MU Establishes Leah Hickman Scholarship
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Posted: 1:45 PM Feb 22, 2008
MU Establishes Leah Hickman Scholarship
Hickman was a Marshall University Broadcast Journalism major found murdered at her apartment in Huntington back in December 2007.
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Marshall University has established the Leah Hickman Memorial Scholarship in Journalism.

Hickman was a Marshall University broadcast journalism major found murdered at her apartment in Huntington back in December 2007.

The scholarship will be awarded to a freshman, sophomore or junior who is a full-time journalism student. They must also be a West Virginia resident and in good academic standing .l.

The Leah Hickman Scholarship was made possible by donations from Dress Barn , family and friends of Leah Hickman, and Leah’s friends at the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Dr. Corley Dennison, Dean of the School of Journalism, says “many of our students have been asking about an appropriate way to remember Leah.”

“We are currently working on the details of several fundraisers and the proceeds from those will be contributed to the scholarship fund named in her honor.”

To contribute to the scholarship you cal call (304) 696-6781.

The first award will be made during the School of Journalism’s annual spring banquet.

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Posted by: audrey on Jun 13, 2009 at 09:31 PM

A jounalism student! My favorite people! I don't know, I just think someone, perhaps the landlord, knew there was someone weird about the place, either a renter or a former renter. Most unsafe: to share a basement - as a door to a basement isn't secure enough, and just to know someone could hang out just at your door that leads to the basement. She may have gone downstairs before she was going to carry her laundry downstairs. Something. Her front door was left unlocked?
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Posted by: donald on May 18, 2008 at 06:17 PM

I've been watch story erom first day I thank Police don't have any thing to work on so they drag there feet lost for words to tell people, why don`t say screw up case?
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Posted by: linda on May 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM

i don't feel that the law informent has really done there best in this case or any other case they don't work hard enought and most men give up and they let it go to long to do any good by that time people have forgotten all about it and i feel that it isn't just the huntington police it is all of them. they could have had the dogs with them when they got the call, by the time they got the dogs in there they had walked all the crime scene, which i feel like that is why they didn't get anywhere with the investation. the police don't do the right thing any more, they should be on duty 24 7 and they should be on duty on the high ways the one going to huntington and the rest of the high ways. i no that with my daughters case they never did anything about it. i think it is a bad way for the police departments in this state to operate. they get people on there that are scared of there own movements. and some of them are so out of sharp that they can't run or chase anyone on foot.
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