Contacting The Parthenon

The Parthenon Online is the World Wide Web edition of The Parthenon, Marshall University's student newspaper. Responsibility for news and editorial content on this site lies solely with The Parthenon editors.

The Parthenon Online is produced by Ted Dickinson, with assistance from Dr. Ralph J. Turner, Marilyn McClure, and the Parthenon staff. The Parthenon Online is updated Monday through Thursday evenings during regular school sessions and Wednesday evenings during the summer in conjunction with the publication of The Parthenon's print edition.

Please direct all comments about this site to Ted Dickinson or The Parthenon.

Special thanks to Marshall webmasters Bob Boag and Rob Hartwell for assistance in establishing The Parthenon Online and continuing to assist in its management.

The Parthenon
311 Smith Hall
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755

(304)696-6696
(304)696-2519 (FAX)

Butch Barker, editor
Phone: 696-2521
E-mail: barker14@marshall.edu

Barker, from Mason County, W.Va., is a senior majoring in print journalism. Barker has worked with The Parthenon since Spring 1997, when he started as the editorial cartoonist. Since that time Barker has worked as the summer wire editor, Life! editor, summer editor and managing editor. During the summer of 1999, Barker worked as a police beat reporter for The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington and worked as an intern for the Point Pleasant Register in the summer of 1998.

Andrea Copley, managing editor
Phone: 696-2522
E-mail: copley16@marshall.edu

Copley began her career with The Parthenon, like many journalism majors, as a reporter in the fall of 1997 where she was named the Reporter of the Year in 1998. She lives in Kenova, W. Va., and is a senior majoring in print journalism. Copley was the news editor for the fall 1999 semester and has worked as a copy editor for The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington since May.

Rebeccah Cantley, news editor
Phone: 696-6696
E-Mail: cantley5@marshall.edu

Cantley has been working with The Parthenon for three years. She started as the wire editor and has since worked as a staff writer, news editor, editor and is now the news editor for a second time. Cantley is a senior from Shady Spring, W.Va., majoring in print journalism. Cantley has done two internships with The Register-Herald in Beckley and one with The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Aaron Runyon, sports editor
Phone: 696-3339
E-Mail: runyon16@marshall.edu

Runyon, from Chesapeake, Ohio, is a junior majoring in print journalism. This is his first semester working as an editor for The Parthenon. Runyon is also a sports stringer for the Charleston Daily Mail.

Carrie Smith, wire editor
Phone: 696-6696
E-Mail: carriesmith@worldnet.att.net

Smith, from Moundsville, W.Va., is a senior majoring in print journalism. Like Runyon, Smith is a newcomer to The Parthenon staff.

Jacob Messer, Life! editor
Phone: 696-6696
E-Mail: messer5@marshall.edu

Messer has worked for The Parthenon for four years. He has worked as assistant sports editor, sports editor, managing editor, editor and is now trying something new as life! editor. Messer is a senior from Madison, W.Va., majoring in print journalism. He has worked as a sports stringer for the Charleston Daily Mail since 1997 and completed an internship at The Daily Mail in 1998. He did a second internship in 1999 at The State in Columbia, S. C.

Ted Dickinson, online editor
Phone: 696-6696
E-Mail: tdickinson@home.com

This is Dickinson's second semester working as an online editor for The Parthenon. He recently did an online internship with the Naples Daily News in Naples, Fla. Dickinson is a senior from Huntington, W.Va., majoring in print journalism.

Terri Blair, photo editor
Phone: 696-6696
E-Mail: blair24@marshall.edu

The Parthenon welcomes Blair as first-time photo editor. Blair, from Huntington, W.Va., is a senior pursuing a Regents B.A. degree. Blair worked as a photographer for The Parthenon in fall 1999.

Marilyn McClure, adviser
Phone: 696-2736
E-Mail: mcclure@marshall.edu

Sandy Savage, advertising manager
Phone: 696-3346
E-Mail: parthenonads@marshall.edu

(All phone numbers are area code 304.)