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BY ASHLEY MANNONTHE PARTHENON
City Council members voted unanimously to move $90,000 from the Huntington Fire De-partment’s budget to the street paving budget at � ursday’s budget session.
� e meeting was the last of four sessions to prepare the city’s 2011-2012 budget. � e vote came a� er a motion to move $150,000 was defeated in a 6-3 vote. Deliberation and discus-sion about the � re department’s budget lasted almost an hour.
During the presentation of the � re department’s budget, Fire Chief Creig Moore said he found $90,000 in the budget that could be eliminated. Moore said the � re department’s retiree payouts were budgeted for $250,000, but upon examination it was found that the payouts only totaled $190,000, which is $60,000 in savings. � e other $30,000 came from a department that isn’t planning to � ll vacant positions until January 2012. � ree posi-tions will be empty a� er two employees retire in September and a third retires in November.
Council member Scott Caserta disagreed with Williams’ sugges-tions, citing safety as his main concern.
“Short and sweet, I absolutely disagree,” Caserta said, “simply
Fire department budget decreases by smaller margin than suggested
See FIRE I 5
BY KELLEY BUGLERTHE PARTHENON
Women who worked during World War II shared their stories and experiences at the Francis-Booth Experimental � eatre on � ursday.
Anne Montague, founder of “� anks! Plain and Simple, Inc.,” has organized these women into the Rosie the Riv-eter Project, and Montague’s mission is to unify veterans in West Virginia to lead these projects.
“Projects are so important for unifying people. Projects are tangible, and with a tangible beginning, middle and end, people will embrace it,” Montague said.
Montague said her goal for the project is for people have a better concept of the strength of a veteran while getting veterans involved.
� e Rosies are one of the events Marshall University is hosting to celebrate Women’s History Month. � is year’s theme is “Our History is Our Strength.”
“� e lives of these women here tonight, women who helped to win World War II, whose strength and deter-mination held this country together in its darkest time, represent the heart of this year’s theme,” said Kat Williams, women’s studies faculty.
Mary Lou Maroney, Fayette County, W. Va., graduated from East Bank High School and riveted in Detroit, Mich., where she mostly made wings for B24 and B29 airplanes.
“Along came two men and they were recruiting people to go to Detroit to work,” Maroney said. “� ey would pay our transportation and do our training so we could become riveters in the aircra� work.”
Maroney later joined the Navy and was assigned a store keeping position.
Gloria Farmer, Logan County, W. Va., also went to De-troit, Mich., a� er graduating high school. Farmer, her sister and her cousins riveted at Ford Motor Company
West Virginia Rosies share war experiences
BY MARCUS CONSTANTINOTHE PARTHENON
Incessant rain and soggy soil has led to ¡ ooding at various points on the Ohio River and across the Tri-State area.
Yesterday at 5:01 p.m., the National Weather Ser-vice in Charleston issued a ¡ ood warning for the Ohio River at Parkersburg, W.Va., Point Pleasant, W.Va., Huntington and Ashland, Ky. � e warning begins Saturday a� ernoon and extends until further notice.
According to the warning issued by the National Weather Service, the Ohio River was at 47.3 feet � ursday at 4 p.m. � e Ohio River reaches ¡ ood stage at 50 feet. � e river is expected to rise above ¡ ood stage Saturday a� ernoon and reach its crest of 52.3 feet early Monday morning. At stages near 52 feet, Route 60 East above the Roby Road Bridge and Riverside Drive is ¡ ooded, the warning says. � e forecast crest is comparable to a ¡ ood on January 10, 2005, when the Ohio River crested at 51.8 feet.
Curious motorists lined the parking lot of Harris Riverfront Park � ursday a� ernoon with wind-shield wipers in full swing to witness the ¡ ooded Ohio River engulf trees and walkways. Tape was placed at boat entrances to prevent motorists from getting too close to the river.
Further downtown, city workers were hard at work sealing o§ the 10th Avenue ¡ ood wall entrance. Steve Riggs, supervisor for the City of Huntington, said the Ohio River reaches the ¡ ood wall at 54 feet 7 inches, over two feet higher than the predicted
Ohio River to pass flood stage tomorrowSee ROSIES I 5
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Workers for the City of Huntington help Josh Meadows of Chesapeake, Ohio lift a steel beam into place at the 10th Avenue fl ood wall entrance. The workers sealed the entrance so they could be better prepared if the waters of the Ohio River reach the fl ood wall in the future.See FLOOD I 2
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Mary Lou Maroney, one of the West Virginia Rosies, was one of fi ve presenters at a program Thursday at the Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. The program honored the women who served on the home front as defense workers during World War II.
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� e University College at Marshall University has started using a
new method of advising which allows students to have their advis-ers as a teacher.
“� e new method was introduced in fall 2010 and will stay in e� ect for the following semesters,” said Sherri Stepp, director of the University College. “� e idea behind the program is to allow the University College student the chance to have an adviser as a teacher for their UNI 101 class.”
“� is will allow us to really focus on our students and their needs,” Stepp said. “By having them in class during the week, they are able to familiarize themselves with us as a teacher and an adviser.”
Stepp said students o� en complain about having a barrier be-tween themselves and their adviser in their department.
“We are trying to eliminate the intimidation that students some-times face when dealing with an adviser,” Stepp said. “If you only see your adviser once or twice a semester developing a working re-lationship can be di� cult.”
Stepp said she develops a working schedule for the students while teaching her class of advisees.
“I plan my syllabus around registration dates and the academic calendar,” Stepp said. “We, the University College, are working with students who need every chance they can have to develop good study habits and receive good scheduling assistance.”
“It really does help to have a rapport built up,” Stepp said. “We are one of the � rst programs to attempt to combine these two aspects of university life. By creating a familiarity between the student and adviser, it really helps with the entire process.”
Stepp said the University College plans to present a handout at a conference on the new method of combining teaching and advising.
“We are awaiting approval from the National Academic Advis-ing Association to present on the method at a regional conference,” Stepp said.
Patricia Gallagher, an adviser and teacher in the University Col-lege said thus far the method has proven itself bene� cial.
“Seeing these students on a regular basis is always a good thing when you are their adviser,” Gallagher said. “� e program is still too new to determine if it is better than the method that we replaced.”
Gallagher said she expects to see a better development of student-adviser relationships.
“When we continue to use this new method is when the results will really show,” Gallagher said. “So far, everything has went as planned.” William Lineberry can be contacted at [email protected].
University College uses new teaching method
BY ANNA SWIFTTHE PARTHENON
Certain bills in the West Virginia Legislature have seen some unexpected movement this week.
Legislation over a one percent food tax reduction failed in three bills throughout the session but made it through Wednesday as an amendment to a House bill dealing with durable medical equipment. According to a press release issued from the Legislature, House Bill 2971 was the only active bill that still had a connection to state sales tax when the issue was taken up by legislators this week.
A� er passing the Senate on Wednesday, the one percent food tax reduction was communicated to the House, which approved the amendment during its evening session on the same day.
“� rough reducing the sales tax on food, we are putting money back into the pockets of hardworking West Virgin-ians,” said Je� Kessler, acting Senate President, in the press release. “� ese are tough economic times, and we need to do all we can to make concessions to help our citizens.”
Passage of this tax reduction means acting Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will not have to call for a special session to address the matter. Tomblin had mentioned in a press release Mon-day that he would push the issue to a special session if it was not dealt with this week.
Marybeth Beller, associate professor of political science, said cutting taxes is always a popular political move. Tomb-lin will be running for governor during the May 14 primary.
He will also be signing the tax reduction into law. Once signed, it will be authorized to take e� ect on Jan. 1 of next year.
Another bill to see unusual movement this week has been
House Bill 2539, which authorizes the West Virginia State Police to enter into an agreement with Marshall University’s Forensic Science Center for certain DNA testing-related matters. A� er seeing no activity for a month, the bill ad-vanced to its � rst reading Wednesday and second reading � ursday. It will be read for a third time and voted upon Friday.
A third bill to experience activity this week has been House Bill 2555, which would ban texting while driving. � e bill saw success in the House and Senate until Wednes-day night when the chambers began splitting hairs over the Senate-amended version of the bill.
According to the Legislature’s daily blog, the Senate amended the bill Wednesday by adding a separate term that would make the failure to wear a seat belt a primary o� ense.
� e House, however, refused to agree with the new version of the bill and sent it back to the Senate that night.
In turn, the Senate appointed a committee � ursday con-sisting of senators Richard Browning, Orphy Klempa and Karen Facemyer. � e House once again denied the Senate’s request, however, and sent the bill back to the Senate on the same day.
With two days le� in the session, only time can tell what will happen to this contested legislation.
James Terry, director of public safety, said he supports the bill because of the amount of foot tra� c in streets surround-ing Marshall.
Terry said Marshall has a two-fold problem: Students walk across the street without always paying attention and stu-dents drive without always paying attention. He said this spells tragedy and a ban on texting while driving would be a good idea.
Anna Swift can be contacted at [email protected].
Legislature sees unexpected activity during its fi nal week
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crest on Monday. “� is is a trial practice,”
Riggs said. “� is is a good scenario because we have all the pump stations running, so we are just kind of doing this as a practice — and if the river does come up, then this is the � rst gate that goes in. So we’ve already got the � rst gate in.”
Riggs explained that the pumps are necessary to pump rainwater out of the city once the Ohio River reaches a
certain level. “Huntington is like a big bowl
with the hills on one side and the ¥ ow on the other,” Riggs said. “In a normal situation, when it rains, the water ¥ ows out storm drains underneath the ¥ ood wall, under the levy to the river… but once the river gets to a certain level, we start closing the gates that are in the pump stations.
Riggs said there are 17 pump stations along the ¥ ood wall. He said 16 were active as of � ursday a� ernoon, and the last one, which is lo-cated at First Street, will be
activated some time today. “Once we shut the gates,
we have to pump all the wa-ter that falls in the city, out of the city,” Riggs said. “� at’s why we have the pump sta-tions, because we have the city sealed o� from the river.”
Jerry Cha� n, a resident of Huntington and an employee of the city for a year and a half, said � ursday was his � rst time sealing the ¥ ood wall.
“It ain’t too bad,” said Cha-� n about the work. “It’s a learning experience, but it ain’t too bad.”
Riggs said it is important
for the city workers to be able to respond in an emer-gency situation.
“There’s a new regula-tion that we’re supposed to put each gate in once every three years, so we’ll be start-ing to do that,” Riggs said. “Right now, we do a couple of gates a year, just put them in and take them out.”
Riggs said the last time the flood wall was com-pletely sealed off was in 1997. According to the United States Army Corps of Engineers website, the Ohio River crested at 57.52
feet in Huntington at 5:30 a.m. on March 5, 1997. Six to eight inches of rain was recorded in the first five days of March 1997. Several deaths were reported due to the flooding, according to the U.S. Army Corps of En-gineers website.
Further north, the cities of Wheeling, W.Va., and Pitts-burgh, Pa., both of which are on the Ohio River, are un-der flood warnings as well, according to the National Weather Service. However, the warnings are for small creeks and streams and do
not apply to the river.Riggs said no evacuations
or property damage is ex-pected from the upcoming Ohio River flooding.
Marcus Constantino can be contacted at [email protected].
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Caution tape blocked access to a boat dock in Harris Riverfront Park Thursday as the Ohio River continued to rise, covering trees and walkways.
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Marshall’s men’s basketball team battled back in the second half af-ter trailing 46-28 heading into the locker room, but it would not be enough as the Miners of University Texas El Paso pulled out a 77-65 win Wednesday night.
In the � rst half of Marshall’s quar-ter� nal match up in the Conference USA tournament, the Herd strug-gled on both sides of the court.
O� ensively, the Herd shot a dismal 10-32 from the � eld and star junior forward Damier Pitts, who fell two points shy of his career high of 28 points in the � rst-round match up against Houston, was limited to six points and no three-pointers.
“I thought UTEP was very ag-gressive in getting to Damier,” Marshall head coach Tom Herrion said.
“� ey changed up their defenses to throw him o� and held him to no three-pointers.”
Pitts � nished the contest as one of only three players in a Marshall jersey with 12 points. He fell just shy of a double-double with nine assists.
Marshall’s leading scorer was ju-nior forward Johnny � omas, who � nished with 13 points and played a larger portion of the second half with four fouls.
Defensively, Marshall could not
� nd an answer for UTEP’s inside game. Over half of the Miners’ � rst half points were scored in the paint. Players like senior center Claude Britten and senior guard Julyan Stone gave Marshall � ts on the inside as they both put up eight points in the � rst half.
“� e home crowd plays a big part of our game,” Stone said. “We play better when the crowd is loud.”
� e appreciation of the home crowd Wednesday was shared by senior forward Gabriel McCulley.
“Who would want to let a fan base like El Paso down? � ey try to sell out every game and are loud when we need them.”
Marshall was able to quiet the raucous crowd for a brief moment starting the second half when the Herd used a 9-2 run to cut the Min-ers’ lead down to seven points.
UTEP quickly responded with an 8-1 run to push the lead back out to 14 points. � e remainder of the contest consisted of Marshall cut-ting down the Miners’ lead and then UTEP responding by pushing their lead back out until the � nal buzzer sounded and Marshall’s C-USA postseason had ended with a 12 point loss.
Herrion said a� er the game that it took a while for his team to play like they knew how.
“We dug a major hole against them and it took 20 minutes for us to regroup and play Marshall bas-ketball. � e half time margin was
just too big.”Herrion said while he was proud
of his team for not going out qui-etly, it was unfortunate their hard work did not produce the result he wanted.
“� ey did what I expected them to do, they battled back. But, there are no moral victories. We didn’t get the job done. Give UTEP credit because they have great balance.”
� is balance was re� ected in the � nal statistics with multiple players for the Miners � nishing in double � gures.
“We played team ball. We had six guys � nish in double-� gures for the � rst time this season,” UTEP head coach Tim Floyd said.
McCulley � nished with a game-high 14 points. Stone ended the contest with a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds. Senior guard Randy Culpepper added 12 points and a team-high six assists. Senior forward Jeremy Williams and senior guard Christian Polk contributed 11 points. Finally, the man who dominated all of Mar-shall’s big men on the inside, Britten � nished with 10 points.
While the sun sets on Marshall’s trip to El Paso, Texas, the home team will survive to play at least one more game. UTEP will face the winner of the Tulsa and Rice game in the semi� nals � ursday inside the Don Haskins Center.
Aaron Payne can be contacted at [email protected].
Marshall falls to Miners in quarterfi nals
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Senior Tirrell Baines dunks over an opponent during Thursday night’s season ending quarterfi nal loss to UTEP. Marshall only held a lead at a single point during the game; falling to the Miners by 12.
Thundering Herd fans make trip to El PasoBY AARON PAYNETHE PARTHENON
It was a packed house in El Paso dur-ing the Conference USA championship quarter� nals as Marshall University’s men’s basketball squad took on the host UTEP � ursday night at the Don Haskins Center.
Most fans showed up in the home colors of blue and orange, but just be-hind the basket at the north end of the court, a small pocket of green and white could be seen cheering on the Herd.
Huntington resident Connie Reed said. “We’ve gone to every conference championship game. “We love the Herd and we love our boys.”
Reed and three others have been to every conference championship since Marshall � rst played in Conference-USA in 2006. � ey made the trip this year with a group of seven Herd fans. 13 people made the over 1,600 mile trek this year.
Several rows up from Reed, Hun-tington native Tom Myers stood with a group of four individuals donning Mar-shall green. Myers and his group of � ve made the trip via a two-day car ride.
“We started Sunday, and got here Tuesday a� ernoon,” Myers said. “It just worked out conveniently for all of us.”
A raucous home crowd for the Min-ers kept the volume on high for nearly the entire game. Every once in a while, the noise would die down just enough to hear the faint cheers of the Mar-shall faithful. � e fans were lucky enough to see a � undering Herd vic-tory Wednesday night as Marshall took down the Houston Cougars. � ursday night’s game would tell a di� erent tale, however, as the Herd were knocked out of the tournament by following a 77-65 loss to UTEP. Marshall held a lead at only one point during the contest.
Neither group had been able to get out and explore the city of El Paso yet, but both had plans to do so the next day.
“We were here for all the games the
� rst two days, so tomorrow we’ll go do something,” Reed said.
Fan support for every institution, ex-cluding the local squads, has been fairly small. Nearly every game in the men’s tournament has been played in front of a half-full Don Haskins Center.
� at was not the case on � ursday night. A strong pro-UTEP crowd piled into the arena to catch their men’s � rst performance in the 2011 Conference-USA championships. � ere were empty seats, but decidedly less than in all of the other tournament games.
Despite the odds, the Herd faithful re-fused to be intimated by low numbers.
“Last night I got two guys ejected that were in the wrong seats and harassing our players,” a smiling Reed said.
Unfortunately, her smile would fade following a � undering Herd defeat, ending Marshall’s post-season aspira-tions in front of the largest crowd of the tournament thus far.
Jake Snyder can be contacted at [email protected].
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Fans cheer on the Herd in the Cam Henderson Center.
Victor Ramos named Marshall University Athlete of the WeekHERDZONE
In� elder Victor Ramos has been named the Marshall University Student-Athlete of the Week for his solid all-around play at the Caravelle Resort Invitational hosted by Coastal Carolina.
� e Miami, Fla., native had
a huge weekend at the plate, � nished with a .500 average, collecting seven hits in 14 at bats, along with a .588 on-base percentage and a .857 slugging percentage.
Ramos cracked two hits or more in three of the four games, and in the � nale against Ball State, Ramos had
a career day, going 3-for-4 with four runs scored (both career-highs), two RBI and was a homer shy of the cycle to help lead the Herd past the Cardinals.
Not only was Ramos im-pressive at the plate, he played � awlessly in the in� eld mak-ing three starts at second and
the fourth at third. In the win against Quinnipiac, Ramos made a crucial diving stop deep in the hole between � rst and second to end the sev-enth with the bases loaded to keep the lead intact.
Marshall women’s golf wraps up Barefoot at the Beach tourneyHERDZONE
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – � e Mar-shall women’s golf team concluded the � nal round of Barefoot at the Beach on Tuesday a� ernoon, dropping one spot on day three at Davis Love Course on Barefoot Resort.
East Carolina University held o� Wisconsin (308-294-298=900) and East Tennessee State University (310-298-295=903) to grab the victory. Fanny Wolte shot a 70 on the day to lead the Pirates to a three day total of 891 (292-294-305=891).
Marshall University � nished in 13th place combining for a 961 (326-314-321=961), a� er shooting a 321 in Tuesday’s round.
Wolte posted a 214 (69-75-70=214)
to earn the individual tournament medal.
Samantha DiDomenico (Follansbee, W.Va.) matched her second round total, carding a team-low 78 in the � nal round to � nish with a 238 (82-78-78=238).
Molly Ginger (Centerville, Ohio) wrapped up with a team-best 237 (80-78-79=237) to � nish tied for 47th place.
Rachel � ompson (Mans� eld, Ohio) and Elin Andersson (Stockholm, Swe-den) each shot an 82 on Tuesday for a three day total of 244 (84-78-82=244)and 248 (86-80-82=248), respectively.
Allison Harper (Upper Arlington, Ohio) withdrew from competition.
“It’s nice to be back in competition,” head coach Meredith Knight Rowsey said.
“It’s only going to get better from here.”
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EDITORIAL
It took a Facebook status to reveal that the national media has been heavily disproportionate in covering Charlie Sheen’s recent debacles rather than the death of our soldiers in Afghanistan.
“Charlie Sheen is all over the news because he’s a celebrity drug addict,” it said, “while Andrew Wilfahrt, 31, Brian Tabada, 21, Rudolph Hizon, 22, Chauncy
Mays, 25, are soldiers who gave their lives this week with no media mention. Please honor them by posting this as your status for a little while.”
The status update has since gone viral, shared by tens of thousands on Facebook. An abbre-viated version is on Twitter.
Since February 26, when the Sheen story began dominating
headlines, at least 13 U.S. troops have died in support of the Af-ghanistan war. Besides the four honored in the Facebook post, seven others have been killed: Sgt. Kristopher Gould, 25; Spc. Christopher Stark, 22; Pfc. David Fahey, 23; Spc. Jason Weaver, 22; Cpl. Jordan Stanton, 20; Staff Sgt. Mark Wells, 31; and Pfc. Kalin Johnson, 19.
Sometimes it’s easy to get cap-tivated with celebrity news. It’s entertaining to see how people who have large amounts of money, like Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan, go in and out of jail, reha-bilitation centers and waste their money. While the Charlie Sheen story is amusing, it’s important to realize there are more impor-tant matters occurring across the
world. It’s important to cover different
types of stories or else the news will get boring and people will begin to lose interest, but the news should cover issues that affect ev-eryday people. While celebrities may be interesting to read about, let’s face it, they aren’t truly affect-ing the decisions we make every day.
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“The Adjustment Bureau” is a wonderful tangle of fate and love
Marshall is going green
PATRICK MURPHYTHE PRESIDENT’S CORNER
While attending Mar-shall University for an ecology and evolutionary biology degree, the basic principles of administra-tive management and organization were not stressed in cell biology or genetics, however paral-lel strains of thought can be found within each. An
important aspect that has made an im-mediate impression is the utilization of resources.
Resource allocation is the process of determining the correct distribution for the available assets within a system. For businesses and organizations, resource allocation could maximize resources for the output of a product with low overhead or increase the wages for highly skilled labor. The two principles, though estab-lished within different academic fields, are connected with a common subject relat-ing to the utilization of the use of limited resources.
The combination of environmental and business principles may seem counterintu-itive; however, a successful environmental policy is a sound economic policy. This statement is not directly connected to large-scale economic and environmental issues, such as coal mining or Marcellus shale gas drilling, though those issues are important. Sustainable policies are intended for more specific programs and their individual allocation of recourses.
Sustainability is the actions and behaviors of an individual or entity to con-sciously and actively minimize the amount of resources it directly consumes. These actions and behaviors are conducted in an attempt to ensure that future generations receive sufficient resources. Thus sustain-ability must coincide with the recognition of society’s effect on the environment and its resources. With the implementation of sustainable policies an organization, busi-ness or individual can observe immediate savings.
Marshall has recently initiated its own sustainable policies. Creating the Sustain-ability Department, participating in a recycling initiative, reusable water-bottle hydration stations, the implementation of cost saving utility projects and the signing of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Sustainability Partnership Program are all examples of Marshall’s commitment to the environment.
SGA is committed and supportive of sustainability for Marshall. The SGA has created and is in the process of review-ing and proposing two initiatives to make Marshall’s campus greener. First, the com-munity garden initiative is a chance for students and student organizations to roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty and create something for the entire commu-nity to enjoy. The second initiative brings together a diverse group of departments and organizations from across campus to create a compost initiative.
In the coming weeks, specifics will be released concerning the compost initiative and any of those interested can contact me directly. This initiative is the next step in Marshall’s sustainability program.
Contact PATRICK MURPHY at [email protected].
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“� e Adjustment Bureau” is like one giant visual represen-tation of a Bob Dylan’s song; that is, it’s art done right.
We are treated with a wholly poignant � lm with just the right amount of intellectual teasings. Instead of bogging us down with the details of just how the Bureau works, its members, for the most part, don’t take themselves too seriously.
Many have criticized this, insisting that given the � lm’s short running time, writer and director George Nol� should have provided more explanation of the story’s sci-� threads.
I think this is the beauty of the � lm, though.
Matt Damon stars as David Norris, a rising politician run-ning for a seat in the United States Senate. When he loses an early lead, he meets a mys-terious woman, Emily Blunt, while rehearsing his con-cession speech in the hotel bathroom. � eir chemistry is immediate, and a� er sharing a kiss, David is inspired and delivers a very honest, well-received speech.
One morning, an agent fails to make an “adjustment” on David. Rather than David spilling his co� ee and being late for work, David gets a glimpse of the future the Bu-reau does not want him to have. He meets the mysteri-ous woman again by chance. She introduces herself as Elise and gives David her phone number.
� us begins the scramble of the Bureau to get things back on track.
� is sounds like the kind of high-stakes storytelling that produces very moving results, but only if the leads are believ-able. Damon and Blunt hit a home run with their perfor-mances. Nothing ever feels forced, which is important for whatever payo� we get in the end.
Even if the � lm avoided the criticisms of its sci-� scenario, we would be faced with an-other serious charge: so what? Because the � lm places its characters and their story � rst, we know why it all matters.
� e � lm gets tangled in its most human aspect: love. We can’t help but get ourselves tangled up as well.
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� e Writing Center in Drinko Library o� ers online tutoring for students who cannot make it to the library during the day.
Online tutoring is a service that allows stu-dents to e-mail essays, resumes, theses, or any kind of written document to a tutor to have revised. � e tutor reads through the dra� , identi� es the main problems and writes a re-sponse at the bottom of the document.
“You don’t know how it will make a student feel to see their paper all marked up,” said Kelli Prejean, director of the Writing Center. “We try to identify patterns of error toward the end.”
Students’ e-mails are sent to Prejean, who then forwards them to Ian Ferrell, the Writing Center’s online writing consultant.
“� e purpose of the Writing Center is to help students better their writing, not to ‘� x’ their papers for them,” Ferrell said. “So, the idea is, with the advice I give, a student can improve each paper they write, rather than simply turn in an edited paper.”
Demand for online tutoring has grown in the last year. Prejean said she normally receives about 20 to 30 papers to be edited online per semester, but recently that number has grown to around 70.
“I think students want that one-on-one communication,” Prejean said. “But we think that the online tutoring helps us catch these students who work or commute or can’t make it in during the day.”
Students can submit any type of writing assignment as long as it is no longer than 10 pages and is submitted at least 48 hours ahead of time.
“We will help with all types of writing
assignments, and that is not limited to English classes,” Ferrell said. “I’ve worked on English 101 papers and graduate-level technology management theses. I can’t guarantee that I will know the content, but I can help with the writing.”
“It’s any number of assignments that you can submit,” Prejean said. “Some professors that teach online classes require their students to send work in to the Writing Center. Really, we can get any kind of paper.”
� is service is especially convenient for exchange students or students whose � rst lan-guage is not English.
“Many of the students we serve are writing in English as a nonnative language, and we are glad to help them,” Ferrell said. “It’s a fun, interesting challenge for me because I have to learn the rules and ideas of English in order to explain them to those who are approach-ing the language from an entirely di� erent perspective.”
“� ey get the same attention as they do dur-ing a face-to-face appointment,” Prejean said. “But they have the bene� t of a written record a� er their session.”
For online help with a written assignment, e-mail the assignment and the online log form located on the Writing Center website to [email protected]. Papers must be saved as an MS Word � le or in Rich Text format. Allow 48 hours for a tutor to respond and only send as-signments less than 10 double-spaced pages.
In-person tutoring is available by appoint-ment through the Writing Center, located on the second � oor of Drinko Library.
“Overall, it’s a great job and a great op-portunity for students,” Ferrell said. “I think everyone who can should take advantage of it.”
Jordan Bean can be contacted at [email protected].
Online tutoring available through the Writing Center
working on B24s. Farmer’s rooming house caught � re with her and the other women inside.
“I was the heroine and broke the glass with my hand and pushed my sister out,” Farmer said. “� e sad part of it is my cousins upstairs were killed with a girl from Kentucky and a janitor. By the grace of God my sister and I got out.”
Farmer said the hardest adjustment was leaving the comfort of home and going to a big city. She said nobody ever o� ered her and her sister blankets or shoes a� er they escaped the burning house.
Mazie Mullins, from Nicholas County, W. Va., le� her family farm and riveted on B26 and B29 aircra� wings in Akron, Ohio.
“I really enjoyed my job. It was a noisy job and is probably why I have to wear hearing aids now!” Mullins said. “I felt like I was really doing something.”
Mullins had a boyfriend in the service and
was supposed to meet him in West Virginia on his leave so they could get married.
“Just about 10 days before he was to come home, he was killed,” Mullins said. “I got the telegram and it was so sad.”
Mullins said she continued her work until the end of the war because she felt she was helping to save some other boy’s life.
“We have been discussing the riveters in my class and women’s impact on World War II,” said Karly Luellen-Hartman, sophomore nursing major from Huntington. “� is really brought it alive and I don’t think people realize how important women were during the war.”
Montague said one common theme she has found among the 150 Rosies is they pulled to-gether then and they can do it again.
“We learn about dedication, patriotism and courage from them,” Williams said. “We stand here today a better, stronger country because of them and as women, we stand taller because of their e� orts.”
Kelley Bugler can be contacted at [email protected].
because, when you say that decreasing the overtime budget is not going to a� ect the safety of our citizens or the � re department personnel — where in the world did you get that information from?”
“I absolutely don’t know and the reason is when you start pulling your safety o« cers and your � re marshals to cover overtime, then you take that safety o« cer and � re marshal out of service,” Caserta said. “So you’re putting your residents at risk and you’re also putting your � remen and the service you provide at risk.”
Williams was requesting a decrease in the approximately $222,000 budgeted for un-scheduled overtime. He suggested the � re department use employees already on the clock to � ll vacancies when employees call o� work. � e current policy is to call in employ-ees who are o� that day.
Safety O« cer Jan Rader said making cuts to the overtime budget would put the � re depart-ment in a safety predicament.
“We need to have three people on each ap-paratus to perform our job safely and we have nine pieces of apparatus,” Rader said. “We need a minimum of 27 people on the � re ap-paratuses in the city everyday.”
Rader said the biggest issue with using peo-ple already on sta� is the department would be
even more short-sta� ed when employees are on vacation or out for other reasons.
“We’re down to bare bones now,” Rader said. “We’re short four positions and we probably will have four or � ve retire within the next six months and they’re proposing that we don’t � ll those positions. � is means when we have people sick or on vacation we must call in overtime, so cutting that overtime budget would not allow us to � ll those properly.”
Williams also suggested using deputy � re marshals or safety o« cers on duty to � ll vacancies.
Rader said this would pose even more of a safety threat to both the department and the residents of Huntington.
“Mr. Williams was asking the chief if he could utilize those two positions to � ll open slots, in essence, saving money from the un-scheduled overtime,” Rader said. “It would still be extremely di« cult and could put the citi-zens at risk. Cutting the unscheduled overtime would just be a detriment to the department at this time with so many positions open.”
Rader and three other � re department em-ployees were present at the meeting. A� er the meeting ended, they thanked city council members who voted against the $150,000 de-crease for “doing the right thing.”
Ashley Mannon can be contacted at [email protected].
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi security forces dispersed a protest by Shiite Muslims on � ursday in the restive Eastern province with percussion grenades and rubber bullets, wounding � ve people, according to witnesses in the city of Qatif. � e crackdown heightened fears that nationwide demonstrations sched-uled in Saudi Arabia for Friday could turn violent.
� e Shiite minority has long complained about religious and employment discrimina-tion in the Sunni-dominated kingdom. Shiites have been holding more frequent protests in the last few weeks, demanding equal treat-ment and the freeing of political prisoners.
� e � ursday protest of a few hundred peo-ple at dusk was broken up by security forces in uniform and plainclothes, said a witness who declined to be identi� ed because he feared arrest. � e witness, a local activist, sent pic-tures of the evening scene that showed casings from live ammunition too, but the use of live rounds could not be con� rmed.
Saudi Arabia has so far escaped the mass unrest that has shaken the Middle East and North Africa. But, in recent weeks, calls have spread on social networks and by word-of-mouth to rally against the government on Friday.
� e Saudi government, an absolute
monarchy that brooks little dissent, has re-sponded with a series of announcements and steps that suggest extreme nervousness about a public show of discontent.
� ursday’s action by security forces in Qatif was “a message ... for all Saudis that this will be the government reaction to protests to-morrow,” said another local activist who also declined to be identi� ed.
Human rights activists in Riyadh voiced similar fears.
“We’re worried,” said Mohammed Qahtani, co-founder and president of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Assn. in Riyadh. “� ey could have done it to scare o� people from demonstrating in Riyadh.”
Over the last week, the government has marshaled clerics, media, the Interior Minis-try and the foreign minister to warn Saudis away from the protests, insisting that dem-onstrations are banned in the kingdom and against Islam, claims that human rights activ-ists deny.
On � ursday, at least 10 busloads of po-lice gathered at a staging area in the center of town. By evening, the major roads were salted with police cruisers.
Saudi citizens, including longtime dissi-dents, were on edge, many citing concerns about the possibility of a brutal crackdown by the state.
Attendance at the protests is expected to be small, and it remains unclear where they will be in Riyadh and elsewhere.
5 injured as security forces quickly shut down Shiite protest in Saudi Arabia
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As our culture moves deeper into the technological sphere, what is considered the public realm is becoming more and more digitized. While some say this is more conve-nient and efficient for our needs and desires, others argue this poses certain problems.
Among the most prominent of these issues is the implication of having a perma-nently stored archive of social interactions. In everyday communication, error in speech and inappropriate comments that individu-als witness exist for limited amounts of time. These instances are only preserved in the minds of those immediately involved for as long as whatever said was relevant. Rochester Institute of Technology graduate Priyanshu Harshavat’s latest entrepreneurial project offers a solution to this with Socio-clean.com.
According to Harshavat, no one was doing personal brand management. To account for this, he developed Socioclean to help college students clean up their social networking profiles prior to entering the work force.
The essential premise of Socioclean is to find content that may be considered vul-gar or inappropriate, making it visible to the users who can then delete the content at their discretion. Socioclean connects to Facebook — or other social networking sites such as Twitter — and scans the user’s pro-file and activity for words mentioned in the database, providing links to deal with the problems. Users receive a grade assessing the appropriateness of their profile. The grade is accompanied by a further breakdown of the user’s problems, organized by category.
The website was developed in response to
the growing trend of employers utilizing so-cial networking sites to gain further insight on potential job candidates.
“To help users, Socioclean has a database of 4,000 to 5,000 keywords it looks for,” Har-shavat said.
“The words are divided into different cat-egories: obscenity, racial, alcohol, drug and aggression related words and phrases,” he explained.
As of now, Socioclean does not utilize photo recognition software to catch poten-tially incriminating photographs.
Socioclean’s creation comes in the midst of people’s unrest with Facebook’s privacy policies and irritation at the commoditiza-tion of their personal information. Other groups are trying to tackle the problem by establishing entirely new methods of social networking, exemplified by Appleseed and Diaspora. While Diaspora and Appleseed are constructed upon individually owned domains, Socioclean operates within the established framework of social networking sites and doesn’t alter anything, but instead allows the user to change what is already there.
Harshavat plans to develop the technology even further to take on other problems in social networking.
“We’re looking at ways to let parents con-trol cyber bullying,” Harshavat said. “We want to give parents access to those tools so they can monitor children, especially in their teen years to help them avoid cyber bullying.”
The Socioclean team plans to be in Austin, Texas next week for South By Southwest for recruiting, workshops on online reputation management, and meet up sessions.
Website cleans up unfl attering posts for Facebook users
BY CRYSTAL MYERSTHE PARTHENON
� e Huntington Youth Arts and Music Project will take the “to be continued…” sign o� the door and allow fans of all ages to watch local musicians break in a new stage Saturday.
Four years have passed since the former HYAMP closed. Co-owners, David Ste� e and Richie Allen said they are thrilled they’ve been given the chance to reopen HYAMP.
“I � nd it amazing, really,” Ste� e said. “Most people don’t even get to live their dream once, but here I am getting to do it twice.”
“I loved booking shows and seeing people happy before, and I’ve missed that so much,” Allen said. “I’m just glad to have the opportunity to do what I love again.”
HYAMP is a music venue, unlike any other, found in Hun-tington. It provides an alcohol and drug-free environment for all ages to enjoy local and national music.
Local drummer and web development junior at MCTC Na-than Workman has been involved with HYAMP since it � rst opened in 2005. He said when HYAMP closed, it forced local bands to play at bars or clubs and because of that, music in the area died o� .
“Without the venue, kids stopped caring about local music, or music in general — outside of what they are force-fed through
TV and radio,” said Workman, from Lavalette, W.Va. “With HYAMP reopening, it gives us a place to call home again and gives local acts a chance to play with national touring bands, which they may not get otherwise.”
Previously, HYAMP has booked shows with national artists such as, Paramore, Boys Like Girls, Underoath, Gym Class He-roes, Cartel, � e Spill Canvas and many more.
Senior English literature major from Scott Depot, W.Va., Na-than Perdomo, said he has high hopes for the new venue.
“One can only hope they are able to host bands on that same level of popularity,” Perdomo said.
HYAMP’s goal is to continue to o� er shows featuring well-known bands without the high ticket price.
Some changes have been made since HYAMP was last open. � e building is now located at 533 rear 3rd Ave. Fans of the orig-inal HYAMP have helped get the new building up to standards.
Ste� e said the motivation to get HYAMP up and running again comes from a simple place.
“I want people to be happy, and art, music, friendship and creativity are absolutely essential to that,” Ste� e said. “I’ve al-ready seen people come together to help out with HYAMP. � ose people are happy and that’s why I do this.”
Ste� e said HYAMP is for Huntington and surrounding areas to not only have a place to listen to music, but to also be inspired
and create ideas. “If you don’t have a place to feel accepted, then you can’t be
who you really are,” Ste� e said. “At one point, I realized there is nothing here for me. So I’m going to make something here for me and people like me.”
� is time around, HYAMP plans to use the building for a wider range of activities. Movie screenings and art shows are just a few of the ideas Ste� e and Allen have created.
“If you want something to happen, tell us about it,” Ste� e said. “We want to have as many activities at the new building as possible.”
Ste� e and Allen said they want Huntington to help with HY-AMP as much as possible, the more input and ideas, the better.
“HYAMP 2.0 is going to be a ‘for us, by us’ kind of thing,” Ste� e said. “We want it to be as diverse and creative as possible.”
Local artists have sprayed fresh gra� ti onto HYAMP’s new walls and all who are involved are excited to get the show back on the road and headed towards Huntington.
� e doors at HYAMP will reopen Saturday at 6 p.m. Music will be performed by local bands, Some Like it Hot, Universes, Bad Employees, Scenes from a Movie and Talk is Cheap. More information on HYAMP can be found on Facebook.
Crystal Myers can be contacted at [email protected].
Local musician given a new home
CRYSTAL MYERS | THE PARTHENON
HYAMP, a new music venue was recently reopened in Huntington giving artists the chance to perform for the community.
CRYSTAL MYERS | THE PARTHENON
Huntington and surrounding areas have a place for artists to listen to music and create ideas.
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