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“I have confidence in the mayor and the Police and Fire Departments to weather this storm while continuing to provide protection and support to the city of Huntington.”

- Jerome Gilbert, Marshall University President

By SADIE HELMICK

THE PARTHENON City leaders gathered to discuss Huntington issues Monday morning at the Visual Arts Center. These leaders came together to show their support for Mayor Steve Williams during this time of substantial budget cuts.

According to The Herald-Dispatch, the City of Huntington has a $5 million budget deficit.

Among the leaders of the city, Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert discussed budget issues within Marshall and the state. Gilbert said he does have confidence for the future.

“We as a community have had success because of people like Steve Williams,” Gilbert said. “I have confidence in the mayor and the Police and Fire Departments to weather this storm while continuing to provide protection and support to the city of Huntington.”

Williams said he is wanting to make more partnerships within the community, especially between business and labor.

Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce President Bill Bissett shared his challenges in the city of Lexington and their budget deficit. Bissett assured the mayor to count on the support from him and the Chamber of Commerce to “find solutions.”

“I saw the dedication of [Williams] in this town and I

wanted to be part of that,” Bissett said.

Bob Adkins, president of the Huntington Municipal Development Authority, said he also wants to be a part of the solution for the city.

“Just as we support the firefighters and police, we support Mayor Williams,” Adkins said.

“The Mayor has given labor a voice and has made us part of the conversation,” Adkins said.

“Now it is on us to be a part of the solution.”

The Rev. Donte Jackson of the First Baptist Church of Huntington said he is also “confident” that the city will overcome.

“It’s imperative to find these solutions,” Adkins said. “We are on the verge of some exciting breakthrough.”

Williams said he wants the public to know these budget cuts are not an easy decision.

“This is not a choice at all of whether anyone should have to choose in supporting police and fire or fiscal stability,” Williams said. “We have a plan moving forward and these leaders are helping to implement these plans.”

City Council met Monday night to discuss the budget in further detail. The Police and Fire Departments rallied to show concerns outside City Hall.

Sadie Helmick can be contacted at helmick32@ marshall.edu.

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>7 The number of people dismissed from the Huntington Fire Department Jan. 26

> 2.2 million The dollar estimate for the amount that the 24 layoffs would decrease the deficit by

Rally to support Huntington Police, Fire Departments Monday night David Moske, pictured left, organized a rally to support the Huntington Police and Fire Departments Monday night. This rally followed a news conference from Mayor Steve Williams addressing city issues and preceded the city council meeting.

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Sen. Capito discusses possible replacement for Obamacare

By KYLEE HURLEY

THE PARTHENON United States Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has joined other senators to work to replace the Affordable Care Act with the Patient Freedom Act of 2017.

The bill, which can be found on the official Congress website, says its purpose is “to improve patient choice by allowing States to adopt market-based alternatives to the Affordable Care Act.” According to the bill, these alternatives from the Patient Freedom Act of 2017 will work to “increase access to affordable health insurance and reduce costs while ensuring important consumer protections and improving patient care.”

The replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act comes after the executive order released by President Trump on his first day in office.

According to the official White House website, the executive order outlines how the president wants to immediately appeal the legislation that was implemented by the previous administration.

Sen. Capito and the other sponsors of the bill introduced the replacement plan in response to discussion around the nation of what will substitute the Affordable Care Act. The Patient Freedom Act of 2017 was sponsored by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, and among a few of the cosponsors include Sen. Capito, R-WV and Sen.

Lindsey Graham, R-SC. The Patient Freedom Act of 2017 is a completely Republican sponsored piece of legislation which was drafted to create a new plan over the previous Democratic administration policy.

Although this bill is intended to affect the entire nation, Sen. Capito shared a news release which emphasizes her views on how the Patient Freedom Act of 2017 will specifically help citizens of West Virginia.

According to the news release, Sen. Capito outlined how her supported plan will benefit her fellow West Virginians in regards to healthcare.

Sen. Capito is quoted in her release saying, “I think a replacement will be much better, cover more people and also give people the choices that they need. We can make our own decisions on healthcare.

We don’t need the federal government’s heavy-hand-making those decisions.”

“I am hopeful for the future of West Virginia if the Patient Freedom Act of 2017 is enacted,” Sen. Capito said on her Twitter account and the release.

According to the official Congress website, the bill has been read twice in the Senate and has since been sent to the Finance Committee for further consideration.

Kylee Hurley can be contacted at hurley40@marshall.edu.

SNA strives to find bone marrow donors at MU

By HEATHER BARKER

THE PARTHENON Saving a life can begin with a simple swab of a cheek.

Marshall’s Student Nurses Association is trying to help accomplish this goal through a bone marrow registry drive with Be The Match, a nonprofit organization, Feb. 15 in the Memorial Student Center. Anyone from ages 18 to 44 with no major preexisting diseases are eligible to register.

“The main idea is that Be The Match connects critically ill patients with a life-saving bone marrow donor,” senior nursing major Molly Arthur said. “Most patients do not find a marrow match within their own family, so they have to rely on a complete stranger to donate to them.”

The SNA decided to do this drive after meeting several patients through their clinicals at Cabell Huntington Hospital who have the possibility of receiving a bone marrow transplant through the course of their treatment.

“I know a little boy who went recently to see if he had any matches to get a transplant, and they had 10 people that were matches for him,” senior nursing major Jenna Fields said. “If he would need one later on, they would wipe out his immune system and replace

it through the bone marrow to fight off the disease.”

In order to register, donors will go through a series of questions about their medical history and will have their cheeks swabbed to collect cells, which will take about 10 minutes. According to Be The Match registry, only one in every 430 people go on to donate.

There are three ways to donate: peripheral blood stem cells through an IV, bone marrow through the hip by a surgical procedure and cord blood after giving birth.

“They put an IV in, they take the blood out and spin out what they need and everything else goes back into your body.

It’s just like giving blood, and you potentially save a life,” senior nursing major Alison Evans said.

The registry drive is taking place in the Don Morris Room from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 15.

The SNA has a goal of registering 100 donors.

“The more people on the registry, the more likely you are to find a match,” Evans said. “The goal is to get as many people on the registry as possible to potentially raise someone’s percentage of finding a match.”

Heather Barker can be contacted at barker193@ marshall.edu.

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Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont and former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks to a crowd in Charleston Sunday night to promote his new book and to continue to spread his message of change.

Senator Bernie Sanders returns to West Virginia

By TOM JENKINS

NEWS EDITOR “Feel the Bern” was once again a chant that West Virginians would shout outside the steps of the Charleston Municipal Auditorium. The Vermont Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to over 2,000 West Virginians Feb. 12 to promote his new book and continue to push his message of progression.

The event was mainly centered around issues that states like Vermont and West Virginia both face. Drugs, environmental issues and health care were at the top of the list of Sanders’ speech.

Sanders is known for being the left’s political outsider who built his campaign through a grassroots movement that asked supporters for only a $27 donation. The campaign grew enough steam to rival Hillary Clinton in the June primaries, also winning the state of West Virginia in the process.

As Sanders took the stage, he was greeted by a roaring standing ovation. His last visit to the state brought him to Big Sandy’s Superstore Arena back in April.

Originally, Sanders had planned to go to McDowell County to host a “town hall meeting” to address the problems the town faces with opiates, unemployment and healthcare.

Sunday afternoon, the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs & Public Safety released a statement saying they would not host Sanders.

"U.S. Department of Defense policy does not permit the

“Democracy is not a spectator sport; I know in West Virginia you all love your football and basketball and those are spectator sports. But democracy is something everyone should participate in.”

-Bernie Sanders, Vermont senator and former presidential candidate use of military facilities for political and election events and specifically includes town hall meetings as an example of such activities,” the statement read. “The West Virginia State Armory Board has a similar policy.”

Sanders addressed the cancelation at the beginning of his speech.

“It appears that along the line that someone made a decision that we could not use the armory that MSNBC had secured,” Sanders said.

The crowd responded with boos, but Sanders reassured the crowd that he would be coming back to McDowell.

“We held a very moving town meeting, and during a campaign you hold hundreds and hundreds of town meetings, but that’s one that was memorable for me,” Sanders said. “Because as all of you know that part of the state has a whole lot of problems in terms of high unemployment, in terms of very serious opiate addiction, schools not adequately funded.”

Sanders said he was inspired by the courage shown by those facing adversity in McDowell.

“I was enormously impressed by the dignity and the courage of the people there

who stood up and talked about the issues, who talked about the new future and that moved me very much,” Sanders said.

“And we’re going back to McDowell County.”

Sanders also addressed the new administration in the White House. He said President Donald Trump knew how to sympathize with the working class in the mountain state, but said Trump wasn’t genuine about most of what he said.

Sanders said Trump is not keeping his promises. He said Trump told his voters he’s going to take on the establishment, the Republicans and Democrats and take care of the working class of America.

“Now the truth is, it’s a good speech,” Sanders said. “The bad news is he never meant a word of it.”

He addressed issues such as the “Muslim Ban,” Trump’s border wall and not having a viable replacement for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

The last half of the night, he spoke about his book, “Our Revolution.” The book begins with his life growing up in a poor family in Brooklyn, New York. Sanders said his upbringing gave him an understanding of what it is like growing up

poor and helped him relate to many other Americans who struggle financially every day.

He then spoke about his career in Vermont and grassroots politics. Sanders talked about his perseverance in politics, saying that when he first ran for governor he got two percent of the vote.

Sanders actually dropped out the second time he ran for governor, but continued to run until he decided to run for Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, the largest city in the state. He only won by 10 votes.

Overall, Sanders ran for governor four times, garnering 6 percent of the vote the last time. The idea centered around talking about his career, was to say that anyone can and should be involved in politics.

“Democracy is not a spectator sport; I know in West Virginia you all love your football and basketball and those are spectator sports,” Sanders said. “But democracy is something everyone should participate in.”

“I think everyone should get into politics in some form or another,” said Marshall student Julieanne Batten, who was at the event in Charleston. “Whether it is just trying to find some local cause or a community group to help in any way they can.”

Sanders said he will continue to push to have the town meeting in McDowell County, so that the senator can hear the citizens’ views, complaints and try to find a way to help them.

Tom Jenkins can be contacted at jenkins194@ marshall.edu.

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Walk-On turned Record-Breaker

By PATRICK O’LEARY

THE PARTHENON In the 2012-13 school year and basketball season, 6-foot-4 freshman guard Austin Loop walked on to the Marshall University men’s basketball team. Loop attended small South Webster High School in South Webster, Ohio where he graduated with approximately 60 classmates. He had offers to play basketball for Division II and Division III schools, but none from Division I schools.

Loop decided he wanted to play Division I basketball and to have that experience, so he was able to walk-on for Marshall. He redshirted his freshman year at Marshall without high hopes of having the opportunity to get significant playing time. Early on in his Marshall career he considered transferring to Division III Marietta College, a school where he had received a scholarship offer.

Flash forward to the 201617 season, and Austin Loop is the all-time leader in made three-pointers in Marshall men’s basketball history. From the outside looking in, a walkon with no Division I offers to breaking a school record such as 251 career made threepointers which Tamar Slay held for 15 years for the Herd seemed improbable. But for Austin Loop, although he did not know he would break that particular record, he never doubted his basketball abilities.

“After my redshirt year I decided I was going to stay, after that year I realized I could play at this level,” Loop said.

“I never would’ve dreamed of setting any records or starting every game since my sophomore year; it never even occurred to me that that could be a possibility.”

Loop broke the school’s all-time made three-pointer record on January 28, 2017 in the team’s 91-68 loss to UTEP. The Marshall offense was shut down, finishing only 3-25 from

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Senior Autin Loop (35) attempts a free throw duirng the 20152016 season. Loop recently broke Tamar Slay’s all-time record for made three pointers in a career.

Loop is currently seventh all-time in Conference USA for made three pointers.

Marshall tennis knocked off another Power Five team Friday, defeating Virginia Tech five sets to two. The Herd rallied to beat the Hokies, who were ranked as high as 18 in some polls this year.

By the Numbers ...the amount of combined runs given up by Marshall softball against No.3 Flordia State.

The Herd fell in both meeting against the Seminoles at this weekend’s Unconqored Invitational, dropping the first meeting 1-0, then losing in the final game, 7-0.

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Standings Men’s beyond the arc on that night.

“Well it was not a good shooting night for us,” head coach Dan D’Antoni said following the game. “They made it tough on Loop.”

However, Loop was able to nail two three-pointers, which was enough to write himself in the Marshall history books.

Although the team lost for the first time in the Cam Henderson Center this season, the crowd of 6,781 was able to explode when Loop tied, and then hit three-pointer number 252 breaking the record held

by Tamar Slay.

Immediately following Loop’s record-breaking threepointer with 1:38 left in the first half, coach D’Antoni called a timeout. The crowd erupted, only to silence down when a special video message from

Tamar Slay played on the video board. In a message to Loop, Slay congratulated him on breaking the record. As threepoint sharpshooters, Slay and Loop have become friends during Loop’s career at Marshall “Over the past couple of years I had gotten to know him a little bit from him coming to practices and coaches clinics, so I had been able to build a little bit of a relationship with him,” Loop said. “We had always joked about the record.

He called me before the game and he said ‘you’re going to break the record tonight and congratulations.’ I texted him the next day and told him I appreciated him reaching out and doing that video, and that it meant a lot to me.”

Loop said that it was a relief if nothing else to break the

record. He said that following the game he was frustrated and pretty upset because of the game’s result, but that it was not until “the next day when it really sunk in and I was proud that it happened.” There was a lot of build-up, especially on social media which put Loop under pressure on game day.

“I see [on Twitter] ‘come out and watch Austin Loop break the record’ and I think, well now I have to make two,” Loop said. “I felt a little pressure that game, but from the beginning of the season and leading up to it I didn’t feel any.”

Aside from excelling on the court, Loop is also the true definition of a student-athlete.

He is pursuing a double major in biomechanics and exercise physiology. He was the first Marshall men’s basketball

record for career three-pointers made, he registered his 1,000th career point last Saturday night.

“Like breaking the career made three’s record, scoring 1,000 points was something I never realized would be a possibility for me,” Loop said.

“Not that many people really get to do that.”

The Herd had a 15-point lead at halftime in that game, and held off a late Western Kentucky surge to hold on for a Marshall victory, ending the team’s three game losing streak.

After an important road win, the Herd shifts focus to UAB. The teams meet on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Huntington with the game being broadcasted live on national television on CBS Sports Network. The Blazers (15-11, 8-5 C-USA) defeated the Herd in the team’s previous meeting in Birmingham on Jan. 14, 94-78. However, the Blazers have lost three of their last four, including their latest loss last Saturday, 83-62 at home to Old Dominion.

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games for the Blazers, and leads the team with 13.1 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game. He leads the team in blocks (62) and steals (24).

Two days later on Saturday, Marshall will face off with CUSA power and conference leader Middle Tennessee. The Blue Raiders (22-4, 12-1 CUSA) are in first-place in the conference, and are likely a lock for the NCAA tournament, regardless of whether or not they win the C-USA tournament. Middle Tennessee held Marshall to a season low 57 points in a 69-57 win over the Herd on January 12 in Murfreesboro. Tip-off for Saturday’s matchup is 6 p.m. on American Sports Network.

“It’s a huge week for us as we go forward towards the end of the regular season,” Jon Elmore said. “We want to try and finish the best we can and get as high of a seed going into the conference tournament as we possibly can. We have two really good teams coming to Marshall so we’ve got to step it up and play how I know we can play.”

Patrick O’Leary can be contacted at oleary7@marshall. edu.

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Herd return home for a huge week THE PARTHENON The Marshall University men’s basketball team returns home this weekend to the Cam Henderson Center for an important two-game stretch against UAB and Middle Tennessee.

The Herd faces off against UAB on Thursday, and then against Conference USA leaders Middle Tennessee on Saturday.

The Herd is coming off a three-game road trip that began with back-to-back losses to Southern Miss and Louisiana Tech. However, the Herd rebounded last Saturday in Bowling Green, Kentucky in an 84-79 victory over rivals Western Kentucky. It was the team’s first Conference USA road win since the Florida trip in early January, when the team defeated Florida International and Florida Atlantic.

Marshall (14-11, 7-5 C-USA) was led by junior guard Jon Elmore’s 32 points in the win over the Hilltoppers last Saturday. Senior guard Austin Loop contributed 20 points, and was able to write his name into the Marshall record books again in the process. Just two weeks after setting the Marshall school

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player to make back-to-back Conference USA All-Academic Teams, a feat he was honored with both of the previous two seasons. Following graduation, his “main objective” is to go to physical therapy school, either at Marshall or somewhere else local.

However, Loop knows he will miss the game. He plans to explore options with playing, possibly overseas. He also did not rule out coaching or staying active with basketball in some form.

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W.Va. should welcome, not drive away, politicians trying to help our state A Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., town hall scheduled for Monday at the Welch National Guard armory in McDowell County was unexpectedly cancelled Friday, with no immediate explanation.

The event was to be moderated

by MSNBC host Chris Hayes, with “hundreds of people in the area” having already signed up to attend, according to the senator.

Sanders was set to discuss poverty in the county, the poorest in West Virginia, with the highest overdose rate in the state and the lowest life expectancy in the nation at only 64 years. McDowell County went overwhelmingly red in the 2016 election, with President Donald Trump clinching 74.1 percent of the vote. However, in the primary elections, Sanders won the county with 55.2 percent, according to The Washington Post.

Presumably, Sanders was visiting the county to understand why his message resonated with the county’s constituents in a manner that former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s failed to do in the general election six months later.

The Vermont senator made his frustrations with the cancellation clear in a Sunday Facebook post, in which he refused to be prevented from speaking about a vital issue affecting a particularly vulnerable area of the state and nation.

Sanders attached a graphic containing additional statistics about the county, where only five percent of adults have a college education and over half of the residents lived in poverty from 2009 to 2013.

But according to the West Virginia National Guard, the event would have violated the armory’s policy regarding political events.

“U.S. Department of Defense policy does not permit the use of military facilities for political and election events and specifically includes town hall meetings as an example of such activities. The West Virginia State Armory Board has a similar policy,” they said in a statement.

While this is understandable, Sanders said that “the arrangements had been agreed to several weeks before,” prompting questions about why state officials decided to enforce this policy a mere two days before Sanders’ town hall.

Had notice been given, the senator could have had the opportunity to arrange the event at a different location.

Overall, when a senator who has gained national attention wants to visit our state to find viable solutions for our biggest problems, we should welcome their help with open arms rather than drive them away. Sanders is no longer campaigning and it is not Sanders’ job to represent our state’s

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Bernie Sanders, Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate, speaks Sunday during a presentation and book tour in Charleston. interests. Still, he has demonstrated that he recognizes the plights of West Virginia’s most impoverished counties and has sought to listen to our people to find the right solutions for our state to move forward.

This was largely demonstrated during Sanders’ presentation and book tour in Charleston Sunday, where he

discussed drugs, health and environmental issues pertinent to the state. Sanders also encouraged West Virginians to get involved, saying “democracy is not a spectator sport.”

“I know in West Virginia you all love your football and basketball and those are spectator sports,” Sanders said. “But democracy is something everyone

should participate in.”

A McDowell visit by Sanders is seemingly still in the cards.

In both his Sunday Facebook post and Charleston presentation, the senator promised that West Virginia had not seen the last of him. According to The Charleston Gazette-Mail, Sanders is actively searching for a new building to hold

the event, even if MSNBC can’t attend.

“If they don’t allow us to use the local armory, we’ll find another building,” Sanders wrote.

“If we can’t find another building, we’ll hold the meeting out in the streets. That town meeting will be held. Poverty in America will be discussed. Solutions will be found.”

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Public broadcasting ‘bright The value of lantern’ in ‘dark mine’ of W.Va. undergraduate discovery

By NATHAN THOMAS

WMUL MUSIC DIRECTOR Spending my summer 2016 interning for West Virginia Public Broadcasting and its seminal live music program, Mountain Stage, with Larry Groce provided me with my most beneficial educational experience. It reaffirmed my love for the Mountain State, and it reaffirmed what I want to pursue for my professional career.

And now? It’s on Gov. Jim Justice’s chopping block with his proposed budget cut.

From the moment I walked into my first Mountain Stage show as an intern, I felt like part of the family. Every person from the show staff were willing and happy to teach me how a West Virginia-made, nationally-distributed program is created. And when I was given the opportunity to make an audio documentary for the show’s most prized episode, the 1991 performance from R.E.M, I felt the most trust I’ve felt in my life.

Mountain Stage has always supported young talent. Just look at the number of emerging artists included in each of Mountain Stage’s shows, or the work I was able to do as a Marshall University student alongside established media professionals, or even the work of young West Virginia natives like Mountain Stage assistant producer Joni Deutsch, who chose to stay and work (and thrive) in West Virginia.

If WVPB and Mountain Stage were to vanish, young professionals would be forced to become part of the exodus of the state, seeking work in their field elsewhere.

In a world where so much bad press for West Virginia occurs, I was surrounded by the good of West Virginia. I saw my West Virginia music friends William Matheny and Qiet accomplish a goal they had both worked long and hard for by performing on the show. I saw Joni Deutsch become the first female and youngest guest host, not to

mention the second guest host in the show’s history. I saw a bright lantern in the dark mine that West Virginia sometimes feels like. We need to keep this lantern shining bright.

Leaving this internship was hard because of the rapport I had with the staff and because it meant leaving exactly what I want to do in life. Leaving the internship is even harder now as the governor’s potential budget cut looms overheard, which if approved, will remove both WVPB and Mountain Stage from the Mountain State.

I was a donating member to WVPB before, during and after my internship because I know this service is worthwhile to West Virginians and because I want other college students to join this family through internships, too. Students, fans and West Virginia friends are so much better because of it.

Nathan Thomas can be contacted at thomas521@ marshall.edu.

By JEROME GILBERT

UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Last year as a first-year president at Marshall, I had the privilege of being at the state capital in Charleston to observe undergraduate research day. The level of research sophistication was quite impressive. This was displayed by Marshall students and other students as well.

Following my trip to the capital, I had the chance to further observe research excellence on campus by observing both biology and chemistry students. It reminded me of how valuable undergraduate co-curricular activities can be. These experiences solidify knowledge gained in class and create new opportunities for learning.

It is therefore not surprising that one of my goals for 2017 is to expand the undergraduate research and creative discovery opportunities for our undergraduate students. I have directed our Vice President for Finance to set aside $166,000 of new funds to be used to support projects and travel associated with the discovery process for undergraduates. I hope that liberal arts students, science students, business students, engineering students, creative and performing arts students, and various undergraduates of every discipline will take advantage of this opportunity.

Undergraduate discovery changed the course

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Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert. of my college career by demonstrating to me that further study in research at the graduate level was not only possible but desirable.

I wish for many additional Marshall students the same extra experience that I had as an undergraduate: the joy of being able to create something new and the pride in a sense of real accomplishment.

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Young Democrats begin to adjust to Are you reading fake news? Grammy Award Highlights Trump's America

By MATTHEW GROVES

THE PARTHENON More and more demonstrations have begun springing up across the country in reaction to the early policies and actions of the Trump administration.

On Marshall University’s campus, some organizations have been making attempts to spread their message and opinions throughout the community. One of these organizations is Marshall University’s Young Democrats.

“I’m hoping to work with the International Student Organization and the Muslim Student Association,” Young Democrats President David Crawley said.

“Another organization I’m looking forward to working with is Lambda, which is the LGBTQ rights organization.”

“We are the party of inclusion, so it’s always great when we can reach out to other people who are especially feeling afraid right now,” said Sophia Mills, vice president of programming.

“But we also have some people in this organization who have been lucky to learn about organizing and I think that we have the opportunity to empower other

people to organize as well.”

Marshall University’s Young Democrats hosted an event Feb. 9 in Harris Hall for those who wished to become more involved in the political process by teaching attendees how to write a letter to the editor.

“We are going to invite everyone from the community to come in and we’re going to do a workshop … so that they can get their voice out to newspapers like The Herald-Dispatch, The Charleston Gazette-Mail or even The Parthenon about issues that they’re concerned about in the current administration,” Crawley said.

Marshall University’s Young Democrats hoped this event would help get more people active in the process of democracy, no matter what party affiliation students are part of.

“Political issues affect us all,” Mills said. “You know these issues aren’t abstract, they affect our day to day lives and if we or any other organization can relay that to people then I think that’s a success.”

Matthew Groves can be contacted at groves56@marshall.edu.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — URL look odd? That "com.co" ending on an otherwise authentic-looking website is a red flag. When in doubt, click on the "contact" and "about" links to see where they lead. A major news organization probably isn't headquartered in a house.

— Does it make you mad? False reports often target emotions with claims of outlandish spending or unpatriotic words or deeds. If common sense tells you it can't be true, it may not be.

— If it's real, other news sites are likely reporting it.

— How is the writing? Caps lock and multiple exclamation points don't have a place in most real newsrooms.

— Who are the writers and the people in the story? Google names for clues to see if they are legitimate, or not.

— What are fact-checking sites like Snopes.com and FactCheck.org finding?

— It might be satire. Sometimes foolish stories aren't really meant to fool.

— Think twice before sharing. Today, everyone is a publisher.

WVU Tech campus plans ASSOCIATED PRESS The West Virginia University Institute of Technology campus could become a college for former foster care children.

The Charleston GazetteMail reports KVC Health Systems is hoping to turn the Montgomery campus into a college for children who have aged out of the foster care system.

Tommy Bailey, a lobbyist at Spilman, Thomas & Battle, has helped the Kansas-based

nonprofit with negotiations to lease the campus then purchase it.

Bailey says WVU and KVC Health Systems have reached a general agreement, but no lease-purchase agreement has been signed yet.

WVU plans to announce more details of the agreement Wednesday.

If an agreement is reached soon, Bailey says KVC would hope to attract a group of about 50 students to the college within a year.

Judge to hear arguments on Dakota Access pipeline work

ASSOCIATED PRESS Adele's "25" has won the album of the year Grammy Award, capping a huge night for the singer, who moments earlier had won for record of the year.

Adele finished the evening with back-to-back wins in the Grammys' two top categories.

She cried during her final acceptance speech and spoke directly to Beyonce, who was up against her in both categories.

"We all (expletive) adore

you," she said as Beyonce sat in the audience smiling.

Accepting the recordof-the-year Grammy for "Hello," Adele let the song's writer, Greg Kurstin, do most of the talking after shouting at the orchestra, "You cut us off last time."

She had stepped aside earlier in the evening after accepting the song-of-theyear Grammy for "Hello" so that Kurstin could speak.

But he'd barely had time to thank his mother and father before the orchestra played them off.

Chance the Rapper has capped a night of Grammy glory with a win in the best rap album category.

The rapper won for his album "Coloring Book," beating out several established performers including Drake and Kanye West.

Earlier he had won Grammys

for best new artist and best rap performance.

The Chicago rapper said he had no prepared remarks as he accepted the latest award, adding he didn't expect to win in this category.

But his acceptance speech was just as exuberant as earlier ones had been.

The Grammy Award for rock song has been awarded to David Bowie for his song "Blackstar."

It was Bowie's fourth Grammy win on Sunday.

The late rocker won three awards during a pre-telecast ceremony that bestowed him with Grammys for best alternative music album, rock performance

and engineered album.

No one spoke for Bowie during Sunday's broadcast, but saxophonist Donny McCaslin proudly accepted the earlier awards during a pretelecast ceremony.

McCaslin says Bowie's wins mean a lot for his fans.

Bowie died of cancer last year at age 69.

Twenty One Pilots' members bared their souls and then some as they shed their tuxedo pants to accept the Grammy for pop duo or group performance.

The pair won for their song "Stressed Out." They took off their pants after their names were called.

They said they did so because they were sitting around in their underwear

watching a Grammy show on TV, hoping some day they might be on that stage, when it occurred to them if they ever did win a Grammy they should accept it as they were dressed then.

Not to be outdone, James Corden followed them onstage in his boxers.

Corden said he had vowed that if he ever got to host the Grammys he'd appear pantless too.

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Approximately 50 people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline project march through downtown St. Paul, Minnesota Thursday, Feb. 9 disrupting traffic and closing streets.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Two American Indian tribes have asked a federal judge to stop construction of the last stretch of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline, adding a religious freedom component to their argument that it would endanger their cultural sites and water supply.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to hear arguments Monday afternoon.

The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux have asked for a temporary restraining order that would halt work on the disputed section of pipeline until their lawsuit seeking to stop it is resolved.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners received final approval from the Army last week to lay pipe under a Missouri River

reservoir in North Dakota and complete the 1,200mile pipeline, which would move North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois.

Drilling work began immediately under Lake Oahe, which is the water source for both tribes.

The tribes in a lawsuit filed last summer argue the pipeline threatens their drinking water and cultural sites. They now also argue that it would threaten their right to practice the Sioux religion, which they say requires clean water.

"The Corps has authorized activities under Lake Oahe that will substantially burden the tribe's free exercise of religious rituals that depend on the purity of water from the river," Standing Rock attorney Jan Hasselman said in court documents, referring to the

Army Corps of Engineers.

The company's attorneys filed court documents early Monday urging Boasberg to reject the tribes' request, calling the new religious freedom argument "exceedingly tardy," ''not construction-related" and a "last-minute delay tactic."

"Dakota Access has the greatest respect for the religious beliefs and traditions of (tribes). The emergency relief sought here simply is not necessary to protect the exercise of those beliefs or preserve those traditions," wrote William Scherman, an attorney for the company.

Work under Lake Oahe had been held up in the courts until President Donald Trump last month instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to advance construction. The Army is involved because its

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engineering branch manages the river and its system of hydroelectric dams, which is owned by the federal government.

The drilling work is expected to take about two months. The full pipeline system could be operational within three months.

Energy Transfer Partners maintains that the pipeline is safe and disputes that cultural sites have been affected. But an encampment near the construction in southern North Dakota drew thousands of protesters last year in support of the tribes, leading to occasional clashes with law enforcement and nearly 700 arrests. The camp has thinned to fewer than 300 people, but law enforcement officers continue to maintain a presence in the area.

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Huntington Area Art Society presentation focuses on growing a sense of art appreciation

By HANNAH SWARTZ

THE PARTHENON This semester, each Huntington Area Art Society presentation will focus on a single work of art, its form, content and context.

These talks, sponsored by the School of Art and Design, will consider how individual perception impacts observation and understanding.

These presentations benefit both the School of Art and Design and the Huntington area community, also being part of the school’s program of outreach to the local community.

The first presentation is Wednesday, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Cellar Door in downtown Huntington.

Heather Stark, program director and associate professor of art history, will be speaking.

“The Huntington Area Art Society began in spring 2015 with the aim to bring together community members interested in enhancing their understanding and

appreciation of the visual arts and their histories,” Stark said.

“These presentations provide a venue for close looking and discussion. They have and will continue to address issues of form and content across a variety of artists, media, themes and contexts.”

Jan van Eyck’s “Madonna Adored by the Canon van der Paele” will be the focus in the first presentation.

“This Northern Renaissance work represents the height of illusion in Van Eyck’s works, and, like most of his work, is loaded with fascinating iconography,” Stark said. “Last semester I taught a Northern Renaissance art history course for the first time, and this experience inspired my first choice by Van Eyck. I have always been intrigued by Van Eyck’s use of minute detail to convey many levels of iconography, or hidden symbolism. The inclusion of eyeglasses in

this image also points to the importance of reading beneath the detailed surface for deeper meaning.”

Stark said the goal is to enhance art appreciation and to challenge preconceived notions about the visual arts and their role in society.

Questions during the presentation are always allowed and encouraged.

Upcoming semester presentations include Charles Sheeler’s “Church Street El, “with Stark also as the speaker on Wednesday, Mar. 15, and Edward Saïd’s concept of orientalism by focusing on “The Snake Charmer” by JeanLéon Gérôme, with assistant professor of foundations, Hanna KozlowskiSlone as the speaker, Apr. 19.

The cost for each session is $10 and free with a valid Marshall ID. Hannah Swartz can be contacted at swartz20@marshall.edu.

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