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C M Y K 50 INCH October 11, 2012 THURSDAY VOL. 116 NO. 28 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM HI 63° LO 43° INSIDE: page designed and edited by SHANE ARRINGTON [email protected] NEWS, 2 | SPORTS, 3 | OPINION, 4 | LIFE!, 6 254494 BCC CAFE INC, SOUTHERN X-POSUR THE PARTHENON A multimillion-dollar trans- portation facility is coming to Prichard, Wayne County. Carrie Jones Bly, West Virginia Department of Trans- portation, said the site would be built between the Big Sandy River and U.S. Rt. 52 in Prichard. The Prichard Intermodal Facility would act as a 17-acre hub site to store and transfer freight containers used by rail and truck. It is expected to cost nearly $30 million. Construction on the facility has already started and is expected to be completed in five years. The project is expected to create jobs and bring millions of dollars to the Tri-State. The facility will run along- side key train tracks for Norfolk Southern, and will act as a com- mercial transportation and product transition site for the North-Atlantic region. The intermodal facility will be part of the National Heart- land Corridor Clearance project, which will raise the roofs of railroad tunnels allowing more clearance for double-stacked freight containers. The project will include tunnels on railroad lines running from Roanoke, Vir- ginia to Columbus, Ohio, passing through southern West Virginia. The Parthenon can be contacted at parthenon@ marshall.edu. New intermodal facility coming to area MU professor receives award By SUZANN AL-QAWASMI THE PARTHENON A professor at Marshall Uni- versity has received a national award for her love of learning and her love of teaching. Rachael Peckham, assistant English professor in the cre- ative writing program, has received the Love of Learning Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Peckham is one of 140 re- cipients of the award, which is given to selected society mem- bers wishing to receive funding for graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, career development or travel related to teaching. Todd Green, president of Marshall’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and associate professor in the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, said it is an honor for a faculty member at Marshall to receive such a prestigious award. “We are very proud of Dr. Peckham for receiving the Love of Learning Award,” Green said. “It says a lot for our chapter, especially since it is only two years old. It really is a huge honor.” Peckham said she decided to apply for the award after she took over the coordination of Marshall’s Visiting Writ- ers Series. She said part of the application required her to ex- plain what she would put the money toward if she won the award. “I think what I wanted to do fit the spirit of the award really well,” Peckham said. She added she is using the money to fund the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series event on Oct. 18, during which Chris Bachelder, novelist and con- tributor, and Danielle Cadena Deulen, poet and essayist, will have a public reading and book signing. “I think this will be a great re- source for students,” Peckham said. “It is one way students can get direct access to living and practicing writers.” PECKHAM See AWARD | Page 5 By SAMUEL SPECIALE THE PARTHENON The Marshall University Muslim Student Association will play host to a day of Islamic fasting to show students what fasting during the month of Ra- madan is like. Shaheed Elhamdani, President of MSA, said that he wants people to understand the concept of Islamic fasting. “Fasting is a really personal journey someone takes to get closer to God,” Elhamdani, a junior chemistry and political science major from Barbours- ville, W.Va., said. “The fast-a-thon is a chance for students to experience it for themselves.” Elhamdani said that the fast re- quires participants to not eat or drink anything and to refrain from cursing, fighting and arguing from sunrise to sunset. “During the day, you spend time re- flecting on God,” Elhamdani said. “We thought it would be cool for other peo- ple to try it out and experience what fasting is like in a controlled twelve hour fast.” Elhamdani said MSA wants to host the day of fasting so interested students can educate themselves on Muslim be- liefs and practices. “A big part of being at Marshall is Muslim Student Association to host day of fasting at Marshall See FASTING | Page 5 PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON Danielle Mayo, senior management major from Gallipolis, Ohio, speaks with an employment recruiter during Marshall University’s 2012 Fall Career Expo on Wednesday. 2012 FALL CAREER EXPO By ELIZABETH STEWART THE PARTHENON Students had the opportunity to meet with and learn about prospective employers to dis- cuss their future after graduation. Marshall University students had the chance Wednesday to hand out resumes and make networking contacts at Career Services’ Fall Career Expo. “Whether students are actively seeking a job or whether they just need to make some contacts, this is a great way for them to contact companies and really get that networking started for a job,” said Debby Stoler, assistant director for develop- ment and outreach at Marshall’s Career Services. Stoler said several of the companies par- ticipating are also looking for entry level, full-time positions. Corri Rhodenizer, recruiter for Kroger, was scheduling on-campus interviews for the manage- ment-training program offered by the company. “It’s a great opportunity for students be- cause they never have to leave campus and over the course of 30 minutes they can learn a little more about Kroger and I get to learn more about them and it gets an interview over with for them out of a three step interview process,” Rhodenizer said. Students can also log onto JobTrax to sched- ule an on campus interview Rhodenizer said. CSX Corporation was another of the many employers in attendance looking for future employees. “We have hired Marshall students in the past and because of the caliber of their work we decided to come back to Marshall to hopefully fill some of the positions we have available now,” said Tamara Pulliam manager of recruiting at CSX. Students explore career options at expo Students speak with employment recruiters during Marshall University’s 2012 Fall Career Expo on Wednesday. More than 80 employers were present at the event. See EXPO | Page 5

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254494BCC CAFE INC, SOUTHERN X-POSUR

THE PARTHENONA multimillion-dollar trans-

portation facility is coming to Prichard, Wayne County.

Carrie Jones Bly, West Virginia Department of Trans-portation, said the site would

be built between the Big Sandy River and U.S. Rt. 52 in Prichard.

The Prichard Intermodal Facility would act as a 17-acre hub site to store and transfer freight containers used by rail and truck.

It is expected to cost nearly $30 million.

Construction on the facility has already started and is expected to be completed in five years.

The project is expected to create jobs and bring millions

of dollars to the Tri-State. The facility will run along-

side key train tracks for Norfolk Southern, and will act as a com-mercial transportation and product transition site for the North-Atlantic region.

The intermodal facility will be part of the National Heart-land Corridor Clearance project, which will raise the roofs of railroad tunnels allowing more clearance for double-stacked freight containers. The project

will include tunnels on railroad lines running from Roanoke, Vir-ginia to Columbus, Ohio, passing through southern West Virginia.

The Parthenon can be contacted at [email protected].

New intermodal facility coming to area

MU professor receives awardBy SUZANN AL-QAWASMITHE PARTHENON

A professor at Marshall Uni-versity has received a national award for her love of learning and her love of teaching.

Rachael Peckham, assistant English professor in the cre-ative writing program, has received the Love of Learning Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Peckham is one of 140 re-cipients of the award, which is given to selected society mem-bers wishing to receive funding for graduate or professional studies, doctoral dissertations, continuing education, career development or travel related to teaching.

Todd Green, president of Marshall’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi and associate professor in the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, said it is an honor for a faculty member at Marshall to receive such a prestigious award.

“We are very proud of Dr. Peckham for receiving the Love of Learning Award,” Green said. “It says a lot for our chapter, especially since it is only two years old. It really is a huge honor.”

Peckham said she decided to apply for the award after she took over the coordination of Marshall’s Visiting Writ-ers Series. She said part of the application required her to ex-plain what she would put the money toward if she won the award.

“I think what I wanted to do fit the spirit of the award really well,” Peckham said.

She added she is using the money to fund the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series event on Oct. 18, during which Chris Bachelder, novelist and con-tributor, and Danielle Cadena Deulen, poet and essayist, will have a public reading and book signing.

“I think this will be a great re-source for students,” Peckham said. “It is one way students can get direct access to living and practicing writers.”

PECKHAM

See AWARD | Page 5

By SAMUEL SPECIALETHE PARTHENON

The Marshall University Muslim Student Association will play host to a day of Islamic fasting to show students what fasting during the month of Ra-madan is like.

Shaheed Elhamdani, President of MSA, said that he wants people to

understand the concept of Islamic fasting.

“Fasting is a really personal journey someone takes to get closer to God,” Elhamdani, a junior chemistry and political science major from Barbours-ville, W.Va., said. “The fast-a-thon is a chance for students to experience it for themselves.”

Elhamdani said that the fast re-quires participants to not eat or drink anything and to refrain from cursing, fighting and arguing from sunrise to sunset.

“During the day, you spend time re-flecting on God,” Elhamdani said. “We thought it would be cool for other peo-ple to try it out and experience what

fasting is like in a controlled twelve hour fast.”

Elhamdani said MSA wants to host the day of fasting so interested students can educate themselves on Muslim be-liefs and practices.

“A big part of being at Marshall is

Muslim Student Association to host day of fasting at Marshall

See FASTING | Page 5

PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON

Danielle Mayo, senior management major from Gallipolis, Ohio, speaks with an employment recruiter during Marshall University’s 2012 Fall Career Expo on Wednesday.

2012 FALL CAREER EXPO

By ELIZABETH STEWARTTHE PARTHENON

Students had the opportunity to meet with and learn about prospective employers to dis-cuss their future after graduation.

Marshall University students had the chance Wednesday to hand out resumes and make networking contacts at Career Services’ Fall Career Expo.

“Whether students are actively seeking a job or whether they just need to make some contacts, this is a great way for them to contact companies and really get that networking started for a job,” said Debby Stoler, assistant director for develop-ment and outreach at Marshall’s Career Services.

Stoler said several of the companies par-ticipating are also looking for entry level, full-time positions.

Corri Rhodenizer, recruiter for Kroger, was scheduling on-campus interviews for the manage-ment-training program offered by the company.

“It’s a great opportunity for students be-cause they never have to leave campus and over the course of 30 minutes they can learn a little more about Kroger and I get to learn more about them and it gets an interview over with for them out of a three step interview process,” Rhodenizer said.

Students can also log onto JobTrax to sched-ule an on campus interview Rhodenizer said.

CSX Corporation was another of the many employers in attendance looking for future employees.

“We have hired Marshall students in the past and because of the caliber of their work we decided to come back to Marshall to hopefully fill some of the positions we have available now,” said Tamara Pulliam manager of recruiting at CSX.

Students explore career options at expoStudents speak with employment recruiters during Marshall University’s 2012 Fall Career Expo on Wednesday.More than 80 employers were present at the event.

See EXPO | Page 5

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TOP, BOTTOM: Comedian Adam Hunter, a “Last Comic Standing” finalist, brings his comedic act to Marshall University on Wednesday. Hunter made jokes about a variety of topics, ranging from the upcoming preisdential election, to the way men view sex.

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By BISHOP NASHTHE PARTHENON

Within a campus and culture set in the Bible Belt, it iss not ex-pected that many would know of the Hare Krishnas, let alone be able to identify one on sight. Syamananda Das’s appearance does not fit what many envi-sion as that of a monk, but the member of the International Society for Krishna Conscious-ness spread his message across campus all day Wednesday.

“We try to get it to intelligent

people who are ready, willing and open for such knowledge,” Das said.

Das passed out two particu-lar books to those who would take them. The first was a translation of the Bhagavad Gita, a book of ancient Hindu scripture. The second was titled “The Journey of Self-Dis-covery,” a supplemental piece to the Bhagavad Gita.

He also acknowledged that his religion is often misunder-stood in today’s culture and

stressed the importance of yoga in its original sense, meaning disciple of spiritual, mental and physical senses.

“Yoga is a misunderstood process in the West. Most peo-ple think of yoga as physically stretches and breathing exer-cises,” Das said, “That’s one part, but that’s at the base level.”

Das is a member of Cinta-mani Dhan, a self-sustaining village of Hare Krishas within Daniel Boone National For-est near Irvine, Ky. He travels

college campus around the re-gion spreading knowledge of Krishna beliefs, and his drive to visit campus comes from his own experiences in choosing his way of life.

“I got a Bhagavad Gita on a college campus and eventu-ally I read it, and it made a lot of sense,” Das said, “Too much sense to put aside.”

The young monk dressed in a sweater and khakis spoke of the importance of servitude to God and disciplining oneself in

a responsible manner. He op-erates entirely from donations and spoke of God’s providence of his missions.

“We just depend on God. God provides everything all the time,” Das said, “That’s a fact.”

Those interested in more information on Das, his eco-village and the Hare Krishna movement can find it at www.cintamanidham.com.

Bishop Nash can be con-tacted at [email protected].

Hari Krishna monk shares free holy literature at MU campus

DASHari Krishna monk

POLICE BLOTTER The following was compiled from Marshall University Police Department reports.

By BISHOP NASHTHE PARTHENON

OFFICERS SUBDUE GAME DAY DRUNKMarshall police received reports of a domestic dispute on

Saturday at 7:20 p.m. in the Joan C. Edwards Stadium park-ing lot before the Marshall homecoming game with Tulsa. Reports indicated that a male had laid hands on a female and police discovered at the scene that both were intoxicated. Upon questioning by police, both began walking from the scene. The male suspect became loud, making racist com-ments and refused to stop. The female suspect placed hands on officers while attempting to prevent MUPD from reach-ing the male. She was subdued safely to the ground before six officers got into a physical scuffle attempting to subdue the male after he resisted. Both were transported to Western Regional Jail. The male is charged with domestic battery, ob-struction, public intoxication and two counts of destruction of property. The female is charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct and obstruction.

MUPD SNAGS VIRGINIA FUGITIVEOn Friday at 2:30 p.m., MUPD dispatch received com-

plaints that a woman was receiving threating phone calls. Officers were advised that the suspect was standing outside Towers West and investigated. The suspect was questioned and officers discovered marijuana seeds in his boots. The suspect reported that he had given officers a fake name and upon finding out his real identity, MUPD learned he was a fugitive from justice in the state of Virginia. He was trans-ported to Western Regional Jail and is charged with being a fugitive from justice, obstructing an officer, possession of marijuana and assault by threats.

MARIJUANA BUST Officers were patrolling the south student parking lot on

Thursday, Oct. 4 at 10:28 p.m. when they detected a strong odor of marijuana. The smell led to a silver Honda Civic with four individuals inside. A vehicle search produced metal and glass pipes, a grinder and marijuana. Two individuals were cited for possession of marijuana under 15 grams.

HENDERSON CENTER VANDALIZED On Friday morning, Oct. 5 MUPD noticed the Marshall logo

was missing off the Third Avenue side of the Cam Hender-son Center. The logo had been removed sometime between Thursday night and early Friday morning. There are cur-rently no suspects.

By TESSA WOOTENTHE PARTHENON

The Graduate College at Marshall University is of-fering events so graduate students can meet in a more relaxed environment in order to create bonds that keep stu-dents on a path to success.

Donna Spindel, dean of the graduate college, said she thinks it’s their job to help its students prosper.

“As an educational institu-tion it is our responsibility to make sure we prepare our students, whether they’re an undergraduate or gradu-ate, to succeed in the world,” Spindel said.

Two events are coming soon for graduate students or undergraduate students looking for more informa-tion on graduate school. The Graduate Student Council open meeting will be Friday at noon in the Memorial Stu-dent Center on the second floor at the Student Resource Center. The first Graduate

School Fair will be Wednes-day, Oct. 24.

The Graduate Student Council open meeting is for all graduate students to meet and have a chance to learn more about what the gradu-ate college has to offer.

Refreshments are provided and students get a chance to receive a free graduate stu-dent t-shirt.

The Graduate Student Council is a student-run or-ganization that connects the graduate students to each other. Spindel said it could help students not feel discouraged on the dif-ficult journey of advanced education by providing a tre-mendous support system.

One aspect of graduate education, apart from the education side, is to get to know people not just from your own discipline but other disciplines and net-work and talk.

MU Graduate School offers answers for students

By SEAN DELANCEYTHE PARTHENON

Veterans on the Marshall Uni-versity campus will soon have a new outlet for assistance, ser-vices and information.

The Student Government As-sociation is organizing a new Veterans Council. As part of the council’s kick-off, SGA will host a luncheon for veterans attend-ing Marshall on Monday, Oct. 15, from noon to 2 p.m. in room BE5 of the Memorial Student Center.

Dustin Murphy, SGA veteran’s affairs liaison, is organizing the event.

Murphy said he wants to pro-vide an outlet, through which veteran’s concerns can be ad-dressed on campus and in the community.

“I am anxious to get this mes-sage out there so the veterans know we hear their voice and we plan to help,” Murphy said.

SGA sponsors first Veteran’s luncheon

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By MICHAEL A. MEMOLITRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU VIA MCT

WASHINGTON — Until President Barack Obama’s weak debate performance last week, Joe Biden’s job in the sole vice presidential de-bate was to hold his own with his opponent, Wisconsin Rep. Paul D. Ryan, and avoid a mis-step that could knock the campaign off stride.

With the campaign already off stride and needing to land some blows, Biden now finds his role elevated after months of low-profile campaigning.

For running mates, the vice presidential debate is one of just two spotlight moments, along with the convention ac-ceptance speech. Otherwise, the candidates tend to attract wide attention only for off-message moments of the sort Biden has produced on occa-sion this year.

So Biden’s preparation for

Thursday’s meeting has been months in the making. Even before Ryan’s selection this summer, Biden was studying detailed briefing materials on Romney’s issue positions.

“It’s like you write a 400-page book and memorize it,” one aide said this summer.

After Ryan was tapped in August, Biden began studying videos of his speeches and interviews to become more familiar with his speaking style and to anticipate pos-sible flashpoints. The vice president also told report-ers he was closely studying Ryan’s own policy positions, because “I don’t want to say anything in the debate that’s not completely accurate.”

Since Friday, Biden has been off the campaign trail, returning to his home in Delaware and holding mock debates at a Wilmington ho-tel. Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Ryan’s counterpart on

the House budget committee, is standing in as the opposi-tion player.

Aides deny that Obama’s low-key showing has put new pressure on Biden and say the mood is light. The vice president had planned to host his team for a home-made lasagna dinner at his home Wednesday after their final sessions.

Stakes higher for Biden after President Obama’s poor debate performance

BIDEN

By TYLER KES THE PARTHENON

While Wednesday is tradi-tionally known as hump day, when comedians like Adam Hunter come to Marshall Uni-versity, the day can become as exciting and sensual as the weekend.

During the latest event put on by the Campus Activities Board, Hunter made jokes about a va-riety of topics, ranging from the upcoming election, to the way men view sex.

Hunter has been a comedian for 14 years and this was not his first trip to Huntington dur-ing his career.

“I used to do the Funny Bone — I did it like four or five times back when they had it” said Hunter. “It was great. The Hun-tington people are really great. The nicest people in the world.”

The audience also served as

fodder for Hunter’s jokes. “I try to feed off the crowd,

especially younger crowds,” Hunter said. “If it’s strictly jokes, I feel like it takes away from the live experience. Plus it was a fun experience. I try to make each show an original experience.”

The experience was unique for graduate student Amy Shumacher and recent Miami University graduate Jay Bodell, who were singled out by Hunter over the course of the show.

“I thought it was good,” Shu-macher said. “ He was funny, he had a lot of good one liners and a lot of crowd interaction.”

Hunter was a finalist on “Last Comic Standing,” as well as making appearances on late night talk shows like “The Late Show” and “Conan O’Brien.”

Tyler Kes can be reached at [email protected].

Comedian gets students laughing

By Daniel BrownSAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (MCT)

CINCINNATI — Technically, Tim Lincecum got the win on Wednesday.

But as far as his San Fran-cisco Giants’ teammates are concerned, he ought to get credit for a save.

Lincecum’s 4 1/3 innings of sparkling relief Wednesday helped preserve an 8-3 vic-tory over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 4 and also gave the Giants’ top late-inning options _ Sergio Romo, Javy Lopez and Jeremy Affeldt _ a much-needed day off.

“Now, we have our No. 1 guy (Matt Cain) on the mound and we’ve got everybody rested,” reliever George Kontos said. “We’re looking pretty good.”

Banished to the bullpen for his crummy regular season, Lincecum has made the best of what could have been an awkward situation in the play-offs. Over two relief outings in this National League Division Series against the Reds, he has allowed one run in 6 1/3 innings

Lincecum has eight strike-outs _ and zero walks.

He pitched so well, in fact, that Bruce Bochy said he would

consider giving the two-time Cy Young winner another crack at the rotation should the Gi-ants advance.

“I think you have to (think about it),” the Giants manager said. “He stepped up and did a terrific job. ... When you’re on a stage like this, you’re hop-ing somebody steps up. And Timmy did that tonight.”

Lincecum, a four-time All-Star, could have sulked about being relegated to the bullpen. Instead, Wednesday’s winning pitcher said he has embraced the idea of being a middle reliever.

“Right now, I feel like times are different,” Lincecum said. “We’re playing to get to the NLCS and further. So I feel that, with that motivation, I don’t think about the difference be-tween starting and being in a bullpen situation.

“It’s just that I’ve got to get my outs and do my job.”

Lincecum inherited a jam when he entered in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Reds had runners at first and second and two out as the Giants clung to a 3-2 lead.

Looking more like the Goose than The Freak, the right-hander promptly snuffed the

rally by striking out Ryan Lud-wick on a changeup.

Bochy had found an ideal matchup: Ludwick was 3 for 23 (.130) with 11 strikeouts in his career against Lincecum.

“We knew Timmy would play a critical role in this series like he did tonight,” Bochy said. “I love a man like this who had the talent he has and who buys into what we’re doing.

“He said, ‘I just want to do anything I can to help the

ballclub win.’ “Kontos was among the least

surprised to see how Lincecum has handled the conversion to the bullpen. He was Lincecum’s teammate in the 2005 Cape Cod League. To limit his innings after a long college season, Lincecum served as the team’s closer.

“He was nasty,” Kontos re-called. “He was throwing in the triple-digits (mph) and striking everybody out.”

FOOTBALL STANDINGS

C-USA Overall

EAST DIVISION W L W L UCF 1 0 3 2 MEMPHIS 1 0 1 4 EAST CAROLINA 2 1 3 3 MARSHALL 1 1 2 4UAB 0 1 1 4SOUTHERN MISS 0 1 0 5

C-USA Overall

W L W L TULSA 3 0 5 1 HOUSTON 1 0 2 3SMU 1 0 2 3 TULANE 0 1 0 5 UTEP 0 2 1 5RICE 0 3 1 5

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By LAKE MOREHOUSETHE PARTHENON

Bye week is in full effect for the Marshall Thundering Herd football team.

A week that is normally used by teams to regain play-er’s health, will also serve as a regrouping stage for the 2-4 Thundering Herd.

Marshall Head Coach Doc Holliday said the team is go-ing utilize bye week to rest and also improve internally.

“Our team this week is going to focus on ourselves and get-ting better as a football team,” Holliday said. “We’ve got a lot of guys banged up and this open date comes at a good time.“

Holliday said he believes some time apart from the field is well deserved by the players.

“They need to get away from us for a couple of days,” Holliday said. “We’ve been on them hard since early August. They’ve played extremely hard.”

Going into bye week, Mar-shall ranks second in the nation behind Nevada in overall of-fense, while the defense sits at 124th.

The Thundering Herd’s

defensive struggles have con-tinued to put them in tough late-game situations. Junior linebacker Alex Bazzie said he is aware of the problems and hopes to fix them during the Herd’s week off.

“We need to put more em-phasis on stopping the run,” Bazzie said. “We have a young and inexperienced defense. I believe we’re all going to come back after this bye week and make a difference.”

Marshall’s returns after bye week to face a struggling (0-5) Southern Miss team on the road.

Coach Holliday noted the team will get healthier this week and then proceed into a normal week of preparation for Southern Miss starting Sunday.

A week off of football does not only benefit the players, but the coaches as well.

Coach Holliday said the bye week is a good opportunity for his coaching staff to focus on mid-season recruiting.

“All of the coaches were out Sunday and Monday recruit-ing,” Holliday said. “There’s always a kid that will pop up

somewhere, especially in south Florida.”

The Thundering Herd was in

a similar situation at this point in the season last year. At the six-game mark, they were also

2-4. Marshall would eventually go on to finish the season with a 7-6 record and a bowl victory.

Lake Morehouse can be contacted at [email protected].

Marshall football using bye week to rest

By ADAM ROGERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Bye weeks give coaches an opportunity to get players healthy and make adjustments to gameplans, and it couldn’t come at a better time for a struggling Marshall defense.

The Thundering Herd de-fense has allowed an average of 44.5 points a game and has given up totals of 69 points to West Virgina in the sea-son opener and 51 to Rice and Purdue in back to back games.

That figure puts the Herd dead last in scoring defense and can be attributed to al-lowing almost 470 total yards a game.

“Sometimes stats can be misleading,” junior defensive lineman Alex Bazzie said. “If you look at our stats on de-fense, things just don’t look right. Just being out there playing with those guys, you know what everyone is ca-pable of.”

Head coach Doc Holliday said the defense has to keep working hard in order to improve.

“We have to continue to build on the progress they’ve made and just go out every day and work to get better,” Holliday said. “Are we there yet? No, but we have to con-tinue to work hard to get there.”

The bye week allows the unit to sit down and hold each other accountable for mis-takes made during the first half of the season.

“We’re putting on ourselves to be more accountable for the penalties we give up,” ju-nior corner Derrick Thomas said. “The pass interference I might give up and anything like that. We’re taking ac-countability for every little

thing. If you make a tiny mis-take in practice, it’s still getting called out. Everything has to be called out at this point.”

Calling each other out is made easier with the unit be-ing more familiar with one another compared to the be-ginning of the season.

“We’ve grown into a bigger group and a bigger family. A lot of people don’t really see that,” Bazzie said.

Although the defense was relatively new to one an-other and players new to their respective positions at the beginning of the season, sophomore corner Keith Bax-ter does not see that as an excuse for the team’s disap-pointing performance.

“Its already midway through the season and ev-erybody should already have felt each other out and know each other,” Baxter said. “Its time to go now because we have to make it to a bowl game.”

Now that the defensive squad does know more about one another, they have taken to watching film as a group.

“That’s how you’re going to get better,” Baxter said. “If you have everybody on the defense getting together as a whole and talking about what we have to do to stop this team, learn our plays and learn what offenses are going to do to us.”

If its defense can improve, Marshall may find itself atop the East Division standings and in the Conference USA Championship game with five of the last six games remain-ing on the schedule against teams from the East.

Adam Rogers can be contacted at [email protected].

Thundering Herd defense becoming more cohesive

By Marc CarigNEWSDAY (MCT)

NEW YORK — Pete Rose might be focused on Derek Jeter’s hit total.

Jeter isn’t. At least, that was the message he trumpeted on Wednesday, before the Yan-kees faced the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Divi-sion Series.

“I’m not talking about Pete Rose, man,” Jeter said. “We’re trying to win a game here.”

Rose told the Sports on Earth website this week that his all-time hits record of 4,256 remains safe from Jeter, who has amassed 3,304 life-time hits. The former Reds star believes that at age 38, Jeter’s window will eventu-ally close before he has a chance to make a serious run at the record. He also cited the

demands that Jeter faces at shortstop as another potential deterrent.

“I don’t think he will break the record,” Rose told the site. “First of all, I don’t think he wants to leave the Yankees. And the Yankees, they’re about winning. Jeter had a great year this year, but he’s what? Thirty-eight years old? And he’s a shortstop? How many 40-year-old shortstops you see walking around?”

Jeter just wrapped his best offensive season since 2009, hitting .316 with an on-base percentage of .362. His 216 hits were his most in a single season since 1999. Jeter will make $17 million next sea-son, the final guaranteed year of his most recent contract extension. However, he also holds an $8 million option for

the 2014 season.Jeter, who met Rose once

during a celebrity softball game, insists that Rose’s all-time hits record is “the last thing on my mind right now.”

Instead, Jeter said he has kept the focus on the task directly in front of him, beat-ing the Orioles to reclaim the lead in the best-of-five ALDS. That goal, in turn, leads to an-other one he has discussed for years: equalling the 10 World Series championships won by Hall of Famer Yogi Berra.

“The only one I’m thinking about catching is Yogi,” Jeter said. “Yogi’s really got five though. I always joke with Yogi and say he’s got five because he went straight to the World Series. I figured I’d cut them in half since we got five. I’ll cut them in half.”

Jeter said he’s too far away from Rose’s record to war-rant serious discussions about trying to pass it. “It’s hard to get 3,000 hits,” said Jeter, who joined that exclusive club last season. “I mean, you figure you got to do it for what, 15 years with 200 hits, that’s a lot of hits, man. So 4,000 is 20 years of it. Really, I don’t even know why we’re talking about it.”

Rose reportedly knew by heart the number of hits Jeter needed to equal his all-time hits record. While he dismissed Jeter’s chances of reaching the milestone, the Yankees’ captain didn’t com-pletely discount himself either.

“If you do it long enough, I guess good things happen,” he said. “But I’m not thinking about that.”

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Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of talk within foreign policy circles about a possible war with Iran over its alleged plans to develop nuclear weapons.

This conversation has gone somewhat unnoticed in the United States, with Americans distracted by a weak economy and a presidential election where this particular issue is little more than a footnote, or perhaps the latest episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.”

That may be because it’s become easy, or perhaps even pre-ferred, for the specter of an armed conflict to become a distant concern. Americans are tired of war. We’ve been in at least one since before current fourth-graders were born.

Yet at the same time, citizens of the U.S. haven’t experienced the worst horrors of war — combat on its own soil — since the Civil War. Even the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghani-stan have only been experienced firsthand by a tiny slice of the population.

Thus although we are vaguely aware of the costs of a for-eign war in terms of lives and treasure, the national psyche of the U.S. isn’t properly equipped to understand the true hor-rors of war. So when talk of yet another conflict pops up, we respond with annoyance or even applause, instead of fear and solemnity.

Many have said Americans don’t have an “appetite” for an-other conflict in the Middle East;thus, the logic follows, the U.S. wouldn’t take a lead in such a conflict.

Rather it would be Israel, whose diminutive size and fre-quent appearance in the rants of the Islamic Republic’s leaders has it concerned over the possibility of Iran’s development of powerful weapons. However, many believe that the U.S. would almost certainly get drawn into the conflict anyway since, as a close ally of Israel, it would be seen as having explicitly or tacitly supported Israel’s move.

So any military action against Iran not only holds the pos-sibility of dangerous escalation, but it could even strengthen Iranian leaders’ resolve to build a nuclear weapon or trigger other unforeseen consequences.

Economic sanctions are also proving to be a peaceful, albeit painful, way to put pressure on the Iranian regime. In short, there are plenty of great reasons not to start this war.

As for myself, an outsider who has paid quite a bit of atten-tion to this issue, I too have found it becomes far too easy to talk or think about it in amoral, mathematical terms — discus-sions about “objectives,” “strategy,” or whether or not it would be “successful” from various viewpoints.

But this approach leaves out the most important fact and the most important reason not to go to war: human lives are at stake — people with families, careers, dreams and aspirations.

So alongside all of the talk of weapons capability, red lines, and enrichment facilities, should be a simultaneous aware-ness of how it all affects the Iranian people, many of whom hold generally positive feelings towards the U.S.

Many Iranians — in contrast to the distance Americans possess from armed conflict — have fresh memories of the brutal Iraq-Iran War of the 1980s, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, and simply wish to live peaceful, free lives. Any military strike on Iran would deny that wish, greatly hurt a population that is by all accounts highly pro-U.S. and end innocent lives.

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A great power without a sig-nificant enemy? That’s what the U.S. has become.

Osama bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida is reportedly a shadow of its former self. The great regional threats of the moment, North Korea and Iran, are regimes held to-gether by baling wire and the suffering of their populaces. The only incipient great power rival on the planet, China, has just launched its first aircraft carrier, a refur-bished Ukrainian throwaway from the 1990s on whose deck the country has no planes capable of landing.

The United States, by con-trast, has 1,000 or more bases around the world. It spends as much on its military as the next 14 powers (mostly allies) combined.

It will spend an estimated $1.45 trillion to produce and operate a new aircraft, the F-35 — more than any country, the U.S. included, now spends on its national defense annually. The U.S. Navy, with its 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier task forces, dominates the global waves, and the U.S. Air Force controls the skies in much of the world. And the president now has at his command two specialized armies to supple-ment the traditional armed forces: the CIA, which has been heavily militarized and is running its own private as-sassination campaigns and drone air wars throughout

the Middle East and environs; and the Joint Special Opera-tions Command, cocooned inside the U.S. military, whose members are deployed to hot spots around the globe.

By all the usual measur-ing sticks, the U.S. should be supreme in a historically un-precedented way. And yet it couldn’t be more obvious that it’s not. Despite its over-whelming military superiority, nothing seems to work out in an imperially satisfying way.

Given America’s lack of enemies — a few thousand ji-hadis, a small set of minority insurgencies, a couple of feeble regional powers — what pre-vents Washington’s success?

Certainly, it’s in some way related to the decolonization movements, rebellions and in-surgencies that were a feature of the last century. It also has something to do with the way economic heft has spread be-yond the U.S., Europe and Japan — with the rise of the “tigers” in Asia, the explosion of the Chinese and Indian economies, the advances of Brazil and Tur-key, and the movement of the planet toward some kind of genuine economic multipolar-ity. It may also have something to do with the end of the Cold War, which put a halt to several centuries of great power com-petition and left the U.S. as the sole “victor.”

Perhaps it’s better, though, to think of the growing force that resists such military might as the equivalent of “dark mat-ter” in the universe. We may not understand it fully, but the

evidence is clear that it exists.After the last decade of mili-

tary failures, standoffs and frustrations, you might think that this would be apparent in Washington. And yet, here’s the curious thing: Two admin-istrations have drawn none of the obvious conclusions, and no matter how the presidential election turns out, that won’t change.

Even as military power has proved itself a bust again and again, policymakers have come to rely ever more completely on a military-first response to global problems, operating on some kind of militarized autopilot.

Take Libya, for example. It briefly seemed to count as a rare American military success story: a decisive intervention in support of a rebellion against a brutal dictator. No U.S. ca-sualties resulted, while American and NATO airstrikes were crucial in bringing a set of ill-armed, ill-organized rebels to power.

In the world of unintended consequences, however, the fall of Moammar Gadhafi sent Tuareg mercenaries from his militias, armed with high-end weaponry, across the border into Mali. There, when the dust settled, the whole northern part of the country had fallen under the sway of Islamic extremists and al-Qaida wannabes. Then last month, the first American casualties of the intervention occurred when Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in an at-tack on the Benghazi consulate

and a local safe house.So what is the U.S. reaction?

Yet more military action. Ac-cording to the Washington Post, the White House is planning military operations against al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the terrorist network’s North African branch, which is now armed with weaponry from Gadhafi’s stockpiles. And ac-cording to the New York Times, the Obama administration is “preparing retaliation” against those it believes killed the U.S. ambassador, possibly includ-ing “drone strikes, special operations raids like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, and joint missions with Libyan authorities.” Further destabili-zation is a given.

One could postulate explana-tions for why our policymakers, military and civilian, continue in such a repetitive and self-de-structive vein. Yes, there is the military-industrial complex to be fed. Yes, we are interested in the control of crucial resources, especially energy, and so on.

But it’s probably more rea-sonable to say that a deeply militarized mind-set and the global maneuvers that go with it are by now just a way of life in a Washington eternally “at war.” Military actions have become the tics of an over-wrought great power with the equivalent of Tourette’s syn-drome. They happen because they can’t help but happen, because they are engraved in the policy DNA of our national security complex. In other words, our leaders can’t help themselves.

An America eternally ‘at war’

Are artificial sweeteners really that bad for you? Research regarding the side effects of artificial flavoring seems to remain up in the air, but speculation about the sugar wannabes is a hot topic.

There are lots of players in the artificial sweetener game. There are those who guzzle Diet Coke like there’s no tomorrow, those who ward off anything containing artificial sweeteners and direct all of their friends to do the same and still yet, there is a population with little or no opinion concerning the matter.

The most substantive argument deals with whether or not the sweeteners trick the brain and ultimately cause negative side ef-fects. Disputed long-term effects of artificial sweeteners include metabolic syndrome, hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol.

So they might be “bad” for you, but will they make you fat?Some argue that replacing something like a regular soda with

a “diet” alternative causes a desire to consume more calories to make up for those that were not taken in by the consumption of the zero-calorie soda. It is clear that drinking a beverage with zero calories instead of a something with roughly 150 calories is a bet-ter alternative when counting calories, but these drinks are not magical. Drinking a diet soda does not make you lose weight, yet it has not been proven to promote weight gain for any reason other than being linked with higher caloric intake.

Everything, within reason, is fine in moderation. A Diet Coke is not going to kill you, but it is also not going to make you lose weight.

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Abby Sinclair, front, and Christina Byrd, back, watch as a colony of flesh-eating beetles work to clear bison meat from bones Oct. 3 in the Science Building in Huntington. The bison bones will be reassembled to provide the school a bison skeleton for display.

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Big bones are coming to Mar-shall University for all to see. A bison has been donated to the College of Science for students to clean and assemble its bones into a mount that will be displayed in the science building on campus.

Suzanne Strait, professor of biology at Marshall said getting a bison skeleton to display just seemed appropriate for Mar-shall’s College of Science.

“We may not have space for a herd but we can certainly find space for one bison,” Strait said.

Getting a hold of a bison was the biggest hurdle faced, but that problem was easily fixed thanks to Facebook and some community connections. Joe Hamden, graduate student in biology, worked with Strait to find a bison for the school. Strait and Hamden initially thought they would only find a bison outside of the state or at the very least, several hours away, which could get expensive.

“I put it on Facebook and Joe called around and within a week we had found a person in Milton who was putting a bison down,” Strait said.

Strait and Hamden said they wanted to get a bison in the

most environmentally friendly and economically smart way possible. So the fact that this bison was so close to Marshall, was donated and was sched-uled to be put down regardless was perfect for their needs.

“They had to put her down; she was dying of natural causes, she was sick, she had lost a couple hundred pounds and was just not doing good,” Hamden said.

Hamden and student vol-unteers drove up to the farm in Milton to field dress and butcher the bison, a process that took them seven hours to finish.

Hamden and Strait both agree that the whole process is a great learning experience for the students involved.

“I would love to work in museums and learning the skills needed to strip and

skeletonize a carcass is a very marketable skill,” Christina Byrd, graduate student from Suffolk,Va., said.

Hamden is using a colony of flash-eating beetles to strip the carcass of the bison of the rest of the meat they were not able to get off during the butchering process. Hamden said he had just run out of food for the bee-tles and was just getting ready to prepare other meat when the bison became available.

“I would guess that we got 400-500 pounds of meat that’s not edible because she was ill and the only things that can eat it are the beetles, ” Hamden said.

He also said bison meat is not cheap, costing anywhere from $10-$14 a pound, so this is a big win for the beetles, students and the College of Science.

Strait said when completed, the bison will have its own dis-play in the College of Science for students and the commu-nity to come out and see.

Elizabeth Stewart can be reached at [email protected].

Bison donated to College of ScienceFlesh-eating beetles eat the flesh off of bison bones on Oct. 3.

Peckham said she was nom-inated to join Phi Kappa Phi and was inducted in spring 2012. She said her member-ship allowed her access to a number of opportunities.

“It has opened a door to things that I would not have had access to otherwise,” Peck-ham said. “It is amazing how you never know what opportu-nities will come as a results of another opportunity.”

Peckham has received sev-eral awards since she began teaching at Marshall in 2009.

She won the Robert Wat-son Poetry Award in 2010 and the Marshall University Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award in 2011. She has also recently been cited for a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2012.

“I always tell my students that there is no shame in networking,” Peckham said. “There is no shame in being your best advocate and get-ting your foot in the door, because you never know what opportunities it will lead to.”

Suzann Al-Qawasmi can be contacted at [email protected].

to learn and educate your-self and to meet different people,” Elhamdani said. “In West Virginia, people believe American Muslims are just a small group, but it is our duty, as a group, to get people an educational experience so they can grow and under-stand who we are and our place in the world.”

Elhamdani said MSA is a support group for Muslims at Marshall.

“We seek to spread a posi-tive, compassionate image about Islam,” Elhamdani said. “We seek to be a source of knowledge, strength and com-passion for the community.”

Elhamdani said fasting is important to him and he hopes people come and are positively affected.

“The fast is important to me because it brings me closer to

God and his creation,” Elham-dani said. “Everything about fasting revolves around com-passion. By not yelling and arguing, we bring up reflection and compassion and we re-consider who we are, what we are doing and what we should do to be a better person.”

Elhamdani said you do not need to be Muslim to ap-preciate and benefit from Ramadan.

“I hope the university and the people who are coming will take this as a gift,” Elham-dani said. “I hope they will be able to use this in their lives to draw closer to God and to be able to reflect on and address problems in their lives.”

The fast will take place Fri-day from 6:23 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. and will be followed by a dinner in BE5 at the Memo-rial Student Center.

Samuel Speciale can be contacted at [email protected]

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Pulliam said students who were unable to attend the Career Expo to set up an inter-view could log on to JobTrax to be considered for a web conference interview later in the semester.

There were also several companies who have added Marshall University to their recruiting circuit for the first time this year.

“We are actually looking to expand our recruiting reach this year, so we decided to give Marshall a trial run,” said

Daniel Mormak, talent ac-quisition supervisor for PLS Logistic Services.

“There were a lot of great opportunities and it gave me the chance to network be-fore I graduate in the spring, when I will be looking for a job,” Danielle Mayo, senior management major from Gal-lipolis, Ohio, said.

There were more than 80 companies in attendance ranging from healthcare to engineers to government jobs and graduate studies.

Elizabeth Stewart can be contacted at [email protected].

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THE PARTHENONMarshall University was

transported to a different world as a professor took his audience on a journey com-paring two key figures of world literature.

Marshall Spanish pro-fessor, Slav N. Gratchev, presented a lecture, “Cer-vantes and Dostoyevsky: Crossing the Boundaries of Space and Time,” on Wednes-day in the Shawkey Room of Marshall’s Memorial Student Center.

He began his lecture com-paring the two authors and describing how they have influenced both himself and other over the years.

Gratchev first focused on Cervantes, chronicling his earlier life and his written works.

Born in Madrid, Spain, Cer-vantes lived a difficult life. He spent time as a slave and a prisoner. During his five years in prison he penned “Don Quixote.”

“Don Quixote” challenged what was popular in litera-ture at the time and Cervantes used a style that was power-ful to readers. Gratchev said he thinks Don Quixote, in his opinion, is the first novel.

It was translated from Span-ish to English within seven years of its initial release.

“The English language has changed so drastically

over time but the Spanish language has stayed the same,” Gratchev said. “It is not easy for many native English speakers to read Shakespeare because of how different the language is.”

After Cervantes, Gratchev moved on to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Dostoevsky was born in Moscow, but lived in St. Pe-tersburg, Russia, most of his life. He is most famous for his later works; “Crime and Punishment,” “The Idiot” and “The Brothers Karamazov.”

Samuel Bush, a 21-year-old Spanish education major from Parkersburg, W.Va., attended the lecture because Gratchev is one of his professors.

“I am a Spanish educa-tion major so listening to this interesting concept is something that I would have never otherwise been introduced to,” Bush said. “I have had several classes with him so seeing him talk about these two novelists who lived centuries apart is exciting.”

Gratchev said Dostoevsky and Cervantes were both in-fluential with their works and challenged what other writers before them had written about.

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“We hope that the graduate student council will provide that mechanism,” Spindel said.

The Graduate School has been in place at Marshall since the 1940s and has changed and grown a lot since then.

There are 47 different mas-ters programs, six doctorate programs, two education specialists’ degrees and 33 graduate certificates.

Much of the recent growth has been in the health fields,

which is pretty common across institutions.

Spindel said she still be-lieves students should go into advanced education because having real work experience outside the typical classroom setting can help them succeed in the world.

“I think there is a growing sense that we’re in a global economy and it’s very impor-tant for students in this day and age to earn advanced cre-dentials for the kind of good jobs that are available,” Spindel said.

Master’s degrees typically take two years. Spindel said students going full-time do just fine but many students with other responsibilities and are going part-time can take a little bit longer. Because of this, the Graduate School offers students seven years to finish their program.

Spindel says undergraduate students who may be inter-ested in Graduate School will learn a lot from other students and faculty.

“We have got a great student body, a great faculty and we’ve

just got that great combina-tion. It’s pretty unusual, so any student who’s interested in graduate education here I think there’s a lot of opportunity,” Spindel said.

Undergraduate students are welcome to attend any graduate events for more in-formation, with the Graduate Student Fair Oct. 24 being a primary focus for those with questions about the programs, financial aid and admissions.

Tessa Wooten can be reached at [email protected].

The luncheon is the first event in an effort by the SGA to establish the Veterans Council, and will primarily serve to disseminate infor-mation to veterans about trips, recreational activities and many other details that veterans may not be aware of.

Speakers at the event will include Murphy, Military Af-fairs Liaison, Kelly Sweetman, Veteran Affairs Liaison for Rec-reational Activities, Brent Swan and Counselor for the Vets

Centers, Ben Smith. This council will be com-

prised of students who attend Marshall and are veterans, and will serve to help veter-ans with Disabled American Veterans and Paralyzed Vet-erans of America benefits. It will also address class-room issues, career planning concerns and provide com-munity connections to help them begin a career after they graduate.

The luncheon is free for veter-ans to attend.

Sean DeLancey can be contacted at [email protected].

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The CW network has started a series of dark promotions for the new televi-sion show, “Beauty and the Beast,” that will premiere Thursday at 9 p.m.

This version is loosely based around the classic tale with darker themes and undertones being set in a post 9/11 New York.

In addition to familiar characters, new characters are introduced in this series. One of the new characters is being portrayed by actor Austin Basis. Basis was born and raised in Brook-lyn, N.Y. and attended Binghamton University. There he received a B.A. in theatre and was then accepted into “The Actors Studio Drama School,” where he earned an M.F.A. in acting.

Since becoming a lifetime member of The Actors Studio, Basis made his tele-vision debut in a Comedy Central film “Porn’n’Chicken,” but received more recognition in 2004 when he was cast for “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Basis’s list of reputable TV shows he has appeared in include “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Supernatural,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “NCIS,” “Life on Mars” and most notably two seasons as the character Math on “Life Unexpected.”

In the new drama series, Basis plays J.T. Forbes, a childhood friend of Jay Ryan (Beast). Forbes has been helping Ryan guard a terrible secret: when en-raged, Ryan becomes a terrifying beast that is unable to control his height-ened senses and super-strength.

“The director of the pilot was a di-rector and executive producer on “Life Unexpected” that we had done together,” Basis said. “Through that and him picking up this pilot as a proj-ect, he spotted me for J.T. Forbes and brought me in to meet the producers. The rest is history.”

Basis said he found the role challeng-ing and exciting in becoming Forbes because his character is an ex-medical researcher and biochemistry professor.

“Dealing with this aspect, and the fact that this guy (J.T. Forbes) is probably smarter than me is a little challenging,” Basis said. “As an actor, the ultimate challenge is to set the stakes as life and death for this charac-ter and that we are really being chased by this government organization in the journalism field making Vincent

out to be a monster.” Basis said although it is a dark and

dramatic show, he provides a bit of co-medic relief and really thinks the fans will connect with the love interest and a new take on this classic fairy tale.

“It’s not the easy or instant love in this series that have been told in the past,” Basis said. “Fans will also see some awesome action scenes that Kristen (Beauty) does where she kicks some major butt, and also the Beast stuff which is all supernatural with a lure that’s revealed throughout the season. It’s not a set story, it’s ever-changing and I think it’s going to be fun for people to watch.”

As the CW takes on the risk of changing up a well-known and loved

story that could bring acclaim or ridi-cule, the stakes are a little different for Basis than what some may think.

“I can only speak for myself, but it’s probably a little different for Jay and Kristen, who are the Beauty and the Beast and have that to live up to,” Basis said. “Whereas my character J.T is a new thing and is an invented part of this re-telling. I feel like it’s so different than the original tales, the writer’s have started their thought process in creating a new world that’s completely different. It’s a modern adaptation and fans will real-ize quickly that the show has suspense, supernatural, comedy, action and special effects and through the season every character’s baggage is revealed.”

Basis said as an actor in the series,

there are always three different levels of a character that has to be played.

“There is what you know, what every-one else knows, and what the audience knows, and you really have to craft your performance around that,” Basis said.

Basis also said that as an actor the most important thing for his career has been his training. Basis said although pursuing a career in this field is not necessarily an easy, it’s well worth the struggles and hard work if it is what you love.

“I would say training is impor-tant,” Basis said. “A lot of people come to L.A. with a wing and a prayer on a dream of becoming an actor. No matter how driven your motivation and talent is, there is a base of techniques that you can use when you have training. I still owe money from graduate school that I’m paying off, thankfully through the work I’m doing on Beauty and the Beast, for training. If people re-ally want to succeed and do this for a living, you need to go to class and to school for the proper training. Even though you may have a look, it will only take you so far.”

The CW’s new drama “Beauty and the Beast” premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. Fans can keep up with Austin Basis and current projects on Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/officialaustinbasis

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Monday, October 155:30 P.M. Beasts of the

Southern Wild7:30 P.M. A Separation

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