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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 79° LOW 52° [email protected] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 | VOL. 117 NO. 18 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com Polls open for Miss, Mr. Marshall voting By MORGAN WRIGHT Julia Galloway, sponsored by Sigma Phi, Zachary Morris, on campus, having no viola- interview score and application activities. When voting for Mr. THE PARTHENON the Pre-American Medical Stu- tions of the code of conduct, score to determine who would and Miss Marshall, Caul said Voting for Mr. and Miss Mar- dent Association Club, Caitlin Recruitment, Brian Kauff- having academic and athletic be on ballot. to consider people who exude shall winners will take place Grimes, sponsored by INTO, man,sponsored sponsored by the by PiOffice Kappa of scholarships, leadership roles Each candidate has a plat- behavior that represents the Thursday in the Memorial Jaclyn Hackett, sponsored by Alpha and Johnathan Austin, throughout campus and having form that they are to implement Student Center and Marshall Sigma Sigma Sigma, Carissa sponsored by the Center for jobs. The students who scored if awarded title of Mr. and Miss “Mr. and Miss Marshall should be Recreation Center, from 8 a.m. Janczweski, sponsored by the African-American Studies. above a set number of points Marshall. These platforms give someoneuniversity who in ahas dignified character, way. some- to 6 p.m. College of Arts and Media and The students were chosen to got invited to the interview the winners an opportunity to one who is loyal, someone who Candidates for Miss Mar- Ashley Roberts, sponsored by be candidates for Mr. and Miss portion. rally their peers behind a com- students feel like they can trust,” Caul shall are McKenzie Cooley, Delta Zeta. Marshall due to their applica- The interview took place munity service or organization said. “It should be someone who stu- sponsored by the Center for Af- Candidates for Mr. Marshall tions, resumes and interview before a panel of judges made that is important to them. dents have established a friendship rican-American Studies, Laura are Kyle Wilson, sponsored scores. Students received up of students and faculty Coordinator of Student In- prior to the election time.” Der, sponsored by the Fel- by the Honors College, Derek points for grade point average, members. Based on their inter- volvement, Christina Caul, is in lowship of Christian Athletes, Ramsey, sponsored by Alpha campus involvement, positions view answers, judges took the charge of Mr. and Miss Marshall See VOTING | Page 5 Browning recalls life in Alpha Tau Omega goes public with pledge ceremony the civil rights movement By ALISON WICKLINE member stab one of her fel- THE PARTHENON low supporters. To celebrate Constitution “We walked outside and Week, Marshall University the Klansmen tried to stab invited Joan C. Browning, an a boy who was with us, but early Freedom Rider in the our leader jumped in front 1960s and a strong proponent and caught the knife in his of the civil rights movement, ribs,” Browning said. “A po- to present two lectures as part of The Robert C. Byrd Fo- over to the bleeding man on rum on Civic Responsibility. thelice street,officer butsaw only it and to walkedget the Browning, who has seen man’s name so he could write - him a ticket for carrying a ple and the price of freedom, concealed weapon…the knife firsthand the power of peo will speak Thursday on her in his ribs.” PHOTOS BY ANDREA STEELE | THE PARTHENON personal experiences as a Browning is most known white woman in the civil for being one of nine people (ABOVE) Fourteen pledgees line up for initiation while chaplin Michael rights movement and on the that rode the Central Georgia Van Pelt, left, and president Jack Stonesifer (RIGHT) oversee the relationship between the Con- Railroad as part of a Freedom ceremony Wednesday, Sept. 25 in the Memorial Student Center. stitution and civil rights. Ride from Atlanta, Ga., to Al- Browning’s past is an inter- bany, Ga., and was arrested. By ANDREA STEELE Marshall University that they esting one full of surprises, Between May and December THE PARTHENON have had an open pledge roadblocks and a lifelong 1961, 436 Freedom Riders on A knock on the door ceremony. quest for virtue. Born in 1942 Wednesday was followed by The ceremony does not di- in rural South Georgia, she in the South for integrating the request of pledges to en- vulge any secret information spent her days on her family’s trains60 different and buses Rides and filled taking jails ter into the brotherhood of or go into what the letters small farm, mostly isolated down the “white” and “col- Alpha Tau Omega. stand for, Stonesifer said. from the outside world. ored” signs they encountered. In the basement of the Me- “Everyone seems to think From an early age, Brown- Four of the 436 Freedom morial Student Center, 14 it’s secret because it’s a cer- ing was unaffected by the Riders were white southern young men pledged with the emony,” he said. “It shouldn’t political and social expecta- females, Browning being one fraternity. be a secret ceremony, it tions in the South at that time. of them. This pledge ceremony was should be something to break After attending Georgia State At that point, many peo- unlike others. Alpha Tau down the walls between College for Women for a short ple would have given up the Omega nationally opened the independents and the time, Browning was forced to its pledging ceremony to Greeks.” leave because she had wor- After her arrest, she worked the public to display to the Stonesifer said the purpose shipped at a predominantly infight, human but relationsBrowning and refused. anti- community what it expects is to show the high ideals African–American church. poverty programs and was an of the pledges as well as ex- of the fraternity and what This moment was pivotal in organizer of the Federation of plain the high standards that they strive for to not only Southern Cooperatives. She they themselves hold as a the Greek community but to rights movement. Browning worked on grant-funded proj- fraternity. all members of the Marshall saidher personalshe was fightsimply in thelooking civil ects for the Southern Regional “We stress the development and Huntington communi- Goes Homeless it raised organization as well as their for answers. Council, American Civil Liber- of good character, attainment ties as well to help make $1,300 and accounted for acts of community service. “I could not wrap my head ties Union and the American of high scholarship and active sure their members strive for over 850 service hours. Their “I hadn’t seen anything like around what was wrong with Friends Service Committee. participation in the broth- perfection. goal for the semester is 1300 this before,” Roberts said. “It was worshipping at a church that I Today, Browning resides in erhood of our chapter,” Jack Marshall’s chapter is the service hours. a wakeup call to see that people felt comfortable in,” Browning Greenbrier County, W.Va., and Stonesifer, President of Alpha number one service or- James Roberts, freshman go through this every day.” Tau Omega, said. ganization for the third biology major, is pledging be- that answer that I happened world. She supports quality of This is the second time at semester in a row. With ATO cause of the brotherhood of the See PLEDGE | Page 5 uponsaid. “Itstudents was in tryingwho towere find lifecontinues initiatives, to fight children’s for a better pro- grams and domestic violence In 1961, she moved to At- prevention programs, and is lantafighting and for thediscovered cause.” the instrumental in her commu- Dress Up for Down Syndrome 5k set for Saturday Student Nonviolent Coor- nity, even advising the mayor dinating Committee, where of Rainelle, a small town in By KATY LEWIS acceptance of individuals with The Buddy Walk, established The National Down Syndrome she began volunteering with Greenbrier County, regu- THE PARTHENON Down syndrome. in 1995 by the National Down Society states that Down syn- numerous civil rights proj- larly. She lectures at colleges The third annual Dress Up for Brad Pelfrey, race organizer, Syndrome Society, is a one-mile drome is the most commonly ects in Georgia and Alabama. and universities across the Down Syndrome 5k will take said that last year Dress Up walk held to celebrate Down occurring chromosomal condi- Browning attended a Dr. country using her personal place Saturday at Barboursville for Down Syndrome had 104 Syndrome Awareness Month in tion. One in every 691 babies in Martin Luther King, Jr. lec- experiences to discuss race, Park. The race begins at 10 a.m. runners participate in the October. Participants of the walk the United States is born with ture in October 1961, which class, gender and the history of The cost to participate in the race and raised approximately decorate signs, wagons, stroll- Down syndrome. she said opened her eyes to the South and of the civil rights race is $25.