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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 30 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com

As funding cuts loom, university officials meet to discuss future

By ALISON WICKLINE

THE PARTHENON A diverse group of individuals from across all Marshall University’s campuses met Friday for a long-term planning session regarding forecasted funding cuts to higher education.

Marshall President Stephen Kopp said the meeting is a necessary step in the university’s continued success.

“We have to have a plan that we develop that will transition us to less reliance on public support and a greater reliance on alternative revenue

sources…to continue to sustain and grow the university,” Kopp said.

Richard Staisloff, a national expert in helping universities plan new business models that operate under a reduced public funding structure, facilitated the meeting, which was designed to start the conversation regarding Marshall’s financial future.

The goal of the session was to develop a contingency plan of how the university will function on fewer state and federal dollars in the future. Stainsloff

said Friday’s session was not designed to create a plan but to begin the discussion of why the university needs a plan and how such a plan is developed.

“This is going to be a process,” Stainsloff said. “We’re not going to figure it all out today… we want to be open and candid to help think through this.”

Kopp and Stainsloff opened the meeting with discussion about the large cuts expected for higher education, which may be attributed to the view of higher education as discretionary or the growing

privatization of public universities and colleges.

Stainsloff focused on three major themes that help outline a university’s business plan–market (the job to be done), mission (unique value offered) and margin (how to operate with given resources).

The meeting also provided group discussions focused on the questions that needed to be framed and answered.

Many of the questions involved adjusting to the current environment of higher education and the university’s

gap between what it has and what it needs.

The group discussion resulted in constructive dialogue between everyone about how to move forward, with the discussion remaining positive.

Marshall Chief of Staff Matt Turner said participants have faith in the university, despite the difficult challenges it will face in the future.

“We all agree there are tremendous challenges in the years ahead, but also believe we have the wherewithal to address them,” Turner said.

“Lots of unknowns–but the people represented there believe Marshall is headed in the right direction.”

Communication was at the top of the list of things the university must do to plan for the next several years. Participants put together a nine-point action plan that assigned tasks like developing a communication plan and cost modeling to people and due dates for those tasks to be completed.

Alison Wickline can be contacted at wickline19@ marshall.edu.

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Cyclists line up to begin the Tour de Path at Heritage Station on Saturday, Oct. 12

Tour de PATH rolls through Huntington PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON

Kourtney Hughes, left, and Jacob Longoria lead Zumbathon for Breast Cancer Awareness in Marco’s on Saturday, Oct. 12.

Zumbathon shakes for breast cancer awareness

By KRISTA SHIFFLETT

THE PARTHENON The Campus Activity Board sponsored a Zumbathon Saturday to support the fight against breast cancer.

The event was in Marco’s in the Memorial Student Center from 1-2:30 p.m.

There was a $1 donation fee and all proceeds went to a local research breast cancer foundation.

Kourtney Hughes, graduate human resource major from Princeton, W.Va., and Jacob Longoria, junior athletic training major from Martinsburg, W.Va., were the Zumba instructors for the event.

Hughes is a Zumba instructor at Absolute Fitness in Barboursville and she is the general assistant for the John Marshall Emerging Leaders Institute, which is how she got involved in this event.

“CAB is in charge of the event and I am a [graduate assistant] for JMELI so I offered to teach it for free and Jacob and I have taken each other’s classes for years so he decided to do it with me,” Hughes said. “This Zumbathon is really cheap because most Zumbathons are around $30.”

Longoria was happy to be

involved in this event because he will be teaching Zumba at the Marshall Recreation Center starting Wednesday. He agreed this Zumbathon is the perfect price for students to get involved.

“I teach a class at the rec center starting next week that is free for students,” Longoria said. “This Zumbathon is great because since it is mostly geared towards students, it is affordable.”

The two instructors combined dances to fulfill the time.

There were about 15 different songs throughout the session, including songs by Jennifer Lopez, Jason Derulo, One Direction, Katy Perry and other popular artists.

Kira Corns, from Huntington, said it was her first time doing Zumba and she enjoyed it.

“I am involved in JMELI so we made an agreement that this would be a mandatory meeting so I decided to come,” Corns said. “It was my first time, but it was a lot of fun so I really enjoyed it.”

The instructors said that CAB is planning on doing another Zumbathon next semester.

Krista Shifflett can be contacted at shifflett7@marshall.edu.

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THE PARTHENON The Tour de PATH, a bicycle program, encouraged the citizens of Huntington Saturday to make healthy lifestyle decisions towards improving their health.

The bicycle ride started at Heritage Station on Fourth Avenue and continued through the Paul Ambrose Trail of Health.

Bethany Williams, Tour de PATH coordinator, briefly explained the importance of PATH. “The Paul Ambrose Trail for Health is a trail system we’re currently building in Huntington,” Williams said.

“Part of the trail system are for runners but another

significant group of users are the cyclists.”

The Tour de PATH had a fair turnout of cyclists appearing at the event. Williams said that about 60 to 80 appeared at Tour de PATH. Bryanna Griffith, a participant in the Tour de PATH, said the event was awesome.

“It’s great that we got bike stuff going on in the Huntington area,” Griffith said.

The Tour de PATH had different rides suitable for different bikers. Williams said that the leisurely bike rides would go as far as 20 miles.

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Civil rights documentaries begin in Drinko Library

By SHANNON STOWERS

THE PARTHENON Two documentaries that are part of a national program to stimulate conversation about the civil rights struggle in America will be shown starting Monday.

The screenings are a part of the “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” program.

The program is part of a grant that allows 473 institutions around the country to screen four documentaries.

The first documentary, “The Abolitionists,” will be shown Monday in the Drinko Library Auditorium from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. On Tuesday, “Slave By Another Name,” will be shown at

the auditorium at the same time.

Attendance to the screenings is free and open to the public.

“Both of these films shed a lot of light on American history,” Chris Hodge, library technician and planner of the event, said.

On Wednesday, Dr. David J. Trowbridge, director of the African and African American Studies program at Marshall, and Burnis Morris, Carter G. Woodson Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, will be joined by Sylvia Ridgeway to lead a discussion related to civil rights in America.

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Republicans say budget deal less likely after new Democratic spending proposal

By ANITA KUMAR

MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) Several Republican senators said Sunday that a new Democratic request to increase government spending is hurting chances of a deal to end the 13-day-old shutdown.

Leaders of the Democratic-led Senate were dismissive of a proposal Saturday, in part, because it kept in place for too long the automatic spending cuts that went into effect this year. Another round of those decade-long cuts — known as the sequester and approved by Congress

Kenyan runner smashes Chicago Marathon record

and the White House in 2011 — is expected in January.

The Republican complaints came as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., spoke briefly Sunday afternoon but failed to reach a deal to end the shutdown or find common ground that would allow Congress to approve raising the federal debt ceiling. ``Our discussions were substantive and we’ll continue those discussions,’’ Reid said before the Senate adjourned Sunday. ``I’m optimistic about the prospects for a positive

conclusion to the issues before this country today.’’

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. said maintaining spending cuts is the same for Republicans as maintaining the Affordable Care Act is for Democrats.

“They’re all about Obamacare being the law of the land, but so’s the sequester,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “If we exceed that, it’s real big step in the wrong direction.”

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. said House Republicans went too far in their initial proposals by trying to force repeal or delay of the new health care law as part of legislation

needed to keep parts of the government open when money ran out with the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.

Now, he said, Senate Democrats are doing the same with their bid to end the sequester and increase spending.

“They now are overreaching,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re at status quo right now. The last 24 hours have not been good.”

Corker has been part of several groups trying to craft a larger fiscal deal in recent years, including one with the White House, but none have attracted enough bipartisan support.

“What we need to do is get this

back to the middle of the road, act like adults,” he said. “Nothing is going to happen, I don’t think, if it’s about breaking those spending caps.”

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, repeated the same message on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “You’ve got to deal with the underlying problem, which is the spending problem,” he said.

Senators appeared on the talk shows Sunday morning as all eyes turned to the Senate to find a solution to reopen the government and avoid possible default on government debts.

As cities improve rapid transit, buses get new look

By PHILIP HERSH

CHICAGO TRIBUNE (MCT) The pace was fast, faster than planned, too fast even for the men paid to drive it for at least 20 miles. The last of the rabbits were gone after 15 miles, leaving the runners trying to win Sunday’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon to carry it for themselves.

Eight men pushed on at the front, going still faster in optimal weather conditions, putting a possible world record in play even as the lead pack thinned to four and then, at 23 miles, to just Kenyans Dennis Kimetto and Emmanuel Mutai.

After a 23rd mile covered in a stunning 4 minutes, 32 seconds, the leaders’ time translated to a finish that would have been a second faster than the world record another Kenyan, Wilson Kipsang, had set in Berlin two weeks ago.

Kimetto would say he was unaware of all that, entirely unaware of records or the clock until he crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds. For him, it was all about the stirring battle with Mutai, who hung on until the start of the 25th mile before winding up seven seconds behind.

Kimetto’s time was the fourth fastest ever on a record-eligible course. He missed the world record by 22 seconds but crushed the course record of 2:04:38 set

by Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede last year.

As fast as he ran Sunday, it pales in comparison to the pace at which Kimetto, 29, has gone from a non-running subsistence farmer in Eldoret, Kenya, to one of the world’s best marathoners, good enough to earn $100,000 for winning Chicago and a $75,000 bonus for the course record.

On the exhaustive track and road-running database, tilastopaja.net, Kimetto’s competitive record is blank until 2011, when it shows a lone race. Speaking through a Swahili interpreter, Kimetto said he had been growing maize and tending a few cows until he began running three years ago.

Kimetto said he had been running about four miles a day when a chance encounter with Geoffrey Mutai, a Boston and New York marathon winner, led to an invitation to the demanding Mutai’s training group in a remote area some 60 miles from Eldoret.

In 2012, Kimetto broke the world record for 25 kilometers by 32 seconds and then was second in the Berlin Marathon in 2:04:06, a marathon debut record. This year, he won February’s Tokyo Marathon in 2:06:50.

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Jaliscia Walton, 16, of Fresno rides a FAX bus in Fresno Thursday, July 16, 2009. Bus rapid transit is common in Latin America and Asia, but hasn’t caught on as quickly in the United States.

By CURTIS TATE

MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) It’s the fastest, cheapest, most effective way to move large numbers of people in an urban area, some transit advocates have come to conclude.

But it’s not a streetcar or light-rail system: It’s a fleet of buses that act like one.

Bus rapid transit is common in Latin America and Asia, but it hasn’t caught on as quickly in the United States. Most transit investment in the U.S. over the past few decades has concentrated on subways, light rail and streetcars.

According to its boosters, bus rapid transit can spur just as much or more economic development generally at a fraction of the cost, although more sophisticated projects can be just as expensive as rail. Real estate developers and city planners tend to prefer rail systems because of their durability and capacity to move large numbers of people.

A report by the New York-based Institute for Transportation & Development Policy fuels an ongoing debate about the advantages and disadvantages of both modes. The institute released a 159page report last month that compares 21 North American transit corridors that contain a mix of streetcars, light rail systems and bus rapid transit.

But the answer may not be as simple as throwing rail under the bus.

In some cities, buses might be the right choice, while in others, rail could be best. Despite the cost advantages that bus supporters claim, high-end systems can be expensive to build and operate, and many Americans still view bus service as inferior.

“Perception is reality,” said Chris Leinberger, a real estate developer, author and urban planning scholar. “We’ve got to change that perception.”

Transportation policy experts and city planners have come to embrace bus rapid transit. “An additional tool in the transit toolbox,” said Deron Lovaas, the

director of federal transportation policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental policy group.

But the more you improve it, he said, “the more the cost advantage disappears.”

Bus rapid transit isn’t an ordinary city bus. It incorporates many elements of light rail: a dedicated roadway that’s separated from regular traffic, frequent service, fewer stops, elevated station platforms with better lighting and shelters, and payment collection at the station rather than on the bus.

“When you build something higher

quality, you provide more transportation benefit,” said Annie Weinstock, the director of the U.S. and Africa for the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy and one of the authors of the group’s recent transit report.

Weinstock said rapid bus systems could deliver more bang for the transit buck at a time when federal, state and local governments had less funding. But she acknowledged that many rail-based transit systems have been successful at stimulating local economies.

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At least 18 dead, 1 million evacuated in Indian cyclone (MCT) India’s most powerful cyclone in 14 years left a trail of destruction Sunday along the eastern coast and killed at least 18 people. The biggest evacuation in the country’s history, involving a million people, was credited with saving many lives.

Thousands of soldiers and workers began relief operations after the worst of the storm had passed, distributing food and clearing roads of fallen trees.

The cyclone, with wind of about 120 mph, barreled in from the Bay of Bengal to strike land Saturday night near Gopalpur in Orissa.

Phailin had moved about 215 miles inland and waned considerably with winds up to 50 mph by Sunday night.

The Indian meteorological department said the cyclone would weaken into a deep depression.”

Millions hunkered down in their homes and storm shelters in Orissa and neighboring Andhra Pradesh through the night as fierce winds toppled mud houses, uprooted trees and overturned vehicles.

Heavy rain lashed the region for several hours, resulting in flooding in many places.

Orissa relief official Prabhakar Pradhan said 17 people were killed in stormrelated incidents, including collapses of houses, falling trees and flooding. One death was reported in Andhra Pradesh’s northern district of Srikakulam.

“According to preliminary assessments, 10 million people were affected in 15,315 villages in Orissa alone; 230,000 houses, many of them thatched huts, were damaged,” Pradhan said.

Crops and roads also suffered extensive damage in southern Orissa and Srikakulam.

Many parts of Orissa were plunged into darkness by blackouts. Flights to the region were suspended, and the Indian Meterological Department issued a flood warning for the northern state of Bihar.

Meteorologists said Phailin was the most powerful cyclone to hit India since a super cyclone in 1999 killed more than 10,000 people in Orissa.

Authorities described themselves as better prepared this time.

With accurate weather predictions and disaster management mechanisms, authorities carried out mass evacuations in advance of the cyclone.

It was India’s biggest rescue effort. Authorities moved more than 1 million people, 914,848 from Orissa and another 100,000 from Andhra Pradesh in two days.

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Softball wraps up fall ball season with two wins over MEC competition

By MONTY GREEN

THE PARTHENON Marshall softball ended its 2013 fall ball season 7-2 Saturday after back-to-back wins over West Virginia State and West Virginia Wesleyan at Dot Hicks Field. The Herd lost five key seniors after they won the Conference USA championship last season, but came back to the field with a powerful lineup and improved bullpen.

“We’ve gotten a lot of answers and have seen a lot of great things from these girls,” said head coach Shonda Stanton. “It was a productive fall ball.”

Marshall took on West Virginia State first and was able to take the win by mercy, scoring five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning, sending the score to 9-1.

The offense had a high production in the final inning, and the defense was consistent through all five.

Sophomore pitcher Brittanie Fowler had just one hit through 15 batters faced, shutting out the Yellow Jackets for four straight innings.

The Herd then took on Wesleyan and pushed out a win 8-7 in six and a half innings, although the Bobcats were very close to forcing the next half.

The Herd held a commanding 8-1 lead going into the seventh inning off the bats of junior Kristina Braxton and senior catcher Taylor Winton, whom had a homerun each.

Wesleyan fought back and scored four runs, but was

stopped by freshmen Lindsey Fadnek, who forced a fly out to end the game.

Stanton was happy with the progress of her team in game two.

“Fall ball is about the process, at times we got into battles,” Stanton said.

Team play is what will take the Herd back to the championships in the coming spring season.

“We need to play as a team, instead of relying on certain

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Sophomore pitcher Hallie Vance winds up for a pitch against West Virginia Wesleyan.

Freshman first baseman Morgan Kelley stretches out for an out

Herd squeaks past FAU Owls 24-23 HERDZONE.COM Florida native Justin Haig connected on a season-long 41-yard field goal as time expired to give Marshall football a 24-23 win over Florida Atlantic Saturday evening in front of 19,760 at FAU Stadium.

The Thundering Herd (4-2, 2-0 Conference USA), which had 34 players competing in their native state, trailed by nine points with just over 10 minutes to play. Facing a fourth-and-five from the FAU 41-yard line, Marshall quarterback Rakeem Cato (Miami, Fla.) connected with senior tight end Gator Hoskins (Gainesville, Fla.) for a long touchdown. It was Hoskins team-leading fifth touchdown of the season and brought the Herd to within two-points, 2321 with 6:47 remaining.

A punt by the Owls (2-5, 1-4) gave Marshall possession at its own 9-yard line with 2:19 to play in the game and eight plays later, with six seconds on the game clock, Haig nailed a field goal to complete the comeback.

“I kept fighting and my teammates told me to use my legs on that last drive,” said Cato who finished 18-of-34 for 216 yards and was responsible for 70 total yards on the game-winning drive.

“We just kept going fast. Coach (Bill) Legg just put the ball in my hands and he told me to make something happen. I just trusted my receivers and trusted my offensive line and then let the special teams unit make the field goal.”

On a night when the offense produced a season-low 355 yards, Marshall’s special teams played well enough to score 10 points including the its first score of the game, a 77-yard punt-return touchdown by redshirt senior Devon Smith (White Plains, Md.) which gave Marshall a 7-0 lead early in the second quarter.

FAU’s first points came from a Mitch Anderson 26-yard field goal with seconds remaining in the second quarter.

Both offenses struggled in the first half as just 258 yards of total offense was recorded, but the Herd led at halftime 7-3.

The Owls started the second half on offense and made the most of it with a four-play 75-yard drive resulting in a 2-yard touchdown run by running back Jonathan Wallace

to go ahead 10-7 with 12:56 remaining in the third quarter.

After accumulating just 93 yards on its previous eight drives combined, the Marshall offense got back to its familiar pace with a 78-yard drive capped off by a 1-yard touchdown run by sophomore running back Kevin Grooms (Hollywood, Fla). The Herd led 14-10 with 9:04 to play in the third quarter.

FAU put points on the board just before the end of the quarter on a 5-yard touchdown completion from Jaquez Johnson to Nexon Dorvilus. However, the point-after attempt was missed by Anderson and the Owls lead was just two, 16-14 heading into the fourth quarter.

FAU scored on its second consecutive possession, a 1-yard touchdown run by Johnson to increase the Owls’ lead 23-14 with 10:01 to play in the game.

FAU dominated time-ofpossession 35:11-24:43 and even outgained the Herd 395355, which made the win even sweeter for Marshall coach Doc Holliday.

“I don’t care if it’s pretty or not,” Holliday said. “If you get the win, that’s all that matters. I’m just proud of how this football team fought and it will help us down the road.”

Along with leading the team in passing, Cato was Marshall’s leading rusher with 45 yards along with redshirt senior Essray Taliaferro (Washington, D.C.). Grooms led the team with 14 carries and produced 42 yards.

Junior Tommy Shuler (Miami, Fla.) had the most receptions for the Herd with five and had 37 yards receiving. Hoskins and redshirt senior Devon Smith (White Plains, Md.) each had 50 yards receiving.

Just as the offense was led

by Florida natives, the defense was led by some of Georgia’s finest as Neville Hewitt (Conyers, Ga.) and Jermaine Holmes (Valdosta, Ga.) each led the team with eight tackles. Freshman Stefan Houston (Clarksburg, Md.) recorded six tackles.

Johnson led the Owls in passing with 187 yards and rushing with 83 yards.

Marshall will next play at Middle Tennessee on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1.

Volleyball improves conference Women’s soccer beats ECU 2-0 mark against North Texas HERDZONE.COM Marshall volleyball knocked off Conference USA foe North Texas, 3-1 (21-25, 25-19, 25-23, 26-24) on Sunday afternoon.

“Beating a team as good as North Texas at their place is just over the top exciting for us,” said coach Mitch Jacobs.

“And to rebound from the Rice match makes it even sweeter.”

The Thundering Herd improved to 10-11 (4-2 C-USA) on the season while the Mean Green fell to 12-10 (4-2 C-USA) on the year.

Senior outside hitter Laura Der tallied a team-best 20 kills and 15 digs with a .238 hitting percentage while senior middle blocker Sacha ByousMcConnell kept up her efficient ways by recording a .429 hitting percentage with 15 kills.

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.379 on the season which ranks fourth in Conference USA. “Having our seniors lead the way they did, was of the utmost importance,” commented Jacobs. “Der and Sacha really led us offensively and that takes pressure off of our younger players. We got some decent matchups and Sammie (Bane) put the ball where it needed to be.”

The Herd started out a little sluggish to begin the match, falling behind the Mean Green, 7-2 in the first set, forcing coach Mitch Jacobs into an early timeout. Marshall was able to fight back in the set and push the deficit to only points but its momentum wasn’t enough and the Herd fell 25-21.

The second frame started out much better for the Herd, where it opened up on a 3-0

run and forced North Texas to a timeout leading 9-5. Marshall was able to keep the momentum on its side behind four big kills from Der to win the set 25-19.

The third set was closer for the two schools as each team went back-and-fourth the entire set. The Marshall squad forced North Texas into a timeout when they took a 15-12 lead. The Mean Green was able to keep it close much of the set and pushed the Herd to only a one-point advantage at 24-23, before Der concluded the set for Marshall with a huge kill.

The fourth set was neck-toneck throughout and was the most intense set of the match.

Marshall was forced into a timeout when North Texas

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HERDZONE.COM Senior Lizzy Lemons ended Marshall women’s soccer’s three-match scoring drought with her first goal of the season in the Thundering Herd’s 2-0 shutout of East Carolina, Sunday afternoon at ECU Soccer Stadium.

The win moved Marshall to 7-4-2, 2-2-1 in Conference USA, matching the Herd’s 2012 win total. The Pirates fell to 4-8-2, 1-4-0 C-USA. Marshall hadn’t defeated East Carolina since Oct. 28, 2010, when the Herd shut out the Pirates, 1-0.

Neither team recorded a shot until the 21st minute, but the first strike of the game proved to be significant.

Freshman Summer Wheatley sailed a corner kick into the fray facing East Carolina’s goal, and Lemons took control, volleying a shot from 15 yards into the top left corner

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of the net. Lemons’ goal ended a 378-minute scoring famine for the Herd; Marshall hadn’t found the net since the game-winning penalty kick versus Old Dominion, Sept. 27.

Wheatley’s assist marked her first collegiate point.

The Herd extended its lead to 2-0 on an own goal in the 41st minute. Marshall’s back line stood strong for the rest of the match, and East Carolina couldn’t come up with an answer.

Junior goalkeeper Lizzie Kish picked up her eighth shutout in the victory, making four saves.

Kish ranks third all-time in the Marshall record book for season shutouts (8) and is fourth all-time for career shutouts (8).

Each of the Herd’s seven wins this season are shutouts.

East Carolina’s Saundra Baron made four saves and took two goals against her in the loss.

LEMONS Marshall dominated the corner kick figure (9-1) and narrowly led the shot chart (12-11), putting six strikes on target.

Next, the Herd returns to Huntington for a home Conference USA weekend against Florida Atlantic and Middle Tennessee, Friday and Sunday, respectively.

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Malala continues to be an inspiration What a difference a year makes.

Last October, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban and nearly died from her injuries. Tuesday, she released her autobiography, “I Am Malala,” detailing her encounters with the Taliban, her desire for education and her fight to survive.

In 2009, Yousafzai began writing a blog for the BBC under a pseudonym discussing the Taliban’s efforts to ban education for girls in Swat. In the three years that followed, Yousafzai’s voice grew louder and her activism stronger. In 2011, she was the recipient of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Prize. Yousafzai was a force to be reckoned with and the Taliban took notice.

Taliban leaders agreed to kill her. However, the attempt failed, and in more ways than one. Not only did Yousafzai survive, but her motivation to fight for education and equality only grew stronger. No, she was not going to let the Taliban silence her. On that note, what does it say about the Taliban that they felt threatened by a 15-year-old girl?

Not much.

Yousafzai, now 16 years old, has created a lot of attention with the release of her book, her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and her continued activism.

It was just Friday that she met with President Barack Obama and his family in the Oval Office. The president commended her

work, and while any other teenage may have basked in his praise, Yousafzai took the time to talk about the drone attacks and their relation to terrorism in the Middle East.

She proves time and time again that her voice is one that will be heard, and more importantly, it will be listened to.

The world needs more people like Yousafzai. At such a young age, she survived the unthinkable and she kept going. She is someone who knows her beliefs are stronger than her fears.

Yousafzai may not have won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but perhaps someday she will. We certainly have not heard the last from her.

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What are you most looking forward to for the month of October?

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By BOB RAY SANDERS

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Compromise isn’t a bad word THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (MCT) Having survived the Civil War, this country should know better than to treat the latest government shutdown as the political equivalent of the Bible’s depiction of Earth’s last days.

The American political system may be stalled, but it isn’t time for a mercy shot to put it out of its misery. Rather, the mess in Washington should motivate people to use the best means they have to push their government out of its funk: going to the polls and voting.

There’s a caveat to that prescription, however. If voters do no more than pull the lever for a label, instead of a person, they will continue to elect politicians who don’t recognize the word compromise as part of the English language — politicians who think it’s treason to part from their faction for any reason.

Government can’t function without compromise. That point was reiterated recently by a number of essayists commenting on the political theories of the noted Yale professor Juan Linz, who

died last week. Linz believed political systems with strong presidencies are doomed to fail. He preferred parliamentary systems, with prime ministers who are forced to form coalitions to govern.

Linz wrote a two-volume book on the subject, The Failure of Presidential Democracy, in which he used Latin American presidencies as examples of flawed governments. He maintained that when a president and a congress are elected by separate constituencies, it’s difficult for them to rule together.

That type of difficulty is what this country seems to be experiencing now.

While President Obama touts his reelection as a mandate to implement the Affordable Care Act, a minority of House Republicans argues that their collective election was a mandate to destroy the law. Unable to agree, they missed a deadline to fund many government functions.

That failure won’t be final. Even as Americans sigh in despair every day that the shutdown continues, most expect

the impasse to end eventually. The evidence is in the 237 years their government has endured, even through the aforementioned Civil War. People are losing patience, though, for a remedy to begin to work its magic.

The remedy is for more of the people elected to Congress to make informed decisions about the best course for this country, to unshackle themselves from groupthink politics, and to stop being afraid to compromise. That’s harder to do these days, with so many legislative districts carved so as to discourage diversity, including diverse points of view.

But it isn’t impossible.

The remedy is stronger leadership to reach the compromises that Washington has evaded for too long. Even as the fight linking the government shutdown to Obamacare may be nearing a resolution, other lines have been drawn over increasing the nation’s borrowing limit.

Once again, there’s too little talk of compromise among lawmakers. Maybe they’re waiting for a prime minister.

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FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM (MCT) It’s one thing to talk about all the starving children in Third World or developing countries; it’s another to address the issue of kids in America who don’t have enough to eat.

The very thought of one child, let alone millions, going to bed hungry is disturbing. Then expand on that theme with a young boy or girl waking up hungry each morning and heading off to school having eaten little or no food.

We’ve known for decades that a hungry child probably will not do well in the classroom and that when children receive daily meals they not only are more likely to come to school but also perform better academically, in class and on standardized tests.

Since the 1930s, partly as an extension of the farm program, the federal government has been involved with supplying food for schoolchildren who could not afford it. What started out as providing farm “commodities” to the schools turned into a free-lunch program for needy kids.

Today, with many schoolchildren qualifying as “economically disadvantaged,” the government supplies free and reduced-price meals (breakfast, lunch and, in many cases, after-school snacks) for students in more than 100,000 schools nationwide.

While this program feeds millions of children, it does not feed all who would be eligible. Many needy kids are still going hungry, either because parents can’t navigate the system or don’t fill out proper paperwork to document income status, or — and this is a big problem — there is a stigma.

There is a considerable dropoff in the percentage of students in high school, compared with those in middle and elementary grades, who receive free or reduced-price lunches. Much of that is because of the stigma attached to it.

The Agriculture Department, which operates the lunch program, has launched a pilot project that’s gaining acceptance among districts

around the country: universal free lunch. That means in districts with large numbers of low-income students, all children eat free meals at school regardless of income.

The Dallas school district, with 89 percent of its 159,000 students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals, announced this month that it will be going to the universal plan, offering free meals to every student. It joins several other districts, including Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, parts of New York City and Boston.

Dallas expects to save money through the elimination of jobs designed to keep up with all the paperwork, according to The Dallas Morning News.

The Fort Worth district has no plans to go to the universal program right now though 83 percent of its 84,600 students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, said Glenn Headlee, director of Child Nutrition Services.

Noting that the total revenue the district receives for meals from paying students (reduced or full fees) is more than $1.8 million a year, Headlee said the district would have to cover that loss from the general fund if it went to universal free meals.

“It is possible in the future, at the current growth rate per year of approximately 1 percent to 1.25 percent in qualified students, that the district could consider going to universal free lunch once the threshold is reached of 90 percent,” he said.

In elementary schools, Fort Worth serves more than 5.7 million free, more than 358,000 reduced-price and about 620,200 paid meals a year. In high school, consistent with the national trend, the figures are: 2.85 million free, 203,655 reduced-price and 293,709 paid.

It appears that the Fort Worth district is six years or so away from considering the universal route.

But if universal free meals can improve attendance, schoolwork and test scores while removing a stigma for students and more work for district employees, then it might be the right path for thousands of other school districts across the nation.

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Salmonella outbreak in chicken shows resistance to antibiotics

By DAVID PIERSON AND TIFFANY HSU

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) A salmonella outbreak in Foster Farms chicken contains several antibiotic-resistant strains that may explain an unusually high rate of hospitalization.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that four of the seven salmonella strains found in the outbreak were resistant to one or more drugs — and that 42 percent of those sickened have been hospitalized.

"That's about double the hospitalization rate of a regular salmonella outbreak," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a public health alert Monday linking some raw chicken products produced in California to a salmonella outbreak.

The agency's Food Safety and Inspection Service found chicken produced by Foster Farms at three California facilities with strains of Salmonella Heidelberg.

So far, 278 illnesses have been reported in 18 states, with 77 percent of those cases occurring in California, according to the CDC. The outbreak has sickened people ranging in age from an infant to 93 years old, the CDC said.

Investigators have yet to trace the illnesses to a specific product or production period, but said that raw items from the plants in question will bear one of the establishment numbers P6137, P6137A or P7632.

Most of the chicken was distributed to retail outlets in California, Oregon and Washington, according to the USDA. Foster Farms said in a statement that no recall is in effect and that products are safe to eat if properly handled and fully cooked.

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Continued from Page 3 players,” Stanton said.

Several players stood out over the nine fall games, Winton was one of them.

“We’re so proud of her, she’s

BUDGET

Continued from Page 2 Senators of both parties said they believe Congress will find a compromise before Thursday, when the government is expected to start running out of ways to pay its debts.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he was “cautiously hopeful, optimistic,” but acknowledged that the issue over spending is now “one of the sticking points.”

VBALL

Continued from Page 3 grabbed a 12-8 advantage. The Herd came out of the break to rally and even things at 14 before taking the lead at 18-17.

The teams traded the next few points and the Mean Green pushed the Herd to the brink, leading 24-22. Marshall answered with four consecutive points including a big kill from Byous-McConnell to take the match 3-1 from North Texas.

KIMETTO

Continued from Page 2 Kimetto said he had been diagnosed with malaria in July and had a back problem in August but had trained well the last six weeks.

Although he tested his rivals a few times Sunday with brief surges, the most striking piece of Kimetto’s strategy was its consistency. He ran the first half of the race in 61:52, the second half in 61:53.

He finally took command at the final fluids station, when a tired Emmanuel Mutai had trouble grabbing his bottle and dropped a few meters behind.

"We are committed to ensuring the safety of our products, and our family-owned company has maintained an excellent food safety record during its near 80-year history," said Foster Farms President Ron Foster in the statement.

Salmonellosis is among the most common of bacterial food-borne illnesses and can be life threatening, especially when it hits victims with weak immune systems.

Symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight to 72 hours of consumption.

Cooking poultry so that the meat reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit will kill salmonella.

Smith DeWaal of the Center for Science

in the Public Interest said salmonella does not trigger an automatic recall like e.coli outbreaks because it's not considered an adulterant.

But health officials have been lobbying the USDA to change that, arguing more dangerous strains of salmonella resistant to antibiotics have emerged in recent years.

But unless the USDA deems salmonella an adulterant, it's often up to producers to issue a recall. Cargill issued a voluntary recall of nearly 30,000 pounds of ground beef last year because of potential Salmonella enteritidis contamination.

stepping up in her senior year,” Stanton said.

Winton’s homerun in the second game against Wesleyan gave the Herd the lead, and would power them to get the victory. She also had two runs batted in against West Virginia State in game one.

“She just tattoos the ball at the plate,” Stanton said.

Marshall did lose several players at the end of the 2012 season, but it seems as though they are ready to charge forward into the 2013 season with the new squad of nine freshman players.

“I always take talent over experience,” Staunton said. “We didn’t need anything extraordinary, we just need to play smart.”

Monty Green can be contacted at green173@marshall.edu.

Action moved to the Senate after talks between the White House and the Republican-led House broke down Saturday.

The future of any compromise now rests largely on Reid and McConnell. They, with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Schumer, met Saturday for the first time to discuss a deal.

But Sen. Lindsay Graham, RS.C., said on ABC’s “This Week” that he thinks a proposal should originate in the House.

“I’m worried a deal will come out of the Senate that a majority of Republicans in the House can’t support,” he said. “I’m not going to vote for any plan that can’t get a majority of Republicans in the House.”

On Saturday, the Senate considered a proposal by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to reopen the closed parts of the government immediately with six months of funding. The debt limit

would be extended through Jan. 31.

Collins’ plan would delay the medical device tax which helps pay for the health -care law_a plan that has in the past won bipartisan support and give agencies more flexibility to deal with the automatic spending cuts, which were ordered across the board when enacted.

Reid rejected the proposal, saying it is “not going to go anyplace at this stage.”

“Last, but most important, we won the serve and pass game today,” remarked Jacobs. “Dorothy (Rahal) was fantastic directing the responsibilities and to not be aced against a good serving team might be the most telling stat of why were able to pull this one out.”

Marshall will return home to face C-USA foe East Carolina on Friday Oct. 18 in the Cam Henderson Center at 5:30 p.m. ET. Mutai, 29, said the problems with the bottle were not decisive as he tried vainly to close the gap before finishing second for the sixth time in a major marathon, including London twice, New York twice and the world championships.

“Dennis was stronger than me,” Mutai said.

Mutai’s time was fifth fastest ever on a record-eligible course. (Boston, where the two fastest marathon times were run in 2011, is among courses that do not meet record standards because they are point-to-point, allowing a tailwind to have a profound effect.)

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Continued from Page 1 Ridgeway, who is a Huntington resident and Marshall alumna, is the president of the West Virginia Chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People. The discussion will be held in the Drinko Auditorium from 4:30 - 6 p.m.

The discussion will be immediately followed by Two more Kenyans, Sammy Kitwara (2:05:16) and Micah Kogo (2:06:56), ran personal bests to finish third and fourth, respectively, giving their country its first sweep of Chicago’s top four places since 2008.

Kenya’s Moses Mosop, the 2011 champion, was eighth in 2:11:19.

Kenyan men have won 10 of the last 11 Chicago marathons, missing only last year, when Kitwara was fourth behind three Ethiopians.

Battling hamstring cramps over the final eight miles, top U.S. finisher Dathan Ritzenhein could be pleased with his place (fifth) if not his time

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a public reception in the Drinko Library Atrium.

Students, faculty, staff and people from the community will have the opportunity to interact and chat about the importance of civil rights in the United States. Marshall University Libraries will be providing beverages and light refreshments.

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

(2:09:45). No U.S. man has finished higher in Chicago since Abdi Abdirahman’s fourth in 2006.

“I’m definitely a little disappointed,” Ritzenhein said. “I hoped to run about three minutes faster.”

Matt Tegenkamp wound up satisfied with a marathon debut that left him 10th in 2:12:28. The ex-Wisconsin runner, a two-time track Olympian, said his legs gave out with four miles to go.

Kimetto had plenty left in his legs. After all, the way he tells it, they hadn’t been used to race for the first 26 years of his life.

TRANSIT

Continued from Page 2 The report cites the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, N.C., a 9.6-mile light rail corridor that opened in 2007 and has generated more than $800 million in transit-oriented development.

“Both have potential to stimulate development,” she said. “In areas that have hot land markets, it doesn’t necessarily matter what kind of project you build.”

Charlotte and other cities, such as Sacramento, Calif., plan to expand their light-rail systems. Kansas City, Mo., Sacramento and Charlotte also have streetcar systems on the drawing board. Additionally, Charlotte, Kansas City and Fresno, Calif., have some variation of bus rapid transit.

Kansas City’s MAX, or Metro Area Express, buses began running on a nine-mile route in 2005 and expanded with a second, 13-mile route in 2011, for a total investment of $50 million. But MAX runs in marked bus lanes on existing city streets, not on a dedicated roadway. That falls short of the “gold” standard for bus rapid transit as defined by the report.

Kansas City recently received a $20 million federal grant from the Department of Transportation to begin building a $100 million two-mile streetcar line, scheduled for completion in 2015. The bulk of the project will be financed by bonds paid for with increased sales and property taxes in a special district near the line. Increasingly, cities are relying on the direct beneficiaries of transit projects to pay for them.

Voters have approved more

PATH

Continued from Page 1 “We have four different rides going on,” Williams said.

“One is a 20-mile, 10-mile, seven-mile and four-mile.”

Brianna Shell, volunteer helping with Tour de PATH, said that the bike ride shows people the latest developments of PATH. “The Tour de PATH is a way to show people the new sections of the path that have been developed within the last year,” Shell said. “And to

than 70 percent of the bond measures for rail transit in the past decade. But while rail projects have sparked tens of billions of dollars in economic development, Leinberger said he had yet to see bus rapid transit deliver benefits on the same scale.

“That is a reflection of how the market feels about it,” he said.

The construction cost for the highest level of bus rapid transit can approach or even exceed that of light rail because of the sophistication of the engineering, according to Art Guzzetti, the vice president of policy at the American Public Transportation Association.

The 9.4-mile New Britain-Hartford Busway in Connecticut, which is under construction, has a price tag of $567 million. Charlotte’s similar-sized light rail line cost $462 million.

Still, while bus rapid transit generally is cheaper to build, it might not be cheaper to operate over the long term. Bus systems require more vehicles, drivers and fuel, and light rail vehicles last longer.

Mike Wiley, the general manager and CEO of Sacramento Regional Transit, considered bus rapid transit to connect Sacramento’s airport with downtown. He said the construction cost would have been lower than light rail, but there’d be a significantly higher operating cost.

The agency plans an “advanced bus” corridor with dedicated lanes elsewhere in Sacramento, he said.

“We’re not opposed to any mode or any option,” Wiley said. “We believe there are places for anything.” also provide an opportunity for people who can get to the newer sections of the path through town.”

The goal of the Tour de PATH was to encourage healthy exercising activities such as cycling for the Huntington community.

“They get to go outside and enjoy the fresh air,” Williams said. “Cycling anywhere from a half-hour to two hours.”

Mason Haynes can be contacted at haynes75@ marshall.edu.

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– Daniel Radcliffe

Founded in 2004, Tsubasacon is West Virginia's only anime convention and attracts more than 1,000 attendees to the Big Sandy Superstore Arena each year. Artists, directors, voice actors and music groups are invited to perform and many participants participate in cosplay in which attendees dress as anime characters.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary Oct. 11 through Oct. 13, Tsubasacon kicked off with a masquerade party Friday and a midnight rave and performance by 2D6 Saturday. Huntington Mayor Steve Williams declared the weekend Tsubasacon: 10th Anniversary Weekend and encouraged businesses and organizations to welcome attendees, volunteers and staff to the city.

TSUBASACON 2013 TSUBASACON 2013

By CHARLIE HOUSE

THE PARTHENON Anime fans of the Tri-State came together this weekend at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena for the 10th annual Tsubasacon.

The three-day convention focusing on all things anime showed a strong sense of community building among attendees and event organizers.

The convention began Friday morning with a proclamation from Huntington Mayor Steve Williams recognizing the contributions Tsubasacon has made to the TriState community.

Jack Varney, marketing director of Tsubasacon, said the convention benefits the community more than economically, because event

organizers emphasize giving back to the community.

Tsubasacon partners annually with local charities to collect money and other items for people in need.

This year, Tsubasacon was collecting duffel bags, totes and other luggage for children in foster care.

Tsubasacon featured a number of events throughout the weekend, including panel discussions on a variety of topics, like how to make costumes without sewing, the influence of professional wrestling in anime, “My Little Pony” and a panel for parents called “What have you dragged me into?”

There were performances by Japanese pop-rock singer/songwriter Junko Fujiyama and “nerdcore” hiphop duo 2D6.

Signings took place with noted voice actors Laura Post, Danielle McRae, Chris Cason and David Vincent. Friday night drew guests in with a masquerade ball, and costume construction was on full display Saturday night at the cosplay contest.

Many impromptu games also sprang up at the convention. Baxter Mallory, a volunteer who ran Tsubasacon's video game room, said he wanted a way to bring people together at the convention.

“Online, I found you can buy [hundreds] of tiny Pokemon for very inexpensive,” Mallory said. “So I bought two or three hundred of them, and I came up with this great social game.”

Mallory said sometimes while playing the Pokemon video game,

a wild Pokemon appears, and players have a random encounter.

Baxter walked around to attendees, with the Pokemon figures in a hat, and encouraged the attendees to trade with as many others as possible.

“We tell them that the goal is to go around and meet other people,” Mallory said. “It's a social game that gets you talking about things. It gets introverted people that have commonalities, but who are afraid to talk to each other, to realize that we're all the same.”

Varney said the convention is steadily growing, and he hopes to expand the convention into the main arena next year.

Charlie House can be contacted at house8@marshall.edu.

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BELOW: Anime fans check out booths at the Big Sandy Superstore Area at Tsubasacon on Saturday. Attendees participated in events such as panel discussions, musical performances and signings with voice actors.

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