The Parthenon

Talk just keeps getting cheaper

Benjamin O'Dell and Lydia Waybright • March 12, 2018

It’s election season on Marshall’s campus, with the student government race for president and vice president taking place today and tomorrow. Yesterday’s...

Does sameness achieve equality?

Benjamin O'Dell, Contributor • March 5, 2018

In the current cultural climate, there is a lot of discussion and discourse on equality or the lack thereof. Within these conversations, inequality is...

Finding facts in a world full of fiction

Lydia Waybright, Contributor • March 1, 2018

We are living in what some have called a Post Truth society. In the age of alternative facts and fake news we, the public, have been given license to pick...

Social change before your eyes

Ben O'Dell, Contributor • February 26, 2018

This past Thursday, teachers and other school employees all around the state of West Virginia walked out and began a strike in response to inadequate pay...

History and activism are marked by young voices speaking out

Tom Jenkins, Executive Editor • February 22, 2018

Wednesday the Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden came to discuss Black History month and Carter G. Woodson’s contributions to Black History. Part of...

LET ME BE FRANK: On Education

Franklin Norton, Managing Editor • February 19, 2018

“It was the times when I was in class and the teacher taught me a lesson about life and my mind opened up, or the moments when I walked through the halls...

CHAPTER 1: Strings

June Richardson • February 14, 2018

Blythe Anderson sat in the wooden chair, legs crossed, chin resting in hand. She gazed out the window of the small, stuffy coffee shop, watching the unending...

Political Evangelicalism v. Biblical Christianity: Remember the sojourner

Lydia Waybright, Columnist • February 8, 2018

Wednesday’s publication of the Washington Post included a full-page ad from an organization called World Relief, which promotes the support of immigrants...

Smiling is not in the job description

Lydia Waybright, Contributor • February 1, 2018

When I was in high school, I started to learn firsthand that the list of demands for me to succeed, even as a teenage girl, was longer and much more specific...

All eyes on President Trump as he prepares for first State of the Union address

Tom Jenkins, Executive Editor • January 29, 2018

President Trump is expected to address issues such as immigration, the rise in economic success and brag about his deal-making ability in the reopening...

Rosie the Riveter a timeless example that strength is beautiful

Lilly Dyer, Photo Editor • January 25, 2018

With a polka dotted red headband and a blue work shirt perfectly rolled to expose a flex, Rosie The Riveter, a feminist icon, has taught me and so many...

Wolff cries ‘Fire and Fury’ in new book

Tom Jenkins, Executive Editor • January 18, 2018

In an age of “alternative facts,” “fake news,” and a growing lack of trust for the institutions that we as a country rely on to sift through the...