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BY PATRICK MILLERTHE PARTHENON

Donnie Jones’s return to Marshall began with a shower of boos from the crowd, and ended on the wrong side of a 83-69 Herd victory.

Marshall (21-10, 9-7 C-USA) got o� to a strong start against UCF (19-10, 6-10 C-USA), leading 43-27 at hal� ime. Marshall extended its lead to start the second half on a 10-3 run. Junior guard Damier Pitts threw an ally-oop to junior forward Johnny � omas to start the run, followed by a four point play by DeAndre Kane, and two more dunks by � omas, giving the Herd a 23-point lead two minutes into the half.

“We came in knowing we were going to win, it was just a matter of how much we were going to win by,” � omas said.

UCF threatened Marshall one � nal time, narrowing the Herd’s lead to 12 points with 10 minutes le� to go. Junior guard Dago Pena was ejected for a � agrant foul putting momentum was on UCF’s side. � e Herd responded with an 8-0 run that put the Herd up 71-51 and ended UCF’s hopes for a comeback.

“� is was a � tting performance for our team to end the season, our guards controlled the game tonight, this was a good win for us and we are ready for the conference tournament,” Marshall head coach Tom Herrion said. “We had a great rotation inside, our sub pattern helped us keep up the intensity and we didn’t let them back in the game.”

Senior forward Tirrell Baines, played his last regular season game and scored 11 points and grabbed four rebounds against the coach who recruited him to Marshall.

“I told Tirrell a� er the game I was proud of him, I know how hard he worked as a freshman and where he came from,” Jones said. “What a great moment for him and what a great tribute to him.”

Pitts led the Herd with 25 points and eight assists, Kane added 12 points and 7 rebounds, and � omas scored 14 points o� the bench.

� e Herd shot 51.9 percent from the � oor and out rebounded the Knights by a margin of 42-25. � e Herd also dominated in the fast break, out scoring UCF 18-2.

Marcus Jordan led UCF with 27 points. � e Henderson Center had a sold out crowd of 9,036, the only sold out

crowd since the Herd joined Conference USA. Herrion, who all season had requested more support from the fan base, addressed the crowd a� er the game and called it the “best atmosphere in college basketball.”

As of Sunday morning, Marshall was ranked 49th in RPI according to ESPN.com. � is places the Herd “on the bubble” heading into the Conference USA tournament, with a strong chance to enter the NCAA tournament or the NIT tournament with a good showing in the C-USA tournament.

Marshall last made the NCAA tourney in 1987 and last made the NIT in 1988. � e Herd has � led the paperwork for admission to both tournaments.

Patrick Miller can be contacted at miller490@marshall.edu.

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Senior forward Tirrell Baines attempts to pass a UCF player on the court Saturday. The Herd was victorious against UCF, now lead by former Herd head coach Donnie Jones. The 83-69 victory places the Herd “on the bubble” going into the Conference-USA tournament next week.

Pioneer woman escaped Native American tribeBY ASHLEY MANNONTHE PARTHENON

Women’s History Month is a time to honor the stories of remarkable women in history. One such story took place not too far from Huntington and shows the spirit of survival of one woman as she fought to return to her family.

Mary Draper Ingles is one of those re-markable females. Her path to survival brought her near this area in the 18th century as she fought to � nd her way back home.

According to the U.S. National Park Service website, Ingles was born in Phila-delphia. She migrated with her family to what is now Blacksburg, Va., where they set up Drapers Meadows, a small farming settlement.

She married her neighbor, William Ingles, and be-gan their family with two sons, Tommy and George. � e family lived in a home built on the Draper fam-ily’s settlement.

Shawnee warriors attacked Drapers Meadows in July 1731 during the French and Indian War, the web-site said. Ingles and her family were not among those killed, but she and her sons were taken captive.

According to Marshall University American history professor Kevin Barksdale, the location of Drapers Meadows may have heightened the chances of an at-tack by Indians.

“� at was fairly far west. � e further west you got, the better chance that you’d be picked up, your com-munity would be attacked or you’d be taken captive,” Barksdale said.

� e Shawnee Indians forced captives to travel to their home near Chillicothe, Ohio. � e website said Ingles and her sons obeyed because opposition usu-ally led to death.

According to Barksdale, settlers were taken captive for di� erent reasons.

“Native people took captives for two primary rea-sons,” Barksdale said. “One, the took captives like war

captives are taken now — to take people o� the battle� eld, to use them as bargaining chips and some of those captives were tortured, some were mutilated. � ey would cut o� hands and ears and send them back to the communities and scare the hell out of people. It was kind of a warning saying ‘get o� our land.’

“� e second reason they took them was to replace lost members of their families. It they were in war and lost a third of their male war-riors, they would raid mostly other Native American communities, but sometimes white communities, and take those captives and adopt them into their clans.”

Barksdale said some women would be taken captive for the same

reason. For example, if a smallpox outbreak killed several women, there would be large numbers of chil-dren without mothers. Captives would be taken and adopted into families to mother those children.

Ingles escaped in October 1731 and began her jour-ney home. She and a woman referred to as the “old Dutch woman” planned their escape and set o� with-out a map or any supplies to ward o� the oncoming winter.

� eir route followed the New River and the gorge made travel di§ cult with its steep banks and rocky terrain. � e New River Gorge National River website says the journey took 40 days and stretched 500 miles.

Barksdale said the story of Mary Draper Ingles is signi� cant not only because of her captivity and es-cape and her long journey home, but also because of the path she took to return home. � e Shawnee Indians had avoided some areas near the New River because of its di§ cult landscape.

New River Gorge National River employee David Caldwell said Ingles’ decision to follow the river de-spite the rough terrain came from her familiarity with

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BY ANDRIA CHENGMARKETWATCH(MCT)

NEW YORK—� e Obama administra-tion may consider tapping into U.S. oil reserves on concern that crude prices above $104 a barrel could damage the U.S. eco-nomic recovery, White House Chief of Sta� William Daley said Sunday.

“We are trying to look at all the options,” Daley said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Daley didn’t indicate when President Barack Obama would decide whether to draw from the reserves, or what other op-tions the president might consider.

Tapping into oil reserve “has been done on very rare occasions,” Daley said. “� ere are a bunch of factors that have to be looked at, and it’s not just the price.”

� e national average for regular gasoline was $3.38 a gallon on Feb. 28, compared with $2.70 a year earlier, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

� e increase re� ects the rise in crude oil prices because of unrest across the Mideast and North Africa.

� e revolt in Libya has blocked shipment of about 60 percent of its usual daily out-put of 6 million barrels a day oil output, but little of that oil would have been destined for U.S. re� neries.

“You have increasing (oil) demand worldwide as the global economy im-proves,” Daley said. “� ere’s no question this recovery is real and strong. � e price of energy can have a serious impact. . . . � e uncertainty in the Middle East has caused tremendous increase in the last few weeks.”

� e 727-million-barrel U.S. Strategic Pe-troleum Reserve is the largest stockpile of government-owned oil in the world.

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The Student Government Associa-tion recently visited the West Virginia state capitol to celebrate Marshall’s 50th anniversary as a public uni-versity. Sitting in the gallery of the West Virginia House of Delegates, we

watched as proclama-tions were issued, bills were read and intro-duced and legislators voted on old business. Topics of debate at the capitol included prescription drug monitoring, Marcel-lusshale gas drilling and coal severance taxes. As I watched

I could not help but compare the smooth operation with the dysfunc-tional atmosphere in Wisconsin.

In Madison, Wis., the legislature has been gridlocked because of a dis-agreement over collective bargaining between the public workers unions and their employer, the government of Wisconsin. The protests and drama of Madison has escalated into a great discussion on the rights of the worker, the power of labor unions and the role of the government in the lives of its citizens.

It is hard not to choose a side of a debate that has captivated the entire nation. On one side, the government is heavily in debt and risks insolvency while on the other side the rights of the workers to collectively petition for better wages and work space envi-ronment is threatened. Though this debate has risen out of the difficult financial situation of the 21st century, this debate has lasted since the dawn of the industrial revolution. With the realization that those workers’ rights have been established since the early 20th century and which are also in danger of annulment society must re-examine this debate.

Within a free society an individual must be able to make concessions for the betterment of the society as a whole. These concessions are made only with the knowledge that that person’s individual liberty has already been secured. Within our society we have achieved great individual personal liberty. However, a greater cooperation must be achieved so as to ensure the liberty of the community.

Madison is not the first place to attempt to answer its dire financial situation nor will it be the last, but taking away the ability for those to represent themselves to their em-ployer is not the solution. Denying the liberty of the community for the liberty of the individual will only lead to the prosperity of a handful of individuals. Cooperation instead of competition will allow for the opportu-nity to ensure the liberty of everyone.

Contact PATRICK MURPHY at mur-phy151@marshall.edu.

EDITORIAL

March is Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate the courage and creativity of women. The month was set aside to cele-brate women in 1987, but actually started as a week in 1978 by the Education Task Force of Sonoma County in California.

This year’s theme for the month

is “Our History is Our Strength.” The National Women’s History Project states, “Our shared history unites families, communities, and nations. Although women’s his-tory is intertwined with the history shared with men, several factors — social, religious, economic, and biological — have worked to

create a unique sphere of women’s history.”

There was once a time in our history that women didn’t have many rights, yet women through-out history have transformed and shaped how women are treated and viewed today.

West Virginia is home to fa-mous women who have made a transformation: Mary Lou Retton

is an Olympic gold medalist, Pearl S. Buck is a Pulitzer Prize win-ning author and Kathy Mattea is a Grammy award winning singer and songwriter.

According to the Bureau of La-bor Statistics, about 60 percent of women work, and they comprise 46 percent of the labor force. Women now occupy 51 percent of managerial and professional jobs,

up from 26 percent in 1980. Although the way women are

viewed has changed, there is still some way to go. A new projection by the Institute For Women’s Pol-icy Research for NBC News shows women won’t make the same sala-ries as men until 2056.

Take the time to acknowledge and appreciate women who have made a historical impact.

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GOP’s war with unions to consolidate power, enrich big business

Republican lawmakers, under the guise of “budget cutting,” have declared war on America’s unionized workers.

At the National Tea Party convention held in Phoenix last week, Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, railed against the country’s labor unions in front of a cheer-ing crowd of tea-baggers. The mention of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s name led to standing ovation.

In an attempt to repair a $137 million budget shortfall, Walker has introduced a budget plan that would prevent labor unions from collectively bargaining. Unionized public workers would be stripped of the right to negoti-ate with their employers over benefits, hours, working condi-tions and rules of the workplace.

Employers would also be pro-hibited from collecting union dues, which are used to fund many of the activities unions engage in on behalf of their members.

The labor unions that sup-ported the governor’s election bid last fall, the Milwaukee Police Association and the Wisconsin Troopers Association, to name a few, would be exempt from these changes.

In terms of budgetary policy, there is no rhyme or reason to Walker’s proposed cutbacks. Public workers aren’t responsible for the state’s budget disaster, and the $300 million that would supposedly be saved over two years by stripping them of their collective bargaining rights would amount to a mere 1/12 of the state’s projected $3.6 billion 2011-13 budget deficit.

Walker and his comrades in the Wisconsin Assembly claim their “budget repair bill” would save the state from a fiscal melt-down, but its true objective is purely political.

Depriving unionized workers of their collective bargaining rights and preventing employers from collecting union dues would stem the flow of contributions made by labor unions to Demo-cratic candidates, which would give Republicans a huge advan-tage in future elections.

The GOP’s war with organized labor is an effort to consolidate political power and enrich big business. The party’s ideal world, one where corporations rule and politicians live to serve them, will be built on the backs of America’s union workers.

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the area.“She knew the river went

right by her house so she stayed on the river,” Caldwell said. “She would not let the river get out of her sight.”

Although this path made for a longer and more di� -cult journey, it was her way of ensuring she returned home, Caldwell said.

“If you look on the map you can see she went way out of her way in several places where the Indians cut across for shortcuts,” Caldwell said. “She didn’t know that and she was afraid if she le� the river she wouldn’t � nd it again.”

  e website said she and the old Dutch woman sur-vived only on what they could

� nd to eat along their journey.Ingles moved to Radford,

Va. with her husband a� er they were reunited, according to the website.   ey began a new life operating a ferry and raising � ve more children.

According to Caldwell, the parts of her journey where she faced the most di� cult terrain are where the New River Gorge National Park is now.

Caldwell called the story of Mary Draper Ingles “one of incredible courage.” He mentioned the many ways her story is told today, in-cluding re-enactments, plays and a book by James Alexan-der   om titled “Follow the River,” that show the remark-able nature of her story.

Ashley Mannon can be contacted at mannon11@marshall.edu.

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BY LISA MASCAROTRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU(MCT)

WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Barack Obama said Saturday that he was prepared to make deeper spending cuts than his initial budget o� er to Republicans as the White House seeks to avoid stopgap measures that o� cials worry could breed uncertainty in the economy.

Republicans panned the ad-ministration’s opening bid of $6.5 billion in reductions be-yond those already approved by Congress. Republicans are seeking $60 billion in cuts.

“I’m prepared to do more,” Obama said in his weekly ra-dio address. “But we’ll only � nish the job together — by sitting at the same table, work-ing out our di� erences and � nding common ground.”

With the parties stalemated over the scope of budget re-ductions, Congress passed a

temporary bill to fund the gov-ernment through March 18, which Obama signed into law.

Congressional leaders fur-ther agreed at a closed-door meeting last week with Vice President Joe Biden to quickly hold a series of votes to gauge support for the Republican and Democratic proposals.

  e Senate is set to vote early next week on the White House’s proposed cuts through the remainder of the � scal year as well as the House-passed GOP proposal.

Neither package is expected to advance, but leaders from both parties see value in holding the votes so resistant lawmak-ers will understand they need to bridge the deep divide. Both parties want to avoid a govern-ment shutdown.

In rejecting the White House o� er, Republicans insisted government must spend less as a way to spur private sector job creation — a link o� en lost on voters.

Obama says he would cut more spending

BY KELLEY BUGLERTHE PARTHENON

A � ne arts professor shared her genealogical heritage and the artwork and research that have come from it at the wom-en’s studies colloquium series on Friday.

Natalie Larsen, foundations in art professor, discussed her upbringing in the   e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Church, and how art has helped her cope with her choice to leave the church 10 years ago.

“I was raised in a really strict Mormon family and decided to leave when I was 21 years old,” Larsen said. “I’m considered an inactive Mormon, which means I don’t go to church and I don’t believe in the church anymore as a religion.”

Larsen grew up out West and went to Brigham Young Uni-versity.   ere she saw a censored display of artist Auguste Rodin and realized she might not want to be a member of the church any longer.

“I went to Brigham Young for two years and then took two years o� ,” Larsen said. “I didn’t feel that I could handle school at the same time.”

Larsen said when she decided to go back to school she ended up in Maine and began using art as her outlet for her past.

“During those three years in Maine, I started incorporating my past into my work,” Larsen said. “It was really good for me and it helped a lot.”

Larsen said it was hard to leave the church.“It took a lot of courage and I had to work that out, but I

didn’t want to just react,” Larsen said. “I took time to think about what I wanted and tried to decide slowly.”

Although Larsen is inactive in the Mormon church, she is still very interested in her family’s roots and genealogical heritage.

“I’ve always known about my family,” Larsen said. “I was raised hearing stories about them and it has always been a part of my life.”

Larsen said Mormons know their genealogy because it has

a theological basis in the church.“I always go back to it because it’s so fascinating,” Larsen

said. “I love knowing where I come from and I appreciate that.”

Larsen’s research focused mainly on Emeline Bigler Hess, her great-great-great-grandmother, who was born in what is now West Virginia and her conversion to Mormonism.

Hess le� West Virginia and became the � rst wife of a po-lygamist and died at the age of 38 while giving birth to her tenth child.

Larsen read one of Brigham Young’s sermons to the early church in Utah that gave women an ultimatum to either stop complaining or leave the church.

“I want you to see and hear what Emeline was hearing when she went to Utah and attended her church,” Larsen said.

Larsen said the Mormon church places a lot of focus on the physical body and denies the pain and su� ering of Jesus on the cross.   e focus is more on perfection and the resurrection.

Larsen’s most recent painting, “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire,” showed rugged land and depicted Hess’s journey to the west.

“I returned to the mountains and was playing with the idea of a search for place or the promised land,” Larsen said. “It represents the misguided belief that somewhere life would be better or the grass would be greener.”

Marshall University history professor Laura Michele Die-ner has seen Larsen’s work on display and said it is fantastic.

“Natalie mentioned ‘sterile optimism’ in her talk and the lack of pain and su� ering acknowledged by the church,” Die-ner said. “As an historian of medieval history, pain was an important form of expression for people.”

Beauty and morals are inextricably linked. Our sense of what is beautiful is born out of the things that we believe in when I was young was Mormonism and the idea of the beauty of perfectionism.

Larsen showed other paintings and photographs including “Variety is the Spice of Life,” which Larsen did as a statement about polygamy and its role in the church.

Kelley Bugler can be contacted at bugler@marshall.edu.

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BY LEAH STOVERDAILY EGYPTIAN, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS U. VIA UWIRE

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would com-pletely ban minors from tanning.

  e bill, House Bill 1666, says tanning facilities may not permit any person under the age of 18 to use tanning beds, regardless of parental consent.   e state tanning law cur-rently allows those ages 14-17 to tan with parental consent.

Hilary Patton, a senior from Carbondale studying market-ing, said she started tanning at age 16 to get color for events such as prom.

Despite what she heard regarding the dangers of tanning beds, Patton said she wasn’t cautious until her mother was diagnosed with skin cancer near her eye.

Patton said she was shocked when she found out and took a break from tanning.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, making up nearly half of all cases. As the use of tanning beds has be-come more popular, rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have risen among young women, the article said.

Charles Clemens, chief of medical sta� at the Student Health Center, said the risks behind the use of tanning beds

depend on the frequency of use. For those who spend several hours exposed to ultraviolet light, the risk of skin cancer de-velopment is higher compared to those who don’t.

Amanda Holthaus said the weeks before spring break tend to be the busiest for the tanning industry.

“  ey don’t like to be so ghostly pale, I guess, is the nice way of putting it,” said Holthaus, owner of Paradise Island Tanning Salon in Carbondale.

Holthaus said young girls frequently visit her tanning salon and she doesn’t � nd the behavior risky unless it is abused.

“I grew up with girls years ago who would tan at one busi-ness and then go down to the next business and tan again,” Holthaus said. “Even though there’s a questionnaire that asks if you’ve tanned in the past 24 hours, there’s no certainty that people are honest.”

Clemens said risks are lower for those who start tanning later in life because cancer takes years to develop. For those who are severely sunburnt at a younger age, he said the e� ects will take at least twenty years to evolve into a disease.

“When I was young, you would see little kids running around the neighborhood brown as little berries,” Clemens said. “You would see their hair get bleached white and their skin turn brown at age three and four. Parents thought it looked cute. Now we know that those people probably had terrible looking skin by the time they were in their 20s and 30s.”

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Students gathered in the basement of the Memorial Student Center to celebrate a Marshall University professor.

Dan Hollis, adviser and professor of the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communication was “roasted” and celebrated for his 50th birthday.

Students delivered speeches about their experiences both inside and outside of the classroom.

Tabitha Justice, senior of in-ternational a� airs and online journalism double major from Charleston, W.Va, is currently the president of Marshall’s chapter of the Society of Pro-fessional Journalists, which co-sponsored the event. She said the idea for the tribute had been developing for nearly six months. Both SPJ and Marshall’s chapter of Public Relations Students of Society Association envisioned a roast to raise money for Marshall’s journalism department.

“� e theme ‘What Hol-lis taught me’ came about because we wanted a way to show that we appreciate him not just for his friendship, but because of his appealing approach to educating us,” Justice said.

A 10-minute slideshow was presented during the tribute. � e collage of videos featured various students sharing their stories of the years they were acquainted with Hollis. A combination of alumni and current students playfully discussed their perspective of taking courses with Hol-lis. Many students attributed their success to the journalism professor.

� e videos showed former students behind their news-room desks, couples who had met through the jour-nalism school, a reenactment of a moment in a journalism

classroom and a humorous thank you video from the cast of “Up-Late”.

During the celebration, students decided to do a friendly “roast” of the profes-sor, discussing some of Hollis’ famous traits.

WOWK-TV 13 News ex-ecutive producer and former Marshall student Je� Pullin, told students about Hollis’ rating of 4.8 of 5.0 in overall quality on the website “Rate-My-Professor”. Pullin jokingly mentioned his hunt for a neg-ative comment, but could not � nd one for Hollis.

“� ere are three kinds of inspiring professors: A pro-fessor who teaches us the fundamentals that is a good professor, a professor that tells us the harsh truth about our industry is a great profes-sor and a professor who does all of those things, and tells us we can overcome any obsta-cles and be successful if we’re willing to work hard enough, is an excellent professor,” Pul-lin said. “Dan is an excellent professor.”

Pullin said Hollis recog-nizes that being a mentor is not a four-year commitment, but a life-long commitment.

“Greetings from Kansas City,” a former student and sports reporter, Lance Veeser began to discuss JMC 100, one of his � rst college courses at Marshall.

“You talk about getting a weird view in college, I walked out the � rst day of college thinking, one: this man [Hol-lis] should never be allowed to consume ca� eine. Two, am I really watching ‘Conjunction Junction’, the cartoon in col-lege, and three, boy, does this guy have a passion for jour-nalism.” He ended the speech with the infamous words of Hollis, “You knucklehead.”

During the closing of the ceremony, Hollis stood be-hind the pulpit and reviewed the most de� ning moments of

his life. He dedicated one les-son he had learned for nearly every year of his life. He of-fered indirect advice to the audience as he shared his ex-periences growing up.

“When I was 15, I learned that I wasn’t going to get an ‘A’ or a ‘B’ in freshman high school Latin, and the sun would still come up the next morning,” Hollis said.

He said when he was 21; he learned that working hard at your internship could turn into a job.

“I have always been a fan of Dan Hollis’ teaching — he was always fun to talk to,” Samir Abdel-Aziz, graduate creative writing and English major from New York.

“I didn’t want to just show up and talk, I felt I owed it to Hollis and Marshall’s chapter of SPJ to do more than just speak.” Abdel-Aziz said. “He was one of the contributing students for organizing the tribute.”

Justice said, her favorite part of the evening was the video presentation done by Eliza-beth Stewart.

“� is was the one area I was most concerned with be-cause I have no experience with videos,” Justice said. “So, while I could get the speakers and other stu� together, the videos were completely out of my hands. I knew that this particular part of the evening was going to be important in determining whether we held a professional event or a shoddy student event. I think it came out very professional and I was very proud of how it all turned out.”

Although ticket sales haven’t been totaled com-pletely, Justice said that donations were still coming in and the roast has raised more than $600. Ashley Grohoski can be contacted at Grohoski1@marshall.edu.

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Professor Dan Hollis sits on stage as many students share their experiences with him.

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