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For more information, please contact [email protected]. page designed and edited by BISHOP NASH INSIDE: NEWS, 2 | SPORTS, 3 | OPINION, 4 | LIFE!, 6 HIGH 64° LOW 54° [email protected] WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 42 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com Marshall leads Visual Arts Center opening on schedule in West Virginia Business Plan Competition By TANYA ABBETT THE PARTHENON Business students at Marshall University have sub- mitted the most entries in this year’s West Virginia State- wide Collegiate Business Plan Competition. The competition is spon- sored by the BrickStreet Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at West Vir- ginia University. The annual competition demonstrates the urge to start businesses in West Virginia while giving college students the opportu- nity to win $10,000 worth of goods and services intended PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON to help transform their busi- College of Arts and Media dean Donald Van Horn ness ideas into reality. tours construction progress while workers, below, The second round of the gather around exposed walls inside the visual competition will take place arts center Tuesday in downtown Huntington. at Marshall’s Huntington campus Nov. 22. Marshall stu- dents submitted 107 out of 235 entries received from 11 Former Third Avenue department state universities and colleges competing. store nearing May 2014 completion Elizabeth Reusch, assistant professor of strategy and en- By ALISON WICKLINE “It’s a great opportunity for store building up to current trepreneurship in Marshall’s THE PARTHENON the university, in collabora- fire and safety regulations. College of Business, said she Marshall University is on tion with the city, to establish Another major area of is impressed with the enthu- track for a May 2014 com- a real showpiece downtown construction was erecting a siasm of the students who pletion of a state-of-the-art where the visual arts could dividing wall between parts of submitted their ideas. visual arts center in down- be showcased both for the the building, because the uni- “Given the size of Marshall town Huntington. benefits of our students and versity only purchased part of University, 107 is an impres- The former Stone and faculty and our community,” the building. The rest belongs sive number,” Reusch said. Thomas building sits on Third Kopp said. to a different owner. “I think everybody should Avenue across from Hunting- The building is expected to The historical building is a be wowed by the fact that ton’s Pullman Square. When hold 400 to 500 students, plus seven-story structure, includ- so many of our students are renovations are complete, the faculty--a benefit for Mar- ing the basement. The first willing to take a chance on center will house art studios, shall’s visual arts program. floor is designed to serve two - classrooms, and retail and gal- Currently, the program is lim- purposes. One, it will serve ling idea into a competition lery space on the ground floor ited because of space issues as a gallery for students to liketheir this ideas. takes Entering a lot of aguts. fledg In designed to draw tourists and on campus. All of the School present, and possibly sell, West Virginia, approximately local shoppers to the center. of Art and Design programs their artwork. The floor will 97 percent of our economy is Ron May, director of will be transferred down- also serve as an area for re- based around thriving small facilities planning and man- town, except for ceramics and tail store development, which businesses. If we want to help agement for Marshall, said the sculpture. would provide revenue for ensure the future success of building will likely be in use Donald Van Horn, College of Marshall. Arts and Media programs in August 2010 for $750,000. West Virginia, we need to en- by next fall. Fine Arts dean, said the new The rest of the floors are expand. The project is slated to cost courage our students to think “We’re on schedule to fin- facility is an exciting chance designed as instructional Each instructional floor will roughly $13 million. Edward like entrepreneurs. I am su- ish probably about mid-May for the School of Art and De- spaces. A traditional lecture have two to three faculty of- Tucker Architects Inc., a local perbly proud of our students.” of next year, so we probably sign to grow. classroom and two smaller fices and studios that will be firm, is leading the renova- Reusch said two years ago, wouldn’t move from Smith “This affords the School of seminar spaces will exist for organized based on programs. tion project, and Neighborgall until the fall semester which Art and Design the opportu- typical classroom use. The The offices will be designed as Construction is handling the competition. Last year, 70 stu- works out well,” May said. nity to bring in more students, design plans allot for about interactive spaces, with roll- actual renovations. dentsMarshall took had the five plunge, plans in with the The new visual arts center but more importantly, it gives 12 major studio spaces, some ing doors between the faculty Plans for parking and city two plans making it to the sits in a prime spot in downtown them the chance to create new being multipurpose and some office and studio to the class- and campus security are in Huntington and is designed to programs and have the space being specialized. room studio. the development stages at this “We know most suc- - to do that,” Van Horn said. Open common areas will be The basement has not been time. Marshall and College of cessfulsemi-final entrepreneurs round. fail town Huntington. Marshall “The facility gives them room on each floor to serve many designed for any particular Arts and Media administra- Presidentincrease foot Stephen traffic J. Koppto down said to grow and expand.” different purposes. They can purpose at this time. It will tors said they are working few ideas,” Reusch said. “I’d the building was purchased by While the exterior only be used as critique spaces serves as a shell space that to determine the best way to likespectacularly to see our with students their firstget a partnership between the city required minor aesthetic ren- or exhibition spaces for stu- can evolve into whatever it handle these issues. that out of the way, learn that and the university to bridge the ovations, the interior is being dents and faculty. But they needs to be depending on pro- Alison Wickline can be sometimes great ideas aren’t gap between Marshall and the completely redone to bring also provide an opportunity gram development. contacted at wickline19@ community. the 111-year-old department for growth if the College of Marshall bought the building live.marshall.edu. determineprofitable whatand thatideas business will and wontplans work.”are beneficial to helping The business plan com- Pi Kappa Phi to experience sensory Residence Life welcomes petition has three rounds. Round one requires a three- deprivation for disability awareness children for trick-or-treat page summary of a business idea, which is scored by a THE PARTHENON The event is a test of your Morris said if the partici- panel of judges who use a Pi Kappa Phi will raise aware- senses true abilities and the pates do get a hole in one, THE PARTHENON Britt Frye, residence di- scoring rubric. In each cat- ness for those with disabilities purpose is to show how hard make a basket or a goal, they The Marshall University rector for Twin Towers egory, up to 10 teams will be Thursday with Precision Without it is to do these seemingly sim- will be able to see that those Department of Residence West, said this event would selected to advance to round Vision on the plaza of the Memo- ple activities without certain with disabilities can do it as Life is sponsoring a Trick- focus on celebrating Hallow- rial Student Center. The event will senses, as well as bring aware- well. or-Treat in the residence een with younger children has three levels: a feasibility be from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. ness to those with disabilities The main purpose of the halls Wednesday to cele- in the community. study,two. This a two-minute semi-final elevator round Participates will gain a better that must live like this every event is to bring awareness for brate the Halloween season. “It’s something that hous- pitch and a series of inter- understand of what the visually day. Pi Kappa Phi’s philanthropy, Children in the commu- ing and residence life has impaired go through by wearing “It’s part of the education Push America, an organization nity are invited to come done for a number of years each category will advance goggles to obscure their vision. that goes along with it,” Zachary dedicated to raising funds for into the dorms and receive to reach out to the com- views. The top five teams in They will be asked to per- Morris, senior public relations those with disabilities.