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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 | VOL. 118 NO. 48 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com
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By BRYAN BOZEMANTHE PARTHENON
With the recent buzz about Ebola and the up-coming flu season, Marshall University health officials and university leaders are making sure the student body and Marshall commu-nity is prepared.
Although the threat of Ebola is unlikely to come to fruition, influenza and En-terovirus D68 are infectious diseases students can likely get if they do not take the appropriate precautionary measures.
Tracy Smith, director of Marshall’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety, said representatives of his office, Student Health Services, Department of Housing and Residence Life, Student Health Edu-cation Programs and INTO Marshall have been work-ing together to coordinate
infectious disease prepared-ness for several weeks.
“The safety of the Mar-shall University community is our top priority,” Smith said. “We are monitoring the Ebola situation very closely and are taking pre-cautionary measures as recommended by federal, state and local public health officials.”
To make sure students are safe, the team has been reviewing the university’s communicable diseases response plan, educating the student body and fac-ulty through email on how to prepare and protect themselves from infectious diseases and have made flu shots available for students.
Director of Student Health Education Programs Amy Saunders said the univer-sity follows guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
works with the Cabell-Hun-tington Health Department to make sure the univer-sity has an effective plan in place in response to poten-tial outbreaks.
“We have a great partner-ship with our local health department and work closely with them on the prevention of infectious diseases,” Saunders said. “We have a well-developed emergency response plan, and we are currently re-viewing our policies and procedures so we can make sure that we are do-ing everything we can to be prepared.”
Marshall students seek-ing information about infectious diseases and how to get treated for them can visit marshall.edu/studenthealth.
Bryan Bozeman can be contacted at [email protected].
BEING PREPARED Marshall University health officials are ready to take on
flu season
Real women come in every shape and size, and there is no
shape or size your body can come in that would make you any less of a
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HVZ: LOOKING FOR REINFORCEMENTS
By ANTHONY DAVISTHE PARTHENON
Some Marshall University students are in an all out war on campus and are looking for reinforcements as Herd Vs. Zombies rages into it’s third day.
According to James Lynch, senior business major and moderator of the event, stu-dents who want to play a human in the game still have all day Thursday to sign up at the Herd vs. Zombies table in the Memorial Student Center, while zombies can sign up anytime until the game ends Oct. 30.
Lynch said so far this year
only 180 students have signed up, whereas last fall semester about 450 students signed up.
“We’re trying to get more people to sign up,” Lynch said. “This is our second lowest turnout for the event in the five years that we have been run-ning it. It doesn’t mean that it’s bad by any means because it’s still a lot of people, but it’s not what we want.”
The game begins with all players portraying humans with the exception of three zombie players. Humans are identified by blue bands and
“When people ask ‘Who would have ever dreamed that Marshall would be in the top 25?’ Well Doc Holliday did, Mike Hamrick did and Steve Kopp did.” MORE ON SPORTS
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By JOHN FAUSSTHE PARTHENON
The College of Busi-ness graduate students are being offered the op-portunity to interact with local human resource pro-fessionals at the Marshall University HR Research Conference this spring.
The graduate students create research posters, which are made as a class project and displayed for HR professionals to view at the conference. One of the main goals of the conference is to act as a bridge between Marshall graduate students and fac-ulty and HR Professionals.
The event was origi-nally concieved by Frank Bosco and Ivan S. Muslin. This will mark its fourth consecutive year. The
conference is broken up into two separate sessions.
The first session fea-tures presentations from professors of the Mar-shall faculty who conduct HR research. After the conclusion of the facul-ty ’s expositions, the next session features an in-teractive poster research presentation by the gradu-ate students.
The conference typi-cally occurs in a restaurant where the grad-uate students are given the opportunity to present and discuss their findings with HR professionals.
The idea behind these presentations is to place students in a situation they might not be comfort-able in, such as giving a speech in front of people.
The graduate students are asked questions to test their impromptu answers about the research they conducted.
Muslin said the event is in a restaurant to help quell the nerves of the students during their pre-sentations.
“We want to let the com-munity see what we’re doing,” Muslin said. “We also want our students to see what their peers are doing, and to give them an opportunity to let them talk about it in a time and place that isn’t too intimi-dating. The goal isn’t to make people look bad, the goal is to show them what they are capable of doing.”
John Fauss can be contacted at [email protected].
COB grad students gain experience through research presentations
Tabatha Greer, senior, views “Night of the Living Dead” Wednesday in room 402 of the Drinko Library. Marshall libraries presented the event for students as a special Halloween feature.
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Marshall libraries presents ‘Night of the Living Dead’
Crime BriefsBy TIM CARRICOTHE PARTHENON
Arrests made in Huntington raid
A Huntington woman was arrested on felony drug charges Monday. Debra Chinn, 46, was ar-rested at her home on the 900 block of 24th Street on a charge of delivery and possession of a con-trolled substance. Police allege Chinn was in pos-session of oxycodone and suboxone.
Shane McCaffery, 27, of Huntington, was also ar-rested at the same home for an unrelated misde-meanor capias warrant for transferring and re-ceiving stolen property.
Officers with the
Huntington Police Depart-ment Special Emphasis Unit, HPD Patrol Bureau and the Violent Crime Federal Drug Task Force were involved in Mon-day’s arrests.
“It’s something that’s vital in our police op-eration, we need tips to help us in these ar-rests,” Johnson said. “You can call anonymously, by calling our tip line at 304-696-4444.”
Officers also recov-ered four firearms and distribution amounts of oxycodone and suboxone at the home, according to a news release. Code En-forcement has deemed the property uninhabitable.
Dozens arrested in WVU riots
The Morgantown Po-lice Department said it is trying to determine who is responsible for riots that broke out after Sat-urday’s football game against Baylor. University Police said celebratory parties in several neigh-borhoods quickly turned destructive.
Fires were set through-out the Sunnyside community, as well as other parts of the city, before 10:30 p.m. Crowds pushed over streetlights along High Street, creat-ing thousands of dollars worth of damage, and threw rocks and beer bot-tles at police, according to a university news release.
“This is not acceptable Mountaineer behavior,”
West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee said in a press release. “It is not ‘partying’ to set fires, tear down fences or throw bottles at police. It is criminal, and will be dealt with as such. I have zero tolerance for stu-dents who wish to act in such a way that it de-means the achievements of our institution and its faculty, staff, students, alumni and our Morgan-town community.”
Thirty-eight arrests have been made since Saturday.
MPD and WVU Police continue to investigate the situation.
Tim Carrico can be contacted at [email protected].
By PAULINA SHEPHERDTHE PARTHENON
Fat Patty’s and Marshall University came together Wednesday, as the local busi-ness donated 10 percent of its earnings received be-tween 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. to the Breast and Cervical Can-cer Screening Program.
The BCCSP is a West Vir-ginia foundation that tries to help women in the local area gain access to health for screening services.
The Marshall Univer-sity School of Medicine’s American Medical Women’s Association financed the fundraiser. The AMWA has partnered with Fat Patty’s in the past, and they have had several successes.
“[Fat Patty’s] is always re-ally receptive to having us,” said Rebecca Creel, presi-dent of AMWA. “They’re cool with us staking out here for awhile.”
The partnership works both ways. Derek Artrip, manager at Fat Patty’s, said they are happy to have an event like this because it brings the community closer together.
“At Fat Patty’s, we love to help out our community,” Ar-trip said. “We already try and do a lot in the community, especially with little league and churches. We’re always donating to them. This is a great opportunity for us, es-pecially with the Marshall community since they’re as-sociated with Marshall.”
Word about the fundraiser got out to different people all around the area and the event drew in public work-ers, college students and members of the community.
Kelsey Gallimore, Fat Patty’s customer, said she believes this will help gather support for breast and cervi-cal cancer.
“Breast cancer and cervi-cal cancer are a really big problem because there is no cure,” Gallimore said. “I think that it’s great that Fat Patty’s is going to be able to put money toward this.”
Along with raising money for the BCCSP, Creel said she believes it’s also go-ing to help raise awareness for these diseases and re-mind people they need to be careful.
“We all know people who have been affected by breast cancer, and being in the med-ical field, we try to get people aware that they need to get their cervical screening at a certain age,” Creel said. “You need to get your breast can-cer screenings. We just want people to be aware that there are programs around that will help take care of that.”
Paulina Shepherd can be contacted at [email protected].
Fat Patty’s, MU raise money for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program
Early Apple computer sells for $905,000 at auctionTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A vintage Apple computer that was one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 sold for $905,000 at auction on Wednesday, far exceeding pre-sale estimates and outdoing a previous high price of more than $671,000 paid in Germany last year.
Bonhams auction house said Wednesday’s winning bid, which includes its premium, came from The Henry Ford museum.
The computer, which had been estimated to sell for $300,000 to $500,000, has an intact mother-board and a vintage keyboard and monitor. It also has a power supply contained in a wooden box and two tape decks, Bonhams said.
“The provenance on the Apple-1 is excellent and the con-dition is outstanding, so it was not surprising that it did so well,” the auction house’s specialist for the sale, Cassandra Hatton, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have broken the world record
for its sale, and are even more thrilled that it is going to a won-derful new home at the Henry Ford Museum.”
An Apple-1 computer sold last year in Cologne, Germany, for $671,400. Apple, the maker of iPads, iPhones and iMac com-puters, is based in Cupertino, California.
The auction was Bonhams’ first in New York City of items connected to science and technol-ogy. Other lots included a letter by Charles Darwin to a colleague about the sex life of barnacles and the earliest electrical keyboard, a Helmholtz sound synthesizer from 1905. There were a number of globes, books, other documents and a telescope from 1870. There also was a framed painted por-trait of Bill Gates.
In the letter, which sold for $25,000, Darwin says he wants to learn more about the sex act of barnacles, such things as “were the specimens under water at times” and “if the recipient was in full vigor?”
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Marshall University’s Devon Johnson (left) and Rakeem Cato (right) hand out tickets for Saturday’s game against Florida Atlantic to the student body as ESPN films a feature on the Thundering Herd football team Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center Plaza. LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON
Cam Lyons, Blair Demetroules, and Kyle Rheude show their Marshall spirit as ESPN films a feature on the Thundering Herd football team Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center Plaza.
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Huntington Mayor Steve Williams chats with Marshall University’s Chris Jasperse as ESPN films a feature on the Thundering Herd football team Wednesday at the Memorial Student Center Plaza. LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON
Herd football gets All-Access treatmentBy ALEX JAMESTHE PARTHENON
The Memorial Student Center plaza was fi l led with kelly green as mem-bers of the student body received a student ticket to this Saturday’s game against Florida Atlantic University. ESPN All-Ac-cess cameras were roll ing as tickets were distributed by members of the Thun-dering Herd football team.
The students weren’t the only members of the Mar-shall community excited to see ESPN. Junior run-ning back Devon Johnson said he and his teammates are lucky.
“It ’s great ,” Johnson said. “Not too many schools get this opportunity, and I ’m blessed that we’ve had the season that we are having right now and that we’re able to be on ESPN. You know, it ’s great to bring that back to this pro-gram, the fans need it , the community needs it and I ’m blessed to have this opportunity to put Mar-shall back in the top 25. But least of all , we need to take it one game at a time to advance farther. It shows that hard work and dedication pays off . That’s what we did as a team, we worked hard and every-thing we’ve achieved, we deserve.”
Senior defensive l ine-man James Rouse said he is excited to have All-Ac-cess on campus this week.
“It brings excitement and energy to have ESPN here interviewing us and videoing us, it ’s a big deal ,” Rouse said. “It ’s great be-cause we’re getting back to how the days use to be with Chad [Pennington] and Byron Leftwich, and the community l ikes that a lot .”
Senior quarterback Ra-keem Cato has a different perception on All-Access coming to Huntington.
“It ’s just another day be-ing a part of the Marshall family and being satisfied with everything that’s go-ing on,” Cato said. “Just the family, al l the love you receive, and having a com-munity that shares one goal and one dream.”
Aaron Goebbel , associ-ate athletic director, said the exposure Marshall is receiving from ESPN is extraordinary.
“It ’s unprecedented what ESPN All–Access brings,” Goebbel said. “It ’s another thing to have someone come and watch your football program and get behind the scenes to see what makes you unique and what makes your foot-ball program exciting and part of the community.
Whenever you hear Mar-shall University and you hear people from ESPN or Fox or CBS and you see us in USA Today and you see us in the national me-dia, you can’t put a value on that kind of exposure. It ’s a trickle down effect for all of the sports, but it also helps the university. It ’s a great positive l ight shined on our university and hopefully we see a kid in New York City that reads the Times and says ‘Wow, Marshall Univer-sity ’ and decide they want to come here for school .”
Huntington Mayor Steve Will iams said ESPN com-ing to Marshall ’s campus doesn’t just showcase Marshall , but the city of Huntington as well .
“It ’s affirming what we have expected for some-time,” Will iams said. “It ’s affirming the vision that Doc Holliday, Mike Ham-rick and Steve Kopp had. When people ask ‘Who would have ever dreamed that Marshall would be in the top 25?’ Well , Doc Holliday did, Mike Ham-rick did and Steve Kopp did. It helps, at least from the standpoint of being mayor, for ESPN to come in. It really showcases our town and the suc-cess of the football team, as the football team is an
ambassador for the city of Huntington and Marshall University. This team has grown up over the last four years. We had a lot of bril l iant athletes when they first came here and now they have grown, they have matured and you’re able to see what they have done together. Most importantly, they’re good athletes, certainly great students, but they are young men of great character.”
The segment is expected to air Oct . 28 and it will document the athletes’ schedules, giving viewers insight to the behind the scenes look at Marshall ’s football program. In the segment , the student athletes, team managing figures and equipment staff will demonstrate how the number 23 team in the nation prepares for game day.
Alex James can be con-tacted at james142@marshall .edu.
COLUMN: Holliday leading revival of Marshall football
By SHANNON STOWERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
When Marshall University head football coach Doc Hol-liday was hired in December 2009, he was tasked with re-building a program that hadn’t enjoyed the national spotlight in more than five years.
Leading up to Holliday’s ar-rival, the Herd managed one winning season in six years and a record 29-46. In the five years since Holliday was hired, the Herd has won 34 games, including winning seasons three of the last four years.
A sign that the spotlight is once again beginning to shine on Marshall football came Wednesday when ESPN was
on campus filming a segment to be aired Oct. 28 on ESPNU.
Holliday said he wanted to cancel the ESPN filming at first, but realized that atten-tion is the byproduct of a good team.
“To be honest with you, I was wanting to cancel it all because I don’t want distractions,” Hol-liday said. “But I thought back to when we were at Florida and were really good and had some really good teams; that’s what happens to good teams: you get that kind of press, you get people wanting to talk to you and you get people com-ing in. It’s not a bad thing, it’s a great thing.”
In the midst of an undefeated
season, the attention will only continue to grow as the wins keep coming.
Holliday said the hype is something the team will enjoy, but will also have to learn to handle as the season goes on.
“We’ve got to embrace it, but we’ve also got to be able to handle it,” Holliday said.
Herd players may have to ad-just to the newfound attention, but for fans who have followed the program through the ups and downs, this season feels like a revival of a previously successful period in Marshall football.
It wasn’t that long ago that
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Thin shaming is real, it is mean, it hurts people and it is never okay…just like body-shaming of any kind. We never know what body image battle a person is fighting, which puts all types of body-shaming on the same level.
An Oct. 21 article titled “5 Reasons Why We Need to Stop Thinking of Skinny-Shaming as ‘Reverse Discrimination’” by Melissa A. Fabello on Ev-eryday Feminism addresses this issue and comes to the conclusion that while skinny-shaming is not okay, it is distinct from and less severe than fat-shaming.
While it is a fact and a sad one that fat-discrimination exists in our society, we can-not equate the fact that thin-privilege also exists to thin-shaming being less se-vere because of it.
Maybe average-sized and thin people receive more so-cietal advantages because of that, but it doesn’t change the way they feel when someone makes a negative comment about the way they look. That skinny girl could be recover-ing from an eating disorder
— a process that requires a rewiring in the way she thinks about her body — and your snarky comment about how she could stand to eat a cheese-burger could end up set-ting her back signifi-cantly in the path to recov-ery.
Even com-ments you believe to be compli-ments could be hurtful. For example, “You have lost so much weight! You look great!” Seems like a compliment, right? What if the person you are “complimenting” didn’t lose the weight on purpose? What if he or she has been sick? What if he or she were
happier at their previous size? You have just implied
to them that they look better than
they did before and that is go-
ing to stick with them. It could change the en-tire way they think of their own body. Maybe thin-shaming isn’t as
bad as fat-sham-
ing, but we aren’t going
to make any progress if we
keep being asked to look at these distinc-
tions. It is never our place to make a comment about some-one’s weight — positive or negative. Frankly, it just isn’t anyone else’s business. Like Fabello said, “If we want to
curb body-hate, we can’t par-ticipate in body-hate.” Well, that means both ways.
“Real women” aren’t curvy. They aren’t supermodels ei-ther. Real women come in every shape and size, and there is no shape or size your body can come in that would make you any less of a real woman. The same concept applies to men. Being a “real man” doesn’t mean you are muscular or tall. Every man is a real man.
In fact, why even waste time coming up with labels and de-scriptors? Do you treat your body well? Do you feel good? Are you happy? If the answer to all of those questions is yes, then your body is perfect and you needn’t think of it any further.
We as a culture need to ac-cept the fact that it is never going to be okay to comment on another person’s body. If you want to pay someone a genuine compliment, just tell him or her they look great. No need to compare what they looked like before to now be-cause, guess what? It is none of your damn business.
“Real women come in every shape and size, and there is
no shape or size your body can come in that would make you any less of a real woman.
The same concept applies to men.”
Body classifications are wrong no matter what size a person is
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Editor’s note: This article first ap-peared in The American Spectator.
It was Oct. 19, 1984—30 years ago this week. A gentle, courageous, and genuinely holy priest, Jerzy Pop-ieluszko, 37, found himself in a ghastly spot that, though it must have horri-fied him, surely did not surprise him. An unholy trinity of three thugs from communist Poland’s secret police had seized and pummeled him. He was bound and gagged and stuffed into the trunk of their cream-colored Fiat 125 automobile as they roamed the countryside trying to decide where to dispatch him. This kindly priest was no less than the chaplain to the Solidarity movement, the freedom fighters who would ultimately prove fatal to Soviet communism—and not without Pop-ieluszko’s stoic inspiration.
The ringleader this October day was Captain Grzegorz Piotrowski, an agent of Poland’s SB. Unlike Jerzy, who grew up devoutly religious, Piotrowski was raised in an atheist household, which, like the communist despots who gov-erned Poland, was an aberration in this pious Roman Catholic country.
The disregard for God and morality made Piotrowski an ideal man for the grisly task ahead, which he assumed with a special, channeled viciousness.
Piotrowski’s first beating of the priest that evening was so severe that it should have killed him. Jerzy was a small man afflicted with Addi-son’s disease. He previously had been hospitalized for other infirmities, in-cluding (understandably) stress and anxiety. But somehow, the priest was managing to survive as he fought for his life in the cold, dark trunk of the Fiat. In fact, somehow he unloosened the ropes that knotted him and extri-cated himself from the car. He began to run, shouting to anyone who could hear, “Help! Save my life!”
He was run down by Piotrowski, a dedicated disciple of what a Polish ad-mirer of Jerzy, Pope John Paul II, would dub the Culture of Death. “I caught up with him and hit him on the head sev-eral times with the stick,” Piotrowski later confessed. “I hit him near or on the head. He fell limp again. I think he must have been unconscious. And then I became—never mind, it doesn’t matter.”
It did matter. It certainly mattered to
the helpless priest. What Piotrowski became was something altogether worse. He seemed overtaken by an-other force. As recorded by authors Roger Boyes and John Moody in their superb book, Messenger of the Truth, which is now a gripping documentary, Piotrowski’s accomplices thought their comrade had gone mad, “so wild were the blows.” It was like a public flogging. Jerzy’s pounding was so re-lentless that it wouldn’t be misplaced to think of Christ’s scourging at the pil-lar. This young man in persona Christi, not much older than Jesus Christ at his death agony, was being brutally tor-tured. It was a kind of crucifixion; the kind at which communists uniquely excelled.
One is tempted to say that Pi-otrowski beat the hell out of Father Jerzy, but such would be inappropri-ate and inaccurate for such a man of faith. Really, the hell was coming out of the beater, in all its demonic force and fury.
After another round of thrashing, Piotrowski and his two fellow tormen-tors ramped up the treatment. They grabbed a roll of thick adhesive tape and ran it around the priest’s mouth,
nose, and head, tossing him once again in the vehicle, like a hunk of garbage on its way to the heap.
Though he could barely breathe or move, Father Jerzy somehow again pried open the trunk as the car con-tinued to its destination. This set Piotrowski into a rage. He stopped the vehicle, got out, looked sternly at the priest, and told him that if he made even one more sound, he would strangle him with his bare hands and shoot him. Boyes and Moody report what happened next: “He [Piotrowski] replaced the gun and lifted [his] club. It came down on the priest’s nose, but instead of the sound of cartilage breaking, there was a plop, like a stick hitting the surface of a puddle.”
The perpetrators didn’t realize it quite yet, but it was the final, deadly blow. The next time they saw Father Jerzy, they had no doubt.
The killers drove to a spot at the Vistula River. They tied two heavy bags of stones, each weighing nearly 25 pounds, to the priest’s ankles. They lifted him in a vertical position above the water and then quietly let him go. He sunk into the blackness below them. It was 10 minutes before
midnight, Oct. 19, 1984. “Popieluszko is dead,” announced Lieutenant Leszek Pekala to his collaborators in this re-volting, sad crime. The third helper, Lieutenant Waldemar Chmielewski, solemnly and simply affirmed, “That’s right.”
They drove away, downing a bottle of vodka to try to numb what they had done. Pekala thought to himself as he drank, “Now we are murderers.”
Indeed they were. Of course, so was the system they represented. It and its handmaidens had consumed count-less Jerzy Popieluszkos and tens of millions of others whose names tragi-cally will never be remembered on the anniversary of their deaths.
This priest, however, was remem-bered, by the millions. When he didn’t show for 7 a.m. Mass the next morning, his parishioners were immediately alarmed. This wasn’t like the loyal and punctual man of the cloth. A search for his whereabouts quickly commenced. It would take some time, but the truth eventually prevailed, as it did against communism generally. Among those sickened by the news was a Polish
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ASSOCIATED PRESSA killer whale born to much
hope in early September appar-ently died while its pod was in the open ocean off Washington or British Columbia, the Center for Whale Research said.
The baby was the first known calf born since 2012 to a popu-lation of endangered orcas that frequent Puget Sound in Wash-ington state.
It has not been seen since its pod returned in recent days to the inland waters of western Washington, said the center's Ken Balcomb.
"The baby is gone," he said Tuesday.
The pod was offshore for a week to 10 days, and the orca designated L-120 might have been lost in a storm in the middle of last week, Balcomb said.
The baby was a member of "L pod," one of three closely tracked families within the dwindling Puget Sound population.
Researchers observed the pod, but not the baby, on Friday in Puget Sound, on Sat-urday in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, and on Monday in Haro Strait, between San Juan Island and Victoria, Brit-ish Columbia.
"The mother is there, aunt's there, big brother," Balcomb said. "The baby didn't make it."
That leaves 78 killer whales in the Puget Sound population.
The newborn was spotted in the first week of September off San Juan Island. Two other whales are presumed dead af-ter disappearing earlier this year, so the birth was hailed.
"We were being guardedly optimistic that a turning point had been reached, but that is not the case," Balcomb said.
The unique population numbered more than 140 ani-mals decades ago but declined to a low of 71 in the 1970s,
when dozens were captured for marine parks and aquari-ums. The orcas were listed as endangered in 2005.
The striking black and white whales have come to sym-bolize the Pacific Northwest. Individual whales are identi-fied by slight variations in the shape of their dorsal fins and distinctive whitish-gray patch of pigment behind the dorsal fin, called a saddle patch.
The Puget Sound killer whales primarily eat fish, rather than other marine mammals. Offspring tend to stay with their mothers for life.
Newborn Puget Sound killer whale presumed dead
A baby orca swims between two adults in the waters of Puget Sound near Seattle, Wash. Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research on Friday Harbor said Tuesday the baby orca apparently died while its pod was in the open ocean off Washington or British Columbia. Balcomb said the whale, designated L-120, has not been seen since the L pod returned in recent days to the inland waters of western Washington.
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zombies with orange. For humans, the goal of the
game is to remain human as long as possible by defending oneself with a Nerf gun or other soft projectile, like a sock. When a zombie is hit with a projectile, he or she is stunned for 15 min-utes and cannot attack.
The goal of the zombies is to infect humans by tagging them. Once a human is infected, he or she becomes a zombie and must give up the blue band for an orange one. At that point, he or she must try to spread the infection to as many humans as possible.
Lynch said the group ar-ranges the event every year because it has so much fun with it.
“It’s kind of hard to explain to a lot of people because it seems like such a silly idea,” Lynch said. “It’s fun, and pretty much everyone is involved in it because they loved it when they played it. We run it because we love it and we want other peo-ple to have the opportunity to do the same.”
Lynch said the moderators post missions at 8 p.m. every night that involve different scenarios and battles between humans and zombies.
Alan Mooney, psychology, criminal justice and political science major, said Tuesday’s mission was a success for the zombies which now have roughly an equal numbers to humans.
Mooney said he plays the game for the unique experience.
“The whole concept is great in my opinion,” Mooney said. “A lot of people participate, and you get to meet a lot of cool people. You get to make a lot of new friends, and you get to interact with people that you wouldn’t interact with normally.”
Mooney said he is still a hu-man, and his weapon of choice is a semi-automatic Nerf rifle featuring an 18-dart magazine called the Retaliator.
Moderators said they are still encouraging people to sign up and join in on the fun.
Anthony Davis can be contacted at [email protected].
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priest in the Vatican, Karol Wojytla—Pope John Paul II. The shocked pontiff could re-late: he had experienced many fellow Poles and priests killed by totalitarianism. He himself was a survivor. The commu-nists had wanted him dead as well; they tried to assassinate him three years earlier.
And like John Paul II, Jerzy Popieluszko’s torment at the hands of devils was not in vain. Millions of Poles poured out of their homes and into churches to pay him homage, as they had for their native son, Karol Wojtyla, back in June 1979—a historic, life-changing visit that a young Jerzy helped coordinate. Iron-ically, Jerzy had been charged with working between the Vatican and Polish Ministry of Health to arrange emergency safety measures during that trip. Then, too, he had the mis-sion of protecting people from harm—harm by communism.
Ultimately, Jerzy Popielusz-ko’s struggle, like that of his pope, was not in vain. As Ter-tullian once put it, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the Church. The commu-nists could not extinguish Poles’ desire for the Church, for God, and for freedom. It would take another five years after his death, but the saintly priest’s demise had further fueled the flames for the torch of freedom and the corresponding crash and burn of communism.
In retrospect, Jerzy’s murder in 1984 marked the mid-point between two cataclysmic events that put nails in the coffin of com-munism: John Paul II’s June 1979 visit to Poland and the crucial free elections held in Poland in June 1989. Those elections, more than anything else, signaled the coming collapse of commu-nism. Mikhail Gorbachev later said that when those elections were held in Po-land, he knew it was all over. It was no coincidence that the Berlin Wall fell five months later.
Father Jerzy Popieluszko was one of many martyrs at the hands of atheistic com-munism. But his cause was an especially significant one. His service and death were not in vain.
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W.Va. jail inmates to get financial educationASSOCIATED PRESS
West Virginia's regional jails will soon offer a financial education course to help in-mates avoid becoming repeat offenders.
The West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Au-thority plans to begin offering the four-week Financial Peace University program in Novem-ber to inmates serving sentences for misdemeanor convictions.
The state Department of Mili-tary Affairs and Public Safety says the program basics such as eliminating and avoiding debt, maintaining a budget, balanc-ing checkbooks and saving for emergencies.
Officials say course will re-duce the participating inmate's sentence by five days. Inmates also can seek that reduction through an existing life skills course as an alternative.
Pig farms rebound from virus; meat prices may dropBy DAVID PITTASSOCIATED PRESS
Pork prices hit record highs this summer as farmers weren't able to feed the demand — mostly because a virus had killed millions of their baby pigs.
There is good news for pork lovers in the latest U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture production update, as it shows more piglets are surviving and producers are building up pork herds.
Iowa, the nation's leading
pork producer, reported nearly 5.5 million baby pigs were born between June and August — the largest number in 20 years.
New farm procedures helped reduced the spread of the por-cine epidemic diarrhea virus, such as disinfecting trucks and equipment.
Many producers are optimis-tic the virus is under control but some fear winter's return be-cause the virus thrives in cold, damp conditions.
the Herd was the talk of not only the town, but the talk of the country. Led by quarterbacks like Chad Pennington and Byron Leftwich, Marshall rose to prominence.
Holliday, with the help of players like quarterback Rakeem Cato, has brought
the type of energy that surrounded those football teams back.
If you want proof that the football program has jumped back onto the na-tional stage, look no further than ESPN’s visit to campus and ask yourself, when was the last time that happened?
Shannon Stowers can be contacted at [email protected].
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLEASSOCIATED PRESS
A 23-year-old Maryland man was in the custody Wednesday night after he climbed over the White House fence and was swiftly apprehended on the North Lawn by uniformed Secret Service agents and their dogs.
The incident came about a month after a previous White House fence jumper sprinted across the same lawn, past armed uniformed agents and entered the man-sion before he was felled in the ceremonial East Room and taken into custody.
That embarrassing Sept. 19 incident preceded the disclosure of other serious Secret Service breaches in security for President Barack Obama and ultimately led to Julia Pierson's resignation as director of the agency after 18 months on the job.
Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said a man he identified as Dominic Ad-esanya of Bel Air, Maryland, climbed the north fence line at about 7:16 p.m. and was taken into custody immedi-ately by uniformed agents and K-9 teams that con-stantly patrol the grounds. Adesanya was unarmed at the time of his arrest, Leary
said. Charges were pending.Two dogs were taken to a
veterinarian for injuries sus-tained during the incident, Leary added.
Video of the incident re-corded by TV news cameras shows a man in white shorts on the lawn just inside the fence. The video shows that man lifting his shirt as if to show that he is unarmed. He is then seen kicking and punching two Secret Service dogs that were released on him.
The man was being taken to a local hospital, Leary said, without elaboration.
After Pierson resigned, an agent who once led Obama's protective detail came out of retirement to lead the Secret Service until Obama names a new director, pending the completion of internal and independent reviews of agency practices.
This week, a federal judge delayed the arraignment of Omar Gonzalez, the individ-ual charged in September's fence-jumping incident, be-cause of questions about his mental fitness to stand trial.
Gonzalez has been in-dicted on several charges, including of carrying a knife into the White House and as-saulting two Secret Service officers.
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Author J. J. Hensley has firsthand experience with the material he writes his mur-der mysteries about. Using the knowledge from his career as a police officer and Special Agent with the U. S. Secret Service, the Huntington native has the abil-ity to write novels full of insight and suspense.
Hensley was originally in-spired to write by his wife in 2010. He said she planted the seed, and while he was practic-ing distance running, he would brainstorm ideas.
“I would go out on long runs,” Hensley said. “When you are running for an hour or two you have to think about some-thing other than running. So I thought, ‘if I were going to write a book, what would I do?’”
After a few months of running and writing down his thoughts, Hensley completed his first book, “Resolve.” He said writing his novels is the easiest part.
“I find writing generally easy to do,” Hensley said. “It’s the rest of it, getting published, ed-iting and the business end of it that’s more challenging.”
Hensley said he likes to find
creative ways to form his stories. “Resolve” is divided into 26.2 chapters. His idea was to follow the course of a marathon gone wrong in the city of Pittsburgh, with each chapter representing one mile of the 26.2-mile race. Despite a slow gain in popular-ity after its release, Suspense Magazine named “Resolve” one of the Best Books of 2013.
Hensley then began writ-ing his second book, “Measure Twice.” This story is divided into 12 chapters, representing the 12 steps in battling addic-tion. Hensley said he wanted a murder mystery that was distinctive.
“I wanted something with a unique structure,” Hensley said. “I had never come across a story where both people, good and bad, were battling addiction.”
Hensley pulled his inspira-tion from his hometown of Huntington and his current city, Pittsburgh. He said the book al-most serves as a tribute to those battling addiction.
“I thought about how many cities have so many people suf-fering from addiction,” Hensley said. “It’s almost a tribute to those who have fought the battle.”
It took Hensley the better part of a year to finish the final draft of “Measure Twice” because he took some time off from writing after the birth of his daughter.
Hensley said his family comes first, and his wife is always the first to read a story.
“My wife is a very good edi-tor,” Hensley said. “I’ll write things out that make sense to me, and she catches mistakes that I never ever would catch.”
Once “Measure Twice” was finished, Hensley still had sev-eral hurdles to jump in to get it published.
Hensley said getting pub-lished was a challenge, even though his first book was met with a great deal of success.
Hensley went on a search for another publisher. While doing so, his literary agent stopped representing all authors. It took him some time to find Assent Publishing and sign a two-book deal.
A portion of the sales from “Measure Twice” will be do-nated in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness. The money is being donated to a charity honor-ing the mother of his college roommate, who is a cancer sur-vivor. Hensley said he wanted
to do his part by promoting his friend’s charity.
Hensley came back home to Huntington to release “Measure Twice” with a live launch at Heritage Station. He continues to visit Huntington regularly to visit family and friends still liv-ing in the area.
Growing up in Huntington,
Hensley attended many Mar-shall University events. Although he is not a Marshall alumnus, he did attend sum-mer classes and said he and his family are big Marshall fans. He received a bachelors in ad-ministration of justice from Penn State University and has a masters in criminal justice
administration from Colum-bia Southern University. When he is not writing, the author works as a training supervisor with the U.S. Office of Person-nel Management in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Britanie Morgan can be contacted at [email protected].
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Author J. J. Hensley visits his hometown for a booksigning at Heritage Station.