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“When people ask ‘Who would have ever dreamed that Marshall would be in the top 25?’ Well Doc Holliday did, Mike Hamrick did and Steve Kopp did.” MORE ON SPORTS - Mayor Steve Williams

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LOOKING FOR REINFORCEMENTS

By ANTHONY DAVIS

THE PARTHENON Some Marshall University students are in an all out war on campus and are looking for reinforcements as Herd Vs. Zombies rages into it’s third day.

According to James Lynch, senior business major and moderator of the event, students who want to play a human in the game still have all day Thursday to sign up at the Herd vs. Zombies table in the Memorial Student Center, while zombies can sign up anytime until the game ends Oct. 30.

Lynch said so far this year

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Marshall University health officials are ready to take on flu season

By BRYAN BOZEMAN

THE PARTHENON With the recent buzz about Ebola and the upcoming flu season, Marshall University health officials and university leaders are making sure the student body and Marshall community is prepared.

Although the threat of Ebola is unlikely to come to fruition, influenza and Enterovirus D68 are infectious diseases students can likely get if they do not take the appropriate precautionary measures.

Tracy Smith, director of Marshall’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety, said representatives of his office, Student Health Services, Department of Housing and Residence Life, Student Health Education Programs and INTO Marshall have been working together to coordinate

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only 180 students have signed up, whereas last fall semester about 450 students signed up.

“We’re trying to get more people to sign up,” Lynch said.

“This is our second lowest turnout for the event in the five years that we have been running it. It doesn’t mean that it’s bad by any means because it’s still a lot of people, but it’s not what we want.”

The game begins with all players portraying humans with the exception of three zombie players. Humans are identified by blue bands and

infectious disease preparedness for several weeks.

“The safety of the Marshall University community is our top priority,” Smith said. “We are monitoring the Ebola situation very closely and are taking precautionary measures as recommended by federal, state and local public health officials.”

To make sure students are safe, the team has been reviewing the university’s communicable diseases response plan, educating the student body and faculty through email on how to prepare and protect themselves from infectious diseases and have made flu shots available for students.

Director of Student Health Education Programs Amy Saunders said the university follows guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and

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works with the Cabell-Huntington Health Department to make sure the university has an effective plan in place in response to potential outbreaks.

“We have a great partnership with our local health department and work closely with them on the prevention of infectious diseases,” Saunders said.

“We have a well-developed emergency response plan, and we are currently reviewing our policies and procedures so we can make sure that we are doing everything we can to be prepared.”

Marshall students seeking information about infectious diseases and how to get treated for them can visit marshall.edu/ studenthealth.

Bryan Bozeman can be contacted at bozeman@ marshall.edu.

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COB grad students Fat Patty’s, MU raise money for Breast gain experience through and Cervical Cancer Screening Program research presentations

By PAULINA SHEPHERD

By JOHN FAUSS

THE PARTHENON The College of Business graduate students are being offered the opportunity to interact with local human resource professionals at the Marshall University HR Research Conference this spring.

The graduate students create research posters, which are made as a class project and displayed for HR professionals to view at the conference. One of the main goals of the conference is to act as a bridge between Marshall graduate students and faculty and HR Professionals.

The event was originally concieved by Frank Bosco and Ivan S. Muslin.

This will mark its fourth consecutive year.

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conference is broken up into two separate sessions.

The first session features presentations from professors of the Marshall faculty who conduct HR research. After the conclusion of the faculty’s expositions, the next session features an interactive poster research presentation by the graduate students.

The conference typically occurs in a restaurant where the graduate students are given the opportunity to present and discuss their findings with HR professionals.

The idea behind these presentations is to place students in a situation they might not be comfortable in, such as giving a speech in front of people.

The graduate students are asked questions to test their impromptu answers about the research they conducted.

Muslin said the event is in a restaurant to help quell the nerves of the students during their presentations.

“We want to let the community see what we’re doing,” Muslin said. “We also want our students to see what their peers are doing, and to give them an opportunity to let them talk about it in a time and place that isn’t too intimidating. The goal isn’t to make people look bad, the goal is to show them what they are capable of doing.”

John Fauss can be contacted at fauss@marshall.edu.

THE PARTHENON Fat Patty’s and Marshall University came together Wednesday, as the local business donated 10 percent of its earnings received between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. to the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program.

The BCCSP is a West Virginia foundation that tries to help women in the local area gain access to health for screening services.

The Marshall University School of Medicine’s American Medical Women’s Association financed the fundraiser. The AMWA has partnered with Fat Patty’s in the past, and they have had several successes. “[Fat Patty’s] is always really receptive to having us,” said Rebecca Creel, president of AMWA. “They’re cool with us staking out here for awhile.”

The partnership works both ways. Derek Artrip, manager at Fat Patty’s, said they are happy to have an event like this because it brings the community closer together.

“At Fat Patty’s, we love to help out our community,” Artrip said. “We already try and do a lot in the community, especially with little league and churches. We’re always donating to them. This is a great opportunity for us, especially with the Marshall community since they’re associated with Marshall.”

Word about the fundraiser got out to different people all around the area and the event drew in public workers, college students and members of the community.

Kelsey Gallimore, Fat Patty’s customer, said she believes this will help gather support for breast and cervical cancer.

“Breast cancer and cervical cancer are a really big problem because there is no cure,” Gallimore said. “I think that it’s great that Fat Patty’s is going to be able to put money toward this.”

Along with raising money for the BCCSP, Creel said she believes it’s also going to help raise awareness for these diseases and remind people they need to be careful.

“We all know people who have been affected by breast cancer, and being in the medical field, we try to get people aware that they need to get their cervical screening at a certain age,” Creel said. “You need to get your breast cancer screenings. We just want people to be aware that there are programs around that will help take care of that.”

Paulina Shepherd can be contacted at shepherd47@ live.marshall.edu.

Marshall libraries presents ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Tabatha Greer, senior, views “Night of the Living Dead” Wednesday in room 402 of the Drinko Library.

Marshall libraries presented the event for students as a special Halloween feature.

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Early Apple computer sells for $905,000 at auction THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A vintage Apple computer that was one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 sold for $905,000 at auction on Wednesday, far exceeding presale estimates and outdoing a previous high price of more than $671,000 paid in Germany last year.

Bonhams auction house said Wednesday’s winning bid, which includes its premium, came from The Henry Ford museum.

The computer, which had been estimated to sell for $300,000 to $500,000, has an intact motherboard and a vintage keyboard and monitor. It also has a power supply contained in a wooden box and two tape decks, Bonhams said.

“The provenance on the Apple-1 is excellent and the condition is outstanding, so it was not surprising that it did so well,” the auction house’s specialist for the sale, Cassandra Hatton, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have broken the world record

for its sale, and are even more thrilled that it is going to a wonderful new home at the Henry Ford Museum.”

An Apple-1 computer sold last year in Cologne, Germany, for $671,400. Apple, the maker of iPads, iPhones and iMac computers, is based in Cupertino, California.

The auction was Bonhams’ first in New York City of items connected to science and technology. Other lots included a letter

by Charles Darwin to a colleague about the sex life of barnacles and the earliest electrical keyboard, a Helmholtz sound synthesizer from 1905. There were a number of globes, books, other documents and a telescope from 1870. There also was a framed painted portrait of Bill Gates.

In the letter, which sold for $25,000, Darwin says he wants to learn more about the sex act of barnacles, such things as “were the specimens under water at times” and “if the recipient was in full vigor?”

Crime Briefs

By TIM CARRICO THE PARTHENON

Arrests made in Huntington raid A Huntington woman was arrested on felony drug charges Monday.

Debra Chinn, 46, was arrested at her home on the 900 block of 24th Street on a charge of delivery and possession of a controlled substance. Police allege Chinn was in possession of oxycodone and suboxone.

Shane McCaffery, 27, of Huntington, was also arrested at the same home for an unrelated misdemeanor capias warrant for transferring and receiving stolen property.

Officers with the

Huntington Police Department Special Emphasis Unit, HPD Patrol Bureau and the Violent Crime Federal Drug Task Force were involved in Monday’s arrests.

“It’s something that’s vital in our police operation, we need tips to help us in these arrests,” Johnson said. “You can call anonymously, by calling our tip line at 304-696-4444.”

Officers also recovered four firearms and distribution amounts of oxycodone and suboxone at the home, according to a news release. Code Enforcement has deemed the property uninhabitable.

Dozens arrested in WVU riots

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The Morgantown Police Department said it is trying to determine who is responsible for riots that broke out after Saturday’s football game against Baylor. University Police said celebratory parties in several neighborhoods quickly turned destructive.

Fires were set throughout the Sunnyside community, as well as other parts of the city, before 10:30 p.m. Crowds pushed over streetlights along High Street, creating thousands of dollars worth of damage, and threw rocks and beer bottles at police, according to a university news release.

“This is not acceptable Mountaineer behavior,”

West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee said in a press release.

“It is not ‘partying’ to set fires, tear down fences or throw bottles at police.

It is criminal, and will be dealt with as such. I have zero tolerance for students who wish to act in such a way that it demeans the achievements of our institution and its faculty, staff, students, alumni and our Morgantown community.”

Thirty-eight arrests have been made since Saturday.

MPD and WVU Police continue to investigate the situation.

Tim Carrico can be contacted at carrico26@ marshall.edu.

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Marshall University’s Devon Johnson (left) and Rakeem Cato (right) hand out tickets for Saturday’s game against Florida Atlantic to the student body LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON as ESPN films a feature on the Thundering Herd football team Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center Plaza.

Herd football gets All-Access treatment

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The Memorial Student Center plaza was filled with kelly green as members of the student body received a student ticket to this Saturday ’s game against Florida Atlantic University. ESPN All-Access cameras were rolling as tickets were distributed by members of the Thundering Herd football team.

The students weren’t the only members of the Marshall community excited to see ESPN. Junior running back Devon Johnson said he and his teammates are lucky.

“It’s great ,” Johnson said.

“Not too many schools get this opportunity, and I’m blessed that we’ve had the season that we are having right now and that we’re able to be on ESPN. You know, it’s great to bring that back to this program, the fans need it , the community needs it and I’m blessed to have this opportunity to put Marshall back in the top 25.

But least of all, we need to take it one game at a time to advance farther. It shows that hard work and dedication pays off. That’s what we did as a team, we worked hard and everything we’ve achieved, we deserve.”

Senior defensive lineman James Rouse said he is excited to have All-Access on campus this week.

“It brings excitement and energy to have ESPN here interviewing us and videoing us, it’s a big deal,” Rouse said. “It’s great because we’re getting back to how the days use to be with Chad [Pennington] and Byron Leftwich, and the community likes that a lot .”

Senior quarterback Rakeem Cato has a different perception on All-Access coming to Huntington.

“It’s just another day being a part of the Marshall family and being satisfied with everything that’s going on,” Cato said. “Just the family, all the love you receive, and having a community that shares one goal and one dream.”

Aaron Goebbel, associate athletic director, said the exposure Marshall is receiving from ESPN is extraordinary.

“It’s unprecedented what ESPN All–Access brings,” Goebbel said.

“It’s another thing to have someone come and watch your football program and get behind the scenes to see what makes you unique and what makes your football program exciting and part of the community.

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Whenever you hear Marshall University and you hear people from ESPN or Fox or CBS and you see us in USA Today and you see us in the national media, you can’t put a value on that kind of exposure.

It’s a trickle down effect for all of the sports, but it also helps the university.

It’s a great positive light shined on our university and hopefully we see a kid in New York City that reads the Times and says ‘Wow, Marshall University ’ and decide they want to come here for school.”

Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said ESPN coming to Marshall’s campus doesn’t just showcase Marshall, but the city of Huntington as well.

“It’s affirming what we have expected for sometime,” Williams said. “It’s affirming the vision that Doc Holliday, Mike Hamrick and Steve Kopp had.

When people ask ‘Who would have ever dreamed that Marshall would be in the top 25?’ Well, Doc Holliday did, Mike Hamrick did and Steve Kopp did. It helps, at least from the standpoint of being mayor, for ESPN to come in. It really showcases our town and the success of the football team, as the football team is an

By SHANNON STOWERS

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR When Marshall University head football coach Doc Holliday was hired in December 2009, he was tasked with rebuilding a program that hadn’t enjoyed the national spotlight in more than five years.

Leading up to Holliday’s arrival, the Herd managed one winning season in six years and a record 29-46. In the five years since Holliday was hired, the Herd has won 34 games, including winning seasons three of the last four years.

A sign that the spotlight is once again beginning to shine on Marshall football came Wednesday when ESPN was

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Cam Lyons, Blair Demetroules, and Kyle Rheude show their Marshall spirit as ESPN films a feature on the Thundering Herd football team Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center Plaza. ambassador for the city of Huntington and Marshall University. This team has grown up over the last four years. We had a lot of brilliant athletes when they first came here and now they have grown, they have matured and you’re able to see what they have done together.

Most importantly, they ’re good athletes, certainly great students, but they are young men of great character.”

The segment is expected to air Oct . 28 and it will document the athletes’ schedules, giving viewers insight to the behind the scenes look at Marshall’s football program. In the segment , the student athletes, team managing figures and equipment staff will demonstrate how the number 23 team in the nation prepares for game day.

Alex James can be contacted at james142@ marshall.edu. on campus filming a segment to be aired Oct. 28 on ESPNU. Holliday said he wanted to cancel the ESPN filming at first, but realized that attention is the byproduct of a good team.

“To be honest with you, I was wanting to cancel it all because I don’t want distractions,” Holliday said. “But I thought back to when we were at Florida and were really good and had some really good teams; that’s what happens to good teams: you get that kind of press, you get people wanting to talk to you and you get people coming in. It’s not a bad thing, it’s a great thing.”

In the midst of an undefeated

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Huntington Mayor Steve Williams chats with Marshall University’s Chris Jasperse as ESPN films a feature on the Thundering Herd football team Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center Plaza.

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Holliday said the hype is something the team will enjoy, but will also have to learn to handle as the season goes on.

“We’ve got to embrace it, but we’ve also got to be able to handle it,” Holliday said.

Herd players may have to adjust to the newfound attention, but for fans who have followed the program through the ups and downs, this season feels like a revival of a previously successful period in Marshall football.

It wasn’t that long ago that

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Body classifications are wrong no matter what size a person is Thin shaming is real, it is mean, it hurts people and it is never okay…just like bodyshaming of any kind. We never know what body image battle a person is fighting, which puts all types of body-shaming on the same level.

An Oct. 21 article titled “5 Reasons Why We Need to Stop Thinking of Skinny-Shaming as ‘Reverse Discrimination’”

by Melissa A. Fabello on Everyday Feminism addresses this issue and comes to the conclusion that while skinnyshaming is not okay, it is distinct from and less severe than fat-shaming.

While it is a fact and a sad one that fat-discrimination exists in our society, we cannot equate the fact that thin-privilege also exists to thin-shaming being less severe because of it.

Maybe average-sized and thin people receive more societal advantages because of that, but it doesn’t change the way they feel when someone makes a negative comment about the way they look. That skinny girl could be recovering from an eating disorder

— a process that requires a rewiring in the way she thinks about her body — and your snarky comment about how she could stand to eat a cheeseburger could end up setting her back significantly in the path to recovery.

Even comments you believe to be compliments could be hurtful. For example, “You have lost so much weight! You look great!”

Seems like a compliment, right? What if the person you are “complimenting” didn’t lose the weight on purpose?

What if he or she has been sick? What if he or she were

happier at their previous size? You have just implied to them that they look better than they did before and that is going to stick with them.

It could change the entire way they think of their own body.

Maybe thinshaming isn’t as bad as fat-shaming, but we aren’t going to make any progress if we keep being asked to look at these distinctions. It is never our place to make a comment about someone’s weight — positive or negative. Frankly, it just isn’t anyone else’s business. Like Fabello said, “If we want to

“Real women come in every shape and size, and there is no shape or size your body can come in that would make you any less of a real woman.

The same concept applies to men.”

curb body-hate, we can’t participate in body-hate.” Well, that means both ways.

“Real women” aren’t curvy.

They aren’t supermodels either. Real women come in every shape and size, and there is no shape or size your body can come in that would make you any less of a real woman. The same concept applies to men. Being a “real man” doesn’t mean you are muscular or tall. Every man is a real man.

In fact, why even waste time coming up with labels and descriptors? Do you treat your body well? Do you feel good?

Are you happy? If the answer to all of those questions is yes, then your body is perfect and you needn’t think of it any further.

We as a culture need to accept the fact that it is never going to be okay to comment on another person’s body. If you want to pay someone a genuine compliment, just tell him or her they look great. No need to compare what they looked like before to now because, guess what? It is none of your damn business.

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When the Communists murdered a priest

By PAUL KENGOR

THE CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The American Spectator.

It was Oct. 19, 1984—30 years ago this week. A gentle, courageous, and genuinely holy priest, Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, found himself in a ghastly spot that, though it must have horrified him, surely did not surprise him.

An unholy trinity of three thugs from communist Poland’s secret police had seized and pummeled him. He was bound and gagged and stuffed into the trunk of their cream-colored Fiat 125 automobile as they roamed the countryside trying to decide where to dispatch him. This kindly priest was no less than the chaplain to the Solidarity movement, the freedom fighters who would ultimately prove fatal to Soviet communism—and not without Popieluszko’s stoic inspiration.

The ringleader this October day was Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, an agent of Poland’s SB. Unlike Jerzy, who grew up devoutly religious, Piotrowski was raised in an atheist household, which, like the communist despots who governed Poland, was an aberration in this pious Roman Catholic country.

The disregard for God and morality made Piotrowski an ideal man for the grisly task ahead, which he assumed with a special, channeled viciousness.

Piotrowski’s first beating of the priest that evening was so severe that it should have killed him. Jerzy was a small man afflicted with Addison’s disease. He previously had been hospitalized for other infirmities, including (understandably) stress and anxiety. But somehow, the priest was managing to survive as he fought for his life in the cold, dark trunk of the Fiat. In fact, somehow he unloosened the ropes that knotted him and extricated himself from the car. He began to run, shouting to anyone who could hear, “Help! Save my life!”

He was run down by Piotrowski, a dedicated disciple of what a Polish admirer of Jerzy, Pope John Paul II, would dub the Culture of Death. “I caught up with him and hit him on the head several times with the stick,” Piotrowski later confessed. “I hit him near or on the head. He fell limp again. I think he must have been unconscious. And then I became—never mind, it doesn’t matter.”

It did matter. It certainly mattered to

the helpless priest. What Piotrowski became was something altogether worse. He seemed overtaken by another force. As recorded by authors Roger Boyes and John Moody in their superb book, Messenger of the Truth, which is now a gripping documentary, Piotrowski’s accomplices thought their comrade had gone mad, “so wild were the blows.” It was like a public flogging. Jerzy’s pounding was so relentless that it wouldn’t be misplaced to think of Christ’s scourging at the pillar. This young man in persona Christi, not much older than Jesus Christ at his death agony, was being brutally tortured. It was a kind of crucifixion; the kind at which communists uniquely excelled.

One is tempted to say that Piotrowski beat the hell out of Father Jerzy, but such would be inappropriate and inaccurate for such a man of faith. Really, the hell was coming out of the beater, in all its demonic force and fury.

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nose, and head, tossing him once again in the vehicle, like a hunk of garbage on its way to the heap.

Though he could barely breathe or move, Father Jerzy somehow again pried open the trunk as the car continued to its destination. This set Piotrowski into a rage. He stopped the vehicle, got out, looked sternly at the priest, and told him that if he made even one more sound, he would strangle him with his bare hands and shoot him. Boyes and Moody report what happened next: “He [Piotrowski] replaced the gun and lifted [his] club.

It came down on the priest’s nose, but instead of the sound of cartilage breaking, there was a plop, like a stick hitting the surface of a puddle.”

The perpetrators didn’t realize it quite yet, but it was the final, deadly blow. The next time they saw Father Jerzy, they had no doubt.

The killers drove to a spot at the Vistula River. They tied two heavy bags of stones, each weighing nearly 25 pounds, to the priest’s ankles.

They lifted him in a vertical position above the water and then quietly let him go. He sunk into the blackness below them. It was 10 minutes before

midnight, Oct. 19, 1984. “Popieluszko is dead,” announced Lieutenant Leszek Pekala to his collaborators in this revolting, sad crime. The third helper, Lieutenant Waldemar Chmielewski, solemnly and simply affirmed, “That’s right.”

They drove away, downing a bottle of vodka to try to numb what they had done. Pekala thought to himself as he drank, “Now we are murderers.”

Indeed they were. Of course, so was the system they represented. It and its handmaidens had consumed countless Jerzy Popieluszkos and tens of millions of others whose names tragically will never be remembered on the anniversary of their deaths.

This priest, however, was remembered, by the millions. When he didn’t show for 7 a.m. Mass the next morning, his parishioners were immediately alarmed. This wasn’t like the loyal and punctual man of the cloth. A search for his whereabouts quickly commenced.

It would take some time, but the truth eventually prevailed, as it did against communism generally. Among those sickened by the news was a Polish

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

Man apprehended after jumping White House fence

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

ASSOCIATED PRESS A 23-year-old Maryland man was in the custody Wednesday night after he climbed over the White House fence and was swiftly apprehended on the North Lawn by uniformed Secret Service agents and their dogs.

The incident came about a month after a previous White House fence jumper sprinted across the same lawn, past armed uniformed agents and entered the mansion before he was felled in the ceremonial East Room and taken into custody.

That embarrassing Sept.

19 incident preceded the disclosure of other serious Secret Service breaches in security for President Barack Obama and ultimately led to Julia Pierson's resignation as director of the agency after 18 months on the job.

Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said a man he identified as Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, climbed the north fence line at about 7:16 p.m. and was taken into custody immediately by uniformed agents and K-9 teams that constantly patrol the grounds.

Adesanya was unarmed at the time of his arrest, Leary

said. Charges were pending.

Two dogs were taken to a veterinarian for injuries sustained during the incident, Leary added.

Video of the incident recorded by TV news cameras shows a man in white shorts on the lawn just inside the fence. The video shows that man lifting his shirt as if to show that he is unarmed.

He is then seen kicking and punching two Secret Service dogs that were released on him.

The man was being taken to a local hospital, Leary said, without elaboration.

After Pierson resigned, an agent who once led Obama's protective detail came out of retirement to lead the Secret Service until Obama names a new director, pending the completion of internal and independent reviews of agency practices.

This week, a federal judge delayed the arraignment of Omar Gonzalez, the individual charged in September's fence-jumping incident, because of questions about his mental fitness to stand trial.

Gonzalez has been indicted on several charges, including of carrying a knife into the White House and assaulting two Secret Service officers.

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W.Va. jail inmates to get financial education ASSOCIATED PRESS West Virginia's regional jails will soon offer a financial education course to help inmates avoid becoming repeat offenders.

The West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority plans to begin offering the four-week Financial Peace University program in November to inmates serving sentences for misdemeanor convictions.

The state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety says the program basics such as eliminating and avoiding debt, maintaining a budget, balancing checkbooks and saving for emergencies.

Officials say course will reduce the participating inmate's sentence by five days. Inmates also can seek that reduction through an existing life skills course as an alternative.

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pork producer, reported nearly 5.5 million baby pigs were born between June and August — the largest number in 20 years.

New farm procedures helped reduced the spread of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, such as disinfecting trucks and equipment.

Many producers are optimistic the virus is under control but some fear winter's return because the virus thrives in cold, damp conditions.

Pig farms rebound from virus; meat prices may drop ASSOCIATED PRESS Pork prices hit record highs this summer as farmers weren't able to feed the demand — mostly because a virus had killed millions of their baby pigs.

There is good news for pork lovers in the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture production update, as it shows more piglets are surviving and producers are building up pork herds.

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Continued from page 3 the Herd was the talk of not only the town, but the talk of the country. Led by quarterbacks like Chad Pennington and Byron Leftwich, Marshall rose to prominence.

Holliday, with the help of players like quarterback Rakeem Cato, has brought

the type of energy that surrounded those football teams back.

If you want proof that the football program has jumped back onto the national stage, look no further than ESPN’s visit to campus and ask yourself, when was the last time that happened?

Shannon Stowers can be contacted at stowers44@ marshall.edu.

Newborn Puget Sound killer whale presumed dead

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A baby orca swims between two adults in the waters of Puget Sound near Seattle, Wash. Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research on Friday Harbor said Tuesday the baby orca apparently died while its pod was in the open ocean off Washington or British Columbia. Balcomb said the whale, designated L-120, has not been seen since the L pod returned in recent days to the inland waters of western Washington.

ASSOCIATED PRESS A killer whale born to much hope in early September apparently died while its pod was in the open ocean off Washington or British Columbia, the Center for Whale Research said.

The baby was the first known calf born since 2012 to a population of endangered orcas that frequent Puget Sound in Washington state.

It has not been seen since its pod returned in recent days to the inland waters of western Washington, said the center's Ken Balcomb.

"The baby is gone," he said Tuesday.

The pod was offshore for a week to 10 days, and the orca designated L-120 might have been lost in a storm in the middle of last week, Balcomb said.

The baby was a member of "L pod," one of three closely tracked families within the dwindling Puget Sound population.

Researchers observed the pod, but not the baby, on Friday in Puget Sound, on Saturday in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and on Monday in Haro Strait, between San Juan Island and Victoria, British Columbia.

"The mother is there, aunt's there, big brother," Balcomb said. "The baby didn't make it."

That leaves 78 killer whales in the Puget Sound population.

The newborn was spotted in the first week of September off San Juan Island. Two other whales are presumed dead after disappearing earlier this year, so the birth was hailed.

"We were being guardedly optimistic that a turning point had been reached, but that is not the case," Balcomb said.

The unique population numbered more than 140 animals decades ago but declined to a low of 71 in the 1970s,

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when dozens were captured for marine parks and aquariums. The orcas were listed as endangered in 2005.

The striking black and white whales have come to symbolize the Pacific Northwest.

Individual whales are identified by slight variations in the shape of their dorsal fins and distinctive whitish-gray patch of pigment behind the dorsal fin, called a saddle patch.

The Puget Sound killer whales primarily eat fish, rather than other marine mammals. Offspring tend to stay with their mothers for life.

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For humans, the goal of the game is to remain human as long as possible by defending oneself with a Nerf gun or other soft projectile, like a sock. When a zombie is hit with a projectile, he or she is stunned for 15 minutes and cannot attack.

The goal of the zombies is to infect humans by tagging them.

Once a human is infected, he or she becomes a zombie and must give up the blue band for an orange one. At that point, he or she must try to spread the infection to as many humans as possible.

Lynch said the group arranges the event every year because it has so much fun with it.

“It’s kind of hard to explain to a lot of people because it seems like such a silly idea,” Lynch said. “It’s fun, and pretty much everyone is involved in it because they loved it when they played it. We run it because we love it and we want other people to have the opportunity to do the same.”

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Continued from page 4 priest in the Vatican, Karol Wojytla—Pope John Paul II. The shocked pontiff could relate: he had experienced many fellow Poles and priests killed by totalitarianism. He himself was a survivor. The communists had wanted him dead as well; they tried to assassinate him three years earlier.

And like John Paul II, Jerzy Popieluszko’s torment at the hands of devils was not in vain. Millions of Poles poured out of their homes and into churches to pay him homage, as they had for their native son, Karol Wojtyla, back in June 1979—a historic, lifechanging visit that a young Jerzy helped coordinate. Ironically, Jerzy had been charged with working between the Vatican and Polish Ministry of Health to arrange emergency safety measures during that trip. Then, too, he had the mission of protecting people from harm—harm by communism.

Ultimately, Jerzy Popieluszko’s struggle, like that of his pope, was not in vain. As Tertullian once put it, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of

Lynch said the moderators post missions at 8 p.m. every night that involve different scenarios and battles between humans and zombies.

Alan Mooney, psychology, criminal justice and political science major, said Tuesday’s mission was a success for the zombies which now have roughly an equal numbers to humans.

Mooney said he plays the game for the unique experience.

“The whole concept is great in my opinion,” Mooney said.

“A lot of people participate, and you get to meet a lot of cool people. You get to make a lot of new friends, and you get to interact with people that you wouldn’t interact with normally.”

Mooney said he is still a human, and his weapon of choice is a semi-automatic Nerf rifle featuring an 18-dart magazine called the Retaliator.

Moderators said they are still encouraging people to sign up and join in on the fun.

Anthony Davis can be contacted at davis669@ marshall.edu.

the Church. The communists could not extinguish Poles’ desire for the Church, for God, and for freedom.

It would take another five years after his death, but the saintly priest’s demise had further fueled the flames for the torch of freedom and the corresponding crash and burn of communism.

In retrospect, Jerzy’s murder in 1984 marked the mid-point between two cataclysmic events that put nails in the coffin of communism: John Paul II’s June 1979 visit to Poland and the crucial free elections held in Poland in June 1989.

Those elections, more than anything else, signaled the coming collapse of communism. Mikhail Gorbachev later said that when those elections were held in Poland, he knew it was all over. It was no coincidence that the Berlin Wall fell five months later.

Father Jerzy Popieluszko was one of many martyrs at the hands of atheistic communism. But his cause was an especially significant one. His service and death were not in vain.

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Writing from Experience Author J. J. Hensley visits his hometown for a booksigning at Heritage Station.

Author J. J. Hensley signs books October 10 at Heritage Station.

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THE PARTHENON Author J. J. Hensley has firsthand experience with the material he writes his murder mysteries about. Using the knowledge from his career as a police officer and Special Agent with the U. S. Secret Service, the Huntington native has the ability to write novels full of insight and suspense.

Hensley was originally inspired to write by his wife in 2010. He said she planted the seed, and while he was practicing distance running, he would brainstorm ideas.

“I would go out on long runs,” Hensley said. “When you are running for an hour or two you have to think about something other than running. So I thought, ‘if I were going to write a book, what would I do?’”

After a few months of running and writing down his thoughts, Hensley completed his first book, “Resolve.” He said writing his novels is the easiest part.

“I find writing generally easy to do,” Hensley said. “It’s the rest of it, getting published, editing and the business end of it that’s more challenging.”

Hensley said he likes to find

creative ways to form his stories.

“Resolve” is divided into 26.2 chapters. His idea was to follow the course of a marathon gone wrong in the city of Pittsburgh, with each chapter representing one mile of the 26.2-mile race.

Despite a slow gain in popularity after its release, Suspense Magazine named “Resolve” one of the Best Books of 2013.

Hensley then began writing his second book, “Measure Twice.” This story is divided into 12 chapters, representing the 12 steps in battling addiction. Hensley said he wanted a murder mystery that was distinctive.

“I wanted something with a unique structure,” Hensley said.

“I had never come across a story where both people, good and bad, were battling addiction.”

Hensley pulled his inspiration from his hometown of Huntington and his current city, Pittsburgh. He said the book almost serves as a tribute to those battling addiction.

“I thought about how many cities have so many people suffering from addiction,” Hensley said. “It’s almost a tribute to those who have fought the battle.”

It took Hensley the better part of a year to finish the final draft of “Measure Twice” because he took some time off from writing after the birth of his daughter.

Hensley said his family comes first, and his wife is always the first to read a story.

“My wife is a very good editor,” Hensley said. “I’ll write things out that make sense to me, and she catches mistakes that I never ever would catch.”

Once “Measure Twice” was finished, Hensley still had several hurdles to jump in to get it published.

Hensley said getting published was a challenge, even though his first book was met with a great deal of success.

Hensley went on a search for another publisher. While doing so, his literary agent stopped representing all authors. It took him some time to find Assent Publishing and sign a two-book deal.

A portion of the sales from “Measure Twice” will be donated in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness. The money is being donated to a charity honoring the mother of his college roommate, who is a cancer survivor. Hensley said he wanted

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to do his part by promoting his friend’s charity.

Hensley came back home to Huntington to release “Measure Twice” with a live launch at Heritage Station. He continues to visit Huntington regularly to visit family and friends still living in the area.

Growing up in Huntington,

Hensley attended many Marshall University events.

Although he is not a Marshall alumnus, he did attend summer classes and said he and his family are big Marshall fans.

He received a bachelors in administration of justice from Penn State University and has a masters in criminal justice

administration from Columbia Southern University. When he is not writing, the author works as a training supervisor with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Britanie Morgan can be contacted at Morgan230@ marshall.edu.

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