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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 51 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com Memorial Ceremony set for Thursday

By MORGAN WRIGHT Members of the football members will stay in Hun- roses from the fountain that “It makes it more realis- University Thundering Herd THE PARTHENON team and Student Govern- tington to participate in the were laid at the ceremony tic for students,” Wooldridge football team, eight mem- The Plane Crash Memo- ment Association will lay 75 Memorial Ceremony. The and leave them at the site. said. “They can come to the bers of the coaching staff, rial Ceremony will be noon roses on the fountain before football team will be wearing They will also take 75 can- ceremony and listen to the 25 boosters and five flight Thursday on the Memorial it is turned off. There will the number 75 on its helmets dles and light them at the speaker and see us lay the crewmembers. Student Plaza. be a new feature this year, at this week’s game in re- site. roses, but I think once you SGA said it feels it is im- This year’s keynote speaker a music piece called “From membrance of those lost. The goal is to be at the go to the actual site and you portant to have this annual is John Proctor, the son of two the Ashes” performed by the Something new SGA will plane crash site and light the see the marker, see the field, ceremony to respect the sons victims of the crash. Wind Symphony. Following be doing this year is tak- candles at 7:36 p.m., the time you just get a sense of reality. and daughters of Marshall The ceremony at the Memo- the ceremony there will be ing buses of students to the that the plane went down. When you’re there you really who lost their lives in that rial Fountain will include the a reception for families at crash site. Buses, donated SGA Chief of Staff Jordan feel that connection.” fatal event and never forget laying of the wreath and 75 Foundation Hall. by Cabell County, will leave Wooldridge said he recom- This will be the 43rd anni- that from the ashes we rose. roses, the reading of the names The football team will the west parking lot at Joan mends students participate versary of the Marshall plane Morgan Wright can be of those lost in the plane crash be playing away this week- C. Edwards Stadium at 6:30 in going to the plane crash crash. The plane was carrying contacted at wright265@ and the silencing of the fountain. end, but some of the team p.m. SGA will be taking the site. 37 members of the Marshall marshall.edu.

Students offering Blue Man Group launches two-day US Postal Service, gratitude during Amazon to team Thank-A-Donor Day takeover of the Keith-Albee Theatre up on Sundays By ALYSSA SIMON THE PARTHENON By TIFFANY HSU Students are invited to LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) attend Thank-A-Donor Day Giant online retailer Am- Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 azon.com Inc. is turning p.m. at Marshall University’s up the heat on rivals this Foundation Hall across from holiday season and beyond Corbly Hall on the Fifth Av- under a new deal with the enue side of campus. US Postal Service for deliver- This event gives stu- ing packages on Sundays. dents an opportunity to Starting this week, the thank those who have given postal service will bring Am- money in support of student azon packages on Sundays to scholarships. shoppers’ doors in the Los Students will be able to Angeles and New York met- write thank you cards, take ropolitan areas at no extra personal photos or record charge. Next year, it plans a personal video thanking a to roll out year-round Sun- donor of their choice. day delivery to Dallas, New Career Services will also Orleans, Phoenix and other be available to assist stu- cities. dents with their resumes. Getting packages on Sun- Students are asked to bring days normally is expensive a copy on a jump drive or in for customers. United Parcel their email inbox. Service Inc. doesn’t deliver Students’ resumes will be on Sundays, according to a included in the information spokeswoman. And FedEx that is sent to the donor, so Corp. said Sunday “is not a students are able to make a regular delivery day,” though limited options are available. The deal could be a boon goodArika first Michaelis, impression junior prior for the postal service, musicto finishing education college. major from which has been struggling Woodville, Ohio, plans to at- with mounting financial tend the event because she losses and has been push- said she believes those who ing to limit general letter give money to worthy causes mail delivery to five days a deserve to be recognized. week. “I’m looking forward to Spokeswoman Sue Bren- SUBMITTED PHOTO the event because I will be nan said that letter mail able to show my apprecia- By ZACH HAUGHT both acting and drumming. must then learn how to use Brown said each person volume is declining “so ex- tion to those who have given THE PARTHENON After graduating from theatre these things and apply them can find a piece of them- tremely,” yet package volume money to scholarships and I The Blue Man Group will school, Brown began working to their characters. selves in the performance. is “increasing in double-digit will also be able to improve bring its unique style to the with the Blue Man Group as a Performers must also “It’s kind of like every- percentages.” my resume,” Michaelis said. Keith-Albee Performing Arts backstage crewmember. undergo the process of cos- body is a Blue Man and The postal service’s Anyone planning to attend Center Wednesday for a one- “Amazingly after six months tuming, which Brown said people are just sort of afraid Sunday package delivery the event is encouraged to of-a-kind performance. of working on crew, an open takes about 30 minutes. to let it out,” Brown said. business has been very wear Marshall green. The Blue Man Group was call audition came up. I didn’t “The costume is a bald “The Blue Men are there to small, but the arrangement Alyssa Simon can be founded in 1987 by Chris know if I wanted to do it but cap that we—we put glue let people get rid of that with Amazon for two of contacted at simon26@ Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil a couple of friends just re- along our hairline, like right idea and just sort of tap into the retailer’s larger mar- marshall.edu. Stanton but has since evolved ally simply were like, ‘Why next to the hairline, and their more inner innocent, kets, Los Angeles and New into a large organization. The wouldn’t you try,’ and I did and the bald cap gets put down just ‘ready to throw down York, should boost work group has been delighting fortunately it all worked out,” and trimmed by our ward- and dance and party’ sort considerably. audiences for decades with Brown said. “It really is truly robe staff. Then you just of feeling they have within To pull off Sunday delivery Foreign students a brand of entertainment for me a dream come true.” sort of put the paint on your themselves.” for Amazon, the postal ser- continue to flock that is difficult to define. The While Brown has been with head,” Brown said. “It sticks Russell Rinker and Jesse ensemble incorporates mu- the group for 10 years, this is around. I did the show last Nolan, the group’s music scheduling of employees, to US universities sic, technology, comedy and the first time he has been on night and I’m sure it’s prob- director will be making an Brennanvice plans said. to useIt doesn’t its flexible plan theatrics into each word- tour. Brown said touring gives ably somewhere on my body appearance in Smith Music to add employees, she said. By JASON SONG less performance to charm the group more opportunities still.” Hall’s band room at 2 p.m. Members of Amazon’s LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) audiences. that might not be available Brown said each perfor- Tuesday. Prime program have free The number of interna- Mike Brown, an official when performing in one city. mance is its own original The Blue Man Group will two-day shipping and, un- tional students studying at Blue Man as of 2003, said the “There’s also a lot of entity unlike any previous perform at the Keith-Albee der the new deal, can order U.S. colleges and universi- founders wanted to add some- larger toys and instruments or future performances, re- Theatre 7:30 p.m. Tuesday items Friday and receive ties rose to a record high thing new to New York City’s that the Blue Men can have flecting their “live for the and Wednesday. Tuesday’s them Sunday. Customers last year, according to a new art scene. on this tour that they can’t moment” attitude. While the performance is free to full- without Prime will pay the study. “In their time, they were usually do in like Boston or show is meant to provide time Marshall University standard shipping costs as- The private Uni- just kind of tired of the art Chicago or New York and comedy and awe-inspiring students. Wednesday’s sociated with business day versity of Southern scene they were seeing and that’s all just due to the size audio and visuals, he said it ticket prices vary based on delivery. California was their most they really just wanted to cre- of their spaces,” Brown said. also stands for much more. seating. As consumers increasingly popular destination, with ate the kind of show that they “Being out here on the road “You can definitely ex- Tickets can be purchased move online to shop, retail- 9,840 international stu- would want to see and that definitely gives Blue Men pect just a lot of unique fun through the Joan C. Edwards dents, according to the they would want to go tell a larger laboratory to play and thoughtful commentary Performing Arts Center by shipping policies can be a survey conducted by the their friends to see,” Brown with things.” about the way we interact picking them up at the box of- bellwetherers are finding of customer that theirloy- said. The show’s concepts, in- with each other socially, fice or calling 304-696-3326. alty. Though not necessarily of International Education, Brown first became a fan of struments and technological the way we communicate, Tickets are also available on offering Sunday delivery, inNew partnership York nonprofit with Institute the U.S. the group after seeing a 1997 tools are developed by Blue and also just unique ways Ticketmaster.com. many are testing same-day State Department. performance in New York City. Man Productions, in which to look at the world,” Brown Zach Haught can be service. He said it captivated him be- the founders still have a said. “It’s about sort of ex- contacted at haught36@ See STUDENTS | Page 5 cause it combined his love for large role. The performers panding yourself.” marshall.edu. See SUNDAY | Page 5 C M Y K 50 INCH

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM TRAGEDY IN THE PHILLIPINES US, EU continue The US Army negotiations on free discovers Africa 100 more Marines, sailors sent to aid international relief efforts trade agreement By ANDREW J. BACEVICH By HENRY CHU LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) On the list of U.S. military pri- - sumed negotiations Monday on a trans-AtlanticEuropean and free U.S. trade officials agree re- appearsorities, Africato be haschanging. always As ranked Eric ment despite angry protests in Schmittright at recently the bottom. reported Now in thatthe Europe over American electronic spying and threats to call off the talks. New York Times, thousands of - forsoldiers missions once in bound Africa. forBefore Iraq the or sels had already been postponed gearingAfghanistan up proceeds are now much gearing further, up becauseThe five-day of the discussion U.S. government in Brus - tainty amid outrage over reports Americans might want to ask a shutdown and faced added uncer priorities?few questions. What’s Chief the among aim? themWho Agency tapped the phones of Eu- are these: Why the sudden shift in ropeanthat the leaders U.S. Nationalsuch as SecurityGerman the militarization of U.S. policy in Chancellor Angela Merkel. Some Africastands entail? to benefit? What risks does Among the various services, the EuropeanBut the officialspotential urged payoff that ofthis a prospect of an expanded Africa week’s talks be suspended. presenceU.S. Army appealing. in particular As findsSchmitt the trade agreement outweighed Unionthose concerns. already account Between for them, almost the Afghanistan,observed, with the U.S. Army forces is outlook of- U.S. and the 28-nation European Iraq and soon scheduled to leave RYAN LIM | XINHUA ZUMA PRESS (MCT) An aerial photo shows the scene after Typhoon Haiyan hit Leyte Province Sunday. The Philippine government disaster relief half the world’s economic output. spellsing for opportunity, new missions a aroundchance theto agency said about 4.4 million people have become homeless in areas. Haiyan (local name Yolanda) is the most powerful and,A tariff-busting supporters pact say, wouldcould create demonstrateworld. For Army continuing leaders, relevance Africa typhoon in Philippines history and engulfed many areas in the Leyte, Eastern Samar, Western and Central Visayas, Bicol and millionsthe world’s of jobs. largest free-trade area - Northern Mindanao regions. Meeting for the second time, petite for sending U.S. troops to invadeat a time and when occupy the countries nation’s has ap By DAVID S. CLOUD negotiating teams are expected pretty much evaporated. TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) tofollowing concentrate a first roundon services, in July, thein- One hundred additional U.S. or USARAF, the latest in the Pen- Thus, we have U.S. Army Africa, Philippines on Monday as part of a vestment, and energy and raw Marines and sailors flew to the sidesmaterials. ot the They Atlantic also willsay thatexamine cut- tagon’s ever-growing roster of tingregulatory red tape issues; and officials harmonizing on both itselfmilitary as headquarters.“America’s premier The mission Army stormsgrowing on international record. effort to help some rules and regulations could teamof this dedicated command, to which positive describes change survivorsRescuers of are one still of thein the largest early Pacificstages do more to boost economic activ- of reaching remote areas devastated reassuringly bland and ominously ambitious.in Africa,” managesOn the one to behand, at once US- say may have killed thousands of ityLiberalizing than easing trade tariffs, across which the areAt- ARAF “strengthens the land force peopleby Typhoon as it lashed Haiyan, the which island officials chain already relatively low. capabilities of African states and billion more a year to Europe, lantic could bring in nearly $160- other, it “conducts decisive action with winds of more than 200 mph- cover from a damaging recession inregional order to organizations.” establish a secure On envi the- and widespread flooding. andwhich the has region’s been struggling lingering todebt re ronment and protect the national Two U.S. military cargo planes car security interests of the United forrying the water hard-hit and city generators, of Tacloban along on thewith island a squad of Leyte. of Marines, left loomingcrisis. European demographic officials disadvan are also- One might hope that success- In a sign that the United States is tageeager compared to find ways to the to counterU.S. and a States.” China as birthrates in Europe drop the aircraft carrier George Washing- fully accomplishing the first half significantly ramping up its response, of that mission — U.S. troops and workforces age. training and equipping African ton will be moved to the Philippines U.S. officials too see benefits counterparts — will preclude the- to assist with the growing effort to- spyingfor American on allies exporters such as andGermany were second. More likely, however, such causeaid victims, the deployment two senior Navyhad officialsnot yet worried that the flap over alleged effortsLet’s willdiscard pave the wayeuphemisms. for “deci beensaid. publicly They requested announced. anonymity be chances of a trade accord. Those sive action,” a euphemism for war. A map showing the path of Typhoon Haiyan with information on the hardest hit and France would hurt or kill Here is a classic example of bu- The carrier “is preparing to deploy areas. The storm, which hit the Philippines as a Category 5, was reportedly one of reaucratic interests displacing the strongest storms ever and the 25th to hit the Philippines this year. summoned the resident U.S. am- strategic calculation, not to men- port visit, to the Philippines to assist bassadorstwo nations to andaddress Spain revelations have all tion common sense, as a basis from Hong Kong, where they are on a because of the size and number of assisted in humanitarian operations of mass electronic surveillance said. aircraft that can land on its deck. It - Force, the Obama administration’s with relief efforts,” one of the officials tators say that trust across the for policy. For the Navy and Air move the badly injured aboard for in Haiti in 2010 following a deadly Atlanticoverseas byhas the been NSA; commenseriously East Asia has come as something The official said the specific tasks immediatewill also allow medical the care. United States to givenearthquake additional there. helicopters to ferry undermined. ofmuch-ballyhooed a godsend. Addressing “pivot” the toward pu- theBut carrier a carrier would positioned perform were offshore still George Washington “has medical In that operation, the carrier was tative threat posed by a rising being worked out. likely to repeat in the Philippines. China promises to keep those ser- ability to ferry supplies to isolated supplies ashore, a move the Navy is JohnOn F. a Kerry swing appealed through to Europehis in- will potentially give U.S. forces the notingfacilities, that lift the capability, carrier Carl water Vinson and See TYPHOON | Page 5 terlocutorslast week, U.S.not Secretaryto let the of spying State food supply,” the Navy official said, fromvices a busy possible (and resumption flush with of cash) the towns, though only in small amounts talks. long-dormantfor decades toKorean come. War, Yet Asian apart controversy“This is a affecttrade thispartnership. week’s scenarios involving a large-scale It has the ability to lift all of our commitment of Army forces are This year’s Atlantic storms no match for Haiyan - Poland. The trade agreement “is By KEN KAYE The Atlantic basin, on average, reallycountries,” separate Kerry from said any on aother visit isto- difficult to conjure up. So expand SUN SENTINEL (MCT) said Jeff Masters, chief meteorologist - sues that people may have on their ing the “global war on terrorism” In a display of enormous tropi- oftropical Weather cyclone Underground, in world an history,” online intoInitially, the heart only of small Africa contingents allows the produces 12 named storms, includ Army to make its own pivot. - packed more energy than the sum is being tabulated, it’s feared more ing six hurricanes. The northwest minds.” cal power, Super Typhoon Haiyan- weather site. While the death toll still Pacific Ocean, on the other hand, is month,After the this negotiating week’s talks, teams which are theof American Army’s soldiersrecently willdiscovered be ven Another indicator of Haiyan’s the world’s most active basin with an- duewere to originally meet again to takein Washington place last turing into Africa, consistent with formedtotal of so all far 12 in named the Atlantic storms this — hur in- than 10,000 people were killed. average of almost 26 storms per year, shortly before Christmas. That ricanecluding season. two hurricanes — that have stormsincluding year 16 around, typhoons. although With incesactiv- beaffinity combat for troops, what it their calls purpose a “light Florida’spower: It wasMiami-Dade 22 mph strongerCounty asthan a itysantly drops warm off in waters, February it canand produceMarch. previously announced schedule. footprint.” Although these will Hurricane Andrew, which struck The Joint Typhoon Warning Center, would put the talks back on their helping to create competent and That shows not only how intense politicallywill be not reliable to fight butlocal to forces. coach, seasonthe single has 195-mph been in Pacificthe Atlantic, system LushineCategory said. 5 system with top winds Hurricane Center, estimated Haiyan’s Follow U.S. efforts to upgrade African was, but also how “wimpy” the storm of The about Atlantic 173 mph hurricane in August 1992,sea- that region’s version of the National Weather Service forecaster and trop- Samar Island and the city of Guiuan, The Parthenon create opportunities to market icalsaid expert. Jim Lushine, a retired National winds to be 195 mph as it approached on Twitter! American-manufacturedmilitary capabilities will noarms, doubt a storms,son, which the result officially of an ends unexpected Nov. 30, made landfall. has seen mostly short-lived weak- where the super typhoon initially defense contractors. “Super typhoons in the western rican dust. secondaryThere are benefit at least not alost couple on U.S. of Pacific are much more frequent than spateInitially, of dry seasonal air, wind forecasts shear and called Af However, Masters said that speed hurricanes of equal strength in the - was valid only for the part of the Atlantic,” he said. “This is, at least in storm that was over water, and that forces,problems the here.U.S. military’s The first track is that re- part, due to the fact that the Pacific for up to 20 named storms, includ winds probably were about 165 cordwhen is it mixed comes at to best. building foreign is a much larger expanse of warm hurricanes.ing 11 hurricanes. The last But system, we only Tropi saw- enormousover land “duedestruction. to friction.” He noted ocean water.” - cal12 storms,Storm Lorenzo,including formed two Category late last 1 that still was strong enough to cause See AFRICA | Page 5 fall,Haiyan’s “making winds it the werefourth-strongest gusting to month. 235 mph three hours before land “This is equivalent to a high end @MUParthenon page designed and edited by SAMUEL SPECIALE | [email protected] EF-3 tornado, he said. C M Y K 50 INCH

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Kansas-Duke features freshmen stars, teams having to adjust to championship coaches and more new hand check rules By RUSTIN DODD By WILL VANCE game, junior transfer Leah THE KANSAS CITY STAR (MCT) SPORTS EDITOR Scott, had to sit out most of Outside the United Center, on Marshall women’s basket- the side nearest the corner of ball coach Matt Daniel has a lot fouls. When Scott was able Madison and Wood, the statue of newness on his plate for the tothe get first back half in withthe game two earlyafter hangs over an empty sidewalk, 2013-14 season. halftime, she rallied the team like a gathering storm on the Ten new players on his behind her 18-second half west side of Chicago. young roster, new conference points. Michael Jordan, bronzed in opponents in the new-look “She’s got to play without his iconic Jumpman pose, is fouling,” Daniel said of Scott, stretching to the south. under his players’ feet. And “and that’s kind of a loose Duke freshman Jabari Parker nowConference a new rule USA, that a newhe and floor his term.” went to high school 12 miles team must adapt to. Daniel said that the change from here, growing up in the In May, the NCAA made a in rules would affect every- shadow of an NBA dynasty. change to the rules concern- Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins had ing hand-checks, a defensive to settle for the nickname of player putting their hands on one on the floor, including the “Maple Jordan,” Canada’s great an offensive player. With the aofficials. foul is these days is hard,” basketball hope. new rules, defenders can put Daniel“Trying said. to “I figuredon’t mean out what that This is the setting for Tuesday their hand on the offensive night’s long-awaited clash in - it’s just an adjustment for the Champions Classic, where not leave it there, nor can the everybody.”disrespectfully to the officials, Wiggins and No. 5 Kansas will forearmplayer’s hipbe involved briefly but in canany face Parker and No. 4 Duke, a way. Though rules similar to catch the heat for their appli- blue-blood heavyweight battle this have been in place for cationThe of officials, new rules, who are often still featuring coaches with NCAA years, referees have been told trying to standardize what is titles and dueling freshman to start enforcing the new, and is not a foul under the new stars. stricter rules. rules. “When you coach, you want This has resulted in an in- “The whistle today wasn’t to be able to coach against the crease in fouls across the - best players,” Kansas coach Bill country, in both men’s and tion game,” Daniel said. “Even Self said. “And you also want to women’s college basketball. inlike our the privatewhistle scrimmagesin our exhibi it coach against the best coaches. “They’ve changed the rules wasn’t the same, so it’s tough And we have an opportunity to of women’s college basketball, do both of those.” so there is going to be some The Herd adapted to the No, the third installment of adjustment,” Daniel said af- newto figure rules out.” in game slightly, SHANE KEYSER | KANSAS CITY STAR | MCT the Champions Classic cer- Guard Andrew Wiggins (22) of Kansas drives for a lay-up against guard Marvin Williams (0) of Louisiana- ter his teams 63-42 win over cutting its fouls from 11 in the tainly won’t be lacking any Monroe at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. Kansas defeated Louisiana-Monroe, 80-63. star-power or story lines. Wig- there will be some shock. If it half. gins and Parker. Self and Duke’s wasBluefield anything College. like the “I whistles imagine firstThe half Herd to nine will inadd the another second Mike Krzyzewski. Kansas and a 6-foot-8 forward from Simeon Rodney Hood — two potential Duke’s season-opening 111-77 that were in here today there new to its list by introduc- Duke. Academy, appeared on the victory against Davidson. And will be some shock across the ing its ten new members to ESPN slated Kansas and Duke cover of Sports Illustrated, NBA Draft. Self recruited him plenty hard country. We’re going to have to road contests when it travels for an 8:30 p.m. tip in prime touted as the best high school first-round“I would picks say in Andrewnext year’s is to Kansas . . . until Parker told adjust to that.” to Coraopolis, Penn., to take time, relegating No. 1 Kentucky player since LeBron James. But thinking about Duke, but he’s Self he wouldn’t be taking an of- on Robert Morris at 10 a.m. vs. No. 2 Michigan State, the also thinking about Jabari and College had 47 total fouls with Wednesday. opening game of the double- Wiggins who had supplanted Hood,” Self said. “And I would “Jabari Parker is probably theThe two game teams against combining Bluefield for Will Vance can be con- header, to undercard status. Parkerjust five as months the No. later, 1 overall it was bet they’re thinking about Kan- aboutficial visit as skilledto Lawrence. a 6-8 guy as 53 foul shots. Marshall’s lead tacted at vance162@ Courtside seats are going for player in the 2013 recruiting sas, but they’re also thinking you’ll ever see — and I mean marshall.edu. $3,250 apiece on StubHub.com. class. about Wiggins and Selden. ever,” Self said. “He’s a Paul And, of course, Kansas and Duke As Self said earlier this week: “I think there’s probably a lot Pierce, Carmelo Anthony-type scorer from its exhibition both feature 6-foot-8 freshmen Our guys know their guys. of that stuff going on, a little of player.” who have played in one college That’s another way of saying a young personal rivalry. (It) re- That could sound like a moti- game — and each appeared on this: Wiggins and fellow fresh- ally doesn’t mean much, but it’s vational ploy for Wiggins, who one cover of Sports Illustrated. man Wayne Selden may still be natural to think like that.” had 16 points in Kansas’ rather “As a kid,” said KU junior learning about the pageantry So here are a few things about lackluster victory over Louisi- Naadir Tharpe, “I and history of Kansas and Parker, who could play inside ana-Monroe on Friday night. watched games like this.” Duke, but they know all about and out against Kansas. He had In the spring of 2012, Parker, Parker and Duke See WIGGINS | Page 5

22 points and six rebounds in Nash hurting in Lakers’ loss to Timberwolves By BILL ORAM and JANIS CARR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (MCT) They were together from 2004-08. The relationship yielded a Coach of the Year honor for one, and a couple of MVPs for the other. Mike D’Antoni knows Steve Nash, and early in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 113-90 blow- out loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the coach could tell something was wrong. This is not unusual; much has been off for the 39-year-old Nash this season, as he has been tested by injuries to his ankle and neck, pain in his back and hamstring. But D’Antoni, who found the most success when paired with

hollowed star grimace when 272306 heNash ran. in He Phoenix, replaced watched him early the in the second quarter, and Nash MARSHALL THEATRE DANCE DEPT. acknowledged that he was hurting. MONSTERS “I just see his face,” D’Antoni said, “when I’ve known him 2 x 6.0 forever and when he looks like that, I know he’s trying to battle 3 / 3 / 3 through something. And he just couldn’t do it.” The point guard played 13 minutes, and did not join the team on the bench in the sec- ond half. “I hesitate to even talk about it now,” Nash said, “because ROBERT GAUTHIER/LOS ANGELES TIMES | MCT every time I talk about it I get The Los Angeles Lakers’ Steve Nash (10) drives the lane against Derrick Favors of the Utah Jazz in the first half of preseason action at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Oct. 22. See NASH | Page 5

page designed and edited by WILL VANCE | [email protected] C M Y K 50 INCH 4 Opinion TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM EDITORIAL Online Polls Violence does not equal entertainment YOU CAN BE HERD A new study published this week in the time before the Motion Picture Associa- of entertainment? Given that there have What do you think of the controversy Do you think the NSA was in the tion of America rating system we have been as many movies since 1985 that surrounding the Miami Dolphins? wrong with its international spying? percent of the most popular movies since today. comprise violent scenes as the study 1985scientific have journal at least Pediatrics one violent shows scene, that half 94 Nowadays, violence is the norm, but shows, violence has become a natural It’s harrassment, plain and simple. Yes, they shouldn’t have done it. 59% of which involve a gun. not in the way it used to be. Our tech- part of our society’s entertainment. But There’s been no wrongdoing. No, the other countries do it. 38% Since the creation of the PG-13 rating in nology has allowed for special effect violence does not automatically equal Further investigation is necessary. I don’t know enough about it. 3% advancements that make it much easier entertainment. and surpasses the amount of violence in to create the violent scenes we see on the Voice your opinion. It is your right. Answer our poll at 1985, violence in those films has tripled It’s used in anything from action to com- www.marshallparthenon.com or tweet us your answer at @MUParthenon. How and why did we reach the point Violence in film is used too generously. whereR-rated violence films in recentwas the years. go-to to sell a seebig today.screen. The And major the film movie industry studios wastes are in effect and only serves for show instead of COLUMN movie? constantnone of thesecompetition resources with in each the filmsother weto tell.edy flicks.Nevertheless, It’s lost a we great continue deal of todramatic spend Perhaps there was a point in the early see who can be the most violent and cre- - ate the biggest “wow” effect. ney and Edward G. Robinson created a It seems to be the easiest route the stu- willour moneybe expensed on these and films. the powers One day, that what be Albert Camus — forever modern days of film when actors like James Cag dios can take to make the big bucks, but little creation is left with violence in film- was new and exciting. This was also a where does it really fall on the spectrum tertain audiences. By ROBERT ZARETSKY silent world. Our deepest im- thrill for audiences at a time when film will finally have to find a new way to en LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) pulse, once we realize the silence Albert Camus, who would have will never end, is to refuse this been 100 years old Thursday, is state of affairs. To shout “no” to ageless. The French Algerian’s the world as it is, to shout “yes” to the world as it should be. tragedy of the 20th century, As his editorials in the clandes- markedlife and by work disquiet, reflect genocide the long tine newspaper Combat reveal, and violence, but his diagnosis Camus believed this was the es- of our absurd condition, and his sence of resistance. And not just to the Nazis. He combated nihil- none) but the proper response, ism and absurdity until his death effort to find not a cure (there is in 1960. Whether it was the use millennium. of the guillotine in republican tieCamus him just lived as onfirmly intimate to the terms new France or the use of the gulag with the absurd. He lost his fa- in the Soviet Union, civilian ter- ther, whom he never knew, in the rorist bombings by Algerian war to end all wars that emphati- nationalists or waterboarding cally failed in that regard. He was and electric shock torture by a French intellectual from work- French soldiers, Camus’ impera- ing-class Algiers, a writer raised tive was human solidarity. by a grandmother who could not The personal consequences read and a mother who could not were tragic: Camus’ insistence on read and could scarcely speak. solidarity often begat solitude. And he discovered mortality as His denunciation of communism an athletic teenager, when he be- created a rift with Jean-Paul Sar- gan to cough up blood from his tre and much of the rest of the tubercular lungs. Paris intelligentsia; his heroic but But these facts were not them- failed attempts to broker a civil- MCT CAMPUS selves absurd. Camus held that ian peace in Algeria reduced him absurdity bleeds into our lives to controversial silence. Even his COLUMN only when we ask it for meaning efforts to save the lives of those and hear instead an “unreason- who despised or dismissed him, able silence.” At that moment, he from the collaborationist writer wrote, the “stage setting” of our Robert Brasillach to Algerian Marshall’s diverse international culture lives collapses, leaving us with revolutionaries, ended in failure neither script nor director. Can and isolation. By TOMMY D. G. FERRELL as academic performance, the breadth and science departments, courses in several of we live without the reassurance, Isolation may well be the price COLUMNIST quality of faculty (and student) research and which are standard requirements. once provided by religion and that any true moralist must pay. As reported Monday, the 50th Annual Contrary to the thoughts of former Trea- faith, that transcendent meaning How could it be otherwise when Marshall University International Festival and dedication to preparation for the insti- sury Secretary Larry Summers (on whose exists? Is it possible, he asked, to a moralist, so different from a took place this past weekend. This grow- tutioncareer placementto continue statistics, into the but 21st efficiency century’s of comments about this subject I recently live our lives “without appeal”? moralizer, is as hard on himself ing celebration of food, music, art and more broad community and global emphasis is wrote with another publication), the four- Camus is famous for two as he is on others. As Camus con- from different cultures across the globe is a just as crucial. course, in-depth sequence of study of a works that plumb absurdity. In fessed to his journal, “Every time powerful statement in support of Marshall’s Like it or not, the world is well on its way foreign language also serves to broaden our “The Stranger,” Meursault sense- somebody speaks of my honesty, ongoing efforts toward international and to becoming more interconnected than ever. horizons and give an all-important resume lessly kills a man — an act the there is someone who quivers multicultural expansion and embrace. In the last hundred years, the higher-end of a boost. More importantly, studying a foreign absurdity of which is revealed inside me.” Engaging the community, not just Mar- “broad focus” has moved from interstate ef- language has been consistently proven to only when others demand in vain Camus was just as unsparing shall students, in displays of diversity is key forts to massive global networks of business, provide substantial critical thinking power, a reason. “The Myth of Sisyphus,” in his description of the world to the liberal arts goals of an institution like commerce and community action. I strongly important for many graduate and profes- in turn, considers the punish- and the artist’s place in it when ours. I am proud of the inclusiveness we urge us to continue to toward that focus. So sional school tracks. ment meted out to the mythical he accepted the Nobel Prize for encourage with events like this half-century far, I believe we have taken many of right Pre-law, which is my route, is not just for king of Corinth, condemned to literature in 1957. He wrote, he tradition, but that is not all we are doing. steps. In addition to a longstanding fond- the political science majors, boys and girls; spend eternity pushing a boul- said, in order to share the “mis- Most students are aware, by now, that ness for cultural expression at our annual the analytical communication and interpre- der up a mountainside, only to ery and the hope” of catastrophic - International Festival and our commitment tive abilities that students like Tyler Dingess, watch it roll back down. Both ation with INTO University Partnerships, a to international student enrollment through a triple major—yes, three of them—in Japa- heroes overcome their absurd the instinct of death at work in BritishMarshall company has entered that intoseeks a tolong-term build bridges affili the INTO program, we have high-quality nese, French and Spanish, are honing will fate by embracing it, by making it ourtimes, history,” to “fight to cope openly in a against world to higher education worldwide. This pro- programs in place that will ensure we can surely serve to alleviate the horror of the their own. We must, Camus con- where nobody could ask men gram provides Marshall a direct link to a be leaders, with the skills relevant to the de- LSAT. cluded, imagine them happy. and women to be optimists. global network of young thinkers and schol- I look forward to seeing where the inter- But by the time the books were And yet, in a voice as vibrant ars whose talents have already shown to This is one of the reasons I love being national commitment of Marshall goes next. published in occupied France, and vital today as it was in his amands part ofof theour Collegerespective of fields.Liberal Arts. Aside Camus was no longer happy with - Our international enrollment is up, and from the fact that my major placement track, and I encourage students to take extra their conclusions. The absurd, he tion, in an artist’s devotion to “the itbenefit is projected the institution. to continue in this trend. houses me there, the curriculum COLA re- stepsAgain, available: I am confident Go above we and are beyond on the what right scrawled in his journal, “teaches beautyown time, he cannothe still dochose without.” affirma quires of us goes a step further to ensure the institution forces you to do with diver- nothing.” Instead of looking to On the centennial of his birth, than those diverse groups that want to join our success in the global community. For sity; expand your own worldview, and you ourselves for answers, as do his we must seek to understand both theGrowing Herd. our A university’sdiversity profile reputation benefits is morebuilt example, a greater emphasis is placed on heroes, we must look to others. the silence Camus confronted upon many characteristic categories; there the international and multicultural courses Tommy D. G. 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NABIL K. MARK | CENTRE DAILY TIMES | MCT Retired Lt. Commander for the U.S. Navy Michael Young bows his head SUNDAY And after the AmazonFresh during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Centre County Courthouse in Continued from Page 1 grocery delivery service ex- Bellefonte, Pa., Monday. panded from Seattle to Los Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is Angeles in June, Prime sub- testing same-day delivery scribers could get hundreds service in northern Virginia, of thousands of items brought President, VA secretary Philadelphia, Minneapolis, to them on Sundays. Denver and the San Fran- But the postal service part- cisco and San Jose region. Last month, EBay Inc. agreed knows of that “Amazon or re- tout veterans’ sacrifices to acquire Shutl, a London allynership anybody is the firstelse timehas Clarkdone start-up that uses a network broad-scale Sunday delivery.” of same-day couriers to de- “It’s going to be hard for liver goods ordered online in others to replicate,” he said. and pledge support hours, even minutes. Clark said the postal service In March, Google Inc. said “just happened to be a great By MARY FADDOUL by Obama and Secretary of Vet- York and San Diego. Colorado By this winter, only about it would test a same-day de- - MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON erans Affairs Eric Shinseki. State University held a 5-kilo- 34,000 U.S. troops will remain livery service called Google sire matched.” BUREAU (MCT) "They put on the uniform meter run, and the Cal Veterans in Afghanistan, Obama said. Shopping Express for online fit”The where arrangement “capability andis de“a President Barack Obama told and they put their lives on the Group assembled volunteers to Next year, the transition to purchases in the Bay Area. bright spot for both organi- America's veterans Monday line," Obama said. "They do this build a home for a veteran in Afghan-led security should be Specialty sporting goods store zations,” especially because that the country is indebted to so that the rest of us might live California. complete, he added. Sport Chalet Inc. began offer- the postal service is “rapidly them and he pledged to sup- in a country and a world that is After a White House break- Shinseki noted that the ing a similar service in April. growing their package deliv- port them "now, tomorrow and safer, freer and more just." fast in honor of veterans, budget for the Department of But adding Sunday service ery operation,” he said. forever." Americans gathered to attend Obama placed the wreath on Veterans Affairs has increased takes the competition to a new Clark said that Sunday de- Speaking at a Veterans Day ceremonies across the country. the Tomb of the Unknown Sol- by more than 50 percent, 2 mil- level. In addition to using its livery was “designed to launch event at Arlington National Originally named Armistice dier and addressed an audience lion veterans have been added own employees for everyday as soon as we were ready” Cemetery's amphitheater, Day by President Woodrow of some 4,000 about the re- to the VA's health care system, deliveries, Amazon normally and that coinciding with the Obama and his secretary of Wilson in 1919 _ because of the sponsibility the country has to and there have been reductions relies on the postal service, holidays was just a happy veterans affairs asserted the in veteran homelessness. UPS, FedEx and smaller cou- accident. need to continue providing for the Allied nations and Germany for it. The president said he'd work riers to deliver goods on the Los Angeles and New York America's veterans. atWorld the 11th War hourI cease-fire of the 11thbetween day thoseThe whopresident sacrificed pledged their to lives pay to improve health care and day they’re ordered. were prime locations to in- Thousands of people lined of the 11th month _ Veterans attention to the debts owed to to provide affordable care for In the past, the world’s troduce the service because up at the cemetery on a sunny Day is set aside to thank those veterans. "Even as we make dif- those not covered by the VA; largest online retailer has of- Amazon’s infrastructure is autumn morning to attend who've put their lives on the he also pledged to reduce the fered Sunday shipping on a evolving there, Clark said. a wreath-laying at the Tomb line. he said, "we're going to keep mammoth backlog in disability “very small scale” for goods The company has a 1-year- of the Unknown Soldier and Parades took place from makingficult fiscal vital choices investments as a nation," in our claims so veterans can receive sold through its main web- speeches at the amphitheater coast to coast, including in New veterans." site, said Dave Clark, vice Bernardino, Calif., and re- president of worldwide oper- centlyold fulfillment announced center plans in Sanfor their benefits promptly. ations and customer service. another in Moreno Valley. NASH for playing “soft” and lacking de- Kevin Love tallied 25 points one quarter, it’s outrageous, but Continued from Page 3 fensive intensity. and 13 rebounds for the Tim- we’ve got to put more pressure. STUDENTS was unclear whether the vi- The Lakers have lost three of berwolves, while Ricky Rubio We’ve just got to force them to Continued from Page 1 olence would lead to a drop emotional. But it’s hard. I re- four. Steve Blake led the Lakers notched a triple-double with take some tougher shots.” in Chinese enrollment. But ally want to play and I really with 19 points on 7-of-11 shoot- 12 points, 14 assists and 10 However bad the loss was, the USC has had the largest that group grew by about want to play the way I am used ing, including 5 of 7 from 3. rebounds. gravest concern was saved for number of foreign students 800 students, according to to playing and to be so limited is However, the Lakers were out of The Wolves were 7 of 9 from Nash. The point guard will be for a dozen years in a row. USC statistics. The survey frustrating.” it early against the Timberwolves, - evaluated Monday by Dr. Rob- Overall, the number of in- found there were nearly He called the unknown search giving up a 27-2 run and falling ter, en route to a franchise-record ert Watkins, the specialist who ternational students in U.S. 3,800 Chinese students at for a “cleanish” bill of health behind 44-16 with 1:08 left in the 47the points 3-point in linethe quarter.in the first quar performed surgery on Dwight institutions increased by USC last fall. “daunting.” It creates another “They made some shots,” said Howard in 2012 to repair a herni- about 7 percent last year, The other countries with challenge for the Lakers who fell 22-game winning streak against Pau Gasol, who struggled to 11 ated disc. to nearly 820,000. The larg- the largest groups of stu- to 3-5 with the loss, and were thefirst Timberwolves, quarter. The loss which snapped dated a points on 5-of-12 shooting. “A lot But, like Nash said, the un- est group came from China, dents at USC are South chastised by D’Antoni afterward to the 2006-07 season. of shots. Forty-seven points in known is daunting. which sent about 236,000 Korea, Saudi Arabia and students, nearly double the Canada. number of students from California attracted the India, the second-largest largest number of foreign he was much more laid back,” instance, Self used part of prac- squandered against Michigan group. students nationwide, with WIGGINS Tharpe said of Wiggins. “But tice to teach his young players State last year in Atlanta. Now Several countries _ includ- about 111,000, followed by Continued from Page 3 he’s starting to understand, how to properly box out on free the Jayhawks take their swing ing Iran, Brazil and Kuwait _ New York and Texas, which he’s gonna have to start doing throws. This is part of the rea- at Duke. Wiggins can face increased their number of had 88,000 and 63,000 But the Jayhawks, 1-0, were more. . . . I feel like everybody son Self can be honest when Parker. And two programs with students in the U.S. by at international students, also playing without Tharpe, is gonna be against him, and he says he doesn’t know how title aspirations meet on the least 20 percent, but “most respectively. their starting point guard, who we’re on his side. You gotta his young team will react in the west side of Chicago. of the growth was fueled by The University of Illinois- served a one-game suspension prove to the world that he is the atmosphere of a packed United “We’re ridiculously young, the undergraduate Chinese Urbana-Champaign had the for playing in an unsanctioned best player.” Center. and everything’s a new expe- students,” said Rajika Bhan- second-most international pro-am game last summer in So much attention has been “I’d like to think that we rience for us,” Self said. “But dari, deputy vice president students with 9,800. Purdue Chicago. The return of Tharpe directed toward Wiggins, that know,” Self said. “But we don’t they’re good, and they’ll be a for research and evaluation University’s main campus could smooth out some of- it’s been easy to lose sight know.” team that has a legitimate shot at the Institute of Interna- had 9,500 foreign students, fensive struggles and facilitate of Kansas’ growth as a team. For the last two years, Kan- to win it all. And hopefully we’ll tional Education. placing it third, while New more scoring opportunities for The Jayhawks are still moving sas has left the Champions be a team that can be in that After two USC Chinese York and Columbia universi- Wiggins. slowly, Self says, making sure Classic with a defeat: A loss to conversation also if we con- graduate students were shot ties ranked fourth and fifth “At the beginning of the year, not to skip steps. On Sunday, for Kentucky in 2011; a late lead tinue to get better.” to death in April 2012, it in the survey, respectively.

- A U.S. Agency for In- being shipped from stockpiles TYPHOON ippine authorities assess the ternational Development in Sri Lanka. The rice can feed Continued from Page 2 scaleofficials of arethe stillhumanitarian helping Phil di- assessment team in Leyte prov- 60,000 people for a month, the saster from the storm, known ince found that in some areas, embassy said. The carrier should reach the in the Philippines as Yolanda. 90 percent of the housing had The Marines have sent four Philippines within a few days. “There have been a couple of been damaged or destroyed, MV-22 Osprey airplanes, which Pentagon Press Secretary the U.S. Embassy in Manila said can land and take off vertically, part it’s still the assessment in a statement. - announced the deployment phase,”initial flights, said Sgt. but Ben for theEberle, most a The agency is sending 1,000 ing planes, which can also be andGeorge said Littlethe carrier, later which officially in- Marine spokesman. “In the next rolls of plastic sheeting and usedas well to transport as five KC-130 cargo. refuelAerial cludes a crew of 5,000 sailors 24 hours, there should be a sig- 10,000 kits containing soap, refueling capacity is critical be- and more than 80 aircraft, will toothbrushes and other sani- cause of the long distances the be accompanied by the cruis- for Tacloban.” tary supplies from a warehouse - ers Antietam and Cowpens and nificantThe additional increase indeployment resupply in Dubai. It also is sending 55 plies and assess the damage to the destroyer Mustin. Other of Marines and sailors from tons of food, enough to feed Osprey must fly to deliver sup U.S. Navy vessels were already the U.S. base in Okinawa, Japan, 20,000 children and 15,000 U.S. Navy P-3 Orion aircraft underway for the Philippines, brings the number of U.S. per- airfields. Little said in the statement. sonnel who have responded to embassy said. help with search and rescue ef- U.S. military and civilian the disaster to 180, Eberle said. adultsAnother for four1,020 to tonsfive days,of rice the is forts,are flying the Navyover hard-hitsaid. areas to CL111213 CLASSIFIED worked to inculcate in Egypt’s impression of big stakes, with doubtful. If Washington wants AFRICA army respect for the principle U.S. credibility ostensibly on to encourage “positive change” CLASSIFIED Continued from Page 2 of civilian control. Yet this year the line and hawks insisting in Africa, training a million Afri- that turning things around will can schoolteachers or a million 2 x 8.0 Take Iraq as an example. Af- contemplated a democratically require “boots on the ground.” doctors might be more useful. ter foolishly dismantling Iraq’s electedwhen Egyptian government senior behaving officers Lest that sound like some Efforts to build foreign army in 2003, the Pentagon in ways not to their liking, they hoary reference to the esca- armies are implicitly based toiled for years to rebuild it. promptly mounted a coup and latory actions that produced on the assumption that “back- That effort eventually allowed overthrew it. Egyptian soldiers the Vietnam War, consider the ward” peoples want and will U.S. forces to quit the country. then brutally suppressed citi- words of then-Maj. Gen. Burke Yet as indicated by the daily zens who had the temerity to Garrett, who was USARAF’s tutoring. That paternalistic as- insurgent attacks wreaking object. Meanwhile, Pentagon commander until 2010. Taken sumption,surely benefit amounting from American to little havoc in Baghdad and other alone, he remarked, USARAF more than a politically correct cities, “our” Iraqi army is mani- turned out to be nil. might be small, but “we rep- updating of the white man’s festly unable to maintain even influencePerhaps on worse Egyptian from generals a U.S. resent a million-person army burden, deserves critical ex- minimally adequate internal perspective, modest troop — active, Guard and reserve amination. Indeed, it should be security. If that’s success, it’s commitments have a way of —that we can bring to bear in abandoned as both false and hard to imagine what failure morphing into larger ones. Africa.” pernicious — bad for Africans looks like. When things don’t go right, Africa has many needs. and bad for us. In the mean- Imagine hard enough, how- - Whether it needs the United time, an army looking for new ever, and you get Egypt. For tion is to up the ante. To sustain States bringing to bear a mil- missions just might look closer decades, the United States aWashington’s few casualties reflexive is to create inclina the lion American soldiers is to home.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBERLife! 12, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM * RICHARD CRANK | THE PARTHENON Kelsey Waybright works as head coach for the 2013 Thundering Herd Cheerleading Former Herd squad. cheerleader returns as coach

By CARISSA JANCZEWSKI Shortly after, Waybright got a call offering her SUBMITTED PHOTO THE PARTHENON the assistant cheerleading coach position and Waybright gives a thumbs-up to It’s not every day that you get the chance to couldn’t turn it down. She is now the head coach. her team at a football game. cheer for the school you love and then have “I never thought I’d be doing this,” she said. the opportunity to come back and lead them to “I’m shocked.” victory as a coach. This is the situation Kelsey Waybright was excited to start this position Waybright recently found herself in when she but knew there were changes in the cheerlead- took a coaching position for the Thundering ing world she would have to work around. Herd Cheerleading squad at only 24 years old. “When I started cheerleading, tumbling was Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but hailing from Rip- not as vital as it is now. It used to be something ley, W.Va., Waybright was an athlete from the start. that only a few girls on a squad could do. Now, “I played basketball and softball from about everyone has to have those skills,” she said. second grade to sixth grade, then played volley- It used to be that tumbling could be done on ball through middle school,” Waybright said. hardwood, but due to injuries sustained at other Despite the various sports she played early on, schools, mats are now required and tumbling none was what she really wanted to do with her time. cannot be done on hardwood. “I had always wanted to be gymnast, but “Now that we can’t tumble on hardwood, it my mom wouldn’t let me,” she said. really waters down what we can do in terms Waybright didn’t let that stop her from becom- of tumbling. This makes choreography more ing a gymnast though; she found a way around that important because that’s where the creativity obstacle. comes out,” she said. SUBMITTED PHOTO “I told my mom I wanted to do cheerleading, Waybright currently lives in Huntington and already knowing that I would need to become a works at El Haijj Salon on 20th Street where she Waybright cheered for the Thundering gymnast in order to do that,” she said. is a hair stylist and does nails. She said she’d love Herd from Fall 2007 until she graduated Waybright successfully found the loophole she to take a full time position as a head coach if it four years later. needed to become a gymnast, and started out on ever opened up. the cheerleading path in seventh grade where she started back spotting and eventually went on it was“I have offered a pretty as a cheerleadingflexible schedule coach,” at the she salon, said. A few years later, Waybright found herself and could definitely work in a full time position if cheeringto be a flyer. for her high school in Ripley and also in be on a squad and said its imperative to always competitions until she graduated in 2007. giveAs 100 a coach percent she knowsall of the first time. hand what its like to After graduation she came to Marshall University “You need to be focused on what you need to where she had no intention of competition cheer- achieve, not trying to measure up to other people ing, but rather wanted to try out for the dance team. on the squad,” she said. “I knew when I came to Marshall I didn’t In addition to being dedicated to the sport, you want to do competition cheering anymore. I just need a good support system and people to look up to. wanted to try out for the dance team, but then “I had four great cheerleading coaches grow- the cheerleading squad had an open gym so I ing up, one of which was Kelli Fisher. She was went to see what I would like better,” she said. always super supportive and didn’t hold back. Before she knew it, she had decided against She also owns her own salon in Ripley, so she joining the dance team and went with her for- was an all around inspiration in my career and mer love of cheerleading. cheerleading,” she says. While cheering for four years at Marshall, From cheerleader to cheerleading coach, Way- Waybright worked on a public relations degree bright has come a long say since her days on the in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass middle school squad. Communications and then decided to switch to “My favorite part of coaching the squad is being the College of Business to pursue a management able to see them grow not only as athletes but as degree halfway through. individuals. They're not just learning skills that “I knew public relations wasn’t what I wanted to do about two years in. I had always wanted to they're learning skills that can help them the rest pursue cosmetology, so I went for a management ofhelp their them life on such the as field social or oninteractions our practice with mats, our degree hoping to one day own a salon,” she said. fans, discipline by juggling our busy schedule She did end up graduating with a management and respect by interacting with teammates that degree in 2011 with a minor in pubic relations become family. I love this university, and being 272396 and after graduating, went back home to Ripley. able to show them exactly what I love about this “I decided to go back home to save some money after cheer program, athletic department and campus CABELL COUNTY SOLID WASTE AUTH graduation and pursue cosmetology school,” she said. is priceless.” Waybright said. Waybright attended Mountaineer Beauty Carissa Janczewski can be contacted at E-RECYCLING EVENT NO College in 2011 in St. Albans. [email protected]. 3 x 10.75 TODAY IN THE LIFE! 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