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VOL. 99 | NO. 142Monday, April 27, 2015 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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FESTIVAL OF COLORSStudents celebrated Holi 2015 in the Library Quad Friday by throwing handfuls of colorful powder at each other.
ON THE DEFENSIVEDefense won 43-38 over the offense in the Eastern football team’s spring game Saturday.
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DailyEastErnnEwsBy Luis MartinezAdministration Editor | @DEN_News
The Board of Trustees approved the revised student fee increases and new tuition rates during its meeting Friday.
Next year, student fees are the following per credit hour: $6.25 for academic comput-er technology, $5.45 for student legal service, $10.50 for campus improvement, $3.75 for student activity, $13 for athletics, 80 cents for concert fees and $1 for student publications.
President Bill Perry said members of the Student Senate wanted to change how the fees were distributed among the seven areas.
“The process of arriving at these recom-mendations includes confrontation with the students and the Student Senate,” Perry said. “The set recommendations, which were pro-posed by student senators who sponsored the resolutions, were slightly different than this.”
Perry also said he decided to change the athletics fee from $5.30 to $4.36, and he gave the remaining funds to both the student activ-ity fee and campus improvement fee equally.
“A lot of the discussion the night of the Stu-dent Senate meeting focused around the dis-tribution of these increases,” Perry said. “The consensus of the senate was that the distribu-tion needed more to address fees that affect
more students than just students affect by the athletics program.”
Six of the areas received increases from their present fees, with athletics receiving the big-gest increase of $4.36. Campus improvement is the only area to receive a decrease from it current fees with $1.50 less.
The board also approved next year’s tuition for both undergraduate and graduate students.
New incoming undergraduate Illinois resi-dents will have to pay $285 per semester cred-it hour. Non-residents will have to pay $356 per semester credit hour; graduate Illinois resi-dents will have to pay $285, and non-resident graduate students will have to pay $684.
“By establishing a more competitive rate tu-ition for non-resident students who are com-ing in next year, we thought it was only fair for the current students who are non-resident undergrad to get the same rate,” Perry said. “The decision to make the change in the un-dergraduate rate was a competition for outside non-resident students.”
Perry also said the rate for non-resident graduate students is roughly in the middle of the rates other Illinois public institutions charged for their graduate students.
By Roberto HodgeMulticultural Editor | @BertoHodge
In his 35 years working in the circulation area of Booth Library, Phil Blair has seen ev-erything from card catalogues to manual type-writers and now electronic databases.
Blair, who is retiring at the end of April, began his job in 1979 in acquisitions. He was in charge of books coming in and out of the library, but a lot has changed since then.
“It’s been years and years now — it’s all done on the computer now,” Blair said.
The library, which was completed in 1950, was a lot smaller when it was built than it is today; the building was nearly square of 150 feet by 154 feet with two full floors and a par-tial third. By the ‘90s the library was due for a space upgrade, which is when the renova-
tions to expand began and did not finish until 2002 with more study spaces, computers and lounge chairs.
Larry Auchstetter, one of Blair’s co-work-ers and friends, said Blair is loyal and dedicat-ed to his job, especially for staying for as long as he has.
Auchstetter said Blair would bend over backward and give the shirt off his back help-ing others. Auchsetter said at one point he was in a financial bind and Blair gave him about $100.
“I didn’t ask him either,” Auchstetter said. Auchstetter said Blair also has a sense of
humor, especially when talking to their co-worker Jennifer Dodson. He said it’s going to be strange not seeing Blair as much anymore because they have known each other for 20 years.
“I just wish him the best; we’re going to miss his humor,” Auchstetter said.
Blair was a student in the early ‘70s, and not many things were as digitized as they are now; computers did exist, but not to the ex-tent that they are currently. He said when us-ing the system 30 years ago, it was not as easy to search as it is now. A four-number code was needed to search for a book.
When Blair worked at the reserve desk, he said students would be all in a line ready to check their books out, and checkouts had to be manually done on cards. At night the cards needed to be sorted and counted, but the sys-tem is done digitally now.
He said he recalled using a stamp that would have to be twisted to find the specif-ic date it would be due and press it into the book, which he does not see much of any-
more. “The card catalogue vanished about the
turn of the 21st century,” Blair said. Blair said during that time many people
smoked, and when he was an undergraduate, students could smoke in the library. When he started working, the amount of tobacco use in the building lessened. However, he does not smoke.
Students in the ‘70s were very much the same as they are in 2015; he said some aspects about the campus have changed, such as stu-dent demographics and new buildings. Blair said the city and the university was mostly Caucasians, but thing have changed.
“I see more (students) wearing their caps on backwards; that started happening in the ‘90s,” Blair said.
Board approves student fee increase, tuition rates
Library employee reflects on 35 years at Eastern
By Katie Smith Editor-in-Chief | @DEN_News
The stage at Lantz Arena was not re-served strictly for Spring Concert artist Mac Miller, but also the two women from the audience who the opening act, Clockwork DJ invited on stage to “twerk” with him.
Clockwork DJ requested two girls join him on stage and dance while he performed a song titled “Clocktwerk.”
The DJ, who situated himself between both women while they danced, said he liked the look of Eastern’s student body.
“Eastern, you have some fine a** ladies here,” he said. “She’s sexy.”
Stevie Roberson, a sophomore art ma-jor won free meet-and-greet passes during the reveal of the performing artist in late March. Roberson said she was surprised when the two women took the stage.
“I definitely wouldn’t have gone up there but go them for having the guts to that, I suppose,” she said.
Miller greeted the standing audience with a sudden wave of a heavy and seem-ingly familiar bass line, and lyrics from his 2014 album “Faces.”
The now 23-year-old released his first mixtape, “But My Mackin’ Ain’t Easy” in 2007 at just 14 years old, and his since
amassed a net worth of roughly $10 mil-lion.
The crowd reacted most to Miller’s per-formances “Best Day Ever” and his final en-core performance “Donald Trump.”
Roberson said she has been listening to Miller since 2011, and although she en-joyed the show, she wished he had played his older music.
“I would maybe see him again if he was going to play older songs because I didn’t know a lot of the newer ones,” she said. “If he was at a musical festival or something that I was at I would definitely go watch him.”
Although the arena was arranged with seating for the audience, University Board members were quickly forced to remove chairs when crowd members crawled over the seats and stacked them on top one an-other to create standing room.
One audience member jumped from the balcony seating onto the arena floor to make his way closer to the stage.
Although the audience was under Miller’s command to keep their hands up through-out most of the concert, the artist shifted moods momentarily to take to the piano and play “Youforia,” the song Miller said is his favorite to perform.
Mac Miller show takes audience from seats during Spring Concert
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CHYNNA MILLER | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMac Miller encourages the audience to participate in a call -and- response song during Saturday’s Spring Concert in Lantz Arena.
By Stephanie WhiteEntertainment Editor | @DEN_News
The Celebration festival was filled with people this past weekend outside of the Doudna Fine Arts Center and Buz-zard Hall despite the rain Saturday after-noon.
Dan Crews, the director patron ser-vices of Doudna, said the bands still played in the rain Saturday, but they were moved to inside of the Doud-na concourse, which is in front of The Black Box Theatre.
“We do not stop Celebration even if it rains,” he said. “It has become a type of tradition for it to rain during the event, and we do not stop the event because of it. As I say, rain or shine the festival will go on.’”
He said only one band from Chica-go, Gizzae featuring Rocket, was unable to make it to perform at Celebration.
“They were unable to get to Charles-ton on time for their performance at the festival on Friday, and they were the last performance, so the bands ended a bit earlier that day,” Crews said.
Many food stands, which have been popular in past festivals, have returned with the same food that Crew said peo-ple liked a lot in the past.
“The food stands are a kind of staple of Celebration. Many people have told me that they are the first thing they stop at when they come,” he said.
The busiest day of the festival this year was Sunday. Crews said many fac-ulty members along with community members brought along their family.
Many of the booths this year were there for their first time at Celebra-
tion. Crews said all of the spaces for the booths were bought out this year. Most of the sellers are from Illinois, while four of them are from out of the state.
One seller, Danielle Kusman from Watseka, had a booth called “Grey-Hawk Forge Chainmaille Designs.” She said she was told by a friend to come to the festival.
“Dan Crews and I were in a bit of a ‘phone tag’ game for about a week try-ing to get the booth set up,” she said. “When it was all set up, Dan told me that I got the last spot for the festival.
I was pretty lucky to call at the right time.”
Jeff Boshart, a retired art professor from Eastern, was also part of the fes-tival. He said this was his 28th year he was involved with Celebration.
“After I retired, I told Dan Crews that I would finally have a booth at the festival,” he said.
All the profits of the artwork sold is going into the student scholarships, he said.
Another scholarship foundation was being raised from his booth to honor
the art department secretary Sue Rardin who died from a heart attack this spring semester.
“For 27 years I have helped Crews with coordinating all the visual arts for the festival,” Boshart said. “Now that I’m retired I said I would have a booth with some of my stuff, and anything I sold would all go into the Sue Rardin fund.”
Stephanie White can be reached at 581-2812
Scholarship money raised at Celebration
KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Dicky James and the Blue Flames perform on the final day of Celebration Sunday outside of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Dicky James and the Blue Flames were the third band to play for Celebration throughout the weekend.
By Kendra CwiklaStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
Men and women of all ages came out to Morton Park Sunday afternoon in high heels to raise awareness for those affected by sexual violence during the “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” event.
Sexual Assault Counseling and Infor-mation Service hosted the walk.
Though the men wore women’s shoes, the walkers were raising awareness for all victims of sexual violence, including men and children.
According to the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network, 1 in every 6 women has been the victim of rape or at-tempted rape, and 2.78 million men in the United States have been victims of sexual assault or rape.
Erin Walters, the executive director of SACIS, said sexual violence is not only a woman’s issue.
“Sexual violence is everyone’s issue, and it will take all of us to end sexual vio-lence in our community.”
Walters, along with the rest of the staff at SACIS, organized the event to give a voice to those who have been sexu-ally assaulted. She said she thinks “Walk a Mile” will show victims of abuse that there are people who support them.
Everyone knows someone who has been assaulted, though they may not be conscious of it, Walters said.
Fred Greg of Champaign attended the walk in Charleston in heels, along with the Walk in Danville on April 11. He said he attended because of curi-osity and to support the organization. He said his daughter was raped on the Western Illinois University campus.
During her speech to the partici-pants after the walk, Walters brought up the importance of drawing attention to men and women to intervene when they see a possible assault happening before things go too far.
Walters said SACIS has this specif-ic event to draw attention to the center and seek support from the community.
She said she hopes the event will start
a dialogue about sexual assault through the message that men wearing women’s shoes represents.
Anne Wenda, a prevention educa-tor at SACIS, said the reaction of the first person a victim tells about their as-sault has the greatest influence on how they react to the assault themselves, and whether or not they report it.
SACIS recently moved to 18th Street from Lawson Hall to become more vis-ible to non-Eastern students who want to find support and raise awareness. Since the move, Walters said there has been an influx of Eastern students and citizens of Charleston alike visiting the center.
Walters said it is never too late to talk to someone about their experiences be-ing abused. People come to the center who were abused as children and are now adults.
All people who visit are in differ-ent stages of their healing after being abused.
Around 50 walkers did two laps
around the park, starting and ending in a pavilion. The turnout was similar to last year’s walk, which was the first time SACIS hosted the event. Familiar as well as new faces attended the walk.
Awards were given out to sever-al walkers, including one called “The Rockettes Award” which was given to members of the ROTC program who carried the banner, leading the walk.
The walk’s sponsors included East-ern, Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Cen-ter and Rep. Reggie Phillips and fam-ily. Red feather boas and buttons were also sold at the walk. All proceeds raised are going back to SACIS’ programs and supplies.
SACIS will be hosting its second an-nual “Take Back the Day” 5K Sept. 26 in Sister City Park. More information about the event will be released on the SACIS website.
Kendra Cwikla can be reached at 581-2812
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Mists of colorful chalk including blue, yellow and purple, blanketed the Library Quad of Eastern’s campus on Friday for the annual Holi celebration.
Holi is a Hindu religious holiday commonly called “the festival of colors,” and it is celebrated primarily in India, Nepal and other areas with a large Hin-du population.
Students and community members ran throughout the quad covered from head to toe in an array of chalk.
Students were found spraying one another with water and colors and min-gling with people they might not nor-mally talk to on campus.
Holi was planned to be two hours, but it ended an hour early. The staff continued to play music and students still danced on the quad.
Evan Lohmann, the Study Abroad coordinator, said Holi ended early be-cause more people came out than ex-
pected. Lohmann said the powder went quickly, so next year they plan to bring more.
He also said they tried to incorporate Indian tradition.
“We tried to bring in music, do Hen-na and bring a lot of colors,” Lohmann said. “Holi introduces a lot of our East-ern students to different cultures so they have an interest in going to these places, and it also gives an American perspec-tive of Holi.”
Clarissa Mouley, a Mattoon resident, said she came to Holi out of curiosity.
“It’s good to share cultures because the international students are away from home,” Mouley said. “It’s good for the locals to learn too, to bring a little bit more acceptance.”
Mouley said her son is Egyptian and she brought him out to get him to un-derstand different concepts. She said she wanted him to be around a variety of people.
Praveen Kumar, a graduate student, is from India and came to Eastern this
spring. He said Holi is a great way to end
the semester even though it differs back in India.
“In my country, every year we cele-brate Holi for happiness and for joy,” Kumar said. “This is the first time I am experiencing this at EIU. We usually celebrate the whole day, but that’s OK.”
Kumar said Holi can increase friend-ship and unity on campus because of the interaction among cultures.
Tionna Alderson, a senior communi-cation disorders and sciences major, said Holi was a good way to get everyone to-gether before finals.
She said Holi is the last stress-free activity before students need to buck-le down and get their work done for fi-nals.
“It’s just a way to see some things most of us wouldn’t see on a daily ba-sis,” Alderson said. “I think it’s a unify-ing event because you get to see every-one on campus at the same place doing the same thing.”
Rajasri Pingili, a graduate student, said the party did not end with a lack of chalk the last time Holi was on campus.
“They finished the colors early last year, but then everyone started playing in mud,” Pingli said. “You didn’t have an option; two guys would come up to you and throw you in the mud.”
Pinhli also said people can come to Holi with group disputes, but the colors bring individuals together to mingle.
Vijay Gatpa, a graduate student, said he could not play as hard as he usual-ly does in India with the American stu-dents because it gets too rough.
“If we did half of the things we do back home, they would be scared be-cause you’re throwing each other in the mud and even cracking eggs on each other’s head,” Gatpa said. “But every-one can experience each other’s cul-tures here at EIU and everyone can en-joy this.”
Nicola Colucy, a sophomore kinesi-ology and sports studies, said multiple cultures come together at Holi and peo-
ple see no ethnic boundary.“It’s like a color run without run-
ning; we just hang out and throw col-or at each other,” Colucy said. “No one really cares what color you are because you’re going to be multiple colors at the end, and we’re all human.”
Colucy said festivities like Holi are great ways to get a taste of countries without going actually leaving the Unit-ed States. She said it is an honor to have different cultures on campus.
Salonje Dorsey, a junior family and consumer sciences major, said Eastern should do something similar to Holi to set a tone for the academic year.
“Being at Eastern, which is a small predominately white school, minorities sometimes feel left out or not valued as much,” Dorsey said. “So when you have events focused on minorities, it helps us to feel welcomed and wanted.”
T’Nerra Butler can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Holi brings variety of colors to EasternJASON HOWELL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
Participants at Holi, hosted by EIU Study Abroad, throw colored powder up in the air on the Library Quad Friday. Holi is a Hindu holiday most commonly called “the festival of colors.”
By Camelia NicholsonStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
As the academic year comes to a close, students who wish to relieve stress during finals week can pet a ther-apy dog on campus and use services of Booth Library and the Student Success Center.
With final exams approaching from May 4 to 8, students will be found crowding the library rooms for study sessions.
Librarian Elizabeth Heldebrandt said Booth Library has made it a tra-dition to help students through finals week by encouraging study sessions while also finding ways to help relieve
the stress of exam taking.She said in past years, the library has
offered snacks and drinks to the stu-dents as they came in to study. Also, Booth Library aims to relieve students through therapeutic breaks that will involve puzzles, games and brain teas-ers. These will be set up in multiple stations in the library.
Heldebrandt said therapy dogs from the Charleston Area Dog Club will be visiting the campus. The dog owners are bringing them to let the students enjoy the company of the dogs from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday outside on the north end of the library.
Along with therapy dogs, the library will be serving popcorn and lemon-
ade for students to have a snack while studying starting at 7 p.m. each day throughout finals week. Also, library hours will be extended to stay open until 9 p.m. on May 2.
“We don’t want to distract the stu-dents from doing their work; we know you guys have a lot to do,” Heldeb-randt said. “But at the same time, we don’t want you to get overwhelmed ei-ther.”
Heldebrandt advises all students to set up a study schedule and not cram too much. She also said students should take things one day at a time and stay relaxed.
The Student Success Center does not have any events planned; howev-
er, workers are opening their doors to students to come in for any help they may need pertaining to finals. The center encourages the students to gain knowledge on test taking skills all se-mester long and will give testing taking tips to anyone who needs them.
Brian Gorman, the assistant di-rector of the Student Success Center, said students should begin their stud-ies a week ahead so they are not cram-ming information in at the last min-ute. He also said students should get plenty of rest to be ready for long test-taking weeks.
Student government will also have de-stressing events this week as part of a five-day stress release series.
Trivia Night will be at 7 p.m. Mon-day in the Martinsville Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Zumba Night will be at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Rec Center, and Picnic with the Prez will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the South Quad.
Movie Night will be in at 7:30 p.m. in the Sigma Kappa Field and will show “Monsters University,” and a Java social will be from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
Camelia Nicholson can be reached at 581-2812 or
Student government to offer relief during finals week
Many of the end-of-the-year events that Eastern provides are great opportunities for the students to attend, such as Celebration: A Festival of the Arts where the university and Charleston community re-ally get to connect for the weekend as visitors come together to make wondrous discoveries at the fes-tival.
Students coming from bigger cities always see the lack of things there are to do in the small city of Charleston. However, Celebration provides them with the entertainment they feel is missing.
With the different vendors who come out to sell their products such as T-shirts, bags, and most im-portantly the infamous lemon shake-ups and funnel cakes that everyone can never seem to get enough of, there is an array of things to do.
The bands that perform along with the concerts, plays, and poetry readings are some of the best fea-tures of Celebration ensuring there is never a dull moment for attendees.
The problem with the festival is when it is held.
The end of the year always proves to be a busy time for almost everyone on campus. Students feel over-whelmed with their final assignments that are due before they need to start cramming for the actual fi-nal exams.
However, that is not all they are doing. With all the organizations students are a part of, end of the year events and banquets they are attending, and trying to find time to spend with friends before it is officially time to say good-bye for the summer, it is safe to say that students are all over the place.
Many students do take advantage of Celebration and try to make it out for at least one of the days, but still many students are going through a list of events for one weekend and deciding which ones are worth their time, and Celebration may not make it on everyone’s list.
Here at The Daily Eastern News, we feel Celebra-tion should be held twice a year instead of one. That way, there is more of a chance for students to attend the festival with the first semester events being more
spread out and the amount of class work still being somewhat low compared to the end of semesters.
Along with just attending, students will get to go to every vendor, listen to different entertainers and get to sit and enjoy the food they do not get the chance to eat regularly.
Vendors will also get the chance to sell their items twice a year providing them with more business and because most of them are local, the students get to see what they can buy right here in Charleston throughout the year, which will mean more busi-ness for them.
It is a great way for old and new students to get acclimated to the Charleston community right away and for the university to show off all the different types of events it can bring to the students, letting them know what a great time they can have here at Eastern.
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DION MCNEAL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS
As I look forward to being able to walk across the stage for my graduation May 9th, 2015 at noon in Lantz Arena, I can’t help but be wor-risome of the one thing standing between the momentous occasion and myself: time.
Though I‘ve done everything possible to pre-pare myself mentally for graduation, I can’t help but cringe that it’s so close but yet so far. With the constant reminder that it’s about to happen, it makes me more and more anxious.
Every time someone brings up post gradua-tions plans, the only thing I can say is, “Only time can tell” and from the looks of it, time will be talk-ing very soon.
I can’t say that I’m completely ready for what it is has to say.
Reflecting on my time here at Eastern, I review the effects of time and see how it has changed me as well as those around me.
Molding us all through experience and obsta-cles, time has proven to be ruler of all that are bounded by the second and minute hand on the
clock. Proving to have a major affect on my actions as
well as those of others, I see how time has played a duality in my life as both a positive and negative.
There have been countless times I have made attempts to manipulate time, and all to no avail.
Whether I’ve tried to move time forward to make something happen or get through some-thing or trying to drag something out to make it last longer, I’ve realized after 21 years that just about everything must come to an end. We live in a world where we would love to take all the good
times and get rid off the bad, but the way the uni-verse has set up time is just not designed in that manner.
Time has become essential in not only telling the story of our past but also dictating our future, and the most vital thing that I am beginning to learn from it is that you must live in the moment.
Making attempts to control time will only serve as a nuisance in some cases, but most important-ly, you will find yourself wasting more time trying to dictate it so with that being said, a little piece of advice from me to you would be, just live in the now.
The future is a place of great mystery and the past is full of lessons and neither can be changed, so the only thing one is left to do is be grateful for the time allotted and be proactive in taking on this great task of life.
Kevin Hall is a senior journalism major andcan be reached at [email protected].
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When I turned 16 I saw the Jonas Broth-ers in concert. It is not something that I am particularly proud of now, but occasionally I wear their tour shirt to remind myself who I really am.
The best part of that concert was that Nick Jonas made eye contact with me while he was singing – I swear. I can’t prove to you that it happened, but you will never convince me it didn’t.
I will admit I’m not a huge Mac Miller fan, but I could hardly see a thing while I was covering the Spring Concert Saturday, and it was not because I’m 5 feet tall.
While Mac Miller – a real human be-ing – was a mere feet away from me wear-ing a bright T-shirt, rapping into a micro-phone, the only way I could see him was on the screens of audience members’ cell phones.
Your friends on Snapchat should not have the same experience as you at a concert if you were physically present.
Not only is it rude to have your arm di-rectly blocking someone else’s view, but it makes me sad.
I am saying this as someone who is paid to keep my nose pressed against a camera while life is happening all around me. What trou-bles me is our fixation on creating memories and documenting our lives rather than expe-riencing them.
It is no secret we create alternate perso-nas to embody us through social media. Face-book-me still has purple hair, even though I dyed it months ago in pursuit of an actual ca-reer.
I guess I keep that photo up because I liked having purple hair, and online I can maintain that image.
On Snapchat I appear significantly more rowdy and “20-something” than I actually feel, and on Instagram, I am not going to lie – I look really lonely.
On Linkedin I am a huge success story and your company would be lucky to have me, but on Twitter I said something about Lena Dunham looking like Jane Eyre four months ago and – as far as the Internet is concerned – I have not achieved anything since.
What I am trying to say is we can docu-ment the things we want to remember and there is nothing wrong with that. It becomes problematic, however, when we overexert ourselves to invent the identity of someone who is more successful, more satisfied, more sociable, or less opinionated, less concerned, less worried.
When that task gets in between you and an honest, once-in-a-lifetime experience, leave the photographing and video recording to the people there who are designated to per-form those duties.
Do not let the first time you see your fa-vorite musician make eye contact with you, be while you’re reviewing your Snapchat sto-ry the next morning.
The technology we are so distracted by will become obsolete some day. If you don’t even have the story to tell, you have nothing.
Katie Smith is a senior journalism major. She can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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Dressed in a tie-dye T-shirt and a snapback hat, the rapper took a mo-ment to talk music with the audi-ence.
“My favorite music is the kind that takes you away from where you are currently – that takes you to a different place,” he said.
Roberson estimated about 15 people attended the meet-and-greet after the show, although she said she could not help but feel disap-pointed with the little interaction fans were able to have with the art-ist.
“We all walked into a classroom and then they posed us for a picture and then he came in for a minute and posed with us and then left,” she said. “I was a little bit (disap-pointed) but then again I don’t real-ly know what I would have said to him.”
Although Roberson might have found herself speechless, local busi-
nesses have been reaching out to the rapper through social media throughout the last few days.
When local bars caught word that Easterns’ University Board could not provide the artist with the tobacco and alcohol he asked for in his contract, establishments were quick to tweet at Miller, al-though there is no confirmation of Miller attending any of the town bars after show.
Ikes bar tweeted, “EIU couldn’t come through for you, but we did. @MacMiller – excited to meet you after the show,” along with a photo of two meet-and-greet passes and an assortment of alcoholic and tobac-co products.
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ROBERTO HODGE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSPhil Blair, a library assistant in the circulation services of Booth Library, recalls 35 years of change to the building as his retirement looms.
Blair said when he was a student some of the national issues were about the Vietnam War, Iran and the Watergate scandal. He said during the ‘70s, the thought of impeaching a United States president was “science fiction.”
“Here we are 35 years later and we’re still dilly-dallying with Iran,” he said.
He also remembered a protest in 1973 organized by African-Amer-ican students because one third of the votes were reduced for the person who would have been the first black Homecoming Queen.
Blair said one of the biggest chang-es to the university overall in the last 35 years is the construction of new buildings and how the renovations of the library made it less of a place to study and research and more of a
space for relaxing and leisure. “It was a place to go read and do
homework; now you can expect more,” Blair said.
Jennifer Dodson, one of Blair’s closest friends and co-workers, said the two have a good rapport.
Dodson said because of how close they are, the two are always joking with each other and he is one of the smartest men she knows. He is not a big fan of all the technology that has changed the way the library works, but Blair is a curious man, she said.
“I like making him laugh; it makes me happy when I know I can make him laugh,” Dodson said. “There’s only one Phil.”
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Kristopher Goetz, the chairman of the board, said the board is ded-icated to stewardship.
“Stewardship means being as ef-ficiently as we can with the re-sources we have, always having a student focus approach to our stewardship,” Goetz said. “Tuition and fees, and our conservative ap-proach to that I feel has been re-flected in theses figures.”
The board approved the ap-pointment of Rehema Barber as the new director of the Tarble Arts Center and gave her a two-year contract from June 15, 2015 to June 30, 2017.
The board also sided with a la-bor agreement with the Illinois
Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council. The agreement was for a 1-percent wage increase, which amounts to $7,835.
The board members approved 18 assistant professors for tenure during the meeting as well.
Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, pre-sented the list of 18 assistant pro-fessors to the board.
“I believe this is the strongest class of tenure candidates that I have presented to this board for this action,” Lord said. “There are 18 candidates, 17 of them are cur-rently faculty members covered by the collective bargaining agree-ment; one of the individuals is a
person of faculty appointment.” Perry said he also believes this to
be a strong group as well. “This is the strongest group I’ve
seen come through when you look at regard for our programs,” Perry said. “You can see why the quali-ty of education here at Eastern is very strong.”
John Bell , a building service worker, also spoke the problems Eastern is facing with the lack of faculty and staff, compared to stu-dents.
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MAGGIE BOYLE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSMark Rheaume, a music major and winner of the Graham Slam poetry competition, reads aloud an original short poem Friday at the Tarble Arts Center.
Slam-dunk win
By Mark ShanahanSports Editor | @DEN_Sports
The Eastern men and women’s track and field teams competed in the 106th Drake Relays this past weekend in Des Moines, Iowa.
The action started on Thursday with sophomore Kristen Paris and freshman Whitney Maninfior in women’s indi-vidual events.
Paris competed in the 800-me-ter run with a time of 2 minutes and 09.73 seconds giving her a top-ten finish in the race. Maninfior ran in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 36:31.62 placing her at 22nd.
On Friday, Eastern tied one school record and had a time that was sec-ond best in school history. The men’s 4x100-meter relay team tied with Ar-kansas in the prelims, advancing the team to Saturday’s final.
The team featured sophomore Ja-mal Robinson, junior Calvin Edwards, red-shirt junior Norvel Mohammed and junior Christian Ilunga-Matthie-sen and their time was 39.79 seconds.
With that time, they tied the school record the team just set last weekend at the Illini Twilight. Freshman Zach Booth was running in place of Ed-wards at the Illini Twilight meet.
The same relay team ran the 4x200-meter relay Friday night and came in second place behind Arkansas and Ar-izona with their time of 1:23.95 sec-onds.
The women’s 4x800-meter re-lay team which included junior Dhi-aa Dean, junior Amy Yeoman, sopho-more Julie James and Paris just missed a school record with their time of
8:46.98 as they finished 10th.The men’s 4x400-meter relay team
placed 11th with a time of 3:08.84 seconds, which is the second best time in school history.
Senior Ephraim Dorsey, sophomore Derek Williamson, Mohammed and Edwards ran for that team.
Two men competed in the 100-me-ter dash. Ilunga-Matthiesen placed 10th with a time of 10.76 seconds, and Robinson finished 14th with his time of 10.83 seconds.
The women’s 4x100-meter placed
19th with a time of 47.25 seconds. The relay team included junior An-gelica Anyaogu, junior Briana Walker, freshman Darneisha Spann and fresh-man Nyjah Lane.
In the men’s field events, senior Da-vid Johansson placed 14th in the jave-lin with his throw of 194”2.
On Saturday, Eastern wrapped up the competition with two top-three finishes.
Dorsey finished second in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:49.86 seconds putting him fifth all time in
school history.The men’s 4x100 relay team who
tied the school record on Friday, took third on Saturday with a time of 40.45 seconds.
Arkansas again finished first, and Il-linois was second.
Red-shirt junior Joe Calio compet-ed in the steeplechase where he placed sixth with a time of 9:03.39.
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CHYNNA MILLER| THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSSophomore sprinter Anita Saffa practices receiving the baton during the EIU Big Blue Classic in Lantz Arena on April 4.
Eastern men tie record at Drake Relays
By Sean HastingsStaff reporter | @DEN_Sports
After dropping both games of a doubleheader on Saturday against Southeast Missouri, the Eastern soft-ball team came out on top in Sunday’s game by a score of 7-4.
The Panthers rallied late scoring all seven of their runs in the final three in-nings.
Senior Bailey O’Dell believes the team hit better on Sunday compared to Saturday.
“(Sunday), we hit a lot better,” O’Dell said. “(Saturday), we struggled off their pitcher, and today we handled her better as the game went on.”
The Redhawks got on the board first in the second inning off of a home run by senior Lindsey Patterson.
The Panthers’ scoring was started by freshman Andrea Roberts.
Roberts singled on a bunt, and sophomore Hannah Rachor came in to score.
O’Dell singled on a bunt as well and brought in junior April Markows-ki.
The final run of the fifth inning was off a single by Hannah Cole that scored Roberts to give the Panthers a 3-1 lead.
The Redhawks got one run back in the bottom of the fifth off a single by Patterson.
Cole got another RBI in the sixth inning and O’Dell added two more runs. O’Dell doubled and drove in ju-nior Katie Watson and Rachor.
Rachor drove in the final run in the seventh inning hitting a sac fly driving in freshman Taylor Monahan.
Freshman Jessica Wireman was on the mound for the Panthers and got the win. Wireman went all seven in-nings and gave up four runs on 10 hits. She also had five strikeouts.
O’Dell said getting that win was big because of how close the race is to get into the conference tournament.
“We may not have been given the opportunity to play in the conference tournament if we lost today,” O’Dell said. “It gets us that much closer to making the tournament where it real-ly matters.”
The Panthers were shut out 6-0 in the first game on Saturday.
Wireman was on the mound for the first game Saturday as well but took the loss giving up six runs on nine hits.
The Panthers lost game two on Sat-
urday, 9-4. The Redhawks got on the board
right away in the first inning scoring three runs off freshman pitcher Mi-chelle Rogers.
Southeast Missouri scored their first six runs off solo home runs. Senior Kayla Fortner, junior Savannah Car-penter, and Patterson hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the first inning.
Carpenter hit another home run in the third inning.
The Panthers’ offense was led by freshman Tori Johnson who went 2-for-3 in the game. Johnson also scored on a single by sophomore Ash-lynne Paul.
Markowski, sophomore Amber Toe-nyes, Paul, and Watson drove in the four Panther runs.
The Panthers scored three runs in the fifth inning. Paul drove in Johnson on a single and Markowski followed up a few batters later driving in Paul.
Toenyes drove in Watson on a sac fly to right field.
Watson added one more run on a home run in the seventh.
The Panthers now have a 12-10 re-cord in the Ohio Valley Conference and are in sixth place in the OVC standings.
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Softball team salvages 1 game in series
Senior Oscar Borda, the Panthers’ leading golfer, placed 48th in the tourna-ment, shooting 17-over par.
Out of the six sets of nine holes, Borda shot a 38 three times. He was only able to birdie one hole in the tournament.
Fellow teammates Daniel Hughes and James Jansen finished 52nd and 53rd, re-spectively.
Eastern Kentucky was able to win the tournament after shooting a team total of 280.
The Colonels were led by freshman Jared Brown, who after taking a seven on a par-3 in round one, came back and shot a 68 in round two.
Brown shot even par for the tourna-ment and tied for seventh individually.
Teammate Taylor Riggs shot 1-over for the tournament and placed eighth, individually. He was able to be consistent throughout the tournament, not shoot-ing more that 2-over par per nine holes.
His lowest rounds came in the first two, when he shot a 71 for each round played.
Tennessee Tech, Belmont, and Mur-ray State all tied for second place. The three schools shot a team total of 873, finishing five strokes behind Eastern Kentucky.
Individually, Tennessee-Martin senior Brendon Caballero won the title shoot-ing a total score of 5-under par, 211.
Jacksonville State senior Tomasz An-derson finished the tournament shooting a 212. He shot a tournament-low 66 on day two of the tournament.
Anderson had nine birdies in the tournament, and five of them came in the second round.
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MACKENZIE FREUND | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAmber Toenyes, a sophomore first baseman, catches the ball and secures an out against Tennessee State Saturday at Williams Field.
By Blake NashStaff Reporter | @Banash5
After finding themselves in an early 21-point hole, the Eastern defense recovered for a 43-38 victory at the annual spring football game on Sat-urday.
The Panther defense was able to cut into the offense’s 24-3 lead in the first half by forcing the offense into three straight three-and-out drives.
That swing in momentum would carry over into the second half, as the Eastern offense was held scoreless in the half.
A pair of forced turnovers by the defense, in-cluding a fumble recovery by junior Kamu Gru-gier-Hill, would give them six points.
Defensive back sophomore Cedric Julius gave the defense more points with an interception during the second half.
Eastern coach Kim Dameron said the Panthers accomplished a couple of goals during the spring game.
“I thought we got three main things out of the spring game,” Dameron said. “We came out of the game injury free. We showed that our offense can be explosive if we eliminate turnovers, and that our defense can really compete.”
That explosive offense Dameron was referring to included a 151-yard performance by All-Ohio Valley Conference quarterback junior Jalen Whit-low.
The returning starter also threw for two touch-downs, including a 56-yard pass to first-year run-ning back Korliss Marshall, a transfer from Ar-kansas, on the third play of scrimmage.
Whitlow’s other passing touchdown came on a 38-yard strike to wide receiver red-shirt junior Trey Pendergrass for the final first half touch-down.
Devin Church, a transfer from Illinois, scored the only rushing touchdown of the day, on a 65-yard scamper in the first quarter to make it a 17-3 game.
The offense played a total of four quarterbacks with three of them finishing the day with at least one touchdown.
Second-string quarterback red-shirt freshman Austin Green connected with tight end Addison Bounds on a 23-yard strike, while Mattoon na-
tive and freshman Jared Pilson hit freshman Trev-on Smith for a 14-yard score.
All of those touchdowns, including Whitlow’s, all came in the first half. The offense led 38-18 at halftime.
The Panthers’ defense was sparked by a cou-ple of pass rushers, as defensive tackle red-shirt junior Dino Fanti and this year’s wolf player red-shirt junior Fedney Delphonse combined for five of the team’s nine sacks. Delphonse also broke up two passes.
“Fedney has done a good job moving into the wolf position,” Dameron said. “It fits his game. He is a good pass rusher and has the ability to
drop back into coverage.”Sophomore linebacker Seth McDonald led
the defense with eight tackles on the rainy day in Charleston.
“The offense really had it going early on,” Dameron said. “We had a couple of turnovers in the second half that gave the defense some mo-mentum. The defense was able to get back into the game and made plays at the end of the game.”
Dameron said he wanted to solidify his team on Saturday as they head into summer and fall practices.
He said the Panthers gained a good amount of momentum during the spring that they need to
carry into the future.“Our goal now is to carry the momentum we
have built from these 15 practices in the spring into the summer,” Dameron said. “Our guys competed and showed a passion to get better with every practice. For the 15 days we had we were able to get better and get the new players fa-miliar with our system.”
The Panthers will open up their season Sep-tember 3 in Macomb against Western Illinois.
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@DEN_Sports tweet of the day: FINAL: #EIU defeats #EKU 13-5. Freshman pitcher Andy Fisher goes the distance and gets the win. Panthers win second-straight OVC series.
KE VIN HALL | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS Jalen Whitlow, a junior quarterback, looks to make a pass in the spring football game Saturday at O’Brien Field. The defense won the game, 43-38.
Defense rallies in spring game victory
By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN
Eastern freshman Andy Fisher pitched a com-plete game in the second game of a doubleheader against Eastern Kentucky Sunday.
The Panthers won the game 13-5, behind 13 hits. Every Panther batter contributed a hit in the game.
Fisher threw the first complete game of his ca-reer and the first complete game by a Panther pitcher this season.
Fisher pitched seven innings and let up five runs. He struck out four batters and walked only two guys.
Eastern coach Jimmy Schmitz said with the wind the way it was, Fisher was able to keep his sinker down in the zone most of the day Sunday.
“He made good pitches,” he said. “He keeps it down enough to where he gives us a chance, that was really good.”
Schmitz expects to keep Fisher in the starting rotation for weekend series along with junior Jake Johansmeier and red-shirt junior Matt Wivinis.
The win today was the first win for Fisher on the season. He is now 1-3 overall in 19 appear-ances with most of those appearances coming in relief.
Eastern Kentucky was able to tag Fisher for two runs in the top of the first inning after junior Mandy Alvarez hit a two-run home run to right center field, scoring junior Kyle Nowlin.
Eastern answered quickly in the bottom of the first inning. Senior outfielder Caleb Howell sin-gled to center field, which scored freshman sec-ond baseman Cale Hennemann to cut the lead to 2-1 for Eastern Kentucky.
Howell eventually scored on a passed ball to tie the game at two.
The Panthers would break out four runs in the bottom of the second.
Senior first baseman Adam Casson opened the
scoring in the second inning, hitting a solo home run to right field.
Casson was 1-for-4 with two runs batted in, in game two of the doubleheader and scored a run.
After freshman catcher Hunter Morris dou-bled, Howell singled him home to give the Pan-thers a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the second.
Red-shirt junior Demetre Taylor singled up the middle, which scored third basemen Brant Valach and Howell to give the Panthers a 6-3 lead heading into the third.
After Eastern Kentucky scored two more in the top of the fourth, the Panthers would tack on five runs in the bottom half of that inning.
Taylor drove in Hennemann with a single to left field. Freshman designated hitter Bobby Wenthe had an RBI-groundout, which scored Howell.
Hunter Morris had a two-run single to open the game up for the Panthers. Junior Mitch Gas-barro and Wenthe scored on the Morris single.
Wenthe would then hit a two-run home run to left center field to give the Panthers a 13-5 lead in the bottom of the fifth.
The Panthers defeated Eastern Kentucky in game one of the series, 9-5, and then lost game two of the series Sunday, 12-4.
This is the second-straight series the Panthers have won. Last week, Eastern defeated Belmont two out of three games.
Eastern will host a mid-week game against St. Louis at 3 p.m. Tuesday before heading to More-head State Friday.
Bob Reynolds can be reached at581-2812 or [email protected].
Fisher throws complete game in series win
By Bob ReynoldsSports Editor | @BobReynoldsDEN
The Eastern men’s golf team placed 11th out of 11 teams in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence tournament over the weekend at the par-72 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at the Shoals in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Sophomore Marcus Dahlin, who had a ca-reer high in his three rounds, led the Panthers. Dahlin shot a 74 the first day and then fol-lowed up the next two days with a 75 and a 76, for a total of 225. Dahlin came in 31st place as an individualist.
In round one, Dahlin shot 3-under after birdying holes No. 12, 14 and 17. Hole 12 and 17 were par 5’s.
Dahlin was able to shoot even par on the front nine in round three and the back nine in round two.
As a team, the Panthers had a team total of 921 for the tournament, with their best round coming in the final day. Eastern shot a 302 Sun-day.
Senior Brady Welsh finished +13 for the tour-nament after struggling coming out of the gate.
Welsh did shoot 1-over on the front nine in day one of the tournament but took two three double bogeys and two bogeys on the back nine. He shot 8-over on the back nine.
Men’s golf team places last in OVC tournament
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MACKENZIE FREUND | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSFreshman Andy Fisher pitches during the game against Eastern Kentucky Sunday at Coaches Stadium. The Panthers went on to win the game 13-5, winning the series, 2-1.
