The Parthenon

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...

New Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life has big plans for MU Greek Life

Sarah Ingram, Reporter • March 26, 2018

Nick Wright is one of the many new faculty members at Marshall University this semester as the first official director of Fraternity and Sorority Life. With a background in both public health and Greek...

Fraternity and Sorority Life social moratorium lifted

Sarah Ingram, Reporter • March 26, 2018

Fraternity and Sorority Life is no longer under a social moratorium after Nick Wright, the director of FSL, and the Greek council decided to have each chapter participate in a Green Dot Bystander Intervention...

Society for Advancement of Management places 2nd at business conference in D.C.

Sydney Shelton, For the Parthenon • March 26, 2018

Marshall’s Chapter of the Society for Advancement of Management, SAM, attended the International Business Conference in District of Columbia over spring break, where they placed second in the open division...

SGA results are in: Hunter Barclay and Hannah Petracca upset with minutes left

Kyra Biscarner, Reporter • March 14, 2018

Five. The number on everyone’s mind right now. Hunter Barclay and Hannah Petracca have been elected student body president and vice president, with five votes separating their team with Jeremiah Parlock...