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Search begins for new chief financial officer

By NANCY PEYTON

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Mary Ellen Heuton, chief financial officer and vice president of finance, resigned from her position in early July. A national search will be conducted to find a replacement.

FOR THE PARTHENON A national search will be conducted for a new chief financial officer at Marshall University.

Former CFO Mary Ellen Heuton has resigned, effective Aug. 19, after serving the university in the position for four years.

President Jerome Gilbert said the search for a replacement will likely begin in the fall.

“We are looking for someone with financial management experience, preferably in higher education, who can effectively manage a complex financial enterprise,” Gilbert said.

“As with every leadership position, we are looking for someone with impeccable integrity. Replacing Ms. Heuton will not be easy but we will take appropriate steps to identify an outstanding person to replace her.”

Gilbert said the university will be conducting a national search to ensure the most qualified candidate is chosen for the position.

“I think it’s important to validate the eventual selection—whoever that may be—by conducting a na-

national search pool, the university will be confident we found the best person for the position.”

“I’m confident we will have a smooth transition. The major hurdle each year is getting past the start of the new academic budget year, which is July 1. Given the timing of Ms. Heuton’s departure in midAugust, we are in good shape to move forward at this point.”

-President Jerome Gilbert tional search,” Gilbert said.

“If an internal candidate is indeed selected from the

Current budget director, Mark Robinson, has been appointed as interim senior

vice president for finance, effective Aug. 20. Gilbert said Robinson “has a deep understanding of the university finances and budget.”

“I’m confident we will have a smooth transition,” Gilbert said. “The major hurdle each year is getting past the start of the new academic budget year, which is July 1. Given the timing of Ms. Heuton’s departure in mid-August, we are in good shape to move forward at this point.”

Heuton has accepted the position of vice president for business affairs/treasurer at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama.

Before serving as CFO, she joined Marshall University staff as controller in 2009.

She has previously served as director of advancement services and controller of the supporting organizations at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, as well as positions in real estate, software and public accounting.

Nancy Peyton can be contacted at peyton22@ marshall.edu.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Merrill Auditorium, Thursday, Aug. 4, in Portland, Maine.

Trump conflict overshadows attacks on Clinton foreign policy

By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN

ASSOCIATED PRESS Back on the defensive, Donald Trump’s campaign chief acknowledged conflict inside Trump Tower on Thursday as anxious Republicans struggled to shift voters’ attention to Hillary Clinton’s record on foreign policy.

The feud between the GOP’s presidential nominee and House Speaker Paul Ryan continued to overshadow fresh attacks on Clinton, underscoring the rising concerns from party leaders over the New York billionaire’s unorthodox candidacy and its impact on the future of the Republican Party.

At the same time, President Barack Obama dismissed as “ridiculous” Trump’s recent warning that the election might be “rigged” if he loses in November.

“My suggestion would be: go out there and try to win the election,” Obama said during a Thursday press conference.

Trump refused for another

day to endorse the Republican speaker, though he said Ryan is “a good guy, actually.”

Ryan, meanwhile, publicly declared his support for Trump, but said such endorsements aren’t “blank checks” and pledged to speak out against the businessman’s divisive positions if necessary.

Most recently, that means Trump’s sustained criticism of an American Muslim family whose son, U.S. Army Capt.

Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq.

“I don’t like doing this,” Ryan told a Wisconsin radio station.

“I don’t want to do this, but I will do this because I feel I have to in order to defend Republicans, and our principles, so that people don’t make the mistake of thinking we think like that.”

Campaign chairman Paul Manafort insisted Trump would work with Ryan if elected, but he conceded the endorsement question had sparked tension inside Trump’s New York campaign headquarters. The day before, vice presidential nominee

Mike Pence broke with Trump and endorsed Ryan.

“There’s a conflict within the Trump campaign,” Manafort told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” ‘’We’ve sort of had a rule of not getting involved in primaries because it’s usually not a good situation for the presidential candidate.”

Facing Maine voters later in the day, Trump said he gave Pence permission to endorse Ryan.

“I say, ‘Mike, you like him?

Yes. Go ahead and do it, 100 percent,’” Trump recalled of his conversation the day before, interrupting his audience when they began to boo Ryan.

“Paul Ryan’s a good guy, actually,” Trump added.

As Republican infighting dominated the 2016 presidential race for another day, Trump and his Republican allies lashed out at the Democratic presidential nominee’s foreign policy record.

Specifically, they contended that Clinton was responsible for negotiations that led to a

$400 million U.S. payment to Iran earlier in the year. Trump and some other Republicans have described the money as ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran days before the money was delivered.

“It’s so sad, so disgusting,” Trump said of the payment as he campaigned in Maine. At his news conference, Obama strongly rejected the idea the $400 million was a ransom.

“This wasn’t some nefarious deal,” Obama said of a payment that was part of a decades-old dispute over a failed military equipment deal.

As Trump used the issue to assail Clinton, he faced new questions about his description Wednesday, and again on Thursday, of video he suggested was taken by Iranian forces removing bags of money from a plane.

It’s unclear what footage Trump was referring to.

Several senior U.S. officials involved in the Iran negotiations said they weren’t aware of any such video.

Trump’s campaign said the

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GOP nominee had not seen a tape as part of any security briefing.

In an email, a campaign spokeswoman said Trump was simply referring to video aired on television this week, although no such footage of payment to Iranians was shown.

At the same time, Clinton criticized Trump for outsourcing at his companies the very jobs he’s promising to create back home.

“Everything he’s made he’s made somewhere else,” Clinton said as she toured a Las Vegas electric manufacturer Thursday afternoon. “I’ve met people who were destroyed by Donald Trump, so take a look at what he’s done, not what he says.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s missteps have caused widening ripples of anxiety among Republican officials with the election just three months away.

Concerned congressional Republicans are asking about Trump “hourly and daily,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a leading Trump emissary on

Capitol Hill.

“What the heck’s going on?

Why aren’t we focused here? ... Why are we caught up in these sideshows?” Hunter asked, describing the questions raised by his colleagues.

Hunter said he’s not concerned: “It is what it is.

There’s no reassuring. Trump is Trump.”

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday dismissed reports that he was planning an “intervention” with top Trump allies, including GOP Chairman Reince Priebus and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to urge Trump to abandon tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale.

“I meet with Donald Trump all the time,” Giuliani told the Fox Business Network, suggesting that Gingrich used the word “intervention” in a recent memo.

“He is a new candidate,” Giuliani said of Trump. “That adds a little bit of — more of a learning curve, than would normally be the case.”

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GET LOST IN HUNTINGTON

BY KARIMA NEGHMOUCHE

LIFE! EDITOR The Lost: Huntington Escape Room had its grand opening July 29th, and has been well-received since as the first escape room to come to the Tri-State area.

The Lost Huntington’s Escape Room’s website describes an escape room as “…a fun, immersive new entertainment concept designed for small groups of people to work together in order to escape from a locked room. Each room has a unique storyline, and teams must find clues and solve puzzles in order to escape within the 60-minute timeframe.”

Owner Debbie Adkins said after she and her husband, Steve Adkins, went to an escape room in Nashville they fell in love with the idea and wanted to open one.

“It’s a different concept, an interactive game… and it’s fun, whether it’s a large party or not,” Adkins said. “There’s nothing like this close to the area.”

There are three games that players get to choose from in the Lost Huntington Escape Room.

The first game is “Tell No One.” Participants are challenged to solve a three-year mystery in 60 minutes. It has a difficulty score of 4.5/5 and a success rate of 23%. It is a story-based challenge.

The second game “The Outbreak”

features a deadly new virus has caused a panic in the downtown city streets, and you and your specialized team have to stop the spread of the virus and find a cure. This game has the lowest difficulty score, with 3.5/5, and a success rate of 50%.

The last game is called “60:00” and there is an impending terrorist attack on foreign soil, and you and your team have to find the source of the attack.

This has a difficulty score of 4.5/5, and a success rate of 27%.

When participants begin to play, you sit and watch a video based on your task. Then, when the video ends, you’re standing in the room you have to escape.

All games last for one hour, and The Lost Huntington Escape Room website has the record-high score for each game, so you and your team can go in trying to beat it.

Adkins said the Escape Room is something different to do for college students and other locals in the Huntington area.

“It’s something different. You can go out to the movies, go out to eat, all the typical stuff all the time. This is something different, something fun. It’s fun for groups of people, for coworkers, for couples, families, for everyone,” Adkins said.

The closest escape room is in Lexington, Kentucky.

Adkins said it is also great for events and is fun to have friends and strangers work together as a team to accomplish the goal at the end—getting the key to unlock the room.

Adkins also said some of the stories involve actual things and places that are here, in Huntington.

“The Outbreak and Tell No One are based in Huntington. The storyline has the events here,” Adkins said. “We made these stories and entire games. People will even see things in the rooms that they may know.”

While walk-ins are accepted if there is room, Adkins said it is best to check availability on their website and make reservations in advance to secure your spot in the game.

The Lost Huntington Escape Room is located on 300C Eighth Street in Huntington, West Virginia, across the street from Big Sandy Superstore Arena and within walking distance to Pullman Square and other nearby attractions.

The Lost Huntington Escape Room will be open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday. Games can be booked on their website, www.lostescaperoom.com.

Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at neghmouche2@marshall. edu.

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CLEAN EATZ OPENING BY MARSHALL UNIVERSITY'S CAMPUS

BY KARIMA NEGHMOUCHE

LIFE! EDITOR Replacing Flapjacks on 3rd Avenue is a new restaurant called Clean Eatz. Clean Eatz is a national emerging franchise with a mission of being the first step someone takes in the beginning of a healthy lifestyle.

Clean Eatz is scheduled to open in early September following Labor Day. “We are all about eating whole or real food, in its most natural form, in balanced portions. At Clean Eatz it’s not just a diet, it’s a lifestyle!”

Owner Greg George is a Marshall Alumni, and said all he has heard for more than 20 years is that his hometown had a 38% obesity rate.

“I have consulted with Clean Eatz for some time now and got to thinking that this concept could really help my family and friends.

I decided to put my money where my mouth was,” George said.

George said he believes Clean Eatz will bring a new, healthy

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lifestyle to Huntington, along with a new way of thinking. George hopes to see positive outcomes resulting in a lower obesity rate, convenience for students and staff of Marshall University and the ability to give the Tri-State more choices.

The average meal cost comes in right around $7, making it affordable for college students to eat healthy.

Some of the menu items include spinach artichoke dip, pita and hummus, cranberry chicken salad, teriyaki turkey burger, grilled goat cheese sandwich, tilapia burger, many flatbreads and wraps—and what George will think will be the most popular menu item: build your own bowl.

When you build your own bowl, you get to choose a protein (chicken, salmon, beef steak, or tofu), up to three veggies (carrots, mushrooms, edamame, broccoli, peppers, corn, black beans, tomato, brussels sprout, cabbage, spinach,

onions, snow peas, asparagus), a carb (brown rice, white rice, sweet potato, quinoa), and finally a sauce (sweet-n-sour, teriyaki, Thai peanut, salsa, chipotle BBQ, cilantro lime, jerk or Clean Eatz buffalo).

The cost of a bowl is $8.39 for a small, $9.69 for a medium and $10.99 for a large.

George said there will be gluten free, vegetarian and vegan items, so everyone can enjoy the options Clean Eatz has to offer.

“My investment has nothing to do with making money. It’s all about helping my people. This venture will provide jobs as well. It’s a win-win for everyone involved,” George said.

Clean Eatz hours will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and will be closed on Sundays.

Clean Eatz will be opening shortly after labor day.

Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at neghmouche2@ marshall.edu.

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“20 things I wish I knew my freshman year of college”

By Karima Neghmouche, Life Editor and senior public relations major at Marshall University 1.

Keep your syllabus. This is the most important piece of advice I could give to anyone.

Highlight the dates of important assignments due, and keep them all in one place.

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Invest in a planner. Take a few hours during syllabus week and put all assignments, long breaks and finals in your planner. It will help you so much when you’re trying to figure out whether or not you’ll be able to take that trip on Thanksgiving break.

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Go to office hours. I cannot stress this enough. Your professors are there to help you; they want to see you succeed. If you show you’re making an active effort and are asking for help, they will be much more inclined to give you that small extension on a paper, or bump you up that 1% on a test.

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Don’t be scared to take naps in weird places. This is something that I learned around my junior year of college. My freshman year I would look around and see everyone napping in the student center, now I just look at them and think, “I get it.” TIP: Cars make the best napping place, also the back room in the bottom floor of Drinko Library is perfect.

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Keep yourself organized, including your room at home. I didn’t think a messy room ever bothered me, until I realized when my room is clean I am far less stressed, even when it comes to things that have nothing to do with my room—like studying for a test. Being in a clean, neat atmosphere really helps you focus and sleep better, and cleaning your room is one thing you don’t have to worry about having on your to-do list.

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Become a “yes” person. If a group of people in your class are going out to eat, go. If your adviser says you need one hour and there’s a rock-climbing class, take it. If your friends want to take the weekend off work and drive 3 hours and climb a mountain- do it. These are supposed to be some of the best years of your entire life. You’ll remember all your crazy adventures, late nights out and spontaneous trips. You won’t remember that time you stayed home and worked a double shift to buy things you didn’t need.

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Collect moments, not things. You don’t need to walk around campus in the best clothes.

Honestly, no one cares in college. 90% of people are walking around in their pajamas, just happy they made it to class that day. Sure, you should look nice sometimes, just to feel good about yourself, but at the end of the day- that $30 shirt will not bring you any happiness, but that trip to Charleston to eat at Pies & Pints with your best friends will.

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Realize this is a time where you’re going to make and lose friends. You may be lucky enough to keep all the same friends you had in high school, but chances are a lot of you went do different schools. You’re going to grow apart from a lot of people who were your close friendsbecause everyone starts their lives in different ways.

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Do what makes you happy. If you don’t like your major, change it to something you do like.

If you would rather binge watch The Bachelor than go out, do it. Start living for yourself, because at the end of the day your happiness is what’s important.

10. Don’t skip class. You will fall behind.

11. Do not raise your hand to go to the bathroom. I will never forget the moment I was in my Art History class, and needed to pee. Well, in high school, you raise your hand, and you go to the bathroom…right? Well, I quickly learned, in college you don’t. You just get up and walk out. It feels really weird the first few times and you think everyone will be looking at you. They’re not.

It’s fine. Go to the bathroom. Save yourself the embarrassment. Learn from my mistakes.

12. Don’t feel rushed to move out of your parent’s house, but if you have the opportunity, you should take it. I have learned more about myself the past few months I’ve lived out of my parents’ house than I did with them. It also gave me a newfound appreciation for my sweet mother.

13. Call your mom. She misses you. She’s worried about you.

14. Party, sleep, good grades. Pick two.

15. Go out the Tuesday of Finals Week. No one has class Wednesdays, and it has consecutively been the most fun night(s) of my college experience.

16. Don’t worry about who’s “cool,” anymore. There aren’t “cool” kids in college. The “cool” kids I knew in high school are no longer. Be your own kind of cool.

17. Avoid early classes unless you are really, really a morning person. I thought I was a morning person until I was trekking my way to French 101 in the snow at 8 a.m., cursing under my breath.

18. Sheetz has really good food. The walking taco is my favorite. They also have a drive-thru.

19. Take a yoga class. It helps your soul in so many different ways.

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20. Find a go-to stress reliever. Write in a journal, go run in the park, take a nap—find something that is guaranteed to make you feel better, and do it whenever you can.

Karima Neghmouche can be contacted at neghmouche2@marshall.edu.

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High court: School can block transgender teen from boys room

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

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The Palace Theatre in central London which is showing a stage production of, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is displayed in this July 30 file photograph.

Potter script sells more than 2 million copies in 2 days

By HILLEL ITALIE

ASSOCIATED PRESS Not even “Hamilton” can keep up with these numbers.

The script to the London stage production “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” sold more than 2 million print copies in North America in its first two days of publication, Scholastic announced Wednesday.

That’s well below the 8.3 million copies sold in 2007 for the

first day of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” J.K. Rowling’s then-presumed finale for her fantasy series. But it’s still among the fastest-selling works in history and a remarkable number for the script to a play and for a project that only partially involved Rowling. A text edition of “Hamilton” has also been a best-seller this year.

Meanwhile, the British publisher Little, Brown Book Group announced that over 680,000

print copies sold in the first three days in the United Kingdom.

Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper said in a statement that no hardcover had sold so quickly in the U.K. since Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” in 2009.

Reviews for the “Cursed Child” book have been mixed, but the new Potter has topped the best-seller lists of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. com and brought in readers

worldwide last weekend for midnight store parties celebrating the release.

Several previous Rowling books also reached high on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble lists in recent days.

Sales for the e-edition for “Cursed Child,” released through Rowling’s Pottermore website, have not been announced. The script is based on a Rowling story and co-written by Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.

Pence tries to win over conservatives despite Trump gaffes

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

ASSOCIATED PRESS Since his selection as Donald Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence has tried to stay focused on winning over conservatives skeptical of the New York billionaire.

His new boss keeps getting in the way.

On several occasions in the past week, the Indiana governor has found himself in direct conflict with Trump, taking a different campaign tact or running damage control after one of the Republican presidential nominee’s incendiary remarks. The latest came Wednesday, when Pence offered an unqualified endorsement of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s re-election bid a day after Trump refused to endorse Ryan.

“There’s been some cleanup,” said Curt Smith, a longtime Pence friend who runs the socially conservative Indiana Family Institute.

“I think you’ll see more.”

The early days of the general election campaign have been a contortionist act for Pence, who has remained loyal to Trump while trying to maintain his reputation as a principled, down-to-earth Midwesterner with the primary mission of acting as an emissary to the conservative and evangelical wings of the Republican Party.

The first noticeable split between nominee and running mate came during the Democratic convention, when Trump encouraged Russia to find and make public missing emails deleted by Hillary Clinton from the private servers she used while

secretary of state.

At roughly the same time, Pence blasted Russia in a statement issued by the campaign that said “the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences” if Russia is “interfering in our elections.”

Last weekend, Pence, whose only son is a U.S. Marine, sought to quell the uproar Trump created by lashing out at Capt. Humayun Khan’s parents, who appeared at the Democratic convention and have criticized Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric. Their son was killed in Iraq.

In a statement, Pence said he and Trump believe Khan is “an American hero” and said “his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American.” He then shifted gears to praise Trump, who he said will “support our military and their families” and “defeat the enemies of our freedom.”

He backed up those remarks at a Monday evening town hall meeting in Nevada, when the audience jeered a woman who asked how he can tolerate what she called Trump’s disrespect of American servicemen.

Pence asked the crowd to quiet down and then said of the questioner: “That’s what freedom looks like. That’s what freedom sounds like.”

Trump, meanwhile, wrote on Twitter that day: “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over TV doing the same... Nice!”

On Tuesday, Pence held a meeting with Arizona Sen.

John McCain — a day after the former prisoner of war said Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us,” and hours after Trump responded by telling The Washington Post he would not endorse McCain’s re-election.

In that same interview, Trump also refused to endorse Ryan, who faces a primary election next week.

On Wednesday, Pence had a very different message.

“I’m very confident after Donald Trump is elected president and Paul Ryan is re-elected to Congress ... these two men are going to do great things,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News Channel. “I talked to Donald Trump this morning about my support for Paul Ryan and our longtime friendship. He strongly encouraged me to endorse Paul Ryan.”

While Trump has been openly hostile toward members of the media, Pence has struck a conciliatory tone. He recently gave a reporter in his traveling press entourage cupcakes for her birthday.

And after law enforcement and local volunteers barred a Washington Post reporter from entering a rally in Wisconsin, Pence said on conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt’s radio show the campaign would evaluate its policy and added that events would be “available to the media, whether they’re fair or unfair.”

“I think it will be a challenge for Mike, but I also think he’ll meet the challenge,” Smith said of his friend Pence’s relationship

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with Trump. “As many marriages as (Trump’s) had and as good as his kids are, I suspect he’s had people tell him ‘We’re not going to agree on this’ or ‘I see it differently.’”

Campaign spokesman Marc Lotter didn’t respond to a request to interview Pence about his relationship with Trump. He also would not answer questions about the Indiana governor’s approach to dealing with the fallout from Trump’s remarks.

But there are no outward signs that Trump has any issues with Pence, or that his statements come as a surprise to the candidate at the top of the ticket. Two people familiar with the campaign’s inner workings said the official statements and tweets from Pence are approved at campaign headquarters.

They spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

“He’s staying consistent with his character and he’s not changing who he is, but he’s also careful not to criticize his spouse,” said Indiana Republican public affairs consultant Mike Murphy, who has known Pence for nearly 30 years.

And Trump’s voters don’t seem to mind the differences.

Jeanne Eskew, who attended a recent Pence rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said she hopes Pence can “balance” Trump out.

“I really like Mike Pence.

I feel like he’s real,” said Eskew, a 54-year-old former Ben Carson supporter from Holland, Michigan. “For people who are on the fence, he’s very credible.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS A Virginia school board can block a transgender male from using the boys restroom when school starts next month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

In a 5-3 decision, the high court put on hold a lower court ruling that ordered the Gloucester County School Board to let Gavin Grimm use the bathroom that matches his gender identity. The school board is expected to ask the justices to further intervene in the case later this month.

The decision means Grimm will be barred from using the boys bathroom for at least the first half of his senior year, said Josh Block, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who’s representing Grimm.

“The school board welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision as the new school year approaches,” the Gloucester County School Board said in a news release. “The board continues to believe that its resolution of this complex matter fully considered the interests of all students and parents.”

The school board says it plans to formally ask the Supreme Court to review the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Grimm’s case by the end of August and then it will be months before the justices decide whether to do so.

Block said he’s disappointed the teen will have to begin another school year being “stigmatized and isolated from the rest of his peers just because he is transgender.” But he said he remains hopeful that Grimm will ultimately prevail in the case.

Grimm, who was born female but identifies as male, was allowed to use the boys restroom at

his high school for several weeks in 2014. But after some parents complained, the school board adopted a policy requiring students to use either the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender or a private, single-stall restroom. Grimm argues the policy violates Title IX, a federal law that bars sex discrimination in schools.

The school board counters that allowing Grimm use the boys restroom raises privacy concerns and may cause some parents to pull their children out of school.

If the justices agree to hear Grimm’s case, the order will remain on hold until the court makes a final ruling, the court’s ruling said. If they deny the school board’s petition for review, the order requiring the board to let Grimm use the boys bathroom will be reinstated.

The appeals court sided with Grimm in April, saying the federal judge who previously dismissed Grimm’s Title IX discrimination claim ignored a U.S. Department of Education rule that transgender students in public schools must be allowed to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.

The appeals court reinstated Grimm’s Title IX claim and sent it back to the district court for further consideration. But the high court’s decision Wednesday puts Grimm’s case on hold until the justices decide whether to intervene.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. Justice Stephen Breyer said he agreed to put the case on hold to “preserve the status quo” until the court decides whether to weigh in.

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By ADAM ROGERS

SPORTS EDITOR April showers bring May flower, and August practices bring December championships.

Or at least that’s what 128 teams aim for with the start of fall football camps across the country, Marshall and head coach Doc Holliday included.

The 2016 season will be Holliday’s seventh roaming the sidelines for the Thundering Herd and he’s built Marshall back into a national brand after three consecutive 10-win seasons.

“Back in the ‘90s, late ‘90s, Marshall was the winningest team in college football. When I took the job, we wanted to get back to being where expectations and standards were extremely high, and now we’ve got them there,” Holliday said at Conference USA Kickoff in July. “We’ve had three seasons in a row with 10-plus wins. That’s a standard we expect, but we know a lot work goes into it. What’s happened the last three years has no bearing at all with what happens this season.”

A big difference from this year to past seasons under the Hurricane, West Virginia native is the quality of the Herd’s schedule.

Marshall features seven regular season home games on its schedule this year for the first time since its final year in Division I-AA; Louisville, Middle Tennessee and reigning C-USA Champions Western Kentucky highlighting the home schedule.

“Number one, we’ve got a lot of great teams coming here,” Holliday said during his pre-camp press conference. “Seems like one year we were stuck on noon games, I think last year we were stuck on 3:30 and this year we’re stuck on night games. Our kids like it, they like playing under the lights. I think our fans like it, so that’s a good thing. We’ve got a long way to go to get to that Louisville game, but that should be a great atmosphere, and then of course next week we’ve got the opportunity to play a Pitt team that won eight games a year ago and is getting a lot better.

“And our conference is better. Southern Miss is back to where Southern Miss used to be and where we thought they would be. Western (Kentucky) has had a tremendous run at it and Middle

Tennessee is picked to win the east, so it’s a great challenge for all of us.”

The Thundering Herd will play its 12 game schedule consecutively following a first week bye, a first for Holliday, but said his team just needs to roll with it.

“There’s nothing I like about it, but at the end of the day when it happens you don’t worry about it,” Holliday said. “To be honest with you it’s not much different than last year. Last year we went 11 straight. We played that first game, but we didn’t get a break until after the eleventh game and to play number 12. So that break didn’t do us a whole lot of good at that point anyway, didn’t seem like it. You’ve just got to do it, you’ve just got to go and it is what it is. That open date week one, I’ve never had it, but I don’t think it changes the schedule a lot.

“The one thing that will be a little bit different is we have three weeks of school (before Morgan State). Normally you have two, sometimes one, but I don’t like playing that first week of school because of all the distractions, trying to find classes and all that. That’s not a good week, but that second week is pretty good. We’ll turn it into a positive and find a way to make it work.”

In addition to the three weeks of school before the season opening kickoff against Morgan State September 10, Holliday and his coaching staff have been able to work with the player who are in town over the summer for a few hours each week.

“Used to be that freshmen didn’t get here until August, you brought them in three days before the varsity and there was no way they’d be ready to play. Because those kids thought they were working out and they have no clue what it to be prepared as far as in shape is concerned to go play at this level. But having those guys the whole month of June and July is a tribute to Mike Hamrick and our administration because we’re able to bring those kids in and pay for summer school for all of them to keep them here and it gives them a chance. I think you’ve seen over the years there’s probably been more freshmen, not just here, but everywhere around the country, who’ve

had the opportunity to play and play at a high level because they’re able to come in and train with the strength coaches for that two month period. It’s a huge advantage and you can even talk some football. You’re allowed to spend a couple hours a week on football with these guys, so the first time they hear terminology, offensively and defensively, and that kind of thing is not on Monday. They’ve been hearing it all summer.”

Holliday and the Thundering Herd were picked to finish third in C-USA’s east division for 2016, but Holliday said that doesn’t change the team’s preparation heading into fall camp.

“We’re not going to change what we do,” Holliday said. “Hopefully, they don’t know what they’re talking about. I like our team and our players. It’s all about preparation, you don’t win games in August. You win games from the time spring ball is over - which I thought was tremendous - the way you work in the summer and then going into camp. That part we’ve done and now it’s important that we come, starting Sunday, ready to go to work.

“We just can’t forget what got us to where are the last three years and that’s going to work every day. I talk with the team all the time about being complacent. You can’t get complacent, you can’t get selfish and you have to hold each other accountable. For the last three years, we’ve done that and it can’t change this year.”

Adam Rogers can be contacted at rogers112@marshall.edu.

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Marshall football earned two votes in the USA Today/Amway Coaches Preseason Poll released Thursday, August 4 and has been picked to finish anywhere from third to first in Conference USA’s East Division by other national media outlets. The Thundering Herd is 50-28 under head coach Doc Holliday and has won four bowl games in his six seasons at the helm of the program.

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