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The Parthenon

Marshall University's Student Newspaper

The Parthenon

'Severance' promotional image (Courtesy of Apple)

‘Severance’ is too good for the streaming age of television

Caden Adkins, Opinions and Culture Editor March 27, 2025

Ben Stiller’s work-life balance thriller not only shocked me on first watch, but left me wondering what has gone wrong with modern-day television. It is very rare a television show born out of the...

Kaitlyn Fleming in Charolette, North Carolina at the PRSSA Assembly (The Parthenon/Kaitlyn Fleming)

I’m learning to appreciate West Virginia: Stereotypes to strength

Kaitlyn Fleming, News Editor March 13, 2025

I used to be embarrassed to tell people I was from West Virginia. I still kind of am, but not for the reason you may think.  Every time I went out of town, I braced myself for the typical renditions...

Sarah and her mom pictured in New York City in 2011  (Courtesy of Wes Davis)

Every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m.

Sarah Davis, Executive Editor March 5, 2025

Every weekday, for years, my after-school routine looked the same. Come home from school, eat a snack, do homework and eat dinner with my family. I grew up in a house that sat at the dining table every...

Kaitlyn Fleming (The Parthenon/Wade Sullivan)

Make America whole again: Mental health matters

Kaitlyn Fleming, News Editor February 27, 2025

In an era where mental health awareness was finally gaining the attention it deserved, it’s alarming to witness political figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushing policies that would roll back critical...

I was my own valentine, and I’m happy with that

I was my own valentine, and I’m happy with that

Nolan Duncan, Staff Reporter February 18, 2025

The title says it all. For this past Valentine’s Day, I was my own valentine, and I’ve never been happier.  My self-love began with a regular checkup at the doctor’s office, then I bought model...

Photo by Wade Sullivan

It’s time to stop blaming Gen Z

Baylee Parsons, Managing Editor February 13, 2025

Are they one of my classmates? Are they one of my friends? Are they okay? These are the questions that immediately popped into my head when I arrived on campus Tuesday, Feb. 4, to find a student had...

Filmmaker David Lynch poses at his Los Angeles home March 14, 2002.

There will never be another David Lynch

Caden Adkins, Opinions and Culture Editor February 8, 2025

On Wednesday, Jan. 15, American director and actor David Lynch passed away from emphysema, leaving behind a legacy that is impossible to replicate.  Over the past five decades, Lynch has redefined...

Elon Musk arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)

Elon’s salute does not make him a Nazi

Caden Adkins, Opinions and Culture Editor February 3, 2025

The repeated antisemitism, support for Germany’s thriving neo-Nazi party and creepy, sexually driven remarks about Taylor Swift, however, do. It is currently being debated whether his questionable...

Students were greeted with a snow-covered campus as class began for the Spring 2025 Semester.

A new look for a new climate: Students confront fashion in the frost

Bethany Jarrell, Staff Reporter January 27, 2025

Students returning to class this week experienced the heaviest snowfall Marshall has seen since 2022, bringing forth a shift in campus fashion as students scramble to adapt to this unusually cold start...

'Longlegs' movie poster

‘Longlegs’ was disappointing

Caden Adkins, Opinions & Culture Editor January 25, 2025

Not even Nicholas Cage could save a movie that distracts the viewer from it’s god-awful storyline by relying on it’s pretty cinematography. Granted, the movie does look very visually appealing. Oz...

Kaitlyn Fleming

Vulnerability is a virtue—but not for women

Kaitlyn Fleming, Opinions & Culture Editor November 26, 2024

She’s too bossy. She’s too serious. She’s too emotional. But, boys will be boys. Why is it that women are consistently held to higher ethical, moral and simply existential standards than...

Rafael Retires: The most biased story I’ll ever let us publish

Rafael Retires: The most biased story I’ll ever let us publish

Rafael Alfonso, Content Editor November 20, 2024

I hardly recognize The Parthenon these days, but, to be honest, that’s a really good thing. When I joined the paper back in the Spring 2022 Semester, we didn’t have QR codes in the print or weekly...

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