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WASHINGTON — � e Supreme Court justices, sharply divided along gender lines, appeared poised to re-ject a nationwide class-action lawsuit that accuses Wal-Mart of sex discrim-ination a er an argument over class actions became a debate over what constitutes sex discrimination in to-day’s workplace.

� e men and women in the black robes seemed to see the matter quite di� erently.

For the � rst time in its history, the high court has three women on the bench, and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan asserted that a corpo-rate policy of letting store managers decide on promotions could result in discrimination against women. � e statistics strongly suggest that is what occurred, they said.

But led by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and Antonin Scalia, most of the six men on the court questioned how Wal-Mart can be held liable for illegal sex bias, since its 3,400 store managers across the nation decide on who gets promoted and who receives pay raises.

“It’s not clear to me: What’s the unlawful policy that Wal-Mart has adopted?” Kennedy asked, since the company’s written policy calls for equal treatment without regard to race or sex.

A lawyer representing the fe-male plaintiffs argued Wal-Mart has a “corporate culture” that teaches mostly male supervisors that women are less aggressive than men and therefore are less suited to being managers.

Unpersuaded, Scalia called that “an assessment of why the percentage (of women in management) is di� erent,” but it is not evidence of an illegal policy. Wal-Mart does not say “don’t promote women,” he said. “If you have an aggressive woman, promote her,” he added.

Ginsburg said Wal-Mart’s experi-ence shows how “gender bias can creep” into the workplace. It isn’t “at all com-plicated,” she said. “Most people prefer themselves. And so a decision maker, all other things being equal, would prefer someone who looked like him,” she said.

� e case heard Tuesday is the most important and far-reaching job-dis-crimination dispute to come before the high court in more than a decade. It could determine whether job-bias claims must proceed as individual law-suits or instead as broad, class-action claims that rely mostly on statistics.

� e lawyers who brought the sex-bias suit against the nation’s largest retailer say that while about two-thirds of its employees were women when the statistics were com-piled � ve years ago, men were 86 percent of the store managers. � ey also said women were paid less across the country, even though they had more seniority on average than men.

At issue before the court was whether these � ndings would allow this single suit to proceed as a class-action claim on behalf of 1.6 million women who have worked for Wal-Mart since 1998. If so, it would be by far the largest job-bias case in Ameri-can history.

Justices skeptical of Wal-Mart lawsuit

Harrell, Kutzavich prepare to take offi ce

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SGA Business Manager Joe Overstreet, Vice-President Kelley Kutzavich, President Ray Harrell, Greek Liasion Erica Law and Chief of Staff Paul Williams are preparing to take offi ce April 23. The Harrell administration has already held several meetings in preparation for inauguration.

BY TREVAN J. HANNAHSTHE PARTHENON

Student Government elections are over, and a week of celebration during spring break has ended. Student Body Presidential Elect Ray Harrell and Vice President-elect Kelly Kutzavitch now have to put their voice to action.

On their � rst day back, Harrell and Kutzavitch said they have already begun to work with their cabinet to try to accomplish the goals set during their campaign.

Harrell said they have already held executive meetings for the strategic plan of their administration. He said they have a relationship outside the o¤ ce as well.

“We talk via text everyday, the whole sta� does,” Har-rell said.

Kutzavitch said she is pleased with the meetings and hopes the productivity continues.

“We have a really creative team where everyone al-ways has ideas or concerns from another perspective,” Kutzabitch said. “So far, we’ve got done what we wanted to in those meetings.”

Harrell said each group member’s di� erent ideas always stir up conversation. He said this takes less

pressure o� him and produces more productivity in the organization.

“In these meetings, we’re collaborating and really just expanding upon everything, such as the balance cohe-sion appeal,” Harrell said. “Really, just everything we put out to the public during our campaign season.”

He said he, along with his cabinet, have begun to speak with di� erent colleges’ deans and administrators. He said he is trying to encourage them to help participate in the new faculty advising council to SGA.

“It’s going to compromise of each dean, hopefully each dean or chair from each college, to meet on a regular basis to help us formulate legislation for students,” Har-rell said.

� e student body voted in favor of giving the senate full power to update the current constitution during the elections held two weeks ago. � ey will have one full term to do so.

Kutzavitch said she has already begun the process of rewriting the constitution while trying to decrease apa-thy in student organizations.

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Thundering Herd football begins spring practiceBY JAKE SNYDERTHE PARTHENON

� e Marshall � undering Herd football players strapped on their helmets, laced up their cleats and headed onto the � eld at Joan C. Ed-wards Stadium on Tuesday for the start of spring practice.

Head coach Doc Holliday, coming into his second season at the helm of the Herd program, said he was happy with the � rst day though it was a little early to tell.

“I thought the tempo was good, but we’re in shorts,” Holliday said. “Everybody looks good in shorts.”

� e players came out in only helmets for the opening practice. Shoulder pads and the rest of the gear will be added later in the spring.

“Today was a good day for o� ense and defense,” redshirt sophomore quarterback A.J. Graham said. “We came out, made a little tweak in the o� season to what we wanted to be doing on both sides of the ball and

just came out and tried to put it in the best execution we can.”

� e Herd � nished the 2010-11 campaign, the � rst under Holliday, with a 5-7 record, coming up one win short of bowl eligibility.

� e 2011-12 season features a mix

of veterans and new faces for the Herd. Marshall returns � ve starters on the o� ensive side of the ball and nine on defense.

“I like the leadership we’re getting

MARCUS CONSTANTINO | THE PARTHENON

The Thundering Herd offense takes a snap from scrimmage on the opening day of spring practice. The Herd will begin the 2011 season against West Virginia on Sept. 3 in Morgantown.

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BY JOANIE BORDERSTHE PARTHENON

Many people would cringe at the thought of spending months at a time on a tugboat, but not Chad McBride, who has grown up around tugboats his whole life.

Now the manager of the family business, Falls City Towing, in Louisville, Ky., McBride has held many of the di� erent jobs that a tug-boat requires including pilot and deckhand.

McBride said the roles have very di� erent responsibilities on the boat. A pilot is respon-sible for steering the boat, talking to other boats to arrange passage and directing the crew. A deckhand, however, does the physical labor. ey are responsible for cleaning, scrap-ing, painting, checking the engine room every 30 minutes, building tow and carrying out the directives of the captain.

“ e captain is like the brains of the ship; whereas the deckhand is the hands, legs and arms,” McBride said.

According to McBride, some deckhands also have the added duty of being a cook. On McBride’s boats, they allow the crew to vote on who should be the cook for the duration of the trip. e selected deckhand will leave their daily duties earlier than the rest of the crew to head to the galley to prepare meals. McBride

said hiring a speci� c person to solely be a cook is becoming a way of the “old river.”

e main responsibility of a deckhand, as Mc-Bride tells it, is to build tow. Building tow consists of binding the large barges together that the tug-boats transport up and down the river.

is can sometimes be a dangerous job. As McBride recalls, he once fell o� a moving barge and has 18 inches of scars to prove it.

When asked what the dirtiest job he ever had to perform while working on a boat was, McBride replied he once had to � x a broken part in a septic tank.

On a normal Falls City boat, McBride said there is usually a pilot, a captain and four deckhands, making a total of six men.

“My favorite thing about working with tug-boats is that it’s a di� erent world from the regular,” McBride said.

McBride said another thing he really enjoys about his job is the number of people from all di� erent kinds of backgrounds he meets.

“I’ve met people so poor they can’t go to the zoo, and then the next day I meet million-aires,” McBride said. “I’ve met pilots that make six � gures that can’t read or write.”

“Working on a tugboat isn’t just a job,” Mc-Bride said. “It’s a lifestyle.”

Joanie Borders can be contacted at [email protected].

Tugboa t worke r

BY ELIZABETH STEWARTTHE PARTHENON

e Tri-State Transit Authorities’ buses that provide public transportation for Huntington residents can be seen by students everyday rum-bling up and down the streets.

Marshall students can take advantage of the bus system to travel to downtown Huntington, Charleston or Ironton, Ohio, and everywhere in between.

David Budd, 36 of Huntington, has been a driver for the TTA bus system for more than three years.

“I started out driving for the Cabell County school system, but substituting was just not good for the pocketbook,” Budd said.

Budd is still substituting for drivers but now it’s a full-time gig at the TTA. He � lls in on bus runs that don’t have a regular driver or for those who call o� sick.

“I usually don’t know from day to day what I’m working until the evening before,” Budd said.

Budd also doesn’t know what day-to-day situa-tions he might have to deal with on a bus run. e buses seat 26 riders and 29 standing riders, and a lot of responsibility comes along with that.

“You can really freak yourself out thinking about being responsible for all those lives, but you just have to put that out of your mind and do your job,” Budd said.

Budd said a large part of the job is helping people get through the day by providing reliable, a� ordable transportation.

“A lot of people take the bus to and from work every day, even if they have a car,” Budd said.

Budd cites the convenience of riding the bus and the hardships the recession has caused on the normal citizen to this increase in riders taking the bus to work.

A big part of Budd’s responsibilities is keeping the passengers safe and avoiding accidents when out on the road.

“ e most common accident is losing a mirror or knocking o� another car’s mirror,” Budd said.

When in an accident, the bus driver must pull over and wait for police and a backup bus to come get the passengers and take them where they need to go.

e best and worst part of the job comes in one package for Budd—the passengers.

“I love talking to the riders—everyone’s got a story,” Budd said.

However, not all riders are friendly and Budd has to deal with any situation that may arise.

“ ere have been screaming matches, physical � ghts and sick kids,” Budd said. “It’s just like in sports, you can’t take any of it personally or you won’t make it.”

Elizabeth Stewart can be contacted at [email protected].

BY WILLIAM LINEBERRYTHE PARTHENON

A knee-high gate blocks o� the o� ce, there are small cages on the inside there are small cages, dog beds and a baby Yorki in a cage.

is is the o� ce of Dr. Ginger Ellis. Ellis is a veterinarian. She sees animals

of all breeds from the time they are born to when they visit her for the last time.

She loves animals; she treats animals; she euthanizes animals. e paradox comes with the job.

“I’ve wanted to be a vet since I was 12,” said Ellis, wearing blue jeans and a light blue scrub. “It all started when I had a childhood pet that begun having seizures. I watched the vet take care of my pet and wanted to work with animals from that point.”

Ellis said she estimates the clinic she works at euthanizes around 50 animals annually. is, Ellis said, does not nearly compare to the euthanasia rates at animal shelters. Ellis said the di� erence between her facility and an animal shelter is that her clients are normally long-term and the process is more personal.

“In most cases, I have been treating them most of their lives,” Ellis said, regarding the animals that make up the majority of the ones she has to euthanize. “I usually go and have a good cry, if it’s one that I have been seeing over a long time.

“With dogs, I usually begin to see them

from six weeks of age and throughout the rest of their life,” Ellis said. “It’s almost like being a pediatrician; you watch them as they grow up. en, as they get older, you begin to see the problems emerge. By that point, you’ve been seeing them their whole life.”

Ellis said, despite euthanasia’s obvious hard-ship, she has also seen an upside to the process.

“Usually when it comes time to consider euthanizing them, they are su� ering,” Ellis said. “When they are su� ering and you see that, it does give some relief to know that you are ending their struggle.

“I don’t know about other vets in the area,” Ellis said. “But I don’t even like the animal to be conscious of the slightest pain. I don’t even want them to feel that needle prick. I don’t want to agitate them in the least way. I want them to be calm and peaceful.”

Ellis said over the six years she has been eu-thanizing animals, she has found no sense of detachment from what she is doing.

“Besides the fact that I might be making the situation better, nothing really helps when dealing with the process,” Ellis said. “ e re-lief of knowing that I ended the pain they were feeling is really the only thing that helps.”

“It’s the hardest part of the job,” said Ellis, with a stethoscope around her neck. “I have been doing this for six years and it has not gotten any easier.”

William Lineberry can be contacted at [email protected]

Veterinarian

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WILLIAM LINEBERRY | THE PARTHENON

Dr. Ginger Ellis poses for a photo with her Yorki. Ellis has been serving as a veterinarian for the past six years. She says the difference between her offi ce and an animal shelter is that her clients are long-term and the process is more personal.

ELIZABETH STEWART | THE PARTHENON

David Budd, a three-year veteran bus driver for the TTA bus system, began his job driving for Cabell County Schools. Budd takes on a lot the responsibility of keeping his passengers safe and avoiding accidents. He fi lls in on bus runs that don’t have a regular driver and for drivers who call in sick.

JOANIE BORDERS | THE PARTHENON

Chad McBride is the manager of his family business, Falls City Towing of Louisville, Ky. Working on tugboats often requires him to live on the boat for months at a time. He enjoys meeting people from different backgrounds on the job.

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BY KELLEY BUGLERTHE PARTHENON

� ere is nothing glamorous about scrubbing toilets, but somebody has to do it.

In Marshall University’s Cam Henderson Center and Gullickson Hall, Cynthia Hat� eld, campus service worker, is the woman for the job.

“We clean bathrooms, locker rooms, sweep, mop and scrub carpets,” Hat� eld said.

Hat� eld, 32, lives in South Point, Ohio and has been working at Marshall for three years.

“You get used to it, but cleaning commodes is the dirtiest part of my job,” Hat� eld said. “Sometimes it can be really, really bad.”

� e night crew works from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m. Monday-� ursday and 4 p.m. until midnight on Friday.

Babette Napier, nightly supervisor in the Cam Henderson Center, has been working at Marshall for 17 years and has seen it all from spilled popcorn to trashed bathrooms.

“We have had people come in and pass out in bathrooms during games and we have to call MUPD (Marshall University Police Department) to get them out,” Napier said.

Napier said Marshall service workers do not clean inside the

arena a� er games because the university contracts a cleaning crew from good will to do it, but they do clean the bathrooms and levels surrounding the arena before and a� er games.

“We always make sure the bathrooms are stocked and cleaned before a game starts so that everyone is coming into a nice, clean bathroom,” Napier said.

Napier said she has seen her fair share of dirty blowouts and bizarre things to add to the lost and found a� er games, but she truly enjoys her job.

“It’s rewarding knowing that students have a nice, clean place to go to class and to go to the restroom,” Napier said.

As the ladies help each other clean a locker room, neither complains about the dirty details of the job including cleaning un-� ushed toilets and picking up soiled athletic uniforms.

Hat� eld worked for ResCare, a company that helps disabled people, prior to working at Marshall, which helped prepare her for cleaning up other people’s messes.

“A� er we get done, it’s great seeing students who appreciate what we do,” Hat� eld said. “� ey tell us the halls look good and thanks for working so hard.”

Hat� eld said another added plus to her job is her coworkers.“� e people I work with are fun and we all help each other

out when we need it,” Hat� eld said.Kelley Bugler can be contacted at [email protected].

Ladies clean for students’ and athletes’ benefi t

BY DAVID TEELDAILY PRESSMCT

SAN ANTONIO —If you’re still trying to wrap your head around the Final Four of VCU, Butler, Kentucky and Connecticut, get in line.

� is is like the street-corner sax player col-lecting a Grammy nomination. It’s not that the dude can’t play. He can, enough to make the Big Man himself, Clarence Clemons, blush.

It’s just that no one outside the neighbor-hood knows him.

“I think what it does say about college bas-ketball is any very good team from any league can go to the Final Four,” VCU coach Shaka Smart said a� er his 11th-seeded Rams upset top-seeded Kansas, 71-61, in the Southwest Regional � nal here Sunday. “And you don’t have to be one of the BCS conference teams. I think over the last 10 or 15 years college bas-ketball, the playing � eld has evened out a little bit.

“When you have a senior-laden team like we do, you have an opportunity to go make a run like this, because we have as much experience as anybody we’re going to play.”

Indeed, the Rams’ top six players include four seniors and a junior. But as Kansas coach Bill Self learned the hard way, they’re as tal-ented and tough as they are seasoned.

Same goes for the Horizon League’s Butler, VCU’s Final Four opponent Saturday in Hous-ton and last season’s tournament runner-up. Shelvin Mack, Matt Howard and friends are razor-wire nasty.

“VCU and Butler have good players,” Self said. “You can usually tell who can really recruit, what programs do the best jobs re-cruiting because they’re playing with the guys that you look at them when they’re juniors and seniors and think, ‘How in the world did they get them?’

“And so VCU’s program has done that, But-ler’s program has done that. � ere’s others out there. I think what it does as much as anything, it just puts a spin on the NCAA tournament. It’s wild. It’s wild ... because seeds are so over-rated. It’s about match-ups. And their players could play for us any day.

“If we played shirts and skins today, you wouldn’t have much of a di¥ erence on players

or how they look. � ey’ve got some good look-ing kids. � ey got what they deserved today. � ey certainly outplayed us.”

Seeds may be overrated, but they do speak to this tournament’s unfathomable conclusion.

With No. 11 VCU, No. 8 Butler, No. 4 Ken-tucky and No. 3 UConn, this is the � rst Final Four without a No. 1 or 2. � e total of the seeds, 26, shatters the previous high of 22 in 2000, when No. 1 Michigan State, No. 5 Flor-ida and No. 8s North Carolina and Wisconsin advanced.

Even the coaching numbers are mind-bending. UConn’s Jim Calhoun, 68, is older than Smart, 33, and Butler’s Brad Stevens, 34, combined.

Calhoun, Smart, Stevens and Kentucky’s John Calipari navigated their squads through considerable regular-season turmoil.

UConn lost four of � ve to close the regular season and � nish 9-9 in the Big East, tied for ninth place. Kentucky lost � ve of 10 during one stretch of Southeastern Conference play and needed Brandon Knight’s last-second shot to beat Princeton in the NCAA tournament.

Butler lost consecutive games to Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Valparaiso and Youngstown State in late January and early February. VCU went 1-4 to close the regular season.

But the Huskies, Wildcats and Bulldogs won their respective conference tournaments. � e Rams lost to Old Dominion in the Colonial Athletic Association � nal and were so uncer-tain of making the NCAAs that forward Ed Nixon watched the Cartoon Network rather than the selection show.

Now look at them. VCU has four double-digit victories in the tournament. UConn has one, Butler and Kentucky none.

So the Rams aren’t just beating folks, they’re waxing them, and it’s a testament to 3-point shooting and unshakable con� dence.

VCU’s regular-season high for 3-pointers was 11. � ree times in the NCAA tournament, versus Georgetown, Florida State and Kansas, the Rams have made 12.

VCU has hit 53 from beyond the arc during the tournament, the most since Florida’s 53 in 2007. � e Rams have done it in � ve games, the Gators did it in six en route to their second consecutive national title. When the defend-ing champs lost the title game to UCLA.

VCU-Butler in Houston: An unfathomable Final Four

KELLEY BUGLER | THE PARTHENON

Napier is a nightly supervisor in the Cam Henderson Center. She works late hours to keep the arena clean for visitors.

HERDZONE

LEXINGTON, KY —Isaac Ballou roped a two-out RBI single in the top of the ninth to break 5-5 tie and the next batter, James Lavinskas, launched a two-run bomb to help push the Marshall University baseball team past Eastern Kentucky, 8-5 on Tuesday a� ernoon at Whitaker Bank Ballpark.

Marshall (10-13) received a perfect eighth inning from re-liever Jesse Fernandez (2-1), with a pair of punch outs to earn the victory. Josh King continued his � rst season of excellence out of the pen by recording the � nal two outs of the game for his � rst career save.

EKU (7-18) righty reliever Matt Harris (0-2) was saddled with the loss.

� e Herd jump-started its o¥ ensive attack in the top of the second with a leado¥ walk by Rhett Sta¥ ord. � e elder of the brotherly Sta¥ ord duo continued on to steal second with a graceful wrap around slide. Steven Ross, hampered by a stom-ach virus, turned in a quality at-bat, eventually moving Sta¥ ord over to third with a ground out to the two-bagger. � is was a

sight to see as the Herd played small ball to perfection with Kris Hecktor hitting an RBI ground ball to the second baseman to post the � rst run without the use of a hit.

� e lead did not last long as MU relinquished their one-run cushion in the third inning. Bryan Soloman, the Colonels third basemen, hit a ball to his counterpart, reaching on a throwing error. Hecktor redeemed himself at the hot corner throwing out the next batter, on a sacri� ce bunt, allowing Soloman to move into scoring position. Later in the inning, EKU plated two runs on a Richie Rodriguez double to le� to take a 2-1 lead.

� e bottom of the Herd’s lineup dabbled with small ball again, as Ross drew a walk and stole second to lead o¥ the next inning. � e junior college transfer then advanced to third be-fore Lexington, Ky., native Louie Helmburg hit a run-scoring groundball back to the pitcher, evening the score.

� e Colonels held a 4-2 lead entering the top of the sixth a� er pushing across a run in the fourth and � � h frames.

� e eight hole deemed valuable for the MU attack as � or Meeks, hitting in place of Helmburg launched a two-run tower-ing bomb over the le� -center� eld wall, to knot the score at four apiece. Even with the new collegiate bats, this ball was a no

doubter as the Hurricane native would rise and � re in his pinch hit opportunity.

� e momentum continued for the Green and White as Bal-lou produced his own run by reaching base on a single to le� center. He showcased his blazing speed by promptly swiping and second and third, before racing home on a throwing error by the EKU catcher in a failed attempt to catch Ballou on the base paths.

� e lead would be short lived once again as EKU received a RBI single from Michael Garica to bring the score squared in the seventh. With the possibility of taking a late-inning lead looming, Ballou silenced the attack as he tracked down a line drive to center� eld and then � red a bullet to � rst base doubling up the EKU base runner to end the inning.

A� er the Herd took its biggest lead of the day in the ninth inning at 8-5, Kyle Blank entered the game. � e freshman phe-nom made easy work of the Colonels retiring the next two batters, securing the victory.

Herd starter Aaron Blair, who did not � gure in the decision, tossed the � rst four innings giving up three runs (all unearned) o¥ just two hits while striking out � ve.

Herd basebal l captures EKU Colonels, 8-5

There’s a song that I think every girl should spend a day listening to, and it has to be genuine. She should wake up in the morning without looking in the mirror and saying anything bad about herself. She

wears clothes that make her happy and with her every step she is exuding that precious thought, “I Feel Pretty.”

Natalie Wood never actually sang in “West Side Story,” but the image of her prancing around pointing dresses in peoples’ faces, giggling about life, the universe and everything — that’s exactly what it means when a girl feels pretty in and of herself.

Friday of Spring Break, I walked around bouncing in my low-top Keds. I laughed at everything. I smiled at ba-bies. I got great tips at my job waiting tables because it was so clear at that time that I felt so good, I felt pretty.

Why you may be asking yourself? As I’ve alluded to before in this column, I have been in a relationship for the past few months. On that Friday, I wasn’t anymore. I ended it, I moved forward. And for the fi rst time since I started see-ing that person, I felt that throughout my whole person, I was in a great place. I was happy. I was pretty.

I have done the “angry girl” thing when a relationship hits the fan and you know everything you can do to fi x it is not going to be enough. Nothing is. But for every relationship I tried, I stuck to it. I didn’t want to hurt them. I didn’t want to have to be alone.

I fi gured out in breaking up is that the freedom to be alone, the freedom that you give yourself from love, is a gift. When you know that what you’re in is not what you want, the only thing that you can do that will make you and your situation better is end it. End it as soon as possible without thinking and without worrying about it. End it with the knowledge that for the last time, this person has infl uenced your life.

Falling in love is without a doubt the most incredible feeling in the world. But what makes love right? What makes it enough? And when do you know when it’s not? I can’t answer those questions for anyone except myself. I do know this: A relationship is entirely wrong when you can’t wake up in the morning and sing, “And I pity any girl who isn’t me today.”

Contact DELANEY MCLEMORE at [email protected].

EDITORIAL

The end of March is here, and among the many things that are happening, Women’s his-tory month comes to a close. The month has celebrated women’s creativity and accomplishments throughout history.

We wrote an editorial in the beginning of March about the improvements of how women are

viewed today, but there are still many things that left unresolved such as increase in salaries. As much as this month is about celebrating the positive, female workers are suing Wal-Mart for workplace discrimination, proving once again that there needs to be change for women and how inno-vative women can be.

A federal appeals court has con-cluded there was enough merit in the womens’ claims to proceed to trial on a class-action track. Since the lawsuit was fi led a decade ago, both sides of the dispute have held discovery hearings, where preliminary testimony was taken to establish facts.

A ruling is expected late in June and if the class action goes through, thousands of women could join in the largest

discrimination claim of its kind. The court case is among the biggest of the current term. It originally started as six women from California who were having issues with working at Wal-Mart more years or more hours yet they were still getting paid less than their male co-workers.

Both Wal-Mart and the plain-tiffs have presented their own massive sets of statistics and depo-sitions, that could overwhelm any

“rigorous analysis” of the facts. However the case is resolved,

it will drastically alter not only the way women are treated, but also the workplace for generations to come. These women are being innovative and making history be-cause it will change the way that all people will be treated at any work place.

We hope that whatever decision is made will be the best outcome.

Think and believe you are pretty

Women’s discrimination suit against Wal-Mart will change the atmosphere of the work place

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

EDITORIAL CARTOON I KEVIN SIERS I THE CHAROLETTE OBSERVER

■ Kentucky■ VCU■ Butler■ UConn

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As a young American, it is nice to hear my leaders say that they have my generation’s best interests at heart. In the midst of the ongoing budget battle in Washington, the one point that both Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on is that they don’t want to burden fu-ture generations of Americans with crushing debt.

Speaker John Boehner recently said, “It is immoral to bind our children to as leeching and destruc-tive a force as debt,” and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has said, “Our children and grandchildren are counting on us to chart an effective course toward responsible steward-ship of the public purse.” But what programs are they proposing to cut to achieve this end?

The budget passed by House Republicans included a $5.7 billion cut to the Pell Grants program, a nearly $900 million cut to the Of-fi ce of Science budget, more than $1 billion cut from Head Start and severe cuts to dozens of other edu-cational programs.

While Congress considers cutting education, America’s busi-nesses are projecting an increased demand for a more educated workforce. According to a recent report from Georgetown Univer-sity’s Center on Education and the Workforce, our colleges and universities will have to increase the number of degrees they confer by 10 percent annually, through 2018, in order to meet demand. Education is nearly a require-ment in some of our nation’s fastest-growing industries, such as information services, professional and business services and health care, in which 75 to 90 percent of workers have at least some higher education.

The bottom line is that America should be spending more on edu-cation, not less. Can we afford to increase spending on anything given the massive federal budget defi cit?

If leaders truly want to advocate for our best interests, they should spend less time pinching pennies and more time making investments to build a stronger America.

IAN MAGRUDERDAILY CALIFORNIANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKLEYUWIRE

Cutting the budget, cutting America’s future

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LOS ANGELES — Donald Trump really is an American citizen, documents released Tuesday � nally verify. While questioning the validity of President Barack Obama’s birth certi� cate on a variety of talk shows through most of March, the billionaire real estate developer released what he thought was his own proof of citizenship on Monday, only to dis-cover that he was wrong.

Indeed, the document Trump handed over to a conserva-tive website Monday turned out to be a “certi� cate of birth” and not an o� cial birth certi� cate. A� er cries of hypocrisy rang through the blogosphere and commenters pointed out why what he produced wasn’t what he proclaimed it was, on Tuesday Trump’s team got their hands on his actual birth certi� cate.

“A ‘birth certi� cate’ and a ‘certi� cate of live birth’ are in no way the same thing, even though in some cases they use some of the same words,” � uy Colayco, from Trump’s sta� , wrote to ABC News. “One o� cially con� rms and records a newborn child’s identity and details of his or her birth, while the other only con� rms that someone reported the birth of a child. Also, a ‘certi� cate of live birth’ is very easy to get be-cause the standards are much lower, while a ‘birth certi� cate’ is only gotten through a long and detailed process wherein identity must be proved beyond any doubt.”

Colayco went on to explain that a certi� cate of live birth would not be accepted to obtain a passport or a driver’s li-cense, whereas a birth certi� cate could.

Although some Republicans, like Trump, are questioning the validity of Obama’s birth certi� cate, one conservative who is likely to run for president in 2012 is making it clear that he is not a birther.

“I, for one, do not believe that we should be raising that issue,” former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Tuesday of the president’s birth certi� cate on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I think President Obama was born in the United States.”

Trump fi nally fi nds his offi cial birth certifi cate

CORRECTION

� e process by which majors are added to the cir-riculum was not made clear in the sports journalism story published in Tuesday’s edition of � e Parthe-non. � e sports journalism program was proposed to the School of Journalism and Mass Communica-tions faculty and submitted through a process that

included the Faculty Senate and its committees, it was not submitted to the university faculty. We

apologize for any confusion.

“We are going to have our sta� bylaws written and start making contacts with people who will be helping facilitate some of the projects we’ll be working on,” Kutzavitch said.

Harrell said a way of mak-ing those contacts is to write letters to each organization explaining who they are and why they want to help. He said during the � rst week back, each sta� member has already begun to write a rough dra� for the student organiza-tion they are responsible for. Harrell said the letters will be sent next week.

“� at’s every student orga-nization,” Harrell said. “� ere is over 120 and each one of them is getting a personal letter.”

He said once they take of-� ce, he plans to push social media in student govern-ment as he promised in his campaign.

“Facebook, Twitter — we want to get student govern-ment’s name out there as soon

as possible,” Harrell said. Kutzavitch said the market-

ing strategy they are putting in place will allow a rebirthing of SGA and other organiza-tions to students.

Harrell said during this transition period from Stu-dent Body President Patrick Murphy’s administration to his, Murphy has acted as an adviser to him and his sta� . He said he and Murphy would be working together this summer to prepare for the upcoming school year.

“He is really helping us to develop ideas, helping us to know our limits because a lot of groups can get together and have lo� y ideas that aren’t attainable,” Harrell said.

He said Murphy is helping them learn what they can and cannot do in the executive branch. Harrell said he keeps it in reality.

Harrell said the inaugura-tion is set for April 23, but doesn’t know an exact time or place yet.

Trevan Hannahs can be contacted at [email protected].

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BY RYAN HAGGERTY AND ANDREW L. WANGCHICAGO TRIBUNEMCT

CHICAGO — � irteen people were hurt — two seriously — when gunmen opened � re in Chicago’s Englewood neigh-borhood on Tuesday morning and a � eeing car smashed into a city bus, witnesses and o� cials said.

It did not appear that anyone was wounded by gun� re, but instead were injured in the accident or by � ying glass, the of-� cials and witnesses said.

About 9:30 a.m. CDT, two men jumped from a red truck and began walking down the block, � ring as the truck followed them, a witness said. � ey appeared to be aiming at a black Intrepid sedan.

“� ese young guys stepped out with AK-47s or Uzis or some-thing and shot up the whole block,” said Al Perkins, head cook at Ryan Anthony’s restaurant nearby.

“� ey got out of this red truck and starting walking and

shooting,” Perkins said. “I think they were aiming at a black car down the block. ... Once they got done, they ran back to the truck.”

As the black car � ed down the street, it veered into a west-bound No. 75 Chicago Transit Authority bus, pushing the bus into a light pole, another witness said. � e driver and four pas-sengers su� ered injuries that were not life-threatening, said CTA spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis.

Perkins said he saw at least � ve people hurt: one in a car, three on the sidewalk and a woman who staggered into the res-taurant with a wound to the arm.

“She was getting ready to park,” Perkins said. “She said they just started shooting.” She made it to the entrance of the restau-rant. “She was laid out on the � oor in the doorway.”

An employee who works at a nearby currency exchange said he heard six to 10 gunshots � red just north of the store.

“I looked up and I saw this black car,” said the man, who identi� ed himself only as Marc. “I mean, it was really going fast.”

Several hurt after gunfi re causes accident with Chicago bus

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Emergency personnel tend to injured Tuesday at the scene of a crash and shooting at the intersection of 75th and Vincennes in Chicago, Ill. Eleven people were hurt—two seriously—when gunmen opened fi re near 75th Street and Vincennes Avenue in Englewood this morning and a fl eeing car smashed into a CTA bus, witnesses and offi cials said.

on defense,” Holliday said. “We’ve got a lot of guys on the defense who can pro-vide great leadership and set standards for all the young guys. We need that on of-fense. We don’t have that yet. It’s important that somebody emerges on o� ense and gives us leadership over there that we’re getting on defense right now.”

One young face missing from the � eld was highly touted freshman quarter-back Conelius Jones. Jones is awaiting certi� cation from the NCAA Clearinghouse, which determines what players are eligible to play college athletics.

“Unfortunately, sometimes the Clearinghouse takes a little longer than you expect it to,” Holliday said. “So, he’ll get here when he can.”

Jones’ absence allowed for Graham and sophomore Ed-die Sullivan to split the snaps from the quarterback slot. � e duo took all of the snaps

for the Herd during Tues-day’s practice.

“It’s a lot of reps,” Graham said. “Either we are going to get tired or we’re going to get better. I’m pretty sure me and Eddie, we both want to get better so we come out and just work as hard as we can.”

Jones’ arrival will provide a three-way battle for the starting job.

� e Herd also seemed plagued by a bit of early in-juries to start the spring. Numerous players sat out of practice on the stationary bikes for much of the day.

“� is is the year of the shoulder (injury), I guess,” Holliday said. “� ey’re all labrum tears and they’re all repairable. � ey’ll be back in the fall, but unfortunately they’re going to miss these 15 days.”

Spring practice consists of 15 practices over the course of � ve weeks culminating with the annual Green and White game on April 23.

Jake Snyder can be con-tacted at [email protected].

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The eight-time Tony award-winning “Spring Awakening” is on tour and this past Tuesday night the show made its way to Huntington.

“Spring Awakening” is a Broadway musi-cal based on a play written in 19th-century Germany. The story concerns a group of teenage friends who deal with many of the same issues teenagers face today such as love, their roles in society and their parents’ expectations.

“Everybody can relate to it,” said Rachel Geisler, who plays Anna in the show. “It’s about the teenagers wanting answers to things that the people at the time were too afraid to talk about.”

Geisler is currently enrolled at New York University as a theater major, but is taking this semester off to go on tour with “Spring Awakening.”

“I did theater throughout high school and was always pretty sure that this was what I wanted to do,” Geisler said. “I absolutely credit getting this tour to the amount of in-spiration I got my first year at NYU. I loved the program and everything about it. I’m hoping to go back in the fall.”

“Spring Awakening” is the first profes-sional production for Geisler who says that, despite the workload, she’s enjoying the experience.

“It’s been amazing,” Geisler said. “We have a pretty intense travel schedule, we tend to not be in a place for more than two nights but the show is just so much fun. The cast is all around the same age so we’ve all con-nected and become really great friends. It’s

been amazing traveling with all of them and getting to do this everyday.”

Marketing Director for the Marshall Art-ists Series, Angela Jones said she had been looking forward to the show and stressed the importance of it coming to Huntington.

“This is the type of show that would nor-mally not play a market like this,” Jones said. “But because we have the university here they wanted to expose the students to this show that deals with issues that a lot of students and young people deal with. It’s a really great show to go see and just learn about life.”

“If parents don’t educate their children on what being a teenager is about then they can definitely relate to that and all the questions the characters have,” said Kelsey Gabel, graduate student from Ripley, W.Va.

The show is also unconventional in its presentation. While performing songs, the actors use microphones and perform as if in a concert rather than a musical.

“I think it’s really good,” Gabel said. “The acoustics are really wonderful and the cast did a great job. It adds a little something dif-ferent to the show as opposed to head-mics,”

According to the press release for the show, previous performances have been de-scribed as “unconventional, shocking, and boundary-breaking” because of it’s mature content and style.

“There’s probably a lot of people that might be a little bit put off by it, but I personally like the show,” said Jodie Perry, Director of IT. “I think it’s good to push the envelope a little and I think Huntington needs some-thing like this.”

Jared Roach can be contacted at [email protected].

Check us out online at marshallparthenon.com!Broadway musical, “Spring Awakening,” performed in the Keith-Albee Theater on Tuesday evening. The play depicted teenagers facing their roles within society as their parents’ expectations are looming.

“I think it’s good to push the enve-lope a little and I think Huntington

needs something like this.”

-Kelsey Gabel, graduate student

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