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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 23° LOW 9° [email protected] WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 | VOL. 117 NO. 68 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com Alice in Chains to perform in Huntington By MARK WILLIAMS THE PARTHENON - one of rock music’s biggest album, “Black Gives Way to “The Devil Put Dinosaurs- draws. Eight Grammy nomi Blue,” in 2009, and followed it Here,” hitting Australia, of Alicethe in1990s, Chains, announcedone of the nations, chart topping singles with the release of “The Devil Singapore, the U.S. and the Eu biggest alternative rock acts and several multi-platinum Put Dinosaurs Here” in May ropean festival circuit along albums were overshadowed of 2013. The latter debuted at- the way. Tuesday that the band will- by the tragic death of troubled No. 2 on the Billboard charts Pre-sale tickets for the make its Huntington debut lead singer Layne Staley in and spawned two No. 1 sin Huntington show will be May 16 at the Big Sandy Su 2002. gles, “Hollow” and “Stone.” The available through the band’s perstore Arena. In an unlikely success story,- recent resurgence confirmed website Wednesday. The The Seattle band, best Alice in Chains resurfaced in the band as one of the most public on-sale date at the Big wasknown at forthe hits forefront like “Rooster,” of the 2005 with new vocalist Wil celebrated acts in alternative SandyMark SuperstoreWilliams Arenacan boxbe “Man in the Box” and “Would,” liam DuVall, formerly the music nearly two decades after- contactedoffice is 10 a.m.williams778@ Friday. frontman of Atlanta rock band its initial rise to stardom. marshall.edu. JAY L. CLENDENIN | LOS ANGELES TIMES | MCT grunge movement in the early Comes With The Fall. The band The band will be touring re 1990s and quickly became released the now certified gold lentlessly in 2014 supporting Orpheum ICE ON THE OHIO Project Tuesday’s subzero temperatures freeze river into chunks to screen del Toro’s “Cronos” Wednesday By MARK WILLIAMS THE PARTHENON The Orpheum Project, a group of Huntington’s film enthusiasts, will screen the classic science fiction movie “Cronos” at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Cabell County Library. in This1993 version and is aof remake “Cronos” of Kurtwas directed by Guillermo del Toro- Neuman’s version, which was re ofleased Huntington in 1957. residents, Jesse The project is the brainchild inspired on a recent trip to Nash- Riggs and Max Nolte. Riggs was PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON - Ice stretches from Chesapeake, Ohio across state lines to Huntington, left, ville, where he visited a restored while large sheets of ice crash into one another on near the banks of Ohio, theater house, the Belcourt The right, as seen from the Robert C. Byrd Bridge between Chesapeake and historicatre. In danger site and of demolition,created a non- the Huntington Tuesday morning. community rallied around the profit organization to help save THE PARTHENON At press time, the National National Weather Service it. Now the Belcourt Theatre is a The minus 3 degree low Weather Service in Charleston predicts sunny skies Wednes- thriving resource in Nashville for caused the Ohio River to freeze had issued a Winter Chill Advi- day but a mere 20 degree independent and classic films, as- Tuesday north of Huntington. sory effective in the area until high with lows dipping to tington’swell as live own performances. historic Hyman A veneer of roughly one-inch noon Wednesday. Wind chills eight degrees in the evening. With the recent closing of Hun thick ice formed between the are expected to fall between The Parthenon can be West Virginia and Ohio boards negative 10 and 20 degrees contacted at parthenon@ Theatre, Riggs was compelled to with sheets estimated at 30 during the period accord- marshall.edu. take action. ing organization release. The “I really hated to see it go,”- Riggs said. feet across flowing downriver. The initial phase of the Or Barker,pheum suggestedProject was to slowRiggs going that until local filmmaker, Shane $1500 donation could mean 50 hours of tutoring the library would be a good place upto tostart. the Asidea a andformer contacted librarian the By JESSICA ROSS level of education,” Painter “An investment of this na- According to the HELP Cen- the grant from an economic employee, Riggs soon warmed- THE PARTHENON said. “This scholarship do- ture will provide 50 hours of ter’s application for the grant, standpoint. Nationally, 22.5 A scholarship grant was do- nation will directly impact tutoring for a student in our two students who demon- percent of children 17 and West Virginia Library Commis nated Jan. 15 by Enterprise that.” community who is struggling strate a need will receive 25 younger live below the pov- sion in Charleston. Holdings to assist with the Enterprise Holdings is the to keep pace academically be- hours of tutoring during the erty line. In West Virginia, the “They were more than willing funding of Marshall’s HELP parent company of Enter- cause of a diagnosed learning school year. percentage is 25.7 percent, to help,” Riggs said. “The whole Center. prise Rent-A-Car, National In the community HELP and locally the numbers are process turned out to be really Debbie Painter, director of Rent-A-Car and Alamo Rent- Painter said. division, students in grades even worse. easy. I couldn’t believe how many Marshall University’s HELP A-Car. The grant was donated disabilityThe nationally or attention acclaimed deficit,” 1-12 are provided tutors to In Cabell County, the pov- classics they had that were just- Center, accepted the $1,500 by Enterprise Holding’s char- HELP program, which has work with to improve their erty rate for children is 35.3 mer,sitting the there Orpheum not being Project used.” has donation on behalf of the itable arm, The Foundation. served students with learning skills in reading, spelling, percent, which means that ev- Since its inception last sum community division of HELP, The HELP program’s grant disabilities such as attention writing, math, organization ery three children live below which serves local school application drew attention and self-esteem building. the poverty line. The 50 hours screened classics like “The children. to the need for scholarship The program allows stu- of tutoring will help those Wizard of Oz” and “One Flew “The core of what we do at funding in its community (ADD/ADHD)deficit disorder They and attentionalso as- dents to progress as fast as Over the Cookoo’s Nest,” as HELP is to provide students division. Based on census sistdeficit students hyperactivity at Marshall disorder. and they are able and as slow as assistance. well as experimental films like with the tools, training and statistics, 1 in 3 children in students grades K-12 in Cabell they need. familiesJessica in Ross need can of financialbe con- “Eraserhead” and “Dawn of the tutelage they need to be suc- Cabell County is living below County and the surrounding The grant application also tacted at jessica.ross@ Dead.” See CRONOS | Page 5 cessful across their present the poverty line. areas. highlighted the need for marshall.edu. 275787 MARSHALL CAREER SERVICES C M Y K 50 INCH 2 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Obama will force federal contractors to raise minimum wage By ANITA KUMAR It worked. address, Obama planned to say estimate of how many workers A National Employment Law lawmakers to pass a proposal to MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON On Tuesday, Obama, frustrated he’ll sign an executive order to the change would affect, though Project study found that about 75 raise the minimum wage for all BUREAU (MCT) that Congress has refused to raise raise the minimum wage from supporters guess that the number percent of such workers earn less workers to $10.10 per hour by For years, liberal groups the minimum wage for all Ameri- $7.25 to $10.10 per hour for would reach into the hundreds of than $10 an hour. 2015. A legislative increase would privately — and unsuccessfully — cans, announced that he’ll use his employees involved in future thousands, including those who Obama’s action will be more affect 27 million workers, accord- pressed President Barack Obama executive power to increase sala- government contracts as a way to serve food and wash dishes, clean limited than advocates had ing to an analysis of census data to use the power of the federal ries for hundreds of thousands of lower turnover, boost morale and laundry and buildings, and manu- hoped, affecting only future or re- by the nonpartisan Economic government’s purse to raise the workers with the stroke of a pen. increase productivity. facture military uniforms. Federal negotiated contracts. Policy Institute. minimum wage for employees It’s the latest example in the evo- “The announcement today is spending on contracts reached Still, they cheered the decision, “The president clearly shares whose companies had contracts lution of his use of power, from a huge victory for every worker more than $500 billion in 2012.