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By ALISON WICKLINETHE PARTHENON

Truth. Pursuing the truth. Ex-posing the truth.

Simon Perry, professor emeritus of political science at Marshall University, may have officially retired from education three years ago, but it seems the desire for knowl-edge, and truth, remains within him.

Retirement gave Perry more time for research; his research led him to the controversial presidencies, and lives, of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew

Jackson. Though he began com-piling his findings for an article, he quickly realized it needed to be much bigger than that, so he wrote a book entitled “Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson: By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them.”

The book has been chosen as a focus for Marshall Universi-ty’s celebration of Constitution Week. Perry said he is hon-ored to present his book to the public and hopes it will pique people’s interest, even if they disagree.

“The book is controversial,

but I hope it at least opens people’s minds about both in-dividuals,” Perry said.

Perry will sign copies of his book Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the third-floor atrium of Drinko Library.

“Thomas Jefferson and An-drew Jackson: By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them” reveals the darker sides of Jefferson and Jackson that are rarely ex-amined. Perry said both men, though controversial, are typi-cally viewed, and presented, in a very positive light, especially Jackson. But he said he believes

those depictions are not re-vealing the men openly and honestly.

“I want these historical fig-ures to be placed in a context they deserve,” Perry said. We have a tendency to view the past as holy as possible, but we need to view it honestly.”

In his book, Perry focuses on Jefferson’s deep racism, use of slavery and hypocrisy inside and outside the presidency. Jackson’s critique is slightly smaller focusing on his ques-tionable decisions regarding Native American removals.

Perry said his goal in writing the book was not to attack or destroy Jefferson and Jackson but to expose the truth about popular heroic figures.

“Oftentimes, the heroes we choose represent us, so I wanted to reveal the truth about two heroes many people identify with,” Perry said.

The book was published this year by The Drinko Academy, and director Alan Gould said the book creates interesting discussion and conversation, making it a perfect fit for Con-stitution Week.

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By VINCENT ESPINOZATHE PARTHENON

John Deaver Drinko Library will host a short ceremonial recognition of the Alabama Church Bombings on Thurs-day. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and will also host a schol-arship award ceremony for the Society of Black Scholars.

This will mark the 50 year anniversary of the bombing that took place at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Bir-mingham, Ala. on Sept. 15, 1963. The 16th Street Bap-tist Church was the target of a racially motivated act of terrorism.

The church had been used as a meeting place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Shut-tlesworth during the spring of 1963. Even after city offi-cials had come to a settlement to begin integrating public places, many people didn’t want segregation to end and acts of violence such a bomb-ing followed.

Because the church was used as a meeting place for civil rights activists it became an obvious target for the ter-rorists. Early on Sunday, Sept.

15 four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a box of dynamite under near the base-ment of the church.

At around 10:22 a.m. 26 children were walking into the basement to prepare for a ser-mon when the bomb exploded. Four girls, Addie Mae Collins, 14, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14, were killed in the attack, while 22 others were also injured.

This year an anonymous source has donated $2,000 to be awarded to four African American female students at Marshall University. Each will receive $500 in honor of the four girls who lost their lives in the bombing.

Jasmine Felder, junior graphic design major, is one of the recipients of the scholarship.

“It’s amazing really. I re-ally wasn’t expecting it at all,” Felder said.

The other three recipients of the award are Raquel Whit-more, Rebecca Britton and Donavia Beltran.

Vincent Espinoza can be contacted at espinoza3@marshall.edu.

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Campus ceremony to mark Ala. church bombing anniversary

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By CHARLIE HOUSE THE PARTHENON

The Huntington Museum of Art opens its doors free of charge every Tuesday.

The museum, which opened in 1952 to house the collec-tion of Herbert Fitzpatrick, has nine galleries. Four of the galleries are permanent exhi-bitions, displaying about 10 percent of the museum’s col-lection at any given time.

The Herman Dean Firearms Gallery displays a collection donated in the early years of the museum by one of the mu-seum’s founders. The exhibit takes visitors chronologically through the use of firearms, from hand cannons to more industrial weapons of the nineteenth century.

The Touma Near Eastern Collection is made up of over 400 works, largely donated by Drs. Joseph B. and Omayma Touma from 1991 to 2004. The collection has a wide variety of pieces, including metalwork, glass, ceramics, furnishings, scientific in-struments, manuscripts and paintings. The pieces come from Moorish Spain and North Africa to Central and South Asia.

The Glass Gallery displays the Daywood Collection. Do-nated in 1967, it has become

the museum’s largest, with over 4,000 pieces. The gallery dis-plays about 25 percent of the collection, tracing the develop-ment of glassmaking techniques in the Ohio Valley region from the 18th century to today.

The British Portraits and Silver Gallery, which is closed temporarily, displays the George Bagby collection, alongside serving and pre-sentation pieces from the 18th and early 19th century England.

The remaining five galleries show temporary or touring exhibits, including paintings, installations, pottery and sculpture.

Upcoming free events at the museum include presenta-tions by Buzz Spector on Sept. 26, and Ray Turner on Oct. 18, two artists featured by The Walter Gropius Master Art-ist Series. The latter exhibit titled “Population,” is a por-trait series of various people from across the country, in-cluding several people from Huntington.

The museum’s hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and noon to 5 Sunday.

Charlie House can be con-tacted at house8@marshall.edu.

By MATTHEW SCHOFIELDMCCLATCHY FOREIGN BUREAU (MCT)

By midday Aug. 20, the tem-perature in Damascus had warmed to an uncomfortable 96 degrees, so as the night rapidly cooled to 78 before midnight, 74 by 2 a.m. and headed toward a pre-dawn 70 it could have seemed like a blessing.

But the cooling trend had a horrifying effect for resi-dents of the Ghouta area east of the Syrian capital. As the air cooled and became denser, it pushed toward the earth in the early hours of Aug. 21. So when rockets loaded with toxic chemicals started land-ing, each spilling about 15 gallons of deadly sarin, that downward pressure kept the heavy gas on the ground, al-lowing it to creep through open windows and pushing it into basements.

That’s only one detail in the 38-page report on the Aug. 21 chemical attack that the United Nations released Monday, but combined with many other details, it helps to paint a far more detailed picture of what happened that night than any of the cursory summaries that have dominated discus-sion in Congress, the White House and the halls of the

British, French and Russian parliaments.

Far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim Aug. 30 that “the U.N. can’t tell us anything that we ... don’t already know,” the report pro-vides an intricately detailed account of what happened and how it happened, and a scientific look at why it be-came the tragedy it did.

The report doesn’t assess blame the technicians from the Organization for the Pro-hibition of Chemical Weapons and the World Health Organi-zation weren’t asked to and it provides no new information on how many people died, a figure that’s ranged widely from France’s estimate of at least 281 to the United States’ unexplained claim of 1,429.

But it does provide what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called “clear and convincing evidence” that chemical weapons were used against a civilian population _ a war crime. And it refuted the initial U.S. position that the five-day delay would render the U.N. investigation inca-pable of finding meaningful evidence.

Among its findings:Even five and seven days

after the rockets landed in the Damascus suburbs, in-spectors identified at least 80

people who were exhibiting signs of chemical poisoning. Those symptoms included constricted pupils, vomit-ing, dizziness and loss of consciousness.

From those 80, the team selected 36 to study further, taking hair, blood and urine samples. Thirty-nine percent of those were still confused or disoriented when the U.N. team examined them. The blood and urine specimens for “almost all of the survi-vors assessed by the mission” tested positive for “exposure to sarin.”

_ The team hadn’t yet com-pleted its final analysis of what it called “detailed in-terviews” with survivors. But they all told the same story of “a military attack with shell-ing, followed by the onset of a common range of symp-toms, including shortness of breath, disorientation, rhi-norrhea (runny nose), eye irritation, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, general weakness and eventual loss of consciousness.”

“Those who went to assist described seeing a large num-ber of individuals lying on the ground, many of whom were deceased or unconscious.” Two brothers from Zamalka, one of the affected towns, “re-ported that of the 40 family

members who lived in the same building, they were the only survivors.”

_ Most of the nine nurses and seven physicians the team in-terviewed were at home when the attack occurred. When these clinicians responded to the attack, they found “a large number of ill or deceased per-sons lying in the street without external signs of injury.”

_ The team made painstaking efforts to document its work. All the interviews were taped, and all the samples were sealed and guarded from the moment of collection to their delivery to the four laboratories in Europe where tests were conducted to determine whether toxic sub-stances were present.

The report provided a de-tailed listing of the samples, including the date and time each was taken, as well as from where: in one case, a “soil sample taken from one impact point in one house in Moadamiyah”; in another, “a methanol wipe sample taken from the sole of a slipper.”

“Each transfer of material is accompanied by a handover receipt,” the report notes.

The inspectors also were able to explain how the sarin gas arrived in Ghouta that cool night.

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Photographer Bernie Elliott walks the sideline with his camera as the Marshall spring football Green-White Game is conducted on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington.

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By RICHARD SIMON, DAVID CLOUD and BRIAN BENNETTTRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT)

Law enforcement officials said Mon-day that the death toll in the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard has risen to 13, including the shooter, whom of-ficials identified as 34-year-old Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth, Texas.

Three other people were being treated at a local hospital and were expected to fully recover, hospital of-ficials said.

District of Columbia police said they are no longer looking for other gun-men, indicating that the victims of the attack were all killed by a single shooter.

Federal officials have identi-fied Alexis, a government civilian contractor who was new to the Wash-ington, D.C. area, according to a law

enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation. He may have used the identification badge of another person to gain access to the base.

Federal officials said Alexis was ar-rested in Fort Worth on Sept. 5, 2010, on suspicion of discharging a weapon. The Tarrant County district attorney did not prosecute.

Earlier in the day, Metropolitan Po-lice Department Chief Cathy Lanier said investigators were seeking a white male in military-style clothing who had reportedly been seen with a handgun in the vicinity of the shooting on the base. But mid-afternoon, the Police Department sent out a message by Twitter saying that that man had “been identified and is not a suspect or person of interest.”

The other suspect Lanier said

witnesses had described, a black male in military-style clothes carrying a rifle, is believed to have been Alexis, who was killed by law enforcement officers in a firefight about 10:15 a.m., roughly two hours after the shooting began.

Officials have not released infor-mation on a possible motive for the shooting, but District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray said they do not have any evidence to think that it was related to terrorism. Gray called the shooting a “horrific tragedy.”

“As far as we know, this is an isolated incident,” Gray said.

About 3:30 p.m., officials began to allow people on the base, which had been on lockdown, to leave.

President Barack Obama, speak-ing at the White House, praised the victims as “patriots” who “know the

dangers of serving abroad” but faced “unimaginable violence they wouldn’t have expected at home.” He promised that federal and local law enforcement officials would work together to inves-tigate the shooting.

The number of casualties remained uncertain.

Dr. Janis Orlowski, chief operating officer at MedStar Washington Hos-pital Center, reported three shooting victims at the hospital but added that they expected to admit more victims.

“From the reports of the victims, it had to be a semiautomatic,” Orlowski said. “They’re talking about gun shots that they heard in rapid succession.”

One woman admitted to the hos-pital had a gunshot wound to the head and her hand, Orlowski said.

Booking mug of Aaron Alexis who is suspected to be the shooter at the Washington DC Navy Yard Monday, September 16, 2013.

By PETER DELEVETT and BRANDON BAILEYSAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (MCT)

It began as a side project at a floun-dering dot-com. Its chief executive is a failed improvisational comic, and for years, even its most ardent back-ers struggled to understand how it would make money.

Now, microblogging site Twitter is poised for the tech industry’s next “IPO of the century.”

That is an unlikely turn of events, to say the least.

“There was a period of time when I thought of it as a novelty at best,” said Jake Sorofman, a Gartner analyst who focuses on digital marketing.

He described Twitter in its early days as a service to document the mundane.

While there’s still plenty of flot-sam in the Twittersphere these days, there is no denying the site’s growth

into a global phenomenon. Its 200 million monthly users have broad-cast real-time updates on everything from the devastating 2011 tsunami in Japan to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, often leaving TV networks scrambling to catch up.

Although details of the company’s initial public offering plans, an-nounced last week via (what else?) a tweet, remain shrouded, estimates of Twitter’s market value range as high as $15 billion — more than such fabled brands as Porsche, Marriott and Xerox.

Because the company used new federal rules that permit IPO filings to remain secret while they’re readied for investors, it’s not yet known how much money Twitter wants to raise, how much its business generates, or even when the stock offering might take place. But research firm eMar-keter projects that the company’s ad

sales could hit $1 billion next year — more than triple what it’s thought to have made last year.

Not bad for an idea cooked up on a lark by some Midwestern kids.

Jack Dorsey was just 29 when he and a few co-workers at struggling San Francisco podcasting service Odeo started noodling in early 2006 on a better way to communicate with one another about work. They came up with an instant group-mes-saging app called twttr and capped “tweets” at 140 characters, which was ideal for the slow and creaky SMS text-messaging networks of that pre-smartphone era.

Despite its limitations, the app took off in popularity once Odeo insiders released it to their friends. Evan Wil-liams, who had founded the startup after selling Blogger.com to Google for a small fortune, saw the poten-tial and bought out Odeo’s investors,

bringing Twitter into a new company he called Obvious Corp.

But even with millions of dollars in venture funding, it was anything but obvious that Twitter — the name was chosen to convey a short burst of information akin to bird chirps — would succeed. Williams forced out Dorsey as CEO, and the company was torn by debate over whether to try to make money from the product for fear it would turn off users.

Adult supervision finally was called in: Dick Costolo, who had made his own Google millions when the search giant bought his startup, Feedburner. He joined Twitter in 2009 as chief operating officer, and within months, the company announced it would start letting advertisers put promoted tweets in front of users.

By TIMOTHY PHELPSLOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)

The Washington Navy Yard, where at least 13 people were killed in a shooting rampage Monday, is the Navy’s oldest land base.

Just 3.5 miles from the White House, the Navy Yard is tucked away from the center of Washing-ton along the shore of the Anacostia River, a small tributary of the Po-tomac. Outside of the Navy, the base is not well known, even to many Washingtonians.

The Navy Yard became the ser-vice’s largest shipbuilding facility after it was established in 1799, ac-cording to a Navy website. During the War of 1812, with British forces marching on the city, the yard’s buildings were mostly burned to the ground to keep them from fall-ing into enemy hands.

After that, military officials de-cided the Anacostia was too shallow for an active base. The yard was limited to shipbuilding and, by the middle of the 19th century, mostly to manufacturing ordnance. For a century it supplied many of the cannons, other weapons and am-munition used by the U.S. fleet.

During the Civil War, with Con-federate troops across the Potomac in Virginia, the base once again be-came a key strategic defense facility. President Lincoln visited frequently, as depicted in the 2012 movie “Lin-coln.” After Lincoln’s assassination, eight of the conspirators who plot-ted his death were brought to the yard, as was the body of assassin John Wilkes Booth.

By World War II, it had become the largest naval ordinance plant in the world, according to the Navy.

Washington Navy Yard has long military history

Washington Navy Yard death toll rises to 13, including shooter

How Twitter became an unlikely tech darling

By CHARLIE HOUSE THE PARTHENON

Nina Davuluri, 24, of New York, was crowned Miss America Sunday, becoming the first person of Indian descent to win the title. Immediately, people took to Twitter to express their dissatisfaction. Many tweets misiden-tified her as Arab, called her a terrorist and questioned her eligibility for the title because she was not white. Some also evoked stereotypes about Indian people in America.

Marshall University students were shown a photograph of Davuluri and asked the following questions:

1. This is Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014. What are your first impressions?

2. What is your reaction to the negative things people tweeted about her?

These are their responses:

Question 1: “I think she’s very pretty. She’s got a really cute face. She’s showing a little too much cleav-age, but other than that her dress is respectable.”

Question 2: “Are these real? These people are ridiculous. So, I guess peo-ple just think that Miss America is a terrorist now, because her skin is a little bit different than Caucasian. I’m kind of appalled.”

–Courtney Moon, junior communi-cation disorders major.

Question 1: “Everyone thinks she’s an Arab? That’s funny. That shows how people are ignorant.”

Question 2: “I think America con-sists of different ethnic [groups], and there is no actual American, besides Native American. This is so stupid. All of our grandparents are immigrants.”

–Elnaz Khiabani, second year MBA student.

Question 1: “I like her dress. I like that color.”

Question 2: “It’s disgusting, what they’re saying. The 9/11 references are kind of harsh. [The two events are] completely unrelated. I can’t believe people are saying this.”

–Bethany Thomas, senior forensic chemistry major.

Question 1: “She looks like a Miss America [contestant]. She’s all dressed up in a bunch of makeup and her hair looks cute.”

Question 2: “That’s ridiculous. If she was born in America, she’s Ameri-can, it doesn’t matter if she is Arab-, or whatever-American. There is no cer-tain look. I honestly didn’t know [she was Indian-American]. I wouldn’t have questioned it. Clearly, no one knows anything about her.”

–Jori Williams, sophomore French major.

Question 1: “She seems like a per-son who would win Miss America.”

Question 2: “It’s kind of weird that people assume someone of a different race can’t be an American. It’s a little bizarre. People are dumb, that’s my reaction.”

–Robert Hughes, senior math major. Question 1: “She’s beautiful.” –Randy Jackson, senior nursing

major.

Question 2: “I don’t think most of these people are aware that America started from immigrants. I think it’s sad that there were so many responses like this. But honestly, it doesn’t sur-prise me.“

–Chase O’Dell, senior nursing major.

Overall, students were upset and expressed disgust with the nega-tive comments that were target at Davuluri.

Charlie House can be contacted at house8@marshall.edu.

Marshall students react to Miss America backlash

Randy Jackson and Chase O’Dell

Courtney Moon

Bethany Thomas

Elnaz Khiabani

Robert Hughes

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CorrectionsAn article about the Jewish

Student Association in the Sept. 13 edition of The Parthenon im-properly identified Zak Yito as Irish. Yito is an Israeli Jew, who emigrated to Israel in 2005 and is originally from Dublin, Ireland.

Several others were improp-erly identified. Linda Klein is a board member of the Federated Jewish Charities of Huntington, Chad Greene is the program co-ordinator for the Marshall JSA and Sam Kincaid is the faculty liaison for the group.

Sukkot, a Jewish holiday was said to have already happened. It won’t be celebrated until Sept. 18-27.

The Parthenon is committed to accurate reporting. If for any reason there is doubt about any of our printed or online content, please email us at parthenon@marshall.edu and we will make the appropriate correction.

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By KARLYN TIMKO THE PARTHENON

After an impressive per-formance at the Murray State Drake Creek Invitational Sept. 9-10, Thailand native Korakot “Gone” Simsiriwong has been named C-USA Women’s Golfer of the Week, the first title hon-oree of the 2013-2014 season.

Simsiriwong, who earned the title nearly one year ago after winning the Cardinal Classic title in Yorktown, Ind., said reaching such a notable achievement is more than satisfying.

“I am absolutely honored to make such an impression in the conference,” Simsiriwong said. “It definitely bounces me off for a great start, keeps me grinding and making me want to accomplish more. It’s all re-ally exciting.”

The Invitational, which took

place in Ledbetter, Ky., was the Herd’s first tournament back from last season. Simsiriwong, who showed no signs of sum-mer rust, gave credit of the weekend’s success to her fo-cused frame of mind.

“I wasn’t thinking much about winning the tourna-ment,” Simsiriwong said. “During the practice round I allowed myself to get very com-fortable with the course. When you get out there, the key is to be confident, and to play ag-gressive but smart. I was happy with my mental game and the outcome.”

Simsiriwong finished the tournament shooting a 2-un-der-par 70, which was good for a second place individual victory, just four strokes be-hind winner Danaley Howson of Murray State. Over the weekend, Simsiriwong shot

12 birdies in all rounds com-bined, and shared the best par 3 shooting with Jessica Cathey of Austin Peay State University. Simsiriwong also aided the Herd in a fifth place team vic-tory out of 10 schools.

With her first tournament as a junior out of the way, Simisiri-wong said there is much to look forward to down the road.

“This is only the beginning,” Simsiriwong said. “We have four new incomers who are all very dedicated. It makes me very excited about how far and how low we can go this year.”

This week the Herd is com-peting in the Cardinal Cup in Simpsonville, Ky., hosted by University of Louisville. The two-day event will take place Monday and Tuesday.

Karlyn Timko can be con-tacted at timko@marshall.edu.

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By BEN BOLCHLOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)

Three-peat is so 1988.The term purportedly coined by Byron

Scott and definitively trademarked by Pat Riley amid the Lakers' failed bid for a third consecutive NBA title in the late '80s should be discarded like the faded T-shirts bearing the slogan that were once standard attire inside the Great Western Forum.

It's time for a new Rileyism, particularly with the current team president of the Miami Heat chasing another championship to go with the ones his team won in 2012 and '13.

In the spirit of the quest, here's a trio of alternatives for the Heat this season:

Big Three for Three. An homage to the collective success of Heat stars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh since joining forces in 2010.

Three Down, Five to Go! A reference to James' infamous tally of how many champi-onships he intended to win in Miami.

Lords of the Rings: The new trilogy. A sequel to the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy series, with presumably fewer casualties.

Standing in Miami's way are at least a half dozen teams who intend to break the spell the Heat has cast over the rest of the NBA.

Oddsmakers at the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino make Miami 2-to-1 favorites to win the NBA championship in June, though it's not going to be as easy as a stroll down Biscayne Boulevard. Nobody has won back-to-back-to-back titles since the Lakers in 2000-02 and nobody has been to four consecutive NBA Finals since the Boston Celtics in 1984-87.

"There's a reason these teams don't do it," TNT analyst Steve Kerr said. "Emotion-ally, it's just exhausting to keep doing it year after year, particularly when you have to deal with everything Miami has to deal with on a daily basis, just the constant cri-tiquing and scrutiny on the team, and then you factor in the injuries with Wade and Bosh and their health. I don't think Miami will get out of the East this year."

Kerr is picking the Bulls to unseat the Heat. Here's a look at the top three threats to Miami from each conference:

Western Conference1. San Antonio. The Spurs' biggest

challenge may be forgetting the final 28.2 seconds of regulation from their Game 6 collapse in the Finals in Miami. There's also the ticktock of their aging core, though Tim Duncan is coming off his finest season in years and Kawhi Leonard, only 22, has supplanted Manu Ginobili as the team's third-best player.

Coach Gregg Popovich also manages the fatigue factor better than anyone, even if it means writing a six-figure check payable to "The NBA" for sending his stars home early from a trip.

"At some time Duncan is not going to be able to do what he's incredibly done, par-ticularly the last year," said Jeff Van Gundy, an analyst for ABC and ESPN. "But I'll wait to see it go downhill before I predict it's go-ing downhill."

2. Oklahoma City. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook may be the first twentysomethings to experience empty nest syndrome.

A year ago, their team unloaded budding superstar James Harden in a budget-conscious move. Then this sum-mer it failed to retain his replacement, Kevin Martin, because of similar finan-cial constraints, giving the promising but unproved Reggie Jackson and Jeremy Lamb a shot.

We'd hate to hear about the five-year plan. Fortunately, Durant and Westbrook are enough to beat most teams.

3. Clippers. The new coach, Doc Riv-ers, is among the best in the league. The new cast of sharpshooters should make the offense even more dynamic. But the old concerns about the development of Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan just won't go away.

"Obviously, they're at much different levels in their play," Kerr said of the big men, "but the further improvement of each one is critical. Griffin took a step forward last year and I think he has to take another step this year offensively. They need to be able to go to him in a tight game where there's no easy bas-kets and he needs to be that guy. He's not quite there yet.

"Jordan needs to anchor the defense and be more consistent."

Eastern Conference1. Indiana. Rather than take offense to

the notion that they needed more offense, the Pacers did something about it. They signed a more capable backup point guard in C.J. Wat-son, a proven scorer in Luis Scola and a prolific three-point shooter in Chris Copeland.

The biggest boost to a Pacers' offense that averaged 94.7 points per game last season _ 23rd in the league _ isn't a new-comer. The return of Danny Granger from a knee injury that kept him out for all but five games last season should give Indiana scoring punch at every position.

Plus there's Paul George, the league's reigning most improved player who is on the verge of helping the Pacers break through to the Finals.

2. Chicago. Derrick Rose has been sidelined for so long now that his return invites the skepticism of a Sasquatch sight-ing; you'll believe it when you see it.

The hope is that an able-bodied Rose and still-improving mainstays Luol Deng and Joakim Noah give Coach Tom Thibodeau some traction after last season's stuck-in-the-mud feel.

"I just feel like it's all sort of teed up for Chicago with Rose coming back, guys like Noah and (Taj) Gibson entering their prime," Kerr said. "I think Chicago will have something special this year."

3. Brooklyn. The starting lineup of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Brook Lopez, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce has ac-counted for 35 All-Star game appearances.

Van Gundy dismissed concerns about the zero games the Nets have played together under rookie Coach Jason Kidd.

"When Garnett and Ray Allen came to the Celtics that first year," Van Gundy said, "they won it and they had never played together. I think people make too much of people not playing together. Smart players playing together, it doesn't take any time or very little time."

And the NBA champion is...San Antonio.The Pacers finally zoom past the Heat in

the playoffs before getting totaled by the more savvy Spurs. Ginobili and Leonard make their free throws in the final minute this time and Duncan gets to call every digit on one hand a ring finger.

Three-peat is forgotten. Just like it should be.

As Miami Heat goes for No. 3, six teams stand in the way

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By BUD WITHERSTHE SEATTLE TIMES (MCT)

Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott announced Monday the league has reprimanded and levied additional unspecified sanctions against officials in the wake of a controversial finish to the Wisconsin-Ar-izona State football game Saturday night.

“This was an unusual situ-ation to end the game,” said Scott. “After a thorough re-view, we have determined that the officials fell short of the high standard in which Pac-12 games should be man-aged. We will continue to work with all our officials to ensure this type of situation never occurs again.”

Wisconsin, behind 32-30, drove to the Arizona State 13-yard line, with no time-outs left and 18 seconds remaining. The ball was on the right hash mark, and Badgers quarterback Joel Stave moved to center it on the next play, appearing to take a knee to set up a spike of the ball so Wisconsin’s field-goal team could at-tempt to win the game.

Stave laid the ball on the turf, and with about 12 sec-onds left, Arizona State linebacker Anthony Jones fell on it and covered it for most of the remaining time. As the clock neared expiration, Stave and a couple of Wisconsin

players gestured to officials to hurry, but the clock was never stopped and allowed to run out.

“We knee it with 15 seconds left and never had a chance to snap it again,” Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen told re-porters after the game. “I don’t know how that happens.”

Arizona State listed the game officials as referee Jack Folliard, umpire Doug-las Wilson, head linesman Ryan Dickson, line judge Ste-ven Kovac, side judge Aaron Santi, field judge Kevin Kie-ser and back judge Steven Steichen.

The Pac-12 said the sanc-tions were taken “for failing to properly administer the end of game situation.” Its statement also said, “Neither the referee nor anyone on his crew moved with appropriate urgency to clearly commu-nicate that the ball was to be spotted so play could resume promptly.”

Under Scott’s four-year re-gime, the league has taken steps to improve the offici-ating in both football and basketball. In 2006, Oregon won a controversial game against Oklahoma after a highly disputed onside kick, and last year there also was controversy involving an on-side kick near the end of the Wisconsin-Oregon State game won by the Beavers.

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By SCOTT KLINGERMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE (MCT)

Most people assume restaurant tips are a reward for good service that helps servers get ahead. In real-ity, your tip fills a gap created by a loophole. Federal minimum wage law allows restaurant owners to pay their tipped employees just $2.13 an hour.

This sub-minimum wage hasn’t increased for 22 years and amounts to less than a third of the federal minimum wage. It helps large res-taurant corporations and their CEOs pad their bottom lines while trapping millions of American workers in economic insecurity.

The average server earned $20,710 last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Be-cause these workers start in such a hole, they are three times more likely to live in poverty and twice as likely to be eligible for food stamps as employees in other in-dustries. A quarter of all servers are over 40, and many of them have families to support.

From 1966, when the tipped minimum wage was first intro-duced, until 1996, it was pegged at 50 percent of the prevailing minimum wage. But aggressive lobbying by the National Res-taurant Association, which is dominated by large restaurant chains, removed the linkage and froze the minimum wage for tipped workers at its 1991 level of $2.13 an hour. Since then, about half the states have ei-ther raised the tipped minimum wage or have no minimum wage at all for tipped workers. For the rest, $2.13 an hour remains the standard.

The 22-year freeze of the federal tipped minimum wage has been especially hard on women, who fill 71 percent of food server jobs.

Excluding women and people of color from the full protection of the minimum wage is noth-ing new. When the minimum wage was first adopted in 1938, it covered just 6 percent of the American workforce, most of them white males. The govern-ment explicitly excluded domestic and agricultural workers, whose ranks were dominated by women and people of color. Today, only two industries with large female

workforces remain not fully cov-ered by the minimum wage law: home health care workers and restaurant servers.

There’s momentum in Congress to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and peg the tipped minimum wage at 70 percent of this level, or $7.07 an hour. The National Restaurant Association is again marshalling its tremen-dous political clout to block this increase for its employees.

Leading the opposition is Darden Restaurants, the world’s largest full-service restaurant chain and the owner of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and Long-horn Steakhouse, among others. In 1991, Darden reported $2.6 million in sales per restaurant. By 2013, sales per restaurant increased 52 percent to $4 mil-lion. During the same period, the hourly pay of much of Darden’s wait staff increased by, well, zero. Only employees in Darden’s fine dining Capital Grille restaurant chain and those in states that have adopted a tipped minimum wage that is higher than the federal min-imum earn more.

In 1996, Olive Garden reported an average bill per customer of between $10 and $11. Since then, sales per customer have increased by more than 50 percent. While Darden is taking in substantially more revenue from its customers, most of its tipped employees con-tinue to be paid the same $2.13 an hour they’ve received for the last 22 years.

A lot of Darden’s increase in revenue is finding its way into the wallet of CEO Clarence Otis, Jr., who took home $6.4 million last year. That’s nearly four times what his predecessor was paid in 1996, when the restaurant industry first blocked an increase in the tipped minimum wage. Otis’ take works out to $2,116 an hour (assum-ing he works 60 hours a week all year, with two weeks of vacation). Every two hours, Darden’s CEO makes more than his company pays its $2.13-an-hour wait staff for a full year’s work.

When leaders of extremely prof-itable restaurant chains fill their own plates while denying raises to those who work hard every day to serve their customers, it should leave a bad taste in all our mouths.

Why your waiter has not received a raise in 22 years

By PAULA MOOREPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (MCT)

This is the time of year when the fash-ion industry tries to convince us that we need to overhaul our wardrobes. Animal prints give way to plaids give way to moto jackets give way to nipped-waist suits. While fashion is ever-changing, style is constant. It’s a projection of who we are and how we want to be perceived. And whether you’re a polished businessper-son or a rocker, if you want others to know that you are also caring and com-passionate, the first thing you should do is dump the animal skins.

At the very least, fur has got to go. Even if you know nothing else about animal rights, you surely know that from the day they are born until the day they are killed, animals on fur farms live lives of quiet misery. The small barren cages that they are confined to reek of urine and feces. Disease and injuries are common. Many animals go insane under these conditions and throw themselves repeatedly against the cage bars or pace in endless circles.

Once you’ve given up the furry ghosts in your closet, it’s time to dump exotic skins. The thought of killing pythons,

crocodiles and other reptiles for over-priced shoes and handbags should make any kind person’s skin crawl. Snakes are commonly nailed to trees, their bodies are cut open from one end to the other, and they are skinned alive, in the belief that live flaying keeps the skins supple. Alligators are crudely bludgeoned with hammers or aluminum bats. Lizards are often decapitated, and some of the ani-mals writhe in agony as the skin is ripped from their bodies. Animal welfare is sim-ply not a consideration in the exotic-skins industry. It’s time to say, “Enough!”

Now let’s talk leather. PETA’s investiga-tions into the leather trade in India, where much of the world’s leather is produced, have revealed that cows are marched hundreds of miles to slaughter through extreme heat. Handlers smear chili seeds into cows’ eyes and break their tails in or-der to force the exhausted animals to keep walking. Or they are illegally crammed onto trucks in such high numbers that their bones break. At the slaughterhouse, they are hacked to pieces in front of each other while still conscious.

Things aren’t much better here at home, where animals are often skinned and dismembered while still alive.

Many Australian sheep farmers use in-struments resembling gardening shears to cut huge chunks of flesh from lambs’ backsides — a crude attempt to prevent maggot infestation. The lambs often walk sideways like crabs from the pain of their wounds, which can take weeks to heal. This is what you are supporting if you wear merino wool.

Are you getting the picture? If a prod-uct came from an animal, the chance that abuse and suffering were involved is roughly 100 percent. But enough de-pressing stuff. Whether you’re looking for the latest trends or timeless pieces that are always in style, cruelty-free options are easy to find. Even many high-end designers now embrace synthetics, thanks to technological advances that, as Forbes put it, “have made faux fur and animal skin practically indistinguishable from the real thing.” When you’re shop-ping, just check the labels and stick to faux fur, fake snake, vegan “leather” like polyurethane and other animal-friendly materials.

There are many ways to show that you have style, but wearing skins isn’t one of them. Cruelty is one fashion statement that we can all do without.

Let your true style shine: Shed your skins

Miss America pageant: issues of racial intolerance

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Sunday night in Atlantic City, N.J., Miss New York Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America 2014. She is the first Indian American to win the title.

Almost immediately, Twitter was plagued with comments about how she should not have won, accusing her of not being an American due to the color of her skin.

However, Davuluri is a native of Syra-cuse, N.Y. She is an American. But, because she is of Indian descent, this somehow makes her unfit to win the crown?

Many argue that Miss Kansas Theresa Vail should have won the title. She is a blonde, blue-eyed caucasian female. She is also a sergeant in the U.S. Army. Due to

these factors, they say she represents a “true American.”

But these people overlook what makes this country what it is.

America is a country made almost en-tirely of immigrants. Each citizen is of a unique culture, or mixture of cultures. It is something we claim to celebrate and embrace. It is something we find empowering. It is something that we’ve fought for through years of civil rights movements, but after the backlash di-rected at Davuluri’s win we are faced with an important question. Just how far have we come?

Well, if some Americans’ initial

response is to belittle Davuluri for her skin tone and question her nationality then we have not come as far as we’d like to think.

Sure, we’ve made a great deal of prog-ress over the last century, and those against Davuluri do not represent the na-tion as a whole. In fact, she has received a great deal of support and praise for her win.

But, if we can transition to a place where negative, intolerant comments such as these are not the reactions of our people, and instead, we are all proud of our diversity, would that not be the dream?

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In Moadamiyah, “The team began the investigation of an alleged impact site which was initially located in the back-yard terrace of an apartment building.”

There, the team found an impact crater in the stone tiles of the terrace. Near the crater, they found a rocket engine marked with Cyrillic letters. Despite the fact that such lettering could impli-cate Russia as the supplier, the report makes no such as-sumptions. Instead, it notes the projectile’s light gray color, and documents the ex-act size — 630 mm long and 140 mm wide (24.8 by 5.5

inches) — and type, an M14 artillery shell, a non-preci-sion surface to surface rocket.

“The engine had 10 jet noz-zles ordered in a circle at the end of the rocket with a metal electrical contact plate in the middle,” the report said.

At one impact site, the team found that a rocket had pierced an awning before hit-ting the ground. By studying the line that would connect the hole in the awning with the impact crater, the in-vestigators determined the rocket’s bearing _ 35 degrees — and its angle of flight. A second impact crater 65 me-ters away — about 213 feet

— had an angle that was 1 de-gree different from the first, a discovery “fully congruent,” the report said, “with the dis-persion pattern commonly associated with rockets launched from a single, multi-barrel, launcher.”

In the case of another shell, a 330 mm rocket, they calculated that it flew east-southeast before landing in the Damascus suburb.

To study the area, the in-spection team’s members — who dodged a sniper’s bul-lets on their first day — had to rely on the protection of both the Syrian government and a Syrian rebel leader. They said

they had only a short time to study the sites, because of se-curity concerns.

Still, Secretary-General Ban said the evidence the team had collected pro-vided proof of “the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against ci-vilians since Saddam Hussein used them in Halabja in 1988. The international community has pledged to prevent any such horror from recurring, yet it has happened again.”

But the closest the report comes to emotion is the final line before the appendices:

“This result leaves us with the deepest concern.”

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“Perry’s book opens up civil discourse. It allows us to discuss controversial issues without yelling at each other,” Gould said.

Perry, a native of Gilbert, W.Va., was an educator at Marshall from 1962 through 2010. His 47-year tenure is the longest in the history of the university. In 2011, the

College of Liberal Arts created The Dr. Simon D. Perry Center for Constitutional Democracy. He has received numerous awards, including the Distin-guished West Virginian Award and Marshall’s Distinguished Faculty Award.

Alison Wickline can be contacted at wickline19@live.marshall.edu.

LEFT: Senior outside hitter Laura Der gets ready to serve the ball during the Thunder Invitational last weekend in the Cam Henderson Center. The Herd went undefeated on the weekend.ABOVE: Junior goalkeeper Tyler Attwell kicks the ball away during the Qdoba Invitational last weekend at the Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex. The Herd notched its first win of the season, 1-0, over IPFW on Sunday.

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A few months after that, Costolo replaced Williams as CEO.

“He understands both the business and the technology and can knit the two together,” said venture capitalist Greg Sands, an early investor in Feedburner.

Twitter has shot from 60 employees when Costolo joined to more than 2,000 — such a rapid pace that San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee in 2011 cut a contro-versial tax deal to keep the company in town.

Besides adding to the rank and file (and bring-ing back Dorsey in an advisory role), Costolo has recruited top executives from the likes of Google, eBay and Palm to make the crash-prone site more reliable.

“They stopped having so many outages and down time, and that makes a big impression” on investors, said David Rogers, who

teaches digital marketing strategy at Columbia Busi-ness School in New York.

While some analysts have wondered why Twit-ter, which has stockpiled hundreds of millions of venture capital dollars, would opt for the head-aches of going public at this point, an IPO will de-liver cash for acquisitions such as Twitter’s recent purchase of mobile ad ser-vice MoPub. Costolo spent a reported $350 million on the company, which helps advertisers bid in computerized auctions to place their messages on Twitter and other mobile apps.

EMarketer estimates that more than half of Twitter’s revenue will come from mobile adver-tising, which analysts call a healthy sign. The MoPub deal, they say, could be a first step toward building a broader advertising net-work like Google’s.

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But in the 1960s, its facto-ries were converted to office space.

The yard is now an impor-tant administrative center for the Navy, housing thousands of civilian and military work-ers, including the Naval Sea Systems Command, which provides the Navy with mili-tary materiel.

For that reason, the

Washington Navy Yard is known as “the Quarterdeck of the Navy.”

The neighborhood around the Navy Yard, once almost exclusively industrial, has in recent years been redevel-oped as a residential area, adjacent to Capitol Hill. The Washington Nationals ball-park is just upriver from the base.

Another woman had a wound to her shoulder and a male D.C. police officer had multiple gunshot wounds to his legs.

The three are in critical condition, Orlowski said, but described their chances for sur-vival as good.

The incident began at roughly 8:15 a.m. at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command at the sprawling naval base on Washington’s Anacostia River waterfront. Several witnesses told reporters that the shoot-ing broke out on the fourth floor of the building and that the gunman shot down into the building’s open atrium.

“I think it was all on the fourth floor,” Patricia Ward, one of the witnesses, told reporters.

Ward, a logistics manage-ment specialist, was in Building 197 when the shooting started. She said she was in the lobby using the ATM machine when she heard three shots. She said she started panicking. She said she didn’t know what was go-ing on. Then she heard four more shots. A security guard with a gun drawn told them to run, she said. “I just ran. I thought of my family and I just ran.” Someone had pulled the fire alarm.

Ward said a person has to scan an ID card to get into the building. She said that might be how the shooter got weapons in.

Roughly two hours later, wit-nesses at the base reported hearing more shots fired. A senior law enforcement offi-cial said a gunman, who had

been barricaded in a room in the headquarters building, had been shot and killed. The shooter had engaged police in a running firefight, a senior law enforcement official said.

A federal law enforcement official monitoring the situa-tion said the conflicting reports of more than one gunman came from a situation where a second building was being checked for reports of shots fired. The of-ficial said most of the shooting occurred at the Sea Systems Command building.

Officials have ramped up se-curity in all federal buildings in the Washington area. As a pre-caution, U.S. Capitol Police have added personnel and increased security measures in the Capi-tol Building.

As helicopters hovered above the base, first lowering stretchers to airlift victims to local hospitals and later cir-cling the base in an apparent search effort, air traffic was briefly grounded at the nearby Reagan National Airport. Sev-eral area schools were put on lockdown.

A D.C. police officer and a base security officer were among the reported victims.

About 3,000 people, both ci-vilian and military, work at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters.

Navy Capt. Danny Hernan-dez said he was in an adjoining Navy Yard building when the shooting started.

“Everybody rushed in” to the building where he was, and se-curity guards locked down the facility. “It was pretty orderly,” Hernandez said.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:

The Herd takes on Ohio University in the "Battle for the Bell" on Sept. 25, 2010, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium.

Fans watch on Sept. 8, 2012, as the Herd dominates Western Carolina University.

Field commander Emily Hall directs the Marching Thunder at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, Sept. 7.

Kristine Culicerto, senior defender/forward, takes the ball from a Campbell University player on Aug. 24.

Redshirt sophomore Blake Frohnapfel (15), sophomore Tyler Williams (38) and redshirt freshman Kent Turene walk into Joan C. Edwards Stadium, Sept. 7.

Forward Robert Goff goes against a University of Memphis player, Feb. 16, at the Cam Henderson Center.

Receiver Aaron Dobson makes a memorable catch, Nov. 26, 2011, at Joan C. Edwards Stadium against Eastern Carolina University. The play was named ESPN’s “Play of the Week in College Football.”

PHOTOS BY BERNIE ELLIOTT

BERNIE ELLIOTT Bernie Elliott was a native of Huntington and a lifelong Son of Marshall. A photographer since 1975 and a Marshall employee since 1977, Elliott was a staple on and around the university for decades. Bernie passed away Monday night, and The Parthenon editorial staff extends its deepest condolences. There remains a spot on the sidelines that will never be filled quite the same.