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THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s Homecoming week means students will compete in a variety of events. One contest, however, used a creative way to give back to the Huntington community.

The Canned Food Art drive took place in the Memorial Student Center Wednesday, a competition that challenged participants to create a sculpture out of canned foods.

Part of the contest required the cans used in the sculpture to be donated after judging. Student Activities Coordinator Lee Tabor said giving back is an important part of the competitions this year.

“We’re trying to offer different ways to benefit the community and campus,” Tabor said. “Alumni and

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parents will be coming in this weekend, and we want to show them just how much our university can do.”

Organizations across campus, from sports teams to fraternities and sororities, entered the competition.

Katie Barr, president of the Marshall Athletic Training Association, said her organization was proud to give back.

“We thought it would be a great way to get involved,” Barr said. “We donated around 200 cans through the competition, and we’ve been participating in as many events as possible this week.”

Megan Earls, director of the office of fraternity and sorority life, said the drive was a unique way to help others.

“Since it’s a contest, it gives students more motivation to really give back,” Earls said.

Homecoming committee member Elizabeth Andrick said the cause for donation is one that will go back to Marshall and the community immediately.

“The food donated goes to the student food pantry in the basement of the Memorial Student Center,” Andrick said. “Any student can access it when they need to, and this contest was just one more way to give back to it.”

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Career Expo connects students to potential employers

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THE PARTHENON Students practiced networking, recruiting and making a good first impression at Wednesday’s Career Expo.

Eighty-eight companies registered to meet with students and possibly find their next employee.

Debby Stoller, assistant director for development and outreach at Career Services, recruited the companies that attended the expo. Federal and state government agencies, companies seeking business students, engineering companies, IT companies, food service industries, campus departments and several other companies were in attendance.

Stoller said the expo was a great way for students to gain exposure to the working world in ways they might not have the opportunity to otherwise.

“The students need to have as much exposure as they can,” Stoller said. “This is a huge networking event. Even if they are not actively seeking a job yet, they can still come to the Career Expo.”

Networking is exactly why senior Mary Chaffee attended the Career Expo. She said she hopes this event will help her find a job later on.

“I am here because I’m trying to find my way through adulthood and trying to find a job,” Chaffee said. “I think this is a good way to network and meet people to see what future employers are looking for.”

The companies participating in the expo were eager to talk with students about their careers. Patty Bostic, of Bimbo Bakeries in Huntington, said the company is always looking for new people to welcome into its family.

“We are always looking for new associates,” Bostic said.

“We are always looking for good quality folks. Marshall — what better place to look for it.”

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Classes are in full swing at the VAC

By HALEY WADE

THE PARTHENON Midterms are approaching quickly, and the fall semester is now in full swing. Many students are getting settled into their classes and routines for the year, but some have more of an adjustment to make than others.

The opening of the Visual Arts Center this year means students in the School of Art and Design are required to commute to classes six blocks from Marshall University’s main campus.

The six-story VAC building offers a variety of classrooms and courses for art majors, varying from painting classes to a darkroom for developing film.

The VAC was a multi-million dollar investment, and one that has changed the way art students are learning and progressing in their majors.

Graphic Design Major Anne Carman said learning in the new building has already proven to be steps above learning in Smith Hall.

“It truly feels like an art

school,” Carman said. “Small details, like the natural light that the expansive front windows let in, are such an improvement on their own.”

Carman said even her experience between classes has changed since the school received their own building.

“We used to have to sit on the floor in the hallways of Smith before class if we wanted to work on homework, but now the flex spaces on each floor have multiple tables and chairs that are much more accommodating,” Carman said. “I also feel really safe with the addition of ID swipes for entrance to the building after daytime hours.”

Senior Kayla Varndell said the building has much more to offer than the school’s prior space in Smith Hall.

“We have more space to expand and grow,” Varndell said.

“As art education majors, we have a classroom with technology that can be used and practiced on, so we are able to use our resources to the fullest.

We’re no longer just confined

to a floor, but we have an entire building to use.”

Varndell said while she enjoys the new building, she is equally excited for the VAC to show the personal touches students will soon leave behind.

“I don’t think there is a person out there that does not like shiny new things, and that’s how the Visual Arts Center is right now,” Varndell said. “It’ll feel more like home when ink stains are on the desks and charcoal can be found throughout, which we’re still waiting on.”

Carman said while the building is a large advancement in itself, the changes and progress made will only continue to advance the school further.

“I’m very excited to see how the future of the School of Art and Design flourishes as a result of the all the hard work and planning that was poured into making this dream a reality,” Carman said. “I know great things will come.”

Haley Wade can be contacted at wade68@marshall. edu.

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Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center debuted publically Sept. 18 with a ceremony at downtown Huntington.

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Picnic, pomp judging at the MSC plaza

By ALEX JAMES

THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Alumni Association and the Office of Development from 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Friday present a free picnic on the plaza of the Memorial Student Center. This is the Alumni Associations first official event of Homecoming weekend as it also sponsors the 19th Annual 5K Alum Run Saturday and the Tailgate Blast, which is to follow.

The picnic is a tribute to the success of the university and the generosity of the faculty, staff and students who participate in the MU Family Campaign.

During this time judging for the Thundering Pomp Competition will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Plaza.

Members from different organizations have been facing-off since Sunday in a Pomp Competition. Pomping is the process of sticking paper mache to some frame made from wooden boards or chicken wire by using

glue. The contestant will have until Friday to pomp but must remain inside the Memorial Student Center.

The pomps also have to be placed on the organization’s float within the Homecoming parade in order to receive the points awarded.

The creations will be judged on adherence to the Homecoming theme, “Marcos Favorite Heroes and Toughest Villains.” The creations will also be judged on creativity, visual appeal and percentage of surface completion.

Help kickoff Homecoming and celebrate together for the 4th Annual Picnic on the Plaza sponsored by the Marshall University Alumni Association and the Office of Development. “It’s going to be a great time for both current students and alumni.

This will also be a great kickoff to this weekends homecoming activities,” Student Body President Duncan Waugaman said.

Alex James can be contacted at james142@ marshall.edu.

W.Va. salt producer makes finals in contest

By BILL LYNCH

THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE Most of the time when West Virginia and Martha Stewart are mentioned together, it has to do with the five months the home lifestyle guru spent as an inmate at the federal prison camp in Alderson.

Nancy Bruns and Lewis Payne would like to change that.

The siblings are co-owners, along with partners Gaddy Engineering, of J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works in Malden.

Months ago, they entered the company in Martha Stewart’s American Made competition. Now they’ve made it to the finals.

The contest draws hopefuls from coast to coast and spotlights American companies that Martha Stewart Living magazine and its readers believe could be the next generation of entrepreneurs and artisans who make “beautiful, inspiring, useful products; pioneering new industries; improving local communities; and changing the way we eat, shop, work and live.”

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americanmade for products they think deserve to win.

“It’s just publicity,” Bruns said. “There’s no money or anything, but the idea of it seemed like a good fit for us and lets us tell our story. We’re about as American made as you can get.”

Bruns is a seventh-generation salt manufacturer. Her family, the Dickinson family, began making salt from the ocean of brine located deep under the hills of Kanawha County in 1817.

Kanawha County’s red salt was much prized during the Civil War and well-known around the world.

“People liked it for curing meat,” she said.

Salt making in West Virginia dried up in the mid-20th century as it was mass-produced cheaper elsewhere.

Bruns said her family quit the business in 1945.

“Then my brother and I revived it in 2012,” she said.

Bruns said had always known about the family’s salt making business but really became interested in it after owning and running a restaurant.

“I was very much into salt,”

she said. “My cupboard was full of little bottles of different salts from all over the world.”

After she and her husband sold their restaurant, Wild Thyme, in North Carolina, Bruns’ husband went back to school.

She said, “He did his master’s thesis on the industrialization of salt in the Kanawha Valley, and it just looked at the family history in a totally different way.”

Bruns called it an a-ha moment. They could make salt.

So, they drilled a new well on her family’s land and used solar evaporation to reduce the brine into sodium crystals.

“It’s an all-natural, mineralrich, unprocessed product,” she explained. “We do it without burning coal or timber, like they used to.”

The salt J.Q. Dickinson SaltWorks makes is artisan and different than the stuff that pours out of the Morton’s box.

Bruns said it’s sweeter and the flavor is more complex, which makes it a good go-to ingredient for chefs and serious foodies.

But it’s not red. The original

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THE PARTHENON All information provided by the Marshall University Police Department.

Shoplifting MUPD was called at 12:28 p.m. to the Memorial Student Center Sept. 24 with a report of shoplifting. Police allege the manager of the student center cafeteria caught the suspect stealing a box of chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A. The suspect was charged with first offense shoplifting.

The name of the suspect was not released because the crime is a misdemeanor.

Dorm Arson MUPD was called at 3:58 a.m. to Holderby Hall Sept. 27.

According to police, a fire alarm was activated inside the dormitory after smoke was detected. Police found a paper Halloween skeleton decoration along with a cotton door decoration destroyed by fire.

Police said no witnesses have come forward in this case and no arrests have been made.

Suspicious Person MUPD was dispatched at 10:14 p.m. to the Twin Towers East dormitory lobby Sept. 29. Police allege multiple complaints were called into their headquarters of a suspicious man swinging a baseball bat inside the lobby. The man fled to the 7-Eleven gas station on Fifth Avenue, where he was arrested by MUPD. After the arrest, police allege they found 1.1 grams of marijuana inside the suspect’s pocket. The male suspect was taken to the Cabell County Courthouse where he was charged with possession of marijuana. He was later transported to the Western Regional Jail on $5,000 bond. The name of the suspect was not released.

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

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Herd stuns Monarchs with double OT winner Junior defenseman Matt Freeman goes for goal as the Herd men’s soccer team takes a 2-1 victor y over Old Dominion at the Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex Wednesday.

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By SCOTT BOLGER

THE PARTHENON In 108:00 at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex, Marshall University’s men’s soccer team not only ended its scoreless two game skid, but made up for both losses by scoring twice with one goal taking place in the final overtime period Wednesday against Old Dominion University.

However, victories such as these don’t come without midgame adjustments and star power.

During the first 45 minutes, both teams equally shared possession time, but Old Dominion scored at the 14:39 mark. Marshall goalkeeper Bijan Gloston prevented two Monarch strikes from fleeting his palm and the third deflection was booted in by forward Tyler Edwards.

Proportionate possession time doesn’t always equate to the same amount of shots or shots on goal, as Old Dominion had 16 shots and 12 shots on goal to Marshall’s two shots and one shot on goal.

The abundance of Old Dominion attempts came from cross field passes and working the edges with its receiving wingmen, while the other Monarchs collided in the middle to receive the second cross from the sidelines. Marshall, the more athletic and nimble team on the pitch, continually tried to apply pressure in down the middle of the field, with players often over dribbling and losing the ball to collapsing Old Dominion defenders. Though down 1-0, Marshall

showed defensive promise by muzzling any mid-field short passes from Old Dominion.

In the second half, Marshall made all the right adjustments by simply extending its defense to the outer edges, “We cut off their width,” Marshall head coach Bob Gray said. “We took our forwards and put them wide and it really took them out of their rhythm of play. They still had a couple of good chances.”

Marshall’s one halftime adjustment ultimately decided the match, because Marshall continued its one man offensive puncturing, led by midfielder’s Ryan Forde and Daniel Jodah.

“Having a lot of pressure on me opens up my teammates around me,” Jodah said. “Being man-marked and being eyed opens up the other qualities of the team and that really helped us tonight.”

Jodah was tripped in the seventh minute of play, allowing defender Jack Hopkins to belt a 26-yard free kick off of Monarch goalkeeper Alex Tiesenhausen’s hand. After the initial block, the ball bounced in the air, and fell off of the keeper’s left foot into the net, tying the game at one a piece.

After the goal, the Thundering Herd put panic into the Monarchs’, as they abandoned their perimeter pass strategy and began trying to use midfielders as the catalysts to goal scoring.

“We were going to encourage them to come down the

middle, and because of that, it disrupted their rhythm,” Gray said.

In the 44th minute, Marshall almost broke the tie with another free kick by Hopkins, which was set up by Daniel Jodah being fouled. Unfortunately, the kick bounced against the upper-half of the cross bar.

In the first overtime period, Marshall continued to stop any Monarch mid-field penetration, but ODU did the same, and both teams were limited to two shot attempts each.

The Herd again switched the pace after a frame of play, as it caught the Monarchs off guard in the second overtime with long passing, eventually scoring when midfielder Nick Edginton kicked the ball 25 yards to forward Tommy Trupo, who then flicked it to Jodah for the game winning goal.

Jodah’s third goal of the season was also his third game winning goal.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling to be honest with you,” Jodah said. “I’m still kind of in shock to pull off the result that we did. I saw Tommy flick it and I tried to keep it down, because I knew if I leaped back it would’ve went over the net, so, thank God it ended up in the back of the net.”

Marshall improved its record to 3-5-2 (2-1) and travel to Lexington to take on Kentucky University Sunday.

Scott Bolger can be contacted at bolger@marshall. edu.

Cardinals sink Kershaw again, head to NLCS

By R.B. FALLSTROM

ASSOCIATED PRESS For the second straight time, the lefty generally acknowledged as the best pitcher in baseball was no match for a team that’s made a habit of coming alive this time of the year.

Matt Adams’ drive sent Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers packing.

While celebrating a 3-2 victory in Game 4 on Tuesday that put the franchise in the NL Championship Series for the fourth straight year, St. Louis Cardinals teammates bathed in champagne said they’d counted on the burly first baseman nicknamed Big City.

“We were jumping around, hitting our heads in the dugout, going crazy,” ace Adam Wainwright said. “I just had a feeling the big fellow was going to come through. I called it.”

Adams could barely contain his enthusiasm after his first homer against a left-hander since July 7, this one against a pitcher who was 21-3 with a 1.77 ERA. Adams thrust both arms in the air while still in the batter’s box and added a couple of big hops that made for an entertaining trot around the bases.

“Definitely the highlight of my career,” he said. “I will never, ever forget this.”

The Cardinals have home-field advantage against the Giants plus a rested rotation for a best-of-seven NLCS that starts Saturday at Busch Stadium. San Francisco is in the NLCS for the third time in five seasons and overcame a 3-1 series deficit against the Cardinals in 2012 en route to a World Series title.

“Just to be a part of all this is amazing,” said Shelby Miller, who made his first career postseason start and allowed two runs in 5 2-3 innings. “The way we came out and finished this game, you couldn’t ask for anything more.”

Before surrendering three straight hits and a two-run lead to open the seventh, Kershaw had shut down St. Louis.

Stunned by Adams’ drive, he bent at the waist with his hands on his knees.

The Cardinals sent the Dodgers home for the second postseason in a row with a win over Kershaw. Last year it was in Game 6 of the NLCS. Kershaw couldn’t hold a 6-1 lead in Game 1 of this series, also taking a beating in the seventh.

“The season ended and I was a big part of the reason why,” Kershaw said. “I can’t really put it into words, Just bad deja vu all over again.”

The Dodgers had two on in the ninth before Trevor Rosenthal earned his third save of the series, retiring Carl Crawford on a force out for the final out. At AT&T Park in San Francisco, fans cheered when the rival Dodgers were eliminated.

Kershaw dropped to 1-5 with a 5.12 ERA in 11 postseason games, including three relief appearances early in his career. He has lost four straight starts to St. Louis over the past two postseasons.

“I’ve had success against them, too,” Kershaw said. “It just seems like one inning gets me every time. And obviously that’s not success.”

While the steady Cardinals advanced to their ninth NLCS in 15 years, the defeat

was a huge disappointment for the NL West champion Dodgers, who finished the regular season with a $256 million payroll that was $40 million higher than any other team.

Los Angeles remains without a pennant since winning the 1988 World Series.

“It’s awful,” catcher A.J. Ellis said. “It’s devastating. It just kind of rehashes those old memories.”

Manager Don Mattingly defended his decision to let Kershaw, pitching on three days’ rest for just the second time in his career, work the seventh. He wanted three more outs from Kershaw and was hesitant to tap middle relief that was unreliable throughout the series.

“It goes back to the same question: Is there anybody better, even on short rest, and even where he was at that point?” Mattingly said.

Kershaw allowed one homer to lefthanded batters in the regular season but gave up two to the Cardinals, with Matt Carpenter connecting in the opener. He’s 0-3 with a 9.72 ERA in his last three postseason appearances, all against St. Louis.

Reliever Marco Gonzales earned his second victory of the series, after getting treated for a nosebleed. The rookie lefty got Adrian Gonzalez on a groundout to end the seventh and strand two runners.

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pitching. But lefties hit five off Dodgers southpaws in four playoff games.

The Dodgers took the lead in the sixth with two hits and a double-play groundout, and made it 2-0 on Juan Uribe’s single off Seth Maness. They missed a chance to add on when catcher Yadier Molina quickly recovered a pitch in the dirt and picked off Andre Ethier at third.

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Is it harmful?

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By TAYLOR STUCK

MANAGING EDITOR BREAKING NEWS: A new study finds everything can kill you.

Turn on the news, hop on the Internet or even open a newspaper and you can probably find a story on some new study that disproves everything we used to think about a product or way of life. A new one comes out every few weeks.

For example, NBC Nightly News broke a story Wednesday about a correlation between cancer and turf.

Two goalies from the University of Washington soccer team were diagnosed with NonHodgkin lymphoma. When the coach went to take one of the players to her chemotherapy, the nurse said she was the fourth goalie she had hooked up that week. That prompted the coach to do more research.

She found there were 38 soccer players with some form of cancer, 34 of them being goalies.

The correlation she found was the amount of time goalies spend rolling around on the turf field.

That’s a strange and sad phenomenon. But by the end of the report, all I was left with was the fact young soccer players have cancer. No research has been done on the effects of chrome rubber exposure, or the little black dots in turf made from shredded tires, and cancer. No information on

where these players live, what their environments are like or what they eat.

But the lead into the story had you believing any child playing on a turf field was destined to get cancer. I love Brian Williams, but man was it excessive.

“Could the material used as a granular synthetic dirt between the pieces of artificial grass be harmful?” Williams asked.

Well, of course it could be.

You know what else could be harmful? The water we drink.

The polluted air we breathe could be harmful.

Along those same lines, also a NBC Nightly News report, a new study has found that hands-free technology, which is supposed to prevent cellphone distractions while driving, are actually distractions.

Do you see my point here?

The things we invent to keep us safe end up being more harmful. Literally everything has the ability to be harmful.

You use hand sanitizer to stay healthy, but you use it too much you get sick anyway because you kill all the good bacteria.

Something is giving those soccer players cancer, but if it actually ends up being little rubber pieces in turf, I’ll be surprised.

Maybe we need to stop spending so much time trying to be safe and just accept life is harmful.

Taylor Stuck can be contacted at stuck7@marshall.edu.

It’s Halloween: dress how you want, with good reason Halloween costumes easily spark controversy in a culture overly committed to political correctness.

There is nothing wrong with a culture striving to become politically correct as a way to reduce inequities among groups of people and to eliminate language that demeans certain groups.

Where political correctness oversteps its bounds on Halloween is in the costume choices that are considered culturally appropriate.

An article on Everyday Feminism by Kat Lazo entitled “Is Your Halloween Costume Racist?” makes the argument that it is inappropriate and offensive to dress in any costume which is racially, ethic or culturally based.

Lazo’s claim is if the person dressing in one of these costumes doesn’t belong to the particular group of people the costume is depicting, then he or she is in essence trying to borrow someone else’s culture or race for a day without having to live with the stereotypes and stigmas.

This should only be an issue if the costumes themselves are stereotypical and offensive to the culture. There are so many notable female figures from all different cultural and racial backgrounds that deserve to be recognized on Halloween and really all year long. Halloween is a great opportunity to share the accomplishments of these notable women with the folks you encounter while dressed up for this holiday.

A character in the most iconic film of our generation said: “In Girl World, Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.” This could be where we run into problems — over-sexualizing the holiday leads to objectifying the subject of almost any

costume, along with the wearer.

A wonderful website, takebackhalloween.org, is entirely devoted to sharing creative and inspiring costume ideas for women and girls. The site includes notable women from all different racial backgrounds, and women and girls should not limit themselves to only the ones that match up with their own racial identity. Nowhere on this site will one find a “sexy” costume of any kind.

If women want to wear sexy costumes, they have every right to do so, and just as Cady said, no one should judge them for it. Sexy costumes should not, however, objectify any culture or ethnicity.

There is a distinct difference between dressing as a Native American woman, and purchasing a “Sexy Native American Girl” costume. We should be able to dress as any person whom we find inspiring as long as that is our purpose in doing so and not to demean or poke fun at another culture or lifestyle.

Lazo is correct in saying that Native Americans are one of the most underrepresented minorities, but how are we helping that situation by eliminating them completely from acceptable Halloween depictions? We can use Halloween as an opportunity to educate and spread awareness about the accomplishments of Native Americans in history and now.

Beyond Pocahontas and Sacajawea, who knows any other notable Native American women? We don’t know of any, but that doesn’t mean they don’t

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exist. Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) was born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1876. She was an accomplished writer and activist for Native American rights.

In the long run, couldn’t we accomplish more towards the effort to promote equality and recognition of all groups if we chose to honor them at Halloween rather than objectify them or avoid them entirely.

By focusing too much on what is or is not politically correct, we are missing out on an opportunity to explain why we have chosen to dress as a certain historical figure or inspiring individual.

Enterovirus: Parents, teachers and health care workers must work to help prevent an epidemic THE REGISTER-HERALD State Health Department officials announced last Friday that at least one case of the enterovirus D68 has been diagnosed in Raleigh County, joining Greenbrier and four other counties in logging cases of the respiratory disease.

Cases came to the forefront in several Midwestern states in August, leaving many to wonder when it would strike here.

Well, here it is, and we are putting forth a call to action from parents, teachers and health care workers to help ensure it doesn’t become an epidemic.

According to a fact sheet from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, enterovirus D68 is a less common one of more than 100 subtypes of the common enterovirus.

It was first identified in 1962, has been rarely reported since then in the U.S. Consequently, it is less studied and the ways that it spreads are not as well understood as other enteroviruses.

Nevertheless, health officials believe it likely spreads much the same way as other cold and flu viruses — from person to person when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or touches surfaces.

During this transitional season from summer to fall, many of us, especially children, are beset by allergies and colds. Flu season is bearing down on us, as well.

With this unfamiliar illness having invaded our area, we must promise our kids and ourselves that we will be hypervigilant when anyone shows any sign of a respiratory illness.

Yes, it probably is just a cold, but why take the chance? If the symptoms — difficulty breathing, cough, new onset of wheezing, fever or rapid heart rate — persist, a visit to the doctor, express clinic or ER is in order.

Melissa Lewis, of Denver, helps her son, Jayden Broadway, 9, Sept. 8 as he coughs in his bed at the Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colo. He was treated for the enterovirus 68 and released, but his asthma made the illness more difficult to fight. A wave of severe respiratory illnesses has swept the country in the last two months, propelled by enterovirus 68. The virus has caused serious breathing problems in many children, and now is being eyed as possible factor in at least four deaths, and muscle weakness and paralysis in children in Colorado and AP PHOTO | THE DENVER POST | CYRUS MCCRIMMON perhaps other states. page designed and edited by TAYLOR STUCK | stuck7@marshall.edu

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Continued from page 1 Senior Chris Khodadadi said not only did the event help benefit students through donations, but also through the teamwork it took to make it happen.

“It helped to bring not just the Greek community together, but also other student organizations which are important to the success of homecoming week,”

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Pam Dossier, from Triad Engineering, said students should visit the company website for regular job opportunities.

“We have new jobs that post on our website weekly,” Dossier said. “We hope all the students go out and look on the websites to find new jobs and opportunities.”

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Yosemite National Park Rangers transfer the body of a Cal Fire pilot who was killed in an airplane crash in Yosemite National Park, Calif., Wednesday.

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California's fleet of 22 air tankers was grounded Wednesday after one of the planes crashed while battling a wildfire in Yosemite National Park, killing the pilot.

A National Park Service helicopter and air tankers from the U.S. Forest Service were filling the gap and assisting firefighters tackling the blaze that prompted the evacuation of 60 homes in the community of Foresta, park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said.

It was not clear how long CalFire's grounding of the S-2T airplanes will last as the agency checks the safety of the aircraft and its pilots, CalFire spokeswoman Alyssa Smith said.

The tankers are part of a CalFire fleet that includes 11 UH-1H Super Huey helicopters and 14 OV-10A planes used to guide the other firefighting aircraft.

The tankers, however, are the backbone of the firefighting fleet and can each carry 1,200 gallons of fire retardant.

"These are our initial attack aircraft," department spokeswoman Lynne Tolmachoff said.

The crash occurred on Tuesday as four California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection aircraft, including three tankers, were fighting

the blaze as it climbed a steep canyon wall north of the Merced River, Tolmachoff said.

One of the planes hit the canyon wall and disintegrated, spilling pieces of the twinengine aircraft onto State Highway 140.

The body of pilot Geoffrey "Craig" Hunt was recovered Wednesday. It was draped with a flag and accompanied by an honor guard as it was turned over to CalFire officials.

Hunt, 62, of San Jose was a 13-year veteran pilot of DynCorp International and flew the air tanker under a contract with the state.

"We know wildland firefighting is an inherently dangerous job, but Craig made the ultimate sacrifice," CalFire Director Ken Pimlott said in a statement.

Mike Lopez, president of the union representing CalFire firefighters, said Hunt had extraordinary skill and talent.

Gov. Jerry Brown added his condolences in a statement, while ordering the Capitol flag to be flown at half-staff.

The fire had grown to 252 acres by Wednesday afternoon, though some of the smoke had lifted, said park fire information spokeswoman Jennifer Wuchner. Electricity was out in Yosemite Valley because power

lines near the crash site were shut down, and park facilities were using generators, she said.

Highway 140 will be closed indefinitely because of rocks rolling onto the roadway and as the crash is investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board.

Officials said the weather at the time of the crash was clear and winds were calm.

Tolmachoff said it was unclear if smoke from the fire or isolated updrafts or downdrafts within the canyon might have played a part in the crash.

Department spokesman Daniel Berlant said he was not aware of any radio distress calls from the pilot or any radio traffic from other pilots indicating problems with the weather or with the downed aircraft.

DynCorp International provides pilots for all CalFire planes and maintenance for the department's aircraft.

The downed tanker — like others in the fleet — had been built as early as the 1950s as an anti-submarine warplane, said Berlant. It was retrofitted to an air tanker in the 1970s and rebuilt again in 2001 so completely that the Federal Aviation Administration website lists it as manufactured in

2001.

"It was rebuilt enough that it qualifies as a new manufacture date," Berlant said.

Berlant said the age of the fleet has not been a problem in the past. However, that has not been the case for federal firefighting aircraft from the same era, some of which have lost their wings in midflight.

The precautionary standdown of the tanker fleet came in the midst of a fire season that has been extended by drought and unseasonably hot, dry weather.

Department helicopters were available to help fight wildfires, said Smith, as was a DC-10 on standby and capable of dropping large amounts of fire retardant. The agency can also call on aircraft under contract to federal agencies, or request the use of specially equipped California National Guard helicopters and air tankers.

The last time the S-2Ts were grounded was in 2001, when two of the aircraft collided while fighting a fire in Mendocino County, killing both pilots, she said.

Pilots of a different type of aircraft were grounded for the same reason in 2006, when a fire battalion chief and a pilot were killed while observing a fire in a two-seat plane in Tulare County, she said.

Play about Columbine shooting to open in New York

By MARK KENNEDY

ASSOCIATED PRESS A play about the Columbine High School massacre written from the perspective of the two teen shooters will make its world premiere in New York next month, penned by a playwright who was 9 at the time of the killings and calls it "a watershed moment."

Nathaniel Sam Shapiro's "The Erlkings" will begin performances on Nov. 9 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre. The play takes its title from a German poem found in a journal of one of the killers.

The playwright said he uses the teen killers' own words — culled from chatroom logs, homework assignment, teacher's notes and diaries — to

paint portraits of two troubled kids, not monsters. The play never depicts the shootings.

"The first step in dealing with this is in a larger social context is to acknowledge our kinship with these people," said Shapiro, a Brown University graduate who earned a master's in playwriting from New York University in the spring Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding two dozen others before killing themselves in the school's library in 1999.

Shapiro said that many of the popular perception of Harris and Klebold— that they were members of a Trench Coat Mafia

and targeted popular jocks and African-Americans — turned out to be false.

"It's kind of incumbent upon us to swallow our pride or move past our own issues and try to reach out to these people.

Learning about Eric and Dylan, one thing that sticks out is that I don't think anyone reached out to them."

The play will star Em Grosland as Harris and James Scully as Klebold. It will be directed

by Saheem Ali, who was an assistant director on Broadway's "The Normal Heart" and "A Free Man of Color" at Lincoln Center Theater.

Shapiro recalls his school's dynamics changing profoundly after Columbine but then watched sadly as more school

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shootings occurred — Sandy Hook Elementary School, Oikos University and Red Lake Senior High, among them.

He said that looking back over the Harris and Klebold documents he found numerous moments when troubling actions or words from one of the boys might have prompted an adult to stop them. "I'm going to show the audience that there were opportunities and that people shirked from them," Shapiro said.

The play will join a select few artistic attempts to explore the Columbine shootings, including the play "Bang Bang You're Dead" by William Mastrosimone and the films "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore, and "Elephant" by Gus Van Sant.

red was from the local iron content in the brine, which Bruns said they’ve removed.

“Otherwise, it tastes like you’re sucking on a penny,” she said.

Consumers 100 years ago might not have cared so much, but these days, people are more discerning.

“And nobody wants their food to taste like metal.”

Bruns said she first heard about Martha Stewart’s

Khodadadi said. “In the end, it betters the community in every way.”

Khodadadi said his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, was happy to help others during such an important week.

“I think we’ve all been excited about the events,” Khodadadi said. “Giving back and getting involved is just really important.”

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departments also spoke with students. Sandee Lloyd, representing Marshall Graduate College, informed students about Marshall’s many graduate programs.

“Hopefully, they will find that they want to go on and continue their education, and we want to provide that for them,” Lloyd said.

Whether students were hoping to find a job, gain some experience or further pursue their education, it was all offered at the Career Expo.

Britanie Morgan can be contacted at morgan230@ marshall.edu.

American Made contest “through the grapevine.”

“We nominated ourselves,” she said.

However, judges apparently liked what they saw and now they’re in the finals in the food, agriculture and sustainability subcategory.

“There’s voting for the audience choice,” Bruns said. “But there’s also a panel that will pick a winner.”

Bruns said they had high hopes.

“We think we’re a great product and a great West Virginia story,” she said.

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Homecoming court competes for Miss Marshall crown photos by lexi browning | the parthenon

By SHALEE ROGNEY

LILA MANGUS

The Parthenon This year’s election is full of new faces and new candidates who are ready to pave their path as Miss Marshall.

Lila Mangus, sponsored by Alpha Kappa Order, said she would be honored to represent the university as Miss Marshall since she grew up in Hurricane and has attended the Miss Marshall crowning for many years.

“I would see the newly crowned Miss Marshall and wish to be that every year,” Mangus said. “Before attending Marshall, I thought it was just homecoming queen, but now attending the university and how it has helped me grow as a leader, I now know it’s more the just homecoming queen. It’s something way more than that.”

Ashley Prichard, sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, said she is determined to show the university that the students don’t have to be a part of the in crowd to succeed.

“Personally, it means that you can win and succeed no matter who you are - if you work hard and believe in yourself,” Prichard said. “It’s stepping outside of society’s expectation and chasing your dreams.”

Morgan Wright, sponsored by Alpha Xi Delta, said she is already humbled by the opportunity of being selected for Homecoming court, and it is an opportunity she will never take for granted.

“Winning Miss Marshall would be the ultimate honor,” Wright said. “To be able to represent a university and student body that I love so dearly is something I would cherish forever and never take for granted. Even making court is such a blessing to me.”

Alyssa Paige Dodrill, sponsored by Order of Omega, was born in Huntington. She said if she is crowned Miss Marshall, she will proudly represent the city where she was raised.

“Winning Miss Marshall, to me, would be not only an accomplishment now, but something I could always look back on,” Dodrill said. “I could look back and always be proud of who I am and where I came from: Marshall University.”

Jazmine McDowell, sponsored by the Athletic Training Department, said she plans to represent Marshall with poise.

“Winning Miss Marshall would mean a lot to me because I have and will continue to uplift students as an emerging young leader,” McDowell said. “I have been involved over the past four years at Marshall University, and I don’t regret doing any of it. Marshall is my home away from home, and if I win, I would represent our home with dignity.”

Miss Marshall 2014 will be announced Saturday during halftime of the Homecoming game.

Shalee Rogney can be contacted rogney@ marshall.edu.

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