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By ZACH WRIGHTTHE PARTHENON

Students feeling the stress of the semester are encouraged to drop by Midterm Meltdown Tues-day, a workshop sponsored by the Student Resource Center.

The Midterm Meltdown workshop will occur at 11 a.m. in the Drinko Library atrium on the third floor and at 1 p.m. in the SRC Conference Room.

The event is geared toward any student at Mar-shall University who may be concerned or anxious about his or her midterm exams.

Samantha Fox, student success specialist in the SRC, stressed the importance of preparation for col-lege students.

“Often it seems that students are not studying the right way or cramming the night before,” Fox said. “This often leads to a feeling of being unprepared and increases stress.”

Fox addressed the definition of a meltdown and how to combat one.

“Anytime a student feels overwhelmed and or has a feeling of ‘I can’t do this’ would be considered a meltdown,” Fox said. “The SRC staff can help you

learn tips and tricks, provide you with resources such as last minute tutoring and can you refer you to other counselors who would be available to help.”

The workshops will help students meet with counselors who can provide strategies to avoid meltdowns.

“One strategy we will focus on will be identifying specific triggers for anxiety.” Fox said. “This better helps students take control of those triggers. We are going to talk about some small tips and tricks like getting good sleep and not cramming. We will also discuss the eight-day study plan and how to break down studying for exams so that it is not such an overwhelming experience,” Fox said. “We will focus on small things you can do before, during and after the test, as well as examine and find tricks for an-swering different types of test questions.”

The SRC provides events every month for the benefit of students. Wednesday, the SRC and Career Services has the “Fall Into A Major” workshop that helps students choose a major based on strengths and interests.

Zach Wright can be contacted at wright283@marshall.edu.

By CECE ROSATATHE PARTHENON

Relay For Life has kicked off for the 2014-15 year at Marshall University. There will be a committee meeting 6 p.m. every Sunday in the Freshman North theater room.

Relay For Life is an overnight community fundraising walk in which teams can camp out and participate in a walk. This will be its 30th year of the event after Dr. Gordy Klatt walked around a track for 24 hours and raised $27,000 for the American Cancer Society in 1985.

Last year, Relay For Life had a goal of $30,000 and raised more than $32,000. This year the committee is looking to raise at least $30,000 again, but would like to beat last year’s amount.

Various ceremonies and laps make Relay

For Life different from other cancer events. The Luminaria Ceremony, which occurs at night, features candles lit inside of per-sonalized bags, which are then positioned around the relay track. The survivors lap is dedicated specifically to cancer survivors, and the Fight Back Ceremony is intended to inspire relay participants to take action. Cancer survivors usually speak during these ceremonial laps.

There are many positions available on the committee including online chair, logistics chair and recruitment chair. All class lev-els are welcome and encouraged to join the committee.

The committee will attend an informational meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Oct. 25. This is a meeting for collegiate Relay For Life committee members.

The committee is looking to have fund-raising events leading up to the major event, including possibilities of a benefit concert, ac-tivities and smaller community events.

Holley Durham from the American Cancer Society will come to all of the meetings and teach the committee members how to do their jobs efficiently. She said the committee is re-cruiting all over campus this year.

“We need to get teams signed up,” Durham said. “We are really looking to get all campus organizations involved this year, ranging from athletics to Greek life to religious groups and everything in between.”

This year’s Relay For Life event will be in April and will be six to 11 hours long, com-pared to last year’s 12 to 18 hour event.

CeCe Rosata can be contacted at rosata@marshall.edu.

RELAY FOR LIFE GEARING UP FOR APRIL

SRC helps students avoid a

midterm meltdown

QUICK TIPS FOR KEEPING CALM DURING MIDTERMS

1. Plan ahead/schedule Procrastinating will always heighten stress levels.

2. Take advantage of technologyNo, not for Twitter and Instagram, but for flash card apps and notes.

3. Don’t partyOr do, but suffer the potential mental conse-quences and stress later.

4. Eat wellLate night greasy snacks will hurt energy levels more than they will help.

5. Take breaksRejuvenate with plenty of time away from the books.

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MARSHALL VOLLEYBALL IMPROVES TO 3-0 MORE ON SPORTS

FILE PHOTOS

Members of the community help raise funds all night outside on Buskirk field

for Relay for Life April 11.

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By AUNDREA HORSLEYTHE PARTHENON

The Marshall University A.E. Stringer Visiting Writ-ers Series kicks off with authors Glenn Shaheen and Eric LeMay reading their work 8 p.m. Monday in the John Deaver Drinko Library atrium.

Shaheen will read from his award winning poetry collection titled “Preda-tory,” which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was the runner-up for the Norma Farber First Book Award. LeMay is the author of three books titled “The One in the Many,” “Immor-tal Milk” and “In Praise of Nothing.” LeMay has taught writing at Harvard Univer-sity, Columbia University, the University of Chicago and Ohio University. His work has been published in The Paris Review, Gas-tronomica, Poetry Daily and the Best Food Writing Series.

Rob Engle, A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series in-tern, said he is excited to

hear Shaheen speak about his work.

“I am reading his book right now, and I am excited that he is coming to Marshall,” Engle said. “I get to introduce him, and I get to conduct an inter-view with him.”

Engle also said he is looking forward to seeing students participate in the event.

“It is great to see English classes reading the works of these authors,” Engle said. “The students will be able to ask informed questions and talk to the authors after the readings. We hope we can get students, and the com-munity to the event because these types of events are very important. Students need to meet the authors of books that they have read and net-work with a community of writers.”

After the reading, Shaheen and LeMay will conduct a question and answer session followed by a book signing.

Aundrea Horsley can be contacted at Horsley9@marshall.edu.

Shaheen and LeMay to read from their work at Visiting Writers Series event

ASSOCIATED PRESSAn American doctor who

was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone was admitted Sunday to a hospital at the National Institutes of Health near the nation’s capital.

The patient, who was not identified, arrived at NIH’s Clinical Center about 4 p.m., NIH said in a statement on its website.

NIH said that out of “an abundance of caution,” the

By JONATHAN MATTISEASSOCIATED PRESS

Patriot Coal committed serious violations by fail-ing to ensure walls and roofs were properly sup-ported before a severe accident called a coal burst killed two West Virginia miners in May, according to state mining officials.

Just three days before the deadly accident, there was a similar collapse at the Brody Mine No. 1, ac-cording to a state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training investigation re-port. The office cited the company in several “no-tices of violation.”

No one was seriously hurt in the earlier incident, which went unreported, and underground mining continued the next day, the state report says. A coal burst involves the violent failure of a roof, pillar or wall of coal inside a mine. High-speed coal is shot at anyone in the way.

On May 12, miners Eric Legg and Gary Hensley were killed by a coal burst at the Boone County mine. It filled up their section of the mine with coal four and a half feet deep, leav-ing just a small opening between the coal and the roof, the report states.

The burst that occurred three days earlier covered a worker in coal up to his waist, but didn’t injure him. Afterward, an assis-tant mine foreman found cracks in the roof, dete-rioration of the mine’s ribs and a change in the bolting pattern.

After spotting those is-sues, the assistant foreman told the section foreman, “I would not mine this,” the report states.

State cites Patriot Coal in W.Va. mine accident

US doctor exposed to Ebola virus admitted to NIHphysician was admitted to a special isolation unit. NIH infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci wouldn’t dis-cuss details about the patient but said that in general, an exposure to Ebola doesn’t necessarily mean someone will become sick.

“When someone is exposed, you want to put them into the best possible situation so if something happens you can take care of them,” Fauci said.

“NIH is taking

every precaution to ensure the safety of our patients, NIH staff and the public,” the agency said in a statement.

Four other American aid workers who were sickened by Ebola while volunteering in the West African outbreak have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska. One remains hospitalized while the others have recovered.

An Associated Press pho-tographer saw a person dressed in a white protective

suit get off a plane and walk to a waiting ambulance at the Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland about 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

The plane’s tail number matched that of the aircraft that has been used previously to transport other Ebola pa-tients to the United States from overseas.

NIH spokesman John Burk-low confirmed that the plane carrying the patient landed at Frederick.

Miners moved some equipment and resumed mining the next day.

On the evening of the fatal accident, the gen-eral foreman and mine manager expressed safety concerns after the earlier outburst. According to a shuttle car operator, crew members laughed about suggestions to protect the mine operator, the report states.

Legg, 48, of Twilight, and Hensley, 46, of Chapmanville, were per-forming a risky method known as retreat mining. It involves intentionally collapsing the roof to re-trieve more coal.

Retreat mining is con-sidered standard practice in mines where coal re-serves are running out.

Federal officials said the mine had so many safety problems it was deemed a “pattern viola-tor,” a rare designation reserved for the indus-try’s worst offenders.

Brody No. 1 was one of only three mines last year to earn the label. Regulators have empha-sized identifying pattern violators since the 2010 Upper Big Branch explo-sion killed 29 miners about 10 miles away.

Patriot Coal spokes-woman Janine Orf said the company can’t comment on ongoing investigations or legal matters.

The Charleston Gazette first reported on the enforcement.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administra-tion is still writing its report on the incident, said administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere.

ASSOCIATED PRESSThe images are much like

moviegoers saw during the buffalo hunt when “Dances With Wolves” hit the big screen nearly 25 years ago: hundreds of massive animals shaking the prairie as they kick up dust and stream down the hills.

During the annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup in South Dakota’s Black Hills on Friday, horseback riders — many of them real-life cowboys — were joined by all-terrain vehicles and pickup trucks to gather about 1,200 bison into corrals, joining roughly 100 head brought in earlier. They’re branded and given vaccinations and then the herd is culled, or

reduced, to about 900 that will be released back onto the park to roam free for another year. The rest are sold at auction

The annual event started 49 years ago as a way to manage the herd and ensure there’s enough grass for all the animals.

“We’d do it if nobody showed up, but we share it with Amer-ica,” said Craig Pugsley, visitor services coordinator for the park.

The crowd has grown from a few hundred spectators in the early years to about 14,000 people from around the world who lined the hills this year. Park managers expect much bigger crowds next year for the 50th roundup.

Spectators watch as riders and drivers herd the buffalo toward the corrals Friday at the 49th annual Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup in the southern Black Hills near Custer, S.D. After the roundup, some of the buffalo were vaccinated, branded, checked for pregnancies and others were sorted for an auction.

PHOTOS BY KRISTINA BARKER | AP PHOTO

An American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone walks across the tarmac Sunday at the Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Md. The doctor will be transported to the National Institutes of Health facility in Bethesda, Md.

TIMOTHY JACOBSEN | AP PHOTO

Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup

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By LACHEL HOUSETHE PARTHENON

The Marshall University volleyball team concluded the second annual ‘Fight Like Hal’ cancer awareness event by defeating Florida International University Sunday at the Cam Henderson Center. The Herd beat FIU in three sets, becoming 3-0 in conference play, as well as at home.

The Herd found itself in an intense back and forth battle with the Golden Panthers in the early stages of the first set. However, Marshall gained momentum after a kill by junior middle blocker Jill Shemansky, who made the game 8-6. From that point on, Marshall dominated. The Herd ended the set on a four-point run and won 25-17 with an attack percentage of 66 with sophomore middle blocker Ally Kiekover lead-ing the set with four kills.

The second set was all Marshall. The Golden Pan-thers made many crucial mistakes such as a net violation and several hits and blocks that went out of bounds. This gave the Herd a 20-11 lead toward the end of the set. Marshall defeated FIU 25-16 with an attack percentage of 70 - a 4 percent increase from the opening set. Sophomore outside hitter Cassie Weaver led the set with 11 kills.

The Golden Panthers fought hard in set three, but the Herd pulled out a 27-25 winning set. The set opened with two kills by sophomore opposite Elyse Panick. Early on, it seemed as if the Herd was going to

sweep the Golden Panthers away after taking a five-point lead. However, Florida International fought back, eventually tying the game 11-11. The lead ex-changed six times between the two teams, ending with a kill by Panick, swinging the momentum back in favor of the Herd. Marshall finished set three with an attack percentage of 53, which was the lowest of the game.

Panick’s momentum swinging kill set the Herd up for the win. Panick said she does everything she can to keep a ball in play during crucial moments.

“Whenever it’s a tight game and I get the ball, my instinct is to put the ball down and keep it in play,” Panick said. “I have to make sure that I do something that is going to help the game.”

The Herd took the set in three wins, and junior middle blocker/outside hitter Lauren Legge said it was especially rewarding not only to win, but to do it in record time.

“If feels awesome, especially since we’ve been

taking the last two to five to win,” Legge said. “Pushing through the game and taking it in three is a great

feeling.”Kiekover had game changing plays such as three

kills in a row late in the third set. Legge commended Kiekover on her ability to change the momentum of the game. Kiekover said it shows the mutual admira-tion the Herd’s volleyball team shares.

“It feels really good to have a teammate say some-thing nice like that,” Kiekover said. “It shows the level of respect we have as teammates on this team.”

Lachel House can be contacted at house13@marshall.edu.

“I have to make sure that I do something that is going to help the game.” Elyse Panick, sophpmore opposite

Marshall volleyball beats FIU

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TEAM OVERALL

UTSA 7-7 Marshall 8-9 Western Kentucky 14-4 FAU 11-5 Rice 11-5 North Texas 10-5 Charlotte 12-7 Middle Tennessee 5-10 UAB 4-12 Southern Miss 12-8 Louisiana Tech 7-9 FIU 3-12 UTEP 2-12

C-USA Volleyball Standings

Middle blocker Ally Kiekover plays against FIU Sunday.

Head coach Mitch Jacobs speaks with the team at Sunday’s game.

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By KIM FRITTSTHE PARTHENON

There is a fine line between a funny joke and taking it too far.

The other day, I was going through social media and I saw a picture of this guy pointing something resembling a gun at a cat while he held the cat up. At first, I thought it was a real gun and it got me re-ally upset. After looking closer, I realized it was actu-ally a staple gun.

Though this is a less serious case, because it is with a staple gun, it still brings up the same issue. Holding a gun or any type of weapon to a helpless animal is not funny at all. Instead, it is going overboard because this is something that is not joked about in moral standards and should be taken seriously.

In 2012, Bam Margera of Jackass was pictured holding a gun right up to a puppy’s head.

It was apparently a toy gun, as I just recently learned. He got a lot of criticism for it and later came out and apologized, say-

ing it was a prank. When he posted

this picture, I was upset that any-

one would do such a thing, as were a lot of

other people. The cat and

puppy in these instances were oblivious and helpless to what

their owners were doing, even though

the owners were joking. It is extremely upsetting to see these animals so helpless in this kind of situation or even a worse situation.

Any kind of animal cruelty or “fake” violence towards ani-mals should be taken seriously and not be joked about, just like many other topics should not be joked about. Bottom line is: do not jokingly act like you are hurting an animal, because it is cruel and inhumane.

“Any kind of animal cruelty

or ‘fake’ violence towards animals should

be taken seriously...”

The thin line between a prank and animal cruelty

If you walk into any toy store in the United States, you’ll undoubtedly be able to find the girl section with ease: just find the pink.

Girls get to play with dolls and makeup, while boys get to fight dragons, go on ad-ventures and play with chemistry sets. One little girl, Riley, has become YouTube famous for being angry about how girls all have to buy pink stuff and boys get to buy different colored stuff.

Riley will probably be excited to hear about the line of female scientist Lego figurines that came out in August.

Riley will also probably be very upset that the line sold out almost immediately, and that Lego will not be producing any more of them, due to it being a limited edition line.

Lego has long been a culprit of sepa-rating boys and girls toys with the color pink. All the girl sets include beach houses, Disney princesses and pink ve-hicles, while the boy sets involve space adventures, saving the princesses and be-ing police officers and firefighters. And, there are drastically more boy themed sets than there are girl themed, and many fewer female figures than male ones.

This isn’t primarily an issue with Lego. Gender roles are instilled at an early age, and we can see it in the toy section. Girls get to play with pink kitchen sets, pink baby dolls, pink makeup kits and pink Barbies with pink clothes, while boys get to do pretty much everything else.

Boys and girls should be encouraged to play with whatever toys they want. Boys

may want to play with a kitchen set, but why does it have to be pink? After all, the majority of people who have jobs as pro-fessional chefs are male. And shouldn’t boys play with baby dolls to learn how to take care of a child?

In Swedish toy advertisements, both boys and girls are seen playing with dolls, dollhouses, kitchen sets, su-perheroes, laser guns and racecars. If every other place in the world adopted this method of advertisement, it would break down the barriers of gender roles in playtime.

Riley would agree that everyone should be able to play with whatever toys they want to play with, and that girls should get more colors with their toys.

Child’s play isn’t simply pink and blue

By JOCELYN GIBSONNEWS EDITOR

A couple of months ago, my fiancé shared with me an article about how men can dominate just about every situ-ation without meaning to. It explained how men take on a posture that allows them to physically take up more than the space they really need. Also, the article stated that in conversation, men tend to dominate because their voices are louder, deeper and more confident.

Being a woman who constantly tries to shrink herself in social situations, I noted that while the article made a valid point about how men can be more conscious in their interactions with others, it has also been my experience that women can be just as guilty of asserting themselves too much.

I cannot even begin to list the number of times I have been in an all-female set-ting and felt my voice being lost in the conversation because I am not loud, and I will not talk over people. That is just part of my personality.

Often times, those who are participat-ing in the conversation will not even notice that I have retreated from it. I think this is a problem if women want to suc-ceed as a unit.

The single basic principle of feminism is equality. If even within that group of like-minded people the introverts are be-ing left-out, feminism has failed its first test.

I joined the movement to help peo-ple like myself, to give them a voice because I know what it is like to be without one. And while I believe that assertiveness is a wonderful quality for anyone to have, it is not a part of my personality and probably never will be, so those who are assertive by nature should be aware of dominating femi-nist dialogues.

No, I am not saying that assertive women should cater to those who are less so by altering their communi-cation styles. I am saying that in the same way the article asked men to

be more aware of their tendency to dominate in everyday life, so should women who were blessed with that characteristic.

Self-awareness is a characteristic that everyone can benefit from, because it is important not only to assess your own role in every interaction, but the roles of others as well. We need to ad-just our communication styles to fit the interaction.

Outspoken individuals should check themselves to make certain that they aren’t dominating an interaction, es-pecially when the interaction is with someone less outspoken. Quiet folks, like myself, should do the same and make cer-tain they aren’t allowing themselves to be dominated.

If feminism is not allowing all women’s voices to be heard, then it isn’t helping women as a whole, it is pushing some of us further into the background and, even worse, it is being done to feminists by feminists.

Don’t dominate to assert yourself“Self-awareness is a characteristic that everyone can benefit from, because it is important not only to assess your own role in every interaction, but the roles of

others as well. We need to adjust our communication styles to fit the interaction.”

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By DAVID PORTERASSOCIATED PRESS

Actor-comedian Tracy Mor-gan and other people in a limousine struck from behind by a Wal-Mart truck on a high-way in June are at least partly to blame for their injuries be-cause they weren't wearing seatbelts, the company said in a court filing Monday.

The filing was made in federal court in response to a lawsuit Morgan filed in July over the accident, which killed his friend James McNair, who was accompanying the former "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" star back from a show in Delaware. Morgan spent several weeks in rehab with rib and leg injuries.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Arkansas, said in the filing that the passen-gers' injuries were caused "in whole or in part" by their "failure to properly wear an appropriate available seat-belt restraint device," which it said constitutes unreasonable conduct.

An attorney represent-ing Morgan and the other plaintiffs called Wal-Mart's contentions "surprising and appalling."

"It's disingenuous," attor-ney Benedict Morelli said. "It's not what they said they were going to do initially, which was take full responsi-bility. I'm very upset, not for myself but for the families I represent."

The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and punitive and com-pensatory damages. It says the retail giant should have known that its truck driver had been awake for more

than 24 hours before the crash and that his commute of 700 miles from his home in Georgia to work in Delaware was "unreasonable." It also al-leges the driver fell asleep at the wheel.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said in an email that the company "continues to stand willing to work with Mr. Morgan and the other plaintiffs to resolve this matter."

Passengers Ardley Fuqua and Jeffrey Millea and Mil-lea's wife, Krista Millea, also are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Krista Millea was not in the limousine when the crash occurred but is a plain-tiff because she has a related loss-of-services lawsuit stem-ming from the crash.

Truck driver Kevin Roper, of Jonesboro, Georgia, pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges in state court. A criminal com-plaint also accuses him of not sleeping for more than 24 hours before the crash, a vio-lation of New Jersey law.

A report by federal trans-portation safety investigators said Roper was driving 65 mph in the minute before he slammed into the limo van. The speed limit on that stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike is 55 mph and was lowered to 45 mph that night because of construction.

Roper had been on the job about 13 1/2 hours at the time of the crash, the report concluded. Federal rules per-mit truck drivers to work up to 14 hours a day, with a maxi-mum of 11 hours behind the wheel.

Wal-Mart: Morgan wasn't wearing seatbelt in crash

By JEFF BAENENASSOCIATED PRESS

Harpist Terri Tacheny long enjoyed taking her young daughters to Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, except for the Primate House, where she thought the gorillas, orangutans and monkeys seemed a little lethargic.

Her solution: A little music.Now Tacheny, 57, a zoo volunteer,

plays once a month for an appre-ciative audience that ambles down to the barrier as soon as Tacheny begins setting up her beautifully carved wooden harp. She's been doing it for nearly a decade.

"I don't speak gorilla, but there's a gorilla purr that occurs when I begin to play. And that's their happy sound," Tacheny said.

As the shimmering sounds of Tacheny's harp drift through the leafy zoo, a male gorilla stares through the fence at the musician, then chews contentedly on veg-etation. Families stop to snap pictures.

A therapeutic harpist, Tacheny plays for

hospital patients to help them deal with pain and anxiety. She thought if the soothing sounds helped calm humans, it would work for the primates too.

"I would love to see every zoo have a harpist. I think it bene-fits the animals," said Tacheny, a quick-to-smile woman.

Tami Murphy, a zookeeper at Como, said Tacheny has played for all the animals at the zoo. Some animals appear ambiva-

lent, Murphy said, but the harp music "seems to be a really calming thing for the apes to listen to."

Tacheny says she's never gotten a nega-tive review from her ape audience.

"I've never had anything thrown at me," she said.

Harpist's mellow tone soothes apes at St. Paul zoo

In this Aug. 27, 2014 photo Terri Tacheny plays her harp as one of the gorillas stood nearby outside the Primate House at Como Zoo in in St. Paul, Minn. Tacheny, 57, a zoo volunteer, plays once a month for an appreciative audience that ambles down to their barrier as soon as Tacheny begins setting up her harp. She’s been doing it for nearly a decade.

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"I don't speak gorilla, but there's a gorilla purr that occurs when I begin to play. And that's their

happy sound.">Terri Tacheny, harpist

By DAVID PORTERASSOCIATED PRESS

A former star of the MTV reality show "Jersey Shore" and his brother filed bo-gus tax returns on nearly $9 million and claimed mil-lions in business expenses — including luxury vehicles and clothing — that were actually for personal use, according to an indictment released Wednesday.

Mike "The Situation" Sor-rentino and his brother Marc pleaded not guilty through their attorneys during a brief initial appearance in U.S. District Court. Neither made any statements dur-ing or after the proceeding, though when Mike Sorren-tino was asked outside the courthouse if he was inno-cent he smiled and replied, "Of course."

Each brother was released on $250,000 bail and sched-uled for arraignment on Oct. 6.

According to the seven-count indictment, the Sorrentinos earned about $8.9 million between 2010 and 2012, mostly through two companies they con-trolled, MPS Entertainment and Situation Nation. They allegedly filed false docu-ments that understated the income from the businesses as well as their personal in-come. Mike Sorrentino also is charged with failing to file taxes for 2011, a year in which he earned nearly $2 million.

The brothers also alleg-edly spent millions of dollars on personal expenses they claimed were for business In 2012, for example, the brothers filed documents with an unnamed accounting

firm in Staten Island that claimed $3.9 million in busi-ness expenses, according to the indictment released by U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.

Both brothers are charged with one count of conspir-acy to defraud the United States, which is punish-able by a maximum prison sentence of five years upon conviction.

Marc Sorrentino faces three counts of filing false returns from 2010 to 2012 and Mike Sorrentino is charged with two counts, in addition to one count of failing to file taxes for 2011. The conspiracy is alleged to have run from early 2010 to late 2013 in Monmouth and Ocean counties in New Jersey.

The false filing counts carry maximum potential prison sentences of three years; failure to file carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison.

"Rather than living in re-ality and reporting their true income, Michael Sor-rentino and his brother Marc created the illusion that they earned less in-come by filing false and fraudulent tax returns," said Jonathan D. Larsen, head of IRS-Criminal Inves-tigation, Newark.

Christopher Adams, an at-torney for Marc Sorrentino, blasted the government's case.

"He has spent the better part of a year trying to show them flaws in their theory,

and it is unfortunate that the government has chosen to rely on the word of a dis-graced accountant who is a proven liar," Adams told The Associated Press in an email.

Richard Sapinski, an at-torney representing Mike Sorrentino, didn't comment after the hearing and didn't return a message seeking comment.

The cast of the MTV reality show were known for their rowdy lifestyle that occa-sionally led to legal scrapes. In July, Mike Sorrentino agreed to take anger man-agement classes to resolve assault charges stemming from a July 15 fight with his brother at their family's tan-ning salon.

'Jersey Shore' star Sorrentino hit with tax counts

Reporters gather around Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino as he leaves the MLK Jr. Federal Courthouse in Newark, N.J., after a court appearance, Wednesday. The former "Jersey Shore" reality series star and his brother underpaid taxes on nearly $9 million in income over the last several years, the U.S. attorney's office charged in a seven-count indictment released Wednesday.

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Morrow Library has a Hispanic Heritage Display set up until Oct. 15 in honor of Hispanic Heritage month.

The display opened Sept. 15 because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days Sept. 16 and Sept. 18.

To honor Hispanic achievements, Congress passed Public Law 100-402 to request and authorize the president to annually issue a proclamation designating Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 as “National Hispanic Heritage Month.”

Sue Bell, library employee, said the purpose of the display is to showcase the impact Hispanic people have had on American society.

“During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we recognize the many Americans of Hispanic descent who have made outstanding contributions to the nation,” Bell said. “Hispanics have made a tre-mendous contribution in every aspect of American society, culture and life.”

The Hispanic Heritage display has documents from the federal government on various subjects — including paper documents, microfiche and information cds. It also consists of artistic pictures and posters of Hispanic Americans.

Bell said she believes the display could have a positive impact on not only students, but also anyone who happens to view the display.

“Students and patrons can benefit from the various educational resources available on Hispanics,” Bell said. “We have some excel-lent sources that students could use for their research projects, papers and for personal information.”

The rich Hispanic cultural traditions have made a huge impact on American society. Hispanic Americans come from a very di-verse background, including a strong tradition of service in the armed forces.

Donyelle Murray can be contacted at murray91@marshall.edu.

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By COLLEEN BARRYassociated press

The romantic canaled city of Venice has been the venue for 323 weddings of foreign couples this year. Only one has drawn crowds and paparazzi.

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin said "I do" for a sec-ond time Monday, celebrating a civil wedding ceremony in Venice's City Hall on the Grand Canal, greeted by hundreds of well-wishers who waited hours for a glimpse of the newlyweds.

The couple tied the knot two days earlier in a private cer-emony attended by Hollywood celebrity friends and family in a luxury hotel. They followed up with a required civil pro-cedure, which to be legally recognized must take place on a site designated by the city administration.

The newlyweds arrived at the pre-Renaissance Ca' Far-setti in Clooney's regular water taxi, called "Amore," trailed by dozens of boats with photogra-phers, as has been the case all weekend. Police boats tried to clear their way.

Clooney, 53, looked dapper in a gray suit and matching tie, while the bride, 36, wore a cream-colored, short-sleeved

jacket with palazzo pants and a matching wide-brimmed hat accented by a navy ribbon.

As they exited the boat, Cloo-ney drew his wife's attention to the crowds on the opposite shore, and they stopped briefly to take in the scene and wave. Clooney then ushered Alamud-din inside, looking up at city employees watching from the surrounding buildings and pointing inside with his thumb as if to say, "I gotta go."

They emerged about 20 min-utes later with former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, who performed both ceremonies. Veltroni sent the couple off, hugging Clooney and kissing Al-amuddin on the cheek.

They continued up the Grand Canal and under the arched Rialto Bridge, crowded with more well-wishers screaming "George, George," before dis-appearing up a one-way canal. Clooney's water taxi driver, who has ferried the actor around on his frequent trips to Venice, was later seen at the airport and in-dicated that the couple had left.

One of the world's most ro-mantic cities, Venice draws couples from around the world for a fairy tale wedding in well-appointed official wedding halls

overlooking the Grand Hotel. According to official statistics for this year, 323 non-Italian couples were married in Ven-ice's historic center through Monday.

A city employee, who identi-fied herself only as Luisa, said she leaves her window over-looking the Cavalli Palazzo, where most ceremonies take place, open in the summer just so she can hear the parade of newlyweds being congratulated by loved ones.

"There are so many beautiful brides. Every 10 or 15 minutes, they come out and people throw confetti or rose petals," Luisa said, standing with a group of co-workers who came outside to see Clooney and his bride arrive. "Once there was even a Scotsman in a kilt. Often we find champagne bottles and glasses here in the morning."

The last couple to exchange vows before the Hollywood star and his new bride arrived was Stefanie Eddinger and Gerald Frieder, from Vienna. The cou-ple enjoyed the added energy from the crowd outside await-ing the celebrity newlyweds.

"They picked our day," Frieder said, before stepping outside into a shower of confetti.

clooney gets hitched in Venice

Morrow Library displays Spanish books, photos, and other memorabilia in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. lexi Browning|the parthenon

George Clooney, flanked by his wife Amal Alamuddin, waves from a water-taxi after leaving the city hall in Venice, Italy Monday. Clooney married human rights lawyer Alamuddin Saturday, the actor's representative said, out of sight of pursuing paparazzi and adoring crowds.

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