C M Y K 50 INCH 55° 34° NEWS..................... 2,5 SPORTS..................... 3 OPINION ................... 4 LIFE!........................ 6 > INSIDE Showers today. “The first wealth is health.” -RALPH WALDO EMERSON page designed and edited by KRISTIN STEELE steele47@ marshall.edu > follow us... ONLINE VOL. 115 NO. 45 quotable it’s marshallparthenon.com twitter facebook Dynamic duo The Herd’s Eric and Blake Frohnapfel share more than just a name| Life!, Page 6 Monday, October 31, 2011 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER marshallparthenon.com | | BY EDEN ADKINS THE PARTHENON The WeCar program will kick off at 10 a.m. Monday with a launch event in the center of campus. WeCar by Enterprise is a membership-based, car-sharing program that is now available for Mar- shall students. A white Nissan Al- tima Hybrid and a green Ford Fiesta are stationed at the Public Safety Build- ing along Fifth Avenue between 18th and 19th streets. The cars are ac- cessible for student use around the clock. The cars will be parked on campus today and representa- tives, and students will be demonstrating how We- Car works, said Lalena Price, communications coordinator. “It is a chance for stu- dents to learn more about the program,” Price said. The one-time applica- tion fee has been waived, so the only initial cost is a $35 charge for the an- nual membership fee. Members will be issued a membership card that can be used to unlock the car at any time upon availabil- ity. The cars can be rented by the hour or for an entire day and members will be charged for their usage. “I am very excited about the WeCar Program that our administration has brought to campus,” Ray Harrell, student body president, said. “It will enable our students who do not have vehicles to run everyday errands at a very reasonable rate, and I feel that our student body will look upon it favorably.” Eden Adkins can be contacted at adkins778@ marshall.edu. The initiative will begin with two cars, a Nissan Altima Hybrid and a Ford Fiesta, available 24 hours a day to any qualified Marshall student, faculty or staff member, age 18 or older. » WeCar kicks off today 24-HOUR SERVICE MARSHALL CRUSHES UAB BY KELLY STARKEY THE PARTHENON In honor of National Food Day, Huntington’s Kitchen hosted their first food dem- onstration day Friday. National Food Day is Oc- tober 24 and is celebrated all week. “National Food Day is celebrated across the country, and their initia- tive for National Food day is for people in communi- ties getting together and celebrating local food and/ or healthy food,” said Andie Leffingwell, kitchen manager of Hunting- ton’s Kitchen. “It’s about bringing your community together in a pleasant way with a little bit of change and introducing some local seasonal food. We started thinking about that, and since it is this week, we de- cided to combine the end of our market season and then Halloween for the kids and have a food day where we demonstrate foods.” Leffingwell said they demonstrated barley jam- balaya, an affordable, quality meal that they cook in several of their classes. Other foods, such as but- ternut squash muffins and fish tacos, were also cooked at the food demonstration. “We really wanted to try to demo foods that the people in the community are not making at home but that we teach here and that taste incredible,” Lef- fingwell said. “So we are trying to lure people in with the smell, get them to taste the foods, and then hope- fully that will give them a little bit of insight of what we do here. We aren’t here to teach people how to go on a diet.” Jane Edelen, volunteer for Huntington’s Kitchen, said National Food Week is a ini- tiative created by the Food and Drug Administration to teach children more about how to eat healthy. Food day encourages Americans all around the country to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable way, Edelen said. Leffingwell said a lot of communities can only have one event to celebrate Na- tional Food Day, whether it is to fight hunger or pro- mote local farmers, but Huntington can do more. “We have an advan- tage of doing all of that,” Leffingwell said. “We work with the kids and educate them. We bring families in, low income families and families that are not low Huntington’s Kitchen celebrates National Food Day See FOOD DAY I Page 5 KELLY STARKEY | THE PARTHENON Huntington’s Kitchen, located on Fourth Avenue, hosted its first food demonstration day Friday as part of a celebration for National Food Day. FINAL SCORE: 59- 14 MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON Wide receiver Aaron Dobson scores a touchdown during the third quarter in the Herd’s game against the Blazers Saturday. Dobson was second on the team in receiving yards in the game with four catches for 61 yards. The Herd amassed 429 yards of offense, including six touchdowns through the air.
Dynamic duoThe Herd’s Eric and Blake Frohnapfel share more than just a name| Life!, Page 6
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BY EDEN ADKINSTHE PARTHENON
The WeCar program will kick off at 10 a.m. Monday with a launch event in the center of campus.
WeCar by Enterprise is a membership-based, car-sharing program that is now available for Mar-shall students. A white Nissan Al-tima Hybrid and a green Ford Fiesta are stationed at the Public Safety Build-ing along Fifth Avenue between 18th and 19th streets. The cars are ac-cessible for student use around the clock.
The cars will be parked on campus today and representa-tives, and students will be demonstrating how We-Car works, said Lalena Price, communications coordinator.
“It is a chance for stu-dents to learn more about the program,” Price said.
The one-time applica-tion fee has been waived, so the only initial cost is a $35 charge for the an-nual membership fee. Members will be issued a membership card that can be used to unlock the car at any time upon availabil-ity. The cars can be rented by the hour or for an entire day and members will be charged for their usage.
“I am very excited about the WeCar Program that our administration has brought to campus,” Ray Harrell, student body president, said. “It will enable our students who do not have vehicles to run everyday errands at a very reasonable rate, and I feel that our student body will look upon it favorably.”
In honor of National Food Day, Huntington’s Kitchen hosted their first food dem-onstration day Friday.
National Food Day is Oc-tober 24 and is celebrated all week.
“National Food Day is celebrated across the country, and their initia-tive for National Food day is for people in communi-ties getting together and celebrating local food and/or healthy food,” said Andie Leffingwell, kitchen manager of Hunting-ton’s Kitchen. “It’s about bringing your community together in a pleasant way with a little bit of change and introducing some local seasonal food. We started thinking about that, and since it is this week, we de-cided to combine the end of our market season and then Halloween for the kids and have a food day where we
demonstrate foods.”Leffingwell said they
demonstrated barley jam-balaya, an affordable, quality meal that they cook in several of their classes.
Other foods, such as but-ternut squash muffins and fish tacos, were also cooked at the food demonstration.
“We really wanted to try to demo foods that the people in the community are not making at home but that we teach here and that taste incredible,” Lef-fingwell said. “So we are trying to lure people in with the smell, get them to taste the foods, and then hope-fully that will give them a little bit of insight of what we do here. We aren’t here to teach people how to go on a diet.”
Jane Edelen, volunteer for Huntington’s Kitchen, said National Food Week is a ini-tiative created by the Food and Drug Administration to teach children more about how to eat healthy. Food day
encourages Americans all around the country to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable way, Edelen said.
Leffingwell said a lot of communities can only have
one event to celebrate Na-tional Food Day, whether it is to fight hunger or pro-mote local farmers, but Huntington can do more.
“We have an advan-tage of doing all of that,”
Leffingwell said. “We work with the kids and educate them. We bring families in, low income families and families that are not low
Huntington’s Kitchen celebrates National Food Day
See FOOD DAY I Page 5
KELLY STARKEY | THE PARTHENON
Huntington’s Kitchen, located on Fourth Avenue, hosted its first food demonstration day Friday as part of a celebration for National Food Day.
FINAL SCORE: 59- 14
MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON
Wide receiver Aaron Dobson scores a touchdown during the third quarter in the Herd’s game against the Blazers Saturday. Dobson was second on the team in receiving yards in the game with four catches for 61 yards. The Herd amassed 429 yards of offense, including six touchdowns through the air.
BY ROIBYN DIXONLOS ANGELES TIMES(MCT)
NAIROBI, Kenya–Half a million victims of fam-ine in southern Somalia, trapped inside territory controlled by the rebel mi-litia, al-Shabab, may be largely beyond the help of Western agencies, Somalia expert Ken Men-khaus writes in a paper for the Enough Project.
Access to the south, the region hardest hit by famine, remains dif-ficult and dangerous for humanitarian agencies, with some banned from operating in the south, and myriad rules and bu-reaucratic requirements for those allowed access.
In September, al-Shabab ordered severely malnourished Somalis tr ying to f lee the famine back to their homes to far m with the ar rival of recent seasonal rains.
Menkhaus, a professor
of political science at Davidson College in North Carolina, de-scribes the order as a “death march,” during which cholera and wa-terborne disease are certain to kill many people.
“Given the bizarre and extremist behavior of al-Shabab, it is not clear that the West and the United Na-tions can realistically do much to help the 500,000 famine victims trapped in territory under its control,” Menkhaus writes in a pa-per released last week. He said the best that could be hoped for was for Islamic nations to press al-Shabab to change its policies on the famine.
Menkhaus argues that the Somali transitional federal government (TFG), whose militias and of ficials are in-volved in the theft or diversion of food aid f lowing through Moga-dishu, should be pressed
by the international community not on its political transition to elections, but on delivery of aid to the starving. So-malia, torn by war and clan rivalries, has been without a central government for two decades.
UNICEF says tens of thousands of children are now getting humanitarian aid in the south, though they are a minority of those in need. The agency estimates that there are about 160,000 severely malnourished children on any one day. At present the agency is reaching about a third of them, accord-ing to a UNICEF official, and each month UNICEF aims to admit 16,000 more
children to its programs.Al-Shabab’s handling
of the famine amounts to crimes against humanity, and hard-line leaders re-sponsible for the policies should be prosecuted, ac-cording to Matt Bryden, coordinator of the U.N. Somalia and Eritrea Moni-toring Group.
“Over the past two years, al-Shabab has terrorized people into submission, confiscated their produce and taxed them into pov-erty in the name of jihad. As they now starve, al-Shabab denies them even the oppor tunity to mi-grate in search of food. In late September, al-Shabab ordered camps in Baidoa [souther n
Somalia] forcibly bro-ken up in order to put their inhabitants ‘back to work’ in their fields, con-veniently ensuring that the scale of their dying will also be hidden from view,” Bryden wrote in the paper.
He called on the Inter-national Criminal Court to investigate Somali figures, both from a l -Shabab and the TFG, who block o r s t e a l a i d f o r p e o p l e f a c i n g s t a r va t i o n .
“ T he time has come for the ICC to become engaged in Somalia, or for a special international tribunal to be established, in order to dismantle So-malia’s deadly culture of impunity,” Br yden wrote.
The recent Kenyan mili-tary foray into southern Somalia complicated mat-ters further when Kenya blocked the border to pre-vent al-Shabab terrorists from infiltrating Kenya,
a measure which also trapped starving Somalis. The military action also raised tensions, making it even more difficult for aid agencies trying to work with al-Shabab to get food to the people.
Opinion in Somalia is divided on the Kenyan military operation, ac-cording to Somal ian analysts. While some hope for al-Shabab’s defeat, oth-ers are opposed to Kenyan forces in Somalia, fearing that Kenya is trying set up a self-governing autonomous region i n t h e s o u t h a s a b u f f e r z o n e a g a i n s t a l - S h a b a b.
Menkhaus sa i d t h e K e n y an operation, named Linda Nchi, or “protect the na-tion,” could succeed in providing access for hu-manitarian agencies, “but even if s u c c essful it w i l l b e a h i g h l y i n s e c u r e a n d d i f f i c u l t o p e r a t -i n g e nv i r o n m e n t f o r a i d a ge n c i e s. ”
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2 500,000is the number of famine victims currently living in al-Shabbab controlled territory.
... al-Shabbab has terrorized people into submission, confiscated their produce and taxed them into poverty in the name of jihad.”
> MATT BRYDEN
THE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s Red Cross Club is sponsoring a blood drive with the Alpha Sigma Phi and Delta Chi fraternities 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The blood drive will be in Marco’s room in the basement of the Memorial Student Center.
“There is always a need for blood,” said Brittini Brooks, president of the club. “Our
goal is to get at least 40 blood donations.”
The club is asking for do-nations of all blood types and also double reds of types A-, B- and O.
Brooks said double reds are when two units of blood are donated.
Donors who donate blood will be entered in a drawing for a Marshall sweatshirt. Winners will be announced every hour throughout the blood drive.
Students who are unable to donate but would like to volunteer are welcome to attend.
Anyone interested in do-nating blood who cannot attend this blood drive can also donate at the lo-cal American Red Cross located at 1111 Veter-ans Memorial Blvd. in Huntington.
The Red Cross Club will also be hosting another blood drive Nov. 14.
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The Student Resource Center will be hosting workshops to help students choose a career path.
The Color Your Career workshops will be from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
All of the workshops will be at the Student Resource Center in the Memorial
Student Center. “Students will take a ca-
reer assessment that is based on their answers about their personality and interests, and then at the end, they will get a profile with some typi-cal occupations that might go with their personality interests,” said Michelle Barbour, career counselor.
Barbour said after students complete the as-sessment they will go over the results and discuss
possible majors and career options.
“This is just a good first basis for students to start thinking about how their per-sonality and interests should play a major role in their ca-reer choice,” Barbour said.
The workshops are open to all students.
“Our hope is that this will help students that may be undecided on their major or are thinking about changing their major,” Barbour said.
BY KELLY STARKEYTHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s Student Activities and Programming Board, the International Students’ Organization and Lambda Society hosted a masquer-ade party Friday night.
“We had at least 200 peo-ple there, and they seemed to enjoy the atmosphere– along with the costume contest,” said Lashawna Sampson, graduate assistant for the Student Activities Program-ming Board.
Costumes were judged in categories such as scary, most original, funny, classic, cultural, celebrity character, best all around and honor-able mention.
Activities at the masquer-ade consisted of dancing,
mask decorating and a photo booth.
The party began at 7 p.m. in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center.
“I think the party was a lot of fun,” said Lauren Fried-richs, member of Sigma Sigma Sigma. “It is a really fun alternative to of going out or staying at home.”
Costumes at the masquer-ade varied from ladybugs to superheroes, and some stu-dents wore the masquerade masks that they decorated themselves.
The party was free to all students, and food and drinks were provided.
Ethan Root from Proctor-ville, Ohio, said he thought the party was fun.
“It was really cool seeing all of the different costume
ideas,” Root said. “A lot of the students really used their imagination to come up with some interesting and fun costumes. The food was good and they played some really good music.”
Root said he thought this was a great event to get everyone ready for the Hal-loween weekend.
The masquerade party ended SAPB’s Fall Fest events.
Other Fall Fest events included a pumpkin carv-ing contest, a trip to Doctor Dekay’s House of Screams, a giveaway of caramel apples, a buffet dinner and a show-ing of “Scream 4.”
“We have had a pretty good turnout for all of the Fall Fest events,” Sampson said, “and the students have really seemed to enjoy them.”
BY KELLY STARKEYTHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s Alpha Chi Omega soror-ity hosted its third annual Flapjack Attack to benefit Branches Domestic Vio-lence Shelter Saturday.
Arianna Blake, vice president philanthropy of Alpha Chi Omega, said the sorority raised about $500 selling pancake breakfasts at $5 each. All of the pro-ceeds will go to Branches Domestic Violence Shel-ter, she said.
By purchasing a ticket, the pancake breakfast in-cluded coffee or juice, two or three pancakes and sausage.
Kayla May, president of Alpha Chi Omega, said approximately 100 people came to the event.
Blake said the Branches Domestic Violence shel-ter is the sorority’s philanthropy.
Alpha Chi Omega has hosted several events to raise funds and awareness for the shelter.
“It is important because sometimes maybe things like that get overlooked,” May said. “When we have events like this, we try to bring awareness to the community about that type of situation that goes on.”
Blake said the sorority tries to influence others in order to raise awareness about domestic violence, whether it is by attend-ing an event in honor of domestic violence or a donation of money or clothes.
Students can help the sorority raise awareness for the shelter by donat-ing clothes and everyday necessities such as soaps, washcloths or shampoos. The sorority will be accept-ing donations Nov. 14 to Dec. 12.
Blake said anyone in-terested in donating can drop the items off at the suite located beside Steak Escape on Fifth Avenue in Huntington.
The shelter is a non-profit organization that
provides shelter for victims of abuse. It has offices lo-cated in Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and Wayne Counties.
“We are grateful for any awareness, especially among the college com-munity,” said Shannon Petree, domestic violence advocate for Branches. “Any kind of events where our name gets out in the community really helps us. Alpha Chi Omega has worked with us re-ally well in the past, and we are really grateful to have a voice in the college community.”
October is National Do-mestic Violence Awareness Month.
Anyone interested in helping Braches Domes-tic Violence shelter can call 304-529-2382. With the holidays approach-ing, the shelter is looking for volunteers and do-nations of everyday essentials.
Color Your Career workshops offered today, Thursday
Masquerade party final Fall Fest eventBY MELANIE MASONTRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU(MCT)
WASHINGTON–One day after a key poll showed a steep reversal of for-tune for Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s prospects in the Iowa caucuses, the Minne-sota congresswoman insisted Sunday that her campaign is doing “exactly what we need to do” to win.
Bachmann, on ABC’s “This Week,” brushed of f her poor showing in Saturday’s Des Moines Register poll as a “day-to-day snapshot.”
The poll showed dwindling support
for the conservative firebrand. In June, Bachmann registered 22 percent support, a close second to for-mer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Now Bachmann stands a distant fourth, with 8 percent support. Her-man Cain and Romney lead the pack, with 23 percent and 22 percent, respectively, and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) gets 12 percent.
The Des Moines Reg-ister poll is considered a key indicator of mo-mentum in the crucial caucus state. However, Bachmann didn’t inter-pret the showing as an indication of f lagging momentum.
“Well, we’re doing
exactly what we need to do,” Bachmann said. “And again, I just want to remind you, that I won the Iowa straw poll in less time than any other candidate, and the first woman to ever win the Iowa straw poll. I’m doing exactly what I need to do in Iowa. I’m here, all across the state, meeting with people multiple times every day.”
“And so it’s amazing what a difference several weeks can make in the course of a presidential campaign,” she added. “These are snapshots in time, and we’re look-ing forward to Jan. 3,” when the caucuses are to be held.
Bachmann still confident in Iowa, despite poor poll showing
Somalian famine victims might be beyond help, expert warns
BY BRANDON ANICICHTHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s men’s soccer program gave Sam Hood Field a fitting fi-nal sendoff Saturday night, edging out Tulsa 2-1 in a dou-ble-overtime thriller.
Heading into Saturday’s
match, fans knew it would be the last game played on Sam Hood Field, stomp-ing grounds that has served Marshall soccer for 15 years. Many fans also knew Tulsa was a team the Herd had yet to defeat, and that for seniors Carl Munday, Kyle Sniatecki and captain Jordan
Hilgefort, the match would be their last home game don-ning Marshall uniforms.
And while sentimental thoughts might have perme-ated the air before the game, they were all brought to a fitting close as junior mid-fielder Devin Perkins’ took a pass from Hilgefort and bur-ied a shot in the 108th minute of play, giving Marshall’s program and fans plenty of reason to celebrate.
“We’ve never beaten Tulsa in my four years here,” Perkins said. “I can’t even explain how it feels. It’s amazing, and I just thank God for it.”
Perkins picked up both of Marshall’s goals on Satur-day, drawing first blood in the 23rd minute on a put-back after Munday took a try against Tulsa keeper Mi-chael Murray. Murray made a bold play in defending Munday’s attempt, but Per-kins was quick to capitalize on the rebound and snapped the Herd ahead.
The stalemate that Perkins would later break was set into motion in the early min-utes of the second half, as Tulsa’s Tom Gaus pushed in a tying goal through traffic.
While Sam Hood Field might always be a place of fond memories, it has not always been a place of fond field conditions. Mud oozed up through turf to coat the
playing surface, and three steps forward on Saturday night covered the distance of one step forward on a
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BY BRANDON ANICICHTHE PARTHENON
The Thundering Herd put on an all-out aggression clinic against the Blazers of UAB, posting a 59-14 victory during Saturday’s Halloween weekend football game.
Quarterback A.J. Graham threw for five touchdowns in the landslide win, an ac-complishment that had not been achieved since Stan Hill picked up five against Kent State in 2003.
The Herd got things started immediately, as
Andre Booker shrank the field with a 40-yard opening kickoff return. From there, it was a quick 54-yard scoring drive by Marshall, culminat-ing in a 16-yard touchdown pass from Graham to Troy Evans. Evans finished the game with six catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns.
Going 19-for-27 with 239 passing yards, Graham and the Herd offense maintained constant pressure on UAB’s defense in a first half rout that found Marshall up 38-0 at halftime.
Tyler Warner drilled a
26-yard field goal to make it 10-0 Marshall at the end of the first quarter, while Gra-ham punched the accelerator in the second quarter, con-necting with Gator Hoskins on a three-yard touchdown pass and again with Eric Frohnapfel after Vinny Curry forced his fourth fum-ble of the year.
Graham’s finishing touch on the first half was a 23-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Dobson. The score was Dob-son’s seventh of the year.
“I think that was the most complete game I’ve seen
since I’ve been here,” said Doc Holliday, Marshall head coach. “I knew Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the way they came down the elevators today that they were going to play well. The way they practiced and the attitude they had walking down to the eleva-tors this morning, I had no worries. I knew they were going to play extremely well and they did.”
Marshall’s defense set out to erase the bitter taste of last week’s struggles against Houston. Of the five forced turnovers Marshall created, three were interceptions and two were ran back for touch-downs by Omar Brown and Billy Mitchell respectively. Marshall’s last game with two defensive scores was the GMAC Bowl on Dec. 19, 2001.
“For us,” Brown said, “having all those points put up on us last week (against Houston) — that’s not our defense. We went into this game as a defense with a chip on our shoulder. It felt good out there, to have our offense light up the scoreboard like that. They started off fast, and they kept pushing.”
UAB found a way onto the scoreboard in the third quarter, but Graham and Co. responded almost im-mediately with a 38-yard touchdown pass to Evans.
Of Marshall’s four forced fumbles, three of them came with the wrath of Curry, whose final fumble resulted in Mitchell’s recov-ery and 20-yard touchdown run-back.
After the offensive storm, including defensive sieges that put points on the board through three and a half quarters, Rakeem Cato entered the game at quarter-back and picked up six in the air on a pass to Hoskins.
Marshall improves to 4-5-0 overall and 3-2-0 in Confer-ence USA. Next week is a bye week for the Herd, some-thing Brown said, coupled with Saturday’s win, which
means good things for Mar-shall football.
“The win’s great because it will give us momentum,” Brown said. “And with this bye week, it will give us time to hopefully get our injured players back.”
The next Thundering Herd game will be at Tulsa on No-vember 12.
Senior defensive back Omar Brown intercepts a UAB pass duringthe second quarter of Marshall’s 59-14 victory. Brown returned theinterceptionforatouchdown,thefirstofhiscareeratMarshall.
Juniormidfielder Devin Perkins breaks toward the goal in the finalminutesofovertimeinMarshall’s2-1victoryoverTulsaSaturday.
Volleyball drops Tulane in five setsSee SOCCER I Page 5
BY BRANDON ANICICHTHE PARTHENON
Marshall University’s vol-leyball program capped off a successful weekend Sun-day afternoon with a 3-2 win over Tulane, compliments of a come-from-behind ef-fort at the Cam Henderson Center.
After dropping South-ern Miss in four sets Friday night, the Lady Thundering Herd reached deep in the fifth set to bring down the
Green Wave.Dropping the first set 16-25
as Tulane racked up 14 kills, Marshall evened things out in the second with a 25-19 performance that appeared to swing momentum in the hosts’ favor.
Tulane was scrappy, how-ever, and jumped ahead again in the third, parrying Marshall’s efforts with a se-ries of tough blocks en route to a 21-25 recapture of the lead.
Faced with elimination, Marshall gathered itself
together and sprung into ac-tion, pushing for a 25-20 win in the fourth and setting up 2-2 tie entering the 15-point final set. Abby Tomas’ seven kills proved invaluable in that set victory.
Neck and neck for the first six points, Tulane edged forward – creeping toward a win, but Herd fans had a different agenda. With a standing crowd screaming support, sophomore Desirre Wilkerson and Tomas went to work, commanding the net with crucial blocks and
Tomas’ infamously wicked attacks. Clawing their way back to an even score, and eventually a win cemented by Wilkerson’s final roof block, the Herd took the win to a standing ovation.
“You just don’t want to let the crowd down,” Wilkerson said. “When they get up and support you, you want to give it everything you’ve got. We just weren’t completely focused in the first sets, but we made sure to come to-gether and fight for the win at the end.”
Head coach Mitch Jacobs expressed satisfaction in Marshall’s weekend per-formance, commenting on the current status of the program.
“We got our first 2-0 week-end of the season with this win,” Jacobs said. “That’s incredible. Our whole pre-game walk with the team was ‘You can’t let down and just think that you have this. We want to take it, and we did.’ We’ve seen how great this program can be at times, and sometimes we
see where it really is – but we are here building a future for this team, and we’re trying to maintain consistency.”
Heading through to the end of the season, Mar-shall has collected three straight wins and holds a 7-16-0 record overall, 6-7-0 in Conference USA. The Herd will travel to Houston next weekend for a weekend showdown on Friday and Saturday.
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?A s the spring semester s lowly rol l s around,
Marshal l Univers i ty s tudents f inish their midter m exams and prepare for the down-hi l l trek of the end of 2011. But there i s one large aspect of the new semester that many students may forget – a renewed opportunity to apply for fresh scholarships.
Individual schools a l l over campus have begun to hang their col lege’s s igns, beckon-ing students to f i l l out a s imple appl icat ion and poss ibly receive a l i t t le more f inancial ass i s tance this coming spring.
These scholarships fa l l into two basic cat -egories : meri t-based aid and need-based aid. Merit based aid i s awarded to s tudents based mainly ( i f not ent irely ) on a s tudent ’s school perfor mance. These scholarships of ten have GPA and overal l g rade requirements. On the other hand, need-based aid i s g ranted on a s tudent’s abi l i ty to prove f inancial require-ment. Both are important in the American higher education system.
In a s tatement released by The High-er Education Opportunity Act of 2008;
scholarship funding is meant “to help cur-rent and prospect ive s tudents, famil ies, and other consumers est imate the individual net price of an inst i tut ion of higher education for a s tudent. The net price calculator shal l be developed in a manner that enables cur-rent and prospect ive s tudents, famil ies and consumers to deter mine an est imate of a current or prospect ive s tudent’s individual net price at a part icular inst i tut ion.”
However, with al l the ta lk of the “apathet-ic col lege s tudents” this past year, i t should be no surprise that several scholarship op-portunit ies country-wide wi l l go unclaimed s imply because of the American (and Mar-shal l ) s tudent being unwil l ing to f i l l out these unassuming for ms.
I t i s imperat ive that Marshal l s tudents take advantage of these f inancial opportuni-t ies. Students should always apply, even i f they think their odds for gett ing any given scholarship are low. At the end of the day, s tudents never get the scholarships for which t h ey d i d n’ t a p p l y.
Students should apply for new scholarshipsEDITORIAL
Opinion4 “All you need is love. But a little
chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
> CHARLES M. SCHULTZ,AMERICAN CARTOONIST
Monday, October 31, 2011
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Reevaluating the preset boundaries of “too soon”BY SAM GUTELLEDAILY NORTHWESTERN, NORTHWESTERN U. VIA UWIRE
I’d like to think I’m funny. It’s my hope that there are people in my life who would answer “yes” if you asked if I make them laugh. When I’m happy, I cheer oth-ers up with jokes. When I’m not, I use humor to make myself feel better. In my constant pursuit of new material, I often find myself encoun-tering a particularly troublesome pair of words:
“Too soon.”It would seem that
there is an of f-limits pe-riod when making jokes about sensitive subjects. When this period ends, no one knows. Which tragedies are subject to the doctrine of “too soon” is also often a mystery. Yet, despite its nebulous boundaries, “too soon” has become a rule of thumb, a snap reaction to any light-hearted material that lies outside of one’s comfort zone.
Two days after Muam-mar Gaddafi was killed in Libya, he became the inspiration for my Halloween costume at the suggestion of a cre-ative friend. I think it’s a great idea. With his distinctive dress and newsmaking ability, Gaddafi is guaranteed to get a smile from any politically conscious partygoer. And yet, as I have pitched this idea to friends, I have heard those inescapable two words a number of times. “Too soon for Gaddafi humor,” friends have told me. “Why don’t you give it at least a couple of weeks?”
Why? A man’s death is always a sensitive sub-ject, but haven’t there been instances where it was laughed at almost immediately? Consider the Darwin Awards, a
collection of hundreds of stories of people who have humorously elimi-nated themselves from the gene pool. Ninety percent of these people are dead; many were mar ried with children. Yet there’s no denying that these stories are funny. They’re funny no matter how much time has passed. “Too soon” does not apply. And if you’re going to have exceptions, where do you draw the line? This is my problem with “too soon”. If it doesn’t work for every situation, how do you tell when it applies?
It’s not as if it would be so hard to, as a cul-ture, come up with a better metric. Consider psychology: As new ver-sions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders have been released, more and more mental health issues are being characterized not as a case of “you have it or you don’t” but as a de-gree on a continuum. Perfect health is all the way on the left, with the most severe cases on the right. Most cases, however, fall right in the middle. Why not apply this system to sensitive topics? A really mean spirited joke about Gad-dafi’s death is not the same as a light-hearted Halloween costume, and they should not be judged on equal terms. For greater tragedies, more care is required.
Shouldn’t it be about the joke? The topic is no more than a vehicle for the punchline. A truly tasteless joke isn’t tasteless because it’s about a sore subject; it’s tasteless because it’s unfunny, mean and inconsiderate. I hope on Oct. 31, I’m not the only person to realize that a little light-hearted hu-mor can always make situations a little bit brighter.
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BY ERIN MILLERTHE PARTHENON
As a child of the early 1990s, I remember those remarkably pixilated Atari games that grew oh-so-popular in the 1980s.
But I must thank the drivers of Hunting-ton for giving me the opportunity to really live one of them, one of my favorites in fact – Frogger.
Now, for those of you unfamiliar with this timeless game, the main plot is simple: You are a
little green frog sitting happily on the side of a busy street with cars speeding by, and it is that little amphibians ultimate goal to cross that busy street (insert chicken joke here). Un-fortunately, the cars were quick and you (the little frog) were much less so.
As a child, I never re-ally sympathized with dear Frogger. I mean, what on earth could be on the other side of that road that was worth be-coming a frog-pancake? Turns out, it might have been Marshall
University’s campus. Perhaps I should not
blame the drivers so harshly. In truth, Hun-tington is filled with impatient college stu-dents who feel they are just about invincible. It would behoove pedes-trians to remember they do not own the street. Those little beeping crossing-signs are not mere suggestions.
Yet, there are a few driving rules that seem to have gone the way of the Dodo bird.
Firstly, a red light means stop. It isn’t a threat or a challenge or
even a dare. Those little carless hippies making a desperate dash across the street are not char-acters in video games. You don’t get extra points for taking them out and then smashing a mailbox – or mailman.
Either way, I feel both sides need to be a little more attentive. Drivers, do not hit that slightly stupid person who just dashed out in front of you. Curse in your car, f lip them of f, whatever, but insurance premi-ums are expensive enough as it is. Really, it is not worth it.
Pedestrian vs. Vehicle: Huntington’s real rat race
typical field. Exhaus-tion was apparent on both sides but immediately disappeared for Marshall following Perkins’ game-winning shot.
“You look at the field con-ditions tonight, and it’s just a battle,” Hilgefort said.
“You put two overtimes into it, and I don’t care how in shape you are — I mean, I’d say we’re in pretty good shape — but that was tough. Scoring that goal at the end, though, brings you from where you want to lay down to just total elation where you feel you could run for-ever. I’m on such a high right now.”
Perkins and Hilgefort said they each expressed
gratitude for the efforts of Sam Hood and all those who came before them in pro-viding the field that helped shape their collegiate careers.
“It means a lot,” Perkins said. “I’ve played my heart out every game here. I can’t think of one time where I hadn’t played my heart out. I just want to thank Sam Hood, and thank God. It hasn’t hit me yet that I’m
the last one to score the fi-nal two goals for the last game ever, and we finally beat Tulsa and that — that’s a feeling that’s out of this world.”
The Herd will travel to UCF this weekend before heading to the Con-ference USA tournament in November.
income, and we offer changes of lifestyles and referrals for all different chronic disease classes. So we are doing ev-erything down the list of National Food Day goals.”
Food Day Demonstration began with young preschool children coming into the kitchen for trick-or-treat. But instead of them receiv-ing candy, they received boxes of raisins or bags of pretzels. The kids learned about fresh vegetables and which vegetables are avail-able at the fresh market.
Then at lunch time, third- graders went to the kitchen and made crafts and learned how to make a healthy popcorn snack, decorate cookies, and heard ghost stories and had many other fun activities for Halloween.
Friday evening many fam-ilies came into the kitchen and try some recipes, such as the fish tacos.
Huntington’s Kitchen opened its doors in 2009 when Ebenezer Medical Outreach took over the kitchen after Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution left town.
The goal of the kitchen is to promote healthier lifestyles by getting the com-munity to cook healthier and make better choices.
“We focus about 90 per-cent of our time on what eating healthy can do to fight chronic diseases,” Leffin-gwell said.
Huntington’s Kitchen is a community kitchen that gives people hands-on cook-ing lessons with a head chef teaching every step and a fully equipped kitchen where up to twelve students can participate at one time.
The kitchen also offers
tips for grocery shopping and many different recipes and people of all ages are welcome to come into the kitchen for cooking lessons. They also teach participants about how healthy eating can reduce your chance of heart disease or high blood pressure by reducing the salt in your diet and adding the spices and the herbs.
Leffingwell said they focus the kids cooking classes on eating healthy food and that it tastes good, and shows them that, by eating those foods, they will not get those diseases if they maintain healthy eating as they grow up.
“When families come in here, we involve the kids in the cooking,” Leffingwell said. “We have them chop-ping, mixing and blending and, based on their age and their abilities, we have them doing all kinds of things. We
want them to see that they are a big part of the meal and that getting the family back together in the kitchen is a plus all the way around. It is a healthy environment for kids.”
Leffingwell said time re-straints often keep people out of the kitchen and so they offer recipes that are easy, fast, healthy and affordable.
“It is important to pro-mote a healthier lifestyle because the city was the fattest one in the nation,” Edelen said. “It is not any-more — we did improve.”
Anyone interested in get-ting more information about Huntington’s Kitchen can call 304-522-0887 or can stop by the kitchen located at 911 Third Ave., across from Pullman Square in Huntington.
removed, and Mary Jane was convinced that Zona had been murdered.
Mary Jane said she prayed every night hoping that Zona
would come to her and give her a “sign” of what hap-pened to her.
According to the legend, four weeks after her fu-neral, Zona appeared to her mother in a dream and told her that her husband had abused her and broke her
neck, thus killing her.The ghost of Zona turned
completely around until it faced backwards.
Others who have encoun-tered this ghost said she first appears as a bright light, gradually takes form and fills the room with a chill.
The legend of the Green-brier Ghost even has a state historical marker near where Zona is buried, as well as a stage musical titled, “The Greenbrier Ghost.”
BY MICHELLE A. WEISSARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT, U. ARIZONA VIA UWIRE
As the economy continues to weigh down on the job market and cause insurance losses, it has also led to a de-cline in childbirths.
A study by the Pew Re-search Center indicated that in 2007 there were 4,316,233 births in the United States, a record high. In 2009, the number of births dropped to 4,131,018. The Pew Re-search Center analysis also reported that there was a correlation between house-holds that were hit hard by the economy and the fertility decline.
“When the economy strug-gles, we see a significant increase in the number of people trying to limit their
family size or postpone hav-ing another child,” Karen Ford Manza wrote in an email. Ford Manza is the chief executive officer of the Arizona Family Health Partnership.
“I do think that’s kind of been a trend for quite some time,” said Carol Bafalou-kos, the associate medical director at Planned Parent-hood Arizona. “People are establishing their careers be-fore they’re child-bearing.”
Since the economy is down, more people are go-ing to school, said Niam Hameed, a physiology se-nior at U. Arizona. She said people still wait to have children when they are ready but the economy probably plays a big role in that decision.
Hameed said she thinks students are not seeking
another responsibility be-cause they want to finish school first.
“I think they’re here to go to school,” Hameed said. “I think people are becoming more educated now.”
Chris Huey, a UA market-ing senior, said he thinks students aren’t ready to start families in addition to their heavy class loads.
“Students don’t really have enough time to do both,” he said.
In Pima County alone, there were 13,798 births in 2007, which dropped to 12,840 in 2009, according to data from the Arizona De-partment of Health Services.
Ford Manza said there is an increased demand for long-term contraception methods during an eco-nomic downturn. Based on family size and income,
women may receive a sliding scale on their birth control, Bafaloukos said. Planned Parenthood also has a pro-gram that allows patients to receive their birth control without an exam.
“We are seeing patients that are just trying to get their birth control no mat-ter how they can get it,” she said.
The Pew Research Center results also showed that the Hispanic population had the greatest decrease in childbirth rates compared to other racial and ethnic groups due to economic hardship. From 2008 to 2009, the birth rate dropped al-most 6 percent, according to the data.
Bafaloukos said people can get subsidized family planning. Planned Parent-hood has shown a decline
in family planning services over the past couple of years.
“Many families just can’t afford to grow now, par-ticularly those men and women who have lost jobs and lost insurance cover-age,” Ford Manza wrote. “Longer-acting methods of contraception can be expen-sive and we’re seeing more and more people in our network who never thought they would end up looking for subsidized care.”
Bafaloukos said she knows Planned Parent-hood has a lot of patients who have lost insurance coverage and “they don’t necessarily want to come in for a complete exam if they can’t afford it.”
“Women are just delay-ing their fertility,” she said. “They’re delaying their first
children until they’re a little bit older, until they’re a lit-tle more established.”
Bafaloukos added that the economy probably contrib-utes to this.
She said she doesn’t think abortion availability has affected the birth decline, but that the lack of avail-ability has probably caused abortion numbers to drop. According to data from the Arizona Department of Health Services, there were 10,721 abortions performed in Arizona in 2007, and in 2009, there were 10,271. Ba-faloukos said she hopes more women are using birth control and emer-gency contraception.
“We hope the fact that emergency contraception went over-the-counter has decreased the unplanned pregnancies,” she added.
Economy could be causing birth rate to decline
BY CYNTHIA W. SHIHHARVARD CRIMSON, HARVARD U. VIA UWIRE
Teenagers who consume large amounts of soda are more likely to display violent tendencies, according to a study recently conducted by David Hemenway, a profes-sor at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Hemenway, along with his co-author, U. Vermont Economics Professor Sara J. Solnick, found that teens who drank more soft drinks were between nine and
fifteen percent more likely to be violent.
The study’s results were published in Injury Preven-tion, an international peer review journal.
The research was con-ducted using questionnaires collected from over 1,800 inner-city Boston public school students between the ages of 14 and 18. The ma-jority of the students were African-American, Hispanic, or interracial and came from similar socioeconomic backgrounds.
Among other questions,
the students were asked how many non-diet soft drinks they consumed in an average week, whether they carried weapons of any kind, and whether they had been in-volved in violent acts.
According to Hemenway, the questionnaires covered many different aspects of violence. These included wit-nessing violence and fearing violence, as well as partak-ing in violence.
“The more soda the stu-dents drank, the more likely the students were to perpe-trate violence,” Hemenway
said. “It was violence in all areas—against peers, against dates, against sib-lings—and they were even more likely to carry guns.”
After finding the initial correlational relationship, the researchers set out to control for a number of other factors, including gen-der, age, ethnicity, body mass index, alcohol use, tobacco use, and sleep. Hemenway said that several of these fac-tors—particularly alcohol and tobacco use—are them-selves heavily associated with violence.
Yet after this analysis was conducted, “the relationship [was] still there and … in-credibly strong,” Hemenway said.
According to Solnick, pre-vious studies have suggested that soft drinks have been linked to mood disorders in teenagers.
However, Solnick said that there is not enough data to firmly conclude that soda is a direct cause for an increase in violent tendencies. High soda consumption may sim-ply indicate a poor diet in participants.
“People who drink a lot of soda are missing out on other proper nutrition, and that may lead to aggression and violence,” Solnick said.
Solnick said that she and Hemenway will continue their research by looking at other types of violence, studying the relationship between soft drink consump-tion and suicidal behavior or self-harm.
“There are so many differ-ent factors that contribute to the problem, and we want to untangle all of them,” Sol-nick said.
Study shows connection between soda and violence in teens
BY COURTNEY WILLIAMSONTHE PARTHENON
Fraternal twins are com-mon. Fraternal twins who play the same sport at the same university? Not so much.
Eric and Blake Frohnap-fel, freshmen pre-business majors from Stafford, Va., are just minutes apart in age. Blake, the eldest by 22 minutes, plays quarterback while Eric plays tight end for the Thundering Herd.
Together, they do everything.
“Growing up, we may have played different sports at some point, but we still did pretty much everything to-gether,” B. Frohnapfel said.
So sharing became an instinct.
That includes having cell phone numbers with a one-digit difference.
“I’m older so I have the greater number at the end,” B. Frohnapfel said. “My mom will call my phone and say, ‘Let me talk to Eric.’ I’m like, ‘Mom, this is Blake!’”
Even when their two older sisters moved out for college and three rooms were vacant in the house-hold, the brothers said they continued to stay in the same bedroom they shared their entire lives — match-ing twin beds and all.
“Our mom asked if we wanted to change it up, but we were fine where we were,” E. Frohnapfel said.
Their schedules are the same. From classes and tutoring to training and treatment, the brothers spend a lot of time together. With time spent together comes sibling rivalry and competitiveness, which is something these brothers are accustomed to.
“We’re definitely com-petitive with each other when it comes to things like school and grades,” B. Frohnapfel said.
Members of the team address them as “twin” because of their similari-ties in body type. Though they share similar quali-ties, the two are somewhat different.
“The six-and-a-half hour drives home are interest-ing,” B. Frohnapfel said. “We have some different tastes in music.”
Music isn’t the only thing that distinguishes the brothers. They might share the same major, but each have their own plans for the future.
“I want to focus on fi-nance,” E. Frohnapfel said. “I saw the movie ‘Limitless’ and decided that dealing with numbers and being a stockbroker was the way to go.”
“When I grow up, I want to be a college athletic di-rector and study business management,” B. Frohnap-fel said.
Personality differences also help characterize the brown-haired twins.
“Eric is a lot more laid back, whereas I’m more uptight in some ways,” B. Frohnapfel said. “He’s a hard worker, but he’s pas-sive too.”
“Blake is a lot more competitive that I am,” E. Frohnapfel said. “He treats everything as life or death.”
So when West Virginia University chose Eric as a prospect and Blake com-mitted to Marshall, the brothers prepared them-selves to face one another on the field.
“The schools are rivals, and the first game of the season was going to be against Marshall, so wa-gers and bets were placed,” E. Frohnapfel said.
But Eric’s intention to play for the Mountaineers was altered after coaching changes were made.
“West Virginia said they could still use me even after Holgorsen took
over, but not as much,” E. Frohnapfel said. “I want to compete for a starting posi-tion if I’m going to compete at all.”
That’s when Marshall took note and continued to recruit the brothers.
“Throughout the process with WVU, Marshall never gave up on me.” E.Frohnapfel said. “I could definitely feel the love.”
It was then that both broth-ers committed to the Herd.
“Before things started happening with the coach-ing situation, I had accepted what he felt was best for
him,” B. Frohnapfel said.“After he (Eric) decided on
Marshall, I was happy to have him with me,” B. Frohnap-fel said. “Coming here and having him throughout the summer definitely helped with homesickness. I didn’t really have any because we were always together before so things didn’t change too much.”
Now nearly nine weeks into their first semester, the brothers have adjusted to college life.
“I’ve enjoyed Marshall so far,” E. Frohnapfel said. “I’ve made a lot of new friends,
though football consumes my life. My favorite part is the amount of community support there is in the area. The team has a lot of people to back us up and it’s a great feeling.”
Not only do they feel sup-port from the community, but family also plays a role.
“Our dad is the most influential person in our lives,” B.Frohnapfel said.
“Growing up, our dad always reminded us that he had chances to play at small schools and re-ceived some scholarship offers,” E. Frohnapfel said.
“Though he never played, he was always supportive and never pressured us in our decisions.”
Marshall certainly wel-comed the duo’s decision to don the kelly green.
“I love the Marshall com-munity, area and school,” B. Frohnapfel said.
The Frohnapfels will join the rest of the Herd (4-5, 3-2 Conference USA) when they play Tulsa University on Nov. 12 at Tulsa. Marshall has its bye week this week.
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Twins who share a name, major, field
MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON
Eric Frohnapfel scores his first career touchdown Saturday agaisnt UAB. The Herds next game is Nov 12. at Tulsa.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the Parthenon!
CRYSTAL MYERS | THE PARTHENON
Thousands of pumpkins are carved and lit each Halloween weekend at The Pumpkin House located in Kenova, W.Va. Owner Ric Griffith has been transforming his home into The Pumpkin House for more than 20 years. The display has been featured on The Ellen Degeneres Show.
BY PERRI SHELDONTHE PARTHENON
In 1987, a young woman was murdered in Green-brier County, W.Va.
The aftermath of this tragedy has become a leg-endary ghost story in West Virginia that still haunts guests of the Greenbrier re-sort to this day.
According to “The Green-brier Ghost and Other Strange Stories” by Dennis Dietz, Elva Zona Heaster was a blacksmith living in Greenbrier County in the late nineteenth century.
On Jan. 23, 1987 “Zona,” as she was called, was found dead in her house by a young boy.
She was lying on the foot of her bed, stretched out with her feet together and one hand on her stomach.
Zona’s death was originally ruled as an “ev-erlasting faint,” but it was later ruled as complications of childbirth even though it is unknown if she was pregnant.
When informed of her death, it is reported that her mother believed the “devil had killed her.”
Zona’s body was exhumed a month after her burial, and it was found that her neck had been broken and dislocated.
There were also marks on her throat that indicated she had been choked.
After this evidence, Zo-na’s husband, Erasmus Stribbling Trout Shue, was charged and found guilty of her murder.
In Dietz’s book, the haunt-ing of Zona Heaster came after her tragic death.
After Zona’s wake, her mother Mary Jane Heaster, removed the sheet from her coffin but observed that it had an unusual odor.
When she washed the sheet, the water in the ba-sin turned red when she dropped the sheet in.
