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LOS ANGELES — For years Cristian Gheorghiu craved the thrill of the chase. Spray-paint can in hand, he lived on the edge, always a step ahead of the law.

His canvas was L.A.’s lampposts, brick walls and concrete riv-erbeds where he scrawled ragged images and his own nickname, “Smear” — probably thousands of times.

The graffiti made him a subculture sensation. Fans compared his art to that of another graffiti artist, the critically acclaimed Jean-Michel Basquiat.

But just as the East Hollywood graffiti artist’s career was tak-ing off, his past has threatened to overtake him.

First came jail and a whopping fine. Now, City Attorney Car-men Trutanich is seeking a one-of-a-kind court injunction to bar Gheorghiu from profiting from art bearing his telltale “tag.”

The American Civil Liberties Union calls the lawsuit an as-sault on artistic freedom. For Gheorghiu, it is something more: an attack on his cherished outlaw persona.

Smear “is the beast over there, and I’m over here,” said Gheo-rghiu, 34. “I’m not going to turn my back on it,” but “you got to evolve.”

The slight, bearded Gheorghiu is the most recent in a long line of graffiti writers to wow the art scene.

Traditional graffiti, a bold style of writing done with spray paint or markers, harks back to at least the 1920s. Its current ar-tistic form developed in the 1970s, when New York City’s painted subway cars became iconic. Today, the work of people once con-sidered vandals can be found in chic galleries, auction houses and even suburban shopping malls.

Some former miscreants have become household names. Bas-quiat, the internationally known neo-expressionist artist, burst onto the New York art scene in the late 1970s. Today, a piece by Banksy — the secretive British graffiti artist nominated this year for a best documentary Oscar — may command hundreds of thousands of dollars. Shepard Fairey’s art is found on the youth-oriented Obey line of clothing.

Graffiti writers have had an “incredible influence on culture, music and art,” said Roger Gastman, one of the authors of “The History of American Graffiti,” to be released soon by Harper Collins.

Smear has not yet achieved the stature of a Basquiat or Banksy, but his path is similar.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, he grew up in the ‘80s in a then-rough East Hollywood. He drifted into gang life as a teenager, he said. By his early 20s, graffiti had become his obsession.

He held various jobs: stocking bottles at a bar, working in a retail clothing shop and a video store.

But this was a backdrop to his shadowy after-dark existence. Sometimes he traveled with tagging groups with brazen names: Racing Toward Hell, Metro Transit Assassins (or MTA). Mostly he spent his nights alone with a small backpack and a few cans of Coors and beef jerky, spraying poles, newspaper boxes and rusty utility boxes.

California graffi ti artist’s past tags behind him

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The hearing date regarding destruc-tion of property charges was re-scheduled for March 24.

Samuel Harrison Pauley, 19, of South Charleston, W.Va., who was arrested in early March in connection with an increase of graffiti

on campus, failed to appear at the origi-nal hearing that was set for the morning of March 14.

Pauley’s at-torney, Janice Shepherd Hensley, Cabell County pub-lic defender, was not available for comment.

Pauley said his absence was caused by confusion about

the case and the scheduling of the hearing date.

Pauley was charged with three misdemeanors and one felony count of destruc-tion of property from an anony-mous tip submitted to the Marshall University Po-lice Department website.

Marshall graffi ti case rescheduled

BY ASHLEY GROHOSKITHE PARTHENON

Marshall University is experiencing its first year with the newly adopted major, sports journalism. The program was pro-posed to the university faculty two years ago and finally received approval to start in fall 2010.

“We will be remiss to recognize a need and not do something to fill it,” said Burnis Mor-ris, professor of print journalism. “Many of our students in the Parthenon class wanted to do sports, but there was only one sports beat. After talking about it for the past few years, Professor Bailey and I decided to put it on paper, propose it to our faculty and get approval of the letter to create the program.”

The major will offer opportunities for stu-dents to learn more about news writing as well as the skills to report and photograph

sports stories. The program allows students to use the skills within the broadcasting, print and public relations aspect of the sports industry.

“There is a lot of interest in sports in the Tri-State area and really the entire state of West Virginia,” Morris said. “Every young person likes sports, especially young men who tune into ‘SportsCenter.’ It was a major that was overdue.”

Although it is too early to receive a signifi-cant amount of comments from students, approximately ten students have already declared sports journalism as their major.

Morris said the big difference between sports journalism, as opposed to regular print and broadcasting journalism, will be the introduction of the course JMC 305. The course will be similar to the Par-thenon course, JMC 301, in which the objective of learning news writing skills

will be available. The in-class hours will be less than JMC 301, but a similar workload will still be necessary. Sports news report-ing is also a recent addition to the list of fall courses, and it will be available on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Morris.

“You’ll be doing a lot of your reporting during the games,” said Charles Bailey, as-sociate professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. “Much of the things will be done on weekends.”

“Sports journalism involves, for me, working at the radio station,” said Daniel Francisco, sophomore sports journalism major from Lantana, Fla.

Francisco hosts a 30-minute sports show and has done many reports throughout the year. He has also been involved in several sports broadcasts.

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TYLER WOLFE | THE PARTHENON

Samuel Harrison Pauley, allegedly known as epik9, has been arrested and charged in connection with graffi ti tagging around Marshall’s campus. Pauley was scheduled to appear in a March 14 hearing in Cabell County. That hearing has been rescheduled.

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BY MARIBETH SMITHTHE PARTHENON

Some Marshall students rely on who some call “Omelet Man” for their daily fix of delicious eggs. What most of those students may not know is that he relies on them just as much.

Dining services worker Paul Coleman has stuck to Marshall and the students like eggs stick to his pans.

“When omelet man is in Harless in the morning, I know that it is going to be a good day,” said Saran Schementi, sophomore elementary education major from Marietta, Ga.

Coleman, a Huntington native, has been working in Marshall dining ser-vices since 1990.

Coleman said, although he first started working in dining services be-cause he needed a job, he has fallen in love with working so closely to the students.

“While the students can be a pain, and sometimes the worst part of my job, they are the best part too,” Coleman said.

Coleman is known around cam-pus for his omelets and his fun-loving personality.

“When he isn’t in Harless at the om-elet station, I do not even want to get one because they are not as good and waiting it to be made just isn’t the same,” Schementi said. “He makes eat-ing at Harless more than just eating, he

makes it an experience. He is always so positive and upbeat. Its really refresh-ing sometimes.”

Coleman said, through working at Marshall University, he has seen too many bizarre things to name them all.

“One time, this girl was so stoned that she walked right into the glass of the omelet station,” Coleman said. “That was probably the most bizarre thing I have seen.”

Coleman said there are many sto-ries along those lines from all his years working in dining services. He said he has also encountered some very dumb questions.

“One kid walked right up to the om-elet station looked around and said, ‘Is this the omelet station? Do you make omelets here?’ I thought that was just the dumbest thing,” Coleman said.

Coleman said there have been good days and bad days but overall he has had a pleasurable experience. He said he has witnessed some very humorous things over the years.

“The funniest thing I have ever seen working at Harless was these two girls who were so out of it that they could not even keep they’re eyes open,” Coleman said. “One of the girls found herself eating a piece of pizza and hit herself in the eye with her pizza instead of her mouth.”

“Someone told me pizza girl is now on YouTube,” Coleman said.

Maribeth Smith can be contacted at [email protected].

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BY CHERIE DAVISTHE PARTHENON

Marquee Cinemas at Pullman Square is home to many happy employees. One woman in particular has worked at the movie theater since its opening in 2004.

Beth Casey, 28, usually works the box office and concession stand and usually works the day shift, but she has worked in every part of the theater. Casey said that she loves her job.

“My favorite thing about working here is working with people, and the free movie passes help too,” Casey said.

Casey said she has stayed at the movie theater for so long because she loves the people she works with and the environment at Marquee Cinemas.

“Working four days a week over six years you build relationships with the people you work with,” Casey said. ‘The main managers are my favorite people to work with because we’ve been to-gether so long.”

Casey said she prefers to work when it’s busy. The holidays and summertime are her favorite times of year to work because the movies are good and many people are in attendance.

Casey has worked midnight showings of all the “Harry Potter” films, “Twi-light,” and “We are … Marshall.”

“It was insane, every seat in the the-ater is taken,” Casey said.

“It was crazy trying to get everyone seated,” Casey said. “It can be very stressful, but it’s fun. You can feel the excitement of everyone, and midnight showings have the most dedicated fans.”

The last movie Casey said she saw was “Rango,” which she highly recommended.

“It’s a fun job, it’s not that hard,” Casey said. “Just expect to have fun with your coworkers. You might have to clean, and you’ll get sick of seeing popcorn.”

Cleaning the movie theater is not usu-ally a job Casey does, but like everyone else who works at the theater, she has done it before.

“When you have to clean, you can find some interesting things,” Casey said. “I think the funniest is beer cans. I think to myself ‘How in the world did you get a six pack in here.’”

Casey sees families, dates and friends come in and out of the movie theater leaving their movies with smiles and discussing what they had just saw.

“No one comes to a movie to have a bad time,” Casey said. “Everyone comes to escape to have a good time, and gen-erally the customer is in a good mood.”

Cherie Davis can be contacted at [email protected].

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CHERIE DAVIS | THE PARTHENON

Beth Casey, an eight-year employee at Marquee Cinemas in Pullman Square, serves popcorn to customers. She finds popcorn and other candy when cleaning the theaters.

MARIBETH SMITH | THE PARTHENON

Paul Coleman, a native of Huntington, has been whipping up omelets for Marshall students for more than 20 years.

BY CRYSTAL MYERSTHE PARTHENON

Juggling a full time course load and having a part time job can sometimes be difficult. To make his busy schedule possible, Matt Ross only goes to work when the sun is down and classes aren’t in session.

Ross, 24, spends a couple nights a week helping keep Huntington safe. While he might not be a cop, his job does involve breaking up many fights.

“Being a bouncer is basically making sure no trouble starts inside of the bar; I’m pretty much being a baby sitter for drunks,” said Ross, senior psychology major from Wheelersburg, Ohio.

Ross has worked as a bouncer since 2008. He has worked at three Hunting-ton locations: Fat Patty’s, Venom and Jake’s, where he currently bounces.

Although keeping the area safe is what Ross does most often, he is also re-sponsible for checking IDs at the door, working the backside of the bar and helping the bartenders when needed.

Ross said there are both positive and negative aspects to the job.

“My favorite part of being a bouncer is the fact that, while you are still work-ing, you can enjoy the company of people

you know at the bar and also enjoy the atmosphere,” Ross said. “My least fa-vorite part would obviously be having to deal with rude and heavily intoxicated people on a nightly basis.”

Needless to say, Ross runs into interest-ing people on a nightly basis. One night while working at Fat Patty’s, he was given the chance to meet a Greek God.

“One time, a homeless man came in and claimed he was Thor, God of Thun-der,” Ross said. “I politely asked him to leave and he did, but that was funny.”

Ross said he enjoys working at a bar-type setting because fights do not generally happen often there. While working at venom — a club that has since closed — Ross said he had to break up fights much more often because of the crowded club setting.

Friends of Ross who had previously worked at the bar referred him for the role of bouncer.

When Ross is not on the job, he spends his time as a student at Marshall Uni-versity. Overall, Ross said he likes his job.

“Sometimes it’s hard being a bouncer while having any kind of school sched-ule, but it’s a nice job that helps offset a lot of costs I have with living.”

Crystal Myers can be contacted at [email protected].

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Matt Ross, a senior psychology major from Wheelersburg, Ohio, has worked as a boucer for three years. He says he deals with rude and heavily intoxicated people on a nightly basis.

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It’s the most unexpected Final Four since the bracket became seeded.

Since 1979, there had been only two men’s basketball national semifinals without a No. 1 seed. There hadn’t been one without at least a No. 2 seed.

Now, there is.Virginia Commonwealth and Ken-

tucky completed the field with victories over better seeded teams on Sunday.

The 11th-seeded Rams took out top-seeded Kansas 71-61 in winning the Southwest Region in San Antonio.

Two weeks ago VCU started its tour-nament run as one of four teams known as the First Four, the final at-large se-lections that played in essentially an opening round game in Dayton, Ohio.

Fourth-seeded Kentucky beat second-seeded North Carolina 76-69 in winning the East in Newark, N.J.

Add them to eighth-seeded Butler and No. 3 seed Connecticut, which won re-gional finals on Saturday, and the NCAA has the highest collective seeding ever for a Final Four.

If you want to talk parity in college basketball, go ahead. Ohio State, Kan-sas, Duke and Pittsburgh, the No. 1 seeds, won’t argue.

Neither will No. 2 seeds Notre Dame, Florida, North Carolina and San Diego State.

Saturday’s doubleheader at Reliant Stadium in Houston is set. VCU meets Butler at 6:09 p.m. EDT, followed by Connecticut-Kentucky.

“We’re playing Butler, who’s going to

be the underdog?” VCU coach Shaka Smart asked.

Based on the seeding, all four will be.It’s also the first time since 1979 that

two teams from nonpower conferences are in the Final Four.

VCU plays in the Colonial Athletic As-sociation, which sends its first team to the Final Four since George Mason in 2006.

Butler completes in the Horizon League and seeks to win one more game than it did a year ago when it lost in the title game to Duke.

“What it says about college basketball is any very good team from any league can go to the Final Four,” Smart said. “And you don’t have to be one of the BCS conference teams.

“Over the last 10 or 15 years the play-ing field has evened out a little bit. So, with us playing Butler, I don’t want to say the little guys, but the medium-sized guys, and we’re excited about it.”

But the other two are heavyweights.Kentucky returns to the Final Four for

the first time since winning the 1998 na-tional championship. Also back is coach John Calipari, who takes his third team to a Final Four after leading Massachu-setts in 1996 and Memphis in 2008.

If the Final Four doesn’t have a top-rated team, it will have perhaps the nation’s most dynamic player. Connecti-cut guard Kemba Walker has personally carried his team to remarkable heights after helping the Huskies win five games in five days in the Big East Tournament.

Walker now has the program in its first Final Four since 2009, and Huskies coach Jim Calhoun bids for his third national championship, unexpectedly as the best seed remaining on the final weekend.

Final Four fi eld full of surprises

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Senior infi elder Kenny Socorro hits the ball during last Saturday’s match-up against UAB at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston. The Herd lost both games and are currently 1-2 in C-USA standings.

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VCU’s Ed Nixon celebrates Sunday at the end of second-half action. Virginia Commonwealth University defeated the University of Kansas, 71-61, in the Southwest Regional Final of the men’s NCAA Division I Basketball Championships at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

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BY AARON PAYNETHE PARTHENON

Two games were decided by winning runs on wild pitches, the third had to go 14 innings before a winner was decided and Marshall’s baseball team dropped the wild weekend home series to UAB two games to one.

The Thundering Herd’s (9-13, 1-2 C-USA) offense struggled in-side the confines of Appalachian Power Park in Charleston as ev-idenced by the team’s three, four and fiver hitters being quieted. Senior first baseman Victor Gomez, senior designated hit-ter James Lavinskas and Rhett Stafford collectively went five for 33 at the plate during the series.

“You know, we just get back to the drawing board and have a hard week of preparation,” said head coach Jeff Waggoner, re-garding the offensive struggles.

However, a high-powered offense was not the key to vic-tory for either team this past weekend. All three games in Charleston were decided by one run and neither team scored more than three in a game.

In game one on Friday, Mar-shall took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run hit by Lavinskas. The Blazers put up a run in the sixth and the game seemed to be in hand for the Herd heading into the top of the ninth inning with senior relief pitcher Ian Kadish on the mound. UAB got was able to tie the contest by having two run-ners in scoring position and a sacrifice ground out to second by sophomore catcher Harry Clark brought in the one from third.

Then with the Blazers’ junior third baseman Patrick Palmeiro standing on third with two outs, a wild pitch from Kadish al-lowed UAB to take the 3-2 lead. Marshall was unable to counter attack in the bottom of the ninth and the Blazers took game one and Kadish took his second loss of the season.

Game two on Saturday ended in similar fashion but Marshall would be the beneficiary of a wild pitch. Trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth, sophomore outfielder Issac Ballou plated the equalizer on a RBI single. Ballou then advanced over to third base on a passed ball and

a ground out by Gomez. With Ballou 90 feet from a Herd vic-tory, UAB sophomore reliever Ben Bullard released a wild pitch the went to the backstop and permitted Ballou to score the winning run and give UAB’s starting pitcher Ryan Wooley his third loss on the season.

In the series finale on Sunday, the contest turned into a pitch-ers duel. The Blazers’ starting pitcher junior Michael Busby went six innings surrendering only one run and recorded six strikeouts. The Herd’s starting pitcher had a gem of his own. Senior pitcher Arik Sikula went seven innings and recorded seven strikeouts and had one run scored on him that was unearned.

Both team’s bullpens came in to provide stellar relief for their starters. The Blazers’ relievers combined for eight innings of work, 11 strikeouts, two walks and no earned runs.

Marshall’s bullpen worked eight innings, six strikeouts, two walks and one unearned run in the 14th inning. The relief

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A pair of studies, conducted in part by University research-ers, analyzing tobacco cessation have successfully isolated the brain regions active in control-ling smoking urges, and have began experimenting with the relatively novel concept of us-ing text messages to measure and mediate such urges.

In the first study, Elliot Berk-man, assistant psychology professor, along with Emily Falk from the University of Michigan and Matthew Lieber-man from the University of California, Los Angeles, used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify areas of the brain where nicotine urges take place.

“Right when you have a crav-ing, essentially you have to engage in a self-control task,” Berkman said. “What we found was that the brain regions that were active before they tried to quit correlated quite highly with who was successful at regulating their cravings in the real world and who wasn’t — people who are able to recruit the brain regions that are in-volved in self-control are better at regulating their cravings.”

To improve an individual’s self-control, Berkman said he and his colleagues use training games to hone in on a person’s self-control function in their brain, which may ultimately help them in the real world to stop smoking.

Berkman said the best way to effectively measure how much people are smoking is to gather data frequently throughout the daym becayse many people tend to lose track of the amount of cigarettes they smoke and provide inaccurate numbers if asked at a later time.

“People are actually pretty bad at remembering how much they’ve smoked,” Berkman said. “Even if you ask them at the end of the day how many cigarettes they’ve had, they’ll give you an estimation based on fairly even numbers even though that’s usually not accurate.”

To combat these impulses, Berkman helped create a self-regulatory method that used short messaging service text messages as a cheap-yet-accurate gauge of smoking behaviors.

EDITORIAL

We might be in college as-piring to have a career that will make a difference in the world while also generat-ing a hefty income; however, there are people out there who perform jobs everyday that are not exactly glam-orous but are still just as significant.

The Parthenon is covering different “dirty jobs,” voca-tions ranging from bouncers to movie theater attendants to cafeteria chefs, to try to grasp an understanding of the lives and jobs of these types of peo-ple. Some people take these careers for the money, while others do it for the pleasure

and goodwill. Matt Ross, bouncer for

Jake’s Sports Bar, has nu-merous tasks that includes breaking up fights, checking IDs at the door and helping bartenders when needed.

“My least favorite part would obviously be having to deal with rude and heavily in-toxicated people on a nightly basis,” Ross said.

A movie theatre worker, Casey, sometimes has the job of cleaning up after the

movies are over and said he finds peculiar things that pa-trons leave behind.

“When you have to clean, you can find some interesting things,” Casey said. “I think the funniest is beer cans. I think to myself ‘How in the world did you get a six pack in here.’”

We hope this series will give insight to the lives of the peo-ple who perform these tasks that other people might be reluctant to do. Pursuing a

higher education to hopefully earn a hefty salary doesn’t make someone any better than a person who makes their living by cooking om-elets for students.

We thank the people who do the jobs that others might not think twice about doing. As students, we are in need of these services, and we will continue to be grateful for the individuals who perform these duties while we are busy be-ing immersed in education.

Quitting smoking, one text message at a time

Those with less-than-glamorous jobs deserve our respect

Who do you want to win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament?

What are your plans for spring break?

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■ Stay at home .......................................................78%■ Go to the beach ..................................................... 17%■ Go on a mission trip ................................................. 6%

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Reducing meat intake is proven to improve overall health

Raised as a Catholic in the met-ropolitan area of New Orleans, I accepted that I would be asked to forego meat every Friday during Lent.

Ever since its discovery in 1839 by Dutch chemist Gerhard Mulder, protein, specifically animal protein, has been considered the nutritional centerpiece in our diets trumping fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals.

Derived from the Greek word proteios, “of prime importance,” the link between protein, good health and affluence has been culturally ingrained in Western society.

Meat has become the “soul” of most of our meals, and without it, our diets seemingly revert to pre-civilization drivel.

Under this deep-seated mindset, I viewed the absence of meat on Fridays during Lent as a sacrifice worthy of lamentation.

It was not until the passing of my grandmother from colon cancer during my early teens that I began to consider the correlation between animal protein consumption and various forms of cancer.

I was convinced I could decrease any predisposition for colon cancer by increasing my intake of dietary fiber, a common notion in modern medicine.

However, I dismissed the diets of vegetarians and vegans as ex-treme, nutritionally deficient and misguided.

I discovered the work of Colin Campbell, a biochemist who has arguably conducted the most pro-vocative nutritional and dietary research to date.

Although Campbell follows what could be considered a vegan diet, he has never promoted himself as either a vegetarian or a vegan, as he does not identify with the animal rights movement, his mission is the improvement of human health and life.

For this very reason, his 27 years of extensive research has become incredibly attractive to me, as I can relate to his humanitarian goals.His work originated through en-counters with the impoverished and malnourished children of the Philip-pines, and his efforts to close what was known as the “protein gap” in the developing world.

I am not a vegetarian, but I now choose to limit my intake of animal food products.

And as inconvenient as Camp-bell’s findings seem to be, it would be dishonest for me to completely ignore their implications.

Concerns about Sunshine Week edition

To the editors and staff:

As a former editor of The Parthenon, I understand how many hours it takes to put together a paper and how much time and effort is spent designing pages and editing stories. I have always been incredibly supportive of The Parthenon and its editors.

But no other edition has angered me as much as this. Your Sunshine Week gim-mick in Wednesday’s edition was an incredible waste of

paper and money, and it did not make the point it was intended for. I understand what you were trying to do, but it did not work. And your explanation of why you did it did not justify it at all. There wasn’t a single reaction story in today’s edition either. You had an incredible opportunity to do some great journalism, and just let it slip.

I don’t know if you are aware of how much it costs to print the paper or how advertising works, but I’m guessing you did this without giving any of your advertisers a heads up, because no advertiser in

their right mind would want an ad in an edition that peo-ple are going to just glance at and toss into the trash be-cause it has nothing to read in it. And isn’t MU supposed to be a “green” campus?

The Parthenon has strug-gled to keep its head above water over the years and so many people have fought long and hard to keep it alive. I have a sinking feeling this irresponsible stunt has possi-bly initiated its final descent into oblivion.

RASMI HUNT2006 journalism graduate, Schertz, TX

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“I honestly didn’t know what to expect,” Francisco said. “I knew being a sports reporter is what I wanted to do, but I didn’t know what to expect from the sports journalism program — other than knowing it would be awesome be-cause of the school of journalism’s reputation as a whole at Marshall University.”

Francisco said the best part of the program is the higher number of opportunities.

“Reporting, calling games and being a part of weekly radio shows are all tremendous aspects of what the sports journalism program of-fers,” Francisco said. “The ‘hands on’ learning has been the best part.”

Jeremy Johnson, junior sports journalism major from Hager-stown, MD, said the best part about the new sports journalism major is getting a degree in a field that is tough to get into in the first place. He said having a degree specializ-ing in it will help him out.

“Some people think sports is glamorous and easy, and they will

find out that it’s not, it’s work,” Bailey said. “It’s fun, but it’s not glamorous and easy. They have played games, they have attended sports all their life, but it’s not the same as covering them. I think it will get easier, because they know this is the sports outlet. They will be more inclined to join the radio station as a freshman than they would be otherwise.”

Morris said the sports journalism program is also one way for athletes and journalists to learn about the business before their athletic careers.

“Previously, we didn’t have a direct route for our journalism stu-dents who wanted to concentrate on sports,” Morris said. “They took the same courses as other journal-ism majors took. Now, they will have an area of specialization.”

Bailey said the program also in-cluded an opportunity for students to be educated on the importance of sales within sports journalism.

“If you’re a broadcaster, you are going to go into sales,” Bailey said. “Sports is going to have to be profit-able before a station or network will air it. You have to make money be-cause you’re preempting a regular

program to put this sporting event on, and the sporting event better make more money than your regu-lar programming. So, sales will be in a broadcast major’s career life.”

“If you talk to someone on the network level, they will tell you to report, play by play, and photo-graph, but they want you to also be interested in the money making end of it.”

Morris said this would help the students to become entrepreneurs.

“They can create their own web-based sports business if they wanted to,” Morris said. “There is nothing to stop a young person from creating a blog about sports, for example.”

Students will also have expe-rience outside of the university, including internships. Bailey said local radio stations and small places would be more than glad to help.

“Some of it is routine,” Morris said. “You will still have to write if someone was hired or fired, but then you may get a chance to inter-view a world-class celebrity.”

Ashley Grohoski can be contacted at [email protected].

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West Virginia women leave their legacies

BY ANNA SWIFTTHE PARTHENON

As Women’s History Month wraps up Thursday, it would seem fitting to acknowledge a woman who began a holiday that has since spanned the globe and led to another tradition.

While others had tried before her, it was Anna Jarvis’s efforts to honor all mothers that eventually inspired the transfor-mation of mothers and fathers into the subjects of international celebrations, according to Leigh Schmidt’s “Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of Ameri-can Holidays.”

“Anna was born on May 1, which made her a Taurus, and she did anything she set out to do,” said Olive Crow, director of the Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum in Grafton, W.Va.

Born in 1864 in Webster, W.Va., Jar-vis is thought to have begun a campaign for Mother’s Day because she loved her mother so immensely, according to Crow.

According to Crow, the story is that as Jarvis mourned at her mother’s funeral, Jarvis remembered her mother repeat-edly saying all mothers needed a day to rest.

“If they could have one day off, not doing anything, then she thought that would be something that all women would enjoy,” Crow said. “So that’s when Anna got the idea to try to create day to honor all mothers, living and dead.”

“And so the process of letter writing to politicians and public speaking in churches began in early 1900s,” Crow said. “The campaign wasn’t met with-out resistance, however.”

“At the same time, the women’s suffrage had started, and so a lot of men were opposing this be-cause they thought this was a stupid idea and wrote the letters stating not only that they love and revere their mothers but that mothers didn’t need a day off,” Crow said.

“Despite the resistance, the idea of a Mother’s Day gained increasing support,” Crow said. “The first success came in 1908 when the first Mother’s Day

service was held at the international Mother’s Day Shrine. In 1910, the governor of West Virginia pro-claimed the day a holiday in West Virginia, along with 16 other states. Finally, on May 8, 1914, Presi-dent Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution into law declaring the second Sunday of May Mother’s Day. By 1932, the holiday had become international and,

by 1910, it had inspired the creation of Father’s Day, according to “Con-sumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays.”

“Despite the holiday’s success, the story didn’t end too well for Jarvis. After 1932, Jarvis began a campaign to eliminate Mother’s Day as a result of its commercialization,” Crow said. She promoted a campaign called Mak-ing Mothers Safe for Mother’s Day and later even signed a petition to re-scind the holiday.

According to “Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays,” Jarvis rejected what had become of Mother’s Day because she believed in letter writing, as opposed to commercialized cards, candies or flowers.

Apart from the commercialization, Korey Jividen, senior communication disorders major from Win-field, W.Va., said she also thinks the celebration of Mother’s Day has changed over the years.

“I don’t see that holidays are really celebrated, not for what they were originally intended for,” Jividen said. “I think it’s still a great day to spend time with your mother and just show her how much you ap-preciate her, but I don’t feel that kids respect their parents as much anymore.”

Some Marshall students have a different experi-ence with Mother’s Day, however.

“I do think it’s significant today, at least from my perspective, because guys are always taught that the most important person in your life is your mother,” said Robert Cooper, sophomore biomedical science major. “She is the one that will always be there for you,”

Anna Swift can be contacted at [email protected].

Love for her mother led woman to found holiday

BY JOANIE BORDERSTHE PARTHENON

West Virginia writer Pearl S. Buck was not only an award-win-ning writer but also an advocate for civil and women’s rights.

Born in Hillsboro, W.Va., to mis-sionaries Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, Buck spent most of her childhood in China. Wanting their child to grow immune to the diseases that were rampant in China at the time they journeyed back to Hillsboro in 1892 and spent the first several months of Buck’s life there.

“Pearl Buck was an author and humanitarian,” said Timothy VanReenen, Pearl Buck enthusi-ast and native of Hillsboro, W.Va. “She devoted herself to her writ-ing and to better civilization as we know it.”

VanReenen works at The Pearl S. Buck birthplace in Hillsboro to

preserve her memory and legacy. Buck is most widely known for

her novel “The Good Earth.” The book chronicles the life of a Chi-nese farmer, Wang Lung, and his family. Published in 1931, Buck won a Pulitzer Prize for her work in 1932. In 1938, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature for the “The Good Earth” and her other works, an honor only awarded to two women: Toni Mor-rison and herself. Accompanying “The Good Earth,” Buck also wrote biographies of her parents.

Though mainly known through her writing achievements, Buck was an activist. She started the first adoption agency for mixed race children. Welcome House, her adoption agency, is located in Perkasie, Pa.

Buck was also a speaker on civil and women’s rights. She first be-gan her involvement in the 1930s. She was a member of the NAACP,

as well as a trustee of Howard University. Birth control was one of the many controversial issues Buck spoke against. She received much criticism from her activism but did not let it stop her. Because of her activism and refusal to stay quiet on issues, she felt strongly she was not regarded with the same respect as writers who stayed out of it.

“I love that she was so accept-ing and respectful of rural people and poor people,” said Edwina Pendarvis, Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at Marshall University and native of Weeksbury, Ky. “She treated them with dignity and that’s re-ally rare. She didn’t see a certain group as superior to anyone else.”

“She didn’t just take her money and run; she was brave and said what she thought,” Pendarvis said.

Joanie Borders can be contacted at [email protected].

effort included an excellent performance from the pitcher who recorded the loss on Friday, Kadish, who bounced back to the tune of 4.2 scoreless innings.

“He’s a bulldog, I expect that from him,” said Waggoner, about his relief pitcher. “That’s why we brought him into that situation. He bounced back because he’s a good pitcher who competes.”

Sikula said Kadish is a good pitcher because he never loses his confidence.

“He goes out and gives up five runs and then his next outing he has the most confidence in the world,” Sikula said. “He goes out and grids every game.”

Even with the heartbreaking loss, the coach does not doubt his team for one second.

“I believe in this team and I know we’re going to be a good team,” Waggoner said. “We’ve just got to put it together.”

Marshall will be back in C-USA action this week-end when they travel to Houston to take on conference powerhouse Rice University. Looking forward to the matchup, the team feels that it has momentum.

“Even though we may not seem to have momen-tum, we feel that we do,” Sikula said. “We played hard this weekend so we’re happy.”

The Herd will have a tuneup game today when it travels to Lexington, Ky., to take on Eastern Kentucky. First pitch is set for 3 p.m., against the Colonels.

Aaron Payne can be contacted at [email protected].

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The coolest little town in America will turn into the coolest little chocolate town in America on April 9th as Lewisburg, W.Va., hosts the fifth annual Chocolate Festival.

“Chocolate is something most everyone enjoys,” said Kim Cooper, coordinator of the Chocolate Festival.

Visitors to Lewisburg will have several opportuni-ties to enjoy all things chocolate that Saturday.

“Saturday morning features a 10k run called the Chocolate Chase and a Fun Walk that benefits hos-pice care,” Cooper said.

The Chocolate Tasting Extravaganza begins at 11 a.m. and allows visitors to experience a wide variety of chocolate delicacies.

“You get to walk around downtown and try every-thing from chocolate pasta to chocolate fennel soup and everything in between,” Cooper said.

Local restaurants will feature chocolate dishes that are tailored to their regular food offerings. Lo-cal businesses team up with local chocolatiers to feature unique chocolate creations.

“With more than 30,000 different chocolate offer-ings, all visitors have the chance to find something they love,” Cooper said. “A real foodie would be jazzed to find something so unique, but just the va-riety of food is something anyone would love.”

Another opportunity for students to get involved in the Chocolate Festival is the chocolate mousse eat-ing contest or the “All Things Chocolate” bake-off.

“The handsfree mousse eating competition is really a lot of fun and really adds to the whole experience,”

Cooper said. “Visitors can enter the bake-off by filling out a reg-

istration form and whipping up their best chocolate concoction,” Cooper said.

All proceeds from the bake-off benefit the Green-brier Humane Society, according to their website.

“There will also be two bands performing during the festival to entertain and add to the atmosphere,” Cooper said. “It’s a great opportunity to come out with your friends and just take in the festival atmosphere.”

Students who are interested can visit their website for more information.

“Buy your tickets early,” Cooper said. “They go fast and we always sell out.” Elizabeth Stewart can be contacted at [email protected].

Lewisburg hos t s f i f th annual Chocolate Fes t ival

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Visitors and local residents take advantage of the festival by tasting a variety of chocolates available.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEWISBURG CHOCOLATE FESTIVA

The festival offers a bake-off for visitors to enter their own desserts. The proceeds from the competition are forwarded to the Greenbrier Humane Society.

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