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The Parthenon

Marshall University's Student Newspaper

The Parthenon

Marshall University's Student Newspaper

The Parthenon

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...

Executive Editor Evan’s Exit

Executive Editor Evan’s Exit

Evan Green, Executive Editor November 20, 2024

Both for myself and The Parthenon. And so, this is my goodbye (or execution, as Baylee keeps calling it). I’ve been working for The Parthenon for a little under three years, and I’ve been the executive...

Maggie Gibbs during her internship in the summer of 2021

Success doesn’t have to mean suffering

Maggie Gibbs, Staff Reporter November 18, 2024

There’s a huge misconception that you need to follow a “safe” path to secure your future, even if it drains you, but, if you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, how can you expect to excel in it? Success...

The impact of student journalism

The impact of student journalism

Abigail Cutlip, Social Media Manager November 13, 2024

I have always hated farewells. More specifically, I have always hated the change that is almost guaranteed to follow. My time at The Parthenon has been the source of some of my fondest memories here...

Vito vacates the newsroom

Vito vacates the newsroom

Joseph DiCristofaro, Sports Editor November 13, 2024

Throughout my first three semesters of college, I often questioned whether I had picked the right career path and whether I belonged in higher education. In the second semester of my sophomore year, those...

Kaitlyn Fleming

You know it is serious when Gen Z has not cracked a single joke

Kaitlyn Fleming, Opinions & Culture Editor November 6, 2024

It’s no secret that Gen Z-ers tend to lean toward humor to cope. No matter the gravity of the situation, you can always count on TikTok trends to take the younger generation by storm as a way to manage...

Don’t let your ‘clicktivist’ uncle persuade your political views

Don’t let your ‘clicktivist’ uncle persuade your political views

Kaitlyn Fleming, Opinions & Culture Editor November 6, 2024

We’ve all experienced a relative participating in “political activism” on our Facebook timeline.  The troubling issue is, that relative almost certainly received that political information from...

Lyle & Erik Menendez were tried twice before being convicted in 1996.

Lyle Menendez: best big brother ever

Sarah Davis, Managing Editor November 4, 2024

One of America’s first heavily televised criminal trial put two brothers away for life, but a recent decision last Thursday from the Los Angeles County DA is challenging that sentence - and rightfully...

Liam Payne onstage at one of his sold-out shows

The story of our lives: Liam Payne’s death is the end of an era

Kaitlyn Fleming, Opinions & Culture Editor October 28, 2024

Walking into work and seeing the headline “Liam Payne dead at 31” was something I, an avid One Direction fan, never anticipated at such a young age.  One Direction took the world by storm after...

Damage from Hurricane Helene

Conspiracy theories damage our shared reality

Kaitlyn Fleming, Opinions & Culture Editor October 21, 2024

At first, conspiracy theories used to be thought-provoking, engaging and almost fun topics to discuss. Maybe Area 51 really is hosting a whole alien population underneath our noses, or Avril Lavigne has...

Baylee Parsons

Leave the politics to politicians, not musicians

Baylee Parsons, News Editor October 11, 2024

I hate Taylor Swift. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to preface this piece with two things: one, it’s true – I really don’t like Taylor Swift, but also, two, I have no problem with...

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