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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 3-11-2013 The aP rthenon, March 11, 2013 John Gibb [email protected] Tyler Kes [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Gibb, John and Kes, Tyler, "The aP rthenon, March 11, 2013" (2013). The Parthenon. Paper 197. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/197 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 Higher Learning Tour takes Huntington to school > more on News Monday, MARCH 11, 2013 | VOL. 116 NO. 100 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com Get to know your candidates SUBMITTED PHOTOS THE PARTHENON’S KIM SMITH SPOKE WITH THE THREE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BEFORE THE Platform Agendas UPCOMING ELECTIONS TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHICH ISSUES ARE IMPORTANT. Derek Ramsey & Sarah Stiles EJ Hassan & Ashley Lyons Wittlee Retton & Dustin Murphy • We want to promote to students on cam- • Establish open forum to engage student body • Things for the average students are discount pus, show what they are doing. with Student Government Executive Branch. cards especially for Student Organizations. • We want to help get your organization • Partner SGA up with Greek Affairs and other • We have the idea of suggestion boxes that service oriented groups to host a day on campus will be placed all around campus. involved, see an increase in members, as dedicated to events that go toward various cam- well as acknowledge what accomplishments pus philanthropies. • We want certain weeks or days that will you are doing. highlight a specific group or people. • Collaborate with MUPD and City of Hunting- • We want to reach out to organizations ton to find solutions to increase campus safety. • We want more lights on campus. that go unrecognized for their great attri- • Utilize social media to expand presence butes on campus. • We want to get more Marshall Police within the Marshall community. available. • We want to help promote your organi- • Work directly with the INTO Program so • We need to publicize and promote pro- zation, and what you are doing on, around that international students can see a seamless grams about getting people CPR, First Aid, and and for the campus. transition. other medical training. • Assist in expanding the presence of the Stu- • We want to represent you, your organi- • We want to advertise the resources Mar- dent Senate on campus by working with them shall from Career Services, Student Resource zation and this University by helping every directly. Center, and the library has to offer. student when they need it. • Continue recruitment efforts and reaching out • We want more active Housing and Resi- • Our team is comprised with a very di- to a variety of sectors of campus such as Housing dent Life involvement within SGA. verse team. & Residence Life and International Students. • We want a Commuter Lounge on campus. • Develop program in conjunction with UNI • We have members from Athletics, So- to teach incoming freshmen money management • We want “Meet the Staff times” cial and Academic Greek Organizations, techniques. Honors College, Marching Thunder and • We need to partner with CAB to start bus- much more. • Allow students to utilize our beautiful campus ing trips to areas for games, activities, and in order to promote fitness and exercise. other important University Events. • We want to show the importance of be- • Streamline the process so that club sports can ing different and still being a hard working • We plan to create a Campus Ministries receive money faster. Council. student body. • Increase activity of position and shift focus • We also would like to put lights on 5th Ave. to better integrating veterans into the Marshall and call buttons. community. By CAITLIN KINDER-MUNDAY modern day slavery. “End It” exists to edu- “A lot of people thought that because THE PARTHENON cate people about the prevalence of human we were doing this on a Friday and Satur- Marshall students take a The Marshall University International day, that the turnout would be less than it Justice Mission campus chapter took a group can help stop it. could have been during the week,” Reggi standing for a cause one step further by trafficking in the world and how people as said. “There was one point in time where sponsoring a 27-hour “STAND” for free- countries across the world, victimizing we gathered everyone with signs together dom on the Memorial Student Center plaza. anHuman estimated trafficking 27 million occurs individuals. in nearly 161An to get some video and photography, and I More than 225 students, faculty members estimated 17,500 people are annually literally almost started crying.” STAND and community residents participated to - More than $900 was raised during the raise awareness about modern day slav- erage age of a victim being 14. event, but Reggi said people still have an ery. The event started Friday at 7 a.m. and traffickedMarshall in IJM the was United founded States, in with January the avby opportunity to give donations by visiting ended Saturday at 10 a.m. a small group of students who are passion- the national IJM website. IJM is an international human rights ate about bringing the mission of IJM to the Marshall IJM also exceeded its goal of organization that focuses on justice for Huntington area. receiving 1,000 signatures for a letter to individuals affected by slavery, sexual ex- Marshall IJM President Schuylar Reggi, a President Barack Obama petitioning for ploitation and other forms of oppression senior advertising major, said the organiza- throughout the world. tion began planning the 27-hour event when and the creation of a budget set aside for IJM uses STAND, which is an anti-slavery the chapter was established, but it turned out issuesstricter related legislation to modern on human day slavery. trafficking initiative that educates college campuses to be more than they could have imagined. Derek Ramsey, a candidate for student More than 225 participants gathered body president, said he was taking a stand through groups standing for 27 consecutive on the plaza to stand for freedom, with no because he was not aware of the vast num- hours,and communities as part of the about “End human It” movement. trafficking fewer than 10 people standing at one time. The “End It” movement is an interna- Reggi said she was overwhelmed by the CAITLIN KINDER-MUNDAY | THE PARTHENON tional plan of action to shine a light on turnout. ber of people affected by humanSee STAND trafficking. | Page 5 page designed and edited by TYLER KES INSIDE: NEWS, 2 | SPORTS, 3 | OPINION, 4 | LIFE!, 6 HIGH 59° LOW 39° [email protected] C M Y K 50 INCH 2 MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Elementary schoolers file in for Brain Expo By SHANE BIAS Cole Chesson, volunteered THE PARTHENON at the Brain Expo. Ches- More than 550 elementary son said he volunteered for school students were in at- the Brain Expo because he wanted to help the kids learn annual Brain Expo in the Don more about the brain. Morristendance Room Friday atfor Marshallthe fifth Chesson said he loved the Dee-1 University. Brain Expo and would come propaganda Nadja Spitzer, assistant back and volunteer again. professor of biology, said the “The thing I liked most brain expo was a program about the event was getting that teaches students about to see the look on the elemen- the importance of the brain tary school students’ faces and to raise awareness for when they learned something Brain Awareness Month. new,” Chesson said. “It was “We put the Brain Expo on such a rewarding experience to help these students learn and I would love to volunteer more about the brain,” Spitzer again and would encourage said. “We have 27 different others to do so as well.” stations that will be teaching Spitzer said volunteers are the students different things needed for next year. about the brain, such as why “If you are looking to be they should take care of their a volunteer for next year’s BONE HAMPTON brain, types of brain foods and event, you can visit our web- the importance of sleep and site for the information on so on.” when to sign up or send us an There were nearly 550 stu- e-mail,” Spitzer said. dents and 200 volunteers in Students and faculty from attendance at the Brain Expo. the College of Science, psy- “Last year, we moved the chology department, the Brain Expo up to the Don Mor- Joan C. Edwards School of ris Room to be able to invite Medicine, St. Mary’s Medical more students,” Spitzer said. Center and National Science “Now we are pretty much at Foundation sponsored the max capacity and we even had Brain Expo. to start turning some schools Shane Bias can be contacted away.” at [email protected]. LECRAE PHOTOS BY MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae headlines the final concert of the Higher Learning Tour featuring Christian comedian Bone Hampton, Propaganda March marks Brain and Dee-1 at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center Sunday night. Higher Learning Tour takes Huntington to school Injury Awareness Month By EBONY ROBINSON Annual Grammy Awards. The I knew that I would enjoy the “His role was very important THE PARTHENON Houston native has peaked on show completely.” - By SHANE BIAS brain injuries because they The Higher Learning Tour, the Billboard 200 top 20 and Porter said it was evident the cult job being with performers THE PARTHENON could potentially kill.