The Parthenon

Local Pulitzer Prize winners discuss their path to success

Michaela Crittenden, Reporter • April 2, 2018

Eric Eyre and John Hackworth, Pulitzer Prize winners, spoke to Huntington community members about being an informed citizen and the path to the Pulitzer Prize Monday. Hackworth graduated from Marshall...

Marshall celebrates International Children’s Day with display of popular children’s books

Sarah Ingram, Reporter • April 2, 2018

The library, along with assistance from the department of education, played host to the International Children’s Day event to promote reading to people of all ages Monday. April 2 is Hans Christian...

Basketball tournament to benefit Branches Domestic Violence Shelter

Amanda Larch, Reporter • April 2, 2018

Marshall University’s Campus Activity Board will have its first ever Branch Out, Ball Out basketball tournament for students beginning at 10 a.m. in the Recreation Center Saturday. Students can create...

Local Journalists to present ‘Path to Pulitzer’

Michaela Crittenden, Reporter • March 29, 2018

Two Pulitzer Prize winners will discuss the process of investigating and writing award-winning news stories in the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall April 2 at 7 p.m. “Path to Pulitzer: Journalism and the...

New law to bring changes to PROMISE in W.Va.

Ginny Blake, Reporter • March 29, 2018

A bill eliminating the need for homeschooled students to earn the equivalent to a high school degree in order to receive the PROMISE scholarship was passed by the West Virginia Legislature. Passed in early...

Police Blotter

Sarah Ingram, Reporter • March 29, 2018

Burglary A student reported he had $116 stolen off of his desk in his dorm room after leaving the room to use the restroom. The student claimed he left his door unlocked because he was using a restroom...

Student Veteran Association to have elections, hopes to become involved with SGA in future

Amanda Larch, Reporter • March 29, 2018

The Student Veteran Association assists veterans on campus and allows them to have a common area to relax between classes and rely on one another for support. Next Wednesday, the organization will have...

Marshall University’s SAME-ASCE chapter brings home multiple awards from annual conference

Ginny Blake, Reporter • March 29, 2018

Marshall University’s SAME-ASCE chapter competed against other universities during the annual Virginia Conference. The conference, on March 22-24, allowed Marshall’s engineering students to participate...

MU Reads gives students a taste of women authors

Amanda Larch, Reporter • March 29, 2018

MU Reads, Marshall University libraries’ book club, celebrated Women’s History Month Tuesday with a “book tasting” event. The event organizers set up eight tables, each with a different genre,...

Activists take to streets at March for Our Lives in Huntington

Hanna Pennington, Reporter • March 26, 2018

Activists of all ages charged proudly through Huntington Saturday morning as part of the March for Our Lives movement which took place all across the country. Participants marched in honor of the 17 victims...

Americans across the country march for their lives

Sadie Helmick, LIFE! Editor • March 26, 2018

“To the leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and stay silent, wait your turn. Welcome to the revolution,” Cameron Kasky, a survivor from Parkland, Florida proclaimed to an estimated...

Meet your new SGA President and VP

Kyra Biscarner, Reporter • March 26, 2018

Coming back from spring break can mean the start of the end of the year, but for the newly elected Barclay-Petracca administration it is just the beginning. After winning by five votes in the Student...