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Monday, April 4, 2010 Marshall Universitys Student Newspaper marshallparthenon.com “The Color Purple” The Marshall Artists Series closes out the season with Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Life, Page 4 C M Y K 50 INCH 227566 KIDS SALE PARTHENON STRIP AD Online marshall parthenon.com Inside PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY WHITNEY BURDETTE [email protected] Volume 114 I No. 112 Opinion....................... 2 Sports ........................ 3 Life ............................. 4 84° 37° It’s time to talk about sexual assault on campus. Page 2 Perry Brock has dug himself a hole so big that most people couldn’t get out of it. Page 4 Life Opinion Let us know what you think on Facebook and Twitter. Online The story begins with Bird and Magic creating this multibillion monster. Page 3 Sports Today’s Weather TODAY ON TV The Bachelor 8 p.m. ABC Harry’s Law 10 p.m. NBC House 8 p.m. FOX Pretty Little Liars 8 p.m. ABC Family Gossip Girl 9 p.m. CW BY KELLY STARKEY THE PARTHENON Huntington’s kitchen is promoting healthier lifestyles by using the kitchen to get more people involved with cook- ing healthier and making better choices. Huntington’s Kitchen is a com- munity food center that gives people hands on cooking. e kitchen allows Tri-State residents to take the ten- week course, just one class a week, and follow demonstrations led by the head chef. ey have a fully equipped kitchen which allows up to twelve stu- dents to 12 participate in at one time. e kitchen also offers tips for grocery shopping, ingredients, recipes and a space for holding events such as birth- day parties. e students in the class prepare healthful meals from several recipes found in Jamie Oliver’s cook books. Many businesses throughout the community can use the kitchen for events or teaching experiences. “We open up the kitchen for other community partners to use in teach- ing any kind of healthy cooking, and nutritional value,” said Andi Leffin- gwell, Huntington’s Kitchen manager. “Plus we have two series of classes. We have kept the food revolution going by continuing do Jamie Oliver’s classes, by teaching his whole food revolution theory on changing your eating and your lifestyle and then we have a grant with Share our Strengths.” “Share our Strength is for low income families with two or more children who really need to stop the lifestyles that they live with fast food and come in and get training on how to cook at home,” Leffingwell said. A goal of Huntington’s Kitchen is to help people reconnect with food. If they can teach one person to prepare a simple yet healthful meal, that person is more confident to teach others to pre- pare meals. e community food center also acts as a test kitchen. During various times of the year, different foods will be tested to see if they can still be used when it is at its lesser peak time of the year. ey may freeze strawberries to see if they could use the strawberries in the winter and if they will have the same flavors and tastes. Since Jamie Oliver leſt town, there hasn’t been many changes in Hunting- ton’s kitchen, but there has been some changes in the Tri-State area. “e change since Jamie Oliver leſt would be in the area as a whole people becoming more conscious at the need to eat fresh,” said Yvonne Jones, execu- tive director. Huntington’s Kitchen, along with Ebenezer Medical Outreach, has been continuing efforts towards Jamie Oliver’s food revolution with the help of the Tri- State area. Many people throughout the area are keeping the Food Revolution Tri- State alive in Huntington by starting a 90 day challenge. e 90-day challenge ended Saturday, April 2, with a 5k walk, music and food. All of the proceeds from the walk went to the Paul Ambrose Trail for Health. “On behalf of Paul Ambrose Trail, we would just like to thank everybody who participated today,” Sharon Ambrose said. “It is just a wonderful thing to see everyone out here supporting it and be so grateful for people to participate and to donate the funds to the path. So I hope we can break ground for the path in September of this year and have a wonderful turnout.” Ambrose said over 200 people partic- ipated in the race on Saturday morning. Although the 90-day challenge ended on April 2, Ebenezer Medical Outreach and Huntington’s Kitchen will continue to have 90-day challenges. Each chal- lenge will focus on different areas to become healthier. Kelly Starkey can be contacted at [email protected]. Huntington’s food revolution begins in the kitchen KELLY STARKEY | THE PARTHENON (Above) Huntington’s Kitchen is continuing the food revolution that chef Jamie Oliver had envisioned for the learning center. (Below) The kitchen offers classes focused on healthful cooking to local residents. The Parthenon wants to maintain credibility, trust A reporter for e Parthenon was charged with three counts of vandalism last week. Tyler Wolfe, 21, junior print jour- nalism major from Ripley, W.Va., was charged aſter he admitted to spray painting “Narc” on several locations around campus. Wolfe covered campus safety for e Par- thenon. He has since been assigned to another beat. Wolfe was also charged with con- spiracy and obstruction of justice related to his role as a student re- porter for e Parthenon. e editors and faculty adviser believe Wolfe is innocent until proven guilty. However, we also want to maintain a level of credibil- ity and trust with our readers. We want our audience to be confident that what they read in e Parthe- non is correct. erefore, until more informa- tion is available regarding Wolfe’s case, e Parthenon will not pub- lish any of his stories while we conduct an internal investigation. ank you for your support and faithful readership of e Parthe- non. We want to maintain that trust. ese actions in no way re- flect the charges brought against Wolfe. We believe these actions to be in the best interest of e Parthenon and the community it serves. e following e-mail was sent to all Marshall Univesity students and faculty early Saturday aſter a female reported a sexual assault in the freshman dorms: Earlier this morning, Saturday, April 2, 2011, a female reported an alleged sexual assault by a male acquaintance in the South Fresh- man Residence Hall onMarshall’s Huntington campus. This was reported by a friend of the alleged victim. At this time, the alleged victim does not wish to pursue charges and has not identified the alleged assailant. We do not have information that suggests an immediate threat of assault for members of the campus community, but students are asked to always be cautious and to take the steps below to help prevent sexual assault by an acquaintance. If you have information you wish to share with regard to this alleged assault or if you wish to report any incidents or emergen- cies on campus, contact the Marshall University Police De- partment at (304) 696-4357. Off campus, call 911. e Parthenon has a team of re- porters investigating the report. We will provide more information as it becomes available. Stay tuned to the print edition and website for updates. Sexual assault reported on campus

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Monday, April 4, 2010Marshall University’s Student Newspaper marshallparthenon.com

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PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY WHITNEY BURDETTE

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Volume 114 I No. 112

Opinion ....................... 2Sports ........................ 3Life ............................. 4

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It’s time to talk about

sexual assault on

campus.

Page 2

Perry Brock has dug

himself a hole so big that

most people couldn’t get

out of it.

Page 4

Life

Opinion

Let us know what you

think on Facebook and

Twitter.

Online

The story begins with

Bird and Magic creating

this multibillion monster.

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Sports

Today’s Weather

TODAYON TV

The Bachelor8 p.m. ABC

Harry’s Law10 p.m. NBC

House8 p.m. FOX

Pretty Little Liars8 p.m. ABC Family

Gossip Girl9 p.m. CW

BY KELLY STARKEYTHE PARTHENON

Huntington’s kitchen is promoting healthier lifestyles by using the kitchen to get more people involved with cook-ing healthier and making better choices.

Huntington’s Kitchen is a com-munity food center that gives people hands on cooking. � e kitchen allows Tri-State residents to take the ten-week course, just one class a week, and follow demonstrations led by the head chef. � ey have a fully equipped kitchen which allows up to twelve stu-dents to 12 participate in at one time. � e kitchen also o� ers tips for grocery shopping, ingredients, recipes and a space for holding events such as birth-day parties. � e students in the class prepare healthful meals from several recipes found in Jamie Oliver’s cook books. Many businesses throughout the community can use the kitchen for events or teaching experiences.

“We open up the kitchen for other community partners to use in teach-ing any kind of healthy cooking, and nutritional value,” said Andi Le� n-gwell, Huntington’s Kitchen manager. “Plus we have two series of classes. We have kept the food revolution going by continuing do Jamie Oliver’s classes, by teaching his whole food revolution

theory on changing your eating and your lifestyle and then we have a grant with Share our Strengths.”

“Share our Strength is for low income families with two or more children who really need to stop the lifestyles that they live with fast food and come in and get training on how to cook at home,” Le� ngwell said.

A goal of Huntington’s Kitchen is to help people reconnect with food. If they can teach one person to prepare a simple yet healthful meal, that person is more con� dent to teach others to pre-pare meals.

� e community food center also acts as a test kitchen. During various times of the year, di� erent foods will be tested to see if they can still be used when it is at its lesser peak time of the year. � ey may freeze strawberries to see if they could use the strawberries in the winter and if they will have the same � avors and tastes.

Since Jamie Oliver le� town, there hasn’t been many changes in Hunting-ton’s kitchen, but there has been some changes in the Tri-State area.

“� e change since Jamie Oliver le� would be in the area as a whole people becoming more conscious at the need to eat fresh,” said Yvonne Jones, execu-tive director.

Huntington’s Kitchen, along with

Ebenezer Medical Outreach, has been continuing e� orts towards Jamie Oliver’s food revolution with the help of the Tri-State area. Many people throughout the area are keeping the Food Revolution Tri-State alive in Huntington by starting a 90 day challenge.

� e 90-day challenge ended Saturday, April 2, with a 5k walk, music and food. All of the proceeds from the walk went to the Paul Ambrose Trail for Health.

“On behalf of Paul Ambrose Trail, we would just like to thank everybody who participated today,” Sharon Ambrose said. “It is just a wonderful thing to see everyone out here supporting it and be so grateful for people to participate and to donate the funds to the path. So I hope we can break ground for the path in September of this year and have a wonderful turnout.”

Ambrose said over 200 people partic-ipated in the race on Saturday morning.

Although the 90-day challenge ended on April 2, Ebenezer Medical Outreach and Huntington’s Kitchen will continue to have 90-day challenges. Each chal-lenge will focus on di� erent areas to become healthier.

Kelly Starkey can be contacted at [email protected].

Huntington’s food revolution begins in the kitchen

KELLY STARKEY | THE PARTHENON

(Above) Huntington’s Kitchen is continuing the food revolution that chef Jamie Oliver had envisioned for the learning center. (Below) The kitchen offers classes focused on healthful cooking to local residents.

The Parthenon wants to maintain credibility, trust

A reporter for � e Parthenon was charged with three counts of vandalism last week.

Tyler Wolfe, 21, junior print jour-nalism major from Ripley, W.Va., was charged a� er he admitted to spray painting “Narc” on several locations around campus. Wolfe covered campus safety for � e Par-thenon. He has since been assigned to another beat.

Wolfe was also charged with con-spiracy and obstruction of justice related to his role as a student re-porter for � e Parthenon.

� e editors and faculty adviser believe Wolfe is innocent until proven guilty. However, we also want to maintain a level of credibil-ity and trust with our readers. We want our audience to be con� dent that what they read in � e Parthe-non is correct.

� erefore, until more informa-tion is available regarding Wolfe’s case, � e Parthenon will not pub-lish any of his stories while we conduct an internal investigation.

� ank you for your support and faithful readership of � e Parthe-non. We want to maintain that trust. � ese actions in no way re-� ect the charges brought against Wolfe. We believe these actions to be in the best interest of � e Parthenon and the community it serves.

� e following e-mail was sent to all Marshall Univesity students and faculty early Saturday a� er a female reported a sexual assault in the freshman dorms:

Earlier this morning, Saturday, April 2, 2011, a female reported an alleged sexual assault by a male acquaintance in the South Fresh-man Residence Hall onMarshall’s Huntington campus. This was reported by a friend of the alleged victim. At this time, the alleged victim does not wish to pursue charges and has not identifi ed the alleged assailant.

We do not have information that suggests an immediate threat of assault for members of the campus community, but students are asked to always be cautious and to take the steps below to help prevent sexual assault by an acquaintance.

If you have information you wish to share with regard to this alleged assault or if you wish to report any incidents or emergen-cies on campus, contact the

Marshall University Police De-partment at (304) 696-4357. Off campus, call 911.

� e Parthenon has a team of re-porters investigating the report. We will provide more information as it becomes available. Stay tuned to the print edition and website for updates.

Sexual assault reported on campus

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Entrance into the “real world” is daunting for anyone, especially for those without job prospects. With employment particularly diffi cult to come by, Teach For America pres-ents a promising alternative for new graduates.

In 1990, Princeton University alumna Wendy Kopp founded Teach For America. With ambitious goals in mind, Kopp established a two-year program for recent college graduates to teach at urban, low-income public schools scattered across the nation. Because the program does not re-quire participants to have degrees in education or the subject they teach, TFA is an option for a wide range of educated young people.

But, depending on your commit-ment to teaching, TFA might not be the job for you.

A college degree and an impres-sive GPA do not a capable teacher make, and being inspired by Hilary Swank’s character in “Freedom Writ-ers” is not enough to ignite a genuine desire to educate. At the risk of sounding like a broken record from the Obama campaign, you must have the drive for change if you plan on entering this program.

Unfortunately, not all TFA teachers seem to have this drive. The program has a 50-percent turnover rate after two years, and an 80-percent turnover rate after three years, according to a study by U. Texas education professor Julian Vasquez Heilig and California State U’s Su Jin Jez.

These fi ndings imply TFA work-ers’ commitment to teaching is fl eeting at best, and self-serving at worst. While TFA hopes its teachers will make a lasting impact on their school system, an alarming per-centage of the program’s members complete the required two years and essentially abandon ship for either grad school in unrelated fi elds, or to pursue a different career path altogether.

To be sure, TFA can open doors for those who care deeply about bridging the achievement gap that has plagued the U.S. public educa-tion system for decades. The statistics are undeniable. America, one of the world’s most powerful nations, lags behind a majority of the developed world in its public school students’ math and reading aptitude. Texas public school students rank 49th in verbal and math SAT scores and have the 36th-lowest high school gradua-tion rate.

EDITORIAL

Entering college is supposed to be a time of excitement, anxiety and hope for the future. But for two young women this year, enter-ing college has been marked by a terrifying experience most women hope they never have to face—sex-ual assault.

Two women have reported sex-ual assaults in the freshman dorms this year—one in September and the most recent one Saturday. These startling reports beg several

questions: Are women on this campus safe? Who assaulted these women? What do these reports say about crime on Marshall Uni-versity’s campus?

Unfortunately, we do not have the answers, but several depart-ments throughout the university have the resources and knowledge to answer these questions.

These cases affect not only the victims, but everyone who is associated with this campus

and beyond. Marshall adminis-tration has been concerned for years about freshman retention: What can the university do to ensure freshmen return for their sophomore years, and how can the university attract graduating high school seniors to our campus?

One thing they can do is par-ticipate in the dialogue about sexual assault. Parents want their children to be safe on this cam-pus. Women want to walk across

Buskirk Field without having to look over their shoulders. Resi-dent advisers need to know how to talk to their residents about rape and assault. But none of these things will be achieved unless university departments are forth-coming with their information and tell students how they can protect themselves from not only sexual assault, but also robbery, battery and a host of other crimes that can happen on this campus.

The Parthenon wants to be part of this conversation. We believe every student has a right to know about crimes on campus, and in the community, to make informed decisions. However, we cannot do this unless those with knowledge come forward. We invite every student, staff member and depart-ment at Marshall to participate in this conversation with us. Student safety on and off campus should be a top priority.

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The international community must earnestly thank Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi for his ability to be the perfect scapegoat. In a region fi lled with corrupt, American-spon-sored brutes and dictators, Qaddafi represents a tyrant who has never been infl uenced by the West and is willing to fi ght to the death to main-tain his vice grip over his country.

As a result, NATO and the United Nations have jumped all over the oppor-tunity to participate in the Libyan civil war by launching a no-fl y zone, ignoring the severe repercussions of the protests still ongoing in Bahrain, Jordan, Syria and most importantly Yemen.

Yemen’s chaos is especially impor-tant when one considers the over $190 million dollars in aid the nation was receiving from the U.S., which considers Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh a pivotal ally in the ongoing albatross that is the war on terrorism.

This is the same Ali Abdullah Saleh who just last week declared a 30-day state of emergency, which suspends the constitution, bars protests and allows security forces to gain even fur-ther powers of arrest.

The reason for the state of emer-gency is the surge in protests that have gripped Yemen since February. People have been protesting Saleh’s 23-year reign, which has been notori-ous for corruption, torture and the false promise of democracy.

While Saleh’s regime has cracked down on protests, particularly in the capital of Sanaa, he has been unable to quell the outrage. Even claims that he would not run for the presidency in 2013 fell upon deaf ears, as many were reminded of a similar claim he made last election. Now promising to step down at the end of the year, his pledges are being contradicted by authoritarian actions like declaring this state of emergency.

And while Saleh makes infl am-matory statements about how he will only relinquish power if the nation he has abused is in “safe hands” follow-ing his resignation, the international community has ignored his actions and words, choosing instead to focus entirely on Libya.

By ignoring Yemen, we are ignor-ing a nation where Al Qaeda has gained signifi cant foothold despite the hundreds of millions of dollars America has poured in wantonly, as evinced by the recent capture and subsequent blast of a munitions fac-tory that left over 100 people dead.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — � e story begins with Bird and Magic creating this multibillion monster. We have read and heard the story so much, we blindly accept that the 1979 Michigan State-Indiana State title game as the genesis for the formation of the NCAA Tournament as it looks today.

Bird v. Magic is Chapter II. Chapter I took place 11 years earlier.“I cringe when I hear people say that’s the game that put college basketball on the map,” said

former UCLA point guard Mike Warren. “� ose are the people who may not be old enough to remember our game against Houston.”

Across the street in Houston from Reliant Stadium, where the NCAA basketball champion-ship game will be played Monday night, is the Astrodome. Now dormant, on Jan. 20, 1968, it became the � rst place to take college basketball out of the campus gyms and put it on a massive platform before a live TV audience.

� at is the night that truly changed college basketball. � at is the night TV married college basketball, for better or for worse.

Coach Guy Lewis was returning with his Houston men’s basketball team that had just been eliminated by UCLA in the 1967 NCAA Tournament when he proposed a game to his sports information director, Ted Nance. He wanted a rematch against UCLA.

“OK. Where would we play it?” Nance asked.“� e Astrodome,” Lewis answered.Opened in 1965, the Astrodome was home to baseball’s Astros, and sold as the Eighth Wonder

of the World. It was the original JerryWorld.“� e dome had had the circus, bloodless bull� ghts, Frank Sinatra, an event for the astronauts,

boxing matches,” Nance said. “It seemed, at the time, that’s where it should be.”Lewis sold the idea to his boss, who in turn sold it to UCLA athletic director J.D. Morgan.

UCLA coach John Wooden didn’t want it.“He didn’t want anything that was going to take us away from our academics,” said Lynn

Shackelford, a UCLA forward. “Before that game, games were played on Friday or Saturday night. � is meant more players missing classes.”

Morgan recruited a young TV exec named Eddie Einhorn, who was in charge of a network called TVS.

At the time, college basketball was a regional product televised on tape delay. But the parties agreed they had a marketable concept.

Einhorn paid $27,500 for the TV rights. In today’s dollars, that would be about $165,000. � e money was split between the two schools.

“� ere was no cable then and very, very few independent stations,” Einhorn said. “� e three networks didn’t encourage any local station to preempt prime-time programming.”

But he did not have a network signing up to televise this game. Einhorn had to sell, door-to-door, to stations. And stations weren’t exactly lining up to buy Eddie’s game.

Mike Warren had no clue what to think when he saw UCLA’s 1967-68 schedule released.“It seemed so bizarre to play a basketball game in a baseball stadium,” Warren said. “� e mag-

nitude of the place was almost surreal.”� e actual court, which was the same ¡ oor used in the LA Sports Arena, was set up in the

middle of the Astrodome.“Around second base,” Shackelford said.Because the Astrodome ¡ oor was dirt, a 3-foot ditch was dug out around the court to put in

press seating and the benches. It gave the court an elevated appearance, but it was actually on the ¡ oor.

Einhorn set up three cameras to televise the game.� e lights of the Astrodome were set up high and around the top ring of the structure; addi-

tional lighting was added over the court. Shackelford said it didn’t bother the shooters, but post players who looked up directly at the basket had to deal with lights in their eyes.

� is fact is usually lost, but before UCLA played Houston, the Cougars’ freshman team played Tyler Junior College.

Shackelford distinctly recalls, “It took forever to get from the locker room to the court.”When the game began, the players quickly acclimated to the cavernous setting. It was just a

game. But the intimacy of a normal game was gone, and the crowd noise was nothing like any player had felt before.

“I’ve never gone on a Timothy Leary-acid trip, but that’s what it felt like,” Warren said. “� e

sounds would come at you in waves. � e fans were so far away.”Fans used binoculars to watch the game, from the good seats. � e closest fans were 40 yards

from the court.“I went up to the skyboxes and looked at it and it was a long way away,” Nance said. “But if you

go to a baseball game, how small is a baseball?”Another sign of things to come: � e best seat in the house was likely at a TV viewer’s home.For one game to have a culture-changing impact, nearly every single thing has to go right.

Even the elements event planners don’t foresee have to break right.UCLA was the defending national champion and entered the game 13-0, No. 1 in the nation

and on a 47-game winning streak. � e Bruins featured one of the game’s all-time players in cen-ter Lew Alcindor.

Adding to the hype: One week before the game Alcindor su§ ered a scratched cornea. Would he be able to play?

Houston was 16-0 and ranked No. 2. � e Cougars had a Player of the Year candidate in Elvin Hayes.

UCLA-Houston started it at the Astrodome in 1968

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Kemba Walker of Connecticut shoots as the team practices Friday for their Saturday NCAA semifi nal game against Kentucky at Reliant Stadium in Houston. UConn will play for the national title against Butler at 9 p.m. Monday on CBS.

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HOUSTON – Rhett Sta§ ord went yard as part of a three-hit two-RBI day, but No. 25 Rice scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to steal a victory from the Marshall baseball team, 9-6 on Saturday a« ernoon at Reckling Park.

Kenny Socorro laced three singles and added a RBI and Steven Ross went 2-for-4 with a two-run double as Marshall dropped to 10-15, 1-4 C-USA.

Rice (20-11, 3-2 C-USA) held a 2-0 lead entering the top of the third when the Herd bats broke through against starter Abe Gonzales. Socorro, making his 126th consecutive start, began the rally with a single to le« . Two outs were recorded by the Owls’ defense before a two-out spurt got the � undering Herd rolling. Victor Gomez dunked a base hit into center to bring home So-corro with the � rst run of the day.  MU would then rally o§ two more singles to load the bases for Ross. � e junior delivered by smoking a double to right-center plating two, before R. Sta§ ord was thrown out on a bang-bang play at home to end the inning.

It also spelled the end of the day for Gonzales, as the southpaw was li« ed for Tyler Du§ ey a« er tossing the � rst three frames.

A mammoth blast to le« -center � eld from R.Sta§ ord to

start the sixth, which cleared the 375 marker with ease, marked his team leading fourth jack of the season.  Du§ ey would settle down to strike out the next two batters, before walking Gray Sta§ ord.  Another Owls’ arm was called upon in righty John Simms, and Socorro promptly greeted him with a two-strike out RBI single, extending the MU advantage to 5-2.

� e bottom of the sixth would be the last for Mason, who had a solid outing in his seventh start of the year.  � e le« y issued a free pass and single prior to fac-ing the ever dangerous Anthony Rendon.  Mason geared up and struck out the C-USA Preseason Player of the Year, but Shane Hoelschner followed by con-necting for a three-run homer to bring the game even at � ve. A« er Mason walked the next batter, he was pulled in favor of Josh King (0-1), who induced an inning ending double play to escape without further damage.

Mason’s � nal line was 5.1 in-nings pitched, giving up � ve runs (four earned) o§ six hits with four walks and two strike-outs. He collected eight outs by way of the ground, three by the air, and � red � rst-pitch strikes to 14 of the 24 batters he faced.

R. Sta§ ord continued to swing a hot bat lining a two-out two-strike single to le« allowing Isaac Ballou to race home with the Herd’s sixth run. Ballou had

singled to start the seventh, stole third and moved up on a ground out, scoring easily on the base knock from R.Sta§ ord.

Leading 6-5 entering the bot-tom of the eighth, Rice was able to rough up the Herd bullpen with four runs. � e big blow was a bases clearing double from J.T. Chargois to take a 9-6 lead to the ninth.

Le« y closer Tony Cingrani re-tired the three batters he faced to record his third save of the sea-son to secure the victory for the Owls.

Jeremy Fant (2-0) picked up the victory with two innings of scoreless relief.

� e � nal game of the series is scheduled for Sunday with � rst pitch at 11 a.m. ET.

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Marshall’s 9-6 defeat on Saturday brought the Herd to a 10-15 overall record for the season.

Rice steals victory from Herd

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Perry Brock has dug himself a hole so big that

most people couldn’t get out of it. He is a licensed gravedigger for the Tri-State area and is not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Brock, 50, of Burlington, Ohio, owns Brock Burial Vault Company, Inc., where he uses a back-hoe truck and shovel to bury people in concrete or steel vaults. He said he dug his ­ rst grave at a young age because of his father’s love for digging.

“I dug my ­ rst hole when I was eight years old with a shovel,” Brock said.

He said a� er 42 years of digging, he still comes in second place to his father who has been digging longer.

“He was digging before I was born,” Brock said. “He just dug for a cemetery down in Burlington where nobody would dig. Somehow, my grand-mother was on the board and he started digging graves there.”

Brock said he gives his father credit for the start of the business because of his knowledge.

“� at’s actually how we got started in the vault company,” Brock said. “He already knew some-thing about digging graves.”

Brock’s wife Kelly said it was rather scary when the two ­ rst started to date. She said she wasn’t fa-miliar with the scenery of graves.

“He had vaults laying all over the place,” Kelly Brock said.

She said she got over the fearsome aspect quickly. Kelly Brock said she has grown accustomed to dead bodies because of the overnight stays at their homes.

Brock said he could never abandon a dead body. Not only does he dig graves, he said some families have loved ones moved from place to place. Brock said he is in charge of transporting them to their new gravesite.

He said he must keep a close eye on the bodies because he is responsible for them while building the vaults. Kelly Brock said he has driven to Wash-ington, D.C with a body in the truck bed.

“He took it right down Pennsylvania Avenue. so he could see the White House,” she said.

He said if bodies are treated well before sealed,

then he can move them thousands of miles to their respected graves.

“We’ve got one right now that is getting ready to go to Brooksville, Fla,” Brock said. “We have to pull it out over here in Huntington and have to take it to Florida.”

He said he has moved bodies buried for more than 25 years. He said the embalming � uid helps keep the bodies intact, as well as the vault.

“If they’re in a good vault, they’ll last longer than if there in a concrete box,” Brock said.

He said the hardest experience was digging a hole in Salt Rock, W. Va. Brock said a� er digging for six inches he and his crew hit solid rock under ground.

“We jack hammered for the next eight hours,” Brock said. “� at was the hardest day.”

He said he usually digs anywhere from four to ­ ve feet when grave digging.

Brock said something he has to overcome daily is the smell of the dead bodies. Brock said the smell is indescribable.

“It’s the nastiest smell you have ever smelled”, Brock said. “� ere is something about a human body and the smell of a dead person that is gross.”

He said he gets a little help to tame the smell. Brock said it might come as an unlikely source.

“If you chew chewing gum, then it absorbs the smell while you are doing an disinterment and it will absorb that smell,” Brock said. “You still smell it, but it helps you anyway.”

He said he recommends wearing old clothes and a change of boots because sometimes the smell can taint clothes forever.

“When you get home, you have to pitch them,” Brock said.

Brock said despite the dirty and unpredictable hard work, he enjoys taking care of people’s loved ones. He said he knows he has the right attitude and cares about people which reassures him grave dig-ging is his calling.

“It could be someone’s mom, dad, brother or sis-ter and you have to be respectful,” Brock said. “It’s rewarding that you know you do a good job and when they leave, they come over and thank you and that’s the reward you get.”

Trevan Hannahs can be contacted at [email protected].

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Perry Brock works as a licensed gravedigger for the Tri-State area. His back-hoe truck and shovel are used to bury people inside concrete and steel vaults.

BY JARED ROACHTHE PARTHENON

The Marshall Artists Series ended its

season Friday night with the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “The Color Purple.”

“I think it’s a fantastic way to close out our 74th season,” said Angela Jones, marketing director for the Marshall Artists Series.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, “The Color Purple” tells the story of a young woman named Celie and follows her through 40 years of her life as she tries to find her place in the world.

“Every performance, I’m still touched with how the audience reacts,” said Edward Smith, who plays Mister in the show. “It’s a very emotional show.”

Smith has toured with the show for over a year and while he said he has gotten a bet-ter grasp on his character, he admits it took awhile to get used to.

“There’s always a learning curve,” Smith said. “With any character you play, the more you live with the character, the more you learn about them. The biggest thing for me, being that it was such a dark character and generating such negative emotions, it was hard to separate that negativity from myself once the curtain closed.”

The character of Mister begins the show as Celie’s abusive husband but has an epiph-any about halfway through the show and

changes his ways.“It’s a very juicy role for an actor to play,”

Smith said. “It’s not a one-dimensional character at all.”

While Smith said his character may be hard to sympathize with, it’s actually a very coveted role for actors.

“As an artist, you want to play roles that are so multifaceted,” Smith said. “The only downfall is playing the villain. I don’t get much applause at the end of the show, but that’s only a testimony to doing my job well.”

Hannah Rider, freshman nursing ma-jor, said while she had a hard time liking Smith’s character, she enjoyed the show and the performances.

“It’s good,” Rider said. “I really liked it. All the actors were really good.”

Before joining the cast of “The Color Purple,” Smith had toured with produc-tions such as “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Ragtime,” “A Soldier’s Play” and “Aida” — which toured throughout China as well as North America.

Smith also had a few words of advice for current theater majors at Marshall.

“Embrace every experience you have in your real life,” Smith said. “Every emotional experience you have, cherish it. Because it makes you a better actor.”

Jared Roach can be contacted at [email protected].

“The Color Purple” closes Marshall Artists’ 74th season

Grave Digging: A dirty job with a twist

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“The Color Purple” tells the story of Celie, a young woman trying to fi nd her place in the world. The Broadway musical is a Tony-Award winner.