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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 | VOL. 118 NO. 51 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com
INSIDE:NEWS, 2> EBOLA BRIEFS> CHARTER AMENDMENTS> COB MOCK INTERVIEWS
SPORTS, 3> DEVON JOHNSON
OPINION, 4
LIFE!, 6
EMILY RICE | THE PARTHENON
AP PHOTO | FRANCOIS MORI
RICHARD CRANK | THE PARTHENON
> CURSING KIDS LEAVE A MESSAGE> COMMUTER PARKING PROBLEMS> THE BURDEN OF THOUGHT
> HUMANS OF HUNTINGTON
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“I didn’t even know he was a drug dealer until I was
with him for almost a year. It’s crazy how people can
play with your life”
HUMANS OF HUNTINGTON
A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES HUNTINGTON'S STRANGERS MORE ON LIFE!
By EMILY RICE THE PARTHENON
This summer, the city of Hun-tington put a special emphasis inspecting off-campus student housing, resulting in one “do not occupy” order and 58 ticketed violations.
The inspections were spurred by conversations Mayor Steve Wil-liams had with students at his monthly campus event, Coffee with the Mayor.
“I continued to hear that some of the living conditions in the area
really didn’t sound to be habitable,” Williams said. “I heard one example of someone who had woken up in the winter and their apartment was 45 degrees.”
Williams said students of Marshall University should feel safe in their liv-ing conditions.
“The last thing they need to worry about are their housing arrangements and that’s what local government is here for; to provide that protection,” Williams said. “You might be going to school here, and you might call home somewhere else, but you are a
resident of Huntington. While you are a resident of Huntington, we are here to represent you.”
Bryan Chambers, director of com-munications for the city of Huntington, said that, for the most part, Huntington landlords take care of their properties, but some have been neglecting their responsibilities.
“This effort put those landlords on notice that they have to bring their rental properties up to the standards of the city and of Marshall University,”
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Part of a sign that reads "Cracked But Not Broken," is shown (left) and
Miguel Robles, 13, a freshman at Marysville Pilchuck High School, looks
at balloons (below) he placed Monday, at a growing memorial on a fence
around the school in Marysville, Wash. On Friday, student Jaylen R. Fryberg
opened fire in the school cafeteria, killing two fellow students before
taking his own life. A third student died Sunday night of her injuries. PHOTOS BY
AP PHOTO | TED S. WARREN
‘CRACKED BUT NOT BROKEN’
A community unites following a shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Washington.
By ANTHONY DAVISTHE PARTHENON
A local up-and-coming native brewer came back to Huntington Mon-day to share his love of beer with other enthusiasts.
Frank Moeller, owner and brew-master of Flying Mouse Brewery in Troutville, Virginia, came back to his hometown of Huntington to visit Black Sheep Burritos and Brews and pres-ent his brewery’s selection of craft beer. The event, Flying Mouse Brew-ery: Meet the Brewer, was a meet and greet that gave patrons a chance to chat with Moeller about brewing and enjoying craft beer.
Moeller said Flying Mouse Brew-ery focused on creating a beer people could enjoy as part of an active lifestyle.
“We try to brand ourselves as an anti-couch potato beer,” Moeller said. “Our brewery is located about a half-mile from the Appalachian Trail and a nearby bike route. We get a lot of hikers and a lot of other very active people in our brewery.”
Moeller said he began brewing beer as a hobby in 1995.
“I started home brewing in 1995,” Moeller said. “I started in my kitchen with a big pot on the stove and one of those brewing kits you get from a catalog.”
Flying Mouse craft beers are given numerical names that correspond with the color of the brew—the lower the number, the lighter the beer; the higher the number, the darker the beer. Duran said Flying Mouse does this for efficiency and to make the beer
less intimidating for people.Black Sheep carries four of Flying
Mouse Brewery’s beers: Flying Mouse Three, Four, Five and Eight. To cel-ebrate the event, Moeller added a fifth beer to Black Sheep’s menu. Flying Mouse Autumn, a traditional brown ale with a biscuit-like malt character, is now available at Black Sheep.
The brewery’s website provides a descriptive list of its varied selection of craft beer. Flying Mouse Three is a golden, fresh and delicious ale with a slightly sweet flavor and is built from a Kolsch-style foundation. Flying Mouse Four is crafted from an India Pale Ale foundation; it is bright and sunny and features herbal and floral notes with a combination of several hops. Flying
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Housing inspections
prioritize student safety
MOUSE IN THE HOUSEFlying Mouse Brewery visits Black Sheep Burritos and
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By BRYAN BOZEMANTHE PARTHENON
The emergency room at Ca-bell Huntington Hospital was placed on lockdown Saturday night after a female who vis-ited Nigeria in June came in with flu-like symptoms.
The lockdown lasted for several hours but was lifted when it was determined that the woman did not have Ebola.
Hospital officials released a statement saying: “Our staff has worked hard to prepare for such an incident and im-plemented all recommended safety procedures, including
isolation, while testing was completed.”
Hospital officials said there was never any risk to the pub-lic, but the patient did spark alarm that spread quickly.
Hospital officials said the pa-tient was never in any regions in Africa where Ebola was a threat, and they were simply taking precautionary measures.
The patient was also out-side the incubation period for Ebola, meaning she would have been showing symptoms much sooner than Saturday night.
Bryan Bozeman can be contacted at [email protected].
By BRYAN BOZEMANTHE PARTHENON
Dr. Ahmed Ragab, assistant professor of science and reli-gion at Harvard Divinity School, will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center.
Regab is a guest speaker at the fifth annual da Vinci Lec-ture. Ragab’s speech, titled “From Plague to Ebola: The So-cial Life of Epidemics and the Making of Global Health,” will address the social making of epidemics, how societies are af-fected by them and what makes particular infectious diseases an epidemic.
“The talk will investigate the development of quarantines, their meaning in medical and public health literature, and their cost and importance at so-cial and political levels,” Ragab said. “In exploring the history
of epidemics and quarantines, the talk explores the making of global health policies, priorities and institutions and how they developed through debates, negotiations and conflicts sur-rounding such events.”
Ragab has a volume of work that includes the history and development of medieval Is-lamic sciences, the relationship between science and religion in the medieval and modern Mid-dle East, the history of medieval Islamic hospitals, and the intel-lectual and cultural history of woman in the Middle East.
His experience with religion, the history of religion and how both affect medicine will guide him in his timely lecture about religion in the Middle East and Ebola.
Bryan Bozeman can be contacted at [email protected].
Ebola lockdown lifted at Cabell-Huntington hospital
Harvard professor to discussreligion in Middle East and Ebola
Government health workers protest outside the Lung Center of the Philippines at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines to dispute claims by the Government on its readiness to fight Ebola outbreak Oct. 23. The protesters expressed alarm over claims of its readiness since there are no special wards at the moment that is well-equipped in that no special training for the health workers tasked to take care of Ebola-infected patients. The sign reads: “We Are Pulmonary Experts, Not On Ebola!”
The medical team of the Paris emergency unit wearing their protective suits wait in front of an ambulance for a training session to take care of suspected Ebola cases during the presentation to the press, in Paris, Oct. 24.
AP PHOTO | FRANCOIS MORI
AP PHOTO | BULLIT MARQUEZ
A health worker sprays disinfectant onto a colleague after they worked with the body of a man, suspected of contracting and dying form the Ebola virus on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday. The United States will help fight Ebola over “the long haul,” the American ambassador to the United Nations said on a trip to the West African countries hit by the outbreak.
AP PHOTO | ABBAS DULLEH
By EMILY RICE THE PARTHENON
Voters who live in the corporate limits of the city of Huntington in Cabell and Wayne Counties will see four proposed Charter amendments on their General Election ballot Nov. 4.
Huntington Mayor Steve Williams said the city charter was adopted in 1985 and the four proposed amendments take into account advancements in technology that occurred in the intervening decades.
“The amendments take into account technology advancements and add clar-ity and flexibility to the charter,” Williams said. “If approved, the amendments will result in more efficient operations.”
The proposed charter amendments are as follows, according to the city’s website:
1.“Shall the Charter be amended to amend Section 9.12 of the official Char-ter of the City of Huntington as it relates to personnel powers and duties of the mayor to extend temporary appoint-ments from 60 days to 120 days?”
Bryan Chambers, communications di-rector for the city of Huntington, said this first amendment would give the city more flexibility in the time frame of choosing its officials.
“The change was suggested in light of recent events,” Chambers said. “As we started the selection process for the new police chief, we realized that was a process that was going to take some time. If you
want to make a national search, that is go-ing to take more than 60 days.”
2.“Shall the Charter be amended to amend Article 7 of the official Charter of the City of Huntington as it relates to the qualifications for the Director of Public Works position, wherein the requirement of licensed professional engineer is eliminated?”
Chambers said the second amendment would remove the word “shall,” and add the word “may” in referring to being a licensed engineer for the position of direc-tor of public works.
“The city has had some problems find-ing someone to fill that position who was a licensed engineer, who is willing to work for the salary,” Chambers said. “The re-quirement has resulted in some prolonged vacancies in this position.”
3.“Shall the Charter be amended to amend Section 14.11 of the official Charter of the City of Huntington as it relates to the central garage and mo-tor pool so a system is in place for rules and regulations on all vehicles and equipment?”
This provision states when city vehicles are not in use, they are to be parked in the city’s parking garage. Chambers said the city garage is not large enough, and the charter is not practical in this sense.
“Due to advancing technology, primarily GPS, we can track our vehicles and what they are being used for,” Chambers said.
“We can essentially have a virtual city ga-rage or motor pool. That gives us more flexibility.”
4. “Shall the Charter be amended to amend Section 9.1 and Section 9.2 of the official Charter of the City of Hun-tington as it relates to changing only the job title of Director of Administration and Finance to the title City Manager?”
The fourth and final amendment would change the job title of the director of ad-ministration and finance to city manager. This does not change the duties or the job responsibilities of that title. Chambers said the city will continue to operate with the mayor as its acting CEO.
“The title of city manager better re-flects the role of that position,” Chambers said. “The director of administration and finance oversees divisions of finance, hu-man resources, IT and purchasing. Those job duties and responsibilities will not change. The title of city manager better reflects the duties and alleviates the con-fusion of that position.”
The city of Huntington, Chambers said, believes that the Charter is a strong docu-ment, but needs some revisions due to changing times.
“These changes provide us with greater flexibility and allow us to become more ef-ficient due to technological advancement,” Chambers said.
Emily Rice can be contacted at [email protected].
Huntington citizens to vote on four proposed charters
College of Business students gain real-world experience through mock interviewsBy JOHN FAUSSTHE PARTHENON
Graduate students from the College of Business have used multiple techniques to prepare them for the business world outside the confines of college. One of these methods is mock interviews.
Conducting interviews for potential future employer is always a useful skill to mas-ter. This includes the ability to show confidence in your-self and display knowledge of your chosen field. People are not born with these skills, however. For many people, it takes years of practice for them to be fully comfortable in an interview setting. This is where the mock interviews come into play.
The interviews were set up to offer local corporate offices Human Resource pro-fessionals to come down and conduct interviews with the students — and have the stu-dents interview them. The HR graduate majors would conduct the interview with a professional, while MBA and healthcare students were be-ing interviewed by the HR professionals.
There were roughly 10
organizations doing inter-views at an event last April. These included companies such as HIMJ, Edward Jones, Special Metals and DIRECTV. Some students even received job offers and real interviews as a result of participating in the mock interviews.
There will be another mock interview event this spring to give students an opportu-nity to gain experience from the interviews. The College of Business is hoping to make it a biannual event, occurring each semester.
The students treat these mock interviews like they would authentic ones, which means they have to prepare for the interview by research-ing the company they are assigned. Students were as-signed organizations that were based on their fields of study.
Ivan Muslin, assistant pro-fessor of management, is one of the people who helped make these interviews a reality.
“We have to see beyond our role as just professors and
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Johnson taking his spot among Herd’s bestBy SHANNON STOWERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
When Devon Johnson was moved to running back prior to the beginning of the season, a physical presence in the Thundering Herd backfield could be expected thanks to the junior’s burly build.
Johnson has lived up to those expectations, delivering crushing hits and ruthless stiff-arms while dragging hopeful tacklers yards after contact.
What was less predictable was Johnson’s overwhelming success as Marshall University’s starting running back.
Even head coach Doc Holliday said he didn’t expect the production Johnson has generated this season.
“He’s a tremendous player,” Holliday said. “I’d like to sit here and tell you I knew that was all going to happen. I knew he was a really good football player, but for me to say we were going to move him to tailback and get the production we’ve gotten out of him, I didn’t think that [would happen].”
The breakout star of the 2014 Herd offense has racked up 1,223 rushing yards this season, second only to Nebras-ka’s Ameer Abdullah. What’s the difference between the
two tailbacks? Abdullah has just 46 more yards on 43 extra carries.
Through eight games, Johnson already has more rushing yards than 16 of Marshall’s last 17 leading rushers while playing for only three quarters in most games due to lop-sided wins for the Herd.
Quarterback Rakeem Cato said what Johnson does in the games is nothing new to his teammates.
“He does it constantly, every day in practice, it’s nothing new for us,” Cato said. “He’s a great player to have in the backfield with me, not only rushing, but also passing: picking up blocks, catching the ball—he’s just an all-around player.”
An all-around player may be the best way to describe John-son. The tight end turned running back has the hands to hurt a defense in the passing game, but both the power and speed to punish it on the ground.
Holliday said he’s glad the problem of stopping Johnson isn’t up to him and his staff.
“I’m glad he’s on our side, because I sure as heck wouldn’t want to have to tackle him every day,” Holliday said.
There are four teams left on the Herd’s regular season
schedule that will be tasked with finding a way to stop John-son, who’s averaging 150.4 yards per game.
The junior is on pace for 1,805 yards, which would be sec-ond all-time in Marshall history, but a dominant game like Johnson had against Florida Atlantic University would be enough to push him past Chris Parker’s 1995 school record of 1,833 yards.
Whether or not he surpasses Parker, Herd fans should enjoy the season Johnson is having. Marshall hasn’t seen a running back put together the type of season since Ahmad Bradshaw in 2006, and look where Bradshaw is now: the NFL.
Johnson’s potentially historic season isn’t going unnoticed amongst his teammates, though.
“It’s just a blessing to have Devon Johnson as part of Mar-shall University,” Cato said.
Johnson and his teammates will rest and recover during bye week before traveling to the University of Southern Mis-sissippi Nov. 8.
Shannon Stowers can be contacted at [email protected].
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Marshall University students cheer on the Thundering Herd in its 35-16 win over the Florida Atlantic University Owls Saturday.
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Thundering Herd running back Devon Johnson finds a hole in the Florida Atlantic University defense in the Herd’s 35-16 win Saturday.
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By BRI SHELTONTHE PARTHENON
If there’s one topic that can quickly fuel a debate at Mar-shall, it’s the issue of parking, and the lack thereof, for com-muter students and faculty.
For this group of people, it’s the same story every day. They spend an extra five to ten min-utes every morning driving around the parking garage or surface lots looking for a place to park. They may already be running late or need to get something done before class starts. However, this right is taken from them because of the abundance of on-campus students who bring their cars to Marshall and leave them in the lots.
What’s the point of bring-ing your vehicle with you to college if you live on campus? You can walk to class, have all the resources you need at Marshall, and everything else is within walking distance. There isn’t a reason for you to shell out money for a parking permit you don’t use and keep others from finding a parking spot. It just isn’t right.
Parking is expensive enough without the guarantee of hav-ing somewhere to park. If you
don’t arrive to campus by 9 a.m., you’ll basically be out of luck finding an open space. The lots and parking garage stay full constantly with all the on-campus cars, and adding commuter students takes ev-ery extra spot.
I understand the desire to have your vehicle close by. I re-ally do. If you live on campus, though, what’s the need for your car to be here? If you want to head home for a weekend, your parents or another fam-ily member could always come get you and bring you back. If you want to get off campus, there’s plenty in downtown Huntington to do that isn’t far from Marshall’s campus.
I’m not saying that on-campus students shouldn’t be allowed to park cars here at all. I’m just saying that first priority should be given to commuter students and fac-ulty who actually drive and park their cars every day. Or at the very least, everyone on campus should be confined to one parking lot so more spaces will open up for every-one else.
Bri Shelton can be con-tacted at [email protected].
Parking imposes a problem to commuter students and faculty
By GEOFFREY FOSTERCOPY EDITOR
Save the planet. This slo-gan is everywhere these days, most prominently on the In-ternet, blasting its message across cyberspace. Save the planet. It is emblematic of the hubris many people see fit to endow upon themselves. The phrase should actually state: save ourselves. The planet does not need to be saved. People say we are killing this world every time we burn gas or consume a natural re-source. No, we are not.
Earth has survived far greater damage before we even existed than we could ever inflict now that we are here: Ice ages, massive floods, the bombardment of meteors and asteroids for millions of years, the magnetic reversal of the poles, weather more severe than anything we could possibly survive, so on and so forth. So let us not be so arrogant as to believe that the planet needs our help to survive. It is our survival in question. It is the animals’ survival in question. And un-less we begin to make changes very soon, it will not be very long, geologically speaking,
before we find ourselves fall-ing headlong into the dark pit of extinction.
If that happens, and man-kind begins to diminish, will anyone really be surprised? I think not. Future generations will likely curse our lack of ac-tion and adopt a tone of apathy towards us, their ances-tors. They will say human beings have been racing toward obsoles-cence since the first word was spo-ken, the first fire was lit, the first blood was drawn. They will say it didn’t have to happen that way at all, it could have been stopped, the damage reversed. Instead, the eleventh hour passed without notice, and midnight struck.
Truthfully, our absence would be better for the planet. If Mother Earth were sentient, she would probably regard
humans as a nuisance, like fleas invading a dog’s fur. Our cities, plastered on her back like scabs that never heal, are constantly growing. She tries to heal, to force her grass and roots through our streets and sidewalks, to reassert her presence. But her methods
are too slow, and we keep coming back to re-
apply layers of hot asphalt
and heavy concrete over the cracks she has created. But she keeps
trying, because
it is a natu-ral process,
a behavior that operates almost
like instinct. Humans do not operate on instinct; our actions are motivated by per-sonal desire. The burden of thought will bury us.
The animal kingdom has always been free of this bur-den. No animal ever declared a war, built a city or drilled for oil. They behave as nature
intends, each fulfilling their roles. Their existence creates a balance—human existence disrupts this balance, un-hinges it. It rises up like smoke to choke out the sun. Perma-nent midnight.
But if we disappeared today, the repairs would begin imme-diately. It is a simple concept. One that nature adopts with ease. It requires no thought or planning. It does not need to consider the implications of fixing the damages, changing it methods or the profits that may be lost in the process. It just does what is needed. No greed. No avarice. No sen-tience required.
We must adopt a similar attitude and force ourselves into action. If we do not, all that will remain are the rem-nants of a bygone era where the precious few who fought against the waves were even-tually washed away, engulfed by the waters of a hungry tide. The land where temperance died.
Is that really the legacy we want to leave behind? The choice is ours.
Geoffrey Foster can be contacted at [email protected].
The burden of thought
Normally, when a child swears, she is scolded. What if it’s for a good cause?
A video released by FCKH8 shows little girls dressed in full princess gear drop-ping f-bombs (and pretty much every other swear in the book) in an adorable and obscene feminist manifesto, address-ing the pay gap, sexual assault and the high beauty standards society has for females.
Of course, the people of the Internet have voiced their opinions on the video. YouTube personality Julie Borowski has responded with a full-fledged parody, donning a princess outfit and pink back-ground to match the original. Borowski opposed everything the video was about. She claimed that the stats about sexual as-sault and the pay gap were incorrect and they weren’t cited. Sorry Borowski, but
your “debunking” wasn’t cited, either. It is ignorant to say the pay gap was debunked or that 20 percent is too high of a statis-tic for female sexual assault cases without anything to show for it.
Another YouTube creator decided to make a censored version of the video, stating “Just didn’t want these girls’ mes-sage to get obscured by their foul choice of language, so I made a family-friendly edit.”
This seems to be a popular response: general upset about the language with love for the message. Many, though, love the use of profanity, and think it’s a good attention-grabber. Others, like Borowski, think that FCKH8 is using the girls as political pawns to spread ridiculous femi-nazi ideals.
The reality is that the video is an advertisement. FCKH8 is foremost a
T-shirt company, and even states so in its company bio by identifying as a “for-profit T-shirt company with an activist heart.” The company sells products with anti-sexism, anti-racism and LGBTQA+ themes.
Yes, it is a for-profit company, but us-ing humans as billboards for a good cause is much better than donning a big brand name across your torso. FCKH8 is doing a good job at normalizing.
Even though the video is an advertise-ment for a T-shirt company, it still bears a strong message: begin teaching children about more “adult” rights and wrongs at an earlier age. They may not fully under-stand it at first, but getting youngsters acquainted with certain ideas early on makes it more likely the concept will stick.
‘Pretty Pink Princesses Prestigiously Profuse Profanity’…for feminism
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The video created by FCKH8 shows little girls telling the viewer what is more offensive than the curse words they are saying.
What legacy will the human race leave on Earth?
“Truthfully, our absence
would be better for the planet. If Mother
Earth were sentient, she would probably regard humans as a nuisance,
like fleas invading a dog’s fur.”
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Chambers said. “Students and parents can take comfort in knowing that safety is our high-est priority.”
Williams said the safety of student housing is of particular interest to him as a parent.
“If my daughters would go away to school, I would want to make absolutely certain that if they are choosing not to live on campus, that the housing they have is up to code and struc-turally sound,” Williams said.
“That is the assurance I want to give to every parent and student who chooses to live in Huntington.”
Chambers and Williams both said the city wanted to avoid hurting the students through these inspections, which is why they took place during the summer.
“What we didn’t want to do was go into an apartment building and inspect it and find issues that would force us to close the apartment and move tenants out,” Chambers said. “So we were very cognizant of that. We wanted to make sure
the impact on students was limited.”
Chambers said since Wil-liams’ election to office, the city has been putting more empha-sis on code enforcement.
“We moved our code enforce-ment unit out from underneath our department of public works and moved it over to the police department last year,” Chambers said. “The reason for that is that we know that dilapi-dated properties tend to attract crime. Moving it over to the po-lice department was a message that we view it as a law enforce-ment issue.”
Williams said he was pleas-antly surprised with the results of the inspections.
“Less than 10 percent of the sleeping rooms had some type of violation,” Williams said. “That’s 90 percent without violations. That’s not a bad situation. What we have found is that when we have given ci-tations over the past couple of years on properties, is that in nearly 80 percent of the cita-tions, people comply with what needs to be done, and if they don’t, they start facing fines.”
Emily Rice can be contacted at [email protected].
HOUSINGContinued from page 1
Mouse Five has a defined malt character with a hop fla-vor and finish. Flying Mouse Eight is a dark beer crafted from a Porter foundation and
features a modest hop bitter-ness, but without the heaviness of a typical dark beer.
Alex Durand, craft beer spe-cialist at Black Sheep, said Flying Mouse’s method of naming their brews provides a less intimidating perspective of certain beers.
“A lot of people get put off by the name of beers like porters or stouts,” Durand said. “So the Eight, one of Flying Mouse’s darkest beers, doesn’t have that intimidating image of a porter or stout.”
Moeller said Flying Mouse Brewery currently sells beer
in all of West Virginia and certain regions of Virginia. He also said Black Sheep is one of the several establishments in the area to carry Flying Mouse Brewery’s line-up of brews.
Anthony Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
FLYING MOUSEContinued from page 1
really are trying to coach them to enter the profession, and that is where I think programs
like this are trying to go.”Gage Niemeyer, MBA gradu-
ate student, said an interview is like a sales pitch, except the product you are selling is yourself.
“You pretty much just have to sell yourself,” Niemeyer said. “They are there to hear you speak, and they’re going to ask you questions. It’s your job to try to make your answers
relevant to their questions and to be comfortable talking about yourself.”
John Fauss can be con-tacted at [email protected].
INTERVIEWSContinued from page 2
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHERASSOCIATED PRESS
Hawaii officials will make arrange-ments for those living in the path of a lava flow to watch the destruction of their homes.
That accommodation is being made to "provide for a means of closure," Hawaii County Civil Defense Director Darryl Oliveira said Monday. "You can only imagine the frustration as well as ... despair they're going through."
Dozens of residents have been told they might have to evacuate as lava from Kilauea heads toward their homes.
The lava was about 100 yards from a home Monday morning, officials said.
After weeks of fitful advancement, the lava crossed Apaa Street on Sun-day in Pahoa Village, considered a main town of the Big Island's isolated and rural Puna district. It was getting dangerously close to Pahoa Village Road, which goes straight through downtown.
Here's a look at the volcano:THE LATESTThe flow advanced about 275 yards
from Sunday morning to Monday morning, moving northeast at about 10 to 15 yards per hour. At other times, the lava slowed to about 2 yards per hour or sped up to about 20 yards per hour, depending on topography, said Janet Babb, a spokeswoman for the Ha-waiian Volcano Observatory.
Teams of scientists from the obser-vatory were walking alongside the flow day and night to provide updates, she said. At 11:15 a.m. Monday, the flow
front was 580 yards from Pahoa Village Road.
Officials closed the Pahoa Village Road between Apaa Street and Post Of-fice Road to everyone except residents.
Those living downslope of the flow are under an evacuation advisory. Most residents have left. Oliveira said he doesn't anticipate having to issue an evacuation order.
The couple living in the house clos-est to the flow have left but have been returning periodically to gather be-longings, Oliveira said.
He estimated the lava could reach the house sometime Monday evening.
Apaa Street resident Imelda Raras, said she and her husband are ready to go to a friend's home if officials tell them they should leave.
"We are still praying," she said. "I hope our home will be spared."
SLOW CREEPScientists began warning the public
about the lava on Aug. 22. At the time, residents were cleaning up from a tropical storm that made landfall over the Puna district, toppling trees and knocking out electricity.
The lava has advanced and slowed as residents waited and watched.
Kilauea volcano, one of the world's most active, has been erupting continu-ously since 1983.
This is not an eruption at the cal-dera, the things that make for stunning pictures as red lava spews from the mountaintop.
Decomposition of vegetation in the lava's path has created methane gas, which if it accumulates and is ignited
by heat can cause a blast, Babb said.
"It's not a massive ex-plosion," she said. "But it can dislodge rocks. It can hurl large rocks several feet."
WHO IS AT RISK?Initially, the lava
seemed headed for the Kaohe Homesteads, a widespread, sparsely populated subdivision in the Puna district.
It reached vacant lots in the subdivision be-fore it stalled. It skirted the northeast corner of the subdivision and then headed toward Pahoa.
Pahoa has small-town, quaint and historic charm, but it's "the only town in a commercial sense in lower Puna," said state Sen. Russell Ruderman, who represents Puna and runs a natural food store in Pahoa.
Because the lava could change direction,
any community in Puna is at risk. Ev-eryone in the district lives on the volcano. The lush, agricultural district is about a 30-minute drive from the coastal town of Hilo.
The lava that crossed Apaa Street is on the other end of the street from the Raras home, but they're bracing for the possibility the lava will spread or change directions.
COUNTRY-STYLE LIVINGWhy would someone live on an active
volcano? Unlike Honolulu, the state's biggest city on the island of Oahu, the Big Island's Puna region has affordable land and offers a more rural way of life.
Located on the island's south-east side, the area is made up of subdivisions that have unpaved roads of volcanic rock.
Many live off the grid on solar power and catchment water systems.
Residents know the risks as there are special insurance requirements to buy land in certain lava zones.
PREPARATIONSSporadic suspensions in the lava's
movement gave emergency crews time to work on building alternate routes to town in the event the flow covers the main road and highway.
Crews near the leading edge have been wrapping power poles with con-crete rings as a layer of protection from lava heat.
Officials worried that if lava crosses Highway 130, it would isolate Puna from the rest of the island.
"Puna will be divided into the north side of the flow and the south side of the flow," Ruderman said.
Raras said they began putting their belongings in storage in September. What they aren't able to take with them, they're photographing for insur-ance purposes.
HOW LONG WILL THE RISK REMAIN?
No one knows if the lava flow will stop, change direction or hit homes.
In the 1990s, about 200 homes were destroyed by lava flows from Kilauea.
The last evacuations from the vol-cano came in 2011. One home was destroyed and others were threatened before the lava changed course.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCEKilauea is home to Pele, the Hawai-
ian volcano goddess. Some residents expressed anger at suggestions to di-vert the flow. They say it's culturally insensitive to interfere with Pele's will.
YOUNG VOLCANOThe U.S. Geological Survey says
Kilauea is the youngest volcano on Ha-waii Island. Officials estimate Kilauea's first eruption happened between 300,000 and 600,000 years ago.
DON'T CANCEL VACATION PLANSThe lava isn't a reason to cancel a Big
Island vacation because it's an isolated event.
Officials have warned people to stay away from the area and imposed flight
This Oct. 25, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a small shed being consumed by lava in a pasture between the Pahoa cemetery and Apa'a Street near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Dozens of residents in this rural area of Hawaii were placed on alert as flowing lava continued to advance. ABOVE: A Hawaii Volcano Observatory geologist standing on a partly cooled section of lava flow near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of HawaiiAP PHOTOS | U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
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