents' chief complaint. The background check provision was viewed as a mild form of gun control. Crafted by gun rights backers Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., it would extend background checks to gun shows and online sales but would exempt private transactions.

Manchin, a National Rifle Association member, pleaded with colleagues to back the measure and said on the Senate floor that the NRA had lied about the measure's reach.

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ingested or inhaled in small amounts.

The letters were intercepted at two mail processing centers Tuesday and sent away for more testing. Officials warned that early tests can be inaccurate.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the FBI said there was "no indication of a connection" between the letters and the bombings Monday that killed three spectators at the Boston Marathon and injured more than 170 people.

A law enforcement source said investigators believed both letters may have been sent by the same person. The letter to Wicker was postmarked in Memphis, Tenn.

jaunt (for most) though the streets of downtown Orlando, and not a 26.2-mile odyssey, but every step will be marked by perseverance.

The event did not get canceled. Central Florida runners did not cower under their beds.

Look all around you folks.

The New York Yankees, Hatfields to Boston’s McCoys, honored the city by playing the Fenway Park standard “Sweet Caroline,” following the third inning of Tuesday night’s game at Yankee Stadium. The front of the Chicago Tribune’s sports

another up, trust the guys who are playing, and take care of business in the later innings.”

The series with UCF will be a homecoming of sorts for some of the Herd. The team has seven players from Florida- Gomez is one of them.

“I’m super excited. I can’t wait to see my friends and my family,” Gomez said.

Baseball runs in the family, as Gomez’s older brother Victor also played for the Herd.

they will still be used for their intended purpose.

“The specific purpose for which those fees were paid is absolutely how they are being used,” Kopp said. “There has been no consolidation to remove those funds from the departments and units for which those fees were collected. They are still being used, and will continue to be used, for why those fees were collected. I am very committed to that.”

Kopp said the proposed changes are necessary to keep Marshall in the black while raising faculty pay and keeping tuition costs at current levels.

“I have been absolutely committed to improving personnel compensation on this campus, and with our present budget system, it is extremely difficult for

background check," he said, answering critics. "There is nothing in this bill that basically says that you're living in a neighborhood, and you want to sell your neighbor your gun, you can do it. No background checks are required."

Other opponents argued that the Manchin-Toomey approach simply wouldn't work.

"We should not further strain the existing broken system by expanding the use of an incomplete database to more transactions," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. "We should fix the existing system."

Grassley and Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, offered an alternative that would increase the number of mental health records entered into the federal background check database.

The Senate voted on a host of other gun provisions. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, tried to require states to respect concealed-carry gun permits issued by other states. Cornyn, speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, insisted that it wouldn't establish a national standard for concealed-carry.

"What it would do is to effectively treat concealed-carry licenses like a driver's license," Cornyn said. "If you're driving

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Although it had no return address, senators were told in a briefing Tuesday that the sender was familiar to authorities as someone who often writes to lawmakers.

Late in the day, the FBI arrested a Mississippi man on suspicion of sending both letters, and a third one to a state official, authorities said.

Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth was taken into custody at 5:15 p.m. for sending three letters "which contained a granular substance that preliminarily tested positive for ricin," the FBI and the U.S. Marshal's Service said.

Corinth is about 100 miles from Memphis, where the letter to Wicker was postmarked.

The third letter went to a

page Tuesday had images that read “We are Chicago Red Sox,” “We are Chicago Celtics”, and so forth. Noted New Yorker Jon Stewart placed Bruins and Celtic coffee cups on his desk for his nightly show.

Symbolic gestures. But not trivial. Not at all.

Collectively, they bind friends and enemies. The forces of evil will not prevail.

“As time goes on, what you will see is that the role of sports is not diminished,” Lyons said.

“The world of sports, the resiliency of the human spirit, you will see it accelerate.”

“It’s been a blessing from start to finish. The best years I’ve had in a baseball uniform have come at Marshall playing with my brother.”

The last time Marshall made it to the C-USA tournament, Gomez was playing with his brother.

Maybe this year’s finish could be the best for Gomez , even without his brother alongside him.

Caitie Smith can be contacted at smith1650@ marshall.edu.

me to make a recommendation to the board to put at risk our financial health to do that,” Kopp said.

“We’re not taking anything away, but the realities of an increasing fiscally constrained environment are that we really need to ask the question, ‘What are we doing today that we don’t need to do tomorrow?’ Otherwise, the only answer is we have to keep jacking up tuition on our students, and I’m absolutely opposed to doing that at the rates we’ve done in the past,” Kopp said.

An emergency general faculty meeting will take place Friday at noon at the Catholic Newman Center. Kopp has been invited to attend. Limited public seating will be available.

Marcus Constantino can be contacted at constantino2@ marshall.edu. from Virginia to Texas, you don't have to obtain a separate driver's license for each state you drive through."

But Sen. Charles Schumer, DN.Y., drew a line at his state's border.

"Concealed-carry is my greatest worry," he told reporters Tuesday. "The good news there is, instead of needing 60 votes, we need 41" to defeat the amendment.

The Senate also voted on a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines long sought by Feinstein. She had succeeded nearly two decades earlier getting an assault weapons ban passed and launched a forceful renewed effort after the Newtown shootings, but by Wednesday morning, she had all but conceded that the push would not succeed.

"Not every issue we vote on in the Senate is a life or death matter, I believe this is," she said on the Senate floor. "I urge my colleagues to stand tall and support this amendment."

But few senators were present, one was Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat who was presiding over the empty chamber. She voted no on Feinstein's amendment.

Mississippi justice official, the FBI said.

Earlier in the day, Capitol police also scrambled to respond to reports of a suspicious envelope found in the Russell Senate Office Building and, minutes later, a report of a suspicious package in the nearby Hart building. Lawmakers and staff in both buildings were told to stay in offices while officials investigated reports that a man was running and dropping off multiple letters from a backpack. The man was questioned and cooperated with police, said a Capitol Police spokeswoman.

In Phoenix, local and federal authorities were called to the office of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., on a report of a suspicious letter. Flake's

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Continued from Page 1 Kopp said he planned on apologizing to the faculty personally at Friday’s meeting.

“It was an unfortunate decision to take that approach,” Kopp said. “Shouldn’t have done it, wouldn’t do it again.

But the long and short of it is, there’s been no damage other than perceptions.”

In the proposed budget parameters for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 that will be presented to the Board of Governors, Thursday, tuition and fees will be recalibrated and centralized. Kopp explained this was the administration’s attempt to cut hidden costs for students and not raise tuition.

“We’ve heard over and over again from parents and students ‘I thought this was what it was going to cost and then I found out it cost $250 more,’” Kopp said. “To me, that is a lot of money. Things should be transparent.”

Kopp said the point of the sweep was to help understand where money is being spent

Hartley

Continued from Page 3 and I would love to have Devon out here, but these guys have to take advantage right now of the opportunity before them because they have yet to establish themselves as a starter or a guy we can depend on for playing time, so the more reps they can get, the better it is for them.”

Woodrum adds that while getting the extra reps is nice, he knows it won’t be the same situation come fall.

office said no dangerous materials were found. In Saginaw, Mich., law enforcement officials were testing a letter delivered to Democratic Sen. Carl Levin's office.

A staffer who handled the letter was hospitalized overnight as a precaution but had no symptoms, the senator's office said.

The worries about white powdered substances and deadly envelopes evoked memories of the anthrax scare in the weeks after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The shock of that attack shifted to widespread, sustained anxiety as letters containing anthrax showed up at media offices and lawmakers' offices. Five people died of contamination. and to more effectively manage funds.

“If we can be more effective there, we have the opportunity to take advantage of our expanded investment that came out of the last legislative session,” Kopp said. “The more interest earning we can earn on those funds while they’re sitting there, the more we can put that to work to benefit our students and our campus.”

Kopp stressed student fees would not be used for anything other than what they were designated for.

“Students need to understand absolutely nothing has changed,” Kopp said. “If I pay a fee as a consumer, then I find that I was paying for one thing and it’s being used for another, that is something I get pretty ticked off about. That was never the intention and I would never authorize that.”

Kopp said he hopes there will be extensive discussion about the budget at the Board of Governors meeting Thursday and the Faculty Senate meeting Friday.

Taylor Stuck can be contacted at stuck7@marshall.edu.

“Gator is a great player and the competition is going to be on,” said Woodrum. “We know there’s a lot of competition, so we’ve got to come out here and get better every day because we know there’s someone on our tail behind us.”

Woodrum and the rest of the tight ends will hit the field four more times this spring, concluding with the Green and White game on April 27.

Braxton Crisp can be contacted at crisp23@marshall.edu.

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TOP ROW: FAR LEFT: Ned and Kimberley Beaty from San Diego, Calif., look down Boylston St from the barricade at Arlington Street on Tuesday, in Boston. The city is in mourning for three killed and at least 144 wounded in a “cowardly” bombing at the Boston Marathon.

MIDDLE LEFT: Martin Richard, 8 years old, seen in this Facebook photo, died in the Boston Marathon bombing. Richard was waiting to give his runner father a hug at finish line has been named as one of three Boston Marathon bombing victims.

MIDDLE RIGHT: Neighbors of Krystle Campbell, who was killed in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, embrace on the steps of the family home in Medford, Mass.

FAR RIGHT: Yuxi Fei, a freshman at Boston University, signs a memorial on Wednesday, for Lingzi Lu, who was killed in one of the explosions during the Boston Marathon.

BOTTOM ROW: LEFT: Isabelle Atkinson places a balloon and flowers at a makeshift memorial near the bombing site.

MIDDLE: A note is left at a shrine to the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions.

RIGHT: A shrine to the victims of the bombing.

Stay strong, Boston.

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