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TURNING EMPATHY INTO ACTION Huntington comes together for 2014 PATH to the Cure

By TAYLOR WATTS LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON

SPORTS, 3 > WOMEN’S SOCCER > RUGBY >VOLLEYBALL

OPINION, 4 > SODA CALORIES > MINERS PROTECTION >PRAYER

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TODAY’S WEATHER: HIGH 84° LOW 57°

THE PARTHENON The Huntington community came together Sunday at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena for the fourth annual Path to the Cure 5k.

The St. Mary’s Foundation, along with the Big Sandy Superstore Arena and a slew of volunteers, gathered to raise money for two local causes. Eighty percent of the funds raised will go to the Pink Ribbon Fund, which helps under-insured women receive mammograms, while the other 20 percent will go to the St. Ambrose fund for local health initiatives.

Bridget Roy, an employee of Cabell Huntington Hospital who performs mammograms, walked with her friend, Heather Acord, for the first time this year.

“We are walking together because we are passionate about breast cancer,” Acord said.

“This means a lot to my heart because I have seen what these women, and my own family members, have gone through to survive.”

Participants flooded the streets at the starting line after a few hours of fun at the tailgating sites. Various organizations, like Scott Orthopedic Center, set up tailgates before the race to participate in friendly competitions and to add to the festivity of the event.

Tammi Spurlock , an employee of Scott Orthopedic, has participated with her group the past four years.

“We have 44 people participating from the office this year,” Spurlock said. “We know people who have been affected and we really enjoy coming out here each year to participate for the cause.”

The race kicked off at 3 p.m. and made a loop from the Big Sandy, along Fifth Avenue and back down Fourth Avenue. Participants were encouraged to wear crazy costumes and lots of pink as they ran for the cause.

Participants finished the race and were greeted with food and activities from local vendors at a block party.

A performance by City Heat concluded the day’s festivities.

Taylor Watts can be contacted at watts164@ marshall.edu.

Members of the Huntington community participate in the annual Path to the Cure 5K Run/ Walk Sunday.

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“This means a lot to my heart because I have seen what these women, and my own family members, have gone through to survive.” > Bridget Roy, first-time participant

Huntington Music and Arts Festival brings local talent together

By EMILY RICE

THE PARTHENON The sounds of music and drums filled the air at the fifth annual Huntington Music and Arts Festival Saturday.

Ian Thornton, organizer and promoter of the event, said the family-friendly festival was an opportunity for people of the tri-state to experience the talent that lives all around them.

Anna Reynolds, owner of Drunken Mermaid Oddities and regular festival participant, said the festival is a great opportunity for the community to experience local art, as well as music.

“It definitely gives people a chance to know that people like us are here,” Reynolds said. “It is also an opportunity for people that can’t afford a storefront to set up a pop-up tent. I just love it.”

This years’ festival yielded the largest turnout yet, Thorton said.

“This is the biggest crowd we have had so far, this early,” Thornton said. “Everybody has been selling stuff right from the get-go, and we doubled our number of vendors this year. “ Thornton also said he hopes the festival continues to expose the community to local talent.

“Hopefully, it brings it to the people’s attention,” Thornton said. “The whole goal is to bring these bands and artists that they couldn’t see normally during the day to people’s attention.”

For some, the festival is something to look forward to all year long.

“We’ve been to it every year,” Barrett Lynch of Huntington said. “We know Ian, so we follow it on various social media accounts. It is on our calendar every year. It just keeps getting better and better.

We look forward to it every year to see what has changed.”

“Hopefully, it brings (local talent) to the people’s attention.”

>Ian Thorton, HMAF organizer

The Greens perform during the fifth annual Huntington Music and Arts Festival Saturday at the Ritter Park LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON Amphitheater.

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32nd annual Greek Festival attracts Huntington community to St. George Greek Orthodox Church

By BRYAN BOZEMAN

THE PARTHENON This past weekend, The St. George Greek Orthodox Church shared its 32nd annual Greek Festival with the Huntington community.

The event offered a variety of activities, merchandise and food for the general public. Several booths were set up across the church grounds that sold everything from authentic Greek wine and lotion to pastries made from the same recipes passed down to church members for generations.

A mainstay of the Greek festival is the gift shop. Virtually all of the merchandise available for purchase at the gift shop is either from Greece or is made by the Greek monastery in Wheeling West Virginia, according to the shop owners. The church members run the gift shop and most of the people working it are related to each other. Lambros Svingos works the gift shop with his family and has been involved with the event for as long as he can remember.

“I’ve been working at the festival with my family basically since I was born,” Lambros said. “The family does everything at the booth. I started out dancing when I was younger, and now I primarily work the booth with my dad.”

Almost the entire congregation works at the event. Everyone seemed to have a role to play and the feeling at the event was ener-

when we are having it each year to make sure they stop by if they are driving through. There have been people visiting all the way from Atlanta and Missouri.”

One of the most popular things at the festival is the pastries. Despite the church preparing the pastries since last summer, they were all gone by the end of the day Sunday. Sylvia Baker was one of the many My favorite part of the event is seeing our women that community enjoying themselves.” made the pastries by hand for the > JOANNA SVINGOS-SMITH, CO-CHAIR AT event.

ST. GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH “We make all the pastries by hand, getic and friendly. and we have been using the same Joanna Svingos-Smith, co-chair recipes for years,” Sylvia said. “Our at St. George Greek Orthodox mothers taught us the recipe, and Church, is in charge of the event. their mothers taught them, and She has also been working at the now we are teaching the young festival with her family for many ones. We use real butter and years and said the interest gener- fresh eggs, and we don’t make the ated for the festival is continually bathes too big, so that we keep the inspiring. flavor.”

“My favorite part of the event is The Greek festival occurs every seeing our community enjoying September on the grounds of St. themselves,” Svingos-Smith said. George Greek Orthodox Church in “A lot of community members Huntington. come out, but we also have people Bryan Bozeman can be concome from all over. People that tacted at bozeman@marshall. have come in the past call us to see edu.

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ABOVE AND LEFT: Greek dancers perform during St. George’s 32nd annual Greek Festival in Huntington Saturday.

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Modern Languages Film ROTC sponsors 5K for awareness Festival begins Monday

By DONYELLE MURRAY

THE PARTHENON The Department of Modern Languages, along with the Center for International Programs and INTO Marshall is sponsoring a modern language film festival. The film festival will occur Monday through Friday in Drinko Library 402.

“City of God,” showing 5 p.m. Monday, is about two boys who grow up in a Rio de Janerio favela. One becomes a photographer and the other a drug dealer.

“Beyond Silence,” playing 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, is about

a girl named Lara who is given a clarinet by her aunt. Lara is immediately consumed by her new passion that her parents can’t fully comprehend. Lara’s ongoing pusuit of music creates a rift that eventually threatens to tear her family apart.

Wednesday will feature “I Wish” at 5 p.m. The film is about a 12-year-old boy named Koichi who is separated from his brother due to their parents’ divorce.

“Ladron que Roba a Ladron” will play 5:30 p.m.

Thursday. This is a film

about two crack thieves who reunite to rob the biggest thief they know.

The film festival concludes with “Les Choristes” 3 p.m. Friday. This film is about a failed musician who becomes a music teacher in a tough boarding school.

He forms a boys’ choir that affects the lives of some of the delinquent children by introducing them to music.

The film festival is open to all Marshall University students.

Donyelle Murray can be contacted at murray91@ marshall.edu.

Marshall University ROTC sponsored the walk/run for American Syringomyella and Chiari Alliance Project 8 a.m.

Saturday at Ritter Park to raise awareness for the disorders.

Syringomeyeliai is a chronic spinal cord disorder and Chiari Malformations is a hereditary disorder classified as an abnormality in the lower part of the brain.

Members of the community participate in a 5K promoting Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia awareness Saturday at Ritter Park. All proceeds from the event sponsor research for the disease.

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Herd volleyball moves to 2-0 in conference play

By LACHEL HOUSE

THE PARTHENON Herd women’s volleyball defeated Middle Tennessee State University in a battle of five sets Friday night at the Cam Henderson Center, advancing to 2-0 in conference play.

The first set was a back and forth battle between the Thundering Herd and the Blue Raiders, which concluded with the Blue Raiders taking the lead 1-0 by a score of 25-21. The set started off with a kill by Marshall University’s sophomore outside hitter Cassie Weaver, and continued to be a match of kills between the two teams. As the set came to a close, the Raiders broke away from the Herd by scoring four unanswered points to take the win.

Set two saw a total of 17 tied scores as the two teams continued to battle on the court, ending with the Herd taking the set 26-24, tying the game 1-1. The Herd opened the set with two straight points, which were kills by sophomore opposite Elyse Panick and sophomore middle blocker Ally Kiekover, who led the team with 14 kills.

The Raiders took a steady lead after a kill by senior middle blocker Monet Marshall. However, the Herd stormed back on a three point run at the end of the set. The team’s attack percentage went from 34 percent in set one to 57 percent in set two.

Marshall took charge of the game by leading Middle Tennessee two sets to one in the third set with a final score of 25-20. The Blue Raiders’ junior outside hitter Chelsea Ross, who led her team with 27 kills, started set three off with a kill, which was quickly answered with a kill by Kiekover. The Herd had their way with the Blue Raiders towards the end of the set, scoring six unanswered points and making the margin between them and Middle Tennessee 22-16 late in the third set.

The set finished with a total of 10 tied scores, as well as seven lead changes, which was the most of the night.

The Blue Raiders dominated in set four, winning 25-17 in a match that only saw a total of two tied scores. The Herd’s attack percentage dropped to 45 percent in set four, and the team was caught off guard by the amount of kills Middle Tennessee spiked their way. Ross racked up a total of 11 kills.

The final set of the game was the Herd’s best of the night, ending with an attack percentage of 72 percent and six uninterrupted points as they took home the win 15-10. Herd Junior middle blocker/outside hitter Lauren Legge brought the momentum after she spiked a powerful kill over the net. From that point on, the Herd went on a run that could not be

stopped by the Blue Raiders.

PHOTOS BY RICHARD The Herd is currently 2-0 in con- CRANK|THE PARTHENON ference play. Kiekover said that the team started the season off rough, but had a mental switch when conference play began.

“We started a little rough in preseason being 5-9,“ Kiekover said.

“Coming out here in conference, and really having that mental switch knowing it is conference now, we really have to go and push.”

The Herd has been a tough spirited team this season, pulling off wins when needed most. Weaver said they are playing for each other, and the fight is within them.

“Lately, we have been playing for each other and it is something that is within us,” Weaver said. “You give everything you have for these girls.”

Assistant coach Taylor Strickland said they have not prepared for their next game against Florida International, but they cannot let them come in the Cam Henderson and steal the win.

“We have not prepared a lot right now, but it’s a home game so we have to take care of business and get the win,” Strickland said. “We cannot let them steal that away from us.”

Middle blocker Justice Craft plays LaChel House can be contacted Middle Tennessee State University. at house13@marshall.edu

Marshall rugby trumps Ceaderville University

By SCOTT BOLGER

THE PARTHENON Saturday featured a prime example of how teamwork changes a game.

With an impenetrable goal line defense, unparalleled athleticism, and powerful rucking, the Marshall University rugby team held a fundamentally sound Cedarville University team to just one score per half.

Despite these attributes, Marshall’s first half performance was distant from its habitual type of opening play.

“We came out kind of on our heels,” Marshall rugby coach Justin Apgar said. “We scored first, but we weren’t playing our game. We were playing their game. ” The Thundering Herd managed to score in the first five minutes of the game with brute force, but afterwards, Cedarville strategically avoided tackles using low lateral fakes. Accompanied with sideline speed, the Yellow Jackets scored 15 minutes later and used this same method to hold the score to 7-5 by halftime.

“We need to suck them in,” Marshall’s coaches preached to their team in the halftime huddle. “They’re getting sucked in and getting weak, but

we’re not capitalizing. We need to start tackling.”

After the halftime confab, Apgar turned to his team and said, “We played defense that entire first half.”

Cedarville had Marshall backed up to its goal line from the last 19 minutes of the first half, to the opening four minutes of the second, but the Herd revitalized its teamwork-based rugby.

Though the team is known for its use of acceleration, slowing the pace was vital in the win.

“We took a beating in the first half,” Apgar said. “In the second half, we turned it around and started playing our game, slowing it down and just playing rugby.”

Though one could accredit 17 of Marshall’s 22 points to gradual play, sophomore and outside center Jarrod Diggs showed nothing of the sort, taking the diamond ball coast to coast before the final 15 minutes of the bout.

“I got injured in practice this week,” Diggs said. “I felt like I was moving a lot slower, especially in the first half.

Second half, I just pulled it together and do what I do.”

“I think I counted six broken tackles.” Coach Apgar said.

Though every team has its trials and tribulations in the trust department, the team decided that Diggs can be relied on when they need to advance down the field.

“Ever since last year, when I touched the ball, I was always able to do something with it,” Diggs said.

When we need a score or some yardage, they just give the ball to me. It’s a trust issue thing.”

Diggs made it 17-5, but Cedarville and its timely movement answered back. However, Herd fans had nothing to fret, for a goal line score powered by unity sealed the deal 22-10.

Apgar could describe today’s victory with one word.

“Continuity,” Apgar began. “Our team played together as a unit and we started slowing it down and doing what we do best, and that’s fundamental rugby.”

Marshall improves to 2-1-0, and visits Xavier University Saturday in a long awaited rematch.

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HERD WOMEN’S SOCCER FALLS TO HILLTOPPERS

BY BRADLEY HELTZEL

THE PARTHENON “We are winning 99 percent of the game, but the one percent is hurting us,” said Kevin Long, head coach of Herd women’s soccer. That was certainly the case at Hoops Family Field of the Veterans Memorial Complex Saturday night as the Herd (3-4-2) fell by a score of 1-0 to the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers (62-0) in its first Conference-USA match of the season.

The Herd seemed in control for much of the evening as it was consistently penetrating deep into Western Kentucky’s end and applying offensive pressure, while maintaining a clear edge in time of possession.

The Herd produced an abundance of scoring opportunities as it outshot the Hilltoppers 20-5 for the match, but were unable to convert even one of those shots. Despite the high number of shots, Long said the team offense needs to have more urgency.

“If we had the same amount of urgency when trying to score goals as we do when trying to prevent them, we’d be much better at finishing off our chances,” Long said.

Those chances came early and often for the Herd as it was attacking from the outset. Sophomore midfielder Kayla Byrnside was able to get behind the defense multiple times early in the first half and saw two header attempts from inside the box miss just wide. The attempts were set up nicely via cross passes from junior defender Lia Foster and senior forward Myka DeMarco, respectively.

The Herd kept most of the first half action in Western Kentucky’s end, but went into the half tied 0-0 after Kelly Culicerto misfired on multiple lengthy shot attempts, including one that was at least 30 yards out.

After the Hilltoppers’ backline defense derailed some early scoring opportunities for the Herd, Hilltopper mid-fielder Caitlin Hesse scored the first and lone goal of the match in the 57 minute mark, when she collected a rebound and fired a one-timer from 20 yards out that sailed over the outstretched arms of Herd goalkeeper Lizzie Kish.

“The goal was a career-goal,” Long said. “She hit it really well and I’d

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An ironic but potentially helpful advance toward healthier lives The battle against obesity, particularly in children, has been a popular talking point for politicians, nutritionists and the like for the past few years, specifically in the Huntington area.

And who better to fight obesity than the three largest soda companies in the United States? PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple announced Tuesday their aim to reduce the number of calories in their drinks by 20 percent during the next 10 years. This includes smaller portioned drinks, an expanded number of low-calorie and zero-calorie drinks, calorie counts and promotion of calorie awareness.

“I’ve heard it could mean a couple pounds of weight lost each year in some cases,” former President Bill Clinton told the New York Times.

The initiative could not be more ironic.

Some of the highest contributors to obesity, especially in children, these companies specialize in selling products that are notoriously unhealthy.

But teaching moderation is the only way to teach children — and adults really —how to lead a healthier lifestyle. CocaCola, PepsiCo and Dr Pepper Snapple have the right idea in not cutting people off from their products completely — a

choice that, though healthier, would be utterly destructive for the companies themselves. Rather they are teaching people how to consume sugary, toxic drinks they cannot seem to step away from in moderation.

This is a positive step for both society and for the companies taking the initiative. They take advantage of our inability to live without our sodas and juices by making a profit, but their attempt to teach us restraint when it comes to these products forces all sides, consumer and company, to try to make our lives healthier.

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THE FIRST AMENDMENT

The Constitution of the United States of America

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble; and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Miners deserve protection from companies THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL (AP) No man should die from coal mining, be it from a methane explosion, a roof collapse or black lung — coal-miner's pneumoconiosis.

The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, among other things, set standards to reduce dust and created the Black Lung Disability Trust to compensate miners who contracted this disease.

The law worked. Over time there was a 90 percent reduction in miners with this ailment. What was accepted by some people as an occupational hazard became unacceptable and companies changed their practices.

But since the 1990s, black lung has rebounded, researchers with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say.

The numbers are still well below the level 45 years ago, when the law passed, but the numbers don't matter. The number of incidences must go down until it is eradicated like smallpox.

Progressive massive fibrosis — one form of black lung

— is at its highest rate since the early 1970s for miners in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia, according to the research.

The numbers for that form of the disease are 10 times higher than they were in the 1990s.

"When we sat down and looked at this data, we were shocked. It was a much bigger resurgence than we were expecting," David Blackley with the agency's office in Morgantown, told the Daily Mail's Dave Boucher. Blackley is an epidemic intelligence service officer.

Blackley said it is hard to pinpoint the exact cause of this resurgence.

"At the absolute most basic level, the bottom line is these miners, especially in these three states, are breathing in way too much dust," Blackley said.

Coal companies must do better to protect their workers. If this means better training, do so. If this means better enforcement of safety rules, do so. If that means earlier testing and treatment, do so.

Better self-policing is the best way to avoid government intervention.

They’re praying for the worst; is that wrong?

“Believers act as intercessors to ‘pray down’ the forces of “the enemy,” who is always the devil.”

By ELIZABETH MCALISTER

LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) Portugal’s soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is suffering from tendinitis in his knee, which kept him out of a recent match against Greece. And a Ghanaian traditional priest named Nana Kwaku Bonsam has claimed credit for the injury.

Bonsam recently announced on Ghanaian radio that for four months he had been “working on” Ronaldo, in hopes of sidelining the world’s top soccer player before Ghana and Portugal met in the World Cup. “They can never see what is causing the injury, because it is spiritual,” he said.

Isn’t it against the rules of religion to pray against a person?

Hardly. Negative prayer is actually quite common. And praying for harm to befall another — called “imprecatory prayer” — is by no means the exclusive domain of tribal religions in the developing world.

Some American evangelicals also have participated in high-profile prayer campaigns aimed at bringing adversity to others.

For the last five years, for example, one such campaign has urged Americans to “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109.8.” People who see the slogan on bumper stickers and T-shirts may not realize that Psalm 109.8 is a negative prayer that reads, “May his days be few; may another take his office.” The next line is chilling: “May

his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”

It is unclear who started the prayer campaign, but a scandal broke in 2012 with the leaking of an email from Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal. O’Neal sent the Psalm citation to fellow House members, saying: “At last — I can honestly voice a biblical prayer for our president!

Look it up — it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray.”

The Secret Service has taken note of the threat inherent in the prayer campaign.

But without direct evidence that people were actually advocating acts of violence, the ACLU and the Anti-Defamation League have concluded that the campaign to “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109.8” is a legal form of political speech.

In a way, though, that conclusion relies on secular logic. The ACLU and the ADL assume prayer to be ineffectual in causing harm. But many evangelicals believe negative forms of prayer can actually be efficacious weapons. This is why they use the term “spiritual warfare,” and why they think it is best left to the experienced “prayer warrior.”

Believers act as intercessors to “pray down” the forces of “the enemy,” who is always the devil. The material targets of “warfare prayer” include meth labs, abortion clinics, strip clubs and other places of “spiritual wickedness.” If such places are closed down or busted by law enforcement, then the warriors claim credit.

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Negative prayer also “works” in the worldview of many in Haiti, where I research what I call “aggressive prayer” in both the evangelical and vodou sectors.

Many people in Haiti consider incidents of sickness, layoffs, theft, accidents and death to be the result of a spiritual attack. But it is hard to find traditional priests who are willing to claim credit for these negative tactics. The vast majority of priests say they work defensively to counter imagined attacks by unknown spiritual assailants.

Nana Kwaku Bonsam is unusual in his brazen announcement that he prayed against Ronaldo. Western media have described him as a traditionalist who embraces media and technology to present his religion with a modern, globalized face and to demonstrate its relevance to this generation’s youth.

It’s easy to dismiss the Ghanaian priest’s claims as a bid for publicity combined with sheer coincidence. But don’t many Americans believe in the power of positive prayer and positive thought? And in cases of winning and losing, isn’t positive prayer for one side the equivalent of negative prayer for another?

It would seem that both the sports world and the religious establishment understand this principle.

Recently, in a Spanish newspaper, the pope himself, who is Argentine, promised not to pray for Argentina in the World Cup.

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Janet Dooley, director of Marshall University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications presents a copy of “Dewey defeats Truman” to Ken Hechler, former West Virginia Secretary of State and U.S. Congressman during his 100th birthday celebration Saturday at Marshall University. All copies of the paper were destroyed due to inaccuracy, but Hechler saved one for Marshall's School of Journalism.

Young at Heart

Ken Hechler celebrates a century of life photo by lexi browning | the parthenon

By MEGAN OSBORNE

The Parthenon From the development of automobiles to the invention of iPhones, Ken Hechler has lived through a century of technological advancements, world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and 17 presidents.

The former congressman, Secretary of State, professor, and war historian visited his former place of employment to celebrate his 100th birthday at Marshall University’s Memorial Student Center Saturday. Escorted by his wife Carol, Hechler entered the room greeted by thunderous applause and a chorus of “Country Roads.”

At 100 years old, Hechler said he is hopeful for the future.

“I feel optimistic for the future of our nation, and I put my faith in the younger people," Hechler said. "Most people, when they get to be my age, they’re set in their ways, but the hope of the future, I think, rests not only among young people, but people who are young at heart. There’s such a thing as being young at heart, and my first race for congress I ran against a Republican incumbent named Will Neal. I told my campaign workers never to bring up a statement about his age, although I asked the campaign facilities to schedule a debate like the Lincoln-Douglas debates so people could see not only that I was younger in age than Congressman Neal, but much more importantly, I had instructed all my campaign workers to use the argument that we were young at heart. And that was the keynote of my first campaign for congress in the year 1958.”

including Hermann Göring, second-in-command under Hitler.

After returning from the war, Hechler served as an assistant to Harry S. Truman before going on to work at Marshall College. At Marshall, Hechler’s students inspired him to run for office.

and justice, which unfortunately far too many candidates for office do not actually practice. I think we got that point across very successfully because you were always far more able than I was to convince the brothers and sisters at sororities and fraternities exactly what it meant to be supporters of truth and justice and how important it was to articulate that belief and my campaigns. Thank you, Bobby.”

Even in his advanced age, Hechler maintained his youth at heart. At 94, he got arrested while protesting mountaintop removal in Boone County, West Virginia. At 95, he ran for office during a special election in 2009 when Senator Robert C. Byrd died. Eli Rosenbaum was with Hechler in Chautauqua, New York, when he decided to campaign.

"Ken had just mesmerized a couple of audiences up there and he’s apparently thinking ‘I may just run,’" Rosenbaum said. "Next thing you know, he’s getting the papers faxed to him from Charleston, federal expressing them back to Charleston, and at the age of about 95, he runs for the senate.

The thing that I will never forget is sitting with Ken on the veranda of a beautiful building, the Everett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua, and Ken’s cell phone is ringing non-stop because this is a huge international story, now that someone at Ken’s rather advanced age is running for senate. But the thing that totally wowed me was as I’m sitting there, Ken is talking to the BBC, he’s talking to the French radio, and he is speaking so eloquently, so elegantly, I remember thinking if I just transcribed what he said, you could publish it as is without a word of editing, just off the top of his head. That’s how amazing he is, you know. And he got what, 15 percent of the vote without spending a penny? That’s pretty amazing.”

Amazing is a word friends and family commonly use to describe Hechler, but he said he just wants everyone to know he was just doing his best.

“I wanted to show the people that it was not only in the classroom that I supported truth and justice as a principle, but it was something I wanted to demonstrate as really part of my life and I thought it was appropriate to do that by campaigning for public office and that proved to be the case."

"Most people, when they get to be my age, they’re set in their ways, but the hope of the future, I think, rests not "That’s one of the things that I want only among young people, but people to be remembered, that by the fact who are young at heart." that with my friends, I tried to do my damndest. And, I didn’t always win, but at least there was a record established for all to see."

In 1931, Hechler graduated from Roslyn High School in New York as the Salutatorian. In his commencement speech, he gave advice to younger students on choosing a career path.

“I urged all younger students not to make up their minds about a career too early because they might change," he said.

"When I was in junior high school, I was thrilled to discover that my father subscribed to the American forestry journal.

And I used to read that very completely. And believe it or not I wanted to be a forest ranger. I thought that would be the healthiest life you could live, as a forest ranger, most of the time spent outdoors.”

By the time Hechler was a junior, he had taken a liking to writing about his high school’s sports teams. Hechler said he was never really good enough to make the teams, but he was elected manager of all sports teams. He said he took his position very seriously as a leadership opportunity.

“In the library if you look at the photos of all the different sports teams, you’ll see me included as the manager, which I took very seriously as my opportunity to demonstrate leadership and management,” Hechler said.

Hechler went on to earn a Ph.D. in history and government from Columbia University, where he eventually would teach.

He also taught at Princeton University, and Barnard College before being drafted into the army during World War II. He worked as a war historian, writing history as it was occurring.

Hechler was also assigned to interrogate Nazi war criminals,

“I wanted to show the people that it was not only in the classroom that I supported truth and justice as a principle, but it was something I wanted to demonstrate as really part of my life and I thought it was appropriate to do that by campaigning for public office and that proved to be the case,” Hechler said.

Bobby Nelson, who later became Hechler’s campaign adviser, was the first to hear of Hechler’s campaign as a Marshall student in 1958.

“I was a journalism major and my job was to cover the political groups and other groups on campus, and Dr. Hechler came and spoke to one of our political groups and talked about young people getting involved and being for truth and justice and public service," Nelson said. "When it came to question and answer time, one of the students said well Mr. Hechler if you’re talking about all that, why don’t you run for office? And he looked at him and winked and said 'I might just do that.'

I went up as a reporter after to interview him and I said are you really thinking about running for office? And he said well these students have encouraged me, and if I do, I’ll give you the scoop. Lo and behold, about a month later, he called me.”

At the time, Nelson worked as a reporter for The Parthenon.

Hechler gave Nelson a press release stating that he was running for congress.

“I was elated,” Nelson said. “I had the scoop over the Gazette, the Daily Mail, Izvestia, the Washington Post.”

Nelson said The Parthenon’s faculty advisor, Virginia Lee, told him to throw the release in the garbage because there were no politics in journalism.

Nelson became Hechler’s campaign manager, and Hechler said he was thankful that Nelson helped him to communicate his platform to the community.

“I relied on people like Bobby Nelson as to articulate my beliefs," Hechler said. "And Bobby was extremely helpful on the campus of Marshall to arrange for visits to fraternities and sororities at which we told the brothers and the sisters what we both stood for. Bobby, I’m so grateful to you for the way in which you helped me to articulate the basic principles of truth page designed and edited by MEGAN OSBORNE | osborne115@marshall.edu

“I want to be remembered in two different ways,” Hechler said. “Harry Truman said that he wanted to be remembered like a public official out in Arizona who had on his tombstone he done his damndest. And that’s one of the things that I want to be remembered, that by the fact that with my friends, I tried to do my damndest. And, I didn’t always win, but at least there was a record established for all to see. I can’t shoot baskets like Hal Greer, but I can try to do my damndest. That’s why 16 th Street is called Hal Greer Blvd."

Huntington Mayor Steve Williams presented Hechler with a proclamation designating a section of 5th Avenue "Ken Hechler Government Way," giving Hechler a permanent place in Huntington with Hal Greer.

Whether known as a professor, Congressman, Secretary of State, war historian, activist, or author, Hechler is best known as Ken. Megan Osborne can be contacted at osborne115@marshall.edu.

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"The perfect stress reliever" THE PARTHENON Students are taking a weight off their shoulders by relaxing and burning fat with yoga classes at the Marshall Rec Center.

"You're going to school all day, five days a week, and it's hard,” said Haley Tharis, Licensed Massage Therapist at Dr. Moore's Family Chiropractic in Huntington. “You're doing it so you can live the rest of your life in a certain way and part of being able to live that life is taking care of yourself."

Tharis said she is amazed by the heavy bags college students carry around campus every day.

"There are certain things that we have to do in daily life, and carry a book bag around with ten books in it is one of them," Tharis said. "I believe if you do things to intentionally go the other way, relax all those

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Fortunately for the Hilltoppe performance wasn’t necessary since their defense was able to fend off the Herd attack for the remainder of the match.

With about three minutes left in the match, the Herd’s best chance to tie the match came within inches as senior forward Kristine Culicerto facilitated the defense before setting herself and launching a shot that she was almost able to bend inside the post, but missed just to the left.

Despite opening conference play with a loss, coach Long said it is important not to panic and stay connected as a group because the team still controls their own destiny within the conference as the schedule progresses.

The Herd will attempt to capture its first Conference-USA win of the season at 7 p.m. Friday on the road at Charlotte.

Bradley Heltzel can be contacted at heltzel1@marshall.

muscles, like a yoga class, that the energy you put into doing it is intentionally geared towards doing the opposite of carrying that bag around, or the stress of a job or a degree."

Brooke Adkins, junior nursing major, said yoga is the perfect stress reliever.

"It's not just stretching and bending, but we learn how to do a lot of breathing techniques as well, which are great to do when you feel overwhelmed and just need to take a step back and relax," Adkins said. "I love it because yoga is something you can do at home, not just in the gym. " Adkins also said she uses yoga to exercise and keep her body toned.

"A lot of people think all yoga is standing on one leg or sitting with your legs crossed meditating, but it can also be great exercise," Adkins said. "You

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California adopts 'yes means yes' sex-assault rule ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Jerry Brown announced Sunday that he has signed a bill that makes California the first in the nation to define when "yes means yes" and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports.

State lawmakers last month approved SB967 by Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, as states and universities across the U.S. are under pressure to change how they handle rape allegations. Campus sexual assault victims and women's advocacy groups delivered petitions to Brown's office on Sept.

16 urging him to sign the bill.

De Leon has said the legislation will begin a paradigm shift in how college campuses in California prevent and investigate sexual assaults. Rather than using the refrain "no means no," the definition of consent under the bill requires "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity."

"With one in five women on college campuses experiencing sexual assault, it is high time the conversation regarding sexual assault be shifted to

Yoga classes at the Rec Center give students a chance to relax and exercise

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learn so many different poses that require a lot of balance and stamina. Yoga definitely helps tone your body everywhere. I've even found myself sweating in yoga class, many times. I've found myself a lot more flexible and a whole lot stronger since I have been in the class. It's always encouraging to see improvements in yourself. " The Rec Center offers a variety of yoga classes to suite different levels of difficulty.

Walk-ins are welcome for several classes, including Yoga Basics, Yoga Flow and Yoga Body Burn, which are offered to members free of charge.

For a fee, members and nonmembers can sign up for Intro to Yoga or Buti Yoga either online or at the welcome desk.

Brianna Paxton can be contacted at paxton30@marshall.edu.

one of prevention, justice, and healing," de Leon said in lobbying Brown for his signature.

The legislation says silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent. Under the bill, someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep cannot grant consent.

Lawmakers say consent can be nonverbal, and universities with similar policies have outlined examples as a nod of the head or moving in closer to the person.

Advocates for victims of sexual assault supported the change as one that will provide consistency across campuses and challenge the notion that victims must have resisted assault to have valid complaints.

The bill requires training for faculty reviewing complaints so that victims are not asked inappropriate questions when filing complaints. The bill also requires access to counseling, health care services and other resources.

When lawmakers were considering the bill, critics said it was overreaching and sends universities into murky legal waters. Some Republicans in the Assembly questioned

whether statewide legislation is an appropriate venue to define sexual consent between two people.

There was no opposition from Republicans in the state Senate.

Gordon Finley, an adviser to the National Coalition for Men, wrote an editorial asking Brown not to sign the bill. He argued that "this campus rape crusade bill" presumes the guilt of the accused.

SB967 applies to all California post-secondary schools, public and private, that receive state money for student financial aid. The California State University and University of California systems are backing the legislation after adopting similar consent standards this year.

UC President Janet Napolitano recently announced that the system will voluntarily establish an independent advocate to support sexual assault victims on every campus. An advocacy office also is a provision of the federal Survivor Outreach and Support Campus Act proposed by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Susan Davis of San Diego, both Democrats.

A jam-packed weekend There might not have been football, but Huntington managed to stay busy this past weekend with Greek Festival, the Huntington Music and Arts Festival and two 5k races.

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Lynch said events like the Huntington Music and Arts Festival don’t just help the local artists themselves, but the community as a whole.

“I think it is great to have events like this to keep a strong sense of community,” Lynch said.

Emily Rice can be contacted at rice121@marshall.edu.

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