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C M Y K 50 INCH TUESDAY February 7, 2012 VOL. 115 NO. 78 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM College Goal Sunday offers free financial assistance to students Student The West Virginia Higher students may attend to Community and Techni- workshops to anyone plan- The West Virginia Volun- Education Policy Commis- receive assistance in cal College facility to offer ning to attend college next teer Income Tax Assistance Resource sion will be hosting the third completing the Free Appli- support in completing the fall. will offer tax preparation annual College Goal Sunday cation for Federal Student FAFSA and provide in- Current college students services to attendees be- Center on Marshall University’s Aid. formation on available and adults interested in re- cause completion of the campus this weekend. Financial aid experts will scholarships. turning to school are also honors Parents and future be on site at the Mountwest The event offers free encouraged to attend. See AID I Page 5 faculty BY JOANIE BORDERS THE PARTHENON MEET THE CANDIDATES: Steve Williams The Marshall Univer- sity Student Resource He has also served as the director of eco- Center is honoring fac- THE PARTHENON nomic development and city manager. ulty members this week As Huntington faces a $4 million deficit, by asking students to Steve Williams said he is no stranger to Williams said he recognizes the problems share which professors management positions. Last week, the city the city faces. have impacted their councilman threw his name in the hat to “We are in dire financial straits,” Wil- college careers. run for mayor of Huntington. liams said. “We have no credibility with Students can post Williams is running up against several members of the legislature. The city needs about their favorite other Democrats for nomination in this a mayor who can go into the city, articulate professor on the cen- spring’s primary. a vision and communicate with members ter’s Facebook page. Williams said when it comes to problems in Charleston.” “We want to give stu- solving, he’s the man Huntington would Williams said he would work to restore dents an opportunity to want in office. confidence to its citizens by improving at- express their gratitude,” “The issues the city is facing are more com- tention to detail when it comes to the city’s said Jessica Jordan, re- plicated and complex,” Williams said. “The budget. source specialist in city needs someone with my background and Williams said he has scrutinized de- the SRC and Marshall my experience to address the issues.” tails of the budget in his current position alumna.” Williams has held numerous manage- on city council. “Some students choose ment positions. For the past 26 years, “It was us who made the decisions and their jobs or careers be- Williams has worked in the financial ser- observations that made sure the belts were cause of a class, and they vices industry. He also has a political being tightened,” Williams said. do not always get the background as a former state legislator in With problem solving being a big focus chance to express their SUBMITTED PHOTO the House of Delegates. in this election season, Williams said his gratitude to that profes- Steve Williams, of Huntington is a Democratic candidate running to As a city councilman, Williams said he is no be Huntington’s mayor. The primary election is May 8. sor that made an impact stranger to serving the people of Huntington. See WILLIAMS I Page 5 on their lives.” Jordan received her master’s in counsel- ing. While working on her degree, she said she got the honor of having MEET THE a professor impact her Check out The Parthenon for Huntington life. CANDIDATE mayoral features in upcoming Tuesday editions. “David Herman was my professor for group profiles counseling and my >> practicum while at Mar- shall,” Jordan said. “He taught me how to be- come a good counselor, adviser and improve my techniques. He really helped me become the ‘Vagina Monologues’ to Raise abuse awareness professional I am today, and I still keep in touch though she is new to the with him.” BY HENRY CULVYHOUSE community, she is honored Jordan said she hopes THE PARTHENON to be the director of Mar- the faculty members ap- shall’s play. preciate the recognition Marshall University’s “It is certainly a topic that is and will take time to production of “The Vagina very close to me,” Deal said. read the posts students Monologues” opens at 8 “It’s a great chance to get to have written about them p.m. Thursday at Marco’s know the community and to on Facebook. She said in the Memorial Student do something that actually that it is important for Center. has some meaning to it.” faculty members to hear “The Vagina Monologues” “The Vagina Monologues” the positive things they is part of the Valentine’s Day are performed near Valen- have done and inspired campaign, a global move- tine’s Day in cities across the students to do. ment that raises money and world. Deal said the move- To further honor the awareness to end violence ment is not a protest against faculty members who against women. Written by Valentine’s Day, but a differ- students have posted playwright Eve Ensler in ent perspective on it. about, the center will 1998, “The Vagina Mono- “It’s meant to spot- be giving each pro- logues” is a series of light violence against fessor a certificate monologues based on in- women and girls by tak- showing their appre- terviews with real women ing another perspective ciation. Thursday, the about their experiences. on the Valentine’s Day center will vote on the SUBMITTED PHOTO Ninety percent of funds experience by saying ‘if A cast member of the “Vaginia Monologues” sits in Marco’s at the Memorial Student Center. The play most memorable expe- raised at the Marshall you really love me, you riences students have performance will benefit wouldn’t hurt me.’” will be performed at 8 p.m Thursday. posted. The winners the Branches Domestic Deal said the community will receive free Mar- Violence Shelter, a Hun- has been very supportive. performing in “The Vagina amazing cause.” women,” Plewe said. “It’s shall gear. tington based safe house “We’ve had a lot people Monologues” allows her to Freshman theater and just a great show that talks The center is located for women escaping abu- interested in being it,” Deal be part of a good cause. English major, Cheyanne about the different strug- on the second floor of sive relationships. Ten said. “People have heard of “V-Day is a global act, and Plewe, 18, from Dayton, gles women go through.” the Memorial Students percent of the funds will it and are interested, and that it is going on at Mar- Ohio, said she got involved “The Vagina Mono- Center and is open from go to the Valentine’s Day we’re excited they’re going shall, in a relatively small with the production be- logues” will run Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday campaign to establish to be there.” community, was big for cause she thinks it offers a through Sunday. through Friday. shelters for women in Marshall biomedical grad- me,” Ray said. “The fact great message to women. Henry Culvyhouse can Joanie Borders can be Haiti and central Africa. uate student, Kristee Ray, the proceeds go to a domes- “I like it because it’s be contacted at culvy- contacted at borders9@ Director Liz Deal said, 24, from Richmond, Va., said tic violence shelter makes it an really empowering to [email protected]. marshall.edu. page designed and edited by CRYSTAL MYERS INSIDE > NEWS, 2 |SPORTS, 3 |OPINION, 4 |LIFE!, 6 53° 36° [email protected] 236132 BCC CAFE INC, SOUTHERN X-POSUR PARTHENON STRIP AD C M Y K 50 INCH 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Marshall’s Genomics Core Facility expands BY MOLLY URIAN said cancer genetics, as a can give us a pattern of THE PARTHENON field of study, has increased which genes have changes mainly because our under- and some may predict Since the establishment standing of cancer leads how they will respond to of Marshall University’s back to changes that occur therapies. Genomics Core Facility in in the genome. “The Illumina HiSeq 1000 1990, the Robert C. Byrd “Due to our understand- can examine an entire ge- Biotechnology Science Cen- ing of cancer biology and nome in a period of eight ter has introduced new genetics and epigenetics days,” Primerano said. “We technological devices and as being causes, and a si- have to be cautious at this ideas to students and the multaneous rise in the point. We are able to se- community. technology, we can now as- quence adult and children The most recent update sess the entire sequence genomes and know about in Marshall University’s of a genome in a fairly their mutations. We may not Department of Biochemis- straightforward way,” be able to know the clinical try and Microbiology is the Primerano said.