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BY ANNA SWIFTTHE PARTHENON

A county prosecuting attorney is in the race for governor because he said he doesn’t like what’s go-ing on at the West Virginia Capitol and wants to change it.

“I’ve been a career prosecutor, and I honestly, over the years, never thought of running for any statewide o� ce,” said Mark Sorsaia, R-Putnam, prosecuting attorney for Putnam County. “And it wasn’t really the plan. I’m a professional prosecu-tor. I love my job, but just over the last couple years, there’s this feeling I have that we can just do better in Charleston. � ere’s much opportunity for us to do better with jobs and the economy and education — and quite frankly, I’m just a little frustrated with the political attitudes in Charleston.”

Sorsaia said politicians aren’t dealing with se-rious issues adequately. Speci� c issues were not identi� ed.

If elected, Sorsaia said his � rst step would be to reduce the size of the government, cut wasteful spending and then use the surplus toward tax re-lief, such as the food tax.

Speci� c areas to be cut were not identi� ed. Marybeth Beller, associate professor of political

science, said while it is the Legislature that appro-priates funds each year, the governor has the power to reduce spending mainly through cutbacks in sta� ng.

“What a governor does have the power to do — for example — is to direct state agencies, not to give raises, to direct them (administrators) not to hire people when others retire or if a vacancy incurs un-employment, and sometimes administrations will use that,” Beller said. “What it’s called is reducing sta� through attrition, and attrition simply means when you have people who are leaving employment voluntarily — either to move to another job or re-tirement or whatever, you just don’t � ll a position.”

� e second issue Sorsaia said he would focus on would be government regulations a� ecting small businesses.

“I would have a passion to attack government regulations and reporting requirements that are killing small business,” Sorsaia said.

Speci� cally, Sorsaia said he would launch a cam-paign to review state bureaucracy for reporting requirements that might be harming small busi-nesses. Speci� c reporting requirements were not identi� ed.

Beller said the governor has the power to direct state agencies to modify requirements — so long as a few conditions are met.

“As long as the regulations that he’s talking about come under the power of the governor and there’s no legislation otherwise directing a regulation — then, yes, the governor could change it,” Beller said.

Sorsaia’s third issue would be on continuing to reduce the corporate income tax and business franchise tax for small businesses. According to a

Charleston Gazette article from March, U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin spearheaded a plan to reduce the cor-porate income tax from 8.5 percent to 7.75 percent. � e business franchise tax, based on the total value

Prosecutor frustrated with politics in Charleston

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Putnam County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Sorsaia said as governor, he would reduce the size of government and cut wasteful spending. He said he is frustrated with political attitudes in Charleston.

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BY KRISTEN HAINKELTHE PARTHENON

An already successful section of Marshall University is adding a new discipline to its program catalog in 2012.

� e Marshall University School of Medi-cine is opening a School of Pharmacy in fall 2012. � e school’s media facts sheet states the program will have: “A focus on an edu-cational model based on rural community practice and outreach similar to the highly successful approach and outcomes of the university’s school of medicine, which adds value and capacity to the state and region, particularly in this era of healthcare reform.”

� e Marshall Board of Governors voted to o� er the Doctorate of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) program in December 2009.

Marshall currently o� ers a pre-pharmacy degree, which takes two years to complete. It requires a variety of science classes such as biology, anatomy and physics. Students also have to complete several math courses. Pre-viously, a� er completing this curriculum, students would have to apply to a di� erent school to get their degree in pharmacy — now they don’t have to.

“� e College of Science has had an ex-isting pre-pharmacy curriculum for years, which has prepared students to matriculate into other pharmacy schools,” said Karen Barker, executive assistant to the dean. “We are working with the College of Science to coordinate e� ective student advising and preparation for the professional pharmacy program at Marshall.” 

Dr. Kevin Yingling was named dean of the school of pharmacy in January. He is no stranger to the practice of medicine, nor to the Marshall School of Medicine. He earned his degree at Marshall and has also been the medical director of the Center for Pharma-cologic Study at the medical school since 1992.

“� is is an exceptional opportunity, and I am pleased to be able to play a role in es-tablishing the Marshall University School of Pharmacy,” Yingling said in a January press release. “� is is my opportunity to grow something for an institution that has been a part of my life for more than 40 years, be-ginning when I moved to Huntington as a youngster to when my father accepted a job at the university.”

One supportive reason to add the school is West Virginia has a high demand for pharmacists. According to the Phar-macy Manpower Project, West Virginia ranks among the top 10 percent in unmet

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BY MEGHANN FERGUSONTHE PARTHENON

A young man walks out of a CPR course o� ered by the American Red Cross with a sense of accomplish-ment and an eagerness to � nd employment for the summer.

� e next day, the same young man is found on the living room ¥ oor administering CPR to his mother, who had a sudden heart attack.

EMT workers arrived on the scene and shuttled his mother to the hospital for further care. � ey tell the young man if it wasn’t for his quick thinking in admin-istering CPR to his mother, she wouldn’t have survived. Je� Mor-ris, American Red Cross grant writer, withheld speci� c details of this story for privacy.

Each year, the American Red Cross Central West Virginia chapter receives funding for a few of its ma-jor programs — like CPR/First Aid training from the United Way River Cities. In the past three years, that funding has been cut continually from the disaster, senior backpack project and CPR/First Aid/AED

programs. “� e reduction from our programs has been a

direct e� ect of the recession and tough economy,” Morris said.

Since 2009, the United Way River Cities has re-duced funding by more than $80,000 from the American Red Cross disaster program. � e Senior Backpack Project, along with the CPR/First Aid/AED

programs, have been re-duced by more than $11,000 over the past three years. � ese are the only programs the United Way River Cit-ies donates to within the American Red Cross: Cen-tral West Virginia Chapter.

Morris said the United Way has not met fundrais-ing goals and, as a result, funding to the American Red Cross has been reduced.

“People can’t support as many charities as they used to because of the tough economy,” said Tara Hines, American Red Cross development coordinator.

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The Red Cross dispatches Emergency Response Vehicles to disaster sites, such as this town devastated by fl ooding in 2009. The United Way of the River Cities has cut funding to the Huntington Red Cross by $80,000.

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Leigh Anne Zappin sits behind her desk on a sunny April a ernoon and ponders the question: “Will the Hun-tington Area Food Bank be OK without United Way funding?” She leans back in her chair and considers the possibilities. � e United Way pulled its $30,000 fund-ing in October, leaving the food bank to rely more on donations from corporate sponsors and the public.

“I think we’re OK with-out it — I really do,” said Zappin, executive direc-tor of the Huntington Area Food Bank.

� e United Way pro-vided funds to HAFB annually as far back as 1984, when the two or-ganizations � rst forged a relationship. � e United Way has given the food bank $30,000 for at least the past three years. However, that 26-year relationship was put on hiatus in October when a bad audit prevented the food bank from reap-plying for funding under new constraints.

“� ey were not eligible to submit a letter of intent,” said Laura Gilliam, ex-ecutive director of the United Way of the River Cities. “We have certain sup-porting documents that are required of all organizations who submit a letter of intent and application. � ose require-ments have to be met at the application time and at the time they were going to submit a letter, one of those documents was not complete.”

Before the current � scal year, organi-zations seeking funding from the United Way simply applied for a grant. However, new guidelines set forth by the United Way

kept some of these organizations from be-ing considered for additional funding.

Gilliam said organizations seeking funding must now submit letters of in-tent, which outline their missions and explain how their missions comply with the United Way’s standards. Gilliam said 32 organizations submitted 37 letters seeking funds for their programs. Of the 32 organizations seeking funding, 26 were invited to submit full applications. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean those groups will be approved.

“� ey will go through a review process, and there is no guarantee all of those will be approved,” Gilliam said of the applications.

� e organizations must submit documents such as tax returns and audit reports. Zappin said the food bank’s 2009 � nancial

records did not comply with accounting principles, according to the 2010 audit. � at audit prevented the food bank from receiving United Way funds.

According to the auditor’s report from Sullivan Webb accounting � rm in Hun-tington, the food bank did not record food donations as they were received in 2009. Instead, entries were adjusted through so ware at the end of the year based on receipts created by food bank employees when the food was received.

“Management has acknowledged that failure to enter food donations received has likely resulted in inaccurate recogni-tion of food donations during the year,” the auditor’s report said. “In our opinion, accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that such donations be recorded.”

� e auditor’s report suggested it’s

possible food could have passed in and out of the warehouse with no record of receipt or disbursement because of lax inventory practices. New inventory practices have been implemented and new so ware purchased to aid in record keeping in the food bank’s warehouse, according to the food bank’s response published as part of the auditor’s report.

Zappin said she was not the director in 2009 and that person is no longer with the food bank. She took over the executive di-rector position in May from John Rickey.

“� at person is gone,” Zappin said. “I inherited the mess to clean up.”

Although the United Way has ceased funding for now, the food bank still re-ceives donations from the public and corporations such as Wal-Mart and Di-recTV. Empty Bowls, an annual event held in conjunction with the Marshall University College of Fine Arts, raised more than $15,000 for the food bank.

Empty Bowls is a nationwide initiative to � ght hunger and is in no way tied to HAFB or any other service organization, said Donald Van Horn, dean of the College of Fine Arts. Van Horn said the quali� ed audit does not a§ ect Empty Bowls.

“As the person who has probably the greatest responsibility to coordinate all the facets of the work e§ ort that it takes to make Empty Bowls happen, I have no inclination to seek out information rela-tive to United Way and the food bank,” Van Horn said.

Zappin said the food bank anticipates having an acceptable 2010 audit, and she hopes to reapply for United Way funding as soon as they are eligible.

“We intend to reapply for United Way funding in February 2012,” she said.

Whitney Burdette can be contacted at burdette36@marshall.edu.

United Way pulls funding from Huntington Area Food BankQualifi ed 2009 audit means food bank not eligible for funding

BY MARLOWE HEREFORDTHE PARTHENON

Rick Loudin has come full circle a er 42 years of being involved with Boy Scouts of America.

He returned to his home state of West Virginia in 2009 a er earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting and living in four other states. He obtained his � rst leadership position in scouting two decades ago but never thought he would be where he is with his title of scout executive. What began as an opportunity while growing up in a small town has become an integral part of Loudin’s life.

“I got to go to national jamborees,” Loudin said. “I got to travel the country. I’ve got friends around the world now because of scouting. My son just recently became an Eagle Scout. To be able to come back and work and enjoy something that has been a major part of my growing up has been a great time.”

Carl Sullivan, scout master for 11 of the 16 years he has been involved with Boy Scouts of America, has experienced scouting from a di§ erent perspective than Loudin. He did not participate in scouting during his childhood but became active with the organization when his son de-cided to follow in the footsteps of his older cousins and uncle.

Sullivan said he intended to just accompany his son at scouting activi-ties with other parents. However, opportunities for greater involvement came his way in 1998 — � rst as a cub scout den master and ultimately as a scout master.

Becoming a scout master is something Sullivan said he never ex-pected, but the experience has allowed him to make a di§ erence in the troop his son joined when he made the transition from Cub Scout to Boy Scout.

“An existing troop was about to fold,” Sullivan said. “It turned out my wife’s nephew was in that troop, and he was right on the verge of becoming an Eagle (Scout). He and his family asked if I would take over the troop as scout master because of my scouting experience. I had a troubled unit that needed some adult leadership, and my son was looking for a place to join so we both jumped into that.”

Sullivan’s troop now has 24 scouts and 11 assistant scout masters, and he has been with the Tri-State Area Council for the 16 years he has been involved with Boy Scouts of America.

Ensuring scouts have similar experiences to those of Loudin and Sul-livan is a goal the two men said they hope to ful� ll despite the recession. In 2009, Tri-State Area Council received $40,000 from United Way of the River Cities and $509,300 in contributions and grants that include fundraisers and donations. Loudin returned to West Virginia from De-troit in 2009 became scout executive of Tri-State Council. One of the � rst adjustments Loudin and the other leaders made was a reduction in the number of sta§ members. Since then, scout leaders have had to do more with less to continue providing the same level of service and opportunities to the local scouts, and Loudin said he owes this service to the work of his 1,500 volunteers.

“We jumped in the middle of it (the recession) and we’re working our way out of it more than anything else,” Loudin said. “What we’ve had to do is rely more heavily on our volunteer base and make sure that we train our volunteers so they know the next step. I have a very dedicated sta§ and they’re willing to go the extra mile.”

� e most challenging part of the recession for the Tri-State Area Council has been limiting expenses and keeping costs such as camp registration fees economical. � e number of scholarship requests from scouts has also tripled in three years, Loudin said.

“We’ve served as many people as we can,” Loudin said. “We’ve cut back on the amounts we’ve given. For a boy to go to summer camp with us, it costs about $375, but we only charge them $185. We try to keep those costs down so they can still participate in those kinds of things.”

Methods of communication between scout leaders and scouts have also changed with the recession. Paper costs are among the cutbacks, Sullivan said.

“� ere used to be a lot of mailing, but it’s expensive,” Sullivan said. “At the council level, they’ve tried to move a lot of communication to the council website.”

Within the last year, however, things have started looking up for the Tri-State Area Council. � e agency balanced its operating budget in 2010 for the � rst time in years, eliminating an operating de� cit of $190,000 from 2009.

“� at was not an easy thing to do,” Sullivan said. “� e council sta§ was reduced from 11 to seven. � ere were operational cutbacks.”

Total scout membership increased and, although the agency has cut back on costs, donations and fundraisers have helped make up the di§ erence.

“We’ve gotten to a point now where we feel comfortable to move forward,” Loudin said. “Money’s not going to stop a young man from participating. We’re going to make sure that a scouting program that a boy and his parents sign up for is there.”

Loudin and Sullivan said they continue to see evidence of the bene� ts the Tri-State Area Council provides directly and

BY ASHLEY MANNONTHE PARTHENON

� e U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is having its second National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

� e initiative happened for the � rst time in September, giving people the opportunity to properly dispose of their le over prescription pills. � e � rst event had 4,100 drop o§ sites throughout the country, and approximately 121 tons of pills were collected. Nearly 5,000 sites are currently signed up to participate next Saturday.

Barbara Carreno, spokes-person for DEA headquarters, said the DEA focuses on the diversion aspect of the White House Drug Policy. Carreno described diversion as when someone uses otherwise legal drugs in an illegal manner.

“� e strategy that the fed-eral government has contains a number of parts,” Carreno said. “One of those is to come up with a convenient and en-vironmentally responsible way of disposing of these drugs.”

Carreno said it can be harmful when people im-properly dispose of le over prescription medications.

“� e EPA is � nding medi-cine in our water supply,” Carreno said. “So they want to quit « ushing. And regard-ing pills that are thrown away — if you just toss the bottle into the trash can, then those can be diverted and used.”

� e Prescription Drug Take Back Day initiative is not only trying to help people properly dispose of unused medica-tions but also trying to keep those le over pills from get-ting into the wrong hands.

Carreno said drug abuse occurring among teenagers most o en begins with the use of prescription drugs. She said in surveys, the major-ity of teenagers cited friends and family as their source for these drugs.

“� ey’re the leading drug of preference for kids try-ing drugs for the � rst time,” Carreno said. “Even ahead of marijuana.”

A reason for taking these initiatives, Carreno said, is many people do not know how to properly dispose of their le over medications. She said people who are hesi-tant to throw away or « ush pills o en leave them in their medicine cabinet presuming they may need them later or they forget about them. She said the programs such as the one next Saturday are part of the solution to that issue.

“We had somebody actu-ally bring in 40 years worth of medicines,” Carreno said regarding the � rst Prescrip-tion Drug Take Back Day in

September. “� ey had been sitting in her house for 40 years. We had people bring in whole kitchen drawers full of pill bottles to dump out.”

“So this apparently was a real popular public service,” Carreno said. “We’re going to do it several times.”

� e federal government is also making other advances in proper medication dis-posal. Carreno said on Sept. 29, Congress passed the Safe and Secure Drug Disposal Act of 2010.

“It authorized the DEA to come up with some kind of convenient, permanent and ongoing system for people to dispose of their prescription drugs,” Carreno said.

� e current legislation — the Controlled Substances Act — does not allow phar-macists, doctors or anyone else to take back le over pre-scription medications.

“It kind of le users on their own to � gure out how to get rid of these very po-tent, potentially dangerous things,” Carreno said. “� e law that Congress passed last fall amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow for this new system for users to get rid of their drugs, and the DEA is working on that now.”

Carreno said it typically takes 18 to 24 months for a DEA or other government regulation to come to frui-tion. � e DEA is going to continue having Prescription Drug Take Back Days every few months so people have an outlet to properly dispose of unused medications until the governmental process is complete.

Ebenezer Medical Out-reach on Tenth Avenue is a drop-off point for the April 30 event.

Yvonne Jones, Ebenezer Medical Outreach employee, thinks the Drug Take Back program is very bene� cial to the community.

“If you have a lot of unused medicine sitting around your home, you could acciden-tally take the wrong thing,” Jones said. “If you have some medications that people tra-ditionally are abusing now, and you’re no longer using it, then it sets you up for the chance for someone to come in and get your medicine or for someone in your family who may be abusing drugs to take your medicine.”

Jones said it is best to get rid of unused medications to de-crease the occurrence of these opportunities.

� e West Virginia State Police detachment on Route 60 is the other drop-o§ loca-tion in Huntington. For more participating locations in the area, visit www.dea.gov.

Ashley Mannon can be contacted at mannon11@marshall.edu.

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Philadelphia 76ers’ Spencer Hawes and Elton Brand, right, work to stop Miami Heat’s Zydrunas Ilgauskas at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on April 24. The Sixers defeated the Heat, 86-82, in Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs.

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MIAMI — � e formula for Dwyane Wade and LeBron James has been simple throughout their careers.

Both have always preferred to let the game come to them in the � rst quarter, but expect that to change Wednesday. When the Miami Heat face the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of their � rst-round playo� series, look for James and Wade to be a little more active in the beginning.

“� roughout me and D-Wade’s career, we have always been kind of feel out the game � rst and then go from there,” James said a� er Tues-day’s practice. “� e both of us are going to play with more e� ort, more aggression and not feel the game out as much to start the game and see how that works, because our � rst quarters haven’t been the best.”

� e change comes a� er the Heat has started slow throughout the series. � ey’ve struggled in each � rst quarter, except Game 2. � e latest setback prevented the Heat from sweeping the series and could factor into the second round. � e Boston Celtics swept the New York Knicks, and will have nearly a week to rest.

“It’s all about everybody together,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “We’re not pointing � ngers at anybody. ... In Game 2, it wasn’t an issue. We came out great, hop in our step.”

A potential solution to the problem could be earlier playing time for reserve center Joel An-thony and guard Mario Chalmers. Wade said

the starting lineup, which includes Chris Bosh, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Mike Bibby, is not their most “energetic” unit. Anthony and Chalmers have proven to be high-energy players during the playo� s, especially on defense.

Wade said most of the burden of providing that early spark will rely heavily on him and James.

“� e starting unit is not that kind of lineup and we understand that,” Wade said. “But we do have to start o� better, so we’ve got to do di� er-ent things, myself and LeBron. We’ve got to be the ones to put the e� ort in those guys.”

Despite the woes, Spoelstra said he never en-tertained the idea of starting lineup changes. He remains comfortable with the current rotation.

“We’re going to get o� to a better start with more energy, more athleticism,” Spoelstra said. “I don’t see a need to (change) right now. We can change what we need to within ourselves and do it with a better motor, better athleticism and better awareness to start the game.”

� e Heat say they are past Sunday’s debacle a� er watching � lm of the 86-82 loss in Phila-delphia. Bosh called it a “terrible game,” saying the team had a lot of breakdowns. Still, the Heat remain in control, holding a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. If they are able to break their string of slow starts, Wade said that could shi� some of the pressure o� the Heat and onto the Sixers.

“We feel they came out loose every game,” Wade said. “It’s the second seed versus the sev-enth seed. � ey have everything to gain. We’re the Miami Heat and we have everything to lose.”

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Regardless of who wins next year’s presidential election, the majority of Americans eligible to vote will not vote for the winning candidate.

Given the intensity of public discourse and the enormous im-pact the executive branch, low levels of involvement cannot be said to stem from apathy or lack of an incentive. Yet every election cycle, Americans fail to turn up at the polls, allowing for increased centralization of political power among incumbents and the inter-ests that support them.

While voting is accessible to al-most all, in reality higher-income Americans are better-represented than our poorer countrymen and women at the polls. According to exit polls taken by CNN after the 2008 elections, people making over $150,000 a year represented 8.3 percent of the country’s population but 12 percent of the voting popu-lation. By contrast, those making under $15,000 a year made up 13 percent of the population but merely 6 percent of voters.

Some would like to increase voter turnout by implementing a system of compulsory suffrage, similar to the one currently in place in Australia, I believe that practice infringes on Americans’ rights to express their disapproval of the political process through non-participation. Instead, an effective way to increase civic par-ticipation would simply be to make Election Day a national holiday.

If the addition of another holiday to the federal calendar worries some about another loss of pro-ductivity, Election Day could be moved to the second Tuesday of November and be combined with Veterans Day. This day might then emphasize the importance of civic involvement while honoring those who have fought to protect our right to it.

Though the wealthy will always exercise undue influence in our electoral process through unlim-ited campaign donations now equated with “First Amendment free speech,” making Election Day a national holiday would increase popular participation.

EDITORIAL

Marshall University’s women’s tennis team was criticized in an April 26 New York Times article about the coach inviting three freshmen onto the team even though they did not practice against the scholarship athletes — let alone compete. The walk-ons could come to practice whenever they desired and had the opportunity to travel with the team.

The article said both Florida State and Marshall encourage their women’s coaches to accept many walk-ons — generally athletes who were not recruited — while often prohibiting or limiting the same practice regarding men’s teams.

Title IX was passed in 1972 at the height of the women’s rights movement and banned sex discrimi-nation in any federally-fi nanced

education program. The article brings to light the issue of not just equality for women’s sports at Marshall but also men’s sports that suffer a lack of funds, with the ex-ceptions of football and basketball.

Numerous times throughout the past several years, The Parthenon has expressed the lack of facili-ties for baseball and track fi eld yet it seems there hasn’t been much progress made in that area. Athletes have continued to compete on a high level against other Division

I schools and have been very successful.

The athletes not only need a facility to practice and host events, but they also need a facility to give sports a better chance to recruit blue chip athletes. Let’s face it: Would you want to play a sport at a Division I school that didn’t have the facility for your sport?

Marshall, along with other col-leges that are having the same issues, should be giving money to new women’s teams or trimming

the rosters of football teams. Changes need to be made to suit the needs of athletes here. Athletes should have the facilities, equip-ment or whatever is necessary to prepare them for competition. One sport should not receive better facilities, equipment or resources than any other sport — even if that sport brings in more revenue or fans. All female and male sports de-serve equal treatment.

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I can’t believe this semester and, ultimately, the school year are coming to an end. This means so much to me, and I must give recogni-tion where it’s due.

I would like to start by thanking the professors who

helped me accomplish so much this past year. Without the support of these people, I would not have been able to come so far from where I was. Specific recognition must go to Professors Mary Todd, Nicki LoCas-cio, Rachael Peckham, Jill Treftz, David Hatfield, Waltere Squire, Alison Carey, Whitney Douglas, Laura Michele Diener, Greta Reensenbrink, Anderew Gooding and Shannon Butler. Thank you for listening to my story, from begin-ning to here, and believing in me when I couldn’t believe in myself.

I would also like to thank the Marshall community at large for allowing me to explore the voice of women on our campus. This was never meant to be a polemic, femi-nist attack on men or women. I just wanted to hear people talk, and I do — loud and clear.

Finally, there are three indi-viduals who held my hand while I figured out what it means to propel myself forward. I normally don’t call out individuals in my column outside of general expressions of gratitude. But these people pushed me, kept me awake and alive this year.

To Patty, you know what an in-spiration you are to me. Wizard staffs and getting way too into Dexter aside, I’m so proud of you and continue to find strength in our friendship.

To Codey, thank you for show-ing me what it means to challenge people’s ideas, by challenging mine each day. I know we can do any-thing. I am even willing to say, “Yes, We Can.”

Finally, thank you, reader. Whether you’re a friend or an enemy, the reason I write or the reason I stayed silent for so long is because each person on this campus keeps me from going back to a place of acceptance. We are too smart to not change the way we have come to view our sex, our genders and our sexualities. Here is my adieu until next fall, and I can’t wait to talk again. Have a happy summer!

Contact DELANEY MCLEMORE at mclemore2@marshall.edu.

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of a company, is scheduled to be phased out by lawmak-ers from 0.34 percent to zero percent by 2014.

Other issues Sorsaia will focus on include education and energy. According to his website, he would support legislation for the develop-ment of Marcellus Shale natural gas and develop a plan to reward teachers and downsize West Virginia’s Department of Education. Further details are not given.

Sorsaia, who began his career as an assistant prose-cuting attorney, said because he believes there is a general frustration with politicians for making false promises, his lack of political leader-ship is part of what makes him an attractive candidate. He also said his experience as a career county o� cial makes him suitable for working with bureaucracies.

“I understand how

bureaucracies work,” Sorsaia said. “So that gives me the quali� cations and skills to deal with bureaucratic prob-lems in Charleston.”

Speci� c bureaucratic prob-lems were not identi� ed.

Sorsaia said Marshall stu-dents should vote for him because he is concerned about the future of West Virginia.

“I’m in because I’ve commit-ted myself to public service, and I see being governor as a tremendous opportunity to serve West Virginia and to make a di� erence,” Sorsaia said. “So my heart’s in the right place for West Virginia’s fu-ture, and the young people at Marshall University, it’s their future that I’m worried about.”

Sorsaia said he plans to run in the next gen-eral election, if elected in October, to replace the act-ing governor. He is one of eight Republicans running on the Republican ticket.

Anna Swift can be con-tacted at fahrmann3@marshall.edu.

pharmacy needs. Also ac-cording to the project, 42.6 percent of the United States population lives in an area where � lling pharmacy posi-tions are at least ‘moderately di� cult.’

According to the media facts sheet released from the school, 40 positions will be added with the � rst four years of existence. � e school also estimates about 450 new jobs being added to the local economy.

 “One of the great bene� ts of living in a community with a tradition of high quality medical education is that many of our graduates remain in the area,” Barker said.  We anticipate that the same trend will continue in the School of Pharmacy.”

� e school will be housed

near the VA Medical Cen-ter on Spring Valley Drive. � ese buildings were va-cated when the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center opened on campus.

New students will be able to enroll in 2012.

“We anticipate enrolling the � rst class in August 2012; however, this will be de� ned more completely as we prog-ress through the accreditation process,” Barker said. 

� e school is in the pro-cess of being accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. � ree stages comprise the process: Pre-candidate sta-tus, candidate status and full accreditation status. � ey can’t be considered for full accreditation until their � rst class graduates.

Kristen Hainkel can be contacted at hainkel@mar-shall.edu.

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make up the money cut from di� erent areas of rev-enue, according to Hines. � e American Red Cross will cut expenses to increase its rev-enue source so it never has to turn away people who need their help, Hines said.

“� e � rst thing we do when funding isn’t met is cut gen-eral expenses — like travel and training from the general o� ce,” Hines said. “We focus on more online training and conference calls instead of face-to-face time within the o� ce.”

To counteract decreased funding, the Red Cross fo-cuses on collaboration with various organizations in the community to avoid dupli-cating events o� ered, Morris said. Collaboration also helps with other pieces of client re-covery because of combined resources.

� e Upper Big Branch mine explosion was a disaster the American Red Cross helped with by bringing supplies and personal availability dur-ing the hours of uncertainty, Morris said.

Out of many who went to the American Red Cross, one woman in particular came

for support during the di� -cult hours of waiting to hear about her loved one who was in the mine. � e American Red Cross was there for her — to stand by its mission of providing relief to victims of disasters.

The woman lost her loved one in the explosion and, because of the relief the American Red Cross pro-vided her in her time of need and the work she saw done during the difficult time, now volunteers her time at the Red Cross Huntington office. Hines withheld the specifics of this story for privacy.

Because of the economic state the American Red Cross relies on, volunteers are in more areas than ever because of the small sta� it has in the o� ce, Hines said. � ere is a lot of online training and up-dates to keep the community informed rather than mail-ings to save on money and time, Hines said.

“We are continually evalu-ating to be self-evolving and improve our e� ciency,” Mor-ris said. “� e key goal is not to reduce any client services be-cause of the lack of funding.”

Meghann Ferguson can be contacted at ferguson121@marshall.edu.

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a scouting program that a boy and his parents sign up for is there.”

Loudin and Sullivan said they con-tinue to see evidence of the bene� ts the Tri-State Area Council provides directly and indirectly. One particular local scout from Huntington has experienced aca-demic success that his mother attributes to his becoming a scout, Loudin said. Although he joined at 14 — later in life than the average scout who joins at six years old — his life made a turnaround in a short time.

“He had a 0.25 grade point average when he got in about a year and a half ago and was thinking about dropping out of school,” Loudin said. “He’s got a 3.8 grade point

average now and is talking about going to technical school and college.”

A scout from Salt Rock, W.Va, also joined scouting later in life and had an experience similar to the young man from Huntington. He became involved in middle school and, at the time, had few outside interests. Since then, the scout has maintained good grades dur-ing high school and has a better idea of his future, Sullivan said.

“He is looking at vocational school,” Sullivan said. “Because of scouting, he’s had some exposure through our merit badge program he’s had exposure to pos-sible careers. � at’s an important aspect of scouting that can’t be under empha-sized (merit badges). Each one of those is designed to give a young man a glimpse into that particular profession.”

Seeing the lasting impressions scouting

has made for local scouts like that par-ticular young man reminds Loudin of everything he has gained from being in scouting for much of his life and how much the Tri-State Council continues to serve despite circumstances of the recession.

“It’s those little pieces that keep you go-ing (as a leader) every day,” Loudin said.

Sullivan’s involvement with scouting, albeit di� erent from what he anticipated for himself 16 years ago, has emphasized a greater need for scouting and education of issues such as conservation and appre-ciation of the outdoors — not only on an individual level but on a community level.

“So much of that is no longer taught in schools,” Sullivan said. “As a society, we would su� er without scouting.”

Marlowe Hereford can be contacted at hereford4@marshall.edu.

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BY SHAWN BOBURGTHE RECORD (HACKENSACK, N.J.)MCT

HACKENSACK, N.J. — � e millions expected to visit the World Trade Center site a ̈er it partially opens later this year will see a Sept. 11 memorial that appears simple and serene: An endless stream of water cascading into two massive voids where the Twin Towers once stood.

But spitting and churning under the nearly one-acre pools will be one of the most extensive and sophisticated water con-trol systems of its kind.

It will pump more than 1 million gallons through a vast net-work of pipes that, if lined up, would run nearly the length of Manhattan. At the same time, a computer-automated system will continuously monitor and adjust the © ow and condition of the falling water in response to almost any foreseeable event — even a sti� breeze.

“I won’t ever see anything like this built again in my lifetime,” said Jay Duddy, one of three Bergen County, N.J., plumbers who oversaw installation of about nine miles of pipes under the memorial fountains.

� e automated system controlling the country’s largest en-gineered waterfalls will keep the water’s chemical balance and temperature at precisely prescribed levels. Ultrasonic sensors will trigger an increase in the volume of falling water when the wind picks up, or will shut down the fountain altogether if gusts get too strong. And a � ltration system will © ush out the coins, © owers, pictures or any other object visitors drop into the pools.

� e state-of-the-art design highlights the lengths planners have gone to ensure the long-awaited memorial fountains work properly — and consistently — in any conditions. But moving

so much water at once and with so much precision will come at a cost to the private foundation that runs the memorial.

� e electricity needed to keep both fountains running — es-timated at one megawatt per hour — would power about 800 average homes, according to data from the U.S. Energy Infor-mation Administration. And each summer day, the pools are expected to lose about 10,000 gallons of water due to evapora-tion — the amount in a small below-ground swimming pool.

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Workers lead a tour of the World Trade Center site April 12 to show the extensive plumbing work the fi rm has completed in New York. Millions are expected to visit the World Trade Center site after it partially opens later this year will see a 9/11 memorial that appears simple and serene: An endless stream of water cascading into two massive voids where the Twin Towers once stood.

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� e folks at Dunder Mi� in didn’t realize how attached they were to Michael Scott until they were about to lose him. Bet-ter the crazy boss you know than the potentially crazy boss you don’t know, they seemed to be thinking when he told them he was moving to Seattle with Holly.

Fans of “� e O­ ce,” the NBC comedy that revolves around antics at the paper company, might be in the same position. Now that Steve Carell is on his way out the door a� er seven sea-sons as the “World’s Best Boss” (that’s what the co� ee mug said), it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the job.

Or is it?Carell’s last episode airs this week (9 p.m. EDT � ursday on

NBC), running 50 minutes as Michael plans private goodbyes to his coworkers. � e season � nale will be packed with guest stars including Ricky Gervais (creator of “� e O­ ce” and star of the British version), Will Arnett (“Arrested Development”), James Spader (“Boston Legal”) and Ray Romano (“Men of a Certain Age”), plus Will Ferrell, introduced last week, and British comic actress Catherine Tate. ’� e O­ ce,’ like ‘Two and a Half Men,’ faces challenge of replacing its central character

You can be sure producers have weighed their options with utmost care. Nobody, least of all NBC, wants to hurt the net-work’s highest-rated � ursday comedy, one that’s already been picked up for fall.

� e loss of a star can revitalize a show (Shelley Long’s exit did that for “Cheers”) or kill it (“� e X-Files” should have called it quits when David Duchovny le� ).

In real life, people leave jobs and neighborhoods all the time. On TV, though, we get so attached to favorite characters that an exit can be upsetting, even if it shouldn’t make a di� erence.

“CSI,” a crime-solving procedural about a team of forensics investigators, is hardly a character-driven show, but William Pe-tersen’s departure from the role of Gil Grissom sapped the series of its heart. And “Scrubs” shouldn’t even have tried to continue with an entirely new cast.

But “8 Simple Rules” kept going, eventually running three seasons a� er the death of star John Ritter three episodes into Season 2. “Spin City” lasted two seasons a� er Michael J. Fox reduced his role and then departed altogether. And “Valerie’s Family” ran three more seasons (retitled “� e Hogan Family”) a� er star Valerie Harper quit.

“� e O­ ce,” like “Cheers,” is an ensemble show that at best is more than the sum of its parts. And the series has already rein-vented itself once, with unusual success, in the move to America from England and to Carell from Gervais.

� ere’s no reason to think a new boss, if wisely chosen, won’t � t in � ne.

On the other hand: How does a sitcom replace a brother?Sure, Samantha got a new husband on “Bewitched” without

much problem, and the Cunninghams of “Happy Days” sent son Chuck o� to wherever.

But Charlie Sheen, � red from “Two and a Half Men” for his behavior problems, was both the star of the show and the in-spiration for his character, who o� en seemed to be mirroring Sheen’s own life.

Just as “� e O­ ce” is one of NBC’s few bright spots, “Two and a Half Men” is a powerhouse in CBS’ lineup, even in repeats. � e network renewed the series in 2009 for three additional sea-sons, with one more to go.

� e core of “Men” is also a family two brothers (Sheen and Jon Cryer), one brother’s son (Angus T. Jones) and a mother-grandmother (Holland Taylor). It’s not as if producer Chuck Lorre can recast the role of Charlie with a Jerry O’Connell or Jonathan Silverman.

Or can he? � e result could certainly be hilarious.“Two and a Half Men” actually has more options than “� e

O­ ce.” Lorre could simply kill the Charlie Harper character, have him disappear in Africa, or send him on a round-the-world sailing voyage from which he’s never able to Skype.

� en, the show could go on with the rest of the ensemble in-tact, perhaps with the unexpected arrival of Charlie’s previously unknown 20-something son, played by Zac Efron.

� at could make her just the boss “� e O­ ce” needs. Or if not, there’s still an opening at “Two and a Half Men.”

‘The Offi ce,’ like ‘Two and a Half Men,’ faces challenge of replacing its central character

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Steve Carrell attends the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards show at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.

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