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Marshall University's Student Newspaper

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Marshall University's Student Newspaper

The Parthenon

The Marshall University football team runs out onto the field before the Appalachain State game.

Back-to-back bye-weeks, COVID edition

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 29, 2020

This is the second week in a row that the Marshall University football team has a bye-week. This is due to the coronavirus and its constant changes, cancelations and postponements of games in college football.  Originally,...

Red flags cover MSC Triangle Field.

Red Flag Campaign Brings Awareness

Xena Bunton, Reporter September 26, 2020

Little red flags planted on the Memorial Student Center Triangle Field are promoted as a bystander intervention strategy–to prevent sexual assault, dating violence and stalking–in hoped that...

COLUMN: Generational Hustle

COLUMN: Generational Hustle

Brittany Hively, Managing Editor September 22, 2020

“It’s those damn millennials ruining everything,” say the older generations.  “Ruin? We’re just trying to live on a world you ruined,” say the millennials. “Oh, and there’s an entire...

EDITORIAL: Black Lives Matter

EDITORIAL: Black Lives Matter

September 22, 2020

Seventeen Republican state senators from West Virginia recently made headlines for penning a letter to Marshall University and West Virginia University criticizing, among other things, WVU's football team...

Marshall Vintage Blows up on Social Media

Marshall Vintage Blows up on Social Media

Xena Bunton, Reporter September 22, 2020

Marshall Vintage, co-created by a Marshall alumni couple, launched their website this fall semester after a high demand from Marshall fans for vintage university gear. Former Marshall football player,...

For No.25 Marshall Bye-Week...Part Two

For No.25 Marshall Bye-Week…Part Two

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 22, 2020

Now as a nationally ranked team, the No. 25 Marshall University Thundering Herd will face yet another early bye-week due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This is the second bye-week for Marshall. The...

Redshirt senior linebacker Tavante Beckett celebrated a defensive play against Eastern Kentucky.

No. 23 Appalachian State to visit Huntington

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 15, 2020

The Marshall University Thundering Herd football team is coming off an early bye-week as it prepares to take on the Appalachian State Mountaineers on Saturday. In its first game of the season, the Herd...

EDITORIAL: High-speed broadband should be a public utility

September 15, 2020

The onset and continuation of the coronavirus pandemic have relentlessly exposed now-unmistakable flaws in the social fabric and critical infrastructure of states and towns across the U.S. In West Virginia,...

W.Va. internet speeds worsening throughout pandemic

W.Va. internet speeds worsening throughout pandemic

Douglas Harding, Executive Editor September 15, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic and resulting changes to society have forced millions of Americans to begin working from home—whether as a profession or for education—an increasing reliance upon a stable,...

EDITORIAL: We deserve better than this

EDITORIAL: We deserve better than this

September 8, 2020

They say the stench of dying empires wreaks of desolation, death and despair. In the face of a torn and tattered social fabric which has been ripped apart and exposed entirely throughout the coronavirus...

Natalie Cline, Cathy Kunkel, Hilary Turner, Paula Jean Swearengin

W.Va. women make Democratic Party history

Douglas Harding and Sequoia Ware September 8, 2020

By DOUGLAS HARDING and SEQUOIA WARE EXECUTIVE EDITOR and reporter For the first time in the state’s history, each of the Democratic Party’s nominees for U.S. Congress from West Virginia are women. “West...

Redshirt freshman quarterback Grant Wells focused on making a play against the Colonels.

Herd faces early bye-week, prepares for Appalachian State

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 8, 2020

Following its season home opening win against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels, the Marshall University football team is preparing for its next opponent, Appalachian State. However, the Herd will have...

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