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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 9-14-2012 The aP rthenon, September 14, 2012 Shane Arrington [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Arrington, Shane, "The aP rthenon, September 14, 2012" (2012). The Parthenon. Paper 54. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/54 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aP rthenon by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. C M Y K 50 INCH Battle for the Bell coverage| Civil Rights lecture series More on Sports FRIDAY begins| More on News September 14, 2012 VOL. 116 NO. 9 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Neil Armstrong’s ‘big idea’ lives on By CURTIS TATE MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS (MCT) WASHINGTON - Former astronauts, friends and family of Neil Armstrong on Thursday celebrated the first man to walk on the moon as a "regular guy" who shunned fame but embraced big, bold ideas that inspired the country. The two-hour memorial service at Wash- ington National Cathedral was a reminder that the first generation of space explorers is passing on. Fifty years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy renewed America's vow to put a man on the moon within a decade. Now it's been almost 40 years since the last manned moon mission, and more than a year since the last U.S. manned spaceflight. The Cold War rivalry with the old So- viet Union motivated America to get to the moon first, and it did. Armstrong's foot- prints remain, a symbol of man's capacity to wonder, and to achieve. But the Soviet Union is no more. Russia MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON continues to have a manned presence in Donna Britt, an accomplished author and columnist, addresses a group of students as a part of the Art Stringer Visiting Writers Series. space, and a new rival, China, is hoping for one. And America isn't the space leader it once was. The space shuttles that used to orbit at Pulitzer Prize nominee delivers speeds of 17,500 mph will be parked in museums. The engineers, scientists and others who worked on the shuttles have retired or moved on to other careers. in Visiting Writers Series debut Indeed, Armstrong, who died last month at age 82, worried that the country was By HENRY CULVYHOUSE “My brother was no ordinary Britt also offered advice for student Brittany McIntyre said losing interest in space, a concern some THE PARTHENON man. He was a quietly hand- Marshall’s aspiring writers. she was impressed with not only former colleagues share. Marshall University’s Visit- some man, an educated man, a “A lot of times our sense of Britt’s reading, but her personal- A year ago, he told a congressional com- ing Writers Series kicked off loving man.” what to write is so lofty that ity as well. mittee that the nation's leading role in its Fall 2012 season with a read- Britt said women support we’re afraid it won’t be beautiful “She is a kind person,”McIntyre space, "once lost, is nearly impossible to ing by a Pulitzer Prize nominee many men in their lives. enough or eloquent enough that said. “She’s very accessible and regain." Thursday. “We give everything we can we don’t write,” Britt said. “To she was able to connect person- "He represents the vision and curiosity Author and columnist Donna to our fathers, our husbands, me that’s the biggest pitfall of ally with my experiences.” that put us on the moon, and reminds us Britt discussed love, loss and our brothers and our children,” being a writer.” The series is now named the of what we can do if we choose to do it," the African American experi- Britt said. “Women, probably New Visiting Writer Series co- Arthur Stringer Visiting Writ- said George W.S. Abbey, a former director ence in a reading in Smith Hall more than any other group in the ordinator Rachael Peckham said ers Series, after the founder of of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, 154. She read excerpts from world, give the most.” Britt’s visit sets a precedent for the series, English professor Art who joined NASA in 1967. "That's a star- her book “Brothers and Me.” Britt said she does not hate future readings. Stringer. The next reading, fea- tling contrast between where we were and Britt discussed the loss of her men. “Donna sets the bar high,” turing author Chris Bachelder where we are." brother and its effect on her “I love men and a lot of women Peckham said. “She’s charis- and poet Danielle Deulen, is Oct. Armstrong's famous words upon setting life. do too,” Britt said. “Sometimes, matic, possess a forceful insight 18 at 8 p.m. in Smith Hall 154. foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, "One “The headline read ‘Gary Man their lack of recognition, their to the truth and she resonates Henry Culvyhouse can be con- small step for man; one giant leap for Shot’ and this was a headline for outright disrespect can make us with a lot of audiences.” tacted at culvyhouse@marshall. mankind" seemed to promise that genera- an ordinary man,” Britt said. angry, but that’s natural.” Graduate creative writing edu. tions yet born would explore other planets and worlds beyond. This from a future Navy pilot who dreamed of flying while growing up in Ohio but never thought he would, his ad- mirers noted. He "demonstrated it was possible to reach new worlds," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said, and "paved the way for future American explorers to step foot on Mars or another planet." Of the dozen American men who walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972, eight are still living, and a few attended Thursday's service: Buzz Aldrin, 82, who followed Armstrong's historic first footsteps on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission; Michael Collins, 81, who flew the lunar module on that mission; and Eugene Cer- nan, 78, part of Apollo 17, the final moon mission. John Glenn, 91, the first American in Earth orbit and a former U.S. senator from Ohio, sat next to Aldrin, who's perhaps better known these days as a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars." They were icons who launched the dreams of schoolchildren everywhere and successors as well. Sally Ride, who died a month before Armstrong, blazed a path for women in science as America's first woman in space. NASA is still exploring space. Its un- manned rover, Curiosity, landed on Mars last month and started poking around for signs of life. MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON Private companies hope to fill the void Visiting author and columnist Donna Britt conducted a more intimate question and answer session Thursday afternoon in Smith Hall. The School of Journalism and the space agency left last year when it shut Mass Communications, the Center for Women’s Studies, the Center for African American studies and the English Department were involved in an in-depth discussion down the shuttle program by testing the lead by Britt regarding what it is like to write about what one’s fears. The Pulitzer Prize nominee touched on topics ranging among racism, her career, women’s prospects of commercial space travel. rights and internships. Britt said that she was terrified when she first began writing her opinion. She was afraid that people might actually read it and be moved SpaceX, a California company, sent an un- by it. She was pleasantly surprised when people actually thanked her for the truth in her writing. manned craft to the International Space Station in May. page designed and edited by EDEN ADKINS INSIDE > NEWS, 2 |SPORTS, 3 |OPINION, 4 |LIFE!, 6 HI 82° LO 54° [email protected] C M Y K 50 INCH 2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Civil rights lecture series begins with war author By JEREMY BROWN After guiding the quartet to segregated, Sugrue pointed out THE PARTHENON the parking lot, the owner fired that the North was kept apart Tuesday night Marshall Uni- his gun into the air. in other ways. versity welcomed the man who King and his friends filed "The five most racially segre- wrote the book on civil rights in a complaint against the res- gated public education systems the North, literally. taurant and the NAACP got in the United States... were all Author Thomas Sugrue, involved. in the North," he said."In De- whose Sweet Land of Liberty: Three other people witnessed troit between 1945 and 1965 The Forgotten Struggle for the event. Their case collapsed. there were more than 200 vio- Civil Rights in the North has The three witnesses, all white, lent attacks against the first been praised in publications refused to testify in court. or second African-Americans from The Harvard Crimson to Notably, the incident didn't to move into formerly white New York Times, spoke at Mar- happen in Tennessee or Ala- neighborhoods." shall’s campus. bama, but New Jersey. The David Trowbridge, director Sugrue is the first of six lec- restaurant was not segregated, of African American studies turers who will visit the campus King and company were simply for the university, noted the this semester as part of “The forced out. importance of this series for Long Civil Rights Movement in " The ordeal was an eye- anyone wanting to learn more America Lecture” series.