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CATS FALL, 60-54 Kentucky hangs tough, can’t overcome UConn in 2014 men’s championship game

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Evaluation of Kopp reveals progress within the university

By MALAK KHADER THE PARTHENON President Stephen J. Kopp was commended for his progress with Marshall University in a recent evaluation conducted by Board of Governors and Association of Governing Boards Consultant, Terry MacTaggart.

This evaluation is set for once every three years.

MacTaggart was hired by the Board of Governors to do an independent review of Kopp. MacTaggart’s report, released last week, said, “Marshall’s Board of Governors made a wise choice when they hired and subsequently retained Dr. Stephen Kopp.”

Approximately a year ago, the majority of Marshall’s faculty voted no confidence in Kopp. MacTaggart addresses that in the report and said that nearly everyone who found fault in Kopp noted that he has intensified his efforts to communicate with individuals and groups where appropriate.

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UK sociologist to deliver ‘Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice’ lecture Thursday

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Students and patrons fill the Don Morris Room for the seventh annual Scottish Rite Spring Dinner Monday in the Memorial Student Center.

Scottish Rite Spring Dinner benefits Communication Disorders department

By LARA SEDLOCK

THE PARTHENON The Communication Disorders department hosted its seventh annual Scottish Rite Spring Dinner Monday night in the Marshall University Memorial Student Center.

The theme for this year’s dinner was “Where Are They Now? The Story of Emily.”

Every year, there is a new poster child for the event and Emily Neal was the very first poster child and one of the keynote speakers at the event.

“We thought about how she was our first poster child and wondered about what is she doing now,” Karen McNealy, chair of the Department of Communication Disorders, said. “We knew she won the spelling bee and thought that maybe we should reach back

and see how these children are doing that are no longer needing our services.”

Neal, the first poster child for the program, was born profoundly deaf in both of her ears.

She first came to the Marshall University Speech and Hearing center in May of 2003 at the age of 12 months. She was the first child seen at the Scottish Rite Language Disorders Clinic with a cochlear implant. Neal received services there until April 2008 at which time she was discharged secondary to the achievement of all targeted goals.

She is a sixth grade student at Chesapeake Middle School in Ohio and has bilateral cochlear implants. In December, she competed in the Lawrence County Spelling Bee and placed first for the second

year in a row. She then went on to the state spelling bee and tied for third. This March, she placed second in the state spelling bee.

Along with Neal, Pam Holland was a speaker as well “The children, they mean everything and it makes it all worthwhile and regardless of how much work you have to do it’s all about the kids,” Rick Meade, a Scottish Rite Mason, said. “As a Scottish Rite Mason, this is our primary charity and there’s nothing like helping a child, it makes life worthwhile.”

There are various sponsors for this event such as Outback supplying the food for the dinner. Paula Vega also made cupcakes for the event, along with Wal-Mart that made a sheet cake. Lowe’s supplied the flowers for the event.

Corporate sponsors that bought tables at the event included CSX, McDonalds, Marshall Health, American Electric Power and several others There was also a silent auction with various items for guests bid on.

“It’s all about communication, at the speech and hearing center we have children that are speech delayed, language delayed, we have people with traumatic head injuries, and autism,” McNealy said. “This supports all of that.”

The ticket for this event costs $125 a plate, and the outcome for this event varies every year but typically the money raised is around $20,000.

Lara Sedlock can be contacted at sedlock2@live. marshall.edu.

THE PARTHENON Marshall University has invited sociologist Shannon Elizabeth Bell to deliver annual Schmidlapp Distinguished Lectureship in Women’s Studies 7 p.m. Thursday at Foundation Hall.

Bell will deliver her lecture, Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice, in the hopes that it will raise the level of consciousness about these issues.

To get a jumpstart on the ideas Bell will present, the Women’s Center is sponsoring a showing of “The Last Mountain,” a film on West Virginia environmental activist Maria Gunnoe. It will be shown at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Drinko Room 402.

“This movie illustrates the greed and short-sightedness of coal executives and politicians and the heavy price paid by West Virginian’s families, communities,” Kimberly White, a mental health specialist at Marshall University, said. “It will prepare people [for the lecture] by informing them.”

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Marshall students take first at National Advertising Competition

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Marshall University advertising students pose with the first place cup Saturday at the National Advertising Competion in Louisville, Ky.

THE PARTHENON Marshall University advertising students took first place at the district five National Advertising Competition Saturday in Louisville, Ky. The NSAC is sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. They secure a sponsor each year and issue a case study that challenges advertising students to create a campaign. This year students worked with Mark Kay to establish awareness, perception and consideration of their product.

Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Janet Dooley said the students all had different responsibilities as they worked

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together in an agency. They also had a full component of an advertising campaign including a plans book and a 20 minute presentation for a panel of judges.

“It’s always well-deserved,” Dooley said. “Every campaign takes a lot of work. It’s always very rewarding when the judges see that this is a professional piece of work. One judge even said she forgot she was watching students.”

Dooley said this capstone experience provides her students with an opportunity to improve their resume while learning all steps of a campaign and putting them into action as a group.

“This is nice test of their senior capstone work,” Dooley said. “Outside of it being a

competition, capstone is truly a global experience where they bring everything to the table and really learn to work as a group.”

Account planner for the agency group, Jen Tucker, said they were caught off guard when they realized they received first place.

“We knew that our pitch and campaign was very strong, but there were some challenges along the way that made us think it would be impossible to place,” Tucker said. “When they announced that we had won we were all overly excited because we had no expectations to win.”

Tucker said she is proud of the hard work they have put in all year.

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College of Business internship fair and HR day scheduled for April 16

By VINCENT ESPINOZA

THE PARTHENON Marshall University College of Business will be having an event-filled day April 16, with several events to help students launch their careers.

Aside from Emily Bennington’s signature presentation Rookie Hero: What Your First Boss Needs You to Know, there will also be the COB Internship Fair and HR Day. The Internship Fair will take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Corbly Hall lobby.

Total lunar eclipse next week: What is a ‘blood moon’?

By DEBORAH NETBURN

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Mark your calendars, sky watchers: In one week a total lunar eclipse will turn the moon an eerie shade of red.

On April 15, at 1:58 a.m.

EDT, the moon will move into Earth’s shadow. The full lunar eclipse — when the entirety of the moon is shaded by Earth — begins just over an hour later at 3:07 a.m. and lasts until 4:25 a.m. EDT. The eclipse will be visible across almost the entire continental United States, most of Canada and Central America and parts of South America.

The coming red moon, which you may have heard called a “blood moon,” is a perfectly natural occurrence.

Every time the moon passes completely into the shadow of the Earth, it turns a reddish color — sometimes a bright copper, other times the dark reddish brown of dried blood.

The red color occurs because even when the Earth has moved directly between the moon and the sun, the scattered light from all the sunsets and sunrises on the rim of our globe still make it to the moon’s surface.

“If you were standing on the moon during a total lunar eclipse you would see the

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The event is organized by the COB Student Advisory Board and Internship Program.

Rosanna McVey, the COB internship coordinator, said the Internship Fair will include a day with the dean, where people can relay questions, comments or concerns.

“It’s dean Haiyang Chen’s first year in this position and it’s a good opportunity for students to voice their opinion,” McVey said.

The Internship Fair will feature 20 companies with paid

and unpaid internship. Each internship is business related with some offering immediate openings and others using the opportunity to raise awareness for their company.

Employers include the Marshall University Recreation Center, Fastenal, HIMG and Northwestern Mutual.

The HR Day will take place in the Marshall Foundation Hall from 1:30-4 p.m.

“We hope to turn this into a yearly event,” McVey said. “It will provide a great

experience and opportunity for companies.”

Students will have the opportunity to receive real life interviewing experience, and some of the companies will be hiring at the event.

The companies include Enterprise, United Bank, Total Quality Logistics, Aflac, Modern Woodmen of America and Streamline Communications.

HR Day will give students the opportunity to practice their interview skills through participating in mock interviews.

MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) In January, President Barack Obama said reclassifying marijuana and making it legal in any way “is a job for Congress.”

“It’s not something by ourselves that we start changing,” Obama said in an interview with CNN. In February, 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives shot back in a letter to the president, telling Obama he should use his executive power to make the change on his own.

Caught in the middle are the more than 1 million Americans who use marijuana for their physical and psychological ailments.

They don’t like the situation, saying they face daily uncertainty about whether they’ll be able to get the drug they need or whether they’ll be arrested for possessing it.

“Without cannabis, I can’t

promotions for and helping with the event. He said students and companies have a lot to gain by participating.

“I think students can grasp a better understanding of what the interview process will be like once they hit the workforce,” Edwards said.

“The companies will gain a better understanding about the students here at Marshall looking for jobs upon graduation.

Vincent Espinoza can be contacted at espinoza3@ marshall.edu.

Distraught Oscar Pistorius testifies at murder trial, apologizes

By ROBYN DIXON

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Olympian Oscar Pistorius made a tearful apology to the family of his girlfriend Monday as he stood trial for fatally shooting her in the early hours of Valentine’s Day last year.

Pistorius took the stand to tell the court his version of what happened that night.

Courtroom benches were packed with supporters of both the athlete and his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Pistorius’ almost-whispered apology was so quiet that Judge Thokozile Masipa had to tell him to speak up.

“I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Mrs. and Mr. Steenkamp, to Reeva’s family, to all those of you who knew her who are here today, to her family and friends,” he said.

“There’s not a moment and hasn’t been a moment since this tragedy happened that I haven’t thought about her family,” he said, adding that it is the first thing that comes into his mind when he wakes up.

“I can’t imagine the pain and emptiness and sorrow that I’ve caused your family. I was simply trying to protect Reeva. I can promise you that when she went to bed that night she felt loved,” he said, his voice trembling.

Pistorius said he had often sat down to try to write a letter of apology to Steenkamp’s family but found there were no words adequate to convey what he wanted to say.

Pistorius has pleaded not guilty to the murder of

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South African paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, center, is escorted as he walks to the high court in Pretoria, South Africa Monday. Pistorius stands trial for the premeditated murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria East.

Steenkamp, claiming he shot her accidently after mistaking her for an intruder. He has also pleaded not guilty to two charges of recklessly discharging a gun, and to one charge of unlicensed possession of ammunition.

His lawyer opened the defense case Monday with testimony from a pathologist and from Pistorius himself.

Pistorius told the court he had been on anti-depressants since soon after the shooting and that he also needed

medication because he couldn’t sleep.

“I wake up and I smell blood and I wake up to be terrified.

I wake up in a complete state of terror. I would rather not sleep,” he said.

He said he wanted nothing to do with guns anymore, and slept with a security guard at his door. He sometimes gets panic attacks and one night had to hide in a cupboard because he couldn’t calm himself down, he told the court.

“I woke up and I was terrified

and I for some reason couldn’t calm myself so I climbed into the cupboard and I phoned my sister to come and sit by me, which she did,” he said.

Pistorius described growing up in a loving home although his parents divorced when he was 6 years old and he rarely saw his father.

He was born without fibula bones in his legs, and his feet were amputated as a baby, but he said his mother treated him the same as his two siblings.

“If I fell, she left me to get

up for myself. She didn’t baby me. She treated me exactly the same as my brother and sister.”

He described occasionally being bullied at school.

“My family always believed in standing up for yourself and standing up for what you believe in. At the end of the day you don’t come crying to your parents.”

He said he once got into a fight with a boy who tore his shirt, ripping off the buttons.

ignored by federal authorities, who have the discretion and authority to override them as they see fit. Medical marijuana advocates say a change in federal law would eliminate any confusion and ensure that patients and their suppliers are operating legally.

They complained that the Obama administration has spent more than $300 million to prosecute medical marijuana cases since 2009, $100 million more than was spent during the entire eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency.

“We’re really just relying on Congress to actually reschedule it at the federal level, because until that happens, all of this on the state level is almost meaningless,” said Kari Boiter, a patient from Washington state who’s involved with Americans for Safe Access.

She said that was particularly the case for people who were going to prison for using

marijuana and for family members who were “left to deal with the fallout.”

“This is very real right now: The federal government in Washington state, where it is legal, is prosecuting at least three people that I know of,” Boiter said.

Critics say it would be a mistake to reclassify marijuana, calling it a dangerous drug that’s highly addictive. In states such as Kentucky, where lawmakers

killed a medical marijuana bill earlier this year, some lawmakers said the drug had not undergone enough testing.

Addressing a large group of legislative staff members over lunch on Monday, Sherer said medical marijuana patients shouldn’t have to worry about getting safe supplies of their drug or such things as “prosecutorial discretion.”

Medical marijuana users complain they’re caught between Obama and Congress

By ROB HOTAKAINEN

Companies are going to be paired with students and the graduate human resources students will be the ones conducting the interviews.

The Marshall chapter of Society for Human Resource Management is involved in with the event. They will be helping with mock interviews, resume and career counseling.

Selden Edwards, a second year graduate student in human resources is the vice-president of Marshall SHRM and is coordinating

get out of bed,” said Steph Sherer, the founder and executive director of a group called Americans for Safe Access.

On Monday, the medical pot users took their complaints to Congress.

Concluding a three-day conference in Washington, the group organized 200 medical marijuana advocates from 37 states — a collection of patients, doctors, scientists, lawyers and others — for its second annual lobbying day on Capitol Hill, lining up more than 300 meetings with legislative offices.

Pot backers say Congress needs to get involved to resolve a growing conflict between state and federal laws.

They expressed hope that change could be in the offing after Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Friday that the Obama administration is ready to tackle the issue.

While stressing that “ultimately Congress would have to change the law,” Holder said, “I think our administration would be willing to work with Congress if such a proposal were made.” He’s expected to field questions on the topic again Tuesday when he appears before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing on oversight of the Justice Department.

While Congress classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance with no medical value, 20 states have passed laws allowing medical pot since California became the first in 1996, and Florida is expected to vote on the issue in November. Two states, Washington and Colorado, went further in 2012, passing laws that allow all adults who are 21 and over to smoke pot for recreational purposes.

But medical marijuana users say the state laws can easily be

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Herd baseball taking on pair of McGraw, regional foes in midweek matchups Auriemma

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Redshirt junior infielder T.J. Diffenderfer stands at bat during the Herd’s series against Southern Miss at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston.

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University baseball team looks to build off its momentum from its second consecutive series win and third overall on the season as it hosts Eastern Kentucky and border rival Ohio University for two midweek matchups.

Marshall played EKU less than a week ago, falling 4-1.

The two games will mark for the Herd’s second and third non-conference home games of the season.

The Herd stole the first two games of the weekend against Florida Atlantic 5-0 and 7-3, before getting demolished in the series finale, 17-3. The win Friday became the Herd’s first shutout victory of the season.

Marshall now stands with a .500 record in Conference USA at 7-7, and overall record of 11-18.

The Herd is hitting its stride as it closes in on the halfway point on the season winning five of the last seven games.

Freshman Corey Bird said as of late, they are playing their best ball and everything is starting to come together.

“Coming off our second series victory in a row is a good mentality booster going into these midweek games,” Bird said. “It allows us to go in with positive attitudes and keep the flow going. Our defense is keeping errors down, and we did a better job this weekend of not leaving so many runners on base, and getting the hits that we needed at the right times.”

Eastern Kentucky comes into the game with a 14-17 overall record. The Colonels have had a few highlight games early on in the season facing Louisville and South Carolina for three games.

Although EKU faced defeat in all four games against a couple of the top teams in the country, that experience can help as the season goes on.

“EKU has played some good teams, but so have we,” sophomore pitcher Caleb Ross said.

“With baseball anything can happen, and we are playing really good ball lately and want to keep it going this week.”

The Ohio Bobcats come into the Wednesday matchup with a disappointing 5-23 record.

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Webster wins C-USA Hitter of the Week HERDZONE.COM Marshall University first baseman Savanah Webster has been named Conference USA Hitter of the Week (March 31-April 6). The recognition is her first, and the Thundering Herd’s first C-USA softball weekly honor of the season.

“I am thankful to Conference USA for giving me the recognition,” Webster said. “I’m looking forward to helping my team get back to Boca Raton, Fla. to have another chance at winning a championship.”

Webster hit .474 over five games to help the Herd to a 5-0 streak. The senior lead Marshall with nine hits, two doubles, two home runs, 17 total bases and a .895 slugging percentage during the week and tied for a team-high five runs scored.

“Savanah unleashed at the plate this week in a huge way.

She crushed the gaps and hit

the long ball in clutch situation,” MU assistant coach Kendall Fearn said.

Webster’s play was key for the Herd over the weekend at Middle Tennessee, as the team picked up its first three-game sweep in Conference USA play. Webster went 8-of-12 on the weekend with a .667 batting average and 1.333 slugging percentage.

Her play helped bump the Herd from 12th in conference to the top eight.

“This is a very important stretch of C-USA play and she is providing our lineup with great offensive power and consistency,” Fearn said. “She is a tremendous hitter that has had to work twice as hard to overcome an injury early in the season. We are very excited for her to continue to do big things in conference play as she is seeing the ball very well right now.”

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Senior utility player Savanah Webster rounds the bases after hitting a home run agaisnt Miami (Ohio) March 26.

Alonzo Mourning reflects on kidney transplant upon Hall confirmation GARY CORONADO | PALM BEACH POST | MCT

Former Miami Heat player Alonzo Mourning hands the trophy to team owner Ted Arison after beating the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Florida, June 9, 2012.

By IRA WINDERMAN

SUN SENTINEL (MCT) Alonzo Mourning insists he won’t cry when he is enshrined into to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Aug. 8.

Of course, the former shotblocking center made the same vow when his No. 33 jersey was retired by the Miami Heat in March 2009.

“I’ve actually got a couple of bets with a couple of my boys that I won’t cry,” Mourning said Monday in Dallas, after he was formally announced as a member of the Hall’s Class of 2014.

“This time, I’m going to win the bet, ’cause I cried at my jersey retirement, and I didn’t expect that to happen. But I’m excited about the opportunity, and I’m excited to represent all those individuals that helped contribute to this moment.”

Mourning already was emotional Monday at the media session held in advance of the NCAA Tournament championship game between Kentucky and Connecticut at nearby

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AT&T Stadium. He was even more emotional later, speaking on a conference call about overcoming his 2003 kidney transplant and going on to win the 2006 NBA championship with the Heat.

“I stand here on the shoulders of so many other people,” he said. “The man over there to the left (pointing to former Georgetown coach John Thompson) that helped contribute so much to my life, not just as an athlete, but as a person, as well. Big John taught me more about life than he did about basketball and prepared me for that next step. And my family, obviously. (Heat President) Pat Riley, you’ve got to throw him in that category, as well. So there’s a lot of contributors. I’m very, very grateful.”

Among those who will be alongside at the Aug. 8 enshrinement in Springfield, Mass., will be his cousin Jason Cooper, who donated a kidney to Mourning, whose battle with

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rooted in small Pennsylvania college town

By FRANK FITZPATRICK

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (MCT) Tuesday night, Nashville will shimmer like a country singer’s wardrobe.

Down in Music City, 20,000 fans will fill Bridgestone Arena to see, for the first time in NCAA basketball history, two unbeatens, Connecticut and Notre Dame, vie for the women’s national championship.

Meanwhile, 663 miles to the east, Tuesday night figures to be an unremarkable one in West Chester, Pa. The old college town’s leafy residential streets will be slumbering. Gay Street’s bars and restaurants will be enjoying a mid-week calm.

The courthouse and county buildings will be closed.

And, on a night it helped make possible, Holllinger Field House, the 65-year-old gymnasium near the southern edge of West Chester University’s campus, will be dark and empty.

Nashville’s night couldn’t have happened without West Chester.

The Chester County borough is at the heart of this 2014 championship game and of postseason women’s basketball in general.

The high-profile coaches in tonight’s unprecedented title game, Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma and Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw, both have deep roots there.

And it was in West Chester, at Hollinger, where in 1969 the first women’s tournament was conceived and born.

“West Chester is a women’s basketball hotbed,” said Deirdre Kane, the current West Chester women’s coach.

Forty-five years ago, before Title IX, the women’s game was little more than a cult activity, barely rising above the level of a gymclass pastime.

There were no standardized rules, no NCAA affiliation or national governing body, no postseason tournament, and almost no interest beyond the college walls.

Girls played in tunics. The number of dribbles was limited. In many states, it was a six-on-six game, with defensive and offensive players restricted to their respective side of the court.

But if there were a mecca for women’s sports back then, it was the Philadelphia area.

“Way before anyone else, this area was at the forefront,” Mimi Greenwood, a former AD at West Chester, said in 2000. “Since probably as far back as the 1940s, there were very successful field hockey, swimming and lacrosse programs around here. There was a kind of English tradition at work in the local schools, a

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BABYMETAL highlights cultural differences In America, we have grown accustomed to what many consider corporately overproduced pop stars, but the control record companies have over American pop music does not compare to the influence of talent agencies in Japan. Japanese pop (J-pop) and metal trio BABYMETAL exemplifies the power of these agencies.

The bubble-gum-meets-death metal group describes its unique genre as “kawaii metal,” which translates to “cute metal.”

“We want to be the only one in the world,” SU-METAL, the oldest member of the group at 16, said in an interview with RazorTV. “We use ‘baby’ because we are newborn, a new genre.”

BABYMETAL formed as a spinoff of Japanese female idol pop group Sakura Gakuin.

J-pop groups feature attractive young people who sing, make television appearances and model as part of a pop group during their teens and twenties.

The other two members of the group, MOA-METAL and YUI-METAL are 14. But this is typical of the J-pop system. Agencies create groups of young pop stars, but when they graduate from junior high, performers are too old to continue in the group.

Now a viral YouTube sensation with more than 4.5 million views on the video for “Gimme Chocolate!!” and a debut album that peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard World albums chart, BABYMETAL is receiving international attention.

This attention, however, is the result of a corporately generated and produced act

created for the sole purpose, as is the case of any company, to generate revenue. The trio and their families claimed to never have heard of metal music before joining the group.

There is no artistic freedom, no creativity. BABYMETAL is not a means of expression for the three young girls. They have no creative input, but they fall into the system of the corporate machine. It is simply a way of making money for both the group and the agency.

But the J-pop system is typical of the Japanese culture. Though controversial, the fabrication of a group like the trio works in this culture. The girls use BABYMETAL as it is intended, as a business, and there is nothing wrong with that fact.

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An FDA success story on antibiotics LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Skeptics scoffed late last year when the Food and Drug Administration issued guidelines to restrict the use of antibiotics in livestock. Most of the antibiotic use in this country is in the agriculture industry, with the drugs routinely added to animal feed to promote growth and prevent infections from sweeping through crowded and unsanitary operations. The voluntary guidelines would never be followed, critics predicted, and agricultural antibiotics would continue to contribute to the rise of resistant infections that sicken 2 million people a year in the United States and kill 23,000.

So far, the results are much rosier. In just the last four months, 25 of the 26 pharmaceutical companies that make antibiotics that are important for human as well as veterinary treatment have agreed to new drug labels prohibiting their use for growth promotion in livestock. (The

26th company is a small firm that caters to the fish farming industry.) In addition, the drugs must be prescribed by a veterinarian rather than sold over the counter; that will end the practice of adding them to feed.

It’s an extraordinary achievement for the FDA, which had issued the voluntary rules in an attempt to avoid the years-long delays involved in proposing new rules with teeth. But its work isn’t done yet.

Agricultural antibiotics can still be prescribed for disease prevention, and that’s not a problem as long as it’s done judiciously. If some cattle have been exposed to a highly infectious disease, for example, it makes sense to treat the animals around them or perhaps the whole herd. Such prescriptions are supposed to have defined start and end dates so they don’t become a substitute for bad animal husbandry practices.

The problem is that rogue veterinarians could decide to make their living as

prescription mills for feedlots they’ve never even visited. At this point, the FDA needs some clear rules for veterinarians, including a requirement that they visit the farms they prescribe for at least occasionally. Oversight will be needed to ensure that prescriptions to prevent disease are written only when needed, and for limited periods of time.

Decades of failed legislation intended to stop the wanton overuse of agricultural antibiotics have given way to increased understanding among drug companies and the livestock industry of the dangers of this practice. Trade associations for pork, chicken and beef producers have supported the new guidelines. And meat from animals treated with growth promoters is banned in the European Union. The guidelines will keep key antibiotics useful for far longer if the FDA backs them up with basic standards for the veterinarians who will write the new prescriptions.

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Government for sale to highest bidder

By DAN K. THOMASSON

MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES (MCT) Look for this advertisement on TV, your local newspaper and online in the not too distant future: “For sale at auction: 535 Seats in the U.S. Congress — 100 in Upper House and 435 in Lower Chamber. Seats to be occupied by person of buyer’s choice after bipartisan elective process with no restrictions on qualifications of candidates other than those set out by the major bidders.

“Reserve: $1 million per seat.

“Bidder must certify personal net worth of $200 million or more. Average citizens need not apply.

“Seat carries desk on main floor of domed building now referred to frequently as the ‘Cave of the Winds’ and individual offices in nearby structures. Also included with each seat is pro-rated share of sprawling government complex with extensive grounds and adjacent structures, restaurants, cafeterias, snack bars, meeting rooms, fleet of vehicles, separate library, priceless art and statues, parking facilities and fountains.

Extremely valuable hideaways in main building where nefarious schemes are hatched and assignations conducted under influence of alcoholic spirits will be auctioned apart from general bidding.

“Certifying agency: the U.S. Supreme Court, which is located immediately across the street from auctioned grounds. Bidders should contact chief sales agent John G. Roberts Jr., or one of four assistants — Samuel A. Alito Jr., Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.

“Authority for sale: The First Amendment of the U.S Constitution free-speech provision as interpreted by sales agent and cohorts. All other heretofore restrictions on buying and selling of seats and or candidates are hereby abrogated. Other adjustments to the elective process will be dealt with as need occurs.

“Dates of sale will be determined but extending over several months, with final purchase culminating in November every two years. All sales are final even if bidder’s candidate fails to win.

No refunds granted.

“A separate announcement will follow for auction of residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.

“Notice: Sales agent expects to change the motto under which Republic was founded to ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy’ with apologies to Will Rogers whose statue occupies a prominent spot in the Capitol building.”

Do you think I’m kidding here?

That my poor attempt at satire has no basis in reality? Well, anyone who doesn’t believe that the Supreme Court has not just shouted fire in a crowded theater when it comes to the election process has been spending too much time in Colorado buying more than a little of what we used to be put in jail for smoking.

The bolts that secure the dome to the nation’s symbol of democracy have been more than just loosened by the high court’s narrow decision in the name of free speech to take off the limits on aggregate contributions from individuals to federal candidates and political committees.

It of course follows the Citizens United decision that struck down limits on independent campaign spending by corporations and unions without lifting the restraints on direct contributions to candidates. One can anticipate the death of limits on direct contributions sometime soon.

While the vote last week broke along the usual philosophical lines of this court with conservatives taking the edge, both political parties began immediately rounding up their usual whales to finance the coming midterms. We’re talking about the really big boys here, the multi-billionaires like Sheldon Adelson, the gambling magnate, and the Koch brothers, who already support half the conservative causes in America on the Republican side, and the likes of George Soros and Warren Buffet for the Democrats.

How can someone who scrapes up one hundred bucks to give to a candidate or a political cause expect to be heard? The truth is he should save his money. Is not his free speech being impinged upon?

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WBB

Continued from Page 3 feeling that athletics ought to be a part of a genteel woman’s education.”

And West Chester was more ready than most schools for the leap women’s basketball was about to make.

Because its education-based curriculum traditionally attracted women and because it had a respected physicaleducation department, West Chester was a force in women’s athletics, particularly basketball.

Future Hall of Fame coach Cathy Rush played there in the mid-1960s. Later Carol Eckman coached teams that were among the first to drop the sixplayer format in favor of men’s rules.

Eckman was eager to test her team — and herself — against the rest of the nation. In 1969, she got her school’s approval to do so.

“She divided up a map of the U.S. into regions that look a lot like today’s,” said Kane from Nashville, “and she invited

MOURNING

Continued from Page 3 kidney illness was at a critical stage before that Dec. 19, 2003 procedure.

“He was one of the first phone calls that I made, to let him know the news. I thanked him for all he had done for me,” Mourning said. “When I came back from my kidney transplant, there were a lot of people who doubted me.

But I had some deep doubt, too.”

Mourning said his greatest source of pride was serving as motivation for others in need of

ECLISPE

Continued from Page 2 Earth as a black disk with a brilliant orange ring around it,” said Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine. “And this brilliant ring would be bright enough to dimly light up the lunar landscape.”

It has been a long time since a total lunar eclipse has been visible from the United States. According to MacRobert, the last one took place on Dec. 11, 2011. But

PISTORIUS

Continued from Page 2 “I stood up for myself and I got into a physical altercation with the other kid,” he testified, saying he was called into the school headmaster’s office to be punished. His mother arrived at the school and told the headmaster he shouldn’t be punished for standing up for himself, he said.

Earlier, Pistorius’ defense attorneys called a pathologist to testify that Steenkamp may not have had time to scream when the athlete shot and killed her.

Jan Botha, a former

SCHMIDLAPP

Continued from Page 1 Bell’s research intersects environmental sociology, gender and social movements.

She has a particular focus on understanding how environmentally-destructive industries acquire and maintain their power.

She hopes to discover strategies for increasing the political participation of communities most affected by environmental injustices.

Her lecture is unique in that it will appeal to many different disciplines as well as those involved in a variety of activist groups.

Her first book is a collection of personal stories dealing with female environmental activism in Central Appalachia. It is

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16 teams from around the country.”

That March those teams traveled there for what Eckman would call the National Invitational Collegiate Women’s Basketball Tournament.

West Chester won the event, which was played at Hollinger, Auriemma’s home court as a collegian and the place where McGraw, then a teenager who lived only a few blocks away, often went to watch Eckman’s women.

McGraw — Muffet O’Brien then — had been born in Pottsville but grew up in West Chester. One of seven children, she starred in basketball at St. Agnes parish school and at Bishop Shanahan High, then located in the borough.

She went on to St. Joseph’s where she played for Ellen Ryan and as a senior was a guard on a Hawks team that was ranked as high as No. 3 nationally.

After graduating in 1977, McGraw coached at Archbishop Carroll before Jim Foster, by then the Hawks women’s coach,

hired her as an assistant in 1980.

Foster had been at Temple when he assumed the role of the Hawks women’s coach.

Needing an aide, he called his old Bishop Kenrick teammate, Auriemma.

“Out of the blue he calls and says, ‘Hey, I’m coaching the girls at Bishop McDevitt. You want to help me?’ “ Auriemma said earlier. “I said, ‘No way. I wouldn’t coach girls for all the money in the world.’ When I was at Kenrick, we wouldn’t even let the girls on the court.”

But Auriemma adapted and, after returning to coach Kenrick’s boys with Phil Martelli, he became a Foster assistant at St. Joe’s in 1978. His salary was $1,000.

“I said, ‘This isn’t going anywhere. I’ve got to get a real job,’ “ Auriemma recalled.

Auriemma and McGraw are just of two of the Philly connections at Nashville’s Final Four.

The multiple-nationalchampion Mighty Macs of Immaculata — like West Chester located in Chester

County — are being honored there for their recent selection to the basketball Hall of Fame.

“There’s been a lot of pride about Philly at this Final Four,” said Kane. “Carol Eckman started the first tournament.

And for Geno and Muffet to have such prominent West Chester roots ... I’ve been putting it out there all over the Twitter-verse.”

Both Auriemma and McGraw are competitive to their cores.

With such similar backgrounds, and success, it probably was inevitable that at some point the two would clash.

That happened in March when the brackets pointed their teams toward this ultimate meeting. McGraw said she wasn’t concerned, noting her team’s recent success against Connecticut.

“We’ve gotten pretty good at beating them,” she said.

That got Auriemma’s Philly up.

“When you grow up in Philadelphia, you tend to exaggerate,” he said. “I know that firsthand, trust me.”

transplantation.

“That,” he said, “affects more people in the world than my winning a world championship. I feel like my legacy off the court will overshadow my legacy on the court.”

But making it back to win the 2006 title meant plenty, especially after so many failed bids alongside Riley prior to the 2000 onset of his kidney illness.

“When Pat Riley traded five guys and some picks to bring me to Miami, I made a commitment to him. I said I’m in this to help Miami win a world championship,” he said. “When

I came up short with the kidney disease, I asked God if he would give me the strength to get back on the court again.

“If my life ended today, I’ve lived a storybook life. I think I’ve had a lot of angels in my life.”

Mourning becomes the second player with Heat ties in the Hall, with Heat 2006 NBA championship point guard Gary Payton inducted in 2013, albeit more for his success with the Seattle SuperSonics than his 2005-06 and ‘06-07 seasons largely utilized as a Heat reserve. Riley was inducted into the Hall in 2008

for his coaching success with the Los Angeles, Lakers, New York Knicks and Heat. Current Heat assistant coach Bob McAdoo was inducted into the Hall in 2000 for his career as one of the sport’s most prodigious scorers.

Mourning was a seven-time All-Star, NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 1999 and 2000, ranked top five in blocked shot nine times, averaged 20 or more points six times, stands 10th all-time in career blocks and sixth all-time in blocked shots per game. He currently serves as a Heat executive.

the good news is there are three more on the way after this one.

This lunar eclipse is the first in what is called an eclipse tetrad — four successive lunar eclipses with no partial lunar eclipses in between.

The next one, which also will be visible from nearly all of North America, will take place in October.

As for the intriguing term “blood moon” — that appears to be new. MacRobert has been

writing about astronomy since 1982, and had never encountered it before.

The astronomy website EarthSky.org suggests the phrase originated not with astronomers, but with a Christian pastor named John Hagee and his 2013 book, “Four Blood Moons: Something is about to change.”

According to Hagee’s ministry website, the book “explores the supernatural connection of certain celestial events to biblical

prophecy.”

Regardless of whether or not you call it a blood moon, this lunar eclipse is definitely worth staying up late to see.

“I really urge everyone to watch the progress of this eclipse,” MacRobert said.

“Whether you have a small telescope, a pair of binoculars or even just your naked eye — you’ll be seeing part of the geometry of the cosmos happening right in front of your eyes.”

government pathologist in two South African provinces, said the bullets could have been fired in the space of four seconds, meaning that Steenkamp wouldn’t have had the time to scream before she was struck in the head, losing consciousness.

Part of the prosecution’s case rests on testimony from five neighbors who say they heard a woman screaming the night Pistorius shot Steenkamp. The defense has argued that only Pistorius screamed after the shooting.

“She may have been frozen with fear for a second or two,” Botha said, concluding

there would have been a delay of about two seconds before she began to scream — by which time she would have been struck in the head.

“If they (the shots) were fired over four seconds, I don’t think she would have had any time to scream. I think there would have been panic, confusion,” he said.

But he acknowledged under cross-examination by the prosecution that if Steenkamp was mortally afraid in the moments before she was shot, she likely would have cried out.

“If she was in mortal fear,

it’s more likely she would have screamed,” he said. “If there was an interval of several seconds between the shots, I think she may well have had a chance to cry out.”

Pistorius wept during the pathologist’s testimony on Steenkamp’s wounds, as a close-up photograph depicting a bruise on her back was projected in the courtroom. He also vomited into a green plastic bucket. During a tea break, the athlete was hunched, sobbing loudly, with his brother Carl and sister Aimee at his side, hugging him.

titled “Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice.”

Bell is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky where she works with several departments including the Environmental and Sustainability Studies program, the Gender and Women’s Studies department, and the Appalachian Studies program.

The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. The annual Schmidlapp Lectureship is sponsored by the Charlotte M. Schmidlapp Fund, Fifth Third Bank Trustee.

Jocelyn Gibson can be contacted at gibson243@marshall.edu.

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BASEBALL

Continued from Page 3 The Bobcats bring with them a 6-game losing streak, as they were swept

by Kent State over the weekend.

“You can’t take any team lightly, no matter what their record is,” Ross said. “We just have to go play our game, continue to score runs, and pitchers have to

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continue to throw strikes and trust in our defense.”

The Herd hosts EKU Tuesday with first pitch scheduled for 3 p.m. and Ohio comes to Huntington Wednesday with first pitch also scheduled for 3 p.m.

Both games will be played at the Kennedy Center on Route 2.

Derek May can be contacted at may125@ marshall.edu.

NAC

Continued from Page 1 “This has been a year in the making and we have sought advice from pretty much everyone in the J-school,” Tucker said. “They all played a part in helping us get to this point so we’d like to thank them for their support.”

Marketing director in the agency group, Molly Miloscia said traveling to competitions makes her proud of Marshall’s success.

“It gives you a lot of pride in where you come from,” Miloscia said. “This makes you proud of the amount of quality work that comes out of the program here at Marshall.”

Miloscia also said this was

KOPP

Continued from Page 1 “In my view, Dr. Kopp is a leader who has brought very positive change to Marshall and who displays every intention of continuing to do so,” MacTaggart said.

Also in the report, MacTaggart praises Kopp’s leadership and said he belongs in the top ranks of effective change leaders in American higher education today.

Kopp and his staff are working hard to encourage faculty, staff and students to provide their input about the university’s strengths and weakness.

A very recent topic for consideration that was brought to surface at the last faculty senate meeting was the concept of university citizenship.

MARIJUANA

Continued from Page 2 “What this means is that if a U.S. attorney feels like prosecuting someone, he or she will,” Sherer said.

She said decision-makers in Washington should stop pointing fingers “at who should take the first step” in rescheduling marijuana.

And she said the question facing Congress was not whether the drug was a medicine.

“Cannabis IS a medicine. It has been used for thousands of years,” Sherer said. “What we are asking your bosses to do is to change outdated laws

the highlight of her senior year, and she is happy to have made the journey with her peers.

“We’ve been working in groups since our freshman and sophomore year together,” Miloscia said. “Being able to make this whole journey with them and coming out on top was an experience.

I wouldn’t have wanted any other people pitching by my side.”

The senior advertising students will now compete in an intermediate level of competition. Eight finalists are then considered for the National level of NSAC. Jessica Starkey can be contacted at starkey33@ marshall.edu.

University citizenship is something that citizens of university do outside of their job requirements to help improve the university and move it forward.

Kopp said that university citizenship varies from college to college and can come in many forms. It can span from mentoring a student, to building a network, to helping students with career opportunities.

“The vitality, future well being, and best interest of the university are of concern to every citizen of the university,” Kopp said. “These are people who expressly feel the sense of responsibility for the future of this institution.”

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

so they reflect the experience of their constituents.”

Medical marijuana backers say their top priority is to pass a bill introduced by Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon.

Among other things, it would put Congress on record as recognizing the medical value of marijuana and prevent the federal government from interfering with any state-approved medical pot programs.

But it would not offer federal protections to anyone smoking pot without authorization from a doctor, including recreational users in Washington state and Colorado.

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Humans of Huntington

By EMILY RICE | THE PARTHENON

A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES OF THE CITY'S STRANGERS

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MICKEY ROONEY

with gumption and grit, put on a show

By KENNETH TURAN

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Everyone knows Mickey Rooney, but who really remembers the extent of his success? How many now living can testify not only to how large this man loomed over the American film landscape but also to the particular qualities that made him such an enormous success in his prime?

Everyone knows Rooney, who died at the great age of 93, precisely because he lived so long, the tireless last surviving star of Hollywood’s 1930s Golden Age, a performer always ready to make an appearance when there was a crowd waiting to applaud.

But Rooney was more than just any star. In the final innocent prewar years of 1939, 1940 and 1941, he was the country’s biggest box-office attraction, period, end of story. And the actor reached that pinnacle not by being a dashing action hero lead or a glamorous romantic lead, but by playing a teenage boy, a character one contemporary critic called “the perfect composite of everybody’s kid brother.” Nothing says more than that about how America’s popular culture

movie tastes have changed in the interim.

Rooney wasn’t just any teenager either, he was brash, exuberant, unstoppable, the kind of kid Americans once upon a time liked to feel was representative of this country at its good-hearted, irrepressible best.

Rooney seems to have come by his trademark industriousness and resilience honestly. He was born Joe Yule Jr., the son of two vaudevillians who took constant movement and hard knocks as a matter of course. He began his stage career as a toddler and his first film role came in 1926 when, at age 6, he apparently played a midget in something called “Not to Be Trusted.”

The young boy’s first sustained success came in a series of shorts made between 1927 and 1936 based on a comic strip character named Mickey McGuire. It was during that period that Rooney, having changed his name in the interim, claimed to have met and so inspired a young Walt Disney that he named Mickey Mouse after the lad right on the spot. Though Rooney, who loved to hold the spotlight, told this story with so much drama and

passion it seemed churlish to doubt him, most Disney authorities feel it simply never happened.

Rooney’s gumption got him a contract at MGM, where he attracted the attention and admiration of studio head Louis B. Mayer. It was under Mayer’s aegis that Rooney made a series of 15 Andy Hardy films that were the apotheosis of his boy next door persona.

Playing a tireless scamp of a teenage boy who was always needing the sound advice of his father, the everjudicious Judge Hardy (played first by Lionel Barrymore, then Lewis Stone), Rooney made the young adult state an object of fascination for American audiences decades before Ferris Bueller even thought of taking a day off.

Though his nominal love interest in the series was played by Ann Rutherford, Rooney’s most famous Hardy collaborator was a young Judy Garland.

Rooney and Garland also costarred in an MGM version of Rodgers and Hart’s musical “Babes in Arms,” much beloved to this day for its enthusiastic “Hey kids, let’s put on a show” storyline.

If enthusiasm was always Rooney’s stock in trade, America was less

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interested in buying during the years following World War II. The actor’s “look at me” energy level started to wear out its welcome, with British critic Dilys Powell tartly commenting that the highly visible Rooney “has for some years now had nothing to learn except, perhaps, reticence.”

But though he had some bad years, even bad decades, working his way through eight wives (including Ava Gardner) and innumerable career revivals, the resilience that the Kinks noticed finally began to pay dividends for the actor as he approached his 60s.

In 1979, for instance, Rooney’s stage career took off when he costarred with Ann Miller in the burlesquethemed musical “Sugar Babies” and his role as venerable trainer Henry Dailey was a key part of the success of “The Black Stallion.” In 1981, the actor won an Emmy for playing a once-institutionalized individual now out on his own in “Bill” and in 1983 he took home an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. Like many of his more mature characters, Mickey Rooney was a survivor, and there is a lot to be said for that.