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What Lynn Clagg saw as she looked down the hallway of the Huntington City Mission’s dormitory did not make her happy. In fact, it had quite the opposite e� ect.

“I would go home and cry every evening,” Clagg said. “We didn’t have enough beds and there were men lying on the � oor with blan-kets and pillows because that was all we could o� er them.”

Huntington City Mission did not always have the facilities it has today, and over the 10 years that Clagg has been an employee, there has been growth and change that has allowed the facility to become the largest full-service homeless shelter in the state of West Virginia.

Just like many nonpro� t orga-nizations, the Huntington City Mission has faced its share of ob-stacles. Fundraising is di� cult, and with the economy in the negative state it has been in for the past cou-ple of years, those obstacles have not been easy to overcome.

“We have very faithful donors,” Clagg said. “We are faith-based, we trust that the Lord will provide and He does.”

Clagg, community relations coordinator and volunteer coordi-nator, has seen provision in many di� erent ways. � e organization no longer receives grants from the United Way, as they have found that doing their own fundraising campaigns have provided more money for the Mission.

“We have many fundraisers that we do,” Clagg said. “Every year, we have ‘� anks for giving Day,’ the ‘Jingle Bell Walk’ at Ritter Park, and we are about to have our annual golf scramble for the 7th year com-ing up in June.”

A golf scramble is the project that Clagg has taken on, and the event has grown from year to year. � e event raised $13,000 for the � rst year, and Clagg expects to raise about $50,000 this year.

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BY TREVAN J. HANNAHSTHE PARTHENON

West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Arne

Moltis said if elected, he would ensure a decrease in the cost of living among West Virginians.

Moltis, D-Kanawha, said the state is continuing to lose money, and he and his sta� will � nd ways to increase revenue.

Moltis said many West Virginians cannot a� ord to see a doctor, and he believes in free health care.

“Preventive medicine is the best case,” Moltis said.

He said a way to help lower the costs of living would be through the John Amos Plant. Moltis said the plant would create more jobs within the state. More speci� cs were not given on the issue.

“If it was me, I would take back the John Amos Power Plant and give it to West Virginia,” Moltis said.

He said coal is made by West Virginians and bought in West Virginia, and it belongs to West Virginia.

Moltis said the stride for the elimination of the food tax is a step in the right direction for West Virginians.

“It helps everybody in West Virginia reduce their food bill,” Moltis said.

He said he believes the Marcellus Shale Oil in-come would increase revenue for the state.

“� ey should have passed setting up the revenue feature, but it didn’t,” Moltis said. “West Virginia needs more revenue.”

One of the major issues each candidate faces is education in West Virginia. Moltis said he has a passion for universities and colleges, which instill values into the next generation of youth. He said he would always be a student in his own mind.

“I like to take a problem and analyze it,” Moltis said. He said the cost for education must decrease.

He said this will create more opportunities for stu-dents to continue their education from high school and better their chances of future employers hiring them in the future.

“When you are going to Marshall, you aren’t looking at cheap education,” Moltis said. “We must

work to reduce it as low as possible.” He said he loves Marshall and believes Marshall

University is important to the state of West Virginia. Moltis said he wants to continue his own educa-

tion as well. “I want to take more classes in the future,” Moltis

said. Moltis is a graduate of Notre Dame College and

is originally from South Charleston, W.Va. Moltis said he was taught the values of education and phi-losophy. He said the values were one of the reasons he chose to run this spring.

“Analytical thought has helped me in my quest for governorship,” Moltis said.

He said although he is not widely known, he is a Christian who understands the needs of the poor and plans to use his analytical mind to solve the problems within the state.

� e primary election date is set for May 14. Moltis is one of six Democratic candidates running this spring.

Trevan J. Hannahs can be contacted at han-nahst@live.marshall.edu.

Moltis promises to reduce living costs in West Virginia

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., visited Marshall’s campus on Wednesday to speak with various student groups about issues such as the national debt.

Manchin visits student groupsBY TREVAN J. HANNAHSTHE PARTHENON

Dean of Student A� airs Steve Hensley said politicians are known for their admirable charm and great com-munications skills. He said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., exempli� es those qualities.

Manchin visited Marshall University on Wednesday af-ternoon. He spoke to a group of students from di� erent organizations across campus in the Shawkey Room of the Memorial Student Center.

Manchin was asked questions by various students about the nation’s current standing, as well as questions about how West Virginia is viewed in Washington.

He touched on several issues facing the government. Manchin said he wanted to unite democrats and repub-licans to resolve the issue of governmental spending. He

said Washington must realize the needs of American citizens before continuing to accommodate foreign aid. He said he will not vote to raise the debt ceiling if the government doesn’t � gure out a resolution to pay it back. Manchin said there must be more bipartisanship within the senate to help resolve the economic situation our na-tion faces.

He said his coming back to Marshall was important be-cause students of Marshall University are the future and must know the current state of the government. He said they must continue to get involved in their university and understand why politicians make decisions a� ecting ev-eryday life.

“Whether it is the wars, the � nances of our country, the services of our country, the solvencies of nation — they

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� e Marshall University Student Environ-mental Action Coalition hosted Patricia Shapiro, author of “Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resis-tance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All” on Tuesday to lead a discussion on moun-taintop removal mining.

“We really wanted to let people know what is re-ally going on with mountaintop removal and hope this information motivates them to get involved,” said Laruen Tussey, sophomore English major from Ashland, Ky., and organizer of the event.

Shapiro showed clips from the documentary “Low Coal,” the sequel of Coal Country, is a collec-tion of videos taken from rallies of those protesting mountaintop removal and those who support coal.

“� e focus of the reporting is on the protest-ers because some of these people have spent years trying to battle mountaintop removal through the ‘right’ channels and they are now frustrated enough to use civil disobedience,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro has been following the mountaintop re-moval movement since 2004 when she � rst traveled to West Virginia to cover a protest at a mine.

“When I was covering the protests, I really just got sucked in by the powerful personal stories from people in the area, and I just couldn’t stop writing about it,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro lead a discussion with the audience

members a� er the � lm to answer any questions about mountaintop removal mining and to take comments on what had been seen.

“Just the visual of what kind of damage is done to the mountains a� er mountaintop removal mining has really opened my eyes for the need for change,” said Zachary R. Miller, 22 of Barboursville, W.Va.

� e discussion also highlighted the need for the state to change by moving away from coal de-pendence to a more sustainable economic base.

“� is issue of moving away from coal depen-dence in West Virginia is emblematic of a larger problem with the country and its need to � nd more sustainable energy sources,” Shapiro said.

� e 10-member audience discussed several options for changes West Virginia can make such as moving towards the windmill and forestry industries. Some people discussed that moun-taintop mining must be eliminated in order for theses industries to be viable.

“If we don’t stop blasting soon, wind resis-tance will disappear and we won’t be able to support a windmill farm,” Tussey said.

Miller said the topic doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

“� e Marshall community deserves to have a good understanding of mountaintop removal and how it a� ects their future in this state,” Sha-piro said.

Elizabeth Stewart can be contacted at stewart52@marshall.edu.

Student Environmental Action Coalition hosts discussion on mountaintop removal

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Zachary R. Miller, 22, of Barboursville, W.Va., participates in a discussion on mountaintop removal coal mining hosted by the Marshall University Student Environmental Action Coalition on Tuesday at the Memorial Student Center. Patricia Shapiro, author of “Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All,” lead the discussion.

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Events that promote activity — physi-cal activity — promote healthy living within a community. Healthy living and staying active is important to runners like Laura Gil-liam. And, with the many opportunities West Virginia o� ers to participate in such active ac-tivities, Gilliam said she looks forward to the WV5K Championship Run/Walk in Hunting-ton, which also happens to be one of several fundraisers conducted by the United Way of the River Cities.

Serving as the executive director of the United Way and active participant in the or-ganization’s annual race, Laura Gilliam said her favorite fundraiser out of the golf tourna-ments and race is the WV5K not only because it promotes healthy living but also because it is a chance for the surrounding area to engage in what’s going on in town.

“I think the WV5K is great,” Gilliam said. “� e more the better of those (healthy living-related) types of activities in the community.”

� e race, among other tournaments and the traditional workplace campaign, is one of sev-eral ways the United Way of the River Cities has tried to step up its fundraising e� orts in a more creative way.

� e United Way of the River Cities, which is an organization with the mission of to lead the community in resolving human needs, has begun its campaigning e� orts to reach beyond the traditional workplace contributions as a way to o� set the adverse e� ects caused by the Great Recession and to also serve its mission as its role continues to evolve.

“We’re trying to be more creative in the way we’ve fundraised for a very long time,” Gilliam said.

She said both her role and the United Way’s role in the community have become much more active and corroborative. She said since she began as executive director � ve years ago, there was a need for her to be much more involved in the fundraising and much more collaboration with other � elds such as its � -nancial partnerships.

“When I got here, the organization was start-ing a transition from primarily a fundraising organization to a means of an end rather than the ultimate goal,” Gilliam said.

She said the organization’s focus is how the community works together to attack the issues.

“For the majority of the UW existence lo-cally and across the country, the main focus

has been the workplace campaign — going into a business encouraging employees to give through payroll deductions and encouraging the corporations to contribute on a corporate level,” Gilliam said.

 But, because of the economy, contributions have been down from the individual level to the workplace campaigns. Gilliam said while the bulk of the funds raised are through work-place campaigns, they have to account for companies and organizations that once had many donors that might no longer employ those donors. She also said the United Way sent a donor survey to in-dividual donors of whom had not donated in the past couple of years. Gilliam said the number of donors who replied decreased their charitable giving.

“I really feel like we that the economy directly a� ected contributions,” Gil-liam said. “� e majority of the people who responded — it was a sort of a limited survey — but the people who did re-spond indicated that they had to make some changes in their charitable giving because of a job loss or because of a salary reduction.”

A� ected by the recession, contributors have given less to the United Way over the past three years. In 2009, the United Way’s total revenue was about $1.3 million with 96 percent of that amount coming from contributions, gi� s and grants. Total revenues were down in 2009, compared to 2008s revenues of $1.6 million. Both amounts for 2008 and 2009 were even less than its total revenue of $2.2 million in 2007. Gilliam said she expects total revenues for 2010 will be less than 2009s $1.3 million.

Lisa Martin, director of Judicial A� airs and director of Volunteer Services at Marshall who oversees the fundraising e� orts for the United Way campaign at the university, said the re-cession has somewhat a� ected Marshall’s contributions, but it hasn’t a� ected giving as much as other areas for other people.

Martin said Marshall’s giving has decreased in a sense because some agencies Marshall supports are either no longer work with or are funded by the United Way. But, she said the campus campaign was able to raise $25,000 in just two and a half to three weeks in 2010 from October to December.

“I think Marshall University is one of the bigger contributors,” Martin said. “Retired em-ployees contribute because a lot of programs

they support are close to people’s heart.”She said creative planning also goes into the

university’s campaign as events are rotated out each year to get students interested and involved.

One fundraiser that Martin said stuck out in her mind as being the most successful was the ra¬ e.

“Having a ra¬ e has helped. We’ve had great ra¬ e prizes,” Martin said. “People want to win.”

Gilliam said, like other nonpro� ts, the United Way has had to tighten its belt with

a trim budget due to less contributions.

“� e main thing I hear is that they’re (other nonprof-its) being asked to do more with less, and I think that’s the pretty constant com-ment from all nonpro� ts. In fact, we’re kind of in the same boat,” she said.

While a few of the Tri-State’s nonpro� ts had little change in funding from 2008 to 2009, some have seen signi� -cant increases in funding and others have seen a signi� cant decrease. According to the United Way’s tax returns, seven organizations received at least 10 percent less in funding from the United Way in 2009 than in 2008. � e Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Huntington saw as much as a 31 percent decrease in funding from 2008 to 2009. Ten organizations had no change in funding, while 10 of them did re-ceive an increase in funds.

Patricia Price, executive director for Big Brothers, Big Sisters in Huntington, said she’s really appreciative of United Way funding because helping children would be di® cult without its funding. She said funds from the United Way haven’t been too greatly a� ected during the recession, but they have received less contributions from other revenue sources.

“Contributions from other fundraisers were down last year, but we saw an increase in funds from the Christmas trees sale fundraisers,” Price said. “We’re making every e� ort to in-crease fundraising.”

Gilliam said even though she thinks ev-eryone has had to tighten their budgets, she suggests it’s a good idea for nonpro� ts to di-versify sources of funding. She said years ago, the United Way may have represented a signif-icant percentage of a nonpro� t’s overall budget or budget for a program, but now that’s less of the case.

“I think the more diversi� ed the funding is for given nonpro� ts, then the less likelihood that a reduction in one source of funding is going to have a signi� cant impact,”  she said. “� e ones that are well diversi� ed — it’s (the recession) is hitting them, but the impact is hitting them maybe a little bit less.”

“We would like to put more money out into the community, but when we receive less that a� ects our ability to do that. I don’t know speci� cally about any major adjustments that have been made (by other nonpro� ts),” Gil-liam said. “I’m sure some of them have had to tighten budgets. We have.”

Some ways the United Way has tightened its budget is through reductions in spend-ing. While the organization has been able to retain its sta� , Gilliam said reductions have been made by cutting travel expenses and sta� training.

� e United Way employs 11 paid employees and 500 volunteers total who serve annu-ally, but some of those employees’ salaries are funded through grants.

“We do have some sta� who are paid through grant funds, which has nothing to do with the dollars raised in the community,” Gil-liam said. “We currently have four people who are employed at the o® ce who are funded to-tally through grant funds.”

Despite the tighter budget from a decrease in revenues during the past few years, Gilliam said she’s optimistic about the United Way’s future funding.

“I do think there’s been a positive trend to the market,” Gilliam said. “I think that we’ve got some businesses that are opening up. Some smaller employers have brought people back who were on temporary layo� . I think we’re on an upswing. I feel positive about that from a workplace standpoint.”

She said she also has much con� dence in the resource development committee’s e� orts to create fundraisers beyond the workplace campaign.

Gilliam also gives much credit to the ser-vice of the people who volunteer their time over the course of each year. She said they serve in a large range of capacities — from lo-cal businesses to Marshall students, and to the volunteers who help with tax returns, just to name a few.

“� e more you learn about the United Way the more you learn of the volunteers,” Gilliam said. “I’m constantly amazed of what people are willing to do and how giving of their time they are.”

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Walk on campus just about any day of the week and you will probably see a Marshall University cross country runner trekking his way across campus. Go to any other Marshall sporting event and, chances are, you will see the same runner in the stands cheering for the Herd.

Junior cross country runner, Matt Schiff-bauer has stood out over the course of his three years in Huntington — not only as an athlete, but also as a genuine part of the Mar-shall community.

“He’s got more friends on Facebook than anybody I’ve ever seen,” head cross country coach Jeff Small joked of Schiffbauer’s popu-larity. “No, but he’s really intelligent. He’s very funny at times. He just has a tremendous desire to excel.”

Schiffbauer has proven his desire to excel on the course, fi nishing as high as third place in the Conference USA cross country fi nals. But it is Schiffbauer’s background, not his accolades, that has made him a success story in the Marshall community.

At seven months old, Schiffbauer was placed into foster care where he would re-main until he was six. His adopted father passed away just 10 days after his adoption, leaving his new mother to raise him, along with his biological brother and sister, by herself.

“Growing up, I didn’t really acknowledge how much she actually did,” Schiffbauer said of his mother. “But being a single parent, I look back and I see she had her hands full. She did the best that she could. She did a great job.”

Schiffy, as he is known by those close

to him, was raised in Morgantown, W.Va., where he and his two siblings, Melissa and Andrew, grew up playing sports.

“I played basketball when I was young,” Schiffbauer said of his childhood dreams. “I thought I was going to go to the NBA until about the ninth grade when I walked into high school at 4’9 and I thought, ‘there goes my dreams.’”

Schiffbauer instead chose to pursue cross country and tennis, excelling at both. He ini-tially decided to choose the latter, planning to attend Concord University on a tennis scholarship.

About halfway through his senior cross country season at University High School, Schiffbauer decided to move out from his mother’s house. Schiffbauer said this gave him the opportunity to live on his own.

“I kind of learned to live and fend for my-self for my senior year,” Schiffbauer said. “I was still kind of under my mom’s wing a little bit, but I was pretty independent at the time.”

After a successful cross country senior season, Schiffbauer was recruited by Small and changed his mind, instead deciding to attend Marshall.

Schiffbauer has become the third best cross country runner in Conference USA, regularly taking ‘home player of the week’ honors and being named to the All C-USA Team.

“It was probably one of the most painful things I’ve ever done, but it was defi nitely worth it,” Schiffbauer said of taking third in the meet. “After the race, I was feeling great. I lay down for a while and my legs were OK. But the day after, when I got up and tried to run, I felt like Rick James after Charlie

Marshall runner fi nds home in Huntington

BY SAM FARMERLOS ANGELES TIMESMCT

NEW YORK — In another year, under dif-ferent circumstances, the Big Apple might be Newton’s Apple.

Cam Newton, that is, the Heisman Trophy-winning Auburn quarterback and presumed No. 1 draft pick of the Carolina Panthers.

Much more of the focus might be on him —he might even have worked out a contract with the Panthers before the draft got under way — and the conversations surrounding the event would be more about the actual game of football.

But this year is different, and the draft — the fi rst round of which takes place Thursday night at Radio City Music Hall — feels like a sideshow to the bitter labor battle between the league’s owners and players.

With U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ruling in favor of the players this week and instructing the NFL to lift the lockout, it’s hard to ignore the cloud of uncertainty

hovering over the marquee event of the offseason.

“We are in a period of uncertainty and that is something you want to remove,” Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters Wednesday during a youth football event at a Manhattan park that included participation by 13 of the draft’s top prospects. “It’s one of the things I don’t think is healthy for the players, the clubs and, most importantly, our fans. So the sooner we can get rid of that un-certainty the better.”

This much is clear: The draft will stretch over three days, with the opening round Thursday, the second and third rounds Friday, and the fi nal four rounds Saturday. Teams will have up to 10 minutes between picks in the fi rst round, seven minutes in the second and fi ve for the remaining fi ve rounds.

Newton attended Wednesday’s event but didn’t talk to reporters. Several of his fellow rookies-to-be stuck around, however, with many saying they are far more excited than anxious about what the future holds. None seemed overly concerned about the state of the labor fi ght.

Lockout gives NFL draft a chill

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Matt Schiffbauer, center, junior cross country runner, competes in a meet in fall 2010. Schiffbauer has excelled in cross country and academics during his time at Marshall.

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I believe that many would agree that violence against women is wrong. Many would be outraged to see their sister, mother, friend or daughter suffer the trauma of rape. The big question at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s isn’t whether or not violence against women is wrong, but what is the appropriate way to deal with and prevent it. I would dare to say that women who have been raped on either campus are not penalized for it; rather we question whether the rapists are penalized suffi-ciently for their crime.

Violence against women is a huge issue on college campuses and it seems that it too frequently appears in the news surrounding Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. But across the globe woman face a bigger fear than even being raped: Women fear being raped and be-ing punished for it. This form of oppression cannot be tolerated and should most definitely not be tolerated by college students who understand the fear of (sexual) violence but rely on a supportive campus community instead of further penalization for being assaulted.

Clearly rape is not just. College students, the Bangladeshi gov-ernment and the United Nations (UN) can all agree on this fact. The UN in Bangladesh and the Ban-gladeshi government agree that equality should be maintained for men and women. Unfortunately, the official stance of the national government is not upheld in the communities. The local (religious) governments tend to ignore vio-lence against women by justifying the cause or by reframing the situation. For example, domestic violence is called domestic dispute and is not recognized as a crime in Bangladesh. The UN has found that Bangladesh is currently one of the most violent countries and cites domestic violence as one of the leading causes of violence in the country.

Changing public policy may not be enough to stop violence against women in Bangladesh. What we can hope for is that Bangladesh will improve their public policy so that religious policy that allows for the killing of innocent victims will become illegal.

EDITORIAL

President Barack Obama has released a detailed Hawaiian birth certifi cate in an attempt to bury the issue of where he was born and con-fi rm his legitimacy to hold offi ce.

Donald Trump, who hasn’t released a statement whether he is running or not, has been one of many people who have wanted proof of Obama being a U.S. citizen. Trump now hopes “a lot of experts will analyze it.”

The certifi cate said Obama was born to an American mother and

Kenyan father, in Hawaii, which makes him eligible to hold the of-fi ce of president. Obama released a standard short form before he was elected in 2008 but requested cop-ies of his original birth certifi cate from Hawaii offi cials this week in hopes of quieting the controversy.

It brings to light the issue of many U.S. citizens who were born in a different country but still con-sidered American because they were born in U.S. territory. The technicality of Obama’s birth has

not deterred him from being the leader of the U.S. Documents of this nature should not need to be released because someone or a group of people are applying pres-sure to do so. These are sensitive documents. If they were released, there is a possibility that documents even more sensitive in nature could be released if people pressured them enough.

If Trump was really concerned about America, then he should campaign harder regarding how

he would change the country — not focusing on Obama’s citizenship. Citizens are dealing with more im-portant issues of struggling to pay their mortgages and bills. Trump should focus on helping the lives of everyday Americans, not trying to use his name recognition to get into offi ce.

Now that Obama’s birth docu-ments are public, the issue will hopefully be put to rest and ev-eryone can go about their daily lives. But was it really affecting the

American people that much? If Trump decides to run as a Repub-lican candidate, he should focus on the pressing national issues at hand and not Obama’s citizenship.

Something as inconsequential as verifying birth certifi cates three years into a presidential term seems like an issue that should be put on the back burner, and it says a lot about a particular potential presi-dential candidate regarding what’s really important to him.

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Each day, I drive out of the dark hills and into the city of Huntington when I go to class. Each day, I pass trailer park meth labs and flop house apartments as I wriggle out of the trees and on to Marshall’s campus. Drugs are ubiq-uitous; there’s no

escaping it. The War on Drugs isn’t a war,

it’s one group of people sandbag-ging for a flood while another group is swimming in the water. They’re never going to leave, and it’d be in our best interest as a so-ciety to learn to live with it rather than against it.

The drug market is capitalism at its finest and very worst: A ser-vice provider selling a product to a consumer who has the cash and desire for the goods. Often times, producing and selling drugs is a last resort when making a modest income just isn’t going to happen. This is the case in undeveloped areas such as South America, North Africa and the vast major-ity of Asia. These people have no other option of making any sort of substantial living other than grow-ing poppies, cocaine or cannabis. There’s no way any amount of reg-ulation or enforcement is going to make them stop pushing the prod-uct if it puts shoes on their feet.

Once the shipment has left whichever shady port it’s being hauled into, it takes a stimulant retail associate — known in some circles as a drug dealer — to de-liver the product to the costumer. This link in the chain is unbreak-able as well because of our own consumerist pressures. In an age where the middle class will burn through eight credit cards for a BMW and hardwood floor-ing, extra cash on the side selling an illicit product is easy money to make. As Westerners, we’re programmed to constantly buy; we’ll take additional income from source provided it equips us with the means to buy that next nice thing.

Needless to say, most drugs are physically and/or mentally addict-ing and will always have a steady consumer base as long as they are available. And they’ll always be available. Always. I’m not a fan of it, but it’s inevitable. We’re going to lose the war on drugs.

Contact Bishop Nash at nash24@marshall.edu.

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WASHINGTON —Leon Panetta will stand out at the Pen-tagon, whatever wars may come.

Born to Italian parents 72 years ago on the California coast, Panetta would start o� as the nation’s second-oldest defense secretary. He brings far more congressional experience than most, a� er representing the Monterey, Calif., area in the House of Representatives for 16 years. He would be the only Pentagon chief to have led both the budget and intelligence agencies.

“He’s the classic immigrant success story,” said Barry Toiv, who worked for Panetta for nearly 20 years.

On � ursday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to cap Panetta’s remarkable career by nominating the one-time Army lieutenant as defense secretary, replacing the retiring Pentagon chief Robert Gates.

Panetta is almost certain to win easy con� rmation on Capi-tol Hill, where he served in the House between 1977 and 1993 and where some of his former aides still hold key positions.

“I am a creature of the Congress, and proud of it,” Panetta told the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during his 2009 con� rmation hearing. In fact, he � rst came to Washington in 1966 as an aide to Republican Senate Minority Leader � omas Kuchel of California. He became a Democrat in 1971 a� er serving in several senior positions in the Nixon administration.

� e Santa Clara University graduate is still informal enough to be universally known as Leon, the sort of man who doesn’t seem to make lasting enemies. Inevitably, people call him down-to-earth.

It’s easy to see him as the son of Carmelo and Carmelina Panetta, who ran a cafe and then a walnut ranch that remains in the family. Panetta himself is the father of three _ his youngest son has served as a Navy intelligence o� cer _ and grandfather of � ve.

Even his career has been a family a� air. Sylvia Panetta, his wife of nearly 50 years, formerly ran his California congres-sional district o� ce. She now serves as the head of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, a study center the couple founded at California State University, Monterey Bay.

“Leon is the right guy for the times,” said former Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., who has known Panetta since the late 1970s. “He’s sunny, and he’s upbeat, and he’s very serious about policy.”

He � t his congressional district, which made him hard to

compartmentalize. For the environmentalists, Panetta fought o� -shore oil drilling. For agribusiness, he pushed for seasonal guest-workers and crop subsidies. Within the Democratic caucus, he won through internal politicking the key spot of House Budget Committee chairman.

It was Panetta’s budget committee tenure, in turn, which enabled him to leave a safe House seat and become head of the Clinton administration’s O� ce of Management and Bud-get in 1993.

“He was credible as a budgeter,” Fazio recalled. “He was seen as balanced and as a centrist.”

� en in 1994 he became Clinton’s White House chief of sta� , and was hailed for bringing orderly discipline to a once-chaotic operation.

Away from Capitol Hill, during the period between leaving the Clinton administration in 1997 and joining the Obama administration in 2009, Panetta showed he could leverage his reputation.

� e bipartisan study center he founded with his wife in 1997 sponsors lectures and internships. It reported total revenues of $1.6 million in 2009, primarily from grants and contribu-tions from unspeci� ed donors, according to its most recently available IRS reports

Panetta himself pro� ted immensely from speaking and director’s fees while out of public o� ce, according to the � nancial disclosure statement he � led with the Senate. In Oc-tober 2008, for instance, Wachovia and Merrill Lynch both paid him $28,000 for speeches, while the Fleishman Hillard public relations � rm paid him a $120,000 director’s fee, ac-cording to his disclosure statement.

Crucially, for the revival of his own place on the national stage, Panetta also stayed in close touch with political cur-rents while in Monterey. Some talked him up as a California gubernatorial candidate during a 2003 recall drama; political operatives speculated he’d want the job but not the race that was required to get it.

And when wise men have been needed for national com-missions, such as the 2006 Iraq Study Group, Panetta has always seemed a natural choice.

“He really does have an ethic of service,” said Toiv, Panet-ta’s longtime spokesman who is now vice president with the Association of American Universities. “He feels he has a re-sponsibility to the country.”

A senior administration o� cial, speaking on condition of anonymity, put it another way.

“� ere’s a pattern there,” the o� cial said. “When presidents have asked him to take up roles, he’s done that.”

Panetta will bring a lifetime of service to the Pentagon

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projects and programs of the shelter have contin-ued over the past couple of years. Donors have less money to give, fundraisers are not as successful as they once were, but that has not held the Mission back. In fact, there has been an increase in meals served and occupants lodged.

Charlene Vaughn, payroll clerk at the Mission, provided a � gure detailing the number of people the organization helped in 2010. In that year alone, the Mission served 101,510 meals and provided lodging to 48,860 people.

With only 20 full-time employees and 14 part-time employees, the need for volunteer help is obvious.

“We have people volunteer thousands of hours

every year,” Clagg said. “If I had to put a number to it, I would say around 700 people each year volun-teer their time here.”

� e organization is always looking for new vol-unteers, and there are many di� erent programs that need help. A little help can go a long way — just ask Lynn Clagg, who started out as a volunteer herself.

“My � rst time here was as a volunteer,” Clagg said. “� ey told me they had a job for me and put me in a room with an enormous pile of clothes and I started sorting.”

� at was over 10 years ago, and Clagg is still working as hard as ever at the Huntington City Mission today.

have to be involved and engaged,” Man-chin said.

He said Marshall University is very important to our nation because it is among the top two research facilities within the state and provides the edu-cation to future leaders.

“� ey have to be the forefront mak-ing the lead,” Manchin said.

Student Body President, Ray Har-rell said he was pleased with Manchin’s explanation of his belief in bipartisan-ship within the country. Harrell said he believed Manchin had the right stance on certain issues and has faith in his capabilities.

“It’s important that we have more politicians in congress who are willing to step across the aisle to achieve what he called them — ‘common sense solu-tions,’” Harrell said.

SGA Business Manager, Joe Over-street was also pleased with the senator’s ability to relate certain issues the gov-ernment faces in Washington to certain issues he faced as governor.

“It looks as if he is one of the only senators attempting to bring both sides together and solve oppressing issues we are seeing right now,” Overstreet said. Trevan J. Hannahs can be contacted at hannahst@live.marshall.edu.

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Graduating African American students will be honored this evening at the annual Donning of Kente celebration.

� e event will take place on Buskirk Field and begin at 5:15 p.m. Jacqueline Proctor, com-munications director for acting West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray

Tomblin, will be the keynote speaker.

Maurice Cooley, director of the Center for African American Students’ Programs, said 70 stu-dents will be honored.

“� e Donning of the Kente Celebration of Achievement is one of the most prestigious and culturally signi� cantly events in which Marshall’s African and

African American students can participate,” Cooley said.

� e Marshall University Afri-can Dance and Drum Ensemble will provide entertainment.

A reception will follow the event on the Memorial Student Center Plaza. In the event of rain, the event will move to the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.

Donning of Kente scheduled for Thursday

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Murphy got ahold of him. But it’s probably the best race I’ve ever had in my life.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen him have a bad race,” Small said of his performance. “I think the fact that he can always be on in a cross country race. Running 8000 meters and be-ing at your best just about every time you toe the line is not really easy to do. He makes it look easy.”

Schiffbauer said he also enjoys catching just about any other sport-ing event Marshall Athletics hold on campus.

“I appreciate all the sports,” Schiffbauer said. “I understand how they are hard in their own ways. I watch a soccer game and (a player) kicking the ball 65 yards from the ground is crazy to watch.”

Outside of athletics, Schiffy con-siders himself a bit of a closet nerd, enjoying playing video games, down-loading movies and hanging out with

fellow runners in his apartment. He also enjoys social media, frequenting Facebook, Twitter and working con-stantly to gain readers for his blog.

However, when Schiffbauer decides to head out for a run, he has nothing but work on the mind. Schiffy said he estimates running nearly nine miles each off day, bump-ing it up to 13 miles on Sundays.

He also runs several meets for the men’s track team, using this opportunity to prepare for the up-coming cross country season.

Schiffbauer said his ultimate goal for his senior season is to take home the Conference USA cross country championship.

With the dedication and hard work Schiffy puts forth day in and day out, it would be hard pressed to fi nd a runner in the conference who will beat him out for the title. Jake Snyder can be contacted at snyder100@live.marshall.edu.