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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 11-12-2012 The aP rthenon, November 12, 2012 Shane Arrington [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Arrington, Shane, "The aP rthenon, November 12, 2012" (2012). The Parthenon. Paper 149. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/149 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 Remember those who have served MONDAY Remember those who have fallen November 12, 2012 VOL. 116 NO. 50 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Obama salutes veterans on their day By MORGAN LITTLE - LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) - dying in Iraq. Thirty-three thou sand of our troops have now “After a decade of war, our he hereturned said. from Afghanistan, and roes are coming home,” President the transition there is underway,” Barack said Sunday, marking Veterans Day by highlighting the “When I spoke here three- first such day in 10 years without years ago, I spoke about today’s American troops fighting in Iraq.- generation of service mem- In a speech at Arlington bers. This 9/11 generation who National Cemetery, Obama ap stepped forward after the tow- plauded the efforts of service- ers fell, and in the years since, members and celebrated the have stepped into history, writ diminished number of U.S. mili ing one of the greatest chapters tary involvements. of military service our country “This is the first Veterans Day has ever known,”See VETERANS Obama | Pagesaid. 5 in a decade in which there are no American troops fighting and President Barack Obama and Major General Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, left, participate in a wreath-laying ceremony on Veteran’s Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, on Sunday. POOL/MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA | MCT DANCING WITH THE TRI-STATE STARS 4.3-magnitude Event Ky. earthquake supports rattles region By JOSEPH SERNA medical LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) - outreach A 4.3-magnitude earthquake By DWIGHT JORGE centered in southeastern Ken THE PARTHENON tucky on Saturday has shaken Huntington’s Big Sandy Su- residents from northern Ohio to North Carolina and Alabama.- The earthquake, centered gatheredperstore Arenato support filled quicklyEbene- more than half a mile under Saturday evening as the public ground about eight miles west of Whitesburg, Ky., did not appear zer Medical Outreach and to cause any structural damage Starscelebrate event. the fourth annual in the Ohio Valley. The epicenter Dancing with the Tri-State was about 35 miles west of the southwestern Virginia border. Proceeds from the event go to It occurred at 12:08 p.m. local Ebenezer Medical Outreach to time, according to the federal bring awareness to a healthier agency that tracks earthquakes. lifestyle in the area. More than 200 people from Ebenezer provides quality Ohio, Alabama, Pennsylvania, health care to the uninsured Georgia Indiana and North of the Tri-State region of West- PHOTOS BY DWIGHT JORGE | THE PARTHENON Carolina reported feeling the Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. ABOVE: John Collins and his dance Partner Bette Vickers dance the Foxtrot during the Dancing with the Tri-State Stars event at the Big Sandy temblor on the U.S. Geological Yvonne Jones, executive di- Superstore Arena on Saturday. Collins and Vickers took first place in the dancing event. Survey’s website, some more- rector of Ebenezer Medical BELOW: Members of the Elite Performing Arts Studio perform a ballet number Saturday. than 300 miles away. Outreach, said the event has en Shocks of 2.2 and 2.5 magni couraged tremendous support tude at shallower depths also are from the community to Ebenezer. - listed on the website, recorded “Ebenezer Medical Outreach is in West Huntington and danced- $20,000 annually for Ebenezer, “I loved it, I absolutely loved Reidel, Tommy Smirl and Mary as occurring within the hour and a free clinic our patients come to ningthe foxtrottrophy. with his partner which is used to pay for health it and especially the results,” Smirl, George Snider and Kaila a half following the first. Jonesthe clinic said. to “Evenget health though care itand is Bette Vickers to earn the win care for the uninsured in the Collins said Thompson, Ed Tucker and Earthquakes in Kentucky are we don’t charge them anything,” Tri-State region. The event also included 12 Lynn Tucker, Tammy White- not uncommon, mainly occurring “We really dedicated this- Collins said he had a great other couples including Joe and Alex Smith, William Carter along its western border, along the free to the patients it still costs dance to all the old people and time dancing in front of the Murphy and Melissa McGuffin, and Alissa Stewart, Roz Brad New Madrid fault zone that traces money, so Dancing with the Tri- the young people as well.” Col crowd and was happy the Jill Francisco and Nathan Hall, shawDwight and JorgeShaun can Terry, be conLisa- northeast from the Arkansas- State Stars is our main fundraiser lins said. “We hope that we are either.money went to a good cause. Brian Sipe and Amanda McCue, tactedHernandez at [email protected]. and Mick Nichols. Tennessee border along Missouri- that we have each year to help.” an influence to all dancers.” He said winning was not bad Izzy Cross and Clay McKnight, and up to Indiana. That region John Collins, 85, was raised The event raises about Ralphie Ratliff and Nicole reported three earthquakes be tween 7.5 and 7.7 in 1811 and- 1812, according to the USGS. Kentucky’s biggest earth- quake was a 5.2 in 1980 in Sharpsburg, a town in Ken tucky’s northeast. Property damage totaled more than $1 million during that temblor, with collapsed chimneys and cracks in the ground seen about 7.5 miles away from the epicenter. andEarthquakes harder to attribute east of the to Rockya spe- Mountains are more infrequent cific fault because the region sits- on a tectonic plate that doesn’t end until the middle of the Atlan tic Ocean. Deeper, smaller faults east of the Rockies are studied- far less, the USGS reports. Also on Saturday, a 3.1-magni tude quake in Alaska recorded at 12:01 p.m. local time is listed on the website, but no reports from the public are listed. page designed and edited by SHANE ARRINGTON INSIDE: NEWS, 2 | SPORTS, 3 | OPINION, 4 | SPORTS, 6 HI 63° LO 30° [email protected] C M Y K 50 INCH 2 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Plane Crash Ceremony set for Wednesday By SEAN DELANCEY and a major blow to the Mar- speaker Mo Lajterman. to our brother when we make said. “I hope that members of Thacker said. “Knowing about THE PARTHENON shall football program. Lajterman is the brother these trips.” the Marshall and Huntington the crash from a movie, and Once a year on Nov. 14, A ceremony on Wednes- of Marcelo Lajterman who The Marshall Student communities will take an hour seeing its effects in person Marshall University staff and day at noon at the Memorial played for the Marshall foot- Government Association orga- out of their day to join us for are two completely different students gather to pay homage Fountain will commemorate ball team and lost his life in nized the ceremony again this this special event.” things.” to the men and women who the crash with speeches from the 1970 plane crash. year and Harrell said the job is James Thacker, fresh- The ceremony will con- lost their lives in a plane crash Marshall President Stephen J. “I’m not a professional a privilege for his staff. man from Florida, said he clude with the laying of the that shook the nation. Kopp, Student Body President speaker. I try to speak from “My chief of staff and the had known about the crash memorial wreath, 75 roses ac- On Nov. 14, 1970, the plane Ray Harrell Jr., members of the heart,” Lajterman said. planning committee have done from the 2006 film “We Are companied by a reading of the carrying the Thundering Herd the “Young Thundering Herd,” “It was such a tragic accident an excellent job with this year’s Marshall,” and was looking victim’s names, and finally the football team, coaching staff, Athletic Director Mike Ham- and it still feels like it was program and we are hopeful forward to seeing the cere- silencing of the fountain. rick, Head Coach Doc Holiday, yesterday. We still cry over that it will serve to honor the mony for the first time. Sean DeLancey can be crashed in Wayne County, re- Alumni Board President Ber- it, but these trips to Hunting- victims of this terrible trag- “I want to see how the cere- contacted at delancey2@ sultingflight crew,in a totaland of supporters 75 deaths nie Coston and key note ton help. We feel really close edy and their families,” Harrell mony affects this community,” marshall.edu. FBI investigation of threatening e-mails revealed Petraeus affair By KEN DILANIAN TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) WASHINGTON — The ex- tramarital affair that perhaps ended the public career of CIA Director David H. Pe- traeus was uncovered when a woman described as close to him received harassing e-mails and complained to - PETRAEUS authorities,The FBI traced a U.S. officialthe e-mails con andfirmed found Saturday.