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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 3Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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MIND THE GAPStudent Body President Kaylia Eskew seeks to close the distance between students and faculty
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BATTLING FOR POSITIONSMembers of the football team show off defense during a preseason scrimmage.
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Executive position vacantin RHA
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By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor@JaradJarmonReporter
Kyle Swan, the previous Residence Hall Association treasurer, resigned from his executive position at the end of the spring semester.
Swan left the position and trans-ferred to University of Miami to pursue studio music engineer and criminology majors.
“I couldn’t do both majors at East-ern,” Swan said. “Miami is a little more renowned.”
He said he would be more able to network with those in his profession.
Swan was the RHA treasurer for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.
Swan said he originally would have run for RHA president last semester but he did not want to commit to a seri-ous position knowing he applied for the University of Miami.
Mark Hudson, an RHA adviser and the director of housing and dining, said he as well as many other people in RHA knew Swan was trying to go to Miami.
“He got to transfer to a school that he has always wanted to attend and got accepted and so he went,” Hudson said.
Swan said it was nice to work with other students at EIU who were like minded about the organization.
The job as treasurer entailed keeping track of the RHA checkbook and hav-ing it organized.
When RHA members needed to spend money on programs and oth-er necessities, the treasurer would give them a request form so they would be able to spend the money.
Members of RHA would then give the receipts to the treasurer in order for him or her to balance the checkbook.
Swan said the upcoming treasur-er should always keep the books up to date.
“Don’t wait until you have a lot of stuff to do because you can get backed up,” he said. “It can become very con-fusing where you’ll start losing receipts.”
He recommended they make sure the books are good three to five times a week.
While RHA officially has no one currently positioned as treasurer, the RHA budget is being handled.
Resident Director Laura Imbirow-icz said Jody Stone, the associate direc-tor of housing and dining resident life, and herself are taking care of the budget while the position is open.
The elections for the treasurer posi-tion will be convened at the first RHA meeting of the fall semester at 5 p.m. on Sept. 5 at Lincoln Hall.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812
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K atie smith | the Daily eastern ne ws George Smock (Brother Jed) preaches repentance to students Monday at the Commemorative Courtyard. With him were his wife, friend and a guest-preacher he recruited while speaking at a university in Portland, Ore.
Preacher, family visit Eastern once moreBy Katie smith Photo Editor@DEN_News
George Edward Smock said he sur-rendered his life to Jesus Christ in 1972, and from there he has been visit-ing college campuses preaching repen-tance to students. Monday he returned to Eastern’s campus.
Smock, known by the moniker Brother Jed, last appeared at Eastern in April.
He and three other witnesses ar-rived at about 10:30 a.m. Monday and stayed until 4 p.m. to have an open di-alogue with students on the campus’ Commemorative Courtyard in front of Ford Hall.
Accompanying Smock were Sister Pat, 24-year-old Mikhail Savenko and Smock’s wife, “Sister” Cindy Smock.
The four originally intended to speak in front of the Doudna Fine Arts Center; however, they were asked to re-locate after a professor complained that their activity was disrupting classes.
“If you’re going to influence them, you need to get out where they are,” Smock said.
As students walked by Smock and his witnesses told some of the wom-en they would go to Hell if they did not act more proper, and they should have more self-control when it came to
things like sex. Taylor Bainter, a senior art major,
said she disagreed not only with the Smock’s message, but also with their right to be on campus.
Bainter composed a petition to pre-vent Smock and his followers to preach on campus.
“It’s not the actual message, but how it’s being said,” Bainter said. “It’s on our campus, and they’re guests. We
want to take back our campus.”Smock, however, was not surprised
by the effort to ban him from campus and said it is a typical reaction from students.
“After they’ve made their jokes about the crazy preachers, it’ll probably provoke a lot of serious dialogue about religious issues,” he added.
Leon Mire, a senior philosophy major, and member of the EIU So-ciety for Free Thought said he agreed Smock’s message was delivered in too harsh a manner.
“The idea of how the eternal torture for anyone who doesn’t believe in this particular message is a toxic idea that we need to wake up and realize is not
benefitting anyone, is not helpful to our society and is probably not true,” Mire said.
Although students were quick to call Smock uncompassionate, he said he has only love for the audiences he preaches to.
“I think students accuse us of being unloving. But they have a misunder-standing of love, essentially acquaint-ing it with some emotional feeling,”
Smock said, “where as love is a choice, it’s an act of the will.”
Danah Hemes, an associate cam-pus minister at the Christian Campus House, said she was upset and emo-tional at the sight of Smock and his ap-proach to preaching the Word of God.
“It really frustrates me,“ she said. “I think it is going to further remove peo-ple from being open to a loving God who really cares about people on this campus and wouldn’t call them names.”
Sarah Cochran, a freshman pre-medicine major, said a different ap-proach to the student body might en-courage members to be more open-minded.
“I recommend that they don’t do it
in the public where everyone can hear it,” she said. “I feel like they should have it in a private setting so that peo-ple who want to come and hear it can.”
Cochran’s reaction is one the Smock’s have been faced with before.
Cindy Smock attributes their con-troversial methods to the Bible.
“The men of God went out to where the people were to try to reach the type of person who’s not interested in this type of lecture, and not interest-ed in a bible study right now,” she said. “We’re trying to get the rebellious ones, the hard-hearted, the party animals, to get their attention and wake them up.”
Smock said he agrees with Cin-dy Smock’s belief that the controver-sial tactics of religious preaching come from good intentions to persuade their audience to repent for their sins and live a life for God, regardless of their sometimes offensive claims.
“If your speech isn’t disturbing the people we don’t need a first amend-ment,” Smock said.
Katie Smith can be reached at 581-2812
"If your speech isn’t disturbing the people, we don’t need a first amendment," George Smock (Brother Jed)
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By Kadie Petersonstaff reporter@Den_news
The New and Emerging Art-ist series will start off with a blast from the past with the first install-ment of the semester focusing on an R&B and 1950s and 1960s-style band.
Ruby Velle and the Soulphon-ics will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Doudna Fine Arts Center during their four-year-long tour.
Dan Crews, the director of pa-tron services at Doudna, said stu-dents would be able to relate to Velle because of her age and her style of music.
“Ruby is a young singer, only a year or two older than the average EIU student, with a great voice,” he said. “She is a big star showing a lot of success. I think young peo-ple will appreciate her voice with the retro sound of soul, blues and rock.”
He also compared Velle’s voice to Amy Winehouse.
Crews said he thought the group would be more successful in the fu-ture and said it was a good chance for students to see the band before then.
“This is a great opportunity to
see a high-quality performance group,” he said. “In fact, I believe in four or five years they are go-ing to be a very successful R&B group.”
Velle’s band was formed in 2005 in At lanta , Ga. and they have been spreading their retro, soulful sound across the country, Crews said.
Crews said Velle and her band were chosen to start off the new-
est installment because of their reputation, Velle’s voice and the band’s success record at other venues.
The prices include General Ad-mission at $15, Senior Citizens at $12, and Eastern Students at $7. Crews said students can pay with their Panthercard.
The New and Emerging Artist se-ries centers on getting performers that have shown great success, and
Crews said the series is focusing on professional touring groups.
Crews said getting artists to per-form at Doudna was like working a puzzle with factors like limited space.
Planning for the series goes back at least one year.
Kadie Peterson can be reached at 581-2812
Band to bring retro-soul to Eastern
suBMiT Ted PhoToRuby Velle and the Soulphonics focus on R&B and 1950s and 1960s style music. They will be performing at East-ern Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
By Kathryn Richter staff reporter@Den_news
The Charleston Alley Theater will host auditions for the upcoming mu-sical-comedy “Bat Boy: The Musical.”
The auditions will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday and Friday at the Charles-ton Alley Theater at 718 Monroe Ave. to cast the 25 roles available.
“Bat Boy: The Musical” is the sto-ry of Edgar, a boy found residing in a cave on the outskirts of the fictional town of Hope Falls, W.Va.
Edgar is taken to the home of the local veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where his wife and teenage daughter at-tempt to teach Edgar how to inte-grate within the small town, much to
the dismay of the townspeople. Duke Bagger, the president and
executive producer at the theater said all members of the community are welcome.
“We really enjoy having as much community involvement as possible,” Bagger said.
Bagger said any person, regard-less of experience, is invited to be involved in some way for “Bat Boy: The Musical,” whether it is perform-ing as an actor or working behind the scenes on the various aspects that make up the production.
“Most people would be surprised at how well they act if they give themselves a chance and are willing to take some direction,” Bagger said.
He also said he has had experienc-
es working with the “extremely tal-ented” Eastern students and commu-nity members during past produc-tions.
“We will be looking forward to seeing all those people come through the door,” Bagger said. “We are equal opportunity.”
While, the auditions will take place Thursday and Friday at the the-ater, an additional work call will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday in the the-ater for those interested in working behind the scenes, Bagger said.
During the auditions, Bagger said actors should come prepared with 16 bars of music they will perform with an accompanist and will read selected portions of the script.
Bagger said the director usually
looks not at how well the actor per-forms the selections, but rather the possible potential the actor holds to fulfill the character.
“Sometimes you will look at someone who reads dreadfully,” Bag-ger said, citing is own experience as a director. However, Bagger said the potential is there and eventually the actor finds the character and blos-soms.
The play will be directed by Ma-rie Jozwiak with musical direction by Elizabeth Halbe and is scheduled to premiere the second and third week-end in October.
Kathryn Richter can be reached at 581-2812
Theater to host auditions for musical comedy
By samantha Mcdaniel associate news editor@samMcDaniel20
The Charleston City Council will be discussing the authorization to award a contract with an electricity provider for the city at their meeting on Tuesday.
The city council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Charleston City Hall.
Mayor Larry Rennels said the city council members have decided to take bidders from electricity providers to get the best rate for the city residents. Rennels said the current provider has a contract until June of 2014, but the city council members feared the rate would be raised because of the de-crease in electricity use over the sum-mer.
“One of the things we were hear-ing when we talked to the consultants is that this summer was cooler, people didn’t use as much electricity for air conditioner as they did in the past,” Rennels said. “The power companies had tooled up to produce more and as a result their rates were a little low-er than everybody had anticipated.”
Rennels said by next June, the company may raise their rates so they are going to go through the process to decide a new provider.
“Obviously if the bids come in and we can’t do any better then we’ll re-ject them all,” Rennels said. “If the bids come in and we can do the same or better ourselves then we’ll do it.”
The resolution will give Charleston City Manager Scott Smith the autho-rization to accept the best bid when he receives it.
Rennels said when the bids come in they have to be accepted in a set number of hours and there would be no time for the council to meet to ap-prove a bid.
They will give Smith guidelines to operate within when approving the bids.
The council will also vote on a res-olution to renew their contract with Good Energy Consulting Services, the company that assists in the bid-ding process and contracting process with electricity providers.
The council will also discuss an or-dinance for the purchase of a prop-erty located at 2156 Douglas Drive.
If approved, the city council will pay $27,500 for the property.
Rennels said the city has been in-terested in purchasing the property for a number of years to improve the
visibility at a dangerous intersection at West Coolidge Avenue.
“It’s a blind intersection. It’s a real sharp turn and coming into it from Douglas you are coming down a hill,” Rennels said. “We have wished for a long time that we had that property so we could clean it up.”
Brush on the property is obstruct-ing the view at the intersection and until the city purchases the proper-ty the city cannot do anything to im-prove it.
“It’s a little chunk of property, where if we owned it, it would square out the city limits,” Rennels said. “It’s kind of a notch out of the city lim-its.”
Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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The Faculty Senate will con-duct its first meeting of the semes-ter Tuesday to hear a presentation by President Bill Perry and to address the new method for off-campus li-brary resource access.
The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 in Booth Library.
The authentication method for off-campus access to online library resources will also be addressed.
According to a report submit-
ted to the Faculty Senate by Stacey Knight-Davis, the head of Library Technology Services, those who wish to access electronic library re-sources no longer need to use their 14-digit library number. Instead, a person can gain access using one’s Eastern NetID and password. The change was made on June 10.
“This was a very complex proj-ect involving many different people from many different offices on cam-pus,” Knight-Davis said in the re-port.
She added that Information Tech-nology Services, the Center for Aca-demic Technology Support, Library Technology Services and the Booth Library administration all contribut-ed to the new system.
According to the Faculty Senate Constitution, the Faculty Senate op-erates as the representative voice of the faculty community and makes recommendations to the Eastern ad-ministration about issues encom-passing not only faculty but also the campus community.
The governing body consists of 15 elected members of the faculty com-munity with three non-voting stu-dent members, which are appointed by the Student Senate.
Among the agenda items for the meeting, the Faculty Senate mem-bers will discuss appointments to the Booth Library Advisory Board, one member from each of the academic colleges. They will also address ap-pointing a member to serve as the Faculty Senate representative on the University Naming Committee.
During old business, the Facul-ty Senate will entertain reports from its eight committees along with a re-port from Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic af-fairs.
Under new business, the mem-bers will address placing the Coun-cil on Academic Affairs Learning Goals on the agenda of a future meeting.
The next Faculty Senate meeting will be at 2 p.m. on Sept. 3 in Room 4440 in Booth Library.
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By: Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor @JaradJarmonreporter
Along with the rest of student government, senior journalism ma-jor Kaylia Eskew has been preparing for the year with admirable goals for the student body.
Eskew was elected last year as stu-dent body president and has been working in the position since the end of the last semester.
Eskew said her main goal for the school year is to bridge the gap be-tween students and faculty.
She wants to create more dia-logue so the campus can come to-gether as a whole.
One program she plans on imple-menting is one that will get gradu-ates to mentor undergraduates.
She also hopes to assemble more town meetings throughout the year.
Previous town meetings have been where the students and staff have discussed issues like sexual as-sault on campus.
Eskew said she felt very prepared for the job when going into it.
“The out-going president Kaci Abolt and I had talked a lot about the responsibility, the time commit-
ment and what it really meant to be student body president,”
Eskew said.The student body president said
the biggest and most exciting pro-gram she has handled so far has been “Make it a Blue Night.”
She handled coordinating First Night as well as co-hosting the cel-ebration.
“It was so great to have that event to help all the new students and re-turning students kick off the school year with some EIU spirit,” Eskew said.
Since that night, Eskew has been setting up meetings with various groups and organizations around the campus.
She is also preparing to interview
applicants who applied for student senate during summer.
She has been involved in stu-dent government since her fresh-man year.
The student body president origi-nally got involved in through work-ing on student government beat at The Daily Eastern News.
“I went to my first couple meet-ings and got really interested in it,” Eskew said. “I guess I jumped ship.”
After two years of being a staff re-porter and working on student sen-ate, Eskew was then elected to vice president of academic affairs.
While she hasn’t been on The Daily Eastern News staff since soph-omore year, Eskew has also been working on The Warbler, Eastern’s yearbook publication, when not working for student government.
On top of that, she also is a member of the Alpha Sigma Tau so-rority.
Eskew said that her role involves being a voice for the students and groups on campus and hopes to have a stronger Eastern connection.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812
Building BridgesStudent body president strives to close student, faculty gap
DominiC Baima | The Daily easTern ne wsKaylia eskew, student Body President has been working hard since she was elected last spring to bring her goal of bringing staff and students together as a whole.
“it was so great to have that event to help all the new students and return-ing students kick off the school year with some EiU spirit, ”
-Kaylia Eskew, student president
“Syllabus week” is here, and some peo-ple believe there is no reason to go to class. Wrong, syllabus week does not exist.
Syllabus week is just a term used for the first week of school when professors are introducing their classes to the new stu-dents.
Yes, professors typically give out a syl-labus on the first day of class, and sometimes that is all they talk about, but that does not mean that is the extent of the lesson.
Information given on the syllabus is not all that is said in class. Professors often explain their syllabus and provide more detail than what can be put in the sometimes four-page packet of paper—like if you need to bring your textbook every day or if the deadline for your 10-page paper hasn’t been set.
The syllabus contains a lot of information that you need for the class like a schedule, a professor’s contact information or office hours. All of these things are important tools throughout the class.
The first days of class also give you a chance to meet the oth-er new people in your class, which can come in handy if you miss a class and need notes or if you need a study buddy.
If you miss the first day and the professor does a lot of lecturing, there are not many chances to talk to your classmates.
The first day of class is also the day you learn where your class is. Professors often assume that someone is in the wrong place, and you don’t want to be the person who has to leave in the middle of the
lecture because you realize you are supposed to be in the room across the hall.
Professors often take attendance on the first day to start learning the names and fac-es of their students, which could be a clue that you are in the wrong class.
Many students assume that professors do not give out homework on the first day, but
this is often wrong. It is rare, in fact, because many like to go into lecture the next class period and expect the students to be able to discuss the material provided the first day.
Students come to Eastern to learn and that is difficult to do from a residence hall, apartment or house. So go to class.
Students pay thousands of dollars for professors to teach them, and it costs you for every class.
According to a poster produced by University Housing and Din-ing Services, missing one Monday/Wednesday/Friday class costs $23.22. The rate increases to $29.02 for every Tuesday/Thursday class, so why would you skip class?
You pay less to see a movie, and you wouldn’t miss that if you had to pay for it, so why are you going to pay for a class and not go?
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NO. 3, Volume 98
OuR POSITION • Situation: Classes are why you are here. They are important. • Stance: Go to class. If you don’t go to class you are just wasting money.
PAWS UP/PAWS DOWN
Fall: Summer is over. Time to get back to business. Go to class, do homework and study.
New cell phone law: Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill stating as of Jan.1, motorists will have to have a hands-free device to operate cell phones while driving or pull over.
Brother Jed: Brother Jed and Sister Cindy from The Campus Ministry USA exercised their right to free speech on campus.
Brother Jed: Even though Brother Jed and Sister Cindy expressed their First Amendment right, they offended students.
Fall Semester: School is back in session, and we are back on campus with friends and having a good time.
Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a fun and safe summer.
Now that you all are back, you can start cluttering the Student Recreation Cen-ter again. Trust me, I have enjoyed this last week of quiet, but while everyone was gone, your Rec Center had some news.
The now former director, Ken Baker, retired in June, and to all of us employees, he was known as Mr. B.
It is safe to say that Mr. B will be remem-bered as one of the best supervisors we will ever have. As long as you showed up to work and did your job, you were considered a friend.
He never yelled or embarrassed you in front of your co-workers. He corrected you in a respected fashion behind closed doors. What was said was said, you moved on, and everything was back to normal.
Mr. B was your boss, but that didn’t mean he was too good to get down on his knees and help clean the treadmills with you. If
you were lucky enough like I was, then he’d take you out to lunch while you were in the midst of one of your long shifts.
That’s what made Mr. B special. He wanted to get to know all of his workers. He respected you as long as you respected him and the workplace environment.
I received my job at the Rec Center after I met Mr. B at my awards ceremony here in Charleston.
I had been awarded the first ever Merv Baker remembrance scholarship. The schol-arship was named after Mr. B’s father.
He came up to me after the ceremony and asked if I wanted a job at the Rec Center because if I earned that award, then I should be a hard worker. I hope he still thinks that today. The Mr. B method was always that hard work pays off.
Mr. B took care of many that have passed through the rec center, including myself.
He was our supervisor, but we will always remember him as a friend rather than our boss.
Now, Mr. B is probably playing golf, hanging with his grandchildren, or doing something outside. Who knows?
The rec center will miss his presence, but we will still be in good hands.
My main question to our new supervisors is: Seriously, who’s going to buy the bread sticks now?
Kyle Daubs is a senior math and special edu-cation major. He can be reached at 581-2812
Former Rec Center director will be missed
Kyle Daubs
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By Michael SpencerStaff reporter@tmskeeper
The Eastern men’s soccer team will face off with Butler at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Indianap-olis.
It will be the third match of the Panther’s exhibition season as players work to reach match fitness and new tactics begin to sur-face.
Just two games into the preseason, it is al-ready apparent that Eastern’s offensive pos-ture is more attack-oriented. Howarth said the team is playing with only one holding midfielder in sophomore Tony Meza, allow-ing senior center-half Jake Plant to push up into space in the attacking third.
But it is the spot next to Plant that is up for grabs.
“I think we have five or six really good cen-tral midfield players; some are younger than others.” Howarth said. “We’ll keep rotating people around. That’s what these games are for.”
But they are also about preparing physical-ly for the regular season.
“We just want to keep on making sure our fitness is good and that’s the focus,” How-arth said of the team’s four match preseason. “The results aren’t really the concern right now.”
Be that as it may, it is difficult to not look at the implications of Tuesday’s match.
In last year’s preseason, Oakland, the 2012 Summit League regular season cham-pion, played Butler to a 2-2 draw in India-napolis.
Moreover, the team Oakland played last year is similar to the squad Eastern will come up against Tuesday.
Butler, who was 5-8-5 in the Atlantic 10 last year, is returning 11 players that started in 10 matches or more last season. Among those individuals is sophomore forward Jeff Adkins who led the team in scoring as a fresh-man, netting five goals and claiming as many assists as he found his way on to the All-Con-ference Rookie team.
Holding down the Bulldog backline is ju-nior defender Brandon Fricke.
According to the information released by Butler, Fricke played his club ball for Major League Soccer team Sporting Kansas City’s youth program and was even included in a development camp for the United States’ Men’s National Team.
Eastern will see a Butler side that is in its third different conference in as many years. The Bulldogs have moved from the Horizon League in 2011 to the Atlantic 10 Conference in 2012.
This season, head coach Paul Snape’s side is on the cusp of another year in a new league, but this time the Bulldogs will play in the Big East.
That puts teams like NCAA College Cup contenders Creighton and Georgetown on their schedule for conference play, to say nothing of defending national champion In-diana, who are scheduled to play Butler in a non-conference match Sept. 25.
Following Tuesday’s match, Eastern will re-turn to Charleston to play Dayton at 5 p.m. Saturday on Lakeside Field.
The team will then have six days off be-fore beginning their regular season campaign on the road at the University of Illinois-Chi-cago.
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Men’S Soccer
Panthers to face off with ButlerTeam looks
to find rhythm
in third match
STAT ATTACK Stat Attack is a weekly feature that highlights the key statistics of sporting events. This week, we featured football, women’s soccer, vol-leyball and rugby.
516Eastern’s football team racked up an average of 516 yards of total offense per game last season, second best in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Panthers’ passing offense led by quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo averaged 358 yards per game, also second in the OVC. His main target, wide receiver Erik Lora, hauled in an FCS record 136 receptions along with 1,664 yards and 12 touchdowns.
8The women’s soccer team was outscored 21-13 last season, resulting in an eight goal differential in 10 Ohio Valley Conference games. The Panthers are losing their two of their top three goal scorers in those games. Kritin Germann and Brooke Sill accumulated for seven of those 13 goals. Sophomore Hannah Miller is the leading returning scorer in conference play with two goals.
26Senior Reynae Hutchinson has tallied 26 career double-doubles in her first three seasons at Eastern. She led the volleyball team. The team captain finished 10th in the Ohio Valley Conference with 3.11 kills per set in conference play. Hutchinson’s 291 digs were second last year. She has earned OVC honors this season after being named to the All-OVC Team in 2012.
6The 2012 rugby team finished the season on a six-game winning streak, ending the year at 8-2. The last time the Panthers lost two games in a season was in 2007, when Eastern finished 8-2. From 2008-2011 the team had a combined record of 40-1, losing only to Grand Valley State (17-5) in 2010.
reporting by Anthony catezone and Aldo Soto, file photos, design by rachel rodgers – The Daily eastern news
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FooTbALL | Scrimmage
by Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@DEN_Sports@AldoSoto21
The Eas tern footba l l t eam’s scrimmage on Saturday featured several touchdowns, but the first came on an interception return from safety Jourdan Wickliffe on the first Panther drive.
Coach Dino Babers, who led Eastern to the second-best scoring offense in the Ohio Valley Confer-ence in 2012, is quick to remind people of his defensive background.
“Now, three of my four years in college were spent on the defensive side of the ball,” Babers said. “It’s a misnomer. I love defense. I love pick sixes.”
Babers watched Wick-l i f fe intercept two additional passes, includ-ing another interception return for a touchdown.
Panther starting quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, threw that first interception on the team’s opening drive.
The senior quarterback said ear-lier in the summer that lowering his interception total was one of his major goals for this year.
Garoppolo finished the 2012 season tied with Tennessee-Mar-tin quarterback Derek Carr for the most touchdown passes with 31, but Garoppolo also led the confer-ence in interceptions with 15.
Babers said the key for Garoppo-lo to lower the interceptions falls on the quarterback’s knowledge of the offense.
“The main thing to lower inter-ceptions for Jimmy is just his famil-iarity with the offense,” Babers said. “I think that number is going to come way, way down.”
The second-year head coach also said interceptions are not always the quarterback’s fault.
“Sometimes receivers run the wrong routes,” he said. “Sometimes an offensive lineman might let a guy
press the pock-e t t o o m u c h a n d t h e b a l l gets tipped.”
Wickliffe’s first intercep-tion was influ-enced by just
that: a tipped ball at the line. Timotheus Granger, a junior de-
fensive lineman, tipped Garoppo-lo’s pass attempt that landed in the waiting hands of Wickliffe, who ran the ball back 24 yards for the score.
Artavious Dowdell led the Pan-thers with 7.5 sacks last season, but now that Dowdell is gone after his senior season, Granger will step in as one of three new defensive line-man.
Babers said he expects Granger to be a difference maker this season.
“I think (Granger) is definite-ly one of our guys who is going to be playing this year and we’re ex-pecting big things out of him. No doubt.” Babers said.
Granger played in all 12 games his sophomore season as a back-up defensive lineman after being a re-serve defensive lineman and spe-cial teams player during his fresh-man year.
The rest of the Saturday scrim-mage featured second and third team players, which are battling for back-up positions.
“I thought some guys pulled a lit-tle bit ahead,” Babers said. “Most of the live scrimmage was 2’s versus 3’s
so, we were giving those guys one more hurrah to say, ‘hey, I am the guy you are looking for. Play me, see me, it’s me.’ And we’ll see after going back and looking at tape.”
Babers has less than two weeks to determine who those back-ups will be prior to Eastern’s season-opener at San Diego State on Aug. 31.
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Panthers go to battle for positions
Panthers shine during summer action
Interceptions,
defense highlights
scrimmage
Pitching gains
experience in
summer league play
by Aldo sotoAssistant Sports Editor@DEN_Sports@AldoSoto21
Eastern pitchers Matt Borens, Christian Slazinik, Ben Kennedy, Joe Greenfield and Jake Johansmei-er played in summer leagues after the conclusion of the 2013 season.
Slazinik, now a senior, started for the Wilson Tobs of the Coastal Plains League on June 22, his first game ac-tion in more than four months.
Slazinik appeared in 12 games over the summer, starting seven games and ended with a 0-4 record. The left-handed pitcher finished with a 6.56 ERA, allowing 40 hits and 21 walks in 35 and two-thirds innings.
Although the St. Louis native al-lowed opponents to hit .276, Eastern pitching coach Jason Anderson said it was good to see Slazinik pick up the ball and pitch during the summer.
“All you wanted to see from (Slazinik) was to get him healthy and back on the mound, and he did that” Anderson said. “I was very pleased that he got out there and was able to get some innings in.”
Slazinik was slated to be the Pan-thers’ No. 1 starting pitcher in 2013 after Troy Barton’s season-ending in-jury occurred a week before the team’s first game.
Slazinik threw one pitch on Feb. 17,
against Jackson State and then left the game with a knee injury. That was his only appearance all season.
Anderson said he is hopeful that Slazinik will be ready for his senior sea-son, starting with preparation in the fall.
“He’ll be ready to go for the fall and hopefully we won’t have any setbacks like we had last year with him.” Ander-son said.
Slazinik had a familiar face along his side throughout the summer as fellow Panther pitcher Borens also pitched for the Wilson Tobs.
Borens pitched in six games, start-ing them all and finished with a 2-2 re-cord.
He pitched 36 innings in his six starts, allowing 16 runs on 27 hits. He had a 24-to-14 strikeout to walk ratio, holding batters to a .213 average.
The Northwoods League had two Eastern pitchers on the Lakeshore Chi-nocks’ roster.
Joe Greenfield, who was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in June, led the Chinocks with 61 strikeouts in 70.1 innings. Greenfield, who will return to Eastern for his senior season, post-ed a 4-3 record with a 2.56 ERA in 12 starts.
Anderson said the goals vary for ev-ery pitcher during the summer. For pitchers like Greenfield and Borens, who were first and second in innings pitched (93.1, 88) for Eastern last sea-son, respectively, Anderson said re-maining healthy is imperative.
“Some guys like Matt Borens, who threw a lot last year for the first time, you just worry about him not get-ting hurt,” he said. “With Greenfield
it’s the same type of situation and you want him to develop an off-speed pitch.”
Johansmeier pitched for two leagues during the summer. The right-hand-er began in the Midwest Colle-giate League, playing for the Dupage Hounds.
He started two games, pitched 11.2 innings, winning one game. Then a spot became open in the Northwoods League.
Johansmeier, who was named to the All-Ohio Valley Conference Newcom-
er Team, started five games for Lake-shore and finished at 2-1. He allowed 24 hits in 29.1 innings and ended his stint in the Northwoods League with a 2.14 ERA.
Johansmeier said playing during the summer is extremely advantageous to preparing for the upcoming college season.
“Playing in the summer is 100 per-cent important because you have the chance to relax and slow down,” Jo-hansmeier said. “You can focus on what you need to do to make yourself
a better player.”Kennedy pitched out of the Pan-
ther bullpen in 2013 and he was able to pitch in the Ripken League with the Alexandria Aces.
Kennedy appeared in 14 games, pitching 16 innings and finished with a 2-0 record. He allowed five runs, giv-ing up 15 hits and walking 13 leading to a 2.19 ERA.
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bAsEbALL | PitcherS
FILE pHoTo | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE ws Brant Valach, a junior infielder, slides into home while Southern illinois University Saluki Brad Drust, a red-shirt senior pitcher, looks towards his teammates for the ball.
FILE pHoTo | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wstray carr, a sophomore defensive back, punches his hand after murry State lost a fumble during a game at O’Brien Stadium. the Panthers will play their first game august 31 at San Diego State.
"It’s a misnomer. I love defense. I love pick sixes."
Dino Babers, Football coach
