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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 3-26-2015 The aP rthenon, March 26, 2015 Codi Mohr [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Mohr, Codi, "The aP rthenon, March 26, 2015" (2015). The Parthenon. Paper 472. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/472 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]. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 | VOL. 118 NO. 107 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com INSIDE: THEY COME RUNNIN’ JUST NEWS, 2 AS FAST AS THEY CAN... > PEYTON STUDENTS ON CAMPUS to see ZZ Top take the Big Sandy stage > SURE PROGRAM By SOFIE WACHTMEISTER “We’ve had a really good response to this show THE PARTHENON on our social media pages,” Hedrick said. “We think > BUDGET BALANCING American rock group ZZ Top will take the Big it’s going to be a good mix of people. I’ve talked to Sandy Superstore Arena stage 7:30 p.m. Thursday. people in their 20’s all the way up to their 60’s. The > JAZZ ARTISTS The southern rock and blues trio from Texas last band really reaches across the board.” performed at the Big Sandy eight years ago. The band is set to release its greatest hits collec- SERIES The band consists of Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard tion this summer titled “The Baddest of ZZ Top.” and Dusty Hill. Ironically, Beard is the only mem- Hedrick said there are limited tickets left for KAITLYN CLAY | THE PARTHENON ber of the group who does not don the recognizable purchase. long beard and sunglasses like the other members “I would encourage anyone who wants tickets to do. get those now,” Hedrick said. “We hope to have a ZZ Top will perform its hits ranging from the ‘60s sold out house.” Dusty Hill, left, and Billy Gibbons, right through its most recent album released in 2012, “La Tickets begin at $49.50 and are available for pur- and above, of the band ZZ Top perform Futura.” chase through the Big Sandy Superstore Arena or Cara Hedrick, marketing and sales manager at online. in concert at The Electric Factory the Big Sandy Superstore Arena, said she expects a Sofie Wachtmeister can be contacted at March 14 in Philadelphia. big crowd. [email protected]. PHOTOS BY OWEN SWEENEY | INVISION | AP SPORTS, 3 > WOMEN’S GOLF > KELLY SCHMITT HERDZONE OPINION, 4 > MARS > THINGS TO DO IN HUNTINGTON JOB FAIR BRINGS Profile, ad for AP PHOTO | NASA OPPORTUNITY TO CAMPUS MU president released Shelby Paxton, human resource associate at By AMY NAPIER BrickStreet, speaks THE PARTHENON The Association of Governing with Mirissa Roles, junior, during Job-A- - Boards search firm released the Palooza, the Career advertisement and profile for the po Services part-time sition of Marshall University's 37th job and internship president. LIFE, 5 AGB consultants visited Marshall’s fair Wednesday in bettercampus understand earlier in thewhat semester the univer and- > MEET TONY! the Memorial Student offered an open-forum session to Center. JARED CASTO | THE PARTHENON sity is looking for in its next leader. LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON The advertisement and profile said the new president should exhibit great leadership qualities, possess creative thinking skills and uphold Huntington debuts Restaurant Week, high integrity. - The search firm is currently Final Friday Art Crawl accepting applications and nomina- tions until April 10. “It really gives an opportunity to showcase the vitality of Ginny Painter, senior vice presi dent for communications and our downtown, the heart of our community.” -KEVIN CRAIG marketing, said the documents are TODAY’S posted in scholarly magazines such By LEXI BROWNING Rail Bakery and UNO Chicago Grill. “Each of [the events] are new to the as the Chronicle of Higher Education, WEATHER: Hispanics in Higher Education and PROVIDED BY MARSHALL UNIVERSITY THE PARTHENON Three-course dinner options for area and certainly help us make sure METEOROLOGY STUDENTS The inaugural Restaurant Week the week include 21 at the Freder- that we’re promoting downtown in a Women in Higher Education. - begins Friday, and nine restaurants ick, Black Sheep Burrito & Brews, Le way that we haven’t been able to do “Our goal is still to have somebody in Huntington are working with the Bistro, Prime on 4th, Savannah’s Res- before,” Williams said. “The oppor- on by the start of the 2015 fall semes Huntington Regional Chamber of taurant and UNO Chicago Grill for a tunity for Restaurant Week is pretty ter,” Painter said. “It is an aggressive - special in Huntington.” scene, but everyone is happy that it's est meals. Huntington Mayor Steve Williams Williams also announced the debut moving along schedule accordingly.” CommerceCustomers to showcaseare invited the to city’s partake fin saidfixed Restaurantrate of $35. Week will set Hun- of the Final Friday Art Crawl, a sec- Once the search firm has reviewed in three-course lunches for $10 with tington apart and has contributed to ond event series that will blend both all the candidates, it will provide ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON Jim’s Steak & Spaghetti House, the giving the city the most innovative Marshall's search committee with a Marshall Hall of Fame Café, River and downtown for at least 100 miles. See HUNTINGTON | Page 5 suited pool of applicants.See PRESIDENT | Page 5 296504 BCC CAFE INC, SOUTHERN X-POSUR MARCH PARTHENON C M Y K 50 INCH 2 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Jason Miller Performs for Jazz Series Finale SURE program By KAITLYN CLAY Trombonist Jason Miller, left, performs Wednesday at the Jomie Jazz Center to close out the Guest Artist Series. THE PARTHENON offers research Trombonist Jason Miller per- KAITLYN CLAY | THE PARTHENON formed Wednesday with Marshall University faculty to end the Guest opportunities to Artist Series at the Jomie Jazz Center. Miller was a professor in the past and is a composer who writes all of Marshall undergrads his own music. Miller has a history with jazz mu- By PATRICK BREEDEN sic and has played numerous shows THE PARTHENON across the Hudson Valley and New The Summer Undergraduate Re- York City. search Experience program will Miller played his favorite songs provide research funding for 11 during the set before playing his Marshall University undergradu- own. ate students in the fields of science, “It’s turning out to be a night of technology, engineering and math- playing all my favorite songs,” Miller ematics this summer. said. “I promise we will get to the Marshall Chemistry Professor ones I wrote eventually. I just can’t Michael Norton said 17 students ap- seem to stray from some of my all plied to receive $4,000 in funding for time favorites.” summer research. Alicia Downard, a Huntington res- Applicants are expected to have a ident, said she loves coming to the background in research with a fac- jazz series. ulty member, and a member of faculty “I love coming for all the jazz shows,” will act as the researcher’s mentor Downard said. “Jazz has always been for the duration of the program. one of my favorite genres so I love The program is a way for stu- being able to have access to new mu- dents to continue research projects sicians with this series of performers.” with faculty members by receiving Miller was accompanied by Zach Ar- funding. bogast on the piano, Steve Heffner on Norton said researchers of many the bass and Rod Elkins on the drum. different fields are encouraged to apply. on West Point Jazz Knight’s album and “We should have engineers apply- Miller’sMiller personalrecently musicfinished can recordingbe found ing,” Norton said. “Anyone from the on Spotify and other music streaming college of science, psychology is a services. [National Science Foundation] sub- ject area, and other NSF subjects showcase and will continue with se- related to STEM.” niorThe showcases artist series to finishedend the itsspring jazz Norton said the program is de- season. signed for students who plan to Kaitlyn Clay can be contacted at pursue graduate or doctoral degrees. [email protected]. “[Applicants] should be students who plan to become Ph.Ds in the fu- ture,” Norton said. “We are hoping that some of those Ph.D students Vietnam veteran gets dying wish to visit Pearl Harbor plan to remain in state.” Research for the SURE program will By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER More than four decades later, be conducted from May 18 to July 31. ASSOCIATED PRESS Hooker visited the spot where Japan Participants are barred from enroll- surrendered on the deck of the USS ing in other courses or maintaining stopped in Hawaii on his way home Missouri and got a rare peek inside weekday employment during the pro- fromWhen war, a he Vietnam vowed to veteran return one briefly day the captain's cabin. "I've never seen gram’s 10 weeks. to honor the people who perished a battleship like this before," he said. The students who did research last during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Dream Foundation's new pro- year performed studies in the fields With just less than two months to gram, Dreams for Veterans, made of biology, chemistry, physical ge- live, Joseph Hooker realized his Hooker's wish possible. In applying, ography and geology. Topics ranged longtime dream on Wednesday. Hooker wrote a letter saying that from the statistical modeling of hur- The Marine Corps veteran, who he longed to visit Pearl Harbor to ricane frequency and severity to the has heart disease and cancer, "learn, touch and understand what effects of high fructose corn syrup on traveled from his home in Essex, happened there." adult neural stem cells.