Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives Fall 11-4-2014 The aP rthenon, November 4, 2014 Codi Mohr [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Mohr, Codi, "The aP rthenon, November 4, 2014" (2014). The Parthenon. Paper 420. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/420 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]. A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIVES HUNTINGTON'S STRANGERS What was the happiest moment of your life? HUMANS OF Going back to school. HUNTINGTON MORE ON LIFE! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 | VOL. 118 NO. 56 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com PHOTOS BY LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON Singer-songwriter Phillip Phillips INSIDE: performs as part of the Marshall Artist Break Series Monday at the Keith Albee NEWS, 2 Performing Arts Center. housing > CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES NICK RAHALL AND EVAN JENKINS open to > MINING > ELECTRICAL ACCIDENTS HUNTINGTON all halls By KELLY PATE JAMS WITH THE PARTHENON The staff of Marshall Uni- versity Housing and Residence Life has decided to allow all residence halls to remain open for 2014 fall break. In previous PHILLIP years, Housing and Residence AP PHOTO| THE HERALD DISPATCH to be open during fall break. | SHOLTEN SINGER ThereLife only is nooffered additional specified cost halls for staying in the residence halls PHILLIPS during the break. SPORTS, 3 Tracey Eggleston, assistant director of Housing and Resi- > COLUMN: CFP RANKINGS dence Life, said this was a last > BIJAN GLOSTON By ANTHONY DAVIS its seats in applause and began to sing minute decision among the res- THE PARTHENON along with the American Idol victor. Saints of Vallory, a four-piece rock idence life staff because of the American Idol champ Phillip Phillips Then Phillips’ cellist brought the song and was certified five times platinum. growing population of students serenaded the audiences of the Keith - Phillips. According to Billboard, Saints who will utilize the halls during Albee Performing Arts Center with ing the theater with an eerie sound. ofoutfit Vallory from was Austin, one of Texas, the top opened unsigned for break. opener Texas rock band Saints of Val- “Thicket”Phillips inlater with mixed a dark it cello up introwith filla bands of 2012 and signed with F Stop/ “We have more students who lory, Monday in an evening packed with rock mash-up of popular R&B songs Atlantic Records in 2013. The band we know do not have anywhere music. including “Lollipop,” “Lose Your- then went on to record its debut to go,” Eggleston said. “We will Phillip Phillips, winner of the 11th self” and “All I Do Is Win.” album with the Joe Chiccarelli, pro- have more athlete, band and season of the acclaimed TV series and After the R&B remix, Phillips ducer of music by The Strokes, My international students who singing competition American Idol, and his band left the stage and re- Morning Jacket and Young The will need to stay on campus brought his talent to the historic Keith turned when the crowd began shouting Giant according for some or all of break. Look- LEXI BROWNING | THE PARTHENON Albee stage on his world tour. “Encore!” to MTV. ing back historically on all the Phillips and his band entered the When the band returned, it once Anthony students who apply for break stage with thunderous applause from again began playing a mash-up of songs, Davis can housing, we see more of these the crowd, which stood up with his song this time “Superfreak” and “Let’s Get It be contacted types of students than before. OPINION, 4 “Get Up, Get Down.” The performance On” before teasing the crowd with the at davis669@ We are now trying to accommo- > SWIFT DROPS SPOTIFY opened with an intense light show that intro of Phillips’ hit single “Home.” marshall. date that, so that was leaving > RE: BE A FULL TIME STUDENT The show ended with an energetic edu. halls open.” Phillips showed off his skill with both Britt Frye, Twin Towers West anfilled electric the theater guitar with and many an acoustic colors. gui- Phillips and his band left the stage. residence hall director, said a tar playing songs such as “Raging Fire,” uproarAccording that filledto his the website Keith AlbeePhillips’ as lot of students might also wish “Lead On” and “Unpack Your Heart.” major success came with the hit single to stay in Huntington to work. Phillips also played a song he said “Home” as the coronation song of his “Many students may have a was a lot like a lullaby to him, “Tell Me victory on American Idol in May of job working retail at the mall A Story.” 2012. His hit single “Home” marked or other places,” Frye said. “We As the tune of the hit “Gone, Gone, the most successful coronation song know Black Friday is a holiday Gone” came in, the crowd rose from of any winner of American Idol ever that many students choose to stay for because they know the stores will be busy.” SCREENSHOT VIA SPOTIFY Students who would like to stay in their dorm during break LIFE!, 6 4 p.m. Nov. 19. Applications can > TIGHT ROPE WALKER bemust found fill out online an application at marshall. by > #HUMANSOFHUNTINGTON edu/housing or at any resi- dence hall front desk. Students living in First Year Residence Halls are exempt from having Saints of Valory performs as the opening act during the Marshall Artist these halls will stay open over to fill out an application, as Series concert with Phillip Phillips the break regardless. Monday at the Keith Albee. See HOUSING | Page 5 EMILY RICE | THE PARTHENON WE WANT TODAY’S ARE YOU A TO WORK WEATHER: PROVIDED BY MARSHALL UNIVERSITY METEOROLOGY STUDENTS WITH YOU. PHOTOGRAPHER? Send us an email at Are you interested in journalism and [email protected], or contact a member of our editorial staff to see how you can would like to have your work published? get involved with The Parthenon. 285221 SEAN HORNBUCKLE FOR HOUSE OF D C M Y K 50 INCH 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Incumbent representative seeks re-election to Congress, says the vote comes down to trust and W.Va. values By ALEX JAMES - on loans and we need to do ev- THE PARTHENON ous agenda of the EPA and erything we can to bring down U.S. Representative Nick J. I’vefight done the overreach,that reaching overzeal across the price of tuition.” Rahall was born in Beckley, party aisles and the House of Rahall said he supports the West Virginia, and has been Representatives,” Rahall said. Affordable Care Act, but still representative for the third “Working with my collegues on believes many aspects of the congressional district for 36 the Republican majority side program need to be improved. years. He is the ranking mem- to pass anti-EPA bills one af- “I supported the Affordable ber of the House Committee on ter another through the House Care Act and I still do,” Rahall Transportation and Infrastruc- of Representatives, and that’s said. “I do not feel that it is a ture and is seeking re-election what we need to do in order perfect law; I’ve said that nu- to Congress. to send the EPA a message that merous times and have voted Rahall said this election what they’re doing is having a to make amendments. I am not comes down to trust and he chilling effect across the coal for throwing the baby out from has worked hard every day for the bathwater, like eliminat- West Virginia. there against this administra- ing the discrimination against “This election,” Rahall said, tion,fields. they’re I get the not anger on our that’s side out on preexisting conditions. I’m not “comes down to who you can coal, but Nick Rahall is and al- for throwing young children off trust: an individual that has ways has been.” their health policy of their par- been there working everyday Rahall also said he believes in ents, and I’m for the lowering for many years on behalf of increasing funding to programs of prescription drugs cost for our people—protecting our that help students receive coal miners’ safety, health and higher education, and that edu- by the affordable care act. We cation should be affordable to didn’tsenior cut citizen any Medicareall made possible for any- protect our coal jobs—or an in- everyone. body, but we ended a lot of the dividualpension thatbenefits, will be working controlled to “We need to stop the cut-and- duplications and waste fraud by New York billionaires who gut agenda of the right-wing abuse.” want to control Congress on republicans, and those that Nick Rahall is the incum- AP PHOTO | MICHAEL SHROYER | FILE their own and don’t have West fund my opponent that will do bent representative for West Virginia values at heart.” away with student loans,” Ra- Virginia’s Third Congressional Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W. Va., speaks during a school dedication event April 21 at Oakvale Elementary School A major topic during this hall said. “That will do away District and hopes to be re- in Princeton, W.Va. Republicans are waging a take-no-prisoners battle to boot Democrats from what they election is coal and what Ra- with the Pell Grant or Perkins elected Tuesday for his seventh consider GOP property: Seats from House districts that presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried in 2012.