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By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor |@BertoHodge
Several programs and initiatives were put in place in the 1960s to combat the War on Pov-erty, which will be the focus of a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Room 4440 in Booth Li-brary.
Michael Gillespie, a professor of sociology and anthropology, who will be facilitating the discussion, said the war on poverty in the ‘60s was the United States’ way of realizing there was a poverty issue among women and chil-dren.
President Lyndon B. Johnson initiated the War on Poverty in 1964 during his State of the Union address, when he declared “uncondi-tional war on poverty in America.”
Gillespie said this was a package put in place by Johnson to combat the poverty issue to aide the future of the constitution, which created programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Medicare is a program for elderly who are
65 and older with disabilities or those from all ages diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, which is permanent kidney failure that requires treatment by dialysis.
The program has two plans: A and B. Plan A deals with hospital insurance that does not necessarily require a premium, while plan B is a medical insurance program requiring a monthly premium.
Medicaid is a program that covers many dif-ferent types of people including those with dis-abilities and with the Affordable Care Act, the program expanded on a national level.
By Debby HernandezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
The College of Arts and Humanities is seeking members for the student advisory board where members represent their de-partment by making decisions and being the voice of student concerns.
Akeem Forbes, the student dean of col-lege of arts and humanities, said being part of the advisory board is a way to bond stu-dents and administration in the decision-making process.
Forbes , a sophomore Engl i sh major, is currently representing his department through the student advisory board.
He said board members serve as the liai-son between students in their department and the administration by reporting student concerns to departmental leaders.
Forbes said the board aims to help in the scholarship fair and perform one communi-ty service project before the end of this se-mester.
He said the board hopes to create an effi-cient way for students to find scholarships.
“The overall goal for this semester is to promote ourselves to the best of our abil-i t ies so s tudents know we are here for (them),” Forbes said. “Specifically for my college, we are building the duties as we are building the student advisory board.”
Forbes said some consistent changes that have been addressed in the board include the need for overall staff in departments, minority staff, and considerations for in-cluding woman’s studies as a potential ma-jor within the college of arts and humani-ties.
He said the board is also looking to help with enrollment numbers by finding ways to market various departments.
“Each department was saying it is lack-ing students within the major,” Forbes said. “An idea is to work with the office of ad-missions and send out letters to prospective students.”
Bring issues from my department and other issues someone contacts me about into the meeting.
The board currently has seven members and is currently in need of student dele-gates from the foreign language, communi-cations, and philosophy departments.
Forbes said this is his first semester as the student dean, whose position consists of a one-year term.
He said while students who have pre-viously taken the position have not been more involved, he is hoping to build some-thing as the student dean.
“As of right now, my position would be to oversee the student advisory board, col-laborate with other student deans, as well as the (student) vice president for academ-ic affairs as it relates to any events or things we want to put on for the campus,” Forbes said.
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CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Ryan Woods, a senior political science major and the President of EIU College Democrats, talks with Stephanie Garcia, a senior politcal science major, about voting Monday in the library quad.
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By Stephanie MarkhamNews Editor | @stephm202
Voters can cast their ballots at their respective polling places Tuesday to elect various state and county officials, as well as give input on certain constitutional amendments and advisory ques-tions.
Locations for individuals to vote are listed on their registration cards depending on which pre-cinct they live in. For most students, this is ei-ther the Newman Catholic Center at 500 Roo-sevelt Ave. or the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
Polls will open at 6 a.m. at the Newman Cen-ter and 8:30 a.m. in the Union and will extend until 7 p.m.
Those who have not registered can still do so Tuesday before they vote in the Bridge Lounge or at the Coles County Courthouse.
To register the day of the election, voters must present both a state-issued photo ID and
proof of address, such as a bill or other piece of mail.
They would then submit their vote after reg-istering, either in the Bridge Lounge or in the Coles County Clerk’s Office, 651 Jackson Ave., Room 122.
Grace period registration and voting in the Courthouse will be available from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
During the last midterm election in 2010, more than 150 people voted in the Union.
Cameron Craig, a geography professor and climatologist, said rain is in the forecast for Tuesday, and studies have shown bad weather usually yields a lower turnout.
On the 2014 ballot are state officials includ-ing U.S. senator, governor and lieutenant gover-nor, attorney general, secretary of state, comp-troller, treasurer, and representatives for the 15th congressional district and for the 110th repre-sentative district.
On the ballot as well are county officials in-
cluding clerk, treasurer, sheriff, regional super-intendent of schools and board member, as well as judge of the appellate court for the fourth dis-trict and judicial candidates seeking to remain in office.
Additionally, two proposed amendments to the Illinois constitution and three statewide ad-visory questions are on the ballot.
One proposed amendment would prohibit laws that disproportionately affect voters based on minority status, and the other would expand the rights of criminals.
Advisory questions include whether mini-mum wage should be raised to $10 per hour for workers over 18, whether health insurance com-panies should have to provide birth control, and whether a 3 percent tax on income greater than $1 million should go to school districts.
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Popular YouTube ar t i s t Dan He n i g w i l l b e p e r f o r m i n g a t 7 p .m. Wedne sday a t 7 th St . Underground.
Henig, who is most well-known for his cover of “Get Low” by Lil’ Jon and the East Side Boyz, which garnered over 6 million views, will be performing songs from his self-titled CD.
Other covers that Henig has p rod uced i n c lude “Dr unk in Love,” by Beyoncé; “Problem,” by Ariana Grande; “Say Some-thing,” by A Great Big World; and “Thriftshop” by Macklemore.
Henig also has videos for his
own songs including “Chicago,” “Sparks,” “Gravity Bound” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”
The performance is the second of the University Board’s Main-stage YouTube series.
The first performance featured Emily Hearn on Sept. 25.
Tylen Elliott, UB Mainstage co-ordinator, said Henig is an inter-esting artist because of the variety of music he performs.
“He covers a lot of performers, musicians, different artists, and he has his own songs, too,” Elliott said. “He recently released his own electronic pop album.”
Henig released a promotional EP in 2011, and most recently re-leased his single “Wasted” in De-
cember 2013.Henig released a music video
for “Wasted” in October.El l iott sa id the previous UB
staff members developed the You-Tube Series.
“Henig was actually picked by last year’s coordinator,” he said. “They went to a conference where they were able to see different perform-ers and select people to come to the school.”
The audience for Hearn was ex-ceptional, but UB has hopes to gain larger crowd participation,” Elliott said.
“We a lways s t r ive for la rger numbers,” he said.
The show wil l include s imi-lar attractions provided at Hearn’s
performance in September.At the previous show, popcorn,
soda and water were offered to the audience for free.
Signed posters and EPs were also given away to audience members.
“We’ll still have giveaways and refreshments,” Elliott said. “It will be a lot of fun.”
El l io t t encourage s s tudent s to attend the concer t in order to expand their musica l inter -ests.
“It’s a free show, and he’s actual-ly really good,” he said. “I feel like they would enjoy his music.”
Samantha Middendorf can be
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The 10th annual Embarras Val-ley Film Festival will be present-ed throughout Eastern’s campus Thursday and will continue un-til Saturday.
This year, the film festival will f ea ture the f i lms o f Dick Van Dyke.
Van Dyke is this year’s featured actor because of his iconic roles in many popular American films such as “Mary Poppins,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Ki t Mor ice , cura tor fo r the Tarble Arts Center, said each year the film festival committee selects a different actor or theme that is relevant to the area.
“Dick Van Dyke was a good choice because he has roots in near-by Danville, his long and distin-guished acting career, and we had many good films from which to choose,” she said.
This year’s film festival will in-clude Van Dyke movies as well as a short film contest.
The contest will include a focus on student-produced films.
Robin Murray, an English pro-fessor, said the contest is important because it gives young filmmakers
the opportunity to have their work seen.
“Another event that will appeal to students is our student short film contest, for which we received 194 submissions from all over the U.S.,” she said. “We will be screening 25 of those, including many from Illi-nois.”
The contest will produce three winners, which will be announced Thursday.
Eastern students, faculty and Charleston residents are all encour-aged to attend the film festival,
Morice said.However, the coordinators are al-
ways trying to find new ideas to in-corporate more audience members.
“Students are definitely at the forefront for many of our events,” Mur r ay s a id . “Our Thur sday film, ‘Divorce American Style,’ will be shown in an EIU film class that will open up to the public.”
“Divorce American Style,” will be shown at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Coleman Hall Auditorium, Room 1255.
The student-produced film con-
test will also take place Thursday. The contest will begin at 7 p.m.
in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
“The Comic” will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday in the Lecture Hall of Doudna.
“Mary Poppins” wi l l be fea-tured as the family matinee mov-ie at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Tar-ble Arts Center Atrium.
“Cold Turkey” will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday in the Tarble Atri-um.
The Embarras Valley Film Fes-
tival hopes to encourage more ap-preciation for films by involving Eastern alumni.
“By screening movies and in-viting audience participation in after-film discussions, we encour-age members of the larger com-munity to become aware of, and take pride in, the r ich cultural and historical heritage of Charles-ton and the area,” Morice said.
Samantha Middendorfcan be reached at 581-2812
Film festival features Dick Van Dyke
By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor | @BertoHodge
In order to help raise money for the Association of International Students, one student helped create the first Run-Walk for the World 5K Relay from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15. at the Panther Trail.
Kara Atkins, the 5K coordina-tor, said having a lot of interna-tional students as friends opened her mind up to a new culture and world, which gave her the idea to
start a 5K relay to help raise mon-ey for them.
Their goal is to raise $1,000 to help fund upcoming events put on by the International Student Of-fice.
Atkins said the 5K is open to everyone and there will be triv-ia games and a lot of international students participating in the run.
She added anyone can volunteer for the 5K as well, but runners are highly encouraged.
Atkins said when thinking of ideas to raise money for interna-
tional students, she believed a par-ty was not considerate enough and with there being successful re-lays in the past, she said this was a proper way of showing her appre-ciation.
“Doing this is a way to show I support them. Most of them I can really call my friends—they’re a blast to hang out with,” Atkins said.
Atkins said the relay could also help bring awareness to the in-ternational students on campus, which could help them feel wel-
come on campus.“(It) gives them an opportunity
to do more activities with other in-ternational students,” Atkins said.
Atkins said she has heard some s ide-comments and skeptic i sm from American students about in-ternational students because of a lack of understanding.
She said if she were a foreign student and did not know much about who she was around she would feel unwelcomed.
“People are hesitant to get to know them. It’s like the new kid at
school. ‘Who is that?’” she said.Donations for the relay will be
from Starbucks, Jimmy Johns, Ike’s and Mac’s Uptowner.
If the relay goes well, it has the possibility to become an annual event.
Those who wish to participate in the 5K can run with a team of five or solo. Entrance is $10 per per-son.
Roberto Hodge can bereached at 581-2812or [email protected].
Runners to support other cultures through 5K
GR APHIC BY BOB GALUSKI | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSThe 10th annual Embarras Valley Film Festival will center on the films of actor Dick Van Dyke.
Schedule of Dick Van Dyke films
“Divorce American Style”
3:30 p.m. Thursday
Coleman Auditorium
“The Comic”7 p.m. Friday Lecture Hall,
Doudna Fine Arts Center
“Cold Turkey”
7 p.m. Friday
Tarble Arts Center Atrium
“Mary Poppins”
2 p.m. Friday
Tarble Arts Center Atrium
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Soon, election season will be over. I don’t hate elections. I don’t hate politics. I don’t hate government. I don’t hate any of that. I’m an adult now, so I think we’re past that.
What I do hate, though, are politi-cal ads on television. What I don’t hate is that I won’t have to see them anymore, for a while at least.
Even if you’re not a TV person (I’m not) you’ve probably seen the ads.
It starts off with a bad, out of context photo of the opposing candidate with a gloomy-doomy voiceover telling you about all the hearsay things this candi-date may have said. It attacks with dam-aging quotes said by others about the candidate, and then it begs the question: is this really who you want? Is this it? This guy? Who said this? And did that? That’s your guy? Jeez.
But it doesn’t end there. Within a few weeks, you’ll have the rebuttal about what’s maybe-but-possibly-but-also-total-ly-not-true, and how Candidate A is a liar for calling Candidate B a liar. Soon enough after that, you’ll see a rebuttal
for a rebuttal. It’s a vicious cycle of bad TV, with all the familiar signs of school-yard bickering.
Like I said, I don’t hate politics. I do my best to research prospective candi-dates, find who can do what for me and who might be the best person for the job. I’m a good guy, right?
I vote, so it doesn’t matter to me, but I can see how someone who doesn’t vote, or maybe is still unsure, could be turned off to voting all together as a result of being constantly bombarded by these ads.
Not too many of these ads actually tell you what these candidates are going to
do for you, but more so, what the other guy can’t do.
To your average maybe-so-maybe-no voter, there’s a lot to take in.
Who to vote for, who’s running, run-ning for what? Questions, so many ques-tions, that these ads aren’t going to answer. Do these ads have to spell out in big block letters what’s going on to John-ny Uninformed? No, but Johnny hates seeing this stuff on his TV, and I’m with him, even if he doesn’t know what he’s watching.
Maybe it’s not all Johnny’s fault (it kind of is), but these ads really don’t do much to dispel the greedy, slimy stereo-type that politicians have.
I try to give people (even politicians, who, contrary to popular belief, are peo-ple, too) the benefit of the doubt, but are these ads really helping anyone? Seems like just a waste of time.
Dominic Renzetti is a senior family andconsumer science major. He can be reached
at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Dominic Renzetti
Finally, an end to negative political advertisements
STAFF EDITORIAL
The daily editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Daily Eastern News.
Today, after months of attack ads, debates and endorsements, the mid-term elections are upon us.
Based on historical trends, many people who voted last year will not show up to the polls this time.
The United States does not require one to vote, and you have every right to stay home.
However, the right to vote (or not to) was not just given to us.
Over the course of American history, people have risked and lost their lives guaranteeing your right to vote.
There was a civil war to save the union and enfranchise former slaves, a constitutional amendment to allow women to vote, the Civil Rights move-ment to end poll taxes and Jim Crow laws, and another constitutional amendment to allow 18 years to exer-cise their right to vote.
Even now, voting rights are under attack in numerous states.
In some places, veteran and student ID’s aren’t valid to vote, while early voting and registration are being rolled back in the name of “fighting voter fraud.”
You would think in 2014, they would be trying to get more people to vote, not less.
Across the world, people have risen against dictators to one day have what most Americans likely take for granted. Here, we can go to polling places with-out fear that our friends, family or selfs will be hunted down and killed.
The people of Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan will tell you how hard it can be.
Let’s not forget the brave men and women of the armed forces who put their lives on the line to protect those rights.
Many have made the ultimate sacri-fice in the name of our freedom.
Whether you vote Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or any other way, the most important thing is that you exercise your right.
These races are close and every vote counts.
I encourage you to go the the vot-ing booth and make your voice hard. Democracy depends on it.
Steve AndersonGraduate StudentPolitical Science
When staring down the barrel of an $8 million budget cut, there comes a time when such luxuries need to be let go in order to survive. One of the luxuries happens to be having the mail carried into the departments, with each of the depart-ments using a centralized mailbox.
The budget cuts ignited last year has forced campus to tighten its belts surely would have ramifications, but the inclusion of the mailboxes is a good consequence of the bud-get cuts.
The mailbox system now offers Eastern a way to effectively use the attrition system while not damaging the university.
Using the new mail system will help facilitate how the uni-versity handles attrition when employees leave.
The system also offers a cost effective way to subsidize the $8 million the university had to part with in the last year.
John Sigler, the associate director of support services, said one of the mailroom’s employees quit about two years prior, and the university did not fill the position.
With the remaining four employees having to work that much harder, especially when one takes a sick day, it makes sense to implement the mailboxes across campus.
While it may become another taxing activity for the depart-ments, especially those with heavier flows of mail, in the long run it will help Eastern climb out the $8 million deficit.
The steps the university is taking to make sure the budget cuts are working and we are not sinking into a greater debt are commendable with this latest addition to Eastern’s campus.
The new system may be a bit of a change for some, howev-er, it is also a good thing the support services are reaching out to departments to further better the way things work at East-ern.
While not everyone will be 100 percent happy with the new installation, it is, at this point, a necessity that cannot be ignored.
When looking at the labor and time savings alone it can help tremendously with the mail crews. And it has the added bonus of helping the university save money, especially since the $30,000 installation fees came from an already-established fund for updating and replacing equipment.
President Bill Perry announced the $8 million cut last year and we are now beginning to see the affects of such a cut. However, by looking at the situation reasonably, the results are positive.
The installation of the mailboxes is a positive step in the right direction for Eastern in the wake of the budget cuts. It stands that if the trend continues with making more time, labor and cost-effective situation, the university can turn around the budget slashing we had to endure.
Taking into account that change is inevitable, the change for this particular area has succeeded.
New mail system a good step amid budget crisis
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Birthday bowlGillespie said single women and children
are the most affected by poverty, as well as marginalized groups of individuals.
He added people who represent those groups are “shut out” of higher education and jobs, and access to affordable health care and hospitals becomes diff icult to achieve.
“Statistically, if you don’t look like me—middle c la s s , educated whi te dude — there’s a chance you could become impov-erished,” Gillespie said.
The war on poverty was created to help those who are less fortunate and it didn’t have to happen, but the initiation was born out of people who want to end poverty.
Despite poverty being on a raise from
the past, the rates are still lower than they could be if the program wasn’t in place, he said.
The assumption is people who live in poor neighborhoods are tied to low income and schooling, but the situation should be looked at from a sociological perspective at a distance to take into account how and why poverty is happening, Gillespie said.
“It’s not necessarily this cycle of pover-ty, but there are some social conditions that make it really hard to get people to get out of those conditions,” Gillespie said.
Roberto Hodge can be reachedat 581-2812 or [email protected].
He said the Student Senate website has a link were those interested in becoming a student advisory board dean can apply.
Forbes said current board members were recommended by their department chairs to serve, and were appointed by the student dean.
He said while the board has not estab-lished a concrete way to appoint new mem-bers, a voting process has been considered, in which those who meet the requirements will then run to be elected as the represen-tative in their department.
Another process considered is to serve their term until they graduate.
“It may be similar to how Supreme Court is, where someone can sit on the board un-til they resign or graduate, then someone else is appointed by department chair,”
Forbes said.He said as the student dean, he stressed
the importance of students.“They should be letting their voices be
heard, whether it’s going to the student sen-ate meetings and saying what is in their mind, and once we are established, to come to our meetings to address their need,” Forbes said.
Forbes said he wants students to know they can reach out to the student board.
“There are people who are standing in your corner trying to support you and just voice your opinion,” he said. “If you are si-lent, nothing can be accomplished.”
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T h e C o u n c i l o n Ac a -demic Affairs members will act upon new courses from t he Eng l i s h , j ou rna l i s m and f i lm s tud ie s depar t -ments at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Booth Library Con-ference Room 4440.
T h e c o u n c i l ’s g e n e r a l education committee wil l meet at 2 p.m. Thursday.
The English department i s l o o k i n g t o i n t ro d u c e three new courses includ-ing Introduct ion to Cre-ative Writing, Transatlan-tic Literary History: Cul-ture, Literacies, and Tech-nologies I and II.
If approved, the creative writing and the transatlan-tic literary history I cours-es wi l l be of fered in Fa l l
2015, whi l e the t ransa t -l ant i c l i t e ra r y h i s tor y I I course will be available in Spring 2016.
T h e f i l m s t u d i e s d e -partment is looking to re-vise i ts history of cinema course proposal.
The council will also act upon poss ible changes to
the undergraduate waiver rules.
Because of poss ible re-duc t i on s in the number of credit hours for under-graduate students, the ac-ademic deans are consider-ing to make changes to the undergraduate waivers for required course hours.
The council will also re-view academic waiver re-ports from the College of Science, Arts and Human-ities, and Business during its meeting.
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TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 2014 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | SPORTS 7
JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman middle hitter Allie Hueston sends the ball over the net during a match against Tennessee-Martin on Saturday in Lantz Arena. The Panthers beat the Skyhawks 3-0 to improve to 5-7 in the OVC and 11-14 overall.
By Blake NashStaff Reporter | @Banash5
If ever there were any doubt in Allie Hueston’s mind, Saturday’s match against Tennessee-Martin helped reinforce how comfortable she has become at Eastern.
The freshman from Anderson, Ind., tied her career and season-high 15 kills, leading all players in that category, while also adding three digs and blocks each in the three-set victory over the Skyhawks.
“It was pretty comfortable ,” Hueston said. “It was fun to see Maddie and play against her. I thought she did pretty well.”
Hueston went up against her for-mer club teammate Madison Ber-gren, who was playing setter for the Skyhawks Saturday.
The two played for the Mun-ciana Volleyball Club in Indiana, and were part of the Samurai club team that finished second at the 2014 AAU national championships, which take place during the sum-mer. The Samurai consist of all 18 year-old players, who are transition-ing from high school to college.
They were also occasional oppo-nents in high school, but Bergren’s Delta Eagles were often victorious over Hueston’s Alexandria-Monroe Tigers.
“Delta was a very good team, and were a bigger school than us, so we struggled at times against them,” Hueston said.
Despite being one of the top five blockers in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence and heading toward a possibly bright future at Eastern, Hueston looks at her 2014 season with the Samurai as her No. 1 sports high-light.
“We were the underdogs in most of our gold bracket matches, while playing against teams stacked with girls committed to going to big time volleyball programs,” Hueston
said. “But that didn’t matter to us, so we showed them what playing as a team was really all about.”
Even though most of the Samu-rai are from central Indiana, sever-al players are currently playing for schools from all across the country.
Two players in Lauryn Gillis and Tarah Wylie are playing on the west coast for the University of Southern California and Pepperdine Univer-sity, respectively. Also Hueston and Bergren are not the only Samurai players competing against each oth-er in conference play. Former team-mates Tionna Williams and Carly Skjodt are part of another rivalry in the Big Ten, playing for Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively.
However, Hueston’s decision to enroll at Eastern, came as a result of feeling that the university was just right for her.
“It was a matter of finding the place that just felt right, and when I visited Eastern it wasn’t just one particular thing that sold me on the place, it was everything!,” Hueston said. “I just felt comfortable, the campus was pretty, the people were nice, and it was just a place where I felt like I fit in well.”
This season Hueston has been the Panthers’ starting middle hitter since the season began, and current-ly ranks in the OVC’s top five in blocks at number four with 54 total blocks. She is one of two true fresh-man currently on the Eastern roster.
“We are a young team, but we do have upperclassmen on the court with the experience which we hope will guide those kids,” Eastern head coach Kate Price said. “Our fresh-man have earned big roles which will definitely help them in the fu-ture.”
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Hueston finds comfort zone at Eastern
By Bob ReynoldsStaff Reporter | @BobReynoldsDEN
As the women’s basketball season approaches, the Ohio Valley Confer-ence will be introducing a new for-mat, which features no divisions any-more.
This is a preview of six OVC teams that were in what used to be the East Division, starting with Belmont, which is projected to be the OVC tournament champion at the end of the season.
BelmontLast years’ runner-up in the Ohio
Valley Conference women’s basket-ball championships, Belmont has been picked to win the title this sea-son.
Belmont is coming off a 14-18 overall and 10-6 in the OVC season that led them to a first-place finish in the East Division. There will no longer be divisions this season, as the OVC announced in early August.
Belmont fell to top-seeded Ten-nessee-Martin in the championship. It earned the league’s automatic bid to the Women’s National Invitation-al Tournament.
As Belmont did not lose any key players from last season, it returns senior guard Jordyne Luffman, who averaged 14.3 points per game and 7.2 rebounds per game last season.
Luffman has been picked to win OVC Player of the Year by the sports information direcor-
tors and coaches of the OVC.Coach Cameron Newbauer said
feels that his team heading into this season is more mature, compared to last season.
“I am excited about the prospects of what we can do this year,” he said. “We have got a lot of people back. I thought we finished pretty well last year. We have added some new piec-es to the puzzle.”
Jacksonville StateJacksonville State is coming off one
of the best turnarounds in NCAA Women’s Basketball last season.
The Gamecocks won just one game in 2012-13 and fired their coach and hired Rick Pietri, the OVC Coach of the Year. Last season, Jackson-ville State finished 14-18 overall and 8-8 in the conference, giving itself an OVC tournament berth and is picked to finish 3rd overall in the OVC.
The Gamecocks are returning all five starters from last season, includ-ing Candice Morton and Destany McLin. Morton led the team with 16.6 points per game, while adding 7.1 rebounds a game. McLin on the other hand, averaged 14.3 points per game and 6.1 rebounds.
Jacksonville State is adding four newcomers to their roster this season in freshman Gretchen Morrison, Tyler Phelion and Leah Strain as well as se-nior Courtney Strain.
Tennessee StateTennessee State has been picked to
finish 6th in the OVC this season and received two first-place votes.
The Tigers are coming off a season in which they went 12-18 overall and 9-7 in the conference, eventually los-ing to Eastern Kentucky in the Quar-terfinals of the OVC tournament.
The Tigers are returning four out of their five starters from last season, including top scorer Chelsea Hudson, who averaged 15.9 points per game last season and 8.4 rebounds a game and started all 30 of the Tigers games.
They also return Rachel Allen, who started 28 games last season.
Allen averaged 11.4 points per game and shot 37.5 percent from the 3-point line.
The Tigers did lose one starter from last season, Alana Morris, who aver-aged 7.2 points per game.
Coach Larry Joe Inman said since the first time that he has been coach, he feels his team will be more com-petitive.
“I think we will have more depth,” he said. “We have decent speed. We have a good inside game and a good outside game, but most of all we have a bit more experience.”
Tennessee TechTennessee Tech is in their third season
under veteran head coach Jim Davis.The Golden Eagles are returning sev-
en players and will have five newcom-ers on the roster that have a possibility of making an immediate impact on the lineup.
Tennessee Tech’s best player from last
season, Diamond Henderson, will not be returning this season.
This proves to be a key loss for the Golden Eagles as she started all 30 games and averaged near 20 points a game, leading the team in scoring.
The Golden Eagles will be returning center Candace Parson, who averaged 10.4 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game.
In the backcourt, Hannah Goolsby and Catherine Taylor will be returning as they averaged 9 and 4.6 points per game, respectively.
The Golden Eagles are projected to finish fourth in the conference this sea-son and coach Jim Davis said he is not worried about the preseason projections.
“Opinions are just like noses, every-body’s got one,” Davis said in an inter-view at OVC media day. “We all say this, but it’s not where you finish in the pre-season that matter. It’s where you finish in the postseason.”
Morehead StateMorehead State finished last season
12-17 overall and 6-10 in the OVC, missed the OVC tournament and is picked to finish last in the conference this season. The Eagles will be sport-ing a new coach this season in Greg Todd, who was hired on April 17.
Morehead State is losing one of its top players from last season in Terrice Robinson, who averaged 16.3 points per game and shot 36.9 percent from the 3-point line and started every game for the Eagles last season.
One of the key returners for the
Eagles is senior Almesha Jones who scored 14.7 points per game and shot 34.4 percent from the 3-point line.
The Eagles are getting trans-fer Maiki Viela from Gonzaga, who looks to be a factor in the offense this season.
Todd feels that since he is a new coach, he is blessed with the amount of seniors that he has on the team.
“I think with that experience and the fact that the team is really excit-ed about having a good season, makes my job a lot easier,” he said.
Eastern Kentucky After coming off a semifinal berth
in OVC tournament last season, East-ern Kentucky is picked to finish 7th in the OVC this season, including hav-ing three first-place votes.
The Colonels finished 17-13 over-all last season and 9-7 in the confer-ence.
Eastern Kentucky had a deep tour-nament run by defeating Eastern Illi-nois in the first round, then defeated Tennessee State in the second round, eventually losing to champion Ten-nessee-Martin in the semifinals.
Returning for the Colonels is Shell Harper who was second behind Car-penter in scoring with 10.4 points per game and Michaela Hunter, who av-eraged 7.8 points per game.
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JASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSTennessee State running back Tom Smith is brought down by the Eastern defense during the Panthers’ homecoming game on Oct. 25 at O’Brien Field. The Panthers beat the Tigers 28-3.
By Aldo SotoSports Editor | @AldoSoto21
Although Tennessee Tech started its final drive of the first quarter inside of Eastern territory and was stopped in-side the 10-yard line by the Panthers’ defense, John Arnold’s 25-yard field goal was looked at as a defeat.
The Eastern defense, with first-year coach Kim Dameron, is expecting to give up no points. Following a 28-3 win against Tennessee State, the Pan-thers beat Tennessee Tech 41-10 on Saturday.
Inside linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill was the embodiment o f the Pan -thers’ defense a g a i n s t t h e Golden Eagles, recording 19 tackles, forc-ing a fumble and intercept-ing Tennessee Tech quarter-
back Darian Stone in the fourth quar-ter.
But, even the junior linebacker was upset with the first three points al-lowed in Eastern’s third straight Ohio Valley Conference win in Cookeville, Tenn.
“When they scored that first field goal, most teams will say that’s a win only giving up three points, but our coaches were mad about it and our defense was mad about it,” Grugier-Hill said. “Our coaches are holding us to a much higher standard.”
The junior from Papakolea, Ha-waii, leads the Panthers with 68 tack-les. Grugier-Hill was named OVC Defensive Player of the Week, follow-ing the 19-tackle performance that was a season-high.
He said the defensive game plan against Tennessee Tech enabled him to make as many tackles as he was able to.
“The play calling was just there for me and it kind of just ended up in my favor,” Grugier-Hill said. “The entire defense was great Saturday.”
Eastern was still able to keep Ten-nessee Tech off the scoreboard in the second and fourth quarters, respec-tively. During the Panthers’ three-game winning streak, the defense has not allowed any points in seven of the 12 quarters.
Going back to the 52-13 win at Southeast on Oct. 18, Eastern did
not surrender a touchdown in eight straight quarters, until Tennessee Tech running back Ladarius Vanlier rushed for a 37-yard touchdown in the third quarter.
Grugier-Hill and the rest of the de-fense are looking to keep opponents scoreless.
“Instead of three it should have been zero and especially that touch-down that gave them 10 points, we were pretty upset about it,” Grugier-Hill said. “We played very good, but there is still room for improvement.”
After last season’s fast-paced offense that caught most of the headlines, this year’s defense for Eastern is grabbing more attention. With a new coaching staff and a transition at the quarter-back position, the Panthers’ defense was given more pressure to perform this year until the offense became set-tled.
Now, after five OVC games and a
4-1 league record, Eastern is sport-ing the No. 2 scoring defense, allow-ing 13.8 points per game and has the No. 2 overall defense, giving up 303.8 yards per game.
“The kids are really comfortable in what we’re doing now and we don’t really have many mental mistakes anymore,” Dameron said.
Starting the season 1-5, Eastern is now 4-5 overall, allowing 26 com-bined points in the last three games. Dameron said the defense is in a groove at the moment.
“It takes a while to get a defense to gel and they kind of just gelled,” he said.
Dameron also said that the Pan-thers’ offense has helped the defense as well, scoring in bunches and keep-ing the Eastern defense off the field and fresh.
Junior quarterback Jalen Whitlow threw for 297 yards and four touch-
down passes, while also rushing for 45 yards and touchdown against the Golden Eagles.
Whitlow has thrown a touchdown pass and rushed for a touchdown in every OVC game this season. His in-terception in the third quarter ended his streak of 163 consecutive passes without an interception. Whitlow set a new program record, with the 163 passes without an interception, break-ing Jimmy Garoppolo’s record of 157 pass attempts.
The junior transfer from Kentucky
was named OVC Newcomer of the Week for the fifth time this season.
The quarterback is well aware of the aid the Panthers’ defense has given the team during the past three weeks.
“The defense has helped out a lot,” Whitlow said. “We have each other’s backs. We just have to keep getting better.”
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Eastern defense held to higher standard
By Mark ShanahanStaff Reporter | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men’s soccer team is home for the last time, as the Panthers play against Southern Il l inois-Edwardsvi l le at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Lakeside Field.
The Cougars are 4-7-4 this year and are coming off two straight games where they tied.
They are f rom the Missour i Valley Conference and are 4-0-1 in conference play. Southern has struggled on the road this year, with a 2-5-1 record.
Eastern will be facing former
teammate Garet Chri s t ianson, w h o t r a n s -f e r r e d t o Southern af-ter last sea-son.
H e h a d s i x g o a l s l a s t y e a r for Eastern, w h i c h h a d him tied for second most in the Sum-mit League.
H e f i n -i s h e d t h e season with 1 5 p o i n t s and ea rned himself onto
the All-Summit League First-Team in 2013. The red-shirt junior has three goals and two assists this
year for the Cougars.Eastern trails the all time series
against Southern 8-15-4 and they have not faced each other since 2011. Eastern lost that meeting 3-1.
Christian Volesky is Southern’s leading scorer with eight goals. The junior forward has a career-high 19 points this season and three assists.
Matt Polster and Christianson are the next leading scorers on the team with eight points each.
Kent Kobernus has started all 15 games at goalkeeper this year for the Cougars. Kobernus has a 4-7-4 record and all four of his wins have been shutouts.
He has a goals against average of 1.17 and a save percentage of .678. The senior only saw action in one game last year.
Brian Jones and David Korn are
the co-head coaches for Southern. This is both their first year as co-head coach.
Jones has been with the staff for seven years making him the lon-gest tenured member on the team. Jones spent time as goalkeeper’s coach previously and was on the coaching staff that won the 2012 Missouri Valley coaching staff of the year.
Korn is with Southern for his first year after being on the coach-ing staff at Wright State for the past three seasons.
He qualified for the conference tournament twice during his time with Wright State.
He also served as the assistant coach for the University of Denver and at Lafayette.
Southern is currently at the top of the Missouri Valley conference, with 13 points. The Cougars hold
a narrow lead over Evansvi l le , which has 12 points and Missouri State, which has 11.
The MVC has Central Arkan-sas and Bradley in i t , two op-ponents that Eastern has played th i s y e a r and l o s t t o . Sou th -ern has beaten both Bradley and Central Arkansas.
Eastern and Southern each has two games remain ing in the i r schedule.
Southern has to finish up its season with two games on the road against Eastern and confer-ence opponent Loyola.
Eas tern i s home aga ins t the Cougars and on the road against conference opponent Oral Rob-erts.
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Men’s soccer team hosts Cougars for final home match
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Panthers to face former teammate Christianson
