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TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018 | VOL. 122 NO. 51 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE A new era in MU Student Government Hunter Barclay & Hannah Petracca are sworn in a SGA President and Vice President STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION FACEBOOK STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION FACEBOOK Hunter Barclay being sworn in as Marshall’s new Student Government President, Sunday. Hannah Petracca being sworn in as Marshall’s new Student Government Vice President, Sunday. By KYRA BISCARNER to work together to enact the changes he and his cam- an exhale of complete relief that I didn’t mess up the oath,” THE PARTHENON paign promised. Petracca said. “Then I just couldn’t stop smiling because Hunter Barclay and Hannah Petracca are officially Barclay said, “As the student body president, I will not of how grateful I am to officially be Marshall University’s Marshall University’s new student body president and be successful. I will not advance the mission of the uni- student body vice president.” vice president. Sunday afternoon the team was officially versity. I will not enact innovative reforms because I am Petracca also said she agrees with Barclay hopes to sworn in to serve Marshall University at the university just one human, with one title, with one voice. I am just carry the influences she’s had in her life, including former president’s house. one more Study Body President who will pass this title Marshall vice president Izzy Rogner, with her as she be- Student Government Association advisor Michelle Bar- onto another great leader in exactly one year, but that is gins her term in office. bour swore Barclay and Petracca into their new positions. completely fine by me because my term as president is “My biggest influences have been my mom, my high When being sworn in, Barclay and Petracca swore to up- not about me, it is about us. Together, we–the students, school young life leader Brittany and former Marshall hold the duties of their respective offices and the values the faculty and community members–will achieve suc- Student Body VP Izzy Rogner,” Petracca said. “All of these of the Constitution of the United States of America, State cess, will advance the mission of the university and will women have invested in me and encouraged me. But more of West Virginia and Marshall University. enact innovative reforms because I am not Marshall, we than anything, these women lead by example and that is Barclay and Petracca both delivered speeches discuss- are Marshall.” what has inspired me to do the same.” ing their goals for their upcoming term and what they Although she was filled with nerves, Petracca said the Barclay and Petracca’s term will officially begin at to- plan to accomplish while in office. main feeling she felt after taking the oath of office was day’s Student Government Association Senate meeting. 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Detectives cut the backpack off him. 20 to 30 people tapping into his computer and phone and people Police spokesman Don Aaron said Reink- “barkingIn August, like Reinkingdogs” outside told policehis residence, he wanted according to file a to report a report. about ing requested a lawyer and was taken to a “There’s certainly evidence that there’s some sort of mental hospital before he would be booked on four health issues involved,” Tazewell County Sheriff Robert Huston counts of criminal homicide. said. But he said deputies returned the guns to Reinking’s father It’s not clear why Reinking attacked on the promise he would “keep the weapons secure and out of the shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, though he may possession of Travis.” have “mental issues,” Metropolitan Nashville Reinking’s father “has now acknowledged giving them back” to Police Chief Steve Anderson said earlier. his son, Aaron said. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special restaurant parking lot before storming the Agent Marcus Watson said Monday that action is “potentially a restaurant,Police said which Reinking had about opened 20 firepeople in thein- violation of federal law.” side. Four people — three of them black Phone calls to a number listed for the father, Jeffrey Reinking, and one Hispanic — were killed and four went unanswered. others injured before a customer wrestled It is not clear why Reinking moved recently from Morton, Illinois, the weapon away and Reinking, who is and if it had anything to do with being near Swift, who has a home white, ran out, police said. in Nashville. Police say he worked in construction for a while. Police said Reinking stole a BMW days ASSOCIATED PRESS before the attack. The car was quickly his gold Chevy Silverado pickup early Sunday and sat there for In this photo released by the Metro Nashville Police Department, Travis Reinking sits in a police car recovered, but authorities did not immedi- Police say Reinking drove into the Waffle House parking lot in after being arrested in Nashville, Tenn., on April 23. Police said Reinking opened fire at a Waffle ately link the theft to Reinking. House early Sunday, killing at least four people. Meanwhile, authorities in Illinois asabout Taurean four minutes Sanderlin, before 29, openingof Goodlettsville, fire. and Joe Perez, 20, of shared past reports suggesting multiple Nashville.The victims Sanderlin fatally was shot an in employee the parking at the lot restaurant. have been identified By SHEILA BURKE One of the fatally wounded inside was DeEbony Groves, a ASSOCIATED PRESS In May 2016, Reinking told deputies from Tazewell County, Il- 21-year-old student at Nashville’s Belmont University. She was The mentally unstable gunman suspected of killing four people linois,red flags that about music a disturbed superstar young Taylor man Swift with was paranoid stalking delusions. him and remembered as an exceptional student who made the Dean’s list, hacking his phone, and that his family was also involved. and a tenacious basketball player. near his apartment Monday after hiding from police for more than Reinking agreed to go to a local hospital for an evaluation after Akilah Dasilva was also killed inside the restaurant. The 23-year- ain day, a late-night authorities shooting said. at a Waffle House restaurant was arrested repeatedly resisting the request, the sheriff’s report said. old from Antioch was a rap artist and music video producer. Police and federal agents had mounted a massive manhunt for Another sheriff’s report said Reinking barged into a commu- He was at the restaurant with his girlfriend, 21-year-old Tia Wag- 29-year-old Travis Reinking after the Sunday morning attacks, nity pool in Tremont, Illinois, last June, and jumped into the water goner, the paper reported. Waggoner was wounded and underwent wearing a pink woman’s coat over his underwear. Investigators surgery to try to save her leg, Dasilva’s family said. Police say Sharita attack a diverse crowd of patrons at the restaurant before being Henderson, 24, of Antioch, was wounded and being treated as well.