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The Parthenon, January 30, 2019 Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 1-30-2019 The aP rthenon, January 30, 2019 Heather Barker Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019 | VOL. 122 NO. 71 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE Dance team members find home among teammates READ MORE ON PAGE 6 WHAT’S INSIDE RICHARD CRANK | THE PARTHENON 2 Rally protests city Moonlight3 Cookies Bible course4 offered Geography5 Women’s7 Basketball EDITORIAL:8 GINGER’S9 GUIDE TO: 12HMA promotes council vote delivers sweet to students Department expands heads to Texas Covington situation Greta Van Fleet local arts treats PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY HEATHER BARKER | [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 389075 (304) 529-7433 2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM ‘Stop the Sell Out’ Rally protests New interim senators sworn into SGA By JESTEN RICHARDSON out an evaluation, with questions about COPY EDITOR how eager the now interim senators were Huntington City Council vote Fourteen interim senators were sworn to learn, how effective they were at com- into the Student Government Association munication and how engaged they were Tuesday, Jan. 29 during a student senate with student government. meeting in the Memorial Student Center. “We took that information, and we looked The 14 interim senators were approved at their attendance at events, we looked at by the SGA senate’s judiciary committee be- their completion of assignments, we looked fore the senate meeting, Parliamentarian Jo at them attending different events and stuff Tremmel, the leader of the judiciary commit- like that,” Tremmel said. “And then today tee, said. Senate adviser Michelle Barbour we had 14 of them, and we only have a swore them in during the senate meeting. 40-minute meeting, so we had less than All 14 new interim senators came from the three minutes [each] to interview them all. SGA’s senate apprenticeship program, Trem- I had to read off their information, and then mel said. The senate apprenticeship program I gave them a minute to talk about them- selves and then we had about a minute to it to train for a position in the senate during vote on them.” theallows fall firstsemester, semester Tremmel freshman said. who apply to Tremmel said the senate judiciary com- - mittee thought all 14 apprentices would man applied to the apprenticeship program, make good senators, so they were all voted because“Basically, in the they governing as first documents, semester freshin the in. Though the interim senators do not yet have the title of senator, they have been DOUGLAS HARDING I ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER freshman aren’t allowed to be full senators Huntington resident Mark Connelly talks with Damon Core, an executive board member of SEIU justconstitution because theyand thedon’t bylaws, know afirst whole semester bunch have the full voting power of a senator, 1199, about the hospital board deal ordinance outside the Huntington City Council meeting. about Marshall,” Tremmel said. “They enter Tremmeltransitioned said. into She the said office, she and believes therefore, the By DOUGLAS HARDING the next elections which council members the apprenticeship program to learn about newly inducted interim senators will be ONLINE AND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER voted to approve and which ones voted to the Marshall community and student gov- good for Marshall University. Despite being met by a “Stop the Sell reject the ordinance. ernment and how it works together.” “They’re one of the most hardworking Out” rally, Huntington City Council voted “The members of the board should have Students within the senate apprentice- classes I’ve seen,” Tremmel said. “I feel like 8-3 Monday, Jan. 28, to accept an ordinance a personal stake in the quality of our hospi- ship program get set up with a sitting they’ll do really good things for the univer- giving up the city’s right to appoint three tals,” Olson said. senator, attend senate meeting meetings, sity. I mean, the apprenticeship program members to the Cabell Huntington Hospital The deal in the approved ordinance, Ol- learn about the different committees, and isn’t easy, and they all made it through it Board of Directors in exchange for $1 mil- son said, only serves to take away power - and have come out, and they’re going to re- lion for general city funds. tion to help improve campus, Tremmel said. ally really help Marshall out in the end.” Members of Service Employees Interna- constituents, likely, to transfer that power Shethen, said as athe final senate assignment, also added write an extra a resolu step Jesten Richardson can be contacted at tional District 1199, which represents workers tofrom wealthy local electedpeople fromofficials, other residents states whoand [email protected]. of Cabell Huntington Hospital and workers may not always consider the best interests of Huntington and its people. this year where the students’ mentors filled Hospital, and other concerned residents “Healthcare is not about making money,” showedfighting upfor atthe city right hall to an unionize hour before at St. the Mary’s start Olson said. “It’s about treating people and of the meeting to make their voices heard. their problems. Healthcare is a human “I’m against the sale of these seats, be- right, and we will defend it at all times.” cause these seats do not belong to the city After close to an hour of public com- of Huntington,” said Damon Core, an ex- ments and questions from council members, ecutive board member of SEIU 1199. “They Councilwoman Rebecca Howe (Democrat, at-large) began the voting period by reject- When council members’ voting records ing the ordinance, followed by Councilmen showbelong theyto the ignore citizens the of Huntington.”voices of union Charles McComas (Democrat, District 2) and workers and their residents, Core said, constituents will remember whose voices to ignore in the next elections. membersTom McGuffin who voted(Democrat, to reject District the ordinance. 8). Howe, McComas and McGuffin were the only council too,” Core said, “And that goes for Mayor cast and the council began a 5-minute Williams“The people as well.” hired you; we can fire you recessAs the period, final votes several on theresidents ordinance who were at- This was a sentiment Leif Olson, a gradu- ate student of Marshall University’s public exit doors of the chamber, chanting, “Vote health program, said he shared with Core themtended out. the Vote meeting them began out.” filing out the two JESTEN RICHARDSON I COPY EDITOR and several other residents. Douglas Harding can be contacted at Senate advisor Michelle Barber swears in 14 new interim Student Government Association He said voters will remember during [email protected]. senators during the student senate meeting Tuesday, Jan. 29. PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY HEATHER BARKER | [email protected] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019 3 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Moonlight Cookies delivers sweet treats to satisfy evening cravings By ANNA MARSH “We both have enjoyed cooking our whole THE PARTHENON For those who may be craving late night music and cooking together while having fun.” sweets, Moonlight Cookies delivers. lives,”At Moonlight Kathy Paxton Cookies, said. “We local get products to enjoy bothlike Moonlight Cookies is a new business at Heri- tage Station which opened last Halloween. “We know the importance of supporting lo- “I feel like Huntington needed a late-night caleggs, business,” flour, butter Paxton and puresaid. vanilla“Huntington are used. is so cookie place. I’ve seen it work in other cities,” good at supporting local businesses, which has Molly Paxton, co-owner of Moonlight Cookies, really helped our business.” said. “After doing some odd jobs and going to Heritage Station differs from Pullman college for a while, I felt that I could open up a Square in that every business at Heritage Sta- small business, because I had enough people in tion is locally owned. Whenever people shop at the Huntington community behind me.” Heritage Station, money is going back into the The business started at a local grocery store community, Paxton said. in the West End. Paxton said she would work Moonlight Cookies also partners with other there during the day, and in return, they let her businesses in Heritage Station, such as a pair- use the commercial kitchen for free. She said ing with TAP, where the businesses offered she saw how the community of Huntington four beers and four cookies. Moonlight Cook- responded to late night cookies, and as time ies also has made cookies for the yoga mommy went on, she made enough money to open a and me class at Brown Dog Yoga. shop in Heritage Station. “Partnerships have really helped with the Paxton only delivered before moving to ANNA MARSH I THE PARTHENON Heritage Station, and now there seems to be The winter hours of operation are 5-10 p.m. Moonlight Cookies offers cookies Tuesdaytake-off of through the business,” Friday Kathy and Paxton11:30 said.a.m.-10 as well as a lunch and dinner mother, said. p.m. Saturdays. The business is closed on Sun- menu on Saturdays. The local more“We foot know traffic, what Kathy young Paxton, people Molly like, Paxton’s but we days and Mondays.
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