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By CAROLINE KIMBROTHE PARTHENON

The 54th annual Marshall University Interna-tional Festival returns Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center. The event is West Vir-ginia’s largest and longest-running international festival, featuring international foods, world mu-sic, dance and displays representing countries around the world.

Jyotsna Patel, event coordinator and admin-istrator for the Office of International Student Services, said the festival will include an in-ternational photo booth, artwork created by Barboursville Middle School students, face painting, a raffle and an area for kids to partici-pate in karate, belly dancing and other activities.

Live entertainment will feature the Voodoo Katz of Charleston, West Virginia, a six-man band known for their core Caribbean and Afri-can numbers Various performances by Marshall international students will also be perfomed.

Patel said admission to the festival is free to allow the public to experience pieces of the 20 countries and cultures represented at the event.

“I think it’s especially important for Hun-tington,” Patel said. “We live in a global world, right? When you go out there in the real world, you might end up working anywhere. So, I think it’s important that we learn about each other’s cultures.”

Sarah Nix, a senior majoring in international relations and Japanese, said the festival provides a distinctive venue for the Huntington commu-nity to connect with and learn about a variety of cultures.

“I feel like it bridges the gap between Hun-tington residents, exchange students and other international communities to give them a space to get to know each other and appreciate diver-sity in the city,” Nix said. “It’s pretty unique for West Virginia.”

Nix said she has helped with the festival multi-ple years, typically as a member of the Marshall Japan Club.

“We usually do a performance of a Japanese song, as well as put together activities for people to learn about Japanese language and culture,” Nix said. “For example, people can try origami

(paper-folding), calligraphy and get dressed in traditional kimono.”

Patel said the critical opportunity this event provides for international students is to share their cultures.

“It’s important for our international students to showcase their countries,” Patel said. “And

they’re proud to. I mean this takes time and ef-fort for them.”

Patel said guests will be able to purchase food tickets at the event to sample global dishes pro-vided by Chateau D’Italia, Chipotle Mexican Grill, El Ranchito, New China Garden Buffet, The Red Cellar Door and Marshall Dining by Sodexo.

Marshall University’s Office of International Student Services and Student Affairs sponsors the International Festival with the help of Cabell County Schools, BB&T, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Kroger.

Caroline Kimbro can be contacted at kim-bro9@marshall.edu.

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OPINION, 4• Editorial: How a president

should react to tragedy• Column: Let Me Be Frank

LIFE, 6• John Mulaney ‘Kid

Gorgeous’ show• Faculty Spotlight: Matt

James

SPORTS, 3• Marshall football attempts

to bounce back in Florida• Football Spotlight: Blake

Keller, defensive lineman

NEWS, 2• Victims of bike path

reflected a diverse city• Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt

to perform at Keith-Albee

International Festival to showcase, celebrate an array of cultures

UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS

Participants of the 2016 International Festival offered educational booths, world cuisine and live entertainment. This year’s event, set for Saturday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center, will feature that and more, with the event aiming to bridge the gap between Marshall’s international students and the Huntington community.

Black History Month speakers, events announced by Woodson Lyceum

JARED CASTO | THE PARTHENON

Carter G. Woodson and journalism professor Burnis Morris presents his new book, “Carter G. Woodson: History, The Black Press, and Public Relations.” During the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum event, Morris announced the upcoming speakers and events the Lyceum will offer during Black History Month.

By JESTEN RICHARDSONFOR THE PARTHENON

Carter G. Woodson scholar and journalism pro-fessor Burnis Morris revealed upcoming events and speakers for Black History Month 2018 and read from his new book Thursday during a Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum event. Among the speakers will be Carla Hayden, current librarian of Congress and the first African American and fe-male to hold the position.

“She is an African American woman, the first African American or woman to serve in that posi-tion,” Morris said of Hayden. “We’ve only had 14 librarians of congress in the history of the country. I point this out because in 1928, Woodson corre-sponded with the Library of Congress during that period.”

Several other notable speakers will be featured,

including Reginald Chapple, division chief of the National Park Service; the Rev. Matthew Watts of HOPE Community Development Corporation; Rob Rabe, Marshall University journalism profes-sor; Tijah Bumgarner and Daniel Dean, journalism professor and professor of graphic design, respec-tively; Eric Lassiter, professor of humanities and anthropology and director of the Graduate Human-ities Program; Craig Woodson, ethnomusicologist and relative of Woodson; and Thom Walker, associ-ate professor of Marshall University libraries.

Specific dates for the speakers will be provided during a kick-off event in January.

Morris read from his book “Carter G. Woodson- History, the Black Press, and Public Relations” and described several aspects of Carter G. Woodson’s

see WOODSON pg. 5

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By BUFFY SIXTHE PARTHENON

The Marshall Artists Series will present “An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt” at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Keith-Albee Theater.

Lovett has been singing, acting and perform-ing since the 1980s. Lovett can be recognized as a voice alongside Randy Newman for the song “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” on the “Toy Story” movie soundtrack. Lovett is the owner of several Grammy awards, such as Best Country Album (1994) and for Best Country Male Vocal (1989). Although he is labeled as a country musician, Lovett also incorporates elements of folk, swing, gospel and jazz into his compositions.

Hiatt’s musical composition consists of more

elements of rock and new wave with blues and country. In the late 1960s to early 1970s, Hiatt worked on building his career in music. The singer-songwriter won a Nashville Music Award for Songwriter/Artist of the Year in 2000.

The duo has a history of performing together, although their current tour has a different twist. The set will be nothing more than the two gen-tlemen and their guitars, creating an intimate performing space.

Students can purchase tickets at the Marshall Artists Series Box Office located in the Joan C. Ed-wards Playhouse. Tickets will have a $10 service fee for students.

Buffy Six can be contacted at six15@mar-shall.edu.

Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt set to play Keith-Albee

(Left) Lyle Lovett, (Right) John Hiatt set to play the Keith Albee together Monday evening. MARSHALL ARTIST SERIES

By HUNTER ELLISTHE PARTHENON

Etiquette consultant Terri Thompson with Career Services offered an etiquette dinner Wednesday for students approaching gradu-ation in hopes of teaching them practical business interview skills to bring to the table.

The dinner consisted of a four-course meal so students could learn the proper business etiquette for any situation whether it’s how to eat soup, a roll or chocolate cake in front of a potential employer.

Thompson is a nationally renowned speaker, author and successful entrepreneur specializ-ing in helping individuals succeed.

Before the meal started, Thompson in-structed students on the proper way to sit and where to put their belongings to ensure pro-fessionalism. When the first course, soup, was served, she then transitioned to how to prop-erly eat soup which, is to scoop away from oneself not towards. It was tips and tricks like this throughout the night that many students were surprised to learn.

Kelsea Thayer, senior elementary education major, said she came to the event because she’s ready to graduate and didn’t feel like she knew a lot of etiquette rules, so she thought it would be valuable for the interviewing process.

“I would definitely recommend this if you’re getting to graduate soon so you have it in mind when you’re job hunting,” Thayer said, “It’s a great opportunity to learn workplace skills and get a four-course meal for free”

The meal consisted of soup, salad, a chicken entrée with vegetables and a slice of chocolate cake for dessert. The meal and education were free for students and lasted around an hour and fifteen minutes.

Rachel Wyad, senior health care manage-ment major, said she chose to come to the event because she will be in a situation in her career having dinner with doctors and administrators and she didn’t want to embarrass herself, but after the dinner she said she felt prepared to move forward with that type of interview situa-tion in her career.

A handful of students at the dinner had at-tended the event last year and Jennifer Brown, program manager for internships, said that it’s not unusual for students to come back to hear Thompson speak again.

“She covers different things every time de-pending on what the students ask so a lot of students attend the event more than once and still continue to learn every time.”

Hunter Ellis can be contacted at ellis259@marshall.edu.

Etiquette consultant Terri Thompson (Left) with Career Services offered an etiquette dinner Wednesday for students approaching graduation in hopes of teaching them practical business interview skills to bring to the table.

HUNTER ELLIS | THE PARTHENON

Students learn what to ‘bring to the table’ at Career Services Etiquette Dinner

By ALISON BALDRIDGETHE PARTHENON

Marshall University faculty member Allora Mc-Cullough is offering a beginner and intermediate pottery class every Wednesday in the Art Ware-house, which began this week.

The class is for teaching people who has not had the opportunity to take a pottery or art class or know how to throw functional pieces on the pottery wheel.

McCullough said the Office for Continuing Ed-ucation was looking for instructors to broaden their courses available to the public and had a call for educators who were interested in teach-ing the course.

“The timing for the pottery class is perfect because a lot of people love to have hand-made gifts for the holidays, and that way anyone that takes this class will have finished work for their loved ones,” McCullough said. “Having a skill set to learn to be able to work and make something with your hands is a positive thing to do, and you

sense a feeling of accomplishment.”Each class will be structured beginning

with demonstration then hands-on learning. McCullough will give one-on-one attention to each student as they learn the techniques and struggles of pottery. People will also be able to decorate their pottery after they make it.

McCullough said no one is walking away with just a skill. Students and community will get to have both an experience and product in the end.

“I’ve taught this course at other art centers, and I moved to West Virginia from New York, so I’m really excited to be able to continue teaching because I do want to be an educator,” McCullough said. “I think that my feelings are pretty positive about it, and I get to meet more students and people from the community other than the students I’m already teaching in my art history class.”

Alison Baldridge can be contacted at bal-dridge6@marshall.edu.

Pottery classes offered to community

By DEBORA REYASSOCIATED PRESS

One of the dead was a mother of young sons from Belgium. Five had traveled from Argen-tina to New York with a tight-knit group of classmates to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduation.

The other victims were Americans: One a new college graduate working as a software en-gineer, the other a doting son who had recently lost nearly 100 pounds and was getting a bike ride in between meetings at his World Trade Center job.

Those killed in the New York bike path attack reflect a city that is a melting pot, a magnet for international visitors and a business and tech-nology capital.

“They saw New York as a special place to be,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, “and we now and for-ever will consider them New Yorkers.”

The victims were mowed down by a rental

truck Tuesday afternoon near the World Trade Center. Police called it a terrorist attack, saying the driver was an Uzbek immigrant who “did it in the name of ISIS.”

The largest group of victims came from Ro-sario, Argentina, the country’s third-largest city and the hometown of international soccer star Lionel Messi and guerrilla leader Che Guevara. They had made the trip courtesy of one of their well-heeled friends, who was also among those who perished.

“It hurts us to think that these are people who walked the same school halls as we did or that studied in our same classrooms,” said Agustin Riccardi, a senior at the victims’ alma mater.

President Mauricio Macri said in Buenos Aires that the attack “hit all Ar-gentines hard.”

On Wednesday, friends and relatives began remembering the victims — and recounting the circumstances that led them to New York.

Victims of bike path attack reflected a diverse city

People gather to remember the victims of the recent truck attack during a candle light walk along the Hudson River near the crime scene on, Thursday in New York. A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along the busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and seriously injuring others in what the mayor called “a particularly cowardly act of terror.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Check out our website at www.

marshallparthenon.com to read about the McElroy Brother’s live Podcasts ‘Sawbones’

and ‘Shmaners’ at the Keith-Albee Thearter

in Downtown Huntington.

(Right) ‘Shmaners’ Travis and his wife Teresa McElroy’s podcast from the Keith-Albee Theatre in Downtown Huntington, Thursday night.

(Left) Travis, Teresa, and Sydney McElroy (Sister-in-Law) performing.

BECCA TURNBULL | THE PARTHENON

BECCA TURNBULL | THE PARTHENON

McElroy Brother’s and family perform at the Keith-Albee Theatre

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The Marshall football team (6-2, 3-1) will try to bounce back this week in Boca Raton, Florida where they will face Florida Atlantic University (5-3, 4-0). Marshall leads the all-time series between the two schools, 4-0. Captains for this week will be Chase Hancock, Blake Keller and Ryan Yurachek.

“I’ve always felt that FAU has some of the best talent as anybody in our league,” head coach Doc Holliday said. “They should consider-ing where they’re located. They’ve developed that talent now and they’re playing re-ally well.” Holliday said.

Florida Atlantic’s lead rusher, Devin Singletary has garnered much attention over the course of his season thus far. Eight games played, 1053 yards. Singletary is averag-ing 131 yards per game on the ground. He has eclipsed the 100 yard mark in last six games and in his previous game against WKU he rushed for 244 yards on 36 carries.

“He’s physical, he’s tough, he makes all the cuts,” Holliday said. “He’s a good back. We have a cou-ple of coaches who know some guys who were on their previous staff and they think he’s an NFL-caliber talent. When you watch him on tape that’s what he looks like.” Holliday said.

The Florida Atlantic defense is spearheaded by linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, linebacker Rashad Smith and Safety Jalen Young. The talented trio lead FAU in tackles with a combined

170 total tackles. “They do a great job of jump-

ing routes, they do a great job of causing fumbles,” Starting tight end Ryan Yurachek said. “They have caused more fumbles than they have recovered, so their turnover stats could be that much higher. They take pride in causing turnovers. You look at the yardages and you think how are teams not putting up X amount of points on them but they do such a great job of creating turnovers. We have to make sure we take care of the ball this week.” Yurachek said.

In Marshall’s previous game, the offense turned the ball over on its second play from scrim-mage. Slow starts have stifled Marshall before and Holliday is hoping to start fast this upcom-ing contest against the Owls.

“That’s one of our goals, to always start fast,” Holliday said. ”Unfortunately we did not do that Saturday. We didn’t do anything well to be honest. We didn’t play great defense, we didn’t take care of the ball on offense, and we didn’t dominate on special teams, which we had done in just about every game we played up to that point. We’ve got to be sure to get back to starting fast Friday night.”

Marshall starting quarter-back, Chase Litton fumbled and threw two interceptions last week against FIU. Litton believes he threw the ball fine, but his reads were off against the Panthers.

“Make the right reads, that’s what it was last week,” Chase Litton said. “It was not bad throws it was bad reads. Last

week, I put the ball on the ground three times and that’s on me. It is not anyone on this offense, its not the offensive line, receivers or tight ends, no

that was on me. I have to come here and be ready go and bust my tail in the film room and be ready to make all my right reads.” Litton said.

Marshall will look to con-tinue its search for Conference USA supremacy in Boca Raton, Florida this Friday against FAU. The game will be broadcast live

on CBS Sports Network. Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m.

Kyle Curley can be con-tacted at Curley2@marshall.edu.

Marshall football attempts to bounce back in Florida

Head coach Doc Holliday leads his team onto the field just before the Thundering Herd take on the FIU Panthers on Miliary appreciation night. RICHARD CRANK | THE PARTHENON

Reporter: What is your idea of perfect happiness?Keller: Being happy all the time. Feeling good.Reporter: What is your greatest fear?Keller: Drowning.Reporter: What is the trait you most dislike in yourself?Keller: Nothing.Reporter: What is the trait you most dislike in others?Keller: When people are annoying.Reporter: Which living person do you most admire?Keller: My mom.Reporter: What can you not help but to spend money on?Keller: Food.Reporter: What do you value most in your friends?Keller: They’re funny.Reporter: What do you consider the most overrated virtue?Keller: Intelligence.Reporter: On what occasion do you lie?Keller: I don’t lie.Reporter: What do you most dislike about your appearance?Keller: The scar on my face.Reporter: What is the quality you most like in a man?Keller: They’re funny.Reporter: What is the quality you most like in a woman?Keller: They’re attractive.Reporter: Which words or phrases do you most overuse?Keller: ‘Like’Reporter: What or who is the greatest love of your life?Keller: My mom.Reporter: When and where were you happiest?Keller: Right now.Reporter: Where would you most like to live?Keller: Florida.Reporter: What is your most treasured possession?Keller: My phone.

Editor’s note: Blake Keller, 22, is a redshirt senior defensive lineman on the Marshall University football team. He transferred to Marshall from the University of Central Florida. Reporter Court-ney Andrews recently interviewed Keller using the Marcel Proust/Vanity Fair questionnaire found each month in Vanity Fair magazine. It is designed to reveal the personal side of newsmakers.

Reporter: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?Keller: Dying.Reporter: What is your favorite occupation?Keller: Playing football.Reporter: What is your most marked characteristic?Keller: That I like to drink.Reporter: What do you most value in your teammates?Keller: They’re just good people.Reporter: Who are your favorite athletes?Keller: J.J. WattReporter: Which historical figure do you most identify with?Keller: Abraham Lincoln.Reporter: Who are your heroes in real life?Keller: My mom.Reporter: What are your favorite names?Keller: Blake.Reporter: What is it that you most dislike?Keller: Being hungry.Reporter: Which talent would you most like to have?Keller: Being really fast.Reporter: If you could change one thing about yourself, what

would it be?Keller: Be taller.Reporter: What do you consider your greatest achievement?Keller: Getting a scholarship to play football.Reporter: If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing,

what would it be?Keller: A bird.Reporter: What is your greatest regret?Keller: I don’t have regrets.Reporter: How would you like to die?Keller: Real fast.Reporter: What is your motto?Keller: Go with the flow.

Football spotlight: Defensive lineman Blake Keller

Blake Keller attempting to run through a Kent State offensive lineman this season (top). Blake Keller during his pregame warmup routine just before taking on the Charlotte 49ers (bottom).

RICHARD CRANK | THE PARTHENON

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The attacks of Sept. 11 brought a country together at its lowest point in history. It was also a time of turmoil in politics after the most controversial election to date had just given George W. Bush the presidency. For those who aren’t aware, the 2000 election came down to just a few “hanging chads,” votes that went unac-counted for.

Even with that looming over the presidency, the entire country came together to show unity after the towers went down. Sports teams had games honoring police and fire departments, Satur-day Night Live did an entire special for the tragedy, and both

sides of the political spectrum rallied around the president and New York.

“I want you all to know that America today, America today is on bended knee, in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn,” President George W. Bush said to police and fire teams at ground zero after the trag-edy. “The nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Con-necticut as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.”

Whether or not you be-lieve Bush was a successful president does not negate the fact that what he said and did in the mourning hours of 9/11 were genuine, heartfelt and presidential.

President Barrack Obama had to address the nation 14 times throughout his presi-

dency to try and console the nation after a mass shooting, something he said had become routine.

“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine,” Obama said. “We’ve become numb to this.”

In someway he was right. We as a nation have become numb to these incidents. Tuesday night in New York was home to once again another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, but what makes this attack dif-ferent is the way President Trump has addressed this tragedy.

Instead of trying to console the country or address the issue, he sent out a tweet. An impersonal tweet that will sit in between the angry or divisive one that came before and after it.

One could argue that this is just how we address the nation now or that this was in some way more personal because it’s coming from the president himself and not a speech writer. But, unfortunately, his tweet came off as uninspiring and lacked empathy.

Empathy is a funny idea in politics. In someway, politicians should lack empathy. That’s how they win an election and further progress their careers. But on the other hand, how can you truly be a leader if you lack the feelings and ideals to represent and protect the ones you lead?

President Trump has not only been uninspiring due to tweets or lack of empathy. He has demoralized us as a country because of his divisive speech. Just a day after the attack, the president tweeted this: “The terrorist came into our country through what is called the ‘Diversity Visa Lottery Program,’ a Chuck Schumer beauty.”

Apparently the attack was Chuck Schumer’s fault, or at least that’s what the president thinks we as a nation need to hear after a tragedy. We need to hear who’s fault this was. Just a quick fact check, though, would have informed the president that Senator Schumer was part of the “Gang of Eight” who wanted to repeal the immigration policy in 2013.

That doesn’t matter to Trump. He just wants to divert blame onto someone else to avoid any scrutiny towards himself. The only person at fault, though, is Sayfullo Saipov, the person who commit-ted this horrific act.

The sad part of all this is that if the president had addressed the attacks on Tuesday with half of the conviction of his predeces-sors, he would have received praise from both sides, because it would’ve been so uncharacteristic of him.

President Obama was right when he said we have become numb to these attacks and tragedies, but we shouldn’t become numb to these responses. We need someone who is going stand up in front of the American people and tell them that we need to come together and persevere, not divide and pass blame.

By FRANKLIN NORTONSOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

It was a couple of months ago, and I was driv-ing my car, dropping some friends off at their homes. Just as friends do, we were talking, laugh-ing and sharing about our lives. But there was a single moment where I kind of suspended myself from the conversation and realized how strange this car must have looked: a Ugandan in the back-seat, an Indian in the passenger seat, and a West Virginian behind the wheel.

The college experience is a time to learn and be educated, not just in the classroom. It’s a time to learn how the real world works, a time to learn new ideas and a time to explore new ideas. It’s also a time where we form relationships with others, and we learn some of life’s greatest les-sons from these relationships as well. One of the most incredible opportunities we have on a col-lege campus is to meet and connect with other students from all over the world, without even buying a plane ticket.

In this past semester, my world has been

opened up in a variety of ways. I made friends from different countries, different languages and different cultures, and my life is richer because of it. A study conducted by Elisa-beth Gareis, Ed.D. out of Baruch College/City University of New York found that around 40 percent of international students report not having any close American friends. There’s another statistic floating around that says about 75 percent of international students will never enter an American home. This is such a shame! Let’s open our eyes, our homes and our hearts to these amazing people with so much to give. They may not look like me, but we do have one thing in common: we’re all human.

This weekend is the International Festival at the student center. I’ll be there, and I encourage anybody else to be there, too. Learn about an-other culture, and maybe meet some really great new friends.

Frankin Norton can be contacted at nor-ton18@marshall.edu.

LET ME BE FRANK: ON INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Franklin and friends at Bridge Day.

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A child looks at a makeshift memorial to remember the victims of the attack near the crime scene in New York. A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along the busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, killing at least eight and seriously injuring others in what the mayor called “a particularly cowardly act of terror.”

Editorial: How a president should react to tragedy

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Thursday it will hold a public hearing in West Virginia on its plan to nullify an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The state is economically dependent on coal mining.

The Environmental Protec-tion Agency will take comments on its proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan in Charles-ton, the state capital, on Nov. 28 and 29.

"The EPA is headed to the heart of coal country to hear from those most impacted by the CPP and get their com-ments on the proposed repeal rule," said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. "The agency looks forward to hearing from all in-terested stakeholders."

No other public hearings have yet been scheduled. EPA will also accept written com-ments about the proposed repeal through mid-January.

"We encourage stakehold-ers to participate, and submit comments online — including any requests for additional public meetings," said Liz Bowman, an EPA spokes-woman. "As this is a vital issue that affects people across the country, we will do our best to respond to requests for addi-tional meetings."

Under the Obama ad-ministration, EPA held four multiday public hearings — in Washington, Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Denver — to collect feed-back before issuing the Clean Power Plan in 2015. About two dozen conservative-leaning states and a battery of fossil-fuel companies immediately sued, successfully preventing the car-bon reduction plan from taking effect prior to the election of Donald Trump, who as a candi-date pledged to repeal it.

A Republican lawyer who previously served as the

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Though Trump, Pruitt and others have blamed environ-mental regulations for the loss of coal-mining jobs, many in-dustry insiders concede that it has been the accelerating shift of electric utilities using cheaper and cleaner-burning natural gas that is the primary culprit.

Pruitt has also sought to cast doubt on the consensus of climate scientists that the continued burning of fossil fu-els is the main driver of global warming. Scientists say climate change has already triggered rising seas and more extreme weather, including killer heat waves, worsened droughts and torrential rains.

A Government Account-ability Office report released earlier this month said U.S. taxpayers spent more than $350 billion over the last de-cade on disaster assistance programs and insurance pay-outs from floods and crop failures. That tally does not include the massive toll from this year's wildfires and three major hurricanes, expected to be among the most costly in the nation's history.

The report predicts these costs will only grow in the fu-ture, averaging a budget busting $35 billion each year by 2050 — a figure that recent history would suggest is a conservative estimate.

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PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — In the halal bakeries and mar-kets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the lat-est terror attack in the U.S.

Sayfullo Saipov, the Muslim man accused of using a truck to mow down people on a New York City bike path in the name of the Islamic State group, lived in Paterson.

Paterson saw a surge of anti-Muslim harassment after 9/11, particularly after it was learned that as many as a half-dozen of the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field lived or spent time in the city 20 miles (32 kilometers) outside New York.

After the rampage on Tues-day that left eight people dead, "it's the same feeling again," said Imam Mohammad Qatanani, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, the region's most in-fluential mosque.

"People here feel they will be blamed as a religion and as a people. Because this guy was a Muslim, Muslims will be blamed anywhere and everywhere."

By Thursday, it had already begun. The Islamic Center of Passaic County had received eight telephone threats, prompting police to assign ex-tra patrols to the area.

"They say they're going to kill us, they're going to burn the place down, all using ex-tremely foul language," said the mosque's president, Omar Awad. "They say, 'We're going to come rip your ... beard off.'"

The New Jersey office of the Council on American Islamic Relations reported threats had also been made against the Omar Mosque, next door to the apartment house where Saipov lived. Mosque officials did not im-mediately return a message seeking comment.

Tensions have flared within the Muslim commu-nity as well, with two men getting into a fistfight at a mosque in a dispute over the cause of Saipov's alleged radicalization.

Until this week, Saipov, who came to the U.S. in 2010 from Uzbekistan, was just one more recent arrival in a city that is home to immigrants from more than four dozen countries.

Neighborhoods have been dubbed Little Ramal-lah or Little Istanbul for their respective Arab and

Turkish residents. Peru has a consulate in the city to serve the large number of Peruvians.

More than 34 percent of the city's residents were born in another country, according to the Census Bureau.

Islamic leaders in the city of 147,000 people estimate Pat-erson's Muslim population at 25,000 to 30,000.

Paterson was an engine of the Industrial Revolu-tion, its factories churning out textiles and embroidery that helped earn it the nick-name Silk City. But many of the industrial jobs are gone, and nearly a third of Paterson's population lives in poverty, the city beset by crime and drugs.

It has been in this envi-ronment that the Muslim community established itself over decades, with a mix of Arab, Asian, African-American and European members of the faith. The Islamic Center of Passaic County, formed nearly three decades ago in Paterson, draws about 2,000 people for Friday communal prayers.

Now, some are afraid they will be made to an-swer for the actions of a man many leaders of the community say they didn't know.

Saipov did not attend the Passaic County mosque, Qa-tanani said. As for the Omar Mosque, congregants dis-agreed over whether he prayed there.

Ramy Elhelw, 30, of Hoboken, said he never saw Saipov there. "This is not somebody we recog-nize in any way, shape or form," Elhelw said. "A per-son who does something of this nature is a deranged

human being."But Abu Mohammed, a

46-year-old Palestinian con-struction worker and olive oil importer who came to Amer-ica at 18, said he saw Saipov worship there.

While he condemned Saipov's alleged crimes, he also said he understands what can send a law-abiding Muslim down the path of radicalization.

"It's simple: They see the U.S. terrorizing Muslims left and right for the last 27 years, hundreds of thousands of them," Mohammed said. "That's terrorism, and ter-rorism creates terrorists. The one who starts the fight is more guilty."

Upon hearing Mohammed's remarks to reporters at the Omar Mosque, an elderly man yelled at him and punched him in the face, and they scuffled.

The mosque had been targeted by the New York Police Department, which conducted broad surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey, New York and beyond after 9/11, a program uncovered by The Associated Press in 2011. An NYPD report from the surveillance found no evi-dence of criminal activity at the Omar Mosque.

Frank Cagatay, who lives in an apartment building where Saipov had lived, said the latest attack will further damage Pater-son's reputation.

"The people that do this cite God in carrying out ter-rorist attacks, but God never told anyone to kill innocent people," Cagatay said.

After 9/11, Muslims in and around Paterson re-ported that people screamed

anti-Muslim insults and threw objects at them, par-ticularly after false rumors spread that people were dancing in the streets to cel-ebrate the attacks. Several Muslims were assaulted, and mosques received bomb threats.

Muslim leaders have gone to great lengths to try to ease the hostility by reaching out to law enforcement officials and local residents.

Government agencies held job fairs at Qatanani's mosque to recruit Arabic-speaking Muslims, and high-ranking political and counterterror-ism officials were guests at its annual Ramadan dinner.

The local FBI office, which began meeting with Paterson Muslims in 1999, said tips and other information from the Muslim community were extremely helpful after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and they praised local residents who served as translators when investigators conducted interviews.

Worries over discrimina-tion against Muslims in New Jersey continue, however, in part because of efforts by some towns to thwart con-struction of mosques.

Many people here worry that President Donald Trump's statements — includ-ing calling Saipov an "animal" — will inflame tensions.

Aref Assaf, a Palestin-ian active in Paterson's Muslim community, said Muslims have been at the forefront of efforts to coun-ter extremism.

"This guilt by association is hurtful for those of us who are working so hard to see this curse wiped from the face of the Earth," Assaf said.

Muslims in NJ city fear another backlash after latest attack

personality, as well as his personal he-roes, his work and obstacles that he faced along his path to becoming the “Father of Black History”.

Woodson, at one time a Huntington resident, has roots in West Virginia, hav-ing worked as a coal miner in the state. The educator graduated from Douglass High School in 1896 and served as the school’s principal from 1900 to 1903. Woodson went on to receive a Ph.D. in history from Harvard, the second African American in to do so.

“He said that a turning point in his career was him time spent in West Vir-ginia,” Morris said.

Morris also announced the extension of the 2018 Black History Poster Compe-tition to students involved in art classes at all 25 Cabell County schools. The com-petition, which was held for the first time in 2017, was previously open solely to Marshall students. Students from each level will receive $100, and the winner from Marshall will have their poster fea-tured for the month’s events.

At the Lyceum event, journalism

professor and Parthenon adviser Sandy York revealed the new Woodson website, visible on Marshall’s domain at mar-shall.edu/carterwoodson. The website features local black history, such as docu-ments detailing the integration of black students into Marshall University, as well as integration efforts in high schools throughout the state. The website pres-ents an interactive aspect of black history for students and educators to make use for projects or in the classroom.

Jesten Richardson can be contacted at richardso164@marshall.edu.

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A vendor stands near his items outside the Integrity Masonic Temple in Paterson, N.J. Wednesday. The North Jersey town, which is home to a large Muslim community, has drawn attention in the wake of an attack in Manhattan, where a Paterson resident drove a pick-up truck onto a bike path, killing several people and injuring others.

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By ALEXIA LILLYFOR THE PARTHENON

Editor’s note: Matt James, 31, is the assistant dean of Student Affairs at Marshall University. He lives with his wife and two Dachshunds. He was the student body president of Marshall Univer-sity from 2008 to 2009. He serves as an adviser to the Marshall Student Government Association and the Beta Delta chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi fra-ternity. Reporter Alexia Lilly recently interviewed him using a style borrowed from the Marcel Proust/Vanity Fair format, which is designed to reveal the personal side of newsmakers.

Q: What is your most marked characteristic?A: That’s a deep question for the first question. I

would say I’m an engaging person.Q: What is the quality you most like in a man?A: In anyone, I like accountability. As one man

who mentors other men, and specifically frater-nity men, a quality I admire is respect. Specifically, respect of women. Not in a romantic way, but in an equality standpoint.

Q: What is the quality you most like in a woman?

A: I love confidence. I think confidence in a woman is really admirable.

Q: What do you most value in your friends?A: Loyalty, but not necessarily blind loyalty.

I guess I would reframe that and say honesty.Q: What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?A: I care too much about what people think. I

think sometimes I need to remind myself who I am, because I know my intentions are always good. I’m a genuine person and a hard worker. Sometimes, I overanalyze and overthink things. I worry about what people think of me when I should care less about that and worry more about if people respect me. I always say yes, but I can’t help myself. I think that’s my mom in me; just wanting to help people. I hate that I cannot say no.

Q: What is your favorite occupation?A: If I wasn’t here (at Marshall), I would be

spending time with my dogs. I love my two little wiener dogs. I think they’re adorable. But, to be really honest with you, I love my job. I love working with students. It’s my favorite occupa-tion. I love being on campus. I love spending

time with students. But if not with students, with my two dogs.

Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?A: I think happiness is something that takes

some people a lifetime to find. I think it’s when a person’s desires and their reality find some type of congruency. When you can compromise your wants and needs versus reality, to me that’s happiness. I think happiness is being able to love yourself regardless of your flaws and being able to accept your flaws. Happiness happens within you. When you love yourself, that is the picture of happiness.

Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

A: Airports. I think that speaks for itself, right?Alexia Lilly can be contacted at lilly207@

marshall.edu.

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Faculty Spotlight: assistant dean of Student Affairs Matt James

By SEBASTIAN MORRISTHE PARTHENON

Stand-up comedy star John Mulaney made a stop in Hunting-ton with his newest show “Kid Gorgeous,” in which he paints a picture that is anything but.

Mulaney’s self-deprecating jokes had the crowd of Mar-shall students and Huntington residents roaring with laughter throughout the night. During his performance, Mulaney humored the audience with anecdotes ranging from the ridic-ulousness of the unqualified figures featured at grade school assemblies to the absurdity of college tuition prices. Mulaney anchored his performance by drawing from personal experi-ences about marriage, aging and growing up as a Catholic.

“Kid Gorgeous” featured a unique form of political humor that came across lightly and did not seek to offend. Mulaney

spent little time on the divisive politics of the era, though he did draw an analogy between the presidency of Donald Trump and a “horse in a hospital.”

Mulaney’s experience as a writer for “Saturday Night Live” reflected in his act, as it had the same loud energy and pacing of an SNL skit.

In 2015, Mulaney released his Netflix special “The Comeback Kid,” which the AV Club called the “best hour of his career.” He began his career in New York’s East Village and has since toured around the world.

Mulaney currently writes for IFC’s “Documentary Now” and is a alumnus writer for Saturday Night Live. He currently voices the character Andrew on Netflix’s cartoon “Big Mouth.”

Sebastian Morris can be contacted at morris347@marshall.edu.

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Matt James is the assistant dean of Student Affairs at Marshall University and said he loves his job and working with students on campus.

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