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Alpha Xi Delta prepares for 63rd annual Strawberry Breakfast
THE PARTHENON Alpha Xi Delta will sponsor its annual Strawberry Breakfast from 7-11 a.m. Thurs- day at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house on Fifth Avenue across from the Memorial Stu- dent Center. “The Strawberry PHOTOS BY EKATERINA GUTSAN | THE PARTHENON Breakfast is something INTO MU students prepare South Korean and we look foreword to ev- Chinese dishes as the final project for their cooking class Tuesday at Huntington’s Kitchen in Huntington. public relations chair forery Alphayear,” XiTaylor Delta, Watts, said.
us to positively put our name“It’s an out opportunity in the Hun for- tington community. We INTO students hit the kitchen do our best to make sure everyone has a By EKATERINA GUTSAN chance to come out and THE PARTHENON the World, so this time INTO “We wanted to give an opportunity for people to try INTO Marshall Univer- MUcommunity, students calledare cooking Exploring and Alpha Xi Delta mothers sity students had a chance showing the traditional reci- international dishes and get closer to their culture.” enjoy the breakfast the to share their best recipes -Saba Gebriehiwot, INTO MU instructor This event brings to- Gebriehiwot said it is the getherclub puts not on.” only Greeks Tuesday. bestpes from way backfor students home.” to get and members of the withINTO Huntington’s MU students prepared Kitchen to know more people. Marshall University certain traditional recipes for “We decided to do this community, but also the Huntington audience and members of the Hun- also gave away samples of the cooking class in English, so tington community as food. studentsevent as a will final receive project a for grade the a whole. Every year the “We came up with this idea number attending the of cooking in English because Gebriehiwot said. strawberry breakfast INTO MU wants international byRong the endFan, of a theChinese semester,” stu- becomes larger and students to get more involved dent at INTO MU, said his larger. - group decided to make hot One thing that keeps briehiwot, instructor at INTO pot, which is a common dish guests coming back is MU,in our said. community,” “The main Saba idea Ge is in China. the strawberry but- to know American culture, He said the it was a family ter served during the dining etiquette and how to dish because while this dish breakfast. Its unique cook.“ is cooking, people can com- taste stands out and Gebriehiwot said the event municate and share quality - consists of two parts, which time. ence to another level of are South Korean and Chinese “I think people will be sweetness.takes breakfast experi recipes. Tickets are $5 for the “We wanted to give an op- real Chinese food, which is public, and $4 for stu- portunity for people to try surprised and excited to try- dents. Arrangements international dishes and get for delivery can also be - Fanextremely said. delicious and dif made. briehiwot said. “Every month ferentEkaterina from Gutsan domestic can one,” be closer to their culture,” Ge contacted at gutsan@mar- dinner demonstration for the shall.edu. Huntington’s Kitchen has a UNDERGROUND MUSIC Ohio experimental artist to record live in an abandoned gravel mine
By MARK WILLIAMS By releasing more than 30 unknown source. Most of the music ought to be recorded THE PARTHENON albums and touring the U.S., Over the last decade, few Australia, South America and For the upcoming perfor- performers in the tri-state mancewater spills in theout.” White Gravel mayand packagedbe hard to them.”grapple for area have been as fearless and become somewhat of an am- some,Kouns’ but there abstract is no approachquestion - Europe extensively, Kouns has choice will be a single har- that it brings vitality and in- imental musician Zack Kouns. Appalachian music and culture. monium.Mines, Kouns’ The instrumenthistoric reed of trigue to a sometimes musically prolific True to as form, Hecla, Kouns Ohio’s will exper per- Neverbassador one to for be experimentalpigeon-holed organ, long popular in In- stagnant culture. Kouns hopes fom live for a recording of a by a genre tag, his sound can dian and Eastern cultures, this forward thinking mental- new album at 7 p.m. Friday in range from dissonant, haunting is similar to an accordion ity will eventually be adopted the abandoned White Gravel folk music to harsh, aggressive and is known for its beau- by his beloved Appalachia. Mines in Minford, Ohio. electronics. Lyrically, Kouns tiful drones and distinct - While recording and per- has the ability to transcend sound. Kouns elaborated on brace true Appalachian culture forming in an abandoned traditional song structure, his decision to go the mini- instead“I’d like of looking to see to people some dim em mine might sound danger- opting for vivid imagery and mal route for this unique ous and even illegal, Kouns emotion-laden, almost morose performance. said the property owners storytelling. When asked about “I thought foremost of the past for guidance,” Kouns said. were more than willing to his creative process, Kouns material and how it ought to “When I see local bands I’d like accommodate. replied in a representative havingto be able a thought to think tothey’re what doing their “I called the family who metaphorical fashion. “My belief and hope is that friends,exactly what lovers, they family want withoutor our owns the property and told “I never have any idea what thebe presented,”profound reverberation Kouns said. them what I wanted to do and and isolation of the mines in- Mark Williams can be they were really supportive broken vessel constantly being vites attendees and listeners contactedrotten society at willwilliams788@ think of it.” COURTESY OF ZACK KOUNS I’m doing,” Kouns said. “I’m a to abandon any ideas of how marshall.edu.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Campus ministries come together for Perspective Week By KRISTA SHIFFLETT order, and then the ministry member Claire Magie said she questions because we all want grow but it is more to get the THE PARTHENON that have questions and an- members can share how they hopes students gain more than to live for ourselves, but we word out,” Magie said. “We do Marshall University cam- swersStudent for Center students filled to withread. cards would answer the questions. just perspective. want to live for others and we not want it to be all about the pus ministries Cru, Revolution Member of the ministries are Cru staff member Alex Con- “I just hope that it really also want to overcome some- ministry we want it to be about and Baptist Campus Ministries stantino said the main goal of plants seeds and that it helps thing,” Magie said. “I have just sharing the word and hearing came together to sponsor an students: “What is the nature the event is to engage students them think about where they been telling people they can what they believe.” outreach called Perspective ofasking God?” these “What five is questionsthe meaning to in spiritual conversations by are at and what they want out pick more than one answer for By 1 p.m. Magie said about Week, which uses the idea of and purpose of life?” “What do asking them these questions. of life and not just push those that question.” 30 people have answered the asking questions about God you think human nature is?” Since Cru is an international things aside,” Magie said. Campus ministries do these questions. They have a statis- and life to people on campus. “Who do you think Jesus was ministry, a bigger ministry do- Magie said the question, outreach events for more than tics board to see where the From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tues- nated the question cards to which asks about the meaning just to get students involved in campus is at spiritually. day through Thursday members spiritual truth?” Marshall’s Cru group. or purpose of life is the hardest the ministries according to Magie. Krista Shifflett can be from the ministries will stand orStudents is?” and “Wherewill share do theiryou findan- Even though the event is question for people to answer. “We think that an outreach contacted at shifflett7@mar- behind tables in the Memorial swers to the questions in that called Perspective Week, Cru “I think that is the hardest shall.edu.
can definitely help the ministry ‘The Invisible War’ raises awareness for sexual Lawsuit challenges assault in US military a Hollywood pillar:
By RACHAEL ROBERSON our communities, our families, THE PARTHENON our classrooms and while it Unpaid internships The Academy Award nomi- addresses sexual assault spe- nated documentary, “The Invisible War,” will play at 6 the military, there also can be p.m. Wednesday, in room BE5 somecifically broader within theimplications context of of the Memorial Student Center. there as well.” The documentary was nomi- look into rape and sexual as- nated for the Academy Award saultThe film in the takes U.S. anmilitary. investigative for Best Documentary Feature, The documentary tells the and is the winner of a Sundance stories of several vet- Film Festival award. eran victims of sexual assault out in 2012, in the military “This isn’t just a military “Theand filmthe docu came- and how they mentary has sought jus- problem because people within made a big tice, began the military are United States WALLY SKALIJ | LOS ANGELES TIMES | MCT the recovery said. “There process and citizens.” havestir,” McElfishbeen Melvin Mar, who started as an intern on a movie lot, works as a producer at 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles April 1. A class action by former interns on the 2010 film “Black Swan” could radically change the industry’s reliance on unpaid neophytes. helped to il- > Briana McElfish, congressional luminate the Panel moderator hearings subse- By DANIEL MILLER A legal victory for the plaintiffs “would - organized cover- and JOHN HORN bring to a halt the many unpaid intern- ing course before signing on with “Black ups within the ranks. release regarding try- LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) ships that offer real value to participants, Swan,”Glatt, hadwho hopedspent $5,500an internship for a film would edit The Marshall University ing to initiatequent reforms to the infilm’s the Melvin Mar’s entree to Hollywood was giving them experiences and opportuni- military and how the military far from glamorous. As an unpaid intern ties they would not otherwise receive,” came to believe that Hollywood was tak- with CONTACT Rape Crisis Cen- handles sexual assault.” for “Platoon” producer Arnold Kopel- lawyers for Fox Searchlight said in a March be his pathway to a film career. But Glatt ter,Women’s chose Center,to sponsor in unification this event son, Mar was responsible for fetching his violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, in light of April being Sexual to help sexual assault vic- boss’s lunch of matzo ball soup every day. It would also force Hollywood to change whiching advantage mandates of that people unpaid like himinternships — and Assault Awareness month. timsMcElfish see they expects are not thealone film in Mar calculated to the minute how long 28 filing. Graduate assistant to the it would take to walk from the produc- assembled to the manner in which new Women’s Center and student of to raise awareness about the talenteverything is cultivated. from the way film crews are declinedbenefit the to interns,comment. not the employers. the doctoral program for psy- prevalencetheir struggle of andsexual for theassault film Stage Deli nearby, buy the soup and de- Eric Glatt, who was an intern for the TheAronofsky, lawsuit whose contends latest thatfilm isminimum “Noah,” for those who have not experi- canttion company’sit into a bowl Century on Kopelson’s City offices desk, to stillthe New York-based “Black Swan” production, wage laws were violated during the mak- moderate a panel discussion enced abuse. piping hot, at precisely 1 p.m. is a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. He gave up ing of “Black Swan.” The plaintiffs are followingchology, Brianathe showing McElfish, of willthe The showing will give Mar- Mar parlayed his internship into jobs a $95,000 desk job at insurance company seeking back pay and damages for them- shall students, faculty, staff at DreamWorks and Scott Rudin Produc- American International Group to pursue about sexual assault awareness and community members a tions. Now Mar is a producer for “Bad interns who worked at Searchlight and andfilm treatment to stimulate options. conversation chance to view the documen- Glatt’s “Black Swan” duties included otherselves units and an of unspecifiedFox Entertainment number Group. of other The panel will be available tary free of charge and become he says he owes a lot to the lessons he runninghis dream errands of becoming for the a movie’sfilm editor. famously Attorneys for Fox Searchlight have ar- for discussion about how to aware of how often sexual as- learnedTeacher” as filmmaker a humble JakeHollywood Kasdan gofer — and 15 exacting director, Darren Aronofsky. gued that an independent company, Lake combat sexual assault, and will sault occurs and potential years ago. During post-production, Aronofsky of Tears Inc., not the studio, hired and include a treatment provider avenues for seeking treatment managed the “Black Swan” interns. Last from the VA to discuss treat- and justice. right, the details,” said Mar, 35. “It pre- wanted to be comfortable in the editing year, U.S. District Judge William Pauley ment options and how those pared“The me soup for everything — it was else.” about getting it needed a hypoallergenic pillow — he in New York rejected that argument and affected can begin the recovery about sexual assault awareness Uncompensated minions are as cen- the assignment. He walked nearly a mile concluded that “Searchlight received the andThe prepare film event students will spark for Redtalk tral to the movie business as private jets, throughroom — Brooklyn and Glatt, to thena Macy’s, 40, waswhere given he Flag Day, which will set 2,000 splashy premieres and $200 lunches. But bought the pillow, then took the subway to which otherwise would have required sexualprocess, assault McElfish in said.the military the Hollywood tradition is under assault. deliver it to Aronofsky in midtown Man- paidbenefits employees.” of (the interns’) unpaid work, it alsoWhile addresses the film the issue discusses on a 23, each statistically repre- A class action by former interns on the hattan, Glatt said. Fox has appealed Pauley’s ruling, con- more comprehensive level. sentingred flags a around student campus at Marshall April During his roughly nine months on the tending that interns are not employees “This isn’t just a military University who has been sexu- change the industry’s reliance on unpaid subject to wage protection if they, not the problem because people ally assaulted. neophytes.2010 film The “Black suit Swan” seeks couldback pay, radically dam- to get Aronofsky “the perfect scented can- within the military are United Rachael Roberson can be ages and an order barring use of unpaid dle”film, andGlatt his said, favorite he was tea, also PG sent Tips. on errands of the internships. contacted at roberson14@ interns at Fox Searchlight Pictures and “The one thing you learn as an intern is employer, are the “primary beneficiaries” “They’re people that are in marshall.edu. other units of Fox Entertainment Group. don’t ask,” Glatt said. See INTERN | Page 5 States citizens,” McElfish said. Marshall emerses students in US appeals court upholds Obama Italian culture for the summer administration limits on air toxins By BRECKIN WELLS to receive up to six or as few Even though students are ex- By NEELA BANERJEE emissions of the neurotoxin mercury, which THE PARTHENON as three hours of credits for cited to learn and travel the city TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU (MCT) can impair children’s ability to learn.” The Marshall University art or English from Marshall of Florence, some students are The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Environmentalists also hailed the ruling, College of Arts and Media is University. more excited to taste the deca- Columbia Circuit on Tuesday upheld the Envi- which John Walke of the Natural Resources De- leading a summer exploration Junior marketing major Ali- dent Italian cuisine. fense Council called a “sweeping victory” for to the historic city of Florence, cia Grant is one of the students “I am really excited about on air toxins, including emissions of mercury, the EPA. Walke said that the mercury and air Italy. studying abroad this summer, the food, because I want to go arsenicronmental and Protection acid gases, Agency’s preserving first-ever a far-reach limits- toxins rule was arguably the single most “im- Students will experience a but what she is most excited to culinary school,” sophomore ing rule the White House had touted as central portant regulation driving the cleanup of old three-week academic immer- about is experiencing everything Jacqueline Genter said. “The to President Barack Obama’s environmental dirty coal plants.” sion program while traveling the Italian culture has to offer. cuisine in Italy is something I agenda. The combustion of coal for power gen- all over Florence, admiring art- “I am most excited to travel am very interested in.” In a 2-1 decision, the court ruled that the eration releases toxins such as mercury into work, tasting delicious food and see as much of Florence According to Grant and mercury rule “was substantively and pro- the air. Through precipitation, mercury re- and experiencing Italy the way and all the surrounding area as Genter, every student has a cedurally valid,” turning aside challenges turns to the earth and changes into a “highly the Italians do. possible,” Grant said. “I want to different reason for studying brought both by Republican-led states that had toxic” substance called methylmercury. School of Art and Design experience as many things as I abroad in Italy this summer, argued the rule was onerous and environmen- Methylmercury enters the food chain and Professor Natalie Larsen and can like museums, art and the but whatever the reason may tal groups that had contended it did not go far contaminates fish that people consume. The Department of Philosophy pro- culture. This is a once in a life- be the one thing the students enough. chemical is particularly dangerous for preg- fessor Jeffrey Powell will lead the time experience.” can agree on is the gratitude The EPA welcomed the decision, calling it “a nant women, who can easily pass the toxin Marshall in Florence Program. The students and faculty they have for this amazing victory for public health and the environment.” to their fetuses. are housed in fully furnished opportunity. Liz Purchia, an agency spokeswoman, said. The EPA estimates that the mercury and year of operation. apartments around the city of Breckin Wells can be “These practical and cost-effective standards air toxins rule will prevent 11,000 prema- StudentsThe program who embark is in its on fifth the contacted at wells134@mar- will save thousands of lives each year, pre- trip will have the opportunity commute to the local classrooms. shall.edu. vent heart and asthma attacks, while slashing asthma attacks annually. Florence all within a 40-minute ture deaths, 4,700 heart attacks and 130,000
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Softball New running backs coach heads to Wright brings experience to Herd State for By BRAXTON CRISP THE PARTHENON With the moving on of double- Thomas Brown to Wisconsin, Marshall University’s new run- ning backs coach Chris Barclay header as part of the Thundering HERDZONE.COM Herdis experiencing coaching hisstaff. first Barclay spring Marshall University soft- got a taste of his playing days ball (17-26) will take a break Thursday during spring prac- from conference action and tice number eight for 2014, look to improve upon its 7-3 when he and the rest of the record in the month of April Herd were graced by the pres- with a trip to Wright State on ence of former Herd defensive Wednesday. The Thundering coordinator and Wake For- Herd and Raiders will play est University head coach Jim a doubleheader in Dayton, Grobe. Ohio, beginning at 3 p.m. “That’s my coach,” Barclay Marshall holds a .786 win said. “He brought me to Wake percentage against the Raid- Forest. He played for the De- ers, boasting an 11-3 record. mon Deacons from 2002-05. I The two squads last met in 2013, when the Herd swept class and he gave me a start a doubleheader with 2-0 and intowas coaching. part of his I was first a recruiting graduate 6-4 victories. assistant for him in 2010-11 so Marshall suffered a series that man means the world to sweep at the hands of new me. He’s given me not one but ADAM ROGERS | THE PARTHENON Conference USA member two or three chances and I’m Marshall running backs coach Chris Barclay watches redshirt sophomore receiver Angelo Jean-Louis fields a punt return during practice at North Texas over the week- forever indebted to him.” Joan C. Edwards Stadium. end. Sophomore Katalin As for coaching Marshall’s Lucas delivered two long running backs, Barclay said and outrun defenders. We have running backs coach at William play faster when the ball is snapped? I think those are the balls for the Herd, homering there is talent among the some great speed and some & Mary and playing profes- snapped,” Barclay said. “Pro- things I’m trying to impart on each day of competition. running backs on the team, great vision with this group sional football prior to being a cessing pre-snap information, with them so they can have Senior Taylor Winton also Steward Butler, Remi Watson and I think we can win a lot of graduate assistant at Wake For- keying safety rotations for better pre-snap recognition went yard for the Herd in the and Kevin Grooms, who have games with this unit. We just est. He said he has been able to protection purposes and so they can play faster when second game of the series been allowed to practice with have to come along in the area help the Herd’s stable of backs also what am I looking at the ball is snapped.” when she recorded a 3-for-3 the team this spring. of pass protection and under- so far working on being faster in the running game. I can’t Marshall spring practice performance with two RBI “This is a talented group,” standing blocking schemes so to recognize what is happening just see seven people in the continues this week and next, and two runs scored. Barclay said. “There is so much we can play a little faster.” before the ball snaps. box. Where are those seven culminating with the annual The Herd has a pair of they bring to the table from The 2005 ACC Player of “I’ve picked up a lot of people? On an inside zone, Green & White game April 26. reached-base streaks with catching the ball out of the coaching points along the way what am I looking at so I can Braxton Crisp can be con- junior Kristina Braxton with Marshall after being the that I hope can make them play faster once the ball is tacted at [email protected]. holding the longest active the Year is in his first spring streak at 11 games. She is backfield to being able to run followed closely behind by senior Savanah Webster at nine games. The longest streak for the Herd this sea- Men’s golf caps regular season with win at The Greenbrier son was sophomore Kaelynn HERDZONE.COM Greene’s 18-game mark, The Marshall University which came to an end in the men’s golf team ended its regular season in historic Texas. fashion as it placed first seriesThus finalefar into against the season, North among seven teams at the freshman Morgan Zerkle has inaugural Greenbrier Col- stolen 36 bases, which ties legiate Invitational at the her with Ashley Gue (2013) Old White TPC, Tuesday. for No. 3 in a Marshall single “I’m really happy for the guys,” Marshall coach Matt reaching the No. 1 slot – 41 Grobe said. “They played byseason. Sierra SheDavenport is five (2004). shy of so hard today. The weather Freshman Jordan Dixon is conditions were really tough also climbing in the record and the kids fought hard books. Her 165 strikeouts and finished strong to get put her in sole possession the win. It was really good of ninth place in the single- to get a win before heading season records. to Oklahoma for the Confer- Marshall has four hitters ence USA Championship.” batting above .300, with
Marshall’s victory marks HERDZONE.COM Greene leading the team at the first time the Herd has The Greenbrier owner and chairman Jim .388. Sophomore Shaelynn won three or more tour- Justice poses with with Marshall Men’s Braxton sits in second with a naments in one season. In golf team after their win at the Greenbrier the fall, Marshall carded Collegiate Invitational. back-to-back victories at See SOFTBALL | Page 5 the John Piper Intercolle- group-competitors finished giate (Sept., 17, 2013) and in the top 12, with four the Patriot Intercollegiate inside the top 10. Logan (Sept. 29, 2013). The Herd Lagodich (Canton, Ohio) fin- has won two tournaments ished as runner-up at 4-over in a season twice before, 214, eight strokes behind in 1976-77 at the Marshall champion Jose Narro from Invitational and the West Bowling Green (4-under Virginia Intercollegiate, and 206). Lagodich and Narro in 1990-91 at the Eastern tied for most birdies of the Kentucky Fall Classic and tournament with 11 each, the Rhododendron Classic and Marshall ended with the (formerly the West Virginia most team birdies at 38. 279487 Intercollegiate). The team’s champion- It was a cold, windy and ship trophy was presented COMMITTEE TO ELECT CHERYL HEND rainy day on the par-70, by former Herd golfer and 6,895-yard course, and MU alumnus Jim Justice, ELECT CHERYL HENDERS weather conditions pushed owner and chairman of The the shotgun start from 9 to Greenbrier. Justice is a $5 4 x 5.0 8 a.m. ET. After shooting a million contributor to Mar- 15-over-par 295 in the final shall’s Vision Campaign for round, Marshall ended with Athletics. a two-day, three-round total Next, the Herd will begin of 23-over 863 to capture postseason play at the Con- the victory by four strokes ference USA Championship, over co-host Bowling Green April 27-29, at Oak Tree (27-over 867). Country Club in Edmond, Each of the Herd’s five Okla.
page designed and edited by WILL VANCE | [email protected] C M Y K 50 INCH 4 Opinion WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM EDITORIAL Online Polls Solar-powered plane a positive innovation YOU CAN BE HERD What is your favorite springtime Did you watch the fourth season After 12 years of designs and training, the possibility of a 20-minute nap. Because activity? premiere of “Game of Thrones”? Swiss aviation duo Bertrand Piccard and The top speed is a mere 88 mph so a trip Andre Borschberg unveiled Solar Impulse pilot would need to practice polyphasic The plane is not without its flaws though. Playing frisbee Of course! 47% sleep,the plane which has isthe sleeping ability to several fly nonstop, times the in Going to the park No way! 0% forever.” one day. across the ocean would take five to six days. Bike riding I’ve never watched it before. 53% 2, a solar-powered aircraft that can “fly requireAlso, though the plane the plane being canpiloted theoretically in shifts. fly wings covered with a skin of 17,000 solar indefinitely,However, thea pilot science could behind not and the thisplane will is Voice your opinion. It is your right. Answer our poll at cellsThe that plane, supply made four ofelectric carbon motors fiber, with has “It can fly a day and a night, it can fly a remarkable. Piccard and Borschberg have www.marshallparthenon.com or tweet us your answer at @MUParthenon. renewable energy. week, it can fly a month – theoretically it created an aircraft that does not require Another interesting feature of Solar Im- canPiccard fly a year,”and Borschberg Borschberg will said. begin “It’s test the any fuel. It is a large leap forward for renew- COLUMN pulse 2 is the cockpit. Though it is small, most energy efficient airplane ever built.” able energy and clean technology. Though it there is enough room for food, water and - may take a few more decades before we are oxygen supplies, while the multipurpose dleflights East next to India, month. Myanmar In March and 2015, China, the cross two seat reclines and allows the captain room plan to fly from the Gulf region in the Mid planes, Solar Impulse 2 is steering us in the How world can respond to Putin for exercises to circulate blood, and even Atlantic to return to their departure point. rightall flying direction. around the globe in solar-powered the Pacific to the United States and over the By PETER GOLDMARK China’s drive to dethrone the NEWSDAY (MCT) dollar as the sole global reserve The Russian military buildup currency. On the latter, there can along the Ukrainian border be little doubt that the wily Pu- and Vladimir Putin’s seizure of tin is probing not only China on Crimea have become pivotal mo- this subject, but also fossil fuel- ments for Western powers and producing enemies of the West, NATO. since the production and sale of During the Cold War, the Kremlin had little doubt that if of hard-currency transactions. the Soviet Union attacked or in- oilStopping and gas areexpansionists significant partslike vaded Europe — anywhere in Putin and providing a stable Europe — it would have a full- international framework will re-
United States. Today, frankly, it’s Committing NATO unam- unclearscale conflict what with would NATO happen and the if biguouslyquire difficult to choices,defend including: central Russia seized Moldavia or, say, two cities in eastern Ukraine. line, and establishing tripwire Those who say they long for troopEurope presence along a to clearly underline defined that the clarity and symmetry of the commitment. Cold War forget the danger of Establishing a body outside living under an international the U.N. Security Council, per- regime in which “stabilizing haps acting on its own as an deterrence” was the threat to adviser to the General Assembly, incinerate half the planet. But a composed of countries respected new, volatile period brings dan- for their support of international gers and instabilities of its own. stability and the rule of law, that There are enclaves all over can issue non-vetoable opinions this world populated by minori- on short notice on whether a ties that, like Crimea, would on given military action by a nation balance rather be part of a na- violates international law or the U.N. Charter. themselves in. Establishing an international MCT CAMPUS tionThere other are than parts the oneof the they world find court of arbitration to which with natural resources like oil or some disputes over natural re- NATIONAL EDITORIAL gas — such as the South China sources might be referred. Sea — that become natural stra- Creating an international tegic objectives for surrounding energy fund modeled on the Medicare’s real payment problem countries. Energy and food will International Monetary Fund be subjects of strategic con- that would have the capacity to test for many decades to come extend emergency short-term LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT) many treatments are rendered. That gives because not all countries have energy assistance as well as The news that a small percentage of so taxpayers have a keen interest in the doctors an incentive to provide the most both, and the haves are tempted the resources and know-how the country’s physicians collected billions is financed mainly by the government, expensive and intensive forms of care, not to use energy and food as in- to help countries develop of dollars from Medicare in a single year data, however, reveal some alarmingly necessarily the treatments that work best. struments of coercion vs. the long-term policies for energy may or may not be a testament to individ- largeprogram’s payouts. financial For example, integrity. more The than new Earlier this year, the top Republicans have-nots. independence. (A similar func- ual greed; some of the top recipients are a dozen physicians each collected more - There is no international body tion for food could be housed under investigation for allegedly bilking than $10 million from Medicare in 2012, gressional committees came up with a with the strength, the legitimacy in existing international agen- the system, while others work long hours and thousands of specialists in four disci- planand Democratsthat would onhave three encouraged influential Medi con- and the freedom to act that can cies, such as the World Food delivering costly care. But it is a powerful care doctors to switch from fee-for-service guarantee national integrity for Program, with relatively minor reminder that the program needs to stop ophthalmology — averaged more than to alternative payment plans that reward all countries. rewarding doctors for the quantity of care $300,000.plines — three cancer-related fields and The United States and Europe and function.) they deliver rather than the quality. Hap- It’s risky to leap to conclusions just replaced an ineffective formula for slow- modificationsThe expansionist to their autocrats, charter pily, there’s a bipartisan plan to do just from the numbers, given that the pay- ingquality the andgrowth efficiency. in Part ItB alsocosts would by cutting have and both have sought to reduce including Putin, are asking that; unhappily, lawmakers haven’t been ments may include reimbursements for the fees paid for most doctors’ services. militaryare both spending in economic and difficulty,commit- themselves whether any coun- able to agree on how to cover its cost. If expensive drugs that doctors provided Unfortunately, the plan stalled be- ments. For most of the period tries are willing to back with Congress needed any further incentive to or services by multiple members of a cause of a dispute over how to pay for the since World War II, the western force a post-Cold War system of settle its differences, the fact that 1,000 team. Yet the concentration of payments measure, and Congress enacted minor alliances have been both domi- rules and institutions that will doctors raked in $3 billion from Medicare — a mere 2 percent of the doctors par- Medicare reforms that left the fee-for-ser- nant and stabilizing; today they limit “neighborhood” aggres- should provide it. ticipating in the program took in almost vice system intact for at least another year. are shrinking and uncertain. sion and provide structures to The Obama administration released The new disclosures about enormous And there are areas of poten- contain disputes over food and details Wednesday on $77 billion worth problem with Medicare’s “fee for service” Medicare payouts should send lawmakers natural resources. of payments made in 2012 by Medi- paymenta quarter system. of the feesThis — system exemplifies ignores the back to work on the bill to steer doctors This challenge requires more care Part B, which pays for doctors and the value and effectiveness of the care into payment plans that yield better re- traditionaltial international geographic conflict bound that- than the silence and incoherence other health-care professionals. Part B provided, paying attention only to how sults for patients — and taxpayers. aries,are not such primarily as cyberspace defined and by the West has shown thus far.
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By STUART LEAVENWORTH business owned by the Nan- bear farming, an increasingly MCCLATCHY FOREIGN STAFF (MCT) ning Horticulture Department, unpopular practice among Chi- In what’s being described as decided to get into the bear nese, particularly the younger In win for advocates, a major victory against abusive farming industry in 2004. It generation. animal practices in China, a started extracting bile from In 2011, the Internet in China government-owned company mature bears in 2008. Accord- erupted with protests against a that’s bred bears for traditional ing to the company’s general pharmaceutical company that China will turn bear medicines has agreed to con- manager, Yan Shaohong, the had launched an initial pub- vert itself into a sanctuary. government invested more lic offering to expand its bear Animal welfare advocates than 8 million yuan, or $1.3 farming and sales of bear bile hope the agreement, signed million, in the operation, but it products. Animal welfare ad- farm into refuge Tuesday at a news conference vocates claimed victory when in Beijing, will prompt the gov- Yan, who became general Fujian Guizhentang Pharma- ernment to phase out other managerwas never profitable.in 2011, said he ceutical later withdrew its IPO bear farms nationwide. Some ended the farm’s bear bile ex- application, not commenting 70 such breeding facilities are traction that year. Two years on the reason. thought to exist in China, cag- later, he and other employees While China has a growing ing more than 10,000 bears. visited Animals Asia’s Chengdu legion of animal welfare sup- Each day, employees milk bile sanctuary, where veterinarians porters, it also is home to a from the bears’ gallbladders, care for more than 200 bears bewildering array of breeding exposing the bruins to infec- rescued from animal farms. farms for animals at the top of tions, organ failures and other Yan said he was so touched the food chain, including tigers, fatal diseases. by the treatment of the animals lions and crocodiles. Many “This is huge,” said Jill Rob- in Chengdu that he decided to farms are in league with com- inson, the founder of Animals pursue the agreement with panies that make traditional Animals Asia. Yan said his medicines, such as tiger bone negotiated the agreement with superiors in the Nanning Horti- wine, the focus of an April 3 re- FlowerAsia, a World, nonprofit a state-run agency busi that- culture Department supported port by McClatchy. ness in the southern Chinese the decision. Negotiations The closure of the Nan- city of Nanning. “This is the lasted a year but concluded ning farm means there will biggest thing we have done with Tuesday’s agreement, the be just one bear breeding fa- since we started.” cility left in southern China’s Under the pact, Animals “We hope this will be a tem- Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Asia will care for 130 Asiatic platefirst of for its otherkind in bear China. farms in Region. The Xiongsen Bear black bears now caged at the China,” said Toby Zhang, the and Tiger Mountain Village Nanning bear farm. Starting in external affairs director for An- is home to scores of black May, 28 of the sickest animals imals Asia. The group hopes to bears, some of which are kept will be trucked to the group’s host a workshop later this year for “performances.” During a China Bear Rescue Center in to have an “honest dialogue” visit to Xiongsen’s “Theater Chengdu, about 745 miles with government and industry of Dreams” last month, a Mc- away. The rest will stay in Nan- Clatchy reporter witnessed ning, where Animals Asia plans farming, he said. bears riding bicycles and per- to retain the farm’s staff of 15 officialsDoing so on won’t phasing be easy. out bearAni- forming other tricks while and train them in managing the mals Asia, which also operates a trainer cracked a whip sanctuary. a bear rescue center in Viet- overhead. Bear bile — digestive juice nam, estimates it will spend $5 Yan, the general manager produced by the liver and million over three years car- of Flower World, said that stored in the gallbladder — ing for the Nanning animals he, like many Chinese, once has long been part of Chinese and the sickest ones taken to bought into the idea that bile traditional medicine, but it Chengdu. At least 21 of the could be extracted from living became an industry in China latter were milked for their bears without pain or other only in 1980. That’s when ani- bile. They’ll have to get their complications. mal breeders in North Korea gallbladders removed or be at “In fact, we now believe the shared procedures they’d de- grave risk of infections, liver bile extraction process is very COURTESY OF ANIMALS, ASIA | MCT veloped to extract bile from failure or tumors. cruel,” he said Tuesday through living bears. Within two de- “Animals Asia cannot afford an interpreter. “All we can see is An Asiatic black bear looks out from a cage at the bear farm operated by Flower World in the southern cades, dozens of bear farms to turn every bear farm into the surface, and we cannot see Chinese city of Nanning, March 2014. Asiatic black bears are also known as "moon bears" for the had popped up across China, sanctuary,” said Robinson, who the inner pain of the bears. The providing bile for pharmaceu- founded the group in 1994. She bears must have inner damage crescent of white fur on their chests. Government-run Flower World agreed this week to convert its tical companies that tout its said it would take coordination facility into a bear sanctuary. That means its occupants will never again face the risks posed by bear bile and cooperation from the Chi- why do they require so many extraction for traditional medicine in China. Flower World, a plant nese government to phase out antibiotics?”and inflammation. Otherwise, supposed health benefits.
INTERN Perhaps not surprisingly, the Fox Search- Continued from Page 2 light lawsuit was followed by others from temping on assistants’ desks, answering unpaid interns at Warner Music Group phones,research, reading filing and scripts sorting, and dubbing writing tapes, cov- current system, the studio contends. In a and Atlantic Records, and at publishing erage (summaries of scripts).” A similar recent brief, Fox argued that the interns houses Conde Nast and Hearst Corp., the posting at Green Hat Films, the production latter of which brought on roughly 3,000 they “participated in a wide variety of ac- interns from 2006 to 2012. Phillips, described duties including “read- tivitiesshould notin exchange be certified for as academic a class because credit” The suits appear to have made an im- ingbanner scripts, of “The writing Hangover” coverage, filmmaker answering Todd and “performed an array of duties tailored pact. Conde Nast canceled its unpaid to each intern’s unique interests.” internship program last fall, and last year, RatPac and Green Hat declined to A ruling by New York’s 2nd Circuit Court talk show host Charlie Rose and his pro- comment.phones and other office tasks.” of Appeals is expected by early next year. duction company paid about $110,000 to Ryan Stayton, 36, moved to Los An- The Department of Labor does not track settle a lawsuit brought by former unpaid geles in 2009 to break into Hollywood. internships, paid or unpaid, but workplace interns, with part of the proceeds going to He had four internships in the last year, experts agree that internships have become the interns as back pay. all unpaid. He said more entertainment a rite of passage for entry into all kinds of Fox Entertainment Group and Universal companies are requiring their interns to white-collar jobs. Ross Perlin, author of the Pictures now say they pay interns. NBCU- obtain school credit, a practice that Cheryl book “Intern Nation,” estimates there are niversal, the parent of Universal Pictures, Orr, a labor lawyer not involved in the liti- 500,000 unpaid interns nationwide (based gation, says does not exempt companies on census data and private research) and unpaid interns who allege the company from having to adhere to federal guide- says the practice saves companies about $2 violatedalso is subject the Fair to Labora lawsuit Standards filed by Act. former lines for unpaid internships. billion annually in labor costs. Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Walt “A young kid who is receiving credit In Hollywood, interns fetch cappuc- Disney Studios and Sony Pictures En- believes it to be some fashion of tangible cinos, read scripts, answer phones and tertainment long have maintained paid recompense to them,” said Stayton, who even top off talent agents’ gas tanks. The internship programs, and do not use un- graduated from the University of Michigan sometimes demeaning tasks are part of a paid interns. Lionsgate, a smaller studio, more than a decade ago. business culture that puts a premium on has an unpaid program but participants But of the 20 or so interns he knows, newcomers paying their dues. must be able to get school credit. only one has parlayed the work into a pay- Some view internships as one of the But the bulk of unpaid Hollywood in- ing job. “I have had a good experience with all narrow door, and others consider them an movie production companies. of these companies,” Stayton said, “but I invaluableonly ways to apprenticeship, get a foot in the where film business’ menial ternshipsAccording are to at UCLA’s smaller Career firms, suchCenter, as CL041614 tasks help prepare interns for the rigors roughly 90 percent of the internships of- a paid job.” of the industry and foster crucial relation- fered by production companies through don’tThe feel former like FoxI will Searchlight be satisfied interns until haveI get CLASSIFIED ships that lead to better jobs. the university’s BruinView website are said the company’s program was in vio- Historically, unpaid internships have unpaid. At least one major talent agency lation of the six legal criteria for unpaid CLASSIFIED been prevalent in Hollywood because distributes a list of entertainment jobs internships issued by the Department of there are many more job seekers than that includes many unpaid internships. A - 2 x 8.0 openings. The practice expanded in other empt from the rules). Before applying the businesses over the last decade, author television internships, 16 of them unpaid. criteriaLabor in to April internships, 2010 (nonprofits the Department are ex Perlin said, but entertainment remains Nov.A posting 26 compilation for an unpaid included internship 36 film with and of Labor had used the guidelines for de- one of the bastions of unpaid labor — as cades to evaluate the status of so-called does publishing, another highly competi- RatPac Entertainment said duties would “trainees” under the Fair Labor Standards include“Rush Hour”“Xeroxing, filmmaker running Brett Ratner’serrands, Act. tive field. of Horizon League opponent Detroit over pitching duties. DeWitt has made 21 ap- SOFTBALL the weekend. pearances en route to a 6-10 record and Continued from Page 3 Junior Jess Gorman leads Wright State 4.12 ERA, while Wear has seen action 25 times with a 4-14 record and 5.70 ERA. .347 average. She also leads the power home runs, four triples, 69 total bases and Marshall will return to Dot Hicks Field categories with 15 home runs, 46 RBI awith .657 a slugging .343 batting percentage. average, She 36 is hits,followed five for a five-game homestand beginning and a .774 slugging percentage. Zerkle by freshman Libby Pfeffer with a .312 aver- Friday, April 18. The Herd will play three (.341) and Webster (.315) round out the age and 24 hits. games against C-USA foe Florida Inter- quartet. Senior Krystian DeWitt and sopho- national before welcoming Ohio for a Wright State earned a three-game sweep more Montana Wear share the bulk of the doubleheader on Wednesday, April 23.
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Director: Wally Pfister OPENING 'Transcendence' Cast: Johnny Depp, THIS Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, WEEK is all sizzle Paul Bettany "Transcendence" PETER MOUNTAIN | MCT "A Haunted House 2" From left, Morgan Freeman as Joseph "Heaven is for Real" Tagger, Cillian Murphy as Agent "Bears" Buchanan, Johnny Depp as Will Caster, (on monitors), and Rebecca Hall as "Fading Gigolo" Evelyn Caster in "Transcendence." "Make Your Move" "Tasting Menu" By CARY DARLING - this man-machine thing wasn’t such a bright idea af- "The Final Member" FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM (MCT) ter all. That man would have the hubris to reach the level terrorist group called RIFT (Revolutionary Indepen While “Transcendence” has nothing new to say of a god is a notion that has long animated both myth humanitydence from from Technology). machines Thisaltogether. outfit — whose slogan about absolute power corrupting absolutely or the tweet of the day: and literature. To see such ambition brought low is a is “evolution without technology” — wants to unplug friction between technology and humanity, it still @PageSix: story that never gets old, and that premise is the best could have been an engaging thriller. But it’s lined "Leonardo DiCaprio is This doesn’t include explosive devices and guns, looking more like the fantasy that aims for what its title advertises and falls though, and the group uses them to take out many the movie. Evelyn, while still in Will’s thrall, marches whale of Wall Street farpart short. of “Transcendence,” a belabored science-fiction of those working with Depp and another AI pioneer, with plot holes so big that they take you right out of these days" Joseph Tagger (Morgan Freeman). Their attempt on - account by all-powerful Will, hires a crew of local @PageSix: Will’s life at first seems to have failed — he is shot ne’er-do-wellsinto a desert town and withthen millionsseemingly wired overnight into her secretly bank In his first film as director, acclaimed cinema but survives — but then it turns out the bullet was "Okay look we love Leo. It just kinda looks like he goodtographer but has Wally little Pfister substance (“The beneath Dark Knightits shiny, Rises,” digi- uploadcoated withWill’s a mind radioactive into PINN material. so that With his brillianceonly weeks is ate Gilbert Grape." tally“Inception”) enhanced has surface. made a movie that predictably looks preserved.to live, Will, along with Evelyn and Max, decide to builds a sprawling, wired campus that makes Google - Of course, the law of unintended consequences be- headquarters look like a tiki shack. It’s from here that cial intelligence, a hotshot scientist and Wired cover ing what it is, Will’s ego and sense of power increase Will, like The Brain on the old “Pinky and the Brain” familial stand-ins Johnny Depp is Will Caster, the Tony Stark of artifi - cartoons, plans to take over the world. But wouldn’t Caleb and Cody Walker, man and machine that he believes could be the an- ingly limitless power of a machine that can tap into someone take notice? The local power company? The brothers of the late Paul swerboy on to the hunger, verge disease of a breakthrough and other global in the ills. merging His best of allexponentially of the world’s once computers his mind is and paired see witheverything the seem ev- goesmayor? the The way NSA? of so many big-budget movies where Walker, will stand in for the - performancesAnd then the are explosions subservient start to and special “Transcendence” effects. But actor for the remaining un- even on this basic level, “Transcendence” isn’t very shot scenes of "Fast & Furious hope is a computer called PINN (Physically Indepen mind”erywhere. with Will him wants at the tocontrols. eradicate Not cancer so good. and conflict special. 7." Walker died in a car ac- dent Neural Network). — a good thing — but seeks to link everyone in a “hive Humanity’s hubris may indeed be dangerous, but cident while on hiatus from But the work he and his colleagues — including his Hollywood’s is just boring. filming last fall. wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and best friend Max (Paul That’s when both Evelyn and Max, who are totally Bettany) — are doing has sparked opposition from a Team Will at first, come to the realization that maybe
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