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VOL. 98 | ISSUE 57Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID”
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STAT ATTACKMOLLY RINGWALDActress, author and singer Molly Ringwald will be performing in the Doudna Fine Arts Center with her personal jazz band and with the EIU Jazz Lab Band.Page 2
By Michael SpencerCity Editor| @tmskeeper
The Charleston City Council approved a $3,000 settlement between the city and L.D. & B. Investments, Inc., the company that rented a warehouse to Phi Beta Alpha for the “Barn Party” in September.
A violent altercation involving firearms oc-curred at the event forcing Charleston emer-gency resources to be expended while re-sponding to the incident.
Charleston Mayor Larry Rennels said the settlement sets a standard for businesses in Charleston when renting property.
“These two actions have sent a very strong message: that anyone who owns proper-ty, that they should be aware of the activi-ties that potential renters might be planning, to ensure that the property has adequate fa-cilities to accommodate the activity,” Rennels said.
The resolution, which was unanimous-ly passed by the council, states that L.D. & B. will pay a $2,000 penalty for the resourc-es the city used in responding to the events of September 14 and 15 and an additional $1,000 to cover legal fees accrued by the city.
L.D. & B. has also been placed on proba-tion for one year, during which the business will be forced to pay another penalty of the same amount if another ordinance violation were to take place at the property in ques-tion.
Rennels also said that organizations seek-ing to rent property should be aware of po-tential ordinance violations that could occur.
“Organizations need to ensure that pro-moters are reputable and responsible,” Ren-nels said.
The city also approved the placement of a stop sign on Lovers Lane.
However, Rennels confirmed that the sign was placed by the Public Works Department in advance of the passing of the resolution by the council.
“This was one of those situations that I felt that (the placement of the stop sign) was not a major problem,” Rennels said. “Obviously, they could not have enforced it, so if some-body had run the stop sign during that peri-od of time, they couldn’t have cited them. I felt that since it was not in a high traffic or highly visible area, it wasn’t worth requiring them to go take it down and then put it back up again.”
The resolution in question was unani-mously approved.
Among other pieces of business that were also approved by the council was a mutu-al aid agreement between the city and three private ambulance companies that guarantees aid in the event that all of Charleston’s emer-gency vehicles are unavailable.
The city also approved road closures for Eastern’s Nearly Naked Mile, a charity event that collects winter-coats for the impover-ished.
The next City Council meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at City Hall.
Michael Spencer can be reached at 581-2812
City approves ‘Barn Party’settlement
“Remember, remember the 5th of November…”
Olivia S. DiggS | The Daily eaSTern ne wSGuy Fawkes Day, which is also called Bonfire Night, began on November 5, 1605, when a mercenary named Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellar of the parliament in England with 36 barrels of gunpowder and was tortured and executed. Scott Sheahan, a junior psychol-ogy major with teacher certification, walks across campus with a Guy Fawkes mask on as a part of the government movement against the government controlling people.
New strategies to aggressively ensure Eastern’s financial futureBy Seth SchroederEditor-in-chief |@DEN_News
Strategies such as reducing costs, reallocating funds and investing in academic programs will be em-ployed more aggressively to ensure Eastern’s financial sustainability in the coming years, President Bill Per-ry said.
In an email sent to faculty mem-bers Monday, Perry mentioned sev-
eral of these strategies.“As we plan for the coming fiscal
years, we will in the context of Pro-gram Analysis and Strategic Enroll-ment Planning collaborate with the Council on University Planning and Budget (CUPB) to develop budget reductions and reallocations that will enhance our financial sustain-ability,” Perry said in the email.
He said many of the strategies to be employed in the following years
are continuations of plans that have already started, but they will be im-plemented more intensely.
“We’re going to continue to move in this direction,” Perry said. “This is not a big shift; this is a con-tinuation in more emphasis. That’s why I used the word aggressive.”
In the email, Perry said most of the recent staff reductions that have resulted from cost-saving measures have primarily come from attrition.
He said there is a normal attrition every year at universities with facul-ty and staff retiring or relocating for other jobs.
Perry said it is difficult to tell if attrition will be sufficient for fu-ture staff reductions, though it de-pends on the future financial picture and the data gathered from Program Analysis results on Eastern’s Strate-gic Enrollment Planning.
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Lawmakers in Springfield nar-rowly approved a bill legalizing gay marriage in the state late Tuesday afternoon.
The bill, which passed 61-54 in the Illinois General Assembly, posi-tions Illinois to be the 15th state to
legalize same-sex marriage.The 61 votes, one more than the
minimum needed to send the bill for approval to the Illinois Senate, came after more than two-and-a-half hours of debate in the House and will send the legislation back to the desk of Gov. Pat Quinn, who has repeatedly stated his intention
to sign the bill into law.In a statement from the White
House, President Barack Obama praised the General Assembly for their passing of the bill.
“Tonight, Michelle and I are overjoyed for all the committed couples in Illinois whose love will now be as legal as ours,” the Pres-
ident said. “And for their friends and family who have long want-ed nothing more than to see their loved ones treated fairly and equal-ly under the law.”
The bill would redefine the Illi-nois definition of marriage as be-tween a man and a woman to one between two people.
Gay marriage bill passes Illinois General Assembly
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'Breakfast Club' actress to highlight jazz concertBy Bob GaluskiNews Editor | @BobGaluski
Traversing the mediums of film and music, '80s film star Molly Ringwald will be swinging away Eastern as she takes to the stage to showcase her jazz album.
Ringwald, notably known for her performances in1980s films, such as “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Tickets for her Nov. 13 performance are $20.
Ringwald will follow up her perfor-mance with a guest appearance with the EIU Jazz Lab Band at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Dvorak Concert Hall.
Tickets for the EIU Jazz Lab Band are $5.
Dan Crews, the director of patron services at Doudna, said Ringwald would be performing selections from her debut album, “Except Sometimes.”
Included in her selections is Ring-wald’s cover of the Simple Minds song, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” fea-tured throughout her breakout film, “The Breakfast Club.”
“She’s giving a tip of the hat,” Crews said. “In fact, she makes a dedication
in the album to ‘J.H.,’ which is John Hughes, who passed away a while ago.”
John Hughes was the director of Ringwald-starring films such as “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink” and “Sixteen Candles.”
Crews said Ringwald’s album on whole is a homage to the “Great Ameri-can Songbook.”
Crews added the concert came about when Ringwald’s agent contacted him about two years ago, expressing interest in having Ringwald perform.
Her performance will be the only Central Illinois performance during her tour.
Along with performing with her touring quartet, Ringwald will also make a guest appearance during a Jazz Lab Band concert the following night.
Crews said he did not know which song Ringwald would be accompanying the band with.
“I think that’s kind of going to be a surprise,” he said.
Crews added having the artist in-teract with students was a big part of Doudna.
“That’s very important to us,” he said. “When we do have the opportuni-ty to bring people to campus, we want to not only kind of showcase them, but we want them to have the opportunity
to work with our students.”Crews said he had not realized Ring-
wald was a musical influence as well as an acting one and said people might also have a similar reaction.
“We weren’t really familiar with her work as a singer,” Crews said. “Because, of course, when you’re talking about Molly Ringwald, you think of classic films of the '80s.”
However, Crews said Ringwald has been entrenched in music at a very ear-ly age, including cutting her first album with her father Bob Ringwald when she was 6 years old.
“I grew up in a home filled with mu-sic and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician,“ Ringwald said in a press release.
The press release also stated Ring-wald started singing with her father’s band at age 3, and jazz music contin-ues to be one of her three passions along with acting and writing.
“I like to say jazz music is my musi-cal equivalent of comfort food,” Ring-wald said in a press release. “It’s always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.”
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812
'Shop with a Cop' to fundraise for giftsBy Jack CruikshankStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
For the past two decades, the Charleston Police Department has sponsored the Shop with a Cop pro-gram, which allows children to re-ceive household necessities and gifts at Christmas time that they might not have otherwise received.
This year’s program, run by the Illinois Police Association and the Charleston Police Department, will begin Thursday with a Wine and Craft Beer Tasting Fundraiser at the Unique Suites Hotel at 920 W. Lin-coln Ave.
The event will take place from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. and will raise money for the Shop with a Cop program. Tickets will be $15 at the door, and donations will also be ac-cepted.
On Friday, the Charleston Moose Lodge will host another fundraiser for the program. The fundraiser will be a pork chop dinner and will take place at 615 Seventh St. from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The Shop with a Cop program provides children the opportunity to shop for Christmas toys with a Charleston police officer at no cost to the children’s family. As well as receiving toys, the children can ob-tain clothing and other necessities over the holiday season.
Lt. Brad Oyer of the CPD said community support makes the whole program a success. Last year, Shop with a Cop was able to assist around 100 children, and Oyer said he expects a similar number this year.
“We have a lot of cooperation from the community through do-nations and other local help,” Oyer said. “The program is great for ev-eryone involved, especially the chil-dren.”
Oyer said the Shop with a Cop program is a great way to help chil-dren throughout the communi-ty that may have recently fallen on hard times.
He said that personally being able to see the children pick out their fa-vorite toys is worth all the work.
“It is very fulfilling, and we have had great feedback from all in-volved,” Oyer said. “We greatly ap-preciate the support from the com-munity and the local businesses that participate.”
Although the shopping will not take place until early December, the police department is currently ac-cepting monetary donations.
For more information on Shop with a Cop or to donate to the pro-gram, contact Detective Tony West at the Charleston Police Depart-ment.
Jack Cruikshank can be reached at 581-2812
or at [email protected].
'Pizza with the Prez' to conclude for fall semester on ThursdayBy Brittany BryantStaff Reporter | @DEN_News
The last time students will be able to eat pizza with President Bill Perry for the fall semester will be at 7 p.m. Thurs-day in the Thomas Hall Dining Center.
Pizza with the Prez welcomes all stu-dents to converse with President Perry about any topic of their choice.
Kathryn English, the student vice president for academic affairs, said this is a chance for students to meet with the president in an informal setting and talk about issues or questions they might have.
“This event is a good way for student to talk to the President about any con-cerns or topics and is a chance to know the president on a personal level,” Eng-lish said.
She also said President Perry is open to talk about anything.
Aseret Gonzalez, the former student vice president for student affairs, said these meetings with the president are important because it shows that admin-istrators are approachable.
It also demonstrates how valuable
the student voices are to the adminis-trators on campus because the student’s voices are important, Gonzalez said.
Shirmeen Ahmad, a Student Senate member and a sophomore journalism major, said she looks forward to see-ing how students interact with the pres-ident.
Pizza with the Prez will also give her the opportunity to promote a student government event called “EIU Feud,” which will take place Nov. 16.
Ahmad will be passing out surveys to the students who attend Pizza with the Prez.
“The survey will cover seven catego-ries (sports, music, movies, TV shows, U.S government, EIU and history). This will allow me and the committee to create Family Feud-styled questions, for the purposes of the event,” Ahmad said.
“EIU Feud” is a chance for different organizations to come together and par-ticipate in a trivia game, which is identi-cal to the Family Feud game show.
Gonzales will also use this opportu-nity to plug in the different resources, which are available on campus to assist
students academically and give stress management methods as finals ap-proach.
In order to coordinate this informal meeting, English worked with Judy Gorrell, executive secretary to the presi-dent, to schedule the date and Thomas Hall Dining to set a venue.
English said Thomas dinning was the perfect place to host the event because they are known for their pizza.
English said on average there are about 40 to 60 people who have shown up before; however, she expects to see more because of the larger venue.
Previously, Pizza with the Prez was in Taylor Hall, which was crowded in the lobby.
Ahmad said Eastern students are fortunate to have these informal met-ing with the president and many uni-versities do not have the opportunity to meet their president in person and have a personal conversation.
Brittany Bryant can be reached at 581-2812
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suBMiT TEd PhoToMolly Ringwald, known for her performances in '80s movies, will be performing with her jazz band Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. & with the EIU Jazz Lab Band at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
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Eastern’s music department, along with a few special guests, will be mu-sically paying homage to veteran U.S. troops with their production of “A Call to Duty.”
The EIU Wind symphony and spe-cial guests will perform their patriot-ic tunes in the Dvorak Concert Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Dan Crews, director of patron servic-es, said the highlight of the night’s per-formances will be a performance from Jemmie Robertson, an Eastern music professor.
Robertson will perform Kevin Walc-zyk’s trombone concerto that features a euphonium as well. The trombone con-certo is titled “Talking Winds.” Wal-
czyk’s concerto was dedicated to the World War II Navajo Code Talkers and Ernie Pyle, who was a Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent.
The presentation of this concert will help bring in Veteran’s Day, which is Monday. Crews said this is an apprecia-tion gift for veterans from the music de-partment.
“It’s a way the music department can pay homage to those who have served in armed forces,” Crews said.
Crews said this concert will not just recognize the veterans of war, but the current troops as well. “The con-cert honors our nation’s veterans, those who served and those who continue to serve.”
There will also be a performance of medley songs that will recognize the five branches of the military; the Army, the Navy, the U.S. Marine Corp., the Air
Force and the Coast Guard.In addition to recognizing U.S.
troops of the past and present, there will also be a tribute to former president, John F. Kennedy with Nov. 22 mark-ing the 50th anniversary of the assassi-nation of John F. Kennedy.
There will be a performance of Ron-ald Lo Presti’s “Elegy for a Young Amer-ican” played at “A Call to Duty,” as well.
Other composers that will be cov-ered at the musical tribute to the troops include John Phillip Sousa, Morton Gould and Frank Ticheli.
General admission is $5, and tickets can also be purchased online at www.eiu.edu/doudna. The box office will ac-cept Panther Cards from students to purchase tickets as well.
Marcus Curtis can be reached 581-2812 or [email protected].
Veterans to be honored with patriotic concert
By Robert DownenAdministration Editor | @DEN_NEWS
$1.53 can go a long way. With it, one can buy an assortment
of items: a song on iTunes, two packs of gum at Wal-Mart a greeting card and even, unbelievably, a plot of de-molished land in Detroit.
But what if $1.53 was all one had for a meal?
What if $5.12 was all the money
left to feed a family of four?For many Charleston and Coles
County residents, the above questions are hardly hypothetical, instead serv-ing as daily reminders of the chronic hunger and malnutrition that plague their livelihoods, and as significant cuts to federal food stamp programs officially went into effect Nov. 1, fam-ily food budgets across the country continue to shrink.
As a response, a group of Eastern students and faculty have pledged to experience first-hand the difficulties of daily food insecurity by living only on the food budgets allotted by benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition As-sistance Program (SNAP).
The Hunger Action Team, led by Rachel Fischer, director of communi-ty service, and Michael Gillespie, an assistant professor of sociology who has worked extensively with local pov-erty, began their SNAP Challenge pledge Tuesday as part of their on-going EIU Hunger Challenge, which seeks to bring attention to chron-ic poverty and hunger problems in Coles County through awareness and fundraising events throughout No-vember.
The cuts, which passed in Congress in late-September, will reduce SNAP benefits for individuals to $189 a month—an $11 cut. Under the new plan, a family of four will also see a $36 reduction from $668 to $632 per family.
However, Gillespie said that $632 average is hardly commonplace, not-ing the typical benefit level for Illinois is usually around 70 percent of this al-lotment—or, $430 a month for food.
Gillespie said while these cuts might seem meager or insignificant to many, for a family battling food in-securities, the disparities could mean even more skipped meals or increased malnutrition.
As a way of raising awareness, he has encouraged students and com-munity members to attempt living on such a small food budget for even a week.
Amber Edmonds, a senior sociolo-gy student, said she wanted to com-mit to the experiment because of her concern over the food insecurity prob-lems that affect a growing number of American families and children.
Edmonds, who has two children and a husband—“willing partici-pants,” she said—plans to start the challenge next Monday, when her family will wake up to all-but empty pantries.
“This is an issue that needs atten-tion, and I want to do as much as I can to not only bring awareness to it, but possibly help find a solution,” she said.
Robert Downen can be reached at 581-2812
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AMAnDA Wilkinson | The DAily eAsTeRn ne WsTyler King, a freshman kinesiology and sports studies major, reaches for a baseball while playing catch with his friends Tuesday in the South Quad. King said he played baseball in high school and plays catch with his friends every day.
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SaFeTy: The Dial-A-Ride program added new stops to the routes to improve the system.
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Explore your surroundings; culture yourself ISSUES ON TAP:
Student SenateThe Daily Eastern News discusses how the Student Senate is being proactive in help-ing to advocate for the new cigarette law
going into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
Same Sex LegislationThe News discusses our position on the passing of the sam- sex marriage bill.
Pension PendingThe News discusses the conclusion of the
pension veto session.
Eastern has a lot of students and faculty, and there are a lot of peo-ple in the surrounding community, but how many of you have gone out to explore and find out what is offered on campus or in town?
So many events go on at Eastern and in Charleston and Mattoon that students don’t go to. Yes, some of the events are not advertised as well as they could be, but others are and they just don’t go.
Eastern, it is time to culture yourself. Go out and see what the area has to offer. Doudna Fine Arts Center has events all the time. On Oct. 30, the Doudna had 12-year-old piano player William Yang played. The Daily Eastern News’s article “Yang displays piano tal-ents at Doudna” said that Yang’s musical abilities exceeded his age and that every piece played grabbed the audiences attention and had them on the edge of theirs seats. Other events like these are put on at The Doudna.
On Nov. 13, Molly Ringwald and Jazz Trio will be performing at The Doudna. Most people know Ringwald for her performances in movies like “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles,” but she is also a singer.
At The Tarble Arts Center, there are exhibits. Tarble has multiple exhibits going on at the same time. Right now, for example, Tarble has an exhibit called “A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photo-graphs by Chuck Close,” and they also have “Motion-Real & Implied:
Selections from the Collection,” which has been on display since August and ends Nov. 24.
Both The Doudna and Tarble have good shows and exhibits, but there are student-run or student-performed entertainment on campus as well.
The Theatre Arts Department performs musicals and plays of many different kinds. These plays are student-performed, and some are stu-dent-directed. You should get out there and not only support your fel-low peers, but also going to events like these gives you a broader range of knowledge.
Going off campus is a good place to culture yourself, too. Jackson Avenue Coffee has different people play music or read poetry. It’s also a good hangout or study space.
The point is, you shouldn’t just go to class, eat, work and then go to bed. You should get out and explore all that the area offers.
We know it is asking a lot because school can be so time consum-ing, but think about your future because not only do future employ-ers like well-rounded employees, you’re benefiting yourself by cultur-ing yourself too.
I’ve got no set plans after graduation. Sure, after next semester I’ll hope to have a job lined up somewhere in journalism, and, if not, I’ll be looking for one full time.
But that’s more of a vague goal.I’m not even sure where I want to work.
Midwestern America has been my home for the past 21 years; most of my family lives in Illinois, and my girlfriend has a job lined up in Decatur when she graduates.
Should I narrow my job search to only that area of the country? Or should take my chances and go wherever the work is?
Honestly, I’m not sure how to feel about this.
For a long time in my life, I thought I’d always be able to adapt to whatever new sit-uation I found myself in, but that was before I got so attached to Eastern and the people here.
Like many seniors, I’m coming to terms with the fact that my time here has a limit. My first day here, time seemed limitless. The life I built here and the friendships I had
made felt stable, but now four years feels like nothing.
My friends are spreading out. Sure, I know a lot of people staying in or around Illinois, but on the other hand, I’m watch-ing friends accept jobs in Louisiana and Col-orado. Another close friend is moving to Los Angeles to seek his fortune, and still others are heading out of the country altogether.
No matter what direction I head in, or even if I just stayed put, I’m going to be say-ing goodbye to someone.
I understand this is a natural part of col-lege life. I’ve seen enough friends graduate
and move on to know this is an inevitable process. But now that it’s my turn to move on, things seem a lot more serious.
It’s decision-making time for me and for all students approaching graduation. Even in this economy, we have options. We could set our sights on graduate school or anoth-er degree altogether (even if this means tak-ing on more debt). Some of us will have job offers from all over the country or even beyond it. Others will have to choose how to support themselves while they search for the job they want.
We are again at a crossroads where we must face our futures and think careful-ly about what we want out of life. The only person who can truly make these decisions is ourselves. I’m not sure there is anything more exciting, or terrifying.
Don’t worry. It will definitely, maybe be OK.
Seth Schroeder is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812
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By Jarad JarmonStudent Governance Editor @JJarmonreporter
Mark Hudson, the director of Housing and Dining, will be presenting the room and board rates for the next school year at the Student Senate meeting. They will be meet-ing at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Arcola-Tusc-ola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. Uni-versity Union.
After meeting over the past two weeks, the Bond Revenue Committee, which was made up of three Student Senate members and three Residence Hall Association members, finalized their budget for the room and board rates.
Hudson said they wanted to make sure they finalized their plans before the Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 15.
While the committee did finalize their plans for the room and board rates, the plans still have to be approved by the board, as well as President Bill Perry and Dan Nadler, the vice president for student affairs. Hudson he has never seen the board not approve the budget the students arranged.
“They have never changed one of my rec-ommendations on it because it comes from the Bond Revenue Committee,” Hudson said. “These are students recommending ‘Here is where we think the number ought to be.’”
Nadler will be presenting their budget to the board.
Hudson will be presenting the budget as an informational presentation only. Senate will not be able to change anything about the rates.
The senate members will be tabling a res-olution to approve expenses of $285 for the final exam refreshments they expect to hand out for free Dec. 8 in the Booth Library.
The resolution will be voted on at their Nov. 13 senate meeting.
They plan to hand out snacks such as Rice Krispies and Goldfish, as well as tea and bot-tled water. The senate members expect this will urge students to study in the library and study in general for finals.
Student Senate Speaker Jesse Green said he expects the booths where they will be handing them out will be pretty busy, especially dur-ing finals.
“In the group study rooms, there is no way people can get those because when people get them they don’t give them up,” Green said. “The library will be packed.”
The senate members also believe hand-ing out food will make it so students will not have to leave library for food while studying.
Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812
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File Photo | the Daily eastern ne wsDarius Holland raps to Tiara Pillow during "So You Think You Can Rap?" on Feb. 16, 2011 at 7th Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. The University Board will be hosting its fifth annual competition at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 7th Street Underground in the Union.
He said he does not want to see layoffs become more common in Eastern’s future
“In all of this we know that the university succeeds because of our people, because of our faculty and staff,” Perry said. “These are deliber-ations, collaborations and ultimate-ly decisions that are going to have an impact on people, so we’re very sensi-
tive to that.”Perry said Eastern’s administration
will work with the CUPB to decide the best ways to implement their new strategies. He said the data gathered from Program Analysis and Strate-gic Enrollment Planning will serve as context for their future decisions.
The due date for departments to submit information to Program Anal-ysis is Nov. 15. Perry said this will give the administration and CUPB new ideas of how to invest in academic
programs and attract new groups of students to Eastern.
The recently approved Adult and Community Education degree is an example of a new program aimed at attracting a new group of students to Eastern, Perry said.
He said the results of the Program Analysis will also help show opportu-nities within preexisting programs to attract new students. Perry said funds may be reallocated to these programs to help take advantage of these oppor-
tunities.He said any cost saving decisions
made by university officials will be aimed at forwarding Eastern’s mission of providing a superior education.
“Everything we’re doing here has to line up with excellence,” Perry said. “I see what we’re doing as taking the next step in supporting academic ex-cellence and financial sustainability.”
Seth Schroeder can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
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By Marcus CurtisEntertainment Editor | @DEN_News
Students at Eastern with rapping talents will get a chance to be recog-nized at the University Board’s fifth annual “So You Think You Can Rap” competition.
Individuals can witness the rap bat-tles for free Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
There will be seven rappers per-forming to win the grand prize of $150. The runner-up of the rap bat-tle will receive $75. Both cash prizes will be awarded in the form of a Visa gift card.
David Groves, a senior business major and the UB Mainstage coordi-
nator, said this is his first year coordi-nating “So You Think You Can Rap” and he wants it to be memorable.
“I want to change some things around and make it bigger than it was last year,” Groves said.
There will be two rounds of the rap competition. The first round will be an individual performance from the rappers, and after this round, three contestants will be eliminated.
In the second round, the remain-ing four contestants will compete face-to face in two separate freestyle-form battles.
After the second round, the audi-ence will get a chance to interact and choose a winner from the two sepa-rate battles.
If a winner cannot be chosen from the two different battles, there will be
another elimination round and the fi-nal two performers will go head-to-head for the grand prize.
In addition, Groves said he wants the crowd to remain interested during the rappers’ performances and avoid pauses in between performances.
“I’m looking to bring out a decent crowd and keep their attention by avoiding stalling,” Groves said.
Because of the lack of interest in rappers in the past UB Mainstage event, “Showtime at The Apollo,” where rappers were “booed” off the stage, Groves said he hopes audience members remain respectful and per-formers remain focused and not dis-couraged.
“Even though the crowd may not feel the rappers, (performers) are still welcome (to) express themselves,” he
said. “I hope people support more than judge.”
Groves said rap is poetry plus rhythm and music, and this even may inspire someone in the audience to perform their own poetry or music in future UB Mainstage events.
“You never know who we can in-spire to rap or speak poetry at our next event.”
In addition, Groves said the per-formers can also gain something posi-tive from performing in contests such as “So You Think You Can Rap.”
“(Rappers) can gain another expe-rience and gain exposure to the cam-pus,” he said.
Marcus Curtis can be reached at 581-2812
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stat Attack is a weekly feature that highlights the key statistics of sporting events. this week we feature football, volleyball and women’s soccer.
The Eastern football team has scored 271 points in the first half this season. The Panthers have outscored their opponents 271 to 96. That is an average of 30 points scored to 10.6 points surrendered in the first half through nine games this season. It is 64 percent of the Panthers’ scoring, as they average 47.3 points per game. Wide re-ceiver Erik Lora has 17 total touchdowns scored this sea-son, the most by any Panthers’ skill player.
The Eastern football team has scored 12 offensive,
defensive and special team touchdowns of at least 60 yards this season. The Panthers had three such touchdowns in their 56-21 win over Tennessee Tech Saturday at O’Brien Field. Sophomore wide receiv-er Keiondre Gober had a 79-yard touchdown recep-tion. Gober also has the longest touchdown of the season with an 86-yard reception. He leads Eastern with 19 yards per reception and is second in receiv-ing yards (838) and touchdowns (nine).
Sophomore Marah Bradbury earned her seventh
career Ohio Valley Conference Setter of the Week
honors. That ties the most Setter of the Week hon-ors by a Panther in the OVC era (1996-present). This also marks the fifth time Bradbury has won the award this season. She totaled 93 assists, 19 digs, eight kills and five blocks in two matches last week. Bradbury leads the OVC with 12.47 assists per set in conference play. The Panthers have won six straight games in the OVC and are 6-0 at home this season.
The Eastern women’s soccer team has clinched the No. 5 seed in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. It is the first time Eastern has made the tournament since 2011. Eastern was 6-4 in conference play but is heading into the tourna-ment on a three-game losing streak. Eastern will play No. 4 seeded Southern Illinois-Edwards-ville. The Cougars beat the Panthers 2-1 Sunday at Lakeside Field.
Babers sees team as classroom
The football season is like a class-room, and every Saturday, the Panthers brace themselves for an exam — at least that is how Eastern coach Dino Babers sees it.
In this classroom, the coaches are the teaching assistants, Babers said, not the professors.
No, the professors are the fans, the media and everyone else in the country watching. Babers said that is who grades the 4000-level Eastern football course.
The coaches are simply there to pre-pare each player for each game, or test, as if the season, or class, depends on it.
On Saturdays, each quarter is like a page in the exam booklet, but the dif-ference is the players cannot flip back and change a mistake in the first quarter like they can the first page of an exam. They are graded on that first quarter as soon as the 15-minute clock runs out.
Therefore, if a player makes three mistakes in the first quarter of a football game, it is up to him as a teaching assis-tant to keep that number at three.
“The coaches’ job is to make sure you don’t make a fourth mistake,” Ba-bers said. “Our job is to make the play-ers’ job easier.”
It appears that the coaches are do-ing their job because quarterback Jim-my Garoppolo is at least making it look easy with his nation-leading 3,544 pass-ing yards and 39 passing touchdowns, or wide receiver Erik Lora’s nation-lead-ing 87 receptions, 1152 yards and 16 touchdowns
“If you start off at a 100, and after the first quarter, Erik Lora is at a 97, my job is to make sure he finishes the game at a 97. If he drops down to a 92, my job is to make sure he stays in the 90s and doesn’t go to an 89.”
It is safe to say the Panthers have aced just about every test this year, with the only blemish to their 8-1 record be-ing a 43-39 road loss to an FBS oppo-nent in Northern Illinois.
And Babers agrees the Panthers are on pace to pass this season with flying colors.
“Because of who we lost to, where we lost and the situation on how we lost, I would say we’re somewhere be-tween a 97 and a 98,” Babers said.
But the final exams (the FCS play-offs) are fast approaching with only three games remaining on Eastern’s schedule.
The teaching assistants and the stu-dents must continue to be as studious as they have been all season if they plan on receiving a 100 from their profes-sors.
And some would argue the only way that will happen is by bringing home Eastern’s first ever FCS championship.
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JAson HowELL | THE DAILY EAsTErn nE wsSherman Blanford, a senior forward, goes up for a layup against Oakland City Saturday in Lantz Arena. Eastern won the exhibition game 73-64. The Pan-thers begin their season against Northwestern at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Evanston.
Basketball season opens with new facesBy Anthony CatezoneSports Editor | @AnthonyCatz
It’s hard to imagine it getting any slower, but coach Jay Spoonhour expects a faster Eastern men’s basketball team this season.
“We’re not going to be playing at lightning speed, but we’re playing way faster than last year,” the second-year coach said.
Last season, the Panthers’ game plan was to find the best open look within the al-lotted 35-second shot clock.
But this season, guards Reggie Smith and Dennis Green will bring urgency, Spoonhour said, to a team that, at times, was unfamil-iar with such a word.
Smith and Green both sat out last season as red-shirts. They will join 12 newcom-ers on Eastern’s 18-man ros-ter.
But with 12 new play-ers and a faster paced team, Spoonhour said the Pan-thers are searching for the blend of speed and disci-pline — meaning less turn-overs and fouls.
“We’re throwing the ball away all the time” he said. “What you have to do is keep the good plays and then try to minimize the bad plays. You’re never going to cut them out. The game is about mistakes; it’s just about managing them.”
Eastern’s youthful roster has led it to be picked to finish fifth in the west divi-sion and 10th overall in the Ohio Valley
Conference preseason polls.But there is a three-man nucleus
that is returning from last season’s No. 7 seeded team that lost to Southeast Missouri in the first round of the OVC tournament.
Forwards Sherman Blanford and Josh
Piper join guard Alex Austin as three of the Panthers’ top four scorers last season.
Spoonhour said Blanford — the only senior on the roster — will have a much bigger role this season.
“He’s the quarterback of the whole thing,” Spoonhour said. “That’s an odd situation for a forward to be that guy, but that’s the situation we’re in.”
The 6-foot-6 Blanford was the third tallest player for Eastern last season, causing him to be in several height mis-matches as a forward.
This season, however, Blanford is the seventh tallest player, which Spoonhour said would allow him to play a more
versatile role.That led to Blanford to tune his jump
shot into more of a guard’s than a for-ward’s.
But Spoonhour still wants Blanford to use his strength when quarterbacking the Panther attack. Instead of searching for a jump shot, Spoonhour said he only wants Blanford to rely on it as a backup.
By no means does Spoonhour want Blanford to stray away from his team-high 6.4 rebound per game from just one year ago.
“Inside guys want to go show they can play outside,” Spoonhour said. “It happens all the time. And then they
start realizing they’re miss-ing out.”
But with five newcomers standing more than 6-foot-6, Blanford should not be alone when fighting for re-bounds.
Among those newcomers are brothers Mat and Luke Piotrowski, standing 7-foot-2 and 6-foot-11, as two of the tallest players in pro-gram history.
Luke, the shorter Pi-otrowski, has been granted an NCAA transfer waiver to begin playing immediately for Eastern. Luke is a sopho-more forward from the Uni-versity of Richmond.
The Panthers will also have the size of Chris Oli-ver, a 6-foot-8, 245-pound forward, for the spring se-mester.
Oliver is a junior trans-fer from the University of Northern Iowa who must sit
out the fall semester for his own trans-fer rules, but he will return for the better half of Eastern’s OVC schedule.
Eastern will open its 2013 season against Northwestern at 7:30 p.m. Sat-urday in Evanston.
Anthony Catezone can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].
Eastern fallsto BradleyBy Michael spencerCity Editor | @tmskeeper
Eastern (1-14-2) capped the 2013 season with a 1-0 loss to Bradley (9-5-2) at Lakeside Field Tuesday.
In the 61st minute, Braves’ ju-nior midfielder Cody Lofgren made a run to the back post as senior forward Wojciech Wojcik crossed the ball into the penalty area.
Lofgren was defended by Panthers’ freshman Tim Pieper, who slipped and fell as he jockeyed for inside position on the incoming pass.
With Pieper on the ground, Lofgren had only to slot the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Garrett Creasor for the go-ahead goal.
Eastern played Bradley close for the entire match, generating 16 shot oppor-tunities to the Braves’ 20.
“I thought we battled pretty well to-day,” coach Adam Howarth said. “I thought the effort was pretty good. There were lots of chances. It was a wide open game.”
Charleston-native and red-shirt fresh-man right wing Eric McCausland even managed to find the back of the net for the Panthers on a play that was called back on a foul with just minutes to go in the match.
“(I was) a little frustrated that the goal got called back there at the end, but that’s kind of been our season — a little bit unlucky,” Howarth said.
Bradley fielded a starting lineup that missed several starters, including Wojcik, who led the team in offensive production this season.
But Eastern also missed its leading goal-scorer in red-shirt sophomore strik-er Garet Christianson. Christianson ac-cumulated five yellow cards, requiring him to miss the last match of the season.
The match started slowly as Eastern, already eliminated from the postseason, worked to salvage a result against rival Bradley.
The Braves managed to create chanc-es in the first half but failed to put shots on goal for large portions of the game.
Eastern even managed more total at-tempts on goal than Bradley, edging the visitors from Peoria seven to six in that category.
Through the first half, the match re-mained deadlocked with Eastern con-trolling play through the midfield and Bradley struggling to connect its three central midfielders with its attacking options.
Wojcik, who missed the first half, was introduced when the teams came out of the locker rooms for the second period.
Play became stretched and disjoint-ed for the first quarter of an hour of the second half until Bradley broke quickly on the counter-attack and found Wojcik as he drifted out to the right wing.
Wojcik provided the ball that un-locked the Eastern defense and allowed Lofgren to bury the effort that put East-ern down a goal in the 61st minute.
Eastern did have opportunities to level the score, including McCausland’s disallowed goal and Creasor making several key plays in the dying minutes to keep Bradley from breaking through for a second goal.
Eastern closed out the 2013 cam-paign with only one victory.
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