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Teaching assistant arrested, charged with possession of child pornBy JOSIE LANDGRAVETHE PARTHENON

A graduate teaching assistant in the psychology department at Marshall Uni-versity was arrested Wednesday for two counts of felony possession of child pornography.

Jacob Wolfe, 28, was taken into custody inside his classroom in Harris Hall around 11:00 a.m.

The investigation against Wolfe began in July 2012, and the West Virginia Cyber Crimes Task Force, West Virginia State Po-lice and Huntington Police served Wolfe with a search warrant to search his com-puter and hard drives.

According to a police report obtained from the Magistrate Court of Cabell County, investigators found child pornography on three hard drives and one USB drive. Ap-proximately 179 graphics and five videos have been confirmed to be child pornog-raphy that depicts child victims as young as four years old. Two pornographic vid-eos involved minors identified as victims

through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Cpl. Robert Boggs, with West Virginia State Police Crimes Against Children Unit, was the arresting officer. Boggs said Wolfe could face additional charges pending a grand jury review.

Kayla Stewart, sophomore health sciences major, is a student in Wolfe’s psy-chology class and was taking a test when the arrest took place.

“I was shocked. When the officers en-tered the room, I thought it was a joke because it is an experimental psychology class. I thought Mr. Wolfe was just trying to test our reactions to serious situations,” Stewart said. “But when they put the handcuffs on him and said he was under arrest for child pornography, I knew it wasn’t a joke.”

Stewart said Wolfe was very helpful and enthusiastic when teaching. She said he was always open to questions and ex-plained concepts in-depth.

“I never would have expected him to

be involved in something like this,” Stew-art said. “We all just sat there quietly and looked at each other as they left the room.”

A faculty member in the psychology de-partment dismissed the students from the

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FAR LEFT: SGA presidential candidate EJ Hassan presents his platform at the presidential debate Monday. MIDDLE LEFT: Hassan and running mate Ashley Lyons the night they decided to run for office. MIDDLE RIGHT: Hassan embraces Lyons after the results were stated Wednesday. FAR RIGHT: Hassan hugs his cabinet and current SGA members after his win Wednesday at the SGA office in the Memorial Student Center.

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By KIMBERLY SMITHTHE PARTHENON

Just 38 votes separated winning candidate, EJ Hassan, and second place winner, Derek Ramsey in the race for Marshall University student body president. Election Commissioner Ray Cousins announced the results of the 2013 election Wednesday.

“Going into it, you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Hassan said. “You work very hard, you pray and you put your best foot forward when you walk in the door to hear the results.”

All three teams had two weeks to campaign on campus before the vot-ing started.

“I think what put us ahead in this election was reaching out to students,” Hassan said. “You have to break out of your shell and reach out to people you haven’t talked to.”

Steve Hensley, dean of Student

Affairs, said the election was differ-ent this year than the other years he has been involved, because there were so many quality teams of good stu-dents who were experienced and well organized.

“There were three excellent teams this year that worked hard to put their ideas out there for people to view,” Hensley said. “I think that takes a lot of courage.”

Outgoing president, Ray Harrell, said he thought all three candidates ran a great campaign.

“Everyone really got the word out to the student body,” Harrell said. “That’s what this is all about.”

Harrell said he felt like an excellent team was coming in with the Hassan and Lyons ticket.

“I feel like their institutional knowl-edge, the connections they already have and the vision they have put

forth will take the SGA and continue the progress we’ve already started,” Harrell said.

Hassan said he imagined so many different scenarios of the final out-come of this election.

“One thing I did know was that I was going to cry if I won,” Hassan said. “Hearing your name called as the next student body president is powerful.”

Ashley Lyons, vice presidential can-didate on the Hassan ticket, said she did not expect the outcome of this election at all.

“We really thought coming into the second day of voting that we were down,” Lyons said. “So we went out there and worked really hard.”

She said she thought what put them ahead was being genuine with their campaign.

Cousins said the voter turnout was outstanding.

“The main thing was there was over 1,300 students who voted this year,” Cousins said. “That’s what our main goal was, to increase voter turnout.”

All results are unofficial as of Wednesday night.

Kimberly Smith can be contacted at smith48@marshall.edu.

> Results are unofficial as of Wednesday night.

By MARLA NOWLINTHE PARTHENON

The Chi Alpha Christian Fel-lowship hosted Swing Dance Night in the Marshall University Recreation Center Wednesday to reach out to the Marshall community. Chi Alpha is a growing Christian fellowship in its first year on the Huntington campus and its mission state-ment is “Let Love Lead.”

Jeremy Dalton, Chi Alpha’s director at Marshall University, said the event was all about reaching out to students on campus and having fun together.

“We’re all about being re-lational, being real and being a good witness of the gospel.

Even if you’re not a Christian we want you,” Dalton said.

Students from other uni-versity Chi Alpha chapters are spending their spring breaks at Marshall helping reach out to get more students interested.

Dalton said there are cur-rently 15 members on campus, but there were 20 students who attended last week’s Monday Night Live service. The service is every Monday night at 7 p.m. in Marcos in the Memorial Stu-dent Center basement.

Lauren Johnson, sophomore communication disorders ma-jor and president of Chi Alpha

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The newly elected Pope Francis stands on the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday in Vatican City. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.

A POPE IS PICKEDCardinal Jorge Mario Bergogilo of Buenos Aires will become Pope Francis, first from the Western Hemisphere

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ers on Wednesday welcomed the election of Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the world’s first ever Latin Amer-ican pope.

Argentina’s Congress in-terrupted its session after television stations broke off their programming to an-nounce Bergoglio’s election as leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics.

“There is a new pope and he is an Argentine,” said Ju-lian Dominguez, speaker of the lower house of the Argen-tinian Congress as Bergoglio confirmed his new title: Pope Francis.

President Cristina Fernan-dez de Kirchner, with whom Bergoglio has crossed swords in the past, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, avoided any reference to his origins.

“It is our wish for you to have, as you take on the lead-ership and guidance of the Church, a fruitful pastoral task regarding such major responsibilities for the sake

of justice, equality, fraternity and peace for humanity,” she said in a brief letter.

Venezuela’s caretaker pres-ident Nicolas Maduro saw the hand of late leader Hugo Chavez in the choice of the conclave of cardinals.

“We know our commander ascended into those heights and is standing before Christ. He must have exerted some influence for a South Ameri-can pope to be elected,” Maduro said.

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who was close to Bergoglio’s predecessor, said he was struck “by the simplicity” of the pope’s first public address, while out-going Prime Minister Mario Monti stressed the pontiff ’s Italian origins.

U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.N. Secre-tary-General Ban Ki-moon and Palestinian leader Mah-moud Abbas were among other leaders to send congratulations.

Merkel, whose country

produced Bergoglio’s prede-cessor, Benedict XVI, said she was “especially happy for the Christians of Latin America.” Obama said the Argentinian’s accession to the throne of St. Peter, showed “the strength and vitality of a region that is increasingly shaping our world” and said all Americans including millions of Hispanic Americans welcomed the “his-toric day.” Ban said that the church and the U.N. shared “many common goals” and that he hoped Pope Francis would continue Benedict’s ef-forts to promote “inter-faith dialogue.” Abbas invited Pope Francis to visit Bethlehem, birthplace of Jesus Christ.

World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder said the pope was “no stranger” to Jewish communities, adding he expected Francis to con-tinue fighting anti-Semitism.

The cardinal had “always had an open ear for our con-cerns,” Lauder said.

Catholic leaders expressed joy and surprise at the elec-tion of a humble figure, whose

choice of papal name pays homage to St. Francis of As-sisi, a 13th century Italian friar who chose to live among the poor.

German Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne said the choice of Bergoglio was a “surprise,” and was “com-pletely different” from what he and other members of the conclave had envisioned.

The decision for Bergoglio came about gradually in dis-cussion and in the succession of votes since the beginning of the week, he said.

“I believe that most of those who participated in the con-clave reacted the same, that it was something we had not thought possible.

“He was a gift and has been warmly welcomed by us,” Meisner said.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who participated in the conclave in the Vatican and was himself considered a possible contender for the job, said his peers had made an “inspired choice.”

“As successor to Peter,

our first pope, Pope Fran-cis I stands as the figure of unity for all Catholics wher-ever they reside,” he said in a statement issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The National Bishops’ Con-ference of Brazil, which has the world’s biggest Catholic population, saw the winds of change blowing through the Vatican.

The election of a Latin Amer-ican showed “the Church is opening up, that it is devoted to the whole Church and not just to Europe’s,” Leonardo Steiner, secretary-general of the conference said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff congratulated Argen-tina for the election of Francis and looked forward to hosting the new pontiff in Rio de Ja-neiro during the World Youth Day in July.

“(As) the largest country in the number of Catholics, Brazil keenly followed the conclave and the election of the first Latin American pope,” Rousseff said.

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Archbishop Jorge Mario Ber-goglio of Buenos Aires, 76, a quiet intellectual, was sworn in as the Catholic Church’s first pope from the Americas on Wednesday.

Pope Francis, as he chose to be called, was elected on the second day of a conclave of cardinals. He is the first Jesuit pontiff.

Bergoglio has the pastoral ex-perience that had been billed as important for the new pontiff.

“Bergoglio’s voice carries weight within the Vatican struc-ture,” Argentina’s ambassador in Rome, Juan Pablo Cafiero, said before the pope’s election Wednesday.

The new pope is also a prominent figure in Argentine affairs, perhaps another asset for a man whom experts think should reform a church dam-aged by divisions, child abuse scandals and allegations of corruption.

Born the son of a railway

worker on December 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Bergoglio be-came a Jesuit in 1958.

He studied in Argentina, Chile and Germany, where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy.

In 1963, he was ordained a priest. He became bishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and in 2001 was named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II.

He reportedly placed second in the race that led to the elec-tion of Benedict XVI in 2005. In that election he was among the favorites; this time around he was regarded as an outsider, due to his age and his relatively delicate health.

He has a mixed reputation in Argentina, where the Catho-lic Church has been criticized for its failure to uphold human rights during the 1976-83 Ar-gentine military dictatorship.

Parts of the church, which has huge clout in the almost exclusively Catholic population, are accused of having turned a blind eye while the military

murdered an estimated 30,000 people in clandestine torture camps.

Bergoglio was head of the lo-cal Jesuits at the time.

His supporters empha-size that he saved many leftist priests from military death squadrons. Others accuse him of having been indifferent toward their fates.

On the political front, Bergo-glio has crossed swords with both President Cristina Fer-nandez de Kirchner and her late husband, former president Nestor Kirchner.

In 2010, he became em-broiled in a spat with Cristina Kirchner over gay marriage, which is legal in Argentina but which the church opposes.

“Let us not be naive: this is not a simple political struggle, it is the attempt to destroy God’s plan,” he wrote in an open letter at the time.

But he has also campaigned for greater social justice and called for more dialogue in Ar-gentina’s polarized politics.

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By ANDRES D’ALESSANDRO and CHRIS KRAULLOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)

Argentines reacted with joyous surprise to the news that former Jesuit priest, local archbishop and, most recently, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

In sharp contrast, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirch-ner’s response was notably restrained, owing to past differ-ences with the new Pope Francis.

In the minutes after the an-nouncement, hundreds of Buenos Aires faithful assembled outside the cathedral in the capital’s central Plaza de Mayo, where the new pope once held Masses and gave homilies. Some knelt in prayer on the steps, oth-ers hugged, and a rising chorus of “Francisco, Francisco” and “Argentina, Argentina” echoed throughout the plaza.

Computer technician Gustavo Mollar, 43, who rushed to the cathedral after getting the news over the Internet, said after

emerging from praying in the cathedral that the 76-year-old Bergoglio’s election was a shock.

“For his age, and because the last time he was passed over in favor of Benedict XVI, I didn’t even see him named among the favorites,” Mollar said. “But for those reasons, my surprise and my joy are even greater, which is what all Argentines feel right now.”

A din of car horns began spreading through the city as the news took hold. “To have an Argentine as the first Latin American pope is exciting,” Mollar said as a passerby ap-proached and asked, “Bergoglio? Are you serious?”

In an open letter, Fernandez sent restrained congratulations to the new pope in the name of the government and the Argen-tine people. Bergoglio was at odds with Fernandez’s positions favoring same-sex marriage, free contraception and artificial insemination.

Kirchner once reacted an-grily to Bergoglio’s comment

that adoption by gay partners amounted to discrimination, say-ing his attitude was medieval.

Argentina’s Congress also failed to share in the enthusi-asm expressed by many on the street. An attempt to recognize the new pope in the Chamber of Deputies was brushed aside by the majority Victory Front bloc, which supports Kirchner and was engaged in a tribute to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

“Resentful and uncouth!” shouted one of the opposition deputies, Omar de Marchi of Mendoza province.

Buenos Aires residents inter-viewed downtown, however, were ecstatic. Legal secretary Silvana Schmale, 56, who had at-tended Mass celebrated by the new pope several times, said she shouted and hugged her col-leagues at work when she heard the news. Like others, she men-tioned his humility and his denial of the trappings of the church.

Pope Francis thrills Argentina faithful, but not government

By COURTNEY DOTSONTHE PARTHENON

The Marshall University Relay for Life will sponsor a fundraiser at Thirsty Whale Thursday at 9 p.m.

There will be a $5 cover charge at the door as a dona-tion to Relay for Life. Thirsty Whale will also be offer regu-lar food and drink specials the night of the fundraiser. Entertainment will also be provided. Dylan Rees will be the opening performance

at 9 p.m., and Ryan Shorter will perform at 10 p.m. and “Mountain Station” will be headlining.

Casey Fitzwater, a junior music education major and entertainment planning chair for Relay for Life, said he is really looking forward to the event because it ben-efits Relay for Life and helps local talents to gain more exposure.

Relay for Life is a fund-raiser that The American

Cancer Society hosts every year to raise money for the funding of cancer research. The fundraiser supports cancer patients with wigs and other beauty techniques to improve their self-image during chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and “Road to Recovery,” which is a support system where vol-unteers drive cancer patients to get treatment.

“I’m hoping for a good turn-out with this fundraiser so we

can raise as much money pos-sible for Relay for Life. We’re on our way to our goal, but in the end I’m hoping to ex-ceed the expectations for the actual Relay for Life event,” Fitzwater said. “So come out, support local music, support Relay and enjoy some food and drinks.”

This year, the Marshall Uni-versity Relay for Life goal is $26,000. Right now, the Relay for Life team has $16,000 left to raise before reaching the

goal. The actual Relay for Life event will be Friday, April 26 at 6:00 p.m. on Buskirk Field at Marshall University. The Relay for Life team is look-ing for more teams to sign up and help fundraise for the upcoming event, and for sur-vivors or people who know survivors to be recognized and honored at the Relay for Life event.

“As many people know, Relay for Life is close to my heart. I am extremely excited

about and how much it can potentially help with our goal of $26,000,” Briana Wayland, director for Re-lay for Life, said. “There is no way it would have come together without Corey Fitz-water, the Entertainment Planning Chair and the guys from ‘Mountain Station’ put-ting all the performances together.”

Courtney Dotson can be contacted at dotson72@marshall.edu.

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By MIRANDA PEMBERTON THE PARTHENON

Students in need of something to do over spring break need only to look to the baseball diamond for entertainment. The Marshall University softball team will take on major rival Southern Miss. Saturday and Sunday, and the baseball team will play its annual game against West Virginia University, Tuesday.

Cory Booker, marketing and promotions assistant said, the Thundering Herd is excited to get its home conference opener underway after coming off three losses from Tulane.

“This is a big game for the team,” Booker said. “Southern Miss is one of the biggest rivals and competitors for us.”

The three game series starts Saturday at 1 p.m., and there will be free giveaways throughout the two days.

“This is always a very competitive series,” Booker said. “All of our coaches are expecting a great environment, as well as the marketing department.”

Booker said items will be given away at the game. Ice cream donated by the Cold Stone Creamery will be given away depend-ing on weather conditions, and six senior fatheads will be given out during the game for fans to hold and to help cheer on the Herd during the game.

Sunday’s game will consist of “Lil Sis Day,” and the team will

host a clinic with the young girls before the game.The rivalry game with WVU will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Appa-

lachian Power Park in Charleston.This will be the closest Marshall students will ever get to a

home WVU game, David Dillon, marketing and promotions as-sistant said.

“Big Green is having a tailgate before the game,” Dillion said. “It’s $15 per ticket and that includes all you can eat, drink, plus admission to the game.”

Fans will also get a chance to win prizes at the game.“Fans can win things like La Familia, Chick-fil-A, Buffalo Wild

Wings and Qudoba,” Dillion said. “All the gift certificates are $10 to $15.”

Trying to get a home crowd to Charleston is not easy.“This is a real incentive for students to come out,” Dillon said.

“Plus since the game is at Power Park, there will be alcohol served at the game.”

Dillon said this gives the students sort of a different atmo-sphere and a fun way to watch baseball and spend part of their break away from Huntington.

As always students get in to the game for free with a valid stu-dent ID

Miranda Pemberton can be contacted at pemberton23@marshall.edu.

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Steinberga scored 14 of her game-high 20 points in the sec-ond half as fifth-seeded UTEP moved past No. 12 seed Mar-shall, 70-59, in day one of the 2013 Conference USA Wom-en's Basketball Championship Wednesday afternoon at the Tulsa Convention Center.

The Thundering Herd scored the game's opening points on a bucket by forward Suporia Dickens, but that would be the lone lead of the day for Mar-shall as UTEP scored the next eight points and never led by less than four at any point dur-ing the rest of the win. With the loss, Marshall wrapped up the 2012-13 season 9-21. The Min-ers improved to 21-9 on the year and advance to take on No. 4 seed UAB in the quarterfinals Thursday.

Marshall sophomore guard, Shay Weaver, broke the Herd's single season record for three-pointers on the team's final possession of the game. She to-taled 69 three-pointers for the 2012-13 season, surpassing Kizzy Hart's record of 68 set in 2010.

Forward Chukwuka Ezeigbo led Marshall with 16 points and 10 rebounds to finish with a double-double of her own and led the team with a pair of steals. Dickens was next for the Herd with 15 points and

six boards, guards Erica Woods and Norrisha Victrum shared team-high assists honors with three apiece and Leandra King came off the bench to post a game-high two blocked shots.

Marshall went 11-of-13 from the free throw stripe. The free throw percentage was the best of the season for the Herd after previously going 11-of-14 from the charity stripe against Memphis on March 7. The Herd only committed 11 turnovers against UTEP, tying a season-low. The total was seven below the season average of 18 per game.

Steinberga, who extended her school mark of consecutive double-figure scoring outings to 21, was one of four Miners to finish with 10-plus points as guard Kelli Willingham had 16, forward Kayla Thornton scored 13 and wing Irene Gari added 11. Thornton completed a double-double with a team-best 10 rebounds and shared UTEP-high steal honors with guard Cameasha Tuner at two each. Gari led the team with four assists.

UTEP held a 46-32 rebound-ing advantage over Marshall, turned 18 offensive boards into 17 second-chance points and out-scored the Thundering Herd in the paint, 24-18.

Marshall hung tough early in

By CAITIE SMITHASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Marshall baseball heads back out on the road this weekend. But this time, the Herd will have the home advantage.

The Thundering Herd will face Central Michigan in a four game matchup at Epling Sta-dium in Beckley, W.Va.

The Chippewas are currently 6-9, while Marshall is riding on a four game win streak with the sweep of Northern Kentucky last weekend.

“Confidence is huge in the game of baseball,” senior Gray Stafford said. “I feel like since we’ve won four in a row we are ready to take a winning attitude into our next games.”

Stafford is second on the team with a .339 batting aver-age but leads the team in hits (19) and doubles (7). Stafford is also second on the team in runs batted in with eight.

Stafford said he feels like his team expects him to come up big with potential runs on base.

“I think our team expects each other to be successful with runners on base,” Stafford said. “We know those are big at bats and we all believe in each other to get the job done.”

Senior catcher Matt Kirk-wood agrees with Stafford about the Herd’s confidence level.

“Winning four straight is always big,” Kirkwood said. “We’ve been playing really good team baseball the past six games and this gives us a lot of momentum going into this weekend. The younger guys are really starting to buy into our system.”

Kirkwood is one of only two Herd players to have notched a home run this season. The

Pennsylvania native is fourth on team with a .280 batting average.

“This week I’ve just been working on mechanical things with my swing and offensive and defensive drills into my routine,” Kirkwood said.

The Herd will play a double-header Friday, a one game on Saturday, and will finish out the series with a game Sunday at noon.

The pitching rotation will face a change-up from its nor-mal order, as the Herd will face in-state rival WVU on Tuesday.

One pitcher who will remain the same is closer Matt Mar-garitonda. The sophomore has three saves on the year.

“The pressure I feel being the closer is the team depending on me to get the job done to get the win,” Margaritonda said. “The defense behind me takes a lot of pressure off me. I really trust them to make the plays for me, but I have to give most of the credit to Kirkwood for being a wall back there.”

Margaritonda mirrored his teammates thoughts about the team’s current win streak.

“After winning four games straight our momentum has turned into confidence,” Mar-garitonda said. “Our confidence is growing everyday as a team, but we still know there’s areas of improvement. We’re just gonna keep the ball rolling be-cause we know how talented we are and how far we can go.”

The Herd last faced Central Michigan in 2005, when they were swept in a three game series. The Chippewas lead the series all time 11-1.

Caitie Smith can be con-tacted at smith1650@marshall.edu.

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Senior infielder Gray Stafford follows through after a swing against Northern Kentucky. The Herd swept NKU in four games.

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Junior forward Suporia Dickens puts up a contested shot against UCF in the Cam Henderson Center.

Miners eliminate Herd from C-USA Women’s Tournement

By CHRIS PERKINSSUN SENTINEL (MCT)

Day Two of free agency wasn't nearly as dramatic for the free-spending Miami Dol-phins as Day One.

But Wednesday was still a huge day, filled with hope and optimism.

Coach Joe Philbin spelled out the purpose of the Dol-phins' big free agency moves in his meeting with newly signed linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, who joined Miami from the Super Bowl cham-pion Baltimore Ravens. "Basically what I got out of it was he told me, 'We want to get what you've got. We want to get to the Super Bowl,'" Ellerbe said.

To that end the Dolphins, who still have about $30 mil-lion to spend, hosted New York Jets tight end Dustin Keller, who could offer the pass-catching skills the posi-tion has been lacking.

There's no word on how the talks went but Keller didn't sign a contract.

Miami is also believed to have interest in former Kan-sas City tackle Eric Winston and former Green Bay safety Charles Woodson.

Speedy wide receiver Mike Wallace, regarded as the grand prize of free agency, was among those who had their introductory press

conference Wednesday.Wallace, who left the

Pittsburgh Steelers to sign a five-year, $60 million con-tract with Miami, wasn't a free agent for long, but he's re-lieved the process is over.

"It took forever for this last week to pass," he said.

Ellerbe, who couldn't wipe the smile off his face after signing a five-year, $35 million contract, and fellow newly-signed linebacker Philip Wheeler (five years, $26 mil-lion) also had introductory press conferences.

Wheeler, who played for Oakland last season, said the Dolphins' moves at linebacker were so unexpected - cutting starters Karlos Dansby and Kevin Burnett; signing Ellerbe and Wheeler - it made him do a double-take on his flight to Miami.

"I was on a plane and they had a TV, and I saw 'Ellerbe to Miami' after I had agreed (to a contract with the Dolphins)," Wheeler said.

"I texted my agent with the Wi-Fi on there. I said, 'Are you sure I'm going to the right place?' I was like, 'He's pretty good.' "

Yes, the Dolphins are load-ing up, but they've still got some holes to fill.

The Dolphins officially

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Nearly 8 million Americans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. That is in part because the federal minimum wage is too low.

Currently, an individual with a full-time job at the minimum wage and a fam-ily of three to support will fall below the federal poverty line. These workers, despite putting in regular hours, are struggling to provide basic ne-cessities for themselves and their families. By allowing the minimum wage to remain at a nearly unlivable level, we have deemed certain jobs not wor-thy enough to meet even our country’s minimum standard of living.

How have we been able to keep wages so low without significant social discord? By using tax revenue and a complicated government bureaucracy to subsidize low-wage employers and supplement minimum-wage salaries. Rather than firms

paying a worker’s true cost and customers paying an ap-propriate price for the services provided by those firms, the government provides workers with “income transfers” to help them meet basic needs. These include such programs as the earned income tax credit, food stamps and Medicaid.

These government sup-ports mask a job’s true value and set an artificially low wage. They also represent the height of inefficiency. Raising the minimum wage means that the income required for basic needs is delivered in a one-step approach, via the paycheck directly from firm to worker, rather than requir-ing additional government expenditures.

Beyond efficiency, there is also the matter of human dig-nity. Think about it: After a long day on the clock, you come home knowing that despite your hard work, you can’t feed your family, cover their medi-cal insurance or pay your rent without government support. What message does that send about the dignity of your work

and the pride of taking per-sonal responsibility for your family? Low wages push work-ers into shadow labor markets where they get paid under the table, avoid reporting income and evade tax responsibilities. Artificially low wages teach workers that their work is not valuable — a disastrous policy outcome.

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama called for raising the mini-mum wage to $9 an hour. That would be a start toward restoring dignity and value to low-wage work. But it isn’t enough. We propose raising the minimum wage, in stages, to $12.50 an hour, an amount that would allow an individual supporting a family of three to live modestly, at about 138 percent of the federal poverty line. That level offers work-ers a way to escape poverty, a chance to feed their families, buy basic medical insurance and live in secure housing without significant govern-ment support.

The most common objection to raising the minimum wage is

that it destroys jobs. But a slew of recent studies have pointed out that although raising the minimum wage does increase earnings and reduce poverty, it has a limited, almost negli-gible, effect on employment. Studies have also illustrated that restoring the dignity of work through higher wages reduces worker turnover and increases productivity.

Some argue that raising the minimum wage offers ben-efits to those who may not need them. This argument is also flawed. The Economic Policy Institute’s latest analy-sis shows that most low-wage workers live in low-wage households, and 84 percent of the workers in low-wage jobs are at least 20 years old. But, regardless of age or need, any-one who shows up to work and puts in hard hours deserves a wage that keeps him or her out of poverty.

Raising the minimum wage is about reducing inequality, but it is also about restoring the true value of work. Every American’s hard work should be rewarded.

Why we need to raise the minimum wage

An adjunct psychology professor was arrested during his class Tuesday, on two counts of child pornography. This makes the third Marshall University faculty mem-ber to be arrested this school year.

The first professor to be arrested was a math professor who was arrested for the sexual assault of a minor in August.

The second case involved an adjunct journalism professor who was arrested for creating fake vehicle registration and in-spection stickers in November.

Something must be in the Huntington water to cause three instructors in one aca-demic year to be arrested. A situation like this is almost unheard of.

What has caused this to happen?

Why does the university not do back-ground checks on employees? Sounds like a pretty standard thing to do, especially at a university.

The professor arrested Wednesday had been under investigation for child pornog-raphy since July, and that is information that would have been made known to the administration if background checks were performed on potential employees.

These charges are not things that should be overlooked when hiring new employ-ees, for any company, but especially not for a position that deals with several other people on a daily basis.

Marshall University needs to make sure its employees are not hiding anything

before they are hired. Background checks are among the most effective ways to do that.

Sometimes, blind trust gets the best of people, which is obviously the case with three staff members getting arrested in the course of seven months. Something is up, and it desperately needs to be addressed.

Let us tell the administration that back-ground checks are important, and we want them for the people providing us with an education.

It is worth the extra effort to make sure more instructors are not arrested, espe-cially in such a short period of time, and we must make sure the students at this insti-tution are provided with an education not interrupted by crime committing adults.

Where is Marshall getting their adjuncts?

Snowquester, sequester both inspire a yawnBy SUSAN REIMERTHE BALTIMORE SUN

It is fitting that we referred to last week's storm-that-wasn't as a snowquestration. And not just be-cause it was kind of embarrassing and shut the government down.

No, the meteorological tur-bulence such as it was _ was like the economic turbulence in another way, leaving us all wondering: When will it arrive, and how bad will it be? Or will $85 billion in automatic budget cuts miss me altogether?

This uncertainty was com-pounded by confusion when the Dow hit record levels any-way. It made me question whether I knew anything at all about economics, and I an-swered myself: No.

I have done my darnedest to understand what the sequester is and what it will do, and my best guess is that it was put into place because no one could agree on anything, and it took effect because no one could agree on anything.

Sort of like three couples try-ing to decide on a destination for dinner: Nobody ends up eating where they really want to eat. Only with a lot more brinkmanship. It makes you long for the return of George W. "I'm the decider" Bush.

I've decided to do exactly what President Barack Obama does not want me to do: Ignore it all. He keeps trying to get my attention from his bully pulpit and by staging photo ops with potential victims of the seques-ter, but I'm not going to bite. I have my own troubles.

I am also ignoring the chat-tering class _ Washington big thinkers who have been re-duced to hurling insults at the politicians, like bettors at a cockfight. They are part of this tableau, too, making a nice liv-ing as spectators.

A little pork would go a long way about now. I am not sure why the president hasn't handed out a few dams or bridges or military bases to get this done, but maybe it will still happen when he goes to Capitol Hill to meet with the rank and file this week. Can't hurt. And there'd be jobs, the Holy Grail of this administration.

The fiscal ultraconserva-tives are holding their ground on the sequester because they think this crisis is the mecha-nism for reducing the size of government, but I think something quite different will happen. Government will just be more irrelevant to those it pretends to govern than it is now.

We already prefer to get our daily news from Comedy Central. Perhaps we can get our govern-ment from some other, more appealing, source than Sen. Mitch McConnell, with his nasal voice and that weak chin. I am think-ing Jimmy Fallon. He already gets along great with the first lady.

Natural and manmade disas-ters will continue to threaten. I don't wish for my neighbor to be furloughed by the sequester, nor do I want the next snow-storm to knock a tree onto her roof. But I'm much more wor-ried about keeping my own house in order (both literally and figuratively). In the end, though, what will be, will be.

Likewise, I am powerless to force the president and Congress to act. I am as mean-ingless to them as they are becoming to me. That they believe they are representing me us makes me feel like I am trapped in the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot," wait-ing for something to happen. And it never does.

I want to be more like those guys on Wall Street. Clearly, none of this bothers them. They are almost giddy with optimism. The Dow will eas-ily make 15,000 soon, they say, and will assuredly hit 20,000.

Wall Street, like me, is ignor-ing the doomsday predictions about the sequester. They are also ignoring predictions that the economy is hopelessly mired in slow growth and will almost certainly be for decades.

What a cheerful bunch. You have to admire them.

In the meantime, I am go-ing to the Philadelphia Flower Show, the ultimate escapist fan-tasy. Spring blooming indoors while winter carries on outside.

If that isn't a metaphor for my state of mind right now, I don't know what is.

the ballgame and bounced back from a 25-12 deficit with 11:04 to play in the first half with a 17-8 run over the next 7:24 to make it a four-point af-fair at 33-29. UTEP went into the locker room at the break clinging to a 39-33 lead but blew the game open with a

15-2 run over the first 6:42 of the second half to quiet any talks of a Thundering Herd comeback.

UTEP held a 19-point edge later on at 57-38 with 10:24 left in regulation, and Marshall actually out-scored the Miners 21-13 the rest of the way. The early second-half surge, how-ever, proved to be too much to overcome.

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lost running back Reggie Bush (four years, $16 million) to Detroit, but he wasn't ex-pected to return.

Lamar Miller, a rookie backup last season, has been penciled into that role.

Left tackle Jake Long moved a step closer to signing with Kansas City (he has to pass his physical exam), but he also wasn't expected to return.

The Dolphins will likely shift right tackle Jonathan Martin to the left side and either re-sign right tackle Nate Garner or

acquire a right tackle through free agency or the draft.

The unknown is cornerback Sean Smith. He's not likely to return but no one has gauged the cornerback market yet.

By comparison, Wednesday couldn't match Tuesday for making noise. But there was a still tangible buzz at Dolphins' headquarters.

Safety Chris Clemons, who was re-signed to a one-year contract, seemed convinced his team's aggressive free agent moves could end their four-year playoff drought.

"I definitely believe we're a playoff team," he said.

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“He practices what he preaches. He’s the most humble, low-profile person you could meet. He never traveled in a car, but on buses and on the subway,” Schmale said. “This is why he was chosen, because this is how the church should be in all the world: humble and plain.”

Some have criticized Bergo-glio for being too quiet during the so-called dirty war from 1976 to 1983, when an esti-mated 30,000 dissidents were killed by the military junta or disappeared.

Others have blunted those accusations by pointing to his sponsorship for canonization

of three priests and two semi-narians who were killed in Buenos Aires’ San Patricio Church in July 1976, appar-ently on orders of the junta.

Marcelo Figueroa, 55, a media relations manager at a Roman Catholic tele-vision station, said he has known Bergoglio for 10 years, working together to pro-duce programs promoting ecumenism.

It’s an important message in a region where Roman Ca-tholicism has lost ground to evangelistic Christian sects in recent decades, he said. “His being named pope is a clear message in favor of in-terreligious unity,” Figueroa said, adding that his “friend the pope” also will emphasize close contact with the faithful.

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WSSA celebrates women through poetryTHE PARTHENON

The Women's Studies Student Association is spon-soring a series of events to celebrate Women's History Month throughout March. The next event, “Speak Out: Celebrating Women Through Poetry,” is taking place Thursday.

Brittany Shamblin, president

of the WSSA on campus, said poetry is a creative way to cel-ebrate women.

"Spoken word is a wonder-ful way to celebrate Women's History Month and it also gives students the chance to read pieces by their favorite women writers or something they've written," Shamblin said. "There are so many talented

and inspiring writers to cel-ebrate, some of them on our campus."

The poetry reading is open to all students and faculty. Anyone is welcome to present original or previously published work that is geared toward women's issues.

"The WSSA has quite a few members attending and

reading for the event and we encourage anyone who is in-terested to come and read something by their favorite woman writer, something they've created or to just sit back and enjoy the poetry," Shamblin said.

The event will be at 7 p.m. in the Room 2W37 in the Memo-rial Student Center.

classroom and told students to return to class Friday.

A statement from Marshall revealed that the university was made aware of Wolfe’s impending arrest moments before it occurred. Mar-shall stated these charges are very serious and will fully cooperate with further investigation.

Upon arrest, Wolfe has been

relieved of his graduate assis-tant teaching duties.

Wolfe was transported to the West Virginia Re-gional Jail in Barboursville, W.Va. He is being held on a $100,000 cash only bond. As of Wednesday at 11:45 p.m., Wolfe still remains in-carcerated. His hearing date is scheduled for March 22 at 10:30 a.m.

Josie Landgrave can be contacted at landgrave2@marshall.edu.

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at Marshall, said their goal is to reach out to students.

“A lot of ministries and a lot of groups aren’t really getting out there and going after the students,” Johnson said. “They expect students to come to them and sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone and come to them. And that’s what we plan to do.”

Swing Dance Night was one of the events Chi Alpha is host-ing this week. Chi Alpha will

host The World Games, Thurs-day at 7p.m., in the Don Morris Room in the Student Center.

Johnson said there will be surprises and that she is not sure of every detail of tonight’s event, but it will be exciting. Prizes will be awarded to each member of the first, second and third place teams. Top prize for each first place team member will receive a Google Nexus 7 tablet.

Members of the Alpha Chi chapter at University of Vir-ginia helped plan this week’s events.

Lawrencia Butler, University of Virginia freshmen and Chi Alpha member, said serving God is the main goal.

“As long as we’re all pursu-ing God and his vision — to be more like him and serve him — that’s what really caught my attention,” Butler said.

Sarah Kim and Allie Finn, students from University of Vir-ginia, are spending their spring break at Marshall to share their experience and vision with the future of Chi Alpha.

“We’re here really to serve Marshall Chi Alpha and make

them grow as big as we have,” Kim said.

The University of Virginia’s Chi Alpha chapter has over 500 members.

“Our goal isn’t numbers, it’s quality. We want to be able to invest in the people here, rather than just be like, ‘yeah we got 150 people to our event’,” Finn said.

The girls said Chi Alpha is about being real with people and speaking the truth.

Marla Nowlin can be con-tacted at nowlin7@marshall.edu.

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With Democrats finally submitting budget, it's game on vs. GOP versionBy DAVID LIGHTMAN and WILLIAM DOUGLASMCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS MCT

Senate Democrats on Wednesday unveiled their first budget plan in nearly four years, a proposal that sets up a lengthy fight with Republicans over the two parties' stark dif-ferences on taxes, spending and the future of Medicare.

The Democratic plan, which Republicans instantly criticized, would reduce deficits by $1.85 trillion over 10 years and would replace the recent automatic spending cuts, called the sequester, with higher taxes and a different spending-reduction plan.

The struggle over ways to re-duce the nation's $16.7 trillion debt, and the trillions likely to accumulate in the future, domi-nated talk and debate all over Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

The mood was tense and in-tense. At the Capitol, President Barack Obama met with House of Representatives Republi-cans. Upstairs, senators were rejecting, by 52 to 45, a Repub-lican bid to take away funding for Obama's health care plan, at least the 34th time that Con-gress has tried to end it.

In a nearby office building, Republican budget writers began crafting a 10-year deficit-reduction plan that Democrats disliked. Not far away, the Democratic-run Senate Budget Committee was countering with its own blueprint. Obama's ses-sion with House Republicans

was seen as the most crucial of his four meetings this week with different congressional caucuses. Republicans have run the House since 2011, and many were elected by express-ing strong opposition to his fiscal and health care policies.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, described the meeting, which covered a wide variety of topics, as "a frank and candid exchange of ideas."

But, he warned, "there are some very real differences be-tween our two parties, like issues: jobs, balancing the bud-get and what do we do to get our economy moving again. Re-publicans want to balance the budget. The president doesn't. Republicans want to solve our long-term debt problem. The president doesn't."

Rank-and-file Republican members want Obama to of-fer a budget that would be in balance in a decade, as the Re-publicans have done.

"If you're not going to have a 10-year time frame for a budget that ever balances, I don't think that's responsible," said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.

Walden did find the meeting cordial. "There was a pretty positive discussion about the need to address these entitle-ment programs. He said he's for doing that," Walden said.

Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., agreed, but like others he thought Obama was more con-cerned with helping Democrats

get elected than with taking tough steps to reduce the debt.

"Republicans remain skep-tical that the president looks at everything through a politi-cal optic to gain advantage in 2014," Grimm said. "We need action. Words are great. But this was a step in the right direction."

In the Senate, Democrats began a renewed push for a budget, after balking at such action for years. They'd been concerned that such a plan would become valuable am-munition for Republicans in the 2010 and 2012 elections. Budget plans are supposed to be road maps for the legislation that sets spending for govern-ment agencies and programs.

Republicans in recent months have turned the lack of a plan into a Democratic embarrass-ment, so Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., acted on Wednesday.

"It's a balanced and fair ap-proach," Murray said of her plan, adding, "This budget keeps the promises we've made to our seniors, our families, our veterans and our communities."

Republicans fought back. "It's obvious why they refused to re-lease one for so many years," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Murray's budget is short on details; those will be fleshed out later. She'd cut $975 bil-lion from expected spending while raising an equal amount

in revenue.The revenue would come

from "closing loopholes" and cutting "unfair" tax breaks "for those who need it the least," Murray said, "while locking in tax cuts for the middle class and low-income working families."

The plan would include a legislative device called rec-onciliation that would make it easier to approve such changes.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, scoffed at the proposal. "There is nowhere near $1 trillion in loopholes," he said.

The spending cuts would include $493 billion from do-mestic spending including $275 billion in health care savings and $240 billion from defense. Lower interest pay-ments would save $242 billion.

The plan would add $100 bil-lion in new spending to prod the economy, money that could be used for infrastructure re-pair, educational initiatives and other programs.

House Republicans were writing a very different budget Wednesday, without big rev-enue increases but with deeper spending cuts and a repeal of the 2010 health care law. They'd also change Medicare so that after 2024, seniors could get traditional Medicare or fed-eral help for private insurance.

Murray made it clear that idea would go nowhere in the Senate. "We reject calls to dis-mantle or privatize Medicare" in that fashion, she said.

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Personal fitness important to rec center trainer Chris Lane

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By KELCIE COBURN THE PARTHENON

Living and breathing a fitness-motivated lifestyle is nothing short of a normal, daily routine for Chris Lane who has been the personal training coordinator for the Marshall University Recre-ation Center for six years.

Lane said he was not always interested in involving fitness in his professional career, but has always had a desire to make fitness a key part of his lifestyle.

“I began college as an art major with a minor in Span-ish,” Lane said. “But I have always had a growing passion for fitness and sports train-ing. Since I was 3-years-old I have been involved in some sort of athletics, from karate to paintball.”

Through his own experi-ence and education in fitness, athletics and coaching, Lane took an interest in a career in-volving personal training.

“I have grown up in and spent most of my adult life

training and competing in martial arts,” Lane said. “I also played Division I college basketball before coming to Marshall University.”

Kayla Edwards, junior sports marketing major and personal trainer at the Rec, said she has known Lane for more than a year and would recommend him as a trainer to anyone.

“He is so passionate about what he does and he can make a program for just about any-one,” Edwards said. “He is great to work with, and he is always making sure we are on top of our training programs and just constantly gives us ideas and suggestions.”

Including personal fitness into an everyday habit is something that Lane said is vital. He said individual fit-ness dramatically enhances all areas of one’s daily life.

Lane said he considers per-sonal fitness a testament to the commitment to his own health and lifestyle.

“It is what makes our

activities of daily living both possible and efficient,” Lane said. “From simply walking up a flight of stairs, to physically and mentally performing our own jobs better, to allowing us to excel in recreational or competitive athletics.”

As a Marshall alumnus, Lane said he was eager to ac-cept his current position at the Rec Center four years ago.

“My biggest accomplish-ment would have to be accepting my position as the personal training coordina-tor here at the Rec,” Lane said. “I’m thrilled to con-tinue working with Marshall and the tri-state area, help-ing everyone become strong, healthy and fit.”

Lane’s background in fit-ness and personal training has led him to land his career at the rec and according to him, he is exactly where he wants to be.

Kelcie Coburn can be contacted at coburn15@marshall.edu.

Marshall students share Spring Break plans

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Two unidentified fishermen on a private recreational boat land a very large

cobia off Panama City Beach, Fla. Panama City Beach is a popular spring

break destination for students.

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The gondolas are being removed from the SkyWheel to prevent possible damage

from winds associated with Hurricane Irene in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Aug. 25, 2011.

By ASHLEY HERRALDTHE PARTHENON

With spring break less than a week away, Marshall Univer-sity students share where they decided to spend a week away from classes, books and all of the stress of the semester.

Cade Parton, senior eco-nomics major, said he is traveling to Panama City Beach, Fla. with some of his soccer teammates.

“I’m looking forward to going to the beach and relaxing with my friends,” Parton said.

Parton said he and his team-mates would be driving to Florida since it will be cheaper than flying.

“This is the second time I’m going to Panama City, so I’m going to try to top last year,” Parton said, “I just want to have a good time with good friends.”

In a recent poll by Trip

Advisor, approximately 30,000 students will be traveling to Panama City Beach for spring break this year.

Liz Northcote, junior English major, said she is not going to the beach but is taking the week to go visit family and friends in Long Island, N.Y. because she has not seen them since Christ-mas break.

“I miss my family and my dog, so I’m excited for some home cooked food and quality time with them,” Northcote said.

Northcote said she will fly to New York because it would take her 10 hours to get home if she drove.

Lydia Vance, senior biology major, said she is going to Cleve-land, Ohio for two days with her family to watch the Cleveland Cavaliers play the Miami Heat.

Vance said it will be her first NBA game and she will

be rooting for the Miami Heat because Dwayne Wade is her favorite player.

“I’ve wanted to go to a NBA game since I was young,” Vance said, “I’ve always loved basketball.”

For students interested in booking a last minute spring break trip, Tri-State Airport still has openings on non-stop flights to Orlando-Sanford, Fla., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and St. Pe-tersburg, Fla. every Monday and Friday through Allegiant Air.

Yeager Airport in Charles-ton, W.Va. is offering non-stop flights to Myrtle Beach, S.C. through Spirit Airlines for $117 round-trip. This flight is offered Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Ashley Herrald can be con-tacted at herrald4@marshall.edu.

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Chris Lane, personal trainer at the Marshall Recreation Center, has been a personal training coordinator for six years.