The Parthenon, September 19, 2018

Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 9-19-2018 The aP rthenon, September 19, 2018 Sadie Helmick [email protected] Franklin Norton [email protected] Sarah Ingram [email protected] Kieran Intemann [email protected] Heather Barker [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Helmick, Sadie; Norton, Franklin; Ingram, Sarah; Intemann, Kieran; and Barker, Heather, "The aP rthenon, September 19, 2018" (2018). The Parthenon. 737. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/737 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], [email protected]. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 | VOL. 122 NO. 61 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE Cabell-Wayne animal shelter seeking volunteers WHAT’S INSIDE READ MORE ON PAGE 2 Transgender3 group Huntington’s4 Kitchen Collection5 for a cause MU v.6 NC State on Williams7 sisters at EDITORIAL:8 Smirl9 Meets World 12Starbucks bike Science grant SGA senate meeting Red flag campaign Saturday Greenbriar Mac Miller Red head rep Marshall smashers PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY SADIE HELMICK | [email protected] Marshall students Running Six Days a Week! FRIDAY & ride FREE with I.D. Standard Daytime Service: SATURDAY 20-minute loop along 3rd, 4th and 5th Avenues 529-RIDE between 7:30am & 5:00pm LATE NIGHT Stops at Pullman Square (Visual Arts Center, Friday: Huntington’s Kitchen), Keith Albee & More! 7:30am-3am DOWNLOAD ROUTESHOUT Evening service: 30-minute loop, route extended to include Saturday: WWW.TTA-WV.COM 5th Avenue Kroger from 5:00pm to 11:30pm 3pm-3am 378381 (304) 529-7433 2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Cabell-Wayne Animal Shelter in need of volunteers By LILLIE BODIE there vetting completed. And help lost animals THE PARTHENON be reunited with their family.” The Cabell-Wayne Animal Shelter seeks volun- Cross said the shelter hopes to raise money to teers while housing approximately eighty cats improve conditions and hire employees to help and one hundred dogs. The shelter just ended the animals. their cat season, in which an abundance of strays “Our humane organization we formed in order were given to the shelter. They were able to sup- to be able to help the shelter is WWVARA, which ply homes to seventy cats. is in the process of raising more money, to hire a “In order for this to be a good shelter, you kennel tech and eventually hire someone to be a have to have volunteers,” Martha Cummings, kennel worker for the cats,” Cross said. “My goal volunteer of twenty years, said. “I hope the pub- is to have a medical director and vet tech, who lic will step up and come down and volunteer, will weight the animals on intake and vaccinate it doesn’t have to be everyday, but even once or them so the office worker doesn’t have to do that twice a month.” and enter the data into our system.” The shelter does not put any animals down Currently, the shelter is working on a new because of space, which creates an even higher program with the animals: a new life in New LILLIE BODIE | THE PARTHENON demand for help. England, where they take seven dogs from the “In the past they were put down but now shelter to the northeast where they will be they are not, unless due to extreme illness,” adopted. The two main rescue groups that work Cummings said. “Six to seven years ago they with shelter are Advocates Saving Adoptable were putting six thousand animals down Pets and One by One, which raise money to help a year, and nobody said a thing, and I want take care of a lot of the vetting and medical needs people to care now, I want them to take pride and help connect these animals to rescue and in their animal shelter.” new homes through adoption events. Former music professor at Marshall Univer- Volunteers can contact Courtney Cross at 304- sity, Linda Dobbs, said, “It’s contagious because 544-5891, or can register at the Cabell-Wayne you want to do what you can to help, and I had Animal Shelter. to set aside time once I quit teaching in order to “Animals mean love and the fact that they take part in helping the animals. There is a des- love you and we can love them, and they need perate need for volunteers, all of us have lives, us means we need to step up and speak for and folks like Courtney Cross and the nucleus them, because they can’t speak for themselves,” of rescuers are looking for people to foster the Cummings said. animals, and volunteers through social media Lillie Bodie can be contacted at bodie2@ and fundraising.” marshall.edu. LILLIE BODIE | THE PARTHENON Courtney Cross, newly appointed director of the animal shelter, said she has always had a passion for animals and this job is like a dream. Cross said volunteers are needed for all animals in the shelter all the time. “We need volunteers to walk dogs everyday, the shelter opens at 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. but if I’m here I’m more than happy to have people come walk dogs at anytime,” Cross said. “And the cats are completely on volunteer basis, and need help as well.” Cross said to eliminate diseases and contamination the shelter has created a procedure that all volunteers must abide by and practice. “We vaccinate every animal as soon as they come in,” Cross said. “And every volunteer will be trained at first on how handle the animals, on a procedure that we are following to eliminate illness in the shelter and to cut down on any contamination. At the shelter we want to protect them from bad things happening to them, and give them shelter, and help them be adopted to a loving home or sent to rescues, while having LILLIE BODIE | THE PARTHENON PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY FRANKLIN NORTON | [email protected] WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 3 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Campus group aims to provide support for transgender students College of Science receives $400,000 grant By SAM PHILLIPS THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s College of Science was awarded a grant worth nearly $400,000 by the National Science Foun- dation for the purchase of a new advanced microscope. The microscope will primarily be used for research purposes, but it will also be used as a teaching tool for Marshall students, as well as K-12 students in Hunting- ton. The microscope will be a field-emission scanning electron microscope, a machine that can view surfaces at the nanometer level. “We started working with the grant in October of 2017,” Rosalynn Quiñones, the principal investigator for the grant and an assistant professor in the chemistry Joelle Gates | The Parthenon department, said. Quiñones said there is a microscope of this type on Members of a new student group, TranSLAYtion, meet together on the Memorial Student Center plaza. The group aims to create a campus, but the images it produces are of poor quality safe space for students who identify as transgender by establishing a sense of community amid obstacles. due to it being nearly 20 years old. Quiñones is one of eight faculty members from Mar- By JOELLE GATES “Gender-neutral bathrooms should be everywhere,” shall’s College of Science that participated in the grant, THE PARTHENON Cooper said. “It’s not much help when they’re spread out and was joined by representatives from West Virginia TranSLAYtion, a student led support group, aims to create over campus.” University, the University of Charleston and scientists a safe space for students who identify as transgender by While there are still challenges that transgender students from Alcon Laboratories. establishing a sense of community amid obstacles. face, the group agreed many solutions to these issues could Quiñones also said it was a stroke of good fortune that “When the rest of the world is calling us gross, the ability be solved with basic education. the grant was accepted. Only around 25 percent of grants to have this group helps us feel like we’re supposed to be “Coming to college exposes you to all kinds of people,” that are submitted to the NSF are accepted, and of those, here,” Mason Coleman, a junior visual arts major, said. “It Gabe Brown, a junior biology major and co-facilitator of only about 20 percent are first-time submissions. validates us and makes us feel like we matter.” the group, said. “Since society sometimes has a negative There are already several research topics planned for With only two LGBTQ organizations on Marshall Uni- opinion on us, it would be beneficial [for Marshall] to pro- when the microscope is installed, including research on versity’s campus, Ian Clark, a senior sociology major and vide students with information on transgender identities.” minerals, nano-particles and arachnids such as spiders co-facilitator of the group, said it is important for every In addition to gaining more resources on campus, Clark and scorpions. queer identity to have a space on campus. said he would also like to see more transgender students “Marshall students will be able to do hands-on research “Marshall often labels itself as being LGBTQ inclusive, but be involved in the solutions. – something we weren’t able to do,” said Quiñones.

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