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By Robyn Dexter In-depth Editor
Though the election is not until Nov. 6, students can take steps now to secure their regis-tration, whether they are reg-istered at Eastern or in their hometowns.
Jarrod Scherle, student execu-tive vice president, said the stu-dent government plans to spon-sor a voter registration drive in mid-to-late September to make sure as many Eastern students are registered as possible.
“We did this last fall and we got about 250 people registered over three days,” he said. “This year, we’re doing it over 5 days and I’m shooting for 1,000 regis-tered students in Coles County.”
Scherle said he would like to have multiple locations on cam-pus set up for students to reg-ister, expanding from just the Library Quad to possibly the South Quad and North Quad as
well, depending on the number of volunteers.
The drive will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 17 to Sept. 21.
“We have an Uncle Sam cos-tume we’re going to use to get people’s attention and there will be signs everywhere,” Scherle said.
He said the registration will take about three minutes and will get students completely ready to go for Election Day.
“We will personally take the registrations to the courthouse and in two weeks, student will get their voter registration cards in the mail,” he said.
To be eligible to vote on Nov. 6, students must register by Oct. 9, whether it is through register-ing on campus or having an ab-sentee ballot sent to their school address.
“Even if you miss the drive, registration forms will be avail-able in the Student Activities
Center and also on our student government website,” Scher-le said.
Scherle said the student gov-ernment might go to specif-ic registered student organiza-tions and organizations such as Hall Council and the Residence Hall Association to register their members if the interest is pres-ent.
Student voters who are regis-tered in their hometown can re-quest an absentee ballot on the Illinois State Board of Elections website.
Illinois Application for Ab-sentee Ballots will be available for download on Sept. 27.
“Since this is a presidential election, there will be a lot of ex-citement surrounding it,” Scher-le said. “We’re going to get this publicized as much as possible.”
Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812
ELECTION
PHOTO ILLUSTR ATION BY Z ACHARY WHITE | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJim Johnston, a Student Senate member and political science and history double major, holds up a sign to remind people to register to vote. “Everyone should vote,” Johnston said. “It’s one of our fundamental rights as Americans.”
Student government plans for high voter registration
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
The Tarble Arts Center recent-ly opened two exhibits that share one common theme: gender identi-ty and breaking convention.
The first of the two to open is “Skirting Convention: Illinois Women’s Art 1840 to 1940,” which opened in May and is open through Sept. 16.
Michael Watts, the director of the Tarble Arts Center, is in charge of planning and organizing the exhib-its at the Tarble.
“The exhibition provides infor-mation about a little known as-pect of art in Illinois—women who were active as artists prior to World War II and the struggles and ef-forts it took to become recognized in what was then a very male-dom-inated field,” Watts said. “Also the exhibition provides an interesting survey of art styles of the time pe-riod covered, which includes styles (and subjects) that many people to-day find interesting and appealing.”
Channy Lyons is the exhibition’s original curator from the Lakeview Museum at Bradley
University, the original location of the exhibit.
“It is impossible to know exact-ly how many women living in Il-l inois between 1840 and 1940 dreamed of becoming artists,” Ly-ons said. “Many of them must have had the skill and desire to make art, but gaining access to the training and being accepted as a profession-al artist was much more difficult for women than for men.”
Lyons said things that were ac-ceptable for these were women in-cluded craft activities, needlework, and china painting, and not the fine arts of portraiture and sculpture.
Watts said this oppression is among the th ings that can be learned from this exhibit.
“What these artists faced paral-lels what women of the same time period faced in many fields,” Watts said.” The other aspect to consider is the quality of the art these wom-en artists produced—was there any reason in terms of the quality of the art they produced not to be taken as seriously as artists when compared to their male counterparts?”
Beyond this exhibit, the Tarble also have the “Jake in Transition from Female to Male by Clarissa Sligh” exhibit.
The exhibit opened Aug. 18 and is open through Sept. 23.
It focuses on Jake’s transition from “Deb” his given female name to Jake, his chosen male name after going through the gender reassign-ment process from 1996 to 2000.
“The exhibition was selected as the 2012-13 Tarble Humanities ex-hibition by and Janet Marquardt, the EIU Center for the Humanities Director, and I, to align with this year's Humanities’ theme ‘Trans-formation’ and to introduce next year's theme of ‘Authenticity,’” Watts said.
Clarissa Sligh is the artist and said this project opened her eyes to the complexity of the process but also made her think about oth-er forms of transformation and op-pression.
“As I observed and supported Jake in his changes so that his body could pass as a white man, I could not help but think about the fact that I will never be able to change my brown skin to escape the layer of oppression one experiences from being black in America,” Sligh said.
As these exhibits continue mem-bers of the Women’s Studies faculty will be giving talks on these subject.
Amy Wywialowski can be reached
at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Tarble offers new exhibits through Sept.
ART
By Amy Wywialowski Assistant Daily Editor
The Council on Academic Affairs will have its first meeting of the se-mester 3 p.m. Wednesday in Room 4440 of Booth Library.
At the May 3 meeting, the coun-cil elected its new executive board for the 2012-2013 academic school years.
Larry White, a business facul-ty member, was elected the coun-cil chair.
He had previously served in this position during the 2010-2012
school years. Stephen Lucas was elected to the
vice chair position.Prior to meeting the council’s
learning goals subcommittees will meet at 2 p.m. in the same room.
These subcommittees focus on the learning goals set by the univer-sity and how to improve upon how the university works with and ap-plies them.
White said these subcommittees are involved in multi-year process that began in the fall 2011 semes-ter.
The committees are: committee
to address the importance of writ-ing across the curriculum commit-tee on general education segment definitions and Study Abroad Se-nior Seminars and the committee on Integrative Learning.
The subcommittees will discuss their progress thus far and make plans for the upcoming semesters.
At print time, the council’s agen-da was not yet set, although White had a rough idea what was going to be on it.
“The agenda for August 23 is not final yet, but at this point it appears it will primarily consist of orienta-
tion for new CAA members, review of communications from various campus entities, and appointment of CAA representatives to a few campus committees,” White said.
Currently there a few things la-beled as pending after last year’s last meeting.
At their last meeting the coun-cil passed a proposal known as STA 4000G, the Study Abroad Cap-stone—a class that will allow stu-dents to study abroad in replace of the required senior seminar.
The passed proposal also dictates that students that participate in the
study abroad program must provide a “reflective piece” for their elec-tronic writing portfolio.
In order for their study abroad to be accepted at a senior seminar replacement, the must have com-pleted an approved study abroad program and at least 75 semester hours.
The CAA will meet Wednesday at 3 p.m.
Amy Wywialowski can be reached at 581-2812
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MIR ANDA PLOSS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSNicholas Murdock, a senior art major, serenades the Library Quad Monday. Murdock is well known across campus for his expressive singing style.
By Samantha McDaniel Daily Editor
The Girls on the Run organiza-tion is trying to raise money to fund scholarships for the upcoming pro-gram starting with quarters.
The Quarters Mania auction will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Thurs-day at the Charleston Country Club.
Beth Gillespie, the counsel direc-tor for Girls on the Run, said the or-ganization would like to raise enough money to fund the 154 girls spread throughout five counties.
Gillespie said they have more than $2,700 in scholarship requests for their fall program to help cover the $100 per girl participation fee.
“We definitely want to be success-ful so that we can say yes to those re-quests,” Gillespie said.
Girls on the Run is an after school program with the goal of educating girls in grades three through eight.
The girls who participate in this program meet twice a week with vol-unteer coaches for a 10-week period.
Gillespie said each meeting focus-es on a lesson to help the girl feel em-powered.
The topics range from female por-trayal in the media, body image, health, fitness, bullies, gossip and mak-ing a difference in the community.
She also said while the girls receive these lessons they are training to run a 5K race.
“We want the girls to know what it feels like to set a goal that feel like a bit
of a stretch and work toward it and to successfully complete a 5K at the end of the 10 weeks,” Gillespie said.
This year’s 5K will take place on Nov. 10.
Gillespie said the program has grown from the 15 girls in the fall of 2011 to 57 in the spring and now close to 200 this fall.
Gillespie said if they do not raise enough money she hopes to raise money through donations from busi-ness and groups in the five counties included in this program.
Gillespie said they would like to include all the girls with an interest in the program.
“I am excited to spend time peo-ple in the community and them get a good idea about Girls on the Run and what we’re trying to do and what impact is going to be,” Gillespie said. “It’s just a lot of fun to get people to-gether who support this program.”
Past Girls on the Run participants will attend the auction to share stories.
Tickets can be purchased at the Mattoon YMCA or at the door and will cost $10.
People can bid on items for 50 cents, ranging from one-hour mas-sages, gift baskets, running tutus and gift cards.
The Charleston Country Club is located at 8355 Country Club Rd. in Charleston.
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Girls on the Run hold fundraiser at local club
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The Charleston City Council dis-cussed the improvement of cross-walks around area schools on Tues-day.
City Manager Scott Smith pre-sented the plan to improve child safety around the areas of Carl Sand-burg Elementary School, Charleston Middle School and Charleston High School.
Smith and Curt Buescher, the director of public works, worked to provide temporary signs to go around the schools.
“Charleston schools for kids got
back in session this morning, so a lot of kids will be in and around the schools,” Smith said.
Smith said they are working with the school district to reestablish the sidewalks and signs.
“It initially started with discus-sions with university officials who expressed some concerns on Fourth Street,” Smith said. “We had some additional concerns, that actually I had, and some parents and teachers had at Carl Sandburg, about the traf-fic on Reynolds Drive in and around the time before and after school.”
Smith said as a parent he is con-cerned about the traffic around the
schools.“This is all part of a program to
improve safe routes to school, trans-portation routes to school, all in collaboration with the Charleston school district,” Smith said.
Smith said the signs will be move-able in-pavement signs that would allow school officials to put the signs out before school starts and remove them when it is over.
He also said he hopes it will help with traffic safety during sporting games and other events.
“I know out in front of Carl Sand-burg, because I am there morning, the traffic has slowed down consid-
erable in front of the schools, par-ents are alerted to the crosswalk, they know to slow down,” Smith said. “Buses, everyone definitely slow down.”
The signs will be funded by both the city and the Charleston School District.
The council also approved the in-stallation of a streetlight at Jefferson and the alley between 13th and 14th streets.
The light will cost $2,625 to install and an additional $6.09 will be added to the annual Ameren CIPS bill.
This project is funded by the Charleston streetlight fund.
City ponders crosswalk improvement
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By Tim Deters Features Editor
Walking into the north entrance of Booth Library, students will be thrust into Eastern’s past.
Just past the first doors of Booth Li-brary’s north entrance and into the Marvin Foyer, glass display cases hold the stories and artifacts that have built what is now Eastern history.
The displays are part of the “Building Memories: Creating a Campus Com-munity” exhibit, which was created by the History Museum Exhibits class as part of the Historical Administration program and runs until Aug. 26.
Students of the yearlong class began the process of creating the exhibit by dis-cussing possible topics and then develop-ing the “Big Idea,” said history professor
Rick Riccio, who taught the class.The “Building Memories” theme for
this year’s exhibit was chosen by the stu-dents to illustrate how experiences to-day are constantly forming people’s im-pressions of college.
The student wanted to “make cur-rent students realize that building mem-ories, creating a campus community is not just something that happened in the past but is continually created over and over again with each incoming class,” Riccio said.
During Fall 2011, the 10 students planned, researched and designed how they would approach the project. In Spring 2012, the students gathered all their research, built and installed the ex-hibit.
To research Eastern’s past, students interviewed numerous faculty, staff and
former students to gain an insight of the personal experiences and recollec-tions of members of the campus com-munity.
The artifacts students used for the ex-hibit came largely from the Eastern ar-chives, Riccio said.
One of the artifacts uncovered dur-ing the student’s research, a uniform donated by former University Library Director Mary Booth, surprised archi-vist Robert Hillman.
The uniform is black and red and has several red crosses, and Hillman as-sumed the uniform came from Booth’s service as a Red Cross nurse in World War I.
“I had always assumed that these uniforms parts came from her service in the Red Cross because they have red crosses on them,” he said.
However, by researching online, the History Museum Exhibits students found that Booth’s father was a mem-ber of the Knight’s Templar and that the uniform was a uniform used in the society’s activities.
President William Perry provided his own contribution to the exhibit.
When Perry first became president of Eastern in 2007, he donated a cor-nerstone inscribed with “1928” to the Eastern Archives. He received the relic from a local man.
Hillman said the man unburied the cornerstone from beneath a pile of items in his backyard.
With research, Hillman said the cor-nerstone was found to have been part of a ticket booth at the entrance of a foot-ball field that used to sit where Weller and McKinney halls now stand.
Along with physical objects, the ex-hibit also has videos of Eastern faculty discussing various aspects of Eastern’s history, as well as quick response codes students can scan with their smart-phones to get more information.
Hillman said he hope students will learn from the exhibit about the pow-er of their own experiences on campus and how they shape what will someday be Eastern’s past.
“The main purpose of (the exhibit) is to show how memories were formed and how everybody who has a connec-tion to Eastern has their own memories of it,” he said. “Everyone has their own personal story, and everybody’s view of it is slightly different.”
Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
PROFILE
By Tim Deters Features Editor
As the shuttle bus pulled up to the Plexiglas shelter and the doors opened, a man dressed in a blue polo shirt, a blue Panthers baseball cap, kha-ki shorts and a warm smile welcomed students aboard the Panther Express.
Dan Icenogle greeted the oncom-ing passengers and swiftly shut the door, and the shuttle was on its way.
Icenogle, of Mattoon, has driven the Panther Express as full-time driv-er for three years and as a substitute the first year the shuttle service began in 2008.
Before coming to drive for Eastern, Icenogle drove buses for Lake Land College in Mattoon, transporting athletes to sporting events and other groups to their activities.
As he weaved through the shut-tle’s route, which takes 40 minutes to complete, Icenogle said he is more comfortable driving a shuttle bus for Eastern because he is not required to spend long hours on the open road in various weather conditions.
Eastern’s shuttle program is fund-ed by student fees and currently em-ploys three full-time, two part-time and four substitute drivers.
Two buses operate daily and aver-
age 1,000 miles per week.Icenogle said he enjoys being able
to work with students and getting to know members of campus.
“Personally, this is fantastic for me. I love it,” he said as the shuttle’s tires rumbled on the pavement. “I am real-ly privileged to do this.”
Stopping along the circular drive of an apartment complex and greeting a mother and her young daughter, Ice-nogle said he cannot help but enjoy his job.
“The bottom line is, if a person can’t come to work and enjoy what he or she is doing, they should find em-ployment elsewhere,” he said.
Another reason Icenogle loves his job is that he has summers off. When not driving for Panther Express, he en-joys farming a small crop of corn and soybeans, attending Panther basketball games, and golfing as much as possible.
While summer breaks appeal to Icenogle, he said the opportunity to see students on a regular basis during their commutes and hearing about their experiences is rewarding.
Pulling back up the shelter, the shuttle nearly empty, Icenogle said as each semester comes and goes he real-izes more and more faces he become familiar.
However, while the vanishing faces can be somewhat saddening, the cy-cles of a university environment are just part of the dynamics that make driving students so unique and satis-fying.
“Really, it’s one of most satisfying jobs I’ve had,” he said. “You guys are just a great bunch of people.”
Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812
Riding along with Icenogle
TIM DETERS | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSDan Icenogle greets students stepping onto the Panther Express Tuesday. Icenogle is a full-time driver for the campus shuttle service and has driven since the service began in 2008.
“The bottom line is, if a person can’t come to work and enjoy what he or she is doing, they should find employment elsewhere.” Dan Icenogle, a full-time driver for Panther Express
EXHIBIT
Building Memories exhibit builds upon Eastern’s past
Are senior’s really excited to be starting the school year, knowing that it is their last? What’s Next?
Of course, the thought of having no more loans, classes, books to read, homework, papers, tests, group projects and presentations sounds soothing. But, when that is over and you grad-uate, you should consider what’s next for you. After you graduate from Eastern, what will you do with your life?
How many seniors know what their exact re-sponse will be to questions like these? Living in Charleston for the time we are here can some-times modify our perspective of going out into the real world. No one wants to go back to live with their parents. I know I don’t. No one wants to work at a place that is titled “job,” and not “career.”
The good thing about college is that most things are expected, we usually know what the school year will bring us, or we have a very good idea. Charleston does not bring us too many surprises. But after that is over, if we are not continuing our education, and have not got hired at our dream job, what are we going to do?
Obviously seniors will be excited for their last year of school. Some seniors are over school and ready to graduate. They will not think about there post-graduation lives un-til they are done here. Some seniors will have everything all planned out. They are just finishing this last year and will be head-ed into their new life soon as they cross the stage. Those are the “perfect scenario” se-niors.
Then there is the group of seniors where the idea of graduation didn’t hit them until they started their senior year.
Realistically, it is almost impossible to not be excited that this is your last year of col-lege, this is one of, if not the biggest accom-
plishment of your life and everyone will be proud.
You no longer have time to think, instead of only planning start taking action. If you want to further your education the time to start look-ing up schools and doing applications is now, not in May.
If you know you are done with school, ca-reer moves need to be made as soon as possible, networking will be huge for the future so keep good relationships and don’t burn any bridg-es. You never know who can help you out, and the more help the better when it comes to a ca-reer search.
So don’t be nervous when you are asked, “What’s next?” Figure it out and execute, you can’t waste any more time. The real world waits for no one.
Leon Fields is a senior communication studies major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or
For the longest time, “volunteering” was a four-letter word in my mind. The term rep-resented an awkward, stiff, forced approach to what is ultimately a worthy endeavor.
Growing up, the traditional approaches organizations took to gain volunteers and accomplish a goal seemed so cookie-cut-ter simple and uninspired. The organiza-tion would determine a task to complete, practically beg for volunteers and hud-dle those few strangers together to some-how cooperate and accomplish the organi-zation’s goal.
I wondered, where was the personal inspi-ration? Why let an organization determine a “worthy” goal for you? Must we, as citizens, simply shop around for the organization that best represents our values and let them deter-mine how best to serve our communities?
While I now believe that such an ap-proach to volunteering and serving your community is valuable and worthy of praise, my attitude toward how a person might bet-ter approach volunteering has been altered.
Now, when I think of volunteering, I see the immense importance of having your own goals, your own inspiration, and your own passions. I feel that each and ev-ery person must ask themselves, What do
I want to accomplish? What inspires me? How can I channel my passions to do good in my community?
And so, how can you become inspired and utilize your passions to serve your community?
Pinpoint that specific something that makes you rise to your feet and take notice, determine how to channel that zeal and strike out on your own.
Do you have a passion for the environ-ment? Walk along nearby streets a few times a week and pick up trash. Speak with neighbors and friends and offer to recycle their items along with yours, saving them time, gas and money.
Do you have a passion for politics? Deter-mine if there are residents in your area who do not have transportation to the polls this election season and offer to drive them.
Do you have a passion for food? Bake a meal or two and surprise the family down the road who has been struggling lately. Possibly even invite them over for a meal and conver-sation.
Do you have a passion for gardening? Offer to pull weeds, water plants, or lay down mulch for a neighbor. Approach the city and propose having them let you transform that weed-ridden eyesore of a lot into a public garden.
The possibilities are endless. As long as you have a passion that drives you and in-spires you, there is certainly a way to create a volunteer opportunity.
And though you may possibly feel that your individual contributions to the com-munity are minimal when compared to the contributions of a whole organized group, know that even the smallest of contribu-tions add up. As well, be sure to recognize the satisfaction you feel knowing you took the initiative and shared your passion with your community to serve them well.
Tim Deters is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or
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Continue where you Jumpstarted from, volunteer
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Leon Fields
Help your community, volunteer in your own way
COLUMN
As new students who come to Eastern realize, their academic career here starts with community service.
From the point of view of the freshman class, the community service appears to start with Jump-Start 2 G.I.V.E, but if they were paying close attention, they would have seen that from the moment they got to Eastern on move-in day, there was community service going on all around them.
With Panther Pals helping student’s move-in from day one, the campus culture of volunteering is clear to behold.
No, we are not saying that every day is a day you need to go out and volunteer. More appropriately, we encourage you to volunteer, because we know its value.
As Rachel Fisher, the Director of Stu-dent Community Service, will tell you, when you give back, it is on average worth more than $20 an hour. Every time.
Outside of the monetary benefits, it feels good to give back.
We understand that you may not feel comfortable going out to a soup kitchen by yourself and serving food, but that is not your only volunteering opportunity.
You can grab a friend and head over to the Coles County Animal Shelter, or you can go to Douglas-Hart and do outdoor work on their 70 acres of prairie land.
Volunteering is not limited to what is already out there as community service.
If you have an idea that you think could turn into a volunteer opportunity and you go into the student life office, they will help you develop a service opportunity.
From the effort you put forth, we believe that you will not only improve the communi-ty that you belong to here at Eastern, you will become a part of the Charleston community as a whole.
By volunteering, you will get to know the Charleston community.
You have the chance to become part of the city you live in, and we believe that it is not just your right, but also your adult responsibility to do so.
You are part of a very small world popula-tion that is even able to gain a college educa-tion, and as such you are considered adults.
If you don’t think of yourself as an adult we aren’t saying that you have to grow up now. But there is an expectation that you are going to grow up and volunteering is a great way to develop in that direction.
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Drop your books! The 2012 NFL football season is getting ready to start, which means that fantasy foot-ball leagues all over the country are getting ready to begin.
The most important players in the NFL are quarterbacks, so it’s not sur-prising that they net fantasy owners the most points. The top three quar-terbacks you should draft are also the trio typically considered to be the top players in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Drew Brees.
Green Bay Packers’ star Aaron Rodgers was the best fantasy player last year with 45 passing touchdowns and only six interceptions. He threw for more than 4,600 yards while chipping in three rushing touch-downs. Rodgers, who is in the prime of his NFL career, might not live up to the numbers he put up last year but can be expected to have a huge
season.Brady, of the New England Patri-
ots, played phenomenally last year, putting up 39 touchdowns and 5235 passing yards. With the addition of Brandon Lloyd to the receiving core, fans can expect another good year from Tom Teriffic.
Even without Eastern alum and Saints’ head coach Sean Payton, Drew Brees can be expected to have anoth-er great season. Last year, he ended up with a NFL single season record of 5478 passing yards and 46 passing touchdowns. His offensive maestro may be gone, but Brees knows how to get it done.
Other top quarterback options in-clude Cam Newton, Matthew Staf-ford, Tony Romo, Matt Ryan, Ben Roethlisberger, and Eli Manning.
When looking for the best wide re-ceiver options, one doesn't have to go
any farther than Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions. Johnson caught 16 touchdowns in the 2011 season, while accumulating 1681 yards through the air. “Megatron” is a dominant physi-cal specimen who will not be denied in the red zone.
The Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald is always a top fantasy per-former, and this season should be no different. Fitzgerald caught nine touchdowns last season while accu-mulating 1,411 yards through the air.
Other top receiving options in-clude Andre Johnson, Roddy White, Greg Jennings, A.J. Green, and Vic-tor Cruz.
Over the years, the value of a run-ning back has continued to drop in fantasy football. That doesn’t mean an elite back isn’t a great weapon to have, though.
The Texans’ Ar ian Foster i s healthy and ready to go for the 2012 season, which is a great thing for owners looking for a solid running back. Last year while battling inju-ries, Foster finished with 1,224 rush-ing yards and 10 touchdowns. Those numbers will only go up this year. Other top running backs include Ray Rice, LeSean McCoy, Marshawn Lynch, Maurice Jones-Drew, and Chris Johnson.
While the value of a running back has decreased, tight end stock just
keeps going up. Patriots tight end Ron Gronkowski and Saints tight end Jimmy Graham gave their fan-tasy owners record points for the po-sition last year. Gronkowski finished the season with a tight end record of 18 touchdowns and 1,327 receiv-ing years. Graham wasn't too far be-hind in production, scoring 11 touch-downs while accumulating 1,310 yards through the air.
Gronkowski and Graham are the only tight ends worth a high round pick, but there are some other tight ends, later in the draft, who might net some points. Antonio Gates, Ver-non Davis, Jermichael Finley, Aaron Hernandez and Jason Witten are all good players who have the eye of their quarterbacks.
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The Panthers also return star wide receiver Chris Wright. The speedy senior is coming off a sea-son where he led the team in re-ceiving yards (735), receptions ( 4 2 ) , a n d t o u c h d ow n s ( 1 1 ) . Wright’s 735 yards ranked third in the OVC and his 11 touchdowns led all receivers.
“This offense is just really excit-ing and the O-line is doing a great job of pass protecting. The wide receivers are getting open and the running backs are running well,” Garoppolo said. “I can’t complain with anything right now.”
On defense, Eastern will be re-turning four of its six top perform-ers, as red-shirt juniors Nick Beard and Antonio Taylor, along with red-shirt sophomore D.J. Bland and senior Artavious Dowdell, will anchor the Panther defense this fall. Beard, Bland and Dowdell ranked third, fourth and fifth, respective-ly, in tackles last season and will look to improve on those numbers this fall. Dowdell recorded a team-leading five sacks in 2011. He also finished the season tied for first in tackles for loss with 7.5.
Taylor will be the top returning tackler from last season, as his 92 tackles ranked second on the team in 2011. Taylor will be looked to provide an even bigger impact this season as he is the lone starting linebacker returning in 2012.
“Coming back as the only return-ing starting linebacker, I hold my-self to a higher standard,” Taylor said. “I want to make sure I’m at my best so I can hold my teammates ac-countable to be at their best.”
Taylor noted vast improvements in the team from what he saw in spring practices to what he has seen at training camp thus far.
“Coming from spring to where we are now, i t ’s a 180 degree change,” Taylor said. “Our defense has made great strides, our offense has made great strides and I like where we are at.”
The Panthers will open their sea-son against in-state rival Southern Illinois-Carbondale at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at O’Brien Field.
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FILE PHOTO | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSAshley Eck, senior midfielder, goes after the ball during a game against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Nov. 30, 2011, at Lakeside Field.
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MEN’S SOCCER
By Jordan Pottorff Sports Editor
Eastern is preparing to open a new era of football with first-year head coach Dino Babers leading the Panthers through the 2012 season.
The Pan the r s a re r e tu rn ing a number of starters on offense and defense for the season opener against Southern Illinois-Carbon-dale on Aug. 30.
Junior quarterback Jimmy Garop-polo is coming off his first full sea-son as starting quarterback in which
he passed for 2,644 yards with 20 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Garoppolo’s 240.4 yards per game ranked second in the Ohio Valley Conference and his 20 touchdown passes ranked third.
“We expect great things from Jimmy (Garopollo) this season,” head coach Dino Babers said. “I can’t wait to see what he is doing with this offense in the beginning of the season and at the end of the sea-son when he really has a good feel for our offense.”
With Babers’ up-tempo offensive
game plan, Garopollo will be able to showcase his running ability for the first time in his Panther career.
“I’m excited for it,” Garoppolo said. “It gives me a chance to show a side of me that no one got to see the last couple years.”
Along with Garoppolo, red-shirt se-nior Jake Walker will be the main fea-ture in the offense this fall. Walker is coming off a season where he rushed for 580 yards on 151 carries and tal-lied a team-leading 10 touchdowns in his injury plagued junior season.
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The Eastern men’s soccer was picked to finish seventh in the Sum-mit League in preseason polls re-leased last week, and while head coach Adam Howarth is upset with the team’s positioning, he said it’s not that big of a deal.
Eastern had a 1-4-1 record in the conference last season, its first year back in the Summit League af-ter 14 years in the Missouri Valley Conference. Howarth said he ex-pects better results because the Pan-thers are more familiar with oppo-nents.
The only other team picked to finish lower than Eastern is Oma-ha, who won one match last sea-son, compared to the Panthers who won seven.
The defending league cham-pion, Western I l l inois , were p icked to f in i sh f i r s t in the league polls, receiving five of eight first-place votes, despite being the team with the most newcomers on the roster this season.
Missouri-Kansas City, which finished with a 2-2-2 record in the league last year, was voted to sec-ond, while Oakland is picked to finish third.
O r a l R o b e r t s a n d F o r t Wayne, both which tied for sec-ond place last season, are picked to finish fourth and sixth re-spectively.
I n d i a n a Un i v e r s i t y - Pu r -due University-Indianapolis is picked to finish fifth in the con-ference.
Eastern will play home games against the two top teams in the conference, Western Illinois and Missouri-Kansas City. The Pan-thers play Missouri-Kansas City at 1 p.m. Sept. 30 at Lakeside Field. Then, they’ll play West-ern Illinois at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 12.
The Panthers’ game against Oakland wil l be their last of the season at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 in Rochester, Mich.
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Low league ranking won’t discourage soccer team
By Dominic Renzetti Staff Reporter
The Eastern women’s soccer team added a new member to its staff in the off-season. Assistant coach Jason Cherry joined the Panther staff last May and is now hoping to lead the team back to the Ohio Valley Conference championship.
Head coach Summer Perala said the team has given Cherry a warm welcome since he’s come aboard.
“The players love him,” she said. “He brings such a different energy. He is one of those guys who is low-key almost 99 percent of the time, but if you don’t do what we’re asking you to do, he will jump on you and make sure you’re stepping up your game.”
Cherry was an assistant at Eastern Carolina last season, where the Pirates finished with a record of 11-8-1, and advanced to the Conference USA Tournament Semifinals, a place Eastern Carolina had not been since 2008.
Prior to his work at Eastern Carolina, Cher-ry worked as the top assistant at Western Illinois, where he also received his bachelor’s degree in gen-eral studies in the spring of 2011.
In his three years at Western, Cherry helped the Leathernecks to a 26-22-9 record overall, and a 15-9-2 record in the Summit League. Cherry helped the team post its second lowest goals-against aver-age (0.84) and tied the record for most shut-outs in school history (9) during the 2010 season.
Prior to Western, Cherry was an assistant coach at Bethel College from 2005 to 2008, where he coached goalkeepers.
Cherry, a South Bend, Ind., native, played col-legiality at Goshen College, a small Mennonite lib-eral arts school in northern Indiana. He played there from 1993 to 1994.
“The girls like him because he brings a differ-ent energy,” Perala said. “Without lack of a better term, he’s goofy, but he will make sure you step to the line every single time.”
Aside from his experience coaching at the colle-giate level, Cherry has also coached club teams. He was head coach of the Junior Irish Soccer Club in South Bend, as well as the head coach of the Indi-ana Invaders. Cherry also coached 10 years at the high school level, working as an assistant.
Perala, also a graduate of Western, said she knew Cherry from his time when he was a coach there, and says that experience has helped him be-come a better coach.
“He gets it from being involved in a program that maybe you don’t have the highest level of re-sources, but you make due with what you’ve got and you do it because it’s the right thing to do.”
After coaching two matches on the road, Cher-ry will coach his first match at Lakeside Field at 3:00 p.m. Friday, when the Panthers (0-2) take on Northern Iowa (1-1).
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MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSJake Billhart, a sophomore midfielder, bounces a ball off his knee Tuesday afternoon at Lakeside Rugby Field. He was one of four players to start in all 17 matches last season.
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MARCUS SMITH | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WSRyan Jones, a freshman running back, receives a pass at practice Saturday morning at O'Brien Field. The Panthers have three running backs returning this season.
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