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NSE offers opportunities for studentsBY WILLIAM LINEBERRYTHE PARTHENON

The National Student Ex-

change, N.S.E., at Marshall is offering their services to stu-dents who want to get away.

The N.S.E. is a program that more than 200 universities in North America, the US, Canada and U.S. territories—Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico—use every year to allow students to experience a new region, university and culture. The program allows students to pay their instate tuition while attending another university or college. Students who choose to take part in the exchange are required to have at least a 2.5 GPA.

Jacob Bolen, coordinator of the N.S.E. at Marshall, said that the program gives students a chance to go somewhere new and to bring new students to Marshall.

“The program gives students the opportunity to see what other universities are like,” Bo-len said. “If they are considering a graduate school in the area or are just looking to go some-where new, then the program is a good way for them to gain that insight.”

Bolen said students from Mar-shall have been sent all around the US and have even gone out of the country as well.

“We see a lot of Puerto Rican students who come to Marshall,” Bolen said. “We also have sent students to Puerto Rico. Al-though a Spanish proficiency test it required, Marshall does not require an English test for students who take part in the exchange.”

According to a list constructed by the N.S.E. at Marshall, stu-dents have been exchanged to the University of Puerto Rico, University of Alaska at An-chorage, University of Georgia, Tennessee State University, University of Alabama and sev-eral schools in California.

The N.S.E. divides schools by intake and output numbers and

BY TREVAN J. HANNAHSTHE PARTHENON

The Student Government Association Senate voted on three different resolutions Tuesday all encouraging more SGA participation.

Senate Pro Tempore Joe Ste-fanov, along with SGA members Ashley Quaranta and Jonathan James, wrote the resolutions. The first resolution offered a program encouraging better freshmen involvement in the SGA.

Stefanov said SGA members would try to get more freshmen involved immediately through mentoring programs during orientation and the week of welcome. He also said aspir-ing student senators would be allowed to apply for SGA mem-bership after an interview.

“There is a lot of apathy from the freshman when it comes to the senate. I spoke with other universities to see if they had the same problem and what they did to counter it,” Stefanov said.

Stefanov said the resolution was his idea based on what dif-ferent colleges did.

“This isn’t high school student council where we pick colors for the homecoming hits,” Stefanov said. “We feel freshmen can make a difference in the univer-sity. They go to school here and they have unique issues that are unique to the freshman. One of the problems with fresh-man council is they don’t have the means to do that.”

He said he believes freshmen should have more of a say than just a place on the agenda.

Finance Chairman Luke Brumfield said he feels having the programs during freshmen’s first semesters would be more beneficial instead of elections.

“Freshmen should be allowed in. I do support the one deal-ing with them getting involved in the second semester because of an interview process. If they were elected, I don’t know about that. It’s always a popularity contest,” Brumfield said.

This may sound familiar be-cause two weeks ago other members of the senate proposed a similar bill to allow a voting member of the freshman council

on the senate. Business Man-ager Ray Harrell and members of the SGA Kelly Kutzavitch and Paul Williams proposed the piece of legislation. This bill was brought back to the senate floor after being passed by the judiciary committee.

The other resolution, pro-posed by Stefanov, Quaranta and James, was a bill allow-ing all colleges within the university to have at least two senators on the senate. The current legislation gives colleges a number of senators based on its enrollment.

Stefanov said this resolution generally betters SGA across campus.

“Student Government needs to be more visible on campus.

We need to actually get out there and meet with our constituents and do our job representing them,” Stefanov said.

The senate meeting was called to a recession while the executive committee voted on the two bills Stefanov men-tioned to the senate, along with bills proposed by Harrell, Kut-zavitch and Williams.

The committee passed all three bills, but the two bills dealing with freshmen in-volvement were each passed with amendments to the origi-nal. The resolutions and the bill dealing with the num-ber senators per college was passed in its entirety.

Trevan J. Hannahs can be con-tacted at hannahst@live.marshall.

SGA reaches compromise

South Carolina historian blogs about stay in slave dwellingsBY CHERIE DAVIS THE PARTHENON

Marshall Uiversity students and commu-

nity members gathered to listen to a man who, for the past year, has been sleeping and blogging in slave dwellings in South Carolina and Alabama.

Joseph McGill, Jr., program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, spoke in the basement of the Memorial Stu-dent Center last night. He shared stories and histories about the slave dwellings he has visited, most of them in 2010.

McGill’s “This Place Matters” project be-gan when McGill was being filmed for a documentary for civil war impersonators. McGill suggested he stay the night in a slave dwelling and tape it. He was then inspired to start a project and has been recording his experiences ever since.

“I’m always impressed by the dwellings that are privately owned. There have been

four of five so far and I’m most impressed by those. The private owners could have erased those structures from the face of the earth but they didn’t,” McGill said.

McGill, who has spent the past few days in Charleston, said he wants to come back

to Huntington in the future. He wants to make a week-long trip when he identifies a few places to help preserve in the Tri-State area.

“I think his presentation was outstand-ing,” said Victor Wilson, an involved member of Cabell County’s effort to restore the African-American children’s center. “The preservation of African-American his-tory in our country is evolving right now. In terms of tourism, it is the fastest growing historic tour. These are properties that, un-less nurtured, will disappear.”

McGill, who has toured the slave

dwellings in Alabama and South Caro-lina, will soon expand to other states including Texas, Maryland, North Caro-lina and Louisiana. with the help of the National Trust for Historic Preservation society. He also plans to move on to other significant African-American buildings that need preservation.

McGill said some misconceptions of slave dwellings are that not all of them are on plantations or slave dwellings are in the South.

“Working with the slave dwellings is only a starter. When we feel more comfortable with the subject of slavery and its effect on this nation, then we can move on to other buildings that help us tell a story of African Americans,” McGill said.

Next ,McGill and his daughter will stay in the Middleton Plantation on March 12. His blog can be seen at PreservationNation.org.

Cherie Davis can be contacted at davis542@marshall.edu.

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Kelly Kutzavitch, junior advertising major from Pittsburgh, listens at Tuesday’s SGA meeting. Members of SGA proposed bills that would allow freshmen to become more involved.

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BY ERIN MILLERTHE PARTHENON

This week in Marshall history: The year is 1967 and Marshall University women gained acceptance into West Virginia University’s medical school, students facing reading and writing troubles are offered a solution and Mar-shall sees another spike in enrollment.

West Virginia University’s medi-cal program expands its horizons

Marshall University began con-tributing to the field of medicine by preparing women to enter the field. Deborah Atkins, Marshall senior at the time, became one of Marshall’s first female students accepted into West Vir-ginia University’s medical school and Nancy Shumate, also a Marshall senior, became one of the first female Marshall students to be accepted into WVU’s den-tal school.

“Women are handicapped in getting accepted because they usually must take time from their career to rear a family,” Ralph Edeburn said. “Women are thought to have better hand skills than men, which is an asset especially in dentistry.”

At the time, only 8 percent of stu-dents enrolled in medical programs were women. In 1964, Marilyn Black of Logan, W.Va., became the first Afri-can-American woman from Marshall to enter medical school and attend How-ard College.

“Students who go on to programs such as Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Marshall’s Graduate Col-lege are greatly increasing their skills and ability to find a job after school,” said Debby Stoler, the assistant director

for development and outreach. “Profes-sional degrees say a lot anymore. Some employers actually require them.”

“Graduate programs offer students the opportunity to get professional ex-perience,” said Donna Spindel, dean of Marshall’s Graduate College. “In 2010, we had 3,875 students enrolled in the college. These programs, while somewhat strenu-ous, help students get good careers.”

Student Reading ClinicProblems plaguing students in 1967

haven’t changed as much as some would think. That was the year Helen S. Hunter, assistant professor of edu-cation, began operating Marshall’s reading clinic for students who have dif-ficulty with reading or writing skills.

Hunter said she saw the need for this type of program in 1963 and began working on a way to remediate the situ-ation. Hunter explained how surprised she was by how neglected these basic skills had become in early education.

In 1967, the clinic operated on a vol-unteer basis and 22 students were involved in the program at Marshall.

Marshall enrollment rises againMarshall announced an increase of

897 students over the second semester of the previous year putting the univer-sity’s overall enrollment at 6,876. That number, however, was down from the same year’s first semester of 8,136.

Luther E. Bledsoe, a Marshall ad-ministrator, explained that this was a common occurrence with any school. This number still showed a growth over previous years. The 1966 second semes-ter enrollment only had 5,979 students.

Erin Miller can be reached at miller652@marshall.edu.

BY CHERIE DAVISTHE PARTHENON

Marshall’ University’s Internation-alization Committee has hired three people to further internationalization on campus through faculty and campus involvement.

Barbara Hill, senior associate for the American Council of Education, is the head of the hired committee. John Yopp, associate provost for University of Kentucky, and Stephen Malcolm, bi-ology professor for Western Michigan University, were also hired. All three have had previous experience with internationalization.

Twelve people attended the interna-tional committee meeting Tuesday in the John Spotts room in the Memorial Student Center.

Hill, Yopp, and Malcolm met with President Steven Kopp and the Provost Gayle Ormiston earlier in the day.

“They are excited about it, and the President has already put certain goals out there,” Yopp said. “The provost and the president are very aware what it takes to prepare students for the world. They know that if Marshall is going to have a reputation and be successful in-ternationalization is necessary.”

The visitors were hired to help pro-mote internationalization on campus and brought ideas to help Marshall. A few of the ideas included changing cur-riculum in classes, improving study abroad opportunities, and attracting more international students.

Changing the curriculum to in-clude international outlooks in all classes, not the general education classes, raised debate on how to start the process. One suggestion included

integrating international study into each major.

Hill said everyone’s profession and major could be viewed in an interna-tional perspective.

The committee discussed education abroad and international exchanges, and the attitude towards study abroad with students at Marshall was found to be below average, possibly indiciating Marshall students had slightly negative attitudes towards the opportunity.

Hill suggested creating more student exchange programs through Marshall as a way to make a study abroad op-portunity cost less, and finding a way to change the outlook of study abroad was also necessary.

“The president and the provost are not looking for the school to make more money but to enhance the education of students. As a committee, we are very pleased,” Yopp said.

Hill also said that finding a way to involve every school is important for in-ternationalization to succeed.

“Internationalization has a lot of vehicles. It gets into the curriculum; it activates the faculty to help, to promote internationalization and to promote incorporating objectives into the courses. It gets into the fabric of the university. Many students want to think about a larger world and it is a way to experience the larger world,” Yopp said.

Internationalization is faculty-led and faculty-driven at Marshall. Students can also start thinking internationally to further this move-ment on campus.

Cherie Davis can be contacted at da-vis542@marshall.edu.

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BY COREY OXLEYTHE PARTHENON

A professor at Marshall University has been conducting research to use al-gae as a source that can fuel our cars.

Derrick Kolling, Marshall University professor of chemistry, said he has been researching photosynthesis since he was an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University.

“We are interested in how pho-tosynthesis works on a molecular level,” Kolling said. “We want to un-derstand how we can get biodiesel fuel from algae.”

Biodiesel is an alternative source of fuel made from renewable sources such as animal fat or vegetable oil.

“We want to get a fuel source that is sustainable,” Kolling said. “We want something that doesn’t come from pet-rochemicals. We want something that has little impact on the environment and doesn’t come from a foreign source.”

Kolling said many of the earlier forms of biodiesel products came from soybeans or palm. He also said sev-eral people are now using vegetable oil waste to fuel cars. He said this method isn’t sustainable because people do not eat enough french fries to fuel every-one’s cars.

“If we want to fuel everyone’s car, then we need to get it from a source that is quite large,” Kolling said. “If you are us-ing a source such as soy beans, people use that for food so therefore people are competing for that source. That is one of the problems with taking ethanol from corn grain because people use corn as a food source.”

“If we use algae, then we can use the lipids from the algae to create biodie-sel,” Kolling said. “That way we don’t have to compete for food sources and we can grow them in saltwater in-stead of freshwater.”

Kolling said the students are deal-ing with an idea called metabolomics. He said they make the algae grow to a certain point and freeze it. He said af-ter they freeze the algae, then they can break them open and extract all the chemicals out of the organism.

“We can use different techniques to find out what the chemicals are,” Kolling said. “So with that, we can build a metabolic pathway and decide which pathways we want and which ones we

don’t want.”Kolling said the students try to un-

derstand the entire pathway. He said by doing this they can understand which metabolic pathways are on and which ones are off. He said, in the future, sci-entists can possibly genetically engineer the algae so we could get rid of certain metabolic pathways.

Kolling said he received funding from Marshall to start the project when he was hired two years ago. He said Jagan Valluri, professor of biology, was work-ing on a very similar project before he arrived at Marshall. He said he used Valluri’s organisms to start the metabo-lomics part of his research.

“One of our goals is to increase student research in the chemistry department,” Kolling said. “We are trying to get more students involved with research be-cause I think it is the best way to learn. Any student that is interested in doing research and is doing well academically can get involved.”

Rebecca Mead, first year graduate student from Gastonia, N.C., is pur-suing her master’s degree in forensic science. She said she has been working on the project since the fall semester.

“I came here because Marshall’s fo-rensic science program is number one in the country,” Mead said. “I contacted the chemistry department and they put me in contact with Professor Kolling so I could get involved with his research.”

She said Kolling’s research uses many of the instruments she plans to use in her future fields of work.

“I got involved by talking with Profes-sor Kolling and asking him about doing some research,” said Ben Woodworth, junior biochemistry major from Tra-falgar, Ind. “I was interested in doing something with biodiesel fuels and just recently started this past January.”

Kolling said all different types of sci-ence majors are welcome to get involved in research. He said he has a student that is a biology major working in his lab this semester.

“We are interested in having stu-dents begin research earlier in their academic career,” Kolling said. “If we can get students started early, then they can learn a lot more and possi-bly have their research published in a peer-reviewed journal.”

Corey Oxley can be contacted at oxley24@marshall.edu.

Marshall professor researches how algae can be used for biodiesel

BY MARIBETH SMITHTHE PARTHENON

With midterms rapidly approaching, students have many resources at their disposal for help.

“Study, study, study,” said David Pit-tenger, dean of the college of liberal arts. Pittenger said students should re-ally start preparing for midterms the first day of class.

“Quizzes and tests along the way will normally give a student a good indicator of the things that they need to focus on,” Pittenger said. “Students should not ask their professors what topic exactly would be on the test. That usually gets profes-sors upset. But I think it’s fair to ask what sort of questions would be on the exam.”

“It’s not wise to wait until the last minute to prepare for midterms. This helps avoid anxiety and cramming. It is a good idea to ask their instructors any questions they may have and establish study partners or groups,” said Sara

Belknap, student resource specialist.Belknap said that the student re-

source center encourages students to come meet with them on an individual basis so that they can provide special-ized help. They help with test-taking skills such as time management, how to relieve text anxiety and the proper way to prepare for exams.

For freshmen with grades of either a D or F, a letter will be sent home to their permanent address.

“Letters are sent to a student’s per-manent address because we do not have the best information and students move around a lot,” Pittenger said.

“The purpose of the letter is to increase freshmen retention. The university wants to see students succeed,” Belknap said.

“The letters provide important feed-back,” Pittenger said. “If the student is performing poorly at midterm they receive a letter for a wake up call that

Students prepare for midterms

COREY OXLEY | THE PARTHENON

Courtney Nichols, senior chemistry and biology major, performs an experiment with algae. Derrick Kolling encourges his chemistry students to get involved with research.

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All 12 C-USA teams are back in ac-tion for midweek games, including the four squads atop the C-USA standings meeting on Wednesday night.

Memphis will host UAB on Wednes-day for a rematch of a Jan. 29 three-point overtime duel. This week’s game will tip off at 6 p.m. CST at Fe-dExForum for a CBS College Sports national audience. The Blazers are just percentage points out of first place in the standings and looking to snap a 10-game losing streak to Memphis. UAB senior Jamarr Sanders, C-USA’s reign-ing Player of the Week, is coming off a career 37-point performance on Satur-day. Sanders and his team will square off with a young Tigers squad eyeing its 20th win of the season. Memphis has been led by its freshman corps, in-cluding the current C-USA Freshman of the Week and the team’s top scorer Will Barton (13.2 ppg).

Top-ranked UTEP is on the road to face a Southern Miss team that has won four of its last five games and sits in fourth place in the standings. The Miners are 19-5 overall this season and still receiving votes in the national coaches’ poll. The game also reunites friends and former co-workers in the two head coaches. UTEP coach Tim Floyd hired Southern Miss head man Larry Eustachy as his assistant during his first head coaching assignment at Idaho during the 1986-87 season. That game begins at 7 p.m. CST.

Marshall is coming off a big road win at East Carolina and returns home to face Rice at 7 p.m. EST. SMU, win-ners of five of its last six, is on the road at Houston for a 7 p.m. CST tip. UCF heads out of Orlando for the first of three-straight road games for the Knights, taking on Tulane at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT at Fogelman Arena in New Orleans. Tulsa hosts East Caro-lina in the first meeting of the season between those two teams.

EAST CAROLINA (13-11, 5-5 C-USA)

Next Game: Feb. 16 at Tulsa - 8:05 p.m. Senior G Jontae Sherrod scored 19

points, but ECU dropped a 78-65 deci-sion to Marshall on Saturday to split the season series with the Herd. Se-nior G Brock Young came off the bench to chip in 18 points for East Carolina. Freshman F Robert Sampson grabbed a team-best six rebounds in 17 minutes. Sherrod scored 23 points, includ-

ing 19 in the second half, to lead East Carolina over UCF, 68-61, Feb. 5. The win gave the Pirates their first-ever season-series sweep of the Knights, who they defeated in Orlando earlier this season, 74-62.

HOUSTON (12-11, 4-6 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. SMU - 7 p.m. Senior Zamal Nixon scored a

team-high 17 points, hitting 11-of-11 attempts from the charity stripe, to lead the Cougars to a 79-68 win over Tulane. Senior F Maurice McNeil reg-istered his eighth double-double of the season and 14th of his career with 15 points and 11 rebounds against the Green Wave. Freshman F Alandise Harris added 11 points. Senior G Adam Brown and sophomore F Kendrick Washington scored 10 points apiece, while Washington also pulled down seven rebounds. The win snapped a five-game los-

ing streak and the Cougars improved to 10-3 at Hofheinz Pavilion.

MARSHALL (16-9, 4-6 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. Rice - 7 p.m. Junior G Damier Pitts tossed in a

career-best 28 points to lead the Thun-dering Herd to a 78-65 road win at East Carolina. Pitts’ offensive output was the highest individual point total for a Marshall player this season. Junior

G Shaquille Johnson added 14 for the Herd, who led by 27 points in the sec-ond half. Marshall also took a 44-22 rebounding advantage. Freshman G DeAndre Kane finished with 12. Pitts also scored a game-high 19

points, but Marshall dropped a 64-48 de-cision to UAB on Feb. 9. Senior F Tirrell Baines added 11 points and five boards. Kane led MU with 20 points in a 67-

60 loss at Southern Miss on Feb. 5. He scored 24 points and tied a career-high with nine rebounds as the Thundering Herd defeated host Houston, 63-62, Feb. 1 in a game that featured a sea-son-high 13 lead changes.

MEMPHIS (19-6, 7-3 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. UAB - 6 p.m.

(CBS C) Freshman Tarik Black scored a

game-high 17 points as the Tigers rallied to defeat Southern Miss, 67-61. It was their 16th-straight win over the Golden Eagles. Freshman Will Barton recorded his ninth double-digit scoring game in a row, finishing with 16 points. Sophomore F/G D.J. Stephens set

a career-high by blocking four shots. As a team, Memphis blocked 11 South-ern Miss shots, one behind the team season-high.

RICE (11-13, 3-7 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 at Marshall - 6

p.m. The Owls shot 49 percent from

the field, their second-best perfor-mance in conference play this season, but dropped a 74-68 decision at UAB on Saturday. Rice held a 37-33 lead at the break in a game which featured 12 lead changes. Sophomore Arsalan Ka-zemi hit 11-of-11 free throws, scored 17 points and grabbed five rebounds. Junior G Connor Frizzelle and

chipped in 14 points at UAB and he scored a career-high 25 points in a 71-61 victory over Tulane on Feb. 2. Frizzelle is averaging 17.0 ppg in the Owls’ last six games.

SMU (15-9, 6-4)Next Game: Feb. 16 at Houston - 7 p.m. SMU had its five-game win streak,

its longest league win streak since joining C-USA, snapped at UTEP Sat-urday, 67-57. Senior Papa Dia scored 18 pts and grabbed 10 rebounds for his 11th double-double of the season and 24th of his career. Senior G Collin Mangrum and freshman G Jeremiah Samarrippas scored 12 points apiece. In a 66-61 victory against Tulane

on Wednesday. Dia scored 24 pts, reaching 20+ points for the 11th time this season. He was 9-of-10 from the field and is now shooting .594 on the season. Dia also blocked three shots and grabbed 11 rebounds. The Mus-tangs shot 64 percent from the field as they already surpassed their win total from last year.

SOUTHERN MISS (18-6, 7-4 C-USA)

Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. UTEP - 7 p.m. Although only playing 19 min-

utes due to foul trouble, senior F Gary Flowers scored a team-best 14 points in Saturday’s 66-61 loss at Memphis. Freshman D.J. Newbill also tossed in 14 points and the pair combined for 11 rebounds. Junior G Maurice Bolden added 13 points and eight boards. Two Golden Eagles registered dou-

ble-doubles as Southern Miss defeated Marshall, 67-60, in Hattiesburg on Feb. 5. Flowers scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, while Newbill added 12 points and 10 boards. South-ern Miss improved to 10-1 at home and split its series with Marshall. Junior G Angelo Johnson scored 13 points, and senior F Josimar Ayarza added 10 points for the Golden Eagles.

TULANE (12-12, 2-9)Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. UCF - 7

p.m. Sophomore G Jordan Calla-han tallied a game-best 18 points for the Green Wave, but Tulane dropped

a 79-68 decision at Houston on Sat-urday. Senior G Johnny Mayhane and sophomore Kendall Timmons tossed in 15 points apiece. It was Tim-mons’ 22nd-straight game scoring in double-figures. Four Green Wave players scored in

double-figures, combining for 55 of the 61 points, but fell just short of sweep-ing the series as SMU defeated them, 66-61, Feb. 9. Tulane won the last match-up with the Mustangs on Jan. 8 by a score of 79-70.

TULSA (13-11, 6-4 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. East Caro-

lina - 7:05 p.m. The Golden Hurricane got the last

shot as sophomore G Scottie Haralson attempted a three-pointer with three seconds to play, but could not convert and TU was defeated at UCF, 58-57. Senior G Justin Hurtt scored a game-high 23 points and moved back into the top spot on the C-USA scoring chart, averaging 20.3 ppg this season. Hurtt nailed a three-pointer with

8.6 seconds to play to send the game into overtime, and a trio of players helped power Tulsa to a 76-71 victory over Houston Feb. 5. Hurtt and Haral-son led all scorers with 22 points each. Haralson was 7-for-12 from the field, tied his career high with six treys and finished the game with his highest point total since scoring 26 in the sea-son opener against Appalachian State. Hurtt picked up his 11th 20-point ef-fort of the year. The win gave Tulsa its first three-game win streak since Jan-uary of last season.

UAB (17-6, 7-3 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 vs. Memphis - 6

p.m. (CBS C) Senior G Jamarr Sanders scored

37 points in Saturday’s 74-68 win over Rice. He not only set a career-best mark, but it was also the most points scored by a Conference USA player this season.

• Senior PG Aaron Johnson had nine

assists against Rice, giving him 604 in his career to break the school record held Steve Mitchell. Johnson becomes the first UAB player and the fourth player in C-USA history to record more than 600 assists in his career. John-son, who averages 7.5 apg this season, ranks second nationally behind Iona’s Scott Machado. With the 64-48 win over Marshall

on Feb. 9, the Blazers held an oppo-nent under 60 points for the 12th time this year. It also marked the fourth time the Blazers have held the oppo-sition to under 50 points in a contest. UAB ranks third in C-USA in scoring defense (62.8).

UCF (15-8, 2-8 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 at Tulane - 8 p.m. UCF snapped an eight-game skid

Saturday as the Knights got past vis-iting Tulsa, 58-57. Sophomore F Keith Clanton led UCF with 16 points and sophomore G Marcus Jordan added 15 points and seven assists in the winning effort. In the Knights’ prior outing on Feb.

9, Jordan got off a last-second attempt from near halfcourt, but UCF dropped a 63-62 decision to visiting Memphis. The Knights grabbed a two-point edge with 39 seconds on the clock on a Jor-dan layup and led by as many as seven points in the second half, but the Ti-gers scored the winning shot with 2.6 seconds remaining.

UTEP (19-5, 7-2 C-USA)Next Game: Feb. 16 at Southern

Miss - 6 p.m. UTEP held onto the top spot in the

C-USA standings and extended its home court win streak to 14 games with a 67-57 victory over SMU on Saturday. Senior Christian Polk led the Miners with 18 points. Classmate Randy Culpepper tossed in 14 points, while point guard Julyan Stone added 11 points, seven as-sists and no turnovers. Senior Jeremy Williams was the fourth player to score in double figures with 10 points.

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Senior forward Tirrell Baines goes for the basket against UAB on Feb. 9. The Herd will travel to El Paso, Texas, for the Conference-USA tournament next month.

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As a senior, many students are on the edge of their seats when it comes to gradua-

tion and facing the next chapter of their lives. I have witnessed many students who are anticipating the transition they will be making in less than five months. They’ve dis-cussed their reliefs that the four undergraduate years are finally coming to an end. Although I, my-self, have become a victim of this line-of-thinking, I have admired my time at Marshall University to its fullest. Each year has adopted its very own significance in my mind, and I intend on continuing those memories in my last months here.

My perspective of Marshall has completely changed each year. I recall my mother driving me to campus for the very first time for orientation and can distinctly re-member passing fraternity row (which seemed more than inviting). I recall making a few friends on my dormitory floor, our constant complaints about the public rest-rooms bringing us closer together. After my second year of living in the dorms, I moved into my first apartment. I began to miss being surrounded by both dorm-mates and strangers in the elevators. Liv-ing on campus was extraordinary, because it became more than just sharing the same toilet with ten other girls. I learned how to ap-proach various personalities.

Making friends was a pursuit I had indirectly conquered. I real-ized that studies became difficult at times, but not having someone to discuss my life with became more of a difficulty than anything else. I wanted to be successful but I had to balance my social life with my col-lege career. I believe some students only focus on one or the other. My greatest fear is that those individu-als will leave college running across the stage in anticipation without anyone to remember surviving the four years with.

It has become more important for me to build relationships with both peers and faculty members alike. I have learned to ask for help and to understand when others need it most. To me, Mar-shall University isn’t defined by going from one class to the next. A book isn’t about the introduc-tion or the final page. It’s about everything you do in between the chaos of exams and “crunch” times. When my name is an-nounced at commencement, I want to look out from the stage and see the dozens of faces of peo-ple who have helped me conquer the four years at Marshall.

Contact columnist ASHLEY GRO-HOSKI at GROHOSKI1@marshall.edu.

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Should a mother ever be ar-rested for trying to provide her children with a good education? Most people would be appalled at the mere suggestion of punishing natural maternal care, but Kelley Williams-Bolar of Akron, Ohio, was subject to just such punish-ment when she was convicted of lying about her address in order to send her children to a bet-ter school district. While what Williams-Bolar did was, in fact, illegal, arresting her for it seems a bit extreme.

Williams-Bolar should have gone through the proper channels to get her children into the Copley-Fairlawn School District, which she thought would provide them with a better education than the Akron Central District. We won’t contest that. But there was no need to ar-rest her for her conduct. The school merely should have deregistered her children and sent them back to their proper district. Presiding Judge Patricia Cosgrove admitted that Williams-Bolar was sentenced to prison as an example: “I felt that

some punishment or deterrent was needed for other individuals who might think to defraud the various school districts.”

It is unfair to turn Williams-Bolar into an example, especially when all she was trying to do was give her children a better life. She never would have resorted to defrauding the school district if she was provided with better public education inside of her legitimate district. If anyone is at fault here, it is the public school system — public education is failing nationwide. Individuals considering

defrauding the school districts do not need a deterrent.They need better schools, so that they would not have to resort to fraud in the fi rst place.

This debacle lends even more support to Gov. Chris Christie’s education reforms in New Jersey, especially the proposed Oppor-tunity Scholarship Act. The act would make it so people like Wil-liams-Bolar, who fi nd themselves faced with failing public schools, would have the chance to give their children better educations with-out resorting to criminal activity.

Ohio should take notice of what Christie is trying to do in New Jersey and follow suit. In fact, most of America should pay attention to Christie’s education reforms. Ohio is not the only place where things like this are happening.

In one way, Cosgrove succeeded in making Williams-Bolar an ex-ample — although, not in the way she intended. Williams-Bolar’s case now stands as an example of how broken the United States’ public school sys-tem is and how badly it needs repairs.

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Band’s quick rise no surprise

Getting a band off the ground is no easy task. You have to get

musicians in the same room with the same interest, write material solid enough to be proud of and play gigs.

That being said, rarely does a band come along in this town that gains momentum, and deservedly so, as fast as Tower of the Elephant.

With guitarists Garrett Babb and Mike Schritter, bassist Josh Harshbarger, drummer Jason King and vocalist Blair Yoke, the band features faces familiar to those entrenched in the local scene.

Their reputations have cer-tainly set the bar relatively high. But how in the hell does a band distill itself into a sound when the members’ backgrounds are all across the board?

Touching on stoner rock, metal and a few places in be-tween, the band features the soaring guitars of Babb and Schritter, who take turns with shredding the leads and a blasting rhythm section from Yoke.

Tower has wasted no time with getting to work on a sound and a set worth writ-ing home about. What came out is a ballsier sounding Fu Manchu, a steady stoner rock that incites one to think of riding a motorcycle up a mountain and launching di-rectly into outer space.

But these guys aren’t just good, they’re hungry. They de-buted in January here in town and hit the road only a couple weeks later. This past week was more of the same and proved the hard work is start-ing to pay off.

On Thursday, the band opened for the hard rock supergroup The Damned Things. Although most of the crowd was there for Scott Ian and the rest of the group, the young Huntington band played to a decent-sized audi-ence whose slow head nods signaled their approval.

And they’re just getting started. The band is already selling T-shirts,

So strap in, folks. Do your-self a favor and don’t miss Tower of the Elephant.

Contact columnist DAVE MISTICH at MISTICH2@marshall.edu.

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policies accompany-ing admission and exchange. Marshall is designated as an “open school” in the N.S.E. program. This means that Marshall will ac-cept a student without any exchange from that student’s university.

Ariel Ysech, previous exchange student from Vermillion, S.D., major-ing in nursing, said the experience helped her find a new way to branch into a new place.

“I had never left South Dakota, I wanted to get out and experience some-thing new,” Ysech said. “I felt like I was able to ab-sorb a new culture while at Marshall that was not like the one that I am use to in South Dakota.”

Candice McKown, senior international affairs major from Fairplain, W.Va., is a Marshall student who is currently studying at Texas State University. McKown said the N.S.E. program offered her an option to get away and develop outside her nor-mal surroundings.

“It started as a whim and then developed into the realization that this would be an invaluable

opportunity,” McKown said. “I needed to gain an insight into myself that simply couldn’t be done in familiar surroundings, so I left.”

McKown, who is staying for two semesters at TSU, said that the experience thus far has allowed her to a professional opportunity she would not have in West Virginia.

“I gained an intern-ship opportunity in Austin with a business affiliated with the US Chamber of Commerce,” McKown said. “I would not have been given that opportunity otherwise if I had stayed in West Virginia.”

“Being pushed outside of your comfort zone al-lows for real growth, and mine came not only academically, but spiri-tually and emotionally,” McKown said.

According to the N.S.E. website, the pro-gram started in 1968 and has since served more than 94,000 stu-dents. Surrounding universities such as the University of Kentucky, West Virginia Univer-sity and the University of Louisville also par-ticipate in the N.S.E.

William Lineberry can be contacted at lineberry2@marshall.edu.

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WASHINGTON — President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to former President George H.W. Bush and 14 others, including poet Maya Angelou, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, investor Warren Buffett and basketball legend Bill Russell.

The medal is the highest U.S. honor a civilian can receive and is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions “to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cul-tural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

“This is one of the things I most look forward to ev-ery year,” Obama said, calling the honorees “the best of who we are and who we aspire to be.”

Obama reviewed the life and career of President Bush, describing his time as a Navy pilot, U.N. am-bassador, U.S. envoy to China, director of the CIA and as vice-president under President Reagan.

Obama also praised Bush for achievements during his 1989-93 presidency, including reducing nuclear weapons, driving Saddam Hussein’s forces out of Ku-wait and overseeing the aftermath of the Cold War’s end. The president commended Bush for his post-pres-idency work with disaster relief.

“His life is a testament that public service is a noble calling,” Obama said. “His humility and his decency reflects the very best of the American spirit. Those of you who know him — this is a gentleman.”

Poet Maya Angelou was the one of several artists among the honorees. Obama praised her for rising above an abusive childhood to inspire others with her words, saying her voice has “spoken to millions, in-cluding my mother, which is why my sister is named Maya.”

He quoted Angelou, saying, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again,” and bent down to kiss her cheek as he presented her with the medal.

Obama joked that Ma, a world-renowned cellist who has been performing in concert since age 5, was a “late bloomer,” and described his award-winning career, which includes 15 Grammy Awards and more than 75 albums.

“There are very few people you’ll meet that possess the joy that Yo-Yo Ma does,” Obama said.

American investor Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, received the medal for his philan-thropic efforts.

Obama lauded Buffett’s generosity, saying, “a phi-lanthropist is a lover of humanity and there’s no word that fits Warren better.

“He’s so thrifty I had to give him a White House tie the last time he came to visit,” Obama said. “His was looking a little shredded.”

Politicians Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and U.S Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., were honored, al-though Merkel wasn’t present to receive her medal.

Lewis was a leader during the civil rights move-ment, Obama said, who organized student sit-ins and was on the first Freedom Ride to fight segregation. The congressman won his first term in 1986.

Two former professional athletes — Russell and

baseball legend Stan Musial — were among the medal recipients.

Obama praised Russell, who marched with Mar-tin Luther King Jr., for his courage and strength as a member of the Boston Celtics, where he regularly endured racism from fans.

The president described how Russell refused to play after a restaurant declined to serve the team because of its black members and called him “someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men.”

Three-time World Series winner Stan “The Man” Musial was honored for his career with the St. Louis Cardinals and his sense of integrity. Obama said he is “a gentleman you’d want your kids to emulate.”

“He asked for a pay cut when he didn’t perform up to his own expectations,” Obama said. “You can imagine that happening today.”

Other honorees were: Sylvia Mendez, a civil rights activist; John H. Adams, co-founder of the National Resources Defense Council; Jasper Johns, an Ameri-can artist; Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor, author and activist; Jean Kennedy Smith, former ambassador to Ireland and founder of VSA, an organization that promotes the artistic talents of young people with disabilities; John J. Sweeney, for-mer president of the AFL-CIO; and Dr. Tom Little, an optometrist who was murdered while on a humanitar-ian mission to Afghanistan, whose award was accepted by his wife.

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President Barack Obama honors Maya Angelou the 2010 Medal of Freedom in a ceremony Wednesday in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

they may not do well in the class and we want them to try a little bit harder.”

“The letters aid in the transition freshmen go through from high school to college,” Belknap said. “We hope students are keeping track of their grades in their courses and if not, then these let-ters let them know there are some areas that need improvement.”

“The reason only freshmen get letters is because they are at the highest risk of doing poorly,” Pittenger said. “College is a lot different from high school, you can dig a deep hole in a class that is sometimes difficult to get out of.”

Belknap said the letters are an early in-tervention so students can take action and im-prove their grades.

Maribeth Smith can be contacted at smith1526@marshall.edu.

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Love Your Body Week, part of National Eating Disorder Aware-ness Week, will reach out to the U to increase awareness of eat-ing d i sorders .

The week wi l l be he ld Feb . 21 through Feb . 25 by S tudents Promot ing Eat ing Disorder Awareness and Knowledge . SPEAK i s a s tudent group that s tar ted in 2002 wi th the goa l o f educat ing the pub l i c about ea t ing d i sorders , p revent i on approaches and body - image i s sues .

The miss i on o f LYBW i s t o encourage acceptance and ce l -ebrat i on o f human d ivers i ty through body shapes and s i zes , a c cord ing t o i t s webs i t e .

She l ly Gui l l o ry, a sen ior in mass communica t i on and SPEAK member, sa id the group i s made up o f s tudents , p ro fes -s i ona l s and hea l th educators who work to c rea te aware -ness and prov ide resources t o anyone who wants more in fo r-mat ion about ea t ing d i sorders and how to dea l w i th them.

“We want t o contr ibute t o chang ing the soc i o - cu l tura l idea l s that equate f i tness w i th hea l th , beauty and happ iness , ” Gu i l l o ry sa id . “They l ead t o a hat red o f f a t , and they contr ib -u te t o the emergence o f ea t ing d i sorders , e spec ia l l y on campus where i t ’s a rea l l y b ig prob lem. ”

“As many as 10 mi l l i on

f emales and 1 mi l l i on males are f i ght ing a l i fe-and-death battle with an eating disorder” in the United States, according to the National Eating Disor-ders Association. A 1996 study showed that 80 percent of Amer-ican women are dissatisf ied with their appearances, and it is pre-sumed that many cases are not reported because of secretive-ness and shame.

An d r e a O lson, a f i r s t - y e a r m a s t e r ’ s s t u d e n t i n s o c i a l w o r k , i s c o - c h a i r i n g t h i s y e a r ’ s LY B W w i t h f e l l o w S P E A K m e m b e r M a y a M i y a i r i . O l s o n s a i d s h e s t r u g g l e d w i t h a n e a t i n g d i s o r d e r f o r m o r e t h a n 2 0 y e a r s .

“ I t m a y s e e m t o o d i f f i c u l t t o c h a n g e y o u r a t t i t u d e s a n d b e l i e f s a b o u t y o u r s e l f , b u t I w a n t p e o p l e t o k n o w i t i s p o s s i b l e , ” s h e s a i d . “ T h e l a s t t h r e e y e a r s o f r e c o v e r y h a v e b e e n f u l l o f u p s a n d d o w n s , b u t t h e y h a v e b e e n t h e b e s t t h r e e y e a r s o f m y l i f e . G i v e y o u r s e l f a c h a n c e t o l o v e y o u r b o d y. ”

B e i n g a b l e t o s h o w t h e r e ’ s h o p e a n d t h a t r e c o v e r y i s p o s s i b l e i s w h a t k e e p s h e r i n -v e s t e d i n S P E A K a n d LY B W, O l s o n s a i d

“ K n o w i n g t h a t I a m m a k i n g a d i f f e r e n c e i n p e o p l e s ’ l i v e s i s q u i t e r e w a r d i n g , ” s h e s a i d . “ I p l a n t o b e i n v o l v e d w i t h S P E A K , i n o n e w a y o r a n o t h e r, f o r m a n y y e a r s t o c o m e . ”

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Jeanne Courtney is a marriage and family therapist. She runs “Love Your Body at Every Size” workshops.

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Although rampant alcohol con-sumption has become a stereotype commonly associated with typical col-lege life, a growing number of teetotaling students nationwide are challenging those perceptions.

Alexa Kanbergs, a peer health ed-ucator for the University Health Center, is part of a growing num-ber of students choosing to abstain from alcohol to avoid the health risks and potentially dangerous actions associated with drinking.

“When drinking, you’re just hurting yourself, so I feel like you’re backtracking in that sort of sense,” Kanbergs said. “There’s also so much risk associated with drinking when you’re under 21; MIPs (Minor in Possession) are so expensive and other sort of alco-hol-related risks such as drinking and driving is just not worth it.”

According to a recent survey done by Outside the Classroom Inc., a nationwide alcohol education and prevention program, Kanbergs is not alone. Brandon Busteed, founder and CEO of Outside the Classroom, Inc., said 62 percent of nearly 500,000 incoming freshman college students randomly surveyed nationwide reported they had not had a drink during the two weeks prior to their first semester of col-lege, which is a marked increase

from 38 percent in 2006. Busteed said these results are very prom-ising, because he speculates that “this trend is probably going to con-tinue for several years.”

Outs ide the Classroom, Inc . , d id not prov ide data f or s tu -dents ’ dr ink ing hab i ts a f ter enter ing co l l ege .

Although no concrete reasons have been established to account for the gradual increase of incom-ing teetotaling college students, Busteed said a variety of factors may influence students not to drink. Those include a rise in the amount of students who perceive college as a place of personal and intellectual growth and an increased amount of emphasis placed on the value of education due to the recession.

“More students are saying in other surveys that they are look-ing at college as a place where they’re going to develop a mean-ingful philosophy of l i fe,” Busteed said. “I certainly believe that is connected with the idea that less students are coming to college as drinkers, because if they’re more serious about how they perform in college, then drinking is just going to be one of those things that gets in the way of their goals and pursuits.

“A lot of other people have also speculated that students and par-ents are making more sacrifices,

because the economy has been so diff icult over the past several years, which has motivated stu-dents to take their studies much more seriously.”

Busteed also said s t u d e n t s r e -p o r t e d t h a t t h e l i m i t e d p r i v a c y a n d w a t c h d o g f u n c t i o n o f s o -c i a l n e t w o r k i n g w e b s i t e s h a v e a l s o m o d i f i e d t h e i r b e h a v i o r s , b e c a u s e t h e f e a r o f g e t t i n g c a u g h t o r j u d g e d i s t o o g r e a t .

“ T h e y d o n ’ t w a n t t o h a v e p h o -t o s o f t h e m d o i n g s t u p i d s t u f f w h e n t h e i r e m p l o y e r s t h a t t h e y ’ r e t r y i n g t o g e t j o b s w i t h g o a n d l o o k a t t h e i r F a c e b o o k p r o f i l e a n d s e e s o m e o n e d o -i n g a k e g s t a n d , ” B u s t e e d s a i d . “ T h a t ’s n o t t h e k i n d o f t h i n g t h a t w i l l l a n d y o u a j o b . A l so, the knowledge that Facebook is such a public thing now, where your mother and your grandmother on Facebook, is another theory as to why some of the students may be actively trying to monitor and modify their behaviors.”

In addition, a University-wide survey seems to support the as-sertion of students drinking less. According to the University’s Na-tional College Health Assessment, which is administered by the Uni-versity in conjunction with the American College Health Associa-tion every three years, 23.1 percent of all University students reported they did not consume alcohol over

the past 30 days. However, the sur-vey also noted that 1.9 percent of those students reported they ab-stained from alcohol during that same period.

“When we look at the perceptions, students generally way overesti-mate how much students drink,” said Paula Staight, health center director of health promotion. “Most of our students do drink responsibly, if they choose to drink; it’s a minor-ity of those students that drink to excess.”

To combat the student consumption of alcohol, Sheryl Eyster, University associate dean of students, said the Peer Health Education program con-ducts a wide variety of presentations for freshmen during IntroDUCK-tion, and with students in residence halls, fraternities and sororities.

“Being a peer health educator and being exposed through our class to everything you could ever want to know about alcohol does to your system and how your body processes, it really keeps me re-sponsible and motivates me to be careful about what I put in my body and be conscious how much I drink, when I do drink,” said Hannah Dischinger, a peer health educator. “I think it ’s our goal as peer health educators to share that knowledge with everyone, so they can make informed decisions and be safe, if they do choose to drink.”

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