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SPORTS, 3

OPINION, 4

• Women’s History Month aims to educate, empower, enlighten.

• Herd men’s basketball closes regular season at No. 4 MiddleTennessee.

• Editorial: Modern America is George Washington’s worst nightmare.

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The Fight for Birth Control Comes to Huntington

By KYRA BISCARNER

THE PARTHENON Community members came together to take action on a sometimes-controversial topic: birth control. Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic, Planned Parenthood Generation Action, West Virginia Women’s March and Cabell County Young Democrats sponsored the event where people could ask questions, sign petitions and even mail postcards to legislators.

Emily Thompson, field organizer for Planned Parenthood Votes!

South Atlantic, said although the meeting started as a discussion of birth control rights, it quickly became more.

“It started as only a fight for birth control event,” Thompson said. “Then in the face of all the attacks on reproductive healthcare in West Virginia, we decided to expand it to talk about the constitutional amendment SJR 12 but also to talk about some exciting things going on in West Virginia like our menstrual equity campaign.”

The groups help to educate people on reproductive health issues, rights and how current legislature can affect these rights.

Thompson said she believes these issues and rights are constantly under attack, which is why she felt compelled to take action.

“We are constantly fighting for our right to have access to contraceptives and access to safe and legal abortion,” Thompson said. “We’re even having to have access to menstrual products.

So, it’s just really important that we are all educated on what these issues are, and we are taking action to fight for this access and these rights.”

Freshman and member of Planned Parenthood Generation Action at Marshall Lydia Roberts said she thinks it can be difficult

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for students to get access to resources and understand their rights.

“It’s really hard for women to get birth control, especially on campus,” Roberts said.

“A lot of college students have limited funding, they have limited transportation, and also it’s when they’re first starting to experiment, so that’s something they struggle with, because they’re just familiarizing themselves with their likes and their wants, and they don’t need to have their parents support, and they shouldn’t have to, because they’re becoming their own person.”

The groups made postcards that were mailed to Senator Joe Manchin, asking for support on S1985, a protect access to birth control act in the U.S. Congress.

Thompson said she hopes to reach legislators, because many don’t understand that access to birth control and menstrual products is an issue.

“Not everybody has access to period products,” Thompson said. “People are missing school, people in prison don’t have access

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to them, people are going without, people are reusing products. It’s a huge issue, but it’s not really talked about, so we are writing to our legislators to let them know that this is an issue in West Virginia.

We want them to support any bills or initiatives that would expand on this.”

The groups will meet again Saturday at the state capitol for a rally for women’s rights.

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

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Thundering Word takes home Police Blotter multiple state championship titles

By SARAH INGRAM THE PARTHENON

“State tournament is different because it’s your home state.

It’s a whole different feel.”

Jackson said the trip to State’s was a first for many members of the team, since most of the older students graduated in the previous year.

“Our team is very young this year and we have a lot of novices,” Jackson said. “It’s because it’s a new level of experience, coming from high school into college and doing things on this level, it’s a sense of wonderment in a way NANCY JACKSON| THUNDERING WORD to do this and then to go to states Thundering Word will travel to Nashville to compete with 85 for the first time; it’s a really big other schools in the Pi Kappa Delta National tournament. deal being state champions.”

By HANNA PENNINGTON Hunter Barclay, a junior THE PARTHENON pre-med student, has been a member of While the spring semester may be the Thundering Word since his freshman winding down, members of the Thun- year and won three state championships dering Word Speech and Debate Team over the weekend in both speech and deat Marshall University are just getting bate categories. started, taking home multiple state “All around we did well across the board,” championship titles at the State Tourna- Barclay said. “We also had state champiment in Fairmont over the weekend. ons in after-dinner speaking, so those are The team is also preparing for several comedy speeches, some of our interpretive national tournaments which will take place events, which are acting.” in the following months.

Barclay said although many people have Nancy Jackson, assistant director of the anxiety about public speaking, the speech forensics speech and debate team, said and debate team has a way of making evthe experience at the tournament was eryone feel welcome and confident. filled with enthusiasm.

“It’s a space where you know your opin“It has a different feel to it than a regular ion is appreciated and there are a lot of tournament when you’re going to different issues that students want to voice their states with other schools,” Jackson said. opinion on, and you sometimes need that

platform, and the speech and debate community is the perfect place to do that,” Barclay said. “We encourage discussion on all topics, whatever your viewpoint is, it’s a great place to share that opinion and project your ideas to large audiences.”

Barclay, who is running for Student Body President at Marshall, said being a member of the team helped encourage him to voice his opinion and gain confidence to run for office.

“Whatever your speech is about, it has to relate to the real world and be relevant, and you have to have actual solutions in your speech,” Barclay said. “Whenever you speak about something, you have to know what you’re speaking about and be able to defend it.”

Jackson said even those who are afraid of public speaking should consider joining the Thundering Word in order to conquer their fears.

“It doesn’t matter what you do in life, at some point you’re going to end up speaking in front of a group of people,” Jackson said. “If it’s something you’re not comfortable with, it’s a comfort-zone thing that you need to break. And this is the place to do it, because we can teach you the skill set that can allow you to overcome that discomfort.”

The Thundering Word will travel to Nashville, Tennessee in two weeks to compete against 85 schools and at least 1500 students in the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament.

Hanna Pennington can be contacted at penningto131@marshall.edu.

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week kicks off with scale smashing

By AMANDA LARCH

THE PARTHENON Eating Disorder Awareness Week kicked off Tuesday afternoon with blue jean decorating, scale smashing and free hot chocolate.

As part of events happening around the country, the Rec Center and the Women’s Center partnered to bring awareness to eating disorders and teach body positivity to students.

Joellen Cornelius, coordinator of fitness and wellness at Marshall Rec, said she wanted to help organize a week-long series of various events to raise awareness.

“Anytime throughout the week, you can stop by and check out the ‘Be comfortable in your own jeans’ project, and also at the Rec Center, we are doing a love your body challenge where you can stop by and fill out a form of why you love your body, and then they’re displayed on the aquatic center windows,” Cornelius said.

Savannah Hare, sophomore nursing major, decorated a pair of jeans and said the events Tuesday taught her a lot about eating disorders.

“It’s really important to bring awareness to these types of disorders,” Hare said. “The statistics were interesting; I didn’t know some of those facts. I thought decorating the jeans was a cute, fun

and different idea. I enjoyed seeing all of the positive quotes and messages people wrote on the jeans.”

The jeans will be displayed throughout the week on Buskirk field, along with signs giving facts and statistics about some realities associated with eating disorders, like bulimia and anorexia.

“It’s kind of shocking to see a bunch of jeans in the middle of campus on a big clothesline,” Hare said. “It really draws your attention; it got me here.”

Hare said while she has never experienced an eating disorder, a friend from her high school suffered from bulimia.

“I had a friend in high school who suffered from an eating disorder, but she didn’t tell me for the longest time,” Hare said. “It affected not only her, but it also affected her family. Now that I think back, I think it put a strain on our friendship. I just think Eating Disorder Awareness Week can really open people’s eyes, because the signs can be right in front of you, and you may not be aware.”

Cornelius said anyone dealing with an eating disorder can call the National Eating Disorder Association Helpline at 800-931-2237.

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

Dress for Success opens doors to public for March Madness Sale

By GINNY BLAKE

THE PARTHENON Dress for Success River Cities, which is typically only open to clients, will be opening to the public this weekend for its March Madness Sale. The boutique will be holding sale events until Saturday, which allow the community to look through racks of new and gently used donation items such as pants, suits, dresses, blouses, shoes, accessories and more.

All items will be priced at $5 or less at today’s sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., shoppers are invited to pay $10 for a shopping bag to stuff with the remaining sale items.

Individuals may purchase more than one shopping bag.

Jessica Hudson, executive director for Dress for Success River Cities, said, “We are also excited about holding this sale in our new boutique location and providing the community with an opportunity to see firsthand what a gorgeous space they have helped us to provide for the women we serve.”

Likewise, intern Krislyn Holden, senior public relations major, said the sales are more than just buying things for a good price. “(These sales) help purchase items that we may not receive through our donations,” Holden said. “It can be disheartening for both the staff and the clients when we can’t find something for them to wear for an interview or employment. When we can go and purchase an item or a client and give it to her, the transformation from discouragement to confidence is so rewarding.”

Dress for Success River Cities is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing support, professional attire and development tools. Since opening in 2007, the boutique has assisted over 3,000 women. All funds are raised locally and serve women in 13 counties in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. Dress for Success River Cities is located at 541 9th Street in Huntington.

Ginny Blake can be contacted at blake185@marshall.edu.

Women’s History Month aims to educate, empower, enlighten

By HANNA PENNINGTON

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Leah Tolliver, director of the Women’s Center, kicks off the month’s events.

THE PARTHENON The beginning of March marks the start of Women’s History Month, and Student Affairs teamed up with the president’s Commission on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Thursday evening to present a kick-off celebration in Drinko Library.

The event highlighted the calendar of events for Women’s History Month sponsored by the Women’s Center and Women’s Studies program at

Marshall, and guests spoke of the importance of educating and empowering females through learning more about their past.

Greta Rensenbrink, associate professor of history, said understanding where women’s issues came from plays a huge role in determining how to fight them.

“Particularly right now, there are so many issues that are really critical for women that

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Domestic Violence A witness reported seeing a male jerk open the driver’s side door of a vehicle, pull back his arm and strike someone sitting in the driver’s seat in the 1600 block of 6th Avenue Feb. 23.

The witness claimed another individual crouched in the seat while the male reached into the vehicle and collected keys and other belongings.

The witness said both individuals left the vehicle and continued arguing.

Marshall University Police Department made contact with the two individuals later in the Commons courtyard area. Officers identified and interviewed both of them.

Both individuals claimed they have been in a relationship for the last year and argued about a previous relationship. Both individuals claimed no physical harm occurred.

Trespassing and stalking

A female contacted MUPD Sunday to report a man followed and questioned her about her schedule. The female said she first noticed a man watching her while she was in the parking lot behind where 7-Eleven once stood. The female claimed the male approached her and asked about where she lives

and what her class schedule is. She reported the man also asked when Marshall facilities are open. The female stated she entered the lobby of Twin Towers West Residence Hall to prevent the man from following her any further. The suspect was later identified and arrested for trespassing and stalking.

Trespassing

MUPD made contact with a man Monday who they said they believed trespassed on Marshall University’s property. After identifying the man, police discovered the man faced an outstanding capias warrant for automobile tampering from another police agency. A capias warrant is issued when a person fails to appear before court when ordered to do so. MUPD issued a trespassing citation.

Petit Larceny

A student claimed someone broke into his vehicle and stole a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses Tuesday evening. The student claimed the glove box had been left open and the student’s personal items were scattered throughout the vehicle.

The student also noticed a cigarette and white ball cap were left in the car. The student stated the sunglasses are prescription lenses. The student also admitted it is possible the car doors were left unlocked.

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

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Herd men’s basketball closes regular season at No. 24 Middle Tennessee

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Junior guard C.J. Burks as he puts up of a mid-range jumpshot in front of Marshall’s bench in a regular season home game against ODU. Burks’ leads the conference multiple offensive categories.

By KIERAN INTEMANN

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR After finishing the past two regular seasons in the confines of the Cam Henderson Center, Marshall men’s basketball heads south to finish its season Saturday night at No. 24 Middle Tennessee.

The Blue Raiders, who are ranked for the first time in program history, look to even its season series against Marshall at the Murphy Center on senior night. Marshall handed Middle Tennessee its only Conference USA loss of the season in January—a 73-63 nationally televised contest C.J. Burks led all scorers in that game with 25 points. The junior guard from Martinsburg, West Virginia topped 600 points-scored on the season in the Herd’s Thursday night contest at UAB. Middle Tennessee has offensive firepower of its own in the form of Conference USA Player of the Year candidate Nick King, and three-point specialist Giddy Potts.

Potts, who has given the Herd trouble in previous contests, was limited to 15 points off 14 shots in the Blue Raiders’ loss to Marshall. King, who is third in Conference USA total season scoring at 21.5 points per game, had 14 points off of a 6-for-19 shooting performance.

Burks is not the only Marshall player with 600 points this season. Junior guard Jon Elmore—another Mountain State native who is the reigning Conference USA Player of the Week—is approaching 700 points this season. Burks and Elmore are the first Herd duo in program history to each have 600 or more points in a single season. Elmore (22.6 points per game) leads Conference USA in scoring and Burks is second in the conference in scoring (21.7 points per game).

Conference seeding is on the line this weekend. Marshall is in a battle with UTSA for a top-four seeding placement, which would give the Herd a first-round

bye in the Conference USA tournament.

Middle Tennessee, on the other hand, will clinch the Conference USA regularseason title with a win over Western Kentucky and the Herd, or with a win over Marshall and a WKU loss to UAB. The 2018 Conference USA Men’s Basketball Championship takes place March 7-10 at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas—practice facility of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Middle Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Old Dominion, Marshall, UTSA, UAB, North Texas, FIU, Louisiana Tech, Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss and UTEP will be the 12 teams competing for the tournament championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Rice and Charlotte, the two lowest-ranked teams in the conference, were eliminated from championship contention.

Kieran Intemann can be contacted at intemann@marshall.edu.

Sports betting’s future comes down to line on young players

By DAVID PORTER

ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — As the push to legalize sports gambling in the U.S. nears a crucial Supreme Court decision, states hoping to reap a financial windfall could face another hurdle: Attracting younger players used to online fantasy sports.

The explosion in popularity of daily fantasy sports has created a generation of sports fans more attuned to gauging individual player statistics than how two teams may fare against each other, the challenge at the heart of traditional sports wagering.

Even more important, experts say, is whether states will be able to offer online sports wagering to a demographic raised on smartphones and laptops. That will depend heavily on how the Supreme Court decides New Jersey’s case, expected this spring.

“How motivated are people going to be to get in their car, drive 45 minutes, park, walk through pathways and walkways just to get to a remote corner of a casino?” asked Daniel Wallach, a Florida-based attorney considered an expert in sports gambling law.

New Jersey has challenged the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, the 1992 federal law forbidding all but Nevada and three other states from authorizing gambling on college and professional sports. Only Nevada offers betting on single games.

How the court rules will affect more than two dozen states that are pushing sports betting legislation or considering it if New Jersey is successful.

If it is legalized, one of the challenges will be capturing sports fans like Nick, an experienced daily fantasy player from Maryland who also regularly places traditional sports bets with a bookie through his smartphone or computer.

While illegal, that may still be a more attractive option than traveling to a brick-and-mortar location to place a legal bet.

“Part of the convenience now is that I can place a bet from anywhere,” said the man in his mid-20s, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because he was talking about doing something illegal. “I probably would stay with what I have right now, with the convenience and accessibility.”

The stakes are huge. Currently, illegal sports wagering is estimated from the tens of billions of dollars annually to as high as $100 billion or more.

A survey commissioned by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association in 2016 estimated more than 57 million people

participated in some form of fantasy sports, in which competitors pick rosters of players and win or lose based on how those players perform.

Noting that many hardcore daily fantasy sports players migrated from the online poker world, Chris Grove, managing director of gambling research firm Eilers and Krejcik, said serious players probably won’t shy away from traditional sports wagering.

“It almost doesn’t really matter if it’s sports-related or not,” he said. “Whatever the next thing is, they will move to where the money is. It may be cryptocurrency trading.”

Brian Pearson, a longtime daily fantasy player and founder of fantasy sports website Jackpot Fantasy concurred.

“The crossover will be everywhere,” Pearson said. “Players just love action. If they don’t like the (point) spread, maybe they throw down a lineup for the day. Maybe they are on a cold streak and need a change of pace. Options are always good.”

Whether that online action is allowed likely will come down to the specifics of the court’s ruling.

The New Jersey legislation being challenged by the NCAA and professional sports leagues would allow sports gambling at the state’s casinos and horse racing tracks, but doesn’t include online wagering.

If the court strikes down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act as unconstitutional, New Jersey and other states would be free to implement and regulate online and in-person sports gambling.

However, if the court rules more narrowly — leaving PASPA standing but allowing New Jersey to have sports gambling at casinos and racetracks — it could stall online gambling.

Online wagering “would likely require a finding that PASPA is unconstitutional,” said Wallach, an attorney with Miami, Florida-based Becker and Poliakoff.

Wallach added that New Jersey might be able to modify its legislation and tie its online sports gambling to existing online casino wagering platforms. The same could apply to other states like West Virginia that already have online gambling contained in their legislation.

“The big money from sports betting will be the online component,” former Democratic New Jersey state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, a driving force behind the state’s effort, said. “But we have to wait to see, if we win the case, how we win it.” page designed and edited by RICK FARLOW |farlow@marshall.edu

Herd softball scores ten, routs Kent in home opener

By RICK FARLOW

SPORTS EDITOR Marshall softball struck for 10 runs Wednesday afternoon at Dot Hicks Field, as it defeated Kent State 10-4 in its first home game of 2018.

Marshall improved to 7-8 as it tied its season-high run total and produced a season-high 13 hits.

“After last weekend we worked hard at our offensive game plan, so it was nice to see our bats come alive,” head coach Jen Steele said. “It was a pretty balanced offensive attack, with all parts of the lineup hitting. Thirteen hits is a lot and we squared up a ton of balls.”

Senior catcher Taylor McCord led the Herd’s offense as she accounted for three hits, going 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI. Three additional Herd hitters, junior Briana Daiss and freshmen Aly Harrell and Samantha Koehn, earned multi-hit games.

Daiss went 2-for-3 with two singles, Harrell went 2-for-3 with two doubles, 3 RBI and a walk and Koehn went 2-for-4 with two singles and two runs scored. McCord and Harrell combined to drive in five of Marshall’s 10 runs.

Marshall manufactured a quick 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. After senior Elicia D’Orazio was hit by a pitch to leadoff the frame, she stole second scored and later scored when senior right fielder Eloise Tribolet hit a single to center.

In the second, D’Orazio earned a bases-loaded walk, scoring Koehn from second. Then, the Herd extended its lead to 4-0, as McCord produced a two-run double with a drive to left field.

Kent State responded with a run of its own in the top of the third when Kennadie Goth scored from third base off of a Holly Speers single.

D’Orazio tripled to left with one out in the fourth but was thrown out at home on a Tribolet fielder’s choice. Later in the inning, though, Harrell gave the Herd a 6-1 lead with a two-run double to center field.

The Golden Flashes offense responded once again and cut Marshall’s lead to three as Speers hit a two-run home run in the top of the fifth.

The Herd, however, was relentless in its offensive effort, posting three more runs in the bottom of the fifth. Senior Madi Marshall entered the game to pinch hit for Jordan Colliflower and drove in two runs with a triple to right-center. Later in the inning, D’Orazio hit a sacrifice fly to right field to drive in the Herd’s ninth run.

After both teams scored one run apiece in the sixth, junior Ali Burdette used nine total pitches to earn the game’s final three outs and give Marshall the win. Sophomore starting pitcher Kailee Williamson was credited with the win for the Herd. She went five innings-pitched, allowing five hits and three earned runs. She is now 3-2 on the season.

Marshall will play five games this weekend as it participates in the Carolina Classic in Colombia, South Carolina. The Herd is slated for one game against George Washington and two each against Liberty and No. 20 South Carolina.

Rick Farlow can be contacted at farlow@marshall.edu.

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Modern America is George Washington’s worst nightmare

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President Donald Trump speaks during a public safety Medal of Valor awards ceremony in the East Room of the White House Feb. 20, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) “But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of

pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.”

This line in George Washington’s Farewell Address is shocking and distressing. It seems as if Washington was writing this in 2018, rather

than in 1796. As the first president of the nation, as a founder and framer of the American government, he was warning against what he felt would destroy the nation, what is happening now.

At the time, Republicans and Federalists were already laying manifest a polarizing

political atmosphere, and to this day, as the government shuts down over partisan disagreements, and namecalling screams throughout the capitol, it is clear that this fury of party spirit, this polarization has only widened, into something of a nation very much divided. Washington

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discussion revolving the fact, but you cannot disagree with the fact. It goes against the definition of a fact.

Political polarization has worsened the issue, because the ability to appoint things as true or untrue makes it exponentially easier to justify our own set of values. But polarization isn’t helping us, and alternative facts aren’t either.

Here’s why it matters: we need truth.

Without truth, we cannot protect ourselves. We cannot critique our government. We cannot fight for justice. We

cannot accomplish anything.

News is meant to hold the government accountable. If any story breaks that doesn’t

where we are falling short as a society. We don’t know how to fix problems. When you throw polarization into the mix, we

match our agenda, we can call it fake, and the government can then go on doing whatever harmful thing it intends to do.

Without facts, we don’t know who to vote for. We don’t know

don’t even know how to talk to one another.

This phenomenon has reached far beyond journalism. Alternative facts have spilled over into other outlets

said, “it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty… (partisan misrepresentations) tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.” Washington would be greatly distressed by the current political atmosphere, and all of the United States should be, too.

Since 2016, Russia has been in headlines, as talks of collusion with Trump grow more and more possible. Regardless of this collusion, it is clear and fact that the Russian government interfered in the United States presidential election, something that should shake us to our core. They favored one candidate over the other, and their preferred candidate won. The “mischiefs of foreign intrigue” that George Washington warned about has been something that has slipped through the cracks of democracy and is something that could certainly undermine the foundation of our nation.

“To guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism”—this line only brings to mind one name: Donald Trump, who is putting America first, making America great again, a trust fund kid fighting for our coal miners and a draft dodger defending veterans. Sometimes, he even mentions God.

Essentially, Donald Trump has run a con artist’s dream scheme by becoming elected.

He used trigger words and false fears, pandering to sensibilities of American people.

Don’t dare kneel at the national anthem in protest— that disrespects the veterans who fought for that right. The media is fake and spews lies, because they hold him accountable. He has put on an act in an effort to feed his ego and attain power.

The mere fact that he dodged the draft during Vietnam would lead him to be despised and untrusted

by George Washington himself, and Alexander Hamilton would have a multitude of words about this man. Donald Trump is no patriot. He is an egotistical, angry man who plays the part, cooing to people he doesn’t know. He understands nothing about the Constitution, about the public service or government. He is a selfish, greedy despot who tricked his way into the White House.

It is sad and scary to read the words of George Washington and to compare them with the words of our current president. Washington really did believe in this country and really hoped and dreamed it would be a prosperous land. But all his greatest fears have come true, and America has to do something now to fix it.

and even face-to-face discussions. I have had experiences in which I have told people things that have happened to me, and they have responded that they disagree.

One facet of postmodern society is the idea that truth may not exist at all. But I don’t think anyone really thinks that, when it gets down to it. I think everyone can acknowledge that some things just are. The sky is blue, Donald Trump is president, and when water reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit, it boils. These things are quantifiable and provable.

The same goes with controversial things, too. One piece of truth may be wrapped up in layers of opinion, but when you strip it all down, the fact still remains. We have to be able to find the facts in any argument, and we have to be willing to lay aside our own agendas, look at what is true and find solutions. We don’t have to all agree. We never will.

But we all have to at least acknowledge the same set of facts and build from there. We simply cannot progress without truth.

Lydia Waybright can be contacted at waybright19@ marshall.edu.

Finding the foundational facts in a world full of fiction FOR THE PARTHENON We are living in what some have called a Post Truth society.

In the age of alternative facts and fake news we, the public, have been given license to pick and choose what we would like to believe and to disregard all else as untrue.

But facts are indisputable by nature. If something is really objectively true, there is no room to agree or disagree. You may dislike that something is true, you may dislike the manner in which it is presented, and you may disagree with the

Here’s why it matters: we need truth.

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could be read in some areas as an assault on women’s lives and bodies and equality,� Rensenbrink said. “We need to understand something about where that came from, the fights we are fighting today that we have been fighting, and look at that past both to recognize and understand where the issues came from, and to be empowered in the way that women and supporters of women’s rights, lives and issues in the past have dealt with them.�

Rensenbrink said looking at the extraordinary diversity and complexity of the lives of women before her gives her the sense of hopefulness and possibility for change. “I think history, the best kind of history, can do that, can really disturb our assumptions about the world today being the way it

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has always been,� Rensenbrink said.

Leah Tolliver, director of the Women’s Center, said many different aspects of campus life are coming together to shed light on the importance of women’s history. “We have all the different departments here on campus that are kind of coming together and are looking at, ‘how do we all have a role in promoting and celebrating women’s history, and how do we continue to do that,’� Tolliver said. “We want to highlight it in March, but we want to continue to do it throughout the year.�

The events set to take place throughout the month of March are designed to educate, empower, engage and enlighten students on campus as well as those within the community.

Many of the events scheduled celebrate women of all different

ages, sizes, ethnicities and economic backgrounds.

Tolliver said getting involved with events in the community is extremely important during Women’s History Month, but also throughout the course of life. “No matter what it is that’s important to you, you have to get involved,� Tolliver said. “You need to do those things that speak for your voice for those things that are important to you. There’s plenty of people who don’t have the opportunity to do that, and you all do. So, try to find those ways in which you can do that.�

Women’s History Month events have already begun and will continue until April 4.

Hanna Pennington can be contacted at penningto131@ marshall.edu.

controversies across so many fronts at the same time. After 13 months in office, there's little expectation among many White House aides and outside allies that Trump can quickly find his footing or attract new, top-flight talent to the West Wing. And some Republican lawmakers, who are eying a difficult political landscape in November's midterm elections, have begun to let private frustrations ooze out in public.

"There is no standard operating practice with this administration," said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota. "Every day is a new adventure for us."

Thune's comments described the White House's peculiar rollout Thursday of controversial new aluminum and steel tariffs.

White House aides spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning scrambling to steer the president away from an announcement on an unfinished policy, with even Kelly in the dark about Trump's plans. Aides believed they had succeeded in getting Trump to back down and hoped to keep television cameras away from an event with industry executives so the president couldn't make a surprise announcement. But Trump summoned reporters into the Cabinet Room anyway and declared that the U.S. would levy penalties of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports.

Some of Trump's populist supporters cheered the move. The stock market, which Trump looks to for validation for his economic policies, plunged.

Some officials are bracing for more departures. On Thursday, NBC News reported that the White House was preparing to replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster as early as next month. A White House spokesman did not deny the report.

"We frequently face rumor and innuendo about senior administration officials," spokesman Raj Shah said. "There are no personnel announcements at this time."

For those remaining on the job, the turbulence has been relentless. Just two weeks ago, Kelly, the general brought in to bring order, was himself on the ropes for his handling of the domestic violence allegations against a close aide, Rob Porter. Trump was said to be deeply irritated by the negative press coverage of Kelly's leadership during the controversy and considering firing him. But first, the president planned to give his chief of staff a chance to

defend himself before reporters in the briefing room and gauge the reaction, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.

The briefing, however, was canceled after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Kelly's standing has stabilized somewhat as media attention to the Porter issue has waned.

One Kelly backer said the chief of staff's standing remains tenuous, in part because of his clashes with Kushner over policy, personnel and White House structure. The tensions were exacerbated by Kelly's decision to downgrade Kushner's security clearance because the senior adviser had not been permanently approved for the highest level of access.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who also serves as a senior White House adviser, have been frustrated by Kelly's attempt to restrict their access to the president, and they perceive his new crackdown on clearances as a direct shot at them, according to White House aides and outside advisers. Kelly, in turn, has grown frustrated with what he views as the couple's freelancing. He blames them for changing Trump's mind at the last minute and questions what exactly they do all day, according to one White House official and an outside ally.

The ethics questions dogging Kushner relate to both his personal financial interests and his dealings in office with foreign officials.

Intelligence officials expressed concern that Kushner's business dealings were a topic of discussion in conversations he was having with foreign officials about foreign policy issues of interest to the U.S. government, a former intelligence official said. Separately, The New York Times reported that two companies made loans worth more than half a billion dollars to Kushner's family real estate firm after executives met with Kushner at the White House.

Allies of Kushner and Ivanka Trump insist they have no plans to leave the White House in the near future. As for Kelly, he appeared to hint at his tough spot during an event Thursday at the Department of Homeland Security, where he served as secretary before departing for the White House.

"The last thing I wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of homeland security," he said at the agency's 15th anniversary celebration in Washington. "But I did something wrong and God punished me, I guess."

Tumult in West Wing amid exits, investigation

By JULIE PACE

ASSOCIATED PRESS Rattled by two weeks of muddled messages, departures and spitting matches between the president and his own top officials, Donald Trump is facing a shrinking circle of trusted advisers and a staff that's grim about any prospect of a reset.

Even by the standards of Trump's often chaotic administration, the announcement of Hope Hicks' imminent exodus spread new levels of anxiety across the West Wing and cracked open disputes that had been building since the White House's botched handling of domestic violence allegations against a senior aide late last month.

One of Trump's most loyal and longest-serving aides, Hicks often served as human buffer between the unpredictable president and the business of government. One official on Thursday compared the instability caused by her departure to that of a chief of staff leaving the administration — though that prospect, too, remained a possibility given the questions that have arisen about John Kelly's competence.

Hicks' departure comes as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation appears to be circling the Oval Office, with prosecutors questioning Trump associates about both his business dealings before he became president and his actions in office, according to people with knowledge of the interviews. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has also been weakened after being stripped of his high-level security clearance amid revelations about potential conflicts of interest.

The biggest unknown is how the mercurial Trump will respond to Hicks' departure and Kushner's more limited access, according to some of the 16 White House officials, congressional aides and outside advisers interviewed by The Associated Press, most of whom insisted on anonymity in order to disclose private conversations and meetings. Besides Kushner and his wife, presidential daughter Ivanka Trump, most remaining White House staffers were not part of Trump's close-knit 2016 campaign. One person who speaks to Trump regularly said the president has become increasingly wistful about the camaraderie of that campaign.

Rarely has a modern president confronted so many crises and

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