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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 11-28-2018 The aP rthenon, November 28, 2018 Sadie Helmick [email protected] Sarah Ingram [email protected] Rick Farlow [email protected] Franklin Norton [email protected] Heather Barker [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Helmick, Sadie; Ingram, Sarah; Farlow, Rick; Norton, Franklin; and Barker, Heather, "The aP rthenon, November 28, 2018" (2018). The Parthenon. 746. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/746 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, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 | VOL. 122 NO. 70 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE Downtown Huntington lights up for the holidays MORE ON PAGE 2 WHAT’S SDS Mens Where WHAT’SWHAT’S SGA House of How to: promotes basketball EDITORIAL: Marshall can Representatives Quoits education succumbs to U.S. border take you: INSIDE Maryland Izzy Rogner 3 4 5 7 812MEG KELLER | THE PARTHENON 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 383614 (304) 529-7433 2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Downtown Huntington lights up for the holidays By MEG KELLER THE PARTHENON The city of Huntington celebrated the lighting of the 26 foot tall Christmas tree at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena Plaza Tuesday night. Members of the Cabell Midland High School Collegium Musicum sang Christmas themed tunes and carols before Mayor Steve Wil- liams addressed the crowd. The First Lady of Huntington, Mary Williams, had the honor of Alena Mendoza, a senior at Marshall University, said she heard aboutflipping the the event switch through to light Facebook.the tree. Mendoza said she was told there would be “free hot chocolate and good voices to listen to,” and therefore, she could not stay away. For local residents Stephanie Wood and Dodie Bond, the sense of community and pride created by this event is why they returned for a second consecutive year, they said. these days don’t seem to want to go out and do community things,” Wood “This said. event definitely means a lot, especially because people Wood said she likes being able to go out and be with people she shares her community with. Bond said she liked the tree lighting ceremony, calling it “special because it is for our people in our town.” Meg Keller can be contacted at [email protected]. The Huntington community listens to the Cabell Midland High School Collegium Musicum after the annual tree lighting in front of the Big Sandy Superstore Arena on Nov. 27. MEG KELLER | THE PARTHENON PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY SADIE HELMICK | [email protected] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 3 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Campus organizations represented through new SGA branch Students meet with SGA for its first House of Representatives meeting on Nov. 27. SADIE HELMICK | EXECUTIVE EDITOR By HANNAH GRAHAM the Senate. THE PARTHENON Elle Sheen, the president of the Marshall Uni- Marshall University’s Student Government As- versity Anime and Manga Association, said she sociation had its first House of Representatives appreciated the idea behind the House of Repre- meeting Nov. 27. The House of Representatives sentatives for what it did in terms of providing organization came together for the first time opportunities for on-campus organizations. after a long semester of debating how it would “I represent a club with a really niche interest, so exist and the specifics of this new branch of SGA. a lot of the people in my organization are less in- Marshall University President Jerry Gil- volved on campus,” Sheen said. “Platforms like this bert made an appearance at the event to “I represent a club with a really niche give us all an opportunity to come together and get express his pride for the leaders of the orga- more involved.” nizations present. interest, so a lot of the people in my The House of Representatives was one of the ini- “It’s so encouraging to see young leaders with tiatives pushed by Student Body President Hunter such drive to get involved,” Gilbert said. “You all organization are less involved on Barclay and Student Body Vice President Hannah have a lot to be proud of.” Petracca in an effort to make SGA a more inclusive Representatives from official campus organi- campus. Platforms like this give us all organization. zations met to discuss the mission of the House an opportunity to come together and “We really want you guys to feel welcome up here and responsibilities of participants. The House with student government,” Petracca said. “We’re of Representatives is an executive committee get more involved.” here so we can build a relationship with you guys that operates with the intent to get student and hear your concerns. We want to help your or- organizations involved in Marshall’s SGA. The ELLE SHEEN ganizations thrive.” committee has no legislative powers, as law- Hannah Graham can be contacted at gra- making and funding still rests in the hands of [email protected]. PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY SADIE HELMICK | [email protected] 4 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Quoits - the age old game of Marshall University GRETCHEN KALAR | THE PARTHENON Maurice Cooley and President Jerry Gilbert present a plaque to Spin the Bronze Circle, for winning the annual Quoits tournament Sept. 19. From left to right, Maurice Cooley, Dave Daniel, Bill Rawlinson and President Gilbert. By GRETCHEN KALAR yards. Each team of two will have a member on each end THE PARTHENON creating Team A and Team B. One team will have an A is thrown closest to the pin, within a diameter of one quoit Quoits is the game Marshall University students and player and B player on one end playing against an A and B fromof 21. the The pin. typical score is one, and this occurs when a disk faculty participate in yearly in celebration of John Mar- player on the opposite team. “You have a three foot box,” Gilbert said. “When you end shall’s birthday. up way away from the pin, further away from one diameter “Quoits is an old game that goes back until at least the of the quoit, you do not get any points.” 1700’s,” President Jerry Gilbert said. “It pre-dated John Marshall. It was his favorite game, and he played it weekly.” is closest to the pin and whether their quoits are in legal The game and its rules are similar to horseshoes; play- play.When Legal checking play means the score, they firsthave determine not touched if Team the ground A or B ers will throw a quoit and try to get on or as close to a before they went into the pit, or they have not hit the sides spike as possible. “Quoits has a huge historical of the pit before landing inside of it. The team closest to the “Quoits typically, but not necessarily, will have a box at pin gets the point. significance to the university. It “If you have another quoit on your team that is also close The box is three feet by three feet, and it has the spike, to the pin, you get two points,” Gilbert said. “If you happen whicheither endis the of target the quoit for field,”the quoit. Gilbert The said. quoit is a round disk is a great way for the university to lean the quoit against the pin, you get two points, and if with a hole in the middle, is made of metal and weighs you are actually on top of the pin, meaning you have done to celebrate and recognize a ringer, which is when the hole of the quoit is on the pin “It is a pretty heavy disk, and it is probably about eight you would get three points. That is all assuming the quoit orthree 10 toinches five pounds.in diameter with a hole in it that is about two constitutional week.” is right side up. If it is upside down it does not count no inches in diameter,” Gilbert said. “There is plenty of room matter where it is.” for it to go on the spike that is in the box, that is the pit.” There are different ways to throw the quoit. Some play- The quoit is rounded, as it has an up and a down side. “When I play with Maurice Cooley, I stand on one end “You can think of it like a Frisbee in the sense that it has of the court and he on the other,” Gilbert said. “I am play- side. Some players throw it straight on to the pin, some a top and a bottom,” Gilbert said. “The quoit is not shaped ing against one of the two team members we are playing ers use a throw similar to a flying disk, which is from the exactly like that but it has a top and a bottom.” against, and he is playing the other.