April 22, 2020

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Fountain on, ceremony off Catching up with alumni

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Four editors say farewell

Marshall University Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick said while the Spring Fountain Ceremony has been canceled, he and President Jerry Gilbert will make remarks from the fountain on Saturday, April 25. This will take place at 10 a.m. and will be available on various university and athletics social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

The fountain recently was turned back on.

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Students create time capsules to open on graduation day

By AMANDA LARCH

EXECUTIVE EDITOR While preparing to teach a First Year Seminar (FYS) class for the first time, professor Sandra Reed stumbled upon information about the Voyager Golden Record, a time capsule sent into space in 1977. That inspired her to create the class’ final project: students creating their very own time capsules, which they will open on their graduation day. “(The Golden Record) is like curation on steroids,” Reed said. “And it’s a curation oriented toward an extraterrestrial audience that was sent out to the stars. And so that gave me the idea of a time capsule…they could choose what’s important to themselves, right?”

The theme of Reed’s FYS course is pervasive curation, which deals with decision making about sets of things— collection and curation in other words, she said. As Reed is a professor in the School of Art and Design, she knew she wanted her FYS class to reflect art collections and museum curations, teaching students what goes into each and how curation reflects in the real world as well.

“Curation is pervasive throughout our society; it is everywhere,” Reed said. “When we think we’re being given options, we’re only being given a set of options from the total possible options. And that is what really drove me to develop the curation theme, is to help make visible to students what is otherwise invisible.”

Requirements for the time capsule project include a graduation ‘grit’ letter students have written to their future selves, detailing the grit they’ve showed to get to graduation, as well as a letter from a friend or family member about how proud they are. Students also decided what music they would listen to when opening their time capsules.

Sierra Greenway, a business management major, said she loves how unique this project is and her love of history adds to the assignment.

“A time capsule is not something I thought I would be making in college, but I’m glad that I am,” Greenway said.

“Most of my friends talk about writing papers and giving presentations, but I get to do something creative and exciting… It is a fun and unique way to capture this moment in history, especially with everything that is going on right now.”

Jason Leung, a sport management major and

international student from Hong Kong, is including a letter from his grandmother in his time capsule.

“She gave me this letter from the first day when I came to the U.S.,” he said. “She told me to put in my luggage, and I could see it when I was free. The letter content reminded me to take care myself, be care to everyone because this was my first time went out of my country for living and study.”

Another valuable item to Leung that he’s keeping in his time capsule is a leaflet he made containing information about protests in Hong Kong.

“There (was) a protest in the last summer 2019,” Leung said. “So when I came back to the U.S. in 2019 fall, I planned to promote the protest in U.S. So this leaflet was memorable to me.”

Hailey Nevins, a psychology major, said this assignment is like an art project to her.

“I have always been a huge fan of creating artwork,” Nevins said. “I had art classes all through high school, so it is nice to have a project for a class where I can apply my artistic abilities.”

Samuel Green, an English education major, said because he is already a sentimental person, this project is a good fit for him.

“The time capsule assignment helps me put all sorts of things I’ve kept over the years to good use,” Green said. “I have so many things from a lot of different points in my life ready to go in my time capsule that I know future me will love to open.”

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, some students’ projects were affected, as some have items in their dorms they wanted to include, but no longer have access to their dorms. Greenway said she wanted to include items from Week of Welcome and orientation but no longer can do so.

“I also kept all the papers and other things I was given during the Week of Welcome that are still in my dorm that I can’t include,” she said. “Another thing I wanted to include was a graduation card signed by all of my friends, but because of social distancing, I cannot see them to get them to sign the card.”

Green has kept a notebook since February that he’s used as a mini memoir for this project, which also helps him document how he’s living through COVID-19.

“Since the start of COVID-19, the notebook has become more about that than anything else,” Green said. “To me, that’s exciting because this is a very unique time for everyone, and I’m documenting how I’m living through it.”

As an active member in the LGBTQ community, Green said, he has added pride themed items into his time capsule, which are more meaningful to him this year.

“Because of COVID-19, many pride events I look forward to all year have been canceled,” Green said. “It’s made me value their role and significance in my life even more.

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changes. For example, if students are now unable to print colored photos from their freshman year to include, Reed suggested putting a thumb drive of the pictures in their capsules. That way, she said, they can print them out as part of opening the capsules.

“Everybody’s troubleshooting how to deal with those disappointments and to kind of process through it, so it’s constructive even when it’s disappointing,” she said. “I feel so pleased, so lucky that the time capsule is a constructive thing for the students to have to occupy themselves now.

“I think it’s a surprisingly good fit for mental health and distraction and constructive looking forward to the future, looking beyond now and thinking of a time when they can look back on this rather than being so overwhelmed by what their current reality is,” Reed said.

One reason Greenway said she enjoys this project is because it will remind her of her freshman year and everything that happened during it.

“There has been so much that has happened this year, so having a physical reminder of it is exciting,” Greenway said.

“I want to be reminded of all of the good times I’ve had with my friends. I think that it will be interesting to look back on what life was like before this pandemic.

“People are constantly talking about life going back to normal, but we don’t know if that normal is going to be the same as what it was before this situation happened; life might not change much, but it could also be drastically different, so having a reminder of what life was like before all of this happened will be interesting,” Greenway said.

Nevins said she thinks every first-year college student should create a time capsule.

“I think the time capsule project is an assignment that every first year college student should experience and have to open on graduation day to show themselves how far they have gone and the many obstacles they had to face to get to graduation,” Nevins said.

Amanda Larch can be contacted at larch15@ marshall.edu.

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Sierra Greenway, a student in Sandra Reed’s FYS class, is including a lanyard, a bottle of sand art and a cloth mask she helped her mother sew in her time capsule. “Everything is something that I personally used, made or did with my friends,” she said.

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Marshall alumni: Where are we now?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second article in a series catching up with some of Marshall University’s alumni and what they are doing now.

By BRITTANY HIVELY

ONLINE EDITOR Pepsi or The Herald-Dispatch?

This was the question Marshall University alumnus Brad D. Smith faced upon graduation in 1986.

While Smith studied business administration focusing in marketing, he had always dreamed of being a journalist or a marine biologist.

“Coming out of Marshall, I had two job offers,” Smith said. “One was The Herald-Dispatch and the other was Pepsi. I went home to see my dad. I was unsure how I was ever going to make my decision because one was tugging at my heart, journalism. And the other one was this really good company.”

Smith said his dad gave him three pieces of advice to help him make the decision.

“The first is to choose the one that makes your heart beat the fastest,” he said. “The second is to choose the company that will surround you with people smarter than you, which will make you work extra hard just to keep up. And the third is to make sure you make enough money to be able to pay your bills, but don’t take the one with the highest pay, just know that you have to pay your bills.”

Journalism was Smith’s first thought, but he said growing up he had taught karate and part of the grade was how well his students did, which made him realize a valuable trait in himself.

“I got more excited about watching my students advance than I did about me getting my own belt,” Smith said. “It made me step back and say, ‘Maybe I like people management.’ And Pepsi was hiring me to put me in a people management program, where Herald-Dispatch was hiring me to write. And I fell in love with working at an environment where I got to bring the best out of other people, so I took Pepsi, and that’s how I made my choice.”

“Anything I have ever achieved in life is because someone in West Virginia invested in me.”

-- Brad D. Smith

Smith was in the soft drink industry for seven years before moving on to directional marketing for four years. He then moved to a technology company where he worked marketing and general management and where his career took another turn.

“I was asked to launch the first internet payroll product during the .com boom in the 90s,” Smith said. “That launched me into technology, and in the last 17 years, I invented Intuit. I ran our three biggest businesses as a general manager and then became the CEO and was the CEO for 11 years, and I’ve been the chairman of the board since 2016.”

Smith said he never dreamed he would be the head of such a well-known company.

“I never aspired to be a CEO; I never imagined I would ever be qualified to be a CEO,” he said.

While Smith has become an inspiration to many, he said the real inspiration for him is the underdog.

“One of my favorite quotes is, ‘It’s often the people that no one expects anything of that does the things that no one would have expected,’” Smith said. “The people that inspire me are the people every day that make this world a better place and they may not be getting their just due. And I like to be a champion and I like to work with those people. The everyday man and woman inspire me because they’re the ones that make it happen.”

Smith said some of his proudest career moments includes seeing others succeed.

“The day I stepped down and saw my successor shine and take the company to a whole new level,” Smith said. “I knew I had done my job. I had left it better than I found it and I had found someone better than me to lead it into the next chapter. I love to see someone excel.”

Growing up in Kenova, Smith said he does not forget the impact West Virginia has had on his life. He credits this to his ongoing efforts to give back to the state.

“Anything I have ever achieved in life is because someone in West Virginia invested in me,” Smith said. “And honestly, they believed in me more than I believed in myself. So, they gave me a reason to dream, and I will never forget that.”

Smith said he sees and has experienced the struggle West Virginians and women face based on stereotypes.

“I see there’s an uneven playing field for women. No matter how much anybody wants to talk about it, women really have to break through the glass ceiling,” Smith said.

“The same thing with West Virginians. When people hear us, they have these stereotypes.

“I got sent to New York in 1986 to get rid of my accent because my boss said it made me sound uneducated. I hold that door because I want every West Virginian to believe that they can do anything they want and if I have to kick that damn glass ceiling in, I will and that’s why I do it.”

When it comes to giving back to the community, Smith is well-known. Most recently, Smith and his wife, Alys Smith, made a $25 million donation to Marshall’s Lewis College of Business.

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Brad D. Smith preparing for the CEO Panel on Feb. 19.

next generation.

“Many times we are our own greatest critiques and we think, well I’m not good enough, I could never do that, I could never go to the Silicon Valley, or I could never be whatever, a CEO or on Broadway or any of the other things our alumni have done,” Smith said. “It’s important for people to see themselves in us. The one thing we have to do is go back and say I am exactly like you. I went to the same classes, I had the same professors, I grew up in the same little towns, I had a brother who struggled with opioid addiction. Everything you’ve dealt with, I’ve dealt with, and it’s possible to dream big.

“The second reason for paying back is to remember anything we ever accomplished is because somebody there gave to us first without any guarantee that we would ever come back. They gave out of the goodness of their heart.

It’s our obligation to give back to them.”

Smith said he gives a great deal of credit to the university and how Marshall helped prepare him for his career.

“Honestly, as I’ve moved up, moved around the world, I’ve ended up working the Silicon Valley where everyone is from Harvard and Stanford and Yale and MIT and I’ve had a lot of people say to me, ‘How does it feel to be from a school like Marshall and get a chance to work with those people from Harvard and Stanford?’” Smith said.

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Lost in Transition:

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Understanding West Virginia’s transgender health care system

By JOELLE GATES

LIFE! EDITOR Despite facing obstacles during the beginning of her transition, Natasha Stone, the transgender visibility coordinator for Fairness West Virginia, a statewide civil rights advocacy organization dedicated to the equal treatment of LGBTQ West Virginians, was able to find her way to medical resources, even if it meant chipping in while creating those resources.

As discussions related to transgender individuals begin to grow throughout the state, providing the community an attempt to become normalized, resources related to trans care are also beginning to grow throughout the nation. In West Virginia this process has been slow, providing limited opportunities for trans care.

While the state historically has been bombarded with various health issues over the past decades, the condition of West Virginia’s transgender health care system, or the lack thereof, may be one of the next issues the state must face.

“Before I came on, Fairness West Virginia put a call out for information about the state of healthcare for trans people in the state of West Virginia and heard a lot of horror stories,” Stone said.

The collected data set a baseline of insight centered around the experiences that trans West Virginians may face when navigating the state’s health care system. Stone said that among the topics researched were experiences of discrimination, necessary travel to receive care and the impact of medical costs.

According to Rebecca Denning, a

board-certified child and adolescent psychologist, instances of transgender discrimination may be connected to a general misunderstanding of gender-nonconforming individuals.

“Historically, training in culturally competent care has not been a standard in many healthcare programs,” Denning said.

“We know this adversely impacts care for people of diverse backgrounds.”

For Evan Wiseman, a 21-year-old trans man from Parkersburg, West Virginia, the journey to transition brought on many of those obstacles due to a lack of resources and general understanding about transgender individuals.

“Starting in 2014, my parents, eldest sister and I searched all throughout the state looking for hormone therapy before I eventually started,” Wiseman said. “We looked everywhere but eventually accepted the fact that I would have to travel to Cleveland Clinic.

All of the primary physicians in Parkersburg weren’t interested in helping me.”

Due to the lack of resources in the state, trans individuals such as Wiseman are often times left to travel out of state in order to receive the care they need. In its surveying, Fairness West Virginia found that 36% of transgender West Virginians traveled out of state to receive care while 46% of transgender West Virginians had to travel more than one hour to receive care.

In addition to a lack of resources, Wiseman said trans West Virginians may also travel extended distances in order to receive educated, understanding care from medical professionals who are knowledgeable on how to interact with

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transgender individuals.

In Wiseman’s experience, he said any time he’s received care from an emergency room, he has been treated “extremely poorly.” “(Doctors) in the ER will use she/her pronouns because my gender is not legally changed and they’ll ask for my dead name even though I list my preferred name,” Wiseman said. “Often times male doctors won’t even look me in the eyes and will say the bare minimum to me.”

While recently receiving care for kidney stones at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia, Wiseman said he felt “violated and not cared for” after receiving care from one of the physicians.

“I had a doctor who was using a scope for a vaginal procedure and, before telling me what was going on, he started the procedure,” Wiseman said. “When I made a sound because of the pain, he told his nurses to restrain me and told me to be quiet because it’s ‘not that bad.’”

While medical professionals may not understand how their actions can be harmful, Denning said unfavorable medical experiences can have traumatizing effects of trans patients.

“We know that when transgender patients encounter messages that their identity and gender expression are a problem, they are at a significantly increased risk for a range of poor health outcomes,” Denning said. “These experiences actively cause harm.”

Regarding mistreatment in a medical setting, data collected by Fairness West Virginia found that 60% of transgender West Virginians said a healthcare provider intentionally misgendered them. 20% of transgender West Virginians said they had been refused care due to their gender identity and 25% of transgender West Virginians said that unrelated health issues were blamed on their gender identity.

Even still, outside of obstacles created by a lack of cultural differences and a general lack of understanding, trans individuals may still come into contact with barriers that prevent them from receiving the care that Wiseman deems “life threatening.”

Once Wiseman decided to look into top surgery, a medical procedure which removes breast tissue to produce a masculine appearance, he said that finding the one — and only — trans educated surgeon in the state was not hard, but trying to get the procedure covered by insurance was difficult.

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“Starting in 2014, my parents, eldest sister and I searched all throughout the state looking for hormone therapy before I eventually started. We looked everywhere but eventually accepted the fact that I would have to travel to Cleveland Clinic.”

-- Evan Wiseman

“I was supposed to get surgery heading into my senior year of high school in 2018 but my insurance said they wouldn’t pay for it until I turned 18,” Wiseman said. “Come November 2018, I turned 18 but the insurance said they wouldn’t pay for it because it was elective, despite receiving numerous letters from my therapists about how the surgery could save my life.”

In order for Wiseman to eventually receive the procedure, he and his family had to pay $7,000 out of pocket.

According to Stone, in contrast to Wiseman, the cost of medical care can be debilitating to West Virginians, but can be particularly troublesome for LGBTQ citizens who historically have been shown to live in poverty.

Overall, Denning said in order to truly understand the condition of West Virginia’s transgender health, it’s important to take a look at the state’s overall health system.

“In West Virginia we have challenges with healthcare overall, with many West Virginians struggling with access to healthcare,” Denning said. “When you consider that some portion of that workforce is not able to provide gender affirming care, it’s easy to see that accessibility is a significant barrier to care.”

Joelle Gates can be contacted at gates29@marshall.edu.

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Racial disparities apparent in W.Va. cannabis arrests

By DOUGLAS HARDING

MANAGING EDITOR Black people in West Virginia are 7.3 times more likely than white people to be arrested for cannabis possession despite national usage rates being similar, a report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia reveals.

“This report makes clear what many of us have known for some time, which is that West Virginia is one of the worst in the nation for how it treats cannabis offenses both in terms of overall arrests and racial disparities,” Eli Baumwell, ACLU-WV policy director, said. “This is inexcusable.”

The report, which examines cannabis arrests made from 2010-2018, indicates that West Virginia’s racial disparity in cannabis arrests is worse than every other U.S. state except Montana, Kentucky and Illinois and is more than twice the national average. Nationally, black people are 3.64 times more likely than white people to be arrested.

The report found that there were nearly 9,000 cannabis arrests in West Virginia in 2018. The same year, there were more than 6 million cannabis-related arrests nationally, which is 100,000 more than were made in 2015 and more than the number of arrests made for all violent crimes combined.

The report shows that from 2010-2018, cannabis possession arrests have increased nearly 50% in West Virginia, and racial disparities have not improved. West Virginia is one of only 10 states in the U.S. where black people are more than five times more likely than white people to be arrested for possession.

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“Since the 80s, we’ve locked up more people than God could imagine, and we know who are suffering the brunt of those arrests, but drug usage is still on the rise.”

- Del. Sean Hornbuckle

According to the report, Preston and Putnam counties have the worst racial disparities in cannabis arrests among counties that meet population and reporting thresholds.

In both Preston and Putnam counties, black people are 25 times more likely than white people to be arrested for cannabis-related offenses.

The data indicates Cabell County, where black people are 3.4 times more likely than white people to be arrested, has the lowest racial disparity in cannabis arrests in the

state and slightly lower than the national average. The data for each county can be found at https://graphics.aclu.org/ marijuana-arrest-report/WV. Del. Sean Hornbuckle (D- Cabell, 16) said racial disparities in cannabis arrests, both statewide and nationwide, can likely be attributed to stereotypes and misinformation about cannabis perpetuated by politicians and other powerful officials, particularly those keen on ensuring usage of cannabis remains a crime.

“There is still a lot of misinformation and falsehoods about cannabis and a lot of folks in our society who try to demonize it and correlate it to certain groups of people,” said Hornbuckle, who is a co-sponsor of state legislation to legalize cannabis.

Hornbuckle said politicians who perpetuate such misinformation are keen on arresting as many people as possible for cannabis-related offenses to help solidify common stereotypes and other falsehoods about the drug and its users.

“If you can lock people up and demonize this thing, you further solidify your perspective with your supporters and your base,” he said. “It just helps to build that inaccurate narrative and support their claims and get done what they want to get done.”

Hornbuckle said racial disparities in arrests are also likely a result of disproportionate levels of poverty in black and other minority communities and the targeting of such communities by law enforcement.

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Theater students use talent to make masks in response to COVID-19

By RALPH MAY

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THE PARTHENON Though normally they would be sewing and finishing alterations on costumes for the spring plays, theater students at Marshall University instead employing their talents to create face masks to aid in curbing the spread of COVID-19.

“We all knew that the community was in need, and we all have the skills to sew, so why not work together to keep our friends, family and the community as safe as possible?” said Alyssa Poindexter, senior theater major.

The effort to create masks was a collaboration between students and faculty members Mike Murphy and Olivia Trees.

They provided the initial materials from the costume shop and then they bought fabric and sought donations, Poindexter said.

“We started out with elastic and fabric pulled from stock in the costume shop, but we ran out of that fabric pretty quickly,”

she said. “So, we all have gone out and got some more material whether it’s through donations or out of pocket.”

Shonna Reeves, another theater student who volunteered to make masks, said the process was enjoyable and rewarding to know she was able to impact her community.

“I had taken the costuming class my freshman year, so it was nice to be able to refresh myself on the sewing machine,” Reeves said. “It brings me joy to know that a small act of kindness can potentially save someone’s life.”

Poindexter said she found the process gratifying because she has underling health issues and felt the need to step in to create masks for other.

“I have underlying health issues, so when I saw that masks were flying off the shelf, we knew we should step in,” she said. “I have had a few people in the military reach out to me to make them masks, so it feels good

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to see that you’re potentially helping the people around you stay safe.”

The group has created approximately 680 masks and donated them to local hospitals, but donations have gone as far as New York and California, Poindexter said.

“We have donated to hospitals in Huntington as well as Charleston,” she said.

“We’ve had a few orders from out of state.

I’ve had four go to New York, two go to Florida, one go to California. We’re sending them to whoever is in need.”

As an actor, Reeves is accustomed to performing for an audience and said it was easy to translate that service into creating masks for the community.

“I love to have the public react to what we are doing on stage,” Reeves said. “The shows we do are for the public, not for ourselves. So naturally, not just myself but my fellow students, I jumped in immediately.”

Ralph May can be contacted at may178@marshall.edu.

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Opinion

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM

GINGER’S GUIDE TO: Saying farewell

By AMANDA LARCH EXECUTIVE EDITOR Melancholy. That’s how I feel, mostly. It’s the same feeling I get when I finish a really good book. Only this time, I can’t flip back to the beginning and start rereading it.

My time with The Parthenon is almost finished, and the melancholy is really taking hold. Two-and-a-half years ago my journey started, with my first story published in September 2017. Since then, I was a reporter, then copy editor, then managing and now executive editor. And I’ve loved every second of it.

The experiences granted to me through The Parthenon have impacted my life for the better. Yes, I’ve given two years of my life to this paper, but I wish I could give many, many more. I’m never very good at goodbyes, and saying

my farewells to the newsroom, The Parthenon, my wonderful staff of editors and reporters has and will continue to take a lot out of me.

That’s not to say I’m not excited for the future. I accepted a job at West Virginia Executive Magazine, and I do hope that my readers will follow me there as they’ve followed my journey here. But if it wasn’t for The Parthenon, I would not be nearly as prepared for the real world as I am.

I could say that I feel robbed, that because of complications resulting from COVID-19, my tenure as executive editor—and my last semester at the paper—has been cut way too short. All in all, though, I’m just thankful to have had this opportunity in the first place. Part of me is sad to have missed out on a few extra print nights with my Parthenon family, but I’m fortunate that we are all as safe as we are. I’ll always have all the other print nights tucked away where I keep my fondest memories, and I will think of them often.

It is not lost on me that this is my final Ginger’s Guide. I’ve had such a fun time writing this series of columns, which have helped me even more to find my voice. I may not always focus on series topics such as politics and current world affairs; I view my Ginger’s Guide columns as an escape of some sort. Plus, as silly as it may sound, they’ve really helped me grow in my identity. My red hair is something I can’t change, and I will always embrace it.

I remember traveling to Marshall my senior year of high school for Green and White Day. I remember coming into the newsroom for the first time and thinking of how amazing everything was. In short, I was in awe. This is what I

wanted to do; this is where I wanted to be. I knew coming to Marshall would be the right decision for me, and it was.

It always will be. (Plus, learning that Parthenon editors are paid for their work didn’t hurt that decision, either.)

So, from my first published story to my last, it has been a journey that I am incredibly thankful for. I’ve given a lot to The Parthenon, and it’s given a lot back to me. I’ve met and interviewed so many incredible people; I’ve helped to tell their stories, and I hope they think I’ve told them well. Every interviewee, every professor, every editor and reporter I’ve worked with, thank you. To my loving and supportive network of family and friends, thank you. Please know you have all helped me grow as a journalist; I could and would not do this without you.

Melancholy is one heck of an emotion to deal with.

But there’s happiness there, too. In the next few months, when I’m really sad and missing The Parthenon while working my new job, that happiness will show itself to me. I’ll recollect all the good times, and while I’ll always wish I could have more, just one more print night or editors’ meeting or interview with one more source for a story, I’ll be satisfied with and thankful for what I’ve been given. I hope I’ve served you well.

Either at Green and White Day, or my freshman orientation, I don’t quite remember which, I received a Parthenon cup. One side claims headlines and deadlines are my life, and the other says to make my mark and leave my legacy.

I hope I made my mark here at The Parthenon, and maybe left behind a legacy, too.

Amanda Larch can be contacted at larch15@ marshall.edu.

also being your peers. And, from these peers, connecting often leads to better things and new opportunities.

With this, two years ago, I was taking a Digital Recording Techniques course as per a degree requirement. The skills I learned from the class proved to be beneficial for my future position, but, more importantly, it was there that I met Parthenon alumni, Tom Jenkins. Late in the afternoon one day, Tom and I were slaving away on a last-minute project when we started discussing music tastes and post-graduation aspirations. Upon learning of my interests in video editing and sound production, he urged me to apply for the soon-to-be vacant position of Production Editor, and I did.

To my surprise I got the position and the rest was history.

In any position, it is hard for one to initially foresee what will become of their employment, especially when succeeding a newly-established role. In this case, the Parthenon Podcast was still fairly new upon my arrival, and I sought to establish the same camaraderie and range of topics that

version of the podcast had accomplished through its consistent panel of hosts.

Signing off for one last time: Farewell from Joe Artrip

By JOE ARTRIP

PRODUCTION EDITOR Well, goodbyes are always hard, and this one is no different. It’s strange to believe that my four years here at Marshall are already over even though, at times, it’s felt like 50. Even in graduating with a Bachelor’s in Video Production, the best things I’ve gained from the college experience are the people I have met, and my position at the Parthenon is no different, in that it has facilitated some of those interactions along the way.

I like to think I have fulfilled a reining majority of the mental to-do checklist any college student seeks to complete before graduation. I have gone through too many all-nighters to count, lived in the residence halls, was an RA for a stint, and held two lasting on-campus jobs. Amongst these opportunities, I am reminded that college serves as a period of learning in transition between living dependently and independently. The environment of students in the same exact transition builds community amidst them

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What Marshall taught me: Farewell from Joelle Gates

By JOELLE GATES

LIFE! EDITOR If someone would’ve told me that the end of college would occur during a global pandemic, I obviously wouldn’t have believed them. But I have to admit, my time at Marshall has been full of nothing but surprises.

Whenever I arrived on campus in the fall of 2016, I wasn’t very excited. Growing up, I never felt as though I belonged in Appalachia, but whenever I, a first generation college student, wanted to run away, my parents encouraged me to stay local. After a brutal college tour that spanned the entirety of my senior year, my parents said if they would’ve had the chance, they would have attended Marshall. And who can argue with that?

Upon arriving, I soon realized that I seriously misjudged Marshall, and my time in the newsroom continued to prove this point over the past four years. I’ve found amazing friends and mentors, and I truly believe college gave me a new chance to live. Marshall wasn’t the end of my life, but was actually just the beginning.

My time at Marshall has given me so many opportunities that I never would’ve imagined as possible. I’ve been able to share the stories of my community, ultimately winning

Best Short Documentary Appalachian Filmmaker at the Plum Tuckered Film Festival. In January 2019 I paused my education to work — and learn — in the West Virginia Legislature, and in January 2020 I began working in the City of Huntington’s Mayor’s Office.

I never thought someone like me would be able to achieve the things I have, and I know that all my triumphs are because of the amazing support I’ve had at the School of Journalism. Charlie, thank you for helping me find my voice. Tijah, thank you for celebrating my story and encouraging me to highlight the stories of others. Goodman, thank you for taking a chance on me and helping me access the opportunity that changed my life. Sandy, thank you for always giving me a seat at the table and supporting me every step of the way.

And to my family, thank you for enabling me to write my own story. I’m so blessed that this school played a part in it.

Lastly, my time in the School of Journalism has taught me a lot of lessons about storytelling, but I have to say that my favorite is this: “The best stories have a great lede and are full of big surprises.”

Joelle Gates can be contacted at gates29@marshall.edu.

Getting the facts right since day one

By SARAH INGRAM

COPY EDITOR I’ve rewritten this letter multiple times because nothing seems quite right. I don’t know how to sum up my college experience in 12 column inches. I don’t even know how to sum up my last two-and-a-half years with The Parthenon.

Nothing seems to give my time here justice, and I don’t even know how I feel about everything. I’m not good at expressing my feelings though, so I guess I’ll just stick with the facts.

The fact is I chose Marshall University to get away from my family, but they’ve still managed to be my greatest supporters from more than 400 miles away at any given time.

I also chose Marshall because it has the best journalism program in the state, and I’ve seen that firsthand through my amazing professors and different media outlets the School of Journalism offers. The Parthenon was more than I could have ever wanted.

The fact is the newsroom has become another home to me, and the people I’ve worked with have become family.

From being a reporter in spring 2018 with Hanna Pennington, Amanda Larch and Michaela Crittenden, to a news editor, campus editor and then copy editor, I’ve learned so much about the field I want to be in for the rest of my life with some great company.

The fact is that I am currently sitting in the newsroom

alone late on a Friday night with a coffee on my left and music blasting since no one else is in the building. This is standard for me, because I have always managed to get into PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY JOELLE GATES | GATES29@MARSHALL.EDU

Smith Hall, even if the doors are locked. I’ve even slept in the newsroom. It’s the place where I am most productive.

And the fact is Marshall has been the source of some of my favorite memories and favorite people. It’s cheesy, but Marshall for me was the slogan we used to have: Best. Decision. Ever. I’ve had great nights going out and staying in. I saw Broadway performers and spoke to published authors, one who works for the New York Times.

But if I’m talking about facts, I should include the fact that I’m close to tears writing this farewell because I know I’m going to miss all of this when I leave. I will miss Tuesday print nights, meeting with Chief Jim Terry every week and sitting in Sandy York’s or Dan Hollis’s office complaining about whatever is going on in my life. I’ll miss the good and the stressful.

I’ll miss sitting by the fountain when I’m overthinking.

And the fact is senior year is not ending the way I expected, but it doesn’t change the past. I learned so much about a field I love. I lived in Spain for a month. I interned with the amazing Claire Snyder in the Women’s and Gender Center, who means more to me than I think she knows. I worked with an amazing newspaper with amazing people.

So, at the end of it all, I wouldn’t change a thing and my heart is full. And even if these things can only be verified by me, I promise they are all facts.

Sarah Ingram can be contacted at ingram51@marshall.edu.

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The Constitution of the United States of America Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble; and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Secretary of State Mac Warner recently said via a Facebook livestream with gubernatorial candidate Stephen Smith that voting this year in West Virginia should be easier than ever before, and residents should take advantage of this privilege.

“It has never been easier to vote in West Virginia,” Warner said. “You have more options than ever before. Whatever you feel comfortable with, make yourself at home. Your ballot box can be as close as your mailbox if you want.”

Warner and Smith urged residents to vote from home to avoid breaking social distancing guidelines recommended by the CDC and health experts around the world.

“Health and safety must come first,” Warner said.

Given the unlikeliness that social distancing recommendations from health experts will be relaxed before Election Day, and although precincts will remain open for those who wish to vote in person, everyone who is capable should take necessary steps to vote from home.

In other states such as Florida and Wisconsin, where voting occurred primarily in person, both poll workers and voters have since tested positive for coronavirus.

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a situation such as the ones in those states.

Vote from home if you are capable. Voting in person and breaking social distancing recommendations endangers not only yourself, but everyone, especially the most vulnerable amongst us.

Primary elections for president, governor, state House and Senate and various other public offices will occur statewide Tuesday, June 9, but due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, all West Virginians may vote from home beginning May 27 until June 6.

The deadline to register to vote is May 19, and all residents may register to vote online via the secretary of state’s website at govotewv.com.

During the livestream over the weekend, Warner said all 1.2 million registered voters in the state have been sent an absentee ballot application which they should already have received.

Individuals who fill out an application and send it to their county clerk, which can be done through mail, e-mail or in person, should expect to receive their absentee ballot by the end of April.

Copies of the ballot application and a list of county clerks and contact information also can be found on the secretary of state’s website.

Anyone who has any questions or concerns about voting via absentee ballot may go to the secretary of state’s website or call his office at (304) 558-6000.

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Pres. Gilbert: Let’s keep hope alive at Marshall

By PRES. JERRY A. GILBERT

Uncertainty. It’s what bothers me most about the pandemic, as I’m sure it does many of you. That uncertainty is about not only our personal lives and our own families’ health and well-being, but also the uncertainty for Marshall University. In times like these, it is easy to let fear overcome us and cripple our ability to think objectively and strategically. I admit that I have been fighting fear in my own mind at times over the last several weeks and am pushing it back out with hope.

That desire for hope is one reason I’ve been making light-hearted and humorous selfie videos for you. You may have seen them recently on the university’s social media accounts. I hope these videos give you some comic relief and let you know I was thinking about all of you. I want each of our students to be optimistic and to help us all stay positive.

As much as I want things to be the same as they were before, I also realize there will be changes that will persist after this global crisis loosens its grip on our daily lives. It is certain that our academic year in 2020-21 will not be the same as it is this year. Will we play football

in the fall? Will we be able to gather 1,800 freshmen around the John Marshall statue for the traditional Week of Welcome photos? Will we be able to maintain our enrollment so we have enough university income to keep our operations fully functioning? Will we be able to have large events with hundreds of people?

Will we be able to have in-person classes of 30 or more people? We just don’t know.

During these highly unusual times, my

goal has been to maintain a positive attitude and outlook while planning for all the possible scenarios that we could face. I am praying for the best and for a return to “normal.” Part of this planning includes putting in place cost-saving measures that will help us recoup the financial losses that we have already experienced and allow us to continue to move forward as a university.

My positivity certainly has been bolstered by the acts of generosity and service that I have seen as members of the Marshall family have stepped up to help in this challenging time. Our faculty quickly adapted and took their classes to a remote delivery mode. They stepped up and made hand sanitizer in our School of Pharmacy. A number of people, led by faculty member Dr. Suzanne Strait, joined the West Virginia Mask Army to sew face masks. Our theatre students and other staff members have been hard at work making masks, too. Our very own Robert C. Byrd Institute is making masks using 3-D printers and has served as a resource for others who want to print masks and face shields. And, many of our medical school faculty and health care

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PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVE: Biden ‘already tr ying to out-Trump Trump’

By DOUGLAS HARDING

MANAGING EDITOR In a recently released ad, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden attacked Donald Trump’s COVID-19 pandemic response from a right-wing perspective, criticizing the president for “roll[ing] over for the Chinese.”

The ad attacks President Trump for thanking the Chinese government for its efforts to contain the coronavirus, “praising China” 15 times in January and February, failing to send a CDC team to China and allowing 40,000 travelers from China to enter the U.S. in the two months after Trump announced a ban on such travel.

Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, stated in a tweet thread Saturday that Biden is “already trying to out-Trump Trump.”

“This kind of fearmongering is causing violent attacks on Asian Americans,” Wang stated in an initial tweet. “If you are trying to reform your past history of racist policymaking, like your 1994 crime bill, you had better do some homework. This ain’t it.”

Wang continued to state that she “desperately” wants Biden to defeat Trump in the presidential

election, but she is not okay with his “foment[ing] racist scapegoating.” She said she wants Biden to run on a platform that everyone can fight for.

As Wang highlights in the thread, the Biden campaign’s choice to critique the Trump administration’s disastrously failed and unprepared pandemic response primarily on the basis of opposing and scapegoating China is bad leadership and amounts to little more than conservative, right-wing propaganda.

“Of all the ways Trump has actively obstructed a sensible public policy on covid, causing countless lives lost in the U.S., @JoeBiden’s going to fixate on the PRC angle and put out a propaganda film that will fuel racists attacks on Asian Americans? No, I am not having it,” Wang stated in a tweet.

There are countless legitimate criticisms to be had with the Trump administration’s failed pandemic response, but failing to be tough enough on China is not one of those. The trump administration already received criticism and accusations of xenophobia for instituting the travel ban from areas of China...

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alumni have been on the front lines serving the needs of the Tri-State community and beyond.

This has been an awesome effort all around, and I am very proud of our Marshall family.

I will not let the concerns of today stymy our long-term plans. As a matter of fact, just last week we refinanced bonds we hold at Marshall and reduced our bond payments by a million dollars a year. In addition, we received some restricted bond proceeds that will assist us in building our new College of Business building. Also, we are continuing to make plans for our new aviation programs at Yeager Airport and Tri-State Airport. We will continue to push ahead with new initiatives that will enhance and improve our university.

I am pleased that Marshall University has one of the strongest financial positions of any public institution in West Virginia. We are strong enough and wise enough to plan for and weather the storm. Marshall may be tossed and blown by the winds of the COVID-19 pandemic in the short run, but we will stay the course to a secure and peaceful calm at the end of storm.

I know that this has been tough on our students, our faculty and our staff. Thank you all for standing firm with the Marshall family and helping keep hope alive.

Go Herd!

This is Memphis. He loves belly rubs and snuggles. He also loves going to Starbucks to get pup cups.

Interested in featuring your pet in the paper? Use #ParthePet on social media or contact Douglas Harding at harding26@ marshall.edu with photos and a short bio.

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ALUMNI cont. from 3 “And I’ve always answered it with this response, ‘I’ve learned that our education is exactly the same, there were only two things that made what you learned and I learned different. One is yours cost $150,000 more than mine, and the second is my football team kicked your ass every Saturday on the football field.’ Anyone who believes that Marshall has an inferior program is wrong.�

When asked what advice he would give to students graduating or anyone starting their career or starting over, Smith again shared words from his dad. “Volunteer for the job no one else wants,� Smith said.

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“People with wealth are doing the exact same things,� he said. “If you go sit on the corner of any impoverished area and try to flag people down, this is what’s going to happen. But if you go sit on the corner of some gated community, you’re still going to find things. You’ll find it where you’re looking for it.�

Hornbuckle noted that since the war on drugs began and more arrests started to be made nationwide for minor drug offenses, drug usage has only gone up in the vast majority of communities. “Since the 80s, we’ve locked up more people than God could imagine, and we know who are suffering the brunt of those arrests, but drug usage is still on the rise,� he said. “But only certain people are being locked up. I’m not saying more people should be locked up, but there should be equity there. It’s just one plus one equals two. Some people aren’t being arrested here. Some people are getting a free pass.�

“Everyone wants to be a show pony, but there’s always stuff that a company or a university or a newspaper needs to get done and it’s not the glorious work. But if you raise your hand to do that, your bosses are going to start to look at you and say this is the person that’s always willing to do whatever’s needed. One day one of these great jobs are going to come along and they’re going to remember all of the sacrifices you made for the team, and they’re going to give you a shot for the great job.�

Smith said this advice is how he believes he made it to CEO. He volunteered for all of the jobs that no one wanted.

Gov. Jim Justice signed West Virginia’s medical cannabis bill, SB 386, into law more than three years ago, on April 19, 2017, but progress has all but stalled since then, Hornbuckle said. “We’re in 2020, and forget even having a program, but to my knowledge, we don’t even have a licensing program for medicinal users. To my knowledge, we don’t even have a process in place to figure out who may qualify to have a medical cannabis card.�

Hornbuckle encouraged those who support cannabis legalization to make their voices heard by politicians with leadership roles in the state House and Senate. “We could have the best ideas in the world—we could be the best legislators in the world—but if we can’t get a vote on something, it doesn’t really matter,� he said.

Douglas Harding can be contacted at harding26@marshall.edu.

FAREWELL cont. from 6

I am happy to say I feel as though my version of the podcast has accomplished the same camaraderie through varying co-hosts and guests, and, in saying that, I continue to stay grateful to the many people that have given me their time in making the podcast what it is.

With 50+ podcasts under my belt, it has evolved through varying iterations to encompass a full video production.

Even though coronavirus seeks to hinder a full-production send-off befitting the culmination of what my time at the podcast has evolved into, I am more

than excited to see what my successors make of the medium.

Thanks, listeners and viewers, for your support throughout half of what was my college career, and thank you, Parthenon staff, for your inclusion and encouragement along the way as I figured things out. “I think that’s all the time we have for today.� This has been your host, Joe Artrip, signing off.

Joe Artrip can be contacted at artrip30@marshall.edu.

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Smith’s future plans are to bring some of the success from the Silicon Valley to West Virginia. He said his goals are to level the playing field of opportunity for West Virginia by showcasing the talent in the state and bringing investors in for startups. “My heart never left,� Smith said. “My Linkedin profile says, ‘I was a boy from a small hometown who spent 22 years looking for a way out and every day since looking for a way home.’ I’m doing it by just trying to bring back and come back as much as I can.�

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Marshall University is making an active effort to ensure students fill out the 2020 U.S. census. Student Government Association President Stephanie Rogner said filling out the census is more important than ever for students to have a larger response than in 2010. “In 2010, the two blocks surrounding Marshall University had the lowest (census) response rate in the state of West Virginia,� Rogner said. “This could be due to the fact that students have a misconception that they cannot be accounted for because Huntington, West Virginia is not their permanent address.�

Rogner said the Marshall SGA also has been utilizing its resources to get information about the census out to students. “Student government has taken a different approach than originally planned,� she said. “We have been utilizing our social media accounts to provide helpful links to direct students to the census application.�

Rogner said because it determines federal funding for the university, she wants students to understand they need to

fill out the census for Huntington, even if it is not their permanent address. “Census affects federal funding that impacts students such as the Pell Grant and Health Care Services,� Rogner said.

According to the Marshall census website, the participation from students will determine the funding for the next decade, with each person counted representing thousands of dollars in federal funding.

The website also lists multiple areas on campus that are directly impacted by 2020 census participation including: campus improvements, health and social services, safety, community mental health services, student wellness programs and more.

The Census Bureau is also still actively looking for new part-time hires. For more information and to review job descriptions, those interested can visit 2020census.gov/jobs.

For direct information about Marshall and the census or to fill out the 2020 census, people can visit marshall.edu/census.

Kyra Biscarner can be contacted at biscarner@marshall.edu.

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