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By MALAK KHADERTHE PARTHENON
Twenty-five different uni-versities and colleges around the state gathered Friday at the West Virginia Capitol building for Higher Education Day at the Legislature to showcase what higher education has to offer to its citizens.
Marshall University’s Direc-tor of Recruitment, Beth Wolfe, said so many people are in some way tied to Marshall, and she enjoyed talking to them and hearing their stories. She said that it is also important to
show lawmakers what the uni-versities have to offer to West Virginians.
“Higher education is impor-tant to the current and future success of West Virginia,” Wolfe said. “It’s important for the law-makers to visually be able to see what our university has to offer. There’s a lot of pride for Marshall here, and it shows.”
Representative from West Virginia University were also in attendance at the event.
Project Coordinator Senior of WVU, Lisa Martin, said they always like to make a presence
on Higher Education Day at the Legislature because it is impor-tant for future public funding for the universities.
Wolfe shared Martin’s opinions and said it is especially important to represent the universities because of the many bills
that the lawmakers are try-ing to pass.
With less than two weeks left of the legislative ses-sion, higher education and funding for it has become a hot button topic.
Jessica Tice, communica-tions director for the Higher Education Policy Commis-sion, said they understands that it is a tight-budget year, but they also firmly believe that investments in higher education are important to move West Virginia forward.
“Higher Education Day is
really a day to just highlight all of the post-secondary opportunities across West Virginia,” said Tice. “The affordable options for post-secondary opportunities, opportunities that we want to keep affordable and part of that certainly includes strong investments in higher education.”
Cuts in funding will not be apparent until the end of the current legislative session.
Malak Khader can be contacted at [email protected].
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By GABI WARWICK THE PARTHENON
Marshall University spon-sored the eighth annual Junior Thundering Herd Cheer Clinic Saturday at Gullickson Hall.
This event allowed girls in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade to spend the day with Marshall cheerleaders. They learned the basics of being a cheerleader and then performed with the team before the Marshall basket-ball game against Middle Tennessee.
Brittanee Barton, senior from Dublin, Ohio, and cap-tain of the squad, said the event benefits both the cheer-leaders and the participants.
“Community outreach is important for the
cheerleaders,” Barton said, “and it’s great that we get to build a program where little girls want to aspire to be you.”
The clinic had 110 girls register, making this year the most successful so far.
The clinic began at 9 a.m. with registration and an op-portunity for a picture with Marco. Then participants rotated through the six stations, which taught tech-niques and skills required for cheerleading, includ-ing flexibility, cheering and dancing. After lunch the participants got ready for their pregame show.
“Although all of the sta-tions teach the girls aspects of cheerleading,” Barton said, “I love dance and cheer
the most. These are the two things that the girls actually do when they perform the pregame show, which is re-ally exciting.”
Kelsey Waybright, head coach of the cheerleaders, said that she loves having the clinic.
“This is the largest clinic we’ve ever had,” Waybright said. “This is my first full year as a head coach after cheering for Marshall, so I’ve been here with this clinic all the way through. It’s excit-ing to see it so successful.”
The cheer clinic is also a fundraising event for the cheerleaders. This money will go toward helping the squad with travel expenses.
Gabi Warwick can be contacted at [email protected].
Marshall cheerleaders teachnext generation at cheer clinic
By MORGAN M. SWITZERTHE PARTHENON
Huntington City council will vote Tuesday to ap-prove or deny a $266,000 state grant given by the West Virginia Depart-ment of Military Affairs and Public Safety for the purchase of an armored vehicle.
If the grant is approved, the money will go to-ward the purchase of the $279,000 state of the art armored vehicle, which would leave the pay-ment responsibility of approximately $13,000 to the Huntington Police Department.
Bryan Chambers, the communications director for the city of Huntington, said the vehicle would be of great use to the local community members if the city council votes to accept the grant.
“We know that the budget has been tight, but that’s not an excuse to avoid getting what is needed,” said Chambers. “The Huntington Police Department has been extremely proactive in getting outside funding in order to keep the commu-nity, and themselves, safe.”
By MEGAN OSBORNETHE PARTHENON
Warm weather will not grace Huntington with an appear-ance this week, with snowy mixes expected in the middle of the week and possibly freez-ing conditions, according to the National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration.
Sunday’s conditions were
wet with a chance of snow at night, but no accumulation was expected.
NOAA issued a special weather statement for Sunday concerning the Ohio River. A broad crest was expected all day Sunday and may still be present Monday. It is advised that extra caution be taken along the banks of the Ohio and
its feeder streams as the banks could be slippery or unstable. The crest was expected to reach from 4-9 feet below flood stage in some areas between Point Pleasant, W. Va. and Greenup, Ky.
Monday will be sunny with a high of 41 degrees and winds up to 11 mph. Winds will be-come calmer in the evening at
5 mph and a low of 27 degrees is expected.
Tuesday may have a chance of snow early in the day, mixing with rain after 11 a.m. and taper-ing off into the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent. Skies will be mostly cloudy, tem-peratures may reach a high of 42 degrees, and winds will come in from the west at 5-9 mph. At
night, the temperature may get down to 20 degrees, and a 30 percent chance of snow is ex-pected between midnight and 4 a.m.
Wednesday is expected to be partly cloudy with a high of 26 degrees during the day, dropping to around 16 degrees at night un-der a mostly clear sky.
Sunny skies are expected
Thursday with a high near 36 de-grees and a low near 21 degrees at night with a chance of clouds.
Friday will be partly sunny during the day with a high near 39 degrees and a low near 23 degrees at night, with mostly cloudy skies expected.
Megan Osborne can be contacted at [email protected].
Winter weather returns for the week
City council to vote on armored police vehicles
Higher Education Day at the West Virginia Capitol
“There’s a lot of pride for Marshall here, and it shows.”
-Beth Wolfe, Director of Recruitment
State legislators honor the value of a college degree
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A representative of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin reads a proclamation to the presidents of West Virginia’s colleges and universities during a ceremony at Higher Education Day Friday in the West Virginia Capitol building in Charleston.
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Cheerleaders of all sizes learn for the Marshall cheerleading team Saturday during the Junior Thundering Herd Cheer Clinic in Gullickson Hall.
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By WILLIAM DOUGLASMCCLATCHY FOREIGN STAFF (MCT)
Russia concluded the 2014 Winter Olympic Sunday with a lavish, theatrical victory lap celebrating not only suc-cessfully hosting the games, but also showcasing a Russia transformed from the grainy black-and-white images of the old Soviet Union.
“Russia delivered on its promise,” Dmitry Chernysh-enko, president of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee said to thunderous applause inside Fisht Stadium. “This is the new face of Russia, our Russia.”
Then, borrowing the line from the late International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, Cheryshenko added: “And for us these are the best games ever.”
IOC President Thomas Bach, presiding over his first Olympics, broke with tradi-tion and refrained from rating the Sochi games. Instead, he noted that Russia “promised excellent sports venues, out-standing Olympic villages and an impeccable organization.”
“Tonight we can say: Rus-sia delivered all what it had
promised,” he said.With Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin looking on, Sunday’s two hour-plus extrava-ganza was a celebration for accomplishing what many critics thought couldn’t be done: successfully hosting a Winter Games amid political, security, and weather con-cerns in subtropical Sochi.
The 40,000 who packed Fisht Stadium were transfixed by the lavish spectacle of chief creative director Konstantin Ernst’s show, which included nods to Bolshoi and Mariin-sky’s ballet, Rachmaninoff’s piano, and the works of Chek-hov, Solzhenitsyn and other Russian authors.
Faded to black, at least for a night, was the bad public-ity surrounding the games’ record $50 billion cost, the alleged corruption that bloated it, unfinished and or substandard lodging facili-ties, the culling of stray dogs, Russia’s anti-gay laws, and the reported heavy-handed treat-ment by authorities of the few who dared to protest.
Not that the Russian orga-nizers didn’t acknowledge some shortcomings. In the ceremony’s opening number,
a horde of silver-clad danc-ers formed four Olympic rings before a separate group of dancers slowly positioned themselves into the shape of the fifth ring.
The routine paid humorous homage to the opening cer-emony’s technical faux pax in which one of five giant Olym-pic rings failed to illuminate — a scene that was edited on Russian television to look like all five rings lit.
Afterwards, the athletes who participated in the games took one more curtain call at Fisht, marching (some danc-ing) jubilantly as pop and techno music blared over the stadium’s sound system.
All the while, Putin sat in a box in the chilly stadium and occasionally flashing a slight smile — a visage that became the face of the games.
“He was visible throughout the Games, he spent time with the (IOC) executive board and he spent half an hour at USA House,” United States Olym-pic Committee Chairman
Larry Probst said. “He has really owned the games and I would compliment him and his team.”
Russia’s athletes did their part. After winning just 15 medals in Vancouver in 2010, the Russians finished with 33, best at the Winter Games. Team USA, which had 37 med-als in Vancouver, was second here with 28.
Probst’s remarks were echoed by other U.S. officials who were part of the coun-try’s official delegation to the closing ceremonies.
“We want to congratulate all Russians for the success of these Olympics,” Deputy Sec-retary of State William Burns said.
Burns was accompanied by Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, gold medal speed skaters Eric Heiden and Bonnie Blair, and tennis legend Billie Jean King, who is gay.
President Barack Obama
Russia takes a victory lap, earns praise for delivering ‘all it had promised’
ABOVE: Russia’s team enters Fisht Stadium during the parade of athletes at the closing ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Sunday.RIGHT: Julie Chu carried the USA flag during the Closing Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Sunday.
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By BRECKIN WELLSTHE PARTHENON
The technical device that runs our society, the gadget you turn off in a theater performance, or at church on Sunday morning becomes a power-ful connection between a middle-aged woman and a dead man and the fight to keep his spirit alive.
The riveting comedy, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” had a successful weekend of performances at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center in the Francis-Booth Experimental Theater.
Kameron Stambaugh, the other woman and stranger in “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” said she was satisfied with the turnout of people who came to see the show over the weekend.
“When you are working in rehears-als with very little to no audience, you don’t know how certain things will go over until you actually perform in front of an audience,” Stambaugh said. “That being said, I think the audiences were great. We told them a story and they went along on the journey with us.”
Amber Cunningham, sophomore ele-mentary education major, attended the show opening night and said she was surprised with the overall performance.
“Going into the play I didn’t expect it to be funny like it was, I never thought that I would catch myself laughing,” Cunningham said.
“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” covers a range of audience members.
“A thing that stood out to me was that
this performance wasn’t meant just for an older audience,” Cunningham said. “A lot of students were there that could understand the play just as well as someone older.”
The preparation for a show like this one consists of many months of rehearsals, and a stressful week of au-ditions for the cast and crew.
“We actually held auditions for this particular show last semester, right be-fore Thanksgiving break,” Stambaugh said. “The cast list came out right be-fore Christmas break and then as soon as we got back for the current semester, we started rehearsals. So we had about six weeks of rehearsals for this show.”
Even though the rehearsals are over the production will be ending soon as
well and for many cast and crew mem-bers this is their last performance with the Marshall theatre department.
“Dead Man’s Cell Phone is very special to me, and not only is it the last show of my college career, but it’s also my se-nior capstone project,” Stambaugh said. “I have been lucky to have been a part of some fantastic productions at Marshall, but I have to say that ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ is my favorite and it will always hold a special place in my heart.”
“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” will continue its performances for a live audience Thursday through March 1. Students have free admission when they present their student ID.
Breckin Wells can be contacted at [email protected].
By JESSICA ROSSTHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony performed to a packed audience Friday in Smith Recital Hall, as part of the High School Festival Band Weekend.
Shirelle Yuhase, recruiting coordinator and assistant to the director of bands, conducted the symphonic band’s perfor-mance, which opened the show.
Yuhase said the events dur-ing the festival give high school students a broader perspec-tive, because they experience working with and hearing pro-fessional musicians, which is an experience they are not used to.
Steve Barnett, the director of bands at Marshall, conducted the wind symphony. The per-formance featured an oboe solo by Richard Kravchak, the direc-tor of the School of Music and Theater.
“The wind symphony and Steven Barnett are exceptional and I feel so privileged to be able to perform and actually headline with them,” Kravchak said.
Barnett said it was important for the faculty to perform for the high school students and di-rectors, and the performances allowed Marshall students to see faculty members as more than just teachers.
“Kravchak is a world-class oboist,” Barnett said. “He’s performed all over and he’s as good as you’re going to hear anywhere, so it’s a real treat.”
The wind symphony also per-formed the world premiere of “Purple Whispers,” which was written by Richard L. Saucedo.
“He’s one of the top, prob-ably in the top five of wind band composers of today in the world, and he’s got I don’t know how many publications, hundreds of publications for bands,” Barnett said.
When the wind symphony received the piece of music, Saucedo came to Marshall to attend a wind symphony re-hearsal and run through the music with the band.
Jordan Carinelli, junior saxo-phonist, said he was excited to have the opportunity to work with Saucedo in person on the piece.
“We learned it the day be-fore, and worked on it for three hours with him,” Carinelli said. “With his insight and the in-sight Barnett has of the piece, it’s exciting to be able to play it for everyone.”
The wind symphony received two standing ovations during Friday’s performance. “Purple Whispers” was the first to re-ceive praises from the audience for a beautiful performance, followed by Kravchak’s breath-taking performance in “Prelude and Variations on The Carnival of Venice,” which received a thunderous applause in addi-tion to the ovation.
Jessica Ross can be con-tacted at [email protected].
High school students get opportunity to work with professional musicians
By JESSICA ROSSTHE PARTHENON
Upward Bound is taking ap-plications through Monday at its office in Prichard Hall for residential advisers to work during its summer program.
Upward Bound is one of the five TRiO Programs at Marshall University, which are feder-ally funded programs that help students who come from disad-vantaged backgrounds become the first to attend and graduate college.
Upward Bound serves high school students from Cabell, Wayne and Lincoln Counties. The students are provided as-sistance during the school year with things like counseling and tutoring.
During the summer, the stu-dents are brought to Marshall’s campus to help prepare them for college.
Some of the classes the stu-dents are offered include math, science, literature and com-munications. Students are also offered cultural enrichment classes, such as sign language, fitness, life skills and etiquette.
Applicants must be a stu-dent at Marshall and junior by the summer of 2014, have a driver’s license and want to work with adolescents. Those with at least a 2.5 GPA will be given preference, and summer classes cannot be taken during this time.
Advisers will live in the resi-dence halls with the high school students and offer advising in addition to supervision.
Each year, a statewide Up-ward Bound Day Competition takes place at different state institutions, and advisers will be required to accompany the students to the event.
The job may also require the supervision of evening activi-ties or assistance with planning and teaching during educa-tional or leisure programs.
In the past, some of the eve-ning activities have included bowling, swimming and going to the movies.
Those selected will work from June 8 to July 16, and the salary offered is $1,820. Room and board will also be included.
Jessica Ross can be con-tacted at [email protected].
Upward Bound looking for summer advisers
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By BRAXTON CRISPTHE PARTHENON
For the third time in five games, the Marshall Univesity Thunder-ing Herd Men’s basketball lost via a last minute three-pointer, extending the Middle Tennes-see State Blue Raiders winning streak to nine games Saturday in-side the Cam Henderson Center.
After a jump shot by Herd point guard Kareem Canty tied the ball game up at 53 with 54 seconds to play, the Herd went back on defense and forced the Blue Raiders to having just three seconds on the shot clock before deflecting out of bounds. Middle Tennessee’s Tweety Knight inbounded the ball from the sideline near the right cor-ner of the floor to the top of the key to Jaqawn Raymond, who took one dribble and a step to the three-point line before knocking down the game win-ning basket as the shot clock expired.
The prior two times the Herd lost in that way came in back-to-back games at Southern Miss and at Tulane. Marshall head coach Tom Herrion said the situation of being so close and losing at the last moment has worn out its welcome.
“The song is getting old,”
Herrion said. “Lost by the three, again.”
Marshall had time on the clock to possibly tie the game, but after a timeout by Herrion with 13 sec-onds left, Herrion said the play he drew up in the huddle never panned out and Canty’s desper-ate three-point attempt from the left wing fell short, sealing the win for the Conference USA lead-ing Blue Raiders.
“It was bad execution,” Her-rion said. “My fault I guess. I didn’t explain it well enough. I wanted to get Ryan Taylor off the screen and use Canty as a decoy. It was horrible execution and I’ll take the responsibility on that.”
Throughout the contest, Mar-shall was able to stay close with the Blue Raiders, in large part by making leading-scorer Shawn Jones a non-factor offensively. Jones made his presence felt though, by recording five blocks in the contest, four of them com-ing in the first half. Herrion said one area of improvement that could have led to a different out-come in the game was finishing around the hoop.
“We gave up so many points in the paint early in the game,” Herrion said. “We had good drives and they were either
blocked or missed. You have to put the ball in basket.”
The Blue Raiders led 27-25 after half time, a lead Middle Tennessee held from the 18:07 mark of the first half to 17:05 to go in the second half, but never led by more than eight points in that span. In the final 17:05 of the contest, there were five lead changes and five ties as the game was a back-and-forth matchup for much of the final 20 minutes.
Middle Tennessee head coach Kermit Davis said the Blue Raiders were lucky to escape from the Henderson Center with a victory.
“That was as lucky as we’ve been all year long to win a game,” Davis said. “We were outplayed, I thought, for about the entire game.”
With the loss, Marshall’s re-cord slipped to 9-19 and 3-10 in C-USA, which puts the Herd at 15 in the league standings heading into the final week and a half before the conference tournament. The Blue Raid-ers improved to 21-7 and 11-2 in C-USA, giving Middle Ten-nessee sole possession of first place in the league.
Braxton Crisp can be con-tacted at [email protected].
History continues to repeat itself for Herd men
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Redshirt freshman point guard Kareem Canty moves the ball up court against UAB Thursday in the Cam Henderson Center.
Herd tennis extends winning streak to four
HERDZONE.COMMarshall tennis returned to
the court Saturday to face Iowa State in a dual match.
The Herd, coming off its first ITA ranking of the season, swept the match 7-0.
Marshall experimented with a change in its doubles lineup, placing Dana Oppinger with freshman Anna Pomyatinskaya. Their normal counterparts, Derya Turhan and Karli Timko then teamed up together.
Oppinger and Pomyatins-kaya lost, but the Herd still took
the doubles point with wins from Turhan and Timko and duo Kai Broomfield and Ra-chael Morales.
In singles play, Oppinger continued to play in the first position, winning her match in a 10-7 tiebreaker after losing the first set 4-6 but winning her second 6-4.
Turhan played second singles, winning in a 6-1, 6-2 score. Broomfield played third and recorded a 6-4, 6-4 victory.
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Marshall tennis continued its win streak, improving to a 7-2 record after a 5-2 win over Minnesota on Sunday.
The German team of Dana Oppinger and Derya Turhan fell in doubles, but wins from duos Kai Broomfield and Rachael Morales and Karli Timko and Anna Pomyatinskaya secured the doubles point for the Herd.
In singles play, freshman Pomyatinskaya was the first to finish, losing in a 6-2, 6-0 match to even the score at one all.
Broomfield gave the Herd the advantage back after a 6-2, 6-2 victory over UM’s Jessika Mozia.
Turhan, playing at second singles, faced one of two ITA Central region ranked players in No. 20 Natalia Pintusava, and dominated with a 6-3, 6-1 performance.
With a 3-1 lead, freshman
Morales battled in the sixth po-sition, falling 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 to shrink the Herd lead to 3-2.
Oppinger battled back from a 2-6 set to defeat the Gophers’ other ranked player in No.8 Teresa Brichacova 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.Timko, the lone senior on the Herd roster, so-lidified the Marshall win with a 6-1, 4-6 (10-8).
“It feels great to be on the road and keep getting wins like this,” Timko said of the team’s success. “I’m proud of the en-ergy and the will to win that each of us brings to the court. It’s a lot of fun to being out there with six teammates who want to fight and win just as much as I do.”
Marshall will return to the road next weekend, heading to Bloomington, Ind. to face No.37 Indiana on Saturday, March 1 and traveling to Ohio to face Miami of Ohio on Sunday.
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LEFT: Marshall No. 1 singles Dana Oppinger winds up a forehand in a match against Virginia Tech Jan. 31 at the Huntington Tennis Club.
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of the Herd’s three day stint in Greensboro, N.C., Marshall base-ball tried to take the series with North Carolina A&T after split-ting the first two games.
Things started quickly for A&T- the leadoff and second batter ripped singles off Herd starter Michael Taylor. Taylor then gave up a walk to load the bases with no outs, and the Ag-gies plated a run across to take the early lead.
The Herd offense started slow, sitting down in order the first two innings. In the 3rd, freshman Spencer Iacovone was walked, and singles from outfielder Corey Bird and designated hitter Chase Vo-gelbach sent Iacovone home.
The Aggies responded in the fourth, when Taylor gave up a home run to Cam Jergens to put A&T up 2-1.
The score remained 2-1 for the duration of the game, both defenses working quickly and diligently throughout the game.
Taylor went seven innings, scat-tering six hits and two walks in the contest and fell to a 1-1 record.
Marshall’s four hits came from Bird, Vogelbach, Andrew Dundon and Cory Garrastazu. Vogelbach and Garrastazu are on a four-game hitting streak.
Marshall will head back to the Carolinas next weekend when the Herd faces James Madison, Duke, Coastal Carolina, and Rhode Island in the Caravelle Resort Tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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My great-grandfather founded the Rialto Theater in tiny Grayling, Mich., in 1915. His handbills adver-tised an opening-day screening of “The Twenty-Million-Dollar Mys-tery” on “two good single reels.”
I run the same theater today, almost 99 years later. But two good single reels aren’t what they used to be. Our theater is threatened now because Holly-wood movie studios are phasing out 35mm film and beginning to distribute new movies only in digital format. In December, Par-amount Pictures announced that “Anchorman 2” would be its final movie printed on film, and other studios are expected to quickly follow suit. Unless we convert to digital projection — an under-taking that will cost upward of $60,000 (or four times as much as our last new film projector) — our theater will have to close.
Thousands of other small-town theaters are similarly at risk. According to the National Association of Theatre Own-ers, as of July there were 4,126 screens in the United States still projecting film — many of them in small towns and many that will likely close in the coming year because they cannot afford the digital transition.
When I consider what the Rialto means to this town of 1,884, I sense what a blow to rural America this loss of movie houses will be. The independent movie theater retains an outsize role in these communities that is quite unlike that of a city or sub-urban multiplex. In Grayling, our Art Deco theater (rebuilt in 1930 after a fire) is the architectural landmark on the main street of town. It is the only venue that draws large crowds to down-town year in and year out. Quite apart from any historical impor-tance, closing this theater would irreparably deform the center of our town.
There is more at stake than just the fate of a speck on the map of northern Michigan. Small-town movie theaters still have a na-tional purpose: the integration of far-flung places into our national culture. Every time we show a blockbuster on opening night,
every time we screen a documen-tary or a foreign film, every time our audience feels empathy for a character the likes of whom they might never encounter in real life, we are issuing a reminder: yes, this little town is part of the wider world.
Television and the Internet notwithstanding, the movie the-ater plays a special role in cultural inclusion. In a small town, the movie theater is a quasi-public institution that can lend signifi-cance to a film that streaming it on Netflix never will. But a movie theater doesn’t just connect the members of a small community to the world, it also connects them to one another. A busy night at this theater, with excited kids running all over the place and the laughter of a couple hundred people in the auditorium, is a col-lective experience that is simply irreplaceable.
The people in our community understand this and have never questioned the continued rel-evance of a movie theater to their common life. Rather than close the place, we launched an online fundraising campaign that is well on its way to paying not just for a digital projector but a restoration of the 1930s-era interior.
So the Rialto has a shot at mak-ing it over the digital hurdle. Still, the movie industry itself could do more to help other indepen-dent theaters stay open. Studios could offer, for example, a small rebate on the film rental fees paid in recent years to be applied to making the digital transition. That would link any assistance to the theater’s actual contribution to the studios’ bottom line, and enable small markets to continue generating revenue. Surely this would serve the studios’ inter-ests better than simply allowing theaters to close.
If studios and small theater owners do not find a creative and cooperative solution to this problem, many viable and cultur-ally significant businesses will be pointlessly destroyed in the com-ing months. At stake is a piece of our heritage as well as the rich-ness of our communal life.
If there’s one thing we should have learned in this country by now, it’s that.
Hollywood, save small town cinema
By LACHEL HOUSECOLUMNIST
“House” is my favorite show, ever. Not because it is my last name, but because it is one of the only shows that has kept my attention for more than three seasons. I love the show so much, I do not even mind watching re-runs, which is rare for me with any other show on television. Over the course of the series, there have been numerous episode themes that have stuck with me. Believe it or not, I truly believe watching “House” can teach you a few things about different aspects of life. So, here is a list of 13 things “House” has taught me over the years.
1. There is a solution to nearly every problem that you will face, especially in college. With a little brain power and out-side of the box thinking, you can work your way out of any tight space.
2. Not everyone is going to like you, but pay those people no mind. Live your life, regardless of how people feel about you. Trust me, they do not matter. And, it is not detrimental to your health if you do not
have too many friends.3. Speaking of friends, you are com-
pletely fine having a few folks in your circle who truly have your back at the end of the day. Three real friends are better than an army of fake ones.
4. Do not be that person who is always too concerned with the thoughts or feel-ings of the people around you. Sometimes in life, you have to go with your gut instinct, no matter what someone else believes is right. Advice is not always necessary.
5. However, there is nothing wrong with swallowing your pride and asking for as-sistance, even when you do not want to. We will all need someone to lean on through-out our life. It does not make you weak or needy.
6. Team work can come in handy. If you do not understand something, someone, somewhere will.
7. The thin line between love and hate truly exist. It is not a cliche. It is a real life issue that you may find yourself in one day. Ask Dr. Cuddy.
8. There is no rhyme or reason to who
you find yourself attracted to. Sometimes, no matter how hard you fight it, some-one will spark your interest for reasons unknown.
9. In life, you may find yourself in an outrageously ridiculous predicament. No worries, though. It is not the end of the world. You will be just fine.
10. It is always best to get verification on everything. You may believe something is the truth, but it can be a total lie. You will not know unless you investigate.
11. Creeping is OK as long as it is done for the right reasons. Sometimes, you have got to dig deep to get the answers. And, in order to get those answers, you have to be-come a temporary FBI agent.
12. Throughout life, you will run across people who are rude, crude and completely unacceptable. Do not interrupt their bar-baric view point of life. Simply let them dwell in their habitat in peace. It will keep them happy and you out of harm’s way.
13. It is not Lupus. It is never Lupus.LaChel House can be contacted at
Thirteen things ‘House’ taught me
Reports won’t change North Korea policy Since snippets of information began to
leak from behind the airtight North Ko-rean border, the picture of medieval, iron gray dictatorship has been painted on the American psyche. Through the reports of defectors and slivers of video gathered by a handful of enterprising journalists, the pic-ture has grown only bleaker. North Korea’s persona has grown to one of legendary horrors found only in myths and fiction. Roving death squads. A massive prison population. Mothers forced to murder their own children. Avoidable, yet disre-garded starvation.
All this and more was confirmed Tues-day by a report from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report outlines everything it can painfully pull from under the grips of North
Korean Supreme Leader Kim-Jong Un, the United Nations and the world finally have a standardized and complete inquiry into the human rights horrors inside North Korea.
As gut-wrenching as it is to admit, we must come to grips with the fact these re-ports, ever so verified, will not lead to any profound action to reverse them.
Let’s compare our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan to a potential invasion of North Korea. When attempting to sell action in Iraq (both in 1990 and 2003, ironically used by both George H. W. and George W. Bush) the powers that be pointed holy fingers at Saddam Hussein, tacking on do-mestic chemical weapons use and ethnical cleansing onto his wanted poster. While proven to be true, Hussein did eventu-ally pay for his human right abuses with
his life, we had ulterior motives to be in Iraq. Whether for oil, destroying WMDs (that were never found) or a combination, America had some self-interest in invad-ing Iraq. In Afghanistan, while the Taliban pushed a brutal and violent brand of fanati-cism, America still had to think of what they would get out of it. Destroying a safe-haven for terrorism or for a cause shadier and left uncertain, we were never in either coun-try because of what was best for the native population.
No part of our policy will change in re-gard to how we handle North Korea. We’ll jump onboard with UN sanctions and know in our heart that people are starving over there, but America will not take any hard steps toward ending it unless we can get something out of it.
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Alpha Sigma Phi and Delta Zeta sponsored Spike for a Cure Saturday from at Huntington High School.
Fifteen teams participated in a volleyball competition to help raise money for Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society.
Kyle Rheude, Olivia Sommer-ville and Tyler Bradley, who worked together to make the event a success, planned the event. This second annual event raised more money and gained more participants than last year, helping both chapters meet their goal of raising over $1,000.
“Because this was our second time hosting this event, we had a lot better of an idea of what to expect, how to get people involved and how to plan,” Rheude, Relay for Life presi-dent, said. “We talked to so many different organizations about the event and the cause and it’s amazing how many people we were able to have participate.”
Getting sponsors and orga-nizing teams was a large part of the planning process. Members of Alpha Sigma Phi and Delta Zeta served as referees ran con-cessions and hosted a raffle.
Members of Alpha Sigma Phi from the University of
Cincinnati and Capitol Uni-versity came into town for the event for a second year in a row.
“This is just so important to our chapter because we set aside an entire day to work to-gether and raise money for this great organization,” Rheude said. “This is also a great event because almost the entire Greek community comes out to participate, which promotes Greek unity.”
Next year Alpha Sigma Phi and Delta Zeta set a goal to raise $1,500.
Erika Rittenhouse can be contacted at [email protected].
originally named King to a low-level delegation for the opening ceremony, a contingent that in-cluded Olympic gold medalist figure skater Brian Boitano and hockey player Caitlin Cahow, who are gay.
King missed the opening cer-emony because of the death of her mother. But her presence in Sochi, along with Boitano’s and Cahow’s two weeks ago, was the White House’s way to reg-ister opposition to a so-called “anti-propaganda” law that Pu-tin signed last June.
The law prohibits indi-viduals from promoting “homosexual behavior” and
spreading “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors.
Obama and several other world leaders view the measure as an anti-gay law and skipped the Winter Games’ opening and closing ceremonies.
IOC and Russian officials worried that the law would prompt protest — from groups or athletes — that would shift the spotlight from the games. But protests were almost nonexistent be-yond a transgender former member of Italy’s parlia-ment being detained twice and having her Olympic spectator pass yanked after she displayed a blanket that said being gay is OK, and
uttering the slogan later in Olympic Park.
“There was a lot of focus on the anti-gay law before we got here but it was a non-factor,” said Judy Chu, a U.S. hockey player who carried the U.S. flag in the closing cer-emony. “Everyone has been respected.”
Not everyone. Russian had to quell a media firestorm af-ter Russian Cossacks — who were part of the security force protecting the games — horse-whipped and pepper-sprayed members of the Russian anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot in Sochi last week.
Still, the incident did little to dampen the mood of Sunday’s party atmosphere.
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The Herd again experi-mented with its lineup, switching Timko and Pomyat-inskaya in singles play. Playing in the fourth spot, Timko won 6-0, 6-1, and playing at fifth singles, Pomyatinskaya battled back from a 5-7 score to defeat her opponent 6-1, 6-4.
Morales was also victorious, posting a 6-2, 6-1 result.
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Chambers said that the pri-mary function of the vehicle would be to execute search warrants that have the poten-tial for violence or conflict, but it could also be used in many other dangerous situations.
“The vehicle holds up to 10 people,” said Chambers. “It could be used under certain
rescue situations to help hostages. The vehicle could pull right up to someone’s doorstep and trapped victims could escape into the vehicle.”
Chamber said the armored vehicle could also be used in patrol situations and as a re-actionary tool in order to keep law enforcement officers and community members safe.
Morgan M. Switzer can be contacted by [email protected].
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By JOSH SHAFFERTHE NEWS & OBSERVER (MCT)
The wolves look ghostly at night, ears pricked up, eyes like highbeams in the dark.
In a single evening, Jett Fe-rebee might see five or six of them — reddish-brown, sniff-ing at the camera mounted on his Washington County farm. They build dens in his tractor shelter. They feed on his rab-bits. They drag deer carcasses into the woods. They eat the animals his family used to hunt.
Ferebee’s land lies at the western edge of the Red Wolf Recovery Program, a 27-year federal project aimed at restor-ing to the far-eastern edge of North Carolina one of nature’s most fragile species. For the last decade, he has waged con-stant battle over the private land he describes as ruined by wolves, coyotes and the “su-per-coyotes” they breed.
He has watched the govern-ment try to frighten wolves off his property with air horns. They come back.
He has allowed it to set leg traps on his land to cap-ture and relocate wandering wolves. They come back.
He has repeatedly sought a permit to shoot the wolves that pester him, as the law in-structs him to do. He hasn’t gotten one.
“It used to be cool to hear a wolf howl,” said Ferebee, 55. “Too much of a good thing.”
Ferebee’s fight exposes a deep cultural clash between those who would artificially restore a predator species on mostly private land and the landowners who live in the middle of the government sci-ence’s project. Hunters feel their way of life stripped away to make room for a wolf that chases the same prey; conser-vationists feel undermined by a small group of landowners who put private property over public good.
And then there are the coy-otes, a species that complicates the human-canine mix.
Smaller, almost impossible to distinguish from their red wolf cousins, coyotes have flooded into wolf territory, prompting the federal gov-ernment to sterilize them and limit wolf-coyote breeding.
But Ferebee sees coyotes running with wolves on his farm, some of them wearing government tracking collars, others wearing plain fur. He’s showed pictures to wild-life officials who shrug their shoulders over which animal is which.
The confusion has grown so tangled that conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit last fall, aiming to stop all coy-ote hunting in the five-county area where wolves thrive.
The red wolf “is more in peril in the wild than most en-dangered species,” said Sierra Weaver, senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, arguing before U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle in a recent hearing.
But to Ferebee, it’s time to call off the experiment. Over five days in January, a trap-per caught three wolves with tracking collars and two wolf hybrids on his farm. On the sixth day, Ferebee photo-graphed three more collared canines.
“Hey guys,” he said. “It was a just cause. But it’s not working.”
———About 10 miles from Fere-
bee’s farm, Kim Wheeler of the nonprofit Red Wolf Coalition shows off a pair of ambassa-dor wolves, a sleek male and female raised in captivity.
“This is Betty,” she says, mo-tioning to the den made of dirt, rubble and corrugated pipe. “This is Hank.”
Red wolves contribute to the region as a top predator, said David Rabon, coordinator of the program for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Farmers praise wolves for feeding on nutria, large rodents that bore into their dikes, and for keep-ing raccoons at bay.
Her vision marks the slow growth of the government’s wolf incubator, a program with an annual budget of roughly $1.1 million.
In 1987, red wolves had al-most completely vanished, their breed hunted and chased almost to extinction.
Federal wildlife officials pinned down the last of their kind along the Louisiana-Texas border, and they whittled that group down to 14 deemed ge-netically pure red wolves — no coyote blood in their veins.
They planted a hopeful seed in the Alligator River National Wildlife Ref-uge, not far from Hank and Betty’s pen, re-leasing just four pairs of wolves
into the dense thicket.Back then, the red wolf ter-
ritory spanned only 259,000 acres, half the size of Wake County.
But the government had the stated goal of expanding both the wolf population and the land it covered. Before long, wolf land expanded into Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Tyrrell and Washington counties — a 1.7 million-acre red wolf habitat, the vast majority of it private land.
Wildlife officials chose far-eastern North Carolina largely because it lacked coyotes to mix with wolves and absorb their tiny number. Also, they argued, the sparse human population would minimize any damage or inconvenience — even to hunters competing for prey.
“Red wolves and sportsmen can coexist,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in its first five-year report, published in 1992.
But by 1999, the coyote population had spread so thick across the five counties that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice listed them as the greatest threat to wolf survival, citing the potential for coyotes and wolves to interbreed.
Proposals for dealing with the coyote threat ranged from killing them to fencing in ref-uge land.
The government took a dif-ferent path: the “placeholder” strategy now used to com-bat coyote populations. Male and female coyotes found with wolves are trapped and sterilized through vasectomy or tubal ligation, using local veterinarians.
Those sterile coyotes then hold a place within wolf packs, keeping away fertile wolves who might invade ter-ritory and create wolf-coyote
It’s a dog’s life among red wolves in eastern North Carolina
Betty, a female red wolf, roams in a fenced area at the Red Wolf Coalition, Feb. 10 in Creswell, N.C. The wolf is part of a captive breeding program at the coalition.
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hybrids. As of February, 61 sterilized coyotes were wear-ing tracking collars.
Rabon, coordinator of the government’s red wolf pro-gram, described placeholders as highly effective against interbreeding and having mini-mized the threats pointed out in 1999.
“I don’t know about su-per-coyotes,” Rabon said, dismissing the local nickname for hybrids. “They don’t as-sume super powers, though. They don’t take down deer in a single bite.”
Ferebee and other landown-ers are skeptical and say the wolf program has spiraled dan-gerously out of control. How, they ask, can the government patrol the coyote population ranging over 1.7 million acres? Based on the animals he finds on his farm, he believes the populations of both animals are larger than the government knows.
Betty and Hank, both captured red wolves, roam in a fenced area at the Red Wolf Coalition, Feb. 10 in Creswell, N.C. The wolf is part of a captive breeding program at the coalition. JILL KNIGHT | RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER | MCT
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TODAY IN THE LIFE!
By VERNE GAYNEWSDAY (MCT)
So what to expect with Seth Meyers’ new “Late Night,” which arrives Monday night (12:35 a.m. EST on NBC)?
There are some givens. It will be amusing — Meyers is one of TV’s most gifted comedy writers — and it will be after midnight. Beyond that, how-ever, we’re all just going to have to find out together. Here are “Five Things (We Think We Def-initely Know) About the New ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers.””
1. Even as Meyers becomes the fourth host in franchise history, some elements never change. The difference here, however, lies with the ring-master: Former head writer of “Saturday Night Live” and co-anchor of “Weekend Update,” Meyers brings both his style of humor and, for good measure, his top “Update” writer, Alex Baze. Therein lie important clues.
2. “Late Night” will be news-ier, more topical. Jimmy Fallon, as “Late Night” host, was (and very much remains) a standout performer, but you rarely got the sense he had a whole lot of interest in current affairs (even when he was “Weekend Up-date” anchor). That will change with Meyers. In a recent lunch with reporters, he promised a show that will play heavily off the day’s news.
3. Satire is in again. “Late Night” under Fallon was whim-sical and musical — departures from both the David Letter-man and Conan O’Brien years. They were plenty whimsical, too, but their whimsy came
with a sharp, ironic edge. With “Weekend Update” and Baze as evidence, satire should return to “Late Night” with a ven-geance, making this newcomer much more aligned with late-nighters like “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.”
4. There will be a band — the 8G Band. Welcome to the most intriguing new element of all: Fred Armisen is band leader, and if his musical past is the musical prologue, then get ready for something wild and crazy. Armisen was an ac-complished musician before he was a comedian (“SNL,” “Port-landia”). He was the drummer for the Chicago-based punk band Trenchmouth, which sounded like a cross between the Jesus Lizard (a ‘90s band that’s still rocking) and the un-classifiable Captain Beefheart. Armisen also has his comical/ musical alter-egos from “SNL,” including The Blue Jean Com-mittee and Ian Rubbish. Who knows what 8G will sound like? Other members include Seth Jabour (guitar) and Syd Butler (bass) from the indie rock band Les Savy Fav, Kimberly Thomp-son (drums) and Eli Janney (keyboards).
5. There will be guests! Monday night, Meyers will in-terview former “SNL” colleague Amy Poehler, Vice President Joe Biden and will have A Great Big World (“Say Something”) as musical guest. Tuesday, it’s Kanye West; Wednesday, Kelly Ripa (Meyers was once rumored to be her next on-air partner on “Live!”); Thursday, Lena Dunham; and Friday, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
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Marshall University students and Huntington community members came together around pottery wheels Saturday at the Marshall ceram-ics studio to make, or throw, clay bowls as a part of the Empty Bowls project.
The event, which is now in its 11th year, is a fundraiser where clay bowls that are made by Marshall students and Huntington community members are sold at the Empty Bowls dinner with the proceeds going to the Huntington Food Bank, which aids the hungry across the tri-state.
Brett Tucker, junior sculpture student who has been involved with the past two Empty Bowls events, said the make-up of this years bowl throwers was different than last year.
“Last time there were a lot of professors and people who had thrown before, people who taught pottery and that kind of thing,” Tucker said. “This time there are a lot of people I don’t recognize, which is cool to see.”
The Empty Bowls event gives students a chance to help the Huntington community in a unique way, something junior biology major Alexis D’Amato said is appealing.
“It’s really great, and it shows that every little thing helps,” D’Amato said. “It’s something fun and interesting to do, and it’s beneficial to the community. It’s great that you can marry those two things.”
Assistant sculpture professor Frederick Bartolovic said the community participation shows that the Empty Bowls event goes beyond Marshall.
“There are a lot of Marshall students here, but what I’m really excited to see that it’s not just
a Marshall thing, it’s a community thing,” Bar-tolovic said. “We have a number of people who are not necessarily affiliated with Marshall in any way.”
Many of the students involved were not af-filiated with the art of sculpture department, which Bartolovic said shows promise for the fu-ture of Empty Bowls.
“It’s great to see this younger generation of students come in and show this amount of in-terest,” Bartolovic said. “I think it’s exceptional to see them want to help and devise ways to volunteer their time and help the community.”
Bartolovic said that the increased turnout will help the Empty Bowls event be even more suc-cessful than it has been in recent years.
“Over the past three years of the event we’ve had a sort of glass ceiling at $20,000 that we couldn’t quite break,” Bartolovic said. “If the other parts of the event come together, with the amount of bowls we have made I think we can break that mark.”
The bowls will be sold at a dinner at First Presbyterian Church April 11. The dinner also includes a silent auction that benefits the Hun-tington Food Bank.
Will Vance can be contacted at [email protected].
Community fills 'Empty Bowls'
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Brett Tucker, junior sculpture student, makes a clay bowl Saturday as part of the Empty Bowls fundraiser. Bowls, such as Tucker's, made by Marshall students and Huntington community members will be sold April 11 in support of the Huntington Area Food Bank. PHOTOS BY BISHOP NASH | THE PARTHENON