The Parthenon

Students Respond to University Weekly Testing

Conner Woodruff, Reporter • September 13, 2021

All students who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine are to be tested weekly due to a newly established policy. In an alert sent to all Marshall...

Marshall’s 16th Annual Quoit Competition Begins

Jayden Taylor, Reporter • September 13, 2021

The 16th annual Marshall Quoits began this week and will be played throughout the month. The event, sponsored by John Deaver Drinko Academy, is...

Cabell Countys’ First Event Provides Free Naxolone

Alaina Laster, Reporter • September 13, 2021

Save A Life Day came to Cabell County on Sept. 8 for the first time. With the help of St. Peters’ Community Outreach center and The Huntington...

Black United Students Host Their Own ‘Paint and Sip’

Katlyn Worstell, Reporter • September 13, 2021

Black United Students held an Express Yourself, Trap and Paint session on Sept. 9. in Marcos, downstairs in the Memorial Student Center. Inspired...

A sea of green at the Naval Academy: Marshall’s strong fanbase travels to Annapolis

Isabella Robinson, Features Editor • September 7, 2021

Marshall fans arrived in Annapolis in droves on Saturday as the 2021 Herd football season kicked off against the Naval Academy. Student Body President...

Jean Edward Smith Memorial Symposium

Leah Scott, Reporter • September 7, 2021

“He never lost his way of his chapters, always knowing the direction he was going and never leading off,” Bob Bender, vice president and executive director...

Resident Halls use hard protocols due to COVID-19

Katlyn Worstell, Reporter • September 7, 2021

Due to COVID-19, guidelines have been strict at Marshall, especially in the residence halls. While some protocols have become less strict for students...

Student involvement team hopes to increase the number of students involved in campus organizations

Alaina Laster, Reporter • September 7, 2021

To increase student participation on campus, the Student Involvement and Organization Fair was hosted Thursday outside the Memorial Student Center...

Jill Biden heads back to classroom as a working first lady

Darlene Superville, Associated Press • September 7, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden is going back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English to community college students in boxes...

Flash Flooding adds to financial struggles for University

Conner Woodruff, Reporter • September 7, 2021

Last week’s flash flood devastating parts of Marshall University’s campus will be another financial burden to MU’s already tight financial...

Shifting Sediments, Coal in the Art Gallery

Katlyn Worstell, Reporter • September 7, 2021

The Smith Hall art gallery is displaying from Aug. 30to Sept. 30 a new art exhibitfilled with coal art pieces that represent the mining industry in West...

Rest of the West (Virginia): Pepperoni Rolls

Xena Bunton, Executive Editor • September 6, 2021

I could sit here on my college dorm bed (two creaky twin-sized beds pushed together) at Marshall University and blame the pandemic for not exploring...