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HERD STAYS ALIVE Women become first victorious No.16 seed in C-USA history Men edge past FAU in first-round tournament win, 63-59

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University seniors begin ‘Countdown to Commencement’

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have a disproportional amount of African American males in prison in this country, and there is something about the legal system, not just the people that are creating that outcome.”

Casey Harker, freshman biology pre-dentistry major from Parkersburg, W.Va., said the topic’s importance is why she attended.

“I chose this one specifically because it sounded the most interesting out of the three lectures and the most groundbreaking because no one really tackles this issue,” Harker said.

According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, black males were six times more likely to be imprisoned than white males in 2012, while Hispanic males are two and a half times more likely. Black males ages 18-19 were almost nine and a half times more likely than white males of the same age group to be in prison.

THE PARTHENON Students set to graduate in May gathered Tuesday in the Don Morris Room at an event designed to help them handle preparations for graduation.

The semi-annual Countdown to Commencement event was designed to give students an opportunity to handle pre-graduation ceremony business items in a central location.

The Registrar’s office offered various services including checking degree records and commencement instructions. Registrar Roberta Ferguson was also made available to answer questions related to commencement and graduation participation.

“We try to do it early enough that it’s not as busy of a time in the semester, as it will be at the end of the term, when students are studying for final exams and completing papers,” Ferguson said. “We check their degree record to make sure everything is set up right, that we have the right degree, the right major, and any minors. We make sure that we have the correct address to mail their diplomas.”

Students were able to purchase class rings, diploma frames and also able to order their cap and gowns.

Samantha Ratliff, senior communication disorders major from Mingo County, said walking in graduation is important to her because it shows how hard she has worked for the past four years.

Among the attendees at the countdown was Lydia Cartwright, senior psychology major from Huntington, whose father is a faculty member in the Integrated Science and Technology department. Cartwright said her dad was a really great influence.

“It was great just growing up around the campus, seeing other professors and interacting with them at a very young age really influenced what I chose to do with my life,” Cartwright said.

Cartwright is planning to attend graduate school and wants to study industrial organizational psychology.

“I was excited that we have all these groups of people and all these offices here to help us go to the process of graduating,” Cartwright said.

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By BARBARA DEMICK

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) The passengers traveling on stolen passports on the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight 370 were Iranians who authorities believe were trying to migrate to Europe.

Malaysian Police Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar on Tuesday told reporters that one of the men was Pouria Nour Mohammed Mehrdad, a 19-year-old, whose mother was waiting for him in Frankfurt. She contacted authorities after the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was reported missing."

"We believe he does not have any links to terrorism and we believe he was just trying to migrate to Germany," Abu Bakar said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

Interpol identified the second man as 29-yearold Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza. Although the two appeared to be friends and boarded the plane together, Reza's ticket showed him flying to Copenhagen.

With few other clues about why the plane vanished one hour into its flight early Saturday, intense speculation has focused on the two passengers who were later revealed to be traveling on passports previously reported stolen.

Despite an expanded search from the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea, no trace has yet been found four days on from the flight, which carried 239 people.

Abu Bakar said at the press conference Tuesday that investigators would examine the possibility of a hijacking, sabotage, a psychological problem among one of the crew members or passengers _ or simply an accident.

"Other than mechanical problems, these are the main areas of concern," said said Abu Bakar.

The two Iranian passengers in question were traveling on passports that had previously been reported stolen by tourists in Thailand. One belonged to an Austrian tourist who said his passport was stolen at Phuket's airport and the other to an Italian, who has said the passport was taken when he left it as a deposit to rent a motorcycle.

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Roslyn Kind peforms as part of the Marshall Artists Series Tuesday at the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse.

Roslyn Kind packs the Playhouse

By RACHAEL ROBERSON

THE PARTHENON Roslyn Kind, a performer with many talents, brought her vocal skill and a touch of comedy Tuesday evening to the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.

The audience was able to enjoy an evening of song

accompanied by the grand piano and stories from the famed performer.

Kind hit notes high and low as she danced across the stage and gave a performance full of energy and emotion. She included the audience in her show and talked to those seated at tables set up next to the stage.

“I love to strut,” Kind said.

Kind brought class and sass to the stage. She interacted with audience members cracking jokes about herself and others.

“You can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but you can’t take Brooklyn out of the girl,” Kind said.

Amicus Curiae series targets racial injustice, mass incarceration

By FRANCES LAZELL

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David Rudovsky gives the keynote address at the Amicus Curiae lecture Tuesday at Foundation Hall.

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The show gave the audience a gratifying evening full of passionate music and stories from a respected and highly talented performer. Kind showed her multiple talents with her entertaining cabaret of music, song, and dance.

Rachael Roberson can be contacted at roberson14@ marshall.edu.

THE PARTHENON As part of the second lecture of the Amicus Curiae Lecture Series, David Rudovsky, civil rights lawyer and University of Pennsylvania Law School professor, addressed the issues between racial injustice and mass incarceration in the U.S. Rudovsky said there is a need to focus on the increased number of individuals incarcerated in the last 40 years.

“What I would like people to think about is if there might be a better way of addressing concerns about community safety and personal safety without resorting to the kind of punishment and the mass incarceration that we currently have,” Rudovsky said.

Patricia Proctor, director of the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy, said she identifies topics that are prevalent in today’s society and recruits speakers who are well versed in those areas.

“This is one of the most pressing social justices issues of our time,” Proctor said. “We

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Education Expo gives future educators opportunity to network

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Future educators discuss teaching possibilities with various schools throughout West Virginia and the country Tuesday inside Room BE5 in the Memorial Student Center.

By JESSICA ROSS

THE PARTHENON Career Services sponsored the Education Expo Tuesday in the Student Memorial Center for graduating seniors who will begin their careers in the fall.

Students from West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and South Virginia attended the event.

“The event has always been a great event for education students to network with schools,” Denise Hogsett, director of Career Services, said. “Students are actually getting jobs today. Several counties have brought contracts and they are interviewing them for real positions.”

Anthony Jones, director of human resources in Boone County, W.Va., said many of their former students go to Marshall, so this was an opportunity to recruit them and bring them back home.

“This is the key to keeping our school system going is recruiting new teachers once we have people retiring throughout

the year,” Jones said. “It’s always very well organized.”

Joan Grimmett, the recruiting facilitator from the Horry County school system in Myrtle Beach, S.C., said they were looking for speech therapists and speech pathologists.

“We knew Marshall had a program here because our director of special education is a Marshall University graduate,” Grimmett said.

Tonya Martin, human resources director for Mason County, W.Va., said their county is small but has a huge teacher shortage.

“We’re looking for some bright students to fill positions,” Martin said. “We have top-notch schools and top-notch technology.”

Jordan Henry, senior music education major, said the event greatly improves his chances of getting a job after graduation.

“It allows us to make professional contacts and network with people out there

who are hiring people in the job market,” Henry said.

Angela Boggs, a senior major elementary education major, said the expo is a chance to find out which counties are hiring.

“It gives me an opportunity to talk to many different counties and see what positions are available, and also for them to meet me so they can put a face with my resume,” Boggs said.

Rachel Sexton, an educational specialist for Raleigh County W.Va. schools, said the expo was a great way to draw new applicants to the southern part of the state, which is important because they have a lot of teachers retiring.

“We’ve had a great experience here,” Sexton said. “We’ve met a lot of great students, and they’ve all been really prepared and attentive to what’s really going on and seem very interested, so it’s been a great experience.”

Jessica Ross can be contacted at jessica.ross@marshall.edu.

Young adults remain elusive in health care enrollment

By TONY PUGH

MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) More than 4.2 million people have signed up for coverage on the nation’s health insurance marketplaces through February, but low participation from young adults and early technical problems with the website have jeopardized the government’s goal of enrolling 6 million people by March 31.

In the five-month period from October through February, 2.6 million Americans bought coverage through the federal HealthCare.gov website, while

1.6 million signed up through state-run insurance exchanges.

Experts had predicted that enrollments would increase as the six-month enrollment period neared its conclusion. But total monthly signups fell from more than 1.1 million in January to 942,000 in February.

And the proportion of young adults ages 18 to 34 who bought coverage remained at 27 percent in January and February, far from the 35 percent to 40 percent level that experts suggest is needed to keep premium costs in check next year.

This group of younger,

typically healthy plan members is cheaper to insure and would offset the coverage costs for older plan members who are generally sicker and more costly to cover.

About 4.7 million people would have to have been enrolled in coverage in February in order to reach 6 million new enrollees by March 31, according to a new analysis by Avalere Health, a Washington consulting firm.

With just 4.2 million signups, that 500,000-customer shortfall will be tough to overcome in just one month — even with a

national enrollment drive that’s currently underway.

“Right now, I think it’s a stretch to reach 6 million, but it’s not impossible,” said Caroline Pearson, Avalere vice president. “The real challenge is that so many of the folks who enrolled in 2013 had previous coverage or high health care needs, so they were motivated to enroll. They were engaged with the health care system.

Reaching young uninsured people is a lot harder. And I think that’s what we’re seeing. So it’s

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Memorial Student Center plaza turns into an arcade for a day of sun and skee ball

By VINCENT ESPINOZA

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Campus Activities Board brought Your Event Source, an event planning and amusement rental company from Charlotte, N.C., to the Memorial Student Center Tuesday.

Bryce Brown, event manager at YES, said the company goes up and down the east coast putting on events for different universities.

“Schools are kind of our big thing,” Brown said. “We also do a lot of other big events such as the ACC tournament.”

YES offers a wide variety of different activities and novelties to schools, Brown said.

“We not only do Skee Ball and bumper stickers but we also offer rock walls, custom street signs, and inflatables,” Brown said. “Everything is paid

for by the school so the students can enjoy the activities free of charge.”

Steven Rice, a crewmember for YES, has been with the company for two months and said he is looking forward to some of the company’s upcoming events, particularly the upcoming ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C., starting Wednesday.

During Tuesday’s event, the three students with the highest scores were able to win Target gift cards. First place won a $50 gift card, second place won a $30 gift card and third place won a $20 gift card.

Lee Tabor, the coordinator for the CAB, said the events would give students something to do while they are on campus.

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

Sigma Sigma Sigma plans to heat up MU with annual Chili Fest THE PARTHENON The ladies of Sigma Sigma Sigma will sponsor their annual Chili Fest from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Tickets are $5 and will include a drink, a peanut butter sandwich and, of course, chili. Participants can either be served the chili at the Tri-Sigma sorority house, located on Sixth Avenue, or have the food delivered.

All proceeds go toward the Robbie Page Memorial Foundation, which is the sorority’s national philanthropy.

Each year the entire chapter gathers to make homemade chili as well as peanut butter sandwiches for this fundraiser.

This year the event is chaired by Heather Roberts, the TriSigma philanthropy chair.

“Our last big event we worked on as a chapter was recruitment,” Roberts said. “Now that we have some great new girls, we can’t wait to show them what our biggest philanthropy event is like.”

The goal of the event is not only to raise money, but also to bring together the Marshall University Greek community, as well as the community as a whole.

Last year about 200 to 250 people attended Chili Fest or bought a ticket for delivery. With the slogan, “Make it Hot,” the ladies were able to raise around $1,300 from the event last year.

CIA may have violated Constitution with monitoring of Senate staffers

By ALI WATKINS, JONATHAN S. LANDAY and MARISA TAYLOR

MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU(MCT) The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee threw down the gauntlet Tuesday morning in a feud unfolding between the CIA and its oversight panel, asserting that the agency may have broken the law in an effort to derail the panel’s report on the agency’s harsh detention and interrogation program.

In a stunning speech on the Senate floor, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., accused the agency of possibly violating the Constitution when it monitored her committee’s computers and sought a criminal investigation of committee staffers.

‘The CIA’s search may well have violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution, including the speech and debate clause,” she said. “It may have undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities.”

Feinstein fiercely defended the staff’s actions throughout

the course of the report’s creation, saying that the staff removed a classified internal CIA report from a secure CIA facility because it was necessary to fulfill the panel’s oversight responsibilities.

She said when the staffers printed out the documents and took them to the Capitol, they did not break the law, as the CIA contends.

Feinstein also asked the other senators to support the committee in declassifying parts of the report, despite the CIA’s resistance to doing so.

“The recent actions that I have just laid out make this a defining moment for the oversight of our intelligence community,” Feinstein said.

“I believe it is critical that the committee and the Senate reaffirm our oversight role and our independence under the Constitution of the United States.”

Speaking at a separate public event, CIA Director John Brennan denied Feinstein’s charges and said he would act if the CIA, the committee staff or he personally were found to have done anything improper.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Harlem Globetrotters rookies “Thunder” Law, “Flip” White, “Sweet J” Ekworomadu and Johnny “Hawk” Thomas.

Johnny Thomas returns to Huntington with Harlem Globetrotters

By BRAXTON CRISP

THE PARTHENON Former Marshall University men’s basketball player Johnny Thomas hasn’t played basketball in Huntington since the Thundering Herd played Ohio March 15, 2011, in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. That will change Wednesday night when Thomas and his new teammates, the Harlem Globetrotters, take the floor of the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in downtown Huntington.

Thomas, given the nickname “Hawk” by the Globetrotters, is in his first year with the worldrenowned basketball team after graduating from Marshall in the spring of 2011 in sports management.

Thomas said being a Globetrotter presents many opportunities to not only play basketball, but to impact the lives of others as well.

“Being a Harlem Globetrotter gives you that opportunity to

inspire people and put a smile on people’s faces that may not necessarily want to smile that day,” Thomas said. “The Globetrotter organization is so recognizable to everyone’s eyes and it gets so much respect. You want to be part of the brand that is associated with being ambassadors of goodwill as well as being role models to people.”

This season, the Globetrotters have made stops in Australia, Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, France and Canada, as well as places all across the U.S. Thomas gained recognition as a Globetrotter while at Madison Square Garden in New York City, home to the New York Knicks. At the arena, Thomas made a shot from the fifth floor. Video of the shot, which has about 65,000 views on YouTube and has garnered attention from ESPN, is one Thomas said he was confident about making even before he attempted it.

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Johnny Thomas during his time playing for the Herd in 2010.

“I was doing some PR in New York, and the people at Madison Square Garden said ‘Hey, you all are in town. We just built this new bridge called the Chase Bridge at the top of the arena. We want to see if you all can make a shot,’” Thomas said.

“We went to a Knicks game and while at the Knicks game we were looking at the bridge and thought, ‘Man, that’s pretty high,’ but my whole mindset was I’m about to make this.

So we got up there the next day, shot it the first time and it rattled in and out and everyone was riled up, then the second time I shot, it went right through the net.”

Thomas came to Marshall in 2010 and was on the first Marshall squad led by Tom Herrion.

“I had a great time playing under coach [Herrion],” Thomas said. “He gave me a ton of opportunities and that was a great experience for me to come up to Marshall, get to experience mountain life a little bit, but at the same time be surrounded by family.”

Thomas said being exposed to the Globetrotters at a young age made him want to play basketball for a living when he got older.

“I always wanted to play professional basketball, so when the Globetrotters offered me the opportunity, I took it and ran with it,” Thomas said. “You see the Globetrotters on shows such as Scooby-Doo, they had their own CBS television show back in the early 2000s, and when you see that type of stuff, you want to be involved with it.”

The Globetrotters are known for not just playing basketball, but also executing acrobatic shots. Thomas said mastering the skills necessary to be a Globetrotter took many hours of practicing.

“I’m looking forward to coming home and really seeing people I haven’t seen in a long time and just having a great time with it,” Thomas said.

Tuesday night, the Globetrotters played in Charleston and will make the trek west to Huntington to play at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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

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HERDZONE.COM Suporia Dickens (15 points, 11 rebounds) and Chukwuka Ezeigbo (17 points, 11 rebounds) each recorded double-doubles to help 16th-seeded Marshall rally past ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic, 80-73, in the opening contest at of the 2014 Conference USA Women's Basketball Championships at Memorial Gym Tuesday afternoon. The Thundering Herd (11-19) advance to the second round to face No. 8 UAB at 11 a.m.

MDT Wednesday.

Marshall is believed to be the lowest seed ever to advance in a conference tournament. The previous high was No. 13 Alabama in the 2013 SEC tournement (defeated Mississippi State, 63-36) The Owls (16-14) were up by five at the break (3429) and looked to be in good shape, leading by 11 (60-49) with 10:58 to play in the contest. MU had other ideas, though, unleashing a 17-2 run over the next 5:31 to surge into the lead at 66-62.

FAU, which was 10-of42 from three-point range to obliterate the C-USA Championship record for three-pointers attempted (38, Tulane at SMU, 3/3/06), struck back with a 5-0 run to climb back ahead, 67-66, with 4:17 to play.

Marshall was not to be denied, however, closing out the contest on a 14-6 push to complete the rally.

The Thundering Herd nailed 49.2 percent (29of-59) from the floor while also dominating the boards,

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Sophomore guard Norrisha Victrum brings the ball up the court against UTSA March 5 in the Cam Henderson Center.

51-40. Chelsey Romero (11 points, six rebounds) also reached double figures in scoring while Norrisha Victrum pitched in nine points and three assists.

FAU's Takia Brooks poured in 25 points while 2014 Second-Team All C-USA honoree Kimberly Smith recorded a double-double (20 points, 11 rebounds) to lead the efforts for FAU. Shaneese Bailey added 11 points and seven boards but the Owls were unable to overcome an off shooting day. They connected

on 33.8 percent (25-of-74) from the field, including the aforementioned 23.8 percent from beyond-the-arc.

Marshall’s win versus Florida Atlantic is the first time the Herd advanced to the second round of the C-USA Championship since the 2008-09 season, when it defeated Memphis in the first round, and UTEP in the second round.

The Herd will take on the No. 8 seed UAB Blazers in the secound round. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. ET Wednesday in El Paso, Texas.

Men advance past FAU, 63-59 THE PARTHENON The Marshall University men’s basketball team used a hot start and a clutch finish to advance past the FAU Owl’s, 63-59, in the first round of the Conference USA Tournement in El Paso, Texas.

The win was the first for the Herd in the C-USA Tournament since making a run to the championship game in 2012.

The Herd got off to a fast start before the Owl’s got settled in and brought the game within six at halftime.

In the second half the Owl’s kept it close, coming within two points of the lead in

the closing minutes before clutch free-thows sealed the game for the Herd.

Sophomore guard Chris Thomas led the Herd with 21 points and got the game started with 12 of the Herd’s first 20 points.

Thomas was also second on the Herd in rebounding with seven. Redshirt freshman guard Kareem Canty joined Thomas in double-digit scoring with 12, including several clutch baskets down the stretch.

Redshirt freshman Ryan Taylor fell just short of a double-double with eight points and nine rebounds.

The Owl’s outshot the

Herd, 42.2 percent to the Herd’s 38.1 percent, and also shot nearly 40 percent from three-point range. Fifteen turnovers by the Owls, however, helped the Herd negate FAU’s hot shooting.

The Herd got 14 points from the bench as opposed to just four points scored by the Owl’s non-starters.

FAU’s Marquan Botley led all scorers with 26 points, followed by Pablo Bertone with 21.

The Herd will now advance to the second round of the C-USA Tournament against the No. 6 seed Old Dominion Monarchs Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET in El Paso,

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The treatment for cancer starts with prevention According to a new report from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, cancer is predicted to become the leading cause of death within the next 16 years.

The number of new cases is expected to jump from 1.6 million to 2.3 million by 2030.

However, there is an increasing shortage in physicians and oncology practices, many of them being forced to merge or close entirely, according to the oncology group’s inaugural report, “The State of Cancer Care in America.”

Because of the expected increase in cancer cases, the demand for oncology services is expected to grow 42 percent by 2030, but the number of oncologists is only expected to grow by 28 percent.

The Affordable Care Act will cause a need for more oncologists as more Americans are now covered by health insurance.

At a time when the need for cancer care is more crucial than ever, it’s becoming harder to come by.

To make matters worse, drug costs are also expected to rise to $173 billion in 2020.

Part of this is because of overtreatment.

According to a CNN article, a great deal of money is spent performing unnecessary tests and treatments.

If these costs are not combated it will become more difficult to pay for the treatment that is required.

There is much that needs to be done to fight this global pandemic and perhaps

at this point the best way to fight cancer is before it starts through prevention and early detection.

Most cancer cases are preventable through healthy lifestyle choices, such as not smoking, limited sun exposure, regular physical activity and annual checkups with a primary care physician.

Today’s technology allows for early detection, which is vital for cancer treatment and can save a patient from a long recovery.

Treating cancer starts long before a diagnosis. As we face the next 16 years when the number of cases expected to skyrocket, and the number of oncologists falls it’s detrimental for science to focus its efforts on stopping the disease before it starts.

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Supreme Court, don’t tread on small investors LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) For more than a quarter of a century, investors have been able to bring class-action lawsuits against companies that have fraudulently inflated their stock prices without having to prove that each buyer of the stock had been individually duped.

Now, industrial giant Halliburton Co. is trying to persuade the Supreme Court to make such lawsuits significantly harder, if not impossible, to bring. That would be a fantastic result for publicly traded companies, but a terrible one for the average investor.

While securities fraud can be devastating to small investors, their losses rarely are large enough to make it worthwhile for them to sue as individuals. That’s why class-action suits that combine the claims of all the defrauded investors are vital to protecting the little guy on Wall Street. The Supreme Court gave such suits a boost in 1988, ruling that federal law did not require each member of a class to show that he or she had seen and relied on a company’s

fraudulent statements before buying a stock. Instead, the court said, it made sense to presume that most publicly available information is rapidly incorporated into a stock’s price, so that misleading statements given to some investors could cause a fraud on the entire market for that stock.

The new case started in 2002, when a group of Halliburton investors sought to recover losses they blamed on allegedly misleading representations the company made about its asbestos liabilities, construction revenue and merger efficiencies.

After a series of rulings that allowed the case to proceed as a class action, Halliburton appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the 1988 ruling’s “fraud on the market” approach was no longer appropriate.

According to Halliburton, many of today’s investors don’t care whether a company’s stock price accurately reflects its value because it’s immaterial to their investing strategy. That may be true, but as a group of securities-law experts advised the court, it doesn’t change the fact that

stock prices respond when significant information about a company is disclosed, or that typical investors rely on the integrity of those prices. It’s fair to presume that if a deceptive statement affected the value of a company, the losses later suffered by the entire class of investors can be tied to that fraud.

At the oral argument Wednesday, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy suggested a compromise path: Before a court could allow a securities fraud case to become a class action, investors would have to show that the alleged fraud raised the price they had to pay for the stock. But that’s the sort of factual dispute that trials are designed to resolve, after both sides have gained access to all the available evidence. More important, Congress has clearly signaled its satisfaction with the court’s 1988 interpretation of securities law, leaving the fraud-on-the-market approach intact even as it put new limits on securities class actions. That’s all the more reason for the court to leave this precedent alone.

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My father, Iran’s hostage

By DAN LEVINSON

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Seven years ago Sunday, my father, Robert Levinson, was taken hostage while visiting Kish Island, Iran. He is currently the longestheld hostage in U.S. history, and will likely be marking his 66th birthday Monday in captivity, thousands of miles from his wife, seven children and four grandchildren — three of whom have been born since he was kidnapped. We have not been able to communicate with him at all in those seven years.

Nearly three months ago, against my family’s wishes, the Associated Press disclosed that my father was working on contract for the CIA. The AP and the New York Times had known this but, out of concern for my father’s safety, withheld publishing the information at our request. The AP rationalized its decision, with no admission that journalistic politics might have played a role over my father’s well-being.

Lost in the controversy surrounding that report was the failure of U.S. officials to secure my father’s release in the early weeks following his capture. He was there on behalf of the U.S. government and, as such, believed it would do what was necessary to bring home one of its own if something were to happen to him. Unfortunately, the government has thus far failed to fulfill its duty in the seven years since his kidnapping.

We believe everyone — especially the U.S. government and the media — must operate under the assumption he is still alive.

He suffers from a number of health problems, but he was alive in a video sent 3 1/2 years after he was taken; he was alive less than three years ago when we received photos of him; and there is no reason to think he isn’t alive now. Those holding my dad understand how valuable he is, and I am certain they have had some of their best doctors monitoring his health. Type II diabetes is aided by weight loss, so his most serious health problem could very well have been improved while in captivity.

Less than three weeks after my dad’s abduction, Iran’s

state-sanctioned Press TV reported he was “in the hands of Iranian security forces since the early hours of March 9,” that he was “being well looked after” and that he should be “freed in a matter of days.” The last man known to have seen my father before the alleged detention says he watched as four Iranian officials surrounded him in their hotel lobby for questioning, and he is certain my father was taken into custody.

U.S. officials knew these details in the earliest days but did nothing publicly to follow up on them at the time.

Two weeks after my father’s abduction, 15 members of Britain’s Royal Navy were detained by Iran. The British government took swift and decisive action to bring them home. However, as far as reporters and my family can tell, the United States did not pursue a deal to secure my dad’s release in those critical early days. This sets a dangerous precedent. Americans serving our country overseas need to know the government will come to their aid, even if it means taking actions that are difficult to swallow. Our allies do this, because they understand how important it is for the morale of those working on their behalf.

Now, the U.S. government should make bringing my father home its top priority in its negotiations with Iran. It should be the first topic of any discussions with the Islamic Republic, and a prerequisite for any final deal related to its nuclear program.

My family and I are grateful for the efforts thus far of President Obama, who noted his concern regarding my father during his phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in September, as well as those of Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other officials now working on my father’s case.

We have been encouraged by the diplomatic progress made by our two countries, and we are hopeful that continued discussions between officials in both governments can finally lead to my father’s homecoming.

My family, and more important my father, have suffered this unimaginable nightmare for far too long.

Happy birthday, Dad.

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Baseball cannot continue win Softball falls in home streak against Morehead State opener against No. 9 HERDZONE.COM Herd baseball failed to keep its win streak as the team took on Morehead State Tuesday afternoon at Sonny Allen Field in Morehead, Ky. Despite a 9th inning comeback which saw the Herd plate six runs, Marshall fell 11-9.

Morehead improved to 7-8 on the year while the Herd dropped to 5-10.

Marshall entered the 9th inning down 11-3 but sprung to life when three walks and two hit-by-pitches resulted in a two Herd runs with the bases loaded. Things continued offensively, after singles by TJ Diffenderfer and Escobedo delivered two more runs and cut the Morehead lead within four.

A double to right field by third baseman Aaron Bossi smacked in another two Herd

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Continued from Page 1 The Financial Times reported that the Iranians had purchased their tickets through a travel agency in Pattaya, Thailand. Benjaporn Krutnait, owner of the agency Grand Horizon Travel, told the newspaper that the tickets were booked by an Iranian business associate she knew as "Mr. Ali," and that the passengers were traveling through Beijing, only because they were the cheapest tickets to Europe available.

The Chinese government has tried to

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Continued from Page 1 Rudovsky said mass incarceration and racial injustice impacts the country on the whole, especially when prisoners are wrongly imprisoned or kept too long in prisons given the conditions of them, and an economical level.

“The other part is the economical,” Rudovsky. “We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year locking people up. That’s

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Continued from Page 2 going to take some time.”

In a telephone press briefing, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services wouldn’t discuss their chances of hitting the 6 million mark, saying only that they expected “millions” more people to

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Continued from Page 1 Lydia Cartwright’s father, David Cartwright, graduated from Dayton University and has been a faculty member at Marshall for about 18 years.

runs to bring the score 11-9 with two on and one out. The Herd failed to capitalize further, and the rally stopped short at six runs.

Marshall used a total of eight pitchers in the contest, with only two working longer than two innings- starter Roscoe Blackburn and reliever Lance Elder.

Freshman southpaw Blackburn made his 3rd career start, going 2.1 innings, allowing three runs off three hits and three walks.

The Herd struck first, as it has with every game but two this season, when designated hitter Chase Vogelbach singled and scored on a single to left field from outfielder Eric Escobedo in the 2nd.

In the bottom of the 3rd, the Eagles responded with force, leading off with a walk to outfielder Ryan Kent. A single, sacrifice, and double later, and Morehead was on the board with two runs.

The Eagles plated six runs in the 3rd after scoring three off Blackburn and three off of Herd reliever Brandyn Sittinger.

Morehead scored two more runs in the 6th inning and three more in the 8th off three different Herd hurlers.

Bossi and Escobedo each went 2-5 with three RBI. Marshall travels to Athens, Ohio tomorrow to face border rival Ohio University at 4:00 p.m. at Bob Wren Stadium.

downplay suggestions of terrorism in the flight's disappearance, but officials have not entirely ruled it out as a possibility.

The airplane's disappearance came a week after a knifing rampage that left 33 people dead in a train station in Kunming, China. That attack was attributed to Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Islamic minority from northwestern China.

Malaysia Airlines said in a statement Tuesday that nine aircraft and 24 ships have been deployed to search for the missing plane with participants coming from the United States, Australia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and

the Philippines.

With few clues forthcoming about the location of the vanished plane or the reasons for its disappearance, frustration is growing among family members.

"Nothing, absolutely nothing. It's been many days now; we relatives really want to know what is going on," said a wearylooking middle-aged Chinese man who emerged from a conference room in a Beijing hotel where family members of the missing are being accommodated. He declined to give his name. "You reporters probably no more than me - if I knew, I would tell you."

money, some of which has to be spent, no one is saying close all the prisons, but it’s money that we can’t use for education, roads, infrastructure, health and other needy projects.”

Rudovsky has taught criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure and evidence University of Pennsylvania Law School since 1975. He became a senior fellow in 1988 and is a founding partner of the civil rights law firm Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Epstein LLP.

The final lecture of the Amicus Curiae Lecture Series April 11 will focus on the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District: The 20th Century Monkey Trial with Eric Rothschild as the guest speaker.

The lecture series is sponsored by the Simon Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy at Marshall and made possible through a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council.

Frances Lazell can be contacted at lazell2@marshall.edu.

enroll by the end of March.

Nancy Delew, an HHS acting deputy assistant secretary, said last month’s enrollment slowdown was because of the shorter reporting period of just 28 days in February compared with 31 in January.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was encouraged that young adults accounted for one-third of

February enrollments. And even though more than a million young adults have enrolled so far, she said past enrollment patterns show “that young adults tend to sign up later in the process.”

“We expect that as Americans continue to learn just how affordable coverage can be, they’ll use the next three weeks to get signed up and get covered,” Sebelius said.

“The beautiful thing about her is that she’s allowing me to share this with her,” David Cartwright said. “She really feels that this is a big milestone in her life and she wants to celebrate it in every single way possible.”

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event continues 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday along with the Marshall University Bookstore, Jostens, GradImages, Framing Success, Graduate College and several others.

Amy McCallister-Ethel can be reached at mccallister9@marshall.edu.

allegations. Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the panel, told reporters that “we don’t know what the facts are,” and he said the committee needs to figure out internally what happened.

“We’re looking at those issues from an internal standpoint very closely, we’re going to continue with our internal review and at the appropriate time we’ll have further statements to make,” he said.

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, also indicated the matter is far from settled. “We’re having some hearings on that,” Risch said as he walked into a closed Intelligence Committee meeting.

Republicans who aren’t on the sensitive intelligence panel were more forceful. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said an independent investigation might be needed.

Reid rejected that suggestion, at least for now.

“We’re about 14 steps away from that,” Reid said. He was circumspect about what’s next.

“Right now there are a lot of things going on here. I think we should all just pause for a little bit, not very long, and find out where all this stuff leads,” he said.

“We do know, and there’s been a number of public reports about this — at least I believe that to be the case — that the investigation that’s been going on in the Intelligence Committee for years dealing with torture is about ready to come out,” he said.

“I haven’t read it, but I think we should get that out and then find out what’s going on.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also urged patience.

“My understanding is there’s an investigation underway. And I’m not going to comment on an ongoing investigation,” the Kentucky senator said. “My view would be that I’m not yet prepared to comment on this investigation. We’re watching it very carefully.”

Cardin argued it was up to President Barack Obama how to proceed.

“He has to get involved,” Cardin said.

“The CIA is accountable to the president of the United States. The president can get to the bottom of this.”

There was widespread agreement that the search may have violated both federal law and the Constitution.

Feinstein told the Senate that the CIA search “may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution, including the speech and debate clause.” She added that it may have “undermined the constitutional framework essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities.”

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., an Intelligence Committee member, agreed, seeing “grave implications for the constitutional separation of powers.” He told reporters that “the government ought to be held accountable to the law.”

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said the CIA has attempted to threaten and intimidate the Intelligence Committee from doing its oversight work.

Heinrich, who is a member of the committee, said Feinstein was setting the record straight “regarding the deeply disturbing events and indefensible judgment exhibited by the CIA.”

Kentucky Wildcats

By GABI WARWICK

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University softball team played its first home game of the season against University of Kentucky Tuesday, but ended with a tough loss, 6-2.

The Herd entered the match with a 3-9 all-time record against Kentucky. Two of Kentucky’s wins came from last season, with a 4-3 win in regular season play and a 2-1 victory in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

“We’re proud of what the kids did today,” Shaunda Stanton, head coach, said. “We’re still a young team, but we’re becoming consistent.”

Kentucky took an early lead, scoring five runs in the top of the first inning.

Stanton said that the team learned its lesson after the early runs.

“They were putting the ball into good spots early,” Stanton said. “However, Jordan [Dixon] came in and shut them down, and then we had a chance to talk to the team. It did them some good.”

The game remained scoreless and with only one hit between both teams until the bottom of the third, when Kristina Braxton from the Herd hit deep into center field for a single with two outs already for Marshall.

However, while Kaelynn Greene was batting, Braxton attempted to steal a base but couldn’t get there, having the third out for the Herd and ending the inning.

The next highlight of the game came in the bottom of the fourth. Morgan Zerkle hit an infield single and stole a

base to put her in scoring position. Savanah Webster was then walked onto first base, before Braxton hit though the gap into center field.

Braxton was out herself, but allowed Zerkle to push to home for Marshall’s first run of the game. Raquel Escareno had a hit immediately afterward, allowing pinch runner Jessica Watts to also score.

These points made the score 5-2 to end the fourth.

The next points from either team came in the top of the seventh. Nikki Sagermann hit a double for Kentucky and advanced to third on a hit by Emily Gaines.

When Sagermann’s teammate Emily Jolly was up to bat, she saw her chance to steal home. Although both Dixon and Taylor Winton were there, neither could get the tag. The top of the seventh ended with a score of 6-2.

The Herd came up to bat in an attempt to recover from its four-point deficit. However, the Herd was unable to recover and had to take the tough loss.

Zerkle, a freshman from Milton, W.Va., said she is proud of what she contributed to the game.

“I did pretty well today,” Zerkle said. “As a freshman, I’m still kind of nervous about some teams, but knowing that I can get out there and get it done is really cool.”

Marshall softball will be back in action at 1 p.m. Saturday against Tulsa for its first in conference home game of the season.

Gabi Warwick can be contacted at warwick@ marshall.edu.

Senators offer no clear path on suspected CIA breach of intelligence panel

By DAVID LIGHTMAN and SEAN COCKERHAM

MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) Sen. Dianne Feinstein jolted her colleagues Tuesday — and sent them scrambling to figure out what to do next — with her charge that the CIA may have violated the Constitution by monitoring her committee’s computers.

The chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, in a dramatic Senate floor speech, charged that the CIA’s searches of committee records may have violated separation of powers principles.

Lawmakers look to the California Democrat for guidance on intelligence matters.

“Sen. Feinstein is a pretty cool person,” said Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. “She normally tries to stay out of the limelight, so a speech like that is getting serious attention.”

Darn right, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., after Senate Democrats huddled privately for about an hour.

“I believe in separation of powers. I support Sen. Feinstein unequivocally, and I am disappointed that the CIA is apparently unrepentant for what I understand they did,” he told reporters.

Feinstein charged Tuesday that the CIA may have broken the law and violated the Constitution by secretly infiltrating computers used by her staff to assemble a scathing report on the spy agency’s now-defunct detention and interrogation program.

“The CIA just went and searched the committee’s computers,” Feinstein said.

Republicans on the Intelligence Committee, though, did not back up Feinstein’s

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MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE (MCT) We should all be so lucky as to live in a world designed, peopled and manipulated by Wes Anderson.

His latest film, “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” is a dark, daft and deft triumph of design details.

From the purple velvet with red piping hotel uniforms to the drinks, colognes and artwork of Europe between the World Wars, Anderson ensconces his eccentric characters and us in a time of baroque, imaginary 4-star hotels run on what used to pass for 4-star service.

It’s all about framing — the odd aspect ratios Anderson plays with in the shape of the screen, elongated — made to fit narrow rooms, tall elevators, funicular rail cars and tall actors like Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton and Tilda Swinton. Fittingly, the story is a framework within a frame, a tale told by a long-dead novelist (Tom Wilkinson) about what inspired his famous novel, a tall tale he heard as a younger man (Jude Law) from the owner, Mr. Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham) of the gone-to-seed Grand Budapest Hotel.

And framed within that framing device is the long flashback to the old hotel owner’s youth, when Zero Moustafa was “lobby boy” to the famed concierge, Monsieur Gustave, played with hilarious relish by Fiennes.

M. Gustave is all about service and good manners, maintaining “the faint glimmer” of civilization as war is about to break out all around

the imaginary Republic of Zubrowka.

“A lobby boy is completely invisible, but always in sight,” he lectures. He usually follows his lectures with a florid and overlong poem of his own composition, but no one pays attention those.

And M. Gustave? His attentions all go to the guests — little old ladies that this perfumed and flamboyant dandy beds during their stay at the Grand Budapest.

“I go to bed with all my friends,” he croons. It’s just part of the service.

But when a guest (Tilda Swinton, hidden in old age makeup) dies and Gustave is in the will, the concierge faces his ugliest foes — an heir (Adrien Brody) and that heir’s murderous henchman (Willem Dafoe). Before this tangled knot unravels, Zubrowka will be invaded, Gustave will steal a famous painting and be framed for murder, and we’ll see a prison break, a snowy

chase on skis and sleds (filmed with miniatures and dolls) and a noisy shootout.

And the old hotel owner Mr. Moustafa will remember the love of his younger self (Tony Revolori): the birthmarked baker (Saoirse Ronan, in Scots accent) who helped him try to save M. Gustave from the violence and bad manners and prison sentence threatening his happiness.

There are hints of many jaunty earlier Anderson films here — “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Royal Tenenbaums.” But here there are balalaikas and bursts of violence and profanity and sexual crudeness that jolt us into remembering the cruelty that M. Gustave is keeping at bay, and into realizing this sentimental world of rich dowagers drifting from spa to spa isn’t as genteel as it seems.

The Wes Anderson repertory company — from Jason Schwartzman to Bill Murray — went

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to Germany with him to film this funny fantasia.

Harvey Keitel, Lea Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric and many other faces familiar from indie and European film turn up in the sets of the Hotel Borse (in Gorelitz, Germany) and Potsdam of this quirkierthan-quirky movie, which Anderson says in the credits was inspired by the Austrian Belle Epoch novels of Stefan Zweig. The Max Ophuls film of Zweig’s “Letter from an Unknown Woman” is one of the great triumphs of sentimental 1940s period piece production design, just as “Budapest” is the greatest expression of Anderson’s love of ornate buildings, old money, older furniture, tiny models and modish, saturated colors.

“He certainly sustained the illusion with a marvelous grace,” Mr. Moustafa eulogizes M. Gustave, at one point. That could be turn out to be the deadpan Anderson’s epitaph as well, should this Tsar of Surreal Silliness ever be so gauche as to die. Or retire.