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“There are friendly people here. They accept anyone. If anyone see me, it’s exciting for them to know more about

me and be friends with me. So I meet the people here, and I love the American people.”

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Reporter Jared Casto sits down with Badr Isreb, Syrian INTO Marshall student and business administration major.

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Mexican students, faculty to reside in student housingBy ZACH WRIGHTTHE PARTHENON

Marshall University will soon be housing students and faculty from Mexico in various campus residence halls.

The students and faculty will arrive Saturday, and will reside in the residence halls until Dec. 6. The students are a part of the INTO Marshall program.

John Yaun, director of housing and residence life, said the resi-dence halls would be adjusted to house the 160 incoming students and faculty.

“The new students will be

placed in empty rooms in Buskirk Hall, Holderby Hall, Twin Tow-ers East and Twin Towers West,” Yaun said. “The study lounges in TTE and TTW are also being ren-ovated to accommodate them.”

Yaun said current residents have also made adjustments for the students to help make room for all the incoming people.

“Students that were originally signed up for double rooms and ended up with single rooms were approached by residence hall staff,” Yaun said. “These students

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Terri Thompson, professional social success trainer, speaks during the etiquette dinner, a Career Services

program that promotes professional dining habits Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center.

ABOVE and LEFT: Students attend the etiquette dinner, a Career Services program that promotes professional dining habits Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center.

Career Services etiquette dinner teaches students valuable dining skills to improve professional skills.

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By SHALEE ROGNEYTHE PARTHENON

Campus Activities Board members Hannah Harman and Allison White or-ganized an event that brings the beat to campus. Students participated in a karaoke competition Tuesday on the Memorial Student Center plaza.

Harman and White said they were very pleased with the outcome and the showcase of talent from students, es-pecially since the event was organized with very short notice.

Three Marshall students sang their way to the Phillip Phillips concert at the Keith Albee Performing Arts Center.

Joey Crookshanks, Sasha Tackett and Ashley McNeil walked away happy af-ter they all received two tickets to the Phillip Phillips show Nov. 3.

“[Harman] and I created this event

for CAB and it turned out being way more fun and exciting that we ex-pected,” White said. “A lot of Marshall students have amazing talent.”

Shalee Rogney can be contacted at [email protected].

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MARSHALL ALUM RETURNS TO CELEBRATE PUBLICATION OF FIRST BOOK

A Marshall University graduate published his first book, which explores Appalachian culture, and returned to the university Tues-day to speak about the publication.

Todd Snyder, now an assistant professor of English at Siena College in New York, re-ceived his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Marshall University.

Snyder’s first book, “The Rhetoric of Ap-palachian Identity,” combines personal narrative with research and theory to demon-strate how Appalachian youth are influenced by their families and communities when mak-ing decisions for their futures.

Todd Snyder addresses students and faculty at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Shawkey Dining Room of the Memorial Student Center.

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By KELLY PATETHE PARTHENON

BreakShuttle is serving Mar-shall University by offering students a bus ride home for Thanksgiving break Nov. 21-Nov. 30.

Students can purchase one-way tickets online to and from five different locations, includ-ing Morgantown, West Virginia; Hagerstown, Maryland; Silver Spring, Maryland; Parkersburg, West Virginia and Washington, Pennsylvania.

All tickets are for one-way travel. Round trip travel requires purchasing two different tickets, which range in price from $25-$99 in the standard pricing range that lasts until Nov. 6. Last minute tickets may be purchased Nov. 7-Nov. 21 at a higher rate.

BreakShuttle is the largest provider of collegiate academic break transit services in the United States, according to the company’s website.

“In addition to being the pro-vider of choice for students, BreakShuttle is also the pro-vider of choice for colleges and universities,” the website says. “By offering direct service from campus, BreakShuttle can help college and universities more easily attract and retain stu-dents who live far away.”

Transportation will pick up students at the Fifth Avenue side of the Memorial Student Center at the time and date listed when the ticket was purchased.

Customers may access the BreakShuttle Facebook page to

stay updated on any additions of cities or other significant updates. The Facebook page also explains why shuttle ser-vice was created.

“We started Campus Con-nector as students because we were tired of having to catch cabs to seedy bus terminals where we would have to wait to get on a dirty, unsafe bus,” the page says. “Many students would have to make multiple changes before reaching home. Not anymore.”

Buses have handicap accommodations if the cus-tomer contacts BreakShuttle before or at the time of ticket purchase. Tickets are non-refundable.

Kelly Pate can be contacted at [email protected].

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By SHALEE ROGNEYTHE PARTHENON

Twenty-four people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — more than 12 million men and women a year, according to The Na-tional Domestic Violence Hotline.

Marshall University is taking an extra step to in-form new students about domestic violence. The HA-VEN program educates all incoming students on the key definitions and statistics, personalized and reflective content, bystander skill, con-fidence building strategies and campus-specific policies, procedures and resources.

The HAVEN (Helping Ad-vocates for Violence Ending Now) program is sponsored by EverFi Educational Plat-forms, which also provides other educational programs at Marshall, such as AlcoholEdu.

The program offers several

scenarios that give students the power to define the mean-ing of a healthy relationship. HAVEN shows the students the correct way to build a healthy relationship by show-ing proper communication methods and defining per-sonal relationship values.

The university is required to educate all incoming stu-dents on the issues of sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking and relationship vio-lence as stipulated by Title IX of the Education Amend-ments of 1972, the Campus Sexual Violence Alert (SaVE) Act and the Clery Act.

Leah Tolliver, director of the division of Student Affairs and the Women’s Center, said she believes HAVEN will have a significant impact on all in-coming students. She said the biggest part of the program is trying to provide more infor-mation to the students about bystander intervention.

Safe HAVEN on campus

“I do think that it is some-thing that students are going to be able to take away from things on their own individual level,” Tolliver said. “They are getting information that they’ve never had before.”

An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate part-ner each year, according to the National Coalition Against Do-mestic Violence, and females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of non-fatal intimate partner violence.

The bystander intervention portion of the program is aimed at giving the students power to prevent sexual assaults or relationship violence in any situation. It also empowers stu-dents to speak out against the issue and seek help from cam-pus resources. The program breaks down sexual violence to its roots by examining gen-der roles and the effects of such roles on relationship violence and sexual assaults.

According to Loveisrespect.org, violent relationships in adolescence can have serious ramifications by putting the victims at higher risk for sub-stance abuse, eating disorders, risky sexual behavior and fur-ther domestic violence.

The responsibility for pre-venting any kind of sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, and relationship vio-lence falls on everyone. HAVEN enables the student body to take action against this press-ing issue.

“We want our students to look at their own individual re-sponsibility for addressing this issue,” Tolliver said, “not from looking at reducing the vulner-ability of being a victim, but responsibility for keeping our community safe.”

Shalee Rogney can be con-tacted at [email protected].

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Popular Netflix series makes its way into Women’s Studies book

discussionABOVE: Laura Michele Diener, director of women’s studies, leads the discussion on “Orange is the New Black” Tuesday in Prichard Hall.

RIGHT: English professor Hilary Brewster and graduate student Christina Johnson analyze “Orange is the New Black” during the annual Women’s Studies Book Club event Tuesday in Prichard Hall.

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I want to be someone that can be dependable when the team

needs a lift.”“- Chukwuka Ezeigbo

By LACHEL HOUSETHE PARTHENON

Chukwuka Ezeigbo has faced a few obstacles since she has been at Marshall University, but she overcame each challenge, becoming the face of the Herd women’s basketball team.

Ezeigbo, senior center from Trenton, New Jersey, arrived in Huntington in 2011. When she arrived, she found herself in cul-tural shock.

“I am used to being in the city, which is fast-paced and busy,” Ezeigbo said. “Here in West Vir-ginia, everything is calm, so it was definitely something I had to get accustomed to.”

Ezeigbo went on to say that it wasn’t too bad adjusting to the West Virginian way of living. As a matter of fact, she has grown to like it.

After 11 seasons at Marshall, Royce Chadwick resigned as head coach of the Herd women’s basketball team. Once Matt Dan-iel took over in 2012, Ezeigbo, who was recruited by Chadwick, was faced with another chal-lenge of adjustment.

“I came here my freshman year under Chadwick, so I had to get adjusted to Daniel’s style of

play,” Ezeigbo said. “It was chal-lenging at first, but I got used to it and became accustomed to how we play.”

Ezeigbo’s most difficult obsta-cle occurred last season after her father, Ambrose Ezeigbo, died from stomach and colon cancer at the age of 56.

“It was hard adjusting to the differences, especially being away from home where my fam-ily needed me,” Ezeigbo said. “I just had to remember to stay strong mentally.”

Ezeigbo flew to Nigeria for 18 days and was forced to miss four games in the middle of the sea-son after her father’s death. Once Ezeigbo returned to Marshall, she took the court by storm. Last season she contributed to 40 blocks, and was the team’s lead-ing offensive rebounder with 3.5 boards per game. Ezeigbo’s ef-forts also led her to become the No. 5 all-time leading blocker in a season at Marshall.

The star-center also takes care of business in the classroom. Ezeigbo is majoring in biology with a concentration in pre-med. Out of her three seasons at Marshall thus far, she has made the Conference USA Honor Roll twice.

“In five to 10 years, I see myself in medical school,” Ezeigbo said. “I want to be a general medicine pediatrician, so that is what I am working towards right now.”

Out of the four seniors on the women’s basketball team this season, Ezeigbo is the only one who has been at Marshall all four years. Head coach Daniel said her ambitious attitude will allow her to do well after graduation.

“I did not recruit Chukwuka, but I am glad she is here,” Daniel said. “She is a strong, ambitious young woman, and I think she will do great things in her community wherever she decides to go.”

Daniel also said he is not looking forward to Ezeigbo’s departure and he misses her already.

Ezeigbo’s main focus going in to her last season is allowing her teammates to view her as a go-to person on the court.

“I would love for my team-mates to see me as a leader on the court,” Ezeigbo said. “I want to be someone that can be de-pendable when the team needs a lift.”

LaChel House can be contacted at [email protected].

Ezeigbo speaks with local media during Media Day at The Cam Henderson Center Sept. 30.

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Ezeigbo talks with associate head coach Tony Kemper on Media Day Sept. 30.

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Dear Editor,I need you – Marshall Univer-

sity. You lost one of your own.On March 20, 2014, my pre-

cious daughter Sarah was killed in an automobile accident. She attended Marshall. She as a junior majoring in journal-ism and advertising. She loved Marshall.

Sarah belonged to many honor societies, including Phi Kappa Phi national honor soci-ety. She had an IQ of 154, she didn’t want anyone to know in fear they would treat her differently.

She was happy, funny, witty and very creative. She loved dogs, especially her pups Mad-die and Molly.

She loved people and wanted to help them see the positive side of life.

She was special and I am asking for your help. Sarah has a website that tells what happened and what we are trying to do to keep this from

happening again.I ask for all students at Mar-

shall to sign a petition on her website sarahlnott.com. It doesn’t matter if you live here or not, just put Marshall Uni-versity in as an address. What matters is that you are in West Virginia and your life is in endangered.

You always think it can’t hap-pen to you. Yes it can, and more likely will if this is not stopped.

You’re our future. This is your future. Make a difference and make your future safer.

You are Marshall.You are the Thundering

Herd.Make your voice heard.Law makers pass Sarah

Nott’s law.Yes, you are the Thundering

Herd and you are Marshall. Let Charleston legislators hear the thunder. Stomp your way to a safer future. Why? Because of Sarah.

-Brenda L. Nott

Help needed to honor lost Marshall student by passing Sarah Nott’s law

Unless you have been living buried under a rock with no Internet or media connection whatsoever, you know about the Monday release of Taylor Swift’s fifth album “1989.” Easily the strongest of her career, the album features a strictly pop sound, something new and unexpected from the typical country-pop crossover of Swift’s older music.

As with any largely popular and well-marketed product that manages to reach the level of publicity Swift’s album has, it has garnered its fair share of criticism. Nearly all critics have raved about “1989,” calling it “a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars … even bother aspiring to,” (New York Times) and “deeply weird, fe-verishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic” (Rolling Stone).

But so many of the reviews — typi-cally those by individuals rather than media entities — have expressed lis-teners’ shock at how exceptional they found the album. Several commenters on

Twitter used phrasing describing “1989” as “actually impressive” or making non-committal statements like “Alright T. Swift… Nicely done. #thewholedamn-albumisgood” or “You know what I like Taylor Swift’s song.”

People are reluctant to admit they en-joy Swift’s album and other genuinely creative and inspiring music because of the stigma that has risen around the pop genre. But in neglecting the genre, doubt-ers hinder their chance to experience the great pop songs by truly talented pop artists.

We as a culture have decided we are too cultured or too educated to truly enjoy mainstream pop music. Because a per-son likes an artist such as Swift, he or she becomes socially more commercial, more conformist.

But pop music, like any music, can be phenomenal. It can be just as inspiring as a great rock record or a folk song. The same goes for terrible, overly produced

pop music. Just as any other bad song in any other genre can be atrocious, so can pop music.

Swift’s album takes pop music to a new level with its spectacular production and witty lyrics, but skeptics dismiss it be-cause they think expressing enjoyment in Swift’s music would make them, as music lovers, inauthentic, less obscure. But that mainstream pop record will also more than likely be the first platinum album of 2014 — maybe within its first week. And we will undoubtedly see it at the 2015 Grammys.

We have no right to stigmatize an en-tire genre because of its mainstream tendencies and massive consumption. As YouTube creator and pop artist Troye Sivan tweeted upon the release of Swift’s second single on “1989,” “Out of the Woods,” “Pop music is like any other mu-sic — it can be shit, it can be incredible. SICK OF THA STIGMA & @taylorswift18 IS KILLING IT [sic].”

Why are we ashamed to get down to this. sick. beat?

Taylor Swift performs at the iHeartRadio Music Festival Sept. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Swift released her fifth album, “1989,” Monday. It is the Grammy winner’s first full-length pop album and features the hit song, “Shake It Off.”

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By DR. PAUL KENGORCENTER FOR VISION & VALUES

The Government Account-ability Institute reports that President Obama contin-ues to skip the majority of his Presidential Daily Brief-ings. This is a stunning fact, first reported two years ago and now updated and recon-firmed. Worse, it was also just reported that Obama likewise doesn’t consult his White House predecessor. Altogether, this paints a very troubling picture.

To recap: In September 2012, the Government Ac-countability Institute released a study which revealed that our president failed to attend a single Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) in the week lead-ing up to the anniversary of 9/11, despite major eruptions in the Arab world, and despite the obvious fact that we were approaching another 9/11 anniversary (i.e., the highest level of security alert). And yet, President Obama didn’t attend a single briefing that week. In fact, Obama attended only 43.8 percent of his Daily Briefs in the first 1,225 days of his administration. For the year 2012, he attended a little over a third.

This is outrageous, unac-ceptable for any president. It’s not only unwise from a national-security standpoint but also politically, especially for a president often criticized for spending too much time vacationing and campaigning and dashing for the golf course and fundraisers immediately after beheadings and aircraft downings.

So, that was bad enough. Ap-parently, however, the problem continues. The Government Accountability Institute has now updated its report and found that President Obama has missed over half the briefings in his second term, obviously learning little (liter-ally) since the first. The man has skipped hundreds of daily briefings. These revelations come amid stinging criticisms of Obama’s methods by former top administration officials, including Leon Panetta, Rob-ert Gates, and others.

By comparison, President George W. Bush not only didn’t miss the PDB but actually ex-panded it to six meetings per week.

Speaking of Bush, the former president was recently inter-viewed by Brian Kilmeade of Fox News. Here we learned

that Obama apparently never calls Bush for advice. “[Bush] said he has not heard from President Obama except when the president called with the news that [Osama] bin Laden had been killed,” reported Fox. Bush told Kilmeade: “He has not [called] on a regular basis, which is OK. It doesn’t hurt my feelings. It’s a decision he has made. Presidents tend to rely on the people they’re close to ... and I understand that.”

Bush was gracious. And from what I can tell from my research, what he said is accu-rate. Obama does not consult his predecessor.

Fox added that Bush said “that he used to speak with his predecessor, Bill Clinton, regu-larly while in office.”

Of course, he did. All sitting presidents speak with and consult former presidents. That’s what they do. They do so at least as a courtesy and at best as a necessity. The guy who held the Oval Office job before you has valuable perspective. If Obama had contacted George W. Bush on Iraq, he might have heard something particularly use-ful, especially given how badly he has botched the situation by prematurely pulling U.S.

troops and smoothing the way for ISIS.

Indeed, at a White House press conference on July 12, 2007, Bush said that withdrawing from Iraq prematurely “would mean sur-rendering the future of Iraq” and “would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we’d allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”

That’s exactly what hap-pened. Bush predicted it precisely. It’s for such rea-sons that sitting presidents take the time to regularly consult former presidents. It’s a time-honored tradition. For an excellent and lengthy account, check out the book “The Presidents Club” by vet-eran Time writers Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs. It features paragraph upon para-graph and page after page of presidents consulting other presidents. Their chapters are

A president who doesn’t seek advice?

“I do think that it is some-thing that students are going to be able to take away from things on their own individ-ual level,” Tolliver said. “They are getting information that they’ve never had before.”

An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate part-ner each year, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and fe-males who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of non-fatal intimate partner violence.

The bystander interven-tion portion of the program is aimed at giving the stu-dents power to prevent sexual assaults or relationship vio-lence in any situation. It also empowers students to speak out against the issue and seek help from campus resources. The program breaks down sexual violence to its roots by examining gender roles and

the effects of such roles on re-lationship violence and sexual assaults.

According to Loveisrespect.org, violent relationships in adolescence can have seri-ous ramifications by putting the victims at higher risk for substance abuse, eating disorders, risky sexual be-havior and further domestic violence.

The responsibility for pre-venting any kind of sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, and relationship violence falls on everyone. HAVEN enables the student body to take action against this pressing issue.

“We want our students to look at their own individual responsibility for address-ing this issue,” Tolliver said, “not from looking at reduc-ing the vulnerability of being a victim, but responsibility for keeping our community safe.”

Shalee Rogney can be contacted at [email protected].

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long, though the revised edition will surely have a rela-tively short chapter on the current president.

So, why is this? Why does our current president not consult his predecessor or even the daily experts there to be consulted every day in his PDB? I realize that Obama’s defenders on the left are con-temptuous of George W. Bush, but they can’t blithely dismiss the trained, educated, and ex-perienced cast of professional military and intelligence ex-perts who are there to be tapped.

Why does this president seem to disregard such advice?

It’s a troubling question that inevitably goes to the man’s personality and psychology. In that respect, I don’t know enough and could only specu-late. But I do know this much: President Obama’s dismissal of such advice clearly shows in his foreign policy.

Dr. Paul Kengor is profes-sor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. His latest book is 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative. His other books include The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipu-lated Progressives for a Century.

By BROCK VERGAKIS and MARCIA DUNNASSOCIATED PRESS

An unmanned commer-cial supply rocket bound for the International Space Sta-tion exploded moments after liftoff Tuesday evening, with debris falling in flames over the launch site in Virginia. No in-juries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort.

The accident at Orbital Sci-ences Corp.'s launch complex at Wallops Island was sure to draw criticism over the space agency's growing reliance on private U.S. companies in this post-shuttle effort.

NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, and it's counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017. NASA spokesman Rob Navias said there was nothing on the lost flight that was ur-gently needed by the six people living on the space station.

Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket blew up over the launch complex, just six seconds after the liftoff. The company said everyone at the site had been accounted for, and the damage appeared to be limited to the facilities.

Flames could be seen shoot-ing into the sky as the sun set. There was no hint of any trou-ble until the rocket exploded. This was the second launch at-tempt for the mission. Monday

evening's try was thwarted by a stray sailboat in the rocket's danger zone. The restrictions are in case of just such an acci-dent that occurred Tuesday.

"We will understand what happened — hopefully soon — and we'll get things back on track," Orbital Sciences' ex-ecutive vice president Frank Culbertson told his team an hour after the failure. "We've all seen this happen in our busi-ness before, and we've all seen the teams recover from this, and we will do the same."

The Wallops flight facility is small compared to major NASA centers like those in Florida, California and Texas. Those who work at Wallops Island joke that even people living on Virginia's Eastern Shore are surprised to learn about rocket launches there.

Denise Bowden, a spokes-woman for the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company, said it looked like a normal launch at first Tuesday. The launch pad on the island is visible from the town about four miles away.

"When it started off, it looked beautiful. A friend of mine was standing behind me -- he works civil service over there with NASA -- and he goes, 'Uh, oh.' To me it looked normal, but he knew something was wrong right away. He said, "It's bad." And then, it just went boom. And then, the explosions that followed."

Culbertson advised people not to touch any rocket debris that might wash ashore or that came down on their property

because hazardous materials were aboard.

Right afterward, the roomful of engineers and technicians were ordered to maintain all computer data for the ensu-ing investigation. Culbertson advised his staff not to talk to news reporters and to re-frain from speculating among themselves.

"Definitely do not talk outside of our family," said Culbertson, a former astronaut who once served on the space station.

It was the fourth Cygnus bound for the orbiting lab; the first flew just over a year ago. SpaceX is scheduled to launch another Dragon supply ship from Cape Canaveral in December.

The Cygnus cargo ship Tues-day had held 5,000 pounds of experiments and equipment. By coincidence, the Russian Space Agency was proceed-ing with its own supply run on Wednesday, planned well be-fore the U.S. mishap.

All the scientists and stu-dents behind the science experiments aboard the Cygnus were surely devastated. About one-third of the capsule's con-tents involved research. Among the instruments that were lost: a meteor tracker and 32 mini research satellites, along with numerous experiments com-piled by schoolchildren.

The two Americans, three Russians and one German on the orbiting lab were informed promptly of the accident.

Until Tuesday, all of the supply missions by the

Virginia-based Orbital Sciences and California-based SpaceX had been near-flawless.

President Barack Obama has long championed this commer-cial effort, urging that NASA focus its human spaceflight ef-fort less on nearby orbit and more on destinations like as-teroids and Mars. He was in Wisconsin for a campaign rally Tuesday evening and was kept abreast of the accident.

SpaceX's billionaire founder and chief officer Elon Musk — whose company is the face, in many ways, of the commercial effort — said he was sorry to learn about the failure. "Hope they recover soon," he said in a tweet.

Support poured in from else-where in the space community late Tuesday night.

"Very sorry to see the An-tares rocket launch failure," said Chris Hadfield, a former Canadian astronaut who served as space station commander last year. "Spaceflight is hard. Very glad that no one was hurt."

John Logdson, former space policy director at George Wash-ington University, said it was unlikely to be a major setback to NASA's commercial space plans. But he noted it could de-rail Orbital Sciences for a while given the company has just one launch pad and the accident oc-curred right above it.

The explosion hit Orbital Sci-ence's stock, which fell more than 15 percent in after-hours trading.

AP Science Writer Seth Boren-stein reporting from Washington contributed to this report.

Supply rocket headed to space station explodes

Dave Uhrich, an Ocean City High School physics teacher, holds a computer tablet at a gathering of people who were on the Ocean City Boardwalk, in Ocean City, NJ, to view a rocket launched from Virginia that crashed after takeoff Tuesday. The unmaned rocket was carry supplies to the International Space Station and contained a science experiment created by the local high school students.

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Flu vaccine clinic rescheduledTHE PARTHENON

The flu vaccine clinic which was originally scheduled for Oct. 23 has been rescheduled for Thursday.

The Cabell Huntington Health Department will give vaccinations from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center. The vaccination is free for all students, faculty and staff.

The clinic was originally cancelled due to lack of vaccinations.

were asked if they would house a roommate for the five weeks.”

Yaun said the students who were approached were receptive to the idea.

“About 33 students agreed to house a roommate with them,” Yaun said. “The new students will be placed with these roommates, and throughout the university residence halls.”

Yaun said the study lounges are undergoing changes now to be pre-pared for the new arrivals.

“The study lounges are being fur-nished with more furniture and beds,” Yaun said. “They will resemble regular residence hall living spaces.”

Because of the new students oc-cupying the study lounges, they will be temporarily closed to the current residents of TTE and TTW.

To compensate, Yaun said other areas of the residence halls would be made available to study or socialize.

“In TTW, the lobby and the TTW Classroom will be made available for use by the current students,” Yaun said. “For TTE residents, the lobby and the Towers Learning Center will be available for use by the current students.”

Students can always check the availability of the Towers West Class-room or the Towers Learning Center in Towers East by checking with the front desk.

Zach Wright can be contacted at [email protected].

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Meet an INTO Marshall Student

Badr IsrebBy JARED CASTO

Badr Isreb, an INTO Marshall student from Syria, is a business administration major working toward his master’s degree. Isreb came to Marshall University after completing his undergraduate degree at Kalamoon University in Syria. The hometown environ-ment of Marshall was a large attraction for Isreb, who wanted to live in a smaller city and enjoyed the greenery around Marshall’s campus. Playing tennis is one of Isreb’s favorite hobbies, along with taking midnight strolls through the city just to see what places look like after dark. After completing his masters’ degree, Isreb plans to move back to Syria to work for his father’s import/export company.

Jared Casto can be contacted at [email protected].

How long have you lived in America?

I came here to continue my studies and get my master’s degree. So I should be here for two years. I have been here for one year already.

How do you think you’ve adapted to American culture?

There are friendly people here. They accept anyone. If anyone see me, it’s exciting for them to know more about me and be friends with me. So I meet the people here, and I love the American people.

How does Marshall University compare to the college you attended in Syria?

Actually, it’s not a big difference. But of course, we have different traditions and culture. Here they have a food system that they don’t have in my country. [In Syria]

What is the biggest difference between Syria and America?

Culture and tradition. Here, when I meet people, I’m surprised about their relationships between family. They don’t really have a relationship between each other.

Why did you choose to come to Marshall?

I searched for many universities in the USA before I came. I was caring about the environment… I don’t like big cities because when you come from a different country, you’ll get lost in a big city… I saw Marshall, and I chose it. I love the environment. I love the many green areas.

What are your plans after you graduate?

Actually, my father has an import and export company. So after I graduate I’ll go back to my country and work for my father.

How do you keep in contact with your family?

By phone or by Internet... My father tried to come here, but he was so busy that he didn’t have a chance to come.

What has been your favorite experience so far?

First, talking to people. Presenting myself. I never before had presented myself. In my country everyone knows each other, so it’s not necessary. You make many presentations here, and it’s a big experience to me to have a presentation.

Are you involved with anything extracurricular?

I play tennis to enjoy myself. I don’t want to be on the team or anything.

Do you have any other hobbies?

I love walking here at midnight and searching place to place.

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