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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 51 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com

Memorial Ceremony set for Thursday

By MORGAN WRIGHT

THE PARTHENON The Plane Crash Memorial Ceremony will be noon Thursday on the Memorial Student Center Plaza.

This year’s keynote speaker is John Proctor, the son of two victims of the crash.

The ceremony at the Memorial Fountain will include the laying of the wreath and 75 roses, the reading of the names of those lost in the plane crash and the silencing of the fountain.

Members of the football team and Student Government Association will lay 75 roses on the fountain before it is turned off. There will be a new feature this year, a music piece called “From the Ashes” performed by the Wind Symphony. Following the ceremony there will be a reception for families at Foundation Hall.

The football team will be playing away this weekend, but some of the team

Students offering gratitude during Thank-A-Donor Day

Blue Man Group launches two-day US Postal Service, Amazon to team takeover of the Keith-Albee Theatre up on Sundays

members will stay in Huntington to participate in the Memorial Ceremony. The football team will be wearing the number 75 on its helmets at this week’s game in remembrance of those lost.

Something new SGA will be doing this year is taking buses of students to the crash site. Buses, donated

by Cabell County, will leave the west parking lot at Joan C. Edwards Stadium at 6:30 p.m. SGA will be taking the

roses from the fountain that were laid at the ceremony and leave them at the site.

They will also take 75 candles and light them at the site.

The goal is to be at the plane crash site and light the candles at 7:36 p.m., the time that the plane went down.

SGA Chief of Staff Jordan Wooldridge said he recommends students participate in going to the plane crash site.

“It makes it more realistic for students,” Wooldridge said. “They can come to the ceremony and listen to the speaker and see us lay the roses, but I think once you go to the actual site and you see the marker, see the field, you just get a sense of reality.

When you’re there you really feel that connection.”

This will be the 43rd anniversary of the Marshall plane crash. The plane was carrying 37 members of the Marshall

By ALYSSA SIMON

THE PARTHENON Students are invited to attend Thank-A-Donor Day Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Marshall University’s Foundation Hall across from Corbly Hall on the Fifth Avenue side of campus.

This event gives students an opportunity to thank those who have given money in support of student scholarships.

Students will be able to write thank you cards, take personal photos or record a personal video thanking a donor of their choice.

Career Services will also be available to assist students with their resumes.

Students are asked to bring a copy on a jump drive or in their email inbox.

Students’ resumes will be included in the information that is sent to the donor, so students are able to make a good first impression prior to finishing college.

Arika Michaelis, junior music education major from Woodville, Ohio, plans to attend the event because she said she believes those who give money to worthy causes deserve to be recognized.

“I’m looking forward to the event because I will be able to show my appreciation to those who have given money to scholarships and I will also be able to improve my resume,” Michaelis said.

Anyone planning to attend the event is encouraged to wear Marshall green.

Alyssa Simon can be contacted at simon26@ marshall.edu.

Foreign students continue to flock to US universities

By JASON SONG

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) The number of international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities rose to a record high last year, according to a new study.

The private University of Southern California was their most popular destination, with 9,840 international students, according to the survey conducted by the New York nonprofit Institute of International Education, in partnership with the U.S. State Department.

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University Thundering Herd football team, eight members of the coaching staff, 25 boosters and five flight crewmembers.

SGA said it feels it is important to have this annual ceremony to respect the sons and daughters of Marshall who lost their lives in that fatal event and never forget that from the ashes we rose.

Morgan Wright can be contacted at wright265@ marshall.edu.

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THE PARTHENON The Blue Man Group will bring its unique style to the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center Wednesday for a oneof-a-kind performance.

The Blue Man Group was founded in 1987 by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton but has since evolved into a large organization. The group has been delighting audiences for decades with a brand of entertainment that is difficult to define. The ensemble incorporates music, technology, comedy and theatrics into each wordless performance to charm audiences.

Mike Brown, an official Blue Man as of 2003, said the founders wanted to add something new to New York City’s art scene.

“In their time, they were just kind of tired of the art scene they were seeing and they really just wanted to create the kind of show that they would want to see and that they would want to go tell their friends to see,” Brown said.

Brown first became a fan of the group after seeing a 1997 performance in New York City.

He said it captivated him because it combined his love for

both acting and drumming.

After graduating from theatre school, Brown began working with the Blue Man Group as a backstage crewmember.

“Amazingly after six months of working on crew, an open call audition came up. I didn’t know if I wanted to do it but a couple of friends just really simply were like, ‘Why wouldn’t you try,’ and I did and fortunately it all worked out,” Brown said. “It really is truly for me a dream come true.”

While Brown has been with the group for 10 years, this is the first time he has been on tour. Brown said touring gives the group more opportunities that might not be available when performing in one city.

“There’s also a lot of larger toys and instruments that the Blue Men can have on this tour that they can’t usually do in like Boston or Chicago or New York and that’s all just due to the size of their spaces,” Brown said.

“Being out here on the road definitely gives Blue Men a larger laboratory to play with things.”

The show’s concepts, instruments and technological tools are developed by Blue Man Productions, in which the founders still have a large role. The performers

must then learn how to use these things and apply them to their characters.

Performers must also undergo the process of costuming, which Brown said takes about 30 minutes.

“The costume is a bald cap that we—we put glue along our hairline, like right next to the hairline, and the bald cap gets put down and trimmed by our wardrobe staff. Then you just sort of put the paint on your head,” Brown said. “It sticks around. I did the show last night and I’m sure it’s probably somewhere on my body still.”

Brown said each performance is its own original entity unlike any previous or future performances, reflecting their “live for the moment” attitude. While the show is meant to provide comedy and awe-inspiring audio and visuals, he said it also stands for much more.

“You can definitely expect just a lot of unique fun and thoughtful commentary about the way we interact with each other socially, the way we communicate, and also just unique ways to look at the world,” Brown said. “It’s about sort of expanding yourself.”

Brown said each person can find a piece of themselves in the performance.

“It’s kind of like everybody is a Blue Man and people are just sort of afraid to let it out,” Brown said.

“The Blue Men are there to let people get rid of that idea and just sort of tap into their more inner innocent, just ‘ready to throw down and dance and party’ sort of feeling they have within themselves.”

Russell Rinker and Jesse Nolan, the group’s music director will be making an appearance in Smith Music Hall’s band room at 2 p.m.

Tuesday.

The Blue Man Group will perform at the Keith-Albee Theatre 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday’s performance is free to fulltime Marshall University students.

Wednesday’s ticket prices vary based on seating.

Tickets can be purchased through the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center by picking them up at the box office or calling 304-696-3326.

Tickets are also available on Ticketmaster.com.

Zach Haught can be contacted at haught36@ marshall.edu.

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Giant online retailer Amazon.com Inc. is turning up the heat on rivals this holiday season and beyond under a new deal with the US Postal Service for delivering packages on Sundays.

Starting this week, the postal service will bring Amazon packages on Sundays to shoppers’ doors in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas at no extra charge. Next year, it plans to roll out year-round Sunday delivery to Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix and other cities.

Getting packages on Sundays normally is expensive for customers. United Parcel Service Inc. doesn’t deliver on Sundays, according to a spokeswoman. And FedEx Corp. said Sunday “is not a regular delivery day,” though limited options are available.

The deal could be a boon for the postal service, which has been struggling with mounting financial losses and has been pushing to limit general letter mail delivery to five days a week.

Spokeswoman Sue Brennan said that letter mail volume is declining “so extremely,” yet package volume is “increasing in double-digit percentages.”

The postal service’s Sunday package delivery business has been very small, but the arrangement with Amazon for two of the retailer’s larger markets, Los Angeles and New York, should boost work considerably.

To pull off Sunday delivery for Amazon, the postal service plans to use its flexible scheduling of employees, Brennan said. It doesn’t plan to add employees, she said.

Members of Amazon’s Prime program have free two-day shipping and, under the new deal, can order items Friday and receive them Sunday. Customers without Prime will pay the standard shipping costs associated with business day delivery.

As consumers increasingly move online to shop, retailers are finding that their shipping policies can be a bellwether of customer loyalty. Though not necessarily offering Sunday delivery, many are testing same-day service.

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The US Army discovers Africa

TRAGEDY IN THE PHILLIPINES 100 more Marines, sailors sent to aid international relief efforts

By ANDREW J. BACEVICH

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) On the list of U.S. military priorities, Africa has always ranked right at the bottom. Now that appears to be changing. As Eric Schmitt recently reported in the New York Times, thousands of soldiers once bound for Iraq or Afghanistan are now gearing up for missions in Africa. Before the gearing up proceeds much further, Americans might want to ask a few questions. Chief among them are these: Why the sudden shift in priorities? What’s the aim? Who stands to benefit? What risks does the militarization of U.S. policy in Africa entail?

Among the various services, the U.S. Army in particular finds the prospect of an expanded Africa presence appealing. As Schmitt observed, with U.S. forces out of Iraq and soon scheduled to leave Afghanistan, the Army is looking for new missions around the world. For Army leaders, Africa spells opportunity, a chance to demonstrate continuing relevance at a time when the nation’s appetite for sending U.S. troops to invade and occupy countries has pretty much evaporated.

Thus, we have U.S. Army Africa, or USARAF, the latest in the Pentagon’s ever-growing roster of military headquarters. The mission of this command, which describes itself as “America’s premier Army team dedicated to positive change in Africa,” manages to be at once reassuringly bland and ominously ambitious. On the one hand, USARAF “strengthens the land force capabilities of African states and regional organizations.” On the other, it “conducts decisive action in order to establish a secure environment and protect the national security interests of the United States.”

One might hope that successfully accomplishing the first half of that mission — U.S. troops training and equipping African counterparts — will preclude the second. More likely, however, such efforts will pave the way for “decisive action,” a euphemism for war.

Let’s discard the euphemisms.

Here is a classic example of bureaucratic interests displacing strategic calculation, not to mention common sense, as a basis for policy. For the Navy and Air Force, the Obama administration’s much-ballyhooed “pivot” toward East Asia has come as something of a godsend. Addressing the putative threat posed by a rising China promises to keep those services busy (and flush with cash) for decades to come. Yet apart from a possible resumption of the long-dormant Korean War, Asian scenarios involving a large-scale commitment of Army forces are difficult to conjure up. So expanding the “global war on terrorism” into the heart of Africa allows the Army to make its own pivot.

Initially, only small contingents of American soldiers will be venturing into Africa, consistent with the Army’s recently discovered affinity for what it calls a “light footprint.” Although these will be combat troops, their purpose will be not to fight but to coach, helping to create competent and politically reliable local forces.

U.S. efforts to upgrade African military capabilities will no doubt create opportunities to market American-manufactured arms, a secondary benefit not lost on U.S. defense contractors.

There are at least a couple of problems here. The first is that when it comes to building foreign forces, the U.S. military’s track record is mixed at best.

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US, EU continue negotiations on free trade agreement

By HENRY CHU

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An aerial photo shows the scene after Typhoon Haiyan hit Leyte Province Sunday. The Philippine government disaster relief agency said about 4.4 million people have become homeless in areas. Haiyan (local name Yolanda) is the most powerful typhoon in Philippines history and engulfed many areas in the Leyte, Eastern Samar, Western and Central Visayas, Bicol and Northern Mindanao regions.

By DAVID S. CLOUD

TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) One hundred additional U.S. Marines and sailors flew to the Philippines on Monday as part of a growing international effort to help survivors of one of the largest Pacific storms on record.

Rescuers are still in the early stages of reaching remote areas devastated

by Typhoon Haiyan, which officials say may have killed thousands of people as it lashed the island chain with winds of more than 200 mph and widespread flooding.

Two U.S. military cargo planes carrying water and generators, along with a squad of Marines, left Manila for the hard-hit city of Tacloban on the island of Leyte.

In a sign that the United States is significantly ramping up its response, the aircraft carrier George Washington will be moved to the Philippines to assist with the growing effort to aid victims, two senior Navy officials said. They requested anonymity because the deployment had not yet been publicly announced.

The carrier “is preparing to deploy from Hong Kong, where they are on a port visit, to the Philippines to assist with relief efforts,” one of the officials said.

The official said the specific tasks the carrier would perform were still being worked out.

But a carrier positioned offshore will potentially give U.S. forces the ability to ferry supplies to isolated towns, though only in small amounts

A map showing the path of Typhoon Haiyan with information on the hardest hit areas. The storm, which hit the Philippines as a Category 5, was reportedly one of the strongest storms ever and the 25th to hit the Philippines this year. because of the size and number of aircraft that can land on its deck. It will also allow the United States to move the badly injured aboard for immediate medical care.

George Washington “has medical facilities, lift capability, water and food supply,” the Navy official said, noting that the carrier Carl Vinson

assisted in humanitarian operations in Haiti in 2010 following a deadly earthquake there.

In that operation, the carrier was given additional helicopters to ferry supplies ashore, a move the Navy is likely to repeat in the Philippines.

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This year’s Atlantic storms no match for Haiyan

By KEN KAYE

SUN SENTINEL (MCT) In a display of enormous tropical power, Super Typhoon Haiyan packed more energy than the sum total of all 12 named storms — including two hurricanes — that have formed so far in the Atlantic this hurricane season.

That shows not only how intense the single 195-mph Pacific system was, but also how “wimpy” the storm season has been in the Atlantic, said Jim Lushine, a retired National Weather Service forecaster and tropical expert.

“Super typhoons in the western Pacific are much more frequent than hurricanes of equal strength in the Atlantic,” he said. “This is, at least in part, due to the fact that the Pacific is a much larger expanse of warm ocean water.”

Haiyan’s winds were gusting to 235 mph three hours before landfall, “making it the fourth-strongest

tropical cyclone in world history,” said Jeff Masters, chief meteorologist of Weather Underground, an online weather site. While the death toll still is being tabulated, it’s feared more than 10,000 people were killed.

Another indicator of Haiyan’s power: It was 22 mph stronger than Hurricane Andrew, which struck Florida’s Miami-Dade County as a Category 5 system with top winds of about 173 mph in August 1992, Lushine said.

The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends Nov. 30, has seen mostly short-lived weak storms, the result of an unexpected spate of dry air, wind shear and African dust.

Initially, seasonal forecasts called for up to 20 named storms, including 11 hurricanes. But we only saw 12 storms, including two Category 1 hurricanes. The last system, Tropical Storm Lorenzo, formed late last month.

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The Atlantic basin, on average, produces 12 named storms, including six hurricanes. The northwest Pacific Ocean, on the other hand, is the world’s most active basin with an average of almost 26 storms per year, including 16 typhoons. With incessantly warm waters, it can produce storms year around, although activity drops off in February and March.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center, that region’s version of the National Hurricane Center, estimated Haiyan’s winds to be 195 mph as it approached Samar Island and the city of Guiuan, where the super typhoon initially made landfall.

However, Masters said that speed was valid only for the part of the storm that was over water, and that winds probably were about 165 over land “due to friction.” He noted that still was strong enough to cause enormous destruction.

“This is equivalent to a high end EF-3 tornado, he said.

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) European and U.S. officials resumed negotiations Monday on a trans-Atlantic free trade agreement despite angry protests in Europe over American electronic spying and threats to call off the talks.

The five-day discussion in Brussels had already been postponed because of the U.S. government shutdown and faced added uncertainty amid outrage over reports that the U.S. National Security Agency tapped the phones of European leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Some European officials urged that this week’s talks be suspended.

But the potential payoff of a trade agreement outweighed those concerns. Between them, the U.S. and the 28-nation European Union already account for almost half the world’s economic output.

A tariff-busting pact would create the world’s largest free-trade area and, supporters say, could create millions of jobs.

Meeting for the second time, following a first round in July, the negotiating teams are expected to concentrate on services, investment, and energy and raw materials. They also will examine regulatory issues; officials on both sides ot the Atlantic say that cutting red tape and harmonizing some rules and regulations could do more to boost economic activity than easing tariffs, which are already relatively low.

Liberalizing trade across the Atlantic could bring in nearly $160 billion more a year to Europe, which has been struggling to recover from a damaging recession and the region’s lingering debt crisis. European officials are also eager to find ways to counter a looming demographic disadvantage compared to the U.S. and China as birthrates in Europe drop and workforces age.

U.S. officials too see benefits for American exporters and were worried that the flap over alleged spying on allies such as Germany and France would hurt or kill chances of a trade accord. Those two nations and Spain have all summoned the resident U.S. ambassadors to address revelations of mass electronic surveillance overseas by the NSA; commentators say that trust across the Atlantic has been seriously undermined.

On a swing through Europe last week, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry appealed to his interlocutors not to let the spying controversy affect this week’s talks.

“This is a trade partnership.

It has the ability to lift all of our countries,” Kerry said on a visit to Poland. The trade agreement “is really separate from any other issues that people may have on their minds.”

After this week’s talks, which were originally to take place last month, the negotiating teams are due to meet again in Washington shortly before Christmas. That would put the talks back on their previously announced schedule.

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Kansas-Duke features freshmen stars, championship coaches and more

Basketball teams having to adjust to new hand check rules

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By WILL VANCE

THE KANSAS CITY STAR (MCT) Outside the United Center, on the side nearest the corner of Madison and Wood, the statue hangs over an empty sidewalk, like a gathering storm on the west side of Chicago.

Michael Jordan, bronzed in his iconic Jumpman pose, is stretching to the south.

Duke freshman Jabari Parker went to high school 12 miles from here, growing up in the shadow of an NBA dynasty.

Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins had to settle for the nickname of “Maple Jordan,” Canada’s great basketball hope.

This is the setting for Tuesday night’s long-awaited clash in the Champions Classic, where Wiggins and No. 5 Kansas will face Parker and No. 4 Duke, a blue-blood heavyweight battle featuring coaches with NCAA titles and dueling freshman stars.

“When you coach, you want to be able to coach against the best players,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “And you also want to coach against the best coaches.

And we have an opportunity to do both of those.”

No, the third installment of the Champions Classic certainly won’t be lacking any star-power or story lines. Wiggins and Parker. Self and Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski. Kansas and Duke.

ESPN slated Kansas and Duke for an 8:30 p.m. tip in prime time, relegating No. 1 Kentucky vs. No. 2 Michigan State, the opening game of the doubleheader, to undercard status.

Courtside seats are going for $3,250 apiece on StubHub.com.

And, of course, Kansas and Duke both feature 6-foot-8 freshmen who have played in one college game — and each appeared on one cover of Sports Illustrated.

“As a kid,” said KU junior point guard Naadir Tharpe, “I watched games like this.”

In the spring of 2012, Parker,

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Guard Andrew Wiggins (22) of Kansas drives for a lay-up against guard Marvin Williams (0) of LouisianaMonroe at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. Kansas defeated Louisiana-Monroe, 80-63. a 6-foot-8 forward from Simeon Academy, appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, touted as the best high school player since LeBron James. But just five months later, it was Wiggins who had supplanted Parker as the No. 1 overall player in the 2013 recruiting class.

As Self said earlier this week: Our guys know their guys.

That’s another way of saying this: Wiggins and fellow freshman Wayne Selden may still be learning about the pageantry and history of Kansas and Duke, but they know all about Parker and Duke swingman

Rodney Hood — two potential first-round picks in next year’s NBA Draft.

“I would say Andrew is thinking about Duke, but he’s also thinking about Jabari and Hood,” Self said. “And I would bet they’re thinking about Kansas, but they’re also thinking about Wiggins and Selden.

“I think there’s probably a lot of that stuff going on, a little of a young personal rivalry. (It) really doesn’t mean much, but it’s natural to think like that.”

So here are a few things about Parker, who could play inside and out against Kansas. He had 22 points and six rebounds in

Duke’s season-opening 111-77 victory against Davidson. And Self recruited him plenty hard to Kansas . . . until Parker told Self he wouldn’t be taking an official visit to Lawrence.

“Jabari Parker is probably about as skilled a 6-8 guy as you’ll ever see — and I mean ever,” Self said. “He’s a Paul Pierce, Carmelo Anthony-type player.”

That could sound like a motivational ploy for Wiggins, who had 16 points in Kansas’ rather lackluster victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Friday night.

SPORTS EDITOR Marshall women’s basketball coach Matt Daniel has a lot of newness on his plate for the 2013-14 season.

Ten new players on his young roster, new conference opponents in the new-look Conference USA, a new floor under his players’ feet. And now a new rule that he and his team must adapt to.

In May, the NCAA made a change to the rules concerning hand-checks, a defensive player putting their hands on an offensive player. With the new rules, defenders can put their hand on the offensive player’s hip briefly but cannot leave it there, nor can the forearm be involved in any way. Though rules similar to this have been in place for years, referees have been told to start enforcing the new, stricter rules.

This has resulted in an increase in fouls across the country, in both men’s and women’s college basketball.

“They’ve changed the rules of women’s college basketball, so there is going to be some adjustment,” Daniel said after his teams 63-42 win over Bluefield College. “I imagine there will be some shock. If it was anything like the whistles that were in here today there will be some shock across the country. We’re going to have to adjust to that.”

The game against Bluefield College had 47 total fouls with the two teams combining for 53 foul shots. Marshall’s lead scorer from its exhibition

game, junior transfer Leah Scott, had to sit out most of the first half with two early fouls. When Scott was able to get back in the game after halftime, she rallied the team behind her 18-second half points.

“She’s got to play without fouling,” Daniel said of Scott, “and that’s kind of a loose term.”

Daniel said that the change in rules would affect everyone on the floor, including the officials.

“Trying to figure out what a foul is these days is hard,” Daniel said. “I don’t mean that disrespectfully to the officials, it’s just an adjustment for everybody.”

The officials, who often catch the heat for their application of new rules, are still trying to standardize what is and is not a foul under the new rules.

“The whistle today wasn’t like the whistle in our exhibition game,” Daniel said. “Even in our private scrimmages it wasn’t the same, so it’s tough to figure out.”

The Herd adapted to the new rules in game slightly, cutting its fouls from 11 in the first half to nine in the second half.

The Herd will add another new to its list by introducing its ten new members to road contests when it travels to Coraopolis, Penn., to take on Robert Morris at 10 a.m.

Wednesday.

Will Vance can be contacted at vance162@ marshall.edu.

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Nash hurting in Lakers’ loss to Timberwolves

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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (MCT) They were together from 2004-08. The relationship yielded a Coach of the Year honor for one, and a couple of MVPs for the other.

Mike D’Antoni knows Steve Nash, and early in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 113-90 blowout loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the coach could tell something was wrong. This is not unusual; much has been off for the 39-year-old Nash this season, as he has been tested by injuries to his ankle and neck, pain in his back and hamstring.

But D’Antoni, who found the most success when paired with Nash in Phoenix, watched the hollowed star grimace when he ran. He replaced him early in the second quarter, and Nash acknowledged that he was hurting.

“I just see his face,” D’Antoni said, “when I’ve known him forever and when he looks like that, I know he’s trying to battle through something. And he just couldn’t do it.”

The point guard played 13 minutes, and did not join the team on the bench in the second half.

“I hesitate to even talk about it now,” Nash said, “because every time I talk about it I get

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Violence does not equal entertainment A new study published this week in the scientific journal Pediatrics shows that 94 percent of the most popular movies since 1985 have at least one violent scene, half of which involve a gun.

Since the creation of the PG-13 rating in 1985, violence in those films has tripled and surpasses the amount of violence in R-rated films in recent years.

How and why did we reach the point where violence was the go-to to sell a movie?

Perhaps there was a point in the early days of film when actors like James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson created a thrill for audiences at a time when film was new and exciting. This was also a

time before the Motion Picture Association of America rating system we have today.

Nowadays, violence is the norm, but not in the way it used to be. Our technology has allowed for special effect advancements that make it much easier to create the violent scenes we see on the big screen. And the film industry wastes none of these resources in the films we see today. The major movie studios are in constant competition with each other to see who can be the most violent and create the biggest “wow” effect.

It seems to be the easiest route the studios can take to make the big bucks, but where does it really fall on the spectrum

of entertainment? Given that there have been as many movies since 1985 that comprise violent scenes as the study shows, violence has become a natural part of our society’s entertainment. But violence does not automatically equal entertainment.

Violence in film is used too generously.

It’s used in anything from action to comedy flicks. It’s lost a great deal of dramatic effect and only serves for show instead of tell. Nevertheless, we continue to spend our money on these films. One day, what little creation is left with violence in film will be expensed and the powers that be will finally have to find a new way to entertain audiences.

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Marshall’s diverse international culture

By TOMMY D. G. FERRELL

COLUMNIST As reported Monday, the 50th Annual Marshall University International Festival took place this past weekend. This growing celebration of food, music, art and more from different cultures across the globe is a powerful statement in support of Marshall’s ongoing efforts toward international and multicultural expansion and embrace.

Engaging the community, not just Marshall students, in displays of diversity is key to the liberal arts goals of an institution like ours. I am proud of the inclusiveness we encourage with events like this half-century tradition, but that is not all we are doing.

Most students are aware, by now, that Marshall has entered into a long-term affiliation with INTO University Partnerships, a British company that seeks to build bridges to higher education worldwide. This program provides Marshall a direct link to a global network of young thinkers and scholars whose talents have already shown to benefit the institution.

Our international enrollment is up, and it is projected to continue in this trend.

Growing our diversity profile benefits more than those diverse groups that want to join the Herd. A university’s reputation is built upon many characteristic categories; there are many one would expect off-hand, such

as academic performance, the breadth and quality of faculty (and student) research and career placement statistics, but efficiency of and dedication to preparation for the institution to continue into the 21st century’s broad community and global emphasis is just as crucial.

Like it or not, the world is well on its way to becoming more interconnected than ever.

In the last hundred years, the higher-end of a “broad focus” has moved from interstate efforts to massive global networks of business, commerce and community action. I strongly urge us to continue to toward that focus. So far, I believe we have taken many of right steps. In addition to a longstanding fondness for cultural expression at our annual International Festival and our commitment to international student enrollment through the INTO program, we have high-quality programs in place that will ensure we can be leaders, with the skills relevant to the demands of our respective fields.

This is one of the reasons I love being a part of the College of Liberal Arts. Aside from the fact that my major placement houses me there, the curriculum COLA requires of us goes a step further to ensure our success in the global community. For example, a greater emphasis is placed on the international and multicultural courses and research ideas throughout our social

science departments, courses in several of which are standard requirements.

Contrary to the thoughts of former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers (on whose comments about this subject I recently wrote with another publication), the fourcourse, in-depth sequence of study of a foreign language also serves to broaden our horizons and give an all-important resume boost. More importantly, studying a foreign language has been consistently proven to provide substantial critical thinking power, important for many graduate and professional school tracks.

Pre-law, which is my route, is not just for the political science majors, boys and girls; the analytical communication and interpretive abilities that students like Tyler Dingess, a triple major—yes, three of them—in Japanese, French and Spanish, are honing will surely serve to alleviate the horror of the LSAT. I look forward to seeing where the international commitment of Marshall goes next.

Again, I am confident we are on the right track, and I encourage students to take extra steps available: Go above and beyond what the institution forces you to do with diversity; expand your own worldview, and you will find that the possibilities are limitless.

Tommy D. G. Ferrell can be contacted at t.ferrell@marshall.edu.

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By ROBERT ZARETSKY

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Albert Camus, who would have been 100 years old Thursday, is ageless. The French Algerian’s life and work reflect the long tragedy of the 20th century, marked by disquiet, genocide and violence, but his diagnosis of our absurd condition, and his effort to find not a cure (there is none) but the proper response, tie him just as firmly to the new millennium.

Camus lived on intimate terms with the absurd. He lost his father, whom he never knew, in the war to end all wars that emphatically failed in that regard. He was a French intellectual from working-class Algiers, a writer raised by a grandmother who could not read and a mother who could not read and could scarcely speak.

And he discovered mortality as an athletic teenager, when he began to cough up blood from his tubercular lungs.

But these facts were not themselves absurd. Camus held that absurdity bleeds into our lives only when we ask it for meaning and hear instead an “unreasonable silence.” At that moment, he wrote, the “stage setting” of our lives collapses, leaving us with neither script nor director. Can we live without the reassurance, once provided by religion and faith, that transcendent meaning exists? Is it possible, he asked, to live our lives “without appeal”?

Camus is famous for two works that plumb absurdity. In “The Stranger,” Meursault senselessly kills a man — an act the absurdity of which is revealed only when others demand in vain a reason. “The Myth of Sisyphus,” in turn, considers the punishment meted out to the mythical king of Corinth, condemned to spend eternity pushing a boulder up a mountainside, only to watch it roll back down. Both heroes overcome their absurd fate by embracing it, by making it their own. We must, Camus concluded, imagine them happy.

But by the time the books were published in occupied France, Camus was no longer happy with their conclusions. The absurd, he scrawled in his journal, “teaches nothing.” Instead of looking to ourselves for answers, as do his heroes, we must look to others.

We are, Camus recognized, condemned to live together in this

silent world. Our deepest impulse, once we realize the silence will never end, is to refuse this state of affairs. To shout “no” to the world as it is, to shout “yes” to the world as it should be.

As his editorials in the clandestine newspaper Combat reveal, Camus believed this was the essence of resistance. And not just to the Nazis. He combated nihilism and absurdity until his death in 1960. Whether it was the use of the guillotine in republican France or the use of the gulag in the Soviet Union, civilian terrorist bombings by Algerian nationalists or waterboarding and electric shock torture by French soldiers, Camus’ imperative was human solidarity.

The personal consequences were tragic: Camus’ insistence on solidarity often begat solitude.

His denunciation of communism created a rift with Jean-Paul Sartre and much of the rest of the Paris intelligentsia; his heroic but failed attempts to broker a civilian peace in Algeria reduced him to controversial silence. Even his efforts to save the lives of those who despised or dismissed him, from the collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach to Algerian revolutionaries, ended in failure and isolation.

Isolation may well be the price that any true moralist must pay.

How could it be otherwise when a moralist, so different from a moralizer, is as hard on himself as he is on others. As Camus confessed to his journal, “Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.”

Camus was just as unsparing in his description of the world and the artist’s place in it when he accepted the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. He wrote, he said, in order to share the “misery and the hope” of catastrophic times, to “fight openly against the instinct of death at work in our history,” to cope in a world where nobody could ask men and women to be optimists.

And yet, in a voice as vibrant and vital today as it was in his own time, he still chose affirmation, in an artist’s devotion to “the beauty he cannot do without.”

On the centennial of his birth, we must seek to understand both the silence Camus confronted and his refusal to despair. And we must imagine Camus happy.

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Retired Lt. Commander for the U.S. Navy Michael Young bows his head during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday.

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President, VA secretary tout veterans’ sacrifices and pledge support

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MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) President Barack Obama told America's veterans Monday that the country is indebted to them and he pledged to support them "now, tomorrow and forever."

Speaking at a Veterans Day event at Arlington National Cemetery's amphitheater, Obama and his secretary of veterans affairs asserted the need to continue providing for America's veterans.

Thousands of people lined up at the cemetery on a sunny autumn morning to attend a wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and speeches at the amphitheater

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Continued from Page 3 emotional. But it’s hard. I really want to play and I really want to play the way I am used to playing and to be so limited is frustrating.”

He called the unknown search for a “cleanish” bill of health “daunting.” It creates another challenge for the Lakers who fell to 3-5 with the loss, and were chastised by D’Antoni afterward

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Continued from Page 3 But the Jayhawks, 1-0, were also playing without Tharpe, their starting point guard, who served a one-game suspension for playing in an unsanctioned pro-am game last summer in Chicago. The return of Tharpe could smooth out some offensive struggles and facilitate more scoring opportunities for Wiggins.

“At the beginning of the year,

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Continued from Page 2 The carrier should reach the Philippines within a few days.

Pentagon Press Secretary George Little later officially announced the deployment and said the carrier, which includes a crew of 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft, will be accompanied by the cruisers Antietam and Cowpens and the destroyer Mustin. Other U.S. Navy vessels were already underway for the Philippines, Little said in the statement.

U.S. military and civilian

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Continued from Page 2 Take Iraq as an example. After foolishly dismantling Iraq’s army in 2003, the Pentagon toiled for years to rebuild it.

That effort eventually allowed U.S. forces to quit the country.

Yet as indicated by the daily insurgent attacks wreaking havoc in Baghdad and other cities, “our” Iraqi army is manifestly unable to maintain even minimally adequate internal security. If that’s success, it’s hard to imagine what failure looks like.

Imagine hard enough, however, and you get Egypt. For decades, the United States

by Obama and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki.

"They put on the uniform and they put their lives on the line," Obama said. "They do this so that the rest of us might live in a country and a world that is safer, freer and more just."

Americans gathered to attend ceremonies across the country.

Originally named Armistice Day by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 _ because of the World War I cease-fire between the Allied nations and Germany at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month _ Veterans Day is set aside to thank those who've put their lives on the line.

Parades took place from coast to coast, including in New

York and San Diego. Colorado State University held a 5-kilometer run, and the Cal Veterans Group assembled volunteers to build a home for a veteran in California.

After a White House breakfast in honor of veterans, Obama placed the wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and addressed an audience of some 4,000 about the responsibility the country has to those who sacrificed their lives for it.

The president pledged to pay attention to the debts owed to veterans. "Even as we make difficult fiscal choices as a nation," he said, "we're going to keep making vital investments in our veterans."

By this winter, only about 34,000 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan, Obama said.

Next year, the transition to Afghan-led security should be complete, he added.

Shinseki noted that the budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs has increased by more than 50 percent, 2 million veterans have been added to the VA's health care system, and there have been reductions in veteran homelessness.

The president said he'd work to improve health care and to provide affordable care for those not covered by the VA; he also pledged to reduce the mammoth backlog in disability claims so veterans can receive their benefits promptly.

for playing “soft” and lacking defensive intensity.

The Lakers have lost three of four. Steve Blake led the Lakers with 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting, including 5 of 7 from 3.

However, the Lakers were out of it early against the Timberwolves, giving up a 27-2 run and falling behind 44-16 with 1:08 left in the first quarter. The loss snapped a 22-game winning streak against the Timberwolves, which dated to the 2006-07 season.

Kevin Love tallied 25 points and 13 rebounds for the Timberwolves, while Ricky Rubio notched a triple-double with 12 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds.

The Wolves were 7 of 9 from the 3-point line in the first quarter, en route to a franchise-record 47 points in the quarter.

“They made some shots,” said Pau Gasol, who struggled to 11 points on 5-of-12 shooting. “A lot of shots. Forty-seven points in

one quarter, it’s outrageous, but we’ve got to put more pressure.

We’ve just got to force them to take some tougher shots.”

However bad the loss was, the gravest concern was saved for Nash. The point guard will be evaluated Monday by Dr. Robert Watkins, the specialist who performed surgery on Dwight Howard in 2012 to repair a herniated disc.

But, like Nash said, the unknown is daunting.

he was much more laid back,” Tharpe said of Wiggins. “But he’s starting to understand, he’s gonna have to start doing more. . . . I feel like everybody is gonna be against him, and we’re on his side. You gotta prove to the world that he is the best player.”

So much attention has been directed toward Wiggins, that it’s been easy to lose sight of Kansas’ growth as a team.

The Jayhawks are still moving slowly, Self says, making sure not to skip steps. On Sunday, for

instance, Self used part of practice to teach his young players how to properly box out on free throws. This is part of the reason Self can be honest when he says he doesn’t know how his young team will react in the atmosphere of a packed United Center.

“I’d like to think that we know,” Self said. “But we don’t know.”

For the last two years, Kansas has left the Champions Classic with a defeat: A loss to Kentucky in 2011; a late lead

squandered against Michigan State last year in Atlanta. Now the Jayhawks take their swing at Duke. Wiggins can face Parker. And two programs with title aspirations meet on the west side of Chicago.

“We’re ridiculously young, and everything’s a new experience for us,” Self said. “But they’re good, and they’ll be a team that has a legitimate shot to win it all. And hopefully we’ll be a team that can be in that conversation also if we continue to get better.”

officials are still helping Philippine authorities assess the scale of the humanitarian disaster from the storm, known in the Philippines as Yolanda.

“There have been a couple of initial flights, but for the most part it’s still the assessment phase,” said Sgt. Ben Eberle, a Marine spokesman. “In the next 24 hours, there should be a significant increase in resupply for Tacloban.”

The additional deployment of Marines and sailors from the U.S. base in Okinawa, Japan, brings the number of U.S. personnel who have responded to the disaster to 180, Eberle said.

A U.S. Agency for International Development assessment team in Leyte province found that in some areas, 90 percent of the housing had been damaged or destroyed, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said in a statement.

The agency is sending 1,000 rolls of plastic sheeting and 10,000 kits containing soap, toothbrushes and other sanitary supplies from a warehouse in Dubai. It also is sending 55 tons of food, enough to feed 20,000 children and 15,000 adults for four to five days, the embassy said.

Another 1,020 tons of rice is

being shipped from stockpiles in Sri Lanka. The rice can feed 60,000 people for a month, the embassy said.

The Marines have sent four MV-22 Osprey airplanes, which can land and take off vertically, as well as five KC-130 refueling planes, which can also be used to transport cargo. Aerial refueling capacity is critical because of the long distances the Osprey must fly to deliver supplies and assess the damage to airfields.

U.S. Navy P-3 Orion aircraft are flying over hard-hit areas to help with search and rescue efforts, the Navy said.

worked to inculcate in Egypt’s army respect for the principle of civilian control. Yet this year when Egyptian senior officers contemplated a democratically elected government behaving in ways not to their liking, they promptly mounted a coup and overthrew it. Egyptian soldiers then brutally suppressed citizens who had the temerity to object. Meanwhile, Pentagon influence on Egyptian generals turned out to be nil.

Perhaps worse from a U.S. perspective, modest troop commitments have a way of morphing into larger ones.

When things don’t go right, Washington’s reflexive inclination is to up the ante. To sustain a few casualties is to create the

impression of big stakes, with U.S. credibility ostensibly on the line and hawks insisting that turning things around will require “boots on the ground.”

Lest that sound like some hoary reference to the escalatory actions that produced the Vietnam War, consider the words of then-Maj. Gen. Burke Garrett, who was USARAF’s commander until 2010. Taken alone, he remarked, USARAF might be small, but “we represent a million-person army — active, Guard and reserve —that we can bring to bear in Africa.”

Africa has many needs.

Whether it needs the United States bringing to bear a million American soldiers is

doubtful. If Washington wants to encourage “positive change” in Africa, training a million African schoolteachers or a million doctors might be more useful.

Efforts to build foreign armies are implicitly based on the assumption that “backward” peoples want and will surely benefit from American tutoring. That paternalistic assumption, amounting to little more than a politically correct updating of the white man’s burden, deserves critical examination. Indeed, it should be abandoned as both false and pernicious — bad for Africans and bad for us. In the meantime, an army looking for new missions just might look closer to home.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing same-day delivery service in northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Denver and the San Francisco and San Jose region.

Last month, EBay Inc. agreed to acquire Shutl, a London start-up that uses a network of same-day couriers to deliver goods ordered online in hours, even minutes.

In March, Google Inc. said it would test a same-day delivery service called Google Shopping Express for online purchases in the Bay Area.

Specialty sporting goods store Sport Chalet Inc. began offering a similar service in April.

But adding Sunday service takes the competition to a new level. In addition to using its own employees for everyday deliveries, Amazon normally relies on the postal service, UPS, FedEx and smaller couriers to deliver goods on the day they’re ordered.

In the past, the world’s largest online retailer has offered Sunday shipping on a “very small scale” for goods sold through its main website, said Dave Clark, vice president of worldwide operations and customer service.

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Continued from Page 1 USC has had the largest number of foreign students for a dozen years in a row.

Overall, the number of international students in U.S. institutions increased by about 7 percent last year, to nearly 820,000. The largest group came from China, which sent about 236,000 students, nearly double the number of students from India, the second-largest group.

Several countries _ including Iran, Brazil and Kuwait _ increased their number of students in the U.S. by at least 20 percent, but “most of the growth was fueled by the undergraduate Chinese students,” said Rajika Bhandari, deputy vice president for research and evaluation at the Institute of International Education.

After two USC Chinese graduate students were shot to death in April 2012, it

And after the AmazonFresh grocery delivery service expanded from Seattle to Los Angeles in June, Prime subscribers could get hundreds of thousands of items brought to them on Sundays.

But the postal service partnership is the first time Clark knows of that “Amazon or really anybody else has done broad-scale Sunday delivery.”

“It’s going to be hard for others to replicate,” he said.

Clark said the postal service “just happened to be a great fit” where “capability and desire matched.”

The arrangement is “a bright spot for both organizations,” especially because the postal service is “rapidly growing their package delivery operation,” he said.

Clark said that Sunday delivery was “designed to launch as soon as we were ready” and that coinciding with the holidays was just a happy accident.

Los Angeles and New York were prime locations to introduce the service because Amazon’s infrastructure is evolving there, Clark said.

The company has a 1-yearold fulfillment center in San Bernardino, Calif., and recently announced plans for another in Moreno Valley. was unclear whether the violence would lead to a drop in Chinese enrollment. But that group grew by about 800 students, according to USC statistics. The survey found there were nearly 3,800 Chinese students at USC last fall.

The other countries with the largest groups of students at USC are South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Canada.

California attracted the largest number of foreign students nationwide, with about 111,000, followed by New York and Texas, which had 88,000 and 63,000 international students, respectively.

The University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign had the second-most international students with 9,800. Purdue University’s main campus had 9,500 foreign students, placing it third, while New York and Columbia universities ranked fourth and fifth in the survey, respectively.

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Former Herd cheerleader returns as coach

By CARISSA JANCZEWSKI

THE PARTHENON It’s not every day that you get the chance to cheer for the school you love and then have the opportunity to come back and lead them to victory as a coach. This is the situation Kelsey Waybright recently found herself in when she took a coaching position for the Thundering Herd Cheerleading squad at only 24 years old.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but hailing from Ripley, W.Va., Waybright was an athlete from the start.

“I played basketball and softball from about second grade to sixth grade, then played volleyball through middle school,” Waybright said.

Despite the various sports she played early on, none was what she really wanted to do with her time.

“I had always wanted to be gymnast, but my mom wouldn’t let me,” she said.

Waybright didn’t let that stop her from becoming a gymnast though; she found a way around that obstacle.

“I told my mom I wanted to do cheerleading, already knowing that I would need to become a gymnast in order to do that,” she said.

Waybright successfully found the loophole she needed to become a gymnast, and started out on the cheerleading path in seventh grade where she started back spotting and eventually went on to be a flyer.

A few years later, Waybright found herself cheering for her high school in Ripley and also in competitions until she graduated in 2007.

After graduation she came to Marshall University where she had no intention of competition cheering, but rather wanted to try out for the dance team.

“I knew when I came to Marshall I didn’t want to do competition cheering anymore. I just wanted to try out for the dance team, but then the cheerleading squad had an open gym so I went to see what I would like better,” she said.

Before she knew it, she had decided against joining the dance team and went with her former love of cheerleading.

While cheering for four years at Marshall, Waybright worked on a public relations degree in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and then decided to switch to the College of Business to pursue a management degree halfway through.

“I knew public relations wasn’t what I wanted to do about two years in. I had always wanted to pursue cosmetology, so I went for a management degree hoping to one day own a salon,” she said.

She did end up graduating with a management degree in 2011 with a minor in pubic relations and after graduating, went back home to Ripley.

“I decided to go back home to save some money after graduation and pursue cosmetology school,” she said.

Waybright attended Mountaineer Beauty College in 2011 in St. Albans.

Shortly after, Waybright got a call offering her the assistant cheerleading coach position and couldn’t turn it down. She is now the head coach.

“I never thought I’d be doing this,” she said.

“I’m shocked.”

Waybright was excited to start this position but knew there were changes in the cheerleading world she would have to work around.

“When I started cheerleading, tumbling was not as vital as it is now. It used to be something that only a few girls on a squad could do. Now, everyone has to have those skills,” she said.

It used to be that tumbling could be done on hardwood, but due to injuries sustained at other schools, mats are now required and tumbling cannot be done on hardwood.

“Now that we can’t tumble on hardwood, it really waters down what we can do in terms of tumbling. This makes choreography more important because that’s where the creativity comes out,” she said.

Waybright currently lives in Huntington and works at El Haijj Salon on 20th Street where she is a hair stylist and does nails. She said she’d love to take a full time position as a head coach if it ever opened up.

“I have a pretty flexible schedule at the salon, and could definitely work in a full time position if it was offered as a cheerleading coach,” she said.

As a coach she knows first hand what its like to be on a squad and said its imperative to always give 100 percent all of the time.

“You need to be focused on what you need to achieve, not trying to measure up to other people on the squad,” she said.

In addition to being dedicated to the sport, you need a good support system and people to look up to.

“I had four great cheerleading coaches growing up, one of which was Kelli Fisher. She was always super supportive and didn’t hold back.

She also owns her own salon in Ripley, so she was an all around inspiration in my career and cheerleading,” she says.

From cheerleader to cheerleading coach, Waybright has come a long say since her days on the middle school squad.

“My favorite part of coaching the squad is being able to see them grow not only as athletes but as individuals. They're not just learning skills that help them on the field or on our practice mats, they're learning skills that can help them the rest of their life such as social interactions with our fans, discipline by juggling our busy schedule and respect by interacting with teammates that become family. I love this university, and being able to show them exactly what I love about this cheer program, athletic department and campus is priceless.” Waybright said.

Carissa Janczewski can be contacted at Janczewski@live.marshall.edu.

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Kelsey Waybright works as head coach for the 2013 Thundering Herd Cheerleading squad.

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Waybright gives a thumbs-up to her team at a football game.

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Waybright cheered for the Thundering Herd from Fall 2007 until she graduated four years later.

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