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MONDAY, NOVEMEBER 10, 2014 | VOL. 118 NO. 60 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com
NEWS, 5> BIKE BASH> INSIDE SGA > INFORMATICS> CHRISTMAS PARADE
SPORTS, 2&3> FOOTBALL> VOLLEYBALL
OPINION, 4> MAKEUP DOES NOT EQUAL WORTH> PACK THE JOAN
INSIDE:
ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON
SHALEE ROGNEY | THE PARTHENON
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> MEN’S SOCCER> MEN’S BASKETBALL
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By HANNAH SAYRETHE PARTHENON
A fall break could come to Marshall University in 2015.
The Student Government Association has proposed a fall break in middle to late October that would begin in 2015. The break would either be both Thursday and Friday or just Friday.
Marshall student body pres-ident Duncan Waugaman said he has had this idea for a long time, and it would be very beneficial for the students.
“A lot of institutions have this break,” Waugaman said. “The span of time from Labor Day to Thanksgiving break seems like a marathon. With the help of President Kopp and the Faculty Senate, we can get this break in place for next year.”
The next step SGA must take is to write a resolu-tion showing approval of the break. Then Faculty Senate must propose to amend the calendar to add in the one or two days in which the break would occur and approve the calendar as amended.
If passed by the Faculty Senate, it would then be sent to Kopp’s office for his signature.
“This is something I have talked with President Kopp about, and he supports the idea of a fall break,” Wauga-man said. “I also think that the students of this university will be very happy to have a break during the stressful mid-semester exams and projects.”
Brooke Adkins, junior nursing major, said it would
be great to have a fall break because it gets really draining going nonstop from August to Thanksgiving break.
Nigel Wallace, manage-ment and marketing double major, said the stress and tension that is created by school, work and extracur-ricular activities weighs on a person.
“I think a break would be extremely convenient for any college student who has to deal with ample loads of stress,” Wallace said.
Adding this fall break into the calendar for the fall 2015 semester would not affect Thanksgiving break in any way.
Hannah Sayre can be contacted at [email protected].
Potential for added break
could ease fall semester stress
“The span of time from Labor Day to
Thanksgiving break seems like a marathon.”
Duncan Waugaman
SUCCESSFUL SATURDAY FOR HERD SPORTS
THREEFOR
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“I’ve never seen our team quit like that, but we did, and it’s embarrassing...”- MITCH JACOBS
“And to quote Lebron, ‘It’s always a work in progress.’”- DAN D’ANTONI
“We honor them Friday with a ceremony. We honor them Saturday by filling the stadium and chanting “We Are.. Marshall.”
“Ideally, you want everyone to love everything we do as SGA executives, but that’s just not possible.”- HOLLAND MILLER
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SUSAN BROADBRIDGE | THE STUDENT PRINTZ | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
HERD FOOTBALL
BURIES GOLDEN EAGLES
63-17MEN’S BASKETBALLSILENCES CONCORD’S ROAR92-80
MEN’S SOCCERENDS REGULAR SEASON WITH WIN
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By SCOTT BOLGERTHE PARTHENON
The Marshall University volleyball team (14-15, 8-6) lost its final home game Sun-day to Conference-USA powerhouse Western Kentucky University (25-5, 13-1) 0-3 (23-25, 24-26, 17-25).
The loss may have broken Marshall’s four-game win streak, but the Herd clinched a C-USA tournament berth Friday and will still have an opportunity to possibly avenge this lopsided loss.
The Herd, similar to Friday’s match against FAU and many preceding contentions, used its 1-2-3 offensive and 3-2-1 defensive formations to combat WKU, who used a nearly identical formation.
Leading the Herd in kills was junior outside hitter Lauren Legge with 11. Legge would be the only Marshall hitter with 10 plus kills for the day, and was even out-pointed by two Hill-toppers in Jessica Lucas and Alyssa Cavanaugh. The two totaled 12 and 15, respectively.
Marshall also hit an uncharacteristic 12 per-cent for the match and was nearly doubled by WKU’s 23 percent. The Hilltoppers were more proficient when sharing the ball, and it showed with 44 assists to the Herd’s 37. They also to-taled seven more digs with 59 to Marshall’s 52.
One may assume that the first set was a foreshadowing to a close match because both teams tied nine times. There were only two lead changes and unfortunately for the Herd, the final lead change was not in their favor. Af-ter a 13-11 lead acquired from Hilltopper net violations, and powerful spikes from the edge of the net by Legge and sophomore opposite Elyse Panick, Marshall’s cohesiveness began to unfold. Western Kentucky would win the set 25-23.
Twice, the Herd let volleys fall to the ground from indecisiveness, and hitters Legge and Cassie Weaver were out of touch on their strikes when choosing location, accounting for six er-rors while not hitting the ball deep enough to disallow WKU digs.
“Cassie (Weaver) likes to drill balls down into the middle of the block,” said Marshall Head Coach Mitch Jacobs. “She needs to stay above the block and go off the top of the block and move around deeper.”
Again, Marshall showed great promise
midway through the second half. After being down 15-24 due to WKU’s 3-2-1 offensive and defensive set in which the front line was the focal point for all aspects, Marshall went on a 9-0 run headed by Panick’s versatility with vigorously hit kills from the left side and roofing blocks at both edges.
What brought the Herd to the nine - point deficit was the patience of WKU’s front line, never leaving its positions and consistently deflecting spikes so the back three could vol-ley it back towards them.
Because of the run, WKU called a timeout. Hilltopper head coach Travis Hudson could be heard saying, “Just do what we’re sup-posed to do. We know the ball is coming from the left.”
The Hilltoppers then won the two remain-ing points, deflecting the Herd’s left side attack via roofing.
The third set was the least competitive, and maybe the disheartening defeats in sets one and two encompassed the exuberance of the Herd players. Marshall acquired a 9-7 lead from a few hesitation kills from senior setter Sammie Bane and sophomore middle-backer Ally Kiekover, but again, the team faltered and was outscored 18-8. Nothing was wrong with Marshall’s strategy, but technically, there were issues, and it showed, with numerous block attempts going out of bounds and the Hilltoppers front three battering Marshall spike attempts back into Herd territory.
When inquired about the loss, Coach Jacobs blamed it on a lack of energy and confidence.
“We didn’t have energy at the start to finish today,” Jacobs said. “I’ve never seen our team quit like that, but we did, and it’s embarrass-ing because Western Kentucky is a great team and we disrespected another opponent. We should always play as hard as we can.”
The Herd will take on Rice University in Houston, Texas Thursday. The Owl’s will be one of the swiftest teams the Herd has seen all year.
“We’re going to start breaking down tape tomorrow,” Jacobs said. “We know that they’re a fast team. They’re athletic, they have ball control, they do everything that is going to make it really hard on us.”
Scott Bolger can be contacted by [email protected].
Herd volleyball falls to Western
Kentucky
By SHANNON STOWERSTHE PARTHENON
Down 14-0 before ever having the offense take the field is ex-actly the kind of adversity Marshall University head coach Doc Holliday has been talking about all season.
Fortunately for the Thundering Herd, it was able to respond with overwhelming force, outscoring the University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles 63-3 on its way to a 63-17 win.
The Golden Eagles opened the game by pounding the Herd defense on the ground, ending a 13-play, 75-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run. On the ensuing kickoff, USM surprised the Herd with an onside kick and recovery that led to another touchdown. There’s your adversity.
Over the course of the next 45 minutes of game time, however, it was all Marshall.
Powered by quarterback Rakeem Cato and running back Remi Watson, the Herd climbed out of the 14-0 hole in a hurry.
In one of his best over all performances of the season thus far, Cato threw for 186 yards and added 92 yards on the ground. The senior quarterback also had three touchdowns (two passing, one running) while leading the offense to nine touchdowns.
Cato, still a dark horse for the Heisman Trophy, had his mo-ment during the Herd’s first score. On third and goal from the two-yard line, Cato dropped back to pass, but was forced out of the pocket. After scrambling for what seemed like 50 yards and five minutes, Cato, with momentum carrying him out of bounds near the 25-yard line, found Watson in the end zone for what would go down as a two yard touchdown pass.
Watson, who got the start due to Devon Johnson being out with a lingering injury, accounted for four of the Herd’s touchdowns.
Steward Butler led the team in rushing with 118 yards, most of which came on the first play of the fourth quarter, when Butler took a handoff 83 yards for his second touchdown.
Continuing a string of games in which it’s clamped down de-fensively, the Herd allowed just three points after going down 14-0 early.
The Herd defense forced four turnovers and constantly got to USM quarterback Cole Weeks, sacking him six times.
Linebacker Jermaine Holmes and defensive back Corey Tin-dal led the team in tackles with eight each.
Next up for the Herd is a home matchup that has been cir-cled on many calendars since the schedule was released: Rice University.
The 6-3 (4-1) Owls are the last team to beat the Herd in its last 16 games, including a 41-24 loss in last season’s Confer-ence USA championship.
Kickoff is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday. The game will be televised on Fox Sports Network.
Shannon Stowers can be contacted at [email protected].
Herd football defeats Golden Eagles
Sophomore Cassie Weaver plays at the net against Morehead State University Sept. 16.
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Running back Remi Watson plays against University of Southern Mississippi at M.M Roberts Stadium Saturday.PHOTOS BY SUSAN BROADBRIDGE| THE STUDENT PRINTZ| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Punter Tyler Williams punts the ball against The University of Southern Mississippi Saturday.
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The Marshall University men’s basketball team defeated Concord University 92-80 Sat-urday in the Cam Henderson Center this past Saturday. The exhibition match was hotly contested at halftime, with the Mountain Lions ahead 44-38, but a 25-14 run eight minutes into the second half revamped the Herd’s focus and galvanized a tougher man-to-man defense in order to sustain the lead from there on out.
Spearheading the run was junior forward Jay Johnson, who finished the game with 19 points and 5/9 shooting be-hind the arc.
“We knew coming in at half-time that Marshall would make a run, because of the way Coach [Dan] D’Antoni is going to play,” said Concord head coach Kent McBride. “They were going to shoot the basketball. We knew they would make a run and we just didn’t stop it fast enough. I think they hit four or five three’s in a row and I don’t think we converted maybe one of those possessions. That’s the difference.”
Herd player’s admitted to having first game jitters, and that probably being the reason behind a halftime deficit to a Division II school.
“A lot of excitement,” said redshirt sophomore forward Ryan Taylor. “Just from us within as a team. The coaches were excited and it just being the first game, we were try-ing to impress the fans. Maybe
we tried to do too much, kind of like Cleveland (Cavaliers) and how they were the opening night, but I think we got the jit-ters out in the second half and we played well.”
In the first half, a fidgety Marshall team, succumbing to
its nervousness, wasn’t the only reason Concord took a first half lead. Concord was the much smaller team, but
utilized its speed very well. The team out
of Athens, West Virginia, would place the guards on
the perim-eter with two post men on
the low block. The forwards down low had one objective: to garner as many put back points as possible, while the guards set picks for each other in order to drive into the lane for mid-range jump-
ers or to attack the basket.The second-half success of
that strategy wasn’t nearly as successful as it was in the first.
“They did a really good job putting [Justin] Edmonds up on our ball handlers,” Mc-Bride said. “When they want to play fast, they continually really wore our guys down. We turned the ball over care-lessly. Whether it was fatigue, or whatever it was playing at this level, that took a lot out of
play. We couldn’t get in rhythm at half-court and all of sudden when you get pressured in the back-court, we started drib-bling instead of passing.”
Marshall’s usage of 11 play-ers, full and half-court traps, coast-to-coast drives and kick outs for corner three-pointers won the game for the Herd. Marshall continues to instill the fast paced, quick firing offense in the regular season, but look for them to be more situational during the regular season.
When asked if we would continue to see 11 men play, Marshall head coach D’Antoni said we would not.
“I wanted to film where I could see everybody,” D’Antoni said. “I wanted to play Milan a little more than I did. I thought he looked pretty good for the little bit of time he was in there and we would’ve liked to have given him a little bit more time.”
D’Antoni greatly stressed that both he and his player’s will be going through a lengthy development process.
“I’m getting new to this, too,” D’Antoni said. “We scored 90 points and somebody got tired on the floor. I don’t understand that because I never got tired. I think it was excitement. In the first half everyone was excited and they got winded re-ally fast — everybody I put in got winded. In the second half, they settled down more and ex-tended their play a little bit.
“We’ve been practicing. I think we’re in good shape. Again, it was excitement that winded them. I think we’ll learn a lot. It’ll be a good learn-ing experience. It’s going to be all year long, a work in prog-ress. I’m brand new, we have a brand new system, we have all brand new players really because players that did the really heavy play last year are not here. It’s going to be a con-tinual work in progress until we figure out the chemistry, the element of the game. And to quote Lebron, ‘It’s always a work in progress.’”
Marshall’s next game will be against Jacksonville State at 7 p.m. Friday Nov. 14 at the Cam Henderson Center.
Scott Bolger can be con-tacted at [email protected].
By BRADLEY HELTZELTHE PARTHENON
The Herd wrapped up its regular season Saturday with a conclusive 4-1 win over Con-cord University on senior day to push its current win streak to three games.
Senior Danny Sellitti was rec-ognized before the match and presented with a framed pink goalkeeper jersey. Bob Gray was also honored with a framed jersey as he celebrated his 20th season as the Herd’s head coach.
In the match, the Herd (7-8-3, 3-4-1) got four goals from four different players with midfield-ers Ryan Forde, Ian Lovern, freshman Christian Kershaw and West Virginia native Trevor Starcher all notching scoring strikes. Both Lovern and Ker-shaw collected their first career goals for the Herd. Kershaw also had two assists in the match.
The match was the second consecutive game in which the Herd scored four goals after defeating Asbury 4-0 in its pre-vious match. Gray said it was
nice for the Herd to get some scoring chances and gain some confidence offensively with their production in the past two matches.
With its regular season con-cluded the Herd will now look toward the postseason and the Conference USA Tournament this week that is hosted by Old Dominion in Norfolk, Virginia.
The Herd is seeded sixth out of the seven teams that quali-fied for the tournament. It will face the third seed, University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the tournament quarterfinals at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Herd were thrashed by UAB in its lone matchup of the regular season as the Blazers won by a score of 7-2 in Birmingham, Alabama. The seven goals were the most allowed in a match by the Herd all season as five different play-ers scored for UAB.
However, Gray said he doesn’t mind the UAB matchup, despite the definitive loss early in the season.
“I’d rather play a team we lost
to than a team we’ve already beaten because it’s tough to beat a team twice,” Gray said.
In terms of health, Gray said the team will welcome back Ontario native Daniel Jodah for the tournament after he missed the previous two matches with a hamstring injury. Jodah, a sophomore midfielder, led the Herd with five goals this season. Gray also said junior midfielder Trevor Starcher should be fine after injuring his ankle in Fri-day’s match with Concord, but Gray is not as optimistic that the team will have the services of junior Frenchman Arthur Duschesne, whose status will be monitored throughout the week.
If the Herd defeats UAB and advances to the semifinals, it will play the winner of the match between seventh seeded South Carolina versus second seeded Kentucky at 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Bradley Heltzel can be con-tacted at [email protected].
TAMRON MANNING
DOWN WITH THE MOUNTAIN LIONS
Men’s soccer defeats Concord 4-1 Men’s basketball defeats Concord92-80 in exhibition match
Marshall’s Trevor Starcher (17) defends as the Herd men’s soccer team takes on Concord University on Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Complex.
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What do you get when you have a 9-0, No. 21 ranked Thundering Herd football team, plus a conference championship stealing team coming into the Joan and the anniversary of a plane crash that took the lives of many and changed a town and school forever?
Hopefully it’s a jam-packed Joan C. Ed-wards Stadium.
If it’s not enough we play Rice University, the team that stole the cham-pionship out from Huntington, and then gave us our one loss on the season, it is also the anniversary of the fatal plane crash.
The week leading up to the ceremony is always a strange one on Marshall’s cam-pus. Anytime you look at the fountain, you remember you only have a few more days
to sit on the plaza and hear the water fall-ing. It’s solemn, a little quieter.
That shouldn’t stop us from being loud Saturday, however.
It’s one of the most moving moments in the movie.
Matthew McConaughey, as Jack Lengyel, leans over behind Matthew Fox as Red Dawson and says:
“One day, not today, not tomorrow, not this season, probably not next season ei-ther but one day, you and I are going to wake up and suddenly we’re going to be like every other team in every other sport where winning is everything and nothing else matters. And when that day comes, well that’s, that’s when we’ll honor them.”
We made it there a while ago – where winning means everything – but we still
are not like every other team. Unlike other teams, we have something to fight for, someone to fight for. Seventy-five someones.
We honor them Friday with a ceremony. We honor them Saturday by filling the sta-dium and chanting, “We are…Marshall.”
Show Conference USA what it missed out on when they took the champion-ship game to Houston. If you don’t come to the game to support Rakeem Cato, Devon Johnson and the rest of the Thun-dering Herd, do it to honor those who didn’t get to play again. Do it for the fans who didn’t see another game. Do it for Lengyel and Dawson and the Young Thundering Herd.
It’s Monday. You have four days to get your tickets.
Honor them with remembrance Friday, celebration Saturday
By JOCELYN GIBSONNEWS EDITOR
For a while it was the trend among feminists to shed any practice that could be seen as a tool of the patriar-chy and one of the first things to go was the use of makeup. Feminists worried applying makeup was something they only did to please men, to make them more aesthetically pleasing to the male eye.
I get where they were coming from, and maybe I would have felt the same way about ditching the façade and bar-ing my true, unmade-up feminist self to the patriarchal world, and I would have been taking a stand.
However, we are no longer in the era of 60s and 70s second-wave femi-nism, and I, like many other feminists, am embracing the idea that makeup doesn’t have to be oppressive; in fact, it can be quite liberating.
My relationship with makeup has been far more complex than making a feminist choice to embrace it. For me, it was a struggle for confidence that led me to my current relationship with it.
From the time I entered middle school I was concerned about how oth-ers perceive me, and that was also the
point when I started wearing makeup on a daily basis. It started out heavy, almost nothing of myself remaining after it was all applied and without it I felt completely vulnerable — vulner-able to the judgment of everyone who saw me.
Really, it wasn’t until college that I started to change the relationship I had with makeup, but it didn’t begin as that exactly. It began with relinquish-ing a lot of feelings I had about how others looked at me and how I looked at myself.
Once I decided I was happy, every-thing else fell into place. I found that I didn’t need the security blanket of a fully made-up face anymore. I had gained confidence and lost a ton of negativity that I had been harboring for years.
I found that makeup played a much better role in my life as something I do for my own enjoyment, than some-thing I had to do every morning for other people. I like the artistry of ap-plying it, of all the different looks you can accomplish, and it has become something that is entirely for me be-cause I like the process and the end result.
I would encourage my fellow femi-nists and my fellow women to do things because they make you genu-inely happy. I would encourage you to find your confidence and if you find instead that something you are doing has become a security blanket, then I would encourage you to ex-plore why that is, but I am not going to tell you it is wrong or right to wear makeup.
It had become too much of a neces-sity in my life, and so I changed the way I used it. It will never be anyone else’s business the way I or you chose to adorn our bodies and as long as we are doing for reasons entirely our own, it no one’s problem either.
As I write this, I have not touched my face with makeup in two days. And most days, when I do wear makeup, it is minimal: light foundation, mascara and lipstick. That’s it. My face isn’t perfect, and it makes me feel more pulled together to wear a little makeup most days, but I have made my routine as minimal. I save time in the morn-ings, I don’t worry about it, and I like the way I look.
Jocelyn Gibson can be contacted at [email protected].
What I put on my face has nothing to do with my worth
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CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL (AP)Putting an end to a months-
long legal battle, Kanawha County Prosecutor Mark Plants announced Monday he would not appeal a three-judge pan-el’s decision to remove him from office.
Plants had until Friday, Nov. 14, to appeal the decision. He now must vacate his office by Nov. 13.
The ouster stems from alle-gations of domestic abuse and violating a protective order. Misdemeanor charges are still pending, but Kanawha Circuit Judge Duke Bloom in April de-cided to bar Plants’ office from prosecuting domestic battery cases involving children.
That forced the Kanawha County Commission to hire two special prosecutors — one to handle the prosecutor office’s
domestic abuse caseload, and another to handle charges against Plants — each of which cost taxpayers extra.
Claiming the mounting costs, county commissioners pushed for Plants’ removal from office. It is more than a little disturb-ing to see an elected official pushed from office by other elected officials based on alle-gations that remain unproven in court.
Yes, the special prosecutors cost money, but no one sug-gested due process is cheap. Preferably, Plants could have operated under a presumption of innocence until the charges were resolved.
Yet, he is to be commended for stepping aside and avoiding a further lengthy, distracting and costly legal battle.
Plants decision saves taxpayers money
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The city of Huntington has announced the an-nual Christmas Parade of Lights will be Dec. 13 at 6 p.m.
This is a new tradi-tion being started by the city of Huntington. Lo-cal Huntington residents and organizations are be-ing asked to participate.
The organizations par-ticipating will have the
chance to compete in a float contest and judges selected by the city of Huntington will choose the winner.
The judges will be looking for the incor-poration of the 2014 Huntington Christmas Parade of Lights theme, creativity, originality, de-sign and workmanship of the float.
By J’LEIGHA LONGTHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s Health Informatics graduate program was ranked No. 1 for the most affordable pro-gram in the nation, out of a total of 25, according to the MBA Healthcare Manage-ment in the United States. This was based off of the overall flexibility, quality and research trends within each program.
The Health Infor-matics program is a multidisciplinary profession that utilizes information technologies, information systems integrated into the health care arena and informatics.
Dr. Girmay Berhie, pro-gram director for health informatics, said the program consists of a part-nership between three of Marshall University’s colleges: the College of
Business, the College of Health Professions and the College of Information Tech-nology and Engineering.
“The program was accred-ited within the first three years,” Berhie said. “That speaks quality. The health informatics program is the only in the state of West Virginia, and its one of the three informatics programs in the United States to be ac-credited by the Commission of Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management.”
Berhie said he believes it is the combined exper-tise and skills, combined with knowledge from the three colleges that make the health informatics program unique.
Debra Stinson, graduate student in the informat-ics program, said she went to school for web develop-ment as an undergraduate
student and combining the three disciplines helped her adapt.
“I came from a techno-logical background, and that also helped me to adapt to the informatics program be-cause one of the disciplines are information technology,” Stinson said.
Students graduating with a master’s degree in health informatics can typically get jobs as security officers, data analysts, professors, CIO’s, consultants and pro-gram managers.
Berhie said Marshall’s program is a prime example of how both affordability and quality can go together.
“Students will spend less money on tuition and after graduation will have a bet-ter chance of finding a good paying job,” Berhie said. “Most of our graduates from this program are making $60,000 to $125,000 yearly.
This can repay any loans they might have.”
Michael Jones, a gradu-ate of the program, said it wasn’t until receiving his degree at Marshall that he found the career where he could truly succeed.
“As a nurse with a back-ground in neuroscience, health research and data analysis, I had been seeking the right graduate program that could combine the kind of education and experience with today’s cutting-edge health information sciences,” Jones said. “I found my an-swer at Marshall University’s health informatics program. As a recent graduate, I now have an exciting and re-warding career as a health informatics specialist work-ing in the area of informatics and health data analytics.”
J’Leigha Long can be contacted at [email protected].
City announces Huntington Christmas Parade of Lights
Health Informatics program rankedNo. 1 most affordable program
By HANNAH SAYRETHE PARTHENON
From the outside looking into the Marshall University Student Government Association, not many people realize the time and effort students put into theorganization that makes de-cisions for their benefit.
SGA is made up of three branches: the executive branch, under the Waugaman/Mangus Administration; the student senate, under the president pro tempore, Justyn Cox and the senate apprenticeship program.
Each administration chooses his or her cabinet and may have as few or many positions as they choose. Many of these cabinet picks are experienced senators, but not all.
Holland Miller, SGA business manager, said this is his first year being involved with SGA.
“I came into office last spring as a part of the executive staff,” Miller said. “My role is to make sure we have the financial sta-bility and liquidity to fund SGA as a whole. In addition, I make sure that our student organiza-tions have an outlet for funding and to ensure activities ben-efiting the students are made achievable from a financial stand point.”
Miller said he likes to align himself with energetic, moti-vated people.
“I strongly believe that stu-dents who make an effort to be involved around campus see our impact,” Miller said. “Ideally, you want everyone to love everything we do as SGA executives, but that’s just not possible. I think as long as you show up and fight the good fight, and do everything with the well-being of fellow students in mind, then that’s all you can do. The rest of the pieces will hopefully fall in place.”
To be a senator of SGA, stu-dents can apply for a seat each spring semester. There are senators of each college and
senators at large. The Senate meets every Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Kate Wright is the senator for the graduate college, pursuing degrees in history and public administration. She did her undergraduate studies here at Marshall and graduated in 2013.
“I ran for senator of the graduate college in the spring of last year and truly had no ex-pectations,” Wright said. “Now I am on two committees, cam-pus life and finance. They have given me more perspective of the university than I previously had. The diverse amount of stu-dent organizations requesting money allows me and my fellow senators to see how many orga-nizations we have, how diverse we are, and learn something greater about Marshall and its reach in the community.”
Wright said she wishes everyone could have the ex-perience she has had because it has grown her love for Mar-shall University tremendously. It has also allowed her to leave Marshall in a better state than when she arrived.
Junior Caleb Murray, college of education senator, said SGA has done wonderful things this semester, and he is lucky to have had the chance to be part of many decisions with the finance committee. How-ever, he also said he has been disappointed with the lack of participation in the general senate.
Murray also said he is pleased with how the executive branch has functioned this semester and encourages students to en-gage with their senators.
“I’m very satisfied with the way the SGA executive has led this semester,” Murray said. “I started off kind of rough, but my passion for the organiza-tion and its duties have grown immensely. I am very excited to continue serving and I would encourage everyone to find out who their representatives are and to express any ideas
or concerns. We do this for the student body.”
The purpose of the senate ap-prenticeship program is to serve as a development opportunity for leadership for first year students. Senate apprentices shadow a senator and learn the ins-and-outs of SGA.
Freshman apprentice Jenna Adkins stumbled upon SGA ac-cidentally after becoming good friends with one of the executive staff, who walked her through SGA procedures and showed her the responsibilities the orginiza-tion entails.
“As an apprentice, I have been working close with the fi-nance committee,” Adkins said. “I am enjoying learning about Marshall’s various student orga-nizations and writing bills that will help fund their philanthropic events. Being on SGA will also put my passion for politics to good use. I love the atmosphere of SGA and I have made some of my best and most reliable friends because of it.”
Freshman apprentice Matthew Jarvis said he decided to join SGA because he was very involved in high school.
“I thought it would be a good idea to become involved on cam-pus and make friends,” Jarvis said. “I was immediately welcomed in with open arms and smiling faces. The senate treasurer, Jor-dan Fanelli, had faith in me and took me on as his apprentice and began to show me how the fi-nance committee of SGA worked. Because of Jordan, I received a crash course on how the finance committee worked and was im-mediately put to work.”
Jarvis said his favorite part about being in SGA, however, is seeing the faces of the members within student organizations who receive funding. He said it is such a great feeling knowing he contributes to the success of other student groups on Mar-shall’s campus.
Hannah Sayre can be con-tacted at [email protected].
Inside look at the members of SGA
ANNUAL BIKE BASH HITS RITTER PARK
Cyclists, mountain bikers and Cyclocross enthusiasts gathered at Rotary Park Saturday to participate in the Sec-ond Annual Bike Bash.
The event began at 9:30 a.m. with a begin-ners' pace road ride of about 14 miles guided by experienced riders who were able to share tips with the novice riders.
Live music, food ven-dors and information booths were set up by 11 a.m. when the Kids Bike Rodeo Course began.
At noon, expert moun-tain biker Bryan Beckett led a mountain biking clinic. Professional Cy-clocross Racer Mark Brown conducted a Cy-clocross clinic at 1:30 p.m.
Cyclists from the tri-state community participate in a leisure group ride during Huntington’s Second annual Bike Bash Saturday at Rotary Park.