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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 10-22-2013 The aP rthenon, October 22, 2013 Bishop Nash [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Nash, Bishop, "The aP rthenon, October 22, 2013" (2013). The Parthenon. Paper 279. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/279 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]. page designed and edited by BISHOP NASH INSIDE: NEWS, 2 | SPORTS, 3 | OPINION, 4 | LIFE!, 6 HIGH 55° LOW 41° [email protected] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 36 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com ‘Take Back the Night’ slated for Wednesday By KATY LEWIS from 6:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. according to Take Back the we could be assaulted at any regardless of race, ethnicity, women, men and gender, ac- THE PARTHENON that will lead up to the march Night’s website. moment.” cording Marshall’s website. A rally and march against and candle lighting ceremony Brittany Shamblin, presi- Take Back the Night in Hun- gender, sex, socioeconomic CONTACT of Huntington is sexual assault and domestic at the end of the evening. dent of the Women’s Studies tington is presented by the status,political sexual affiliation, orientation, education, age a 24-hour Rape Crisis Center violence, Take Back the Night, Take Back the Night is an Student Association, explained Women’s Studies Student As- and disability. that serves Cabell, Wayne, Lin- will take place Wednesday at internationally known event, that the purpose of this event sociation, the Women’s Center, The Women’s Center at Mar- coln and Mason counties. The the Marshall University Memo- sponsored by Take Back at Marshall is to spread the CONTACT of Huntington and shall helps to develop women center provides advocacy for rial Student Center Plaza. the Night Foundation, that word about sexual and do- Branches Domestic Violence victims of sexual assault and The rally will take place speaks out against crimes as- mestic violence and empower Shelter. and healthy individuals. Lo- stalking. The center also of- from noon to 4 p.m. There will sociated with sexual violence. women to take back the night. Marshall’s Women’s Stud- catedinto independent,in Prichard Hall confident on the fers a 24-hour hotline where be information tables and live The foundation seeks to end “As students, we should feel ies Student Association is individuals can seek help con- music provided by WMUL- sexual assault, domestic vio- safe enough to walk to our an activist organization on information, educational pro- cerning crisis intervention, FM, Marshall’s student radio lence, dating violence and cars, take an evening run or campus that discusses and gramming,first floor, thetraining, center referrals,provides trauma, and questions about station. sexual abuse. The event helps walk two blocks to class ver- endorses women’s issues. The victim advocacy and services the criminal justice process. There will be testimonials, create safe communities and sus driving,” Shamblin said. organization believes in the to facilitate education on is- speakers and poetry readings respectful relationships, “We shouldn’t live in fear that equal treatment of all groups sues related to feminism, See RALLY | Page 5 Marshall’s Van Kirk Hillbilly Hot Dogs whips out ‘The Widow Maker’ to be featured in Visiting Writers Series By JUSTIN DePAMPHILIS THE PARTHENON A Marshall University professor will be the fea- ture Thursday for the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series. writer and a professor of EnglishJohn Vanat Marshall, Kirk, a willfiction be featured at the next read- ing in the Visiting Writers Series. “It feels good to be a part named after my very good friendof this A.E.series, Stringer,” since it wasVan Kirk said. “I’m delighted to be a part of it.” Van Kirk will be reading from his debut novel, “Song Weeklyfor Chance,” as which“a passionate has been described by Publishers tale about the excesses of lifetime.”sex, drugs and rock and roll over“It’s a a torturedbook about musician’s a lot of things,” Van Kirk said. “It’s pretty much about music and practice. Ultimately it- PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON comes over with practice Hillbilly Hot Dogs owners Sharie and over performance. It’s re Sonny Knight flank employee John pushingally abstract 60, sinceplanning it’s aboutsmall Boggs in presenting “The Widow Maker” an ex-rock star who is now- Monday at the Huntington location. ent life” clubsVan and Kirk looking joined at thea differ U.S. Navy in January 1980 and as a naval aviator. He served Two-foot monster debuts as the forgraduated three yearsfrom flightin the school He- - licopter Antisubmarine longest hotdog on any menu sonville, Fla. In 1989, he joinedSquadron the 7, Master based inof JackFine Arts program at the Univer- sity of Maryland. Full story on LIFE! >PAGE 6 Since 1993, he has been a part of the Marshall faculty, where he has balanced a dual career as a writer and teacher. He has won awards Syrian rebels in Lebanon brace for government offensive for his work, including the O. HisHenry work Award has and appeared the Fiction in By MITCHELL PROTHERO population, with its strong fam- million refugees from both sides Prize at the Iowa Review.- MCCLATCHY FOREIGN STAFF (MCT) - Syrian rebels and their from rebel-controlled villages “We will fight to the last man,” Muslims, ready to openly assist. sympathy abound, and the town numerous publications in onjust both across sides the of border the border in Syria. near said Abu Omar Hujieri, a Leba- ily“This and politicalis our warties tojust Syrian like hasof the made conflict. housing Signs available of rebel to cluding the New York Times theThe Jebel enclave Qalamoun that has sprungmountain up tionsnese inactivist the area.and Withfighter Qusayr who tens of thousands in Arsal and MagazineThe reading and thewill Hudson take thatLebanese links rebelallies havens currently in Leba in- peak represents the largest rebel has ties to most of the rebel fac of the Lebanese involvement. the surrounding villages. Review. noncommand with theof aembattled crucial corridor Syrian - “Theytheirs,” are Abu our family,Omar ourexplained neigh- The situation is alarming to - - mate goal of the insurgents. Its and Homs essentially back under- bors and our friends. All the ingplace immediately at 8 p.m. in afterward. Smith Hall, ing for a massive government populationhaven near isDamascus, swollen by the Syrian ulti the control of the government of people of Arsal are with the group that’s Lebanon’s most RoomThe 154,Visiting with aWriters book sign Se- offensivecapital of aimedDamascus at bringing are prepar the JebelPresident Qalamoun Bashar regionAssad, awould gov rebellion.” Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim - the government offensive earlier ernment success in seizing the the College of Liberal Arts refugees and fighters who fled Almost from the beginning powerful political organization andries thereceives Honors support College from at strategic area back under gov Qusayr and Homs. Now tens of finish the rebel presence here. With about 30,000 refugees- and a staunch ally of Assad’s.- Marshall. Lebaneseernment control. border town of Arsal this year that retook the cities of months ago, Arsal has been a joining the 40,000 people who ersHezbollah in Arsal officials and on say the the Syrian tens Justin DePamphilis can Rebels and activists in the of the anti-Assad uprising 30- onealready even lived as the here, rest the of two Lebanon com sideof thousands of the border of nearbyrebel fightleave be contacted at depamphi- thousands of rebel fighters are ven for Syrian rebels, who munities appear to be acting as Lebanon vulnerable to terrorist [email protected]. areassay they in Lebanon’sexpect the Bekaa offensive Valley to preparing to make a final stand foundcrucial the logistics mostly hubSunni and Muslim ha attempt to cut off sympathetic to keep Arsal from being cut off struggles to absorb, politically from the Syrian battlefield.270677 and economically, more than a attacks. BCC CAFE INC, SOUTHERN X-POSUR C M Y K 50 INCH 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Teacher killed as he tried to intervene in Nevada school shooting By MELANIE MASON “It’s totally surreal to have it happen.” buses unloading students as every- and ARI BLOOMEKATZ According to police and witnesses, a one crowds through the school’s lone and the streets were full of police.” LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) student at the school — wearing kha- entrance and exit for students. 7:15Watching a.m. she the “heard news a lot25 ofminutes sirens had“He shot was a frightened,” teacher and Alvarez two othersaid, Family members of a teacher shot kis, part of the Sparks Middle School The school is one of three middle later, she heard early reports of kids.”speaking in Spanish. “He said a boy and killed by a student at Sparks schools in the Sparks Police Depart- what had happened and that middle Alvarez dropped off her nephew Middle School said Monday it did not 7 a.m., leaving Michael Landsberry ment’s jurisdiction, Woyciehowsky school students had been evacuated at his home, then returned to her surprise them that he had tried to deaduniform and — two opened students fire wounded. shortly after The said. A fourth middle school is under to Agnes Risley Elementary School apartment where her two daughters, stop the attack. the jurisdiction of the Washoe County nearby. She went there to pick up her “It doesn’t surprise anybody that apparently then took his own life, po- Sheriff’s Department, she said.